The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 28 No. 20.
NEW ULM, TEXAS,
Hospital Patients
can Legion, sponsored the cel
Questions On New
Farm Act Answered
Death Begins At 40
to
far-
problems without money.
CZECH DAY SET
were “too much
little courtesy”
new booklet en-
Begins at 40”
is
if
1906.
their
came
New
them
as
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as
an
25
Miss Hattie Mieth returned
home last Thursday evening
after attending the Texas As-
sociation of Accredited Beauty
Culturists Annual Convention
and Trade Show at Dallas.
Miss Mieth, owner and opera-
tor of the beauty shoppe in
New Ulm, expressed herself as
having spent a splendid week
in Dallas, both educational and
entertaining.
Miss Mieth stated that while
in Dallas she purchased a new
and up-to-date permanent wav-
ing machine. The machine has
already arrived and was in-
stalled in her shoppe this week.
Zas-
Ben
effi-
the
pen-
and wheat. Because of mini-
mum production requirements,
corn quotas will probably not
apply to Texas.
Q. How does the act provide
control of these crops? s
A. After supplies reach cer-
tain levels, marketing of the
crops is regulated through the
imposition of quotas. While the
act puts the quotas into effect,
they are subject to rejection
by a one-third vote of a pro-
ducers’ referendum.
Q. How will this control sur-
pluses?
A. By providing penalties on
sales in excess of farm quotas.
G. Will the marketing quotas
be put into effect each year?
A. They are put into effect
whenever the supply of cotton
exceeds the normal supply by
more than seven per cent, un-
less quotas are opposed by more
than one-third of the producers.
The normal supply for 1938 is
about 18,200,000 bales, and nor-
and only one-ninth as sharp a
turn at 75 as at 25.
Another set of figures shows
that if you have an accident
while driving under 40 miles an
hour there is only one chance
in 44 that somebody will be
killed but if your accident comes
while you are traveling faster
than 40, there is one chance in
19 that somebody will be killed.
While the folly of high speed
provides the main theme of the
See DEATH BEGINS AT 40—
(Continued on Page 4)
Speakers For Community
Nite Meetings Announced
! A choir sang a number of
beautiful songs during the serv-
ices.
Pallbearers were Ed. Sucha-
Schmidt and Emil Pfeiffer.
Funeral arrangements were
under the direction of Ad.
koda of Industry and
Boehme of New Ulm.
(By Co. Agent, Wm. E. A.
Meinscher.)
Hartford. Conn., Feb. 28.—
Basic reasons for America’s
shameful automobile accident
record in 1937
speed and too
according to a
titled “Death
just issued by the Travelers In-
surance Company. The booklet
presents a complete analysis of
last year’s traffic accidents,
based on official figures from
the 48 states.
There is no intention in the
booklet, according to the edi-
tors, to advocate 40 miles an
hour or any other fixed speed
as a top limit. To quote:
“ .. there are times, as in heavy
traffic or heavy fog, when 30
miles an hour is suicidal; other
times when 50 miles an hour
seems reasonable. Every driver
should know, however, that if
he does have an accident it
more likely to mean death
he is going fast.”
Many of the features in the
booklet have been prepared es-
pecially to show what happens
in the higher brackets of speed.
It is pointed out, for instance,
that a car is four times harder
to stop at 50 miles an hour than
it is at 25, and nine times hard-
er to stop at 75 miles an hour
that at 25. A new word, “turn-
ability” has been coined to ex-
press another speed factor. The
dirver's turnability, the book-
let shows, decreases rapidly
his speed increases. Thus,
can make only one-fourth
sharp a turn at 50 miles
hour as he could make at
BED SPREAD MADE
FROM TIRE COVERINGS
mal supply is defined in the act
as a normal year’s domestic
consumption and exports, plus
40 per cent as an allowance for
a normal carry-over. The pre-
sent supply of American cotton
is almost 25 million bales, large-
ly because of the record break-
ing crop of 18,700,000 bales in
1937.
Q. If marketing quotas are
approved, how will they be put
into effect on individual farms?
A. The national cotton allot-
ment of 26,300,000 acres will
be allocated to the cotton grow-
See FARM QUESTIONS—
(Continued on page 4)
armers Will Vote On
ing Quotas On Saturday,
SEALY CANDIDATE FOR
REPRESENTATIVE CALLS
ON LOCAL CITIZENS
The annual enumeration of
scholastics was begun through-
out the county March 1 and will
continue through the month of
March. All children who will
be six and under eighteen yearn
of age on September 1, 1938 are
included in this count. District
enumerators for the western
section of the county are:
New Bremen ’ District 8—E.
J. Janecek.
. Henkhaus District 9—E. J.
Gross.
Rockhouse District 10—IL F.
Veith.
Shelby District 11—H. B.
Roeder.
Welcome District 12—Otto
Peters.
Nelsonville District 12—E. X
Maresh.
Cat Spring District—Hugo
Suhr.
Industry District—A. Nie-
buhr.
New Ulm District—Edgar H.
Mieth.
Speakers scheduled to address
community night groups in Aus-
tin County this week are:
Marchl —Cochran School Build-
ing—Dr. James G. Gee, Dean
of Sam Houston State Teachers
College, Huntsville; March 2—
Cat Spring Agricultural Hall—
President C. F. Schmidt, Blinn
College; March 3, Mixville Hall,
and March 4, Coshatte Hall—
Deputy State Superintendent E.
E. Chamness; March 4—Peters
H a II —County Superintendent
Melvin H. Ehlert, Brenham.
A complete evening of enter-
tainment and educational feat-
ures is offered at each center.
School talent, massed choruses,
and educational motion pictures
are scheduled. This is the third
annual series of neighborhood .
gatherings designed to further I
the cause of education in Aus-I
tin County.
Left For Dallas To At-
tend Rites Of Relative
Ix>cal Operator Attended
Beatfly Convention
In Dallas
Miss Hughlene Frnka, who
has been a patient in the La
Grange Hospital for the past
two weeks, underwent a ton-
silectomy early Monday morn-
ing. She is reported recovering
very rapidly and is expected to
return home the latter part of
this week.
Miss Anna Paasch of Frels-
burg is also a patient in the
La Grange Hospital.
R. B. Chandler, accompanied
by Mrs. Chandler, returned
home Saturday after being a
patient in the MKT Hospital at
Dennison during the past two
weeks. He is convalescing very
nicely and expects to go to work
shortly again as section fore-
man.
hard Critz
preme Court and
Graves of the Cc
nal Appeals acc
Governor on the
ham and Washington
Enumeration Of
Scholastics Started
Negro Given Death
By Columbus Jury;
Appeal Is Planned
Edward L. Vint, of Sealy,
whose announcement as candi-
date for the office of Repre-
sentative of district 25 was car-
ried in the Enterprise columns
recently, was a pleasant visitor,
in New Ulm Wednesday after-
noon. He called on most all
local citizens to get acquainted.
Mr. Vint is a young man of
pleasing personality and from
all indications is a man who
means what he says. After
leaving New Ulm he intended
stopping over for awhile in Cat
Spring to see his many friends
there.
Columbus, March 1.—Attor-
neys for Bennie Randail, 28,
negro, sentenced to death for
attacking an aged woman here
last January, today prepared
plans for an appeal.
Randall, brought here for the
trial by nearly a score of offi-
cers, was returned to Houston
after the trial.
Tne woman, who is 77, was
robbed and then attacked in her
home near here the night of
January 21. She lived alone.
It took the jury but an hour
and 40 minutes to reach a ver-
dict.
The monthly meeting of the
P. T. A. will be held March
9th. All of the members are
requested to be present.
The foHowmg program will
be rendered:
1. Song—“Whispering Hope,”
by the teachers.
2. Play—“The New Man,” by
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Muenz-
ler.
3. Reading—“Aunt Doleful’s
Visit,” by Violet Kretzschmar.
4. Vocal Numbers—Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Voskamp and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Mieth, M. C. Koch, and Harry
L. Muenzler.
5. Musical Reading—“When
Apples Grow on the Lilac Tree,”
by Mrs. Roy Fox.
6. Talk—Ernest H. Baumgart.
—Reporter.
that opened the program
conducted by the Rev.
J. O’Brien of St. Mary's Church,
Austin. Devotional services were
held under auspices of St.
See CELEBRATION—
(Continued on Page 4)
Austin, Feb. 28.—Monday,
March 7, today was designated
by Governor Allred as Czechos-
lovakia day in Texas, marking
the one-hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Thomas
former president of
vakia.
Wednesday’s P. T. A.
Program Announced
Submits His Name
As A Candidate
For Representative
————
The Enterprise is this week
authorized to announce the can-
didacy of L. A. Machemehl, of
Bellville, as a candidate for the
office of Representative of the
25th District, composed of Aus-
tin and Colorado counties.
Mr. Machemehl was in New
Ulm Wednesday afternoon. Al-
though his time was limited,
he did not get to see all the
constituents in this little city.,
he called on only a few to ad-
vise them of his candidacy. He
has in the past taken a great
deal of interest in WPA work in
Austin county, being the chair-
man of the Austin County
Planning Board. In this line of
duty he has gained the friend-
ship of a great many local peo-
ple. Whenever, a project was
in the making, he was always
willing to give his time when
and wherever needed. Being a
public spirited man caused his
friends in both counties to sum-
puisuant to Section 347 of the
Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938, has announced that a re-
ferendum by secret ballot of
t cotton farmers who were en-
gaged in the production of cot-
ton In 1937 will be held on the
date indicated below to deter-
mine whether they are in favor
of, or opposed to, cotton-mar-
keting quotas for the 1938 crop.
This referendum of cotton far-
mers is called because the Sec-
retary of Agriculture has de-
termined and proclaimed, pur-
suant to the provisions of said
Act, that the total supply of
cotton for the 1938 marketing
year exceeds by more than 7
percentum the normal supply
thereof for such marketing
year. The Secretary having
made this finding, there is im-
posed, subject to the result of
a referendum of cotton farm-
ers, a marketing quota with
respect to the marketing by
farmers of their 1938 cotton
crop during the marketing year
beginning August 1, 1938.
If two-thirds or more of the
cotton farmers voting in the j
referendum favor cotton-mar-
keting quotas, the cotton-mar- I
keting quotas established pur-
suant to the provisions of said ;
Act, will become effective for ■
the 1938 cotton crop. If more |
than cne-third of the cotton '
producers voting in the refer- .
endum oppose the cotton-mar-1
keting quotas, the quotas sha'
not become effective in 1938.
The places for balloting shall '
be as follows:
District 1—Sealy; District 2— ;
Bellville; District 3—Wallis;,
District 4—Kenney; District 5j
—Bleiblerville; District 6—Post
Oak Point; and District 7—Caf ■
Spring.
The polls will be opened.
promptly at 9 a. m. and shall I
be closed promptly at 7 p. m.
on Saturday, March 12, 1938.
. Eligibility T,o Vote
1. Only farmers who were
engaged in the production of
cotton in 1937 are entitled to
vote.
2. No cotton farmer (whether
an individual, partnership, cor-
poration, firm, association, or
other legal entity) shall be en-
titled to more than one vote
in the referendum, even though
he may have been engaged in
1937 in the production of cot-
ton in two or more communities,
counties, or States.
3. There shall be no voting
by proxy or agent, but a duly
authorized officer of a corpora-
tion, firm, assoc’ation, or other
legal entity shall be allowed to
cast its vote.
4. In case several persons,
such as husband, wife, and chil-
dren. participated in the pro-
duction of cotton in 1937 under
a lease or sharecropping agree-
ment, only the person or per-
sons who signed or entered in-
to the lease or sharecropping
agreement shall be eligible to
vote.
5. In the event two or more
persons engaged in producing
cotton in 1937 jointly, common,
or in community, each such per-
son is entitled to vote.
6. Since marketing quotas
are not applicable to cotton the
staple of which is IVk inches
or more in length, a person who
was engaged in the production
of such cotton in 1937 shall not
be eligible to vote unless he was
also engaged in the production
of cotton in 1937 the staple of
which was less than l>fc inches
in length.
Bellville, Feb. 28—A bed
spread made from the cover-
ings in which automobile tires
and other supplies are usually
wrapped surprised Miss Lucy
Barden, home supervisor for
the Farm Security Administra-
tion, when she visited Mrs. Eu-
gene Single of Texana. These
wrappings look like paper, but
when they are properly washed
they show to be a very closely
woven material in strips wide
enough to be used for many
purposes in the home.
Sucli devices as these are en-
couraged by the Farm Security
Administration in teaching tow-
income farmers how to meet
their
College Station, March 1.—
Many questions dealing with
the new farm act, and especial-
ly with the cotton marketing
quota, were recently answered
by Geo. Slaughter, Wharton,
chairman of the Texas Agri-
cultural Conservation Commit-
tee, in the course of a radio
talk over WTAW of the TexaS
A. and M. College.
Among questions which have
been bothering producers and
which were answered by
Slaughter were “If marketing
quotas are approved on cotton,
how will they be put into effect
on individual farms?” and "Will
farms producing cotton in 1938
for the first time in recent
years receive allotments?”
To the question, “How do
cotton marketing quotas under
the new farm act differ from
the quotas under the Bankhead
Act?” Slaughter replied, “Under
the Bankhead Act each cotton
producer received a poundage
of allotment and paid a tax
on all cotton ginned in excess
of that allotment.
“Under the new farm act,
each cotton farm will receiv?
an acreage allotment and all
cotton produced on these acres
may be sold without penalty. In
other words, the marketing quo-
ta places a premium on
cient production, while
Bankhead Act, in effect,
alizes it.”
Q. If two-thirds of the
mers taking part in the cotton
referendum vote for quotas,
will they apply to states, coun-
ties. and communities where
they are not approved?
A. The cotton problem is 0
national one, and not confined
to any one state or county. Con-
sequently, the quotas, if approv-
ed by two-thirds of the cotton
farmers, will apply wherever
cotton is produced.
Q. What are the commodities
of which direct control is con-
templated?
A. Cotton, tobacco, rice, corn,
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Voskamp
and daughter, Audry, left early
this (Thursday) morning for
Dallas to attend the funeral
services of their relative, James
Currie, age 22.
Services will be held at 4
o’clock this afternoon, with in-
terment in that city.
Mr. Currie died in a Dallas
hospital Tuesday. He is sur-
vived by his mother, three
brothers and three sisters.
mon him to place his name
before the masses of this dis-
trict for due consideration.
Air. Machemehl states that in
the event he is given the office
he will serve his constituents
in a fair and impartial manner.
Mr. Machemehl EubmiVb ;'is
candidacy to the voters in the
following manner:
In submitting my nfeme as
candidate for the position of
Representative of the 25th
District, comprising the coun-
ties of Austin and Colorado. 1
am doing so at the earnest
solicitation of a number of
friends, and I greatly appreciate
the confidence manifested by
them, in me. I therefore pledge
myself to use the best efforts
to serve the interests of this
district at all times and realize
a representative is a servant of
the people.
I shall oppose radical legisla-
tion and do my utmost to bring
about a closer cooperation be-
tween producers, farmers, and
business men. capital and labor,
unemployed and potential em-
ployers.
I believe in State rights, the
consolidation of a number of de-
partments, and budgeting the
public debt. I believe the stab-
ilization of commodity market
prices in times of overproduc-
tion will create more employ-
ment. The prosperity of pro-
ducers and business alike will
cause more employment. Ex-
treme high and low markets
cause disaster, and confidence
is shattered and needful cre-
dits are hoarded on that ac-
count.
Diversification is the hope of
the little producer. I believe in
4-H and F. F. A. Clubs, in the
feeding of home grown feeds,
I shall lend my support to this
and kindred work.
I am familiar with agricul-
tural problems, financial credits
of producers, small business
men, and tenant farmers. Taxes
on farm lands and other real
estate are too high with refer-
ence to income; I would favor
reasonable adjustments of tax
levies based on common sense.
I believe that economy in all
governmental agencies is es-
sential and their operations
should be simplified, so as to
function with least expense and
delay.
In submitting my views,
your vote is respectfully solicit-
ed and appreciated, I hope
merit your confidence.
Respectfully yours,
L. A. Machemehl.
After suffering severely from
infected glands of the throat
for a week, Mrs. Linnette Bre-
genzer, wife of Justice of
the Peace Gus Bregenzer, was
taken to the Bellville Hospital
Saturday noon for an operation.
However, while on the opera-
ting thble she suffered a heart
attack which proved to be fatal.
Death claimed her at 4 o’clock.
Mrs. Bregenzer, nee Bonjour,
was born on October 7, 1885, in
Lausanne, Switzerland. She at-
tended the local schools for her
education. When she reached
beautiful maidenhood she was
given in marriage to Gus. Bre-
genzer on November 12,
In 1909, together with
first born son, Willie, they
to America landing in
York. Also carrying with
an adopted niece, Mrs. Annie
Mae Charpiot, of Houston. Tiey
settled at Arcadia in Galveston
County, and three months later
they moved to Schoenau, Austin
County. Three years later they
moved to near New Ulm for
their permanent home. Two
more sons, Albert and Robert
were born to them of which
Albert, at the age of six, pre-
ceded his mother in death.
Besides her grief stricken
husband she is survived by two
sons, Willie and Robert, at
home.
Deceased was a very helpful
and loving wife and mother.
Her kind and quiet disposition
and pleasing personality won
the friendship of many people
in the land of their new abode,
which was attested by the huge
gathering to pay their last res-
pect at the services.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from the home with interment
in the Old Town Cemetery. Rev.
Community Nights will be G. C. Brannies, of the Indus-
held at Nelsonville March 8 and I try M- E- Church, officiating,
at Kenney March 11.
Mrs. Gus. Bregenzer Dies Suddenly
In Hospital At Bellville Saturday
|FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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