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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year.
VOL. 54, NO. 40.
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Graders Friday
Miss Madge Sears
Wins Beauty Prize
Brothers of Mr.
and Mrs. Newman
Killed at Dallas
Sixty Attend
Rotary Banquet
Rainfall Totals
Two Inches Here
Nine Accepted For
Reforestation Work
House Votes Chain
Store Tax Bill
June 14 Is Yard
Contest Judging
Date; 1 1 Prizes
Advance in Farm
Prices Continues
Governor Signs
Department Bill
With Race Rider
97 Families Aided
During Winter and
Spring Months Here
Farley to Order
Nation-Wide Fight
Against Dry Laws
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Emma Claire Vestal, Laura Jo
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BAPTISTS FORGET 1845
SPLIT AND SHAKE HANDS
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$10,000,000 INCOME
FROM VALLEY TRUCK
CROPS THIS SEASON
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AbJut 6,000 workers will receive
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CHURCES GAIN FROM
RAID OF SLOT MACHINES
1932 COTTON CROP
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WAGES RAISED ABOVE
SCALE FOR 6,000 MEN
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CHURCH PREACHING
IS DOOMED, BAPTIST
CONVENTION TOLD
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FIRST MOVE MADE
IN INFLATION ACT
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Farm prices have continued to ad-
vance since April 15 and buying pow-
er of farmers is now higher than a
year ago, although prices still are
somewhat lower, reports the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Since mid-April cotton prices have
advanced sharply and sheep, cattle,
hogs and chickens are higher in price.
Wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, eggs,
butter, hogs and some other farm
products are selling for more than at
this time last season.
Improvement in general business
conditions, which has been evident
since the banking holiday, should
help demand for agricultural prod-
ucts, it is pointed out, but better de-
mand for many farm products often
does not become evident until some
time after the beginning of a real up-
turn in general business activity.
A total of two inches of rain fell
here Wednesday afternoon and night,
according to Ray Cates, who has
charge of the rain gauge at the city
pumping plant. Approximately one-
half inch of the precipitation was re-
corded during the afternoon and the
remainder during the night and early
Thursday morning.
The rain was unwelcome to a ma-
jority of the farmers, as few of them
had their crops worked out. Cotton
chopping was just getting under good
headway, and the several days idle-
ness entailed by the rain will permit
grass and weeds to get a good start.
One Whitewright man was heard
to remark this morning that the rain
was the best thing that has happened
for laboring people of the town for
the reason that it would make hoe
hands in great demand as soon as the
ground di*ies out, but he couldn’t an-
swer the question as to what farmers
were going to use for money to pay
the hands with.
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From the list of several young
men of this community who regis-
tered at the city offices for govern-
ment reforestation work, the follow-
ing were accepted as Whitewright’s
quora of ten and left Wednesday for
Dallas to complete their enrollment
and enter upon their duties: Roger
Holcomb, Guy Yowell, Troy Lee
Ford, Ralph and William Martin,
Jack Richter, Oscar Admire, Robert
Nelson and Mondie Alley.
It is understood that if the boys
pass the necessary examination at
army headquarters in Dallas, they
will be provided with suitable uni-
forms and sent to Fort Sill, Oklaho-
ma, for preliminary training. Their
enlistment covers a period of six
months, with all expenses and pay al-
lowance. It will be required of them
that a substantial portion of their
earnings be forwarded home for the
use of their parents or other desig-
nated relatives.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Enthusias-
tically singing, “Blest Be the Tie
That Binds,” Northern and Southern
Baptists Tuesday joined in a general
handshaking to symbolize the bridg-
ing of the slavery split of 1845.
“Now forget the North and South,
you Rebels and you Yanks, and shake
hands with your neighbors,” said Dr.
M. E. Dodd, president of the South-
ern Baptist Convention.
And the massed conventions of the
two churches filled a huge auditorium
with song and with handclaps of good
fellowship.
Dr. Dodd, for the South, and Dr.
C. Oscar Johnson, head of the North-
ern organization, earlier set the ex-
ample by clasping hands across what
Dr.. Dodd termed “an imaginary Ma-
son-Dixon line.”
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WASHINGTON.—The Agricultur-
al Department Monday estimated
1932 cotton production at 13,002,000
bales. The figure represented a re-
vised production estimate.
Ginnings from the 1932 crop, as
reported by census, were placed at
13,001,508 bales. The department
estimated average yield of lint cot-
ton picked per acre at 173.3 pounds.
The area picked in 1932 was esti-
mated at 35,930,000 acres.
Area in cultivation on July 1, 1932,
was placed at 36,542,000 acres.
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Labor was distributed on the ba-
sis of 80 per cent white people and
20 per cent negro help. In addition
to labor relief, 8,000 pounds of gov-
ernment flour has been distributed
to 79 families, with negroes sharing
about 20 per cent of this aid. Flour,
seed and Red Cross cloth distribu-
tions approximate a value of $300.
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The world’s first printing press,
and one of the Bibles printed from
the first setting of movable type, is
being exhibited at the Chicago
World’s Fair. This original Guten-
berg press has been deposing in the
museum of Mainz, Germany, for cen-
turies, as has the Bible, which is val-
ued at $15,000. Miniature working
Liodels of the most 'modern printing
■ants will be exhibited in the same
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AUSTIN.—The Texas House Mon-
day passed and sent to the Senate
a bill to tax chain stores. The vote
was 94 to 25.
The bill would place a tax of $3 on
each of the first two stores owned by
any person or company. The levy
would be graduated according to the
size of the chains.
If a chain contained more than
two stores the tax would be as fol-
lows, on each establishment: From
two to five stores, $25; five to 10,
$50; 10 to 25, $150; 25 to 50, $250;
more than 50, $500.
Lumber yards and filling stations
would be exempted from the tax. The
bill carried an appropriation of $25,-
.000 to enforce its provisions.
Advocates of the bill asserted that
chain stores were driving independ-
ent Merchants out of business and
should be forced to bear a greater
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the tax would be passed on to the cus-
tomer
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Yards entered in the yard beautifi-
cation contest sponsored by the Fri-
day Literary Club will be judged
June 14, it is announced by Mrs. Em-
met Penn, member of the contest
committee who with the other com-
mittee members, Mrs. C. B. Bryant
Jr., Mrs. H. T. Arterberry, and Mrs.
T. E. Barbee, are recording entries
in the contest. No yards will be
judged except those entered prior to
June 14, Mrs. Penn announces.
Eleven prizes will be awarded in
eight divisions, as follows: Best all-
round yard, most attractive lawn,
prettiest rose garden, most attrac-
tive back yard, prettiest old-fash-
ioned flower garden, best kept alley,
best kept public place, and best ar-
rangement of shrubs. The three best
all-round yards will each receive a
prize.
The yard beautification contest is
an annual event, with the number of
contestants increasing from year to
year. The 1932 contest showed a 33
per cent increase in contestants over
1931, and the committee hopes the
number this year will also show a
substantial increase. It costs noth-
ing to enter the contest, but it will
cost quite a bit of effort to win in
those divisions where there are nu-
merous entries and competition is
keen.
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WASHINGTON.—In a move which
would bring the whole weight of the
administration behind the repeal
movement, Postmaster General Far-
ley announced Tuesday night that he
would send a letter to all workers
urging them to work foi- removal of
the Eighteenth Amendment from the
Constitution.
The Postmaster General is chair-
man of the Democratic National
Committee and in that capacity di-
rected the campaign to place Presi-
dent Roosevelt in the White House.
Because of his nearness to the
President and his position as head of
the party, such a letter from him
would place the matter squarely be-
for the campaign workers as an ad-
ministration proposal.
The party pledged itself to repeal
the Eighteenth Amendment in the
platform adopted by the convention
at Chicago that nominated Roose-
velt. Pending repeal, it promised
modification of the Volstead law to
permit the sale of beer. The lattei’
part of the campaign pledge already
has been carried out by the Roose-
velt administration.
The picture of Miss Madge Sears,
daughter of Mrs. T. E. Sears, adorns
the cover page of the May number of
“Soda Fountain,” drug trade publi-
cation, and Miss Sears has received a
check for $15 as the prize offered by
the publication for the most beautiful
girl in a contest recently conducted.
Miss Sears was unaware that she
was a contestant until she received
notification that she had won the
prize, together with the check. Hei’
photograph was entered in the con-
test by her uncle, R. A. Jones, Celina
druggist, without her knowledge, and
she was as surprised at the distinc-
tion as her friends were gratified.
GLADEWATER.—Texas Rangers
raided a dozen slot machines Satur-
day night and confiscated the mon-
ey-
Sunday they visited the five
Gladewater churches and contrib-
uted the money equally, each church
receiving $16.50.
Shake the Table Cloth
“Eliza,” said a friend of the fam-
ily to the old colored v. ashwoman,
“have you seen Miss Edith’s fiance?”
“No, ma’am. It ain’t been in the
wash yet.”
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With the completion Saturday of
rock and gravel street work reaching
the Church of Christ, special street
improvement operations have been
suspended for the duration of the
cotton chopping season, which it is
hoped will meet the needs of labor
for the short period involved.
With city and R. F. C. funds, sub-
stantial improvements have been
made and work relief has been made
available to a very helpful extent
during the winter and spring months.
Roughly/speaking and with approx-
imate correctness a distance of 9,-
500 feet has been covered, equal to
about thirty 300-foot city blocks.
Most of this work has been on busi-
ness streets running north and south
and leading off from the business
district pavement and state highway.
Schools and the several churches
have been considered, and other work
done with a view to general traffic
uses and to make passable especially
bad stretches.
Stored rock from the highway un-
derpass has been used and a large
quantity hauled from the Cotton.
Belt right-of-way and from a loca-
tion on Mrs. T. E. Sears’ farm south-
east of town. The work also involved
a complete overhauling and regravel-
ing of the filter beds at the sewer
disposal plant and necessary routine
street maintenance. Out of the funds
available also a community garden
was planted in East Whitewright and
help extended to families in getting
their individual gardens started. Co-
operation in improving the cemetery
entrances and new park projects has
been extended.
Cemetery Road.
Rock work on the Oak Hill Ceme-
tery road is well under way, but the
city is expecting to enlist the aid of
the county in completing this work
before another winter season. The
county’s supervising engineer went
over this road with the Mayor Mon-
day, and promises were secured that
bid fair to result ip early attention to
the much needed repaii’ of this road.
The Cotton Belt roadmaster has com-
plied with the city’s request to im-
prove the railway crossing on South
Bond street. Heavy timbers have
been ordered for this purpose. ... ....
R. F. C. funds to the amount of
$1,604 have been available, to which
the city has added one dollar for each
dollar received from the government.
The city’s contributions were in di-
rect supplementary funds, > charity
fund balances, the use of its trac-
tor, teams, tools and all street equip-
ment, gasoline, incidentals, and a
large share of the time of regular
city employes.
97 Families Aided.
Representatives from 97 families
received 557 checks totaling $1,-
500.00. Truck expense for rock haul-
ing amounted to $388.00 and truck
expense for gravel hauling amounted
to $369.00. Purchased gravel
amounted to $141.50.
Approximately 2,250 truck loads of
rock were hauled, and about 400
yards or twelve car loads of gravel
transported by truck from Anthony,
16 miles north of Whitewright.
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Albert Lea Jackson, Merriwell
Vineyard, Jack Meador and O. A.
Hefner, members of Boy Scout Troop
No. 2, accompanied by Scoutmaster
Mack Pierson, attended the Scout
“training school at Camp Bonham
Saturday and Sunday. The purpose
■of the school was to instruct the boys
in better ways to run a camp.
Troop No. 2 held its regular meet-
ing Tuesday night at the Scout cabin,
at which time patrol meetings were
held and games were played. Ten
Scouts and two officals, Scoutmaster
Mack Pierson and Assistant Scout-
master J. T. Bryant, were present.
The meeting date has been changed
to Monday night of each week, effec-
tive next Monday. A hike is being
planned for next week.
LOUIS.—A voluntary increase
of 5 i er cejnt in wages over the union
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'our breweries here.
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BONHAM SENDS SUPPLIES
TO TORNADO VICTIMS
BONHAM.—A large party of Bon-
ham business men and others, headed
by National Red Cross Committee-
man McLean, went down on Red
River Wednesday morning to take
bedding, clothing and household ef-
fects to the sufferers from the recent
tornado which swept the Red River
Valley.
Numbers of houses were blown
down and the Tulip schoolhouse
most demolished, but not a soul
hurt so far as heard from. The
vivors are being provided with t®L ’
and are as comfortable as they cfl
possibly be under the circumst^H
McALLEN.—Ten million dollars is
the estimated revenue of lower Rio
Grande Valley farmers from truck
crops to date this season, according
to growers and shippers. This in-
cludes about $1,000,000 from cab-
bage, $1,300,000 from potatoes and
$1,930,000 from tomatoes shipped to
date and income from miscellaneous
crops such as beets, carrots, spinach,
parsley, turnips and others. Total
value of the tomato crop is expected
to exceed $2,500,000 when movement
is completed.
Shipments for the season through
May 20 totaled 20,500 carloads of
produce, of which an estimated 14,-
600 were shipped by rail, 1,000 by ex-
press and the remainder by truck.
About 1,500 cars remain to be ship-
ped, 800 cars of tomatoes, 500 of
green corn and 200 of miscellaneous
produce.
WASHINGTON. — A three-word
sentence, “preaching is doomed”
opened the address given Wednesday
by Dr. Bernard C. Clausen of Syra-
cuse, N. Y., before the Northern Bap-
tist Convention.
He predicted an America that
within a decade will receive its ser-
mons in crossroads, towns and city
churches by television with an or-
chestral background to the spoken
word.
Pastoral constituencies, he prophe-
sied, will supplant congregations.
The province of the pastor of the
future, he said, will not be oratory
but organizing, teaching and conduc-
ting discussion forums.
WASHINGTON.—The first move
under the inflation act, the Federal
Reserve Board today went into the
open market for the purchase of
$25,000,000 in Government bonds.
Secretary Woodin explained the
purpose of the move was to replace
$25,000,000 in Government bonds
with currency. No currency inflation
is involved, rather credit expansion
is sought, he added.
The outstanding
bonds will be bought in the open mar-
ket with $25,000,000 fixed for the
first step.
The recently-enacted legislation
authorizes $3,000,000,000 of such
purchases, but the secretary said he
did not believe this would be neces-
sary.
AUSTIN.—Gov. Miriam A. Fergu-
son continued her legislative sur-
prises Wednesday when she approved
the general appropriation bill for the
support of the State departments
for the biennium beginning Sept. 1.
She did not scratch a line or veto a
nickel of its total of $11,572,800,
plus $61,000 available immediately.
Mrs. Ferguson broke an all time rec-
ord when she approved the bill in less
than twenty-four hours after its re-
ceipt and also upset precedent in not
vetoing any item.
This is the measure which carried
the rider permitting horse racing in
Texas.
Next will be the general educa-
tional bill, which is due to be con-
sidered Thursday. It will carry ap-
proximately $9,298,084 and appears
to be certain of approval as it meets
the test imposed in the approval of
the departmental measure, that ap-
propriations be cut 25 per cent or
more.
As compared with the total of $16,-
192,437 appropriated two years ago,
the new departmental bill is a reduc-
tion of about 28 per cent and the edu-
cational bill is approximately the
same.
Announcement was made by the
Governor that she approved the bill
because it met her demands and the
platform declaration for a cut of 25
per cent or more. Reductions in the
four major bills aggregate $13,000,-
000 for the next two years. There is
added, however, $7,000,000 of rural
aid which also is due in the executive
office Thursday.
Presto!
“Boy, oh, Boy! That was some
blond with you last night. Where did
you get her?”
“Dunno. I just opened my billfold
and there she was.”
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Newman went
to Dallas early Thursday morning in
response to a message informing
them of the death in an automobile
accident near Dallas Wednesday
night of Mr. Newman’s brother,
Frank Newman, and Mrs. Newman’s
brother, Mr. Pruitt. Both men re-
sided at Dallas.
Details of the accident were
available in Whitewright at ]
hour Thursday morning. Report that
the men burned to death in the
wi^ck could not be verified.
A Nation Pays Tribute To Its War Dead
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Twenty-one members of the sev-
-enth grade graduating class of the
grammar school will ■ be awarded
•certificates at the graduating exer-
cises in the grammar school audito-
rium Friday evening, at which time
the following program will be given:
Processional, Miss Tommie Cheno-
“weth; invocation; “Smiles,” by the
class; salutatory, Marie Thrasher;
class history, Litha Sue Hollings-
worth; “Springtime,” Sue Barnes,
Mary Jane Ford, Billie Jean Cox and
Vonda Lee Vineyard; class poem,
Betty Jo Morrow; class prophecy,
•Jack Meador; reading, Loraine Rut-
ledge ; piano solo, Dorothy Hagard;
class will, Mark Montgomery; vale-
dictory, Dorothy Hagard and Anita
Vestal; awarding of certificates,
Supt. F. W. Smith; “Texas, Our Tex-
as,” all.
The class is composed of the fol-
lowing: Sue Barnes, Virgil Birch-
field, W. L. Caylor, Hugh Cox, Bil-
lie Jean Cox, Mary Jane Ford, Dor-
othy Hagard, Ethel Harper, O. A.
Hefner, Litha Sue Hollingsworth, Al-
bert Lea Jackson, Jack Meador, Mark
Montgomery, Betty Jo Morrow, Mary
Marie Mitchell, Loraine Rutledge,
Grady Stepp, Marie Thrasher, Louise
'Tune, Anita Vestal, Vonda Lee
Vineyard.
Baccalaureate Service.
The baccalaureate service will be
lield at the Presbyterian Church. The
service will be a joint service in
which all of the churches will partic-
ipate. Rev. G. C. Ivins, of the First
Baptist Church, will preach the ser-
mon. The music will be furnished by
a joint choir from all the churches.
The service will be held Sunday at
11:00 a. m.
The commencement exercises will
l)e held at the high school auditorium
Monday evening, with Rev. J. F. Fen-
•der delivering the address to the
graduating class of 32 members, com-
posed of the following:
Noel Ashinhurst, Frank , Clark, J.
M. Dixon, J. B. Harrison, Clarence
Jones, D. E. McCoy, Joe Thomas
Meador, Dick Montgomery, N. B.
Nicholson, Dee Robbins, Ross Wilson,
Billie White, Agnes Coffey, Marie
Foster, Luna Mae Garner, Ruth Gos-
nell, Elizabeth Hedgpeth, Sarah Jan-
way, Elizabeth Keeling, Pauline Ma-
gers, Lucille Maynord, Dorothy Me-
dearis, Frances Montgomery, May
/ Myrick, Maurine Pierce, Frances
' Pope, Edith Ryon, Mary Jo Sears,
Smith, Edna Earl Stuteville,
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The banquet and program given
by the Rotary Club Friday evening in
the basement of the Presbyterian
Church, honoring the Rotary Anns
and several visitors, was the out-
standing social event of the year. The
banquet was served by the women of
the Presbyterian Church.
W. R. Hooper, president of the
Rotary Club, presided. The program
was interspersed with several
“stunts” that kept all guessing what
was coming next. While the banquet
was being served President Hooper
announced that telegrams had been
received for several members and
guests. He read the telegrams, which
brought out some secrets that had
not been told before, and also some
blushes. Another was a game of
chance. A punch board was passed
and each asked to punch a slip of pa-
per from the board. Some were
lucky enough to get a blank, but
gome drew slips telling them what to
do, and they were required to do this
by Sergeant-at-arms Gomer May. One
had to crow like a rooster, another
make a “wet” speech and Lloyd
Moore of Denison had to give a toe
dance. His dance was a “knock-out,”
in that his big feet came near knock-
ing a hole in the concrete floor.
Miss Joy Lindsey of Greenville,
known as the song bird of east Tex-
as, was featured on the program. She
gave several vocal numbers. The
principal address was made by Will
H. Evans of Sherman. A playlet
given by Mrs. Ross R. May and Miss
Lucille LaRoe and a reading by Mrs.
Gomer Graves received liberal ap-
plause.
The
given:
Vocal Selection—Miss Joy Lind-
sey.
“America”—Led by Miss Joy Lind-
sey.
Invocation—Rev. C. C. Merritt.
Song—Led by Fred Smith.
Time Out for Banquet—Eating
led by Gomer May.
Introductions—Raleigh Hooper.
Song—Led by Fred Smith.
Playlet—“Marital Mishaps”—Miss
Lucille LaRoe and Mrs. Ross R. May.
Reading—Mrs. Gomer Graves.
Song—Miss Joy Lindsey.
Address, “Rotary’s Secret”—Will
H. Evans.
Orchestral Music — Whitewright
Joy Makers, Sidney L. Young, con-
ductor.
The favors for the ladies were a
compact and a box of chocolate can-
dy.
Out of town guests besides those
on the program were: George Lind-
sey, Greenville; Mrs. Will H. Evans,
Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Moore,
Denison; Mrs. Earl Sparks, Amarillo;
Miss Altha Merle Little and Ike El-
lard, Greenville.
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