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Brenham Banner-Press
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Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service
Future Of Millions Of
Organized Workers
9 T A a. CQ 1
Skeptical Judge
Tests Automobile
Speed Governor
Gathering Will Be
Held December 9
At La Grange
Will Receive Floor
Consideration
.... December 13
Wyoming Ranch
Develops Herd of
Karakul Sheep
INSURANCE COMPANY
OFFICIALS IN CITY
BANMEJUPRE8S 1.
Hmmm 550
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CHINESE ORDER
DESTRUCTION OF
PORT BRIDGES
Peace Negotiations
With Japanese
—Discussed
LEWIS TALKS
PEACE TODAY
WITH GREEN
MEASURE FREE
AND COMMITTEE
IS DISCHARGED
Brenham shops nw well pre-
pared to nerve yog. Read the
suggestions in the BANNER-
PRESS.
DAYS
LEFT
then
chamber
whlfh time
about work
and Syria.
Friday ia
Around the
Steamship Begins Mth Year
• MELBOURNE, I UP)-The Ed-
ina, one of the oldest steamships
in the world, haa just begun its
Mth year of service on Port PhU-
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MRS.F.F.NYC
WINS PRIZE AS
GOOD SPELLER
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Thank You!
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VOLUME 54
“Amerfcan&nployeei __
One Avalanche Down and Another Coming Up
pic camera that can take them
from a distance. With his 3« dif-
ferent bird songs, however, he is
now able to induce the birds to
come near enough to be photo*
graphed with an ordinary lens.
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Spectator
SIG RESPONSE
WHO’S TO BLAME?
a—a., a— __,
POOR SPELLING
TWENTYCOUNTY|Muc^l^
FARM SECURITY
MEET PLANNED
with ______
fr,T Numerous Excellent
Replies Received
By Banner-Press
the “Day of Prayer
World. ’ It/ ia hoped
there wil be a large attendance
for this program at 10 a. m.
Minus the famous Roosevelt,
while but-apparently recovered
from the tooth end digestive
troubles that confined him to the
White House recently. Presi-
dent Roosevelt faces the camera
for the first time In several weeks
on leaving Washington, D. C., for
a fishing trip in Florida waters.
A.
Schlott-
Ervin
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight
a/id Friday; scattered rains in
northwest and northcentrai por-
tion Friday, somewhat warmer .n '
north* and central portions Frt-**
day.
1
. The Spectator has conducted
‘many newspaper contests of ,
Varied kinds during -his years
of service with newspapers here
and there, but never have we
seen a more generous response
from the readers than was ac-
corded the good speller contest
after its first publication in
last Saturday’s Baner-Press.
Approximately 10 per cent of
the total circulation of this
newspaper responded to the con-
test by sending in answers. The
letterg came not only from
Washington and adjoining coun-
ties, but some came from as far
away as Houston, Austin and
other points. Congratulations go
to the winners of the first
week’s contest. Best wishes go
to the others as they attempt to
win in the three succeeding in-
stallments oi the contest.
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Yesterday we heard an irate
father chiding his young .. son
about poor grades received on
hie report card, received at
•- school that day. The youngster
was given unmitigated heck for
, his poor showing, and no doubt
deserved a large portion of the
blame. But we wondered wheth-
er it waa entirely his fault. It
as awed to. us that his teaeher
should also have felt bad about
ft' Poor grades by a pupil re-
flect on the teacher. They not
- only-show a child's failure to
absorb knowledge but also the
teacher’s inability to impart it
properly or to arouse the en-
thusiasm of the child to such an
extent that he will become in-
terested in the subject.
Petition C o m p 1 e ted *
With Signature
. Of Mansfield
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Egan Dickenson, claim adjus-
ter, and Oscar Foster, special rep-
resentative of the Grimes County
Mutual Life association arrived in
Brenham Wednesday to spend a
week here attending to business of
their company.
Mr. Foster is a son-in-law of the
former Senator H. L. Lewis, and
is widely known In thia section.
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______BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DEC. 2,1937.
HOUR BILL WINS SKIRMISH
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Told To Leave Port On Yellow Sea
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• Fer some years now we have
watched the growing deficiency
in spelling among the average
pupils. Old-fashioned methods
- ' of teaching were discarded in
favor of a new-fangled idea
some 15 or 20 years ago. Under
the new method, so-called, there
seems to bo a conspiracy
against a child’s learning his
A, B, Cs, and phonetics are en-
tirely neglected. It is amazing
to us that under the alleged
system now in vogue a child can
learn even so much as to read,
much less spell. And Unless we
devise some newer-fangled me-
thod of teaching to replace that
• which shunted aside the spell-
ing bee, we doubt if even the
teachers themselves—the on-
coming crop—will be able to
. spell with any degree of. accu-
racy within the next 10 years.
a a a
We acknowledge with grate-
ful appreciation the fine venison
—do you spell it with an “s’' or a
“s”?—sent us yesterday by Dr.
W. F. Hasskarl. It was part of
the kill brought back from a re-
cent hunt In the hills of West
Central Texas, and generously
divided among the friends of
the huntsmen. Mrs. Spectator,
who had shunned deer meat for
• years, ate her part of the steaks
with real relish, amazed at its
tenderness and fine flavor.
The Chamber of Commerce at
Its membership meeting tonight
will give citizens an opportunity
to air their views on what they
' think the orgahiiation should
do in the coming year. Too of-
ten we are prone to criticize
those who are.trying to do the
most for us by saying they fail-
ed to do this thing or that thing,
when as a matter of fact we
failed to tell them what we
wanted done. Directors of the
chamber will appreciate helpful
suggestions and tonight's meet-
ing is the time to give them.
If you are not present to air
your vle'ws, then you can't
blame the chamber for not
knowing them.
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cept Sunday or Monday. At the,
Simon, "This Way Please’’ stars
Mary Livingstone today and Fri-!
<lay, while the Rex will show Dick [
Foran In 'Empty Holsters*' Fri-.j
day and Saturday.
The mispelled words In the first
contest were as follows: Plymouth
Alsobrook's. beauty, refrigerator,
insurance, jeweler. Tristram, ap-
propriate, turkey, cleaning, liquor.
wisvilM ss«w
been mofod further inland to Han-
kow, Changitat and Chungking.
Envoy Due at Nanking
The diplomats considered
"not improbable’' that such an ef-
fort, at least by a foreign power
and perhaps by the Chinese them-
selves, would be made before the
Japanese capture Nanking.
The Germany ambassador,
companled by a party of six, has
left Hlfckow and is due at Nan-
king sdon, his mission ostensibly
was to seek an agreement between
the Chinese and Japanese for a
neutral zone in Nanking which
all combatant* would respect.
further reports that efforts
were under way to end the war
were contained in dispatches from
Peiping in North China.
Settlement la Alin
A settlement before Jan. 1, is
the present aim of the Japanese, a
Chinese source close to the Jap-
anese military headquarters there
reported.
The informant said that Japan
was keeping ,4a wary eye" on the
United States, Great Britain
France and Soviet Russia, feeling
that those powers were assisting
China. Their final intention, it
was asserted, was to take a
strong position when Japan’s re-
sources had been exhausted in or-
der to force terms unfavorable io
Japan.
County Agents And
/ Supervisors Are
To Attend
Songs of Birds
Learned To Further
Camera Study
HONOLULU (UP) .By fesrn-
ing the songs of different spe-
cies of birds In the isianga, Walter
L Donaghho, ornithologist, as-
signed to study bifa life in the U.
___________________ H National park here, has solved
buy, wallpapers, radios, pathoclast thP ProW«n’ "f photographing the
Lurker, heaters and bakery. by<ls.
Ilonorabir Mention Th,! ••««r ate ordinarily too
The following are given honor- MJ1*®** ^or anything but a Mesco-
able mention because of the excel- ” "
lence nt their answers and the ef-
fort they put forth:
Neil Amsler, Jr., Brenham; Mrs.
German Ambassador
Reported Seeking
Agreement
SHANGHAI, Dec. 2 — (UP) —
An unconfirmed report said that
Generalissimo Chiang Kai - Shek
had ordered destruction of harbor
bridges in Japanese mills of
Tsingtao, rich port of foreign
commerce on the Yellow Sea.
Twenty-eight American employ-
ees of the British-American To-
bacco Company, who arrived in
Shanghai this morning, said they
had been ordered to leave Tsing-
tao Monday by an executive of the
company.
Important political developments
possibly involving the initiation of
peace negotiations between Japan
arid China, were reported today in
dispatches from scattered parts of
China.
Foreign diplomats here attach-
ed considerable importance to the
viist in Nanking ot Dr. Oaear P.
Trautman, German ambassador to
China. Gaaeraltaaimo Chiang Kai-
shek, Chiha'a ffldtator haa remain-*
ed in Nanking although most of
the governnMnt departments have
GILETTE, Wyo. tUP) Worn--
<>ii who look longingly at Persian
lamb un<l Karakul fur coats and
conjure up visions of native tribes*
men mysteriously watching over
their herds In romantic Ear East-
ern pasturelands, might well save
their dreams for moi«> ■ appropri-
ate merchandise .for likely as not
the owtn mote front sheep raised
irf Wyoming.
James H Daly, a rancher who
lives 1 ; miles north of here, de-
velops,I the third largest herd of
Karakul sheep in the country. By
careful in ceiling
American sheep apccins, hr has
developed a herd that tivaJs the
Ear Eastern iui[>oi’.itions.
I^wls and Green declined to In-
dicate what course the delibeu
tlons were taking.
Shortly after the |>ea<c session
started Senator George L Terry,
democrat, of Tennesee, appeared at j
the council chamber and waa ad '
mltted to an ante-room, where he
expressed to aides of th*; labor
conferees the hope that th*y
would find a basis for agreements
He is a peraonal friend x>f both
leaders.
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 rUP)
John L. Lewis and Willinm Green
explored the possibility of peace
between the CIO snd American
Federation of Labor at a two ami
a half hours [HTSonnl meeting.
They said they wotiMTrtnnne ttvrtr
conference this afternoon^A
With the future of. ’flssriMM)
members of American organized
( labor at stake in the discussions
jWhlle Los Angeles seeks to dig an Elysian Paik tuguwu> oui hui.i uhaei me millions ot tons of
\tock and earth shown above, geologists warn that another and perhaps still more mushing mountain-
side avalanche may be expected soon. This remarkable photo shows the results oi the (list hillside
fcollapse, which buried a highway, crushed s bridge viaduct and sent huge boulders to within a few
,fcet of business buildings, shown at lower right, which might be destroyed'if scientists are cot reel in
their predictions of another slide. The picture shows the outlines of the collapsed section r i
sheer cliffs left behl nd by the avalanche.-
wm WfSi.Funeral Rites Held
am ™ns^ Prairie For
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Crop Control Said
To Spell Doom
For South
HOUSTON, Dec. 2- An impres-
sive representation of Houston's
business, labor and civic leaders
went to bat today against the
crop control program being stud-
ied by Congress to prevent "im-
poverishment of the whole South."
One hundred firms and organi-
zations- both labor and civic—
and individuals sent messages to
Senators Connally and Sheppard
and Congressman Thopias launch-
ing an attack against Senate Bill
2787 and House Bill 8505.
The House bill was termed com-
pulsory crop control in the mes-
sages, and £he Houstonians offer-
ed as a remedy for the cotton sit-
uation the domestic allotment plan
under which cotton growers would
be compensated for tariff burdens
by adjustment payments.
The same message went th the
senators and another was sent to
Congressman Thomas.
“Houston, the country's great-
est cotton port, would suffer worst
of all through unemployment of
long-shoremen, seamen, compress
operatives, railway operatives, oil
mill operatives, cotton clerks and
many others," the telegram to the
.senators read.
“Half the 2,000,000 families
growing cotton and the several
hundred thousand engaged in
picking, ginning, oil milling, com-
pressing, stevedoring, fihndling
and transporting, would be thrown
upon relief.”
“Texas, particularly, would suf-
fer on acixiunt of disadvantages
freight rates .to American mills,
which make it dependent upon for-
eign outlets for nine out of every
ten bales produced.
“The proeperlty of the City of
Houston would be destroyed by
the loss of investment values suf-
fered by the cotton industry and
by the loss of buying power.”
Impoverishment of the South as
a whole would leeult ,the Hous-
tonians said, because the plan of
Government control would cut
American production of cotton in
half.
The telegrams said the limiting
of production only stimulates for-
eign production and takes away
the foreign outlets.
The signers, moet of whom were
cotton firms and shippers, said
that Artierican production limited
to American consumption would
be disastrous.
Funeral rites for Judge John M. Mathis, veteran Texas
attorney and political leader, who passed away Wednesday
morning, were held from the chapel at the I^eon Simank
Funeral Home Thursday morning in the presence of an as-
semblage of friends and associates from all parts of the
state wno gathered to p^y a last tribute to one of Brenham’s
outstanding citizens. <*
Rev. H. C. Willis, pastor of the
Giddings Memorial Me'thodlst
church, of which Judge Mathis
had long been a member, con-
ducted the services and spoke
beautifully of the splendid char-
acter and useful life of Mr. Ma-
this. Burial was at Prairie Lea
cemetery, where services were
concluded and the grave and sur-
rounding lot were covered
hundreds of floral tributes
frtends throughout, the state. Le-
on Simank and Ernest Hermann
had charge of arrangements.
Many Attend Obsequira
Among relatives and friends
Who came from a distance to at-
tend the obsequies were Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Mathis, Jr., Joe and
Jack Mathis of San Antonio; John
M. Mathis, HI., of Houston; Judge
and Mrs. J. H. Barwise, Mr. and
Mrs. Seth Barwise, Mr. and Mrs.
Brandon Stone, and Seth May-
field of Fort Worth; Mr. and Mrs.
E. P. Price of Tyler; Mr. and Mrs
John Campbell of Jacksboro; Les-
lie D. Williams, Smithville; Mts.
Will Campbell, Chapel Hill; Judge
John H. Ta£e of Giddings. Mr. and
Mrs. Billy Albert McMeans ot
Crowley, La.; Dr. J. A. Ferguson
of Cameron; CoL Billy Mayfield,
Judge E. A. Berry. Rosser Thom-
as, Wm. Glover, Ollie C. Rankin.
Mrs. Eva Purdy. Mrs. Margai*t
Harris. Mrs. R. E. Breeding, Mr.
and Mrs. W. V. Angle, Mr* Jrii'k
Moore, Mrs. J. E. Nooner and Ray
Rankin, all of Houston; Mrs. Rose
Giiflllan of Austin, and many oth-
ers from various points.
Messages of < ondolence
Messages of sorrow and sympa-
thy were received by the family
from numerous political leaders
and personal friemla and relatives.
Among the telegrams was, a mes-
sage expressing her deep grief
from Miss Louise Ozelle Mathis of
Los Angeles, California, adopted
daughter of Judge and Mrs. Ma-
this. Among those who sent mes-
sages were A. E. Heidingsfelder
and family of Houston, Judge Geo.
W. Graves of Galveston, C. C. Mc-
Donald of Wichita Falls. Judge W.
H. Atwell of Dallas, Wm. J. Tuck-
turned
mother
part of the house. _______ ___
baby turn over in Its sleep or cry
the fact is broadcast The crib
I loud speaker, which was demon-
I strated at the Leipzig fair, gives • -*■
the nurses or mother ftwfom of Ml’"’ M',ry
i action. I.
KT I.QUIK G'PI CTty
ternra I' X'anglv dialM-lievcd. I’a-
me* I'.i - I ’ ; .•xjd.i ii.it ivn fli'.it
*mildn t have oxceede*! the speed
i limit of 10 miles [»•!■ hour tiecause
| his ear w;ia equipped with a sposd
rrnoi ,/ind after court wks ad-
ned drove Bischof's car him-
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I he had averaged more
I than 35 miles per hour. But-Aid^-
ment was deferred. ",
IS There Something of
Value You Want to buy or
Beil?
MAKE YOUR WANTS
KNOWN THROUGH the
CLAaarumADs
They are inexpensive and
Produce Results Quickly.
USE
THE CLASSIFIED ADS
hi the
WASHINGTON, dtec. 2 *GP>--—
The ndiiiiniatiation won its fight
today to free the wagea-hours •
Mil from the house rules commit-
tee whith pigeon-holed {he mea-
sure lant August
A total of 21a representattltM
alfixad their nmnes to "the peti-
tion diacharglng the rules Con»-
mUtee from further eonaiderattaH
of the. liUl,— *uel, automatically ■’ X
bringing it. up for floor conside -
ration Imc. 13*. ______
The SIKtli signer was ^Joseph jf.
Mansfield, democrat of. Tex»>,
chairman of the house rivers a-td
rkartwri cununit t r ■ ■
The petition to break the rules
committee hn|iaMe was filed N > *.
tfl by Chairman Mary T.- Nortjn
of Hie house intsir committee.
Energetic work by house whips
arid' lH,bor aupporters completed
the ixditiiin with only 48 hours t<> •
spare if the bill ia to be acted upon
at the special session of congress.
A drive to obtain petition sign-
ers gained immediate momentum
under the threat of wagen-hoUra
backars to aaliutage the cotton
provision of the farm hili unless
southern mpeeaent itlves cruse t
tholr opposition to the.labor bill.
| The petition was completed in
the iniilat of .■ house fight precipi-
tated by charges of Rcpreaen-taefW
r<j>«ibiu-nn
New York,-of log rolling by ad- '
hetents of the laoor measuic.
Baptist W. M. U. lias
A Week () t Prayer ■
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The young people of the Ba';>-1 I"111
tist Church opened tin- Lottie j keif
Moon Week of f’layei with a vrty . After tlw speed test. Judge Nun-
fine program Tuesday. The sjion-1 1'1“ said
sore. Mis. J. L Chappell, Mis. R |
D Mcf'lai<l. Mrs Ernest Kchav. • '
Mrs H. E. Ferguson, Mis. k. Wil- j
kening. Mixa Carolyn H'*l«1r ind
■ arc doing fi;ie
work with fhe chndiefi and par-
ents rare urged to see that their
children arc in one of the organi-
zations, there is a place for every
chil'l in the ('hoi ch family.
Tuesday's program was con-
ducted by Mra. W. J. Sloan, inter-
esting lnf9rniati«n on work tn
Brazil, chillc and Japan was pre-
sented- Wednesday a program on
China was given by men of the
church, tyrs. Kirk Dillon who was
chairman of this program served
"Chinese Tea’’ and cake. /
Thursday's program will/be pre-
.aented by Mra. J. L. Buckley at
the group will hear
in Europe. Palestine
LA GRANGE. Dec. 2 A farm
survey meeting, with the Exten-
sion Service cooperating, will be
held for twenty counties at La
Grange Thursday, Dec. 9. The
public is invited to hear explana-
tion' of aid in buying farms which
can be extended under the new
Bank head-Jones Act, and other
help offered by Farm Security Ad-
ministration to low-income. farm-
ers unable to obtain financing
from any other source.
C. M. Evans, Dallas, regional di-
rector of the Farm Security Ad-
ministration, wil be one of the
principal speakers. The Extension
Service program will be discuss-.
e*l by H. It .Williamson,. Texas
director nt Extensioq Service, Col-
lege Station.
Counties to be represented are;
Bu/leson, Loe, Washington, Bas-
trop, Fayette, Cdlnnidh, Austin,
WnTlcr. Fort Bgnd, ' Wharton,
Jaokson, Brazoria. Matagorda,
♦slhoun, Refilgio, Aransas. De-
WiTt, Victoria, Gonzales, anil La-
vaca. The meeting will start nt 10
a. m.
Each county will semi its county
agents of the Extension Service
and its Farm Security supervisors,
both men and women. Members
of the county advisory boards of
EHA, both rural rehabilitation and
debt adjustment, are also eajected,
Regional Director Evans said
that F8A "is prepared to flnaffce,
among low income farmers, the
sort of program which the Exten-
sion Service has so successfully
Introduced among other farm
groups."
Mr. Williamson said that the
low-income farmers with whom
FHA Is dealing "have bankrupt
more Texas bankers and merch-
ants than ami other group." He
said Extension Service workers
"have realized the need of this
group, but had nothing to reach
them with. Their first need ia
financing, without which advice
and guidance are ineffective.”
The meeting at I-a Grange will
explain the plan of cooperation
tietween the two agencies,
and Extension* Service.
Electric Device
Watch es Over
Sleeping Babies
LEIPZIG (UP)- The. problem of
watching sleeping babies has been
solved by a simple broadcasting
device. Should the baby waken
and start to cry. its nurse or
mother ia informed by an inge-
nious electric system, ‘
The microphone is placed st the
side of the pillow, the current Is
on and the nurse or
may retire to a remote
Should the
or cry
First •prize in the Good Speller
contest conducted by the Brenham
Banner-Press goes to -Mrs. F. F.
Nyc of Brenham this week. She
submitted a perfect answer to the
contest nin in last Saturday's
Banner-Press, and waa awarded
first prize of J 1.50 because of
promptness in getting her answer
in, and the neatacsa with which
she did her wo'rk.
The next seven prize winners
were the following. Billie Zeiss.
801 East Main street; Miss Kitty
Anderson, Brenham; Mil. A. J.
Wendt, Brenham; Clara
mann, Route 3. Brenham;
Stern. Chapel Hill, Reute 1; Ir-
ma Gajeake and Dorothy Weiss,
Brenham, Route 1.
W in Theater Prism
,X*ch ot these seven, .will be
awarded a pass to the Himon or
Rex theater, gu<rl any day ex-1
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