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NUMBER 24
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938
(EIGHT PAGES)
VOL. LVIII
Beneficial
Jail Two
Coster~Musica Possibly Involved
Rain Falls
In Slaying In Unsolved Brooklyn Slayings
In County
Of Warden
Of $1,548
HEADS COSTER CASE INQUIRY
Officer Tracking Down
Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Bryan,
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place in Bethlehem at the house of
Georre Dietrich-Musica, and Rob-
em Oklahoma to be on the lookout ther. Joash, and their son, Judah,
c
Lgs.
Brien McMahon (right), assistant attorney general, leaves Wash-
Bloodhounds were being used.
city," Sanders told Mr. McCollum,
i
to Marietta when the men overtook
Plant Next Year
TEXARKANA, Texas, Dec. 21
1
planation of a New York Herald
mother-in-law.
Mrs. F. Haven Clark.
sales at a basement counter.
his
is
back than the stock room as-
officers of the company. McMa- ported the chain store bill and
the
of
where
formation and 20 more subpoenas
sponsors
$
t
an-,
nouncement of the lecture.
Foreign Diplomats
Observe Yuletide
which have other Christmas tradi-
l
master of ceremonies for the pro-
by Webb Roberts of
State
the
vided to insure construction and
629,649 are in Texas.
operation of the plant in 1939.
der of the day in most homes of
so
foreign counterparts in the minds
The Weather
Jugoslavs to Have
House
>
night, warmer in east and south dent at the University of Virginia
law school.
portions Thursday.
follow the change.
horses wherever they run.
1 *
Connection With : Busy With the
McKesson, Robbins Holiday Rush
Oil Man
Is Robbed
Holiday Party
For 4-H Girls in
New Club Building
Medical Society
Elects Officers
For the New Year
College Students
Present The ‘Star
Of Glory’ Monday
Two Gainesville
Men in Air Class
Christmas Carols
At Club Luncheon
Await Inquiry in
Fatal Plane Crash
$100-Per-Plate
Dinner Cancelled
New Workmen’s
Insurance Plan
San Antonio Man
Is Fatally Shot
Marietta Oil Operator
Held Up at Gun’s Point,
He Tells Sheriff Here
MORE PICTURES,
MORE NEWS,
MORE FEATURES,
MORE READERS:
explained how the man whe said
his name was Johnson entered the
Dr. James W. Atchison
To Head Organization;
day at the RoOsevelt hearth
side, but at the nearby Nahant
Board of Control, and the accept-
ance speech was made by County
Tall. with rather slouching
shoulders, his blond head can
Brooklyn Detectives
Reopen Probe of the
Cohen Brothers’ Deaths
Musica
F. Don-
In 1924, Mrs. Shepard testified awards and premiums for different
at an accounting of her inheri-1 contests, sent two girls to the an-
government.
The resignation was regarded as
largely a routine move after the
premier’s victory in last week’s
Rebecca Crockett
Chapter Entertained
In Home of Mrs. Price
First Moisture in Many
Weeks Cheers Farmers
And Business Men
Chamber of Commerce
Promised Cooperation
Of City Government
Excellent Program Is
Presented in Junior
High School Auditorium
took 57 girls to Lake Worth in the
summer for an outing.
work of the House committee on
un-American activities in the next
Congress.
here,” he smiled, “and I don’t
know where the rest of my
family will be scattered.”
John’s line is men's gloves.
Interesting Program
Given; Club Pins Go
To Twelve Girls
foreign diplomats here—especially .
those with children.
tact with the firm.
He made that statement in ex-
died three hours after he was taken
to a hospital.
Piper had been here recuper-
ating from an injury suffered while
temporary promotion durng
the Christmas season—
"I expect I'll be back at the
Five-Year-Old Girl
Travels Alone From
California for Visit
A
Denton Artists
On Program for
DAR Party Here
After the program in the home
of Mrs. Price, Miss Lewis and her
as Brooklyn detectives began
investigating the swindler’s
possible connection with the
unsolved murders of Joseph
Cohen, wealthy poultry and
fish dealer, and his brother,
Barnett.
Police Inspector Michael F. Mc-
. officers of the city police depart-
* ment investigated the hi-jacking,
and a request was issued by -he
local police radio station for all
officers in North Texas and South-
put out, shoes instead of hanging
stockings. AT (. 4
The Swedish legation staff will \eW U9V/ernment
In introducing Mrs. Hugh Mor-
gan, council chairman for 1 9 3 9.
Mrs. Robb said that she would play
Santa for the girls next year. Mrs.
Morgan praised the girls for their
; work and told them that she hoped
much of Santa, he has displaced 1 85-million dollar estate that she
had given most of it to charity.
west portion tonight; ‘Thursday
mostly cloudy, somewhat warmer,
probably occasional rains in west
portion.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, cold-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP).
Chairman Dies (D-Tex.) called on
Another reason we long to be
young again is because we knew
so much then.—Washington Post.
• ® •
Patman Denies
The Gainesville Kiwanis club en-
joyed a program of Christmas
carols Tuesday at tn sir regular
weekly luncheon meeting at the
Masonic Temple. Harlan Powell,
club member, led in the singing,
in which all present participated.
Billy Teague, who was elected club
pianist, accompanied the group.
Sam Braziel, agent for City
signment, and it is sort of a
“I soon had to give up the idea
’ of lecturing on these subjects be-
cause it took up too much of my
time in speaking to comparative-
ly small groups of people.”
Patman said hewwould return in
“about a week” to .Washington for
the new session of congress.
The Dallas Morning News today
recalled, in connection with the ?
McKesson - Robbins sponsorship,
that Patman spoke before several
hundred druggists in Dallas in De-
cember, 1936 on behalf of his chain
store tax. The Dallas affiliate of
easier on
THREE FDR’S NOW
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (AP) —
There are now’ three Franklin D.
Roosevelts in the White House.
The president’s son, Franklin, Jr.,
arrived at the executive mansion
gg3es 5
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Statue to Bonham
Unveiled Sunday
scenes of the story which took
characters, reading the dialog in;
the fashion each would speak. She I
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Mr. Sanders to be driving a 1938 young wife, Mary, and the infant Wilfong as she played
model Ford. Sanders was not able -Jesus played an important role in - - - -
to give other information that i the story as did the wise men and
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Prospects for Gainesville secur-; replied. "This very minute you be-
ing a textile plant that will mann- came ” and he named a post in
facture underwear,, some time in McKesson and Robbins.
The work
would help me make the trade.”
Sanders, who ■accompanied of-
ficers to the scene of the hi-jack-
ing. returned late Tuesday evening
to Marietta, where he has resided
for a number of years.
Officers stated Wednesday
morning that they had obtained no
clues to assist in solving the hi-
jacking.
the lecture
Since American playmates talk ’ tance of one sixth of her father's nual short course at College Sta-
much of Santa, he has displaced ' 85-million dollar estate that she tion, arid financed the truck that
there was strong sentiment for
the law. x
crowded basement room.
The clerks like him. Moving
by a counter he calls to one of
them, “How much are these?"
and laughs as she turns quick-
ly and grins.
He still likes the work be-
cause he is learning the busi-
ness, but hasn't done any ac-
tual selling yet.
, Rev. J. Leslie Finnell, pastor of
Convention Plans Made the Magnolia Avenue Christian
______ i church, said that O’Daniel had
Dr. James W. Atchison was asked that the Dec. 28 event be
elected president of the Cooke cancelled. It was postponed from
County Medical society at a busi- I Dec. 14 because the governore ec
ness meeting held Friday in the of- went to Dearborn, Mich to confer
fice of Drs. D. M Higgins and Iraiwith Henry Ford, automobile mag-
L. Thomas.. , I Proceeds of the dinner were to
Other officers were chosen as have been used to retire the $50,000
follows: Dr. E. C. Mead, vice presi- i building debt owed by the church,
dent; Dr. H. P. Hawk. secretary; Rev. Finnell said that “more than
f his
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; Dr.
rder
i off .
M of
E of
Mile,
wvas
ilnnd
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Admits He Made Lecture
Tour Sponsored by
Coster’s Drug Company
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (APt.
Even diplomats from countries
Roosevelt and
the courthouse
FORT WORTH, Dec. 20 (UP)—
I A $100-pear-plate “appreciation
; dinner" for Governor-elect W. Lee
1 O’Daniel, given by the. pastor of
i his church, was called off today
। because of adverse criticism.
be spotted clear across
brothers, George Vernard-Musica,
me and proposed further conver-
sation concerning the deal.”- He
entrance of a hotel, a gun beside square at Bonham with appropri-
him. . i ate ceremonies Sunday afternoon.
He had been shot in the head and The actual unveiling was by Mrs.
I
WEATHER
• Gainesville and Vicinity — To-
night and Thursday, partly cloudy,
warmer Thursday'
Today noon. 46; high yesterday,
51; low last night, 28; high for
’ year, 103; low for year, 15.
a moderately-well-to-do Simon 10.yacauagupoz 1 uze- „ -- .........g -
and his wife, Rachel. Others in the tide poems, and Miss lewis chose! spotlight hunters about 11 p.
family included Simon’s aged fa-le—•-----— * urr—~ iwhen liohte enddeniv wrena +o
home of his
in the dining room a bowl of red Gainesville Has
it ire
tary:
vers
‛rom
n I an
eir
een-
Cunningham was
than $3,000,000
The background was formed by
a huge star shining above the
words of the program title, a pic-
ture of the wise men, as they
sought- the star in the East. The
title of the cantata and the spon-
soring organization on a back-
ground of blue added to the at-
tractiveness of the scene.
Other members of the choir were
Misses Mary Strauss, Lucy Greer,
Eddie Marie Wilborn and Marie
Pace and Roger Martin.
the company, McKesson-Crowdns
Drug company, made the
Service products in this territory,
was voted to tne membership of men now
occasionally appeared as
the club, and Lu Monroe, of Boul-
der, Colorado, Rev. E. H. Moseley
and Billy Teague were visitors at
the meeting.
Following the discussion of the
sponsoring of motion pictures, in
connection with industrialization
of farming. Jack Bell, club presi-
dent, appointed Ted Herrmann,
Ross P. Reagan and Gilbert Irwin
to make definite arrangements
for public showings of the pic-
tures. An invitation of the club
4 ■ 1 - ~
Roosevelt Jr.
er in east and south portions to-
night; Thursday partly, cloudy,
somewhat warmer in west and
north portions. Gentle to moder-
ate northerly winds on the coast.
West Texas: Mostly cloudy to-
yesterday for the Christmas holi- President _______ ______
night and Thursday, probably rain days, accompanied by his wife and ' leaders to state publicly whether
in north portion, warmer except J their five-months-old son, Frank- they would approve continuing the
in extreme southeast portion to- lin third. Franklin, Jr., is a stu-
of most of the youngsters_al-
though the French children will i
old job afterward,” he added
grinning.
three sisters and three aunts. His
mother lives in San Antonio.
- - terest in Gainesville because of
he worked on the Possum Kingdom : the fact that Mrs. P. C. Sparks of
Dam near Mineral W ells. . this city is a grand-niece of Col.
Surviving him are his mother. | Bonham.
The monument was the work of
ald Coster.”
“Well, what are you going to do
| for me?” the man asked when
i Musica told how high he had risen
'since the days of the infamous hu-
man hair swindle of 1913 and the
'dubious dealings in alcohol during
prohibition.
“Why didn’t you know?" Coster
Miss Allie Tennant, sculptor.
100” persons who paid $100 or
more for their tickets, would re-
ceive their money back.
brothers, all working under the j - ......
elaborate guise of fictitious ington for New V ork to direct the federal inquiry into the anazing
backgrounds Cester-Musica-McKesson and Robbins case. With him is W. K. Hop-
The arrest of Benjamin Simon. ' kins, chiet of the trial section of the Department of Justice.
49-vear-old Bronx salesman with
a police record. gave credence to-
day to a previously reported story
effort to put over an oil deal.
tory. as well as with Gainesville, II1-Gotten Gains Gone
and since a large poition of the Furtherance of the- investiga-
sales of his company is within a tion disclosed, McMahon said, that
geographical location radiating “the Musicas’ ill-gotten gains are
from Gainesville as a center, over mostly gone.” It was supposed
several adjoining states he visu. that the 1929 erash strippe4Cos-
alizes many trade advantages tha ter and it was estimated that, in
would accrue from having a ac- the first place, he and his brothers
tory in this city. ’ ! took little
more
PARIS, Dec. 21 (AB).—Orders
। for the French navy to hold exten-
; sive war games here in 1939 in the
Southern Atlantic ocean off
Africa’s west coast were disclosed
tonight.
Fears that Germany’s ambitions
might turn to French colonies and
mandates on that coast as a step-
ping stone to the extension of nazi
influence to South America were
Judge J. E. Spies. Mrs. Henry
Schenkenburg gave a history of
। Col. Bonham, and Congressman
Sam Rayburn made the dedicatory
address.
Miss Thayer
epartment of the GainesviteJun crockett chapter of theDaughters youths were in jail here in
ior college gave The Star „o of the American Revolution Sat- Connection with the fatal
Glory ",as.) speech department 1 urday afternoon as they were en-shooting last night of Game
head of the speech department tertained in the home of Mrs. W. woronE P Nr,, II
gave the narration m a fasemat-1 j Price, 416 South Denton street. - ar en ‘ 1 ' Murchison, n
ing manner. A. G. Pfaff directed — *
the vested cnoir.
Introduced the
of Gainesville on highway 77,
by three men who had previ-
ously been introduced to San-
ders as Cooke county oil men,
he notified the sheriff’s office
here.
Sheriff Luther McCollum and
my stocking
of an old friend who met
one day when he was still *
B EL GRADE, Dec. 21 (AP). —! there would be so many who would
Premev Milan Stoyadinovich to- earn pins next year, that the coun-
day submitted the resignation of cil would have to work hard to
his cabinet to Prince Paul, the re- raise enough money to buy awards
gent, and immediately was com- 1 for all of them.
missioned to form a new Jugoslav Santa Claus made his aprear-
l ance at the close of the afternoon s
I activities and favors were distrib-
uted to the girls.
------------ t derby, all of Era; and Frankie Por-
n - II . A, l ter. Loving. Silver pins as second
Mrs. Helen Shepard {eaJanecrplinerenpyeranairon
RlPQ WAAnaeNAI three years or more, gold pins
•IC3 VV vuIlvoUdj 1 with guard formed by a four-leaf
—---. 1 clover, were presented to Virginia
MARGARETVILLE; N. Y., Dec. Robinson, Sarah Pearl Davis. Stel-
________________ _________________ 21 (AP).- Mrs. Helen Gould Shep- la Ruth Wright. Cornelia Wright,
tions will conform generally to ard, 70. daughter of Jay Gould, of Whaley 55, and Odessa and Na-
American Yuletide customs nextrailroad builder, died at her sum-dine Morrow of Union Grove,
weekend. mer home earlv today. i Council Finances Activities
c . c, , c. . . . „ „ . ... . In presentation of the awards.
Santa Claus and Christmas trees One of America s pioneer philan- Mrs Robb stated that the council
and turkey dinners will be the or-' thropists. Mrs. Shepard had been had f inanced all 4-H club activities
ill for the past two months, during the year, had purchased the
• Since passage of the Weeks law
in 1911 providing for federal for- .. . ... .
in 1911 PI > .... 16n0nnn gram, the presentation was made
est purchases, some 16,0002000 » -LL ---- Ce .L- etl.
acres have been bought, of which
Dermott ordered detectives to
similar plants in other cities, do- torney general yesterday that the
ing hundreds of thousands of dol- firm's existing assets seem intact
lars of business annually. They and its business sound.
will furnish the capital to purchase: The $18,000,000 in fictitious as-
machinery and equipmen and P sets uncovered in the crude drugs
erate the factory whichtprobab department controlled by Coster
will be capitalized at $ 00 do'not and never did exist, Caffrey
start. It is not proposed to solicit said his investigation indicated at
any stock subscriptions locally. | this stage.
Based on surveys made by the ,______
company, it is believed a plant in E . Ar
Gainesville would be a profitable H rench N AVV 10
investment within due time. Nego- ~
tiations will be continued. inpre Have war Games
members was drafted, asking that
programs be exchanged by the hope satisfactory plans
Sherman Kiwanis club and the lo- vided to insure const
cal .organization.
portrayed vividly the
lieved him of his cash after stick-
ing a gun in his side.
“I had never seen’Johnson be-
fore he came to my house Monday
afternoon, ahd said he was look-
ing for my son,” Sanders contin-
ued. “and during the conversation
he told me of the oil leases rnat
would be available. He said he
AUSTIN, Lee. 20 (UP)—Work-
men’s compensation insurance was
made available to Texas employers
today on a new rating plan. In-
stead of a fixed rate based upon
total payrolls, a manufacturer
may take out a policy under a
“retrospective rating plan."
Under the plan if he has few ac-
cidents in his establishment he can
get a substantial reduction in his
premium. But if he has a bad rec-
ord the rate will go up. It is to
be figured on an annual basis.
An employer still mav keep a
fixed rate. If he wants the retro-
spective rate he must make the
election when he takes out the pol-
icy. He can’t wait until the end
of the year to see how its record
will affect the cost.
Hunters, Ambushed by ' NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (AP).
Intruders on King Ranch 1 he F. Donald Coster-Philip
___ • Musica mystery, already in-
ALICE, Texas, Dec. 211 volving millions and interna-
question / members of the Cohen;
family and Coster-Musica’s three1
Because his job entails
checking stock after the doors
close, Jahn frequently is one
of the last clerks to leave. He
makes a run for the train to
suburban Brookline where he
and his wife, the former Anne
Clark, have an apartment.
He enjoys racing for his
train and talks like a real
commuter — “That’s what I
like,” he says, "a good brisk
walk before and after work."
I’ll hang
-N. A. Sanders, 55-year-old one presertea ixunuay eve i
Marietta, Oka., oil operator, the auditorium of the Junior High C- -- ,1-.- . •
.was held up and robbed of nchool when students sof the music gram formemersrirgtnn kheseroa Reed today said two Mexican
$1,548 Tuesday evening about
7:30 o’clock, five miles north
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Judge H. A.
rha
An excellent program highlight- Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Bryan,
ing the school calendar of the members of the speech faculty and
week before Christmas was the Miss Virginia Lewis, student in the
nn, nregenteq Mondav even in" in i department, at fexas state College - , । ..
Presentem of thZiunior Hieh for Women, Denton, were the (AP). Deputy Sheriff George! tional duplicity, took a new;
i and more sinister turn today
Associates with him in the from the pirated firm in ten years.
Gainesville enterprise would heL Officers and directors of the
successfully operating firm hastened to tell the state at-
l building the new' factory here, has had been served. -
been engaged in the sales and dis- Edward W. Hubbard, Pennsyl-
tribution department of a similar vania WPA worker and former
enterprise in another state, for a husband of “Mrs. Coster," also
long number of years. He is thor- was summoned to testify before
oughly acquainted in this terri- the federal grand jury today.
Edgar Wade of Dallas, great-
niece of the Alamo hero.
The event was of particular in-
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 21
(AP).—An official inquiry was
awaited today in an airplane crash ■
• near Boerne Monday night while
preparations went forward for
burial of the four victims, one of
whom was Lieutenant Perry S.
Lyons, noted "mercy pilot.”
The plane, en route from El
Paso where Lyons was unit com-
mander of the United States coast
neuvers to visit Latin-American
countries.
(Filene’s), where he started
out a business career as a
stock room clerk last August.
He takes his job seriously •
and won’t spend Christmas
SAN ANGELO Tex., Dec. 21 A monument honoring the mem-
(AP).— Edward Piper. 23, of San : ory of Col. James Butler Bonham,
Antonio, died today of a bullet one of the heroes of the Alamo,
wound after he was found at the was unveiled on
mother, Mrs. Lee Lewis, enter-
tained informally at their home,
802 North Dixon street, with a
coffee complimentary to Mr. and
Mrs. Bryan. Guests were received
between the hours of five and
seven. The hostesses were assist-
ed by Miss Frances Lewis of Wich-
ita Falls.
Miss Virginia Lewis is a pupil
of Mr. Bryan at TSCW. and is a
senior student in the speech de-
partment.
BOSTON, Dec. 21 (AP—
John Roosevelt is about as
busy as his father these days
but it is the Christmas rush,
not affairs of state.
The lanky, youngest son of
the president is contending
with the Christmas buying
scramble in one of the city’s
largest department stores
Gtinesbille Wcehlp
AND MESSENGER GM
They were assisted in the delight- the great King ranch,
ful program by Mrs. Walton Wil- i Murchison, 55-year-old warden,
fong, Mrs. Yancy L. Culp, and Mrs. who lived in Kingsville, was shot
J. N. McArdle, local musicians 1 four times, while he was tracking
aK. pue -Mr. Bryan, who is director of hunters, using spotlights, Reed
various speech in the Denton college, was said,
presented in the reading of “The _ The officer said Murchison and
Most-Miserable Merry Christmas." Jim Robinson, another warden, liv-
Mrs. Bryan read a group of Yule- ing in Alice, were tracking down
tia___e ea axihi rLie e_____Isnotlisht huntere ahnnt ii n. n., wre ‛ euncn-Musica, and RoD-
j for her program story, “How Comewhen lights suddenly were turned j ert Dietrich-Musica,who are being
, I Christmas.” on them. Murchison was hit four , in >100 000 bail each on
for the trio, which Were said by and a servant girl. Joseph and his Mrs. Culp accompanied Mrs. j times and died shortly afterw /ard. charee 8.0 .violating the securities
। a violin' In the darkness; the gunmen es-act of 1934.
number, and Mrs. McArdle sang a caped from Robinson, he said. | The investigation started asfed-
beautiful Christmas song, accom-1 Texas rangers, highway patrol-1 eral, state and city
might lead to the identification of shepherds. Choruses in ’keeping panied by Mrs. Culp.
, the men, but told officers that he, with the trend of the story were
would recognize one of the men, beautifully suns’ by the choir,
w’ho said his name was Johnson. 1 Special Selections
- “I had come to Gainesville in an
Oklahoma: Fair, not so cold in recalled by further orders to some
units to take advantage of the ma-
1939. and employ 40 or 50 persons; Simon has been on the corpora- AP). - Representative Wright
at the start, are rather encourag- tion’s payroll at $6,000 a year and Patman (D.-Texas) said today he
ing at the present time, according e- penses for five years, and As- had lectured on his chain store
to officials of the Chamber of sistant U s Attorney General tax bill two years ago under the
Commerce who have been negoprien McMahon said last night:! occasional sponsorship of McKes-
tiating with a representative c.f •I assume he was drawing $6.- < son and Robbins Drug company,
the manufacturing company re- 000 a year for what he knew in-but had never had any direct con-
cently. stead of what he did.”
Frank Kearns, Calumet Farms
parliamentary elections but some trainer, has as mascots a monkey,
concessions to Groat demands for a goat, two dogs ana two cats. The
self-government were expected to small menagerie goes with the race
guard, fell in flames. Victims be-
sides Pilot Lyons were C. H. Dr. D. M. Higgins, delegate to
Teague, United States coast guard, state convention; Dr. Atchison, al-
ensign. El Paso, RuperH. Ger- ternate; and Dr. C. B. Thayer,
maine, coast guard, Il.Pas man member of the board of censors.
George C. Latham, ! Plans were made for ^e semi-
*For ss, ‘ . . ! annual convention of the North
Funeral services for Teague w ill Texas Medical association to be
be held at El Paso F riday.Latham held in Gainesville next June, and
will be buried in San Ant n . -1 for organization of a Ladies Aux-
meral services for Lyons and Ger- medical society,
maine are pending. i _________J
s As the first affair to be held in
the new club building located on
the fair grounds on West Califor-
nia street, the 4-H Club girls of
Cooke county were entertained in
a delightful manner Saturday aft-
ernoon with a holiday party.
Effective were the decorations
used to carry out the Christmas
। motif, with the central window
I covered in blue, and red being used
j to cover the windows on either side
of the blue one. Two trees of or-
i dinary- size were placed on either
side of the central window and
were prettily decorated with home-
made symbols. Other decorative
■ features were tables on which were
placed miniature Christmas trees,
candles, and Santas on reflectors.
Sprays of magnolia and pine
leaves made attractive the other
parts of the spacious rooms.
Miss Wright Presides
Miss Stella Wright, who w a s
elected chairman of the 4-H clubs,
was in charge of the meeting. The
group sang "Jjngle Bells" and
I other songs, and a special musical
■ feature was a group of numbers
sung in German and English by 14
girls from the Lindsay community.
Mrs. Benjamin L. Bion and
three of her speech pupils, Mar-
jorie Links, Marcene Cox. and
Margaret Davis, read .Christmas
stories for the entertainment o f
: the girls and their sponsors.
Mrs. Chester Robb, outgoing
chairman of the county council,
presented pins to 12 girls who have
been 100 per cent in accomplishing
all club goals. First year girls re-
ceiving bronze pins were: Doris
• Sparkman. Ethelda Miller, Mary
। Ruth Herin, and Dixie Jane En-
Little Miss Marlene Idella
Stinnett, 5-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. ,1. W. Stinnett,
of Rickmond, California, ar-
rived here Tuesday to be the
guest of her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Stinnett.
Marlene made the long trip
on one of the streamlined
* trains from California, alone,
for a holiday visit here with
relatives.
Marlene was. visiting the
stores in company with her
grandfather, R. I- Stinnett,
Wednesday morning “doing
her Christmas shopping” and
made a visit to The Regis-
ter office.
quartet composed of Misses Paris served with coffee during the so-
and Goslin and Lohmann and cial hour to the members and their
, ,, Berry. Miss Paris sang a solo part,! guests.
car with him, and after driving assisted by others in the choir,
off the highway on a side road, re-
forego turkey in favor of their
customary dried fish and ham
Christmas eve, and dinner at the
British embassy will be climaxed
with a plum pudding served in
flaming brandy.
I A light rain which fell in
Gainesville Tuesday morning
and early afternoon, will
prove greatly beneficial to
grain crops in the area cover-
ed by the precipitation, and
farmers and business men
alike were cheered by the
; moisture.
. "It’s the best Christmas gift
yet,” remarked one farmer, who
said his wheat crop had been in
distress.
Charles Clark, county agent, ex-
plained. that a light rain would
cause grain to thrive for several
weeks longer, but said that a hard
rain was necessary to pack the
ground and farmers feared a
freeze might kill the crop.
The precipitation had measured
one-tenth of an inch in Gainesville
shortly after noon.
Leaky skies showered snow and
sleet upon parts of west Texas to-
day but Texas for the most part,
expected rain.
Borger, the mercury dropping
slowly, had its sleet transformed
into snow during midmorning, but
sleet was still prevalent in other
1 sectors, particularly Hart and
: Dimmitt counties.
Lubbock was wet by rains as the
' temperature dropped to 38 degrees .
। and overcast skies were general
down to San Antonio in southwest
Texas..
। Weather forecast for Tuesday
[ night and Wednesday warned of
I rain and colder temperatures in
' the north portions of West and
East Texas.
A record number of Texans, 27,
is enrolled in the Air Corps Ad-
vanced Flying school at Kelly
Field, San Antonio, and two of
them are from Gainesville. There
are students from 36 states, Illi-
nois having 13 as the second lar-
gest representation. The class
slated to graduate February 15.
1939,’ consists of four regular
army officers, six National Guard
officers and 166 flying cadets.
The Gainesvihe members are
First Lieut. Henry A. Sebastian of
the regular army, and Cadet Ralph
A. Barksdale.
Chamber officials conferred Did ‘Various Jobs’
with members of the city council -. . . " .. , .. . _ ------ - —-------
Tuesday night, outlining certain , Simon himself said vaguely that; Tribune story .saying he had lec-,
concessions that will be necessary he ‘ did var-ous jobs. What he, tured from coast to coast under
to induce location of the proposed knew, among other things. Me- the sponsorship of the drug eom-
plant in this citv Waiving of citv Mahon said, was that three men pany now involved in the Coster-
taxes for a number of years, as connected with. McKesson and Musica scandal.
Permitted bv the citv charter is Robbins -all hiding behind aliases "I made three national lecture
one of the phases of ooperation " were brothers . of the shrewd, ‘ tours in recent years. Two of them |
sought from the municipal govern- -talian-born manipulator. .were in behalf of veterans’ com-'
ment. Remission of county taxes Before his arrest, Simon waspensation. The third was for the and he checks movements of
also will be sought for a period of questioned ’ by SEC investigators chain store tax bill, in 1936. Some
years. and yesterday his name was men- of these latter meetings were
A building in which machines'tioned by Frederick Wingersky, sponsored by McKesson and Rob-;
may be located, for operationof a Bost0,1 lawyer and a vice president bins. The arrangements were
school, in which prospective em- of McKesson and Robbins, in con- handled locally through a speak-
ployes would be taught the art of nection withan uncompleted arms ing bureau and I had no contact i
manufacturing underwear, and sale. j with the drug company,
free electrical current to propel Investigation of the firm’s fan- i Received No Pay
the machines, will be provided by tastic affairs continued today. ■ "The company did not pay me.
the Chamber of Commerce. Deed with the intriguing arms inquiry McKesson and Robbins was one
to land for a factory site also has in the forefront. Dissension among | of the few bip firms which sup-
been offered. ' ’ cffis sf ths ATahxe pau*ed the chnin „♦— hin end
Established Firm : hon said, was helping to ellicit in- they
The man who is interested in
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Texas rangers, highway patrol-1 eral, state and city authorities. I
। men and other officers rushed here'delved deeper into the fantastically | ’
Attractive Decorations to a*d the sheriff's force in catch-! involved activities of the Musica
Poinsettias and greenery were i ing the suspects, who were placed! brothers-Philin, who became the f
used to decorate the reception i in jail while the hunt continued for | respected heal of McKesson a
Misses Angie Paris and Kathryn suite. A brilliantly lighted tree others who might have been in-Robbins Corporation, and his
Goslin sang a duet in the second was placed in the sun parlor and volved.
which involved leases east of the chorus and later a male quartet over the mantle two small Ameri-
city, Sanders told Mr. McCollum, composed of Adolph Lohmann,! can flags - were arranged with
"and met the three men at the Tom Thomas, Weldon Berry and greenery.
Turner hotel. Another party in-1 Wallace McDaniel offered a strik- . . . .
terested in the deal could not be ing number. "Silent Night,” sung berries centered the lace laid re-
reached..and , had started.back । softly by the group was an im- freshment table, and red tapers inn • ryi
" ...u _ " * " pressive part of the program. A brass holders further added to the Vyomge I AyE A
special feature was the mixed Christmas theme. A tea plate was * 1 •-V
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