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FORTY NINTH YEAR
FOUR PAGES TODAY
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NO. 23
Some, Day Tommy, You Can Dance, Too
Plaza Theatre Robbed
Tickets For Birthday
Dance On Sale Today
Early This Morning
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Automobile Sales
For 1940 Were
Up 20 Per Cent
Deadline to Pay
Taxes Will Be
Midnight Jan. 31
Everyone Urged
To Buy Tickets
To Aid In Fight
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Attending
Conference
At Midlothian
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morning . . .
to this community when he was
17 years-of age.
He was married here in 1894 to
Miss Sallie Abernathy who with six
children survives, three daughters,
Texans Guests of
Tom Connally at
Inauguration ,
K. P. to Meet
Tonight
Officers Re-Elected
At Corsicana
Burglars Open
Safe But Get
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Rev. Allen Hinkle
Rites Are Held In
Goose Creek Sunday
Gas Men to Hold
Convention at
Dallas, Feb. 10-12
Cemetery. Pallbearers ,. were
nephews.
John Wesley Fowler was
May 2, 1873 in Georgia and
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Presidents BIRIHDAY
January 30-1941
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eight-man editorial board of The
Journal of Marketing, official pub-
lication of the American Marketing
Association.
Ennis EchoeS
"but one ISM In America—and that's AMERICANISM"
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Site and Dates
For Uistrict TSTA
Meet Is Changed
J. W. Fowler, 67,
Pioneer Farmer
Died Saturday
GOD PUT A CONSCIENCE IN
OUR HEARTS; DO NOT EVADE
YOUR CONSCIENCE: Lo, this only
have I found, that God hath, made
man upright; but they have sought
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attention Monday
Help the Ennis Fight against Infantile Paralysis by attending one of the two dances
which will be held on Thursday night, January 30. Dance either at the Lakeside
Country Club beginning at 8 p.m. or at the National Hall beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Game tournament will be held at the country club on Thursday afternoon beginning
at 3 p.m. with all proceeds also going to the fight.
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SURVEY — Milo J. Warner,
National Commander of the
American Legion, who plans
trip to England to study civil-
ian defense efforts. He will
make unofficial report to State
Department.
NO AID —Mlle. Eve Curie,
daughter of Mme. Marie
Curie, co - discoverer of
radium, asserted Britain had
received no real aid from
U. S., when U. S. sold goods to
Britain. She's in U. S. to lec-
ture. She said her views were
not Britain's.
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Roads, La., Willie Fowler of Oak
Grove, and Lonnie Fowler of Cor-
pus Christi, also 11 grandchildren
survive, and four brothers, Judge
Fowler of Bristol, Joe Fowler cf
Chatfield, Ed Fowler of Lancaster,
and Hugh Fowler who resides in
Arkansas, and two sisters, Mrs. Ed
Patterson of Ensign and Mrs. Pearl
Greenwood of Lubbock.
Mr. Fowler united with the An-
tioch Baptist Church in 1929 and
had been a member of that church
since that time.
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be th dances. A dance will begin at 1
7:30 p. m. at the S. P. J. S. T. Na-
tional Hall, east of town on High-
way 34, and the other dance will
begin at 8 p. m. at the Ennis Lake-
side Country club.
Tickets which sell for only thirty-
five cents have been placed on sale
at the drug stores and committees
will be out in town selling them.
The tickets have been set at a very
low price in order that those that
wish to donate to the fight against
the disease will be able to do so
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Mrs. Elmer Buchanan, and
Bill Thompson of Ensign,
Temple Crady cf Kaufman,
three sons, Hugh Fowler of
J. W. Fowler, 67, farmer of the
Ennis community for fifty years,
died at 5:30 o’clock Saturday af-
ternoon in a hospital in Austin
following an illness of more than a
year.
Funeral services were held at 3
o’clock this afternoon in the Keev-
er Chapel with the Rev. W. O.
Patterson, pastor of the Blooming
Grove Baptist Church officiating.
Interment was made in Myrtle
Was an Ennis host embarrased
Sunday morning when the break-
fast eggs all disappeared before
one of the guests had been serv-
ed? A few moments later, how-
ever, the guest had more food than
he could eat at one meal.
ORCHID FOR THE DAY: Dr. L.
E. CLARK who is celebrating his
birthday today; to MARGARET
HOWARD who was 19 years old
Sunday and to ALPHONSE MOCK
-whc observed his 17th birthday
Sunday.
Are you one of the large number
of Ennis adults who have numer-
ous friends among the younger
generation? In this city there are
scores of citizens who spend as
much time making friends of the
boys and girls, the young men and
the young women as they do in
being friendly with persons their
own age.
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changed its meeting place and
date from Mineral Wlells, March
14-15 to Fort Worth, April 18-19,
according to Miss Etta Ewing of
Rio Vista, treasurer of the district.
This change was decided this
by buying tickets even if they do
not expect to attend the dances.
There will be very little expense
in putting on the dances as both
Clubs and both orchestras have
been, secured without any cost and
the entire proceeds will go to thie
fight against the paralysis.
Every person in Ennis and this
community should buy at least one
of these tickets to do their part
toward helping the president in his
cause as fifty per cent will be re-
tained locally for the fight. Those
that wish to donate but don’t care
to dance may make their donations
through purchasing the tickets.
Catherine Davidson, Emhouse, and
other relatives.
Pallbearers were Ike Farmer,
Reed Phillips, Ernest Green, Vir-
gil Green, N. B. Dockery and Fred
Martin.
The deadline for paying State
and County Taxes will be at mid-
night,.. January 31, according to an-
nouncement received here from
E. ‘ A. Orr, Tax Collector for Ellis
County.
Jake Talley, deputy Tax collec-
tor for Ennis and vicinity, states
that his office, located at 109 West
Avenue, will remain open every
evening this week for the conven-
ience of those who are unable to
come in during the day.
Tax collections are not as great
at this time due to the three per-
.cent discount for payment of tax-
es during October. A large number
of tax payers took advantage of
the discount date and paid their
taxes during that month.
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Austin, Texas, Jan. 27.—Dr. John } Mrs. Leu Ella Allen of Ennis for-
H. Frederick, University of Texas ! mer National President of the
professor cf transportation and j Spanish War Veterans auxiliary at-
industry, was today notified of his tended the inauguration and view-
“Daddy, isn’t Ed a nice man!”
This was the recent remark of
a seven-year-old youngster as he
and his parents left a home they
'had been visiting one Sunday af-
ternoon. The statement was so em-
phasized that it was an exclama-
tion rather than a question.
The remark had been occasioned
by the interest that Ed, a man of
about 40, had taken in the child.
He had permitted the lad to as-
sist him in starting a fire in the
attractive fireplace. He had shown
him how to make the flames re-
semble the colors of the rainbow
by sprinkling a special powder
upon the logs. He had shown him
through the reception room, ex-
plaining the games to the child.
He had given the youngster an old
ping-pong ball. Every question ask-
ed by the visiter was answered
with as much thought ,care, and
interest as if it had been asked by
an adult.
Is there any wonder that the
youngster said:
“Daddy, isn’t Ed a nice man!”
man Pryor, Corsicana, and Miss I of the War Department
fight against the Infantile Paraly-
sis, were placed on sale today, ac-
cording to J. P. Moseley, chairman
of the dance committee.
Ennis citizens may take their
choice of either of the two dances
being held in Ennis on Thursday
night, January 30, and the one
Mrs. Stevens
New Teacher In
Ennis Schools
—S' Farmers Party At
cf Emhouse; three daughters, Mrs. Here is the inside stcry:
Robert Collins, Dallas; Mrs. Thur- j Last October the Land Division
Washington, D. C., Jan. 28—Col-
enel and Mrs. Blaine Hollimon, Jr.,
of Ennis, Texas, were guests of
United States Senator Tom Con-
nally at the inauguration of Pres- ;
ident Rloosevelt. The couple com-
posed two of a group of Texans
resident in Washington privileged
to view the historic ceremony at
the capitol. Others in the group
were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Perry cf1
Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Atwood
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Ccrsicana, Texas, Jan. 27.—J. P.
Ballew of Midlothian and G. R.
Love, Corsicana, were re-elected
president and vice-president, re-
spectively, of the Corsicana Pro-
duction Credit Association at the
annual meeting of the stockheld-
ers here. Love and L. C. Parks of
Ennis, directors, were named on
the executive committee. The as-
sociaticn embraces Navarro, Hill
and Ellis Counties.
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1941
Melvin Taylor Is
Re-Elected as Head
Of Emhouse Schools
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Melvin Taylor, superintendent of
the Emhouse public schools’ for
the past” five, years, has been re-
.elected for two years by the board.'
of education.
The Emhouse school has expand-
ed in area and in curriculum of-
fered, and is considered a high-
ranking consolidated school.
The school has twenty-nine
credits of affiliation, and is ap-
plying for one and one-half addi-
tional units this year.
Tabernacle Baptist Church attend-
ed the monthly workers conference
of the Ellis County Missionary
Baptist Association at Midlothian
today. The Rev. Hugh R. Bumpas
and M. D Glaspy were on the pro-
gram.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 27.—Texas
automobile sales last year rocketed
19.7 per cent above 1939 totals,
University of Texas business stat-
isticians report.
Sales in 16 representative Texas
counties, according to the Bureau
of Business Research here, totaled
76,618 as compared, with 64,013
for 1939. Largest increase, the bu-
reau reported, was in the highest
price bracket, 919. sales against 622
for the preceding year.
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Mrs. Lillian Clark Stevens has
been hired as teacher in the home
economics department of the Ennis
High school, to succeed Miss Mil-
dred Lyon,'resigned, according to
announcement made today by C. C.
Isbell, superintendent of schools.
Mrs. Stevens comes to Ennis from
Ccoper, Texas, and she has started
her duties today in the Ennis
schools.
Miss Lycn resigned her job here
to accept a position with the Hous-
ton Gas Company in the Home
Economics department.
James L. Davidson, aged 62
years, died at his home near Em-
house Friday night. Funeral serv-
ices were held Saturday afternoon
at 3 o’clock from the Corley Chap-
el. Burial was in the Rice ceme-
tery. The rites were conducted by
Rev. G. H. Vaughn, Baptist min-
ister of Pursley.
Surviving are his wife, two sons,
Raymond and Jesse Davidson, all
of Ennis, and Miss Eleanor Crow-
Lyons of Waco.
The Rev. A. O. Hinkle, 53, of
Goose Creek, died Friday night
at the Memorial Hospital, Hous-
ton. He was born in Ellis County,
j near Mountain Peak and lived for
many years in Midlothian. He was
formerly pastor of the Baptist
church at Ferris, going from there
to Lockhart, where he was pastor
about 17 years, thence to Goose
Creek, where has has been the
pastor of the First Baptist church
for the past five years.
The Rev. Hinkle is the son-in-
law of the Rev. J. O. Hearne of
Waxahachie.
Survivors are his wife, two sons,
Joseph Hearne and A. O. Jr., cne
daughter, Mrs. Sam Norris of San
Antonio, and one grandson.
Funeral services were held Sun-
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at
the First Baptist church of Goose
Creek.
Some adults have a knack of '
making friends with the younger
generation. You can walk down
the Avenue or down Dallas Street
or down Main Street with several
local men and women and in each
block they will be spoken to by
three cr four boys or girls who are
still in their teens. Adults who have
this ability enjoy life more than
they would otherwise.
I The district meeting of the Tex-
day Ball for Ennis, to aid in. the . as state Teachers Association has
The Ennis Knights of Pythias will
hold their regular meeting tonight
at the lodge hall.
All members are requested to be
present as the rank of Knight will
be, bestowed upon four members.
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A Farmers Party, sponsored by
the Ellis County Agricultural As-
sociation, will be held in Davis
Hall in Waxahachie Friday night,
Jan 31 it has been announced by
officials of the Association as a
part of the Presidents Birthday cel-
ebration.
Games, stunts, and various other
forms of entertainment will be
available under the direction of
the entertainment Committee. Re-
freshments will be served.
Members and their wives from
all parts of the county are invited
to attend. A small admision charge
will be made, the proceeds of
which will go, to the Infantile Para-
lysis fund in the regular manner.
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prominent Republican, in acquiring
60,000 acres of land for the Army
in Jefferson, Ripley and Jennings
Counties for a project to be known
as the Jefferson Proving Grounds.
Besides being cne of the largest
land deals under the defense pro-
gram, it is also remarkable in
that McCord receives a 6 1-2 per
cent commision.
The Army has and is acquiring
other large land areas in Indiana,
but the highest commision paid on
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Funeral Services
For Jim May Held
Sat. Morning
• Funeral services for Jim May,
53, resident of. Ennis ypractically
all hi .life, who died Thursdas in
the Municipal ‘ Hospital' after" 8 a
short illness, were held at 10
o’clock Saturday morning ini .the
First Christian Church with the
pastor, the Rev. Dean Harrison of-
ficiating. The choir of the church
sang “Nearer My God to Thee”,
and "Jesus Lover of My Soul”, and
Mrs. Genevieve Hanes sang “God’s
Tomorrow.”
Interment was made in Myrtle
Cemetery with J. E. Keever in
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were Leo Kirkpat-
rick, J. H. Henderson, M. B. Mose-
ley, F. L. Roorbach, Chester Lewis,
and Bert Wadley.
Among those out of town here
for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs.
P. H. Loggins, of Corsicana; Mrs.
Rush Williams, Mrs. W. H. Griz-
zard and Miss Mable Grizzard of
Waxahachie; Dr. and Mrs. C. E.
McDuffie, Mrs. Lola Cox, Mr. and
.Mrs. J. W. May, J. E. May, J. Q.
May and Miss Melba. May of Dal-
las; J. B. May of Los Angeles,
Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. T. G. May,
Mrs. George Pessoney, and Thomas
May of Palestine; Jacob Embry, of
Shreveport, La.; Mrs. Yancy Bar-
ron and Mrs. Clyde Forehand of
Palmer; Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Mor-
ton of Corsicana; Mr. and Mrs.
Porter Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. D.
Weaver, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Moore-
head, Mrs. Allene Loveless and
son, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Cox and
son, Mrs. Otto Gleisen, Mr. Lenton
Kelley, Mx. and Mrs. Holmes Cur-
tis and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Moorehead, Mrs. Nell Snell, Mr.
Charles Barto, Mi’. R. M. Wilson
and son, Mr. Jess Morris, Mrs.
Pete Isom and sons.
Burglars early Monday broke
into the Plaza Theatre and took,
between $12 and $15 from a box
in the office of Manager John
Stiles, it was reported to local of-
ficers today. ,
The burglary was discovered
about 6:25 a. m. Monday when E.
R. Butler, janitor at the theatre,
reported for work. When he no-
ticed that the front door to" the
picture show had been jimmied,
Butler called Dick Goodwin, opera-
tor at the show, who immediately
notified Manager Stiles and local
officers.
After gaining their entrance
through the front door the bur-
glars were forced to tear. down
the door to Manager Stile’s office
where the show’s safe is located.
Although the knob of the safe
was knocked off and the safe open-
ed, the intruders found no money
there.
Sheriff Jess Cariker was notified
of the burglary, and he and three
members of his staff, Ernest Dor-
sey, Willis Cox, and Bill Gibson,
rushed to the scene of thie crime
and checked it for fingerprints.
Local officers are cf the opinion
that the burglary was the work of
professionals.
Manager Stiles thinks that the
burglary probably took place after
5 a. m. Monday inasmuch as the
nightwatchman is on duty in En-
nis until that time.
Carpenters were busy Monday
morning repairing the damage to
the treatre doors.
The burglary was the first one
of any consequence repcrted during
January, although Hesser Drug
S tore ’ and the post office, were en-
tered during December.
sales, industrial' sales, home surv-
ice, employee training, customer
relations, and advertising. An in-
dustrial gas inspection tour will
be conducted for thevisitors.
Ellis County is fortunate in the
number of adults who take an in-
terest in boys and girls, who re-
gard them as their real friends.
Frequently these youngsters will
talk with-adult friends on subjects
that they would not mention to
their own parents.
. Each adult will appeal tici a cer-
tain type of child. There was an
Ellis County pastor who was forc-
ed to leave his church because of
his failure to inspire the friendship
of the young people in his own
congregation; yet when a boy in
another church was thinking about
dedicating his life to the Christian
ministry it was to this pastor that
he went for advice, counsel, and
understanding. There is no adult
who can not be of service to some
boy or girl.
A number cf members of
improving.
Margaray Ramsay, daughter of.
Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Ramsay, is de-
tained at home on account of ill-
ness of influenza.
Gas men from the South and
Southwest will be in Dallas Febru-
ary 10-12 for the annual conven-
tion of the Southern Gas Associa-
tion to gird the industry for its
responsibility in the national de-
fense program and consider meth-
ods to improve fuel service. Rep-
resentatives of the Lone Star Gas
System, which includes Ennis, will
be hosts.
Industry leaders are listed on the
program. They are Major T. J.
Strickler of Kansas City, president
of the American Gas Association;
C. B. Wilson of Little Rock, Ar-
kansas, president of the Arkansas
Louisiana Gas Company, who is
also president of the Southern Gas
Association; D. A. Hulcy, president
of Lone Star Gas Company, and
Colonel Albert Sidney Johnson,
Southern Union Gas Comhpany
president, both of Dallas, and
Frank C. Smith of Houston, pres-
ident of the Houston Natural Gas !
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Visiting Ennis for a day . . .
that is the Avenue man for today
. Always glad to be in Ennis.
ZEBBIE HOWELL is planning
a visit to the SI M. U. campus in
the near future ... He usually
umpires a number of baseball
games for the Ponies . . . Marvin
Layton now has a new title for
LOUIS ROSENSTEIN . . . JOHN
STILES was forced to work in a
cold office Monday morning as a
carpenter was putting in a new
door to replace the one torn down
by the burglars . . . D. W. RAM-
SAY is hopeful that Ennis will
benefit by the National defense
Vspending program . . . FRANK
SIKES was getting ready to attend
the funeral of a friend . . . Sev-
eral coffee drinkers were talking
about the fine fish dinner they
were anticipating . . . Others were
remarking cf the possibilites of
DOYLE ANDREWS, VERNON
MUIRHEAD, and BARNEY TO-
LAR’S becoming Southwestern Con-
ference grid players . . . Another
commented upon the fact that the
first question Coach MATTY BELL
of S. M. U. asked about local grid
players at the recent football ban-
quet was, Are they good students?
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Washington.—In his message to
Congress, President Roosevelt laid
down this dictum as a fundamen-
tal tenet controlling the vast de-
fense expenditures: “No person
should be allowed to get rich out
of this program.”
The following day the “Big Four”
defense chieftains echoed this em-
phatically with; “If there are those
who think they can employ this
emergency for any personal ad-
vantages, they must dismiss such
thoughts.”
These are lofty and patriotic
sentiments, but certain Army brass-
hats don’t seem to be aware of
them.
In fact, their unawareness is so
pronounced in connection with the
acquisition of a huge track of land
in Indiana that Under Secretary
of War Robert Patterson , who
gave up a lifetime job as a U. S.
i Circuit Court Judge to come to
Washington, ordered the Inspector
General to make an immediate and
thorough investigation. Further, a
few days later, Patterson ordered
that sweeping changes he made in
handling future land contracts.
The Inspector General’s quiet
probe uncovered some interesting
information on how certain Army
officials have been doing business.
The Physicians and Dentists
will have their regular weekly
luncheon meeting Tuesday noon
at the Municipal Hospital, Dr. J.
Lawrence Clark will have charge
of the program.
Dr. John N. Chapman, vice-
President of the club, automati-
cally beccmes president of the
club, as the president, Dr. J. R.
Jeter resigned upon leaving for
Fort Bliss for one year’s service in
the U. S'. Army.
morning in the district executive
committee meeting in Fort Worth.
The place of meeting had to be
changed on account of the de-
fense program at Mineral Wells,
and date had to be changed so as
not to conflict with any other
meeting in Fort Worth.
A tentative program was made
out, but the committee is not ready
to announce same as yet. A letter
will follow this announcement to
each superintendent in the ccunty I
concerning the change.
The teachers of the Ennis schools
will be represented at this meeting.
ed the military parade with the
Texas delegation who came here
by train. In the evening Mrs. Al-
len was a special guest at the Tex-
as Club celebration at the Ward-
man Park Hotel. She was intro-
j duced to the assembly by Burris,
C. Jackson of Hilsboro as “a lead-
er in Texas democracy and a great
woman in the cause Texas leader-
ship” in national affairs Beauti-
fully attired for the occasion Mrs.
Allen was a center of admiring
friends and well wishers during
the entire evening. Political rumor
here indicated Mrs. Allen as a pos-
sible successor to Miss Clara Dris-
coll-Sevier of Corpus Christi as
Dem:cratic National Committee-
woman from Texas.
Rice and Chatfield
Justice Earned Only
$147.15 During 1940
B. V. Hatley, justice of the peace,
Precinct 2, Rice-Chatfield area,
earned and collected $147.15 in
fees during 1940, according to his
annual report filed in the district
clerk’s office.
Felonies were listed at $7.50;
misdemeanors $90; civil $2.65; in-
quest $5; vital, statistics, $33.50,
and notary fees 8.50.
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