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The Ennis Daily News
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1932
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VOL. XL,
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by putty and painted over crude- R. S. Sterling, Adj. Gen. W. W. Ster-
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Crime Wave Sweeps Over Ennis and
Area; Many Robberies Still Unsolved
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Mrs. Mace, but expressed indigna-
Former Bankers Indicte.
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books, the exact numker being un-
to the publishers.
as yet. It was insured, however.
Carthy Grocery, a suburban estab-
Stste Bank and Trust Company,
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other mercshandise
Cotton ft darket
Tuesday
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Unconscious At
Monroe Office j
Sterling to Celebrate
Birthday at Luncheon
Nightwatchman Is
Attacked by Thugs
bloody newspapers on the second
story of the old house Monday by
policemen who had been ordered
to make a house to house search.
coupe into a garage at the rear
of the house early yesterday, and
SAN ANTONIO, Texas Feb. 11
Clifford Gaston, 19. was given a five
year suspended sentence here in
connection with the kidnaping of
He was carried to Methodist hos-
pital in Dallas where he was ex-
Father Jacquinot of Saint Fran-
cis Xavier's College was credited
Million and Half
O Wallace's Books
| Neighbor Held
For Kidnaping
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11. (AP).
—Michael Mantycha was under ar-
carry
and
that
number of pictures of a man iden-
tified by them as Floyd.
Years In Kidnap
Case at Santone
ling and Major Paul Wakefield, sec-
retary to the governor and aid to
Gen. Sterling left Wednesday night,
for Galveston formally to welcome
the United States ship Wyoming
and the German cruiser Karlsrhue.
on Thursday and attend an interna-
tional luncheon.
Thursday is the fifty seventh an-
niversary of the governor's birth.
IL DUCE AND
POPE ENJOY
SHORT CHAT
CONGRESS TO
MAKE EFFORT
FOR CREDIT
loss of
damage
Bitter Battle Is Ex-
pected After
Evacuation
Efforts To Capture
Gunman Fail As
Retreat Made
Hectic Court Session
Hears Marshall
Robbery Case
4 closed.
counts alleging embezzlement
four alleging false entry. Coleswor-
thy made bonds of ^1000 on each
Floyd, wanted Oklahoma desper-
ado, proved unfounded.
, A young woman, who gave her
name as 1 Mrs. Ruby Hamilton, 26,
greatly the amount of cash avail-
able to American banks and busi-
ness.
At the v„ng of President Hoov-
er, democratic and republican lead-
and police said she had escaped
from .the house where the two men
were hiding.
A nofficer followed her from the
house to the bus station and made
the arrest.
Pictures Found
ended the long “imprisonment” of
the popes in the Vatican and re- i
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PASTOR CLAIMS
ATHEISM TAUGHT
AT TEXAS TECH
night
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the press table requesting that re-
porters call to see her in the jail
here. She sent' word to the news-
papermen that “I haven’t told the
half of it” and I have a real
Small Damage
was obtained,
am automobile
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was found lying on the floor of
the superintendent’s office, there
this morning at 2 o’clock badly
beaten and in an unconscious con-
dition.
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her testimony that she was “tor-
tured” by deputy sheriffs at Dal-
las to induce her to testify against
Marshall. Although she was called
as a state witness, she answered
“I don’t remember” to practically
all questions asked her by Prose-
cutor Archie Gray concerning her
previous purported testimony be*
fore the Ellis county grand jury.
Refuse to Testify
H. W. McBride and Roy Thorn-
ended 11 Duce presented members
of his party to the pontiff and
then reverently bent and kissed
the pope’s ring, as he did when
he entered, after which he said
farewell and went to visit Cardinal
Pacelli, papal secretary of state.
Later he went to St. Peter’s and
knelt in prayer.
; The visit, which went down as
a notable mark in recent Italian
history, took place as the whole
country was celebrating a new na-
tional holiday, the third anniverss-
ary of the signing of the laternan
said neighbors informed Mm the treaty between Italy and the vati-
two suspected men had driven thelcan. The treaty, negotiated by en-
voys of the pope and premier.
Mrs. Tillison left immediately for
Dallas to be with her husband
They have an apartment in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Donnell on North Sherman St.
stored relations between the state
and the Holy See.
Mr. in northwest portion tonight, Fri-
one cay fair. Moderate to fresh north-
west winds on the coast
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was arrested ' at the bus station
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OKLA THUGS
FOIL OFFICERS; !
ESCAPE IN RAID
still trapped here, survivors of al-
most two weeks of constant bom-
bardment.
Save for that one gesture of
mercy, preparations in the inter-
national settlement and all along
the twenty-mile Chapei-Woosung
front were for rerwed and blood-
ier hostilities.
United States, soldiers of the 31st
infantry moved up into the front
’ line of settlement defenses today,
occupying one of the most strate-
gic sector’s along Woosung creek.
They believed three companies of
Shanghai volunteers, one of which
was made ,up of American business
men.
mistake, the Japanese commander
announced reparations would be
made for the killing and wound-
ing of the Chinese and for prop-
erty damage.
Shimada said the incident oc-
curred while Japanese planes were
bombing a concentration of Chi-
nese soldiers near the settlement
The Toreador, student publication,
will carry Thursday a front page
editorial defending the accused men
regardless of their identity, it was
learned.
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Carl Groos, salesman. He was the
first of three youths to be trid.
only loss was the damage to the Strauss is. survived by his wife.
Clay j cash register and safe.
open. A careful ' 5
those ni charge i was stolen. The vehicle belonged
merchandise, j to Russell Kelly, and was taken |
Closed Hearing Will;
Be Held by Col-
lege Prexy
most pleasant. It was not learned
if they discussed state relations,
but from1 all sibns it? was a thor-
oughly friendly talk.
After the private conversation
Yes sir, this is a welcome sight. Already the still small whisper 02
spring is in the air, despite the non-arrival of Winter. Here is the
Naval Academy Varsity crew pictured on the Severn HVer, at Adsip
men are starting their training bright and early in the hope of repeat
ing their 1931 victory in the Poughkeepsie Regatta, the goal of ever
crew in the country. • . . ton, two other
pl
Lon Elliott,
state witnesses.
and leaving it
lishment, was enterred and mer-
chandise worth about $200 was
taken by the prowlers. In this case graphical size Wednesday night.
Resignation May Be Asked.
Mr. Campbell, returning to Lub-
bock, found the public aroused
against him, with reports being cir-
culated that his resignation would
be demanded. He went in the after-
noon to Dr. Horn’s office, asesrting
he would name the men he had ac-
cused, and would offer sound proof
of his charges. After a conference
lasting nearly three hours he said
nothing had been told him to make
him modify his charges.
way, ahd evidently took their cm;
police lieutenant,
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 11. (AP).
—Premier Benito Mussolini, Il duce
of Italian facism, and Pope Pius
XI. Holy Father to the Catholic
world, met today in the Pope’s
library at the Vatican for the first
time and were closeted alone for a
full hour, sealing the peace of
the church and state which was
begun by the Lateran treaty three
photograph album containing
about Marshall leaving a rifle at
rest today in connection with the her home.
abduction and slaying of seven-
year-old Dorothy Lutz. He was
the first suspect to be formally
arrested although several have
been questioned an geleased.
LUBBOCK, Texas, Feb. 1 J.--Stu-
dents and faculty members of Tex-
as Technological College will testify
behind locked doors in the truth or
falsity of charges brought by a Bap-
tist preacher that atheism and in-
fidelity are taught in the school’s
class rooms.
Decision to hold the hearing was
reached when Dr. Paul W. Horn,
Methodist president of the college,
after the preacher, the Rev. R. C.
Campbell, had named, in a private
conference with the school head, the
four professors to whom he referred
in his accusing sermon last Sun-
day.
The hearings began Wednesday
afternoon and are expected to end
Thursday or Friday. Nothing will
be given out until after they are
1 completed, when. Dr. Horn said,
he and Mr. Campbell will issue a :
joint statement.
One of the accused men, accord-
ing to Mr. Campbell in his sermon
is a department head “who, from
all reports, is undermining the faith
of students and leaving them wan-
dering and groping in the dark.”
In the wake, of the sermon rose
a wave of indignation, which swept
among the more than 2000 students
of the State supported school, cli-
maxing when more than 200 of them
staged a demonstration before Mr.
After having read newspaper
accounts of the Gray-Sullivan
scrap at the Ellis county court
house Wednesday during the
Marshall trial for robbery. Ennis
friends of the county attorney,
Archie D. Gray, who was former-
ly mayor of this city, sent him
a telegram complimenting him
on his scrapping spirit, and of-
fering to match a charity box-
ing match between him and Jack
Dempsey at some time im the
near future.- Gray is an athlete,
having been a member of the
Texas University football team
during his college days. His
friends here have no fear for his
safety at the trial.
the thieves used a brace and bit
to remove the lock on the back
door. When admittance was gain-
ed. the burglars took cigarettes
and matches worth about $200. No
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. (AP).—
With unprecedented unity congress
put its forces today behind an
emergency measure to increase
Bl
After the star witness faltered
and County Attorneys Archie D.
Gray and Defense Attorney Bob
Sullivan came to blows at the
Marshall trial for robbery at
Waxahachie a Dallas newspaper
put out an extra edition. Paper
boys selling this sheet upon the
streets at 7:30 Wednesday night
selling a paper with the same
story that the Ennis Daily News
carried in its regular edition
which was delivered to practical-
ly every home in Ennis at 4 in
the afternoon.
Sold in America
Associcbd/Pres. 1
NEV YORE, Feb. 11.—A million
-d a half ofvEdar Wallace’s books
’ ve ben sold’in theUnited States
his publishers estimated today.
"Whithis a lot of books,” they
added.
The cotton ma
points up s
BY MOIS J. HARRIS
(Copyright, 1933, By Associated
Press.)
doors from her home. He was ar-
rested last night at his home in
the same neighborhood.
A woman’s information that he
was loitering about the house
Associated Press.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 11.—Small
damage was caused by freakish
Company at Monroe, near Dallas, . winds which attained considerable
watchman for
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. IL—Gov.
being to the from his home on North
back window, which was' broken. f Street. The car was a two door
Monday night, the Ennis crime sedan, and has not been recovered
wave deepened, when the Mc-
Mr. Campbell was not at home,
but the demonstration continued
until Dr. Horn left his sick bed to
disperse the shouting students.
The premier's first visit to the
pope was expected to last only a
few moments but continued for an
hour, to the surprise of the waib-
recently the high schqm
ing was entered, a safe bl
opwith’namite and a
of but $400_.was taken,
prowirs had things their"
about the “job.” No clues have- heck-up
been found as to the identity of showed no
the prowlers, and no solution of the only
WAXAHACHIE, Tex, Feb. 11—
(AP).—Mrs. Evelyn Mace, state
witness in the burglary indictment
trial of Schuyler B. Marshall, Jr.,
former Dallas county sheriff, was
arrested today on purjery charges
as she arrived at the district court
room.
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SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 11. (AP)
A four hour truce from 8 a. m. to
noon tomorrow to permit foreign-
ers to take non-combatants out
of Chapei was arranged by a
French Priest today as both the
Chinese and Japanese contineud
to dig in for a major engagement
along the Chapei-Woosung battle
line.
Hostilities in Chapei will come
to a halt to permit thirty foreign-
ers bearing white flags to get into
the Chinese native city. Under a
four plays hi London lasyear Success-
and' ful from a financial standpoint,
that is. I rO "
One quarter of all the books sold
Describing the bombing as
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now the Sam Houston National., nually.
Wednesday was inc*ted by a dis- i He vt:te the six most successful
But tbata mere bagatelle as com
oared to his record the world over
Here are a few figures as given out.!
by the publishers.
He has written more than 150
with effecting the truce, the first
cessation of hostilities in the one. ers laid plans to expedite the bill
it was believed many citizens were through both houses on a strictly
non-partisan basis. It was being
completed for introduction . today >
by Senator Glass, democrat, Vir.
C. G. Colesworthw, former. assist-
ant cashier of the Sam Hoyston known
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The officers attempted to identi-
fy the woman arrested as Mrs.
Floyd, but Jack Bonham, detective
chief, said positive identification
was not made.
Arrested with her was a small
boy about 7 years old.
Floyd has a seven year old son,
named Jackie, officers said.
struck the settlement until they
returned to the Japanese airport
and discovered wore “short” two
bombs. An apparently faulty re-
lease mechanism was blamed.
boundary in Chapei and that the and
airmen did not know they had have he
Fair—Colder
East Texas: Fair, colder, frost
in north and central and freezing
story to tell now."
Marshalls ‘attorneys were non-
committal as to whether they
would attempt to make bond for
Associated Press.
LONGVIEW, Texas, Feb. 11. —
An investigation of the system of
taxation is planned by the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce, Hu-
bert Harrison, general manager, sai
it was “high time” chambers of
commerce and business leaders be-
gin the “serious conservative analy-
sis of our tax system.”
1 Etex Chamber of
Commerce Looks
Into Tax System
in England last yar were written
— i by him \ \
_ 1 He has written abot 12 books
i a year, employing a voice-ceerding
; device and two secretaries. It took
—. ■ him about two weks to write a
15 j book, and a week nd w^ usually
enough for a play. ' <N
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Has Real Story
When Mrs. Mace was taken in
custody today, having been driven
to Waxahachie from Dallas, along
- . with two other witnesses, by Dep-
Mantycha had been sought since , uty Sheriff Denver Seale of Dal-
Dorethy’s body was found Monday las, she immediately sent word to
in Vn unoccupied house a few
attack this morning and is still in j Some wires were broken and traf-
a semi-conscious state. His injuries I fic was blocked at Fort Worth
are not considered serious. Officals ! when the wind blew down a scaffold-
are of the opinion that the attack ing at a church.
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Japanese escort they will
out women and children
wounded found trapped in
shell torn no man’s land.
Priest Gets Truce
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TULSA, Okla., Feb. 11. (AP).—
Beating a hasty retreat through a
rear door, two men suspected of
having participated in two run-
ning gun battles with Tulsa police
in the last 48 hours, again slipped
away from pursuing officers here
early today.
The officers, heavily armed sur-
rounded a house in a residence
district, and while a tear gas squad
broke in a front door the two men
sped out the rear, and away.
The raid on the house followed
another night battle in which a
police scout car chased a coupe
occupied by two men through the
streets for two miles.
Cars Hit
Both the coupe and the police
car were hit several times by bul-
lets,’ but no one was injured. The
police car was damaged so badly
it had to give up the chase when
the coupe was driven up a railroad
embankment, and along the right
of way to an open street after it
was trapped in a blind alley.
The two occupants of the coupe
did not use a machine gun as
had the two men who Tuesday
night fired 50 or more shots at
four officers who stopped them in
the northern edge of the city. At
that time Wilber Wilson, police-
man, was shot in the wrist with a
machine gun bullet.
Man Arrested
Later this.morning officers went
to a bus station here and arrested
a man but wild rumors that the
man was Charles (Pretty Boy)
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Mace; and that Marshall left a
rifle with her husband and told
him he could use it “if the offic-
ers come.” It charged further that
Mrs. Mace gave sworn testimony
yesterday that she had not seen
Marshall since 1925, when he was
a candidate for sheriff; that she
did not know who left the pistol
at the Mace home for her hus-
band; and that she knew nothing
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child as she struggled with her . tion that she was summoned 35
assailant. ! miles a wav from home, leaving a
Dorothy disappeared a week ago i five-months old baby in Dallas,
while roller skating near her home, then was arrested
Her body was found on some j vuch Excitement
The trial re-opened today in the
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that thenwoman had locked the
door. vw
The Automobile found abandon-
house with her husband, Bub
"Sudgingddby5tne ptemier’s smjl-SCampbell’s home Tuesday night,
as he emerged, the meeting was
I where Dorothy’s body was found
put police on his trail. Certain
' bruises were found on his body
as might have been made by the
previously had refused to testify
least they incriminate themselves.
Marshall was the first of four
men indicted to be brought to trial
for an alleged burglary attempt ..
upon the Farmers and Merchants’
Bank of Ferris, Ellis county, the
night of last November 17. Other
defendants were McBride, J. Rob-
ert Kelly and Herbert Scales, Dal-
las clubman.
Thornton also was charged with
perjury. It was alleged that Thorn-
ton, before the grand jury, testi-
fied he met Marshall, Scales, Mc-
Bride, Kelly and Clarence Blake
“on or about” November 17 at the
Bud Mace truck farm west of Dal-
las; that he heard Marshall say
he was sick because he didn’t
have a “good torch man on the
Ferris job;” and that he heard
Scales remonstrate with Marshall
for “popping off before a stranger”
about the alleged attempt to rob
the Ferris bank. The complaint
charged that Thornton made con-
tradictory statements on the wit-
ness stand yesterday concerning
the matter.
Contradicts Testimony
Mrs. Mace likewise was charged
with discrepancies between her
grand jury testimony and evidence
she gave from the witness, stand
yesterday in Marshall’s trial. The
complaint charged that she testi-
fied before the grand jury that
she saw Marshall at the Mace
home in November, 1931; that II.
W. McBride left a pistol at the
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when prowlers entered the Carl
Cox filling station at Palmer, but
failed to obtain any loot. En-
trance was gained through a back
window. The safe was opened, but
no money was in either it or the
cash register, since the day's re-
ceipts had been deposited in the
bank Wednesday afternoon. The
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ed by police after the gun fight
last night was believed the same
as that iW^by two men Monday
night in a running battle with :
police.
It had been hit by bullets many
times, the punctures being covered
has I bers carried huge chunks of con-
Enris ! Crete into the school to check the
h fah ! noise of the blasts.
rims have *
cluesChaveN Last Saturday night, Duke and
I Ayres store on Main street was
5 ’ entered, but so far as can be
_ e learned, no booty was taken by
yld- the prowlers. Entrance was gain-
own ed hy prying open, a back win-
loot dow. \The prowlers went through
he the store, and opened the night-
own latch, going out the front door,
velocity in North and West Texas
last night.
The weather bureau at Love. Field
said the, winds were caused by a
low barometer area and followed a
line from Wichita, Kan., to Dallas.
The roof of a house collapsed at
amined and found to have a. crush- Dallas but the family therein es-
ed chest, a severe head wound I caped. Sign boards were blown down,
and other bruises about the body. ■ boxes and cans scattered and some
He was unable to account for the j windows smashed.
Mrs. Mace swore yesterday in
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Outbursts Occur
Meanwhile, sporadic outbursts oc-
curred today both at the Chapei
and Woosung ends of the1 battle’
one. Fresh fires were set near the
international settlement by Japa-
nese bombers and the invaders
also loosed aerial projectiles on the
Chinese airdome at Hunojao, five
miles west of Shanghai.
Earlier in the day almost a
score - of United States marines
narrowly missed death from a '
Japanese aerial bomb in the inter-
national settlement. The projectile
hit a Chinese-owned cotton mill
on Soochow creek in which the
marines were billeted, killing five
Chinese women and children,
workers in the mill. None of the
marines were injured.
Rear Admiral S. Shimada, a
members of the Japanese com-
mand at Shanghai, visited Untied
States marine headquarters imme-
diately after the bombing and ex-
pressed his regret there as well
as to Admiral Taylor of the Unit-
ed. States Asciatic fleet.
“Bombine a Mistake”
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Ike Strauss Dies.
WACO. Texas, Feb. 11. — Ike
Strauss, 69, department manager in
the Waco store of Sanger Bros. for
about forty years died at his home
here Wednesday afterioon. His'
ginia; and Chairman Stegall, dem-
ocrat, Alabama, of the house bank-
ing committee, with the assistance
of republican colleagues.
What the measure will do is to
relieve the pressue on small fed-
eral reserve member banks which
have exhausted their discountable
paper by permitting the federal
reserve system to rediscount other
sound securities of these banks
which are not now technically eli-
gible. . V . '
It will make all of the assets ac-
quired by the reserve banks under
present law available, for ope year
only, as collateral for federal re-
serve notes, up to 60 per cent of
the latter. At present, ' fgr lack
of other eligible collateral, . the
reserve system has in the treasury
almost double the 40 per cent gold
required to be deposited against its
notes. This change will release, it
is calculated, nearly a billion^ in
free gold, available for all credit
purposes.-
, It was not proposed at this time
to issue new currency against this
gold. However, it is to be used
rather for handling the paper
which the new bill will mage dis-
countable.
The measure will supplement the
efforts of the reconstuction fi-
nance corporation, as both arc de-
signed for relieving thefhpen con-
dition of the nation's credit sy3-
tem. N
Following extended., oniprences
at the White House yesterday the
banking experts in congress set to
work on the measure, pushing
their labors far into the nizht,
suspending only to resume at the
first opportunity this morning.
Ennisites Suggest
Gray Dempsey Bout
As Charity Benefit
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swept over Ennis a
trade territory recen
however, none of the
been solved, and nc
been obtained.
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and heavy rain was experienced at
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