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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932
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WAXAHACHIE, Texas, Feb.' 29.—
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F loyd Pays Them Visit
United Action
Shrine Will Give
left Palmer, coming south, toward their outstanding bonds should be
They recalled widespread criti-
modern Robin HoodgHe robs the
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rich and gives to the poor. It is the construction of highways. The
Cotton Market
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BY MINE BLAST
CONDUCT HUNT
Man Held as Criminal
Not Ben B. Lane, Ex-
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IN FORT WORTH
Bank Won Case
After 9 Years
AS WIFE OF U- S-
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were elected at large in a free-for-
all race and at that time everyone
thought this was the proper and
only way. Now if our election law
has been changed since then it
has not been brought to my at-
nations,
directly
quences.
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Practical Lesson
Against Hoarding
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Liquor Agents
Make Big Haul
in Bay City
JAPANESE CLAIM
CHINK DEFENSE
TO BE SMASHED
Physicians Retain
Hope for Recovery
Of Injured Banker
Ennisite In Hurry,
But Pauses to Get
Tail Light Fixed
deys.
Funeral arrangements had
been made at press time.
spent on highways.
“I am convinced that it will be
necessary to amend the constitu-
tion to make it possible to divert
any portion of the gasoline tax
route to San Diego, Calif., was the
second naval wife assaulted here
in recent months.
Her attacker, who she thought
was a Japanese; entered her home
with a pistol Saturday night bound
her to a bed with stockings, gag-
ged her, assaulted her and then
calmly helped himself to cigars on
a table.
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Recent Months
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Chief of Police Pete Griffin has
gone to Dallas for a visit in ths
home of' his daughter, Mrs. Mack
Duggan. Mr. Griffin is convalesc-
Hearsr- azetrotone- Foz Movietone News.
on the right shows the versatile Leathernecks in a
different role. They are herding Chinese refugees
from Chapei into the shelter of the Settlement. But
at the same time their watchfulness remains unre-
laxed and they make sure that no armed men enter
the compound in the guise of unfortunates
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With Old Glory announcing to all whom it may con’
cem that the' “situation is well in hand,” United
States Marines are shown behind an improvised
barricade on the borders of the International Set-
tlement at Shanghai, dedicated to the task of keep-
ing American lives and property inviolate. Photo
slashed on the wrists and chest.
At first he was believed fatally
wounded.
make a speedy get away. ' i said that he has many farmer- j Brooks bill, as passed by the last
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ance, resisting the' execution of a
search-warrant and assaulting an
officef with a deadly weapon. His
wife was charged with violating
the liquor laws. . ,
Mr. and Mrs. Aldin K. Trubyfill
were charged with violating the
liquor laws, and Gertrude Frazier;
a riegress was charged with sell-
ing and possessing liquor. ’ )
Palestine Man Twice
As Old as His Father
If Birthdays Count
on submarine duty,
definite turndown of the
(AP».—Physicians held hope
ed with murder, as well as many
other criminal acts. He has sus-
cessully evaded police who have
been hot on his rtail for the past
two weeks.
"Pretty Boy” is known as the
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adjoining home. Neither
already overburdened with taxes
state in assuming or refund-
to the counties the money
And that was all.
Looking outside Washington, po-
litical observers noted the young
tempest unleashed in New York
state by Samuel Seabury’s attack
on Tammany and criticism of
Governor Roosevelt. Into it have
been read presidential or vice-
presidential intentions on the part
of the New York graft charge in-
vestigator.
also terrorized Mrs. D. W.
wife of another enlisted
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women possessed a telephone.
Officers arrested Edward Wong,
23, when Mrs. Hope picked his
photograph from a police gallery
but renewed the search when she
was unable to positively identify
Wong and said she believed her
attacker to be a Japanese.
The attack brought renewal of
charges that local authorities could
not cope with the situation and a
plea that the federal government
intervene.
The charges were made by Mrs.
Harry Kluegel, president of the
Citizens’ Organization for Good
Government, who termed the se-
ries of reform bills passed by the
recent special legislative session
“a sop to an aroused public.”
One Ennis citizen firmly, re-
solved to abide by the laws of
the State of Texas in the fu-
ture.
It happened Saturday night.
The referred-to Ennisite was •
driving his car, on Main Street:
He was in a hurry, but not.
speeding. The tail light on his
car was not working. Two high-
way patrolmen stopped him.
Without argument, the En-
nisite agreed to have his light
fixed. He drove into the nearest
garage. Upon examination, it
was learned that the light wir-
ing was in poor condition.
It took an hour to fix the
light. Which was an hour wast-
ed by the Ennisite—who was in
a hurry.
Miss E. Zaludek
Died at 2 p. m.
Long illness
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HONOLULU, Feb. 29. (AP).—
Tense excitement which gripped
Honolulu in recent months because
of attacks on women and an' at-
tendant lynching, was revived to-
day bv an. assault on the wife of
an enlisted man of the United
States navy.
The victim,. Mrs. Kathleen Hope.
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which would not be so
involved in the conse-
Liklehood of More
Hostilities Near i
Worn out by their long vigil, a
majority of the widows andshil; ,
dren of the missing returned tu
their homes at midnight but were
back at the roped off enclosure at
the mine shaft entrance today. No
demonstration was made as the
bodies were placed in the hoisting
house after their recovery.
No decision as to the cause of
the blast had been reached today
although the general belief was
that a powder explosion might
have occurred. The mine, which is
operated by the Pocahontas Coal
Company, is nongaseous.
There were fifty men at work at
the time of the explosion but a
dozen escaped.
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was started to elect an unpledged
delegation to the national conven-
tion in place of a straight pro-
Roosevelt slate. Its backers dis-
claimed any intention to “stop”
Roosevelt but made no mention
of supporting anv other candidate,
seeking merely a free hand. Local
politics apparently had a bearing
on the development.
A Montana authority, J. Bruce
Kremer, national committeeman,
delivered his opinion in New York
that the far western states would
be virtually solid for Governor
Roosevelt.
The following has been received
by Mr. B. S. Hollimon, superin- l
tendent of the Southern Pacific
railroad company, in connection
with newspaper stories concerning
Ben B. Lane, formerly of Ennis:
“Dear Mr. Hollimon:
Mr. Ben B. Lane, an employee
of your company, called at this
office today in reference to news-
paper reports of his alleged arrest
by this service in connection with
counterfeiting matters.
“You are advised that the news-
paper accounts of the arrest of Mr.
Ben B. Lane was erroneous, as the
man arrested by us was named
Bennett B. Love, who is now being
held in jail on that charge, and
I take pleasure in making this
Floyd has a long police record. : the
He is wanted in Oklahoma, Mis- i ing
seuri and other states. He is charg
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GARNER BEGUN
Just as the News is going to
press news was received of the
death of Miss Emma Zaludek,
daughter of Mrs. Frank Zaludek,
which occurred at the home near
Ennis. Miss Zaludek has been sick
for several months and her con-
dition has been serious for several
tee, today issued a call to com-
mittee members to meet in Fort
Worth on the morning of March
9 to select the city at which the
state convention of the party will
be held.
Mr. Huggins said the committee
likewise would decide at the meet-
ing whether candidates for con-
gressman at large must run for
designated positions.
“There has been considerable
sentiment that the committee has
no power to designate positions,”
said Mr. Huggins. “Likewise, many
contend that it has no other
course than to designate positions.”
“My persons opinion lias been
The cotton market closed six to
seven points down.
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Ennis. As far as can be learned,
“Pretty Boy” did not stop in En-
nis, but went straight on through.
“How did you know it was ‘Pret-
ty boy’?” the restaurant keeper
was asked.
“I'd seen his picture in news-
papers. He had that scar on his
hand. I’m almost sure it was him”
was the reply
The car in which the alleged
“Pretty Boy” was riding had an
Oklahoma license.
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boycott idea, removes the United
States from any participation in or
approval of direct action on the
belligerents. It limits the American
stand to employment of moral
force and world sentiment to dis-
courage violation of treaties.
President Hoover is represented
as feeling that this means—em-
bodied in the outspoken American
declaration that no gains Japan
might make through her military
operations in Chinese territory
would be recognized by this coun-
try—is more powerful than em- i HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 29. (AP)
bargo. JW. O. Huggins, chairman of the
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State to Observe Holiday.
AUSTIN? Texas, Feb. 29.—March
2 is a legal holiday, the anniver-
sary of the Declaration of Texas
Independence, the higher courts
have sessions fixed and will not
observe the day. All State de-
partments and banks will be clos-
ed.
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toward payment of outstanding
bonds or refunding the money
that heretofore lias been spent in
“The revenue derived from the
gasoline tax, license fees and fed-
eral aid is sufficient during such
times as these to provide a suffi-
cient construction fund and ade-
quately to maintain the highways
without resorting to county bond is-
sues, which result in increasing
the tax rate in such counties and
also in increasing the burden
1 which eventually will be borne by
cism of local
which followed
September of
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. (AP)-
The republican attack on Speaker
Garner as a potential democratic
candidate has begun in earnest.
George Moses, the New Hamp-
shire motorist, started something
lively yesteclay with the assertion
that while the democratic head
man in tha house was blaming
President Hoover for starting a
panic, he should have plied on
the chief t cezutive responsibility
for the rest of the world’s ills.
“Doubtless,” he observed, “these
and other charges against in his
campaign for the presidency and
as soon as he determines the more
pressing question whether he is
running as a wet or dry.”
Garner issued a reply. Apparent-
ly, he said, Moses had given about
as much thought to his utterance
as he did before makin gthe new
famous remark about the “sons
of the wild jackass.”
“In fact, the senator’s statement
will be unusual, quite amusing to
the reactionary element in the re-
publican party.”
law enforcement
the assault last
Mrs. Thomas H.
a recent illness with
McKINNEY, Texas, Feb. 29.—
Much interest is being shown in
the county wide movement, spon-
sored by the McKinney Chamber of
Commerce to plan 2,000 acres of
white roasting car corn in all di-
rections from McKinney. No
farmer is advised to plant more
than five acres. A suitable, market
will be provided for the product.
County Farm Agent Jack Mc-
Cullough points out that this is
just another step in this county
toward diversification, in an ef-
fort to decrease the cotton acre-
age.
Sterling Advises
Counties Against
Highway Bonds'.return and “get her” if she re-
__ ported the crime to police. Mrs.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 29.—Gov. 1 Hope caught but a single glimpse
Ross S. Sterling Saturday advised of her assailants face when the
counties not to issue any m©re mask slipped off.
road bonds, saying the people are
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match them in every instance. The
governor’s statement follows:
“My attention has been called
by the highway department to the
fact that various counties in Texas
still are voting or contemplating
voting bonds for construction of
state highways. It is my opinion
that no county should burden its
taxpayers by voting bonds for such
a purpose. This position I have
taken for the last four years. I
have always maintained that the
homes, farms, ranches and other
real estate should not be called on
to build state and federal high-
ways. I am still of the opinion
, that the counties should be re-
■ funded the money they have plac-
i ed in state highways and that
for Employment
jcct—get jobs for the unem-
ployed. The goal is a million
jobs.
The time has passed to doubt
or to say, “it would be nice if
it could be done.”
It is being done. Tens of
thousands previously unemploy-
ed are back at work.
Here is a nation swinging in-
to its old stride. Here is the
American spirit. Here is united
action by the people themselves
proving its worth. Every em-
ployer wants. to be one of a
million to hire one or more
men.
Those who have not joined
ma want to join this great
campaign can learn how to act
y communicating with the lo-
cal Legion Post Commander,
writing to the editor of this
newspaper or writing to the
War Against Depression Head-
quarters, Hotel Biltmore, New
York City. Those who are in
a hurry will wire.
in charge, treasury devartment,
field force, division of secret serv-
ice.
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HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 29. (AP).
—A squad of federal prohibition
agents yesterday visited Bay City,
Texas, raiding a drug store and
three houses and arresting two
doctors, fwo married couples and
a negress. Deputy Prohibition Ad-
mniistrator C. H. Kellogg said to-
day.
Dr. Bert L. Livingood and Dr.
E. E. Scott, owner of the drug
store, were charged with conspir-
acy to violate sections of the pro-
hibition laws, pertaining to the
dispensing of prescription liquor
POCAHONTAS, Va., Feb. 29 (AP)
—With 22 bodies recovered, search-
ers delved into the inner passages
of the Boissevain coal mine today
for 16 other men believed to have
been killed in an explosion early
Saturday.
Working i relays, rescue crews
pushed their way through earth,
splintered -timbers and slate to re-
cover the first burned and muti-
lated bodies last night. Eight
were immediately brought, to the
suiface to the improvised morgue.,
when exhaustion forced them to
the shaft until time when they
could be cared for.
Six of the men, Burton Brooks,
Charles Yates, J. L. Phipps, Clay-
ton Hodge, Sam White and Ed i
Saunders, a negro, were identified.
Cold and the treacherous mass
of debris hindered speed in push-
ing through the underground pass-
ages but hope was held for re-
—rmoa boces-today. Only
when exhaustion forced them to
quit did the searchers ome to
the surface. N
Massie, wife of a naval lieuten-
ant, the first of a series of crimes
climaxed in the lynching of one
of her alleged attackers, the call-
ing of the legislative session and
a department of justice investiga-
tion now under way.
The attack of Mrs. Hope came
scarcely ten days before the sched-
uled trial of Lieut. Massie, Mrs.
Granville Fortescue, mother of
Mrs. Massie, and two naval on- j
listed men accused of the second I
degree murder of Joseph Kaha-
hawai, young Hawaiian and sus-
pected attacker of Mrs. Massie.
ITALY, Texas, Feb. 29.—Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Chandler, Miss Sophia
Spann and Miss Flasta Riha were
injured when the car in which
they were riding from their home
in Shiner for a visit in Dallas
left the highway and turned over
in a watery ditch one mile south
of here Saturday afternoon. The
four were taken from the ditch
by passing motorists and were
brought to Italy. They later were
teken to a Waxahachie hospital
Mrs. Chandler suffered a broken
shoulder and numerous cuts and
bruises and Mr. Chandler was
badly cut. The two young women
suffered minor hurts.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. (AP).—
It is now definitely established
that this government is completely
opposed to any plan for an econ-
omic boycott against Japan and
that the major European powers
tend to agree with this stand.
The enormous hazards to peace
of such a move, plus reaction on
domestic industries drawing raw
materials from the country being
boycotted are considered here suf-
ficient to outweigh the benefits,
obtainable. The stand of the big
foreign countries has been report-
ed by American observers abroad,
who indicate the boycott sentiment
largely is limited to the smaller
more congressmen. In 1912 these and funds are not available
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■ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 29.—An
effective gesture in national optim-
ism and a practical measure
against hoarding will be given the
country at the shrine convention
here next summer, it was declared
here today by William H. Wood-
field, Jr., director general. Wood-
field, who has just returned from
a flying tour of the northwest,
announced that Oregon and Wash-
ington alone are planning to send
5,000 delegates to the convention
and to expend $1,000,000 on trans-
portation entertainment and mal -
tence.
S28 now eh
Af l p * the recovery of Albert Koennecke,
U LILIgaLOIn J ormer president of the bank of
• Fredericksburg, recently closed.
Koennecke was found Saturday
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assumed by the state or other
bonds issued in lieu thereof.
PALESTIe Texas, Feb. 29.
The apparei1 , npossible will hap
pen here . " . ay . when G. E.
Lehman, 34, and his-fy--r"
celebrate in honor of his father’s
sixteenth birthday and his son’s
first birthday It is, decidedly un-
usual for a son to' be more than
twice his father’s age, but that is
true in the Lehman family, so
for as birthdays are concerned
G. H. Lehman of Somerville, Mr.
Lehman’s father, was born Feb. 29.
1868. He has been living. almost
64 years, but has only had fifteen
birthdays, less than half of those
of his son. The grandson, Gene
Lehman, was born Feb. 29, 1938,
and now is about 4 years old and
ready for his initial birthday.
DI . n nnn A jcign residents, including mny
Planning 2,000 Acres | Americans. I
United action for Employment
organized as the War Against
Depression, has become a migh-
ty movement. In November it
was only an idle rattling around
in one man’s head. Next it rat-
tled around in two heads, then
in three. Then it sizzled in six
and now twenty million are
committed to the program.
Any program that can bring
ogether the power and numbers
represented by the American
Legion, the Association of Na-
tional Advertisers, the American
Federation of Labor and the
Legion Auxiliary, must be dy-
namic. It must have something.
Any program that can com-
mand the cooperation of twenty
or more other great national
organizations must be' electric
in character and fool proof in
action.
This city has its opportunity
to throw its splendid strength
into this campaign. More energy
can be poured into this great
effort which has just one ob-
After having been in the courts
for nine years, an Ellis county
case has been won—and finally—
by the plaintiff, according to of-
ficial notice received by County
Judge. Mark Smith, one of the at-
torneys.
It is styled Waxahachie National
Bank versus Forreston Gin Com-
pany, suit on acceptance, for
about $4,700, according to attorneys
in the case. First, it went from
the district court here to the Court !
of Civil Appeals, Dallas, thence
upon reversal being tried here five
times before juries; the last time,
the bank won, then it went to the
Court of Civil Appeals at Dallas
again, with the District Court be-
ing reversed, so the bank took it
to the Supreme ■ Court, where the
Court of Civil Appeals was revers-
ed and the district court’s order
was.Rffirmed; then the bank won
in the court of last resort.
Lawyers interested in the litiga-
tion recalled that attorneys who
have served on the side of the
plaintiff have included County
Judge Mark Smith, Mr. Frazier of
Hillsboro, and C. M. Supple: for
the defendant. J. C. Lumpkins,
Bowd Farrar and H. R- Stovall.
Since the case entered the tribun-
als, Judge Supple, one of the law-
yers, and Judge W. L. Hardins,
before whon@--wn tried in earlicr
years, have died.
and beverage purposes:
Sam R. Sherrill was charged
। with selling and possessing liquor
Down in Alabama. a movementland maintaining a' common nuis-
that, since the legislature last
year had this question of positions
before it and refused to act, the
committee should not designate
positions. My view is that the law
of the state regarding elections has
not been changed since 1910. After
the 1910 census Texas gained two
Last Friday the citizens of Pal-
mer got their share of the breaks.
The inhabitants .of the village to
the north got a free look at a
man who is known all over the
south.
The famed character was none
other than “Pretty Boy” Floyd,
Oklahoma outlaw, who has been
searched for all over the nation.
“Pretty Boy” stopped in Palmer
long enough to take on some nour-
ishment. He was traveling in a
coupe, and was accompanied by
a man and woman.
The man and woman stayed in
the car. “Pretty Boy” got out and
went into a restaurant ot Palmer
He ordered ham and eggs. While
his lunch was being prepared, he
appeared nervous, and kept
glancing at the door,- sometimes
getting up and strolling over to-
ward the exit, as though he ex-
pected it might be necessary to
BY MORRIS J. HARRIS.
Copyright, 1932, by the Associated
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SHANGHAI, Feb. 29. (AP).—
The Chinese battle line, fighting
fiercely on a new front at Chapei,
wavered and fell back slightly to-
day under a thunderous artillery
bombardment, in the midst of ne-
gotiations for peace and declara-
tions for more widespread hostili-
ties around Shanghai.
. After a terrific battle which
lasted throughout the day, the
Japanese aided for the first time
in more than a week by the big
guns on the warships in the river,
claimed they smashed the Chinese
defenses, captured a cemetery west
of Hongkew Park and occupied
■ positions near the American-own-
ed Southern Baptist Mission Hos-
pital.' .
Makes Threats.
While the battle was in prog-
ress and shortly after a peace con-
ference had ended, Japanese Con-
sul General Kurametsu Murai
served notice on Mayor Wu' Teh-
Chen on Shanghai that unless
the Chinese cease bringing in re-
inforcements, Japanese operations
would be extended over a fifty-
mile area around the city “on a
scale not even, approached by the
hostilities thus far"
The Japanese.cphsui general said
in his letter to th mayor that the
Japanese would' be forced in "seli
defense” to destroy the Shanghai
Nanking railway as far west
Soochow, 50 miles away, ahd th
Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, . as
far as. Hashing, 50 miles to the
southwest.
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Such a scale of hostilities would
threaten, one of. the most; thickly
populated and richest areas i in
China, inhabited by millions o f
people, and also would bring . se-
rious danger to hundreds of foor-
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Mostly Cloudy.
East Texas: Increasing cloudi-
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ably showers in west portion. Light
to moderate easterly c soiiheny
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