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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
EIGHT PAGES TODAY.
VOL. XLII NO. 160
BE CAREFUL, MR. MAYOR
Ass’tSupt Spence
All Ennis Celebrating
Addresses Joint
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New Evidence That Will Free
Hauptmann of Lindy Kidnaping
Baker and bringing them into the intensive two months’ investiga-
S. P. Service Club
for the construction of an Indus-
An Organization
Of Employes
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Senate Passes Holding Company
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Both Texas Senators Voted Aye
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Hearne, Dallas, Austin, Giddings,
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ing the securities commission to Sherman, Cameron and at Ennis.
prevent more than a holding com-
Doyle Andrews is president and
pany being imposed upon an op- George Wessels is secretary of the. I
fleeing without burn bill machinery empowering
Carlisle on
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business, is higher at the present
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share of th ransom.
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division organization of the Serv-
ice Clubs. Mr. P. T. Comiskey is
Vautrot were arrested in Houston
in connection with the case.
in Waxahachie residential section,
taking a larg sum of money from
Los Angeles, Cal., June 12.—Evi-
dence that it is claimed will save
Bruno Hauptmann from the; chair
has been unearthed in a quiet Dt
Mr. Spence traced the beginning
of railroads up to the present time
and the part they have played in
the growth and development of
Railroad Week
June 10-15
perature; light to moderate
erly to southerly- winds.
Ninety-seven plates were served.
The guest speaker, T. M. Spence,
leased.
Within twelve hours after Tack-
identified the men as ’ his assail-
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was reported at the office of Sher-
iff Dave Fearis.
Burglars who forced open a liv-
ing room window ap the home of
toward the solicitation of freight
and passenger business.
Interest and enthusiasm of the
Awaits Kidnaper Attorney Claims Has Found
Wednesday.
Laska, veteran Denver attorney,
defended Albert Bates, and young
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they, wera released the following
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Two to Be Tried
For Hijackiang
Palmer Gas Man
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SEEK LOAN AND GRANT
FO;, NEW BUILDINGS
J. R. McMURAY.
Agent for the Southern Pacific
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W. Neuman, transportation clerk;
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A sensation-packed day portended
Tuesday night in the trial of Ben
Laska and James C. Mathers, at-
torneys charged with knowingly
accepting part of the Charles F.
Urschel kidnaping ransom.
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Waxahachie, Texas, June 12.—
Louis Swick of Bremond and Pres-
ton Vautrot of Franklin will face
trial Friday in Judge Tom Ball’s
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Control Measure By Vote 56 to 32s
Visit Shops
Thursday and
Friday 3-4 p.
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Waxahachie, Texas,
The Ennis Daily News
curriculum of the Ennis Public
Schools this year, according to a
decision made by the Ennis school
board at a meeting held Duesday
night.
: J. D. King will direct the band
and give instructions free to all
startling that if the courts hear
it, I believe the case will be re-
opened and we will secure a re-
versal of the conviction.”
He refused to divulge its nature
beyond the statement it would
support the original theory of de-
fense counsel that the kidnaping
was an inside job.
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one home, but
gaining entrance
one Farmer-Laborite.
Against passage were
night of March 16, it was an-
nounced Ttusday by District At-
torney Lynn B. Griffith.
The official staff of the I. & N.
O. Railroad for the Dallas and
Austin division, and local repre-
sentatives at Ennis, are as fol-
Of Paris Ofiicer
Durant, Ok., June 12.—Arthur
Gooch convicted in federal court
Monday cf kidnaping two Paris,
Texas, policemen, will be sentenc-
ed by Judge R. L. Williams Sat-
urday.
The jury recommended the death
penalty. Gooch was accused oi
abducting H. R. Marks and R. N.
Sycamore and Cynsisca streets took
$59 from a purse Mr. Carlisle had
left on a bed. The yeggs removed
a screen before they forced the
window, Mr. Carlisle said.
A watchman in the home of the,
late Mrs. E. Chaska reported to
the highway where he was re-
teeth—thought Mayor
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, , . ) senger agent ;A. T. Rawlins, chief
had reported the occurrence . . : . T „ p.1i,e
, 11 1. . 11 train dispatcher J. E. Rawlins,
and the description, of the men I dispatcher; E. J. Ma-
had been bxoadcast, Swick andironey, division store keeper; Dr
C. P. Cook, division surgeon; Dr.
John Chapman, local surgeon; Dr.
serncr.tand I-,* Ki Mather’s, who lives here, defended
and Bob Dyer of Dallas. and A J Harvey Ballsy ad others in the
trial of the Kidnapi gang in Oct.
1933.
It is alleged that they shared in
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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1935
E. Cullins, traveling auditor of
the T. & N. o., Houston; Roy
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was also a guest at the luncheon, j 00 cash ransom.
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Druggist Fights
Three Burglars
And Is Injured
mon has made a wonderful record
in his official duties,” said Mr.
McMurray, who read the following
telegram from Mr. Hollimon ex-
pressing regret at not being able
to attend the luncheon.
“Regret exceedingly that mat-
ters that called me here were not
concluded, requiring my presence
here again tomorrow. Personally
appreciate the (cd- operation of
tyour orgarization in observing
Railroad Week, as well as all
other matters affecting the rail-
road. Kindly- express my regrets
and assure those present of my
wholehearted interest in everything
affecting our home city.”
at another, it
erating company.
In a division, almost as close as
that on Dietrich’s motion, it de-
feated, 45 to 43, an amendment
by Senator Lonergan, democrat,
Connecticut, to deny the secur-es
commission power to initiate dis-
solution proceedings against hold-
ing companies. His proposal would
have enabled the commission to
act only upon outside complaints.
On the passage ballot forty-five
democrats were joined by nine re-
publicans, one Progressive and
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Record Crossing
Of Atlantic Ocean
Aboard S. S. Normandie, at Sea,
June 12 — The French liner Nor-
mandie beat all records on an
eastern Atlantic crossing Tuesday
by passing Bishop’s Rock at 10:58
p. m., making the crossing from
Ambrose Light in four days, three
.hours and twenty-eight minutes.
Her speed averaged 30.31 knot?.
Officials of the vessel said the
performance surpasses the Bre-
men’s record of four days, sixteen
hours, fifteen minutes, at an av-
erage of 28.51 knots and her own
westward trip mark of four days,
eleven hours, thirty-three minutes
at an average speed of 29.68 knots.
“Open Hcuuse" will be observed
at the yard office Thursday and
Friday between the hours of 3 and
4 p. m. and the public is icordially
invited to visit the shops and view
the vast improvements made with-
in the past few years.
A reception committee composed
of B. S. Hollimon, superintendent:
Wm. Donohue, J. T. Conner, E. J.
Maroney, A. E. Mahan, J. D.
Simpson and E. W. Wood will con-
duct the visitors through the shops
and inspect the various buildings,
store rooms and other places of
interest.
The visitors will first be taken
through the office into the divi-
sion store where material is kept,
for use on the entire Dallas-Aus-
tin division. A brief explanation
will be given covering the appli-
cation cf the various materials.
The oil pump house will then be
visited, explaining just how the
fuel al is unloaded from cars,
pumped into the 55,000 barrel stor-
las, general freight and passenger
agent; F. B. McKay, assistant
general freight agent; A. J. Pat-
ton, traveling freight agent; J. K.
McMurray, local freight and pas-
lathe, boring mill and planers
I will be in operation ar/l explained. I
। The fire pump house, water
treating plant and boiler washing
plant will be visited as well as the
power plant, containing two 250-
horsepower Babcox & Wilcox ster-
ling type stationary boilers are op-
erated, one being equipped for the
use of gas and the other one
equipped to use fuel oil.
You will then be aken through
the car department where a new
shed has just been completed over
the repair tracks, and through the
i car department store, then to the
sand house where sand is dried
for use on locomotives, through
the oil house, where various lubri-
cants are kept and greases are
pressed into cakes of various sizes
' and shapes for use on locomotives.
Awai ds of gold buttons bearing । public may become familiar with
the Southern Pacific emblem are the operation of the plant,
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B. S. HOLLIMON,
Division Superintendent of the
Southern Pacific Lines, With
Headquarters in Ennis.
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RAILROAD WEEK GIVEN RECOGNITION
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pany that gives them employment. Cannery Ready
There are local Service Clubs at
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the wintry. The speech will ap- The government prepared to
pear in Ml in Thursday’s News. ■ send in its ac witnesses Wednes
Guests i day in its effort to convict the
Railroad employees and retired two.
railroad employees were honored I United States Attorney W. C.
guests at the luncheon today.) Lewis said he expected the gov-
ernment would complete its case Prowlers were busy Monday night
District Attorney Griffith de- i " 10 . p
dared that Tackett had positively ’ y’ ’
- land throat surgeon.
Superintendent’s Office.
F. Ehlinger, C. C. to superinten-
To Book Orders 1 George Wessells, secretary to sU-
Open House Soon1 perintendent; A. T. Turner, file
Machinery for the cannery N clerk; J. R. Rustell, head time-
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Ennis S. P. Service Club. i be ready for operation by Friday, enginemen’s timekeeper; H. C.
In addition to these local organ- ' mdin +yJ HA -jie ad - ! Dillingham, staticia timekeep?
izations there is the parent or ministrakort, who is in'chargeorJ. B. KUlhanek, M. or W. tin.
the office. I
to enter the home
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..neer; Wm Donohue, master me-
The men are accused of taking chanic; p Rentzel, traveling
about $15 from the each register | engineer; J. D Simpson, division
of the.Palmer station .following j car foreman; l. C. Bouchard, Dal-
which they were alleged to have
taken the attendant, Luther Tack-
ett, to a point several miles down
The 100-foot turntable, operated
by two 25-horse -power electric
motors, will be operated with a
large locomotive on it.
The modern round house, rebuilt
in 1931, containing fifteen stalls
and pits and concrete floor will
be inspected. Locomotives of va-
rious types will be seen undergoing
repairs and the Whiting Electric
ployees securing the most points employees in the solicitation of
age tanks, and to the locomotives.
The boiler and machine shop |
will then be visited where the
pneumatic air pump, rollers for
shaping large sheets of steel, large
steam hammer, wheel turning
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Employees and Officials.
Based on April, 1935, the lowest
season of employment, the aver-
age number of employes on the
T. & N. O. in Ennis was 498
men.-The payroll per year aver-
ages $962,772. This does not in-
clude pensioned employees and
floating gangs which average a
pay roll of $18,000 a year.
keeper; Mrs. Bettie Moore, cor -
The machinery was received Mon 1 tometer operator; Miss A. Sweas-
president and Owen Satterfield is, day and assembling was begun im- 1 man, insurance clerk,
secretary of the Dallas division, mediately. Mr. Hodo states that. Dispatchers Office,
organization. I they are now ready to begin book- 1 P. T. Comiskey, car distributor.
Two employees who formerly ing orders for canning for those Joe Adiams, dispatcher s clerk;
worked in Ennis are officers in Who wish to have their garden Thomas Cunningham, dispatcher,
the local organization at Dallas, 1 products cairned. ! A. E. Rawlins, dispatcher; H. A.
namely, Roger Parks, president, • open House’ will be held some1 Richter, dispatcher; I. L. Newlin,
and Bryan Adams secretary. | time next week in order that the dispatcher.
George Barney, Jr., with Miss
Langham, Lion pianist, as accom-
panist.
Toastmaster McMurray welcomed
the guests and presented Mrs. B.
£>.- Hollimon, who introduced the
speaker.
Mrs. Hollimon, said the guest
speaker, T. M. Spence, needs little
introduction to the majority of
those present, as he lived in En-
nis during the years from 1927
to 1928, as a member of the Dal-
las division of the S. P. He has
been in the service of the South-
ern Pacific lines for a long period
and has served in an offical ca-
pacity on practically all of the di-
visions.
Mr. McMurray in presenting Mrs.
Hollimon said that Superintendent
B. S. Hollimon was to have been
an honor guest at the luncheon,
tion of the Lindbergh kidnaping
case, here and in New York, Vin-
cent A. Marco, an attorney, said
Tuesday.
Marco, retained by Mrs. Anna
Hauptmann, wife of the man con-
victed of kidnaping and murdering
the infant son of Charles A. Lind-
bergh, said he would leave for
New York this week to begin a
fight to have the new evidence
considered by the appellate courts
of New Jersey.
The new evidence centers on
two phases of the case which
Marco says he can prove:
The Southern Pacific Service
Club is an organization of employ-
ees, whose duties do not require
them to solicit freight or passen-
ger business for the Southern Pa-
| cilic, but who voluntarily at every
; opportunity ask their friends and
acquaintances and those from
whom they purchase to route their
shipments over the Southern Pa-
cific, and to ride the Southern
Pacific passenger trains when tak-
ing a trip.
This club was organized in the
spring of 1928. Through their or-
ganization the employees have se-
cured a great deal of passenger
and freight business for the com- 1
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Ennis along with other cities of the nation is celebrat-
ing Raroad Week which has been designated the week
of June 10-15.
A special proclamation in which the Western Rail-
roads are lauded for their economical aids to the Nation
was issued by Gov. James B. Allred. Mayor J. P. Clark of
Ennis followed the governor and likewise issued a special
proclamation.
This has been designated as Railroad Week to cee-
brate the recent outstanding accomplishments of Western
Railroads—Particularly in the improvements of their pas-
senger train service.
Western Railroads, have been, and are still, engaged
in the most tremendous program of progress in the his-
tory of transportation. They have just spent millions of
dollars, and afforded employment to thousands, in air
conditioning their principal trains.
assembly singing “The Eyes of ----
Texas," and a parody, Ive Been Band music will be added to the
Weeking on the Railroad,” led by . ..
Washington, June 12.—Impelled
by President Roosevelt’s personal
backing, legislation to abolish un-
necessary public utility holding
companies were swept through the
senate Tuesday by a 56 to 32 vote.
Hotly debated at the end, final
approval was given only after a
single vote blocked a move, by
Senator Dietrich, democrat, Illinois,
to care out of the Wheeler-Roy-
An inspection trip made by a
group of Ennis citizens Monde
revealed the vast improvement.--
made in railroad service here.
Along with the expenditure of
large sums of money on improve-
ments in general, a vast amount
has been expended in improve-
ments in Ennis.
“Open House” will be held at
the shops here Thursday and Fri-
day between the hours of 3 and.
4 o’clock, and the citizens of En-
nis are invited to visit tire shops
and become more familiar with
the intricate details of railway
operation. Wm. Donohue, master
mechanic, will act as guide on the
trip.
Besides the “Open House” to be
held at the shops Thursday and
Friday other celebrations have
also been planned for Railroad
Week. Today noon a joint luncheon
was held with the Lions Club,
Chamber of Commerce and South-
ern Pacific Service Cub participat-
ing at which time each member of
the organization had as their guest
a railroad employee.
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reaching the, house floor was in-
definite.
Just before passage the senate
accepted an amendment by Borah,
republican, Idaho, to increase the
drastic force of the bill by direct-
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students in the Ennis Public
Schools, in addition to his duties
■as teacher in the schools.
. The Ennis schools have already
been granted credit in band mu-
sic.
’ Uniforms will be furnished the
boys by the Ennis Chamber cf
Commerce and Lions Club.
Ennis School to
Add Band Master
New Buildings
Operating the big turn table extracting
at the Southern Pacific shops Clark after
district court on charges of rob-
bery with firearms in connection
with the alleged hijacking of a j lows.
filling station at Palmer on the B. g Hollimon, superntendent;
T. H. Meeks, assistant superinten-
dent; H. Slabotsky, division engi-
but was unavoidably detained in —- --
Houston on business. “Mr. Holli- trial building, a gymnasium and
an addition to the colored school
the securities commission to dis-
solve or reorganize by 1942 all
public utility holding companies it
found contrary to public policy.
The 45 to 44 vote rejecting this
amendment after Senator Wheeler
democrat, Montrhia, had read a
penciled note from President
Roosevelt holding such a change
contrary to his recommendations,
foretold a stiff battle over the
same provision in the house.
Rayburn Bill in Committee,
There a- similar bill by Chair-
man Raybum, democrat, Texas,
was locked in the interstate com-
merce commission committee, still
undergoing scrutiny by subcommit-
The importance of the railroad
in the future prosperity of the city
and nation was the "keynote” of
the message brought by T. M.
Spence, assistant superintendent of
the T. & N. O. Railroad, who
made the principal address at the
joint luncheon of the Lions Club
and Chamber of Commerce with
the Southern Pacific Service Club
and S. P. employees as honor
guests.
The luncheon was held at the
Methodist bungalow with the
ladies serving a delicious chicken
menu, under the supervision of
Mis. O. R. Colvin, president of the
Woman’s Missionary Society.
The bungalow was beautifully
decorated and the tables were cen-
tered with a profusion of cut flow-
ers.
J. R. McMurray presided as mas-
ter of cel emonies, over the pro-
gram which included the address
by Mr. Spence; duets by Mrs. T.
J. Womack and Mrs. E. F. Mc-
Donnell with Mrs. Jlohn Lee
Sparks as accompanist. They sang
“Indian Dawn” and “Old Folks at
Home.” George Barney, Jr., soloist,
sang “Trumpeter,” and “Play Fid-
dle, Play,” with Miss Gladys Lang-
ham accompanist.
The invocation was given by
Rev. H. A. Wimbish, pastor of
the Avenue Church of Christ.
The program opened with the
Shop Office.
A. E. Mahan, chief clerk to mas-
ter mechanic; L. L. Baldridge,
stenographer; E. W. Wood, clerk;
1 J. R. Norman, car clerk; J. A.
Dallas, Texas, June 12.—In a
gun .battle with three burglars at
11:15 p. m. Tuesday, made one-
sided when his autcmatic stuck,
Richard C. (Dick.) Nelms, proprie-
tor of Belmont Drugs, Greenville
and McComas, received a severe
cut on the right shoulder caused
by flying glass when a bullet tore
at one of the front windows.
The burglars got away with a
cash register, $6 in nickels and
pennies, a number of checks and
a ' $40 rack of chewing gum,
making their escape in a car after
they had run into a telephone
post, tearing down wires, and hit
a water plug, knocking it over.
Mr. Nelms, who lives at 5906
Monticello, recently opened the
pharmacy. Tuesday he saw several
suspicious looking men about his
place. He saw them pass the store
several times at night, too. Mr.
Nelms loosed the store and went
home at the usual time, but feel-
ing uneasy, returned immediately.
He found the'front door broken
in and three msn inside. They
fled as hs -parked his car and
ran up to the store. He shot once
and his pistol jammed. He strug- !
gled with one of the men in a I
vain effort to hold him. They j
brushed past him, fired several :
shots which hit the front of the
store and the plate glass windows,
leaped into 'their car, gunned it, '
backed into a chone pest, gunned
it again, struck the water plug
and made good their escape racing
away from the scene. Mr. Nelms
told police he knew one of the
men.
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Mostly cloudy with an occasional' of the ransom after telling him it officers that prowl?-,
local shower tonight and Thurs- '
day; not much change in tem- Alvin H. Scott, relative of Mrs.; night but fled when they discov-
east - ( Feldman, who helped hide Bates ered the watchman on duty. Noth-
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! Mrs. Carl Feldman, wife of
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I Edward Feldman, her son who
1. The alleged kidnaping wef
an inside job and did not involve
the ladder which experts testified
was made by Hauptmann.
2. Hauptmann was not in the
vicinity of Hopewell, N. J., whsre I
the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped, |
democrats and fourteen republi-
cans.
Both senators, Connally and
Sheppard, voted for the bill.
building. As collateral for this ’
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