The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1935 Page: 4 of 8
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LOUISE NEWS ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
READERS OF CITIZEN
If you want statistics on the City
of El Campo, Wharton County or the
ion, music and dramatic plot have
ever been blended into a single pro-
duction for the thousands of mer-
chants from virtually all sections of
the country who attend the conven-
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7. H. BALLEW Associate Editor.
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Leper right— Taking the "Tepe Measure Test." Lower right—Edna Vettori, Metropolitan Opera
star who will head the cast of entertainers who will appear on the fashion pageant program.
Very truly yours,
J. F. Beal, County Superintendent
Wharton County.
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A crew with grappling nooks drag-
Clarification of Rural
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If you have a room, house or ap-
artment for rent, and wish to help
accomodate the increasing population
of El Campo due to the ei activity1—
SAVES time. Saves money. Saves
shoe lesther. Saves temper. AND
GETS RESULTS! Try it—the next
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thing and swimming ■ are the
' diverslons of Louseites these
MODEL FASHIONS AT RETAILERS’
St. Louis.—A quest is under way
in St Louis for sixty girls—blondes,
brunettes, auburns or redheads —
who can measure.up to the "Amer-
ican Venus standard." They are
wanted to display feminine styles
for the coming fall and winter
at the fashion pageants to be’pre-,
sented on an elaborate scale during
the semi-annual convention of the
American Retailers Association to
be held in St. Louis from August 5
to 19.
. .. Scores of girls have undergone
the "tape-measure test” since the
search began two months in ad-
vance of the style show, but the
quota of sixty typically American
girls proportioned along Venus’
Jines has not yet been completed,
and the Judges are better and better
coming to understand the difficul-
ties of the legendary Diogenes
searching for an honest man and
Ponce De Leon seeking the Foun-
tain of Youth. Dozens of girls ful-
fill the ordinary requirements of
facial beauty, grace and other femi-
nine attributes—but fall to make
the “Venus, test” hurdle because of
slightly large ankles, or a waist or
neck only a fraction of an inch
short of the perfect proportions.
These are the “American Venus”
wpecificatlons laid down by Major
the new Municipal Auditorium,
heretofore used for symphony con-
certs, grand opera, the National
Folk Festival and other events of
the kind, has ever been thrown open
to Bame Fashion and her fineries.
The stage on which the pageants
will be presented is 150 feet in
length, 50 feet deep, and the scen-
ery grill overhead towers 101 feet
from the stage floor.
In addition to the fashion pag-
eants, the huge stage also will be
used for the model window and in-
terior displays which will be pre-
sented by the International Associa-
tion of Display Men for the benefit
of visiting merchants. The display
men’s organization will hold its 38th
convention in St. Louis the week of
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Jub days and a list of those
"ing their time on the water
I comprise the bulk of the town.
■ Lillian Stockton was ri
ged the river for several hours be-
fore Belschner’s body, weighted and
with legs and arms bound with w/re,y
was dragged from the rver. 102
Sheriff White said immediately
after the body was found he drove
to Corpus Christi, where he located Aa
e neice of the Brown brothers, whed
pointed out the house where oupi
Brown was staying.
The brothers, Oscar and Couple
Brown, ‘confessed Monday night to
Sheriff William Shely of Nueces coun,t
ty and Sheriff Hugh L. Whitelo.
Nobody’s Business
-----—-------- BY JULIAN CAPERS, JR.--------------
Austin.—Five prisoners, overcome) per 1000 cubic feet gate rate in 300
by terrific heat on Texas prison Texas cities, the court approved the
farms, died last week. Their names I railroad commission’s procedure in
may be added to the roll of 20 who consolidating the various individual
have died similarly in the last few cities’ protests, thus removing one
years. Eventually, public opinion will of the utilities' most effective weap-
and Louis Weisberg, Loveland,
Colo. Scott R. DeKins, of St Louis,
is secretary and treasurer of the
Association.
system that permits ilLconditioned
prisoners to be sent to their deaths
in broiling Texas summer tempera-
tures needs a Charles Dickens to
write about IL ■ J
Cynics who believe that the high
fidelity to public trust which mark-
ed officials of a bygone generation
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were filed against < scar and 90829
Brown, negro ibrothers, Saturdav E
connection with the murder of B1908
Belschner, 35, filling station emplole,
whose trussed and weighted body
was • found in the Navidad rivers Afg
Texna late Friday.
The two negroes about 25 xeavsE
of age, were arrested late Friday by 7
Sheriff Hugh White in Corpus Chrit
' in the Menefee market this week.
=e A. G. Gordon local field superintend-
Bp"; ent for the Pure Oil Company with
Ehc, his wife and daughter, Gloria, left
BC Monday on a two-weeks' vacation trip
in East Texas.
E.g Arvid Peterson of Houston spent
N" Sunday with his mother, Mrs. A. Pet-
Levy, who has trained thousands of
models, and other judges:
Height, 5 feet 8 inches.
Weight, 128 pounds.
. ' Bust, 35. -
Waist, 29.
Hips, 38. .
.Calf, 14.
Ankles, T%. "
When the sixty girls are finally
selected, they will be put through
a rigorous schedule of rehearsals
for the style shows, which will be
presented on the great- stage of
St. Louis’ new $7,000,000 Municipal
Auditorium. Marking an innova-
tion in fashion pageants, the newest
styles will be shown to the accom-
paniment of the music and dramatic
plot of a special stage production,
"The Ship of Fashion,” in which
Elda Vettori, Metropolitan Opera
singer, will head a talented cast of
singers and dancers. The models,
as members of the cast, will wear
the gowns, suits, coats, hats, shoes,
furs and other accessories of femi-
nine apparel that are to be the
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.. months residence at Rusk.
Buster Thomas of Dayton was a
"Louise visitor Tuesday.
Fred Dallas of Houston, district
manager of the Pure Oil Co., was a
Louise business visitor Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cooper have re-
turned to Kansas after a visit with
Mrs. Cooper’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cook.
> Mr. and Mrs. Howard Oliphant have
moved from El Campo into the Moon-
ey apartment. Mr. Oliphant wfrbe
a member of the 1935.36 echeol faeul-
ty
Ben Ashley of Ganado is assisting
Mrs. Jerome chromeak and baby
daughter arc -pending the week with
Mrs. Bertha Payne in El Campo.
The Louise Junior ball team lost to
El Camve Sunday with a score of
1118: ,
Bill Brown has gone to Lafayette,
La.,.to workin the oil field there.
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ers in Texas. These deaths, while
they will give opportunity for maudlin
sentimentalists to sound off, probab-
ly will not affect much change in
-public opinion, which is a slow pro-,
[cess, in England, thousands of chil-
dren died at the hands of brutal
alms-house keepers, without aftect-
mg any change in the lethargy, of
claims combined and the state be-
hind them, have those claims heard
in court, and avoid being crushed by
the sheer weight of the opposition’s
financial resources. The Lone Star
Gas Co. has indicated it will appeal
the case to the state supreme court,
and if possible, to the U. S. supreme
court. So the fight goes on. But
the people of Texas, regardless of
the final outcome, won a notable
victory in the Auetin Court of Ap-
peals. .
were Mesdames ireuswench, L S.
Stockier IryingSirkten.GlenJohnt
son, s.m Heard. Miss- Jesie Thom-
as and Addit letersen..
W w Appling: J. W. Becher and
Jim Sanders spent Monday and Tues-
day fshing at Port Aransas.
T. N Menefee and his sister, Mrs.
. crude AFpline hrave returned home
’ frem a eeshitu vinu win relatives
1 MisEisSppi < nd were accompaniet
____hori.i by re .aunt, .whir will mlllle ah?
extened -visit in Soul n Texas
- Mr anuurs Ed Kubala spent the
week-end in Markham an dwere ac-
comyantednome by Mis’Evelyn Ku-
hala, who has been with ner sister.
Mrs. Joe Senkirik there.
. Mrs. Tuff Mitchell and three chil-
dren_et New Mexico, are m ■ Louise
f or a visit with Mrs Mitchens par-
... ents, Mr. and Mrs. D.F Barret and
other relatives.
Miss Ruby Wilson spent thewek-
end with her parents in Wharton.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Crane and
Mr. and Mrs. Orville La Four have
returned to Louise after a several
People living in the various com-
mon school districts of Wharton
County who are interested in know-
ing the classincation of their school
may find the following information
helpful. Study the list car:‘ul, and
see if your school will offer to teach
the high school grade in which your
child is lo enter this fall. If your
local echool. does not offer to teach
the grade and you desire to send
if you hear of anyone needing a syatem, has corrected many of its ad.
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modes this fall and winter. August 5, and its sessions have been
It will be the first time that fash- r - -------=—=
the public about the system. But
Charles Dickens, with an inspired pen
and a passionate devoton to the task,
roused England in a few years, and
forever abolised inhuman treatment
of paupers and their children. Lee
Simmons, able manager of the prison
Lawson,
Talton
Crescent
Pierce
Paacios
East K. O.
Mackay
Magnet
Carancahua
Liberty
Muldoon
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nine states and the District of Co
lumbia who come to St. Louis for
the convention. Special railroad
rates will be in effect from other
states also.
Features of the convention pro-
gram for visiting retailers will In-
clude A. R. A. nights at the St.
Louis Municipal Opera. The pro-
ductions will be “Desert Song,” the
week of August 5, and "Roberta,"
the week of August 12.
Officers of the American Retall-
era Association for the coming year
will be elected at the final session
of the convention. L. K. Sharpe,
of Checotah, Okla, has served as
president the past year. Vice-presi-
dents are: W. F. Beall, Jackson-
of any voter will be gladly answered
durig these meetings. There are
only ten days left to work and pre-
pare for this eleetiekk Due to the
fact that there is some little opposi-
tion on the East side of the river, it
is of the greatest importance that ev-
ery friend of good roads and improv-
ed drainage work enthusiastically for
the success of this issue. The old
sayinfg that “Doubt breeds Doubt,"
ip true in this instance. Let’s fight
for this issue with confidence, and the
doubt will tbe swept sway and the
Influence those who are supposed to
render judgments between men, re-
cived a rude shock last week. The,
Third Court of Civn Appeals at Au8-
inhuman system of handling prison- over rates with a hugh utility corpor-
ation. But many cities, with their
e the eentlen ofite plant—-
- 00 ocation of its plant-—
a CALL THE CHAMBER OF
Waldo Bryns of Carlsbad, New
Mexico, who is an empoye of the
Humble Oil Co., is spending his ya-
caton with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Bruns.
abandoned. . .
After discovery of the disabled auto-
moble, searchers found bloodstains
called to please see that you apply for trans-
for before August 1 Transfer cards
can be obtained at the oftisa of the
taeles of entrenched wealth reach
even into the, sanctum .of justiee and
your child to some other school that .1.0 .....
does offer to teneh the grade desirea, dities thet are outgrowing their quAr
ministrati,ve weaknesses. But any
after Belehener’s automobile in
been discovered in front of a houi
in which Couple Brown was sleeping-e
Under questioning, the negro drecf- 3
ed Sheriff White to another honsessnn
where Oscar Brown was taken into -8
custody.
Sheriff White returned to
Edaai
late Sunday afternoon and filed the
charges. He declared that he would ’
not return the brothers to Edna even
though feeling, which had ’eep run- .
ning high, appeared to be dying down.
Search for Coupie Brown started J
alter FrankoBelschner, father of the .e
slain man, said his son was last seen . |
alive in company with the negro about
9.30 p. m. Thursday. I
"Couple Brown came to our house I
and asked Byron to repaid hisincar I
for him," the elder Belschnor told 1
Sheriff White. i
"Byron told Inn that, he did not ' r.s1
have time to repair the car as he was I
due at work at the filling station at -
10 p. m ' ■
. "Then the negro asked Byron o. I
let him ride to the river where where I
he said his brother was waiting in.,
their automobile which had broken , I
down.”__________ —I
Other employes at the filling station I
became alarmed when young Belsch- --en
ner failed to arrive on time for work -I
and' notified Sheriff White when i I
was learned that the man was not at ■
home. I
Sheriff White said he discovered . .I
the negroes’ disabled -car near the .‘I
river and found the house occupied 1
by the Brown brothers had beenI
n. S memut.
Jackson county, the officers sad: 20-
Coupie Brown’s blood - stainedcloth. i:
es and a blood-spattered jacket iden-'
titled as one belonging to the slain
pense, individually, of a legal battle mn were found near Refugio Mon- 4
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tion of the American 4
Retailers Associa- "
tion. It also will be.
the first time that the
huge Opera House In
ville, Texas; M. H Forester, Ot- ___ __________
____________________________tawa, Kan.; Mahlon Garber, Colum- M0*‘ 2"" "" „
arranged so that they 'will not eon- Ma, Tenn.; B. E.Hart, Harrisburg, - - and -evideneesefa struggle on H8
“m-i----.L. .— Rl.; John F. Lottes, Perryville, Mo, ’ river bridge. Sheriff White‘declared
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Hn rendered, in the case of Lone
Star Gas Co, vs. the Texas Railroad j
Commission, an opinion which the,
best legal minds in Texas are hailing i
as one of the most noteworthy m 1
m- the annals of Texas jurisprudence,
m- The opinion, written by Justice M. P.
ons. Few cities can stand the ex-
The -negroes said Belschner. -wass
shot and then dumped into t . dW i
and that they fled in his autemoble,
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4 1-4% MONEY, on or before A j
years, is offered to the farmers’
the Federal Land Bank of Houston
through the El Campo N. F. - Lon l
Association. Although your tam 14
homestead is all paid out you canart :
range to build a new house and bath
with this cheap money. .1322031582
See W. W. DUSON, Secy-Treasgea
t2Mshs*8e
Bernard Prairie 48
Hahn Prairie 48
Egypt 49
Glen. Flora 50
Louise 51
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HEutered at the Postoffice at El
■Campo, Texas, as Second
H • Class Mail Matter.
Communit me rest ceoteEs. these
days in . cies at rhe Shei well
•f the euth vact of teun which is
praotieang 1he same deptt a: the ma-
jority of wells at the Pur 6 com-
pany ieli Something ' f resting
shoute- develep snhi thesext few
daye
Mrs T. N.Memfee ar d two chil-
dren are visiting relative-m Mexie.
Huh-ereuell nhe eemu-d in.
the oil Held neat Liberty spent Tues-
day and Wed -cay -th hi- wi- and
Ne erson.
y Mre. Clara Ward of Houston visit-
’ ed fa the Frank Farek house last
S week.
Mrs. Bud Thomas and daughter,
LLouella, of Richmond visited Louise
Mprelatives Saturday.
Mr*. Guy Lee of Dayton spent Mon-
5 dny with her sisters, Mrs John Horn-
lacher and Mrs. J. W. Gresham.
M Cecil Roome returned to duties in
r the Gueydan, La., oil field Sunday af-
Wdera week-end spent with Louise
Danevang
Lissie n
Round Mott
Plain View
Lane City
Bonus Nedra
Hungerford
New Vienna
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1935, newspaper, July 19, 1935; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577880/m1/4/?q=Negroes+held: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.