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' Entered at the postoffice  t Mexia, Texas, as second
<]ass mail matter under act of March 3, 1879.
THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
Men Have to Support Women
' Out of Work
Every so often some honest gentleman
discovers that there aren't enough jobs to
go around among all the men who want
jobs; and after taking thought he announces
gravely that too many women are working,
and that the world "would wag more smooth-
ly if the ladies would all hurry back to the
kitchen and let the men have their jobs.
This peculiar attitude has not made a
great deal of headway in America, so far. It
has become an article of faith in Germany,
and\he corridors of Berlin office buildings
are breezy with the swish of skirts as sten-
ographers, scYubwomen, and modistes head-
ing for home to make room for the menfolk.
But once in a while some American gets
to thinking and decides that it is a prstty
smart idea.
One of the best answers to this propo-
sition was furnished the other day by Miss
Charl 0. Williams, president of the National
Federation of Business and Professional
Women.
Miss Williams simply pointed out that,
if men displace women in the working
world, the most immediate result will be
that men will have a great many more wom-
en to support than they have now. For the
woman who gives up her job to live at home
has to have a home to go to, and if she can't
pay for it herself someone else must; and if
the men bounce the ladies out of offices and
factories, that's a little matter they won't
be able to overlook.
Consider an ordinary man of today. He
has a wife and he supports her, as he nat-
urally expects to. He has an unmarried sis-
ter, and she earns her living as somebody's
gfenograpftgr.—He-'Ba'9" anagiflen aunt, who
supports herself by working-as a filing clerk.
He has a grown daughter, and she pays
her way-by clerking in a department etore.
His wife's sister,unmarried," looks after her-
self "by virtue" of a job in a real estate office.
■That isn't an uncommon set-up. To a
greater or lass degree, it- probably applies
to the vest majority of male wage-earners in..
America.
Consider what would happen if.a nation-
wide program of-replacing ""females with
males in~the wage-earners? ranks should be
put through.
This-gentleroan, in-addition to his wife,
would have four other women to support—
and he would have to go on doing it to the
bitter end, too, consoled only by the fact
that it would be easier for his son to get
work as, say,.a beauty parlpr operator, if he
wanted to.
The-wor-king woman-payi-her ..own way
in this world. The men ought to be the last
people on earth to want to see her made a
dependent again. ' 7
Tenant Farmers Share Heavier in
New Division of Cotton Benefits
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. <U.R)—
The plight of the Sou (.hern ten-
ant farmer received - recognition
from the government today in its
program for adjustment of cot-
ton acreage for the next four
years.
Special provisions, were insert-
ed in the contracts to be signed
by owners: of -cotton farms to
guarantee adequate protection in
the division of benefit payments
made for reducing acreage.
Both landlonls and tenants
have complained of the effect of
th#<"prog ant on their relations,
although records show a
majority dif letters are from ten-
ants or sharecroppers..
On a farm with a benefit pay-
ment of $100 in 1935 and 1936,
the following comparison of re-
turns to landlord and tenant
allows the increased share grant-
ed the latter:
In 1935 a sharecropper, with
a half interest in the crop and
who furnishes only his own la-
bor, received $15 and th® land-
lord $85. In 193S they will receive
$25 and $75, respectively.
A non-managing share-tenant,
one who furnishes the work stock
and equipment but produces the
crop under the immediate super-
vision of the landlord, was giv-
en $22.50 in 1935 and the laud-
lard $77.50, Next year they will
rt-ceive $50 each.
A managing share-tenant, one
who furnishes the stock and
equipment and supervises produc-
tion of th* crop, received $67.50
this year and the landlord $42.50.
In 1936, they will each be given
$50.
The contract also requires di*
reirt payment to the tenant and
the landlord of their own shares.
In case of share-tenants or share
croppers who do not operate their
farms, they will be paid direct-
ly unless when they certify com-
pliance they designate a joint
payee, in which case both the
tenant and the joint payee, mult
likely the landlord, would have to
countersign the check.
Contract signers will be re-
quired to retain the same number
| of tenants and share-croppers on
I their farms as last year.
OTHER WAY6 TO
ADJUST PRICES
FARM PRODUCT
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (U.R)—'The
Agricultural Adjustment Admin-
istration is so important to the
welfare of the American farmer
under his present conditions that
not even an adverse decision by
t.ho Supreme Court could destroy
it, Secretary of Agriculture Hen-
ry A. Wallace said today.
The federal government is con-
sidering ways and means of cir-
cumventing a decision declaring
the act unconstitutional, he said.
"We know that the court may
act unfavorably on the AAA," the
secretary told newspaper men at
the International Livestock Ex-
position today.
"We know, too, that a lot of
interests, particularly in Chicago
and New York, would like to de-
stroy it—probably for political
reasons.
"Should the act be thrown out,
however, there are a number of
other possibilities which might
make it pdssible to continue,
namely, substituting a sales tax,
an income tax, or some other
kind of a tax which might be de-
veloped.''
He 'is convinced from reports
which come in from the faVming
areas, he said today, that the ad-
ministration is popular with most
of the farmers and that opposi-
tion is centered in a few radical
farm leaders and in the cities.
Admitting the "high cost of
living" which has resulted from
rising farm prices, particularly
the meat foods, he blamed the
drought of 1934 and not the AAA
for any disparity between farm
income and wages.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U.R)—
The industrial East and agricul-
tural West figuratively grappled
over the New Deal's farm pro-
gram in Supreme Court today
when they joined in the "battle
of briefs'' being waged on an un-
precedented scale before the trib-
unal.
They alternately assailed and
defended the AAA and its pro-
cessing taxes in a brief filed "as
friends of the court."
"Down East" was represented
in a book length (document filed
by Boston attorneys of the Na-
tional Association of Cotton Man-
ufacturers, which condemned the
law as an invasion of state rights.
The West was repreented in a
brief filed for the National Beet
Growers Association and Moun-
tain States Beet Growers Market-
ing Association. It energetically
defended the law as giving agri-
culture the same aid a protective
tariff gives industry.
The cottoti manufacturers as-
sailed the AAA as putting into
effect the constitutional doctrines
of Alexander Hamilton and ex-
tending the power the federal
government over state affairs.
It denounced the processing tax
ami the farm program as "gi-
gantic combination • in restraint
of production."
The brief urged the court to
adopt instead of the Hamilton
theory, the doctrine of James
Madison who, it was argued, held
that the right of Congress to im-
pose ta>ies and spend money for
the general welfare must be re-
stricted to the enumerated pow-
ers given the federal government
in other parts of the constitution.
Mrs Livprmore
* Says Not Guilty
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Dec. 3
(U.R) — Mrs. Dorothy Wendt Liver J
more -was in seclusion todayawait
big hearing on charges of shooting
ker 16-year-old son, Jesse Jr.,
•wjth intent, to kiflr' Preliminary]
hearing will be held next Monday
Although she had admitted to]
authorities that she shot her son as
the aftermath of a drunken Quarrel
Mrs. Llvermore entered a formal
plea of not guilty when she was
arraigned.
She was released on $6,000 bond
provided by friends, hurried to
Cottage hospital where the boy.]
was In a critical condition. PhyslJ
dans would not allow her to see
her son because "excitement might
yrov« fatal." ha was in «~aemi-
eoma.
Miss Dorothy Marie McElroy,
who attends Baylor University is
visiting relatives in Mexia durong
the holdays and has as her guest,
Jfiss Nell Milburn, also of,Baylor.
Arne Nelson, student of Schrlen-
*r Institute is visiting his parents
here during the holidays
Mel Roy Coming
to Mexia Jan. 3
Mel Roy, the magician, will
display his old and new tricks
of magic again in Mexia. He is
coming January 3, to the muni-
cipal auditorium, under the spon-
sorship «f the Mexia Lions Club.
One of .:the cleverest tricksters
available, Mel Roy will draw from
his bag .a^iarge number of tricks
of magic^Ibt. the entertainment
of the large f rowd that is ex-
pected here on that occasion.
The -Appearance will be on Fri-
day mijfblr and Lions will be in
charge of .the appearance.:?:
Youth Killed by
Friend on Hunt
DALLAS, Dec. 2, (UP)—Jack
Wagstaff, 16-year-old high schoo'
student,- was killed yesterday
when he was atruck in the head
by the charge of a 22-rifIe from i
the hands of Robert; forguson,
his 18-year old hunting ifrmpan-
ion.
Wagstaff, who was stalking I
a bird, raised his head from a
Virginia Foster
is Buried Here
Virginia Marguerite Poster, 5
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. O. W. "Dock" Foster, died
at their home at Freer, Texas,
Tuesday, and was buried in the
city cemetery of Mexia after ser-
vices at the Corley funeral home
Wednesday at 4 p. m. The Rev.
Grady W. Metcalf, Baptist pas-
tor, officiated. Surviving are her
parents and a sister, Martha Ann,
three.
T,'d«re Kimbell .Die®
in Groesbeck Home
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James F. Kimbell, 89 years old Confederate veteran,
who served 49 years as a public official of Limestone coun-
ty, died at 9 p. m. Sunday at his home in Groesbeck. Burial
was Monday afternoon in Faulkenberry ccmetery, Groes-
beck, with a large number of old friends attending.
In declining health for several,
years, Judge Kcmbell continued to
serve his county, acting as proba-
tion officer, a post he held since he
retired as district attorney.
A beloved old man, Judge Kcm-
bell was one of the best known
men in public life in his' country,
respected and admired by a^l. He
gave his, life to his country's ser-
vice as county attorney, county
judge, representative in the legis-
lature, and for 25 years district
attorney, then as probation officer
ten years.
Born at Memphis, "Itenn., in 1846,
he enlisted- for service under Gen-
eral Price. He came to Texas ill
1887, anj located at Springfield as
an attorney. He personally carried
the legal documents from Spring-
field to Groesbeck when the county
seat was moved December 20, 1873.
He was married in 1880 to Bunnie
Cobb, and joined the . Methodist
church as a young man. He served
in public office for 49 years—as
county attorney six years, county
judge six years, legislature two
years, district attorney 25 years,
and then as probation officer, a
post he held when he died.
Judge Kembell was a mason, and
a member of the Joe Johnston
camp, Confederate veterans. He
was commander of the camp a few
years ago. Only two Confederate
veterans remain in the country.
Surviving are his wife, three
sons, Jesse, Fountain and Fred
Kembell, and a daughter, Mrs. D.
M. Rankin, all of Groesbeck. Fun-
eral services were held at 2:30 p.
m. Monday at the Methodist
church, the Rev. Hugh S. Porter,
pastor, officiating, assisted by
Rev. R. G. Hill and Rev. A. E. Har-f
rison. Interment was in Faulken-
berry cemetery.
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Woman Beaten by
3 Votes in Race
SAN ANTONIO, NoV. 30, (U.R)
—Miss Quata Woods, Dallas grade
school teacher defeated last ni-
ght by John H. Gregory, McAl-
len school superintendent, for the
presidency of the Texas State
Teacher' Association, said today
she would not ask for a recount.
The final tabulation showed he
received 1,206 votes compared to
her 1,203.
R. C. Patterson of Denton was
elected first vice-president.
"The convention defeated a pro-
posed amendment to the associa-
tion's constitution which would
have required that the office of
president be held in alternate
years by a man and a woman.
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Daily Average of
Oil on Decrease
TULSA, Okla., Dec. 3. (U.R)—
Daily average production of
crude oil in the United States de-
creased 24,809 barrels for the
week ended Nov. 30, compared to
the week ended Nov. 23, the Oil
and Gas Journal said today.
Daily average production for
the week ended Nov. 30 was 2,-
836,808 barrels, compared to 2,-
861,617 barrels for the week end-
ed Nov. 23.
DECLINES BID
NEW YORK, Dec. 3. (U.R)-
Fordham university has declined
an invitation of the Sugar Bowl
committee to play in the New
Year's day football game at New
Orleans, it. was announced to-
day. Louisiana State is expected
to represent the South.
Body Identified
as That of Wife
of Slain Comer
KANSAS CITY, Kans., Dec. 2.
(U.R)—A young expectant mother
found shot to death along a road
side near here more than a year
ago was the missing first wife of
Chester Comer, slain Oklahoma
hitch hiker suspected of murder-
ing eight other missing persons.
Solution to this mystery mur-
der was announced today by
Jack B. Jenkins, acting chief of
detectives of the Kansas City,
Kans., police department.
Jenkins, who has worked pn-
ceasingly on the case since Oct.
6, 1934, when the bullet picrccd
body of the young woman was
.found beside a Wyandotte county
lane, said identification was posi-
tive and had been effected by
comparison of teeth, scars and
clothing of the murder victim to
those of Comer's first wife.
Previously, the body of the
young woman had been identified
a score of times but in each in*
stance the identification proved
erroneous. More than 15,000 had
viewed the body in a morgue and
later in a cemetery vault in an
attempt to identify.
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Germany Taking
Brazil's Cotton
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, (U.R)—
Brazil supplanted the United
States as the principal supplier
of raw cotton to Germany in the
first nine months of 1935, the
Commerce Department reported.
Total German Imports of raw
cotton in the January-September
period of 1935 amounted to 221,-
795 metric tons compared with
265,709 metric tons in 1934. The
value of the raw cotton imports
in the 1935 period was $84,087,000
compared with $74,238,000 in 1934
The United States' share of
this trade declined from 166,996
metric tons in 1934 to 46,117 tons
in 1935, while imports from Bra-
zil increased from 3,164 metric
tons to 61,874 tons.
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IN FACE WHEN
HEN QUIT JAIL
MUSKOGEE, Okla., Dec. 8 (U.R)
—Four desperate men awaiting
sentence for a bold double bank
robery broke jail today, at the pos-
sible cost of an officer's life.
One cell block companion went
with them, but another was shot
down by officers and died. He was
Henry Blackburn, convicted mail
tobber.
Chief Detective Ben Bolton was
shot In the face when he seized a
sub machine gun to resist the
gang, and his wound may prove fa-
tal if infection develops.
Dan T. Heady, one of the gang-
sters, was reported shot in the
back as he fled down an alley. His
wife was questioned. Jailers said
they believed she smuggl6d a pis-
tol to her husband as they embrac-
ed just before the break began.
mcciiswe n or k
for State Force
Approximately 4,000,000 Amer-
ican farms are located on unim-
proved roads.
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in treating colds. Rubbed on at bed-
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tion loosens phlegm, soothes irrita*
tlon^clps break congestion. Often, by
' ig the worst of the cold is over.
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At a precautionary measure the hoy firsd. The bullet en-
tlttnil. air raids, Germany has j the of his head «rvl
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FARM LIFE LONGER
The average life expectancy of
the farmer is four or five years
longer than that of the city in-
habitant, according to figures
compiled by the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company. South Dako-
ta, only 9.2 per cent industrialised
ranks first in life expectancy,
with an average of 64.38 for men
and 66.81 for women.—The Pro-
gressive Farmer.
"Dallas Has JtT
Just think what it means to a
young roan or woman to get to
work in a big government office or
a big business organisation when
they finish a business course.
Dallas has more branches of the
U. S. Government, employing more
office help than all other cities in
Texas combined. These govern-
ment positions pay good salaries.
Dallas has the Texas Centennial
Exposition. Millions of dollars are
being spent erecting this great
World Fair. This means hundreds
of office workers must be employ-
ed in all lines of busines as a re-
sult of all this spending.
Dallas has the Federal Reserve
Bank and is the banking center of
the Southwest.
Dallas is the great Oil Capitol of
the world.
Dallas has the home office of
more large insurance companies
than any other two'cities of Texas.
These banks, oil companies, and
insurance companies employ hun-
dreds of stenographers, bookkeep-
ers, and machine operators.
Dallas is not only the Centennial
City, but is the greatest City of
employment in the Southwest.
Byrne Commercial College is the
oustanding business training school
ih the Southwest, and is so recog-
nised by the employers of good of-
| fice help. Byrne draws its patron-
age from many different states.
Pyrne graduates and places far
nore fine young men and women
• ach year than any other college
in the Southwest.
We invite you to write for our
free literature that you may fa-
miliarise yourself with the advan-
tages to be derived from a husines^®
' education that is modern, thoroui' ■
>nd complete. )
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MUSKOGEE, Okla., Dec. 8.
(U.R)—The four O'Malley gangs-
ters convicted of robbing Oke-
mah's two national banks broke
jail today with an accomplice,
shooting down and perhaps mor-
tally wounding a veteran Mus-
kogee officer.
' Chief of Detectives Ben Bolton
was shot in the face with a saw-
ed-off shotgun from a distance of
nine feet.
A sixth federal prisoner, Henry
Blackburn, held on a mail robbery
conviction, was shot down as he
fled with the others, recaptured
and taken to a hospital. His con-
dition was critical.
The fugitives sped north in a
car taken from a Muskogee min-
ister.
Seen on Road
A't 12:45 p. m. they were re-
ported seen on Highway 64, driv-
ing south. This highway leads to
Fort Smith, Ark.
Dan T. Heady, short, dapper
gangsters, was wounded in the
back as he ran down an. alley,
but his associates picked him up
and took him along.
The minister was thrown out
of his car and left in the street.
Besides Heady, those escaping
■were:
Dewey Gilmore, Fort Smith,
Ark.
Leonard Short, Galena, Mo.
Russell Cooper, Fort Smith.
Donny Jarrett, transient held
under a Mann act charge.
Gilmore, Short, Cooper and
Heady were awaiting sentence on
convictions of taking part in the
simultaneous robbery of the. Oke-
mah National and First National
banks of Okemah in December,
1934. ~ "
They could have been given 45
years each on the robbery count.
Bolton was shot after the gang
led by Cooper and Heady, opened
the door to a lobby which is sep-
arated by a steel lattice wall
from Bolton's office.
He was taken, unconscious, to
a hospital.
Marsh ('organ, chief of police,
escaped injury when one of the
thugs fired two shots through
the closed doors of his office.
Two jail employes were threat-
ened with death.
Short was said to have pre-
vented Heady from stopping to
kill James Albright, police Ber-
tillon expert, for whom he had an
intense dislike.
The five men drove north on
U. S. Highway 69, toward Vin-
ita. Some of them were captured
last summer in a hideout in north
eastern Arkansas. The others
were seized at Fort Smith and
AUSTIN, Nov. 30. (U.R)—Inten-
sive training in criminology will
be given in a school to be con-
ducted at Camp Mabry, beginning
Dec. 9.
There, 26 new members of the
State Safety Department force
will have a month's instructions
before going to work. The 26 are
picked men from 1,000 applicants.
Civil service examinations were
conducted in various parts of the
state and the 26 selected on the
results of the tests.
Beside the usual physical train-
ing and traffic instructions have
been given motor patrolmen at
Camp Mabry, the new school will
be expanded to take in general in-
structions on crime detection.
Gus Jones, San Antonio, an ace
among Uncle Sam's "G" Men,
will be one of the lecturers to
the new "S" Men. Jones planned
and participated in the capture
of George (Machine Gun) Kelly
after the kidnaping of oilman
Charles Urschel.
Instructors. from the University
of Texas also will help teach the
officers. Courses v/ilf 'bs
given by various professors Wiiose /
penalties can be useful in frima
detection.
C. G. McCraw, former Besu-
mont official, will be in charge
of the school. '< F-M
President Will
See Homesteads
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dee S.
(U.R)— President Roosevelt intend-
ed to see for himself today what
the government is doing to reha-
bilitate farm families an<) give
them economic and social security.
Accompanied by members of his
party and federal officials, the
chief executive will drive 20 miles
to Pine Mountain Valley where a
model resettlement project is
thriving. The president will look
over 75 newly completed houses
and watch workmen put finishing-
touches to several dozen more. In
all, 250 families will be accommo-
dated.
The project, developed on the
long-range planning schedule, is
designed to be self-liquidating. Ag-
riculture is the predominant in-
dustry but provision also is made
for a food processing plant.
 
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SPECIAL
See the A. & M. vs. S. M. U. Game
Saturday, Dec. 7
—Round Trip—
$312  1
Be Safe ... Enjoy the Trip!
Train leaves Mexia 10:05 a. m. Arrives at College
Station 12:15 p. m. Return—leaves College Station
5:S0 p. m. Arrives in Mexia at 7:45 p. m.
LUNCH CAR ON THE TRAIN
Southern Pacific
F. P. HUCHINGSON, Agent
Phone 20
SANTA CLAUS
Parade
—in—
Mrs. Owen F. Watkins, who un-
derwent a major operation at the
Brown hospital, is reported doing
nicely. ...^
MEXIA
Thursday, Decemer 12
at 3:30 p. m.
Santa Claus will make a pre-Christmas visit
to Mexia Thursday, December 12, at 3:30 p. m.
and wants to see all the children. He will parade
down the streets behind the band, and distribute
2500 bags of candy to children at the City Audi-
torium after the parade. He will receive letters
telling what the kiddies want for Christmas.
Santa Claus, reindeer, sleigh and all.
All children are invited to attend
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
SANTA CLAUS
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CORSICAN A
11 a. m. DECEMBER 7th
Opening the Holiday Season in Central Texas
A PARADE IS OFFERED THAT WILL THRILL
EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD
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Come and Sample Our Hospitality!
Sponsored by the
Corsicana Chamber of Commerce
Representing Central Texas
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