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HOT POLITICAL YEAR—-BETTER PAY YOURIPOLL TAXES NOW
PHIIj KARNBR, GENERAL INSURANCE 'I
Mexia Weekly Herald
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 4.
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MEXIA. TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1036.
$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
We Must Vote 1
if Have Part
in Government
Mtizens Urged Pay
Poll Taxes by
February 1
Mexia has cut little figure in
Limestone county political af-
fairs, and Limestone county
has counted for little in
the state and national politics,
and the result has been felt keen-
ly.
Mexia pays the taxes, but is
seldom on the receiving end of
governmental activities. Lime-
stone county does more than its
share to maintain the state gov-
ernment, but seldom figures heav-
ily in state governmental activ-
ities.
The reason ?
We seldom show much interest
in political affairs. Our time and
interest has been taken up with
business development.
But the time has come when
the increasing governmental in-
fluence on every walk of life af-
fects everyone and everything.
>11 business has a very definite
stake in every branch of the gov-
ernment. The complex social se-
curity act of the federal and state
government will touch every per-
son in the country in some way.
There will be two local (.'lections
this year. The school trustee elec-
tion, and the city election. Two
■chool trustees and three com-
missioners aro to be selected.
Democrats will elect delegates
to county, state and national con-
ventions. We'll want a part in
that.
A presidential election i3 com-
ing in November.'
A number of important amend-
ments have been submitted
Texas voters for action in No-
vember.
There will he county elections
for all offices, with some lively
contests. Very important offices
are to be filled.
A heated governor race is an-
ticipated, with a tax issue at
stake.
There may be a warm race for
representative in the legislature
and another for representative in
Congress.
Unless Mexia and Limestone
county citizens take enough in-
terest to pay poll taxes and
qualify as voters, they cannot
participate.
Persons becoming 2! since Jan-
uary 1, 1035, must have their
poll tax exemption certificate. All
who were 21 before that date, and
not 60 before that date, must pay
.their poll taxes before the end of
this month. Otherwise, they have
no voice in the affairs of their
city, precinct, county, state or
nation.
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Sub-Committee in Senate Rejects Farm Program
Resignation Is
Capital Rumor
Wallace Says Plan
WAGNER LABOR Hotchkiss Talks
ACT HAS SIXTH t0 Rota^ Club
COURT FAVOR
Thursday Noon
Follows Hoover
Farm Plans
SOME OPPOSE
3ub-Committee to
Report Back by
Saturday
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.R) —
While President Roosevelt was ask-
ing Congress to pay farmers bene-
fit contracted for under the inval-
idated AAA, the Senate agricultu-
ral committee today named an all-
Democratic subcommittee to study
substitute legislature and report
this week end.
The all-decomratic sub-committee
was appointed to study the new
Bankhead-Joncs farm relief bill and
report back to the full committee
by Saturday.
Republicans Refuse
Chairman Ellison D. Smith said
he had asked several Republican
members of the committee to serve
on the smaller groups but they de-
clined.
The sub-committee planned to
meet again this afternoon to hear
I lie views of Secretary of Agticul- !
Lure Henry A. Wallace and Farm I CoiTilYlissioiiei' A S lv S
Administrator Chester Davis. j KeeleCtiOll to His
Smith was named chairman of j Office
the sub-committee, whose other 1
Accents Importance
[Bag- Makers Seeking1 Club Can Play in
to Stop Probe of
Labor Status
6 TO 4 NOW
Life Youth
Accenting the part that Rotary j
can play in the guidance and de-1
velopment of youth, District Gov-
j ernor of this Rotary district,!
j Keith Hotchkiss, of Beaumont. 1 „ . __
I addressed members of the Mexia vtUeen 111 JViOUTOing,
BODY OF KING
IN PROCESSION
LAID IN STATE
London Receives Body
of King George V
Paying Homage
NEW KING WALKS
! Names President
in AAA Suit
Ex-Convict Guarded
after Confession I Rotary Club in the banquet room
Of His Crime ! ot tbe Christian church.
sponsor Boy
Near Breaking in
Funeral
That Justice Willis Van Dp-
vanter. above, dean of V. S
Supreme Court conservatives,
may resign his post is the rumor
again heard in Washington
The justice, who is 7", has
bought a farm near Kllicott
City, Md. In view of his none
too robust health, this led to re-
newal of rumors of liis retire-
ment. Van Decanter was ap-
pointed to the court in 1910 b>
President Taft >.
John Mackey Is
Seeking Return
School superintendents, city
managers, business owners, shop
superintendents and others in va-
rious parts of ttie state are say-
ing to their employes: No poll
tax payment, no job.
Good citizenship demands par-
ticipation. Pay your poll tax at
your bank before the end of Jan-
uary.
members were Sens. John H. Bank-
head of Ala., Carl Hatch, N. M.,
James P. Pope, Ida., and Louis
Murphy, Iowa. No public hearings
were scheduled.
"We've heard plenty of testi-
mony on the farm situation al-
ready," Bankhead said.
Asked for his opinion of the new
bill, Smith said:
"I'll support it if and when it
confirms to the constitution."
Call Davis
Meanwhile, the House agricul-
ture committee, at an executive
meeting, discussed the new pro-
gram and decided to Call Davis
to testify before a closed session
tomorrow.
John Mackey, commissioner of
Precinct 4, Limestone county, serv-
ing his first term in that office, has
announced his candidacy for re-
election, subject to the Democratic
primary. Mr. Mackey will ask re-
election on his record in office dur-
ing the past year, and a P'ea for
continuation of the state-federal
projects in which he has coopera-
ted.
The commissioner has several
WPA projects applied for, and
hopes to see work start soon 011 a
federal aid grade crossing elimina-
tion as well as straightening oi'
Highway 7-84.
Sen. George W. Noris, R., Neb.,
said tliat although he personally
did not believe the plan unconsti-
1 tutional, it undoubtedly was so in
the light of the Supreme Court's
AAA decision.
"But I'm willing to vote for it
and give it a chance," he added.
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TEXAS
MEXIA
Minor Jobs on
Roads Awarded
AUSTIN, Jan. 23 (U.R) — Appro-
priations for repairs and improve-
ments 011 Texas highways totaling
$317,708 were announced by the
state highway commission today.
Two major allocations were
rescinded for failure to secure
right-of-why. One was .$50,000 for
grading and drainage structures on
through Iowa Park and west 6.0
miles. The second was $100,000 for
re-construction sections of High-
way 27 in Wilson county from the
Gonzalez county line to Bexar
county.
The commission ordered bids
taken immediately on a Walker
county road leading to Gen. Sam
Houston's grave.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 2:! (U.R)
—Federal District Judge John D.
Martin today upheld constitution-
ality of the Wagner labor rela-
tions act.
The decision was made on a pe-
tition of the Bemis, Tenn., Bag Co.,
which sought to enjoin a federal
labor investigation 011 grounds the
1935 labor act was in violation of
the fifth, seventh, and tenth a-
mendments.
Judge Martin agreed to company
pleas lor hearing 011 constitution-
ality of the act after he refused to
grant a temporary stop order
which would have held up the na-
tional labor relations, board in its
investigation of labor complaints
at the plant.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.R; --
The decision of U. S. District
Judge John 1). Martin at Memphis
today upholding constitutionality
of the Wagner labor act brought
the score in court tests of the act
to II to 4 in favor of the govern-
ment.
No. Wagner test case has yet
been ruled upon by A U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals and efforts thus
far to skip the circuit court and
carry a case direct to the U. S.
Supreme Court have been unsuc-
cessful.
It was considered doubtful whe-
ther it would be possible to get a
high court ruling during the pres-
ent term.
"Rotary should
Scout troops and other organiza-
tions for youth,'' Mr. Hotchkiss
said. "The boys of today are the
! men of tomorrow and their guid-
ance early in life, or the way you
| should guide them will be of great
importance to what kind of men
they will make.''
Mr. Hotchkiss reprimanded the
club for its inactivity during the Pa.v homage.
The royal family
LONDON, Jan. 23 (U.R)—The
body of King George V, borne
between lanes of hundreds of
thousands of his sorrowing coun-
trymen through the streets of
London, was laid in state in
Westminster Hall today for the
highest and lowest of his subject
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MILLION (IAIN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.R) —
Almost a million more bales of cot-
ton were ginned from the growth
of 1035, prior to Jan. Hi, ti n dur-
ing; the same period of the pre-
ceding year. Of the 1935 growth
10,240,688 running bales were gin-
ned compared with 0,1176,715 in
1934.
KLEVATOR STRIKE
NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (U.R)—
Thousands of workers in New
York's crowded fur and garment
district were without elevator ser-
vice today because of a service
employees' strike. In some build-
ings, workers walked a: high as
IS floors to reach offices and
work shops.
Blackshirts Are
Carrying the Fight
ROME. Jan. 23 (U.R) -A black-
shirt division is carrying the
brunt of heavy fighting that has
broken out on the Eritrean front,
a communique from Marshall
Pietro Badoglio said today.
The fighting started yesterday.
Several minor chiefs and their
followers have surrendered with
munitions supplies at Gheralta,
the communique said. There were
111 in. the group that submitted
to the political authorities without
fighing, Badoglio advised army
headquarters here.
past six months, but praised
highly its program for the coming
six months. The entire club prom-
ised to carry out to the letter the
program they now have planned.
In outlining the usefulness of
Rotary, Mr. Hotchkiss said.
"Rotary is one of the greatest or-
ganizations in the world, for it is
world-wide. It is made up of all
races of people from every na-
tion in the world. The members
of Rotary are of all religions and
when they meet they are interest-
ed only in the principles that
Rotary stands for.''
Mrs. Merle Butler, of Waco,
one of Mexia's favorite singers
and considered by many as one
of the outstanding singers of Tex-
as because of her wonderful voice,
enthusiasm and pleasant person-
ality which has brought life to
many Mexia audiences, sang sev-
eral very beautiful selections.
She was accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. A. C. Richardson, club
pianist.
In a precedent-setting suit, P. '1
Vincent (above), Philadelphia
real estate operator, seeks to ie-
strain President Roosevelt, Clies
t.er Davis and Henry Morgenthau
from ending the AAA, contending
that the final decision on tiu
validity of the law rests with the j
electorate, not the Stiprem* j
Court. It is believed to be the
first suit of its kind naming tn« |
President a defendant.
SUB ZERO WITH
46 LIVES LOST
DUE TO FREEZE
I
55 Below Zero Is
Lowest; Chicago
18 Below
CLOSES SCHOOLS
Fires Caused and
Traffic Stopped
by Blizzard
Deaths mounted to 46 today in
the wake of a cold wave which
spread record low temperatures
over the Middle West, blocked high
ways with drifting snow, imperiled
several hundred children in rural
schools, and finally spent itself a-
long the Atlantic Seaboard.
Long's Enemies
Have Worst Defeat
Biink Officers of
Wortham Reelected
WORTHAM, Jan. 23 (Sp) —At
the annual stockholders meeting of
the First National Bank of Wor-
tham, the following were re-elect-
ed: N. B. Boyd, chairman of the
board, M. C. Strange, president; T.
B. Poindextef, active vice-presi-
dent; W. B. Weaver, vice president;
A. J. McKinney, cashier; C. K.
Bounds, assistant cashier; F. C.
Graves, assistant cashier.
The following board of direc-
tors were renamed: N. B. Boyd, M.
('. Strange, T. B. Poindexter, W. B.
Weaver, C. K. Bounds, R.'Q. Sccly,
A. J. McKinney, M. Bounds, Gus-
sie Weaver. The ban kdeclared a G
per cent dividend.
NEGRO HINTED
SHRlfVEPORT, La., Jan. 23
(U.R) — Officers extended today
their search for a negro who
criminally attacked a 17-year-old
white girl last night as she was
walking toward her home. The
negro threatened her with a knife.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23 (U.R)
—Political enemies of the late Sen.
Huey P. Long, represented by a
coalition ticket, suffered their
worst defeat in history in last
Tuesday's Democratic primary, late
returns from the election indicated
today.
Appellate Judge Webster Leche,
the Long candidate for governor
had rolled up a majorty of more
than 100,000 over the coalition can-
didate, Cleveland Dear. This was on
the basis of returns from more
than half the state's 1575 precincts.
No Holiday for
Burial of King
LONDON, Jan. 23 (U.R) — The
leanings of King Edward VIII to-
wards business efficiency were
demonstrated tonight when it was
announced officially, that next
Tuesday, the day of King George's
funeral, will not be proclaimed a
day of public mourning.
The announcement explained it
is felt that the suspension of bus-
iness activity involved would cause
widespread hardship and loss.
Instead, two minutes of silence
throughout the nation during the
funeral was officially suggested.
Secret Wireless
Spies on Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 23 <U.R) —
A secret wireless transmitter, said
to have been advising Italian bomb
ing airplanes for many weeks of
Emperor Haile Selassie's move-
ments, was found at Dessye today.
It was announced that the wire-
less set seized, and that Ethiopians
in Italian pay were operating it
until the wife of the ohief operator,
horrified at result of the recent
bombing of th city and its Ketl
C10.5S hes|iiml, told police.
relinquished i
the King's body to the temple
for the next five days. Until the
burial at Windsor Castle 011 Tues-j
day among his ancestor kings,
George V will lie in the great
hall for the people to file by for
one last look at a beloved face. !
There will be no distinction of I
rank. The most exalted power
must take his place in line with
the humblest commoner and wait 1
his turn.
On (run Carriage
The body brought by royal fun-
eral train from Sandi'ingham, J
was carried through the streets
on a gun carriage draped in
royal mourning of purple and
black, with the priceless crown of
Britain resting on the royal
standard on top of It.
The crowds, all in murning.
stood with bowed heads. The
sobbing of women could he heard
all along the line. Otherwise the
great city was in silence, the most
audible sound being the rumbling
of the heavy artillery carriage.
Behind the coffin walked the
new King, Edward VIII. Flank-
ing him and slightly behind were
his brothers the Duke of Yor
and Duke of Gloucester. Next I
came the Duke of Kent, fourth j
son of King George, and the Earl I
of Harewood, husband of t ho j O. K. Allen to Be
Princess Royai, only daughter of Louisiana Senator
the late King.
Ed Sharp, 64,
Dies in Houston
Burial Thursday 4:40
in Greenwood Park
at Groesbeck
GROESBECK, Pan. 23 (Spl) —
Ed Sharp, 64 year old former
Groesbeck man, died in a hospital
in Houston Wednesday, and was
buried in Glenwood Memorial Park
in Groesbeck at 1:30 p. m. Thurs-
day.
Rev, A. E. Harrison, Baptist
pastor, assisted by Rev. Hugh Por-
ter and Rev. R. G. Hill, officiated
at the funeral service, which was
held at the Sanders Funeral Home.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Marcus Hanna, Groesbeck;
two sons, Lester Sharp, Houston,
and Roby Sharp, Groesbeck; and
''lone brother, J. E. Sharp, of Groes-
beck.
Two hundred pupils and seven
teachers marooned in a school
house at Geneva, Ind., struggled
to keep up their spirit as rescuers
| plowed through snowdrifts that
blocked roads. At Ceiina, 0„ 200
j more children huddled togethgr foi
warmth until biting temperature-
relaxed enough for them to go
j home.
i At Switz City, Ind., a grade
j school burned, forcing 150 children
I into 10 below zero weather.
Schools in Chicago closed, a*-'
j they did over almost all of Indiana.
' Ohio and Illinois and in parts of
| Iowa and Wisconsin.
As the wind subsided and the
storm moved Eastward from its
focal point in Minnesota and North
Dakota, rising temperature^ were
forecast, to be accompanied by
snow tonight and tomorrow.
International Falls, Minn., wtticb
yesterday had the coldest record-
ing in its history at 55 below zero,
had warmed up to 40 below today.
Devil's Lake, N. D., which had a
low of 38 below, registered 28.
Minneapolis, which yesterday had
an all-time record of 33 below, had
28 below with the mercury rising,
Chichago had 18 below in the city
and 24 below in the suburbs this
morning.
Firemen at Franklin, Ind., fought
all through the night at 18 below
zero a blaze which threatened the
entire downtown district. Two were
killed in a Chicago fire and fire-
men answered 172 other alarms at
residences where vigorous stoking
of furnaces overheated pipes and
revealed defective flues.
An all time record was set at
loftyjlen. who along with most of the IKy" which ha<l 15 b*
a "administration" tickey swept to j
Temperatures in the East sub-
sided with only 2 below in New
Members of King George's
household made up the remainder
of the procession. It was preceded
and followed by mounted police.
At the hall the casket was lift-
ed from the gun carriage and |
carried to the center of the
timber-roofed chamber, where
catafalque awaited it on a carpet! vief°l'y over the "Home Rule
laid over the stone floor. alition in Tuesday's primary.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23 (U.R)—
A former Louisiana storekeeper
will complete Huey Long's unex-
pired term in the United States
Senate.
Heis Governor Oscar Kelly Al-
^ lag Ceremony
The procession arrived at Big
Ben on the House of Parliament
adjacent to the hall boomed the
hour of four, The Union Jack-
on St. Stephen's tower was low-
ered and the royal standard hois-
ted.
An honor guard from the royal
marines and the air force was
drawn up. At one of the side
gates stood boys from Westmins-
ter school, holding their top hats
in their hands. Their masters
stood by in gowns and mortar-
boards.
Grenadier guards reverently
lifted the coffin to their shoul-
ders and carried it into the hall,
where it was received by the
Archbishop, the Lord Great
Chamberlain, the Earl Marshal
and the first commissioner of
works.
Outside, the bells of Westmins-
ter Abbey were pealing. The
crowds packed into Parliament
Square in encredible density.
Even the roof* of taxicabs were
crowded. Many fainted in the
crush.
0t'3"n Maty and the ot' cr wo-
i" n ' t 'B rrc ii f m
*Cit toe lullciiti luC
ASKS DIVORCE
{ York, 6 below at. Harrisburg, Pa.,
| zero in Philadelphia and nine above
i at Boston.
Drifting snow made roads in the
Middle West impassable. The Illi-
nois highway department broadcast
a warning over all radio stations
to motorists not drive over the high
ways except in the event of ex-
treme emergency.
School buss in several places
were stalled. Schools were closed
| in Chicago, rural Minnesota, and
J in parts of Illinois, Iowa and Wis*
station and went briefly to Buck-1tonsin'
ingham palace instead'of march-! Thp Tl a,e bout Dubu"
ing in the procession, arrived by' «uc- la" "ported a milk shortage
antnmnhiU. impending because farmers were
, , .. unable to travel the highways,
ie queen s ace was hum am |jnc passengers were among
tear-stained. She seemed near the thy mogt fortunate. pilots arrivin){
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (U.R)
Ainiee Semple McPherson's j
mother, Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Ken-
nedy Hudson, today had on file a
suit for divorce against Guy Ed-
ward (Whattaman) Hudson with
whom she figured in much mar-
tial litigation several years ago. j
Mrs. Kennedy charged that
Hudson deserted.
breaking point and occasionally
her body shook with a stifled sob.
The Dunchcsses of York, Glouces-
ter and Kent dabbed at their eyes
with black silk handkerchiefs.
The royal family gathered in
a semi-circle around the coffin
while the Archbishop of Canter-
bury read a brief service.
The royal family then went by
automobile to Buckingham pal-
ace, over which the royal stand-
aid fie.'. The King plane d toi
<v in - ' h * < "titer at the
to 1,'UUVil t
at Chicago reported temperatures
were 15 above at high altitudes.
The deaths were distributed as.
follows; Ohio II, Indiana 6, Iowa
I, Minnesota 4, Wisconsin 6, Illinois
8, Pennsylvania 3, Kansas 1, Ne-
braska 1, West Virginia 2, Ken-
tucky 2.
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AUSTIN, Jan. 23 (U.R) — Bids on
work projects likely will be taken
by the state highway department
Vib. 11, it was annmincM today. A
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