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Recommends Enactment of Loophole Bill
ASK CONGRESS
SEAL OUTLETS
USED BY MANY
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Estimate Tax Payers
Have Saved from 1
to 2 Hundred Bil-
lion Dollars
8 POINT PROGRAM
Committee Also Asks
Increase in Rate
Non Residents
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 <U.R) —
The congressional tax avoidance
committee recommended to the
Senate and House today enactment
of a tax loophole bill to seal outlets
by which wealth tax payers have
saved from one to two hundred bil-
lion dollars annually.
An eight point program for cor-
recting the tax loophole problem
was proposed by the joint commit-
tee, composed of six Senate and six
House members. The recommenda-
tion followed testimony by treasury
officials who said thousands of
wealthy persons had avoided tax
payment.
The report was signed by 11 of
the 12 members. Illness of Sen.
William King, D., prevented him
from attending the session. It was
understood he was in favor of the
proposal. ,
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Rotary Meet in
France Told of
Crider Reads Inter-
esting Report Meet
in Nice, France
Mexia Rotarians Thursday heard
a very interesting report on the In-
ternational Convention in Nice,
France by Bower Crider, president
of the club.
Although the Mexia club was not
represented at the convention a re.
port was sent out to be read to
those clubs not having a represent-
ative present.
In addition to Rotarians from all
parts of the world, the president of
France added a great deay of dig-
nity to the convention Crider said.
Plans for sending a delegate to
the international convention in San
Francisco next year was discussed
and it was voted to instruct the
board of directors to work out
plans for the trip.
BEAUMONT, Aug. B, (U.R)—
Howard J. Buerty, 24, of St.
Louis, was sentenced to 10
years in prison today on plead
guilty of robbing Dr. J. A. Bled-
so of $60. He was arrested in Tex-
arkana.
Children Taken
by Bear Turned
Kidnaper, 1 Hurt
Bruin Sneaks up on
Kids While Asleep
and Gratis Them
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 5,
(U.R)—Two Salt Lake children and
their parents returned home with
an account of how the boy and
girl were kidnaped by a bear in
Yellowstone National Park.
Curtiss J. Butts, Jr., 14—who
still has marks of the bear's teeth
in his right hand and hip—and his
sister Tessie, 5, were in a sleep-
ing bag at West Thumb their fa-
ther said.
"I heard a bear sniffing at the
buck of the tent, but we have
been to the park before and I
never paid any attention to the
bears.
"Curtiss suddenly hollered, and
I arose in time to see the bear
sink his teeth into the bag and
hum"
When he saw his children be-
ing carried off, Butts gave chase
and saw his son open the zipper
in the bag and scramble out—cov-
ered with blood from wounds in
his hand and hip.
The bear, atsonished at the bag's
eruption, paused, and then got an-
other grip on the bag. He raced
on for another 75 feet down the
rocky slope with the father in
full ^pursuit. The bear stopped and
stood defiantly over the bag
which contained the five-year-old
girl.
Butts crept up to the grow-
ling bear slipped his hand into
the bag, got hold of Tessie's
curls, and pulled her out as the
bear grabbed the bag again and
ran.
"I wanted to hide so it couldn't
bite me," said Tesie when she was
able to talk.
to Be Murderer
TO USE NEARLY Scientists to
SEVEN MILLION I m M
ON TEX. ROADS
! Exhume Body Uncle
Filling Ditches, and] See if Poison Was
Other Improvement | Cause of Death
Are Included Texas
Appropriation
PICK UP METAL
Injurious Metal
Be Sought by Two j younger sister
PRAIRIE DU CHEIN, Wis.,
Aug. 5 (U.R)—Exhumation of the
| body of Orla Shaw from his month-
I old grave was authorized (by Judge
I Jeremiah O'Neil as scientists went
-j.... j to the aid of IB-year old Harold
W 111 J Best, accused of murdering his
Roosevelt Bargains
with Cotton Solons
WASHINGTON, Aug. B, (U.R)—
President Roosevelt told cotton
state legislatures in Congress to-
day that if Congress will assure
him that farm chop control legis-
lation will be considered next
January he will take action to-
ward a crop loan program at the
present session.
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RECUPERATING HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kendrick
of Bruni arrived Wednesday for a
few days visit here. Mr. Kendrick
is recuperating from burns receiv-
ed when an oil well ignited near
McAllen last Friday night.
W. H. Harris, of Abilene, visit-
ed in Mexia during the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Pruitt of
Fort Worth, were in Mexia over
the week-end on business.
At the M. D.'s
Beside the doctor stands
his trusted, capable assist-
ant, the nurse. Under his dir-
ection she carries on the bed-
side battle against wounds
and disease, with soothing
skill easing raw nerves and
tortured bodies.
As her doctor's aide she
plays an important part in
«, medical science's warfare on
sickness. Her rigid training
and devotion to high ideals
continue the tradition of
Florence -Nightingale. We
honor the modern maids of
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Kendrick§rHoj
pHONE 666
MEXIA , TEXAS
which will provide for the picking
up of nails on the highways. This
work will be done by two nail pick-
ers equipped with special apparatus
for picking up the metal.
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Says Must Been
Crazy When He
KilledChildren
Man Seizes Knife,
Cuts Throat Wife,
Kills 3 Children
Snecial Devices ! Post-mottem examination was
OJJCCIcU l^eviCtJb j sought by Carl N. Hill, attorney
. J ! for the youth, in belief Shaw, uncle
AUSTIN, Aug. 6 (U.R) — The wjth whom the chi,d lived( (lied of
State Highway Commission today | Brgenjc or mevcury poisonin(t lwo
announced an appropriation of $6,-j weeks after Mi,dl.ed Begt n was
993,376 for the fiscal year of Sep-^ death her bed
tember 1, 1937 to August 31, 1938 •
to maintain state highways. j Harold dld not attend the court
Filling ditches, widening culverts heann^ eH 8Pent the day llke he
and other safety work is included !has most o£ thm sinte Plact!d in
in the program. | jail-fitting jig-saw puzzles to-
The sum also includes $8,400 er'
Records of the Richland Center
Hospital, where Shaw died, lists a
nerovus breakdown along with a-
cute bladder, heart and kidney dis-
orders, as the cause of death.
Dr. William A. Sanne, Soldiers'
Grove, Shaw's physician since 1933,
testified he believed that rumors
that Sshaw, a respected farmer,
had relations with the slain girl
hastened the nervous breakdown.
Hill explained to the court that
experts with lie detector and truth
serums tests were called into the
case because of psychological fa-c
tors which made it baffling and
difficult and concluded:
Should Bear Weight
"We believe that the findings of
these experts are entitled to great
weight in the court. If the autopsy
should reveal that Shaw died of
other means than natural death,
either accidental or suicidal, we
should find out why. There has
been no indication that Shaw's
death was accidental."
On the night of June 4, Orla and
his wife, Lililan, went to Soldiers'
Grove, a mile awaiy, to visit
friends. They left Mildred and Har-
old at home.
Orla left his wife in town while
he visited a tavern but rejoined her
for the trip home, Orla went to bed
immediately and Mrs. Shaw un-
dressed their own child, whom they
had taken with them.
Then she went to Mildred's room.
When she tried to move Mildred
she found the girl was dead.
Harold was awakened with some
difficulty. Taken to Prairie Du
Chien and questioned for eight
hours he "confessed:"
"I killed her because she stepped
in my toes while I was on the
floor."
After two hours sleep Harold re-
pudiated the confession but "ad-
mitted" he had realtions with his
sister and killed her because "I was
afraid she would tell on me." This
he also repudiated.
Both confessions were re-hashed
under lie detector and truth serum
tests. Specialists said after each
test that Harold did not kill his
sister. They believed he lied to pro-
tect someone.
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Inciting Riot
Charges Filed
Against Group
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6 (U.PJ—
Charges of inciting to riot were
filed toay against more than 11
men who were arrested in a night
of violent demonstration protesting
settlement of a truck driver's strike
Major S. Davis Wilson, sitting as
a magistrate at the city hall, said
the man would be held under high
bail. He ordered police to restore
peace. Many strikers ignored lead-
er's announcements that the two-
day-old walkout had ended and re-
fused to return to work. Mayor
Wilson said the state of emergency
which he ordered yesterday would
be continued until the disorders
had subsided.
MAYFIELD, Ky., Aug. 5, (U.R)
—Will J. Morse, 45, a disabled
World War veteran insisted in
jail here last night that he must
have been crazy when he killed
his four children with a homemade
butcher knife.
His wife, Jane Simpson Morse,
35, was critically stabbed when
Morse, becoming suddenly enrag-
ed, seized the knife, slashed his
wife and then killed three of his
children as they slept. The fourth,
awakened, fled from the family
home at Columbus, Ky., near here
but was overtaken and killed.
Morse was caputred on the road
to Clinton. He told Sheriff H. A.
Hicks that he planned to surren-
der. He was brought here for safe
keeping as ill feeling prevailed
at Columbus immediately after
word of the killings spread.
He was dressed in a blood-stain-
ed shirt and work trousers when
arrested. Officers, recalling his
war disabilities, expressed belief
that the crime was committed dur-
ing temporary insanity.
Mrs. Morse, scracely able to
tulk, said her husband became
enraged when she remonstrated
the children.
with him over his treatment
The children, Margaret, age
months, Inez, 3 years, James
and Billy Lee 7 were buried
Columbus late today.
Violence Again
in Textile Mill
MONTREAL Aug. 5 (U.R) —Vio-
lence occurred again today as strik-
ers kept the dominion Textile com-
pany's nine Quebec Province mills
closed for the fourth day.
Strikers at Drummondville ston-
ed the automobile of H. F. Nichol-
son, manager of the company's
plant there, as he drove out of the
mill gates and dragged him from
the car. He was cut by flying glass
but not seriously injured.
The National Catholic Federa-
tion of Textile Workers called the
strike, affecting 10,000 men and
women workers, Monday after com-
pany officials refused to recognize
the union and enter immediately
negotiations for a collective bar-
gaining agreement. The union
seeks shorter working hours and
higher wage
ALL ABLE WPA
CLIENTS TOLD
PICKCOTTON
Are Ordered Off of
Rolls and Told Go
to South Texas to
Appease Problem
6Q,000 CASES
Administrator Says
Make More There
than Other Places
AUSTIN, Aug.T(U.R) — Admin-
istrator Adam R. Johnson today or-
dered all available able bodied
workers capable if picking cotton
off of the Texas relief rolls to go
to South Texas fields.
There are about 69,000 cases on
Texas rolls who are receiving com-
modities and whose enrollment and
certification by the state makes
them eligible for WPA work. Re-
moval from the rolls will deny them
WPA jobs.
Johnson's orders went to all Dis-
trict administrators with those in
South Texas especially instructed
to act speedily to make available a
greater number of pickers.
From 60 cents to $1 is being pail
for picking. Johnson said clients
could probably make more in the
fields than any other place right
now.
Husband of 11
Year Old Child
Faces Charges
Charge Making False
Affidavit When He
Married Girl
Mixed Brigade of
Japanese Advance
and Plan Attack
SHANGHAI, Aug. 5. (UP)—A major battle, probably
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Aug. 5.■ the largest of the Chinese-Japanese struggle to date, was
(U.R)—William H. Grimes, 67, who developing tonight along Tientsing-Suiyuan railway north-
is held in city jail here charged wegf. 0£ Chjna's northern capital.
with making a false affidavit and | Fo)lowing. 24 hourg of continuous,
contributing to the delinquency of bombing operatIong by japa„ese
a juvenile, faces a possible prison, # r Japanege mixed brigade
sentence as a "suit of his mar- j advanced along the rockey bed of
Wage to 11-year-old May Frances. ^ ^ ^ ^ prepared ^
Alexander Sheriff E. G. Ham- j ^ ^ ^ division
mons said late Wednesday. . Th(j chjnese troopg had faeen re_ j
' ,V maU'8 6 01 i inforced by soldiers from the 184th j
worn farm laborer after a court-!
Deserted Altar
Only Meet Death
in Plane Crash
Stewardess One of 7
Killed in Crash
Last Dec. 15
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug.
5 (U.R) — The body of Gladys Witt,
26, who left her fiance at the altar
so that she could continue to work
as a stewardess on Western Air
Express planes only to be killed
two weeks later, was brought here
last night.
She was one of seven persons
who lost their lives when the ship
struck Lake Hardy Peak last Dec.
15, four of them pasengers.
Miss Witt was engaged to marry
Edrich Balzar, a steamship execu-
tive . She changed her mind just
before the ceremony was to be per-
formed and flew to Kansas City.
There she met* another suitor,
James Roe, a pilot for Transconti-
nental and Western Air.
Balzar followed her and the
three talked it over with the result
that Miss Witt returned to her
work.
Ironically, the first definite clew
to the wherea-bouts of the plane
after the crash was a letter to Miss
Wiss from another admirer who ex-
pressed the hope that the trip, the
one on which she was killed, would
be the last she would make as a
stewardess.
Her body was found in snow a-
bout 15 yards from the place where
her skull was found in June.
The body of Co-Pilot William Bo-
gen, Los Angeles, is the only one
of the plane erash victims which
has not been recovered.
Railroads and
Unions End Tuio
Month's Strike
Agree on Five Per
Cent Increase of
Wages 800,000
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U.R) —
A five cent per hour increase today
anded a two month's wage contro-
versy between railroad executives
and 14 unions representing 800,000
employes.
The increase, it was estimated,
will cost the railroad $98,000000 «
year. The unirn had demanded a
pay ircrense of 20 cents an hour.
ship of several weeks, was in cus- j /"
tody of juvenile authorities at the
home of detention.
While prosecuting attroney
Ralph M. Weber prepared to file
a petition to have the marriage
anulled, welfare workers, accord-
ing to the sheriff, are planning
to take the case to the juvenile
courts in an effort to obtain cus-
tody of the four remaining child-
ren of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Alex-
ander parents of May Frances.
Although the young bride
proudly displayed her wedding
ring, made from broken bits of
a wrist band, the glamour of be-
ing a married woman is fading.
Loves Her Doll
"I don't love Bill nearly as
much as I love W doll, Martha,"
she sobbed as she carressed the
Toy.
Grimes, who will be given a pre-
liminary hearing next week, told
authorities that he performed
"an act of Christianity" by mar-
rying the child and taking her a-
way from her impoverished fam-
ily.
The couple was married Tues-
day by the Rev. Carl Holliday
when they urged him to stop his
work of splitting railroad ties in
a nearby wood and perform the
ceremony.
The bride's father, who has
known Grimes for 45 years, said
the husband "kept begging May
Frances until she gave in."
"We just decided to get mar-
ried," the girl told Sheriff Ham-
mons.
"After being refused a marri-
age at Corning, Ark.," the father
said "my wife, Grimes and my
daughter went to Poplar Bluff
where the license was issued."
Mrs. Alexander stated that she
had no record of the birth of May
Frances but that the bride is 11
years old and not 18 as attested
in the license application.
Wednesday Was
a Little Warm!
HANKOW, China, Aug. 5
(U.R)—The American consul gen.
eral advised Americans living in
southern Hopei province today
to evacuate to safety zones as
soon as possible.
,
division, which made their way j
through the bombardment at Kil- j
gan. j
The Chinese hold a line across |
the river, which is shallow and are i
astride the railway protecting the j
strategic entrance to the northwest j
through the Mankou path. >
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The Chinese position is so strong I
that a Japanese attack was believ- |
ed unlikely and it was anticipate^i . 'WT'll
the imperial forces would continue \ OHipS W 111
Wednesday was one of the
hottest days for Mexia in sev-
eral years when a tempera-
ture of 105 degrees was re-
corded, Miss Josie Newman,
official weather observer re-
ported Thursday.
Fans and ice water were at
a premium while air cooled
places did a land office bus-
iness.
Congress to Be
Asked to Build
Four New Ships
to rely on their superiority in the j
air and along range artillery.
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l
Jobless Man Is
Slain Houston
hy R. R. Officer
Officer Claims Made
for Gun when Told
Leave R. R. Yards
Papers Are Told
Stop Publication
by Japanese Army
Newspapers Closed in
North China Are
Well Known
TIENTSIN, Thursday, Aug. 5
<U.R) —The Japanese army today
ordered all influential newspapers
in North China to suspend publica-
tion.
Newspapers closed include the
Tientsin Evening post and the
Peiping Chronicle, English langu-
age publication, and the widely
known Chinese Tientsin Ta-Kung-
Pao, which often is called the "Man
Chester Guardian of China."
The Ta-Kung-Pao announced
that it was "forced to suspend pub-
lication owing to prevailing condi-
tions." It will continue its Shang-
hai editon which was established a
year ago.
The Tientsin and Peiping offices
of the Chinese National Central
News Agency also were closed.
The Peiping and Tientsin Times,
British, and the North China Star,
American, were not affected by 'he
order as they are published in for-
eign controlled territory.
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 (U.R) — Louis
J. Segrest, 82, jobless accountant
who failed in hi* effort to leave
Houston on a freight train last
night instead was nearly to Waco
today on a passenger train in the
baggage car.
Segrests was shot to death In the
railroad yard by a special railroad
agent during a fight. The agent, C.
E. Southward, 53, said he had twice
ordered Segrest and a hobo compan
ion to leave the yard. After the sec-
ond warning Southward said he at-
tempted to search Segrist's cloth-
ing. The officer said he felt an ob-
ject in the man's shirt. "You have
got a pistol," I said, the special ag-
ent told police. "Then he wheeled
and grabbed me. I managed to
break loose. He reached into his
bosom. I shot one time."
Segrest lost his job as a relief
accountant last February and had
tried unsuccessfully to find work.
Discouraged he decided to leave
Houston. In his pockets were an
empty bill fold and a crumpled let-
ter of recommendations from W. A.
Little assistant Federal Relief Ad-
ministrator, in Austin.
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HOSPITAL NEWS
Be Part
Second to None"
Navy Program
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 <U.R) —
Congress will be asked to appropri-
ate funds for the construction of
two new battleships and two light
cruisers in the 1939 fiscal year as
part of the administration's "sec-
ond to none" navy program, Admir-
al William D. Leahy, chief of naval
operations, said today.
Leahy, who is acting secretary
of navy during the illness of Sec-
retary Claude Swauson, announced
that the navy had refused to ac-
cept delivery on the new airplane
carrier Yorktown from the New-
port News (Shipbuilding Co., and
has ordered the company to corroct
a number of mechanical defects in
the propelling machinery.
A trial run of the Yorktown
disclosed excessive vibration and
noise, Leahy said. Similar revisions
may be necessary in the under-
structure of the Enterprise, a sis-
tership of the Yorktown, which is
under construction.
Six commercial shipyards sub-
mitted sealed bids today for con-
struction of the four destroyer* to
be built in private shipyard# as
part of the navy's current building
program.
Leahy said that the two new bat-
tleships and the new cruiser to be
built next year will replace over
age ships. Two battleships will be
constructed this year to replace the
oldest capital ships now in the
fleet. The two to be built in 1939
will replace the next two oldest
ships in that category.
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Sets Up Money
Probe Cancer
O. R. Norton will be removed WASHINGTON, Aug 5, (U.R)—
to his home from a local hos- j in the presence of Senator Homr
pital Thursday. He recently un-: er T. Bone, D. Washington, Pres-
derwent an appendiectomy. j ident Roosevelt today signed a
Miss Fretta K. Collins, niece of bill authorizing the government
Dr. O. T. Christoffer, was re-jto set up a $750,000 research in-
moved to her home in Mart from: stitute to seek the cause and cure
a local hospital, Thursday.
i of cancer.
Surgeons Wait for Mother to Die
to Save Life of Her Unborn Baby
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5 (U.R) —
Surgeons waited in the brilliantly
ighted operating room of the
Pennsylvania General Hospital to-
day for the last flutter of n ex-
pectant mother's heart so they can
save the life or her unborn child.
Unconscious for two days, Mrs.
Mary Boccawsini lay dying of tu-
bercular meningitis. Surgeons were
determined to save the life of the
baby, which is still living. The fa-
ther, Dominick Boccawsini protest-
ed, "If it'is the will of God that
Mary dies the baby must go with
her."
Common Pleas Judge Harry E.
Balonder ruled, iiowever. that the
baby has a right and ordered phy-
s'cians to proceed. Mrs. Boccawsini
was expected to die some time to-
day
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