The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1937 Page: 5 of 6
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Lower Prices
WELASCO, l)er, 7, (l/P)—
Citrus fruit growers in the Rio
Grande valley were fa$ed tonight
with the problem of how to keej
prices where thoy want them.
During the week of Nov. 27-
Derr. 8, railroad trains carried 594
carloads of grapefruit, 30 cars
of oranges and 81 cars of mixed
fruit out of the valley. Trucks
rarried the equivalent of 175 car-
loads more, making a grand total
of 880 cars of citrus fruit ship-
,Jgd out during the week—342
\ JTV more than shipments for the
record week up to January 1, last
TOT MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
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season.
With these heavy shipments,
prices went down. During the
peak of the shipping V. 0. B
prices were down to about $1.15 a
box for U. S. No. 2 grade grape-
fruit and $1.25 to $1.30 a box
for combination grade. At these
figures the growed would net
about $12.50 a ton, compared to
$15 to $18 a ton which he re-
ceived in the season, when ship-
ments were lighter.
In spite of these prices, how-
ever, shippers generally have op-
posed any plan to curtail packing
and shipping through a "holi-
day" agreement. Such a plan was
proposed Saturday but was frown-
ed on both by the officials of the
Rioi Grande Vall<|y Citrus Ex-
change and by independent ship-
pers.
The opposition was influenced
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Order ZQAL7oz/ay
Don't Get Caught
With Your Coal
Bin Empty
Phillips Ice & Coal Co.
MEXIA— Phone 61
-TEXAS
We Feature and Recommend
Norwich Line
Russian Mineral Oil, pt 65c
Milk Magnesia, 8 oz. 25c
Milk Magnesia, pint 50c
Z L Antiseptic, 6 oz 25c
Z L Antiseptic, pint 50c
Noral Agar, pint 85c
Noral Sylum, pint 89c
100 Aspirin Tablets .47c
Respanol for Coughs 50c
Many Other Norwich Items
Also Anything in Allan Line
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Schulz Drug Co.
55 Years in Mexia
Get Your Hens
Ready for
Winter Laying By
Feeding Them
Purina Lay Chow
In 25 and 10 pound sacks
All Kinds of Poultry and
Dairy Feeds
Patrick Flour & Feed Co.
Paris and Commerce Sts.
Buy Genuine
Chevrolet Parts
You KNOW they are good!
MEXIA MOTOR CAR COMPANY
MAIN AND SHERMAN STREETS
partly by raina whifh causa a tem*
poary lu" picking a* orchard*
were too wet for the pickers to
work.
Growers in the Rio Grande val-
ley also have been helped by the
misfortunes of grower* in Flor-
ida. During last week that state
shipped only 469 cars of grape-
fruit, compared with 831 cars dur.
ing the same week last year.
Cantonese Air
Men Aid China
NANKING, Dec. 7, (UP)—Fif-
teen Cantonese pilots vrived last
night to aid Chinese defending
Nanking and were placed under
the command of Capt. Haung
Ching-hiu, graduate of Colombia
university, New York City.
The capital was practically- (In-
serted by nearly all foreigner*
and three-fourths of the natives.
There were no sign* of looting.
Two soldeirs reportedly were
executed as a result of a disorder
yesterday morning.
Thirteen Americans were plann-
ing to remain to the end. Six
others including four members of
the U. 8. embassy staff were ready
to board the U. S. S. Panay, river
gunboat.
Furious Japanese air and artil-
lery attacks are expected any mo-
ment.
Chinese sources reported that
13 Americans were still in Wuhu,
some 50 mile* up the Yangtse
river from here, despite the whole-
sale native exodus.
Other reports said 20,000 wo-
men, children and old persons had
completed evacuation of Chink-
iang, 35 miles east of Nanking.
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Price of Bar
Silver Lower
LONDON, Dee. 7, (UP)—The
pric« of bar silver broke to the
lowest level since May 1934 today
on uncertainty over fate of the
United States silver act and the
International pact of 1933, both
of which expire at th* year-end
and fears of heavy dumping on
world markets by far eastern na-
tion*.
Advices from Bombay of a
sharp break there were followed
by a deluge of selling orders in
the London market. Buyers were
scarce, with the result that a
deadlock developed and dealers
were forced to hold up fixing
of the price for more than an
hour.
The price was finally set at
18 7-16 pence an ounce. A de<
cline of one penny from Satur-
day's level and 3 1-16 pence below
the year's high reached April 6.
Forward, or two months delivery,
wa* fixed at 18 3-16 pence an
ounce, off 1 1-8 pence from the
previous level.
Prexy Bankers
Says TV A Hurt
Utility Firms
— j
CHATANOOGA, Tenn, Dec.
7 {UP) —>The newly-elected
president of the National In-
vestment Bankers' Associa-
tion today testified that Ten-
nessee Valley Authority com-
petition has prevented private
utilities from selling securi-
ties to finance expansion con-
struction.
Francis D. Forthinghani, a
portJy, white-haired Boston
investment banker in his fiO's
told a three-judge Federal
ccurt that the threat of TVA
competition had depressed the
market prices of securities of
power companies operating in
the Tenessee Valley.
He was testifying as an
"expert" witness for 18 south-
eastern utilities which con-
tend that the New Deal's TVA
experiment -in cheap "yard-
stick" electrical power is un-
constitutional.
The general statement cuoi be
made that the investment market
has completely dried up so far as
funds are available for the required
operations of these various proper-
ties (the 18 complainant compan-
ies including subsidiaries of Com-
monwealth & Southern and Elec-
tric Bond A Share)", Forthingham
testified.
Wendell Willkie, president of
Commonwealth A Southern Corp.—
four of whose subsidiaries are com-
plaintants—recently advised Presi-
dent Roosevelt that utilities would
expend between two and three bil-
lion dollars in an expansion pro-
gram if the administration would
accept a truce limiting the opera-
tions of the TVA and similar New
Deal projects.
GENERAL OF
PHILIPPINES
IS MISSING
MANILA, P. I. Dec. 7, (U.R) j
Brig. General Paulino V. Santos j
and other army officials aboard j
a Philippine bomber were report-1
ed missing today on a trip here
from the island of Mindanao
where they went to investigate re-
sistance offered by Moro outlaws
on the province of Lanao.
The bomber carrying Gener-
al Santos, Col. Fidel Segundo, and
piloted by Lieut. William Lee, of
Weatherford, Texas, chief of the
Philippine army air corps, left
the island of Cebu for Manila
yesterday.
The bomber should have reach-
ed here today and it was be-
lieved to have been forced down
by a lack of fuel after skirting
the edge of a typhoon that raged
through Sarnar.
Both Philippine and U. S. army
fliers prepared to search for the
plane.
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WASHINGTON, Dee. 7, (U.R)—
Kxamination of X-ray pictures
disclosed today it would not be
necessary to scrape Pres. Roose-
velt's jaw- bone treatment of
infection resulting from extrac-
tion of a diseased tooth.
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The infection, X-iays revealed
is confined to the tiswe surround
ing the place wbere the tooth
waa removed.
G-men Join in
Hunt for Man
Said Kidnaped
WHITK SPRINGS, N, Y., De<- |
7, (U.R)—Agents of the bureau sfi
investigation joined police today
in a search for Arthur Fried, 32
a construction company execu-1
live.
Fried missing from his fash-i
ionable apartment since Saturday'
night was reported to have been
kidnaped and held for $<200,0001
ransom. Although this was den-|
ied by police and members of hi* i
family one investigator said that
his brother, Hugo following hi*
disappearance had found a note
demanding $200,000 for his re-'
turn. Members of his family be-1
lieved that Fried lef* home be-1
cause of a domestic quarrel and
that he would return in a day
or two.
A report that Fried was a wit-
ness in a recent racket investM
gation of special prosecutor Thnm- i Ernest I-aln, Sophomore a'.
as E. Dewey was denied by Dew-^Institute. Houston spent ll.e week
ey. Tend visiting relatives in Mexia.
Take Warning
Folks
You are not being- conservative by let-
ting1 your clothes lay around DIRTY. It
rots them and shortens the life of your
clothes.
BRING THEM TO US AND HAVE
THEM CLEANED AND PRESSED
They'll wear longer and retain their
jfaape Bring the Old Hat Along.
R. L. Maddox
—Two Shops to Serve You—
Jewel Robbers
Evade Cop Net
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7
(UP)—A pair of gun-wield-
ing jewel bandits today slip-
ped through a police net
thrown around a two-mile a-
rea of the fashionable Wal-
shire district where they had
kidnaped a New York jeweler
and escaped with $100,000 in
diamonds and jewelry.
FORT WORTH, Dec. 7, (U.R)—
More than 3,000 farmers and
their wives are expected to visit
Fort Worth December 9-11 dur-
ing the annual meeting of the
Texas Agriculture Association.
Almost every agricultural coun-
ty in the state has a county ag-
riculture organization and is ex-
pected to send delegates to the
state meeting, according to H
G. Lucas of Brownwood, presi-
dent.
At the close of the convention
the Texas Association will arrange
for a special train to Chicago for
a number of Texas farmers who
plan to attend the annual con-
vention of the American Farm
Bureau in that city December 18-
15.
Mexia Man Who
Was Shot Near
league Is 0. K.
TEAGUE, Dec. 7, (Sp)—Walter
Brown, 27-year old Mexia painter
was in a local hospital here to-
day suffering from gunshot
wounds received near here last
night.
Constable Raymond Davis of
Teague said that Brown has
found about 7:30 Monday night
two miles out of Teague on the
Mexia-Teague highway shot down
by charges from a shotgun. Davis
said that Brown's ssailant was
unknown.
Officers reported thr shooting
occurred after Brown h4d had an
argument with two companions
at a tavern near here.
Reports from the hospital here
were that Brown was not serious-
ly wounded when hit in the legs
and thighs by the shotgun charg-
es.
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Let us do your
Grinding
We have new
Hammer Mill
and solicit your business
All Kinds of Feed for your stock,
cattle, hogs and chickens at lowest
prices.
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HENRY FELZ, Prop.
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got TO learn
to take care
of himself, /
sometime?
what if he
catches one,
with that
rope tied
to his saddle?
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why
/ why, that
polecat:
he left that
on there so
th' boss
could see
it.
oh,such \
a rat.'
wouldn't
even wipe
it off
waited
fer th'
bull to
come by
if you'd waited \
till th' boss had ^
gone by, to hit
him with that
tomato , he'd
of had to leave
it on maybe till
tomorrow, and
have been a
worse rat.
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1937, newspaper, December 10, 1937; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299533/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.