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f£ MEX1A WEEKLY HERAL
Offlct with th« N#w« Publishing uowptny
Entered «t the poetoffice at Mexia, Texas, «■ econa
4Mt mail matter under act of March 3, 1879,
Ready for Trouble
The United States air force is "one of
the biggest and possibly the most efficient"
air force in existence. So says that famous
British authority, "Jane's All the World's
Aircraft," an annual publication which re-
views national air forces once each year.
This British authority, incidentally, is
puzzled by America'8 big air fleet. It points
out that America is isolated and safe, with
nothing to fear from any enemy close en-
ough to do any damage. Why, it asks, should
the American people spend money for such
a powerful weapon?
The answer to that one is easy: just in
case, brother—just in case. This country is
going to keep out of trouble if it can; but
it doesn't mind having the world know that
if trouble should come the country is per-
fectly well able to handle it.
Wells, Springs
Main Sources
Water Supply
AUSTIN', Dec. IS, (UP)—Sev
entjr.five per cent of the state's
population dopond upon walls or
spriries for thair water supply,
record* compiled by official sour-1
ces show. The surveys nrc being
made by the U. S. Department
of Interior co-operating with the
State Board of Water Kngineers.
Sixty.two per cent of the city
population and 84 per cent of the
towns are dependent upon walls
and pri?ij{K for public water sup-
plies.
Field work has been completed
in 41 counties. It has been dis-
continued, partly complete, in six
and field parties now are working
in three counties.
Locations, descriptions, water i
levels and water samples 'have
been taken on 12,806 wells and
432 sprinsrs. Text wells totaling
101,753 feet have been drilled with
Work's Progress Administration
Labor. The footsge is distributed
among 5.782 wollr.
Results of the surveys have
been distributed about the state
in county and college libraries.
The tabulations how that in 10
communities cisterns supply the
water.
Yarnell States
Leaves Warships
in Area China
SHANGHAI, Dec. 15. (U.R)—
Admiral Harry K. Yarnell com-
manding the United States fleet
in China, declared emphatically
today that the United States
would ignore any suggestions, ft
remove its ships for safety and
that the navy would stay as long
as is necessary to protect Amer-
ican life and property.
A Japanese spokesman had
said previously the United State*
and Great Britain had been warn-
ed it would be advisable to with-
draw their ships for safety's
sake. Later the Domei News Ag-
ency correspondents were advis-
ed to withdraw the statement and
kili all reference to it.
23 Aggies Get
Grid Letters
MIAMI. Dec.] IB, (UP)—The
"eye-in-the-sky" camera which
will be set in a tower just above
the judges stand, will be introduc-
ed to photograph finishes at
Tropical Park this season. It's
straight down focus on finishing
horses ig said to he almost fool-
proof.
RUPTURE
SHIELD EXPERT HERE
H. M. SHEVNAN, widely known
expert of Chicago, will personally
be at the Navarro Hotel, Corsicana,
Tuesday, only, December 21, from
9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Mr. Shevnan says: The Zoetic Shield
ia a tremendous improvement over all
former methodi. effecting immediate re-
sult*. It wil not only hold the rupture
perfectly but increase * the circulation*
strengthen a the weakened parts, thereby
rloHea the opening in ten days on the
average case, regardless of heavy lifting,
straining or any position the body may
assume no matter the trfze or location.
A nationally known scientific method. No
under straps or cumbersome arrangements
and absolutely no medicines or medical
treatments.
Mr. Shevnan will be glad to demonstrate
without charge.
Add. 6441 N. RICHMOND ST.. Chicago
For 16 yearn assistant to F. H. Seeley
famous rupture expert of Chicago.
SORE TEATS?
8or« teats. Caked Udders, Wounds on
sows—-Crackeil Hoofs, Galls, Wire Cut* on
horses—chapped irritated skin, burns and
other irrimtions on humans—all need im-
mediate application of Corona Wool Fat.
Corona ia a time-tested healing aid* Once
used you will always keep Corona handy
for emergencies. At your dealers or send
Sfic to Corona M/g. Co.. Box A. Kenton.
Ohio, for INTRODUCTORY SIZE.
COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 15,
(Spl)—Twenty-three members of
the 1937 Texas Aggie football
team and four members of the Ca-
det cross country team have been
awarded varsity letters by the
college athletic council.
Varsity gridsters who won their
letters are as follows: Bill Au'
dish, Brenham; J. M. Boyd, Dal-
las; A. R. Britt, Ranger; George
E. Branson, Jr., Burleson; F. M.
Coston, Dallas; W. E. Church,
Colorado; Henry Dittman, Goose
Creek; V. B. Jones, Sweetwater;
W. A. Minnock, Galena Park; J.
K. Mills, Groesbeck; J. 0. Ness'
sta, Flatonia; C. W. Price, New-
castle; Owens Rogers, Mart; Eli
Rushing, Stephenville; J. E. Routt
Chapel Hill; Bruno E. Schroederi
Lockhart; J. C. Shockley, Gilmer;
H. E. Smiht, San Angelo; Dick S.
Todd, Crowell; J. G. Turner, Fort
Davis; R. D. Vitek, Granger; Joe
E. White, Amarillo; and Roy
Young, Port Arthur. The awards
marked the third time Nesrsta.
Routt, Shockley, Vitek and Young
had won Aggie letters in football
Of the 23 lettermen, nine are
backs, four ends, four tackles;
three guards and three centers.
OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 15, (U.R)
—A holdup man forced Bert a
Anderson to drive him to a
isolated spot where the gunman
demanded Anderson's money. The
victim had only 60 cents. So the
holdup man forced Anderson to
drive him back to this, scene of the
holdup where he pushed the vie
tim from the machine and fled
in Anderson's car.
RETURN BILL
WOULD DOOM
AIMS OF F. R.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 <U.R> —
A move was underway in the Sen-
ate today to return the administra-
tion farm bill to the agriculture
committee for revision.
Return of the bill to the commit-
tee would blast all hope of action
on any of President Roosevelt's
programs at the special session.
The threat came as Speaker Wil-
liam B. Bankhead predicted defeat
of the House efforts to recommit
bhe wages-hour bill to the commit-
tee which would mean a similar
fate for this other principal point
in the administration's special
session program.
Sponsors of the farm bill, seek-
ing a final vote before midnight
were forced to fight every step to
block new efforts to limit cost of
crop control and to guarantee full
parity prices for agriculture com-
modities. Senator Arthur H. Van-
den berg R., Mich., sought again to
limit expenditures to $500,000,000
and Senator Edwin C. Johnson, D.,
Colo., proposed to pay full parity
prices rather than to permit the
prorata district distribution of a-
vailable funds but both moves were
defeated. Majority Leader Alben
W. Barkley, D., Ken., opposed the
amendment. Johnson, Vandenfcerg
and S#n. Alva Adams D., Colo.,
then joined in a demand the hill be
recommitted if necessary in order
to clarify it. .
"I am unable to see how the
president could sign this bill if it
goes to him with an unlimited ap-
propriation for an utterly mystify-
ing and incalcuable amount", Van-
denberg said.
Chairman Eliisor D. Smith, D.,
S. C., of the agriculture committee
agreed with Adams the bill should
be revised so that it would speak
witli "clarity and honesty" in re-
gard to parity payments.
The House spent 40 minutes dis-
cussing parliamentary tactics be-
fore it went to work on the wage-
hour bill. Mary T. Norton, D., N..
J., chairman of the House Labor
Committee then formally offered
the committee's version as an a-
mendment to the Senate bill which
technically was under considera-
tion. Majority Leader Sam Ray-
burn, D. Texas, informed the
House of Speaker Bankhead's de-
cision to speed action on the bill.
Bankhead's decision to speed action
on the measure this week, and that
a session would be held Saturday
if necessary.
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Monkeys Pick Lock and Take Charge
of Entire Floor Chicago City Hall
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Baboons carry their young on
their backs, jockey fashion.
Ford & Shelton
Cleaning & Pressing
Prices
Reduced
Bring all of your clothes to us for
the Best Work- Appreciative Service
and Low Prices.
Next Time, Try Us
Phone 42 East Main St
Miss Handley
Chosen Beauty
r HUNTSVILLE, Dec. 15 (Sp) —
A batle of beauties will be waged
at the Sam Houston State Teach-
ers College Saturday with the out-
come to be decided by ballots. Six-
teen of the most, beautiful and
glamorous co-eds of Texas' oldest
Teachers College are in the race
and votes of the students will de-
cide which eight will be returned
pinners. The eight girls receiving
the most votes will have their pic-
tures run in the college yearbook
beauty section.
As election day drew near veter-
an observers of pulchritude were of
the opinion that a petite, vivacious
brunette from Mexia would be a
leading candidate. The Mexia en-
trant is Miss Frances Handley.
"Texas' Queen of Strut" who is
drum major of the Sam Houston
Bearcat band. Miss Handley who is
a freshman is 17 years old and is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Ray Handley of Mexia.
The 15 other beauties vying for
the honors are Miss Jane Strow-
bridge of Port Arthur; Miss Geral-
dine Whitley of Elkhart; Miss Cleo
Skinner of Richmond; Miss Celesta
Runnel* of Broaddus; Miss Florine
Patton of Crockett; Miss Mildred
Martin of Donie; Miss Fan Leigh
of Huntsville; Miss Nettie Marie
iHill of Sealy; Miss Jewel Gray of
Huntsvilte; Miss Woermann Gib-
Son of Groveton; Miss Willie Mae
Wolfer of Houston; Miss Sarah
Adalle Fortner of Huntsville; Miss
Ruhy Nell Cheatham of Palestine;
15is Doris Covell of Richmond and
Miss Frances Selle of Houston.
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Rail President's Chef
Quits after 46 Years
ST. I.OUIS. (U.R)—Benjamin J
Riliy, Negro chef to all presidents
of the Cotton Belt railroad from
Edwin Gould down, has retired
on pension after 46 year* of rail-
road service.
Rilty'S first job on the railroad
was in 1891 when he came chaf
of c pay car of the Missouri Pa-
cific. Previous to that time he
had lieen a cabin boy on a Mis-
sissippi river steamboat and had
lat^r learned his trade in various
southern cities.
CHICAGO, Dec P. (U.R)—Fif-
teen Rhesus monkeys chattered in
individual cages at the bo rd of
health laboratories today but not
until after they had created bed-
lam at the city hall and one had
bitten Dr. Herman Bundesrn, pre-
sident of the board, on the wrist
The monkeys, according to
Bundesen, the "most" active we
could find," were brought to Chi.
cago from New York for use of
investigators seeking the source
of a deadly malady among in-
fants at St. Elizabeth's hospital
They are to be innoculated with
blood from the tiny victims and
through them pathologists hope
to isolate the organism believed
r^jponsible for 11 deaths among
newborn babies.
"The little rascals reached thru
the cage bars just like pickpock-
ets and slipped the lock," Dr
Bundesen said. "Then all hell
broke loose."
For three hours the monkey?
ran riot through bacteriological
department offices on the seventh
floor of the city hall in the heart
of Chicago's "loop" district.
They climbed atop book cases
nosed through chemictl supplies
and swung from the chandiliers
"Then" said Dr. Bundesen, "I had
an idea. I told one of the boys
to go down and get a dollar's
worth of peanuts. We scattered
those peanuts all the day down
the hall and into one of the small
er offices. The monkeys gobbled
them up and then when we got
them inside we slammed wire
cr.ges down on top of them."
The physician was bitten when
one of the monkeys lunged at a
photographer and Dr. Bundesen
reaehed out and grabbed him.
U. S. Waits on
Better Reply
Protest Japs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, (U.R)
—The United States government
waited today for Japan to make
another and better attempt to
settle the' "international incident
by the sinking of the Panay by
Japanese airplanes.
Frankly7 dissatisfied by the ap-
ologies already offered contained
in a note from the Japanese for-
eign office to American ambas-
sador Joseph C. Grew in Tokyo.
President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull await-
ed direct and categorical replies
to their demands for satisfac-
tion.
The note received from foreign
minister Kokihirota was prepared
and handed to Grew before the
President made his demand which
he requested be brought to the
personal attention of Emperor
Hirohito. It was not considered a
reply but a communication hast-
ily dispatched in anticipation of
the American demands.
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BRIDGE WORKER KILLED
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Dec. 16
|(U.F9—Marcus Robinson, 39, was
fatally injured today when he fell
170 feet into the Neches river
while working as a rivet heater on
a bridge being built over the
stream.
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CANYON, Texas, Dec. 15 (U.R)—
The board of regents for West
Texas State Teachers College here
has authorized the broadening of
the curriculum to allow the college
to grant bachelor of arts and bach-
elor of sciences degrees without
teacher-training requirements.
Violations of
Etex Hot Oil
Said Be Fewer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 <U.R) —
Violations of the Connally "hot oil"
act in the East Texas oil field have
dropped off to such an extent that
it no longer is necessary to keep
an assistant attorney general in
Tyler to handle them, officers of
the Department of Justice said to-
day.
The department .recalled Richard
Hill, special assistant to the attor-
ney general, who has been in Tyler,
prosecuting oil cases uner the Con-
nally act, which prohibits inter-
state movement of oil produced in
cxcess of state quotas.
Hill was instructed to close his
office in Tyler on Jan. 1 and re-
turn to Washington.
Hot oil cases in the future will
be handled by U. Si District At-
torney Steve M. King, at Beau-
mont, Texas.
124,372 Pieces
Air Mail Sent
on Day Survey
A total of 124,372 pieces of air
mail were dispatched in Texas dur-
ing an Airmail survey conducted on
December 10, according to word
received by Postmaster Phil Kar-
ner of Mexia from J. S. Griffith,
chairman of the air survey.
Mr. Griffith expressed his appre-
ciation for the cooperation shown
by the people of Mexia in the sur-
vey.
The airmail survey for Decem-
ber 10 represented revenue totaling
$7,462.32.
Annually, more than 400,000-
000,000 tons of mud are carried
into the Gulf of Mexico by the
Mississippi river.
GIFTS
for Evert/one
Coffee Maker
$1.59 .
2-Slicc
Toaster
$110
Red Wagons
for Children
83!/j-in. x 15-in
s=s $2.49
Royal Flyer
Wagon
$3.45
7-Cup
Percolator
$1.19
Speeders
for little boys or girls;
12-inch ball bearing
$3.19
Deluxe Speeder
12-inch ball bearing
$5.15
Car Heaters
with tube defroster
$9.95
WINDSHIELD
Defroster *
52c
True Tune Radios
Mantel Model
with automatic dial.
5 tube
$19.95
Mantel Set
fi tube
complete with battery
$43.95
Beautiful Cabinet
Model
3 tube, beautiful walnul
finish, clear tone.
See it.
$49.95
New 4-tube
Truetone
Battery Radio
Complete
$30.95
Visit our store for your Christmas Gifts.
festern Auto Associate Sto
WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY
Home Owned and Operated by C. H. Molotiy
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POLICEMAN IS
CHARGED DUE
COP'S DEATH
The fast disappearing ox team
remains as one of the special at-
tractions to American tourists
visiting in the vicinity of Digby
Nova Scotia.
PANHANDLE, Texas, Dec. 15
(U.R)—A murder charge was filed
today against Ben Chapman, 53;
Borgcr policeman in connection
with the shooting of Lee Hutson,
46-year old Borger constable on
the highway near Panhandle.
District Attorney W. L. Mc-
Connell filed the charge on infor-
mation furnished by Deputy sher-
iff G. L. Warren of Borger who
saw Hutson fall after a blaze of
gunfire last night.
Both Hutson and Chapman were
veteran officer* of the days when
Borger as a wealthy boom town
held the reputation of being the
most lawless town in America,
Chapman had lived at Mt. Pleas-
ant in recent years and had re-
turned to Borger only six months
ago.
The shooting occurred as Hut-
son, Chapman and Warren were
returning to Borger after appear-
ing as witnesses in a murder trial
in Wheeler county.
Warren who was driving said
Hutson was in the front seat with
him and Chapman was in the
rear seat.
Warren said Chapman sudden-
ly shouted:
"Stop this car, 1 am going to
kill both of you."
Both men attempted to flee
Hutson was shot in the back of
the head.
LUMBER
SHINGLES, TIMBERS,
HOUSE BILLS
High anility, clot* prlcei. Qoleli or
rail d.ll'.rr. H.ll or wit. IM of U«n .
W. tu«r«nt«« .h. r d. nd count.
New Way Lumber Co.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Tehuacana Man
Dies Tuesday
Frederick William Winmill, 68,
died at his home two miles west of
Tehuacana Tuesday midnight.
Tentative funeral arrangements
have been made pending arrival of
relatives. Present arrangements
call for services Thursday at 2:30j
p. m. at the reception room of'
Westminster College.
Mr. Winmill was born in Chicago!
in 1874 and came to Limestone
county with his parents in 1881. He
has lived in this county since his
arrival. t
The deecased became affiliated
with the Church of England when
a child,. He is well known in this
county and had a large number 6f
friends.
Surviving are two sisters, Mias
Patty Winmill and Mrs. P. <&.
Holmes, both of " Tehuacana. A
large numbers of neices and nlc-:
phews also survive.
DITTO!
FRI. and SAT.
It's Great in
Every Way !
t i t
1 • •
"ROAD
BACK"
SUN. and MON.
FRED AST AIRE
Burns & Allen
"DAMSEL in
DISTRESS"
TUES. and WED.
Marlene /
DIETRICH
—in—
"ANGEL"
THURS. ONLY
Edward ARNOLD
—in—
! "BLOSSOMS on
BROADWAY"
—plus—
Bif Stage Show
30— People —30c
-y t v v T T T -r 1
American
Theater '
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
Harry Carey
—in—
"Border Cafe"
plus Serial, Short Subjects
SUNDAY - MONDAY
Jack Holt
—in—
"Roaring Timber"
ylus News, Short Subjects
TUESDAY
Victor Moore
Helen Broderick
—in—
"Meet the Missus"
WED. - THURS.
Richard Dix
Dolores Del Rio
Chester Morris
—in—
'Devil's Playground'
Plus Short Subjects
FRIDAY
"Riding on Air"
FRI. and SAT.
WILLIAM BOYD
—in—
"NORTH of the
RIO GRANDE"
III. WS———wnwi——PBWWWPWI
Sunday Only
MARIAM MARSH
—in—
"SATURDAY'S
HEROES"
MON. and TUES.
Robert TAYLOR
Eleanor POWELL
—in—
"BROADWAY
melody
OF 1938"
WED. and THURS.
GEORGE O'BRIEN
—in—
"HOLLYWOOD
COWBOY"
ChevroSet and Ford
Parts
at Mail Ord er Pries
Batteries UP from $3.95
MEXIA BATTERY & TIRE CO
W UNSTOP DUZZIT
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Poultry Wanted
We pay highest ensh prices for Chickens and Turkeys
ALSO BUY PECANS
Mexia Poultry & Egg Co.
Wefct Main Street — — — MEXIA, TEXAS
Lowest Prices
Best Work
Courteous Service
If you don't
believe it, try me!
Jim
Brady
Majestic Hotel
Building-
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