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VOL. XXXX, NO. 16
Mexia Weekly He
MEXIA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL &, 19 8.
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RIVERS RAGING
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HELIUM GAS
FOR NAZIS
IS REFUSED
Military Impor-
tance Attached
to Sale of Big
Quantity of Gas
I ACT FORBIDS
Ickes Says Nazis
Hasn't Assured
for Commercial
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WASHINGTON, April 2t, <U.R)
—Secretary of Interior Harold
L. Ickes indicated today that the
United States will not permit
shipments to Germany of 10,000,-
0(10 cubic feet of helium gas de-
sired for operation of a new dir-
igible in trans-Atlantic service.
Ickes said the testimony of stale
department army and navy ex-
perts had established that sale
cf such a quantity of gas to Ger-
many would constitute a supply
"of military importance" and
forbidden under the helium export
act. He said Germany has failed
to give adequate assurance that
the helium will be used only for
commercial purposes.
Celebrating Nazis
Attack U. S. Vets
NEW YORK, April 21, (U.R)—
One hundred American war vet-
erans and more than 1,000 mem-
bers of the German-American
(Nazi) bund rioted early today
at the Yorkville casino, where the
Nazis were celebrating the 40th
birthday of Adolph Hitler.
Seven veteran badly beaten, re-
quired possible treatment. Mirny
others went home to treat minor
injuries.
Police riot squads restrained
the crowds outside the casino
with difficulty when they saw
bleeding men iTi war veteran's
oversea hats being carried from
i.he hall. The crowd threatened
tc storm the building where Nazis
were singing and dancing.
Detroit Now
Scene of Labor
Disturbances
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Borah Called
Discuss Taxes
with President
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Recovery Drive
Means Inflation
Opponents Say
WASHINGTON, A'pril 21, (U.R)
•—President Roosevelt called Sen.
William E. Borah, R., Idaho, to
the White House today for a
possible discussion of tax and
monopoly issues in face of con-
tinuing Congressional deadlock
on the tax revisoin bill.
Meanwhile opponents of the
President's $4,512,000,000 recov-
ery drive' opened their fight
against the program with a
charge that it means inflation
will cause new distress and a fed-
eral deficit of $8,000,000,000 in
the 1939 fiscal year.
Another administration meas-
ure, the billion dollar naval ex-
pansion program was attacked in
the senate by senators Arthur
Vandneburg, R., Mich., and Ger-
ald P. Nye, F., N. D.
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Link Burglar
with Fromes
ROBY, Tex., April 21, (U.R)—A
burglary suspect giving his name
as Raymond McAdams was ques-
tioned here today regarding his
activities on March 30, the date
that Mrs. Weston G. Frome and
her daughter Nancy were slain
near Van Horn.
Police, Pickets
Have Skirmish-
es in Michigan
DETROIT, April 21, (U.R)—Dis-
. r^ances on Michigan's turbu-
lent labor front shifted today
from Flint to Detroit where po-
lice and pickets swung nieht-
sticks and clubs in brief skir-
mishes.
The picket-line scuffles were
short and minor cuts i>n<i bruises
were only injuries suffered.
As 25 workers, escorted by po-
lice, tried to pass through a
picket line at the Michigan steel
casting company plant, strikers
attempted to bar the way. Offic-
ers swung nightsticks. Pickets
retaliated by striking at police
with wooden signs. The strike
was called tjvo days ago in pro-
test against a wage cut.
At flint—scene of the union
dues drive that led to closing of
Fisher Body Plant No. 1 and
the Buick assembi yline—there
was none of the disorder tsat
marked the disput earlier in the
week. Homer Martin, president of
the United Automobile Workers tin
ion, ordered the unionists to call
off their dues campaign "so fnat
General Motors will have no ex-
cuse for closing the plants."
The Buick plant, which was
forced to close because of a
shortage of Fisher-made bodies,
reopened today. The Fisher plant
will reopen tomorrow with ap-
proximately 3,700 workers return
ing to their jobs.
UAW members Buick and Chev-
rolet plants at Flint started vot-
ing on a strike proposal. The
balloting will continue until Sat-
urday.
UAW officials announced they
had abandoned plans to renew
the dues collections when workers
leave the Fisher plant tomorrow.
In Detroit strikes kept six fac-
tories closed. These included the
American Brass Company, and
the Michigan Steel Casting com-
pany. Martin said none of the
strikes was authorized by the
UAW.
Plymouth division of Chrysler
corporation was operating in spite
of a walkout of 198 men on the
afternoon shift. The UAW mem-
bers struck in protest against
treatment given a union shop
steward.
Whitney Time
Is Basis for
Sentence of Man
Judge Says Poor
Have Same Laws
as the Wealthy
ST. LOUIS, April 20 (U.R) —Be-
cause Richard Whitney, former
president of the New York Stock
Exchange, was sentenced to five
years in prison for stealing $225,-
000 George Jamerson, 27-year-
old bartender today was free.
Jamerson pleaded guildty today
to stealing $2 from a filling sta-
tion. Justice of the Peace Louis
Hicks accepted the plea.
"This is your first offense and
the sentence will be accordingly,"
the justice said. "Some people
think there's one law for the rich
and one for the poor. We'll correct
that right now."
With pencil and paper Justice
Hicks figured it out:
"Let's see, Whitney got five
years for stealing $225,000. That
would be $45,000 a year, $125 a
day and $5 an hour. You stole $2.
That wil lbe 24 minutes in custody
of the sheriff.
Jamerson and the sheriff left
the courtroom.
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(May 8th)
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Aged General
in New York
Pershing Arrives
for Wedding of
Son; Still Weak
NEW YORK, April 21, (U.R)—
Gen. John J. Pershing, who was
near death a few weeks ago,
came to New York by train to-
day to attend his son's wedding
and spoke of taking a trip to
France.
He arrived from Tuscon, Ariz.,
in a private car and emerged
from it erect and smiling, al-
though he was weak. He waved
cheerfully to 150 persons gath-
ered to greet him and posed for
news photographers.
Although he is 77 years old
and convalescing from serious ill-
ness, Pershing refused a wheel
chair which was waiting for him
at his hotel.
Dr. Roland Davidson, his phy-
sicinn, said Pershing expects to
live in New York and Washing-
pressed a desire to go to France
this summer, perhaps in June.
Friday he will attend the wed-
ding of his only son, Francis
Warren Pershing to Miss Muriel
Bache Richards at St. Thomas
church.
BRIDGES IS
CRITICIZED
BY CONNALLY
Texan Charges
Senator Attack-
ed Officials of
United States
TVA IS ISSUE
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Bridges Claimed
Agency Betrayed
Trusts Says Tom
WASHINGTON, April 21, (U.R)
—Sen. Tom Connally, of Texas,
today charged that Senator H.
Styles Bridges, R., N. H., had
attacked the in'^-ity of the sen-
ate, President K'tosevelt and Vice
President Garner in connection
with the Tennessee Valley author
ity investigation.
Connally launched a bitter at-
tack on the New Hampshire Re-
publican who was a leader in de
manding that Congress investi-
gate TVA. Bridges had contended
he should have been named on
the investigating committee.
"A senator who thinks he ought
to be on the investigating com-
mittee starts with the contention
that the agency had betrayed its
trust," Connally said.
FIGHT DATE NAMED
NEW YORK, April PI (U.R) —
The 20th Century Club announced
today that the aBrney Ross-Henry
Armstrong welterweight title
fight will be held at the Madison
Square Garden Bowl on May 26.
Announcement of the bowl in-
stead of Yankee Stadium as the
welterweight fight site was inter-
preted in boxing circles as virtual
admission that the Joe Louis- Max
Schmelling heavyweight cham-
pionship bout on June 22 will be
staged in New York at Yankee
Stadium.
VAN ORMY, Texas, April 21,
(U.R)—Three men were burned to
death near midnight when their
car crashed into a vegetable truck
overturned and caught fire three
miles south of here.
Those killed were Robert Gaus-
lin, 22, Gene Henificld, 22; and
Raymond Howard, 27 all of Lytle.
Gauslin and Howard burned to
death inside the car
Projectors
In Britain
Hurt Movies
Strike Threat-
ens Paralyze
Film Industry
LONDON, Aprli 21 (U.R)— A
strike of motion picture projector
operators threatened today to par-
alyze the British film industry.
The projeationists walked out
April 14 to press demands for
higher wages and better working
conditions.
Production halted at the Gains-
borough and Gaumont British stu-
dios and it was feared that the
shut-down would spread rapidly
to other studios.
The 1,500 projector operators in
London and surrounding counties
demand wages ranging from
$32.50 for a 48-hour week instead
of the present maximum of $26.25
for a 45-hour week.
Paul Luka* was among stars
affected by the Gainsborough
shutdown. He was working in the
spy thriller, "Lost Lady."
A big boom after settlement of
the strike was envisaged for the
British film industry as a result
of an ajyveemnt among Samuel
Goldwyn, Alexander Korda, Mary
Pickford, Charles Chaplain and
Douglas Fairbanks to reorganize
the United Artists Corporation.
The move it was said, would great
ly reduce the cost of distribution
to producers and permit them to
participate further in the profits
of the parent company according
to their individual contribution,
special consideration will be given
to British Empire production and
distribution.
"This is the most revolutionary
idea that ever happened to the
movies," Goldwyn said. "It will
mean that more British movies
will be shown in the United Sta-
tes and more British movies pro-
duced.
Ford to Visit
Mr. Roosevelt
Doesn't Want a
Thing He Says
Regarding Visit
SOUTH SUDBURY, Mass-
April 21, (U.R)—Henry Ford said
today he will go to Washington
April 27 to let President Roose-
velt "look at someone who does
«ot want anything." Arrange-
ments for his meeting with the
president were confirmed by
'•'ord. who has been one of the
loremost opponents of the m ••
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The Millionth '
•Pupil'of WPA
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mi' •
"Now they can't cheat me any
more," says Walter Donaldson,
above, the millionth adult who
has been taught to rend and
write by the Adult Education
Division of WPA. Donaldson
lives with his "wife and eight
children in a log cabin in the
mountains near Orlando, W. Va.
WPA employs about 5000
teachers in adult education
work, conducing classes all
over the nation to reduce the
ranks of the 4.250,000 total
illiterates registered in the
193Q census.
March Highway
Crashes Kill
147 Persons
1938 Death Toll
Is Raised during
March to 434
AUSTIN, April 21, (SpD—
March traffic crashcs brought
death to 147 people on Tpmbs
streets and highways, state po-
lice reported today, raising the
1038 rl en 111 toll to 131.
Cities, the figures revealed,
showed improvement during March
when 55 were fatally injured with
in corporate limits and 88 were
highway casualties. Fifteen of
the dead reported in March re-
cieved their fatal injuries during
the previoun month. Safety De-
partment, ewperts pointed out
that only 115 of ttoe 1,123 crash-
es in March proved fatal and that
in a nwmber of hwtarvces more
than one person was killed.
In analy ing the cawses of the
increase in the death rate over
February when 143 died of traf-
fic injuries, police were prone
to believe that spring weather
played an Important part. Heav-
ily trafficked highways, particu-
larly on week-ends, were the
scenes of many of the fatal col-
lisions. There was a sharp rise,
loo, in the pedestrian death list.
Thirty eight died in March while
25 were killed by automobiles dur-
ing the previous month.
At dusk—from 7 to 8 p. m.—
officers of the safety department
said, th« majority of the fatal
collisions took place. Eleven of
the 117 were killed during that
hour and 18 met death from mid-
night until dawn. State police de-
clared their campaign against
speeders is continuing in view of
the factor cntring into most C
the fatal crashes.
A number of unfit drivers have
been removed from the highways
since the drivers license law am-
endment requiring examination
of license applicants was placed in
effect several months ago. At
least three per cent of those ap-
plying for the permits have been
refused because of physical, men-
tal or other defects.
—
Report Properties
of Archduke Taken
BERLIN, April 21. (U.fi)-The
newspaper Boevsen-Zeitung said
today that the properties in Aus-
tria of Arch Duke Otto of Haps-
uurg, pretender to the throne of
Austria, had been confiscated.
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TEXANS PAY
TRIBUTE TO
SAN JACINTO
Many Gather in
Houston to Pay
Respects to One
of Famed Texans
MANY NOTABLES
Son of General
Sam Houston Is
among Guests
HOUSTON, April 21, (U.R)—
San Jacinto battleground, shrine
of Texas freedom, was the cen-
ter of statewide celebrations to-
day marking the 102nd anniver-
sary of independence.
Patriotic organizations, school
children and other citizens gath-
ered at huge new Lone Star mem
orial shaft at the. battleground
to pay tribute to the Texans who
defeated the Mexican army in
2 <>36.
Sons and,! daughters of Texas
wl o lived in Texas prior to lSf.4
were to be presented a' the bat-
tleground undet ' in of the
£ ar Jacinto chan*e • of the Sons
of the Republic of Texas. Col An
drew Jackson Houston s<;n of Gen-
eral Sam Houston, Texas libera-
tor, headed the list of notables
yo be pres'-rr-;
Child Labor
Discussed at
f^aco Meeting
U. S. Department
of Labor Branch
Talks in Waco
WAC4"), April 21, (U.P —Regu-
lation of child labor, important
as W, is, must be seen only as
tine keystone in the arch of a
program for yontfc, Miss Beatrice
McDonnell, director of the indus-
trial division of the children's
bureau of the U. S. Department
of Labor told delegates to the
Texas state social welfare asso-
ciation here today. State legis-
lation is fundamental to the sol-
ution of the child labor problem
she sivid.
Highway Traffic
Halted In Some
Parts of State
Flood waters on five Texas rivers roarad toward tb«
Gulf today, washing out bridges and halting highway traf-
fic. The flood waters of the Sabine river covered Highway
63 between Newton and Louisiana and threatened to wash
away the new Texas-Louisiana bridge at Eon Weir.
-f" Engineers reported that the
Lain Here for
Several Days
The 230 pounds of Ernie Lain,
Media's grid luminary at Rice
who is expected to capture All-
America. honors next, fall, was in
Mexia Thursday for several days
visit with relatives here.
La,in, tanned and looking fit,
said that he wiM remam here un-
ti lSunday.
Although reluctant to discuss
Rice's chances of copping the
Southwest conference grid flag
again this year, the bruising pas-
sing ace did say that the Owls
would give the other elevens
"plenty of trouble."
Lain weighs at this time ex-
actly what he did the latter part
of the 1937 grid season.
Denton Bid Lowest
for Highway No. 31
AUSTIN, April 21 <U.R) —A bid
of $20,571 by the Public Construc-
tion Company of Denton for six
miles of asphaltic concrete on
Highway 31 northeast of Tyler
was declared to be the lowest of-
fer today by the. State Highway
Commission.
The Gulf Bithulithlc Company
was the low bidder on two Harris
county projects. The Gulf Com-
pany submitted a bid of $23,820
for the asphaltic concrete surfac-
ing of Highway 73 between Ad-
dicks and Port Bend county and
v2?,401 for the same type of pav-
!k* for Highway 146 from Clear
Creek to Morgan's Point.
Our Christmas tree, as we know
t today, came from Germany, be-
ing mentioned by Gcrmr.n writers
as early as 1606, but the <wtual or-
igin !■ unknown.
Bids on New
Highway Will
Open in May
Steele and John
Meet with High-
way Commission
Commissioner John Mackey an<5
L. L. Steele, chairman of the,
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
road committee have returned
from Austin where they met with
the highway commission in the
interest of the relocation of
Highway No. 7, nine miles west,
of the overpass and from old
No. 7 to No. 14 on the Groes-
beck highway.
Bids will be open after the
May meeting of the highway
commission.
State highway engineer, who
is said to be highly in favor of
the project was in Mexia sever-
al days ago and met with sev-
eral Mexia business leaders to
discuss the newly proposed rout-
ing of Highway No. 7. While
here Montgomery was a guest
of Steele.
Mob Fails to
locate Negro
Sabine had risen 30 feet, and was
undermining the piling of the Bon
Weir bridge which was closed
yesterday.
Traffic on Highway 87 be-
tween Orange and Deweyville was
menaced and motorists detoured
around an inundated area near
Hart. The U. S. weather bureau
guage on the Neches river at
Beaumont showed 5.1 feet above
low tide. The ferry on the Neches
at town Bluff was closed.
Farther westward floods men-
aced lowlands and highways on
the Trinity, San Marcos and
Guadalupe rivers.
? Slated tor
Execution at
Stroke of 11
Only Last Min-
ute Reprieve
Can Save Trio
Search 3 JaiJs
Before Return-
ing to Homes
HUNTSVILLE, April 21, fU.R)—
Only a last minute reprieve from
Governor Allred before midnight
tonight can prevent the state
from executing three murderers
in the Texas Penitentiary.
• Those scheduled to die are Se-
lanes Canedo, 23 and John W.
Vaughn, 34, both of San Antonio
and Johnny Banks, 26, negro of
Brazoria county. Clemency was
denied the men by the. stata
j board of pardons and paroles.
TEXARKANA, April -21, lU.R)
—Members of a mob which
sought to lynch a negro accused
of assaulting a white woman re-
turned to Texarkana today af-
ter a fruitless all-night search
for the suspect. The mob visited
jails here and at Jefferson and
Lindon. More than 60 men were in
the party.
The negro's name was given as
Frank Ellis, alias Tommie Wells.
He was taken to Paris, Texas,
a«ftser his arrest here, then re-
moved to an unnounced jail.
Think Thumber
Sought Killer
Strange Youth Is
Sought by Cops
of Two Counties
GRAHAM, Tex., April 21, (U.R)
—Graham and Jacksboro officers
searched today for a youthful
hitchhiker resembling Howard
Pierson, 23, who escaped Friday
from an Austin asylum where
he was sent after he killed his
father and mother.
A Jacksboro family picked the
youth up on the highway but, he
asked to get out. of the car.
aske dto get out of the car.
Dr. Townsend
Thanks F.D.R.
Thomas Hopes Won't
Become Candidate
KENOSHA, Wis., April 21,(U.R>
—Norman Thomas said today he
hoped the Socialist party could
find another presidential nomin-
ee in 1940.
"I won't be a candidate in 1940"
Thomas, three times nominee
said. " .... at least. I hop<
I won't be. 1 hope they can gel
someone else."
He was principal speaker to-
night before delegates who to-
morrow will open the party's na-
tional convention.
Manager of
Prisons Will
Probe Death
Spends Half an
Hour with the
Nation's Chief
WASHINGTON. April 21, (U.R)
Dr. Francis E. Townsend thank-
ed President Roosevelt today for
he Presidential pardon which re-
lieved the pension advocate of a
30-day jail sentence imposed for
conviction of contempt of the
house of rperesentatives. After
Mesenting his thanks in person to
the president, Townsend spent a
half hour with Mr. Roosevelt dis*
cussing economic conditions.
Tabla forks have been in use
about 800 year*.
Convict Slain
When He Tries
to Escape Farm
HUNTSVILE, April 21, (U.R)—
Jack Ellington. Texas prison
manager went to retrieve prison
farm in Houston county today to
investigate the killing of Howard
McCullum, convict, during an at-
tempted escape. Ellington said
that McCullum was shot by a
guard late yesterday. McCullum
had escaped from Texas prison
twice previously.
UNITED PRESS
MARKET NOTES
Stocks irregularly higher in
quiet trade. Bonds higher and
moderately active: ■ U, S. gov-
ernments at new highs for th®
year. Curb stocks higher. For-
eign exchange higher; Franc low-
er. Cotton up about 40 cents a
bale. Wheat unchanged 'to % cent
lower; corn unchanged to \i low-
er.
MAY COTTON
By UNITED PRESS
New York Key cotton closed
yesterday at 8.78-80 and today
at 8.88.
New Orleans May cotton closed
yesterday at 8.88 and today at
[9.03.
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