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The Mexia Weekly Herald
VOL. XXXX, NO. 38.
MEXIA, TEXAS. FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988.
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Chamber Names Officers for Coming Year
AMBON IS
NAMED HEAD
, OF CHAMBER
W. W. Barnett Is
j First V-Prexy;
Tidwell Second
Vice President
STUBBSRENAMED
Directors Named
at Thursday a. m.
Meet of Chamber
M. W. Anderson, head of a local
bottling: company, was elected pre-
sident of the Mexia Chamber of
Commerce Thursday morning. An-
derson has been active in Cham-
ber of Commerce work in Mexia
for the past decade, and has serv-
ed as officer of the organization
several times during that period.
He succeeds C. A. Chambers.
Other officers named were W.
W. Barnett, first vice pweident;
M. L. Tidwell, second vice presi-
dent; Sam B. Werner, treasurer;
and Jake Stubbs. secretary.
Board of director* includc Lynn
Adams, G. E. Blair, W. K. Boyd,
Dr. M. M. Brown, D. S. Caldwell,
C. A. Chambers, J. G. Coman, Jack
Corley, Barton Cox, Bower Crider,
Raymond L. Dillard, W. M. Eu-
banks, Jr., J. W. Elliott, Pat Fain,
J. E. Hintz, Val Horn, F. P. Huch-
k ingson, J. K. Hughes, A. A. John-
ston, Phil Karner, Sr., H. F.
Mace, David Murphy, M. L. Mc-
Gannon, Dr. C. P. McKenzic, C. R.
Noles, Harold Nussbaum, George
L. Peyton, J. G. Phillips, Dr. W.
Duke Pittman, J. I. Riddle, Gene
Sinclair, Ben S. Smith, Blake
Smith Jr., L. L. Steele, John H.
Sweatt, Mrs. B. L. Walkup, and
Frank L. Williams.
An.lerson will appoint, his com-
mittees at the meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce, next Tues-
day morning, June 14, when he
will assume the presidency, it
was announced.
Mrs. Ingram, $2,
Dies Tuesday
Funeral services were held in
Houston Wednesday morning for
Mrs. Fannie Ann Ingram, 82,
mother of three Mexia men. She
died at 11 a. m. Tuesday. She had
lived in Houston for 19 years.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Ida Eubanks of Houston;
five sons, John Ingram, Lawrence
Ingram and George Ingram of
Mexia, Will Ingram of Houston
' and Cecil Ingram of California;
and one brother, Sam Willis, of
Kingsbury.
CHAMBER PREXY f
M. W. Anderson
Shrine Meet
in Los Angeles
Is Concluded
Texan Named to
High Post; Next
Meet in Baltimore
LOS ANGELES, June 9. <U.Hi—
Fifty thousand Shriners today
concluded three days of breakfast-
ing in the streets at Seventh and
Broadway, presenting pet alliga-
tors to the mayor, and shocking
local citizens with a portable elec-
tric chair.
After choosing Baltimore for
their 1939 convention city, they
were to be entertained by 60 Hol-
lywood movie stars at a $500,000
electrical pageant tonight and
then leave for their homes.
Andrew D. Rahn, Minneapolis
lumber man, will be installed to-
day as imperial potentate. The of-
fice of imperial outer guard, lead-
ing to imperial potentate in 11
years, was given to Galloway Cal-
houn, a Tyler, Texas, lawyer rep-
resenting Karem Temple at Waco.
Six Cases
Docketed in
Groesbeck
Six cases, Including four di-
vorce procedeings, have been
docketed in the Limestone county
district clerk's office during the
past week.
The cases follow:
Henry Jackson vs. Arline .Jack-
son (divorce); E. L. Raphall vs.
J. M. Dickson (civil suit); Onei-
ta Bryant vs. Jack Bryant (di-
vorce); A. C. Carter vs. Ruby
Carter (divorce); Mrs. J. C. Ar-
ons vs. Mrs. M. C. Arons (civil
suit); and Emma Lee Tucker vs.
Tommy D. Tucker (divorce).
Are You Satisfied with Your Complexion? Be
Sure That Your Make-up Enhances Your Beauty
y/e Have Engaged
Jessie Marie Harrell
to help you with your individual
Beauty Problems
Mfos Harrell is a direct representative of
Langlois, creator of
Cara Nome Cosmetics
and will be with us for one week
beginning Monday, June 13th
f Arrange for your appointment with her
immediately.
Phone 666
m£xia , texas
TEXAS'OIL
BOON, AVERS
WILL BOYD
Texas Business
Good Because of
Petroleum Says
Oil Executive
COMBATS SLUMP
Freestone Man
Talks to News-
men Gathering
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, June 9
(Sp) —Business is good in Texas,
with retail sales at virtually the
same level a last year, chiefly be-
cause annual expenditures of the
petroleum industry amount to a-
bout $500 for every family in the
state, W. R. Boyd, Jr., executive
vice president of the American Pe-
troleum Institute, asserted today
at the annual convention of the
Texas Press Association.
Mr. Boyd is a native of Texas,
and although he spends much of
his time at the Institute's head-
quarers in New York, his legal
residence is at Teague, in Free-
stone County. His first job was as
a pa-inter's devil on the Fairfield
Recorder at $5 per month. At 19
he was admitted to the bar, and
served briefly as secretary to a
Texas member of Congress. At 21
he was elected mayor of Teague.
In 1920, soon after formation of
the American Petroleum Institute,
he joined that organization as as-
sistant general secretary and
counsel. In 1931 he was made ex-
ecutive vice president.
One Bright Spot.
Texas currently is one bright
spot on all business maps," said
Mr. Boyd. "The reason is oil. This
industry has maintained its oper-
ations during the depression
years; has paid its workers vir-
tually at the same high rates. Last
year this one industry distributed
more than $725,000,000 in Texas.
This sum may be compared with
$717,000,000 spent in Texas by the
federal government during the
period March 4, 1933 to January 1,
1938—an average of only $151,-
000,000 a year. Last year alone
the petroleum industry paid Texas
farmers more than $100,000,000 in
royalties, bonuses, and leases.
That sum was equivalent to more
than 20 per cent of the entire cash
income of Texas farmers from
Addresses Newsmen
W R. Boyd, Jr., Executive
Vice-President, American Petro-
leum Institute, New York.
(Continued on paEe 4)
CORPUS CHRISTI, June 9,
(U.R)—Charles V. Bob, under in-
dictment by a New York Federal
court on mall fraud charges, sur-
rendered voluntarily to the United
States commissioner here today.
Bob made bond of $5,000 for
appearance in federal court at
Houston, where he indicted he
would contest removal to New
York to face trial.
Protests Over
Bombardments
Is Registered
Vatican Condemns
Spain's Nationalist
Regime for Actions
VATICAN CITY, June 9 (U.R)—
The Vatican today sent a protest
to the Spainsh Nationalist regime,
which it was said on reliable au-
thority, states that the Holy see
"deplores" the continued bombard-
ment of civilian populations.
The protest was transmitted to
Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti,
titular archbishop of Sinnada in
Phrygia, who is the Vatican's
charge d'affairs at Generalissimo
Francisco Franco's Burgos head-
quarters.
The action, similar to a protest
lodged March 21 after the killing
of hundreds of civilians in air
raids on Barcelona, was the third
condemnation of Franco's methods
by the Vatican.
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Vatic-
an secretary of state, was under-
stood to have given the instruc-
tions to Monsignor Antoniutti af-
ter a conference with Pope Pius
XI who is at the summer papal
residence at Castel Gandolfo.
The protest was directed to the
man whom the Vatican, as result
of diplomatic action on May 16,
formerly recognizes as heading
the "legitimate government" of
Spain.
The Vatican, decrying the "in-
roads of atheistic communism" in
loyalist Spain, has no diplomatic
contact with the Barcelona gov-
ernment.
NACOGDOCHES, Texas, June
9 <U.R)— Jimnvie Martin, 35, was
released today on $1,000 bond on
two charges of abduction. Martin
married and the father of several
children, allegedly picked up two
girls, 12 and 13 years old, and
kept them overnight. A Beaumont
high school youth was reported to
have been with him at the time.
Love, One Kennedy Case Defendant,
Tells of Crime from Ififness Stand
GROESBECK, June 9, (Spl)—
Lester Love, one of four defend-
ants charged by indictment with
the robbery of Mrs. Melissa Ken-
nedy, 84-year old Shiloh woman,
told from the witness stand today
about the crime, the first witness
called in the trial of Felix Goss,
one of the four accused men.
The selection of the jury was
completed about noon and Love
was the firat witness placed on the
stand.
The selection of jurors began
Tuesday afternoon. Judge W. C.
Davis of Bryan replaced Judge H.
F. Kirby, who disqualified himself.
Wednesday Judge Davis refus-
ed motions by defense attorneys
for a change of venue or a con-
tinuance.
Joe Shamblin, one of the four
defendants, ii now at large, Coun-
SOLONS NOT
ADJOURN BY
END OF WEEK
Barkley States
Adjournment to
Be Next Tuesday
in Talk with FR
SEE DEADLOCK
Southern Sena-
tors Threaten
to Filibuster
Rupert at Repast*
WASHINGTON, June 9, (U.R)—
Hope that congress might com-
plete the administration program
and adjourn this week-end has
vanished, senate majority leader
Alben W. Barkley told President
Roosevelt today.
Barkley told the president that
there was not a chance that con-
grsss would adjourn this week-
end. He fixed next Tuesday or |
Wednesday as the most likely
dates for the end of the session.
The senate leader discussed the
whole legislative situation with
Mr .Roosevelt. While his discus-
sion was taking place, a group of
17 southern senators issued an
ultimatum on the wage-hour bill
which was expected to create an-
other barrier toward adjourn-
ment.
The southern group mentioned
a filibuster unless their demands
ilor full flexibility in wage stan-
dards of the labor standard's bill
are met.
Solution Not
Yet Complete
Hoover Avers
MIAMI, June 9. (UP)—Director J. Edgar Hoover of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed today that
G-men have not completed solution of the kidnaped slaying
of 5-year-old Jimmy Cash, despite arrest of one suspect, re-
covery of the youngster's body and of $10,000 ransom
money.
"At present," Hoove said, "I am not at liberty to say
whether McCall is the kidnaper or one of the kidnapers.
I will say, however, that he is a kidnaper."
Franklin Pierce McCall, 21-year-old farm hand, who
led G-men to the body hidden deep in a swamp early to-
day, was questioned intensively.
IMPANEL JURY
MIAMI, June 9. (UP)—State Attorney G. A. Worley
said today that he will present evidence against Franklin
Pierce McCall to a special grands, — . ,
ty Attorney Boy Lewis said. Sham
blin was tried two years ago and
was assessed a sentence of five
years. A new trial was granted
and he was freed. Since that time,
Limestone officers have been
searching for him. Lester Love,
who turned state's evidence has
been in a Groesbeck jail since Ap-
ril 1, 1936, Lewis asserted. The
othor defendant, Cliff Davis is out
on bond.
The four men are charged with
having entered the aged Shiloh
woman's home and taken approx-
imately $400 in old currency from
her person.
The Jury selected includes: O. H
Murph, Carl Rogers, G. I. Green,
T. A. Harveston, E. L. Stutts, Clay
Hightower, R. L. Lyons, A. G.
Eaton, Scott Maddox, Walter Brin
kley, W. E. Gunter and W. J. Al-
len.
Garlanded with leis sent from
Hawaii, Rupert Hughes, author
and playwright, banquets at the
annual convention of the Ameri-
can Society for the Hard of
Hearing in Cleveland. Mr.
Hughes is a member of the or-
ganization's advisory board.
Laird Predicts
Appearance of
Television
Rotary Speaker
Discusses Radio
Thursday Noon
Czech Army
Is Increased
Country to Check
Autonomy Demand
of Minorities
BERLIN, June 9. (U.R)—The
E^sen newspaper national Zei-
tuhg, mouthpiece of Field Mar-
shal Hermann Wilhelm Goering.
said today that Czechoslovakia is
increasing her army conscription
"to suppress the automony de-
mands of non-Czech minorities
through force of arms and bayon-
ets."
The National Zeitung led a
chorus of bitter denunciation of
the Czechoslovakia military move,
joined in by virtually the entire
Nazi press and military leaders.
"There are no reasons for ths
three-year service except to sup-
press the autonomy demands of
non-Czech minorities through
force of arms and bayonets . . .
it is self-evident that these war-
like measures have provoked re-
sentment in neighboring coun-
tries," Goerlng's newspaper said.
"In this respect there is no dif-
ference of opinion in the evaluat-
ing of the situation by Berlin,
Warsaw and Budapest,
"Instead of being strengthened
by the measures, Czechoslovakia
is only the more isolated.
"Chechoslovakia can look to
none of the surroundnig countries
as a friend. Furthermore she is
strengthening her military pow-
er by measures which are very
questionable."
The National Zeitung referred
to the feelings of Poland and
Hungary because both countries
have large minorities in Czech-
oslovakia.
Newspapers splashed angry
headlines over their stories of
the Prague government's decision
to increase the term of compul-
sory military service from two
to three years and add 70,000
men to the standing army of
about 180,000 troops.
Foreign military experts In
Berlin, taking a saner view of the
development, regarded Czechos-
lovakia's decision as primarily a
political move designed to solid'
ify support within the country
and impress foreign nations with
the seriousness of the crisis.
Wayne Laird, speaking before
the Mexia Rotary club Thursday
noon, predicted that television will
appear in the United States with-
in the next five years.
Laird, who traced the develop-
ment and explained the funda-
mental principles of radio in his
address, said the principal reason
television has not already come
into prominent use is that it. is
effective for only 100 mile* dis-
tance.
"Then too," Laird pointed out,
"fche broadcasting systems do not
want to break up their lucrative
advertising medium by establish-
ing television at, present."
Laird declared that although
J5a 'coni was credited with the
inversion of radio, a German doc-
tor Menerick Hertz, played a large
part in its development several
years before Marconi's discovery.
"Marconi was a lad in school when
Hettz made an important contri-
bution to radio," he said. Laird
named Edward Branly, an Eng-
lishman, and De Forrest ns other
outstanding scientists who made
valuable contributions to radio.
"The first radio station in the
Upited States was KDKA, Pitts-
burgh," Laird said. "It was an
offspring of Dr. Joseph Conrad's
amateur station, and was project-
ed by the Westinghouse Electric
company."
Adams, Slay
Vie Thursday
Meador Eliminates
Tatum in Only
Match Wednesday
Weather permitting Lynn Adams
and Jack Slay will hook up in
a second round championship
flight golf match Thursday after-
noon on the Mexia Country Club
course.
Adams, one of the favorites In
the tournament, defeated L, H.
Simpson in a first round match
Tuesday afternoon. He brought a
price of $40 in the Calcutta pool,
C. W. Kennon purchased him.
Slay drew a $7 price in the pool.
His buyer was Pat Fain.
In the only match played Wed-
nesday afternoon, T. O. Meador
turned C. L. Tatum, 4 and 3, in a
first, flight match Wednesday af-
ternoon. Meador cashed in with a
neat 39 on the last nine to take
the match.
jury ordered to be impaneled Mon-
day. McCall led G-men last mid-
night to the body of kidnaped
Jimmy Cash and to the $10,000
ransom money that was paid in
vain for his safe return.
While a coroner's jury was be-
ing impaneled at Holmst.ead, Mc-
Call was placed under heavy
guard. There were threats of mob
violence as a result of his confes-
sion that he had written three
ransom notes and had collected the
ransom money.
Question Others
The suspect was held in the fed-
eral bureau of investigation head-
quarters here while G-men began
questioning additional suspects in
an effort to obtain a complete so-
lution to the case.
Worley accompanied the band
of Federal agents when they
brought the 12-day mystery of the
child's kidnaping to a climax early
today.
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the
Bureau of Investigation, asked
Worley to participate in what pro-
mised to be one of the final chap-
ters in the tragic case because he
said he expected the prosecution
would be in Worley's hands.
I
Natives of Florida
Hoover's announcement led to j
the conclusion that if McCall was j
only an accomplice, as he has in-1
sisted, then the principals must I
all be natives of Princeton or at
least of Florida and mu3t have |
confined their operations within ]
the state.
G-men found the boy's body in j
a palmetto clump early today and j
recovered the $10,000 ransom that
the boy's father had paid.
They were directed to the loca-
tion by McCall, 21, a native of
Princeton, Florida, where the Cash
family lives.
Hoover said that McCall had
confessed to writing the three
ransom notes and collecting the
ransom from the tow-haired boy's
father, but had denied any part in
the actual kidnaping or murder.
Find Ransom Cash
The G-men found the ransom
money in an orchard a mile from
where the body lay. The shoe box
in which Cash delivered the $10,-
000 in a night tryst with the kid-
napers on May 30, was found torn
to bits and buried unden a stone
in front of the home of Joseph
Hilliard, MeCall's father-in-law,
Hoover announced.
McCall is married, childless and
partly employed. He is the son of
the former pastor of the Nazarene
Church in Princeton and a broth-
er of the present pastor.
SELECTED
STOCKS
UNITED PRESS
MARKET NOTES
Stocks higher in increased
trade. Bonds higher and moder-
ately active curb stocks higher.
Foreign exchange steady. Cotton
up $1 a bwie. Wheat 1% to 2%
higher; corn up % to %.
G-men Resume
Questioning in
Cask Mystery
Roosevelt Asks
Congress for
Search Funds
PRINCETON, Fla., June 8, (U.R)
—G-men today resumed their
questioning in connection with
the kidnaping of 5-year old James
Cash Jr., while President Roose-
velt asked congress to appropri-
ate $50,000 to continue the search
for the child's abductors.
At least six men were taken
to the federal bureau of investi-
gation headquarters at Miami
and several were questioned at
FBI offices here.
Justice department officials in
Washington announced that Mr.
Roosevelt had asked for the ad-
ditional appropriation for the FBI
to be included in the final defic-
iency bill.
Escapees Sent
to Huntsville
STEPHENVILLE, June 9 (U.R)
—Gorman English, 28, of Hico,
and R. L. Franks, 29, Huntsville,
who escaped jail last Friday night
and were recaptured, were sen-
tenced to the Texas penitentiary
today.
English was assessed two three-
year terms for cattle theft on a
plea of guilt in District court.
FrankB, recaptured Monday night,
was given a five-year sentence for
burglarizing a store at Baxter.
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Allied Stores 5%; Am Can
88%; Am Pw & Lite 5%; Ana-
conda 24%; Beth Steel 46%;
Chrysler 42%; Cons Oli 8%; Cur-
tiss Wright 4%; Gen Elec 34%;
j Gen Foods 29%; Gen Motors 30;
Goodyear 18%; Int Harv 54; Int
T & T 8%; Marshall Field 7%;
Mont Ward 32%; Penney J C
61; Phillips Pet 33%; Pure Oil
9%; Soc Vac 13; Texas Corp 38;
U S Steel 43.
Curbs: Ciites Serv 8%; Hum-
ble Oil 60%.
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Hardin to Open
Campaign for
State Senate
Doss Hardin, Prairie Hill, will
open his campaign for state sen-
ator, thirteenth district, Satur-
day night, June 11, at 8 o'clock
on the court house lawn in Waco.
Mexia high school's national
champion Black Cat band will
accompany Hardin and a delega-
tion of supporters from Limestone
county. The band will furnish mu-
sic during the rally.
McLennan county candidates
will be introduced at the rally, it
was announced.
JULY COTTON
By Unitad Press
New York July cotton closed
yesterday at 7.98 and today at
8.11.
New Orleans July cotton closed
yesterday at t.ll and today at
8.26.
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