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THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
Dates Remain on
County Docket
Swinffinfr into the last 10 days
of. .the .campaign,-Limestnoe coun-
ty political candidates were set
fi r a binz ''ir.n.h Wedne.iduy a*
Interest . mourned in county and
and precinct races.
After one of the most success-
ful rallies of the campaign at
Thornton Tuesday night, the can-
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aymptonui ftwt
didtffes will move up to the north
end of the county Wednssday
night when they speak at a "pub-
lic birthday party" on the West-
minster college campus at Teh-
uacana. The ladies of the First
Methodist c?hurch will serve ice
cream and cake,
Thursday night a rally is
scheduled for Prairie Hill; Fri-
day night at Oroesbeckj Monday,
July 22, at Faiioaks; Tuesday,
July 23 at Kosse; Thursday, July
25, Big Hill, nnd Friday, July
2fi, Mexia.
5 Want To Be Solong
The bitter battle for the coun-
ty's representative post has de-
veloped into probably the most
heated race in the county. Five
candidates, Lon Eubunks, Jim
Englcdow, Dan Dove, A. R. Hen-
derson and M. A. (Apple) Jack-
son, are waging determined bai-
lies to represent this section in
the lower house at Austin. Poli-
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TOM L. BEAUCHAMP
(Of I yler—hormerly of Harts—
Was Secretary of Stale in 1939)
JUDGE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
OF TEXAS
I CANDIDATE f-OR It RSI iULL TERM
tical dopesters are unable to figv
ure out just who will go into the
run-off in this race.
The first primary will end it all
in the sheriff's race, but a terri-
fic struggle is also taking place
in this contest. Luther Simmons,
incumbent, is being opposed by
Sam Adkins. Both are Groes-
beck men. . .
Another close race is due to be
the county treasurer1! contest.
Mrs. R. W. Steen, incumbent;
Mrs. Leona McKenzie Barefield,
John Kidd and Sid McCoslin are
entered in this race.
Precinct Bottles Slated
.Coupty Judge Carl Cannon,
County Attorney L. L. Geren,
County,,. Tax Assessor-Collector
Wilcie A. Browder, County Clerk
Steve Unfried, and District Judge
H. Fountain Kirby are unoppos-
ed. School Supt. L. L. Bennett
and Mrs. Ruby Lawley, district
clerk, do not come up for re-
election this year.
Preci -'t races arc snaring the
spotlight in many sections. In
precinct four, Mexia area, the
commissioner's race is attracting
considerable attention. John Mack-
ey, incumbent; E. B. (Son) Mos-
ley, C. E. Herod, Joe Thomas
and Henry (Couz) Cockrum are
running for the commissioner's
post. Four eandiadtes, J. C. Cay-
ton, incumbent, Edd C. Jones,
John D. Richardson Hnd J. G.
(Doc) Ainsworth h'aye filed for
constable. Justice of the peaee
candidates are Roy Kirton, in-
cumbent; H. L. (Hardy) Carroll,
Ollie Jones and Tom L. Cox.
Letter Mailed in Fire Alarm Box
Just Won't Work, Seaman Learns
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Bag
lb. $ | 35
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VINEGAR
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Corn Flakes
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Edward's Coffee . ,1b. can 21c
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Tea r"m"hu" V2 lb. pkg. 25c
Spread !;„Th pt. 20c
Pears 2 No. 1 cans 25c
Peas EiS' 2 No. 2 cans 27c
Spinach «,T"W No. 2 can 10c
Juice Tomst „n,wn 46 oz. can 18c
Soap 3 bars 19c
Crisco 3 lb. can 47c
Spry 31b. can 47c
Ovaltine fine sizo can 32c
Smacks large pkg. 15c
Spam H"rn"'" can 25c
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lb. 5
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Boiled Ham
Pork Steak
Bacon
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SAFEWAY
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William Ward
Dies Saturday '
At Coolidge
William L. Ward, 62, resident
of Coolidge for the pant 27 yearn,
was claimed by death Saturday
morning at 2 a. m. Funeral ser-
viceA will be held Sunday after-
noon at 2 o'clock from the First
Methodist church at Coolidge with
the. Reverend Dodd officiating.
Surviving Mr. Ward are his
widow; four sons, " Arvin and
Audry Ward, Dallas; Alvin and
A. D. Ward, Chicago; five daugh-
ters, Mrs. E. R. Hawkins, Mrs.
Leroy King, and Mrs. 0. W.
Parrish, all. of Dallas; Miss Alza
Ward, Chicago, and Mrs. Otis
Wilson, Chicago; two brothers,
O. D. Ward and T. C. Ward,
Mexia; two sisters, Mrs. Elma
Roberson, Mexia, and Mrs. Alice
Boykin, Sweetwater.
Idle Campaign
Gathers Steam
in Last Round
AUSTIN, July 17, (Spl)—The
state campaign for governor and
3000 other public offices has
readied the final two-week stretch
for the first primary.
It has spurted up from the
most indifferent and meaningless
contest of recent years to a full
fledged, full-speed campaign, with
nearly all its fireworks bunched
for these remaining 10 days of
campaigning before the July 27
election.
Governor Lee O'Daniel has
broadened his own campaign from
the originally planned Waco rally
to include six more appearances
in the larger cities of Texas. His
opponents, former Governor Mir-
iam A. Ferguson, Commissioner
Ernest O. Thompson, Commis-
sioner Hairy Hines and Commis-
sioner Jerry Sadler, are cam-
paigning at full tilt.
The only Austin political rally
so far scheduled is that of Col-
onel Thompson in Wooldridge
park Thursday night of this week.
Thompson announced it will be
"an old-fashioned skinning bee,"
when, he will answer Governor
O'aniel's Waco attack on depart-
ments of the state government,
termed by O'Daniel "giant poli-
tical oligarchies."
Public reaction two weeks ago
changed the general attitude of
conceding O'Daniel's renomina-
tion in the first primary to ex-
pressions of certainty that hp will
lie put in a runoff for his second-
term nomination.
Outside' the governor's raoe
only the contest for railroad com-
mission has held any general
state interest, with 8 entrants
still in that contest.
Nomination of one United
States senator, 21 congressmen,
16 state senators, 150 house mem-
bers and close to 3000 county,
district and precient officers, in
addition to the election of nearly
a dozen state officials and appel-
late court members, is the giant
job of voters July 27. Comptrol-
ler George H. Sheppard's office
has reported that, on the basis
of recent election averages, the
vote this year would be indicated
at close to ,250,000 this being sub
ject to reduction for lack of vot-
er interest.
Absentee voting started July
7 and will continue through July
24.
To a big extent, personalities
rather than platform issues have
dominated the state races this
year. All candidates for governor
have one plank in common—rais-
ing money to pay old-age pen-
sions and other social security
obligations, and they vary only
in the method of taxation pro-
posed.
Dies Committee
Uncovers Red
Activity on Coast
BEAUMONT, Texas, July 17
(U.R)—Communist activities on the
west coast were unfolded today in
a secret hearing before Chairman
Martin Dies of the house commit-
tee investigating un-American ac-
tivities.
The first witness was John L.
Leech of Portland, Ore., described
by Committee Secretary Robert E.
Stripling as a former member of
the Communist party on the west
coast and familiar with its work
in the United States.
All of the sessions of the com-
mittee before Dies in Texas ha*
been colsed to the public. Stripling
said that Dies would issue a state-
ment on the Beaumont hearing
later in the day.
It had been anounced that testi-
mony taken here would deal with
the national maritime union and
the Kyffhauser bund and with
■abotage plots against ihipyardi.
PORT ARTHUR, Tex., July 17
(U.R)—This seaman U thoroughly
convinced now that a letter mail-
ed in a fire alarm box juat won't
get to its destination.
It waa the second time in a
month that a seaman had tried
the same thing and each trial
sent the Port Arthur fire depart-
ment flying to a false alarm.
The last sailor to make the
mistake was picked up down-
town by Fire Marshal Jack Free-
man who had obtained a des-
cription of the man. Freeman
tried to question him.
"Parlez vou Francais?" the
young seaman form a Greek
steamer asked hopefully.
"No parlez vou Francais,"
Freeman replied. The marshal
gestured the seaman into an au-
tomobile.
At headquarters the sailor ex-
plained through an interpreter
that when he depqjjted the let-
ter and heard the wheels turning
he knew he mad made a mis-
take. He went away fast, not
waiting for the fire department.
"He was sure a tickled young
man when we told him he could
go," a spokesman of the depart-
ment said.
Terraces Built in 1936 Are Paying
Dividends (or Lamesa, Texas, Man
50,000 Men To
Be Called In
First Draft
LAMESA, Texas, July 17, (U.R)
—Terraces built in 1936 are now
paying dividends to S. L. Stevens,
operator of a 320-acre farm in
Dawson county, a survey by U. S.
Department of Agriculture offi-
cials showed.
Terracing has eliminated sheet
erosion, gullies have been filled,
and crop yields have been increas-
ed, Stevens said.
In 1935, Stevens and H. W. Ful-
ton, owner of the farm, entered in-
to agreement with officials of the
soil conservation program on the
farm. That winter a system of lev-
el closed terraces was installed.
Sadler Flays
O'Daniel's Plan
to Raise Taxes
DUBLIN, Texas, July 17. (Spl.)
—"W. Lee O'Daniel who stood be-
fore the Legislature in January,
1939, nnd told the members that it
would be 'unwise' to tax oil, gas
and sulphur to raiso the money for
pensions is the same man who
stood before the people in Waco in
1940 and said he would take any
kind of tax," Jerry Sadler, candi-
date for governor, in a speech here
Tuesday morning.
"Just when does he want us to
take him at his word? Just when
does he want us to believe him?"
demanded Sadler. "At Austin a
year ago when he said he didn't
want the legislature to tax oil, gas
and sulphur and bifr businesss—or
at Waco when he said he would
take just any old thing the legisla-
ture passed ?
"Did the Governor mean, when
he spoke at Waco, that he would
take any form of a sales tax? Did
he mean that he would take a tax
on bread, meat and beans? Did he
mean that he would take any kind
of a tax—so long as it was a salca
tax ?
"I don't know what he meant and
I don't think anybody else does
but I know what the cold record
reveals. I know what is in black
and white over the Governor's own
signature and that record shows
him to have recommended the high-
est sales tax ever submitted to a
free people. And he shows also
that he not only wanted to put it
on the backs of every man, wo-
man and child in Texas but he
wanted to freeze it in the constitu-
tion to continue to harass Texas
for generations yet unborn.
"We don't have to take the Gov-
ernor on faith any longer. We can
take his record now1—and that rec-
ord is one of failure, alibi, promise
and flop."
U. S. to Build
Series of 20
Powder Plants
WASHINGTON, July 16, (U.R)
—Negotiations virtually are com-
pleted on a contract for building
the first of perhaps a series of
20 Federally owned powder plants
at strategic inland cities, an au-
thoritative source said today.
The matter, it was said, is be-
ing reviewed this afternoon by
President Roosevelt, some mem-
bers of his cabinet and the de-
fense commission and the- details
may he revealed late today.
Although the location and the
cost of the proposed plants were
not disclosed, it was understood
the program would cost about
$25,000,000.
The plants—estimated at be-
tween 10 and 20—will be built
under the defense program.
Contracts were being negotiat-
ed by the War Department. The
plants will be constructed by pri-
vate companies which may oper-
ate it later.
It was believed the plants will
be located far inland to keep
them less vulnerable to enemy
attack than if they were on a sea-
board. President Ttoosevelt has
suggested this strategy.
Since th«-n, the terraces have
been planted with soil conserving
crops while between-terrace acres
have been planted in rotation
with cotton and soil conserving
crops*
Prior to the adoption of the ter-
racing, the farm had on it a large
wet weather lake covering 20
acres. The lake has been almost
completely dried up and is pro-
ducing now one of the best crops
on the farm.
The terraces have been plowed
up yearly until they have an effec-
tive height of 20 inches and no
breaks have occured in several
years.
Let's Set Our
House in Order,
S.R. LeMay Urges
CENTER, Tex., July 17, (Spl)
—"With democracy challenged
throughout the world, our first
task is to set our own house in
order," Supt. S. R. I.cMay of
Athens, candidate for state su-
perintendent, declared today.
L e M a y, supeiintendent, of
schools at Athens for 18 years,
is opposing 1.. A. Woods, who is
seeking a fifth term.
"One of the glaring defects of
our own democracy has been that
public employees have devoted
time and effort to partisan poli-
ties rather than public business.
These employees are hired to
work for all the tax-payers, not
just for their boss, and they must
be left free to do the work for
which they are engaged," LeMay
declared.
"My first act as state superin-
tendent will be to ask the Legis-
lature to pass a law modeled af-
ter the Federal Hutch Act which
wilt prohibit all employees of
the Stafe Department of Educa-
tion from engaging in politics
while they are on the state pay-
roll," he asserted.
"When this is done. Department
of Education employees no long-
er can be forced by a state sup-
erintendent to engage in politics
at state expense. Their entire ef-
forts will be given over to the
building of a better school system
for Texas, and never again can a
political machine be built, in the
State Department of Education.
"By doing this, we will go far
toward restoring the confidence
of the general public in the De-
partment of Education, and we
will take the long strides neces-
sary to put Texas in the front
rank in education.
"In other words, we will set
our own house in order. We will
make democracy work efficient-
ly, and by so doing we will make
it stout enough to resist all dan-
gers from within nnd without,"
LeMay said.
WASHINGTON, July 13 (U.R)
—President Roosevelt needed only
Congressional authority today to
mobilize 50,000 Nutional Guards-
men as a preliminary step to a
compulsory military training pro-
gram that would put nearly 2,-
000,000 men under arms by Oc-
tober, 1941.
The approval is expected to be
granted soon after Congress re-
convenes nine days hence.
Plans for the unprecedented
mobilization of the National
Guard revealed by White Housjfe
Secretary Stephen T. Early, who
said that four divisions and seven
anti-aircraft regiments would be
ordered into extended training
"as soon as possible."
The length of the training
period was not revealed, but the
war department advocates one
year. The guardsmen would re-
ceive army base pay — $21 a
month for privates. The disruption
of family life is avoided by
virtue of a war department order
recently issued, permitting en-
listed men with dependents to re-
sign. What provision will be made
to return the men to their jobs
after their training was not
known. Presumably employers
will be asked to hold their jobs
open or to guarantee their re-
employment.
Early's announcement came
after Mr. Roosevelt revealed that
Mellon Institute Aids
Pneumonia Research
Mr. and Mrs. Rush Allison and
son, Bill, of Lubbock, are guests
in the home of Mrs. Allison's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mc-
Lendon
PITTSBURGH, (U.RV—Investiga-
tion of new compounds of likely
value in treating pneumonia will
be made by two newly-appointed
fellows of the Mellon Institute of
Industrial Research here.
Dr. Robert Stuart Tipson, of
Derbyshire, England, and Dr.
Warer Carlson, of Lincoln, Neb.,
will undertake the project, having
been awarded research fellowships
in the institute's department of
research in pure chemistry, Dr.
Edward R. Weidlein, director of
the institute, has announced.
Their work will be supplement-
ed by comprehensive medical
studies by physicians at hospitals
both here and in other cities.
Widow at Grave
Seized as Slayer
Of Husband
CARLISLE, Eng. 'U.R) — Led
weeping from the grave of her
'husband, Mrs. Olive Wardle of
Dacre Lane, Carlisle, was arrested
at the cemetery gates and charged
with his murder.
The man. James Wardle, had
been found dead in bed with head
injuries. Following the inquest a
post-mortem was ordered, and the
man's widow was arrested and
charged
he
order out the
•trensrth—230,000 men.
BARBER DOES HIS
LONDON, (U.R)— A
barber has hit upon a new
for doing his bit. His child Is an
evacuee with a host of other chil-
dren from a poor quarter of Lon«S
don, and when he pays his weekly
visit on Sundays he takes his scis-
sors with him, rounds up the chil-
dren and gives each and all a gra-
tuitous haircut.
♦ '
OLD ROUNDUP REVIVED
BOZEMAN, Mont. (U.R)— Final
plans have been made to revive
the old Bozeman Roundup. The
event will be held Aug. 2-4 under
sponsorship of the Bozeman Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce.
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