The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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BY JOHN
E. DAVIS
MESQUITE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933.
VOL. LII. No. II.
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W(. DO OUR PART
Not What"
They Used |
To Be |
Many things these days are not H
what they used to be. The old time g
drug store sold only things for the M
sick, while the modern drug store J
serves the needs of the ill much bet- g
ter, and at the same time carries s
many other useful articles. ^
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I FOR T E RTLYT AL S
\ REGISTERED DRUGGISTS ||
| Phone 44 Mesquite, Texas p
State Employes'
Salaries Lower
J Austin, Texas. Sept. 4 -
f Texas State employes ami
I member;- of the judiciary—
that is judges whose salaries
are paid by the State—went
on a new salary basis Septem-
ber 1. and at the same time
saw little prospect of getting
[par for their warrants within
| the immediate future.
The fund from which the
pay roll i* paid was approxi-
mate!) $7.1)00,000 iin. the red.
Warrants on the general rev-
enue fund were being dis-
counted 4 per cent. Salaries
were reduced from 25 to 30
legislative body of the county
I Government, the Commission-
ers to assist the County Judge
I in performing the administra-
tive functions of the Govern-
ment, subject to the policies
j deermined by the court.
"3. All county officials
should be compensated by a
fixed salary, the fees now pro-
vided by law to. be charged and
Dr. Truitt Will
Begin 37th Year
Dr. (ieorge YY. Truitt will
begin his -T/tli year as pastor
of the First Baptist church of
I >allas next Sunday.
Thirty six years ago, Dr
Truitt. following l is gradua-
tion from Baylor University,
went to Dallas and becam?
pastor of that church, remain-
ing there ever since. He has
repeatedly turned down offers
to serve churches in larger
cities of the countrv,
"Marguerite, can yon cook ?"
"No, Percival: can you af
ford to keep an auto?"
collected and paid into the
general fund of the county in
the same manner as taxes.
"4. The party should be pre-
served in local government by
having party nominees placed
on the ballot when general
elections are held, and all elec-
tive officials should be elected
in general elections'."
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!!lll Change In County
Goverment Likely
That Dallas County will
have an important change in
the county government in the
near future seems likely, un-
der the provisions of the Home
'Rlule amendment adopted by
the voters in the election of
August 26.
Just as the voters of tlv*
county will, they may continue
the management of the coun-
ty government as at present or
they may make radical chang-
es. abolishing or consolidating
many county and city offices.
It is possible for tfhe county
to have a county council, sim-
ilar to the city council i f Dal-
las, and a county manager,
with all offices filled by ap
pointme.nt of the council or
(commission, whatever it
might be called.
The steps necessary to tak<j
to change the form of the coun
ty government are for peti
tioiks to be submitted to the
County Commissjoiners' Court.
!t" the petitions complied with
the legal requirements, the
court would then order a coun
ty convention. Delegates to
the county convention would
be chosen at conventions in
each <>f the voting precincts of
the county. The county con
vention would then name a
commission to draft a pro-
posed charter, and then th^
court would be required to >r
det a special election to give
the voters, of the county an op-
portunity to adopt or reject it.
In voting on the charter,
the votes of those cast by resi
dents of incorporated cities
and towns would be kept sep-
arate from those cast by per-
sons not living in an incorpor-
ated city or town and the ap-
proval of the charter by dn
overwhelming majority would
be of no effect unless it was
approved by both groups of
voters.
Thus the votes cast by resi-
dents of Dallas, University
Park. Highland Park, Mes-
quite, Garland, Lancaster, Irv-
ing. Seagoville, Grand Prairie,
Richardsoiv and Carrollton
would be counted together in I
one group and the votes of all}
others in the county in another
group.
Votes cast by residents of
Kleburg. Hutchins, Wilme^
h'einhardt, Cedar Hill, Dun-
canville, Rowlett and other
smaller places would be count-
ed with the rural groups, since
these towns are not incorpor-
ated.
County Judge Ogden is op-
posed to the idea of a county
manager and believes that the
principal functions of the
county government should be
vested in the Commissioners'
Court, headed by the County
Judge, with greatly enlarged
powers.
Judge Ogden expressed his
views in the following state-
ment :
"1. The administrative pow-
ers of the county Government
should be placed under a Com-
missioners' Court, consolidat-
ing and eliminating such of
fices as may be practical, and
provision should be made for
the appointment of monpolily-
forming administrative of-
filers by the Commissioners'
Court.
" 2. Administrative and
policy - forming functions,
with ccrtain exceptions should
be placed in a Commissioner*
Court composed of five mem-
bers, elected by the people at
large at & general election tor
four-year terms, with the
Coun I v Tudge as presiding of-
ficer, who. by being relieved
by the Probate and Lunacy
Courts, retaining the Juvenile
Court, should be the executive
officer of the county as well as
budget officer.
"The four Commissioners
should be residents of the dis-
tricts which they respectively
represent, but should be elect
ed by the county at large for
a four-year term, two
ejected bieunially, and should
devote their full time to their
•offices, constituting, together
Payless Furloughs Beer In Dallas
To End This Month• Saturday Week
Washington, D. C., Sept. 4 -
Labor day brought good news
to p< 'stal employes—their pay-
less furloughs will be suspend-
ed 'Slept. ,S0.
Tlie announcement was
made in Atlantic City today
by Postmaster General James
barley, who said he was doing
it because he l>elieved the na-
tion is on the road back to
prosperity.
Last June the < rder was is-
sued prescribing a M-day fur
loughwithout pay for employes
in the postal service, during
the three-month period from
July 1 to Sept. .SO.
At that time Parley said:
Whether the furloughs will
In- continued beyond Sept. 30
will depend very largely upon
the future trend of postoffice
business. It is the department's
hope that by the end of Sep-
tember business conditions
throughout the country will so
improve as agaim to require a
full complement of postal em-
ployes to handle the work. a.
of course eliminate the neces-
sity for a continuation of the
furloughs."'
The payless furloughs for
postmasters and other post.il
employes amounted to a re
ductiom. of 10 per cent in their
pay. added to the 15 per cert
emergency reduction. The su-
spension of the furlough with-
out pay will add $150 a year
to the compensation of the
postmaster at Mesquite. It ap
plied to all postmasters and
postal employes under civil
service except carriers. The
carriers here, however, had
their automobile allowanct
cut in addition to the 15 per
cent emergency cut in salary.
Tr did not apply to the assist-
ant postmaster here.
At midnight on Friday ol
next week, or to be more ex
act, in the wee small hours of
Saturday morning, beer will
begin to flow in Dallas at
hundred* ot' hotels, restaur-
ants, drug stores an id other
places.
It is understood that beer
licenses will be ready for de-
livery at midnight and deliv-
ered at that time on the pay -
ment of the license fees and
the sale of beer will start at
once. Many places of business
that ordinarily would be
cl< Bed at that hour will re-
main open to start selling beer
as soom as it is legal and many
j*eople that would otherwise
be in bed will lie downtown to
"quench their thirst" and wel-
come the return of beer.
"What are you doing to help
end the depression ?"
"Well, I get my preserip-
ions from the doctor because
he has to live and I buy my
medicine from the druggist
because he has to live: then I
take it home and pour it down
the sink because I have to
live."—Ex.
New Secret Order
Formed In Dallas
The United American Ac-
tives, is the name of a new se-
cret order formed in Dallas
Friday night, and the idea for
it seems to have originated
with Clarence Parker, who
was formerly active in the Ku
Klux Klan, which appears to
be dying out.
Mr. Parker, who claims the.
title of national president,
though the order is now con-
fined to one organization in
' Dallas alone, denied that it
! was a political organization or
that it would bar Jews and
Catholics as did the klan.
"Our only aim is to support
the United States govern-
ment and its NRA program,
and to fight growing Red
menace by lawful—not unlaw-
ful —means.
"Our organization is non-
political." Parker continued.
"The surest way to kill it
would be to make its purposes
political."
"Whom does vour little son
look like?' '
"His eyes are mine, the
nose is mv wife's and the voice
—I think he got from our mo-
tor horn."—Ex.
TRIAL OF NEGROES
is SET FOR mnm
Speedy Conviction Of Fiendish
Murderers Of Kathryn Prince
Expected.
To Crown Queen
of Mesquite Fair
Queen will be Attended by Princess-
es from Fifteen Separate
Communities.
The committee uti enter-
tainment for the Mesquite
Fair has decided om something
new for Mesquite, and that is
a nice ceremony at which all
take piace the coronation of
the Queen of the Fair, who
will be attended by fifteen
princesses, on the second
night of the Fair, Sept. 21. It
has been decided for the peo-
ple of the various coir muni-
ties to vote for princesses t ■'
their respective communities
with the understating that
the princess receiving the
highest number of v.^es
among all elected, no* matter
from what community she
comes, will l>e Queen of the
Fair and the young lady of
her community receiving the
next highest number of votes
automatically becomes prin-
cess of that community.
Princesses are to be elected
froun Mesquite, Batch Springs,
Lawson, * Edwards, Lo°g
Creek. Tripp, New Hope, Mur-
phree, Pleasant Mound, Scy-
ene, Rylie, Kleburg, Seago-
ville.
Because of the shortness of
time, votes must be in not la-
ter than next Thursday, Sept.
16, at 1 o'clock. Votes will be
received at the Porter & Lytal
drug store and Gross Phar-
mack in Mesquite, and the re-
sults announced immediately
thereafter.
Sign your name to the cou-
pon as an evidence of good
faith. The coupons will be de-
stroyed after they are counted
by the committee and mo one
will know for whom you vot-
ed. Additional voting coupons
may be had at the Mesquiter
office without cost.
Use the coupon below:
Judge Adams of Criminal
I )istrict Court No. 2 of Dallas
County, Monday set the date
of the trial of Bluit and Thur-
man, Burkley, who on Wednes-
day night of last week shot and
critically wounded Mace Car-
ver, 27 and a short while later
murdered his sweetheart,
pretty Kathryn Prince, for
next Monday, Sq>t. 11, and the
law will move swiftly and
surely to mete out to the
fiendish brutes the supreme
penalty.
So supreme is the confidence
of the people of this section
that the negroes will be sent
to the electric chair at Hunts-
ville that nto effort has been
made to form a group to take
justice in their own hands,
though a scare was thrown in-
to officers at the county jail
Monday, when some person
sought to play a joke by tele-
phoning the Sheriff's office
thatia mob was forming in the
vicinity of Mesquite and
Pleasant Mound to take the
negrops out of jail and mete
out summary punishment to
them without waiting for the
law to take its course. There
was no foundation for the re-
port.
The Prince family live on
the Carv er farm, about a quar
ter of a mile from Mace's
home with his father and step-
mother. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Car-
ver. Mace worked for th :■
Crystal Ice Co., in Dallas amd
was due to go to work there at
midnight. He and Miss Prince
had gone to Dallas and went
to Oak Cliff to visit a friend
of hers. Not finding her at
home, they attended prayer-
meeting at the Fundamentalist
Raptist Oak Cliff, where they
found Miss Prince's friend.
Returning from Dallas, they
stopped near Miss Prince's
home to turn on the radio in
the car, and then in a few min-
utes Mace would have taken
Miss Prince home, then gone
to his own home to don his
working clothes, preparatory
to reporting for work at mid-
night.
Statements made by Tliur-
man and Pluit Burkley, self-
confessed bandits and killers,
were substantially as follows:
They left the Pearl Street
Market in Dallas, where they
purchased three watermelons,
about 9:30 on Wednesday
night, riding in the car of their
brother, Jarvis Burkley, who
lives on the George Dasch
farm, southwest of Mesquite.
When they got to Jarvis*
house the latter go out. but
Thurman and Bluit drove on
down to a side road and passed
a couple in a Chevrolet coupe,
driving slowly. They drove an
past them and stopped. Then
they saw the couple park their
car near them .The negroes
got out of their car and walked
iback to the other car occupii
by Carver and Miss Prince,
who had stopped to turn on
the radio. Bluit Burkley en-
tered the car apd took the
wheel, making Miss Prince sit
in Carver's lap. Thurman rode
on the running board on the
other side of the car. They
drove a distance of ai mile or
more and stopped the car near
the Balch Springs school.
They made Carver get out of
the car and Thurman Burkley
forcer Carver to go with him
some little way from the road.
\\ here he shot him twice,
once in the wrist and once
through the neck, leaving him
as dead. Previously they had
demanded moruey and Carver
told them that he did not have
any money, but offered them
his white gold Elgin watch,
which) they took.
After shooting Carver,
Thurman joined his brother
and they drove off with Miss
Prince. They took her into the
field where the body was found
and Bluit toild his brother to
go and turn the car around.
When Thurman got back from
turning the car around, Bluit
met him at the road and told
him that he had killed the girl,
which, was confirmed by
JMuit's statement. Then they
said they drove the two cars—
Mace Carver's and Jarvis
Burkley's—to a point on the
'Slcyene road, near the Urban-
dale schoil, left Carver's car
there and then drove back in
Jarvis' air to the latter's
.'house, which they reachod
shortly after 11 o'clock, spent
the remainder of the night
there, ainid went back to pick-
ing cotton the following morn-
ing just as if nothing had hap-
pened.
At noon, however, they quit,
demanded and received the par
due them, and said they were
going back to Dallas to get
their jobs back. They were ®n
their way to Dallas, afoot,
when Deputy Sheriff Ted Hin-
ton, who was accompanied by
William McCutcheon, arrested
them. They had stopped to
talk with other negro cotton
pickers. Soon after Hinton
had arrested the two brothers,
they were joined by other of-
ficers, deputy sheriffs and city
detectives, and they were tak-
en to the city hall in Dallas.
(Continued on page 2.)
I vote for Miss
For princess of — —
(Name ol community)
With the understanding that all of the princesses
ejected, the <me receiving the greatest number of votes
becomes Queen of the Fair and the one receiving the
next highest vote in the community of the Queen, auto-
matfcallv becomes princess from that community.
Signed
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1933, newspaper, September 8, 1933; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth413405/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.