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v^edion One
Six Pages
Coleman Democrat-Voice
FIRST IN NEWS, ADVERTISING, CIRCULATION, READER INTEREST, COLEMAN COUNTY
12 PACES
in Two Sections
FIFTY-NINTH YEAR
THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE. COLEMAN, TEXAS. THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1940
NO. 25
a
Ex-Rangers To'“Habitual” Law
Costs Colemanite
Term In Prison
Meet Soon At
nna
A two-day meeting jof the
Texas. Ex-Ranger's Association
is Scheduled at-Santa Anna for
Thursday and Friday, June 27
and 2R, according to an an-
nouncement by, Mrs. R. C Gay
of Santa Anna.
The Ex-Rangers will camp in
the Ranger Memorial Park at
Santa Anna for the two days
and nights.
Open house will bo held each
evening and the friends of the
former Rangers are invited to
visit on those occasions.
A full program is being plan-
ned for the occasion.
Dendy Issues
Statement
t
On Campaign
First trial of its kind in the
county arid one of the first in
the State was that of R. C. Baird
of Coleman, charged, with giv-
ing a worthless check, and sen-
tenced to two years in State
prison, '
The trial was held in District
Judge Parish's 119th district
court.
Baird received a prison sen-
tence although the check he al-,
legedly gave was for less than
$50. He was sentenced under the
new Texas "hot check” law that
provides a person' may be fined
the first time, may bo jailed on
his second trial, and may be
sent'to prison on his third trial,
according to County Attorney
W. B. (Billy) Baker.
The defendant had been con-
victed twice before in county
court here.
The prison sentence, may be
imposed any time a person is I
Compliance
Check Being
Made In Area
Britain’s ‘Rock’ Under A Double Threat
“Mr. Dendy risKuroed tin* clu* | C /a
ties of District Attorney of the I * CUlIlClo VjIclU I U
119th Judicial District on Jan- p D ' - C
uary 1. 1939. On January 22. j£0 KcUIlS LCilSC‘,
1939, he married Miss Charlotte' ~ . 1 T T ,
Raphael of San Angelo. On; ( Ivrpj- Inrh HprP
February 8, 1940, they became1 w
the parents of a son, Hood Ra-j
phael Dendy. Mr. Dendy has1 Farmers oyer Coleman Cou'n-
just completed a session of thej have been eyeing the skies with
Work began this week on
checking Coleman County far-
mers and ranchmen with the,
view of determining whether or
not .they have complied,with the
Federal government’s agricul-
tural conservation program.
The Check is being made by
the Coleman County Agricultu-
ral Association, w.hich is a sub-
sidiary of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration.
Charles Hickman of Coleman
is the county performance, sup-
ervisor and Frank McCreary,
Jr., of Rockwood, is the assis-
tant. The latter will make ‘spot’
checks over the county.
Crop reporters who are work-
ing with the agricultural con-
servation office in making the
Check include: Burl Strickland,
Goldsboro; Nolan Barmore, No-
found guilty of passing a frau-; v*cc; Oliver Calk, Silver Val-
dulent check of mure.than $50. T'-v: Carlton Terry, Talpa; Ro-
■ '! j bert Thwing, Voss; Roy Jame-
I son, Coleman;' Y. B. Johnson,
| Echo; S. T. Burkett, Burkott;
| George Green, Buffalo; Ed Fea-
[thergton, Trickham; Otis Pow-
| ers, Santa Anna; Jack Rowe,
Santa Anna; Vernon Row-e,
_ City Sponsors NYA Radio
'[Training Project; Officials
Mav Build Radio Station
City of Coleman today prom- City Commissioner Hubert
ised to sponsor a radio training Shore pointed out today the city
j project that would be operated] is going to be forced to make
arrangements' about a fire
alarm system when the local
telephone system begins the
use of dial telephones. The
Grand Jury at Coleman and has
some fifteen criminal cases to
dispose of between'now-and the
anxiety during the week.
While those farmers arc al-
most always anxious to receive
election, July' 27th' and is in rain, this is one time when they
Coleman this week trying cases.
“In view of these fast mov-
ing events Mr. Dendy says'it
has been impossible for him to
see the many citizens of his dis-
trict, but wants you to know
“•at he appreciates your past
pport and solicits it in the
future.
Coleman And Area
“Since August 28, 1938, the
date that the City of Coleman
and surrounding communities
gave Mr. Dendy a very substan-
tial majority over his present
opponent, Mr. Dendy says that
he has felt at home in Coleman;
nnri that although he does net
were glad to sec a cessation of
the rainfall.
Oats and barley had been
placed in shock in many fields
Guuldbusk.
Walter Thweatt, Gouldbusk:
D.'H. Grounds, Mozelle; Weldon
McCreary.’ Rock wood; John Da-
vid Harper, Santa Anna; Qupn-
tin McDonald, Coleman; San-
ford Tune, Jr., Coleman; and
Holly Bennett. Valera.
Company B Wants
piuceu in MjucK. in many iieuis ^ p r\ •
over the, county and the farmers I | 1 l\C(TUltS*
were getting worried that so 1 ^
much rain might cause the grain j T,
to become ruined. Even the * FI VCUliJJ •JUUll
grain that had not begn cut was
in danger of falling down.
On Tuesday night and Wed
nesday slightly more than an
inch of rain fell in
A call for 15 recruits was is-
sued by Lieut. Pat R. Warren,
Coleman; I commanding officer of Company
However, there were some spots j B- Texas National Guard, today,
in the south part of the county j Men between the ages of 18
that received three inches, and and 45, who arc single and of
around Gouldbusk it is reported j «ood moral standing are desired,
about five inches of rain fell; Applications should be made to
this week. | Mr. Warren at the local post
Streams became "bank full office or at the National Guard
know, personally, very many of1 emeama uceame; uaim m“ j.."' v
in practically every part of the - rmoD-
i In the city by the National
Youth Administration.
Members of the city commis-
jsion also favor the' construction _________ _
of a building that would house j commission , thus, is studying
the NYA wood-working'” shop,! the possibility of installing a
NYA mCtal-working shop, NYA’short wave radio station that
radio training project, and a'would be used for both- police
city short wave radio station, j and fire calls.- "
providing such plans are found!
to be feasible NYA To Train Them
There's a possibility radio National Youth Administra-
equipment owned by NYA can’ bon warit$ the city to furnish a
be used for both training pur-;building and utilities for the
poses and for a short wave ra-j training project, NYA will train
dio station here, Chester Fuller. lbe youngsters in radio mech
; Austin, State radio shop super- anics as a part of the national
. An “rial view of Gibraltar, Britain', mighty fortress at the entrance to the Mediterranean, | visor for 'NYA. told members- def-use program, according to
one o! the key* points of the European chessboard. Great Britain may be forced to defend Gibral- of the city commission in a..®‘1 "kson. San Angelo, dis-
tal against both Mussolini and Gen. Francisco B ranco. who has been urged to repay Spain's debt meeting here this morning. tricL N5 A director. Mr. Jack-
to the Rpme-Berlin axis by cooperatin ; in any axis operation against the "Rock" ' , isor‘ ported out the young men,
1 Mr. Fuller add Jimmy White, when trained, could be used by
local radio -repairman.—aTe- m the government in .communica*’
Ranger this afternoon to in- tions work, They would be us-
spect the NYA equipment for 0d in times of emergency,
the purpose of learning whether!
that equipment can be used tor; Between 15 and 20 local
j young men will be assigned to
the radio project and NYA will
: furnish a licensed operator as
| an instructor.
C. W. Davis Under Now A Colonel
$2,500 Bond On
Murder Charge
the local citizens, he f&jls that
they are his friends, just as
(Continued on i’ejfe 2, See. 1)
O’Hair Names
Committees
For CC Work
county and in the Rockwood The local company expects to
area several fields were washed j take part in the Army maneu-
by flood waters. The waters in- vers planned for August and
undated the highway near Lieut. Warren states the local
Rockwood for a short distance, j company likely will be located
it is reported. Terraces were j at or near Cravens, Louisiana,
broken in the fields around the; from August 3 to August 21.
John Johnson place, j Lieut. Warren has been noti-
Nearly every section of thejfied to be prepared to mpbilize
county was soaked by the show-1 the local Natiortal Guard unit
ers, according to a report issued ! on short notice. There are 83
| by the Southwestern States j enlisted men and thi*ee officers
Telephone Company. . j in the local company.
Rob O'Hair, Chamber of Com
merco president, today named
the following committeemen to
assist him in carrying out,this
year's program of work. The
list will be completed within
the near future:
The . committees include:
Membership and finance, Wal-
ter J. Taylor, Perry Stobaugh,
F. M. McKinney, It. D. Boyers,
John B. Howell, and C. H.
Shore; highways and roads'," J.
P. McCord, W. J. Stevens and
John O; Harris; agriculture, T.
J. Allen, Herman Reddy, D. D,
Steele and W. A. Powell.
Industry, Joe Stevens, M. C.
Drummond, C. F. Cavanagh, R.
G. Hollingsworth, B. A. Pessels
and F. Y. Jackson; livestock, R.
A. Horne, E. A. Jeanes, Tom
Saunders, and Simon Horne;
civic development, Charles Wil-
li C. C. Day, Ralph Duncan,
u. Lee Mayes, Mrs. J. A. B. Mill-
er, and Mrs. A G. Beach. '
Entertainment and conven-
tion, John Grammer, W. A. Wil-
hite, Robert Bowen, William Al-
len, Felix Schmidt, and Floyd
Stobaugh; better business, B. B.
Nunley, Alex Mayers, W. B.
Lunsford, R. O. Caldwell, and
Mrs. E. M. Cmz; rural develop-
■ment and contact, Cecil Gray,
Bob Ellis, and H. M. Brown.
Publicity, Jimmie Lankford,
Hoyt Craig, H. H. Jaqkson, and
R. A. Autry; aeronautics, Ray
Gilliam, J. B. McCord, Pat War-
ren, and E. P. Scarborough; vig-
ilance, Joe B. Hedleston, Ray-
mond Shipman, and Gerald
Swan; oil and gas, Charles Polk.
(Continued on Page 2 Section 1) I
Horse Show, Sponsored By
Rodeo Association, To Be
Presented Here On July 12
Coleman’s first horse show'
will bo presented here during
the Coleman Rodeo and will be
sponsored by the Coleman Ro-
deo Association, according to
Dr. D. B. Sprott, superintendent
of the event.
Class six: Saddle horse per-
formance; any breed, any sex,
any age; to be shown at walk,
trot, center and slow gait, for
way of going, ease of gait; per-
formance 75 per cent and con-
j formation 25 per cent.
A total of nine classes, at Class seven: Model polo pony,
Champion cow horse class and j shown at halter and perfor-
the best horse of the show will | mance; any breed, any sex, any
be shown. The show will be at' age; to be show,n for rein, speed
Hufford F'ield on July 12. The
rodeo, incidentally, will', be at
the field on four nights—July
10, 11, 12 and 13.
The first four classes will all
be shown at the'halter and the
first three pf those are model
cow horse classes with only con-
formation to color to count. Any
breed or any seX may'be enter-,
ed in the first three classes with
Class l for 1937 foals or older.
Class 2 for foals of 1938, and
Class 3 for foals of 1939.
Class four is for cow hor^e
and handiness as judge may de-
cide; performance 50 per cent
and conformation 50 per cent.
Classes eight and nine, both
to ,be shown at halter, are for
palomino coits. The 1939 colts
in Class 8 and the 1940 colts in
i Class 9.
Champion cow horse: To be
taken from the winners of the
first four classes.
Best horse of show: To be
taken from the winners of
Classes 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and
stallions; conformation only to j Champion cow horse
count; any breed; foals of 1939 ' Ribbons and trophies, the lat-
or older.
Class five: Cow horse perfor-
ter donated by Coleman mer-
chants, will be awarded the first
mance; any breed, any sex, any j place winners in each class,
age; performance 75 per cent! Dr. Sprott is being assisted in
and conformation 25 per cent; j the presentation of the show by
to be shown dor way of going, j Bennett Nance. Effort* were
rein, rope work and any other j made to make the rules fit the
as judge maj.- decide. | local situation, it was declared.
I
C.’W. Davis, about 50, tenant
farmer residing about six miles
north of Coleman) is under a
charge of murder in Justice of
*'• •■- B Mail
coiirt today in connection with
the fatal shooting of. a pegro
near the Davis home late Wed-
nesday afternoon.
Mr. Davis.made bond for $2,-
500, returnable in either of the
local district courts, last night,
according to County Attorney
W. B. (Billy) Baker.
The trouble arose when Mr.
Davis was almost forced off the
road, into a muddy ditch by a
negro or negroes.in an automo-
bile late “Juneteenth,” accord-
ing to the statement he gave of-
ficers.
The farmer proceeded to the
home of Quincy Hill. 45, a negro
who has worked for him for
about 12 years, and told Quincy
to make several negroes there
leave, "according to the state-
ment. • > -*i
Mr. Davis went on to his own
home, obtained a shotgun,'and
was returning to the negro's
house when he met Hill. The
latter got out of his automobile,
cursed the white man and said
he resented the way Davis had
"treated hts company.” Davis
said he thought he was going to
be attacked and that he could
tell the negro was angry and
56-Page Tablofd
Section In Today’s
Democrat-Voice
both purposes.
Karl Wallace Is
All Democrat-Voice subscrib-
ers— plus many persons who are M I f fnlnnpl
not on the regular 'D-V" sub-r. AdUC Lit#
scripion list—will receive a 56 A \]' D
-page tabloid section with their AS iN 110011 KOtlteS
regular paper today.
fcARL WALLACE
Its now Colonel Kar/Wallace.
For the former Coleman resi-
dent, now of Fort Worth, was
promoted to the portion of
lieutenant colonel this week. He
and Mrs. Wallace and family
had resided here and at Santa
Anna and are well known in
this area. He was promoted
from the position of major.
City Engineer Clarence Coop-
er was instructed to investigate
the cost of constructing a build-
ing to house thp various,NYA
; projects. An architect from the
I State NYA office is expected to
Promotion of Maj. Karl Wal-Lc°nfer with the city engineer
The section was written al- riolllollull Ul maj Ivall -
most in its entirety—both ad-jlace. Fort Worth, district direc-! concerning the plans
vertising and news-by R. E. |t'r pf'the Works Projects *Ad-1of thp buddlng, Such a struc-
Bailey of Luling, Texas a spec- ministration for the Fort Worth;lure would be of native stone
lalist in this line of work. As dist!lc.t. t0 the, position of heu-;and WHuld' be constructed by
will be readily seen by "D-V tenant coloneLm the Texas Nat- XYA labolr and ■****•.
readers the advertisements are j ional Guard, is announced this. Coleman is the fifth city in
and^thpe mcssaKes 'om oca >iweek. , , this district that is considering
and other, merchants, j Col. and Mrs. Wallace and lhe construction of a radio sta-
. The news stories—which are! are former residents of j tion, Mr. Jackson declared. The
more like character sketches— !.b°jh Ca■eman and Santa Anna.other cities are Big Spring,
are about the heads'of various aBd art‘ e ' .k”ow” m tbis eR'j Sweetwater, Abilene and San
businesses,-city and county of- t,re section of the State'
ficials, and other leaders. Col Wallace becomes execu-
'Mr. Bailey spent several tive fi<x\o{ ^ ,14^d
weeks in ColemaTVbrking on ,rv' ^ Guard »1S
S' ''r-r-. ... • -r-. r-nnivnkl/t K t
j Angelo.
the special, section. . Upon ieav-
promotion .became, possible by i j
News Review
. ^xcellbnt
Many Towns 0ver hf c
i ' Cl P ' Many persons
Area ohow Uam
praised0ColeUn highland ex-1 B"g Gen' Charles ^ N’1"10” |' -
, h, appreciation to tt. - Jf ^
response-.received._______„...............................
In Population
brigadier general. the Senate tonight • over-rode
■ j The former Coleman man has the administration leadership
w ll likely!had Much and varied experience | and wrote into the $1,007,000.-
, , ‘ ; n the National Guard. He help- 000 defense tax bill an “excess
want to save this special section jed m the organization. of sev. profits" ievy designed to raise
for future reference.. This is-! oral of the National Guard units an additional $400,000,000 to
sue of The "D-V" has more lover West Texas and has done! $500,000,000 annually.
I pages- than any issue in the his-j much to retain those units in the i
(various cities.and towns.
. P,oulation figures.on 21 towns] tory of the paper. However, 56j ....... ~ j LONDON, June 19—The air
that the negto appeared *>' b“ in this section of the'State were]of these pages are tabloid Colonel'Wallace, district di- i ministery announced today that
rele&s®d, loday b/ H H Jack" | (four-column) size. Today’s!reetor of the Works Projects j seven German aircraft- were
toia omui. , ub inc ne^i . :Son, CoJeman, district census, , , , t ,• Administration at Fort Worth, shot down during bombing raids
vanced toward him, cursing de- j .supervisor. paper is about the cqmvalent a^raduated from Texas AA-M during the night on eastern
fiantly. ; The towns and the populgtionj 3 ,40-page Demogrut-Voice of e0Hege at the age of 21 and : England..
; of each for 1930 and 1940 in-i regular size.
THE WEATHER ' dude: ! ____
Rain on four out of the past i
seven days has caused lower j # anket
temperatures than usual during j ]job<'' Lce
the present months. 1 l®ntd
The rainfall was received as, a ba
follows: three-higidredths o< ertzpn
inch, Thursday, June 13:’.18, ( ,wmeta '
Saturday, June 15; .2 on Sun-
Muilin
ddy, June 16; and 1.02, Wed-i ®albnge,r
nesday, June 1'9. j dlt'bland
Temperatures for the past | brady
Springs
several days:
June 13
June 14
June 15
June 16
June 17
June 18
June 19
Max. Min. ^an Angeio
i Brownwood
gg t'oleman
g0 j Lampasas ,
73
81
76
83
88
87
80
'Coleman-Albanv
•f.
Road Is Nearer
it
To Completion
Another step toward the com-
San Saba
(j j (Goldthwaite
00 Santa Anna
ggj Winters
I Bangs ....
jEden _____
Miles
'-'r
1930
318
490
671
233
864
- 865
459
4187
‘ 492
3983
25308
12789
6078
2709
2240
1324
1883
2423
717
1194
972
enlisted m the United States .Air (
Corps in August, 1917.
1940
GRAIN MARKET
ficll , . ,, GRIFFIS SELLS
B, Nrma firam I”1 , U’ 50.000 POUNDS WOOL
'a4. local market as quoted by the;
Wilson Grain and Elevator Co., j Theo Griffis' wool warehouse
; Thursday are as follows: j reports the sale of 50,000 pounds
WASHINGTON. June 17-
Legislation warning that the
United States would not “ac-
quiesce" in the transfer of west-
ern hemisphere colonies from,.,
one non-American nation to an-
910 * , , . w v , ’ 7 , , „ oi ou.uuujjounus wher was hust]ed 1hrough the
SJl 1 wl;eat„66c pe! b“sfel-!ot ,W001 at 30f Pcr P°und cTbe : senate unanimously today a few
44H V0' l K IF1 k k , ?TS maf t0 Henr-v Stall-jhours after wprd cameJ that
4471 No. 2 barley. 33c per bushel, j mgs of Lometg. • France was asking peace with
539
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25794
13396
6050
3423
2927
Candidates Assessed By County
. V
Democratic Executive Committee;
\lll Order Of Names Also Selected" ~
2341 j - ---
16031 0rder in which the offices each candidate for that parti-
8H! will appear as well as the jirder ! cular position yriU be'required
tFiii nnmoc r».f flln f'nn/Iirlnfnc . j J i-
Germany.
* * *
BERLIN, June 16 — Armies
carrying a Fuehrer Hitler's
swastika deeper into France are
"storming victoriously forward”
along the entire front between
the English Channel and the
Swiss border, the high command
reported today.
July 27—was decided at a meet-
ing of the Coleman County
Democratic .Executive Com-
mittee at the county court house
Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
At the meeting the amount
of money each candidate for
test
J. C. GRIFFIN IS
COLEMAN VISITOR
J. C. Griffin of Lampasa^,
slopped in Coleman a few hours'
Wednesday to visit some of his
pletion of the Coleman-Albanv; friends. He was an route home
road was made recently when (from, Amarillo, where he had
contract was let for paving a attended funeral services for the districl «unly and ^ct of-
section of that h.ghway between late Judge A. B. Martin, another j fjces wi„ t their names
former CoJeman citizen. iprillted op j.he ba„0, a)so was
lhe late Judge. Martin was a fdecided ’
member oK^he Supreme Court j,
Commission uiTtil'a few months i The assessments were made
ago- [against each office and the
Mr. Griffin at one time was j amount assessed will be divided
county school superintendent of (equally between the candidates
j Coleman County. He is now sec-1 seeking the various offices. For
the names of the candidates j tb’pay a fee of $10 to get his | WASHINGTON, June 14
Will appear on the Democratic j name printed on the ballot. (President. Roosevelt today open-,,
ballot for the first pnmary— [ Candidates Without opponents j ly scoffed at arjy Hitler pledge '
Baird and Albany, according to
S. W, Cooper, Chamber of Com
merce manager here.
When that contract is com-
pleted there will be only about
ten miles of the road unpaved
in the 69 miles between Cole-
man and Albany. _____________„„w, «.v
Other work is being done j retary of the Lampasas Retail | instance, the office of district
along the Coleman-B*urd->Al-1 Merchant's Association and is in j judge of the 35th Judicial Dis-
bany highway, it was added, j the insurance business. itrict was assessed $20.
to refrain from invading the
western hemisphere, while his
aides announced plans fpr train-
ing 10,600 men annually fpr the
huge army air force of the
future.
will ‘be required to pay the
heaviest fees. , •
Assessments made bv the
committee against the various
offices and the number of can-
didates seeking each office in-
clude: District judge of 35th
district, $20 .two: district at-; „ .
lorney, "35th district, $30 WASHINGTON, June 13-
three; county judge, $150 one-! Unanim°usly and unqestionably
county attorney, $150 two- dis-jthe Senate Thursday approved
trict clerk, $150, one- bounty!3 $50'fl00'000 appropriation for
clerk, $150, one: sheriff, $150, *ed. Cross relief wwk “
two; assessor-collector, $150 lhe h0"181®** civilian*
one; county treasurer, $100,
two; county surveyor, $20, two;
public weigher, $5, one.
County commissioners: Pre-
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