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Ennis Weekly Local
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•NE DOLLAR FER ANNUM
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS,
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934.
I
Trumbull Child
Hamilton On
Killed By Car Trial for His Life
Buried at Rice
On Interurban
At Huntsville
To Start Off
I
for loans of $10 each frem indi- seeking to regain his health. Prior Tuesday evening by an interurban
viduals and business firms who will
to obtain the death penalty for European security and mutual
I
investigation was begun.
The body was brought to Rice
m.
I
J
few
Former Ellis
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f
ployment to approximately 600 men feed throughout this area. The to-
mato crop in Lamar county will
followed the ram.
There is an actual shortage of •
By September 1
of the Ennis comunity. for
and
honor
’graduate. Miss Simms was an non-
half a century, died at the home
The five and three-quarter miles
will make their home in Kaufman.
double funeral service for the for-
Ellis
British Plan To
000 Cartwright bill approved Sat-
a
That plans for the substantial
He expressed the opinion that add-
ed emphasis in the. future will be .enlargement of Britain’s military
of doubling the air force and si- of an eight story building and is
handling
the
and ground facilities at about 35,- world.
30(5
Home in Fort Worth.
llong term basis.
ne
He is survived by his wife, who
John G. McKay Dies.
Conducting Revival
I the temperature was higher than
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Lane of Cor- l
f
for a while. Not long before, Bar- fund please call the office of the tral Texas League, starting with
row had liberated Hamilton from secretary, 320, or mail your heck Corsicana and going to Mexia. He
aviation have matured have been i
authoritatively declared. The gov- -j
Vander Laan Funeral
In Corsicana Today
Public Works
Employing 600 In
Ellis County
Clyde Gilmore
Home Burned
Saturday Night
cur present group of teachers have comment, place the expansion pe-
been in service less than six years, riod at seven or ten years.
G. Maddux’ Mother
in Dallas Fell and
Bruised Left Side
position while discharging his new
duties, according to the announce-
as-
ex-
of Mrs. Wilscn’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Willis.
ernment and an influential section
of the press, led by the Daily Mail,
Daily Express and Evening Stand-
London, June 12.—Rumors were
current Monday that the British
“Thought you and other friends
of Sam would be glad to learn of
his success.”
rain was in the eastern half of
Lamar county extending into Red
iRiver county. Crops of all kinds
(were beginning to suffer from dry
Denison Gets Half-Inch Rain.
Denison, Texas, June 12.—A half
Geneva, June 12.—The disarma-
ment conference adjourned Mon-
day for a long breathing space, in
which governments will attempt to
settle outstanding political dificul-
the
Con-
Schools’ Losses
From Depression
Quite Heavy
Disarmament
Conference
Takes Recess
Milam Melton Fell
While Playing And
Was Unsconscious
miles northwest of Buenos Aires,
was the center of the stricken sec-
tion. The earthquake was felt with
less intensity throughout Cordoba
Province.
been shot down by peace officers
in Louisiana, will be related by
Sheriff Fearis.
the Eastham farm.
They were traveling by motor.
operators. A number of steel bod-
ied hydraulic dump trucks are also
needed.
Vandar Laan married Miss Chris-
tine Williams, bookkeeper for the
Southwestern Telephone Company
here, on June 3 of last year.
Funeral services were announced
for Wednesday morning in Corsi-
cana.
by Sept. 1, it is announced by M.
C. Welborn, division highway engi-
neer.
Pouring of concrete will start on
the one and one-quarter miles of
the read from Mansfield to the
Ellis County Fair I Wayne Pollan
Solicits Loans ! Died Sunday; Be
From R. E. Lee Home
Dedication Friday
50 Earthquakes
Destroy Town of
3000 Population
Interurban To
Slightly Change
Schedule Sunday
104-Years-Old
Negress Died
VOL. XL NO. 8z.
Ellis Sheriff
Is Witness In
Hamilton Trial
Theo Vander Laan
Bridegroom of Year
Died In Corsicana
Greenwood Maddux was called to
Dallas Wednesday night to be with
this mother, Mrs. T. B. Maddux,
who is 85 years of age, who was
8
Bardwell Negro
In Hospital Here
Wife Used Axe
FORTSON RANCH KARN
BURNED EARLY MONDAY
Mr. Ziegler further stated that ihighway with dangerous turns on
the National Re -employ ment Serv-ithe main route from Fort Worth
Ft W orth • Houston I Xi'
as % to Houston, will be open for travel
Cotton Co-Op
e
A large barn on the Fortson. । trade territory.
Ranch, located three miles west of (
must be untied to allow for new
expenditures for air preparedness.
Experts have estimated the cos
)
/
/
{
• Rice, was badly damaged by fire
this morning at 8 o’clock and the
in Tarrant and seven in Johnson
counties.
Welborn said that although no
contract has been let for the hard
surfacing of the four and one-half
miles of the extension in Johnson
and Ellis counties, the $1,000,000,-
taken place in the Johnson home !
about 3 o’clock Wednesday morn-
G. W. Ritchie
Passed Away
Here Today
G. W. Ritchey, age 71 years, a
died of a heart attack Sunday at
a local hospital. He was a son of I
Col. Dick Wynne of Fort Worth.
Funeral services will be held at
4 p. m. Monday from the Robert-
erative Association, in sending the
News the above item, says:
“In order that you might have
an idea of the magnitude of his
T L:I 1 A L In the midst of what quaffers
TilllSDOrO vhurchterm ideal beer weather, and while
Fire of undetermined origin de- i
stroyed the rent house, 500 West
Waco street, owned by R. A. Mc-
Culloch and occupied by Mr. and
Mi's. Clyde Gilmore. The fire was
discovetmgi shortly after midnight
Saturday ‘ night and the house was (
a mass of flames and the Ennis
fire department could do nothing-
other .than save adjoining property. :
Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore were away
from home and did not know of
the fire until notified by friends.
Nothing was saved. The house was
insured for $800.
ne wposition, the association is in-
corporated for a mere thirty mil-
lion, occupies the entire floor space
corn and late
Fort Worth, Texas, June
j y Ai । dem of alliances.
In r lane Crashi Italy will be an observer only,
her delegation said, until Germany
-- returns to the conference.
were slashes of 35.2 per cent in
maintenance of school plants, 31.5
per cent in operation of school
plants, 30.6 per cent in control ex-
penditures, 12.15 per cent in fixed
charges and 18.6 per cent in cost
sistanca pacts, and may be
sent to the Cotton States League,
where he pitched for a while and
was converted into an outfielder.
He was born in Rice, July 5,
News was received in Ennis to-
day of the death of Theodore Van-
der Laan, who died suddenly with
a heart attack this morning at
attire was tossed ready been received: Win. Caxeror
wandered away unnoticed, and it
was supposed trying to follow its
mother.
Funeral services were held Wed-
nesday morning at 11 o’clock in
the Palmer Cemetery, and con-
ducted by Rev. Roy L. Crawford,
pastor of the. Palmer and Trumbull
Methodist church.
Arthur Henderson, president of
the conference, warned that if the
governments fail in private nego-
tiations to bring Germany back to
countians was
Harper Funeral
, ties.
1 . Four committees were organizes
to study various aspects of disarm-
ament, the United States being
represented on three of them—the
committees on air forces, manu-
facture and traffic in arms and
guarantees of loyal execution of
Dallas, Texas, June 11.—R. M.
(Dick) Wynne, a resident of Dallas
for twenty years and an oil oper-
Paris Area Gets Heavy Rain.
Paris, Texas, June 12.—Breaking
a drouth of several weeks rain es-
timated at more than half an inch
fell here Monday. The heaviest
The Ellis County Fair loan fund ; Waynie Pollan, 28, of Rice, died
to finance the operation until the Sunday at El Paso after an illness
opening of the exposition this fall of more than a year. For several
has begun and officials are asking months he had been in El Paso
ham prison farm last Jan. 16. Ma-
jor Crowson, a guard, was fatally
wounded in the break, supposedly
engineered by Clyde Barrow. Ham-
ilton’s cne-time pal, who was slain
to be
.78 Inch Rain
Here Tuesday
Badly Needed1
certain skilled workers on these
jobs, including concrete finishers,
form builders, dragline operators,
pile driver operators, elevating
grader operators, concrete straight
edge men, fresno operators, struc-
tural steel operators and crane
car load parched crops and gardens of Den-
ison and North Grayson county.
C. J. Dietrich, assistant cashier
Sampacho, Argentina, June 12.—
Virtually every7 building in this
town of 3,000 population was dam-
aged by7 a series of fifty or more
earthquake shocks Sunday7 night
and Monday.
A large part of the population
was rendered homeless, and a num
her of persons were injured by
falling bricks and stones as they
fled from their homes after the
first shocks were felt. No deaths
were reported.
!
probably meant that this section
would be hard surfaced. The bill,
Welborn said he understood, was
designed principally to complete
highway gaps in roads.
The four and one-half miles is
the only section of Highway 34
between Fort Worth and Houston
that is not paved.
Milam Melton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Melton, fell while play-
ing Monday morning and was un-
conscious for some little while.
There was a slight concussion of
multaneously making the necessary reputed to be one of the largest
expenditures for more personnel firms
by the government for the con-
venience of both the employers
and employees.
Waxahachie, Texas,' June 12.—
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gregory, for-
mer Ellis countians, are dead as
the result cf injuries suffered in
was an
Baird-Simms
Marriage Sunday
In Waxahachie
o’clock this morning, continuing
for some time and coming in tor-
rents for a short while, the pre-
cipitation measuring .78 of an inch
and the forecast is for more.
The rain was badly7 needed es-
pecially for corn and also for truck,
gardens and flowers. The rain was
not general ever this section, a
report from Waxahachie stating
cotton in
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory are sur-
vived by an infant son.
Mr. Gregory was a filling sta-
tion proprietor at Altus.
Ernest Simpson, 26, garage pro-
prietor and amateur pilot, was
plained. Five small concrete eul- p1 . Iy , r
verts already have been completed ( black W alnut l ree
two of whom—Barrow and the Company and United Publishing
Parker woman—are dead, having Company.
by the rain,
temperatures
Sheriff Dave Fearis is in Hunts-
ville, scheduled to be one of the
Ellis county witnesses to testify in
the trial cf Raymond Hamilton,
Texas bad-man bandit, charged
with murder of a prison guard.
;of his son, R. W. Ritchey, 408
East Crockett St., this morning at
11:18 following an illness of two
weeks.
Born in Hall County, Missouri,
he came to Ennis with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Ritchie
when he was about twenty years
according to V. P. Ziegler, as-
phis, Tenn., also survives.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock
at the Free Methodist church, 400
West Brown street, and will be
conducted by Rav. A. B. Harrell
of Rockwall.
Interment will be made in Myr-
tle Cemetery with J. E. Keever in
charge of arrangements.
On Friday evening at 7 o’clock
Daffan Latimer Chapter of the
U. D. C. will dedicate a black wal-
and will retain that
Public works projects in Ellis ' weather. The rain will be of great
12_.or graduate of Trinity University.
The future Mr. and Mrs. Baird
olution, but there was a lack of
unanimity in the acceptance of
its operation with regard to se-
curity pacts.
Great Britain, represented by
Waxahachie Beer
Sellers and Stock
Were Captured
------- Monday afternoon at 5:30 to Mr. Rev. L. S. Ballard
Joe and Theo Vander and Mrs. Lem Wilson at the home
meeting of the five-day first Texas
school administration conference
being held this week at Texas A.
& M. College.
The conference, initiated by sev-
ator in the East Texas fields,
son, Muller &
Waxahachie public schools and
was graduated from the Maypearl
high school.
The couple was well known in j
Waxahachie and Maypearl.
of the American Cotton Co-op-
Jimmie Johnson, colored farmer
of Bardwell, age about 35 years,
jis in the Municipal hospital With
a deep gash in his head, said to
have been inflicted with an axe in
the hands of his wife, Lena John-
son, who was taken to the Waxa-
hachie jail where charges are pend
ing the outcome of her husband’s
injuries. The arrest was made
by Constable Hillyer Estes.
The tragedy is said to have
Sampacho, approximately
Mrs. Corbett Ashby, made mem-
bership on the committee subject
to the understanding that she will
not go beyond the Locarno pact in
making regional agreements.
Hungary flatly rejected member-
ship on the ground that such agree
1 ments would lead to the old sys-
Mrs. C. B. Lewis has returned
to her home in Dallas after a
visit here with her mother, Mrs. J.
ed by Mrs. F. S. Hudson, of Wax- ! sociation,
ahachie, aunt of Mrs. Gregory, a
county are now furnishing em- benefit to cotton,
Huntsville, Texas, June 12.—
A jury to try Raymond Hamil-
ton on charges of being an
habitual criminal was half
completed when court adjourn-
ed late Monday until Tuesday
morning.
A special venire of seventy-
five was exhausted by the time
the sixth juror was selected.
Fifty more veniremen were
summoned for Tuesday.
The 20-ycar-old Dallas gunman
ment. E. F. Creekmore, general
manager of the American Cotton
Co-operative Association, likewise
will continue in that position.
that of Hamilton was found in money will be paid back the same Ennis High School in
the Maypearl community, whereas in the past two years, holding j later attended North Texas State
three men and a womn that of- ’prior claim to all other expenses. Teachers College, Denton. After’
ficers say were Hamilton and Clyde i Officials are asking those who finishing school at Denton, he
that there was no rain there. East Barrow and Bonnie Parker stopped I wish to contribute to this loan played professional ball in the Cen-
Rev. L. S. Ballard has gone to 90 Friday afternoon, the strong
sicana have rented an apartment; Hillsboro where he will preach in arm of the law reached out and
Mich, and aim the home cf Mrs. C. E. Kimbell J revival services in the Walnut St.! snatched the brew and the alleged
of,Mr. Lane is with the construction Church of which Rev. Allen J. sellers from Waxahachie’s principal
company working on Highway 34. Kirkland is pastor. beer emporiums
been pretty general in the Ennis into a creek. A farmer of the ' & Co., Inc., J. E. Keever, Texas
neighborhood fished it out and, 1 Fewer & Light Co, Star Cash
(after he reported the incident, the 'Grocery, Dr. Crawford A. MeMur-
1 ray, Ennis State Bank, Ennis 1906.
Facts concerning this angle of ■ Lumber Cicmpany, Hesser Drug
A. Hesser.
Johnson county line on Thursday. injured in a fall in her room. She
Only the construction of a large sustained severe bruises to her Ieft
bridge spanning Mountain Creek hip and shoulder. She has been
in Ellis county, where heavy earth -sick for several weeks and due to
work is now being done by a crew shock and her advanced age much I
of 30 men, prevents the highwayconcern is felt over her condition,
from opening earlier, Welborn ex- _________
iard, have convinced the public
that the nation’s purse strings;
Waxahachie, Texas, June 11.—
Miss Dorothy Simms, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Simms of Wax-
ahachie, who has taught in the
Kaufman grammar school three
years, was married here Sunday
■afternoon in the Central Presby-
terian church to J. V. Baird, Jr,
son of Rev. J. V. Baird of Waco,
zo
s,y
29,
Surviving are seven children, |
three sons, W. A. Ritchey, J. L. inel at Monday morning’s opening
Ritchey and R. W. Ritchey, all of session. President A. W. Birdwell
Ennis; four daughters, Mrs. W. A. of Stephen F. Austin State Teach-
Burns, of Telico, Mrs. Ed Barrowers’ College cited other figures
of Ennis, Mrs. Effie Wheeler of from the survey, which showed that mer
Houston and Mrs. Ellis Hearne /in the 1931-32 school year lesS’held at 10 a m Tuesday at Altus
,of Crisp, all of whom are here.than halfof the teachers in hide- " • m -uesda • •tus
1:30 at his home in Corsicana. Mr. a. Brother, R. L. Ritchey of Mem- I pendent school districts and less ।
| than one-tenth of those in rural i
districts came up to the highest j
standards now set by the depart- I
ment of education, and that 71-2
per cent of the independent school
district teachers and 31 per cent I
of rural district teachers of that {
year were not up to the minimum
standard now set by the depart-
ment.
Mrs. Eula Norman, Mrs. Curtis
Boatright, Miss Ora Floys Flake
Carnes and F. D. Barnett went to
Corsicana this morning where they
attended funeral services for Theo-
dore Vander Laan, ago 53 years,
district plant chief of the South-
western Bell Telephone Company
who died there Tuesday. He died
at the Corsicana Hospital and
Clinic where he was taken shortly
after having been stricken with
PSMrl"Bairdlhoids‘both"the‘A. B. ing was sleeping.
A 2 , . .The wound was on the left side
A. degrees from Baylor! . . , e .. . . .
and extended from the ear to his
forehead just above the eye. rhe farmeF
half a
and receipt will be issued. was given a try-out with Waco in
The following loans have al-i the Texas League and was later
bushels of corn and a
of hulls.
Waxahachie. These workers are
distributed among six different
projects, five of which are on
Highway 34 and one on Highway
63.
sistant manager in charge of the1 also be benefited
National Re-employment office at Comparatively low
to that time he spent several car.
Several months ago, penitentiary contribule. months at San Angelo. 1 The mother had gone to the
clothing that has been declared j Receipts will be issued and the I Waynie Pollan graduated frem garden across the track and high-
" ’ ...... - ’ ’ ’ "1 1923, andway, and the baby was left at
- Ttote home with older children, and
222200
ly, of the American Cotton Co-
operative Association by the board
cf directors of that organization
was announced Saturday.
Mr. Bass is manager of the
Louisiana Cotton Co-operative As-
------ • Effective June 17, 1934, Texas 1 apoplexy.
Miss Fay Merle Hinton, daughter Electric Railway anounce a slight Funeral services wsre held this
of Rev. and Mrs. Fay Hinton of change in their schedule on the I morning at 9 o’clock at
Coolidge, had her tonsils removed Corsicana division. Under the new Church of the Immaculate
in a Mexia hospital Tuesday morn- j schedule cars will pass Ennis as ception and the body was taken i
ing. She has had heart trouble for follows: joverland to Sherman for burial,
several months and had to be built j Northbound. Rites were conducted by Monsignor
up for the operation, and it is 6:35, 7:15, 8:15 and 10:15 a. mJ M. Graff eo, pastor of the Corsicana
stated that she will have to stay 12:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 8:15 (parish.
in bed all summer, on account of and 10:15 p. m. Car passing 6:35 1
iher heart. She is still in the hos- a. m. does not run on Sunday. was formerly Miss Christin Wil-
pital but hopes to be able to be J Southbound. liams of Ennis, and four children
Austin, Texas, June 12.—John carried home in a few days. Herl 7:10, 8:51, 9:51 and 11:51 a. m.Jtwo sons,
G. McKay died Monday shortly {grandmother, Mrs. J. L. McNorton 1:51, 3:51; 5:51, 6:51, 8:51, 10:51 • Laan, Jr.’ and two daughters, Mrs.
after he was stricken with a hearty of Ennis is with her. p. m. and 12.11 a. m. Car passing E. M. Rothe and Miss Rose Mary
attack at the capitol. He was em- --7:10 a m. does not run cn Sunday. Vander Laan, all of Corsicana, and
I ployed in the Comptroller’s de- j Lawrence Clark, who has been All trains on this division carry; two sisters, Mrs. John Kenney of
Corsicana, Texas, June 12: partment. McKay served as secre- attending a medical college at St. baggage and preferred express. (Kent City, Mich., and Mrs. Henry
Sorgzie Melton, 104, negress, once Itary of state during the admin- Louis, Mo., has arrived home for ______________ {Aar.cn of Ravenna, ]
a Eave, died at her home near fistration cf former Governor Jas. .the summer. He has as his guest! Miss Louise Fisher was a visitor! brother, John Vander Laan
Purdon late Sunday. _ /E. Ferguson Fred E Cooley of Phoenix, Ariz. in Dallas Sunday. Casanova, Mich.
from Ennis the rain seems to
have been heavier, with a very
heavy looking dark cloud east of
Trinity river.
him.
A trial at Dallas resulted in a
hung jury. A second at Denton
ended with a compromise agree-
ment on a ninety-nine-year sen-
tence.
The state in the trial here is
expected to base most of its case
on Hamilton’s escare from East-
faces the third attempt of the any future conventions adopted,
state in little more than a month i The fourth committee will study
Ennis Fire Department truck left inch rain fell here at 8:30 a.
The rain is reported to have The discarded
tended later to consider such agree
ments on other continents, par-
ticularly the eastern line-up in
which Soviet Russia is interested.
Program of Work.
The program of work was that
outlined in the unanimously adopt-
led Franco-British compromise res-
extension of Highway 34 from
Mansfield to Midlothian, eliminat-
ling four miles of poorly graveled
gash was not so deep at the ear
but the skull was penetrated over
the eye, and opened a gash to the
brain.
Although the wound is a serious
one he is resting fairly well today
i and unless infection develops he
has a fair chance for recovery.
A complete left side facial para-
lysis was found to have developed
today. It was not learned here
whether- his wife made a state-
ment, or not. \.
Mr. McCullough formerly was
M II AT 1 A » head of the research department
Double Naval Airauunsnewm Caeoven
11/1*1*1- 17 the work formerly done by C. O.
VI21cary rorces Moser, who was secretary in addi-
tion to being vice president of the
A. C. C. A. Mr. Moser continues
as vice president of the A. C. C.
A.
The two men will take over their
new duties immediately, the direc-
tors announced.
Mr. Bass lived in Ennis several
years being in the employ of the
Southern Pacific Railway here.
He is past master of Ennis Ma-
sonic Lodge.
Average Tenure Seven Years.
E . p । A .. He pointed out that the averagegovernment is considering a five-
anns r eople Attend tenure of service of a Texas publicyear plan for doubling its military
school teacher is about seven years and naval air force. Other versions
and that about three-fourths of ! on which officials declined to
the escapades of the desperadoes, ! Company, Ennis Tag and Printing today, accompanied by his par-
many people seem to think, but is
an activity of the department of
labor, the function of which is to
register all unemployed residents
of Ellis county and to refer them
to such jobs as may be open,
either on public works projects or
with private employers.
Mr. Ziegler urges that every
resident of the county, who em-
ploys any sort of workers, cbtain
such workers through the National
Re-employment Service. By doing
this they wiil be assured of em-
ploying bona fide residents of El-
lis county and the National Re-
employment Office will be able to
compile and keep a complete sta-
tistical record of all employment
and available workers in this coun-
ty.
Mr. Ziegler emphasizes the fact
that there is no charge to anyone --- — -w-5-v appluvcu ~av- nut trpp yog go, L .
for this service which is provided } urday by the senate and house’ reew. chW of Dallas
• - 'and sent to the house for the 8e —aKe o Dallas.
signature of President Roosevelt . 1118 tree was taken direct from
the cld home of General Robert E.
Lee and was presented by Col.
Lake to the chapter.
Col. Lake will be here for the
dedication ceremonies and will be
one of the speakers on the pro-
gram. The complete program will
be announced in Thursday's News.
The public is cordially invited to1
shortly after 8 and were instru- {Monday, relieving high tempera-
mental in saving about 2,000 tures and doing much good to the
College Station, Texas, June 12. I
—A graphic picture of how Texas
school systems generally have
trimmed their expenses to meet
sharply reduced incomes during
• eral organizations of school exe-
cutives, is spending six hours a
day in discussion of problems of
school finance, teaching personnel
and school district organization in
addition to other hours for con-
sideration of special questions.
Heavy Cuts in Budgets.
The figures taken from a sur-
vey made by the state department
of education and covering public
school expenditures for the entire
state, showed that budgetary esti-
mates for the 1933-34 school year,
just completed, were 20.7 per cent
under expenditures for the 1930-31
school year as regards current ex-
penses. Included in this decrease
dangerously injured in the acci-
of instructional service, which later dent.
item included salaries. I The, plane plunged into the
While discussing teacher person- court house square in the heart of
AltUS.
According to a telegram receiv-
The New Orleans Times-Picayune
last Saturday published the fol- ■
lowing of interest to Sam Bass’
{friends in Ennis:
! Election of Sam Bass and W. R.
! McCullough as assistant general
j manager and secretary, respective-
placed on adult education and
that Texas public schools will be
placed on the 12-year basis in-
stead of the present eleven-year
basis within the next decade, both
of which movements will require
additional numbers of adequately
trained teachers.
I Dr. G, O. Clough of Southern
Methodist University, held the first
of a series of lectures Monday
night dealing with school district
size and organization in relation
to efficiency and costs.
attend the dedication services * the brain, it is stated, but the
an airplane crash late Sunday af- j the conference the committee itself
ternoon at Altus, Ok. {will take some action.
Death claimed Mr. Gregory in- ' ___
stantly and Mrs. Gregory died (
Mr. Gregory, 25, was a 1930{Sam Bass Named
graduate of Trinity University and I A A «« g
Mrs. Gregory, 23, formerly Miss I Acgi Gppp Vlop Al
Maxine Golliday, attended the--bte 5- •
by officers in Louisiana a
weeks ago.
000,000 pounds, (approximately
$175,'000,000.) The sum involved
explains why the government has
decided, as reliably reported, to
launch the expansion program on a
the economic depression was paint-
ed in figures given out Monday to A . Iy,y I
more than 100 school executives f oyntyane Kvleg
who attended the opening day’s 3-—
of age. His father was a black-
smith in Ennis for many years.
He was married in Ennis in
1889 to Miss Eva McKay who died
March 18, 1924. For many years
he was a member of the Free
Methodist church. I
ice is not a relief agency.
------------- who has been principal of the
I senior high school at Kaufman
Hyohw-w 34 (nan for four years. The Rev. Patrick
--S-V—J • < VF-AD. Moreland, pastor of the First
! T» 0 1 q Methodist church at Kaufman,
Much desired and badly needed
rain fell here shortly after 7
Plena Griffith, the 18-month-old
baby of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie
Griffith of Trumbull was run over
and instantly killed about 8 o’clock
which will be held on the north- (young fellow is doing nicely to-
R. M.‘Dick) Wynne doy
Died In Dallas ( ---------
Of Heart Attack Miss Fay M Hinton
Had Tonsils Removed
Has Heart Trouble
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pollan,
both of whom were with him at
[death. Besides his parents he is
; survived by one brother, Tippie
i Pollan, who formerly taugh in the
Ennis high school.
j The body arrived in Dallas this
morning at 8:30 and was met by
J. E. Keever. It was taken to the
'home of his parents in Rice, where
it will remain until time for fu-
neral services Thursday.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at
the Methodist church in Rice, con-
ducted by the pastor, Rev. R. W.
Nation. Interment will be made
in Rice cemetery under direction
of J. E. Keever.
A nine-pound son was born
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