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VOLUME IV.
HalletLsville, Texas, Friday, April 5th, 1935.
Line or Two
i
Some legislators in Austin
evidently want this State to
juaip from one extreme right
into the other. Now the
•State won’t allow anyone to
sell bard liquor. Then the
8tate itself would sell liquor.
The proposal to that effect
was just passed by the
house. If the people vote
this monopoly, in, then only
they again can vote it out.
And that may not be so easy.
It will become a part of the
constitution — something
worse than we have now.
The purpose of this whole
attempt is nothing else than
to complicate the repeal
question, if the submission
can not be prevented, and
'haps save the prohibition.
jPerJ
Regarding the plan of
making more owners among
our farmers, less tenants and
unemployed” as solution for
depression, writes Sen. Shep-
pard this editor: “—I want
you to know that I am giving
careful study to this particur
lar plan in connection with si
milar ones advanced by Se-
nators Harrison and Bank-
head.”
Hie Mexican government
hired the radio stations in
this country to spread the
Cheer of Mexican music and
gong. But its own acts talk
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Two Mexican consuls in
California are charged with
going so far, according to
the evidence, as to interfere
here with the public prayers
held for “peace and concord”
in Mexico. That seems far
enough for some action on
the part of our government.
The Supreme Court decid-
ked that the Texas democrats
have a right to exclude U»e
imaries.
The party may do what the
State can not — but the ef-
fect is the same. The ne-
groes can’t vote.
The state senate finally
voted 3 millions for the Cen-
tennial. The house i$ ex-
pected to do likewise soon-
Most of the money will be
spent in three large centers
— Dallas, Houston, San An-
tonio.
Lavaca County belongs to
the first communities settled
in Texas. Its heroes fought
• for Texas independence in
Mexico as well as at San Ja-
cinto as Prof- Paul C. Boe-
thel shows7 in the history
which he collected about La-
^ vaca County.
4 , To this county belongs the
^‘distinction that here at St.
4 Mary’s stood one of the first
two Catholic schools in the
State. It was founded by
missionary Father Clark,
more than 90 years ago,
Prof. Boethel tells in this
Issue.
The people of this State
may have an opportunity to
vote on the constitutional a-
mendment of free text books
for all children of scholastic
age attending any school
within this State.
Senators Holbrook of Gal-
veston and Blackcrt of Vic-
toria were co-signers of this
resolution. But this was
chiefly Sen. Sulak’s work- He
defended it both in the sen-
ate and in the house com-
mittee.
it.-.
TWO MEXICAN CONSULS IN--
CALIFORNIA CHARGED WITH.
ANTI RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY
TRIED TO IN-
TERFERE WITH
RELIGIOUS
SERVICES
Public Notice on Mex-
ico Demanded in
Congress
Washington, D. C., April 12.—
(AP)—Representative McCormack
(Democrat, Massachusetts) deman
ded in a st; tement today that
the Btate department serve “pub-
lic notice” on Mexico that inter-
ference with the constitc tional
rights of Americans in the Unit-
ed States “will not be tolerated
nor permitted.”
Just a few minutes before, the
house foreign affairs committee
postponed action on a resolution
protesting alleged religious per-
secution in Mexico and voted to
ask the state department its
views concerning it.
McCormack, chairman of the
special house committee on un-
American activities, said that the
committee received evidence
“which, if true, showed that Her-
molao K. Torres, Mexican consul
at San Dernadino, Calif., had com
mitted acts in the United States
in clear violation of his statuB
and position in this country as an
accredited representative of the
Mexican government.”
PROCESSION CITED.
McCormack said that Torres al-
legedly “did everything within his
power” to prevent a religious pro
cession commemorating “the
feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe”
last December.
Furthermore, McCormack added,
the state department’s attention
also was called to1 a similiar “al-
leged violation” by Alejando V.
Martinez, Mexican consul of Lob
Angeles:. i
“The evidence on these two
cases if true, and the evidence
seems very clear and convincing,”
McCormack’s statement continued,
"shows an attempt on part of
an accredited consul from Mex-
ico to interfere with the constitu-
tional rights of our citizens, and
of persons resident in the United
States.
ainsfc alleged religious persecution
in Mexico was introduced Feb-
ruary 1, L'y Representative Fish,
(Republican, New York.)
Los Angeles, April 2. — (AP)
The asserted Mexican interference
in domestic religious matters cit-
ed by Representative McCormack
in Washington was explained to-
day by the Most Rev. John J.
Cantwell, Catholic bishop of Los
Angeles and San Diego, as an at-
tempt to dissuade public prayers
here for "peace and concord” in
Mexico. >
CONSTABLE KILL-
ED IN AUTO CRASH
IN MATAGORDA
COUNTY
Dry City, April 1. — S. M. My-
rick, CO, was killed at Cedarlane
post office last night when struck
by an automobile driven by Ed-
win Brannon A Ba'y City. The
two cars were meeting head-on
and Mr. Brannon was blinded by
the lights, his car striking Mr.
Myrick with such force that he
was killed. Mr. Myrick was
constable of Pro/.nct C. He was
buried here this afternoon.
County Judge Oscar Barber
held an inquest and said it was
an unavoidable accident. Mr.
Myrick leaves a grown eon at
Cederlane.
MEXICAN OIL
STRIKE VOTED
Mexico, D. F., April 1. — (A
P) — Forty-five labor unions ia
the state of Tamaulipas, includ-
ing the workers’ union of the
Aguila Petroleum company, today
voted a sympathy strike in sup-
port of strikers of the Huasteca
Petroleum company (Standard
Oil company of New Jersey) at
Mata Redona, Vera Cruz.
The strikers demanded new la.
bor contracts and higher wages.
Fear was expressed the move
ment, with the support of other-
labor organizations, might develop
into a general strike throughout
the country.
POISON PLOT AT
FORD PLANT
PROBED
Detroit, April i. — (INS) -
One Ford Motor company worker
is dead and another is near death
from eating poisoned sandwiches
while at work in the Rouge'plaijt
it was disclosed today.
Ford police ate prepari ig to
question 400 men, the entire nignt
shift of the cramshaft department.
The dead worker 1b Louis
Sheery, 25, of Inkster, a suburb.
William P. Wicker, 2d, of Detroit
Is near death.
Examination of remnants of the
bread was coated with a deadly
poison a Ford official said.
The men ate the poisoned sand
wiches during their lunch period
at 3 a. m. today, it was learned.
Sherry was dead within 15 min-
utes. Wicker is in Henry Ford
hospital. He took only one
bite of his sandwich, and hope
was held for his life.
The Ford official said the brea I
of which the sandwiches were
made, was not the same kind of
bread used in sandwiches on sale
In the plant._
BORDEN, COMMISSIONED OFFICER
AT SAN JACINTO
Dallas, Texas, April 1. —
(Special) — In the little town
of Borden, in Colorado County,
Nov. 12, 1191, occurred the death
of the last surviving commission-
ed officer, of those who led the
triumphant TexanB in their vic-
tory at San Jacinto, where, April
21, 1836, was achieved that in-
dependence the Centennial of
which will be celebrated by Texas
in 1936 .
This man was John P. Borden,
a brother of the fan.ous Gail
Borden, who also figured notably
in early Texa, history and whose
inventive genius brought him to
worldwide acclaim. In Dallas,
six grand-children—L. B. Duffel,
S. Gail Duffel, Horace E. Duffel,
Mrs. Mary L. Cobb, Mrs. Carl W.
Cowun and Mrs. 0. E. Winford—
proudly recall that John P. Bor-
den was their forebear.
This Eordon was born in New
York in 1812 but came to Texas,
In 1829, when hut a young mar.
In 1843, he wedded Mary S. Hatch
at old Brazoria.
But previous to that happy
hymeneal event, he hud taker up
arms in the cause of Texas in-
dependence. The duy which
marked the victory at Sun Ja-
cinto found him Lieutenant in the
company of Cspt. Mosel v Baker,
in the regiment of Burleson. Bor
den’s company anJ others were
detached from the main Yjxan
army by Gen. Sam Houston and
stationed on the east side of the
Brazos river, at San Felipe, to
prevent the passage of the Mexi-
can army, under Santa Anna, at
that point. So gallantly they
performed their defined duty ’ hi t
the Mexicans were ooliged fe de-
flect from their eoursa and effect
a crossing ut Uichmo.nl, further
down the stream.
Upon organization of the civil'
Government of the Republic of
Texas, following the succe irful
termination of the Revolution,
Borden, in 1888, vas appointed
as first Commissioner of the Gen-
eral Land Office and served in
that capicity. Thi, was a position
of importance in tiic new Govern-
ment us the young Republic was
rich in nothing save lands, and
it was upon the utilization of
this resource that it depended for
yield of sufficient revenue ‘to re-
lieve its pressing financial bur-
dens, The general Land Office
had been established in 1837 to
handle the land problems, which
included' surveying of the vast
domain, distributing land bounties
that had been promised those who
had taken part in the Revolution
and the formulation of policies
of colonization and settlement un
der the laws of the Congress of
the Republic.
Borden, history recites, kept
records with great care and ac-
curacy, proving himself to be ad-
mirably fitted for the position of
Commissioner. The State be-
ing wocfuljy abort of funds, ho
was paid for his service, in land
that at that time was valued at
only 10 cents per acre.
NUMBER 28.
LIQUOR MONOPOLY WOULD
BE SUBMITTED TO PEOPLE
HOUSE PASSES
RESOLUTION TO
THAT EFFECT
TO ALL COTTON
CONTRACT
SIGNERS:
Under the new order by Chancellor Hitler to conscript the German army to three tlmea Its
Military tailors are kept busy providing the necessary uniforms.
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KANSAS STARTS
BATTLE AGAINST
DUST STORMS
Topeka, April 2. — Mobiliza-
tion of man, animal and machine
power for a gigantic battle ag-
ainst Western Kansas dust storms
was launched Monday by federal
and state officials.
With a quarter of a million-
dollar relief fund to work with,
Dean Harry Umbirger of Kan-
sas State college began organiz-
ing farmers in the affected areas
for i listing program of between
2,500,000 and 3,000,000 acres of
land that has been damaged by
the dust storms.
Agricultural official, estimated
that more than 20,000 tractors
and approximately 75,000 horse
and mule teams are available in
the dust-suffering area for lise-
Ing work.
The relief funds will be used
to purchase oil and fuel for the
tractors and feed for teams used
in the fight against the ravaging
winds.
Sponsors of the listing prog'nm
believe tiiat by throwing up rid-
ges in fields that have teen blow-
ing, picking up of soil by winds
will be minimized.
It is estimated that approxi-
mately 9,848,000 acres of Western
Kansas land has been affected
by winil blowing. Of this am-
ount only about 25 to 30 per
cent will require full listing. The
balance will be treated to strip
or partial listing._
500,000 NEW FARMS STARTED
IN AMERICA DURING FIVE YEARS
Washington, April 4. —
1 (AP) — Half a million new
TEXAS METHOD
TO BAR NEGRO .
VOTER UPHELD faT Tre estiTted We,d/
nesday by census bureau offi
cials to have sprung up in
the United States in the last
negroes from voting at Democra-1 fjve years,
tic primaries — by restricting _ „ ,,
So far as there are any in-
dications in the preliminary
returns from the farm cen-
sus, most officials said they
Washington, ^prill. — The
method employed in Texas to bar
membership in the party to whit-
er—was sustained today by the
Supreme Court.
The action of the Texas Demo-__ _ ______
citizens qualified to vote under
state laws wap challenged by R.
R. Grovey, a 44-year-old Harris
County negro.
In 1932 the Supreme Court de-
clared invalid a Texas statue
which prohibited negroes elec-
tions. Since then the same re-
sults have been sought by action
of the Democratic party organi-
zation.
Justice Roberts, delivering Hie
butable to persons who went
back to the country from city
jobs that vanished in the de-
pression. They did not
think the work of the farm
program had much to do
with the jump.
The farm census is in the
concluding stages in so far as
the gathering of statistics Is
tAVACA TOMATO GROWERS TO VOTE
ON MARKETING AGREEMENT
opinion, said the state convention , , ... i4. -ii
was recognized by the state .^concerned, hut it Will be
having the right to arrange for j months yet beloKJ the tabu-
elections. ■ lations are completed and a
“We hold the party was a vol- rounded picture of the trend
untary association and was com- J. , .
potent to decide its member, hip.” j 1* produced,
he asserted. I In 1930 the last general census
No dissent was announced. showed 6,300,000 faims in the Un
When the present
All Lavaca County Tomato
Glowers will vote on whether or
not they wish to enter into a
Tomato Marketing Agreement for
1935 Saturday, April Cth. .
Voting places will be as fol-
lows:
Hallettsville, Sublime, Vienna,
Speaks, Ezzell, Hope, Kocrth,
Sweet Home, Yoakum.
The voting will take place be-
tween the hours of 8 o’clock A.
M. and 5 o’clock P. M. Only
those farmers who are growing
tomatoes for market this year
wil be eligible to vote in this el-
ection.
The tomato agreement if adopt-
ed by the industry and approved
by the Secretary of Agriculture,
attempts to correct existing dis-
organized marketing conditions
and sustain prices to growers.
The main features of the agree-
ment are a, follows:
1. That all carlot and truck
loads of tomatoes be inspected by
State-Federal inspectors.
2. Every shipper of tomatoes
is placed under a Federal license.
It is v’lthin the power of the
Secretary of Agriculture to re-
voke the shipper’s license in cuse
of continued violation of the ag-
reement.
3. The limiting of shipment
by grade, such ns elhnuting No. 2
or cull tomutoes if thought test
by the control committee.
4. A limitation of shipment of
certain siz:s of tomatoes.
5. A shipping holiday, if thought
bc3t by the control committco,
prohibiting the loading and ship-
ping of tomatoes for a 48 hour
period throughout Fast Texas and
Mississippi. A .-hipping holi-
day cannot be onerattve oftenor
I than once each week, and it is
the responsibility of the Fcdetnl
inspectors to enforce this holi-
day. The holiday cannot bo
put into effect until n limitation
of shipments of grade and size
limitations lias teen previously
put into use.
There are four districts in Tex-
as who muke, up the East Texas
territory. The East Texas ter-
ritory and Mississippi both operate
under the same agreement and
any limitation, placed on Texas
Tomatoes will also be placed on
these in Mississippi. District 1
centers aiouud Avery; District 2
around Jacksonville, District 3
around Livingston, and District
4 around Yoakum. Each dis-
trict is represented by a com-
mittee of seven men composed of
four tomato grower, and three
Itut State-.
count started, officials estimated it
would show 0,500,000, but William
L. Austin, the director of the
census, said Wednesday:
“We now know from the re-
turns that arc in that the figure
is going higher than that. It will
show at least 800,000 more farms
than in 1930 and probably 600,-
000 more.”
Two other things also are be-
ing demonstrated l»y returns thus
far received. There are more
.-mall farm, than there were in
1930. And there are a lot of
persons on farms now who were
tomato shippers. A State Con- jn cities five years ago.
trol Committee composed of nine -j^e extent of these trends, how-
men will represent Texas in deal-1 evcr> wjH have to be measured
ing with Texas and Mississippi ^ when the full returns are in.
joint problems. The State Con- Xhen, too, will be determined how
trol Committee will be composed ,)luch more land i3 in cultivation
of one grower and one shipper than was five years ago. All
from each district. The ninth 0f the new faims, officials be-
member will be elected by the iieve, could hardly have come
eight members elected by the in-
dustry.
While the Yoakum district is
shipping alone on the market, no
other district committee is allow-
ed to say what size and grade ol
tomatoes shall be shipped from
the Yoakum district. When the
Livingston district begins to ship
its crop, the control committee
from th.it district and the You-
kum district committee work to-1 high Rockies, the count has not
from making little ones out of
big ones.
Upward of 1,000,009 returns
are already in from the count,
but they represent only a small
portion of tho.-e to come. They
are being left in the local offices
until checked for errors, after
which they uro fjrwarded to
Washington foi tabulation.
But in the few localities in the
Two proposals Would
Be Presented Separa-
tely
Austin, April 3- — The
house at 5 P. M. Wednesday,
after two days of heated de-
bate, voted for a double-bar-
reled prohibition repeal plan.
The voters would vote first
on repeal of prohibition and
then for or against the state
monopoly plan. The vote on
final passage was 134 to 8.
Its adoption came as a big
surprise. At once both the
dry and wet groups were
claiming it a victory.
The two prohibition repeal
amendments adopted by thi
bouse and senate wil' no-v
have to go to a free confer-
ence committee. The seha'e
re » Jution provides for the le-
gislature to make lawt, gov-
erning sale in unbroken r°',-,k-
np.O!i which would be either
by slate stores or by private
u ii victuals.
Ruth resolutions woull pro
hibil rhe open saloon.
Previously the houses Lad
reversed its position of Tues-
day. It voted, 76 to 63, to
adopt the amendment by Re-
presentative Elmer Pope of
Corpus Christi to maki tho
state monopoly plan of liquor
control permissive and net
mandatory.
NOT ONE IN TEN WANT
JOB
Says Yoakum Herald:
Since the announcement
that the Griggs Canning Co-,
of Natalia, Texas, is going to
build a Tomato Canning
Plant here we have been be-
sieg<3d by applications for
jobs in the canning plant,
but the outstanding feature
of this whole matter is that
not one application has come
from the ranks of those who
are on the relief roll. Not
one in ten of those people
want a job and most of them
would not take one if it
were offered to them. Hav-
ing the feed stuff handed out
Under the Administiativa Rul-
ing, paragraph 2, of any 1934
and 1935 Cotton Acreage Reduc-
tion Contract shall be interpreted
to mean “Whenever any Producer
or Landlord shall enter into one
such contract, covering a farm
owned, operated or controlled by
him, is obliged also to enter in-
to 1934 and 1935 cotton acreage
reduction contracts covering all
other cotton farms owned, operat-
ed, or controlled by him.” In
other words, if you owned two
or more farms and had any of
Vour farm or farms under con-
tract in 1934 it will be necessary
for you to put the remaining farm
or farms you own, operate or con
trol under the contract in 1935,
regardless of how the farm or
farms are rented. If you fail
to comply with these ruling* it
will jeopardize your 1934 and 1935
cotton contract and the Secretary
of Agriculture can take any steps
he deems necessary to enforce
these rulings.
i If you have failed to comply
with these rulings I would sug-
gest that you .call by the County
Agent’s Office as soon as possible.
—D. L. Hudson, Assistant in Cot- .
ton Adjustment, Lavaca County.
SIMMONS ^ELECTED
CITY MARSHALL
The present night wa'xhnuut,
F. A. Simmons, ^was elected cit'y
marshal over fire other candidates
in the Tuesday's election. He re-
ceived 118 votes, Frank Matula
111, Dave Henry 75, B. C. Avant
51, H. A. Mertx 37, and Herman
Grahmann 32. This contest attrac-
ted the largest interest.
In the aldermanic race, A. J.
Hill and F. A. Rother were re-
elected. J. F. McKnight, the third
candidate, was endorsed by 94
votes.
Mayor Traxler was re-elected
with no oposition.
Total 416 votes were cast.
The following were in charge
of this flection: Hy, Strauss, pry
49
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siding office!; Julius Bucek,
Claude Barnes and Dave Fink-
clstein.
In the Shiner election for City
Secretary, Treasurer and Assessor,
J. M. Canon was rc-dcctcd, de-
feating B. J1 Novak by a sub-
stantial majority.
STOCK LAW ELECTION CAR-
RIED.
The stock law election held
Saturday, March 30th, in pre-
cinct 5, carried by a majority
of five votes. Only very few
votes were cast in the election.
to them suits them much bet
ter than to have to go out
and work for it.
WAR WOULD BE ENORMOUS
CRIME, DECLARES POPE
VATICAN CITY, April 1. —lie prayer at Lourdes, France, so •
I’ope Pius told a secret combs-that God “might illuminate the
tory of 20 cardinals today that minds of those who have in their
war wa, “impossible.” hands the government ami the
He said it was impossible be- fate of peoples in the present
gethcr to determine wliut grades
and' sizes shall bo shipped front
the two districts. As the other
districts begin to move th ir
crops, each will have u propor-
tionate share in designating limi-
tations.
It appears at this time that the
hulk of the Yoakum crop will be
shipped out before the northeast
Texas district begin, to move
their crops, During the ship-
ping season the Jacksonville sec-
tion will reach its peak of pro-
duction about June 15th. The
Livingston territory should reach
its peak about June 3-5. The
Yoakum territory should reach
its peuk about May 20-25. —J.M.
Parks, County Agent Lavaca Co.
Farmers should not be under
the impression that the County
Agent demands or wants them to
vote yes or no on this agreement.
All that they want to do is to
explain the agreement and have
you, the farmers, vote as you
see fit.
b:en made yet because the cen-
sus takers have not been able
to get through deep winter snows.
Also, muny of these farmers
spend the winters in other sec-
tions uml come back home in
the spring.
DADDYOF QUINT-
UPLETS HARD
DRINKER OF
SOFT DRINKS
Olivia Dionne, father rf the
famous Dionne Quintuplets of
Canada, drinks from ton to fif-
teen bottles of soda water a day,
according to the manager of their
theatrical tour in this country.
"Mamma” Dionne also is a
hard drinker of soft drinks, theii
manager says, and his outlay to
supply their demands for this
liquid refreshment during their
first week in Chicago was ap-
proximately $20.00.
cause:
1. “It would be -o enormous a
crime, such a foolisli manifosla-
tion of fury.”
2. “We cannot persuade our-
selves that those who should have
at I t art. the prosperity and well-
being of the people wish to push
to suicide, ruin and extermina-
tion not only their own nation
but c great part of humanity.’’
3. "To us, as to many others,
there i„ manifest the physical anti
matci ml impossible of war .n the
prtMcm mod serious circumstan-
ce.'’ v
i ic ate t said the allocution was
•i of the strongest speeches his
he iness has ever made and that
hi* mi-hatted audience re mined
rlg’d throughout the solemn ad-
dresu.
DECREES PRAYERS.
His gestures, they said, were o
frequent, and his delivery wus
marked hy what they described us
terrible calm.” They said hi* eyes,
still bright despite tire pope’s 78
years, seemed to flash as he
spoke.
His holines, pleaded for the De-
struction of those who want war
and proclaimed three days of pub
i
sad anxiety of a time which leads
to fear for a still sadder future.”
TWO CANONIZED
Tire I’irst part of the pontiff’s
allocution was devoted to presen-
tation, of ti e two canonizations
and beseechit : the grace of God
on the country ot the two martyrs
—England.
Twenty cardinals, gathered in
the first secret consistory called 9
in 18 months, raised their hands
to approve the canonisation of
Sir Thninas More and Bishop F*sh
• r. who lost their heads for op-
posing the marriage of lleury
VIII to Anne Bolgyn.
Tin i oiioistory also approved
lie nomination of Cardinal Ku-
rin io Pacelli as camerlcngo. In
hi, capacity he acts as pope
luring the period between tho
loath of one pope and the dec* .
lion of Ins succesHor. Pacelli .
succeeds the late Cardinal Pletra
Ga-parri, veteran ex-secretary
state. No new cardinals were’*
:i rated.
The consistory likewise prucofc-
ized, or confirmed, the appoint-'
ment of American and other arch-
bishop* the pope has made ainrn
the last consistory.
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