Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. [52], No. 99, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 20, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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October. 1»11
Wheeler, Dam Almost Spans Tennessee River
near
were
<
tho«e killed"
can.
car
a
was
RETAIL SALES IN
ITALIAN ENVOY IN
Cut East
SELASSIE ATTACKS
and
might
or 3. per
came
the
ware
to
1,()5‘>.( (.0
Ohio,
23.WM)
gone
nearer final
cut more than
if
that
WEATHER
helpful to develop-
Tear Gas Routs Crazed Flyer
We
and Anahauc
■ IK IV
to
policy to
to
\\ .
re-
change < I
an
>day. with probability of no re-
virtually eve$y
■ uany rvrsy
legal docu-1
and
over
near
day.
One year ago today middling cot-
ton sold in Brenham for 13:OG
aliye
died
rela-
slick
municipal pow
t*WA has lent
1797. im-
to Phila-
brief resi-
to Texas,
called’ the
in
ed
IO,
oil
de-
the
been
Elk-
Texas
issued
allow-
WOLTERS FAMILY
TO CELEBRATE 100
YEARS IN TEXAS
on
the
A bold filling station robbery oc—
turret! in Brenham in broad daylight
at a few minutes before noon today,
when two strange men traveling in
a I’ord V-8 coupe appeared at the
PROPOSE LAWS TO
AID AAA AGAINST
the bay until Sun-
for a return to the
dinner. . '
was accompanied
SENATE REAFFIRMS
DECISION AGAINST
TAXES ON RAYON
are:
An-
an-
and
East Texas—Partly cloudy tonight
and Sunday. ' >
Washington.
Wfluing cff.frt-
court attaiks
of the
Gajeske
the Re-
training
Reserve
assigned
the Bureau's
“The average de-
cent.
ba ed on
the Italo-
comntilUx.
sessions at
may meet
Production as- of
commission
Today** Price
Brenham middling, 11:80
Houston middling, 11;75
Galveston middling, 11:90
Cottonseed hulls, $10 00
Cottonseed, street price, $25 00
Cottonseed meal, wholesale, $1.70
Cottonsaed meal, retai', $1 80.
new gas
August 1.
The decrease, w
the flow of oil
•o the railroad
federal bureau
sharp increase;
Using tear gas bomba, police at Washington, D. C., finally routed
Edgar MeBrayne, 42-year-old war-time aviator and official of the
Thio huge Tennessee Valley Authority project, situated 15.‘» miles above Wilson dam, ia the Wheeler
dam, which has 1,200 feet still to go to span the, Tennessee river Air view shows how the transmission
towers are being constructed across the river The towers will form a part of the Wilson dam-Noma
dam transmission line.
Itials production.
Refusing to engage in cotton farm-
ing, Jacob Wolters cultivated a
large tobacco crop from his land and
while San Felipe De Austin was the
center of the capitol of the Texas
government, he used to take hid
and instructive,
under the direct
officers
Major
DOOR LEFT OPEN
FOR RECOVERY OF
PROCESSING TAXES
U"t
la k
Rhe
Austin, Texas, July 20.—Retail dol-
lar -sales in Texas during June show-
ed a moderate increase over the
month last year and the decline from
May
than
eight
ths,
Business Research at the University
of Texas.
to June was so'mewhat less
the average decline of the last
years between these two mon-
accordin* to the Bureau of
Washington,
dent I^>osevelt left the White House
Friday night for a week-end .on- the
Chesapeake bay, taking along a
bundle of personal mail and offical
reports.
He remarked at his press confer-
ence Friday that he hoped to catch
up on his heavily filled wire basket
over the week-end. He added that he
also hoped to catch a few hard-
head.
It is the intention of Mr. Roose-
velt to remain on
day night in time
White House for
Mr. Roosevelt
by Attorney General and Mrs. Cum-
mings, Mr. and Mrs. James Roose-
• 1
velt, Franklin Jr., and Miss Mar-
gueritte 'Lehand, secretary.
13,000 MEXICAN
COTTON PICKERS
OUT ON STRIKE
generations at a family
to be held at the Knolle Park,
Industy, Austin County, Sun-
Shicago. with seven dead, had
temperature of 95 degrees yesterday.
Storrps sweeping New England re-
ulvd in temporary relief at the coat
<4 nine lives, mostly ^rom lightn-
ing blew York State had four
Shortly before noon they returned
and made another purchase of gas.
Both also
a few scratches and bruises.
weekend with
skidded on the
the driver lost con-
turned over several
badly damaged, the
lulc ,15 was plai-
officials at ap
While walking
in .New York.
The 100th anniversary of the
arrival in Texas of Jacob Wolters,
pioneer and native of Elberfeld, Ger-
many, will be celebrated by his
scendents of the third through
wixth
union
types of stores vari-
in relation to two
Men’s clothing
made a best showing follow-
order by women's specialty
large department stores,
department stores and dry
am) as “opening the I
t the treasury," bit 1
CHICAGO .. . To the 4-H etab members of Ft boute county,
will go the $10,000 (Tub
22 st Uk« Kahcpiagama
noti 4 H <1vbo In a na
fives.
pavement,
trol. The
times and
occupants miraculously escaping with
Mr Davis states that the men were
just average looking, with nothing
unusual about their appearance.* He
said .both had guns, the one who held
hitll up displaying an automatic for-
tv five. He was inside th*. building,
alone with th,, robbers, who -had the
drop -on him, and he was forced to
comply with their demands. The be-
lief is expressed that they were thugs
traveling in a stolen car.
ladies had smarted to San Antonio
to spend the
The car
and
Washington, July 20. (?P) -TJie
Senate today re affirmed its decisior
against imposing compensatory tax
on rayon and other competitors
cotton, rejecting bv a vote of 62
15, the motion to reconsider.
Opponents of the rttyon tax
nounced it variously as “unjust,"
“surrender to the silk industry”
The senate Thursday rejected
AAA amendment applying a tax
rayon equal to 125 pTr cent of
processing tax on cotton.
attending the Grand
in Columbus,
to New York to
of the world's me-
Hyman is enjoying
OIL ALLOWABLE IN
TEXAS REDUCED BY
R. R. COMMISSION
Addis Ababa, July 20. (TT-Count
Vinci, Italian minister, without
waiting for written instructions, to-
day protested to the foreign, office
pgainst the “bitter tone of attacks
^on Italy" contained in Emperor Haji*
Selassie's speech before parliament
Thursday.
The protest was delivered soon
after thc emperor, in an interview,
appealed to the world that peace
on the verge of being “drowned
blood and- tears of a w ar'' launch-
by Italy.
arc made,
true amount of oil
i« in doubt .it this
said
BRENHAM MEN MEET ON
STREET I>( MEW YORK
| Harrison Hyman and Otto Acker,
| wbo have
J.odge of
have now
take in the sights
tropolis, and Mr
a visit to his sister, Mrs. So1 Harri-
son of New' York
down Broadway
shortly after their arrival the Bren-
ham Elks met Fritz Kugel, who had
just landed aftyr a trip to Germany,
where he visited his. old home. The
three were thrilled to meet each
other among th,, millions of stranger^
in a great city.
time a*k
Mrs. Gus Huettig and Mrs. Her-
man Seelhorst were-.painfully, though
not seriously, injured when the car
in which they were enroute to San
Antonio overturned on the highway
west of La Grange Friday after-
noon.
A heavy rain was falling and the •
highway, was slippery when the ac- I
Between 150 and 200 descendants
are expected to be present, Gen.
Jacob P Wolters. ,«rand|->n pnd
namesake, who' is in charge, of the
arrangement, announced.
Jacob Wolters, born in
migrated from Elberfeld
depfya in 1833 and after a
dence in that city moved
arriving at what was later
Industy Community on May 7. 1835.
He was one of the earliest German
• it-.-.' • VJ,
settlers in that sectipn .He brought
with him his wife, tAree sons and
jwte daughter. Four additional son*,
one of whom died in youth, were
born to the counit in Texas.
During the civil war Jacob Wol-
p rs opposed secession, but permit-
led his sons to join the Confederate
grmjr. He sided with Houston and
remained in the camp of the anti-
secessionists.
“Mts. ~ Huettig sustained a —b
en wrist and a cut on the leg, and
Mrs. Seelhorst is suffering-with a
deep cut on the hip.
have
Both ladies were taken to the La
Grange Hospital for treatment. They
remained there Friday night'
were brought home Saturday.
Two Bandits Hold Up E. P. Davis
Xt Filling Station And Make Their
Escape Tn Car With Loot Of $12
ap-
tin-
the
Th,, federal bureau
allowable of 1,024,(MM)
The low state quota
well completions during
eraj proiluctam as
mint, Thompson
. si on
r 'ncil
re Is dailv. The 1
effective Monday
through August
Austin, July 20. (JP(-The
railroad commission Friday
an order reducing > the state
able oil production to 1.001,427 har-
der will become
and jwill extend
r<l around the station, apd <>ne of
them asked Mr Davis for an oil
He went inside the station to
, and they followed him. As
he turned he was astonished to find
himself looking into a revolver,
with orders from one o'f the men to
baihf over liis cash Mr Davis was
forced to cispiply and gave the men
about $12 cash he hail in his pocket.
After getting the money tfie high*
v aymen ordered Mr Davis to step
into a closet and warned him to re-
main
they
wages. Federal
today
■'utbori’arivc reports that
F.thiopan conciliation
which re: ntly abandoned
S< heveningen. Nethcrland.
again soon. ,
Texas Quota.
- The n^w' state allowably wag
proximately 2.1,(MM) barrels daily
tier the figure rccommcuded by
bureau of mines
suggested an
hands daily,
will allow fo’r
the proration
Thc allowable for East Texas
nt to 4.1.1,0(M) barrels daily
cent
Rome. July 20 fJP) - Belief that a
of the League of Nations
may be avoided was ex-
in authoritative c
The belief
ITALO-ETHIOPIAN
PEACE COMMITTEE
MAY MEET AGAIN
Laredo. July 20 (JP) --Thirteen
•honsand cotton pickers of the Don
Mi tin > lion of Mcxiio t ruck to4
day for higher
troops patrolled the . streets of Cam
eron, Rodriguez
was reported here the government,
would attsmpt to break th,, strike
ROOSEVELT LEAVES
ON CRUISING TRIP
Annapolis, July 20. (JP)—President
Roosevelt cruised out of here Friday
night aboard the government yacht
Sequoia for a weekend away from
Washington heat.
BRENHAM WOMEN
ARE INJURED WHEN
CAR IS OVERTURNED
tat this policy was
caused a flood of
arc reducing new fields
level of others in the same area.
tni. current production m hast
Texas is 4M,524-on thc basis of 33
per cent of tlw potential
"Throughout the state there
unconnected well', which eopl
get connections becausr of thr
of market deinUnd .therefor
rommission is reducing the allow-
ables so that each well may share in
the market." a commission memor
andmn stated.
The July allowable
barrels. By Friday
Washington, July
senalr Friday left
to suits against the
i ecovery of
hut sharply defuieiL.tha&c.^wJu*
pass through it.
compromise amendment to thc
AAA bill was adopted, 61 to 23, lim-
iting those who could bring suit to
processors who could prove ’they
had not shouldered the taxes off
upon producers or consumers.
This actiot? was taken after a high
wall of opposition had arisen to blan
ket prohibition against suits of any
character for recovery of processing
tastes paid prior to enactment of thr
pending measure
•f he compromise was variously
there for fifteen minutes after
had left However, when he
them drive off he immediately
out and sommoned office At,
made an unavailing search, as
th,, robbers probably lost no time in
getting otit'of Brenham There is no
clue, but the search wilt be. con-
tinued with the hope of apprehending
them.
To Makr Inventory.
Simultaneously with the -new pro
ration schedule, Ernest <> Thomp-
pon. erjmmt'ston ehnirmun. annount’-
td the commission had ordered an
'accurate guage taken of every stor-
age tank sgt the state
"We are going to make a true in
ventory of every barrel of oil tn
storage, and we are going to main
tain it correctly ax withdrawals
additions arc made, to the end
sre may find the
in storage, which
time," Thompson
The attitude of thc ci
Thompson said, is that rt
oil from storage and itu
I ^iould be stopped
“It is bad faith and poor
withdraw* oil from storage
San Bernardino, Switzerland, July
,20. UP)—Thirteen persons were killz.
ed today in the crash of a Royal
Diitch Airline passenger plane
here, and the plane burned.
Two of those aboard were
when rescuers appeared, but
soon afterward. Alt aboard
bcT.eved to be of Dutch nationality.
The plane, flying from Frankfort--
on-Main to Milan, appearing out of
'a fog, struck trees in view of the
village of San Giacomo, three miles
from here.
The plane carried eleven passen-
gers. Three women were among
' ■ **’:.-r -
x————————•---!■■" — ■■ "■ -— , -
Thirteen Persons Killed In Crash
Of Royal Dutch Airline Passenger j
Plane In A Fog In Switzerland
ICKES JUMPS INTO
POWFR FIGHT OVFR |
THE AAA PROJECTS
Washington, July' 20 (Jp)—Jump-
ing into, the pi.wrr fight. Sectary/
Ickes declared today that some “ten-j
tral source ft r< iponsiblee for th
widely-separated attempts to block (
the muniiipal power projects fin |
a need by PW \ money. T j
Declaring that private utility firms,
are making a "concerted attack", I
rax. ordered to stop
to storage, reports
commission and the
of mines showing
“The different
ed considerably
nomparable periods,
stores
yd in
shops,
.small
goods-apparel stores.
1 “Cities in which sales for June and
the first six months show more than
the average increase ovpr the ’ cor-
responding periods last year
Austin, Dallas, El Paso, San
tonio. Temple-and Tyler."
action
the tax compromise was
v came upon predictions
■mate leaders that the bill would
on into next week, regardless of
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BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS
20. (/P) -The
open the door
government ftp
AAA processing taxes.
port oil and at the same
us to restrict production,",
mented
Thc commission also has
its policy of allowing new field
:SEVERE HEAT WITH
STORMS RESULTS IN
THIRTY-FIVE DEAD
By AMOcfated Presa
Severe heat gripped the eastern
Secretary Ickes refered in hr»’ state-1 half of the country, andfcaccomp
ments to attempts to enjoin twenty- ] ranying storms left thirty five dead
two of the thtrtv one
er projects Tn which
a helping hand
Hf declared that in
tw the language in
ment* presented against the munici-
pa) plant* “is sirmW insofar as ques-
tions of constitaiiBnality are con-
Eggs, 15c.
Infertile eggs, 17c.
Fryers, Rhode Island Reds
Plymouth Rocks, weighing not
2 pounds, 15c.
Fryers, common stocks, 10c.
Common hens, 8c to 10c.
Old roosters, 4c to 5c.
New Potatoes, lJ4c lb..
Country Bacon. 13c.
Country lard, 13c.
Butter, 20c to 28c. «
Sour cream butterfat, No. 1, 16c.
Sour cream butterfat, No. 2, 14c.
Sweet cream butterfat, 19c.
Sweet cream butterfat, delivered at
plant 23c. ___
COTTON
MAJOR GAJESKE LEAVES
FOR TRAINING DUTY
Major Edwin A. Gajeske, a local
Regular Army Reserve Officer, left
Saturday morning for Rort Clark,
has been ordered
duty rtki»..
the 5th U. S. Cavalry.
Major Gajeske and thirty-six other
ReServe Officers from different
parts of the State will train at Fort
Clark, Texas, frojn July 21st to
August 3rd and after this active
duty training these officers will re-
turn to their respective homes. From
the training schedule can f*e °*>‘
served that the training period will
be very interesting
The training will be
Supervision of the
5th U. S. Cavalry,
will be in command of all
serve Officers during this
period. In the Officers
Corps, the Major is
Headquarters 312th Cavalry.
“Reports from 93 department and
specialty stores indicate an average
increase in dollar sales during June
of 4.4 per cent over June a year ago
July 20. (/P) Presi- (but a <j«ciine of 12 .1 per cent from
the previous month,'
statement said,
cline is 14.5 per
COURT ATTACKS
July 20 UP)--Con-
fer AAA against
administration offi-
cials today propos'd legislation to
validate contract* under wtych the
govi riittirnt has agreed to pay crop-
ri-ilu. iiig farmers an additional $700.-
1(00 000.
filling
station operated by E.
P.
Davis
at the corner of School
and
\eade
my Streets and relieved
Mr.
t >avis
of about $12 in cash at
the
point
of a gun. •
Mr.
Davis at:fies that the
two
men.
stranger* here, came to
his
filling
stattion about 10 o'clock
this
morning . and purchased some
gas.
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