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The Whitewright Sun
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year.
VOL. 55, NO. 37.
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BAPTISTS CONTINUE
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MAD DOG KILLED HERE
AFTER BITING OTHERS
PALACE TO INSTALL
COOLING SYSTEM
BANK ROBBERY TRIAL
IS SET AT SHERMAN
YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO
MEET HERE TUESDAY
FANNIN COUNTY
DRY LAW UPHELD
date changed for
RURAL GRADUATION
Ethylene gas is being used experi-
mentally to remove husks from wal-
nuts when removal is otherwise dif-
ficult.
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Methodists
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COMMERCIAL LINES
AGAIN TAKE CHARGE
OF AIR MAIL LINES
Miss Emily Marshall, junior at the
University of Missouri, fired a per-
fect score in each of 30 matches as a
member of the girls’ rifle team.
YARD BEAUTIFICATION
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PRESS REGULATIONS
RELAXED IN GERMANY
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From practical experience the De-
partment of Agriculture has learned
that temporary check dams of bush,
built to stop erosion, will last from
two and one-half to three years.
The date for the Grayson County
rural graduation exercises has been
changed from May 15 to May 16, on
account of the Rotary convention be-
ing held in Sherman on the 15th. The
exercises will be held at Sherman [
hall, Austin College, on Wednesday
evening at 8 o’clock.
The graduation program is spon-
sored by the Grayson County Council
of Parents and Teachers.
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Settling on
South Plains
Sheriff J. B. (Benton) Davis has
authorized The Sun to place his name
in the political announcement column
as a candidate for sheriff of Grayson
County. Mr. Davis is now serving
his first term as sheriff. He has had
a successful administration, and has
received the compliments of peace
officers and friends in the record he
and his deputies have made in run-
ning down bank robbers and other
law violators. Mr. Davis will appre-
ciate your support. His formal an-
nouncement will appear in a later is-
sue of The Sun.
(Political Advt.)
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J. W. McMurry Jr.
Named Head Coach
At Gainesville
Seek Improvement
Kentuckytown Road
Judge Restrains
Sherman Charter
Change Election
Miss Tommie Chenoweth will
sent her pupils in music
Thursday, May 17, at 7:45 p. m.
the grammar school auditorium. The
public is cordially invited to atend.
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J. B. (BENTON)DAVIS
ASKS FOR REELECTION
Commercial air lines became post-
men for Uncle Sam again Tuesday.
On four routes, including the
transcontinental run between New-
ark, N. J., and Oakland, Calif., pri-
vate contractors relieved army air-
men who had been flying mail since
Postmaster General Farley canceled
air mail contracts last Feb. 19.
Postoffice officials at Washington
said other routes would be turned
back within the next few days under
contracts awarded last week.
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AUSTIN. — For the week ending
April 14, reports from 3,038 Texas
establishments to the University of
Texas Bureau of Business Research
showed a gain of 16.4 per cent in the
number of workers employed and a
rise of 15.5 per cent in payrolls in
comparison with these same firms
during the corresponding period last
year.
An increase of 1.2 per cent in pay-
rolls and less than 1 per cent in the
number employed occurred in these
A rabid dog made its appearance
in Whitewright Monday, and after it
had bitten several dogs in widely
separated parts of town the animal
was killed in the northeast part of
the city.
The city police department killed
two of the mad dog’s victims at the
request of the owners. It is probable
that some of the other dogs bitten
will develop rabies if they are not
killed also.
Some person or persons unknown,
either fearing a rabies epidemic or
tired of being annoyed by packs of
dogs at night, scattered some poison
Monday night and reduced the canine
population of Whitewright. The Sun
was unable to learn the exact num-
ber of dogs poisoned, but several
died from effects of poison Monday
night and Tuesday.
Supt. F. W. Smith announces the
following schedule for the closing of
the 1933-34 session of the White-
wright public schools.
The examinations for the high
school seniors and the seventh grade
at the grammar school will be given
the week of May 21 to 25. The sched-
ule for these two grades is one week
in advance of the other grades, thus
giving them a week free from other
duties in which to remove any condi-
tions that may stand between them
and their diplomas.
The senior day exercises will be
Monday, May 28.
Final examinations for all grades
except the seventh and the seniors
will be May 29 to June 1.
Grade school graduation will be
Friday evening, June 1.
The baccalaureate servcies will be
held at the Methodist Church, Sun-
day, June\3.
High school commencement, Mon-
day, June 4.
Mother’s Day
The second Sunday in May is set aside each year for the nation
to honor its mothers, and May 13 is the-second Sunday in May this
year.
Mother’s Day is not a holiday, nor yet a religious day, because of
the universality of its appeal. For holidays commemorate events
which'- appeal only to limited classes, and men differ in religious
creed. But in Mother’s Day observances, all may participate, re-
gardless of creed or nationality. In the honoring of that sacred
name, each man may pay tribute and feel the bonds of fellowship
which link him with all the rest.
It is eminently fitting that we should in reverence and serious-
ness, observe this day. It matters not what a man’s creed may be;
what religious views he may hold, if any; whether he worships God
or Allah; still may he not be ashamed to bow his head in reverent
prayer or meditation when on this day he thinks upon her who gave
him life.
In the still quiet watches of the night she has kept her lonely vigil
of prayer for him; when he has wandered far from the path she has
pointed, and by his deeds renqunced the creed which she held, still
has her love for him been unshaken; through the years her hope
has supplanted and outrun his own; from the time when his eyes
first opened to behold the wonder and fantasy of a new world, her
solicitation for his welfare has been a steady passion; through long
days and years of helplessness, she has enfolded in her love and sus-
tained him with the tender strength of her hand; in his days of
youth and manhood, when beset with doubt and fear, like a haven
from the storm, her heart has ever been open to him; and this love
has been given simply and without thought of reward.
Now it may be that the passing finger of Time has touched her
hair with spangles of silver, and brushed from her cheeks the blos-
som and bloom of youth. But her allshe has given for us; and still in
her eye we can see burning the fire of a love that shall never wane.
Then, on this day, let us devote a time to silent meditation, and re-
solve to strive for the goal of perfection which she would have us at-
tain. If she is living, let us thank whatever gods may be for her ten-
der love and gentle care, and convey to hex1 some expression of our
gratitude; if she has lifted the invisible curtain and passed into the
silence of eternity, let us in reverence honor the memory of her sa-
cred name. And for it we shall be better men.
Experiments have proved bait
composed of wheat bran and Paris
green is particularly effectice in ex-
terminating cutworms in tobacco
fields.
John W. McMurry Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. McMurry of White-
wright, has been elected head coach
of Gainesville junior college and high
school to succeed Virgil Ballard, who
resigned recently to accept a post on
the Texas Tech coaching staff at
Lubbock.
McMurry has been basketball coach
and assistant football coach at Lub-
bock high school for four years.
While a student at Austin College,
Sherman, he played football and bas-
ketball with the Kangaroos, and was
selected as the best all-round athlete
in the college in his senior year. He
was captain of the Whitewright high
school football team in 1926 when
the local school had the best team in
its history.
The management of the Palace
theatre announced Wednesday that a
cooling system would be installed in
the theatre within the next few days.
A cooling system is all that the thea-
tre needs to be modern in every re-
spect. New sound equipment was in-
stalled recently and other improve-
ments made. Good programs are be-
ing shown nightly, and the theatre is
growing more popular every week
with the public.
$20.00 Cash Prize
A prize of $20.00 in cash will be
given away next Tuesday night at 9
o’clock. A $10.00 prize was offered
Tuesday night but the winner, Miss
Lucille Garner of Trenton, was not
present to claim it. This accounts for
the prize being $20.00 next Tuesday
night.
A yard beautification contest will
be sponsored again by the Friday
Literary Club. There are Some beau-
tiful yards in Whitewright and we
hope the interest in attractive yards
and premises will continue to grow.
The time for judging the yards
has been set for the first week in
June and prizes will be awarded im-
mediately after the winners are an-
nounced. The prizes are to be given
for:
1. A grand prize fox' the best all-
round yard owned by a person who
is not a member of the club.
2. A grand prize fox’ the best all-
round yard owned by a club member.
3. The best rose garden.
4. The most attractive lawn.
5. The pretties and best arranged
back yard.
6. The most attractive approach
and park way.
7. The best arranged planting of a
public place.
8. The cleanest alley.
9. The colored person having the
cleanest yard and premises.
Those wishing to enter this contest
please phone Mrs. C. P. Johnson or
Mrs. H. P. Donigan before the 1st of
June. We urge that all who are in-
terested will enter this contest and
help to beautify our town.
Signed by the Civic Committee of
the Friday Literary Club.
A committee from Kentuckytown
met with the Whitewright Board of
Education Tuesday night and dis-
cussed the need for improvement of
a quarter-mile stretch of the White-
wright-Kentuckytown road. With the
exception of this short stretch, the
road is passable in all weather, but in
its present condition the school bus
is compelled to turn in muddy weath-
er about a mile before reaching Ken-
tuckytown.
As a result of the meeting, a com-
mittee from the Board of Education
and a committee from Kentuckytown
will present the matter to the County
Commissioner of this precinct within
the next few days.
The Board of Education re-elected
Miss Tommie Chenoweth as teacher
of music in the schools for next ses-
sion.
Miss Lucille LaRoe, teacher of ex-
pression in the schools, has also been
re-elected.
CRAIG, Colo.—The thrilling and
sometimes profitable vocation of
hunting wild horses has been revived
in this section with the recent rise in
the price of mustangs. It is estimated
that 1,500 cayuses roam the cedar
brakes and sand washes in the region
85 miles northwest of Craig.
The Grayson County Young Demo-
crats will hold a meeting in White-
wright Tuesday night, May 15, at 8
o’clock, it is announced by Bob Sears,
committeeman.
The meeting will be held at the
American Legion hall, and all persons
interested in government are invited
to attend.
Members of the organization from
Sherman, D e n is o n and other
points in the county will be present.
The purpose of the meeting here is
to acquaint the people with the pur-
poses of the organization. The or-
ganization sponsors no particular
candidate nor political issue, Mr.
Sears said. While it is an organiza-
tion of young Democrats, member-
ship is not limited to young persons,
although no person over 40 years
old is qualified to be an officer of
the organization.
The Grayson County Young Demo-
crats organization is the fourth
largest in the state, its membership
being exceeded only by Dallas, Har-
ris and Tarrant Counties. R. C.
Slagle of Sherman is president, Hun-
ter Morrison of Denison is county
chairman, and R. C. Steed of Sher-
man is secretary-treasurer of the or-
ganization.
within
recon-
vened in the afternoon, was hailed by
the city forces as a victory, inasmuch
as they were contesting the writ of
mandamus.
Judge Carter refused to allow O.
H. Woodrow and Ben F. Gaff ord, at-
torneys and plaintiffs, to argue the
case.
“I don’t care to hear any argu-
ments from either side,” he said.
“There is too much feeling in this
matter. I feel the issues are clear cut
in my mind. It is not a difficult mat-
ter to go out and get another petition
and I feel sure the city officials will
call another
granting the
junction and
mandamus.”
Another petition is now in circula-
tion and probably will be presented
in the next few weeks.
Mr. Woodrow announced Tuesday
evening that he and Mr. Gafford will
file a motion for a rehearing and
should that be overruled they would
appeal the case to the Fifth Court of
Civil Appeals at Dallas.
TYLER.—Two persons lost their
lives Wednesday when an explosion
in the boiler room of a dry cleaning
company here blew the boiler into the
office of an auto supply company
across an alley.
Miss Lucy Lee Andrews, 33, was
killed instantly and William Pope, as-
sistant to the president of the supply
house, died an hour later from burns
and injuries.
Among others hurt were J. D.
Burkett of Lufkin, John W. Young,
Earl Andrews and C. C. Carter.
One wall of the cleaning plant was
blown out and windows in the vicin-
ity were shattered. The injured
worked for the two companies.
Cause of the blast was not deter-
mined.
Both buildings w-ere of two stories.
Miss Andrews and Pope were in
the office of the supply house when
the boiler landed.
Burkett had just gone into
store to purchase supplies for
business at Lufkin.
Young, alteration man for
cleaning company, was burned badly
about the leg and arm and Carter
was burned seriously from the waist
down when he dragged Pope out of
the debris. Jones was waiting while
he had his pants pressed.
BERLIN.—A decree restoring a
large measure of freedom of the
press was issued by Propaganda Min-
ister Paul Goebbels Tuesday night.
The decree relaxes strict regula-
tions instituted under the Nazi
regime a year ago, and within cer-
tain limits reestablishes free report-
ing and comment, even on Govern-
ment affairs.
PLAINVIEW.—A steady influx of
new farmers into South Plains coun-
ties, with the breaking of thousands
of acres of virgin crop land, is be-
lieved to be the only extensive de-
velopment of a new agricultural ter-
ritory in the United States this year
and is indicative of the rapid recov-
ery of agriculture and business in
this section. Starting last summer
and fall, there has been an increas-
ing number of new farmers settled in
several near-by counties on ranch-
lands that are being divided and the
•development, involving several hun-
dred thousand acres, has been more
rapid since midsummex- than in any
year since 1928-29.
Sales have been lax-gely without
colonization programs, although this
plan is being used on 18,000 to 20,-
000 acres of C. C. Slaughter proper-
ties in Cochran County, sold to 120
farmers on a“bale to the acre” pay-
ment basis. Most settlers have come
in groups of two or three from other
States or parts of Texas. Payments
have been by various methods, mostly
cash down of $5 to $6 per acre for
low-priced land and substantial pay-
ments down with long easy terms on
land selling for $25 to $35 per acre.
Cochran, Bailey Lead
Cochran County has seen one of
the largest developments, with the
Slaughter project rfnd others bring-
ing 300 to 400 new farm families,
mostly on quarter-section tracts, for
a total of nearly 75,000 acres. Other
sales in this county have included
nearly 12,000 acres of the R. T.
Campbell land, the Dick Slaughter,
Alexander and I. C. Enochs proper-
ties.
Bailey County development also
has been large, amounting to about
250 farmers settling on 50,000
acres. In addition, ten or fifteen
new irrigated farms are being de-
veloped in the northern portion.
Nearly 200 labors, or quarter sec-
tions, have been sold in Hockley
County by the Ellwood interests and
100 by the Yellowhouse Land Com-
pany, totaling 50,000 acres, for the
two projects. A striking feature in
Hockley County has been that near-
ly every sale involved construction
of substantial residences, barns, wind-
mills and fences.
SHERMAN.—Threads of evidence
that led to the arrest of three sus-
pects, all accused of figuring in the
looting of the Whitesboro National
Bank, March 9, will be bared in de-
tail for the first time when Chester
Delisle of Roff, Okla., faces trial
May 15 on charges of robbery with
firearms.
An inkling that Judge R. M. Car-
ter is preparing for a strongly-con-
tested trial came late Monday after-
noon when the Fifteenth District
Court judge ordered the sheriff to
summon 250 men for jury service—
the largest special venire in recent
years.
When arraigned for setting
date of tx-ial, Delisle pleaded
guilty and signed a waiver to
sonal service of notices to venire-
men, thus allowing Sheriff Benton
Davis to call the men by means of
postcards.
Efforts of defense attorney, Roy
Finley, to extend by one week the
date of trial so as to pexmxit time for
legal defense motions, met with de-
feat, Judge Carter stating that if it
became necessary he would extend
the length of the May term of court
beyond the closing date of May 19.
A determined court battle is prom-
ised by the defense in seeking to ac-
quit Delisle of the mountain of clues
allegedly pointing to his guilt which
will be weighed against him by the
prosecution. Among these is the
identification by W. L. Estes, cashier
of the institution, of Delisle as being
the bandit who at pistol point aided
4 confederates in rifling the till and
bank safe, and later sat in the back
seat of the automobile as it sped
away from the scene with three bank
employes as hostages.
Delisle will be the first of the
three men held in county jail here
in connection with the looting to
face trial. Calvin H. Smith and Char-
ley Frazier, the two other suspects,
are in jail in default
bonds.
Delisle of Roff, Okla., was in-
dicted by a grand jury Monday morn-
ing on a robbery with firearms
charge in the bank looting. He was
arrested at Clovis, N. M., three weeks
ago as he was tramping the highway
with $500 in currency.
The shooting to death of Charles
Foreaker of Oklahoma in a freight
yard in East St. Louis, Ill., last Tues-
day night, left but one fugitive of-
ficers believe were in the band of
five who robbed the bank or aided in
the escape. Aubrey (Red) Unsell,
Oklahoma convict, is still sought.
AUSTIN.—The Texas court of
'criminal appeals Wednesday denied
application of Erwin Bowles, Fannin
-County, for a writ of habeas corpus
growing out of his ax-rest on a charge
•of selling 3.2 beer in local option ter-
ritory.
The appellate court upheld the
validity of local option adopted in
Fannin County in 1903 and denied
Bowles’ contention that local option
fell in that county with adoption last
year of an amendment to the state
constitution permitting sale of 3.2
Leverages.
Bowles claimed he was charged
■with no offense since the state had
delegated powex- to control intoxi-
cating liquor to the federal govern-
ment and repeal of the eighteenth
-amendment left the state without
authority to declare 3.2 beer illegal.
He also alleged the beer amend-
ment to the Texas constitution did
mot provide a penalty fox- sale of the
"beverage in counties dry under local
option before national prohibition
and that the beex- amendment was
vague, indefinite and ambiguous.
That beer is not intoxicating also
-was alleged.
The appeals court opinion did not
discuss the various allegations and
merely held that Fannin County was
dry under its 1903 local option elec-
tion.
of $10,000 establishments between March and
April.
Cities in which the increase in the
number employed was above the
average in comparison with April,
1933, were: Poxt Arthur, San An-
gelo, Dallas, Austin, and Wichita
Falls.
election on it. I am
application for the in-
denying the writ of
SHERMAN.—Refusing to hear any
arguments from either side, Judge
R. M. Carter Tuesday afternoon sent
the city charter change election con-
toversy back to the starting point
when he granted an injunction re-
straining city officials from holding
the election June 15, but refused an
application for a writ of mandamus
to compel the officials to call a new
election on the old petition.
The ruling, which came
thirty minutes after court
By Robert Cantrell
By virtue of their 20-3 win over
the Methodist nine last Thursday, the
Baptist A club maintained its perfect
average with four straight wins.
Games scheduled for Monday, Tues-
day and Wednesday afternoons were
postponed due to illness in the neigh-
borhood of the field where the games
are being played.
The schedule will be resumed
Monday afternoon and all games
which were postponed will be made
up in double-headers when the two
teams meet again. Single games are
scheduled for seven innings, but the
double-headers will be played off in
two five-inning games.
In the eight games played to date,
the Methodist club leads in total
scoring due to its 52-6 win record at
the expense of the Baptist B club,
the Methodist Club’s only win to
date. Outside of that one game, the
Methodists haven’t been able to score
more than three runs in a single
game, dropping one game by a single
run margin. The Baptist A club has
shown the most consistent power at
the bat, with the Christians showing
flashes of hitting power.
Next week’s scredule follows:
Monday—Christians vs. Baptist B.
Tuesday—Methodist vs. Baptist A.
Wednesday—Baptist A vs. Bap-
tist B (two games).
Thursday—Christians
dists (two games).
Should the grounds where the
games are being played at present be
unavailable next week, the games
will either be played at the grammar
school ground or another field will
be found before Monday that is suit-
able for the games.
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