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VOL. 58, NO. 26.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937.
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Repeal Declared
Working Against
The Security Act
Pension Inflation
Bloc Loses Battle
Against Bill Delay
Roosevelt Makes
Plea to People For
Court Change Plan
Additional 1 Per
Cent Penalty On
Delinquent Taxes
Opposition To
Court Removal
Plan Expressed
Single Variety
Is Favored at
Cotton Meeting
Several Cities Act
To Prevent Drunken
Drivers Getting ‘Gas’
Texas Town Has
No One Who Can
Talk in English
SLEUTHS SEEK
MEANEST THIEF
GIRL’S MARRIAGE
AT 15 MAKES HER
GRANDMOTHER OF 2
the
com-
SEARCH WARRANT
BILL FOR LIQUOR
AGENTS MADE LAW
$1,100 IN DIAPER,
MEN AND WOMEN
HELD AS ROBBERS
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS
Service
open.
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to
Onion Marketing
Plans for Texas
Approved by AAA
NEW YORK.—There is more drink-
ing of alcoholic beverages and stu-
dents are drinking more hard liquor
than light liquor in most American
colleges and universities, according
the
are
TOWN OF CAREY
IS NEW HOLDER
OF CAGE CROWN
ALABAMA GOES WET
AFTER 22 YEARS OF
STRICT PROHIBITION
AUSTIN.—Chances for enactment
of old-age pension liberalization in
defiance of the Governor’s admoni-
tions faded on Wednesday as the
House pension inflation bloc failed
by two votes to prevent postpone-
ment until April 6.
Adoption by a 68-to-66 vote after
three days of intermittent debate on
the motion by E. H. Thornton to de-
lay action until next month nullified
an 83-to-32 majority the pension
bloc mustered Monday to begin work
on the State Affairs Committee bill
which would have about doubled the
pension rolls.
, Theoretically the House action did I
College Drinking Gains Since
Prohibition, New Survey Shows
not kill the bill which Gov. James V.
Allred has promised to veto, but
practically it left little chance for
passage. Even though the House
Feature picture at the Palace thea-
tre tonight and Friday is “After the
Thin Man,” starring William Powell
and Myrna Loy.
Saturday’s feature will star John-
ny Weismueller in “Tarzan Escapes.”
For preview and Monday, Irenne
Dunne and Melvin Douglas will be
seen in “Theodora Goes Wild.”
Tuesday and Wednesday, “Let’s
Sing Again,” with Bobby Green.
Thursday and Friday next week,
■“Camille,” with Robert Taylor and
Greta Garbo.
Typewriter carbon paper and type-
writer ribbons for sale at Sun office.
Made of moisture proof silk with
an elastic edge, a cover has been in-
vented for dishes to prevent splash-
ing by egg beaters.
WASHINGTON.—Following many
complaints against landlords in the
Cotton Belt that they are intending
to oust tenant farmers and operate
their farms with labor-saving ma-
chinery and day wage hands, steps
are being taken by the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration to pre-
vent such an occurrence.
The following letter from Cully A.
Cobb, director of the Southern di-
vision, to administrative officers of
AAA was made public today:
“This division has received a num-
ber of complaints from both share
croppers and standing-rent tenants,
saying that cropping arrangement on
their farms has been changed by
landlords for 1937 and they are un-
able to operate this year as tenants
with these landlords, even though
they have made satisfactory settle-
ment of their accounts with the
landlords for 1936.
“Letters like this have come to us
every year since 1934. Increased
number this year show that landlords
are planning to change the status of
tenants in order to operate their
farms with wage hands and day la-
borers.
“The AAA provides that if the
Secretary, on the basis of investiga-
tion by the State committee, finds
that any person has for 1937 made
any change from the 1936 leasing or
cropping arrangements for the farm
or has adopted any other device for
the purpose of, or which would have
the effect of, diverting to such per-
son any payment to which tenants
or sharecroppers would be entitled if
the 1936 leasing or cropping arrange-
ment were in effect for 1937, the
amount of any payment which other-
wise would be made to such person
may be withheld in whole or in part.
“It will be in order for you to take
the necessary steps to bring to the
attention of the landlords and land-
owners in your State the provision
quoted above and to advise the coun-
. ty agents and county committees
that they will be expected to follow
the foregoing quoted paragraph in
each instance where the 1937 work
sheet shows that there has been a
change of status of the tenants on
the farm. County committees should
make definite recommendations to
State committees in instances where
the above provision has been vio-
lated.”
LORDSBURG, N. M. — The thor-
oughness of a jailer’s wife was re-
sponsible for the arrest of Roy
Brooks, who pleaded guilty to rob-
bery in Bisbee, Ariz., Tuesday.
Brooks was apprehended here with
a party of seven, including a tiny
baby. The men and women were
searched but no suspicious evidence
was found. Then the jailer’s wife
took a hand.
In the baby’s diaper she found $1,-
100 in $10 and $20 bills.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama
swept its 22-year-old bone dry stat-
utes aside Wednesday as its larger
cities gave majorities for repeal in a
county option election.
Twenty-one of the State’s sixty-
seven counties gave repeal majorities
in unofficial tabulations of the op-
tion elections. Prohibition trailed in
several others in which the vote was
close.
Jefferson (Birmingham), Mobile
and Montgomery gave smashing re-
peal margins.
The State-wide vote, with 1,455 of
2,202 boxes reported and every coun-
ty heard from, stood: For repeal 83,-
588; against 73,640.
“After Thin Man”
At Palace Theatre
majority favor education for drink-
ing, not against it, as a solution for
the liquor problem.
“9. No matter whether the state
or community is wet or dry, students
have little trouble in buying what
they want to drink.
“Practically every one of the ques-
tionnaire letters told of a plentiful
use of hard liquor and light intoxi-
cants by the undergraduate body as
a whole. One editor wrote that
drinking in his college had increased
500 per cent.
“Opinion as to whether or not the
general increase was deleterious de-
pended on correspondent’s personal
opinions. Many students who had
never touched liquor prior to college
days, it was disclosed, found social
pressure or the new availability of
liqubr or the safety of government-
bonded stock an inevitable incentive
to drink moderately.
“Because liquor could be gotten so
easily, with none of that thrill of law
breaking once prohibition fell, hard-
ened carousers drink more temper-
ately than did their older brothers in
the days of bathtub gin.
“Traditional home of American
education, New England, slipped into
repeal with lax liquor regulations in
its colleges and showed a definite in-
crease in drinking.
“Harvard and Yale allow drinking
in rooms and fraternity houses.
Smaller colleges restrict drinking as
best they can, but on or off campus,
consumption is general with slight
student sentiment against it.
“Women’s colleges are most liberal
because so many of their students
come from cosmopolitan drinking
areas. Also, most ‘dates’ attend
neighboring wet men’s colleges.
“Of thirty-five New England in-
stitutions queried, sixteen men’s and
six women’s were definitely wet,
eleven men’s and two women’s hard
occasional or no drinking.
“As a rule, the larger the college
and the higher its academic stand-
ing, the fewer its regulations for the
“8. Most student editors agree that | consumption of liquor and the less
repeal has aided temperance. The their observance.”
BOQUILLAS. — Boquillas, one of
the most remote towns in the United
States, has no citizen who can con-
verse in English. It is 100 miles from
Marathon and located on the Rio
Grande where the river turns north-
east from the bottom of the Big
Bend. Once Boquillas had fifteen
stores, but now has only one and a
half dozen adobe houses. Many years
ago it was a port of entry from Mex-
ico and silver ore was brought across
and packed to the railroad at Mara-
thon. The rusty cable that brought
the ore over still sways above the
gurgling waters of the Rio Grande,
but mining activities dwindled and
with them the hustling river town.
Juan Sada, the big man of this set-
tlement, and Senora Sada operate
the only store. Sada, a well-dressed,
kindly Mexican, speaks enough Eng-
lish to say he has been here forty
years and to explain, when he ex-
hibited a piece of ore, that the Mexi-
can name for it is “plata.”
SHERMAN.—The lead in Grayson
County’s part of the single variety
cotton contest sponsored by the East
Texas chamber of commerce was
left up to ginners in the county at a
meeting Saturday afternoon in the
fifteenth district courtroom. The
meeting was attended by approxi-
mately 100 farmers and ginners.
Both ginners and cotton producers
praised single variety cotton and it
was revealed that several communi-
ties in Grayson are already planting
enough cotton of a single variety to
qualify them for participation in the
contest in which the East Texas
chamber is to give a cash prize of
$1,000.
The community winning the prize
must spend it for some community
project, it was announced.
Grayson ginners for some time
have been attempting to improve the
grade of seed they have been selling
and to sell only one variety, it was
stated. Farmers pledged themselves
to cooperate in buying one variety
for a community. Ginners promised
to increase their efforts to get one
variety estbalished in each commu-
nity.
AUSTIN.—Use of search warrants
by liquor agents was legal today as
Gov. James V. Allred affixed his
signature to a bill embodying that
authority.
That agents had no right to search
warrants has been repeatedly pointed
out in recent opinions of the Court of
Criminal Appeals. They were, there-
fore, virtually without authority to
search places suspected of violating
the liquor laws.
CHICAGO.—While the public be-
rates the drunken driver and says
“something ought to be done about
him,” several cities have taken ac-
tion. In three different sections of
the United States, municipalities
have declared it unlawful to sell gas-
oline to persons known to be intoxi-
cated.
Raleigh, North Carolina, Canton,
Ohio, and Olympia, Washington,
passed ordinances last year making
the seller of gasoline to drunken
drivers subject to a fine oi’ imprison-
ment.
Two of the cities placed the fine at
$100, one made it “not less than $25
nor more than $500.” The equiva-
lent of the fine was 30 days in two
cases, and from 10 to 30 days in the
other. Two ordinances provide for
both fine and imprisonment if the
judge sees fit.
Enforcement of such ordinances is
difficult, authorities agree, because
of the difficulty of getting evidence.
But where there has been a real de-
sire to make the ordinance effective,
they are regarded as useful.
to a survey just completed by
Literary Digest, which findings
published in its current issue.
Questionnaires were sent to
heads of 1,475 colleges and also to 1,-
475 student editors and leaders, the
magazine states, asking an appraisal
of their campus drinking situation
since repeal.
Replies are reported from 645
presidents, deans and student leaders
Who represented 581 American col-
leges “of every type of sectarian and
non-sectarian school in the country.”
More drinking since repeal is re-
ported by 303 of those responding
and 60 others state there is less
drinking in their colleges. Reports
from 205 state that students are
drinking more hard liquor and from
100 that they are drinking more light
liquors.
The Literary Digest epitomizes the
findings from its nine-part question-
naire survey of American colleges:
“1. Drinking is on the increase ev-
erywhere, but there is relatively less
drunkenness.
“2. Students abhor the drunk, ad-
mire the man who can drink like a
gentleman.
“3. One-third of the colleges
replying see a great increase in beer
drinking, two-thirds see an even
greater increase in cocktail and high-
ball consumption.
“4. A vast majority of college
presidents see drinking as a problem
in other institutions, but not in their
own.
“5. Everywhere, teetotal enforce-
ment in colleges appears to be
crumbling.
“6. The average undergraduate
does most of his tipping off the cam-
pus.
“7. Coeds and women students in
general have lost their normal revul-
sion toward drinking.
SHERMAN.—By unanimous vote,
the Grayson bar Tuesday opposed a
bill before the Texas Senate that
would remove the Fifty-ninth Dis-
trict Court from Grayson County
and confine its jurisdiction to Fan-
nin and Collin Counties.
Claud Boothman, president of the
Grayson bar, was authorized to ap-
point a “legislative committee”
work against the proposed redistrict-
ing bill.
Resolutions to be sent to the legis-
lative committee sponsoring the bill
of which Senator Olan R. Van Zandt
is a member, were drafted by a com-
mittee composed of B. F. Gafford, R.
M. Finley and C. T. Freeman.
It is understood that a Senate
committee session has been called
for Thursday night to act on the bill,
which would make several changes
in the district court setup in Texas.
The bar’s protest sets out that to
abandon the Fifty-ninth Court in
Grayson County would further con-
gest crowded court dockets and place
more litigation in the Fifteenth Court
than it could handle. “One district
court for Grayson County would be
wholly inadequate,” the resolution'
states.
It was shown that Judge F. E.
Wilcox, Fifty-ninth District Court
judge, last year disposed of 505 cases
in Collin County whereas Judge Wil-
cox and R. M. Carter, Fifteenth Dis-
trict Court judge, disposed of 1,114
cases in Grayson County.
UMATILLA, Fla. — Fifteen-year-
old Dolly Butler Scates was happy
today in the marriage which made
her the grandmother of two girls, one
older than herself.
“We are getting along even better
than I had expected,” she said when
asked about her marriage Saturday
to 60-year-old Reddick
Scates.
Dolly’s parents approved the wed-
ding but said their daughter regret-
ted leaving them and school.
Marriage to Scates, a citrus grove
tender, made her the stepmother of
six of her husband’s children by his
first wife. They range in age from
35 to 13 and there are two grand-
daughters who are 13 and 17.
prison population has been growing
at the rate of 25,000 a year since re-
peal. Reliable reports never place at
less than 50 per cent the number of
deaths in automobile accidents at-
tributable to drunken drivers.
“The drunken driving situation is
such today that the sober driver and
pedestrian is in constant dread of
what may happen to him from the
drunken driver or the driver who has
been drinking.
“The liquor traffic is more of a
menace and a danger to the United
States today than it ever was.
“Prohibition must come back
civilization is to be maintained—and
it must come to stay. The time is
here for a new crusade.
“If we can organize the sentiment
that’s coming up now within the next
three years we’ll win,” he concluded.
Delegates applauded loudly when
Dr. A. C. Millar, of Little Rock, Ark.,
said Bishop James Cannon Jr., of
,r _ ’ . . * ' ' worst
__________ _ than persecuted preacher in America since
when repeal went into effect. The colonial days.”
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Dr. Ed-
ward B. Dunford, attorney for the
Anti-Saloon League of America, de-
clared today the Social Security Act
and the law repealing prohibition
were working at cross purposes.
In a report to the league’s execu-
tive committee, Dr. Dunford said
“any practical plan to promote social
security should take cognizance not
only of social needs, but also the
causes.”
“It is an anomaly that the people
allow the state and federal govern-
ments to grant the liquor traffic the
largest opportunity in recent years
to induce non-users of alcoholic bev-
erages to become consumers and to
increase purchases by those accus-
tomed to their use, when it has gen-
erally been recognized by sociologists
that the use and abuse of alcoholic
liquors has been one of the most po-
tent factors in contributing to de-
pendency, rendering workers unfit
for employment, and in promoting
crime.- . .”
Dr. Dunford proposed that more
funds be allotted the Federal Alcohol
Administration for enforcement
work in dry states.
His report also suggested “prohibi-
tion of the use of the facilities of in-
terstate commerce in disseminating
liquor advertising in dry states,”
laws requiring schools to teach the
effects of alcoholic beverages and
legislation prohibiting advertising or
display of liquors to stimulate sales.
Dr. Dunford, whose home is in
Washington, has been acting as gen-
eral superintendent of the league
since Dr. F. Scott McBride resigned
to become the Pennsylvania superin-
tendent.
Bishop H. H. Fout of Indianapolis
keynoted the annual convention of
the league yesterday with the pre-
diction that prohibition will return
“probably in a shorter time than we
are prone to realize.”
As chairman of the league execu-
tive committee, he spoke in place of
Bishop W. N. Ainsworth of Macon,
Ga., league president, who could not
be present.
“Repeal,” the bishop told
league, “was a rebuke to the
placency of the belief that the battle
was over with prohibition and the
victory won—but the enemy’s signa-
ture was never affixed to any truce.”
Reporting a growing sentiment
against alcohol and liquor traffic, he
said “the awful spectacle is doing
more for our cause than the most
eloquent voice that has been lifted in
our behalf.
“Sentiment against the traffic has
been growing and it will continue to
do so as things grow worse.”
All the promises made for repeal
have failed, continued Bishop Fout.
“Has it solved the economic ques-
tion? No. Has it solved the unem-
ployment problem? No. Has it bal-
anced the budget? No. Has it ended
bootlegging? No.
“In the United States, crime has Los Angeles, has been “the
increased 100 per cent more t____ . . 1
The control board of twelve | should pass a bill in April, it would
leave little time for Senate action,
where opposition admittedly is
stronger. The 120 days regularly set
aside for the general session ends
May 12.
EMMETT, Idaho. — Of all the
thieves in America, Prosecuting At-
torney Thomas Gwilliam is looking
for the meanest one.
Gwilliam knows who the meanest
one is, even if not the name.
Receipts of $109, collected by
Gwilliam from the President’s birth-
day ball, were stolen out of his car
while he was in a restaurant.
The prosecutor believes he was
followed and promises speedy justice
if the “meanest” thief is caught.
WASHINGTON. — Tentative ap-
proval of an onion marketing agree-
ment to handle the crop in fourteen
Texas counties was announced today
by the agricultural adjustment ad-
ministration. It provides for regula-
tion of shipments by grades and
sizes, establishment of a control
board and district committees, assess-
ments and divisional applicability.
The agreement is being sent to
handlers for signature and producers
will be asked whether they favor is-
suance of an order embodying the
agreement.
Proposals provide for the industry
to co-operate with Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wallace in surplus removal
operations and for payment of ad-
ministrative costs by handlers ac-
cording to their prorata share of the
total,
members would administer the
scheme with six from handlers and
six from growers. Districts are di-
vided thus:
Sixth District.—Willacy, Cameron
and Hidalgo Counties.
Coastal Bend.—Bee County (ex-
cept Pawnee section) and Brooks,
Calhoun, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim
Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces,
Regugio and San Patricio Counties.
Wilson-Karnes. — Pawnee section
of Bee and Atascosa, Bexar, Cald-
well, DeWitt, Fayette, Karnes, La-
vaca and Wilson Counties.
North Texas.—Collin, Dallas, Del-
ta, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson,
Hill, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Mc-
Lennan, Navarro, Panola and Rock-
wall Counties.
Laredo.—Webb and Zapata Coun-
ties.
Winter Garden. — Dimmitt, Frio,
Maverick and Zavala Counties.
President Roosevelt called for
swift enactment of his court reorgan-
ization bill Tuesday night to “save-
the Constitution from the (Supreme)
Court and the court from itself.”
In outspoken fashion, the Chief
Executive asserted the high tribunal
had “improperly set itself up” as a
“super legislature” and had read in-
to the Constitution “words and im-
plications which are not there and
which were never intended to be
there.”
At the same time, he disavowed
any intent to ‘pack” the court with,
“spineless puppets who would disre-
gard the law” and decide cases as he
might wish them decided, and as-
serted the processes of constitutional
amendment were too slow for the
pressing problems of the day.
His address, a “fireside chat” de-
livered from the small oval room on
the ground floor of the White House,
was the second devoted to a fighting
appeal for passage of his bill to per-
mit the enlargement of the court un-
less justices over 70 retire.
Independent Judiciary
“We must find a way to take
appeal from the Supreme Court
the Constitution itself,” he said. “We
want a Supreme Court which will do
justice under the Constitution—not
over it. In our courts we want a
government of law, not of men.
“I want—as all Americans want—
an independent judiciary as pro-
posed by the framers of the Consti-
tution. That means a Supreme Court
that will enforce the Constitution as
written—that will refuse to amend
the Constitution by the arbitrary ex-
excise of Judicial power — amend-
ment by judicial say-so. It does not
mean a judiciary so independent that
it can deny the existence of facts
universally recognized.”
A major portion of the address was
devoted to answering the three most
frequently heard criticisms of his
proposal—that it is an effort to
“pack” the court, that it would cre-
ate a precedent which a future Presi-
dent with dictatorial ambitions could
turn to his advantage, and that the
solution of the problem lies rather in
a constitutional amendment.
On “Packing” Charge
Of the “packing” charge, the Presi-
dent said:
“If by that phrase the charge is
made that I would appoint and the
Senate would confirm justices wor-
thy to sit beside present members of
the court who understand modern
conditions—that I will appoint jus-
tices who will not undertake to over-
ride the judgment of the Congress on
legislative policy—that I will appoint
justices who will act as justices and
not as legislators—if the appointment
of such justices can be called ‘pack-
ing the courts,’ then I say that I and
with me the vast majority of the
American people favor doing just
that thing—now.”
The United States Civil
Commission has announced
competitive examinations as
lows:
Junior graduate nurse, $1,620
year.
Graduate nurse, $1,800 a year; op-
tional branches: Anesthesia, psy-
chiatry, tuberculosis, trachoma,
pediatrics, general staff nursing;
Public Health Service, Veterans’ Ad-
ministration, and the Panama Canal
Service.
Public health nurse, $2,000 a year,
graduate nurse (general staff duty),
$1,800 a year, nurse technician (bac-
teriology and roentgenology com-
bined), $1,800 a year, Indian Field
Service (including Alaska), Depart-
ment of the Interior.
Junior forester, and junior range
examiner, $2,000 a year, Department
of Agriculture, Department of In-
terior.
Mechanical engineer (Diesel de-
sign), various grades, $2,600 to $3,-
800 a year, Navy Department.
Full information may be obtained
from the Secretary of the United
States Civil Service Board of Exam-
iners at the post office or custom-
house in any city which has a post
office of the first or second class, or
from the United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C.
Persons who failed to pay their
state and county taxes prior to Feb. 1
can still pay them with but two pei'
■cent penalty if they will pay during
March. Another one per cent penal-
ty will be added the first day of
April, May, and June. If payment is
deferred until June, the penalty will
he five per cent.
After July 1, the penalty will be
eight per cent, plus six per cent in-
terest. Interest charges are not ap-
plicable on delinquent taxes if they
are paid before July 1.
Taxes which are not paid before
July 1 must be redeemed from the
state, which adds another item
known as “cost” to the list. Delin-
quent taxes paid then come off the
redemption rolls instead of the reg-
ular 1936 rolls as they are handled
until July 1. These redemptoin cer-
tificates are sent to the State Comp-
troller who signs and seals them.
It may be seen from the above
that the property owners can make a
substantial saving on 1936 delinquent
taxes by paying as soon as possible
"before July 1.
AUSTIN. — Top state high school
basketball honors rested today with
a lanky cage quint from Carey, tiny
Panhandle village.
Catfish Smith’s Cardinals from
Childress County humbled a highly
touted Gober aggregation 26 to 18
in the final battle of the state tour-
nament in the University of Texas
gymnasium over the week-end.
Eight teams tangled for the cov-
eted honor. In third place was Poly-
technic of Fort Worth, which fared
badly at the hands of Carey in the
semi-finals but bested the Livingston
Lions 43 to 27 in a consolation match.
Carey’s phenomenal middle-of-
the-court goaling and fast-breaking
plays carried the Cardinals through
competition with flying colors.
Thomas Jefferson of San Antonio,
Harlingen, Dublin and Fort Stockton
were eliminated in first round play.
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