Yoakum Weekly Herald (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. [3], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1937 Page: 1 of 6
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ing the five-month pancake sea- ed the boom for postmaster gen-
eon. leral James A. Farley daring the
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and community, found
was a p^’0 in
•there was an-
»4Mt business
in the early
good bu&iness
and
ment along this line the Tanners
will no doubt give the Bottlers
lots to worry about.
AVIADON THRILLER IN
WITHOUT
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HUMBOLDT, Ta. (A>)— One OAKWOOD CKTIEKN STARTS
Humboldt grocer bewails the fact FARLEY-FOR-PR*~
the 4 * good old fashioned, •
has declin-1 CENTERVILLE, Tex. (*)—W.
eral James A. Farley during the
cabinet member’s visit to Texas .
„ WASHINGTON, April 15 (A*) recently Farley has sent him aar ■
visited their dangh I of addicts while under its sinister —President Roosevelt signed
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we al-
ready accepted invitations to par
able through the
bo ba a again ob-
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Mias Polly Albrecht who
been ill is reported as
nifyly.
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VT-HOME” PROGRAM THROUGH DIVERSIFICATION ON THE FARM AND IN BUSINESS I
art public career kept
the corner with
■KjE. .
» to make that an- ...
Uent Through all these D1T|N1| CD,
18 antica of business Mr. ’ A’WW. ATI
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a Dies-
rden in Kansas Labor Dispute
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| that there will be from twelve to
J?®'" i fifteen bands entering, about the
f»A8tlVlties. When number of glee clubs, anil
are good and prices -
all who wanted to I
lid fjnd employment!
wages, money
and everybody was
lots of it. In those
Levitansky sold
ild and silver-
r, fine china and
hese days how-
A always with
like every other
T
‘in ^und«y afternoon to 11:30 to 12
Sunday morning.
Supt. Barron received
sage this afternoon l
the change in the time. This
not considered an
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Yoakum — The Home of the Tom-Tom
! just a splash of color here and
’DC” fh*>re» a reddish purple.
lIiv think the blossom is a ]
i bluebonnet, tor Marihuana
of much the same shape as
AUSTIN, April 15 (A>)—
"'4 house overwheniingly passed
senate bill providing for teachers
retirement fund with state to1
match contributions of educators. !
It adopted an amendment provid- |
ing participation would be op- j
tional with teachers already in ,
profession. The bill appropriating '
three hundred eighty nine thou-
sand for support of summer i
schools next year became a
KIB,
JUNIO
Th. TOM-TOM Sto
MASTER EDWIN TEW
AND LILLIAN WITTE
HONORED. SELECTION
MADE WEDNESDAY NIGH
AT GRAND.
MONTEREY, Calif. (JP)—Foot-
lights again blaze in the old
abode structure that was Califor-
nia’s first theater. Owned by
Jack Swan, an English sailor,
, the building saw performances by
the Montrey presidio soldiers as
early as 1848.
A group of players from Car-
the
New from the league^ The general idea
1 was that they WWW too strong a
team for the league. Dutch Hoff-
man, manager of the Tanners has
- different opinion of his team
i on their
was accepted
Tex. ^(A*)— West mel-by-the-Sea is reviving
Texas State Teachers College stu- historic art there by arrangement
dents who make the fourth an- with the state department
nual summer collegiate tour this parks, which maintains it ss
year will do their studying in in- showplace,
dustrial centers on the east and ♦-------
south. a EARTHQUAKE CUTS
Frank R. Phillips, head of the OIL PRODUCTION
agriculture department and di- - ----♦
rector of the tour, said the
group would visit Chi
troit, Niagara JMk —-j. — — ------ ------
Quebec, Boston, Tflew York, Phil- centers, report that since earth-
adelphia, Washington, Nashville, quakes shook this region severs!
Memphis and Dallas
starts July 17 and ends August am from many stripper wells has
~* r said the earth
evidently
'*• with lower rock starata, but ex-
the decline migNit
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doing picture Marihuana, which will run
' QDP nnlv liAinntiinir at 1.
(By Associated Press)
Nonintervention subcommittee
of London ordered land and sea
1 patrol of Spanish frontiers ef- Mack, famous
I c__*:___ _: Ar„_j_., |o pjp- when he was 1
Mfon of IMte! vent landing of arms and men for Antonio recently was Connie Mack i
k Yoakum. At either side. The British govern- bockhn, eight months old son c.
cates win be ment was victorious in parliment Kr* a,,d Mrs. Dave Locklin, Sut-
kw>.irino> ihn u.lhno ton county ranch owner. . |
• Instruction and
will be presented to British Ships.
n fvy Scouts who have pass---
Si ^e Bkaminatkms in their (y
4OM. Ibis, occasion should be
|ii». than usual interest
tlL jiarsnts of boys con-
bna* With ' scouting and
bin who are interested in
Wdfafe of boys of Scout-
iMk The public is invited
Attend this meeting at the
FT. ---
TOT MANY people realize
degrading and des-
ittiyn effect of the narcotic
■MHrIANA upon those
wyhnvg become addicts of
ipr Who use it in anyway,
^iwt given to many of us
** I actual effects of
jr narcotic. Every
mkum however will I
COLLEGE STUDENTS WILL
“e antics!SVMMEB tour
S®,meUfitai. CANYON,
own at the Grand
the Saturday night '
how, starting about ;
should be seen by.
8 in Yoakum. It is,
in pictures
becking of
•d in the
r human race.
The Yoakum Tanners will go to
horrible details Austin Sunday for a game with
in Miss. At the Austin Bottlers. The BottLrs
come to Yoa-
a regular schedule
game of the South Central Texas
league, but decided to withdraw
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Philomatic Club
, the Mrs. F. Mergenthal
exciting and dramatic social position of its victims, has Sara Blaine Mergenthal.
and been fought by our government Mrs. E. Marek
for many years. According to an Holy Cross Lutheran Women 10.00 |
reaches tense emotional crises in article on this subject, which ap hirst
its Dying scenes, and especially pea red-recently in
A family human romance is in- ed that “the use
terwoven with the action of the cigarettes is
story, with Miss Eilers as C ‘
stewardess who ia learning to fly dents, endangering their
under Armstrong’s tutelage
who finds herself between
Frances
Ward Bond, Arthur Loft, Frank against the
.... 2.50 were held for investigation.
.... 5.00 J - —■"““
... 100 DOG KEEPS IN TBIM
... 4.00 BY VISITING VETERINARIAN J
government Mrs. E. Marek.....••• . .1'22 I * —
Baptist Church 10.00;—Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Akin FB
the Fort Worth Rotary Club
in the stirring climax when Ila- press, Texas was the tipst state Lions
worth, turning coward, “bails to legislate against t---------------
out” of his ship in a storm, leav- narcotic,
ing the passengers to their fate. ( 1
It is a situation which a brave speaking before the American ;
stewardess meets nobly. (Medical Association recently stat- nvvAVTiflV
A family human romance is in- ed that “the use of Marihuana GROCER SAY8 BREA
“ *’ spreading among IS ON THE DECLINE
the high school ami university stu-j
fly ' dents, endangering their health!
and and predisposing them to crimes I.
two of violence.” ^that the “good old
Sage,1 Only recently a concerted drive American breakfast” ,
use of marihuana cig- ed. 1 8. Hale of Oakwood claims to be
This winter he sold only 50 the organiser of the first Parley-
pounds of buckwheat—for those for-Preaident elub in the United
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The tour #6eks ago, the volume of petrole- Many of the scenes were filmed in erninents, and jt is bc,ii<>1v7\ub;y <lusky
ta Aiimiat mm olviwvMi* ur sails hsR
25. Forty student*.have made each declined. They said the earth
'of the throe previous tripe. movement evidently interfered
I ... - , ogh 1 M" writh lower rocl
CHICACKk April 15 (A>)-^Iohn pWwed belief
* home, but it , Bums, eightoen, gunge meehanie not be permanent,
sending extortion letter • 4»----------
, V five hundit^'doUurs It is against the law to hnnt
he found'to Ginger Rogers, w film aetrosa, dour with dogs in Erath county,
' ' “ fflS Texau—ultbough there are no
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FINAL AGREEMENT MADE
WITH CHRYSLER. FORD
AND PACKARD HAVE NOT
MADE AGREEMENTS.
Law enforcement officers investigating disorders at Galena, Kas., in which eight men and a boy
were shot, are shown conferring on plans for investigating the disorders, outgrowth of enmity
between opposing labor groups in the tri-state ore-mining area. Left to right: Fred Simkin,
Sheriff of Cherokee County; Frank Vallembois, deputy sheriff; Joe Henbest, county attorney,
and Gar Richardson, deputy sheriff.
RUN MARIHUANA AROUSES’
i TO AUSTIN SUNDAY theatre payrons
Since the picture, “Mahihuana’’
has been booked to play at the
Grand, Saturday midnight only,
the management has, been answer-
ing numerous queries about the
product Marihuanan, the question 1
that is asked most is, “Just what
is .Marihuana and where is it pro- !
ducedf” j
Marihuana is secretly grown in ’ hou8^ legislation
V <» k! !■> I k ak .3 VtaoAb-wA « ■
lots. It is a weed, that when
ground like tobacco and made into
cigarettes, makes the smoker
highly excitable and irritable. A '
person can commit murder while i
under the influence of the drug
and afterward not remember that
he has done so. Therein lies the
chief danger from the drug. Police
authorities attribute many crimes
'each year to the weed.
I Many people while driving in
, the country have seen the weed
| growing and not know what it aeterndne whether Presi"
at Galveston,
Brownsville at
Yale and Towne
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fiftean
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: MACK IS VISITED | t
BY NAME SAKE AY S A and challenged them
- » j own grounds. This
SONORA, Tex. >)- Among I ‘^ morning.
the few allowed to visit Connie le team, Wl^ leave at 11
; baseball figure,! ° c,ock Sunday »•“-
when he was hospitalized in San , «*er Hoffman expects to improve
- - • - - . - ’the team s hitting between now
and Sunday. With some improve-
DETROIT, April 15 (Bi-
Leaders of the United Automobile
i final
| agreement witfc the Chrysler eor-
I The Texas Wann Springs poration, arranged a conference
ac- Foundation, which is being treat-(with the Packard Motor Coaqpany
the ed to establish a health resort for officials tomorrow. Packard, and
at Palmetto Ford are the only two majora not
weird orgies. Y’ark at Ottine, near Gonzales, is made agreements with the union.
Armstrong, as an experienced Seventy percent of all drug ad- getting hearty support from all One hundred twenty sit-downers,
transport pilot, upholds the diets acquire the habit before they towns and communities of South , ejected
“safety first” idea, while Vin- are < „ „ , „
ton Haworth, a reckless stunt of the well known authorities of Yoakum as rendered to^date:
flyer and his rival for Miss Eilers the United States Government. ! .
affections, disregards his obliga- The vicious marihuana-smoking American Legion
tion to his human cargo. J evil thrusts up its ugly serpent-
From tltis theme has been like head, irrespective of th.
woven an <
plot which, while avoiding
spectacular plane “crashes,
this banned Order of the Eastern Star.. 5.00 they asked the veterinary if 1
Betty Jean Rinn Memorial.. 5.00 should bring the dog baek for
Dr. lx*v Rice pf San Antonio, Yoakum Masonic Ixwlge, servation.
I before the American No. 662 5.00. “
ld<Md - XB »
i back by himself every morning -
’since the first visit.”
BAYIIE BHN6 SHIPPED
fMM YE
; PAWHUSKA, OSla. (^*)
Spring shipments of cattle from will be a gift along soon
thf Texas Panhandle to the fertile he’ll be able to show the boys
Osage valley grassland have start- when he’s big enough to play
ed to arrive. ' baseball. Connie Mack promised
Fourteen carloads have been it when he made the acquaintance
pastured on a ranch northwest of of his namesake.
here. , I —— ♦
Cattlemen say the succulent
limestone grass in the Osage
country m’kon it on. ot th. ™BATBB REOPENS
greatest cattle raising sections of |
the southwest. Hundreds of cars1
from Texas are unloaded each
year at Pawhuska, Bowring, and
other stations.
Master Edward Templin will be
King of the Junior Division of
the 1937 Tomato Tom-Tom an^
law Little Miss Lillian Witte will be
when Allred filed it without sig- Queen according to an announce-
nature. Representative Pope, of ment today following a drawing
Corpus Chri.ti, introduced . bill . the Oraii(1 Thentri! We(111<.S(1
permitting movement all oil and J
products in storage in various i1®111,
Texas fields prior to March first, j EM ward is the son of Mr. and
The senate suspended the rules to Mrs. Ed. T. Templin, Ross street,
js rmit the introduction of a ! and Misg Lillian is the daughter
hill which would extend the life 1 - ... „ , w...
|of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Witte,
ot the ( entennial commission con-I
trol two years. *K<^
• Senate continued to debate the ; . Prince at the Junior Coro-
i sales tax without decision. The natlon W,H Master Ireland
i teachers retirement bill estimated ^\e,'de’’ 9OU ^r- and Mrs. Ed.
i the cost at about one million five . co^el, and the 1'1 ncess will be
hundred thousand dollars yearly, iIjHle Miss Bennie Ray Ix>wranc«,
i Final draft probably be drawn in
committee.
p the western horizon pacity crowd for a one day pro-
"the dose of an- gram-
jffiHbrt to Leon Levit- 1 Most of the schools who have
j* r?
|ntf the fortyseventn and drum and bugle corps. Some
wry ef his arrival in are entering just one organiza-
and linking hie act- ' tion. w
ith others in eetab-, Schools that have accepted* to
48*8 a mart of trade date include Gonzales, Nixon,
ittomers could come Yorktown, Yoakum, East Bernard
Jyw Ahd wide and find t Wharton, El Campo, Edna, Bay
the merchandise that City, Boling, Rockport, Taft, Sin-
liSt their needs and fill ton, Robstoiq Refugio, Beeville,
*“ Goliad, Eagle Lake, Karnes City
and Victoria.
It is estimated at this time
I that there will be from twelve
When1, - - - - -
approximately a half dozen drum
and bugle corps.
was i
HOUR ECR YOAKUM RADIO 1
BROADCAST IS CHANGED
——♦--
The hour for the broadcast of a
program by the Yoaktnn High
School Band, on Radio Station K.
T, S. A., has been changed from s
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. i BERLIN, April 15 (T)_ In'
. J a mes- ' ' I
announcing *'le t»erman press there appeared
is headlines on the “I
___ appropriate of negro lynchings,
ji|W*Hhnvftr throughout t’rae by 1°®*! gn>uP and tbe the same time they charged Amer- were supposed to co
J’ bwmv kcui ^an ■^nf°n*° Junior Chamber ol jcan churches with '
he corner with a Commeree that tbe “vicious” anti-Gei-man” machina
e to*flee business chau«e »n the time WM* n,ade by tions.” They protested the show-
« never got the ‘he r*di" 8t*ti<“1. ing of anti—nasi film in New
BORDERS
contended with ’WILL DE STARTED MONDAY
NKGDfl end downs and still
BR8 of Yoakum's business
earrying on in his
kOMn profession.
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WASHINGTON, April 15 (A>)
—Uhairmnn Connery of House
Labor Committee, Massachusetts,
Democrat, predicted congress
would write new labor legisla- j
tion during present session as
( result of Supreme Court decision ,
on labor relations act. He said ,
he believed the thirty-hour week!
j was best solution of !••>“•...u.1
| ment. Hr said there would
i on
Texas...in backyards and vacant'
a weed,
He said ,
placed in a
name of the boys drawn
named King and the first name of
the girls drawn was named Queen.
The Junior Coronation cere-
I monies will be held on the sec-
ond day of the Tom-Tom, Sat-
Pnr^lflFMT Pl AMMIK Iiirday. June 5, and will be under
j ’ - rWM te I iLfiMIIIIU ijjp direction of Mrs. C. C. Wei-
TRIP TO 1EXAS COAST hausen, chairman, and Mrs. J. C.
| on» their ntinds and bodies
has frankly portrayed in the 1
WMtern states, Alaska and Haw-ffliglt
show only, beginning at 11:30 aii.
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IWMKUMTI
jMfffir!
- f VlCTOBIA/iSl
“the ran Z the TraM
ticipate in the first annual Vic-
toria Music Festival on Satur-
day, May 8. This is a near ea
Holl wood, frightfully devastating traffic
“ , be controlled.
The true story of this terrible
yesterday srourage and the exotic behavior
I influence together with the effects bill providing appointment of two I
’ ' ^'*3 is additional circuit judges in ninth j
motion judicial district, embracing font
al
duugh'er of Mr. and Mrs.
Lowrance.
The Dukes and Duchesses have
been named as follows: Master
Bobbie Mann, Master Rollins,
WRITE NEW LABOR BILLS and Little Miss Mary Margaret
Afflerbach.
All of these boys and girls are
members of the first grades of
the public schools, and were
’ selected bv members of their
• classes to take part. The selection
of the King and Queen and the
Prince and Princess, was made on
the stage of the Grand Theatre
Wednesday night. The names were
glass jar and the first
was
uneiuplov-
i>e
minimum
wages and hours, and abolition ol
child labor.
Hoffman.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (A»)
—The President and Jesse Jones
discussed plans for President’s j
fishing trip to Texas coast. Jones , Ml
said details were not completed, i
that place where tarpon running1
j was. It grows in small bunches— <1(>nt wouW land
’just a splash of color here and Corp|I8 Christi or
there, a reddish purple. Many trjp«8 end.
purple
i has1
r the of- TEXAS’ WARM SPRINGS
offered to pic-' ficial Texas flower, but is really RECEIVING HEAVY SUPPORTWorkers, after signing a
“Without Or- the purple loco weed, or Mari- ----*---- I
and
said __
licago, Da- the Northwestern Ohio field, one romantic fires.
W Hill IMUlUj *.^wa. w> a ■«»■■■*
M. Thomas and other well known arettes has been put into effect
players enact prominent roles, by both federal and state gov-
a modern transport plane and at the authorities in charge that this years ago he sold MM) pounds dur- j
vurious airports near HoIIwimmI. I rurhtfullv devastating traffic ean i
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Lay re-|
turned from Austin ;
where they ’------ ----
ter Mrw. E. D. Choote Jr.
WILL fective midnight Monday to pre-
F •• * 1 * A B fit f* **
w>. At either side. The British. govern- eight months old
“Sss
r flild els are not to interfere with Phla Connie Mack received a
> ‘(card from the namesake here.
■ , (That was recalled—and the. two
met irt Mack’s hospital room.
The veteran baseball manager
TA I1V| ■ was ahle to write his name sew
IV lmLn« eraj times and parents said the
A thrilling romantic drama
. | - # the »air lanes is <
i child would treasure those sig- patrons in 44 Without Or- the purple loco weed, or
— natures as he grows up. There ders,” RKO Radio’s new film of huana.
om Wi)l be a gift along soon that comnierciai f]ying at the Grand The film, “Marihuana,”
Saturday. 1 curately and vividly depicts
Robert Armstrong and Sally life of a “ weed” smoker with his ' crippled children
Eilers have the romantic leads, wild parties and
experienced Seventy iiercent of all
I from
of legal age, according to one Texas. Here is a partial list for Lxiek factory yesteiday, WlMte
inaKum as rvuucrcu iu un'v ■ leased under bond but f.?..,
Stephen F. Austin P. T. A. $5.00, union officers and sympathizer*
were held for investigation.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (**)
.Mr and Mrs H. J. Akin !•» .
15.00 cently took their pet dog to hav*
15.00 its ears clipped. Two weeks later ’
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on- >
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' ‘Bring him back!” said
doctor. “Why he’s been eomiag
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