Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 284, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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Working for the Interests of Mt. Pleasant, the center of the Milk Industry of North ist Texas, with its Progressive Soil Conservation and Diversified Farming Program
Volume XVIV
Mount Pleasant, Texas, Tuesday Evening, February 14,1939
Number 284
Hard Rain Tuesday
Amazing Story
Overflows Streams,
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Stock Pools Filled
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versus
Springs
Officers, Directors
To Meet Wednesday
Theatre Prices
To Plan For Events
Dogged By Illicit
Still Operations
Carlsbad Is To
Become Tourist
by
Spa Under Nazis
Seek Injunction
On Texarkana’s
Reich Spurs
high
Drive Against
180-
Double Slaving
Labor Unions To
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to
tending physicians report Mrs.
An
announcement
Howard Romig
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Supreme Court
Rules On Fixing
ChamberCommerce Raymond Rrown Is
Has Short Meeting Speaker At Rotary
On Monday Evening Club Meet Tuesday
Fight O’Daniel’s
Tax Plan By Air
Meet Set For Latter
Part of This
Week
Arrangements To Be
Made For County
Meet
Mav Share in S5,000,000
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Reports Made On Va-
rious Phases of
Work
Same Personnel
As In Past
Maximum
M’nimum i
Temp. 6:30
Wind from
Sky
Rainfall at 6:30 .,
Barometer
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later
pick the Rotary Club as a whole,
and then followed the Rotary
motto of service in his speech,
saying that to be a successful
farmer, one must have the idea
of service to the others, and only
such businesses deserve to last.
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HOUSTON, Feb. 14—The Am-
erica! Fedeiation of Labor and
the CIO in Texas will stop their
win-
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Mt, pleasant JBailg
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 — A
film licensing agreement between
a
strides that have been made in
conserving the soil of this sec-
tion, and said that a new confi-
dence is existing among farm-
ers, who have had to adjust them-
selves to radical changes during
the past few years, but he pre-
dicted that tl.ey will have more-
money to spend in 1939 than last
year. Farmers are now enjoying
more modern, conveniences than
ever before, and with the com-
ing of rural electrification to this
section they will have still more
advantages. Better relations are
now existing between agriculture
and industry, which look well fbr
♦he future of farming, said Mr..
Brown.
League Committee British Envoy To
U. S. Expected to
Retire This Year:
1 city
There are 5,245 national banks |
in the United States.
New City Reservior
Rises Rapidly
As Result
PERFECTING BROADCASTING
NEW YORK—The first alum-I
inum concentric transmission ca- '
ble, which limits power radia-
tion to the first antenna and el-
iminates spurious radiation of
harmonics from the transmission
line is being installed in Cleve-
land, the National Broadcastin®
Company assisting in the devel-
opment, announced here
MRS. DAN WITT UNDERGOES
MAJOR OPERATION AT
DALLAS MONDAY
TO OPEN NEW FLOWER
SHOP HERE THURSDAY
stated thaj
construct
at a
I Daniel, C. O. Lide, E. L. Riddle,
! T. C. Walker.
Dr. and Mrs. Dan Witt went
to Dallas Sunday, where the lat-
ter underwent a major operation I
at the Medical Arts Hospital Mon-
-*av morning at 8:00 o’clock. Dr.
Witt returned from Dallas Mon-
I day night and stated that the at-
, tending physicians report Mrs.
In order to promote better ru-
ral-urban acquaintance, the Ro-
tary Club had for its guest speak-
er Tuesday Raymond Brown,, one
of Titus County’s outstanding
farmers, and his talk was an in-
spiration to those who heard him.
Mr. Brown started his talk by
Forced by his father to surrender
in connection with the slayings of
Dorothy Buskirk. 24, and her
daughter, Mary, 15 months, How-
ard Romig, 22, is shown outside
police headquarters at Easton.
I’a. Police said the girl had been
acting as Romig's housekeeper.
The victims had been shot twice
in the head.
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officers to serve for the ensuing
be * year-
*- ' There was no change in any of
as all those who
were re-1
They are as follows:
modernized.
and traffic out of the city’s cen-
ter, two new large automobile
Mrs. Mary Tozzo anil baby
Before Dolores Tozzo was bom, a
needle entered the leg of the
child’s mother, Mrs. Mary Tozzo,
of New York. No more was heard
about the needle until it turned
up mysteriously at the base of
the baby's spine. Doctors are
puzzled over the strange occur-
rence, but admit that it is quite
possible that the needle passed
from the body of the mother to
that of the unborn child. Mrs.
Tozzo, Dolores and the needle are
shown.
George F. O'Brien and son Jack
Believed to be a relative of the late Michael F. O'Dea, 90-year-old
California iecluse, George F. O’Brien of South Bend, Ind., unem-
ployed and on relief, may inherit a share in the $5,000,000 estate
left by O'Dea. O'Brien is shown with one uf his three sons, Jack
Donald. 17
Governor Wants
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president; W. S. Swint and Geo.
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Lilienstern, vice presidents; Mrs.:
| C. L. Duncan, secretary; Miss Lo-
! rnent more on a
said the Governor.
Mrs. J. E. Witt and Mrs. R. L.
Delafield returned Tuesday from
Fort Worth where they visited
their brother, Levy Henderson,
who is ill at his home in that
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Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Garbrecht
left Tuesday for Fort Worth,
where they will make their home.
duper-
The heaviest rainfall since last
July fell in this section Tuesday
morning, causing the smaller
streams of the county to over-
flow their banks and filling many
of the stock pools on numbers of
farms. Previous rains have fal- <
len ratiiei slowly, ard irn't of
the water staked into the earth,
but it was different Tuesday, as
there was a real downpour prac-
tically all morning.
Numerous of small bridges in
county roads were washed out,
and mail carriers were consid-
erably delayed on their routes
because of the conditions of the
loads, which were already in bad
shape in. many places.
The new city reservoir filled
tapidly because of the rain, and
the lake can now be seen in sev- !
| in tadio broadcasts against Gov-
ernor W. Lee O’Daniel’s proposed
transaction tax, according to R
F. Kennedy, executive secretary
of the Texas State Industrial
Council
Kennedy said the Governor's
proposal is a tax monstrosity,
charging that it would operate
against the working man. and
that he had completed arrange-
ments fcr a program to be car-
ried on a State-wide hookup.
r hunt.
visit to Austin and, Despite Italo-Germany friend-
I liness, the Nazi document rates
---I the Italians as second on the
“prize" list. The circular warns
German agents that the Reich is
not yet satisfied as to Italy's i
sincerity.
Next highest awards are made
for the capture of French spies.
evasion would run as high as
a day or $47,586,145 an-
gotiations that led to the Anglo-
—„ American Trade Agreement, one
built. One of the main projects The secret circular, intercepted of the biggest Chamberlain Gov-
is the building of one gigantic by French agents, copied, and ernment successes of 1938.
Central Curehouse.
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is, also to become an administra-
tion center c- ---------------
LONDON—Reports were cur-
rent in diplomatic circles today
that Sir Ronald Lindsay. British
Ambassador in Washington, will
i etire this year, after the Royal
visit to the United States.
The same reports declared that
his successor at the British Em-
bassy will not be a professional
diplomat.
Sir Ronald is in his 62nd year, .nd Vitagraoh, all film distribu-
’ .... tors providing a sca]e of priccs t0 be Spending more than $2,000,-
to be charged by second-run.' 000 annually in various services
theatres when showing feature,
pictures in the same city where
a first i un had been made, were effect a
held as a violation of the law and
could not be enforced.
j nually.
Most bootleg alcohol is
proof, which calls for a tax of
$4.05 per gallon. Ignoring the fed-
eral government’s “cut" the boot-
leg distillers sell their product
at an average price of $3.20 per
gallon, or almost a dollar less
than the legitimate distiller pays
for the tax alone.
This illicit alcohol is “cut” with
water, flavored and poured into
The new series of stock sales empty whiskey bottles to be sold
will be open to investors until j well below market price.
March first. ' ------------------------“
TEXARKANA. Feb. 14—A per-
! manent injunc.ici was sought in
! the Bowie County District Court
1 today by local citizens to pre-
vent? the city of Texarkana, Tex-;
as, front constructing a munici-
pal gas plant.
The citizen^ seek to prevent
the sale of $1,200,000 worth of
revenue-bearing bonds to finance
construction of the plant, alleg-
ing that contracts and agreements
made by the city for the proposed
-instruction of the plant are il-
legal.
Recently the city signed a con-
tract with the Bennett Petroleum
Corporation of Dallas and Hous-
ton to supply the city fuel for
the plant.
for agriculture, and could I
placed into one organization to
reduction of State ex-1 the personnel,
penses so as to put the govern- j had served last year
business basis, elected.
Directors—E. S. Lilienstern, W. old L. Henneberry. investigator
John S. Moses, director gen-
eral of the Titus County Inter-
scholastic League, has called a
meeting of the various commit-
tees of this organization at the
city hall on Wednesday night of
! this week, at 7:00 o’clock.
At *hat time, arrangements
will be made for conducting the
County Meet, which will be held
1 sometime next month at the Mt.
| Pleasant high school. Competi-
erai places along the highway j
An announcement was made
Tuesday morning by Mrs. B. L. I Witt’s condition to be favorable fighting with each other to unite
Hines to the effect that she will *“ * 1 *'
onen a new Floral Shop in Mt.
Pleasant on Thursday morning.
Her shop will be located at her
heme on East Third Street.
She has glassed in a portion of
her house for the purpose and
will carry a complete line of all
kinds of flowers.
Mr/>. Hines also
she is planning to
modem greenhouse
I date.
a confidential I
stressing the I
To keep any noise nee<* of fighting espionage and;wbo as president of the Board of
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Miwi al Plant
I is Couch, assistant secretary: T.
C. Walker, manager; J. A. Ward,
attorney.
Reports made at this meeting
of the operations of the Associa-
out Reich military secrets. These
Mrs. Etta Roper and son, Mor- offers are far in excess of the re-
s ris William, left Tuesday for Dal- 1 wards made during the World
las where they will join Cliff War spy hunt.
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Corpus Christi.
Weather
towards Talco. However, there
was not sufficient rainfall to fill
the old lake, which has not yet
overflowed.
A very interesting session of
I the Chamber of Commerce was
I held Monday night, the meeting
lasting only 25 minutes, and no
time being wasted.
The meeting was devoted al-
together to reports on various
activities being considered by
the body as no new projects will j saying that if he wanted to select
be taken up until after the elec-1 a representative group of the citi—
tion of directors and officers atj zens of Mt. Pleasant he would-
the annual banquet to be held
on Monday, the 27th.
The lighting of the baseball
field was discussed at length, and
prospects are very bright for se-
curing this project. Bidders on
material are coming down con-
siderably on their prices, and it Mr. Brown spoke on the rapid
now appears that there will be
little trouble in financing the
proposition, as a corporation will
be formed for this purpose. A
meeting will be held at an early
date to complete organization
plans, elect directors and officers
’ and transact other business nec-
' essary to make the project a suc-
, I cess.
Farm Agencies to
Be Consolidated D , . , T j
Reelected Tuesday
Like Eden. Stanley has not
the other hand, Carlsbad j cording to nationality. Highest been in the diplomatic service, has
an engaging personality and
considerable private fortune.
Pressure will be brought
bear on the Government not to
appoint a non-professional diplo- ■
mat to the Washington post, but
j those who are in favor of such an ,
appointment point out that one
of the greatest British Ambassa-
dors to the United States was Lord j
Bryce, who was not a trained '
diplomat.
An announcement was made
Tuesday morning by Millard
Fleming of Mt. Vernon, District
Athletic Director, of the schedule
cf play in the District Basketball
Meet, which will be held in the
gymnasium at Naples on Friday
and Saturday of this week.
Representative teams from the
eight counties in the district will i
be entered in the tournament. All i
are winners of the separate Conn-I
ty Meets, all but two of which
have already been held. Those
two counties are Camp and Red
River and the winners from
those places will be announced
soon.
The play is as follows:
Friday Afternoon
5:30 o’clock—Texarkana, bye.
6:30 o’clock — Omaha
winner of Camp County.
7:30 o’clock—Hughes
versus Winfield.
8:30 o'clock—Mt. Vernon ver-
sus winner of Red River County.
Saturday
2:30 o’clock—Winners of the
first two Friday games will play
each other.
3:30 o’clock—Winners of the
second ^two Friday games will
7:30 o’clock—Semi-finals (con-
. solation).
8:30 o’clock—Finals. •;
According to Mr. Fleming
awards will be made to the Dis-
trict winners, consolation
nei’iS and the runners-up.
Kficials will be Earl Wray of Lin-
den and O. E. Acker of Pitts-
burg.
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and has been British Ambassador
to the United States since 1930.
Two names are being mentioned
:n connection with the post. One
is Anthony Eden, former British
Foreign Minister, who has heredi-
■ tion is expected to be keen in j tary connections with the United
both literary and athletic .events . States and whose recent visit to
| during the meet, and practically America was an all-round suc-
’ every school in the county will cess.
be- represented. If he went to Washington, it
--------------------- ! would mean his removal from the I Mr. Garbrecht has been
intendent for the Talco Asphalt
& Refining Co., for -he past two
years, and their host of friends re-
gret to see them leave
I political scene for the years that
i matter and eventually enable
him to come back into the Gov-
ernment under the leadership of
some future successor to Neville
Chamberlain, with whom Eden
. £1*1 quarrelled.
rOrd^'ll SlJieS Inn®r Whitehall circles scout
® * I the possibility of Eden going to
I Washington, however. They claim
there are several reasons which
LONDON—The British Secret would prevent him being offered
Service today was reported to be or accepting the job.
in possession of a confidential seconcj name being men-
German document stressing the I tioned is that of ohver Stanley.
Schedule of Play In,
District Basketball
Meet Is Announced Is,
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Stockholders of the Mt. Pleas- |
ant Building & Loan Association
met Tuesday afternoon in the of-
fice of the Duncan Insurance
Agency and chose directors and
Prominent Farmer
Predicts Better
Conditions
HARTFORD. Conn —The prob-
lem of illicit stills, apparently
buried with the bones of prohi-
bition, is still haunting the fed-
eral government.
Still seizures have been averag-
: ing 40 per year, according to Har-
S. Swint, Geo. Lilienstern, Mrs. | for the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
C. L. Duncan, J. A. Petty. A. G. for Connecticut. If all the con-
fi-cated stills—117 of them—were
I still in operation today the loss
‘ The directors chose the follow- it0 ‘he government through tax
! ing officers: E. S. Lilienstern, I
for work by the Legislature to By Building & Loan
chain of motion picture houses effect economy and increase ef- :
in Texas and eight leading dis- ficier.cy, Governor O’Daniel has 1 ~ Cl 1*11
Uibutors was luled by the Su- recommended the consolidation . , . T ixr'4-l, llOVPriimPIlT Nllll
preme Court yesterday as being ; of six state agencies into one. I Organization Is With I UUV-1 IllllVfll 01111
in violation of the Sherman, anti- They include Reclamation engi- j
trust law, as it suppresses com-: neer, Beard of Water Engineers, j
petition. | Livestock Sanitary Commission,
Agreements between the Inter-1 Game. Fish and Oyster Commis-
state Circuit, Inc., and Colum- sion. Department of Agriculture
bia, Fox, MGM, Paramount, and feedstuff inspection and test-
RKO. United Artists, Universal' ing by the A. & M. Colleger-
Each of these agencies is said
BERLIN-rCarlsbad is going to
become the Reich’s most modern
tourist spa
This opinion has been express-
ed- repeatedly by the German au-
thorities since the world-famous:
health resort has been included
in the Reich's territory. No ex-
penses will be spared to lure back
to Carlsbad the thousands of vis-
itors who used to come annually
but fled during the critical days
at the end of September.
Anticipating that for the time
being Carlsbad will have to count
bn visitors from the Reich rather
than on guests from foreign,
countries, the automobile roads
leading from Saxony and Bavar-
ia to Carlsbad will be completely
offering Nazi agents all over the >prade conducted the delicate ne-
world high rewards for uncoV-! * ---
ler, two new ICUgC auiumoui.v
roads encircling the city will be ! er^8 fore>en SP‘“
built. One of the main projects
the Bowie County District Court
tion for the past year were very
complimentary to the manage-
ment, as a successful year was
exocricnced during 1938.
sent to Britain, grades spies ac-1
j bonuses are given for the de-
tion center of the” Sudetenland. I nunciation of the British—lowest
The tourist section of the city or Russians.
will, however, be strictly separ- The maximum award is $500.-
ated from that of the administra-! 000 for the capture of any Briton
tion quarters. who, it can be shown is feretting
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 284, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1939, newspaper, February 14, 1939; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1366083/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.