The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1935 Page: 2 of 6
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TUB MJKHA WH'ggLY HEKALP
WOMAN LAWYER
TAKES UP PLEA
FOR HAMILTON
HOUSTON, May B. (U.R)—Ap-
plication for review of the caie
of Raymond Hamilton, 21-year-
old condemned slayer, was ex-
pected to be filed today before
Federal Judge T. M. Kennerly.
Miss Camille Openshaw, Hous-
ron attorney who ia seeking com-
mutation of Hamilton's death
sentence to life imprisonment,
said the expected to file the ap-
plication this afternoon.
Hamilton is scheduled to die in
the electric chair at Huntaville
early Friday morning for the
murder of Major Crowson, East-
ham prison farm guard. Joe Pal-
mer, hia partner in the slaying,
also in condemned to death and
probably will die with him.
Mis* Openshaw Indicated ahe
would go to Austin tomorrow to
appear before the state court of
criminal appeals and Got. James
V. Allred in Hamilton'# behalf.
Governor Allred has announced
he would make a decision on
Hamilton's case tomorrow.' The
board of pardons and paroles re-
commended that Hamilton be ex-
ecuted.
• Approximtaely . 40,000 persons
signed petitions asking that the
youthful outlaw's life be spared.
Miss Openshaw said she would
ask the appeals court to rein-
state the case for consideration
and to postpone the execution
date.
According to state law, how-
ever, Hamilton forfeited all
right* to appeal when he escaped
from the Huntsville prison last
July 22, when an appeal was
p«ding.
Warden W. W. Waid of the
Huntsville prison said both Ham-
ilton and Palmer were calm to-
day as the hours shortened for
their walk to the death cham-
ber."
"They don't show any signs of
worrying more than usual,"
[Warden Waid said.
Tourney to Pick
Baer's Successor
Ell
The Vatioan's great statue,
"Sleeping Ariadne," is believed to
he the only marble figure with eye-
lashes in ttiew orld.
Practically all snakes are voice-
less. They hies when angry by forc-
ing air from the lungs through
their constricted throats.
Cotton-fabric letterheads are
finding favor with many business
firms.
PARIS May 8 (U.R) — Pierre
Charles if Belgium in whose behalf
Max Baer waa dethroned as cham-
pion of the International Boxing
Unloa, today headed the list of en-
trants in a tournament which will
decide Baer's successor."
The tournament will be arranged
at a meeting of the union June 5,
at Brussels.
Announcement by the union that
Baer no longer was t recognised
brought quick response from near-
ly every heavyweight in Europe,
except the best—Max Schmeling.
He felt Baer should be recognised
until some one beats him.
Prison Board
Fails to Act
on Lee Simmons
HOUSTON May T <U.PJ — The
Texas prison board today had com-
pleted its regular meeting without
taking notice of the legislative
committee's report on alleged bru-
talities at Retrieve prison farm.
A member of the board said no
action should be taken on the re-
port because it had not been sub-
mitted to the body. All the meet-
ing "had to go by was the news-
paper accounts of tfce committee
findings," he said.
The resent attempt in the legis-
lature to dispose of the nine-mem-
ber board and substitute one of six
members was not discussed.
It was understood, however, that
tension among members was high
because at rumors that the board
would discharge Lee Simmons,
general manager of the prison
board system. The rumors appar-
ently were without foundation.
"It was just a bunch of poker
players," one member who refused
to be quoted, said. "Both sides
(pro-Simmons and anti-Simmons)
sat up there and waited for the
other to move, but there was not
even an ante."
* .
The borda transacted only rou-
tine business. It adopted a resolu-
tion askin gthe governor and the
board of pardons and paroles to
credit time to several prisoners
who refused to join recent breaks.
The board also adopted a resolu-
tion authorising the general mana-
ger to subscribe for daily newspa-
pers for convicts and pay for them
from the prisoners commissary
fund.
The next regular meeting of the
board is scheduled for July 1.
KING'S
A Good Place to Trade in Mexia
COLORED LINENS
Most desirable shades in
aH pure linen <n
at yard 4SJC
WHITE ORGANDIE
Sheer and pretty f /\
quality 1JJC
WHITE PIQUE
Small neat stripe l n
only, yard 15/C
WHITE BROADCLOTH
Yard wide, g-ood | r*
quality, only IOC
WHITE WAFFLE
CLOTH
A new and distinct de-
sign, regular 50c on
quality now . «)5/C
COLORED LINGERIE
A pretty assortment of
six or eight pieces, bas-
ket weave and | a
lace stripe 1"C
PRINCESS SLIPS
Knitted material and
silk, wide lace /jn
trimmed, choice "OC
RUN PROOF
Material to fix 10 pair
of hose to make them
run-proof, regular 25c
value— | «
Saturday only IDC
SMALL PRICES—
--LARGE VALUES
White Shoe Polish
—rlOc and 15c
Woodbury Facial Soap
—10c
Milk of Magnesia
Tooth Paste lOc
Antiseptic Mouth
Wash 10c
Colgate's Talcum 10c
St. Joseph Aspirin ...,10c
Large Sweet Pea
Taloum . J0c
Colgate's Tooth Paste
—10c
Listerias Tooth Paste
—25c
5c
15c
Good Bread
pound loaf ...
1 doz. .Tea Rolls 5c
Hershey's Cocoa
pound
Good Shortening | r
pound IDC
Good Shortening 4 lb 59c
Shortening 8 lb $1.15
Crystal Wedding | n
Oats, Small pkg.. lUC
Large pkg 25c
Miller's Corn | f\
Flakes, large 1UC
Grape-Nut |
Flakes, pkg 1UC
Post's Bran | o
Flakes, pkg l^C
Good Table i a
Salt 8 boxes. . lUC
Singleton Syrup | a
quart 1«/C
Vi gallon 35c
1 gallon 59c
Crackers | n
pound box l&C
2 pound box 22c
25 £B8k:.Pwd 19c
K. C. Bak. Pwd. A
Small can */C
Old Gold Cigarettes
Camel Cigarettes
Chesterfields
Lucky Strikes | £
Choice, pkg IOC
Pork & Beans f*
can DC
Corn No. 2 can 10c
Spaghetti box 5c
Macaroni box 5c
A Good Broom 39c
Good Cotton Mop ....29c
Jumba Peanuts lb 15c
Super-Suds, pkg. lftc
Lux Powder, pkg 10c
Rinso, 3 for 25c
All Kinds of Fresh
Fruits and Vegetables
each Saturday
KING'S STORE, Inc.
Now located at 213 North Sherman St.
OWEN ROBERTS
SEEN AS CHOICE
OF PEPUBUCANS
By LYLE C. WILSON
WASHINGTON, May 7 <U.R) —
Speculation on the 1986 Republican
presidential nominee turned sud-
denly today to Associate Supreme
Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, a
native of politically potent Penn-
sylvania, who led the conservative
attack which wrecked the railway
workers' pension act.
Roberts is 60 years old, best
known to the public for his prose-
cution of Barry F. Sinclair and Al-
bert B. Fall in cases growing out
of the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome
oil scandals. He meets many of the
Republican residential specifica-
tion*. If his name appears with the
conservative group in the court's
forthcoming Scheehter case opinion
involving validity of NRA, there
might even be some little clamor
for "Roberts-For-President."
Political Angle
Henceforth his opinion will be
scrutinised for political ideas,
thoughts and prejudices. Precedent
for drafting supreme court Justices
was established by the Republicans
in 1916 with Charles Evan Hughes.
Examination of Roberts' legal
and judicial record reveals as mid-
dle-of-the-road, moderate liberal
whose fortune swelled upon the re-
tainers of such clients as the Phil-
adelphia Rapid Transit Co. and the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Except for
three years early service as Phila-
delpiha county assistant district at-
torney, Roberts held no regular
public office until May 20, 1980
when his nomination to the su-
preme court by President Hoover
was confirmed by the Senate.
Meantime, he had become profes-
sor of law at the University of
Pennsylvania. His practice and his
bank account grew with the years.
Roberts' liberal tinge, most evi-
denced on the bench, is balanced by
distinctly conservative connections.
With his big business practice,
Roberts combined directorships in
such big money institutions as
Equitable Life, Philadelphia Bell
Telephone Co., and the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
But he quickly attracted atten-
tion on the supreme bench by join-
ing the theretofore liberal minor-
ity, increasing its habitual voting
strength to five, thereby, permit-
ting it to control the court on sev-
eral interesting if not vital issues.
He sided with Justice Holmes,
Brandies, Stone and Hughes to up-
hold New Jersey's state regulation
of fire insurance rates and helped
keep Indiana's chain store tax op-
erative.
Justice Roberts turned conserva-
Lumber Workers
Out on Strike
PORTLAND, Ore., May 6. (U.R)
The great lumber industry of
the Pacific northwest was shut
down today by its first general
strike sine# the World War.
None of the Portland mills op-
ened today, the deadline set by
the union lumber workers for
operators to sign union agree-
ments. A total of 1600 man war#
on strike here, 926 of whom
walked out today. The others
struck within the last 10 daya.
■ ...
Jackie Coogan
Only Survivor
of Auto Wreck
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Mty 6 (U.R)
—An inquest waa ordered today to
determine the cause of an automo-
bile -wreck on Costa Gorge higa-
way which cost the lives of four
persons, including Junior Durkin
juvenile movie actor, and John I*
Coogan, Sr., father of Jackie Coo-
gan, one time child film star.
Jackie, only survivor of the ac-
cident, was in Los Angeles hos-
pital recovering from shock and|
. 1 «cov _
painful injuries to his cheat suf-
fered when the automobile in which
he and the others were riding plun-
ged down a 40-foot ledge on a hair
pin curve.
Other victims were Robert Hor-
ner, film writer and actor, and
Charles Jones, foreman of the Coo-
gan ranch to which the party was
returning after a day's outing.
Official ordered the inquest af-
ter young Coogan told them a
"road hog" caused the accident.
Jackie said an automobile, ap-
proaching from the opposite di-
rection, forced the Coogan car driv-
en by Coogan, Sr., off the highway
and over an eight-foot embank-
ment, plunging it down the rocky
ledge at 70 miles an hour.
Approximately 10 per cent of
Minnesota's barley production is
used for malting purposes.
tive on the Macintosh and Bland
case, holding that one who would
not bear arms in defense of the
constitution was not entitled to cit-
izenship. Some of his friends said
Roberts was swayed on that by his
war time service as temporary
prosecutor of draft dodgers.
But Roberts helped to declare
unconstitutional the clause under
which the New Deal sought to out-
law interstate shipment of "hot",
or bootleg, petroleum. In the gold
cases he voted to uphold the New
Deal. But that vote is considered
politically defensive on the grounds
that to hold otherwise would have
caused national confusion.
ACT COMPLETES
SUBMISSION TO
TEXAS VOTERS
AUSTIN, May 6 «J. — Sub-
mission of a constitutional amend-
ment to permit old age pensions
was ordered by the Texas Legisla-
ture today. The vote will be on
Aug. 24, 1935. The amendment pro-
poses authority for payment of
not to exceed $16 a month to per-
son* more than 65 years of age.
Estimates were given the House
that payment of the maximum $15
a month to all over 65 would cost
$18,000,000 annually. Rep. Jasper
N. Reed of Texarksna urged the
House to accept the Senate amend-
ment which makes the pension plan
less liberal than he had advocated.
Senators continued their debate
on the Tennyson utility bill that
gives the smallest municipalities
the right to regulate domestic util-
ity rates. Acrimony developed as
Sen. Ben Oneal of Wichita Falls |
and Sen. Welly K. Hopkins of Gon-
sales sook opposite views.
"We've all had bad breakfasts.
Forget it," Lieut Gov Walter Woo-
dul ordered. Consideration of the
bill continued.
The House accepted Senate a-
mendments to the bill to tighten
gasoline tax collections and atop
loss of estimated $2,000,000 yearly
state revenue. Under it, touring
trucks will be allowed 75 gallon
tank* of gasoline for motor fuel.
The House bill limit was 80 gal-
lon*.
Action was postponed until af-
ternoon on the public safety bill.
Rep. E. E. Hunter of Cleurne, au-
thor of a resolution asking Com-
missioner of Agriculture J. E. Mc-
Donald to answer charges regard-
ing operation of his department,
said he will ask House considera-
tion of the resolution this after-
noon.
Economy Food Store
102 N. Sherman Street
• HORACE HITT, Owner
Ponca's Rest
FLOUR
48 lb $1.89
American Ace
MATCHES
6 boxes 23c
Singleton
SYRUP
Gallon 57c
Saxet
CRACKERS
2 lb. box 19c
Regular 5c
SALT
3 pkg 10c
White or Yellow
SOAP
6 for 23c
Rulk
VINEGAR
Gallon 2flc
Miller's 8 oz. Pkg.
CORN FLAKES
2 pkjc 15c
Morning Rracer
COFFEE
3 lb.
50c
STEAK
lb 12c
Sugar Cured
BACON
lb, 23c
We slice it
Rewley's Old Fashion
MEAL
20 lb 51c
15 oz. Prepared
MUSTARD
Jar 10c
Rolled
OATS
5 lb. bag 29c
Fancy Whole Grain
RICE
4 lb. 23c
Watch Dog
LYE
13 oz. can 3 for 23c
Swift's Jewell
SALAI) OIL
Quart 33c
COMPOUND
8 lb. carton $1.09
Hilo
BAKING PWD.
2 1b 15c
Bulk Rio
COFFEE
2 IK 25c
STEW MEAT
^ 10c
Dry Salt
JOWLS
lb l(?c
Darden is Free
of Wife Slaying
in Strange Case
GREENVILLE, May 8 (U.R).—
Sylvester P. Darden, 38, World
war veteran, today was acquitted
of murder charges for the shot-
gun killing of his wife, which he
attributed to an act of his 8-
year-old son, Jackie Glenn, while
the child was "sleep-walking."
Darden, who was defended by
his war-time captain, was over-
joyed when the jurors filed into
the court room and M. Bryan, the
foreman, read the verdict as court
was opened.
The jury had reported to Judge
Charles Berry last night that it
was deadlocked. The court ordered
the panel to continue its efforts
to reach a verdict until this morn-
ing.
Mrs. Fey Douthitt Darden was
slain several weeks ago in her
home at Caddo Mills, near Green-
ville. Darden claimed he was a-
wakened by the sound of a shot
and found the boy standing beside
his mother's bed, holding a shot-
gun. He said the child still was
asleep and was not awakened
until a physician arrived.
Relatives of the slain woman
and friends of Darden rallied to
Darden's defense, asserting belief
that he was innocent.
On the stand, Darden steadfast-
ly insisted that the "sleep-walk-
ing" version of the killing was
true, as he had told officers im-
mediately after the shooting and
had repeated before the grand
jury which indicted him. He said
he was asleep in another room,
with two other children beside
him, when his wife was shot.
and
Johnson Picked
-Governor-
(Continued from Page One)
and Paroles had recommended
that Hamilton's sentence be
carried out "In the Interest of
society" and District Attorney
Max Rogers, who prosecuted both
Hamilton and Palmer, protested
that any Interference with the
executions "would jeopardize the
life of every Texas citizen."
The governor said he had re-
ceived numerous petitions asking
for commutation of Hamilton's
death penalty to life imprison-
ment, "most of these petitions
from well-meaning citiiens who,
I am sure, are not cognisant of all
the facts In the case.
"The chief argument advanc-
ed," he explained, "is that Ray-
mond Hamilton did not fire the
particular shot that killed Major
Crowion, a prison guard.
"The record *howi, however,
that Hamilton planned and pro-
vided the weapons for a whole-
sale delivery from the prison
farm which resulted in Crowson's
murder.
"The record shows that both
Hamilton and Palmer fired on
two guards; that Guard Crowson
was killed and Guard Bozeman
was seriously wounded.
"Witnesses differed as to which
fired the first or fatal shot but
the evidence is uncontradiated
that both Hamilton and Palmer
were firing on the two guards.
If Hamilton did not kill Crowson,
it was due to his marksmanship,
not his intentions. Under the law,
argument a* to which of these
men actually fired the fatal shot
is immaterial.."
Career of Crime
He said he saw "no reason
why the governor should set aside
the verdict" when "two men em-
bark upon a career of crime or
plan a hijacking, some innocent
person is killed, and a jury as-
sesses the death pehalty for both
of them . . . The law has been
trampled underfoot long enough.
Human life and property must be
made secure."
The governor pointed to Hamil-
ton's sentences totaling 362 years
and to Hamilton's bbast that
"no prison could hold" him.
"By his admission he has com-
mitted dozens of ' robbery crimes
for which death penalty might
be inflicted under the law," the
governor continued. "... When
crime is multiplied a hundred
times, a jury is justified in con-
cluding that both the convict and
society will be better off without
him."
He added that "however heart-
rendering it may be to me person-
ally to have to pass on these
death penalty cases, I have con-
cluded that the governor is not
acting as an individual but as
part of the institution of govern-
ment.
"Not alone for either Joe Pal-
mer or Raymond Hamilton but
in the interest of society to deter
others from the commission of
like offenses, I am of the firm
conviction that the law should
take its course."
Hamilton and Palmer were not
notified immediately of the gov-
ernor's decision. Simmons ex-
plained that "some of Palmer's
relatives were visiting the boys
and we didn't want to tell them
the news." He said the prison
chaplain probably would tell the
condemned pair 1 liter in the day.
Rainfall in part of Texas in the
past 10 days has been the heaviest
in more than a year. Additional
rains in most sections of the belt
would be detrimented and retard
field work.
Kermit Horn is
Winner Honors
in Journalism
FRIDAY, '1
•rlir
Kermit Horn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Horn of Mexia and a
football star on Mexia's high
Bchool team while here, has won
prominence as an editor. As edi-
tor of the Southwestern Maga-
zine, Georgetown, Horn has been
given national recognition. His
magazine has been given fourth
place nationally. Says a story
in a Georgetown paper:
"The Texas Ranger, official
magazine of the University of
Texas has issued it* AU-American
issue this month, and also the re-
sult of its nation-wide contest to
determine the outstanding college
magazine of the country.
"In its own class, The South-
western Magazine secured fourth
place, being nosed out by the
Sioux Falls Stylus, the Mercer
Bear and the C
Wash.
"All the features, cartoons,
jokes, and poems published in tha
All-Anierican Magazines, as com-
piled by the Texas Ranger were
chosen by the All-American Board
of Editors bh the outstanding ex-
amples of their type in the col-
lege Magazine world this year.
"William Kermitt Horn, editoi
of the Southwestern Magazint
was among those placed on th«
All-American Board of Editors S
The board was made up of edltori
of similar publications fron
twenty-one colleges."
A code official was snooping a-
bout the office gathering some sta-
tistics for the NRA. "How many
persons worked here?" he asked
the proprietor of the concern. .
"At a rough guess I should say
not more than two-thirds," was th«
disgusted answer.
LET US refresh your old
shoes for spring. Any color.
Satisfaction assured. 0. K.
Shoe Shop.
FELZ BROS.
Special Friday p. m., Saturday
and Monday.
f
PONCA'S BEST
FLOUR
24 lb. sack 98c
♦48 lb. sack . $1.89
Coffee
Texan, lb. 17c
BRIGHT & EARLY
11}. ,. 20c
Rice 41b 19c
PINTO
BEANS, 5 lb 39c
EXCELL
Crackers 2 lb box 19c
BANANAS, ORANGES f c
LEMONS, each ™
Bread-Rolls 5c
VEGETOLE OR JEWEL
SHORTENING, Mb $L09
BUFFALO
FISH lb 10c
VEAL SEVEN
Roast lb 14c
STEW MEAT lb 10c
DRY SALT
Jowls lb 15c
Bring us
your
Coupons!
fclUX?
W. W. Steward Sr. and Oscar
Johnson are to represent Freestone
county on the AAA special train to
Washington next week.
At a meeting of the cotton and
c6rn-hog committeemen in Pair-
field last Monday, the two were e-
lected delegates of the Freestone
county farmers to thank the ad-
minstration for what has been done
and to ask that no radical change
be made that would destroy the I
benefits of the reduction program.,'
W. B. Frederick, county agent 1
reports that the committee' still
have about $76 to raise to help pay |
the expense of thet wo farmers
and those desiring to aid are asked
to turn in their funds by Saturday.
——— ♦
rxmjr's Pal Goes
. to Federal Prison
NEW ORLEANS May 4, (UP)
—State Representative Joseph
Fisher was en route to Atlanta
Penitentiary today wit'- two boot-
leggers and two United State*
deputy marshals as companions.
In Atlanta Fisher, revoted fol-
lower of Huey P. Long, will begin
serving the 18 months imposed in
Federal court here after his con-
viction on charges of violating
the income tax laws.
Get Out Those
Summer
Clothes
...AND LET US CLEAN AND PRESS THEM!
• • ** t ' ' '
We can make them look like new clothes!
Jim Brady
Phone 78
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