The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1937 Page: 6 of 6
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THF MF.XIA WEEKLY HERAL1J
raxation Major
Issue as House
Starts to Work
AUSTIN. Feb. 8, ((UP)—Fas-
ter pace was due in the Texas
legislature beginning today. With
the usual quota of proposed in-
vestigations temporarily out of
the way, the house was ready to
tackle one of its biggest prob-
lems—taxation.
First tax, bill out ot' commit-
teen is a $12,000,000 franchise
tax. Committee hearings oh oil
tax bills are to start tonight.
Senators began work today un-
der revised rules that permit im-
mediate committee hearings on
all topics. In previous weeks com-
mittee hearings could be held
only on emergencies unless four
fifths of the membership agreed.
The house was expected today
to receive the senate bill to set
up a new state pardon and parole
board. A fight may be made toI
restore the set up of parole sup-
ervisors which the senate elimin-
ated. Carole advocates say the
set-up cost, will be less than the
expense of keeping prisoners.
Mfes Ma urine Kyle, calendar I
clerk, has totaled up a statistical!
summary of the work of the leg-
islature from the date of its
convening on Jan. 12. Her tabu-
lations show:
House bills introduced 415; In
committee 354; Reported unfavor-
ably 2; Dead 2; Pending second
reading 73j Fending third read-
ing 1} Sent to senate 20; Passed!
both houses 3; Total 446.
Senate bills introduced 211; Re-|
reived by house 2; Passed both
houses 5. - ■"
Only eight bills have passed
both house and senate.
Chain Gang Tightens Shackles on Outlaw River
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Plodding feet ot a Tennessee convict chain gang walk Into the breach to save the levees—and per-
haps many lives—south of Memphis, where rising Mississippi flood waters were a constant threat.
The work of these men, who are always under the eye of armed guards, brought suggestions they
be rewarded with official pardons.
Parker Admits
Killing Wife,
k. Sheriff Says
BRADY, Texas, Feb. 8 <U.R> —
Sheriff Love Kimbrough of McCul-
loch 'county said today that Fred
Parker, 26, had admitted slaying
his 42-year-old wife Jan. 22 in a
siset-eovered horse lot at their
farm home, 25 miles northeast of
here.
Packer first -reported- that his
bride of 10 months, poular for-
mer Fort Worth school teacher,
was kicked in the head by a horse.
Parker made a written state-
ment after lengthly questioning at
Beird, Texas, where he was kept
secretly after his arest last week.
Present were Kimbrough, Investi-
gator A. L. Barr of the Depart-
ment of Public Safety, and Sheriff
Frank Mills of Coleman.
Parker's statement, Kimbrough
said, detailed how Mrs Parker was
struck over the head with a fense
rail which later was burned. The
officers declined to discuss the mo-
tive the slaying for the present.
Mrs. Parker was injured fatally
Jan. 32. The husband told neigh-
bors that they had gone to a lot to
feed Some horses and that he was
called away for a short time. He
said he returned to find his -wife
unconscious, a gash on the back of
her head.
After the funeral, officers began
an investigation which culminated
in Parker's arrest on murder
charges last week. The victim's
body was exhumed and an autopsy
supervised by Peace Justice W. R.
Douglas revealed that she was
struck over the head with a blunt
instrument.
Relatives at Fort Worth said
most of Mrs. Parker's savings, sev-
eral thousand dollars, were spent
during her brief wedded life. Dur-
ng the inquiry officers questioned
a young woman acquanitance of
the couple.
Parker is well known in this lo-
cality as an amateur basketball
player. At one time, he tried for a
place with the Fort Worth Texas
League team.
Examining trial will be set to-
morrow, Kimbrough said.
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New Rites Held
in Shiloh Sunday
Funeral services were held Sun-
day afternoon at 3 o'clock for
Mrs. S. E. New at the Shiloh
Baptist church with the Rev. Ver-
|on A. Geeo, pastor of Calvary
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Walking, working, sitting, even in the hero's role on the Mississippi river levees at South Memphis,
these chain gang.convicts most wear the clmins and heavy ankle irons decreed by Tennessee prison
laws. T!he bags of sand the men carry ho«r after hour to strengthen the river wall against flood
waters are tiring, bat the chains are always an excuse for a plea to sit down for a moment's rest.
Sit-Down Courtship Ends When Girl
Says Tes and Aids Hometown C. of C.
NEW YORK Feb. 8 —<U.R) The
Excelsior Springs, Mo., Chamber
of Commerce wins again —Flor-
ence Hurlibut. said "yes" to her
sit-down romeo.
She said it while standing before
a microphone as guest star on a
commercial broadcast—all expens-
es paid from Kansas City to New
York.
Harold Hulen, the mustached
former Chamber of Commerce pub-
licity expert, who thinks up gags
like this one to advertise Excelsior
Springs as a health resort, was
back home listening in.
"If you really want me to1 be
your bride, I'll marry you in June,"
said Florence from coast to coast.
Her acceptance came after what
might be recorded as the hottest
courtship in history. It began
when Harold chained himself to a
radiator in the corridor of her
home last Wednesday, made him-
self comfortable on a rubber cush-
ion and prepared to wit it out until
Florence said "uh huh."
The radiator got hotter and hot-
ter but Harold kept cool by sipping
Excelsior Springs mineral water.'
He played solitaire, crooned love
songs and exercised on a treadmill
furnished by an enterprising bi-
cycle dealer.
Harold Just Sat
Florence turned on more heat
but Harold just sat.
The 20-year-old girl, who admit-
ted she always thought a stage or
radio career would be nice, stamp-
ed her foot and threatened to get
a court evacuation order unless the
boy friend went home. He didn't
After three days and nights of
publicity, Florence fled to the
home of Harold's uncle, T. E. Craw
ford. "I've had enough of this,"
she said. But when she awoke Sat-
urday, there was Harold parked
outside her door, dog chain on.
Then entered cupid, who turned
out to be Phil Baker, the radio
comedian. If Florence would fly to
New York and appear on his Sun-
day night broadcast, he said, she
could see the city, sleep in a swan-
ky hotel, wine and dine at the bet-
ter spots and turn over her bills to
Mr. Baker's sponsors.
"Are you ready to give him your
final answer?" Baker asked her
before the mike last night.
(iives Her Answer
Addressing her heartsick romeo
—who was back in Excelsior
Springs drinking mineral water
and giving statements to the press
—Florence said sweetly:
"Well, Harold, since I left Ex-
celsior Springs (there's that name
again) I have had loads of time to
think everything out by myself,
and if you really want me to be
your bride I'll marry you in June."
That's all for now —until the
wedding, which Florence said
would take place in New York, Ex-
celsior Springs to the contrary not-
withstanding.
Contestants in Turkish wrestl-
ing matches are seldom thrown
since they smead themselves with
oil and are too slippery to grip.
Watches are still manufactured
chiefly by hand. Labor compris-
es 85 per cent of the cost of the
product.
Dust Storms in
Texas and Okla.
Abate on Monday
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 8 <U.R)
Dust storms which swirled over
the Oklahoma and Texas Panhan-
dles, reducing visibility to a few
veet in some sections, abated today
after causing heavy crop damage.
Skies were cloudy over most of
the area, and the air still was laden
with fine particles of silt. Temper-
atures fell sharply.
Some experts said the storm,
combined with prolonged lack of
precipitation had damaged wheat
ho severely that abundant moisture
during the next several months
would not produce "more than 10
per cent of a crop." Others said
this forecast was exaggerated.
The storm, accompanied by a 40-
mile-an-hour wind, struck western
Oklahoma yesterday morning, and
continued throughout the night.
Farmers, fearful that it was the
prelude to another siege of the
"black blizzards" which have cost
tjiem hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars in ruined crops, said it was
the most severe storm since April
14, 1935.
Sections of Kansas and Colorado
also were affected.
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Houston Safe
Crackers Get
$1,900 in Cash
HOUSTON, Feb. 8, (UP)—Safe
blowers took $1,000 in cash from
Goud's wet wash laundry here to-
day after disarming a night wat-
chman and binding him with wire.
D. F. Gould, bookkeeper, who
revealed the loss, said the yeggs
left $500 in checks undisturbed.
J. S. Grounds, the atchman,
said two men attacked him at
3 a. m. after the men fled, he
rolled through a doorway to a
driveway 75 feet distant and gave
the alarm.
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Who shall offer it before the
Lord, and make an atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from
the issue of her blood. This is the
law for her that hath born a male
or a female.—Leviticus 12:7.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Nussbuam
and sons were Waco visitors on
Monday.
Miss Hel>ekah Richardson left
Tuesday for Huntsville where she
will enroll at Sam Houston State
Teachers college. Miss 'Richard-
son, a junior, is majoring in
Home Economics.
Oldest Twins Are
Parted by Death
PLAINVIEW, Feb. 0, (UP)—
J. M. Shafer of Plainview and
Mrs. Lida Whitelock of Los An-
geles, 01, believed to be the na-
tion's oldest twins, were parted
today by Shafer's death.
The elderly newspaperman died
Monday at the home of a daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. O. Oswald, aftsr a
brief illness. Shafer and his sis-
ter were born in Illinois. His
career included 6f> years as a
journalist .
Funeral services were to be
held here today.
Claud King is building a frame
store on his property on Ross
avenue and will open a grocery
store in it soon.
Announcing
THE OPENING OF MY DENTAL OFFICES IN THE
CITY OF MEXIA, FEBRUARY 15th, 1937
1 am a native of Central Texas (Cameron, Milam county), educated
in Texas schools and lived all my life in Texas.
I come to you with a wealth of experience (16 years) and a simple
and honest desire to be of service to you. In offering the following low
prices for my professional services, it should be simply and evidently
true that in a community where everybody knows everybody, sees every-
body and talks to everybody, that my motive could only be the honest
desire to establish a dental practice and a home.
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Teeth cleaned $1.00
Simple alloy filling1 $1.00
Simple porcelain filling ... $1.00
EXTRACTIONS *v"'
Full mouth extractions, per tooth. 50c
Full Vulcanite Dentures (false teeth) as
fine as my hands can construct—
upper or lower set $10.00
There will be absolutely no extra charge for carefully per-
formed anaesthesia or nerve blocks.
If you have broken your false teeth I will
repair (vulcanize) them the same day
for only $1.00
I pledge my best efforts at all times and a courteous reception awaits
you in my office whether the work is really done or you just want to
"talk about it."
Dr. F. Burns
-DENT 1ST -
Bever
Over Schulz Drug Store
MEXIA, TEXAS
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DON'T HUDDLE
Warm the whole house and live all over it
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Key Jangling
Negro Pastor
Loses His Job
FORT WORTH, Feb. <) <U.R) —
Rev. T. S. Boone, ousted pastor of
a Negro Baptist church, believed
today he might still be pastor if he
hadn't jankled keys during the ser-
mon.
Boone reportedly was dismissed
because he "annoyed" worshipers
by clinking coins in his pocket dur-
ing services. He admitted today
that he may have rattled some
keys he carried, adding:
'"But I didn't rattle any money
Baptist church officiating as-
sisted by Rev, Bob Cox. Inter- Wish I had enough coins to make
nient was in the Shiloh cemetery, j a good jingle."
Mrs, New, age 86, died in a
Dallas hospital Saturday morn-
ing after a long illness.
The deceased made her home
ao Shiloh with bfr son, D. E.
Newt"
Pallbearers were grand-sons of
I he deceased as follows: A. C.
Johnson, Frank Johnson, Charlie
New, Eddie Nefc,.M. F. Sewell,
and \V. L. Sewell.
J. J. RiiWie A compuny had
charge of fuVerai arrangements.
Thesteis inj nj Sunday*
in Lfhtien *vt :*t:- Vrd
JO Mr etnl r.f thui ut
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The pastor's alleged "28 suits of
clothes" were another issue in the
campaign against him. Rev. Boone
sad he had "only eight or nine
suits."
Loyal members of his congrega-
tion met Sunday and pledged $6*-
000 toward building another church
which Rev, Boone would head.
Present day world armaments
are said to have cost a total of 2,-
500,000,CIW pounds of sterling, or
.hree ti.'nes as much as In 1913.
The <i!d-fashioned divining-rod,
tci pay | for lorr, ing oil and water, has giv-
'1 way to etoeHct.iy and dynamite
Probe Plot to
Kidnap Galvez
Business Man
GALVESTON, Feb. 9 <U.R) —The
Galvestone county grand jury to-
day investigated an alleged plot to
kidnap Robert I. Cohen Jr., Galves-
ton business man, and hold him for
$5,000 ransom.
Three men were held in county
jail on $2,500 bonds each on vag-
rancy charges in connection with
the case.
Dave Henry, Police detective
chief, told Recorder Daniel J. Wil-
son yesterday that the suspects
had planned to kidanp Cohen and
to hold him aboard his own yacht
until the $5,000 were paid. The
plotters planned to drown Cohen if
he refused to pay the ransom.
The plot failed, Henry said,
when one of the men became fright
ened and reported to police. Two
companions of the informer were
arrested.
P
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More than 100 towns and cities
in the United States have r.ame*
containing the name of the na-
tion bird, the eagle.
Drone bees are not equipped
to gather their own food from
flowers even if they dwired to
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• This man's family has an easy winter, without
colds, because the whole house stays warm. They go
right ahead with their lessons, housework and
entertaining, without crowding up. And it's not
expensive. They simply turn their heaters to a
moderate warmth all over the house, instead of
running one or two little heaters at top speed. The
rooms stay open and the air circulates, arid there's
go wall-sweating.
• This house is blocked off in a shivering quaran-
tine with just one room heated, and the family has
numerous colds. The "huddle system" is hard on
their health and dispositions, because the closed
room loses its oxygen and this means sniffles and
colds, and sluggish heads. Many of the serious
winter illnesses start with colds that people develop
in tight, hot rooms.
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