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Front Page News!
"SNOW WHJTE
and the
SEVEN DWARFS"
NATIONAL
starts APRIL 8th
PHIL KARNER. GENERAL INSURANCE
The Mexia
Herald
Front Page New*!
"SNOW WHITE
and the
SEVEN DWARFS-
NATIONAL
starts APRIL 8th
VOL. XXXX NO. 14
MEXIA, tfEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938
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Committee An-
nounced for Sale
of Easter Seals
DALLAS, April 6 (Sp)—Every
county in Texas is now organized
for the purpose of selling Easter
Seals for Crippled Children. The
campaign Is being conducted by the
Texas Society for Crippled Chil-
dren. The sale of seals commenced
April 1, and lasts until Easter Sun-
day.
Abe Goldberg, Port Arthur bus-
iness man and philanthropist, is
actively in charge of organization
work. He has been for many years
vice persident of the society.
Money raised by the sale of
Easter seals will be spent exclu-
sively for crippled children in Tex-
as to provide them hospitalization
and treatment, to buy them braces
and crutches and to pay transpor-
tation between their homes and va-
rious hospitals throughout the
state. There will be no distinction
in regard to age, race, creed, color
or the nature of the disease. Crip-
pled children from birth or through
accident will be given aid by the
Society as well as those crippled by
infantile paralysis provided their
families lack money for their treat-
ment. The Easter Seal sale is en-
dorsed by both the State and Fed-
eral governmental departments in-
terested in educational and rehabil-
itation work.
• Chairman Ashcrofo announces
the committees for the Easter Seal
Sale for Limestone County as fol-
lows:
Dr. C. P. McKenzie, Mexia,
chairman; Rev. R. 0. Sory, Mexia,
vice chairman. Mrs. F. J. Schultz,
Groesbeck, vice chairman; T. J.
Walters, Groesbeck, treasurer;
Jack Hawkins, Groesbeck, director
of publicity; W. L. Foreman, Mex-
ia,, director of publicity; Mrs. T.
A. Phillips, Mexia, treasurer Mrs.
Jame# H. Byers, Mexia; Rev.
Grady Metcalf, Mexia; Dr. 0. T.
Christoffer, Mexia; Frank L. Wil-
liams, Mexia; Jake Stubbs, Mexia;
J. Harold Nussbaum, Mexia; Mrs.
Joha H. Sweatt, Mexia; Mrs. A. J.
Laughlin, Mexia; Mrs. Raymond
Dillard, Mexia; C. A. Chambers,
Mexia; Dr. W. Duke Pittman, Mex-
ia; Mrs. J. T. Henderson, Groes-
beck, Mrs. C. D. Kelly, Groesbeck.
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Miss Viola Floyd has returned
to her home in Altone, Alabama
after a few weeks visit with rel-
atives in Mexia.
Leftists Demonstrate
Against Blum Defeat
PARIS, April 7, (U.R)—Singing
the Communist Internationle, hun-
dreds of workers poured into the
heart of Paris tonight in a Left-
ist demonstration against the de-
feat of Premier Leon Blum's pop-
ular front, government.
They converged on the senate
where the finance commission had
rejected Blum's finance bill on
which the life of the cabinet was
hanging. Five thousand mobiled
guards and police guarded the ar-
ea. Shouting "long live Blum" and
"Caillaus (Joseph Caillaus pres-
ident of the finance commission to
the gallows" the crowd swept the
streets to within a block of the
senate where police blocked their
passage.
PARIS, Aprfr 7. <U.R)—The sen-
ate finance commission rejected
Premier Leon Blum's drastic fin-
ance measures today bringing one
step nearer the resignation of the
popular front government . The
vote was 25 to 6.
While the commission was de-
liberating a cordon of police was
thrown around the senate. They
guarded neighboring streets to
ward off a leftist demonstration
'which had been proclaimed by
placards, posted throughout the
city.
French Watch
Horizon for
"Lost Legion'
6,000 Loyalist
Troops Seeking
French Safety
CERBERE, French Spanish fron-
tier, April 7, (U.R)—A lost leg-
ion of between 4,000 and 6,000
Spanish Loyalists is struggling
through the rugged snow-capped
peaks of the Pyrenees, seeking
safety in France it was disclosed
today.
French mobile guards patroll-
ing the mountain passes kept bin-
oculars trained in an effort to
find the Loyalists.
They reported an occasional
glimpse of men struggling up
the passes but there has been nc
news in recent days of the main
body.
Hoover Scores
New Deal; Says
Going to "Isms"
Direction Same
as the Nations of
Europe He Says
Miss Elizabeth Hinchliffe, a stu-
dent of C. I. A., has returned to
Denton after spending the week
end here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Hinchliffe.
Mrs. Leonard Tidwell has re-
turned after a few days visit in
Austin where she was the guest
of her daughter, Mrs. M. J. Ma-
hon.
Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Edgar have
returned after several days visit
With relatives in Oklahoma.
Ginner Prexy
Cites Tariff
Addresses 5,000
Ginners in Meet
Held at Dallas
DALLAS, April 7, (U.R)—Aub-
rey Lockett, Vernon, president of
the Texas Ginners Association
loosed a blast at the American
tariff system today as the "cant-
ankerous root rot' 'that is killing
the southwest's cotton industry
Lockett addressed 5,000 cotton
ginners who attended a combined
convention of the Texas Cotton
Ginners Association and the Na-
tional Cotton Ginners Association
Lockett told the group of men
in white Stetson hats and conser-
vative business suits that they
were the shock troops of an or-
ganized fight to save Amreican
cotton.
For every five weddings in the
United States there is one divorce.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (U.R)
—Former president Herbert Hoo'
ver said today that the direction
of the new deal is the "same as
every state in Europe that has
lost its Democracy."
"The danger in the new deal
is in the direction of it," he said.
"Europe's Democracies were lost
as a resuit of economic misery
And the action antecendent to
that are a mixture of government
interferences, socialism, Fascism
and various tendencies that de-
moralize a free economic system."
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From Walt Disney's
"Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs" Here, April 8-11 th
MEXIA
pHON'E
TEXAS
N.YA. Opens
Mexia Office
Limestone and
Navarro to Be
Served Here
The National Youth Administra-
tion has established offices in Mex-
ia, it was reported Thursday. All
projects in Limestone and Navar-
ro counties will be directed from
this office under the supervision of
the County Project Supervisor, J.
Morgan Dark. The dire need of this
supervision has been realized for
some time as there are numerous
youths in this vicinity who are bad-
ly in need of work and training.
According to A. W. Brisbin, dis-
trict supervisor, the aim of the
NY A is to give work to those
needy youths between the ages of
18 and 24 inclusive, and at the
same time give them practical
training in the various vocations
and trades which are available to
the program. It is hoped that this
can be successfully carried out so
aR to enable each and every under-
privileged and needy youth to ac-
quire sufficient training to prepare
him for a future trade thence a
subsistence. As far as is possible,
each youth will be placed on the
project which he is most interested
in and where he will be trained ac-
cording to his ability and willing-
ness.
At present there are four NYA
projects in operation in Mexia and
four in Corsicana. Another project
will begin in Mexia on Monday,
April 11, at the Dunbar Public
School. This project will consist of
the construction of a building
which will be an addition to the
school, and will give part-time em-
ployment to approximtely twenty-
five youths per month.
FORT WORTH, April 7, (U.R)—
Police identified from finger
prints today Edward P. PoBner,
23, who killed himself with a pis-
tol at the shooting gallery last
night before the proprietor and a
policeman could stop him.
Posner left a note asking that
his body be given to a, medical
college. No motive was found for
the shooting
Armies can be mechanized, and mechanized some more—but there
still comes a time when the troops must get out and push. The
picture above shows Japanese soldiers shoving a truck of a motor-
ized transport unit over a bad stretch of Chinese road. The
.Japanese engineer corps has been kept busy building roadways
~ in advance of the armies.
Charge Couple
Tried Murder
Browmoood Man
Victim Says They
Demanded Money,
Then Shot Twice
BROWNWOOD, Tex., April 7.
(U.R)—Hubert, C. Greener, 30 and
his wife, Lois Greener, 27, were
held today for questioning in con-
nection with an assault on Jack
London, vice president of a Brown
wood funeral home.
London told officers that he
was called from the funeral home
to a house nearby tocfay and that
a couple demanded that he give
them $1,000. When London told
them he carried no such amount
they demanded his car.
London told the woman to get
the keys frdm his office, and
when she left he attempted to
grapple with the man. As Lon-
don ran from the house, the man
allegedly fired twice at him with
a pistol.
Asst. Chief of Police C. S. Thig-
pen, said that he took a .45 cal-
ibre pistol from the man contain-
ing two discharged shells.
Green Goes "Dopey"
over Dwarf Movie
Gunman Given
160 Years for
Harris Holdup
W. E. Garner Had
Boasted How He
Would Terrorize
A story circulating in Mexia
Thursday has made A. E. Greene,
manager of the National Theater
a bit wary of meeting strangers.
Greene, who lately hag been so
engrossed with the opening here
of "Dopey and the Six Dwarfs,"
otherwise "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs," at the National
Friday, already was said to have
been living the picture night and
day.
As a climax Thursday Greene
was reported to have introduced
himsolf to three different persons
as "Snow White." He could not be
reached Thursday afternoon for a
confirmation.
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Henderson Named as
School Board Head
GROESBECK, April 7, (Spl)-
A. R. Henderson was elected pre«
sident of the Grosebeck school
board at a meeting held Thurs-
day morning. He succeeds Guy H.
Bond who had been chairman six-
teen years, and who refused to
offer for re-election at the elec-
tion Saturday. Marvin E. Bell
local lumberman, was elected as
a member to succeed Mr. Bond
HOUSTON, April 7, (U.R)—W. F
Garner, 27-year old gunman who
once boasted that he would out-
strip the criminal exploits of the
late Clyde Borrow was given e
100-year prison sentence today
for robbery by assault.
A district court jury found him
guilty of i-obbing Mr. and Mrs
W. C. Nelson of Houston on Feb
18. Garner kidnaped the couple
forced Nelson to drive to a point
near Beaumont, took the car him-
self and released them 10 miles
beyond the city.
Garner stole another car at
Huntsville on the start of a for-
ay that led to the serious wound-
ing State Highway Patrolman
Charles Key near Bryan, follow-
ing day and his capture near Cam-
eron.
Sweet Sorghum
Can Be Planted
Lewis Receives
Telegram Con-
firming Ruling
County Agent T. B. Lewis an-
nounced Thursday that he had re-
ceived a telegram from E. N
Kolmgreen, administrative offi-
cer in charge of the program at
College Station, stating that far-
mers will be permitted to harvest
sweet sorghums for hay.
Lewis quoted Holmgreen saying
"sweet sorghums" harvested for
hay are not soil depleting. The
confirmation came from Washing-
ton and places sweet sorghums
in the same class with Sudan
grass.
Kosse Reelects J. K.
Poindexter as Mayor
KOSSE, April 7, —In the city
election held here, Tuesday, James
K. Poindexter was re-elected may-
or, and Frank Seales was re-elec-
ted as city marshal over three op-
ponents, having gotten a majori-
ty vote. Leland Jones, garage
owner and mechanic; Jack Toland
pharmacist; L. L. Robertson, gro-
cer; K. S. Black, druggist and
Bill Vickery, assistant post mas-
ter, were clected aldermen.
PRINT FOUND
ON MIRROR
OF VEHICLE
Houston Suspect
Freed of Case;
Other Suspects
Are Weeded Out
NAB TRANSIENT
El Paso Police
Arrest Transient
for Questioning
VAN HORN, April 7, (U.R)—A
blurred thumb print on the rear
vision mirror of the automobile
driven by Mrs. Weston G. Frome
and her daughter before they were
brutally murdered provided offi-
cers today with a clue which they
believed might enable them to i-
dentify the slayer of the two Cal-
ifornia women.
Sheriff Chris P. Fox of El Paso
said that the thumb print was the
only mark found on the car which
might lead to the slayer.
Fox revealed the latest clue af-
ter it had been announced that
Jack Ferguson, Houston iron
worker, had been freed of suspic-
ion in the case. Officers at first
believed that some clothing which
Ferguson was attempting to sell
on the streets of McCamey might
have been the property of the
•Trome women but it developed
that it belonged to a woman in
Odessa, Texas. One after another
all of the other suspects arrested
in the case have been cleared.
El Paso police, however, today
questioned a transient arrested
there after he had told a fellow
transient that the murder "should
have happened a year ago."
Spring Goes Out
For The Count;
Mercury Tumbles
By United Press
Winter returned to Texas for a late season rhit Thurs-
day. It was heralded by tumbling temperatures, driving
rains, and hail stones as big as baseballs.
Fort Worth had one of the sharpest weather ehanges.
On Wednesday afternoon the thermometer registered 88;
by Thursday morning it was down to 38.
Wind reached a velocity of 53f •1 — *
miles an hour, uprooted trees and
tore down power lines at San
Antonio. San Antonio also report-
ed the biggest hail stones, some
of them bigger than baseballs and
many of them larger than hen's
Blinding rainfall, accompan-
ied by high winds hit Mexia
about 11 p. m. Wednesday
night. Precipitation at 7 o'clock
Thursday morning as .86 inches
The Tom Mix circus, which
showed here Wednesday, for
a time early Thursday appear-
ed stranded in the acreage
fronting the athletic field
However, elephants were util-
ized and finally managed to
moye the heavy trucks to high-
er ground.
Rainfall ceased about 9 a
m. Thursday.
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eggs. The hail was accompanied
by 1.2 inches of rain after a tem-
perature drop of 40 degrees.
Dallas residents shivered in the
rain and 38 d gree weather Thurs.
day morning after sweltering un-
der 85 degree temperature Wed-
nesday afternoon. Rain which
Paper Charges
Jap Espionage
Threatens U. S.
New York World-
Telegram Makes
Page One Charge
NEW YORK, April 7, (U.R)—
The New York World Telegram
in a copyright article leading its
front page said today that Jap-
anese espionage had placed the
United States "wide open to overt
and sudden violence in the event
of hostility."
"The United States is the un-
wary object of a tremendously
effectively peacetime espionage.
It already has undergone bold
and barefaced raids upon im-
mensely valuable economic re-
sources," the newspaper said.
Bus to Serve
Highway 171
North Zulch to
Hillsboro Route
of Motor Coach
Bowen motor coaches Thursday
announced the inauguration of bus
service between Hillsbroo and
North Zulch, covering all points
on, airline Highway No. 171.
The bus will leave Mexia in the
morning at 11:55 and arrive in
North Zulch at 1:50 p. m.
Leaving Mexia at 4:15 in the
afternoon the motor coach will
arrive in Hillsboro at 6:05 p. m.
Towns to be served include
Hillsboro, Bynum, Malone, Hub-
bard, Munger, Coolidge, Tehua-
cana, Mexia, Fallon, Personville,
Farrar, Evansville, Jewctt, Flynn
Normangee and North Zulch.
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DETRIT, April 7, (U.R)—Street
car operation in this city of 1,-
700,000 persons was paralyzed to-
day by a strike of motormen and
conductors. Buses moved on sched-
ule driven by members of a rival
union.
Mexico Offers
Plan to Pay
Oil Companies
Would Use fiO
Per Cent Rev-
enue to Pay
MEXICO CITY, April 7. (U.R)
■—Indemnification of the expro-
priated petroleum industry will
depend upon oil exporters, it wa*
revealed today when the govern-
ment announced that 20 per cent
of the revenue from sales abroad
would be. earmarked to pay for
the seized properties.
Under the plan, contained in an
executive order by President Laz-
aro Cardenas, the funds reserved
for indemnification would be de-
posited in the National Bank of
Mexico to the credit of the work-
ers for payment to the foreign
oil companies whose $400,000,000
holdings were confiscated.
flooded street cars and automo- A spokesman for the companies
biles for a time followed hail indicated the plan would not be
storms in scattered sections of satisfactory.
the citv I ^ie *°v«ramwit that the
A cold wave in the panhandle Payment would be made af^
dropped temperatures at Amar-
illo to 20 degree?. A 55-mile an
hours wind also whipped up a
dust storm that reduced visibil-
ity to one block.
An inch of snow was reported
at Abilene. The heaviest rainfall
in the state was reported at Waco
2V4 inches.
House Favors
Reorganizing
Bill Action
Vote Down Effort
to Kill Measure
by 191 to 169
WASHINGTON, April 7, (U.R)-
The house, under full pressure
from President Roosevelt's con-
gressional leaders, today defeated
a motions to kill the executive
department reorganization bill
voting 191 to 169 to continue con-
sideration of the measure.
Quickly reforming administrat-
ion lines, shattered during 22
hours of debate over five days, ad-
mintration leaders forced the bill
into reading of amendments, hope
ful for quick action after their
triumph in the first clear out
test of strength.
Reported Here
Hines to Run
Commissioner
Expected to
Announce Soon
ter conclusion of negotiations
with the companies regarding the
| amount of the indemnity. The ne-
gotiations were started after the
properties were seised but were
suspendad when conferences be-
gan ic the United States between
petroleum excutives and the state
department.
The indemnification costs also
will be met by a percentage of
the sales of petroleum products
'vithin the country, it was said.
The amount will be determined
Istcr.
The executive order was issued
after an official announcement
that the government-operated pet-
roleum industry was on a paying
basis and that already 50 offers
to buy oil have been received, in-
cluding British and Japanese pro-
posals.
The announcement was made by
the petroleum administration coun
cil shortly after Francis W. Rick-
ett, British oil promoter, and Ber-
nard E. Smith, New York brok-
er, resumed oil purchase negotia-
tions with secretary of the treas-
ury Eduarda Suarez and Gustavo
Espinosa Mireles, head of the re-
cently-formed petroleum sales
corporation.
The position of the peso, which
had been greatly weakened by
the expropriation and the subse-
quent suspension of silver pur-
chases by the United States, im-
proved notably. Opening quota-
tions ranged from four to 4.15
pesos to the dollar at against 4.50
yesterday and five a week ago.
MAY COTTON
Highway Commissioner Harry
Hines will announce for Governor
as soon as "this wintry weather
is over" it was reliably reported
here today.
Hines was quoted as saying
"the dogwood bloomed too early
this year. I expect to announce
for governor when spring is a
certainty."
A source close to the highway
commissioner asserted that in a
telephone conversation Thursday
he definitely threw his hat into
the gubernatorial race.
Hines, who has traveled in all
sections of Texas while carrying
out his duties as a highway com-
missioner, has been in Mexia on
many occasions
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New York May cotton closed
yesterday at 8.47 and today at
8.36-39.
New Orleans May cotton eloaed
yesterday at 8.60 and today at
8.61-53.
METAMORPHIS
LOS ANGELES,— Just a short
while after the Santa Anita
dicap, the track was the
of a goat race by which Pasadena
society girls raised money for
charity.
WASHINGTON,~April 7, OJ.fi)-
The National Labor Relations
Board today certified a commit-
tee for industrial organisation al-
uminum workers union as soli
bargaining agency for production
employes at five Pennsylvania
plants of the Mellon-controlled
Aluminum Company of America.
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