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TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
KlN(iSVILLE, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. AUCilTST S. 19.11
No. 52
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Newspaper stories of the drought
that has held the greatest part of
the agricultural sections of the Un-
ited States in its grasp for months
do not do Justice to the situation,
according to travelers who have re-
turned from the mid-West.
John Gregory, former Kingsville
school superintendent, who has
spent six weeks in study at the Uni-
versity of Missouri, says that great
oaks and maples are dying in a
land that has long been known for
its fertility, its fine crops and the
general prosperity of its agricul-
ture.
‘‘Until I drove in to the South
Texas country around San Antonio
and on to Kingsville, the country
looked like a desert,” Gergory says.
—HR—
So South Texans need not fret
and worry because, once in a long
term of years, an over-sized Gulf
breeze knocks down a few shacks
and destroys a few bales of cot-
ton. We’ve still got the best agri-
cultural country in these United
States, and, if the President is go-
ing to move those farmers out of
the mid-West, there is plenty of
room in South Texas for the best
of them. However, let’s be sure
that the folks they send down are
not the "culls” of the herd. South
Texas has suffered enough from
farmers who could manage to
make a failure without the aid of
a drought or a depression.
—BB—
Up in the drought stricken area,
the President is traveling east-
ward, viewing the havoc that lies
in the wake of a long-drawn out
National calamity, promising the
people to do all in his power to re-
lieve their distress, heading for
Minneapolis where striking truck
drivers and employers are battling
while the public pays and suffers.
To his ears comes threats of strikes
in the building trades when his
plan to speed up recovery by a pro-
gram of home building is launched.
The president has said many times,
something about removing the
“profit motive” from business. He
will find ultimately thut the "profit
motive” has been responsible for
all human progress. It moves labor
as well as capitalistic groups on-
ward. It may prove easier with the
aid of science for the President to
assure the mid-West that, after his
reforestation experiment Is com-
plete, there will be no more
droughts than it will be for him to
eradicate the "profit motive.” The
first is scientifically possible, per-
haps. Two thousand years of
Christianity, which teaches unself-
ishness above every! Iiing else, has
done little to kill the human in-
stinct for “profit”.
—HP—
Arthur Brisbane, highest paid
columnist in the world, has an un-
happy faculty of bringing up ques-
tions that are calculated to make
the President, or any one for that
matter, search long and hard for
ati answer. This morning he says:
Mr. Green, bead of the American
Federation of Labor, warns the
government that It must do some-
thing for the ten millions idle. If
it does not act swiftly, Mr. Green
says, "society may take over the
means of production.”
What is “society?” President
Roosevelt's government has al-
ready “taken over the means of
production.” taking charge of in-
dustries, payrolls, shops, farms,
spending public money by the bil-
lions In an earnest, sincere effort
to restore prosperity by financial
artificial respiration.
What is the “society” that would
"take over the means of produc-
tion?" Would It be mobs in the
streets, or perhaps an organized
and armed body of union men?
How would it operate?
There is no doubt we are in for
some Interesting happenings after
the tax payers’ money shall all
have been spent, and inflation shall
have run its course.
FEED RBe
Farmers May Sell Feed From
Government Withheld
Acres
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Land rented to the Federal gov-
ernment under the AAA cotton re-
duction and other basic crop reduc-
tion programs has been released to
the owners for the unrestricted
growth and sale of hay and live
stock feed, according to County
Agent W. L. Wilkinson.
Wilkinson publishes the copy of
a telegram addressed to O. B. Mar-
tin, head of the A. & M. Extension
Service, and signed by C. W. War-
burton of Secretary Wallace’s of-
fice as authority for the above
statement.
The message: “Secretary’s ad-
ministrative order announced to-
day modifying cotton contracts for
1934 to permit unrestricted use as
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KLEBERG FIRST
coin ptm
U.S. SEED LOAN
Is Firs! County To Moot
Federal Crop Obliga-
tions in Full
HEADS APPEALS EOAP.D
|k
For the second successive year
Kleberg county has been the first
county in the United States whleh
lias repaid its emergency crop pro-
duction loans in full, it was learned
yesterday when (\ P. House, chair-
man of the local committee, report-
ed all loans paid. Last year the
final county payment wns made
August 31. In 1934 the slate wns
clean on Aug. <!.
Myron F. Ward, field supervisor I hoard which will act upon all com
Rfcfeia wp.
."te- -
i r
Amos J. Peaslee, New York attor-
ney, wtio lias been named to head
tlie three-man Industrial appeals
COLLEGE BOM))
COMPLETES LOAN
FOB BUILDING
May Name President
Meet inj; This
Month
Capt. Albert W. Stevens, who leaped to safety with the two other
members of the stratosphere balloon Explorer when it fell, is shown
livestock feed including sale of hay j chopping away parts of the gondola in the effort to save some of the
and roughage crops from laud cov* ] scientific instruments. However, they were destroyed bv the crash,
ered by contract including rented
acres. Harvesting and use or sale'
of seed from meadow, pasture and ys| w-V y
County Democrats Name
tract. Modifications prompted by g . -m * •
ir" • Delegates to State Meeting
MEXICAN SHOT TO
DEATH SATUROflY
Enrique Garcia Palos, a 31 year
old Mexican whose home is said to
have been in Reynosa, was shot
about 10 o'clock Saturday night,
dying from his wounds before med-
ical attention could reach him.
The bullet from a smull calibre
pistol entered the body under the
left arm and another pierced the
abdomen.
Joe Maybe, Mexican cotton pick-
er and yardman, who has lived in
Kingsville for several years, sur-
rendered to Officers Scarborough
and Goode and was placed in jail
to await action of the grand jury.
The killing occurred in the yard I
of the home of Marie T). Garza who1
a few nights before had called of- j
fleers claiming Palos had threat-
ened a girl who lived with her. J
Palos was arrested on that occas-1
ion but jumped from the officer’s
car and escaped while enroute to
jail.
Resolutions On Enforcement
and Absentee Votes Are
Passed
litation Work
On Free Labor
County Sanitation Program Is
g carried on under the Relief
acts and all interested are ask-
a get in touch with either one
le crews in the field or notify
pf Headquarters.
1 labor is furnished by the Re-
Committee to all who furnish
materials.
W. A Shields,
County Administrator.
A. Carrow was the week end
t of relatives In Anchorage, La.
VOCATION TEACHERS
TO MEET AT A. & I.
On August 13 and 14 the Voca-
tional Agriculture Teachers of the
South Texas area will hold a meet-
ing at the Texas College of Arts
and Industries under the direction
of the State Supervtsor, Mr. J. B.
Kirkland. Mr. Paul Haines, Direc-
tor of Vocational Agriculture for
tlie state, will he present and will
take part In the program. Teachers
from thirty or forty schools as well
as county agents and others inter-
ested in vocational agriculture, will
be in attendance.
The general theme of the meet-
ing will be rural rehabilitation and
rural relief through the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Methods will be discussed whereby
vocational agriculture teachers
may cooperate with and aid in the
national program as outlined.
Such matters as preserving of
surplus food, the assisting of farm-
ers In adjusting their operations to
the AAA program, keeping records
required in carrying out the AAA
program, special instruction in con-
nection with soil erosion and soil
conservation, and the assisting of
officials with FEitA aad adult ada
cation, and the organization of
Future Farmers of America will be
discussed. The meeting in Kings-
ville Is one of a series beginning at
Arlington on August 3 and 4, Cisco
August 6, 7, and 8, Lubbock Aug-
ust 10, Kingsville, August 13 and
14, College Station, August 15 and
lfi, and Nacogdoches August IT and
18.
Other educators who will appear
on the program are E. R. Alexan-
der, Professor of Economics, A. ft
M , L. A. Woods, State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction, and pos-
sibly Dr. R. H. Montgomery, of the
University of Texas, and Dr. Thos.
A. White, of the Texas College of
Arts and Industries, Kingsville,
Texas.
Mrs. Fred Reagan is visiting rela-
ives in Houston.
D. A. Barber, G. J. Parrish, E. H.
Crenshaw, Jr., and Mrs. A. J. Dim-
mlck were elected delegates to the
Stale Convention when the Demo-
crats of Kleberg County met in
convention at the Court house at
eight o’clock Saturday evening. Al-
ternates selected were Dr. H. Alli-
son. H. N. Scott, J. W. Bentley und
Mrs. Joe Bodin.
The meeting was called to order
by J. D. Gibbs, chairman of the
County executive committee, who
called for the election of a presi-
dent and secretary of the conven-
tion. D. A. Barber was elected
president and Hayden McClung
secretary, both selections being
unanimous.
The convention received the re-
port of the canvass of the vote in
the primary of July 28 as submit-
ted by Chairman Gibbs and declar-
ed those receiving the highest num-
ber Af votes for county and precinct
offices to be the nominees of the
party for the respective offices.
The figures submitted were the
same as the unofficial return pub-
lished last week. Adoption of the
report was unanimous.
Three resolutions were passed by j
the convention. One called upon
peace officers for "better example !
and protection” in law enforce-
ment; one railed upon officers for;
a more careful administration of
the absentee voting law, and the
third exhorted all Democrats to j
take part in the second primary on ;
August 24.
C. G. Kramme, Dr. George F. Wil-
liams and S. T. Prejean served as a
resolution cnmmlttoB and JI. B.
Haskell, Mrs. H. F. Gwynn and C.
H. Iteese, Jr., constituted the reso-
lution committee.
The Riviera, Vattman, Ricardo
and Laureles voting precincts were
not represented in the convention
which was attended by
delegates.
about 25
(Continued on puge 10)
GRAND JURY FINDS
TEN TRUE BILLS
The Kleberg County grand Jury
for the August term of the District
Criminal Court returned ten true
bills charging felony offenses, in-
cluding one Indictment for murder, i
hilt on account of the defendents in j
a number of cases not being under j
arrest, publication of the Indict-
ments is withheld. Tlie grand jury
adjourned Tuesday evening after
being in session two days.
Judge Geo. C. Westervelt this
week is trying divorce cases and j
passing sentences where pleas of |
guilty are entered in criminal cases.
The case of Prince Wooten,
negro, charged with the murder of,
another negro, Millard Holland, I
about thirty days ago, has been set
for trial Monday morning.
Knife Used In
Saturday Nile Fight,
Lacardo Salazar, Kingsville Mex-
ican, is in a serious condition at
the Kleberg County Hospital as the
result of a Saturday night affruy
with another Mexican named Joe
McCracken. Salazar was stabbed
seven times, but it is thought that
he will recover.
Deputy Sheriff Bill Taylor ar-
rested McCracken Monday morn-
ing and lodged him in juil charged
with assault to murder.
‘151,.‘100 Mon Now
On CCC Camp Rolls
Washington The CCC has
reached new peak in number of
camps, enrollments and families
benefit!Ing from checks sent home
by the youthful workers.
Officials said there were now
351,300 men In 1,643 camps and
315,000 families were receiving al *
lotment cheeks.
in the Corpus Christ! district, yes-
terduv notified Congressman Rich-
ard M. Kleberg that Kleberg county
1034 loans had been pit Id 100 per
cent at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Kleberg county last year vvus the
first county to pay in full.
This entire district hnH an out-
standing record in the nation for
repayment of emergency crop
loans, the percentage of repayment
last year being one of the highest
in the country. A number of the
counties in the district made 100
per cent repayment records.
Kleberg last year wrote each bor-
rower in the fourteenth congres-
sional district, pointing out the im-
portance of making the best pos-
sible repayment record. He lias
cited tho record mado before the
house agricultural committee, do-
cdaring that farmers of his district
have kept faith with the govern-
ment and that they would continue
to do so If given assistance during
emergencies.
plaints of inequitable application of
NRA ciftlos.
fl. R, ERITTS DIES
AT HOME HERE
O. If. Fritts, pioneer farmer of
Kleberg County and prominent citi-
zen of Kingsville, died at the fam-
ily residence, 214 East Johnson, at
j 6 o’clock this morning. Mr. Fritts,
who was In Ills eighty-fourth year,
had been in ill health since Febru-
ary, hut his condition became criti
cal only a few days ago.
Othulbert Rosal Fritts was born
In Scott, Now York, September 23.
The completion of the PWA loan
that will be used In the construc-
tion of two dormitories at tho Tex-
as College of Arts and Industries,
and the employment of an architect
and consulting architect on that
project consumed most of tho day
when the Board of Directors of the
College met here last Saturday, It
is stated hy R. C. Eekhurdt, secre-
tary of tho board.
Members of tho tioard had no
statement to make when asked wbe-
ther or not the selection of a presi-
dent to succeed the late E. W. Seale
was discussed, but it is understood
that the matter received some con-
sideration and that final action Is
expected at a meeting to be held
before September 1,
All requirements of I'WA offic-
ials looking to tlie completion of
the $300,000 dormitory loan and
grant were met by the hoard, it
was stated. John M. Marriott was
appointed architect and Phelps and
DeWees were made consulting nr-
ehlleets for the project and their
contracts were forwarded to tho
State I'WA officials for approval.
According to Eckhardt, the archi-
tect and consulting architects, ail
of San Antonio, will begin work on
1850. On September 0, 1894. he was ",Hr P|on" Immediately. Eckhardt
married to Miss Clara Metier In l"‘ll,’v,’H that it will be possible to
Reinbeck, Iowa. They moved to I bp*ln construction by the middle
South Dnkota, where they lived
about ten years before coming to
SEIIEII DIVORCES
GRANTED IT COIIAT
Seven divorces were granted by
District Judge George C. Westervelt
tliis week at the current session of
the Kleberg County district court.
Decrees were awarded the plain-
tiffs Iri each of tlie following cases:
Naomi Pitts vs. E. A. Pitts; Clara
Lane Schanck vs. Peter C.
Schanck; Bertha Lyneh vs Arthur
Lynch; Marla Herrera de V. Gon-
zales vs. Jesus Gonzales; Ellseo vs.
Rita Lara; and Daisy vs. Alvin
Hilliard.
Co-op Can Advance
On lJnexempt Cotton
II. E. Bertram, receiving agent
for the Mouth Texas Cotton Co-
operative In Kleberg County, yes-
terday announced that he had been
authorized by B. S. Burgess, gen-
eral manager of the co-op, to re-
ceive and forward to compress
point cotton on which tux-exemp-
tions have not yet been Issued. An
advance of $15 a bale may lie made
on such cotton, Bertram suld.
Tile local agent explains that the
arrangement is made primarily to
relieve the farmer to the extent of
the advance payment, also to pro-
tect cotton from weather damage.
The compress will Issue a certifi-
cate or lien protecting the glnner
under the federal regulations, Bert-
ram stated.
Mrs. I. 1'. Elder In convalescing
at the Kleberg County Hospital
from a major operation
od last week.
Kingsville twenty-six years ago.
For a number of years Mr. Fritts
owned and operated a farm about 2
miles south of Kingsville. In 1920,
the family moved to Kingsville,
Mr. Fritts accepting employment
with the Missouri Pacific. After
eight or ten years service with that
company, Mr. Fritts retired from
active life.
He was a member of the Pres-1
byterlan Church of Kingsville and
devoted to Ills religious duties.
Funeral services were held at
five o’clock this afternoon at the i
family residence, with Rev. George |
F. Williams of tho Presbyterian
Church, officiating. Burial was In
Chamberlain Cemetery,
Pallbearers were: 11 B Gasket),
II T. Collins, W. (’. Huffman, 1.. H.
Barker, It. F. Ellis, and J. C. Dugat.
Besides ills wife, Mr. Fritts is
survived hy two sons, L. A. Fritts,
of Kingsville; O. H. I^rltts, New
York; one daughter, Mrs. Truett
Airhart, Kingsville; four brothers,
A L Frttta, Lins*] Calif.; A -i
Fritts, Rock Valley, Iowa; Walter
Fritts, Malt Lake City, Utah; Wes-
ley Fritts, Cherokee, Iowa; two
sisters, Mrs. Rosina Law, Oakland,
California; and Mrs. A. Howe, Fort
Dodge, Kansas.
Several District Court
Cases Arc Dismissed
On motion of District Attorney
Purl, four cases against alleged op-
erators of slot machines were dls
missed in the district court early
this week.
Other cases dismissed on State
Attorney's motion were: Thomas
Freeman, Corpus Chrlsti, charged
with rape, and four burglary cases
where defendents bad already been
of October or first of November
and that tho buildings should he
ready for occupancy by the beginn-
ing of the next, summer term.
Attending the hoard meeting
were R. L. Bobbitt, I .a redo, presi-
dent; Mrs. Lorine M. Spoonts,
Corpus Chrlsti; Mrs W. L. Stoner,
Vletorln; James H. Dougherty,
Beevllle; Givens Parr, Alice; S. L.
Gill, Raymnndvllle and It. C. Eck-
liardt, directors; John M. Marriott,
San Antonio, architect; and Otis L.
Kowalski, Kingsville, attorney.
POLICE RAVE BUSY
perform I convicted here or elsewhere and
i were serving sentence.
July was a busy mouth for the
Kingsville police department, ac-
cording to the monthly report made
to the city commission by Chief of
police J. S. Scarborough, Jr. The
recent arrangement whereby an of-
ficer can lie reached day or night
by calling the city ball, phone 32,
tins added greatly to the efficiency
of tin- department, city officials be-
lieve.
Scarborough's report follows;
! Culls answered, 105; arrests made,
j 29; cases tried, 16; cases pending,
5; cases dismissed, 1; transferred
| ic county, 4; transferred to govern*
i ment officers, 3; convictions, 15;
j cars stolen, 2; cars recovered, 2;
number of petty thefts reported. 4;
traffic arrests, 2; traffic convic-
tions, 1; truffle violation warnings
issued, 125; investigations complet-
ed, 2: investigations pending, 9;
burglary, 11; auto wreck reported,
3; dogs killed and disposed of, 9;
violent deaths, 1; fire alarm ans-
wered, 4; estimated value of pro-
perty stolen (not including autos),
$560 98; estimated value of stolen
goods recovered, $102.00.
HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HEADLINES
Kingsville Boy’s
Drawing On Kxhibit
At World’s Fair
Thursday, August 2
LOUISIANA WAR — Over 500
national guardsmen, under control
of the Long political machine, and
1.400 policemen, directed by Mayor
Walmsiey, fared one another in
New Orleans armed and ready for
action in the political civil war be-
tween city and state authorities at
New Orleans
CALLED SESSION — The 43rd
Legislature will be convened In a
third called session Monday, Aug-
ust 27, to authorize the issuance of
the remainder of the state relief
bond, it was announced Wednesday
by the Governor’s office. The decis-
ion to call the lawmakers was
r* ached after Texas mayors paint-
ed a doleful picture and presented
the situations as of really acute
alarm. The state has 9 1-2 million of
authorized bonds unissued.
THIRTY FIVE INDICTED — 28
men whose names might well he
written in "Who’s Who In Detroit
Business and Finance” were named
today In Federal Indictments charg-
ing misapplication of funds, conspir-
acy, or making falRe entries In
bank reports.
NORTH DAKOTA HAS A”MA"
— Designated as a "vindication”
candidate, Mrs William A. linger,
wife of the man who was deposed
as Governor of North Dakota two
weeks ago, was named to make the
Governor’s race in November by
North Dakota Republicans.
Friday, August 3
MORE POWER FOR HITLER—
Adolf Hiller announced tonight in
Berlin that he will refuse to assume
the title of President, but indicates
that he will assume supreme power
ill Germany through a fusion of
the Presidency and the Chancellor-
ship, which he expects to have automobile dealer, Is serving a
sanctioned hy a plebiscite, August three months term in Tomb prison.
19 DIVINE RIGHT The New
SHEEP PURCHASE ILLEGAL
Comptroller General McCord tenta-
tively has ruled that the Farm Ad-
ministration has no authority to
(From The Alpine Avalanche)
A water color drawing of the In-
dian Village hotel in the state park
here has attained distinction. While
the hotel plan was drawn by J. B.
Roberts last winter, Roy S. Fergu-
son, at the park, drew the water
color front elevation of tho struc-
ture on Its hillside, and that draw-
ing won such high honors in a
Southwestern district exhibit at
Deal was bitterly denounced by
Senator Warren R. Austin of Ver-
mont and Representative Janies N.
Heck of Pennsylvania today when
purchase sheep |n the western admirers of Calvin Cool id go gath-1 Oklahoma City that It was sent on
drought area. The Farm relief ared at Plymouth, Vermont, on the t0 tj,fl Woru H f„|r at Chicago, and
measure Includes cattle as a basic eleventh anniversary of the Inaug- j („ ntm there. Mr. Ferguson has
lieen at the state park camp, doing
drafting and architectural and such
work, for a year or so.
commodity, but It does not specif- oration of the former Vermont farm
Icnlly mention sheep. boy. The New Deal assumed that
Saturday, August 4 the state working through bureau-
PRE8IDENT RETURNS -Presl- knows better what
dent Roosevelt returned yesterday
Is for the welfare of a man than
a man himself, and the theory of
to the continental United States af-
ter a trip to the Hawaiian Islands. , .....
The presidential party aboard the ^ d,T,n® r,*ht of d,,'tator"‘
United States cruiser Houston land-
ed at Portland, Oregon.
NRA TEETH Because he sold
an automobile at fifty per rent less
than its list cost under the NRA
Code, Gordon S. Harris, New York
the divine right of kings has be-
Beck said.
Sunday, August 5
TAX AT LIMIT - Th* automatic
tax boatd, meeting at Austin yes-
(Continued on page five)
The drawing referred to Is of tho
Indian Village at Fort Davis. The
artist, Roy Ferguson, Is the son of
J. C. Ferguson of the Ricardo com-
munity. Roy attended A. ft I. and
later graduated from the Iowa
State College at Ames, Iowa.
J B. Roberts, the architect refer-
red to In the story. Is also a Kings-
ville man, son of I)r. C. A. Roberts.
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