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1934 Will
Reward
Hard
Work
MEMBER ASSOCIAT KD) PRESS.
Austrian Rebels
Charged Dollfuss
Is Responsible
Vienna, Feb. 16.—Amid the blood Heads Army Mailmen
and confusion of a Socialist in- i X
surrection a new crisis in the civil
war abruptly developed Thursday .
night when the commander of the .
Fascist Heimwehr publicly accused -
politicians of Chancellor Dollfuss
own party of the real responsibility .
for the sanguinary conflict.
Leaders of the group, the Chris-
tian Social Party, promptly peti-
tioned the chancellor to reconvene :
the Austrian parliament which he i
shelved a year ago. !
The four-day rebellion seemed to
have been put down. All municipal i
apartment blocks, where the So-
cialists made their most tenacious
s ands against troopers bombard- ■
ments, were Thursday evening in '
the hands of the army or police. .
Reports of the situation in pro-
vincial districts were conflicting
but nevertheless seemed to indicate I
that the government was nearing |
an end in its efforts to curb the |
civil war.
Blame Put on Politicians. g
The home guard leader, Prince M0
Rudiger von Starhemberg, declared 2
in a funeral oration for a fallen
comrade that "the blame that so
much blood had to be spilled rests
with democratic corruptionists pol-
iticians who betrayed the native
population of this country with
their shameless bickerings with the
Reds."
Never since the Fascist Heimwehr
entered the Dollfuss cabinet has
the tension between Home Guard
and the Christian Social wings cf
the government come to such a
critical stage.
“Back to the parliament!" was
the cry of deputies of Dollfuss’ own
party. It was a flat negation of
everything the Heimwehr has been
fighting for.
If Dollfuss listens to his party
colleagues and resurrects Parlia-
ment the Home Guard would be
faced with the choice of ousting
the Chancellor by a putsch or of
meekly taking a smashing defeat
to its prestige.
Acting to the tension of the sit-
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1934 Vr^
Reward
Hard
Work
ENNIS ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 16, 1934
2 School
Children
Killed
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 16.—A wel-
come "lift" in their teachers car
that was to have taken them to
their class rooms in the E gle Ford
school ended in tragic death at
the Eagle Ford grade crossing for 1
i two West Dallas school children |
: early Friday morning. ,
| Two little girls, Evelyn Wayne ,
Dalton, 8, and Mary Nell Dalton,
7. sisters, were instanti y killed ’
when the Dodge coupe driven by .
Mrs. Pearl C. Newton, 38, 501 S. 1
Brighton, Eagle Ford teacher, “
crashed int othe engine of a T. i ’
& P. train No. 0, eastbound, at the .
Eagle, Ford Crossing.
| Mrs. Newton was so seriously in- 1
1 jured that she was not expected. -
to live more than a few hours, ac- ,
cording to attendants at Metho- s
dist hospital.: 1
. The tour-cylinder coupe was de- 1
mclished. It was hurled down the a
" right of way thirty or forty feet |
Wsby the impact. %
Brigadier General Oscar West-
over who has been appointed com-
mander of the newly established
army air corps mail operations
SIX PAGES TODAY
VOL. XI
Figure in Austrian Turmoil
CWA Drops Right of Way Must
400,000
Feb. 25
Washington, Feb. 16.—The civil
works administration will drop
400,000 workers in rural areas!
1 throughout the country on Friday, I
| February 25. I
i Announcing new regulations for
the next ten weeks, Harry L. Hop-
kins, administrator, said that for
the present hours of labor would I
remain at twenty-four a week in
cities and fifteen in rural areas. |
The demobilis ztion, which start- ;
ed last night with the dropping of |
between 150,000 and 200,000 work- |
ers on federal projects, will be
carried cn a. trie rate of approxi- ,
mately 10 per cent a week through
|March. After that it was scheduled
to be accelerated until the entire
force cf 4,000,000 men and women
will have been demobilized by May
1.
Be Secured To Ge
Ennis-Italy Hiwa
Of paramount importance to the business interests |
Ennis and a large population of Ellis county is the ne-
of a good all.weather road from. Ennis to Italy via Bar
well and Avalon and for that purpose the Ennis-It:
Good Roads Association was formed.
A highway from Ennis to Italy through the poi:
designated would save those traveling Northeast a
Southwest approximately twelve miles and would ~ -,
one of the richest agricultural sections of Ellis coui
adequate road over which to carry their products
market centers.
Chairman Ennis
Italy Good Roads
• Association
Woman Is Killed
After Argument
A T. on Starhemberg, Heimwehr leader, Austria, and, right, Karl Seitz, So-
(ver Pregiante who supports Chancellor Dollfuss; cialist mayor of Vienna, who is
WC2 1016, vice Chancellor Eiindunder arrest on conspiracy charg-
■ --------ey, inveterate foe of Socialism l es.
1 headquarters in Washington. From
here will be controlled the opera-
tions of the three national zones
Roosevelt Asks
; Railways Not To
; Four of the principal personali-and Communism, who also backs
Ties in Austria’s perilous political | Dollfus; center, Alfred Frauenfeld,!
pituation. Top left, Prince Ernst ! Nazi agent, who would "Hitierize"i
Ranger, Texas, Feb. 16.—Walter
Hoffman, 23, admitted Thursday, I
officers said, to the slaying of Miss
Sophia Bates, 70-year-old domestic.
at Lohman, Mo., after an argument
in which the U. S. Army will car-f over presidents ten days ago and
ry the air mail.
Community Chest
Takes Over Work
Of Faith Mission
At a meeting of the board of
directors of Faith Mission Thurs-
day afternoon the work of the
sion, located at 209 South Main
Ask Wage Cuts
was whisked, away quickly toward f
Springfield, Mo. |
Police picked him up for investi-.
gation as he left a freight train i
Saturday, but he said then he had I
no knowledge of the slaying. In a |
statement Thursday, however, wit-
■ nessed by Roy Jameson, city clerk, |
and Jim Ingram, police chief here, -
Judge Sharp
To Make Race
For High Court
Austin, Texas, Feb. 10.-Judge ;
John H. Sharp, Ennis, who is |
a member of the commission to :
assist the State Supreme Court
Thursday announced that he
will be a candidate for Asso-
Hoffman said he had worked on will be a candidate for Asso-
the farm of L. L. Shepperle at - ciate Justice of the Court to
Lohman five years and that about ]
Feb. 5, when he returned to the,
house from milking he ate dinner
which Missy Bates prepared and
they begin talking about presi-i
dents. . . .:
was turned over to,the supervision
of the local Community Chest, R.
A. McCullough, chairman of the
Community Chest, was present and 8 .
nation was a speech broadcast represented that body, which, had publicans were better than demo-
from Munich Thursday night by! previously signified their willing-
eader Theodore Habicht ness to assume this responsibility,
to the efefect that Austrian Nazis| The Mission has been in opera-
were prepared tor action. | tion here since Dec. 19, 1932, and
Rumors circulated that a Nazo has been a wonderful blessing to
putsch could be expected this week this community and to hundreds
end.
. "Sophia said she thought re-:
Socialist forces Defeated.
of transient men.
A committee of local men com-
Nearly all units of the Socialist posed of John Sparks, J. R. Mo-
republican army, furthermore, were Murray, R. g .Leininger and T. Q.
reported defeated and scattered, Moseley saw the need of such work
crats," the statement said. "I said, |
if it were not for democrats, we!
would all be walking around nak-
ed." :
Hoffman said when he went to
the basement to fire the furnace,
Miss Bates went down and the’
argument began again.’ He said he
shot her twice. 1
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Why Ennis Draws
15 Perc’t Penalty
On Insurance
A few days ago the News pub-
lished an announcement that Ennis
draws a 15 per cent penalty for
bad fire record. A local agent sub-
mits the following reason for the
15 per cent charge.
Statements showing that the loss
ratio of Ennis for the years 1931,
1932 and 1933 is .931 have been
(and called in Geo. R. Pemberton
of Fort Worth, who had had ex-
perience in Mission work. It was
then decided to open this Mission i
here entirely upon faith, and as
the Lord led, seeking the glory of
none, but giving all the glory to
the Lord Jesus Christ, asking the
Lord to lead in all its work, and
to supply the needs as He saw fit,
through the merchants and people
of this community as the need was,
laid upon their hearts. The re-
Ask Legislature '
For $250,000 for
Texas Centennial
sponse was good, and this work
• Austin, Texas, Feb. 16.—Miss
Margie E. Neal Wednesday offered
a bill in the senate and W. T. Sav-
age in the house to appropriate |
$250,000 for a Texas centennial <
celebration in 1936. IC creates a
beard of governors to be known I
as the Texas Centennial Commis- I
sion and names the following: I
has been maintained with as little
financial help as any work of this
kind ever did. | Jesse H. Jones, Houston; J. EJ
Many souls were saved, many Josey, Houston;
prayers were sought for, and many tin; .Pat
hungry fed, and place for needed Martin,
with, checked and approved rest and sleep was had for many
by the fire insurance department, homeless, wandering people.
Under the provisions for charge l J. B. Miller of Fort Worth has
for bad fire record in cities and
towns shown on pages 27 and 28
of the 1922 edition of the Texas
General Basis Schedules, this rec-
ord subjects Ennis to the charge
shown above which local agents
are to add to the final premium
on all policies written on or after I
March 1, 1934, to February 28,
1935, only, and covering property
located within the corporate limits
of Ennis.
Note: Policies effective prior to
March 4, 1934, are not affected by bound and gagged, tortured with
the above charge unless a change fjre and robbed cf $60 Wednesday
in hazard of the individual risk night a short time after he had
occurs on or after March 1. 1934, closed his store,
and the rate on such risk is re- ’
filed
in hazard of the
Vised by printed supplement. When :
a rate is revised by supplement on
account of change in hazard in
risk, existing policies may be ad-
justed to conform to the revised
(Turn to Page Six.)
Yoakum Grocer
Tortured-Robbed
By Two Bandits
Yoakum, Texas, Feb. 16.—J. F.
Crowell, Yoakum groceryman, was
WARNING AGAINST
SHOOTING ROBINS
succeed Judge T. B. Greenwood
of Palestine, who has announc-
ed he will retire at the end of
this year.
John A. Erhard
Speaker For
James R. Farris, game warden,
asks the News to warn boys and
others against shooting robins,
as they are migatory birds, and
are protected by both federal
and state laws.
Besides killing the birds, many
window lights are being shot
out by boys, presumably shooting
at the birds. Churches, resi-
- dences, bush s herss lodge
halls, ail report windows being
broken, and the city reports
many street lights broken by
shooters.
The parents are urged to warn
, their sons against this practice,
and others are urged to report
violations to the officers.
Washing’cn, Feb. 16.—President
Roosevelt Thursday proposed a con-
tinuation of the existing railroad
wage scale agreement for six
months as the carriers demand an I
increase in the pay cuts from the
present ten per cent to 15 per cent.
1 “Under present conditions the
prosecution of a bitter controversy
between the railroads and their
employes over wages," said the
, president, “would have a most dis-
turbing influence, and I am further
convinced that conditions are not
yet sufficiently stable to permit
of a wise determination of what
the wages should be for the tut
M. E. LATHAN.
C. of C. Banquet Texan Wants
Income Tax
JOHN A. ERHARD.
Will H. Mayes, Aus I Hon. John A. Erhard, prominent
M. Neff, Waco; Lowry I attorney of Dallas, will be the prin-
Corsicana; J. K. Hughes, i cipal sperker at the Ennis Cham-
Mexia; Walter D. Cline, Wichitar of Commerce banquet, to be
Falls; Wilbur D. Hawk, Amarillo; ! held Thursday evening, February
Roy Miller, Corpus Christi; Gus.22, according to J. H. Duke, gen-
There is no question TA
the road now extending
that section is grossly
to care for the transport:
during rainy weather. Al
example of their inader
the first meeting of ti
tion was held in Italy"
essary for the Avalon el
go to Waxahachie ar’s
to Italy, thereby trave
five miles to reach a
was only some eight il
from Avalon. This v
about due to the hear,
they were unable n
muddy roads throug!
distance. Such roa
through a section of
ricultural importance
Ion-Bardwell section
period of some ten .
back. ■
It is the primary obje
Ennis-Italy Good Roads,
tion to do everything in r
or to obtain a good road
this section of Ellis county, e
-' present time the county is r
3 Dead; 4 Injured
inancially able to build an a
road, al hough it is co-oper
every possible way with the
ture." A AL OF
The present wage agreement ex- L s Than FolrA
’ pires en-Juls Thursday was-the 1 *
last day, under the agreement, | A I D: 1 II J
I when notice for a change could beCar IS Tulddled
Iserved. |
Havana, Cuba, Feb. 16.—Three
Managers Considering Request.
Chicago, ••Ill., Feb. 16.—Railroads persons were shot to death and
of the nation, which Thursday no-lotr were wounded Thursday as
titled their union employes of their
'intention of reducing all basic rates
— of pay 15 per cent next July 1 at
night were studying a request by
President Roosevelt that the pres-
ent agreement be extended for at
I least six months.
List Published
1 W. F. Thiehoff, chairman of the
■ conference committee of managers
| which announced the railroad’s
i wage decision, when informed of
—-— President Roosevelt’s rsqaact, said
I Washington, Feb. 16.—A drive to he would call another meeting on
make all income tax returns pul- receiving the president’s letter.
lis was begun in the house Thurs-
day in its second day of debate on slice 5
he new $258,000,000 revenue bill, pay envelopes cf
The cut, if made effective, would
per cent from the present
unidentified machine gunners wrote
zation. The state highway 1
sion has definitely statece
will not buy a single foo 1
of war to build Auuiats ■
The county . I una
to purchase this right of w
and it is up to the people to dev
some way of securing the right
way with no money tow
pended. The present road %
ing from Italy to Ennis has
turns that must be eliminate
the road, according to present -
other words, the situatie
henchman and four anti-Machado such that under no circums:
an epilogue to bloody Friday of
Sept. 27, 1932, when one Machado In
the 900,000 or
Efforts were made by a bloc of more union men employed on the
members headed by Patm: n, dem- quarter million miles of railroads in
ocrat, Texas to have the ways and the United States.
-means committee offer the propo- A 10 per cent deduction in their defendants
sition as an amendment. pay has been in effect since early
L Patman took his fight to the’in 1932, but the
Poor in a speech which he charg- '
ed that through secret returns for-
leaders were killed.
Apparently tiring of the slowness
of trials a group riding in a closed
automobile attacked and riddled a
police wagon in which defendants
charged with the 1932 killings were
riding to court.
One defendant, Juan Saemes, a
servant of three Jeyre de Andrade
brothers, slain two years ago, was
killed, as were Valentin Valdez, an
army corporal guarding the prison-
ers, and Aurelio Vasquez, wealthy
property owner. Vasquez was riding
with his brother-in-law, Agustin
Sorhegui, a former police captain.
Sorhegui was among the wounded
mer Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon. J. P. Morgan
and Charles E. Mitchell, New York
financiers, had worked fraud
the government.
The Texan said that if the
on
re-
turns had been subject to public
inspection Mellon would not have
sought an $8,000,000 tax refund;
that Morgan and Mitchell would
Other defendants wounded were
, . basic rate of pay Raimundo Brito and Julio Dieguez,
has not been changed. The 10 per former policeman charged with com
cent, slice first was set for one plicity in the 1932 assassinations,
year’s duration but was extendedThe assailants eseceaped.
for another year.
A. F. Whitney, chairman of the
Labor Executives’ Association, said
news dispatches provided his first
information about the move. Other
labor leaders indicated they be-
lieved, any cuts would be opposed
solidly by the employes.
_________, 80L not have avoided tax payments by
feral chairman of arrangements for using technicalities in the income
Taylor, Tyler; ohn H. Middleton, 1
Greenville; Cliff Caldwell, Abilene; I he banquet.
George Slater, Austin; H. L. Bir-Mr. Erhard is well known over
ney, El Paso; John H. Shary, Texas and is a former governor
Sharyland; George Sealy, Galves- E Texas Lions Clubs. He needs
ton; Ralph W. Morrison, San An-no introduction to the people of
tonio, H. II. Ochs, San Antonio; : Ennis, as he has appeared here
Gen. John A. Hulen, Fort Worth; on Lions Club Programs cn sev-
Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth; Geo. seraldifferent occasions.
Waverly. Briggs, Dallas, and Cullen Officials are anticipating an at-
F. Thomas. Dallas. tendance of several hundred at
the banquet and a delightful and
T 1 MA 3 educational program is being ar-
Judge McClendon ranged by the committee, which is
Seeks Greenwood’s composed of J. H. Duke, R. F.
TS: L. DI Sikes, Mrs. P. V. Allen, J. B. Har-
High Court Place per and L. R. Reed.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 1G.—Judge Ticket Sale Monday.
Crowell said two young men tied J. W. McClendon, Chief Justice ofBert McKee, chairman of the
tax law.
M. R. Smith of
Rice Killed at
Cleveland, Texas
Legislator’s Pay
Enjoined Because
Owes State Taxes
Austin, Texas, Feb. 16.- The
state comptroller and treasurer
were enjoined Thursday by Dis-
trict Judge W. F. Roberson from
are there any funds' to bu
right of way that will be rec
under the new road plan.
There is also an additional
lem of getting the State hig
commission to designate
a
through this section as a
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Mother Frozen
To Death Goin,
For Medicin
Insull to Stay
In Greece Till
Health Improves
Athens, Feb. 16.—Samuel Insull
will stay in Greece indefinitely.
This was decided by the cabaret
after a two hour meeting Thursday
when the 74-year-old fugitive from
American justice, termed a very
sick man, was given permission to
stay here until his health improves.
him with rope and forced him to the Austin Court of Civil Appeals, ticket sales, announces a meeting
tell where he had hidden money | Thursday announced his candidacy of bis committee will be held Mon-
by applying fire to his foot and for the democratic nomination to day morning at ten o'clock in the
leg. They stripped off his clo hes the Associate Justiceship 4
and used them as a gag and head | Supreme Court, to succeed Judgeland they will canvas the city in idav niahi
covering after he had told them T. B. Greenwood who will not be the sale of tickets for the banquet the shop.
1 hiding place. . 1 a candidate. Judge McClendon said This committee includes Bert Me- someone break in he said and
A night watchman found him pus record of five years on the Kee, M. S. Vanderslice, C. S. Cook, in, he said, and
about four hours after the men Supreme Court Commission of Ap- J. L. Clarke, Otis Grant and Zeb-
policies v ore . attacked him. The men escaped peals and ten years on the Court bie Howell,
policies Witten after February 28, through
1935.
Cleveland, Texas Feb 16. M R issuing or paying salary warrants
Smith, 25, was shot and rataily to Representative W. E. Pope of
wounded at Young's Barber Shop Co pus Christi on the ground that
here early Thursday by C. K. he is indebteed to the sta e for
Garner, night watchman. Garner, 1932 taxes, in Nueces county,
taken to Liberty was charged with amounting to approximately $1,089,
‘ We 02800 win The case will test the question as
to whether taxes are a debt. Mh
murder and released on bond.
Prowlers had been seen about
rate from date of supplement to
expiration of policy, and such a
revision should take this charge in-
to consideration.
This charge does not apply to
, „!ie shop for several nights, officers
ot. the office of the Chamber of Commerce said, and Garner decided Wednes- 1
to sleep in the rear of
At 2:30 a. m. he heard
date has been set for the hearing.
The plaintiff is John T. Smith
of Austin, former legislator
| CWA and CWS
Projects Are
Ordered Resumed
Austin, Texas, Feb. 16.—Coinci-
dent with the termination at mid-
night of certain well known fed-
eral projects, Adam R. Johnson,
state relief director, Thursday said
Elkin, w.. Va., Feb. 16.7
zero weather Mrs. T. Cl Leary,
trudged nine miles from her Chi
Mountain home in Elkins to
medicine for one of her five cl
dren. 7
Shortly after she started bac
swirling snowstorm burst upon
and the temperature fell below
zero mark.
She plodded on, stoppir “
at the dwelling of Jr. and
John Rhodes, mountain neigh
three miles from her own a
They urged her to remain, but s.
said she had to get the medicine
home for her sick child.
Out she went into the storm
with night coming on, but she
never reached home.
A searching party, headed by he
husband, following a trail blaze
by shreds of clothing on the bram
bles, found Mrs. Leary frozen t
death, a half mile from her hom. I
The trail showed she had walk
ed in circles in the blinding snow
storm, and dropped from a led;
into a shallow gulley and stumble
almost barefooted and with clotr
ing tattered, into the branches
a fallen tree.
A bag containing the medici
was clutched in her hand.
fired a shotgun. The charge tore
into Smith's left arm and side.
and he wired all county administrators
now an attorney and editor of a to continue all local and state re-
tax publication. lief CWA and CWS projects for the
---,---week beginning Friday the same
1 he Weather
a front door without at-of Civil Appeals, will constitute his ■
trao ing attention. claim for support.
Sam Davis, L. R. Reed, Troy
Dungan and Jack Kidd.
Smith was
The easy way to sei it is through
from Rice, Texas, a Daily News Want Ad.
where it is said he has a wife and i
two children. i
For Results use A Want ad.
as in the previous week, with
weekly team and truck expendi-
Itures to be the same as before.
.State and local quotas will be the
same as in previous week.
Partly Cloudy Saturday.
East Texas: Fair Friday, Satur:
day partly cloudy. Temperatur
Friday morning 47. 1
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