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ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEB. 28, 1934
FOUR PAGES TODAY.
VOL. XL NO. 350
Legislature Ends
Moratorium And
Bond Bill Passed
Austin, Texas, Feb. 28.—After
wrangling for more than half the
might, the senate early Wednesday
passed the much disputed mora-
torium bill and was ready for ad-
journment. This could not come,
however, for several hours because
of clerical work necessary in pre-
paring the measure so it could be
signed by officials of both houses
in open session and sent to the
governor.
Early in the evening the house
voted to adopt a conference com-
mittee report on the bill. But the
senate battled over it for hours
before it reached a decision.
The clock was turned back at
midnight so that officially the
senate still was working on Tues-
day, although Wednesday was far
on its way before there was any
let-up in the debate.
May Rule Austria
0
Slay Bank Clerk
Grab $207,000
in Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 28.—An
armed bank clerk was shot and
killed when he was held up on a
(downtown street Tuesday by three
bandits, who took from him a
satchel containing $207,294 in se-
curities and cash and escaped in
a motor car driven by a fourth
person.
Police arrested two men and a
woman in connection with the rob-
bery. T. J. Higgins, chief of detec-
tives, said eye-witnesses of the
shooting identified one of the men
as one of the robbers.
While Doyle Swofford, guard for
the Commerce Trust Company,
Survived Airmail Tragedy
Rawlins Tells
Lions of Sanitary
Survey Here
! A talk on the sanitary survey '
being conducted in the rural dis-
trict was made by Alva Rawlins,
who was the principal speaker at
the weekly luncheon meeting of
the Lions Club held today noon
at the Methodist bungalow. The
program was arranged by P. H. ;
Smith. 0
C. C. Boren, scoutmaster for the
Boy Scout tvccp of Ennis, appear-
ed before the club in the interest
of the Scouts and made an ap-
peal to the Lions to sponsor this
trocp. He said that scouting is
akin to the organization of Lions
in as much as it is based on the
Barrow, Hamilton
Believed Robbers
Of Lancaster Bank
Cocktail Coxcomb
The session started with but three
subjects presented to it for con-
sideration—the moratorium, the is-
suance of more relief bonds and
the extension of the time for pay-
ing automobile licenses. But one
of these subjects, the automobile
matter, had been disposed of final-
ly before Tuesday.
The relief bond bill was passed
Tuesday night after both houses
had accepted a conference report.
Then all that was left was the
moratorium.
After a long fight the senate
adopted the conference report on
that bill by a vote of 15 to 11,
several votes short of the 21 nec-
essary to put it into immediate
effect.
Then it reconsidered that vote
and on final passage gave the bill
its approval by 22 to 6. The mo-
tion to reconsider was made by
Grady Woodruff and seconded by
Clint Small, who previously had
opposed the compromise measure
offered by the confereees.
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2239 fal
armed with a pistol, stood by help-
less under threats of the robbers,
one of them carrying a machine
11 gun, Webster Kemner, 29, clerk at
the trust company, was shot in the
heart by one of the robbers.
I Kemner made no attempt to re-
'sist, Swofford said, and his slayer
'deliberately placed a pistol against
his chest and fired the fatal shot.
Bank officials said the loot in-
cluded $1,000 in cash, the payroll
of a Pineville, Ark., lumber com-
pany, and $2,900 in unregistered
(negotiable bonds. Some of
the
I other bonds were negotiable but
[registered.
| One of the men arrested gave
1
"Good
Turn" idea and personal
the name of Sam DeCaro. He de-: Sailors of the Destroyer Bernadou
nied any connection with the hold I carry Lt Wm Pocock ashore
N. Y., following his
rescue off Rockaway. Point, L. I.,
up, but Higgins said he admitted Brooklyn,
.’he once killed a man. Officers iden
Possible restoration of the mon-ltified the woman as DeCaro's wife.
archy 'in Austria is seen by obsery-
The other man was identified
ers as a move -to balk design of by police
German Nazis to win control gins said Martino was once indict-
ed on a criminal attack charge.
as Joe Martino, 26. Hig-
from the crippled army plane to
which he and Lt. .1. H. Rothrock
Archduke Otto Hapsburg (above),
pretender to the throne, is be-
lieved to have support of power-
ful Prince von Starhemberg, leader
of the Heimwehr-Fascists.
Swofford and Kemner were ′
Announce
New Relief
walking the two blocks from the
bank to the postoffice.
Not a word was uttered by any
of the holdup men. The three
leaped from a motor car and went
about their task swiftly. When
they had gone, Kemner, married,
and the father of a 16-month-old
CWA Workers
In Ellis Reduced
15 to 20 Percent
From 15 to 20 per cent fewer men
baby, staggered to the door of a will be working on CWA projects in
nearby clothing store and fell dead. Ellis county each week preparatory
•service to the communi y.
The club voted unanimously to
sponsor this organization and ap- j
pointed a troop committee compos- |
ed of J. H. Duke, Dr. Fred L. I
Story, Dr. C. E. Gray, R. J. Bn- |
ner and Bert McKee.
Fred Clark was a guest of Thad '
Barrington for the luncheon.
Ennis Lions have received an
invitation to attend a group meet-
ing of Group 19. which will be
j held at the Oak Cliff Y. M. C. A.
j on Friday evening, March 16. at
7:30 with the Oak Cliff Lions as
hosts.
i R. J. Banner will have charge of
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 28.—The elus-
ive Clyde Barrow is believed to be
leading bandits who remained
at large Tuesday night after easily
defeating officers in a desperate
game of hide and seek, following
the taking of $4,138.50, from the
R. P. Henry & Sons Bank at Lan-
caster, Dallas county.
Descriptions the victims gave of
the two men who entered the bank
tally with Bertillon records of
Barrow and Hamilton. The third
man involved in the holdup, who
- sat in the auto by the bank's side
door and drove the robbers away
(left) clung for five hours in a next week's program.
stormy sea. A third army man, Lt.
George McDermott, was washed
away and drowned. At right, New
York police plane which located
crippled army craft.
Grand Master
Telfair to Visit
Council Masons
Mr. Rawlins was introduced by
Mayor Zebbie Howell, who present-
ed an interesting and educational
talk on the sanitary survey which
is being conducted by the state
health department. This survey was
made possible by the aid of CWA :
'funds. His talk was also a revela-
It seems that milady's hair must
be arranged in a certain manner
in order that she can enjoy her
afternoon cocktail. Here Bette
Davis, screen star, displays the
correct coiffure for a cocktail hour.
Its main feature is a curl which
rolls across the bead over the left
eye.
after they got the money, is be-
lieved to be one of the five con-
victs freed with Hamilton by Bar-
row in his attack on the Eastham
prison farm several weeks ago.
It was Barrow, officers believe,
who leveled a shotgun at the vic-
tims and Hamilton who gathered
up the moncy and carried it to the
automobile.
Bonnie Parker was brought into
the picture on the theory that she
was the woman the bandits joined
on the Wilmer road near Kleburg,
where she was waiting for them
in another car.
Waited for Bandit Friends.
The woman thought to be Bon-
nie Parker waited for more than
an hour before she was joined by
the band, farmer told Deputy Sher-
No additional subjects were sub-
mitted to the session during the
first two weeks but thereafter more
than 100 bills were sent in by the
governor at the insistence of mem-
bers, and they served to clutter
the calendars during the closing
hours.
A number of these bills were
passed, the session’s results being
around seventy measures, This
would tend to prove that the sub-
mission of so many subjects, espe-
cially at the hallway mark, drew
attention from the prime objects of
the session and explains why the
bond and moratorium* bills still
were undecided as the final day
dawned.
As agreed to in conference, the '
Horner bill called for the issuance 1
of $5,000,000 additional relief bonds ;
and for the reissuance of $2,750,000
previously authorized but unsold
when bids were asked Feb. 20. This
$7,750,000 authorized, added to the
bonds sold at the first offerings,
makes a total of $10,000,000 of the
$20,000,000 authorized. The state
bond commission is expected to]
move at once for their sale, as re-
lief bonds practically are exhaust- .
ed. The bonds bear 4 1-2 per cent
interest and all income except the 1
ad valorem property tax is applied |
to paying them.
Program
Washington, Feb. 28.—President
Rocsevelt today announced a re-
organized national relief program
to be substituted for the civil works
lineup now being demobilized.
This developed at his regular
press conference, held prior to an
afternoon meeting, to which be
summoned democratic leaders in
congress.
It was presumed at the capitol
that the White House meeting
would have to do in part at least
with proposals for legislation to
grant the president powers to make
reciprocal tariff agreements with
foreign countries.
As to relief, federal efforts of
the future will be classified as:
Three-Point Program.
For distressed families in rural
areas.
For stranded populations in
communities where industries have
died.
For unemployed in large cities.
Gus Russek
Leader In State
Senate Indicted
ito the conclusion of the project
work in the organization May 1.
it was learned today from Loys
Sessions, county administrator.
.Two hundred and ninety-two few-
er men are working this week than
-worked last, the allotment given
to Ellis coun y today showed.
[ A meeting of the CWA board at
Will H. Telfair of Port Arthur,
Grand Master of the Grand Coun-
cil Royal and Select Masters of
Texas, will pay an official visit to
Ennis Council 81. R. & S. M., in
Masonic Temple here Thursday
tion on combating the various
diseases prevalent through carrying
of disease germs by flies, mosqui-
toes and other insects.
Mr. Rawlins, who is assisting in
this sanitary survey stated that the
.Ennis territory includes that sec-
tion from Reagor Springs to the
! Trinity River east and west from
Palmer to the Navarro county line
north and south.
Twenty-four men are employed in
3 Arrests
Ban k
— iff Bryan Peck. The car which the
bandits abandoned near there, was
found to be one stolen Sunday
night from G. Jeff Waggoner of
j 1,600 Buchanan street, Wichita
I Falls. A leather key pouch found
—in-t-ed fic- —e
car in which they escape' am
Houston, Texas. Feb. 28.—Gus the Citizens Bank in Waxahachie
Russek of Schulenburg, state sena- Tuesday afternoon was to decide
tor since 1925 and chairman of the which projects in Ellis county were
senate banking committee, Tuesday,the most important in order that
was indicted by the federal grand they might be concluded in the
jury on a charge of violating the allotted time. Members of this
national banking laws. The charge board are J. N. Langsford, J. Lea
was filed Nov. 9.
Gammon. Cal Nall, Craig Haynes
The indictment against Russek of Ennis, and R. E. Sparkman of
and two other present cr former J Italy.
officials of the First National Bank' The custom of “staggering" that
of Schulenburg alleged misapplica-is rotating men so that a man
tion of approximately $61,000.
The o her
Charles A.
defendants
(who works this week will not be
were slated to work again the following
Vogt, former cashier, week, has been cut out, according
and Otto G. Vogt, named as the to Mr. Sessions. With the number
present cashier.
of men to be lessened, the CIA
The indictment said Senator Rus- workmen in the city will be given
sek at one time was cashier of the the full 24-hour week, and in the
bank and later was vice president county, 15 hours.
and director.
Roosevelt Order Trade Extension
No information has been received
to date as to further plans for the
C. W. A. after May 1. it was
stated.
Jim Ferguson
And Dan Moody
Address Senate
May Save Farm Pamphlets Ready Bank Officials
For Old Negro At C. ot C.e Office C + €1 250 000
Get 0 1, V, UUU
Clerks Jailed
For Old Negro
Columbus, Miss., Feb. 28.—Sylves-
ter Harris’ long-distance telephone
conversation with President Roose-
velt has brought results. Here
is Sylvester's version of the con-
versation:
“De White House gentleman what
answered de phone got mad and
said, ‘Quit calling de president,
but I keeps on and finally get.
The trade extension pamphlets
wanted by Ennis merchants may
be obtained at the office of the
Chamber of Commerce.
P. H. Smith, secretary, stated.
Buenos
that orders were placed with Henry raided a
Aires, Feb. 28.—Police
bank Tuesday, and ar-
W. Stanley of the Dallas Chamber rested all of the clerks, but said
of Commerce, who conducted a two they found the entire board of di-
Austin, Texas, Feb. 28.—Ex-Govs. | him.
Dan Moody and James E .Ferguson "He scy, "Who dis' and I say.
followed’ each other Tuesday night “It’s Sylvester."
in addressing the senate. They arc
bitter political enemies, but neither
“He say, “Sylvester who?"
“I say, ‘Sylvester Harris, down
night, and all officers and mem-
bers are urged to be present to (
greet him.
Mr. Telfair is here attending his
sick father, J. S. Telfair, and will
visit the Council at the invitation
of local Council officers.
Mr. Telfair will also visit the
Royal Arch Chapter, which is also
this survey which carries a pay-
roll of $225 per week.
The survey which was to have
been completed by February 15,
DaLUmKleburg was one stolen 1 day
j W’from in front of the Earle Johnson
" - " - Motor Company at Temple.
---L. L. Henry, cashier, and a cus-
Dellas, Texas, Feb. 28.—Two men tomer. Olin Worley, were in the
and a woman, arrested by Sheriff bank when the holdup was staged.
Berker at Stillwell, Ok., about day- The bandits made Worley sit, on
light Wednesday in a Ford V-8 the floor and forced Henry to open
black sedan which was stolen in the safe. They discussed the advis-
was begun on December 18, and, Dallas last Sunday, were "being abili y of locking Henry in the
there still remains a vast amount /held in that town as suspects in vault, then decided against it. One
of work to do. More than one
hundred sanitary toilets have been
installed in the rural sections and
the work will be continued until
scheduled to meet Thursday night, the entire section has been cov-
ered. The supplying of these units
means the elimination of the
Gen. Hutchings
Wife Succumbs
spread of typhoid fever to a great
extent and other serious illnesses
that develop from the transferring
of germs by insects.
He is Injured Negro Pupils
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 28.—4 540 * SI44C
Mrs. Henry Hutchings, 69. wife ot
the adjutant general of Texas, died
at their home on Sixth Avenue
Tuesday. Funeral services will ba
held in the afternoon and another
service will be held Wednesday at
Austin.
During the war General Hutch-
ings was commander of the Sev-
enty-First Infantry Brigade, sta-
Marched From
Burning House
Dallas, Texas. Feb.
flames spread quickly
portable building of
the $4,176 robbery of the R. P.
Henry & Sons private bank at
Lancaster Tuesday.
The sheriff at S illwell called
of them took $3 from Worley, but
tossed it back to him as he went
out.
Took Roundabout Course.
Sheriff Smoot Schmidt here about' The robbers drove at high speed
9 o’clock, telling of the capture. At over little used roads and followed
a roundabout coErse that-made it
that time he had not been able to
difficult to say in what direction
talk to the prisoners at length.
However, the sheriff gave the mo- they went, after leaving Kleburg,
said officers. At several, places
tor number of their car and told, s ___.
Schmid that the trio was heavily I tracks were found showing that
armed with shotguns and pistols, they had skidded dangerously as
Deputies Bud Walker, John they rounded sharp curves. Beside
Chiesa and Ed Caster left within one corner, before the exchange sot
thirty minutes for the Oklahoma |
town. They carried warrants for i
their arrest which were issued after |
the trio had been formally charged -
here with theft of the car in which !
they were traveling.
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28.—While[
over one
the Fred
Douglass School on the Eagle Ford
tioned at Camp Bowie. Previously road at 10 a. m. Tuesday, cracking
he had been adjutant general of
Texas, the position he new holds.
Mrs. Hu chings’ father, Frank
Brown, was Travis county clerk for
twenty-seven years.
window panes and scorching the
other section of the school only
ten feet aw; y, 127 negro boys and
girls picked up their books, and
marched to safety. The portable
NRA Johnsons
Twelve Point
Navarro Wets
Ask Election
To Sell Beer
! Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 28.~ A pe-
tition will be presented the Navar-
A 1 D) • • TO county
Code Revision Thursday
commissioners court
seeking the calling of a
At the time of her death Mrs. building in which thirty-five stu-
Hutchings was state president of dents of the fifth, sixth and sev-
the American War Mothers. State
enth grades were housed, was re-
vice president of the American duced to - ashes, but no even a
Legion and a member of the Gold burned finger or a bruised toe was
Star Mothers, the Daughters of the sustained by the pupils who had
Republic of Texas and the Daugh-
ters of Confederate Veterans,
days institute here, and they arerectors and two executives missing. A son, Major Edwin Hutchings ■
now ready for distribution. 1 along with more than 4,000,000 was killed in France during the
Men Crowd Women |
From Beauty Parlors
pesos (approximately $1,250,000.)
In the strong boxes were exactly
96 pesos (about $32) and a direct-
urs note for 50,000 pesos (approx-
Omaha, Neb. Feb. 28.— M le imately $16,670.)
other. Ferguson here in Mississippi. A man gittin’customers are flocking to the beau-! Police called it the most exten-
complimented the legislature as ready to take my land and I want [ ty parlors for their permanents, sive swindle in the two years Ar-
having done well. I to know what to do. De papers Miss -—"′*
referred to the
Marie Callahan of Chicago.
Miss Margie Neal moved that | say call you and I does and here editor of a beauty trade magazine
gentina
has had
currency PX-
Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson address I is."
the senate, but her husband said
Tuesday told delegates to the fifth
"De president says. quiet-like: j ®nnual
Trans-Mississippi beauty
change control.
The police seized
| war. Other survivors are her hus-
band; three daughters, Mrs. Bess
Stratton and Mrs. Robert McGee of
San Antonio, and Mrs. W. N.
James of Austin; three sons, Major
Henry Hutchins, Jr., of New Or-
leans and A. W. and R. L. Hu ch-
ings, both of Fort Worth, and a
fire drills down to perfection.
The direction of the wind aided 1
greatly in keeping a nearby port- I
able building from catching on ■
sister, Mrs. Stark Washington of
the books of Austin.
the bank, the Banco Commercial 1
del Plata, but believed the officials
had fled the country.
the i That was on Feb. 19. Tuesday, when the influx of women into the j Banking circles understood that |
crowd applauded. George Hamil’on, local represent-men’s barber shops constituted a a number of United States firms
The crowd laughed when Fergu-ative of the New Orleans Federal worry to the barbers, now is re-were among the victims, although
Land Bank, received a telegram, I versed. Beauticians are worrying they were chiefly Spanish and Ital-
followed by a letter, asking that about how they can take care of ian. Considerable losses to small]
the mortgage cn Sylvester’s farm their regular customers along with savings depositors
be investigated thoroughly and ad- the increasing numbers of male ______
she was not at the capitol. Fergu- "Sylvester, I’ll investigate and you show and convention.
son said his wife had “made awill hear from me."
“The situation of ten years ago.
durned good governor'’ and
son said the place looked familiar
and reminded him of other days
but that everything was all right
Husband Hurt in Accident.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 28.—Adj. Gen.
Henry Hutchings is confined in
bed at his quarters at Camp Ma-
bry, near Austin, from injuries re-
ceived in an accident Monday.
with him.
He had not addressed
threatened.
Washington, Feb.
Johnson beat NRA’s
3.2 beer election in this county.
It was reported the petition will
28.— Hugh be signed by 1,000 voters.
assembled
critics to the gun by suddenly con-
fronting a twelve-point program
for revising existing codes.
The NRA administrator announc-
ed code revision would be effected,,
if possible, by a sweeping presi-
dential mandate.
Navarro county voted dry in
the election held on this question
last summer.
the senate since his impeachment
in 1917.
The easy way to sell it is through
a Daily News Want Ad. ,
justed through extension. [customers.
Hamilton says Sylvester has one "Even cow punchers wend their Olga Blassingame of the Waldru d
ol the best cotton fields in Lowndes way to the beauty shops and sa- Beauty Shoppe attended the bes
County, having produced twenty- lons every spring and fall, just convention being held in 1
Mrs. Paul Moorehead and Miss
fom.c ba les. -on thirty acres
before the roundups."
at the Baker Hotel
ily Newe in
hisiunusmay
fire until the arrival of the fire J
department. Sadie Henderson, prin-1
cipal of the school, said. A defec-
tive flue was given as the cause
J^bnson told the assemblage
“change or circumstances may stop
NRA. but you are not gong to
stop it, or even make it falter."
The twelve corrections are:
Snow Fell Here
Tuesday Nigh
A more uniform and equit-
of the fire, the losses from which able rule of price stabilization
are covered by insurance.
Mcore. secretary of the
board of education, said.
A dozen Mexican CWA
C. M. i where
Dallas
laborers
working near the school building
necessary to prevent cut-
throat competition.
2. A more effective rule to pre-
vent sales below
tion.
3. Unifornity
cost of produc-
j Light showers set in here about
7 o’clock Tuesday night, soon
turned to snow which fell for some
little while, but melted almost as
soon as it fell. The rainfall wasn't
enough to register.
The temperature was around 40
at the time of the snowfall.
The temperature Wednesday
morning registered 34, after two
first no iced the flames coming3. Uniformity in wages and
from the fire and reached the hours in industries which are com- mornings of 16 to 24 degree tem-
building at about the same time peti ive. peratures.
4. Uniform classification of areas - '
that the teachers discovered the
flames reaching into the room from for prevailing southern wage dif-
the ceiling. With the fire drill ferential.
According to Assis ant Adj. Gen. over, the Mexicans rushed into the 5 Further eduction in TL
D. Waide. General Hutchings flaming building, tore the desks hours, and further increase I
suffered a sprained back when he from the floor, moved the piano, hourly wages,
was thrown to the top of his auto- maps and other equipment to safe-
C.
mobile
spot.
Miss
as it went over a rough ty. Supplies in the larger building
Hughlette Beasley was
visitor in Dallas for the day.
were not damaged.
| School was resumed, the first,
a second and third grades being put
on a half day schedule.
6. Protection against monopoly
and oppression of small enterprise,
and the inclusion in codes of buy-
ing regulations to protect small
(Turn to Page Four.)
The Weather
Cloudy, Rain, Warmer.
East Texas: Cloudy, occasional
rains, warmer Wednesday and
- Thursday. Temperature Wednesday
morning 34.
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