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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 27, 1934
FOUR PAGES TODAY.
VOL. XL NO. 350
Lancaster Bank
Robbed of $3,000
By Three Bandits
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 27.—Three
bandits armed with shotguns held
up the R. P. Henry & Sons private -
bank at Lancaster at 11:45 a. m.
Tuesday and escaped with be-
tween $2,000 and $3,000.
The trio fled toward Dallas in
a 1934 Chevrolet sedan after scoop- ‘
ing up all the money in sight, ac- g
cording to a report telephoned to i
Sheriff Smoot Schmid. 1
All deputy sheriff were ordered
to roads south of town immediately !
to watch for the bandits. i
Two of the bandits entered the
bank and forced L. L. Henry, as- i
sistant cashier, and two customers
to sit on the floor while they i
scooped up the money.
O. L. Worley, farmer, was rob-
bed of his purse, which they later |
returned to him. The other custom- ?
er was E. D. Brooks, I
The third man sat in the car |
while two other gunmen held up
the bank. |
After taking the money the ban-1
Earl to Wed Dancer
dits ran to the car and speeded
north toward Dallas.
The license number of the car
was reported as 821-051.
U. S. Agencies
Won’t Buy Texas
Relief Bonds
Austin, Texas, Feb. 27.—Back
from Washington Monday, Attorney
General James V. Allred, chair-
man of the Texas bond commission !
announced refusal of all federal
government agencies to take Texas’
$2,750,000 worth of relief bonds.
“Every agency contacted,” said
Allred, “including relief Adminis-
trator Harry L. Hopkins, expressed
Senate Votes
Many Millions
For Veterans
Washington, l’eb. 27.—Sixty mil-
lion dollars of economy act savings
were vo cd back to veterans Mon-
day by the senate at the same
time that President Roosevelt was!
sending a new warning to the j
house that he would veto the Pat- j
man bonus bill if it were passed.
A senate republican-democra ic
coalition, 51 to 40, put through an
amendment by Senators Steiwer,
republican, Oregon, and McCarran,
democrat, Nevada, to restore to
the rolls with 90 per cent of their
former pensions thousands of Span ,
ish War veterans who were remov-
ed by the economy act provisions
that they prove service connection
for their disabilities.
President Roosevelt’s renewed
- warning was put in unmistakable
terms in a letter to Speaker Rain-
ey.
: The spsaker declined to make
I the letter public but said that he
I might do so Tuesday. Rainey re-
cently had said Mr. Rosevelt would
not approve the bonus bill and
" some house members had construed
I' this to mean he might permit it
i to become a law without his ap-
1 proval. The bill comes to a vote
. in the house March 12.
Big Amounts Added.
The senate vote loaded the pend-
The Earl of Suffolk and Berk-
shire, announcement of whose en-jing independent offices bill with
gagement to Mimi Crawford, Lon-$73,000,000 mcre than the admin-
don musical comedy dancer, caus-
ed a sensation in the English cap-
istration had agreed to accept on-
Defy President On Bonus Bill
Representative Roy Ayers, cf
Montana (right), 145th member
of the house to sign the petition
which will bring the two billion
dollar bonus bill’ before the house'
Veterans and federal pay increases.
is a grandson of the late Last week’s voting added $1.89,000,- 1
Levi Leiter, Chicago millionaire, 000 in the next fiscal year for 1
his mother having been the former ‘ government workers as against'
Daisy Leiter. T $126,000,000 favored by the demo-
ital. He
Vardell
Died in
Dallas
cratic leaders and Monday’s bal- .
loting favored the $60,000,000 pro-
posed compared to a $50,000,000
plan brought in by the administra-
tion group.
Senator Byrnes, democrat, South
Carolina, for the administration,
had proposed restoring the men
with 75 per cent of their former
'pension.
! Eighteen democrats joined thirty-
! two republicans and Shipstead,
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 27.—*iomas
doubt of the statutory authority of W. Vardell, 62, president of the
their respective agencies to buy Southwestern Life Insurance Com-
bonds of this character.”
party, and reputed to have been
The issue, advertised for sale Feb. one of Dallas’ wealthiest citizens,
20. received no bids.
J. W. Roach Died
Near Bardwell
died Tuesday morning at his home,
4508 Lakeside drive, from the ef-
fects of a heart attack, aggravated
by injuries to his foot incurred
when he fell from a horse several
weeks ago.
Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, for
the more liberal Steiwer-McCarran
proposition. All forty voting no
were democrats.
Legion Program Favored.
Pending at adjournment was an-
Funeral Tuesday Blaine Hollimon
J. W. Roach, age 64 years, promi-
nent pioneer farmer of. the Bard-
well community, died suddenly at
his home west of Bardwell Mon-
day night at 10:30. Death was at-
tributed to a heart attack. He
had apparently been in the best
of health and had already retired
for the evening when he was
stricken.
John Willis Roach, son of J. R.
and Sidney Jernigan Roach, was
born near Coldwater, Tate County,
Mississippi, in July 1869. He moved
to Texas with his parents in 1882
and settled on a farm near Bard-
well.
He was married December 25,
1897, to Miss Ida Wheatley of
Bardwell, who with four children
survive; two sons, A. B. Roach
cf Bardwell and J. E. Roach of
Howard, and two daughters, Mrs.
Clyde Johnson of Reagor Springs
and Miss Ruth Roach, teacher in
the Emhouse school. Surviving are
three brothers, R. O. Roach of
Rankin, W. T. Roach of Mabank,
and H. L. Roach cf Wichita Falls,
and two sisters, Mrs. E. A. Bedi-
chek of Abilene and Mrs. J. D.
Parks of Ardmore, Ok., all of
whom are here. He had been a.
member of the Church of Christ,
since he was a boy.
Funeral services were held this
a afternoon at 2:30 at the Church of
, Christ, in Bardwell, with Rev. T.
H. Etheredge of Austin and Rev.
Roy H. Lanier of Waxahachie
conducting the services.
Interment was made in the
U. S. Leads World Mardi Gras Declared
In New Cruisers
London DeclaresDrunkenOrgy With
London, Feb. 27.—An official
admiralty report Monday set forth
indications that the United States
leads the powers in the number of
cruisers under construction or
planned.
| Japan is building cruisers with
unusually heavy armaments and
No Law To Govern
To Arms!—To Arms!
France is completing the biggest
and most powerful fleet of de- |
j stroyers, the document said.
According to the report, the Unto-
led States has eleven cruisers build-
I ing and six more projected. Britain
| has ten building, contracts for j
three ol which have not yet been ’ 1
awarded. France and Italy each
have six building, while Japan
has two building and two more j
projected. 1
In completed cruisers the British |
have fifty, the maximum accepted
under the London naval treaty.
The United States has twenty-one, ( i
Japan thirty-one, Italy twenty-four, | |
France fifteen, Russia six and' |
Germany eight. I
in March despite threat of veto 1
by the president, is congratulated |
by Representative Ernest Lundeen, j
of Montana, first signor of the pe- 1
tition.
FURNISHINGS GATHERED
BY SCOUTS TAKEN IN ONE
DAY; TO CONTINUE DRIVE
That
Scouts
the efforts of the Boy
of Ennis in gathering
clothing and furnishings for the
needy was not misdirected energy
was forcefully demonstrated Mon-
day. Not only was the move not
misdirected energy but the dis-
tribution of the articles came as
timely relief to many of Ennis,
and there is no doubt did much
to alleviate suffering.
The articles gathered by the
(Scouts Friday and Saturday were
placed at the C. W. A. headquar-
cther amendment by Steiwer 1
which he estimated would cost an-
other $55,000,000. This would restore
to full compensation all World War
veterans whose disabilities were
presumed to have been service
(connected but who were removed
i by the economy act. It would also
require the government to prove
their injuries were not due to act-
ual service.
ters for distribution Monday, and
before nightfall every article had
been taken by those who called
for them. Seven employes at the
[Office assisted in sorting and pass-
ling out the furnishings, and it is
estimated that over 2,000 articles
were distributed. The articles con-
sisted of almost every conceivable
kind of furnishings all the way
France Begins
Investigating j
Stavisky Affair I
Paris, Feb. 27.—The government
opened up heavy broadsides Mon-
day in its investigation into the
amazing Slavisky affair with its
• "Listen my - children and you
shall hear” what becomes of the
descendants, of Paul Revere. This
charming bud of the family „tree,
wide reverberations, by ordering a Pauline Revere, was selected as
probe of the activities of two of-the most attractive girl in the
ficials and a formcry ministry at-School of Commerce, New York
tache. University, where she is a fresh-
Those to be questioned are man. Her home is at White Plains,
Commissary Bayard of the secret | New York,
service. Inspector Constantin of the
there are many on the rolls of pawnshop department of the min-
the C. W. A. and others who are | istry of commerce and Guiboud Ri-
really needy and deserving who did band, former special attache
not apply for any of the articles, the ministry of finance.
“Since seeing the eagerness with
day Mr. Boren pointed out that
which the articles' were taken
Monday, I am sure the Scouts can
render no greater service to their
country and humanity than to
continue the drive,” he said. "In
the previous campaign many
homes were missed, and we were
unable to get articles from all
who had phoned in, as a number
were not found at home.”
Mr. Duke, who has been quite
active in helping promote and
conduct the drive, asked the News
to convey the message to the peo-
ple of Ennis of the urgency of the
move. “The drive was begun at
the suggestion of President ROOD-
of
The development in the scandal. ;
which resulted in rioting that over
threw two governments and ap-
parently in the murder of a key
witness, was called for by Henry
Cheron, minister of justice.
Bayard and Constantin are
charged with helping enterprises
of the late Alex Stavisky, which
resulted allegedly in a loss of at
least $40,000,000 to the public,
while Riband was accused of trad-
ing on his influence as an at-
tache.
Johnson
For Code
To Address Little
Congress Tonight tirety three of the four points in
the American Legion program.
,The fourth point called for $15
• Washington, Feb .27. (Special to
the News).—Blaine Hollimon, Jr., of a
Ennis, will speak before the Little
Congress on Tuesday evening, Feb.
Should the senate agree to the
Steiwer substitute presumptive pro-
posal, it will have approved in en-
27, in opposition to a bill intro-
duced into the house of represent-
atives of the United States Con-
gress by Congressman Sam Ray-
burn, chairman of the house com-
mittee on interstate and foreign
affairs. The bill provides for reg-
ulations affecting national securi-
ties exchanges throughout the
country.
This is the second invitation that
has been extended Hollimon to ad-
dress the organization since his
coming to Washington nearly a
month pensions for widows of
World War soldiers on the same
conditions as prescribed for Span-
ish War widows.
Both Texas senators, Sheppard
and Connally, voted against the
measure.
Would Have U. S.
Accept Islands
For War Debts
Washington, Feb. 27.—Congress
year ago. The Little Congress is was told Monday by Representative
an organization composed of con-
McFadden, republican,
from small articles of clothing for
infants to bed steads and stoves.
Not a single item remained un-
claimed.
Scou master C. C. Boren, and
Henry Duke, who has been acting
as director of the drive, have de-
cided to hold a supplemental drive
next Saturday when the Boy Scouts'
will again make a canvas of the
city. In discussing the matter to-
velt, and was carried through more ,
in a spirit of loyal support to our
great leader than because we felt |
the urgent need, but since yester- j
day’s experience I am fully con-
vinced that this is a most direly
needed move. I want to urge every
citizen of Ennis give all the fur-
nishings they can, assuring them
it is my opinion that they will be
needed."
Think Barrow
Ralph Capone
Trail Found
At Hillsboro
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 27.—Hillsboro
officers late Monday warned Dal-
las officers to be on the wa ch
for two men and a woman believed
to be Clyde Barrow, Raymond
Pennsyl- Hamilton and Bonnie Parker, who
gressional secretaries and is the vania, that at a conference be-fled north after buying ammuni-
leading debating and forensic so- tween Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- tion at a Hillsboro hardware store.
ciety on Capitol Hill.
Texas Tech Gets
New Dormitories
Donald of Great Britain and Presi- The three left the store before the
dent Hoover at the latter’s Rapid- Sheriff or his deputies arrived.
I an Camp, Hoover refused to accept
| the Bermuda Islands in part pay-
| ment of England's war debt to
| this coun ry.
J Describing such a transaction as
nothing new, McFadden suggested
' that France and the United States
Three Touhy
Gangsters Now
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 27.—Di-' agree on a transfer of the Mar-
rectors Texas Teetpological quesas Islands to the United States
L690945 UA 1 SACD - CU14 UUO d 2
College signed a contract with the
public works administration Mon-
day for the financing of the con-
struction of two new dormitories
in cancellation of France's over-
Elm Branch cemetery with J. E. to cost $650,000. They will house
Keever in charge of arrangements. 391 students och
• 1024 DUUUOi D CdUl.
due debt payments. He also urged
that a similar deal be negotiated
with England and Australia for
the Admiralty Islands or the Solo-
I mon Islands.
Get Ten for Cobb Jury.
The contract prepared in the of-
fices of the PWA at Washington, son
I U UAL
was signed in the office here of’
PER CENT BEER
Cleburne, Texas, Feb. 27.—A
jury to try H. L. Cobb, Hill county
Clifford B. Jones, chairman of the)
board of the college and regional;
adviser of the PWA for Texas, Newi
man charged with murder in con-Mexico and Louisiana.
nection with the barn slaying of
Thomas Gullett, a neighbor, on
January 20. was expected to be
completed Tuesday. Ten jurors had
been secured Monday night
A- contract for building the two
structures has already been let to
W. S. Bellows, Oklahoma City, and
work is to start as soon as funds
are made available. J
New Orleans, La., Feb. 27.—Pres-
ident Rosevelt will be told that
New Orleans engaged in its big-
gest drinking Mardi Gras, Leon W.
Sloan, superintendent of the Ant-
Saloon League of Louisiana, said
Monday.
“According to prophecies, liquor
flowed more freely at New Orleans
during the week of Mardi Gras
than was ever known," said Sloan.
“There was more public drinking
and drunkenness than, perhaps the
city has ever known. And this
drinking was brazen and shame-
less; men and women, boys and
girls, drinking promiscuously. The
hip flask which always, lias been a
part of the drinking man’s social
paraphernalia, was in its greatest
glory.
"Liquor . was everywhere and
drunkenness distributed through-
out the city. There was no place
and no way to escape it. In the
drug stores, beer and liquor sa-
loons, restaurants, cafes, hotels
and clubs, at the public balls, on
trucks, one the sidewalks and in
the streets, groups of young people
and children and family groups
whipped out the bottle and passed
it around hand to hand and mouth
to mouth. ■ - -
“Every conceivable stage of in-
toxication was manifest from the
first drink of the early morning
to the bleary-eyed, red-faced, thick
tongued drunk, staggering his way
into the gutter. Even women, over
come with liquor, fell in the street
and were picked up by onlookers
and carried to the sidewalk.
Not Arrestable Offense.
“Officials of the city have de-
clared drunkenness is not an ar-
restable offense and the police
iwvere ordered, last April to ma’s
Revision
Washington, Feb. 27.—Hugh S.
, Johnson beat NRA's assembled
no bookings on drunkenness.” -
Sloan said the mayor of the city
drank a five-pint glass of beer
from a brewery wagon on the steps
of the city hall as the parade
passed.
“The attention of the president
and his administration is called to
critics to the gun today by sud-
denly unfolding a twelve-point pro- consider this situation in relation
gram for revising existing codes, to his promise that the saloon
Before the hundreds invited to
should not return and that the
complain could voice a
Meanwhile, it was announced
that neither poison nor narcotics
was found on the body of Judge
Albert Prince, who was found slain
mysteriously on Wednesday near
Dijon. Police said the jurist knew
the inside story of Stavisky’s op-
erations.
The reward for his killers was
raised to a total of $9,100 when the
Magistrate’s association offered an
additional 40,000 francs (approxi-
mately $2,600).
( All document’s in the Stavisky
case were turned over to an in-
’ vestigating committee for forty-
icism, the NBA administrator an-
nounced a wide cede revision would
be effected, if possible, by sweeping
single orit state should see that the doctrine
of temperance is inculcated.”
State 100 Per Lent. Wet. -
Louisiana became 100 per cent
wet when na ional prohibition was
presidential mandate.
Individual industries, Johnson repealed and now is without any
told the opening session of his field i state liquor regulatory measure
day for criticism, will be allowed whatever, the state supreme court
modification only if justification held Monday in reversing
can be shown in public hearings, easy conviction. It was
a speak-
the first
test case to reach the high tribunal
John W. Colvin
four members of the chamber of
deputies which has begun its work.
Died at Home
Near Corsicana
Will Pay $10,000 Man Charged In
For His Freedom
McNeil Isl: nd, Wash., Feb. 27.-
Rather than take the pauper’s
oath and another thirty days in
prison. Ralph Capone, Chicago’s
public enemy No. 3, will pay a
Girl’s Death
Thought Suicide
Houston, Texas, Feb. 27.—A
. . charge of murder was filed a
$10,000 line, a reliable source here Goose Creek Monday against M.
reported Monday, and thus obtain v. Curtis, 35, of Houston, in con-
his release from the McNeil Island nection with the death here Mon-
federal penitentiary Tuesday, day night of Miss Viola Hill, 23.
Just where the $10,000 is to comeIn a statement to police after
from was not disclosed, but the
implication was that money was
1 adequate.
Miss Hill died. Curtis said she
became ill after drinking some-
thing from a bet le. He knocked
In Joilet Prison
Jol’cu. Ill., Feb. 26.j red mnem-
bers of the terrible Touhy gang;
which rose to power through beer
running and met its waterloo at
kidnaping, were dressed in Satur-
day night at State prison to serve
nine’y-nine year sentences.
Roger Touhy, Gustave Shaefer
Forbid Use of
State Autos In
Campaigning
LEGAL IN MISSISSIPPI and Albert Kator, who flouted fed-
------eral prohibition laws, were the
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 27.—Gov. prisoners of the state on convic-
Sennett Conner signed a bill le-tion of kidnaping John (Jake t
galizing sale and manufacture of Barber) Factor, and collecting $70,-
4 per cent beer by weight in 000 ransom.
Mississippi at 4::23 p. m. Monday. Touhy, once the fearless Chicago
—------— gang leader, shook like a a? as
For quick results use Daily News he entered the gates and the heavy
Want Ads.
Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 27.—John
: Wilson Colvin, aged 72 years, died
at his home four miles east cf
Corsicana Saturday morning at 2
o’clock after a short illness and
the funeral was held Sunday af-
* ternoon at 3 o'clock with burial in
Oakwood cemetery.
Mr. Colvin was well known in
this section and had resided at
since the adoption of the twenty-
first amendment.
; The case involved the legality of
both the old preprohibition local
option law and the equally old
blind tiger act enacted to protect
dry localities, which the- Attorney
General, Gaston L. Portertie, had
announced were still in effect. The
supreme court, however, said the
blind tiger law, if not actually dead
had fallen into innocuous desuetude
and local option wi h reference to
prohibition no longer existed in
Louisiana.
i The host of prohibition laws and
his the repeal of these laws over a four
farm east of Corsicana for the past
140 years.
| The funeral rites were conducted
by the Rev. E. T. Miller, pastor
of the Baptist Church, assisted by
Rev. J. F. Adams, pastor of the
Eleventh Avenue Methodist Church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. A. L. Szenasy, Corsicana, and
Mrs. W. D. Langston, Corsicana;
the bottle from her hand, he told
officers, Justice George L. Ricker
returned a verdict of suicide from
poison.
{ An investigation was started late
last week at the request of Miss
Austin, Texas, Feb. 27.—The con-
ferees on the bill raising from one- |
tenth to one-eighth of 1c a barrel)
the tax to support the oil and gas |
division of the railroad commission j
have written into it an amend- j
ment by Representative R. W.
Calvert providing that if any per-
son whose salary is paid from the
teen year period served to wipe out
the state regulatory measures, said
the court.
five sons, J. W., M. A. and Her-
man Colvin, all of Corsicana; Clyde |
Colvin, Waxahachie; and George
Colvin, Dallas; a brother, W. E..
Colvin, Crisp, seven grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
Coldest Spell
Of Winter With
16 to 22 Degrees
Hill’s relatives and an autopsy was * * 0i -
M. G. Swafford
_ performed. Dr. Martha Wood said
i the report of the autopsy had not
* been completed.
Grand Jury Back
In Session To
Wind Up Term
| Is Appointed |
County Jailer
M. G. Swafford has been made
jailer at the Ellis county jail at I
(Waxahachie to succeed Joe Bush,
The weather man continues to
back up the ground hog. The
temperature this morning register-
ed on various thermometers from
16 to 22, against 20 to 24 Monday
morning, so it is safe to say that
this morning was the coldest of
the winter, showing from 2 to 4
degrees colder than Monday morn-
ing.
The Ellis county grand jury, who resigned to accept
which adjourned during the week
funds uses his time or a state au end, was back at its busy grind at
tomobile for election campaigning the Courthouse Monday, with sev-
he shall be fined not less than $100 eral important cases to come be-
and net more than $500 and be fore it. Conclusion of the probers’
iron bars clanged shut behind him nor more than ninety days
position
The Weather
in San Antonio.
Mr. Swafford, who has been
deputy constable for the past four
years, entered upon his new duties
as jailer Saturday morning. His
Partly Cloudy—Warmer.
jailed for not less than thirty days work by mid-week was anticipated family
East Texas: Fair, rising temper-
ature Tuesday; Wednesday partly
by the auth orities
will move to Waxahachie cloudy, warmer. Temperature Tues-
in about three weeks
day morning 18 to 22
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