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The Mexia Weekly Herald
.VOL. xxxviii, no. 34.
MEXIA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST '41, 1930.
H
Toxoid. Saving
Lives of Many
Texas Children
AUSTIN, (Spl) Education
of the public to the value of diph'
theria immunization has resulted
iiV lowering the incidence of this
dread disease, but Texas still loses
over 400 of its future citizens
each year from this preventable
disease, according to the Texas
State Department of Health.
"It is a generally accepted fact
among public health authorities,"
Dr. John W. Brown, State Health
Officer, said "that any community
may control its death rate from
diphtheria. Immunization has been
proved a safe and effective pre-
ventive measure. Wherever im-
munizing treatment has been ex-
tensively used, diphtheria has
steadily decreased.
"The most forceful weapon in
the control of diphtheria is pre-
vention through immunization
rather than cure of the disease
after it has developed. Children
can be protected against diph-
theria by the use of what is
known as toxoid. Young children
are particularly susceptible to the
disease. Accordingly, as soon as
a baby is six months old, the
parents are advised to take it to
the family physician and have it
immunized—protected, by the use
of toxoid. Older children in the
family who have not had the pro-
tective treatment, should be im-
munized also, and this should be
attended to now before the school
season begins. This immunization
agent is absolutely safe to ad-
minister; there is only a slight
local reaction, and practically no
constitutional or troublesome af-
ter effects. It confers a life time
immunity in the majority of cases.
To be certain that immunization
is complete, however, the child
chould be taken back to the phy-
sician six months after the toxoid
was administered, and given the
Schick Test.
It is within the power of the
parents of this state, cooperating
with their physicians and public
health departments, to eliminate
diphtheria from Texas.''
■
Temporary Lull
in Paving Work
Mexia's street paving program
has been retarded greatly the last
two days as work on the rock
crusher at Tehuaeana is at a stand
■till.
The reason being that the men
on this WPA project are only al-
lowed to work 120 hours a month
and this having expired it will be
several days wait yet before work
continues, according to H. F. Mace,
city manager.
The crews on the city streets
have been spreading about 100
yards daily, said Mace.
Bids on the topping will be ac-
cepted In September with the £•
thulithic Company holding the in
side track because of its machin-
ery already being located here oi
the overpass construction.
$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVA
V
+ + * *
Near Rescue of Four Men Entombed in Mine
CLUB MUS TPAY
AUSTIN, Aug. 20 (U.R)—A judg-
ment for $200 franchise tax due
from the Port Arthur Country
Club to the state was entered to-
day in district court and paid. The
state had sued for $1,530.
SPOT COTTON
HOUSTON, Aug. 20 (U.R) —Mid-
dling cotton closed here today at
12.00.
MAN-KILLING
PACE SET TO
RESCUE CREW
Sixteen Feet from
Goal after Long
Campaign
MAY BE GASES
No Indication Men
Sought Are Yet
Alive
MOBERLY, Mo., Aug. 20 (U.R)
—The man-killing pace set by
rescue workers burrowing into
muck and burned wreckage to
reach four entombed men in the
Esry coal mine doubled with the
goal in sight today.
Sixteen feet of debris in the
old main shaft of the coal mine
remained to be penetrated before
they break into the main room of
the right tunnel, a cavern 35 feet
wide and 100 feet long that is
either the tomb or the prison of
of the four men trapped there
by a cave-in and fire more than
48 hours ago. There was no in-
dication the men were alive.
The men hoped to reach the
110-foot level and start the search
for the men this al'temoon. Direc-
tors of rescue work warned them,
however, that deadly gases might
still block the path.
As the men worked lower, the
gray mire in which they stood at
the bottom of the mine shaft be-
came hot. An internal fire, work-
ers said, probably was smoulder-
ing in the lower drifts and that
would add to the hazards of the
search.
*
Opinion Mixed
on Cotton as
Some Bearish
Increased Hedges
Keeping Some
from Buying
NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (U.R)—
Opinion on the cotton market
was mixed today. Some experts
advised selling on rallies: others
suggested purchases on reactions.
Fenner & Beane said sentiment
is bearish and prices may be
forced somewhat lower before
some of the uncertainties hanging
over the market are cleaned up.
"However, we do not advise sell-
ing."
The Cotton Exchange Service
reports exports of .cotton cloth
from Japan at 227,000,000 square
yards for July, the same as last
year. For the season Aug. 1,
1935, to July, 1936, exports were
2,659,000,000 square yards, again-
st 2,709,000,000 in the previous
season.
Admit Part in
Bolt Terrorist
Russian Plots
T,
Leaders Face Almost!
Certain Death for
Conspiracy
Copyright, 1936 by United Press ■
MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (U.R)—Gre-j
gory Zinoviev and Leo Kamenev,
former Bolshevist leaders on trial
with 14 others charged with plot-
ting the death of Josef Stalin,
admitted on the witness stand to-
day that they had planned to
spread bloody terrorism in Russia.
They not only admitted but
virtually boasted of it, courting
almost certain death before a fir-
ing squad. It was indicated that
the present' defendants may be
only the first batch who will be
so tried.
In admitting his guilt, Kamenev
spoke in a professiorial manner
LANDON HEADS
FOR OPENING
OF CAMPAIGN
Pennsylvania to Be
Main Point for
Initial Blow
special"train
Conferences with
Party Leaders
Enroute
HILL RESIGNS
ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL
TRAIN, Aug. 20 (U.R)—Gov. Alf
M. Landon headed to the farm
belt on his first campaign tour
today after a rousing western
farewell as he left the Rocky
Mountains.
Headed for Pennsylvania and
, . , New York, the Republican presi-
d.rectly to the prosecutor, Andrew- nominee his
Vishinsky. In contrast, Zionvievi
orated to the crowd.
"1 am now finally determined
to tell all the truth," he declared.
"I have no illusions after my
grave past as to the reaction of
the court to my words, but I
will tell the truth."
Referring to a charge made
yesterday by I. N. Smirnox, an-
other defendant, that he had lied,
Zinoviev said:
"Yes, I lied often since I start-
ed the struggle with the Bolshe-
vist party. I went all the way
from opposition to counter-revolu-
tion to terrorism and actually to
Fascism, because Trotzykism plus
terrorism is Fascism.' '
792 Prizes Given Away During
Factory-to-You Sale
Get Your Entry Blank Here.
SPECIALS DURING THE FACTORY-TO-YOU
SALE AT OUR STORE
Puretest Epsom Salts, lb. 19c
Mineral Oil, pint - 33c
Merourochome, half ounce 19c
25 Double Edge Razor Blades 39c
20 Single Edge Razor Blades 39c
Milk of Magnesia Tablets, 30—5's _19c
Mi-31 Solution, pint - - 33c
Summer Candy, pound —19c
Linen Stationery, 24 envelopes and 24 sheets
of paper - - - 17®
MEXIA
pHONE
TEXAS
Chas. Grigsby Is
Killed in Fall
Oil Worker Dies of
Derrick Fall, to
Be Buried Here
Funeral services will be held
Friday atfernoon for Charles N.
Grigsby, oil field worker, formerly
of Mcxia, and brother-in-law of
Mrs. J. R. Truett of Mexia, who
fell 52 feet from top of an oil der-
rick to derrick floor in Longview
Wednesday.
Grigsby never regained consci-
ousness after being rushed to the
Longview hospital where he died
Wednesday afternoon.
Services will be held at Mrs.
Truett's home, 305 South Ross, and
interment will be in the City Cem-
etery under the direction of Jno.
R. Corley Company.
Surviving are his wife, Ellen;
mother and a brother, Ernest
Grigsby of Palestine.
Doctors Freed
in Noted Case
Seek Extradition
Mother Facing
Trial
of
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20 (U.R)
—Unsuccessful in attempts to
prove a doctors' conspiracy in the
sterilization of Heiress Ann Coop-
er Hewitt, state's attorneys said
today they would seek immediate
extradition and prosecution of the
girl's mother, Socialite Mrs.
Maryon Cooper Hewitt McCarter,
on the same charge.
"I intend to bring Mrs. McCar-
ter to trial as soon as I can
get her out of New Jersey," said
Assistant Distrkt Attorney Au-
gust Fourtner.
James V. Breslin, attorney for
Mrs. McCarter, was reported from
Englewood, N. J., to be prepared
to move for dismissal of the
detainer filed against his client in
New Jersey by California author-
ities.
district Judge dies
WACO, Aug. 20. (U.R)—Judge
Sam R. Scott, veteran judge of
the 19th district court here, died
today after a brief illness.
special train at La Salle, Colo.,
and began with Colorado party
leaders the first of a series of
cross country political conferenc-
es.
Cowboys, townsfolk carrying
real sunflowers and an old-fash-
ioned western stage coach greeted
Landon when he arrived here to
board his train.
The old red stage coach, drawn
by two spotted ponies, was la-
beled with such signs as "balance
the budget" and "Alf M. Landon,
Washington, D. C."
At Jaulesburgh the governor
will be joined by Nebraska party
leaders, including Robert Simons,
candidate for governor. They will
escort him to Omaha, where he
arrives at 10.10 p. m., and will
take the lead in political talks
with Nebraska Republicans en
route and at a breakfast before
he departs for Chicago Friday
morning.
From there on across Iowa, Ill-
inois and Ohio—every section
where his train passes in daylight
or early evennig — the Kansas
governor will make brief rear-
platform appearances to wave to
crowds and say a few words of
greeting.
The speeches to be delivered at
West Middlesex, Pa., Chautaqua,
N. Y., and Buffalo, N. Y., have
been completed and Landon ap-
peared satisfied with them after
many revisions and last minute
changes.
It will be his first opportunity
to get to grips with national is-
sues and his friends have hinted
that he will not fail to speak
directly and frankly on the sub-
jects which he takes up. Great-
est interest centered in the speech
to be delivered at Buffalo and ex-
pected to deal with governmental
spending.
School Payment
Sent by State
AUSTIN, Aug. 20 (U.R) — Re-
lease of warrants payable to pub-
lic schol districts to complete pay-
ment of the state's school aid ap-
portionment was announced today
by State School Superintendent L.
A. Woods. The payment is $1 for
each scholastic on the district
school census. Scholastic for the en
tire state number 1,558,582.
Today's payment completes the
$18.50 per scholastic apportion-
ment authorized by the state
board of education. With previous
payments it totals $28,833,767.
Next year's state apportionment
has been set at $19. The scholastic
census upon which it will be paid
has been taken and now is being
checked in the department of edu-
cation.
Maxwell T. Hill, formerly with
the land department of the J. K.
Hughes Oil company here who
has resigned and leaves for Dal-
las in the next ten days to form
an independent oil company.
Mr. Hill, chairman of the
Fiesta de Mexia, will also resign
from this civic organization,
Mr. and Mrs. Hill have been
prominent in social and civic af-
fairs in Mexia the last three
years. They came here from Tem-
ple.
DRAMATIC TAI£
OF EFFORTS TO
CHANGE NATION
Accused Men in Court
Tell Full Story
of Dealings
punned murders
Implicate Others in
Bloody Terrorism
in Russia
Commodity Store
Replenished by
Large Shipment
Flour, Canned Goods
Received Here for
Sub-Stations
Limestone county's allotment
of 60,735 pounds of flour and 21,-
000 cans of vegetables will be
delivered in Mexia by the end
of the week by the Surplus Com-
modities Division according to T.
R. Dickson, manager of the relief
commodity roqm.
The vegetables are being sent
from the canning plant in Cal-
vert, and consists of black eyed
peas, corn, tomatoes and string
beans while the flour is to be
received from Fort Worth.
Groesbeck will receive 9,000
cars of the vegetable shipment.
14,210 pounds of the flour with
Teague alloted 18,668 pounds
Mexia will receive 1,2000 cans of
the vegetables and 27,857 pounds
of the flour.
Other commodities received re-
cently are 1,000 pounds of onions
4,000 pounds of prunes and 3,000
cans of roast beef from the
Cudahy Packing- company in Kan-
sas City.
The amount of food to be re-
ceived this week will be sufficient
to run the commodity stores to
January, said Dickson.
The determination of the eli-
gibility of the needy, not on re-
lief is being done by Mrs. Louise
Glover, case worker.
MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (U.R) — Dra-
matic details of a plot to kill Josef
V. Stalin, Soviet leader, and Co-
vert Soviet Russia through terror-
ism to what was described as a
Trotzky-Fascist regime, were re-
vealed at the trial of 16 men ac-
cused of treason.
The leading defendants are Gre-
gory Zinoviev and Leo Kemenev,
both pioneer Bolshevists who tim-
ed against the Stalin brand of
Communism.
All pleaded guilty and confessed
frankly and even boastingly to the
plot.
Zinoviev admitted he had order-
ed his secretary, Bogden, to kill
Stalin.
While Kemenev was testifying,
I. I. Reingold, another defendant,
interrupted to say Bogden was to
have been killed by I. P. Bakaev,
also a member of the conspiracy,
after Bogden had killed Stalin, so
that the affair could be covered up
fully. Bogden, however, committed
suicide without making the at-
tempt on Satlin.
Reingold accused Kamenev and
Zioniev of moral responsibility for
Bogden's suicide, which he ascrib-
ed to unwillingness to kill Stalin.
Kamenev was asked by Andrew
Vishinsky, the prosecutor, whether
he had participated in the killing
of Sergei Kirov, Stalin's old friend
and associate, in 1934, for which
115 men and two women were ex-
ecuted and more than 100 others
jailed.
Kamenev replied he was in the
Trotzykist bloc and late in 1932
1 discussed the plant with Trotzy-
kists. He said he had no doubt
Trotzky favored killing Stalin and
disorganising the country by "Je-
suit methods."
Kamenev implicated Alexis Ry-
kov, Soviet, commissar of poats and
telegraphs, in his group, and said
he believed Karl Radek, one of the
editors of the newspaper Izvestia,
would have been sympathetic.
Zinoviev implicated Trotzky as a
Bulletins on
Spanish War
'SPANISH NAVY
TOLD NOT TO
STOP GERMANS
(Spanish war developments)
Mexico City—Thirty carloads of
ammunition shipped to aid of
Spanish government; internation-
al repercussions feared.
Berlin—Germany protests hotly
against Spanish search of German
steamship and orders Reich war-
ships to protect German vessels
"by all means."
San Sebastian—Rebels surround
Irun for imminent mass attack.
Madrid—Loyalists and rebels in
fighting contact on three fronts
to battle for Madrid.
Ilendaye—One thousand killed
daily in Civil war.
BENDAYE, Aug. 20 (U.R)—Two
insurgent military planes flew
over Irun today and dropped four
bombs near a hospital. There was
no damage.
The planes appeared several
hours after the rebels were re-
ported to have warned the popu-
lar front in Irun to evacuate the
hositals as "they were about to re-
new bombardment of the city.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Aug. 20 (U.R)
—Loyalists, faced with the alter-
native of victory or death, awaited
a rebel assault in mass at Irun
today.
Their leaders ordered women
and children—all men will be in
the fight—to evacuate the city
when the attack starts and wade
the shallow Bidassoa river into
France, so they will be able to
fight in the streets unimpeded.
Rebels, it was understood, are
at the outskirts of the city after
capturing a loyalist field battery
on the heights only 600 yards
from the town boundary.
H END A YE, French-Spanish
border, Aug. 20 (U.R)—The San
Marcos fort near San Sebastian) mirante Valdez and had settled,
hit the rebel battleship Espana! the cruiser Liberted yesterday af-
with a shell today, carrying away i ternoon fired on the German steam
Searching Merchant
Ship Cause of
Tension
graveIncident
Germany Protests in
Promise of Force
if Needed
BERLIN, Aug. 20 (U.R) — Rear
Admiral Carls. commander of
German warships in Spanish wa-
ters, in a message to the Spanish
navy commander today threatened
to "answer force with force" if
there is a repetition of the incident
in which two loyalist war vessels
stopped the German steamship
Kamerun off Cadiz.
Earlier, the German charge D'-
Affaiges at Madrid was instructed
by the foreign office to "protest in
sharpest form" against the action
of Spanish warships, which the
German government viewed as
definitely, a violation of interna-
tional law.
Rear Admiral Carls' message to
the Spanish naval command fol-
lowed an order to German war-
ships to protect German shipping
"by all means" from interference
by Spanish government vessels out „
side the three-mile limit of Span-
ish territorial waters.
The message said:
"Just after a breach of law a-
gainst the steamer 'Sevilla' (a
German vessel which was fired on
off Spanish Morocco in the early
stages of the rebellion) by the Al-
one of its two funnels.
The extent of the damage to
the Espana could not be deter-
mined from shore, but the war-
ships, without replying to the
fort's fire, headed for Ferrol.
BERLIN, Aug. 20 (U.R) — The
German vice-consul intends to
leave San Sebastian with 2o Ger-
man nationals because it is dan-
gerous to remain there, it was
announced today.
Hauptmann Estate
Pays $1,847 Taxes
ALBANY, Aug. 20 (U.R) —In-
come taxes owed by Bruno Richard
Hauptman have been paid to the
conspirator from his exile abroad, federal government. An attorney
although more in the role of a
moral supporter than an active
participant.
*
Arrest Deputy
for Extortion
for Mrs. Hauptman, wife of the
man who was electrocuted for the
Lindbergh crime, came to Albany
yesterday to settle Hpuptroan's
back income taxes.
The attorney handed to Harry
M. Hickey, collector of internal
revenue for the 14t.h district, a
chock for $1,847.26.
er Kamerun outside of the Spanish
coastal zone in the open sea and
forced it to follow behind, and had
it searched by armed soldiers.
This action against the German
steamer is a breach of the law of
free shipping on the open sea. I
am not disposed to tolerate such
acts of force, I have ordered naval
units under my command to an-
swer any unjustified act of force
by your ships with force."
The Earl Smiths
Move to Dallas
Urge U. S. Fight
Against Mexico
TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 20 (U.R)—
The supreme council of the
Knights of Columbus, closing its
54th international convention to-
day, endorsed a resolution urging
the American government to re-
monstrate against "religious per-
secution in Mcxico.
Hackney Builds
Home on Grayson
Band Director Erects
6-Room Dwelling;
.$3000 Cost
Construction of a $3,000 modern
six room dwelling house for C. R.
Hackney, band director in the
Mexia schol, was started the earl-
ier part of this week by Terry &
Ingram, contractors, on the corner
of Ross and Grayson.
The house will be of colonial ar-
chitecture and hand clipped shing-
les will be used. The singles.will
and to the attractiveness of the
home as they are rarely sever seen
in thi ssection of the state.
The house will be completed in
seven weeks, according to Hack-
ney.
POPE NOT SICK
VATICAN CITY, Aug. 20, (U.R)
—A Vatican spokesman today
branded as "ridiculous and false"
reports that Pope Pius XI was
suturing from rheumatism at
Cast* Gandofo.
DALLAS, Aug. 20 (U.R) — F, H.
McCommas, deputy constable at
Mesquite, was arrested today on
a charge of extortion.
Bill Mackey, employe of a con-
cession at the Texas Centennial
Exposition, was the complaining
witness.
Mackay alleged that he was sit-
ting in an automobile with a young
woamn companion near a suburban
golf course yesterday afternoon
when McCommas approached the
car and told him:
"This is going to cost you if you
want to avoid a lot of trouble and
publicity."
Mackay claimed McCommas told
him he could go free if he would
pay $30. He said he had only $14
with him and gave him that a-
mount, promising to return today
with $16 more.
Mackay reported the incident to
officers. Deputy Sheriff Bill Deck-
er secreted himself in Mackey's
car and they drove to the place
where Mackay was supposed to
meet McCommas. Mackay handed
the deputy constable $16 in marked
bills.
McCommas' bond was set at
$10,000.
Warns Aviators to
Remain Neutral
LONDON, Aug. 20 (U.R) — The
British government, trying to bols-
ter by its own example the lagging
European negotiations for neutral-
ity in the Spanish Civil War, is-
sued through the air ministry to-
day a warning threatening cancel-
lation of suspension of the flying
license of any aviator who aids
cither side.
The warning concerned any pilot
convicted of violating the ban on
the export of aircraft to Spain,
such as false customs declarations
as to the point of destination.
RADIO CAMPAIGN
DALLAS, Aug. 20 (U.R) —Frank
S. Morris, candidate for state rail-
road commissioner who is confined
to a hospital bed here, announced
today he would continue his radio
broadcast with an address tonight
over a statewide hookup.
W. Earl Smith, wife and daugh-
ter, Earline left today to make
their home in Dallas.
Mr. Smith formerly associated
with the E, L. Smith Oil Company
as head oil scout here for a number
of years ha? accepted an executive
position with the Ownby Drilling1
Company of which heis part own-
er.
Business associate* and personal
friends of this popart** family re-
gret to see them leave but as much
as it is a promotion they are ex-
tending congratulations.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith will reside
at 4647 Nakoma Drive, Greenway
Park, where they have purchased a
lovely two-storey, brick home.
TRAINER KILLED
BECKLEY, W. Va., Aug. 20 (U.R)
—Three trainmen on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio freight train were
killed near here today when the
boiler of the locomotive exploded.
McCormick-
Deering
Implement
Repair Parts
Just received our stock
of parts for both Horse-
drawn and Farmall Imple-
ments. Give us a call when
in need of parts.
Wallace Welch
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