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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1935
Page
1
A Bryan resident urges a full scale campaign against mosquitoes by drying out damp spots and water accumulations around homes. The call argues that targeting breeding grounds will also reduce cockroaches and stinging lizards, improving overall sanitation and comfort in the area.
President Roosevelt urged enactment of the wealth tax program this session not necessarily in the emergency nuisance tax bill. House Ways and Means democrats push for a new bill to carry out broader wealth distribution while Senate delays limit chances of Saturday action. The plan aims to raise about 340 million dollars yearly from taxes on incomes over one million, large inheritances, and higher auto taxes.
Ed Lee Stacy of Houston and his son John visited Bryan to conduct business and catch up with kin Mrs A J Buchanan. The Walker family from near Wilcox in Burleson county also spent the day in Bryan. Mrs W M Owen left for Italy to visit her parents Mr and Mrs G L Porterfield. Louise Smith returned from San Antonio after a ten day stay with her nephew and family Mr and Mrs A L Ballard.
May sales in Texas department and specialty stores slipped 1.1 percent from April and were 0.2 percent lower than May 1934, according to 91 stores surveyed. Year to date sales rose 2.9 percent vs the previous year, with women's and men's clothing showing the strongest gains and credit sales increasing.
WASHINGTON June 26 In plain language written on Senate stationery the late Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico parcelled out to relatives and friends including Wisconsin's Progressive Senator La Follette his 3 976 260 estate. His will admitted to probate Tuesday listed over a million dollars in cash bequests to his Washington office staff Santa Fe New Mexican staff and friends in high places and law.
Weather bulletin notes east region partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. West region also reports partly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with similar conditions.
Two Brazos county children from Bryan, Luis Martinez and Hazel Fuschak, underwent operations today at the State Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston. They were brought by county public health nurse Edna Abbott Shelton. Both are reported resting well this afternoon.
Albert J. Sire, 75 once a famed lawyer with a $15 million fortune, loses his holdings one by one until foreclosure of the San Jacinto hotel. After visiting another former property at 38 West Fifty-ninth Street he greets staff then climbs to a roof and leaps to his death eight floors down.
Rome June 26 Official sources said Captain Anthony Eden left for London as Mussolini showed no change in resolve to pursue a complete solution of the Italo Ethiopian problem. Informed circles expect Italy to quit the League if condemned.
Smears from Stephen F. Austin high school reveal malaria. St Josephs slides show malaria and parasites. Whites in Midway area show malaria traces and parasites. Slides from 29 negro school children reveal malaria traces and parasites. Edna Abbott Shelton reports the findings from the recent survey.
Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit said he hopes to support President Roosevelt in 1936. He praised the president's tax program as perfect in principle though critics called his stance harsh. The priest framed his criticism as loyal friendship supporting key policy aims.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on June 26 two Okemah National Bank bookkeepers Rosa A. Carton and Thomas T. Hall pleaded guilty in Federal Court to embezzling 1017 and 1150 dollars respectively. Each received a one year sentence in the El Reno Federal Reformatory. They shared jail with three men accused of a December holdup that netted 7000 dollars: Dewey Gilmore Dan T. Heady and Leonard Short.
The Bryan city commission will meet in adjourned session tonight to discuss proposed public works and the taxicab ordinance which has had its second reading and may come up for final passage.
Pat Moreland of Austin spoke at a luncheon hosted by Bryan Lions and Rotary clubs with Houston Chamber of Commerce guests. The poet and author contrasted rural North Carolina with modern Texas life, predicting Texas will lead future national progress. He was accompanied by his niece Catherine Hall and his son Pat Jr. (Continued on Page 5).
Tokyo reports a Manchoukuan frontier patrol of 80 men clashed today with a Chinese force of 700 along the Jehol Chahar border. Japanese regulars in Jehol city prepared, but army high command relied on Manchoukuans to chastise those who allegedly invaded Manchoukuo.
The University of Oklahoma offers a safe driving course to all students to reduce automobile accidents. The program, funded by the Oklahoma Automobile Club, uses standardized tests and graded problem sets without college credit.
Billy Wilson, wanted at Corsicana on a charge of assault to murder, walked out of a Houston hospital last night in his pajamas with an injured arm in a bandage. He has not been recaptured after being taken there for treatment following a train accident.
At the Rio Grande Quarry of Southwestern Port land Cement Company a dynamite blast to loosen limestone went wrong. Stephen Sparks, 17, son of superintendent H. S. Sparks, was killed as rock collapsed on spectators. Three workers were severely injured and a steam shovel aided rescue efforts with no bodies recovered an hour after the blast. The quarry lies west of El Paso.
The junior teams from the East and West sides scheduled to play at Sue Haswell Memorial Park under the lights tonight have been postponed due to interference with midweek church prayer services. An alternate time will be sought for the match.
West Texas markets show a surge in yearling ewe sales. Roy Henderson paid five dollars for four thousand head from Ozona while Crockett county ranchers moved about fifteen thousand head at five to six dollars. Strong range conditions hint at prices rising to seven or eight dollars. Mutton yearlings bring four and a half to five cents per pound and steel yearlings six and a half cents with heifers five and a half cents. E. L. Avery shipped fifteen hundred mixed cattle to corn belt states. Eddie Robbins moved about fifteen hundred mutton goats for his Camp Wood ranch and paid a dollar fifty per head for good early mixed kids delivery in September.
The May lumber output in the South rose over April and May last year. The Southern Pine Association reports average weekly production per unit at 241 516 board feet, up 1.4 percent from April and 17.5 percent from May of last year. Shipments per unit reached 324 643 board feet, up 31.1 percent from April and 49.3 percent from the prior year. May 31 unfilled orders per unit stood at 65 098 board feet, up 49.4 percent from April and 19.2 percent from last year.
Soviet government rejected a German offer for a 1 billion mark credit to be repaid with raw materials such as manganese iron ore and oil. The announcement came from Moscow on June 26.
Mrs W B Harris and relatives from Navasota Waco and Pecos toured the west visiting Freedonia Carlsbad Cavern Pecos then returned to Waco in a 500 mile one day drive Mrs Harris left her mother in Waco and another sister Mrs Tom Frost of Pecos joined for the visit
Rev W C Kevonce of Shire will preach Sunday at Cottonwood Church near Tabor in both morning and evening services.
Nearly four score men and women from Bryan and College Station gathered at the Bryan Country Club for a kickoff Good Will meeting. Earnest Langford led as toastmaster. speakers included E. R. Alexander D. H. Reid W. L. Hughes Mayor Q O Johnson D L Wilson and Mrs. Lee J. Rountree. The event featured a cold plate supper and discussions on improving community life and recreation beyond mere earning.
R. B. Anderson state tax commissioner in Austin announces Marvin Hall of Brownsville as chief intangible tax attorney Tuesday. Hall succeeds the late Martin L. Allday who is deceased.
President Roosevelt today established the National Youth Administration to aid unemployed youth between 16 and 25. The agency, funded with 50 million dollars, will provide apprenticeships in private industry and schooling at high school and college levels under the Work Relief program. Miss Josephine Roche and Aubrey Bates will direct the effort alongside Harry Hopkins' Works Progress Administration.
Texas A M College hosts a second year short course on traffic officers problems in cooperation with the League of Texas Municipalities. Lectures by field experts will be held mornings with field work afternoons at the ROTC range. The advisory committee includes police chiefs and sheriffs from Austin Fort Worth Coleman Ranger and others.
In Springfield Utah on June 26 a hen and a cat with kittens now share a nest. The cat moved in to birth her brood after the hen left one egg for a stroll. The hen returned to find the cat had taken part of the nest but relented and keeps her egg while the cat keeps the kittens in the other half.
Tokyo report says the army lost five fliers and three planes in two incidents. Two planes collided at Kagamigara base, killing three fliers. Another Kagamigara base plane crashed in flames, two more fliers perishing.
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