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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1934
Page
1
The purchase completion and deed delivery to the Highway Commission secure Bryan as division headquarters for years. City and county, with the chamber of commerce, share half the building site cost, a valuable enterprise for the city and county.
A third typhoon in a month battered the Eastern Islands of the Philippines today causing heavy property damage and possible loss of life. The storm moved toward Manila Samar Lyte and Sorsogon provinces face isolation as communications and supplies fail.
Mrs Lillie Lindsey of Kerens arrived in Bryan to meet her new grandson Billy Frank Ross born Monday at Bryan Hospital. J Webb Howell remains in Bryan Hospital after a minor operation and is recovering well. J H McClarey of Calvert and Beatty Baron of Steep Hollow were Bryan visitors. Mrs Everett Halbrooks, recently released from hospital, returned home to receive friends. Miss Monette Greginsky returns from a Houston weekend visit.
About two thirds of the second rental checks have arrived in Brazos County with the rest and the parity check due in each mail. Cards are mailed to farmers whose checks arrived. 186 295 pounds of certificates will be delivered to 871 producers. The National Pool extended its closing date to November 24 with mail-in deadline November 26.
Harold Vance head of the petroleum engineering department at A and M College will address the Science Seminar next Monday night at 7 pm in the physics lecture room on Proration in Oil Production. Vance brings East Texas field experience after coming from Kilgore this year. Prof. R. L. Hunt will outline government methods of crop production compensation. Norman F. Rode, electrical engineering professor, is president of the Science Seminar.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a m at Mc Culloch Dansby chapel for Raymond L Phillips six year old son of T E Phillips who drowned while swimming with his brothers at Mohlmans tank Bryan Interment followed in Bryan city cemetery beside his mother The boy’s father sisters Vera Mae and Lurline and brothers Ray Seldon and Robert mourn his loss Pall bearers were Elbert Gammon John Crouch Alf Patterson and Joe Carnes.
The Bryan Future Farmers of America chapter at Stephen F. Austin High School plans to host officers training in Bryan on Thursday. All six district chapters will attend from around Bryan.
Austin November 14 1944 T S Christopher resigns as assistant attorney general effective November 15 forming a private law partnership in Fort Worth with former State Senator Lloyd E Price. As AAG he represented the state highway commission in litigation and advised the railroad commission on motor bus and truck matters.
President N C Voogel of the Tri County Poultry association announced the annual plan here for a December show to be held from the 6th through the 8th.
Washington officials said this season would see a larger volume of lamb feeding than forecast a month earlier while still remaining somewhat below last year's totals. Feeder lamb shipments into the corn belt last month were reported 20 percent higher than the same month a year ago.
Austin November 14 Governor-elect James V. Allred will depart Thursday for a week long hunting trip in Mexico. He will stop at Cuero en route for the turkey trot with a small party of friends accompanying him. It is his first vacation since starting his gubernatorial campaign last June.
The city of Alice will spend about 10000 dollars in coming months to extend the municipal water plant mains. Bonds of that amount will be issued and it is expected relief commission labor will supply the work.
Charles B Richardson former Olney mayor had his 99 year murder conviction for killing his son Elga on January 1 1934 reversed and remanded by the court of criminal appeals in Austin. This marks the second reversal of his conviction.
Odis Patterson Jr and Elizabeth Willingham Jr filed for a marriage license as a preliminary step toward wedlock. The notice records their intent and the names of the engaged couple.
In Brazos County voters favored a proposed constitutional amendment allowing home rule cities to amend charters more frequently. The measure received 736 votes for and 705 against. Governor candidate James V. Allred drew 1,343 votes while opponents totaled 16. Local candidates led by Judge W. C. Davis garnered 1,382 votes.
Dr. T. D. Brooks of A and M spoke at the Bryan Rotary club noon meeting at New York cafe. He highlighted Rotary's interest in boys through loan funds, youth organizations, vocational guidance, and personal service over institutional. He noted plans for second memberships as sons join their Rotarian fathers' firms.
East Texas sees occasional rain and cooler air tonight with Thursday rain in the east and cooler conditions in the west. West Texas will be partly cloudy and cooler in the southeast tonight with Thursday turning cooler overall.
Jacksonville. November 14. M. Cuningham, 49, and W L Hope, 28, both of Palestine, were killed when their automobile collided with a parked truck on Highway 45 seven miles east of Jacksonville. Police reported no others injured.
R. K E. Thompson was elected president for 1935 at the Navasota Kiwanis Club meeting held Tuesday noon at the Camp Hotel. Officers named include Rev. S. C. Guthrie as vice president and L. M. Welch as treasurer, with directors R. J. Brule, T. B. Buffington, Dr. S. D. Coleman, Dr. H. L. Stewart, A. J. Youens, C. V. Merriman, and H. N. Sandall.
Texas charters issued in October totaled 1.18 million dollars in capitalization a 56 percent drop from September and 44 percent from a year earlier. The 111 charters marked a modest rise from September and October 1938 with 32 out of state grants down 11 percent from September but up 46 percent year over year. Charters under 5 thousand dollars rose to 49 while those over 100 thousand dollars fell to two from 44 in September.
President Roosevelt named a committee to coordinate leading government activities with Secretary Morgenthau heading it. The move signals consolidation of federal agencies to absorb emergency units as recovery plans unfold. The president noted decisions on future emergency recovery units may wait until early next year and mentioned no new push for broader public utility control.
The highway office building site along Highway No 6 near the division warehouse was bought and deeded to the Highway commission in Austin. Architect plans are near completion for a roughly $12 000 building with landscaping and a secluded site away from the road.
The Travis Parent-Teacher Association presents For the Love of Johnny a three act drama at the Palace Theatre Tuesday Nov 27 at 7 o clock. A nine person Bryan cast rehearses under Carl Hooker’s direction. The Palace management has granted use of the new stage for this local talent production.
To Address P.T.A. S. M. Brown will address the Travis Parent-Teacher Association on the Benefit of Well-Paid Teachers. Col C. C. Todd will speak on Financing the Public Schools. Meeting moved to 3 30 p m with all parents urged to attend.
Federal Judge Charles Dawson upheld the Frazier Lemke farm mortgage act as constitutional in Louisville Kentucky. He called the act unfair and unwise but affirmed its legality and noted the mortgagor may save property after five years of payments and paying a reasonable rental to the creditor.
Carl L. Estes former Tyler publisher who bought the Longview News and Journal was honored at a farewell banquet in Tyler on Tuesday night. P. McKenna presided. speakers included Col T N Jones Dr Porter M Bailes Henry Edwards R T Craig Morgan Sanders George F Cuthrell Father S A Lampers Sam R Greer and C F Mansfield among others.
Gov elect James V. Allred said the tax commissioner post will be among the first filled in the new administration. He stressed the vital need for a strong tax chief under new legislation and noted the role includes delinquent tax duties and ex officio Texas racing board membership with a 400 dollar monthly salary. He reported heavy applicant interest and long office hours as he prepares for the transition.
G M Milburn a Veterans Administration field representative based in San Antonio arrived in Bryan to work with the Brazos County Red Cross on veterans claims and related matters. He departed at noon for Temple and San Antonio.
The body of Dorothy Ann Distelhurst, missing since September 19, was positively identified at the State Tuberculosis Hospital grounds. Prosecutor J Carlton Loser called the death murder and noted a crushed skull, a gag rag in the mouth, and evidence linking to the Distelhurst child through a dentist finding a filling in a molar.
Police found an unclad little girl’s body in a shallow grave on a Tuesday in Nashville Tennessee amid a missing child case. Investigators sought to verify if the victim was Dorothy Distelhurst, daughter of Alfred and Mrs Distelhurst who had warned of a $5 000 ransom in a prior NY note. Dorothy Ann vanished while walking home from kindergarten on September 19 in East Nashville.
A cactus garden of about a quarter acre is being built east of the city along highway 84 and Terrace cemetery under the direction of George E. MacPherson, superintendent of the state highway division. It features native rock borders in graduated sizes and aims to be one of West Texas’ prettiest.
Laredo November 14 four shipments of the citrus fruit crop began October 30 with the first mixed carload of grapefruit and oranges. By November 5 three carloads of mixed grapefruit and oranges had moved by rail from Laredo.
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