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The Paris Newsi
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TUESDAY, MAY IT, Ifttt Postmasters JQse Airmail Postmaster Russell Says Unusual Interest i Postmasters of the United Slat- are taking an unusual amount fbf interest in National Airmail now underway. This is evi- in the office of Postmaster P. W. Russell, of Paris, who has received letters from postmasters ill over the nation, Many United States postmasters have turned Airmail week for a hobby, en- leavoring to obtain a letter from participating postoffice irt She nation. Many cities turned to unique methods of attracting attention to heir particular locality.

The cachet i composed of map of the trade territory of 'amps. A letter from the postmaster a Florida city relates the his- of message delivery, going ack to Biblical times. Among ie earliest delivery of messages etitioned wss the message sent by dove (Genesis, chapter, eleventh' verse), inert her was the delivery of the jen Commandments to Moses on jlou.nl Sinai (Exodus, thirty-first hapte-r. eighteenth verse). 1 A plane win pick up airmail rom Paris at 10:45 o'clock Thurs- I ay morning.

Parisians have been rged to participate in National week by mailing airmail Utters on that dav. At Hospitals Mrs. Henderson Burns of Garvin, Rt. 1, is a patient at the Sanitarium of Paris. John Derryberry of is at the Sanitarium of Paris for a tonsil operation.

Mrs. E. Cheatham of Atlas who has been a patient at Lamar hospital has returned home. Mrs. W.

I. Boyce of Broken Bow, is at the Sanitarium of Paris for a tonsil operation. Miss Lell Logsdon of Sulphur Springs, Rt. 3, has returned home from the Sanitarium of Paris after examination. Frankie Mae year old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. L. Endsley of Roxton is a patient at Griffiths Children's hospital. Mrs. J.

M. Parks of Blossom, Rt. 1, who has been at the Sanitarium of Paris for surgical treatment, has returned home. Mrs. Harry L.

Parks of Medill with her infant daughter born at Lamar hospital, has returned home. Waiter Malinouske, CCC enrollee from was brought to the Sanitarium of Paris for surgical treatment Monday night. Billie Jean. 11 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Phillips of Boswell. is at Griffiths Children's hospital for treatment. THE PARIS NEWS, PARIS, TEXAS I' (Tuesday Topic I' Roart To Ruin and Back" Isil be the subject of the Rev. Roby evangelist, evening at the lent from the Centra! fire sta- 'pn. service will ho at 8 m.

preceded by prayer groups men, women and young peo- ji; 2nd junior hand at 7.30 p. m. spite the several aided the Monday evening sere. One conversion was made. Tne- Rev.

will speak at Pfiris school R. L. Tippit of Valliant. i is at the Sanitarium of Paris for 'urgical treatment. Mrs.

O. I. Anderson of Valliant. is under surgical treatment at the Sanitarium of Paris. Vida Jean, seven year old daughter of Mr.

and Mry Ragan of Cooper. Rt. 3. who "has been a patient at Griffiths dren's hospital, has returned home. Houston Is Rain-Swept Buffalo Bayou On Rise After 6.25 Inches Of Rain HOUSTON.

Heavy rains totalling 6.25 inches in a 24 hour period ending Tuesday sent Buffalo Bayou on a rise, delayed traffic in parts of the city, and caused some crop damage In South Texas Tuesday. Strong winds buffeted parts of the Texas coast during the day but sunshine replaced rain clouds in most sections and no serious floods were expected. Percy Baker, Negro, lost his life Monday night when a row boat in which he was crossing swollen Brays Bayou, tributary of Buffalo Bayou, was caught in a whirl pool and sank The weather bureau here said Buffalo Bayou was five feet above normal. Storm warnings, hoisted along the entire Texas coast Monday night, were still flying Tuesday. The heaviest rainfall in the coastal area was recorded at Katy, 25 miles northwest of Houston, where 9.5 inches fell.

Fields in that area stood in sheets of water Tuesday and crops were flooded. No estimate had been made of the crop damage in the South Texas area because of the heavy rain. Psychologist Would Pay For Child enlifies Two In rrolir Trial YORK, Passarel- i Tex Tuesday us for the govemmont in trial of IS per "'ins as p.irti- with him in the sale of ounros of nrd Mnsja have Jtidgr Rules Women Jurors Be Ha Hess WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. Women jurors must sacrifice chic to rise demands of duty in the rouriroom of Justice Abram Zol- Justice Zoller decreed that women sit bareheaded to keep their minds on the case instead of on thfir neighbor's hat.

"The ladies nrc doing fine work in our courts." he added tactfully. 1 fee! that floppy hats and Pans should play no part in the performance of their 1 guiitv to t.he Alexander to peak Oa Air Alexandrr the i. Jl A. radio over Ra- Ijjj Sratior. KPLT o'clock.

Her hect "The or JjjjWhy Do Return Overdrawn Checks? Relief Clients to Receive Oranges The Lamar county commodity storeroom has received an extra shipment of that must be this week, according to Mrs. Evelyn William s.iore- room suporvlror. All clients who are eligible for commodities are requested to call at the storeroom for their allotment regardless of whether or r.rt they hfive received their al- lolrd portion. Mrs. said.

Ail regular client-! are to rerpivr an Px trs portion of a anoUuT OKI Airmail Hiy vinM'vrr 'up 3 Be 1'sTfl mTke'7 MARUN. Tex 'f. ftre anxioiji to nr lr! hopK--ri to dedicate an whcnfvpr nrt fl nrt airmai! from up r.heckj st i np the country over 'ot I in. we -i a rus- i slr dedicai- len led snd the 1.23-! rovprs laid in of comm j' in aw; chamber nf crunmerc" I L- "ij- thit I dmjr Tur'dny they dug riheed ff ir.aijed ou! to for rornrr? of United State- and to lut -nil i Old In "iKillrd Bv Basohall Party Is Given Monday Evening Mrs. Leor.a -Early entertained i at her home, 254 Bonham street, Monday evening with a party for her daughter.

Virginia. Misses Katherine Early and Vernell Brous received the guests. Games were played during the evening, with prizes going to the honoree and J. B. McFatridge.

Refreshments were served to Misses Hazel Ray, Margaret Cass, Mary Foreman, Mita Merle McCann, Dolores Anderson, Ver- neJl Broiis, Katherine Early; and Edward Reeves, Frank Walker, Dale Pearce, Billy Moseley, Tommy Cothran. Benny Wortham, J. C. White. Walter Riley, page Johnson, Billy Malor.e, J.

B. McFatridge and the honoree. (J. C. White, Cub reporter.) Active Legionnaire Is 91 Years Old BIG SPRING, Tex.

Big Spring post of the American Legion Tuesday laid claim to the distinction of having on its rolls the oldest Legionnaire in the nation. That man is Can Powell. long time resident of West Texas whose Legion membership, despite the fact he is 91 year old, is no honorary affair. Powell in the U. S.

army during the World War period, in the quartermaster corps, was Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, when the Armistice was sigr.eri. He had the downward age by some 26 years. --I-UI Chinese and Japs Charge Air Duplicity I i SHAXGHAI. Chinese i and Japanese Tuesday charged r-nch with duplicity in the The Ciunofe said three Japan; e.se warplnnes painted with Chin- color-: borr.bed Liulms. on the FIupeh--Honan border, killing 30 The Japap.efe reported a Chinese plane pointed with Japanese soared over Japanese troops Wuhu.

dropped rigarettes then domi snd marhine- cunned the soldiers as they picked them up. SALT LAKE CITY A famed psychologist recommended to the nation's parents and teachers Tuesday payment for parentage so much per child. "Society," said Dr. Paul Pope- noe of Los Angeles, directoi- of the Institute of Family Relations, "must be prepared to equalize the burden of parenthood by a proportional Jamily wage which will increase the salary of the white collar man or the birth of each child." "The present erroneous concept of 'equal pay for equal which merely means that a hitfi school principal with a wife am four children is expected to live on the same salary that would be paid a bachelor, has proved to be too destructive of family life to be continued," he asserted in a prepared address. "It puts a high premium on sterility and punishes people for having children." Dr.

Popenoe expounded his theory of "the changing family in a changing world" to more than 1,200 delegates from every state to the national congress of parents and teachers. Surh overd: f.s which to THE LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK IVposil Insur. LAREDO, Tex. Octavjo Mer.dor.a, was killed late Mond.Tj; when a companion trvij- od a baseball which struck him the b.is<> o( thft brain. Ociivio's companion threw the at nr.othf-r youngster who missed.

Trie bsi! struck I who was. walking nhoad. FREE Canning DEMONSTRATION By Chaptman Home Economist Correct and economical methods for preserving Meats, Fruits and Vegetables in BALL JARS Attendance riits Given Individual canning problems solved M.y 18 and 19 No Metal Taste At 2 P. M. Johnson-Billingsley Co.

Texas i British Aircraft Advisor Quits Post LONDON'. shakeup of Britain's wnr plane-making machine widened Tuesday with the resignation of Lord Weir, unofficial advisor to the ffovernment on aircraft expansion since 1935. Tx-ird Weir announced he was flrtion of Viscount win ton. who Monday as I air secret-Try, but declined furth- er statement. As ex-officio member of the air I council, Lord Weir had worked in collaboration with Viscount I who was president of the council.

i Three Needles Taken From Woman's BENKLEMAN, Neb. Walter B. Reynolds hopes there are no more needles embedded in her body. She fell on a carpet sweeper hag last Christmas and since then doctors have taken one needle from her arm. another from her side and a third from her abdomen.

The month long search for the third needle culminated Monday in a delicate operation. Probe Report Oranges Used For Baseballs NY ACK. Y. WV-A story that children of Rockland county needy were playing baseball with oranges supplied by the government brought a federal snd state inquiry Tuesday into the system of relief administration here. Disputing charges that perishable foods had been provided in wasteful Quantities, county relief adminirtrator John E.

Cook said county ahowed that tributjon of federal com- had been no for temiUN on Troy Pool Is New President Of College Troy pool of Picton was elected president of the College at a dinner meeting of that Paris Junior college organization at Dunlap's Lamar avenue coffee shop Monday night. Pool will take office next year. Twenty-two members of the club attended the meeting, which also saw election of Walter Bell of Brookston as vice-president; Robert Norton of Paris, secretary- treasurer, and Gary Brown of Paris, sergeant at arms. Theron Phillips, retiring president, had charge of the meeting. GERALDINE COX CALLED BY DEATH HUGO, (Special) Cox, 14 year old daughter of Mrs.

Beulah C. Fowler, of 97 North Main street, Paris, Texas, died at noon Monday at Griffiths Children's hospital in Paris after Jiree days' illness. The family 'ormerly lived in Hugo. The body was brought here on Monday afternoon for burial, funeral being announced for Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Methodist Protestant church, conducted by the Rev. W.

E. Mathes, Snow funeral home having charge of the arrangements. PHILANTHROPIST DIES PHILADELPHIA. ca- of Edward T. Stotesbury, 89, nternational banker, philanthropist and lover of art and horses, was ended Tuesday by death.

HANGS SELF ODESSA, Henry Grady 49, Midland resident well known in West Texas, hanged limself with a trousers belt, in the Ector county jail Tuesday. FSA Official to Confer Here On Machines Loan Walters, of the regional office of the Farm Security Administration office, Dallas, will be in Paris Tuesday afternoon to confer with officials of the Paris office of the FSA relative to application for a loan for the purchase- of a combine and a thrasher. The machines, if the loan is made for their purchase, would be purchased under a community service loan set-up. If purchased, one of the machines would be placed in one part of the county with the other to be placed in a different section to be used by cooperating farmers. Texan Escapes From Federal Prison Monday LEWrSEURG, Pa.

A 20- year old Texan was sought Tuesday as one of the few inmates to escape from the northeastern federal penitentiary' since its opening in 1332. The prisoner, Ray Stallings, escaped Monday Enoch Hansen, 18 of Utah. They were serving four-year terms for illegal transportation of automobiles. US Envoy Makes Protest to Japanese TOKYO. tflP) United States ambassador Joseph C.

Grew protested to Foreign Minister Koki Hirota Tuesday that Americans be allowed to return to Nanking homes and businesses. The Americans evacuated during the Japanese push into Nan- king last December. Japanese thus far have refused foreigners permission to go to Nanking. Price Of Bread Unchanged But Ingredients Off WASHINGTON. D.

Montgomery, consumers' counse fpr the Agricultural Adjustmen Administration, said Tuesday the retail price of bread has remained unchanged while the cost of ingredients has declined. He reported an 8.9 cents a pound average price reached lasi since the highest average since 1929. Ingredients prices are at the lowest average since 1933. The "gross margin" between bakers' material costs and the selling price of bread, he said was a cent greater than a year ago. Suggesting the "need of a far- reaching investigation," Montgomery said he was submitting his data to Secretary Wallace for transmittal to the justice department and the federal trade commission.

Lewis Dickson Dies In McKinney DEPORT, here were notified Monday that Lewis Dickson, II, had died oj a heart attack at his home in McKinney Monday afternoon. He was 35 years old, son oi Mr. and Mrs. G. W.

Dickson here, and was Collin county supervisor for the FSA. Surviving are his parents, his wife and an infant daughter, Melba Ann; two brothers, Ralph Dickson, Sylvan, and George William Dickson here, and two sisters, Charles Tennyson of Wichita Falls and Mrs. James Guinn of Springfield, Funeral services will be held at Massey Funeral home, McKinney. Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, with burial at Highland cemetery, Deport, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Brief services will be held at the cemetery, according to word received in Paris.

Senate Body Likely To Consider Pay Cuts WASHINGTON. Wagner (D-NY) said Tuesday the senate banking committee undoubtedly would consider the rail- demands for pay cuts for their employes before it votes on a bill to extend RFC equipment oans to the roads. Wagner called a meeting of the committee for Wednesday to study the contention of some rail executives that the bill would give he government unfair advantage other creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. Health Crusading Editor Is Stricken With llie Mumps! AUSTIN. crusading all year for better health at the University of Texas, Ed Syers San Antonio, editor ol the Daily Texan, student newspaper, Tuesday was ill.

Physicians diagnosed the trouble as nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands. In other words, Syers has the mumps. Roosevelt Asks For Additional Funds WASHINGTON. Roosevelt asked congress Tuesday for an additional appropriations of $70,672,407 for the treasury and $3,014,492 for the interior department. He asked also for another $200,000 for the justice department for NU.

KLEENING SUITS DRESSES SOUTHERN CLEANERS N. Coker, Owner Coker, HOTEL ALTAR 200 Fire Proof Rooms With Ceffing 60 $4.00 Modern Coffee Shop and Dining Room Connection with "Center of Paris' Civic, Social and Business Activities" SPECIAL DAY RATES ON ROOMS FOR OUT OF TOWN SHOPPERS IN PARIS B. CAMPBELL, Manager waiting right around the in nearly a million stores where cigarettes are sold you'll find that friendly white Chesterfield package. Chesterfields are made of the best ingredients a cigarette can mild ripe home-grown tobaccos, aromatic Turkish and pure cigarette paper. Chesterfield's milder better taste will give you more pleasure than any cigarette you ever smoked..

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