Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1935, Page 15

Has Never Found It- Able” to Repay $155,- That Aided Liberty. Associated Press. N, Tex., November 29.—War are hard to collect. Iook at nd Texas. a hundred years Texas has it more convenient to owe than pay a loan of $155,000 which its fight for independence from co in 1836. gislators have toyed reluctantly the idea of payment, but each e rejected the claim of the heirs the rich Galveston shipper who de the loan to the struggling young ublie. 'The claim.last appeared in the re- nt special session. The Senate voted pay $16,942.80 to Reynolds Lowry, nna McKinney Lowry and Mrs. Nel- n Lowry Nolen, the surviving heirs. But a conference committee, beset | ith the task of whittling appropria- | s, killed the item. Despite protests | t the claim was valid and should be | d, both Houses concurred in the elimination, ‘The first claim for payment, made after the war ended in victory for ‘Texas, was ignored—because the young republic’s treasury was empty. Senator Grady Woodruff of Decatur said journals of the Texas Republic acknowledged the loan, and later rec- ords disclosed an agreement in 1873 oy Thomas F. McKinney to accept a stipu- | lated amount of interest in full pay- ment of the claim. Again the Legisia- ture failed to appropriate funds. Years passed and the claim was not pressed. After the start of the new century an appropriation finally was made—and vetoed by the Governor| because the State was “too poor.” P N Host to 5,000 at Dinner. DENVER Col., November 29 (£).— Chef Eddie Mahlock and a corps of assistants whittled on two tons of turkey meat yesterday as A. A. Mc- Vittie gave his annual Thanksgiving party to 5000 destitute persons. A line more than a block long formed before the first free meal was served. | SELINGER'S—51 YEARS ON F STREET "\ " GRUEN on Every Point . . . Then you, too, will give a GRUEN this Christmas! 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YAZOO CITY, Miss, November 29| (#)—Mrs John Sharp Willlams, 80, —A. P. Photo, band’s incumbency in Washington as Senator. Woman Gets Pilot's License. LOS ANGELES, November 29 (#).— A private pilot’s license has been issued to Cecilia de Mille Calvin, | daughter of Cecil B. de Mille, film widow of former United States Sen- | director. Mrs. Calvin is the wife of ator John Sharp Williams, died here| Frank E. Calvin, Hollywood broker. yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. R. Holmes, after a lingering illpess. Mrs. Williams was born April 23, ! 1855. She attended the Augusta Fe- male College, now Mary Baldwin, Staunton, Va., and was graduated from there in 1873. She was married in 1878 to John Sharp Williams and has resided at their plantation home, Cedar Grove, except for the 30 years of her hus- ® We are Chartered Agents in Wash- ington for these famous GRUEN watches! Cdmpare Watches an Account! DENTIST DISCOVERS NEW PAIN KILLER Harmless Desensitizer Put on Tooth ‘Surface’ Ends That “Drilly” Feeling. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 29. — A D. ©. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935, ARCHEOLOGIST ILL mnmdmuolo‘mwm Dr. Brmted Taken rrom Ship plnledby his wife, the formerlmeh? H. Richmond, whom married last Suffering From Malaria. June. i e tq-d.y. to a hospital, seriously ill of Dr. Giovanni Valenzi, ship's “l-ll Dbest Oriental Institute of the University of | Naples. Chicago, was removed from the liner| Dr. J. Bentley Squier, personal phy- Conte di Savoia, when she docked yes-'sician to Dr. Breasted, boarded the literal meaning may soon be given|_ that ominous dental admonition to “open wider, please; this isn't going to hurt—much.” Columbia University has announced discovery of a revolutionary and harm- less pain-deadener by -Dr. Leroy L. 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