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YOUNG FLIER. IN $900 PLANE. SOLOS' ATLANTI
* * * ★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★
5 New State Records Set At Qulf A A U Swim Meet
Bob Tarlton of
Fort Worth Hangs
Up 2 New Marks
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Merrel Clubb, Ft. Worth
And Dean Smith, San
Antonio, Aid Cause
✓
Pour new rcrords were
Bet in five senior swimming
events at the Gulf AAU
swimming and diving meet
which closed at the munici-
pal pool yesterday. (Jus ('le-
mons, of Han Antonio, set
the only junior record of the
meet on Saturday, making
five new records for the two-
day meet.
Merrel Clubb, of Fort Worth,
lowered the time in the senior
100-yard free style by 1.4 seconds,
covering the water course in
55 seconds. The old mark of 5G.4
seconds was set by Harris Mc-
Olammrock of Houston in 1937.
Clemens, the San Antonio jun-
ior champ, was second, Bill Mc-
Lellan, of Son Antonio, third,
and Hilly Bundiek, Fort Worth,
fourth.
Tarlton Has Big Day
Bolt Tarlton, blond-haired
swimming champ of Fort
Worth, set two records yes-
terday. His time of 1 min-
ute C seconds in the senior
J (Mi yard breast stroke low-
ered by 8 seconds the old
mark of I minute 14 seconds
set by Leonard Day of Long-
vicw in 1935. Kerinit C.
Hynds, Fort Worth, was
second, Kenneth Tarlton, Ft.
Worth, third, and Mickey
Durban, Galveston, fourth.
Dean Smith, San Antonio, and
Bob Gentry, Denton, fought out
the closest race of the afternoon
in the senior 440 yard free style,
the longest distance race of the
entire swimming meet. Smith
was first by less than a hand's
length. His time of 5 minutes
1S.6 seconds was faster bv 9
See SWIM MEET Page Ci
Miss Rannefeld
Wins at A. & M.
Miss Edna Rannefeld, Brown-
lee 1-Ii club girl, attained an
honor that was announced be-
fore several thousand club girls
Friday night at the annual short
course at Texas A. and M. col-
lege, when she won second
place in the district in the
clothing contest.
Miss Rannefeld was introduc-
ed to the group and made a
brief response.
Miss Katherine Lightfoot, No-
lan county assistant demonstra-
tion agent, who returned Sun-
day, accompanied seven Nolan
county girls and two women
sponsors to the annual event.
Aside from Miss Rannefeld.
girls who made the trip were
LaVera Hawkins, Roscoe; 11a
Mae .Jordan, Blackwell; Earline
Brown, Bittercreek; Ona Fay
W atts, Hylton, and Melba Hand,
Whiteflat. Mrs. S. L. McLeod
and Mrs. B. F. McGee are •lub
sponsors.
Congratulations
Here is Al Stiles, left, Gulf
AAU swimming and diving
meet commissioner, being
congratulated by Homer Wil-
liams, Gulf AAU regional vice
presiden'j, for directing a
swimming and diving meet
here Saturday and Sunday
heralded by contestants and
other officials as one of the
finest, ever staged by the Gulf
AAU. Both men earned (he
praise of every Sweetwater
citizen for the successful event
they promoted.
Sweetwater Reporter
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VOL. XLI
'SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938
NUMBER 87
Japanese Planes
Make Daring Rai
On Chinese Port
*
Building Permits
Reach $106,837
Building permits totaling SI ,-
400 were issued last week by
City Comptroller W. H. Whaley
bringing the total for the year
to $106,837.
Four permits were issued, all
for remodeling or repairs of res-
idences. and one business house.
('. H. Alston obtained a $750 per-
mit to remodel a residence at
410 Pine; J. W. Tipton granted
$200 permit to alter residence
at 1203 East Broadway; Mrs.
Cora Robinson obtained a $60
permit to repair residence at
900 Pine; and P. F. Harnham
was granted permission to make
a $450 addition to sandwich
shop and cafe at 1201 East
Broadway.
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Cloudy
and unsettled; rain.
Maximum temperature yes-
terday 93 degrees. Low this
morning 75 degrees. High today
92 degrees. Temperature at 2 p.
m. 83 degrees and still falling,
WEST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy tonight and Tuesday; probab-
ly scattered showers extreme
west. Warmer Panhandle Tues-
day afternoon.
EAST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy, scattered showers. Slightly
cooler northwest tonight; partly
cloudy, scattered showers north-
east and near upper coast.
Set Fire to 20 Planes,
Using Matches; Fighting
Intensified in Spain
A .Japanese navy communique
today said a squadron of Jap-
anese airplanes landed at Nan-
chang airport in the heart of
Chinese territory, set fire to
Chinese planes with matches and [
escaped.
The communique said 20 Chi-
nese planes were destroyed. I
Eight, were also shot down in a |
fight over Nanchang before tlv I
raiding squadron landed.
Puncturing a summer calm |
that had relieved Europe's war
fears, the second anniversary I
of the Spanish civil war wit-j
nessed intensified fighting be-
fore Valencia, bloodshed in Pal-
estine, renewal of tension be-
tween Germany and Czechoslo-
vakia and a growing concern in
Great Britain regarding the
safety of the empire's Mediter-
ranean lifeline.
Sanitation Group
To Make Study of
City's Facilities
Members Enrolled in
Health Course at Texas
Tech Here August 12
Twenty-five sanitary officers
and public health workers, en-
rolled in a public healih short
course at Texas Technological
college, Lubbock, are to visit
| Sweetwater Aug. 12 for an in-
I spection of the sewage disposal
! plant, surface water reservoir,
filtration plant and swimming
pool, according to information
receveid today by City Manager
S. H. Bothwell from .1. H, Mur-
dough, head of the department
of civil engineering at Tech.
One reason for bringing mem- j
bers of the class to Sweetwater j
to inspect the city's facilities,
said Murdough, is ' because
Sweetwater is recognized as
having plants which meet the
most rigid requirements of the
state health department."
The city's sewage disposal'
plant, water system and filter
plant and swimming pool are
recognized as being among the
best in the state.
Four State Record Breakers
SWEETWATER RAINFALL CHART
Jab Feb Mar
Apr
May
Jne
J1.V
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec Totl
20
.77 .04 3.02
2.56
2.28
! 09
6.46
1.95
3.42
5.68
.72
3.31 33.99
'27
.491.661.05
1.69
.05
2.42
4.77
.81
7.75
.92
XX
.90 22.57
■23
.41 .91 .33
.81
6.78
2.46
7.48
3.53
.75
.94
.64
.48 25.52
•29
.40 1.10 1.94
.81
6.70
.52
303
XX
5.10
1.41
.22
.09 21.35
'30
.27 xx .27
1.68
3.31
1.47
.82
1.72
1.51
7.40
1.70
1.75 22.00
31
1.50 2.881.29
2.24
1.32
1.30
2.32
.68
XX
8.90
2.52
7.18 27.13
32
2.54 2.58 .05
6.07
8.201
4.67
1T6
9.04 14.76
.17
XX
5.25 64.95
'33
.101.01 .28
.85
4.14
.16
.62
5.66
1.79
1.03
1.70
2.19 19.43
34
.24 £0 3.15
2.72
.13
1.69
.76
1.88
.33
.33
3.48
.06 15.02
35
.12 2.34 .54
3.05
8.89
6.80
1.64
.16
4.20
1.22
1.21
.26 30.43
'30
.11 xx .75
1.78
2.78
xx
3.67
.01
6.31
1.77
'.72
.80 18.70
'37
.59 .02 1.62
.41
3.99
.75
.43
.91
.66
1.86
.85
1.35 13.44
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Lti7 2.47 2.«2
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2.34
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1.50
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Here are four swimmers who Saturday and Sunday set five
new state swimming records in the (lull' \ U swimming and
diving meet held at the municipal pool. They are, left to right,
Dean Smith, S.m Antonio, new record holder in the senior
440-yard free style; Gus Clemens, San Antonio, record setter
in the junior 100-yard free style: Merrel Clubb, Fort Worth,
who established a new mark in the senior 100-yard free style;
and Bob Tarlton, Fort Worth, who set two new records, one
in the 100-yard breast and another in the 100-yard hack stroke.
Officials of Successful Swim Meet
Violence Claims
Lives Throughout
Nation Today
Four Die in Sinclair
Refinery Blast; Four
Head at San Antonio
WELLSVILLE, N. Y. —(UP)
—A new explosion ripped
through the blazing $12,000,000
Sinclair oil refinery today, and
it was feared the entire plant
might be destroyed. Four men
already were dead, 42 injured
and damage estimated at sev-
eral million dollars.
Drunk Driving
Char ire Filed
H. C. Smith, from a neighbor-
ing city, waived examining trial
Sunday when arraigned in jus-
tice court charged with driving
a car while intoxicated.
Judge S. I-I. Shook set the
bond at $1,000.
A. B. Noies, also fAim out
of town, entered a plea of guil-
ty on charges of drunkenness
and paid a fine of $11 to Peace
Justice Shook.
| TWO PERSON'S AUK
SHOT TO DEATH
SAN ANTONIO — (UP) —
Violence claimed four lives in
the San Antonio vicinity over
the weeknd. Two persons were
shot to death, one drowned and
one killed in an automobile ac-
cident.
'
Nine Persons Are
Fined In City Court
Nine persons this morning re-
ceived penalties for law viola-
tions, in municipal court hear-
ings.
Three drunks were remand-
ed to jail after failure to pay
fines totaling $70. Two of the of-
fenders were fined $28 each/,
second offense penalties, and the
other drew $14.
Six traffic violations drew
fines. A speeding charge cost
the defendant $5, and the other
violations were for $1 each.
MISSOURI HIYKit
AT FLOOD STAGE
KANSAS CITY — (UP) —
The Missouri river was at flood
stage today and farmers along
its banks fled from their homes
as it threatened to break
through levees from Saint Jo-
seph, Mo. to Jefferson, Mo.
The warden of the Kansas
state penitentiary ordered the
prison island farm in the mid-
dle of the river evacuated when
the water rose to the danger
point.
BODY OF DROWNED
MAX RECOVERED
BEAUMONT — (UP) — The
body of Lonnie Brazzel, 24, oil
dealer drowned in the Neches
river, was recovered near here
today. Brazzel lost his life Sun-
day in preventing a small boat
from sinking with Miss Anna
Kelly who cannot swim.
These six men were credited with the success of the Gulf
AAU swimming and diving meet here Saturday and Sunday.
They are, left to right, first row, Eddie I'ullman, San Angelo,
chief judge of swimming events; .1. >1. T. (Salty) Sparks,
San Angelo, swimming and (living judge; and Paul Brown,
Sweetwater, clerk of course. Back row, left to right, James
Houlihan, Sweetwater, chief tinier; Bob Skelton, Houston,
referee and starter; and Francis Stronp, Denton, chief div-
ing judge.
Politics and Oil Mixed at
Proration Hearing
Torrid Texas Political
Campaign Swings Into Home Stretch
By United Press
A torrid Texas campaign for
governor disregarded the July
heat today and swung down the
stretch that will end with
hometown rallies for candidates
and the ballot box next Satur-
day.
The campaign evolved into a
"stop O'Daniel" drive by the op-
ponents of the Fort Worth
flour man. Whether their pleas
take effect will be determined
Saturday when a million Tex-
ans name their choice.
Lee O'Daniel took his string-
ed band into West Texas for
appearances Monday and Tues-
day.
Attorney General Wllliaii
McCraw prepared for a final
assault upon O'Daniel. Another
leading candidate, Railroad
Commissioner Ernest Thomp-
son, like McCraw, carried his
campaign into the cities.
AUSTIN — (UP) — Politics]
and oil mixed today at the j
statewide oil and gas proration !
hearing of the Texas railroad
commission.
An attack by W. M. Priddv
of Tyler against continuation of I
Sunday shutdowns brought spir- '>
ited defense of the commis- J
sion's oil regulation from Com-!
missioner Ernest O. Thompson,
candidate for governor.
Prospects for lifting the Sun-
day closing order at the end of
the month were brighter. The
federal bureau of mines' esti-
mate of market demands for
Texas oil was 1.377.800 barrels
a day or 17.500 barrels a day
more than the July estimate.
o —-
Candidate Farmer
Visits Sweetwater
Clarence E. Farmer. candi-
date for governor of Texas,
spoke to a moderate size crowd
gathered on the west steps of
the court house this morning.
Fair Board To .
Meet Thursday
An important meeting of the
board of directors for the Mid-
west. Exposition, scheduled in
Sweetwater September 13
through 17, has been called for
Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at
the Board of City Development
office.
Included among the items to
be discussed by the group will
be premiums, departments, and
other important topics with re-
gard to the festivities planned.
o
Army Engineers
Move To Brady
BRADY — Headquarters of
army engineers working on
flood control have been moved
from San Angelo to Brady where
surveys on the San Saba, Brady
and Pecan Bayou watersheds
are scheo tied.
The corps of 30 engineers has
set up main offices in the
Brady city hall.
More Than 4th
Inch Rain Falls
This Afternoon
Shower Covers More
Territory Than One
I
Last Friday Afternoon
More than a fourth of an inch i
of rain fell in Sweetwater be-
tween 2:15 and 2:30 o'clock this
afternoon, bringing the total
for the month to an inch and a
half.
Monday's showe was more ex-
tensive than one last Friday af-
ternoon which measured 1.25
inches in Sweetwater but ap-
parently covered less than eight
square miles.
It was raining heavily as far
j south as Lake Sweetwater and
I as far west as Roscoe. Rain to
t the south and southwest was
reported heavier than recorded
in Sweetwater.
o-
RKO Bears Part
Of Expenses
Further evidence of the good I
will that exists between the
National RKO Radio Pictures or-'
ganization and Sweetwater, is
seen in the following letter re- |
ceived by Henry Rogers, man- j
ager of the R&R Theatres from
Ned Depinet, vice-president and
general manager of RKO.
The letter sent out from the I
New York office, located in!
RKO building, Radio City,!
reads as follows:
'Mr. H. M. Rogers.
"Robb and Rowley United, Inc. j
"Sweetwater, Texas.
"Dear Mr. Rogers:
"Our studio has paid for the j
transportation of Messrs. George |
O'Brien and Perry Lieber who
are visiting you today.
"Since your committee agreed
to stand a maximum of $150
of the expense involved, please!
mail a check in that amount,
payable to the above named
company, and, we. of course,
will stand the difference, as I
previously told you.
"I hope that your affair to-
day will be a huge success, and
I am anxious to hear from you,
telling me all about it and send-
ing me newspapers.
"With kind regards,
"Sincerely, Ned E. Depinet."
It is just a little over a year
ago, that RKO officials from all
over the country were entertain-
ed at a big barbecue and rodeo
in Sweetwater. Only because of
the goodwill engendered on
that occasion was it possible to
induce RKO to send one of its
leading male stars to Sweet-
water to officiate at the water
carnival this year.
SOX AND PIRATES
WANT TO COME BACK
It snowed April 7, 1938.
Players on the Chicago
White Sox and Pittsburgh
Pirate baseball teams went
rabbit hunting instead of
playing an exhibition game
at city park.
Today George Barber, sec-
retary-manager of the Board
of City Development, receiv-
ed a letter from William E.
Benswanger, president of
the Pirates, asking for a re-
turn date, under the same
terms, for April 6, 1939.
Barber wrote Mr. Bens-
wanger that he felt sure
the BCD would grant his re-
quest. Benswanger said the
Chicago officials were anx-
ious for a return date.
Engineer Is to
Check Sites for
Vets' Hospital
Sweetwater Applies for
Location of West Texas
Institution for Soldiers
The World War Veterans ad-
ministration is sending an en-
gineer to Sweetwater sometime
within a week or ten days to
inspect any sites submitted for
a possible location for a pro-
posed Veterans' hospital for
West Texas, to serve this area
and a part of Oklahoma and
Colorado.
This information was contain-
ed in a letter written to the
Board of City Development by
Frank T. Hines, administrator
of the Veterans administration
in reply to an application pre-
viously made.
George Barber, secretary-man-
ager of the board, announced
that complete data on available
sites will be prepared and in
readiness when the engineer ar-
rives in Sweetwater.
Information accompanying the
letter advising of the arrival of
the engineer reveals that the
cost of each of the hospital units
runs in the neighborhood of a
million dollars. The daily expen-
ditures usually run from a
thousand dollars a day for the
smallest unit to several thous-
and dollars a day for the larg-
est.
o
Beer Election In
Runnels County
BALLINGER — A countvwide
election on 4 per cent beer has
been set for July 30 by Runnels
county commissioners.
The county has been dry for
several years, but recent petit-
tions indicated a desire of wet
forces to assert their strength.
Dowager Queen Marie Of
Rumania Dies Peacefully Today
BUCHAREST — (UP) — Do-
wager Queen Marie of Rumania
died peacefully today after hav-
ing suffered a series of hemor-
rhages of the liver.
The 62-year-old queen, mother
of King Carol 11 and perhaps
best remembered by Americans
fm her tempestuous trip to
the United States In 1926, had
been ill for many months. Some
weeks ago she was taken to a
sanatorium near Dresden, Ger-
many, and Sunday she was
brought home to the royal pal-
ace.
Queen Marie's hold on the af-
fections of her people was
strengthened during the World
War when she labored tireless-
ly in the hospitals. She had
been admired before for her
beauty.
Aviator Said He
Thought He Was
California Bound
Had No Instruments,
Emergency Equipment,
Passport—Plenty Nerve
DCBLIN, Ireland —(UP)
—Douglas Corrigan, 31-year-
old Los Angeles airplane me-
chanic, flew alone across
the Atlantic today in a little,
old, 175-horsepower mono
plane that cost him $900
and maintained a(l the time
he thought he was fljing to
California instead of Ire-
land.
That was the story he
told when he took the 1929
model up in \e« York Sun-
day. Otherwise they would-
n't have let him start with
no navigating instruments,
no emergency equipment, no
permission for trans-Atlantic
flight and no passport.
And that was the story that he
stuck to when he put the old
crate down on Baldonnell air-
port just outside Dublin 26
hours and 13 minutes later.
CORRIGAN TO BE
"DISCIPLINED"
WASHINGTON — (UP)—
Amazed officials of the Air
Commerce Bureau said to-
day that Douglas Corrigan,
who flew the Atlantic with-
out permission, may be put
under "gentle discipline"
when he returns to the
United States.
Denis Mulligan, director
of the air bureau, indicated
that the bureau's punish-
ment won't be stringent.
"I left New York to return
to Los Angeles, but by an un-
fortunate mistake I set my
| compass wrong", he said, with a
i straight face.
Nevertheless, he had fulfilled
an ambition to fly across the
Atlantic and had finished one
' : ;he most amazing flights in
history, a distance of 2800 miles.
CLERGYMAN UNCLE
j TO AID AVIATOR
LOS ANGELES — CUP)
—The kindly clergyman un-
cle who taught Douglas
Corrigan about navigation
that led him on his course to
Ireland began worrying
today how to get money to
his adventurous nephew.
"The lord be blessed." ex-
claimed Rev. Fraser Lang-
ford. "I had a sneaking
hunch he was heading for
i Ireland instead of Califor-
nia. Now I'll have to get
, some money to him because
I doubt if he has a dollar."
The 31-year-old aviator,
whose parents died in his
boyhood, made his home
for many years with the
Baptist clergyman.
He had an old ship on which
he had i: vished hours of atten-
| tion He had 320 gallons of gaso-
line that cost him all the money
he had. He had a couple of cho-
colate bars and a burning desire
i to follow the trail blazed by his
hero. Lindbergh.
Less Power Than Lindy
I His plane wasn't even as
I powerful as the one Lindbergh
flew to Paris 11 years ago. It
looked like a baby carriage be-
side the machine in which How-
ard Hughes roared across the
Atlantic a week ago.
\t 2:30 p. in. (7:30 a. m.
< ST) he landed jnst outside
Dublin, climbed out of the
( ramped plane and annonnc*
ed rasually. "l'\e just flown
from New York."
Airport official- wouldn't be-
lieve it, but they soon checked
the registration and were con-
vinced.
Lindbergh and Wiley Post
i and Amelia Earhart flew the
North Atlantic on solo flights be-
i fore Corrigan.
.4 bsentee KalIots
Total 211 Today
The morning mail brought a
large number of absentee ballots
to the office of Marshall Morgan,
i county clerk, whose records
| show 211 votes have been cast
| by this method.
The clerk expects more than
300 absentee votes to be received
i by the deadline Tuesday night.
Ballots postmarked July 19, will
lie tabulated upon reaching the
j clerk's office.
Committees Of
Carnival To Meet
G. E. Williams, general chair-
! man of the fourth annual wat-
er carnival committee, has call-
ed a meeting of all committee
chairmen for Monday afternoon
at 4 o'clock. The meeting is to
l>e held at the office of the
Board of City Development.
A final report of all activi-
ties and statement of expenses
will be submitted.
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