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Actors in Tragic Court Roles
Former Deputy Sheriff Francis M. Carroll, on trial in South
Paris, Me., for his life for the murder of Dr. J. <1. Llttlefield.
Carroll's daughter, Barbara, was the sweetheart of Paul
Uwycr, 18, now under life sentence for the alleged slaying of
I)r. fjittlefield who is said to have learned of an alleged illicit
relationship between the deputy sheriff and his daughter,
Barbara.
While a sorry tale of illicit love and violent death unfolds in
tin- South I'aris, Me., courtroom, 17-year-old Barbara Carroll,
sitting on the arm of Hie chair, and her mother spend their
time between the courtroom and their home. Conviction of
Deputy Sheriff Francis >1. Carroll, Barbara's father, for the
murder of l)r. and Mrs. .1. (>. I.itllefield would mean freedom
for Barbara's former sweetheart.
Gov. Happy Chandler Concedes
Barkley Winner
I.Ot ISVIIXK, Ky. —(UP)
<Jov. A. It. Chandler today
conceded that I". S. Senator
Allien Barkley, the presi-
dent's choice, had won the
democratic senatorial nom-
ination.
Incomplete returns from Sat-
urday's primary election indi-
Lindy Makes
Forced Landing
I,E HAVRE, France — (UP)
—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
made a forced landing at Bei-
ville airport, near here Sunday
when a piano in which he was
flying from Illiee Island to Eng-
land developed motor trouble.
The famous flier circled low
over the field and skimmed to a
perfect landing after his motor
began to sputter as he passed
over the airport.
He ordered the motor repair-
ed at the field and an hour later
took off for England.
Lindbergh made no comment
as to the purpose of his trip.
The flier, who resides on Il-
liee Island, a small rocky island
off the French coast, has sel-
dom been known to leave the
place since he took his wife
and two small children to live
in the castle formerly owned by
iMme. Adelina Patti, Italian sing-
er.
cated a majority of 50,000 for
Barkley.
Bark ley's victory may lead
to his nomination for president
in 1040. President Roosevelt
staked his prestige on Barkley's
renominution, and now Barkley
is considered by many observ-
ers as a likely new deal can-
didate if Mr. Roosevelt does
not run for a third term.
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Woman Indicted In
Negro Kidnaping
DALLAS — Mrs. Cosette
Faust-Newton, former dean of
women at Southern Methodist
university, was indicted for
false imprisonment in connec-
tion with her efforts to learn
whether her former negro yard-
boy stole a $5,000 Chinese jade
ing. The grand jury also indict-
ed three others for false impri-
sonment.
Reporte
VOL. XLI
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1938
number 106
Soviet 'Purge' On Siberian Battlefield
Japanese Report
Morale Along
Border Is Low
Russian Commander
Reported Executed
For Trying to Quit
BY UNITED PRESS
A Japanese war office com-
munique said tonight that Sov-
iet commanders were carrying
out a "purge" on the Siberian
battle field where Japanese and
Russian troops fought for four
and a half hours today.
The war office attributed its
information to two captured Sov-
iet soldiers and quoted them as
saying that Soviet morale was
low. They said a Soviet com-
mander was executed when he
attempted to surrender.
• Another communique fixed
Japanese casualties from the
beginning through Saturday at
70 killed and 180 wounded.
Russia Threatens War
Russia, meanwhile, threaten-
ed to abandon diplomacy and re-
sort to warfare to settle her
frontier quarrels.
The danger of a formal war
between Russia and Japan con-
tinued remote but a major battle
has been fought, and develop-
ments might make it impossible
for either Moscow or Tokyo to
prevent a great undeclared war
for domination of the far east.
Elsewhere:
China: Chinese asserted that
one of their battalions, aided by
artillery and an aerial squadron,
Ohio, Idaho, Arkansas and Nebraska
To Vote Tomorrow
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Four states, Ohio, Idaho, Arkan-
sas and Nebraska, hold primar-
ies tomorrow.
Meanwhile, it was indicated
that President Roosevelt may
seek to purge two conservative
democratic senators seeking re-
nomination in the South.
Mr. Roosevelt lands at Pensa-
cola, Fla., tomorrow from his
fishing vacation and goes im-
mediately into Georgia for two
speeches. In that state Senator
Walter George, enemy of ma'ny
new deal measures, seeks renom-
ination. Later Mr. Roosevelt
moves to South Carolina where
Senator Ellison Smith, another
new deal foe, is opposed for
renomination by Gov. Olin John-
ston who announced his can-
didacy from the White House-
steps.
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Rotarians Hear
Of Pioneer Days
"The good old days, there
just weren't any", said Pi nit
Boyd, member of the Sweetwati
er Rotary Club today noon as hi
sketched pioneering times in
East and West Texas in reveal*
ing his life's history. This <fe-
mark climaxed his description, nf
experiences of members of'fiis
famUv who first came to Texas
in 1819. His father's family mov-
ed across the plains from the
east in an ox wagon and num-
erous other trips were made by
Rotarian Boyd so he became
familiar with every trail of pio-
neer times.
Sweetwater's Record Breaking Parade
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WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Generally
fair with southwest winds.
Maximum Sunday 08 degrees.
Low this morning 72 degrees.
Temi endure at 2 p. m. today 98
degrees.
WEST TEXAS — Generally
fair tonight and Tuesdav.
EAST TEXAS — Generally
fair north, partly cloudy south
.onight and Tuesday.
Oklahoma Farm Youth Confesses
Ruthless Killing of Neighbor Girl
LOCUST GROVE, Okla. —| said. Parr told authorities he
(UP)—Wirt Parr, a gangling 16- i met the girl in a lane near their
year-old farm boy from the Spa-j homes, which were a quarter
vinaw country, confessed to| mile apart. They talked "about
day, according to County Attor- the weather", and as soon as the
ney H. A. Kehn, that he club-
bed and strangled to death Alma
Manning, 19, a neighbor girl, and
then burned her body in a pile
of brush.
The boy was being kept in
jail at an undisclosed place to-
day after being moved several
limes. Feeling was running high
in the community.
Kehn said that Parr had sign-
ed a confession and that a mur-
der charge would be filed again-
st him today.
According to Kehn the farm
boy said he had planned to at-
tack the girl, partially disrobing
her, but that he did not com-
1 lete the act.
Slaying Occurred Saturday
The slaying took place late
Saturday, the alleged confession
Texas Gunmen
Are Hunted in
Missouri Woods
I
Floyd Hamilton and
Ted Walters Thought
Hiding Near Mineola
M1XEOLA, Mo. — (l'P) —
The two bandits who shot a
highway patrolman Sunday
were believed today to have
escaped into Iowa. Sergt. ]
Frank Hagan was slightly
wounded when he stopped
the bandit car after notic-
ing it carried Indiana li-
cense plates.
Patrolmen believed the two
fugitives fled into the woods af-
ter shooting Sergt. Frank Hagen
in the arm during a running gun
battle on state highway 40 near
Mineola.
Hagen said he stopped the
men for a routine questioning,
and when he approached the
machine the driver, who he be-
lieved was Hamilton, drew a
.revolver. Hagen said he dis-
armed the driver, but the second
man, in the back seat, emptied
| his revolver at him. One shot
i struck him in the arm.
| Hagen said about a dozen
; shots were exchanged in the
1 battle, and that he believed the
( man in the rear seat of the
machine was wounded before
,, , , . .. , . 1 the men fled.
Probably the outstanding ex- Highway patrolmen believed
..... ... . ,i P^1 'ences he recalled were those at £jrgt tjle jr jlacj doubled
defeated Japanese efforts to land of his snake hunting expeditions h t.,,,..,,.r| e, t nuis 70 milps
troops on the Yangtse river j and his discussion of early-day °ast of Mineola but the office
bank at Wusueh. They claimed Abilene snake markets with uf the state highwav police at
to have destroyed four Japanese { prices of a dollar a pound. Kirkwood Mo later reported
gunboats. I Other profitable ventures of they had taken to side roads
Spain: Loyalist troops strug- the early days were hauling cord- near Mineola and were hiding j
gled to hold their ground on the wood and buffalo bones gather- out in the woods.
Ebro river front while 200 air- i e<l from the plains. Hamilton, along with Ted
planes from loyalist bases and a' "It sounds funny to hear the "Huron" Walters, is sought by
similar number from rebel bases j boys talk' about ranches today", federal agents for the $3-1,000
engaged in a great battle over- [ said Rotarian Boyd, "in those payroll robbery at Woodriver,1
head. Many planes fell. It was: times a neighbor of ours had a 111., last Friday. Both are for-!
ranch 200 miles across." j mer members of the Barker- j
Melvin Manroe, vice president Barrow gang.
of the club, presided in the ab- j Colonel B. M. Casteel, chief
sence of Luther Watson, presi- ! of the state patrol, was in
charge of the hunt. More than
50 patrolmen were on the
scene and more were dispatched
from nearby points.
The area which was being
searched was about 30 miles
square, mostly wood land.
Silo Exhibit Set
For 2:30 Tuesday
A special feed cutter is to bej
furnished by the International
Harvester company for the
trench silo demonstration to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 at the
Clarence Mathews place in south-
east Sweetwater at 800 East Ala-
bama.
The trench is to be filled by
use of the machine, and E. R.
Eudaly, extension specialist from
College Station, is to be present
to supervise the filling and to
discuss all phases of trench silo
work, such as location, size and
methods of storing, rations and
the advantages of trench silo
over dry feeds.
All persons interested in the
trench silo work are invited to
attend the demonstration. "We
are especially pushing the
trench silo", says County Agent
R. B. Tate, "because there is a
bumper crop this year and the
ill iMifii
US«"Y
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indicated that
were superior.
the insurgents
Mechanic Held on
Federal Charge
Horace A. Alexander, Sweet-
water mechanic who formerly
lived at 503 East New Mexico,
was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Ida M.
James in Abilene this morning
on charges of possession and
sale of counterfeit half dollars
and his bond was set at SI,000.
Alexander was picked up by
Capt. Lester Turner of the city
police force several days ago on
request of federal investigators.
Alexander was still in jail
late this morning at Abilene.
girl started to walk away, he
said he struck her with a sickle,
then strangled her.
Parr's confession said that he
dragged the girl's partly nude
body 80 feet off the lane and
put it on a brush pile, tossing
the clothes on it. Then he set
fire to the brush.
He went home, he continued,
and later came back with a rope,
which he used to drag the char-
red body a half mile into the
woods.
The girl's parents, becoming
alarmed at the girl's absence,
called officers. After a brief in-
vestigation they went to the
youth who, according to Kehn,
led them to the body.
Locust Grove is 58 miles north-
cast of Tulsa.
dent, who with Charles Paxton,
secretary, is in attendance at a
club assembly in Plainview. Roy
Thompson acted as secretary.
Pertinent remarks made by
Joe Boothe, James H. Beall, Jr.,
Roy Thompson, Ben Roberts, C.
E. Mays, Jr., and R. M. Sim-
mons, showed strong support for
the club's new publication, Ro-
tary Rumblings, now in its sec-
ond month.
George M. Thompson, Lions
club president, was a guest and
announced the forthcoming Gay-
Nineties Party being staged. Oth-
er visitors were M. J. Roberts,
Dallas, brother of Mayor Ben
Roberts; Marshall H. Pior, Wal-
ter Breedlove, new county sani-
tarian; Wesley Farr and I. H.
Ivey. George L. Foster, Abilene
was a visiting Rotarian.
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Quints Confined
To Their Beds
CALLANDER, Ont. — (UP)—
The Dionne quintuplets were
confined to their beds today at
the Dafoe hospital, suffering
from a throat infection.
All public appearances were
cancelled. Their father, Oliva
Dionne, was concerned about
Emilie whom he said had not
taken any nourishment since
Saturdav.
Japan Searches For
Hawaii Clipper
TOKYO — (UP) — The navy
department announced today
that it had ordered the steamer,
Camberra-Maru, to search for the
missing Hawaii Clipper until its
supplies run out. The ship is
searching near Douglass reef 800
miles south of Japan.
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« All CUM
Government Sets
Production at
11.988,000 Bales
Far Kelow 1937 Crop
Of 18,946,000 Hales
Hut Exceeds U. S. Goal
WASH 1NGTON — (UP)— The
agriculture department today
forecast 1938 cotton production
at 11,988,000 bales, the smallest
crop since 1935.
Although far below the 1937
crop of 18,94'.,000 bales, the fore-
cast exceeded the department's
goal of 11,000,000 bales.
Cotton futures in New York
dropped seven to 10 points since
the estimate was 688,000 above
| the trade's expectation.
78 Per Cent Normal
The department crop report-
ing board said the condition of
| cotton on August 1 was 78 per
cent of normal, indicating a yield
of 217.9 pounds of lint cotton per
j acre.
The forecast indicated a strong
1 possibility that Commodity Cre-
dit Corporation Loans to cotton
| producers will become manda-
tory if the cotton price falls be-
low 8.27 cents a pound on the ten
I spot markets average.
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Hosiery Day'
Tomorrow First
Crusade Event
Selling Accelerated
Already, Firms Report;
Builders Making Plans
Sweetwater's National Sales-
men's Crusade movement has
started with noteworthy accel-
eration of sales and activities
by sales people everywhere
throughout the city. After Fri-
day night's great roundup and
parade, the enthusiasm has con-
tinued to gather momentum.
One of the first major retail
i events i- that of "Hosiery Day,"
tomorrow. Cooperating in this
. Hjiewal sale* move are a
number of'loijal stores. Empha-
sis on hosiery* sales will receive
definite attention, however, all
! other lines of merchandise will
be pushed, too.
Building material dealers are
tor;.,y making a bid for keengr
attention in the crusade move-
ment.
Put* Men to Work
"Everyone knows that the
construction or remodeling of
a building can't be started with-
out putting men to work," said
i Lee Langley yesterday, stress-
ing the importance of "Sales
j Mean Jobs" in the building ma-
terial lines.
Insurance agencies have join-
ed in a publicity drive to center
attention on their line of busi-
ness in connection with the Na-
tional Salesmen's Crusade.
Many other special events are
planned for the duration of the
! crusade in which the churches
| of the city are cooperating with
| a "Go To Church Sunday" on
I August 21 as culmination of the
! drive.
Here are scenes caught by the Reporter cameraman t rida\
evening when Sweetwater staged her record-breaking pat ade
inaugurating the National Salesmen - t rusade in this < it\.
Top scene is that of the high school band, one of throe
bands in the line of march. Second picture is one of the many
floats entered by the Sweetwater branch of International
Harvester company, this one exhibiting a TracTractor. Next
is one of the five units of the Coca Cola Bottling compam in
the line of march and bottom picture is that of the float en-
tered by Baucum Implement company. The parade was so"
long that the last car did not start moving until 30 min-
utes after the parade marshal set the event in motion.
Texas University Dean Condemns
Brazos Ri\ er Dams as Impractical
31 Boys on Trip
1.
To Annual Camp
AUSTIN — (UP) — "Some
one in authority should be
elected a life member of the
Bonehead Club," T. U. Taylor,
dean of engineering of the
University of Texas, told a sen-
ate committee which met today
to study the July flood on the
Colorado river.
Taylor attacked the idea of
combining flood control dams
and power dams. He predicted
trench silo Is the best method that silt would reduce the effi-
ciency of the present tvne dams
by one half within 25 years,
lie said that a proposed storage
dam on the Brazos river would
not retain a fourth of capacity
after 20 years.
Earl Davis Makes
$1000 Bond Today
Edgar Earl Davis, Sweetwat-
bullet wound in his head. Jus- er youth, made bond of $1000
tice W. J. Stovall returned a ver- j this morning set after he was
diet of suicide. 1 charged with a statutory offense.
of preserving the feed until a
dry weather shortage."
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Company Official
Takes Own Life
DALLAS — (UP) — N. P
Ross, 58, superintendent of right-
of-way for the Texas Power and
Light company, was found dead
in fe street here today with a
Absentee \ oting
c
Starts Today
Absentee voting started in No-
lan county this afternoon. Coun-
ty Chairman W. H. Jobe receiv-
ed certification of state candi-
date- from the state democratic
; committee yesterday, called his
ballot committee together and
drew for places on the ticket.
Contract was let for printing
and enough printed ballots deliv-
ered to County Clerk Marshall
Morgan for voting to begin this
afternoon.
The runoff ticket is only
about a third as large as the July
primary ticket.
Only major county offices ap-
pearing on the ballot are coun-
ty clerk, sheriff, treasurer, super-
intendent of schools, district at-
j torney, district representative
and two county commissioners.
Thirty-one boys and Scoutmas- Absentee voting is to close
ter W. C. Carter left Sweetwater | three days prior to the election,
this morning for the second Aug. 27. One application for a
week period of Boy Scout Camp ballot was made with County
Clerk Morgan this morning.
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Republicans For
Lower Poll Tax
HOUSTON— (UP) — Reduc-
tion of poll tax from SI.75 to $1
and legislation to shift the cost
of primary elections from can-
didates to the state were pro-
Fawcett at Barksdale
Twenty-one of the boys were
from Rotan. eight from Roby
and two from troop 10. Sweet-
water. The Sweetwater boys go-
j ing were Billy Mtillins and Pat
I Pendergrass.
8000 Homeless In
Fire Razed Manila
MANILA (UP) - Fire to-
night destroyed more than 1,000 j posed today to the state republi-
thatched houses in the densely i can executive committee,
populated Tondo district of Man- Leaders expressed pleasure
ila. The blaze left 8.000 persons I over reports of internal new
homeless Six city blocks were ; deal strife and talk of a third
razed i term for President Roosevelt.
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