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SUSPECTS KIDNAP ARLINGTON CITIZ
Texas' 1938 Cotton Crop Is Set At 3,425,000 Bales
Lowest Estimate
30 Years; Staple
Above Average
Price Drops $1 Bale
Following Government's
11 Million Bale Forecast
AUSTIN — (UP) — The
smallest Texas cotton crop
since 1908, only 3,425,000 bales,
was forecast today by the fed-
eral bureau of agricultural eco-
nomics.
The bureau reported that with
average abandonment the cot-
ton acreage harvested will be
9,601,000.
The condition on August 1
was reported above average ex-
cept in the lower Panhandle
counties adjoining New Mexico.
Aerial Elopement
PRICE DROPS
$1 A BALK
WASHINGTON — (UP)—Ag-
ricultural Adjustment adminis-
tration officials prepared today
for probable loans on cotton
and a poll of corn growers on
establishment of market quotas.
A drop of SI a bale in cot-
ton prices, following a crop
board forecast of 11,988,000 bales
yesterday, brought prices near
the minimum of 8.27 cents a
pound set by congress for the
establishment of a loan pro-
gram.
AAA officials said that the?
large cotton estimate, coupled
with the price slump, made
Commodity Crc-dit corporation
loans this fall a "virtual cer-
tainty."
Druggists to Be
Invited to Meet
In Sweetwater
City's Need for Public-
Library Building Cited
By President of BCD
Members of the Sweetwater
Board of City Development au-
thorized the convention commit-
tee to endeaver to get the West
Texas Druggist convention next
March for Sweetwater.
The group holds sessions twice
yearly, and are holding their
August program at Abilene next
week. Joe Bo wen of Sweetwat-
er is the immediate past presi-
dent of the association.
Other business of the BCD last
night included the voting of
$5 a month to the support of the
nursery school until January 1st,
and the voting of $50 to the
WPA recreational department
for the purchase of small sup-
plies and for other incidental
expenses.
The president, George Bennitt,
called attention to the need of
Sweetwater for a public library
building. The problem was dis-
cussed by the group, but no ac-
tion was taken.
Sweetwater Reporter
VOL. XLI
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938
NUMBER 107
JAPAN'S DRIVE WEAKENED
The former A/.nli.i Newman,
daughter of the late Edwin A.
Newman, one-time democra-
tic national committee chair-
man, is now the wife of Scott
Colton, movie actor following
:tn airplane clopenien to Phoe-
nix.
Withers Well
Hits Gray Lime
Operators at the Ajax Drilling
Co. et al Withers No. 1 Sweet-
water oil test, are drilling in gray
lime at 3,980 feet today. For the
past several hundred feet the
formations have been shale and
broken lime.
Formations are running some-
what differently than had been
anticipated and there is a possi-
bility that an oil show may be
I encountered at any time.
The test is in a 13,000-acre
I block, location being on the
[ highest point in the southwest
quarter of the southwest quarter
of Section 65, block 21, H&TC
survey.
Former Agriculture Secretary Takes
Humorous, Biting Raps at New Deal
HOUSTON—(UP)—Former Gov. Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri,
flayed the new deal for its "onsoond spending" Monday before the
Texas republican's state convention.
Hyde centered his attack, most of it hdmorous sarcasm, on the
Department of Agriculture, of which he was secretary under for-
mer President Herbert Hoover.
"If I seem to be cautious, to peer around the corner before I
begin to talk, it is because I have heard that there is an open
season on secretaries of agriculture in Texas," Hyde said. "But
please remember that I am not the secretary of agriculture who
killed the pigs."
Hyde, speaking in the largest cotton producing state in the Un-
ion, told his listeners that the present farm program was destroy-
ing foreign markets instead of protecting them.
"Our present cotton program is the best one Brazil ever had,"
Hyde said. He told his listeners that, in spite of checV- from the
federal government that the American farmers' income during
the four years of the Hoover administration was $5,000,000,000 more
than during the first four years of the Roosevelt administration.
"Our great government has been foolish enough to try to gro\y
trees on that stretch of prairie on which God Almighty Himself
has not been able to grow a tree for 10,000 years," he said.
GOP Considers
Texas Candidates
HOUSTON — (UP) —
Texas republicans centered
their attack on the nation-
al administration today as
their state convention con-
sidered a slate of candidates
and prepared to adopt a 11KI8
platform.
Prospective candidates for
the gubernatorial nomina-
tion include George Hopkins
and l)ce Humphries of Dal-
las and Mars McLean of San
Antonio.
New Minister
New Orleans Seeks
Aid On RR Station
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
New Orleans city officials yes-
terday filed application with the
Public Works Administration for
a $14,800,000 union railroad ter-
minal, the first project of its
kind in the nation.
The application, presented by
C. C. Barnard, engineer in
charge, asked for a -15 per cent
PWA grant and a 55 per cent
loan to be paid from fee assessed
the 10 railroads that have agreed
to use the terminal. The terminal
would be operated on a non-pro-
fit basis by the city-owned New
Orleans Public Belt railroad.
Two Texas Convicts
Caught at Texarkana
TEXARKANA, Ark. — (UP)
—Homer King and John Barish,
convicts who escaped from Tex-
as prison farm at Sttgarland,
Tex., were held at city jail here
today after police captured
them near the home of a form-
er convict.
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WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Partly
cloudy and warmer.
Maximum yesterday 98 de-
grees. Low this morning 74 de-
grees. Temperature at 2 p. m.
today 98 degrees.
WEST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy..
EAST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy probably local showers near
upper coast.
iMrs. Gibbs Wins
Word Contest
Increased shopping interest,
tying in with the National Sales-
men's Crusade, found Monday
Specials of Sweetwater merch-
ants greatly in demand. Armed
with information from the
double page' of advertisements
in Sunday's Reporter, the shop-
pers found bargains that, meant
See MRS. GIBBS Page 3
Six Absentee Votes
Are Cast In Runoff
Six absentee votes in the Aug-
ust runoff primary have been
cast with County Clerk Marshall
Morgan. Ballots for the runoff
were delivered to the county
clerk at noon Monday. Voters ex-
pecting to be out of the county
on Aug. 27, date of election, have
until Aug. 23 to vote absentee.
'UP IN AIR WEDDING'
STILL UP IN AIR '
LOS ANGELES — (UP)—
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L.
Ven Glatte went to court
to determine the question of
whether they were legally
married when an airlines
captain performed an airline
ceremony three miles above
Los Angeles.
They filed suit for declara-
tory relief, contending that
inasmuch as Capt. Richard
Bowman is licensed and com-
missioned by the Depart-
ment of Commerce to fly
ships he has the same right
to officiate at a wedding.
Th<? suit was necessary
because the county recorder
refused to record their mar-
riage certificate.
Four Indicted in
•Jade Ring' Case
DALLAS — (UP) — Four
alleged principals in the July
22 "jade ring" kidnaping of
Mickey Ricketts, negro yard-
Ijoy, were indicted by the Dal-
las county grand jury on char-
ges of false imprisonment.
The case became a problem
for the county court, with false
imprisonment only a misedemea-
nor under the Texas statutes,
and punishable by a fine, jail
sentence, or both.
Those accused in the true bills
returned by the grand jury were
Dr. Cosette-Faust Newton, 49,
former dean of women at South-
ern Methodist university; Lar-
ry \\*. Reid, 39, a World War
veteran whom Mrs. Newton al-
leged employed to question Rick-
etts regarding the theft of a jade
ring; Charles Blair and William
Harrison, negro servants at the
Newton home.
Ricketts was held for eight
days, five of them in the attic
of Mrs. Newton's home while
he was quizzed regarding the
theft of the ring which the for-
mer educator claimed to be worth
$5,000.
Mrs. Newton was believed to
be in Denver yet where she went
to investigate a rumor that the
ring had been seen there. Den-
ver police reported that they
were unable to find her after
she talked with a negro maid
formerly employed in her home
who came to police head quar-
ters voluntarily. The maid, Mrs.
James Young, told police that
she knew nothing of a jade ring
except one which Mrs. Newton
bought from a fortune teller for
$1.49.
Soviet Trouble
Aids Chinese
In Yangtse Area
Offensive on Hankow
Stalled; Merlin Backs
Protests of Sudetens
By United Press
Chinese resistance to the Jap-
anese invasion stiffened today
in ratio to seriousness of Ja-
pan's conflict with Russia on
the Siberian frontier.
The Soviets stern attitude to-
ward Japan, battling over dis-
puted Shangkufeng hill on the
Siberian border, has (resulted
in weakening the Japanese of-
fensive up the Yangtse valley
against Hankow.
For the moment, the Shang-
kufeng sector was quiet, but
both sides were strengthening I time tomorr
positions. |
Far to the south the Japa-! . x.,„t
.. . ' O DANIEL Gl\KS
ne-c offensive on Hankow was sjuju i-fi ckoww
stalled. Chinese reported th6y|*801 TO RED CR0SS
had recaptured strategic points I 10RT WORTH— (UP) —Wr.
outside Hiukiang. They reported [ Lee O'Daniel, democratic nomi-
heavy Japanese casualties and j nee for governor, paid $801.30
to the American Red Cross to-
day for use in relief of flood
Two Governors. Governor-Elect
To See Maneuvers
SAN ANTONIO — (UP) —
Governor Allred, W. Lee O'Dan-
iel and their families and Leon
Phillips, democratic nominee for
governor of Oklahoma, will ar-
rive at Camp Bullis, 20 miles
northwest of San Antonio, to-
morrow morning.
They will review 26,000 sol-
diers, getting ready for the larg-
est military maneuvers held in
the southwest since the World
War.
Gov. E. W. Marland of Okla-
homa is to arrive at camp some-
ow.
Wealthy Deb
seven
claimed to have sunk
Japanese warships.
Along Other Fronts
Alorig the world's outer trou- j sufferers in the Colorado river
bled fronts: | valley.
Spain: Insurgent troops smash- The money was the amount
ed the loyalist flanks along the , ,
Ebro river front, but it appear- left after expenses were deduct-
ed that the .main rebel offensive i ecl from campaign donations
against Valencia had been delay- i put in flour barrels
ed indefinitely.
Czechoslovakia: Sudeten Ger-
man leaders, backed by Berlin
newspapers, protested to the
government against alleged po-
litical violence directed at min-
orities, The Sudeten reported a
fatal stabbing near Hartmanitz
and that shooting by Czech sol-
diers endangered farmers.
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Rail Employment
Shows increase
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Railroad employment is improv-
ing for the first time In a year,
the Interstate Commerce com-
mission bureau of statistics an-
nounced. Railroad employment
showed the first increase for 12
months in the period from mid-
July to mid-July. Total employes
were 929,477, compared with
914,765 In June.
Newly appointed U. S. Minis- j
ter to Latvia and Esthonia Is
John C. Wiley of Indiana. Wil-
ey is now consul general at
Vienna.
205 Awards Made
At Scout Camp
Reports from the Boy Scout
Camp Fawcett at Barksdale
show that more than 205 awards
were made last night at a spe-
cial court of honor by the camp.
Included in the list of awards
were 20 second class, 15 first
class, 8 star scout, 8 life scout,
4 Eagle and 150 merit badges.
Fourteen boys have passed the
junior Red Cross lifesaving at the
camp.
Total enrollment for the first
period of camp reached 199 ac-
cording to reports from Buffalo
Trail scout executive, Al Stiles,
in charge of the camp. Includ-
ed in the list of camp officers
were these four from Sweetwat-
er, J. W. Pendergrass, H. D.
Reed, Ben Roberts, Jr., and Jim-
my Beall.
From a group of nine boys
chosen to become members of
the chapter of the Order of the
Arrow, national camp fraternity
started this year in the council,
two boys from Sweetwater were
included for this highest honor
which can be given to a camp-
er Charles Hitter of troop 10
and Billy White of troop 41 were
the Sweetwater representatives
named to the honored group.
Scouts and leaders are eligible
to the nation wide organization.
The following Sweetwater
scouts returned this morning
from the first period of camp:
Gene Dillon, Jack Balzer, Doug-
las Horn, Floyd Smith, A. D.
Tucker, Tom Paxton, Glen Gard-
ner, Jesse Lee, A. P. Baker, Jr.,
Charles Edward Martin, Alt>ert
Hrhacek, Lewis Pendergrass,
John Simpson. Jr., Charles Rit-
ter, Billy Smith. Jim Rowland,
Wade Wills, H. D. Reed and
J. W. Pendergrass. Lloyd Smith
returned Sunday. Joe Wesley
See AWARDS Pago 6
Today
by
O'Daniel rallies
daughter, Molly.
O'Daniel appealed
buttons to the Red Cross
statewide radio address
night.
passed in
his pretty
for
Elections
In Four States
By United Press
Today's primary:
Ohio: Senator Robert Bulkey,
the new deal favorite, is oppos-
ed for renomination by former
Governor George White. Rob-
ert Taft, son of the former pre-
sident, and State Supreme Court
Justice Arthur Day seek the
republican senatorial nomina-
tion.
Idaho: Senator James Pope,
administration farm expert who
campaigned on his record of
new deal loyalty, is opposed for
renomination by Rep. Worth
Clark, who campaigned as an
"independent democrat.''
Arkansas: Senator Hattie Car-
away, seeking renomination, is
opposed by Rep. John McClellan,
who lacks her record of consis-
tent new deal loyalty.
Nebraska: Both parties nomi-
nate candidates for state and
congressional offices. The cam-
paign has developed no issue
of national interest.
Lee
gov-;
al-1
ALLREDS TO BK
HOSTS TO O'DANIEL
AUSTIN — (UP) — W.
O'Daniel will sleep in the
ernor's mansion tonight
though his inauguration will not i
take place until January 17,
1939. Gov. and Mrs. Allred will j
be hosts to the O'Daniels.
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Postal Clerks
Join Crusade
Postal employes were the I
guests of Mrs. Thelma H. Bow-!
en, postmaster, at her cabin at!
Lake Sweetwater Sunday for!
luncheon, swimming, and boat!
riding, and joined the National!
Sales Crusade movement with a
special sales meeting.
The sales meeting is held ev-
ery three months, at which
time postal laws and regulations
are discussed by the postmaster
and employes. Topics for discus-
sion at the meeting Sunday
were "The Handling of C.O.D.
Mail," and "Greater Use of Pos-
tal Facilities."
The postmaster stressed the
point that knowledge of postal
laws and regulations means
more efficient postal service.
Employes were urged to render
the type of service the patrons
are entitled to—"Service With
a Smile." Attention of the em-
ployes was also called to the
fact that is just as important
that postal employes be sales-
Hosiery Day' in
Crusade Event
This is hosiery day for the
National Salesmen's Crusade in people as it is for those who
Sweetwater. Featured through- work in retail stores.
out the city's stores are hosiery Those present
items with special prices featur-
ed.
Hosiery day is one of a series
of events planned for the two
weeks of the crusade drive.
While these special events are
staged, all other lines of mer-|
chandise are being pushed in the
were: B. L.
Clayton, E. H. Hedrick, J. C.
Washam, N. R. Otey, John S.
Stewart, Nell Thomas, Ola Bra-
shear; Mrs. L. B. Allen, C. D.
Carroll, Hugh W. Bacon, M. S.
Slater, W. R. Manroe, Bert
Scott, W. F. McClain, J. R.
Thornton, E. L. Caskey, M. L.
city-wide sales campaign.
Planned for Thursday will be
a three-way-drive for sales. Re-
tailers will feature shirts; auto
accessory, tire and service sta-
tion dealers are featuring tires
and tubes and the florists will
make a hid for the buying pow-
er with flowers.
One of the noticeable results
thus far of the sales drive has
been a reawakening of all sales
forces. The city is alive with
sales-minded men and women.
Southworth. and C. C. Parker.
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Traffic Deaths In
State Decrease
AUSTIN — (UP) — State
highway police reported July
traffic deaths in Texas as 142.
compared with 157 In July, 1937.
For the first seven months of
1938. the traffic toll Is 145 be-
low that In the corresponding
period of 1937.
When the social season opens,
the smart set will be look-
ing forward to the debut of
lovely Krernla Fra/.ier, one of
the richest debutantes in the
country. Her debut in New
York is expected to be the
biggest of the year. Miss
Fra/.ier, daughter of Mrs.
Frederick Watriss, of New
York, is now visiting in Cali-
fornia with her mother.
Delinquent Tax
Suits to Be Filed
Deputy City Tax Collector Rex
Ragan was instructed by the city
commission last night to turn
over to City Attorney Carl An-
derson all delinquent tax lists
prepared and instructed City
Attorney Anderson to file the
suits with the district clerk prior
to the opening of the Septem-
ber term of 32nd district court.
The commission also instruct-
ed the city attorney to serve
notice to all business firms
whose signs extend beyond then-
lines to remove or shorten such
signs so as not to extend into the
streets.
The order affects all signs
hanging from buildings or from
poles adjoining the buildings.
Pair Identified
As Ones In Gun
Fight With Law
Men Believed to Be
Bandits Who Robbed
I Kennett, Mo., Bank
ARLINGTON — (UP) — J.
H Davenport, 55, today identi-
I fied two men who kidnaped
him as John Couch and James
| Otis Meredith, sought for £ Ken-
1 nett, Mo., holdup.
Chief of Police Ott Cribbs of
Arlington believed that the two
kidnapers headed back toward
Missouri through Arkansas last
night after they released Daven-
port at Bassett, 35 miles west of
Texarkana.
As Davenport awaited friends
at a bus stop near here, the
men emerged from a nearby-
woods and forced him to drive
175 miles to Bassett. There they
took most of his clothing and
left him stranded.
Davenport said the kidnapers
told him that they were the
two who, with two women, par-
ticipated in a gun battle with
' officers between Dallas and Fort
Worth last Saturday night.
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Lions Discuss
Gay Nineties
Party Aug. 15
Benefit Affair to
Raise Funds for
Annual Mustang Camp
A large part of the Lions club
program today noon was devoted
to a discussion of the "Gay Nine-
ties Party" the club is to spon-
sor Aug. 15 to raise funds for
financing the annual football
training camp for candidates of
the Sweetwater high school
team.
The party is to be held in
the administration building at
fair park. In addition to unique
entertainment feqturefc, prizes
are to tie awarded the woman
and man wearing the most out-
standing costumes of the "Gay
Nineties" period.
Lion Ed Hennig of Tyler, for-
merly of Sweetwater, made a
short talk. Hennig, former
coach of Sweetwater high school
now holding a. like posi-
tion at Tyler, is spending a few
days here with friends.
Short talks pertaining to Na-
tional Salesmen's Crusade were
made by Lions A. B. Crowder,
Pete Starnes and W. J. Hunt.
Starnes also discussed the
Robinson insurance law, in ef-
fect in Texas for 30 years, which
protects both the insured and
the insurer.
George Thompson, president
of the club, made a report of
the zone 5 group meeting held
in Albany last week.
Legionnaires To
Nominate Officers
The Oscar McDonald post. Am-
erican Legion, is to hold an im-
portant meeting at 7:30 o'clock
this evening at post headquar-
ters at which officers for the
ensuing year are to be nominat-
ed. All members are urged by
Commander Philip Yonge to be
present.
BOY DEAD, MOTHER
\GAINST OPERATION
LOS ANGELES — (IT?
—Francis Vols ted, !>, whose
mother "doesn't believe in
operations", died in General
hospital yesterday of septic
peritonitis which developed,
according to p h y s i c-ians,
from a ruptured appendix.
The bov was taken to the
hospital after a court order
was obtained to force the
mother to permit his remo-
val from home. But his ap-
pendix had already burst.
The mother, Mrs. Lillian
Volsted. said she did not be-
lieve in operations because
of religious convictions.
Stribling ^ell
Down to 3,210
ROBY — Excellent progress
j is reported from the T. G.
; Shaw Oil Corporation-Texas
I Company No. 1 John B. Stribl-
1 ing oil test in southwestern
Fisher county. Operators are
drilling ahead at 3,210 feet in
j lime formation.
Location of the Stribling test
is in an area where several
major companies have large
tracts under lease The test is
: being put down jointly by the
Shaw company and Texas comp-
any who have 1,600 acres in the
i block. It is the most important
| test being drilled in the county
and oil men are watching its
! outcome with keen interest.
City Officials At
Del Rio Are Freed
MARFA —(UP) — Indict-
ments of misappropriation of
public funds against four Del Rio
city officials were quashed in
district court yesterday.
The trial was brought to Mar-
fa from Del Rio on a change of
Venue. The four, Mayor Thomas
M. Johnson, City Clerk E. F.
Howard and Commissioners H
Averill and Otto Koog, were
charged with using $4,000 in
city funds to pay for their de-
fense on former Indictments for
embezzlement.
FDR'S Spirits High
As Cruise Nears End
ABOARD THE U. S. S. HOUS-
TON — (UP) — President Roose-
velt was in a gay mood today as
he neared Pensacola, Fla., and
the end of a 5.888 mile fishing
cruise. He took time out from
his speech writing to compli-
ment Capt. George Barker and
the Houston crew for their con-
duct on the cruise.
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