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Gulf Coast Dwellers Safe
From Tropic Storm
LAKE CHARLES, La. — (UP)
—The U. S. wealher bureau to-
day warned coastal residents of
Louisiana and Texas that rains
and high winds would follow
the hurricane which blew itself
out in this area last night.
The hurricane caused one
death. Charlie Johnson, a boat-
house caretaker, was drowned.
Storm signals were posted last
night along the Texas and Louis-
iana coasts. Residents began a
general exodus, seeking safety
in storm cellars, civic buildings
and at Inland cities.
The hurricane did not reach
the intensity expected. It broke
window panes and overturned
small fishing boats. For an hour,
however, Lake Charles was with-
out outside communications.
HOUSTON — (UP) —With an-
nouncement that a tropical hur-
ricane was dissipated after strik-
ing Lake Charles, La., the Unit-
ed States weather bureau warn-
ed today of continuing local
storms along the Texas-Louis-
iana coast.
Crafts from a wide area report-
ed squalls, rains and rough wat-
ers from Louisiana to Browns-
ville, Tex.
High tides, winds and local
storms will beset the entire
coastal area for several days, the
bureau warned.
$5Gft00 Stamp
PORT ARTHUR
RELAXES TODAY
PORT ARTHUR — (UP) —
Relaxation from a five-day vigil
came to this populous industrial
and shipping area today after
a tropical hurricane veered
from its estimated course and
skies cleared in Southeastern
Texas.
Thousands of residents who
fled Sabine Pass and other set-
tlements on the open Gulf of
Mexico returned toward their
homes with assurance that the
first hurricane of the year was
dissipated in Southern Louisiana
and they would not be harmed.
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Seminole Man
Held for Assault
On Three Women
Being Investigated as
Suspect in Slaying of
Mrs. Frome and Daughter
SEMINOLE, Tex. — (UP)—
A man, charged with criminal
assault against three women,
was taken to Pecos by Sheriff
John Sartain who said the man
is a suspect in the slaying of
Mrs. Weston Frome and her
daughter.
Sartain arrested a 36-year-old
Lubbock patent medicine sales-
man for attacks on three Hobbs,
N. M„ women in Gaines county,
Texas.
"Because of the brutality of
the assault cases and because
this man's description is simi-
lar to that of the Frome slay-
er, we are going to check every
possibility that he may be con-
nected with the Frome slay-
ings," the sheriff said.
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Oil Field Laborer
Killed In Fight
BRECKENR1DGE — (UP) —
Lloyd Rambo, 28, oil field work-
er, was shot and killed Sunday in
an altercation at a roadhouse two
miles north of Breckenridge.
Andrew Funderburk, employe
of the tavern, surrendered to the
sheriff's department and was
held for questioning. Officers al-
legedly took a pistol and four em-
pty shells from Funderburk.
District Attorney Ben Dean
said Funderburk made a verbal
statement that he and Rambo
quarreled and that Funderburk
shot Rambo four times when he
was attacked.
Warren It. Dtiltois of Los An-
geles bought a col lection of
stamps for $304), among which'
was the unnoticed blue l-cen-
ter of Civil War vintage shown
in lower picture. It bore the
cancellation mark, Aug. 17,
1801, which was the same day
it was issued, giving it. a col-
lector's value of $50,000.
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Sweetwater Reporter
VOL. XLI
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST I 5, 1938
NUMBER 11 I
Former County Sheriff Found Dead
Hamilton And
Walters Elude
Officers' Posse
Rain Sunday Hampered
Search of Desperadoes
In Arkansas Woods
DeQUEEN, Ark. — (UP) -
Floyd Hamilton and Ted Wal-
ters, southwest desperadoes, to-
day apparently had eluded a
other police trap.
Officers from Oklahoma, Lou-
isiana, Texas and Arkansas be-
lieved they had Hamilton and
Walters surrounded in this
area Saturday and Sunday.
Rain, however, hampered blood-
hounds brought here from the
Oklahoma penitentiary.
Nazis in New Yo^k Following Non-Stop Atlantic Flight
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'Gay Nineties'
Party Tonight
The Lions club's "Gay Nine-
ties" i arty to which all sup-
porters of the Sweetwater Mus-
tang football team are invited is
to be held in the administration
building at the Midwest Exposi-
tion grounds north of the city
tonight.
All persons who have contri-
buted as much as a dollar to
Mustang training camp which
opens Monday week are entitled
to attend the party.
A full evening's entertainment
is promised, with prizes to go
to the man and woman wearing
the most unusual costume of
the "Gay Nineties" vintage.
Every loyal Mustang support-
er is encouraged to contribute
to the training camp, which has
proven invaluable in condition-
ing Sweetwater high school
teams for the stiff district com-
petition the lads have to face
from season to season.
0'Daniel Fight
To Go On Radio
DALLAS — (UP) — Opposi-
tion to W. Lee O'Daniel's en-
dorsement of six candidates for
state office was planned here
today.
Arrangements for radio talks
against O'Daniel's unprecedent-
ed action were started in a
meeting called by Howard Dail-
ey, local attorney. Dailey said
that 21 former O'Daniel sup-
porters met with him Sunday.
Girl Killed When
Knocked Off Truck
NACOGDOCHES — (UP) —
Miss Arlene Bell, 21, died Sun-
day of injuries suffered when a
post knocked her from her
brother's truck Saturday night.
Tne truck crushed her body.
She was survived by her pa-
rents and two brothers. Burial
HUXTEll CAMPAIGN
FOLDS UP TODAY
LONGVIEW — (UP) —A
"draft Tom Hunter for gover-
nor" movement to oppose W.
Lee O'Daniel that started here
Saturday folded up today. Lead-
ers said that in view of Hun-
ter's declaration for C. V. Ter
roll "some more eligible stand
ard bearer must be found"
TWO MEN HOLDUP
OKLAHOMA COUPLE
PERRY, Okla. — (UP) — Two
men, one of whom identified
himself as Floyd Hamilton, rob-
bed a Stillwater couple of
$12.50 in cash and the woman's
diamond ring last night four-
miles east of Perry.
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Germany's Drive
Believed Delayed
By Great Britain
Europe Enters on Most
Difficult Phase of
Struggle for Peace
Europe today entered perhaps
the most difficult phase of a long
struggle to stabilize peace.
Paramount cause of tension
lay in the fact that the key to
the future is relation between
Great Britain and Nazi Germany.
The Nazi march to the east of
which domination of Czechoslo-
vakia is the next necessary step
has been delayed chiefly be-
cause of Britain's opposition.
Grave anxiety was felt at
Prague, partly due to German
military maneuvers in which
probably a million men, includ-
ing Adolph Hitler, participated.
Along other trouble fronts:
Spain: Rebel armies pounded
within 15 miles of the Almaden
Mercury mines, despite govern-
ment claims that their re-inforc-
ed lines had slowed down the
enemy. Rebel planes, bombing
Valencia, killed a British wire-
less operator on the British shi#),
Hilfern, and wounded a Brit-
ish observer on another ship, i
China: Tension mounted be-
tween Japanese and foreign au-
thorities in Shanghai after Am-
-rican, British and French
troops in the international set-
tlement had a series of clashes
with Japanese seeking to ar-
rest Chinese demonstrators.
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Body Discovered
Sunday Morning
Near Sweetwater
Drove More Than 650
Miles Friday to Keep
Date With Death
In Xcw York after completing a 2."
the crow of the giant all-metal (Je
awaited completion of preparations
man; Rudolf von Morea
25-1)our, 3942-mile non-stop flight from Berlin, members of
rman monoplane Brandenburg, at top, are shown as they
for the return hop. Left to right: Walter Kober, radio
co-pilot; a New Y >rk policeman; Capt. .Alfred Henke, pilot; and
l'aui Dierberg, tdghl engineer.
D. E. (Edd) Bardwell, about j
56, former Nolan county sher-1
iff and rancher, drove more than ,
050 lonely miles last weekend
to keep a date with death.
Bardwell, who served two
terms as sheriff of Nolan coun-;
V | ty from 1918 to 1922, drove from j
, Silver City. N. M„ where he had i
, \ been living for the last 12 years,
\ to a secluded spot in the center
: of his ranch fourteeen
miles southeast of Sweetwater.
I some time Friday to keep his
rendezvous at a spot less than
75 yards from where his father,
; in 1898, met death at the hands
i of a Mexican sheepherder.
The ranchman, who had been !
engaged in some sort of govern-
ment work in Silver City, was
found about 11 o'clock Sunday
morning by Lloyd O'Haver and
Aldon Davis, employed to look
Ships Collided
At an Altitude
Of 1500 Feet
One Tries to Make
Parachute Jump, Other's
Plane Into Tailspin
KELLY FIELD, Tex. — (UP)
—Flying Cadets Robert Rempt-
fer Whitehouse, 21, of Evanston,
111., and Edward Willard, 22, of
i.Iodesto, Calif., were killed near
here today when their training
ships collided at an altitude of
1500 feet.
The cadets were in a squad-
ron returning from a training
flight.
After the planes collided, Wil-
lard went into a spin and was
burned to death in the wreck-
age of his plane. Whitehouse
leaped in his parachute which
failed to open and was dead
when the ambulance reached
him.
G-Men Take Up
Search For Two
Southwest Thugs
Pair Which Engaged Texas
Officers In Gun Fight
Rlamed for Abduction
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—(UP)
—G-men ordered an intensive
search in four states today for
Otis Meredith and John Couch,
southwest desperadoes believed
to be the men who abducted
Peggy Gross, 23, St. Louis so-
cialite, and Daniel Fahey, Jr., 31,
and released them unharmed
near Minneapolis early Sunday.
Meredith and Couch are want-
ed for holdups in Missouri and
are believed to be the men who
last week engaged police in a
running gun fight between Fort
Worth and Dallas, Tex.
German Fliers ^nd Record Berlin-New York Flight
May Go After Hughes' Record
| after livestock on the ranch in
| See BARDWELL Page 6
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Latin Blonde
BRITISH PROTEST
SENT TO ROME
LONDON — (UP) — The Brit-
ish protest against Italian in-
ervention in Spain calls specific
attention to reports that air-
)lanes from Italian bases were
lombing Spanish loyalist cities,
.t was learned today.
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Cloudy and
unsettled.
Maximum yesterday 97 de-
grees. Low this morning 76 de-
grees. Temperature at 2 p. m.
today 100 degrees.
WEST TEXAS—Mostly fair
tonight and Tuesday.
Memorial To Rogers And Post Dedicated
Today on 3rd Anniversary of Crash
POINT BARROW, Alaska
—(UP) — In memory of
Will Rogers, noted humorist,
arid Wiley Post, 'round-the-
world flier, a pink granite
memorial was dedicated near
here today on the third
anniversary of the plane
crash that killed the two.
The bulky monument, in-
scribed "Will Rogers and
Wiley Post ended life's
flight here August 15, 1935"
overlooks Walapai lagoon 15
miles to the east, where the
motor of Post's plane failed,
sending the two men to their
deaths on the frozen arctic
tundra.
Mrs. Wiley Post, widow of
the f;:er, .vill not attend the
ceremonies.
Residents of this north-
ernmost white settlement
were to turn out en masse
for the formal dedication.
Beverly Morgan, daughter
of Sgt. Stanley Morgan of
the Alaska signal corps, who
was among the first to reach
the scene of the crash, will
unveil the stone. An Eskimo
choir from the post mission
will sing.
Dr. Homer F, Kellems of
Delaware county, Okla., ori-
ginated the memorial expe-
dition which left Oklahoma
several months ago.
TEMPELHOF AIRDROME,
Berlin — (UP) — The 19-ton
German landplane Brandenburg
Sunday dropped down to the
runway of this world's largest
airport at 10 a. m. (3 a. m. CST)
>ut of a leaden sky at the end
liof a round-trip flight to New
ork that may lead to a round-
he-world trip.
The flights to New York and
[return were non-stop.
Flight Captain Alfred Henke
[and his crew of three who re-
I turned home across the Atlan-
tic—a distance of 3,950 miles—
(in 19 hours and 56 minutes, es-
tablished a new record over the
New York-Berlin air route by
lipping nearly six hours from
he time of the late Wiley Post.
Post, whose death with Will
Rogers occurred three years ago
today in a barren Alaskan spot
at Point Barrow, Alaska, flew
non-stop from New York to
Berlin in 25 hours and 45 min-
[utes in July, 1933.
A broad hint that Capt. Henke j
and his companions soon might!
attempt with backing of the!
government to lower the globe-:
circling record of Howard!
! Hughes—three days, 19 hours,1
14 minutes established a month
iago—came from a high Nazi of-
ficial a few minutes after the
fliers emerged smiling from the j
(Brandenburg to the wild acclaim |
of their German countrymen. |
Lieut.-Gen. Erhard Milch, sec-
retary of state in the air minis-j
try who met the returning fliers j
on behalf of Field Marshall Her-
mann Wilhelm Goering, reveal-
ed in a speech of welcome that
the Berlin-New York fliers orig-
. , , Tr . j inally had intended to fly around
Absentee V otes the world.
/"•/ «/ Tntnl fid i But "out of comradeship," he
t,asi I UlUl OU explained, the plan was aban-
Etghty-six absentee ballots had dQj;ed .(nd .{ was (iecided t0
been cast with County (lerk . make a round-trip flight to New
Marshall Morgan at noon today. York instead of flying over
The- request of voters asking! Hughes' same route around the
Hack To Health
Sales Movement
Gathers Speed
With the Sweetwater Sales
Crusade gathering momentum,
plans were being perfected for
the gigantic Sales Crusade meet-
ing to be held Thursday night at
7:45 in the municipal auditorium.
This meeting although primar-
ily for the entire sales person-
nel in Sweetwater, will be open
to the general public which is
given a cordial invitation to at-
tend.
'Safety* Talk at
Rotary Luncheon
First aid in the mineral indus-
try and its importance in the sav-
ing of lives, was the subject of a
talk before the Sweetwater Ro-
tary club today by Pat Halihan,
a representative of the Division
of Safety, U. S. Bureau of Mines.
More than 2000 lives are sav-
ed yearly in the mineral indus-
try by the proper understanding
of first aid. said the speaker. He
briefly explained the high points
of information included in a first
aid course.
"There are more accidents on
Special sales events scheduled t a farm than in any other line of
for the week, is the big drive on ! endeavor, he said.
furniture and home furnishings! Halihan is representing
now going on and participated j bis bureau in Sweetwater, by
in one hundred percent and the 1 conducting first aid courses at
special "Women's Slip Day" be-1 the I . S. Gypsum Co. plant and
ing promoted by the department I the Gulf Oil refinery.
Hollywood has many dark lan-
gorous Latin beauties. Vol
contrast (lie ntovi^ moguls arc
Importing this vivacious
blonde, Amand Yarela, noted
Argentine stage and screen
star. She soon will make her
debut in American films.
Keen-eyed as ever, and look-
ing generally fit after his re-
cent serious illness, is Gener-
al John J. Pershing today.
This picture was made of him
as he sailed from New York
for a European trip.
Revolt Quelled In
Salvador Republic
^ IA N A G U A, Nicaragua — (UP)
—Many army officers and civil-
ians have been arrested in the
Republic of El Salvador where
a revolution threatened over
presidential succession, quarters
reported today.
stores.
"These special days", explain-
ed Jack Rich, general chairman,
"have for their purpose their
I concentrating of attention of
everyone on these particular
items and are an especial chal-
lenge to the sales personnel."
"It must be distinctly under-
stood. that it is up to the sales
person to put forth extra intel- j
| ligent effort in order to cash in j
on this crusade", he explained.
GO TO CHURCH
j SUNDAY DESIGNATED
Tying in with the Sweetwater
| Sales Crusade movement, the
| various church organizations of
the city have designated next
Sunday as "Go To Church Sun-
day".
It is our hope, said one of
the members of the committee,
to fill every church in Sweet-
water next Sunday. Not only do
we want everyone to attend
church, but to participate in
Sunday school as well.
Special programs are being
planned- in all of the churches
for the dav.
that ballots be mailed them has
reached 120.
The deadline for voting an
absentee in the August primary
is the twenty-third.
Teacher At Texas
A. & M. College Dies
COLLEGE STATION — (UP)
—Funeral services will be held
today for George E. Bauer, tea-
cher of analytical chemistry at
Texas A. and M. college who
died Saturday.
Dr. Bauer had been connected
with the college since 1922. Bur-
ial will be at Bryan.
world.
So Capt. Henke and his crew,
a modest bunch who left Ber-
lin last Wednesday without fan-
fare hopped across the Atlantic
and arrived casually in New
York after a record-breaking
flight.
Reds Blamed For
Maytag Strike
WASHINGTON — (UP)
John Frey of the AF of I.
charged before the house com-
mittee investigating un-Ameri-
can activities today that the re-
cent CIO Maytag strike at New-
ton, la., was directed by a com-
munist party organizer. j
Men And Not Mice And Guinea Pigs
Needed in Further Cancer Studv
!
CHICAGO—(UP) — Slight,
gray-haired Dr. Maude Slye.
whose work with :30,000
mice opened new vistas in
cancer research, sat in her
orderly laboratory today
and said that men. not mice,
now are needed to extend
scientific battle lines against
one of humanity's most
dreaded diseases.
"We have come to the
crossroads in cancer re-
search," Dr. Slye said. "On
one hand we have our lab-
oratory facts. On the other
we have an overwhelming
need for human statistics.
"While we have progress-
ed far in the laboratory,
mice and guinea pigs are
not substitutes for human
beings. We need to collect
extensive data on the his-
tory of cancer in men and
women.
"Cancer clinics and insti-
tutes are one of the answers
to this problem."
The proposed cancer insti-
tute for Washington, D. C
and the recently appointed
committee on cancer at the
University of Chicago, are
excellent steps. Dr. Slye said,
toward conquest of the sec-
ond highest cause of death.
A brief announcement about
"Go To Church Sunday", tying
n the Sweetwater Sales Cru-
sade. was made by George Pal-
mer.
Further plans for the big sales
crusade meeting to be held at
the civic auditorium, next Thurs-
day night at 7:45 were announc-
ed by Aubrey Legg, coordinating
hairman of the Sweetwater
Sales Crusade.
President Luther Watson gave
i short report ot the recent Pre-
dents' and Secretaries' meet-
ng held at Plainview, which was
ittended by Charles Paxton, club
:ecrctaiy and himself. He also
nr. unced the club assembly to
>e held Tuesday night on the
Blue Bonnet roof.
Visiting members were Lloyd
V it ter, San Angelo, Judge Les-
e. Eastland. George Swinney
ind Bill Blakeny. Abilene. Club
quests were O. E. Boan. and ,T. J.
Villis, Odessa, and Ray Boothe,
Sweetwater.
Filling Station
Operator Slain
PAIGE, Tex. — (UP) — State
police and Bastrop county of-
ficers blocked highways in this
vicinity today after Adolph
Laake. 27, was found shot to
death in his filling station,
A man reported to police that
two men, about 25 years old,
driving a 1937 model coach, had
stopped mxirhy and inquired
where they could get their car
serviced.
Reds Pushing FDR
To Left', Say8 Frey
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
John Frey of the AL of L.
charged today that the com*
munist party actively is seek-
ing to push President Roose-
velt and his administration
"further to the left."
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