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European Peace Moves Suffer Weekend Setback
Efforts to Stop
Aid to Spanish
War Collapse
Two French Cabinet
Ministers Quit; Nazis
Strengthen Bonds
By United Press
Europe suffered a series of
sharp setbacks today in her
struggle with war worries.
These developments intensi-
fied her international headache:
Collapse of proposals for •non-
intervention in the Spanish civ-
il war;
Resignation of two French cab-
inet ministers as a result of
drastic government action to end
labor troubles;
Tightening of bonds between
Nazi Germany and Hungary;
Nazis May Got Support
Slovak threats to support
Nazis in the Czech minority cri-
sis;
Weekend developments em-
phasized that six months of
British Prime Minister Chamber-
lain's leadership of the campaign
to avoid war had ended just
about where it began.
In China the United States
gunboat, Oahu, steamed up the
Yangtse river for an unannounc-
ed destination as Americans
and other foreign officials delib-
erated whether to try to break
a Japanese blockade.
-The Japanese blockade has
been maintained against foreign
vessels on the grounds that the
war made the river unsafe, but
Japanese vessels have moved
freely up and down.
EPORTER
VOL. XLI
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1938
NUMBER 120
Governor-Elect O'Daiiiel Sees
Victory For Six
FORT WORTH
W. Lee O'Daniel,
week before the
hs future power
— (UP) —
less than a
first test of
as governor,
predicted today the election of
the six men whom he endorsed
for state office.
Voters will decide the candi-
dates' fate in the second demo-
cratic primary Saturday.
"I believe the constructive cit-
zens think it is the strategic
thing to do to elect the candi-
dates 1 have endorsed. If they
are elected, the responsibility
for paying the $30 pension will be
on my shoulders. These men
have not only promised to help
out but have proved by their
experience that they can do
what they promise", he said.
POLITICAL MAP
I X KKKT OF U. S.
Today's political map:
Baltimore: Senator Millard Ty-jin
dings, democrat, Md., denounced
by President Roosevelt, answer-
ed the chief executive saying
"Maryland will not permit her
star in the flag to be purged."
Rep. David Lewis, D., Md.,
Tydings' opponent and bearer of
the White House blessing, ans-
wered the charge that Tydings
treated the president "like a
carpetbagger."
Atlanta: Senator Walter
George, D., Ga., subject of pre-
sident opposition is endorsed by
Republican Chairman James
Arnold. George's opponent,
Lawrence Camp, charged that
"republicans are merely being
loyal to their friends."
Hyde Park, N. y.: Senator
James Pope, D., Idaho, ardent
new dealer, announced after a
conference with the president
that, he may run "as* an independ-
ent after having been defeated
the democratic ■primary.
Blind Girl Wins
New Diplomatic
Conflict Between
U. S. and Japan
Japanese Refuse to Let
U. S. Boat Pass Down
Blockaded Yangtse
SHANGHAI, Monday —(UP)
—Ja] anese today strove vigor-
ously to avoid a new diplomatic
conflict with the United States
while their armies drew a grad-
ually tightening noose of men
and steel around China's provi-
sional capital in Hankow.
The dispute with the United
States grew out of the refusa
of Vice Admiral Koshiro Oikawa,
commanding the Japanese Asia-
tic fleet to permit the U. S.
gunboat Monacacy to proceed
flown the Yangtse river from
Kiukiang to Shanghai, thus
breaking the Japanese blockade
of the international stream above
the port of Wuhu, near Nank-
ing.
Rear Admiral Harry E. Yar-
nell, commanding the U. S. Asia-
tic fleet, who had notified the
Japanese the Monacacy would
make the trip to replenish sup-
plies, yielded to the Japanese
only after the dispute had been
referred to the state department
in Washington by American em-
bassy \lficials in Hankow, ac-
cording to reliable reports.
Hold Stage at wRed' Hearing
Texas' Much Sought Thugs Arrested
By Dallas Police
May Make Survey
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5 Suits Filed in
District Court
Five new suits were filed Sat-
urday with Mrs. Myrtle Robert-
son, district clerk. The fall
term of court is to open Sept. 5.
Joe Schotter is asking com-
pensation from the Loyd Ameri-
can company et al for alleged
permanent injuries he claims he
suffered following a truck acci-
dent in which he was the vic-
tim of severe disabilities. The
accident happened when a truck
which had a load of oil well
supplies turned over six miles
east of Sweetwater.
A divorce suit, Cora Newton
vs. E. I). Newton: Charles M.
Snyder et al vs. Hays Sturdi-
vant, foreclosure; another dam-
age suit in which Sam Gensburg
is asking damages from the? Tex-
as and Pacific railroad after his
truck was struck by a train,
and the suit of L. C. Edwards vs.
T. M. Fortenburg for garnish-
ment, make up the list.
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WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Fair and
warmer.
Maximum temperature yester-
day 98 degrees. Low this morn-
ing 71 degrees. Temperature at
2 p. m. .today 95 degrees.
WEST TEXAS — Fair to-
night. Tuesday partly cloudy.
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Representative Noah Mason
(R.—111.), and Margaret A.
Kerr, right, representing the
Los Angeles Better America
League, played leading roles
in tlic Dies committee hear-
ing of "Red" charges in
Washington. .Mason leveled
accusations of communistic
activity at eight government
officials. Testimony of Miss
Kerr will be used in making
a decision on charges that
federal officials protected
I. O. Leader Harry Bridges
against deportation.
2 Scarlet Fever
Cases in County
Two cases of scarlet fever
have been contacted in the
Nolan community by Dr. George
A. Gray, director of the county
health unit.
Miss Willie Ware was quaran-
tined in the Oliver home, and
Jimmie Don Erwin, .1, was qua-
rantined in the Lewallen home.
The child is critically lit.
With school opening only a
week ahead, Dr. Gray is asking
that all cases be reported to
prevent a widespread epidemic.
Few cases have been report-
ed within the last two years in
Nolan community, according to
Dr. Gray.
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of children who
blind .Martha Jane
thousands
ran
Stainton,
DALLAS — (UP) — Floyd
Hamilton and Huron (Ted) Wal-
ters, "Texas' No. 1 and 2 Nuis-
ances," who have been widely
,sought, by both federal and state
police since their escape from the
Montague county jail,. April 8,
were captured yesterday in Dal-
las.
A desire to come back to the
old home-town to see friends
was largely responsible for the
, reci-pture of the two thugs.
Dallas police, tipped off Sat-
urday night that the pair was in
town, picked up the trail at a
I negro cabin in South Dallas
j where the pair slept Saturday
I night. Walters was the first to
be i nested. He was unarmed,
afoot, and "broke." About day-
light Sunday, officers spotted
; Hamilton walking along a South
Daiias street. They picked him
up unarmed and he had a little
| mere than $6 in cash and a poc-
j ketful of .45 calibre bullets.
Hamilton Wounded
Hamilton was suffering from
15-year-old Chicago girl, won j f,esh buckshot wounds in his
lef. ankle, evidently suffered in
a recent brush with officers else-
where, since there was no shoot-
ing Sunday in the taking of eith-
, , ,. er desperado.
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Committee Hears Youths Discuss
first, prize in the Illinois statr
elementary school essay con-
test. She wrote tier essay,
"The Constitution," with the
Itraillr writing device she is
20 Scouts Plan To
Attend Swim Meet
At least 20 Boy Scouts from
Sweetwater and Jimmy Porter,
Scoutmaster, are slated to at-
tend the Boy Scout swimming
and handicraft meet at Mid-
land tomorrow. Al Stiles, Scout
executive, went there today.
The truck taking the boys to
Midland is to leave from the
municipal building at 6:30 to-
morrow morning.
BCD Meeting Is
Scheduled Tonight
The semi-monthly meeting of
the Sweetwater Board of City
Development is slated at the
BCD office tonight at 7
Sabotage Plans
Of Communists
Former Organizer Tells
How Industries to Suf-
fer In Case of War
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
James Matthews, former com-
munist organizer, told the
house committee investigating
un-American activities today that
communists are prepared to ]
sabotage key industries in case
the United States becomes in-
volved in an imperialistic war.
He testified he was informed
that a communist "revolutionary
nucleus" had been established in
Connecticut submarine plants.
He said he was also informed
that Harry Bridges, west coast
CIO leader, would he able to
paralyze Pacific shipping in
event of war.
Matthews launched into a des-
cription of communist sabotage
pi'jns after asserting that new
deal and communist objectives
coincide in many respects. He
tes|fied that communists are
supi orting President Roosevelt.
His informant on prepara-
tions for wartime sabotage, he
said, was Donald Henderson,
former faculty member of Col-
umbia university.
Tobacco Chawin' Mountain Folk See First
Movie, Uncommunicative About Show
BLOWING ROCK, N. C.
—(UP) — Two hundred
Blue Ridge mountaineers
Sunday rumbled back into
their hills by mule team,
covered wagon and Model T
Ford, pondering the marvels
of Hollywood as portrayed
to tnem in the first motion
picture they ever had seen.
They witnessed the world
premiere of a bodacious pro-
duction entitled "Spawn of
the North" and saw Dorothy
Lamour without benefit of
sarong be encased in a
tight-fitting sweater. Thus
was life in the Blue Ridge
made richer by the cinema
art.
Bearded men with the
eyes of sharpshooters, gaunt
women who nursed their
children publicly, and
youngsters of 13 or less who
chewed and spat tobacco
with nonchalance and accur-
acy came into this little re-
sort town of the crest of the
Blue Ridge, feasted at a wat-
ermelon festival, saw the
movie with bugeyed won-
der, and talked over radio
microphones whose signifi-
cance some of them under-
See MOVIES, Page 4
Clark Stymies
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Maverick's Plan
A r ST IN — (UP) — Secretary
of State Edward Clark today an-
nounced he will decline to cer-
tify the name of Congressman
Maury Maverick to the county
clerk of Bexar county as an
independent candidate for con-
gress.
Maverick previously had writ-
ten his "consent" to nomina-
tion by 500 voters who did not
take part in the July 23 pri-
mary. He was defeated by Paul
Kilday of San Antonio in the
first primary.
Maverick lost the nomination
by only 493 votes.
European Trip
Their recent trip through Eu-
rope, was the subject of a travel
talk by Henry Doscher, Jr., and
Riley Simmons, before the
Sweetwater Rotary club at their
luncheon today.
The first half of the trip from
the time they left Sweetwater,
unil they arrived in Paris, was
covered by Henry Doscher, Jr..
arid the last half from the time
they left Paris, until they ar-
rived back home was covered
by Riley Simmons.
With Oslo, Norway, as their
first port of call, young Doscher,
touched upon the high lights of
the trip, through Norway, Swed-
en, Denmark, Belgium and Bre-
men, Germany. Some of the out-
standing things noted were the
beautiful public parks and mu-
seums. low prices on merchan-
dise. freedom from slums, etc.
Riley Simmons, told of the
sights of Paris, including the at-
tending of the famous Folies Ber-
gere, the opera, the gardens of
Versailles, the Eifel Tower and
other points of interest. A boat
trip up the Rhine and a visitj
to the palace of the former Kai-
ser at Potsdam were touched
upon.
Simmons stated that when
they arrived at home on Aug-
ust 4, they estimated they had
traveled 15,000 miles and had
traveled about 250 miles of that
distance on foot. Snapshot views
of their trip were also shown.
Guests of the club introduced
were Jimmy Beall, Jimmy
Boothe, Sweetwater; Cedric Ber-
ger, Austin; Roy Williams, Dal-
las; Will A. Foley. Ballentine.
George Swinney, Abilene, was a
visiting Rotarian.
New members introduced to
the club were Jim Ferguson,
manager of J. C. Penney Co. and
Bert Low of the firm McCall &
Low.
Singing was led by John Pin
son, with Mrs. Pinson at the
piano; Luther Watson, presi-
dent of the club presiding.
Walters Brags
About Outwitting
Federal Agents
Meets G-Men at Home
Of Cousin; Hamilton
Asks for 'Electric Chair'
DALLAS—(UP) — Ted Wal-
ters, desperado arrested here
| Sunday with Floyd Hamilton,
j bragged today about outwitting
J FBI agents.
Walters revealed that he had
"spent some time" in the com-
j panv of G-men who failed to
j recognize him.
The incident occurred Satur-
! day night when Walters visited
a relative in South Dallas. He
j spent several hours in the house
and fled when G-men attempted
to capture Hamilton who had
followed him.
The two were captured later
by Dallas police.
Walters went to the house and
was met by federal agents. He
said that he explained that he
was "one of the Wall boys." El-
mer Wall, who lives at the ad-
dress, is a cousin of Walters.
Hamilton Was Recognized
Later Hamilton approached
the house and was recognized
by G-men. When they ordered
him to stop, he fled. An agent
shot him in the left leg but
failed to stop him.
As the agents fled from the
house after Hamilton, Walters
escaped. He was arrested short-
ly afterward, however, by city
police.
Hamilton escaped the G-men
in the darkness, only later to
be captured by city police in
the Trinity river bottom.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the FBI, telegraphed Police
Chief Robert Jones that the cap-
ture of the two was "one of the
most outstanding pieces of po-
lice work performed by any
law enforcement agency."
Asks For Chair
Hamilton pleaded with offi-
cers to end his life the same
way they did that of his notor-
ious brother, Raymond—in the
electric chair.
He said he was tired of living
and ready to walk into the
death chamber, rather than ac-
cept a long prison term. Police
said they would cooperate in
an effort to satisfy Hamilton's
request.
Hamilton and Walters, since
their escape from the Montague
county jail in March, have been
accused of scores of crimes,
robberies, kidnapings and
shootings.
Believed slated for the import-
ant chairmanship of the 15-
man committee that will sur-
vey wage and hour conditions
in the textile industry, is
Donald M. Nelson, vice presi-
dent <> Sears, Roebuck Co.
The textile industry will be
the first proving ground for
the new wage hour law.
Farmers Having
Contracts Are to
Get $130,000,000
Planters Will Get
About 2.89 Cents
A Pound on Staple
WASHINGTON'-— (UP) —
Cotton price adjustment pay-
ments from the $130,000,000 ap-
propriation will begin next
month to farmers who have
j planted within their 1938 acre-
j age allotment, the Agricultural
Adjustment administration an-
nounced.
Payments, averaging about
i 2.8!) cents a pound, will be made
to approximately 1,400,000 farm-
| ers on 8,788,800 bales, 60 per cent
of 1937 base production, the
AAA said.
Congress authorized payments
not to exceed three cents a
pound on up to 65 per cent of
each farmer's base production,
providing that the farmer did
not willingly overplant his 1938
acreage allotment.
B&PW Club Asks
Everyone to Have
Part in Parade
More Than $75 in
Prizes to Be Offered
In Fair Spectacle
The Business and Profession-
al Women's club, which is to
sponsor the parade for the op-
ening of the Midwest Exposition
here Sept. 13, has issued a
blanket invitation to all to en-
ter some feature in the parade.
More than $75 in prizes are
being offered by the fair asso-
ciation to the various winning
features in the spectacle.
Prizes are open to business
and industrial firms, profession-
al people, city and county
schools, civic organizations,
cowboys, cowgirls and bands.
Anyone desiring to enter the
parade, either in competition
for prizes or to help make it
one of the outstanding spec-
tacles of the four-day fair is
asked to list their entries with
Miss Edna Cordell, chairman of
the parade committee, at the
office of the Texas Electric Ser-
vice company on Oak street.
List of Awards
Parade prizes are as follows:
Grand prize, best all-around
entry, $15; best entry from out-
side of Sweetwater, best rural
school entry, best city school en-
try, best entry by an organiza-
tion, best comic entry, best en-
try by commercial concern, $10
each; best dressed cowgirl, pair
of spurs from M. N. Rogers
Saddlery; best dressed cowboy,
belt from Stephens Boot shop;
prettiest horse, lariat rope from
Nolan Furniture; best rider and
equipment, dress shirt from M.
J. Vaughn; and best band en-
tered, free admission to the ro-
deo.
Wounded Woman
Improving, Her
Assailant Held
Mrs. Karl Krueger Given
50-50 Chance to Live;
Attacker 'Indifferent'
HOLLYWOOD — (UP)—Mrs.
Emita Krueger, socially-promi-
nent wife of Maestro arl Krue-
ger, appeared to be gaining
ground today in her struggle
against effects of two bullet
wounds inflicted by the- jealous
husband of her maid.
At Good Samaritan hospital
she was conceded "a little better
than a 50-50 chance" to survive
! the gun attack of young Charles
E. McDonald, who accused her
of coming between him and his
j 28-vear-old wife, Francis.
| Dr. Lawrence ('hafftn h"T--
personal physician, said 'he
danger was by no means over,
however. Her condition remain-
ed critical, there was still dang-
er of pneumonia and periton-
itis. but a sturdy heart and
| strong will to live had carried
tier through the early stages of
what at first was believed to be
I a mortal chest wound.
Her Husband Present
Seated at her bedside or
pacing the corridors outside her
room hour after hour was her
husband. The slim, half-bald con-
ductor of the Kansas City phil-
harmonic orchestra has kept an
almost uninterrupted vigil since
he first learned from newspaper
headlines Friday night, that his
i 38-year-old wife had been shot
1 down in front of a Hollywood
boulevard dancing school a few
I hours earlier. Once he interrupt-
ed his pacing to curse McDonald
! and to defend his wife's name
He described as a "dirty lie"
McDonald's charge that Mrs.
Krueger had been responsible
for his separation from his wife,
I See KREUGER Page 3
City Commission to
Meet At 5 Today
The city commission is to
meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon
instead of tonight, as previously,
announced.
Tydings Continues
Attack On Roosevelt
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Sen. Millard E. Tydings, con-
servative Maryland democrat,
charged today that President
Roosevelt's effort to defeat him
in the coming elections is an in-
vasion of state's rights and rem-
iniscent of the "carpel-bagging"
days of the Civil War reconstruc-
tion period.
Tuesday Deadline
For Absentee Votes
Entering the last week of po
i litical campaigning, as well 'is
; nearing the deadline Tuesday
i for absentee voting, interest has
I been shown by voters in the
August runoff. A total of 187 ab-
i sentee votes have been cast
I with Marshall Morgan, county
clerk.
Applications have been reeeiv-
j ed for 227 ballots by residents
out of the city, or those who
are to be away Saturday. While
the figure is comparatively low-
er than in the first primary, it
is considered about nornjal for
a run-off absentee vote.
Man Found With Chisel in Head, Officers
Puzzled as to How it Was Done
Former Regent Of
TSCW Dies Sunday
DENTON — (UP) — R. H.
Hoffman, 60, former state pure
food commissioner and one-time
regent of Texas College for Wo-
men, died at his home here Sun-
day.
Physicians said a heart attack
caused his death.
He is survived by his wife.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at the home.
RALEIGH — (UP) — Po-
lice debated today whether
W. C. O'Connell, 61-year-
old unemployed carpenter,
could have committed sui-
cide by driving a chisel deep
into his own skull.
O'Connell's body was
found lying in a woodshed
near his home Saturday, a
short while after he had
fired the kitchen stove and
said he was going out to
feed the chickens.
The long, keen-edged chis-
el was driven three and 5-8
inches through a bald spot
on top of his head.
There was no sign of a
struggle in the woodshed
and no bruises were found
on the carpenter's body.
Police said it appeared im-
possible for him to have
driven in the chisel himself
but that it would have been
difficult for anyone to sur-
prise him. place the chisel
in position, and hammer it
through his skull.
A short-handled hatchet,
greasy from previous use in
chopping meat, was found
near his body. No finger-
prints were discernible on
See MURDER Page 4
Prizes Offered
Softball Players
Numerous prizes are being of-
fered by Sweetwater merchants
to softball players and fans dur-
ing the regional softball tourna-
ment which opens here tonight
with more than a dozen picked
W -st Texas teams entered.
A varied list of prizes, carried
in an inside page advertisement
in this issue of the Reporter,
is offered by Sweetwater merch-
ants for unusual plays by mem-
bers of the teams competing in
the tournament. And for once,
i old John Fan is to have a chance
at some of the awards.
Merchant'- who have contrib-
| uted this list of prizes are:
Blue Bonnet Coffee shop. Sun-
beam, Nolan furniture, Curley's
cafe. Joe Bowen's drug. Willis'
i studio, Sweetwater Mutual Life
Insurance company, Starr's
Sandwich shop. Norred Motor
company. Globe cleaners. Levy
brothers, Hartgraves brothers,
Nolan drug. Spanish Gardens,
and Sweetwater laundry.
Municipal Building
Planned At Dallas
DALLAS — A combination
auditorium, music hall and of
fiee building for Dallas would
cost $6,074,000 under plans pre-
pared for submission to (the
PWA.
Several years ago a bond is-
sue of $l,000,fH)0 was voted in
by Dallas residents. The office
space would retire the federal
loana in a 30 year period.
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