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RECORD FLOOD IS FEARED ON GUADALUPE
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Cuero River Has
Inundated 5,000
Acres Farm Land
Trinity River Two Feet
Above Flood Stage And
Continue? Steady Rue
VICTORIA — (UP) — Resi-
dents of Victoria and lowland
farmers today feared a record
flood on the Guadalupe river.
The river was seven feet
above the danger mark ' at a
virtual standstill near 28 feet,
but in western Victoria merch-
ants and residents moved their
property to safety. Farmers
along the stream took their
livestock to higher ground.
Cause of the fear was a re-
port that flood waters from the
Cuero area were expected here
tonight. If the Cuero flood does
not pass by, observers said it
will be caught here by more
water coming from Gonzales
where crecks and lowlands were
full.
May Exceed UCtli Stage
Should the two crests meet,
observers believed the river
would exceed the record flood
of July, 1936, when the river
reached a crest of 31.4 feet.
Thousands of acres of farm-
lands were inundated.
At Cuero, August Boldt said
that the flood threat was de-
creasing, although 5,000 acres of
farmland were ynder water.
Highway engineers stood by
to close traffic southward from
Gonzales. The San Marcos riv-
er, which drains quickly, was
stationary at 31 feet near Gon-
zales. The San Marcos converg-
es with the Guadalupe river
just below Gonzales.
Landon, Sr
Stricken with a heart attack
on the eve of his 82nd anniver-
sary, .lollii M. Lundon, fath-
er of Aif Landon, was rushed
to a Kansas City hospital and
played in an oxygen tent.
71 Misspelled
Words Are Listed
TRINITY RIVER
ON RAMPAGE
HOUSTON — (UP) — The
Trinity river, already more than
two feet above flood stage near
Riverside
continued
and Liberty,
a steady rise.
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today
Eastex C. of C.
Names Directors
IjONGVIKW — (UP) —
Paul Sanderson, Trinity
lumber man, was elected
president today of the East
Texas Chamber of Com-
merce.
licaumoiit was selected as
the !!>: ! convention city.
LONG VIEW — ( UP ) —
Thirteen new directors were
elected Monday at the initial
business session of the annual
homecoming convention of the
East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce.
Dick Saunders of Bonham was
named to fill the unexpired term
of IC. L. Smith of Greenville,
who resigned because of ill
health and the remaining 12
were elected for full three year
terms.
The new directors included:
J. Lee Greer, Denison, ,T. C.
Lyban, Wills Point, N. G. Watts,
Naples, Bryan Blalock, Mar-
shall, W. S. Haney, Tyler, J. E.
Hangley, Palestine, A. M. Gold-
stein. Waco, F. H. Harvey, Jr.,
Corsicana, O. M. Stone, Jasper,
.1. E. Wheat, Woodvilie, John
D. Rogers, Navosota, and C. C.
Nelms, Caldwell.
The afternoon was devoted to
group sessions on agriculture,
taxation and industry. The need
of new uses and new markets
for cotton were discussed by
Burris C. Jackson, Hillsboro,
chairman of the state-wide cot-
ton committee in an address on
"King Cotton Goes Begging."
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WEATHER
SWEETWATER —Unsettled,
somewhat cooler; probably
showers. Maximum temperature
yesterday 81 degrees. Low this
morning 65 degrees. Tempera-
ture at 2 p. m. tpday 80 degrees.
WEST TEXAS—Cloudy, pro
Iwbly scattered showers in north
tonight and Wednesday. Cooler
In west tonight qnd jn west and
north Wednesday.
EAST TEXAS—Cloudy, scat-
tered showers in north and
west and near upper coast to-
night and Wednesday.
In common parlance "lube"
gets by for "lubricate" but as
yet the dictionary hasn't recog-
nized this short cut. Most of
those entering the' misspelled
word contest in the Sunday Re-
porter accepted "lube" without
a question. It really was a mis-
spelled word. Of course, "vacu-
um" has two "u's" but not. all
the contestants found the sec-
ond "u" missing. But altogeth-
er there was a high degree of
proficiency in spelling as well
as alertness demonstrated in
the many entries turned in to
the Reporter office on Monday.
Mrs. R. E. Scales of Eastl'idge
turned in a total of 71 misspell-
ed words of the official list to
win first prize of $2 cash. Win-
ner of second place was Mrs.
Jewell Deel who' found 69 words
■"misspelled of the following list:
Sizs, (sizes): Kayenee, (Kay-
nee); polio, (polo); novelety,
(novelty); basket, (baskets);
racquts, (rackets): S c o 11 s,
(Scott's); specials, (special);
complette, (complete); phon,
(phone); valus, (values); ladies,
(ladies'); pair, (pairs); you
(your); precent, (present); ad-
mited, (admitted); gets, (get);
frame, (frames): proteckt, (pro-
tect); charmming (charming);
design, (designs); buttuns, (but-
tons); consists, (consist); smock-
clothe, (smockcloths); dail,
(dial); Texs, (Texas);
Guaranty, (guarantee); greace,
(grease); vacumn. (vacuum);
checj-up, (check-up); Broadwy,
(Broadway); phon, (phone); wo-
mens, (women's); womens, (wo-
men's); mens, (men's); mens,
(men's); you, (your); sect, request City
(seat); radio, (radios); controll,
(control); supplys, (supplies);
supre, (super); veloure, (vel-
our); transparant, (transpar-
ent); reglar, (regular); other's,
(others); purchace, (purchase);
Mode 'O Day, (Mode O' Day);
dail, (dial); thrift, (Thrif-T); ec-
onomicaly (economically); spe-
cialises, (specializes); servise,
(service);
Tyes (ties); patint (patent); sizs
(sizes); lube (lubricate); pan-
tees, (panties); reglar, (regular);
lase, (lace); misspeled, (mis-
spelled); advertisments, (adver-
tisements); precents, (presents);
acompanied, (accompanied); pur-
chace, (purchase); recieve, (re-
ceive); price (prize); mispelled
(misspelled); pertaning (pertain-
ing); price (prize); price,
(prize); price, (prize); cast,
(case); desicion, (decision).
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Sweetwater Reporter
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VOL. XXXX
SWEETWATER, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1938
NUMBER 330
City Commission
Appoints Seven
B.C.D. Directors
Eight Men Are Hold-
Overs; To Petition
Opening Of Crossing
Seven directors for the Board
of City Development for the en-
suing two years were named
by the city commission in ses-
sion Monday afternoon, complet-
ing the organization of the
board of 15 members for anoth-
er year.
Glenn Russell, serving the
unexpired term of H. A. Tansil,
was re-appointed. Grover A.
Swaim, appointed to serve out
the term of the late Lon Geer,
also was renamed.
Now Directors
New directors named were O.
D. McCoy, Sinclair agent; P.
L. Ullom. Sweetwater Sash &
Door company; A. S. Legg, man-
ager of the Texas Electric Ser-
vice company: Philip Yonge,
member of the law firm of Beall,
Beall, Yonge & Neblett; and
Peter Fox, assistant manager of
Sweetwater Cotton Oil comp-
any.
Directors whose terms expir-
ed were James Henry Beall,
Jr., Joe Bowen, Sam Cress,
Jack Rich and Lee Stubbs.
Complete Board
Holding over to complete the
board are J. B. Askins, George
Bennitt, B. C. McCall, C. C.
Johnston, C. E. Mays, Jr.,
Henry Rogers, H. A. Walker and
Roy W. Thompson.
R. M. Simmons, chairman of
the Sweetwater hospital board,
whose term expires, also was
renamed. Other members com-
pleting the five-man board are
Guy E. Morris, Dr. Charles A.
Rosebrough, P. E. Ponder and
Dr. A. A. Chapman. Members
are elected one each year for
five-year periods.
Special Deputies At Lake
City Manager S. H. Bothwell
was authorized to appoint sev-
eral special deputies among
local sportsmen to aid in en-
forcing the city ordinances re-
garding fishing in Lake Sweet-
water.
The commissioners voted to
Attorney Carl M.
Anderson to draw up the
necessary papers to petition the
Texas & Pacific to open the
Hailey street crossing.
Mayor Ben Roberts, newly
elected, was in the chair for his
first official meeting in the
post.
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School Board
Buys Playground
Negotiations by the Sweet-
water independent school dist-
rict board for the acquisition of
three lots west of Philip Nolan
ward school for a playground
have been completer, and will
be leveled and planted to Ber-
muda grass as part of the $8,-
161 PWA project filed by the
board.
This tract embraces about
255 front feet. It will be graded
and sodded as an auxiliary play-
ground.
The project in which the
school board furnishes only $2,-
293, the remainder of the $8,-
161 being furnished by PWA,
includes three concrete tennis
courts just back of the old high
school building at Newman, and
concrete surfacing of two ten-
nis courts for John H. Reagan
junior high school.
New Sweetwater FHA Plan
To Be Launched Tonight
Fair to Feature
School Exhibits
Austin Jordan, president of
the Nolan County Fair associa-
tion, says that school exhibits
will form an important part of
the revived Midwest Exposition
in Sweetwater this fall.
In this connection, he calls
attention of county schools to
this feature, and invites them to
prepare exhibits this spring for
the fair. Inasmuch as school
will be in session only a short
time next fall before the fair,
Jordan anticipates that many
spring exhibits will bo held in-
tact for the exposition.
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Work Begins On
Water 'Belt Line'
A WPA project for the instal-
lation of a water "belt line" en-
circling the city is underway,
City Manager S. II. Bothwell an-
nounced today.
Laying of the line started at
the new water reservoir on
the south side of the city. When
completed, the line will end at
the same point. Water mains
for the project were obtained
from the line leading from the
abandoned Watt wells, south of
Roscoe, to the city.
Work on the project will con-
tinue through the summer. All
work is being done by day la-
bor—no machines being employ-
ed.
An important conference of
architects, contractors, realtors,
lumber dealers, representatives
of financial institutions, news-
papers and utilities is to be held
at 7:30 o'clock this evening in
the Board of City Development
office at the municipal build-
ing. according to B. C. McCall.
local chairman of the better
housing program.
R. E. Sikes of the Federal
Housing administration office at
Dallas is to be present for the
meeting.
Plans for launching an exten-
sive better housing program in
Sweetwater, tying in with the
nation and state-wide move-
ment to stimulate building acti-
vity under the new amendments
to the national housing act re-
cently adopted by congress are
to bo discussed.
Details Of Program
Details of the new program
are to be fully explained by
FHA speakers. Matters involv-
ing underwriting procedure and
mortgage risk are also to be
discussed. The FHA officials are
to remain in Sweetwater throu-
gh Wednesday for a follow up
with interested groups and in-
dividuals directly connected
with the building industry,
furnishing additional informa-
tion. literature, FHA insured
mortgage system loan applica-
tion blanks and rendered every
assistance necessary incident to
launching the new program in
Sweetwater.
Outline Of Act
Following is an outline of the
national housing act under the
new FHA program:
Reinstatement of Title I —
(repair program)—Three class-
es of L o a n s: Class I —
Any property owner with good
credit rating may borrow from
$100 up to $10,000 with which to
repair, remodel, or modernize an
existing structure of any type of
property—such as farm, busi-
ness, home, apartment houses,
hotels, hospitals, schools, col-
leges and churches.
Money borrowed at 5 per-
See SWEETWATER Page 5
Irish Leader
m
The first president of the new
state of Ireland, which re-
placed the Irish Free State
under the recently adopted
constitution, may he 70-year-
old Dr. Douglas Hyde, invit-
ed by both major parties to
accept the office.
Sanity Hearing
Scheduled For
Youth's Slayer
Degenerate's Case to
Go To Grand Jury To-
morrow or Thursday
SAN ANTONIO — (UP) —
Cicero Tuttle, 21. former in-
mate of a hospital for feeble-
minded, was charged today with
the murder of four-year old
William Sullivan whose brutal-
ly beaten body was found in
a clump of mesquite Sunday.
The child's skull was crushed
with a wine bottle.
The boy was the son of Timo-
thy Sullivan, a retired army
sergeant.
The murder charge was fil-j
ed immediately in the court of j
Justice of the Peace Raymond
Gerhardt.
During his arrangement
Tuttle stood looking blankly
the persons who crowded the
court room. He made no at-
tempt to answer questions ask-
ed by Judge Gerhardt.
Someone in the courtroom
audience shouted "Do you know
that you killed that little boy?"
Tuttle answered that he
did, then calmly began to tell
his story.
Asst. Dist. Atty. Paul Kil-
day said that the case probab-
ly would go to the grand jury
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Officers planned to hold a
sanity hearing for Tuttle im-
mediately and if he is adjudged
sane, to proceed with the mur-
der charges.
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T&P Repairing
Local Property
Extensive repairs and addi-
tions to the facilities of the
Texas & Pacific in Sweetwater
have been carried on this spring.
The latest project is rebuilding
the automobile loading plat-1
form, which work is under-
way.
The freight office has been j
repaired and redecorated, among
other aleration and repair j
projects.
New Mexican quarters recent-1
ly completed are being utilized.,
This consisted of new housing j
facilities for five families at!
the yards.
To Meet FDR
That thoughtful expression on
the face of Henry Ford, in-
dicates he may be thinking
about what lie is going to tell
President Roosevelt when the
two meet for a luncheon
chat.
Germany's Power
To Get Test In
Czechoslovakia
Continued Demands Are
Being Made for Recog-
nition of Minorities
BY UNITED PRESS
Czechoslovakia's defiance of
Nazi demands for power today
indicated an early showdown
in Germany's campaign to dom-
inate central Europe.
Czech government leaders
rejected demands of Nazi chief-
tain, Konrad Henlein, for re-
cognition of the Nazis. At the
same time, semi-official com-
ment supported Henlein and at-
tacked the Czech alliance with
Russia and France.
Germany's main objection is
to break down the last barrier
which the allies, particularly
France, erected around defeat-
ed Germany after the war, but
the vigor of Hitler's prelimi-
nary attack has increased belief
that the new threat may be ser-
ious.
Measure Desigi
To Aid Business
Recovery in U. S.
House and Senate Con-
ferees Agree On Compro-
mise Provisions
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Congressional conferees today
reached complete agreement on
the $5,330,000,000 tax bill.
The measure, designed to stim-
ulate business recovery, was be-
lieved acceptable to both houses,
after a compromise in which
the house won retention of "a
skeleton form" of the undistribu-
ted profits tax and the senate
j obtained liberalization of the
' capital gains levy.
The conferees rejected an
i amendment which would have
removed the tax exemption from
future federal securities. The
action was believed taken in
view of President Roosevelt's
message yesterday in which he
j asked reciprocal federal and
j state taxation of securities and
i salaries. Congressional leaders
indicated that the tax exemp-
: tion proposal was unlikely to
j be anacted at this session.
Senate Group yields
The senate repealed the un-
' distributed profits tax but in
j conference yielded to a house
proposal placing the tax at a
' minimum of 16'z per cent and
la maximum of 19 per cent, as
compared with present rates be-
tween 7 and 27 per cent.
Meanwhile, republican house
members charged that relief
workers were distributing prop-
aganda favoring President Roo-
sevelt's $4,512,000,000 recovery
program.
Their charges followed a claim
by House Majority Leader Sam
Rayburn of Texas that congress
is about to deluged with a flood
of propaganda against the new
deal's lending-spending program.
He said that "big corporations"
are trying to wreck it.
11, I ||Tr | pv 1 League d inners
at Work Progresses £
neI ci i lo Mate Meet
On Roscoe School
ROSCOE
WAGE-HOl'R BILL
SET FOK THURSDAY
WASHINGTON—(UP) —Irk-
| ed by charges that he is "stall-
ing.' Chairman John J. O'Con-
i nor, D.. X. Y., of the house rules
•committee, set Thursday for the
opening of hearings on the ex-
plosive wage-hour bill target of
attacks from Southern Demo-
crats and many Republicans.
O'Connor refused to predict
whether his committee, which
. bottled up the original wage-
Exterior brick work on the, at Abilene. hour bill, would give the new
first floor has been completed, j Miss Jane Rae Rogers, decla-1 measure a favorable report, but
mation winner, will go to the j he said <.jt wiu pass if it ever
gets to the floor."
Newman high schools dele-
— Construction of gation to the state interscholas-
the Roscoe $80,000 school is go- tic contests at Austin May 6-7
ing forward rapidly with virt-1 has been completed, says Supt.
ually all foundation work com-iR. S. Covey, with all returns
pleted. I hi from the regional 8 meet
with the exception of intri-1
eate masonry around sills and
door facings. Contractors are
using light British tan bricks j
for the project.
meet accompanied by her in
structor, Miss Velma Sharp.
Coach C. L. Harliss will ac-
company Joe Elrod, winner of
Basic work on the twin domes the tennis singles. Both contest-
is near completion. Frame-
work has been constructed,
with further finishing sche-
| duled later.
Main plumbing lines have
been laid with gas and water
lines to the individual class-
rooms being placed in position.
Sewer mains are being laid.
Steel beams and girders form
a network in the roof of the
combination auditorium - gym-
nasium, located on the south
side of the structure. Workmen
are busy finishing preliminary
work. No floor has been placed
in the gymnasium side of the
dual-purpose room, but elemen-
tary flooring has been built
for the stage. Hardwood floors
are to be added late in construc-
tion procedure.
ants are among the eight re-
maining in the state race.
Editors To Compete
Two other Newman entries
in state competition, who won
their laurels earlier in the sea-
son, are John Palmer Leeper
and Miss Evelyn Harris, editor
and assistant editor, respective-
ly, of "The Pony Express", New-
man high school newspaper.
They will be accompanied by
Miss Laura Sheridan, sponsor.
Superintendent Covey will ac-
company the entire delegation to
Austin.
Meantime, labor's non-partisan
league, political arm of the Com-
mittee for Industrial Organiza-
tion, announced it. is campaign-
ing actively in behalf of the new
bill, which would establish a
minimum wage of 40 cents an
hour and a maximum week of
40 hours after three years.
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18-Year-Old Wife
Shoots Husband
"Ma Ferguson
May Be Drafted
Fashioning of Figures From Peach
Pits Is Diversion for Salesman
B. B. Willard of Dallas
who often visits Sweetwat-
er on his job as salesman
for an arms and munition
company and stops for a
chat with Newt Prince, lo-
cal collector of curios,
doesn't shoot firearms for
diversion.
Instead, he selects a
knife and whittles. He is a
wizard at the art. His favor-
ite substances arc matches
and peach seeds.
Willard fashions intricate
designs of the lowly peach
seeds. His masterpiece is
the "End of the Trail", a
replica of that famous paint-
ing of an American Indian
on his pony, forlorn and
dejected. It is true to min-
ute detail.
The Three Monkeys
Others are the three mon-
keys representing the Chin-
ese proverb "hear no evil-
see no evilSspeak no evil."
Then he fashions many car-
icatures that resemble the
subject sufficiently for
ready recognition.
His match number is a
knockout. With a few deft
slashes of the knife, he has
three dancing women, with
hair, hands, feet and life-
like contour. Fooling around
with a paper napkin at din-
ner one evening, he found
that by folding a piece of it
a certain way and cutting
through the fold, he had a
dancc costume.
Willard was the center of
an admiring circle when he
stopped at the Blue Bonnet
hotel this week. Asked how
long it takes to do some of
the work, he said: "From
30 minutes to 17 days." He
likes peach seeds because he
can stick a handful in his
pocket, whittle when time
permits, and dash his hobby
back into his pocket as he
attends to business
i Abilene Singers
Entertain Lions
It took a dozen numbers to
I appease the Lions and their
I guests in the luncheon on the
I Blue Bonnet roof today, when
the Abilene high school boys
quartet featured the program.
This ensemble made a hit dur-
ing the Lions minstrel, and on
their return engagement today
lived up to their high mark as
entertainers.
Miss Louise Nelson is direc-
tor, and members of the quar-
tet are Connell Taylor, Charles
Marshall, Edward Beasley and
Joe Morrison.
Sikes Speaks
R. E. Sikes, representative of I
the Federal Housing Adminis-
tration who will be one of the
principal speakers for the FHA
meeting in Sweetwater tonight,
spoke briefly on the provisions
of the revised Federal Housing
Act. He was introduced by his
host, Lee Stubbs.
Zollie C. Steakley, Jr., and
George M. Thompson outlined
the district convention in
Wichita Falls May 0. when
Sweetwater Lions will piU on
the "model luncheon" for con-
vention delegates and guests.
Don W. Smith was program
chairman.
EL PASO — (UP) — Mrs.
Rose Jones, 18-yeJiro^d ex-
pectant mother, today shot to
death her husband, Walter
Jones, 33. a member of the
police vice squad, in their
home.
In a written statement, she
accused her husband of "hav-
ing been out all night with an-
other woman" but claimed she
SAN ANTONIO — (UP) — shot her husband accidentally.
Urging a platform for the re-j T thought the pistol was un-
turn of horse racing and the re- loaded," she said.
establishment of local gov-, Mrs. Jones said she had quar-
ernment without state infer- reled with her husband before
ference. San Antonio politici- 1 and had shot at him but mis-
ans headed a movement to | sed last December.
draft former Governor Miriam o
A. Ferguson into the race for
governor. Civil Suit Settled
Mayor C. K. Quin and form-
er State Senator T. H. McGreg-
or of Austin spoke at a mass
meeting here last night in fav-
or of the Ferguson draft. Each
speaker was greeted by ap-
plause as he suggested that
telegrams and letters be sent
to Mrs. Ferguson urging her to
run. Telegraph blanks were
distributed among the crowd.
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Burglary Charge
Filed By Duncan
Charge of burglary was filed
against Waring Davis in the jus-
tice court of S. H. Shook Tues-
day by County Attorney E. L.
Duncan on complaint signed by
Deputy Constable John H. Eid-
son. Davis was arrested bv Cap-
tain Homer Bradford of the
Sweetwater police, charged with
burglarizing warehouses of the
Sweetwater Transfer company.
He is said to have made state-
ments to Bradford and Eidson
implicating himself in two bur-
glaries of the warehouses.
Out Of Court
A jury called into district
court Monday was dismissed by
Judge A. S. Mauzey when the
case of .). I Barrowman vs. J.
\V Fraley. suit to try trespass
of title, was settled without go-
ing to trial.
The jury will he called back
May (i for a civil case, McDon-
ald vs. Herndon, suit, to recover
money.
Swimming Bool To
Open About May 15
The municipal swimming
pool is to open about May 15,
City Manager S. H. Bothwell an-
nounced today.
Previously it was planned lo
open the pool May 1 but work-
men will not complete repairs
in time for the opening this
weekend, It was said. New div-
ing boards are to be installed,
the floor and walls of the pool
are to be repainted and other
repairs made.
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