Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 114, Ed. 1 Monday, August 15, 1938 Page: 3 of 8
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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1938
SWEETWATER
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National, State Leaders On Texas A. & M. College Program
Farm Teachers
To Hold State-
Wide Meeting
More Than 500 ■
Agricultural Workers
Expected to Attend
COLLEGE STATION — Lead-
ing state and national agricul-
tural figures have been invitad
to participate in program of
the annual statewide confer-
ence of vocational agriculture
teachers to he he id at Texas
A. and M. college Aug. 22-26.
More than 500 agricultural work-
ers are expected to bring their
families to the campus for the
conference, according to Henry
Ross, of the A. and M. depart1
ment of vocational agriculture,
in charge of the meeting.
Program for the conference
will offer opportunity for group
sessions, where various prob-
lems of the work can be iron-
ed out in informal discussions.
A general session will be held
daily with outstanding speak-
ers who will tell of their work
along agricultural lines.
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Open
Forum
Theatres
At The
'King of Hoboes'
Becomes Adviser
In Movie Colony
Jeff Davis Gives Tips
On How to Ride New
Streamlined Trains
The following copy of a let-
ter written by C. A. Oihbs,
Sweetwater general contractor,
to W. Lee O'Daniel, governor-
elect of Texas, is printed here-
with:
"W. Leo O'Daniel, Fort Worth.
"Sir:
"On July 10 1 wrote you a
letter. To date you have not
valued it enough to answer. In
it I told you 1 was for you 100
per cent and that I hoped you
would be an honest governor
and that I did not en ink there
would be a runoff. I told you I
was going to step further and
help to elect a representative
from this district who would
back you up at all times to clean
up Texas politics.
"Now you have, in your very
first move, tore your pants
right behind. Kirst you have
no business taking sides in the
other fellow's campaign. You
made yours and we, the voters,
responded better than you ex-
expected. The principal reason
for this was not for \V. Lee
O'Daniel but for the reason we
thought we were putting in a
man that would absolutely stop
the Austin and Texas political
machine. You, in every speech,
said so. You said 'If you, the
voters, would elect me and if
and when I am your governor'
the professional politicians
would be stopped from the pie
eating. You told us a lot of oth-
er things. We, the voters, re-
member what you said.
"Now, all uncalled for, unex-
pected and unethical, you de-
liberately indorse C. V. Ter-
rell, the granddaddy of the en-
tire bunch of professional poli-
ticians. You turn against fine
younger men as Jerry Sadler
and Gerald Mann.
"You see this puts you on the
spot and we, the voters, now
have a doubt that will take evi-
dence to remove.
"It now looks like within the
last ten days the machine and
the old-timers have worked you
over and that you are going to
be a governor like some of
the rest have been; just letting
the machine roll along unmolest-
ed.
"You will realize when Sad-
ler and Mann are elected and
when Coke Stevenson is defeat-
ed just how much of a spot you
are in. It is at least good policy
to keep hands off until you have
been elected and have taken the
oath of office.
"You know there have been
independents that have stepped
into just such opportunities as
you have made and won out in
the final.
"Yours truly,
"C. A. Gibbs, Sweetwater".
Protest Of Freight
Rates Encouraged
FORT WORTH—(UP)—G. E.
Blewett, secretary of the Texas
Grain and Feed Dealers associ-
ation, asked Texas farmers to-
day to join the fight on discrim-
inatory freight rates as reveal-
ed in the National Emergency
Council's report.
Warner Baxter's latest star-
ling picture, "I'll Give A Mil-
lion," opened yesterday at the
Texas Theatre. The cast in-
cludes Marjorie Weaver, and
Peter Ijoitc.
MARJORIE WEAVER
IS YACHT ADDICT
Now it's Skipper Marjorie
Weaver.
The vivid young beauty, "who
completed her biggest romantic
role with Warner Baxter in "I'll
Give A Million," which shows
today at Texas has begun a
shopping tour for it yacht which
can make the run from Los An-
geles to Honolulu.
She plans to purchase a 40-
foot schooner and have it fitted
out. for the long cruise. Aug-
menting her sailing experience
(her 20-foot ketch won the Cata-
lina Cup last year), Marjorie is
studying navigation at night.
"I'll (Jive A Million," the
picture which places her on the
threshold of individual "Star-
dom, is pointed out as another
example of the impressive way
in which Miss Weaver rises to
the top of anything she at-
tempts to achieve. Scarcely a
year ago she was comparatively
•unknown."
KIT/ PICTURE SHOWS
PRISON CONDITIONS
Less than twenty years ago,
the general public neither knew
nor cared to know about what
went on inside the walls of our
prisons and reformatories. To-
day, the newspapers, magazines,
radio and the films—and espe-
cially the films—have called at-
tention to prevalent abuses and
reforms. Films like "I am a fu-
gitive," "The Big House," and
now, 'Reformatory," which
stars Jack Holt at the Ritz The-
atre, are awakening public con-
sciousness to the sins of omis-
sion and commission of our pen-
al system. Few states have ach-
ieved the progressiveness depict-
ed in "Reformatory," and in-
cluded in the "Declaration of
Principles", by the American
Prison Association.
Annual Young People's Revival
Opens atEirst Baptist Church
NLRB Accused By
Ford Motor Company
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The Ford Motor company as-
serted today that its constitution-
al rights had been violated in a
National Labor Relations Board
hearing at St. Louis. '
Brayton to Head
Kan. Fire School
COLLEGE STATION — H. R.
Brayton, instructor in inorganic
chemistry and director of the
firemen's training school at Tex-
as A. and M. college, has accept-
ed an invitation to serve as an
instructor at the annual fire-
men's training school to be held
by the extension division of the
University of Kansas at Law-
rence, Sept. 12-13.
Brayton, founder of the A.
and M. firemen's school in 1920,
will give a course in the use
of chemicals in fire fighting and
will give demonstrations of the
action of various chemicals. His
assignment also deals with
chemicals as fire hazards and
approved methods of fighting
chemical fires.
Brayton is the only teacher
of chemistry in the United
States who also is the director
of the state college firemen's
school. He is considered an
authority on fire fighting
throughout the country.
Lubbock To Vote
On $750,000 Bonds
LUBBOCK — Election on is-
suance of $750,000 in city bonds
was set for September 2 by city
commissioners.
The proposed bond issue
would cover projects including
storm sewer, $300,000; sewage
disposal plant, $250,000; street
improvements, $150,000; and new
fire station, $50,000. The bonds
would carry four per cent in-
terest to ma Hi re serially over
a period of 20 years.
CattleTheft
Charges Filed
BIG SPRING — Cattle theft
complaints have been filed again-
st C. I.. McDanlel, Lamesa, and
Johnny E. Jones, Roscoe, by
Dawson county officials.
The suspects were held at
Lamesa in connection with in-
vestigation of an .alleged cattle
theft ring. The group operated
from Plainview to San Angelo,
Dawson County Sheriff Gus
White said.
BY PAUL HAHKISON
HOLLYWOOD _ Jeff Davis,
king of the hoboes, was selling
razor blades on a Philadelphia
street corner when an acquain-
tance hailed him: "Say, I heard
your name on the radio last
night. Seems like the po-leece is
lookin' fo you: somethin' about
a pi'ture—"
Jeff knew that he was justlike
this with the police, and he
knew nothing about any pic-
tures, so he ignored the tip and
kept right on trying to sell his
razor blades.
Pretty soon, though, a cop
tapped him on the shoulder and
said, "Jeff, didn't you know
the newspaper reporters and the
police and the radio and I don't
know who all have been trying
to find you all over the east?
They say it's about a job in Hol-
lywood; Paramount wants you
to come out there and be tech-
nical adviser on a movie about
hoboes!"
Knights Of The Road
"They needed me in a hur-
ry," said Davis, in Hollywood,
"so we came right out, the wife
and I. Sure we rode on the cush-
ions. Not only on the cushions,
but in Drawing Room A of a
fast streamliner.
"Travelin' alone—see? — I
coulda save the studio a lotta
money. Most of these new trains
can be ridden easier'n the old
type. But they can be ridden—
the Yankee and the Hiawatha
and the Black Diamond, the
City of Los Angeles, the Chief
and all the rest.
"There's a big, comfortable
space under the observation
platform of the Rebel. And the
cinch—you crawl up under the
Burlington streamliners are a
cowling over the cowcatcher and
ride the pilot as pretty as you
please. I won't tell how to
ride the trains to California be-
cause I'll likely be wanting to
come back."
Hecoi-d Straight on Ito's
The king of hoboes is 55 years
old, but would look 30 with
darker, more plentiful hair. He
has a twinkle, a zest, boundless
energy and iron muscles, and an
unqquenchable determination to
explain to the world the ideals,
philosophy and ambitions of the
hobo—especially as opposed to
those of the unscrupulous, un-
clean, un-everything tramp.
A movie fan himself, and a
friend of some actors and many
writers, Davis was especially an-
xious to provide authenticity to
the hobo-jungle scenes and dia-
log in "Arkansas Traveler", with
Rob Burns doing the traveling.
"It's important", he said, "be-
cause I figure that at least one
out of every ten men in this
country has been a hobo of sorts,
maybe as a harvest hand dur-
ing high school or college stu-
dent days, or just hitting the
trains to get from one job to
another.
"Look at the ex-hoboes right
here in Hollywood — Wallace
Beery, Charlie Chaplin, Clark
Gable, A1 Jolson, Irving Berlin,
Bob Burns himself, and Irvin
S. Cobb. Jim Tully?—well, yes,
we've decided to accept him as
a 'bo, although he admits he was
a bum. He's workin' now, any-
way. Chaplin himself once call-
ed Tully a bindlestiff, and there
isn't anything worse than a
bindlestiff.
"We got a million members
of the Hoboes of America.
When we have our annual con-
vention there are maybe 400
delegates, hut a couple of thou-
sand others—lots of 'em pros-
perous businessmen — will
crowd into the meetings. We
organized in 1908. In 1914 we
became the Itinerant Workers*
Union, but we're not political,
or radical, or naything. Most of
us carry Social Security cards.
"What we want people to
know is that hoboes work. The
harvest machines and ditch-dig-
ging machines—and now they
even got. dish-washing machines
—have been hard on us. Rut we
don't steal or beg, and we try
to keep clean. A tramp will
steal and a bum will beg, and
they don't either of them ever
wash."
Doesn't Seem To Suffer
By virtue of an annual elec-
tion, Jeff Davis has been king
of the hoboes ever since they
organized. In 1935, though, he
was enthroned for life, and the
choice has been ratified at each
subsequent convention. During
their last one, the delegates af-
firmed their fealty by paying
Davis' expenses for a foreign
The second annual young peo
pie's revival of the First Bap-
tist church opened Sunday witli
the Rev. Luther Holcomb, young
evangelist, and Jack Gardner,
youthful singer, conducting their
first service Sunday night.
Services are to be held twice
each day, at 10 a. m. and 8 p.
m. The Rev. Mr. Holcomb an-
nounced his themes during the
week would be woven around
"Peter and his Lord." The pub-
lic is invited to attend.
Sermon Last Night
In his sermon last night
young Mr. Holcomb pointed out
the need for a revival in Ameri-
ca. He gave dates of the com-
prehensive spiritual revivals
that have taken place in the
United States since the found-
ing of the first colony in Amer-
ica.
"America," he said "has nev-
°r gone from a financial depres-
sion to a period of prosperity
without first a spiritual revival
—and I believe that God is mak-
ing a final call to the citizens
of the United States for a spir-
itual revival."
The minister said he believed
that the revival has already
been delayed and that if and
when it does take place that
laymen and churches will be-
come alert to their responsibility
as individual Christians to do
soul winning.
•May He Like Pentecost
"1 believe that the next great
spiritual revival in America will
resemble the scene at Pentecost
—it will simply be—'Lord, here
I am, use me.' "
In his introductory remarks,
Holcomb pointed out that he
believed religion and Christian-
ity should be progressive—that
Christians should become more
deeply spiritual — that they
should become more active in
the Lord's work.
Modernism, he said, is today
standing in the way of both in-
dividual Christians and the
church. "We are confused as to
what to do or what not to do,
and to progress we must find
our place of service and become
aware of our duty to God."
Legendary Infamy Of Hamilton And
Walters Make Checking Difficult, Officers Declare
DALLAS — (UP) — Men who
have known Floyd Hamilton
most of his life and who are
thoroughly acquainted with his
background are skeptical of his
participation in all the crimes in
which he has been suspected.
"Floyd would have to be a
centipede, or octuplets at least",
laughed Dallas County Sheriff
It. A. (Smoot) Schmid as he
viewed reports showing Hamil-
ton and his alleged companion,
Huron (Ted) Walters, hunted al-
most simultaneously in Texas,
Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky,
Illinois, Arkansas, Indiana, Io-
wa—and maybe some other
states.
Local authorities complained
that the hunt for Hamilton,
which has become widespread
throughout the Midwest and
Southwest, is fast giving him a
kind of legendary infamy that
makes checking of his activities
more difficult.
Some Complications
They point out that the same
complications confronted them
in the case of Floyd's younger
brother, Raymond, and his com-
panions, Bonnie Parker and
Clyde Barrow, who were ram-
pant several years ago.
"Floyd probably is guilty of
just about one-third of the
crimes charged against him,"
estimated Special Investigator
Bob Alcorn of the Dallas district
attorney's office, who was one
of the party who ambushed
Barrow and Bonnie Parker on
a lonely Louisiana road and
shot them down. I doubt that
Floyd and Ted Walters were
involved in the recent $34,000
payroll robbery at Woodriver,
111., because that must have been
an inside job.
"Floyd and Ted are not well
enough acquainted with that
territory, and it would be the
wildest kind of coincidence for
them to run into someone who
would tip them off on 'the lay
of the land.'
"Besides, Floyd might
up some little country bank,
such at Bradley, Ark., but he
prefers to stick up outlying fill-
ing stations and drink stands
where there's little chance of get-
ting caught. He's no big timer.
"Just let there be a holdup
or shooting," Alcorn predicted,
"and the first thing that'll come
to everybody's mind is Floyd
Hamilton. Chances are, he'll be
nowhere near."
Hamilton and Walters escaped
last April 25 from the Montague
county jail.
Police Experience
(A Quiet Weekend'
Chief N. B. Hall reports "one
of the quietest week-end periods
in several months" for the po-
lice department on Saturday
and Sunday this week.
One person was fined in cor-
j poration court this morning for
hold a charge of reckless driving.
tour on the Queen Mary.
"It's a good life I lead", he
said, rather humbly. "I feel like
Aladdin, but with the wick cut
short because things are hap-
pening so fast.
"I've ridden on the finest
ship. I've been a guest of the
House of Lords and the House
of Commons. I've shook hands
with dukes and such, and more
American celebrities than I can |
count. I'm workin' for thej
movies now, and floppin' at a j
swell hotel, and givin' auto-:
graphs!"
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Entertainment
For Fair Planned
Entertainment features Tor
the Midwest Exposition, opening
Sept. 13, have been signed up.
They include a rodeo featurd
each afternoon supervised by Oh'
lie Cox and his rodeo outfit, and
the Texas Longhorn shows on
the midway.
Various communities and civ-
ic groups are to be honored with
special days set aside in their
honor, and the civic organiza-
tions are to be responsible for
specialty entertainment numbers
on their respective days! A band
concert is planned each evening
at 7:30.
Season parking tickets went
on sale today at the BCD office
at $1 each and entitle the purch-
aser to park under police pro-
tection on the fair property at
any time throughout the dura-
tion of the exposition. Delivery
parking tickets are $2 each.
Tickets are not to be transfer-
able. Concession owners and
exhibitors are to receive com-
plimentary parking tickets.
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FBI Enters Into
Story Squabble
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The department of justice to-
day entered a controversery be
tween a writer for the Saturday
Evening Post and James Roose-
velt over Jimmy's income from
his insurance building.
The department denied that
James Roosevelt had in any way
influenced a decision to drop
certain indictments.
Rogers Highway
Dedicated Today
AMARILLO — (UP) — This
Panhandle city began a three
day celebration in connection
with the completion of the Will
Rogers memorial Highway 60.
The highway was named in hon-
or of the famous humorist who
was killed three years ago in an
Alaskan air crash.
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Wheat Prices
Hit Bottom Today
CHICAGO — (UP) — Wheat
■prices dropped to new five-year
lows on the Chicago board of
trade today, and optimistic
world crop outlook, heavy liqui-
dation and complete absence of
export demands were contribut-
ing factors.
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Motor manufacturers are
testing a new lubrication method
for steel surfaces which engi-
neers believe will solve many
high pressure lubrication pro-
blems.
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