Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 306, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1938 Page: 1 of 6
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' Designed To End
' Slump In Business
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Chairman Robert Doughton of
North Carolina of the house ways and means committee today
introduced the administration tax revision bill, designed to help
end the recession by removing some restrictions on business.
^ Doughton planned to begin consideration of the bill Thursday.
_ Simultaneously, Chairman Mary Norton, New Jersey, of the
?
house labor committee, appoint-
ed a seven member subcommit-
tee to write a compromise wage
hour bill.
Meanwhile, the house naval
affairs committee met privately
to report out the president's bil-
lion dollar naval expansion bill.
The committee earmarked
$3,000,000 of a $15,000,000 experi-
mental fund to construct a new
dirigible.
Burucli Testifies
Bernard Baruch, advisor to j
President Roosevelt, declared
before the senate unemployment
committee that he opposes re-
peal of any new deal legisla- 1
tion although he advocates some
modification.
Senator Harry Byrd of Vir-
ginia declared during debate on
the reorganization bill that Pre-
sident Roosevelt has defaulted 1
on a promise to reduce federal
expenditure by 25 per cent.
Byrd's statement came shortly
after it was revealed that the
budget bureau has released less
than $10,000,000* of $111,000,000
Tax Bill Introduced Into House
Sweetwater Reporter
Split Equally
In Milk-Fed And
Dry-Lot Divisions
Ken Lewis Exhibits
Grand Champion of Show,
T. L. Carter, Runnerup
Women's League
To Aid Needy
Plans for the white elephant
and rummage sale to be held
Saturday were completed by
members of the Young Women's
League at the Monday evening
meeting held at the city court-
room.
The all day sale, slated to be
held in the building formerly
occupied by Alldredge radio
concern in 'he 100 block on Oak
Street, is one of the major char-
itable projects supervised by the
league. Money der'ved from the
program is to be used to assist
needy children.
Contributions of clothing, jew-
elry and novelties are welcom-
ed, and a box has been placed
at the police department for
VOL. XXXX
SWEETWATEfc, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1938
NUMBER 306
City Commission Hears Several Delegations;
Summer Water Rates Are To Begin April 15
Ken Lewis Grand Champion Call
i;mjounded'api^ i^atlon ^ the Mrs' Uil1 Sheridan,
current fiscal year.
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Relief Hill Approved
The house completed congres-
sional action on the $250,000,000,-
relief appropriation by approv-
ing the conference report, as
finally approved. The measure is
exactly as recommended by the
administration. Final action
came as the WPA announced
that it had authorized states
to begin an immediate increase
of relief rolls to add 500,000 per-
sons.
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Father Seeks
Kidnaped Son
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.—
(UP)—Murray Levine, prosper-
ous attorney attempted to ne-
gotiate today with the kidnap-
ers of his 12-year-old son, Peter,
who disappeared last Thursday
and was held for ransom, re-
portedly $00,000.
Peter, a blue-eyed junior high
. school student, was last seen
leaving school, half a mile from
his father's home in this su-
burb of New York City Thurs-
day.
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Gen. Pershing
'Much Improved
TUCSON — (UP) — General
John .1. Pershing's uphill figh'
against an ailing heart and
kidney disease, which threaten-
ed death 18 hours ago, continued
today, and his physicians guard-
edly predicted his recovery.
The commander spent a "very
good night and slept G'& hours,"
Dr. Roland Davison, his physi-
cian reported. "He seems very
much better this morning and is
conscious.
"While all danger is not past,
and if the improvement of the
last 24 hours continues, recovery
is quite probable."
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Body Angeloan
Sought in Lake
DEL R'O — (UP) — A pro-
fessional diver was called from
Houston today to search for the
body of Nat Stevenson, San
Angelo business man, who was
drowned last night in Devil's
Lake.
Stevenson was drowned when
a fishing boat capsized and
sank in 00 feet "f water. Three
companions saved themselves by
swimming 500 feet to shore.
WEAfHER
SWEETWATER — Cloudy to-
night and Wednesday, some-
what unsettled.
Maximum temperature yester-
day 01 degrees. Low this morn-
ing 17 degrees. Temperature at
2 p. m. today 02 degrees. Rain-
fall .03 inches.
WEST TEXAS — Mostly
cloudy tonight and Wednesday,
probably rain ir southeast por-
tions.
EAST TEXAS — Possibly
rain tonight and Wednesday,
some warmer.
'20
'27
'23
"29
•30
'31
32
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president, said.
A committee composed of
Mrs. Elsie 'tobinson, chairman,
Mrs. Trudic Stone, Miss Ella
Patton and Mrs. Clancy Bal-
dridge, WPA supervisor, was
introduced to the league.
Thorough explanations followed
concerning the establishment in
Sweetwater of a nursery.
The league voted to expend
$10 toward the movement, and
Miss Virginia Murray was ap-
pointed to represent the unit
in the executive board, which
is to include a member of each
civic club.
Charity Dance April 1
A charity dance for Friday,
April 1, was discussed and plans
lxigun. An orchestra is to be
secured and the location is to
be announced later.
Reports were given that 273
hot Junches were serfed at the
John H. Lewis school for a two
week's period and 114 at the J.
P. Cowen. No report was given
concerning lunches served at
the Philip Nolan school, though
a large number of undernour- j
ished children have received! Directors of the Board of City Walkei
daily meals through the cour- j Development met in a short ses- j Roy Thomp?
tesy of the league. |sion Monday night and transact-; B. Askins. I
The building for the Saturday jod a light' budget of business.j Cress. Glem:
rummage and while elephant sale Paramount was the approval ofjSwaim and (
Here Is Kenneth Lewis and his heavy weiglii milk led call'
which today was judged the grand champion of the annual
Nolan-Fisher County Boys' Livestock show. I lie Mrer won
l'irst place in his division, went on to cop major tumors over
a field of many fine calves shown by hoy>
BCD
AAU
Seeks
Swim
I'rom both counties.
State
Meet
pre "
ion i
n.
is being donated by B. C. Mc-
Call, local realtor.
Two new members, Mrs. Pill
Cole and Mrs. Merlin Toler
were welcomed.
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Pensioners To Hear
2 Speakers Tonight
L. C. McDaniels, Dallas man-
ufacturing manager, and J.
Bryan Bradbury, representative
of the Abilene district, are to
Kd Mays,
lark Rich, J.
MrCall, Sam
-•II. G
i' barber
the Recreation committee to jretary-managei
issue a formal invitation to the j
Gulf AAU to hold the annual
swimming and diving contests
in Sweetwater, in conjunction
with the annual water carnival.
Tentative date of Aug. 4-5-0
for these combined events was ]
approved, as reported by Jack | HOUSTON
A.
sec-
Houston Police
Chief Attacked
i
City commissioners met Mon-
clay night to consider "routine
business" and found delegations
awaiting them that, resulted in a
4-hour session, in which the
board disposed of most items
but left some business for a spe-
cial session Tuesday and later
meetings when a full member-
ship could be present. Mayor L.
M. Watson, Commissioners D. A.
Clark and C. R. Simmons were
those present last night.
First of the delegations was j
from the Business and Profes- :
ional Womens Club, composed of |
Mrs. Elsie Robinson, Mrs. Tru-
die Stone and Miss Ella Patton,
who explained Hie nursery'
school for u n d e r privileged j
children sponsored by BPW'. j
Tin y reported that undei a WPA ;
grant about $1,200 will be spent!
within the ivxt four months!
j
on this project in Sweetwater, to;
be matched by aboi S550 local-
ly. However, gifts of furnishings j
by tlie fire department members j
and the manual training students
of the schools is cutting down the j
actual cash needed. It was ex-
plained that if the project is con- |
tinued after the initial four j
months, an executive board |
composed of a member from j
each of the contributing orga-
nizations will be set up to ad- '
minister the affairs. Approxima-
tely 100 children will be given
nursery care, proper nourish-
ment and training in games.
(■runt Approved
Commissioners voted to grant |oru] counsel
the request of $15 a month for
four months to this project, and
named Mayor Watson the repre-
sentative on the prospective exe-
cutive board.
K. M. Simmons, chairman of
the hospital board, asked the
commission to pass an ordinance
defining the duties of the board.
Whereupon the commissioners
instructed City Attorney C. M.
Anderson, assisted by City Mima-
See COMMISSION Pag; 0
SWEETWATER RAINFALL CHART
Jan Keh Afar Apr
.77 .04 3.02 2.50
.49 1.00 1.05 1.00
.41 .91 .33 .81
.401.10 1.94 .SI
.27 xx .27 1.08
1.00 2.88 1.29 2.21
2.54 2.58 .05 0.07
.101.01 .28 .85
.24 .50 3.15 2.72
.12 2.34 .54 3.05
.11 xx .75 1.78
.59 .02 1.02 .41
1.07 2.17 .03
May .Ine
2.28 4.09
.05 2.42
0.78 2.40
0.70 .52
3.31 1.47
1.32 1.30
8.20 11.67
4.14 .10
.13 1.09
8.89 0.80
2.78 xx
3.99 .75
lly
0.46
4.77
7.48
3.03
.82
2.32
1.10
.02
.70
1.04
3.07
.13
Aug
1.95
.81
3.53
xx
1.72
.08
Sep
3.42
7.75
.75
5.10
1.51
xx
9.04 11.70
5.00 1.79
1.88 .33
.10 4.20
.01 0.31
.91 .00
Oct
5.08
.92
.94
1.41
7.40
8.90
.17
1.03
.33
1.22
1.77
1.80
Nov
.72
xx
.64
.22
1.70
2.52
xx
1.70
3.48
1.21
.72
.85
Dec Totl
3.31 33.99
.90 22.57
.48 25.52
.09 21.35
1.75 22.00
Nolan and Fisher county boy
feeders today split equally in
the calf competition at the an-
nual Nolan-Fisher County Boys
Livestock show, with Nolan
I county boys taking major hon-
! ors in the milk-fed division and
i Fisher coup'v boys in the dry-
! lot division.
To Kenneth Lews, son _of
| County Judge Charles W Lewis,
| went the honor of exhibiting the
i grand champion of the show.
Reserve champion was exhibit-
ed by T. L. Carter, Jr., of
A light, cold rain failed to
dampen the spirits of either spec-
tators, boy contestants, or the
livestock as the judging got und-
i erway shortly after 10 o'clock
this morning. Ray C. Mowery of
the animal husbandry depart-
ment of Texas Technological
college, Lubbock, was judge of
the show. Mowery faced a big
task as he selected the top ani-
5 25 04 95 nials >n each division. In addi-
2.19 19.43 '
.0015.02
.20 30.43
.80 18.70
1.35 13.44
4.17
Snowfall: Feb. 17, 1 inch: Feb. 21, 4.02 inches.
March Ushered In
By Light Rainfall
Ross Kidnaper
Prefers Death
long
juilty
, Lamb, or lion—March was
j ushered in today with a light
| rain, the precipitation measur-
; ing .03 of an inch at noon, ac-
! cording to M. C. Manroe, volun-
I teer government weather obser-
| ver.
Fairly low temperature was
j experienced throughout the ear-
! Iy part of the day. the mercury
CHICAGO — (UP) — John j
Henry Seadlund, through his at-
torneys, said he preferred death
in the electric chair to a
wait for trial and p' ?aded 0 .. , ,.n
to the kidnap-slaying of Char- Ending at 02 deg.ee,
les S. Ross, retired Chicago Val- j o'clock this afternoon.
entine publisher. j maximum temperature Monday
U. S. District Attorney Mich-, afternoon was 71 degrees.
ael L. Igoe said he would de-| Thc s]ig]nt precipitation today
. I brought the total for the year
ion to a record number of en-
tries, Judge Mowery had to
pick animals, he admitted,
"where there was little differ-
ence between the choicest ones."
Open With Milk-Fed Calves
Judging opened with the hea-
vyweight division of the milk-
fed calves. Despite the slight
rain falling when judging start-
ed. the arena was lined four
and five deep with spectators.
From the nine entries in the
heavyweight milk fed calves,
Judge Mowery selected Ken-
nel li Lewis' calf first, Warren
Barton. Nolan county 4-H club
boy. second; Kenneth Lewis,
third; Clovis McElmurrav, No-
lan county 1-H club boy, fourth;
and T. L. Carter, Jr.. Fisher
county 4-H club boy. fifth.
In the lightweight milk-fed
division the following were win-
ners:
Elton Barton, Nolan I H club
boy, first: Harry Rotan, Nolan
1«H. second; Charles Holly-
baugh, Fisher, third; Kenneth
at 2 Lewis, Nolan, fourth; and Joe
The
Mich-
said he would de-j
mancl the death penalty.
In a voice barely audible bey
tables of the feder-
al district courtroom. Seadlund
replied "guilty" after Igoe read
the indictment charging him
with violation of the Lindbergh
kidnap law.
Federal Judge John P. Barnes
set March 14 for impanelling a
jury to fix the penalty, required
under a federal statute covering
quilty pleas to a capital crime.
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_ ilT
Rich, chairman of the recreation Chief C. A. William
committee. The board expressed an(] injured
itself in favor of continuing the
annual tennis meets in Sweet-
. I water, but suggested that this
speak at 7.30 p. m.. onight at. i activity be sponsored by an in-
courthouse. dependent organization, probab-
McDaniels is to sjxfik on hy a tennis association to be
"Turning Liabilities Into As- formed
sets," and Bradbury will talk!
Old People
for the pur-
Do
on "Why the
Not Get Their Pensions."
The addresses are open to the
public.
(i
Legionnaires Are
To Meet Tonight
An important meeting of the
members of Oscar McDonald
Post, American Legions, is
scheduled for tonight at legion
headquarters in the municipal \
building.
Among matters to come up for
discussion will be the AAU pro-
gram. Other important matters
pertaining to the post's pro-
gram are docketed for consider-
ation and every member is urg-
ed to be present.
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Court Asked To
Deny Capotte Plea
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Federal attorneys urged the
supreme court, to deny the plea
of A1 (Scarface) Capone for a
review of a lower court decision
upholding a one-year sentence
which the former Chicago gang
chieftain must serve after com-
pleting his present term at Al-
catraz Island penitentiary.
Capone, recently stricken wiUi
mental disturbances, asked the
court last month through his at-
torneys to review the one-year
term, which they contend
should have been imposed as con-
current to the one he now is
serving.
Police
was beaten
severely yesterday
in front of police headquarter?-
lie was taken to a hospital in
a semi-conscious cniidition.
Charles Chapin;^. 27. form-
er special police officer whose
commission Williams revoked
Jan. 1 after Chapman was ac-
cused of beating a motorist in a
I traffic argument, '.va
ied concerning the at;;
Hospital attendar1
| Williams received
I skull fracture, a jaw
lacerations on the '
I head.
Chief William- w
-aid that
possible
injury and
k of the
primarily
pose.
(lame April 7
The group also heard the re-1 traffic argument. question-
port of preparations for the
Pirates-White Sox exhibition
baseball game here April 7.
When petitioned by a group
from the Business & Profes-
sional Women's club, the board
voted $5 a month for the next!
four months toward Sweetwat- to give details of the ..itercation.
er's quota for the underprivi-| "1 can't remember .he told of-
leged children's nursery school, I fleers. "I don't k' uhat nap-
sponsoral by the BPW. j pened."
Sinn Proposal Capt. George I' chief of
Proposition of cooperating in ! the police homicide -<i«ad. said
the erection of a road sign at. that Chapman had -itcd him
Weatherford. directing traffic. a few minutes bei> • Williams
along highway No. 89, was re- was hurt.
ferred to the advertising com-j Mrs. A. L. Brow* :"ld Pey-
mittee. '• ton that she wo dt nit; past the
Invitation to the West Texas | police station wlvi Williams
Chamber of Commerce annual j fell to the sidewalk
convention in Wichita Falls [ "It looked tome two men
April 25-27 was deferred until ran into each other M - Brown
the next regular meeting of the j said.
board. j No charges were filed in the
Trio Held On
Theft Charges
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Jones and
Patsy Walker were bound over
to the Nolan county grand jury
under $500 bond each in pre-
liminary hearing in the justice
court of S. H. Shook Tuesday
on charges of theft of. approxi-
mately 8250 from C A. Harri-
son, 70-year-old Morton man in
Sweetwater Sunday night.
Members present wore H. A.1 case, pending an investigation.
Charge was filed by County At
torney E. L. Duncan.
The trio was arrested in Abi-
lene .following investigation
unable | conducted by Captain Lester
Turner and Citv Officers Mon-
del Russell and J. A. Bland.
They were brought to Sweet-
water Monday by Deputy Sheriff
Will Sample, Constable Neelv
Reeves and Deyuty Constable
John Eidson.
The suspects are alleged to
have robbed the elderly man of
the cash after being his travel-
ling companions from Lubbock
to Sweetwater. Harrison says
he owns a farm at Sherman,
and was en route there on busi-
ness when he joined the trio at
Lubbock. He identified them as
the three with whom he trav-
eled.
Contest Winneri
Are Announced
Competition was keen in the
Monday Specials misspelled
word,contest this week. En-
' trants in the contest scanned
the Monday Specials pages
closely and dug up an unusual-
j ly large number of the official-
lly misspelled words. Along with |
i those entered were such mat-
ters as counting omission of a1
dollar sign as a misspelling
jw^ich is not considered as a
word. Several entrants overlook-
See SPELLING Page 0
Jackson Favored
By Senate Group
WASHINGTON -- (Fl'i —
The senate judiciary committee,
| by a 10-2 vote, reported favorably ^
j the nomination of Robert Jack-
! son. youthful new deal "trust-
l buster", for Solicitor General
| succeeding Stanley F. Reed who
' was appointed to the supreme
court.
Sen. William II King. D,
Utah, and Sen. Warren Austin
R., Vt.. outspoken critics of
Jackson's recent speeches attack-
ing monopolistic practices, op-
posed the nomination and hint-
ed they would carry their fight
to the floor when his name
comes up for confirmation.
j to 4.17 inches.
i If there is anything to the
i superstition, the month is due
| to bid a boisterous goodbye to
I this area, for March came in
| like a lamb today.
.„
Irrigation ^ ork
Order Issued
BROWNWOOD — (l*P t — A
work order was issued to the
Briggs-Darbv ConstiUction Com-
pany Pharr today to begin
work immediately on 81.000.000
Lake Brown wood irrigation pro-
ject.
Officials of the water improve-
ment district, announced that the
first group of public works ad-
ministration laborers would be
put to work today in compliance
with'the terms of $450,000 PW"A
grant.
The first work will be the
j construction of seven miles of
(irrigation canals.
Officials of the water district
i assumed the personal responsi-
bility of financing the project | vls01''
■ until $600,000 worth of bonds
are sold. A contract has been
signed for sale of the bonds,
but details of the sale have
■not yet been approved by the
federal government. ^
Local Bo\ Losi
Leu Under Tram
Amarillo Car Dealers Automobile Blown to Bits By Bomb,
He Is Critically Hurt; His Life Had Been Threatened
AM A III LI <0 - (UP) —
Louis Keck. 50, motor car
dealer, was injured critical-
ly today bv a bomb placed in
the engine of his automobile.
Sheriff Bill Adams reveal-
ed that Keck recently was is-
sued a permit to carry a
gun.
"Keck told me his Hie
was threatened," Adams
■' a ■&. i,
said, as his stall and Amari-
llo police sought to solve
the mystery of the blast
that threw part of Keek's
automobile through the fami-
ly garage, virtually razed the
structure and another auto-
mobile in it.
The incident was rem'.iv.s-
cejit of the famous Amarillo
eight years ago when
A. D. Payne, an attorney,
placed a bomb in his wife's
automobile, killing her and
seriously injuring their
11-year-old son. Payne lat-
er committed suicide by-
blowing himself un in the
county jail.
Keek's automobile wus
blown to bits when he step-
ped on the starter. Large
pieces of flesh were torn
off his legs, chest and face.
Physicians said he had only
a bare chance of recovery.
He also suffered serious in-
ternal Injuries.
Police searched for a cus-
tomer who bad a fight with
Keck several weeks ago ov-
er payments on an automo-
bile.
eg in
r
Marvin Tillman. I", of Sweet-
water. is reported imp. 'ing in
a Cisco hospital nf'ci losing his
right leg in a fall beneath a
moving Texas and Pacific
freighj train in tl>•• Ci-eo yards
| early Sunday.
1 Physicians said several blood
transfusions would be necessary.
His traveling companion, Ray-
■ mond Simmons, donated
[for the first transfusion.
His step-fathei and mother,
i Mr and Mrs G L Clifton, 704
Bell, were at hi- bedside. Phy-
jsicians indicated that, unless se-
! rious complications arise, the
j youth will recover
Marvin was to have left Sat-
urday for Lubbock to attend a
four months' short course at
Texas Technological college.
Te had obtained a NY A posi-
tion there.
Billy Ward. Sylvester vocation-
al agriculture boy, fifth.
l>ry-IjOt Winners
Winners of the first five
places in heavyweight dry-lot di-
vision were as follows:
T. L. Carter, Jr.. Roby, first;
Tommie Stuart, Fisher 4-H club
boy, second; Malcolm White,
Hobbs vocational agriculture stu-
dent, third; Gerald Young, Fish-
er 1-11 boy, fourth; and George
Sweet. Blackwell vocational ag-
riculture student, fifth.
Winners of th< first five places
in the lightweight dry lot di-
vision were:
Riley Rives, Fisher 1-H, first;
Robert Lynn Parker, Roby VA
student, second; F. F. Hand, No-
lan l-H, third; Mark Cave. Hobbs
VA student, fourth: and I. C.
Timlin, Roscoe VA studept,
fifth.
Champion dry-lot calf, T. L.
Carter, Jr.; reserve champion
dry.lot, calf. Riley Rives, cham-
pion milk-fed calf, Kenneth Le-
wi-: reserve champion milk-fed
calf. Elton Barton.
Grand champion. Kenneth Le-
wis: reserve grand champion, T. •
L Carter, Jr.
Winners of the best group of
three: Kenneth Lewis, first; T.
L. Carter. Jr.. second^ Harry
Rotan, Divide, third; and Elmer
John Hawkins. Sylvester, fourth.
Group of five by one super-
Nolan county 4-H club
■supervisor, first; Fisher county
1-H club supervisor, second; Di-
vide vocational agriculture sup-
ervisor, third; and Blackwell,
vocational agriculture supervi-
sor. fourth.
Judging or sheep and hogs
continued through the after-
noon. The afternoon crowd in-
creased after ihe skies cleared.
S;ile Tomorrow
Show officials are expec ting a
record attendance tomorrow as
the annual auction sale follows.
The sale liegins. at M o'clock in
the morning, *
The boys show is to lie follow-
ed hy the John B. Stribling sale
Thursday and the Sweetwater
Hereford Breeders association
sale here Friday.
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blood Dallas Postmaster
Retires Today
DALLAS — (UP) — Post-
master Bruce Luna locked his
de k for the last time today and
turned the key over to his as-
si tant, W. B. Hudson, just 50
years from the date he entered
the postal service.
Luna advised his friends that
he planned a !"ng fishing trip
"and then I'll have to look lor
a job." •vt , M
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