Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 216, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 1940 Page: 3 of 6
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17, 1910
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SWEETWATER REPORTER, SWEETWATER, TEXAS
PAGE THREE!
British Minister Says Qermany Suffering From Blockade
'Dads' Announce
jPTA Program
The program arranged by the
"dads" of the Philip Nolan
PTA, to be presented at 7:30 p.
m. Thursday is confined almost
entirely to the husbands of the
wives who ordinarily direct the
functions of the PTA.
I The Rev. J. M. Sibley is to
give the invocation opening the
program.
The Cub pack Charter is to be
presented to the pack sponsored
by the Philip Nolan school.
Special music is to be in
charge of Mrs. Jim Wells.
The theme of the meeting
deals with preparations for earn-
ing a living and H. D. Bearden,
director of diversified occupa-
tions in Sweetwater high school,
is to be the principal speaker.
His address is to be: "Prepara-
tions to Earn—and a .Job."
A sing-song is to be led by
the Rev. M. H. Applewhite, to be
followed by a business and social
hour. Some phases of the social
hour are the "secrets" of the
dads.
Counterfeit Coin
Warning Issued
MARSHALL — (UP) — Sec-
ret Service Agent Leo J. Wil-
liams today warned East Texas
merchants to check their cash
registers in search of counter-
feit coins, mostly in half dol-
lars and quarters and dated 193")
and 1937.
He announced that charges of
manufacturing, possessing and
passing counterfeit coins had
been filed in Jefferson against
Carl Featherstone, Frank Cole-
man and Ralph Russell.
Williams said their bond was
set at $1,500 each. He said coun-
terfeiting equipment and a sup-
ply of spurious coins had been
confiscated at a house in Mar-
shall last Saturday.
Missouri Pacific
To Be Reorganized
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
J'he interstate commerce com-
mission today approved a plan
of reorganization for the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad system
which would reduce its capital-
ization from $671,205,664 to $500,-
•178,900.
The commission found that
the equities of the holders of the
preferred and common stocks of
the Missouri Pacific railroad
company had no value and tho
folders of those stocks were giv-
en no participation in the allot-
ment of securities of the new
company.
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Rehearing Refused
In Death Case
AUSTIN — (UP) — The state
court of criminal appeals today
refused a rehearing in the case
Of Bluitt Hampton who receiv-
ed a death verdict at Dallas for
the ice pick slaying of his wife,
Clara, on Aug. 21, 1938.
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Cranes Return From
Visit in Florida
After a three weeks visit in
Orlando, Florida, in the home of
their son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Royston Crane, and
two daughters, Nancy and Mar-
cia, Judge and Mrs. R. C. Crane
have returned to their home on
East Third.
The Cranes spent the Christ-
mas and New Year holidays in
Florida, and visited relatives in
Houston and Dallas before re-
turning home. Expecting warm
weather at the winter resort, the
Cranes were surprised to find
that, "unusual" weather prevail-
ed all (luring their stay, and that
it was cold enough for frost,
smudge pots were used at night
to protect the citrus fruits, heat-
ers were used in automobiles
and the same winter clothing
worn in Sweetwater was com-
fortable in Florida.
Mrs. Crane especially enjoy-
ed the flowers and palms. Flam-
ing red bougenvillia vines, azal-
eas, hybiscus and poinsettia
blossoms were colorful at Christ-
mastime.
Royston Crane, creator of
Wash Tubbs and other comics,
has bought 30 acres near Orlando
and expects to build a home on
the lakeside in the near future.
The ground has already been
improved with palms and citrus
fruits. Orlando is a city of lakes,
there being 22 lakes within the
city limits, Mrs. Crane said.
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Altar Society Plans
Program Tea, Jan. 28
One of the social highlights of
the mid-winter season is to be
a tea at 3 p. m., Sunday, Jan. 28,
at the home of Mrs. Tom Dona-
hue, 907 Josephine, with the
Altar Society of the Holy Fam-
ily Catholic church as spon-
sor.
At a called, session of the so-
ciety Monday at the sacristic
complete plans were formulat-
ed, chairmen appointed and pro-
gram tentatively arranged. Mrs.
A. S. Legg is to be guest speak-
er and is to be presented in a
book review.
Mrs. John Schriever, chair-
man of ticket sales, announced
a small admission charge. Men
and women are invited.
Present were Mmes. J. F. Spoil-
man, Med Swaim, B. B. Brown.
Tom Donahue. John Schriever,
Pat Duffy. Charles Dyar and U.
J. Dowling.
Mrs. MacQueen
Hostess to 42 Club
Mrs. Edwin MacQueen was
hostess to the Progressive forty-
two club Tuesday afternoon with
three tables of games in play.
Mrs. O. A. Boyer won the high
score. Mrs. J. B. Askins the con-
solation, and Mrs. Joe C. Pace,
Sr., the traveling award. An ice
course was passed at the conclu-
sion of the games.
Mrs. Robert Henthorne and
Mrs. Sidney Evans played sub-
stitute hands. Mrs. B. L. Mc-
Donald was a tea guest. Mem-
bers playing were Mmes. E. B.
Britton, Otto Carter. I. S. Focht,
N. B. Hall, George Outlaw, Dew-
ev Pace, D. C. Cage, Boyer. Pace
and Askins. Mrs. B. M. Neblett
is to be the next hostess.
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Window Pane Cuts
Require Operation
FORT WORTH — Mrs. Mar-
tha Watson, -15, suffered abdom-
inal cuts yesterday when she
broke a window pane acciden-
tally. An operation was requir-
ed to remove one seven-inch
sliver of glass.
Economic War Is
Having Telling
Effect on Nazis
Crayfish Imported by
Plane to Provide
Delicacies
LONDON — (UP), — Germany
is suffering severely as result of
the allied contraband control,
Minister of Economic Warfare
Ronald Cross told the house of
commons today.
At the end of 4 1-2 months of
war, Cross said, Germany's eco-
nomic troubles are similar -o
what they were at the end of
two years of the World War.
"Conditions of life in Ger-
many are strained," he said.
Cross said that Germany did
not have the same resources of
gold and foreign currencies
which she had 25 years ago.
"Her stocks of industrial raw
materials are far smaller," he
said. s
Cross told commons that sup-
plies of crayfish were being im-
ported into Germany by airplane
to provide a delicacy for the ta-
bles of nazi party leaders.
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Bonliam Business
Buildings Burn
BONHAM — (UP) — A fire
of undetermined origin caused
$10,000 to $12,000 damage last
night to business buildings on
the Bonham city square.
• A building housing the Dob-
son & company general mer-
chandise store was gutted. An
adjoining theater building was
damaged slightly by smoke and
water.
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Brotherhood Dinner
Scheduled Tonight
The annual national brother-
hood dinner of the First Christ-
ian church is to be observed at
7:30 o'clock tonight.
A musical program is to be
given, reports of work through-
out the world will be heard.
The Rev. Thomas Lenox, pas-
tor, is urging a full representa-
tion.
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BASKETBALL—
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ter the crown won last year by
Pyron.
Sweetwater's juniors make
their first appearance at noon
Friday against the Merkel lads.
The tourney opens Thursday
noon. The preliminary boys'
games are as follows:
Upper bracket — Colorado
City vs. Highland, noon; Hobbs
vs. Whiteflat, 12:45; Roscoe vs.
Blackwell, 1:30; Ragnots vs. West-
brook, 2:15, all games Thursday.
Lower bracket—Sylvester vs.
Ira, 12:45; Pyron vs. Trent, 11 a.
m.; Divide vs. Longworth, 10 a.
m.; Sweetwater vs. Merkel, noon,
all games Friday.
Second round games in the
upper bracket are to be played
Thursday and Friday nights, sec-
ond round games in the lower
bracket , are to be Friday after-
noon and night. Semi-finals and
finals are to be played Satur-
day.
Girls' teams entered are: Syl-
vester vs. Highland, Trent vs.
Brownlee, Hobbs vs. Eula, Py-
ron vs. Divide. Longworth vs.
Westbrook, Ira. bye.
Music Pupils to
Attend Meeting
Music pupils from all parts
of Texas, including several boys
and girls of Sweetwater, will
participate at the annual con-
vention of Texas Music Educa-
tors association, Feb. 1, 2 and 3
in Mineral Wells.
Russell Shrader, director of
Sweetwater school bands, is sec-
retary of the state organization.
Through its band, orchestra,
choral and percussion clinics,
music students and instructors
will receive the benefit of dem-
onstrations and discussions by
outstanding conductors of the
country. Altogether about 2,500
pupils will be present.
State clinic groups are to be
headed by the following: red
band, Jack Mahan, Union Grove
high school, Gladewater; blue
band, R. T. Bynum, Abilene high
school; orchestra, Mrs. Lena Mi-
lam, director of music, Beau-
mont schools; chorus, Roy J.
Johnson, East Texas State
Teachers college, Commerce.
In addition the A Capella choir
of North Texas State Teachers
college, Denton, the Texas
Christian university band, Tex-
as Tech band, and North Texas
State Teachers orchestra and
others will be presented.
In sectional meetings, promi-
nent music adpinistrators will
discuss academic phases of the
school music program.
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Two Diphtheria
Cases Reported
Reporting that two cases of
diphtheria have developed in the
county, Dr. George A. Gray, di-
rector of the Sweetwater-Nolan
county health unit, sounded a
warning today that precautions
should be taken to prevent oth-
er cases.
"Although one is a non-resi-
dent, our second case of diphth-
eria for 1940 has occurred," Dr.
Gray said. "These cases should
remind us that diphtheria is an
ever-present threat to the life
and health of our children.
"Parents should make sure
now whether their children are
immune to this dreadful disease.
The children should be taken to
the family physician at once for
a Schick test or toxoid as ad-
vised by him.".
Italians Warned
To Be Prepared
ROME — (UP) — Italy may
at any time be faced with the
necessity of taking up arms,
General Ettore Muti, secretary
general of the fascist party, war-
ned today.
Addressing a gathering of fas-
cist federal secretaries, Muti
said:
"We must not sleep in the
illusion that Italy's present
stand regarding the conflict will
be perpetual. Fascist Italy might
find itself at any moment faced
with the necessity and duty of
taking up arms.
"We must therefore be ready
with arms and above all in
spirit."
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Coal Delivery
Drivers Strike
NEW YORK — (UP)—Driv-
ers handling 75 per cent of the
city's coal deliveries were call-
ed out on strike today as the
temperature dropped and a cold
wave embraced the nation's larg-
est city.
The strike affected 2,500 driv-
ers and 2,500 yard men and help-
ers employed by 100 dealers. Lo-
cal 553 of the International Bro-
therhood of Teamsters (AFL)
called it after negotiations had
broken down on the union's de-
mand for $1.20 an hour wages
for drivers. Under the old con-
tract with the coal merchants
association and the fuel merch-
ants association, drivers got $1
an hour.
Man Killed on Way
to Funeral of Kin
TYLER — Funeral rites were
held today for J. D. Jones, In-
jured fatally in an automobilfe
accident while en route to the
funeral of a relative. The acci-
dent occurred near Kilgore.
Three other persons injured pro-
bably will recover.
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U. S. Involvement in
War Is Predicted
WAXAHACHIE — Belief that
the United States probably will
become involved in the Euro-
pean war was expressed here
yesterday by Dr. Rushton Col-
born, professor of history at
Atlanta university in an address
at Trinity university.
New York Writer Spends Night In
Sweetwater—and Tells About It
Sweetwater again broke
into print in a big way in
New York the other day,
when an article written by
Ward Morehouse, one of Its •
staff, was printed in the
New York Sun of January 4.
The clipping of this ar-
ticle was sent to Sam Brown-
ing by Arch Rogers, now
with the United Press in
New York, but in the early
twenties on the staff of the
Sweetwater Reporter. At
that time he roomed with
Mr. and Mrs. Browning.
The piece is entitled "Tex-
as After Dark" and goes on
as follows:
By WARD MOREHOL'HK
SWEETWATER, Tex., Jan. 4.
—I've known a flock of Texans,
including Amon G. Carter, and
Tris Speaker and they've all
cheerfully admitted that Texas
is big. They've even had figures
to prove it. But it's possible that
I didn't quite understand when
they talked about its bigness. I
didn't know that they meant it
was about the size of China or
Brazil.
Hereafter, when Texans talk
of square miles and mileage,
I'm going to suspect them of
understatement if not down-
right deception. I'm now snugly
quartered in the Hotel Blue Bon-
net and am quite peaceful about
it, but after ten hours of steady
driving I find that there are still
400 miles or so to be covered. I
suppose, of course, there've been
times when people just rode and
rode and never could find the
end of Texas.
"There's only one way to go,"
the pretty girl of the AAA as-
sured me in Memphis. "Texar-
kana . . . Dallas ... El Paso.
You couldn't get through via
Amarillo and Albuquerque, not
this time of year. You'll like Tex-
as. You'll probably find some
snow. But I hope you won't find
those long stretches too dull."
. . . I didn't.
The Dawn oil U. S. 67
Let's go back to room 412 in
the Hotel McCartney, town of
Texarkana, and come on through
to 604 the Hotel Blue Bonnet,
pride of Sweetwater, western
Texas. It's quite a jump.
The blackest and spryest bell-
boy I ever saw knocks at 412
at 6 a. m. on the minute and
I'm off an hour before break of
day on the Texas plain. Off
along Route 67 for Dallas. Every
five miles or so you meet a car,
but no more frequently than
that. The air is chill: there's a
feeling of snow. The country-
side is still. There's now traffic
along No. 67. And soft rain be-
gins.
The rain stops, but the temper-
ature drops. Yes, Texas is big.
And it's cold. The sky clears and
now those tall silver tanks are
gleaming in the sun. All of a
sudden, through the haze, there
looms a skyscraper. Greenville's
on ahead. Across the highway,
in the heart of Greenville, the
civic-minded have flung a slo-
gan: "The blackest soil and the
whitest people."
Abilene: Snowstorm
On into Dallas, which is bear-
ing up rather well under the
Garner - for - President deliri-
um. On into Abilene, and there
the blizzard strikes. Abilene's
already white. The snow falls
heavily, Route 80 is no longer a
speedway. Cars crawl, mine in-
cluded. Two of them slide from
the pavement into the shallow
ditch. Now three. El Paso? I be-
gin to wonder. There's a road
Rainey to Attend
Washington Meeting
AUSTIN — President Homer
P. Rainey of the University of
Texas left today for Washington
to meet there for three days
with other educators chosen to
write a report of the activities
of the year-old White House
conference on children in dem-
ocracy. He will lie a breakfast
fciiest at the White House on
Friday.
Couple Begins 69th
Year of Wedded Life
MARSHALL — One of Texas-
oldest married couples, Mr. and
Mrs. A. A. Hodge, today began
their 69th year of wedded life.
Childhood sweethearts, they
married at Columbia, Tenn.,
their birthplace. They have been
living here 38 years. Hodge will
be 91 in May, Mrs. Hodge 87 in
March.
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marker: El Paso 471. Well, that's
out. So this is Texas, way down
in the great Southwest. Snow,
ice, cold—and near darkness. A
road sign; Sweetwater 40. Visi-
bility poor, ceiling zero, but on-
ly forty miles to go.
Tliey Call It Broadway
And Sweetwater it is. So here
I am, far from El Paso, further
from Phoenix, but snug in the
Blue Bonnet. It's a sheep and
cattle town, they tell me, but
from my window it looks like
a port in the arctic. The roofs
of Sweetwater are deep in snow.
Splotches of it give a grotesque
appearance to the locomotive of
the Texas & Pacific, which
chugs just out the window.
What goes on in town? Well,
there's a movie at the Texas (ad-
ults 15 cents). "Disputed Pas-
sage," and there's "Trade Winds"
at the Ritz — "any seat 10 cents."
A bowling alley near by and a
couple of spots for dancing at
the edge of town. And for din-
ner there's the Bankhead Cafe,
which, according to Bellboy
Zack, is about as good as they
come.
I was about to forget to say
that the main street here is
called Broadway. No wonder,
then, that Sweetwater has seem-
ed like home.
Gallogly Hearing Rumania Builds
Set for Jan. 24 Fortifications
AUSTIN — (UP) — The ap-
peal of Richard Gray Gallogly
from a Dallas ruling that he
must return to Georgia to serve
double life sentences for hold-up
murders will be heard by the
Texas court of criminal appeals
here on Jan. 24.
Gallogly's appeal from the rul-
ing of Dist. Judge Grover Adams
at Dallas was filed in the court
here late yesterday. He had pre-
viously appealed to the court of
criminal appeals without success
from Judge Adams' refusal to
grant him bail.
O'Daniel Decrees
One Thanksgiving
AUSTIN — (UP) — Gov. W.
Lee O'Daniel decreed today that
Texas shall have one Thanksgiv-
ing Day for 1940.
"Inasmuch as all plans for
next Thanksgiving Day can yet
be made," Governor O'Daniel
said, "I feel it appropriate at
this time to state that it is my
intention to proclaim but one
Thanksgiving Day in Texas in
1940, which will be the same
day proclaimed as Thanksgiving
Day by the president of the Unit-
ed States."
LONDON—(UP) — A respon-
sible Rumanian spokesman said
today that, under personal di-
rection of King Carol, Rumania
has constructed hundreds of
miles of defense systems along
her frontier, known as "the
King's Dike."
The work of fortifications, un-
derstood to have been started
after the dismemberment of
Czechoslovakia, Is now almost
completed and according to Ru-
manian sources is intended to
defend the country against ag-
gression from either the wesl
(Germany) or the east (Russia
The plans for the defenses wv
said to have been prepared J
the king.
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108 Missing From
.3 British Subs
LONDON — (UP) — The ad-
miralty announced today that
108 officers and men were listed
as missing from the British
submarines Seahorse, Starfish
and Undine which, it was an-
nounced yesterday, had not re-
turned to their bases and had
been given up as lost.
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