Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 266, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 17, 1940 Page: 1 of 18
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HEADS OILBELT TEACHERS GROUP
Boy Sells Prize Steer for $1,800
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Kenneth Lewis 17, Nolan county farm eluit T>o.v, sold his
grand champion href steer at the Southwestern Fat Stock
show, Kort Worth, for 81,800. The $2 a pound paid for the
steer was the highest of any major stoek show this year.
Lewis is shown above with his prize steer.
9 SCOUT TEAMS QUALIFY FOR
COUNCIL FIRST AID CONTEST
Blanton Abandons
$10,000 Lawsuit
(CP) — A li-
fe mi er Con-
L. Blanton of
defeat, in the
I district by
Garrett of Fastland was,
iturdtiv at Ulan tori's re-1 u<l 11
EASTLAND -
he I suit filed by
pressman Thomas
Abilene after his
17th congressionf
('l.vde
ended
ipiest.
Blanton had asked $40,000
damage, alleging that he was
libeled in campaign literature
circulated four years ago by Gar-
rett and his secretary, .1. W;
('ockrill.
The veteran Abilene legisla-
tor declared that his suit was
filed so he could present proof
in court that "1 have never teen
guilty of a dishonorable act."
"I never did want a cent of
t.'lyde Garrett's money," said
Hlanton, who agreed to pay costs
of the suit.
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Reds Not Afraid
()f Allies-Molotov
, HELSINKI — (UP) — Sov-
iet Premier-Foreign Commissar
Viacheslav M. Molotov bluntly
told Finnish peace negotiators
in Moscow that Russia was not
afraid of Great Britain or France
or both, JUhu K. Paasikivi, min-
ister without portfolio, told the
foreign press Saturday.
Paasikivi. one of Finland's
four peace negotiators, was ask-
ed if the question of allied aid
<o Finland was brought up dur-
ing the Moscow negotiations.
"Yes," he replied, "and Molo-
tov said 'we are not afraid of
Britain and France'."
Attack Continues
s
F.ach of the nine teiUtw enler-
. ed Saturday , ift^iwos. in the
I Sweetwater district first aid con-
i test, for Boy Scouts qualified
I for the council first aid contest
j in Midland next Saturday.
in order to qualify for the
| council contest, teams had to
| make a grade of SO per cent >r
| better. Each of the nine better-
i ed the 80-per cent mark.
Many of the Sweetwater
| troops' first aid teams were coa-
ched by members of tlie Sweet-
fire department, which
two years ago Coached troop 40
to a regional and Southwest
championship. Last, year troop
11 won the council contest and
was barely nosed out by a Lub-
bock troop. Troop 11 was also
coached by the first aid team of
the Sweetwater fire depart-
ment. A number of the teams
in Saturday's contest had the
benefit of the firemen's coach-
ing.
Judges for the Sweetwater
contest were supplied by the
first aid teams of U. S. C.ypsum
company, the Gulf refinery, the
Texas highway district mainten-
ance department, the Texas
highway patrol, Community Gas
company, Texas Electric Ser-
vice. Members of the fire de-
partment assisted in handling
the meet.
Names of the officials and
judges are as follows:
Chief official. Dr. George A.
Gray: recorder, Paul Brown;
.lack Hodges, and Marks Nich-
ols: registrar, A. E. Radcliffe;
awards, Dr. E. B. Pool; compiler
of problems, Dr. C. A. Rose-
brough; judges, L. A. Lassiter,
M. B. Thomas, M. T. Reirson,
Buck Cartwright, It B. Toler,
Ravmotid Smith, Jack Butts, J.
B. La Rue. J. H. Mausfey, R. A.
Wright, James Hedriek, Dr.
U. J. Dowling, and Dr. James
St ubbs.
Troops represented, sponsor-
ing organizations, Scoutmasters,
names of boys on first aid teams
were as follows:
Troop 12. Longworth: sponsor-
See SCOUT TEAMS Page 5
Annual FFA Show
Held Saturday;
Entries Praised
Highland and Iloscoe
FFA Boys Compete in
Lions' Club Event
ROSCOE — A heavyweight
calf, fed by "J. C. Tomlin, Ros-
coe FFA boy, under the super-
vision of J. Weldon Young, vo-
cational agricultural teacher,
won the grand championship of
the annual Roscoe and Highland
FFA show here Saturday after-
noon. The calf, also winner of
first place in the heavyweight
class, was bred by J. T. and J.
E. Allen, ranchers living north
of the city.
Saturday's show, sponsored
annually by the Roscoe Lions
club in cooperation with the mer-
chants who contribute the prize
money, was the best in quanti-
ty and quality of any exposi-
tion yet held.
Judge Praises Calves
County Agent Cooper of Sny-
der, one of the judges, said the
boys' calves were as well finish-
ed as any he had seen and was
high in his praise of the work
all of the boy exhibitors had
done in their feeding projects.
Calves shown in the Roscoe
and Highland joint FFA show
are to be exhibited in the Sweet-
water show April 1 and 2.
Assisting Agent Cooper in
judging the show was Dale Mc-
Whirter, vocational agricultur-
al teacher, of Pyron.
The total prize list, raised by
the Roscoe Lions, was $72..">0.
See ANNUAL FFA Page 5
o
British Steamer
Sinks After Blast
LONDON — (UP) — The Brit-
ish steamer Melrose, 1,089 tons,
sank after an explosi a in the
North Sea Friday, itr learn-
ed Saturday when -OiiljyfttW sur-
vivors <Jr a crew of- tarAJ
ed.
The cause of the disaster was
not known immediately.
Philip Thomson, cook, was
picked up by a Dutch vessel and
was landed at a port on the Eng-
lish southeast coast. He said that
three other survivors were pick-
ed up by other vessels. Thom-
son said he had been swimming
for half an hour before he was
rescued.
NAVAL TRAWLEIt HITS
MINK, I'OINDKRS
LONDON — (UP) — The Brit-
ish naval trawler Peridot found-
ered after striking a mine Fri-
day, the admiralty announced
Saturday. There were no casual-
ties.
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More Than 15,000 Readers
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YEAR (!« PAGES) SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1910
Elected President
Of Association al
Abilene Meeting
i
Sweetwater High School
Principal Honored by
Fellow Teaehers
A second distinguished honor
came to a member of the facul-
ty of Sweetwater high school
Saturday when Assistant. Super-
intendent J. H Williams was
elected president of the Oilbelt
NUMBER 266
Clean-Up Drive Is Planned
WORK ON ASSEMBLY HALL TO
BE STARTED WEDNESDAY
On Census Qaeriesj Britain Calls Up
Men of 2f> and 26
WASHINGTON^ — (UP)
Congressional critics of income
questions included in 1940 cen-
sus questionnaires continual
their attack Saturday despite
the fact that there appeared to
be no chance of senate action
before the census starts, April
2.
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Weather Forecast
WEST TEXAS—Fair Sunday,
not much change in tempera-
ture.
EAST TEXAS Fair to part-
ly cloudy Sunday
LONDON — (UP) — Great
Britain acted Saturday to bring
an additional 500,OtX) men into
the army by ordering men in the
age groups of 25 and 20 years
to register for ;:ervice next
month.
It was estimated that exclu-
sive of these men about 1,000,000
men had been called to the col-
ors, out of a^ total of 1250,000
registered, since the national
conscription act was inaugurat-
ed last June.
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Garner to Enter
Oregon Primary
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
President Roosevelt and Vice
President John N. Garner today
were scheduled for three pri-
mary fights for delegates to the
democratic nominating conven-
tion July 15.
The third state was added Fri-
day night with announcement
by Garner that he would enter
Oregon's presidential primary on
May 17 to compete with the pre-
sident for the state's 10 conven-
tion votes. Mr. Roosevelt's name
was entered in the primary on
Feb. 15 by the Oregon common-
wealth federation, a liberal
group. The primary is not bind-
ing.
In addition to Oregon, the pre-
sident and Garner will oppose
each other for convention dele-
gates in Wisconsin, April 2,
and in Illinois, April 0.
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Dies (iroup Seeks
To Question Red
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The Dies committee, it was lear-
ned Saturday has attempted to
obtain the appearance of Nich-
olas Dozenberg, communist par-
ty functionary, for testimony
here but has been prevented by
postponement of his sentencing
in New York.
The committee's secretary,
Robert E. Stripling, conferred
last Monday with U. S. District
Attorney Thomas Cahill In New
York seeking to obtain custody
of Dozenberg for hearings here,
but was told that nothing could
l)e decided until after his sen-1
fence on a charge of traveling
on a false passport.
200 Men Trapped
In Mine Tunnel
After Explosion
BELLA IRE, Ohio. — (UP) —
A gas explosion in the Willow
Grove mine of the Hanna Coal
company, largest in eastern
Ohio, killed two men and trap-
ped perhaps 200 others far back
in the tunnel Saturday.
John Richards, mine superin-
tendent. and Howard Sanders,
outside tipple forman at Wil-
low Grove, died in the mine's
emergency hospital three hours
after the explosion.
R. L. Ireland, Jr., of Cleveland,
president of the company, was
authority for the estimate of
the number of men entombed
far back in the tunnel mine,
eight miles west of Bellaire.
Ireland, who hastened to the
mine from the company's St.
Clairsville office, said he believ-
ed the miners were safe because
t& talked to some^f them
over a' (nine telephone'
Rescue^wyrk, wen.', iforward
speedily, with rescue crews as-
sembling from Wheeling, Bell-
aire, Martins Ferry, St. Clairs-
ville and other Ohio valley
towns. They were equipped with
gas masks and inhalators for
the hazardous work of trying to
reach the trapped men through
the gaseous chambers.
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Flying Instructor
V C--
Pleads Infiocent
NEW YOKK — (UP) — Jose-
ph Rosmarin, 38-year-old flying
instructor, Saturday pleaded in-
nocent to charges of assaulting a
passenger who battled with him
2,000 feet above the city and who
was drowned when their small
cabin plane crashed into New
York Bay.
Arraigned in a Staten Island
court, Rosmarin pleaded not
guilty to an attack upon Eman-
uel Eisenberg, press agent and
writer, whose body w
ed Friday from the
the New Jersey shore
Magistrate Charles
sef bail at $200 and
Wednesday is the date set for
beginning construction- on the
community assembly hall in city
park, authorised through a
grant made by WPA. The two
native rock buildings in the park
are to be coverted into an as-
sembly hall at a cost to the city
and WPA of approximately
$7,300.
The addition is to be of na-
tive rock. The hall floor is to
he of hardwood, 40 by 56 feet.
One of the two rooms of the pre-
sent building is to be converted
into a kitchen and restrooms
and the other into a women's
lounge and office space. There
is to be a band stage in the
assembly hall.
Spillway War Completion
Acting City Manager Roy
Duckett said that work would
be completed this week on the
spillway at Lake .Sweetwater
and that men now employed on
the project would be put to work
on paving park driveways with
caliche. Part' of the crew has al-
ready started caliche paving on
the road from the north en-
trance of the park which runs
Sfic ASSEMBLY HALL Page
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Market At A Glance
RV UNITED PRESS
Stocks at lowest general level
of the year in moderate trad-
ing.
Bonds lower; U. S. govern-
ments higher.
Curb stocks irregular
Foreign exchange higher
Cotton off as much as 00 cents
a bale.
Wheat and corn about steady.
Whiteflat Voters
Reject
For Consolidation
WHITEIvLAT — (Spl.) —Vot-
ers of the Whiteflat school dist-
rict Saturday turned down flat
a proposal to consolidate the
Nolan county district with Trent,
a Taylor county district.
The vote was 11 for consoli-
dation, 08 against.
Had the patrons of the White-
flat district voted to consolidate
with Trent, Nolan county would
have lost one of the richest in
the county. And should the peo-
ple of the district have ever de-
sired to return affairs* to the ad-
ministration of Nolan county,
another election would have
been required.
rp
hearing in the
day.
s recover-
bay near
. Keutgen
continued
case to next Tues-
Self-Mutilation
Row Flares Anew
HOUSTON — (UP) — A row
over a new outbreak of self-
mutilations of convicts got into
full swing Saturday to plague
administration of the far-flung
Texas prison system.
The latest development was a
demand! by Dr. C. W. Butler, Jr.
of Crockett, member of the state
prison board, for a legislative
investigation of the penitentiary
administration.
#rs. Burlesdn in
State Hospital
COLUMBIA, S. C. — (UP) —
Mrs. May Walker Burleson, ac-
cused of killing the woman who
succeeded her as wife of an
j army colonel, Saturday was con-
I fined to the South Carolina
j state hospital for mental diseas-
! es.
Her attorneys believed that
I should she be declared of un-
sound mind at the end of a 30-
day observation period, she
could not be brought to trial for
killing Mrs, Richard (', Burle-
son.
Stockholders of
Fair to Convene
Austin Jordan, president of
the Nolan County Fair assoeia-
toin, called a meeting of the
stockholders for 4 p. m. Friday
at which time a nominating
committee will make recom-
mendations of members for the
board.
Following the election of the
board members, they will be
called into session for the elec-
tion of officers, after which
dales for the 1940 Midwest ex-
position will be selected,
, The meeting is to be held in
the Board of City Development
office.
ill
Three Guardsmen
Hold Area of Dam
DISNEY, Okla. — (UP) — j
Three national guard officers j
represented Gov. Leon Phillips
and "technical martial law" at |
the $20,000,000 Grand River dam j
and hydro-electric project Sat- j
urday.
Eight Men Lashed In Delaware
Workhouse In Public Whipping
Auto Collision
Three persons were given em-
water hospital and a fourth es-
caped injury in a traffic acci-
dent shortly after midnight Fri-
day when two cars collided on
highway 70. five miles north of
the city.
Dock Lambert, Roby, driver
of one car, suffered a laceration
of his lower lip, loss of teeth
and a contusion of the knee.
Mrs. Blanche Nolen, Big
Spring, suffered a bruised thigh:
Mrs. Leland Nash of Colorado
City, a fractured right forearm:
and W. W. Nash, riding with
the two women, was uninjured.
After treatment the group was
dismissed from the hospital.
City and county officers in-
vestigated the wreck.
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Commutation
Refused Slayer
AUSTIN — (UP) — Judge
T. C. Andrews of the state par-
don board announced Saturday
that the board had declined to
commute the sentence of J. W.
Rickman. 22, who is to be elec-
trocuted Monday for killing City
Policeman Marion Taylor of Mc-
Kinney on March 2, 1938.
Andrews said more than 100
prominent citizens, some offi-
cials and ministe'rs, had peti-
tioned the board to commute
the sentence.
Rickman already has had the
30-day stay of execution which
Gov W. Lee O'Daniel grants to
all men sentenced to the elec-
tric chair,
The slaying for which Rick- j
man was sentenced took place
when the policeman stopped a
taxicab in which Rickman had
forced a taxi driver to take him
from Dallas to McKinney.
March .'tl-April 7
Set as Time For
General Clean-Up
Ail Organizations and
Citizens To He Enlisted
In Citywide Drive
It. isn't clothes which make
a man, nor is it the out ward ap-1
pea ranees which make a city—;
but both help in making the
right impression on friends or;
strangers.
Since Sweetwater is to be!
host to more than 5,000 guests|
within the next few months,
members of the health commit-1
tee of the Sweetwater Lunch- j
eon club and the fire preven- j
tion committee of the Board of!
City Development, desire that \
Sweetwater make its best im-
pression on visitors, all of whom
are potential future citizens.
Between now and June, Sweet j
water is to entertain thousands;
of visitors, many of whom are
to make their first visit to the I
city. About the middle of April.;
the annual Sweetwater invita-
tional golf tournament is to be!
staged at Lake Sweetwater. Hun-
dreds of visitors are expected j
here for the tournament.
Kotarians To Meet
On the heels of the golf tour-1
nament come* the Rotary club
conference. April 28, 29, and 30. |
when additional hundreds of!
guests Will be making their first !
visit to Sweetwater.
Fallowing the Rotary club
conference, May 27. 28, and 29. ■
See CLEAN-UP Page 3
.1. H. WILLIAMS
district, unit 7. of the Texas
State Teachers association in the
business meeting at the annual
convention m Abilene.
Previously Russell Sbrader,
.director of band music in Sweet-
water schools, had been elected
president of the Texas Music
Fducators association.
Two other Sweetwater teach-
ers were elected to high office
at the Abilene meeting. Superin-
•endent Ross S. Covey was nam-
ed a member of the house of
delegates to the Texas associa-
tion convention and Miss Marie
Hill, supervisor of public school
music, was elected district chair-
man of the music division.
Other officers elected Satur-
day were O. B. Rose, Graham,
vice president: Mi s Norma Rol-
lins, Wichita Falls, treasurer;
and S. E. Pass, Abilene, was re-
elected secretary,
Wichita Falls walii sel#«fed - .as,
the site'of the convention ui
1941.
FDR Savs World
Sec
IVs)
Real !
eace
Ve
teran Convicted
Of Killing Family
LOS ANGELES — (UP) —
Laurel H. Crawford, 41, shell-
shocked veteran of the World
War, waited stolidly in a cell
Saturday for a judge to sen-
tence him for driving an auto-
mobile with his wife and three
children over a 1,000-foot cliff
to collect their life insurance.
The jury that convicted Craw-
ford of the four murders after
21 hours' deliberation and rec-
ommended life imprisonment in-
fcrentiallv convicted him of a
fifth. Ralph Barnett, 61, a board-
er in his home, was in the au-
tomobile that smashed against
the jagged bottom of a canyoi
near Mount Wilson observatory
last December 11, but the grand
jury did not charge Crawford
with his death.
Fish Hatcheries
Being Cleaned
Workmen began Saturday
cleaning out the two fish hatch-
eries on the west side of Lake
Sweetwater and the two fish-
breeding places will be filled
with water early this week
Bream and crappie will be pla-
ced in the hatcheries for re-
stocking city lakes.
The breeding pools were es-
tablished by tlie city several
years ago. Since they were put
into use the city has bred thou-
sands of its own bream and
crappie for the various lakes
\ - (UP) —
ell declared
he world seeks
villi guarantees
>r small nations,
ud of intel-
WILMINGTON, Del. —
(UP) — Eight men were giv-
en a total of 80 lashes in
the courtyard of the New
Castle county workhouse
Saturday in the biggest dem-
onstration in modern times'
of this form of punishment
that has come down from
colonial times.
As a driving sleet and
snow storm swirled about
them, the men were led in
pairs, stripped to the waist
and shackled to the ancient
whipping post, with their
hands and arms above their
heads.
Each man received 10
lashes at the hands of War-
den Elwood H. Wilson, as
his deputy, Thomas Wheat-
ley, counted off the number.
All were convicted of rob-
bery and holdup charges and
were given additional pri-
son sentences besides the
lashing.
Delaware is one of the
few states in which this
form of corporal punish-
ment has survived.
Handyman Admits Spring Woman
Fatally Injured
Slaying Woman
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
(UP)—A. M. Phillips, a handy-
man, was held Saturday as the
confessed slayer of Mrs. Anna
K. Henson whose body was
found in a shallow grave over
which he had built a tool house.
The grave was found after nei-
ghbors told police of Phillips'
mysterious activities since the
middle-aged woman disappeared
Jan. 18.
The body was wrapped in a
quilt and baling wire. Cause of
death was not determined.
RANGER—(UP) — Mrs, Dart
Hudson, wife of the manager
of the Settles hotel at Big Spring,
died Saturday of injuries suffer
ed in an automobile accident
near here.
Mrs. Hudson lived only a few
minutes after being brought to
the Ranger hospital. Her hus-
band, who was driving the car.
was uninjured. Their automo
bile overturned several times 13
miles east of here, when the
driver swerved it to-avoid hit-
ting a cow on the highway.
WASH : S(
President l
Saturn.; th
a "real peat
of the integi
of retigiou- lYeedorr
leetual freedom.
speaking troin the White
House on a woriU w ide radio
broadcast with yueen Wilhei-
lnma of the .\eiheriands, diplo-
mats and religious leaders, Mr.
Roosevelt said
"Today we seek a moral baais
for peace. It cannot be a real
peace if it fail.-, to recognize bro
llierliood. it cannot be a lasting
peace if the fruit of it. is oppres-
sion, or starvation or cruelty,
or human life dominated by
aimed camps.
it. cannot lie a sound peace
il - mall nation.; must live in tear
ot powerful neighbor It ieonnot
be ,i moral peace if freedom
from invasion i.-> sold for tri-
but( ii cannot be an in-
telligent pence ii it denies free
passage to that knowledge of
those ideals which permit men
to lmd common ground It can-
not be a righteous peace if wor-
ship of Gou is denied.
On these fundamentals the
world did not have a true peace
in those years between the end-
ing of the World War and the
beginning of present wars."
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