The Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
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addressed on tilts paper
you will find the date
your subscription expires
to The Claude News. You
should always keep this
date a year in advance!
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only $1.50 in this trade
territory and $2:50 outside.
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MR. BUSINESS MAN
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gross Income should be set
aside for newspaper ad-
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grow by leaps and bounds.
Call 97 today and our ad-
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you figure your advertising.
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VOLUME 48
"Located in the Heart, of the Panhandle"
CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1937.
"On the Rim of the Palo Duro Canyon"
NUMBER 41.
Over 1,000 Peo- | [ Keeps Pin Boy Busy"
pie Attend Mem-
orial Services
Sunday, June 0, 1937, the cillzcnr
of Armstrong and adjoining coun-
ties met at Die Claude Cemetery
and carried out a most fitting pro-
gram, in honor of the sl!ent dead
after which most graves were ap-
propriately decorated with flowers.
There was over a thousand report-
ed In attendance and arcund 201
cars.
Mrs. Mai Kl"ht should ba prais-
ed for getting up such a nine and
Interesting program, as well a;
those who so willingly took pari
from each neighborhood In Ann-
strong County. A poem, "The Un-
known Soldier," read by Mis; Inio-
gene Wllmoih, of the Fairvlew
community, will be found in this
issue of the News.
Then, there Is Prof. Wayne C.
Eubanks, teacher of oratory in the
Aniarillo Junior College, who did
himself proud on this occasion.
Formerly while attending these de-
coration services, year after year,
Mr. Eubanks told us of the glorie:
of a soldier. Hits time he light-
about faced and told us of the
HORRORS OF WAR; who bring
on wars and who are the benefic-
iaries of ALL WARS. For cold-
blooded FACTS, Wayne Just "pored
it on" and did a mighty good Job
of it too. Many comments, and
favorably too, have been passed oi
his excellent oration. We hope
he will come again.
County Judge Henry K. Ilerndon
presided over the program which
was rendered as follows:
Congregational song -Leader Ft
E. Boone
Prayer—Rrv. Turrentlne.
Maiden—Bon:-; "Beautiful Isle"-
Mary Louise Pafford, Luella 11
January, Imogene Collins, Cleora
Conrad, Maxine Fhenliaur.
Mt. Pleasant — Reading — Nellie
Tyler
Conway — Reading — Mi",. Myrtle
Zoote
Fairvlew—Reading Imogene Wil-
motli, "Unknown Soldier."
Llona—"Decoration Day"—La Nell
Doshler
Uakeview — Duett — Fanny Mac
Dye, Mrs. Stella Dye.
Worthy—Accordion Solo—Bonnie
Dell Porter.
Washburn—Solo— Mis. Elizabeth
Collins-Baker.
M. E. Church— Violin Duet "Oui
Yesterday" real by Wayne Eubank
Played by Fu\e Carr Ruth Wilson
pianist, Alma Averyt.
Christian Church — Solo — Mr:
Amnion Woodward
Reading—Mocking Birds Wayiv
Eubanks.
Benediction—Rev. Clark.
The Association and citizen hi]
wish to extend their I hanks for tin
good work done by the Hoy .ill
of Claude, dining the day. In tht
morning the boys made a trip to
the cemetery end placed fl:.e oi
every soldier's grave end in tin
evening they were on hand t.
direct the traffic and park the
cars. Their system was wuike l U
a very fine po.nt and there was in
confusion in parking or ieavlnr; the
cemetery grounds, which prove:;
that our local tioop Is veiy oilec-
lent and headed for big (hint
li
NEW YORK Mrs. Annie B.
Desel, 75, has been bowling regu-
larly since 1901 and has only seorn
for bridge players. She bowls
every Tuesday night and has an
average score of 155
Booster From
Mangum, Okla.
to be Here Toes'?
""Buy American"
and Bring Pros-
perity Back
Probably not one Arm-Irons Co
citizen in a hundred ever look", t,-.
see where the article he is pur-
chasing was produced, though If
m:ire would do ro, and more would
refuse to buy products shipped into
this country from abroad, condi-
tions over here would quickly im-
prove. In China and Japan a wage
equal to 15c a day in our money
is considered fair; Germany is not
much better and Russia and Bel-
;luni are not far behind. How can
an American workman compete
with wages like that, or how can
living conditions over here be kept
at their present standard if lie
has to? If more Americans would
!o.,k to see where the merchandisej
they are about to buy was pro-
duced, and then refuse to buy it
if it came from country where star-
vation wages, long hours, sweat
shops and unsanitary conditions
are the rule it would go far toward
solving this country's employment
problems, and do much to prevent
future depressions "Buy American"
should be every loyal American's
dogan from now on.
WAYNE C. EUBANKS
NOTICE!
Margaret Doak has the Mustang
Annuals. See her for yours. 1-t-p
"Some men wake up to find
themselves famous," asseits J. I)
Dabbs, " and others stay up all
night and ilnd themselves no-
torious."
Mrs. Sue Kerr says June is the
M.ingum, Okla. June 11— Bedock-
•d in ten-gallon hats, loud shirts
alubrioators, real cowboy boots
nd oilier regalia typical of the
hi west, approximately 350 citizens
d Old Greer County and Mangum
-Its county scat -will arrive In
■'1 .lido at. <0 p. ill. Tuos lay, Jun«
15, on a goodwill expedition.
The stop at Claude wil! be made
m n tour that will take the
.costers to falter, Sayre, Erick
1 xola, Shamrock, McLean, Pampa.
White Deer, Panhandle, Amarillo,
Claude, Ci.iirndon, Memphis. Child-
ress. Wellington, Vinson, ami Reed
m June 15. Their purpose will be
o advert is? the OP Cireer County
Pioneers Reunion, to be held at
Mangum—capital or the historic
ild Empire of Greer on June 25
!6 and 27.
The boosters will parade alon"
he street ; of Claude and v 111 pro-
;ent a brief program.
The caravan will be led by the
'2-piere Granite Reformatory Band
lirected by Jim Doolen. Enter-
ainment at the various stops will
ncludo numbers by the Norman
Bros. String Band, rtae." and radii
nterlainers; Lucy Ann and Asli-
'ey I volt and E-kel Davidson,
vln will offer unique snn;;s and
nusic. and brief addresses by J
> Tutor, Man-',urn Newspmer man
pitom n: company robbed
The D. ill:" Cmnly Produce Co
i' CI m, • n' .n, v.ms burglarized ):i-
lay iii{;li', a week ago. and I ie
'inpi ; to- k, among other thing.
|. chnk b-n'.k. with cheeks made
rnyablc lo the First National Bank
it Amarillo. All parties are warned
o refuse to take checks from
Donley County Produce Co. num-
bers from 10,057 to 11,601.
"Life is at best just a zig-zag-
iin1 affair." declares Postmaster
\ppllng. "Most of us are zigging
when we ought to be sagging."
"When company stays too long,"
suggests Mrs. Hugh Donk, "just.
!ieat them like one of the family
ard they'll coon beat it."
MISS DOROTHY POWELL
Mi s Dorothy Powell daughter
f Mr. and Mrs. C. C Powell, ol
clarendon, represented Clarendon
as their queen at "Top of Texas
Fiesta." Miss Powell, Chamber of
Commerce Sereetary of Clarendon,
.J R Gillham. Misses Mary Frances
Powell and Helen Louise Green
made up the party who went to
Pampa.
Homer J. Pegram, of Denton,
month of brides, the other eleven Texas, is visiting his ITre'.es. W. H
being devoted to divorces
and .!>January of Claude.
Amelia Earhart and Flying Laboratory
J. I). stokkr to claude
J. D Stoker and family, former-
ly of Claude, but for some months
manager of the Parson's Produce
i ,'o. at Clarendon, has returned to
Claud*1 to work Willi lib father-in
lav/, Jake Ilolman, in his whole-
ale and retail oil and gas bushier ■
which Is to open up soon, In the
dd place formerly known as the
Claude Cottage Camp. M. It. Har-
rison, of Stratford succeeded Mr.
Stoker as manager of the former's
place and changed its name to
The Donley Co. Produce Co.
MORE RAIN 1IEKG
For more than three weeks this
eity has received a good shower of
rain most every night. Probably 10
or more Inches of rain lias fallen
in Armstrong County the past
month. "More rain, it's the best for
I he people in the West." These
showers will probably stop when
wheat harvest is. on, enough to
allow fanners to harvest their
wheat crop.;. At, least farmers have
began to think along this line.
This is indeed fine for row crops,
which must follow.
F. i,. bkiirens elected as
principal giles school
F. l. Behrens, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. l. Behrens of Clarendon
lias accepted the position us prin-
cipal of the Giles school. F l.
graduated from CJC in 1935 and
lias since been employed by the
highway department. He will con-
tinue his studies at WTSTC this
Summer.—Clarendon News.
F. l. Behrens, Jr., Is a brother of
Mrs. Thos. T. Waggoner of Claude.
Ills Claude friends wish liim much
success in his new school next year.
BURBANK. Calif. . . . Amelia Earhart and a mechanic check her
If lull flying laboratory plane in which she Intends to lake off soon
1 attempt to fly around the world. The plane suffered a second
recently whan an engine overheated and canght Are causing
PLATEAU SINGING CON.
Tucumcari will entertain the 17th
Annual Plateau Singing Conven-
tion on June 19tli and 20th, 1937
at the High School Auditorium.
John F, Taylor, President and Or-
ganizer, who- will preside at the
•onvtntlen, announces that a large
number of outstanding song leaders
will bo present. For the past six-
teen years. Mr. Taylor has been
president of this organization and
has devoted much of his time in | HSf!
song service. He knows how to
put "pep" in the singhvj conven-
tion and anyone interested in sine-
■ng or the entertainment furnish-1
od by the convention will not b
disappointed by attending this con- j !
vent ion at Tucumcari.
EUBANK TO LEAVE JUNE 13th
FOR EUROPEAN TOl It
Wayne C. Eubank, director of the
.'.epaiinient of dramatics of Am-
millo Junior College wi'l leave
June 12 to begin a tour .f Europe
sponsored by Northwester.: Uni-
vei ..ity.
Eubanks, whs has attended the
Chicago institution, jh granted an
assistantslilp for the tour, which
will last from June 19 to September
2. The tour, beginning v ih the
embarkation at Nsv York June
19. is actually p. course oi instruc-
tion in dramatics in Northwestern
University.
Gay times are expected " hen the
group will visit. Paris, scene of the
World Exposition, on July 14,
France's "Bastille Day."
Eight days will be spent hi Strat-
i0rd-0n-Avcn, studying Hh ike-
pearo and seeing the new Shake
pearean theater.
The group will also tour Italy.
At various points special lecture:
will be given by the world s best
authorities on drama, including B
Iden Payne and Dr Franz Be-
chardt. Several backstage demons-
trations for technical points will be
made.
Eubank will be one cf two assis-
tant ; to Mi s Naduic Sliepnrdyin
director of drama at. Gulf Park
College in Mississippi.
MISS JUNE SINCLAIR AND LT.
RICHARD T RIGHT MARRIED
IN CHICAGO JUNE 2nd
Miss June Sinclair, of San Fran-
cisco, Cal and Lt. Richard T. Kight
were married in Chicago, 111. on
Wednesday, June 2. 1937.
Miss Sinclair is the lovely daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Har-
rington 2238 Divisadoro Street, San
Francisco, Cal. and has spent most
of her life in that eity. Miss Sin-
clair, accompanied by her sister,
Mrs. Weldon Uxlcv, flew to Chicago
via United Airline, where she and
Lt. Kight were married.
Richard is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Kight, 2019 34th St..
Lubbock, Texas.
He was reared at Claude and
was a graduate of the Claude High
School, spent one term at Aniarillo
.Junior College. He also attended
Texas Tech. College, where he was
a student in the Engineering Dept
He was a graduate of the Oct. 1935
Class U. S. Army Air Corps, at
Randolph and Kelly Field in San
Antonio, Texas, then spent 12
months in the Army Air Corps,
at Hamilton Field California. In
December, '36, he accepted a posi-
tion with The United Airlines of
America and is now flying mail-
passenger planes from Chicago to
New York City.
The young couple will make
Chicego their home for the present
State and Nat-
ional News of
Great Interest
Illiteracy K. dured
Illiteracy in the Uniled States
'las been reduced by at least one
ixtli through the FERA and VVPA
education program. Harry l. Hop-
tins, Administrator of WPA, says
ippioxlmatc-ly 700 000 adults have
seen taught to read and write in
'■lie past four years, and in March
1037, 241,043 men and women were
enrolled in 22,779 literary classes,
'.vith 5.785 teachers engaged in
rheir instruction. Five hundred
loity-two of these teachers were
In Texas, conducting 1,269 classes
and instructing 18,501 enroilees
The object is to open the door of
educational opportunity to those,
who have been denied the usual
privileges of public education.
Registration of Firearms
Attorney General Homer Cum-
lrungs has asked Congress to re-
quire every owner of a rifle, shot-
gun, revolver or pistol to register
his weapon with the Bureau of
Internal Revenue. Registration
would be free, but a dollar tax
would be payable to the Revenue
Bureau for every firearm sold.
Posession and us of firearms by
criminals constitutes "one of the
pressing problems" of law enforce-
ment, he said, adding that the pre-
sent National Firearms Act, which
imposes a 1200 transfer tax on
machine guns, on sawed-off shot-
nuns and rifles and on silencers,
is ' far too limited in scope."
Recent development of a new
and more powerful revolver was
another reason advanced by Cum-
mings for his proposal.
Concentration of Wealth
During the depression the 24
largest banks which now ov.n j0 88
|;or cent of the banking resources
of all the 16 000 banks increased
in resources more than Four and
One-Half Billion Dollars. These 24
banks with 484 directors have In-
terlocking director relationships
with the 175 largest corporations
that own 58n! of the corporate
wealth In the nation. There are
more than 300,000 corporations, but
these 175 own that enormous per-
centage of the total corporate
v/ealtli. A recent study has disclos-
ed that a few people controlling a
few banks control a few corpora-
tions that control a majority ofj
Young Sit-Downer
, Daily
HQ PUNKWHMfl
EOR .SALE—One slightly used
j '22". in pood condition—GUYDELL
WOODBURN.
1 Ho! Ho!)
Bryan Waggoner: "I'm not only
a hypnotist, but I can sell you
j ooir. 1 inf.; that'll make your dreams
I come true."
O.car Grumke: "Nothing doing!
; Do you think I want lavender
e'epliaius walking all over my bea"
-<Ho! Ho!)
you
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. . Billy
McCrae, age 2, shows how he
stopped a train by sitting down
on tbe track. Quick thinking on
thft part of the engineer stopped
the train in time to save Billy's
life.
Doiis Byrd: "Darling, c:.n
spare a dollar?"
Cleon Byrd: "Say, what do you
think I am? I had to earn my
j money by my wits."
Dsn: "Oh! Well, give me a half
| dollar then."
'Ho! Ho!)
Clint Small: "You know what
| a Senator is?"
Carl Appling: "There's a Matador
a Picador and a Senator."
j Small: No, stupid . . . Matadors
j and picadors fight the bull."
Carl: I sec . . . and a Senator
throws the bull."
1Ho! Ho!)
Another exciting game is to be
riding at night, meet another car
and guess which headlight is out.
(Ho! Ho!)
Bob Hardin: 'Why does your
face smell so funny?"
Mr.:. Bob Her,I n "My face smells
11 unny bf cause I did what the cook
7ftn AAA I bcck ^ right bafoie I cook
/Uu,UUU Incomes,
CZAR OF WALL STREET EITHER f
Mr BoIi it said: Before start-
I ing to cook, rui> a little gailic on
your pan'!"
(Ho! Ho! i
Fat Hood: "I always buy my
wife's hats—if they loci: well on
| me, they'll look well on anybody!"
(Ho! Ho! >
Johnny Moore: "Well, yu bet-
Morgan's Income
Would Double 11,-
City Cleaners & Tailors, Phone 154
Hosta Mascot
kS&
CLYDE HITLER
Clyde Butler, formerly of Claude
but for some months handling .11
Idling station at Clarendon, lia-; J
assumed the responsibilities as |
Texaco Agent, replacing Mr- R. L.
Diggers, who has been agent for
four years, following the death of
her husbr.rd, Mrs. Bigger-;, whi
has desired a vacation for som ^
time, welcomed the opportunity to
sell her office fixtures and good
will to Mr. Butler, while she will
visit In California. Cute |iU|e Mary nope |;t.i,„ke.
nascol of the Fort Worth Frontier
Mrs. E!mer Brown, of Goodnight.! I'iesU which opens June 26, is
was shopping in Claude Saturday '^own displaying a d.iublo handful
■ of souvenir ticket books, which no*
rlt_ ru.«— * ... *r« being aold throughout the State
CHy Cleaners * Tailors, Phone 154 by church and civic orgaumalMaa.
'V. -J ' ;
ihe corporate wealth of the nation
The officers of no government,
state, federal or local, have ever
been accused of practicing nepo-
tism lo the extent that the heads
of these great concerns practice it
Let us hope that the time will
never come when the deserving
voung men and young women of
the local community must seek
employment opportunities from the
privileged few who directly and in-
.iireetly control our nation's wealth
Many steps are being made In the
direction cf breaking up this con-
centration cf wealth and privilege.
There is a trend, which is rapid,
toward fewer and larger banks. It
is my belief that small banks are
just as necessaiy to serve indivi-
duals and small business enter-
prises as large banks are neces-
sary to serve the large concerns
Therefore, the small banks of the
county as well as small Indepen-
dent business, should be encouraged
and protected against monopolistic
oppression and destruction.
Government Ownership of ledeial
Reserve Banks
More than 150 Democratic House
members organized a group to
sponsor the bill fcr the Govern-
ment lo own the twelve Federal
Reserve Banks As President of the
group. I was Instructed to intro-
duce the bill Hearings are expected
on this bill before the Committee
oa Banking and Currency at an
rly date. These banks are now
Fv-deial banks in njine only They
are swned by private corporation
md serve r. ly about 50 of til?
ianks, principally the larger cnes.
"inee the nation's credit b used
It Is our belief that It should be
j~fd In the Interest of all banks
'.nd the people, and not restricted
0 a few. No movement has re-
ceived so much approval in such
1 short length of time as this pro-
posal has received If enacted int"
law. It will save the government
ens of millions of dollirs a year
ind the Institutions will be a
source cf revenue Instead of a
few being pmileged to use th
nation's credit free. This Is one of
die most Important questions be-
fore congress—WRIGHT PATMAN
Congressman from Texas
BRING US your Auto or Radio
B-.tterlcs for re-charplng.—Sewed
Service Station 41-tt-c
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Benton
returned Monday from a visit with
relatives at Dallas, Texas.
OWNS OR CONTROLS THRU
SPIDER WEB SYSTEM
EMPIRE OE 62 BILLION'S
How much is a million dollars?
How much Is a billion?
How about 62 billion dollar "■
Can you imagine that much
money? Can you visualize $62,-
000,000,000.00 in actual cash stretch-
ed out in front of you?
Take tills example to help you
A dollar bill is six inches long, two
of them laid end to end make a
foot. Now if you were to take 62 -
billion dollars In one dollar bill;
it would make a belt of green-
backs 3 million miles long
Twelve Times to the Moon
That bell of greenbacks could
stretch between the earth and thi
'neon twelve times and have en-
ough left over to encircle the earth
ten more times!
Brother, that's a lot of money
Think of it six times lo 'lie moon
and six times back again and then
ten times back again and then ten
times around the world.
That's how much $62,000 000.000
is. And that's how much wealth is
either owned or controlled by J
P. Morgan when lie ':it b.u!. ii
his cffiie on Wall Street in Nc\\
York City.
Of Thee We Sing, Morgan!
When J P Morgan sii etches oui
his legs and puts hi; $42 shoes oi
his $15,000 desk, puffs on a J.4.00
cigar, sneers through his fancy $20:i
pearl handled French telephon
and bellows order at his flunkey
millionaire "partners" he is run-
ning the works of a layout worth
02 billion dollars—boss of encugl
money to make twelve trip to th;
moon and go around the earth
ten times to boot!
The Morgan wealth goer In al
corners of the globe: down to gol;
mines in Peru to rubber planta-
tions in Java, sugar cane fields h
Cuba, wheat in Rumania, oil well
in Persia, diamond mines in Africa
copra plantations in the South Se
and in America if you run down
any big business and trace It tin t
the Spider Web of Wall Street y,,i
will find, at the end of the we
Mr. J P Morgan.
(Continued On Last Pare*
"What size?"
Three rides and a
ter be careful, bee;'use if you pull
a cat by the tail it'll bite ou."
Thomas O'Daniel: No it won't."
Johnny: "Why not?"
T!ioma< " 'Cause cats c'on't bite
at that end1'
(Ho! Ho!)
Minnie Mae Sprinkle "I want a
lipstick."
C. O. Kight
Minnie Mae:
house-party."
(Ho! Ho!)
Lt. Richard Kight: "Grariour,,
dailing, but are you are dumb!
Has anyone ever told you that
storks aren't responsible for babies"
Mrs. Richard Kight: "Don't be
-illy. What about tabby storks?"
— (Ho! Ho! i
Sheriff Best: "Name?"
Raymond Woo:!: "Wood'li do."
B.-ji: "Give lis your real fame."
"Well," aid R-vmond, 'put me
Jown a Will :i Shakespeare."
"That's better," said Best, "you
.ant bluff roe with that Wood
stuff."
(He! Ho! I
Mr: Hcrae-> Dye "An;! are you
h"ppily marries.?"
Mrs Cleve Bennett: 'Yes, Indeed!
My husband i scared to death cf
ne."
<H.;! no!)
Mrs Bob AMiworth "That par-
rot you soiii me hadn't, been in the
house a day before kcBan to
swear dreadfully."
Dealer "Well, mo:lam, you ask-
e.'. aie for one that w .uld be quick
lo learn."
iHlI Ho! i
During an argument with his
frau. Bill Jones roared, "Woman, do
you realize tl.ai I in sirens as an
ox?" But the fiau merely sighed,
"I don't know I've never smelled
an ox."
City Cleaners \ Tailors Phone 154
School Girl Wins Southern Golf Title
\Y
ATLANTA, Oa . . . Dorothy Kirby. 17 year-old Georgia school girl
roll sensation won tbe 26th annual Southern Women's Golf Champion
thlp by defeating Mrs. Bstelle Lawson Page (left) Miss Kirby'* mrai
■111 be placed on the large silver trophy cup.
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