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VOLUME 53.
CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, NOV. 14. 1941,
NUMBER 12.
A Chicago-bound air liner, flying low in a heavy fog near St.
Thomas, Ont., crashed and burst into flames, killing 20 persons. It was
the second crash on a major airline within 24 hours and brought the
day's death total to 34. This soundphoto shows wreckage of the huge
American Airlines Ilouglas ship which started Its flight in New York. The
wreckage is still smouldering in spots.
Three Killed by Fumes from Stove
in Goodnight Last Saturday
Fumes from a low-burning stove
killed three members of Hobart
Brace's family—his wife and two
children—at Goodnight last Satur-
day, Nov. 8, 1941 A fourth person,
W. H. Conner, father of Mrs. Brace
remains gravely ill in an Amarillo
hospital.
The dead are: Mrs. Brace, 27
years old; Dorothy Brace, 5 years
old, and Buddie Brace, 2 years old.
Dorothy Brace died Saturday af-
ternoon. The mother and little boy
died almost the same moment Sat-
urday night.
The victims were found uncon-
scious in their home on the Good-
night Ranch Saturday morning by
a ranch employe. They were over-
come by fumes seeping from a low-
burning stove. Apparently the stove
had been burning all night. Win-
dows and doors were closed.
Mrs. Brace and the children had
been ill of flu and her father ap-
parently was taking care of them
Friday night. He was found slump-
ed over a table with his hands near
a bottle of medicine which had been
prescribed for the children. Hobart
Brace, the husband and father, is
foreman of the Hedgecoke interests
in that section. He had spent Fri-
day night at another ranch in con-
nection with his job.
The employe found the victims
about the middle of Saturday inorn-
irg. He and others living nearby,
opened windows and doors, sum-
moned aid. Mrs. Brace and the
children were in bed.
An ambulance from Amarillo was
called and Dr. W. A. Carroll im-
mediately went to the Goodnight
home. An inhalator used by Am-
arillo firemen, and other equipment
was brought down in a fire de-
partment car. Soon after arrival of
the ambulance and the car, the
victims were placed in the ambul-
ance and Dr. Carroll's car and
taken to Amarillo. The firemen,
who accompanied the inhalator to
Goodnight, worked over the vic-
tims all the way to Amarillo.
The bodies of Mrs. Brpce and
her two children were taken to
Canadian Monday and funeral ser-
vices were held Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Brace is survived by the
husband, father and two sisters,
one of whom lives at Canadian. '
The Brace family is well known
and loved by the Goodnight Com- j
Imunity and this week saw loving
1 (lands doing all they could for
the family in their time of sorrow,
j Mr. Brace is an outstanding ranch-
man in this section and has many
| friends in the Panhandle. #
Free Defense
Industry School
in Prospect Here
Tentative plans are afoot for
Claude's young men (and those of
this vicinity) to obtain training In
essential defense Industries. Classes
will be organized for a night school
in which certain trades will be
taught locally. In particular, these
classes will be for out-of-school
boys and young men between the
ages of 17 and 25. There will be no
tuition charge as the expense of
the courses will be borne by federal
appropriations.
Tcols and consumable supplies
will also be furnished by govern-
ment appropriation, as will the pay
for skilled instructors of local talent.
All young men between (or near)
the ages indicated, are asked to
meet Monday night in the auditor-
ium of the high school. Mr. Cure,
Vocational Instructor, will take a
leading part in the organizational
plans.
It may well be that this offers
an opportunity of unexcelled value
to many ambitious citizens. The
value to the defense program is
obvious.
Time and place again: Monday
night, 7:30 p. m. Nov. 17, in the
high school auditorium. #
DORIS JEAN DUNN
Doris Jean Dunn, who now resides
at 1042 Saginaw Street, Salem, Ore-
gon, is attending the Capital Busi-
ness College of that city. She ex-
pects to complete the secretarial
course in about nine months. #
Parity Price
Extension Urged
by Organization
TO THE FARMERS OF
ARMSTRONG COUNTY:
The following proclamation has
been issued by J. Walter Hammond,
president of the Texas Farm Bureau
Federation:
Proclamation:
Whereas, after twenty years of
struggle with the economic forces of
our Nation to adjust farm prices
on a parity basis with labor and
industry, the American Farm Bur-
eau Federation sponsored legisla-
tion through Congress in this year
of 1941 which assures producers of
cotton, wheat, corn, rice and to-
bacco a parity price for these pro-
ducts and
Whereas, other legislation was
sponsored by this Federation which
extends the parity concept to all
agriculture, and
Whereas, this legislation is for^entionedjn the last few months.
1941 crops only, now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Farm
Bureau members in Texas invite all!
Sheriff Burton
Jails House
Breakers
Goods stolen from residences of
Armstrong, Donley and Carson
counties may be seen in a room
of our courthouse, on third floor,
which indicates that Sheriff Ray
Burton of Armstrong county, Guy
Wright of Donley and T. B. Harris
of Carson, are hot after those who
would rob residents in the Pan-
handle.
The Editor visited this room in
company with Mr. Burton and
found it well stocked with ladies
and gents furnishings', suit cases,
ladies hand bags, ladies and men's
boots and shoes, stockings, as well
as silverware, table linens, quilts
ind quilt tops, pillows, pillow cases,
all kinds of tableware, vanity cases,
lip stick, face powder and hundreds
of other things used in a well re-
gulated home. This had been taken
from homes in the three counties
Robert Cecil Luper of Oklahoma
City, Okla., and his wife and dau-
Red Cross Drive
Opens Up-300 to
be Enrolled Here
RED CROSS
Through choice or necessity most
of the countries of the world are
in opposing armed camps. This
war is not primarily one between
rival imperialisms. It is a world-
wide conflict between opposing ways
of life and standards of values.
In America and the Western
Hemisphere we believe in the sup-
remacy of the individual. Truth,
justice, tolerance have personal
meaning.
And Democracy Is more than a
form of Government. It is a way
of life—our way of life, and ours
Ighter were arrested and placed In It0 defend. Passive approval of de-
other farmers and ranchers of this j t'le Claude ^a" the first of this
state to join their organization in
week, charged with various offenses
order to gain sufficient strength to |Armstrong county is stU1 a hard
extend parity prices on all agricul-100""^ to Bet away with anythtng
Three Minute Sermon
By Rev. Kenneth S. Wuest,
' Member of Faculty
Tlie Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago
THE GOSPEI, SIMPLY
EXPLAINED
Texts: "I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ: for it is the power
of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth." Romans 1:16.
"As many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the
sons of God, ever to them that
believe on his name." John 1:12.
We shall study these verses in
the light which the Greek New
Testament throws upon the English.
The word "gospel" is the transla-
tion of a word meaning good news.
The good news that God lias for
lost sinners is the power of God
that results In the salvation of the
one who believes it. What that
good news is, we shall discover as
we study our other verse.
The word "power" here means,
that which overcomes resistance,
the resistance of the sinful and
hard heart of the sinner. The
Greek word for "power" comes into
our Inaguage in the word "dyna-
mite." As an illustration, a farmer
has lonr? had a granite boulder in
his cornfield. He has plowed around
it so long that he is tired of having
it there. He blows it to pieces by
using dynamite, and it becomes
soil in which he can grow corn,
j The sinner's heart is like granite.
I But when the gospel enters it and
| the Holy Spirit quickens it to life
! in his heart there is a divine ex-
plosion, and his heart becomes good
jseil where the Word of God is
sown and grov/s up into eternal life.
I This is God's part in salvation.
The sinner's part is found in our
other verse. He must receive the
| Lord Jesus as Saviour. The word
'receive" here means to take. As
I Continued On Last Page)
Closed Coal Mines Four Days
Pictured above is John L. Lewis as he appeared at a press con-
ference before a troce brought an end to a strike of 53,000 miners in the
nation's "captive" coal mines. When the picture was taken Lewis de-
clared he was telling President Roosevelt "no" in response to a White
Rouse request for a settlement of the dispute. But after a conference
between the President, Lewis, Myron Taylor, former head of U. S. Steel,
and William Davis of the National Mediation board, the miners went back
la work under terms of a 15-day trace which called for further mediation
NOV. 11th, 1941
Nov. 11th, 1941, Claude was all
but deserted. There were fewer
people and fewer cars in town than
any day we have experienced for
a long time. Stores were closed tight
as a jug and business men left for
a visit with relatives or for duck
hunting.
Tuesday was an ideal day, the
prettiest sunshine day we have ex-
perienced for several months. One
remarked that it would take a
whole lot of that kind of weather
to mike him sick.
Such weather also means the sav-
ing of much of our feed crops,
much of which has been in the
field, uncut and much in the shock,
while some was on the ground. We
are indeed thankful for such pretty
weather. Several thousand dollars
worth of feed will be saved this
week and next. #
FARMERS ASKED TO
REPAID MACHINERY
Repair all old farm machinery by
the end of the coming winter is be-
ing asked of every Texas farmer,
according to B. F. Vance, chairman
of the Texas USDA Defense Board.
As an initial step in the nation-
wide farm machinery repair pro-
gram, all farmers signing their
Food-for-Freedom pledges are be-
ing urged to check their machinery,
order necessary parts now, and if
parts are not available to notify
their county defense boards.
Checking and repairing machinery
now will facilitate difficulties in
starting farming operations next
spring, Vance declared. #
FEDERAL LAND BANK
Better times on Texas farms and
ranches are reflected in the "most
consistent farm mortgage debt re-
tirement in years," said Mr. T. R.
Osborn upon his return from a
conference of leaders chosen by the
boards of directors of 14 national
farm loan associations in this ter-
ritory. The meeting was held in
Amarillo on November 5, the na-
tional farm loan association repre-
sentatives discussing conditions and
the 1941-42 plans with officers of
the Federal Land Bank of Houston.
Records of the Federal Land
Bank reveal foreclosure sales and
acquirements of farms, for the year
ending September 30, were the
smallest since 1931—twenty percent
below the previous year. Delinquen-
cies are the lowest in several years.
During the past year in Texas
land bank and land bank commis-
sioner loans were made for a total
of fourteen million dollars, which
is the largest dollar volume since
1935. Total land bank loans in the
amount of $17,598,608.00 and land
bank commissioner loans in the a-
mount of 84,382,773.00, were out-
standing as of September 30. 1914.
in the associations represented at
this meeting, tt
ROYAL NEIGHBORS
The Royal Neighbors will meet
Saturday, November 15th, at 2:30
p. m All members urged to be
present. #
Civilization is that state of af-
fairs In which money is collected
from women who make up their
faces and tint their nails. In order
to send missionaries abroad to teach
not to do the nine."
tural products through 1942 and
future years.
By the authority vested in me as
President of the Texas Farm Bureau
Federation, I hereby declare Nov-
ember, 1941, as Farm Bureau Orga
nization Month
thanks to the efficient sheriff's
department. #
C. IMIIL WALKER
C. Phil Walker, who received a
commission on the State Police
for the State of Force. October 25, at Camp Mabry,
Texas. Signed: J. Walter Hammond. Austin, has been stationed at Min-
eral Wells in the Driver's License
Has Parity prices meant enough
to you in 1941 to fight for them
for 1942?
Division; and will issue driver's
license in Stephenville, Weather-
frod, Palo Pinto in addition to Min-
Time is short-Congress Convenes !eraI WeIls PhiI was appointed to
in January—the opposing voice ofu^e State Police training school on
organized labor will be on hand to Sept lst, and had two months
training at Camp Mabry. #
defeat PARITY and YOU.
Only one other time has there
been enough wheat on hand to WINDFALL IN CRASH
feed the nation for two years—you
then received twenty two cents per
bushel for it compared to the ninty
five cents in 1941. Is it not worth
your time and money to join the
Texas Farm Bureau Federation
and strengthen the voice of the
farmer in the impending Congress?
There is power in co-operation
and organization—practically noth-
ing is accomplished individually to
get what we ask for in accordance
to our efforts.
Parity has been gained, but it is
not with us for keeps—we must
When Mrs Pearl D. Wilson, 51,
St. Albana, Vt., widow, won a radio
soap prize she was given the choice
of $25,000 in cash or $30 a week
for life. After doing some figuring,
she decided to accept the $30 a
week offer. She found that if she
accepted $25,000 in cash she would
have to pay $7,224 for Federal in-
come taxes and $480 for state in-
come tax, leaving only $17,296. The
weekly payment offer totaling $1,560
a year would be taxed only $78 by
Federal income taxand $62 by the
,, . . , „ .. state. Hence, if she should live only
f!ght J°r.11 „ye,ar_Jafter. .year:,Ah'n | twelve years more, she would get as
much money from the weekly pay-
ment plan as from the $25,000 in
cash. According to life insurance
statistics, Mrs. Wilson has a life
expectancy of 73M years, or 22'i
years still to live. #
struggle even harder to maintain
it through the period which is to
follow the war in order to protect
our vital interests and that of our
nation.
Are you familiar with the issues
effecting you, as a farmer which
are to be passed on by the state
legislature? Such matters are dis-
cussed and made clear at Farm
Bureau Meetings.
Much depends on your lining up
with the Texas Farm Bureau Fed-
eration and shifting your aid in
balacing the inequalities of agricul-
ture. You will be given an oppor-
tunity to affiliate with this organi-
zation in the near future—or if you
choose, mail or hand your dues to
the local secretary.—Newton Harrell,
county chairman.
BARGAIN DAY RATES NOW ON
Amarillo Daily and Sunday $10.00
Claude News, 1 year 1.50
Both Papers 1 year. Total $11.50
Both papers, 1 year Now only 6.95
YOU SAVE 4.55
Call at once or send us your
check for $6.95 and save money on
your Home Town Weekly and your
favorite daily paper. Both one whole
year for ONLY $6 9'. This offer good
only in this trade territory.—The
Claude News, Claude. Texas. #
TO COURT FOR HIS JOB
A suit in Federal Court, Chicago,
for restoration of his job by a dis-
charged soldier will be considered a
test case in many other similar
cases. James E. Herbert, 28, former
office manager of a paper company,
discharged from the Army after
reaching the age limit, got his old
job back but only for a short time.
He was let out September 30 and in
his suit alleges this was merely
"purported employment and not
genuine re-employment," as intend-
ed by the Selective Service Act. #
JOINT LEGION MEETING
The 18th District American Legion
Fall Convention and Panhandle
Plains Association to be held at
Dalhart, Texas, Nov. 15th and 16th.
Fine program arranged by Dalhart
Buddies. I urgently urge all posts
to have a large delegation present.
—J. M. Johnson, Dist. Com. it
HOUSE TO RENT—Located near
school house. 5 rooms modern. See
Ray Burton or Mrs. W. E. Spilman.
mocratic forms is not enough. We
must actively support democratic
institutions if they are to survive.
In the Red Cross is embodied all
those human values we in this
country hold nost sacred.
November 11th, an army of Red
Cross volunteers began asking men
and women everywhere in Arm-
strong County to join. They know
that theirs is an organization char-
tered by Congress ana dedicated to
the ideals of freedom of the inc' 1-
vidual; equality without regard for
race, creed or politics; and a gen-
erous helpfulness, impartially ad-
ministered, for those in need. They
ask for membership of all men and
women in support of those demo-
cratic principles.
Patriotic fellow-citizens are ask-
ing you to join in upholding an
ideal which is considered the finest
flowering of our western civiliza-
tion. They ask you to join and be-
come a part of this humanitarian
army behind the men behind the
guns. Put your patriotism to work!
Join the Red Cross!
Is He Home From C ollege?
Look in your gas tank. If tank Is
empty, son is at home.
Wire to college offering him 1100
If no reply of acceptance within an
hour, son is home.
Count your best neckties. If none
are missing, son is still at college.
Ask neighbor's daughter.
Head Waiter: "Would monsieur
prefer Spanish, French or Italian
cooking?"
Mrs. Chester Carr: "I don't mind
—I want a soft-boiled egg."
Two thoroughly Inebriated men
were driving like mad in an auto-
mobile. "Shay," one fumbled his
words, "be sure to turn out for
that bridge that's comin' down the
road toward us."
"What do you mean, me turn
out?" the other retorted. "I thought
you was drivin'."
Charles Brunson: "It is a strange
thing, but true, that the biggest
fools have the most beautiful wives."
Mrs Brunson (pleased): "Oh,
what a flatterer you are, darling."
A cop, watching Joe January
rapping on a lamp past with his
cane, suggested that there probably
wasn't anybody home.
'Yer wrong there, ossifer," retort-
1 Joe, "cant'sh see the light up-
stairs?"
"Whut in the world is youail
goin' to call yo' baby boy Opium
foh, chile?"
"You done heard opium comes
from a wild poppy, isn't you? Effen
dat chile ain't got a wild poppy As
neveh seed one,"
Newton Harrell took a trip into
Colorado for his vacation. Strolling
around Salt Lake City he made the
acquaintance of a little Mormon
girl.
"I'm from the Panhandle," he
said to her "I don't suppose you
know where the Panhandle is?"
"Oh, yes I do." answered the
little girl eagerly. "Our Sunda-
School has a missionary there."
Zeke Sez . . .
By Nugent Ezekiel Brown
Washington.—Here's the best sum-
mation of the present trend of
thought of the great majority of
thinking Americans at this time
we have :seen anywhere and it hits
the nail squarely on the head:
"Everyone resigned to the im-
pending involvement in war. They
are not enthusiastic. The feeling
is not like it was in 1917. Mr.
Roosevelt does not have a united
country behind him. There has
been a LACK of CANDOR which
makes the people doubtful, very
doubtful. One moment the Wash-
ington leaders show courage and
statesmanship and the next we re-
vert to politics. About the time we
folks in the forks of the creek think
we see stability, we are confronted
with PUSSY-FOOTING. Last week,
we saw Mr. Roosevelt take a lick-
ing from John L. Lewis. Not long
ago, Japan caused us to abandon
'freedom of the seas' in some quar-
ters of the world."
(Here we have quoted a substan-
tial and successful small town news-
paper publisher of the South, an
(Continued on Last Page I
First Communist: "Nice weather
we're having."
Second Communist (grudgingly):
"Yes, but the rich are having it.
too!"
Tourist: "What a quaint little
village you have here. Truly, one
half of the world is ignorant of how
the other half lives."
Lynn Sewell: "Not in this village,
mister; not in this village."
"But isn't yo' son too youns t
jine de Ahmy?"
"He is tol'able young yit, 1:
y'see he's jinin' up wid de inf —
fust."
Mrs. Bob Hardin: "I want so*-
grapes for my sick husband. D
you know if any poison has bee-
sprayed on these you have?"
Paul Hood: "No. You'll have to
get that from the druggist."
Mary Ella Waggoner: "How do
you like your new boss. Adella?"
Adella Adams: "Oh. he's not bad,
Mary only he's, you know, kinda'
bigoted?"
Man 'What do you mean, bi-
goted?"
Adella- "Well, he thinks words
can be spelled only one way."
It's Apple Red
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school year or for Soldier Boys (where
extra postage is not required) one year.
Outside this Trade Territory, for one
year, only $2.00.
WASHINGTON
11 PRICE CONTROL TAVORED
J j BY HO! SE COMMITTEE
(| Tlie Banking and Currency Com-,
j j mittee protected the farmers in the j
[ Price Control Bill being considered
by the House. Bcfoiv the Price Ad-
ministrator can fix a ceiling on
agricultural prices, they must be
higher than a 110% of parity as
| determined by the Secretary of Ag-
riculture. using the years 1909-1914,
and higher than they were Oc.ober
1. 1941, and higher than the aver-
age during the period 1919-1929
This places three floors under agri-
culture. and will assure the framers
that their prices will not be touch-
ed. if at all. until butterfat exceeds
44 cents per pound; cotton 21
cents per pound; potatoes $l 24 per
bushel: chickens 21 cents per pound
and other commodities in propor-1
Hon. Then, as the price of every-1
thing else goes up. the farmer's1
prices are tied to them and will go
!up accordingly.
! Any price-fixing bill is bad. It is
1'too much power for any person
to have. YeU the National emer-
V\
No Cotton Christmas gift could
Se smarter than this apple-red de-
signed cotton pajama outfit. The
three-quarter length breakfast coat
makes a smart and convenient
lounging ensemble. Produced under
Tactag standards, the cottoa fabric
in the pajamas is sanforised to
*ecwe a 1 absolute
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