The Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1938 Page: 2 of 6
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XVKRY FRIDAY
Itory, year. ..$1.50
Territory
amqoation
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out ptylBI I* principal or toUr-
Mt—u no moft INFLATION than
when .U ,1a borrowed. from those
whft have the Government to print
up for them 60 blUltme of do l«r
and we pay back Wth principal
and interest on the money the
Oovernment gave these MONEY
3HARK3 FOR NOTHING.
The average oyster Is said to lay
50,000,000 eggs a year. This might
be a good Item to paste up where
your hens can see It.
Speaking of absent-mindedness,
how about Dr. Ralph Carroll, when
he was courting his wife before
they married, forgot and charged
her two dollars a visit.
We asked Cotton Johnson the
ether day for his definition of a
reformer, and he said: "A man
who doesn't want you to enjoy
what he hasn't got the nerve to
do."
For The Latest ana Newest
IN LADIES READY TO WEAR
MILLINERY and ACCESORIES
Shop At The
New and Beautiful
SM POLK ST. Amarillo, Texas.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OP ARMSTRONG :
To those indebted to, or holding
claims against the Estate of Cep-
iinlna E. Nickell, Deceased:
The undersigned having been
duly appointed Executrix of the
Estate of Cephalas E. Nickell, De-
ceased, late of Armstrong County.
Texas, by Verna E. Herndon, Judge
of the County Court of said County
on the 29th day of August, A. D.
1938, hereby notifies all persons
indebted to said estate to come for-
ward and make settlement, and
those having claims against said
estate to present them to her with-
in the time prescribed by law at
her residence in Claude Armstrong
County, Texas, where she receives
her mall, this 30th day of August,
A. D. 1938. 4-r
LAURA NICKELL
Executrix of the Estate of
Cephalas E. Nickell, Deceased
"It is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for
the salvation." Lam. 3:26.
"Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and thy dominion en-
dureth." Ps. 145:13.
Some people are scared to death
—or pretend they are—over infla-
tion of Money. "Inflation" by the
Oovernment printing up paper
money WITHOUT being out any-
thing for the principal and no in-
terest, and paying all outstanding
indebtedness, and putting over re-
lief works of every nature, is NO
MORE INFLATION, than when the
Government prints up this same
amount of PAPER MONEY, gives
it to the Federal Reserve Banks,
for NOTHING, then borrows this
same money back from these banks
and PUTS IT IN CIRCULATION
To put more money in circulation
means GOOD TIMES. To put more
money in circulation means higher
priced Farm Products, and higher
salaries for labour. Understand that
It makes no difference as to how
this inflation comes about. Money
has been deflated now until he
country can hardly get along, and
the MONEY SHARKS are respon-
sible for it. The MONEY SHARKS
will tell you that if the Govern-
ment prints up ten or twenty bil-
lions of dollars, gives it to them
for NOTHING and the Govern-
ment borrows that money back
from them and PUTS IT IN CIR-
CULATION. that is not inflation
They also tell you that if the Gov-
ernment prints up ten or twenty
billion dollars and puts it in cir-
culation. without these SHARKS;
getting their hands on the money
that is inflation. Facts are that
either one is INFLATION, and one
is no more inflation than the
other. Just because they arc al-
lowed to GOURGE the public out
of principal aud interest FOR NO-
THING, does not make it less in-
flation of money. This is so easy
that any ten-year-old boy can see
thru it. However, the public—who
have been mislead into believing
that the MONEY QUESTION is
too mysterious for them to under-
stand; that they must not think
about such a hard problem—they
Just stand still while being gourged
out of over thirty-eight BILLION
DOLLARS. and say nothing or
make very little protest. MONEY
Is as worthless as the sands at the
sea shore, when hoarded up in
banks or kept out of circulation
In any other way. But is very
valuable as a handy medium of
exchange or a measure of values
When OUT IN CIRCULATION
That .Is why President Roosevelt
haa forced much of it In circula-
However he should have
M billions of dollars In
without being out ONE
for its use. This way of
You can call the common onion
an evil smelling vegetable if you
v/ant, but it is a real barometer
of prosperity. It's consumption falls
with with depressions and rises
with boom;;.
Infant industries must be foster-
ed if our town is to grow? Money
spent away from here is gone for-
ever! but when spent with a home
concern it is likely to benefit a
number of people here. Other
things being equal it is the part
of the wisdom to spend one's mon-
ey at home.
The junior Development Club
met Thursday, Sept. is, In the
homo of Km. Sob Lewter.
The business of this meeting
wat presided over by our presi-
dent. Mrs. Prank Bagwell. Aitisng
other business brought before the
club, a food sale wis decided on.
as a means of raising funds far
the Band uniforms. The Club
considered the Band a worthy
organization and felt that they
would each be benefited by such
a fine organization.
The topic of study for the
afternoon was "Our National
Capital."
"It Is better for a city to be
governed by a good man than by
good laws" was an Interesting
subject given by our President,
Mrs. Ralph Bagwell.
Other subjects discussed were:
"Our National Capital, History
of the location of our Capital,
General plan of the City, and Re-
gulations Governing the City and
The District of Columbia"—Miss
Delma Pafford.
"The Capital"—Mrs. Alton Mc-
Clure.
"The White House"—Mrs. J. T.
Thomas.
"Etiquette in our National Cap-
ital"—Mrs. Bob Hardin.
Guests present were Mrs. R. P.
Harrison and Mrs. Molen Brum-
mett. Members were Mesdames.
Alton McClure, J. D. Stoker,
Frank Bagwell, J. T. Thomas,
Ralph Bagwell, Delma Pafford,
Bob Hardin, Cecil Waggoner and
the hostess, Mrs. Bob Lewter.
5-Minute Biographies
Author of "How to Win Friends
and Influence People."
"We love our children. Please
drive slowly." That sign appears in
a lot of places. It is a mute appeal
from some helpless individual beg-
ging for the life of a child. A life
that is in your care whe.i you drive
the streets and highways. Remem-
ber that auto:; make for employ-
ment in factories, hospitals and
mortuaries.
A good band is worth a lot to
any town. Such a musical organ-
ization is an excellent town ad-
vertising and publicity getting
agent. It's programs may be en-
joyed by the entire citizenship.
But, more important, the band
furnishes a fine means of educat-
ing children and grown-ups to the
finer things of life. We're glad the
school and town have seen fit to
again support a band. —Tahoka
News.
Writing editorials is considered
by some to be the hardest part of
getting up a newspaper. Still when
more ads come in than figured on
editorials are the first things to
be thrown out, either because the
make-up man thinks they will be
Just as good at a later date, or
that they are merely opinions ol
the editor and therefore of little
value. Such is life—Quanah Chief.
A COMMUNITY SOHOOLIIOUSE
We often notice in exchanges
that reach our office a tendency in
other rural communities to use
school houses for other purposes
than teaching. There are many
sections where the school house and
the church are the only places in
which to hold public meetings, lec-
tures and various forms of enter-
tainment. Often it Is not possible
for citizens to maintain public
halls and that 1;; when the school
house affords a substitute and is
an added asset to its community.
We should encourage the use of
our schools for outside interests
as there are many advantages of-
fered that we may overlook if we
are not reminded of them. For in-
stance, it is possible for an enter-
prising town may secure an entire
course of lectures and entertain-
ments which can be brought to a
small center and will last through-
out the winter.
Claude people would find this
interesting and beneficial and make
a social center of the school house.
Today it is possible to install a
radio set for an evening's use and
provide the residents with many
"Big Jim" Kinealy's Gang
A GANG OF COUNTERFEITERS
TRIED TO STEAL LINCOLN'S
BODY
"Bib Jim" Kinealy's gang was
one of the cleverest bands of coun-
terfeiters that ever vexed and per-
plexed the United States Secret
Service. Soft-spoken and • mild-
mannered. these crooks had waxed
rich and opulent by their illicit
traffic in home-made greenbacks.
For years their profits had been
fantastic. But, by the Spring of
1876, a deadly paralysis was creep-
ing over the gang. Their supply of
contraband currency was ajl but
exhausted, and they didn't know
where to get more, for Ben Boyd,
the master engraver who manu-
factured their counterfeit bills, had
been arrested.
Secret Service men had caught
Ben Boyd red-handed, had shoved
him into jail at the point of a
pistol, and a judge had sentenced
him to ten years at hard work be-
hind prison bars, in Jollet. 111.
The situation was desperate, so
"Bib Jim" Kincaly and his gang
held a council of war. This arro-
gant gang of counterfeiters plan-
ned to steal the body of Abraham
Lincoln.
Was the scheme dangerous? Not
very, for these shrewd crooks knew
that there was no law in the state
of Illinois making it a crime to
steal a body.
Before leaving Chicago they
bought a London newspaper, tore
a piece out of it, and stuffed the
rest of the paper inside a bust of
Abraham Lincoln that stood on the
bar of a Chicago saloon.
The thieves planned to leave the
torn piece of the newspaper in the
empty tomb as they dashed off
with the body, knowing that the
detectives would eagerly pick up
the paper and prize it as a clue.
Then the counterfeiters would ap-
proach the Governor of Illinois,
offering to return Lincoln's /body.
And how would the Governor
know he was dealing with the
proper parties? That would be
the thieves sawed the padlock of
the iron door of Lincoln's tomb,
stepped inside, pried the marble lid
off the sarcophagus, and lifted the
wooden casket half out.
Then, one of the gang, a chap
by the name of Swegles, started to
get a team of horses which lie
said was waiting for him in a
ravine two hundred yards away.
But this man, Swegels, was not
what he appeared to be. He was
not a crook. He was, In reality, a
stool pigeon—a detective, employ-
ed by the Secret Service. He didn't
have any team and wagon wait-
ing; but he did have eight armed
detectives waiting for him in an-
other part of the tomb. So, the
moment he was alone, he raced
around to their hiding place and
gave a signal which they had a-
greed upon.
The eight Secret Service men,
clad in their stocking feet, rushed
out of their hiding-place, each
armed with a cocked revolver.
Dashing around the monument
with Swegles, they plunged into
the dark tomb and shouted to the
thieves to surrender.
But there was no answer. One
of the secret service men lighted
a match. There lay the coffin, hall
out of the sarcophagus. But where
were the thieves? Had they escap-
ed after all? The detectives search-
ed the cemetery in all directions.
A full moon was earning up over
the tree-tops; and the excited de-
tectives got mixed up in the semi-
darkness and presently began tak-
ing pot shots at one another. The
thieves, meantime, who had been
waiting a hundred feet away for
Swegles to return, dashed off thru
the oak woods and disappeared j
into the darkness.
Ten days later, they were caught '
in Chicago, handcuffed, brought'
back to Springfield, clapped into j
jail and surrounded by a battery
of guards, day and night.
Lincoln's oldest son. Robert, hired
seme high-priced Chicago lawyers |
to prosecute the gang. But the
learned Chicago attorneys had a
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simple, for the ghouls would pro-[tough assignment; for, as has al-
delightful and instructive programs, i and the
duce their London newspaper with
a torn page exactly fitting the
fragment held by the detectives.
The identification would be perfect.
So the sinister plot took form.
Roger W. Babson yes.erday pro-
posed a sweeping plan of taxation
of natura' resources which he
claimed would solve simultaneously
the problems of unemployment,
farm relief, and conservation. Re-
duced to a single sentence, the j
Babson plan was to tax the oil,}
lumber, and mining industries suf- !
flciently to curtail their produc- j
tion 20 per cent. This one device, j
he averred, would revive older and ]
competing industries, including |
I farming, so as to raise farm prices
J to a profitable level and put 3,000,-
1000 men back to work In industry.
Speeches can now be heard in this
way, and be discussed afterwards
before the gathering. Nation-wide
topics can be received by air and
a regular civic meeting could fol-
low. We are advancing and should
make ourselves aware of events
that are happening outside of cur
own circle. Use the school house
whenever possible as a civic audi-
torium.
Never tell a competitor you can
pass him. Go ahead and do it and
then you won't have to tell him.
SIGN OF THE TIMES
When we read of the children
who were "striking" in the schools
and picketing the school-houses, we
recalled how we used to think of
The war crisis overshadowed an
else in the world of business last
week. Stock markets here and in
Europe gyrated widely as recur-
ring wave: of optimistic and pes-
simistic news emanated from Ger-
many, Czechoslovakia, France and
England. Price:; of wheat, corn,
copper and other commodities that |
would be vital in war rose briskly
early In the week. Europeans scr-
ambled to ship gold to America for
safe-keeping. Meanwhile, in this
country there was little evidence
that 'scare headlines were hinder-
ing the forward progress cf busi- j
iv Operations in the steel in- [
dustry continued to expand and j
retail trade reflected increased |
spending. Reports from machine I
tocl manufacturers that their or-:
ders increased 35 per cent in Au-
gust. from July were most encour-'
aging. For it is an indication that |
sufficient faith in the future i-
developing among American busi- j
lie's men for them to start invest-
ing money in row industrial equip- !
ment.
FREQUENT OI'LTIVATION OF
SIIELTERBELTS PAYS
Wichita Falls. Texas. Sept. 23—
That frequent cultivation is a:,
profitable in the production of!
trees as it is in cotton growing I
in Texas and Oklahoma has been
shown conclusively in shelterbelt
plantings, it is reported by State
Director W. E. We'.b r the Un-
ited States Forest Service, win
has just completed an inspection
in Texas.
Where care ha been conscien-
tious, tree gtswth has been a!- I
mtst unbelievably r-pi.1. T'.i-
better-cared-for 1936 and 1137
sheltertelt planting are neur tli
end of their cultivuti::i periiJ-
and are providing considerable
protection to adjacent lands.
We can remember the time when j
young folks were as disgusted with
the kind of parents saddled on
them as they Rre today
with the fever of striking and pick
eting dying down somewhat, to
everyone's satisfaction, we learn
there are still some folks who fig-
ure it is a good way to get what
they want. For Instance, the Item
about the two baseballs that found
their way into a man's garden. He
refused to return them to the boys
walking out too—and didn't, be-' who lost them and they then pick-
gangsters arrived
on election night
Springfield
1876.
What a fitting time to rifle a
tomb! For Lincoln lay buried more
than two miles away from all this
excitement, deep In the dark and
deserted woods.
So. confident of their security.
ready been said there was no law
in Illinois against stealing a body;
and the thieves hadn't actually
stolen anything. So they were in-
dicted and tried for conspiring to
steal a coffin worth only seventy-
five dollars.
On the first ballot, four jurors
actually voted to turn the thieves
loose. After a few more ballots, the
twelve men compromised and sent
the body-stealing counterfeiters' to
Joliet prison for only twelve
months.
Trade's Day Specials
Barrett Pumps, reg. 5.00, spec. $4.00
Cake Covers, reg. $1.35, spec. $1.00
Cake Covers, reg. $1.15, spec. 90c
Cookie Jars, reg. $1.50, spec. $1.00
Cookie Jars. reg. $1.00, spec. 85c
Razor Blades (for Gillette, 10 to
pkg., 2 for 15c
Electric Razor, reg. $7.50, spcc, $6.00
Hair Clippers, reg. $2.25, spec. _ $1.75
Hair Clippers, reg. $1.25, spec. $1.00
OWD Clothes Pins, reg. 15c
(2 doz. to pkg.) spec. __ 5c
Linoleum, reg. 60c sq. yd., spec. _ _ 55c
Ricers, reg. 99c, spec. 80c
Cannister Sets, reg. $1.75, set S _ $1.-15
Brooms, reg. 40c, spec. 35c
Extra Specials in Silverware of Rogers
1847, Tudor Plate and Community
Plate
Farmers Grain & Implement Co.
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cause in our day they didn't call [ eted his house with this sign, "This
an act like this "striking,'' it was man is unfair to the kids of this
deemed plain cussedness. Today neighborhood." The .situation was
unpleasant and the matter was
taken up with the juvenile officer, j
The angered man lost the two
balls, and the Irate youths lost
their sign, and so far the matter
has been a draw for both sides.
It just goes to show, you can fig-
ure a craze has died down, like
cross-word puzzles, and up it pops
again.
Trade's Day for Bargains
OIL I'l.ATING MEANS YOU SAVE OIL, WHICH SAVES YOU
MONEY, (i \S AND OIL, SECOND HAND AUTO PARTS GO-
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LETTUCE, head 5c
CARROTS, 3 bunches for 10c
CRANBERRIES, qt. 20c
GRAPES, 2 lbs. 15c 8
ORANGES, doz. Igc ?
BANANAS, lb. 5c $
TOMATOES, No. 2 cans, 3 for 23c \
PORK & BEANS, per can 5C J
PEAS, Brimful, No. 2 cans, 2 for 25c $
PRUNES, gallon 27cJ
TISSUE, Northern, 4 rolls 25c \
COFFEE, WS lb. (can pepper free) 28c
BEEF ROAST, lb 15c
LOIN STEAK, lb. 18C
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