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GREAT BRITAIN WILL BACK LOCARNO PACT
13,931 BALES OF
COTTON GINNED IN
COUNTY FOR 1935
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES SHOW
SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES
OVER PREVIOUS YEAR
Wheeler county’s 1935 cotton crop
totals 13,931 bales, according to the
preliminary report of the United
States department of commerce, re-
ceived here this week. While the
crop total almost doubles that of
-/the previous season, when only 7,290
bales were ginned, It falls consider-
ably short of the estimate of gin-
ners and cotton men. The majority
of estimates ranged from 15,000 to
20,000 bales.
Neighboring counties to the south
and southwest, where crop condi-
tions were much better than in this
area, had almost normal cotton
yields.
Collingsworth county’s reported
total was 21,558 bales, more than
double the previous season’s gin-
nings of 10,053 bales; Childress
county’s total for 1935 was more
than four times that of 1934. 22,880
bales as compared with 4,529, while
Hall county has 27,940 bales in the
1935 crop, as compared with 7,940
bales in 1934. *
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IN OIL FRENZY AS
VOTERSfflVE OKAY
“BLACK GOLD RUSH” STARTS
IMMEDIATELY WHEN VOTE
GRANTS EXTENSION
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VOL. 32
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936
NO. 275
GOVERNOR IISHS BRUNO'S HOIK
SURVEY COUNTY
TAX RECORDS IS
WPA ASSIGNMENT
PROJECT EXPECTED TO ADD
INCOME FROM PROPERTY
ESCAPING LEVELS
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 26 UP)
—A “black gold rush” was under
way last night In Oklahoma’s cap-
ital city after voters had opened
for drilling an additional square
mile in the northeastern residential
section.
Thirteen oil drilling permits were
. issued to one company, and many
other applications were on file at
city hall.
Blasting for derrick “cellars” was
expected to start last night.
A well will be started directly op-
posite the statehouse within a day
or two, officials of Hall and Briscoe
Oil company declared.
"It will be almost on the doorstep
of the capitol building,” grinned E.
■JV, King, secretary of the company.
Actually, he said, the rig will be set
across the street and 69 feet back
from the curb line.
Much of the territory soon to be
over-shadowed by 100-feet steel
derricks is thickly populated.
One area, directly east of Lincoln
Terrace, an exclusive residential dis-
trict, contains numerous new ofte-
story brick homes.
Another, directly north of the
domeless state capitol, includes ex-
tensive commercial properties, along
Twenty Third street trafficway.
With the drilling bars let down
by an overwhelming vote in Tues-
day's special election, hope for
handsome oil Incomes ran high in
many quarters.
Members of the state board of
affairs indicated they will be dis-
appointed if $500,000 In cash bids
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COMMUNIST INVASION
IRRITATES JAPANESE
PEIPING, March 28 (AV-Japan-
ese militarists today strongly threat-
ened Intervention as the vanguard
of a communist army, campaigning
in China, appeared at the frontier
of Inner Mongolia.
A Peiping attache warned that
“the Japanese army will take the
most effective steps to deal with the
situation if the communists men-
ace the peace, of the Hopei and
Chahar provinces.”
TODAY
TEXAS THEATRE — Winning
the Motion Picture Academy
■ award for the finest perfor-
mance of the year, Bette Davis,
is starred in her grand film,
“Dangerous” with Franchot Tone
playing opposite, Thursday and
Friday of this week. The story
of an actress who proved to be
the nemesis of every man who
came in contact with her, she
sinks to obscurity until Tone
finds her and finances a play In
which she is starred. There Is a
surprise climax, and a poignant
ending. Margaret Lindsay and
Allison Skipworth are in the
supporting cast. Don't miss it.
Also several short features.
THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS—Fair and cold-
er in the southeast; frost in the
south tonight; Friday fair and
warmer in the Panhandle,
A thorough survey of tax records
and all lands of Texas which will
eventually result in collection of
thousands of dollars from property
values now escaping taxation is be-
ing carried on at the court house
for Wheeler county, under the su-
pervision of Dick Stanley as coun-
ty project superintendent, by the
following citizens: Lynn Gott, Hugh
Cantrell, R. L. McLain, Aubrey
Ruff, J. N, Lee, Clearcy Douglas,
Mrs. Vera H. Jamison, Mrs. Corine
Hooker, Emalea Myers, Charlene
Sanders and Mrs. Anna Lewis.
The work consists of a survey of
the county tax records, abstract
records and all other records per-
taining to the lands of the county.
In addition there will be an actual
physical survey of the lands them-
selves to gather full Information as
to improvements, acreage in culti-
vation, classification of land ^s to
productivity. When the survey is
completed there will be available for
county records a complete picture
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BENTON FIRM LOW
BIDDER HIGHWAY 5
DONLEY PROJECT CALLS FOR
ASPHALT SURFACING ON
THIRTEEN MILES
ROOSEVELT STARTS FISHING TRIP
President Roosevelt Is shown waving goodbye to cheering crowds
at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as he embarked on his annual fishing cruise,
(Associated Press Photo)
AUSTIN, March 26 UP)—'The Pub-
lic Construction company of Den-
ton yesterday submitted low bid of
$66,150 on 13 miles of quadruple as-
phalt surfacing for highway 5 in
Donley county.
The projeot is between Clarendon
and Hedley.
Low bids on federal emergency
Construction totalling $920,434 were
tabulated by the highway commis-
sion yesterday. The bids brought to
$7,000,000 the total of work on which
bids have been received this month.
Projects upon which bids were
tabulated yesterday were located In
15 counties. Among low bidders
was J. E. Barnhill of Plalnvlew, who
bid $47,339 on 6.2 miles of gravel
base and double asphalt surfacing
In Johnson dounty between Cuba
school and Cleburne.
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BURCHAM IS MANAGER
OF WILSON STATION
Wilson and company, buyers of
produce, announce the appointment
of Millard (Slim) Burch am as local
manager of their cream and pro-
duce buying station, just east of
Nichols Servioe station, on Railroad
avenue. They announce they will
pay top prices on cream, eggs, pro-
duce and hides and invite the pub-
lic to call at their station.
FISCAL YEAR SHOWS
TWO BILLION DEFICIT
WASHINGTON, March 26 UP) —
Government revenues of this fiscal
year today reached the $3,500,000
jmark, compared with $2,812,000 for
j the same period last year. Expen-
jdttures to date aggregated $5,217,-
000,000, leaving a deficit of $2,182,-
000,000.
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ONLY HIGH SCHOOL
DISMISSED FOR MEET
All classes In the high school will
be dismissed Friday to allow stu-
dents to attend the county Inter-
scholastic League meet at Wheeler,
I it Is announced by Supt. W. C. Per-
kings.
| Classes will be held as usual in
junior high school, north and south
ward schools, Perkins stated, and
pupils will be expected to attend.
House Committee Accepts
Recommendation Process
Tax Be Kept Out Measure
WASHINGTON, March 26 (£>)—The House ways and
means committee today accepted without change the pro-
gram evolved by the sub-committee as a basis for hearings
due to start next week.
The report recommended a new corporation tax de-
signed to raise $590,000,000 and a ninety per cent “windfall
tax,” to recover a portion of the old AAA processing taxes.
It revealed for the first time railroads will be subject to a
tax on undistributed corporation income.
BUST STORM SAID
OKLAHOMA’S WORST
ENID, ALVA AND PONCA CITY
ARE DARKENED TODAY AS
MERCURY DROPS
By The Associated Press
Thick dust pall sweeping Okla-
homa today paralyzed highway
traffic, ravaged wheat fields and
blotted out the sun.
In north and western Oklahoma
the storm was described as the
“worst this year.” Stores burned
lights in darkened Enid, Avia and
Ponca City.
Mercuries plunged to thirty de-
grees at Alva and visibility was
limited to 50 feet.
HEARST CALLED ENEMY
TO FREEDOM OF PRESS
WASHINGTON, March 26 UP) —
Senator Minton, Democrat of Indi-
ana, today accused William Ran-
dolph Hearst of "prostituting” his
newspapers for his own private in-
terest.
“He is the greatest menace to
freedom of the press in the coun-
try," said Minton who is a member
of the senate lobby committee pre-
paring to answer the Hurst suit to
prevent use of his telegrams in the
committee’s investigation of lobby-
ing.
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9 LIVES FEARED LOST
OFF COAST OF ENGLAND
SKEGNESS, Lincolnshire, Eng.,
March 26 (IP)—Nine lives were feared
lost today when the French freight-
er, Boree, sank 20 miles off the coast
after colliding in the fog with an
unidentified vessel. Thirteen of the
22 crew members were picked up.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (IP)—A
house ways and means subcommit-
tee Wednesday flatly rejected Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s suggestion for new
processing taxes on a wide range of
agricultural commodities.
Reversing a decision reached 24
hours earlier to bring such levies—
without recommendation—into open
hearings on the administration's
$792,000,000 revenue program, the
group agreed that the discussions
should be restricted to three major
revenue proposals:
1. Broadly revised corporation tax-
es estimated to bring an additional
$591,000,000 annually in to the treas-
ury cash till.
2. A 90 per cent "windfall” levy,
to produce at least $100,000,000 from
processors on unpaid or refunded
AAA processing taxes.
3. Temporary continuation of ex-
isting capital stock and excess prof-
its taxes, to yield $83,000,000.
A report embracing these recom-
mendations will be filed today with
the full ways and means committee,
which will open public hearings
Monday.
Subcommittee Chairman Samuel
HOFFMAN INSPECTS
NAILHOLES TO SEE
IF THEY COINCIDE
EXECUTIVE WISHES TO MAKE
TEST WHEN COURT OF
PARDONS CONVENES
TRENTON, March 26 UP)—Gov.
ernor Harold G. Hoffman person-
ally visited Bruno Hauptmann’s
Bronx home today to test the
prosecution testimoniy that nail
holes in “rail sixteen,” of the kid-
nap ladder fitted nailholes in attic
beams of the house.
At the trial the state contended
the rail was originally a part of
the Hauptmann attic. The gover-
nor wishes to present test results
when the court of pardons meets to
consider Hauptmann's commuta-
tion appeal.
4 moredaysTor
DRIVERSUCENSES
TflE TEXAN WAS IN ERROR IN
STATING FEE WILL BE
CHARGED APRIL 1
It was incorrectly stated in Tues-
day's Texaii that a fee will be
I charged for driver’s license after
April 1, John H. Templeton, county
tax assessor-collector, said today.
The only fee that will be charged
will be 25c for issuing a duplicate
lioense when the original one has
been lost, he said.
Motorists are reminded they must
secure driver's license as well as
license tags before April 1 to com-
ply with the law. They are urged
to secure both at once as there will
be a last-minute rush at the tag
agent’s offioes which will work a
hardship on applicants as well as
the tag agents.
Persons residing in the south end
of the county may secure their li-
cense from J. B. Zeigler who has an
offioe in the rear of the Farmers &
Merchants state bank building
while those in the north part of
the county may secure them at the
office of Tax Collector Templeton.
farmIandsTre
SEIZED IN SPAIN
SWARM OF 60,000 LABORERS
DIVIDE PROPERTY WHILE
GUARDS ARE RUSHED
To Easing Present Crisis
LONDON, March 26 (/P)—Foreign secretary Anthony
Eden told the House of Commons today that Britain would
back the Locarno Pact.
He declared Germany must make contribution toward
easing the Rhineland crisis which was described as one of
the most “critical in international negotiations.”
He asserted that Britain would be obligated to guaran-
tee there would be no aggression between Germany, France
and Belgium.
“I am not prepared to be the first British foreign sec-
retary to go back on the British signature,” he said.
“I do not view the future with a light heart.”
March 26 (IP)
Succeeds Hagood
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THREE INTERSCHOLASTIC
CONTENDERS OMITTED
Three names were omitted from
the list of Shamrock school con-
tenders in declamation division of
the Interscholastic League meet at
Wheeler Friday and Saturday. They
were Mildred Brannon and Herman
Tindall In declamation for high
school juniors and Dorothy Hall In
Junior high school declamation.
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Mrs. Melvin Wall and Mrs. Lynn
Wall of Groom were visitors here
yesterday with relatives.
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Mrs. J. E. Brown of Alanreed was
a shopper in town today.
BADAJOZ, Spain, March 26 (IP)
—Sixty thousand tana laborers
swarmed through most of the 263
villages of this province today,
seized vast estates, provided to al-
lot lands among themselves, and
stormed police.
Civil guards were rushed to the
province in an effort to oust la-
borers, mostly socialists and com-
munists who demanded officials
of Badajoz to register land under
the names of the “new owners.”
The laborers refused to wait Im-
minent measures of land distri-
bution.
PAL OF HAMILTON
GIVEN TEN YEARS
BEAUMONT, March 26 ((F)—1Gil-
bert Sanderson, convicted accom-
plice of Raymond Hamilton in the
robbery of a national guard armory
here February 16, 1935, was given
two five-year peniteniary sentences
here Wednesday.
Sanderson was already under a
10-year sentence and the court
ruled the new penalties should run
concurrently.
Estelle Davis, acquitted of similar
charges Tuesday, was still held in
the county jail, but her release was
expected soon.
Dr. Jones of
business visitor
Wellington was a
here this morning. | Ing.
Maj. Gen. Frank Parker (above),
from Fort Hamilton, N. Y, was
named successor to Maj. Gen. John-
son Hagood as commander of the
Eighth Corps area with head-
quarters at San Antonio. He was
a siassmate of Hagood at West
Point. (Associated Prest Pho o)
PENNSYLVANIA IS
SWEPT BY FLOOD
(By The Associated Press)
WEST VIRGINIA AND OHIO
ALSO INUNDATED BY
RAVAGING STREAM
Large areas of Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Ohio were inun-
dated for the second time within
a week as heavy rains swelled a
half doeen rivers and sent a new
flood crest down the Ohio river
Wednesday.
The Monongahela river reached
flood stage along the industrial val-
ley of southwestern Pennsylvania,
forcing several hundred persons
from their homes and threatening
to flood basements in Pittsburgh’s
downtown area anew.
The Ohio river, swollen by small-
er streams, flooded lowland sections
of many towns in Northern West
Virginia and Eastern Ohio as the
first flood crest neared Louisville,
Ky. Parts of Wheeling W. Va., hard
hit by last week's flood, were again
threatened with inundation.
In Washington, the senate com-
merce committee shaped a $305,000,-
000 flood control bill which was of-
ficially described as a move to take
flood control projects out of the
“pork 'barrel” class.
The death toll from high water
and storms foT the past week
reached 200.
Death by states:
Pennsylvania 127; West Virginia
14; Massachusetts 10; Ohio eight;
Vermont seven; Maine five; Con-
necticut five; Maryland five; Vir-
ginia four; Missouri four; Wiscon-
sin three; New York two; North
Carolina two; Georgia two; New
Hampshire one, and Tennessee one.
HISTORICAL Ws
MADE BY BOOSTERS
Two interesting talks on the his-
tory of Texas and the Panhandle
were given at the weekly luncheon
of the Shamrock Boosters club Wed-
nesday as the third of a series of
Centennial programs.
J. H. Caperton was In charge of
the program, first Introducing
Clayton Heart who spoke on “The
History of the Texas Rangers,” and
then H. E. Pendleton who gave the
history of Wheeler county, after
apologizing he was more or less of
new-comer, having come to the
county only 27 years ago.
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Miss Elizabeth Hatler of Welling-
ton was a visitor in town this mom-
BERUN, March 26 (/P) — Th#
goose-stepping contingents which
Adolph Hitler sent marching into
the Rhineland not only brought the
zone under German domination but
also official sources said last nlgbti
halted German-Soviet trade nego-
tiations.
The armed march on the Rhine
resulted actually, both German and
Russion officials declared, in a
! postponement of conversations
which had brought 1936 trade deal-
| ings close to a point of consumma-
! tlon.
| The discussions had started In
11935 between Dr. Hjalmar Schacht,
S Nazi minister of economics, and
David Kandelaki, Soviet trade com-
missioner for Germany.
The reichsfuehrer’s denunciation
of the Locarno pact and his ac-
companying verbal barrage against
the Franco-Soviet mutual assist-
ance pact brought a lessening of
Soviet interest in a German loan.
Der Fuehrer continued his elec-
tion speeches at Ludwigshafen la*
night, telling a cheering audience
of 200.000 that “you who for year#
suffered under French occupation
have, I know, a special understand-
ing for problems being decided Just
now.”
As Hitler kept the ball rolling for
the Reichstag election Sunday, Eu-
ropean capitals awaited the peace
proposals which the chancellor said
he would advance after he had re-
jected the Locarno proposals for
new security framework.
DYNAMITEBLA8T
FATAL J TWENTY
SIXTY INJURED AND RAILROAD
PROPERTY DAMAGED IN
MEXICAN EXPLOSION
MEXICO, D. F., March 26 (IP) —
Twenty persons were dead and near-
ly sixty injured today following the
explosion of a carload of dynamite
at the Tultenango railroad station,
State of Mexico.
Ten freight cars, the passenger
and freight stations were destroyed
and rails twisted.
The accident was the most serious
In Mexico stnoe 1913, when a blast
killed one hundred.
COFFEE COMPANY TO
ADVERTISE IN TEXAN
O. C. Brenner of Amarillo, repre-
sentative of the Duncan Coffee
company of Houston, called at The
Texan office Wednesday to disouss
plans for an advertising campaign
to start soon on Admiration and
Bright & Early coffee.
Mr. Brenner said his oompany
plans to spend more money on
newspaper advertising tills year
than In many years, realizing there
is business to be had and that
newspaper advertising is the best
way to sell merchandise.
The Duncan Coffee company is
enjoying good business in Sham-
rock and vicinity, Mr. Brenner said.
Report Of Profit
On Roses Was
Premature
After an audit of the proceeds
of The Texan’s non-profit rose
planting campaign, it was stated
Monday the newspaper had In-
advertantly accumulated a profit
of 40 cents. The report was pre-
mature.
The Texan did not make 40
cents—it lost 40 cents.
This fact came to light Wed-
nesday when a lady customer re-
ported her order was short 4
rose plants and a refund of 80
cents was made to her I
So it will be useless to file any
further claims to the 40 cents
"profit”
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