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136 KNOWN DEAD, MANY MISSING IN HOODS
gj,AN INTERNATIONAL TROOPS
m ON BORDER UNTIL NEW
“ TREATY DRAFTED
LONDON, March 20 (/P)—Great
prltain, France, Belgium and
Italy today agreed to a virtual
jbilitary alliance if Adolf Hitler
pefusea to consider proposals to
re-establish the security of Eu-
rope.
The plan, as read to the house
|of commons by Foreign Secretary
fSlr Anthony Eden, contemplates
Sm international conference to ov-
(erhaul the League of Nations and
{greatly widen its scope.
Provision would also be made
[to establish a buffer zone against
! Germany along the Franco-Bel-
| gian border, the zone to be occu-
pied by International troops, in-
cluding British and Italian until
a new treaty is drafted.
MOSCOW, March 20 (IP) — The
Soviet press today reiterated Rus-
sia’s readiness to support the Lo-
carno powers’ measures to deal with
the Rhineland situation, provided
the measures are acceptable to the
League of Nations.
ROME, March 20 (IP) — General
Federico Baistocchi, under -secre-
tary of war, told the chamber of
deputies today, in the presence of
Premier Benito Mussolini, Italy is
ready to put 1,250,000 soldiers in the
field in the event of war in Europe,
in addition to the armies now in
Africa.
By The Associated Press
The cause of peace in Europe suf-
’Jered another setback Thursday
night as Germany flatly rejected
a new Locarno proposal to adjust
German violation of the mutual se-
curity treaty.
A foreign office spokesman in
Berlin termed the new proposal
“unaceptable," and uhleashed a bit-
ter attack on the Franco-Soviet al-
liance.
Three Developments
The rejection followed an after-
noon and evening of swift diplo-
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4-Power Military A lliance A gainst Germany Proposed Government Mobilizes
Agencies For Relief,
Of Stricken Sections
^AGREEMENT WOULD
■ ESTABLISH BUFFER
ZONE ON BOUNDARY
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VOL. 32
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936
NO. 270
RECHHISNPMENT ROSES HRRNES
TREESHELTERBELT
EXPANDS RAPIDLY
41 CREWS AT WORK PLANTING
IN NEBRASKA, TEXAS
AND OKLAHOMA
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MILES
As In 1889, when the Conemaugh river valley waa inundated with
a loss of 2,235 lives, flood waters again swept Central Pennsylvania
from Rossiter south to Cumberland, Md. Johnstown again was one of
the cities bearing the brunt of floods. Part of Pittsburgh also was
flooded and Red Cross disaster staffs were mobilized throughout the
East (Associated Press)
Success With Roses
Depends Largely On
Proper Setting Out
* LINCOLN, Neb., March 20 UP)—,
Shelter,belt officials announced yes-
terday 41 crews of workers have
planted 190 miles of shelterbelt trees
in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas and rapidly are expand-
ing operations.
In Nebraska where the work has
been under way only a short time,
tw<y crews have planted three miles
of trees. Fifteen crews soon will be
at work. In Kansas, 17 miles have
been planted by 15 crews, in Okla-
homa, 89 miles have been planted
by 11 crews. Thirteen crews plant-
ed 81 miles in Texas.
The full quota of 1936 planting—
1,424 miles—probably will be com-
pleted in Texas and Oklahoma by
the first week in April, in Kansas
and Nebraska by mid-April or early
May and in North and South Da-
kota by June 1.
Officials said applications for
1,500 miles of planting have been
r^eived from farmers for 1937.
TODAY
TEXAS THEATRE—"Rose of
the Rancho” shows last times
tonight and if you haven’t seen
this delightful musical of old
California days do so tonight.
John Boles, Gladys Swarthout,
Willie Howard and Charles Bick-
ford are in the cast of a real ac-
tion filled movie. Super enter-
tainment, with musical numbers,
dances and gay scenes of a
Spanish fiesta. A thrilling plot
dealing with land grabbers of
the Spanish ranchmen and a
mysterious Don Carlos who takes
matters into his own hands and
deals justice to the American
thieves, until he falls in love!
Don’t miss itl Also short fea-
tures.
THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS—Fait tonight
and Saturday; rising tempera-
By MISS VIOLA JONES
(County Home Demonstration,
Agent)
One of the first essentials of
growing beautiful roses is the loca-
tion and preparation of the rose
bed. Roses show up much better
against a background of shrubs
that haven’t too much color, or do
not have colors that will clash with
the roses themselves. Bridal wreath
makes a good background.
(Since roses like for their roots to
be shaded, they can be arranged
so that the foliage affords the nec-
essary shade. At some seasons roses
are not as pretty as shrubs, so that
they should be placed so that they
will be easy to endure during their
ugly season. Roses like full sun-
light on their foliage, so they should
be placed where they are free from
the shade of trees or buildings for
at least a greater part of the day.
Roses demand good drainage,
both surface and underground. The
soil must be loose and very rich.
The soil should be well prepared in
advance of planting by spading it
as deep as it can be spaded and re-
placing about one-third of the soil
with dairy manure. When the soil
is very tight, artificial drainage will
have to be provided. This can be
done by digging a pit two feet deep
and putting rocks in the bottom,
which will allow the water to drain
off. Dairy manure has been found
to be best for roses.
Since rostis like sun for their
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WHEELER ATHLETES
GO TO FORT WORTH
Wheeler track athletes, accom-
panied by the coach, Bob Clark,
were through Shamrock Thursday
on their way to Fort Worth to com-
pete in the Southwestern Exposition
track meet Friday and Saturday.
The group consisted of Whltener,
Pendleton, Jolly and Cain, relay
team; shot put and dle us throw-
ing, W. F. Ford and Conner. Con-
ner is also a substitute on the relay
team. Cain will enter the 880-vard
SERIES OF SHEET
HANDSOME GOLD AND SILVER
TROPHIES ARE OFFERED
BY LOCAL GUN CLUB
A series of weekly skeet shoots
for Shamrock trap enthusiasts dur-
ing the coming spring and summer
months will be sponsored by the
Shamrock Gun club, it is announc-
ed by Art Fleming, secretary.
The first shoot will be held next
Sunday afternoon at the traps south
of the oil mill and they will be
regular events on ensuing Sunday
afternoons.
Handsome trophies, gold for the
A class and silver for B class, will
be provided by the gun club. These
trophies will remain in the posses-
sion of winners of each shoot for
one week. Permaijent ownership
will be determined by the shooters
who win the greatest number of the
weekly shoots.
These events will be confined to
Shamrock shooters and all local
fans of this sport are invited to
participate, whether or not they
are members of the gun club. A
large number are expected to enter.
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COTTON CROP TOPS
TEN MILLION BALES
WASHINGTON, March 20 (IP) —
The census bureau today reported
the 1935 cotton crop totaled 19,417,-
237 running bales, counting round
bales as halves, compared to 9,472,-
022 in 1934.
the crop.
Texas produced 2,960,117 bales of
AGRICULTURE SUPPLY
APPROVED IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, March 20 UP) —
The senate appropriations commit-
tee today approved the $197,447,000
agriculture department supply bill
1,070 Plants Of Many
Varieties To Be Set
Out By Local People
(By The Associated Press)
The third day of unprecedented floods in Eastern states
today found 200,000 homeless, property damage of $300,-
000,000 and a revised death toll of 136, with many others
missing.
The federal government studied plans to spend $400,-.
000,000 for the relief of victims and to guard against a,
repetition of the disastrous floods.
Some Massachusetts cities were under military and
police protection to prevent vandalism. Parts of Spring-
field, Lawrence, Lowell and Haverhill, Mass., were inun-
dated. ,
Hartford, Conn., was harassed by a new rise in the
Connecticut river and a $100,000 carpet mill fire. Pittsburgh
feared an outbreak of pestilence as it dug out of the debris
left by high waters. Financial failure faced countless Johns-
town, Pa., businesses as the city surveyed its wreckage.
An eight to ten feet wall of water poured through Ma-
rietta, Ohio, streets and other cities along the Ohio river
mobilized rescuers for an onslaught against the devastat-
ing waters.
Gov. James V. Allred of Texas called for contributions
to the Red Cross disaster fund.
Convict Found Out
Roses! Roses! Roses! Red roses, pink roses, yellowj
roses, white roses, salmon-tinted roses.
The Texan office was literally swamped with rose plants
this morning as five huge burlap wrapped bundles, contain-
ing 1,070 first grade two-year-old rose plants arrived from
the Dixie Rose Nursery at Tyler.
This big order, ranking as probably the largest single
shipment of roses ever received in a Panhandle city, rep-
resents the response to the newspaper’s campaign for city
beautification through the growing of flowers. These plants,
usually selling at 75 cents to $1.50, were offered the public
at 20 cents each through a special arrangement with the
Dixie Nursery, one of the largest in the famous Tyler rose
country.
In Good Condition
The plants arrived In splendid
condition, each individual order
wrapped carefully, the roots packed
in damp moss. Properly set out
and cared for, there is no reason
why every one of them should not
grow.
Those who could be reached by
telephone were notified this morn-
ing of the arrival of the shipment.
Others are requested to come in
and claim their plants as early as
possible. The fact that the plants
are well wrapped and packed does
not mean that they should not be
set out immediately .
Zinnias Expected Soon
Complete instructions as to the
most successful method of setting
out roses, according to the exten-
sion service of Texas A. & M. col-
lege, will be found In an article in
this issue by Miss Viola Jones,
county home demonstration agent.
Zinnia seed assortments, orders
for which were taken along with
the rose orders, have not arrived,
but are expected within the next
few days. They were ordered from
Philadelphia and will require a few
more days in transit than the roses.
The Texan wishes to thank its
readers for their wholehearted re-
sponse to the flower-planting cam-
paign. We feel that the results
this coming summer and years to
come will much more than repay
the time and effort put into the
campaign.
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FDR ASKS FARMERS
TO STUDY PROGRAM
BEFORE PLANTING
UNBRIDLED PRODUCTION MAY
AGAIN WRECK PRICES.
PRESIDENT WARNS
WASHINGTON, March 20 (JP) —
President Roosevelt issued a state-
ment Thursday urging farmers not
to complete this year’s crop plans
until they have studied benefits for
crop diversion offered under the new
farm program.
In his statement the president
said agricultural department fig-
ures showed farmers were planning
an increase of 19 per cent in spring
wheat acreage, six per cent in corn
acreage, 11 per cent in rice, nine
per cent in tobacco and eight per
cent in peanuts—with unofficial es-
timates of about 15 per cent in cot-
ton.
“Although the production control
programs have been stopped,” he
said, “farmers are not entirely at
the mercy of unbridled competition
with their fellow producers, as they
were in the years preceding 1933.
The new farm act provides for fi-
nancial assistance by the govern-
ment to those fanners who, heeding
the warnings oontained in the in-
tentions-to-plant reports, wish to
shift from the production of un-
needed surpluses of soil-depleting
crops to the production of needed
soll-bulldlng crops.
■If fanners, for any reason,
shoulu fail to take advantage ol the
w act, and especially if they
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PILGRIM HOLINESS
REVIVAL IN PROGRESS
Much interest is developing in
the Pilgrim Holiness revival, which
opened Sunday at the Cumberland
Presbyterian church on North Hous-
ton, according to Elizabeth Woods,
pastor.
The revival Is in charge of Rev.
and Mrs. O. H. Dauel, both of whom
are ordained preachers for the Pil-
grim Holiness church. Reverend
Dauel Is district superintendent of
the Texas-Oklahoma district.
The revival will continue through
two weeks from next Sunday, with
evening services at 8 o'clock The
public is cordially Invited.
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EXPLOSION, FIRE
FATAL TO THREE
TEXARKANA,
Three persons were
when a terrific explosion,
March 20 (IP) —
killed today
followed
A K RADIO SHOWING
NEW REFRIGERATORS
1936 LEONARD MODELS HAVE
MANY MODERN FEATURES,
SAY LOCAL DEALERS
A spring showing to be held to-
day and Saturday at the A-K Radio
shop, local Leonard sales agency,
was announced by L. O. Glasgow.
The first public showing of the 1936
Leonard electric refrigerators will
be made on these dates.
Thorough re - desgnlng In 1936
models distinguishes the new Leon-
ard from any previously manufac-
turned electric refrigerator, said Mr.
Glasgow, who saw the new models
In a private showing at Amarillo.
The spring showing, he said, Is
being held to give the residents of
Shamrock an opportunity to see
the new models. Mr. Glasgow and
others associated with the firm will
act as a reception committee for
visitors and will explain features of
the 1936 refrigerators.
The A-K Radio shop has also
taken the exclusive dealership In
Shamrock for the Easy Washers and
MARIETTA, Ohio, March 20 UP)--
A hundred residents fled their
homes today as the crest of the up-
per Ohio river valley’s worst flood
in history swept southward. The wa-
ter here was from four to seven and
one-half feet this morning.
Towns along the 150-mile stretch
were virtually evacuated before the
advancing flood. At least 300 were
homeless. Kentucky families, esti-
mated to number 1,900, started leav-
ing their homes as the flood pro-
gressed.
WASHINGTON, March 20 (IP) —
President Roosevelt today postponed
lor another 24 hours at least his
trip to Florida, in order to check
flood developments.
Talmadge E. Baker, 34 (above)
acquired a wife, a good Job, and
wat active In church work at Kan
sa* City during seven years’ reel
denes there. Police Identified him
as s man once sentenced to hang
for an Alabama holdup murder, who
escaped Kilby prison as Ilfs termer
in 1125. (Associated Press Photo)
NOTORIOUS OUTLAW
ESCAPES FROM JAIL
“ACE” PENDLETON IS SOUGHT
AFTER SAWING THROUGH
BARS AT ARDMORE
Sf The imoefated Prat
The East's greatest flood of this
century — its death toll already
placed at 136—rolled on unchecked
in a dozen states Thursday night
with thousands of persons fleeing
from newly threatened communi-
ties and those In ravaged sections
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LOCAL RESIDENT
CALLED BY DEATH
LAST RITES THIS AFTERNOON
FOR J. L. WESTBROOK;
BURIAL AT DOZIER
demonstrate these
dering machines.
modern
ARDMORE, Okla., March 20 UP)
—Asa “Ace” Pen diet an, 39, no-
torious southwestern outlaw, and
Delbert Davis, 19-year-old WPA
worker, the latter held for the fatal
clubbing of an aged school teacher,
broke from the county jail here
Thursday.
Davis was captured a few min-
utes after the break, but Carter
county officers found no trace of
Pendeton.
Pendleton escaped by sawing his
way through steel bars in a window
at the rear of the county jail.
Officers began an investigation to
learn how he obtained the saws.
County Attorney Robert W.. Rich-
ards said Pendleton told him yes-
terday he would, plead guilty to a
charge of holding up an Ardmore
drug store “if I won’t get more than
10 years.”
Pendleton and two armed com-
panions walked Into the drug store
last January, held up employes and
several customers and escaped with
a small amount of cash.
Although Pendleton had boasted
he would never be taken alive, he
was captured without a struggle
shortly after the holdup.
Pendleton, officers said, has a po-
lloe record extending over 20 years.
PANHANDLE°STOCK
FREE OF SCABIES
Under the supervision of Chas. B.
Alford, supervisor of scabies eradi-
cation work In he Amarillo district,
2l herds, representing a total of
8,267 head of sheep and cattle in
the Panhandle were Inspected or
dipped during the month of Feb-
ruary. No cases of infection were
reported.
In addition to Alford, two men
were employed full time in the
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at Dozier for James L,
Westbrook, 80, resident of Sham-
rock for 30 years. He died late yes-
terday afternoon after an illness of
some months.
Westbrook was born In Mississip-
pi in 1856 and came to Texas when
a young man. He setled with his
family at Shamrock In 1906, and
was very well known throughout
the county. His wife preceded him
in death several years ago.
He is survived by two sons, Jim
and R. F. Westbrook, both of Sham-
rock, and two daughters, Mrs, Ama
McKinney of California and Mrs.
R. L. Lullelous of Numa, Ariz.
Nix Funeral home was in charge
of the burial which was made in
the Dozier cemetery.
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2 Disasters
Claim Lives
Of 8 Persons
By The Associated Press
Two men were killed and four
injured at Silver Zone, Nev., today
in an explosion of a Western Pa-
cific locomotive.
Six persons, including two men,
two women and two children, were
burned to death and a seventh
critically injured when fire de-
stroyed a plantation house near
Bassett, Ark.
MORO BAND RESISTS
MILITARY TRAINING
MANILA, P. I., March 20 (JP) —
Southern Philippine Moros murder-
ed a school teacher and barricaded
themselves in an abandoned More
fortress today in a violent effort to
resist compulsory military education,
worker, the otter held for the fatal
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