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Just Among
Us Boys!
Deep down in our heart we have
"always believed that some day Par-
is, Texas, the scene of our birth,
would some day become famous, and
so it was with much pride that we
read last week of a Paris resident
-inventing a device which in our
"opinion places him alongside of
Pulton, Marconi, Edison, Burbank
and fellows like that. This man has
a solution for a problem that has
vexed neighbors through the ages.
— He has worked out a tactful way of
JVEA
NEWS
PICTURES
VOL. 34
SHAMROCK. WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1938
NO. 297
Seized in Bogus Check * lot
advising neighbors that their chick-
ens have been scratching in your
flower bed and garden.
Here is the plan. You print these
words on a little card, 'T’ve Been
f$Visiting,” and you fasten this card
to one end of a piece of surgical
string. On the other end of the
string you tie an ordinary grain of
corn. Well, you place .the outfit out
near your prettiest flower bed and
^,in a minute along comes Mr. (it al-
so works with the women) Chicken,
and gobbles up the corn. Late that
afternoon he goes home and what
does he drag along behind him?
Correct, the little card telling his
^mistress he has been calling on the
neighbors. Now isn’t that about the
most important invention of the
century? Boy, we are glad we had
the good fortune to be born in an
up-and-coming city like Parts which
♦produces such Intellectual giants as
that old boy. You have no idea what
a thrill it gives you.
—JAUB—
Two papers of the Panhandle that
don't mince words when, it comes to
fpexposing advertising racketeers and
3, solicitors of all kinds are The Chll-
I dress Index and The Dalhart Texan.
And Morris Higley and Ed Bishop,
| the publishers of those papers, have
saved the merchants of their towns
"thousands of dollars annually by
j working with their chambers of
commerce in checking up on graft-
ers. They don’t make men or women
with big enough fronts or fluent
^enough speech to get away with
•'much in those two towns. Every once
: in a While a fly-by-nighter does
1 catch a few merchants off guard,
but when the racket is discovered,
the newspapers really take the hide
#off.
Here is a story Morris ran at
Childress about the arrest of two
men at Paducah after their plan
had been foiled at Childress: .
"Howard Parks and Lester Maxey,
a who ran afoul of Perry Debenport’s
"campaign on racket advertising
schemes in Childress last week, then
went to Paducah to ply their trade
of selling school curtain advertising,
were fined on swindling charges in
* Paducah this week.
“Parks drew a fine in county
court of $3 and Maxey was fined $14
in justice court. They also refunded
$05, which they had solicited from
Paduoahans.
• “Parks was arrested in Lubbock
and Maxey surrendered voluntarily
at Paducah.
“Their big mistake was “getting
to” Sheriff A. A. Payne for one of
their fake ads."
♦ —JAUB—
Ed Bishop doesn’t confine his ac-
tivities to exposing racketeers, he
opposes solicitations for deserving
causes when he believes the meth-
ods of approach are wrong. For in-
P stance here is some comment he
carried last week about a lady em-
ploying the telephone to solicit
funds for a girls’ rescue home:
“It is absolutely immaterial to me
L whether any local people, or local
As police all ovei America searched tor 35 additional members ol
an underworld ring that plotted to pass $200,000 in fraudulent
travelers’ checks, the five men pictured above were arrested and
held for questioning. They are, top, George (Bugs) Moran, left,
and Frankie Parker; and, lower left to right, Frank Quigley, Daniel
Kelly and Robert Sexton. Arrested in Pittsburgh, Quigley, Kelly
and Sexton allegedly had $21,800 of the counterfeit checks in their
possession. Moran and Parker were arrested In Chicago. Moran
headed the old Chicago gang which was largely wiped out in the
SL Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929. Parker is a one-time
whisky runner.
Optimism Is Keynote
In Opening Sessions
Of WTCC Convention
GOOD ATTENDANCE
BAPTIST REVIVAL
PASTOR IN PULPIT PENDING
ARRIVAL EVANGELIST
DR. WM. JOYNER
'civic or religious organization, had
anything to do with tt, the fact re-
mains that any1 charity organiza-
tion that is worthy should be repre-
sented by a person who is willing
to go direct to the contributors and
“ explain fully what the money is to
be spent for and to whom it is be-
ing contributed. Yesterday after-
noon our phone rang and a lady
explained that she represented a
certain home for girls, that she was
speaking from the office of a cer-
tain Dalhart church, that she was
soliciting contributions for the home
and would send a Western Union
boy to receive mine. I suggested that INVADING WARRIORS ADVANCE
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she come down and explain to me
personally and was informed that
time would not permit. Needless to
say she did not receive a contribu-
tion from me or the Texan.
“This woman should realize that
there are far too many doubtful or-
ganizations soliciting funds from the
public to even let the people have a
doubt about hers. I am tired, and
I think the average business man
is tired, of contributing to every
known plan and scheme the human
mind can devise. I have fully made
up tny mind that even though I
make some good local citizens an-
gry and as a result lose some busi-
ness, that I’m going to know defi-
nitely what my money is going for
before I Jar lose from it.’’
We would like to be the chief of
The revival meeting at the First
Baptist Church opened Sunday with
unusually large attendance at both
morning and evening services. Rev.
E. T. Smith was in the pulpit and
will have charge of the meeting un-
til the arrival of Dr. Wm. Joyner of
San Antonio, who closed a two
weeks meeting in Oranbury last
night.
There were 35 reconsecrations at
the morning hour and one addition
to the church membership.
W. C. Bryant, educational direc-
tor of the church, is in charge of the
music and special numbers will be
presented during the meetings.
Rev. Smith conducted the morn-
ing service at 9:30 today, speaking
on “Preparation for Service”. The
evening meeting will start at 7:45
p. m. each day with 9:30 the hour
for morning service.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these meetings as they will
bring Inspiration to everyone pres-
ent.
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CHINESE REPORTED
RETIRING TO HILLS
NEARER VITAL EAST-WEST
LUNOHAI RAILWAY
SHANGHAI, April 25. — A
“wholesale” Chinese retreat in
Klangsu province was reported
last night by Japanese military
authorities who said - the with-
drawal enabled their fighters to
push nearer the vital east-west
Lunghal railway, long a Japanese
objective.
The Chinese retreat was said to
have halted in the Mils north of
Pihsien, about eight miles from the
railroad, where the Japanese said
they expected a determined Chinese
stand against their advonce.
Twenty thousand Chinese were
reported to have fallen back in dis-
organized numbers before they ral-
lied and dug in north of Pihsien,
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WICHITA FALLS, April 25. —
Words of good cheer and optim-
ism over the future were voiced
by officials of the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce Sunday as
the annual convention of the
largest organization of its kind in
the world opened officially hefe
Sunday.
President Mijbum McCarthy of
Eastland and D. A. Bandeen of Abi-
lene, general manager, indicated
they had no apprehension over the
outcome of business and agricultur-
al conditions and the great area
served by the chamber generally
was in excellent shape.
“As far as the depression is con-
cerned, we don’t have it," said Ban-
deen. “The range is the best in
years as a result of rains. Cattle are
in line condition.
Outlook Is Good
"One out of every five wells being
drilled in the United States is in
West Texas. The outlook all around
is good.”
In a printed message to members
of the chamber, which total about
185 cities and 5,000 individuals, Mc-
Carthy, asserting the chamber was
the "virile voice of West Texas,”
said it was ending the year with a
larger cash balance than last year
and all its affairs were healthy and
sound.
An aim of the chamber should be
to bring about lower freight rates
lor West Texas, he said, declaring
they now were higher than in any
similar territory and voicing oppo-
sition to the 15 per cent blanket
increase authorized by the inter-
state commerce commission.
Accomplishments of the past year
cited were removal of headquarters
from Stamford to Abilene, organiza-
tion of a farm tenancy program,
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CHORAL GROUP IN
PROGRAM TONIGHT
One of the finest musical enter-
tainments to be given in Shamrock
will je the program at the Metho-
dist churah tonight by the McMiur-
ry Chanters, a choral group from
McMurry college in Abilene, under
the direction of Mrs. Gypsy Ted
Sullivan Wylie.
The program will open at 8
o’clock and will Include operatic
selections, negro spirituals, and
numbers from famous oratorios. Al-
so solos, duets and group selections
There will he no admission charge
and the public is invited to attend.
LEADERS WORK TO
AVERT STRIKE OF
MOTOR EMPLOYEES
Ready to Meet
With President
CHEVROLET, BUJCK WORKERS
VOTE HEAVIL? IN FAVOR
OF WALKOUT ACTION
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DETROIT, April 25.—Attempts
to avert strikes voted by Union
workers in Buick and Chevrolet
divisions of General Motors at
Flint and Bay City, Mich., last
night headed toward another test
of the grievance procedure pro-
vided by the United Automobile
Workers’ Working Agreement with
the corporation.
Homer Martin, international UAW
president who miist authorize any
call for a walkout, said there would
be no strikes ‘ .until grievance pro-
cedure has been exhausted.’’
He planned today to visit Flint,
where 20,000 unionists in Buick and
Chevrolet plants engaged in a
strike referendum last week. The
vote to strike was announced as:
Buick 9,500 tx* 2,080; Chevrolet, 6,-
500 to 2,015.
Only One Precedent
Only once before has the griev-
ance procedure been carried to its
ultimate step—submission to arbi-
tration, In that case, involving
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DEBT LIQUIDATION
TERMED ‘CURE’ FOR
CURRENT RECESSION
LIBERAL MONTANA SENATOR
OUTLINES VIFWS ON
PUMP- PRUVftN G
WASHINGTON, April 25. — Sen-
ator Wheeler of Montana assorted
Sunday the Government’s efforts to
lend and spend the Nation out of
depression would "in tile long run”
mean either a “general liquidation”
or inflation with disastrous results.
In an interview, the Montanan
added, however, policies of both the
Hoover and Roosevelt administra-
tions had made it impossible to
abandon federal pump-priming ex-
penditures at present because of the
necessity of making jobs.
He demanded money appropriated
under the President’s proposed new
lending-spending program be ear-
marked definitely for work that
would “add to the oapital assets of
the Nation,” and expressed a pref-
erence for the type of work carried
on under PWA rather than WPA.
In general, WPA concentrates on
That thoughtful expression on
the face of Henry Ford, above,
indicates he may be thinking
about what he is going to tell
President Roosevelt when the
two meet for a luncheon chat.
Ford is pictured with a body-
guard at his Wayside inn estate
at Sudbury, Mass,, after he re-
ceived Mr Roosevelt’s invitation.
Hearing Set
May 9 For
Beer Contest
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FUNERAL HELD FOR
TWITTY RESIDENT
MRS. MATTIE 8TAPP DIES AT
HOME SUNDAY AFTER
MONTH’S ILLNESS
Rev. V. M. Lollar conducted last
rites this afternoon at the Twttty
Baptist Church for Mrs, Mattie
Cora Stapp, 61, who died Sunday
morning at her home after an ill-
ness of one month.
Burial was in the Wheeler ceme-
tery with the Clay-Youngblood
Funeral Home in charge.
Mrs. Hester Dodson was leader
for the song servicec. Pall bearers
were Melvin Braxton, J. M, Tindall,
L. L. See, M. E. Gierhart, Thomas
Montgomery and J. A. Welch.
Mrs. Stapp was the wife of the
late Virgil Stapp who passed away
April 3, 1935. She was a prominent
resident of the Twttty community,
having made her home there for
the past six years. Previous to that
time she lived four years in Kelton
and in East Texas.
Hearing in 31st District Court
on a petition Hied Saturday, con-
testing the results of the election
of April 2 to prohibit the sale of
beer in Wheeler county, was to-
day set for Monday, May 9, by
Judge W. R. Ewing. Attorneys for
the petitioners are M. Reynolds
and Clayton Heare.
The petition charges 75 per cent
of the votes cast in the beer ref-
erendum were illegal under the
statute governing special elections
because certain requirements of
the law were not properly com-
plied with.
County Attorney Homer Moss,
who will represent the county in
the hearing, requested the full 10
days allowed by law in which to
study the text of the petition.
Regardless of the outcome of
the contest, beer sales will be legal
in the county until May 13, which
is 30 days from the date of official
canvass of returns of the election
by the commissioners court.
It is understood locally that
those opposed to beer sales are
planning a vigorous fight in de-
fense of the results of the elec-
tion.
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Irish Band Rates High
In Concert, Marching
Competition At Vernon
HIGHWAY ACCIDENT
TOLL FOR MEEK END
3 KILLED, 11 HURT
PANHANDLE GAS WELL FIRE
ADDS TWO TO LIST
OF INJURIES
AMARILLO, April 25.—A flam-
ing gas well on the North Plains
and tragedies of Sunday afternoon
traffic, in Amarillo and Fort
Worth combined in climaxing a
week-end of violence involving
Panhandle residents in a series of
accidents which left three dead
and 14 injured.
Adding to death’s toll on the Sab-
bath a Cottle County rancher was
found slain in his home 15 miles
north of Paducah.
Two men were painfully but not
critically burned, at 5 o’clock Sun-
day morning, when the Alamosa No.
2 gas well of the Henderson Gas Co.
of Amarillo was ignited in an ex-
plosion while being brought in
during an electric storm.
The victims were J. W. Pope and
Bobby Sanford, only employes on
duty at the lease at the time. Both
men were rushed to St, Anthony's
Hospital in Amarillo, where they
were resting well Sunday night af-
ter receiving treatment for first and
second degree burns about their
hands and faces.
The major traffic accident of the
week-end involving Panhandle peo-
ple was in Port Worth, with two
Amarillo residents seriously hurt,
and the sister of one of them fatal-
ly injured.
Three persons were killed and 11
injured, nine seriously, tn two auto-
mobile collisions there.
Amarilloans Injured
The dead are Mrs. J. R. Truitt, 67
years old, of Gainesville; Mrs.
Madge Babb, 37 years old, 408 Oak
Cliff Boulevard, Dallas, and Jess
Morton, Lamesa.
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RAPE AHEMPT CASE
OPENER AT WHEELER
HEARING OF TESTIMONY IN
BLAKE TRIAL STARTED
THIS AFTERNOON
ALLISON CAGERS
TO BE BANQUETED
OBSERVANCE TO OPEN SUNDAY
WITH VESPER PROGRAM
AT M. E. CHURCH
MANY OUT OF TOWN GUESTS
WILL HONOR CHAMPION
GIRLS’ SEXTET
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SHAMROCK' STUDENTS
WIN IN SHORTHAND
Jewell Willingham placed second,
and Billie Jo Knutson and Herman
Tindall tied for third place in the
shorthand contest at the Interschol-
asbic League meet for Region 1, held
Saturday at Canyon. Miss Wllling-
iham tied in score with Bonnie
Broyler of Borger, but the latter
was awarded first place for turning
In her paper first.
All three of the Shamrock stu-
dents are eligible to attend the state
meet at Austin,
Plans are under way for a ban-
quet which will be held in the Alli-
son gymnasium Friday night in
honor of the Allison Ramblettes,
girls’ basketball champions of Tex-
as. The banquet is an annual affair
and attracts capacity crowds from
Allison and the surrounding coun-
try.
John Petries, girls’ coach and su-
perintendent of schools, will act as
toastmaster at the affair which is
expected to draw an attendance of
260. Allison will turn out en masse
to pay homage to their team which
Is recognized nationally. Visitors
from Reydon, Okla., Kelton, Bris-
coe, Canadian, Wheeler, Shamrock,
and Amarillo will attend.
The address of welcome will be
Trial of Allan Blake, Shamrock,
on a charge of assault with Intent
to rape was started this morning
in 31st District Court at Wheeler,
as the first week of the criminal
docket for the current term was
launched.
Examination of the jury panel
was begun about li o’clock, after
the court overruled a motion for
continuance by defense attorneys,
District Attorney Lewis Goodrich
said.
It was expected at noon that the
selection of a jury would be com-
pleted within an hour or two and
that hearing of testimony in the
case would be taken up during the
afternoon.
The charge against Blake is the
result of an alleged attack on Mat-
tie Forsythe tn Shamrock on the
morning of February 23. Blake was
arrested by local officers after the
woman reported the attempted as-
sault and she identified him as her
assailant. He has been under bond
Shamrock’s Irish band came
through with flying colors, both as
an organization and as individual
musicians, in the annual conven-
tion of the North Texas Band and
Orchestra association, held Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday at Ver-
non. Led by Director Glenn A.
Truax, the band gained first rat-
ings in both concert and marching
contests for Class B bands.
Judges voted the natty green-
and-white cadet-tvpe uniforms
of the Irish musicians the most
outstanding in color and appear-
ance at the meet.
Ranking given the band at the
Vernon convention made the organ-
ization eligible to compete in the
national contests for Region 6,
which are set for May 20 and 21, at
Abilene. However, no definite plans
for attending the meet- have 'been
laid, Truax said today.
Individual soloists made a splen-
did showing in competition with the
best from the Panhandle and
Northwest Texas. Official ratings in
the various contests were as follows:
In the national division, consist-
ing of students competing for eli-
gibility for the Abilene contests, El-
don Sonnenberg, clarinet; Francis
Hutton, sousaphone, and Cecil
Gregg, drummer, won first ratings.
Gene Caperton. clarinet; Leo Weg-
ner, trombone, James Winchester,
cornet, and Mary Louise Begley,
drummer, won second ratings.
A ccmet trio composed of Jean-
ette Miller, Jack Nichols and James
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NEW LAW PROVIDES
FOR LICENSING OF
MOTOR CAR DEALERS
REGULATION OF AUTOMOTIVE
BUSINESS SET FORTH
BY ORDINANCE
Publication is being made this
week of Ordinance No. 136, passed
recently by the city council, which
provides for licensing and regulat-
ing dealers in automotive vehicles
and their salesmen.
in the 'amount of $3,000.
PROGRAM MAPPED
FOR MUSIC WEEK
Opening with a Vesper service at
the First Methodist church Sunday,
May 1, National Music Week will be
celebrated tn Shamrock with a series
of musical program® during the
week. The Vesper service will be giv-
en at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Monday night at the Clark Audi-
torium, Glenn Truax, band director,
will present the Irish band in the
annua! Spring concert. A definite
program will be announced during
the week.
Tuesday night will be “Home
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PIE SUPPER WILL BE
GIVEN BY HEALD P-TA
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Friday night will be Candidate
Night at the Heald school house,
when the Parent-Teachers associa-
tion is sponsoring a pie supper,
starting at 8 o’clock.
A program wilt be given and each
candidate attending will be pro-
vided an opportunity to make a
short talk.
The new law provides that deal-
ers in automotive vehicles shall file
application with the city secretary
for a license to do business in the
city, fee for which shall be $50 for
the first year, renewable each year
at the rate of $10. The fee for sales-
men's licenses is set at $5 per year.
It is also required that automo-
tive dealers procure quarters for
their businesses of minimum floor
space for the storage of 10 vehicles,
exclusive of office and shop space.
Provision is also made for certain
minimum requirements with regard
to servicing and shop equipment.
The ordinance creates a motor ve-
hicle commission, to be composed of
three members of the city council,
which shall pass upon all applica-
tions. Commissioners will hold of-
fice for one year and will be charg-
ed with the duty of Investigating aU
applications for licenses under the
ordinance
The law applies to all dealers tn
motor vehicles now operating in
Shamrock, as well as those who may
plan to become dealers here in the
future. Licenses must be procured
within 30 days from the time the
ordinance goes into effect, which
will be upon completion of publica-
tion on May 2.
Conviction of violating the terms
of the ordinance carries a penalty
of a fine of not more than $100, and
each sale made in violation will
constitute a separate offense,
The full text of the new law ap-
pears on another page of this issue.
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AMERICAN GETS BOND
IN MEXICAN BOMBING
CHIHUAHUA CITY, Chth., Mex„
April 25. — William N. Fink, United
States mining man, was released
from Chihuahua, state penitentiary
here Saturday under 8,000 pesos
bond
He had been held for more than
two weeks on a charge of complicity
In the bomb assassination of Mayor
Jose Borunda of Juarez, April 1.
His attorneys said the decision of
Penal Judge Fierro Oaxaca to allow
bond followed introduction of evi-
dence showing that payments Flrtk
made to Efren Bsoobar were for
property purchased from Escobar's
father.
Escobar, a Texas ex-oonvlct, de-
ported from the United States, had
testified Fink paid him to mall the
bomb to the mayor.
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NORTH WAR® V. T. A.
The North Ward “ ' “
ers Association will
school building
at 3 :48 o’clock for a I
under the diroetton ot Mr 5. C.
Hofmann. All members are ed to
be present.
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