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Today we are going to devote this
space to the brain children of some
of our contemporary columnists of
* the Panhandle-Plains area, which
will probably be all right with our
readers—both of them. Panhandle
writers are a versatile lot. They can
be philosophic, facetious, serious or
sarcastic as the occasion demands.
* Some of this region’s writers are
plenty good, in our estimation, to
hold down jobs on the best papers
in the United States, but we suspect
they just won't be tolled away from
this Plains country.'
—JAUB—
Tex Deweesc of the Pampa News
finds reason to complain somewhat
about the tongue-twtsting names
that are involved in the Sino-Jap
fracas. Says Tex:
"I get my tongue so twisted
around some of these Chinese battle
scenes that I am now preparing to
organize the Phonetic Society for
‘ the Prevention of the Annihilation
« of Chinese Cities by American Radio
Newscasters. What I propose to do
is to shake all those stutter-starters
and toss them into the Whangpoodle
river and Moocow creek, and then
substitute one word which could be
. used to cover a multitude of micro-
ohonic sins.”
—JAUB—
Editor Homer Steen of the Floy-
dada Hesperian waxes gently sarcas-
tic over the Texas unemployment
* situation:
"The list of unemployment offices
In Texas, published the other day,
affords one with a little imagination
the idea that manning them ought
to go a long way toward solving the
“unemployment situation. These new
offices will get going about the first
of the year. You folks voted for this
to happen, and don’t you forget it.”
—JAUB—
An old adage Is that a fair trade
•is no robbery, and the “Pacts and
Otherwise” department of the
Groom News reports this very fair
trade:
“Rev. Ray Lee claims that he has
never paid a doctor a thin dime
‘.since he had been a preached. Here's
* the reason why: When he moves to
a town the very first thing he makes
a trade with the doctor. He agrees
to do all In his power to keep the
doctor out of hell; at the same time
•the doctor agrees to do all in his
power to keep Rev. lee out of hea-
ven.”
—JAUB—
Ed Bishop of the Dalhart Texan
brags a little about having been
•good for a long time and then gets
off this one:
“ ‘Well, I think I'll put the motion
before the house,' said the chorus
girl as she danced out on the stage.”
—JAUB—
* The Apostle, who is genial J. C.
Estlack of the Donley County Lead-
er, makes this comment, probably
with regard to Christmas shopping:
“Often a mother will spank her
kid for wanting something that it
■Should not have, then rush down
town and buy something her hus-
band can’t afford.”
—JAUB—
Deck Wells of the Wellington
Leader discusses the lesser of two
Evident evils:
“In a world of force, a peace lov-
ing nation must be prepared in or-
der to keep the peace, but there is
grave danger in such a course. Now,
however, it Is not a question of what
evil, but of what is the lesser
evil.”
—JAUB—
J. E. Staley, In “To The Point,”
understands what Christmas means
to a child. Says hat
• “A child needs and appreciates
warmth, but It does not take the
place of a toy, bag of candy, an
apple or an orange on Christmas
Day.”
-JAUB—
’Our sympathy to Editor R. B.
Haynes of the Miami Chief, who
suffered the loss of an index finger
when it became caught in the cyl-
inder press last week. The injury Is
healing nicely, but it will be some
Sme before he can use the hand In
working In the mechanical depart-
ment of the Chief.
NEA
NEWS
PICTURES
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VOL.
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1937
NO.
THEY ESCAPED FROM ALCATRAZ
SPECIAL SESSION
CONGRESS SLATED
TO END WEDNESBAY
Teacher Ousted,
Students Strike
ROOSEVELT ASKS
INCREASEB NAVY
APPROPRIATIONS
-Soviet ■
Hostility Overshadows
U. S. Gunboat Incident
ADJOURNMENT NEARS WITH
NONE OF LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM ENACTED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20,-Swing- j
ing into its last lap last night, the I
| special session of congress appeared j
I slated to end Wednesday without!
| completing action en a single prop j
; of President Roosevelt’s five-point i
emergency legislativa program.
Widely diverse farm bills have1
| gone to conference, with final en-j
1 nctment probablv 'a 1 month away; I
! a rebellious house sgnt the wage- i
I hour bill back to committee, and!
! housing legislation, though passed!
! by the house, has yet to emerge i
j from the senate banking commit-1
' tee.
Theodore Cole
Ralph Roe
Uncertain whether they escaped in a waiting boat, swam throught al-
most impassible currents to mainland or were drowned, federal officer
carried out an intense search for Theodore Cole, left, and Ralph Roe,
the only two prisoners ever to escape Alcatraz prison in San Francisco
Bay. The two men, working in prison shops on “The Rock,” broke
through a window, jimmied a fence lock and vanished. Thd nearest
mainland is a mile and a half from Alcatraz. Cole, once under a death
sentence, was serving a 50-year term for a kidnaping in Oklahoma in
1934. Roe. also sentenced from Oklahoma, was serving 99 years for
bank robbery.
Good Fellow Campaign
For Holiday Cheer For
Needy Almost Complete
JUNIORS TO OFFER
ROLLICKING COMEDY
BLACK CHIFFON DRESS CAUSE
OF ALL THE TROUBLE IN
’’SHORT THIRTY-SIX”
G-MEN TOLD ALCATRAZ
* FUGITIVES HAD HELP
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. — A
former Alcatraz prisoner last night
told G-men that the two felons who
made their dramatic escape from
*.he rock” three days ago were all
prepared for the break with “outside
contacts.”
The new information discounted
the theory that the two desperadoes
were drowned in the swirling cur
lints of the Golden Gate when they
broke from the fog-hound prison.
Richard Lindsay of Wichita Palls
visited his daughter, Mrs. George
Brown and family Sunday.
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Mrs. H. H. Thte of Amarillo has
visiting relatives here.
A rollicking evening is promised
Shamrock people at the new audi-
torium Tuesday night when the
Junior class of the high school pre-
sents their play “Short Thirty-Six”
a three-act comedy.
The plot is centered around a
black chiffon dress, size thirty-six,
which belongs to a lovely young girl
whose matchmaking aunt and hard-
boiled uncle keep things rather com-
plicated for two young men, one,
the play-boy son of a millionaire.
The lovely niece has a difficult
time escaping from her aunt who Is
determined to wed her to a wealthy
but eccentric millionaire artist. In
the course of her flight she leaves
the chiffon dress in a hotel room,
later to be occupied by two young
men. The dress must be regained
and how the heroine does so will
bring forth many laughs from the
audience.
The cast of characters Includes
T. C. Davis, Hugh Lyle, Jim Brax-
ton, Pat Etter, Amos Wilson, Irma
Lee Rabo. Helen Brewer, Jasephlne
Mitchell, Kloe Pierce, Mary Adele
Roach and Virginia Reeves.
Proceeds of the play will go to-
ward financing the Jurtior-Senlor
banquet next spring. The play will
start at S o’clock.
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The Good Fellows campaign to
provide Christmas cheer for the un-
fortunate of the city is shaping up
nicely, after getting off to a slow
start, Bedford Harrison, secretary,
said today. There remain about 28
families on the list who have not
been adapted, but cash donation
will take care of most of these. It
was said.
“If about 10 more big-hearted
people will come forward and adopt
families,, a cheery Christmas will be
assured for every needy family in
Shamrock,’’ Harrison declared.
It is not too late to take part in
this really worthy cause, either by
adopting a family, making a cash
donation, or giving usable clothing
and toys, it was pointed out, but the
time is very short and prompt ac-
tion should be taken.
Anyone wno wishes to adopt a
family or make a donation Is asked
to call Carl Linkey, general chair-
man, Harrison, A. C. Hallmark, Jim
Smith, E. K. Caperton, Miss Nell
Adams, or Jack Shull.
Mrs. Matt Clay, chairman of the
clothes committee, said the Legion
Hut, headquarters for the group in
charge of this phase, will be open
each afternoon this week for the
gathering and distribution of used
clothing.
Mrs. Clay said a special effort
would be made Tuesday to canvass
the needs of mothers of children of
pre-school ages.
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FOR AMBASSADOR
CURTAINS AND SCARFS
STOLE FROM CHURCH
Theft of 25 yards of window cur-
tain material, a piano scarf and pul-
pit scarf Is reported from the Miss-
ionary Baptist church, corner Texas
and Fifth streets. Members of the
congregation said the building was
entered and the things taken some
time between Thursday and Sunday.
Members of the congregation to-
day appealed for the return of the
materials and said nothing will be
said about the theft if the property
Is restored.
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\ P.-T. A. MEETING
HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO
ROBERT BINGHAM
The North Ward Parent-Teachers
Association will have their regular
meeting Tuesday afternoon at 3:43
It was announced today. Mrs. W. C.
Perkins will be leader for a special
program and all members are urged
to be present.
— -o— -
Wallace Fields, James Shortt,
Dessle Katherine Lewis and James
Baumgardner, students at Texas
tbch, Lubbock, are home for the
holiday.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.—The body
of Robert Worth Bingham went
back Sunday to Louisville, Ky„
where he won fame as a newspaper
publisher before becoming ambassa-
dor to Great Britain.
The 66-year-old envoy died Sat-
urday night at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital of a rare ailment.
The train bearing the body of the
ambassador was due to reach Louis-
ville at 9:35 o'clock this morning.
Hugh R. Wilson, assistant secre-
tary of state, was designated to rep-
resent the state department at the
funeral there. The presidential rep-
resentative was George T. Summer-
lin, chief of the division of protocol.
Traveling with the ambassador’s
body were his third wife, Sirs. Alteii
Muldoon Hilliard Bingham: his
stepson, Byron Hilliard; his son,
Barry Bingham; Ms daughter, Mi3s
Henrietta Bingham, and his sister,
Mrs. ft T. Grtnnan.
Government reorganization and
regional planning legislation, two
major issues advanced by the pres-
ident for the special session, have
been brushed aside to await disposi-
tion at' the regular session.
Three Bills Enacted
Only three bills have been en-
acted. One appropriated $225,000 for
mileage expenses of members, in
connection with the special session;
another carried $12,000 for salaries
of congressional page boys, and a
third authorized the loan of certain
capitol paintings to the constitu-
tional sesquicentennlal committee.
Determined to salvage what he
can of his program, President
Roosevelt summoned Vice Pres-
ident Garner, Senate Majority
Leader Barkley, House Speaker
Bankhead and House Floor Leader
Rayburn to the White House for a
conference today.
It was understood ttie president
WAR THREATS ABROAD SPUR
DEMAND FOR GREATER
DEFENSE PROGRAM
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SCHOOLS WILL BE
CLOSED WEDNESDAY
While students ot Kalamazoo
College staged a strike demand-
ing his reinstatement, Dr Carey
K. Ganong, professor ot eco-
nomics at the Michigan school,
is shown above as he discussed
his request for a public airing
of “inefficiency” charges upon
which his dismissal was based.
CRAZED MAN SLAVS
MOTHER, BROTHER,
COMMITS SUE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 — Presi-
dent Roosevelt, moving swiftly In
the face of war threats from abroad
to speed up his “navy second to
none” program last night asked
congress to approve, a new naval
| program running nearly $50,000,000
! ahead of previous appropriations.
The $576,000,000 program calls for
construction of two new super-
dreadnaughts and 20 smaller craft, |
and was approved by the budget
bureau.
The move to increase the navy
strength indicated that the presi-
dent in his drive to economize, had
no intention of paring down nation-
al defense expenditures.
The program has been sent to a
house appropriations subcommittee
which is handling the regular navy
department appropriation bill for
the next fiscal year. The committee
has been taking testimony from
ranking naval officials who are un-
derstood to have approved the pro-
gram.
Details of the program were re-
vealed in the face of world-wide un-
rest and continuing tension between
the United States ahd Japan over
the bombing and sinking of the tiny
American gunboat Panay.
Congressional leaders said the mea-
sure would be ready for house con-
sideration shortly after the regular
session convenes in January and
that it undoubtedly would be ap
proved because of increasing public
sentiment for a strong national de-
fense. In addition they predicted
there would be no attempt to pare
TRAGIC SHOOTING WIPES OUT
PIONEER TEXAS FAMILY
AT SAN ANTONIO
MANY FACULTY MEMBERS TO
SPEND CHRISTMAS AT
OTHER POINTS
Wednesday is the last day of
school in 1937, W. C. Perkins, super-
intendent, announced today. Classes
will be dismissed at 3:45 p. m. on
that day for the Christmas holidays,
not to convene again until January
3, 1938.
Ward school,students are plan-
ning Christmas programs and par-
ties for the final day, with most of
the roooms having Christmas trees
and exchanging gifts.
Faculty members who will spend
the vacation away from Shamrock
are Mrs. Claude Shelton who will
visit In Missouri with her parents.
John Walker will visit In Lubbock
while Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Rush and
son plan to leave Wednesday for
Byars, Tex. W. C. Perkins and fam-
ily will visit in Lufkin and Miss Sue
Allen In Hillsboro. Miss Martha
Jernigan will visit in Childress and
Miss Mary Frances Templeton in
Wellington.
Miss Florlence Weckeser will spend
the holidays visiting relatives in Mi-
ami and Miss Maud Lummus will
be in Dallas. Miss Lola Ruth Stan-
field leaves Wednesday for Fort
Worth while Miss Beth Word will
visit her parents in Alanreed. Miss
Minnie Hood will visit in Post with
relatives and Miss Pauline Benson
will spend part of the vacation in
Hereford. Mrs. Chisenhall will visit
relatives in Denton and Dallas.
Other faculty members are unde-
cided about their plans and several
will remain In Shamrock during the
vacation period.
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 20.—Randle
Menefee, who lived most of. his life
in a single room of his mother’s
home because his “health was poor”,
shot to death his mother and a
brother Sunday, then committed
'suicide.
Kate Randle Menefee, the mother
and aging widow of a pioneer San
Antonio business man. and Thomas
W. Menefee, 32, prominent attorney,
were his victims. They fell before
gunfire from two .45 caliber auto-
matic pistols that Randle apparently
had purchased for his vendetta.
In Fashionable Section
Police were dispatched to the
Menefee home In a fashionable res-
idential area of the city at noon,
when neighbors reported hearing a
dozen or more shots in the house.
They found the body of Mrs.
Menefee, riddled by five bullets,
slumped behind a bed in her sec-
ond floor room. The body of Thom-
as, the younger son, lay in the hall-
way near a door to the bedroom.
One bullet had torn away part of
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SHAMROCK O. E. S.
MEETING TUESDAY
The Shamrock chapter of the or-
der of Eastern Star will have their
regular meeting at the Masonic Hall
Tuesday evening at 7:30, Mrs. T. C.
Davis, worthy matron, said this
morning.
After the meeting a Christmas
party will be given at which all
Eastern Star members, whether af-
filiated with this chapter or not,
are urged to be present. Each ts
asked to bring a gift for the Christ-
mas tree.
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Duke And Wally Head List
World's Newlyweds As Dan
Cupid Has Very Busy Year
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. — Dan Cupid
had a busy year in 1937.
He Won front-page space with
brides ranging from 9 years old to
nearly 60.
A survey today of news-name
marriages of the year showed his
darts struck in palaces and moun-
tain cabins, on Broadway and in
Hollywood, In society, the army gad
navy, sports and business.
Many of his prominent feminine
victims were past 30.
This was so of his biggest bulls-
eye, for when the abdicated Edward
VIH of England as the Duke of
Windsor married Mrs. Wallis War-
field in a French chateau last June,
he was 42, and she 40.
In contrast was Cupid's work of
February When a 9-year-bld third
grade pupil, Eunice Winstead, mar-
ried Charlie Johns, 22, a mountain-
eer, at Sneedville, Tenn.
Among the more mature brides
was Mary Pickford,
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BABY FOUND DEAD
IN MOTHER’S ARMS
TOKYO, Dee, 20. — Increasing
hostility between Japan and the
Soviet Union, rather than the
Ameiiean-.Iapanese crisis arising
from the Panay sinking, today
was the chief reason for the Jap-
anese public’s anxiety over the
world situation.
The Japanese masses were kept
in ignorance of recent developments
in the Panay affair. United States
charges that Japanese surface craft
machine-gunned the little gunboat
after she was bombed by Japanese
warplanes on the Yangtze River
above Nanking have been kept out
of the newspapers.
The public generally believed the
Panay crisis had been dispelled.
Deep concern over the affair, how-
ever, persisted in high official quar-
ters, as was shown by the detailed
report made to Emperor Hirohito
Saturday night by Premier Prince
Fumimaro Konoye.
Complete Denial
Informed sources said the Jap-
anese government, in replying to
United States representations on the
Panay, would make a complete de-
nial of the reported machine-gun-
ning by surface craft.
Such denial, it was indicated,
would come before the formal reply
to the original American demand
for amends. An official of the for-
eign office said Japan would reply
first to the later American com-
munication. giving details of the af-
fair, and make a second reply to the
first note.
That second reply, it was said,
would include comprehensive assur-
ances from the navy that Japan
henceforth will refrain from aerial
or naval bombardment of any sec-
tion in which foreign naval or mer-
chant ships might be endangered.
Ignore Panay Trouble
While the press Ignored the Panay
incident it gave prominence to
mounting troubles with Russia. The
Harbin, Manchoukuo, correspondent
of the Tokyio paper Nichi Nlchl re-
ported the Russian Far Eastern
army was belnj greatly strengthen-
ed, with men, munitions and air-
planes being rushed toward the
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LEADVILLE, Colo., Dec. 20.—A
baby dead in its unconscious
mother's arms and the frozen
body of a man were found Sunday
in a Christmas gift-laden automo-
bile stalled In a snow drift.
Sheriff Charles Calvert, theoriz-
ing they were victims of carbon
monoxide, said the man was George
W. Barnes, 35, but the identity of
the mother and her child, about two
and one-half years old, had not been
determined.
The woman was rushed to a Lead-
ville hospital where she was not ex-
pected to recover. She remained un-
conscious.
Two unidentified motorists dis-
covered the death vehicle, and when
Sheriff Calvert reached the scene,
in the towering Rocky Mountains
near Tennessee Pass, the motor of
the sedan was still running. The car
heater also was operating.
“To Mother,” "To Dad’’—those
were the words written on some of
the wrapped Christmas gifts piled
on the back seat.
Barnes, who was unmarried, Sher-
iff Calvert said, was dead at the
steering wheel. The mother, with
FUNERAL IS HELD
FOR J. G. HARDIN
EDUCATORS AND CHURCHMEN
IN TRIBUTE TO MEMORY
OF PHILANTHROPIST
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LOYALISTS SMASH WAY
INTO STRATEGIC TOWN
MADRID, Dec. 20. — The advance
guard of more than 50,000 Loyalist
troops was reported early today to
have smashed its way into the
streets of Teruel where trapped in-
surgent defenders were making a
last stand to save the encircled
stronghold.
Government radio bulletins said
the government militia, led by for-
eign fighters of the Lister and El
Campesino foreign; brigades, were
taking the walled city house-toy-
house under the glare of search-
lights from their own artillery bat-
teries atop nearby hills.
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CHRISTMAS CANTATA
IS HIGHLY PRAISED
(Oontinuad oa Pace 2)
One of the loveliest programs ever
to be glv$n in Shamrock was the
Christmas cantata given Sunday
night at the Methodist church un-
der the direction of Glenn Tniax.
A large crowd filled the church
completely and were enthusiastic
in their praise today for the ex-
cellent rendition of the music or
Christmas. The church was beauti-
fully decorated in Yatetlde sugges-
tions and lighted candles made a
l perfect setting for toe cantata.
BURKBURNETT, Dec. 20. - Ed-
ucators and churchmen of Texas
joined 2,000 residents of Burkbur-
nett at funeral services here Sunday
for John G. Hardin, philanthropist
and pioneer of this city.
Representatives o f institutions
which benefited from the $6,000,000
trust fund established by Hardin,
brought expressions of appreciation.
The funeral eulogy was by Rev.
Dr. Walter H. McKenzie, pastor of
the University Baptist Church of
Austin, who said Hardin was a good
farmer, a good husband and father
and a good citizen of his community,
state and nation.
Rev. Miles B, Hayes, pastor of the
Burkburnett Baptist Church, direct-
ed the services.
Other speakers, representing va-
rious institutions, were: Pat M, Neff,
president of Baylor University; Dr.
J. F. Cox, president of Abilene
Christian College; Dr. J. C. Hardy
and Dr. Gordon B. Singleton of
Mary Hardln-Baylor Colelge; Dr.
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