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Exiled Windsors
Visit in Hungary
In high good humor, the Duch-
ess of Windsor, right, laughs
merrily when greeted by Mrs.
Charles Bedeaux at Mezokovesd,
Hungary. Mr. Bedeaux, left,
chats with the duke in the back-
ground. The visit with the Be-
deaux, who had been their hosts
at Monts, France, prior to the
wedding, marked the end of the
Windsors’ honeymoon seclusion.
11-Year-Old Boy
Saves Lives Of
13 During Fire
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 22.—Igna•
cio Gonbales, an 11-year-old boy,
proved himself a hero and saved 11
children and two adults from jtos-
“ sible death from fire that virtually
destroyed a frame house Tuesday.
Fire broke out in the place short-
ly after midnight while the mem-
bers of the two families were sleep-
t fng. Ignacio, son of Mrs. Herlelinda
Gonzales, was awakened by the
heat of a burning wall near him
and immediately summoned h i s
mother, who awakened her other
children and also Mrs. Josephine
, Valadez and her three children, who
were living in the same building.
Ignacio calmly ushered the chil-
dren from the house, which became
a roaring furnace shortly after they
gained the outside.
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Public Asked To Help In
Old Clothes Drive To Be
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VOL. 34
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937 NO. 116
ITALY WILL JOIN
PATROL TO STOP
PIRACY IN SPAS
MEETING WITH BRITAIN AND
FRANCE IS ARRANGED TO
FORMULATE PROGRAM
40 et 8 Big Noise of Legion Fun
ROME. Sept. 22.—Italy agreed last
night to meet with Britain and
France to draft a program for Ital-
ian participation in the Mediterran-
ean patrol against piracy.
Naval experts of thp three coun-
tries, said a foreign office commu-
nique, will meet shortly in Paris to
make the arrangements. Britain and
France “having made the premise"
tnat they never failed to recognize
the "position of Italy as a great
Mediterranean power,” said a fore-
ign office communique, the naval
conference in Paris was agreed to.
Foreign Minister County Galeazzo
Ciano advised the British and
French governments of Italy’s
readiness to join the patrol, on the
basis of parity with those two na-
tions.
Britain and France, the Italian
government said, have agreed to
satisfy this demand.
Italy previously had refused to
join the patrol, set up by nine pow-
ers at Nyon, because she was offer-
ed only a comparatively minor role,
as guardian over the Tyrrhenian
Sea just off her coast.
FARMERS WANTING
TREES ARE URGED
TO SIGN UP NOW
LOCAL FOREST SERVICE TO
BEGIN PLANTINGS WHEN
FIRST FROST COMES
EMBASSY AFLOAT
AS AIR RAIDERS
FAIL TO ARRIVE
U. S. STAFF REMAINS CLOSE
TO NANKING AWAITING
JAPANESE MOVE
The 200,000 and more veterans attending the American Legion con-
vention hardly set foot on the sidewalks of New York before they
were carried away by transports of delight—at least if they were
members of the 40 and 8 society. The Detroit voiture, shown
above, clanged its way around town on a miniature of the French
trains used as troop transports in wartime.
TANGIER, Morocco, Sept. 22.— |
The French passenger steamer Kou-
toubia, carrying 700 passengers from
the Island of Corsica to Casablanca,
Morocco, messaged last night, that
she was attacked by an unidentifi-
ed plane.
The ship's message said no one
was killed or injured in the attack,
south of the Balearic Islands in
Spanish civil war waters.
First reports from the Koutoubia
did not say whether she was bomb-
ed or machine-gunned.
(The British admiralty in London
said the Koutoubia had been at-
tacked, but was unable to state
whether she was being assisted by
British warships.)
The attack came as French and
British warships cruised the Medi-
terranean to put an end to “pir-
acy.”
LAKEVIEW GIVEN
ONE-POINT EDGE
CIRCUITOUS DOPE INDICATES
INVADING TEAM TO GIVE
IRISHMEN WALLOPING
29 ADDITIONS TO
ABERDEEN CHURCH
10-DAY REVIVAL MEETING CON-
DUCTED BY COPPAGE
IS VERY SUCCESSFUL
, Comparatively little is known
about the strength of the Lakevlew
Eagles who will meet the Shamrock
Irishmen on Denver Field Friday
night at 8 o’clock, but If reports
they have almost their entire last
g year’s club back are true they will
have a mighty tough team to whip.
Dope gathered in a round about
way gives the Eagles a one-point
edge over the Irishmen. Here’s the
way the dope reads:    I^fors and
• Miami played 0-0 in pre-season
scrimmage contests, Shamrock de-
feated Lefors 12 to 7 and Lakevlew
defeated Miami 13 to , 7 thus giv-
ing them a one point margin.
The Irishmen will again be in
, good shape for the contest since
they came out fo their encounter
with the Pirates last Friday night
without serious injury. Nothing has
been learned as to the condition of
the Lakevlew team,
i This contest will be the second
conference encounter of the season
for the Irishmen and their third
game while it will be the first con-
ference go of the season for the
Eagles and only their second start
t this year.
DISCUSS PLANS FOR
CONTROL OF RODENTS
F. W. Dawson of Childress, rodent
| A control worker with the U. S. For-
est Service, was in Shamrock Tues-
day in conference with A. C. Schat-
tenberg, In charge of the District ‘
office of the Forest service, anid
farmers relative to a rodent externv
inatlon program for Wheeler coun-
ty. Dawson is in charge of rodent
control in several Panhandle coun
ties, including Wheeler.
With the planting of thousands
of trees in the shelterbelt project In
* the next few weeks, Dawson will de^
vote his attention to extermination
of rodents which would threaten the
iives oi 'Hie young trees.
The revival meeting held at Ab-
erdeen the past ten days, was clos-
ed last night by Rev. O. C. Coppage,
circuit pastor for the Methodist
church. There were 19 additions to
the church. 10 by conversion and 9
by letter.
The Aberdeen meeting was pro-
nounced most successful, and large
crowds attended each night to hear
the inspirational messages of Rev.
Coppage.
Rev. Coppage stated there had
been 64 converts into church mem-
bership frolhri over his circuit dur-
ing the conference year, and at least
10 more are expected at the Sam-
norwood meeting next Sunday.
Thursday night Rev. and Mrs.
Coppage were honored at a “pound-
ing” given by the Aberdeen church
members.
SELF DEFENSE TO
BE FLEA OF TRIO
SLAYINGDENHW
BROTHERS OF WOMAN SLAIN
BY ARMY OFFICER SAY
HE REACHER FOR GUN
300,000 PERSONS
MARCH IN LONGEST
PARADEJF LEGION
MILLION NEW YORKERS LOOK
ON AS WAR VETERANS SAY
“HELLO” TO BROADWAY
PRESIDENT WILL
CURTAIL SPENDING
PWA LOANS AND GRANTS TO
BE DISCONTINUED AND
RELIEF SLACKENED
HYDE PARK. N. Y„ Sept. 22.—
President Roosevelt annlounced
Tuesday tlBtt public works admin-
istration loans and grants for heavy
work-relief construction projects
would be discontinued.
The agency, which has spent al-
most $3,000,000,000 since 1933, will
continue only in skeleton form, with
most of its work limited to inspec-
tion of municipal improvements
which will be completed during the
next two years.
The president said that PWA
spending had been discontinued be-
cause of “the passing of the econo-
mic extremity.” The works progress
administration, he explained, would
continue as a job-making agency.
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SHELBYVILLE.Ky., Sept. 22.—A
self-defense plea, it was indicated
last night, will be made by Jack,
Roy and Dr. E. E. Carr, charged
with the murder of Brig. Gen.
Henry H. Denhardt on the eve of
the lawyer-soldier-politician’s sec-
ond trial for the slaying of their
widowed sister, Mrs. Verna Garr
Taylor, his fiancee.
“Men don’t kill each other for
nothing,” was the terse reply of J.
Ballard Clark of La Grange, their
attorney, to questions concerning
reports the Garrs planned such a
plea.
Patrolman Jeptha Tracey, to
whom the brothers surrendered a
few moments after seven bullets cut
down General Denhardt on Shelby-
ville’s main street last night, said
they had indicated as much then.
“They said that before any shots
were fired they saw General Den-
hardt reach for his pocket and they
thought he was reaching for a gun,”
> the officer said.
The brothers were charged for-
mally with murder today In war-
rants sworn to by County Attorney
Coleman Wright. Arraignment was
set for Friday •morning and the
Garrs remained in the Shelby
county jail. Clark said no effort
would be made to provide bond un-
til tomorrow.
Circuit Judge Charles C. Mar-
shall, who presided over General
Denhardt’s first trial last April,
formally granted a Commonwealth
request at nearby New Castle to
dismiss the murder charge against
the former Lieutenant Governor
and former head of the Kentucky
National Guard. The second trial
was scheduled to open today.
The body of the doughty 61-year-
old Denhardt was returned to his
home town of Bowling Green, Ky„
today for burial.
l,OOOlfCO0NTY
SINGING SESSION
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—W 1 t h
tramping feet and tingling music,
the American legion gave its re-
gards to Broadway and said hello
to Herald square with the longest
parade that Fifth avenue—favorite
marching route of the nation—ever
saw.
There may have been 300,000 per-
sons in the long line that started
up the man-made canyon early this
morning and still was tramping
past the reviewing stand long after
the sun gave up and dropped be-
hind the skyscrapers on the edge
of the Hudson river. Nobody could
count them.
Million Watched
A million watched. And there
would have been another million if
police—facing the biggest traffic
problem Ithyey ever eifpountered—
had not turned persons away from
Fifth avenue, explaining that it was
a mathematical impossibility to
pack any more people along the
route.
From the moment that Police
Sergeant John J. Follingham step-
ped on the accelerator of his motor-
cycle and shot out of Madison
square to head the parade, the
years dropped away from the
shoulders of the legionnaires. They
came crisply up the avenue in per-
fect step, chins out, stomachs in,
walking almost as briskly as they
did 20 years ago when Fifth avenue
was their high road to and from
the war.
Never One Like It
All along the parade route the
air was white with fluttering paper.
There never has been a parade like
this in New York before—not even
when Lindbergh came hom.e not
even when Manhattan greeted Ger-
trude Ederle after she swam the
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Farmers Interested in making ap-
plications for shelterbelt plantings
in Wheeler and adjoining counties,
are urged to do so at their earliest
possible convenience, A. G. Schat-
tenberg, in charge of the local of-
fice of the United States Forest
Service, district 1, stated today. Ap-
plications should be made at once
in order to give the Forest Service
time to send a Forest officer to
the farms and decide with the
owner, just where the shelterbelt
will be of greatest possible protec-
tion, and if possible, connect up
with adjoining belts.
"Planting will start as soon as the
first frost appears and checks the
sap in the young trees," Schatten-
berg said. “There will probably be
an ample supply of nursery stock
to take care of every farmer’s wants
in this area. All applications must
be received prior to planting time.
Application blanks may be received
from the Forest Service district of-
fice, over the Corner Drug store in
Shamrock, from the county agent,
or chairman of the district agricul-
tural clubs in the district.
“Shelterbelts planted last spring
have made a very satisfactory
growth, Schattenberg said, and the
faster growing species have attained
a height of from 6 to 8 feet, while
individual trees in some of the
belts, that were properly cultivat-
ed throughout the season, have
reached a height of 10 feet.
“The trees are furnished by the
government and planted on the
farms free of charge. All that is re-
quired of the cooperator, is to culti-
vate the trees in a similar manner
in which field crops are cultivated.
If any further information is desir-
ed, Schattenberg asks farmers to
visit the Shamrock Forest office or
telephone 345. The signing of the
application does not bind the farm-
er in any way.”
NANKING, Sept. 22—The United
States embassy staff, moved to
floating quarters aboard the patrol
boat Luzon, remained close to
Nanking today as ominous hours
passed without a sign of the Japan-
ese air raiders who have warned
NEGRO IS GIVEN
DEATH SENTENCE
JURY DELIBERATES ONLY
MINUTES IN REACHING
ASSAULT VERDICT
they intend to devastate China’s
capital.
United States Ambassador Nel-
son Johnson transferred his staff
to the Luzon Monday night, heed-
ing a Japanese warning that after
noon yesterday Japan would not be
responsible for foreigners who re-
main inside the city.
Staff Aboard Ship
The embassy staff remained
aboard. The Luzon’s sister ship, the
United States patrol boat Guam,
was at Hsiakwan.
Further disposition of the * two
ships, the only United States war
vessel in the vicinity, could not be
determined, but it was believed cer-
tain they would await developments
here.
(At Shanghai, Rear Admiral Ed-
ward J. Marquart was reported de-
termined to keep the boats at Nank-
ing unless they were subjected to
direct artillery or air fire).
Chinese military officials, rush-
ing reinforced air defenses for this
city of more than 1,000,000 popula-
tion, predicted the Japanese fail-
ure to launch a large scale offensive
after their hour of grace had pass-
ed was only a lull before the storm.
They said the full lury of Japan’s
air strength could be expected as
soon as weather conditions here and
at Shanghai are more favorable. '
Italians Vacate
Only the United States and Ital-
ian embassies heeded the Japanese
warning. Ambassador Johnson, de-
claring he could not risk the lives
of his staff, hurriedly transferred
the embassy aboard ship. Italian
compliance, it was believed, was a
gesture of amity between Rome and
Tokyo.
Both French and British naval
authorities refused to heed the
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An old clothes drive will be spon-
sored by the American Legion Aux-
iliary, Tuesday, Sept. 28, it was de-
cided at a meeting in the Legion
hut last night, with Mrs. Matt Clay,
president, in charge. Auxiliary mem-
bers are anxious to make this drive
the most successful one ever held
and ask the cooperation of all
Shamrock people.
All articles of wearable clothing
are needed, and Mrs. J. A. Winches-
ter, supervisor of the WPA sewing
room has announced that ladies in
her group would mend, make over,
clean and press, and properly label
all garments as to size, and type,
to be ready for distribution by the
Auxiliary ladies, among needy fam-
ilies.
The clothes will be made over ac-
cording to the needs of each parti-
cular family group, and an attempt
will be made to see that every per-
son in the city, who is in need of
clothing, will be supplied with suit-
able garments.
The drive will be held Tuesday
afternoon at 4 p. m. and Mrs. Clay
asks that all bundles be placed on
the front porch, where they will be
picked up and delivered to the sew-
ing room. Mrs. McPherson, Mrs.
Clay, Mrs. Charles Denny and Mrs.
W. Y. Burden have offered the use
of cars.
This was the first meeting of the
year for the Auxiliary and all new
officers were urged to be present at
the next meeting for installation
ceremonies. Mrs. J. A. Winchester
was elected historian, and Mrs. Pal-
mer was appointed musician for the
year.
The following committees were
appointed: Child Welfare, Mrs. Pal-
mer and Mrs. Dolph Miller; En-
tertainment, Mrs. E. D. Baggs and
Mrs. Carl McPherson; Program,
Mrs. Earl Kromer and Mrs. Win-
chester; Membership and publicity,
Mrs. W. Y. Burden. The finance
committee will be named at the
next meeting.
MARSHALL, Texas, Sept. 22.—
The death penalty was assessed by
a Harrison county district court
jury after eight minutes delibera-
tion in the case of Henderson
Young, negro, found guilty of crim-
inal assault on a Longview woman
August 21.
The youthful defendant hunched
in his chair back of the counsel ta-
ble as District Clerk Jack Moore
read the verdict. Peace officers
from a half dozen counties and
Texas rangers surrounded him and
his brother, Roscoe Young, who is
scheduled to go to trial tomorrow
charged with the same offense.
Aimed with sawed-off shotguns and
rifles, the rangers quickly led the
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NEW YORK AVIATRIX
BREAKS SPEED RECQRD
DETROIT, Sept 22.—Jacqueline
Cochran, New York aviatrix, aver-
aged 293.05 miles an hour in four
flights over a three-kilometer course
bettering the women’s land plane
speed record of 276.527 miles an
hour established in 1934 by the late
Ehelen Boucher, of France.
NOTED QUARTETS FROM TWO
STATES ON PROGRAM AT ■
TWITTY CONVENTION
Noted singers from Texas and
Oklahoma appeared on the program
at the Wheeler county singing con-
vention held at Twitty Sunday
which was attended by a crowd
estimated at from 1,000 to 1,200.
Among the * prominent singers
were: The Stamps-Baxter quartet
from Lubbock, the Stamps-Baxter
Junior Quartet from Shawnee, Port
Quartet from Port, Okla.; Buffalo
Quartet from Buffalo, Okla.; Mo-
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38 Tenant Farmers Move Into
Modern Homes As Government
Experiments With Colonizing
WICHITA FALLS, Sept. 22.—
Thirty-eight tenant farmers and
their families moved into newly
completed residences in the Wichita
Valley Farms, Resettlement.Admin-
istration projects today.
For most of the 130 persons in
the families, the new structures
with electricity, running water and
three-piece plumbing Will represent
luxury.
The placing of 38 families in the
community is a step in colonizing
a 5,000-acre tract on which 81 hous-
es sre being erected, Q. o. Mc-
Gowan, community manager for
the Resettlement Administration,
said. Each unit will have approxi-
mately 51 acres of land subject to
irrigation.
Equipment Complete
The residences range in size from
three to six rooms each. Outbuild-
ings include barns, poultry houses
and hog barns. Each unit will have
a well, with water supplied by an
electric pump. In addition, there
will be a 750-gallon overhead tank
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C. 1.0. GROUPS TO
MEET OCTOBER II
PREPARING MAKE COUNTER
MOVEMENT AGAINST THE
LABOR UNIONS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—John
L. Lewis and the presidents of 32
unions affiliated with his Commit-
tee for Industrial Organization will
meet in Atlantic City Oct. 11 to map
their future course.
Lewis’ summons last night were
interperted generally as preparation
for a C. I. O. counter-movement
against the American Federation of
Labor, which meets in Denver, Colo.,
Oct. 4.
The Atlantic City gathering will
be the first general meeting of C.
I. O. leaders In months. The al-
ready bitter controversy between
that group and the A. F. of L. has
been increased since the last federa
tion meeting by C. I. O.-sponsored
strikes in the steel and automobile
industries.
Those developments led to pre-
dictions In A. F. of L. quarters last
night that both Secretary of Labor
Perkins and Chairman Madden of
the labor relations board may be
dropped from the convention's in-
vitation list.
Miss Perkins and Madden both
have been criticized by some A. F.
of L. leaders, who have declared
their activities indicated partiality
for the C. I. O.
FARMER ARRESTED IN
MIDLAND AUTO DEATH
MIDLAND, Sept. 22.-F. C. Stub-
be, a farmer, was charged with
murder, driving while intoximated,
and failing to stop and render aid,
in counts filed by Midland County
officers after the death of J. C.
Hood, jr., 28, of Hunthjgton, Calif.,
hit-and-run victim.
Hood was struck as he repaired a
punctured tire on an automobile,
and died In Midland hospital sever-
al hours later. William Burke of
Elko, 111., and Jack Parmlee of Los
Angeles, his companions, were in-
jured but not seriously.
Stubbe was arrested after John
Dublin of Midland noted the license
number of the fleeing automobile
which struck Hood.
Only 25 Leaks
Are Reported
In Gas Lines
Since introducing “calodorant”
into the gas mains September 1, the
Shamrock Gas Company states it
has had only 25 calls of gas leaks
in homes and offices during that
time. This is an unusually small
number, in view of the fact there
are approximately 1,000 gas con-
nections in the city.
A11 of the leaks reported were
minor ones, around cook stoves and
water heaters, but with the cooler
weather, gas company officials state
more leaks will be detected around
heater connections, from defective
hose. The public is urged to notify
the gas company when leaks are
discovered, and there will be no
extra charge for the service.
“Calodorant” was introduced into
the lines the first of the month In
accordance with the July 27 order
of the Texas Railroad Commission.
In Dalhart, there were more than
100 calls reporting gas leaks -within
two days after the odorant was
placed in the lines. There are over
1,000 gas connections in the city. At
Hartley, of 40 connections, there
were 25 calls.
scoutswilTrid
STREETS OF NAILS
TIRE HAZARDS TO BE PICKED
UP IN RESIDENCE AND
BUSINESS DISTRICTS
At the regular meeting Tuesday
night of the Boy Scout troop, it
was decided to inagurate a street
clean-up program, with the boys
picking up nails and other tire haz-
ards from the dirt streets and pave-
ments, starting this afternoon.
Jack Shull, scoutmaster, said the
boys would work on this project ev-
ery afternoon after school.
Plans were discussed for holding
an archery tournament here next
spring, inviting Boy Scouts from
various troops over the Panhandle.
Many of the local Scouts are mak-
ing bows and arrows in prepara-
tion for the event.
There were 25 Scouts present at
the meeting last night.
CONDUCTS RITES FOR
AGED CITY RESIDENT
Rev. E. T. Smith of the Fin
Baptist church, held funeral serv-
ices this afternoon at the Clay-
Youngblood Funeral Home, for R.
L. Marsh, 86, who died at his
home here late yesterday afternoon.
He had no living relatives. Marsh
had made his home in Shamrock
for a number of years. Burial was
made in the local cemetery.
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