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lust Among
Us Boys!
nJ Personal note to F. L. Lucas,
Bameron Spruill, Ernest Teakel and
our other readers at Albuquerque,
*N. M., If any: A certain Shamrock
irdware dealer plans to leave here
(out Wednesday or Thursday of
; week for Los Angeles to attend
i national hardware convention,
'bw, here’s where you folks come in,
I and his whole family plan to
bp there and eat up a lot of grub
J well as use some of your lodging.
|e suggest you can save money by
ising your homes for a couple of
leks, and living in some of the
wntown hotels, as we understand
I not only plans to visit with you
L s on the way to California, but
■r-j-r-i on the way back.
! Jgou can learn this Shamrock
jin’s name by reading the back
ge of today’s paper carefully.
NEA
NEWS
PICTURES
TEXABs
City
Edition
Dilatory Attitude Of
Roosevelt On Strike
Situation Is Flayed
VOL. 34
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937
NO. 47
MARKED PREY ASKS IRWIN’S DEATH
Don’t you believe a word in a story
today’s paper saying the tem-
r jrature reached 102 degrees at 4
Jp’clock yesterday afternoon, and also
that It was 98 at 1 p. m„ today. That
Is only Burl Golson’s idea. It wasn’t
Var that hot yesterday or today
ind in fact, it has been unusually
pool and pleasant all summer, don’t
Fou think?
Of course Burl has got some kind
f of a gadget that is supposed to be
I official and all that, and he is do-
ing the best he knows how in re-
i cording the readings. We realize all
i^hat and we appreciate Burl’s effort
Tto keep us posted on what’s going
on as regards the mercury in his
thermometer. The trouble is that
parrying stories about this 100-de-
Tee stuff and talking about it to
everybody you meet on the street,
isimply don’t jibe with our theory of
“How to Keep Cool,” which we
| formed yesterday after reading a
[magazine article.
. The magazine says everybody
ought to know and intimates that
weather men like Burl do know, that
jthe best way to keep cool in ths
ummer is to keep your mind off of
-he weather. Simply Ignore it. When
jfc'ou meet a friend, in place of saying,
|'My, ain’t it a scorcher today?” say,
I’Do you remember last January when
|t got so blooming cold all our water
pipes froze up?” Then, after you get
through swapping experiences on
Numbing bills, casually ask your
friend what kind of anti-freeze he
plans to use In his radiator next
winter, find out if he has bought
his winter’s supply of fleece-lined
unions and tell him he can save
noney by buying his supply of wool-
n blankets in July, also.
And so we ask all of you to please
disregard any mention of the wea-
ther in your conversations during
■July, August and (September. As
liar as this paper is concerned we
are going to keep on getting the
[thermometer readings from Burl,
(but every day we are going to sub-
tract about 20 or 30 degrees from
.what he tells us. We are going to
try and ignore the weather and ask
[that you co-operate with us in mak-
ng Shamrock one of the coolest
pots in America.
Pardon us, while we close the
front door. There seems to be a
draft through the office and we
never thought to wear our coat and
[rest today, not realizing how cold
ft really Is.
-JAIXB-
Today, over Texas and the other
4V States of the Union, there are
pome hundreds of persons alive and
well, going about their daily busi-
ness, enjoying the association of
families and friends, dreaming of
parrying out cherished ambitions,
Who Tuesday morning will be in cof-
fins, with sorrowing relatives pre-
paring to bury them. Among these
persons will be people of all ages
Ind sexes. They will have been vic-
[ims of automobile accidents, drown-
ng, fireworks and various other
ragedies.
A grim thought, but a true state-
nent. Following every holiday, news-
oaper readers over the land pore over
the details of violent death In many
forms. This Fourth it might be you,
)r someone dear to you. So, wherever
pou go or whatever you do to cele-
brate glorious Independence Day,
ise common sense and caution. Help
maky the Fourth a pleasant memory,
Instead of a sad one,
—-JAUB-
We have been having some intern-
al troubles at The Texan office and
you may have heard about It al-
ready. JAUB wanted to close our
hop Monday and all the employees
Ranted to keep it open so they could
ork. Well, the way we finally set-
I It was a master stroke of strate-
somethlng on our part.
Pe had been negotiating with the
ployee’s official bargaining com-
just like the automobile and
plants but It didn’t seem to
etting us anywhere. We were
the employees Insisting
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MORE STRINGENT
TRAFFIC RULES
NOW EFFECTIVE
POWER OF PRESS IN INVOKED
TO HOLD DOWN NUMBER
HOLIDAY MISHAPS
Takes War Post
Her eyes were still filled with the fear which has haunted her night and
day as Mrs. Ethel Kudner accompanied District Attorney Dodge, as pic-
tured here, before the grand jury which indicted Robert Irwin in New
York for the murders of her sister, mother and a lodger. It was Mrs.
Kudner. Irwin said, he was hunting the night he killed the three. She
has urged that he be executed.
AUSTIN, July 2 — Safer drivers
and safer vehicles Will be encount-
ered by motorists in Texas beginning
Thursday.
The State Railroad Commission
announced that strict rules on driver
qualifications, manner or driving,
and vehicle equipment became effec-
tive yesterday morning and will be
enforced rigidly.
The rules apply only to motor
busses and various types of motor
trucks operating under Commission
permit.
No driver under 21 years of age
will be permitted, except those over
18 can continue present employment.
New drivers will be tested on ability
to read and write English. Those
now employed must be able to un-
derstand traffic and warning signs
to continue at their work,
Thirty-seven rules for safe driv-
ing are laid down. Before starting
out the driver must assure himself
that light, reflectors, brakes, horn,
windshield wiper, rear-view mirror,
tires, steering mechanism and coupl-
ings are in good condition. Acces-
sories to guard the public from col-
liding with a vehicle stopped by an
ANOTHER SUSPECT
IN MUROER OF 3
GIRLS ARRESTED
WPA WORKER WHO SERVED IN
NAVY FITS DESCRIPTION
“EDDIE THE SAILOR”
Railroads Rush Cars To
Wheat Area As Biggest
Crop Since 1931 Reaped
SPINSTER SLAYER
PAYS WITH LIFE
MATURA ELECTROCUTED FOR
HARNESS HAME DEATH
OF AGED WOMAN
HUNTSVILLE, July 2 — Clem-
ens Constantine Matura, 66-year-
old slayer of Miss Rebecca Corscy,
was electrocuted in the state pris-
on here early today.
HUNTSVILLE, July 2 — Sixty-
six-year-old Clemens Constantine
Matura, slayer of four persons, spent
the last day of his fourth term in
the penitentiary Thursday as the
electric chair was tuned to claim
him as its 145th victim shortly after
midnight.
Matura was convicted of killing
Rebecca Corsey, aged spinster, near
Haskell, in May. 1938. He pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to death In
Stonewall county one year and one
month ago.
Clarence Abston was convicted In
connection with Miss Corsey’s death
and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
The woman was beaten to death at
her home.
Matura, In tears many times since
his arrival in death row, braced up
during the last hours.
Matura beat Miss Corsey to death
with the hame of a horse collar.
He said he was told to do it by Ab-
ston — for a bottle of beer.
KANSAS CITY, July 2 — Eastern
railroads rushed “empties” into the
Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma har-
vest fields today to help carry away
the largest wheat crop since 1931.
Roads operating in this territory
sent an SOS for all available equip-
ment when a survey that two-thirds
of their wheat cars were in use and
that the harvest would continue an-
other week or ten days.
Farmers continued to tax local
loading and elevator facilities in an
attempt to get their grain to market
before the present high price breaks
and before rust, rain or fire menaces
overtake them.
Louis A. Johnson, former com-
mander of the American Legion,
is seen at his desk in the War
Department at Washington, D.
C., after being sworn in as
assistant secretary of war.
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lightIgTills
YOUTHJT BORGER
THUNDERSTORMS BRING BRIEF
HARD RAINS TO CKStraL
PANHANDLE AREA
A thunderstorm, accompanied by a
spectacular display of lightning,
swept into the Panhandle last night
to claim one life and to bring brief,
hard rains to the Central Plains
area.
James Adkins, 17-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Adkins of Bor-
ger, was killed instantly when struck
by a bolt of lightning about 6 yes-
terday evening as he worked in a
wheat field north of Borger. The
body is at the Carver Funeral Home
in Borger pending funeral arrange-
i ments.
Last night’s showers extended from
Tascosa and Pampa in the north to
Hereford and Clarendon to the
A few stored their wheat hoping I south. Approximately a quarter of
for even more than $1.05 to $1.20 a
bushel. The price In this section
went up with the beginning of the
harvest and has suffered no severif
setback even though production ex-
ceeded estimates.
A drouth in the Canadian and
domestic northwest and extensive
rust damage in the central states
has kept the price high and brought
many new buyers into the market.
Missouri and Kansas grain in-
spection departments which handle
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SHAMROCK GIRL AT
NEW MEXICO CAMP
LARGE RANCH SOLD
BY WHITSEL HEIRS
CANADIAN, Texas, July 2 — At-
torneys said yesterday that a con-
tract had been drawn for the sale
of the 55,000-acre Whitsel ranch In
Roberts and Ochiltree counties to
j the Panhandle Mineral company.
The consideration, all cash, was
Loree Tindall, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert Tindall of this city,
Is one of eighty girls enrolled in
Camp Mary White, the Cactus Re-
gion Girl Scout camp owned and
operated by Girl Scout council of
Roswell, New Mexico. The first ses-
sion of the camp Is from June 27 to
July 11.
Camp Mary White Is located in the
Sacramento mountains, southeast of
Cloudcroft, New Mex. Loree is one of
a group of girls at Escondido rancho,
where advanced camp crafts and
preliminary pioneer training |is
given under the direction of Mrs.
Fred Norris of Robstown, Texas, and
an inch of rain fell in Amarillo dur-,
ing the evening, starting about 8
o’clock. Hereford, Canyon, Adrian,
Clarendon and Tascosa reported
similar precipitation. i
Pampa received only a sprinkle as
did Borger. At Tucumcari and Ca-
nadian traces of moisture were re-
ported earlier in the evening.
Lftte last night both Plainvlew and
Memphis reported lightning was hea-
vy to the north but no rain had been
received.
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HIGH THERMOMETER
READINGS CONTINUE
Old Man Mercury did not let
Shamrock residents forget that it is
summer time Tuesday, the thermo-
meter at the Lone Star Gas camp
north of town registering a high of
102 degree at 4 o’clock In the after-
noon. Low for the day was 72 at 7
a. m.
Today temperature readings by
the hour were: 7 a. m., 76 degrees;
8 a. m., 78; 9 a. ra„ 82; 10 a. m., 86;
11 a. m., 90; noon, 94; 1 p. m„ 98.
SENATE VOTES DOWN
TENANT FUND HIKE
AMENDMENT FOR 56 MILLION
INCREASE BY CONNALLY
OF TEXAS REFUSED
WASHINGTON, July 2 — The
senate refused yesterday to make
a $56,000,000 Increase in a proposed
tliree-jrear ontlay to help tenants
become farm owners.
Administration eupportort over-
whelmed an amendment by Senator
Connally, Democrat, Texas, to make
$150,000,000 available Instead of the
$85,000,000 approved by President
Roosevelt.
The Texan declared it Is a “sad
practice” for the senate to bow to
the president’s wlshec.
“The president can veto this bill
if he doesn't like it,” he exclaimed.
“It’s our duty to legislate.
“We spent $300,000,000 on the re-
settlement administration and they
didn’t settle anything. We have just
voted $1,500,000,000 for relief and
now it is proposed to spend only
$10,000,000 to repair th)e nation's
social fabric.”
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, au-
thor of the pending measure, said
the expenditure would be “only :
demonstration, but at least a start.”
INGLEWOOD, Cal., July 2—James
W. Summitt, 37-year-old WPA work-
er whom police said is known as
“Eddie the Sailor,” was arrested
Thursday for questioning in the
Inglewood triple child murder.
The suspect was arrested at his
home, police said.
Summitt said he had served eight
years in the navy. When arrested,
he was wearing a brown shirt and
blue dungaree trousers.
Known as “Eddie”
The slayer of Madelina and Melba
Everett, sisters, and Jeanette Se-
phens, after they were kidnaped
Saturday from Centinela Park in
Inglewood, was described as wearing
a brown shirt and blue trousers.
Detectives said he was known as
“Eddie the Sailor.”
He denied all knowledge of the
Inglewood murders and said he was
working last Saturday on the WPA
project near Inglewood.
Detectives said they would take
him to the project to verify his
statement and from there would
take him to the Inglewood city hall
to confront Olive Everett, 11-year-
old sister of two of the slain girls,
and others who reported they saw
a man known as “Eddie the Sailor’
in the park last Saturday.
Three Others Held
Three other suspects were in cus
tody, one reported held secretly in
the county jail.
John Vasquez, 20, employee of
CLASS REUNION
RIANS COMPLETE
FIRST GRADUATES OF 9. H. 8.
TO BE GUESTS OF 1932
SENIORS JULY 4TII
Last minute preparations are be-
ing made for the reunion banquet
of the Shamrock High School grad-
uating class, which Is to be held In
the private dining room of the U-
Drop Inn at midnight of July 4.
Indications are now that at least
20 of the 32 graduates will be pres-
ent for the celebration, which will be
the largest of its kind ever held in
Shamrock. Husbands and wives of
the graduates and the guests will
bring the number to be present for
the banquet to approximately 35.
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WASHINGTON, July 2 — Rep. J.
William Ditter, R., Pa.. Thursday
criticized in the House President
Roosevelt’s stand on strike disorder*.
“Why is it," asked Ditter, “know«
ing that a firm declaration of law
and order would end the reign of
terror he can find no phrase strong-
ger than ‘a plague on both your
Houses’.”
Ditter asserted that “the country
has looked to the President to end
this Intolerable affair with a firm
declaration.”
“To speak for law and order does
not necessitate taking sides in the
conflict,” Ditter continued. “The
peace of the nation is imperiled and
the time has come for plain speak-
ing.”
Later Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D,
La„ warned the Senate that “con-
tinuance of strikes” would lead to
“more misery” than resulted from
the 1929 depression.
Ellender said that if the strikes
continued they would “destroy con-
fidence, the life blood of industry.”
He said he felt in many cases
labor has been the “underdog” of
industry and that employers at
times have taken advantage of the
weakness of labor.
"But in recent years labor has
become strong ”
“I hold no brief either for Philip
Murray, Chairman of the Steel
Workers organizing committee or
T. M. Girdler, President of Republic
Steel Corp.
“They are both stubborn and de-
fiant, and unwilling to meet on
common ground.”
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FIREWORKS BLAZE
FATALJ THREE
FIFTEEN OTHERS INJURED AS
EXPLOSION BLOWS OUT
STORE FRONT
NAMPA, Idaho, July 2 — A drug
store fireworks window display ex-
ploded late Thursday, killing a wom-
an and two children and injuring 15
others, some critically.
‘ Mis. T. C. Daniels, 29-year-old
barber’s wife, was almost instantly
killed. Katherine Miller, 6, and
Ardyce Pavek, 9, died of their in-
juries a short time later.
Seriously injured was Mrs. George
Le Delle of nearby Marsing. Hospital
attendants said she had a “fair
chance” for recovery.
The entire front of the store, op-
erated by E. L. Drake, was blown
out. Skyrockets, Roman candles, can-
non crackers and thousands of pack-
ages of firecrackers were set -off.
Screaming women and children
dashed through the fireworks fu-
sillade.
Police were unable to explain the
cause of the explosion.
SHOOTING OF ARMED
STRIKER DESCRIBED
WASHINGTON, July 2 — Patrol-
man George R. Higgins of the Chi-
cago police told the Senate Civil
Liberties committee Thursday he saw
a fellow officer shoot an armed steel
strike picket named Joe Rothmund
during the Memorial Day riots
which resulted in death of 10 strik-
ers.
Higgins said he identified the
body of the striker in the morgue*
Rothmund, he said, was armed With
a nickel-plated gun during the riot.
Riggins identified, the officer wire*
did the shooting a* Walter Oak*,
a member of the city police force.
Higgins, describing the riot, said
a striker “with a club about a foot
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REVIVAL DRAWING
LARGE AUDIENCES
R. NICHOL DELIVERING
INSPIRING MESSAGES
TWICE EACH DAY
given as more than $300,000. The | Miss Alice Gerard of Roswell,
property has been held by the heirs
of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Whit-
sel.
SCRIPTURE DEBATE
TO BE AT MOBEETIE
A debate on Scriptures and doc-
trines between M. S. Groom, repre-
senting the Missionary Baptist
church, and Lester Hathaway, rep-
resenting the Church of Christ, is
announced at Mobeetle July 13 to
18.
Two sessions will be held daily at
10 a. m. and 8 p. m., in the audi-
torium of the grade school.
GARRETTS FORFEIT
TO FIRE FIGHTERS
The city league softball game Wed-
nesday night between the Fire De-
partment and Garrett teams was
forfeited to the former team before
the game was played, as the latter
did not have a sufficient number of
players on the field. The game was
played with two players from other
teams, the score being 11 to 10 In
favor of the fire boys.
Tonight Columbian - United and
Boosters Club teams will clash at
Denver field.
Invitation Is Given By
Churches To All Persons
To Join Sabbath Worship
C. R. Nichol, outstanding evange-
list of the Church of Ohrist, will
continue his series of evangelistic
services at the Buick garage Sunday
morning and evening. Sunday aft-
ernoon at 3 p. m„ he will deliver
an address on the Holy Land. Dur-
ing his travels abroad, Nichol visited
in Palestine and part* * of the Holy
T.nnH, and wUl bring an interesting
Amount of that country. Everyone is
welcome to attend.
At the 11 a. m. hour, Sunday
morning, Rev. lance Webb will
The series of meetings being con-
ducted by the Church of Christ In
the Manzer building, corner Wall
and Third streets, with Evangelist
C. R. Nichol preaching, Is being at-
tended by visitors from other towns
at each session, according to H. P.
Cooper, minister. Mr, Nichol has the
reputation of being one of the
strongest men of his church and is
the author of a number of books,
some of which have been translated
into foreign languages.
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FOUR DIE IN WRECK
OF FREIGHT TRAIN
RUSSIA OFFERS
PEACE PROPOSAL
MANCIIOUKUO WARNS SOVIET
TO KEEP GUNBOATS TO
RIVER CHANNEL
MOSCOW, July 2 — The Soviet
government announced early today
it would withdraw its armed forces
from the disputed Amur river
islands, scene of a Russo-Japanese
clash, if Japan agrees to do likewise.
The announcement, made in a
foreign office communique, declared
Soviet Russia claims indemnifica-
tion for the Russian losses in the
fight which created a situation de-
scribed last night by the Japanese
ambassador as “very strained.”
IgRussia had suddenly floated a de-
fense loan of 4,000,000,000 rubles
($800,000,000 at the official rate) to
be used for “consolidation of nation-
al defense.” Officials predicted quick
over-subscription.
The Japanese envoy, Mamoru
Shigemitsu, had intimated “very
serious" consequences might come
if the Soviet union rejected Japan’s
demand for evacuation of the disput-
ed islands in the Amur, on the bord-
er of Russian Siberia and Japanese-
dominated Manchoukuo.
speak on “1937’s War of Independ-
ence." Sunday evening at 8:30 pio-
neers of Shamrock will be honored
at the regular evening service. Spe-
cial reserved seats for all who have
lived In Shamrock for 25 years or
more and for those living here 2
years or less. Beautiful gift testa-
ments and psalms will be presented
to the person having lived In Sham-
rock for the greatest number of
years and to the one having most
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BLUEFIELD, W. Va., July 2 —
The death list rose to four Thursday
in the wreck of a Norfolk and West-
ern freight train.
James Ball, brakeman, died In a
hospital a few hours after the body
of 23-year-old Clark Maxey was
found In the blazing wreckage.
Maxey apparently was caught by
the plummeting train at he walked
under the trestle en route home last
night.
Engineer W. W. Snead and Fire-
man Ezra McHaffa also were killed.
The big locomotive plunged from s
180-foot trestle last night and ex-
ploded on the ground below.
TOYKO, July 2 — The Manchou-
kuo government was reported in a
dispatch from Ksingking today to
have served a peremptory warning on
Russia to keep to the main naviga-
tion route on the Amur river or
risk “drastic measures."
The warning said:
"If your country’s gunboats devi-
ate from the main navigation route
of the Amur river in the neighbor*
hood of Sennufu, Bolshoi and Shat-
zukoukuo islands and operate on the
waterway belonging to Manchoukuo,
we shall be compelled to resort to
drastic measures of self-defense."
REEV ES EMPLOYED BY
GIERHART-COOK SHOP
J. C. Reeves, who ha* been em-
ployed at the Tindall-Orrlck Barber
Shop, will be associated In the future
with the Glerhart-Cook Barter Shop,
it was announced today. He Invites
his friends to drop in and see him
at hia new location.
Fred Wood will continue in the
employ of the shop, making a crew
of four capable barbers to serve the
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