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Just Among
Us Boys!
II
je guarantors of the “Beat Mem-
< Bus," Special train did not get to yQj^ 33
run the locomotive, punch the tick-
timar jjnrow the switches or sell soda-
and trinkets on the Friday ex-
Ion. The frank troth is that
„_/eral of us considered ourselves
fortunate in being permitted to ride
passengers of that train. The Fort
j) /Worth & Denver punched our tick-
Uj s twice, then took them all up and
;er fingerprinted a bunch of us
iengers. It seems the train mas-
sr, conductor, brakeman and Bed-
•d Harrison who promoted the
lin, couldn’t agree on whether
iverybody riding that special train
pad bought their tickets. They fi-
llially decided the Shamrock delega-
tion was okay, except for a very few
of and decided to let us all stay
train.
Jimmie Smith, Royce Lewis and
lis eolumn helped old Bedford and
ie train crew take up the tickets
id see that no stowaways were on
‘tmard. The train master just looked
Jimmie and Royce and us over
find whispered to the conductor that
Unless our appearance lied we
couldn’t be smart enough to tangle
them up, and to just go ahead and
let us check the tickets If we want-
ed to.
NEA
NEWS
PICTURES
TEXAN
City
Edition
Irishmen Tame Cyclone
In Thrilling Conference
Fray On Memphis Field
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936
NO. 145
Death Sad Blow
to Helen Keller
SHAMROCK IRISH,
WHEELER PONIES,
LEAD GRID RACE
HUSKY WELLINGTON GRIDDERS
KNOCK PROPS FROM UNDER
McLEAN TEAM 24 TO 0
BROWDER AGAIN WARS TERRE HAUTE ROOSEVELT CLAIMS
NEW DEAL LOOSENED
GRIP OE MONOPOLY
This column got in a rush right
at the last minute Friday afternoon
| And forgot to take a camera along
to take some pictures of the won-
Bprful scenery between here and
Memphis. And the Band Mothers
Who had the news butch concession
on the train clear forgot to stock
up on postcards before they left,
keeping several of us from writing
l back to our friends In Shamrock
| that we were well and happy, and
having a grand time. One thing
1 which came near spoiling the trip
» for a bunch of us was that Old Ear!
“Tromer began to get home-sick the
pjhinute we got outside of Wheeler
C County. Shorty Hallmark and Dr,
'■ Joel Zeigler kept talking to Earl
though about a train trip they took
one time as far as Amarillo, and
j5napped right out of it. By the
we had reached Wellington
■ sari was enjoying himself as much
" as us seasoned globe-trotters. He
later told us though that he sure
I Was glad when he saw the lights of
Shamrock through the train win-
lows Friday night. ,
I; These railroads sure must pay
ilgh wages for guarding the bag-
age cars on special excursion trains,
abot Brannon came out of the bag-
age car once and told us he had
Bade $4.50 and a little later O. R.
(cVean told us he made more than
| $10. And neither one of them could
have worked for more than an hour.
fFHE TRIP AND GAME — Nell
lams had a sure-fire method of
ling sandwiches. If you wouldn’t
one she would turn Clayton
e loose singing until you did
one—George Dodgen was sure
laving from side to side as he
,ked down the aisles but insisted
the motion of the train which
him sway—And District At-
Lewis Goodrich was seen
Iking to the end of the oar with
bottle of pop, freshly opened, in
his hand as if he meant business—
Bill Burden lost money on selling
jOoca-Cola on account of some of
the band boys throwing several
les of empty bottles out of the
dow, and that Is the truth —
land Mothers sold 500 sand-
on the train.
n Nunn Insisted it was the U-
■op Inn steaks which Drake eats
at made him run like a scared
abbit—O. W. Sullivan proved If he
loan get three Shamrock fans to
smoking cigars at the same time
and they will concentrate on a
touchdown at the same time that
the Irishmen will make a touchdown
at the same time—Asked how many
■minutes were left In the game at
the time when Shamrock was lead-
ing Memphis only 18 to 13, Coach
Rush yelled, “Six minutes bpt it’s
going to seem like 29 years/’
The school officials and citizens
of Memphis showed the mast won-
derful hospitality possible, going out
■of their way to accommodate the
Shamrock visitors. They sent tick-
ets to the game ahead to Childress
and put them on the train so as not
to delay the Irish fans when they
W 3”rJy«1 at the football field. And
m the train arrived, there was
Mie crowd of Memphis people on
to welcome us and to offer
jo do everything they could to make
ir stay pleasant. During the game,
the Cyclone fans were eonsid-
,te, confining their remarks to
-natured razzing and kidding,
want the people of Memphis to
pw that Shamrock appreciates
(Continued on Rage 3)
Another team dropped from among
the undefeated class Friday night In
the district 3 class B football race.
A team which has been rated the
cream of the crop this season, al-
though defeated once in conference
play proved its metal to the nth de-
gree last night when the Wellington
Skyrockets all but murdered the
powerful McLean Tigers to the tune
of 24 to 0 in the form of kind of an
upset victory.
By defeating the Memphis Cyclone
and the Lakeview Eagles respective-
ly the Shamrock Irishmen and the
Wheeler Mustangs remain atop the
district standing for at least another
week with a standing of 1000 per
cent.
Coach Bob Clark’s restive Mus-
tangs took a close shave last night
from Coach Bob Clark’s Eagles by
a score of 7 to 6. The Mustangs were
the third conference foe whom the
Eagles have all but knocked out of
the district race. According to re-
ports received here this morning
two of Wheeler’s star performers
were injured in the affray.
Coach Joe Coleman’s Wellington
Skyrockets stole the whole show, al-
most, last night by taking the high-
ly rated McLean Tigers into camp In
a one-sided 24 to 0 victory. However,
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HELPED,
PRESIDENT TELLS GROUPS
OF BUSINESS MEN
(Continued on Page 3)
SEVERED LEG OF
GIRL IS MYSTERY
OFFICERS HOLD TO MURDER
THEORY; YOUNG WOMAN
REPORTED MISSING
TRINIDAD, Colo., Oct. 24 — The
report of a missing girl and the
pending arrest of a man seen with
her deepened the mystery Friday
which' surrounds the discovery of
the left leg of a child or woman near
Trinidad.
The fact that a check of physi-
cians and hospitals revealed no am-
putations recently strengthened
Sheriff Ray Marty’s belief he may be
confronted with a murder.
Under his order more than 100
volunteers with picks and shovels
dug Into the rolling hills east of here
seeking a body. It was near there a
dog uncovered the leg, wrapped in
a Denver newspaper.
The parents of Frances Vigil, 18,
disclosed, after they read of the
finding of the severed leg, that the
girl disappeared Sunday, apparent-
ly taken away by a man with whom
she had quarreled frequently. They
said they had not heard from her
since then.
Violence for the second time prevented Earl Browder, Communist
candidate for president, from speaking before a mass meeting and
by radio in Terre Haute, Ind., the disorder being climaxed by an
egg and tomato shower directed by a mob at the candidate and his
companions. Browder went into court to ask legal protection and
here is shown, center, as he made his appeal. Behind him are
ranged several supporters. At the left is David J. Bentall, his Chi-
cago attorney, and at the right is Seymour Waldman, New York
Communist leader.
House Votes Down Age
Assistance Restriction
In Turbulent Session
FIVE LION CUBS GET
QUINTUPLETS’ NAMES
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Oct. 24 —
Quintuplet females lion cubs bom
at Snakeville, wild animal farm near
here, will be named Yvonne, Cecile,
Emily, Marie and Annette.
Manual King, young lion trainer | the aviators calling upon them to
and owner of the cubs, said he be- j surrender their city. Old men and
REBEL WAR PLANES
STRAFE CAPITAL
INSURGENT FASCIST TROOPS
PUSH BACK GOVERNMENT
LINES OF DEFENSE
ON MADRID BATTLEFRONTS,
Oct. 24 — Fascist insurgent war
planes — “blackbirds of death” —
strafed terrified Madrid Friday.
Three times within 12 hours six
planes, in formation, dived on the
city and splattered buildings and
streets with machine gun bullets.
The populace, mainly women and
children, ran wildly through the
streets seeking shelter In basements.
All able-bodied men were at the
front, trying to keep the insurgent
advance from driving closer to their
homes and families.
At Mostoles, west of Madrid, the
trained Insurgents were pressing the
government lines within ten miles
of the capital.
No Bombing Effort
When the panic-stricken populace
emerged warily from their under-
ground retreats, they found the city
littered with pamphlets dropped by
AUSTIN, Oct. 24—The House of
Representatives kicked over the trac-
es Friday on the subject of delib-
eralization of the old age assistance
law, reversing itself, temporarily at
least, to oppose drastic restrictions.
By a vote of 75 to 42, amid up-
roarious scenes, it adopted a reso-
lution by Rep. Joe Caldwell of Ash-
erton, informing a conference com-
mittee of the two legislative cham-
bers that it was the will of the
House that a deliberalization pro-
posal be discarded.
Members shouted for recognition,
ran the gamut of parliamentary pro-
cedure, adjourned for one minute
to start a new legislative day and
finally put on a “call of the House”
to keep representatives from break-
ing a quorum before the action was
taken.
Chaplain Absent
At one point proponents of delib-
erallzation seemed to have checked
the steamroller moving against
them, when it was discovered the
chaplain was not present to offer
prayer and start the new day, and
a resolution to suspend the rule re-
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Arguing
that the administration had “loosen-
ed the grip of monopoly” and “drag-
ged private enterprise back out of
the pit into whioh It had fallen In
1933,”’ President Roosevelt asserted
last night that the New Deal was
resolved tcf “keep politics out of
business.”
At the same time, he said in a
campaign address, “we ask that
business refrain from coercion in
polities.”
No administration in history, the
President contended, lias done more
for the system of private business,
property and profit. He added that
“an overwhelming majority” of In-
dependent individual business men
approve “what we did to save Amer-
ican business.”
“I am equally sure,” he asserted,
“that a handful of monopolistic
business men hate what we did for
American business.”
Mr. Roasevelt spoke by radio from
his White House study to banquets
of business men In cities throughout
the nation, sponsored by the Good
Neighbor League, a pro-Roosevelt
organization. Other speakers on the
program included Secretary Mor-
genthau and Jesse H. Jones, RFC
chairman.
He told the diners that as profits
return and the values of securities
and Investments come back, “we
must hold constantly to the resolve
never again to become committed
to the philosophy of the boom era,
to let individualism run wild.”
Acted Quickly
Thait philosophy, he contended,
holds that “government Should be
ever ready to putt against the legs
of high finance.” and “above all,”
that government had no right to
“interfere with those who were us-
ing the system of private profit to
MEMPHIS, Oct. 23—In one of 4
the most thrill-packed district 3 l
football games of the current sea-
son, the Shamrock Irishmen de-
feated Memphis’ flashy Cyclone
24 to 13 in Cyclone stadium here
Friday night. From the first kick-
off both teams opened both bar-
rels and shot the works right up
to the finish.
The Memphis team showed a
running attack that far surpassed
anything the Irishmen have, met
to date along with filling the air
with passes. The Irishmen stuck i
largely to their ground attack, at-
tempting only five passes during
the entire affray.
This was not a game of individual
stars although there were plenty of
sparkling plays by members of both
teams during the course of the
game. On the offense the Memphis
line was a mighty force but on the
defense the Irish ripped through it
on numerous occasions for long
1 gains.
Irish line Strong
j Pounds, a boy that is good for two
! yards every time he Is handed the
(ball, and Hall were stand-out per-
! formers in the ground-gaining de-
j partment for the Cyclone, while
A career which, through its 50-
year devotion to Helen Keller,
blind and deaf mute, provided
inspiration for many similarly
afflicted persons, ended with
the death of Mrs. Anne Sullivan
Macy, above, 70, at the Long
£ ffl-SS -med like -warts; on both the
Dennis Walker, one of the three cap-
tains of the Memphis outfit, did
some pass receiving aided by Ma-
lone, an end. Walker did the Cyclone
kicking, which was little, and Hall
did the pass tossing.
The entire Irish forward wall per-
almost blind in her later days,
taught Miss Keller how to enjoy
the world she could not hear or
see.
TAX VALUATIONS
SHOW BIG GAIN
(Continued on Last Page)
pastoFwilltell
OF GREAT REVIVAL
COMMISSIONERS COURT SETS
ASSESSMENTS FOR YEAR
AT $13,652,067
Property valuations Of
County for taxation purposes have
been fixed by the commissioners
court at a total of $13,652,067 for
1936, according to information given
out by J. H. Templeton, county tax
assessor and collector. The tax rate
is set at $1.62 per $100 of valuation,
of which 62 cents represents the
state’s share and $1.00 the county’s.
This year’s valuation figures show
an increase of $1,725,625 over the
valuation for 1935. which totaled
$11,926, 422.
The prospective yield in taxes
from this year’s assessments amounts
to $77,215.27 for the state and $136,-
520.67, for the county, the tax col-
lector states. With all school and
poll taxes added, Wheeler county
taxes are estimated to reach the 1m-
JAMESON BACK FROM ABILENE | total o{ $29g>625.66
WHERE HE HEARD FAMOUS
GYPSY SMITH
lieved it was the first such litter
on record.
The cubs were bom to “Tiger,”
a five-year-old lioness born at the
farm, and were sired by “Nubus,”
a black maned African lion given
to King by Emperor Haile Selassie.
boys not at the front attempted
vainly to fight off the planes with
anti-aircraft fire.
No attempt was made by the at-
tacking aviators to bomb the city.
(Continued on Page 3)
Wild Bears, Human Pickers
Vie For Huckleberry Crop
TACOMA. Wash., Oct. 24—About
1,500 persons and an undetermined
number of bears were harvesting a
crop of comparatively rare huckle-
berries and keeping a sharp lookout
for each other In a 50-mlle area near
here today.
The section is the only known
place In the United States where
a certain small, tart variety of
huckleberry grows In profusion.
The berry Is especlall prized for
pie-making in preference to the
common "mountain” type. It also is
one of the favorite delicacies of
the bears, chief inhabitants of the
unsettled section.
The bear gets his berries by the
simple process of eating them off
the bush. The professional pickers
get theirs by a system almost as
simple — they put a tub under the
bush and beat the branches with a
heavy stick.
The stick also Is very convenient
when a hear and a picker choose the
same bush at the same time.
The peninsula berries this year
are being purchased at 5 cents a
pound in 50 buying stations. A Ta-
coma dealer, who purchases berries
from buying stations, cleans them
with an air blower and sells to can-
neries and grocers, estimated each
station had an average of 30 per-
sons working for it.
Rev. C. E. Jameson, Methodist
pastor, who has just returned from
Abilene, where he attended three
services of the great Gypsy Smith
revival, announces that he will touch
on some of the high spots as he saw
them in his Sunday morning ser-
mon.
“Gypsy Smith is the world’s great-
est evangelist,” Rev. Jameson de-
clares. “He has held revivals on five
continents for sixty years and has
never had a building large enough
to care for all who came to hear
him.”
The pastor states there will be no
quMng preyer failed to obtain the' Sunday evening services at the
necessary two-thirds vote.
“If there ever was a time this
House needed prayer, it Is now,"
shouted Representative Kenneth Mc-
Calla of Houston at the height of
the tumult.
A few minutes later, however, the
House voted by a two-thirds major-
ity to allow a member to offeT prayer
and Rep. Jasper Reed of Texarkana
performed the function.
The committee, composed of five
senators and five representatives,
was nearing the end of efforts to re-
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FILLMORE’S CAR IS
FOUND NEAR CLINTON
Clyde Fillmore’s automobile, which
was stolen from his home driveway
some time after 8 o’clock Thursday
night, was found by Custer county
officers on the highway about 6 mil-
es west of Clinton, Okla., according
to a telephone message yesterday
afternoon, Deputy Sheriff W. W.
Davis reports.
The fuel supply in the car had
been exhausted and the machine left
at the side of the road, the officers
said. They reported an windows
were rolled up, the doors closed and
the ignition key removed and placed
in the rtaSh compartment. Fillmore
said he would go after the car to-
day.
Methodist church, other than the
regular meeting of the young peo-
ple.
Sunday, November 1, will be the
final service before the Methodist
conference, which will be held in
Houston. Rev. Jameson expresses the
wish that there will he full attend-
ance for the three services before
conference.
Oil and gas development in the
county is credited for the appreci-
able increase in property
values,
members of the commissioners court
declare.
Allocation of the county levies for
this year and last, are as
follows;
Levy 1935-36
1936-37
Jury........-......- -15
.11
Road-Bridge, reg.....10
.15
Road-Bridge, spec. „ .15
.15
General --------— -25
.25
Special Bridge.........
.05
Court House-Jail ... .15
.05
Road-Bridge, Sinking .20
.24
$1.00
$1.00
ate. P. T. Boston, who recently
underwent an operation at a lqcal
hospital, returned to her home yes-
terday.
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Monroe Keys of Samnorwood un-
derwent an appendicitis operation at
a local hospital last night.
offense and defense with every man
in it doing some fine defensive work.
The defensive department was
probably headed by Brothers and
Rook. Other thorns in the sides of
Memphis backs were Braxton, Cain,
and Shaddix. The play of Woolard
and King was also far above re-
proach.
*The backfield with Captain Rook
as the spark plug did a nifty job
of carrying the mail. They also did
a workmanlike job of breaking up
the Hall to Walker passing combi-
nation knocking down thirteen and
whppipr : intercepting three of the twenty-
five the Cyclone tried.
First Stauia Scoreless
The Vfirst quarter went scoreless
with the Irish advancing to the Cy-
clone 14 only to lose the ball and
then again as the period ended,
Cantrell carried 28 for a first down
on the enemy 9. Early in the second
stanza Drake passed to Rook for thfi
first Irish counter. A few plays lat-
er Drake got loose for a 69-yard
jaunt and the second Irish touch-
down. Before the half ended the
Cyclone had taken the ball on their
own thirty and marched to their
first encounter leaving the score 12
to 7. Then again before the whistle
sounded ending the half Rook took
a 15-yard pass from Drake and
romped 65 yards to another score.
Taking the kick-off at the be-
ginning of the second half on their
own 36, the Cyclone marched to
their final counter with Hall fi-
nally going over. Late in the last
period the Irish took the ball on
their own 43 and in 6 plays drove
to their last counter of the contest.
Rook Snags Pass
Late in the first period the Irish
took possession of the pigskin on the
Memphis 43 on a kick from Walker.
On the first play Cantrell picked up
34 for a first down on the enemy 9
as the period ended, after Rook had
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SELASSIE MAKES NEW
APPEAL TO LEAGUE
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Daniels of Mc-
Lean were business visitors here
yesterday afternoon.
London Reads Of King And
Friend In U. S. Newspapers
LONDON, Oct. 24—From Mayfair the trial. The English newspaper
to the east end, London last night
read copious details in the American
press about the impending divorce of
Mrs. Ernest (Wally) Simpson, close
friend of King Edward.
American newspapers, which car-
ried banner line reports of the di-
vorce proceedings, scheduled at Suf-
folk Assizes in Ipswich Tuesday, and
pictures of the former Baltimore
beauty with the king, were read
eagerly. Their distribution, uncen-
sored, was permitted.
Not a line concerning the case
appeared in British newspapers, al-
though there were a number of
English newspaper correspondents
among the small army of journal-
ists that went to Ipswich $0 report
men were expected to report the
details only for the private infor-
mation of their editors.
On the eve of the opening of
Suffolk Assizes, Mrs. Simpson be-
came a woman of rumor. It was
generally believed she was in the
vicinity of Ipswich, although no
one reported having seen her. Her
husband was in London. King Ed-
ward dined with Queen Mary at
Marlborough house.
Exclusive West End hotels sold
out their American newspapers ear-
ly, although last week’s and this
week’s editions of the Magazine lib-
erty were banned and confiscated
because they contained “remarks of-
fensive to King Edward."
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 24—
A new appeal for help for Western
Ethiopia from Emperor Halle Selas-
sie has been received by the League
of Nations.
Transmitting an appeal he had re-
ceived from authorities representing
him in Ethiopia the communication
said his imperial government re-
mains sovereign through the west-
ern part of the country.
The government there, It Is said,
is at present “discharging its duties
peacefully and with diligence, sup-
ported by strength inspired by Its
complete confidence in the League
of Nations."
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REPUBLICANS SPEND
OVER THREE MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—The Re-
publican national committee Friday
submitted its report on campaign
expenditures between Sept. 1 and
Oct. 18, showing expense# totaling
$3,161,617 and receipts of $2,981,765
during the period.
Earlier the Republican senatorial
campaign committee reported re-
ceipts of $77,260 and expenditures
of $78,768 for the period from Sept.
10 to Oct. 22.
individual contributions included
William Randolph Hearst, San Sim-
eon, Calif., $10,009; J. A. Chapman,
Tulsa, Okla, $10,006: Bari P. Halli-
burton, Duncan, OMa, $5,000
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