The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 193, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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QhfcoHAMRocK Texan
ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935
City
Edition
VOL. 32—NO. 19S
G-MEN PUSH HUNT FOR MILNE ABDUCTORS
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alesman’s Bloodstained Car Points To Foul Play Youn« Krtap Victim
(lives Description Of
4 Men To U. S. Agents
UN WHO TRIED TO
SELL WHISKEY IS
HELD BY SHERIFF
ISTOL WITH TWO CARTRIDGES
FIRED IS FOUND IN
ABANDONED AUTO
>ER, Texas, Dec. 20. (A“)—
iff F. H, Newman announced
ight That a bloodstained auto-
Je found near here early today
a window on the driver’s side
out as if by a bullet, had
J flph identified as the property of
.WLKiiihi, Cannon, missing employe
* F of a Big Spring wholesale liquor
said he was holding a man
i ^||t>ortec( to have tried to sell half
) afase of whisky here shortly after
the time the car was believed to
pave been left on a highway six
Sfeiles north of town last night. He
id witnesses told him the man
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GUARDSMEN ENFORCE OKLAHOMA QUARANTINE
DLIND SENATOR
IS INJURED WHEN
STRUCK BY AUTO
t CONDITION IS SERIOUS FROM
FRACTURED SKULL AND
OTHER INJURIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (£>)—Sen-
or Thomas D. Schall, 58, Repub-
an, Minnesota’s blind senator and
I-critic of the New Deal, was
in a serious condition today
injuries sustained last night
ten he was struck by an automo-
lle. He suffered a fractured skull,
fracture of the. left leg and in-
irnal injuries.
I Witnesses said the accident oc-
urred as Schall, accompanied by
R. Leen, a clerk in his office,
ft the senator’s parked car and
empted to walk across the Balti-
ore-Washington highway to a
ore in Cottage City, Md.
BRITAIN SEEKS
SUPPORT AGAINST
ITALIAN ATTACK
LAVAL REMAINS PREMIER AS
BALDWIN GOVERNMENT
IS SUCCESSFUL
Fearing spread of meningitis, authorities posted national guardsmen on all main highways through south-
ern Kiowa county, Oklahoma. Guards are shown Issuing passes for through trafflo, which Is permitted
through the areas In a specified time. This station is 10 miles west of Snyder on highway No. 62.
(Associated Press Photo)
Program Announced For
Christmas Concert By
Band Sunday A fternoon
An unusually fine program of
music appropriate to the holiday
season is announced by Director
Glenn A. Truax for the first annual
Christmas concert of the Shamrock
iband, which will be given Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock in the First
Baptist church.
The program, follows:
“Welcome to Gar Concert,” Pan-
ella; German choral, Bach; Choral:
“Portsmouth,” Mendelssohn; Choral:
VOTE ON SESSION
WILL ASK LEGISLATORS WHAT
WILL BE PASSED ON “IF
THEY COME DOWN”
(By the Associated Press)
The British government, aban-
doning the peace plan, was report-
ed trying to mobilize other League
of Nations members to meet a
possible Italian attack. This in-
dicated British envoys were at-
tempting to gain solid guarantees
of support in case of military
hostilities.
Announcement that Pierre Laval
would retain the French premier-
ship followed British Prime Min-
ister Stanley Baldwin’s successful
negotiation of a stormy parliament-
ary sea. Laval returned to Paris,
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ATTEND MEETING
TO PLAN EXHIBIT
FOR CENTENNIAL
WHEELER COUNTY WILL HAVE
SHARE IN WEST TEXAS
C. OF C. DISPLAY
Clayton Heare, Shamrock director
of th^ West Texas Chamber of Com-
KIDNAP THREATS TO WAITER I"6”*’ att«nd€d a conference today
in Amarillo of representatives of
DOYLESTOWN, Penn., Dec. 20 (fP)—G-men centered
an intensive hunt for the kidnaper of Caleb J. Milne, fourth,
in the Philadelphia area today, as agents double-checked
the farm house ten miles from here, said to be the kid-
napers’ hideout, amid reports the case would be solved by
midnight.
Federal men were convinced the abductors were some-
where in eastern Pennsylvania. Investigators planned to
question Milne again today. He was improved and it is
hoped he can give more definite information.
BOYLESTOWN, Pa., Dec. 20. (A*)
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To Direct Concert
NEW TESTIMONY
DEEPENS MYSTERY
ACTRESS’ DEATH
AUSTIN, Dec. 20. (/P)—-Gov. James
... , ____ V. Allred said today he was con-
Schaii wtuTentered’the senate in ' “Rejoice, Oh, My Soul,” Schumann; ' sidering polling members of ttr
I24 and was re-elected in 1930, had overture: “Our Victory,” Del Colie;, legislature on "if and when” a spe-
iously served 10 years in {he overture, ‘,press On,” Victor; “Thecal session should be convened,
of representatives. | Bells,” medley of bell songs, by the | governor said he ought tr
3e was blinded shortly after he
' band.
■an law practice in Minneapolis ( “Home on the Range,” cowboy
in a cigar lighter exploded in his song; “Honey,” Freeman; “Let Me
Call You Sweetheart,” Friedman, vo-
cal numbers by high school boys glee
club.
Buglers’ Overture, Bennet; Kretos-
gang (Upside down and Backwards),
Mozart; cornet duet by Theo.
Nichols and Mr. Truax; "Master-
)UNG LAWYER DIES
IN 10-STORY PLUNGE
fOUSTON, Dec. 20. (/P)—P. T.
brth, Jr., 29, of Fort Worth, junior
Jtorney for the Federal Securities |'bUV' Overture, Alford,
^change commission, plunged from
tenth floor of the Riice hotel
ijay, dying a few minutes later,
olice as yet have found no reason
the action. North’s home is in
alvert.
,OW PRESSURE AREA
ARRESTS COLD WAVE
DALLAS, Dec. 20. (ip—A low pres-
sure area extending from San Diego,
Calif., to Austin protected Texas
from a threatened cold wave, bring-
ing instead cloudy weather and rain.
Only a few Panhandle points felt
freezing weather.
El Paso, Del Rio, Austin, San An-
’tonlo and Brownsville reported rains.
TODAY
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TEXAS THEATRE—Its the last
day to see “Dr. Socrates” star-
ring that grand actor, Paul Muni
in his most dramatic role, that
of a small town doctor who fights
gangsters with a doctor’s kit! Ann
Dvorak takes the part of a wild
girl of the road who is inno-
cently implicated in a bank rob-
bery. How ”Dr. Socrates” saves
hfir from Barton MacLane, gang
leader, is one of the most dra-
matic situations ever seen on the
screen. Robert Barrat, Hobart
Cabanaugh, Helen Lowell and
John Eldredge are in the sup-
porting cast. Also news reel and
cartoon.
THE WEATHER
WEST TEXAS—Occasional
rains tonight and Saturday.
Theme from Largo, New World
symphony, Dvorak; “Invitation to
the Dance,” Weber; "Amaryllis Ga-
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EPISCOPAL SERVICES
The Rev. Newton C. Smith of
Quanah, priest-in-charge, announces
the regular monthly services will be
held Sunday morning at St. Michael
and All Angels Episcopal church in
Shamrock. Holy communion and
sermon will be at 11 o’clock. The
public is invited to attend the ser-
vices.
have more information before call-
ing another special session and be-
lieved it advisable to get members'
views on “what would be passed il
they did come down.”
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SUGGEST MILITARY
FORCE FOR LEAGUE
GENEVA, Dec 20. (/P)—Interna-
tional circles today advanced the
suggestion 'the League of Nations
council consider asking members to
contribute fighting units to a league
military force, including land, sea
and air forces, which would be used
to protect the league covenant.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lewis made :
-trip to Amarillo today.
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H. P. Mundy made a business
trip to Amarillo Thursday.
BROUGHT INTO PROBE
BY GRAND JURY
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. (IP)—
Kidnap threats and a new report
Thelma Todd, prominent screen
actress, was seen alive after the
time the autopsy indicated she
died complicated the grand jury
investigation of her death today.
A woman named as “Mrs. Kane,’
telephoned police she saw the ac-
tress telephoning Sunday afternoon
about the time Mrs. Wallace Ford
previously had said the actress call-
ed her on the telephone.
Alex Hounle, head waiter at the
Hollywood club, where the actress-
left a party to go to her death, told
police two men shouted kidnap
threats after crowding his automo-
bile to the curb last night. He
earlier received a postoard bearing
words clipped from a newspaper:
“Without testimony or kidnap trip.’
Nelson Porter of Wheeler, trans-
acted business here Thursday,
Many Teachers Leave on Visits
As Schools Close For Holidays
Members of the Shamrock school
faculty leave this week-end for var-
ious points in Texas and other states
to spend the Christmas holidays with
relatives and friends, as schools re-
cessed today until January 2.
High school teachers leaving are
W. C. Perkins and family who will
spend the next week with relatives
in Houston and Cold Springs; Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Morrow will visit in
Winnsboro and Dallas; Mrs. Claude
Shelton, in Missouri; Mrs. Raymond
Zeigler in East Texas; Miss Dorothy
Thomas with relatives in Sparks,
Okla.; Mrs. Earl Braudt in Canyon;
Mrs. John Lewis will spend the sea-
son in McAllen; John* Walker will
visit in several points during the
holidays, while Coach Rush will visit
in Wichita Falls. Mrs. J. J. Baird
will have relatives from Houston to
CLARK BUMPERS BUYS
VALENTINE GROCERY
Clark Bumpers announces he has
purchased the J. J. Valentine grocery
and service station on south Main
street and invites the public to visit
him. He will handle a full line oi
staple and fancy groceries, fresh
and cured meats, and Conoco prod-
ucts.
Bumpers has had several year:
experience in the grocery business
Before going into business for him-
self, he was employed in Snell's
Food Store.
W. R. White is ill at his home with
flu.
visit her here, and Miss Beverley
Harvey will remain at home during
the vacation.
From the South Ward, Mrs. Rheta
Stanford will leave for Florida this
week-end; Miss Maybelle Veach for
McLean; and Miss Wood will visit
in Leila Lake with her mother.
Frank Shortt and Miss Lutie Mc-
Ilhaney will remain in Shamrock.
Teachers from the North Ward
who will visit in other points dur-
ing the vacation are Mrs. M. S.
Kavanaugh, Dodd City; Miss Lucille
Pringle,, Erick, Okla., Mrs. D. J.
Gasway, Sherman and Temple; Miss
Dorothy Chisenhall, Fort Worth and
Corsicana; Miss Maud Lummus,
Sanger; Miss Margaret Perle, Can-
yon; while Miss Florlne Clay, Henry
Hlse and Mrs. H. J. Morris will spend
the holidays in Shamrock.
STOP AND READ!
While They Last
We are closing out our Beautiful
Gift Wrapping boxes containing
everything you need for wrap-
ping your Christmas gifts which
have been selling for $1.25 for
15c each while they last
Each box contains 7 sheets fancy
paper with clever and distinctive
designs, 8 sheets of red and f
sheets of white tissue, one bolt
silver ribbon, 3 bolts cellophane
ribbon, and 76 seals and em-
bossed tags.
They’re Going At Cost!
75c
The
Shamrock Texan
Telephone 169 and Reserve I or I
West Texas towns to plan exhibits
at the Texas Centennial exposition
in Dallas. Also attending the ses-
sion were R. H. Forrester, Wheeler,
director, and Jake Tarter, county
agent.
The meeting, called by Wilbur C.
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QUAILSCHOOLS
GET PWA GRANT
CONTRACT FOR NEW $45,900
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
TO BE LET SOON
The newly consolidated Quail
rural high school district, which is
now the largest in Texas, has re-
ceived official notice from Washing-
ton that a PWA grant of $20)700 has
been approved for the district, ac-
cording to Carl Chaudoin, superin-
tendent.
Contract will be let immediately
for the construction of a $45,000
building for the central high school.
Seven ward schools are in the dis-
trict.
Glenn A. Truax, popular director
of the Shamrock Irish band, will
present his organization in a special
Christmas concert in the First Bap-
tist church Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock. Recognized as one of the
outstanding band directors of the
state, Truax is president of the Pan-
handle Bandmasters Association and
takes a leading part in musical ac-
tivities of this section.
SCOUT DONATIONS
COME IN SLOWLY
—Caleb J. Milrte, Fourth, gave
federal agents last night a de-
scription of four men who kid-
naped him in New, York and
through his description enabled
them to find the hideout where
he was held prisoner for four
days.
Federal agents and a stenogra-
pher who sat about his bedside In
a hospital took his story.
Hideout Ten Miles Away
They said they had found the
hideout—a dilapidated house on a
farm near Wrightstown, in south-
eastern Bucks County, about ten
'miles southeast of the spot where
Miine was thrown out of a car Wed-
nesday night—from an accurate de-
scription of movements made by the
kidnaroers given by Milne.
The agents said they sent identi-
fication orders on the four kidnaper*
to every Federal’ Bureau of ■ investi-
gation office in the country.
Near the hideout, they said they
found a hypodermic syringe and two
needles, which they believe the kid-
napers used to keep Milne in .a con-
dition bordering on unconsciousness
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RULES ON VOTING
EXEMPTION GIVEN
TAX COLLECTOR SAYS MUST
APPEAR IN PERSON TO
GET CERTIFICATE
ABOUT $300 MORE NEEDED IF
PROGRAM IS PROPERLY
CARRIED OUT
(Receipt of two more contributions
of $5.00 each brought the city Boy
Scout fund to $102.00 today, accord-
ing to J. R. Benson and E. K.
Caperton, members of the finance
coihmittee. Prospects for raising the
budget of $400.00 by Christmas are
not bright unless Individuals and
business firms mail in their checks
at once.
Today’s donors were W. S. Pen-
dleton, $5.00, and Dr. J. A. Hall,
$5.00, (bringing the total humber of
.1
The Quail schools have an enroll- contributors to 20, Including both in-
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Cheap Natural Gas Seen
As Factor In Growth Of
New Industrial Empire
AUSTIN, Dec. 20. (UP)—An in-
dustrial "Empire of the Southwest”
iwas envisaged today by Dr. E. H.
'Johnson, University of Texas econ-
i omist.
Johnson based his prediction of a
widespread migration of industries
j to Texas on the increasing use of
; natural gas in manufacturing. Tex-
i as has for many years furnished
\ raw materials for Eastern and
Northern factories, particularly those
1 using cotton.
; Cheap transportation was cited as
| the remaining objective this state
will need to develop her industries.
“With its low cost," said Johnson,
“convenient, and efficient fuels In
I large quantities, with its wide range
of readily accessible raw materials
and utterly lacking in perception
not to ‘be impressed with the wide
range of substantial possibilities of
the ‘Empire of the Southwest.’”
Johnson foresaw increased textile
manufacturing in Texas, more re-
fineries for Texas crude oil, and
development of extensive canning
plants in the truck-farming Rio
Grande Valley He also predicted a
larger market for existing indus-
tries: flour milling, vegetable oil
manufacturing, meat packing, salt
production, cement manufacturing,
and dairy industry.
Cheap natural gas was given as
the main reason for the expecta-
tion of industrial growth. Johnson
compared prices received In this
Young men and women who have
become 21 years old since January
1, 1935, will be entitled to vote In
next year’s elections without the
payment of a poll tax, provided they
obtain an exemption "prtificate, un-
der the provisions of an act passed
by the legislature, states John Tem-
pleton, Wheeler county tax collec-
tor and assessor.
Persons who will reach the voting
age between Jan. 1, 1936, and the
election dates are entitled to vote
if they obtain an exemption certif-
icate. Others entitled to exemptions
are people moving into the county
from another state since January
1, 1935.
It will be necessary for all per-
sons entitled to exemption certifi-
cates to appear in person in the
tax collector’s office in order to ob-
tain them, Templeton points out.
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NEGRO CONFESSES
MURDER OF FARMER
HUNTSVILLE, Dec. 20. f/P)—Larry
Lacy, negro farmhand, captured last
night and taken to a cell in the
Walker counify Jaili admitted he
killed Edgar Womack, prominent
Trinity county farmer and wounded
Constable C. Thorne after
over a stolen hog.
Earl Petit has been confined to
his home by a severe cold the past
few days.
in sufficient amounts for future pro- j state and elsewhere and found the
gress, with its growing home mar- * average price at the well in Texas
kets and Its accessibility to outside j is 2.2 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, while
markets, one would Indeed be blind j the nationwide average Is six cents.
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Cooper, Albert. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 193, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1935, newspaper, December 20, 1935; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528314/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.