The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 145, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935
VOL. 32 JNO.
REVENUE Bill FOR PENSIONS CONSIDERED
Fellow Employees Testify To Belief In Sanity Of Howard Pierson
FIRST TESTIMONY
FOR STATE GIVEN
IN SANITY TRIAL
TOOTH CONFESSED HE SLEW
BECAUSE OF GRUDGE,
OFFICER SAYS
^AUSTIN, Oct. 25 (A5)—The state
pitted today the testimony of fel-
low workers of Howard Pierson in
the East Texas oil fields and Aus-
tin acquaintances against that of
medical experts who testified he
is insane.
Miss Florence Butler, former
Unjversity of Texas stndcnt, who
roomed at Judge Pierson’s home
at the time of the slayings, and
G. N. Stovall, oil company ware-
houseman, said they believed the
youth to be sane.
Deputy Sheriff Sam Rogers tes-
tified Pierson confessed he slew
his parents because of a “grudge”
against them, He testified that
from his observations, he believed
the young man to be of sound
mind.
AUSTIN, Oct. 25 (A>)—Two men
who supervised the work of Howard
Pierson when he was employed In
the East Texas oi! field testified at
his sanity hearing yesterday they
believed him sane.
Their testimony w'as the first for
the state after a long sucession of
mental experts had testified for the
defense that the 20-year-old slayer
of his parents was suffering from a
Iff paranoid type of dementia praecox.
Quit Job in April
Pierson worked for several months
near Longview for the Young-Lee
CUycompany and was still employed
tflpe company last April when he
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£DEN ASKS ITALIAN EMBARGO
ARMY
ADVANCES DP RIVER
VALLEYJN HARAR
LAVAL SAYS IL DUCF. HAS
NOT MADE DEFINITE
PEACE PROPOSALS
Anthony Eden, British diplomat, is shown after he left the League
of Nations session In Geneva during a week-end adjournment. He had
just urged an embargo by 50 countries upon purchases from Italy.
(Associated Press Photo)
LEGION POST PLANS
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
“ONE HUNDRED NEW MEMBERS
IS GOAL OF CAMPAIGN
TO START SOON
A membership drive which will be
he most extensive in the history of
;he Charles De Shazo post of the
American Legion organization in
Shamrock, will be launched some
dme next week, according to Flake
3ewrge, post commander.
One hundred new members is the
foal set, says George, who will per-
sonally supervise the drive. Other
inembers of the membership cam-
paign committee will be appointed
it a later date.
The program of the national or-
ganization is such that it is imper-
the membership of the local
doubled in order to effect-
carry out its part of the proj-
George said.
Payment of the bonus is a part of
ffl^iational program, and if veter-
ifsP 'ant the bill put over, they
pru it be willing to cooperate through
Iheir local organization.
A meeting of the Legionnaires
dll be held soon to further con-
ider details of the membership
rive.
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TODAY
S TEXAS THEATRE — They’re
in the money now and Joan
Blondell and Glenda Farrell,
iblond and beautiful gold-diggers
bf a dozen hit pictures, are seen
.last times today in “We’re in the
Money.” . HujJi Hebert as the
dumb attorney who specializes in
jreach-of-promise suits, Ross Al-
exander, hero millionaire, and a
[dozen others make this show one
of the funniest this season. A
wrestling match with Man Moun-
tain Dean as one of the princi-
pals is really a riot! You Just
miss “We’re in the Money.”
^ THE WEATHER
[ TEXAS—East: Mostly cloudy,
Unsettled, occasional rains in the
[northwest and north central por-
stlons tonight and Saturday;
I dightly warmer in northwest to-
: night and Saturday. West: Part-
ly cloudy tonight and Saturdav;
warmer in north and west tonight
rod Saturday.
IRISH DEDICATE
TONIGHT’S GRID
GAME TO MOTHERS
ASSURE BOOSTERS THEY WILL
GIVE WARM RECEPTION
TO MEMPHIS TEAM
With the game dedicated to their
mothers, the fighting Shamrock
Irishmen are going to give the in-
vading Memphis Cyclone the battle
of their lives on Denver field to-
night, they assured members of the
Boosters cluib today noon when the
gridsters and Coaches Rush and
Walker were guests of the luncheon
club.
J. B. Clark, president of the city
school board, was toastmaster dur-
ing a short, peppy program of
speech-making, President Horace
Belew having turned the meeting
over to him after extending a wel-
come to the football squad. Mem-
bers of the squad were introduced
by Captains Mills and Wells, Mills
introducing linesmen and Wells the
backfiqld men.
Talks were made by Clark, H. P.
Mundy, Bill Walker and Supt. W. C.
Perkins, each of them assuring the
players that fans are one hundred
per cent behind the team, and that
while victory is perhaps wanted
more in tonight's game than any
game played this season, the fans
desire far more to see every player
in there giving the game all he has
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PRESIDENT MAKES
APPEAL FOR MORE
PRIVATE CHARITY
ROOSEVELT SAYS INDUSTRY
TAKING UP SLACK IN
UNEMPLOYMENT
By The Associated Brest
Italy’s army in Somaliland was
announced moving up the Webbe
Shibeli valley in the direction of
Harar. Military objectives in the
area have been bombed from the
air to clear way for advancing
troops.
A communiqne announced the
capture of two villages, in the
Sciaveli region, Callafo and Ce-
lcdi after the fall of Dagnerrei.
King George V, ending parlia-
ment, expressed the gravest con-
cern over the Italo-Ethiopian war.
Paris heard that Berlin and
London were considering a revis-
ion of treaties favoring Germany,
incident to the East African con-
flict.
Authoritative London sources said
Mussolini’s demands had been les-
sened, but that there was still a
wide gap to be bridged. It was said
II Duce’s original demands were out
of the picture, and that there would
be no bargaining with Italy.
FRENCH SAY DEFINITE
PROPOSALS NOT MADE
PARIS, Oct. 25 (ip — Premier
Mussolini of Italy, the French for-
eign office announced last night, has
failed to advance “definite propo-
sals for peace” in the discussions
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PIANIST IN PERIOD COSTUME
PROPOSED INCREASE
TAX ON UTILITIES
REFUSED BY HOUSE
SENATE STARTS DEBATE ON
SALARIES FOR COUNTY,
DISRICT OFFICERS
AUSTIN, Oct. 25 (IP)—A strong
house bloc supporting an omnibus
tax bill for old age pensions to-
day turned back efforts to increase
proposed levies on gross receipt*
of public utilities companies. The
biil would increase the tax 50 per
cent. Amendments to increase the
tax as much as 400 per cent were
offered.
Speaker Coke Stevenson overrul-
ed a point of order that the om-
nibus bill was vague and indefi-
nite. He said however, that some
portions of the complaint were
good. Ambiguous sections of the
bill will be amended, authors said.
AUSTIN, Oct, 25 Up—The house
yesterday voted to consider an om-
nibus tax bill to raise revenue for
old-age pensions and shunted aside
“single shot” revenue proposals.
The vote to consider the omnibus
bill out of its regular order was 90
to 41. Debate started today, nie
bill would increase occupation taxes
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Miss Esther Johnsson, world’s greatest woman pianist, who will ap-
pear in concert here on the evening of November 7, is shown above in
a costume of the period of Mozart. Mis Johnisou is acclaimed as one
cf the finest living interpreters of Mozart's compositions.
SPECIAL COTTON
POOL IS CLOSED
SALE OF CERTIFICATES FROM
REGULAR NATIONAL POOL
IS NOW UNDER WAY
Sale of cotton tax exemption cer-
tificates from the special pool was
discontinued Monday, October 21,
Recording to County Agent Jake
Tarter, and liquidation of the pool
was begun on that date.
Sales from the regular national
surplus tax exemption certificate
pool for 1935 is now under way, thd
county agent states. These certifi-
cates are being sold at 4 cents, in-
stead of 5, according to a reduction
recently announced by the agricul-
tural administration, i
All the tax certificates sold out of
the special pool were priced at 5
cents per pound, and the unsold
portion will be returned to produc-
ers as soon as possible.
“The special pool must be llquiilat-
jed promptly. Therefore we should
know by November t just how many
certificates have been sold,” ststes
G. A. Cobb, division of cotton direc-
tor.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (ff) —
President Roosevelt told the nation
last night that relief “furnished by
funds received from taxation should
decrease as rapidly as human needs
will allow.”
Appealing by radio to the nation
to participate in the 1935 mobiliza-
tion for human needs, Mr. Roose-
velt reported that private industry
is “taking up the slack" in unem-
ployment."
He asserted that the September
employment gain of 350,000 in pri-
vate industries reporting to the de-
partment of labor was “the largest
for any single month in the past
year and a half,”
But this pick-up, he assorted, was
all the more reason to give charity.
In addition to decreasing govern-
ment relief, the chief executive said
it was of greater importance that
private charity should take over the
duty of providing completely for
those physically unable to work.
"But we do want to emphasize
work,” he said. “Neither private
charity nor government relief wants
to help people who can work, but
won’t work.
“There is only one legitimate ex-
cuse for unwillingness to work and
that is bad health or advanced age.”
The president said he could “prop-
erly congratulate and thank" the
people for their “splendid response”
to the appeal in the years of “deep
depression from which we are rap-
idly and happily emerging.”
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ELECTED CHAIRMAN
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Mrs. B. F. Risinger was elected as
chairman of the Shamrock library
committee at a meeting of the group
last night. The committee, com-
posed of vice presidents of local fed-
erated clubs, met at the Edwin
Griffin home to discuss plans to
purchase new books for the library.
Committee members are Mrs.
Earl Kromer, Miss Nell Adams, Mrs.
J. H. Caperton and Mrs. Risinger.
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171 FAMILIES MAKE
LIVING OFF POULTRY
HAMILTON FREED
IN BANK ROBBERY
CO-DEFENDANT GETS TERM OF
FIVE YEARS IN PRISON
AT LEAVENWORTH
TYLER, Oct. 25 m—Floyd Ham-
ilton, brother of the late desperado,
Raymond Hamilton, was acquitted
yesterday of two charges in connec-
tion with the robbery of the Car-
thage National bank last February,
while his co-defendant, John Brat-
cher, was convicted and sentenced
to serve five years in the Leaven-
worth federal prison.
Floyd Hamilton denied from the
stand that he participated in the
robbery. He said Raymond and
Ralph Fults met him between
Longview and Gladewater the night
of the robbery and Raymond gave
him $350 to take to his father in
Louisiana.
He said it was that money and
some more which he already had
which officers found in his posses-
sion when he was arrested the next
night in Shreveport.
A total of 171 families of Wheeler
county are paying their entire liv-
ing expenses from the proceeds of
poultry flocks, according to Jake
Tarter, county farm agent. The
agent estimates 280 families will
pay their expenses from poultry be-
tween November and March.
Internationally Famous
Pianist Will Appear In
Concert Here Nov. 7th
PANHANDLE MASONS
IN ZONE MEETING
SEVERAL LOCAL MEN EXPECT
TO ATTEND SESSION AT
AMARILLO NOV. 2
Several Masons from this locality
expect to attend a zone meeting in
the Masonic temple at Amarillo Sat-
urday, November 2, called upon the
request of the Grand Lodge of Tex-
as. All Masons of the Panhandle
are invited.
The festivities will commence at
2 p. m. A lodge will be opened and
the third degree conferred by mem-
bers of the' Panhandle certificate
men’s association. At 6:30 p. m. a
barbecue dinner, with all the trim-
mings, will be served in the base-
ment of the temple. The dinner
is being provided by Amarillo lodge
No. 731 and Palo Duro lodge Nb
1239.
Judge Guy Rogers will be the
principal speaker at 8 p. m. when
the Masons will again convene on
the top floor for a program.
The memory of a similar meet-
ing held in Amarillo a year ago
lingers in the minds of Panhandle
Masons and it is anticipated that a
large number will again attend this
meeting.
Miss Esther Johnsson, internation-
ally known pianist, will appear in
concert in Shamrock Thursdav eve-
ning, November 7, according to ar-
rangements completed today. The
concert, under the auspices of the
Shamrock Texan, will be given in
the high school auditorium, begin-
ning promptly at 8 o’clock.
It is the good fortune of Texas
music lovers that the war scare in
Europe caused Miss Johnsson to can-
cel her annual continental tour, de-
ciding instead to tour her home
state. So far this season she has
played concerts in only two Texas
cities, Amarillo and San Angelo,
where she was received by enthusi-
astic audiences. Shamrock is ex-
tremely fortunate in being selected
as one of the Texas cities to be fa-
vored with this great artists music.
Reduced prices for the advance
sale of reserved tickets to the con-
cert are announced by the Daily
Texan. Tickets purchased before 6
o’clock Thursday evening, Novem-
ber 7, will be 55 cents for adults
and 25 cents for children. Tickets
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SAYS FARM PLAN
NOT SHORT LIVED
PRESIDENT DECLARES "LONG
TERM” APPLICATION IS
FORMING NATURALLY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (IP —
President Roosevelt sought today to
point the farm program away from
“emergency” application to a “long
term” plan, asserting the latter is
“developing naturally out of the
present adjustment efforts.”
He said it was not the intention
of congerssional framers of the Ag-
ricultural Adjustment act, nor the
administrators to let the AAA be
"either mere emergency operation or
static agency.”
The president said the program
has two main objectives: To main-
tain and increase gains thus far
made, and broaden present opera-
tion so as to give farmers increas-
ing incentives for conservation and
efficient use of soil resources.
STYLE SHOW TO BE
GIVEN BY B. P. W.
MUCH INTEREST
BEING SHOWN IN
CORN-HOG VOTE
CORN-HOG PRODUCERS WII.I.
BALLOT SATURDAY ON
AAA CONTINUANCE
m
LATE FASHIONS IN CLOTHES.
HAIR DRESS WILL BE
MODELED MONDAY
Sponsored by the Business and
Professional Women’s club, a style
show will be presented at the Texas
theatre Tuesday night, Oct. 29.
Eight local merchants will be rep-
resented by a number of models and
several beauty shops will show spe-
cial styles in hair dress.
Proceeds of the show will aid in
financing a clinic for underprivileg-
ed children and a student loan fund.
The regular theatre program will
precede the style show.
COURT TIES UP
GAS WASTE LAW
M’CRAW HOLDS STATE COURTS
SHOULD RULE FIRST ON
LAW’S VALIDITY
AUSTIN, Oct. 25 up—'The Travis
county district court yesterday sus-
pended all enforcement of Texas’
anti-gas wastage statutes as part
of a maneuver to obtain a state
court decision on validity of the
gas conservation laws and regula-
tions.
The action left the state’s giant
gas fields without regulation.
“We took this action to stay pro-
ceedings before' a three-judge fed-
eral court instituted by the Palo
Pinto Gas company, attacking con-
stitutionality of the conservation
law,” Attorney General William Mc-
Craw said. "Already the federal
court has granted the company a
restraining order against the law.
“We hold firmly to the belief that
state courts should rule first on
validity of a state law of such mag-
nitude. In order to stay the at-
tack in federal court the entire law
had to be su9pended.”
McCraw raid the move was in the
Interest of “permanent and real
conservation of gas.”
Much interest on the part of
Wheeler county corn-liog produc-
ers Is reported by County Agent
Jake Tarter in the nationwide ref-
erendum Saturday to determine
whether the corn-hog program of
the AAA shall be continued.
About 60 contract holders have al-
ready cast their ballots, say® the
county agent, and there has not
been a dissenting vote for a con-
tinuance of the corn-hog program.
Mr. Tarter takes this as an indica-
tion that county corn-hog produc-
ers will vote practically unanimous
for the program to be continued.
Balloting places for the voting
Saturday will be at Wheeler, Twit-
ty, Lela, Mobeetie and Allison.
H
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COLLEGE STATION, Oct. 26 —
With approximately 36,000 corn-hog
contracts expiring on November 30
and another marketing year just
opening, Texas farmers are prepar-
ing to participate in the nation-
wide corn-hog referendum which
will be held Saturday, October 26, to
determine whether they want con-
trolled or uncontrolled production.
According to E. M. Regenbrecht,
chairman of the state corn-hog re-
view board, Texas is not a major
corn and hog producing state, yet
Texas corn and hog produoers no
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DRIZZLING RAINFALL
TOTALS .60 OF INCH
Rainfall here yesterday and last
night amounted to .60 of an inch,
according to Bob Adams, manager
of the Traders compress, who is
unofficial weather observer for this
vicinity. While the moisture will
he beneficial in putting a season in
the ground for winter wheat, the
damp weather will serve to delay the
picking of the cotton crop.
The temperature continued wt a
low point, but did not reaeh freez-
ing last night.
BRUSH FIRE DAMAGES
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 (IP)—Ap-
parently leaving the Malibu beach
film colony safely behind, a roaring
hnish fire, which has already caused
$8,000,000 damage, threatened to
sweep down the coastline into a
heavily wooded mountainous strip
regarded as the most dangerous fire
menace in Southern California,
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Cooper, Albert. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 145, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1935, newspaper, October 25, 1935; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528606/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.