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NEW WAVE OF COLO
IS FORECAST FOR
PLAINS TERRITORY;
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DEATHS FROM ONSLAUGHT OF
WINTER REACH 27 FOR
SHIVERING NATION
Not only B. K. Golson, unofficial-
weather observer of the Lone Star
company, but weather men all
over the Panhandle predict a real
old-fashioned norther for this ter-
ritory, to arrive tonight. Tempera-
tures for Wednesday were 53 de-
* frees, high, at 3 p. m. and 20 de-
grees, low, at 7 a. m.
This morning at seven o'clock
It was 28 degrees with a sharp
wind from the north making
extra sweaters and coats a neces-
9 slty. The mercury dropped one
degree at 8 o'clock and rose to 38
degrees by 1 o'clock.
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NEWS
PICTURES
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Warships And Soldiers
Are France’s Reply To
Italy’s African Threat
VOL. 35
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938
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A new cold wave rolled over ice-
sheated plains states Wednesday
nvhile freezing weather engulfed
most of the nation.
The frigid belt extended from the
Rockies to the Atlantic seaboard and
from New England to the Florida
-border.
* Fatalities attributed to the wintry
onslaught and treacherous highways
reached 27. Exposure deaths were re-
ported from such widely scattered
centers as Parsons, Kans., Water-
J>ury, Conn., and Birmingham, Ala.
® Rising temperatures brought a
measure of relief to residents of
many states In the west, Midwest
and South during the day. At the
same time a fresh cold wave was
9 predicted for parts of Minnesota,
Towa, Nebraska, Kansas and the Da-
kotas. Snow, sleet or rain were In
prospect for Illinois, Indiana, Mich-
igan. Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota and Ohio.
* 0 Sun in Cotton Belt
A bright sun warmed the cotton
belt after a frosty morning.
Upstate New Yorkers shivered in
temperatures ranging from 10 below
In the 'Adrionrtacks to 18 above at
flbany. In New York City the mer-
cury dropped to 19 above. It fell to
2.5 above In Chicago and 6 below In
suburban Des Plaines—then rose to
the 20's.
Marks In the 'teens and twenties
fere registered In New England.
At Warroad. Minn., the red line
In the .thermometer ascended from
37 to 23 below. More than 100 per-
sons were driven into 20 below cold
when fire destroyed hree frame
fundings in International Falls,
Minn.
Reading of 18 below at Cutbank
and 16 below in Great Falls were
the minimum in Montana. The na-
dir was reached at the airport in
fSdmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was
51 below there.
HIS POWER IS NATURAL INHERITANCE FLYERS
DEVELOPING 1ST
ACCURATE BOMBERS
MILITARY EXPERTS DECLARE
LITTLE BROWN MEN
BEST MARKSMEN
TEXAS SCHOOL TO
* GET AIR COURSES
Too Busy To Run
SHANGHAI, Dec. 29. — Japanese
aviators have developed from among
the world’s worst to among the best
bombers through daily practice dur-
ing 18 months of the Chinese-Japa-
nese war, neutral observers say.
There Is general agreement
among military experts who have
watched Japanese aerial progress up
| the Yangtze valley that the Japa-
nese have changed from third-rate
I neophytes—as shown by their record
! in the early fighting around Shang-
[ hai—to destructive marksmen from
! the air.
The observers, however, reserve
judgment on just how good Japa-
nese pursuit pilots are when it comes
•to actual combat in the air.
Military observers say that in ad-
Meyer (Kayo) Christner, left, Akron rubber-worker and former heavy- ditiorr to Improving their marks-
weight, is satisfied there’s plenty of dynamite in the right arm of his i mansllip and technique through
195-pound son Milton, but Milton, a freshmen at Akron University, j continual practice on "live targets,”
hopes to reach stardom in football instead of the ring. ! Japanese have"
1. Developed a greatly-improved
bomb sight;
2. Improved plane construction to
provide greater maneuverability and
Increased the speed of their engines;
3. Improved the manufacture of
their aerial bombs, reducing the
number of duds from an estimated
j 30 per cent in Shanghai operations
to less than 1 per cent in recent
bombings along the Canton-Han-
kow railroad.
In the Anal days of the Shang-
hai fighting aviation cadets from
the air schools in Japan were
brought over In forpe and given
practice In bombing Chapel. By the
time the Japanese reached Nanking
they showed some improvement over
their Shanghai bombing record and
scored a number of direct hits.
FDR Gains Objective
In Marked Alteration
Of U.S. Supreme Court
INSURGENTS PUSH
CAPTURE OF 16 TOWNS AND
7,000 PRISONERS IS IN
CLAIM OF REBELS
HFNDAYF France Dec 29 — is wide speculation as to whether,
offensive in northeastern Spain ap- President Roosevelt may not have
peered last night to have developed liamed a fuU maJorlty of the nlne-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt turns the half-way
mark of his second term on Jan. 20
next with orte major objective of
that term largely realized.
It is a much altered supreme court
membership that will deal with the
legislative grist of the 76th Con-
gress. A third of the judges will be Blasting their way up the Yangtze
of Roosevelt’s selection. And there ■ r|ver the Japanese showed further
ALTERED RELIEF
SET UP PROSPECT
IN NEAR FUTURE
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
WILL MAKE THOROUGH
INQUIRY INTO WPA
Dr. Glenn V. Cunningham at his
desk. The world’s greatest miler’s
duties as professor of education and
extension at the University of Kan-
sas may force him to pass up east-
ern indoor meets.
NATION HEADING
TOWARDS SAFEST
YEAR IN TRAFFIC
RECORD OF TEXAS INDICATES
REDUCTION 22 PER CENT
IN FATALITIES
into a broad double-flanking move-
ment designed to capture Barcel-
man court.
Even as it is, there is little doubt
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GROUP OF STUDENTS AT NTAC
AT ARLINGTON WILL BE
p TRAINED AS PILOTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — Civil
Aeronautics officials said Wednes-
day that North Texas Agricultural
College at Arlington had been se-
lected as one of approximately a
dozen schools throughout the na-
tion at which pilots would be train-
ed immediately under a National
Youth Administration project.
Courses are expected to begin in
^January. They are to be extended
later to other colleges and univer-
sities to build up a backlog of fliers
for the national defense.
About 25 student pilots would be
chosen from among the regularly
(Enrolled cadets at N. T. A. C., of-
ficials said. Those who have had
courses in aviation probably will bq
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'CONTRACT FOR TEXAS
PAPER MILL AWARDED
IttrkiN. Dec. S§—B. L. Kurth,
pWSjlldent of the Southland Paper
iltttlls, Inc., aiiticiUnced yesterday the
award of a contract to the Merrtt-
Chapman and Scott Gorp. of Du-
luth and New York for Construction
of a newsprint paper mill near here.
The mill site, about four miles
•’northeast of Lufkin, will be named
Herty In memory of the late Dr.
Charles Herty, famous Savannah
Chemist who perfected the process
which will be used to convert pine
Into newsprint. The site consists of
*250 acres on the Angelina and
Neches river railroad.
MATTSON KIDNAPING
e CASE IN THIRD YEAR
TACOMA. Wash., Dec. 29—Feder-
al Bureau of Investigation agents
and ether authorities entered the
third year of their investigation of
the Charles Mattson kidnap slaying
Wednesday, apparently without a
definite clue to the identity of the
slayer.
in thousand persons have
questioned since the 10-year-
n of Dr. W. W. Mattson was
earned from the family home the
k night of Dec. 27, 1936, but none has
ona's outlying steel and concrete that the President s selection of a
defense line without frontal assault, successor for the late Justice Car-
dozo is being decided with rejuve-
nation to the bench In mind. Through
elevation to the bench of such rela-
tively youthful men as Justices Black
and Reed, Mr. Roosevelt has reach-
Dlspatches from the Catalonian
front indicated the Generalissimo
was concentrating the greatest force
on the southern flank of the 31-mile
line which guards main approaches
to Barcelona.
The flanking maneuver had been
developing more slowly on the south
than an the north where the textile
town of Artesa Wednesday was the
object of a bitter contest between
insurgent and government artillery-
men. The government still held Ar-
tesa.
Insurgent newspapers said the
six-day-old offensive had brought
capture of more than 1,000 square
kilometers (386 square miles) of
territory, at least 16 towns, scores
of villages and 7,000 prisoners and
the destruction of 39 government
planes,
It
r
ed already beyond the span of his
two terms, or even of a possible
third-term incumbency, potentially
to affect the attitude of the supreme
court for many years to come. More-
over, there is speculation in court
circles that both the dean of the
court in age, Justice Brandeis, and
its dean in service, Justice McRey-
nolds, will have passed from active
life before Jan. 20, 1941, the end of
the Roosevelt second term. If this is
so, the Roosevelt Imprint of liberal-
ism may be set upon the court to
endure for decades.
The president has contended that
even though his move to enlarge
the court failed, it strongly influ-
enced the trend of court rulings on
important New Deal measures. With
three relatively youthful ftoosevelt
PITH A THU! TriTOr appointees on the bench, that trend,
oh UAI III IN I rlNot; obszvers ?gr, ,may
mark court decisions for a long
—’ I time. And if five men of Roosevelt
selection mount the high bench be-
fore he leaves 6fflee, there is little
question that fch6 rejuvenation ob-
jective of the defeated edurt bill
TULSA, Okla., Dec. 29.—An un- I will have been arrived at in fact, if
dercurrent of unedslftess persisted I not by the route the president
Wednesday at the picketed West sought to follow.
Tulsa refinery of the Mid-Continent -o-
Petroleum Corporation, as national MEMBERS OF CABINET
guardsmen held their lines about a GREET MR. HOPKINS
designated military zone on the j _
sixth day of the strike. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — Harry
Picketing by the CIO-affiliated , ^ Hopkins, new Secretary of Com-
International Oil Workers Union merce received the congratulations
continued as strikers talked about of b)s feiiow-cabinet members Wed-
REFINERY STRIKE
GUARDSMEN HOLD MILITARY
ZONE ON SIXTH DAY OF
LABOR TROUBLE
gains in technique and marksman-
ship. Squadrons of bombers pulver-
ize Chinese defense positions, clear-
ing the way for the infantry.
At Hankow, which fell on Oct. 26,
1938, the Japanese repeatedly struck
at military objectives from high al-
titudes with destructive results.
lightUndTo
BE GERM KILLER
DISCOVERY EXPECTED TO
OF PRACTICAL VALUE
IN OPERATIONS
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 29.—A new
method of electrocuting disease
germs with light waves was an-
nounced Wednesday before the Am-
erican Association for the Advance-
ment of Science.
Dr. Harvey C. Rentschler and Dr.
Rudolph Nagy of the Westinghouse
research laboratories, Philadelphia,
reported they had found one of the
weak spots in the lives of bacteria.
Apparently, they declared, each dif-
ferent type of germ, of which there
R1‘9 thousands, tan be killed by sub-
jecting it to a specific intensity of
light for a definite period of time,
The practical value of their dis-
covery will probably be in the hos-
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—'The national
safety council last night predicted
traffic deaths In the United States
this year would total 31,500 if the
favorable trend of the first 11 I
months continued until Jan. 1.
That would be a reduction of 8,000
from the all-time high of 39,500 re-
corded in 1937.
Should December fatalities equal
those of last December, statisticians
figured, the 1938 total would approx-
imate 32,000.
That would be the lowest for any
year since 1933 and the greatest de-
cline for any one year in the na-
tion's history.
The November total was 3,110, a
drop of 17 per cent from the same
month last year. It was the 13th
consecutive month of unbroken
traffic improvement.
During the first 11 months of 1938,
motor vehicle accidents cost 28,370
lives compared with 35,770 during
the same period in 1937.
D. D. Fennell, president of the
council, attributed the downturn to
“a general tightening of the entire
safety program throughout the
country.” He added:
‘‘We have had better enforcement
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Senator
Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina,
said last night he would call the
senate unemployment committee in-
to session next week to discuss the
desirability of immediate changes In
the administration of relief.
The committee chairman added
the group would seek Information on
how much WPA money remains and
the truth of reports that existing
funds will be exhausted Feb. 7.
The movement among some con-
gress members for changes in the
administration of relief may receive
impetus from the report of the sen-
ate committee on campaign expend-
itures, due to be made Jan. 3.
Sheppard Takes Part
Chairman Sheppard, Democrat,
Texas, indicated the report would
denounce politics in relief In vigor-
ous language.
Since some members have been
outspoken in censuring reported pol-
itics in WPA, the committee chair-
man’s assertion that a unanimous
report was In prospect was accepted
generally as meaning it would use
terms strong enough to satisfy the
most critical.
In the past, Byrnes has contended
that the distribution of relief funds
among the states Is inequitable and
advocated use of a formula, based
on population and unemployment
conditions, for the allocation of
funds to states. He has urged, too,
that communities benefiting from
relief projects be required to put up
a definite percentage of their cost.
The South Carolina senator said
he had heard reports that an effort
would be made in the next congress
to establish non-partisan boards in
all counties to consider any com-
plaints of “political” administration
of relief.
They’d Get No Pay
From other reliable sources came
a report that such a plan is under
consideration by President Roose-
velt as an answer to contentions
that the WPA was used for political
purposes during the fall election
campaign.
The suggested county boards
would serve without pay and would
be composed of local citizens. Work-
ers who lost relief jobs, or who could
not get such jobs, could lay any
claims of discrimination before the
boards.
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DIXIE AD LEFT OUT
OF CHRISTMAS ISSUE
SILER ADVOCATES
CUT IN EMPLOYEES
RAIL COMMISSIONER AVERS
INTENDS TO MAKE GOOD
ON ECONOMY PLEDGE
PARIS, Dec. 29. — France pre-
pared virtually to double her mili-
tary and naval forces in Somali-
land Wednesday with orders for
new reinforcements to face any
threats from Italy's East African
empire.
A second warship was assigned to
the East African port of Djibouti,
named in Italian agitation for
French territory, while the 1,969-ton
dispatch boat D’Iberville, mounting
three 5.5-inch guns, proceeded from
Beirut. Syria, back to Djibouti, her
base during the Italian-Ethlopian
war.
The second vessel was the 2,441-
ton destroyer Epervier and was ex-
pected to reach the Somaliland port
before the slower D’Iberville.
Navy Minister Cesar Camplnchl
conferred with Erik Labonne,
French resident general In Tunisia,
who has been conferring on the col-
onial situation.
(A dispatch from Rome said Ital-
ian sources indicated that Italy vir-
tually had abandoned any hope of
territorial gains at France’s expense
and said the Fascists had no inten-
tion of Invading French Somaliland.)
That’s All For Present
Two passenger ships were held at
Marseille to carry 1,000 Senegalese
sharpshooters to Somaliland to bol-
ster a garrison of 1,500 troops al-
ready there.
The two warship and the battalion
of troops were understood to be all
the reinforcements contemplated for
the present by the French govern-
ment, although that is only a hand-
ful against the 80.000 troops which
Italy was estimated here to have In
East Africa.
The reinforcements satisfied de-
mands by the French press for
strengthening colonial defenses.
Colonial ministry officials said
frankly that "the eventuality of Ital-
ian invasion of French Somaliland
has not been envisaged."
The inference was left that any
Italian demands or actions In this
direction were part of a campaign
to win colonial concessions when
Prime Minister Chamberlain of
Great Britain visits Rome Jan. 11-14.
RITES SPOKEN FOR
MRS. L. L. ROBINSON
RESIDENT OF CITY FOR 15
YEARS PASSES AWAY AT
WICHITA FALLS
In handling copy for approximate-
ly one hundred greeting advertise-
ments in the Texan's Christmas ls-
i sue Friday, the Dixie Service Sta-
pital operating room where, In ad-1 tion copy was misplaced and the ad
another incident of friction with the
troops and speculated on the out-
come of a conference today on which
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YOUNG PEOPLE WILL
HAVE YULE BANQUET
The Young People’s Department
of the First Methodist church will
have a banquet at the church to-
night at 7:30 o’clock. All members
of the group are asked to be pres-
ent.
An interesting and entertaining
program has been planned and
many of the college students, home
connected with the kidnaping, for the holidays, will be present.
nesday at the last meeting of the
president’s official family in 1938.
It was the first meeting Hopkins
attended as a full fledged cabinet of-
ficer, although he had participated
In many others as WPA chief. Hop-
kins, his face beaming, arrived at
the White House with Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau. The first
arrival, after Vice President Gamer,
was Homer Cummings. Wednesday’s
meeting probably was his last be-
fore retiring next month as Attor-
ney General.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Weedy and
son are leaving Friday for Tulsa,
Okla., to spend a few days with rel-
atives and friends.
dition to the light which the surgeon
uses for his work, a special light will
be focused on the Incision to kill any
germs which may be present to
Catise infection during or after the
Operation, This use, however, can
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left out of the paper.
Not to be left out of extending
best wishes to their friends and
customers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mc-
Pherson are using space today to
express thanks for past business and
wish everyone a prosperous New
Year.
Observance Of Annexation
Of Texas Recalls Foreign
Relation Problem Of U. S.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 29.—Ninety-
three years ago today, the United
States annexed Texas and disposed
of a troublesome foreign relations
problem not unlike that faced by
this country today.
Then as now, the*United States
wanted no European power to gain
a foothold in the western hemi-
sphere. President Sam Houston of
the Republic of Texas knew that
and made the most of It.
The negotiations of Houston to
bring about annexation were re-
viewed before the House of Repre-
sentatives when ceremonies were
held in 1905 at the placing of his
statue and that of Stephen F. Aus-
tin in statuary hall at the capltol
The congressional record of the day
those ceremonies were held contains
a speech by a Rep. Richardson of
Tennessee, who, In his eulogy of
Houston, said;
Looked to Europe
“As a means of inducement to the
United States to give encouragement
to him (Houston) and fds colaborers
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AUSTIN, Dec. 29.—Railroad Com-
missioner-elect Jerry Sadler said
Wednesday he would make an im-
mediate determined effort to effect a
25 per cent cut in the number of
commission employes.
“I was elected on a platform of
economy in government,” Sadler as-
serted, “and Intend to make good on
my pledge to the voters. The com-
mission has been doing good work
With many of Its employes off the
job much of the time.
“One-fourth of the present com-
mission personnel of 464 can be
eliminated without Impairing effi-
ciency. I believe the other commis-
sioners will agree that the pay roll
can be cut."
The saving from a 25 per cent cut,
Sadler said, would be around $225,-
000 a year.
Sadler, who takes office this week-
end, said one of his first moves
would be to eliminate dead oil wells,
or wells which have ceased produc-
ing, from the proration schedule.
He claimed operators of many leases
Were producing more oil than their
share through false claims that cer-
tain wells still are alive.
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REAL WAGES’ IN U. S.
ARE FOUND HIGHEST
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 —The Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers
said Wednesday a study under Its
auspices had proved the "real wages”
of American workers were much
higher than those in totalitarian
countries.
“A factory worker In the United
States can buy four times as much
food and clothing with an hour’s
wages as a German worker, nine
times as much as an Italian work-
er, and nearly 12 times as much tm,
a Russian worker,” a report de-
clared.
Scores of friends of the L. L. Rob-
inson family gathered this afternoon
at the First Methodist church to pay
a last tribute to the memory of Mrs.
Robinson who passed away Wednes-
day morning in a Wichita Falls hos-
pital.
Rev. Lance Webb conducted the
rites. Mrs. Robinson, 67, had been
In ill health for more than a year
and during the past few months had
failed rapidly. Early last week it was
thought treatment at a Wichita
Falls hospital might be beneficial,
but she failed to rally and passed
away Wednesday.
Mrs. Robinson was born July 21,
1871, in Teire Haute, Ind. When a
young girl she came with her family
to Blue Ridge, Tex., where she made
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FORMER LOCAL GIRL IN
CAST FOR STAGE SHOW
Of interest to many Shamrock
people was the announcement that
Dolores Scott Flanders, grand-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pike
of this city, is appearing In the
stage show, “I'd Rather Be Right”,
which will be at the Shrine Audi-
torium In Oklahoma City on the
night of January 6. %
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hep Scott, former residents of
Shamrock, and will be remembered
by many local people. The play will
also be presented In Tulsa, Okla.,
January 7.
Whoopee!
O’Daniel Can
Vote Next Year
FORT WORTH. Dec. 29—Gov-
ernor-elect W. Lee O’Daniel quali-
fied as a 1939 voter Wednesday when
he obtained a poll tax receipt from
Tax Assessor-Collector John Bour-
land.
As he paid $3.50 for poll taxes for
himself and Mrs. ODaniel he de-
clared he still was of the opinion
that the levy should be eliminated.
ODanlel advocated elimination of
tax as a qualification for voting In
his campaign for the gubernatorial
nomination last summer. Later he
divulged that he had not paid the
tax himself for several yean and
therefore was not a qualified voter.
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