The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1933 Page: 1 of 12
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THE Nolan County News
Goes Into More Nolan County Homes Than Any Other Newspaper
VOLUME IX
(TWELVE PAGES)
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCT. 12, 1933
On the Broadway of America
NUMBER 41
WILL SEEK DEATH PENALTY FOR TRAMMELL
LIGHT YOUTH
GETS NO-BILL
FISHER COUNTY BOY NOT IN-
DICTED FOR SLAYING OF
FATHER AT INADALE
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A Fisher county grand jury
which Wednesday reported four
indictments to Judge W. R. Chap-
man in 104th district court at
Roby, returned a no-bill for Bur-
ford Light, 21, who was charged
with the fatal shooting of his
father, Arthur Light, at their
farm home near Inadale, last
August 19.
The elder Light, whose chest
was pierced by three bullets from
a 38-calibre pistol, died on the
porch of his home in the presence
of his wife and several children.
A family quarrel was given as
cause for the shooting.
Buford Light was released un-
der $5,000 bond shortly after the
tragedy. His father, a large land-
owner, had lived in the Inadale
community, 12 miles northwest of
Roscoe, for nearly 30 years.
Indictments returned Wednes-
day charged M. B. Clayborne,
Roby, with a statutory offense,
Lannie Williams, negro, with mur-
der, and Ray Ashton and Amos
Childs with burglary.
Williams is accused of fatally
injuring Alonzo Davis, another
negro, with a baseball bat at
Rotan.
$145,756 COTTON
MONEY PAID TO
NOLAN FARMERS
Here’s Proof of Attorney General Allred’s Pudding
Nolan county cotton farm-
ers received an additional
$21,903 Saturday for pay-
ment of acreage turned un-
der during the summer’s crop
plow up campa County
Agent C. H. Clark started
distribution of the checks im-
mediate y and all but five
had been given out by Thurs-
day.
The new allotment of gov-
ernment “plow up” money
brought the total received in
this county to date to $145,-
756, Clark said.
Balance still due farmers
in the county amounts to
$71,506, from the total “plow
up” money of $217,262. A
total of 831 contracts were
signed in the county for plow-
ing under 25,737 acres of
cotton out of the 63,585 acres
planted here.
In addition, farmers who
signed under the cash ond op-
tion plan have options on a
total of 4,309 bales.
The receipt of the checks
Saturday marked the seventh
allotment of money received
in this county. The checks
come in values of this order:
First receipts, $2,253; sec-
ond, $22,117; third, $16,456;
fourth, $12,376; fifth, $40,-
997; sixth, $29,654; seventh,
$21,903; total, $145,756.
Balance due, $71,506.
Fisher county, adjoining
Nolan on the north, has re-
ceived more than $218,000,
with a similar amount yet to
come. Mitchell county report-
ed recent receipts of 155 ad-
ditional checks totaling $55,-
451. A total of $105,373 had
previously been received in
that county.
PASSION PLAY
HERE MONDAY
CAST OF 100 WILL TAKE PART
IN FAMOUS BIBLICAL
PRESENTATION
With a cast of 100, including a
group of the best known F.uropean
players, the famous Oberammer-
gau Pass, n Play will be present-
ed in Sweetwater Monday even-
ing, Oct. 1C, at the city auditor-
ium.
The production wiil be given
at both matinee and evening per-
formances, at 2:30 and 8 o’clock,
under auspices of the Oscar Mc-
Donald Post, American Legion.
While the leading spoken parts
are played by the Passion Players,
there will also be in the vocal
production a chorus made up of
selected singers from local church
choirs, and in two of the scenes,
those depicting the triumphant
entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and
the trial before Pilate, 100 people
will be used in the folk scenes.
The play is declared to stand as
the greatest biblical production of
all times. Vivid beauty and pathos
stir the audience to tears as the
story of the Savior is beautifully
and tenderly unfolded.
The Passion Play has been
given regularly in Europe since
the year of 1264. The first
presentation was in Latin lan-
gauge in the year, 1204 at Frei-
burg, Baden, Germany. In 1922,
when the Passion Play was given
in Europe, more than 60,000
Americans saw it.
Reserved seat tickets are now
on sale at Corbett & Hubbard
drug store.
Parks Spends Time Reading As He
Waits For ‘One-Way’ Bus That Will
Take Him to Prison For Long Term
MURDER CASE
JURY FINISHED
FIRST WITNESSES WILL BE
CALLED FRIDAY—MOTION
TO QUASH FAILS
IN CASE THERE is any doubt in the minds of Texans as to the ability of Attorney General James V.
Allred to collect all bills, particularly those incurred when Mr. Allred bales an oil company into court,
here is a photostat copy of the check for $1,073,500 whi^h was given in the judgment of the State of
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Texas against the Mid-Kansas Oil and Gas Co.
who would step on Old Man Texas’ toes.
It is the Attorney-General’s Exhibit “A” for corporations
Calves For 4-H
Club Boys Will
Be Ready Nov. 8
L. M. Parks is spending his few
final days in the Nolan county
jail that has been his home for
over eight months, awaiting ar-
rival of the “one-way” bus operat-
ed by Bud Russell, state peniten-
tiary agent.
As soon as Russell reaches
Sweetwater with his prison car,
Pt l-ks will be placed aboard and
transported to Huntsville to serve
the 25-year term assessed him by
a Nolan county jury which found
him guilty of a charge of murder-
ing his wife by drowning.
“I’m ready to go,” Parks said,
after hearing that his appeal for
a new hearing before the criminal
■ourt of appeals had been denied.
He is spending h s time here read-
ing magazines and books and re-
j ceiving occasional callers at his
cell.
Several local people have visit-
ed Parks recently. One of his
brothers from Scurry county came
to see him this week, and other
relatives have visited him fre-
quently.
His two small daughters, living
with their grandparents in Abi-
lene, came to see him some time
ago but they have not been here
since Parks lost his last appeal for
a new trial.
HERE IT IS!
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—A solid page of football!
—A page of women's activities,
clubs, societies!
—A page of county and rural
news!
—An editorial page!
—Advertising by leading mer-
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FEATURES!
Bruce Barton!
This Week In Washington!
Two Comic Strips!
Odd Texas!
New York Column!
Texas News Photos!
Fashion Pattern!
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Lions Club Will
Begin Rehearsal
Of Minstrel Show
Plans for the second annual
Lions MinstreLs, produced by the
Sweetwater Lions Club, will be
completed at a meeting Friday
night when the cast is to be select-
ed and rehearsals started.
Preliminary arrangements were
made at a session Tuesday night.
J. N. Dulaney is general chairman,
and music is in charge of Mrs. A.
A. Ebcrle, Jack Simmons and
John Majors.
Date for the minstrel has not
yet been set but is tentatively
scheduled for the first week in
November.
ROTARY CHIEF
DUE MONDAY
Kelly Couple Get Life Sentences
Calves to be fed by Nolan coun-
ty 4-H Club boys for next year’s
baby beef show and sale here will
be distributed to club members in
Sweetwater on Nov. 8 it was an-
nounced this week by John Hen-
drix and C. H. Clark.
The calves will be delivered to
the pens of the Sweetwater Cot-
ton Oil Co. on Oct. 23.
The calves will be ready to start ABOVE Are 'he “Machine Gun” Kellys who received life sentences
.jin Oklahoma City Thursday for ihe«r part in the kidnaping of Charles
on feet! as soon as they are ue- Urschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire. Seven members of the kidnap gang
livered to the boys, it was said, had previously been convicted. The Kellys trial got under way Monday
and was completed in record time.
Luke Trammell, youthful
West Texas desperado under
robbery with firearms sen-
tences totaling 110 years,
went on trial for his life in
32nd district court here
Thursday after Judge A. S.
Mauzey overruled a defense
motion to quash the indict-
ment charging the ex-convict
of Coleman county with mur-
dering Deputy Sheriff John
Lamkin of Blackwell.
The state will ask the su-
preme penalty in the case,
while the defense counsel, ap-
pointed by the court after
Trammell declared he had no
funds with which to hire at-
torneys, will fight to save the
hoy from the electric chair.
The jury was completed at 5 p.
m. Thursday from the special
venire of 100.
The entire day was taken up
with the questioning of prospec-
pective jurors, and the state ques-
..... tioned each one closely as to be-
> . I liefs concerning the death penalty.
■
“The state will ask that Tram-
mell be sentenced to die in the
electric chair for this murder,"
' j said District Attorney Mahon.
f 1 “He has so many years hanging
Each member will be required to
have his lot, water and feed ready
to start feeding, so the calves will
not lose any gain already made.
BAPTIST MEET
IS UNDER WAY
State Health Officials on Program
For Children’s Council Organization
Meeting in Sweetwater Friday Night
,REV. E. D. DUNLAP PREACH-1
ING FOR SERVICES AT
FIRST CHURCH
Get-
DISTRICT GOVERNOR TO
VISIT Li 'CAL CLUB ON
DISTRICT TOUR
LEAVE FOR DALLAS
L. M. Scholl, R. N. Wilson and
L. D. Black left Thursday morning
to visit in Dallas.
“Starting Somewhere and
ting There” is the subject an-
nounced by the Rev. E. D. Dunlap
for his sermon Sunday morning.
The local pastor of the First Bap-
tist church has been conducting a
revival at his church during the
past two weeks. C. T. Hodges,
choir director, has been in charge
of the music.
Thursday night was “Lion’s
Club Night” at the revival. A
special section was reserved for
I the club and their banner and flag
were displayed in the auditorium.
Services are held twice daily
and will continue through Sunday.
District Governor O. B. Sellers
uf Fort Worth will visit the
Sweetwater Rotary Club next
Monday on an official tour over
the 42nd district.
Local Rotarians plan to go to
Big Spring later in month for an
inter-city
bers from Sweetwater and Mid-
land will meet jointly with the Big [ v.‘‘UI
_ . , . _ . . , I there was a net gain of 101
Spring club. Rotary Anns will also
attend the session, which is ten-
tatively set for Oct. 20.
...... j The revival has added 16 peo-
meeting in which mem-j^ ^ the membership of the
ichurch. During the past year
mem-
bers. The Sunday school, w'hich
has a corps of 64 teachers and of-
ficers recently elected, showed a
gain of approximately 100 over
last year’s enrollment. The church
has 10 unions in its training serv-
ice, each of which has shown a
marked increase during the past
year.
SCOTT HAS OPERATION
Bert Scott is recovering from
an appendicitis operation per-
formed Saturday night at the
Sweetwater Sanitarium.
Star Pony Guard
Has Operation
For Appendicitis
N. B. Hall, Jr., star Mus-
tang guard and son of the
Sweetwater chief of police,
underwent a successful opera-
tion for appendicitis at 6:30
p. m. Thursday at the Sweet-
water Sanitarium. He came
out from under the ether at
9:30 p. m. and was said to
be resting nicely at a late
hour.
Surgeons described the ap-
pendix as “enormous” and
said it was the largest they
had ever removed in an oper-
ation here. The appendix had
not ruptured and a normally
rapid recovery was expected.
Hall was stricken Wednes-
day. The operation is expect-
ed to have the effect of keep-
ing Hall out of the Mustang
lineup for the remainder of
the regular schedule.
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RETURN FROM CHICAGO
Mr. and Mrs. Lane McCall re-
turned Wednesday from a week’s
trip to Chicago.
over him that there would be no
object in merely securing another
prison sentence.”
Court records show that there
has never been a death penalty
assessed against any person tried
for crime in this county.
Trammell, who admitted firing
the fatal shot that caused Lam-
kin’s death in a confession he
dictated and signed here some
j weeks ago, sat in the court room
i ami watched with keen interest
while his attorneys examined
• prospective jurors.
Mother With Him
Prominent state health officials, I His aged mother, large and
together with visiting delegates W-haired and kindly appearing,
from several adjoining counties,
will be in Sweetwater Friday j ^at've 5
night for the organization meeting ; 'enitemen
of County Children’s Council, Pose“
sponsored by the Nolan County
Health Unit.
The session will begin at 6:15
p. m. at the junior high school
where an attendance of more than
100 is expected for a dinner to
be served by the Sweetwater
Chuck W’agon. The dinner is be-
;ug given by the Sweetwater Club
whose members will attend, the
regular club luncheon Thursday
having been postponed for this
occasion.
Miss Lorene Williams, tempor-
ary chairman of the Nolan Coun-
ty Children’s Council, will make
the opening address, and County. , , , .
Judge Chas. W. Lewis will deliver Co,eman recen‘ly and u 13
the address of welcome. .charged at Ballinger; the
Dr. H. N. Barnett, Austin,
director of the Bureau of Child
Hygiene, state department of
health, will speak on relationship
of health to the County Council.
Miss Jeannie M. Pinckney, direc-
tor of the Bureau of Nutrition and
Health Education, University of
Texas, will discuss the children’s
(See COUNCIL Back Page)
Sweetwater Joins Prosperity Parade
i sat by his side and listened atten-
while state attorneys
if they were op-
to assessing the death
penalty. She wore a blue cotton
dress. Her gray hair was hatless
and she wore gold-rimmed spec-
tacles. She is Mrs. L. M. Trammell
of Coleman, whose three sons
this year were given the title of
West Texas’ most feared despera-
does, and all of whom have finally
come to grief at the hands of the
law. Starkweather, one son, was
slain by a posse in Coleman coun-
ty this summer after the three of
them broke jail in Lynn county.
Luke, on trial here and fighting to
save his life from the electric
chair, has received sentences
totaling 110 years at Abilene and
also
third
son is a fugitive.
Beside his mother, Mr. and
Mrs. F. E. Burnett and two chil-
dren were in the court room,
Burnett being Trammell’s half
brother. One of Burnett’s small
children brought the deJ" -ndant a
candy bar while court was tempor-
arily recessed.
Trammell had a fresh haircut,
a clean shirt and trousers, and
looked much more presentable
than the manacled man brought
into the court room a week ago
(See TRIAL Back Page)
Swinging into line with the rest
of America in the great “NOW IS
THE TIME TO BUY” movement,
Sweetwater has already pushed
a militant front forward and is
ready to go ahead rapidly in the
prosperity parade. Local NRA
committee members this week an-
nounced that everything possible
would be done to carry out the
program in this county to speed
up business in accordance with
the national administration plan.
“The program is an attack on
the depression from an entirely
different angle than anything that
has been done before,” said a
statement from the committee
Thursday.
“We are attacking the depres-
sion with weapons of salesman-
ship, and with an honest appeal
to the citizenship to buy—not ex-
travagantly or foolishly, but
moderately and as their pocket-
books will permit. Normal -buying
is all that is asked and that alone
will be sufficient to stem the tide
of the depression.
“We all know that during the
last three years or more there has
been great lack of buying by in-
dividuals, family groups and busi-
ness organizataions. There has
been prevalent a sort of frantic
fear against spending. The press-
ing need now is for confidence
and the return of normal buying.
The present nation-wide campaign
is our chief executive’s plea to us
to clear the final obstacle in the
forward push for recovery—a
drive to get people to buy the
things they would have been buy-
ing had the past three years been
normal.” (■
Leading merchants of the city i
have unselfishly joined in the
spirit of the movement by provid-1
ing special values in all lines of.
merchandise and are offering
these opportunities to the buying |
public. The administration’s ap-
peal for advertising seasonable
goods has likewise been answered!
by enterprising merchants here
who offer in The News today some J
outstanding values in all types of j
seasonable merchandise.
It was pointed out that the city i
or town that does not fall into
line will stand as an obstacle in
sectional recovery, leaders stress-
ing the fact that it is now a matter
of local self interest to get into
the prosperity parade.
Aside from the patriotic side of
the program, it was emphasized
that the practical value is one of
real money-saving, inasmuch as
prices are on a gradual increase
and merchandise offered at most
stores at present is priced at less
than the cost will be within a few
weeks from now-.
Singers of Nolan
County to Meet
In S’Water Sunday
The Nolan County Singing Con-
vention will meet in Sweetwater
Sunday with a large attendance
in prospect for the day’s session.
Miss Ola Westbrook, secretary,
said Thursday that the public was.
cordially invited to the convention
which will feature numbers by
several well known singers of the
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Boyles, C. S., Jr. The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1933, newspaper, October 12, 1933; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559019/m1/1/: accessed June 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.