The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1933 Page: 4 of 10
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NOLAN COUNTY NEWS, SWEETWATER. TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1833
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THE
Lindbergh Story
First Big Case of
Pultizer Winner
NEV? YORK.—The ingenious
and skillful handling of the
dramatic Lindbergh baby kidnap-
ing story by Francis A. Jamieson,
Associated Press correspondent in
Trenton, N. J., which had been
long acclaimed in newspaper
circles, was the basis on which the
$1,000 prize for the best report-
ing in 1932 was awarded to the re-
porter.
Mr. Jameison was handling his
first story of major national in-
terest.
He won his award for “prompt,
Ailiful and prolonged coverage of
news of the kidnaping of the in-
fant son of Charles A. Lindbergh
on March 1, 1932, from the first
announcement of the kidnaping
until after the discovery of the
boy’s body near the Lindbergh
home on May 12. Some of the
more important dispatches which
he sent were exclusive when they
were transmitted.”
He is twenty-eight, went to
work for a news bureau in Tren-
ton when he was seventeen, and
has been covering news of the New
Jersey legislature ever since. He
was athletic editor of the school
paper at Trenton high school and
is described as “bookish” by na-
ture.
After working for the Standard
News association, Jersey Journal
and Hudson Observer as state
house correspondent he joined the
Associated Press on July 1, 1929,
and became chief of its Trenton
bureau 18 months later. When the
Lindbergh case broke he found
himself in charge of the local news
point of the nation with a force
of ten reporters at his command.
A Notable Scoop
Although it was his complete
handling of the story that brought
him the Pultizer honor, Mr. Jamei-
aon is best known for his notable
scoop on the finding of the body
of the baby. He flashed the story,
with supplementary details, from
35 to 45 I.’nutes ahead of other
press association and newspaper
reporters, a clean-cut beat that
even won recognition from rival
associations. Robert Bender,
United Press vice president and
general news manager, said at the
time: “Jamieson got a bully beat.”
Mr. Jamieson’s friendships
among New Jersey officials gave
him an edge on the metropolitan
star reporters and he played it
throughout the investigation. In
the first stages of the case, when
the New Jersey state police gave
out little information, he called
upon the director of public safety
of a large New Jersey city who
kept him informed of the progress!
ing. of the case.
por* “Later,” Jamieson said this i
week, “the state police shadowed ;
ane as if I were the kidnaper, and I
I Couldn’t go to my first news |
source again. I then worked to i
strengthen my connection with
Gov. A. Harry Moore, a friend
•Wince his first gubernatorial cam-
paign.
i “When the newspaper men were
icalled to Hopewell for an an-
nouncement fi-om Colonel
Max and Dempsey
CHECKING UP ON Il CI Tf
I > JACK ADAMS
Cambridge University’s eight
made rowing history the other day
by winning the annual crew races
on the Thames from Oxford for
the tenth success year. Except for
the Oxford victory of 1923 the
Cambridge oarsmen have won
every race since the war.
In Glasgow the other day a
crowd of 134,170 men and women
saw a soccer tournament between
Scotland, Wales, England and Ire-
land. That’s a crowd in any coun-
try.
to Rome or Tokyo.
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put
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Ben Eastman, Stanford Univer-
sity middle distance star, who
holds the world’s quarter-mile rec-
ord, bettered the world’s mark for
the 600-yard race in competition
at a charity athletic carnival in
San Francisco. Eastman’s time was
one minute, 9.2 seconds, against
the record Doug Lowe, of Great
Britian, set at one minute, 10.4
seconds in 1926.
Argentine’s Davis Cup team is,
at this writing, on the high seas
bound for the United States to
play the winner of the North
American competition. The match-
es will be played in Washington,
D. C.
* * *
When the baseball season start-
ed the other day, the world champ-
ion New York Yankees picked up
to try to continue a record that
began August 2, 1931. Starting
that day, the Yankees went
through the entire 1932 season
without being shut out.
JACK DEMPSEY, promoter of the
heavyweight battle between Max
Schmeling, Germny, and Max
Baer, California, at . w York,
June 8, has been a frequent visitor
to Schmeling’s training camp as
pictured here with the German
battler.
King WoocJchopper
Ten thousand Portugese soccer
fans traveled from various parts
of Portugal to Madrid, Spain, to
witness the Spain-Portugal soccer
game. The Portugese take their
sports seriously.
Canada has selected its Davis
Cup tennis team to meet Cuba in
the first round of the North Amer-
ican zone. Marcel Rainville, Can-
ada’s best known internationalist,
heads the list.
FRED “PEP” SINGER of Tafton,
Pa., chopped a 12 inch log in 1
minute, 55 seconds with a double-
biaded ax, breaking all records and
winning the Eastern championship
for the second year.
chwarzkopf of the state police on
ay 12 I sent Sam Blackman with •tt,f’ state of New Jersey and esPec-
tjhe bunch from Trenton to Hope-
Well as a decoy.
Tip From Governor
j“I then called Governor Moore,
flatting in about eight calls in ten
minutes before I landed him at his
tally upon the state house, which is
ably and continuously served by
his journalistic endeavors.”
home, and asked him to call Colon-
el ^chwarzkopf and find out what i
hat) happened. He called back and
tolcl me of the finding of the body.
I informed our New York office
and' then lit out for Hopewell in an
automobile, racing to overtake the
rest of the crowd. I was present
at Hopewell when Colonel
Schwarzkopf made the official an-
nouncement.
“I wasn’t moving picture re-
porting—being inside the stove-
pipe while the villains discuss
their plans or making a deduction
from a peculiar kind of pearl but-
ton.”
. Jamieson married Charlotte
Wiggin of Scarsdale, in 1931. He
worked under extra strain during
the kidnaping case. His daughter
was born three days after the find-
ing of the body.
Since his scoop—which, inci-
dentally, was geeted without
relish , by the other reporters on
the case, who accused Governor
Moore of favoritism—he has
worked at both Chicago conven-
tions and covered the
40 Needy Persons
Receive Eve Care
A tennis school for girls is be-
ing organized at New Orleans by
Mercer Beasley, famous Tulane
University coach, and the students
will be required to pledge them-
selves to secrecy regarding what
they learn. Beasley has instructed
some of the foremost players in
the countty.
Back in 1905 Christy Mathew-
son, playing for the New York
Giants, pitched three games
against the Philadelphia Athletics
within six days and won all three
During the three games he allowed
14 hits, but no runs; he struck
out 19 men, he gave just one base
on balls and hit one batman.
* « •
Countless pitchers in the Ameri-
can League have collaborated in
making Babe Ruth walk nearly 31
miles over the same path from the
piate to - first base. Starting in
1915, when the Babe played his
first full season in major league
baseball as a member of the Bos-
ton Red Sox, he has walked more
than any other player in either
league. He has been passed more
than 1,800 times. In 1923 he
walked 170 times.
Skating ’Jams Now
Film Sensation,
‘King Kong,’ Wil
Show at Palace
With a sensational admixture of
the prehistoric and the modern in
a story of fantastic imagination,
RKO-Radio makes a bid for an all-
time record with its spectacular
production, "King Kong,” featur
Displeases
ing Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong!
and Bruce Cabot, and in the name
role a great animated 50-foot ape,
built to a proportion comparable
with monsters of the Jurassic and
Cretaceous periods. “King Kong”!
will be presented at the R. & R. |
Palace Theater on June 1 and 2. [
As a production, “King Kong” |
was two and a half years in the |
making. It took a year and a half |
of tremendous work to collect the
data, assemble it for practical pur-
poses and construct dozens of rep-
tilian and other monsters in exact
scale.
EACH generation of youth ha> its
vogue on roller akates and 1933]
finds even New York’s social
registerites doning specially de-
signed apparel for skating atop
skyscraper buildings and on the
avenue . . . Theresa Townsend and
Joan Hamilton are wearing wrap-
around pajamas which fasten to
the left leg.
Fire Chief
Nat Holman, well-known coach
of basketball at City College, New
York, urges the elimination of the
center tap. He contends that an
unfair advantage is given a team
with a tall center. He believes that
tossing the ball in from the side
not only will eliminate this handi-
cap but will serve to speed up the
game.
Babe.Ruth, of the New York
Yankees, will receive more money
for playing ball this year than an
entire club in the Pacific Coast
league.
Maxie—“Slapsie”—Rosenbloom,
Jumping in flat-soled shoes in
an exhibition in New York the
other night, George Spitz, New
York University’s world record
holding high jumper, cleared the
bar at six feet, eight inches, be-
lieved to be a world record for the
high jump without spiked shoes.
Football apparently is to have
another new shift or huddle given
it during the coming season by the
Northwestern team. Dick Hanley,
the coach, had what has been call-
ed a “jig-saw” shift in operation
during the Spring practice. In this,
the team comes out of the huddle
and lines up at almost any place
but the right position. Guards are
at ends, tackles in the backfield
and half-back at center. Then, at
the quarterback’s signal, they sud-
denly shift into correct positions,
ready for the play.
WELLESLEY college for
girls has its students volunteer fire
department which each year
elects its chief. Miss Patricia Par-
fitt of Onf-rio, Canada, has been
selected chief for 1934.
The Indiana Motor Speedway
Track at Indianapolis will see on
capable New York pugilist, has!May 30 more than sixty racing
travelled 73,000 miles to thirty j drivers compete for prizes in the
fights durir." *he -cast year. j twenty-first annual running of
'the 500-mile automobile race.
More than 40
have been given eyeglasses
parts as result of collection of
discarded glasses by Dr. S. B. Cox,
local optometrist, he said “Wednes-
day. Dr. Cox sent out a call a
week ago for contributions of dis-
carded glasses or parts by those
who had them. There was a gener-
ous response, he said, making it
possible for many persons to re-
ceive eye treatment who otherwise
would have been unable to buy
the necessary glasses. Dr. Cox is
urging that more glasses and parts
be donated, as there is a waiting
list' of persons who eannot buy
them.
needy residents A good stunt to remember when
or refinishing a canoe is to apply a j The report that no national
paste wood filler to the canvas to i horse show would be held in New
make it smooth for receiving the'York this year has been denied. A
enamel. Lightly sandpaper the I golden jubilee celebration will be
filler when it is dry and before!held this year,
applying the enamel.
MAKE OWN CLOTHES
During May, a total of 344
school and sport dresses, and 330
shorts were made and exhibited by
members of 25 girls’ 4-H Clubs of
Tarrant county. The garments
were first judged by the girls and
then the dresses modeled by the
Burns j makers. Average costs were found
“chain gang” extradition hearings.
A resolution commending Mr.
Jamieson was adopted by the New
Jersey legislature May 1.
The resolution said that Jamie-
son, in winning the Pulitzer
•ward, “reflects an honor
to be: sport dresses 91c; school
dresses. 47c; and shorts plus
brassiere, 15c. The price of these
garments if purchased, says Miss
Mae Belle Smith, Tarrant county
home demonstration agent, would
upon ^ be it least twice these amounts.
Attendance at the major and
minor league baseball games is
very satisfactory to the owners of
the teams. Lower admission prices
are packing the fans in.
Bicycling is becoming increas-
ingly popular. Out door bicycle
races will be revived, it is said.
Such races are very popular in
Europe.
Wrestling fans have paid the
sum of $13,000,000 to see Nick
Londos wrestle.
Anti-semitic activities in Ger-
many may result in the 1936
Olympic Games, originally
scheduled for Berlin, to be shifted
Edmund Soussa is going to re-
tire from billiards because he is
loo old for the game at the age
of 34.
♦ * *
As soon as the month of May
roils around the sports program
for the warmer months gets under
way. Hundreds of thousands of
men and women are playing golf
in all parts of the country despite
the fact that reduced incomes
have compelled many to drop out
of clubs. Tennis is becoming in-
creasingly popular. The atter
dance at baseball games is excel-!
lent.
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Dr. Cox Delivers
Sermon For Trent
Graduating Class
In the early part of 1932, Mer-
ian C. Cooper, world traveler, ad-
venturer and associate producer
for RKO-Radio Piitures, started
filming operations with director
Ernest B. Schoedsack, his old part-
ner on many foreign trails.
The magnitude of their year’s
task at the camera is clearly seen
in the results. One scene shows a
battle between the mammoth ape
and a tyrannosaurus, largest of
prehistoric reptiles.
Still another is a desperate run-
ning fight between this giant ape,
“King Kong,” and scores of men
while a white girl is held tightly
clutched in the beast’s paw.
The most spectacular scene of
all concludes the picture. “King
Kong,” seeking to escape the tor-
ments of man, climbs the tallest
structure in New York, and there,
with the girl at his feet, wages a
losing battle against a squadron
of army pursuit and bombing
planes.
DIEGO Rivera, celebrated Mexi-
can mural painter, whole work
was halted and payment made in
full for the fresco he was working
on in Rockefeller Center, R. C. A.
building. The Rockefeller family
objected to the portraying of
Lenin and red flags in the mural.
Tumbling Champ
The most thankless and un-
popular task that a statesman can
undertake is that of reducing the
cost of government.—Admiral
Richard E. Byrd.
HERE Is Porter Johnson, Jr., of
Dallas, only 11 years old, who
has won the Southern A. A. U.
tumbling championship his tender
age. Porter won the title at the
sectional meet in New Orleans.
Baccalaureate services for the
graduating class of the Trent high
school were held Sunday evening
at the school auditorium. The S5r-
mon was delivered by Dr. James
F. Cox, president of Abilene
Christian College.
Commencement exercises are to
be held Friday night.
Graduates are Sara Julia John-
son, Johnnie W. Terry, Sallie
Freeman, Bob Howell, Charlie
Howell, Helen Bright, Ruth Cop-
page and Jewel Gafford.
R. & R. Palace—Sweetwater, June 1-2
WHILE A CITY SHRIEKS IN TERROR
...an apelike monster from the
prehistoric world.. .strangely stirred
by woman's beauty. .. rushes over
streets and rooftops ... wrecking
autos... breaking wallsl
Out-leaping the maddest imaginings!
Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!
From an idea conceived by
EDGAR WALLACE*
and MERIAM C. COOPER
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Boyles, C. S., Jr. The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1933, newspaper, May 25, 1933; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559070/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.