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SWEETWATER, TEXAS
TUESDAY, JAN. 12, 1937.
Any erroneous reflection upon the cfcM-
acter, standing or reputaftm of JffSf
person firm or corporation, which M«y
appear In any of The Reporter's PU?Uc»t-
lons will be cheerfully corrected upoptiejni
brought to the attention of the pubuwer-
HURRAH FOR SWEETWATER
“’’Hie merchants of Sweetwater are to be congratulated on
their.latest effort1 to extend their trading area.
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It is areceonized fact that Sweetwater occupies
a strategprlsdation at "the crossroads of the world.”
Where«5, in the days of*oid it was rightly said that
ail roads lead to Rime, it might now’ be said also
that 'Texas all roads lead to Sweetwater.
This befnjjrso, any constructive attempt on the part of
Sweetwater mirehants to increase the importance of this
city as a shopping center follows in logical sequence and is
directly based pn its favorable geographical location.
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The merchants rightly enough have seized upon
one of the most effective weapons for waging this
constructive assault on the purchasing power of
this area; namely, increasing the buying capacity of
the family pocket book by offering increased values
for money expended.
For two successive weeks now the people of Sweetwater
and Nolan County have been gfvenjgrand opportunities for
buying and saving in what have been termed “Monday Spe-
cials.” Contrary to usual practice associated with events of j
this kind, the values are a fact and not merely a statement.j
Each merchant participating in the event has conscientiously j
gone over his stock and selected therefrom what he considers I
his best values'.'!? many cases they do not yield a profit at j
the price given but are offered with the knowledge that good- ;
will is bound to,fresult therefrom.
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It is a fine commentary on the cooperative spirit
of Sweetwater merchants that thvy can get together
on an event of this kind. They are looking at it from
the broadest viewpoint in that what helps one mer-
chant in Sweetwater is bound to help all of them.
A Balanced Budget-Message
MORE ABOUT WEATHER j
Although the newspapers of Texas have proclaimed most j
loudly through the headlines about the ferocity of the,1
weather, a comparison with that experienced in ocher sec- i
tions indicates that Texas has had no complaint to make what-.
ever.
How the Price of Corn Products Refin-
ing Company Stock Has Fluctuated
During the Last Four Years
DOLLARS
fIR SHARE
Prices of Corn Product! Refining Stock 1933-1936
Earnings Amounted to
$3.16 per Share in 1934.
Stock Sold Between
17.56 and 26.74 Times ‘
Earnings
Earnings Amounted to
$162 per Share in 1935.
Stock Sold Between
22.90 and 29.91 Times
Earnings
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rnmgs
Amounted to $5.49 per
Share. Stock Sold
Between 12.75 and
23.02 Times Earnings “ su
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1933 1934 1935
Letters Above Are Initials of Months; J for January, F for February, Etc.
has been in Washington working
on the bltterweed and the soil con-
serve ion act as it applies to the
range, returned to San Angelo last
night.
Although it is true that the' weather did raise
havoc with telephone lines and transportation facili-
ties, there ljas been no serious damage to livestock
or crops. Texas ranchers have not had to go out into
their fields -and keep a flock of smudge pots going
night and day to save their crops.
When it is realized that California is experiencing the
coldest weather since 1922 and it is threatened with the i
FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL
As Seen By Harry Holt
loss of its citrus crop a prayer
be in order.
of thanksgiving might well
E. J. Compton, in eh. rge the
grazing leases for the Un. .cutty
of Texas, has executed a lease to
'he Huecho Cattle Company on
358,000 acreg of range laud in Hud-
speth County at 5 cents an acre for
five years. It was approved Saturday
is to hold out ten cents a bag for ! Peed conditions at Willows. Calif.,
he operation of the association, the I are reported terrible by the Cali-
, . , ...... i fornia Wool Grower. Feed shoe, in
money to be refunded if the grower Mendicino Colmty also. Everything
does not want the deduction made. | is being fed on the west side of the
He understood all “he warehouses in gnn Joaquin Valley.
A beauty preparation was advertised to “prevent crowd's feet around j 1Sactf wiifbe
the eyes." The wise woman, however, will shop early.
made until a new grazing lease form
- ' is annroved. It is now being drawn
A naturalist maintains that taking a living sponge apart does not! up by the attorney general’s office
harm it. Still, a punch in :‘.he eye should do, if he's of the check-fumbling J anti will restrict the stocking ot
the ranges to carrying capacities
, estimated for each particular ranch.
It may result in lighter stocking on
An assassin attempted to bomb the tome of the former president of some piaces, no change in others, j
variety.
Del Rio. Schreiners at Kcrrville. the
three houses at Uvalde. Sonora and
others have signed. Mr. Hudspeth
thinks this is to be a big business
year. “You can sell anything you
have on tire range now. they fol-
low you around to buy it.” Mr.
Hudspeth has just finished branding
about 400 calves on his ranch near
Sonora.
Prices on sorted mohair in Boston
is quoted by the USDA at 98 cents
to $1.05 for first kid; 87 to 92 for
second kid and 87 to 73 for medium
hair; 55 to 60 for low grades and
45 to 50 for strained.
Fred Heep, sheeo buyer of the
Oklahoma City stockyards and one
of the best liked men to make this
territory, bought this week three
loads of bred three year old ewes
from Dr. H. K. Hinde of San Angelo
at $7.50 a head. They lamb In April.
Mr. Heep said above 50 per cent of
the sheep on Oklahoma wheat fields
had already been run to market
but that after the cold wave likely
most of those left would have to go
to feedlots where costs are 6 to 8
cents a day. He said .he wheat field
men had made money on their
sheep. He sold one load recently at
$8.85. The lambs cost 6 1-2 cents
here, they got the grain and the
price boost.
— Do You Remember?
Mattson
crett,
Mexico, who thought he was safe from occupational hazards.
R. A. Neal, Adrian. Michigan,
One of the largest clips in Nevada
sold last week at prices of 32 cents
a pound.
Rov Hudspeth, president of the | lamb buyer, has bough:. 3.000 lambs
• H H from fields Waller and others at '
.2 rvuj' iiuuojyctii, jvicoiuvul wi - fi
Tire new king of England has had his bumps read by a phrenologist. Texas sheep and Goat Racers' As- , „
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a comparatively easy task, as this king can stay on a horse.
The Bellemore. N. Y.. family was startled when a plane dropped
in at the. house. At that, however, it wasn't relatives.
The New Deal
In Washington
BY RODNEY |)I i re,11KB | missal—the style of at least a few
m:\ wi-rvirr sum' i <>rrr*ii>in>lFnt .present and ex-employes will be
Vjf/ASHINGTON.—Rex Tugwell definitely cramped. It brought no
W tossed a last grenade among holiday cheer to several minor
a group of his old enemies shortly officials who were on the verge of
before the midnight bells rang in ( resigning to become lobbyists.
'he New Year „nd iang him out,
as Resettlement administrator Z'-1 OSSIP as to cabinet changes
Tugwell resigned recently to be- '~r begins to take on a little more
come executive vige president of substance. All cabinet members
ihe American Molagses Company, will submit their resignations by
Soon thereafter bis digestion be- inauguration day and the prrsi-
gan to be disturbed by published , dent plan- to accept none except
reports that his chief function , possibly that of Postmaster Gen-
would be that of a Washington oral Jint Farley, who may be
lobbyist. ready by that time to carry out
His name was bracketed with j his announced intention of ouit-
those of other men who had left, ting.
the AAA to use their knowledge j Thereafter, the probabilities arc
and influence in the capital in the j that-the next resignation will be
service of private business. that of Secretary of Commerce
Tugwell disliked some of these , Daniel Roper. A large posse with-
fellows) intensely, having battled ; m the administration will be gun-
with them inside AAA at periods j ning for Uncle Dan and is sure to
when he felt he representing get his scalp sooner or later,
the farmer and theieonsumer and j Likely to succeed Roper would
they were representing ”preda-; be John H. Fahey, chairman of
tory” corporations. _ ; HOLC. Fahey is as able an ad-
Finally, with one stroke, Tug- j ministrator as has appeared in the
sociation, Inc., reported last night |
that many warehouses have signed
up to follow the plan suggested at
the annual convention of the as-
sociation in San Angelo to collect
dues for the organization. Ac-
cording to that plan each warehouse
M.. and goes today to
STORIES IN
a W
Hy I. S. Klein
vAtti la of the
South "
load them. The lambs have been
on the wheat fields and In the feed
pens. He got one load from J. C.
Williams last week, weighing 83.
They had been on the wheat fields
near.Eola. He also got one load from
Butch Killiam, Eola, weights 82
pounds, off the wheat. They will
be fed around Adrian. Michigan,
for 60 to 70 days.
California legislature has ordered
a brush burning experiment hi an
effort to get rid of the undesirable
brush on the range in certain parts
of that state.
(Continued from page 1.)
a farm youth living near Ev-
stumbled upon the body in
a woods near his home. The boy
had been missing for 15 days.
Dr. William W. Mattson, father
of the 10-year-old victim, had
sought desperately to nay $23,000
ransom for the safe return of the
child. He came to Everett to iden-
tify the body and then returned
home, stunned into silence.
Tried To Contact Man
The doctor tried frantically to
contact the bearded man. believed
deranged or degenerate, who in-
vaded the Mattson home Dec. 27
and carried Charles away. The kid-
naper's instructions were so elusive,
however, that after 15 days Dr.
Mattson still had the $28,000 In old
used bills, half in small denomina-
IIVE YEARS AGO
Post receipts for the year of 1931
totaled $82,173.22. The amount was
a slight decrease over 1930.
Directors of the West Texas
< hamber of Commerce approved a
$60,000 yearly budget in a meeting
in Sweetwater.
Ed Ponder was to deliver an ad-
dress to graduates of the mid-year
clasr oi Newman High school for
their commencement program.
Officers of the Texas Bank and
Trust Company were re-elected in-
cluding Ed Bradford, president; R.
A. Ragland, vice-president; Tom L.
Hughes, vice-president; Jim Du-
laney, cashier and E. B. Hull, as-
sistant cashier.
TEN YEARS AGO
A large delegation of Nolan
County farmers and lanchers ap-
peared before the commissioner's
court asking $2 wolf bounty. Price
Maddox, Wesley Edwards and Wal-
ter Boothe talked to the court.
Records of the Retail Merchant's
association showed that six new
families a week had moved to
Sweetwater to live since Jan. 1.
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J. H. Tubbs had been Issued a
building permit to repair his Fifth
Street residence.
Sweetwater school children had
■' tanized a Civic League, holding
court, where offenders were tried.
The league was composed of stud-
ents cf the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
County Agent Charles Clark was i grades,
leading drive cn terracing more i
acreage in Nolan County. 1 Sweetwater felt a temperature of
------! 20 degrees for another touch of win-
he j ter. Rainfall recorded was .23 in-
ches.
der his nails and bruises on
body.
Anchor clue /was the nresenre of*
clay under the nails,'Thar xtndT' m-l‘ ai-'kLifN' lEA* AGO
blue clay
of clay is peculiar to the mouths of
several rivers as they enter Puget
Sound. One theory war, that the
body had been thrown aicn, the
bank of one o; these rivers and
then had been removed ‘-J the Ev-
erett woods where Gordon Morrow
stumbled across it while hunting
rabbits.
Several former convicts are con-
sidered suspects in this third kid-
nap slaying of the last five years.
The other victims were the Lind-
-bergh baby and 21-year-old Brooke
Dan Childress had announced his
candidacy of district clerk.
Hart of San Jose, whose kidnap
tions. me r^t‘ in 50 “and Too” note's,
that he had scraoed together to buy
Professor A. S. Buttcrworth, 74.
of the geology department of the
Southeast Missouri Teachers College
at Cape Girardeau, has a collection
of 125,000 microfossils.
F. B. Caleote has bought for $200 j
a registered bull from the Ratliff
ranch of Eldorado,
The United Slates wool manufac-
turers have started off the New
Year with a large number of un-
filled orders, and with prospects
bright for a steady increase in busi-
ness for the next four or five
months, says the report of the New
York Wool Top Exchange. All milk
undoubtedly will have profitable op-
erations for the first half of the
year 1937, it added. There are very
short supplies of wool in Boston;
j same is true of top stocks overseas.
Guinn Williams, president of the
Texas Wool and Mohair Co., who
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was not going to be a lobbyist and i,im jn the cabinet and you may
at the same time moved to make be sure (?ahey will be there sooner
lif? miserable for tne large num- or later, assuming he’s open to
her of officials who have left the offers!
Department of Agriculture to take There’s also a healthy little
Jobs ip the food industries. ! movement to persuade Secretary
lot Labor Frances Perkins that the
BEFORE departing, Tugwell ] secretaryship of the International
u signed an order, which simply, Labor Office at Geneva, said to
says .employes bf tlie department pay $25,000 a year, is just about
must not discuss matters per- the coziest little job in the world,
laining to administration or to ff Miss Perking should be of-
legislation relating to the depart- fered the post and succumb to its
ment’8 work, with anyone who( is charms, as many hope and pray,
employed Jby or conceded with it is commonly believed that she
affected commercial interests arid would be succeeded by Assistant
who has betSfnn employd of the Secretary of'Labor” Ed McGrndy
department within two years.
*He signed it “R G Tugwell,
acting secretary,'’ to emphasize
the fact that tie would be gov-
erned by the order
U the order is okeyed—and vio-
InWts are si|hjrct to pnssjhlp dis-
or Assistant Secretary of the
list
Treasury Josephine Roche.
The movement to get Attorney
General Cummings out of the
cabinet Isn’t proceeding very rap-
idly audjnay fuzjc completely.
I'.Vl'kligj11'. NJ'l.L kerxJee, Inc.)
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BEFORE Col. Martin Figueroa
of Mexico's rural police, about
39 years ago, stood a wiry youth,
charged with highway robbery.
He was given the choice of death
or 10 years’ enlistment in the
Mexican army. He chose the ar-
my, and 10 years later Emiliano
Zapata emerged with the sole
idea of driving all foreigners out
of Mexico.
From 1910 to his death in 1917.
this bandit general roamed the
southern part of Mexico, calling
himself the “Attila of the South."
He pillaged and murdered in the
cause of “Land and Liberty” for
the Indians, from whom he had
sprung. So feared was he that
his enemies called him “The Bush-
master,” after the' most poisonous
of American snakes.
In 1917, a federal officer “de-
serted" to Zapata’s army, and
when Zapata visited him, he
killed the bandit, in 1935, a
stamp was issued by Mexico, com-
memorating Zapata for his "Plan
do Ayala,” which
A Swift Farewell
By Helen \\ elsliimer •
y > uODBY, Itelov'd—go quickly as you leave me.
v J Walk down the road and never pause to wave;
Farewell should be a brief word, swiftly spoken;
If you should turn, I might not be so brave.
OODBY, bclov'd—walk onward to the rhythm
vJ Of martial songs that sing against the drums.
May all the hills you take be worth the climbing,
And tents await you as the evening comes.
/r> OODIJY, bclov'd—strange that I should he praying
Y- F That you he fleet when all the while I know
I'll strain to hear your footsteps growing fainter
Along a street soft-cushioned b;* the snow.
demanded seiz-
ure of all for-
eign-ownod land,
expulsion of all
Spaniards, and a
single term for
Mexico’s presi-
dent and vice
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back his boy.
It was the same story in the
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., kidnap-
ing of 1932. While Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh and his Intermediary.
Dr. J. F. Condon, turned over $50.-
000 to a man known to them as
"John" tlie body of the 20-month-
old Lindbergh boy lay on a Jersey
hillside near the Lindbergh family
home.
Like the Lindbergh child, the head
of Charles Mattson had been crush-
ed. Police believed he had been
struck with a hammer. In the case
five years ago it was believed the
child might have fallen.
Body Bruised
Only an autonsy can reveal what
happened to Charles Mattson.
The body was locked in a Tac-
oma morgue. Federal agents had
the key to the padlock of the room.
They examined tlie bruised body
for fingemrints and for other clues
that might lead to ills slayer.
The same shroud that was thrown
over the body in the shallow ditch
where it was found covered all that
was left of the bright-eyed, smart
and happy-go-lucky Mattson boy—
Charley to his mother, Chuck to
ills schoolmates.
The body was nude, when he was
kidnaped the boy was wearing only
three pieces of clothing—a pair
of trousers, a zipper Jacket and a
natr of Alaska fur seal slippers. He
had just come from a bath and
had not put on underwear.
It was believed his clothing had
been taken from him for use for
identification In the ransom negot-
iations, but so far as could be
learned none of It ever reached the
parents.
Clothing Thrown Away
Police believed the kidnaper had-
bought other clothing and had
thrown all the clothing away when
he killed the boy so that a possible
clue would be destroyed.
It generally was believed Charles
war. killed at least three days ago.
The father said he was killed "In-
stantly’’—meaning the day he was
stolen, but other authorities did not
hold that belief.
The man who killed tlie boy had
held him bound with rope in a
cellar. There were ropemurks on the
neck and wrists, and specks of dirt
on the body and under the nails.
Believe Lad Fought Captors
It was possible Charles had
fought his captor or captors, for
there were a few strands of hair uii-
There was no talk of lynching In
Tacoma as yet. The city still was
too stunned by the tragedy to speak
of retribution. Some cf the crowd
Stockholders of the Sweetwater
Faim and Loan Association elected
cfl.cerr for the year to name Wil-
liam Wight, president; C. F. Saun-
ders, vice-president; J. L. Ross,
Eecretary and treasurer. Directors
included the officers and W. C. Cal-
vert. W. H. Bennett, F. C. Child-
ress, and J. L. Kerby.
Mrs. L P. Reece was leader for
the Self Culture Club meeting at
the home of Mrs. N. L Hall.
The Nolan County Chapter of
the American Red Cross elected
officers for the year including Mrs.
that gathered along the secondary j William Wight, chairman; Die L.
highway five miles south of Everett
over which the kidnaper had trav-
eled had muttered "he ought to be
lynched" but there was no concert-
ed move to translate Indignation in-
to action.
C. Dudgeon, vice-chairman; Louis
Horne, second vice-chairman; Mrs.
W. B. Gordon, third vice-chairman;
Miss Mary Wight, secretary; r, k.
McAdams, treasurer; Mrs. George
Sparks chairman of nursing.
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SEARS NO RESEMBLANCE
TO ITS PARENTS.
IN ORDER TO
FREE THEMSELVES
cpAtasQurroes,
RUN AGAINST
THE WIND/
SOMETIMES,
WHEN THE
WIND REMAINS
IN ONE
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/falES SEND BACK MORE WEATHER INFORMATION
<* THAN ANV OTHER.TYPE OF INTELLIGENCE/
WEATHER is ot utmost importance in planning a maneuver of
war, and no modern battles are planned without taking the weather
prospects into careful consideration. Many of the great battles
of history owe their outcomes to some unlooked-for turn in tne
weather, which switched the tide of the struggle.
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