The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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"YOUTHFUL GIANT GLAD TO
RETURN TO HOME MEALS
Alton, 111., May 5.—Robert Ward-
lew, 17-year-old boy giant, stretched
his 8-foot-1 1-2-inch length in the
m lily rocking chair Sunday after
ing a hearty home-cooked meal
announced it felt fine to be home
gain after a six-week, tube-fed stay
a a St. Louis hospital.
Back to Mb usual weight of 385
—he lost and regained sixty
during his illness—Robert was
ak from a protracted siege of
and an infected foot and
his first day at home sitting
ovejoyed to be back home,"
mother, Mrs. Harold Ward-
to go into details
son’s meal.
sensitive about letting
much he eats,” Mrs.
“But his appe-
expects to re-
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day, two or three times the amount
of the average man.
Mrs. Wardlow said her son, who
graduates in June, plans to study
law. A high-ranking student, he has
been awarded a scholarship to Shurt-
leff College here.
Robert is a good swimmer but nev-
er has participated in varsity athlet-
ics. His favorite study is elocution,
his favorite pastime—playing the
banjo.
Physicians predict the youth will
reach an ultimate height of nine feet
in the next five years. They attribute
his extraordinary growth to overac-
tivity of the pituitary gland, a tiny
endocrine gland at the base of the
brain. His parents are of normal size.
CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of expressing
our sincere thanks to the many friends
and neighbors who were so kind and
helpful after the death of our dear
father, A. W. McFadden. Your
deeds of thoughtfulness will
memories to us
true frier
"Special announcement! Special
announcement! We are sorry to break
in on your radio program. There has
just been a serious prison break al
Ohio State penitentiary. Severa’
guards shot and seriously wounded
Five hundred prisoners escaping by
.south gate. Number of cars comman-
deered on Dublin road. Witness**'
state cars turned north across Goodalt
Boulevard, branching off through
Grandview and Upper Arlington. Res-
idents take greatest precaution. You
are urgently requested to aid the
authorities by checking and locking
your cars. Beware of hide-outs. Pris-
oners heavily armed. Desperate!
National guard officers report tc
your armory at once. Officers of the
regular army report to your station
immediately. All others requested tc
keep Dublin Road and the streets
around the penitentiary cleared. Keep
off the highways unless your busi-
ness is urgent. Phone immediately
any information you may obtain tc
the outer office at the penitentiary
There is the greatest confusion and
chaos behind the walls.
We now return you to your regu-
lar program.”
This was the horrifying announce-
ment which came in over the radic
at the home of the Spurgeon Bells—
across Goodale boulevard and in Up-
per Arlington—during the dinner
party of the Texas Club, on Apri’
twenty-second.
It had fallen to the lot of a stal-
wart Texan and your correspondent
to provide the entertainment of the
evening. And, what to do ? With some
thing over fifty lawyers, doctors, uni-
versity professors, writers and what-
not, the “what to do?” was a difficult
question. The mentality of so erudite
a lot could not be treated with gross
affront. Nor could it be something
inane and yet hold their interest. So—
since Ohio State Penitentiary had
been having its difficulties for quite
some time, it seemed the opportune
moment to stage a prison break of our
own making. If even a few fell for
the story it would be amusing and well
worth the effort. But we were totally
unprepared for the entire lot swal-
lowing not only the bait, but hook
line and sinker as well.
For some fifteen or twenty min-
utes there was plenty “confusion and
chaos behind the walls” of the Spur-
geon Bell home. The scene bordered
dangerously close to a riot, as the sit-
uation was getting nigh out of hand
The effect gave your perpetrator the
jitters, for believe it or not, the schol-
arly lot did most amazing things. Nc
doubt, the self-preservation of a prim-
itive people jumped suddenly and un-
mistakably to the fore. Faces
blanched, hands wrung in consterna-
tion, tears came dangerously near
the brink. There was a mad scram-
ble for the telephone—one prominent
Texas lady was victorious in gaining
its possession. Frantically she dialed
again and again, her face a horror-
stricken mask, but in the height of
excitement seemingly forgot that in
telephoning one puts the receiver tfc
one’s ear. A prominent lawyer’s wife
desperately tore the diamond rings
from her fingers hiding her valued
possessions beneath the cushion of an
over-stuffed chair. Dignity was for-
gotten as men rushed to the street tc
make sure the • family motor-cars
were securely locked. Voicds rose ex-
citedly—loud and shrill. One instruc-
tor at Ohio State University, notice-
ably white and shaken, insisted upor
pulling down shades over French
windows, which the hostess had not
deemed necessary for months; com-
manded the electric lights turned off;
and, not so gallantly, peeked timidly
from the side of a drawn shade.
One guest having been quite ill a
couple of years before, was taken intc
confidence concerning the framed
story, fearing not to do so might
bring about dire results. But being a
splendid sport, it was decided that
she should add something to the sit-
uation: at a certain point of the an-
nouncement, was to scream and pre-
tend to faint. She did alright! Much
too realistically! Evidently enjoying
the dramatic situation to the utmost
refused to stop pretending. It wa;
then that the perpetrators became
the most frightened of the lot, fear-
ing that the strain had been too
much. One man ran excitedly into
the kichen for water; there in short
staccato words informed those in the
kitchen of the prison break. Where-
upon the colored maid passed out
quite completely. Hearing about the
water, and dreading a ruined frock
the fainted lady staged a recovery in
the nick of time, much to the agon-
ized husband’s relief, who in the ex-
citement of staging the affair, (and
then, too, unsuspecing of anything sc
fearful) had previously not been in-
formed of the pre-arranged plans
But it is to be doubted if any one was
more relieved
an from 1 “
An air view of the Normandie, almost completed, as she is towed from her berth at St Nazalre, France. Invested
in this super-hulk is France’s challenge to other powers in the race for ocean trade.
tations.
Mothers ran for their wraps in a
desperate attempt to get home to the
children. Others became weakened ir
the knees and dropped into chairs
while well-meaning, but not any toe
firm husbands pressed books, pictures
or anything near at hand into service
as fans to revive spirits.
In the menatime the correspondeni
was vainly trying to make her way
through the excited throng and up the
crowded steps to the exclusive little
nook on the second floor, where we
had had a private little broadcasting
affair set up previously, the day be-
fore. Only too anxious now to have
the stalwart Texan cut back in on the
regular program and clear up the sit-
uation.
Seeing the “greatest confusion be-
hind the walls,” the perpetrators were
thankful that the horrifying message
which had wrought so much havoc
was only able to carry within the
walls of the Spurgeon Bell home.
There was no end of chuckling af-
ter strained and tense muscles anc’
minds relaxed. But, as is usually the
case, those having done the most
amusing as well as amazing things
were a bit lax to own up to their owr
antics and fantastic actions; the other
fellows being the much more pre-
ferred topic of conversation.
YOU’LL NEED US
IF YOU DO
For Better Clean-
ing and Pressing
Clifton, Texas
AAA DELEGATES NAMED
Gatesville, Teras, May 5.—Coryell
County farmers met Saturday and
selected three delegates to represent
the county on the Texas AAA special,
which will leave May 12 for Wash-
ington. Those selected are John L.
Voss, chairman of the coton commit-
tee; D. I. Glass, chairman of the
wheat committee, and P. H. Martin,
chairman of the corn-hog committee.
They were instructed to favor con-
tinuation of the processing tax and
express the farmers’ confidence in the
AAA programs and in President
Roosevelt.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
Buffalo Times: Cleveland girls who
hiccoughed three weeks straight
advised to drink lots of beer. The
ject seems to be a hiccough to end all
hiccoughs.
Worcester Evening Gazette: Times
change rapdly. William Allen White
says we must look to the Republican
party. And only a few months ago we
were looking for it with a micro-
scope.
Austin American: Only one crea-
ture' can reason. He’s the one thai
fills his stomach with junk and takes
a pill so it won’t hurt.
San Antonio Express: Texas still
leads the States in wool production
but readily yields to Louisiana ir
wool gathering.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The
Versailles Treaty will make a nice
museum piece as the nucleus of a
Geneva collection.
Salt Lake Tribune: Advice to the
lovelorn: Never marry a woman until
you’ve seen her with a cold in her
head.
E. H. Schumacher
(Buster)
PLUMBING AND GAS HEATING
WORK A SPECIALTY
Call me for service
BIG DANCE
At Live Oak Hall, Friday night
May 10. Music by the Huacotonians
a red-hot orchestra from Waco
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PROVIDED FOR NEGROES
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Austin, Texas, May 3.—Gov. James.
V. Allred Friday Bigned Senate Bill
467, providing for the establishment
of a tuberculosis sanatorium for Ne-
groes. The bill appropriates $200,000
and provides for the purchase of a
site of not more than 1,000 acres and
for the construction of buildings.
Wild animals are not extinct in the
highly urbanized and industrialized
northeast secton of this country to-
day. Dumg 1934, coyotes klled hun-
dreds of sheep within 30 miles of
Pittsburgh, wild timber wolves were
seen n the Adirondacks of New York
State and many wildcats were killed
in New Jersey, virtually in sight of
the Empire State Building of New
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1935, newspaper, May 10, 1935; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775064/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.