The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. [11], Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1936 Page: 1 of 8
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THE G. O. P. NOMINEES
A TIME FOR COOL JUDGMENT
Tip M. Sim n .
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serious situation.
By Wecnes
Conditions which led tc the death
war veteran must and
will be corrected promntly
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stup
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FRANK KNOX
ALF M. LANDON
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Two Parties Tighten Their Lines
idvtna, Ihe
WPA COMPLETES
BLUE BASIN TEST
board of directors to appoint
some
In speaking of his intention to
The WPA has recently complet-
■
F find' myself completely out ‘ of
than a mile.
for
In spite of .the fact that
4
as
gorda county greed to permit a
Barbecue Planned For
Slavonic Lodge Group
was announced today by’ H.
’missiqners’ court is composed of
drilling.
The well was cored qowu fo n
a
job of taking care of those oil
New Deal policies, publicly pledg-
ages amount-
whatever can-
E.
can’t do. Thes have
som
r will be
.eeB
Is 25,
go.
can-
davk Wednesday night.
Thursday at Louise
8:
[pu t
■■ vkisxumhcmcana
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SEVERAL ROAD
BUILDING JOBS
Now that the Tetas Belief Com-
mission has closed its books, it
eare
work.
43.
eut n
out of the
fightiug b
Simons t
legal battle, with the courts
final anbiters in the dispute.
PHA Handles 97
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Ezis
8
c
' ' i i’.nation j
in Bi Campo, d
euro dance nail. 9
ere pi ded under a
v Ih
mano n
i P? ■ ‘ $-
. with 1 ,
04.
For Gigantic Election Struggle
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miles. . . -
The .WPA .is operating a can-
ning kitchen, supplying • the cans
and doing the work of canning in
exchange for 40 per cent of the
No. 1 in the Blue Basin area, some ■
twelve miles south of £1 Campo
- The main contenders for the
headquarters, are l Campo and
Temple,•/L
I
Gordon-Sewall structure, contain-
ing grocery stock valued at many
thousands of dollars, escaped dam-
age.
and completely.- Such correct on crn bcharbieved by
orderly processes, by united and intelligent ackion
point where it showed
then cemented and thecasing per-
t and Saturday.
rodeo, under dirt
Pure Oil Thursday brought -in
sts McIntyre No. 5. offsetting its
McIntyre No. 4,-as a passer with
1,700 pounds gas pressure and a
*e9nes
tsssissssm
The Pure OH company this
week spudded in its Sam Shult
i
of the popular
mission has closed its books, so
far as direct relief is concerned,
the relief burden is more than the
Red Cross and the Community
Chest can take care of.
“We suggested the creating of
PURE OIL SPUDS
people cf this community should see to it thet-thrse
negroes are not’ made to suffer for the crimes of a
1.30
"c===c= t
and city . il
’crime. Mr. Dav -u port.
HKT85
- support
ra» Hp
entiiy of
1 Less than 50 person’ were in
the group which gathered at Bay
City shorttg ttter 11 Hitt de-
manding that the doots ■ - oven-
cd- up.
Sheriff Harry Milner of Matn
Attempts
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■ Another gravel road from High-
way 71 to the Jones Creek store,
a distance of three-fourths of a
mile. ’ -
A lateral road from the Caran-
cahua schoolhouse to the Plain-
view schoolhouse, in Precinct 3,
consisting of a sub-grade and 14
insured 97 modernization notes.
1 valued at -$30,025, in Wharton
county through April 80, 1936; it
men and. 35 women are finding
if
of Wharton, county. sitting
as a board of equalization,
this week employed Former
Assistant Attorney General
Everett L. Looney of Austin
as counsel to represent th t
county in hearings to de-
termine a valuation for the
Texas Gulf Sulphur com-
pany.
f w Th ecourt Wednesday, is-
inked ubroena against H.
E. Trichler, general manager
of the sulphur company, to
apear before the court and
produce all books' and rec-
, ords bearing upon profits
and values of the huge sul-
phur mine- at Newgulf.
When a process served failed
to locate Mr. Treichler, the court
1 met Thursday morning and ids-
r a
there are those who say that this
cannot be done, because of legal
technicalities, it is the only way
that relief can be handled on a
satisfactory basis.
"This is no time to consider
whose job is it or what the tech-
nicalities are, but let us proceed
to cull the relief rolls of those
who can and should be caring for
themselves and then proceed - to
do a respectable job of caring for
the incapecitatedot our cqunty.
’ 59 Per centOverheae
■“At' thaspresent time. or for the:
last three months. The relief .load
in Wharton county has been ap-
proximately $600 per month at
an overhead cost of approximate-
harmony with the present relief
program. The Red Cross and the
Community Chest have done a
splendid piece cf relief work. but
Delegates from SrJST lodges
throughout this section of Texas
have been invited by the Chamber
of Commerce to take part in a
barbecue and rally in .El Campo
Sunday when plena for capture
I
of the lodge's state’headquarters
will be discussed.
The state committee of the lodge
will holds its. quadreninL meeting
in East Bernard next August. At
the meeting, action will be taken
upon a proposal to transfer the
nl, will be 'paid to t
ran. ",683
wil take pt
a producer and blaze the way for
intensive new development in the
El Campo district. The well will
be drilled to 5,600 feet.
The nearest proven’ acreage is
the Texas company’s Pierce B-1,
two and a half miles to the north-
east. ”
Its Jr. and Sheriff Kuehl in : >1 Campo, and Ifencenwas
with the crowa and agreed to al- tin nichi, in the waheho
। Optimism prevails in oil circles
that the new Shult weH will make
negroes need the help and friendly sym athy of the
whitepeople.
State, and local authorities should take all
necessary steps to preserve order and to protect the
rights of every person, white or black. Citizene
should lend their full support to the constituted au-
thorities and help in every way possible to prevent
violence.
Stete, county end city authorities are dojhg ev-
erything humanly possible to apprehend rid bring
to swift and stem justice every negro v ho had a
. A
Mr. Campbell stated th
negro ran up the streel at
returned with several .,r.l
a battered ean They aop
Mr. Simons and ’ a stre
xeloped. c. ,
"Mr. Simons was on t ■
1 000 Eriengalians
Mee n -Metagorde
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had gathered in front of the negro
beer parlor and dance hall con-
ducted by Homer Robinson, ad-
joining the Gordon-Sewall whole-
sale grocery house. There was
excited discussion of vengeance
against the negroes implicated in
the murder.
Recruits from the crowd and a
relief commission to
every phase of relief
a county
F s
crowd began to break uf.B
"He moved down the si
directly in front of where
!-located. The negroes vM
small proce ssion from Wharton ing 'Get the law, get a 3
converged on the Bay (tty jall in The negro woman started fl
search oi the negroes. | off. and he said. ‘You slay.
DEGUIRE QUITS
AS CHAIRMAN
OF RED CROSS
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Rev. A. W. DeGuire, local chair-
man of the Red Cross and Com-
Mr. Looney and County Attorney munity Chest, has announced his
. George P. Wills Jr. intention to resign and to ask the
Non-Political Motive Asserted
Members of the court declared on” to carry n the relief work.
|o pledge its
! naintininn o
gi in a ro
aki nsihe.mi i
mu tr dined
-humpe 1 i}e dtede
finished products.
At present, approximately 30
. - Both parties made important
now that the Texas Relief Com- trues within their own ranks in
sal water Hobinsn dance hall. The t.
Campo five department prevented
back of the Wilson Supply corn
pany's warehouse this side of
Pierce, was to be swabbec Thurs-
dny in ran attempt io bring it in
as a producer at 4,719 feef
This well. if it. makes' commer-
-lai oil. will -mark extension of
Pickett's nidge toward El Campo , ,
at ieast"a mile- bad open up-sev--tmiuK to El ’ 420■
eval new locations .for immeliate
6 a VOLUME XXXVI;
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e-y , : . - rr di i-q .. e
Lynchin
, etrau
ly $300 per months. This involves
P approximately 1100 individuals'
Looney to
Assist in
Tax Fight
Notes in County
a SAN ANTONIO, June 18.—Fed-
, eral Housing Administration had
m -s s-r-- -A number iwent w
Th trsday, and t'eontinue through the country. to stay with relative
ontechep cotton for - —
M Kone was an at
employment with the WPA unde" ..........
Mr. Seligman's jurisdiction. • shut in for the past 60 days or
! low a conmintee ei th heard a disturbance a
to search the jail T search re- dance hall," he told The Ci
vealed that the negroes had been “it was a little pain midni
removed. looked out and saw a whiM
finding basis, and the political
" consfderatfons wi norpepermwanecensarr btecause of the fact that
ted to enter into the proceedings. * find muce1 *---detel on* "r
following: Page No. 1, which was abandoned
A 16-foot gravel road from High- recently after drilling to a depth
way 71 to the Catholic church at of almost 6,000 feet.
Talton, extending for a little more
Leasing and royalty deals’were
activve during the week in the
vicinity of HilLJe and between El
Campo and Danevang. The en-
tire area stretching from El Campo
south to the Matagorda county
line apparently is due for a tres
few depraved members of their race. Law ebiding
preparation for the forthcoming
battle royal.
At Cleveland, Republican op-
ponents of Governor Landon drop-
ped out one by cne, withdrawing
their names and freeing their
blocs of delegates. Although a
bitter battle raged behind the
scenes over the drafting of a
platform, the huge convention
hall echoed no discord.
The keynote speech of Senator
Frederick Steiwer of Oregon, prom-
inently mentioned as a dark-horse
candidate for ' the presidential
nomination, proved to be a flop.
The speech of Permanent Chair-
man Bertram Snell of New York
also struck a sour and uninspired
note. The big moment of the
convention came when Former
President Herbert Hodver, of all
men, delivered a carefully thought
out and afirringly- worded arraign
ment of the New Deal. He made
azspeech generally hailed by ob-
servers as the greatest effort of
his life, and regarded as in ef-
fect his swan song as a political
power, He received. a 20-minute
ovation.
Despite their utmost efforts to
appear daprer and cheerful, the
Republicans met in an atmosphere
of gloom and pessimism.
The . Democrats " tightened their
also against Carl 8. Ferguson.
Charles A. McGuire, Harry Sworn'
. and H E. Treichler as officials
Service was secured on Messrs
Ferguson and Swem.
The court questioned George H.
3 IH. Dennis of Wharton, one of the
• *> attorneys of the. sulphur company,
relative to the names of the com-
pany officials. • l
f . The county. was represented by 1
spray of oil, I was unzertain
good | Eugene Falmadge (D.) of Georgia,
a bitter and consistent toe of
*egguj
ing had reached wh
Legion, of-whi
wasa memier, m
l ■ n E. ■ F. "wi
IChief of PoeDih
the blaze frm spreading to the I
djaeent buildins occupied by;
Robinson's establishment. The
Crowd Gathers at Scene
in the meantime, a crowd of
several hundred white persons
not know, Mr. ST
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few? I
ame-n, "
dbwa.
vog
4 uuthe rfie- ■ --
... vennor • 13* ork wi
vopularemp
H. wa4 stabb
ttempted tor
... Drought, state director of the Na-
02 tional Emergency Council for Tex-
gun as. For the entire state, 33.829
22 moderniztion t.. -Ea
2,d 1.$11,108,322,16, had been insured..
EGen. Aw I aecnmav«av • •m*L to •Vepvevu •L
" agency had acceptedLfive Some of the finest gentlemen in
, mortgages, valued at $14,500, fortthe. county and they are over-
< insuranee in this county- as ofburdenea at the present time if lines materially when Governor
SsE, March 31, 1936 Drought reported.e leftalone they nAght do " ~ ’ ------
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hand in the slaying of Tip M. Simons.
Texas rangers, nctd for their ability to handle
such cases thoroughly, are working with the lotal
peace officers,
The' perpetrators of the crime are being held a‛an
unannounced point. Arrangements are being made
for a swift trial and the meting out of iron-handed
justice through legal process.
EI Campo and Wharton county do not want
mob violence, which leaves an indelible stain on any
community. Every sober-minded and respensible citi-
zen, eve A community leader, should use his in-
fluence toprevent untoward inciderts in the e zialing
inches of sand. This road
stretches for three and a fourth
Several huhdretT persons; .awak- a.mu
ened from slumber by the fire'her out o the bn05
spen. gathered at the scene of Her man sald,"
the blaze. me: I'll take ears (
obinson had closed hi est b- man grubbed her kg
lsshment and the ballding was
■ 4 a e is expected that the county take
notes, valued at over this relief load. The com-.
the relief rolls. However, it , is
eviden that the Texas Relief ed his support to “
Commission intends to dictate and I didates and platorm are adopted
ated that through tolte them what hey can do Philadelphia." •
. “ ifhey can't db. They have [ An important section of the big
stated that another case political machine built up by the
needed. late Senator Huey P. Long went
iverhead expense 'ts 25 per over to the Roosevelt eamp. .
her now then tt should be. While these developments held
uon to this, mny on the the spotlight. the Rev. Father
radio, priest,
fereitement by
ed a number of made-work pro-
jects in westefv-Wharton county,
Morris Seligmh, WPA ad minis
trator for the western portion o' and set 121 feet of surface casing,
the county, stated this week. The new test is nearly two miles
Among these projects are the west of the Pure Oil company s
Page No. 1. which was abandoned
.(Mr Simons) attempting ,
a hegro woman off the n
the dance hall. She appa
be drunk and could sta
difficulty. A group of ex
groes poured out of the d
and formed a ring aroi
white man and there was
fie. He fired two shots i
'sued a new' sutpeena against the
company's general manzger and'
- A big rodeo celebration was
sehediea to begin in Louis Mednesday.
that the forthcoming hearings will In speaking of his intention to
be conducted strictly: on a fact- resign, Mr. DeGuiresaid: "Ihesi-
tate to do this, but it has become
. f. Negroes Leave Town -■
sme of the negroes residing s4n1
In El Campo arid in Oxblcod bp- and 2882
cante frightened and left town •. 2,8208
lodge' headquarters, now at La
Gfange, to a larger city.
which goes io the root of the difficuliies confronting
the people.
-The great majority of the negroes in El CriTnoo
and Wharton county are hard working, humble,
deferential, lam-nbidins and God-fearing. The ■ h te
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A brutal murder. ■. t. d mohi
pected incendiarism threw El Campo in
created dangerous tension this w eek, fl
and local authorities were t .o eratting #
tain order and bring the nerpetr ators
iustice. . .8
1 i 20 0
he-"c ■ ' 14
Ah-pe.*,
M-cA
9
8 X,
.n
whether tae well would, develop
into an pile.
Two of th. comu u s wells in scarch orthe , adclegation inds.....raldearoes ineludinggy
he El Campo district, Jones No woman were strureling withM
.....1 Hhun No 5, ....... ’...... / ■"•’ twie.....fl
more as dry Easses showingmere here, bur th, w rem w , side but ho
Han 1,700 pounds, pressure • . l,n mi,.. "" 1 1n in his hand ■ of fl
wnbek No. 1 teing drilled- b* ' Ir Ms ,, n.se shet broke th. ughr on the pore
Adrian. Moore on thelosationjustlihenegreghanecu taen —in front of our building 128
Most of ihe persons " rim ero, 1 switche on -the lights
rec chine Bry city re M.mhi.n. - thn building. Mr. Sinuonswa
i A 3 1 , I ei l on the ground, and Leouke
h" sevota
After searehina- the Bay gry nenes ran up and kicked himiia
’all and finding none rinhe te-i " 31 shor time peace officem
cus u. the crowd kt: quienls, ' Py then, the neg roes bak
■ —artered in- every direction. e
Fire Damages Dance Hall 1 didmt hear Nhn Simons sag
About 2 a. m., Thursdas fire a gord after the scuffle ta -t ed
bree out in the rear end of th- bomnr Robinson, proprieter.
tim .dence hall and beer parie
tol a story that coincided sb
-lantlally withMCampbell’s aki
count. - 5 -55-6
"We were holdins.a dant fot
the warveterans," he said Mat-
fie Richardson, .a negro fomm
engaged in an atgumentgw en
other woman whose nams4d
forated in a partially saturated
oil sand.
mendous “play" within the next
few months, a
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The immediate aim of the coun-
ty is to secure access txr or pos-
- sesion of the sulphur company’s
cost records, and from this data
to establish the amount of profit
e made by the company on each ton
of the yellow mineral mined at
the Newgulf dome.
• The sulphur company protested
the 1935 valuation of >20,912,722
fixed by the board of equalization,
and to date has paid only a por-
tion of the total. 1
For the past several weeks there
has been talk of a compromise
settlement .based on some $17,000,-
000 valuation for 1935, but noth-
ing definite has developed1 in this
direction.
Aparently the 1936 valuation will
, he made the subject Of a lengthy
i D.H.S. cemetery
■ j iion of the Wheel
212380
0- Lr Simnons was a mem
;■ .. Gv' Helt quartermaster
a 1 . 1, rnited States army dut
.. . -iA 1‛ Wole War He Joined te
"Uo ‛ey n Felruany. 1918, landed,
_ the same’yea
F \t 1 ’ m ’ on July 8, 1919, an
< - ■ mre ly clcharzed shov
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1- bjmnde5
g c - . au Eye Witness Aceovnt
mpbel, a young
1hted for hisa abiHLy • fe Sove . , , ' 255
,| ,2 . -g--- ; - e,cuploxed. Uy the GordonHE
wnFtn"ol"" „rliovodacnan
.........-- the .vatuhi X,£S< m
Simon’ denth •• 2
Wednesdun nizh, a tnw! of He witnessed the epuie
more than 2 persons Hutl red from a grdnnd floor/wind
'' and G. companys pla
' demanded the rinsleatters of thebusine -. had just 'mH
19 mu rc CQITTU nezro eroup held in ‘ onuertion terred fromthe compauysj
12 I11LD3 3ULEi with the slayins . toi establisument and was
" County Attoruey Georg ■ i Wil- temporarit t find a room
J Wharton and
Jails are
street erd bridge
midnisht T nesda
anee in an El Car
Several negr
fession obtamled
The stage was being set this
week for a dramatic struggle be-
tween the Democratic and Re-
publican parties—a struggle which
will culminate next November at
tfe polls, with control ot the
United States government as the
prize.
The Republicans, meeting in a
colorless and drab national con-
vention at Cleveland, nominated
Governor Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas as their presidential can-
didate, and Colonel Frank Knox.
Chicago publisher, as his run-
ning mate.
The Democrats made last-min-
ute preparations for their na-
tional convention in Philadelphia,
with the re-nomination of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Vice President
John N. Garner by acclamation
already assured.
More that 1000 ■Episcopalians
from- points over the state sath- 2. - n
•red in Matagorda Tuesday for . Bip Rodeo Started
•a all-day centennfal: service, sn ’ '
In Mfatagbrd, the first Epis-
2 copal church built in Texas was
, construete '»7 years ago. .
r { Among the distingnished clergy-
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Yates, Paul C. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. [11], Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1936, newspaper, June 19, 1936; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577924/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.