The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 97, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1938 Page: 1 of 4
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NEWS
PICTURES
Texan
City
Edition
Austin Of Pampa Beats Crider
Of Dalhart For Golfing Title
grOL. 35 SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1938
EN KNOWN DEAD
US FLUSH FLOOD
HITS MONTERREY
NO. 97
What's Going on Here, Boys?
SCORES AMERICAN TOURISTS
MAROONED BY WATERS
OF SURGING RIVER
MONTERREY, Mexico, Aug. 31.—
Ten persons were dead, an undeter-
mined number missing and 2,500
homeless in the mecca lor American
honeymoon tourists last night when
flooding Santa Catarina river wa-
ters started receding.
No Americans were listed on the
casualty roll.
Debris-strewn streets showed the
havoc wrought by a sudden flood
which tumbled down from lofty
mountain tops after a nine-inch
Tain. Winds from a tropical hurri-
cane caused some damage in this in-
dustrial center of 400,000 residents.
Homeless were bunked in pub-
lic buildings and civil authorities
were restoring order in sections
hardest hit by the wall of water
that took the city by surprise.
Death Reports False
H. W. Carlson, American vice
consul here, said about 100 Ameri-
can tourists were marooned a mile
'from town but none was in Im-
mediate danger and all were being
cared for at La Silla, where num
___small cabins were available.
Reports that three cars occupied
Americans were swept from the
highway to Choptaque, a mountain
top resort, were proved false, Car-
ton said. Mexicans were drowned
tumbled from the machines,
laraon added.
The heaviest destruction in the
was in the Independencia col-
aad El Mipkdor, swank real-
itlal sections. Eight of the 10
were trapped in homes and
led downstream. More (than 400
adobe and stone homes were des-
troyed or damaged by the worst
flood here il 30 years.
RIm Grande Up
Col Leopold© Travino Garza, ma-
yor of Monterrey, said many resi-
dents along the usually dry creek
were unaccounted for and be-
red drowned.
Civil authorities said It would be
or three days before American
tourists marooned outside town
limits would be able to cross the
river. Many of the tourists were en
route to their American homes aft-
er trips to Mexico City.
Meanwhile, the Rio Grande,
famed in song as a silvery stream,
PRISONERS TELL
HOW IT FEELS TO
BE STEAM-BAKED
TWO GUARDS HELD WITHOUT
BAIL AS JAIL DEATH
PROBE PROCEEDS
A nti-New Dealers Hold
Strong Leads In South
Carolina And California
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DROM,lijfiLElORPS
WILL BEJ0R6ANIZED
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS GROUP
WILL TAKE THE PLACE
OF PEP SQUAD
PACIFISM IS DEAD,
SAYS IN. HAGOOD
TEXAS LEGIONNAIRES HEAR
GENERAL AND SENATOR
TOM CONNALLY
AUSTIN, Aug. 31.—United States
Army Gen. Johnson Hagood told
members of the Texas American Le-
gion here Tuesday that "pacifism is
dead” and that 98 per cent of the
American people are ready to fight
against invasion of any foreign
power.
General Hagood’s speech, in which
he charged that Communists and
Socialists cloak their activities with
pseudo-pacifist campaigns, preceded
an address by United States Senator
Tom Connally. The two speeches
closed the entertainment part of the
legion program.
General Hagood also said that
* America is not now, and will not be
in the future, ready to wage war
single-handed against a strong for-
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Plans looking to the organization
of a girls drum and bugle corps in
Shamrock high school, which will
take the place of the pep squad of
former years, will be considered at
a meeting of prospective members
and their mothers Friday morning
at 8:30 o’clock In the high school
auditorium, it was announced to-
Prelimlnary steps toward forming sion wrecked the Bamsdall refin
a drum and bugle corps were taken ery, five miles northwest of here
at a meeting held last week. At this Tuesday.
session, attended by a number of. Twelve other men in the refin-
girls and their mothers, Supt. W. C. I ery scurried to safety.
3 WORKMEN KILLED
IN REFINERY BLAST
EXPLOSION OF BUTANE GAS
WRECKS LARGE PLANT
NEAR ODESSA
ODESSA, Aug. 31.—Three trapped
refinery workers were burned to
death after a butane tank explo-
Rooeeveit-backed candidates for
the senate were trailing on Incom-
plete returns Ira Tuesday's
Democratic primaries.
In South Carolina, Senator El-
lison D. Smith, whose name was
written on the chief executive's
"party purge” list, led Gov. Olin
I). Johnston by more than 20,-
000 votes with nearly three-quar-
ters of the state’s elec ton districts
reported.
In California, early returns
showed Senator William G Mc-
Adoo, carrying the Roosevelt en-
dorsement, running far behind
Sheridan Downey, advocate of a
modified Townsend old age pen-
sion plan. McAdoo had 8,583 votes
to Downey’s 22,058 on incomplete
returns from 683 of 12,438 pre-
cincts.
The elections in both states in-
volved scores of hot contests for
seats in the house, and for state,
county and municipal offices. In
California alone more than 800
candidates were entered for one Job
or another.
The South Carolina senatorial
contest was the principal point of
attention since it involved an ef-
fort by the president to oust a sen-
ator whom he considers unfriend-
ly to new deal objectives. The same
issue has been presented in the
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31.—Two
prison guards were held without
bail Tuesday for the coroner’s ac-
tion after three convicts blamed
them for "turning on the heat”
that “baked to death” four other
Inmates of the Philadelphia coun-
ty prison nine days ago.
Patrick Dt Marco, Maurice Spatz
and Joseph Forte, survivors of the
"heat treatment” that killed the
lour and prostrated 21 others: testi-
fied at a hearing of the guards on
homicide charges. They blamed
Guards Francis Smith, 43, and Al-
fred W. Brough, 39, and told a vivid
story of the anguish of the men
confined in tiny punishment cells
heated by steam radiators.
Inquest Today
Gov. George H. Earle announced
that Coroner Charle H. Herseh
would take "most drastic action”—
he didn’t say what—against “those
guilty,” after an inquest today.
The governor ordered steps to
prevent recurrence of Holmesburg
prison conditions which he called
“worse than the black hole of Cal-
cutta.” He instructed state troopers
to inspect all county prisons and
town “lock-ups” once a week.
After inspecting the prison and
its “sweat box,” Earle blamed the
deaths on “the cruelest degenerates
who ever lived.”
“I do not know if they wanted
to murder those: men,” he said, “but
I do know they wanted to torture
them.” ,
"Yon Guys Won’t Die”
At the homicide hearing, Dt
Marco, glared at the guards he
blamed for releasing the steam and
told of his terrifying experience as
punishment for participating in i
revolt against “monotonous” food.
He asserted there were three men
in each of the narrow, steaming
cells and “whatever comfort we got
came from the floor.” The only
water was that In the toilets, he
said.
To their pleadings for relief, Di
Marco testified, the two guards re
plied “You guys won’t die. You’ll
get over it.”
The guards did not testify,
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DALADIER AFFIRMS
FRENCH INTENTION
TO ASSIST CZECHS
BRITISH MINISTERS TO MAKE
FRESH APPEAL TO NAZI
FOR MODERATION
PARIS, Ang. 3L—Premier Ed-
ouard Daladier’s “national de-
fense” government has affirmed
once more the French determina-
tion to march to the aid of
Czechoslovakia In ease of a Ger-
mah invasion.
A foreign ministry spokesman an-
nounced last night that Foreign
Minister Georges Bonnet emphasiz-
ed this stand during a two-hour
review of the German-Czechoslovak
issue before the cabinet today and
that the policy was voted full ap-
proval by the ministers.
The spokesman said no new note
would be sent to Berlin immediate-
ly, lest It arouse further animosity,
but that the French position al-
ready had been made dear to the
German government in the course
of recent contacts.
The forces of peace and war mea-
sured their strength across Europe
today with statesmen, soldiers and
sailors thrown into the scales on
both sides in the greatest crisis
since 1914.
Britain to Appeal
British cabinet ministers yester-
day determined to make a fresh ap-
peal to Adolf Hitler to ease his
Backs Up Hull's
Plea for Peace
NEW MEM SENATE
VOTES PRIMARY LAW
TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY TO
MAKE BILL EMERGENCY
MEASURE LACKING
SANTA FE, N. M., Aug. 31.—The
New Mexico senate, in its eighth
day of special legislative session,
issue nas Dcen prcscuwu ^ late Tuesday passed a statewide di-
neighboring state of Georgia, where rect primary bill by a vote of 13-11
Senator Tydings is opposed by the and passed the measure on to the
president, and in New York, where house of representatives.
Perkins informed of plans for the
I schools to provide the necessary
drums and bugles. Uniforms will be
of military pattern, but the design
has not been selected. A committee
was named for this purpose.
Glenn Truax, band director, at-
tended the meeting and volunteered
his services in training the corps,
both in music and marching. His
offer was much appreciated, as it is
the desire of all concerned that the
new organization be precisely drilled
to afford the best showing at foot-
ball games and other school events.
Those who are taking an interest
Dead were R. H. Brooks, 36; Glen
Carlton, 20, and G. T. Scott, 20
piCWUCUb, u* -----
he was declared against the re-elec
tion of Representative John J. O’-
Connor.
Conscience Guides
The South Carolina contest was
The senate vote, failing to show
a two-thirds majority necessary to
pass the bill as an emergency mea-
sure to become immediately effec-
tive, left the state under the party
originally a three-man affair with convention nominating system for
Smith opposed by both Johnston the approaching fall state elections.
On the basis of a test vote in the
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lower chamber today, the bill was
expected to pass the house similar-
CHHA?nSlIB)SSSsEVE
HAS GAME 1 RESERVE. ^ commlttee,s favorabie report
Carlton, 20, and G. T. Scott, 20. 1 Sa™
Bums were fatal a few hours after j f * . .. f chiidre38 eoun-1 legislature reconvened after hear-
the explosion while the fire atiU|^uthero1 tog U. S. Senatora Carl Hatch and
raged. JDennis Chavez, U. 8. Representative
game preserve. , , ^__—.. „„,i a.,.
Over two dozen land owners fos-
G rover Austin, youthfnl Pampa
golfing pbenom, who lias twice
had top honors in important Cole
Creek events slip from him by
narrow margins, Wednesday aft-
ernoon, wrested the championship
ol the third invitation tournament
from Frits Crider, Dalhart ace,
winning a gruelling 18-hole title
match 3 and 2.
The young Pam pan was In tip-
top form, firing six birdies dur-
ing the afternoon In spite of a
high south wind which swept the
course throughout the play.
Austin advanced into the finals
i yesterday morning by defeating
Frank Mitcham, Jr., Shamrock, who
won the championship of the Green-
belt tournament here this spring
by downing Austin on the same
course.
Austin was runner-up in the Cole
Creek invitation tournament last
year and is city champion of Pom-
pa Country club. He also won the
championship title at an invitation
meet ai Sayre, Okla., recently.
Crider won the right to battle it
out with Austin by defeating Lyle
Holmes of Shamrock, last year’s
champion, of the invitation tour-
nament, 1 up on 20 holes, in the
hardest match of the entire three-
: day meet Jrlder got a birdie on the
20th hole before Holmes, who got a
par, decided he "couldn't play a
lick.”
The scores in the championship
match:
Par—443 , 454, 344.
Austin—333, 463, 244, 453, 553, 2.
Crider-443, 453, 344, 543, 454, 3.
Winners other flights were, first
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As if to add an exclamation
point to Secretary of State
Hull’s most recent appeal for
world peace, the U. S. S. Lang,
newest torpedo boat destroyer
of the navy, is shown here as it
slid gracefully down the ways
at Kearney, N. J. She is named
for Seaman John Lang, who
served gallantly aboard the U.
8. S. Wasp in the War of 1812.
WHEELER CRUDE Oil
SHARES PRICE HIKE
BUMBLE ANNOUNCES ITWARD
REVISION OF GRAVITY
OF 40 AND BETTER
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COMMITTEES FDR
TENANT PURCHASE.
PLANARE NAMED
FARM BUYING LOAN PROGRAM
TO OPERATE IN FIVE
MORE COUNTIES
Appointment of county commit-
tees by Secretary of Agriculture
Tenry A. Wallace to check applica-
tions for farm tenant purchase
loans in Region Twelve of the Farm
Security Administration, was an-
nounced today by L. H. Hauler, re-
gional director of this agency which
administers the program.
The Secretary’s announcemet of
committees follows the selection of bandle was announcement Tuesday
additional counties in this region by ^ Humbje oil & Refining com-
where the Bankhead-Jones Farm y Qf an upward re vision in the
Tenant Purchase Act will be put in- crude prjce structure.
to effect this year. The counties _ ,___________,
were selected by a four-state (Tex-
as- Kansas- Oklahoma- Colorado)
committee of which John E. Hill,
Amarillo, Texas, is chairman. Jo-
seph L. Dailey, Albuquerque, is
chairman of the New Mexico com-
mittee.
The new counties and the com-
mittee members are as follows by
states.
Prowers county, Colorado—Guy
Gilbert, Lamar; James C. Davis,
Wiley; and Hackett Smartt, Lamar.
Meade county, aKnsas—Pete E.
Loewen, Meade; Howard Norman,
Jr., Fowler; and W. H. Painter,
Meade.
Eddy county, New Mexico—Walter
Q’Chesky, Carlsbad; Bob O’Bannon,
Lake Arthur; and Willie Bindell,
Carlsbad.
Hansford county, Texas—F. R.
Wallin, Grover; Carl E. Hutchinson,
Spearman; and Robert C. Bennett,
Spearman.
Hall county, Texas—Jessie F.
Mann, Lakevlew; Jim Eudy, Turkey;
and Robert Hanvey, Memphis.
Counties in which the program
EARLY ENROLLMENT
OFF JDFNTSURGED
HIGH SCHOOL REGISTRATION
TO BEGIN AT S O’CLOCK
THURSDAY MORNING
Students and their parents are
reminded by school officials that
enrollment for Shamrock high
school will begin Thursday morning,
September l?»t| o'clock and will
continue through Friday. „
will also be registered Monday.
Early enrollment is particularly
urged, as those in charge of regis-
tration will have more time to con-
sult with the students on the cour-
ses to be taken. Both parents and
, | students are invited to study the
Encouraging news for oil produc- enUre blgb scbooi curriculum, the
era of Wheeler county and the Pan- scbeduie and the vocational and
academic courses.
Students coming to enroll in high
and junior high schools should
bring their locker and library fees.
---r---- onng uieir iuumu turn uvimj icco.
The advanced part of the price, locker fee is $1, library fee for
affects only oil of better than 40 j bjgb 6ca0ol is $1 and for junior high
gravity. This price was hiked 21 schooi 25 cents,
cents per degree up to and includ-
ing 45 gravity.
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E. B. Reeser, president, from Tul-
sa said tlie loss would be between
WOflW and 160.000, although an ; «tebllshm"nt i PoalUona on the measure In an un-
J. J. Dempsey and State Democra-
tic Chairman John Miles voice their
Those who are taking an interest.
to the organization of the drum and Instant later another terrific explo-
bugle corps urge that every girl who slon—flames covered everything,
wishes to Join attend the Friday jSnnri ™fi sm
morning meeting and insist that
her mother also attend. The group
will be limited to number, so that
early enrollment will be necessary
to Insure membership.
It Is planned to make this girls
corps a permanent part of the
school organization and uniforms
will be selected that can be handed
down from year to year. It Is an-
ticipated that such a group will add
a great deal of color and enthusiasm
to the football games this falL
;* rr; ™ tssiss»- sr—”■srJS
““ '“l *“ “ m'm 1 president o! the group: Pel. Rureell.
»■ -• «—■
the explosion occurred, said R. F.
Crockett. "All of a sudden the air
was full of gas fumes. We ran. An
: Soon we saw three men, their hair
gone, clothes burned off, walk from
the refinery. They were cooked.”
Three 60,000 pound tanks were
catapulated through the air. One
landed a half mile away.
Plant officials believed the blast
resulted from a butane tank burst-
ing open, scattering vapor over the
plant. The refinery was to flames
a minute after.
No effort was made to extinguish
the fire. Pipe connections were sev-
ered.
FUNDS FOR ROAD DEBT
WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
AUSTIN, Aug. 31.—The Texas
board of county and district road
bond indebtedness ordered alloca-
tion of an estimated $7,000,000 sur-
plus in the fund for retirement of
bonds used on roads now In the
state highway system.
The chief accountant was in-
structed to determine the amount to
precedented appearance before
Joint session of the two houses.
MCFARLANE°CHARGES
REPUBLICANS VOTED
GRAHAM, Aug. 31.—Representa-
tive W. D. McFarlane, congressman
from the 13th congressional district,
said that he was defeated In his
race for re-election by 8,000 Repub-
lican votes in Saturday’s Democratic
primary.
McFarlane, called “my old friend”
by President Roosevelt, and an ar-
dent new deal man, was defeated
Wheeler and Gray counties and
from the brown dolomite area of
Hutchinson and Carson counties.
PARACHUTE JUMPER I So far none of the other purchas-
1 AKALMlJlii JG ers ,n ^ fleld baVe met the new
I LUNGES TU LiKAm j posted prices of the Humble com-
FARGO, N. D., Aug. 31—Horrified P^-____
spectators at the Red River Valley! vmTMr PPftPT F
fair gasped as Jimmy Caraways M. E. YOUNG I oUlLIl
parachute failed to open and the I
■bat man” of the “Hollywood Dare- <
devils” thrill show plunged to his
death in a nearby park late Tues-
day.
Caraway’s act was to leap from
a plane, soar briefly on "bat wings”
and complete the descent with a
parachute. Caraway, 25, was a na-
tive of Indianapoia, Iowa.
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Enrollment for grade pupils will
begin at both north and south ward
In the previous Humble price schools at 9 a. m. Monday, Septem-
structure oil of 40 gravity brought ber 5. Junior high school registra-
the top price in the field. Gray tion is also set for that day. All pu-
county and Wheeler county crude pils whose families live north of the
of 40 gravity was posted at $1.08 Rock Island railroad will enroll at
cents per barrel. Any oil above that, the north ward and those living
gravity brought the same price. Un- ; south of the track at the south
der the new schedule the top price! ward,
is $1.18. This is for oil of 45 gravity
and higher. This price is effective
in Gray and Wheeler counties. In
Carson and Hutchinson counties
the top was $1.03 for top of 40 and
above gravity. The top for these
two counties now is $1.13 for 45
and above gravity.
The Humble Company is taking
22,000 barrels of Panhandle oil at
this time.
There is no way to tell Just how Raymond Waters, Wheeler court'
much of the Panhandle production ty sheriff, and Mrs. Waters, were
the tip-up in price will affect. Most: among the 500 peace officers from
of the sweet, high gravity oil comes over the state who were present to
from the granite wash areas of Amarillo for the opening session to-
SHERIFFS GATHER
FOR CONVENTION
OVER 506 PEACE OFFICERS
FROM OVER STATE HEAR
SPLENDID PROGRAM
DOROTHY JO CLARK
TAKES DUNNING EXAM
Mrs. Cabot Brannon, Dunning
piano instructor, and her senior pu-
pil, Miss Dorothy Jo Clark, made a
aein new oem m«i, win uereareu trip to Amarillo Saturday to order
by Ed Gossett of Wichita Falls by for Miss Clark to take her examina-
2,297 votes. I tion in Senior Dunning Theory.
w _____________ Representative McFarlane said Miss Clark made a grade of 94 1-4,
go to each county and district and | there was a nation-wide move on an exceptionally high record. She
to notlfv countv Judges as soon as the part of the Republican party had previously taken her piano ex
to notify county judges . ^ ^ to the new dea!.. ln ^iTtec- amlnatlon, winning a high award
tax Hons where a new deal supporter from the West Texas Grading com-
was running.
TO MEET AT PAMPA
The Gray-Wheel Union of Me-
thodist young people, will hold their
next meeting at Pampa, Wednes-
day Sept. 7, starting at 8 o’clock
p» m.
The Mobeetie group will be to
charge of the worship program and
all members of the various young
people's organizations ln this divi-
sion are urged to be present.
EARTH (7uAkVsHAKES
LOS ANGELES AREA
day of the annual convention of the
Texas Sheriffs' Association.
Highlights of today’s program in-
cluded registration at 8 o’clock this
morning, address of welcome by
Mayor Ross Rogers, talk cm “Liquor
Control Board’s Relation to Law En-
forcement Officers,” by Bert Fort
of the Liquor Control Board, and
a open floor discussion of problems
confronting peace officers.
This afternoon Hon. Tom Con-
nally, United States Senator, gave
an address followed by a talk from
practicable so the payments can be
considered to setting county
rates.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.—A
strong earthquake shook Los An-
geles at 7:21, Pacific standard time,
last night.
The shock, a swaying east-west
motion lasting severs! seconds, was
felt ln downtown Ios Angeles and
more heavily ln the harbor district
and beach cities. No damage waa re-
| ported.
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Fage 2)
THOMPSON COULD NOT
TAKE TECH POSITION
AUSTIN, Aug. 8l.~Col. E. Q.
Thompson, Texas Railroad Commis-
sioner, Tuesday said that "I could
not accept” If the presidency of
Texas Technological College were
offered him.
“Newspaper articles suggesting
that regents are considering my
name have been called to my at-
tention,” Colonel Thompson said.
“Naturally I am flattered and com-
plimented. I desire, however, to say
that even if ihU position should be
offered to ma—which it has not—X
could not accept It*
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