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| Board Member Urges
I Investigation of
, 'Outside Influences'
By United Press.
■ HOUSTON, March 16.—A row
over a new outbreak of self-
mutilations of convicts got into
full swing todsy to plague admin-
Miration of the far-flung Texas
prison system.
The latest development was a
demand today by Dr. C. W. But.
ler Jr., of Crockett, member of
the State Prison Board, for a leg-
islative investigation of the peni-
tentiary administration.
A dozen maimings of Incorrigi-
ble convicts since Feb. 15 were
reported on Eastham Prison Farm
in Houston County in a statement
this week by General Prisons
Manager O. J. S. Ellingson at
Huntsville.
j ‘ Fort Worther Involved
Also, Joe Roades of Fort Worth,
former Eastham convict, and
State Sen. Gordon Burns of
Huntsville verified a report yea-
terday by Capt. A. N. Owen of
Blue Ridge Farm that Burna had
represented Roades, for a $50 fee
in restoring the former convict's
credits to his record.
• I . Burns said the Roades case was
■ | he first he ever handled.
J I Dr. Butler said he wanted a leg-
■ 1 slative committee to investigate
J| outside influences’ in connection
with the handling of convicts'
■ vertime credits.
Probes Urged Before
"I have tried repeatedly to get
• I . legislative investigation of the
prison system, but thus far have
ailed,” Dr. Butler said.
Dr. Butler said he wanted an
Full of Ideas
The idea la—well, the idea la
that that umbrella la made of
paper which can be cast aside
when soiled, and replaced for
only ten cents. On the young
womans feet are non-slip ice
slippers. On her right hand is
a reflector glove for motorists.
These were new gadgets exhib-
ited by the Inventors of Amer-
ica at their Kansas City, Mo.,
convention.
investigation comprehensive
nough to show whether all eligi-
ble inmates received equal oppor-
tunities for clemency.
Captain Owen was transferred
from Eastham to Blue Ridge on
Feb. 15. According to Ellingson, a
series of convict self-mutilations
occurred through chopping of
feet, cutting of heel tendons and
the breaking of arms and legs.
Coffee Received in Fields
Ellingson said that Captain
Owen had established a custom of
brewing coffee in the fields twice
Arrested Georgia
Governor Adamant
May Keep Troops at
Road Chief's Office
Despite U. S. Action
daily and had assigned certain
convicts to special jobs around
Eastham kitchens and
tories.
Capt. J. J. Oliver, the new East-
ham manager, abolished the cof-
fee custom and eliminated special
kitchen and dormitory details
under approval of Ellingson.
Immediately, the series of
maimings occurred. Captain Owen
denied the coffee custom,
see
ATLANTA, Ga., March 16. —
____.___Gov. E. D. Rivers returned to the
dormi- capital today under technical fed-
eral arrest for contempt of court
. as the result of his fight for Geor-
gia's sovereign rights" and his
own right to use the National
Guard to oust W. L. Miller, chair-
man of the State Highway Com-
mission.
“I’m still governor of Georgia,”
he said as he arrived from Ma-
‘Mind Slayer ITALY HOLDS HOPE FOR PEACE,
Loses Fight 1444- i Y “ Y 1 4X84 *409
For Freedom
Convicted Here As
Robber, Whiteside
Won't Appeal Case
. Thomas F. Whiteside, the Hous-
ton lawyer and “mental slayer"
who turned writer during his 13-
year stay in the penitentiary, lost
his fight for freedom here today
when Judge Max M. Rogers of
Huntsville denied his plea for a
writ of habeas corpus and re-
manded the prisoner to state
prison authorities.
BUT ALLIES SHAKE THEIR HEADS
Air View of Oklahom a’s Controversial Dam
Rome Hint Comes
As Welles Talks
I With the King
s By UNITED PLSS
Whiteside, keenly disappointed 1
by the decision, questioned court 1
attaches about the cost of appeal-1 1
ing hia case, then indicated he | |
1
: |
OTHERS PAID $50,
SAYS EX-CONVICT
Joe Rhodes, former convict, to-
day confirmed details of a trans-
iction by which he paid a $50 fee
o Gordon Burns, state senator
and Huntsville attorney, to gain
Freedom Dec. 8 from Eastham
’risen Farm. -
Rhodes, now a night cook in a
W. Weatherford cafe, named a
Waco ex-convict, who obtained hia
release under similar circum-
stances with Burna' help.
The 350 fee was paid to At-
torney Burns, who is chairman of
he Senate's penitentiary commit-
tee, to have credit restored for
overtime work on prison jobs,
Rhodes said.
Wrote Other Attorneys, Too
The Fort Worth man said he
sought Burns' help after letters
which he (Rhodes) wrote to five
other attorneys from within the
penitentiary failed to reach their
destination.
“I know what happened to the
otters—they were opened, read
and never mailed from the prison
camp," he charged.
“It’s common knowledge among
convicts that Burna la the best
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That I Haven't Got?
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con, where he was arrested last
night on the stage of the City Au-
ditorium at the conclusion of a
Georgia Educational Assn, meet-
ing.
Wins His Release
He had been held prisoner for
an hour by United States Mar-
shal B. E. Doyle, and released on
his own recognizance when he
promised, after considerable argu-
ment, to appear next Friday be-
fore Federal Judge Bascom Dea-
ver and explain why he ignored a
federal injunction against inter-
fering with Miller.
The federal action was brought
by Miller, who twice in the past
two months had been dragged
from the vicinity of the state
highway chairman's office by na-
tional guardsmen, four of whom
were still guarding the office to-
day. .
Will Keep Troops Posted
Still in conference with legal
advisers In the State House long
after midnight, the governor indi-
cated that the troops would stay
where they were despite his ar-
He had fired Miller, his em-
ploye. last December after a
quarrel over the financial opera-
tions of the Highway Department,
which spends $22,000,000 a year,
half the state's Income Rivers
also had charged that Miller waa
using the office to promote him-
self aa a candidate for governor,
activity.
Penalty Assessed On
Tardy U. S. Taxpayers
Delinquents trickled in with In-
come tax returns today but they
were several hours late. Begin-
ning at midnight the Government
began assessing a 5 per cent in-
crease on their payments.
George Addison, deputy collec-
tor in charge of the local office,
estimated a 33 per cent increase
in the number of returns filed.
The new law which placed govern-
ment employee and school teach-
ers on the taxable list accounts in
a large measure for the increase,
he said.
A staff of 10 worked until mid-
night, accepting returns.
Ex-Gov. Ferguson
Joins Third Term Body
By United Press. 1
AUSTIN, March 16.—A tempo-
rary Roosevelt third-term organi-
sation which founders expect to
make state-wide has been set up
here with former Governor James
E. Ferguson, former Secretary of
State Edward Clark and Mayor
Tom Miller among its leaders.
would drop his fight.
The writ denial was predicated |
on a higher court ruling that the
prisoner not take advantage of his
right to appeal at the time he
was convicted here of burglary,
theft and robbery.
The 38-year-old man convicted
in the "mental-slaying" of his
wife in 1927 turned lawyer at the
hearing here, claiming that he is
being held in prison illegally. He
questioned witnesses, argued the
law and made hia own appeal to
the judge.
Hits Sentence Legality
Whiteside attacked legality of
the 20-year robbery sentence "for
the reason that it was assessed on
the same set of facts introduced
in the burglary and theft convic-
tions which preceded it."—
He said he pleaded guilty to one
set of facts and "they carved four
cases out of them." The robbery
conviction was invalid, he argued,
because it followed the others.
In Criminal District Court here
in June, 1933, he pleaded guilty as
charged and was given 12 years
each on two robbery counts, 10
years for theft and 20 years for
robbery. The first three were con-
current with the 20-year term.
Claims Term Completed
Whiteside claims he already has
served the "legal” term of 12
years, counting overtime credit.
In his petition, ha charged that
the Fort Worth sentence and the
Houaton murder sentence were to
be concurrent. He said Tarrant
County officials had promised him
consideration because he foiled an
attempted jail break engineered
by the late Raymond Hamilton,
notorioua desperado.
But today, he learned that his
pleadings must be restricted to
what happened at the trial, ao he
hinged hia caae on the law.
Worked 2 Years On Case
“I've spent nearly two years
combing law books and talking to
lawyers about thia case,’he told
newsmen.
In examining witnesses. White-
aide frequently stopped to apolo-
gize for halting tactics.
“I’m feeling my way,” he said.
T ’When you’ve been in The peniten-
tiary 13 years you get stale.”
The bronzed prisoner appeared
in excellent physical condition,
despite his long confinement. He
said he wanted hia freedom most
of all, then he plans to devote hia
full time to writing..
Dubbed “Mental Slayer”
He is known as the "mental
slayer,” having been convicted of
causing hia wife to Jump from a
second-floor window of her apart
ment in 1927,
But he gained equally promi-
nent notoriety for having re-
moved nearly 1000 years from fel-
low convicts’ sentences by forger-
les he committed as a clerk in
the prison record office.
"I called it 900 years in a story
I wrote and sold," he recalled
here today.
Whiteside was brought here by
S. E. Barnett, superintendent of
printing at the Penitentiary.
‘Remember
Alamo’ New
Safety Cry
MeALLEN, March 16. — Texas'
thriving lower Rio Grande Val-
ley, accommodating an increasing
automobile traffic on its high-
ways, had a new safety slogan to-
day—"Remember Alamo.”
Coined by a Harlingen newspa-
perman, the phrase reminded mo-
torists of the state’s worst train-
truck accident, ths deaths of 27
fruit pickers Thursday near
ths little town of Alamo.
While inspectors of ths Inter-
state Commsrss Commission
pushed a new investigation into
the tragedy, ministers of ths cit-
rus area announced they would
aak for public donations to erect
a monument to the memory of
those killed in the grade crossing
crash.
Rev. M C. Ehlert, Baptist mis-
sionary among the valley's Latin-
American population, said an in-
terdefominational memorial serv-
ice for the victims would be held
tomorrow.
“The monument will Impress
valley people that a horrible ca-
lamity can happen here and will
warn motorists to be careful,” be
said.
Fifteen injured still were being
treated in a McAllen hospital.
Three remained m critical condi-
An air view of the $20,000,000 Grand .River dam. Today national guard officers represented Oklahoma Gov. Leon Phillips at the
dam site where workmen were completing the structure and where technical martini law exalted. Gov. Phillips is seeking damages of
$850,000 from the dam authority and PWA. Circle la the location of the powerhouse and the final arch in the face et the structure.
“A” designates point where water will begin to back up In reservoir. “B" marks downstream side. Arrow points to parked automobiles.
GOP Okehs $5000 Hey, Fellows, Tomorrow Is Small Nations May
Hatch Bill Limit Kids’ Day at Stock Show
European interest centered to
day on Sumner Welles and the
possibility that a “peace drive"
might result from hia quest for in-
formation on behalf of President
Roosevelt ia Rome, Berlin, Paris
and London.
A hint of such a possibility was
contained in an editorial in the
new spaper Corriere Padana of
Ferrara, owned by Marshal Italo
Balbo, which said peace in Europe
still in possible because the war
has not yet entered a decisive
phase.
The editorial waa issued aa
Welles rounded out his Euro-
pean tour by talks with King
Victor Emmanuel, Foreign Min-
ister Count Galeazzo Clano and
Premier Benito Mussolini.
While Welles waa talking with
Clang at Chigt Palace, the German
am bassador, Hana Georg von
Mackensen, arrived at the palace.
It had been reported that
Welles, while in Berlin, had asked
Adolf Hitler to write out his peace
terms, and diplomats circles at
once suggested that Mackensen
might have delivered the terms to.
Welles. The latter would have
had time to peruse them before
seing Mussolini this afternoon. It
ia believed Welles, who waa re-
calved by the Pope during his
first stop in Rome, will be given
another audience tomorrow.
As the “peace drive” rumors
floated, London and Paris con-
tinued to make It clear that a
peace with Hitler is out of the
question. The French Senate is
sued en seder of the day in-
durstag the Government’s plan
tu continue the war te a “com-
plete victory” and that France
would reject any “peace plans”
which might be spur forth
through Italy.
Two interesting developments
arose indicating some “wishful
thinking” in the attitude of the
Rome-Berlin axis toward the
United States.
Italian circles suggested that
the United States and Italy might
be drawn “closer together” by
Welles visit, and Premier Benito
Mussolini’s newspaper, Popolo
D’Italia, hinted that the European
war might estrange the United
States and Britain. It argued
that the Allies will not fight but
insist on “devastating world econ-
omy" in effecting the ruin of
Germany, which the United States
does not like. ___
In Berlin, the official news
agency distributed an Amster-
dam dispatch saying that rela-
lions between Joseph P. Ken-
nedy. United States ambassador,
and Britain had become strain-
ed. The dispatch alleged that ; *
Kennedy. In a confidential re-f
port to Washington, said among
other things that the Allies had
blundered aad could not win the
war on the Western t rout. But
in Washington See. of State
Cordell Hull vigorously denied
the allegation.
There were diplomatic stirrings •
from Rumania, where the Govern
ment began releasing pro-Naz.
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Standardize Arms
Sweden, Finland and
Norway Could Then *
Interchange Weapons
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March
Second Free Gate For Children Under 12 Due
To Attract Record Crowd at the Rodeo
Hey, kids, here’s good newel
Tomorrow will be Kids' Day again at the Fat Stock Show, with
a free gate to all children under 13 both day, and night. Manager John
B. Davis announced today, 16. Sweden, Norway and Finland
That will make two for the children thla year. Yesterday, with would co-ordinate their gun sail-
_________________________... _ school closing at noon, they------------------------
nest T. Weir, the steel magnate jammed the grounds like sardines, .
who is chairman of the Republic 80 elerm’y packed that there waa Hinuernn W at IC
can National Finance Committee, a waiting line most of the day at TUUSIUTI
today okehed the Republican sen- the rides on the Bill Haines lot.
ators who voted Thursday for a On the basis of advance ticket 01 LL J A n al.
$5000 limit on individual contribu-sales the rodeo tonight and tomor- TOmOn TH 1021
tiona to national campaign funds, row should go to record crowds. OLGIUGU LU UuUUl
The limitation is contained in ”11:55” Back in Form
However, Chairman of
Finance Committee
Points Out a Flaw
By FRED w. PERKINS
Scripps-Howard News Alliance Writer
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Er-
liras, munitions and equipment un-
der their proposed defensive alli-
ance, it was forecast today, so
that all their weapons would be
interchangeable for mutual de-
fense.
"Hatch bill No. 2." to be voted on At last night’s performance the
Monday by the Senate, much publicized brone. Five Min-
By telephone from New York, utes to Midnight, twice ridden in
Mr. Weir answered Washington this show, won back some of his
inquiries by saying: . . .notoriety by tossing Gale Ander-
"Thia will be all right with the son of idaho for a double somer-
Republican party .. sault
'If the Congress believes that The Five will come out at the
campaign contributions should be tomorrow night championship
limited to $5000 from an individ- show. Ten of the top brone bust-
era will draw for him, and the
- wa ia lucky (?) will stake
hia chanca at the champ’s crown
by trying to make a 12-second
ride on the black.
ual, certainly the Republican Par-
ty will abide by that decision and " A
scrupulously .live up to it."
Mr. Weir also called attention
to an apparent flaw in the Bank-
head amendment to the Hatch
bill, which contains the $5000 lim-
Hal Peterson of Kerrville took
a big ahare of awards in the
said, ap-Palomino class of horse judging
pears to have been “carelessly Friday, his stallion Pleasant King
constructed and as a matter of being made champion. Champion
fact seems intended to defeat the mare in the class was shown by
the J. A. Humphrey of .Dallas.
Wins Stallion Championship
In the stock horse division King
itation.
The amendment, he
avowed purpose by lifting
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Grand Jury Panel
Chosen For April
Ranch exhibited the champion
Former Employe is
Held; Victim Had
Just Sold Restaurant
By United Press.
HOUSTON, March 16.- George
Williamson, 38, restaurant men.
returned today to a barbecue
stand he had just sold, an argu-
ment ensued and he waa stabbed
to death with a 16-inch butcher
knife.--:----------------------------
Cruising Patrolmen V. H. Knox
and H. L. Case drove up to the
stand as Williamson staggered
out, holding his right side.
"You had better call an ambu-
lance,” Williamson aaid. “I'm cut
pretty bad.”
Williamson collapsed and died
in an ambulance en route to a
hospital
A counterman and former em-
ploye of Williamson for four
years was arrested and placed in
city jail.
Peace Justice Tom Maes re-
Under a common standard
agreement, any arms factory could
produce weapons for any of the
three armies, and any repair ahop
could recondition arms or equip-
ment. Thus if one production area
were affected by war, production
for all three armies could be con-
tinued at all other factories.
Couldn’t Aid Finland
The importance of standardiza-
tion waa shown by the fact that
up to the present Finnish guns are
of Russian calibres. This waa an
advantage In the early <lays of the
Russo-Finnish war, when the
Finns were capturing large quanti.
ties of war materials. But when
the tide turned and Sweden’s aid
was needed, Sweden had to send
rifles, artillery and anti-aircraft
guns along with any ammunition
It gave the Finns. The Finns need-
ed the munitions more than they
did the weapons.
Particularly as regards Sweden.
It was proposed that there should
be permanent collaboration be-
tween general staffs and It waa
forecast that each country, if the
alliance came into effect, would
confide its defense plans fully to
the others.
Would Fill Orders Quickly
Orders by one country for war
materials from another would get
priority, it was forecast, and tech-
nicians would be exchanged.
Sweden and Norway already
have decided upon big rearmament
programs.
Swedish Foreign Minister C. E
Guenther, discussing plans for a
defensive alliance, told the United
Press that Sweden agreed to ne-
gotiate only after It had been
agreed that the aliance would be
specifically defensive and opera-
tive only in caae of aggression
against one of the signatories.
There would be no "preventive ac-
tion,” at the request of a member
which thought its security men-
faced, he sake--—*
Billy’s Bull Pun Gets
In Jam; Who’ll Help?
stallion, while the top mare was
shown by Eustace Harris of Pur-
mela. Red Rooster, entry of S.
B Burnett Estate, waa champion turned an inquest verdict of mur.
thoroughbred. 1 an inquest Xerol or mur
First steps to organize the
granu jury panes or 16-5 - .
of whom will sit as Tar- American Quarter * Horse Assn.
~ taken last night when
breeders of eight states met at
A new grand jury panel of
men, 12 - -.------ — - .
rant County grand jurors during were
the April term, was chosen today
by a commission composed of
A. G. Rosser, J. B. McElroy and
Clyde A. Penry.
Members of the panel are:
George P. Carter, Saginaw; Tom
M Bailey, 912 W. Broadway; Ger-
ald P. Redmond, 2119 Mistletoe
Blvd ; W. L. Trimble, 1704 N
Sylvania; Thomas R High, 3038
Jennings; Claude D. Hamilton.
713 Sycamore; W. A. Jarrett, 3304
Jennings; E. W. Coonrod, 928
Lipscomb.
John P. Greene, 5035 Norma;
Robert Williams, Kennedale; J. H
McKinney, 3433 Meadowbrook;
Claude Wilkerson, 3109 Hill Crest;
D. B. Powell. 944 E. Jessamine:
J. F. Smith, 4010 Mattison, Cliff
W. Magers, 2333 Marigold, and
K. W Shedd, 222 W. Broadway.
the Fort Worth Club. The group
plans to collect and record pedi-
grees of the American quarter-
horse and publish a stud book. A
meeting for the purpose of elect-
ing officers will be held in Hous-
ton March 29, with W. B War-
ren of Hockley as chairman.
Angus Assn. to Meet
The Texas Aberdeen - Angus
der. Police Homicide Capt. George
Peyton said that the prisoner ad-
mitted the atabbing and that
C. M. Holland, a customer, wit-
nessed the affray.
The suspect told Captain Pey-
ton that Williamson quarreled
with Miss Hally Bowlin after
drinking beer at the stand and
that he had tried to stop the dis-
pute.
"I knew Williamson generally
carried a gun, ao I reached behind
me and grabbed the butcher
knife, he aaid.
THE WEATHER
roar WORTH AND VICINITY -
Fair tonight, minimum temperature
near 45 degrees. Sunday partly cloudy,
maximum near 80 degrees
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th merid-
lan). — Fair to partly cloudy tonight
sad Sunday slightly warmer la south
portion tonight except upper coast.
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th merid-
ian).Fair tonight and Sunday Not
much change ia temperature.
Barometric Pressure ..........29.42
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
Time- YearAgo Yes day Today
12 Midnight.....44
2 a. m. ......41
Sam. ........M
6 a m. ........N
7 a ■. -----ah
1 %
61
45
48
45
#
53
60
64
$
11
78
#
72
54
Sun rises tomorrow 8:37;
Assn. announced that It will hold
Ite first state field day July 38 .
at the ranch of Mrs. Lee 0. Gow- Telewaro Drennare
dy near Jac kaboro A special 1 UCId H d IC II ISUI ICTS
business meeting of the group will |
be heta at that time. Civon 101 achoc Cash
Better prices prevailed in this UIVCIT IU LdSNES LOCTT
year’s registered Angua Mie at-*
the Stock Show. With 49 ani-By United Press
mals auctioned an average of WILMINGTON, Del, March 16.
$246.09 was obtained for the bulls Eight men were given a total of 1
and $176 for the cows. Top price 80 lashes In the courtyard of the i
was $620 for General 28th of Lon-New Castle County Workhouse
jac, consigned by Lonjac Farm, itoday in the biggest demonstra-
Use's Bummit, Mo., and aold
Maemor Farm, Mentors, Pa.
to
Governor Wires Regrets
Gov. Lee O'Daniel this morning
wired regrets that he would be
unable to attend the Stock Show
tion in modern times of this form
of punishment that has corns
down from colonial times.
As a driving sleet and snow-
storm swirled about them, the
Billy's dog was in the pound
today, and Pound Officer C. L.
Howard was scratching his head
and hoping someone comes to
Billy’s rescue
Four days ago the brindle bull
up—nine months old strove
men were led in pairs, stripped to up me monus on su-ven
the waist and ehackled to the an- 'rom the home where Billy lives
cient. whipping post, with their with his perents. Mr. snd Mrs
today.
However, he sent along two
pairs of silver spurs which tonight hands and arms above their heads Claude Calvin, 2614 Roren.
will be presented to John B. Da- task —44—* 14 aal 4-----------* "
vis, show secretary-manager. and
Verna Elliott, in charge of rodeo
stock.
Each man received 10 lashes at
the hands of Warden Elwood H.
A mounted square dance team
from Throckmorton was rehears-
ing today for a performance to-
morrow night in the rodeo arena.
The team does its dance on horse-
back, keeping time to music.
Wilson, as his deputy. Thomas
Wheatley, counted off the number.
SEIZE SLOT MACHINES
Delaware is one of the few
states in which this form of cor-
poral punishment has survived.
All those whipped were convict-
ed of robbery and holdup charges
and were given additional prison
sentences besides the lashing.
Eithty-five persons witnessed
The dor-entaher n’c’e the dog.
up, and now the youthful master,
a newspaper carrier boy. Is wor-
ried because he hasn’t the S3 to
"bail out” Ma playmate.
“We won’t kill the dog,” said
Mr. Howard. “We’ll keep him
until somebody helps Billy raise
the money."*
BIRTH IS ANNOUNCED
Mr and Mrs. W’l am T. Sne-
bold, 1295 Univer“ D. an-
nounce the birth of a son. Wil-
. the lashings in the ancient court-
" Police today held five slot ma- yard. Altho > ' ge red welts
chines seized by vice officers on rose on the bare backs of the de-
Hemphill and the North and East fendants. Warden Wilson did not
x Sides. Officers blame the ban on draw Mood in his repeated, stiff-
" the machines in adjoining states armed strokes with a cat o’nine
a for the recent influx here. talls. IVirgit Clower, 2256 Fifth Ave.
Vam Thomas Snecoldi III, Thurs-
day in All Saints Hospital Mrs.
Snebold is the former Miss
Cwright Clower, daughter of Mrs.
Stock Show
Program
SATURDAY
Brownwood, American
Legion, Throckmorton Day
1:00 p. m. Band Concert.
2:00 p. m —Rodeo and Horse
Show.
4:30 p. m.—Free Midway
Arts. “1940” Gaieties”
at the Silver Spur 7
7 00 p. m.— Band Concert.
8:00 p. m - Rodeo and Horse
Show, Throckmorton
Mounted Square Dane-
ers. Parade of Horses,
All Breeds Repre-
sented.
10:30p.m.—Free Midway
Acts. “1940 Gaieties"
at the Silver Spur.
SUNDAY
—beymour, Eleetra, SMI Cham-
pionship Day at the Rodeo
and Horse Show.
9:00 a m. All South-
vest Roundup at the Silver
Spur.
1:00 p. m.—Eand Concert.
2:0V p. m. — Rodeo and
Horse Show, Throckmorton
Mounted Square Dancers.
4:30 p. m.—Free Midway.
Acts. “1940 Gaieties" at the
Silver Spur.
8:00 p.m. - Finals in the
World Championship Rodeo
and Horse Show. Throek-
me to' Perete "- "cre K
10:1 ron
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Awards.
10:30 p.m.Free Midway 1
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 143, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 16, 1940, newspaper, March 16, 1940; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685456/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.