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PAGE 10
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THE FORT WORTH PRESS
* Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1939
1 L.owns
| a Represented
an Skate Finals
. II Suburban Skaters
I ; Remain In Amateur
Derby Competition
■ The small rural towns will be
well represented in the amateur,
roller skating championships Tues-
day and Wednesday nights at the
| Roller Derby.
■ No less than 11 boy and girl
I skaters from the county towns
[ have advanced to the final rounds
in sectional competition last week
• Roller Derby officials at first
limited the races to Fort Worth,
but interest spread so rapidly that
the entire county was finally in-
: eluded.
L. Crowley and Handley each
1 share honors in placing the most
skaters in the finals. Each have
. four, Crowley three boys and one
girl; Handley, two girls and two
i ’boys.
One of the Handley girls, Ruel
' Jeanette Barron, a pretty blond, is
due to be up among the leaders
I in the quarter-mile race for girls
over 17. Her qualifying time,
65.4 seconds, was the fastest turn-
ed in by any girl last week. The
others will also bear watching.
The other representatives from
rural towns follow:
Crowley—Billy Hampton (be-
tween 15 and 17), and Reed Stew-
art Jr., (under 15), half mile for
boys; Howard Horn (over 17),
quarter mile for boys! Frances
Meadow (under 15), girls half-
mile.
Handley—Charles Saylor (un-
der 15), boys half-mile; J. L.
Wann (over 17), boys quarter-
mile; Dorothy Smith (over 17),
girls half-mile.
Haslet — Rust Noble Marion
(over 17)', boys half-mile.
Arlington—Jessie Burnie (be-
tween 15 and 17), boys quarter-
mile.
East of the city-Billy Bougie,
(under 15) Route 1, Box 13, boys
quarter-mile.
Tonight at the Roller Derby five
North Side football players will
-race five gridsters from Poly. The
Poly boys defeated Paschat last
Friday night. The North Side
team will be composed of J. D.
Vaughn, Barton Davis, Randolph
Maddox, James Wann, and’ Bill
McWhorter.
Meanwhile, 72 of the county's
crack skaters brushed up for the
grand finals which will be con-
ducted during the half intermis-
sions of the regular Roller Derby
races. All finalists will be ad-
mitted free and will sit in a spe-
cial trackside section while await-
ing their turn to skate.
The last group of qualifiers,
South Side hoys, follows:
East of Hemphill
One-Half Mile
Over 17—Rubon Jones, 21114 S Main
time one min., 43.4 seconds.
Between 15 and 17—Harold Force,
816 Boyce, time one min., 35.4 sec.
Under 15—Oscar Porter, 921 Bryan
time 2 min.. 7.2 ser.
quarter-Mile
Over 17—Harry Sandidge, 1257 E
Richmond, time 53.11 nec.
.Between 15 and 17—Jack Sanders,
101? Pennsylvania, time 57.2 sec
Under 15—Jimmy Porter, 921 Bryan
time 54.4 sec.
West of Hemphill
One-Half Mile
Over 17— W. C. Groom. 2528 Greene
and Harold Slaughter, 1308 Waggoman
(dead head), time one min., 44.4 sec.
Between 15 and 17- Billy Hampton,
Crowley, time one min.. 57.4 per
Under 15— Reed Stewart Jr., Crow,
ley, time 2 min. 2 sec
quarter-Mile
'Over 17—Howard Horn, Crowley
time 54.4 sec.
: Between 15 and 17—James Parrish,
3818 Frazier, time 54.8 sec.
Under 15—Bobby Rhodes, 808 Mason
time one min., 4.8 sec.
_1 TB DIRECTORS TO MEET
• Directors of the Fort Worth-
Tarrant County Tuberculosis So-
ciety will meet in regular month-
. ly business session for luncheon
in Room 106 of the Westbrook
Hotel at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow.
Stories in Stamps
CANADA
a §4
Asssce
SENT
al
Fur Traders Opened
Canada's Wheat Country
THE prairie Canada the British
• king and queen will see this
year was a barren wilderness just
100 years ago when the first white
explorer in the west, La Veren-
drye, camped one night at the
junction of the Assiniboine and
•Red rivers. But La Verendrye
saw the spot might prove impor-
tant in the future, so he erected a
crude fort.
It was not used, however, for
the fur traders were yet to come.
They arrived in a pack, some 68
years later. Two packs, in fact:
the Nor Westers of Montreal and
the Hudson's Bay company. Im-
mediately there was a bitter con-
test for the control of the west
and both companies built outposts,
Fort Gibraltar and Fort Douglas.
Then came Lord Selkirk, ag-
gressive head of the Hudson's Bay
company. It was Selkirk who
aw that the country opened by
he fur traders was a farming
-ountry as well, so from 1811-15
ie brought hundreds of settlers
into the fertile Red river valley
‘rom his native Scotland. And,
despite all manner of hardship
ind danger, they stuck it out.
The fur traders, meantime, car-
led their struggle to a bloody end
that brought the merger of the
Nor’Westers and the Hudson’s
Bay companies. With peace, Fort
Gibraltar was renamed Fort Garry.
It became a vital trading post and
settlers’ depot. Meanwhile, a set-
loment was growing up outside
the fort itself and the pioneers
called it Winnipeg, from the Cree
words. Win, meaning murky , and
Nipiy, water.
Thus Canada's plains were
opened. Old Fort Garry is shown
above oa a current Canadian
stamp.-----------------------
• SERIAL STORY
BORDER ADVENTURE
CAST OF CHARACTERS
BETTY MARY JORDAN— Pretty
young Border Patrol service secre-
Ury.
SHERIDAN STARR — Handsome
Border Patrol officer.
HOPE KILDAIRE — Starr’s fel-
low officer, also a bachelor.
LUIS BARRO — Mexican smug-
gler.
* * *
Yesterday: Betty admits to her-
self that she is more than inter-
ested In the two Border Patrol
officers. Meanwhile, they are look-
ing for Barro and In dlataat Mex-
ieo aliens are being smuggled up
to the border.
* **
CHAPTER IV
"WED better stake out the
VV horses over here and make
the rest of the way on foot,” Sher-
idan Starr suggested. “If we top
the next rise on horseback we
could be seen."
"Right,” agreed Hope Kildare.
“And make a fine rifle target.”
"Yeamp."
The two young officers made
their mounts secure with ropes
tied in a clump of scrubby desert
trees. There would be a few
mouthfuls to browse there as well
as concealment in daytime, the
men knew.
Each man then hooked a quart
canteen of water to his belt, and
a rolled.blanket containing a little
food was strapped military fashion
to each back. Cartridge belts were
already filled, pistols strapped' on.
Each removed a rifle from a sad-
dle holster and the two set out
afoot, moving almost silently in
the darkness. The night had only,
stars for guidance, and the threat-
ening black bulk of the mountains.
"San Felipe Canyon properly
begins six miles further up, where
the new paved highway skirts the
mouth of it," Hope remarked,
barely above a whisper now.
"That’s why aliens are begin-
ning to use it.. They can make it
up the canyon at night to the
highway, be picked up in cars and
be well on the way to Albuquerque
or Denver or some other inland
point by daybreak. See?"
“Sure. But it leads right on
down to the fence too, doesn't it ?"
“Yeamp. And there's where we
better wait. If we don’t nab 'em
soon as they cross the line they
may take a notion to scatter."
“Okay. How many you guess'll
be in the party, Sherry?”
"No tellin’. Betty Mary didn't
have the whole dope on |t.”
They ceased talking and began
moving now with the skill of long
practice, slowly, silently, as an In-
dian might go. Beyond the horizon
line dead ahead was San Felipe
Canyon.
TT was a small gorge, but its 300
feet or so of depth loomed for-
biddingly by night. Parts of its
walls were sheer; a man could
step over a rim and plunge to sure
death below. All of its was a
rocky, rugged terrain, touched
here and there by thorny cacti
which had to be sensed by the
.crawling men.
"Don't stick up your head,"
Hope warned his friend, unneces-
sarily, whispering right into his
ear. "Hump your blanket up
around your neck. It’ll-keep your
silhouette from looking like a
man. In case anybody should just
happen to be gazing at the sky-
line."..
"Right," Sheridan whispered.
They moved on all fours—put-
ting first their rifles forward, then
pulling up legs. If they had been
older men they would have real-
ized that this was much like re-
connoitering into. No Man's Land
in 1917, and indeed that’s about
what it was anyway They had
excellent reason to suspect that
five or maybe 25 desperate aliens
might be on the other side of this
ridge, and they knew any such
aliens would train hawk-like eyes
for the officers from El Paso. '
"Worst thing is," Hope whis-
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COPYRIGHT, 1939,
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"What'll we do, stick it out?”
“Guess so.”
Monopoly Committee
To Probe Oil Industry
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Apil 10.—The
petroleum industry has been se-
lected as the next object of inves-
ligation by the federal monopoly
They were putting themselves in
for a long, tedious task and they committee. Several of its leaders
knew it; but patience is truly have pledged their co-operation
golden if you are a border guard, committee chairman Joseph C.
They settled down behind their O'Mahoney, Democrat of Wyo-
rock and brush to wait until night
should fall again—12 long hours,
and then more vigil at night.
ming, announced last night.
O’Mahoney also announced a
Together they edged over the rim, straining their ears for the
first. st range sound, blood racing, muscles tensed for action.
pered once, "we didn't get the tip searched,
in time. We may be already too
late."
His concern over this heighten-
ed as more time passed. The two
men edged over the rim, hearing
nothing but a distant night bird, .
and worked their way down near
the narrow floor of the canyon.
They found a rock the size of an
automobile which could serve dou-
ble purpose—it shielded them from
the chill night breeze which raced
up the canyon, and it would be a
breastworks from possible bullets
too. They huddled beside it for a
long half hour, listening intently.
"If anybody's in this canyon
now,” Sherry whispered at last,
"They, .darn sure aren't moving.
The walls are so close we'd surely
have heard some sort of little
noise or echo.” ' >
“Right," agreed Hope. "But they
may come yet. If we aren't too
late getting here."
“I'm afraid we are. What time
is it, say?" . .
"It's past 2," Hope answered,
studying the stars. He had a
watch with luminous dial and a ,
carefully covering a
wide area.
"Maybe we weren't too late, but
too early,” Sherry said when they
had met again. "Not a sign of a
track, either horse's or man’s."
"Me either." Hope nodded.
They passed the time talking,
as only friends can. A lot of it was
business, and a very great deal of
it was about Betty Mary Jordan
and her unexpected appearance in
their lives, but they did not allow
the talk about her to get personal
Not a thing was said, all day,
about the fact that Sheridan Starr
already had asked her for a first
date. Both men sensed that such
talk might lead them to dangerous
ground.
Never for a moment' did they
imagine that she hadnt given
them an accurate tip. They knew
Mexican character, knew that
Barro might have planned to send
aliens over last night and then de-
cided to postpone the crossing.
They might have to wait several
nights, sending one man back to
care for the horses and to bring
additional provisions for them-
selves. Barro, and all Latins, are
like that; unhurried, changeable.
Sheridan and Hope had kept pa-
tient vigil before, were not un-
happy now, especially with
thoughts of Betty Mary to enter-
tain them.
They lay' low and slept some,
one at a time, during the day,
but at sundown both were alert
and on guard again. The second
night was much like the first;
lighted only by stars, silent and
clear and rather cold. From 7 to 9
o’clock the two men scarcely whis-
pered. At 10, Hope whispered,
"Needn't expect anything before
midnight," —and almost instantly
corrected that opinion.
Somewhere in the canyon, at
that moment, a rock went tum-
bling! A large, bounding pebble,
nearby.
Grasping his arm for silence.
Hope felt Sheridan Starrs big
muscles go tense beside him.
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 163, Ed. 1 Monday, April 10, 1939, newspaper, April 10, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688852/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.