Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 307, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1947 Page: 6 of 6
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Sweetwater Reporter; Sweetwater? Texas
Crazed Countryman
Kills The Italian
Minister To Sweden
ROME, Dec. 2ti, (UP)— The
Italian Minister to Sweden has
been stabbed to death at a gay
legation Christmas party by a
crazed l'e 11 ow-cou ntryman.
The legation affair was a fare-
well party for the 55-year-old
minister, Alberto Bellardo Ricci.
He had just received a promo-
tion and was about to take over
the job of Ambassador to Chile.
During the festivities, Ricci
was called into an ante-room to
talk to a fellow Italian. There
he found Giuseppe Capocci, a
mental patient on holiday leave
from a nearby asylum. Guests
say they heard Capocci ask for a
few minutes to display a new
invention, a pair of scissors with
detachable blades. Suddenly the
lunatic attacked Ricci, stabbing
him repeatedly with the scissors.
Capocci also wounded another
man who rushed to the aid of the
minister. Ricci died a short time
later.
The only vegetable which na-
tives of the South Seas will
cultivate is the yam.
after Christmas
CLEARANCE
SALE
STORE WIDE SALE ! !
Reductions from 20%
to 50% . . . many un-
advertised bargains . . .
shop early for best
buys!
dresses .
drastically reduced—
many up to . . .
Tailored and dressy types —
jrepes—woolens—gabardines —
all new fall and winter garments.
Reg. 12.95 Reg. 10.95 Reg. 19.95
6.99 6.99 9.99
%
suits...
drastically reduced —
many up to
Just a few! Tailored
dressy types.
Reg. 39.75 Reg. 34.75 -==-
29.99 24.99 2
coats...
drastically reduced —
many up to
Just a few! Assorted
types and colors.
Reg. 59.75 Reg. 39.75 -^=-
39.99 29.99 2
blouses,
drastically reduced—
many up to . . .
Choose from a wide variety of
styles—white colors — sequin
trims ... all grand values.
Reg. 2.98 Reg. 5.95 Reg. 8.95
1.99 3.99 5.99
• • • •
%
many other items
reduced 20 to 40 percent
WASH FROCKS
Just a few in large sizes.
Regular 5.95
3.49
SEPARATE SLACKS
Regular 7.95
4.99
ALL SALES FINAL!
ne refunds—no exchanges—no lay-aways
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Sweetwater
Winkler Offers Wrong
Person $3,000 To Do
Away With His Wife
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20, (UP) —«
Forty-seven- year- old# Chester
Winkler is in trouble with the
St. Louis police.
It seems Winkler offered po-
lice detective James Ogden $3,-
000 to liquidate Mrs. Winkler.
Winkler says the whole thing
is a case of mistaken identity.
He told police he thought Ogden
was an underworld character
he was supposed to meet.
According to police, Winkler
had arranged to meet "several
gangsters" at his hotel. They
say he mistook officer Ogden
for the gangster and invited
him to his room.
Ogden says Winkler offered
to pay him $3,000 to do away
with Mrs. Bessie Dale Winkler.
He says Winkler even drew a
sketch of the rooming house
where Mrs. Winkler lives and
described her in great detail.
According to the policeman,
Winkler was going to raise the
$3,000 by withdrawing his life
savings and selling his car.
At this point, Ogden excused
himself. But returned a few
minutes later with another
policeman and took Winkler in-
to custody.
The case will be turned over
to the prosecuting attorney.
DR. SMITH
(Continued From Page One)
two sons; Perrin Gary Smith,
Wynnewood, Pa. and Clyus Ga-
ry Smith, Colorado City. One
daughter; Mrs. Sam Baugh of
Rotan, and four grand children.
Funeral services were held at
10 o'clock Friday morning at
Rusk and final rites will be held
here Saturday morning at 10
o'clock at the First Presbyterian
Church. Pallbearers will be
Elders and* Deacons of the
church.
Wells Funeral Home will be
in charge of arrangements and
interment will be in the Sweet-
water Cemetery.
Life Insurance, Warden Boswell.
WJ.UQTI0N DAY, SATURDAY
NOW I KNOW
HOW'BURNED-UP'^
my newspaper-
boy must
feel about
&l0w-pays
HOME
Sheriff Posse Traps
Convict In Cabin
After Long Gun Fight
SAN ARIJO, Dec. 26, (UP)—A
Sheriff's posse has trapped an
escaped convict in a lonely ranch
cabin near San Ardo, California.
Sheriff Jack McCoy says 25-
year-old Eugene Earp, a con-
victed kidnapper, fought off the
posse with revolver and shot-
gun fire after his companion had
been captured and critically
wounded.
The posse has sent for tear
gas bombs to blast Earp out of
the heavily-fortified * building.
Earp's companion, 26-year-old
Herschel Grahm, is believed
dying from bullet wounds and
injuries received when the
fugutives, automobile crashed
afterafter a policeman shot off
its tires.
The posse caught up with the
convicts after a 300-mile all-
night chase up the California
coast.
Shortly after the flight from
the prison camp last night, the
convicts kidnapped Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Mertz of Brawley,
California, when the couple
stopped their car at a simulated
road block.
The convicts dumped Mertz
out of the car at Pala Junction,
near Vista, and warned Mertz
not to call police under threat
of death to his wife. Mrs. Mertz
was released unharmed near
San Miguel today. She reports
the two men stole another car
in Santa Maria and beat and
stabbed the driver.
Army Prosecutor
Amiwcr to Previous Ptisale
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VERTICAL
1 South Ameri-
can mammals
2 Secret
3 Minor
4 Enemy
3 Chemical
suffix
6 Grade
7 Horned
ruminant
8 Duration
9 Advertise-
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HORIZONTAL
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chief of Amer-
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prosecutors
abroad
14 Interstices
15 Fancy
16 Posture
17 Pair of horses
19 Pilaster
20 Belongs to it
21 Sequence
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54 Walk in water
55 Dreadful
56 White lead
58 Stoats
60 Natural fats
j61 Withdraws
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sloth
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22 Achievement
25 Startle
27 Location
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FRENCH
(Continued From Page One)
000,000 the new Schuman pro-
gram proposes to raise.
Schuman made one other
move towards economic health.
He got permission from par-
liament to fire 150,000 govern-
ment employees. Foreign cor-
respondents say this is only a
drop in the bucket, that France
needs to fire 1,000,000 govern-
ment workers and force them
into her undermanned industries.
For many years now, France
has had the most overmanned
and inefficient government de-
partments in the world. The av-
erage Frenchman's idea of hea-
ven is a "respectable" govern-
ment which gives him a little
social standing, a little author-
ity to strut over, and practically
no work to do.
To cut off all these unneeded
officials and government work-
ers would take far more courage
than any French politician has
ever shown.
Next, France suffers from a
disastrous military situation
which is eating up one-third to
half her budget. The colonial
wars in Indo-China and Mada-
gascar are far more costly to
her than the outside world
realizes. Yet no post-war French
government in the colonial con-
ditions. Indeed, the prospects
are for worse troubles in Indo-
China, and there is danger of
an even more costly colonial
war breaking out in North Af-
rica.
PRE INVENTORY SALE
END OF YEAR CLEARANCE
3 Counters of Merchandise at
i PRICE
JACKSON'S
318 Oak
YOUR GIFT AND TOY CENTER
Sweetwater
Phone 846
Coke Stevenson
To State New Year
Day Senate Plans
Ex-Governor Coke Stevenson
will take to the air waves on
New Year's Day to broadcast ov-
er a Statewide radio hookup an
announcement concerning the
1948 United States Senate cam-
paign. His address is expected
to settle the question of wheth-
er or not he will make the race.
Stevenson, prominently men-
tioned as a probable candidate
for junior Senator, will speak
Thursday at 11:45 a. m. from
Austin.
The former governor, subject
of a biography published early
this month, stated some months
ago that he would announce
his intentions regarding the Sen-
ate race around the first of the
year. He has been making pub-
lic appearances over the State
and, according to the biography,
has received thousands of letters
from Texans urging him to be-
come a candidate for the Senate.
Charges Hurled That
Indian Starvation
Is Much Over-Rated
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UP^
—The government's Indian bu
reau is charged with over-exag
gerating reports of starvatior
among Navajo Indians to se-
cure 80,000,000 more in govern-
ment funds.
The head of the Ganado, Ari-
zona, Mission and Sage Memor-
ial Hospital, Dr. C. G. Salsbury
says the Indians need educatior
(not canned food) and used
clothing.
Salsbury asks that the Nava-
jos be removed from the juris-
diction of the Indian Bureau. Hf
says the Navajos have only thf
usual run of needy cases. He say?
their way of life is primitive
and only education can accom-
plish what the Indian bureau
claims it must do.
MASSOCKS
Beautiful Leatherette Hassocks that
are Excelsior Filled. Assorted Sizes,
Shapes, and Colors.
$$.95 to $13.95
ACCIDENT
(Continued From Page One)
Thelma King, 20, and Alvin
King, 23, of Roscoe. In the Hoff-
man vehicle was Calvin Critz,
21 of 905 Haskell, Sweetwater.
It is reported Soules made a left
turn in front of Hoffman. Critz
is in Sweetwater Hospital with
broken ribs and the two King
people were injured to ex-
tent of requiring treatment in
a Roscoe hospital.
Third accident reported by the
highway patrol happened Christ-
mas morning, 1:15 o'clock, two
miles east of Sweetwater, when
the car driven by Ralph A.
Shaffer of 201 East Arizona
overturned. Mr. Shaffer was
able to get out of the car, which
was badly wrecked, with only
minor injuries.
This morning at 8:00 o'clock,
Seale states, at Nine Mile Moun-
tain on the San Angelo Highway
Howard Allen House, 50, Fisher
County tax assessor-collector,
and Mrs. House collided with a
vehicle driven by John B. Crane,
21, 500 Cedar, Sweetwater. Oran
Ylaynard of 201 West Arkansas,
vas in the car with Crane.
Being blinded by the morning
sun* was given as reason for the
jollision, which was head-on.
Vlaynard had two teeth knocked
>ut, and Mrs. House had the
same injury. Cuts and bruises
vere sustained by the four per-
sons.
The house centipede is not
joisonous. Only the large tropi-
■al centipedes are venomous.
GOODFELLOWS
(Continued From Page One)
was raised for the Goodfellow
organization during the recent
campaign.
Forgay stated that in most in-
stances families receiving the
gifts were very appreciative and
had not the Goodfellow organi-
zation come to their rescue they
would have had little or nothing
for Christmas.
Late contributions to the Good-
fellow Fund, made as The Re-
porter went to press, includes
Ivan Scott $6, Texas Electric
Service Company $25 and P. L.
Ullom, $25.
Charlie Paxton, on behalf of
the Goodfellow Committee wish-
es to express thanks to every
person and organization that
helped fn the Christmas Cheer
help of the Goodfellows. Chief
A. C. Forgay wishes, also, to add
his thank,'< for every donation of
cash, food, toys and other gifts;
and expresses thanks to Rig Ed-
wards, who furnished a pick-up
to deliver the cheer packages.
Hard To Find Items
We Have Them
CIGARS
Factory Fresh, Any Kind
TOBACCO
In Cans, Any Kind You Want
CIGARETTES
Large Assortment
It pays to shop where you
find it . . .
Free Christmas Wrapping
MEYER'S
Pipes and Tobacco from all
over the world.
Next to Blue Bonnet Hotel
Give A Gift Of
Appreciation...
You Will Find a
Large Selection of
BOOKS and GIFTS
that are sure to
please anyone.
KAY'S
FURNITURE CO.
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STAR PIANOS
Mahogany and walnut finish-
ed pianos with direct action.
40 inches high.
New Records and Albums
Arriving Daily
Sweetwater Music
Shop *
117 W. Broadway Ph. 2681
JanjJJjL
Good News Of Clearance
Sale Of All Fall Merchandise
All of our late fall and
winter Suits, Coats,
Dresses, Blouses, Purs-
es, Hats, Robes and
Bedspreads are mark-
ed very low for real
values—some items re-
duced 1/2 their regular
prices.
SHORT
SERMONS
By
FRANK
SHEPHERD
Writing to the "saints which
are at Ephesus, and the faithful
in Christ Jesus", Paul says of
these saints they were: "of the
HOUSEHOLD of God." Ephe-
sians 1:1; 2:19. If the church is
the household of God then the
members of it—branches of it-
must of necessity be individuals
and not separate societies. The
contention that, Denominations
are "Branches of the church" is
denied by every illustration of
the church in the New Testa-
ment. The whole Denomina-
tional setup is as contrary to the
New Testament idea as day is
contrary to night.
Denominationalism is not only
unscriptural but it is unecono-
mic. it is divisive. It is a rever-
sion to nationalism. It is a re-
pudiation of the ideal of real un-
iversal brotherhood which is so
clearly taught as a fundamental
of membership in the Body of
Christ.
The confusion produced by de-
nominationalism leads the
church member to mistake his
zeal for his particular denomina-
tion for real religious zeal. We
CAN see alike. We WILL see
IT'S HEY, HEY...
v III ond HEARTHAPPY!
DON DeFORE
ANN HARDING
CHARLIE RUGGLES
VICTOR MOORE
GALE STORM
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News-Cartoon
Sun.-Mon.
BATTLES
A TOUGH
RACKET!
Brian
DONLEVY
Ann
BLYTH
lames
DUNN
alike if we will throw away the
religious teachings and practices
that originated with men, and
believe and do only that which
originated with God. Worship
with the Sweetwater CHURCH
OF CHRIST Lord's Day 10;5.r>
and 7. Corner of FOURTH AND
ELM. Paid Advt.
Government Agency"
Man Says Materials
To Become Abundant
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, (UP)
—A government official believes
building materials will be more
plentiful next year. J. W. FrA
lin, Assistant Federal Work!?
Agency Administrator, also be-
lieves construction costs are not
likely to rise.
He predicts that new building
will be six to nine per cent above
this year, for a total of more
than $13,500,000.
Follin forecasts a moderate in-
crease in home building and a
20 to 25 per cent jump in public
construction.
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