The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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ust Among
Us Boys!
The Amarillo Tent and Awning
company sent us word this morning
they would like to figure with us on
Sheaftlloon pants deal, in the event
we are unable to secure a pair from
either J. B. Clark or Harry Mundy.
are getting tired of reading
all these pioneer and old-
celebrations. Why in the Sam
| don’t some town throw a big
celebration in honor of the new-
comers and the strangers? They are
the Borgotten men and women —
these people who have lived in a
Aown or county only a few years.
Why, you’d think nobody amounted
to a darn who was unfortunate
euo&h to be born in East or South
Texas or in some other state, and
later to have moved out here.
* Personally, we are proud of all
! our fcitizens, the newcomers right
‘ along with the natives. But between
two If any credit is due any-
we say the newcomers are en-
to it as they came to this
ity by choice instead of happen-
Jto be bom here. Of course, we
MBS(Si>roud of the oldtimers who set-
tled; this country and suffered sac-
rifices, but don’t you think we should
^ilso be proud of our newer settlers
and our adopted sons and daughters
from other states? After all, It’s not
near as important how long a men
has been here as It is what he has
done since he has been here.
ime of these days we’re going to
ir a celebration in honor of
■H newcomers and strangers, and
: maybe offer some prizes to the new-
est? comers of the bunch. They will
probably go to some hobo who ar-
rived an hour or two earlier on a
freight train, but who cares? At least
Itpwould be a different kind of cele-
bration.
We say more power to you old-
Uaaers and also more power to you
•tpngers.
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If anyone is Interested in trying
“ cure clemency for any inmates
the state prison system, we are
tiorized to state that Emmett
Uoway. special investigator, for
i state board of pardons and pa-
will be In Amarillo on Tues-
July 6th, and will be glad tg
nt you an interview. He may be
ched at the district attorney’s
he proceeds of the benefit soft-
game last night were a little
appointing, only $37.28 being
d for the city milk fund. But
„o in charge wish to thank each
J everyone who contributed. They
pm to play another game In the
«r future to raise the balance of
(ids needed to supply milk the re-
minder of the summer.
regards the outcome of the
, we have compromised with the
,glc City people and agreed it
uld not be fair for either side to
the other side, now that the
,.ne Is over. It seems some of the
agic City people thought they were
Jng to play nine Innings and that
ithe reason they never got in there
hustled earlier. Anyway we are
ping to forget It, If they are.
And another thing we never knew
jtil today Is that If we should have
ppened to call up some people at
jgic City and talk to them about
at ball game, It would have cost
nuch a minute. And that would
Into money, the way we had
ired on talking at one time.
—JAUB ——
jfews item: Coca-Colas were serv-
fgs refreshments at a meeting of
? Shamrock chamber of oommerce
ctors this morning.
--JAUB-■
g^The chamber of commerce, by the
^pr, will be ready to announce plans
a big celebration within a few
rs. It’s going to be a big affair,
way those directors are talking.
■ JAUB
E. c. Hunter, the department store
n and champion peach grower of
i county, was arrested this mom-
by Deputy Sheriff Walter Da-
I for car theft. On account of his
ner good reputation, the deputy
riff let him off when he bought
the drinks for a crowd at the Comer
"Drug Store.
■8|Iunter admitted the theft; In
he was caught driving the stolen
which was a Buick, belonging
Ihester Tindall. But he had an
; that was good, considering he
Ight it up on the spur of the
.nt. It happens that Hunter
, a new Buick similar to Tln-
I and that fact added credence
|io Ms story.
" Bter claims he left his car
1 near Tindall’s car early this
and that by mistake he
sr must have gotten into Tindall's
tag it was his own. The
__ in the car and he drove
i to check up on some repair
“ > done on one of his rent
____ soon discovered his
l on Awe S)
QtoSH AMRDCK
NEA
NEWS
PICTURES
City
Edition
Phillip Murray ‘Liar’
VOL. 34
SHAMROCK. WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1937
NO. 41
Floating Power,
Italian Style
As Steel ‘Peace Parley’ Heard Effort Called ‘Futile’ AREA SWELTERS
AS THERMOMETER
HITS HIGH SPOTS
THIRTEEN DIE AS HEAT WAVE
MOVES EASTWARD FROM
PLAINS REGION
It’s fair and warmer with the
mercury hitting high thermometer
spots daily. High for Thursday was
104 degrees at four o’clock p. m„
Lone Star weather charts show.
At 7 a. m. this morning the tem-
perature was 80 degrees; 8 a. m.,
84 degrees; 9 a. m., 86 degrees; 10
a. m., 89 degrees; 11 a. m., 92 de-
grees; noon, 96 degrees and at 1
p. m„ 97 degrees.
Far from their goal of settlement of the seven-state steel strike were these steel oferators, union rep-
resentatives and federal mediators when they were photographed singly for this composite picture as
they appeared at the federal mediation board's deliberations in Cleveland. How divergent were oper-
ators’ and strikers’ viewpoints was evident in the blunt statement of Republic Steel President Tom M.
Girdler that his company “will not enter into an agreement, oral or written, with an irresponsible or-
ganization” and that "the C. I. 0. as presently constituted is utterly irresponsible." He added that
discussion of such a contract would be “futile."
Shocked At Lack Of Southern
Chivalry, Ohio Amazon Goes
On Rampage In Pampa Bastile
PAMPA. June 25 — Employees of
the sheriff’s office, headed by Turn-
key Jess Hatcher busied themselves
for quite a while Thursday morning
putting the county jail back togeth-
«r.
That was after auburn-haired
Ginger Baker, pretty 22-year-old
“pep-squad” leader from Newark, O.,
who is everything and a little bit
more than her first name Implies,
had taken the jail apart to see what
it was made of.
Miss Baker and her girl friend,
Miss Anne Styx, also 22, red-headed
and pretty, of Columbus, O., are
guests of the county for a few days
at the request of deputy sheriffs who
arrested them for vagrancy on a
downtown street Wednesday night.
Deputies explained that the young
women were a "little to the wind-
ward,” possibly from quaffing too
much of the cup that cheers and
cheers, so they decided they should
come In off the street and nestle
under the protective wing of the law.
‘Ginger1 Gets ’Em Told
Miss Styx decided to be submissive
about the whole thing, deputy sher-
iffs explained today, but “Ginger"
had other ideas about It. In fact,
she never was so humiliated in her
life, If you are to take the word of
the officers. And before Miss Baker
got through with them, the officers,
too, were a bit humiliated — if not
downright shocked.
Once behind the bars in a fourth
floor cell of the county jail, Miss
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TWELVE CONVICTS
STILL AT LARGE
HUNT FOR LEADER OF PRISON
BREAK AND COMPANION
IN KILGORE AREA
HUNTSVILLE, June 25 — Twelve
of the 19 convicts who escaped from
the Eastham prison farm on Tues-
day were still at large last night,
with their seven former companions
back behind bars.
Search for W. H. Bybee, ring-
leader in the prison break, cen-
tered around Kilgore after Roy
Smith, a taxi driver, said he be-
lieved Bybee was one of two men
who engaged his cab in Tyler last
night, then forced him to take
them to a point near Kilgore.
Officers believed that .Bybee’s
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HOTEL GREETERS TO
MEET IN AMARILLO
SAN ANGELO, June 35 — Ama-
rillo was selected by West Texas
Hotel Greeters In a meeting here
this week, as the July 19 meeting
site and plans were drawn to com-
plete organization of Chapter 56 of
the Hotel Greeters of Texas at the
Amarillo session.
Drawing Its membership from a
number of West Texas cities and
towns, among them Big Spring, Abi-
lene and Brownwood, the chapter,
organized initially here recently, won
a silver loving cup in national com-
petition for Increase in member-
ship.
MANGUM FARMER’S
DEATH IS MYSTERY
DIES IN JAIL AFTER BEING
FOUND IN STUPOR IN
OWN AUTOMOBILE
MANGUM, Okla., June 25 — The
mysterious death of Horace Wasley,
50-year-old farmer, found dead in a
cell of the Mangum Jail, Thursday,
precipitated an Investigation that
held the attention of hundreds of
Visitors swarming here for a frontier
celebration.
Wasley, formerly of Grandfield,
was placed in custody Wednesday
night by two officers who believed
him Intoxicated When they found
him in a stupor In his automobile.
When police prepared to release
Wasley this morning they found
j him slumped on the floor, appar-
ently having fallen from his cot. Po-
| lice Chief Sam D. Rude said that an
j examination revealed he had wounds
I on his head Indicating that he had
been slugged.
At the coroner’s inquest conducted
this afternoon the Jury returned a
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SHEET SHOOT TO BE
HELD HERE SUNDAY
A skeet shoot will be held here
Sunday at the local traps, officials
of the Shamrock Gun dub an-
nounced this morning. Frying size
chickens will be awarded.
The shoot will start at one o’clock
and anyone is eligible to enter.
Traps are located south of the oil
mill.
BRACKELMT IS
SENTENCED TD DIE
BY ARKANSAS JURY
HITCH-HIKE SLAYER FAINTS
AS VERDICT OF GUILTY
IS ANNOUNCED
LONOKE, Ark., June 25 — Lester
Brockelhurst, a 23-year-old former
Mormon Sunday school teacher who
confessed killing three men on a
hitch-hiking tour, fainted last night
when a Jury returned a verdict which
will send him to the electric chair
for the murder of Victor Gates, Lit-
tle Rock planter.
A Jury of farmers and small-
town merchants, after deliberating
22 minutes, found the youth guilty
of first degree murder. Since the
Jury made no recommendation for
life imprisonment the death sen-
tence is mandatory.
Defendant Fains
His father, L W. Brockelhurst,
a Galesburg, III., Interior decora-
tor, put an arm around the
youth’s shoulders when he got up
to hear the verdict. Lester began
crying when the jury foreman an-
swered:
“Guilty of murder In the first de-
gree."
He fainted while the Jury was
being polled. The father also col-
lapsed. The courtroom was thrown
into confusion until they were re-
vived.
Brockelhurst was returned to his
cell. Today he was brought back to
court to hear Circuit Judge W. J.
Waggoner set the date of his elec-
trocution.
Brief Trial
The trial lasted less than 10 hours.
It was started Thursday morning;
the Jury was seated before noon and
testimony was completed at 4 p. m.
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MORE HOPPER POISON
TO BE DISTRIBUTED
The Shamrock mixing station, lo-
cated next door to Ewton Chevrolet
company, will be re-opened for the
distribution of grasshopper poison
Saturday morning, Bedford Harri-
son, chamber of commerce secretary,
said today. Harrison is assisting
County Agent Jake Tarter In the
distribution of the poison mixture.
An additional shipment of 40,000
pounds of bran and the necessary
quantity of sodium arsenlte, allotted
to this county by state authorities
from government supplies has been
received. Harrison urged that fann-
ers needing the poison get their
allotment as early as possible', as the
station will likely be closed Tues-
day afternoon.
CHICAGO. June 25 — A heat wave
spread from the Plains of Texas to
the Great Lakes Thursday, account-
ing for at least thirteen deaths and
establishing new record June tem-
peratures at many points.
Six of the deaths were in Chicago,
where thermometers climbed to 97
degrees. In ten hours the tempera-
ture ascended 27 degrees to set a
new June 24 record. The old record,
93, was established In 1923.
Shenandoah, Iowa, sweltered un-
der a record high of 107. Des Moines
reported 99.
Readings near or beyond the 100
degree mark were numerous. In
Oklahoma, Hollis reported 105, Law-
ton 104 and Ponca City and El Reno
102.
It was 99 in Springfield and Ke-
wanee, 111., 98 In Davenport, Iowa,
and Ottawa, 111., 97 in Chicago, 8t.
Louis and Centralla, 111.
The intense heat was regarded as
ideal “com weather.” Conditions
were favorable, too, to farmers gath-
ering a harvest 7n the sun-seared
southwest.
Three deaths In Oklahoma in-
creased the total attributed to the
current siege of heat.
Backing up Italy’s support of the
Spanish rebels is the ever grow-
ing Roman fleet, which now
dominates the Mediterranean,
both on sea and in the air. With
a plane overhead, two of the
formidable modem Italian bat-
tleships sail majestically in a pa-
rade of oaval might staged for
Gen. von Blomberg, German
war minister.
FORD EMPLOYEES
BEAT CIO AGENTS
TWO ORG/»N77!ERS GET WORST
OF ALTERCATION AT
DALLAS PLANT
DALLAS, June 25 — The Dallas
Times-Herald said yesterday two
CIO organizers were battered and
bruised late yesterday after attempt-
ing to enlist local Ford Motor Com-
pany employees In their ranks.
Identity of the organizers was not
learned, the paper said.
Hostilities between the organiz-
ers and Ford workers started when
the two men were ordered out of
the Ford plant pharmacy, across
the street from the vast Ford plant,
by R. L. Gaskell, 40, owner. Gaskell
told the Times-Herald he asked the
men to leave when several Ford
employees objected to their presence
in the store.
“Well, we’ve been thrown out of
bigger places than this,” Gaskell
said one of the pair remarked.
Gaskell said a Ford workman
knocked down the smaller of the
two organizers at this point and that
the larger man came to his rescue.
Both were attacked, Gaskell said,
“The big husky soon saw he was
outnumbered and ran off,” Gaskell
said. “The other was bleeding rath-
er badly and wasn’t able to run,
so one of the service men Jielped
trim down the street.”
No report of the Incident was re-
ceived at police headquarters.
NON-STRIKERS INJURED
TN FORT WORTH
FORT WOTH, June 25 — Three
Lone Star Gas Company strikers
attacked and Injured two non-strik-
ing employees Thursday afternoon
In the fourth clash of the day be-
tween union and the company men.
An hour earlier, Mayor W. J.
Hammond had wired Albert Sidney
Johnston of the public safety com-
mission, demanding that the rangers
sent here Monday be removed to
CHURCHES INVITE
PUBLIC TO WORSHIP
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES FOR
SABBATH ANNOUNCED BY
PASTORS OF CITY
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LOREE TINDALL TO
APPEAR IN RECITAL
Loree Tindall, piano pupil of Mrs.
Cabot Brannon, will be presented in
an Intermediate Dunning recital to-
night at 8 o’clock at the home of her
parents on West Third street.
Miss Tindall win be assisted in the
program by Charlotte Kromer, Leota
Garrett and Loll DuBose.
Rev. Newton Smith of Clarendon,
will conduct services at the St.
Michael and All Angels Episcopal
Church, Sunday morning. Holy Com-
munion and sermon at 11 a. m. Ev-
eryone is cordially invited to at-
tend.
Regular services will be held at the
First Baptist Church Sunday, Rev.
E. T. Smith announced. Sunday
school, 9:45 a. m., morning sermon,
11 a. m. Young People’s meeting at
7 p. m„ evening worship at 8 p. m.
Baptising ceremony will be held fol-
lowing the evening service.
Washed air system will be used at
the First Methodist Church for the
first time Sunday morning. Rev.
Lance Webb stated the building
would be from 15 to 20 degrees cooler
than usual and a more comfortable
atmoephere for services. Sunday
school at 9:45 a. m. Morning wor-
ship, 10:55 a. m. Epworth League at
7 p. m. Evening1 worship at 8 p. m.
Wednesday a covered dish supper
and vesper service will be held from
7 p m. to 8:30. Everyone Is urged to
attend. Thursday night the Young
People’s food, faith and fun fest will
be held, starting at 7 p. m.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m., will
be the only service held at the First
Christian Church this Sunday, It
was announced.
Rev. C. R. Nichol of Seminole,
Okla., will begin a revival meeting
for the Church of Christ Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock. He will preach
in the evening at 8 o’clock. Both
morning and evening services will be
held in the Manzer building, comer
Wall and Third streets.
MASONS^IfT JOINT
INSTALLATION RITE
Members of Wheeler and Mobeette
Masonic lodges were guests Thurs-
day night of Shamrock Lodge No.
929, In a joint installation of of-
ficers for the coming year. Attend-
ing Masons enjoyed a feed spread by
E. D. Nolan and committee after
the Installation ceremonies.
Officers Installed by the local
lodge were: R. A. Wood, worshipful
master; Edwin T, Griffin, senior
warden; Jas. F. Smith, Junior war-
den; H. E. Forgy, treasurer; Roy
Carlton, secretary; T. C. Williams,
senior deacon; E. Bradley, junior
deacon; W. O. Morrow, tiler; W. O.
Nix and T. H. Bonnenbers, stewards;
S. A. Rlbble, chaplain.
WASHINGTON, June 25 — Tom
M. Girdler, Republic Steel chair-
man, charged before the Senate post
office committee Thursday that of-
ficials of the Committee for Indus-
trial Organization called the current
steel strike only “tg get more dues
for their organization.”
As Girdler testified before the
post office committee, another Sen-
ate group—the Education and Labor
Committee—approved a bill design-
ed to strengthen the present Byrne#
Act prohibiting interstate transpor-
tation of strikebreakers. The new
measure would make both the per-
son transported and the person
doing the transporting guilty of a
federal offense.
Girdler was asked by Sen. Allen
J. EUender what he would do If
the Steel Mediation Board ordered
a National Labor Relations Board
election among his employees and
the employees voted for the CIO.
Not To Sign Contract
"Would you still refuse to sign,"
Ellender asked.
“We still wouldn’t sign a con-
tract,” Girdler replied.
Ellender asked if Girdler would
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TOP-FLIGHT NAMES
ARE MENTIONED IN
TAX DODGE PROBE
NOTHING ILLEGAL DONE IN
AVOIDANCE, SAYS U. S.
REVENUE OFFICIAL
WASHINGTON, June 25 — Treas-
ury Investigators mentioned such
names as du Pont, Mellon and Ras-
kob in telling a Senate-House In-
vestigating committee Thursday that
some wealthy individuals cut their
taxes by forming personal holding
companies.
Guy T. Helvering, internal reve-
nue commissioner, laid these and
nearly three-score other names of
top-flight business leaders before
the tax avoidance committee, whose
members displayed undisguised in-
terest.
The ruddy, white-haired official
made no charge that anything il-
legal had been done. He simply
described what he termed the “hold-
ing company device” by which "cer-
tain large, wealthy taxpayers have
avoided paying their full share of
taxes.”
Name 7 du Pont*
John J. Raskob, former chairman
of the Democratic National Commit-
tee: Andrew W. Mellon, former
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ALL-STARS SCALP
MAGIC CITY TEAM
$27288 CONTRIBUTED TO MHJff
FUND AT BENEFIT GAME
THURSDAY NIGHT
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j
Trailing 'way behind through six
innings of the big softball game for
the benefit of the milk fund at
Denver field last night, the Maglo
City team gave fans a thrill in the
first of the seventh when they ran
in twelve scores to gain a one-run
lead over the Shamrock All-Stars,
only to drop the game by one tally
to the locals In the final half of the
frame.
The sum of $27.28 was donated by
fans in the free will offering for the
fund to supply milk for underprivl;
leged children of the city.
In the opening stanza the oil town
aggregation got off to a lame start,
three out of four batters being cut
down without scoring. On the other
hand, Shamrock batters lost no time
in getting the hang of Emler’s hull-
ing, and ran In four tallies before
being retired.
This performance was duplicated
in the second frame, except that the
All-Stars gathered five counters.
Shamrock rounded up three in the
fourth and one in the sixth.
Magic City failed to register until
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JAIL SENTENCE FOR
LOCKING UP DAUGHTER
SAN ANTONIO, June 25 — For
lockin his daughter, Maggie Mar-
tinez, 11, in a shack in the rear of
his home, Cedlio Martinez was sen-
tenced to 80 days in the county jail
by Judge C. J. Matthews of County
Court at Law No. 2 Wednesday.
Martinez, charged with aggravated
assault, was found guilty after he
had entered ft pie* of not guilty.
Testimony from U witnesses show-
ed that the girl had been kept in the
shack during the daytime when her
father and stepmother were gone,
because as they testified, they “fear-
ed she would bum the bouse down."
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