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VOL. 33
SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937
NO. 223
|Her name isn't Nellie Gray, but
ishe was "sold down the river"
bust the same, lamented lovely
iRamona Davies, above, when
khe went into court seeking to
Restrain Paul Whiteman, with
whose orchestra she sings, from
easing her services to outside
concerns
Just Among
Us Boys!
iplte drouths, dust storms and
ments about whether the presi-
int ought to put on some extra
Ip at the supreme court house in
ington, business in Shamrock
on as usual. In fact, a new-
r would think the old village
really booming.
Take last week, Puckett's Grocery
ket announced a big opening
50-foot building which is twice
size of the building It occupied
ing the years when it rained
instead at dust. And this week
>w department store will hold
.ts'''formal opening on Saturday.
There is a full-page advertisement
in today’s paper about the opening
sale of The Federated Store, of
•wMch Joe Dixon is the manager.
4 store is a successor to Dodgen
Dry Goods Company and George
Dodgen is a partner in the new
store, although George has moved to
Tucumcarl, where he is opening an-
ir Federated Store this week.
P®tnd within a few days, another
store will open for business —
ifec (Associated Variety Company)
|Kin the building formerly occupied
by the D. F. Spruill Furniture store,
•fheic have been a number of
HEaller firms to open here in recent
weeks.
——JAUB- ■—
JAUB is-not trying to create the
Impressidn that business conditions
* are good. As a matter of fact, they are
Kitten The thing we are trying to
| get over is that Shamrock people are
not the type to throw up their
hands, believing the world Is com-
ing to an end simply because of
* drouths and dust storms. Our mer-
chants are conservative enough to
face, the facts and resourceful
enough to decide they have got to
do Aanething about it.
“Miey know people are going to
* keep'right on buying groceries, dry
goods and some of the luxuries of
life, although of necessity, on a
> smaller scale. They reason that if
everybody has got less to spend than
they normally have, they have got
[fget more customers to coining to
.mrock to trade. In order to do
they must improve and perhaps
,rge their stocks of merchandise
md their services. They must give
ie people strong inducements to
let them to come to Shamrock in-
tead of other towns and cities.
Uniting in this determination to
inlarge our trade territory and bring
ishoppers who have been trading
elsewhere, the business men are spon-
soring a Trades Day program, under
the auspices of the chamber of
commerce. And it is clicking, if you
ask us.
If we ever make one good crop
here, Amarillo and Oklahoma City
had better watch their horses. Given
half a break, the business men of
Shamrock will go to town, in a big
way.
JAUB hopes he Is not the type to
try and force his personal views and
opinions on everyone. The majority
has spoken on the president's su-
preme court bill and it happened to
be Just the opposite from the way we
felt about, it. In fact, the public
.touted at; u», and tojne or them
wen cusM iK. We drfWed we would
mp tto whole matter. a* far to
oar pitodniltoptaioB «u concerned.
And m gtttfldn't mention it again
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RANGE LIVESTOCK
CONSERVATION AREA
INCLUDES COUNTY
COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS
FOR BENEFIT PAYMENTS
ARE OUTLINED
Wheeler county is one of 154
Texas counties listed as range-
livestock area in which the provi-
sions of the 1937 range conserva-
tion program for the southern re-
gion will apply, according to in-
formation given out by Jack Shel-
ton, extension service director,
from College Station.
“The line designating the range
area of Texas,” Shelton quoted Cul-
ly A. Cobb, AAA southern regional
director, as saying, runs south along
the eastern edge of Montague, Wise,
Parker, Hood, Somervell, Bosque,
Coryell, Burnet, Blanco, Comal, Bex-
ar, Atascosa, Live Oak, Jim Wells,
Kleberg, Kenedy and Hidalgo coun-
ties.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — The
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis-
tration today designated 154 coun-
ties in Texas as the ranch of range-
livestock area in which the 1937
range conservation program for the
southern region will apply.
The counties were officially desig-
nated by AAA Administrator H. R.
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As 27 Were Saved in 60-Mile Gale LITTLE DAMAGE IS
CAUSED BY CLOUDS
OF BLOWING DUST
PRESENT STORM CAUSED BY
FINE SILT BLOWN FROM
NORTH OF CANADIAN
GIRL, WOUNDS SELF
FACING MURDER CHARGE, WAR
VETERAN NEAR DEATH IN
FT. WORTH HOSPITAL
FORT WORTH, Feb. 18 —Pret-
ty Christel King, 20, was shot fa-
tally Wednesday and her step-
father, Henry Grady Jordan, 42,
faced a murder charge as an out-
growth of a “date” the girl had
despite parental disapproval.
Justice Hal P. Hughes returned a
verdict of “premeditated murder" in
Miss King’s death.
Miss King was shot through the
head with a revolver In a family
quarrel today. The step-father was
taken to a hospital under police
guard for treatment of razor wounds
on his throat. The girl’s mother
told police that Jordan became en-
Taged because a life Insurance policy
carried on the daughter was not as-
signed to him.
He Intended to borrow money on
the policy, Mrs. Jordan said, to hire
a lawyer -o defend him against an
assault charge which grew out of
an altercation with a 24-year-old
Little or no damage has been
done to crops of the central and
southern parts of the Panhandle
by the dust storm of the past
few days, in the opinion of ag-
ronomists of the Panhandle. Yes-
terday's dust storm was almost
entirely a cloud of fine silt blown
in from the areas north of the
Canadian river, Meteorologists
said.
The cloud was thickest in the
eastern portions of the Panhandle,
with choking dust at Wichita
Falls, Childress, Shamrock, Ca-
nadian and Higgins, causing an
airplane visibility of “zero-zero.”
Meteorologists expect the dust
to settle by Friday morning.
A heavy yellow cloud of finely-
grained slit moved across North
Texas Wednesday night, dropping
visibility at some places to zero-zero.
The ah’ was clearing in the Panhan-
dle.
Amarillo reports said the cloud
late in the afternoon extended west
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No Buggies,
No Organs,
Assessor Finds
If proof were needed that the
buggy drawn by old Bess, is prac-
tically extinct in this vicinity, it
can be found in the tax rendition
records being taken for John
Templeton, tax assessor and col-
lector, by Ode Cain, of Shamrock.
While practically everything on
the comprehensive tax list has
been turned in to Cain for state
and county taxes, not a single
buggy has been rendered, he said
today.
No longer does the family gath-
er around the organ by lamplight,
if tax renditions are to be con-
sidered as an indication. That
venerable musical instrument has
been pushed from the picture by
the radio, the phonograph and
piano, Cain declares.
$2 SULPHUR LEVY
GIVEN APPROVAL
HOUSE COMMITTEE
PROPOSED TAX OF $2.50 IS
BEATEN BY LONE VOTE
IN REVENUE GROUP
While the storm-driven waves threatened to bicak up the coastwise
steamer. Cottoneva, 28 members of the crew and Capt Eberhard
Stahlbaum slid to shore and safety <Jn a breeches buoy as shown
above. The buoy was rigged by coasl guardsmen The vessel was
driven aground in a 60-mile gale near Port Urfqrd Pre__
Early National Returns
Show 2 To 1 Opposition
To Judiciary Proposal
COURT TO DECIDE
MARTIN’S STATUS
DECISION OF ELIGIBILITY OF
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS
EXPECTED IN 2 WEEKS
CLEVELAND, Feb. 18 (Special)
— In the nation-wide poll being
conducted by The Shamrock Tex-
an in co-operation with 700 other
newspapers, 100 cities in 29 states
reported the following national
totals in early returns:
FOR revamping judiciary, 17,795.
AGAINST proposed bill, 36,479.
MARRIAGE OF WHITE
GIRL, NEGRI) PROBED
AUTHORITIES SAY BRIDE WHO
GAVE HER AGE AS 18 IS
ACTUALLY ONLY 14
SEATTLE, Feb. 18 — Police de-
tained a 14-year-old white girl and
a 38-year-old negro Wednesday
while they investigated the reported
marriage of the pair here Sunday.
The girl’s parents also were de-
tained without charge.
The policewomen’s report stated
the girl, Delta Palmer, 14, asserted
staunchly her love for the negro,
John Lee Menefield, and that the
| couple was accompanied by Delta’s
! parents, Charles F. Palmer, 59, and
j his wife, Anna, 50, when a marriage
license was issued at Port Orchard, j VARIED PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
AUSTIN, Feb. 18 — A bill In-
creasing the $1.03 per ton tax on
sulphur to $2 Wednesday barely es-
caped an additional boost of $2.50
before being favorably recommended
by the house revenue and taxation
committee.
The bill by Representative Harry
Graves of Georgetown was reported
out, II to 8, after an amendment
by Representative A. G. Skaggs of
Deport, increasing the tax to $250
a ton, failed on a tie vote. The
court was tied by the committee
chairman,., .Representative Air
Roark of Saratoga, who voted ”n6.”
Pension Move Fails
The bill also weathered an amend-
ment which would have eliminated
the provision specifying $1 of the
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RURAL TEACHERS
TO HEAR HOOVER
Wash., February 9.
j The marriage license, held as
j evidence by police, was signed by
| “Rev. W. A. McCall, Seattle.”
! Policewomen said the girl . ob-
served her 14th birthday on January
As far as the Panhandle country 14. but that her age appeared as 18
Howard Martin as district attorney 1 two one s0 tar, tn Presi- , gbe is a grammar school pupil. She
of the 30th ludicial district embrac- ■ dent Ruosevelt’s Plan to change the i was turned over to Juvenile authorl-
of the 30th judicial district, embrac federg, judldary the prlnclpal fea- j tles whUe the others were held In
"" - , jug Wicnita, Archer and Youn^ : i,«..p nf which would be to increa&e tvia pit™ jq)i
ture ^show°a °week^air<w!ver Jordan’s counties’ was debated by counsel the U. S. Supreme Court from 9 to j _
ture show a week ago over Jordans fore Qje Texas Supreme Court. De-
protests. The husband reportedly
was a victim of shell-shock during
the world war.
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YOUTH IS CHARGED
IN FATAL SHOOTING
PERRYTON, Feb. 18 — Earl Ste-
vens, 17, died in a local hospital
yesterday morning of knife wounds
allegedly Inflicted Saturday night
In an affray In Glaces Beer Garden,
17 miles southwest of here.
Charles Boren, 20-year-old Perry-
ton youth, was charged In connec-
tion with the young man’s death. He
waived preliminary hearing and was
released on a $5,000 bond.
cision on the matter was expected
within two weeks, court officials in-
dicated.
The specific case argued was a
petition filed by Martin to compel
State Comptroller George H. Shep-
pard to forward Martin his Janu-
15 members.
In the poll conducted by The Tex-
an, a total of 573 persons cast bal-
lots, 442 favoring the proposed
change, and 131 voting against it.
Panhandle Favors Plan
In The Amarillo Daily News poll,
the following returns were posted
ary pay cheek, but the ultimate j Wednesday night: For the Roose-
decision will determine not only 1 Velt plan, 636; Against the Roose-
this question, but in addition, 1 veit pian, 436.
whether the office Martin now oc-1 with the first returns on Tuesday
euples really exists under the law. j being almost evenly divided on the
Apparent Reversal j question of whether or not President
An act of the legislature passed Roosevelt should be given the power
May 26, 1933, abolished the office,
effective Jan. 1, 1935. The act
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Storm Of Opposition
Roused By Compromise
Court Revision Proposal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Two
Democratic Independents, opposed to
President Roosevelt’s court reorgani-
zation proposal, submitted a com-
promise Wednesday only to see It
encounter nearly the same excited
opposition that greeted the White
House plan Itself.
Senators Wheeler of Montana and
Bone of Washington, acting Jointly,
Introduced a resolution embodying
a constitutional amendment under
which Congress; by a two-thirds
vote, could set aside a derision of
the Supreme Court,
However weir intended, the pro-
posal had the Immedtate effect of
attracting the opposition of large
groups on both sides of the greater
controversy over Roosevelt’s pro-
gram for infusing “new blood” into
the nigh tribunal by appointing six
new justices.
Senates* Oppose
Senators Burke, Democrat, Ner
braska; Van Nuys, Democrat, In-
diana; King, Democrat, Utah, and
others who have assumed a prom-
inent position among foes of th«
Roosevelt id*a were quick to declare
against the Wheeler - Bone proposal.
From the camp which la support-
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HUEY COOKBUYS IN
WITH CLELL GIERHART
Huey Cook today announced pur-
chase of one-half Interest in the
Clell Gierhart Barber Shop, effec-
tive today, and the name of the shop
has been changed to the Glerhart-
Cook Barber Shop. Two other ex-
perienced barbers, Bill Strong and
Fred Wood, will be associated with
Gierhart and Cook.
An experienced barber with a
large following, Cook has been em-
ployed In city shops the past several
years, but this Is his first venture
Into business for himself. Both he
and his partner, have hundreds of
friends In the city and territory. In
an advertisement in today’s Texan
they invite the public to call and try
their “fussy" barber service,
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BAND PARENTS MEET
Members of the Band Parents Or-
ganization are reminded of the
meeting Friday afternoon at the
Band House. Mrs. P, T. Boston,
president, urges all members to to
present The meeting will open at
3:30 p. m.
DEMANDS OF MINE
WORKERS REJECTED
COAL OPERATORS GIVE BLUNT
NO’ TO PROPOSAL FOR
WAGE INCREASE
FOR ANNUAL SESSION
IN COUNTY SEAT
WHEELER, Feb. 18 — H. E. Hoov-
er of Canadian, dean of Panhandle
lawyers, will be the featured speaker
at the second annual banquet of
rural teachers and trustees to be
held here tonight.
County School Superintendent B.
T. Rucker will speak on friendship
from an educational standpoint,
Rucker will introduce Hoover.
O. C. Evans of Briscoe, president
of the rural teachers association,
will be toastmaster. Other speakers
who will appeal’ on the program are
persons prominent In county school
circles. Representatives from the In-
dependent schools of the county
will be present.
Reservations for 125 people had
been made Tuesday, and several
more are expected.
The invocation wUl be led by
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 — The soft
coal industry replied “utterly impos-
sible” Wednesday to John L. Lewis’
demand for a 30-hour work week
and a 15 per cent pay raise for his
400,000 bituminous coal miners.
After this bluntly rejecting the
United Mine Workers’ proposals, the
coal operators demanded that the BORGER, Feb. 18 — Preliminary w„_____________ __
present work week be Increased from j plans for the new $65,000 county hos- j cjoth“ng blI1 0$ $142.75. They have
35 to 40 hours and that hourly pay pital to be erected In Borger have summoned hlm it0 court a number
rates be cut 16 per cent. | been accepted by the county com-. Qf Umeg they sat(} an(J he has jg.
With this exchange, negotiations ; missloners court, according to Judge nored them
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PLANS FOR BORGER
HOSPITAL ACCEPTED
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 - A
huge mass of steel and timber
broke loose and fell 200 feet from
the Golden Gate bridge into the
ocean Wednesday, carrying prob-
ably 10 men to death in the mesh-
es of a costly safety net designed
to protect their lives.
With a prolonged roar, tons of
metal and wood being used as
paving framework ripped away
from the underside of the bridge
deck, carrying at least 13 men
with it.
The plummeting tangle of men
and materials hit the safety net
stretching for more than a mile
along the underside of the deck,
broke through the life web and
peeled it off so that it fell into the
water like a monster strip of fabric
in the unrolling process.
Nearby fishing boats and fast-
moving codst guardsmen sped to the
scene and immediately recovered one
body and two living men.
Nine other workers apparently
tangled in the wreckage, were giv-
en up for dead.
A section of the mass broke loose
and drifted toward the open sea
with rescue boats in pursuit. The
boats overtook It before It reached
the heads of the Golden Gate and
began searching It for bodies.
Th spectacular crash constituted
the first major accident on the
$35,000,000 bridge, which spans the
Golden Gate from San Francisco to
the scenic and agricultural north
coast.
Heretofore only one life has been
lost during the construction.
Bridge officials said the failure
of a wheel on a trolley carrie- sys-
tem acted with a trlgger-like ef-
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DOES SMALL HARM
LOYALISTS TAKE OFFENSIVE
IN DESPERATE EFFORT
TO HOLD HIGHWAY
MADRID. Feb. 1« — Ins.itsent Mr
raldtrs bombed Madrid last night
for the first time since Jan. 6, a*
the seventh month of the civil con-
flict ended.
A dozen bombs were dropped on
the capital in the raid which began
at 10:15 p. m„ (4:15 p, m., CST).
Pending a complete check-up, It
was believed early this morning
most of them had fallen in the out-
skirts.
The raid followed a day In which
besieged defenders of the capital
struck back at insurgent armlee
in two violent offensive waves, de-
terminated desperately to hold com-
munication arteries on the Jarama
front, southeast of the city.
They struck first in the southern
Jarama sector. Three hours later
another column began moving
against La Maranosa, In the cen-
tral Jarama region.
Gen. Jose Miaja, in supreme
command of government troops In
the Madrid sector, declared late
in the day the attacks had turned
the tide of battle.
He indicated, at the same lime,
an insurgent drive at Perales de
Tajuna, 20 miles southeast of Mad-
rid, had been halted well short of
the Valencia-Madrid highway, on
which Madrid largely depends for
its supplies.
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BEST-DRESSED MAN
OWES FOR CLOTHING
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ Feb. 18 —■
The Baron Johann von Leidersdorff
may be one of the 19 best-dressed
men in New York but that’s no help
to his haberdashers.
The W. A. McLaughlin company
today demanded that he be held in
contempt of court because, they
charged, he has refused to pay a
toward a new wage and hour agree
ment got under way. The present
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Norman Coffee.
Final plans probably will be pre-
sented to the court by the archi-
tects within 30 days.
The bill includes three striped
j cravats at $2.75 each, three fancy
j shirts at $16.50 and one lavender-
‘Good Copper’ Arrests Own
Wife For Manslaughter In
Fatal Automobile Accident
CHICAGO, Feb. IS — Policeman
Edward J. Kelly had enhanced hi*
reputation as "a good cower,” yas-
^Offlcer Kelly toe W some tough
jobs during hie. 14 year* on the
force, but battling £**•>«
4 to
Kelly arrested his 30-year-old wife
and saw her booked tor manslaugh-
ter.
Walking into the oftoeof Pahoe
Capt. Andrew* Barry, sooompanled
by his File.
K
bosomed shirt at $15.50. It was the
lavender colored shirt which turned
j the haberdashers purple.
I FINE ARTS CLUB TO
HAVE BOOK REVIEW
| The Thursday Fine Arts Club i*
sponsoring a book review at the
Methodist church basement Friday
night at 7:30, Mrs.
president, said today. -operaa-
broke,” by Charles Morgan wfll to
the took reviewed by Miss Dorothy
Chiselihall and Mrs. John Lewi*.
A silver offering wffl to talon
which will be used to help taunoeWm
the School kltchene.
vttto to attend, a*
premise* to to one of great
tot.
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