The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 281, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 6, 1938 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
1 |
if
I r
o
NEA
NEWS
PICTURES
Texan
And Marshal In City Voting
VOL. 34 SHAMROCK, WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL fL VfK18
NO. 281
LOYALISTS VOW ‘NOT LICKED YET’
The women of the Lela Home
Demonstration club were in to see
us about helping them advertise the
big entertainment to be put on at
'' l'he Lela high school Friday night by
Cal Farley and His “Flying Dutch-
men" from Amarillo. They said in
view of the fact they are going to
hold a contest to determine the
homeliest man in the audience, that
l)t]fiey thought we would be glad to
attend, as well as help advertise the
program.
We do want to see Shamrock and
everybody get behind this program.
.There has never been a time when
' Shamrock has asked Lela to help
out that they failed to respond 100
per cent. Take the Saint Patrick
celebration, why not only did they
respond and take part in our par-
t jde, they even went to Amarillo on
“Mother-in-Law Day to help adver-
tise the Shamrock attraction.
Let’s everybody figure on going
out to lela Friday. Cal Farley and
his radio entertainers will put on a
ftyod program and the proceeds will
go to the Lela Home Demonstration
club.
—JAUB—
You can help old Lewis Goodrich
get elected attorney general by
spending a little time and at no
post. Get a pencil and paper and
fcrlte down the names of relatives,
friends and business acquaintances
jin other parts of the,state, then go
to the phone and call 237, offices of
Joodrich -for-Attorney General club,
*nd give them the names of these
people to whom you wish to write
letters about Lewis. You will later
i asked to sign these letters.
It is impossible for the club to
Intact everybody personally, but
itters of this character will do a
ot of good, and we hope all of you
fill take the time to give Lewis a
REORGANIZATION
FOES STAND FIRM
TO HALT PASSAGE
COALITION OF REPUBLICANS,
DEMOCRATS UNAPPEASED
BY CONCESSIONS
:1EA Radiophoto
.Raising his hand in a clenched-flst salute, a Spanish Loyalist trooper
is pictured above, in a radiophoto transmitted from Europe for NEA
Service, as he vowed to go back to Spain from France and fight
Franco’s insurgent army to the death. The picture was taken at
Luchon, France, as 4000 Loyalist militiamen, who fled over the
’order before the insurgent drive on Barcelona, cast ballots in a
i”'*nrendum in which an overwhelming majority '. "fed •« r~'"™ ■«
'he fighting
Two Suspects Are Held
In Torture-Slaying Of
_Mother And Daughter
INTEREST HIGH IN
WHEELER BOXING
SECTION’S BEST PUGILISTS TO
PERFORM IN COUNTY
SEAT TOURNAMENT
rwell, the
—JAUB—
beer election
and the
This week-end will find boxing
fans of the Eastern Panhandle
flocking back to Wheeler, the Mec-
Bty election are all over now, and j nocMng back to Wheeler, the Mec-
pt’s abide by the will of the ma- ca school boxing in this sec-
irity like good sports, whether our
|wn side and candidates won or not.
;erybody can’t win and it is no
ice to get defeated for office,
te thing to remember is that we
■e going to continue residing to-
ther for many years and that re-
irdless of the outcome of elections,
must keep right on being neigh-
and friends.
—JAUB—
Well, it's getting warm enough
all of us toistart thinking about
.11. Do you want another city
le this summer or do you want
league oomposed of Shamrock and
iral nearby towns? Or would you
ter forget about softball ano-
ther this year?
amis Glenn who was one of the
irods of last year’s league, is of
opinion a league embracing-sev-
tl towns and communities would
better than just a Shamrock af-
lir, and we are inclined to agree
1th him. Inter-community and
interest would be keener in a
fer league and faster ball would
lult, in our opinion. What do you
ks think? Summer is getting up-
us and if we want a league, let’s
It started.
—JAUB—
Lbout two weeks ago, the mem-
s of the Business & Professional
(men’s club made an inspection
ir of The Texan and after going
ough all the departments and
fng all the details of running a
rspaper, they told our staff that
ley ever heard a reader complain
it a typographical error or any
of a mistake that they were
to take the time to explain
easy it was for an error to be
le. They said If the public only
Ilssed through how many hands
's Item passed, that they would
their complaining and rldlcul-
tion of the country, for their sec-
ond annual boxing tournament
which will be held Friday and Sat-
urday nights. Bouts will start each
evening at 8 p. m.
Coaoh Stina Cain, who is In
charge of the arrangements, states
that he has already received en-
tries from Qultaque, Turkey, Alan-
reed, Shamrock, Canadian, Pampa,
Mobeetie, Kelton, Erick, and
Wheeler.
Grady Box, coach of the Irish
pugilists who have already taken
two tournaments, will enter only
eight or nine boys since the two
weights below 100 pounds, in which
divisions he had four boxers, have
been eliminated.
As the season reaches its climax
fans from neighboring towns are
promised two full cards with a thrill
in every minute of action.
Admission prices for the prelim-
inary session will be children 15c
and adults 25c.
EL PASO, April 6. — Two sus-
pects in the torture-slayings of
Mrs. Hazel Frome and her daugh-
ter, Nancy, of Berkeley, Calif.,
near Van Horn last Wednesday
were held in Texas and Arizona
last night, while El Paso officers
broadcast descriptions of two
holdup men and a blonde woman
they sieek to link with the case.
Deputy Sheriff Ben KratZberg of
Bowie, Ariz„ notified sheriff’s offi-
cers here he had picked up a man
whose irrational actions and state-
ments made him appear a likely sus-
pect in the Frome case.
At Rankin, Tex., Sheriff Bill Fow-
ler announced he had taken into
custody at McOamey a man who
attempted to sell a lady's brown fit-
ted bag containing expensive cloth
lng.
Mrs. Frome and her attractive
daughter were found brutally mur-
dered Sunday, their bodies lying
half covered in the desert country
six miles east of Van Horn.
Officers To Question
Sheriff Oris Pox of El Paso said
he probably would send an ofleer
to Bisbee to question the Arizona
suspect. While the man was being
removed to Bisbee, Kratzberg in-
formed Pox, a big sedan containing
two women passed and the suspect
declared: “There would be a fine
chance.”
District Attorney Roy Jackson, en
WASHINGTON, April 6. - A co-
alition of Republcans and Demo-
crats, unappeased by Administra-
tion concessions on the Government
reorganization bill, resumed their
bombardment of that measure
Tuesday and successfully resisted
all efforts to cut short the debate.
“You will pretty near crush the
last hope of the American people
for relief of business if you pass
this bill,” Representative Snell, the
Republican floor leader, shouted to
the House. “Nothing should be done
to raise the issue of further con-
centration of power in Washington
when we are in the worst depression
in history,”
Lanham Raps Bill
Representative Lanham of Texas
said the bill was “wrong in essence".
Reorganization, he asserted should
be undertaken through a careful
congressional investigation of the
Government set up, rather than
turned over to the President.
Meanwhile, the leadership of Both
sides was anxiously counting noses
in the expectation that today would
bring another test of strength on
the bill, or possibly two of them.
Administration leaders intend to
move that debate be closed when
today’s session begins, a procedure
sure to result in a roll call vote. Last
week, such an effort was easily de-
feated.
If the opposition should fail to
keep the debate open today, It In-
tends to move to “strike cut the en-
acting clause"—the language which
says “be it enacted, etc” and gives
every bill its effectiveness. If that
attempt prevailed, the bill would be
read.
Four Efforts Blocked
Yesterday's efforts to end debate
GUERILLA BANDS
TORMENT JAPANESE
IN SHANGHAI AREA
Boy Refugee
Thanks U. S.
CAIN, McLEMORE
INVADERS ARE CONTINUOUSLY
HARRASSED BY SPORADIC
UNEXPECTED ATTACKS
SHANGHAI, April 6. — Hidden
Chinese guerilla bands are strik-
ing close to Shanghai’s back door
at Japanese invaders already fully
occupied on the bitterly contested
central China front.
Japanese officers told today of one
of the Chinese assaults by more
than 1,000 raiders who gathered 15
miles southwest of Shanghai and
attacked Japanese near Sungkiang.
Japanese said the band, suffered 300
casualties before it melted away to
nearby villages.
Japs Ambushed
In another attack near Sungkiang
Chinese were said to have ambush-
ed a truck and killed ten Japanese
officers and soldiers.
Some 50 miles south of Shanghai,
on the northern shore of Hangs-
chow Bay, Chinese said their forces
had recaptured the towns of Halyen
and Haining and were attacking
Ohapoo.
These outbreaks of guerilla war-
fare were in the area occupied by
(Continued on Page 3)
-o-
GROWERS HD TO
ENTER TULIP EVENT
ARE ELECTED TO
OTHER SHAMROCK OFFICIALS
ARE CHOSEN WITHOUT
OPPOSITION
CIVIC CLUB SPONSORS TOUR;
WILL AWARD PRIZES FOR
PRETTIEST DISPLAYS
(Continued on Last Page)
-o-
GIRL SCOOTS ARE
FORMED IN TROOPS
MUCH ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWN
BY 86 GIRLS ATTENDING
MEETING TUESDAY
(Continued on Last Page)
-o-
FUNERAL AT PAKAN
FOR JOHN PAVESKA
tell, girls, at the time you made
promise we little knew how
i we would be calling on you to
us. It seems we made one
typographical error in Man-
paper and the whole town is
__; at us. One little letter was
j wrong place, hut are all these
around town big-hearted and
>le? They are not, they are
I (Continued on Last Page)
Funeral services for John Paves-
ka, former Shamrock resident, were
conducted Sunday afternoon at Pa-
kan by Rev. H. R. Frerklng of Am-
arillo. Burial in the Pakan cemetery
was in charge of M. M. Nix Funeral
Home.
Mr. Paveska, who came to this
section from Chicago last Septem-
ber, died April 1 at the Wheats
Ridge Sanatarlum in Colorado. He is
survived by his mother, Mis. Kath-
erine Paveska, and a cousin, Mrs.
Paul Macina, of the Pakan com-
munity, and numerous relatives in
Illinois and Europe.
■o
BOOSTERS HEAR HIGH
SCHOOL DECLAIMER
FFA JUDGING TEAM
GOES TO LUBBOCK
Accompanied by their instructor,
H. C. WeatheTby, the dairy cattle
judging team of the Shamrock
chapter. Future Farmers of America,
will leave Thursday for Lubbock,
where they will engage in judging
contests Friday with other FFA
boys from Area 1.
The team is composed of F. H.
King, Ansel Tugwell and R. C.
Hawk, Jr. Bill Hise and Bill Cantrell
will go as alternates. The boys re
cently won fourth place In a Judg-
ing contest at Pampa.
-—to-
Miss Florine Olay, Mrs. Len Por-
ter, Mrs. Wayne Fox and Miss Doro-
thy Harding assisted Miss Virginia
Harvey in organizing the Girl Scout
troops at a meeting held Tuesday
afternoon in the First Methodist
Church. Eighty-six girls were pres-
ent and were divided into two
troops of nine patrols.
Miss day will toe captain of Troop
5, girls from the ages ot 13 to 16.
Mrs. Porter and Miss Harding will
head Troop 3, girls from the ages
of 10 to 13, and Mrs. Wayne Fox
will have charge of the Brownie
troop, girls under 10 years of age.
Tuesday afternoon will be the reg-
ular meeting day and next week
each troop will hold separate meet-
ings. Plans will be made for the
erection of a club house for the girls
and scout books will be ordered for
each troop so that the members may
start work on their scout tests.
Miss Harvey again requests that
all girls who are interested in Scout
work, to attend the meeting next
Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist
church and they will be assigned to
a patrol and troop.
-o
Shamrock gardeners who have
tulips in bloom are urged to include
their gardens in a “garden tour" and
contest sponsored Friday and Sat-
urday by the Shamrock Garden and
Civic club, Mrs. H. P. Mundy, presi-
dent, said today. Those who have
tulip gardens entered are O. T.
Nicholson, Mrs. W. S. Pendleton,
Mrs. O. T. Glasscock, Mrs. J, H.
Caperion, Mrs. B. F. Holmes and
Mrs. Fred Moore.
Out-of-town judges will make a
visit to each garderi entered in the
contest and judge the flowers. On
Saturday the public will be given
the opportunity to visit these gar-
dens in a tour which will start at
9:30 in the morning.
Only the tulips will be judged, it
was stated, as this is not a garden
or yard contest. Any local residents
having flower displays are urged to
notify Mrs, Mundy or Mrs. B. F.
Holmes before Friday morning and
have their gardens included in the
tour.
“There are many more gardeners1
in Shamrock having tulips in bloom
than have so far entered in the!
contest," Mils. Mundiy said, ((and !
we especially urge all tulip growers
to cooperate in making the show a 1
success.”
■o
Grateiui lui inc u cuuum ne
found here after fleeing Nazi
Germany. 15 - year - old Martin
Marden, above, Bronx messen-
ger boy, penned a prayer of
thanks to his adopted land in
words so touching that a copy
was sent to President Roosevelt
and Secretary Hull, and a broad-
casting chain put Martin on to
read his prayer on a coast-to-
coast hookup. The young Jew-
ish boy wants to be a newspa-
perman.
Close contests in the races for
secretary and marshal featured
the city election Tuesday, in
which almost the maximum vot-
ing strength of Shamrock was
cast. Most votes were polled In the
secretary’s race, a total of 771,
Ode Gain was the successful can-
j didate for the secretary’s job, poll-
I ing 360 votes. G. H. Burkhalter, in-
! cumbent, was second with 284 and
J. L. Ellison polled 127.
i By a margin of only eight votes,
W. K. McLemore was elected city
marshal. McLemore was given 216
votes, while his closest opponent,
Claude Hiltbrunner, polled 208. D.
J. Bulls was third with 161 votes,
while Ben A. Austin received 117
and J. P. Isaacs 55.
W. H. Walker was re-elected may-
or without opposition, polling 752
votes. Results for other municipal
posts, in which there was no opposi-
tion, were as follows: For aldermen,
R. C. Lewis 732, Jas. F, Smith 714,
Roy Carlton 723; for city attorney,
H. B. Hill 759; for city recorder,
Frank Exum 728; for city health of-
ficer, Dr. B. A. Zeigler 768.
The new official family will be
sworn in at the next regular meet-
ing of the council, which will be
convened Wednesday night, April 13,
City Attorney H. B. Hill said today,
-o-
I
p
■f!
JB
4S&
Wildcat Near
McLean Opens
New Territory
NO AAA RENEFITS
FOR TREE SETTING
AGENT CORRECTS ERRONEOUS
IDEA IN REGARD TO
SHELTEI tBELTS
Excitement ran high at McLean
this morning as a large new drill-
ing territory was apparently op-
ened by the blowing in of Lone
Star Gas company’s Fowler No. 1
for an estimated oil production of
200 barrels. The well is four miles
north of McLean.
Located in section 118, block 23,
Gray county, the well was bottom-
ed at approximately 2,500 feet
with estimated 40,000,000 feet of
gas. This is title first test well
drilled in the immediate territory,
-o-
PLAN SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENTS
HARRISON HONORED
BY FARM COUNCIL
In recognition of his cooperation
in various ways with the agricultur-
I al program of the county, Bedford
Due uuumy, iaeuiora
The Boosters club was entertainedHarrison, secretary of the Shamrock
at its weekly luncheon today by Roy Chamber of Commerce, has been
Holmes, high school student, who
gave a declamation on “The Unfin-
ished World,” and Mrs. Horace
Belew who presented two selections
on the new electric organ of the
First Methodist church.
W. R. Frazee of Pampa, court
stenographer, Who Is a candidate for
Thirty-first district attorney, was a
guest and made a short talk.
named an honorary member of the
Wheeler County Agricultural coun-
cil, County Agent Jake Tarter said
today.
Farm leaders were particularly
appreciative of Harrison’s untiring
and invaluable assistance in the
grasshopper control campaign car-
ried out last spring and summer,
Tarter declared.
Samnorwood Building Program
Be Completed In Vacation
Period, Says Sanders
PAMPA SUPPORTERS
BAND MEMBERS TO
TRI STATE MEET
FRIENDS OF CANDIDATE FOR
ATTORNEY GENERAL TO
RALLY TO SUPPORT
I
PAMPA, April 6 (Special)—The
committee for the campaign of
Lewis Goodrich .candidate* for at-
torney general of Texas, has decided
that Thursday, April 14, shall 'be
designated as Lewis Goodrich Day,
and people in the surrounding terri-
tory will be Invited to gather in
Pampa to do honor to this favorite
son by promoting him in his as-
piration for tills high office.
‘An honorable man for an hon-
orable position,” is the slogan that
has been chosen for this movement.
The Goodrich clubs at Shamrock,
McLean and other points will be ln-
FOUR YOUTHFUL MUSICIANS
ENTERED IN CONTESTS
AT ENID, OKLA.
(Continued on Page 3)
Plans and specifications for a $7,-
000 WFA project for Improvement
of the Samnorwood rural high
school plant were examined and ap-
proved at a meeting of the board
of trustees Monday night, with only
minor changes to be made, accord-
ing to Supt. E. G, Sanders.
The improvement program In-
cludes completion of the gymnas-
ium, alterations in the high school
and agriculture buildings and
teacherages, and landscaping of the
school campus.
Plans for the 'project were Inaug-
urated several weeks ago with the
employment of Townes and Funk
of Amarillo as architect*. Actual
work is expected to be under way
June 10 and will be completed dur-
ing the summer vacation period.
WHEELER GIRL ASKED
TO SHOW PAINTINGS
Mrs. A. L. Nowlin of Wellington,
art chairman of the Federation of
Women’s clubs in this district, an-
nounced today that Marilyn Wi-
ley of Wheeler had been invited to
exhibit a group of her paintings at
the district convention in Childress
April 28.
Miss Wiley last year won praise
for her landscape pictures when she
exhibited at the district convention
at Canyon and was Included In the
10 highest awards made by the
Judges. She has also been Invited to
show several of her paintings at the
Texas Fine Arts exhibit In Amarillo
Monday and Tuesday, In which pic-
tures of many Wellington artists
will be included.
Glenn Truax, band director, and
four of his band students left today
for Enid, Okla., to attend the Tri-
State Music Festival, being held
there Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of this week.
Eldon Sonnenberg, Francis Hut-
ton, Leo Wegner and Wanda Mon-
roe have been selected to enter the
contest from Shamrock. The first
three named will take part in the
instrument division while Wanda
Monroe will enter the voice division.!
Mrs. T. H. Sonnenberg will ac-
company ;the group in order to
play their piano accompaniments.
The Tri-State Festival, while not
recognized by the National Music
Association, is one of the largest
events of its kind in the United
States. Eight national and inter-
national band and orchestra direc-
tors will be at Enid to give instruc-
tion and judge the various events.
The festival Is an invitation af-
fair and it is a distinct honor for
the muse department of the school
to be Included In the event.
Correcting a misunderstanding
that has resulted from his being
misquoted with regard to AAA bene-
fits for farmers participating in the
Forest Service shelterbelt program,
County Agent Jake Tarter makes
public the following statement:
“The law states that each acre of
trees planted between January 1,
11934. and January 1, 1938, will be
counted as two units, but does not
qualify trees planted since January
1, 1938.
“Also, according to the law, if la-
I bor, materials and trees are furnish-
ed by the farmer_all acreage will' be
credited to the accomp'iShment of
1 the building of units, or if more
than one half the materials, labor
and trees is furnished by the farm-
i er, that part will be credited which
i is furnished by the farmer. But if
all is furnished by the government,
(there will be no credit for planting
done since January 1,1938.
“In the event it is decided that
I cultivating and protecting 1s more
than half, the farmer wiil be cred-
ited for that amount, if It is more
than 50 per cent.
“Tree planting will not conflict
in any way with the farm program
if planted since January 1, as they
are soil conserving and will be
counted as sudan grass did in 1937,
if the sudan was grazed,” Tarter
said.
o
Eft
; i
INSINCERE LIVING
SCORED IN SERMON
MANY HAVE BELIEF WITHOUT
REALITY, METHODIST
PASTOR DECLARE8
BETHEL BOX SUPPER
SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR
Proceeds of the box supper held
Tuesday night at the Bethel school
house amounted to $99.00, it was re-
ported today. Bedford Harrison, sec-
retary of the Shamrock Chamber of
Commerce, auctioned the 73 boxes
which were sold. Candidates for
office made talks on the program.
The funds derived are to be dlvld- meet
ed between the Bethel Parent-
TBachera’ association and the China
mat Hlnne Demonstration club
sponsors of the affair.
The subject at the Abundant Life
service at the First Methodist
church Tuesday evening was “Paint-
ed Fire”, and in describing such a
situation in our lives, Rev. Lance
Webb said, “The trouble with so
much so-called Christianity today
is that we have the belief without
the reality; the works without the
power. We are “Painted Fire", And
continuing, he asked, “Is your desire
to be a Christian just one among
many desires?"
Beginning a series of sermons toe
the morning services, held In the
Texas Theatre each week day morn-
ing at 10:00 o’clock, Rev. Webb de-
livered a very stirring sermon on
the subject “Finding God “
the W1U," wherein he sal-,
has a habit of Identifying God
with what he wants”;
I
'■m
■A
m
Si
(Continued on Page 2)
I
2L
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 281, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 6, 1938, newspaper, April 6, 1938; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth525972/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.