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lust Among
Us Boys!
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la a message directed to voting
patrons of Wheeler county school
districts, published In today’s Texan,
H. M. Wiley, president of the county
• school board, points out a few per-
tinent facts with regard to the con-
duct and Importance of the school
system. He says that In most towns
and communities, the school system
Js the biggest business conducted
t therein, both from a financial
standpoint and in the number of
people employed. Prom this view-
point, and even more from the angle
of providing the best educational
system possible for their children,
• people of every community should
take a deep interest in the school,
is Mr. Wiley’s observation.
School boards will be elected in
all districts on Saturday, April 3.
Mr. Wiley urges that no qualified
• voter stay at home on that day, but
go to the polling places and help
select the most competent citizens of
their communities as school trus-
tees.
JAUB most heartily agrees with
• Mr. Wiley that the schools are one
of the most important businesses in
our county and that no school can
be better than the community which
supports it. We Join with Mr. Wiley
and other members of the county
• school board in urging every citizen
to show his or her interest in the
schools. Upon the education pro-
vided for children depends the fu-
ture of our country.
Well, Deck Wells is a good sport
all right, and he sure admitted in
his paper this week that he owes
JAUB a $5.00 hat and is going to
pay off on next Armistice Day as
promised. In fact, he says he has
already bought the hat and is wear-
ing it. And he calls our attention for
the first time to the fact that he
only promised JAUB a $5.00 hat,
which does not necessarily mean a
new one. In fact, it seems he clearly
meant an old second-hand hat
which had cost $5.00 originally.
Well, all we have to say is that
when we offered Jess Handley his
choice of a dollar cash or a life-
time subscription to our paper, tor
that affidavit, we expected to collect
a brand-new $5.00 hat off of Deck.
But we won’t quibble about that be-
cause a second-hand hat costing $5
will be much better than anything
we have worn since 1918. And we
sure do thank you, Deck, we really
do. We’ll take your old hat and have
it blocked by one of our modern
firms here at Shamrock and no one
will be able to tell it from a new one.
NEA
NEWS
PICTURES
Texan
City
Edition
VOL. S3
SHAMROCK. WHEELER COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1937
NO. 247
AMELIA’S TWO-MOTORED SHIP POINTS GRACEFULLY TOWARD SETTING SUN
Injunction Defied By
Strikers As Governor
Murphy Seeks Solution
CONCRETE POURING
ON HIGHWAY NO. 4
PROCEEDS RAPIDLY
COMPLETION OF PAVING IS
EXPECTED WITHIN 60
WORKING DAYS
The picture above shows Amelia Earhart’s two-motored Electra plane as its landing wheels left the earth in a last-minute practice take-off
on the Oakland field prior to her departure on the 27,000-mile journey. In this rehearsal it was made sure that radio and technical ap-
paratus was working perfectly.
We are getting ready for the first
one of our "Bargain Counter” days
in Shamrock to he held Wednesday
of next week and the thing we need
right now is lots of livestock, farm
implements, household goods, and
things to offer for sale. Look around
your home or your farm and see If
there isn’t something you can list,
and please do it at once as we want
to advertise a list of these things
for sale on next Monday.
On the front page of today’s Tex-
an Is a blank for you to fill out,
and we ask that you mail or bring
it to the chamber of commerce office
in the Johnson hotel building Fri-
day or Saturday. Simply list what
you have for sale, describe it, state
how much you want for it, and bring
or send the list in at once. We will
enter It on our books and then all
we ask Is that you bring it to the
Cicero Smith Lumber company
building, formerly occupied by L. E.
Ward Grocery, or to the lot by the
water tower, and we will try to sell
it. If you prefer, we will auction It.
Remember, next Wednesday Is the
day, and If you don’t have anything
to sell but want to buy something,
why it will be just as much to your
interest to attend. It looks like we
are going to have a big variety of
merchandise and we sure are trying
to get the first one of the "Bar-
gain Days,” off to a good start.
AMELIA EARIIART
STARTS RECORD
ATTEMPT FLIGHT
THREE EXPERTS ACCOMPANY
FAMED AVIATRIX AS FAR
AS HONOLULU
It sounds like bragging for us to
mention lit, tout Ithie people sure
read The Texan from cover to
cover — that is, all except this col-
umn JAUB writes. The other day
L. W. Purcell of Lela ran a classi-
fied ad for a couple to do farm
work and do you know what? He
had had two applications and al-
ready employed a man and his wife
before 8 o’clock on the morning aft-
er the paper came out.
Then old Woody Weaver out at
the Lone Star Gas camp, advertised
the other day that he had two pups
for sale. Well, he had sold both of
them two hpjirs alter the paper was
out. Yes si#i If you have anything
to sell or buy you can’t beat this
newspaper, if we do say it ourself.
—i—JAUB——
We want $o state again, that we
welcome letters to this column and
to Hie Texftn on any subject of
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OAKLAND AIRPORT. OAKLAND.
Calif., March 18 — Amelia Earhart
took off from Oakland airport late
Wednesday on her flight around the
world. Her first objective was Hono-
lulu, 2400 miles across the Pacific.
With her went three men, Capt.
Harry Manning, a 40-year-old New
York sea captain who will act as
navigator on the transpacific phase
of the flight; Fred Noonan, 43, a
vqteran Pan - American Airways
navigator who will assist as far as
Honolulu; and Paul Mantz, 32, Los
Angeles, one-time stunt flier who
is now Miss Earhart’s technical ad-
viser. He will go only as far as
Honolulu or Howland Island.
The Wheels of the twin-motored
silver and red Lockheed Electra
“flying laboratory," built to Miss
Earhart’s specifications, left the
ground at 4:38 p. m.
Big Crowd Watches
As the heavily loaded plane rose
from the runway, a crowd of 10,000
spectators soaked to the skin
watched the start of the former
social worker’s greatest adventure.
The rain that had been falling all
day stopped temporarily as the
plane shot down the irunway,
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Importance Of Voting In NEGRO CONFESSES
School Elections Stressed SLATING SHERIFF
By County Board President OF MARION COUNTY
BOXING CARD SET
FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
SCHOOL LADS FROM THREE
COUNTIES WILL TANGLE
IN FAST MATCHES
The many fight fans of this vici-
nity are in for another treat Friday
night when the leather-throwing
school lads of Wheeler, Miami, Mo-
beetie, Alanrefd and Briscoe swap
punches ip ,)he gymnasium at
Wheeler.
With from four to eight fighters
from each of the five schools an-
xious to mix it up with the hefty
youngsters from other schools, one
of the best cards of the season is
expected, according to Coach Bob
Clark of Wheeler, under whose spon-
sorship the series of fights is being
held.
There will probably be 18 or 20
bouts during the evening, according
to Clark, who announces that the
weighing in of fighters will begin
at 7:30 o’clock and that the actual
fighting will start promptly at 8
o’clock. After the athletes have
weighed in, they will draw names of
opponents in the same weight di-
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Have You Something To Sell?
Bring It To ‘Bargain Counter’
Day In Shamrock Wednesday
The first of a series of semi-
monthly “Bargain Counter” days,
sponsored by the Shamrock Cham-
ber of Commerce, will 'be held Wed-
nesday, March 24. All goods which
should be under a roof will be dis-
played in the building formerly oc-
cupied by L. E. Ward Grocery, use
of which is being donated by Cicero
Smith Lumber company. Imple-
ments, cars, livestock, etc., will be
shown on the water tower lot.
These "Bargain Counter” dal’s
are being launched primarily for
the benefit of farmers and the ser-
vice will be free to them. Shamrock
merchants are also participating,
with special items. It is intended to
make these events a convenient
place to bring together buyers and
sellers.
Those who have anything they
wish to sell are urged to bring or
mail their list to the chamber of
commerce not later than Monday.
Then, on Wednesday, they should
bring their goods to the designated
place, properly price taged. An auc-
tion service will be provided for
those who prefer it.
Use the convenient blank below
for listing your merchandise for the
sale then bring or mail It to the
chamber of commerce office.
Chamber of Commerce,
Shamrock, Texas.
Gentlemen:
I wish to offer for sale at your “BARGAIN
COUNTER” day Wednesday, March 24th, the fol-
lowing list of goods:
I agree to bring these items to the designated
place of sale not later than 9 a. m., Wednesday,
March 24, 1937.
Owner...
Address
The vital importance of elections
for school trustees, which will be
held over the county Saturday, April
3, is called to the attention of voters
in all common and independent
school districts by H. M. Wiley,
president of the Wheeler County
School Board.
“The management of our schools
Is one of the most important busi-
nesses in our county,” Mr. Wiley de-
clares, “and as In any other busi-
ness enterprise, their success depends
upon the interest taken in them by
those whose well-being they most
concern.”
Every qualified vofer in every
school district is urged' to make
plans before hand, and on April 3,
elect citizens of their respective com-
munities who have the education of
children at heart, citizens who are
competent and willing to serve as
trustees.
“Do not stay at home on April 3,
then complain at the way your
school is being conducted,” says Mr.
Wiley. “A school cannot be better
than the community which supports
it, and its success depends upon the
support of the entire community.”
“In most of our towns and com-
munities,’’ he points out, “our
schools constitute the biggest busi-
ness being conducted therein, both
from a financial standpoint and in
the number of people employed.
“If your present board is satis-
factory, and its members are willing
to serve another term, give them
your hearty support. Show them by
your vote that they are appreciated.
Few of you realize just how much
of their time and energy they are
donating to your community. Hand
them a few flowers while they are
alive and able to see them.”
BLACK IS HELD IN HENDERSON
JAIL CLOSELY GUARDED
AGAINST MOBS
HENDERSON, March 18 — Offi-
cers held Charley Brooks. 39-year-
old negro, In jail here last night
after he had confessed, according
to Ranger Captain Hardy Purvis, the
fatal shooting of Sheriff Alex Brown
of Jefferson early last Wednesday.
The suspect, who had been held
at Jefferson following his capture,
was brought here through fears of
mob violence.
; Purvis said the negro admitted
shooting Sheriff Brown because he
feared the officer would kill him
for his part in an escape from the
Marlon county jail.
Brown, prominent for his vigor-
ous law enforcement, was shot in
the back as he prepared to retire
for the night in his quarters on
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OmCERSPROi
BLANTON ATTACH
ATTEMPT ON WOMAN RELATIVE
OF MISSING MEN LINKED
WITH THREAT NOTES
TIGHTEN STATUTE
SENATE PASSES HOUSE BILL
PROVIDING MANDATORY
JAIL SENTENCES
AUSTIN, March 18 — The legis-
lature took a determined step last
night toward making Texas high-
ways safer.
By a vote of 28 to 1, the senate
passed a bill, already approved by
the house of representatives, mak-
ing a Jail sentence mandatory on
conviction of drunken driving.
Sponsors said the measure, which
provides penalties ranging from
five days in a county Jail to two
years In the penitentiary, was in-
tended to curb the driving of mo-
tor vehicles by intoxicated persons.
Other legislative developments in-
cluded:
Both houses adopted a confer-
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3 SCHOOL TRUSTEES
FILE FOR RE-ELECTION
Only three present members of
the board of trustees of the Sham-
rock Independent School district had
filed their names as candidates when
the period for filing closed Satur-
day.
Trustees whose terms expire and
who will stand for re-election Sat-
urday, April 3, are A. C. Hallmark,
P. T. Boston and Lester Parrish.
SAN PERLITA,'March 18 — Citi-
zens and officers searched a wide
area Wednesday for two unidentified
men who Tuesday night attacked
Mrs. Frank Blanton, daqghter-in-
law of Luther Blanton, Willacy
county rancher, whose disappearance
with his son, John, has baffled the
Rio Grande Valley for months.
Mrs. Blanton said she was at-
tacked after returning home with
Mrs. John Blanton from the San
Perlita night school where the lat-
ter is an instructor.
She said the men leaped aboard
the car and attempted to pull her
from It shortly after Mrs. John
Blanton had left the automobile.
Her husband heard her scream and
frightened the men away.
She said she was convinced the
attack had something to do with
threat notes received since her rel-
atives disappeared while hunting on
a ranch.
The Blanton men disappeared No-
vember 18, after walking 600 yards
from their home to the ranch prop-
erty on a duck hunt.
All efforts to find a trace of the
men have failed and authorities ex-
pressed belief the Blantons have
been killed and their bodies hidden
In brush-covered country.
Approximately one-half mile of
concrete has been poured on High-
way 4 north of Wellington. Actual
hard surfacing of the highway
began last week, but was held up
temporarily on account of inclem-
ent weather.
The paving work is now going for-
ward at a steady rate and barring
protracted bad weather, will be
completed well within the specified
time. Construction company officials
estimate they will be able to lay
1,200 feet of concrete each day, and
the indications are that the Job will
be completed in about 60 working
days.
The concrete pouring was started
at the end of the paving eight miles
north of Wellington and Is proceed-
ing northward to connect with pav-
ing at the Wheeler county line.
When completed, the highway will
provide Collingsworth county's first
through paved road and will form a
connecting link between Highway 66
east and west through Wheeler
county and Highway No. 5 through
Childress county, both of which are
important traffic arteries.
Indication that the paving on
Highway 4 will be extended north
through Hemphill and Ochiltree
counties in the near future is seen
in preliminary information on the
highway program for the Panhandle,
recently given out at Amarillo by
Harry Hines, state highway com-
missioner.
‘GUN-TOTING7GIRL
GETS PRISON TERM
DEFIANT STUDENT SAYS NOT
SORRY FOR SHOOTING
AT HER TEACHER
MUSkoGEE, Okia., March 18 — A
defiant high school girl who told
the court she was “not sorry” she
shot at her English teacher because
“she gave me low grades” was or-
dered committed to the state indus-
trial school for girls at Tecumseh
Wednesday.
The girl, Ramona Porter, 16, was
ordered committed on a guilty pica
to a junevile delinquency charge
entered for her by her father, W.
P. Porter, unemployed carpenter,
when she refused to plead.
County Judge S. E. Gidney said
the commitment was for an indef-
inite period.
The girl was arrested yesterday
after she fired a .22 caliber pistol
at Miss Charlotte Kennedy, her
English teacher, while Miss Ken-
nedy fled down a school corridor.
James Litten, janitor, was struck
on the leg by a ricocheting shot.
Another grazed the arm of Betty
Jane Peckenpaugh, 17-year-old stu-
dent.
The girl’s father testified she
was afflicted with spinal meningitis
at an early age.
County Attorney Camp Bonds
said the girl told him she tried to
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DETROIT, March 18—Sit-down
strikers in defiant disregard of a
court injunction redoubled their
military guard about factory gates
last night as Governor Frank
Murphy, iiueceasful in previous
mediation efforts, sought a key to
solution of current and threatened
labor disputes.
The governor told a conference of
representatives of varied interest*
that "personal liberty will be of
little value to our people if the
authority and integrity of our courts
are not preserved and property
rights are not protected.”
Sympathizers Give Support
Even as he convoked the con-
ference, some 20,000 union sympa-
thizers shouted from the streets
their support of more than 5,000
strikers holding eight Chrysler Cor-
poration automobile plants despite a
court order for their eviction.
Murphy warned that “we have
means to enforce respect for public
authority and we propose to uss
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COTTON FARMERS
■■■ AGAINST
PRICE FORECAST
WALLACE SAYS PREDICTIONS
OF 20-CENT STAPLE MAY
PROVE ’DELUSION’
WASHINGTON. March 18 — Sec-
retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal-
lace warned southern farmers last
night that predictions of 20-cent
cotton next fall may be a "danger-
ous delusion.”
Department of agriculture offi-
cials attributed the prediction to
Benjamin Adler, a New York cot-
ton statistician. Wallace said he
saw nothing in the present situation
to support it.
“Predictions of that sort are like-
ly to harm the farmer,” Wallace
said, adding that a bumper crop
might easily result In a slump In
prices. He pointed out that the
tflj^d States has a carry-over of
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RITES TODAY FOR
DENNIS O’GORMAN
POPULAR COUNTY RESIDENT
LEAVES HOST OF FRIENDS
TO MOURN DEATH
TREASURY TO PAY
OLD AGE PENSIONS
AUSTIN, March 18 — Charley
Lockhart, State Treasurer, said Wed-
nesday all old age pension warrants
would hereafter be paid through
the State Treasury, since the con-
tract with the Republic National
Bank of Dallas expired March 1.
The contract for payment by the
Dallas bank was made last Decem-
ber when funds from new revenue
sources had not accumulated in suf-
ficient amount to meet payments
and secure federal match funds.
No ‘Spending Spree9 For
Pampa Sweepstake Winner
PAMPA, March 18 — Pete Mc-
Carty, Pampa oil field worker, is
"resting on his oars,” awaiting fur-
ther developments on the announce-
ment that he has won $31,021 as a
residual cash prize in the Irish Hos-
pital sweepstakes at Dublin.
McCarty, who lives at the Amer-
ican hotel here, Is a modest, retir-
ing sort of person, somewhere in
the forties, who has no wild Ideas
about going on a spending spree
when his new wealth arrives.
He said today that he (dans to
“make this money last me the rest
of my life.” He seeks no publicity
and hopes that salesmen and per-
sons with get-rlch-quick ideas will
give him a wide berth.
“I am not interested in any plans
to increase the amount,” Mr. Mc-
Carty said today. “It is the first
break I 'have ever had, and I hope
to make the most of it.”
McCarty was one of seven to
draw cash prizes of $81,021 each. He
was notified of his award by tele-
gram he said.
The body of Dennis O'Gorman,
popular 56-year-o’,d county resident
who died suddenly at his home in
Magic City Tuesday morning, was
laid to rest in the Shamrock ceme-
tery Thursday morning.
Rev. Father Daly of Childress read
the last rites for the prtominent
county resident at Saint Patrick’*
Catholic Church this morning. Hosts
of friends gathered this morning to
pay last tribute to Mr. O'Gorman.
He was born in New York City to
1881, and has made his home In this
vicinity for the past eight years.
Surviving are his wife and children,
Leo, Loretta, Michael, Roger, Louise,
Angela, Myrtle, Anna Rose, James,
Bernard, Betty, Rosemary, Bobbie,
Dick and Myra; four brothers, Tom
and Roger O’Gorman of Shamrock;
John J. and Patrick O’Gorman of
Greeley, Neb., and two sisters, Mrs.
Nora Haney and Mrs. Agnes Stark,
both of Cleveland, Ohio.
Nix Funeral Home was in charge
of the burial service.
Irishman Fails
To Name Day,
Still In Jail
JOLIET, 111., March 18 — Sheriff
Michael Breen, Shamrock, day pipe
and all, stepped into the bullpen of
Will county jail yesterday and ask-
ed:
“How many of you men are Irish?”
Six prisoners stepped forward. The
Sheriff asked:
"And do you know what day it
is?”
One prisoner said:
"Wednesday.’’
The others chorused:
“St. Patrick’s day.”
Said the sheriff;
"You five may go free.”
After the five left (the fellow who
said Wednesday stayed) the sheriff
asked the jailer:
"What were those men’s name*?”
The jailer answered:
“Schmidt, Cohen, Ozajowski, Gui-
seppto and Lopes.”
The man who stayed?
His name la O'Brien I
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