The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1935 Page: 1 of 8
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f’OUND DEAD
Is Found Near Tracks;
Thought To Be Victim
Of Foul Play
Boy Yockum, Clifton resident, was
found dead beside the Santa Fe rail-
road track along the switching tracks
just north of town early last Friday
morning by a young negro man who
lives near that section. The body was
badly cut and battered.
After an inquest held by Justice of
Peace Henry Cooper, whose finding
was given as “death caused by being
hit by a train,” the body was taken
to the Undertaking department of the
Clifton Mercantile Company, where it
was held for further investigation
and prepared for burial.
An official from the Santa Fe Rail-
road Co. and an investigator from an
insurance company made a careful
study of the mishap for their respec
tive companies. Local and county of-
ficers also made further investigation
of Yockum’s death. Because of the
nature of the wound found on the
back of the head and other places
about the face and neck, the lack of
evidence on the engine of having
struck a human, the officers were
convinced that Yockum had been
murdered and placed near the track.
Blood and other signs which were
found at the rear of some oil tanks
only a short distance from where the
body was found further indicated
that the tfian had been murdered and
not killed by a train.
Several negroes and one or more
white men, known to have been with
Yockum only a short while before his
death, were taken to the county jail
for questioning; however, no definite
clue seems to have developed in the
case.
It is known that the unfortunate
man was seen alive with others after
midnight, and wa? possibly on his
way from a house in East Clifton to
his home in the northern section
when he lost his life.
The deceased, who was forty years
of age, leaves a wife and seven chil-
dren; four daughters and three sons.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the
First Baptist Church in this city with
Rev. Geo. A. Jackson preaching the
sermon. Interment was made in the
Clifton Cemetery.
Liquor Legalized In
Texas After 16 Years
Austin, Texas, Sept. 10.—For the
first time in sixteen years, Texans
today had legal liquor. Local option,
however, prevented sales in four-
fifths of the State.
Prohibition was officially declared
dead last night by Gov. James V. All-
red and two other members of the
State canvassing board, Attorney
General William McCraw and Secre-
tary of State R. B. Stanford. Retfims
from all except eight counties, none
of which would have changed the re-
sult, showed Texans voted Aug. 24:
For repeal, 297,697; against, 250,948.
Repeal was one of five constitution-
al amendments which the board found
had been adopted. Old age pension
payment received 444,539 votes for,
compared to 108,565 against. Tempo-
rary commitment of insane without
jury trials was authorized by 294,287
t 199,959. Voters abolished the fee
system of paying county and district
officers by 274,537 to 188,642.
Both defeated amendments lost by
small margins. Free textbooks in
private and parochial schools were
refused by 280,019 to 257,815. Submis-
sion of constitutional amendments at
special sessions of the Legislature
failed on a ballot of 214,024 for, 238,-
258 against.
ft In more than sixty counties where
^ liquor may be legally bought, made
and transported, a new freedom was
allowed. Until the Legislature shall
provide means of regulation—either
by State monopoly or licensing—
there will be no State taxes, no rules.
£> Legislators will meet Sept. 16 to con
* sider regulation, taxes and to define
-*, and outlaw the “open saloon.”
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Chief Aces Blue Eagle of the Paw-
nee and Creek tribe of Oklahoma,
snllcd for England on the Normandie
to lecture In Oxford on the subject
of American Iildlan art and dancing.
He is pictured In full regalia which is
port of his “props.” lie is Just as
much at home In evening atilre.
ege And Public School
Open With Fine Outlook
Three New Member*
Added to College
Faculty
Cubs Training Hard
For Rosebud Game
Coaches Jim Smith and Pete Apple-
by started working with the Cubs of
1935 Monday a week ago and have
been putting the squad through stiff
daily workouts that the boys may be
in condition to stand up to their stiff
ten game schedule this fall.
The squad numbers around twenty-
five, giving the coaches sufficient men
to carry on hard scrimmage which
most coaches feel is necessary to de-
velop team work. Scrimmage has been
taking place this week as the team
practiced to round their plays into
workable form. Those interested in
getting an idea of the strength of this
year’s high school team may watch
the team go through their practices
at the High School each afternoon.
Football Schedule
For High School
Sept. 20—Rosebud ‘there.
Oct. 4—McGregor, ‘there.
Oct. 11—Gatesville, here.
Oct. 18—La Vega, here.
Oct. 25—Itasca, here.
Nov. 1—Open.
Nov. 8—Valley Mills, here.
Nov. 15—Meridian, here.
Nov. 22—Meridian, here.
Nov. 29—Valley Mills, there.
‘Night games away from
home.
The Cubs’ first game will be played
at Rosebud, Friday, September 20.
The ga'me will be played at night and
according to Mr. M. E. Jones, former
principal in the Clifton school and
now superintendent of the Rosebud
schools, the Rosebud team will be
strong again this year. Last year it
was one of the strongest among the
Class B schools in central Texas.
McGregor is the second game on the
Cub’s schedule; that too will b
played away from home. Thus the lo-
cal team will have to work overtime
to be ready for such stiff competition
early in the year.
The success of the team will likely
depend upon the veterans Hugh Bron-
stand (Capt.), Arthur Bronstad, P.
O. Dahl, Aubrey Dahl, J. T. (Bub)
Spangle, Jackson Stryker, and Alvin
Jorgenson. Some of the first year men
will have to work hard to replace such
men as Robert Ruffin, Price Wallace.
Alvin Surley, Lewis Sormrude, and
John Schow, who completed their
high school football last year.
Henry Ford To Feed
Texas Calve* on Farm
Brady, Texas, Sept. 6.—Henry
Ford of Detroit, has bought three
carloads of Hereford calves from
Jack Brook, 150 head of which are
the top steers of the Brook herd.
The three carloads were contracted
for by Mr, Ford after seeing some
pictures of Brook’s prize-winning
calves sent to him by one of
The Clifton College opened its reg-
ular session Monday afternoon at
three, o’clock with a fine program con-
sisting of a splendid address by Rev.
Pernie Pederson, a beautiful vocal
solo by Miss Hannah Hoff, and an-
other music rendition by a trio con-
sisting of Mrs. Anna Odegaard, Prof.
A. L. Bronstad, Mrs. A. C. Rockway,
with Miss Fern Bronstad at the piano.
Rev. P. E. Thorson opened the pro-
gram with devotion, and also in-
stalled the new teachers.
Miss Alice P. Haneock will be in
charge of the Department of English.
She will also be Dean of Women and
be supervisor of the library. Miss
Hancock comes to Clifton from Chi-
cago. She is a lady of wide experi-
ence and is very highly recommend-
ed.
Miss Virginia Bell will head the
Department of Fine Arts and the De-
partment of Public School Music.
This is a new department at Clifton
College and has been organized to
meet the new demands that the State
Department of Education is making
upon teachers who wish to qualify
for work in the elementary grades.
Miss Bell comes from Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and has the training and
has her master’s degree from the
University of Michigan.
Mr. Edward Dubois arrived this
morning. Mr. Dubois has his master’s
degree from the University of Mich-
igan at Ann Arbor in commercial
subjects. He takes the place of Mr.
T. W. Wood as head of the Depart-
ment of Business Administration.
That position was made vacant re-
cently when Mr. Wood accepted a
position with the Virginia Polytech-
nic Institute.
We wish to invite the attention of
all who have boys and girls of col-
lege age to investigate the oppor-
tunities that Clifton College is offer-
ing right here near their homes, and
also the rates which Clifton College
is asking. Distance may lend en-
chantment in many instances, and
agents and representatives of distant
institutions may wield their influence,
but nevertheless the fact remains
that Clifton College is offering a wide
range of work at so low cost that it
can hardly be duplicated. It is also a
fact that the best instruction is that
instruction that is received in the
classroom where the student is in per-
sonal and daily contact and conversa-
tion with an able instructor. Every
departmet at Clifton College is head-
ed by a teacher who holds no less
than a master’s degree in the field in
which he is teaching. There are
many splendid young men and women
in this community and in other com-
munities that Clifton College would
like to serve. We Invite all who are
thinking about education in some
field or other to consult us. We can
probably offer the opportunities for
less money, and we know that our
professors, being all specialists, have
the ability.
The first day’s enrollment at Clif-
ton College seems to indicate a fine
attendance, and the student body rep-
resents fine specimens of young men
and young women.
W,ork on the new athletic field is
progressing nicely. Within a few
days the lights will be placed, and by
the time of the opening game, Sep-
tember 27, with John Tarleton Col-
lege of Stephenville the field and all
equipment will be in readiness.
Coach Harris has a likely-looking
group of athletes working out daily.
This is conditioning week for the
bunch, and they are being pushed to
be ready when the season opens.
Football fans can look forward to an
exciting season under the lights at
Clifton this year.
If yoli have not seen the new ath-
letic field on the campus, drive out
and look it over. It is ideally located
and will, make a very attractive place
for athletic meets. A complete sched
ule of games will appebr later.
Public School Begins
Term With 387
Enrolled
The public school opened Monday
morning with a total enrollment of
387, distributed as follows:
1st Grade .................................... 31
2nd Grade ........................... 38 •
3rd Grade ...................... 28
4th Grade .................................... 39
5th Grade .................................. 39
6th Grade .................................. 43
7th Grade .................................. 34
High School ............................ 135
.HEADS LABOR BOARD
, Joe Moffatt called Saturday after-
noon and left his check in payment
home reading. Mr.
, has probably been a continu- J farm near Detroit with soybean
to the Recorc' “ “ “ "-
having misse<
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Total ............................... 387
All members of the faculty of last
year were re-elected to the positions
held by them last school term and
assignments have been made as fol-
lows:
Mrs. E. E. Schow—1st Grade.
Mrs. W. W. Land—2nd Grade.
Miss Elsie Coston—3rd Grade.
Miss Alva Dowdle—4th Grade.
Kent Appleby—5th Grade and his-
tory and geography in grammar
school.
Mrs. W. C. Hurst—6th grade and
grammar school English.
Miss Millie Bronstad—7th grade
and grammar school arithmetic.
Mrs. G. E. McCaleb—High School
English.
James S. Smith—High School
Math, and General Science.
Miss Freddie Link—Home Econom-
ics.
Miss Sibyl York—Commercial De-
partment.
Mrs. Ora Lee Bettis—Latin I and
Math. 4.
O. E. Pierson—High School His-
tory.
W. D. Raley—Latin 2 and Chemis-
try.
New high school courses have been
added this year as follows: A half
unit course in Trigonometry has been
added to the mathematics offering to
take the place of Business Arith-
metic, which is now being offered as
Commercial Arithmetic and has been
transferred to the commercial depart-
ment as a portion of the course in
Bookkeeping. Bookkeeping, offered
last year as a one-credit course, is be-
ing offered this year as a credit and
a half, including the time devoted to
Commercial Arithmetic. The new state
requirements made it impossible to
offer the course in Shorthand, but a
course is being offered in Advertis-
ing and Salesmanship to take its
place. Typewriting is being offered as
a full credit course instead of a half
credit as heretofore. A course in the
history of Texas and Spanish Amer-
ica has been introduced to take the
place of the course in English His-
tory.
Attention of parents of high school
children is called to the practical use-
fulness of the courses in commercial
work. The high school courses in
Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Advertis-
ing, and Salesmanship offer splendid
elementary training in business, yet
very few pupils are willing to take
them. Many have expressed their un-
willingness to take them because
they are difficult. The courses offered
here are quite similar to those offered
in the various business colleges at
high tuition rates, and the school is
anxious to have the pupils benefit by
them as much as possible. The
courses are elective and no pupil can
be required to take them, but par-
ents wishing their children to secure
business training at no cost are re
quested to advise them in the selec-
tion of their high school courses.
Joseph Warren Modden, attorney, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., who was appointej
Irinan of the new national labor
tlons board.
Sen. Long Die* Tuesday
From Assassin’s Bullet
SCHEDULE OF
RENTAL PAY
Cotton Rental Checks
Will B e Distributed
Next Week
Last Sunday’s Ball
Game Is Rained Out
The very interesting baseball gaihe
being played here last Sunday be-
tween Whitney and Clifton was
brought to a, sudden end when a
heavy rain started falling at the end
of the third inning, with the score
at that time 0-0.
Each team had collected two hits
each, with Whitney not getting a
man farther than first; but as the
Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 10.—Huey
P. Long, United States Senator, and
known as the dictator of Louisiana,
died at 4:05 a. m., today of a wound
inflicted by an assassin.
Physicians vainly tried for 31 hours
to save the Senator’s life. They per-
formed one operation, five blood tran-
fusions and administered artificial
oxygen to no avail.
The widow, who married him 22
years ago, was led dry-eyed from Our
Lady of the Lake Hospital. She had
been at the bedside in constant vigil
since Sunday night.
The marriage of Long and the for-
mer Rose McConnell followed a court-
ship typical of the speed of the sen-
ator’s life.
They met in Memphis. Long, travel-
ing agent for a packing firm, was
promoting a cooking contest. Mrs.
Long won the prize. A few months
later, during a visit to Shreveport, she
instrumental in exonerating
Long, who was charged with partici-
pating in a minor shooting scrape.
She produced seat stubs as proof he
escorted her to a theatre the night
of the shooting........
A “gunshot wound in the abdomen”
was officially given as the cause of
the senator’s death by Dr. E. L. San-
derson, who said there were “not
necessarily” any complications.
Dr. G. S. Long, a brother of the
senator, was quoted as saying, how-
ever, that the bullet which entered the
right side, puncturing the colon in two
places, also pentrated the kidney.
The senator was 42 years old.
The gunshot wound was inflicted by
Dr. Carl A. Weiss, kinsman of a Long
political enemy, in the corridor of the
Louisiana state capitol at 9:20 p. m.,
Sunday night.
Even before his death there were
demands for a full investigation of the
fatal shooting. In Washington Repre-
sentative Fenerty, Republican, Penn-
sylvania, declared:
“The congressional committee which
is about to investigate Senator Long’s
activities in Louisiana might also in-
vestigate who it was who instigated
his attempted murder.”
The senator had just stepped from
the, house chamber after pushing to-
ward completion a number of special
session acts aimed at the federal ad-
ministration, and toward consolidat-
ing his already almost unbelievable
control of the state’s affairs.
Doctor Weiss, a 30-year-old eye,
nose and throat specalist, pressed a
gun into the senator’s stomach and
fired. His arm was deflected before he
could fire a second shot and Long’s
bodyguardsmen, state highway police-
men, killed him;on the spot with a
fusillade of nearly 60 bullets. Doctor
Weiss was buried yesterday. _
The lieutenants of the Louisiana
dictator were stunned momentarily
and grief-stricken by Long’s death,
but were believed ready to attempt to
carry on the powerful regime he
established.
On the other hand, Long’s political
opponents were expected to make a
Bosque County farmers who signed
a cotton contract for the first time in
1935 may receive their first rental
checks Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept.
17 and 18, at the scheduled places,
says E. R. Lawrence, County Agent.
Approximately 90 per cent of the
1935 cotton checks on the new con-
tract have been received and are be-
ing prepared for distribution.
The checks will be delivered at the
following places:
Tuesday, September 17:
8 o’clock, Cranfills Gap.
10 o’clock, Norse.
11 o’clock, Clifton.
2 o’clock, Valley Mills.
3 o’clock, Mosheim. 1
Wednesday, September 18:
8 o’clock, Iredell.
9:30 o’clock, Walnut Springs.
10:30 o’clock, Morgan.
11 o’clock -
1 o’clock, Koppcrl.
Since the checks will be delivered
Tuesday and Wednesday, it will be
impossible for a producer to receive
his check on those two days at the
county office; however, the checks
will be in Meridian after Wednesday.
Since the time for exchanging Tax
Exemption Certificates issued in 1934
for Certificates usable in 1935 closes
Sept. 30, it is urged that these cer-
tificates be brought into the office of
Mr. Lawrence and exchanged. The
certificates are of no value to the cot-
ton farmer if he does not exchange
them; therefore, it is very necessary
that the various Forms be signed in
order that the Certificates be re-is-
sued.
Miss Myra Cox McKay
Bride of Chas. R. Nelson
Mr. Charles R. Nelson of this city
and Miss Myra Cox McKay of Bards-
town, Kentucky, were united in mar-
riage Tuesday, September 3rd, at
Hope, Arkansas, the Rev. Thomas L.
Brewster of that city officiating. The
happy couple arrived home early this
week and have been receiving the
hearty congratulations of their many
friends and admirers .......
Mr. Nelson is a life-long citizen of
Clifton; the eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. O. Nelson, Jr., and is one’of
this city’s leading business men; for
a number of years having been the
local manager of the Wm. Cameron
& Company lumber yard here, and
since reaching manhood has been one
of the community’s outstanding cit-
izens.
The bride is well known to many
Clifton people, as she has on several
occasions visited with Mrs. Homer
Carpenter in this city, making many
friends, who learned to admire her.
She is a native of Bardstown, Ken-
tucky; a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. H. McKay of that city; a beautiful
and talented young woman of culture
and for several years past has taught
in the public schools of her native
State.
As soon as the new furnishing have
been arranged in their lovely home
in Edgewood addition to Clifton,
which will be only a few days, they
will occupy it and be at home to their
many friends.
The Record joins their host of
friends in extending to them congrat-
ulations and sincere good wishes for
their continued happiness throughout
life together.
Connally and Son
Off To Mexico
Senator Tom Connally of Marlin,
whq is in Houston with his son Ben
since coming to Texas for Mrs. Con-
nally’s funeral, will go tb Mexico for
a brief stay, and on his return will
depart October 15 for the Philippine
Islands, returning in December to
Washington. His secretary, Miss
Eleanor Crow, who is in Marlin now,
will come to Waco the first of Oc-
tober to visit her aunt, Mrs. Louis
Crow.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1935, newspaper, September 13, 1935; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775745/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.