Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 114, Ed. 1 Monday, May 24, 1948 Page: 4 of 4
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Last Day
PLUS SECOND FEATURE
SUN. and MON.
Web Of Danger
TCKS.—WED.
Micethief* 87. Continues a Job
After 58 Years of Enforcing Law
FRANKLIN, NVb. (U.R)—K. W.
Agnew, 87-year-old police chief of
Franklin, claims the honor of hav-
ing served as a peace officer for
a longer period than any man in
Ihi' United States—58 years.
He is still going strong.
Agnew started his law work in
PW8 at the ajfi' of 27 in Smith
County. Kan., where he was con-
stable for 10 years. He followed
t'lat with l"> years as sheriff of
Sr-niith County, .six years as deputy
:.nd in lUiiO another two years as
sheriff.
Added tn his Kansas servicc is
r.Kire than 2."> years as chief of
police at Franklin. While holding
lhis job. Agnrw served more than
14 years as deputy sheriff in
Franklin County under three sher-
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CATHERINE McLEOD
Plus Second Feature
BULL DOG DROMOND
STRIKES BACK
PALACE
AN INTERSTATE THEATRE
LAST TIMES iMONDAY
WALTER DEtORAH
PIDGEON • KERR
If Hinter Comes
TI KS.—WED.
"Night Song"
NATIONAL
ftN INTERSTATE THEATRE
LAST TIMES MONDAY
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MRIV SULIIVAM * ICLITA • JOAN LOillNi
And
"Winter
Carnival
■■
; iffs.
! The slender chief still is vigorous
and nimble, as has been discovered
hy men more than 50 years his
S junior.
I Agnew's friends say he is a
kir.dly family man and grand-
j father. He performs his somewhat
; unpleasant duties with courtesy
I when possible, but his t'irey temper
come to the fore if he is not ac-
corded the same treatment and
r> spect.
r The police chief enjoys telling
i f his experiences in the days of
the "hos thief" and the bank rob-
bi r gangs. In his long career he
h.is found himself in danger but
will tell only of the humorous in-
cidents.
Once, when prohibition was in
i >rce, Agnew was pursuing a boot-
Iejrger with a carload of liquor
• ver the country roads south of
Franklin.
The chase crossed the Kansas
b'.rder, and Agnew's jurisdiction
ceased, but the chase didn't. Know-
ing the Smith County roads like a
b' ok, Agnew took a shortcut and
rounded up his man some 10 or 12
miles inside Kansas.
Since the bootlegger raised no
objection, he was brought back to
Franklin, where he pleaded guilty,
tort his automobile, his load of
i nntraband, and paid a heavy fine
ai.d costs.
Agnew said he had "consider-
able" trouble keeping a straight
, face when the bootl.'gger com-
plained bitterly: "If I hod ever
i;ot into Kansas everything would
l ave ben all right."
Says Agnew with a grin: "May-
!•■• th>' arrest was hot quite accord-
ing to the books, but ? didn't con-
si, ler it my business to tell this
i,.an where he had been. After all,
the way we twisted and turned
i.ver those country roads, I might
have been mistaken myself."
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English Pott
HORIZONTAL VKKTSCAL-
1,7 Pictured 1 Mulct
famous poet 2 For fear that
12 He has spent 3 Brother
many years io 4Royal
Institute (ab.)
150,000 Acres
STATE SCHOOL LAND
FOR SALE
July 6, 1948
Information, description and Iocs,
tion of this land, together with
application blank, will be furnlahed
FREE!
Write
BASCOM GILES
Commissioner of the
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
Austin, Texan
5 Habitat plant
form
6 Venture.
7 Tidy
8 Either
0 Sweet potato
10 Jacob's
brother
11 Bench
13 Expunges
15 Tableland
16 Open space
18 Partner
IS Leaving
20 Fancy
22 Indian
23 North
Carolina (ab.) 12 Amid
mS0* « 14 Appears n
25 Negative 17 Each (ab.)
27 Type measure 20 Means
28 Spanish horse
30 Domesticates
32 Before
33 Follower
34 Bird
36 Hundred
(comb, form)
30 Bovine
quadruped
40 Boy's
nickname
41 Half an em
42Railroad (ab.)
43 At the stern
45 Freshets
50 Tree
51 Before long
53 War god
54 Great Lake
55 Most faithful
57 He is from .
59 Attire
SO Calyx leaves
.. ;'-r in
lit IGJMf 1
21 Lures *46 Taps
24 Eagle's nest 47 Area measure
26 Made of cereal 48 Golf devices
29 Beak
31 Males
34 Cook
35 He was
educated at
37 Educates
38 Annoyed
44 Trip
49 Hireling
50 Spoken
52 Born
54 Note of
Guido's scale.
56 Steamship
(ab.)
58 Gloria Patrt
(ab.)
Hollywood
Film Shop
. By PATRICIA CLARIt-
United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (U.R)—Tim Holt,
cowboy star, says it's not action
that makes western pictures so
popular. It's the dialogue.
The public doesn't go for char-
acters who speak in sophisticated
epigrams or gangster movie stac-
cato. No, says Holt, they like those
western men who talk their own
language.
"A lot more people in this coun-
try," Holt said, "greet their friends
with 'Hi pardner,' than with 'Hello,
dahhlingt"
Holt, veteran of some 30 plain-
spoken pictures about cowhands,
More and Better Telephone Service
For BRECKENRIDGE ...
THE SWITCHBOARD HERE IS CROWING
...Four new switchboard positions and 300
new lines have been added at the telephone
t
office here. More telephone operators now can
handle your calls during busy calling hours. In
addition, we will be able to speed telephones to
many who are watting for service.
We've installed a lot of telephones here since
the end of the war—more than 650. Brecken-
ridge now has 1,969 in service, 68 per cent more
than in 1941. But more people here have
wanted telephones than ever before. New orders
for service have poured in faster than we can
connect them. As a result, although we have
added 650 telephones here since V-J Day, the
waiting list has grown from 209 at that time to
359 today!
That's why we're hard at work putting in
more equipment here... as much as we can get,
as speedily as possible. Each new piece of equip-
ment means more telephones. There'll be no let*
up until everyone in Breckenridge who wants a
telephone has onet Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company.
ru?tler3 and hoss thieves, is mak-
ing his fourth post-war film. "Wild
Horse Mesa," at RKO Radio stu-
dios. He admits that gun battles,
fist fights and spectacular falls
from galloping horses don't hurt
the pictures' gross, but he insists
tnat simple American speech is a
big popularity factor, too.
'"Die audience feels that they
know the people in the pictures,"
he said, "and they like them be-
cause they speak the same way."
Simple, declarative sentences
from the backbone of western dia-
logue. They are easy to speak and
easy to understand. No matter how
complex the plot, the dialogue re-
mains simple and clear.
"No western fan ever leaves the
theater wondering who did what
and how to whom," Holt said.
"That is more than can be said for
some of those hard-boiled detec-
tive movies."
Holt also objected to some of the
l.igh-flown dramas in which every-
body bogs down hopelessly in a
morass of metaphors and smiles.
Western movies, he pointed out,
confine themselves to "riding like
the wind" to catch those rustlers
clown by the pass.
"Everybody sneers at western
Piovies," Holt said, "but they could
loam a thing or three from them.
Basic English, or instance.
"Shakespeare had the right idea
when he said Art should hold the
n.irror up to nature, or something.
My suggestion for movie writers
'V just listen to people talk."
"Ha" Sold
Te nable Chinese
To Escape Draft
CANTON, China *U. —Chinese
"pig" soldiers are being bought and
sold here for a few million Chin-
ese dollars, according to published
vernacular reports.
The "pig" soldiers are peasants
or coolies who are being forcibly
conscripted as substitutes for some
wealthier citisen who can afford
to buy his way out of the army.
For a price, there ere several
gangs that will undertake to effect
the substitution.
Chinese press reports allege that
"people of prominent influence"
are involved in the organizations,
which operate in the imediate
vicinity of Canton.
"There are regularly more than
200 brokers operating between
Canton and the districts of Toi-
sban, San Wui, Yan Ping and Hoi
Ping," one report said. It listed
various ways in which the organi-
zations operate:
1. By the establishment of bogus
'employment bureaus" to deceive
villagers arriving in Canton in
search of jobs.
2. Exerting influence to have
peasants or collies picked up and
jciled as spies for Communists *r
bandits.
3. Establishment of false "vol-
unteer recruiting offices" masqu-
erading as official army recruiting
stations.
The "volunteers" are paid a few
million Chinese dollars as induce-
ment, as against a price of $20,-
000,000 to $30,000,000 Chinese
(about $40 to $(>0 U. S. at the
#—BRECKBMUDGB AMERICAN —MONDAY, MAY 24 1948
black market rate), which is the
usual charge to the person seeking
to avoid conscription. The differ-
ence is pocketed by the operators.
The "pigs" are secreted until a
number are accumulated and then
are transported to an outlying
district for sale to draftees whose
number has come up.
The reports estimated that be-
tween 2,000 and 3,000 human 'pigs'
htve been bought and sold by
this method in the past year. They
said the suspicion of the authori-
ties was first aroused by the "often
mysterious disappearance of able-
bodied men."
For Graduation
Dean Briggs of Harvard called
Boston the town, "Where the Ca-
bots speak only to the Lowells,
ana the Lowells speak only to God.'
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Or a New Royal Standard
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Phone 52t>
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Not only better and lower cost
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also better insurance that cov-
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tect you.
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Ph. 269 Nfte 35
Offers You
THE
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CAREY DRUG PHONE 26
For Reservation & Information—Breckenridge, Texas
FRIENDLY BUS SERVICE EVERYWHERE
*1 £ ACCIDENTS!
/^^YOUR DRIVING
//V0^ / . . . YOUR CAR
0**
Yes, one way you can help check accidents is by careful
driving. But you can be doubly sure, by having your car in
• safe operating condition. And we are prepared to help you
do this. During the Police Safety Check, we are offering
every Ford owner a free safety check. Play safe,-drive ii.
today. Well give your car a free inspection promptly.
BRING YOUR CAR "BACK HOME" FOR A
FREK SAFCTY CHICK
301 E. Walker St
Phone 166
NOTICE
The Caffey Typewriter Exchange will he open June
1st for sales and service of R. C. Allen Business
Machines, Cash Registers, Calculators — And repair
■ind sates of all makes of second hand typewriters.
137 E. Walker phom, 2m
"Formerly Thompson Typewriter Exchange
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you washes in rain-soft water. Plenty of capacity . . . over
12,000 gallons per day. Come in and wash with our Bendcx
Automatic Laundries. With this soft water you'll see a world
of difference in your clothes.
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you wilt be pleased with.
Rough Dry With Linen Finish 8c Per Lb.
Finished Work Done By The Piece.
Our Sub-Station located at Modern Washateria, 918
North Breckenridge Ave.
Leave your bundles and call there or we give Daily
Pick-Up and Delivery Service.
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"We Appreciate Your Business"
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Hall, Charlie. Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 114, Ed. 1 Monday, May 24, 1948, newspaper, May 24, 1948; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth133159/m1/4/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.