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For Top In First Hour Hereford Sale
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Jack Frost's
Bull Leads in
Early Bidding
Breeders In Spirited
Competition for 68
Registered Animals
•'oil 11 Gist of Odem paid
$500 for Superior Anxiety
13th, bull consigned by Jack
Frost of Blackwefl, t® top
the early selling in the
21st auction of the Sweet-
water Hereford Breeders as-
sociation today.
Gist chose this bull in a lot
of two, the other Superior Mis-
chief 18th. Superior Anxiety
13th was calved Sept. 2, 1036, by
Superior 13th out of Myrhl's
Blanche.
Present for the sale were
many of the nation's leading
breeders, men who yesterday j
paid fabulous prices for the j
Herefords auctioned by John B. |
Stribling, Roby breeder.
In addition to the breeders,
hundreds of spectators crowded
around the sale arena as Col.
Earl Gartin pushed the buyers
to high prices.
fi.'l Head On Block
Bidding on the 63 head of j
registered Hereford, guaranteed
to he of Gudgell and Simpson
extraction, was spirited and in-
dications were that the sale
would be completed in record
time.
Assisting Col. Gartin in the
sale arena were Frank W. Far- j
ley, of the Hereford Journal;
R. O. Peterson, of the Kansas
City Drovers Telegram; Frank
Reeves, of the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram; and J. E. Boog-Scott,
of the Texas Cattleman.
Walter Boothe was manager
of the sale and J. N. Dulaney is
secretary-treasurer.
Karly Sale Bids
Selling up to the top of $5<X)
was : Caldo Rupert, consigned
by Arledge Steele 10 .a__r m
Knox City bought by G. W. Lott,
Navasota. $180; Perfect Domi-
no, I. A. Bird, Sanco, by John F.
Eppley, Stanton. $175; Boo Stan-
way 5th, Walter L. Boothe,
Sweetwater, by G. P. Hodges,
Sweetwater, $105; Superior 111th
G. E. Bradford, Sweetwater, by
G. P. Mitchell. Wink, $125; Su-
perior Domino 3d, Bradford, by
Mitchell, $110; Post Dollies 2nd,
Double LJ Co., Post, by Sam
Buttman, Merkel, $85; Victor
Mischief 8th, J. D. Dulaney,
Sweetwater, by C. A. Anderson,
Sweetwater, $140; Gene Boo,
Gus Farrar, Maryneal by Butt-
man, $75; all bulls.
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Texas Tenant 2nd
To Obtain Farm
CANTON — (UP) — Clar-
ence Clark, Van Zandt County
farmer, held the honor of being
the first tenant planter in Tex-
as and tiie second in the United
States to be approved for land
purchase under the Bankhead-
Jones act.
When the title to the land
chosen by Clark is approved, he
will receive a check for $6,003.50
from the government to buy and
improve the 141 acre farm.
Clark will have 40 years in
which to repay the loan. From
more than 2,000 applicants, the
government has chosen 145 ten-
ants, "the cream of the crop" in
Texas counties.
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Sweetwater Reporter
Seek Missing Plane
VOL. XXXX
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938
NUMBER 310
Relations With
Russia 'Delicate'
TOKYO — (UP) — "Relations
between Japan and Russia are
"delicate" Foreign Minister Hiro-
ta told the Diet today.
As between the United States
and Japan, he said, there is
"no chance for a clash" if each
maintains its separate sphere of
influence.
Hirota also indicated that Ja-
pan would welcome a disarma-
ment conference.
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Mostly
fair and somewhat cooler to-
night and Saturday.
WEST TEXAS — Partly
cloudy and cooler tonight and
Saturday.
EAST TEXAS — Unsettled to-
night and Saturday, some cool-
er.
Suspect Held in
Connection With
Officer's Death
20-Year Old Youth
Admits Being in Cab
When Patrolman Shot
SHERMAN — (UP) — J- W.
Rickman, 20, Hunt county farm
youth for whom a manhunt
spread over North Texas after
the slaying of a McKinney po-
liceman. was held today in Gray-
son county jail.
Rickman was arrested near
Mead, Okla., by Oklahoma and
Texas officers for -<uestioning in
connection with the death of
Motorcycle Policeman Marion
Taylor, 34, in McKinney.
County Attorney Horace Neil-
son of Collin county secured a
statement from Rickman in
which he allegedly admitted be-
ing in the taxicab that Taylor
stopped just before lie was
sh#t.
Feeling was high in Collin
county over the shooting of the
popular peace officer and plans
were made to leave Rickman in
the Sherman jail.
Wanted For Robbery
Sheriff Frank Wolfe of Hunt
County said that Rickman was
also wanted in Greenville • for
questioning in connection with
the robbery of a filling station
Tuesday night. A station ' at-
tendant. who was slugged dur-
ing the robbery, identified a
picture of his assailant.
The gunman who shot Taylor
kidnaped Henry Lee Jackson,
Dallas taxicab driver, a few:
hours earlier and ordered him
to drive from Dallas to Sher-
man.
Jackson signaled to Taylor as
he ran through a red signal
light in McKinney and the of-
ficer followed the car. He was
shot six times as lie approached
the car after it halted.
Rickman told officers that he
escaped from the scene of the
shooting, and hid in the rest
room of a bus station until
dawn.
He caught a bus to Sherman.!
and then changed to another
bus going to Durant. At Dur-
ant, he left the bus and started |
hitchhiking toward Ardmore,
Okla.
'Unarmed When Caught. . . j
He was unarmed when arrest-1
ed on the highway by Sheriff'
Wolfe and Deputy Gordon Duff
of Hunt county, Constable Jim
Latham of Farmersville and
Deputy Dan Hike of McKinney.
Rewards totaling $750 had
been offered for the capture of
Taylor's slayer. Gov. James V.
Allred offered $250 reward to
match the same amount offered
by both McKinney and Collin
county.
In his statement to County
Attorney Neilson, Rickman ad-
mitted getting in Jackson's cab
and ordering him to drive north
on Highway 75. He said he had
been drinking during the even-
ing at Dallas.
After leaving the city Hints,
he ordered Jackson to "step on
it" and when told that the
speed of the car was controlled
See SUSPECT Page 4
Maryland Revives Old Law, Flogs
Husband for Beating His Wife
Writhing in ;i^i ny as great sobs eame from his lips, Clyde
Miller, Baltimore printer, is pictured below, lashed to the
whipping post, as the state of Maryland carried out its an-
cient law prescribing the cat-o'-ninc tails for wife beaters.
Shown administering the whipping to .Miller's bare back is
225-pound Sheriff Joseph Deegan. Mrs. Miller, left, so severely
beaten by her husband in a tavern brawl that doctors had to
lake five stitches in her face, tried to witness (lie whipping,
but was denied entrance. She announced that she would seek
a divorce. Miller, who now must serve six months in jail, was
able to walk in liis cell after the flogging with the assistance
of jailers.
mm mm-
Stribling Averages $539
TB Association
Banquet Held
A. S. Legg, president, pre-
sided for the annual banquet and
program of the Nolan Coun-
ty Tuberculosis Associr. i>at
7.:10 o'clock Thursday evening at
the- Allen Hotel.
Guest speakers included Miss
Helen LeLacheur. advisory
nurse with the Texas Tubercu-
losis association, Austin: Mrs.
Dallas Scarbrough, Abilene, pre-
sident of the Taylor county tub-
erculosis association.
Miss Lena Wilson, executive
secretary of the Taylor county
organization: Miss Stella Mc-
Cullough, superintendent of
nurses of the Hendrick Mem-
orial Hospital, Abilene: Mrs.
Lily Egbert, Flo.vdada, advisory
ntiVso with' the state health de-
partment: Miss Ernestine Kraz-
ier, nutritions! of the state de-
partment; were guests;
There were 28 present to
hear plans for the year and
reports from the Christmas seal
sale and other major issues of
the association.
Mother Is to Sacrifice Her Eye So
That Her Small, Blind Son May See
NORTH WALES, Pa. —
(UP) — A 30-year-old moth-
er, known in this small com-
munity for the beauty of
her blue eyes, will sacrifice
one of them to save the
sight of her baby son.
Mrs. Irne Laverty, pretty
blonde former hairdresser
who moved here less than
a year ago from Providence.
R. 1., today said she has
arranged for Dr. Ramon
Castrovlejo, New York
specialist, to transplant the
cornea of one of her eyes to
the right eye of her two-
year-old child, Roger. The
operation will be performed
about March 28 at the Pres-
byterian Medical Center,
New York.
"Roger is our only child,"
Mrs. Laverty said. "No sac-
rifice is too great if we can
■ let him see.
William Laverty, Roger's
father is employed as a
weaver in a textile mill.
Roger contracted measles
the day after the family mov-
into their home and pneu-
monia set in.
R e e o v e r y left Roger's
right eye sightless. His left
eye was affected and an im-
mediate operation in Phila-
delphia prevented total
blindness.
Fifty-seven Anxiety 4th line-
bred registered Herefords sold
at auction by John H. Stribling
Thursday averaged s">39 a head
to establish a new high for the
industry thus far in 1938. It
promises to be a record which
will be hard to equal during the
remaining months. The aver-
age was $220 a head above that
of the Harrisdale Farms sale
at Fort Worth.
Up to the Stribling sale only
two Herefords in the nation
had sold above Si ."00 since
January first and one t)f these
was bred by Mr. Suibling and
sold in 'he Brovvnw"od sale.
Highest pric" of the sale for
a bull and also highi.- price of
sale $1,750 was paid b\ Wendell
Mousel, Cambridge, Neb., for
Domestic Lamplighter Hull calf
with Prince Domii Mischief,
The Lamplighter and Domestic
44th ancestry.
Gentle Annie 17th with calf
at side topped the rows at.
$1050, paid by I. I. Kinder,
Frederick, Okla. 'l ie ■ "W is of
Superior Anxiety a 11 >' Superior
Mischief ancestry.
The sale was distin
the attendance of
1 breeders from even
| the compass both in
from other states.
1 sen ted six states
to Virginia, lllinoi
Plan To Divide
Russia Revealed
FDR, After Five
Years, Still For
New Deal Plans
"Old Ship of State
Still On Same Course,"
Says the President
WASHINGTON — (UP; —On
the fifth anniversary of his in-
auguration, President Roosevelt
today reaffirmed his determina-
tion to carry forward the prin-
ciples and program of the new
deal.
He told 100 newspapermen,
"After five years, the old Ship
of State still is on the same
course."
Mr. Roosevelt presented state-
ments after his return from St.
John's Church, where, as on in-
auguation day five years ago he
attended brief services. He em
phasized that through his years
in office the administration
clung to the same objectives and
the same ideals.
Differences Are Drawn
However, said Mr. Roosevelt,
it is worthwhile to draw a dis- j
tinction between those objec-
tives and the policies used to ;
attain them. He warned that the
administration would go ahead
with its war on special priv-
ileges and declared that he
fell encouraged that so-called
"pressure groups" were' being
eliminated.
T«sday, said the . president,
sees the purchasing power of
the people as a whole increased
by new deal legislation.
He expects the new farm bill;
to protect purchasing power of
50,000.000 Americans dependent j
on agriculture prices. That |
•will help industry and the
workers in industry as well.
Mr. Roosevelt reaffirmed his;
determination to enact a wage-
hour measure.
S«H«RAXC'=CC
PLAME LAS-
s&poarec ..N
th;S
Reaio^
AHce.e=
As rescuers searched moun-
tains near Fresno, Calif., fear
was expressed for safety of
six passengers and the crew of
three aboard the Transcontin-
ental and Western air liner
lost on a flight from San
Francisco to Los Ange-
les. ( apt. John It. Graves, was
chief pilot of tlie plane which
was rerouted to Los Angeles
from Fresno along the heavy
line shown in the map be-
cause of bad weather condi-
tions on the regular run to
Winslow, Ariz. The plane
turned back and was last
heard from north >>f Bakers-
field.
Parade to Open
'Used Car Week*
- (UP)
portion
of
A plot
central
A motor cavalcade Saturday
afternoon will start observance
of "National Used Car Week"
for Sweetwater dealers. Scores
i MOSCOW -
I to separate a
I Asia from the Soviet union and! of good used cars are being as-
I make it a buffer state under the I sembled for the parade, which
protection of the British empire will form in the lot in the rear
I was outlined today at the trea-!°f The Reporter office at 1:30
| o'clock, and start on its tou
i of the business and resident!
60 Planes Search
For TWA Airliner
FRESNO — 1 UP) — A fleet
of 60 planes was organized today
to search for a Transcontinen-
tal and Western airliner which
disappeared in the vicinity of
snow-capped Castle Peak. 60
miles east of here Tuesday night
with nine persons aboard.
Six searching planes flew over
the area yesterday and 400
ground searchers fought heavy
snow flurries without finding a
trace of the liner.
son trial of 21 Bolshevik lead-
ill'
tuished by
I lercford
point of
Texas and
rs reprc-
cattle going
New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Nebraska in addi-
tion to points in Tc.vis from
Galveston to Amarillo
See STRIBLING Page 6
'Street Sellers' Are
Fined In City Court
Alvin O'Holleran. Fon Du
Lac, Wis., and Raymond Dar-
nell, Benton. 111., paid fines of
$14 each in police court Friday
on charges of soliciting in
Sweetwater without being fing-
erprinted as required by city
ordinance. They are representa-
tives of a photo enlarging con-
cern picked up Thursday by
Patrolman Mondel Russell.
ers.
One defendant swore that he
had plotted to block off a part
of two provinces and make a
buffer state of them. Such a
state would be of tremendous
value to Britain because it would
lie in an area adjoining Afghani-
stan and India.
Morehead Charged
In County Court
County Attorney E. L. Dun-
can Thursday filed charges of
interfering with an officer in
making arrest against Shine
Morehead. In a complaint sign-
ed by Constable Neely D Reeves
it is alleged that Morehead in-
terfered with City Officer L. D.
jC'oppedge while the latter was
! arresting a man for being intoxi-
cated.
districts at 2 o'clock. Tt will be
headed by a motorcycle escort
from the police department.
Leaving Sweetwater, the pa-
rade will continue to Roscoe and
other points in the trade terri-
tory, to publicize the national
week which prevails through
the period of March 5-12. Special
values in used cars are being
offered by Sweetwater dealers
in an extensive observance of
the program.
Sweetwater Participants
Those taking part in the pa-
rade and observance for Sweet-
water include Stedman-Wafer
Sales & Service. Dabney Motor
company, Murchison-Cramer, O'-
lxeefe Motor Company, Brough-
ton Motor company, Steakley
;; Robert Scripps,
Editor. Dies
SAN DIEGO — (UP) - Rob-
ert P. Scripps, 42, controlling
stockholder of the Seripps-Ho-
ward newspapers, died at 3 p. n.
Thursday aboard his yacht off
Santa Margarita Island in Mag-
dalena Bay.
The news was received in a
message to navy radio headquar-
ters here. Wireless messages
said that death was due to an
internal hemorrhage.
The body was placed aboard
the Panama Pacific liner, Penn-
sylvania. at 6 p. m. Thursday.
The liner was bound to Los
Angeles.
Robert Scripps' father, E. W.
Motor company, Nolan County j Scripps. died aboard his
Motor company and Western j off Liberia in 1020 and w;
Motor company. ! icd at sea.
'•aeht
bur-
Death Toll Nears
200, Quarter of
Million Damages
Looting of Damaged
Homes Reported, Many
Still Isolated
LOS ANGELES — (UP) —
Dwindling food supplies added
i to the suffering today a,° water
soaked Southern California of-
ficials estimated the death toll
of the rainstorm and flood
would reach 200.
Eighty-seven persons were
known dead, and 150 reported
missing were believed dead.
I Property damage was estimated
at $25,000,000 Ten thousand
persons were homeless.
A number of Sweetwater
citizens today were anxious-
ly scanning the papers to
learn the fate of relatives in
the flood ravaged areas
around Los Angeles and
Hollywood. They appealed to
local amateur radio opera-
tors to make contact, if
possible, with Los Angeles
amateurs in an effort to get
word from their kinsmen.
Among those concerned
about the safety of kinsfolk
are:
Mr. and Mrs. Si Edwards,
whose son, Si Edwards, Jr.,'
is in Hollywood; M. J. Alli-
son, manager of the U. 8.
Gypsuin company plant,
whose wife is in Kipling ho-
tel in Los Angeles. She left
here last week with a Mr.
and Mrs. C. Rodgers of Ok-
lahoma. Mr. Allison has not
had any word from her since
the flood reached its height.
W. J. Hunt, whose mother,
Mrs. Anne Hunt, is in Santa
Monica in the heart of the
flood-ravaged area; Dick
Manna, whose parents, Mr. -
and Mrs. Robert Hanna, are
in the stricken area.
Many communities still were
.isolated and without communi-
cation facilities. Looting of
' abandoned homes was wide-
' spread. Six men were arrested
for looting.
I AH rail transport.!!! ri was
halted by laridtfiHes jir.d wash-
outs. Los Angeles received its
first mail in two days by a
coast guard cutter from San Di-
ego.
District Still Isolated
A large part of the 3,000,000
population in the flood district
.still was isolated. San Berna-
dino, Riverside, Santa Ana, Ana-
heim, all prosperous citrus
areas, were isolated and with-
out communications.
Camp Baldy, Palm Springs,
Victorville and San Bernardino
were a few communities where
j food was running low. There
was not a road in San Berna-
dino county, largest in the Unit-
; ed States, that was not destroy-
ed or partially washed out.
The 39,000 persons in San
Bernadino were without gas.
The electric supply was uncer-
tain, and stores were rationing
I food.
Plane Takes Food
American Airlines sent a spe-
cial plane with milk and other
supplies to Palm Springs where
power was out and candles were
selling for $1 each.
Topping the death list was the
Atwood-Anaheim district south-
east of Los Angeles where 17
fatalities were reported.
Houses in Atwood were
crushed when the Santa Ana
river changed its course and
flowed down the main street.
In Los Angeles proper, eight
bodies were recovered and 23
: persons listed officially as miss-
i ing-
ot her cities showed these es-
timates:
Riverside, 15 dead, $300,000
damage, 400 homeless.
San Bernadino, 10 dead, 1,000
homeless.
Gen. Pershing
Good Neighbor Policy and Power Farming Exhibited Gains Strength
r •> — . „ SZ Trrcnv ri'i.,
In Gigantic Demonstration by Citizens of Dunn
SNYDER — A total of 19
tractors and I walking list-
ers. listing 82 rows to the
round, were employed on
the Hugh Billingsley farm
two miles east of Dunn
Thursday morning. when
about 50 Dunn farmers gath-
ered to list 110 acres of land
for Billingsley. convalesc-
ing from a recent operation.
N. W. West, Dunn ginner,
paid all gasoline and oil ex-
penses for the arra> of 19
tractors, a committee of
Dunn citizens contributing
to pay for other expenses.
N. A. Billingsley was fore-
man, directing tractor opera-
tions.
Snyder people who witnes-
sed the parade of $30,000
worth of tractors in opera-
tion at the same time Thurs-
day morning included Coun-
ty" Superintendent Frank
Farmer, District Clerk Jim-
mie Billingsley, and others.
Dunn school superintendent,
Cleo W. Tarter, accompanied
the Snyder group.
A basket lunch was
spread at the noon hour at
the Hugh Billingsley home.
Those present reported it
(t
was one of the greatest
"demonstrations of power
farming ever held in Scur-
ry county." with a contrast,
of team power employed by
the four walking listers.
Hugh Billingsley states
would be impossible
thank the Dunn people
the good turn they did
listing my land." Traffic
Highway loi east of Dunn
(the Billingsley place lies
on north side of the high-
way) was somewhat halted
by sightseers stopping to
witness the power farming
demonstration.
"it
to
for
in
on
TUCSON — (UP) — Gen.
John J. Pershing's clinical jjlood
count reached virtually a nor-
! mal condition today and his
physician said uremic poisoning
no longer existed seriously.
The aging warrior's heart,
fluctuating in strength. re-
mained the chief "worry," Dr.
Roland Davison said.
I "We're still watching him
hour h\ hour," the attending
1 phvsician added.
Di Davison said Pershing's
progress could not he expect-
ed to lie contlnuusly forward, al-
though he appeared to improve
slightly today. 4
His general appearance, how- 1
ever, seemed "unchanged", Dr.
Davison said.
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