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Home-made movies that. were
to he a souvenir of ha|>p.v
childhood days will lit- put to
tragic use when they are
combined in a movie "short"
for a nation-wiilc appeal
from the screen on hchalf of
kidnaped 12-year-old Peter
Lcvine. This picture is enlarg-
ed from one of the films, in
which the hoy's father, Mur-
ray Lcvine, will request as-
sistance of movie audicnccs.
Winter's Grip
Broken, Damage
Being Surveyed
Losses Not Expected
To Be as Great as
Were First Estimated
* Old Man Winter's grip on
Sweetwater, Nolan county anii
environs was finally broken Sat-
urday as the day dawned, clear
and calm and much warmer
_ than it had been the last 48
* hours.
County Agent it. B. Tate,
• farmers and livestock men sur-
veyed the damage done by the
sold blast and were undecided
* as to the full extent of the loss
to crops and livestock.
lie Some Damage
While they agreed there
would bo some damage to the
grain crop, they decided that
the prospects were much im-
proved by the warm weather
Saturday and that the loss
would likely be far below first
estimates.
The county agent and grain
) farmers agreed that it was loo
early to determine the extent of
the damage to grain but feared
that wheat and oats which had
"jointed" would be damaged to
some extent—but not. as much
1 as at first thought.
Livestock Losses
Livestock losses were confin-
ed mostly to lambs which were
dropped during the most severe
part of the blizzard. Sheep
raisers said that they found
some dead lambs which were
born Wednesday and Thursday
nights. Some lambs dropped Fri-
day night "pulled through" and
were looking strong Saturday.
* County Agent Tate said it was
likely that most of the fruit and
vegetables were killed, but their
importance in the agricultural
structure in this county is
negligible.
' Citizens tin Plains
A number of Sweetwater resi-
dents, caught on the Plains by
the storm, were unable to get
back home until Saturday,
j The Rev. F. W. Henkel, pas-
tor of the Calvary Lutheran
church, was in Vernon on busi-
ness when the blizzard hit Wed-
nesday night. He said roads
were blocked and that he was
% unable to return home until
the highways were cleared. He
said he saw many cars stranded
in huge snow drifts along the
road.
A. B. Chambers, traveling
1 salesman who makes his head-
quarters here, said he was
caught in Childress by the stortn
Wednesday night. The wind
there, he said, reached a high
velocity and the snowfall was
* heavy. The wind whipped the
See WINTERS Page 8
o
. WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Cloudy to
unsettled: warmer.
Maximum temperature Friday
0 40 degrees. Low Saturday morn-
ing III degrees. Temperatuie at
4 p. m. Saturday 00 degrees
WEST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy in east and north portions.
EAST TEXAS — Fair and
" warmer.
Eight Dead in
State; Traffic
Back to Normal
Panhandle Grain Crop
Estimated Damaged
From 40 to 50 Percent
BV UNITED PRESS
Fair skies and warmer tem-
peratures greeted Texas Sat-
urday bringing relief from a late
winter blizzard.
Texas counted its dead as
eight after two families were
asphyxiated as they huddled
around a fire in a small home
in the Pampa oil field.
Traffic returned to normal in
the Panhandle, after being hin-
dered by snowdrifts. More than
400 school children, marooned
in school houses and nearby
homes, returned to their homes
in the Panhandle as highways
were cleared.
Panhandle Grain
Twenty Panhandle farm
agents estimated that from 40
to 50 per cent of the wheat
crop was lost. The tomato crop
in East and West Texas also
was hard hit. Crop experts,
however, believer that most
fruit in North and East Tex-
as may have escaped damage.
Loss to livestock, particular-
ly to calves and lambs, was
heavy on West Texas plains.
| The worst April storm in
| years raced northeastward to-
ward the Atlantic seaboard.
5t; Dead In Nation
At least 50 persons were kil-
led in floods, tornadoes or
blizzards. Sixty others were mis-
sing in six storm-battered
states. Snow still was falling
in Ohio, southern Indiana and
Kentucky.
Heavy frost blanketed the
midwest and extended into
central Texas. Adding to flood
misery in the deep south was
predicted cold but not freez-
ing weather for Sunday night.
SEVERE WEATHER
STOPS CLEANUP
Severe weather conditions
hampered the city-wide clean
up campaign to the extent that
parts of city were never reach-
ed by the trucks, that hauled
away more than 500 cubic yards
of debris from the premises of
local residents this week.
In an effort to finish the
campaign, in keeping with the
national and state clean up
program, the trucks collected
lit) cubic yards of rubbish Sat-
urday.
To those sections of the
town isolated by snow and ice,
trucks are to be sent Monday
for a final swing through the
alleys and to rid the city of all
removable tin cans and other
trash, according to Charles V.
Carney, sanitarian, under whose
supervision the trucks operated.
"Splendid cooperation upon
the part of the citizenship has
been seen all week", according
to Carney.
o
Commissioners To
Canvass Ballots
At the regular meeting Mon-
day morning of commissioner's
court, a canvass of the rural
trustee election held Saturday,
April 2, in 13 school districts of
Nolan county, is to be made.
Twenty-six trustees were
elected.
Other routine matters are to
be heard, and accounts ordered
paid.
Savage Seige On Texas Broken
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VOL. XXXX
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1938
NUMBER 320
AREA OIL ACTIVITY REVIVED
Interest of Oil
Men Centered on
Southern Fisher
Shell Company Stakes
Location in 10,000
Acre Capitola Block
ROI'.Y —- Eyes of oil men in-
clined more definitely to the
south half of Fisher county
the last two days, as major
companies reported locations
and a drilling campaign. an-
ticipated for several weeks,
took actual form.
Of foremost importance is
the location made by the Shell
Oil company on their more
than 10,000 acres of leases south-
west of Roby. known as the
Capitola block. This location is
reported in the northeast quar-
ter of section 205, block 3, H
&TC survey, on the .1. II.
Vaughn farm two miles north
of Capitola.
Company Active
Further activities of this
company include a surveying
project said to extend over two
or more months. Six men from
the land department moved in-
to Roby a week ago, but after
a day's research of county re-
cords were called to Wichita
county for emergency work. It
is reported they will return this
week to resume work in Fish-
er county. Their families remain-
ed in Roby.
Cost crews of the Shell comp-
any operating in the county
and conducting extensive core
drilling over a year and a half
period, are bringing abstracts
down to date which lends sup-
port to reports of this major
company's intention of begin-
ning an active exploration cam-
paign in the area.
Another test that has been
under contemplation for some-
time was assured, according to
reliable reports, when the Mar-
land-Drake Drilling company of
Oklahoma City closed a contract
with the Keoughen - Sullivan
company, of San Antonio and
Kansas City, to drill a 3,700-foot
test on the W. P. Bomar tract of
113 acres, located in the Thomas
Cosby survey, in the center of
subdivision 107.
This test is in a block of 4,080
acres assembled by Roy F.
Formway and Jesse Allen of
Roby. Contract calls for a well
to be started before April 29
or the leases automatically ex-
pire. It is reported that ab-
stracts are being examined pre-
paratory to closing all negotia-
tions on this block, and actual
start of drilling.
Still another important test
is scheduled to get underway
next week, the Fred G. Imken
location northwest of the north-
west of section 80. a mile south
of Longworth. This will be drill-
I ed by Fred Pool of Wichita
Falls under contract from Rob-
I inson Bros, of Miami, Okla. Ne-
See AREA OIL Page 8
April 'Showers' Stinjr Mav Flowers
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April showers like this will certainly bring few .May flowers.
This was a typical scene as the whims of Old .Man Weather
brought record snowstorms hard after unseasonably warm
weather in a 2000-mile belt from the Rockies to the Atlantic.
Kruit growers in many sections anticipated heavy losses. The
picture was taken in Chicago, where nine inches of snow fell.
TRAIL OF 'MYSTERY CAR' IN
FROME CASE BELIEVED FOUND
EI. PASO — (UP) — State
Ranger Pete Crawford report-
ed Saturday that four persons
in Del Rio saw what, is believ-
ed to be the mystery car in the
Frome murder case in Del Rio
a week ago. Del Rio is just
across the border from Mexi-
co.
The description of the cat-
was identical with that sup-
plied by witnesses who saw a
black coach following the
Frome Packard a short time
before Mrs. Weston Frome and
her daughter, Nancy, were slain
near Van Horn March 30.
The car contained a man
and a woman.
,Officials advanced the theory
that the murderers disposed of
the murder car. and possibly
the vtictims' baggage in Old
Mexico.
Witnesses See Black Car
"Four witnesses told me
they had seen a man and a
woman in a black Plymouth
coach a week ago". Crawford
said. "The coach had two
ense plates, one above the
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Last Week's April Blizzard 'Sissy* Compared to One
Which Raged Three Days in 1892, Says L. J. Mashburn
Folk forget about how
bad weather really can lie,"
L. J. Mashburn mused Sat-
urday, as he recalled the
sleet and snow storm which
raged for three days begin-
ning on April 3, 1N92.
"in those days this was a
wide open cattle country,
without fences," Mashburn
went on to say.
"The storm hit the range
country and a high wind
came with sleet and snow.
1 remember hauling a load
of feed down a hill north-
west of Sweetwater. Could
not brake the wheels, It was
so slippery and I had to
turn the mules loose so they
would keep in front of the
wagon."
Mashburn went on to de-
scribe the effects of the .
storm which, combined
with a "heel-fly scourge,"
killed cattle by the thou-
sands. He said dead cattle
were so thick along Cot-
tonwood creek he could
walk on top them for
half a mile without getting
his feet on the ground. He
kept skinning the cattle as
long as it was possible to
do so, hauling the hides to
Colorado City.
"Just to get an Idea of
how the cattle business suf-
fered," Mashburn said, "the
previous spring we had
branded 7,000 calves for the
IS Ranch. At roundup time a
year later we could find
only 700."
"And when folks talk
about hard times during
these days, 1 think about
those days when they went
out and gathered up a wa-
gon load of bones off the
range and hauled them to
Colorado for SI a load, de-
livered."
"I'll never forget that
storm of 181)2 if I live a
hundred years," he said.
Mr. Mashburn came to
this section of West Texas
In 1880 and filed on land in
southwest Fisher county.
Girl Critically
111 From Poison
Miss Louise Sinclair was in a
critical condition in Sweetwater
hospital late la$t night from the
effects of a quantity of an as-
tringent she swallowed in her
room on Oak street. The girl,
about 20, was found gasping for
breath in her room about 10
o'clock She was rushed to the
hospital in a Yates ambulance.
Miss Sinclair had been work-
ing in a Sweetwater cafe for
several months. Her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sinclair, re-
cently moved from near Roscoe
to Gran.l Saline in East Texas.
She is the older of five child-
ren, with two brothers and
two sisters in Grand Saline.
U. S. War Maneuvers
Halted By Storm
HONOLULU — (I'P) — Bat-
tered by a full gale 'bat reach-
ed a maximum velocity of 05
miles an hour and lasted three
days, battleships, aircraft car-
riers. heavy cruisers and des-
troyers of the I'nited States
battle fleet docked here today
for a respite in the annual war
maneuvers in the Pacific
The storm, which struck the
battle force 100 milts north-
west of Honolulu between
March 25 and March 28 was
described unofficially «s the
most severe navy men ever
had encountered in the Pacific.
Youthful Bandit
Gets 99-Year Term
REFUGIO — (UP) — A dist-
rict court jury Saturday found
Harry Wells, handsome ' honey-
moon" bandit, guilty of armed
robbery of Curtis Peoples, to
finance his marriage to a Tex-
as college coed and recommend-
ed that he be sentenced to 00
years in prison.
Judge J. P. Pool withheld
sentence and ordered Wells re-
turned to a United States mar-
shal to face charges of bank
robbery in connection with
the holdup of the Citizens
Stale Bank at Luling March 5.
Wells will be returned im-
mediately to San Antonio to
face the bank robbery charge,
to which he probably will plead
guilty.
Car Fees Bring
$44,603 to County
The number of 1938 auto-
mobiles registered is ahead of
the registration to the same
period last year, according to
the records of Raymond Bishop,
tax assessor-collector. Total
number of passenger cars
handled to date is 3.071: com-
mercial trucks, 500 and farm
trucks 301.
Last year's total at this time
fell several hundred short of
this figure, Mr. Bishop said,
the exact figure not being giv-
en.
Registration has brought in
a total of $41,603.82 to Nolan
county's road and bridge fund.
The county is allowed to retain
all of the first $50,000 derived
from the registration fee. After
the total reaches $50,000, then
half of each registration fee
goes to the state highway de-
partment. to be used locally on
rural roads.
By the end of the week, reg-
istrations are expected to bring
the total to the $50,000 mark,
according to Mr. Bishop.
I.ast year's total business
reached $58,000, which Mr.
Bishop believes will be less
than this year's fees.
The county has exceeded the
$50,000 mark for three years,
first in August 1930. the de-
partment forwarded their bal-
ance to the state: again in June
1937, a balance was sent to the
highway department and this
year, the money to turn over
to the state is expected to break
the record, according to the
collector.
Local Troop Is
Winner in Scout
First Aid Event
Number 40 Ties With Mid-
land; To Represent Area
In Sectional Contest
Troop No. 10 of Sweetwater
tied with Troop 54 of Midland
in the Buffalo Trail council first
aid contest held Saturday after-
noon in Big Spring and the two
troops are to represent the area
next Saturday afternoon in the
sectional first aid contests to
be held at John H. Reagan jun-
ior high school.
In the contest Saturday Troop
10 and 41 of Sweetwater were
so close in the competition that
it became necessary for all of
the judges to score the two
troops in a special contest be-
fore the winner could be de-
termined. It is explained that,
the reason Troop 41 did not
share honors with 40 is because
rules prevent two troops from
the same district competing in
the council event.
Second place was won by
Troop 68 of Pecos. Troop 20. Col-
orado, and Troop 5 of
Spring tied for third place. Oth-
er troops taking part in the
event were Troop 0<i of Kermit,
")S of Odessa and Xo. 1 of Big
Spring.
Members of the fit
from Troop 41 are James Ham
ilton, Charles Taylor, Rex Rad-
cliffe and Billy White. Mem-
bers of Troop 41 "s first aid team
are Jack Fitzgerald, Nelson
Boothe. DeWitt Conlev. John
Simpson, Jr.. Maurice Reich, and
Jimmy Beall.
Sectional Event Saturday
In the sectional contest here
Saturday afternoon, which be-
gins at 2 o'clock, councils to be
represented are: South Plains,
Lubbock: Chishoim Trail, Abi-
lene: Comanche. Brownwood:
Concho Valley. San Angelo; and
Buffalo Trail. Sweetwater. The
winners will go to Dallas to the
state meeting the following
weekend.
Accompanying the Sweetwat-
er teams to Big Spring Satur-
day were Ed F. Neinast, Ossie
Witt. Jack Harris and A1 Stiles.
Miss Smith and All-America Baugh
r
Announce Sunday as Wedding Date
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Colorado Fat Stock
Show Opens Monday
COLORADO—The first fat
stock show for this city will
be held Monday with 40 calves,
16 lambs and four hogs already
entered.
All animals included in the
show have been fed by Mit-
chell county boys under FFA
or 4-11 supervision.
Miss Edmonia Smith and
Sammy Baugh arrived at
the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Gary L. Smith at 9:30 o'clock
last night from Fort Worth.
In a telephone conversation
with a reporter of this pap-
er. Sammy confirmed re-
ports that he and Miss
Smith would be married
"sometime after lunch to-
morrow (Sunday! and will
leave immediately after
the ceremony." Sammy did
not divulge the exact hour
of the wedding, nor did he
say where he and his
bride .vould go. Dr. Smith,
father of Edmonia, will
read the vows at the Smith
home.
FORT WORTH — (UP)
—Sammy Baugh, football
and baseball star, and his
fiancee Edmonia Smith said
Saturday that they would
be married Monday by her
father, Rev. Gary Smith, at
her home in Sweetwater.
The couple were reunited
here Saturday. Baugh had
been in Winter Haven.
Fla., where he played third
base for the §t. Louts Car-
dinals and more recently
for the- Columbus team.
Baugh said thev would re-
turn to Columbus April
15.
Their romance began in
Sweetwater high school and
continued at Texas Christ-
ian university where Baugh
was an Ail-American foot-
ball player.
Reorganization
Bill's Death Is
Price Stimulant
Initial Gains Ranged
Up to $5 A Share,
Orders Swamp Brokers
NEW VOKK — (CP) —
Stocks and bonds, listed on
the New York stock ex-
change, Saturday regained
more than a billion dollars
of ilieir March loss of near-
ly $11,000,000,000 when
prices rose on death of the
government reorganization
bill.
Orders to buy stocks pil-
ed up before the opening.
Thousands of shares rep-
resented purchases by
small traders.
Initial gains ranged up to
85.2." a share.
President Roosevelt, in a
letter to House Majority Lead-
er Sam Rayburn, said Saturday
there should be no personal
recrimination as a result of de-
feat of the government reorga-
nization bill.
The letter, made public by
Rayburn, came after friends of
the president had charged that
defeat of the measure w-as a
victory for lobbyists and prop-
aganda.
The president wrote, "The
legislative developments of yes-
terday (Friday) offer no oc-
casion for personal recrimina-
tion. and there should be none.
The question presented is Sole-
ly one of policy."
The president's letter appear-
ed designed to head off any
efforts by administration sup-
porters to retaliate against the
foes of the reorganization mea-
sure.
There appeared little likeli-
hood of an attempt to revive the
bill at this session. House lead-
ers said its defeat also virtual-
ly ended chances for any wage
and hours legislation before
next year.
o
Sweetwater Scout
Fund Nears Goal
Saturday wound up the con-
certed drive for funds to fin-
ance this district's part of the
Buffalo Trail council expenses,
it was announced by Aubrey S.
Lege, district finance chairman.
However, members of the
eight teams which have been
canvassing the citizens for sus-
taining memberships are to
continue to contact a few scat-
tered business and professional
men and women, giving them
an opportunity to join the more
than 300 members already sign-
Big ed up.
"As the finance campaign
comes to a close, the goal of a
| little more than $3,500 is in
sight.'' said Mr. Legg Saturday.
; We set our goal higher than
j in previous years because part
t. aid team ; of the money raised is to be ap-
plied on a home project, that of
improving the Scout campsite
at Lake Sweetwater.
Included in plans for l.
proving the site is the moving
of the officers' quarters at the
site of the old Lake Sweetwat-
er CCC camp to the campsite on
the southside of the lake, which
project will require consider-
able money. We hope that every
citizen able will become a sus-
taining member of the Scout,
program in Sweetwater," said
Mr. Legg.
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Open to Everyone
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'he Monday specials r.iisspel-
!ed word contest in today's Re-
porter'.' You'll find fun Vor the
whole family in ferreting out
the misspelled words that,
urk among the advertisements
>f the two pages. While you
ire shopping these Monday
specials, offering you doz-
ens of values in many types
of merchandise, you may as
well jot down or check the
misspelled words.
All you have to do to enter
the (vntcst is to check, under-
line. or list the words, clip the
advertisements in which they
appear from the paper and
bring them to the Reporter of-
fice with a sales slip showing
purchase of a Monday Special
advertised, liefore 6 p. m. Mon-
day.
You will find that shopping
the Monday specials will mean
real savings to you. No one
can afford to miss the advan-
tage of a Monday shopping ex-
pedition in the stores of Sweet*
water merchants who cooperate
each week in this advertising
feature.
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