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LOYALISTS BATTLE DESPERATELY ON OUTSKIRTS OF MADRID Serving Pampa and Northeastern Panhandle Ttifi NEW PAMPA Fastest Growing City In Oil And Wheat Center nntpa TUNE IN KPDN (1310 k. Voice of Pampa Dally NEWS at 'Top o' Texas" (VOL. SO. NO. 185) Full AP Leased Wire PAMPA, GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1936.

PAGES TODAY (PRICE FIVE CENTS) TflPJfiS A discussion on good-looking school teachers occupied considerable space this column yesterday, and what Was said there has brought a rise from ah ex-schorl teacher, now residing In Pampa. She has this to say about It: "There was just one thing that ihe inquiring-reporter In Tex's Topics forgot to tell us In regards to those old time schoolma'ams. He forgo; to tell us about the school board that hired them, and was largely responsible tor the way they looked. "Three members on that school They all whore specks so as to they didn't hire a teacher that used rouge or wore silk stock- Ings. They all had a little spiel on What was expected of you, and you knew dern well It was expected too, even to being the janitor sometimes.

didn't dare have a boy so why when nobody la interested in you? Here Is news for Pampa's beautiful girls. Paul Bishop, publicity director of the Southwestern Sun Carnival on New Year's Day In El Paso wants some Pampa entries for princesses In the big carnival. Says Mr, Bishop: "The color of the Great Southwest will be splashed over the nation on New Year's Day. The romance and glamour of this great region" will reach out and touch residents, of. every, mldl-west and eastern state.

thousands of loudspeakers In'homes In snow-covered eastern sections will come the description-of the superbly beautiful Southwestern Sun Carnival "Pageant of Beauty" parade. described by a staff announcer from station WFAA, Dallas, the great procession will Command the attention of untold thousands. "But the atmosphere of the par- adk will not be lost when the broadcast, is finished. Newsreel cameramen be on. hand New Year's Day to "shoot" for the nation's theater-goers the dramatic highlights Of! the Southwest's greatest the Southwestern Sun Carnival.

residents, thousands strong, already are planning to be in El Paso during the car- nlyal season, Dec. 29 to Jan. 1. Practically all towns in the area Are already entered in the pageant or are making the last arrangements necessary to enter." ''Contests to determine princesses in Southwestern cities and towns will be started in a few days and school and college bands are busy practicing the snappy marches they will as they march In the Pageant of Beauty parade. "Prospective entrants in the Southwestern Sun Carnival have until Dec.

1 to get their entries to officials." So, there you are, girls. If you have ambitions to be a princess in the Pageant of Beauty, opportunity has just banged at your door. the way, who of all the en- terlainers at the Texas Centennial in Dallas did you enjoy most? A statewide poll is being conducted in an effort to crowd the king or queen of entertainers at the exposition. The to decide the outstanding the person Whose personality will linger longest In the memory as Indicative of "Egypt" of the being conducted among all Centennial visitors. The survey is being conducted all this week, and.

Centennial of- ficlals will present the person who totals the most votes with a sil- vfr trophy dedicating him or her of the Texas Centennial." fairs have had their per- Little Egypt, Bandow, Sally Rand of the laps, and Zorene, queen of the nudists. It is hoped to discover by the survey who will typify minds of the world ten See COLUMN, Page 8 FDR AVOIDS ANSWERING QUERIES FINAL INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE GIVEN GROUP Team captains and workers In 1930 roll call drive of the Pampa chapter of the American Red Cross will meet at 10 a. m. next Tuesday to receive final instructions in the ocal drive, it was annnounced today by Allen Hodges, general chairman of the campaign which will be launched on Thursday morning, Nov. 12.

At a special meeting of Red Cross directors yesterday afternoon, the local chapter voted to spend $125 a month until the first of the year to supply food for undernourished school children, and also approved another $100 for the Immediate purchase of shoes for school children. The general meeting of Red Cross drive workers next Tuesday forenoon will be held in the city commission room at City Hall. Territories will be assigned at this time to the various workers: Names of drive officers and team members will be announced Sunday, Mr. Hodges stated. The management of Radio Sta- last June for passing a forged Instru- operation with the Red Cross drive and speakers will go on the air Tuesday, Nov.

12, opening day of the drive. Heard That Charlie Hughes got stuck rader his house this morning fitfng the touniSiatioji. He call- ed'long and Iou4 fqr George Bxiggs, who Bappend to be down town. Wre. Bulges and enigh- tysard plwUe's, yells and due him George, when told about the incident' if marked, "Had I been few I Wttld.

have lelt him under the house to get even with his round-about accusation SWlned his Unseed oil." Alex Schneider has been named chairman of a committee, named by John Roby, president of the Board of City Development, to determine what events can be held at Fairground park, now under construction. F. A. Peek was appointed vice-president and Garnet Reeves secretary. Members of the committee are Howard Buckingham, Ralph Thomas, C.

P. Buckler, M. A. Graham, B. Massa, Mel B.

Davis, John Sturgeon, Jake Garman, Carl Benefiel, and George W. Brlggs. The committee will meet within the next two weeks to discuss ways and means of utilizing the park to the best interest. Committee members will welcome suggestions either in writing or orally. Selection of the committee was advocated by the city commission and approved at a meeting of BCD directors earlier in tiie week.

The directors asked President 'utoby to make the appointments. The committee is a temporary one. It will decide how to secure members of a standing body which 'will in turn elect permanent officers and name the organization. A fair project and race meet are the first two projects recommended. Sons of American Legion Will Meet The regular meeting of Kerley- Crossman Post 334 Squadron of the Sons of American Legion, will be held at ths Legion hut tonight at 9 o'clock.

All members are urged to be present and bring with them a prospective member It is requested that all members of the American Legion and other veterans who read this notice bring their sons to the meeting tonight. Turkey Trot' Crisis CUERO, Nov. 0. Cuero chamber ol commerce faced the prospect today of having to pay a premium for turkeys for the annual "turkey trot" here Nov. 11.

Turkeys were plentiful but not at the prevailing prices. Many South Texas growers were holding their birds for higher prices and lew had been offered since the Thanksgiving market opened officially Wednesday, Packers offered 11 cents for number one birds, 9 cents for old hens, 8 cents for old toms and 7 cents for number twos. They predicted the selling movement would start over the week-end but offered no hope tor higher prices. Growers and packers estimated the crop in the Cuero section at five to ten per cent greater than last year and said the condition of the birds was about the same. V.

W. Ortman, who produced 700 turkeys this year, said he intended to hold them for 18 cents. "With the prevailing price being paid for beef and pork, 18 cents is not too high and I believe the farmers can get it if they hold back their turkeys," he said. Schools to Close After Today in Springfield, O. SPRINGFIELD, Nov.

WP) Industrial city's 12,300 public school pupils went to their classes today not knowing when thsy would return. On the heels of a two-to-one defeat of a proposed special three-mill levy, the city board of education approved, four to one, a resolution to close schools indefinitely after today's sessions because of lack of operating funds and inabllty to pay $68,000 due the 381 teachers for last month's salaries. The proposed special levy was designed to raise $240,000 a year for three years. Its defeat, assistant state director of education E. N.

Dietrich sali in Columbus, left the city "in tough luck." STRIKE SITUATION IN IS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6 Declaring the maritime strike situation in Hawaii W.BS growing more serious, Governor Joseph B. Poin- today cabled Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward McOrady to take action to relieve the situation. Gov. Poindexter said more than 600 passengers, all non-residents of Hawaii, were stranded in the islands.

"Please wire me immediately orders of strike authorities in San Francisco regarding release of ships tied up in the governor's message' said. "Over 600 passengers held here, all non-residents of Hawaii. Situation for them most serious. "Urge you have union authorities take action to relieve situation by direct orders to return ships to coast. "Am informed most of strikers anxious to return to coast.

The release of these ships would greatly relieve situation here." McGrady, who cancelled an air trip to Washington, D. said he would turn the request over to federal conciliator E. P. Marsh, who would consult with Harry Lundeberg, secretary of the sailors' union ul the Pacific. Another unique American Legion radio program will be given over station KPDN, Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.

Commander Charlie Maisel stated that it would be a program in which all the listeners Can take part. Fifteen of the best male voices in Pampa will conduct a sign-song on the program, it was said. Songs every one knows will be sung, songs that will revive old memories In the minds of the listeners, it was announced. A unique feature of the program will be a request for every one who is tuned in to sing. Another announcement of the American Legion essay contest will be made, and plans for Armistice day also given.

Judge Hoover To Unveil Monument Judge H. E. Hoover, dean of Panhandle jurists and pioneer resident of this section, will deliver the dedicatory speech at the unveiling of the Indian battleground! monument at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the monument site ion McClellan creek about 18 miles south of Pampa. Judge Hoover was asked more than a week, ago to make an address, according to Judge Ivy Duncan. He accepted yesterday.

A huge crowd is expected 1 to be present at the site where occurred Nov. 8, 1874, the only Indian battle ever fought in Gray county. A complete account of that battle, written by an army officer, will appear in the NEWS Sunday. The battle is famous in army annals because It was the first time in the history of modern warfare that anything resembling the modern tank was used in an attack. In the McClellan creek battle, Lt.

Frank Baldwin unloaded his supply wagons, fillei them with infantry and ammunition, flanked at the sides and in the front with cavalry, and wer ran Chief Gray Beards' camp of Cheyenne Indians. The American Legion, the Harvester band, the McLean band and Boy Scouts this area will participate in the program. Spectators are expsctei from all over the country. The site of the ceremony is 14 miles south of Pampa on highway 88. and 3 and 7-10 miles southeast.

The road will be marked clearly. Theft Puzzles Police How burglars entered the Barrett Lubricating company service station at the corner of North Ballard street and Francis avenue last night proved puzzling today to city officers and Clarence Barrett, owner. Forty-six dollars in cash was taken- from its hiding place. The burglary was discovered this morning about 6:30 o'clock by Johnny Austin, station attendant, when he opened the station. When he entered the office he found checks strewn about the floor.

Only cash was taken from the missing sack. Checks left amounted to $70, Mr. Barrett said. Exit from the building was through one of the large sliding doors to the grease rack, which was left partially open. Theory that the same door was used to enter the building was exploded when Austin declared he locked the door last night when he closed the station and from the fact that no marks appeared to show that it had been forced open.

Attendants made a deposit about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon or the haul would have been much larger. No oil or grease was taken, a check this morning revealed. PARIS, Nov. hours of stormy debate, the French Senate gave Premier Leon Blum's government a vote of confidence today. Officials would prevent recurrence of political demonstrations at naval arsenafj.

The approving vote followed passage of an earlier motion "regretting" incidents among workers at three naval stations. NEW YORK, Nov. 6 Steel Corp announced today an increase of cents an hour in basic labor wages, effective Nov. 16 "with equitable adjustment in other rates of pay." The announcement said the wage boost was "responsive to requests of employes' representatives and discussions which have taken place between them and the management over the past several wecfc." It followed the wage advance by Columbia Steel Pacific coast subsidiary of U. S.

Steel Corp. ROOSEVELT SILENT ON CONSTITUTIONAL PLANS WASHINGTON, Nov. question of whether a constitutional amendment would be proposed to carry out some of the New Deal's objectives went unanswered today as President Roosevelt laughingly parried with inquirers at his press confcrncce. He asked newsmen who crowded around his desk why spoil an otherwise happy day? Mr. Roosevelt met reporters In the executive mansion a short while after receiving an uproarious welcome upon his return to the capital.

When another correspondent asked if he would wait until the Supreme Court ruled on pending New Deal measures before submitting his recommendations to Congress, the chief executive again repeated with a smile that this day should be made a holiday. He did, however, say he was considering making a speedy trip to Buenos Aires for the opening day of the inter-American peace conference which convenes December 1. The President said he had given no thought to new cabinet appointments, or to the question of filling other important posts now vacant. He said he was starting in on the budget tomorrow with Daniel W. Bell, acting director of the budget, and that this work would constitute his principal task in the next week, going over estimates with department heads and other officials.

The chief executive said he probably would reach a definite decision on the Buenos Aires trip next week. If he does liot go to South America, he said he would take a leisurely cruise In Caribbean waters for a fishing trip lasting some two and one-half weeks. Whichever voyage he makes, the President will travel on the cruiser Indianapolis, which is now standing by at Baltimore and which will leave from Charleston, S. with the presidential party. In following either plan, he would leave Charleston on November 17 or 18, with the cruiser Chester acting as escort to the Indianapolis.

If the President decides to go to Buenos Aires, he said he would stay only one day opening day of the peace conference which he himself initiated to strengthen the peace machinery of the western hemisphere. He said he would proceed straight from Charleston to Trinidad, where the Indianapolis would stop only long enough to take on fuel, then steam straight to Buenos Aires and probably make a second stop somewhere in Brazil for more fuel. His tentative schedule calls for his arrival in the Argentine capital on December 1 He would leave there the next day and steam straight back to Charles- See NO. 1, Page 8 MOSCOW, Nov. 6 Joseph Stalin, amid a wild, 15-mlnute ovation, officially opened the nineteenth revolutionary celebration of Soviet Russia tonight from the stage of the Bolshot He appeared in good health and affable.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (fl 3 of bringing in strike breakers for ifce in the waterfront strike here, Sam (Chowderhead) Cohen and two other men were arrested' today and held for a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter.

They were taken into custody in a Times Suare hotel room during an argument with a committee of striking seamen. The charge was made after they had been questioned for several hours by police and federal agents. DIES IN CHAIR. TUCKER PRISON FARM, Nov. 6 Turner, 38, died in Arkansas' electric chair at 6:51 a.

m. today for the strangling murder of his Yrtfe in Oalhoun county. "I am Innocent and I am dying for some other's crime," Turner said just before prison attaches strapped him into the chair. Mr. and 'Mrs.

R. H. Delaney, their son, Richard, and daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Biford of Illinois, are spending this weekend visiting in Wichita Falls.

People You Know By ARCHER FULLINGIM All the newspapers, beginning last Sunday are scattered on the floor of every room. The kitchen is a pandemonium of unwashed plates, pots, pans. (It is the house of a bachelor, and the woman of the house has been gone a week), A thin glass has fallen off a chair In a bedroom and the trifling man, too lazy to pick up the pieces has pulled a rug over them. He has slept In all three beds, and now all are unmade. The floors have not been swept for a week.

He cannot find the broom. He has awakened with two coat hangers in bed with him. In the living room you can find pyjamas, dirty socks, shirts, handkerchiefs, draped over the furniture. The cereal has boiled over on the stove. There is no clean jar for the milk, but there are many jars sitting around quite grimy and cloudy.

There is no soap to wash the dishes and he cannot remember to get the soap, and there is no shirt for Sunday, let alone socks. One can feel sugar and salt under foot in the kitchen. Cream has soiled the tablecloth. The man is waiting to get in the mood for cleaning up the big mess. He is now planning how he's going to scrub those pots and plates (It will take a tub).

He will pick up a broom and sweep the floors. But -he wants to wait a week to see how big a mess he can make. Bet Loser Crawls Up And Down Street In Kellerville KELLERVILLR, Nov. gigantic Kellerville oilfield was almost shut down yesterday afternoon when M. M.

Robinson, Kellerville grocer, paid off an election bet. "Happy" Bullard, a Democrat, was the smiling victor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backer. Robinson crawled 200 yards each way up and down Kellerville's main street with a cowbell on his neck and adorned with a sign telling that he bet oh Alfred Landon in the general election last Tuesday. Robinson is a former Pampan and a native of Kansas. Bullard, an employe of the Alma Oil company, had his entire "crew" on hand as a pep squad.

More than 500 persons watched the "crawl." FASCIST PLANES RAIN DOWN DEATH ON POPULATION GLOB ANNUAL GAMES Detailed plans for the Pampa Kiwanis club annual games tournament in Hotel Schneider on the evening of Friday, Nov. 13, were outlined at the noon luncheon of the club today by Chris B. Martin of the committee in charge of the affair. For entertainment on that night guests may take their choice of contract or auction bridge, dominoes and bingo. All services and prizes for the tournament will be Alex Schneider lias turned over the hotel for holding the affair.

COURT TO DECIDE ON THEIR CLAIMS TO $500,000 TORONTO, Nov. G. immortal stork, groggy but unbowed, wobbled into court today to demand half a million dollars worth of action. In a setting as solemn as the stork derby was absurd, the Charles Vance Millar will was more than a the Ontario supreme court. Every seat in the tiny court room, accommodating barely 70 persons, was taken long before the 10 o'clock opening hour.

A score of solicitors and almost an equal number of litigants left little space for John Q. Public. The hearing before Justice Middleton was on a motion of the executors of the Millar will for guidance in the distribution of the bulk of the wealthy lawyer's estate. Only one clause of the will- clause "mothers at issue. Disposition has already been made of all other bequests.

The moot clause would give about $500,000 to the mother who has since Millar's death given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children as shown by the registration under the vital statistics act. 60 ON SALE Four hundred reserve seat tickets to the Pampa Harvsetev-Borger Bulldog football game to be played at Huber stadium in Borger Wednesday afternoon will be placed on sale here tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. The ducats will be available at the office of Roy McMillen in the city hall. Adult reserve seat tickets will be 75 cents. No adult general admission will be available before the game.

Two hundred student general admission tickets, however, will be available at 25 cents. Anticipating the largest crowd ol the season, Borger school officials have ordered the construction of 800 additional seats. Pampans planning to attend the game are urged to get their tickets early because the unsold ones will be returned to Bovger Monday night. Ticket sales in Borger are brisk and is predicted. West Texas: Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably snow in the Panhandle Saturday; warmer in south, colder in north portion tonight; colder in tiorth and east portions Saturday with hard freeze In the Panhandle.

Livestock warnings in north portion. Money derived on that night will go into the Klwanis club's fund for undernourished children of Pampa. Mr. Martin salcl today that special invitations will be issued to members of the Lions, Rotary, and Junior Chamber of Commerce civic clubs. Tickets will sell at $1 a couple.

The tickets were placed on sale following today's luncheon and an extensive sales drive will be made next week. "Tile public has been generous in its support of this worthy project in past years," Mr. Martin said today, "and we are expecting another large attendance this year." THREE CASES DISMISSED ON MOTION OF GOODRICH The September term of the 31st judicial district court, which has been in session in Gray county since September 21, was closed today by Judge W. R. Ewing.

A divorce case was the last piece of litigation on the docket to be steeled. Three cases were dismissed yesterday on motion of District Attorney Lewis Goodrich. They were: State of Texas vs. R. W.

McQuerry, indicted March 6, 1935, for assault with intent to murder; State of Texas vs. Leo and Lawson Samuels, indicted May 2, 1935, for assault with intent to murder, and State of Texas vs. Fred Hawkins, indicted last June for passing forgad instrument. Ju'dgment was entered today for the plaintiff in the sum of $275 in the lawsuit of G. I.

Tripp vs. Nannie Bell Worley. Costs in the case were assessed on the plaintiff. Three divorces were granted in the closing days of court: Arville C. Reed from Alice Reed, Cloyd Windom from Agnes Windom, and Alice Cross from Joseph C.

Cross. The district court will move to Wheeler Monday where it opens a seven-week Wheeler county session which will run through Chrlsmas week. The court returns to Gray county for a new term, opening on Monday. January. Fill TO CITI Mrs.

Sally Fannon, 65, died yesterday afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. C. E. Lawrence, 1209 East Francis avenue, from wounds self-inflicted, according to a verdict returned by E. F.

Young, justice of the peace and coroner. A razor was found on a window sill in a bedroom. Her neck slashed, Mrs. Fannon walked into another room where her husband, L. A.

Fannon, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and their son were seated before she collapsed. Mrs. Fannon, a resident of Pampa for five years, had been in ill health for nearly 30 years.

She had been a partial invalid for five years. Recently she started brooding over her ill health. Surviving Mrs. Fannon are her husband, four daughters, Mrs. Lawrence, Pampa; Mrs.

Hugo Nagle and Mrs. Garlin Wilson, both of Elk City, Mrs. Edgar Walker, Breckenridge, three sons, Earl and William Fannon, both of Pampa, and Wayne Fannon, El City, and nine grandchildren. The body was to be taken overland to Elk City, this afternoon by Pampa Mortuary who will have charge of burial following services in the North Elk City Methodist; church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. (By The Associated Press) Advancing insurgent troops were temporarily halted at suburban Carabanchel today by battalions of socialist men and women fight- Ing to save the capital.

Artillery battles between fascist nncl government batteries continued to fill the air with blasting shells-on Madrid's outskirts. Direct advices from the Spanish capital, however, denied two earlier reports that Insurgent shells were falling in the heart of the city and guards. were fighting militiamen in the streets. Fascist combat planes circled over actions of the capital, however, machine gunning government recruits drilling along Castallana boulevard. Only a few were wounded.

An official report declared that additional insurgent planes were shot down during sky fights in the Alcala rie Henares and Leganes sectors. In a savage attack with bayonets and hand grenades fascist troops captured El Cerro de Los Angeles Hill of the two miles southeast of Fetage. An undetermined number of grimly resisting government militiamen were killed and scores of others were captured! In London it was learned Orefet Britain has asked the Spanish insurgent junta at Burgos to confine Its bombings to purely military objectives. Madrid's women stood shoulder tp shoulder with the men in a "human wall" against the onslaught of fighting Moors at the gates of the capital. Desperate authorities exhorted 'all able-bodied men to organize for the defense, warning that the services of women and workmen were "the only way" to save Madrid.

The London Daily Mail said Britain and France had joined; in an llth hour appeal to the Madrid government to reach some sort of an ar'- rangement with Gen. Francisco Franco, insurgent commander, 'to avert slaughter of Madrid's civil population. ram SHIES Confidence that fifteenth ah'- nual Buddy Poppy sale to be spofl- sored here Saturday the 7th by Pampa Post 1657 Veterans of eign Wars of the U. would exceed any similar previous sale, was expressed today by Mrs. H.

W. Waddell, President of the locaj V. F. Wl auxiliary and MVs. H.

P. Lusby, Buddy Poppy chairman. "Information just received frdhi the national Buddy Poppy chairman for our entire organization, states that last year's sale showed an. Increased of 50 per cent over the Buddy Poppy distribution of 1935, Mrs. Lusby said.

"This certainly indicates that the V. F. W. Buddy Poppy sale is widely and favorably known throughout the United States. The small silk flowers are made by disabled veterans in government hospitals throughout the These ex-service men are paid nominal sums for their work and proceeds are used by the V.

F. W. to assist disabled veterans and maintain their National Home for war orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich. The economic conditions of tjie last few years, and the fact that many veterans are among the uij- employed of the country have lh- creased the demand for veteran, relief," Mrs. Lusby sadi.

"The service and welfare officers of our individual posts, including Post No. 1657- of Pampa, strive In every way tp provide for the needy veterans and their families. The vast majority of. such work Is paid for by our individual members and from the proceeds of V. F.

W. activities. Onee a' year, during the nationwide distribution of Buddy Poppies, the VjV, W. invites the American public to participate in this work In memory of those heroes who died In this nation's defense." FREEZE DUE TONIGT, DALLAS, Nov. 6 The States weather bureau here issued live stock warnings for the Pafl- handle tomorrow, forecasting a halfi freeze and probably snow.

Dr. J. Ek Cline said a new "norther" Wap sweeping in and would bring freejlng temperatures to all of thb noHu portion of the state. Canditloos today were generally- warming after sub-freezing temperatures fe the week. I Saw I 1 i i mnntfHfif A 200-year old razor made pf fine Sheffield steel being 6ha ed by "Barber 1 Kelley.

The belongs to Jack Barnes. The F. F. A. team leaving at noon today for Fort where they will compete FFA livestock and poultry contests.

Those who went li Chas. Shelton, Wendell La Claude Coble, poultry judges; James, livestock Judge; derburg, Paul Donald, dairy cattle non Thomas, alternate; and Mrs. L. L. Sone Frazier, teacher..