Stephens County Sun (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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Now Is Time
To Be Making
Ready For The
County Fair,
October 10-12
VOLUME TEN
Devoted to the Farm and Home, and to Every Legitimate Interest
of Breckenridge and Stephens County
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS, THURSDAY,
AUG. 22, 1940
Breck Offers
RMHIi
Special Trade
Features Each
Saturday; All
Are Welcome
NUMBER
illS
IMirS II
Activities in
BT W. R. LACS
County Agent
T,K>WL pox, oftimes callcd chick-
en pox. has appeared in a
numtcr of Stephens County poul-
try (locks. The disease itself
rarely kills the chickens, hut many
times So weakens the birds that
roup and other poultry ailments
that fellows the pox attactta,
kills the affected chickens.
Fowl pox germs lives over In
thc soil on an affected place. The
flock may not have it every year
because weather conditions are
not always favorable for the de-
velopment of the pox germ. How-
ever, thc recent rains have • aided
I
Stage BeillU Set Cause?—A Nazi Bomber
o r
For Voting Here
lay
Garrett Rally Tonight
One Box Change; Mo
Card Solicitation
With one more day of solicita-
tion left before voters start to
the polls, the second democratic
primary Saturday will find a tar
lighter vote cast, in the state than
was the case, in the first although
because of interest in local races
some county votes will be heavy,
it is predicted.
The state cast over a million
votes in the first primary and Ste-
phens county a little over 3.UW.
Absentee voting has been heavy
here for a run-off election, about
two hundred cast.
I,oca] candidates, it was said,
will not solicit with cards Satur-
day, following out an agreement
made in the first campaign.
Tonight will find Congressman
Clyde Garrett staging a rally here
K '"Wk
in the development of the germs
, land any poultry producer
■who
JfXhpi had trouble with fowl pox in
''wie past should vaccinate.
T/acelnations is inexpensive and
easy to administer, the cost '
per bird will be two to three cents 1
for small flocks and about one !
cent for larger flocks. The most j
common way to administer the'
vaccine is to pull two or three j
feathers. from the leg of a bird
and brush a little vaccinp in these
feather sockets or follicles. The
vaccination gives the birds a
very mild form of the disease. Ete-
lay in vaccination may allow an
outbreak, as well as delaying un-
til the weather is unfavorable.
Both chickens and turkeys
•should be wormed now. Worms
sap the vitality and weaken poul
try so that roup and other poul-
try troubles cause loss in weight
and egg production, if not actual
gtoxs of the chicken or turkey. The
individual treatment i« to be pre-
ferred, 111 this treatment each
fowl is caught arid a pill or cap-
sule 's put down the1 throat. In
this manner you can be sure every
ayjr<l will be treated. There are
|| numt:f ol -good commercial
pills and capsules that can bP ob-
tained at local feed stores, hatch
cries, and drug stoics.
SOME poultry men prefer to use
the so called "flock treatment
in which the worm expeller. us-
ually tobacco ilust, is added to
the mash at the rate of thrco <31.
pounds or tobacco dust to one
hundred U0fl> pounds of mash.
This treatment is effective only
against round worms and should
not be used for more than foui
weeks at , a time.
POLLS CHANGED TO
VACANT BUILDING
Later today it was announc-
ed that voters in the district
that voted at Daniel Motor com
pany will vote Saturday in tne
vacant building between the A.
& P. store and the Texas com-
pany filling station.
The house standing between these two was utterly demolished on recent, ..Nazi', bombings of South-
nipton, England. But British censored caption says "0 occupants of the building' took refuge in a bomb
shelter and escaped. This photo .was flown by slipper pane to Now York.
POULTRY raisers should mak.
a careful check of the birds
and houses for lice, red mlte~. and
blue bugs. Thes" insects take :•
heavy toll of weight and eggs o:
liny warm where they are allowed
' to stay. Lice can be controlled by
the use of sodium flourlde as a
dust or 'Hp. ot' by th? use of a
good commercial dust.
It is much harder to control
blue bugs and mites, but if the
roosts and waits of the house are
thoroughly treated with eiud-
cttrbullueuni these pests can be
controlled, thc crude carbollneum
applied to trees will kill them, so
$j§-" don't put it on trees that have
blue bugs In them unless you
want to kill the trees as well at.
the bugs.
QF interest to turkey raisers h
Stephms County is thc re
port of a survey made by the U
S. D. A. that more, farmers an
' going into the turkey business
• but smaller flocks are the rug
and a 2 perccnt d -crease in mini
ber of turkeys is indicated fo>
1940 as compared with 1939. Gen
<. rally, the South Central and
Western states, including Texas
® show decreases of about 5 perceni
S&It all adds up to a 2 percent d*
crease in the turkey population
An extensive survey of turkey
s nocks will be madi in September
In order to determine the number
V" of turkeys In sight for market.
Shortly thereafter Texas turkey
growers "will get the first indica-
tion of the market they may ex-
pect. . .......
in the interest of his race for con-
gress. He is expected to arrive
here about 7:30 o'clock in a motor
cade which left Eastland this
morning at 9 o'clock, swinging
west. The rally will be on the
court house lawn.
Voters in the county will go to
their usual voting places, with
one exception. Fire in thc Daniel
Motor company will cause a
change for that box to be an-
nounced later by Chairman D. T.
Bowles.
Stephens county voters will
have placed beforc them a ticket:
much shorter than was thc case
in the last primary, but at the
same time they will be voting
on important offices.
Heading this in importance of
of fie? is thc race for Railroad
Commission between Piejce
Brooks and Olin Culberson. Ano-
ther eitatc race will be that of
James P. Alexander vs. H. S.
Lattimorc for chief justicc of thc
supreme court.
In the district races decision
will be. reached in the hot race of
Garrett vs. Sam Russell for con-
gress, and that of John Lee
Smith of Throckmorton against
CXm.it Burleson for state senate
to succeed Wilboui ne Collie.
Two county races remain to be
decided. These are Carl Morton
vs. Walter B. Clift for district
clerk: Ray Hickcy vs. Chatc
Booth for sheriff.
Covering smaller territory but
with much interest attached are
two raffs' for county commission-
ers. These are between R, S.
Taylor and Quinci'y Carey: and
George"Kcll'ey vs. N. G. Price.
The polls will open at 8 o'clock
md close at 7.
Wheat Insurance Odessa Drillers jTrotsky Pleads
Deadline Near After Meteor 100 Cause At Death
Growers Are Reminded
Eight Days Remain;
o'J Insured
With only eight days remaining
before, the August 31 wheat crop
insurance deadline, 39 producers
in Stephens County have insured
their 19-11 crops against all un-
avoidable hazard*.
The 30 policies already applied
for, insures the production of 7,-
655 bushels of wheat on 1,161
acres in the county next year.
Last year, 114 policies were issued,
guaranteeing production of 26,000
bushels on 3,123 acres, said C. B.
Waller, chairman, A. A. A. Com-
mittee.
Indemnity payments on the
1910 crop have been completed
in the county, thc chairman said.
Loss claims have been made on 52
policies tor indemnities totaling S,-
000 bush*: Is. Most losses resulted
from droutli.
The chairman reminded produc
nrs that, application for crop in-
surance must be -made before the
farmer seeds his wheat or by
August 31, whichever is earlier,
and that no applications would be
accepted after that date.
Ft Under Ground
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 22. -■ Dis-
covery of a meteorite which
crashed in the >earth thousands of
years ago was reported Wednes-
day by Dr. E. H. Sc I lards of the
University of Texas, with sound-
ings in the country's second lar-
gest meteor crater, near Odessa.
Drilling will be necessary to re-
cover thc meteorite, said Dr. Scl-
lards. Thc crater, second in siae
to that made by the great Ari-
zona meteor, is almost completely
filled in. Excavations in thc 600-
footwidc debris pit have been
made through a univcrsity-WPA
project..
The meteorite, spotted •< ith a
magnetometer, may ne as much
as 100 feet underground, Dr. Scl-
lards said. Sincc thc project was
begun several months ago, there
was considerable doubt as to
whether the original mass would
be recovered, as the .meteor might
have exploded on impact with
the earth.
'Major object of the excavation
new possible with the knowledge
that thc meteorite is actually - vih
in the pit., is the amuy ".i of the j
projectile itself. Dr. Sellards Said. (
Throckmorton Show
Boosters Coming
Advance notice has been receiv-
ed that boosters for the Throck-
morton fair and rcdeo association
Aill be iti Breckenridge on the
afternoon of August 27 at 3:25
/clock to advertise the show.
Former Convict
Shot; Wife Held
HOUSTON, Aug. 22. (U.Ri W
A. Scha.fr.I-.: 30, who served seven '
years on a UO-yeai murder sen-
tence, wiL- fatally shot hero today,
and li s wife stirrcn lere-,1 to police
He was sent to prison from Dallas
in 1 d;;0 for staying of a woman
companion.
Texas Champion
Hurt Jn Crash
SPARTA, Tenn. Aug. 22. -U.R -
Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, light-
weight champ, was hurt slightly
tcd.iy when bis automobile struck
a tree as he was en route, to Phil-
adelphia..
LIVESTOCK SUGGESTIONS
All grass that grows is not good
grass some has seven time the j
Ceding value of others.
One of a scries of regional
grassland conferences sponsored
by Land Grant Colleges, state
ixperlnient stations, state exten-
sion serviced, and various agenc-
ies of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, will be hold in Ama-
rillo on September 5 and 6.
Hard in-Simmons
Is Given $20,000
ABILENE, Aug. 22. tU.R) Of
ficials of Hardin Simmons Uni-
versity today announced that the
school had been bequcsted a $20,
000 gilt by the will of W. J. Beli-
r..ns. Abilene insurance executive
and capitalist, who died July 17.
Behrens was a membiv of the
Hardin-Simmoiis board of trustees
for many yeais and served as its
chairman from 1937 until April of.
tliis year, when ill-health caused
his resignation.
Th Behrens will also bequcst-
ed $5,000 to the Buckner Orphans
home, Dt. lias.
Btuilk of the estate was left to •
the \vi low, Mrs. Grace E. Beti-|
reus, with stipulations that the.
will add an estimated $15,000 to
thc Havdin-Sininuins gift at h
death.
"The frozen foods industry and
cold storage lockers are knocking
thc calendar out of the farming
game," says C. E. Bow ess, spec-
ialist in cooperative marketing
■with the Texas A. and M. Exten
sion' Service, who predicts that
quick freezing and the lockers
will change the Batten's eating ha-
bits.
A dip of 100 pounds of wett&Me
sulphur, and 10 pounds of five
percent rotcnone cube or dents
to 1,000 gallons of water, develop
cd by the U. S. Bureau of Ento-
mology and Plmt Quarantine m]
cooper.:tin with the Texas Agrl-j
tui tural Experiment Station and •
the Texas A. and M. College Ex-J
tension .Service, is showing pro-;
mise in tbc control of the short-1
nosed ox louse or cattle louse. I
Livestock are dipped at 17 to 10
day intervals.
Efforts to increase protection
to consumers under thc Meat in-
spection Act by establishing stand
ards of uniformity and whole-
somenes^ for products sold under
the name of "lard" in Interstate
or foreign commerce wer? made
at a hearing called in Washing-
ton by the U. S. Department of
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|| Iftf:
Naval Enlistments
Are Increasing
The United States Navy Rccruit
'ing Service for West Texas states
that the present expansion of the
Navy has created many excellent
opportunities for young men be-
t/vecn the age of 18 and 31. Ap-
plications are being acceptcd
from those who meet the high phy-
sical, mental and moral stand-
ard set by thc Navy Department.
Applications must be made in
person at the Navy Recruiting j
Static!!, located in the Post Office j
Building, Abilene, Texas.
Once Powerful Ruse^in
Leader Killed While
In Evile in Mexicco
Mexico crrr. Aug. 22 iu.r: —
Leon Trotsky, 60 year-old exiled
Communist leader, died Wednes-
day night in the Green Cross
Emergency Hospital cf wounds
suffered Tuesday afternoon when
a man he considered a close
friend beat him with a pickax.
Trotsky, who had undergone
two brain operations in an effort
to save his life, died at 7:25 p. ni.
Trotsky was once a power in
Russia but. since 192!) an exile
from what he termed "Stalinist
Persecution."
Trotsky was Nikolai Lenin's
most powerful assistant and con-
fidant- .vhen the bolsheviks seiz-
ed power in Russia in 1917 in
World war day-, following the col
lapse of the czarist regime and
the bloody days thereafter.
As Lenin's, right-hand rna'n he
was the first, commissar of loi-
eign affa.ii.-i and then war minis-
ter it .vas ''generally believed
that, he would sneered his master
upon the latters death in 192).
But useph Stalin present brail of
the union of socialist soviet re-
publics, wrested the power from
him.
They became sworn enemies.
Trotsky was stripped, from his of-
fices anil banished. He became 11
wondercr - driven from country
to country until 1937. when
Mexico gave liim reluge.
Below the Rio Grande this
storny petrel was almost alway.-
m trouble of seme kind. He
wrote voluminously; c '.lied Stalin
and his followers "an unprincipled
g.ing of wieckers"; declared the
Comintern was doomed and charg
ed that he was b ing hounded by
the Russian secret police.1
Shortly ; before his death Trot-
sky said:
"Please say to our friends I an:
sure of the victory of the fourth
int ri'.ational. Go forward."
Th0 tio-year old Russian was at-
tacked at his village of Coyoasan.
The assailant, known to
household as Frank Jackson, was
on one of his numerous visits
with Trotsky in the hitter's .study
when he attacked thc nof;d bol-
shevik.
Russians Declare
Gerinany Slowing
War Expert Sees Nazi
Invasion of Britain
Mow A Dream
BY J. W. T. MASON
United Press War Expert
The Russian government, which
has shown a consistently realistic
capacity for judgment during the
present war, allows its newspap-
ers to declare that Germany is
getting nowher0 in attacking Bri-
tain from thc air. That frank com
ment will be unpalatable to Hit-
ler but will be an additional spur,
if any be needed, to more inten-
sive German activity.
The present problem in Europe
thus is how Hitler will try to
strike afresh to sare his prestige,
which thc Russian criticism indi-
cates is beginning to wane 014
the continent. He has declared
"total blockade" of Great Britain,
but that is an empty gesture
which is not getting him any-
where. He must engage in some
more conspicuous form of action.
An attempt at invasion seems a
fading Nazi dream unless Hitler
has lost all self-control.
BMTZKJJ3RG EXHAUSTING
..Renewal of thc air attacks on
Britain with largely augmented
squadrons may comcf but by this
time the German high command
must be aware of thc highly spec-
ulative character of an air blitz
kricg. The halt in intensification
is significant of the exhausting
nature of blitzkriegs when the
defense is as powerful as Bri-
tish aviatois have made it.
Germany's military blitzkrieg
through Belgium and northern
France had reached temporary ex
haustion when thc Belgian army
surrendered, preventing the Gcr
mans from quickly following
through to cut off the " British
from thc Dunkirk defeat. Simi-
larly in the. air It seems apparent
that continuous blitzkrieging is-
impcssible.
A second mass air attack ob
Britain, therefore, would have to
be limited, as was the first, and
a succession of intermissions not
only causes any ('ttacking force
to distrust its &;mpctence but.
' also 'allows th" defense to bccomc
i refreshed. Long halts are partl-
1 cularly disconcerting for Gcr-
I mans whose .military training es—
; pecially emphasizes continuous ac
I t ion once a. major offensive be-
' gins, until the objective is gained.
1 MAY TURN TO BALKANS
| Prime Minister Churchill in his
j speech yesterday predicted far
' larger operations in the middle
j East. Thc context of his addr-ss
j shows lie included north Africa
I in his definition of the middle
i East, which usually is applied to
Asia Minor and sometimes to thc
1 Continued on Page Five)
Cannon
Channel;
Long range German euns fired at ships in the English channel
today, but apparently without effect in their 20 mile range. Germans
=aid their batteries based at Calais were "only practicing"
Dive bombers followed a Nazi artillery attack on a convoy off
Dover and two Nazi planes were shot down. Germans claimed that
other squadrons seriously damaged munitions work and airfields In
the Midlands.
Icnaion increased in the Greek-Italian dispute/arid British offer-
ed aid to Greece if,invaded.
Italy report that a British sub-A-
marine has been sunk, a destroyer
County Anthrax
Quarantine May
Be Lifted Soon
Situation Reported Well
In Hand By State
Veterinarians
The outbreak of anthrax ill the
southwestern part of Stephens
county appeared well in hand
Thursday morning, and if no
other cases appear the quarantine
may be: lifted in a short time.
Dr. L. G. Cloud, veterinarian of
the State Livestock Commission,
who with Dr. R. F. Chappoll has
been vaccinating cattic to check
thc disease, said there has not
been a death reported to him
this w&ck, and there lias been no
known spread of the disease out-
side thc quarantine area.
"We want to -vatch the situa-
tion for a few more days,' said
Dr. Cloud, before going «ito the
matter of lifting the quarantine.
While a numkr of head of
Frank Knox, Admiral Harold R. j cattle was lost daring the first
Stark, chief of naval operations, j outbreak of thc disease, .-0 ,--
and Green Hackworth, State De- j deaths followed vaccination. Tile
partmem legal adviser.
Jackson refused to amplify his
statement and the other conferee"
evaded questions by saying the
Attorney General had been clios-
cn confcrcncc spokesman.
and two cruisers damaged by fas-
cists attacks lately.
Foreign minister Baudion told
the French tonight that the Bri-
tish blockade is "unworthy of a
Christian counry" and that France
hopes to prevent hunger this win-
ter.
State, Justice, War and Navy
Department officials Wednesday
were believed to have discussed
thc proposed sale of overage Unit
ed States destroyers to Great Bri-
tain at a long conference held
behind closed doors.
Attorney General Robert H'.
Jackson cut short a Canadian va-
cation to preside at the meeting.
Afterward he said that the only
topic of discussion was legal ques
tions involved in American ac-
quisition of offshore naval and
air bases in thc Atlantic,
Another Justice Department of-
ficial admitted, however, that
legal obstacles to transfer of thc
destroyers were reviewed.
Attending in addition to Jack-
son were Acting Secretary of
State Sumner Welles, Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson, Gen.
George C. Marshall, Artny Chief
of Staff; Secretary of the Navy
Guard Duty Bill
Is Nearim* Law
o
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (U.R> -
Thc house today approved confer-
ence report on the bill authorizing
thc president to call the national
guard and reserves- for one years
duty, 62 to 34, anywhere in the
western hemisphere.
The report still must he approv-
ed by the Semite and president,
but its passage is expected.-' Then:
arc 242.000 guardsmen and re-
serves, but thos 1 with dependent
wives or children cm resign with-
in 20 days under the bill.
number of deaths could not bo
estimated by Dr. Cloud.
Dr. Cloud said he assisted in
vaccinating over a: thousand hs>nd
of cattle and he thought Dr.
C'liappcll had assisted in vaccinat
ing a like number.
Anthrax has been known here
before, but has been quickly hand
led. This time it reached propor-
tions to warrant mcasuras to pre-
vent further spread. Like out-
breaks have been reported in two
other Texas sections.
; Agents Assist In
Local Farm Work
Tcracinjcr, contouring arid capon-
i/.in^ chickens arc ist.ed under
activities on farms and ranches
this i.vcck by the count.y agent.
W. R. Lacc said tcracc Une3
'.vcic run yesterday for C. W. Hart
iit. his placc near Parks. Fifteen.
National Guard
Gen. George Marshall, chief of acres arc to be terraced to earn
<r
EHH
At the c. &N. E. railway station
Thursday it iwas said thc Brecken-
ridge unit of the National Guard
is en route home, and will arrive
here Friday .morning at 5:40
o'clock.
Eighty-three men and officers
have finished their arduous
training .work at Alexandria, La.,
and are looking forward to getting
bomii again. A number in the city
are preparing to meet them on
their arrival.
staff, reported that sufficient
equipment is available, to begin
training conscripts under th„ new
AAA payments.
Contour lir.es were run earlier
in thc week at the farm of Peel
drart bill being debated in thc j Taylor, and Tuesday Mr. Lace and
senate. Only 400.000 men arc sclie-j E. L. Tincr, vocational agriculture
duied to be taken in the first, instructor at thc high school, as-
draft, he said, and rifles and; sistcd in caponizing chickens at
other liffht equipment for 3,000.-
000 is on hand.
Peace officers Thursday were
investigating a robbery of the
Stockton store 'n t',c eastern part
of the city Wednesday night.
The store was broken into and
pockct knives, tc ba.ceo. cakes, gum
and other stock stolen. At the
sheriff's dcpaitmcnt it was thought
to have been the Hvork of boys.
NAZIS USE SPECIAL PLANE
Operation Patient
■j
Deputy Sheriff Frank Sloan has
gone, to Abilene twher>> he Was to
undergo an operation.
Death Of Trotsky
Blamed On OGPU
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22. (U.RI —
Police officials believed today that
Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian com-
munist leader, was killed under
orders from Moscow and Trotsky
himself said on deathbed that
blow was probably ordered by
OGPU or fascists. A Belgian-Amcr
ican who hit him with pick axe
is held in hospital jail with head
wounds.
Quits His Pest
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 22. (U.R>—
President Ortiz, who has been lli
fcr several weeks, resigned this
afternoon. •
BERLLXN (U.R) - The Arado
196, a single - motored seaplane
which was scheduled to try for
the world's speed record in its
class when the war broke out, is
winning a name for itself in Ger-
man flying circles as a "submar-
ine pursuit plane."
Capable of being catapultcd
from a ship deck and climbing
with startling rapidity, the plane
is most often used for short-
range reconnaisancc, but, with
its heavy armament of two ma-
chine guns, small quick-firing
cannons and a special small bomb
rack, it has .on several occasions
successfully attacked, submarines.
One of the machine guns operat-
ed" by the .pilot fires straight
ahead through thc propeller; the
other, operated by the observer,
fires in alt directions, including
the placc of Floyd Led/better.
Some of thcse chickens nvill bo
on display at the Stpehcn.s County
Products Show October 10-12.
Thursday aftcrnon Mr. Lacc
was to meet with 4-H club
of Cad/Jo.
boy j
almost straight down.
First public laurels cam,, for
Arado-196 July 6 when a high
command commuliique reported a
plant of that model had sunk an
enemy submarine and damaged
another in the northern North
Sea. Thc second U-boat sank
later. But an Arado-196 had help-
ed capture and bring in a British
submarine on May 5.
Spying an enemy subbmarinc |
trapped in a German minefield,
the German plane dropped its
lead of bc.mbs and emptied Its
entire cannon munition, after
which a man appeared in the sui)
marine conning tower waving a
white sheet. The plane then land-
ed and ordered the British com-
mander to swim over. He did, and
was carried off as prisoner, while
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School Buses To
Run September 6
Brcckcnridge school will open
Friday September 6, and Supt
F. Bailey today again reminded
that buses will start running at
noon on that day.
Senior high school students wilt
start registering next wceks but
all others will start Friday at 1
o'clock, following a faculty meet-
ing that morning.
Knights To Meet
A.t Graham Tonight
Joe Hulen, C. C., announced to*
d y that there will be no Kr.ightu
of Pythias meeting at the hall
here tonight, but instead all
Knights will go to Graham for a
joint meeting there.
WEATHER
West Texas: Increasing cloudi-
ness tonight and Friday with scat-
tered thunderstorms north and
southwest portion. Littl: change
in temperature.
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