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Trade At Home
For Sell Protection
f
ICAN
THE WEATHER
Weal Texas — Thundershowers
over mountaina in southwest por-
tion Sunday. Warmer Sunday.
VqL. 20.—No. 222.
BRECKENR1DGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1940.
Price Daily 3—Sunday 5c
tTHE
OBSERVER
WAR TERRIFIC
MOTHER* DAV I'OKM
AIM) C'OMME KtIAIJ/KU
XEKN ok iimiui
ALLIES, NAZIS POUR TROOPS TO FRONTS
He'd Curb U. S. vJ Fakon Buys New
+ Administrators ! Lease After
Nazis Use Rubber Boats
SWEETWATEIl has had Its ]
Sammy Biuth for some time
and now It hu ita Lew Jenkins.
Maybe there i* «umcthiii( for ath-1
letes In the water. Jenkins la light '
•weight champion of the world.
Texas Is fast coming into its na-
tional own.
Jenkins is expected home in a
few days. At, least over the radio'
he aaid he would be seeing the
folks there in a couple of days.
Ifis mother was ill. A radio party I
formed at the home, including
George Baiber, secretary of the
Board of City Development. Hia
mother said she km« Lew would
win—that she had been praying
for him all day.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in
Statesmanlike teims ni his ad-
dress to scientists of the Americas
YYida ynight urged a bunding to-1
gether of the 21 republics of the!
wrstern hemisphere for the pro-
tection or liberty, science individ-
ualism and Christianity. He knock-
ed out the idea that the Americas
are too far a ray to be attacked.
As one read and read Friday of
the attacks on three neutral nu-}
IWnj words iwere lacknig to dc-
*Si It Terrific, appalling and
atm <rrcnt is about the only way .
l c know to describe it. I
Representative Francis Walter,,
above, of Pennsylvania, co-
author with the late Senator Lo-
gan (D., Ky.) of a bill to subject
rules and decisions of federal
administrative agencies to judi- ■
cial review. House recently be- '
gan consideration of the bill, '
which New Dealers vigorously ,
repose.
mi)DAY while European war
Ji guns thunder and trucks aiyl
ffatcs roar to destruction Amer-
fflfcs wtll pin on a white rote, or a
' red rose and go to church. The
roses will be in observance of
Mothers Day.
,Mary Lou Cooke, her pen name.
Mrs. Jale iturkeit to you. haa 1
drawn off a poem from "Tribute
To Mothers" and Jake passed it
along to un. It Is one of many shs .
has had printed. Keeping in mind '
that the tomorrow means today i c
give you the thought.
rrayrr for Mother's Hmy [
rlMORHOW We shall wear rose«'
May lose* of red or white -
Dear Lord, please give me a red
one.
Deep red in the morning light;
And pin It so near my heart Lord.
That 1 may bc unafraid;
And breathe into it Thyself, God.
That It will not wilt or fade.
Tomorrow the May's fair roacs
Upon every valley and plain
Will symbol no earth's true moth-
Tbelr deal neu, their joy, their
pain.
1 believe ewrry rose of Maytime
Alive blooming white or led ~
Will share Ihy divinely planned
Conception of living sod dead.
f }IL fact Teraa oilmen pay
V the entire cost of schilling for
one fourth the school chUdicn In
Texas.
rlOtfOHT for the Moment:
All thought* that mould thr
age begin deep down <vithin the
primitive soul. — James Russell
Lowell.
!N Closing this mostly Mot he is
Pay column wp have one re-
gret. to offer. lor a long time
Mothers Day w the one purely
sentimental day >wc had. A red
roee and a white roue, message,
letters etc., were all. Now radio
anitoiinccnf urti ad.* are beginning
t« shout buy for mother. Too bad
to let tbat go commercial, too.
OKJ0N or HEARD: B. C. Morgan
lj aaylnj about 300 cars of cat-
tle have been shipped lately and
more to go . . . Rains and new
dam backing up Mrater In river
bottom about ten miles . . Gladys
tinchen anylng she will attend
surance contention at Houston
Tuesday . . . Lota of people report-
ing flowers along highway bloom-
ing out . . . Shorty Thompson *ay-
D. T. Bowles can talk about
iilng for weeks at a time . . .
. House writing tribute to
Art McLaughlin . . . Billy Rhodes
smiling but saying nothing. . .
•Mr. and Mrs. J. Socol enjoying
Coffee and coke . . . Mary Dunbar
on the street with bright colored
dress . . R. O. Miller a visitor . ..
Arthur Millar saying his now lanb
Scouts Of Area
Plan Spectacle
Thousand Will Present
Cirrus At Brownwood
Next Thursday
The biggest event Scouts from
this section of Texas have ever
attempted will be held Tuesday at
111 11 vi « ood. The Comanehe Trail
Area Council Circus will Mail at
TV p. m at Memorial Hall with
l^W 0 Scouts and Scout Leaders
taking part to furni:>h fast mov-
ing. spectacular, bieath taking cir-
rus that will have all of the thrills
of a but three ringer, including the
pink Irmonadc and pup corn.
Boys and men from the eight
counties of the council will put on
the hiR shi'V tlrauing boys to
Blown wood tiom Stephens county
-> nthe north to l,anipassus and
Mills on the south.
There i vill tie no delays or wait-
ing for excitement. Betiween each
big event in the arena tableau
scene* :.vill be shown on the gigan-
tic stage of the armory, with spec-
tacular lighting and chcmical
flares.
Cubs. Scouts and Sea Senilis
from the ehjht counties will gather
at 1 p in Tuesday at Brownwood
to bold ttie big final dicss rehears
al.
"The tremendous hurricaiw
tcrnc when 100 houses will bi.
demolished by wind and lightning
are described as breath taking and
when the scouts come to the res-
cue, as they have done in real
catastrophes you will be truly proud
of our boys, aaid J. C. Ferguson,
district chairman ofr Stephens
county, and in charge of all circus
arrangements here.
According to Ferguson all
troops from Bseckeniidgc and the
county will take part in the spec-
tacle. The boys will go down in
trucks and busses, with the parents
taking a large number.
Getting Well
Four Thousand Dollars
Cash, Same In Oil
For 160 Acres
A lease filed for record with
the county clerk shows sale of 160
acres to the Falcon Oil company
by Floss Sloan and R. K. Gaston
for the sum of $4,000 cosh and M,-
000 in oil.
This lease is in the Albert Sid-
ney Johnson survey a tract north
of the Falcon lease in the Stribl-
ing field where this company is
completed a well estimated at least
fifty barrels an hour.
It was said Sloan awns the land
In fee and Gaston part of the min-
eral rights. It is a five year lease
with SI renewals stipulated, alter
the first year.
Rcpoits from Stephens county
operations Saturday showed the
Wittmer, Knight and Ewing No.
1 Loving. Section 6t> OAL. in the
southwestern part of the county
being administeied acid a sccor.d
time.
In that same part of the county
Pitxer A West's No. 1 Compton
was cementing cave at 3,700 feet.
W. B- Omohundro's No. I Klm-
berlin^ apparently u good well, fol-
I lowing acidization still was nwait-
! *ng storage construction. This >well
I is an offset to the Stedman com-
i pany's No. 1 Kimbcrlln in the
the Stribling field.
Carey and Carey et nl No. 1
Crudgington was preparing to drill
in. .spudder being moved in. This
test, five miles south of the Strib-
ling field, is to test Caddo lime. It
was scheduled -for the Ellcnbergcr.
Scouts Will Hold
Court Of Honor
The regular Court of Honor for
♦ he Comanche Trail Council,
Breckenridge Area, will be held in
the High Schojol gymnasium, Mon-
day May 20, at 7:33 o'clock. This
will be the last regular session of
the Court to be held in the city
until next fall. The summer ses-
sion of the Court of Honor will be
held at Camp Billy Gibbons for
the Scouts of the entire Council.
All scout/i who have completed the
necessary requirements for award
arc urged to bc present for the
ceremonies, and all other Scouts
and their parents and friends arc
invited. Guy Quirt, Scout Execu-
tive from Brownwood, will be pre-
sent and hn;i promised some in
ten-sting contests between troops.
The troops from Eliasvilie, Cad-
j do and Wood sen will be on hand
1 and a laixe contingent of Brcck
I enridge citizens is asked to be on
' hand to welcome the visiting
1 Scouts and citizens from these
neighboring communities.
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Two Get Pen Terms
•j ive Years For
Dffense Against
j
Nazi soldiers in rubber boats ut the type reportedly used in the
invasion uf Holland.
to fall of wmter . - School nearly
" L*Aia.
Frankell School
To Close May 24
Announcement was made today j
that the Frankell school will cl'wc
Msy 24 Friday night, May 17. tho
yearly play, entitle J "A Woithy
Vagabond,'' will bc presented. Pre-
ceding this, the primary room will
present "Garden of Friendship."
Speaker for the graduation exer-
cises May 24 has not been an-
nounced. The public is invited to
attend.
Census Workers
Complete Count
Census enumerator' have com-
! pleted their work in Stephens
county it was said Saturday al-
though no reports of the work
| have been icccived.
In case any were missed their
J names will be forwarded to the
district director nt Abilene if they
| will telephone the Chamber of
j Commerce, Tom Sawyer said
! Saturday. Breckenridge Is anxi-
j ous to have every resident lk.ted.
McKinney Woman
Burns To Death
McKT.VNET. May U <UJ>> Mlsa
Sarah Berry, a long-time resident
of McKinney burned to death to-
day when fire destroyed her home.
The elderly woman, known as one
of North Texas' leading dress
makers lived alone.
SUMMER SCHOOL PLAN
( lasses for the summer session
of school will probably begin Wed
nesday morning. Mslr 20. according
to T.M. James and Miss Flo}
Branum. both of whom .will teach
during the session.
English, literature, mathematics
history, economics commercial law
civics, any subjects required for
Junior high school tsudenta are the
subjects iwhlch probably will be
tauught. If there are enough de-
mands for other subject* they mill
he taught..
Fees far the Senior High School
courses «ll be fio lor the first
one-half unit course and $3 for
each additional subJcct.The Junior
High School fees will be |7.50 fo.-
the first course, IS for the second,
and 12.90 for the third course.
According to the State Depart-
ment <it Education, no student csn
make more than one now unit dur-
ing the summer session. A pupil
may, upon Individual approval
take more than*two courses for
review.
The session trill last only seven
wscksB since longer classes trill
he held end the students will go
sis d*ys a we ek..
Winners Of Baby
Contest Is Raee,
3oys And Girls
Winners in the O. I!. Walton
baby contest in which 150 pictures
were entered were announced Sat
urday afternoon at a gathering on
the court housc lawn, three girls
winning in tlie first divisions and
three boys in the third.
As a whole the race waj almost
equally close between boys and
girls, the girls •w.nning by one,
whenthe second division showed
two to one.
Winners in the first division,
ages up t(J one year were: Sharon
Brown, daughter of Mrs. J. R.
Brown, 810 W. Lindsay, first. Ne!a
Joe W illiams, daughter of Airs. E.
W.Wi!!iaius( Ivan Star route, sec-,
ond. Tvanna Ituth McCalcb, daugh-
ter of Mrs. J. W. McC.ileb Brcck-
„ •
enridge. third. .
Second,division.agcs 1 to 3: Shar-
on Sikcs, Iloutc No. 1, daughter of
Mrs. A. W. Sikes, -first. Wesley. It
Stinson, son of Mrs. Tom Stinson
Eliasvilie. second. SarahAnn Whit'"
mire, daughter of Mrs. K. C. Whit-
mire, Ivan, third.
Tii ire I division, age 3 to 6 years:
I!«iy While, son of Mrs. C. A.
While, Breckenridge, first, Paul
Douglass Hemphill >on of Mrs. J.
if Hemphill. Eliasvilie. second
Biblne Johnson, son of Mrs
Claude Johnson, Breckenridge
third.
Prizes Were oil printings. Judge)
were Mr. and "Mrs. H. Lippi. Del
Bio, Jack linn is. San Francisci;
Calif , and Mr. and Mrs. Byai.
Ward, Dallas.
Bible Classes To
Observe Day
Three of the larccr Bible ('las:-
"s of the City will have a special
program today in observance o:
Mothers Day.
The Roughnecks will have
ipecial music and have set thcii
-tfti at 120 present.
The Dynamo cla;.; of the Fiisl
Christian Church has n special pro
Jiam the women of the church to
or guests.
The Morning Tower Bible Class
has a special program wi'll Mrs.
M. P. Klknr, C. W1. Waller, Rev.
C. It. Gray, Ear| Clark, Ben J.
Denn, Mrs D. T. Bowles, Mrs.
John Ward. James G. Harrell and
R. E. Bowers taking part.
Kelly Field Sets
Aviation Kccord
SAN ANTONIO. May 11 'U.F;-
A new all-time record was set to-
day by the If. S. army Bir corps
training center.
Two hundred and thirt?en Kelly
field 'flying cadets — the second
class of more than 210 men with
In seven weeks — received their
"winga'' and were commissioned
second lieutenants.
During !M0 more than 1500 men
will receive diplomas from ths
advanced Hying school. Another
class of 214 cadets will start train-
ing st KeBjr fteii Tustd*:-.
U. S. Defense To
Be Speeded lip
Increase In Big Sum
Already Set Aside
To Be Asked
WASHINGTON, May H — j
Congress prepared today to spent!
additional millions maybe a.-
much as $500,000.01)0 — to speed
up national preparedness on land,
^ca and in the air.
Fresii'.ent Roosevelt was expect-
ed to ask congrcssi Iwithln a few
day3 to incicase ihe $2^000,000,000
already appropriated this year —
| the biggest defense budget in
j peace times. Forecasts of the in-
I crease ran as high as $500,000,000.
The president's request is ex-
pected as soon as he decides on
the amount. Congressional com-
mittees ii\iicated that they were
ready to act at once.
Army and navy officials told
congress earlier this year that sup-
plemental requests would bc made.
Needs now arc being hurriedly re-
vised in the light of the embroil-
ment of -vestern Europe in war.
The general defense program has
been outlined to congressional
committees by (/ atuiy and navy.
.Secretary of the navy Charles Wi
son has told a House appyipriiit
ions subcommittee that the navj
would need another $100,000,000.
I Jen. George C. Marshall, chicl
of staff of the army, wus less spc
cllici but he sud that the army's
urgent need was l'or money to re
emit and equip 15,000 men immc
Uialely and to sUrt procuring
equipment for a protective mooii
i.uuiun force of 1,0 .000 men
which tw.juld cost $210,000,000.
An 11 per cent increase in the
navy s authorized tonnage still is
pending in the senate. It has been
appioved by me senate naval nf-
l.iiis committee and probably will
i e reported n~xt week.
Japan Concerned
Over East Indies
TOKYO, May 11. (Ui! For-
eign Minister Hachiro Aula sum
moned representative* of bclligei-
ent pjweis and the United States
to the foreign office in rapid sue
ccalion today and commjnicated
Japan's 'deep concern' over th"
possibility of extension of hosti-
lities tu the Dutch East Indies.
The Italian ambassador also
was notified.
Before making the cnmmunlca
tion, Arit-i received the Nether
lands Min'.itcr, Gen. J. C. Pabs',
and reminded him that Japan hop-
ci| earnestly that the Netherlands
would retain the prc.cnt state i"
the Netherlands East Indies.
Japs To Buy Much ,
Texas Cotton
HOUSTON, May 11. — Ja-
panese spinners plan to buy $10,-
i COO,000 worth of raw cotton in
[ Houston and other gulf ports dur-
ing the next few months, Nobu'.o
Kawal, Japanese foreign tmde di-
rector here, said today on hki
return from confcrenccs with
Japanese representatives in thoj
I
mall Girl
Howell C$sc At Top
Of Monday Settings
s In 90th Court
Two pleas of guilty in the 90th
district court Friday left four
| cases set for trial Monday morn- ,
. 'ng, with that of E. N. Howell at
• the top of the Il-it.
i Earl Brcwn, a Breckenridge me
I clianic, charged with a statutory
[ offense against a twelve-year-old '
girl pleaded guilty before Jud;e
Bryan Atchison and was scntenc- !
ed to five years in the peniten- |
j tiary. [
| D. H. Anderson pleaded guilty
• in the same court to an indict- ,
I mont of driving while intoxicated |
, and was given two years, sentence ,
suspended.
These plca« leave, besides the Ho-
well setting, the cases of Earl
Estes, charged with theft, Willie
Starks, negro, charged with sta-
tutory attack on a girl, and J.
W. Wilson, charged with driving
while drunk, set for Monday.
District Attorney Ben J. Dean
said the state was ready to try
the Howell case. Floyd Jone«, at-
torney for Howell, was undecided
concerning defense.
Forty-five have been summoned
to appear Monday morning from
whom t- jury will be selected for
(he week.
Criminal cases will be heard
this week, the following week
civil cases to bc tried.
1 Future: Marriage, Germans Sent To
Not Deportation Belgium, Holland
dh i
In Airplanes
Intense Battle Believed
In Progress; Nazi
Strategy Repeated
World's Fair Opens
At New York
NEW YORK, May II. <U.R> —The
19-10 edition of the $155,000,000 New
York World's Fair opened today
with war-orphaned and warring
nations sponsoring the dedicatory
theme, "peace and freedom."
The "war orphans" were Czccho
Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Nor-
way and Finland. The warring na-
tkms were Great Britain. France
and Belgium. Germany never has
participated In the fair and Russia
and the Netherlands withdrew af-
ter last year's.
The principal ceremony of the
day were rrdedicatinn exercise;
in the court of pea<-e. One of the
speakers was Y. A. Paloheimo, lha
Finnish commissioner general to
fair.
There's a good reason for Vien-
nese actress Vilma Kurd's smile.
The "Bathtub Girl," as she was
called after playing that role
in Vienna from the Broadway
hit, "The Women," was faced
with alternative of marrying a
TJ. S. citizen or being deported
to Germany, from which she
had fled. Recently she announced
her engagement to Michael Jof-
fre Lewis of New York. "I
wouldn't marry for conveni-
ence," she explained. "X love
him, and we're going to have
lots and lots of babies."
Murder Charged
San Antonio Man
SAN ANTONIO. May U. (ll.fi
I. I,. Edwards, 32, was charged
with murder today in connection
with the fatal shooting of D. H.
Wiison. 31, Both men wore em-
ployes of the railway express
agency and Wilson until yester-
day had been i roomer In Ed-
wards' home. The shooting occur-
red at a filling station. Edwards
Mil-rendered at the sheriff's office.
federal Highway
Meeting Called *'
A meeting with the state engi-
neer at Austin hrti been arranged
for Brcckenridgc and other Inter-
ested towns and cities on May
20 at 10 o'clock on the matter of
federal designation of Highway 15.
Tom Sawyer has sent letters to
all Chambers of Commerce ask-
ing them to have representatives
present.
□ub Entertained
By School Band
East Ward Pupils Are
Complimented; Bowles
Tells of Lake
Members of the Krcckcnrldg
Lions club at their weekly lunch-
eon Friday had for their cntci-
tainment a program of music by
pupils of Mrs. Haskell Key of
the En t Ward School.
The Cowboy Band, a r.ill fledg-
ed band insofar as inst r nner^ti
and talent were concerned, pleas-
ed those present with several ntim
bers and specialities by the mem
ber , some of the pupils no bis
gcr than the instruments they
were playing. Assisting were the
cowlioys who formed a chorus lor
sonic of the numbers.
Members of the club pronounced
the organization a tribute to Mp .
Key and insight into fine work
being done in the school system.
In a brief address, amidst som<
hcckling, IV T. Bowles told wii>
with Ins classification of fisher-
man in the club he had riot pro-
duced any evidence. He told of ,hc
dirtcrent kinds of fish bi-t Suited
for this section and declared pes
•sum Kingdom dam lake gave pro-
mise of being a great fishiim spot.
President Jake Burkctt apron'
cd Paul Williams chairman of
a committee on nominations for
the next term of office and
called attention to the district and
state meeting to t-.e held at Sweet
water on May 26-2f>, inclusive.
Tom Sawyer announced that a
party to v.,it the park at Biown-
Wood in the near future was be
ing formed and asked all who
could to go on the trip so they
might haw a better ldeH of what
thr stnte park near here will be,
In view of the fat t it will be many
times larger than that at Brown-
wood.
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KID STAR GOES DRAMATIC
The 1!M0 Senior Class of Breck-
enridge High School will present
"Your Money or Your Wife," their
class play, on Monday night, May
13 at 8:00 in the high school audi-
torium.
The play is a three-act comedy
with a let of humor, &i4 the plot
!-i rather complicated. The setting
of the play is in th« sun room of
the Joneses' house In New York
City.
The following members of the
Senior Class are members of the
cast: Mr. Jonca, Spot Collins; Ned
Victor Audrey; Christopher, John
P.cgsr Walker; the Minister, Wil-
liam Shaw. Pickett, Jack Oulhrlc;
the Detective. Tom Turner; Ham-
ilton, Hrrmnn Bandy; Mrs. Jonc>:
La Verne Black; Mrs. Cabot,
Jeanne Fcnoglio; Millicent, Eme-
tine Kirkland; Doris, Pntsy Bak-
er; Daisy. Joyce Hood.
Dorothy Kelly is the student di-
rector; Dorcthy O'Connor, the
business manager, and J. W.
Chltds Is the stage manager. Mrs.
John F. Bailey, sportior of the
Senior Class, ia sponsor of the
play. Miss Bilile Ratllff, instruc-
tor of dramatic arts In high
school, ia the director,
(Csntluusd db Fi|i Three)
By JOE ALEX MORRIg
I'nitcd Press Foreign N«ws Editor
Adolf Hitler launched a spcctau-
clar parachute invasion of Bel-
gium and Htolland today in an ef-
fort to cut the ground from un-
der Allied arme>l forecs on the
r.cw battle front in northern Eur-
ope.
Hundreds of Nazi airplanes
swarmed over the low countries,
dropping fully-equipped soldiers
at strategic points while German
armies hammered at the Belgian
and Dutch frontier defenses.
The main aerial attack centered
around the Dutch capital at tho
Hague and the important port of
Rotterdam..but the city of Amster-
dam 'population 730.000) reported
that five bombs did idamage and
killed seven persons in its central
section this morning.
The Germans Ivcre reported
fighting strongly to capture Rot-
terdam alter hundreds of airplanes
had landed reinforcements there
by parachute. Late dispatches :| Id
the German troops w ere believed
to have rcachcd the ccnter of the
citl. occupying the stock exchange
and other buildings. Fires broke
out in other parts of Rotterdam.
Nazis Rmisli Ahead
The German high command
claimed that its troops .were
smashing rapidly ahead on land
after breaking up the frontier de-
fenses in both Belgium and Hol-
land and there were reports in
London that the Nezis had reach-
ed the Belgian town of Liege. For
the most part, hcWcver, the arrival
of British and French advance
troops at the front lines in the low
countries arpearcd to have found
the Germans meeting stiff resist-
ance about 13 or 23 miles inside
Dutch an«i Belgian territory on a
long and irregular front.
Allied nirplanes were fighting
back strongly over both Belgium
and Holland, ond bombed Germar.
bases in the Rhlncland, according
to the London air ministry. Lon-
don newspaper reports said that
British warships hverc operating -ifr
the coast of Holland.
Air casualties we|> mounting
rupiilly. with both rides claiming
to have shot, down hundreds of
enemy planei.
SITUATION sr.KIons
The German invasion of th- low
Countries, however. Wag fnr from
blocked and statements (>y the of-
ficial news agency in Berlin
partly substantiated in allied
source,! indicated that the situ-
ation v.-ai extremely serious in the
Rotterdam area and possible at
the Hague.
Scores of big German planes,
protected by fast fighting ships,
fiew over the Rotterdam area and
dropped hundreds of Geimnn aol-
diers, some of them in the suburbt
cf the city Itseir, Tho Rotterdam
airport was reported re-captured
by the Dutch, but the Germans
ienled this development and fur-
thermore were said to bc in pos-
session of the Rotterdam Marine
barracks.
It was indicated that a severe
bittle was in progress there and
that the Nazis were rushing more"
and more men to the scenc by
plane.
Similar parachute troops were
being landed around the Hague,
capital of Queen Wilhelmin'r, who
today urged the King of Italy to
intrrvene with belligerents to ob-
tian respect for civilians In war
lime. Gilburg, SlJcdrccht, and a
(Continued on Page TWo)
Oil Shutdown Seen
By Jerry Sadler
AUSTIN, May 11 flj'.Pi — Texas
Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sad-
ler today said that unless condi-
tions change immediately be be-
lieves it will be necessary tor the
commission tu shut down Texas oil
fields for the lest five days In May
and the first 10 days in June.
Sadler said ertgde oil stocks in
the United States nettr stand a;
more than 300,000.000 <m) barrels
of oil and 1M,000 barrels of oil
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Hall, C. M. Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 222, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 12, 1940, newspaper, May 12, 1940; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth131156/m1/1/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.