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Roosevelt Denies Foreign Policies Are Dangerous
Deliberate Lie,
President Calls
German Charges
'No Entangling Alliances,'
Principal Platform Says
President In Conference
KOMK — (UP) — The
United Slates embassy pro-
tested to the Italian foreign
office late today against a
violent camimign in the Ital-
ian press against President
Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
President Roosevelt. toda|y
branded as "a deliberate lie" a
report that he had placed Am-
erica's new defense frontier on
the Rhine.
Speaking to more than 100
newspaper reporters, he pre-
sented a statement of the ad-
ministration's foreign policy in
answer to congressional criti-
cism which has arisen in the
last week.
Here is the United States
policy as stated by Mr. Roose-
velt:
No entangling alliances.
Encouragement of world trade
of all nations, including the
United States.
Sympathy with any and every
effort to bring about reduction
in armaments.
National sympathy with the
peaceful maintenance of politi-
cal, economic and social inde-
pendence of all nations of the
world.
Mr. Roosevelt discussed Am-
erican foreign policy for near-
ly half an hour, criticizing par-
ticularly the attacks which have
been made upon administration
intentions in congress and in
newspaper editorials.
• His repudiation of the reports
that he had placed the nation's
defensive frontier at the Rhine-
was directed at statements
which came from congressmen
who had discussed the foreign
policy with the president earl-
ier this week. Several congress-
men had said after these con-
ferences that they received the
impression that the president
was anxious to aid the French
rearmament program because
he regarded Francc- as the de-
fensive outpost of the United
States and the Rhine as our
defensive frontier.
The president declared today
that he did not believe that
political implications of the
1940 presidential campaign
should be brought into 1939 dis-
cussions of American foreign
policy.
Mooney Would
Divorce Wife,
Faithful
Long
o
SAN FRANCISCO — (UP) —
Rena Mooney said today that
Tom Mooney wanted to divorce
her "but I will not let him after
all the years I have fought to
get him out of -prison."
"I have spent the best years
of my life for Tom", Mrs.
Mooney said. "He cannot dis-
card me now. I will go into
court and fight to the last
ditch."
Mooney issued a one-line
statement, "This not only af-
fects myself and my wife but
also concerns vitally my co-
sufferer, Billings."
He promised to make a full
statement later.
Two weeks ago he had brand-
ed rumors of an impending sep-
aration as "tying statements."
FRANCE SENDS
DELEGATE TO
VISIT FRANCO
PARIS — (UP) — Sen. Leon
Berard, tall, gray-haired Cath-
olic leader who is slated to be
France's first ambassador to nat-
ionalist Spain, left for Burgos
to lay before General Franco's
government French proposals
leading toward diplomatic rec-
ognition.
Although Berard's visit was
described as a "courtesy" trip,
it came on the heels of moves
to pave the way for establish-
ment of diplomatic relations be-
tween France and the insur-
gent regime.
Berard made it plain that he
is not charged with any mission
to initiate negotiations for an
armistice, but he is expected to
lay before the Burgos govern-
ment conditions under which
Franco's government will be
recognized.
They are: Clarification of
Franco's promise Germany and
Italy will not be given posi-
tions in Spain. Guarantees for
French interests in Spain. An
agreement whereby all foreign
troops will be withdrawn and
an agreement to repatriate all
refugees in France.
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Hungary Lost
Independence,
Soviet Charge
MOSCOW — (UP) — The
Soviet government blamed its,
break in diplomatic relations!
with Hungary, on the claim I
that the Budapest government]
is "no longer an independent
state."
A communique issued by the
government said the Soviet for-
eign commissary, Maxim Litvi-
nov, had notified the Hungarian
government that the Russian
legation was being withdrawn
from Budapest, it expressed the
opinion that the Hungarian
minister should be withdrawn
from Moscow.
The communique specifically
cited Hungary's joining the an-
ti-comintern powers—Germany,
Italy and Japan—as an indica-
tion that the government of
Hungary "easily submits to
pressure and to a great degree
has lost its independence."
The announcement camc
with surprising suddenness
through the official Tass agency
and was confirmed by the offi-
cial communique.
There has been frequent fron-
tier fighting along the border of
Hungary and the Carpatho-
Ukraine, the eastern section of
Czechoslovakia, as a result of
Hungary's ambition to estab-
lish a corridor between Po-
land and Hungary as a barrier
between Germany and Russia.
Sweetwater Reporter
VOLUME XLI
SWEETWATER, TEXAS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939
NUMBER 244
Bishop Predi cts Delivery F rom Chaos
Hopkins Holds Out Olive Branch
Two Brought Here
In Holdup Probe
Bogue Wilkins, sheriff of
Fisher county, came to Sweet-
water this morning to return Joe
Bethal picked up here and held
by the police department for
forgery.
Wilkins brought two boys here
for fingerprinting in connection
with the hold-up and robbery
of Dillard Smith, Rotan filling
station operator Thursday mor-
ning. Smith was robbed of $40.
Captain Homer Bradford of
the police department and fin-
gerprint expert handled the
pair.
Sheriff Wade, Taxi Driver Will
View Roy King. Holdup Suspect
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Fair and
warmer.
Maximum temperature yester-
day 38 degrees. Low this morn-
ing 28 degrees. Temperature at
2 p. m. today 42 degrees.
WEST TEXAS—Fair, some-
what colder in extreme southeast
tonight. Saturday fair, slowly
rising temperature in west and
north portions.
EAST TEXAS—Fair tonight
und Saturday, somewhat colder
tonight with temperatures be-
low freezing in interior and
freezing near upper coast. Con-
tinued cold.
Seeking the identification of
Roy King, escaped convict cap
tured in Dallas Tuesday, in
connection with the hi jacking
and robbery of F. L. Bryan, city
taxi driver, Sheriff Tom Wade
and deputies expect to accom-
pany Bryan to Dallas this week
where he will attempt to recog-
nize his assailant.
King admitted to Dallas of-
ficers that he had committed a
series of crimes near Sweetwat-
er confessing to 15 hi-jackings
and robberies near Dallas.
Already under sentences total-
ing more than 20 years and
with four West Texas towns
bidding for his return on va
rious charges, King might not
be tried In Sweetwater courts,
if Identified, for a long period.
From Washington come reports that the dove of peace,
under direction of Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins, is
about to do its stuff between the New Deal and industry. Pic-
tured is Peacemaker Hopkins, right, counseling with W.
Averill Harriman, chairman of the Business Advisory Coun-
cil, in peace preliminaries.
41 Herefords Bring
$13,185 At Sale
Forty one head of straight-
bred Herefords at the G. E.
Bradford and Walter Boothe
sale Thursday afternoon sold
for $13,185. This was an aver-
age of $321.50 per head, the 8.
bulls averaging $200 and the 33
cows, $329.24.
Five states were represented
among the buyers of cattle,
New Mexico, Illinois, Virginia,
Oklahoma and Texas. Largest
out-of-state buyer was Warren
Woody, Chicago, who purchased
three head for which he paid a
total of $1240. White Hat Ranch,
Blackwell, represented by Wil-
liam Gibbs, was a heavy local
buyer, purchasing six head for a
total of $1,705. Northwood
Farms, Fort Worth paid the
top price for the sale, $725 for
Dorrette Mischief 22d, 6-year old
cow.
Mose Newman, Sweetwater,
paid $300 for Superior 119th,
See HEREFORDS Page 4
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Rural Mexican
Revolt Reported
MEXICO CITY — (UP) —
Federal troops were ordered in-
to the hills of northern Puebla
state to put down what dis-
patches to the presidency and
department of national defense
described as a "subversive mo-
ment."
Telegrams from Coatzalan,
Teziutlan and Zacapoxtla said
a rebel band, headed by "Gen-
eral" Angel Castillo and Julio
Mondragon, a former army
lieutenant, recruited followers
and raided those three Puebla
villages. Forced loans were
raised in return for notes of
the "liberating movement, pay-
able upon the triumph of our
cause."
Gen. Pablo Diaz Davila, Pue-
bla military zone commander,
forwarded to the national de-
fense department copies of reb-
el manifestos which attacked
"communist rural school teach-
ers and commissars of agrarian
communities."
Traffic Warning
Issued In City
February, the shortest month
of the year, presents hazards for
the West Texas motorist as the
season for ice and snow glaz-
ed highways.
Traffic death tolls mount each
year, records of the county vital
statistics department show.
Two violent deaths, both non-
residents, occurred in Sweet-
water during January. One per-
son was crushed to death as
the wheels of a heavy run-
away truck passed over his
head; the other died from injur-
ies suffered in a truck accident
near the sub-station east of
town.
Twenty-four death certificates
were issued; 10 attributed due to
heart ailment; four succumbing
to pneumonia; one diphtheria,
the balance from natural causes.
o
Hosiery Industry
Wage Group Named
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Wage-hour Administrator Elmer
F. Andrews announced appoint-
ment of a 15-man committee to
recommend n minimum wage
schedule for the 140,000 workers
in the American hosiery indus-
try.
God Preparing
Solution, Says
Methodist Head
European Conditions,
Religious Suppression.
Church Restlessness Cited
"Faith and reason walk along
the same path. Reason reaches
an end, and faith continues on
a projection of that same path."
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt said last (
night to a filled auditorium at i
the First Methodist church. I
"Faith must be reasonable.!
We need the very best thinking
of which we are capable", he
emphasized. "But faith must al-
so be adventurous." He main-
tained that man must dare to
think, to believe before salva-
tion can be his. Argumentative
religion accomplishes nothing,
he continued.
'Faith Must Be Stubborn'
And, like the Old Testa-
ment prophets, "faith", he said,
"must be stubborn." He cited
the faith of Daniel, re-teiling
the story of Nebuchadnezzar,
the kir>g who found three men
See BfSHOP Page 4
o
Mexican Held
In Abduction
Of Baby Girl
EASTLAND — (UP) —San-
tos Gonzalez. 30-year-old Mexi-
can of Wichita Falls, today was
held in jail charged with kid-
naping a 15-month-old girl
which he claimed for his own
but whose father, the mother
said, was dead.
Sheriff Loss Woods said that
it had been difficult to recon-
cile the differing stories pri-
marily because Gonzalez spoke
only broken English and could
not give a coherent account.
The alleged kidnaping occurr-
ed Tuesday after Gonzalez had
gone to the woman with a fin-
al plea for her to marry him,
according to Woods. Gonzalez,
turned down again, was said to
have grabbed the child and to
have driven off in a fast new
automobile. He was captured
the next day in Wichita Fails.
The baby was not hurt.
The mother, denying Gon-
zalez' claims of parenthood, told
police that the child was hers
and her "late husband's."
Franco Watches Army Advance
Taking tlie field with his victorious Rebel armies, Generalis-
simo Francisco Franco is pictured, crouched amid conceal-
ing tall grass, watching his troops advance over open coun-
try.
Insanity Plea In
Auto Theft Trial
London Subway
«r
Station Blast
Brings Probe
LONDON — (UP) — Parts
Garment Workers
Threaten Picketing
NEW YORK — (UP) —The
International Ladies Garment
Workers union threatened today
to put it& 100,000 New York
workers on the picket line if
the building service strike
which has stopped elevators
and maintenance in the gar-
ment district is not settled to-
day.
Conferences between the
building service employes in-
ternational union and building
operators produced deadlock,
even after Mayor Fiorello H. La-
Guardia had demanded quick
settlement.
3 New License Plates, First
Of Year, Are Issued In City
Three 1939 automobile license
plates were issued yesterday by
Raymond Bishop and his depu-
ties, starting the laborious task
of registering about (5,500 cars,
trucks and trailers in Nolan
county.
The deadline for registration
is April 1. No tags can be placed
on cars until March 1, Bishop
has been informed by the state
highway department.
First plate we|nft tq G. R.
Phillips, Roscoe; second to W.
F. Lockett, Roscoe, and the
third to W. V. Roy of Sweet-
water
Forty-four persons have re-
served special numbers, satis-
fying a yen for an attractive
tag for this year's fashion.
Numbers are cheerfully "sav-
ed" or noted by the collector,
who does not encourage the
method especially during the
busy tax paying period.
The trial of Edwin Green,
youthful Fisher county farmer,
charging the theft of several au-
tomobiles, resulted in a san-
ity hearing as the case got un-
derway this morning in Judge
A. S. Mauzey's district court.
Admitting the boy's guilt to
the theft of the cars, Defense
Counsel J. D. Barker entered
the plea of insanity to the jury j of two subway stations in the
this morning for the boy on the
grounds that "his father has
been in a mental institution,
that several of his kinsmen have
died of mental disorders," and j
that the boy's actions proved j
him insane.
Sitting motionless Green star- j
ed toward the witness stand as j
eight state patrolmen, peace of-
See INSANITY Page 4
o
Civil Rights
Unit Formed
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Attorney Feneral Frank Mur-
phy today announced that he
had established a civil liber-
ties division in the department
of justice to study and make
recommendations on the status
of civil rights.
HSU Offers Quads
Four Scholarships
ABILENE — (UP) — Hardin
Simmons university offered lit-
erary scholarships to the four
daughters born to Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Badgett of Galveston.
Dr. R. N. Richardson, execu-
tive vice-president, telegraphed
the offer to Badgett. "All Tex-
ans will be well-wishers to
your daughters, and Hardin
Simmons university will be
glad to do its part to equip
them for lives of useful, Christ-
ian citizenship", Richardson
messaged Badgett.
o
Rebels Sue U. S.
For Spanish Silver
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The department of justice re-
vealed tonight that the Span-
ish insurgent
through the bank
suing the United States for re-
covery of $10,000,000 worth of
silver purchased by this coun-
try from the loyalist govern-
ment.
heart of the west end were
wrecked today, shop windows
were smashed and several per-
sons were injured by explosions
which Scotland Yard attributed
to time bombs.
Police immediately sent Scot-
land Yard operatives to close
and empty all luggage rooms
of the Metropolitan Subway
system because they feared that
dozens of bombs might have
been planted in the stations.
The explosions occurred at
the Leicester Square and Tot-
tenham Court road subway sta-
tions about half a mile apart
at about 6 a. m.
o
Rome Challenges
Hitler Statement
Palo Pinto Ji
Breaker Mi
Brownwood Man
Has Long: Crime Record,
Engaged In Gun Fight
With U'hree Officers
BROWNWOOD — (UP) —
William Thomas Haley, ex-con-
vict, shot to death Policeman
Jack Fuston here today and was
captured about seven hours lat-
er near Dublin.
Deputy Sheriff B. M. Hassler
of Erath county reported that
Haley was captured about a
mile from the point where Has-
sler and another officer chased
him into the brush.
Haley was turned over to
Brown county officers who had
sped to Erath county on the re-
port that Haley was in the Dub-
lin area. They immediately start-
ed back to Brownwood with
him.
Fuston was killed when he
and two other officers tried to
arrest Haley who had been
sought since he escaped from
the Palo Pinto jail several weeks
ago.
Haley jumped out of the win-
dow of the bathroom In the
tourist cabin, engageid in a
fight with Fuston and the other
officers and then escaped in the
early morning darkness. A short
time later he jumped on the
running board of an automobile
driven by a Brownwood youth
and forced him to drive toward
Dublin.
Between Dublin and Stephen-
ville the car was stopped by
Hassler and Nathaniel Mclnroe.
Haley jumped from the car and
ran into the dense underbrush
along the highway.
"I chased Haley into the
brush, but I did not fire at
him because I did not know
what kind of man we were deal-
ing with," Hassler said. "We
had not heard of the Brown-
wood murder and thought that
Haley and his companion were
a couple of boys out on some
kind of a prank."
After Hassler had lost Haley
in the brush, he returned to
the highway where Mclnroe
was waiting with the Brown-
wood youth. He did not learn of
the Brownwood killing uracil
told about it by a traveling man
who stopped to see what the
excitement was.
Hassler and Mclnroe imme-
diately spread the alarm, and
a posse was organized to search
Haley.
Haley has a long record of bur-
glaries in Dallas, Fort Worth,
Denton, Waxahachie and other
| Texas cities. He was awaiting
j trial on another burglary charge
when he and A. G. Patterson es-
1 caped from jail at Palo Pinto.
Patterson was captured a few
days later.
o
Veteran Slugs
Belgian Premier
D
BRUSSELS — (UP) — Pre-
mier Paul Henry Spaak, who
| has been in a violent contro-
versy with war veterans orga-
nizations, was hit in the face
by a veteran who stopped hirti
| as he stepped from a taxicab
j in front of his home.
The premier had a welt on
his face when policemen rush-
ed up to protect him from an
angry crowd which collected
about the cab. Spaak was es-
corted quickly into his house,
and several veterans were ar-
rested.
The altercation occurred af-
ter Spaak announced the ap-
pointment of Dr. A. Mertens,
who was sentenced to death
during the World War and lat-
er granted amnesty, to a seat
VATICAN CITY — (UP)
The Osservatore Romano, offi-
cial organ of the Catholic j in the Flemish academy.
church, challenged the good The appointment was con-
faith of Chancellor Adolf Hit- firmed by the chamber of rep-
ler's proposal to separate the . resentatives by a vote of 88 to
church from the state in Ger- 1 80, with seven abstentions, after
many.
a heated debate.
Congressional Horsetrade Vi ill
Assure Dies Sift Continuance
ground at the outset. To offset
widespread criticism of his com-
mittee he produced data tend-
ing to show to 90 per cent of
the people approved the group's
drive against communism, fa-
scism and other counter-Ameri-
desired its
WASHINGTON — (UP)—The
Dies unAmerican committee
which President Roosevelt de-
nounced as a forum for dis-
gruntled politicians won a new
lease on life after a series of
"horsetrades" which gave the
administration strong sup-jean activities, and
port for its government reor- continuance.
ganization bill. j Administration leaders were
Rep. Martin Dies, democrat of i equally desirious of reviving Mr.
Texas, won house rules com-j Roosevelt's reorganization pro-
mittee approval of a resolution
to continue his committee for
government, j one year after an unwritten
of Spain, is j agreement that he and his col-
leagues. among them many re-
publicans, would not oppose the
president's reorganization pro-
gram
gram which had to have rules
committee approval. Dies, a
member of the committee, had
enough republican and demo-
cratic support to squelch the
measure, but it was given a
favorable report, apparently af-
ter Dies won assurance that hia
The Texan was sure of his I own group would get new lift.
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