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O'Daniel Decides Qallogly Should Be Returned To Qeorgia
LABORITE LEADER ATTACKS
ECONOMIC SIDE OF PROGRAM
Attorneys Plan
To Seek Writ of
Habeas Corpus
Governor Says It Is Not
His Duty to Decide
Guilt or Innocence
AUSTIN — (UP) — Governor
O'Daniel today granted tlie re-
quest of Governor E. D. Rivers
for the return to Georgia, of Rich-
ard Gallogly.
In ordering extradition of the
rich youth who escaped while
under two life sentences for
murder, O'Daniel said:
"Judging from correspondence
1 have received, there seems to
he a mistaken idea that the gov-
ernor in extradition hearings
should decide the fugitive's guilt
or innocence. Without doubt
the couits are for that, purpose,
and the thing for the governor
to decide is whe'her or not the
fugitive should' he returned to
the state asking f..r his return.
) "There is no doubt in my
mind that Richard Gallogly for-
ced two Georgia prison guards
to abandon the car in which
they were transporting him to
the prison camp, then used the
car in making his escape. Rich-
ard Gallogly testified to these
facts himself."
Attorneys for Gallogly said the
next step will be a habeas cor-
pus application for Gallogly's re-
' lease at Dallas, where he is be-
ing held in jail following his
surrender last week.
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Panama Canal on
Wartime Basis
BALBOA, C. Z. — (UP) —
^The Panama canal was placed 011
a virtually wartime basis today
by Maj. Gen. David L. Stone, who
ordered a reorganization, of the
Panama canal department, which
he commands, as a further mea-
sure to ensure the safety of the
waterway.
General order No. 18 made
commanders of all units in the
department responsible for the
preparation of defease plans and
•^projects as well as the formula-
' tion of training programs to
"insure success of defense plans
in time of war."
One of the chief features of
the reorganization was the merg-
ing of all anti-aircraft artillery
installations in the canal zone
into one organization known as
the Panama canal provisional
coast artillery brigade under
ccmmand of Brig. Gen. Sander-
,'ford Jarman. Formation of the
brigade marks the first time
in the history of the U. S. army
that this has been done within
the continental limits of the
United States or the territories
under its jurisdiction.
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Estonia Cut Off
Suddenly Today
HELSINGFORS — (UP) —
Telegraph and radio communi-
cation with Estonia was sudden-
ly cut off today, and a severe
military censorship was report-
ed imposed on that Baltic state
in connection with occupation
of military bases by Soviet
troops.
\ About 21,000 Russian troops
Were being sent into Estonia.
Travelers from Tallinn said that
conditions there were highly
uncertain, and that the govern-
ment had taken "precautions"
against any incidents.
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Livestock Sales Are
Reported On Market
Livestock sales reported here
Yesterday included 34 heifers
and four steers sold from T. C.
Mann of Colorado City to S. B.
Hale, an out-of-state buyer: 20
cows and 20 calves from Ches-
ter L. Jones of Vencient to J. C.
Franklyn of Colorado City, and
17 calves from L. S. Howard of
Roscoe to various buyers.
WEATHER
Sweetwater Reporter
43RD YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. I«, 1939
NUMBER 139
Stribling Sale Sets New Price Records
Nazi and Soviet
Partnership Has
First Reverse
BY UNITED PRESS
Europe's new nazi-soviet part-
ner hip suffered its first major
set-back today on the diplomatic
front.
Although the German high
'command reported new military !
gains against allied troops on the i
Rhineland, Turkey and Finland
appeared to have delivered suc-
cessive diplomatic blows to the
expanding zone of soviet influ-
ence, and to have given the al-
lies cause for satisfaction. Deve-
lopments included:
1. Turkey failed to conclude
a long-expected treaty with Rus-
sia reportedly she turned down
soviet demands for a zone of
Russian influence in the Bal-
kans, strict neutrality of the
Dardanelles, and freedom for
Germany and Russia to act in
central Europe.
2. The kings of Norway, Den-
mark. and Sweden met with the
president of Finland at Stock-
holm to consider protection of
their security, neutrality, and
trade, with Finland hoping for
support in opposing Soviet de-
mands.
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73 Injured Aboard
Ship In Heavy Sea
NEW YORK — (UP) — The
United States liner President
Harding, battered by high winds
and heavy seas of an Atlantic
storm, radioed today that 73
passengers and members of her
crew had been injured, 23 of
them seriously, and that one
sailor was missing.
The radioed report was dis-
patched after the master of the
liner had reversed a decision
to head for Halifax instead of
New York.
In three earlier messages,
asking urgently for medical aid,
the vessel reported that moun-
tainous seas had smashed away
part of her deck reeling, and
had carried away a life boat.
The Harding and several other
ships were caught in the path
of the storm. The British freight-
er Bairbeg lost her rudder, and
a coast guard cutter was en
route to help her.
Scandinavian Rulers Discuss Critical Baltic Situation
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Scandinavian conference ;it Stockholm, prompted by critical situation in upper Baltic, brings
together President Kyosti Knllio of Finland, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Gustily
Sweden, who called the parley, and Kind Christian X of Denmark.
V of
Female Average
Of $713 Highest
In Eleven Years
.Tack Frost Pays Top
Price of $2,500 for
l red Hereford Cow
Thirty-four buyers paying a
total of $38,245 for 57 animals
yesterday afternoon pushed the
annual John Stribling and Son
Hereford sale over several rec-
ord marks. The most important
of hese broken records was an
average price of $713.09 for fe-
males. the highest female
erage in the country since the
P. J. Sullivan Colorado sale
Nazis Appear to
Be Preparing for
Major Assault
PARIS — (UP) — German
railroads and highways for 30
miles behind the western front
are jammed with men, guns, and
munitions in apparent prepara-
tion for a big-scale asasult on
tiic Magi not line, it was reported
today.
fighting lines, there
ension that usually
before a great bat-
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Executives Talk
At Austin Today
AUSTIN — (UP) — A con-
ference between Gov. O'Dan-
iel and Lieutenant Governor
Coke Stevenson was in progress
today at the governor's man-
sion, a state senator revealed.
A special session of the leg-
islature to provide old age pen-
sion funds was believed to be the
subject of the conference. The
governor has been studying
answers of legislators to his spe-
cial questionnaire, and was ex-
pected to seek Stevenson's ad-
vice on prospects of passing the
bill.
Nordic States to Stand Together,
Wanting Only to Maintain Peace
the
was the
comes ju
tie.
French and German patrols
were sounding out each other's
positions, and seeking to take
prisoners for questioning.
Occasionally patrols met,
av. | dispatches said, for a brief, vic-
1 ious fight with hand grenades,
pistols, and trench knives.
The French high command
1928. The sale also broke the [ c;gjf{ merely:
Striblings' own record for the J "Contact elements were ac-
five-year life of these auctions. • tive on both sides throughout
LONDON — (UP)—Laborite Clement Attlee, opposition
leader, made a slashing attack on the British government's
conduct of the war in the house of commons today.
Attlee's attack, the first real criticism in commons of
the government since the war began, followed Prime
Minister Chamberlain's weekly report.
Attlee said that the opposition was not satisfied with
the economic side of the war, and the economic organization
for war. He asked an explanati >n of why German air raids
on the Firth of Forth had been
anticipated only when the en-
emy actually was over the
Forth.
Must Prepare For Attacks
Prime Minister Chamberlain
said that Adolf Hitler has failed
to reply to allied peace condi-
tions, and that Great Britain
must, prepare for bigger nazi
! aerial attacks.
"We have the satisfaction of
I knowing that we have made a
good beginning," the prime min-
ister said, in reporting "disap-
pointment" of Germany in its
aerial raids on British naval
bases. v
"Hut there are many sur-
prises in war, and they cannot
all be pleasant. The attacks
made so far on our coast have
been few and on a small scale.
And it would be unwise to as-
sume that we shall always be as
successful."
He said that nazi airplanes
and U-boats had taken a toll
of more than 1400 lives in the
British navy, but that they had
paid heavily for their successes.
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Eastland Woman
Dies of Exposure
EASTLAND — (UP) — Fun-
eral services will be held here
Wednesday for Mrs. U. A. Ding-
ier, elderly widow who died yes-
terday of exposure after she
fell in a field from a paralytic
stroke.
Mrs. Dingier, who lived alone
at her farm home, was stricken
last Friday morning when she
walked into a field to find a cow.
A searching party found her
Sunday, and she died of pneu-
monia contracted during the 48
hours that she remained on the
ground.
Veterans Plan to
Observe Holidav
Sweetwater war veterans
already laying plans for obser
ire
STOCKHOLM — (UP) — Swe-
dish Foreign Minister Richard
Sandler announced on the eve
of the conference here of the
heads of four traditionajh neu-
tral Nordic states, that the states
were standing solidly together
against all menaces to their in-
dependence by "alien powers and
interests "
"The northern people." he
said in outlining the conference
aims, "stand jointly and un-
hesitatingly behind their lead-
ers and government and are | Oscar McDonald post, members
showing their firm determina-'j discussed plans for the annual
tion not to tie their dest'nies
Top money buyer was Jack
Frost of Blackwell; who pur-
chased $7,700 worth of Here-
fords. Following him were Claud
E. Heard of Beeville. with $4,-
550, and William McSpadden of
Amarillo with $4,200.
Top Price Is $2,500
Bulls averaged $552. Frost paid
| the top price of 82,500 for fe-
males, for Duleie Mischief 21st.
, --- - This matron, out of Advance
irlS'4Armistice Day. Nov. 11. The Mischief 1323063 and Dulcie Mis-
two veterans' posts, Oscar Me- j chief 16th 2048153, is carrying the
Donald and Musicians, likely will service of Advanxiety, whose
hold a joint program on the j calf she is expected to drop about
morning of the eleventh. the first of January. In offering
At a meeting last night of j her, Stribling promised that he
would stand ready to buy the
calf at a flat $500.
the night. There were many am-
I bushes: there was much close
fighting. There is imei.se con-
! cer tration on railroads behind
: he enemj' fight."
Bad weather was general along
the front. Published reports said
;hat the Germans lost from 8,-
000 to 7,000 dead and wounded
out of a total of 90,GOO Monday.
Formula Favored
Bv 13 Democrats
WASHINGTON — (UP)
Thirteen Democratic members Norman. Okla.
0. P. Howell, 60,
Dies Suddenlv
O. P. Howell. 60, die unex-
pectedly at 9:30 o'clock this
morning at his home, 810 West
Fourth street. His sudden death
was attributed to heart trouble.
The Howell family has lived
: in Sweetwater for 12 years.
Survivors include his widow
and six children: Mrs. John
, Birdwelk Hilteteoro; Mrs. O. L.
McCann, Gorman: Billy Lucille,
j Charles and J. P. Howell, Sweet-
water: Robert Howell, Odessa.
Two lirothers are A. S. Howell,
Sweetwater, and G. A. Howell,
to any alien power or interest.
"Nor can it. be doubted that
there is a sincere wish to main-
tain good international relations
in every direction."
The kings of Norway, Den- talJ.?d P™gram
mark and Sweden and President
Kyosti Kalio of Finlan 1, accom-
panied by their foreign, minis-
ters and other advisers, are
meeting in Stockholm at the in-1
vitation of 81-year-old King Gus- '
tav V of Sweden to decide how I
best to remain neutral and cush- j
ion the economic repercussion
of the European war.
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Armistice Day breakfast, to be
preceded by a bomb salute and
the raising of the colors at Leg-
ion park. John B. Majors and L.
A. Eberle were appointed on a
•xmmittee to work out the de-
Second high female was Blan-
che Mischief 27th, who brought
$2,000 from Heard.
Bull Sells For $1,400
Modest Domino was top bull,
drawing $1,400 from Burrus
Dennis of Aspermont. Second
top bull was Biltrite, who went
to Bryan Hunt of Sonora at $1,-
British Steamer
Sunk in Atlantic
The Musicians' post will likely
>onsor a parade of the band
I and some sort of sunrise cere-
: mony.
At last night's special meeting
j of Oscar McDonald members,
[ Commander H. A. Walker led a
j discussion of plans for inaug-
| urating a campaign to raise i prices.
i funds for the construction of a Crowding into the tented
i Sweetwater Legion home. It is Stribling amphitheater for five
hoped that construction of the j hours after and before lunch
i home may get underway during ] and supper barbecue, the large
j the coming year. | audience cheered top buyers as
300.
The excellence of Texas Here-
fords was amply demonstrated
by the fact that, out of numer-
ous buyers from ten other states,
Texas breeders paid all the top
ft
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SWEETWATER — Continued
slightly cloudy and somewhat
cooler tonight. Maximum tem-
perature Tuesday 82; low this
morning 53; at 1:45 p. m., today
80.
WEST TEXAS — Fair to
slightly cloudy tonight and
Thursday; warmer tonight, cool-
fr Panhandle Thursday.
EAST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy, warmer west and north por-
tions tonight; Thursday partly
cloudy. Warmer northeast and
<ynithwest portions.
Athenia Passenger Says Vessel
Carried Guns for Canadian Defense
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The British liner Athenia carried
a cargo of guns for Canadian de-
fenses when she was sunk on the
lay war was declared, and sub-
sequently. was to have been con-
verted into a sea raider, Gustav
\. Anderson said in an affidavit
,'iled with the state department.
Anderson, travel bureau oper-
ator at. Evanston, 111., stated that
his information was based on his
>wr. observations and on conver-
sions with the Athenia's offi-
cers and men whom he knew
jersonally. He was aboard the
ship when she was sent down
n Sept. 3. The chief officer, a
nan named Copeland, told him
hat there were "plenty" of
guns in the ship's hold, Ander-
son declared.
The affidavit stated, however,
that no guns were mounted on
the Athenia when she was sunk
although she was reinforced
heavily for gun mountings.
Secretary of State Cordeil
Hull said at his daily press con-
ference that the affidavit gave
him the first intimation from
any source that the Athenia car-
ried guns. Hull and his aides
are investigating the disaster in
which 28 of the more than 300
Americans aboard were not ac-
counted for. Hull said full de-
tails of the inquiry would be
published when it was complet-
ed.
A report by team captains, L.
.V. Geldert and George D. Bar-
ber, in the annual membership
drive was given and both report-
said today that a German sub- j <?d a satisfactory response to the
marine had sunk the British campaign
..ONDON — (UP) — Tt was
steamer City of Mandalay, 7,028-
ton vessel, in the Atlantic ocean
FR Intimates Present Program of
Naval Expansion May Be Inadequate
WASHINGTON — (UP)
President Roosevelt indicated to-
'lay that the present naval ex-
pansion. program may be insuf-
ficient for creation of complete-
ly adequate fleets to protect the
United States.
This country's naval problem,
he told his press conference, can
not be solved by application of
pious ideas or beautiful slogans
such as "two ships for one"
and a "two-ocean navy." Naval
plans, he added, must be adjust-
ed to changing conditions, and
revised each year on the basis
of altered needs.
No one knows, he said, wheth-
er a "two-ocean, navy" would
mean that this country would
have one navy in the Atlantic
and another in the Pacific or
concentrated In a single ocean.
Manipulation of naval strength,
See FDR INTIMATES Page 0
U. S. FREIGHTER
PICKS UP SURVIVORS
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The American freighter Inde-
pendence Hall has picked up 300
survivors of the City of Man-
dalay, the maritime commission
announced today.
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Battle Reported
Off Netherlands
AMSTERDAM — (UP) —
Six warships and 12 planes en-
gaged in a severe battle off the
Netherlands coast, witnesses re-
ported today.
The battle, which started at
11 a. m., as being fought out-
side Dutch territorial waters.
Some observers said that the
planes engaging in the combat
with warships bore German
markings. Firing lasted about
two hours.
U. S. Is Morally
Backing Nordics
WASHINGTON — (UP)—Pre-
sident Roosevelt today placed
the moral support of the Unit-
ed States behind the efforts
of Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
and Finland to maintain north-
ern neutrality.
District Commander Barber
made a brief report on the dist-
rict convention held last week-
end in Breekenridge.
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Cook Doomed to
Die for Murder
HOLLYWOOD — (UP) -De
Witt Clinton Cook, 20-year-old
Iowa reform school parolee, was
sentenced to die for the city col-
lege campus murder of An.va
Sosoyeva, former follies dascer.
The death sentence was a for-
mality. -An all-male jury which
convicted him made the penal-
ty mandatory.
Sentences totaling 23 years to
life in prison were imposed by
.Judge Thomas L. Ambrose for
three burglaries and attacks up-
on Delia Bogard, 17, film danc-
er. and Myrtle Wagner, 17-year-
old Hollywood housemaid, al-
though Cook probably will not
live to serve them.
Lethal gas will be administer-
ed at San Quentin prison. No
date was set for the execution.
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Four Fines Total $43
In City Court Today
Fines totaling $43 were as-
sessed in city court this morn-
ing. with $14 each from two
charged with drunkenness and
one with petty theft, and a $1
traffic fine. One man is being
held for investigation by police.
Auctioneer Earl Gartin whipped
competitive buying to an all-
time high. John Stribling,
a consummate salesman, kept
his stock moving at an. exciting
pace in this most streamlined
of Hereford auctions.
of the senate foreign relations
committee accepted in prin<-
ciple today a formula for modi-
fying drastic restrictions on
American shipping under the
neutrality program.
Under the plan, American
vessels could carry on trade
with belligerents in certain des-
ignated areas in the Pacific and
South Atlantic, but could not
include arms, ammunitions, or
implements of war.
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3 Killed in Blast
At Powder Plant
ELDRED, Pa. — (UP) — An
explosion at the National Pow-
der company plant here today
killed five employes and shook
the district for miles around.
The explosion occurred in a
building used as a mixing plant.
The five killed were working in
it.
Canadian Harbors Being Protected
Against Subs and Torpedo Boats
OTTAWA, Ont. — (UP) —
Anti-submarine nets and defen-
ses against motor torpedo boats
have been, or are being, laid in
Canada's harbors on both the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, a
defense department spokesman
said in. a nation-wide radio
broadcast.
The spokesman .whose identi-
ty remained a secret, also said
naval units and royal Canadian
air force planes are maintaining
a constant patrol of both coasts.
The broadcast was the first
of a series of weeklv talks on
the activities of the Canadian
armed forces. Defense Minister
Norman Rogers, who introduced
the speaker, stated he would
remain unidentified in order
that any one official would not
be unduly publicized.
The favorable geographical
position of the dominion was
cited by the speaker in opening
his talk. Two oceans bounded
the eastern and western extre-
mities of the country while on
the north were the icebound
and uninhabited arctic regions,
he said.
Funeral services are to be
held at 3 p. m., Thursday at the
family home. J. P. Crenshaw,
elder of the Church of Christ,
is to officiate. Johnston Fun-
eral home is to direct burial in
the city cemetery.
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Covey to Serve
On Committee
Superintendent Ross S. Covey
of Sweetwater has accepted
membership on Gov. W. Lee
O'Daniel s committee which is to
draft legislation intended to re-
organize the Texas school sys-
tem.
1 he creation of the statewide
committee is the outgrowth of a
P\\ A survey made several years
ago which revealed inequalities
in educational opportunities in
Texas, need of more funds and
the njed for more economical
use of available funds in some
instances.
A number of educators in dist-
rict. 7 of the Texas State Teach-
ers association have accepted
appointment on the committee.
In addition to Covey- they are
Byron England, Abilene: N. S.
Holland, Breekenridge; T. W.
Brumbalow. H. D. Fillers, J. i3.
Golden, Miss Ida Moore, S. H.
Rider, and Charles H. Tennev-
son. all of Wichita Falls; W. T.
Walton. Ranger; C. Wedgeworth,
Snyder: and T. C. Wililams,
Eastland.
Hitler Described as Eager for War
During Parlevs; Threats Revealed
LONDON — (UP) — Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler threatened, in the
final days of diplomatic ex-
changes before the outbreak of
the war. to hurl about 2,500,000
troops against the allies on the
western front, after conquering
Poland in a lightning campaign,
a government announcement
said last night.
Hitler's threat was said to
have been made to Six Nevile
Henderson, former British am-
bassador to Berlin, when he
talked with the fuehrer shortly
before the outbreak of war.
The disclosure was made in
a "whitepaper" published by the
government, containing Sir Ne-
vile's final detailed report on
Anglo German relations.
Henderson quoted Hitler as
saying that Germany would be
able to use 160 divisions of
troops against Britain and
France in the west as soon as
Poland was subdued.
See HITLER Page 6
Two Rot an Youths
Enlist In U. S. Army
Two more men sent to Fort
Bliss for examination from the
Sweetwater recruiting office
have been accepted for regular
army enlistment, according to
Corporal Harry Haines. Witt W.
George. 23. and Rufus J. Thrash,
If), both of Rotan, sent from
Haines' office in the city hall
here, were assigned yesterday
to the medical department in the
William Beaumont General Hos-
pital at El Paso.
Finns Ask Nordics
What Aid to Expect
STOCKHOLM — (UP) — Fin-
land was understood today to
have asked Sweden, Norway,
and Denmark what aid she
might expect if she is forced to
defend herself from aggression.
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