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Series O/ Dairy Meetings To Begin On Thursday Morning
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Expert to Speak
At Open Session
In BCD Office
Other Meetings, Visits
To Herds Scheduled
Remainder of Week
A series of open meetings
and visits to dairies and farms
in Nolan and Fisher counties
begin at 9 a. m. Thursday in
Sweetwater and will be con-
cluded Saturday in Roby.
All persons interested in
the dairy industry in the
Sweetwater area are urged to
attend a meeting in the Board
of City Development office at
0 a. m. Thursday, at which D.
M. Carroll, herd tester of the
Hale County Dairy Herd Im-
provement association, is to be
present and will discuss ways
and means whereby the indus-
try may be expanded in this
county.
He will discuss dairy prob-
lems as related to West Texas,
answer questions relative to
the dairy program, and offer
suggestions on ways of pro-
moting dairying in the county.
Widely Experienced
Carroll has had experience
with Jersey, Holstein, Guern-
sey, and milking Shorthorns
and is qualified to answer
questions concerning all these
breeds.
He will be able to give valu-
able information regarding the
culling, feeding, care and deve-
lopment of dairy herds, as well
as giving the location of good
foundation stock.
Following the BCD meeting
here, the group is to visit the
C. A. Mathews dairy farm, the
(J. E. Ramsey dairy herd, the
Bland Hope dairy herd, and that
of N. C. Davis, and possibly
others.
Following these visits, the
group will go to Roscoe where
at 3 p. m. a meeting is to be held
in the vocational agriculture
room of high school to meet
with interested persons in that
community.
Meeting At Divide
On Friday Mr.' Carroll and
others are to go to Divide
where at 9 a. m. a meeting is
to be held in the high school.
R. R. Petty, Divide vocational
agriculture teacher, is arrang-
ing a schedule of visits to dair-
ies and.farms in that, commun-
ity-
At p. m. Friday, Carroll is
to go to Blackwell for a meet-
ing in the high school building
there.
Saturday Mr. Carroll will go
to Fisher county where he is
to meet with interested persons
at 9 a. m. in the courthouse at
Roby. A tour of dairies and
farms in that area is being ar-
ranged by County Agent T. H.
Roensch.
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Legion Plans Water Carni val
Stocks Break 011
New York Board
NEW YORK— (UP)—Launch-
ing of a new German offensive
in France unsettled stocks Wed-
nesday.
Volume increased and prices
broke 1 to 3 points. Bonds made
an irregular decline. Wheat It>st
1 3-8 to 1 7-8 cents a bushel and
most other commodities were
lower.
Favorable news from indus-
try was ignored. This included
gains in some steel centers, a
record May for airplane travel,
high holiday-week rate of elec-
tricity output, favorable chain
store sales and news of addition-
al war orders.
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f Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Cloudy,
warmer and unsettled condition.
Maximum Tuesday temperature
99; low Wednesday morning 72;
r. at 1:45 p. m. Wednesday, 93.
June 5, 1939, high 93, low 68.
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy
to cloudy with evening and af-
ternoon thunderstorms Wednes-
night and Thursday. Cooler
north portion Thursday.
EAST TEXAS— Considerable
cloudiness Wednesday and
Thursday. Occasional showers
near upp«r coast.
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Annual Event to
Be Held July 4:
May Be Extended
Legionnaires Consider
Three-Day Affair;
Committees Named
Oscar McDonald post No. 109
of the American Legion voted
Tuesday night to sponsor the
annual water carnival and beau-
ty revue on July Fourth, and
members are considering exten-
sion of the celebration through
July 5 and (5.
The extended celebration
would be held in connection
with the post's dedication of its
new home in city park, which
is this week being completed as
a community assembly hall un-
der a $7,200 WPA project.
A committee was appointed
Tuesday night by Commander
H. A. Walker to select a gener-
al chairman for the revue, after
which all other committee ap-
pointments are to be made.
The proposed celebration in
connection with the opening of
the post home is in the hands
of L. N. Geldert, who was nam-
ed chairman of a committee to
plan this event.
The post iikewise voied to
send delegates to the Legion
convention in Abilene June 15
and 10 and urged members to
attend a meeting in Eastland
Thursday night at which Ray
Kelly, national commander of
the Legio , is to be the princi-
pal speaker.
The post plans to hold open
house at its new home on June
18, the regular social meeting
night to which the public will
be invited for an inspection of
the new building.
France's Caissons Keep Rolling Along
French Hold Firm
On Most Of Line
PARIS—(UP)—The Germans are attacking with air-
planes, artillery and tanks along the 110-mile front
from Laon to the sea but French military quarters Wed-
nesday night said that the impression of the first day's
fighting was "favorable."
WAR SUMMARY
Up to an undisclosed battle front—perhaps to help colleagues beleaguered in Flanders, per-
haps lo reinforce defenses along the Soinnie—moves a column of French horse-drawn artillery.
Markets At A Glance
ISy United Press
Stocks lower and quiet.
Bonds lower; U. S. govern-
ments lower.
Call money 1 per cent.
■Foreign exchange easy.
Cotton easy.
Wheat off 1 3-8—1 7-8 cents;
corn up 1-2 to off 1-8.
C-C Secretaries
Arrive in City
A group of Texas chamber of
merec secretaries arrived at in-
tervals VVednesady morning foil
a fish fry at Lake Sweetwater,
sponsored by Geo. Barber, secre-
tary-manager of the Board of
City Development.
The executives are enroute to
Midland for the annual conven-
tion of the Texas Chamber of
Commerce Secretaries' associa-
tion. Barber is on the conven-
tion program Friday for a dis-
cussion of "A Tax Supported
Chamber of Commerce."
He is to be accompanied to
Midland by John M. Hendrix,
executive secretary of the U. S.
80 Highway Association of West
Texas.
Dr. Johnson Wins
In Appeals Court
AUSTIN— (UP)— The third
court of civil appeals Wednes-
day affirmed the ruling of Dis-
trict Judge J. D. Moore enjoin-
ing the state board of control
from removing Dr. W. J. John-
son. superintendent of the San
Antonio state hospital for men-
tal patients.
Litigation between Dr. John-
son and the board of control be-
gan early this year.
Chamberlain May
Lose Cabinet Post
LONDON — (UP) — Great
Britain, while reorganizing its
shattered expeditionary force
and arming urgently to repel
an expected German invasion,
threatened Wednesday to throw
Neville Chamberlain and those
long associated with him out of
the cabinet as responsible for
the "colossal military disaster"
which tin
Flanders.
It was
result of
the house
allies suffered
in
T NOT TALK WITH
N AMATEUR STATIONS
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
T h e federal communications
commission Wednesday placed
an immediate ban on radio com-
munications between United
States amateurs and foreign
stations.
The commission did not ela-
borate on its order, which will
affect approximately 55,000 am-
ateurs licensed in the United
States. It was believed the act-
ion was prompted by a desire
Execution of 7
Italians Reported
ROME— (UP)— The official
Stefani news agency, In a dis-
patch from Brussels Wednesday
said that before the German oc-
cupation of Belgium, French
military officials executed seven
Italians at Vieux Campinaire on
charges of espolnage.
The report on the executions,
received, it was claimed, from
the Ralian consulate at Char-
leroi, said that they were order-
ed after a drumhead court mar-
tial.
forecast I hat. as the
a secret session of
of commons, to be
held probably next Tuesday,
Chamberlain might he forced
from his war cabinet post of
Lord President of the council
and chairman of the cabinet
steering committee, and that
others might go with him.
Important hold-overs from
Chamberlain's cabinet. from
whom Winston Churchill took
over a few hours after Adolf
Hitler started his blitzkreig on
Holland and Belgium, include
Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor
of the exchequer; Lord Hali-
fax. foreign secretary; Anthony
Eden, war secretary; Sir An-
drew Duncan, president of the j
board of trade, antl Sir John i
Simon, lord chancellor.
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Tanks Being Made
Like Doughnuts
BY DAN CAMPBELL
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND!
—(UP)—I watched tanks, how
many I am not pemitted to re-
veal, being punched out like
doughnuts on American-madc
machines in a plant so fast, so
efficient, it made my head
swim.
I toured 'Tankvile" Tuesday
about the same time Prime
Minister Winston Churchill an-
nounced that materials, parti-
cularly tanks, lost in Flanders
were being replaced with mo-
tion picture speed.
I saw Churchill's words live
and breathe. Acres of machines,
many of them stamped "Cin-
cinnati", were grinding out
tanks like sausages in a sau-
sage machine.
was
to check any possible use that
subversive elements might be
making of the amateur network.
The commission said that the j
prohibition does not apply lo j
communications between ama-
teurs in the continental United I
States and its territories aivi!
possessions, nor to United States .
citizens authorized to operate!
amateur stations in the Phillip- j
ine Islands or the Canal Zone ;
when such persons are com- j
municationg with amateurs in
the United States.
Aliens To He Fingerprinted
One of the first steps to in-
crease control of aliens in the |
government'^" drive against sub-
versive activities will be the |
fingerprinting of all incoming
aliens, a justice department j
spakesman said Wednesday.
Such an order will be issued i
See "HAMS" Page 5
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Hatch Bill Called
Bureaucracy Aid
! WASHINGTON — (UP) — j
I House judiciary committee
! members who voted against the ]
I senate-approved amendments to 5
i the Hatch "clean politics" bill
charged Wednesday that the
legislation "proposes .a deeper
thrust into the vitals of demo-!
cratic institutions in favor of
bureaucracy" than any other in
the nation's history.
The measure, which would
extend Hatch act restrictions
on political activities of federal |
employes to state workers paid
in whole or in part with feder-
al funds, was appioved last
week by an 18 to 8 vote.
The opposing members, in a
minority report written by,
Chairman Hatton W. Sumners,
asesrted that the measure's
"proposed extension of federal
power over state, county, city
and precinct elections" is un-
constitutional.
Red Cross Faces
Hardest Problem
In Its History
"In all of the 70 years of the
history of the Red Cross, it
has never been faced with such
a heartbreaking problem as
that of caring for innocent wo-
men, children, and aged, against
whom merciless and ruthless
war is being waged in Europe,"
said Norman H. Davis, chair-
man of the American Red Cross,
in a circular letter sent out to
all chapters in the United
Suites Wednesday.
"For the sake of humanity,
we of the American Red Cross
must do everything possible to!
relieve the suffering and to
maintain the morale of these
tragic victims of war."
Davis said that there are an
estimated 5,000,000 men. women, j
and children refugees living j
under miserable conditions in j
France, undergoing extremities j
of hardship, following the m-j
human warfare that swept
them from their homes in Bel-1
gium, the Netherlands, and nor-
thern France.
Clayton Williams, chairman!
of the Nolan county chapter of
Iho Red 'Cross, said Wednesday
that he hoped "citizens will con-
tinue to respond generously to
the Red Cross appeal for war
relief funds."
Wednesday three more names
were added to the Red Cross
honor roll in Nolan county.
They were:
.1 B. Westcrfield
.loe M. Rice
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
UP Foreign News Editor
Adolf Hitler hurled an army
of 000,000 men against France
Wednesday, threatened the ear-
ly "annihilation of our enemies
in London" and directed a warn-
ing at nervously neutral Swit-
zerland.
The French army facing the
main German attack on a 110
mile sector of a front of more
than 200 miles, from the mouth
of the Somme river to Luxem-
bourg, was reported fighting
s,_. ..,'Iy and Premier Paul Rey-
ri:.ud said there was reason to
hope for "a favorable issue."
An authoritative French sour-
ce said French lines were hold-
ing firm except at " a couple
of unimportant spots" where
strategic withdrawals were ord-
ered.
So Indication of Trend
Berlin said that two French
stabs at either end of the front
had been repulsed but Paris
military authorities took the
position that it was too early
for any definite indication of
the trend of battle. Aerial bomb-
ardment continued severe on
both sides.
German bombing attacks on
the Rhone valley of France led
to several clashes with Swiss
fighting planes as the nazi pil-
ots flew near or over Switzer-
land. From one to four Ger-
man planes have been reported 1
shot down in the last few days!
and at least one Swiss pilot was)
downed.
Dispatches from Berlin said!
that an investigation was in J
progress to determine whether [
the Swiss actually attacked j
German planes over French
territory., The announcement |
added another and possibly j
menacing angle to recent re-j
ports and rumors of a possible |
German or German-Italian blow
through Switzerland at France, j
Aerial Bombings Continue
The full extent of aerial bomb- j
ing by both sides apparently!
has merely been hinted at. Ger-
man planes have been thrust- j
ing deep into the Rhone val-1
ley and at the big French ports j
in the northwest — through j
which new British forces might
move to France. Censorship has
prevented any accurate indica-
tion of the extent of these
raids or of similar allied raids
on the Ruhr valley industrial
Germany. Paris report-
air raid alarms Wednes-
central and southwest
indicating deep pene-
Mrs. M. L. Rice
Previous total
Total to date
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1153.40
$1156.40
BRITISH CONSIDER
MOVING CHILDREN
LONDON — (UP) — The
possibility of evacuating
British children to Canada
and Australia is under ur-
gent consideration by the
government, Geoffrey Shak-
espeare, parliamentary sec-
retary for the dominions,
said Wednesday in the
house of commons.
area of
ed new
day in
France,
t ration.
A million and possibly 1,500,-1
000 men were believed involv-!
ed on the fighting front of the)
Somme and Aisne rivers, some
65 miles north of Paris.
The French spokesman re-1
ported the main attack be-|
tween Laon and the sea and
the Paris newspaper L'lntran-
sigeant said that two main Ger- j
man attacks were launched on;
the upper Somme, east of the I
river Oise, toward Compiegne. j
This would indicate that the ■
Germans were attempting to;
thrust through the middle of
the main line and follow the
most direct road to Paris, but
that was supposition pending
more definite information. Par-
is said German casualties were
heavy, but no official mention
was made of the French counter
blows in the Abbeville and
Longwy sectors at cither end
of the front.
European Gold
Reaches N. Y,
NEW YORK — (UP) — An
estimated 8500,000,000 in gold
has arrived at the federal re-
serve bank here from Great
Britain, France, the Nether-
lands and Belgium since Mon-
day night, it was reported Wed-
nesday.
All day Tuesday, Railway Ex-
press agency trucks rolled up
to the bank, unloading an es-
timated $286,000,000 in gold.
Sixty-four trucks, each carry-
ing $4,480,000 in gold, were us-
ed.
Before the present shipments
were received, the bank had
SI .300,000,000 in gold in foreign
accounts. Most of it is owned by
France and Britain, although
every important nation in the
world has gold stored there.
BY UNITED PRESS
FRANCE — Germans op-
en supreme drive towards
Paris 011 110-inile line be-
tween English channel and
Aisne river in l>:d for de-
cisive victory. Attack made
by estimated 600,000 Ger-
mans, supported by 1,000
dive-bombing planes, 2,250
tanks and 15,000 motorized
vehicles. Regard fight as
greatest infantry-artillery
battle since World War and
«
first real test in this war
of massed French and Ger- 1
man armies.
GREAT BRITAIN — Brit-
ish await outcome of bat-
tle in France with appre-
hension, admitting French
■ must bear the brunt, with
the aid of comparatively
small "southern B. E. F. in
France. English coast hears
sounds of heavy explosions
from France.
GERMANY — Germans
claim slashing French coun-
ter attacks on anchor posi-
tions at either end of Ger-
man battle line were re-
pulsed. Hitler proclaims
west front "back into ac-
tion" and declares fight
will continue until Britain
and France are annihilated.
Germans claim Swiss planes
attacked German planes ov-
er French soil and four
Swiss planes were shot
down.
ITALY — Italy continues
preparations at top speed
and mobilizes in African col-
onies. Press attacks England
and fulminates against
Egypt, possible scene of ac-
tion.
TURKEY — Turkey, ac-
cording to Athens dispatch
printed in Rome, asks the
Greek government for per-
mission to ocupy Greek is-
lands in Aegean but Greece
refuses the request.
SWITZERLAND — Army
says two or three German
airplanes have been shot
down in batltes with Swiss
planes over Swiss territory.
Reports six bombs dropped
on Swiss soil.
WAR FLASHES
LONDON — (UP) — The
air ministry s;iid Wednes-
day night that British hea-
vy bombers Tuesday night
bad intensively attacked
military objectives in Ger-
many, including oil refin-
eries and fuel depots in the
Ruhr valley and elsewhere.
One British plane is miss-
ing.
Berlin Reports
Drive Progresses
On Broad Front
Objective to Establish
New Bases for Attack
On British Isles
BERLIN — (UP) — Germans
forecast Wednesday night that,
their legions would March into
Paris within a week or a fort-
night as reports came in of pro-
gress on a broad front in the
big new German offensive.
The miiltary spokesman de-
I clined to reveal specific inform-
! at ion regarding the progress of
| the drive but in well-informed
neutral quarters it was report-
| od that the Germans already had
| broken across both the Somme
{and the Aisne-£)ise canal.
The German forces are driv-
ing forward "on the broadest
front," military quarters said,
"between the coast and the
Maginot l>ne."
The immediate objective of
the drive, these quarters said,
is to separate Britain and France
more completely and to estab-
lish new bases for the attack
on Britain.
Cattle Feeders
To Meet in City
Approximately 35 beef cattle
feeders from Sweetwater. Mid-
land. Jayton, Hamlin, Rotan,
Blackwell. and Spur are to gath-
er in Sweetwater Wednesday
night to meet and confer with
a group of animal nutrition ex-
perts on a tour of West Texas.
The meeting is to be held at
the Lake Sweetwater cabin of
R. M. Simmons, general mana-
ger of the Sweetwater Cotton
Oil company, in charge of local
arrangements, "he tour is being
sponsored by the education de-
partment of the Texas Cotton-
seed Crushers association, of
which the Sweetwater mill is a
member.
Principal figure in the party
Is F. R Morrison, head of the
animal husbandry department of
New York state agricultural col-
lege, a part of Cornell universi-
ty. and author of several
books on feeds and feeding.
Others accompanying Dr
Morrison here arc A. L. Smith
of College "Station; A. L Ward,
Dallas, of the education service
of the National Cottonseed Pro-
ducts association, and his .son,
Court Ward; F. R. Davis, Fort
Worth: R. E. Dickson, superin-
tendent of the Texas A & M
college experiment station at
Spur; H. A. Rix. Fort Worth,
associated with the magazine,
"West Texas Today"; Ray W.
Wilson and S. B. Fitzgerald of
the National Cotonseed Crush-
ers' association.
Thursday morning the group
will visit the G. E. Bradford
ranch, south of Sweetwater,
and the White Hat ranch near
Blackwell.
PARIS — (UP) — Ger-
man bombs struck the great
Citroen factories during
the raid .Monday, it was re-
vealed Wednesday when
American c o r r espondrnts
were, taken on a tour of
the works.
Armored Units
Attack at Amiens
LONDON— (UP)— German
| armored units are attacking the
1 French lines on both sides of
j Amiens, British military sources
j asserted Wednesday.
The military sources said that
j British troops are engaged in
| lighting the German attacks
j They asserted that it was not
I believed that a major German
| attempt was being made to
j break through on either side of
Amiens with armored columns
although "certain armored ve-
hicles" are being used on that
part of the front.
An estimate that Germany
•suffered between 400,000 and
500,000 casualties in the Flan-
ders campaign was made by the
military sources.
I! Known Dead In
Nebraska Flood
HOMER. NEB. — (UP) —
Kight persons • were known
i dead and five missing Wednes-
day from a flood t hat swept
i across six northeastern Nebras-
1 ka counties in tho wake of a 10-
1 inch rainfall.
Red Cross, WPA and CCC
workers worked their way into
the Homer and Winnebago
areas—hardest hit when the 15
foot wall of water devastated
the villages and farm lands
Tuesday—as streams returned
j to normal. Streets still were
knee-deep in mud.
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