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NAZIS CLAIM RUSSIAN WAR INDUSTRIES CAPTURED
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'Hull Urges Speedy Approval Of Measure To Arm Ships
^Pleads For Action
Before Defense
Efforts Too Late
Senate Group Hearing
On Resolution Secret
® But Statement Issued
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
Tuesday urged the senate for-
eign relations committee to ap-
prove speedily a house resolu-
tion to arm American merch-
ant ships, lest American "ef-
forts at self-defense come too
late."
m Hull was the first witness at
%earings orr the house-approved
resolution. His testimony follow-
ed a White House conference
with congressional leaders, who
reported that they would press
.^at this time only for the ship-
arming bill rather than repeal
of the entire neutrality act.
Senate Democratic Leader Al-
ben W. Barkley of Kentucky
emphasized, however, that there
ivas "no hard and fast decision"
"n that point.
The hearings were closed, but
Hull issued copies of a prepar-
ed statement which he read to
the senate committee.
t Hull said it was "both
' urgent and important" to
repeal section (i of the neu-
trality art, which prohibits
the arming of merchant
ships. He repeated but did
, not emphasize, his previous
'• contention that c o n g r ess
sould repeal section 2 which
bans Ami'rlean ships from
belligerent ports.
He testified that the condi-
tion of world affairs is such that
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1941
NUMBER 137
Re-Inforeements
Shifted To Boost
Moscow Attack
Stalin Tours Front
In Armored Train As
Fierce Fight Rages
Germans Arrest Four Hostages And
Round Up Citizens In Assassination
New airline to Portu-
guese half of Timor
tends Jap planes over
Dutch East Indies, gives
Tokyo potential base
clo,. to Ay.tral.a
New blast of belligerency against the democracies by the
Japanese press accompanied establishment of a Japanese
airline in th|." South I'acil'ic. .Map shows how this plane route
is a threat to the Netherlands Indies and Australia.
Roscoe Soldier
in Officer School
Sergeant Euclid K. Willis, son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Willis,
sr., of Roscoe, is among 226
students at the second Armored
I Force Officer Candidate school
at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Willis'
home outfit is the 759th Tank
Battalion, Camp Bowie, Texas.
He has been in the army six
and half months.
(} The schooling will require 564
hours of study and instruction,
with training emphasis on tac-
tics, gunnery, wheeled vehicles,
motorcycles, co m m unications
and administrative duties and
■yanks of the Armored Force.
7'he complete duties and respon-
sibilities of an officer will be
stressed throughout.
J. G. Akins Is
Contest Winner
J. O. Akins, 400 East Third
street, won first prize and two
■y ickets to the Sweetw%ter-Abi-
lene football game Friday night
when he predicted 13 winners
in the 16 football games listed in
last week's Reporter football
contest.
9 G. H. Bullock won second
prize. He guessed the same num-
ber of winners as Akins, but
Akins received first prize be-
cause his entry was sent in be-
fore Bullock's. His prize is one
ticket to Friday's game.
Practically all entries failed
on the upsets which saw Bay-
lor-Rice and Nebraska defeated.
Gov't Seizure Of
«
Plane Plant Seen
By UNITED I'RKSS
The big stick of government seizure, used twice before in
the present emergency, apparently hung over the aircraft parts
plant of Air, Associates, Inc., at Bendix, N. J., Tuesday and a new
walkout of 10,000 CIO United Mine workers disrupted production
at five Captive coal mines in Alabama.
Elsewhere in labor-management relations, increasingly impor-
tant because of the urgency ofr 1,1
industrial peace to the booming r . ii |
defense economy: | KlllUUI" KailClier
Presidential action became
inevitable ill the huge rail-
road wage controversy; the
CIO steel workers' union at
Detroit requested an FBI
investigation into the cause
of a seven-day steel strike;
and the CIO United Automo-
bile Workers and the Bell
Aircraft Corp. scheduled a
conference to discuss de-
mands threatening strike ac-
tion among the company's
10,000 employes at Buffalo
and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
In the Bendix dispute, the
office of production management
struggled with a company-union
impasse over the rehiring of
strikers in an effort to avert
the last resort of referring the
case to Mr. Roosevelt for pre-
sidential action, possibly seizure
Possibility of drastic govern-
ment action was foreseen be-
cause the national defense me-
diation board, working on the
strike almost since it started 22
days ago, had charged the com-
pany with lack of cooperation.
The company offered to rein-
state approximately 150 strik-
ers within H0 days, explaining,
their jobs had been filled by
Justice Marries
Three Couples
Three couples were married
jduring the week-end by Justice
of the Peace S. H. Shook, two
of them from Sweetwater and
one from Abilene.
They were E. L. Rainey and
Juanita Green, and Wayne Harp
yjnd Teresa Baker of Sweetwa-
ter; and Chas W. Heronymus
and Beatrice Star of Abilene.
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Weather Forecast
* SWEETWATER — Tempera-
tures: High Monday 81; Tues-
day morning, 67; at 1:30 p m„
82; this date last year, 90. Con-
tinued cloudy, somewhat unset-
tled, little change in tempera-
Cares.
WEfciT TI3XAS — Mostly clou-
dy^ with^scattered showers Fri-
jday night and
; Wednesday; lit-
tle change in
temperature.
EAST TEXAS
Fair to partly
cloudy Tuesday
night and Wed
riesday except
scattered show-
COOLER ers in extreme
northwest portion. Gentle to
fresh easterly to southerly
jvinds on the coast, ,
^ ho Be^an Here
Dies Monday
John Scharbauer, 89, pioneer
Texas rancher and capitalist
who laid the foundations of his
vast ranching, banking and
real estate empire with a flock
of sheep at Sweetwater in the
'80's, died Monday night in a
Fort Worth hospital.
Scharbauer, who made Mid-
land his headquarters after sur-
viving the rigorous tests of
West Texas frontier life, came
to Texas from New York. He
had $2.u00 capital when he
reached this state in 1880, and
with it he bought 450 sheep,
camped on the open range and
wiui tne protits irom this eai'iy
venture laid the basis for an
empire which spread across four
Texas counties into New Mexi-
co.
scharbauer first stopped at
Eastland, the railhead of the
lexas and Pacific in those days,
and tor a while washed dishes
m an Eastland restaurant. He !
piaced his tirst llock of sheep
on free grass near Sweetwater
ami struggled through the ar- I
duous conditions of frontier
haiuships anu market declines
until lie had established himself
in the wild region which was
West Texas in those days.
During that period his fami-
ly remained in New York state.
After four years his sheep be-
gan to return protits anu the
pioneer ranchman sent to New
iork tor his wife and daugh-
volunteers and immediate re-
fciee SEIZURE Page 4
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Second Caliche
Course Oil Airport
Runways Is Laid
•
The second course of caliche
on both the north-south and j
northwest-southeast runways to |
their intersection has been laid, I „ . ... j . ...
' ter and established himselt at
Midland.
He is survived by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. W. C. Stonestreet, of
Fort Worth, and his nephew,
Clarence Scharbauer, manager
of the Scharbauer ranches. His
vvite died in 1935.
Investors In
Boy Scout Drive
Names of additional investors
in Scouting in the Boy Scout
finance drive recently include:
Sweetwater I.ions Club, $10;
Dr. S. B. Cox, $5; T. E. Mullenix,
$.25; Owen Bonner, $.25; Ed R.
Smith, $5; Amnion Johnson, $1;
Ola Brashear, $1; J. Turney
Sparks, $2; Roy Duckett, $2; J.
B Keathley, $1; Jack Roland,
$1; R. L. Blair, $1; Fred Goad,
$1; K S. Stewart, $1; Rex Ra
gan, $12; Preston Ragland, $1; C.
H. Churchill, $3; and Milton
Pate, $2t
sprinkled and rolled, and Con
tractors Bell and Braden hope
to begin pouring ashpalt in
about a week at Sweetwater air-
port.
On the grading project, 1,056,-
000 cubic yards have been mov-
ed to date by Bell and Braden,
leaving about 614.000 cubic
yards yet to be moved.
Two men from the design sec-
tion, district engineers office,
Mr. Walker, arriOOO ireach-J
Galveston, Mr. Ramsom and
Mr. Walker, arrived Tuesday
morning and plan to leave Tues-
day night after inspecting the
! project.
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24 HOBSFH BURN
FORT WORTH—(UP)—Burns
on the face and hands forced
A. J. (Doc) Beasley to abandon
24 horses in his blazing stables
near the Botanic gardens Mon-
day night after nine were led
to safety. The long frame struc-
ture and its 2,500 bales of hay
were destroyed. Loss was es-
timated at $100,000, _____
French Official
Freed After Being:
Held All Night
Move Is Retaliation
For Fatal Shooting
Of Nazi Officer
VICHY — (UP) — German oc-
cupation authorities arrested
four hostages, including the
prefect of the department of
Loire Inferieure at Nantes, and
rounded by many French citizens
throughout Brittany Tuesday in
retaliation for the assassination
of Nazi Lieut. Col. Karl Fried:
rich Holtz.
The prefect was released ' af- j
ter being held all night. He j
heads the department of which
the big naval base of Nantes is
the chief city.
(The Nantes-St. Nazaire area
is one of the principal German
bases for possible attempted in-
vasion of Britain).
German police who rounded
up French citizens in Brittany
charged most of them with con-
cealing weapons. The round-up
appeared to be a precaution
against further attacks on occu-
pation forces.
Holtz, head of the German
military forces in the Antes re-
gion, was shot to death. The as-
sassins escaped.
Pierre Puciieu, minister of
interior, returned Tuesday from
Paris, where he had gone after
the assassination to investigate
terrorist activities and super-
repressive measure.
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Thompson Would
Abolish Shutdown
AUSTIN—(UP) — Col. Ernest
O. Thompson, chairman of the
Texas Railroad commission, naid
Tuesday that his recommenda-
tion for increased oil produc-
tion meant to ybolish shutdown
days, not "taking the lid off pro-
ration."
Thompson suggested fit the
statewide oil hearing Monday
that Texas operators, as a pa
triotic duty, produce all the oil
possible without physical waste
Oil men estimated that the re-
sult would be to double Texas
production.
"I just meant that we ought
to lift the shutdown (now nine
days a month in most fields),"
said Thompson, who is on leave
from military service.
Feed Mill Burns
Monday Night
Fire destroyed a feed mill, a
shed and a small number of
feed bundles belonging to Tom
Knapp on the west outskirts of
Sweetwater about midnight
Monday.
Sweetwater firemen got the
fire under control and saved
two long ricks of bundles from
burning. Cause of the fire, which
apparently started in some
ground feed, was unknown.
TODAYS
WAR
MOVES
By I.OUIS F. KEEMLF
1 idled Press War Desk
Even while the battle of
Moscow is at its height, with the
strongest concentration o f
which Germany is capable
massed on the central front,
events are shaping more and
more towards an approaching
battle front in the middle east.
East of the Black Sea, in the
Caucasus Isthmus, may be the
ground where the British and
Russians will join forces in bat-
tling the Germans. At any rate,
it is a possible answer to the
continuing demand in England
for active intervention by Brit-
ain to create another front
while Germany is still heavy
engaged in Russia.
The GeiTnan drive along the
Sea of Azov towards Rostov is.
a direct threat not only to Rus-
sia but to the Caucasian oil fields j
and to Britain in the middle
6rist. Only 175 miles south of
Rostov lie the great oil fields
dh, t'e Krasnodar ixjgion, from
where the pipe lines branch out
north, west and east.
It would be a prize of incal-
culable value to Hitler If he
can take those fields in work-
able condition, his oil problem
might be solved. Even if the
wells, refineries and pipe lines
are put out of commission, Rus-
See WAR MOVES Page 6
Jap Cabinet Holds
Its First Meeting
IT-
TOKYO — (UP) — Members
of the house of representatives
who comprise the "Throne as-
Assisting Diet Members' League"
asked the new government
Tuesday to "strengthen the Axis
alliance and eliminate challeng-
ing acts by third powers hostile
to Japan." Patently they meant
the United States and Great
Britain.
They presented a resolution
to Premier Eiki Tojo, assuring
him and his cabinet of their
support, and urging that a su-
per-national defense state be at-
tained so "the world mission of
imperial Japan" may be realized.
TJ)e cabinet held its first reg-
ular meeting Tuesday, and for-
eign MiniHter Hhingenori Togo
explained repercussions of the
new government's formation in
Britain, the United States, Ger-j
many and Italy.
Newspapers began to temper |
their attacks on. the United
States and flreat Britain, and
Hochi predicted thai Ihe Ger-
man-Russian war would be a
long one.
MANY DELEGATIONS
AUSTIN — (UP)—Docket for
the Texas highway commis-
sion's hearing on Thursday on
proposed road improvements
showed Tuesday that delegations
will come from more than 30
counties including Hill, Calla-
han, Orange. Kaufman, Hender-
son, Eastland, and Cameron
Plans Talked For
Red Cross Drive
Plans for opening the annual
Red Cross roll call in Nolan
county Nov. 11 were discussed
at a meeting of Red Cross of-
ficers and others Monday night
in the Rotary club rooms
Dr. Albert Brann, Nolan coun-
ty chairman, presided. Hayes
Walker is chairman of the roll
call. Appointment of a women's
chairman was discussed, but no
definite action taken.
Also considered were plans to
attend a regional Red Cross
meeting at Big Spring Monday,
and Mrs. H. O. Dean was nam-
ed to make arrangements for
this trip.
it was moved to send the
"Courier," Red Cross magazine,
to all Nolan county schools for
their libraries.
Present were Brann. Walker,
Mrs. Dean, Mrs. J. M Shade,
Maxlne E. McCormick, Mrs S.
0. Herring, Mrs. Althea Nich-
ols, secretary, James Cochran,
S. P. Gaskin, Rigdon Edwards,
j and Charles Paxton,
Wickard Warns
Of Inflation;
Urjres Control
Tells Committee
Farm Prices Are
Not Out Of Line
Bl'LLETIN
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude It. Wickard said
Tuesday that wage regula-
tions should not be includ-
ed in the administration's
price control bill because
"we might g,r t inlo a tre-
mendous lot of difficulty if
we try to fix all wages for
all industry."
WASHINGTON — (I! Pi —
Secy, of Agriculture Claude R
Wickard told the house banking
committee Tuesday that this
country "may be starting on the
same ruinous, inflation we set
out upon about the same time
in the last war."
Urging the committee to ap-
prove the administration - price
control bill, Wickard declared
that while recent increases in
farm prices have been "unusu-
ally rapid," they are not yet
"out of line."
This is so, he explained, be-
cause the levels from which
these prices have risen were
abnormally low. He said that in
1939 farm prices were so low
that farmers' purchasing power
was only three-fourths of what
it had tieen in the 1910-1914—
the parity base period.
Wickard told the committee
that "thus far, the parallel be-
tween World War I and World
War II as far as farm prices
and costs are concerned is too
close for comfort."
Patriotism Theme
Of Lions Meeting
Patriotism was the theme of
the Sweetwater Lion's Club
meeting at noon Tuesday with
two army sergeants, T H. Gist
and L. W. Bobb, on recruiting
service, as principal guests.
Both men talked briefly in ob-
servance of "Keep 'Em Flying
Week" Hgt, Bobb explained the
new air corps ruling which per-
mits high school graduates to
enter the air corps as Hying ca-
uets. Lnoer previous ruies only
.men with two years or more of
college were accepted.
Chief speaker was the Rev.
K E. Snougrass, evangelist who
is conducting a meeting at the
r irst Christian church. He was
accompanied by the church, pas-
tor, Rev. Bedford tsmith.
Rev. Mr. Snodgrass outlined
the close companionship between
patriotism and religion and de-
clared that our American de-
Wliat Joyce!
HHHfl MttttiaMfi
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign Editor
The German army claimed cap-
| ture of the center of Russian
war industries of the south and
the conquest of the entire Bal-
tic area on the north Tuesday
as German reinforcements were
I shifted to the central front to
bolster the lagging offensive
against Moscow
A fierc," battle for the So-
viet capital continued re-
lentlessly along a .'150-mile
front which .losef V. Stalin
reportedly toured in an ar-
mored train while the Red
army defenses held back
tin- Germans within 40 to
60 miles of Moscow.
Dfspatche.s indicated severe
, Russian reverses on both the
! north and south ends of the
eastern front, including:
Southern front—The Germans
said that the great Russian war
industry city of Stalino had been
| captured and that the occupa-
tion of virtually all of the rich
See NAZI Page 4
11 Sweetwater
Scouters To Go
To Lubbock Meet
About 12 scouters from the
Sweetwater area plan to attend
a training institute at Lubbock
Oct. 23 where Dr James E.
West of New York City, chief
scout executive of the Boy
Scouts of America for more than
30 years, will be the principal
speaker
Chas E. Paxton president of
Buffalo Trail council, is to be
toastmaster at the 12:30 p. m.
luncheon and at the banquet
that evening at 6:30.
Those from this area who
have announced intentions of
going include G. P Williams,
Paxton, Bill Jamison, John Dar-
nell, J C Morris, S. P, Gaskin,
John White and Rev. and Mrs.
C W Parmenter of Roby, Mrs.
Harvey Myers, and J. D. Hol-
brook, who is making arrange-
ments for the trip. Others prob-
ably will attend.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.
m. at the Hilton hotel. Dr. West's
opening address is at 10, and his
main address is at the banquet.
Other scout leaders are sche-
duled for talks and discussions
throughout the day.
This is Brcnda Joyce of the
films and if you think any
<Vhir information is neces-
sary, why don't you go back
where you came from?
Baugh Arrives
For Visit Here
Sam Baugh. backfield ace for
the Washington Redskins, pro-
fessional football team, arrived
in Sweetwater Monday after-
noon to visit Mrs. Baugh and
his infant son. Gary Todd,
Sam came by plane to Fort
] Worth end was met there by
| relatives who accompanied him
to Sweetwater.
He played in the Sunday af-
ternoon game when the Red-
skins met the Philadelphia Eag-
les. The Eagles were leading
mocracy is built upon religion j ®s; I
and cited how our nation was'!'"11 with 11V nll,lu ,'t'niaul
ing to play Sam shot a 23-yard
was
seeking
touchdown pass to Bob Master-
son for the winning tally.
Baugh plans to remain in
Sweetwater until Wednesday
when he will return by plane to
continue his season with the
Washington team
—V-
our
settled by colonists
ireeuom ot religion.
Other guests were Mrs. Jack
Armstrong and Miss Doris Pee-
bles.
Considerable attention was
given to preparation for the
Lions minstrel show which will
be presented tonight at 8 p. m
at the city auditorium.
George Kiker, vice president
presided in the absence of Pres.
Henry Marshall, who has the
flu.
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U. S. Oil Output
Fops All Records
TULSA, Okla — (UP)—Am-
erican oil production passed the
4,100,000-barrel mark for the
first time in history last week,
estimates compiled by the Oil
Gas Journal showed Tuesday See GERMANY Page tt
Germany Reports
pinking 7 Ships
BERLIN — (UP* — The Ger-
man high command Tuesday re-
ported the sinking of seven more
ships from a Britain-bound con-
voy in the north Atlantic, rais-
ing to about 100,000 tons the
shipping claimed as sunk by
Nazi submarines since Washing-
ton announced the torpedoing
of the U. S. S. Kearny.
The high command said the
vessels reported sunk Tuesday
Lions Minstrel,
W ith Wraps Off,
Looks Good '
Bj HANK JONES
Director Larry Hubbard took
the wraps off the Lions minstrel
show cast Monday night and it
I looked good.
Tonight the carefully drilled
corps of 35 Sweetwater club-
men will present their tenth an-
nual show at the Sweetwater
Municipal auditorium and ad-
vance scouts says it is "Good!"
There are many clever novel-
ty numbers and plenty of ac-
tion all the way through. At
no spot in the show does the ac-
tion or comedy lag. There are
several interesting songs and
too many gags to count. The end
men under Dr. Ben McCorkle's
skillful coaching have their acts
down pat.
One of the outstanding fea-
tures, and the only act not com-
posed of Lions club talent, is
See MINSTREL Page 6
Paxton Speaks To
!Ji«r Spring Club
Chas E. Paxton, president of
Buffalo Trail council, was to
speak at noon Tuesday to the
Big Spring Rotary club at a
program honoring Troop 1, Boy
Scouts, the oldest troop in the
council.
Troop 1 was organized Sept.
30, 1911, by Mr. and Mrs. B.
Reagan and with C. S. Holmes
as scoutmaster.
Accompanying Paxton to Big
Spring were S. P Gaskin, area
executive, and Mito K Roth,
manager of the Board of City
Development.
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