Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 138, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 26, 1941 Page: 1 of 18
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Jaycee Committees For Regional Convention Here Named
Two-Day Session
for Region Seven
Opens Nov. 10
A. L. Jordan And Bill
• Sheridan Chairman
Of Arrangements
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More Than 15,000 Readers
Amendment To
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
"West Texas' Leading Newspaper"
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
45TH YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1941
NUMBER 138
Committees were announcer!
iturdav for the Region 7 Jun-
■>r chamber of commerce con
vention to be held in Sweet-
water Nov. 10-11 with an ex-
pected attendance of 100 to 150
delegates from the area expect-
« attendance of 100 to 150 dele-
tes from the area extending
from Abilene west to El Paso
and including San Angelo.
A. L. Jordan and Rill Sheri-
dan are convention co-chairmen,
*nd A E. Rlancett, Charles Mc-
Ciure and Hez Hawley, jr., com-
pose the registration and en-
tertainment committee. Other
committees to have charge of
other phases of the convention.
iirst time ever held in Sweet-
water, are to be appointed later. j
The Sweetwater .ICC Is
the youngest In the region
and will celebrate its first
birthday in Derpmber. Dele-
# gates are expected from Abi-
lene, El Paso, San Angelo,
Midland. Odessa and Mona-
hans jjs well as state and
national officials from otb- f
er parts of (be stut,", and
^ vice-presidents from the oth-
er six regions in the state.
Registration will start at 9:30
a. m. Nov. 10 at the conven-
tion headquarters in the Blue
tftonnet hotel. Golfing is planned
Tor the afternoon, and a ban-
quet and dance that night will
climax the first day of the meet.
After a breakfast at 9:30 a. m
.Vnv 11, the business session
■ vill g''i ■ u.lcrway and will con-
ciude the convention.
Among .laycee notables ex-
pected are Fred Morgan, Cor-
pus Christ!, state president; Mor-
ris Galatzan. El Paso, regional
^vice president; Binford Arney,
*'Amarillo, vice president of the
United States Junior Chamber
of Commerce; and Tom Wingate,
Amarillo, and Howard Carrell.
Fort Worth, Texas, directors of
the U. S. chamber.
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Nolan County
Youth Wins Trip
To Chicago Show
Warren Barton, 19-year-old
member of the Divide 1-H club.
was one of 20 Texas boys Re-
acted for Santa Fe all expense
paid trips to the Chicago Inter-
national 4-H club Congress and
Livestock show, it was announc-
Saturday by County Agent R.
B. Tate!
Barton and 19 other boys will
leave Port Worth on November
28 for Chicago and remain there
a week as the guests of the San-
ta Fe railroad.
This is the third consecutive
flear that a Nolan county boy
has won this award, Mr. Tate
said. Last year Kenneth Lewis
of the Sweetwater club won the
trip and the previous year it.
was won by Harry Rotan of
*%ie Divide club.
Each of the Nolan county
youths awarded the trip was se- met foi
lected on the basis of his record we ever
in livestock feeding.
Young Barton during his five
(•ears of work in 1 11 clubs has
shown several grand champions
in beef cattle. Among these were
winners at Abilene and Odessa
shows.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
0. W. Barton, of the Divide com-
munity.
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Weather Forecast
-SWEETWATER — Temper-
*ures: High Friday, 72; Satur-
day morning, 62; late Saturday,
72; this date last year. 77. Con-
tinued cloudy and somewhat
warmer.
WEST TEXAS — Consider-
ate cloudiness with occasional
showers Sunday; partly cloudy
over north por-
tion S u n d a y ,
slightly warm-
er Sunday aft-
ernoon over
north portion.
Sets New Delayed Drop' 'Chute Record
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I
Red Army Stiffens House Neutrality
Against Axis Drive 8,11 Is Voted
I Production 01'
| Explosives From
Oil Is Realized
«
Big Toluol Plant At
Baytown Is Put On
Wartime Tempi)
BAYTOWN — I UP)—Rapid
production of explosives from
unlimited, petroleum resources—
the dream of army ordnance
since World War I—was realiz-
ed Saturday as a new -12,500,000
defense plant stepped up its
output of Toluol toward a war-
time tempo.
The Baytown Ordnance works,
which manufactures toluol—bas-
ic ingredient of T.XT. — from
petroleum, was put into produc-
tion and delivered the first two
tank cars two days aj\). Addi-
tional plant units were put "on
steam" Sunday.
Humble Oil and Refining com-
pany, which built the huge to-
luol plant for the government,
observed the first anniversary
of the awarding of the construc-j
tion contract by placing the re-!
finery into operation. The plant's :
capacity is a military secret.
Humble will operate the plant j
j for the government under a j
j cost-plus fixed-fee basis. The cost)
I will be ck'termined by the price
•jof crude oil from which the to
Resigns
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
lTnited Press Foreign News Editor
Axis armed forces drove deeper into the eastern front at the
cost of heavy casualties Saturday, but late dispatcher, reported
the Red army stiffening before Moscow. Rostov and the Crimea.
The Germans reported they had taken the important. Ukraine
city of Kharkov after a battle and bombardment thsu left large
sections in flames and there
were indirect reports tfcyU they
had smashed to within 20 miles
of both Moscow and Rostov.
B'-rlin admitted, however,
that Red army resistance
was strong and that mud and
slush made operations in-
creasingly difficult. while
Russian dispatches said that
counterattacks had eliminat-
ed the most dangerous ene-
my push toward Rostov and
had stiffened the Mzhaisk
sector befoiy Moscow after
penetration hy Nazi tank
wedges.
The Germans made no speci- j
fic claims regarding the Mos- j
luoL is made.
Arthur H. Sturm's (center) is kissed by his wife as his son (right) looks 011
a new world's record with a parachute leap of 00(1 feet, dropping :>;!,n<W) feel
ing rip-cord at Harvey, III., airport. (XEA Telephoto).
after setting
before jerk-
Rains Halt Harvest; Fair,
Circus Fans Disappointed
T diking
It Over
A friendly discussion of
various . topics about
Sweetwater ami risen here
By HANK JONES
We've written frequently on !
the subject■ of FRIENDLINESS I
there is soomething else on
( best and we might as well i
it'off. There is a guy in j
town who silently ignores j
friendliest greetings and
but
our
; get.
ilii'
our
it burns us up \\ e don't kuow
his name and don't care but we
have spoken to him in the most
cordial manner each time we've
everal months and all
got in return was a
suspicious stare. Who the guy
is we don't know, lie's an ordi-
nary looking mutt and not the
kind we would want to chum
with under any conditions but
there is a principal involved
See TALKING I'age 2
STILL IS NO. I
CHICAGO — (UP) — Bob
Montgomery, Philadelphia ne-
gro, was still the No. I contend-
er for the lightweight boxing
crow n Saturday as the result of
an easy lOround victory Fri
day night over Julie Kogon of
New Haven. Conn.
Farmers, merchants and just 1
I the average fellow, with notn-
ing in particular at stake, greet- j
ed clearing skies and bright sun-1
j shine Saturday afternoon morel
j hopefully after a mournful 21-!
hour period of rain-wept streets!
j and puddled fields. But Sunday's!
| weather forecast wasn't too re-1
I assuring. It called f- r consider-1
able cloudine - and local show-1
j ers in this part of 1 It ■ state.
For the circus fan « the rain
which began Friday was a
misfortune, indeed. Mana-
gers of Coir Brothers circus,
scheduled to show in Sweet-
water Saturday night—lack
Dempsey and all—looked at
tloooed lots, consigned
the I'xpense of advance pub-
licity and oilier preparations
for tile weekend stand to
the red side of the ledger, j
and decid.-d to move 011.
At Roscoe where citizens had
planned the biggest and best j
, Koscoe Fall fair of a three-vcar j
| series, directors were forced t. j
| split their exhibits and attrac-
tions into a two weekend pro- J
gram. The livestock show and j
the c%-i'iival. climax ot which is
j (he o-fVe-vning of the fair queen, |
anrl possibly the big street dance
| will be held over until next
; weekend. The flower show, hold
! Friday morning, and the poul-
try show, which was held in-
doors. went off as scheduled but
with -enthusiasm dampened by
tain. Crowf#; came to see what
was to be seen—including ex-
cellent exhibits in buildings and
show windows — but the dec-
i orations and the exhibits them-
SWEETWATER RAINFALL CHART
EAST TEX-
AS _ Fuir to
partly cloudy in
e a s "t. consider-
able cloudiness
in west portion,
local showers in
west portion Sunday. Gentle to
moderate nbrtheast to southeast
on the coast.
RAIN
Jau Knit Mar Apr
May
.Ine
"y
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec TotI
26
.77 .04 3.02
2.56
2.28
4.09
6.46
1.95
3.42
5.68
.72
3.31 33.99
27
.49 1.66 1.05
1.60
.05
2.42
4.77
.81
7.75
.92
XX
.90 22.57
28
.41 .91 .33
.81
6.78
2.46
7.48
3.53
.75
.91
.64
.<8 25.52
"2!>
.40 1 10 1.94
.81
6.70
.52
8.03
XX
5.10
1.41
.22
.09 21.35
30
.27 xx .27
1.68
3.31
1.47
.82
1.72
1.51
7.40
1.70
1.75 22.00
31
1.50 2.88 1.29
2.21
1.32
1.30
2.32
.68
XX
8.90
2.52
7.18 27.13
32
2.54 2.58 .05
6.07
8.20 14.67
1.16
9.04 14.76
.17
XX
5.25 64.95
32
.10 1.01 .28
.85
4.14
.16
.62
5.66
1.79
1.03
1.70
2.1919.43
34
2\ .50 3.15
2.72
.13
1.69
.76
1.88
.33
.33
3.48
.00 15.02
35
.12 2.34 .54
3.05
8.89
6.80
1.64
.16
4.20
1.22
1.21
.26 30.43
36
.11 xx .75
1.78
2.78
XX
3.67
.01
6.31
1.77
.72
.80 18.70
■37
.59 .02 1.62
.41
3.99
.75
.43
.91
.66
1.86
.85
1.35 13.44
'38
1.67 2.47 2.02
1.46
2.36
2.74
6.92
.35
XX
1.47
.72
.06 22.84
'30
2.18 .101.30
.11
4.82
3.75
1.02
2.02
XX
.92
1.30
.55 18.07
'40
.10 1.18 .49
1.12
.91
6.04
XX
5.38
.12
.06
1.39
1.30 18.09
'41
.29 2,74 1.81
3.31
4,19
3.88
2.11
1,50
1.47
1.50
29.31
selves assumed a bedraggled ap-
pearance in the murky, rain-pep-
pered atmosphere.
Fortunately for followers of
the Mustangs, who now include
a lot of folk outside of Sweet-
water who take their loyalties
with a practical regard for sta-
tistics, the skies cleared just
long enough Friday evening for
the Sweetwater eleven to dem-
onstrate that it could perform
as we.ll as promise. The even
ing, except for a belated mist
mat move dacross the lighted
oval like a scene from a Faust
opera, was almost ideal. The
turf was firm despite light Fri-
day morning showers.
Harvesting of the cotton
crop, already delayed by re-
current wet periods, was
brought to an abrupt halt.
Cotton yards, where glnncrs
wrestled with the problems
of "wet" staple, pulled has-
tily and sometimes too green,
were crowded with wagons
and .faced the prospect of
ii've 11 grent e r congestion
when gathering is resumed,
'the tact thai such a quantity
of cotton has been gathered
j with a staple of uniformly
J quality despite the interruption
! 01 the weather is a distinc
] bute to the energy which the
11 aimers have gone about har-
vesting the crop.
1 he rain Friaay afternoon and
night, «tnct Saturday morning
| was about one incn, and boost-
| eu the total tor October to 1.55)
1 inches, and uowntall for the
! year to 2!)..'il inches.
Several Roscoe
Fair Features
Are Postponed
ROSCOF — Steadily dripping
skies which flooded fields anil
made roads impassable for stock
movement caused postponement.
Saturday of the livestock ex-
hibit and the home town carni-
val of the Roscoe Fall fair. The
stock will be shown next Sat-
urday under tentative arrange-
ments announced by the fair
committee.
The home town canival. elec-
tion and crowning of a fair
queen, and possibly the street
See ROSCOE Page 2
"Unfortunate"
Says Japan Of
Knox Statement
TOKYO (UP) — The gov-
ernment information board said
| Saturday that Secretary of Na-
| vy Frank Knox's speech, pre-
1 dieting a clash between the
| United States and ^apan if Jap-
Ian continues her expansion po-
[ licy, was "unfortunate when
Japanese-American negotiations
i are going on and contradictory
j to the spirit of such negoia-
i tions."
JAPAN MAI-
EASE AGGRESSION
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Well-informed sources predicted
; Saturday that Japan will make
I no further aggressive moves in
the Far East, for the time be-
ing at least, unless her leaders
; become convinced that current
"peace" talks with the United
tStates are doomed to failure.
The negotiations, under way
since August, are continuing.
Although the attitude of the
new Japanese cabinet of Pre-
mier Heideki Tojo has not been
communicated officially, it was
said t.o be in favor of keeping
the conversations going.
cow front, but the Soviet news- i
paper Pravda reported that!
fresh Axis forces (said to in-1
elude Finns and Rumanians) j
had been sent into the offen-
sive and promised that an un-1
precedented battle beneath the
walls of the Russian capital
would "break the backbone" of
Hitler's armies.
In several days of fighting,
the Russians reported they had
driven back Axis units attempt
ing to break into the Crimea but
acknowledged that enemy at-
tacks continued with great in-
tensity.
There were reports from
Japanese sources that the
Russians had mov,"d half
of their far eastern army of
perhaps 1.000.000 men to
the western front to help
turn l>ack the Axis offensive
while London h,"ard that
British and Russian military
leaders might soon confer
on joint plans for defense of
the vital Caucasus oil and
communications sector.
The mounting fury of the war \
on the eastern front again was1
echoed by blasts of British aeri-
al bombs in western Europe as
the Royal Air Force battered at
targets deep in western and
southwestern Germany's indus-
trial sectors and attacked the
Italian center of Naples for the
third time in four nights.
The Naples area suffered 15
dead and 27 wounded in the
attacks, according to official
statements at Rome, but Brit-
ish reports said that vast dam-
age was inflicted in an area
where fires were still burning
as a result of previous raids
beneath the glowing crater of
Mt. Vesuvius.
South—The Germans claimed
the capture of the important in-
dustrial and communications
center of Kharkov, the fourth
city of Russia with a population
of 833,500, which previously had
been reported in flames as' a re
suit of heavy aerial bombing
They added that their armies
were driving forward through-
out the Donets basin and there
See RED ARMY Page 3
P-TA Permitted
To Solicit For
Carnival Awards
The Sweetwater Police de-
partment issued "identification
cards" Saturday to the Parent-
Teachers association which will
solicit merchandise prizes for
the annual P-TA carnival on, the
courthouse lawn Thursday eve-
ning.
Chief J. A Bland signed 12
cards upon the recommenda-
tion of the Better Business bu-
reau, and 12 local club women
will open their drive Monday.
The bureau, however, denied
approval for seven other solici-
tations during the preceding
six days.
Merchants and business men
are urged to stand firm and
keep faith with each other by
insisting that each solicitor has
the approval of the bureau, of-
ficials explained, and by de-
manding that each solicitor
vere John Hedrick. Bil-; show his card before making
ers. Jack Sawim. Leon : an>' contribution, whether mon-
Wade Kirkpatrick and j *\v or merchandise.
The P-TA is the eighth group
to get BBB approval. Other or-
ganizations who have made suc-
cessful applications include: the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
the Boy Scouts, Divide school,
the Lions club, and three oth-
er minor projects,
Charlie Lockhart, who Friday
night resigned as Texas state
treasurer.
cage
Of
Army Plane
,u.X Is Reported
•t tri- f _
NORTH FORK. Calif. — (UP)
The wreckage of a plane, be-
lieved to be one of four missing
army planes, was reported sight-
ed Saturday on Grays Mountain
in the Rass Lake region of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Two private fliers, Elridge
Westfall and Claude Williams,
reported that they had seen
what they believed to be the
smoldering wreckage of a plane.
Searching parties were sent to
the area.
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Six New Members
Into DeMolay
Six new members were recent-
ly initiated into the Sweetwater
chapter of the DeMolay.
b
Sealy,
Frank Rousseau. Troy Daffern j
was appointed scribe.
Plans were made for a Hal-1
lowe'en dance and a committee
eomt>osed of Jerry Goff. Wayne
Jarvis and W. O. Boswell was,
named to complete arrange-;
ments.
Cameron Man
Is New Texas
State Treasurer
AUSTIN (UP) — Gov. Coke
R Stevenson Saturday appoint-
ed Jesse James of Cameron,
Tex, to be state treasurer to
succeed Charley Lockhart who
resigned last night because of
continued ill health.
Lockhart, known as the "lit-
tlest treasurer of the biggest
state," is but 45 inches tall. His I
report tendered with his resig-
nation showed he was custodian
of $351,758,000.
The new treasurer, a former
member of the state legislature,
nas been assistant to Lockhart
tor several years.
Lockhart tirst was elected;
state treasurer for a term be-
ginning Jan. 1, 1931. He has;
been reelected uninterruptedly.
Lockhart's letter of resigna-
tion to Gov. Stevenson referred j
10 his illness and said he lacked 1
hope ot improvement that would
permit hun to carry on his du-
ties in a lull time capacity.
HOBL1TZELLE TO
1EXAS TECH BOARD
AUSTIN (LP) — Gov. Coke!
R. atevenson Saturday anonunc-
ed the appointment 01 Kan Hob-
utzeiie oi Uauas to be member
01 the board ot directors ot Tex-
as 'technological college at L,ub
bock. He win till the unexpired
'term ot the late .1. Al. West ot
Houston, i he term runs to Feb.
19, 1947.
Police Recover
Stolen Ci^arets
Sweetwater police recovered
10 stolen cartons of cigarettes
early Saturday before they were
reported stolen by the owner
and had them waiting when
the report came in.
The Sweetwater motorcycle
policeman arrested two men in
a car on suspicion of drunken-
ness and found the < igarettes
few moments after the men were
brought to the police station, a
wholesale grocery firm reported
theft of the cartons from a de-
livery truck.
Charges of theft of merchan-
Measure To Come
Refore Upper House
For Debate Monday
By JOHN R. BEAL
United Press Correspondent
WASHINGTON — (CP) —.
The senate foreign relations com-
mittee voted 12 to 11 Saturday
to amend the house-approved
ship arming bill to remove all
neutrality act restrictions
against movement of U. S. ships
into belligerent ports and com-
bat zones.
The committee's action sub-
stitutes the following language
for the house bill:
"That section 2 of the neu-
trality act of I9:t9 (relating
to commerce with states en-
gaged in ami'd conflict),
and section it of such act (re-
lating to combat areas), are
hereby repealed.
"Sec. 2. Section H of the neu-
trality act of 1930 (relating to
the arming of American vessels)
is hereby repealed; and. during
the unlimited national emergen-
cy proclaimed by the president
on May icm- - -.o
is authorize'1 <niuu6n
ency as he may designate, to
arm or to T>ennit or cause to be
armed, any American vessel as
defined in such act. The provi-
sions of section 1H of the crimi-
nal code bating to bonds from
armed ve- -els on clearing) shall
not apply to any such vessel.
Amend th< (ltlc so as to read:
'"isfc. .ri£ * lH'.'<ti ,if> ''epeal sec-
1 tions. 2. 3 and *>-iu th«- naiitwut
tv act of 1939, and for other
purposes."
The vote:
For the Substitute (12)—Con-
nally. [).. Tex., George. D. G.a.,
Wagner D. N Y (by proxy.
Glass, D Va Thomas, D . Utah
(by proxy), Murray. D. Mont.,
Pepper, D Fla.. Green. D.. R.
I., Bark ley, I).. K.v.. Guffey, D..
Pa.. l,ee, D Okla., Tunneil, D.,
Del. (by proxy).
Against the substitute (11) —
Van Xuys, D Ind Reynolds.
D., X C. (by proxy), Gillette,
D., la.. Clark. D . Mo , Johnson.
dise valued at
ed against the
over
men.
$5 were fil-
Slow Gain In
Postal Sales
A slow gain in sales of de
fense bonds and stamps was
registered at Sweetwater post
office last week with a total of
$260.80 reported above the pre-
vious week
Bond sales were $198.50 and
stamps. $64.30. Grand total since
Ma> 1 is $40,203.55.
R... Calif., Capper. R, Kan., La
Follette. Prog.. Wis.. Vanden-
berg. R„ Mich.. White, R.. Me.
Shipstead, R.. Minn., Nye. R..
X. D.
White's switch from the mi-
nority to the majority then made
the vote 13 to 10 on the issue
of reporting the amended bill
to the senate.
Rarkley said the bill would
be called up for debate Mon-
day.
Connally pointed out that the
committee's action preserved a
number of provisions of the
1939 neutrality act. including
control of munitions exports, the
travel of American citizens on
belligerent ship-, and certain
See AMEXDMEXTS Page 4
Football Contest
I11 Third Week
Sweetwater folks who like
contests and know their foot-
hall teams have a chance each
week to win either a S5 cash
prize or football game tickets
by entering the Sweetwater Re-
porter's football forecasting
contest.
This contest is now in its
third week and complete details
are given on page five of the
main news section of this issue
al the Reporter. A list of 16
important games is published
and all the contestant does is try
ti> pick the winner of each
game Then he signs his name
and addresses to the list and
brings it to the Reporter of-
fice before fi p. m., Thursday
evening.
Xames of the teams playing
are scattered through the ad-
vertisements on page five.
Find these games, pick the win-
ner and write In the name of
the team you think will win in
the blank space numbered the
j same as it is In the ad.
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AHEAD OF HMO
AUSTIN — (CPi — Texa
business condition, as reflec'
ed by the index compiled b ;
Cnivcrsitv of Texas statist!
ans, declined slightly in Sept|
bet but remained 20 per
above September. 1940, it
reported Saturday.
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