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FINNS CAPTURE KEY TOWN NEAR ARCTIC CIRCLE
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Republican Senate Bloc Favors Inquiry Of Fiscal Affairs
Backs Proposal
Of Pat Harrison
For Budget Study
New Tax Plan Opposed
By GOP Senators- and
Some Democrats
BY IjYIJK C. WILSON
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
A bloc of senate republicans to-
day endorsed proposals for a
joint congressional study of bud-
getary problems, proposed a sim-
ilar investigation of national de-
fense, and opposed any new
taxes at this session of con-
gress.
Fourteen of the senate's 23 re-
publicans reached those decis-
ions at a two-hour conference.
They postponed consideration of
farm problems and the recipro-
cal trade treaty program until a
later date.
Chairman Pat Harrison of the
senate finance committee pro-
posed the joint committee fiscal
inquiry with the purpose of ex-
amining President Roosevelt's
1941 financial and tax program.
He said the project might lead
to formulation of a "congression-
al budget" covering major items
of 1941 fiscal year spending.
New Taxes Opposed
Republican opposition to new
taxes, such as the $460,000,000
asked by Mr. Roosevelt for
emergency national defense, was
shared by some democrats. Har-
rison was among those who
seemed doubtful of the tax pro-
posal.
He countered with a sugges-
tion that surtaxes on individ-
ual income in excess of $250,000
a year be reduced by cutting
the maximum surtax from 75 to
60 per cent. Harrison said that
would encourage capital, in-
crease revenue and foster em-
ployment.
Senate Majority Leader Char-
les L. McNary said upper
house republicans were almost
unanimously against a tax bill at
this session.. ...
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Aid for Migrants
Plan Proposed
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The California congressional del-
egation proposed today a plan
for federal aid to migrant work-
ers, whose plight received na-
tion-wide attention through
John Steinbeck's book, "The
Grapes of Wrath."
The proposal, announced by
Rep. John N. Toland, D., Calif.,
is designed to afford migrants
relief funds which they are un
able to obtain under the pre-
sent WPA set-up.
The plan, Toland said, calls
for a one-year settlement arran-
gement whereby WPA relief al-
lotments would be transferred
from the home state of the mi-
grant to the state to which he
migrated. Under present arran-
gements, migratory workers
lose their relief rights in th&ir
home states when they move
and are unable to obtain funds
from their newly-adopted state
until they have resided there a
year.
"For the good of the United
States, California should not be
bankrupt by the breakdown of
the economies of other states,''
Toland said.
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940
NUMBER 206
Mann Is Qiven Life Sentence
Utility Official
Impressed With
Growth of City
Sweetwater is one of the
most progressive cities in West
Texas, remarked Beeman Fish-
er, assistant to President A. J.
Duncan of Texas Electric Ser-
vice, today as he stopped over
here on business.
Mr. Fisher has been through
Sweetwater on a number of oc-
casions in the last few years, but
this is the first time he has stop-
ped over here for any length of
time in a number of years.
He was- impressed with the
amount of paving which has
been done since his last visit, the
improvements made at Lake
Sweetwater park, the number of
new residences constructed, and
improvements at the high
school.
"I believe your football bowl
is one of the finest athletic sta-
diums I have ever seen. Cer-
tainly the fir, jst high school
plant in Texas.
"It offers a wonderful place
in which to hold open-air com-
munity-wide meetings where cit-
izens of Sweetwater can come
together, get acquainted, plan co-
operative programs."
He said he thought a plan to
have at least one community
meeting a month in the bowl
was worthy of consideration.
Mr. Fisher was likewise im-
pressed with the school's new
physical education building.
"All in all, Sweetwater must
be a wonderful place to live. At
least the community isn't 'sta-
tic'. It's growing— and the
growth looks so substantial," he
said.
Saves Baby From Mystery Murderers
£
Unity Suffering
Loss of Memory
LONDON — (UP) — Members
of Lord Redesale's household
said today that the peer's 25-
year-old daughter, Unity Free-
man-Mitford, just returned from
Germany after a five year friend-
ship with Adolf Hitler, was suf-
fering from temporary loss of
memory and didn't even know
there was a war.
She reached home yesterday
after a trip from Germany in a
special ambulance train report-
edly supplied by Hitler, to Swit-
zerland, thence to France and
across the channel by steamer.
Slipping silently into the night with his baby brother clutch-
ed tightly in his arms, 8-year-old Glenn Rogers, above, escap-
ed the death by fire and gun that robbed him of his mother,
father and 4-year-old brother. The boy stumbled into police
headquarters at Fort Towson, Okla., half a mile away, to tell
how two men had shot and killed his parents and set fire to
their farm home.
Britain Warned U. S. Will Hold Her
Accountable for Damage to Ships
2 Bills Returned
Here as Verdict
Reached at Morton
Indicted for Robberies
In Sweetwater and
Roscoe, December 7
At the same time a Nolan
county grand jury was voting
two indictments against J. W.
Mann on Mi urges of robbery
with firearms, a district court
jury at Morton was voting to
sentence him to prison for life
for the slaying of Deputy Sher-
iff D. T. Smith near there a
month ago when officers ques-
tioned him and two companions
regarding a stolen automobile.
Sheriff Tom Wade said Tom
Green county officers had plac-
ed a "hold over" order for
Mann with the Morton sheriff
ahead of him and said he "didn't
know when Nolan county would
get him."
Mann is charged with holding
up D. B. Lambert, filling sta-
tion operator, here on the night
of Dec. 7, robbing him of $41,
and the same night holding up
J. H. Absher, Jr., in a Roscoe
filling station and taking $19
from him.
Both Capital Offenses
Both charges here carry the
death penalty and Judge A. S.
Mauzey said he could not set
See MANN Page 6
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Ohio State Coach
Is City Visitor
More Louisiana
Bigwigs Indicted
NEW ORLEANS — (UP) —
Dr. Clarence E. Lorio, one-time
political boss of Baton Rouge,
and two plastering contractors
pleaded not guilty today to fed-
eral indictments charging diver-
sion of WPA labor and materi-
Reports that she was suffering ais.
from a bullet wound in the head
were not confirmed.
Season's Most Turbulent Romance
Ends as Couple Elopes to Marry
NORTH CONWAY, N. H.
—(UP) — George (Romeo)
Iiowther and Eileen (Juliet)
Herrlck were married here
today, climaxing society's
most turbulent romance of
the season.
NEW YORK — (UP) — Some-
where, the long-lovelorn Eileen
Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Continu-
ed cloudy, unsettled and slight-
ly warmer. Maximum tempera-
ture Thursday 40; low this mor-
ning 32; at 2 p. m., today 33.
WEST TEXAS — Mostly clou-
dy tonight anrl Saturday; occas-
ional rains south portion and
snow north portion, little change
In temperature.
EAST TEXAS — Considerable
cloudiness, light snow or freez-
ing rain northwest portion to-
night, Saturday cloudy, rain
west portion and near lower
coast, colder northeast portion
tonight; not quite so cold Sat-
urday.
Herrick and George Lowther III
are getting married today, so
the story goes, while the bribe's
wealthy father, Walter Herrick,
sits at home brooding silently in
defeat.
Thus ends happily for every-
body but papa and mama Her-
rick high society's most turbu-
lent romance of the season.
Herrick, who had done every-
thing possible to preserve his
pretty, 20-year-old daughter'.:
single-blessedness, and who
refused, hours after she was
gone, to concede the worst, fin-
ally retired to an arm chair
before the fireplace last night,
wept, and admitted: "It's all over
now."
Lowther's attorney, friend and
fixer, Eli Johnson, broke the
news, not gently and privately,
but for papa Herrick and every-
body else to read In the news-
papers.
"They've eloped," he said.
"Miss Herrick will communicate
with her mother afterwards.
They are properly chaperoned
and the dog (Gypsy, a black set-
ter which Miss Herrick 'took for
See SEASONS Page 8
Trials for all three were set
for the April term of federal
district court at Baton Rouge.
The three scheduled to be ar-
raigned yesterday but failed to
appear. At the same time, form-
er Gov. Richard W. Leche en-
tered a plea of not guilty and
former Conservation Commis-
sioner William Rankin said he
was guilty of mail fraud on the
same indictment which charged
that mails were misused in the
purchase of an $11,000 yacht giv-
en to Leche and bought with
conservation department funds.
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Belgian Cabinet
Resigns in Body
BRUSSELS — (UP) — The
cabinet resigned today to make
a reorganization possible under
Premier Hubert Pierlot.
The resignation has been
pending for several days.
King Leopold commissioned
Pierlot, with whom he confer-
red yesterday, to form a new
government. Another cabinet of
national concentration — Catho-
lics, socialists and liberals —was
extended but with the number of
portfolios reduced.
Pierlot said that negotiations
would be necessary before a
new government could be an-
nounced.
i WASHINGTON — (UP) —
j The United States has formally
notified the British government
j that it will hold it strictly
j countable for any damages or in
] juries sustained by American
I vessels or their crews by reason
of being taken into belligerent
ports for search of their cargoes,
the state department announced
today.
This notification was given in
an exchange of several notes
between the two governments,
the latest of which was handed
to the British ambassador, Lord
Lothian, by Secretary of State
Hull on Dec. 14.
In another note delivered to
the British foreign office on
Dec. 8, Hull had informed the
British government that the
United States reserved all rights
for itself and its citizens under
international law, and Implied
that it would hold the British
government liable for compensa-
tion for damages or injuries sus-
tained by diverting U. S. ships.
Francis Schmidt, head coach
of Ohio State, former head coach
at Texas Christian university,
was a brief visitor in Sweetwater
this morning.
Coach Schmidt and Mrs.
Schmidt and two members of
the Ohio State coaching staff
were passing through the city
en route home from Pasadena
and the Rose Bowl game.
The Buckeye mentor attempt-
ed to get in touch with All-Am-
erican Sam Baugh, who enter-
ed TCU as a freshman the last
year Schmidt was at the helm at
the Fort Worth school.
Sammy had left for Mexia
ac"} where tonight he is to address
the Mexia high school banquet
for the football team.
Schmidt expected to stop over
in Fort Worth for a few days
for a visit with friends there
before continuing on to Colum-
bus, Ohio.
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Elliott Resigns
As TBS Director
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
Elliott Roosevelt, president of
Texas state network, revealed
today that he had resigned Dec.
21 as officer and director of the
Transcontinental Broadcasting
system.^
Roosevelt declined to discuss
his resignation, and said that
any further statement would
have to be obtained from his
attorney, Milton Diamond of
New York City.
Partial Success Reported by
Expedition Hunting Lost Fortune
LOS ANGELES — (UP)
— A California treasure
hunting expedition seeking
a $60,000,000 fortune in gold
plates and jewels, stolen a
century ago from the cathe-
dral at Lima, Peru, reported
partial success today.
In a cryptic message to
Sidney Field, Costa Rican
consul here, the curator of
the Costa Rican national
museum reported;
"Treasure has been locat-
ed on the island."
He referred to Cocos Is-
land off the coast of Cen-
tral America for which the
expedition set sail last No-
vember aboard the schooner
Sprindrift.
Apparently the treasure
is buried so deeply that pow-
er equipment and winches
are needed, Field said.
"The Sprindrift is on its
way back, either to Panama
or to California, for equip-
ment", he said.
The treasure the party
seeks was taken from the
cathedral in 1821 by the
pirate ship "Mary Dear"
which agreed to convey it
to a place of safe-keeping.
Instead the ship's crew mur-
dered the church guard
and reputedly hid the treas-
ure on Cocos Island.
Sweetwater Gets
Annual District
School Contests
Cage Tournament,
Track and Field
Meet Scheduled
Sweetwater was selected as
the site of the district basket-
aall tournament and the district
track and field meet at a din-
ner meeting last night of the
area executive board here,
Ross S. Covey, director-general,
said today.
The basketball tournament
was set for the weekend of Feb.
23 and 24 and the track meet
for April 5 and 6.
A new event was added to the
athletic program by the dist-
rict committee last night. On
April 26 and 27, if the date fol-
lows that of the annual Sweet-
water invitation golf tourna-
ment, a district high school
tournament is to be held.
Dates Selected
All field, track and literary
events are to be held April 5 and
6. Events which do not count in
the state competition, such as
junior boys' playground ball,
senior girls volleyball, and jun-
ior girls' and boys' tennis, are to
be held April 13.
Attending the session besides
Director-General Covey were;
Superintendent Connor Robin-
son, Merkel, director of debate;
Supt. E. M. Connell of Anson,
director of declamation; King
Sides, assistant superintendent,
Big Spring, director of extem-
poraneous speech; Supt. J. E.
Watson of Colorado City, direc-
tor of ready writers; Coach Lau-
rance Priddy of Sweetwater, di-
rector of athletics; Miss Ethel
Harkins, of Sweetwater, director
of one-act play; Miss Ludee Mae
Harrison, Sweetwater, director
of typing and shorthand.
Among the visitors present
were J. H. Williams, principal of
Sweetwater high school; Joe
Humphrey, assistant principal of
Abilene high; and Howard Mil-
ler, coach of the Abilene high
school basketball team.
BCD Committee
Meeting Called
The advertising committee of
the Board of City Development
has been called by Chairman
O. D. McCoy to meet at 6 p.
m. today in the studios of radio
station KXOX to discuss plans
of future BCD broadcasts.
Auditions are to be given to
thirteen who have indicated a
desire to become amateur radio
announcers. There are four girls
and nine boys to be given audi-
tions. They are:
Girls—Virginia Shields. Mary
Martha Moore, Althea Schriev-
er, and Elouise Burgess.
Boys—Nisson Pearl. Wayne
Olsen, Richard Rozar, Roger
Daniell, Phillip Ballew, Walter
D. Bennett. Russell Hunt, Troy
Daffern, and Glen Dearborn.
Members of the committee, be-
sides McCoy, are:
J. E. Ferguson, Leland Glass,
W. H. Haney, Lee Langley, j.
M. Lawrence, B. E. Low, Dr. J.
B. Majors, and F. H. Reitman.
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Jersey Airmen
Injured in Crash
NEW ORLEANS — (UP) —
Lieut. Col. Arthur F. Foran of
the New Jersey national guard,
president of the New Jersey sen-
ate, his son, Lieut. Walter For-
an, and Lieut. E. W. Estelle were
injured last night when their
national guard airplane crashed
in the cane brakes near here.
Rescuers were delayed by fog
and Lieut. Estelle, the pilot,
hanged head down in the wreck-
age for three hours before part
ot the fuselage could be chop
-ped away with axes to release
him. He was reported seriously
hurt.
The plane was reported re-
turning eastward from a train-
ing flight to Santa Monica, Cal.
It crashed four miles northeast
of New Orleans airport.
Lieut. Col. Foran, 56, is the
father of Dick Foran, movie ac-
tor. He formerly was controller
of the port of New York.
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Looking Up at
Senator Taft
Here's a Republican's eye
view of Ohio's Senator Rob-
ert Taft who is one of the
party's favored sons for the
role of presidential candidate
this fall. He has just finished
a campaign swing around the
country.
Mass Maneuvers
Slated for Army
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The greatest mass maneuvers in
peacetime history, involving
most of the 462,000 regular army
and national guard troops, will
be held late next summer, the
war department said today.
The program calls for con-
centration of all mobile troops.
It will be carried out over a per-
iod of three weeks in each of
the four army areas.
The maneuvers will give the
newly "streamlined" infantry
and other new divisions an op-
portunity to work out. They are
in line with Secretary of War
Harry H. Woodring's intensive
"year round" training program
to bring the army to a state of
"100 per cent efficiency."
Russians Send Up
Fresh Troops But
Finns Press On
Artillery Fire Ruins
Motor Sleds Used by
Reds in New Strategy
COPENHAGEN, Denmark --
(UP) — Press reports said today
that the Finns had captured the
key town of Salla, near the Arc-
tic circle, after a two day fight
which in importance matched
the battle of Lake Kianta in
which the Russian 163rd division
was smashed.
A dispatch to the newspaper
Berlingske Tidende from Stock-
holm reported that the Russians
had sent up fresh troops in hope
of stopping the Finns but had
been unable to do so.
Dispatches last night had
told of Finnish bombing opera-
tions in the Salla area, and said
that by bombing the Murmansk
railroad and destroying a sec-
tion of track and several sta-
tions the planes had cut Russian
troops off from their base.
Motor Sleds Used
An Ekstrabladet dispatch
from Stockholm reported that
the Russians had been beaten
back in three strong attacks on
Finnish positions in the north-
ern area of Lake Ladoga. The
Russians sought to use motor
sleds to approach Finnish forts
on the shores, it was said, but
were dispersed by artillery fire
which destroyed many sleds.
The Russians also were defeat-
ed in an attempt to storm the
fort on Bjoerkoe Island, south
of Viipuri in the gulf of Fin-
land. in this attack also, it was
said, the Russians tried to use
motor sleds.
Snow and Rain
Strike Texas
BV UNITED PRESS
Light snow and freezing rains
swept across North Texas to-
day on the tail-end of a cold
wave that brought sub-zero
temperatures to the midwest.
Wet, cold weather was fore-
cast to continue throughout the
state tonight and tomorrow al-
See SNOW Page 6
RED AIR FORCE
BOMBS FINNISH TOWNS
HELSINKI, — (UP) —Nine
Soviet Russian planes dropped
22 bombs today on Voikka, near
Kovola, halfway between Hel-
| sinki and Viipuri, setting fire
! to 10 houses and killing two
: persons, including a girl of 18.
I Fifteen women and one old man
j were injured.
it was reported that the Red
! air force bombed other points in
i Finland but details were not im-
mediately available.
No News Today
At White House
WASHINGTON — (UP)
—For the first time since
President Roosevelt took of-
fice lack of news cancelled
his regular bi-weekly press
conference today.
Mr. Roosevelt explained
that presentation of his mes-
sages to congress on the
state of the union and the
1941 budget left no news in
immediate prospect. Since
no news is in the process of
development, he added, the
conference would be point-
less.
On the rare occasions when
he has cancelled press con-
ferences before, the rea-
son has been sickness.
Treatment of
V eterans Gains
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
; The veterans' administration re-
ported to congress today that
more veterans were treated for
i disabilities during the fiscal
j year 1939 than in any other year.
Admissions to veterans' hos-
j pitals for treatment in the year
! ended June 30, 1939, totaled 165,-
\ 576, an increase of 8 per cent
j over the previous year. More
| than 92 per cent of the admis-
sions were for treatment of dis-
abilities not connected with war
. service.
Since March 3. 1919. when the
I acquisition of government hospi-
| tal facilities was first authorized
for the treatment of World War
veterans, admissions have total-
j eil 2.028,865. Since June 7, 1924,
when hospitalization was first
authorized for veterans of all
wars without regard to origin of
their disabilities, 1,206,966, or
about 75 per cent of all admis-
sions, have been for treatment of
disabilities not connected with
war service.
Two Dead, Six Critically 111 After
Drinking Solution from Radiator
FORT WORTH
(UP)—Six
Apple Indicted on
Forgery Charge
William H. Apple, alias H. B.
Baldwin, being held in the Hunt
county jail at Greenville, is to
I be returned to Sweetwater to
I See APPLE Page 6
inmates of the new U. S. public j
health service narcotic farm here i
remained in critical condition to-1
day and two others were dead I
from effects of drinking a wood j
alcohol solution drained from
the radiator of a hospital truck.
The dead were Ernest Hurley, j
31, of Texarkana, Tex., and B.,
F. Dare, 36, of Hector, Ark. Hur- j
ley was admitted to the hospl-
tal for treatment in July, 1939, j
and Dare three months earlier.
Dr. W. F. Ossenfort, director
of the hospital, declined to re-
veal the names of the six others
who became ill. The eight com-
plained of illness Thursday mor-
ning, and several hours later
one of them admitted drinking
the radiator solution Wednes-
day night.
Justice of the Peace Gus
Brown returned a verdict of "ac-
cidental death by wood alcohol,
self-administered" in the in-
quests for Hurley and Dare.
Dr. Ossenfort declared that
the men were not aware that
the alcohol was poison, and said
that all eight might have been
saved if hospital attendants had
known earlier of the cause of
their ailment.
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By UNITED PRESS
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Bonds irreqular; U. S. govern-
ments higher.
Curb stocks irregular.
Foreign exchange firm.
Cotton easy.
Wheat off 3-4 to 1 1-8 cents;
corn off 1-8 to 1-4 cent.
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