Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1940 Page: 2 of 10
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THE JIM HOGG COUNTY ENTERPRISE
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Edward C. Wayne
Germany Continues Pounding at Britain
As Autumn Storm, Fog Season Arrives;
Italy Reports Deep Drives Into Egypt;
Oct. 16 Set as Draft Registration Day
(EDITOR'S NOTE—Wk.B opinion, art npmiMI la eke*, column*, they
art Um». of th. new. nnaly.l and not nccc.iarUy aI thii nawipaper.)
, R.laaaod by W««t»rn N.wapapor Onion.
Dr. Samuel
Colville Lind,
who offers
what appears to this department to
be the first soundly conservative
sanction for the possible availability
of atomic power—power in our time.
At the Detroit meeting of the
Amerieaa Chemical society,
starting its national defense In-
ventory of chemical skills and
resources, Dr. Lind reports a
startling advance toward the
power riches of the metal ura-
nium 235. Hit a few atoms of
(1-335 with SO electron volts and
you draw off 200,000,000 electron
volts. It looks like a power mil-
lenlum, which this country could
use Just now. Dr. Lind says
there Is plenty of uranium and
that the seixure of its power Is
a practical possibility, not nul-
lified by high costs of the proc-
ess. Cutting the power atom out
of the herd of slightly different
atoms Is the one great remaining
obstaela.
Dr. Lind has been an ace atom-
nucleus bomber for many years.
His field of radioactivity has been a
sons of wizardry in chemistry and
ho has turned in much basic re-
search, including his ionization the-
ory of the chemical effect of radium
rays. He has written extensively
on subjects in his field.
From his native McMinnville,
Tenn., where he was bom in 1879,
ho went to Washington and Lee uni-
versity and the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, with an educa-
tional chaser at the University of
Leipzig and later at the University
of Paris. He taught at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, served as chief
chemist of the U. S. bureau of mines
and is now dean of the institute of
technology of the University of Min-
nesota.
A/fILLIONS by the hundreds are
Just about an irresistible tar-
get, and perhaps Sunday supplement
writers can be forgiven for trying
Fi.U Hump. a, {TtSi"!
Keeping English playboy out
Children Moving
though in his heyday his chief sins
have been no more than an under-
standable interest in hunting and
horses, and dogs, mainly retrievers.
Now, however, even these trot
into the background as he gears
ap the National Child Refugee
committee of which he is chair-
man. His Job Is to keep well
oiled the wheels that roll Eng-
lish children by the thousands
out of tho reach of Nasi dive
bombers. It must keep him
whacking away long after the
latest fox has taken cover.
Just the same the supplementers
were right on one point. He really
has hundreds of millions. They pour
down from the original Marshall
Fields of Chicago.
In his middle forties now, Chair-
man Field is sturdily handsome,
with a grayish pompadour and a big-
gish, sharp nose. He dresses well,
as he was taught at Eton and Cam-
bridge where he got his schooling,
though conservatively. His pants
have no cuffs at all.
THE WAR:
Britain Waits
While self-propelled barges were
poised at French channel ports,
waiting to carry German soldiers on
an invasion of England. Prime Min-
ister Churchill called a secret ses-
sion of parliament.
Tides were favorable for the at-
tempt by sea, London was being
bombed day and night almost with-
out letup, and reports said Big Ber-
tha guns were shelling the British
capital from the French coast.
Buckingham palace, home of the
king, was bombed three times in
'T'HREE Americans talk up the
* war with King George and one
is Major General Emmons of the
United States air corps. He is one
Maj. Cen. Emmons ^(“JffKIS
Still Puxsled as picked by
To Why of -DWW r vd«* 1°
while back to give the country’s sev-
eral military arms extra socko.
Fifty-two years old, he has been In
the army since 1909; with the infan-
try until 1916, when he was switched
to the signal corps. That made him
a flier because in those dark and
stumbling days the signal corps was
all the flying service the United
States had.
At birth his parents named him
"Delos." Mostly, the Deloses lack
adequate explanation of their par-
ents’ curious preference, and the
general belongs to this forever-puz-
zled fry.
la full his name is Delos
Carleton Emmons. In many
given names there is little sense
indeed, but in "Deles” there ean
be no rhyme or reason. This
commentator knows one "Delos"
who explains feebly that his giv-
en name stems from a French
seek In a Wisconsin lumber
camp where his father was fore-
man. No more! Not even that
a noble flapjack,
has one daughter; she
has told him he is a
,
LONDON, ENGLAND—That clastic
crack by farmer Premier Chamberlain
the Nazis had “missed the but*
(meaning they had failed in their con-
quest attempts) is recalled to mind by
this one in a London street. It was
wrecked by a German bomb in one of
the ruids on the British capital. No one
was hurt says the censor, as the driver,
conductor and passengers had taken shel-
ter in a nearby raid refuge.
five days. Craters appeared along
the Strand, in Fleet and Bond
streets, in Leicester and Berkley
Squares, houses in fashionable Pic-
adilly and the slums of Cheapside
were demolished, the bank of Eng-
land was hit by splinters, the house
of parliament did not go untouched,
subways and railroad yards were
damaged. In 10' days, 2,000 were
killed and 8,000 injured in London
alone.
Berlin radios warned that London
could choose between the fate of pul-
verized Warsaw or surrendered
Paris. The British replied that the
Germans’ hope was to force king
and government to leave the city,
thus gaining a moral victory. They
said there would be no evacuation
of the capital. They warned citi-
zens, however, that Hitler’s attempt
at invasion might come "within a
few hours" and that only Hitler
knew when the signal would be
given.
In Nazi Territory
The Germans faced handicaps,
however. While their flying was not
stopped by heavy fogs, gales in the
channel made shipping perilous.
And British fliers were not forced
out of the air. They plowed the
fields of Nazi airmen at Schiphol
and Ypenburg in The Netherlands,
around Calais, Dunkerque, Abbe-
ville and Antwerp. They dropped
calling cards in congested Berlin,
weeded out gun emplacements along
the channel near Boulogne, sunk
barges on the coast, wrecked oil
tanks and rail sidings through Ger-
man areas, hit the Bosch spark-plug
factory at Stuttgart, docks at Ham-
burg and ammunition dumps in
the Black Forest.
But throughout the British were
fighting against superior odds.
Egypt
In the Near East the British were
pressed by Italian armies which in-
vaded Egypt and pushed on to vital
oases. There was no declaration of
war. Egypt, which had threatened
to join the British if the Italians
crossed the border, showed no in-
clination to resist at once.
The Italians captured Sidi Bar-
rani, 60 miles from the Lybian bor-
der on the fourth day. Sidi Barrani
is only 180 miles from Alexandria,
one of the main British strongholds,
and 350 miles from the Suez canal.
By that time the British had re-
vealed the strategy of their cam-
paign. With only 230,000 troops, 500
planes and 1,000 armored cars they
were hopelessly outnumbered. Plan
was to retreat to a shorter line, thus
extending the Italian forces before
engaging in a major battle.
REGISTRATION:
Oct. 16 the Day
October 16 will see 16,500,000 young
Americans between the ages of 21
and 36 march to polling places and
register for the first peacetime draft
in the nation’s history. The date
was set by President Roosevelt when
he signed the measure over which
congress debated more than three
months.
After registration, local boards—it
is intended to have about 6,500—will
shuffle the cards and give each man
a number. Then a series of num-
bers will be drawn in Washington by
lot. When the numbers are drawn
each man with a corresponding
number in a local board’s file will
be put down for service in that
sequence.
Questionnaires will be sent to each
man in the order in which their num-
bers were drawn, asking about de-
pendents, physical disabilities, etc.
On the basis of this information each
man will be classified as follows:
Class 1, available for immediate
services; class 2, service deferred
because due to employment in nec-
essary defense industry; class 3,
service deferred because of depend-
ents; class 4, service deferred by
law—Judges, legislators, etc.
Meanwhile, Washington will de-
cide on a quota for each district,
based on population and the number
of men from the area already in
> * & %■
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tom
Hundreds of young National Guards-
men in 26 slates who are mobilising are
busily engaged in getting their first taste
of duty in federal service. Here are some
of the boys learning the ins and outs of
machine guns at the 71st Regiment armory
in New York.
the army or navy. Enough men
then will be taken from class 1 to
fill out the quota. Each man will
be given a physical examination. If
he cannot meet the requirements
he will be passed over and the next
man taken.
When draftees arrive in camp,
they will be given another examina-
tion, physical and mental. Those
not measuring up topnotch will be
placed in separate sections for
physical care.
Base pay will be $21 a month
for the first four months and $30 a
month after that. Service will be
for one year, but may be extended
by the President in case of emer-
gency.
First Call Nov. 15
The first cadre of 75,000 will be
called to camps about November 15.
Successive calls for about 100,000
men each will bring about 400,000
into training by January 1. On that
date the army expects to have 1,000,-
000 men under arms, including
regular troops and National Guards-
men.
On the same day that the draft
measure was signed, 60,000 National
Guardsmen in 26 states reported to
their armories for active service
which will extend for a year, and
the President gave orders to call
out an additional 35,700 on October
15.
Swinging full tilt into the defense
program, Washington also:
0. Heard President Roosevelt ask
congress for an appropriation of
$1,600,000,000 to defray expenses of
the first year of training of draftees.
C Saw President Roosevelt sign a
$5,350,000,000 supplementary defense
appropriation.
4L Awarded 21 aviation manufactur-
ers orders to prepare for construc-
tion of 14,000 planes, at the rate of
900 a month. This production rate
will be doubled within a year.
Birthday—Gen. John J. Pershing,
commander of the A. E. F., at 80
had no special message for the
United States. He said, however,
ha believed England could hold out.
"At least I hope so," he added.
Veteran—Leonor F. Loree, 82, one
of the last of the railroad "giants”
of the era of Harriman and Hill,
died in his Jersey estate. Until 1938
he was head of the Delaware and
Taxes—Lester P. Barlow, inven-
tor whose liquid oxygen-carbon
bomb failed to kill any goats recent-
ly in an official test, won a patent
claim of $592,719 from the govern-
ment for an invention used in the
World war. His income taxes on the
sum amount to $412,817. Barlow
said he would "rock the capital”
before paying it. His new oxygen
bomb, however, had far greater
force than any explosive now used.
In the Headlines
Bankrupt—Perry county, in east-
ern Kentucky, filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the federal court. It
is believed the first county in the
nation to take such action.
Steel—Ingot production in August
amounted to 6,033,037 tons. It was
the third largest in industrial his-
tory.
Wheat—Grain experts in Chicago
predicted the Canadian spring wheat
surplus at 508,000,000 bushels, sec-
ond largest on record.
Education—Fear that defense jobs
and conscription would cut into col-
lege enrollments was dispelled when
fall enrollments showed a normal
figure. University of California was
one of the few below last year, the
drop being 700.
Living Costs — Government sur-
vey, aided by private commodity ex-
perts, indicates cost of food is not
likely to rise much for the balance
of this year. In communities
swamped with defense contracts,
rents will rise. Over-all costs may
go up 2 to 5 per cent by spring.
POLITICS:
Democratic
President Roosevelt made the first
official speech of the campaign when
he appeared before the Teamsters’
union convention in the D. A. R.’s
Constitution hall in Washington. He
told them the gains of collective bar-
gaining, maximum hours and min-
imum wages, and social security
must be maintained. He said his
"one supreme determination” was
to keep war away from these shores.
Republican
Wendell Willkie grew hoarse in a
single day of receptions in Chicago,
reported unequaled since Lindbergh
rode through the Loop. The official
opening of his 15-day tour designed
for the winning of the West was in
Coffeyville, Kan., where he once
taught school. From there he went
on to Oklahoma, Texas, and a four-
day campaign in California, the
greatest attention any Republican
presidential candidate ever has giv-
en that state.
Willkie’s speeches raised the issue
of the dictatorship of a third term.
He said Roosevelt was the godfather
of the unhappy Munich conference,
and declared ii President Roosevelt
should be re-elected “you will be
serving under an American totali-
tarian government before the third
term is over.”
DEATH:
The Speaker
William B. Bankhead, third speak-
er of the house under the New Deal
to die in office, was the victim of
overwork. The speaker exerted him-
self in active days and tedious nights
in the extended congressional ses-
iESCREtNvi
By VIRGINIA VALE
iSthiMd by Waattrn Newspaper Union.)
OOSALIND RUSSELL, who
IV considers Columbia her
lucky lot, has been signed to
play the feminine starring role
in that studio’s new comedy,
"This Thing Called Love," a tale
of a six months’ trial marriage
which goes on the rocks before
it is well launched. Miss Russell
will be seen as a brisk and
competent insurance executive
(and let's hope she won’t over-act,
as she sometimes does) and Melvyn
Douglas, playing opposite her, will
be a mining engineer.
A few years ago the beautiful
Rosalind was borrowed by Columbia
for the title role in "Craig’s Wife,”
an unsympathetic part, as you’ll
probably recall, but in it she proved
ROSALIND RUS8ELL
so conclusively that she could act
that the picture gave her a place at
the top. She scored another Colum-
bia triumph as “Hildy Johnson” in
"His Girl Friday.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is pictured
here leaving the church in Jasper, Ala-
bama, after attending the funeral services
for Speaker William B. Bankhead. An
army aide attached to the White House
is pictured with him.
sion. When he agreed to speak at a
Baltimore political rally his physi-
cian protested. But before he could
speak a blood vessel ruptured in
his abdomen. He died four days
later. Mr. Bankhead, father of ac-
tress Tallulah Bankhead, was bur-
ied in his home town of Jasper,
Ala. President Roosevelt attended
the ceremonies.
Sam Rayburn, who entered con-
gress in 1913 after being speaker of
the Texas house of representatives
at the age of 31, was named fourth
speaker under President Roosevelt.
MISCELLANY:
6L Hundreds of families whose wage
earners have been imported to Phil-
adelphia for employment in the
navy yard are living in automobile
trailers Just outside the gates. Con-
ditions brought a protest from near-
by housewives who told the city
council that lack of proper sanita-
tion was a health menace. Similar
conditions are reported in other de-
fense industry towns, including
Bremerton, Wash., Newport, R. I.,
and Mare Island, Calif.
Q. One of the first acts of the new
postmaster general, Frank C. Walk-
er, was to authorize three new
stamp issues, carrying out a nation-
al defense motif. First day sale is
in Washington October 11 A one-
cent stamp will depict the farmer
and laborer, the two-cent the army
and navy, and the three-cent secur-
ity, education and conservation.
C A campaign to turn over some
of the army’s "flying fortress”
planes to England is expected in
Washington. Reason given will be
to test out the super-American air
fighter under combat
Two daughters of famous football
coaches are up for roles in "Tillle
the Toiler"; they are Marcia
Shaughnessy and Annie Lee Stagg,
and were suggested by no less a per-
sonage than Maude Adams, the
famous actress, who coached them
at Stevens college.
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The 52.6 second kiss record set by
Sheridan and George Brent in
Honeymoon for Three” brought re-
actions of all kinds from here, there
and elsewhere.
A Los Angeles laundry asked for
the handkerchief used by Brent to
wipe off Miss Sheridan’s lipstick, of-
fering to launder it for nothing. An
inventor in Indianapolis asked Brent
to be the first to try his new lipstick
remover. A clock manufacturer in-
quired what kind of watch was used
to time the kiss. A New York pro-
moter telegraphed a $500 offer to the
pair if they would officially open a
"kissathon” by repeating the per-
formance. •
And then a woman’s club in To-
peka, Kan., passed a resolution rec-
ommending that endurance kissing
be banned on the ground that it is
unhygienic. And countless males be-
tween the ages of 17 and 60 wrote
in, volunteering to take over Brent’s
next assignment of that kind for
nothing.
-*-
When young Betty Brewer was
working with him in "Rangers of
Fortune” Fred MacMurray taught
her to croon. Since then she has
been rehearsing her sister and broth-
er and a little neighbor girl in a
quartet which she calls “Betty Brew-
er and Her Playmates," and It’s so
good that an advertising agency may
put them on the air this fall.
—#—
As old as radio is the annoying
production problem of performers
kicking the microphone stand or
striking it with their hands if they
make gestures while on the air. If
a grating sound comes from your
receiving set, that’s probably the
reason.
Cecil B. DeMille thought he’d
solved the problem for his radio
theater last year, by using a hang-
ing microphone—but without a base
stand to guide them, actors bumped
their heads into the mike. (Glut-
tons for punishment, these actors 1)
Undaunted, C. B. went to work
again. And this year when the cast
assembled for the theater’s first pro-
duction, "Manhattan Melodrama,"
with Myma Loy, William Powell,
and, of course, Don Ameche, they
found that a circular guard rail had
been built under the mike. That
suited them perfectly—they could
rest their scripts on it.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS
ffL "Most Inspirational Extra of the Year“
is the title besUmred on Doris Davenport
by the Hollywood Studio Club, because
she rose Jrom the extra ranks to the
feminine lead us *The Westerner.'’
c. Paramount will spend 9250,000 on
launching “North West Mounted Police“
—ell for advertising, publicity end an ex-
ploitation campaign.
C Susanna Foster, starlet of Paramount's
'There'i Magic in Music “ was all ready
to leave for a vocation in Kearney, Neb
when her doe, Rex, was struck by an
automobile. She unpacked her trunks
SOIL DRAINAGE
IMPROVES LAND
Lower Water Table Aida
Better Root Growth.
By H. B. ROE
(Preleeser el AgricultureI Eaginettiag. Vet-
rersity Farm. St. Paul.)
Proper soil drainage does not rob
the land of needed moisture during
times of drouth, but instead it helps
plants develop deep roots early in
the season thus resulting in better
crop yields. Drouths have been no
more severe in this country since
drainage programs were started
about 1905.
In the spring of the year or during
periods of excessive rainfall, fields
often become saturated with mois-
ture and the water table, or level
of "free” water, comes close to the
surface. The roots of most crop
plants cannot live long in "free”
water and they will not grow down
into it, but instead, they mature
while still very short and shallow
and after that practically cease to
grow. As a result, when later dry
spells come along, evaporation
takes place, the “free” water sur-
face drops and the topsoil dries out,
leaving the shallow rooted plants
"high and dry.” Poor quality and
yields of crops thus result from poor
drainage.
Tile drainage removes only the
excess or free water from the
ground, it cannot drain off the cap-
illary moisture that surrounds each
grain of soil and is so necessary for
plant growth. When the land is tile-
drained, excess water is taken off
early in the spring and plants de-
velop normal, vigorous roots that
are better able to reach moisture
during dry periods.
That shortage of soil moisture is
not caused by open drainage
ditches, is proved by a study made
in 1929, with state and federal agen-
cies co-operating. It was found
that where ditches average about
eight feet deep, with two feet of
water in them, no drainage effect
was evident beyond 330 feet away
from the ditch, and the average
lowering of the moisture level by
ditches a mile apart was only three
inches. This has only a negligible
influence.
Drainage programs started in
Minnesota in 1905 have not been the
cause of our recent dry years. Dur-
ing the 20-year period 1882 to 1901,
Minnesota enjoyed an average of
only one inch more rainfall per year
than during the ‘‘drouth’’ period of
1918 to 1937, and going still farther
back, the period from 1837 to 1856
was even drier, with an average
precipitation nearly two inches be-
low the 1918 to 1937 level.
Terraces Can Be Built
By Farm Operations
Terraces now being built for ero-
sion control on thousands of farms
can be successfully maintained with-
out special equipment and without
loss of time by planninng farming
operations and cropping systems, in
the opinion of E. L. Hansen, assist-
ant in agricultural engineering at
the University of Illinois college of
agriculture.
Building up the terrace ridge,
rather than tearing it down, is easi-
est when farming operations are
parallel to the terrace. Back fur-
rowing to the ridge when plowing
is probably the most effective. Disk-
ing also helps when the ridge is not
straddled, especially with a single
disk.
Cultivating parallel to the ter-
races eliminates the possibility of
loosening the soil on top of the ridge
which may result in over-topping of
the terrace during a heavy rain.
This often occurs when the direction
of cultivation is across the terrace,
since the depth is difficult to regu-
late when crossing. The ridge height
may be lowered several inches as a
result of one crop of corn.
If more maintenance is required,
Hansen recommends a few rounds
with a blade grader to keep ter-
races working efficiently.
Watch Silo Wallst
Farmers Warned
Farmers who contemplate put-
ting up grass silage are being
reminded by agricultural engi-
neers to check the reinforcements
around their silo wall and to
make sure the inner silo surface
has a protective coating.
Grass silage exerts a greater
bursting pressure in silos than
does normal corn silage, and its
juices are more strongly acid,
and hence more likely to corrode
masonry walls than corn silage.
her
to slay at home
Fall Plowing
When plowing for wheat this fall
It is best to "Jump” all draws where
grasses have healed old gullies.
Where raw gullies are plowed in, it
will pay to work them down at once
and sow them to grasses or winter
barley. With the remainder of^4he
field left rough until wheat sowing
time, fall rains will soak into the
soil Instead of gathering Into the
old gullies. By the time the wheat
crop la sown, the gullies will be pro>
by the
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