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The Paducah Post
Friday, June 7, 1940
The PADUCAH POST
Serving Cottle County for 34 Years
Publishd Every Thursday by
The Post Publishing Co.
Corner of Eighth and Richards Streets
E. A. Carlock........................Owner and Publisher
E. D. Fyke..............................Managing Editor.
Mrs. E. D, Fyke........................Secretary-treasurer.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Paducah,
Texas, under the Act of March 30, 1879.
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We Won’t Get Rich
It looks now as if we wouldn’t get rich on the war.
Sales are up on airplanes and metal products. Cotton,
on the other hand, is piling up a surplus since the war has
drastically cut exports. Other farm crops are not going
to find any big markets abroad either. There is also the
general loss of exports in the war zone which might very
well offset the plane sales.
Europe is going into this war on a program of self-
sufficiency. They have been preaching that for seven
years in Berlin and Rome and Tokio. And Great Britain
is actually carrying on a war and trying to keep up her
exports at the same time. She is not doing this successfully,
of course, but neither should the United States expect
the big market of 25 years ago.
Finally, if and when the war is ended, the world may
expect an unprecedented race for trade supremacy. If the
dictators win it no holds will be barred as we have al-
ready seen in the use of the depreciated Aski mark in
South America. If the Allies win they will need all the
trade they can get to restore prosperity and pay war
debts.
This leaves sharp warning for Americans. Granted we
don’t want to profit on the blood of others, it looks
this time as if we’re not going to get back “good times”
by the war route.
Today, more than any time in our history, the solution
of our unemployment and depression rests right at home.
We have only to look at the records to know that war
prosperity is dear prosperity. We are still trying to get
adjusted to the maladjustments of that, last great “boom.”
Maybe it will be better if we never get rich again.—The
Shamrock Texan.
I Give You Texas
By Boyce House
“Our watermelons have a heart” reads a roadside sign.
Writers, seeking material for biographies, usually select
a captain of finance, a canal-builder, or a soldier.of-fortune
as a subject. Yet there are people all around us whose
lives would make a wonderful book.
Recently, J. C. Wilkerson of the Comanche Chief told
about a fellow townsman—0. 0. Bright man, born at Old
St. Mary’s in Refugio County, a town no longer existing.
Reared in the Coast country, where there was an abundance
of fish, oysters, wild turkey and wild hogs, Mr. Brightman
has had a varied and succesful business career—farming,
running a gin, meat market, general store, cotton, grain,
oil and automobile business.
When Comanche County was a great cotton area, some-
times producing 50,000 bales, he was one of the State’s
biggest cotton merchants, buying and selling all over
Texas and making or losing a thousand dollars or more
on lots of days.
There was an interlude when he engaged -in mining in
Central American but came a revolution and the holdings
were confiscated. To show for this adventure, Mr. Bright-
man has a few rare eggs and monkey skins...
His father, a noted hunter who died at the age of 90,
was fond of telling about having crawled into a hole unarm-
ed and bringing out a wildcat.
Mr. Brigjhtman couldn’t pass the physical examination
for service in the Spanish-American War. His ambition for
military duty was realized through a son. Dwight, who in
his teens saw service overseas in the World War; was one
of the youngest sheriffs in the county’s history and is now
a G-Man.
Why don’t you write the book, Mr. Wilkerson?
Old joke contest: There was the one about the man
who was asked, “Can you play the piano?” and he an-
swered, “I don’t know—I never tried.”
It was his brother who broke a wrist and inquired of
the doctor, “How long will it be before I can play the
fiddle?” and the doctor said, “Oh, about a month.” The
man replied, “That’s fine; I never could play it before.”
“The Golden Gate International Exposition opened on
Treasure Islane in a blaze of color and glory,” writes Don
B. Burger, formerly of Abilene, Cisco and El Paso, whom
this columnist had the pleasure of seeing last winter out
in San Francisco where he manages the Sir Francis Drake,
outstanding hotel of the Pacific Coast. His letter, after
mentioning that the San Francisco World’s Fair entertain-
ed one of the largest single gatherings in the history of the
West on opening day, continues:
“Comments are even more glowing than in ’39. An entirely
new ‘Pageant of the Pacific’ glows on Treasure Island.
Every exhibit, every building, every corner of the fabulous
island on San Francisco Bay breathe magic and excitement.
Man, the unknown, becomes your neighbor at the World’s
Fair. The arts, sciences and industries are unfolded in
a fascinating fashion. The world’s greatest art collection
now includes the contemporary gems of Europe and the
Americas.
“Day and night there is a procession of grand shows:
The mammoth ‘America! Cavalcade of a Nation,’ a dy-
namic pageant of United States history; 1940 ‘Follies
Bergere’; Billy Rose’s famous ‘Aquacade’; four-star radio
programs with nationally known personalities; the. great
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, directed by Pierre
Monteux, featuring renowned guests artists; famour swing
bands; international folk festivals; gigantic fireworks dis-
plays—these are but a few of the specially planned at-
tractions.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Farnham F. Dudgeon
Powerful Attack by Nazi Army
Pushes Allies Out of Belgium;
U. S. Defense Board Is Selected
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
fTtoioagAH by Western Newspaper Union.
THE WAR:
Flanders Flight
When King Leopold III ordered
his 300,000 Belgian troops to lay
down their arms in their battle
against the military might of Adolf
Hitler, worried French and British
leaders saw that the forces they
had rushed into Belgium following
the German invasion were doomed.
For on the fields of Flanders their
armies were exposed to a great en-
circling movement by the Nazis and
were in great danger of being cut
off from the main body of the troops
in central France.
Without waiting Adolf Hitler be-
gan to close the jaws of his gigantic
trap of death. Attacking with great
ferocity the German machine moved
toward the retreating allies. With-
out loss of impetus military objec-
tive after objective was gained in a
tremendous show of force.
In the sky, dive bombers swooped
toward the earth, cutting off supply
details, disrupting communications,
destroying immense stores of war
goods but failing to seriously daunt
allied morale and courage.
Their lines in formation, the Brit-
ish and'. French retreated steadily
toward the English channel. For they
were outnumbered and the country
they had come to protect from in-
vasion had been ordered by its king
to cease fighting. Their best chance
KING LEOPOLD III
His order started a retreat.'
for escape was across the Strait of
Dover to England or down the sea-
coast to rejoin the main portion of
their troops along the Somme and
Aisne rivers in France.
While from Berlin came word of
the great victory being won, from
the first soldiers to reach English
soil in their retreat across the chan-
nel, came reports that important
losses were being effected upon the
Germans as they advanced. But
even these sources admitted that
great stocks of war booty was fall-
ing into Nazi hands. Supplies of
gasoline and munitions which any
army needs were being obtained by
the Germans.
Next
Next, with Belgium and much of
the vital industrial portion of north-
ern France safely tucked away,
Adolf Hitler had a choice to make.
He could launch his long-threatened
air attack on the British isles or he
could strike out for Paris.
Feeling against France has been
running high in Berlin, judging from
current reports. Usually it has been
the British that have been the sub-
ject to press attack by the Nazi prop-
aganda machine, but now France is
getting its share of verbal abuse.
Some observers thought these at-
tacks were a feint intended to lull
the British into believing they were
to be left alone and then when the
“hour” arrived it would be a sur-
NAMES
... in the news
C Eleven months after he resigned
as governor of Louisiana, Richard
W. Leche, political heir of Huey P.
Long, went on trial on charges of
using the mails to defraud. The
charge grew out of a truck deal
which is alleged to have netted him
and two others, a cool $113,370.
C Motion-picture actor Walter Con-
nolly, outstanding character actor,
died at his Hollywood home.
C, “Who’s Who in America,” with
more “names in the news” than
ever before has been released for
1940-41. Sketches in the book relate
to accomplishments of the nation’s
most famous names. There are 31,-
752 sketches in the new version of
“Who’s Who.” Oldest member in-
cluded is Brig.-Gen. William Henry
Bisbee, retired, who is 100. He is a
Civil war veteran. Youngest name
included is that of Shirley Temple,
Also retired—at the age of 11. Long-
est sketch is that of Columbia uni-
versity’s president, Nicholas Murray
Butler.
President
Roosevelt
prise blitzkrieg for Johnny Bull. But
England has taken strong defense
measures of late to be ready for the
worst and she has promised a warm
reception for any invader.
France’s interior seemed a bit
stronger too, for as the Germans
moved against the trapped Flanders
army in the north the line of defense
across the nation’s central axis was
decidedly bolstered.
U. S. DEFENSE:
Progress
President Roosevelt’s fourteenth
fireside chat began a series of
events in the new
national defense pro-
gram that was
I marked by increas-
jf ing attention to the
| details of getting Un-
|| cle Sam’s house in
| order—“come what
, ? \ may.”
k ^Influenced chiefly
It! ‘ by the Pr°2ress of
the German army in
its drive toward
Paris and London,
Americans of both
major political parties are getting
behind the President’s announced
objective of building defenses of the
Western hemisphere “to whatever
heights the future may demand.”
Pleading for unity in the drive for
military security, the President in
his nation-wide radio address warned
against Trojan Horse treachery with-
in the nation’s borders. He pledged
that the government would not ex-
pect private capital to provide all
of the funds necessary.
Tax
This statement invoked discussion
as to how the government intended
to foot the necessarily large bill
of any such program. A defense-
tax movement has been gaining
ground in congress. This is a com-
plete about-face on the subject by
the legislators. When the first pro-
posals were made to increase arma-
ments, most members of the senate
and house passed over the matter
of providing the money by remark-
ing that the important thing to do
was to provide the defenses and
worry about paying for them later.
Now the sentiment is that a flat
10 per cent increase in individual
and corporate in-
come taxes might be *
the best way to meet
the obligations to be
incurred by the bil-
lion-dollar program
now under full
steam.
And as the rising
war hysteria spread SS|;
over the nation it ;
seemed likely that
this suggestion would Si
not meet the disap- William S.
proval such a tax in- Knudsen
crease would ordinarily encounter.
Reading reports of the fierce power
of German military might, U. S. cit-
izens may prefer to dig down in
their jeans for preparedness than
feel home defenses were insecure.
Commission
A presidential commission of sev-
en, appointed to muster the coun-
try’s economic resources in connec-
tion with the preparedness drive,
was announced in Washington. This
commission represents a lay “gen-
eral staff” which will work with
government officials and agencies in
lining up men, materials and plans
for speeding up armament produc-
tion.
The commission:
Edward R. Stettinius Jr., U._ S.
Steel company chairman, who will
supervise production
of raw materials;
William S. Knudsen,
General Motors pro-
duction wizard, who
will direct his atten-
■v -v tion to manufactur-
ing problems; Sid-
ney Hillman, Amal-
w j gamated Clothing
/ * Workers union pres-
h ’ ident’ responsible
""£or labor matters;
Chester Chester C. Davis,
Davis Federal Reserve
board member and former AAA di-
rector, who will guide agriculture’s
course; Ralph Budd, president of
the C. B. & Q. railroad, transpor-
tation; Leon Henderson, chairman
of the Securities commission, will
check on stabilization of wholesale
prices; and Miss Harriet Elliott,
University of North Carolina, who
will guard the consumers interests.
Like This
Scheduled to be an important cog
in the machinery of defense, the
automobile industry was given a
tuning up by Secretary of the Treas-
ury Morgenthau on his announce-
ment that the annual policy of in-
troducing new car models may be
discontinued after this year. In
charge of airplane procurement, he
believes it may be necessary to
keep assembly lines open for planes.
Henry Ford says after six months
he‘can turn out a thousand planes
a day if necessary.
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Here is Lauriston Taylor,
physicist of the U. S. Bureau
of Standards, directing the
placing of the. corona cap atop
of the world?s largest X-ray
machine. Capable of generat-
ing rays to a power of 1,500,-
000 volts, it was assembled in
the high voltage laboratory of
the bureau in Washington,
D. C. Its use will set a stand-
ard for other such machines
in hospitals and cancer clin-
ics throughout the country.
GOOD NEIGHBORS:
To the South
Not such a “good neighbor” is
what many Mexicans are thinking
these days of Leon Trotsky, exiled
Russian political leader, who has
taken up a haven of refuge from
his Soviet enemies in Mexico’s in-
terior. The recent attempt to as-
sassinate Trotsky has caused at
least a few Mexican officials to be-
lieve that no good can come from
his remaining in their country and
they are anxious for him to move
on. Trotsky’s home is constantly
guarded but despite this “protec-
tion,” Joseph Stalin’s arch-rival is
not especially loved or admired by
some of his “neighbors.”
A neighbor further south has been
having a bit of trouble with a little
uprising of its own. Reports from
Panama indicate that the govern-
ment nipped an alleged plot for a
revolution which was scheduled to
prevent that country’s 1940 presiden-
tial election.
An indication that U. S. business
was attempting to regain some of
its foreign trade lost by the Euro-
pean conflict was evidenced by news
that the Moore-McCormack lines
were opening a new shipping serv-
ice between North and South Amer-
ica on both the Atlantic and Pacific
seaboards. In announcing the new
shipping routes and ships to be used
in the service the company’s presi-
dent, Albert V. Moore, said: “The
surface of trade possibilities be-
tween the U. S. and South America
has only been scratched.” This
was good news to business men for
the commerce department’s current
/trade report shows a $27,000,000 de-
cline in export trade for last month.
Some real “scratching” will be nec-
essary to build up this loss.
To the North
A career diplomat, Jay P. Moffat
was nominated by President Roose-
velt to replace James H. Cromwell
as U. S. minister to Canada. Mof-
fat, now chief of the western Euro-
pean division of the state depart-
ment, is not expected to create the
flurry that Cromwell did when, as a
U. S. representative, he made his
now-famous speech expressing a de-
cided sympathy for the British-
French cause in their struggle with
Hitler.
SOCIAL SERVICE:
Trouble, Trouble
There is no group of persons in
the United States that is closer to
the nation’s vital problems of un-
employment, relief, youth move-
ments, etc., than the National Con-
ference of Social Workers. Basic
human needs are the social workers
stock-in-trade. Meeting in Grand
Rapids, Mich., in national conven-
tion, that organization discussed,
debated and “resolved” these prob-
lems in their relationship to the cur-
rent domestic and international pic-
ture.
MISCELLANY:
C. Six army flyers were killed in
the crash of a Douglas bomber near
Mojave, Calif. The crash, which
carried the two officers and four
crew members to their deaths, oc-
curred in a night trial flight over
the army’s desert bombing range.
C. Fifty thousand civilian pilots in
the U. S. can be trained by the Civil
Aeronautics authority, “without any
loss of efficiency and safety,” ac-
cording to an announcement made
by that governmental agency.
C. In Chicago, a 10-day milk strike,
in which labor union drivers had re-
fused to make home deliveries
pending the outcome of a wage dis-
pute, was ended in a truce.
C. From the office of the U. S.
comptroller of the currency comes
news that the assets of the 5,184
active national banks in the Unit-
ed States, Alaska, Hawaii and the
Virgin Islands have reached an all-
time high—$35,736,657,000. Bank de-
posits are also higher now than at
any time in the nation’s history.
C, The U. S. civil service commis-
sion ruled that it would refuse to
certify for work in any federal
agency persons established to be-
long to the Communist party, the
German Bund, “or any other Com-
munists or Nazi organization.”
Brother of Cottle
Countian Is Dead
Guy Norris Sr., a member of a
pioneer Childress family and
brother of Mrs. Will P. Jones of
Cee Vee, died at 6:30 Friday
morning, May 31, at his home in
Childress following an illness of
several weeks.
Funeral services were held
from the family residence Sat-
urday morning with Rev. Frank
Travis, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, presiding.
Pallbearers were Fred Sher-
wood, Ed Warren, Frank Evans,
Tom Hardin Jr., James Mitchell
and Whitt Johnson. Burial was in
the Childress cemetery.
Mr. Norris is survived by his
widow; four sons, Jerry of Chil-
dress, Guy Jr., of Bowie, Bill of
El Campo and Rembert of Long
Island, N. Y.; three daughters,
Mrs. Cecil Pryor of Childress,
Mrs. R. E. Jones of Guymon,
Okla., and Mrs. Boody Rogers of
Long Island, N. Y., and two sis-
ters, Mrs. Will P. Jones of Cee
Vee and Mrs. Stovall Johnson of
Childress.
The deceased came to Childress
in pioneer days and for many
years was associated with the R.
H. Norris Hardware company
there.
Payne Receives B. S.
Degree From NTSTC
Crillon Cullen Payne, Paducah
student at the North Texas State
Teachers College, was among 321
graduating seniors, who participat-
ed in commencement exercises at
the college June 3 with President
W. J. McConnell a s principal
speaker.
Payne took a bachelor of
science degree in physical edu-
cation.
The list included 289 bachelor’s
and 32 master’s degrees. Of these
243 were B. S., 41 B. A., 5 B.
M., 10 M. A., and 22 M. S. de-
grees.
The commencement was the cli-
max of the school’s fiftieth an-
niversary celebration this year as
the largest June graduating class
in the history of the school re-
ceived its degrees. Baccalaureate
services were held Sunday, June
2. Bishop John M. Moore of Dal-
las, outstanding leader of the ME
Church South, delivered the bac-
calaureate sermon.
Hamilton Gives 36
Books to Library
Thirty-six books, valued at ap-
proximately $50, wei'e added to
the Paducah high school library
this week. The volumes wei'e a
gift from Roy Hamilton.
Novels and vai’ious types of
non-fiction books were in the
group which Hamilton had col-
lected while attending Texas Tech-
nological college at Lubbock.
Supt. J. D. Wilson announced
the school appreciated the books
and was always glad to have do-
nations for the library.
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You don’t get trousers that
are too tight for you, or
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expert measure.
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—No Brushing
Here’s all you do: Put your
stained discolored plate in half
a tumbler of warm water with a
little Kleenite. Leave them in for
15 or 20 minutes or overnight.
While you sleep Kleenite will re-
move tobacco or other stains and
make your whole denture sweet
and clean and odorless.
All druggists have Kleenite—
originated in the laboi’atories of a
dental plate manufacturer—-proof
that it is safe and harmless to the
most delicate plate or bridgewoi'k.
Get Kleenite— the dentists plate
cleaner. Bigham Drug Co.
Political
Announcements
The Paducah Post is Authorized t?
announce the following as candi-
dates for the respective offices listed
below, subject to the Democratic
primaries to be held in 1940.
For State Senate, 30th Senatorial
District:
ALVIN R. ALLISON OF
LEVELLAND
MARSHALL FORMBY O F
DICKENS COUNTY
For Congress, 18th Congressional
District:
ALLEN HARP OF CHIL-
DRESS COUNTY
TOM ELLZEY OF PERRY-
TON
lee McConnell of gray
COUNTY
For State Representative, 121st
District:
PAUL EUBANK OF MOTLEY
COUNTY
E. E. (RED) WALKER OF
MEMPHIS, HALL COUNTY
STANSELL CLEMENT O F
CHILDRESS COUNTY
For District Judge:
L. M. (Lewis) WILLIAMS OF
KNOX COUNTY'
J. DONNELL DICKSON
OF BAYLOR COUNTY
For District Attorney:
C. E. BLOUNT OF COTTLE
COUNTY
ROLLIE FANCHER
OF BAYLOR COUNTY
For County Judge:
JOHN H. DAVIS, Jr.
0. J. (JEFF) RILEY
J. P. STURDIVANT
For County Attorney:
ROY A. JONES
For Sheriff, Tax Assessor-Collec-
tor:
C. A. BROOKS
(Re-election)
A. A. PAYNE ;
For County Treasurer:
MRS. M. REDWINE
(Re-election)
For County and District Clerk:
W. A. BISHOP
M R S. C. C. (L U M) MC-
ARTHUR
R. B. MERRILL
GUS HARPER
For Commissioner, Precinict 1:
C. C. (CLIFF) HILL
NATHAN S. MORRIS
N. S. (NED) GALLOWAY
For Commissioner, Precinct 2:
OSCAR L. STOKES
G. I. (INIS) LEE
R. M. (MARVIN) TOWNLEY
L. A. (Lewis) DETWILER
J. E. RODGERS
G. H. (GEORGE) BROWN-
LOW
For Commissioner, Precinct 3:
C. N. WILLINGHAM
(Re-election)
G. R. (GROVER) WILSON
1. R. HARRISON
For Commissioner, Precinct 4:
DALLAS. LOVE
(Re-election)
For Justice of the Peace, Precinct
1
W. F. WIMBERLY
(Re-election)
J. M. BARRON
For Constable, Precinct No. 1:
LUTHER RUSSELL
GROVER C. BEARDEN
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