The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 107, Ed. 1 Monday, October 28, 1940 Page: 1 of 6
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n^^irsl portions tonight; cooler
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Serving The Tri-Citie*
— of Goose Creek, Felly, Baytown and
nearby communities! The Daily Sun at-
tempts to be the "home-town" newspaper
for the entire TrUltlc! Area!
KmE 22-no. 107 ?
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 8. 1 9 4 0GOOSE CREEK. TEXAS,
Delivered Daily — 50c Month
1000,000 Men Wait WOUe and
ing of Numbers Roosevelt At
ARE DRIVEN OFF IN RAIDS ON ATHENS
British Aid
Is Rushed
To Greece
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Draft Tomorrow Peak of Race
DN, Oct. *8.
fl!kt
Eulwa* ready today for
^Z^ee-tlme conscription
the nation more
ooonmen awaited the
| k,i Hmtallment of the
. iW namhers at the tie
'utile of the DaRy Bun.
The numbers assigned
fvbo registered for mili-
. Oct 16 were P°«t*d at
headquarters In cities,
villages. ----- ' : -J
tomorrow (ll a.m.
IWi government officials
4„ drawing number*, and
, ji, which they are drawn
the order In which
ca'lee acforc draft
i ltd considered for_ mill-,
Plan-.
I haft hesdqua: ters officials
Ihmy with last-minute dc-
spers, prsw, ..csoclations,
com panics and radio
checked over their
i iet-up in the auditori-
i which the numbers will
| to the nation.
|| Director Clarence A. Dyk-
ai! employers that
nit fear disruption of
Besses as a result of
• Where two require-
Siilitar., r. ar-pc~cr v*.
conflict, production
priority,
nt I’ariniKiiint
j* basir principle of selec-
Mcn. Page 2)
CLARENCE A. DYK8TRA. se-
lective service chief, Mirveys the
gold fish howl from which draft
numbers will be drawn Tuesday.
Too small to hold the capsules,
sideboards were being made to-
day for the bowl.
Both Candidate* To'1
Address Country In
Radio Talks Tonight
(By United Press)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wen-
dell I.. Wiltkie hit their campaign
peaks today as they entered the
stretch period of the hardest fought
presidential contest since 1818,
when Woodrow Wilson defeated
Charles Evans Hughes by the mar-
gin of a- few date returns from
California.
President Roosevelt was louring
the five boroughs of New York
City today, seeking the empire
state's 47 electoral votes. He began
an arduous 14-hour day at Newark,
N. J., at 9 a. m.
Willkle Scores
Aboard his train en route- to
Louisville, Willkie today described
Sccrwary of State Cordell Hull’s
discussion of foreign affairs Sat-
urday night as "an extraordinary
documentation of New Deal fu-
tility."
"The only solution to this crisis
in our national leadership is to
defeat the third term candidate,”
he said in a statement issued as
his campaign train returned to
Illinois for the seventh time.
The Republican presidential
nominee speaks today at Bloom-
ington. Champaign and Danville,
III., and at Indianapolis and Co-
lumbus, Ind., on his way to Louis-
ville for a national broadcast
(CBS) speech at 8:30 p. m. (C.S.T.)
Shoots Form Hip
Discarding his custom of speak-
ing only from carefully prepared
texts, Mr. Roosevelt will “shoot-
from the hip" with extemporane-
ous addresses during his swing
(See Campaign Foes, Page 2)
Hitler And Mussolini
Confer 0n Axis Policy
Alley Will
led Tonight
nance Scheduled
bmmunity House
pn-Rumbie cast of Alpha
tonight will present
till most ambitious,' and
[til indications, one of its
itomances, when "Blind
three-act drama, is
[ the Bay l6.cn Commun-
is being sponsored by
rn Humble club and i*
i show of the winter sea-
| Wteftainment for which
t will be made,
I time is 8:15 p.m. and it
i bn a cast letter-perfect
us. as shown by perform-
t full dress rehearsal last
|TlU cast woixed all, day,
r under the supervision of
' *k, director, not only
la* up on tnp .play Jjut
finishing touoKcs on
stage properties in-
I'Allcy" combines a pun-h-
f with prominent under-
character study. It is
! *f a gangster against a
ifct, and the 'Rianter-
i fsntleman loses the ver-
LW of Hal Wilson, the
Alley, Page i)
TOWN
George L. Keene
• few index tabs and
band . . . theo WH-
Hgoing to sleep in
1 wing awakened when
** tickled him under
• Hike Franssen bum-
*k to set fire to his
■ Aron dashing around
*of the way of a shower
"oner putting a shave
• of coffee in a matter
Relief Drive In Last Week
65 Per Cent of Quota Is Reported
Wit!) flic combined Welfare
League and Thrift Exchange cam.
paign for funds scheduled t-o close
a week from tomorrow, the work-
ers in the $10,006 drive today
were urged by I W. Strickler.
general chairman, "to turn on the
heat."
Mr. Strickler declared that un-
less $500 a day is raised between
today and next Tuesday, thj^.
quota WTM not be raised. Tile
Welfare League has a quota of
$7500 and the Exchange $2500
Approximately 05 pe?. cent of
the total amount sought has been
reported from the entire district.
The Goose Creek division ?s lag-
ging behind Pelly. r.aytown and
Highlands, which have oversub-
scribed their quota with the soli-
citing not completed.
Full reports have not come in
from the refinery division, nor
from the schools, out-of-town soli-
citations, Cedar Bayou and out-
lying territories.
Only two schools have reported
as having reached their quota.
Robert E. Lee high school and
Anson Jones elementary school
ROME. Oct. 28/ (U.P.) —
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hit-
ler and their foreign minis-
tres met at Florence today
after Italian forces marched
into Greece at dawn upon the
expiration of . a three-hour
Italian ultimatum demanding
the military occupation of
Greek territory.
Hitler, accompanied by
Joachim 'Von Ribbentrop, his
foreign minister, arrived at Flor-
ence during the night.
On Axta Policy
Mussolini and Count Galeazzo
Ciano, his brother-in-law, and for-
eign minister, arrived early today.
The axis chieftains had met
last at the Brenner pass Oct. 4.
It was believed that their meet-
ing today concerned not only the’
Italian march into Greece, but
Pai-European axis policy, includ-
ing a gigantic campaign against
Great Britain in the Ncpr .East.
Other Conferences
Since their last meeting Ger-
man troops had rnarehed into
Rumania, Hitler had conferred
with Marshal Philippe Retain and
Vice Premier Pierre Laval of
France, an‘d Generalissimo Fran-
cisco Franco of Spain, and France
had accepted a' program of collab-
oration with Germany.
Mussolini was expected to con-
fer this week with Franco and
with cither Petain or Laval.
The background for the Italian
ultimatum, and 'he march, had
(See Mussolini-Hiticr, Page 2)
Housing Board To
Cut Interest Cost
Bids Are Slight For
Short Term Issue
The Pelly Housing Authority to-
day was advertising for bids from
LATEST NEWS
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PEC, Jugoslavia, Oct. 28. (F.P.)—Reports received here from the Greek
frontier said that Italian troops had been repulsed ill initial clashes
with $he Greeks on the Alhanian-GrecMrontier.
SHANGHAI. Oct, 28. (U.P .)—- Far Eastern observers believed today that
Japajf may allow her adherence to the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance to
become a dead letter1 if Axis efforts to bieak the united front of Great
British and the United States in the Far East fail.
BELGRADE, Oct 28. (F.P.)—The British fleet was reported without
confirmation late today to have landed British troops on the island of
Cri*t8»
Greece, OcT. 28. (U.P.) British forces arc "even now” fight-
behalf of Greece, the-*offleial radio station reported today.
>E, Oct 28. (F.P.)—Unconfirmed reports late today said a
^action between Italian and Greek warships had occurred off the
islamt of Corfu.
BELGRADE, Oct. 28. (U.P.)—Unconfirmed reports circulated hero to-
day that Soviet Russia has made diplomatic representations to Berlin
and Rome against extension of the war to the Balkans.
LONDON, Oct 28. (F.P.)—The air ministry today reported that for the
first time since the outbreak of the war British bombers had attacked
an objective j>n Czechoslovakia—the famous Skoda arms works a* Pil-
sen. The attack was carried out by a small force of British bombers,
the ministry said, and. it was “successful.”
Turkey Is 'Sure of Power'
Premier Asserts Nation Is Ready
Mr. Strickler said today he was Private investors on $200,000 in
WORLD FAIR CLOSES
•NEW YORK,: Oct. 28. (I’D The
“World of Tomorrow” was a mem-
ory today as wrecking crews start-
ed the World’s Fair marvels on
the way to the junk heap. The
fair was officially closed at 11:57
Iqpt night.
considering calling his team cap-
tains together possibly by the end
of this week for reports before
staging a last minute "push” be-
fore the campaign -closes Novem-
ber 5.
Chamber Fete Will
Be Tomorrow Night
New officers of the Goose Creek
Chamber of Commerce will be in-
stalled at the annual banquet of
the organization tomorrow night.
Leon M. Trenckmann will be
installed as president, succeeding
W. C. Swain. Max H. Jacobs, asso-
ciate editor of the Houston Post,
widely known commentator, will
deliver, the principal address.
Plates will be 50 cents, and Jack
Jacobs, Chamber manager, today
urged those planning to attend to
make reservations today. The din-
ner will be served in the girls gym-
nasium of Horace Mann junior
high school beginning at 7:30 p. m.
ISTANBUL, Turkey. Oct. 28. <F.P)—
Premier Refik Saydam, in a na-
tion-wide broadcast, said today
that the situation "is becoming
graver and graver” but that Tur-
key is "sure of its power and the
liation does not hesitate to de-
fend itself.”
The broadcast Was made at 10
a. m. (2 a. m. C.S.T.). Without
referring directly to the latest de-
velopments in Greece, Saydam
said:
“In the face of the dark and
uncertain situation which is be-
coming more and more grave, the.
tranquility and dignity of the
Turk nation will be our aim as
in the past.
"We regard the future with this
short-term notes to cut down
terest on funds being used in the
$209,000 slum clearance project.
Bids will be opened at noon on
November 8. * . ,
Victor Lannou, chairman of the
Pelly authority,' said that the
purpose of the refinancing is to
cut the interest rates down,'from
the 2% per cent now being paid
on money borrowed from the
United States Housing Authority
to an estimated onc-half per cent.
He said that in other places, the
short term notes bear as low as
one-half per cent.
Under 'the proposal, the Pellybcen
authority wil), issue the short
term notes—for six months—un-
der authority granted by the
USHA. Another note will be exe-
cuted to the federal reserve bank
in Houston giving It authority to
pay off the short term notes at
the end of six months to. the
bank designated by the private
holder of the short term issue.
Approximately $2000 will be
(See Houtfng Board, Page !)
conviction . . . We arc sure of
our force and the future. We are
a nation which does not hesitate
to defend itself."
Turkish Official sources said at
3 p m. today that Turkey is not
in a state of war.
LONDON, Oct. 28. ((’Pi-Reliable
sources reported today that Bul-
garia would not join Italy in its
move against Greece.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 28.
(F.Pi —Italian official quarters con-
firmed today that Italian troops
had marched into Greece. No de-
tails of the fighting had been re- 1
reived.
Raids On London Dwindle
Invaders Driven Along Coast
Student Is Jailed As Draft Dodger
Texas University Paper Asks Help On Bond
AUSTIN, Oct. 28. (LI!)— Contri-
butions of approximately $10
were reported to have been re-
ceived by the Daily Texan, Uni-
versity of Texas student, publica-
tion, to*/ y for bond for Student
Richard,O. Prescott, charged with
Prescott admits he did
register but said ne was ni
tempting to evade mjpkr? ser-
vice. He told U. ^Commissioner
L. R. Wilkerson. that he had re-
ceived instructions to report to
Love Field,. Dallas, in connection
...,^1th an attempt to enlist in the
Stocks Close Today
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y Te*chendor« :
not ' air service and did not think it
at- necessary to register. ‘ .'«•
His bond was set at $250-"by the
U. S. commissioner. ?v. ' .
'Commenting on Its plan to raise
the bond fund the Texan said?
"Richard. O. Prescott, 25, junior
in tiie College of Arts and Sci-
ences, is being held in the Travis
LONDON, Oct. 28. d'.Pi London
experienced its second daylight
alarm about noon today but no
planes were seen or heard over
the city.
German night raids were report-
i smaller
scale than previous nights, and
much less intense over London.
•An air and home security min-
istries joint communique said the
main attacks were made in the
early hours of darkness over
northwest England and the mid-
lands but that bombs also were
dropped on a "large' number of
points in other parts of England
and South,Wales.” Casualties, the
communique said, were not nu-
merous.
An attempt of a large German
force to attack on the northeast
England coast was met by intense
anti-aircraft fire and strong forces
of'British fighters and driven back
to sea. A number of the German
planes were said to have been shot
ddlvn.
Most damage during the raids
was caused in a Merseyside town
Almazan Asserts He
Will Be President
NEW YORK, Oct 28. (BP) ^Claim-
ing “unanimous support- of the
and another in the midlands where
high explosives and incendiary
bombs caused fires and some dam-
age.
It was announced officially to-
day that 10 German raiders were
shot down over Britain yesterday.
Ten British fighters were missing
but pitots of six of them were re-
ported safe.
The all-clear signal soupded in
London at 2 p. m. after the second
daylight alarm today.
Baudouin Quits Post
As Foreign Minister
VICHY, Oct. 28. (U.Pi- Paul- Bau-
douin resigned as foreign minister
today and was replaced by Vice
Premier Pierre Laval. Baudouin
was named minister of state at
the presidency.
The announcement was made at
the end of a council' of ministers.
Laval left immediately for Paris
to meet with Otto Abetz, German
ambassador, to discuss the new
collaboration with Germany.
CHARLES D. BAYNE
Charles D. Bayne
Funeral Services
To Be Tomorrow
Refinery Official For
More Than 20 Years Dies
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow for Charles Dudley Bayne,
65, for more than 20 years general
foreman of the cracking coils de-
partment of the Humble refinery
at Baytown.
Mr. Bayne died at 2 p. m. yes-
terday in the Baytown hospital.
Funeral Tomorrow
Funeral services will be* held at
the Paul U. Lee Funeral Home at
2 p. m. tomorrow. Rev. Walton B.
Gardner, pastor of the Baytown
Methodist church, will officiate.
Burial will be in Forrest Park
cemetery, at Houston, under the
direction of the Paul U. ixe Fu-
neral Home.
Surviving Mr. Bayne are his
wife, Mrs. Emma Bayne, of Bay-
town: two daughters, Mrs. C. J.
Kressley. of Baytown; Miss Helen
Bayne. Baytown, and three sons,
Preston C. Bayne. Alton, 111.; VV.
H. Bayne, La Porte, and Dudley
Bayne, of Baytown: and a grand-
daughter, Kay Cressley, also pf
Baytown
I’alliiearers Named
Active pallbearers will be Frank
N. Read, Gordon L. Famed, C E.
Kodecape, Anthony Haitmar, C F.
Kelley. C. E Carlson, James W.
Harrop and A A. Peer.
Honorary pallbearers will be J.
J. Herrington. Maurice Maher. A
C. Kraft, Nat Pace, W S. Hughes,
H. E. Humphrey, D. J. Holland.
T. S. King. Dr. C. H Langford, Joe
Reilly. B. T. McKinney, Thomas
W. Moore, E. P. prow, Karl Oprv-
shek, F. A. Palmcf. Dr. R. W.
Pipkin, W. H Reber, H. L. Sadik.
Sr., A. E. Lindquist, M, L. Snyder,
L. Jagou, Al Taylor, W. P. Willis,
W *T. ; BuSch. T H. Hale. F. R.
Higginbotham, Russell Venn, H. C.
Cater, F. R. Ruff, John A. Woos-
ter, and all officials and members
of the Mutual Benefit association,
the personnel of the cracking coils
and technical service divisions of
the refinery and all other employes
of the Humble Oil and Refining
company.
Mr. Bayne had been general
foreman of the cracking coils de-
partment'since Atiril 13. 1919. until
(See Charles I). Bapne, Page 2)
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county jail as a federal .prisoner .Mexican people and thelr army,
on a charge of evading the pro- Gen- Andreu Almazan said in a
visions of the selective service Matcment ^ mleased here and in;
act. How serious his offense is ......
-cannot—yet be determined. R -hr
Roosevelt and Hull Confer On Crisis
Freezing of Greek Credits Is Expected
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Standard Oil of New Jersey' 34
Tidewater Corporation ...... 9%
that charges may be dis-
Tbat is for the U. S
orney at R
sr an mves
the case.
district attorney at San Antonio
Baltimore last night that he would
take office ag president of Mexi-
co on December 1.
Almazan denied that he was de-
feated In the presidential race
N. J.. Oct. 28. <!'.!’)— partment as ''yet had no official,
after an investigation of July 7 by Gen. Manuel Avila Ca-
», macbot although the-Mexican gov-
that young ernment announced that he had
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radio unit of the 24th
national guard was
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NEW'ARK
President-
with Secretary of State Cordell
Hull today on the Greek-Italian
conflict And White House .offi-
cials .reported fear that the hos-
tilities may develop into an even
more Serious; situation,
'Mr. Roosevelt was expected some
time today, to freeze Greek credits
in this country and formally pro-
claim United States neutrality in
the new‘ Balkan conflict,
"There is fear on the part of
some officials that this move as
reported by the press of Italy
against Greece may not be a coni-
■pletc action but may be A" prelim-
inary move toward a more seri-
ous situation," Stephen T. Early,
White House secretary, said. “By
a more serious situation we refer
to the whole Balkan picture.” !
A special telephone, was con-
nected With Mr. Roosevelt’s pri-
vate car upon his arrival, there,
onsisted of two trucks
address equipment,
ieasting information on oper-
ojf.the unit and appeals for
-„__1- enlistments. It also carried two
mJMgg
the trucks. Hull told him, th»t the steto ae«
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reports of a conflict between
Greece and Italy. He said, how-
ever, that the department Is ex-
erting al] possible ' pre;.....; to
Dutch Claim Bombing
Trickery By Germans
WASHINGTON. .Oct. 2(f. (f,l>)
The Netherlands legation today
published a cablegram from Its
government in London charging
that Germany has bombed non-
military objectives in The Nether-
lands then blamed Grea Britain,
“to create civilian hatred of the
British/’ >
The etAtement said the plan
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evolved by .the Nazis as a the
The Netherlands.1
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gather information and arranged
it to impart his latest new* to
the president at 1 p.m., in another
telephone conference with the
chief executive, at Hunter College
in New York City.
Communication tines V,
in Germany Are Hit x
LONDON, Oct. 28. Tip-The air
ministry reported that Royal Air
Force bombers last night success-
fully attacked communication lines
in western Germany, oil targets
in central and northern Germany,
and two invasion ports. /
A communique alsrt reported that
R, A. F. bombers had dropped "the
heaviest load of bombs-jet" during
a 90-minute ratid over Berlin early
Sunday morning. The center wf
the Berlin attack, it was said, was
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Roman* Move Aero**
Border From Albania
As Ultimatum Denied
LONDON, Oct 28. (EB — Gresrt
Britain—through a message from
King George VI—today promised
Greece “qll of the assistance In Its
power” in fighting axis aggression
and the British naval plan of aid
was rejiorted already in operation.
ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 28. Cfii —
Greek defense . forces, back by
British-sea. and air power, fought
against Italian invasion and aerial
bombardment today and attempt-
ed to enlist the support of Tur-
key against the axis military
might. v
- Fifteen Greek-15 righting pianos
and anti-aircraft guns today broke
up an Italian aertat attack on
principal Greek,, communications
centers, including the Athens ait-
port, Elusis and the Patras har-
bor.
Population Valin
The Greek general staff said
that Italian airplanes dropped a
number of bombs oil Tatoi. .the
civil airport for Athens, and on
Eleusis, a small, temple village
near Athens.
Enemy planes also attacked the
harbor’ facilities, the palace of
justice and the twexraph office
at Patras, it was stated. The
population was described as re-
maining calm.
Italian land, sea and air forces
attacked at down, bombing the
airports at Athens and Patras
where four were killed and 40
wounded.
Reject Ultimatum
Earlier, Premier John Metaxis ’
had rejected an Italian ultimatum
demanding that Greece break off
relations with Britain and permit
fascist occupation of strategic
Greek bases to guarantee the na-
tion’s "neutrality."
"Fight:" was Mctaxas’ reply in
a message to the people ordering
mobilization of the armed foqeds.
Appeal To Turkey ___
.The premier, assuwd of British
support, conferred by telephone
..with PresidenL./>en. Israet Inonu
ed prepawTwair-Greece against
of Turkey, which had been report-
an aggressor.
Greece proclaimed a state of
'war with Italy as the high eoni-
(Sce Greeks Drive Off, Page 2)
Britain Admits
Luxury Liner Loss
Enemy Action Blamed
^For Sinking of Ship
LONDON. Oct. 28. The ad-
miralty announced today that the
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of
Britain, one of the prides of tho
British merchant marine, had been
lost "as result of enemy action.”
(Germany announced the torpe-
doing of the liner off the Irish
coast, and said today that its
hulk bad been sunk.)
A joint admiralty-war office ’
communique said:
"The Empress of Britain was
attacked - by enemy aircraft 'and
set afire and it became necessary
to abandon ship.
“Salvage operations were com-
menced immediately but whilst in
tow the Empress of Britain subse-
quently blew up and sank.
"Some 598 survivors of a total
of 643 already have been landed by
British warship*.
"Included in ttiis number were
military families and a small num-
ber of military personnel.
"Resolute and efficient handling
of the Empress of Britain’s air-
craft defenses contributed to the
largely high proportion of the
total complement being saved."
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