The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 212, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 2, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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eported Picking FightQflUruguay
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Impending B aft le h
Unconfirmed, Says
* News Report
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March
2 <r.R> —The nswspaper Tribuna
Popular, in a special dispatch
from Rio Grande, said today that!
“it is reported without confirm*,1
ti'on that a naval battle involving
three British cruisers 1 and six
large German submarines is de-
veloping 200‘ miles from Cape
Polonia/’
Cape Polonia Is about 110 miles
northeast of- Punta Del Este,
Uruguay,, where last December
three British cruisers engag.ed
the German pocket battleship
Admiral Graf Spee in a battle
VERENCE
ID TODAY
WITH HOARD
,'D.WilkcrsonMccts
IM Third Time With
|I'rustccsOil Assuming
“ )se Creek Position
[W. D. Wllkeraon, superintend-
of schools at Bryan, today , .
kJ. -«u1 which foH'ed the GeWnan man o’
the ’hot prospect *>f tfie,^ ^ Montevideo harbor> in
m of supertntendent of | which it teas scuttled after an in-
Creek schools now vactnt. i ternment order.
[WUkeraon today -met with the! Trifeuna Popular is regarded as
I of trustees for the second a sensational newspaper and , its ;
' * . ; report of a naval battle off Cape ;
fife came here on Feb' 10 for a} Polonia was received #itp con-
ference with the board, after
knd Other superintendents bad
in invited here-by the trustees
confer with them relative to.
■ position which became vacant;-..'
“ Dr. Harmon Cowman was
siderable skepticism jjere.
btifled that his contract would
t tie renewed when It expires
JMy l.. j_' -; ' . _____—;
» , WHttses Go- To Bryan
lit was learned here
fotir members of the. tioai#^
in Bryan last Saturday to
further to the Bryan school
And Invited him here today
r A further conference.
[ Wttkeraan Is a graduate of Bay,
jr end to ,a. veteran but yotmg
“ school administrator. Be-
Kang to BryWhe served
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FREIGHTER SIGNALLING
Attack found safe
WASHINGTON, March 2 —
navy announced today that
the British freighter Southgate,
tack message last night, had been
Isa^WWrptthei andwasTn
Roosevelt Takes Charge
In Neutrality Violation
WASHINGTON, March 2. (R»—President Roosevelt returns to
the capital today to take charge of the investigation of reports
that the Western hemisphere’s "safety bone” had been violated
twice yesterday,
Reports that a British merchant ship, the Southgate* was
attacked by an unidentyfied submarine near Puerto. Rico came as
„‘he President completed a. cruise through the general waters in .
which the mysterious submarine could have been operating and
took it special train at Pensacola for Washington.
At the same time it was*reported that the crew of the German
freighter Troya had scuttled their ship when a British warship
intercepted it in the Dutch West Indies within the neutrality zone.
If it fc ascertained that a warship and a submarine had made
attacks within ’the Caribbean, the United States’ military and naval
.stronghold, it Was believed this government would protest to the
government responsible. In official circles it was taken for granted
that the submarine was German. . The warship seemed definitely
identified as British. ' .
It was expected that President Roosevelt would call wpon-tke
beads of the state, war and navy departments, and the coast guard,
immediately upon his return to the White House, to make every
effort to determine the veracity of the submarine report.
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late, yesterday when it sent a
signal ^indicating that it was be-
ing attacked by a submarine about
-which had flashed a submarine at- 160 miles northeast oL San Juan
Puerto Rico,
navy destroyers and planes of the
navy's neutrality patjul op a swift
hunt for the ship.
The advice that the Southgate
had been located was received by
the chief of naval operations. It
J£S3E®.—7I—. details. ............. .....
The message of the sighting pf
tlie freighter was the first word
(See Major Battle, Page 2)
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Men Who Lived Here HaveMajor
Roles In Independence Fight
'l&hUnrVTdThe >r» new imown 'days’' later they had written aid i with the hlgKest officewitHirf t&sEr
IESSI0N CALL
iov. Long Is Forced to
Abandon Plans When
Legislators Refuse To
Go To Capital •
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BATON ROUGE, La--March 2
HR)- Rebellious legislators today
refused to answer (iie call of Gov.
Earl K. Long tor a special sea-,
and ended me 12 years ot
lawmaking started by0 Ills
,, the late Huey P. Long,
iting to hold the remnants
of .power left the machine after
' hla; defeat in the Democratic run-
off primary, Long first summon-
ed the legislators to meet at 4-10
p.m., yesterday. . Then he-made It
8 fcai.j today, but at the appoint;
ed time neither house had a Quo-
rum and could not Ce called to
order. < •
t Call AI>alidoi*<l
Adv'eed that a quorum seemed
impossible,’ Long sent word to
reporters that the call for a spe-
cial session had been .abandoned.
Only 13 senators . responded
when Lieutenant-Governor Cole-
man Lindsay rapped for order.
Twenty is a bare quorum. The
house was shy * of* a quorum by
-»-,Tnawy“votes:........ 1
fbe scene waa In sharp con-
trast, to the days of the,gover-
nor's brother, when, -legislators
ground out bills at his will.
Machine Broken
Once before Governor Earl K.
Long called a special atfssiofi.
That was just after the first
Democratic primary Jan. 16. The
««•»»» —. , ; , —-0~*— *■
ate committee to investigate campaign frauds was accelerated today
as the result of charges that “political pressure” was exercised to
influence the selection of a Kansas delegate to the Republican national
convention. “ ;
BRUSSELS, March 2. (U.RI—Belgium prolested to Germany
today after a German airplane shot down- a Belgian military plane ,
in Southern Belgium, killing the pilot. 1
Residents o? the area now kriown
as East Harris county and the
iiJ-JSS*
1 ri-Cities played an important part
j in pioneer proceedings which led
era! Judges
Meet March 14 To
-^Decide Course
I AUSTIN. March 2 itRi-Pres-
This particular section at the
time of the independence conven-
|] ago today.
t • ). DayiiP.G,. Burnet, first president
Will, ' of the provisional ^republic of Tex-
as, whdse honiesite is preserved
today a few miles west of Bay-
town, became a leader in the ser-
ies of conventions leading to a 17-
day parley which ended in estab
metinto of oil proration in.,|i8hnicnt of the Texas republic.
ipftTtaAs pil Held werecon-r stormy Sessioh
" rfflNIUve at leiat Until The stormv4 sessions of the gen-
44|. by-agreement of three ^ cou-icil in December, 1836, se-
1 judges,to sit in Houston’ ^ly tested the merits of the
<Nf to enter judgment oft mflVt,ment for local self-govern-
ictlons asked by Humble Oil , m(,nti and the embryo nation taif-
Reflnlng company, and Row. fere({ niuch political discord dur-
art* Nichols , ing the trying weeks. ,Ul„k ,
PglppemenU to present the On. December 13rthe council
^^jaftoenUi to Judges adnpted a resolution calling for a Thousands gathered in the
convention of delegates from each
municipality of, the three depart-
ment! of Texas, to meet on March
1,1936, to adopt a suitable form of
government.
The convention met on schedule,
= ita deiegaW buoyed with tha hnp* s
of quieting Internal dissension, and
visioning the establishment of a
government to meet the. demand*
of warlike conditions surrounding
them. There roust have been, re-
markable unity among the dele-
gates assembled at Wsshington-on*. j
the-Brasoe, because on the sedoftd
LONDON, March -2. Oi—A British-Runianian understanding -on
Rumania’s sale of petroleum abroad was believed to have been reached
in a long foreign office conference today between Foreign Secretary
Viscount Halifax and Rumanian .MlniMer VioreljV. Tilea....__.: ,,,„.^.„
aboard presidential special en route to
WASHINGTON, March 2 <U.tt>—President Roosevelt declared today
, that congress must assume full responsibility for any consequences
-resulting from drastic cuts by Tlie house appropriations committee
in’ funds for a third set of Panama Canal lockg. ' -
BERLIN, March 2. (UR)—Reports that the British steamer South-
gate had been attacked by a German submarine" near Puerto .Rico were
ridiculed by a foreign office spokesman today. "German submarines
are not operating in the territory, in question,” the spokesman said,
PROFIT SMRING
CHECKS RECEIVED
$2314.66 Paid Three5Russians Rain Shells
Towns Here By, I Upon City To ('over
Light Firm | New Advance
, Checks aggregating $2314.66 j HELSINKI, Finland, March 2
have been, handed to Goose Creek, ’ CO- Finnish troops steeled them- ] Welles,, that any European peace
Polly and La Porte by the Hous-j aelvea for a last-ditch defense of I 1-e based substantially on
representing the, shares of those Bn lhe rjliBed- u coy. | spheres of interest in CenctaL
(Nee Long Balked, Page 2)
<Lya later they had written and i with the highest office within* theff
adopted a constitution, thus laying • <rifC ■
the' foundation of a nation. ^
• Burnet Elected * .________
the provisional governnient pLihe
Republic, ' and represented the es-
teem and confidence he inspired in
fellow Texans, who so trusted him
FRISCO FEAR OF
FINNS MAKE FINAL
STAND AT VIIPURI
I
'Til
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ALLIES DENT
HELP BY U. S.
Artierican ' Neutrality
Is Q u e stioned . By
Dictator In Airing
Terms To End War
......BERLIN, March 2 <GR>-Fuehrer "
Adolf Hitl'er told American Under-
secretary of 'State Sumner Welles
today that the world may' have
peace on Germany’s terms and
was reported to have questioned
the neutrality of the United
States. • •
Well-informed German quart- ,
ers said that , a considerable part
of -their, discussion, which lasted
hour And a half, was devoted
to German-American relations and
that as a result the respective «n-
bagsedorfal -po'sts in Berlin <anij[>fv
Washington may be reoctupied^F .
Both Keealle* _
Both ambassadors, were recalled
last spring. *’ ’ ' -------
the official reasons
being for consultation at . home.
Neither has returned.
Reliable informants said that
during the conference Hitler told
■cities in a profit-sharing agrfe- c^Tumns! Kurope. , , -
cZTcnek received a ^ *"***? Hitler told Sun.fWr Welles at a
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ss^«t^«s!!!3rl.,s?rr^sr. <*" »•
bution of Street lighting costs. ; mus
Pelly received $520.96 on the j Hiissians
[irofit-shariirg and $35 on ' the-t itjc-t had • cm
street* lights, --ft*---Ported shm^Jjjpjtg-^rHT’iipuri and lobbed, am-’,. P(\\ I Df flflf A tVC
of > the profit distrib«UoiW-was'+'the city from the neighborhood of vUAL DLUUu\U£
'$861.79.-and $5flJiO--otrTfie lights. | Nuoruit,,, -4 1-2 miles'south, .flu-; t ' ■'■-•j/c •' „ . • .
jlfiMIHHUrMA j
IP : had entered the suburbs of Vh- A....'.,., Rcificl*
ut* ccuw'i „tuc win- * _____——
fWl
starting at the entrance of Clear Condition CTilUiniiC tO
‘ Be Dangerous Because
Of Weak Levees.
Battle For Texas Freedom
Sibley of Atiasta. Qa
V, Allred of Houston and
-McMitipn Of.. Kan Antonio
j ittKh H wero ilwpleWd «f-
declined to
------- or Raeg on
Town
8aEMwjiMt -•
Stuff* tiwrt' laid
lately Judge ,
back on both
-|i|i
«sy “good
e of
Is Recalled At Festivals
By UNITED PRESS
Texas, Independence Day cele-
brations Were held throughout (he
state today, with the central ob-
servance at Wastyngton-on-the-
A gain st British
Declaration
ompanv, si
refunds on the street lighting costs . j,uH wef-e discounted by oflirials
are made “for prompt payhient’of ’ hen-. They said that tlu> Finns
their bills.” | were still'fighting and that their
City Manager John W. Harkius ( reports indicated the Russians
said the money received by Goose i hS-d several days of lighting ahead
Creek would'go toward paying ' of them.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 \cost of new water mains and ■ Helsinki had its longest all
ti'.Ri—The crest of the raging Sac- , flrp plugs, being installed in Long ! raid alarm of the. * war today
tamento river, which had spread Kanel Leavins additions. ) Warnings- sounded at 11:55 a.m.
misery over^ 100,000 acres, was , jj,e amount given Pelly was and the all-clear signal was nut
i mdre than 80 miles frpm 'Sanj (See Profit Sharing. Page 2)' (See Finns Make. I’uge 2)
new line of thought and a new j p-randsco bay today, but its flood; ... —„ . —‘ • ;-------' - • • - . -
type Of person” of urn American ‘ threat dwindled as it approached i _ -
chancier In this country. ja trap of sloughs arid bypasses. D/j / //v/r> / /7 r>/') 11 V 11/1 Ifr flt*
"If we are to believe but a! From Knight’s .Landing to Sa, JJtd t tU tx' J. LI IX L; 11 k J l lllf/L/ A l//
-----,— ..,.-l------ part of what Is being published ramento, conditions still were dati-. i _ - A *, V * " -fT'S I .. • , , - . , , .,
Brazos, - where the fstmous decta-u In ihe papers and magazines, cer- j gerous and levees closely guard- • J T*T/!) f If ( ,1 T I Pf'T 1DIIS lhu. R^rishdrOv.-nihient tomojrow,,,
radon of freedom was signed on^taln Influences are at work to ed. Below Sacramento, the flood; i • I U ^ ^ V ; 3,1 "ffR r,) announcement said.
'•■**“ undermine the people In regard - will spread Into bypasses, al-1. a month from today, April 2, j-missioner 0. O.
to American ideals and American i though it- may extend nnt0 some? Harris county voters _ will
institutions," Justice Sharp said, j delta farmlands. j dust off their new poll tax re-
Dr, Rainey said Americans will J The San Joaquin river, running 1 (.pjptJ1 an<i cast their ballots in
be safe from foreign “Isms” as!at flood stage, was not consider- three municipal elections.
'long as the guaranty of freedom | (See Frisco, Page 2) ]Four.days later, four school dis-
tndependence “remains the! ----— _ ! [ricts in the Tri-Cities area will
state
park cegr Brenham to pay spe-
cial tribute to Thomas J, Rank;
one of the band of pioneers who
affixed thglr signatures to the
document 4 for liberation from
Mexico.
bratlon at Washlngton-on-the.
Brazos.
Princtpal Ipeaktra were Gov;
W. Lee O'Daniel, Associate Jus-
tice Iob» H. 8harp of the Twcas
supreme; court and Dr. Homer
P. Rainey, president of the Uni-
versity of Texas. *
JusUce Sharp warned. a
ROM-K, March 2 d',10 - - Italy
tornonow will protest' to Great,
Brit lin against British blockade
measures, c.spciially its blockade
of 'German coal bound to Italy
Horn Jfutch ports, tt was an-
nounced officially today. ,‘
"Following measures adopted
Uy Great Britain against Italian
naval traffic,- particularly in coal,
i note of protest now is being
drawn up and It will be forward,
ed by .the Italian government to.
Street : Effective last midnight, the al-
Dorris,
Commissioner J. R. Hearie and : >/«<* w-kado slops were ordered
• . | to seize ss contrahand any Ger-
Sanitary Commissioner h. A. At- ' man (.,ml four„j -itt sea . , .
lias “served
fie expire. Alfie
year on an unexpired
e . the size ol
Eg£.
attend to
fattt#re-------
the red'to turn
of haying
Williams brushing otf U. «P«f uoVor.
«bcls. for a better look at thing,
!. . . Luke' Lambright ddt for a 1
of sidewalk sunshine- . .
Doris Flower, and ike
a ityoll . - - Bill
t to get hit spring
day of the assembly, March 2, (hey
declared independence,
Hocks close today
CfTIZEN8 NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMANY
Allied Stores .......
American Rxdlator
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Nash Kalvlnator .~.v......6 1*2
National. Dairy 1IM
Nerth Amer. AvlaUon .... 3* M
Ohio Oil ...............-............... 9 1-8
Packard Motors .............. 13-8
Phffllps Petroleum ----------<8 T-8
ftnsa oil .........:......8 m
Rfin Vacuum .................111-8
Standard. Oil Indiana ......28 T4
Llec. Bond A Bhar*.......... f .
^Power * IMrt ....... 1-
Ffeeport
General _
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Ekm°"
final test of legal and civil
"Dr7 ®ney warned that With-
out constant vlgllince, the dec-
laration of independence “can be-
come as worthless as a scrap of
yesterday’s newspaper,"
(Qenendl Rusk, who was honor-
ed at tki;;*i^CWaeCTetary
of war of the republic and was
chief justice of the first state
supreme court; ; •
. At San Jacinto battleground,
near Houston, where the Texas
army defeated the Mexican forces
or Gen., Santa Anna, sunrise cere-
monies were held.
Gen. Andrew1 Jackson Houston,
son of Gen. Sam Houston, com-
mander of the pioneer army, plac-
ed a wreath oh thefhtige battle-
ground memorial' shaft.
Box of Human Bones
fecund On Mouatiin
RICHWQOD, W. Vm Marah 2.
i name new trustees to serve on
a M«i At Hiniboro '^7,,,1,,
State Dem Board To
Meet At Hillsbor
DALLAS, March;?. <U.l’)-K. B.
Germany, chairman > of. the state
Democratic executive conimittee,
issued a call today, to‘the commit-'
lee to meet at Hillsboro next Sat-
urday.
At that time the committee will
select a city in which to hold the
state Democratic convention when
delegates to represent Texas at
Chicago in the national Democratic
convention will be named
0U!>—Dr Edward Behel*
ZQ TJl ' / I - A i, n gM 1$jl kAifllt* 4
60 t'*
Wtlte Motor.
Wttscn Cbmpany
Walworth
Imperial ----------------11
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84 8-8 Lenbert .........v-v—-- »» 7r*
Nearly a se..i.- oj Italian ships
term of. were -loading German co.il at,
former Alderman Bill Darby. : »yU\po.ti 'll was leanedI U.
When Darby resigned after be-, Amsterdam, that the. ILU.an del,
big ehosen xitj^tharstol last: ApriL4‘l^kil,,1.T^ttr, Ah^v;
- was elected is •’ special M ordered Un- immediate re-
turn of four • coal-laden ships
which had sailed for Italy at
Alfie
ballot.
Heated Race'Seen
Node of the, three has announr-
dawn.
Pelly mid La
Porte, the only incorporated towns
in the area, will select tjew of-
ficials on Tuesday, April 2.
To Run Again - ed for re-election.. I-., ..
The terms-uf Jack- Ward, Com- _ City Secretary W. Audrel Vin- MSy DCCK
missioner No. 3, and E. A. (Si) | son of Pelly announced today he Libfil Suit Rchdarillx
Williams, Commissioner No. 4,! would seek a second term. He will *’ . *
expire this year. Both formally j be opposed by K. D. (Boots) ; DEL RIO, .March 2 dpt - At-
announced for re-election today.
Pelly will choose thre.^ alder-
men and a city secretary.
Terms of Fir? and Police Com-
U. S. Chamber Seeks New
Changes In Wagner Act
of the - —
by Rep. Eugene Cox; D., Ga„ may
ped sti^tegy for lorclng a house
WASHINGTON,'March 2 01Et
The United States Chamber of
Comdlerce .endorsed four more
major changes in the national la.
bor reliflons . act" tt*
fight to kmedkl the labor, law
vote <mf Wfcgner act amendments
fcfuri rikmmsit Ths spIcIB
IhoUM committee investigating the]
- natMMl MDor raHUons board sat-,
nounced that it 4»a« attempting!
to reach unanimous agreementoh
that 1U membership Insisted, if
practices” by employes ahd un-r
ions. ;-
Withdrawal of the act's protec-
tion from employes and union
thetermu-of
yabers wUu vlolate^theG
collective bargaming
agree-
a collective
V Repeal of the provision for ex-
dusive bargalnhig rights for unr
i___^ ~ ------^
Ions which
of the
rich represent
workers, and
a majority
and substitution
to bargain with
tain and substantial standards for'
clear definition of the. extent to
Which en employer is to be en,
gaged in inWntate commerce be-
fore he becomes subject to tbe
The letlslatb
Bag* 8)
yL:
Williams, who’ announced yester- i tome vs tor Di John R. Brinkley,
day. Pelly vot?rs-on Main street gland specialist, said today that
yesterday said they expected this 1 they probably Would ask a re-
poll to be heated. iheiring of hjs $250,000 libel suit
La Porte will choose a mayor, a against- Dr, Morns • Firfhbein be* .
(See Ballots, Page 2) ’ * lore the Fifth circuit court of
———i- • appeals at New Orleans*.
Stay Schedule Dual j,
Execution On Sunday : the decision of a lower court in
i Del Rio. a year , ago which denied •
At ST1N, March’2. (CJh—Thirty ; Brinkley damages against Dr, <
days stay of executions granted j Eishbein who had. called the
by ( “v. W. Lee O’Daniel to Web, gland specialist a "quack” and a
stcr Lyons and Robert, Manning re-1 ,.char]atan.. ln an artjciB tn Hyi
sulor-rr U dunWe exprution heing ; ~----- • ~ ' “
set for Sunday, April 28 at' Hunts-
ville .penitentiary-.
A former Sunday execution was
avoided wnen - the state
Pri,on Farm
The conderoned men* Twgroes,
j. ,
GAS ORDER SUSPENDED
AUSTIN. March 2 «a>i —The
ftite railroad comihisaion haa Su-
spended .its recent-order restrict-
ing flow oUgas well* in Pfckett’z.
*1d, pending *
Ridge field. |
f further study
gela roagszine, -
iL*-
Murderer Fleet From
j
HUNTSVILLE, March 2 (
peniterUary said today that H. C.
Middle tsh. ' k, vmm wamM MM
escaped from tb* Wyane priaafcM^
larm last night. v.
Middleton wag a truaty atT
S- -
fari^ Which t
paciuted convicts. The
Mid that a posse of guai
Will searching for the convict,
agu fana iz lwatad
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