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IVYSNOWS
jree Temperature
Forecast Here As
.y Blast Moves
from Plains
IiBB'X'K. Feb. 17. (U.R)—
400 rural school
marooned on country
Arisen 1? buses stalled .In
' . drifts, were taken-
through a swirling
, tt was learned today.
struck another lusty
1 Texas today, and with
f (dan 400 missing or ma-
d tn the Panhandle in tne
a blinding blizzard,
temperatures were pre-
• tomorrow by the -Hous-
IrtJther bureau,
irea "car Lubbock and tne
, plains were buried deep
now drifts, highways were
.. trains delayed, hundreds.
' data were marooned and
it*was at a standstill
Houston office erf tne
■ bureau predicted that by
morning, temperatures
j plummet down to a mih-
| range of 28 to 32 degrees,
oineter was resting-at
*t noon today as the
originally predicted for
failed to material-
I of nearly two inches o.
| fm fallen yesterday and to-
I c. E. Norquest, Houston
held out the, hope
stop before the
brnd in.
b added that the cold-‘wave
Into Monday,
wamlgns were still 'up
i gulf coast today, all the
Brownsville to Tampa,
; with northwest directions
I for the Texas coast. *
s in Chambers and Hama
■flee Panhandle Page 2)
VOLUME 21-
THE DAILY
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21 NO. 200 GOOSE ( REEK. PELLY. HAYTOWVtf LA l*h»TE ANTI UmtAITN
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GOOSE CREEK, PELLY, BAYTOWN^ LA PORTE AND SURROUNDING AREA
NO PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS!
Aubasudw Joseph I'. Kennedy (left), chefs »ilh newlmen efter s
visit to the state department, where he called to sea Secretary Hull.
He said that in spite of poor health he would return soon to his
poet ; that he had declined to permit his name to be filed in Massa-
chusetts presidential primary.
.
LTSULL
ON JOURNEY
uiser Moves Into
bean; No Light
i On Plans
THE DESTROYER
Erect New Building
A ‘$33,000 BUILDING PROGRAM that will give First Baptist
church of Baytown more than double its present capacity jyil! be
started Monday, weather permitting, Rev. E. It. Couch, the pastor
announced today. ' -. - . .■
The program will include construction of a new main auditorium
pf brickiad til^brick-veneering the-present auditorium and edaaHfgn
building., the Construction of a — --——
large addition to the education ||ffi| j pp p m p /\gj
Feb. 17. CP) -- President tract for foundation and brick
elt sailed into.warm Carib-
aboard the cruiser
Azsssr
Tall day
' as the cruiser and two
destroyers moved
s sub-tropics and a temp-
M 85 was forecast today,
test the warships had charig-
winter blues to summer
Informs,
night again, the Ships’
played continually
American flags, identify-
selves for the benefit of
| belligerent , warcraft that
: t* in the vicinity. But
|«u nothing to shed light
• mystery, surrounding the
pSeoaevelt had refused to
J «t a suggestion that be
■ret high officiate of
i&eat Britain and Italy at
P * conference on thesEu-
i war.
building, a small basement
remodeling of the interior.
Contracts Let
Cbntract for the carpenter
work and superintendent of con- r , .
struction has been awarded to ^ErXplOrHtlOll Ul
Fred Wamrael of Houston for ap-
proximately $5,000. A labor con
SM
Possibilities Is
Goal Of Envoy
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (RE) —
work has been awarded to Ern-
est Oliver and Gust Johnson of
The present auditorium will be
moved east and north from where
it now stands to start the work.
This will be done by the Olshan
Demolishing and Moving com-
pany of Houston. The present
education building then will be
extended east to join with this
structure and the basement will
be under this new addition.
The new auditorium will be
built on approximately the same
ground covered by the present
auditorium. The new one will be
(See Baytown Baptist Page 2)
WELLES SAILS ON
TOUR Of
ned-te
id Town
' Trt-cities: The Gan-
cN: a fast, breaking of-
P ^16St0n laSrt nig’ht t0
Morgans Point Ferry
Will Be Out Monday
If the weather will permit
work outside, , the Morgans Point
ferry wUl be tied up" at 8 aTm.
Monday for 10 hours, Captain
George Jones said today.
Jones sgid he had been ordered
by A. L. Krause, state highway
district 12 foreman, to rush the
repairs.
“If things go well, we can com-
plete the Job by 4 p.m. Monday,
fotUnr f ' '.v A' ®- TSteJ-. ■ but if we .^encounter any diffi-
cm 1 « SS* coW wea-' culty it will be late in the dajF Relies to answer tor Mr. Roose
• •• It might come hi
. . Modelle
” Wit a-lunching ....
Hfamlett and O.’ D.
■ getting the job done
' Wayne (Slick) Lanham
wt 01 combat by a bad
i Lr lough now is on
1 «gginbotham and W. C.
jL • Tuey better change
■. °“ston golf tourament
Lffmning session . . .
T?b°L Please don’t for-
«st Texas today . . .
■toeterday . _. Mrg jq^.
^tock on the job with
book today . . . The
6 she issued wa one
McKinney so he
office and come
. Don McLeod pauses
show what possibiiities exist there
tor peace.
The shrewed, 47-year-old career
diplomat, sailing in the Italian
liner Rex as the personal emissary
of President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull, car-
ried no plans or proposals.
He is to talk “in strictist confi-
dence". with the heads of the war-
ring nations and of the out-
standing non-belligerent power —
Italy.
: Welles made it dear that he to
going to do far mow listening
than talking.
Although Washington has stres-
sed that he has no authority to
make commitments, the enormous
ramifications of the peace which
ultimately must be re-established
in Europe are the crux of Welles
confidential mission. The govern-
ment is, convinced that it muse
pay an important role in framing
the peace.
The outsteB&qf Cflflest >on tor
irrrrtrjs
_____ SATURDAY, 1
IS
E NAZI CAPTIVI
tWE • t
Reds Widen Wedge In Finns’ Wall
-—r- *r—:—;—«p-— —-—*—■ — *
Dem Parley Is Set July 15
24
FUffIS FORCED
WITNDRA
TO NEW L
Secondary Defense Is
Occupied; Capture of
Foctified Positions By
Soviet Admitted
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 17. (UBi
-The Danish newspaper Berling-
ske Tidende reported from Stock-
held today that Russian
had driven § wedge into w
Mannerheim line, capturing forti-
fied positions in the Finnish first
lines e^st df Lake Mu0la,
The Russians, the newspaper
said, had succeeded in holding
some of their captured positions
despite Finnish counter-attacks.
The Finns were reported to have
withdraw
: Prevent
The newspaper said that the
^Finnish withditawal. was neces-
sary- to prevent the Russians from
rolling up a salient which they
had driven into Finnish first line
positions.
The first and second line posi-
’ tions were described as contig- lque said today,
1 ous with no border line between Hussian troop
them so the Finns were able to
withdraw in complete order and
prepare counter-attacks from sec-
ondary positions.
The Russian wedge, according
to the newspaper’s Stockholm ad-
See Finns Forced Page 2) i
■ Vc - X--' -J;—
By LYLE C. WILSON
P. Staff Correspondent
■ WASHINGTON, Fab. 17 <CE)_
iji« political partial were set
Iky tor a streamlined 15-week
. aidentiar campaign shortened a
month front the period allotted to
that purpose in 1936.
Chairman James A. Fhrley of
the Democrat^ national commit-
tee waited tower than 24 hours
■ ———
after Republican decision to open
the G. O. P. convention June 24 in
Philaddj^; to announce Demo-
cratic plans.
6mm Runs InC alifornia
He fixed July 16 for the open-
ing of the Democratic national
convention, in Chicago.*. The an-
nouncement earns from Miami
where he is vacationing.
Other political developments in-
1. Decision of Vice President
John N. Garner to enter the
May 7 California presidential
preference primary.
Roosevelt SUil Mum
2. Continued speculation over
President Roosevelt’s third term
and fishing vacation plans,
especially whether the latter in-
(See Farley Sets, Page 2)
CLAIM
• GAIN
FINLAND
ji AGAINST
Moscow Soys R*%o«rf
were reported to have Stations And Forts
Are Occupied
MOSCOW,
fin troops
SUCCUMBS
__
17. (RE)-Rus-
-Man troops are within 12 1.2
miles of Viipuri, Finland’s sec-
ond city, after a gain of five
mifes along the Lenlngrad-Vii-
prn^l railroad, an army
ILLNESS IS FATA!
...
troops occupied the im-
portant railroad-sUtions of Ka-
mara and Leipasuo’ on the main
Leningrad-Viipuri railroad, the
communique said,, and took 22
Finnish defensive fortificatons in-
cluding two iron and concrete ar.
'S*
The cwnmuique put the Rus-
12 1-2
T0R0BERT0RT0N
Former Bayou Resident
j Will Be Buried 1
Tomorrow
■■-
Rohert Parkmore Orton, 34, for.
merly of Cedar Bayou, and tor 10
yearn an employe of the Humble
Pipeline Company here, died yes-
terday in a Houston' convalescent
home.
came after
iervices will be held at
2 p.m. tomorrow at the Tri-Cities
Funeral Home, with Rev. E. K.
Couch, pastor of the First Bap.
tist church at Baytown officiat-
ing. Rev. J. I. F. Tharp, of Cen-
tral Baptist church, Pelly, will
assist
Burial will be in Masonic cem-
etery at Cedar Bayou under di-
rection of the Trl-CiUea Funeral
Home, with the Cedar Bayou Ma-
sonic lodge in charge of the ri-
betore we
New steel landing guards will there an prospects tor peace in
be placed on the ends. the near future?
* P°sy to J. Justin
Bon js always say-
*°°d about some-
, only thing he
*? taUt about is
foobtali record.
^ Boyle Jr.
hif grandpa
Incidentally, the
" n’t lived in
but about 100
,‘.yew* In
they
“ oe iate in u* <»y ‘ “*•member of the Cedar Btomt^dge 7:30 a.m. Saturday. She had been also was a member of
can get ’back into op- y# wi S>« ^3 he ™ a . restdent^r LaPorte since 1901. son lodge, No..231, of tl
e. ^^a auc weeks hence is . Are The widow of B. F. Howald, abe and A. M-, Crosby and a
is survived by a granddaughter,
a Heleh Ruth Howald of LaPorte.
r Services will be announced h
STOCKS CLOSE TODAY
. Courtesy
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMANY
Allied Stores .........
American Radiator
Anaconda Copper
Barnsdail ..................
Bethlehem Steel ..
Burroughs ................
Chrysler ---
Cities Servide .....!—
Commercial Solvent
fesk long enough to t Gonsoildsted Aircraft
$*9 “Louisiana Land ..............
9 3-4 j Lambert ..........................
29 1-4 Lorillard ..........................
11 7-8 (-Murray Corporation „...
78 1-8 Nash Keivinator ...........
12 1-81 National Dairy -----------
North Amer. Avista
Ohio OU ............—
Otis Steel .......
Packard Motors .........
Consolidated Oil H
Curtiss - Wright ...........
Curtiss - Wright A ------
Electric Bond A Share
Electric Power A Light
Ei Paso Natunl Gas
Freeport Sulphur ............
General Electric -----------
General Motors ..........—
10 3-4
i 2 Contempt
10 3-4 Pure
■ idl
7 1-2
6 3-8
. 38
34 3-4
38 7-8
73 3-8
Paint
Phillips Petroleum
Oil ---------------
. 39 7-8
. 8 1-4
Reo Motors ........................ 17-8
Socony Vacuum .......... U 5-8
Standard OU Indiana -.7.- 27 l-s
Standard OU NeW Jersey 44 3-5
Texas Corporation 44 1-
Texas Gulf "
Tidewater.
United Aircraft
United
United _____
United States Steel
church.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Dels Orton, of New Caney;
son, J. B. Orton and his father.
A. C, Orton, both of New Cahey;
three sisters, Mrs. Elinor Du,
Bose, of Jasper; Mrs. Myrtle Sor-
reUs, Houston, and Mias Annie
Orton, New Caney; and four
brothers, W. A. Orton, Baytown;
J. M. Orton, New Caney; S. J.
Orton, Cleveland, and Joe B. Or-
ton, Goose Creek.
Pallbearers will be J. E. Huff-
man, Z. T. Tyree, C. S. Ozbun,
J. C. Cuthbertson, K. B. Chancey
and A. C. Kitxman.
slans, aT Kamara, only
mUes from .Viipuri, their objec-
tive te their drive to SOterii the
Mannerheim line. Leipasuo. te
five mUes south of it, on the
Leningrad side.
It brought to 175 the defensive
positions the Russians claim to
have captured since tire offensive
began.
It was asserted that Finnish
troops had lost heavily in all sec-
tors of the front te vain counter,
attacks.
' Tg:.:Ctala» Air
DEMAND MADE ON
NORWEGIANS FOR
RETURN OF SHIP
Bitter Protest Lodged
By Germany; Vessel *
Held By Ice
, ' ‘ -
BERLIN, MK .17. JUJBL-^kr.
mahr“shaiipiy probated to Nor-
way today Over the British at-
tack on the German ship Alt-
mark. Authorized 'sources said
the incident would have “unf0r-
James Wm, D^jr
TO BE TOMORROW
Pioneer Rice Planter
Dies At Home In
Highlands
Funeral services for James Wil-1
Item Denny, 69, of Highlands, l^jjj I»ftWfen _ Per-
one of Texas’ first rice planters,
who died at his borne at 1:15 p.m.
yesterday, will be held at the
PRI
The
source
protest, an authorized
said, “complaina! most
sharply" against British infringe-
ment on Norwegian territorial wa-
ters and demanded that th® Alt-
mark be returned to the German
government “in exactly the same
condition as when it was held up
M *«.
t lain* n -- -z. "
Liaiiii Drcacii f
DY WARSHIP
Hand To Hand Fight
O n Beach Follows
Raid As 300 Britons
-Are Freed
LONDON, Feb. it. (UJU—Brit-
ish destroyers, deliberately enter-
ing neutral waters, drove the
German navC auxiliary, step Alt-
mark ashore on the Norwegian
coast, kUled four of ite orew,
wounded five and rescued between
300 and 400 British merchant
seamen whom they .found bat-
tened down under, ita decks, the
admiralty announced today.
News of the audacious naval
action was disclosed in an ad-
miralty communique which said
the British warships acted upon
admiralty orders to enter Nor*
.wegteh'wstens * and metre t h* 1
prisoners.
Tanker flentttod
As part of the engagement the
British destroyer Ivanhoe ordered
the German tanker Baldur to
halt outside Norwegian waters
the Baldur’s crew scutOed her
“in German fashion,” the admir*
alty said,
Eonrees described the
Altmark seizure as “the clearest
breach 0f international. te# about
which there cannot be the slight-
est possible doubt.’’
They said the Altmark wu an
unarmed merchant ship formerly
operating on the Hamburg-South
America run and which, since the
start of the war, had been dl-
Dufing the last seven days, ac- 2 p.m. tomorrow.
to the communique, tee
Finns had lost 420 machine guns
and 170 guns, presumably field
guns, in the Mannerheim line bat-
tle. .,
The communique said that the
Russians hot only bombed Finnish
troops and military targets but
(See Russians Claim, Psge 2)
Pioneer LaPorte
Woman Is Dead
Mrs. Einora E, * HowSBd, 81,*
died at her home in La Porte at
Highlands Methodist
church et
: - ■
to Highlands in
Citations S
inn Dropped
Geo. H. Lewis and Co-
Homs.
Wr.Denny
1902 from Beaumont, and had
made his home there since.' For 20
years he was field foreman for
the San Jacinto Rice Farm* com-
pany.
Rev. L. C. Upton, pastor of the
Highlands Methodist church, will
officiate nt the fflnsral services
tomorrow. Burial will b« in White
cemetery, near Highlands, under
the direction of the Paul U.
Funeral Home.
A charter member of the High-
lands Methodist church, Denny
also was a member of Samp-
of tire A. F.
and A. M, Crosby and a member
of the Woodmen of the World.
Survivors are his wife, Mr*.
Bertha Denny, of Highlands; a
daughter, Mrs. H. S. Muldrow, of
(See Denny Funeral, Page 2)
many and Scandinavian porta.
“Sharpest Yet”
“Therefore there can be no
question of ite being an armed
merchant cruiser or anything of
that nature," the source said.
It was understood that British
prisoners rescued included 65
merchant officers and 220 mer-
chant seamen, of whom 56 are
East Indians.
Prisoner* were sent at full
speed. to Scotland in the destroy*-
An authorized source said that
the protest to Norway was “the
sharpest yet made te this war.**
Jt was explained, however,
that the “shatpness wu not di-
rected against Norway but ex-
pressed the bitterness and anger
felt in Germany over the method
and manner in which the British
conducted the whole affair.'
The Altmark, German sources
Lee said, now wu lodged fut te-Ahe
ice of a fjord but it .was not
stated who now had possession of
the ship.
Late News
The protest, the German said. Houston, and Mrt. R, R.
wu delivered to the Norwegian
foreign off fee by the German le-
gation at Oslo at' 9:30 ajn, to*
a»y. . I - k
BROTHERHOOD WEEK
AUSTIN, Feb. 17 (UB-Gov. W.
Lee O’Daniel today issued a pro-
wwbssack, under escort of other
warships. ... . ;
Hand To Hand Fight
The admiralty communique
said one at the British destroyers,
(See Britons Reycre* Page I)
PIONEER LA PORT!
WOMAN IS BURIED
Mrs. E. F. Moroney,
Lived On Bayshore
For 34 Years
Funeral services were held at
Houston at 2 p.m. today for Mrs,
Ed r. Moroney, 76, pioneer La
Porte woman who died in
ton
Ba:
years,
ton
illness grew
Survivors are
Mary Waters."
and Miss Dorothy Moroney,
Shreveport, La.
Rev. B. F. Lehmberg,
of the Community church at
Porte, conducted the services.
Burial wu to the La Ports ceme-
^ery- j.
Pallbearers were Robert
Bland Williams. J<
Feb, 17. <U-B—The opening round of the Western'
; at River Oak* Country club wu again postponed
committee from the Lions Club and Western
Golf Association ruled the course unfit for play. The tournament
route wu cut to S4 holes.
today i
On Mann
AUSTIN, Feb. 17 (CF)-Attor-
ney Gmieral Gerald C. Man wu
spared today an appearance te dis-
trict court on a contempt cita-
tion for advising the comptroller
" to pay a claims judgment as
Tice
motion picture labor leader,
sentence for pandering.
WASHINGTON, Fete 1!
recommended to Secretary
be sqought for construct
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