The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 150, Ed. 1 Monday, June 17, 1940 Page: 3 of 6
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JUNE 17, 1940.
WANT ADS—FANNIN 1231
____THE SAN Al NIO LIGHT
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set Brady Bldf. F-41I1S P-MtO
A familiar Paris street sign after the
advent of Nazi bombers is the skull and
cross bones—denoting bombed areas
prof it -
in the
EIGHT ADDED TO
COLLEGE STAFF
TODLEXCHANGE
PLAN IS URGED
JAPAN'S BOMBS
ENDANGER
H NOTE' IN
OIL DECISIONS
of 115 carloads of onions, far short
of the normal crop, in the season
just closed.
the primary cause of the onion
shortage.
Of the shipments, 84 carloads.
were irrigated onions. Floresville
moved 74 cars and Poth rolled 41.
BUILT IN 7 MONTHS.
The $30,000,000 Pontiac plant, the
' most modern complete factory in
e | the automobile industry, was design-
. ed and built in only seven months,
setting a record.
be announced
I to the thought that many of these
available and unused tools might
be put to work.
“Setting up of a pool to facilitate
transfer of required machines to the
points of need would be a very ef-
1 fective stopgap until new produc-
, tion units come from the craft
shops.
“Operations of such a 'pool'would
not have to be of long tenure. Such
shops as Briggs. Lincoln. Packard.
Ford and others have thousands of
tool and die men whose work on
1941 model requirements is well
' along. These will be available for
I other work shortly.
■ That, coupled with licensing of
machine tool exports, should speed
I up in no mean degree the defense
tooling program.
The leader of this group of German
panzer troops points the way ahead to
the driver of the speedy tank, used with
June 17.—Eight addi-
regular teaching fac-
the summer school
been announced by
FIVE RECEIVE STORK IS KEPT
HOSPITAL AID, BUSY IN TEXAS
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ity, the board is puzzled as
what action it should take.
such success in the invasion of France.
This photo was passed by the German
censor. In* ’*• x‘“" photo-
LONDON. June 17. — M*)—The
Bank of England banned today
dealings in Canadian and United
States stocks and bonds.
The rate was 19.6 per 1000 popu-
lation, which is 2.2 above the na-
tional average, said State Health
Officer Georef W. Cox.
where the presence of possible duds
makes death more a momentary possi-
bility. Nazis entered Paris June 14.
[OSCOW, June 17.—<*>—Soviet
sian troops marched into unre-
ing Estonia and Latvia today
taxing a series of swift moves
I ch consolidated Russia's position
■ he Baltic.
i lews the Red army was on the
rch was disclosed by the Russian
. Io only a few hours after the
i countries had yielded to Soviet
lands they permit unimpeded
I sage of troops and reorganize
; ir governments.
I ithuania capitulated to similar
: aands Saturday, and Russian
I jps already are occupying strate-
points there.
'ass, official news agency, an-
inced the agreement of Estonia
I Latvia to the Russian demands
, ich, Tass said, were motivated b>
! deed for "honest and conscien-
I is observance'' of mutual assist-
ee pacts with the two Baltic
,tes.
Che Soviet asked new govern-
snts “capable and willing to en-
re honest implementation” of the
[ ,cts; and free passage of troops to
I orestall passible provocational ac-
I jns against Soviet garrisons” in-
alled in Estonia and Latvia under
le pacts signed last fall.
(Estonia has an area of about 18 -
>0 square miles and approximately
ie and one-quarter million inhab-
ants; Latvia has an area of 20,000
DETROIT, June 17—(JP)—Com
menting on a shortage of machine
tools and its effect upon the auto-
| motive industry preparing for new
' models and a gigantic arms pro-
! duction program, Ward's automo-
tive reports says in its current is-
_______ __ISUet
(The Stockholm newspaper Alle- which would attempt to~‘rontroi I Virtually al! of the automolfi-e
handa reported Berlin opinion as pricesand marketing of such things P,an,s have on hand tools used in
“rather reserved" and said t“* ’ ------— ------ J“ ~J ' ““
Soviet action was not exactly wel-
comed."
however, said “Soviet intentions
were known to the Germans in ad-
vance.”
INTENTIONS DEBATED.
(Some allied observers in London
were hopefully seeing signs of Rus-
sian action against the increasing
[threat of a Hitler - dominated
Europe. But reserved judgment was!
[the general attitude, and there was|
little press speculation.
(The Berlin radio in an English'
broadcast heard in London, how-[
ever, said “some circles abroad are
making idle speculations with re-
gard to Soviet Russia's intentions. I
Ali rumors in this connection are [
entirely unfounded and are but a [
demonstration of these circles' own
hvsterical state of mind,")
Tass reported “ex-President” I
Antantas Smetona of Lithuania and [
several other Lithuanian officials
had crossed the border into Ger-|
many and promptly had been in-
[ temed by German officials. |
CHUNGKING, June 17—'Bi-
Bombs dumped from raiding Jap-
anese planes endangered the Unit-
ed States gunboat Tutuila yester-
day, one projectile falling so close
the crew was ordered to take cover.
(The Tutuila. a 370-ton craft
built in 1927, carries a complement
of 58 officers and men.)
Lieutenant Robert Germany, com-
| mander of the gunboat on Yangtze
river patrol duty, said bomb frag-
ments pelted the boat. Smoke BUS
lowing over the river from shore
fires almost obscured the ship from
i view.
Three waves of planes roared
over the capital in a punishing re-
sumption of air sorties after a
. three-day respite. While an estimat-
ed 500 bombs were dropped. 16 Chi-
, ■ pursuit ships attacked the
['raiders and. a high air force offi-
cial said shot down five of them.
10.000 HOMELESS.
After the last bomber had wheel-
[ ed aW’ay toward the Hankow base,
Chinese counted these results:
About 100 casualties.
Ten thousand homeless from fires
whipping through wooden struc-
tures in the poorer districts along
] the river front.
Five hundred public buildingsand
residences destroyed
French Catholic mission's primary
school demolished and nearby bible
I school building shattered.
A direct hit on the Chungking
hostel, where 20 foreigners lived.
: There were no casualties as most of
I the residents were on a Sunday out-
ing on the southbank when the
. alarm sounded.
JAPS DEE'IED.
Almost every headstone in Chung-
king's foreign cemetery demolished
by one tremendous explosion.
General Chang Chun, secretary
! general of the supreme
fense council, surveyed
i then said:
I "Japanese attempts
Chungking will not
- Chinese spirit. The war of resist-
i ance against the aggressor will go
. on "
NEW YORK, June 17.—W—The
Columbia Broadcasting system an-
nounced today that the British
Broadcasting company said hostili-
ties had ceased during the night.
The translation of Premier Pe-
tain's speech read from London by
the official British wireless and
recorded at the Columbia Broad-
casting company short-wave listen-
ing station follows:
"French men and women: At
the call of the French president
I have assumed the leadership of
the government of France. I have
been thinking of those who have
been fighting true to their old
military traditions, against an
enemy of huge numerical super-
iority.
THINKS OF SOLDIERS.
“I also think of those old com-
batants whom I commanded dur-
ing the last war. I have given
myself to France to better her sit-
uation at this grave hour.
“At this moment I think of the
unfortunate refugees, the men and
women on the roads, driven away
from their homes by the misfor-
tunes of war.
“I express to them my sincerest
sympathy and compassion. It is
with a heavy heart that I tell you
today that we must stop the
fight.
“I sent a message to the enemy
yesterday to ask him if he would
meet with me, as between one
soldier and another, after the fight,
and honorably, to seek a way to
put an end to hostilities.
"Let all Frenchmen
around the government over
I preside during these sad ________
And let them do their duty (one
word inaudible) their faith in the
destiny of their country.”
TALK TRANSLATED.
Edmond Taylor, C. B. S. corres-
pondent with the French govern-
ment, said in a broadcast from
Bordeaux over the facilities of Paris
Mondial, official French radio:
■ Just 35 minutes ago, Marshal
Petain broadcast in a blinding
thunderstorm from this very same
studio an announcement to the
French people that last night he
had asked for an armistice.”
Then Taylor gave a translation
of the address and continued:
“As soon as he finished this
speech Marshal Petain left the stu-
dio and entered a limousine which
waited at the door. He had on a
trench raincoat and black hat. His
face showed no emotion whatso-
ever.”
Taylor's report concluded at this
point and Eric Sevareid, another
member of the C. B. 8. staff in Bor-
deaux, came on the air to say:
"You have heard the unofficial
translation of the marshal’s speech,
who told the people of the nation
that the war is ceasing: and, as we
told you last night, his intermediary
is expected to be the ambassador
of Spain. What the German terms
will be. if they will give terms, none
of us know as yet.
NAZIS THOUGHT NEAR.
“We understand German troops
are not very far away from the
place from w'hich the French radio
is now operating.
“The order to the French radio
is to stand by until the last pos-
sible moment so that the news may
go to America and the rest of the
world of these historic events in
France today.
“The American consulate is
swamped with calls from Ameri-
cans, French, British and others
who are attempting to get acco-
modations to the United States.
Americans here — correspondents
and others—will either go by spe-
cial boat provided by the United
States government, if available, an<j
whether this provision has been
made is not known as yet; or they
will try to get into Portugal through
Spain, which is technically and le-
gally a bit difficult.
“When, and if the Germans will
arrive in Bordeaux, the present cap-
ital of France, none of us know at
the present moment."
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This recruiting poster, contributed by Artist James
Montgomery Flagg during recruiting drive by the U. S.
army in 1917-1918, proved highly successful. Now. in
1940, the poster has been re-issued to aid current army
expansion, recently authorized by congress.
Fast-working, pow-
erful because ex-
AUSTIN. June 17.—M’)—County
Democratic committees met
throughout Texas today to deter-
mine the order of candidates’ names
on the ballot for the July 27 pri-
mary.
It was their business also to esti-
mate the cost of the primary
the assessment of candidates.
Saturday was the last day
anyone to file for a place on
ballot.
AUSTIN, June 17. - (INS) — A
sharp slump in drilling activities
In the Texas oil industn was noted
in the weekly summary of drilling
operations for the week ended
June 7.
The data summarized by R. W.
Byram, oil statistician for the Texas,
State House Reporter from records
of the Texas Railroad commission,!
show only 52 approved well loca-1
tions, a drop of 346 from the pre-l
vlous week. j
This slump may have been duJ
in part to the fact that a majority
of the commissioners were on ths
hunt for votes. It may have been,
party due to the repeated warn*
ings of commissioners that to«
many wells are being drilled.
It may have been due partly to
the fact that district offices ini
West Central Texas and the Pan-1 New Russian seizures,
handle sent in not a single loca- square miles and about 2.000.000 in-
tion. I habitants. Their total peoples do
With the small total. West Texas I not eclual toe population of Mos-
was leading district, listing 15 new'cow)-
wells, j- -
tions, and in Southwest .Texas the
total was/«Mibt.
in East Texas the commission
approved eight new wells in Gregg
county and one in Upshur county.
East Central Texas listed four.
Class Planned
A new class in puppetry, open
only to adults, wil begin soon at
the La Villita workshop. 508 Vil-
lita street, W. P. Witt, city recrea-
tion director, announced Monday.
Registration for the class are
now being taken in the depart-
ment's offices.
Meeting dates for the class, to
include construction and operation
of puppets, will
later.
Other puppetry
gin Friday, June
and will be held
and Friday from
throughout the summer.
Program Provides
Milk for Needv
HOUSTON, June 16.—(ZE*)—More
than 800 poor families in the Hous-
ton area are receiving 1000 quarts
of milk dally under a program said
to be the only one of its kind in the
nation.
Associated milk producers furnish
the milk and local distributing
firms bottle it. Ten fire stations
serve as distribution centers, fire-
men givint out the milk in exchange
for free milk tickets. ’
Ticket distribution is arranged
through various welfare agencies
and the program director, Mrs.
Maud Carr.
Since the plan was inaugurated
11 months ago, more than 300,000
quarts of milk, valued at $39,000
have been given needy families.
WASHINGTON. June 17.—uP)—
With a view to submitting the mat- ;
ter to other American governments,
a cabinet committee today was to 1
conclude a study of "the most ef- [
fective manner of disposing
ably of export surpluses
Western hemisphere".
A formal statement was
from the White House announcing |
the meeting of the secretaries of [
1 state, treasury, agriculture and
i commerce. It offered no further ex- I
planation, however, and did not dis-,
close what export surpluses were
■ under consideration.
____ ........ But there were indications the
North**Texas had '*13*"loca- Some dispatches to Stockholm in-, United States was thinking of at-
—> ... c—-----. ----- ter preted the Russian move as the [tempting to draw the American re-
first step toward participation in publics and possibly Canada into
0111 fiji . * >•«*« MKterKiaxional cartel
Deal Motto Pays
KIRBYVILLE, June 17.—W—
“Thorny” Hicks has been doing
business as a horse, mule and cow
swapper for 25 years on a single,
simple slogan—“A tolerable square
deal to all.”
Such frankness must pay, for
Thorny is doing a brisk business
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I for all those who do not like some j M
regulatory order. It was never so in- ' p
tended by the framers of the con- ‘
stitutlon.
"The decision is a landmark In
| regulatory efforts and means sta-
I bility for the oil business.”
AUSTIN, June 17.—(INS)—In
only two other states in the union
was the stork busier in
in Texas, according to a statistical
summary prepared by the state de-
partment of public health.
Fifth in total population, Texas
placed third in total number of reg-
istered births. The total of 121.033
was exceeded only by New York,
where a population twice as great
brought into the world only 65.826
more infants; and Pennsylvania,
with 50 per cent greater popula-
S. A. Man Stabbed,
Artery Severed
A. F. Marcais, 54, of 2622 East
Houston street, Monday was recov-
ering from a severed artery suf-
fered when he accidentally ran his
hand through a glass door at his
home, according to a police report.
Henry Rahmos, 35. of 911 South
Frio street, was under medical at-
tention at the Robert B. Green hos-
pital after he was stabbed four
times by an assailant in the 900
block of South Frio street. A suspect
was arrested.
STH E Y
toe as wheat, cotton, beef, coffee andYre'i°us years- dropped from pro-
"1- [ copper. I duction operations because better
Another Berlin dispatch/ _ .' .. , units have been made available.
- " ' Back of the meetmg. too, it was 1Th lants in many instances al-
reported. was a desire to prepare so hflve current-model surpl •ts ma-
„ Te,r Cas ■ Jhe tlme whe,n chinery. Tlie shortage of machine
Adolf Hitler might become economic tools in *he present situation lends
dictator of Europe. ---------- - ----
STATEMENT GIVEN.
The White House statement, Is-
sued by Stephen Early, presidential
secretary, follows:
“There will be held this afternoon
; a meeting of the secretaries of state,
. treasury, agriculture and commerce.
[in order to conclude the study of
1 the research which has been urg-
I ently undertaken during recent
I months into the most effective man-
[ ner of disposing profitably of export
surpluses in the Western hemis-
phere
"This study will include the in-
; vestigation of the problem as it af-
[ fects the American republics as well
as such other countries as may be
I confronting a similar situation and
as may desire to join with the
American nations in an efficacious
solution of it.
“The final study in the form of
a report with recommendations will
be submitted at once to the presi-
dent.
COINCIDENCE SEEN.
“If it is approved by the presi-
dent. the report will be transmitted
to the other American governments
in order that the government of the
United States may have the benefit
of their views and their sugges-
tions. "
It was regarded by some ns more
than a coincidence that steps to set
up some sort of control program for
the Americas over export surpluses
came at & time w’hen France was
seeking an armistice.
A cartel ordinarily is a combina-
tion of firms established to operate
an industry and control prices.
HARLINGEN. June 17. — dP) —
Grapefruit production in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley during the 1939-
40 season was 13,200,000 boxes, a
drop of 16 per cent under the 15 -
670.000-box production the preview
season, according to figures releas-
ed here by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture.
The report of the department al-
so forecast a lighter crop for next
— ---- ------ ------ .— I season, pointing to a relatively
teacher his demonstrated his abil- small set of fruit due to cold early
to in the year and lack of sufficient
moisture.
Tire pursuit of happiness brought
suffering to five San
who had been treated at
Green hospital Monday.
Offered a cigarette by
man, Connie Gomez. 17,
Frio street, fainted after smoking
part of it. Doctors at the hospital
said that the cigarette contained
marihuana.
William Caviar, 9. 2128 West Pop-
lar street, received several cuts and
bruises about the head when he fell
from his bicycle at West Poplar and
North Navidad streets.
While swinging an ax near
Boerne, Tom W. Smith, 14, 1510[tion. listing 40,000 more births.
Montana, cut his foot. I The 1939 birth rate represented
Rosinda Sanchez. 7. 116 Rubiola one new Texan every four minutes,
street, fell in her sandpile and broke 336_per dav. 10 086 per year,
her right arm. Victor Ivey, 5
months old, 850 Cuppies road, swal-
lowed a baby ring with which he
was playing.
BELTON,
tions to the
ulty during
terms have
President Gordon G. Singleton of
Mary Hardin-Baylor college. Re-
turning this summer to the physi-
cal education department will be
Miss Frances Schaar of Mt. Mor-
ris, Ill.
All specialists in their various
fields, the new faculty members
include: Miss Lucille Jeffries of
Dallas, who will teach art; Miss
Carline Gunn of Troy, business;
Miss Rachael La Roe of Knoxville,
Tenn., mathematics; and Mrs.
Loyse Ann Hicks of Crane, educa-
tion; all of whom will teach the
first term of summer school.
Misses Jeffries, Gunn and LaRoe
are graduates of Mary Hardin-
Baylor college. Miss Jeffries re-
ceived her Masters degree from
Columbia university and last year
was awarded the J. B. Martin
Memorial prize for water color in, __________ ______ _
the Allied Art show in Dallas. Miss ship erf importance to dock at the
LaRoe is at the present holding old warehouse w’as the four-masted
a teaching-fellowship in the de-1 barque Dayllte, which loaded gyp-
partment of mathematics at the, sum rock for delivery to a Florida
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I port.
Mrs. Hicks is a graduate of Sul; ----------------
Ross college, and has studied atlrp i i i o
the University of Texas and at [ 1 0161*411)16 oflllllt’6
Texas State college for Women. [ 1
As members of the faculty dur-
ing the second summer school
term, Miss Bonnye Ruth Whitworth
of Harlingen mall head the history
department, Mrs. R. D. Clark of
Chester will teach general chem-
istry, and Miss Dorothy Nelle Pool
of Odem will teach all physical
education courses. Prof. E. D.
Johnston, superintendent of Belton | r - ....
Public schools, will be added to the |on toe site of his original location.
. . . ... I The corral boards have been worn
department of education. | ,mooth by the hundre(js of pants
A special feature for the first [ seats that have roosted there while
term is a course in the Conserva-; he paraded his stock.
tion of Human and Natural Re-1 Thorny vows he knows the ages
sources which will be conducted ±Ln^nS tratde,d
by visiting authorities in the field T out-trade
in collaboration with six depart- „ tho ° n. Ovh anlmals
ments and under the chairman-1 m‘he‘7^' chTsvays'v „
ship of Pref. W. T. Stanton. vantage of a custom€r other than
| the edge allowed in catch-as-catch-
can horse trading.
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Creates Problem Texas Grapefruit
NEW YORK. June 15.—(INS)— ____qi____________
An academic Jean Valjean sent the
school board into a quandary here
recently as it pondered what to do
in the case of a teacher who had
received his license under false
pretenses, but who then went on to
establish an enviable reputation,
gaining in three years of outstand-
ing work both the respect of his
colleagues and popularity among
the students.
Usually teachers are ousted
either by the board of education
or by bringing charges against the
offender. But now, since the
The new order was the latest in a —
series to conserve foreign exchange. ) SIMPLE ________________
Permits for residents or non-resi- NFIIDAIGIft tra-medicated. Rub
dents fnr such trading were can- 1^— —
celled. i — - - — - - — —
AUSTIN. June 16.—(INS)—Opin-
ion of the U. S. Supreme court in
the Rowan and NichoLs East Texas
oil proration suit marks a “new
note" in court decisions, in the
opinion of Railroad Commissioner
Ernest O. Thompson.
Thompson pointed out that th'
court holds the small tract owner [
has a right to drill his well. “This
is the most important part of the
decision." he said
"The court recognizes that the
effect, of these small operations
upon the state's economy is an ap-
[ propriate factor to be taken into
FLORESVILLE. June — The'account when plan, tue ,....
Floresville-Poth area shipped a total give all wells a share.
! “Here is a new note in Supreme
court decisions. It is the coming or-
der of the day. It is contrary to the
Tlie long drougnt was !lard, harsh view that did not
consider the general economy—the
general good to the state.
; “It looks like the court is not go-
ing to let the fourteenth amend-
jment serve any longer as the haven
Is Razed
ARANSAS PASS, June 17— W’)—A
coastal landmark disappeared when
the great shipside warehouse of
the Terminal Railway corporation
on Harbor Island was razed recent-
ly. It was built in 1911 and for a
short time was a scene of activity.
Some of the last great sailing ships
making gulf ports loaded cargoes
of cotton there. Prior to the revo-
lution in Mexico fuel oil was im-
ported over these docks to be used
by several railroads of Texas, but a
75 cents per barrel export tax by
Mexico ended f -t traffic and the
World war stopped the exporting of
cotton. Increasing competition of
other gulf ports steadily diminish-
ed traffic at Harbor island.
Lack of revenue made repairs to
the building unprofitable and as a
result the 900 by 90 foot building
deteriorated until it became a haz-
ard and wrecking crews pulled it
down. Sir e the warehouse was re-
moved tug boats which regularly
dock there, previously invisible from
the ferry landing except the por-
tion of their masts which rose
above the warehouse roof, now
stand out clearly.
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