The Lampasas Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1941 Page: 2 of 4
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PRESIDENT PLEDGES U. S.
AID TO BRITAIN
Miss Mutsi Nagi has returned after
spending the Christmas holidays in
Orange with friends and relatives.Miss Faye Lockhart of Austin has
returned home after spending the
week end here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Lockhart.
seme 20 deaths this time.”
The director asserted patrolmen
would be assigned to strategic areas
where accidents most frequently cc-
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Brit-
The Briggs-Gamel ambulance made
a trip Monday to Legion to take Wal-
ter James Adams to the Legion hos-
pital.
returned home after spending sevi
days here with relatives.
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youniMr. and Mrs. F. J. Hemphill sfnd
little granddaughter of Trenton, Mo.,
are visiting hjfze in the home of Mr.
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by cautious driving.
“Eighteen persons were killed last
New Year’s” said Director Homer
Garrison of the state police. “With
futilities increasing about 10 per cent
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Published Every Friday
J.H. ABNEY A SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
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velThe experience of the test, two ' CUTS IN SPENDING FOR AGRl-
ycan, Mr. Roosevelt declared, “has CULTURE WILL BE OPPOSED
■ Misses .Mary Hel
Knight and Anna Lou More, bot
PEACE OFFER BY
j NAZIS CLAIMED
Washington, Dec. 30.—Verne Mar-
thall, chairman of the No Foreign
War Committee, reported Monday
that high Nazi officials had proposed
“honorable and just” peace terms to
be negotiated at a White House con-
ference a month after the war start-
ed, but that the Roosevelt Adminis-
tration rebuffed the offer.
Marshall described the terms as
constituting ‘a sounef economic peace.’
He added that Americans “want the
O’DANIEL URGES CARE
TO AVOID ACCIDENTS
Austin, Dec. 20.—While Governor
O’Daniel urged citizens to resolve to
avoid accidents in the hew year, the
State Police Department Sunday pre-
dicted 20 deaths from highway violen-
ce would usher in 1941.
In his regular Sabbath broadcast
from the mansion, O’Daniel plead-
ed with listeners to contribute as their
share of solving problems of state
ruination make you pay tribute to
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■utered at the postoffice at Lampasas,
Teuas, as second class mail matter.
Billy Eales, student of Southwest
Aeronautical School of Dallas re-
turned Tuesday after spending the
Christmas holidays here with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bales. -
“At that time,” he emphasized,
“only Poland hr.d been bombed.”
Mrs. Will Collis received word !
urday of the marriage of her
Orin Pollock to Miss Georgia Philli
which took place December 24th .
Richmond. The couple will make the£) ve
home in Rosenburg, where Mr. P
lock is engaged in business.Very sincerely yours, J
J. W. O-’Banion, Chairman
State Executive Committee.
I He could have massed eonrmous pres-
sure on Congress to accomplish a de-
sirable result. But he remained silent.
Timely is the President’s summary
of the necessary complete co-opera-
tion of all factors in national life in
the defense program, hut here again
Mr. Roosevelt could have been more
effective had he been more specific
as to the relative duties of all of us
in a united front.
The very purpose of the Sunday-
night talk is to solidify national
thought on the responsibilities that
face us, not only to ourselves, but to
the world. Mr. Roosevelt’s leadership
should unite in Avar effort the part
of the American people that does ac-
cept as very real our danger, that
does recognize that security involves
facing the danger, not flying
it.—Dallas News.
Miss Olene Casbeer of Brady •
here visiting with relatives
most cases,” they- are
the kind of work the
done in ' the United
should be placed only before the
President. After jerking back and
forth all of one day, he finally agreed
to take it to the State Department
and submit it to Berle.
“Davis -was so mystified by all
these circumstances that he refused
to. give Berle the original document,
initialed by all the high government
officials of at least two governments
who attended the conference on these
peace proposals, but gave him a copy.
Berle was everciscd—he was mad.
“Davis didn’t give him the orig-
inal, but I know where it is, and 1
haye a copy.”
Marshall said that he believed the
only copies were those held by Da-
vis, the State Department and him-
self but that *<maybe a certain Unit-
ed States Senator” whom de did not
name had one.
To queries about the terms of the
document Marshall suggested that re-
porters apply to Berle but said he re-
garded the terms as “amazing be-
cause they were predicated entirely
on a lasting solution to the econo-
mic differences which always have
adverse criticism. This high rating
your High School is outstanding ami
emphasizes the constructive lefuler
ship of the public schools of youi
Mr. and Mrs. Hayle Foster of
son City, Iowa, left Saturday
will go to Colorado City for st
days to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Doss, enroute, home. They were ac-Mrs. Albert Dennis has yesumed
her duties at the Economy Store aC
ter a two week’s illness. vMrs. Jesse Coward underwent an
operation at the local hospital Thurs-
day morning.
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Miss Betty Young has return<
from Fort Worth after spending se.’
oral days there with her sister ar
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L<
Fry.
.Miss Elizabeth Townsen retumedT
Monday from Temple where she hash
•been visiting for the past few days ;
with her brother and sister-in-lawit
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Townsen.Kirby Moore of Star wa8 a visitor
in Lampasas, Monday.Miss Etta May Alexander and Rob-
| ert Galceran of Galveston are visiting
in the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. R. Alexander.
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Hitler will not win, those who are i
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death P’cture ! propl j,ltjons tjlat haV(> becn cjjt out „
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[economy league said savings of $2,-
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Mrs. Gerald Lunday of San Angelo
underwent an appendectomy
local hospital Tuesday. Mrs.
is Dr. H. B. Rollins* sister.
which can
the appease-
J meat group—those who believe we are
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history.
contents the Amri leans
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Some con-'i cssior.al economy advo-
cates ‘■aid. however, they had little
hope of effecting reductions in non-
BRITISH PERFECTING ’
NI9HT MP DEFENSE
OttawK/Dec. 30.—Air Chief
shall Sir Hugh Dowding of the
ish Royal Air Force declared Monday
n new method Ttas bOen TounJ'wKIcK
he believed would shortly take “all
the weight and sting” out of the Nazi
night bombing attacks on Britain.
Sir Hugh declared at a press con-
ference that equipment for the new
method of air fighting was being
rapidly completed but gave no de-
tails. He also said he expected the
worst of the night bombing menace
would be over by Spring.
Sir Hugh arrived Monday for
meetings with Canadian air officers,
to be followed by conferences in
Washington and other places in the
United States.C. E. and Tommie Nance of Ama-
rillo will arrive Monday night to
spend several days visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Jess Nance.
can appease the Nqgis.'
“No man can tame a tiger into a
kitten by stroking it,” he continued.
“There can be no. appeasement with
[ ruthlessness. Thefe can be no rea-
.soning with incendiary bomb.
know noyV'that a nation can have peace
with the Nazis only at the price of
total surrender.” t
Declaring that even the Italian
people have been forced “to become
■ arcoinplircs of tin* Nazis, the picsi-
dent added: “At this moment they
do not know how soon they will be
embraced to death by their allies.”
Mr. Rooscyelt asserted that “Amer-
ican appeasers” ignore warnings
I found in th? .fate of conquered Euro-
I peon * nations and argue that “the
I Unites! States might just as well
thiow its influence into the scale of a
dictated peace, and get the best out
of it that we t an.”
“They cal! a ‘nagotiated peace.”
I Nonrcn; o! It is a negotiated peace if
i a gang of outlaws surround your com-
. of extermina-
tvibue to save
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.0 peace at all. It would
another armistice, leading to
gigantic armament race and
i devastating trade wars in
I .Ard in the.
would offer the .only real re
to ihe Axis powers.”
holjlful legislation. With the John-
son Act and the Neutrality Act, both
administration approved laws, on the
statute books, htat oversight con-
a
peace would be I
be
the
the
“received
from the
President
err. men ts
that British strength was growing.
“I believe that the Axis powers are
not going to win this war,” he added.
“I base that belief on the latest and
best information.”
Repeatedly the President referred
directly to Germany and “the Nazis.”
At one point, he declared that “the
- _ Naximasters .of, Germany- have, made,
it clear that they intend not only to
-dominate all life and thought in their
own country, but ahjo to enslave the
while of Europe, and then to use
the resources of Europe to dominate
the rest of the world." •.
In his discussion of pehce sugges-
' tions, the president said that in view
of an “underiable threat” from the
Axis powers “the United States has
no right or reason to encourage talk
of peace uAil the day shall come
when there is a clear intention on the
part of the aggressor nations to aban-
don all thought of dominating or con-
• quering the world.”
Mr. Roosevelt said it was “non-
sense” to talk of “a negotiated peace”
and asked: “Is it a negotiated peace
if a gang of outlaws surround your
you walk up Fifth Avenue as an
executive of our committee, the hap-
pier I’ll be’.”
To further questions about Davis
and his activities, Marshall related
that the oil man went abroad by
Clipper in September, 1939, “after n
lengthy conference at the White
House with President Roosevelt and
Adolph Berle, the State Department” , LAMPASAS. SCHOOL
and 4hat “the President knew what 1 HOLDS HIGH RANK
■ he was going for.” ! In a letter of December 17, 1C40,
Efforts were made at Bermuda to ! received by Superintendent Moore,
top Davis from proceedings Mar- the State Department of Education
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R. A. Martin, who will stay for a tw
I weeks visit there.
“Yout. know how it is,’* said Sena-
■w (D-Col). “We Mart cut to
conomi-.e and get along fairlv well
[ School was again unanimously elect^ff
say about to membership without, a single ad.
reiterated adverse criticism. This high rating
State
what
been
for the consideration
•ibu
. : ratine nooKS, htat oversight con-
29.-- Pi evident | atitutes an unfortunate aspect for the
- . . , arc . Roosevelt in his “‘r eside chat” Sun-
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ids (Iowa) Gazette, recounted the is a teacher of this college.
which had been ‘letnils at a press conference when I ——------------
dormitory for reporters quizzed him as to whether.-.
Davis was giving financial support .
to the No Foreign War Committee.
The editor said Davis had offered to
assist.
Marshall also was asked whether
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was a
member of the committee.
"Colonel Lindbergh warned me re-
peatedly,” he replied, “against' let-
ting his name appear publicly in our
BROWNWOOD DANCERS
ATTEND STATE MEETING
Miss Kay Watson and Sonny Smii
of the Mrs. Lon Smith Dancing Sch<
attended the annual convention of t
Texas Association of Dancing Teac
era at the Texas Hotel in Fort Wort
The association is a branch of T
Dancing Masters of America. For
teen hours of instruction were giv
during the meeting and among t
teachers were Ivan Parasoff, woi
famous 'ballet master from Mosco
and Jack Dayton of New York Cil
outstanding,teacher and tap danci
Miss Watson plans to give her Lai
O’Daniel future conflict. | pasar class the benefits of her i
‘ ■ Th? Geiiran peace offer, Marshall , structions i nFort Worth.
i t ion n.aki . you pay
! your own skins.
ly. I
suspi
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a litd
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- soft |
AMERICA AT WAR
The President on Sunday night left
no question in the minds of any of his
auditors as to his view on the posi-
tion of this country. Mr. Roosevelt re-
gards the United States, not, pcr-
haps, as at wnr, but so directly in the
line of progressive aggression by the
Axis Powers that it must regard itself
ar in a state of war. awaiting attack.
To this, his demand for all-out to
Britain is a logical corollary. On that
Arthur LaCroix. of Larry Fiel
Denver Colorado, returned hon
Thursday after spending several daj
with relatives.
if not enchantment to our view. Lv —— -----. , - ----------- --
far as the Axis Powers—Germany,!a Co,rp!pte agenda as conceived [ ressce, on December 9
Italy, Japan—arc concerned, Mr. I an<- ' tphen down in shorthand by ; High School was elected
Roosevelt left no question as this ' several stenographers at a conference ship in that body for
ntry’x disregard for their threats it},at lasted parts of three days. That’s year. -
ond as to our determination to give ' * 1! I m going <o say about the con-
■ . fcronce.”
Miss Maggie Jo Flanpagan is no»
employed at the Rollins-Brook horf
pital. She replaced Miss Floy Hum
phries who recently moved to Brown-
I wobd.
four
Hying"houra to “Caracas", Venezuela;
and Venezuela but two and a half
hours to Cuba and the Cnnal Zone;
and Cuba and the Canal Zone are
two and one-quarter hours to Tam-
pico, Mexico; and Tampico is two and
one-quarter houra to St Louis, Kan-
sas City and Omaha.
“On the other side of the conti-
nent Alaska with a white popula-
tion of only 30,000 people, is with-
in four or five hours of flying dis-
tance to Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma
and Portland.”
j a »• v * « vcmvix.i l , inifiUtt iiit* princI-
I 043,000,000 in non-defense items in 1'1“ ef all-out aid for Britain without
u total ofJthe ncxt ytrnr's
30,980 traffic deaths in the first 11 ! nnasiku
j montjis of this year—7 per cent more |
j than the 29,0f>0 total for the same I FpR LEARNS LISTENERS
pericd last year. j COULDN’T TAKE IT "
; “When the figures for December, wn.hington, Dec.
usually the peak death month,
| added in, it tip;
|toll_will be higher than any in the!
I Nation’s history except
years from 1934 to 1937.”
The council fixed the
for November at 3,570—8
i more than the 3,310 killed in Novem-
ber, 1939.
Rural accidents can be blamed for
| the larger 1940 total, the council said.
It reported the average increase in
traffic deaths was 3 per cent in citi-
es, against 9 per cent in rural areas.
In November the cities cut their toll
5 per cent, while rural accidents went
up 14 pet cent.
•“Only eight of 43 States have been
able to show reductions in traffic
deaths this year. Nebraska led with
a 12 per cent drop. Connecticut and
South Dakota showed savings of life
after a previously unfavorable rec-
ord. North Carolina and Georgia
dropped from the reduction list when
the November figures were added.
“Of 418 cities reporting for 11
motnhs, 175 reduced their traffic
(leaflis and '56 “heTB “JeatlT totals' to'
the 1939 level.
St. Paul, whose population is
177,900,- was the largest city with a
perfect record for November. The
second largest was Tulsa, wi^i a
population of 148,000.
“Forty-four cities started Decern- 1
her with perfect record for the first
II months. The largest was Brookline,
Miss., whose population is 49,200.
Second largest was High Point, N. C.
with a population of 46,400.
“Dallas’ 45 per cent reduction in
deaths for the first 11 months kept
it In first place for death reductions
in large cities.”
O’DANIELS’ ORPRAN AFRAID
SANTA WOULD MISS HER
Corsicana, Dec. 29.—Wanda Kilgore
6, who spent Christmas with Gover-
nor O’Daniel in Austin, came back
to the Corsicana State Home Sunday
to say she believed her brother Nor-
man had written Santa Claus she
would be in Austin.
She had been worried over the
change in her address for the holi-
days and had asked Norman, State
Horae football player, to write to ■
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"I got a tricycle, a doll, and lots war w°n whichever side can die-
of other things,” she said.
Governor and Mrs.
brought her here, then returned,their . .. ___
other guest, Charles Goodson, 4, to waR brought to this country by ,
I the Waco home. Davis, New York oil onera-1
The office at the home/ here was toi'» who« Marshall said, had Sold ex-! turned home Thursday after spen<
busy all day checking in children > frepriated Mexican oil to the Axis the holiday season here with
who were taken for Christmas visits powers but only prior to the war. and Mrs. J. F. Everett. She was
by persons who responded to an ap- The offer, he said, was pigeonholed companied by ]
peal, by the Governor asking Texans the State Department. Knight and Anna Lou More, 1
to play Christmas hosts to children Marshall, editor of the .Cedar Rap- students of S. T. C. W. Mrs. Dur
in orphan homes.
Christmas trees
prepared in every
Christmas Eve will be held Monday
night, . Superintendent J. S. Malley
said. " - r I
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out t
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traff
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save your own skins.”
Saying that a British defeat would
bring “a new and terrible era” for
the whois world, Mr. Roosevelt added
that to survive in such a world “of
brute forces” this nation would have
to become permanently a militaristic
power.
“Frankly and definitely there is
danger ahead—danger against which
we must prepare,” the chief executive
continued. ■ ■
• But we well know that we cannot ! p, doubled effort to spare human lives
escape danger, or the fear of it, by '
crawling into bed and pulling the
covers over our heads.”.,
“Would she (Germany)-hesitate to
say to any South American country,
*we are occupying you to protect you
nasnington, vtc. z».—rresiueni; wvwpjrnx jvw vo -fnwwv
Roosevelt called on the nation tonight i aggression by the United States,
to become “the great arsenal of ‘Any South American country, in
democracy,” predicted flatly that the Nazi hands, would always constitute
Axis powers would not win the war! a jumping off place for a German
and said that the United States now attack cn any one of the other re- cur.
has “no right or reason to encourage publics of this hemisphere.”
talk of peace.’
In a world-wide broadcast from the , , , , . ,
White House diplomatic room, the P™Ve^y°,n(l ,that n° nati°"
r.c-ident repeatedly castigated the
policies of Nazi Germany. If Great
Britain should be defeated, he said,
the Axis powers would “control the j
continents of Europe, Asia, Africa,1
Australia, and the high seas.”
“It is no exaggeration to say,” he
■continued, “that all of us in the
Americas would be living at the
point of a gun—a gun loaded with
pvplnsivp bullets, economic as well as
military.” . r •
The fate of small nations in Europe
Mr. Roosevelt declared, “tails us what
il. mean? to live at the point of n
Nazi gun.”
The talk, wor which the President j
received numerous suggestions and j
.which he redrafted seven times before |
deliveiy, was described by the chief!
executive as “a talk on national se-
curity” rather than “a fireside chat
on war.”
Calling for a gigantic speed-up of [
niti's production, he said the notion
of “business as usual’ must be dis-
cared and more planes, tanks, guns,
and freighters rushed to completion.
“There will be no ‘bottlenecks’ in
our determination to aid Great Brit- I
ain,” he said. “No dictator, no com-
bination of dictator?, will weaken that
determination by threats of how they
will construe that determination.”.
The nation insists,'’he sa;d, that
there must be no strikes’ or lockouts
in defense industries. Fears as to
over-expansion of plant capacity must
not block the program, he said. More-
over, the production .of certain con-
sumer and luxury gods will have to
give way to defense production if and
when the machines and raw materials
involved are needed to carry out “our
primary and compelling ‘purpose.”
Any talk about sending an army
abroad is a “deliberate untruth,” hel
emphasized, and the sole purpose of I
administration policy “is to keep you •
now, and your children later, and I
your grandchildren much later, out [
of a last-ditch war for the preserva-
tion of American independence.”
Gibing at the Axis powers, he de-
clared that “with nil their vaunted I
efficiency and parade of pious pur- !
pose in this war, there are still in I
their background the concentration [
camp 'and the servants of God in
chains.”
Concerning fifth columnists, he
said that “secret emissaries” of “evil
forces which have crushed and under-
mined and corrupted” so many other
nations “are already within our
gates,” but the government is “fer-
reting them out.”
He struck out, too, at persons he
termed “appeasers,” saying that “un-
wittingly in
“doing exactly
dictators want
States.”
Pointing out
incaluable military support
heroic* Greek anny,” the
declared that other “gov-
in exile,” were helping and
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Lampasas Sity Schools: I
• “In the annual session of the SouthJ
weed that distance lends security ball’s account continued, “Davis land- !‘ in Association of Colleges amt Seq
g0 ed at Port V’nshington, N. Y., bring- I ondary Schools held in Memphis, TcnJ
to 13, youi
to member J
the current
advocates f-aTe while Hitler wins, those who be-I continued, but he succeeded in ; as tire .following ' to regarding thi
■ * ■ [getting through. T-------’
“On Oct. 9 or there>bouts,” Mar-
Washington, Dec. 29.—Any efforts
to trim nqn-defense spending in the
. re.v budget appeared likely today to
| encounter determined opposition from
legislators interested in maintaining
an undiminished flow of federal cash
into farm benefit payments, highway
construction and relief projects.
The president has said he hoped to
cut non-defense items “to the bone”
and steps have been taken to eli-
minate some new public building pro-
jects.
Senators Bankhead (D-Ala) and
Capper (R-Kan), members of the so-
called “Farm” bloc, have served no-
tice they will work for increased j
rather than reduced farm benefits.
Bankhead said the $212,000,000 the aid, the President ■would place but a
government is paying out this year single limitation, that imposed by our
ought to be boosted so that farmers t own “overall” needs for our own de-
1 would get full “parity” (the 1009-14 fense.
[ average) prices for their crops in-: The White House
stead of the two-thirds they now re- [ made in dlre'ct attack on that section
: feive. These payments are in. addi- of American thought
ticn to $500,000,000 for soil cons.rva- (’escrih'-d roughly as
■ tion compliance. |
j Highway construction :
■ have gone ahead with plans calling
for little if any-reduction in federal i
grants to etntes for that purpose.
What happens to the WPA appro-1
; priatic n, most legislators have agreed, i
t will dt pend on how many of the idle;
have been put to work by industrial |
I expansion under the impetus of the ' p'
tlefdnse program up to next March, j!
Ti e current appropriation of about | whatever aid" to can legally to their
?1 000.-0000.900 for the WPA was
made for only eight months, ending
March 1.
i'llAFFIC DEATH '
I’OJ.L AT 34,500
Chicago, Dec. 29.—The National
Safety Council estimated Sunday that
. American WiJc deaths-would
to at least 34 500 this year.
’Ihis figure was almost 2,000
than th? total for 1939, whin
ptflfson? were killed.
| ’With average me, eases of. from I fop p cou,^ but'
i •> to 8 per cent for every gevgraph-1 -
I real legion, the traffic
I lot th.- first 1.1 ntont-hs (of 1940) wasj
black in every part of
the council reported.
“The Nation piled i
reporter asked.
“He had it. transulated into Eng-
lish,” Marshall repealed.
“He notified the White House he
was Ijere. They asked him to sub-
mit it to the State Department. He
^e.iiiii- i . tivnl-i-'ring bn tlw.nn.lu ;»
I gallant fote. Nor can any of these
■ foreign governments question thgt
j the nation is prepared to enter the
_ftnv on the side of Britain or alone
if the circumstances force us to that
position. This in spite of Mr. Roo«e-
viIt’s adherence to the idea that no
expeditionary force is required, as ou"
1 assi: trrn-e. i»er the White House
j speech was much in the nature of an
'(■pen invitation for a declaration of
j war or measures of war against us by
the Axis Powers, a circumstance that
would force enr milRe“y hand.
The President embraced the princi-
rpeech. The radio is Mr. Roosevelt’s
) <lny night related that one of many! ost pow iiTWeapon. lie had lii? al
■telegrams counseling him on hi* ed-1 tention of his country Sunday night.
four dress “I egged me not to tell again
j of the case with which our American
cities could be bombed.”
The reference apparently was to
the following portion of his special
defense message to Congress last
May 16 in which he discussed modern
aerial ^warfare:
J‘From the Fjords of Greenland it
is four hours by air to Newfound-
land; five hours to Nova. Scotia, New
Bi unswick and Quebec, and’ only six
hours to New England.
“The Azores are only 2,000 miles
from parts of our eastern Seaboard
and if Bermuda fell into hostile hands
it is a matter of less than three hours
for modern bombers to reach our
shores.
a “From a base in the outer
Indies, the coast of Florida
be reached in 200.minutes.
*The islands off the west coast of
Africa are only 1500 miles
Brazil,. Modern planea. starting
"the Cape Verde Islands can be
Brazil in seven hours.
"And Para, Brazil, is but
“The action of the
Committed of the Southern Associa
“The conference was in Berlin?” a tion is significant in that your Higl
reporter inquired.
“That’s all I’m g'oing to
the conference,” Marshall
“Davis delivered at the
partment the agenda for
pears to me would have
sented
, peace conference.
’ The document itself in plain words
jagreed that President Roosevelt would
I be the mediator at a conference in the
; White House. It indicated the TdenHty
of the plenipotentiaries who would returned home after spending sever-
vvould be sent. Davis had it transulat- ‘4 days.here'with friends."
ed into English." ------*
“From the German language ?’’ a [ J W. Sanderson ot Moline underwent
’an operation at the local hospital
Wednesday.
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