Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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"alertly continuing defense prepra-
tions," the premien said.
Need for Developing
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it appears virtually certain that a
Air School
Mr. Brule said that it would be im-
possible to use the present field for
such a school as the unit would re-
quire from 1000 to 1500 acres of land,
but he urged that the citizetship get
behind this movement and if possible
improperly housed and it was impos-
sible to keep them from being dam-
aged, and should there be a fire in
the building it would be impossible
to replace many valuable documents.
Reporting for a committee who had
been selected to investigate the pos-
sibility of securing one of the govern-
dient air training schools, he mM
that although nothing could be done
at: present that Chief Engineer Smith
of Fort Worth had been here and
had invited a committee from the city
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fe -berious
rons, most
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to Atlanta,
am, Bten-
"Our podftom devoid ofanp-
vocation, is a wuarantee of our own
and our neigbbors pence," thie pre-
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spanning the Shumchun River, a part
of the Chinese frontier of Hongkong’s port of F rench Indo-China some 500
One County Bought
$385,Worthof ,
PartinConflict
ANKARA, Turkey, June 27. — Pre-
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veton which would
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The bridges destroyed were
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whether you are solicited or not
That is what Mrs, Mars spam "er-
rell. Grimes County Red Gross chair-
man, is requesting as only two days
remain inwhieto raise the quota
of 81,720 for the European war ref-
ugees.
Donations will be received at the
office of the Navasota Daily Exami-
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. S. Navy’s Latest Fighting Giant
county people are being urged, to at-
tend the entertainment given to boost
the total of Grimes County contribu-
ee Wednesday
Alsisfink Mlas Pranekew
HrsnRtth Whhte, PrLonise
Meekina Jo Newman. Joyce Peeraon,
ddkdsangg 6
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$ Ketchum, ft#. and Mrs. G. A Harris,
Mr. and. Mrs McDonald, Mr. aud
ers of mmbn
sat ions to release the men for three
weeks starting _
Guard maneuvers, 1—
granted the guardsmen diffing their
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where the fire station is now locat-
ed", he added.
Mr. Brule said thut as the build-
ing now stands all records were
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HONGKONG, June 27. — Border] Rumors dirculated, however, that
bridges were dynamited aud even,' the Japanese were planning to block
While 40,000 spectators cheer themselves hoarse, the huge battleship
North Carolina slides down the ways at Brooklyn navy yard. The 35,000-
ton ship to the second dreadnaught to be launched this month, and one of
the largest American war vessels that has over slid down the ways.
eommmitteeman and floor manager
donator Robert A. Tart, om the
3 ads 3
mmmerce
lot adjoining the
The address which was the first stogie secondary vote in the delega-
otfielal anmuammset of Turilh tion.
policy sinee Italy enters the con- ‘ The Texans are sti planning to
batiek with CW. R. B. Orenger, Nation
girls were told to be ready to “con ade Hongkong to compel Britain to
to attend a meeting to be he d isider themselves soldiers" as thisulose the route through Rurma over
! British crown colony' watched Japan “hich China ha sbeen obtainiie sup-
tighten its net around French indo- plies.
Cham-
Morris
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ng at
Recent photo ofEng Victor Em-
manuel of Italy, .Who, according to
an official announcemient in Rome,
has left for the front to lead his
troops. In Ms declaration of war U
Dueo. referred to him as “the soul
of Italy."
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Appeal te Meet
Qota Made as
Drive Nears End
were tor the jdgtk contest wufldb if to be
held- at 8 o’MM^tltat evening. The
mier Befik Saydam of Turkey. told Thomas E Dewey. youthful New
parliament that his government has York candidate tor the Republican
definitely decided not to enter the [ presidential nomination, made a be-
of dourtney contrbe i
centa. Mrs..wie Hingre
justify Turkey’s rer
r on the side of the
ture of French-protected Syria and s
the poseibiity of a Boigarian atthekftr
to Turkey from the north.
Respond to the Red Gross
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To Hold Bi-Monthly
Meets in July, August
Members Hear
More on Seeking
Air School Unit
During the months of July and
ity if ne all of the "Dexans will
to Weddell L Wiukle
de duing his . press confer-
___ « tepeted- he id been MW-'ow .mu Rast Ma «ihty bought
connict ed of sabntaniial secondary strength
The British-owned newspaper Chi-
those na Mail said Japanese warships al-
UooNinW, TromtaX 7 30 neruntthe otthle week.afta.
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We have neen new developmetits
encirele ns. eireumseribe us. flank
cotiou's Maginot line, and force us
to surrender., while we stood commit-
ted to the old policies, defeated by
our own inertia.".
The chemicai industry, in contrast,
•Mr. Rogers said. spends an average
of two per cent of its gross sales in
research work, while one large firm
plows back four per cent of its gross
receipts into laboratory work. Only
one-seventh of one per cent of the
value of agriculture's products goes
into research. He cited the revival
of the motor car industry as a fur
ther example of what intensive re
search can do to revive an industry
from depression conditions.
"There are doors of research oppor-
tunity that are so obviously open
that .th*, technicians can find thd an
swers eurely and with rensonable
promptness", he said, “despite our be
lated start." He pointed out prog
rens made by the cattle industry, in
adapting its product to anit the de-
mand by "wtreamlining the original
longhorn steer. and producing a beef
type animal
Cites Industries Tat On—>
“The beef industry has kept up
August the Ohamber of Commerce
will meet every other Thursday in-
stead of every week, as has been the
custom for several years, members
voted today. The next meeting will
be Thursday, July 11.
R. J. Brule told of work contem-
plated in remodeling of the city hall.
Hle said if the work was carried out
as planned that an addition, which
would house the fire station and take
ubseu ., and their jobs be kept open
for thezh upon their return .
The rejuest for cooperation in the
i: - Tequs area was transtiitted by
SMtajor General Cinude V. DWesd.
360 Division Commahder T N. G.,
through Ray Leemau, exectitive vies
president of the South Texas'cnan-
her of comerge, wndoweras.aa.
osMtaittOn devprted thud A represen-
Sammie tutive. ton theobinekesedinda festival in
seareh program in the cotton industry
for the past 20 years,’’ he said. "We
have gone along, producing cotton ex-
pensively, from poor seed, on poor
land, at a cost that has prohibited
its i iso for any but the purpones for
which we have always used it. hop
Ing for a better day, with nothing
upon which to base that hope."
Research lias developed and put in-
to commercial production thousands
of new products in the chemical in-
dustry. for example, Mr. Rogers said.
Defeated By Irertia
“We in the cotton industry have
been the outstanding example of a
profound and i analysing convictien
that there is nothing new under the
sun regarding the cotton business,"
he said. "We have continued to raise
cotton in the same old expensive way,
wi attempt to market it for the same
purposes ami in the same markets.
The warning to British women in i anese army headquarters annouced
the colony was uttered by in armyjits advancing units had reached Lung
official in the formation of a woman's how, in Kwangsi Provinee near the
auxiliary transport service. : Tude-Chinese border. -
These and other defense measures. 1 A British spokesman denied a Jap-
were described as “‘purely precaution- aese allegation that war materials
ary.’’ An official statement said there had, been transported to China from
was “no cause for alarm" in the pres- l livukong.
eace of Japanese troops Just across The Hongkong Telegraph reported
the border, since they purportedly | women residents of the crown col-
were merely mopping up Chinese I ony's border area were moving into
guerrillas. I urban districts.
war. | lated bid for the [26 Texas vote*, but
Turkey, which once considered her- appeared to have failed.
self a non-belligetent ally of Great The Texas delegates greeted the
New Yorker warmly and listened to
him for nearly an boor, but It is
doubtful that be pickea up even a
On Lawn at 8:30
The Red Cross benefit showing of
Navasota movies on the high school .
lawn Friday evening at .8:82 o’clock .
im receiving advertising today by
Walter Koehn's committee, and the
boy scouta are selling tickets for the
event expected to draw hundreds.
Dan Daniels has been secured to
pubiicize the program Friday after-1
noon, and Mr. Daniels has also offer-
ed to use bU sound equipment to en-!
tertain during the various Intermix-1
sions, i. ,
i George AdAitgelt, Dr. H. L. Stew-
art, an Julius MeDonald will op- H
erate the projectors. The boy scouts
will be In charge of organising the !
ground and in collecting money, and
Britain and Franee, however.
to secure such a site. This school
would bring from 1500 to 2000 new
people to Navasota, he pointed out.
G. a Galloway of the safety com-
mittee reported on the safety Sally's
near the grammar school building.
He said that they had been borrow-
ed and should either be purchased
or returned. He was instueted to
act on this matter as he thought ad
vimble-
Mis Jane Lou Short we named
duchess for the bthnguevue at Tay-
lor July 4 by a committee of the or-
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ferny only
terepce.
' folly on-
the unem-
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Gtwdd
osupns
WBaet Texus cities haxing National
Guard Units were requested today by
Hle East/nexas chamber of commerce
, to coopetote in asking local employ-inK Ahek amonnt to the Wxami-
- “ is of these guard organi- . uor:
, j Total raised in the county so far
'naTugust 3 for National to ald in the European
TLt ton W contilet is smmaina
ti»t run W lie . . _ sttidents Assist
-Under the directton of Miss Tran-
ule Francklow, students in the fifth,
i eftk and seventh rtades contributed
81076 to a campaign of their elass-
Navasotian is
Speaker at
Waco Meeting
WACO, Texas, June 27. —.Th*
solution of the problem of people of
Texas who depend for their economic
welfare upon the cotton industry-
producers, brokers, fabricators and
all others affected-depends upon in-
tensive seientifie research, to find
new Uses for cotton, to adapt the cot-
ton plant to new conditions, to raise
better crops on better land at lower
ts. John I). Rogers, president of
the East Texas Chamber of Commerce,
and farmer of a 4,000-acre cotton
plantation at Navasota, told the Tex
as Cotton Committee’s research con-
gress here today.
Foreign markets; Mr Rogers de-
clared, are definitely gone, and the
cotton industry must concentrate, its
efforts on improving and developing
th. dumesti market, us its only hepe
of salvation.
J "We have sadly neglected a re-
k tions fot aid to war
Hurnish,
Navaspta Ahotogt
;/ furnishdiet the e
Misses Kathete 14u
Spann, and Hathel
and Mr Stewart, D
Clarence Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt
(Tawfonj^Mr. and Mrs, C. Walueas.
Mir. anddkb {Johnnie Crain. Mr. and
Mrs codam Gveewood, and Mr and
Mrs. Jokhnie Thomas, v
Other* who have movle reels are
requested to rtg thel to the opera-
tors FrMay evening on the school
lawn at 8:15 o’clock at which time
the musical program will begin. The
in the Texas delesntion. He conced-
ed that the M votes will go to Taft on
the initial L
but suM that ba
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1940, newspaper, June 27, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1382497/m1/1/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.