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BONHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1941
United Press Service
NUMBER 38
VOLUME 74 Six Pages Today
Who Signed Pacts With Axis
Defeat of Act to
Veteran Editor
Speaks to Rotary
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set up a new
regulatory
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funds would go to other
leaving tens of thousands of desti- the singing of “God Bless Ameri-
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Texas has a tillable area of more
farms in the
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Threatens Texas
Bonham,
Texas
Fannin’s Rural
Population Shows
2.2 Per Cent loss
you need money for
any personal or busi-
Loan applications of
all sizes —small and
of Texas showed an increase of 2
per cent.
State
been
state and chamber of commerce of-
ficials say that his speech will be
worth the price of admission alone.
Russia was mum but there
some suspicion that the Soviet
was
may
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INSURANCE
FOR EACH
DEPOSITO•
Baptist church.
Mr. McRae said present indica-
Measure is Dead
For Present
Session
AUSTIN, .March 27—The Texas
Senate committee on nominations
Wednesday night reported favor-
ably on the following governor’s
appointments:
elections in San Antonio munici-
pal races. The bill finally passed
the legislature today.
Cabinet With
Pro-British Views
Rules at Belgrade
Britain, Greece
Rejoice at
Sudden Revolt
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Asks Why O’Daniel
Has Not Named
Successor
NOW!
This Offer Expires April 20
Established 1866
FAVORITE
to. the overturn in Belgrade may have
Turkey as announced Monday, and j cast something of a pall over the
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AND FANNIN COUNTY FAVORITE
Devoted to Farm and Home, and to Every Legitimate
Interest of Bonham and Fannin County.
“CHECKBOOK
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Thin egg shells often are due to
Create Oil, Gas
Board is Surprise
BUDGET!”
three to 10,000 acres.
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Read Daily Favorite want a&
Oldest Newspaper in
Fannin County
Carries More County,
day that Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel has j there were 501.017
There was rejoicing in Greece,
too, where it was thought that
Issuance Start as
Bargain Offer
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Bonham News
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here. We place more
importance on sound-
ness and purpose of
loans than on size. If
Bonham State Bank
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State Auditor’s Office Illegally Friday Night I " " " T _ V" _• -
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Stands
! ed tickets should do so at once.”
j he said.
j Former State Senator Lloyd Price
of Fort Worth will be the principal
speaker of the evening. .Senator
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Reuben Williams of Fort Worth
to be State Life Insurance Comm-
issioner and Chairman of the State
Insurance Commission; Claude E.
Williams, Longview, to be Chair-
man Director of the Texas Unem-
ployment Compensation Commiss-
ion; Marvin Leonard of Fort Worth
and Frank S. Roberts of Brecken-
ridge to be members of the State
Welfare Board; Carl Lars Svenson
of Lubbock and Allin F. Mitchell,
Corsicana to be members of the
Board of Professional Engineers.
The committee also reported fav-
orably on the welfare’s nominia-
tion of J. S. Murchison of Corsi-
cana to be welfare director.
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Cotton Stamps to
Be Issued Early
Club Wednesday
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In Summer Months O’Daniel Approves
Bill Requiring
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ment to the anti-German groups.
Matsuoka met with Hitler in Ber-
lin today after conversation with
foreign minister Ribbentrop which
were reported to have resulted in
the usual “full agreement.”
It was suspected, however, that
garding the whereabouts of Jennie
May Brown who resided in Fannin
county in 1916 and 1917.
The information was requested
so that funeral arrangements might
be made for E. N. Brown, her
father, who had died this week in
John Sealey hospital at Galveston.
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Russia Said to
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More and more women are
learning the time-saving and
worry-saving advantages of a
checkbook ‘budget.’ The sim-
ple listing of expenditures, as
they are made, simplifies the
task of budgeting. Perhaps it
is the answer to your troubles!
Seek Information
| Of Whereabouts
| Jennie May Brown
J. E. (Hutch) Leatherwood, dis-
trict clerk,, Wednesday received a
letter asking for information re-
Department not considering the
Ability of children to aid parents
who are seeking old age assistance.
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Appointees of
O’Daniel Okayed
By Committee
chairman of the ticket committee
i for the annual chamber of com-
1 merce banquet scheduled at 7:15
j o’clock Friday night at the First
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By Harry Benge Crozier
AUSTIN, Tex., March 27.—The
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if it is to carry out the state’s job
of certifying as to the eligibility j -uu- • -- •l •
of applicants for Federal assist- ’ standing public speaxers of
ance, Randle declared. “Unless the .
AUSTIN, March 27—Sen. Joe WIrWIAggW/DA LU
Hill of Henderson today told the VV Fuli HV33 W 1 11 -8
Senate that Tom C. King, whose1 1. Iy 1c
re-appointment the Senate rejected! Public Welfare
jobs to replace those who leave. In ; will be the toastmaster for the oc-
be no ; casion and will introduce speakers
Federal i and entertainment numbers.
states, I The program will be opened with
Formal Warning
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Red Army Reported
Withdrawing From
Turkish Border
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frontier facing Turkey.
Balkan diplomatic quarters in Jugoslavia and Greece would
Vichy said that last Friday Soviet; fight the German threat shoulder-
Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs; to-shoulder. The coup was believed
A. V. Vyshinky summoned Jugo-j to make possible realization of the
told him of the withdrawal of So -1 big demonstrations of Axis-Japan-
viet troops from Trans-Caucasia. ‛ ese accord which Nazi propagan-
The troops were withdrawn, it dists have repeatedly said should
was said, to permit the Turkish' be most closely observed in the
general staff to withdraw its own' United Staes.
on March 5, is attempting to hold, Needs Funds to
office as “De Facto” state auditor! N ., . Mcc.
until his successor is named and' lanntann Offices
confirmed. Hill also asked why' WAXAHACHIE, March ,7_For
Gov. O’Daniel is not complying with lack or a state appropriation of 1
the provision of the constitution $950,000, the needy people of Texas •
that when an appointee is reject- are threatened with the loss of
ed by the Senate the Governor WPA assistance, involving an an-
shall without delay make a new nual federal expenditure of more
nomination. j than $50,000,000, Ellis County Judge
startling results. Moreover,
Slav Minister Milan Gabrilovitch to L British ambition to set up a Bal-
the Kremluin and told him what; kan defensive bloc of Jugoslavia,
the Russian government had told: Greece and Turkey.
Rep. Gene McNamara of Waco,' C. C. Randle, chairman of the re-
chairman of the pension investi- lief comimttee of the Texas asso-
gating committee, introduced a elation of County Judges and Com-
bill which he predicted would “ab-j missioners, warned today.
solutely nail down the legisla- The state Department-of Public
tuies instructions to the Welfare Welfare must have additional funds
WPA program and the
piano. The Rev. J. I. Gregory, pas-
tor of the First Baptist church, will
give the invccation.
The banquet will be brought to
a close with the singing of The
Eyes of Texas.
Plans for the affair were near
completion Thursday and ladies of
the Baptist church had everything
in readiness for the occasion.
House opponents working, it was
manifest in close concert with the
Railroad Commission, took their
vengeance the bold way by strik-
ing out the bill’s enacting clause.
In many respects the oil and gas
commission fight has been the
mystery package of the session. A
little group of oil men and their
attorneys acting under the direc-
Germany in regard to the Balkan
situation.
Gabrilovitch yesterday announc-
ed his resignation as envoy to Mos-
cow in protest against the signing
of the Jugoslav-Axis pact.
Vyshinky, in his talk with Gab-
rilovitch, also was said to have
told him of Moscow’s decision to
give an “appeasing pledge” of j
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AUSTIN, March 27—Rep. Fagan! than 80,000,000 acres, or about one-
Dickson of San Antonio said to- half of its entire area. In 1935
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troops from the East and bring
them into position closer to Ger-
Soon as Performance
Is Checked
Cotton order stamps, to Fe earn-
ed by farmers for participating in
man forces along the Bulgarian- absence of enough limestone or
Turkish frontier. oyster shell in the diet.
tions were that one of the largest
! crowds ’ ever to attend a chamber smacking down by a vote of 86 to
! of commerce banquet would be 57 of the bill- to snt — ~ "
! present for the affair Friday appointive gas and oil
; night, pointing out that there had body was the outstanding surprise
i been a heavy advance sale of tick- of this legislatrue that has not
I cts. “Those who have not purchas- i been without unanticipated and
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The University of Texas has
established a master’s degree in
aeronautical enineering. I
No Tickets Will
Be Sold at
Door of Banquet
“Get your banquet tickets early.
There’ll be none sold at the door,”
( That was the advice given Bon-
hamites today by A. G. McRae,
which has ■ been arranged for the
evening is one of the best present-
ed in several years. Heading the
list of entertainers is the East
Dorm Trio from East Texas Teach-
ers college composed of Misses Dor-
othy Lil Cobb, Margaret Watkins
and Elizabeth Taylor. This trio is
rated as one of the best singing
groups in North Texas and won
state honors while singing as a trio
for Marlin high school. The other
number on the entertainment pro-
gram is Miss Beverly Jones, a
seventh grade student at Bailey
Inglish school who will present an
accordian program.
John S. Dickey, president of the
chamber of commerce, will preside
Marston at the
State of Texas makes the neces-
sary appropriation, no new appli-
cants may be received for WPA.
Similarly, without state assistance,
channels in Texas will be blocked
for those seeking NYA jobs or as-
signment to CCC camps, and the
distribution of Federal Surplus
Commodities will stop.”
Texas is one of only three states
i which have failed to provide certi-
VICHY, March 27.—Unconfirmed
reports reached Vichy tonight that
Russia, in a formal notice to Ger-
many, has warned that the Soviets
will be compelled to “re-examine
Russia’s relations with Germany”
Nazi armed forces violate Jugo-
slavia’s frontiers.
These same reports said that the
Soviets, in connection with their
new neutrality pledge to Turkey,
had reached a secret agreement
with the Turkish general staff and
that Red Army forces were with-
drawing from the Trans-Caucasia
tion generally of Former
Senator Clint Small had
While Fannin County’s total
population showed a decrease of 99
between 1930 and 1940, as shown by
the U. S. Census, the rural popula-
tion of the county—including the i
fying facilities, he asserted. The
other two states are now consid-
ering legislation to provide the re-
quired services.
Rolls of the WPA are not static,
Judge Randle asserted, pointing
out that more than 7,000 persons
leave WPA for private employment
in Texas each month.
“Unless the state provides this
the Supplementary Cotton Pro-
gram. will be issued this summer
as soon as possible after perform-
ance is checked under the 1941
AAA Farm Program, according to .
J. M. Blanton, chairman of the I
Fannin county AAA committee. ! I
This means that in the early i ]
cotton-producing counties of Tex- I l
as, issuance of stamps may begin!
j in late June, with the bulk of the I
1 stamps expected to be distributed i
during July and August?
Mr. Blanton said this estimate is
based on past experience in check-
j ing cotton performance during a
normal growing season. A late
growing season in 1941 would, of
course, delay issuance of stamps to i
farmers in the areas affected.
Cotton stamps will be issued to 1
1 farmers who make a further volun- !
tarv reduction in their cotton acre- ;
age in 1941. Stamps can be used to i
j purchase cotton goods in local re- !
i tail stores.
I Farmers may earn stamps at the |
j rate of 10 cents a pound on the !
! normal cotton yield of the acreage ।
I reduced. (A farmer interested in :
j onv one farm may earn a maxi- :
; mum of $25 in cotton stamps, ex- •
• cent that an operator with two or;
■ more tenants or sharecroppers may
earn up to $50. A farmer interest-
ed in two or more cotton farms
also may earn up to $50, but not
more than $25 of this amount can
be on anv one farm). ।
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American factories annually
produce 25 million pairs of sus-
penders and 18 million pairs of
men’s and boys’ garters, according
to Census figures.
service, no new applicants may be
selected from the destitute thous- at the banquet and introduce vis-
ands who are waiting for WPA j itors. Judge H. A. Cunningham
pluggging away since the session
began. They made little fuss but
when the House began work on
Monday and suspended rules to
take up the -bill by Houston Mc-
I Murry, they believed confidently
that they had a safe margin of'
votes to engross the measure. The
noses had been counted.
Then it turned out that the high-
est favorable vote recorded was 65
and 80, even then, were opposed.
Postmortems Held
Opponents of the bill were not
at all confident when the debate
began. On the contrary ,they had
a fear that the other side’s extreme
confidence was warranted and that
although the vote would be close
the bill might 'be engrossed. It has
even been suggested since that
farm population plus those living
in towns of less than 2,500—showed
decrease of 793 during the dec-
ade. according to calculations
made by the East Texas Chamber
of Commerce agricultural depart-
ment.
The decrease of 2.2 per cent in
rural population compares with a
decrease of 0.2 for the county pop-
la tion as a whole, the study shows.
During the same period, the ru-
By United Press.
Jugoslavia left the axis camp to-
day with a Belgrade coup d’etat
which may change the pattern of
Germany’s plans for a spring blitz-
krieg.
The coup swept from power the
leaders who 48 hours ago signed
the tri-partite pact at Vienna and
put in their place a pro-British,
anti-Nazi national cabinet under
the boy King Peter II, ruling for
the first time in his own right.
German officials in Berlin, in the
midst of elaborate propaganda cere-
monies for Japan’s foreign minis-
ter Matsuoka, had no comment.
Virgnio Gayda’s Giornalle D Italia
—where II Duce’s views often are
expressed—charged that the Bel-
grade coup had been managed by
the British in an attempt to reverse
Jugoslavia’s signature of the axis
pact.
In London there was rejoicing
led by Prime Minister Churchill
who pledged all British aid to the
new government and predicted it
would repudiate the axis pact and
resist any Germany aggression a-
gainst its borders or its honor.
fcr locally, or, as would be the Mrs. Margaret
some of the opposition leaders had
counselled their colleagues to seek
to weight the bill down by amend-
ments, including one to make the
new commission elective instead of
appointive. The same post mortem
gossip has it that the Railroad
Commissioners themselves took re-
sponsibility for the decision to
stake everything on a straight out
effort to defeat the bill.
Outcome of the fight demonstrat-
. ed with ample forcefulness that
though there may be dissention on
the Railroad Commission from time
to time the body can exert politi-
cal power when the members stand
together and put on the pressure.
In part, at least, the right was won
by the exercise of that pressure
which made business for the tele-
phone and telegraph companies.
Governor Figured
A more imponderable influence
j on the outcome was the stand of
Governor O’Daniel who had told
members frankly that he was for
the bill. Proponents of the bill be-
lieve now that resentment among
the membership at Governor
O’Daniel’s honor roll calling last
Sunday in connection with his
campaign for a $17,000,000 appro-
priation lost at least a few votes
for the commission bill.
The issue is settled for this ses-
sion of the legislature but it may
spring to new life in the next
case in most parts of the state, to '
receive no assistance at all. Is-
suance of surplus commodities will
stop, too, leaving more than 400,-
000 of the poorest people in Texas ’
without food.”
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Ashley Evans, veteran newspaper
editor, told members of the Bon-
ham Rotary Club Wednesday
The entertainment program
state campaign. The candidacies
of Commissioners Ernest Thompson
and Jerry Sadler for the govern-
or’s nomination last summe has left
lasting -political soes.
There is yet to be considered a
joint resolution for the submission
of a constitutional amendment to
require office holders to resign be-
fore becoming candidates for other
state offices. The measure will
have strong support.
Revised anti-strike legislation de-
signed to cure defects in the bill
originally proposed by Governor
O’Daniel now is before both
Houses. Passage of the legisla-
tion, and it has better than a fair
chance, will mark the first victory
Gov. O’Daniel has won with this
legislattion.
that while the United States was
rat population for the whole State not in war with anether country,
it faced an internal war that is
worse than any international con-
flict.
The speaker pointed out that
while he hated to talk about war,
he often found it necessary to do
so and added that he would not
be surprised if 'the United State:
should enter the war within the
next 60 or 90 days.
He praised the principles for
which Rotary stands, saying the.
vere the things for which he, him-
self stood, adding that when the
present world conflict was ended
some individual or organizptior
would have to carry the enormou:
burden of restoring international
friendship and good-will as pro-
mulgated by the Rotary.
Mr. Evans said that much of the
world’s development depended on
the individual who worked hard to
advance his interests and those' of
the community and state. The
speaker lauded the Rotary Club
for its establishment of the stu-
dent loan fund which has made it
possible for some 90 Bonham and
Fannin countystudents to receive
an education.
S. McGlasson was program chair-
man for the day and presented
Mrs. Elbert Shea in a vocal num-
ber prior to Mr. Evans’ talk.
Visitors were Ralph Martin, Fred
Yarbrough, Rev. W. O. Harmon and
Rev. A. C. McCown.
Most of the counties in the
Blackland area of Texas showed
rural population, decreases, which
indicates an even larger popu-
lation loss on the farms in this
region, the regional Chamber’s re-
search shows, and an intensive
economic survey of this territory is
underway by the agricultural de-
partment, in an effort to interpret
this trend and recommend a cor-
rective program.
Decrease of the population on
the Blackland farams, the study
indicates, is due to a variety of
economic factors, of which the
most important is the heavy re-
striction of cotton acreage in this
. area which formerly was the back-
3 bone of Texas’ cotton production.
Other factors which have contrib-
uted to rural population loss in-
clude mechanized farming, loss of
productivity oi the land due to
eiosion and single cropping., great-
er opportunity for employment in
the larger population centers, and
many other caus.s.
Substitution of feed and livestock
production on acreage taken out of
cotton, together with more efficient
farming methods and s pecial cash
crops, have worked effectively in
some parts of the Blackland area,
the preliminary phases of the sur-
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