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COOKE COUNTY FREE LIBRAKY
GAINESVILLk, TEXAS '
Gdinesbille Bail Register
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ALL THE NEWS
THE BEST FEATURES
OUTSTANDING COMICS
IN THE REGISTER
VOL. XLIX
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 19, 1940
(SIX PAGES)
NUMBER 172
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would not drift as it did in the Lub-
Sheriff Reid gave
again, the Ohio delegation would be
Polish territory, now incorporated
the reich.
DIAGRAM OF NAVAL ENCOUNTER NEAR NORWAY
BATON ROUGE, La.
Feb. 19
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The Weather
WAR AT A GLANCE
taken
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25 Years Ago
He had been ill several weeks
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Republicans Ponder
11 Guiding Principles
For the 1940 Platform
18,000 Men
Killed or
Donahey Refuses
To Become Ohio’s
‘Favorite Son’
G. A. Lipscomb
Fatally Shot at
His Home Monday
Nazis Confiscate
Polish Property
Bank at Boynton,
Oklahoma, Robbed
Garner Johnson
Billed for Murder
Escaped Lifer Is
Taken at Longview
Woman Charged
In Slaying of
Texas Salesman
Long Mobilizes
Troops for Election
Paves Way for Garner
To Enter Preferential
Primary Next May
Battle Occurs North
Of Lake Ladoga, Says
Finnish High Command
Special Committee
Reports on Two-Year
Survey of Conditions
BERLIN, Feb. 19 (AP).-Field
Marshal Goering, Germany’s eco-
nomic dictator, today in, effect, de-
creed confiscation of all factories,
farms and forest lands in former
Great Britain and
Germany Trade Blow
For Blow in Fighting
Their Idiosyncracies,
Their Joys and Sorrows
bock section where hundreds of
school pupils • had been marooned
and two adults died.
Over much of the state, clear
DALLAS, Feb. 19. — G a r n e r
James Johnson, 35, a printer, was
indicted for murder by the grand
jury Saturday for cutting the
throat of his wife, Bessie Johnson,
34 of Feb. 1, in their bedroom at
305 Alcalde.
Johnson, who slashed his own
throat with a razor in an attempt
at suicide, is recovering at Park-,
land hospital, and will be trans-
ferred to the Dallas county jail
soon.
way—Status of German prison
ship Altmark troubles Norway
under pressure from two bel-
ligerents.
BERLIN—Germany opposes
British efforts to have Alt-
mark interned.
PARIS — Twenty killed
when Flench patrol falls into
German ambush.
By The Associated Press
Feb. 19, 1915—Allies start naval
attack on Dardanelles.
No Wind to Cause the
Precipitation to
Pile Up in Drifts .
versals of policy,” the committee
said, “has rested essentially on the
control of production, the creation
of scarcity, and the boosting of
prices.”
The choice today, the report as-
serted, lies between a system of
free enterprise and a “politically-
planned and politically-dominated
economy.”
Government intervention in busi-
ness, it said, should be a “limited
intervention, confined, under nor-
LEFT, RIGHT
LYNN, Mass. — Last year, 285-
pound Charles D. Long slipped on
ice and broke his ankle. Patrolmen
John Keenan and Charles Burrell
took him to a hospital.
Last night, Keenan and Burrell
answered another call. Long had
fallen on the ice in the identical
spot and broken his right leg.
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Church Members
Are Banned From
Catholic Rites
lion”— approximately 1,000 men—-
the Finns declared, adding that six
tanks had been captured in the bit-
ter fighting.
Would Make Further Loans
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP).
Jesse Jones, federal loan admin-
istrator, expressed willingness to-
day to grant additional credit to
Finland as long as she was “still
fighting with a chance to win.”
He took this attitude before the
house banking committee in ex-
plaining what his policy would be
if the congress passed a pending
bill to increase the capital of the
export-import bank by $100,000,-
000 and make $20,000,000 of this
available for credit to Finland. The
bill already has passed the sen-
ate.
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Near-Riot Occurs as
Third Effort Is Made
To Install New Pastor
fused to be Ohio’s favorite son can-
didate for the Democratic presi-
dential nomination.
The senator had been endorsed
for the nomination by the state
central and executive committees,
Which, however, went on record as
favoring renomination of President
Roosevelt if Mr. Roosevelt desires
it.
Some advocates of a third term
had been hopeful Donahey would
run as a favorite son and then, if
WEATHER
Gainesville and Vicinity — To-
night, mostly cloudy, rain or snow,
freezing; Tuesday, mostly cloudy.
Today noon 41. High yesterday
47. Low last night 29. High for
year 71. Low for year 2.
Two Killed in
Monterrey Storm
MONTERREY, Mexico, Feb. 19
(AP).—The city of Monterrey to-
day was recovering from the ef-
fects of a severe wind storm which
Mrs. Henry and a man she re-
fused to identify were picked up toy
Calloway last Wednesday between
Orange, Tex., and Vinton, La. Both
were heavily armed from a Beau-
mont, Tex., robbery netting 16
guns.
They forced the salesman into
the rumble seat of his car, shut the
door and took him to a deserted
field.
“I made him take off all his
clothes and then I shot him,” the
sheriff quoted Mrs. Henry as say-
Motor transportation was dead in the Lubbock sector when raging blizzard buried automobiles and
homes in heavy snowfall. Typical was this scene—a man digging from his auto to his front door. Hun-
dreds of marooned motorists were rescued; no casualties reported. (Associated Press Photo.)
(Associated Press Photo.)
(By The Associated Press)
While the Lubbock area was
digging out from a 13-inch snow-
fall today, more snow began fall-
ing in -the Amarillo area.
LONGVIEW, Tex., Feb. 19 (AP).
Because Police Chief Albert Adams :
has a good memory, A. E. Stanley,
escaped life termer, was back be-
hind the bars today.
Stanley, sent to prison in a Ft.
Worth torch murder, escaped from
Wynne prison farm on January 18.
. Chief Adams recognized Stanley
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World War Veteran
Victim of Tragedy;
Native of Oklahoma
ordered Louisiana’s national guard
mobilized for election day tomor-
row, saying that troops “would al-
most certainly be called into ac-
tion in New Orleans.
There was
By The Associated Press
THE CAT S MEOW
ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Howls and
screeches in Andrew Ross’s radio
set sounded too realistic for sound
effects, too piercing for static.
He investigated. A grey cat was
sitting on the tubes. Ross tried
to move her, but couldn’t. Police
were called, and they put the cat
out.
cial reports February 6, said had
Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles (left) and Myron C. Tay- been wiped out.
LAKE CHARLES, La., Feb. 19
(AP).— Sheriff Henry Reid said to-
day he had - placed a charge of
murder against Mrs. Claude Hen-
ry, 24-year-cld Beaumont, Texas,
brunette, for the slaying of a 200-
pound salesman who knelt in a
rice field near here and begged for
his life.
The woman, the sheriff said, led
officers Saturday to a rice straw
stack where they found the bullet-
pierced body of J. C. Calloway, 41,
of Houston, Texas.
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More Snow Falls
In Amarillo as
Lubbock Digs Out
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP).
Recommendations for aiding
American industry and achieving
a balanced budget in 1942 were
contained today in 11 “guiding
principles” offered the Republican
party for possible inclusion in its
national platform.
Reporting on a two-year survey,
a special program committee of
more than 200 Republicans pic-
tured the new deal as “misunder-
standing economic America” and
falling into “fatalism of outlook.”
There is no indication whether
the proposals actually will be in-
corporated in the platform, since
they are merely advisory and since
creation of the program commit-
tee—headed by Dr.. Glenn Frank
—was attended by disagreement
among party leaders.
General Principles
LONDON, Feb. 19 (AP).—
Great Britain and Germany
traded blow for blow today in
furious naval warfare.
While the British pridefully
counted two captured German, mer-
chant ships as prizes of their sea
blockade, the admiralty disclosed
the British destroyer Daring had
been torpedoed and sunk with a loss
of 157 lives.
The enemy powers, meanwhile,
waged a legal battle over the fate
of the Germfan prison ship Alt-
mark, the British pressing for in-
ternment of the vessel in Norway,
where a British destroyer cornered
her Friday, and the Germans de-
manding her release.
The Daring was the sixth de-
stroyer lost by Britain .since the
outbreak of the War. In all, the
British fleet has lost 25 vessels, of
which 14 were capital ships, de-
stroyers or submarines.
Where or when the 1,375-ton (Dur-
ing was sunk was not disclosed.
She carried four 4.7-inch guns,
seven smaller guns and eight 21-
inch torpedo tubes. She was com-
pleted Nov. 24, 1932 at a cost of
about $1,125,000 and could obtain
the exceptional speed of 38.2 knots.
Commander Is Lost
Among those lost were her mas-
ter, Commander S. A. Cooper.
The German high command com-
munique in Berlin reported the
sinking of a destroyer and an un-
disclosed number of convoyed mer-
chant steamlers and tankers “in
various sea areas” yesterday.
It said the merchantmen were in
three convoys, and the destroyer
was part of naval forces guarding
a fourth.
The German statement that four
allied convoys had been success-
fully attacked by submarines was
CLEVELAND, Feb. 19 (AP).—
An ecclesiastical interdict today
banned approximately 1,000 mem-
bers of a Cleveland Catholic parish
from all sacraments of the church,
except when in danger of death,
after they prevented for the third
time installation of a new pastor.
In a demonstration of near-riot
proportions, a crowd of 1,500' men,
women and’ children yesterday
barred Msgr. Floyd L. Begin, of-
ficials of the Cleveland diocese,
and the Rev. Vincent Caruso, new-
ly appointed pastor, from property
of Holy Redeemer church in an
Italian district on the city’s East
Side.
Sixty policemen and an escort
of uniformed Knights of Columbus
and Knights of St. John were un-
Vigo, Spain, were brought into a
British west coast part—the 3,000-
ton Morea, loaded with manganese
ore, and the 2,542-ton Rostock, the
British announced.
The Morea’s crew of 23 men and
seven officers were British prison-
ers. There was no word of the Ros-
tock’s crew or cargo and no expla-
nation of the capture of either ship.
Six merchant ships—two British
and four neutral—were weekend
casualties of the war at sea or reg-
ular maritime hazards.
British:
Baron Aisla 3,656 tons, sunk in
North sea after an explosion. Cap-
tain and firemen died in open boat
after rescue.
Cheldale, 4,218 tons, sunk off
South African coast after collision
with another British vessel. Cap-
tain and 15 crewmen missing.
Neutral:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (AP).
Declaring “acceptance would be
subterfuge,” Senator Donahey re-
turned over to the chief executive.
. Spokesmen, for Vice President
Garner have indicated he might
enter his name in the Ohio primary
in May if Donahey was not a
candidate.
Garner, it was reported, had
promised Donahey he would not go
into the primary if the senator
were a candidate. Donahey’s re-
•fusal thus cleared the way for his
entrance in the race.
Blind Commission
Chairman Is Dead
GALVESTON, Feb. 19 (AP). —
James A. Boddeker, 64, chairman
of the state commission for the
blind and a member of the county
commissioners court here for
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A Finnish army headquarters
as he entered a rooming house. To
be sure he went back to his office
and found Stanley’s picture on a
bulletin released by state police.
Yesterday morning Adams ar-
rested ’ Stanley as the fugitive
emerged from the rooming house.
left in its wake two persons dead,
three injured, and several homes
and factory buildings damaged.
The casualties occurred as build-
ings collapsed.
Hundreds of trees were uprooted
by the storm and telephone and
electric poles fell to the ground.
A freight train was thrown
against a moving locomotive by
the force of the wind which bggan
lashing Monterrey early Saturday.
HELSINKI, Feb. 19 (AP).
The red army’s 18th division
swollen to 18,000 men by rein-
forcements was reported by
the Finnish high command to-
i day, to have been "surround-
' ed and annihilated” near Sys-
kyjarvi, 15 miles from the
Russian frontier northeast of
Lake Ladoga.
The Finns said about all of 18,-
000 were killed or take prisoner.
(No mention was made by the
Finnish communique of Russian an-
nouncement of further penetration
of the Mannerheim defense line
along the Karelian isthmus and iso-
lation of an important Tivotal force
at Kovisto, western terminus of the
line.)
i The Finns said “piece by piece”
fighting reduced the red army divi-
sion—the same one which unoffi-
a. On the basis of latest available information, prin cipally the neutral Norwegian statement, this sketch
Ao-geS. a British-German naval battle developed in Josing fjord, Norway. The German tanker, Alt-
Iqr8uAr ed 2 Norwegian warship, first was purs ued by two British boats—probably the Ivanhoe and years, died here today.
pptp,ohen the British destroyer Cossack closed i n, the British boarded the Altmark amid fighting and : He had been ill „„,
- 3 ritish prisoners. During the battle, the German tanker Baldur, was scuttled. with pneumonia.
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rifle was fatal shortly after 9 a. m.
Monday to Grady A. Lipscomb, 44, and it was hoped that the
Man Knelt Naked in
Rice Field and Begged
For His Life, Jury Told
at his home, 514 North Morris
street. The bullet entered his fore-
head, between the eyes, and he was
reported to have died instantly.
Justice of Peace H. T. Schafer,
Jr., who conducted an inquest at
the home, returned a verdict of
suicide shortly before noon.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed shortly after noon
Monday, but it was announced that
services will likely be held at
Bloomfield sometime Tuesday. The
body was taken to the J. L. Leazer
Funeral Home.
Mr. Lipscomb had resided in
Gainesville for 15 years, and for
several years engaged in farming
in the Bloomfield community. He
was a native of Russett, Okla.,
where he was born January 9, 1896.
He was married 16 years ago to
Miss Lucy Wooten. In recent years
he had been engaged as the opera-
tor of a service station on North
Grand avenue, but had been unem-
ployed for the past several months.
He Was a member of the United
States army during the world war,
at which time he is reported to
have developed tuberculosis of the
lungs. His physical condition had
been poor for somletime, and he was
planning to enter a veteran’s sani-
tarium in the near future.
He is survived by his wife, one
daughter, Miss Margaret Helen
Lipscomb, who is a student in Jun-
ior High school; his mother, Mrs.
C. D. Lipscomb, and two sisters,
Mrs. Nora Morris and Mrs. L. A.
Wardlow, who reside at 501 North
Grand avenue.
skies and rising temperatures
brought relief from a weekend
cold wave.
In Gainesville the temperature
dropped to 29 degrees Sunday
night, and at noon Monday the
mercury was recorded at 41 de-
grees. Skies were partly cloudy
early Monday.
The cold, which piled highways
high with snow, was blamed in the
death of seven persons.
The bodies of two of them, vic-
tims of exposure, were found near-
Lubbock. They were Bill Walker,
37, and L. J. Martin, 22. Clarence
Pritchett, about 22, was found
dead, apparently of exposure, in a
pasture north of Lindale in East
Texas.
Four men were killed near Mt.
Pleasant in an automobile crash
blamed on a slick highway. The
victims were Al Bridges 26, and L.
E. Butler, 44, both of Paris, Texas,
and Harry H. Weatherbee and Pe-
ter Heson, both of Mena, Ark.
A northerly wind held tempera-
tures in the mid-forties along the
upper Texas coast.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth sector
the temperature rose to the high
forties.
Liana, 1,646 tons, and Osmed, 1,- pc
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able to clear a path through the
crowd to the church entrance.
The crowd shrieked, hooted,
; booed, and yelled “go home” at
the church dignitaries. Small boys
■ threw snowballs at the plumed es-
cort. Several persons were clubbed
i by police but none was taken to
■ a hospital. Seven men were ar-
rested and released on waivers
pending appearance in municipal
court.
During the disturbance Msgr.
Begin announced “By authority of
the archbishop you can not receive
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authoritatively said to be “as fan-
tastic as German claims usually
are.”
In the controversy over the Alt-
mark, it was stated authoritatively
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax
had flatly rejected Norway’s de-
mand for return of the British sea-
men freed from the German prison
ship.
It was said “amiable discussions”
with the Norwegian government*
were continuing.
Two Nazi Ships Captured
Two of six German ship? re-
East Texas: Mostly cloudy, rain
or snow in northwest portion,
slightly warmer on the coast,
colder in west portion, freezing
in west and north portions tonight;
Tuesday mostly cloudy, rain in
southeast except lower coast and
rain or snow in northeast portion,
colder. Gentle to moderate shift-
ing winds on the coast becoming
fresh northerly Tuesday.
West Texas: Cloudy with occa-
sional snow in north portion and
rain in south. Clearing Tuesday.
Colder tonight, with freezing tem-
peratures in south portion.
Oklahoma: Mostly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday; light snow in
northwest and extreme west por-
tions tonight; not much change in
temperature.
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(AP).—Gov. Earl K. Long today upin a vault .
- - • • ■ - - While one of the men held Presi-
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW—Red army nears
Viipuri; Koivisto fort isolated
as Russia announces new
gains against embattled Finns.
LONDON — Torpedoed de-
stroyer sinks with 157 men;
two German merchantships
cap t u r e d; British-owned
lor. President Roosevelt’s personal representative to the Vatican, are
details.__-______________ because the 18th "was cut off from
American securities
over by government.
• GJESSINGFJORD,
a coroner’s form the Mannerheim; line.
jury yesterday what he said was - Russian losses there were equal
Mrs. Henry’s account of the slay- to “about the strength of a batal-
mg:
ing. Meantime, Calloway was
pleading for his life.
The sheriff said the woman re-
lated that she and her companion
planned later to rob a bank at
Stuttgart, Ark., but “he turned
. yellow and we had trouble.”
“I hit him with my pistol butt
and left him unconscious in the
car between Camden and El Dora-
, do, Ark.,” she was quoted.
Captain John W. Jones of the
■ Louisiana state police said the
■ woman had been identified as the
wife of Claud D. (Cowboy) Henry,
serving a 50-year sentence in
Texas for the slaying of Arthur
Sinclair, special policeman of San
Antonio.
ported to have gambled against theM
British naval cordon in a dash from aC
] A report, labeled “A program
for a dynamic America,” outlined
these general principles:
1. The United States should keep
out of war through a “tight rein
on our emotions” and “scrupulous
neutrality.”
2. Defense forces should be suf-
ficient to protect the western
hemisphere from aggression.
3. Reciprocal trade agreements
should be approved by both houses
of congress. (Republican congress-
men are seeking to require only
senate ratification.)
4. The National Labor Relations
Act should be amended and the
administrative and judicial func-
tions of the labor board separated.
5. The farm program should try
to increase interchange of farm
and city goods by better correla-
tion of prices.
6. Private enterprise should be
encouraged by “protective” rather
than “restrictive” government
regulation of business.
7. A 20 per cent reduction in
federal spending “should not be too
difficult,” and coupled with a
higher national income, should
bring a balanced budget in 1942.
8. Higher surtax rates on indi-
vidual incomes should be cut; cer-
tain business levies should be abol-
ished; future federal and state
bonds should be taxed.
Would Repeal Money Powers
9. The president’s emergency
monetary powers should be re-
pealed; the gold standard should be
restored.
10. All in need should receive
adequate relief, administered by
the local governments through
federal grants-in-aid.
11. Social security legislation
should be studied with a view to
expansion and better administra-
tion.
“The economic program of the
new deal, despite sporadic re-
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its supply and the Russian advance
stalled northeast of Lake Ladoga.
Battle Zone Near Lake
The battle zone is north of Lake
Ladoga and about 50 miles from
the Mannerheim line fighting south
of the lake.
Danish and British reports on
February 6 had said the division
had been wiped out. It was said
then to be one of five red army
divisions fighting to thrust around
the lake, and outflank Finland’s
strong defense fortifications strung
across the isthmus.
Two other Russian divisions —
the 163rd and the 144th—have
been wiped out during the Russian-
Finnish war, the Finns declared.
Both of them) were reported from
fronts farther north.
Today’s communique reporting
that 20 Russian planes had been
shot down, said Soviet attacks
along the isthmus front had been
thrown back from the “Finn’s new
position.”
This apparently referred to posi-
tions taken up after Russian
thrusts into fortifications which
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DOG HAS BIRTHDAY
OMAHA, Feb. 19 (AP). — The
third grade turned in essays on the
month of February.
Wrote one pupil:
“February has many great
birthdays. My dog’s is on the
sixth.”
dent R. A. Patterson and Book-
keeper Frank Smith at pistol
point, the other scooped all cash-
in sight and put it in a flour sack.
They headed south out of Boynton.
BOYNTON, Okla., Feb. 19 (AP).
Two young masked men robbed the
First National bank here today of
an estimated $800 and escaped
after leaving the president, a
bookkeeper and two customers tied
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PARK ON TRACKS
CLEARFIELD, Pa., Feb. 19
(AP).— You'd hardly think it nec-
essary but 19 motorists were given
parking tags and fined for park-
ing their cars on the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks here. Snow hid the
rails. Three trains were stopped
in one day to prevent wrecking the
autos.
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