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Great Naval Battle Raging in Solomon Islands
More Than
Gidinesbille Pailg RRegisker
VOLUME 52
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1942
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shall never forget you.
each and ever one of you.”
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Army May
Take Idle
11 Killed in Peru
By Earth Tremors
At Crisis
German High Command
’' Throws Hundreds of
Thousands Into Battle
CASPIAN
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The army is saving great quan-
tities of copper for other war pur-
poses by substituting steel for
brass in shell cases.
Demo Committee
To Meet Saturday
The Cooke County Democratic
executive committee will meet in
the district courtroom at the court-
house Saturday at 3 p. m. for the
purpose of canvassing the returns
of last Saturday’s run-off primary
and to certify names of success-
ful candidates to the county clerk
for the general election.
This meeting win conclude the
services of the present commit-
tee, elected in July, IMO.
Vehicles
• War Labor Board
Threatens Striking
Drivers in Midwest
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TELLS OF LANDING FLYING FORTRESS—At an air
base somewhere in Great Britain, Second Lieut. Ewart Scon-
iers of De Funiak Springs, Fla., demonstrates with his hands
how he guided a flying fortress to a safe landing in England
on August 21, as he was interviewed by Wes Gallagher (head
right), Associated Press correspondent in London. Sconiers,
who had “washed out of flying school,” grabbed the controls
when the co-pilot was killed and the pilot severely injured.
(AP Photo by radio from London)
In British Guiana, a tributary
of the Karanang river drops over
a precipice to a ledge 1,400 feet be-
low.
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•WPB Committee
Backing Kaiser
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (UP).
The War Production Board com-
mittee, appointed to evaluate Hen-
ry J! Kaiser’s plans to build 500
giant cargo planes, pledged its
support today and announced "it
rers, 825.
’s helpers, 7,768.
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The nazis have ordered Germans
who picked fruits and vegetables
to supplement their meager diets
to turn this food in at collection
depots.
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A PRIZE—-OR WAS IT?
SOUTHWARK (AP).—Six pain
of honest-to-goodness silk stock-
ings was the prise awarded the
winner of the stay-at-home holi-
day beauty contest at this London
suburb but the lucky gal had to
give up 12 clothes coupons.
Fight Abolition of
Soldier Poll Taxes
By AUSTINC. WEHRWEIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP).—Southern senators prepared to-
day for a strong fight against legislation abolishing poll taxes for serv-
ice men voting by absentee ballots in federal elections, but promised
Brazilian Cabinet to
Plan Drastic Economic
Measures Against Axis
By DAVID J. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 25 (UP).—President Getulio Vargas sum-
moned his war cabinet today to plan more drastic economic measures
GERMANS CROSS DON IN STALINGRAD DRIVE—
Russians fought August 24 to halt German forces which
have crossed the Don river southeast of Kletskaya in one of
two “pincer” drives on Stalingrad (1). Another nazi drive
was gaining in the Kotelnikovski sector. Black arrows mark
main German pushes, prime objectives besides Stalingrad be-
ing the Grozny oil fields (2) and the Black sea coast (3) west
of Krasnodar. Shading indicates German occupation.
borers, \ are as follows:
Common labor, white 8,898.
Commn labor, colored.
Wounded Naval Gunner is
In Texas for a ‘Good Time’
FORT WORTH, Aug. 25 (UP).—A naval gunner from Brooklyn
who recently was wounded in a battle off Iceland was having a “good
time” here today just like his sailor friends said he would.
Raymond Dello-Russo, without* “
will do everything in its power" to
helphim.
‘The committee has assured --
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Gene Autry Sues
Rodeo Partners
MUSKOGEE, Aug. 25 (AP).—
•Damages to $3850 were claimed by
Gene Autry, western film star, for
alleged unauthorized use of his
name in a suit on file in federal
district court Tuesday.
' • The cowboy actor charged that
H. Binns and Dick Truitt, partners
in a rodeo venture, agreed May 9
to pay him $850 to provide live-
stock for a rodeo at Ada.
In the rodeo, held Aug. 13-16,
Autry asserted, the defendants ad-
vertised that- "all broncs and pa-
rade horses will be from Gene Au-
try’s Oklahoma Flying A ranch”
but that the two partners previ-
ously told him they would not use
the singer's stock and would not
pay him the $850.
Autry further claimed in his pe-
tition that the defendants were
"unjustly enriched” by $3,000 from
* the "wholly unauthorized” use of
his name.
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STALINGRAD,
: O’Daniel Likely
' To Have Majority
To Discuss Crop
Transportation
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 25
(AP).—The problem of transport-
ing fall crops to market will be
discussed on a cooperative basis at
a meeting at Lubbock Sept. 8 of
farmers and tire rationing officials
from 21 South Plains counties.
State OPA Director Mark McGee
announced yesterday.
The meeting will be for the pur-
pose of forming transportation
pools to aid in moving the grain
and cotton crops of 15,000 farm-
ers.
Clifford B. Jones, president of
Texas Technological college, will
preside.
districts created since the 1940
census.
Attorney General Earl Warren,
seeking the governorship nomina-
tion on the Republican, Democratic
and Progressive tickets, attacked
the defense program of Gov. Cul-
bert L. Olson, who sought renomi-
nation as a Democrat. Other can-
didates for Olson’s job were Fred
Dyster, a critic of the closed shop,
and Alonzo J. Riggs, proponent oX
free health service.
In Mississippi, Senator Wali
Doxey, successor to the late Pat
Harrison, was opposed for renomi-
nation in the Democratic primary
by Rep. Ross Collins. Representa-
tives also were nominated.
Senator Burnet R. Maybank,
South Carolina Democrat complet-
ing the senate term of Supreme
Court Justice James F. Byrnes,
was opposed by Eugene Blease,
half brother of the late Senator
Cole Blease. South Carolina voters
also nominated candidates for gov-
ernor and members of congress.
a relative in the world after his
brother was killed at Pearl Har-
bor, "didn’t have anywhere to go”
when he got a 14-day leave to re-
cuperate from a leg wound.
"Some of my shipmates told me
that Fort Worth is a good town
for a-lot of fun—they’re from Tex-
as,” he explained to the USO host-
esses here. The USO adopted him
for the duration of his leave and
put him in the middle of a socia?
whirl.
The soldier’s parents, born in
Italy, an dead. Only 20, Dello-
Sea ot izaN
Azov see
geac-g
Ray Winder New. ‘
C of C President
Ray Winder was elected presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce
by the board of directors at a spe-
cial meeting held Monday evening.
He succeeds William R. Block, re-
signed, who has accepted the po-
sition of manager of the chamber.
The board approved Mr. Block’s
selection.
Tom Hayes was elected vice
president of the chamber to suc-
ceed Mr. Winder. Clyde Thomas
automatically becomes a member
of the board to succeed Mr. Block,
having received the next highest
number of votes in the election of
directors last Spring.
Six Enemy
Ships Hit •
Japanese Attempt
Big Counter-Attack
On American Bases
he said, by Dudley Lawson. Alto LONDON, Aug. 25 (AP)An
attorney and farmer. Republican air raid warning, first by daylight
nominee for the U. S. senate, and in a month, sounded in London this
C. K- McDowell of Del Rio, who afternoon, apparently caused by a
will run against Gov. Coke Steven- lone scouting plane.
son, the Democratic gubernatorial
nominee.
program that the
this status, Brazilian ships may
use their ports as long and as free-
ly as they wish, and economic re-
strictions are not .applied.
Argentina, which has not broken
diplomatic relations with the axis,
implied the hope that Brazil would
be victorious. In a note to Var-
gas, President Ramon S. Castillo
of Argentina said: “I send my
best wishes for a definite triumph
of the principles that inspire our
jurisdicial tradition and our inde-
pendent political life.”
The army was growing fast,
following the minister of war’s ap-
peal for reserves of the second and
third categories—those with mili-
tary training but outside the army
—to join the armed forces.
Many thousands had enlisted. A
dispatch from Para said 1,000 men
had paraded in a body to recruit-
ing headquarters yesterday.
The 57 German and 18 Italian
vessels that took refuge in Bra-
zilian waters when war broke out
in 1939 yesterday were brought
under the Brazilian flag by gov-
ernment order. The government
announced that these vessels, ag-
gregating 160,000 tons, were con-
sidered part payment for the dam-
age Brazil had suffered from the
axis.
Enemy agents, fifth columnists
and sympathizers were being
seized so rapidly that the Rio de
Janeiro chief of police ordered
prisoners being held or serving
time for common crimes moved
into the interior to make room for
internal enemies.
against the axis and to provide for the training and equipment of thou-
sands of army recruits.
MINERALNYEL
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to take this occasion to thank my,
thousands of good loyal friends LIMA. Peru. Aug. 25 (AP)._A
throughout Texas who worked so series of earth tremors killed at
diligently throughout this cam- least 11 persons in southern Peru
paign and who so loyally and faith- last night, caused great damage in
fully stood by me in this fight I Nazca and sent thousands of Lima
God bless residents pouring into the streets
fearful of a repetition of the dis-
A. —ane w. rzp, axrec- astrous.1940 earthquake, incom-
tor of the state Republican organ- Piete advices from the stricken
ization, declared his party would area said today.
Churchill Confers
With War Cabinet
in London Today
By NED RUSSELL
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 25 (UP).
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill in his Moscow con-
ference with Premier Josef
Stalin reached a second front
agreement satisfactory to
Russia, Great Britain and the
United States, diplomatic
quarters reported today.
Newspapers commenting on
Churchill’s return to London hint-
ed strongly that allied action of
some sort to relieve Russia might
be near.
Churchill conferred with mem-
bers of his inner cabinet today, re-
porting on his visit which had kept
him from London for weeks during
which time he made a thorough in-
spection of the entire middle east-
ern front behind the threatened
Russian Caucasus.
World Broadcast Likely
It was believed that within the
next week Churchill might make a
world broadcast on his tour and
perhaps give a hint of events to
come, insofar as he could say any-
thing which would not aid the en-
emies of the united nations.
Reports spread that Russia had
Teserves behind Stalingrad which
Stalin hoped to use with greatest
effect when the allies might feel
able to invade Europe on a scale
forcing Hitler to withdraw some
hundreds of thousands of men from
the Russian front.
According to these reports, it
was believed the reserves might
prove strong enough to break the
German offensive if the enemy
weakened its forces. Even now, it
was said, the Russians might with
their reserves halt the German
drive.
Major Decisions Made
The well informed and conserva-
tive Daily Telegraph, perhaps
friendliest of all newspapers to
Churchill, said today that there
was no doubt that major decisions
had been made.
“The secret of the results should
be more closely kept than the se-
cret of the prime minister’s jour-
ney.” it continued,
“We can, however, be certain
of one thing, namely that the jour-
ney is a prelude to battle and will
help to make the battle when it
comes a prelude to victory.”
Informants reported that Church-
ill and Stalin had engaged in a
sweeping review of the entire
world situation from the Caucasus
front through western Europe and
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Churchill and Stalin discussed
Russia’s ability to fight on and it
was established definitely that
Russia had this ability, according
to informants, though it was un-
derstood that Stalin left no doubt
in Churchill’s mind that Russia
needed acts, not words, to support
her now.
Stalin was believed to have
urged Churchill to undertake an
offensive in the middle east if he
could not start one in western Eu-
rope now, in short, to do anything
to relieve the German pressure on
the Russian front.
Stalin was understood to have
assured CHurchill that Russia
would fight as stoutly as it had
and would force the Germans into
another costly winter campaign.
Returns Complete From
190 of 252 Counties
Holding Primaries
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 25 (AP).
With only a few straggling votes
to be counted. Senator W. Lee
O’Daniel probably will have a ma-
jority of approximately 16,000
votes over James V. Allred for the
Texas Democratic nomination for
the U. S. senate, the Texas Elec-
tion bureau predicted today.
The bureau's latest computation
at 6 p. m. central war time yester-
day showed O'Daniel with 444,-
272 votes to 429,825 for Allrd, a
lead of 14,447. With two counties
not holding an election, returns
were from 252 of 254 counties, 190
complete.
Although Allred has not yet con-
ceded defeat, O'Daniel issued a
statement last night in which he
claimed the unofficial returns “in-
dicate a complete victory. I do
not consider it a personal victory.
It is a victory for the great rank
and file of the people of Texas,
and for the principles of American
democracy.”
“As United States senator from
Texas,” ODaniel’s statement went
on, "it is my desire and intention
to serve all Texas citizens. Let
us now forget our differences and
fight together for the welfare of
this state and nation. ... I want
ared Mr.gressmen seeking nomination ac-
ig ip’itscused them of going against the
out any president's foreign policies before
ernment the wkr^Congressional candidates
sible,” a also will be_chosen for three new
Russo joined the navy 14 months
ago.
The USO notified several Italian
families that Dello-Russo was in
town, seeking friends and adven-
ture. The Italians took him over
for a day. Spaghetti and meat
balls were what he wanted—real
Italian style—and he got them.
Asked what he was going to do
when his leave is up. he said he
was ready to get back of his guns
once more.
"My brother was killed at Pearl
Harbor. I’ve got to get a half
dozen Japs for that”
It requires as much power to-
carry 20-tons of 4-engine bomber-
through the sky as is needed by a j Temperature: High yesterday,
crack passenger locomotive to 86; low last night 72: noon today,
haul 1,000 tons of cars and tender 82; high for year, 101; low for
over the rails. j year, 5.
The cabinet will meet within the
next few days, and it was under-
stood that meetings will be held
at regular intervals until the axis
is smashed.
Reports circulated that three
more axis submarines had been
sunk by Brazilian, British and
United States planes off the south
coast of Brazil, but they were not
confirmed by official quarters. The
submarine menace had not been
ended, however, despite the relent-
less hunt that has been carried on
the past 10 days.
The National Petroleum council
announced that the United States
tanker, Louisiana, of 8,567 tons had
been sunk. It was reported to have
gone down last Thursday night,
about 600 miles northeast of Rio
de Janeiro.
Government Encouraged
The government ’ was greatly
encouraged by the fact that six
South American republics—Argen-
tina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia.
Uruguay and Peru—had declared
Brazil a non-belligerent Under
(UP).—The War Labor board
was believed today to be
ready to recommend that the
army take over idle trucks ini
96 Midwestern cities unless
striking truck drivers heed a
“final warning” and return at
once.
The board threatened the strik-
ers yesterday to "terminate your
.defiance of your government” un-
less work is resumed. The warn-
ing was sent to local offices of the
International Brotherhood of Team-
„sters (AFL) and to International
President Daniel Tobin.
The board said it might refuse
to recognize as valid any settle-
ment reached between union locals
and individual employers unless
the four-day strike is ended at
once. But it gave no intimation
how it would "terminate" the
strike if the men fail to return to
work. In all previous cases of
union or company defiance of WLB
orders, the board has recommend-
ed to President Roosevelt--and
he has followed those recommen- !
dations- that the army or navy
operate the plants.
Strike Begas Friday
♦ The strike began last Friday. It
“invdives 10,000 truckers although
the WLB said it had no report on
the actual number on strike.
The walkout was called after the
union and the Central States Em-
ployers negotiating committe, rep-
resenting truck operators, failed to
agree on interpretation of an or-
der issued January 3, by the now
defunct National Defense Media-
tion board, WLB's predecessor.
The order provided for direct nego-
tation of the dispute with any
wage increase to become retroac-
tive..
WLB Vice Chairman George
Taylor urged the strikers to return
to work and submit the dispute to
. a board panel scheduled to meet in
Chicago on Aug. 31. Taylor point-
- ed out that the board was ready to
look into the merits of the case and
make a decision and that it would
* “fully protect the rights of your
members to back pay under the
(Mediation) board’s award.”
The strike resulted when the
companies withheld the retroactive
wage increase pending negotiations
of a wage differential. Lines op-
erating west of the Mississippi
have a lower scale.
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committee statement said. "The
committee pledges fullest coop-
eration to the government to de-
velop a program for construction
of cargo carrying planes without
interference with the present or
prospective military program.”
Kaiser, who has announced that
he would team with Howard J.
Hughes, aircraft designer, movie
producer and round - the - world
flier, on the cargo plane program
said there had been “no change in
the program” since the commit-
tee's meeting.
San Francisco’s Chinatown re-
* cently celebrated the 4579th year
of the Chinese people.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25
(AP).—The navy announced
today that the Japanese have
counter-attacked American
forces holding the southeast-
ern Solomon islands and that
a great sea and air battle had
developed in which the enemy
had suffered more than a half
dozen ships damaged.
The battle began developing on
the afternoon of August 23 and
already, army and navy carrier-
based planes have effectively
bombed two Japanese carriers, one
battleship, one transport, one
cruiser, and an unspecified number
of other cruisers which the navy
described only as “several.”
The transport and one cruiser
were left burning gseriously after an
aircraft attack on them north of
, Guadalcanal August 24.
Main Battle in Progress
The main action of the battle, the
navy communique indicated, is cur-
rently in progress and the navy
said that it was “a large scale bat-
tle” between American sea and
air forces and a strong Japanese
striking force which has approach-
ed the southeastern group of the
Solomon islands from a northeast
direction.
Army and navy units backing up
the American marines in the Solo-
mons had expected a violent at-
tack by the Japanese to recapture
their lost bases in the Tulgai area
and so, the navy said, apparently
were fully prepared to meet it.
* On this point, the navy said
merely “this counter-attack has
developed and is now being met.”
As the navy related the develop-
ing battle action, it said that pre-
liminary reports indicate that the
enemy striking force has been at-
tacked by United States army fly-
ing fortresses and that our carrier-
based naval aircraft are in action.
Carrier Hit Foor Times
A large Japanese carrier the
name of which was not given was
attacked by army bombers which
reported scoring four hits.
Navy carrier-based aircraft were
credited with having “severely
damaged” a smaller Japanese car-
rier. Ryuzyo, a 7,100 ton vessel
completed in 1933, which carried
about 24 aircraft.
In addition to this damage, the
navy said that “several enemy
cruisers and a battleship also have
been hit by our carrier planes.”
The navy referred to "our occu-
pation of the important enemy
base at Tulagi" suggesting that
Tulagi harbor itself might have
been completely captured by Amer-
ican forces.
In the preliminary phases of the
battle on August 23, the navy re-
lated, "a strong enemy air attack"
was made against Guadalcanal is-
land. but was intercepted by Amer-
ican fighters and 21 enemy planes
were shot down with only "minor”
losses for the Americans.
Destroyers Shell Guadalcanal
That night, enemy destroyers
approached Guadalcanal and
shelled shore positions. The fol-
lowing day United States aircraft
hit the enemy transport and the
cruiser north of Guadalcanal.
There was no indication in the
navy communique as to where the
Japanese forces came from in their
approach to the Solomons battle
area.
There was some speculation,
however, that It might have been
concentrated at Truk island in the
Carolina group which lies north-
west of the Solomons, about 1,000
miles, and from there had ap-
proached the Solomons in a wide
sweeping maneuver, characteristic
of naval actions.
Truk is one of Japan’s greatest
naval bases.
However, the Japanese have oth-
er large bases in their mandated Is-
lands and might have concentrated
the Solomons attack force at one
or more of them.
While the course of the battle
for victory or defeat could not be
judged in the absence of informa-
tion about damage to American
units, preliminary estimates here
were that the Japanese were be-
ing hit hard where they could be
hurt most, that is, in their air-
craft carrier strength.
Nazi Drive Churchill and Stalin
in Russia
Agree on Second Front
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(SIX-PAGES) NUMBER 307
By HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent
The nazi offensive toward
Stalingrad, the Volga and the
South Caucasus neared the
crisis point today with the
nazi high command throwing
the full weight of hundreds of
thousands of troops into a
desperate attempt to break
the Red army lines in south
Russia.
One big German tank wedge
near Kotelnikovski on the Stalin-
grad front was squashed by hard-
hitting Soviet counter-attacks but
other strong nazi forces were
pressing closer to the big Russian
industrial and communications
center.
The Russians admitted that the
Germans now are across the great
bend of the Don in strong force
and are advancing toward the Sta-
lingrad-Volga line. The Stalin-
grad-Volga railroad" already is
virtually useless to the Russians
because of nazi artillery fire and
air bombardment.
The exact depth of the nazi
penetration toward Stalingrad was
not specified by Moscow but it
was known that the Germans were
closer than 40 miles from the city
—probably only 25 or 30 miles.
German Advance Proceeds
At the same time the German
advance into the Caucasus was
proceeding with unabated vigor.
One nazi column was within 85
miles of the important Grozny oil
fields at Prokhladnevski and an-
other was threatening the Black
sea naval base of Novorossisk. *
Considerable interest was
aroused by the action of the Red
air fleet which attacked Helsinki
from the air—one of the first in
many months and one of the few
the Russians have made on the
Finnish capital.
Helsinki is Bombed
Six to eight waves of Soviet
bombers droned over Helsinki for
more than two hours, apparently
attacking air fields and military
installations. A German report
said that 40 Russian bombers par-
ticipated. The attack followed
signs of increasing attacks by the
Soviet bomber command on tar-
gets in East Prussia and Poland.
The Royal Air force also was in
action during the night, sending a
force of possibly 300 bombers
against the nazi Rhineland to hit
hard at Frankfort and Wiesbaden.
Some 16 British planes were miss-
ing after the raid.
Other RAF planes, according to
Rome, attacked central Greece
and Italian islands off the Turkish
coast.
A nazi bomber appeared off Ice-
land and machinegunned a traw-
ler. Nazi planes have been ap-
pearing almost daily in the Iceland
area, obviously seeking informa-
tion of U. S. troop concentrations
or movements.
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Voters of Three
States Choosing
Party Nominees
Thomas E. Dewey Has
Renounced Any 1944
Presidential Hopes
By The Associated Press
Voters in California, Mississippi
and South Carolina chose their
candidates for state and congres-
sional offices today, as Thomas E.
Dewey renounced any 1944 presi-
dential aspirations in his second
bid for the governorship of New
York.
Dewey, the former Manhattan
district attorney who ran a close
but losing race for the Empire
State’s highest office in 1928 and
who was a contender for the Re-
publican presidential: nomination
two years later, again became his
party’s candidate for governor at
the state convention in Saratoga
Springs, N. Y., last night.
Opposing him will be John J.
Bennett, Jr., state attorney gen-
eral since 1931 who won the Demo-
cratic nomination over U. S.
Senator James M. Mead, and Dean
Alfange, American Labor party.
Alfange, a New York City lawyer,
was put forth by the labor group
in protest against the Democrats’
refusal to nominate Mead, who was
President - Roosevelt’s choice.
The labor party added 419,979
votes to the Democratic total for
Herbert Lehman when the latter
defeated Dewey in 1938 by 3,391,-
286 to 2,326,892.
Isolationism Is Issue
California saw the pre-Pearl
Harbor issue crop up again when
opponents of six of the 19 con-
AYA
there would be no filibuster.
The poll tax question came up
yesterday when Sen. Wayland
Brooks, D., Ill., introduced an
amendment to the servicemen's
voting bill to abolish the tax. Sen.
Walter F. George, D. Ga., imme-
diately insisted on a roll call which
tailed to show a quorum.
Brooks’ amendment, strongly
supported by Sen. Claude Pepper,
D., Fla., delayed action on the
voting bill, already passed by the
house.
Southern opponents of the
amendment, indicating they would
not filibuster, said if the measure
won senate approval they would
look to the house to defeat it when
the bill goes back for concurrence
in amendments.
Sen. Tom Conally, D., Tex., who
previously threatened to talk down
any attempt to repeal poll taxes,
said he also did not expect to fili-
buster.
George charged that proponents
of the Brooks amendment were
more interested in "social and po-
litical” reform than in national
unity. ,
"I do not see how the dual sys-
tem of government can prevail if
the present tendency to invade the
states continues," he said. "As a
matter of fairness do not let con-
gress brush aside the laws passed
by the legislatures.”
Brooks replied that congress,
not the states passed the selective
service act, and added: "We are-
ordering these men to' the four
corners of the earth. We are pass-
ing laws which may affect their
very lives, and we should insure
them to right to vote.”
Senate Democratic Leader Al-
ben W. Barkley of Kentucky pre-
dicted that adoption of the poll tax
abolition amendment would de-
velop a fight in the lower house
and delay the bill until after the
coming national election.
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Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 307, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 25, 1942, newspaper, August 25, 1942; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1481284/m1/1/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.