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March 16, 1940
TIDES,
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United Press (UP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1940—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES IN THREE SECTIONS
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ling the old name
1 the combination
■ on the new ACC
eture was erected
lof $50,000. Mem-
Ilie ge church now
with the Highland
es of Christ in the
(hundreds of other
present minister
urch of Christ.
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Berlin Reports
British Airports,
Ships Bombed
NEW YORK, March 16.—(AP)—The Columbia broadcast-
ing system tonight reported picking up a short-wave broadcast
from Berlin which asserted that German warplanes had bombed
British warships and airfields.
CBS engineers said the Berlin station, DJB, declared that
a general headquarters communique stated: “powerful detach-
ments of the German airforce proceeded to the northwest and
attacked units of the British fleet stationed at Scrapa Flow in
. the evening of March 16.
“A number of heavy battleships and cruisers were hit by
------—the bombs and were severely
Teachers Pick 44 Men Entombed
Officers, Leave
For Home Cities
S’water Principal
President; Wichita
Voted 1941 Parley
In Ohio Mine Are
Given up for Dead
ch of Christ Sun-
I The Lord's Day
Ing on The Ques-
g Night services
from 7:30 to 7:45
Envoys to
will preach at 11
resbyterian church
J of the King, and
service A Saving
he subject of the
hich will be read
of Christ. Scient-
the Golden Texas
lb Lord God Al-
s. and is, and is
tion 4:8.)
Elect
ns
land Rosita Chia
It citizens" at the
■ the fourth grade
at the American-
I Wednesday.
meeting of the
club, Ben Aguirre
litizen of the sixth
1 Balbuena for the
PUP
tion
English club of ths
I Fair Park school
a meeting Friday
is the new presi-
ers are Ray Paul
dent; Desa Lee
Louise Daniel, re-
0, program chair-
Mac Fullerton, stu- .
rman.
coming six weeks
ade.
Fly to Moscow
HELSINKI, March 16- (2Pi — A
Finnish commission will fly to Mos-
cow. Monday to iron out details of i
the new borders imposed on Finland
under last Tuesday’s peace treaty
while at home the nation tackles
rehabilitation and the building of
new defenses.
Dr. Juho K Paasikivi, minister
without portfolio, will head the com-
mission.
As he disclosed these plans and
the fact that negotiations for a
commercial treaty would begin soon,
Dr. Paaskivi lifted slightly the cur-
tain which has hidden the peace ne-
gotiations in which he participated.
He said the Finnish delegation left
Helsinki secretly by automobile a
week ago’last Wednesday and flew
from Stockholm to Moscow. —s
There were five sessions in all,
he explained, and the Finnish dele-
gates were treated well and dined
on the best of Russian food in an
atmosphere “cold but correct."
Joseph Stalin did not attend the
meetings but Premier-Foreign Com-
missar Vyacheslaff Molotoff was
present throughout.
Dr. Paasikivi declared the
Russians made no political de-
mands on Finland and when
Finnish delegates asked Molotoff
of the reaction to offers of Al-
lied aid to Finland he replied
merely:
"We’re not afraid of them.”
The former premier said he did
- not believe the proposed Finnish-
Swedish-Norwegiar. defense alliance
could be interpreted as a violation
of article three of the Russian-Fin -
damaged. In addition, a num-
ber of airports were bombed.
ADMIRALTY MUM
"In spite of powerful resistance
put up by British chasers and anti-
aircraft artillery, the German
fighting machines were capable of
carrying through their orders suc-
cessfully and returned to their home
bases without any losses whatso-
ever.'’
LONDON, March 17-Sunday)
(PP)—The admiralty declined to
comment early today on a short
wave broadcast picked up in New
York purportedly from Berlin to
the effect that German fliers last
night raided Scrapa Flow naval
base north of Scotland and bombed
a number of British warships
• First Lord of the Admiralty
Winston Churchill told the house
of commons Feb. 27 that the Bri-
tish navy had not had the use of
Scapa Flow since the battleship
Royal Oak was sunk there by a
German submarine Oct. 13 with a
loss of 810 lives.)
Mine Warfare
Takes Upswing
LONDON, March 16—(PP)—A new
upswing in German mine warfare
today claimed two British naval
trawlers and several merchant
ships while Britain wrote its own
warlike postscriptto a week of
siege by announcing flights of her
bombers over both German-oc-
cupied Poland and Helgoland bight.
The trawlers sunk were the Per-
idot and the Maida, both by mines.
The commander and five crewmen
of the Maida were believed loat.
The crew of the Peridot was saved.
The 1,589-ton British steamer
Melrose sank in the North sea after
an explosion, with 18 of her crew
of 23 missing, and two Greek ships,
the Panachrandos, 4,661 tons and
nish peace pact, which refers to an,
alliance directed against Russia. He the Flora, 2,980 tons, were sunk my-
said, “the northern alliance would steriously.
ARMY SEES DETONATOR RAY AT WORK — Otto H Mohr,
shown above with his detonator ray device, showed army officers
in Oakland, Calif., how he could explode gunpowder without physi-
cal connection to his machine. Mohr said he had offered the de-
vice to the government as a possible instrument of defense.
(AP Telemat).
Main Objectives Cited—
HIGHWAY CRISIS CONFRONTING
ABILENE, C-C LEADER WARNS
JESSE (T-BONE) WINTERS
Abilene is faced with a major
problem in securing improved high-
way connections, according to Jesse
(T-Bone) Winters, who Saturday
was named as chairman of the
chamber of commerce highway
committee for the year 1940.
Winters was named to that posi-
tion for a second year by W P
Wright, chamber of commerce pres-
ident.
“Of course everyone knows nowa-
days that the lifeblood of a town
flows along the highways coming
into it. People realize that towns
with best highway connections are
towns with the best business," re-
marked Winters in discussing work
facing the committee
"But I don't know if everyone in
Abilene realizes that the immediate
crisis this town is facing in high-
way problems"
Winters listed as main objectives
of the chamber of commerce high-
way committee the widening of
HORTS
tion for today Mr
I you have the right
Ir. but another car
d you on the side
her car stop? Will
across? What will
be for defense and would be direct-
ed against the entire world.”
Stockholm advices said explora-
tory diplomatic exchanges among
the three northern countries on the
projected alliance were believed well'
Under way and editorial comment
In Sweden indicated steadily grow-
ing favor both for the proposal and
increased defense measures.
FDR Lists Ideals
I en 'o that one
Belt Safety Coun-
a good driver nev-
(anted that he hai
He knows that h« ,
(o trouble as long
me that the other
(obey all the rules
iriver not only is
les at this destine-
comfortable.
North Park Votes
Against Merger
A move to consolidate North Park
and Turner’s Chapel school districts
failed Saturday when North Park
residents voted against the action.
The vote in North Park was 97
against and 84 for consolidation In
Turner’s Chapel district, the un-
official report was that 16 votes
* for and 10 against consolidation
were cast. 4
A favorable vote in both districts
would have been required before
consolidation could be effected.
Tobey Accused of
Census Sit-Down
WASHINGTON, March 16 -
Late tonight it was reported
the 4.512 - ton Yugoslavian
steamer Slava had gone down
off the Welsh coast today from
an explained cause. One man
of the crew was lost.
British officials said they could
not confirm German claims that
British patrol vessel had been sunk
and another damaged by German
air-raiders.
Shortly after the sinkings of the
British vessels were disclosed, Ne-
therlands naval officials advised
ships flying that nation's flag to
remain in harbor because of the
discovery of new danger zones
Subsequently shipowners were in-
structed concerning a new route
across the North sea.
The British flight over former
Polish territory’, which the air min-
istry said had taken place in the
last 24 hours, was the second of
the way officially reported.
British aerial patrols, the minis-
try said, engaged in a "running
fight" off the English coast with a
nazi bomber "in which the enemy
attacked repeatedly" but “finally
escaped in the clouds” after being
slightly damaged
Abilene Boys Win
For Real Peace
Secretary of Commerce Harry Hop-
kins today accused Senator Tobey
_____LUBBOCK. March 16—(PP)—Amar-
of leading an Informa- illo. Abilene, Borger and Lubbock
tional sit-down strike against the placed winner today in an invita-
government' by urging citizens to tion speech and debate tournament
refuse to tell census takers about here
their personal income. J | Barbara Scott and Howard Fisher
gave Amarillo a clean sweep in ex-
temporaneous speaking Declama-
tion winners were: Scharlum Bar-
ker Amarillo senior girls; A. L
Townsend, Borger. Junior boys, and
Sylvia Katsh. Borger. Junior girls
Abilene boys' team of Kelley
Lewis and William Snow Jr., defeat-
ed Lubbock in debate finals Kath-
(R-NH)
The New England senator prime
mover in the ' battle of the census ”
replied that Hopkins was “engaged
in mudslinging and completely
avoiding the real issue ”
Gets Pen Term
BELTON, March 16C J
Duncan charged with murder in
connection with the shooting of
George Watters, former Southern
Methodist university football play-
er was given a 7 year penitentiary
sentence tonight by a jury which
ryn Barnes and Mina Margaret
Wheeler of Abilene lost to Lubbock’s
Evelyn Carpenter and Lucille Hall.
convicted him after four hours
deliberation
Walters was shot down oh a
Temple street
The Weather
“THE USED CAR
PURCHASER
MUST BE
PROTECTED”
ANILENE and Vicinity: Fair Sunday:
alghths renter Monday.
EANT TEX AN: Fair in interior, partly
cloudy to clouds on the roast Sunday and
Monday, slightly cooler in north and west
portions Monday. Moderate southerly winds
n
This to the creed and slo-
gan of Abilene’s reputable
auto merchants. Abilene’s
leading,dealer s advertise
their best values DAILY in
The Abilene Reporter-News
USED CAR WANT ADC
More than 1:000 West Texas |
teachers were homeward bound last
night after attending the two day
convention of the Oilbelt district ..
unit No 7. Texas State Teachers '
association h
Opening Friday night with a gen- | I
eral session and featured platform 1 g
speakers, the conclave closed yes- •
terday afternoon with the election ■
of 1941 officers in a meeting of the ■
house of delegates ■
J. H. Williams of Sweetwater, 5
principal of Newman high 5
2 Lose Lives in
WASHINGTON, March 16
President Roosevelt, speaking on a
world-wide broadcast set forth to-
day a list of ideals of international
organization without which, he said
no peace can be made on a lasting
basis. •
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland also
took part in the program which was
held in connection with the Chris-
tian Foreign Service convocation
in New York.
“Today we seek a moral basis
for peace,” Mr. Roosevelt said.
“It cannot be a real peace if it
fails to recognise brotherhood.
It cannot be a lasting peace if
the fruit of It is oppression,
or starvation, or cruelty, or
human life dominated by armed
camps.
“It cannot be a sound peace If
small nations must live in fear of
powerful neighbors. It cannot be
a moral peace if freedom from in-
vasion is sold for tribute. It can-
not be an intelligent peace if it
denies free passage to that know-
ledge of those ideals which permit
men to find common ground It
cannot be a righteous peace if
worship of God to denied."
The president's statement sug-
gested to some observers here that
it might form the basis of admin-
istration thinking should the op-
portunity come for an attempt to
bring about peace.
Mr Roosevelt made clear that he
thought an end would come to use
of force in international relation#.
Queen Wilhelmia, broadcasting
from The Hague, expressed the hope
that mankind may "learn to see
through the eyes of Christ and by
so doing overcome all ideas, sen-,
timents and conditions that keep
men at present so widely apart
from each other x x x .”
JESSE (T-Bone) WINTERS
South First street .improvement of
U. S highways 80 and 80-A from
Weatherford westward to El Paso,
completion of highway 36 southeast-
ward, completion of bridges on
highway 158 southwestward, and
completion of gaps on U.S 83 to the
north.
school, was elected president for
the coming year. Williams has
served as vice president for the
preceding year and will succeed
Charles H. Tennyson of Wichita
Falls.
Other officers for 1941 are O B
Rose of Graham, vice president;
Norma Rollins of Wichita Falls, re-
elected treasurer for a third term,
and Joe B McNiel of Wichita Falls,
member of the state executive com-
mittee.
Upon the invitation of McNiel.
the house of delegates voted to
I stage the 1941 convention in Wich-
ita Falls where the 1939 convention
was held M M Young of Electra
extended an invitation for the eon-
vention to meet in Vernon in 1941
or any other year. The same in-
vitation was extended by Ross
Covey, superintendent of schools,
at Sweetwater.
AUDIT ORDERED
Following the treasurer’s report
by Miss Rollins, showing a cash
balance of between $50 and $100
| more than last year, a committee of
three was elected to audit the books
of the organization. Members of
the committee are U. C. Paschell
of Fairview chairman; T B Par-
nell, and J B Golden of Wichita
Falls
Twenty delegates to the state as-
sociation from the district were
nominated by the nominating com-
mittee They were Tom McGehee
and Corner Clay, Taylor county:
W. S. Thomas, Archer county; C C.
Bock, Clay; O. L Stamey, Eastland:
Edna Earle Wood, Young: E A
Sanders, Hardeman; Deputy Supt
J. R Griggs of district 4; H D
Fillers, D L. Ligon Pauline Shir-
ley, and Chester Duncan, Wichita
Falls: Lera D Irick, Throckmorton;
Hibernia Grace, Jones: W J. Stone.
Montague: Covey, Nolan: E Q
Wedgeworth. Scurry; J A. Ander-
son Wilbarger, and H. D Arnold
Knox.
Following the administrative elec-
tions, annual reports were heard
from the legislative committee,
headed by Williams, and the reso-
lutions committee, of which J. F
Kemp of Seymour is chairman.
Among the group of 11 resolu-
tions tendered to the delegates
for approval, several dealt with
legislative and state adminis-
trative action contacted by the
education department.
See TEACHERS, Pg 16, Col. 2
ABILENE’S BEST—Caught offguard, Wally Akin, city manager
of Texas Consolidated Theaters and Abilene's acknowledged pan-
cake devouring champion, takes time off from training to smile
at the camera. "Gungha Din may be a better man than 1 am."
Wally said, "but I bet I can eat more pancakes than he can. And
that goes for Ed Stewart too." To back up his boast. Akin an-
nounced he will give a two-weeks pass to the Paramount theater to
anyone who can best him at the eating part. In the background,
Elmer Moore, who claims prowess at pancake eating also, to seen
settling to serious training. Kiwanians will be on hand Tuesday,
March 26, to furnish the cakes and other equipment when the club
stages its annual pancake supper. All proceeds will go to the
Abilene milk fund.
Rescue Attempt
After Explosion
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, o.,
March 16—(AP)—Forty -four
men entombed in the explosion-
torn Willow Grove coal mine
were feared dead tonight.
113 ESCAPE
• Two men were killed trying to
rescue them. Rescue crews saved
113 other miners, most of them
were affected by the death-dealing
black damp" which followed a
noonday blast.
Officials of the Hanna Coal Co.,
owners of the mine three miles
south of here, declined to speculate
on the miners' fate. The 44 were
cut-off from fresh air and en-
tombed behind a rock barrier.
"But they’re all dead-they
couldn’t live through that
blast," said Frank Opatryny,
one of the rescued men. Thla
view was shared by his fellow
workers.
Desperate attempts to contact
the imprisoned men failed.
While rescue crews battered at
the rock wall—some thought it
would take all night
to break
made to
force fresh air to the men down a
90-foot shaft.
through — efforts were
U. S. Rules for
Samuel Untermyer
Dies After Illness
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., March
16 — (AP) — Samuel Untermyer, 82,
New York corporation lawyer and
crusader for Jewish rights, died at
his winter home today.
Untermyer had been ill for sev-
eral weeks. Death came in mid-
afternoon. .
Palm Springs for years had been
his winter residence. With the com-
ing of cold weather in the East he
WEST TENAS: Increasing cloudiness -
Sunday Monday paridy cloudy in south would come here to, as he put it,
portion and cloudy with intermittent rain
* portion (older north portion
ster north
Monday.
Nat.—Fri.
1 AM g
so 1 7
1 47—45 ...
I 45—45 ...
TEMPERATIRES
HOI a
... 1.
NHat.—Fri.
P M
2930
“sit in the sun and not worry.'
West Texas Young
Demos for Garner
AMARILLO, March 16. — (AP) —
West Texas young democrats
strongly endorsed John Garner of
Texas for the democratic presiden-
tial nomination in a resolution pass-
ed at their convention here today
•7—aa : 12 :
Highest and Inwest ..
P nt veterday. 16 and 43:
EN and 351, unset Sesterda: opposed to a third term for
6:48: sunrise today, 0:46: sunset today, president.
Ir
another resolution, the con-
fomeeoinrade * vention said It was unalterably
any
"This year, more—than ever be- FuRAITC TA eAuir
lore Winters said, "we are going-VENT 0 ( UMt
to have to keep representatives in E‘ !1! Y VY IE
Austin before the highway com- INI WUCCT TEV A C
mission, and in other towns we are IN WFT FXA
working with to get needed high- 111 ‘‘E EAn
way improvements
"During the past year, consider- BIG SPRING —District livestock
able progress has been made on the show, March 18 and 19
project for w idening South First I COLORADO CITY. — District
street, but during the next year it is meeting. Independent Petroleum
Association of America, March 19
going to be necessary to redouble our
efforts to.get this street widened If
we don't, the highway department
Livestock show, March 26, 26
STAMFORD-Fourth annual re-
union Stamford college exes. Will
Rogers bunkhouse, March 30
SAGERTON— Election on ques-
tion of consolidating Vernon, Cen-*
ter Point, Flat Top, Tanner Pain
and Bunker Hill districts with Sag-
erton school district, March 30
SWEETWATER Eighth annual
wav re-routing was sometimes over- | Nolan-Fisher boys livestock show,
looked. April 1 and 2
Another project Winters listed as District 5 interscholastic league
needing immediate attention was literary track and fieldmeet. April
the general improvement of high-5 and 6 s
ways 80 and 80-A throughout this District Junior boys playground
section of the country, ball senior girls volley ball and
"Work is underway to improve junior boys and girls tennis tourney.
state highway 15, which forks off. Aril 13.
is liable to re-route the highway
around the business section They
are doing that in lots of towns
now "
Winters pointed out that al-
though everyone is intensely aware |
of the clogging of local traffic on
South First, the danger of high-
of U S 80-A west of Albany and
runs through Anson, Roby. Snyder,
Lamesa and Seminole to Carlsbad.
Hobbs and El Paso. When this
See HIGHWAYS, Pg. 16. Col. 4
Fourth annual
invitation
tournament of Sweetwater
association, April 18-21.
golf
Golf
BALLINGER-Grand scale Eas-
ter egg hunt, sponsored by board
of.city development March 23.
KICKOFF MARCH 31 -
Unsigh
Alleys Assailed a:
Date Set for Cleanup Campaign
“Abilene’s neck and ears i are
dirty/" Mrs. R H Thomason, Gar-
den club president, told civic rep-
resentatives meeting Saturday aft-
ernoon to organize for the 1040
cleanup-paintup campaign
"We have the dirtiest, filthiest,
most unsightly alleys of any city in
the country ” she declared
"Too much money is being spent
by the c.ty of Abilene in gathering
up trash that individual property
owners should take care of They
expect the city not only to haul
off their trash
"That means the spending of
tax money that could go for other
purposes, money that might be
used for beautification It’s a fact
that people call the sanitary de-
partment to pick up trash when
they have no sign of a container
—just piles of rubbish in the alley
"Ninety percent of the property
owners here either have no trash
containers on inadequate contain-
ers 1
"Think of the money that could
be saved in the operation of the
out they expect sanitary department if every resi-
the man on the trash trucks to get dent had at his home , trash con-
off and rake up the rubbish they
have piled in then alleys, i See CLEANUP, Pg. 16, Col. 6
Shorthorn Steer
Roscoe Champ
By Staff Writer
ROSCOE, March 16—A Shorthorn
steer exhibited by J. C. Tomlin,
local FFA boy, was named grand
champion of the Roscoe-Highland
FFA Project show this afternoon.
The same boy won reserve honors
with a Hereford. *
Most of the monies in the two
calf divisions were copped by ag-
riculture students from the High-
land chapter, while Roscoe boys ex-
celled the visitors in the swine show,
Winners will compete in the annual
Nolan-Fisher County Boys Live-
stock show at Sweetwater, April
1-2.
R. G Davis of Roscoe exhibited
the grand champion animal of the
swine show—a Berkshire sow that
is a grand daughter of Willow
Lodge Baron 169th grand cham-
pion of the National Swine show
in 1936 Quality of the hog show
was considered very good by X B
Cox. Scurry county farm agent, who
served as judge.
The show was under direction of
FFA boys with Jack Neal being
general superintendent. Other boys
who served as division superintend-
ents were Bill Hopkins swine, Present to participate In the bar
Duane Conger sheepand Tomlin discussion were Cleo Thompson of
and Harry, Coleman, calves J Wel-Dallas, chairman of the board of
don Young is FFA advisor here and directors of the Texas Bar asso-
L. J. Starr serves in the same clation: Edward Ponder of Street.
capacity at Highland.
Winners in the various divisions
follow:
Heavyweight calves: First, J. C
Tomlin Roscoe; second. Jack Can-
trell, Highland: third oFred Bur-
fiend Jr, Highland; fourth, J T
A revised check by R L. Ireland,
company president showed that 157
men were in the huge mine when
the accident occurred Many gain-
ed safety through the air shaft lo-
cated at the end of the three-mile
long "drift," or horizontal mine.
On the way we saw men scat-
tered all over the lot,' said John
Howoroski, 33, of Neffs. Harry Stan-
ley declared, “it looks bad.” George
Strain asserted that the length of
time the men lived depended on the
Courts Urged
Adoption of new federal
1
court
rules as the basis of revised Texas amount of air available in the area
where they were trapped.
civil law procedure in trial courts
was recommended here yesterday
afternoon by 40 practitioners of |
Abilene and surrounding towns.
The resolution, most important of
those passed during an afternoon
session in the district court room,
suggested that the federal court
rules be modified to fit Texas stat-
utes as needed. The recommenda-
tion was directed to the advisory
committee which to working with
the Texas supreme court in the
court revision undertaking.
Another notable resolution
dealt with submission of special
issues to the jury by the trial
judge. It recommended that
the judge be allowed to give
such definitions and explana-
tions as thought proper in sub-
mitting a case to the jury, on
a general charge without bring
subject to having the case re-
versed by a higher tribunal. In
present proc edure, - cases are
often reversed on grounds they
should have been submitted on
special issues, not on general
charge.
elation: Edward Ponder of Sweet-
water, a member of the board of
directors; and Roy W McDonald
Southern Methodist university law
Strain, state director of industrial
relations, was in charge of Ohio
mine rescue crews.
DARING RESCUE
John Richards, mine superinten-
dent. and Howard Sanders, tipple
boss, lost their lives in a daring
rescue effort. They were killed by
the treacherous "black damp," a
gas which forms in mines after an
explosion.
Nearly all of the IM were affected
by the gas to some extent. Scores
were treated at an emergency hos-
pital set up in the mine office base-
ment
Nick Polecy, George Griffith,
Peter Taylor and Charles Kluskey
were hospitalized Polecy was burn-
ed about the face and arms and
the others were gassed, Griffith
seriously
Polecy and Griffith were with
Richards and Sanders in the first
rescue effort.
The mine was termed by offi-
cials as the Hanna company’s
“safest." It was one of the most
modern in Ohio—equipped with
the latest air-conditioning safe-
guards.
Fire broke out after the blast,
which presumably was caused by
gas or coal dust It was later
brought under control
Rescue crews wearing gas masks
and carrying cages of canaries to
school professor who is a member I
of the state advisory committee
Lawyers were present from Abi-
lene Roby, Munday Anson Sweet.
test air conditions hoped to break
through the wall of "black damp"
before midnight to where the 46
Martin, Highland; fifth, Weldon water Hamlin and Henrietta
Cooper. Highland; sixth, D - - ----------------
Cooper, Highland Balloon Downed
Lightweight calves: First, Tom-
lin; second Cantrell; third, Harold BERLIN March 16— VPGerman
Coleman, Roscoe, fourth. Alvin pursuit planes shot down a French
Leonard Roscoe: fifth, Audrey Has- captive balloon today and it burst
ting, Roscoe; sixth, Cantrell. into flames east of Breisach, Baden
Fat barrows First, F N mark province Germany, the army an-
well, Highland; second Festus El-5__toniht.
rod. Roscoe: third, and fourth. Bill _
Hopkins, Roscoe.
Sows: First R G Davis, Roscoe; STOP and THINK
second. Hasting; third, William -------------------
Walker Roscoe; fourth, Charles,
Gray, Roscoe.
Sows with Utter First, Hasting
second. Walker: third Gray; fourth
Toby Thomas, Roscoe
Gilts: First, Hollis Ward Roscoe
second, Elrod; third Billy Jo How- :
As a National Socialist and
soldier, I hold it my highest
duty to restore all rights to my
people—by peaceful means if
possible, in battle if necessary.
—Adolf Hitler. .
ard Roscoe; fourth. R D Pietzsch c i of i 1"
Roscoe PUICA File II or TOM degree
Fine wool lambs First Alfred are vanity, and men of
Harris, Roscoe: second, third and high degree are a ne to be
fourth, Duane Conger, Roscoe. . P, - 9.1
Breeding ewes First Alvin Leo-| laid i-tlicsbalance, they
are altogether lighter than
vanity. I rust not in op-
pression, and become not
vain in robbery? if riches
increase, set not your heart
upon them.. Cod hath
spoken once, twice have I
heard this; that power be-
longeth unto God.—Psalm
629-11.
nard, Roscoe; second. Leonard:
third. Tomlin, fourth, Leonard
Hereford heifers First, Ross
Stuart, Roscoe.
Knife Surgery Futile
SPOKANE. Wash March 16—P)
—An emergency operation perform-
ed with a penknife in a desperate
attempt to save the life of Danny
Novich, 7 proved futile today when
the weakened youth died of a severe
throat infection.
were believed entombed behind a
rock barrier
Huge pumps were utilized in an
effort to suck the “black damp'
from the pits
West Texas Art
lovers Flock to
Benton's Exhibit
Art lovers from far corners of
West Texas came to the Abliene
Museum of Fine Arts display of
the work of Thomas Hart Benton
Saturday The display is being, held
at the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce building
More than 200 persons registered
Two of the four Benton paint-
ings on display here are pictur-
ed on page 8.
Saturday, whiel attendance was
much above this figure due to visits
by persons not registering School t
students, admitted free responded "
with a large attendance
Among those visitors registering
Saturday were persons from Stam-
ford, San Angelo, Winters, Sweet-
water. Big Spring, Colorado City,
Ranger, Trent, Wichita Falls, Can-
yon Tye, Tuscola and Haskell. r ]
The exhibit will be open from •
a m to 5 p m. through Monday
week In addition evening showings
will be made Thursday night and
the following Monday
A free showing to scheduled for
this afternoon from 2 until > p. m.
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