Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 146, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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Reviews Progress!
Of War in Speech
Before Common^
% Says Blockade of Germany
Is Proving Effective,
U-Boats Being Sunk
BY UNITED PRESS
Great Britain accepted the
nazi challenge of war to a fin-
ish today, but maintained a tol-
erant attitude toward Russia's
aid to Germany.
^ Pri|pe' Minister Chamberlain
reviewed with confidence deve-
lopments in the last weeks of
Europe's war before the house
r f commons.
The speedy 10,000 ton nazi
pocket battleship, Deutschland is
■free as a sea raider in the At-
lantic, he admitted, but the al-
lied blockade of Germany is
effective and that British coun-
terattacks on U-boats and bomb-
ing planes have inflicted a severe
toll.
Denounces Danzig Speech
Chamberlain and other speak-
ers scornfully denounced the
Danzig speech of Foreign Min-
ister Von Ribbentrop that charg-
ed that Britain was responsible
for the war. The prime minister
Wrew cheers with a friendly ref-
erence to Russia, stating that
Britain believed Russia's army
fiad a right to occupy a part of
Poland.
The soviets however moved
steadily ahead in their policy
of bolstering Germany for the
war. At the same time it was
understood that negotiations
hhd been opened in London
on an important trade agreement
between Russia and England.
The Moscow government:
ftlockades Not Recognized
1. Refused to recognize the
British naval blockade of Ger-
many;
2. Permitted announcement
in Berlin that nazi-soviet trade
negotiations include German
mechanical aid to Russia in re-
turn for raw material.
Adolf Hitler's determination
to carry on the struggle was
emphasized by two moves in Ber-
, i*n. Neutral shipping was warn-
ed to keep out of British con-
voys. I The .second move was
to warn through the press
that peace negotiations were
hopeless.
At Helsingfors, it was report-
ed (hat grave obstacles had aris-
en in negotiations with Russia
regarding Russian demands for
naval bases off Finland.
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43RD YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1939
number 146
'Tiger Woman' Sought In Los Angeles
Winners Picked
In Poultry Show
At Exposition
Winners among more than 300
birds entered in the poultry di-
vision of the Midwest Exposition
were selected Wednesday after-
noon by J. W. Pritchett, judge.
C. F. Sentell, Snyder, captured
the championship among female
birds with one of his Rhode Is-
land Red entries. A Partridge
Wyandotte Billiken entered by
Preston McEntyre, Sweetwater,
was adjudged champion male
bird.
A pen of Buff Orpingtons ex-
hibited by G. C. Gilbert, Mer-
kel, was adjudged the champion
pen of the show while Paul
Jones, Sweetwater, received re-
cognition for having entered the
best display of chickens, Patridge
Wyandotte Billikens.
Breeders Discuss
Plans for Sale
Plans were formulated at a
meeting Wednesday night at
the Blue Bonnet hotel of the
Sweetwater Hereford Rreeders'
association for the spring auc-
tion sale, tentatively sel for Feb.
So, or the date that Earl Gartin,
auctioneer, can Ik? secured.
Walter Boothe, president, had
charge of the meeting, held at
dinner. Discussion for lining up
sale cattle was held.
Breeders present were Jack
Frost, Dallas and Sweetwater,
his architect, Nelson, who is
planning the White Hat ranch
sale; J. N. Dutoney, Charles.
Uewis, Henry Arledge, Walter
Boothe, Fred Wimberly, R. B.
Tate, Cornelius Engle. Ed Brad-
ford, John Strayhorn, John
Stribling, and Paul Turner of
Sylvester.
Inquiry Planned
Fatal Blaze
Holt and Simms
Win High Awards
In Sheep Division
Harry Holt, former Sweetwat-
er newspaperman, now employed
by an Abilene daily and who,
with his father M. H. Holt, op-
erates a sheep ranch at Divide,
carried off the grand champion-
ship ram award of the sheep div-
See HOLT AND SIMMS Page (i
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Topping Started
On Old Roby Road
Topping on the old Roby road
north of town got under way
this morning. Two and a half
miles of asphalt emulsion, three
After Prayer for King George
There were 34 entries in the , courses are to be laid on an 18-
show, said by H. M. Rose, sup-
erintendent, to be one of the
most complete poultry shows
staged this year west of Fort
Worth.
A poultryman who attended
the state fair at Dallas and its
poultry show said the quality
c f the birds shown here was
equal to or superior to that at
the state fair.
See POULTRY i'agfc 4
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COMANCHE, Tex. — (UP) —
Dist. Atty. H. W. Allen an-
nounced that a court of inquiry
would be held in the deaths of
Mrs. Martha McGuire and her
son, J. B. Haynes. The two were
found Monday in the ruins of a
fire that destroyed the McGuire
home.
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Slightly
cloudy and somewhat warmer.
Maximum temperature 84; low
this morning 71; at 2 p. m., to-
day 85. Rainfall last night to-
taled one one hundredth inch.
WEST TEXAS — Partly clou-
la; local thundershowers in
southeast portion tonight and
Friday.
EAST TEXAS — Mostly clou-
dy, local thundershowers to-
iht and Friday. Continued
Seattle Unit of
Bund Dissolves
SEATTLE — (UP) — The Se-
attle unit of the German Ameri-
can bund was dissolved ' by
agreement of members, who said
their movement had been mis-
understood.
Cabinetmaker Paul Stoll, nam-
ed by Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn
as head of northwest activities
of the organization, resigned.
Stoll was discharged from his
jot) at a sash and door company
Monday and blamed notoriety
resulting from the bund con-
nection.
In revealing the dissolution,
Stoll said:
"We formed a bund here in
1935. We never did have many | Ijro,ection.
members. We had two purposes:
to try to help bring about better
relations between the people
here and the people in Germany.
Then we wanted to fight against
communism. 1 went through the
communistic process over in
Germany and 1 dread it.
"We have never had anything
to do with the German govern-
ment and never wanted to.
We're citizens of America, not
Germany."
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foot roadbed, the right-of-way
extending approximately 80
feet.
The pavement is to siart near
the Sweetwater Cotton Oil com-
pany at the city limits and ex-
tend to the county line, offer-
ing to Sweetwater trade terri-}
lory an ail-weather road, Judge
Charles W. Lewis, stated. It
lias long been the aim of the
commissioners to top this road 1
as an outlet to heavy traffic in j
this area of the county.
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Traffic Lights
<3?
Winnie Ruth Judd
Believed On Way
To See Husband
Sheriff Calls Attention
To Medical Reports of
Woman's Mental State
PHOENIX — (UP) — Sheriff
Lon Jordan directed the search
for Winnie Ruth Judd today
ioward Los Angeles where he
believed she would flee in an
e.fort to see her husband. .
Jordan said ha considered
there were three routes she
couid have taK.en wnen she es-
caped Tuesday night from the
asylum, but the road to Los An-
geles was most obvious.
He called attention to medical
reports that the woman's men-
tal condition has beco.re wor^e
iince sne was adjudged insane
eight years ago after killing
her two "best girl friends," and BY UNITED PRESS
I shipping their dissected bodies t Josef Stalin today again threw
i to Los Angeles In a trunk. j his weight behind blockaded
Because of the viciousness of. Germany to which he already
I the murders, she became know n '.s pledged to supply materials
STRONG REPRESENTATIONS
ARE FORWARDED TO ROSSIA
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Secretary of State Hull dis-
closed today that the United States has demanded that the
Russian government release the freighter City of Flint and
its cargo to its American crew.
Hull indicated that similar strong representations are
being made to Berlin as a result of the Flint's seizure by a
German warship which took it to the Russian port of Mur-
mansk.
Hull disclosed that U. S. Ambassador Setinhardt in Mos-
cow had been authorized to send one or more officials to
Murmansk to determine first
hand what has transpired in the ^ (m poi8(m Qa8e8
essei Rejected by Senate
WASHINGTON — (UP)
—A proposed ban on tlie sale
t«, foreign nations of poison
i gases and other materials
used in chemical warfare was
rejected by Hie senate today.
Agreement That
Germany Get Ship
Indicated Todav
Russian port.
Hull said that if the
and its cargo were returned to
the American crew they would
be free to proceed in any man-
ner they saw fit.
He said that in making these
representations to the Russian
government the U. S. ambassa-
dor was advised that under the
international law, the vessel was
due to be freed. He reiterated
his statement that more than |
half of the cargo doubtless was j
non-contraband, or conditional I
contraband.
The Germans seized the ship i
while it was bound for England j
with a cargo which they con- j
tended was contraband.
Hull's disclosure that the U.
S. view of international law was j
put squarely to the Soviet gov- j
ernment, raised the possibility \
that Russia's neutral positjon ;
will be clarified.
Stalin Rejects
Britain's List
Of Contrabands
is the
Tiger Woman.'
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Hitler's war
BERLIN — (UP) — German
'and Russian spokesmen in state-
ments here and at Moscow in-
dicated today that Germany and
! Russia had agreed that Germany
should have the captured Amer-
ican steamship, City oi Flint,
which a German prize crew sail-
ed to Murmansk.
The position had been taken
i that the City of Flint was a
(German prize, that it was sailed
: to Murmansk by a German
prize crew because its engines
were damaged and that it would
be permitted to leave in charge
1 of the Germans after "necessary
| repairs."
It was indicated that although
the Germans had been freed
from internment, the American
crew were still prisoners aboard
Set Up On Lamar
President Roosevelt, and the congregation of St. .lames' Rpis-
topal Church, Hyde Park, N. V., bowed heads as Rev. Frank
R. Wilson prayed thai King George VI of England be grant-
ed strength to "vanquish and overcome all his enemies."
Occasion was a special service (o acknowledge the gift of a
Bible to the church by Britain's rulers when they visited
Hyde Park last .lune. Above, Rev. Wilson shows the Bible to
the president. Inset pictures the inscription King George
wrote on the fly-leaf.
I needed by Adolf
[ machine.
In a blunt note to the British ; „f FU whU(. ^ R
goveriviuwu the L.-S S, V. r^ct-. ^ - rt vprlri«r *"
! ed Britain s contraband list —
j the heart of the blockade en-
| forcement policy—and refuted
point by point Britain's right to
control neutral commerce.
British authorities immediate-
ly described the Russian stand
as "fantastic" but it was clear
Abilene Group to
\ isit Fair Tonight
ARLEDGE FARMS, WHITE HAT
RANCH TOP IN HEREFORDS
Placed in operated late yester- I
day are two new traffic lights !
'on Lamar street.
The city commission voted sev-1
j! eral months ago to install three
new lights on Lamar street, one
at the Lamar and Oklahoma
street intersection, one at the
Lamar and Arkansas intersection
and another i n Lamar street in
front of the junior high build-
ing. The primary purpose of the
new lights is to give school child-
ren at these intersections more
[ West Texas visitors at the
| Midwest Exposition yesterday
Council's Jersey
V
j; Is Show Champion
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Art Department
Winners Named
Lockhart Man Is
Given State Post
AUSTIN — (UP) — Governor
O'Daniel today appointed Judge
M. O. Flowers of Lockhart to
be secretary of state.
Judge Flowers was to take his
oath tif office this afternoon in
•lie governor's reception room.
Flowers succeeds T. L. Beau-
rhamp of Tyler who recently
was named judge of the court
of criminal appeals. The new
Secretary of state is a former
•jounty judge and for many years
Was a member of the board of
regents of state teachers col-
leges.
The art and flower show of
the Midwest Exposition, arrang-
ed by Mrs. W. S. Chennault,
chairman, is one of the most at-
tractive displays of the general
exhibits building.
Winners in the art department
are as follows:
Originals
Oil paintings by amateurs —
Mrs. Floy Tansil, city, still life,
first; Loyce Dawson, Roscoe,
See ART DEPT. Page 2
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State Banks Show
Gain in Deposits
AUSTIN — (UP) — A con-
solidated report including all
state banking institutions in Tex-
as was issued today by the state
banking department on condi-
tions as of Oct. 2. The 397 state
banks had resources totaling
$235,231,132, a gain of $24,29(1,-
CG3 over Sept. 28, 1938.
Dies Committee Attacked After
Publication of List of 563 'Reds'
WASHINGTON — (UP)—Re
pudiation of the Dies commit-
tee on un-American activities
was sought from the house floor
during a verbal clash which
broke out after the committee
published the names of 563 gov-
ernment officials and employes
purportedly belonging to what
It described as a communist
"front organization" — the Am-
erican League for Peace and
Democracy.
Rep. John M. Coffee, D.,
Wash., denouncing the commit-
tee for "un Americanism," ask-
ed his colleagues to "repudiate"
the group because of its action.
Three of the committeemen
criticized the action on grounds
that It Imputed communist mem-
bership to the government
workers when such Is not the
case.
discovered that Sweetwater is
the home of prize Jersey cows
as Walter L. Council's entry
took off the grand championship
award and C. A. Mathew:
try was reserve champion
Keen competition developed
between the six breeders in the
Hertford cattle division of the
Midwest Exposition yesterday
a J.idge W. T. McGee, Albany,
Shackelford county farm ; gent,
completed judging the 00 ani-
mal: entered in the well-balanc-
ed b,'ef cattle section of the fair.
Ai ledge Stock, Farms, Knox
City, carried 'off the grand
en-1 championship honors in the bull
I divi: ion when Judge McGea
Adam Johnson Is
Flay ed by Solon
j AUSTIN — ( L'P) — Rep. Lon
| Alsup of Carthage asserted here
j-today that Adam Johnson should
! Resign as director of the public-
welfare department, and confer-! that StaHn had uosed aauestTon •"
\ ru,\ M'ith tL crrwornnr ihfuit u , , 11 , nau P°*ta a question , Abilene business men 1
red with the goveinor about it. arRj t^at British reply to the v; iT Fvnn^itior
| "When the legislature created formal soviet noU, haPmIed to , ; V^d w t eSTfso-
i^he public welfare department |, he British ambassador in Mos-1 - ' ! • -
; the main thing members had in cow wou]d have to be framed
j mind was a change in personnel j wj,h t]le greatest care.
I of state agencies that were Holland, Belgium and other
4 combined", Alsup said "That has | neutraI s-aies alreadv are pro-
| not been accomplished. The same | testing against the British con-
i people and the same investiga- j traband control and a determined
tors are being retained. stand by Moscow, which London
i he liberalized old age pen-L^yg h0ped lo wqo away from
' sion of the last legislature is be- i^erlin. might have the gravest
?ng ignored," Alsup said.
Reprimand Given
Henry Wallace
| repercussions on the allied block-
fade policy—the most powerful
j weapon in the Anglo-French war
. kit.
J 21 L:. S. Vessels
Are Detained
Tone A, calved May 2, 1938. Re-
serve bull honors went to Dom-
ino Return 500, shown by Win-
ston brothers, Snyder.
Ja 'k Frost's White Hat Ranch
WASHINGTON — (UP)
I'he state department has
an-
that division and the grand
championship cow award went
See ARLEDGE Page 0
Champion
Ibis Paralysis
There was no Jersey bull norlawa:ded the ribbon to Bocaldo
any Holstein entries in the dairy !
division.
Judge W. T. McGee awarded j
the grand champion ribbon to :
See JERSEY SHOW Page 2
1939 Cotton Loan
Plans Delayed
WASHINGTON — (UP) —!
Plans for a loan on 1939 cotton
were delayed today by legal
questions raised by the comp- j
trailer general as to whether Joyce Marie Ellis, 5, daughter
loans can be made when cotton of Mr. and Mrs. Jack T. Ellis
prices are above 52 per cent of ] of Champion, is ill of infantile
parity. ! paralysis she has suffered a
The farm law authorizes the week. The child is gradually re-
secretary of agriculture to es- j covering, though her right arm
tablish loan rates when prices j is paralysed. Application has
are between 52 and 75 per cent been made by Dr. George A.
parity, but makes loans man-1 Gray, through the crippled chil-
datory only when the price is | dren's organization, to the gov-1
below 52 per cent parity. | ernment infantile paralysis clin-j
o —— jc in Abilene for treatment.
James Roland Brown, five
weeks, ill of paralysis, is ex-
I pec ting to be placed in the
i clinic as is Elwood Fritsch. Ros-
1 coe youth, application being)
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early said today that Secretary
cf Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
should have consulted the presi-
dent before advocating a third
term for Mr. Roosevelt.
Wallace said at San Francisco j-erents since the outbreak of the
that Mr. Roosevelt should have ' European war Sept. 1.
a third term Two of the vessels were de-
"It would have been polite j talned by German submarines, home economic
A delegation of approximately
to
xposition to-
wn in-
uate program, beginning at 8
p. m., on the stage in front of
the genera! exhibits building.
Mayor C. C Johnston, Philip
Yonge, president of the Board
of City Development; County
Judge Charles W. Lewis, and
Austin Jordan, president of the
Midwest Exposition, are to meet
the Abilene group at the road-
side park east of Sweetwater and
escort them into Sweetwater and
to the exposition grounds.
Attendance at the fair has
been none too gratifying to
officials, but crowds have been
considerably larger than last
year.
Friday night's program is ex-
pected to draw a larger turnout
of visitors. ' The Lightcrust
Doughboys of Fort Worth are
nounced that 21.American ships j to be featured in the free en-
have been detained by bellig- tertainment at 8 p. m. Friday.
Today special visitors at the
fair were FFA chapters from
Dowell and Rotan and
classes
two
from
cow entries were big winners in Lf the speaker to have consult- ' .v Great Britain and six by Sweetwater high school.
td the victim before he spoke," [ France, according to the
Early said.
iiouncement.
| The twenty-first
' captured maritime
vessel, the
commission
Foreign Ships Cani^on^rasSr'wll'hX1^
mT -T *-.1 I tation that details regarding its
Not Fly U. S. Flag
Parts of State
Get Hea\ \ Rains
By UNITED l'RKSS
Federal weather forecasters
| detention are "unknown." .
The state department said
WASHINGTON — ()L'P) ' that cargoes of two ships, the sa'j' today^that^a cool wave an-
The senate voted today to pen- j South Atlantic steamship eomp-
alize merchant vessels found fly-
ing the American flag to avoid
submarine attacks.
The penalty was written into
the neutrality bill. Such vessels
would be denied entrance into
U. S. ports for three months.
any s freighter Saccarappa and
te Waterman Steamship comp-
any's Warrior, were requisition-
'ed by the British. The Saccarap-
pa was carrying cotton. The
Warrior had a cargo of phos-
'phate.
Fair Visitors See
Products of NY A
Germany Is Expected to Launch
"Rlitzerkrei«f Against Britain
r p
The NYA project at the Mid
west Exposition, in the rear of
the automobile building, is draw-
ing numerous fair visitors. The
bevs' manual arts division and
the girls' housekeeping aid pro-
ject have combined for the ex-
hibit.
Work of boys' division, under
the supervision of Frank Powell,
is on display and a small gift
See VISITORS Page 0
made for both for treatment.
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State Labor Board
Favored by AF of L
GALVESTON — (UP) — Crea-
tion of a state labor relations
board without "the defects of
the national law" was urged to-
day in a resolution adopted bv
the convention of the Texas AF
of L.
BY UNITED PRESS
Germany warned her enemies
and neutral nations Wednesday,
after Adolf Hitler summoned his
military leaders into a council of
war. that "the moment has come"
for shattering aerial bombard-
ments of the British Isles and
intensified U-l)oat attacks on the
high seas.
"The dice have fallen," said
Hitler's own newspaper. "Ger-
many has taken up the English
challenger's gauntlet."
The organ of Field Marshal
Goering who built up and com-
mands Germany's mightiest wea-
pon .her air force, said that pros-
pects of peace have collapsed
ticipated for Texas apparently
had been sidetracked The fore-
cast was for continued warm
weather.
An eight inch rain caused a
local flood yesterday near Round
Mountain, in Blan< o county, but
the showers were spotty over
the state. Huntsville had nearly
two inches and San Angelo an
inch and a half.
Sadler Considers
Class Rate Cut
AUSTIN
and that "the war which Britain I mendatiotv
— (UP) — Recom-
for reduction in rail
wanted must, now shower down
on the British Isles themselves."
, Everything from Berlin Wed-
nesday night and early today
indicated that the nazis, having
served an "unofficial declara
tion of war" upon. Britain, were
prepared to launch a "blitzkrieg"
or lightning war against the Brit-
ish at sea and in the air.
freight chss rates are being
considered by Railroad Commis-
sioner Jerry Sadler, he said to-
day, and will lie recommended
to the commission shortly.
Reductions in class rates. Sad-
ler said, will result in more sav-
ing for Texas shippers than the
recent abolition of differential
rates.
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