Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 38, Ed. 1 Monday, July 15, 1940 Page: 1 of 6
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Death Takes J♦ D. Dulaney, Business Mart-Rancher
Funeral Tuesday
For Sweetwater's
< First Merchant
Rites to Be at First
^ Methodist Church for
Pioneer Hereford Breeder
Funeral services for J. D. Du-
lauey, Sr., pioneer Sweetwater
- and Nolan county rancher and
business man and one of the
oldest and most widely known
registered Hereford breeders in
ihis section of Texas, are to be
held at 10 a. m. Tuesday in the
First Methodist church.
The Rev. Sam H. Young, pas-
tor of the First Methodist
^ church, is to offiicate. "
Burial is to be in the Sweet-
water cemetery under the direc-
tion of Yates Funeral home. The
Sweetwater Masonic lodge, of
q which he was a charter and life
member, is to have charge of
rites at the grave.
Death Unexpected
Mr. Dulaney's death at 8 p.
f in. Sunday was unexpected, al-
though he had been ill of pneu-
See DULANEY Page 6
'Panzer' Chief
Dental Clinic
Is Opened Here
Schedule for dental examina-
tion and treatment of 100 Nolan
county needy school children bo-
ban at 2 p. m., Monday with
Dr. W. A. Buckner, staff dent-
ist of the sttae department of
health, in charge.
The program — educational
and clinical—is being carried on
in the mobile trailer, complete-
ly equipped and spacious
enough to care for 12 children,'
in a location south of the court- j
house in the parkway.
Dr. Buckner is to remain for i
two weeks, working with local
dentists, county dentists and
the health unit personnel on
the pre-school program, the first
of its kind for any Texas coun-
ty to have this summer.
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Palestine Area
Reports Bombings
JERUSALEM — (UP) — Ene-
my aircraft bombed the Haifa
area Monday in the first air raid
in Palestine.
An official communique said:
"Several enemy aircraft bomb-
ed the Haifa area (on the coast).
There was slight damage and a
few casualties."
Haifa is a port and industrial
sector that has ben built up
rapidly in recent years, especial-
ly in connection with migration
of Jews, including a large num-
ber from America, to the Holy
Land.
It is a modernized city and
chief commercial center of Pal-
estine.
(NEA Photo)
Lieut. Col. Sereno E. Brett,
an instructor at the Army's
Command and General Staff
School at Port Leavenworth,
Kas., has heen named chief of
staff of a new' mechanized
corps for the V. S. Army pat-
terned after the famed tier-
man "Panzer" divisions and
to have its headquarters at
Kt. Knox, K,v. Colonel Brett,
expects the new corps, two
divisions, to he ready for ser-
vice within a few months.
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5 Men Perish
In Flames After
Auto Crash
Coupe Runs Into Truck,
Igniting Gas Tank
Of Heavier Car
SAN ANTON ID—( UP)—Five
men died Monday in the flam-
ing wreckage of a truck and a
car which collided on the San
Antonio-Seguin highway.
The dead were Tim Walker.
27: John Edward Miller, 14, arid
W. J. Davis, negro vo^ith, ail
from .Trinity: and Ricardo Sau-
rez, 288, and Sam Morina, both
of Seguin.
Officers said the coupe occu-
pied by Saurez and Morina
crashed into the rear of the
heavily-laden lumber truck and
that the truck's gas tank ex-
ploded. ■
The three occupants of the
truck were trapped in the blaz-
ing machine. Saurez and Mor-
ina died in a San Antonio hos-
pital.
Hatch Boosted
For Vice President
CHICAGO — (UP) — New-
Mexico delegates Monday put
forward the name of Sen. Carl
A. Hatch, author of the clean
politics bill, as their choice for
vice president.
Gov. J. E. Miles, elected chair-
man in the state caucus, said
the state's six votes were pledg-
ed to Roosevelt.
Farley Greeted
By Ball Game Song
STADIUM. Chicago — (UP)
— When National Committee
Chairman James A. Farley con-
vened the democratic conven-
tion Monday the organ began
Having "Take Me Out to the
Hall Game." Farlev is reported
to be nlanning to head the New
York Yankee baseball club.
• Weather Forecast
S W E ET W AT ER—Cloudy. 1111
settled and warmer. Maximum
Sunday temperature 07; low
Monday 70; at. 2 p. m., Mondav
,• 92. July 15, 1030, high 03, low
72.
WEST TEXAS—Fair Monday
night and Tuesday; except scat-
tered showers and thunder-
storms in Panhandle Monday
4 night and in northern half Tues-
day.
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy
Monday night and Tuesday; lo-
cal thundershowers near upper
coast Tuesday.
Grain Shipments
Tapering Off
KANSAS CITY — (UP) —
Grainmen believed Monday that
movement of winter wheat into
this grain terminal had begun
to taper off with reports that
receipts had dropped to 1,483
cars.
More than 2,990 cars were re-
ceived laSt Monday. With de-
creasing receipts, fears of an
acute storage problem were dis-
sipated and it was believed the
area's 16 public elevators would
be able to handle the load.
Safe Crackers Get
$1,150 In Raid
GALVESTON — (UP) — Sam
I Woodson, Jr., manager of a
-lift drink bottling company, es-
timated today that safe-crackers
took $1,150 in cash and $175 in
checks in a burglary of his of-
fice Sunday.
Traffic Experts
Meet In Austin
AUSTIN — (UP) — A six
day conference on engineering
tor traffic safety opened Mon-
day at the University of Texas.
The sessions are open to all city,
county, state officials and will
hear engineers and officials of
the state highway department.
Capper Observes
75th Birthday
TOPEKA. Kan. — (UP) —
Sen. Arthur Capper of Kansas
returned to Topeka Sunday to
celebrate his 75th birthday.
Monday he will entertain 15,-
ooo children at a picnic party.
Britain Ready
For Nazi Drive,
Soon to Start
Italian Newspaper Says
Axis Powers Ready to
Launch Blitzkrieg
By UNITED PRESS
Great Britain prepared today
to meet with every resource the
threat of a great offensive by
Germany and Italy "within a
few days."
The promise that the offensive
would start without delay came
from Virginio Gayda, an auth-
oritative fascist editor, writing
in the Giornale D'ltalia, but
there were other signs as well
that preparations for the climax
of Europe's war were almost
complete.
A nazi spokesman in Berlin
indirectly threatened London
with the fate of bomb-shattered
Rotterdam by asserting that
British plans for defense made
it impossible to consider the cap-
ital as an "open city" that would
be free from aerial attack.
Airplanes presumed to be
Italian bombed the coastal in-
dustrial city of Haifa in the
first attack on Palestine since
the war started
Nazi war news—except for
new attacks on south England
and on British shipping—was in
a lull such as often in the past
has preceded a big attack.
Supplies Cut Off
Emphasizing this trend in the
war of nerves that still appear-
ed to be as important as the war J
of guns and bombs, the German
press said the British Isles were
being cut off by nazi aerial and
U.-boat warfare which endanger-
ed overseas supplies.
"Thus the British scheme to
starve Germany and Europe is
being changed into a starvation
of England." nazi newspapers as-
serted in Berlin.
Preparing for a long struggle
—perhaps until 1942 wtyen em-
pire war strength "may reach its
peak—the British Isles took
new German aerial bombard-
ments as a routine hazard and
backed up Prime Minister Win-
ston Churchill's defiant promise
of a street-by-street battle
against the invasion they ex-
pect Adolf Hitler to attempt .at
any time.
The struggle still was in a
preliminary phase, both sides
admitted. In the Mediterran-
ean, the Italians claimed new
success in aerial bombardment
of the British fleet. London ad-
mitted the loss of the submarine
Shark, 070 tons with 40 men
aboard, and the destroyer Es-
cort, 1,375 tons, on which two
lives were lost.
Ship Loss Admitted
In the battle for Britain, the
German high command claimed
the sinking of three merchant
ships of a total tonnage of 17.
00') and the damaging of a le-
stroyer. an auxiliary cruiser
ami four merchantmen in an
atrial attack on a British con-
vov.
Bis fires were started in Kent,
the Germans reported, as a re-
sult of bombardment of British
air fields and arms factories in
retaliation for repeated British
bombardment of the vast Ruhr
factory area of Germany.
Britons were greatly encour-
aged, however, by the success
of Royal Air Force fighting
planes in driving off an attack
by about 150 German planes
Sunday as the nazis sought to
break up the British defenses
along the Strait of Dover, where
an invasion attempt may center.
Five German bombers and two
fighters were brought down in
a spectacular air battle that re-
sulted in the defeat of the at-
tacking air fleet.
At the same time, the air min-
istry reported that British bomb-
ing raids on Germany had re-
sulted in great damage to air-
plane, munitions and chemical
factories, barge concentrations
and airdromes.
Saving the Best for Last
(NEA Photo)
This touching hit of action was caught b.v the camera in Kan-
sas City, Mo.'s union station as (George Kcnrdon and Mildred
Wiggins make the last goodbye a good one for Iteardon is
leaving with the 8th Naval Reserve Battalion for a year's duty
aboard the battleships of the Pacific Fleet.
Big Sprin Girl Refuses to Quit
Though Serious Ailments Beset Her
EL PASO—(UP)—Pretty
Dorothy Dublin refuses to
call it quits.
The 23-year-old Big Spring
bank teller, who less than
a year ago was rushed to
Southwestern General hos-
pital here from her home in
a flying condition from in-
fantile paralysis, is over-
coming her fourth serious
ailment in that time, friends
reported Monday.
Early last winter, Miss
Dublin was brought to the
El Paso hospital where she
was placed in an iron lung.
In a few months she was
removed from it, apparently
Markets A.t A Glance
By UNITED PRESS
Stocks firms in dull trading.
Bonds irregular; U. S. govern
ments lower.
Curb stocks irregular.
Foreign exchange strong.
Cotton about steady.
Wheat off 3-8 to 5-8 cent; corn
up 3-8 to 1 1-8.
Rubber irregular.
unchanged in New
Silver
York.
Id
anjje Conditions
Good In County
Range conditions in Nolan
county are best in several sea-
sons and livestock is in good
flesh in all county precincts.
Joe K. Taylor, administrative as-
sistant of the NCAC'A, said Mon-
day.
West Texas, as a whole, re-
ports conditions better than any
year since 1928, where rainfall
was well above normal. Nolan
county's season is above aver-
age for this time of year, but is
not as good as surrounding coun-
ties. Taylor said.
No screw worm infestation is
found in cattle, and losses have
been unusually small this year.
Greater shipments of cattle
are expected out of West. Texas
and Nolan county this fall, with
conditions pointing to a gener-
ally good year for cattlemen.
on the road to recovery.
Site was just beginning to
walk, with the aid of a
brace, when a serious kid-
ney ailment hail her hvo,
but she rallied and recover-
ed from it, even after doc-
tors had given up hope for
her. .
Then Miss Dublin devel-
oped pneumonia, but she
beat that.
Now, she is in Lubbock
sanatorium, recovering from
an operation for the remov-
al of a kidney stone.
Friends here said her fath-
er, Charles Dublin, had re-
ported her condition as "ex-
cellent."
l ive Lose Lives
In Plane Crash
MARKLEEVILLE, Calif. —
(UP)—Sheriff Orrin P. Brown
reported Monday that five per-
sons were killed when a private
airplane crashed Sunday near
the head of Wolf Creek, .32 miles
southwest of here.
The dead were identified as!
Mr. and Mrs. R. B Mills, Los
Angeles: Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Gunning, Oakland, and Pilot C.
H. Hodges, Los Angeles.
Brown said a shepherd who
saw the plane crash into Rocky
Bluff, a peak of tlie Sierra range,
about 1:30 j). m.. walked to
Markleevill.e to repm" the ac-
cident. there were no other
forms of communication in the
region.
Rescuers who set out for the
scene Sunday night, returned
here Monday, bringing the bod-
ies.
Accidental Shot
Wounds Youth
AUSTIN — (UP) — Eighteen-
year-old Hoyt Townsley was re-
ported as "resting very well"
Monday after being accidentally
shot near here Sunday by a .22
calibre revolver held by Clyde
Boatman, 21, the sheriff's depart-
ment said.
Rescue Squad
From Pittsburgh
Rushed to Scene
18 of 70 at Work
Come from Diggings But
Others' Fate Unknown
PORTAGE, Pa. — (UP) — An
explosion in the Sonman Coal
company slope mine occurred
Monday and at least 52 men were
reported entombed.
A spokesman for the company,
operated by the Koppers Coal
company, Pittsburgh, reported
the explosion occurred in a sec-
tion in which 70 men were re-
ported at work. Eighten of these
men have come out of the mine,
| the spokesman said.
The fate of the others is not j
known, the spokesman said.
Field operators of the state de-!
partment of mines and rescue
crews from Windber, Johnstown j
and Portage were at the scene
The United States bureau of j
Mines in Pittsburgh sent Super- j
visor J. J. Forbes and five other j
engineers to the mine with res- j
cue apparatus.
Clerks in the Sonman Coal j
office here reported that appro-1
ximately 225 men were at work
at the time of the explosion, i
Only 70, however, were reported j
to have been in the section af- j
fected by the explosion.
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City's Strategic
Value Outlined
Sweetwater's strategic loca- j
tion in view of the national de- j
fense progranj was fully outlin- j
ed by Wm. S. Chennault, before i
the Sweetwater Rotary club. I
Monday.
The speaker with the assist-j
ance of maps pointed out the
various highway and railway!
connections stemming from:
Sweetwater, that would be ofl
vital importance in the eoncen-i
tration of troops and supplies, to j
a military establishment in this j
area. The location of Sweetwat-
er. in reference to other forts
and military establishments wasl
also discussed.
Chennault, said that he was!
mmm
k
British
r.inci
Ordered, with other
subjects in Biarritz,
to Bordeaux to be evacuated,
British-born screen star Ma-
deleine Carroll didn't go. She
was glad later, for evacuees'
ship was bombed and ltM) were
killed. She's pictured as she
recently arrived in New York
by trans-Atlantic clipper.
City Is Mecca
For Manv Who
Seek Recreation
Parks and Pleasure
Facilities Overtaxed
Over Week End
"the recreation
;t Texas', was
family gather-
and out. of town
when the parks
with throngs of
; who chose their
for a day of fun
Sweetwater,
center of We
scene of many
ings, picnicker:
viistors Sunday
were crowded
pleasure seeker
favorite haunt?
and relaxation.
At Lake Sweetwater, where a
multitude of sports are avail-
not approaching the problem of j able,
how the location of a military
establishment in this area,
would help Sweetwater, but
how it would aid in the defense
and protection of the nation as
a whole.
Guests introduced by Secre-
tary Charles Paxton were, Dav-
id M. Warren, Panhandle, Tex-
as: Tom Blanton. Albany; Lloyd I cabins, at the shady playground
the 18-hole golf course
was crowded with golfers and
galleries for favorite matches.
The club house reported splen-
did. sale of cold drinks and min-
nows for hundreds of "Tssac Wal-
tons" who lined the shores.
Boating, swimming and pic-
nicking reached a peak at lake
Witter, San Angelo: Bill Blak-
eny, E. S. Cummings, Abilene;
Bernard Collins, Houston; J. M.
Sibley.
This was the first meeting to
be presided over by C R. Sim-
mons, recently elected president.
\\ illkie on Job
After Fish Fry
site north
municipal
At the
ming poo
youngster;
cooled off
of the dam and at the
swimming pier.
city park, the swim-
was a haven for
:, and grown ups who
in the hot sunny af-
ternoon. The tiny pool for tots
was included in the popular di-
version.
Tennis courts at the city lake
and at.Newman high school pro-
vided additional sports for visit-
ing guests and for local net
stars. Hoque courts had a wait-
ing list and families lined the
cool shady picnic grounds
the eastern part of the pat
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo
—(UP) —Wendell L. Willkie,
back at his vacation retreat af-
ter attending an old-fashioned
fish fry, Monday was preparing
for a week of important confer-
ences with republican leaders to
map his campaign for the presi-
dency.
Former President H e r bert
Hoover and Aim M. Landon, the I
republican presidential nominee , The Lone Maverick, cowboy
in 1931". headed the list of prom- j singer, will begin a series or
inent republicans mentioned by | programs tonight at v..-i over
Willkie for conferences. He has station k.v' \ He hasun-
made no appointments, however, j !>' ''cen ^tro,gr^T"s. t
pending their formal acceptances > Atnar llo and sings l oth
of invitations to come to Colo-1 and oldt.me cowboy tunes
rado Springs. ,
Lone Maverick
On KX0X Program
British Retire
From Kenya Post
NAIROBI. Kenya Colony —
(UP) — A communique Mon-
day said that the British garri-
son at Movale had withdrawn
after standing off five days of j to be featured at
At 8:30 o'clock on Wednes- j
day night the Loraine male
| quartette will give a half hour;
| program of gospel songs. Mem-;
! bers of the quartette have been
| appearing at 1:30 p. m. for sev-
| eral weeks past on a program i
for Loraine merchants.
A new feature. "1.-st We For-,
i get" is being inaugurated today'
• | at 4:30 p. m. This is the firfrt
In a series of historical dramas
the time on
Floor Demonstration
Touched Off, But
Parade is Checked
BV LYLE C. WILSON
CP Staff Correspondent
STADIUM, Chicago — (UP)—
The Roosevelt third term band-
wagon got off to a rolling start
Monday within 20 minutes after
the opening of the 1940 democra-
tion national convention.
The president's name was
mentioned by Mayor Edward J.
Kelly, an original draft-Roose-
velt man. it touched off the first
floor demonsetration of the 16-
minute gathering — 30-second
round oi cheers.
Some delegates crowded out of
their -eats and tne New York
State banner was hoisted into
the aisle but there was no pa-
i rade.
A few minutes later there
were more cheers when Sen.
Scott Lucas of Illinois mention-
ed the president's name. The
first full-fledged demonstration
! of the convention may come
Monday night when House
Speaker William B. Bankhead
of Alabama makes the keynote
address of the convention.
The first convention session
was whacked off to a brisk start
of National Chairman James A.
j Farley. His gavel cracked the
i table at 11:04 a. m. (CST). By
11:50 a. m. the opening prelim-
i inaries were out of the way and
j the convention quit until to-
I night.
Still No Word
The convention opened with
! still no public word from Mr.
! Roosevelt on the third term. But
J a private telephone wire was in
\ operation from the White House
i to the convention and Farley
and Roosevelt conferred by this
means before the first session
! convened.
Both the White House and the
Farley versions of the conversa-
i tion indicated that momentous
i matters were not discussed. The
: White House said Mr. Roosevelt
wished Farley a successful con-
; vent ion — without saying for
| whom.
Farley said it was just a "rou-
tine" conversation.
Farley's*'hat stilt is in the '
ring, regardless of the fact that
the Roosevelt third termers have
full steam up. He said Monday
'hat he was "playing my side of
the street" and it was plain
enough that Farley's street had
no third-term signs on the guide-
| posts.
iMilogizes President
The demonstration was touch-
ed off bv Mayor Edward J. Kel-
! ly of Chicago—a front runner
in the Roosevelt third term
drive.
Welcoming delegates t.o Chica-
! s o—which he described as a
■ "city of liberals"—he ended his
S address with a brief eulogy of
I the president.
His words set off cheers in the
; sparsely filled convention hall
; and there was a demonstration
i that lasted about half a minute
'■ Some one carried the New York
. state standard into the aisle but
i there was no parade.
The cheers were touched off
when Kelly said:
Each presidential candidate
has the stamina and vision t.o
I carry the democratic party to
j victory. We are praying and
! hoping that a man who can
: keep the White House as the
lighthouse of humanity will ae-
! cept the crushing burden for
the next four years.
•We are praying for a man
I who has given his life and blood,
who may be crucified but never
: corrupted.
"Destiny Bests In Him"
• Destiny rests in one man be-
cause of his experience.
'That is why 1 am praying
that this convention will stand
with all the courage of our
hearts and confirm again that
God-sent guardian of our liber-
tii - the kind of man our country
needs, our beloved president.
Franklin D Roosevelt."
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