Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 168, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 1, 1941 Page: 6 of 6
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$37,950,000,000
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Nationwide Welcome Qreets New Arrival
11’jbST Defense Expenditures Rise
Tolls 1941 Birth
Americans, Ever Thankful,
For Life Here, Forget
Shadows of War
Steadily To Produce Boom
BY UNITED PRESS
From East to West across the
time belts of the country, the
people celebrated an unusually
boisterous New Year against the
backdrop of a world poised on
a delicate balance of war and
peace.
It was a gredt and final fling
to mark the end of a decade as
well as a year. And for many
It was an opportunity to forget
momentarily the b o m b i ngs,
blackouts and other by-products
of the World’s War sectors.
They massed in great throngs
on New York’s Times Square,
Chicago’s loop, San Francisco's
Market Street; in night clubs, ho-
tels and bars, and Sweetwater
night spots and homes. For the
most part the celebrants were
relatively orderly.
The more serious gathered in
churches for midnight watch
services and masses. Prayers for
peace and a better world in
Hill were offered up.
Americans Are Thankful
But Americans, thankful that
they lived in a nation at peace
in a warring world, made the
most of it while Londoners sang
Auld Lang Syne in crowded
homb shelters; while many Ber-
liners congregated in dimly lit.
cafes and beer gardens; while
conquered Frenchmen tightened
their belts a little more.
New York led the way in stag-
ing the country’s _ biggest cele-
bration. Policemen said it was
the biggest, noisest and drinking-
est spree in years. By midnight
some 2,000,000 cheering persons
were jammed in or around
Times Square, traditional spot
for revelers.
Uniformed soldiers, sailors
and marines were generously
sprinkled through the crowds.
Night Clubs Filled
In every large city hotels and
night clubs were filled with
those who had paid up to S30
for reservations. The war made
imported champagne something
of a luxury hut many celebrants
found that the domestic cork
BY JOHN T. FLYNN
NKA Service Writer
According to some of the busi-
ness indices, business activity in
the United States rose toward
the end of the year to the high-
est point it has ever known.
This rise, however, is not en-
tirely reliable. Business activity
has indeed risen to the highest
point it has known since 1929.
But unfortunately most of the
business indices that show this
all-time record happen to he bas-
ed bn those factors that have
been most vigorously stimu-
lated by the war.
Tli is, however, is merely by
way of warning. The rise in
business activity has been very
great. And, as matters stand, it
is only in (lie first stages of its
real rise.
............ 100
........... 120
....... 130
Per Coni Increase
Over Last Year
.......... 3
.......... 5
.......... 0
Industrial Production
1398 .............
1930 ........
If MO......
Retail
Distribution
Cleveland
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
DEFENSE SPENDING
.Il’ST STARTING
In the industries most direct-
ly related to the war efforts of
Europe and America the im-
mense energy developed is strik-
ing. Not only is the activity great
as it was in 1930—but there
exists now what did not exist
then, a huge backlog. There are
even lumber mills which have
enough government orders to
keep them busy a year. And at
the same time some of those
shortages that have been deve-
loping in the last It) years
through the lag in construction
are beginning to be felt — as
in the electrical industry.
The big question, then, is how
much further will this go and
for how long?
How much further it will go
may lie gathered from some fig-
ures affecting the amount of gov-
ernment business that yet re-
Figures above are estimates from 1 . S. Department ol Com-
merce. No estimate tor 1940 available, but total retail buying
in tbe Cubed States is considered certain to be well ahead of
1939.
for defense and civil purposes, that price increases in construc-
however, are enormous. I tion and production of war
The actual appropriations for
civil and defense purposes are
$1(3,020,027.000. The cop-unit-j
ments for which no appropria-
tions' have been made amount
to $4,000,000,000. And another
gave just as good a bang and
accomplished the same purpose. J nf the < House Appropriations
Those who celebrated at home j Committee, defense appropria-
danced to no music controlled , tjons and commitments total
by; ASCAP (The American Soc- si7 092 227 930
iety of Composers, Authors and j ' y'il' of'thi's sum has not been
Publishers) if they were tun-
materials are already sufficient
to add another. $2,500,000,000 to
the cost of the things included
in these appropriations.
The rise in business indicated
in the figures for industrial pro-
contract, authorization amounts duction and retail distribution I wore plain clothes and the type j
to $!,580,000,(100 for a two- • lias horn provoked by an ex- "f hats traditionally adapted to I
ocean navy. New appropriations, j pendilure of only it small part * *1 j ’1 ro" country,
however, probably equaling of these v:-t drlrnse appropriu- . '" u‘0 Tinman appeared!
000,000,(MX), Nvill be asked as soon 11 ions. Only a modest part of (he j!" >e courthouse shack attired
in a tailor made suit and other-1
was there for no other purpose
than to destroy all that the set-
tlers up until that time had ac-
complished in organizing the
new county, electing their first
officials and deciding upon a
county scat.
Prior to that meeting, a one
room wooden shack had been
quickly thrown up to serve as
a temporary courthouse, it had
only a dirt floor and a few
benches, but that morning . it,
was crowded and packed by
those who wanted to see where
this election day fight would
end.
It was then that the -validity
of the election was questioned,
and when one of the commis-
sioners made the statement that,
the box containing the ballots
cast tit the dugout would have
to ho thrown out and not count-
ed, the Fort Worth attorney
went into action.
That is he started, hut he
never got into high gear.
When he sought recognition
from the court, Judge Barnett
told him to sit down.
"But your honor,” said Fur-
man. "I am here to represent
clients who are interested in
this matter, and I have a right
to he heard.”
Barnett replied that lie and
the court did not desire to hear
the gentleman: that the court
was well informed as to who
he was, why he was ;there and
who lu' represented.
Furman, then becoming in-
sistent, repeater! that he had a
right to be heard, and that he
intended to ho heard.
Barnett told him to sit down
and keep quiet.
Furman got up again, and
Judge Barnett turned to Sheriff
Montgomery and instructed the*|
latter to see that Furman dirt
keep still, or was removed from
the building.
Furman, defeated, sat there!
in silence, as the commission-
ers then calmly and deliberately
went about the business of toss-
ing out the ballots from the dug-
out box. counting the others,
and again re-affirming that the
Sweetwater site had won the
election to become the perman-
ent county seat of Nolan.”
Furman, very much of a gen-
tleman and a distinguished mem-
ber of the bar, unfortunately,
however, was lacking in knowl-
edge as to the manner and hah-1
its of West Texas folks, who!
LAIRS—
^Continued from page 1)
stomachs, electrocuting the
were
ed in to network stations or lo-
cal ones affiliated with the Nat-
ional Association of Broadcast-
ers. Radio’s music war began at
the stroke of 12.
President, Toasts T. S.’
President Roosevelt spent a
quiet evening at the White
House with a few members of
his family and close friends.
After u musicale, the party sang
“Auld Lang Syne" and, at the
stroke of midnight, Mr. Roose-
velt offered his toast
United States.”
j mains to get under way.
According to Chairman Taylor j as Congress a-soluble- after the sums appropriated
first of the year, if not sooner.
MOUNTING
SPIRAL
This vast -uni of money flow-
ing into the bloodstream of
business will, of course, pro-
duce the most extraordinary ef-1 y< ar under the Impact
fects. And there is no assurance
that it will not he greatly in-
ha vo been
appropriated. Some of it con-
sists of commitments. Some of
it. therefore, will not he spent:
for two. three, four or five
spent. The full tide of these out- n * /ashlon?h,e
. ,ri * Nan me i. even the audience view-
“>’s Wl1 ......... felt •l!u'' ed him not as friend but as a
the tn.-tot the strange sight, such as never be-
And it will grow With the fore they had laid eyes on.
month However, Furinan was no sis-
lh nec the outlook for the I Sy. He was not adverse to drink-
ing it
if these
straight at the bar, and
years. The total appropriations | creased, since it is estimated
Those Votes from a Duiiout Won hi Have (Humeri I
■xpendilures is for a mounting I the old timers say that when
spiral of business activity rising they started him hack to Fort
Oo-diiv to a boom. | Worth late that evening he was
; not only in high spirits, hut
wished the new county seat the
best of luck.
That ended the election con-
Countv Seat of Nolan to Spot Nearer lioseoe
Palter.-on
CHAPTER SIX
One may assume that when j chief conten
T° The | the Nolan county commission-! nin£ <mi
the
the corn-
suitable
Mr. Roosevelt told his press ! ers met on Aprii 12, 1881 to can-j ^-erMhui
conference Tuesday that he j ™1leXn"h™y ho£l uU°far‘l ?f""
hadiU made any new years from hlf.inK .,nv fireworks! he opened Mr n.
resolutions. Mrs. Roosevelt, how- j of ., 1)0li,k.;il nature> it wnuW Sweetwater :■<"< d,m a.....
ever, revealed hers earlier m the | be onh. a routine session in l0C<" '1’ ur-,] ' \
,laY: I which thev officially announced taken 'he r, mim-
in tic* nut; t secure place
, , , , . . CJIOl ........... obtained.
But it was to lie far from thato ... .. t
Th'’ commissioners, proceed-j ,i(„ M ..... ,, . ,
II B. Patter-nil.
j who later lived in Snvtler. had
will have to be rebuilt a safer I won the election, having re- "1<‘ l,'"’k 111 ' no smtl|i nu"'!,<''
place, and a place of greater ceived fiftv-nine vote- or a ma-
justice and kindness for all the | jority of all the votes cast for, on ., rount of v,
world to live m. th. various place? of which the| ha’d the election
future looked
test — and the
bright and rosv.
The first 'Texas & Pacific
f law in the sit- train was due to pull Into the
•'.•cor. were never to depot in a few days. The eoun-
... -i coni' de-.|V a result of Sweetwater
in, that the IMtter-1getting the courthouse site.
owned one hundred and fifty
lots—and the Franco Texas
Land Company was, within
only a
I which they officially announced
T would wish for the power ,|le results and adjourned. kf‘Pt
to set apprehension aside, the j But „ was to tie far fpom that.I "'I!.'. "‘"I'1. *
course to meet day by day I Th„ commissioners, proceed-!, 1 .....
whatever comes, and to do what- ing that routine basis, enter-
ever is possible, as far as 1 can . e,j lnto the minutes a statement ’
see it, to make the world that that the Sweetwater site had
Hi iiry
M Furman,
n! ;ii
torney from 1
'(> m;
il<" inn l ied
!)(j lit’
here ehen
cal,'. "d lie
if the
elec! ion.
fish whic(j floated ashore to
the grateful Eskimos."
Honorable mention went
to W. L. Person, Kingfish-
er, Okla., who said while
his wife was -away from
home recently he “did not
spend the night with the
boys.”
“I bought a copy of Good
Housekeeping in a g a z ine,
curled up in a cozy chair
by the fireside at home and
read the magazine from
cover to cover,” he said.
Talcs so tall some had to
he haled in on flatcars like
telephone poles vje.l for
.first place.
Directors of the club gath-
ered to wrestle with a
bumper crop of more than
5,000 entries.
“There are no ‘bottle
necks’ in our industry,”
President O. C. Iluiett said.
“If t lie preparedness pro-
gram could only move into
production on the scale of
our contest, we wouldn’t
have to worry about ship-
ping planes In England. In-
side of a month, we could
just sink them, one on top
of I lie other, until we hart
a bridge built across the
Atlantic- and then cart the
rest over in trucks.”
Gilbert A. Karcher, vice
president and a lawyer, took
out a salt cellar and passed
it to the other directors.
Each quickly swallowed sev-
eral ’grains and went hack
to work.
From a sampling, the 1910
crop of (all tales promised
to he up to par.
For instance, there’s Al-
bert J. Davis, Zanesville,
O., and his coon dog, Old
Lead. Some doubt seemed
to have arisen over the
hound’s apitude at follow-
ing a cold trail. So Davis
said he took him out one
night this full and before
you could say papilionac-
eous, Old Lead was on a
trail. He ran ten miles and
then stopped under a tree.
When they cut down the
tree, Old Lead's ability as a
“cold trailer” was establish-
ed for all time. In the hol-
low tree, said Davis, was"
the skeleton of a coon.
John P. Zelenac, Tacoma,
Wash., hoped to win hack
the title he once held with
his explanation for the re-
cent collapse of “Galloping
Gerty,” the big Tacoma
bridge. His investigation,
he said, disclosed that the
piers were built on the back
of one of the Puget Sound
turtles asleep in the mud.
Anyone familiar with Puget
Sound turtles knows that
construction and use of the
huge span would bother the
big fellow not one whit
more than a scratch on a
a tin Lizzie. According to
Zelenac, however, it appear-
ed tHat on the day of the
now famous accident, the
old turtle was shaken by a
had case of hiccups.
TANSIL’S
WOMEN’S APPAREL
May Wo Wish For Each and All
365 New Days
ami
peace
Of happiness, good health and joy
in whatever endeavor you may be in.
So here’s i cheerful smile, a firm grip of the
hand and good luck, good health and successful
1941.
Opens at Texas
1
IF
m rant.
An exciting film ol' adventure
in a Suiitli African diamond
mine makes its local debut
today when “Soulli of Suez" j
opens at the Texas Theatre.
Murder, theft and jealous)
make up the background ol
this tropical tale. George Brenl
is stared in the role ol' an
adventurous mine foreman
wild rail take ruthless greed,
unreslntincd love and mrrei
less jungle heat in his stride.
with disclosure that 40 forts had
defended the now shell-wreck
ed town. These outposts wer
i linked by a continuous anti-
tank ditch 10 feet wide and it
in turn was guarded by mile af-
ter mile of thick, barbed wh’f
barricade.
The British gradually were re-
ducing this line of forts, while
i keeping Bard la itself under con-
I tinuous bombardment. It was e.$J
I timated that 20,000 Italians, the
j remnants of the army which had
j invaded Egypt and which has
| been driven hack to Libya, re-
j main in Bardia under Gei$
I Francesco Herti.
i Prisoners taken by the Brit-
! ish now total .38.000. The British
j also have taken more than 100
big guns, hundreds of motor v^*
I hides and vast quantities of
I army stores.
YOUNGBLOOD—
(Continued from page
Livestock
11
! FORT WORTH
( USDA i — Livestock:
, , ' Cattle 1,200: calves 000; gen-
I A com ding to friends, Voting- eril]]v steady; steers and yearl-
| blood, in seemingly good spirits ings 0.00-8.75, few good yearL
land fading well left the watch in«s <» 9.50 and better; fat covW
[party shortly, before midnight ; |’“- cu,,e*'s :,'-rH’50: ca,ves
and went home. With Mrs Hogs 1,000; steady; top butch-
Youngblood, he watched the ers 0.00; hulk good butchers 0.50-
0.00: mixed grades 5.50 - 0.45
packing sows 5.50-55.75.
New Year in before retiring.
About 1 p. m. he arose to get
a drink of water and toppled in
the hallway of their home. He
was pronounced dead upon the
(Continued from page 1) I arrival of physicians,
trip into Texas woods and fields Survivors include his widow,
in search of the javelina this one daughter. Geraldine Young-
season. reports to the depart-j blond, both of Blackwell; four
HUNTERS—
Sheep
8.50.
.300; steady; fat
%
lambs
triP| ninety days, going to build a j ment show. The javelina, or pec-j brothers and sisters, Mrs. C
1 he ■ sio.OOO courthouse building, a I eary, or wild hog is now a game; i tubby, Mrs. M
taxpayers of
inll
ncr
12.
he only t
had ii<>t
l'ri.ui the Patter
of the settlers and those friends. I \Y. H. Cowan,
in fact, believed that Sweotwat- who had been one
ti'.dx. v. lii'ii tin com-
■ met i hat morning of ......
hopeful tliiil it would ! ing
routine ses ion, theyl ■
.,11111■ iji:11 11 Mii:- niiive 1
>n camp,
pioneer citizen
if the sport-
s'. ,, I'etwatcr loca-
froe gift to
Nolan county.
That is—the county eomtnis-
ioners thought they were go-
to get that courthouse!
V. Brownfield,
of
Young-
'f.
With a New Year ahead we want
to thank all of you for your patron-
age in 1940 and wish you all good
luck and great success in 1941!
Curley’s Cafe
P. M. ASHLEY, Prop.
WORLD NEWS —
(Continued form page 2)
Nov. 27—British and Italians fight long-range naval battle
Mediterranean.
al i important, xjov. 27—Iron Guards massacre (34 Rumanian political prisoners
!' i ii'd county at- \-()V 28—Greeks announce capture of Argyrokastron.
Nov. .30—Hitler annexes Lorraine to the Reich.
Dec 2—German bombers concentrate on Southampton.
animal ih the state and many|and .1 J. Youngblood, all
hunters reported them excel-] Brownfield; and L T
lent and exciting sport. | blood, of Bronte.
Fur trappers can take peltsi , , .
un,i| |.m ;u 1 Mineral services will be eon-
_______!__L____ducted Wednesday afternoon at
I l:.3(> at the Methodist Church in
• Blackwell with the Rev. (!. B.
! Sliger, Hylton, officiating. The
sors for the
tion and whi
land that a majority had been j had just Men
j in favor of the opposing site. ! torney. was the first
Judge 11 C. Hord, one of the approaching storm.
; early day pioneers here and He leanoJ cl -<■ to William, ,
Judge R C Crane, noted West Barnett, wh also had been j Dec. 3—Germany claims sinking of is Bntisn snips in convoy.,
j Texas hi a nan have both in-j elec-n d county judge and was i Dec. 4—Greeks announce capture of Premedi.
dicated that while the records! piv--idiM; over tin comm’ssion-! [)ec q_Greeks capture Porto Edda.
!)(>,. 8—Greeks capture Argyrokastron, Albanian base.
Dec. 9—British report capture of 1.000 Italian prisoners in Egyp-
tian advance.
of which happened were never 11 r court, and- whispered In his
clear, that the results—-on the j ear.
face of returns from the boxes | judge Furman, as the Fort
of the four precincts—did indi-i Worth attorney was commonly, .... .
cate that the Patterson site had km \\n. wa- .(an tnld Judge 10—llitlei in
been gi\ren a majority of fifteen Barnett. Ij to make between "haves and “have-nots.
to arouse dissension! Dec. 11—British capture Italian base at Sidi BarrinL
However, the dawn of that 1 the people, and to dl»-j Dec. 12—Lord Lothian dies in Washington.
election morning had found thejrupt the county at a time when j |)(>{._ 13_British drive forward against Italians in Egypt
I Dec 1,3—Greeks capture Porto Palermo.
Dec. 13—Sheffield, Eng., heavily bombed.
Masonic lodge will he in charge
of services at the cemetery.
Frank Keeney Funeral home of
Bronte is in charge of arrange-
ments.
Active pull bearers will he H.
C Rainey, Walter Leach, Charlie
Cave, Clint Watt, K. L. Ellis, and
F. I) Willis.
Honorary pall bearers are: R.
H Jordan, W. C\ Shamblin, T. A.
Carlisle. Charles Copeland, D. T.
McDonald, C. M Rogers, and J.
speech to German workers, declares war is j T Harmon.
EGYPT—
prairies covered in snow, a hard - it was just getting organized to
blizzard was blowing and the do business in an orderly way.
voters in the southwest section} In that whispered moment, it
of the county finding it impos-| was de< IT-I that Furman and Dec. 14—Pierre Laval ousted from Vichy government
sihle to vote at the designated
j place, a sheep ranch, therefore
j had gathered at a dugout alvrnt
I a mile awav and there east
their votes in an orderly way.
Thus, for several days before
i the meeting of the commission-
( ers’ court it had been whispered
that since, under the law. it was
illegal to vote at any other
: place than that designated by
i tin1 court, the ballot - east at the
I dugout would he thrown out and
! not counted.
The ballots in that tsix con-
tained just tJie number of votes
| necessary to defeat the Sweet-
| water site and make the Patter-
I son location the winner.
Whatever might have been
whatever plan of attack he in- Dec. 15—Italians counter attack in Albania,
tended to follow should lie : oec jp—British ask U. S. for financial aid.
thwarted oy w vor permitting p,e(. j-—jiritish capture three Italian forts in Egypt.
'‘Th^momenr’w-m nof onToiPet’ S. gives Britain “go ahead” on $3 000,000,000 orders
local politic inn of great eon- Dt’<' 19—Britain signs contract for (>0 freighters to be built in
corn as, in justice to those early U. S.
official.- it -linuld he m ailed ! Dec. 20—Britain announces fleet has penetrated Adriatic,
tliat 1 .eii heiore this time an dw. 21—Germany denounces U. S.
off'if had bee., made to declare! against Reich.
!.eei..,|s!Ml|heM,',ha.,|^'iiot’Ven^si Dec' 22-Marshal Graziam reports on reverses in Egypt and Libya.
U. S.
many as one hundred and fifty
vetei.- iii the county at the
time, a circumstance that was
required by law.
The county attorney believed,
and Judge Barnett was impress-
ed by that belief, that this stran-
ger- Die Fort Worth attorney—
Dec. 23—Viscount Halifax appointed ambassador to
Dec. 21—Pope Pius pleads for a "just peace.”
Dec. 2.7—King George declares Britain is on “path to victory.”
Dec. 2G—British destroyer Acheron lost.
Dec. 27—Sea raider shells Nauyu, British mandated isle. Tanker
manned by American crew revealed as sunk on Dec. 21.
Dec. 28—British bomb German “invasion ports.”
(Continued from page ll
forces as well as that of the
trapped Italian defenders. The
Italian guns cause much less
damage than do biting, blinding
desert sandstorms.
I crossed the battlefield in a |
curtain of sand so thick that it
would have been easy to wander
into the Italian lines, as already
some British troops have done.
From the top of the escarpment
‘insults and moral aggression” | overlooking Bardia the scene!
was of a great dust Ixnv'. De-
spite the storm, the British con- 1
tinued to pour in reinforce- i
ments—tanks, guns, lorries, j
troops and supplies Their move- i
ments added to the huge cloud
of sand sweeping the plain.
Forts Reduced
The task of the British army [
before Bardia was emphasized
Today and Tomorrow
4jJLTo|ii;i>j.T:Llfil>tnTl
with
GfORGi
BRENT
BRENDA
MARSHALL
“Alla The Giant Killer”
“The Lonesome Stranger’
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Today and Thursday
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“Bundle of Bliss”
Regular Holiday Prices
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