Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 297, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 27, 1941 Page: 1 of 22
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'Equipment Arrives For Airport Job jjuSiSd
''Contract Allows
80 Days For
•Grading Project
Bell, Braden May
Begin Operations
A Monday Morning
Committees Are
Chosen For
Relief Society
Civic, Church Groups
Attend Meeting
Friday Afternoon
The organization of the Sweet-
water chapter of the British War
Relief society was completed Fri-
day afternoon at a meeting held
in the county court room called
by Carl Anderson, recently elect-
ed as chairman of the local
group.
Additional committee chair-
men chosen at Friday’s session
j were: Mrs. Ben Roberts, chair-
' man of the special events com-
mittee with T. P. Johnson as
I co-chairman; Mrs. Guy Morris,
was chosen head of the knitting
committee; Mrs. G. W. Davis,
sewing committee: Milo Roth, old
clothing; James’Ferguson, ship-
ping. Homer Bass was selected
to head the junior committee
with Miss Woodrow Sheridan
as co-chairman.
Civic and church groups of the
... city were represented at the
w'de enough jo handle anything m/eting and the consensus of the
session was to the effect that u
strenuous campaign should be
waged so that the rank and file
„ . - „ , might he properly awakened to
approved $181,000 more for wont the?umem.y „f immediate action
In 1 (t I') M, . tilnno ho wo l man nn. , r~> .
Two tractors, two rollers, bull-
dozer and other equipment of
Bell and Braden, contractors, are
yin the Sweetwater municipal air-
port grounds and company sur-
veyors already have been at
work laying out lines for the
first leg of a $310,000 airport im-
provement program, scheduled
f,to start Monday.
Captain C. F. Ellzey, of the
corps engineers, Galveston dis-
trict, who is to supervise the
work, arrived this week, accom-
panied by A It. Hayes, Galves-
ftton, clerk. Also to be stationed
here are two inspectors, and two
assistant inspectors, all civilians,
Captain Ellzey sa'H.
First part of the program is
the moving of 1)87,000 cubic
fyards of dirt by Bell and Braden
who are bringing equipment
here from Snyder, Work is to be
completed in 80 days working
time. The contractors plan to
move 0,000 to 10,000 cubic yards
•a day.
1942 Work Approved
Contract for paving one run-
way and lighting and fencing
the field is to be let after exca-
vation is completed. The runway
•is to be 5,000 feet long and 150
wide except at one place where
a landing spot 500 feet in diam-
eter will be provided. The run-
way will be long enough and
wide enough to handle any _
•that will fly now, it was said.
The federal government pro-
vided $190,000 for the improve-
ments in one grant, and then
Sweetwater Reporter
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
“West Texas’ Leading Newspaper”
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
44TH YEAR
in 1912. No plans have been ru-
% leased on the 1912 work, but they
probably will include other run-
ways,
Sweetwater has put $15,000 in-
to the project through purchase
of additional land for the air-
Vj,“t-
DEATHLESS DAYS;
KEEP BUILDING IT
613
Buffalo Trail
Rouiichip Set
Tor May 9.10
Skillful camping and expert
eamperaft will demonstrated at
the annual roundup of the Buf-
I falo Trail council. Boy Scouts of
America, at Big Spring when
over 800 scouts and leaders are
to gather as guests of the Big
Spring district on May 9 and 10,
Carl Blomshield, Big Spring,
council chairman of camping
Wand activities, announces.
Kighty-two troops. 21 more
than last year and 40 more than
in 1939, arc eligible to partici-
pate in tile program designed
to develop, through competitive
•events, the technique of camp-
ing comfortably in the open, in-
itiative, self-reliance and the pro-
motion of patrols and troops
through intensive study of scout-
ing techniques of preparedness,
^Jdomshieiii -aid.
See SCOUTS Page 0
According to Chairman Ander-
son. money is badly needed to
buy food, hospital supplies anil
other essentials for aid to the
needy civilian sufferers of Eng-
land." All money and supplies
raised goes right direct to Eng-
land, no salaries being paid for
administering the activities of
the organization.
--o--
Fritz Kreisler
Seriously Hurt
!» Street Mishap
NEW YORK —(UP) — Fritz
Kreisler, famous composer and
violinst, was knocked down by
a truck while crossing a street
Saturday. He was injured .se-
riously.
The fKi-.vear-old musician was
taken to Roosevelt hospital in
an ambulance and a brain spe-
—()-
Showers Total
*.33 Inch Here
April showers fell again on
Sweetwater Friday night total-
ing .33 of an inch to bring the
^total for April to 2.42 inches for
/the month, M. C. Manroe, volun-
teer weather observer, said Sat-
urday.
The rain further enhanced
crop prospects for Nolan county
^following reports that bumper
crops are expected this year.
Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Increasing
winds and unsettled. Temper,i-
Vtures: High Friday, 70; low Sat-
urday, 57; High Saturday, 60;
Rainfall Friday and Saturday,
.33 inch.
Bv UNITED PRESS
_ EAST TEXAS—Showers Sat-
urday and Sunday; warmer in
northeast portion Saturday
night, moderate to fresh easter-
ly and southeast winds on coast.
WEST TEXAS—Cloudy with
rain and occasional thunder-
storms Saturday night and Sun-
day; little change in tempera-
ture. ___
•ialist summoned. Kreisler was
unconscious for 20 minutes after
the accident. He suffered a frac-
tured skull.
X-rays were taken to deter-
mine whether lie was injured in-
ternally.
The accident occurred at Mad-
ison Avenof end 17,b sM'"et. Pat-
See KR1ESEER Page «
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1941
NUMBER 297
Axis Breaks About Even With Napoleon ()n Conquests
THE AXIS—1941
1,065,077 Squorc Mdes
Eight Cases
’Disposed First
1 Week of Court
Judge Mauzey Hears
Six Divorces, Two
Other Civil Actions
First week of April term of
32nd district court ended Satin-
day an'1 Judge A. S. Mauzey
grantei ix divorces and render-
ed judgment in two civil suits
during the week.
Divorces were granted. James
Claud Reid vs. Hula Reed; Kola
Faye McGee vs. John II. McGee,
and custody of boys, 11 and 5
viar old, granted plaintiff.
I .ulier in the week divorces
■ i re granted in the cases of
Ck.rine Hankins vs. Charles
Hankins, Garland Ward vs. Ku-
ra Ward, Vera Hayley vs. David
P. Hayley, and C. D. Austin vs.
Ferlean Austin.
Suit of International Harvest-
er Co. against Bill Ricks was
dismissed and judgment was
rendered in favor of plaintiff in
Peavy-Wilson JJir. Co. vs. Mau-
dece Gray, et al.
The grand jury indicted Allen
L. King, and Palmer Pruitt, fel-
-TODAYS-
WAR
MOVES
ony theft: William H
felony theft: Jim Yarbrough, cat-
tle theft; Taylor Vowel], assault
with intent to murder; Clarence
Rutledge, assault with intent to
rape; Alvin Lee Hall, forgery
and passing; Lewis L. Burns,
forgery and passing, and Finis
Grayson and Johnny I.awhorn,
felony theft.
Sixty-nine divorce cases re-
main on the docket. One has
been filed since court bega.i and
74 were on the docket
court opened.
Thirteen civil suits and 30
continued suits remain to be his-
Hy I’NTTEI) PRESS
German occupation of the (Ins I: i land- of Sainothruce, Ttiasos
and Lemnos mean- Gentian control of the Aegean Sea ami Britain
virtually has "lost the East Mediterranean." the Berlin radio said
Saturday in an English language broadcast heard at Zurich,
The broadcast -.aid that intelligent military observers would
agree that the British no longer
controlled lie* East Mediterran-
ean, where Nazi troops have
been reported taking over is-
land that dtmilnate tin■ ■ -n-
tranee to the Ilardartellc- ami
provide Hanking base seaiiua
Turkey
ATHENS BATTLE
I I V ALLY GOES ON
li\ Joe Alev Morris
I P foreign News Editor
British Imperials battled Adolf
Hitler’s blitz army almost on the
outskirts of Athens Saturday as
the three-week battle of Greece
drew to a close and Europe’s
belligerents braced for a strug-
gle over control of the Mediter-
ranean.
The Nazi armies from the
north reported they had captur-
er Thebes and Chalcis, circled
to within 25 miles of the Greek
capital and pushed on against
the weakened Allied defense
lines.
British troops, tired but still
unbroken, fought back from
mountain slopes northwest of
the capital in an effort to protect
the only road to southern Greece
and permit the bulk of their ex-
By .1. \V. T. MASON
United Press War Experi
The German campaign in
Greece, now nearing its end,
| owes its rapid advance primarily
I to the revolution in Jugoslavia
1 which allowed the Nazi troops
a wide front for their drive
against the Anglo-Greek forces.
The revolt of the Jugoslav peo-
ple against being forced to join
| the Triple Alliance showed an
l innate love of freedom but from
i a strictly military standpoint it
: opened the country to German
I invasion which the Jugoslav
army was not prepared to resist.
When the former Jugoslav
minister signed the Triple Al
liance pact, Germany attached
to the document a letter promis-
ing to abstain from sending
ony theft: Harvey Lee Glass, fel- ■ , , ___... ouu uci um, uum *« uiw
— " Bonds,i troops through Jug >1j 1 J ! petitionary force to embark.
rv. That was really a military
success for Prince Paul’s dipio-
that Bel-
macy.
Two Good Routes
It was understood
grade had agreed
port of German war material
through Jugoslavia, destined for
Bulgaria and Rumania. The Dan-
ube liver flows through Jugo-
slavia into Rumania and the
hi-fi ire principal railway line to Bulgar-
ia likewise crosses Jugoslav ter-
ritory, both of these routes be-
ing essential for the rapid tran.s
southeastern Europe.
But none of the material would
See WAR MOVES Page 3
NAPOLEON—1812
1,1 34,000 Square Miles
GERMANY—1918
1,300,000 Square Miles
With the overrunning of Yugoslavia and extrusive advances in Greece, the Hitler-Mussolini
conquest combination has passed .......lillion square miles mark to reach a point about equal
to that of Napoleon, though Axis holdings in A l ira push the current mark even higher. Map
illustrates the extent of occupations in the last tliri ■ periods of European conquest.
Bumper Wheat Y ield Seen In
County After Winter Rains
posed of during the remaining portation of German supplies to
| six weeks of the term. ■’ - -- --
Criminal cases are set for the
I week of May 5 and petit jurors
I will not be called until then, it
| was said
-—o—--
Patrol Seen As
Safe Channel
Across Atlantic
Services Held
For Pioneer Man
Allies Fight On
With the battle admittedly lost
in Greece, the British prepared
to fight on from Crete and south
to bolster their position against
to tile* trans- expected attacks on both ends of
the Mediterranean.
Private advices indicated that
there was increasing fear of a
Orman a:o, t.-vanl Gibraltar
and that Portugal was more ner-
vous than ever as a result of
pressure from both belligerents.
King Carol of Rumania,, watch-
ing the Balkan developments,
finally was reported to have
booked passage for late April
on a trans-Atlantic clipper from
Lisbon to the United States, en
route to Chile, fearing that the
Germans might soon move
through Spain and to Portugal.
President Antonio de Oliveira
Salazar of Portugal, was said to
be preparing to make a new dec-
laration of policy on Monday,
reaffirming the nation's complete
WASHINGTON
(UP)
ALBANY — UP) — Funeral neutrality.
: services were held Saturday for
; Joseph Alexander Matthews, 88,
I prominent, pioneer Texas cattle-
man and former Shackelford
The navy's extended patrol of an; county judge,
AVl-n W.1- 1 11(1(70 \l lf
Nolan county’s wheat pros-
pects have been so boomed by
recent rains and good winter
season that many farmers confi-
dently expect a yield of 20 bush-
els or more to the acre this year
as compared with a county ave-
rage of about nine bushels over
a 10-year period.
Barring hail or other natural
phenomena, Nolan county
wheat fanners should realize
more than double the normal
Mrs. Barr Faces
Murder Charge
After Indictment
DALLAS - (UP) — Mrs. Jua-i
nita Elizabeth Barr, 37, was in-;
dieted for murder Saturday m
the pistol-slaying of Mrs Blanche;
Woodall, 27-year-old night club, .vietct on tnui ia-u crop
,lancer ! The county has 9.3(H) acres
A Dallas county grand jury drilled in wheat, Wesley M. Nail,
ended four days of investigation AAA administrative ofifeer, said
at noon with a verdict that Mrs.
Barr unlnwful'v. voluntarily and
with malice aforethought did on
April .2 kill Mrs. Woodall by
shooting her with a pistol.”
Mrs Barr, wife of a Dallas
newspaper columnist, was al-
lowed to renew the $25,000 bond
under which she has been iree
since the slaving.
Dean Gauldin. district attorney
said trial will he set within the
!),>■>" .'0 fines before poor's re-
cess fo rvacation about July 15.
i he jury’s report was given
District Judge Henry King, who
was assigned the ease.
Gauldin said the state would
Mam Persons
Trapped In Crash
Of Old Structure
CAIRO. III I IP)
determined number of
An un-
Atlantic "safety zone” is expect-
ed to concentrate on maintaining
a “safe channel” across much
of the Atlantic for ships carry-
ing supplies to Britain.
As informed officials under-
stood the plan. American mili-
tary planes and warships will
cross-cross this channel which
will lie a few hundred miles
wide, tagging marauding sub-
marines or suspicious surface]
ships .and advising cargo ships
how to dodge them.'
Emphasizing the administra-
tion's statement that this is not’
a way of convoying Britain-
bound ships, the cargo ships will
Judge Matthews died Friday.
Owner of the oldest ranch in
Texas still operated by the origi-
nal founders. Judge Matthews
life reads like the story of the
development of the West.
Portugese Neutral
The Portugese were said to lie
working to maintain a complete-
ly neutral position, but it was
pointed out that artillery and
troops had been sent to the Az-
ores Islands, where the Salazar
government is expected to flee
if the country should be invaded.
Several thousand troops already
Mrs Matthews turned novel- have gone to the Azores and an-
ist after she was 70 and wrote other 10,000 are expected to
"Interwoven," a story that tell- move to the Azores and C’ape
of the association ol the Mat- ygrde soon. There still are about
thews and Reynolds family, an-'30.000 refugees in Portugal who
county pio- |iave keen unable to get visas
other Shackelford
neering clan.
persons proceed through the area sepa-
were trapped Saturday when ratelv. each according to its best
the floors of a two-storv build- ] abilities.
On this basis the expected yieki
Should be over 180,000 bushels.
At the present price of wheat
the 1941 harvest will put over
$150,000 in the farmers’ pockets.
Wheat all over Nolan county j
and trade area is either headed
or in the heading stage, observ-
ers report.
Big wheat areas in the coun-
ty are around Roscoe, Blackwell
and Divide, with other areas
drilling smaller acreages.
Same Old Hooey;
ing collapsed into the basement.
Of eight persons removed from
the debris. Mrs. George Reed
was dead and seven others seri-
ously hurt.
All of those removed from the
wreckage were said to have been
The patrol was expected to ex-
tend at least as far toward Brit-
ain as the longitide of Green-
land. where the United States is
moving to take action against
any German forces stationed
there. Mr. Roosevelt said yes-
occupants of apartments on the terday that axis forces may he
impel’ floor Tliev were found bv in Greenland now although he
See TRAPPED Pag.- fi ' See PATROL Page 6
MeClotlilin Kites
Held Saturday
Funeral service for Joe Me
Glothlin, a pioneer of Roscoe,
was held at 2 p. m., Saturday at
Roscoe. Burial was made in the
Sweetwater cemetery. He died
at 7:15 a. m., Friday.
Surviving are two daughters
and a son, R. D. McGlothlin of
Sweetwater. He was a brother-
in-law of Mrs. Simon O'Keefe
Farmers Plan Strip Tease
In Protest To Farm Prices
prosecute on the theory that the j^v***/* . IV: . •
j" Ditlerent Nation
killing
ousv.
was motivated by
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BERLIN (UP I — Adolf Hil-
ler has arrived unexpectedly at
Marburg, northern Jugoslavia.
:>,() miles southeast of Graz, Un-
official news agency reported
Saturday
Its dispatch from Marburg
(Marihort said the people greet-
ed Hitler enthusiastically.
The' leader of the German in-
habitants thanked Hitler in the
name of the city for freeing Mar-
burg from the Serbs, the agency
reported
By ARNOLD IIIRKLE
I'nited Press Correspondent
DECATl TR— (U P)—1 ’eaee 1 >ff i-
eers and hardy farm women Sat-
urday night warned weather-;
worn farmers that despite the
lamentably low level of farm j
prices the men had better keep!
their strip-tease protest ’clean."
The protest—a modern Lady
Godiva stunt—was scheduled for
Mav 3 in this rural town of
3.CHH) that first coined the crap-
shooting phrase: “eighter from
Decatur."
More than 500 bron.ed farm-
ers from Wise county an area
devoted to cotton, dairy, and
cept agriculture.
RR Cal McCurdy, 55-year-old.
bald-headed president of the
Wise county farm bureau, fath-
ered the stunt which lie called
a “figurative thing.”
McCurdy said that the men
wont go "plumb naked”-—and
farmers in short pants and short
sleeves. I’m afraid unless the
government gives us parity pric-
es for our agricultural product*
we’ll be going around in a bar-
rel.”
McCurdy said the demonstra
tion was planned to get the at
for the Americas.
At the other end of the Med-
iterranean, the German advance
into Greece and along the Greek
islands off Turky presented new
threats to the British defenses
around the Suez Canal.
The fighting continued on oth-
er fronts while the battle of
Greece was ending British bomb-
ers dumped heavy high explos-
ive bombs on the center of Ber-
lin, London reported, and also
strongly attacked the naval base
at Kiel and three other German
navy centers. German planes
bombed Newcastle and Sunder-
land.
In North Africa, both sides re-
ported local triumphs from Lib-
ya to western Ethiopia. There
appeared to be no fundamental
chance in the military situation,
however, in any African sector.
German troops deploying over
the Greek islands in the Aegean
Sea, are concentrating around
the Dardanelles and outflanking
Turkey from the west, reports
from the Balkans said Saturday.
Indicating that the Dardanelles
and the Turkish coast might be
So* ATHENS Page fi
Marburg, a city of about 30,00(1,; grain farming, were expected to
is on the Drava river. It is the
center of a large agricultural
region, the seat of the Bishop of
Lnvant and of several cultural
institutions.
reveal themselves in various de-
grees to show how the Ameri-
can farmer ha.-, been gypped
through the lack of tariff walls
to protect every industry ex-
wont go "plumb naked —ana non was planned 10 get mo . , |\ r
the women and police agreed— tenti* n of legislators in Wash- I |/( li’l’S
Strike Action
but that they’d try to show how
“unprotected" the American far-
mer stands in his present posi-
tion.
"Tlie American farmer.” said
McCurdy, "is economically un-
protected. This demonstration of
ours is a figurative thing, if
we took it to its logical en<*_
our farmers would lie so un-
protected that they’d go around
plumb naked.”
He said he "reckoned" that it
wouldn’t go thpt far. and lidded:
"But there’ll be plenty of our
ington and in Austin, the capi-
tal of Texas, who could promote j
a farm program paying farmers!
parity prices for crops.
Farmers’ wives and peace of-1
fivers agreed that prices wi re
so low that they were figuru
tively “starving to death." They
failed to completely understand
agricultural economics, however,
that McCurdy said proved farm
ers only have 81 cents to buy a
DETROIT ill'. The 1 nit
ed Automobile Workers iCIOi
announced Saturday that it
would defer threatened strike
action against 01 plants of the
General Motors Corporation "for
a reasonable' period" while the
national defense mediation board
90-cent pair of work trousers, attempts to settle their dispute
and only 54 cents with which to j over clo-a-d -hop and wag* in-
buy a 75-cent shirt.
1 crease demands.
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