Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 168, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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Sweetwater Quardsmen Ordered To Camp Bowie
Move by Truck
At Noon Friday
^Slated for Unit
Preparations to Leave
^ Nearly Completed; 89
Men, 4 Officers Ready
Sweetwater Reporter
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
“West Texas’ Leading Newspaper”
44TH YEAR
SWEETWATER. TEXAS, THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1941
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
NUMBER 168
Company E of the 112nd In-
fantry, Sweetwater National
^'Guard unit, has received orders
to move by truck Friday to
Camp Bowie at Brownwood,
Capt. \\r. C. Scales, unit com-
mander. announced Thursday.
The unit is scheduled to leave
®Sweetwater at 1:08 p. m. and to
arrive in Camp Bowie for check-
ing in at 0:08 p. m.
An advance unit was slated to
go to Brownwood Thursday. !
* One station wagon and 101
"trucks are to be sent here to!
move the guardsmen. A few ofj
tlie men plan to drive to camp in j
their own automobiles.
With ample notice on the ord-
mcr to move, guardsmen began
wpacking and preparing to leave
as early as Monday or Tuesday, ducted by an alleged f< rmer con-i
Although the order did not reach |' let late Wednesday a- the first
here until late Wednesday, the "out of the law” matter to turn
move was anticipated sooner l|P since constructioi: of the
Jand plans were made. huge army camp at View made
Mobilized Nov. 23 , tts appearance.
. Abilene officers said that ap-
The Sweetwater unit was mo-1 p.imitlv ,hrpc lnen paid a total
bilized here on November 2.> of $s.r,b tor jobs at the camp
with original orders to move to , which were not forthcoming,
cam]) on December 5. Delay in I Al thc samo time, officials of
▼ camp construction at tamp the Texas Employment service
Bowie caused the original order made it plain that jobs were to
to he sera] |ied and a second ord- he obtained only through one j
er indicated that the guardsmen j of their two offices at Abilene, j
would move 13 days later, on De- i See ABiLENE Page ii
Abilene Halts ‘Job’ Vending
Police Thwart
Sales Racket
On Army Camp
Man Said to Be Ex-Convict
Arrested for Peddling
Workers’ Permits
Abilene police cracked down
on a job sales racket being con-
She Really Sneaks One Over
^cember 18
Other tentative orders to move !
about December 2K were receiv-
ed unofficially, hut these, also,
See SOLDIERS Page <i
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U. S. May Borrow
British trade
Nurses Occupying
Home at Hospital
LONDON — (UP) — Britain
and the United States were re-
ported Thursday to he consider-
ing a plan by which American
merchantmen would take over
, for the duration of the war Brit-
• Nurses at the Sweetwater Mu- js|, trade routes in an extension
mcipal hospital began moving area of ,he pacifi(.. thus rates*
into their new $22.000home in- in , HrUisll shi„s M,rvi(,. in
eaten on the hospital grounds., . *, ...
Thursday, with completion of hf.Atlantlc and Mediterranean,
the moving slated for Friday. , 1 mIer ,the P|an- .American
The nurses home, construct-1 ships m,ght reP,ace Hntlsh ■sh,l)-
”ed with WPA and city partici- 111 rou,es criss-crossing the far
pat ion. was begun tlie latter j 1’:l(-'if,e between such areas as.
part of September, It consists China, Japan, the Philippines,
of in bedrooms, three baths, liv- Australia, New Zealand, Singa- j
ing room, dining room, kitchen pore and other places.
_and basement. j It was understood that Har- j
* \wording to hospital attaches, vy Klemmer, representative of
furiiilure was being moved into the llnitctl States maritime com-j
the building Thursday and a mission attached to the etnbas->
number of the nurses would j by here, would discuss the plan
take ii]) residence there late in with high administration authori- j
the day. ! ties at Washington and return
I lie nurses home is the first ]1L,le vvith in six weeks to con-!
of raven scheduled improve- tinue negotiations and if possi-
ments and additions to the hos-
pitai.
The city furnislied .812,000 and
-the government $10,000 of the
)St,
City commissiunprs already
liave approved construction of
one new wing and possibly two
for the hospital proper in order
to rare for increased business
4|over tlie past year.
| Second Monthly
Dollar Day Set
For Next Monday
Holiday Traffic
Accidents Take
132 U. S. Lives
Fatalities From Other
Causes Swell Total
To Toil of 204
BV UNITED PRESS
The nation's motorists er
barked on the New Year by con-
tributing more than half the
victims to a holiday toil of at
least 204 persons dead of vio-
lence.
A national survey showed at
least 132 persons perished in
498
DEATHLESS DAYS;
MAKE IT 500
BCD Plans City-Wide
Business Priming Event,
All Firms Cooperating
Bargain hunters will
traffic accidents on New Year’s
! Eve or the first day of 1941.
! Despite the heavy holiday traf-
! fie and rain over much of the
I coin.try, the national safety
i council saw indications that mot-
on. is were paying greater heed
■ ,, } to pleas for caution,
j Sweetwater a paradise Monday, See II0I jDAY Paf?e 6
j January 6, when stores stage | __’ ,, °
j the second of a series of sensa-
tional "Dollar Days.”
Even store in town from the
smallest to the largest, in every
line of business, is making
plans for the event. New and j
Dies Seeks More
Funds for Probe
ORANGE — (UP) — Rep.
Dude Hat Nearly
Keeps Garner From
Visiting Roosevelt
WASHINGTON—(UP)—
Vice-President John N. Gar-
ner, returning from Texas
after a long vacation, drove
un to the White House
Thursday and almost didn’t
get in.
The reason: He was wear-
ing a "man in the street”
gray fedora hat in place of
his usual wide - brimmed
Texas sombrero.
“I didn’t know you,” a
White House guard said
when Garner walked in,
smoking his customary ci-
gar.
“I don't blame you,” the
vice president replied.
He explained that it was
the first time he had worn
the new hat which was a
gift from Silliman Evans,
publisher of the Nashville
Tennesseean.
“I thought when I left
home that I ought to wear
it,” Garner said. “Isn’t it
a dandy? It’s a dude hat.”
Ireland Bombed
In Several Areas:
3 Persons Killed
timely merchandise has been | Martin Dies, D., Tex., fearful of
placed on shelves for the city-. a new "Napoleonic war” in Kit-
| wide sale, and merchandise al-!r„pe. was en route back t0
| ready in the stores is being re- j Washington Thursday to seek a!
| duced for the day. | continuance and more funds j
Members of the Board of City ; for his house committee inves-1
Development recently voted to ligating un-American activities. ,
1 ■ • — .....Chairman Dies said there warn f 0111 umdentlfled Planes crash- mander dnecting the air attack
RAF Smashes al Bremen
In Retaliation for
Raids on ‘Ancient City’
Fascist Aerial
Units Ordered
To Quit France
Nazi Flyers Will Operate
In Albania, Mediterranean
And In Libya
ROME—(UP) — Germany is
sending air squadrons to Italy
and several hundred Fascist
warplanes are being rushed
home from bases at the English
Channel, it was revealed Thurs-
day, in order to bolster Italian
dr strength in Albania and
: Yorth Africa and attack British
; -apply lines and sea power in
! the Mediterranean.
Announcement of the move
was made by Gen. Francesco
Pricoio. Italian undersecretary
for air. who said the Nazi planes,
would come to Italy for duty in
tlie Mediterranean basin.
Well-informed sources said
du German reinforcements
would be complete with ground
; crew, machine shops and re-
pair facilities but that they
would operate under the Italian
high command.
These sources said that the
German squadrons were expect-
ed to be used against British
sea power in the Mediterranean
and the routes by which ma-
terial and supplies are convoy-
ed eastward from Gibraltar to
British forces in North Africa
and Anglo-Greek forces in
Greece and Albania.
May Operate In Africa
The German planes also may
■jierate in North Africa and Al-
bania. it was said, but those
i.heaters are the destination of
the several hundred Italian
Ida ties being brought back from
channel bases where they have
■ 'operated with the Luftwaffe
in the attack on Britain.
Coincident with the Pricoio
DUBLIN
announcement Field Marshal
(UP) — Bombs Albert Kc-elring, Nazi com-
stage a regular “Dollar Day” on I d war ed into *everal Eire areas Wed- on Britain, eulogized the Ital-
with a» ,lm, S?<]' ' 5 ”, ST
a
”‘v" :.....,*..... | years “tn brine- Vsnninnn i inB aL ieasi ini’ee persons anci uecorauon Known as
aliowing^diopprs to profit, fust n:,v.. «e sak, thge present s)” injuring several. tl “Ald<rsebild” would be
uation regarding Adolf Hitler Three persons were killed and ; c,'nferreri on all Italian aviators
, was "somewhat the same” ! two were injured seriously when " 1,1 have participated in the
jounced a access by merchant Dies closed hlB ............ bombs crashed at Knockroe near
and shopper alike both of whom i headnuaners here an,; sai,] hpl Borris. county Carlow. Consid-
pntfited by the city-wide coop-1 would return in about ,x erable damage was caused.
of the "Dollar Day” Sales Was j Ba>’'” He said the present sit-1
l^ld in December and pro-1
I attack on Britain.
Pricoio’- order of the day, as
months. He predicted that the "At 0:10 o’clock Thursday
Belli- l);u i-
of I lie first magnitude
comes bride.
filmland he-
Bette Davis Elopes,
Astounding Hollywood
eration.
Advertisements of scores co-op-1 present navy shipbuilding pro- morning two bombs were drop-
] crating in the sale will appear in gram here, in which 12 destroy- ped on Rathdown Park in Ter-
I Sunday’s Reporter pointing the i el 's costing $97,200,000 will be enure, near Dublin, and two
way to greater bargains for constructed would be “greatly houses were demolished and
j augmented.” ' i several damaged,” an official
I The congressman’s wife and statement said,
three sons accompanied him to It was said officially that an
shoppers in this area.
-o_
■published by the Stefani offir
See ITALIANS Page G
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\ineriean Planes
r ,ovvn to British
Wallaces Close
Tour of Mexico
Washington by train.
MEXICO CITY — (UP) —
Vice-President Elect Henry A.
Wallace and Mrs. Wallace Thurs-
Historic London
Buildings Razed
incendiary bomb found near the
I Curragh race course had been
identified as German.
LONDON -
‘-let's bom he
across the 1
Britain “m s
(TIPI — United
; are being flown
:1antic ocean to
steady stream,”
ve.rbrook. minister
production, said
hie complete arrangements.
Railroad Group
Issues Pledge
AUSTIN — (UP) — The Tex-
as railroad commission was pled-
ged to a letter of the law' ad-
i ministration in 1941 by Chair-
; man Ernest O. Thompson, in a
prepared statement issued here
! Thursday. Thompson recently
\ was elected chairman.
Commissioner-Elect Olin Cul-
berson of Edna i< expected to
D,. ; ,, ..... i make a similar statement when
Ptesident Roosevelt Thursday | he takes the oa,;, of office at
inaugural ceremonies to be held
President Ur^es
•Safeguarding Oil
WASHINGTON — (|UP)
HOJJ.YWOOD — (UP).....
Bette Davis had pulled a
fast one on Hollywood’s love-
and-romanee experts Thurs-
day by going on a honey-
moon with Artltur Farns-
worth, Vermont dentist’s
son.
The experts didn’t even
know she was in love with
him. They never had heard
of him. They received their
first jolt of 1941 when ML-
Davis dispatched telegrams
to news service offices, an-
nouncing her marriage to
Farnsworth on Ncv Year's
Culfiurson Takes
Oath <>! Office
Eve, at the 15,000 acre
ranch of Justih Dart near
Rimrock, Ariz. Mrs. Dart is
the former Jane Bryan, mo-
vie star.
Miss Davis and a party of
her closest friends flew to
the ranch from Hollywood.
Thc .,i-yeai'-old Fransworth
flew from the east. Tlie Rev
Robert. I’cice, a Methodist
parson from Clarksdale,
Ariz., read the ceremony, the
nt wiy weds began their
honeymoon by automobile,
and the wedding party flew
See BETTE DAVIS Page 6
Officer Killed
In Plane Crash
"Seven persons were trapped .......... R
in demolished houses at Tre- f°r aircraft
nure but later rescued,” the of-. rhnrsday.
ficial statement added. ‘ There Beaverbrook described the
LONDON — (UP) — Rovai was no loss of life but several! b/'n-'-Atlantic flights as a “very
day ended their visit of more I engineers Thursday began hlast Persons wore injured." efficient means of delivery” and
than a month to Mexico, leav. inf buildings whfch exnJrts rfi' -
ing for San Antonio, Texas, by rided w-nnirf h-,vo m n '"i V BREMEN BLASTED ”\,r' and more-
airplane ’ ^.rdf o a*' l5V BRITISH BOMBS The minister's statement,
Wallace went to Mexico as a l ii *1'® of last Sun- LONDON—(UPi Big for- ma,le ,0 American newspaper
special representative of the - c 1 ' , ®rman alr rald on nations of Royal Air Force >rr« spondents at his office,
United States to attend thc in- o centet of London. bombing planes rained incen- mar^ed the first official an-
auguration of President Manu- , Explosions were heard Riarv and high explosive bombs n<nlncement that United States
------'- - - ' '......1 ” ..... ’ - flown
Explosions were
lei Avila Camacho, then remain-.throughout the city as razing of on Bremen during the night in
| ed to rest from the rigors of! s°ine of London’s oldest struct- .See IRELAND Page (i
I his own political campaign of tires began. Great clouds of dust ---<<_____
I last fail. | obscured the view of St. PauU-
James D. Le Cron. Wallace's Cathedral,
secretary, who accompanied him! The first explosion brought
| on tlie Mexican trip, remained I down tlie walls of burned-out
here because Mrs. Le Cron was! buildings ;n Newgate street.
air-
urged congress to enact legisla-
tion safeguarding the nation's
•oil supplies, as a further defense
step.
The Cole house committee,
which considered legislation to
c< nserve petroleum supplies,
—published the president’s letter
^in its intermediate report sub
initied to tlie house. The com-
mittee disclosed that it will in-
troduce a resolution in the 77th
congress convening tomorrow, to
^extend tlie investigation of
1 .e t ro 1 eum re sou rces.
Thursday afternoon.
AUSTIN (UP) — Olin Cul-
iierson of Edna was -worn in
LAREDO - (UP) — A U. S.
army basic training plane went
\\ aste Is Charged
In British Output
LONDON — (UP) — Charges
that Britain’s man power is
being grossly wasted in war in-
I Hundreds watched the explo-
| sions from behind barricades 250
| yards away.
Mexico Cancels
Jap Oil Pact
Army Will Call
100.000 Draftees
1 as a six-year member of the J into a spin from GOO feet and
! Texas railroad commission in the crashed Thursday at the Laredo
| Texas senate chamber Thut's-. country club, killing Capt. Eu-
; day afternoon, announcing a p.>1- gene C. Tips and an enlisted
Capt. \ on Luukuer
Commands Raider
LONDON UP T I
change Telegraph Agency re-
ported from Hongkong Thurs-
day that survivors from ve.-sol.-i
attacked in the south Pacific
said that one of the German
raiders preying on shipping
south of the equator wa> <■ r ■
mantled by Capt. Count Felix von
Luekner, the famed raider com
mander of the World War
Exchange b -p.l'i
bombers were being
across the Atlantic.
"Britain now has more
planes of every type in opera-
tion than ever before in history
and she has more in reserve,”
Beaverbrook said.
Weather Forecast
live quarters said Thursday.
Officials said that an estimat-
ed 108.000 men tentatively had
been scheduled to bn called this
. month. Due to the heavy influx
S\\ EE I \\ A 1 ER — Cloudy of regular army recruits and the
▼-old unsettled, not much change the fact that reservists tire go-
in temperature. Temperatures: J ing into active service, the lesser
High Wednesday 07. low Thurs- j figure probably will be needed.
day 40, at 2 p. m. Thursday 40. -----o-
EAST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy and much colder, tempera-
tures below freezing in extreme | Stocks irregular and quiet,
northwest and near freezing in Bonds irregularly higher; U
WASHINGTON — tl Pi—rhe orai oil control, strict tdherencc
war department probably will1 ..... „ ,
., . to fi o ra o de mand estimate.',
call up 100.000 men for training
tinder the selective service pro- few changes jn allowaMe [irodii'*-
gram during lanuarv. authorita- tinn cud no orders wohout full
MEXICO CITY — (UP) —
dustries appeared in newspa- The government is reported to
pers Thursday, together with have cancelled the five-year con-
criticism of i trans|)ort "mud- tract of tlie Japanese-controlled
die" which, "it was asserted, was \ er.i-Cnizana Oil cmp im te .Norwegian !-a-i
further ham(>ering the war out- explore 250.000 acres in the state l''' ’*ut* von Luekner command-
put. of Vera Cruz. d the raider which attacked hi-
Tlie industrial correspondent The company was 'aid to ship. The survivor vc- quoted
j icy of cooperation topi event fed- man believed to lie Anted Cites- of the Daily Herald, labor party liave obtained a temporary court a> saying that the raider ua- the
organ, wrote: injunction against tlie eanceila- former Britisli ship Glengarry,
"Thousands of men in all tin- tion and final hearings have 7.100 tons
portant aircraft works are prac- been fixed for June. _,,___
tically marking time.” The government was said to
He asserted that a similar sit- have informed the company
uation obtained in other branch-! that it could proceed with the
es of the engineering indus-, exploration if it posted a "good
Bund Is German
Militarv Group
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
" lie German-American bund was
Dies committee
> ompletely mill-
ion patterned af-
sly efficient” ma-
in Germany by
ascribed by tli
Phursday as a
ary" organizat
ci the "ruthies
■hine set u].
Ac
lull Hit!
The coi
■r.
ublic hearing.
j sic.
The plane, a B-l trainer type,
from Brooks Field, San Antonio,
was believed trying to land at
the nearby municipal airport
The ceremony was attended by : when ii slipped in, a a spin v, bile
a large gathering of -late of<i makjng a , i(,|U hank.
cials. oil men, Iran-portal,mi Ti s wus u„(1(,, stood here to
men and friends of the new com- t)p ()j- a pi-0niinent Seguin fam-
missioner. | j]y which founded the Texas
town of Three Rivers.
tries.
Javeees lo Meet
Garner to Confer
^ ith Roosevelt
faith” bond of $600,000 to $sih).
000 before Dec. 28.8 The com-
pany. according to reliable re-
Fierrerista Part\
\eeepts Tniee
MONTEVIDEO
(UP
ports, afiled to post the bond. Th; national Herrensta party
;ff | # wr%i has withdrawn its opposition to
Lod^lllff BU17e I’an-Amonean defesi',’.' K-iin
Markets At A Glance rr,. , v. ,
lliursdav FNiirnl
^ r
northeast and north central por-1 S. governments weak. Meeting ol the Sweetw.itci .lo-
tion Thursday. Friday fair, not j Curb stocks mixed. I ChamlxT of ( onimeree slab
quite so cold in extreme north- Chicago stocks irregular. , f<? hursrla> night at
... . , 7 oclock in the countv court
• «wr t£va« I , Foreign exchange ahout stea-|rooni will be devoted chiefly to
,J a l north i dy. I ., qisrussinn of the dance held
portion, mostly cloudy south: Cotton film, with January and ]n. the organization last week
portion Thursday night and October at new highs for the
Friday, with rain southwest por-
tion Thursday night and south
Barkley to Call
Congress Session
V
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Senate Democratic l eader Ai-
iieli \Y. Barkley disclosed that
he would call for a final session
of the 76th congress at 11 a. m.
Projects being sponsored !o-
Uruguay and has accepted a |
p, 'litical true, which Will be
W ASHINGTON — (IPi — I <ilno \ I i \ pe made public in several d. \ - it
Vice-President John N. Garner ’’ Ijl»U5 was announced Thursday. ‘
returned to the capita! Thurs- PHILADELPHIA (FPi The minority Herrerista ]«rtv
-'ay and arranged to confer Three ™rsons Iost lheir ]lve< caused three cabinet crises in
vvitb President Roosevelt at 11; Thursday when fire swept a m-ent nwnUis over the ques
' ,ni , , „ rooming house :: °* Pan-American bases It
Garner, who opposed Mr T) %k,tim, , strongly opposed defenst con
Roosevelts renomination and .. .. fla‘' v.-satiotis with the Inii. i
and did not vote in the Novem- Bn’'n- ''T sltt- 5 meent. s. s, .... , jTef1 .licv ^
her general election between and John John-on, 4.i, a f-rmei jso]ation \ climax vva- n ache, i
Mr. Roosevelt and Republican, mar™ , , at Mondtiv's session of the'eh -ni-
’ ’■ * Willkie. will remain . O Brien leaped fropi a third i,er of . when a Herrer-
gtjiortion Friday. Warmer north
portion Friday.
Friday, ail hour befm-e the 77th Wendell I
season. | call.v by the group will also be: congress is to convene. Barkleys jp the capital until after thc j R°' ‘r window ami died several ; jsta deputy attempted t, -h, t
Wheat unchanged to off 1-8 | discussed, according to Homer | action would assure that the pre- third term inauguration Jan 20.; hours later. The bodies of his a socialist'member on tlie fio.n-
cent; corn off 3-8 to 1-2.
Rubber firm-
Bass, president. Members are sent session’s record length can His own term of office expiree , son and Johnson were found in : Other Herreristas attacked op-
urged to attend the meeting. 'never be exceeded. then. * * their burned beds. Iponents vvith their fists.
ittee made public
vas an exact trans-
)fficial confidential
1 bund, which it of-
li proof of the un-
iracter" of the or-
-.sorting tiiat while
s of investigation
tad established its
Germany, the
d ihat thus was
e intnd’s mili-
n i been expos-
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