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BRITISH OPEN GREEK BATTLE
'RED SEA REOPENED
TO AMERICAN SHIPS
WASHINGTON — (UP) — President Roosevelt, by proclama-
tion, Friday reopened the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden to Am-
erican shipping, permitting United States commercial vessels to
come up the east side of Africa to the Suez Canal.
These sea areas originally had---------------------------
been barred to American ship- j j §0HfltC 61
House Measures
Passed This Week
Q ping by proclamation of a nar-
row combat zone from the east-
ern tip of America to the Arab-
ian coast. Revocation of this
combat zone in effect removes
• the “stopper” which kept Amer-
ican vessels away from Suez.
Mr. Roosevelt admitted that
under the new order, American
vessels will be able to carry sup-
® plies for non-belligerent coun-
tries up lo the southern mouth
of die canal. lie dismissed as
not pertinent and a mutter of
argument whether port said on
a the Mediterranean end of the
w canal would be now open to
American ships, explaining he
does not know whether port
said’s dorks lie in the Mediter-
ranean which is definitely a
fi combat, zone or in the canal zone
which definitely is not a combat
zone.
Vessels Can Go .
At any rate, Mr. Roosevelt
said, United States vessels now
f, can go to Ismalia at the Red Sea
end of the canal. A railroad runs
from Ismalia to Port Said.
He said that United States ves-
sels can transport materials to
the canal area for non-belliger-
0ents — Egypt for instance. As
for delivery of supplies in the
canal area for transhipment to
a belligerent power, Mr. Roose-
velt said that is a matter of some
controversy.
§ Frankly, he said, he does not
know the answer to that tran-
shipment question because it in-
volves the principle of ccntinu
ous shipments. Examination of
state department records, he
% said, will disclose that the Uni-
ted States has been on all four
sides of arguments on the prin-
ciple of continuous shipment at
various stages of history. He said
he does not anticipate that this
p question will arise. He said that
one does not buy headaches un-
less one has to.
The proclamation designated
the “open area” as follows:
“Beginning at the intersection
0 of the north coast of the Italian
Somaliland with the meridian of
50 degrees longitude east of
Greenwich;
“Thence due north to the
mainland of Arabia;
0 “Thence eastward along the
coast of Arabia to the meridian
of 51 degrees east longitude;
“Thence ilue south to the main-
land of Italian Somaliland;
“Thence westward along the
• coast of tlte Italian Somaliland
to the point of beginning.”
-o-.-
Youth Sentenced
*To Reformatory
For Auto Theft
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44TH YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941
NUMBER 281
UAW SEEKS STRIKE VOTE
NAZI PANZER UNITS
GAMDLE BIG SMASH
By HARRISON SALISBURY
Unit,i'<l Press Staff Correspondent
Britain’s expeditionary force opened the battle for Greece Fri-
day south of the vital Monslir Pass where Nazi panzer divisions
threatened to knife through and smash Greco-British defense
lines from the rear.
Stage Is Set For Decisive Balkan Battle
Legislature Takes
Easter Recess;
To Reconvene Monday
AUSTIN—(IIP) — The Texas
legislature Friday was in recess
for the Easter holidays, after the
house of representatives ended
its work for the week by pass-
ing 11 senate bills and til house
bills, all uncontested measures.
Ten of the senate bills passed
the house without change and
will go next to the gevernor.
These include:
Allowing credits for juU time
for persons who are sentenced
to the penitentiary.
Establishing a state registra-
tion bureau for registered nurs-
es.
Providing that Harris county
pay premiums on bonds for its
officers and allowing funds for
the district attorney to use in
grand jury investigations.
Permitting Harris county fresh
water districts to install sanitary
sewer systems.
Authorizing fresh water dis-
tricts to maintain fire fighting
equipment.
Among the house hills that
were passed, and will go next
to the senate, are the following:
A much more stringent law
against distribution of obscene
publications and pictures, pro-
viding fines up to $1,000, jail
terms up to one year, and for
issuance of injunctions.
Providing felony punishment
for theft of mercury from a gas
meter or measuring device.
Regulating sale of second-hand ■
watches.
Revising the weights and j
measures law' to define “ton” and I
“cord” and prescribing the me-j
thod of stacking and measuring
wood.
Authorizing the comptroller
to charge off as worthless cer-
tain old railroad bonds owned
by the state.
Providing for the recording of
official discharges of persons
called into service with the
armed forces.
Allowing county commission-
ers to acquire land for growing
trees for parks within the
county.
Establishing a Dallas county
law library.
Authorizing the state parks
board to operate or grant con-
cessions in state parks.
Rotarians Will
Go To Abilene
YUGOSLAVIA
NEW ATTACK
BY GERMANS
= OCCUPIED
BY GERMANS
.^YUGOSLAV
ATTACKS
BULGARIA
Defense Plants
Excluded In New
Dispute Row
.‘ifi General Motors
Units Involved
Hv International
U. S. Rushes
Greenland Base,
Port Program
Hemispheric Defense
Strengthened With
Construction Plan
DETROIT — (UP) — Officials
By JOHN A. BEK HMANN
(/illicit Press t'orrespondent
WASHINGTON — (UP)—The
of th<' United Automobile Work-| United States rushed plans Fri-
ers CIO) announced Friday
that the international union had
asked locals in 36 General Mo-
tors plants for authorization to
take a strike vote which w'ould
exclude workers on the compa-
ny’s $700,000,000 in defense con-
tracts.
Walter Reuther, international
UAW-CTO executive board mem-
ber and director of the union's
.Jugoslavia crumbled under
1 knock-out blows from north and
j south. Belgrade’s fall appeared
imminent and Hungary, Human-
I ia, Italy and fifth column Croats
! raced in to divide up the spoils.
in Africa the German threat
io Egypt and the Suez Canal
| was building up too fast for Brit-
ish comfort. German troops,
! claiming that British resistance
! had been broken in the region
of Derna, poured east toward To-
bruk.
Pressure Is On
And on the home front in the
; British Isles the Nazi luftwaffe
kept the pressure on with night
raids in w’hich several hundred
German warplanes blasted at
the great midlands industrial
region, centering on Birming-
ham, Coventry and Nottingham.
Against the black news of this
day for Greenland outposts of
hemispheric defense and for in-
termediate landing fields for
short-range American fighting1 good Friday the British had one
plans flying to Great Britain. big item on the credit side of
An emergency coast guard sur- their ledger,
veyof accessible terrain and har-i Coupled with America’s in-
bors on (he vast ice-capped Dan- corporation of Greenland in the
ish island was completed some1 United States defense zone yes-
time ago and is being studied terday, it seemed evident that
by army and navy officials. Britain is on the eve of receiv-
General Motors department, said 'The movement of men and ma- ing powerful American assist-
this was the first time a strike i ^ruds to construct bases and ance in the war at sea where u -
call on anv large scale had pro- llmlte!J Port facilities was estimate strangulation of the Bnt-
virlorl f,,|.' ovHiicinn „f UofoVico1 pected almost immediately. , ish war effort is threatened by
workers ' | Officials said funds for the in-: the high level of German sub-
Tliis large scale map of the Balkan War theatre sets stage for battle likely to deride outcome
of German blitzkrieg in Geeeee anti Yugoslavia. (Mi.t Telephoto).
Unionists, Ford Company
Settle 10'Day Old Strike
“The negotiations for a new
contract (between the UAW-
CIO and CMC) have been con-
ducted for the past sixty days
and under the contract the 00-
day negotiating period will ex-
pire April 20th,'' Reuther said.
“The strike vote when and if
necessary, will not include work-
ers in defense production . .
To John R Steelman, he d of
See AUTO STRIKE Page 8
itial work would be allocatedi marine, surface raider, and air-
Javcees Plan
Goodwill Tour
from President R o o s e v e 11 * si plane sinkings.
"blank check” defense funds, i The most critical threat of the
Greenland came under United'day seemed clearly to be the
States’ “protective custody” by break-through effected by a Nazi
an agreement with the Danish armored column at Monastir
minister made public Thursday. Pass in the northwest where
At the same time, Mr Roose-i Greece, Albania and Jugoslavia
veil asked congress for author- i meet.
ity to requisition all immobilize Raring through Bitolj, the
ed foreign ships in American Germans were believed to be in
ports, including 39 Danish, 28'the vicinity of Phlorina where
Italian and two German ves-j it was thought they ran head
sels seized two weeks ago. : onto Britain's expeditionary
The Greenland agreement was force. First accounts indicated
signed by Minister Herik De that only a skirmish was fought
Kauffman, who also has been in the initial encounter between
negotiating for the sale of the { See PANZER Page 8
Danish vessels to the United! --o————
States. The German-dominated
Several members of Sweetwa-
ter Rotary club and Rotary Anns
plan to attend a meeting at Abi-
lene Friday night, it was indi-
cated Friday morning. The oc-
casion is a ladies night dinner
and program.
Jeff Williams, director. Ro-
tary International, from Chick-
asha, Okla., will ho the main
speaker.
Thieves Want Best;
Two Imported Cows
Stolen From Farm
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)
— All tlic law enforcement
agencies of this area were
enlisted Friday in the ef-
fort to intercept the thieves
who stole Sweet Dream and
Rosanna, $4,000 worth of the
prettiest bovines a cattleman
ever saw.
They disappeared off the
farm of Ralph L. Smith, lum-
ber executive, sometime
Thursday. Kansas and Mis-
souri state highway patrols,
sheriffs, police and stock-
yard detectives were asked
to watch for the champion
cows.
Sweet Dream, purchased
shortly after her arrival
from the Isle of Jersay, was
worth about $2,500 and Ros-
anna about $1,500, Smith
farm officials said.
British Bag Ten Planes
During Nazi Night Raid
DETROIT — (UP) — Gov.
Murray Yan Wagoner an-
nounced at 2:27 p. in. (EST)
Friday “the Ford strike is
settled" and 125,000 workers
will begin returning to pro-
duction in Ford Motor Com-
pany plants all over the
country beginning Monday.
By JOHN I.. CUTTER
l'P Staff Correspondent
DETROIT — (UP) — Final
Sedition Act
Change Would
Make It Valid
Members of the junior cham- Danish government at Copenhag- Rliinplqnrlpv T'ltiP
her of commerce at their regu- See U. S Rl.'SHES Page 8 IllulIClallUCl
lar meeting Thursday night -o-
made final plans to send at least
half a dozen delegates to the
state convention at El Paso on
April 17, 18 and 19 and schetlul-|
ed a goodwill tour to Hermleigh VL I YntxA
for tlte night of April 21. | TT UIJKCI o LI iit LI
Protection 01
A<rain:
Flares Up
W onian W ants Pay
NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. —
UP) — A suit by Alice Jones
John Lawhorn, 11, was sen-
• fenced Friday morning to the
State Juvenile Training School
for Boys at Gatesville until he
is 21 years old on charges of theft
of a ear belonging to N. L. King.
Confession of young Lawhorn
•was read by Charles Nunn, coun-
ty attorney, and sentence was
pronounced by County Judge
Delas Reeves.
A. C. Cook, constable, accom-
panied by Mrs. Cook, left imme-
diately for Gatesville to take tit;
noy there.
Finis Grayson, also charged
with theft of the car, is being
held.
After taking the car Sunday py homek .JKNKS
'evening from near the First Bap- , sniff rnn-rspondent
tist Church where King had LONDON — (UPl — British j instead of intensifying their ef- ilv off to bed.
parked it, the boys had a head- njK)lt fighters shot down nine furt in the light of the waxing Talk It Over
on collision with an Abilene car! German planes Thursday night nu on. the Germans caused less | For nearly three hours after
east of Sweetwater on highway i in the light of an almost full damage and fewer casualties midnight the governor and Woy-
80, sending all four occupants m0on. and British anti-aircraft than on the two previous nights. , ey were closeted with It. J. Tho-
gitnners bagged another, bring- Two public shelters were hit mas, international president cf
ing the total to 37 in four nights, in a west midlands town and the UAW-CIO: Alan Hayward,
The Germans centered on the ! rescuers worked under a rain of j international union executive
western midlands. They attacked j bombs to free the trapped oceu-; board member, and Michael \\ id-
far to be constitutional, Atty.
Gen. Gerald C. Mann Friday ad-
vised Rep. Dallas Blankenship
settlement of the 10-day-old Ford j 0f Dallas, chairman of the House
Motor strike still eluded nego-j committee on criminal jurispru-
tiators Friday. j pence. It can easily be amended,
Gov. Murray Van Wagoner’s Mann added, to remove anv
triple-point truce had been ac- j doubt of its validity,
cepted without qualification by Mann said there could be no
the United Automobile Workers 'doubt about the constitutionality
(CIO) and with twin reserva- J 0f sections of the proposed act
(ions by Henry Ford. which provide for penitentiary
Nightlong conferences between sentence of not more than 10
negotiators and union officials veafrs for any person who advo-
were believed to have cleared a 'tates overthrow of the United
The club also announced its i
Easter dance at the Blue Bon-
net Friday night.
wU]1 htf?uici'er'the'auspicesTiMhe | Washington Friday, urging use to L°* enNodef oMl^roar
band mothers of Hermleigh and of United States troops to pro-!1 out n oom episodes of the ioat-
AUSTIN — (UP) — Texas’I will be in the form of a dinner.: te. t from physical harm persons
proposed Sedition Act goes too All business men of Sweetwater who want to pass through picket M‘demands $3(» a m mh mti
to he constitutional. At tv. will be urged to attend. lines to go to work. The resolu- ,n ^ ^. ,. ' ,
Homer Bass presided at thejtion was adopted yesterday by 8.'''00 back payments from the
meeting Thursday night at! the defense committee of tine '-.-tate of Rhinelander, her fatli-
which there were 50 present. 1 Dallas Bar Association.
DALLAS, Tex. — (UP) — A
resolution addressed to President against the Philip Rhinelander
forwarded to estate provided a sequel Friday
Siveetwater Chosen
For PT-A Meeting
er-in-law, a multi-millionaire
realtor who died last year.
Rhinelander’s playboy son.
Leonard Kip Rhinelander, sued
| for a divorce from Miss Jones
in White Plains in 1925, charg-
ing that she had lured him in'o
an elopement by telling him she
’ was white. Rhinelander lost the
1 -uit and Lee Parsons Davis, now
j ,i state Supreme Court Justice,
who was Miss Jones’ attorney
at the time, conducted such an
Sweetwater's delegates to the: hers was noted. There were
as ezssb. as s^^lrJSUSM: 58SS2S2
(he negota,or, r." into another ,^t’“e,™ Z: ”c
the nrosresTof their efforts since PeUh1pr Spring, won the 1912 conference Mrs. R B. Dollar, president- negro, that it is quoted fully in
tht start nitv- <l-iv • aen !ted atI%otac-v ‘?uld 01 lel lor Sweetwater over a spirited, elect, heading the group. Wellman’s “Art of Cross Exam-
the start nine days aga by word of mouth writing sign invitation from San Angelo. The There were 300 elementary mation.”
‘ hi. g. ' 1 sytnbol. In teat iling, printing. jXt|, district comprises 24 coun- school children presented in a; Although she won the annul-
/ " S'- publishing, editing, issuing or tics in West Texas. i chorus Tuesday evening. J. H ment suit, Miss Jones permitted
- i • . . . elling any books, papers, docu- The district membership has Williams Newman high princi- Rhinelander to divorce her in
. I regress is being made in olv ments advising or teaching such reached S.500 Mrs. L G. Byer-' pal and assisting superintendent, x.vada in 1929, on his promise
taming the answer to one io a doctrine. ley. Midland, district president was principal speaker at the; to pav her $31,500 and $300 a
mammg point necessary to a Tlte part that he held was so reported. A gain of 530 mem- meet.
settlement of the Ford strike, broadly drawn that it would vio- -——— -
Conferences will lie resumed Fri- late the constitutional provision
day morning.” ; f0r due process of law would
German invasion attempt will. Then he and federal concilia- permit punishment of a person
have passed. Thursday night, tor James F. Dewey went wear- See SEDITION Page 8
-o
Presents Gift, Kills
Scouts To Studv Wife's Mother, Himself
• t * • .......n ” » » i "in izvv ii | tin i i .-i
Lr.f the other car and themselves
to the hospital. King valued the
car at $575-$600, before it was
wrecked, in his testimony Fri-
day morning. Constable Cook
at iso testified in the case.
Weather Forecast
By UNITED PRESS
EAST TEXAS—Mostly cloudy
•(Friday night and Saturday;
Overnight Hike
o
"How an overnight hike
HOUSTON — (UP) — L. A. band, who she said was subject
tRed) Eaves. 30, railroad special to fits of ill temper, had taken
officer, gave his mother-in-law a picture of Christ to Mrs. Col-
in “considerable numlters” and
caused “considerable” damage
and possibly heavy casualties,
an air ministry-home security
ministry communique said.
Coventry and Birmingham
were the main targets, it was re-
vealed. It was the second con-
.Tightlv warmer In southeast centrated attack this week on they fell.
portion Friday night: moderate1 Coventry, which has been little j Bombs also fell in four Len-
to fresh southeast winds on more than a skeleton city since don districts and in
pants. A police station, court man, Jr., union Ford organizer, troop” will he studied Friday
should lie conducted by a scout an Easter present Thursday. let Thursday afternoon as a pres-
house and postoffice were dam-1 See FORD Page J
aged. Tlie raiders scattered oil
bombs as well as explosives and
incendiaries. Antiaircraft guns
put up a fierce barrage, and fire
watchers on the roofs pounced
on most incendiaries as fast as
Sheppard s Body
Homeward Bound
night at Lake Sweetwater by
scoutmasters and assistants from
Sweetwater and Snyder. J. H.
Holbrook, chairman of leader-
>hip and training in the Sweet-
water district, and Herman Dar-
by. holder of the same title at
Snyder, have announced.
There will be demonstrations
coast becoming strong at times
Saturday.
0 WEST TEXAS—Mostly clou-
Jy Friday night and Saturday
with scattered light rains: Sat-
urday partly cloudy; little
change in temperature.
a’devastating raid last Novem-
ber.
Friday night at 9:15 the moon
reaches its full phase for tne
first time this Spring, and the
time that some observers had
believed the most likely for a
TEXARKANA, Tex. — (UP)
eastern, j — The body of Sen. Morris Shop- on cooking methods, hike games,
southeastern and southern and pard. 65. accompanied by 20 of and programs, campfire cere-
southwestern England. Casual- his former colleagues, Friday monies, and how to make ad-
ties ami damage in London were was en route by train to Texar-! vancement interesting and vital
kana. his home, for funeral serv- on cam]), beginning at 5:30 p.
ices and burial. m. and concluding when the
It will arrive Saturday. The group breaks camp at 7:30 a. m.
funeral will be held at 3 p. m. Saturday.
believed slight and the raiders
| encountered a rolling antiaircraft
j barrage there, in addition to
I night fighters.
pay her $31,500 and $300
month for the rest of her life.
Young Rhinelander died sever-
al years ago and his father con-
tinued the payments until he
died, in accordance, she said,
with an agreement made at the
time of the divorce.
She demands that the execut-
ors of the elder Rhinelander’s
estate continue the payments, in
arrears since March 31, 1910
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Camps For Axis
He returned to her home at ent. II * O l
midnight, slapped her and pump- Eaves returned to his home J 1*1 SOIltTS oOUJJlH
ed bullets from a .-15 caliber au- shortly before midnight. He told c“
tomatic pistol into her body un- his wife that they were going to WASHINGTON 'UP'—The
til she died. Then Eaves reload- take the babies and drive in their ‘justice department is negotiating
ed the gun and killed himself. automobile to her mother’s home. Friday for old army posts in
Justice of the Peace W. C. Ra- Upon arrival. Eaves picked up ''Oi th Dakota and Montana to
gan investigated the deaths and the infant and walked to Mrs. us,‘ as detention camps far ~' ; -
returned inquest verdicts of ; Collet's front door and began ;’>,n taken off Z, seized Italian
murder and suicide Friday. He pounding Mrs. Eaves returned!”0™'' ___- ___
» «■»«*» «*»«..1.0othercmw jss,sura
speclW «gral« lolon. Mr. Colin opined the door .Mid
Mrs. Eaves and her two little and Eaves slapped her. She ran Genr,.m seamen instituting do-
daughters, one four and the oth-. into the \3rd. As Airs, Eaae— . portation warrant- against them
er only a few months old, were took the baby from her hus- j on pn* grounds that thev m-t-r-
with Eaves when he killed Mrs. band’s arms, he began shooting stayed a 60-dav leave in the
Rose Collet. 41, and himself. In a few moments, both he and United States Thev are now in
She told Ragan that her hus- Mrs. Collet were dead. jails and immigration stations.
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