The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 98, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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HOPKINS COUNTY ASKED TO
SETTLE OREGON DISCUSSION
Away out in Portland, Oregon, they are having a
great argument and the discussion is commanding much
attention in the newspapers there. People from all sec-
tions of the State have volunteered their services in an at-
tempt to settle, once and for all, the question of whether
or not a donkey can bray if his tail is tied.
So bitter has become the discussion that no less an
authority than Julius Caesar has been quoted as being
well aware of the fact that a donkey is restrained from
warbling if his tail is tied and that Caesar turned this fact
to his military advantage.
However, Caesar nor none of the other authorities,
ancient or modern, on the Habits of the donkey, have
succeeded in Settling the argument to the satisfaction of
Tnd Portland Oregonian, which has referred the subject
to 0. M. Plummer, father of Roger Plummer of Sulphur
Springs. The elder Plummer has dispatched an urgent
appeal to his son here, asking that all possible means be
effort to furnish enlightenment on the subject
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Anyone familiar with the habits of the donkey and
qualified to form an unbiased opinion as to its habits is
requested to get in touch with Roger Plummer, Sulphur
Springs, at once in owtefthat the information may be re-
lated to Oregon for an early settlement of the argument.
In an ecclusige interview with Charley Bentley, The
Echo Mftti II wm informed that there was no question
about it—that-the jackass can not bray unless its tail is
at liberty and waving unmolested in the air. In fact,
friend Charley declares that when he was a boy over in
the hilla of Arkansas, the moonshiners used to tie rocks to
the tails of their burros at night to insure that their secur-
ity would not be molested by revenue agents.
Another local fellow, Wes Parnell, who has devoted
a lot of time to donkeys and their habits, having ridden
them in donkey baseball games, as well as losing four
crops trying to plow them, is of the opinion that the cli-
mate ha* a good deal to do with their ability to bray, re-
ardlesa of whether their tail is incapacitated or fancy
ree. In other words a burro from Oregon might be so
much better pleased, in Texas that it would take less in-
centive to cause him to warble.
Still another local fellow, D. Lester Smith, who has
devoted much time to piano playing and donkeys, says it
all depends on whether it is a Democratic donkey or a
Republican donkey. He declares that a Democratic don-
key will bray loud and vociferously under the most ad-
verse conditions, such as having its tail held in restraint,
whereas a Republican donkey is so hard-headed every-
thing must be “just right’' to get a bray from him.
■ Other Hopkins County men, familiar with the vocal
(By Wm. E. Key., A.P. Staff.)
A majority of elective State of-
ficera was there.
So waa a group of federal of-
ficer., not to mention University
of Teias professors, former Gov
ernor Dan Moody, Travis County
and City of Austin officials and
some high-powered business and
professional men. .....A......
It was a perfect setting for a
political forum—this dinner giv-
en biy Austin’s Mayor Tom Miller
for Maury Maverick^ one-time
Congressman and former Mayor
of San Antonio.
Hut nothing political developed;
that is, by way of an announce-
ment for office.* •
Maverick, now chief of the gov-
ernment requirements division of
the Wsr Production Board said he
was not a candidate for office—-
“not for some time anyway.’
Maverick declared his entire
philosophy now is to win the war.
Then he went into an in-and-off-
the-record talk on the war effort.
f,
Perhaps the dinner reflected
something of the all-out coopera-
tive effort needed these days.
Miller and Maverick, as San
Antonio’s mayor, frequently have
done battle.
There was the incident at the
Waco Democratic stat# conven-
tion where the two were reported
to have gone a little further than
words.
"All that happened was that
Ed Clark (former secretary of
state) pushed me into Maury,’’
laughed Miller.
“I like Maury. We have always
gotten along all right. I wanted
to give this dinner so that he
could explain a few things about
the war.”
Maverick’s theme whs that the
time has come for political bick-
ering, petty jealousies and other
differences to end.
Otherwise we are not going to
win, he cautioned.
He described persons who want
to see the United States win the
war and England lose it, those
who would like to see us win und
China lose ami others who would
like to see us win and “Franklin
HoOscvelt lose.’’
tl«* of Hopkins County to always be equal to the occasion,
whatever it may be, still has hope that someone in the
county, or nearby, will be able to uncover positive proof
that the donkey can or can’t—does or don’t—bray with
its tail tied. •
Serious us was its tone (it
opened and closed with prayer)
the dinner had its laughs.
Maury Maverick Jr. got the
biggest one when he was introduc-
ed and invited to say something.
“1 guess I’ll let the old man do
all the talking,” he commented.
Maury Junior will soon enter the
Marines.
A pedestrian is the fellow who cusses the nutomobil-
who euaaes the pedestrian.
A small compliment swells the same kind of a head.
With a sort of ho-hum attitude
prevailing toward state polities, a
war influence, the question of
enmpaign tactics arises.
A candidate for one office has
been advised to leave off wearing
a hat.
The theory is that voters, see
ing his gray hair, will consider
him more capable than younger
opponents.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN s. COBB
Strictly unofficial odds on the
! U. S. Senatorial race, as quoted
by one observer of the political
scene:
Eighty to one that Dan Moody
will not be a candidate against
Senator O'Daniel; eight to one
Judge James V Allred will not be
* I a candidate.
Elaborate Plans for Liberty in Bermuda
By IRVIN 8. COBB
fyjRING th* Beer war the British decided to send the more belliger-
ent prisoner to certain remote English possessions from which
there was no immediate possibility of escape. Bermuda waa selected
as a^proper .pot to .hip a f*W of these captured South Africans on
On* night a vessel dying the English flag arrived off the fort
and six prisoners of war were discharged under eovrr of darkness
and placed within the compound. Not a mother’s son of them hsd
tha slightest idea where they were. They remained in captivity for
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several weeks, bewildered as to their whereabouts. The regulations
far their detention were no lax that the united six escaped from their
quarter* see early morning hour and climbed over the wall. In the
gray dusk they were able to discern land half a mile away snd with-
out further delay plunged into the semi-tropical waters and swan to
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Uniforms will become more
plentiful in the next Legislature
if some members now In or about
to be in the military service are
re-elected and can get sufficient
leave to attend sessions.
Rep. Jack Ridgeway of San
Antonio is the newest addition to
the armed forces.
Senator Vernon Lemons of
Waxalmchie, u candidate for lieu-
tenant governor, has been called
to active duty as a reserve officer.
At the lust general session Rep.
Jim Taylor of Kerens and Sena-
tor J. Franklin Spears of San An-
tonio were the only uniformed
members. Both are still in the
Army and Taylor now Is a candi-
date for the Senate.
Former Senator Claude Isbell
(By Kirke L. Simpson, Associated
Press Writer.)
The wet monsoon is drawing in-
exorably close in Burma, hearten-
ing United Nations forces de-
fending the road to Mandalay
against desperate Japanese ef-
forts to break through before the
rains come.
Every hour gained by British
imperials or the Chinese troops,
now apparently holding much of
a 160-mile front from the Irru
waddy to the Salween, is of vita!
consequence. Within three week-
or less, the monsoon change will
render Ijowcr Burma, through
which Japanese supply lines run,
a sea of mud.
That it will wash out the force
of the attack is inevitable, even
though the rains in the fighting
.ones fall less torrentially than in
the lower valleys of the Irrawad-
dy and Sittang. For It is up those
valleys from Rangoon that ill
roads to Mandalay run.
Japan lias staked much on ]
breaking through to Mandalay, or I
at least to the upper oil fields of f
the Irrawaddy southwest of M.m- I
delay, before the rains. Once the
weather breaks, the air odds
against the defenders will reu
to be a controlling factor. And
without that advantage Japanese
chances of mopping up before
adequate British or American re
inforcements can be mustered
of* Rockwall whose place in the
Senate Rep. t). C. Morris of
Greenville is seeking is still in the
thick of governmental service,
resigned to become assistant
curlties commissioner in the State
Department. Recently be gave up
that job to become assistant sec-
retary of state.
One candidate for statewide of
fice who probably cun give most
I ol his time to war work instead of
I campaigning is Attorney General
| Gerald C. Mann.
A candidate for re-election,
Mann has as yet drawn no oppo-
sition and if appears quite likely
that no one w ill joust w ith high
Meantime, besides his legal du-
ties he is directing the Navy Re-
lief Association drive in Texas.
i will be slight.
Flanking Attack Dangerous.
Chungking’s report that the
Chinese troops not only have
cleared Yemmgyaung of the foe
but driven him back some miles
down the Irrawaddy is highly en-
couraging. That Japanese flank-
ing attack up the Irrawaddy that
forced the British to destroy the
oil fields of which Yennangyaung
is the center appears the
dangerous.
The British have fallen back
behind the 1’inchaung River just
north of Yenangyuung to organ-
ize a new defense front. They
also have withdrawn from Turing
wlngyi but guard the Hay of Ben
gal flank from tiny Japanese sea-
borne thrust to turn the Burma
front from the west. There is in
creasing evidence, however, that
British and possibly American air
and naval power is being muster-
ed in India and the Indian Ocean
to hulk either that or Japanese
attempts at direct invasion of
mainland India.
It is upon, these Chinese troops,
however, that the fate of tile road
to Mandalay rests. They appeal
to lie holding the crucial arc Dus
of tile southern front from the
i Irrawaddy to the Salween.
The Rangoon-Muiidulay Bad
! road runs up the Sittang. Tie-
Edson’s Washington i
Don't Tell an Amphibious Leatherneck
That U. S. Needs a Commando Corps
BY PETER F.DSON
NEA Service Washington Correspondent
YX/ASHINGTON.— You will hear more and more about amplii
w warfare as this thing goes on, but in this connection the Mt
Corps' official nose is a little bit harder than usual over all the
licity that the British Commandos have been receiving, and the
gestions that a Commando force be established in
the United States.
The way the Marines tell it, the Commandos are
simply sea-soldiers trained in all the tricks of the
British Royal Marines, the only difference being
that these new sea-soldier, are cashing in on the
tricky publicity of a new romantic name that has
caught the public fancy.
Furthermore, the Murfties want- the cockeyed
world to appreciate that «nd Marines know all
there is to know about inis amphibious warfaie,
anyway. What it amounts to is the landing of ex-
peditionary forces and the development and hold-
ing of beachheads to prepaie the w;ry for regular
soldiers. Since oui Maiine Corps was established in
1798, it has been called on to make an average of
more than two such landings every year. The basic
principles of this type ot amphibious warfare re-
main the same, sa.y the Marines, only in this war there are new
pons, better planes, belter tanks, parachute troops Wlmt it ann
to is that amphibious warfare has become mechanized.
The Japs have shown they have masteied this art of ampin
warfare in their numerous landing operations on Pacific islands,
the Marines say the Japs have no nally new tricks Some iriformi
on the training of the Marines tor ttie new amphibious warfare
been given, but most of the de-
tail is still secret. Formerly, the
Marine amphibs were known as
the Fleet Mobile Force, or FMF
That name didn’t stick, so now
there are two units, Atlantic Am-
phibious Corps arid Pacific Am-
phibious Corps
But unless you want to start a
fight, don’t call one of these am-
phibious Leather necks a ‘'Com-
mando.”
Edson
; cprned there ought to be a
! that utter 3:81) p, rn , anybody
leave any luncheon without
ogy and no matter- how long
guest of honor stuck around
on Corregldor and
iri munitions pi:nt>
Chinese have put a step-by-step
resistance there that has as yet
balked the foe in the center and
forced him to attempt extended
flanking operations both east
ward along the Salween and west-
ward up the Irrawaddy.
Chinete Fall Back.
Chinese forces on the Salween
at Loikaw are said by Chungking
to have fallen hack because of a
most turning movement north of them.
That is the least dangerous of the
five Japanese attacks, however.
North of Loikaw lie some of the
most rugged mountains of Bur
j nia. They offer iruffiy successive
defen ,- position- to Chinese sol- j
J dil-M v.ei! adafited to that type if
| fighting. They also minimize the j
Japanese advantage in air powet j
j and mechanised equipment.
The East Dank also offers the I
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gicutest communication and sup- !
p!,v difficultic.- to the foe. It will ,
I be first to fet-l till* effects of the l
' rains, when they come, and tin- !
! questionably tile strategy of tin i
I Chinese and their American alii, s i
| and ad' isers is to fall hack u-
| necessary on the Sulwe, n while
! gienter efforts are concentrated
ion holding tile Sittang front and
I -1 *' \ l to hard pressed lii '
ldi on the Irrawaddy.
COLD1EHS
^ workers
will be glad to know Unit Wash-
ington society has unofficially de-
cided that the lunch hour inav
properly end at 3:31) p m. The
fact was developed as follows:
According to Washington eti-
quette. no guest should leave a
luncheon before the guest ol honor
makes his or her departure The
Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, one
of the parasites who hangs around
Washington a good bit these day...
was recently invited to a luncheon
Being the highest ranking goe-i
no one was supposed to leave Ire-
fore lie did. But Otto had nuti
a good time lie stayed till 4:16,
thereby keeping away from then
jobs n lot of p-ople Whereupon
one ot Washington's serial arbdeis
yr/ASHlNUTON Badinage:
” tor Tom Conrrally of Mg
lex.—1 resent these dotlar-u-
rnen being nveipaid Seif
Dairy S Tinman ol Irideperuirj
Mo —They I*- not being over*
try their companies, but ltie,yj|
'overpaid b,y the government.
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l/lKST 11 was chllHJ the Air (1
Ferrying Command Tha
was cal le d the Air Corps FI
Command. Now it is failed!
Air Corps Ferrying Comni
again Aft of which may cm
the axis, but no nioie than It
W;i hmgtnn
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V l FT IF. ST ‘iigptMinn to
1 Mires which the National j
ventors' Council h.is received
t;»r come* from a genius who
pn-es: that four helium bull^l
be attached to the lour coi neip
the car to lighten its weight
thus ‘•iivc wear of the casing^
I'm pavement.
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Krnest I leak ins has ear stolen
I* F Vandersliee announce^ for
re-election ( u. Supt.
hr. Mary Bed well visiting in
I iallas
S S. defeats Greenville II I
“The Blackest Lund and Blue t
! People."
Mis-s Dorothy YVingo visitjn|
Greeny die.
Arnold Conner dies at hom<|
; ( ollegy St.
G \V. Brumb v passes uwal
Baptist workers meet at lj
of Mr. and Mr C O James
Mrs Fannie Gilbert, home
visit with Mrs J \ |‘ol|
Florida.
Remember Pearl Harbor
Minne Government War IhuuisJ
I Stamps.
Bin \V:
JUST HUMANS
rids and Stamp#.‘
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THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William
Ferguson
G\PSY MOTH
SPREAD OVfc'R THE
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BECAUSE A
HOUSEKEEPER.
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AV TROU0ELOT,
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A\ ASSACHU5E TTS,A
SWEPT OUT INTO
the: val’p
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ANOTH F CCb
WHICH THE.
SCIENTIST
HAD BROLK^HT
Ek’OA\ EUROPE
FOR
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REG’LAR FELLERS Blabbermouth Gets Stung
contains every
phase, of climate
EXCEPT
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By GENE BYRNES
Upon ranching the aJ
mid cat bent Ob torn* ear
“When* an you gontlt
reaching the aJIuring shore where they weie met by
arly morning fishing.
____ . gentlemen going T" he asked.
One of th. aeeapod prisoners who spoke Kugliah put up
line of t«lk and announced that he and hi. comrades were
their Uvea dearly. "We have freed ourselves from yi
way into the interior," said he
to sell
lives dearty.
are now on our
a good
prepared
yonder
dea*
going
dl, you are
imm. *111* on* thing w* haver
in »ay direction will land y»u in
l ftwm the mainland. New if I *
in time for breakfast. You
get a great shock,” volunteered the
haven’t got here is the interior. A
the Atlantic ocean six hundred
re you boys I’d swim back to
are guest* on the islaad of
they did the trudget
nd rot some hot coffee and mush. Shortly afterward the
and they wore returned to their native South Africa, when
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UNCLl
If you are
buying Defense
Bends, helping
In your local
community
work and
meantime try-
ing to shut
j your eyes to
k the foolishness
that's gotng on
around you,
d o n't wonder
whether you're
a sap. You art what's going to
win the wfer.
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Bagwell, Eric. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 98, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1942, newspaper, April 24, 1942; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826051/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.