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I—NO. 163
GOOSE CREEK. PELLY, BAYTOWN. LA POl
AND
are League Demand Made
County Aid In Relief Work
Funds For county hos^Hal
* Houston. A» -
tation Are
ght
Welfare League
ng to press its
Jarris county com-
r urt for mean* to
If clients who need
t, chairman of the
“* of the Welfare
A. Anderson, ex-
.y, today were pre-
get request to be
court to have funds
county health de-
opriation to meet
nee Held ,
to submit the re-
de at a conference
an I* Made For
tematlve the ^ mQ
Budget Items
• ,
proposal for establishment for
part-time clinic here will be asked.
25 Dally V
At tile conference yesterday,
Anderson said that an average of
25 persons need medical advice or
treatment daily. '
"Every year," Kraft told them,
“you have -been telling us there is
no money injhe budget- We ate
up here ww. before your budget
is set to see if we can’t get some
relief." ..
"I know this comes up every
year, and ! have done the best
I. can," Dr. Herbert Page,, county
health officer said "I put it up
to the commissioners court last
year, and, they turned me down."
GDP BLOC TO
JOIN BATTLE
ONNEWTAXES
Need Clinic _ m<«ue u» equipped to provide
--------- “W* need a clinic or adequate j food, shelter and clothing for nee-
.county officials and transportation for patients need-■ dy persons but has no means of
|e representative^ in mg hospital treatment," W. L. j furnishing medical care.
Pendergraft, editor of the Daily County Auditor H. L. Washburn
I prefers funds fpr Sun said. suggested the Welfare League'Chairman. Pat H$rnson or the
F of clienU to the Rraft added that “I am getting 1 (See League To Push Page 2) senats f“>ance committe proposed
is-'-———'-Z— —:—~-the joint committee fiscal inquiry
with the purpose 4>f examining
wn Woman Finds Sisters
r 15 Years Of Separation
Mays soon, a family j
held at 217 Cherry I
and Mrs. C. S-J
, meet a sister she \
r 15 years,
har.rt -seen the sis-
Dalbin, of Dallag—
ildine Williams — ■
iven iknow whetherj j
[alive. *' ,
ago, Geraldine—
hen 2 years of age,
rbeVt, one year old,
sister, 6,
Matthews
pal orphanage at
I adopted. Geraldine
|Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
.Has; Herbert was
family-and
from since, and
by a third fain-'
now Mrs. Leslie
another family,
pdbin wh6 had kept
| anothei
■ of St.
Tin contact with the three sisters
without their knowledge, informed
Mary Sue she was an adopted
daughter, and told her about Myr-
tle mid Mrs. LeMie-. .
jf-diia-sent-money to Myrtle, now
21 and . living in rfouston, and she
visitei&Mar.y.-Sue in Dallas.
President Roosevelt’s 1941 fihan-
Vcial and tax program. He said
the project might lead to formu-
lation of a “congressional budget"
covering major items of. 1941 fisc
al year spending.
Republican opposition to new
taxes, such as Die 5460,000,000
asked by Mr. Roosevelt for em-
ergency national defense, was
m
knew where
each
of the others
was.
“It sure does make me feel good
to find out I've got a family of
my own,” she wrote to Mrs. Les-
lie, “When do I get to see you?
§o»m; I hope." -
Dalbin revealed that Mary Sue
and Myrtle, were students at Sun-
set*1>fgh. school In Pallia at tea
Mary Sue Dalbin
ame time in 1936 without know-
ing the other existed, Thai was
in 1936 when Mary Sue waa a
fershman and Myrtle a-junior.
I ’All three sisters will get togeth-
er, soon, Mrs. Leslie said today.
WET,
HERE SEEN
;ezing Rains
Sng Across ;
p Texas - *
| and freezing rains
North Texas today
I of a cold wave that
First Film Comedy Queen
Carries Secret To. Grave
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5. dJJT)—
Flora Finch, first of the movies’
comediennes — she appeared on
tfir nickelodeon screens when
girl had to work to be funny-
carried with her to the grave to-
day the secret of a lady.
Nobody knew the date of her
,. birth. She might have been 60.
temperatures to-p^^y ghe ,waa nearer 80. She
East Harris tonight
j although tempera-
pected to moderate
* c
‘‘freezing drizzle'
of North Texas
the area’s net-
ays, heightening the
dipped to as low
[.at Amarillo and
the upper half of
ed freezing. In the
Iton areas the mer-
out midway in the
nation’s weather,
states and por-
1 Wet, Page g)
vers -who, said she wib 71.
Miss Finch, the long, lean and
lanky woman who made the late
John Bunny’s lifi miserable on the
screen once a w^k for years, died
In Good Smaritan hospital. She
scratched her arm last week, ap-
parently with a can opener, and
‘laughed ■ when Dr. Francis E.‘
Brown' suggested, her condition
might be serious.
A streptococcus infectibn set
in, arid she died late yesterday.
Her death recalled to Hollywood’s
be kicked where it
Town
Wee: Will some-
tell Tommy
many .battle-
nuel really owns
illy, Alton (Bobby
really hates to
. with his name
and John
go a little chin-
coffee cup ; v. .
recalls that
-J-Jto- Bj
Station on
. ..It ended
office at Hemp-
Massey tak-
out ... Jack
Tate in a lit-
. G. H. Garrison
doesn’t it
wind . . .
doihg a
off . . . Joe
mood
as the toast of Broadway, but
one of ita greatest laugh pro-
vokers. . ! ,fi
David Wark Griffith brought
her to Hollywood to join his
troupe of unknowns, including
Mary Pickford, Henry B, Walth-
all and Mack Sennett.
In 1910 she began her historic
Farm Problems, Trade
Treaties postponed:
Harrison Asks Cut
tired of having some poor family
call me In the middle of- the night
to. get a sick person. Into Jeffer-
son Davis hospital arid then hay- T n r i
mg the hospital tell me it cannot ' III Surtax Levels
accept the patient without a phy-
sician’s certificate. We see very
little cf our county health officer
and we have no facilities to take
care of the sick.”
Population Cited
It was pointed out there are
between 30,009 and 40,000 resi-
dents of the area for which no
provision of relief hospitalization
is made. Pendergraft said the
League is equipped to provide
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 CR>-A
bloc of-senate Republicans today
endorsed proposals for a joint
congressional study of budgetary
problems proposed a similar in-
vestigation of national defense,
and opposed any new taxes at this
session of congress.
Fourteen of the senate’s 23 Re
publicans reached those decisions
at a two-hour conference. They
postponed'consideration of farm
problems and the reciprocal trade
treaty program .until,a later date.
FiscalInquiry
Chairman Pat Hlrrison of tip
innsCaptUr
Arctic; Seize Supply
NEXT KUHN?
sra ...................
Food Shortage Down To One
HELSINKI, Finland--Jan. 5.-|
(111!) — Finnish ski patrol*, now i
'~.j Third Major
Inflicted On
Force*
Alfred Fraucfcld, Asstrisa Nazi
organizer; who is reported to be
Adolf Hitler’s selection as sue-.
Censor to Fritz Kahn as head of
the German-American bund.
Kuhn is now in prison serving a
wytence for theft of bund hinds.
suaesf “CHANNEL TUNNEL
ed doubtful of the - tax Tri,imaal<J '
He countered with a suggestion
thht surtaxes on individual income,
Iii excess of $250,000 a year ’be
------- HI . per-cent..
Harrison said that would encour-
age capital, Increase revenue and
foster ebplqyment.
Senate Majority Leader Charles
L. McNary said upper house Re-
publicans were almost unanimous-
ly against a tax bill at this ses-
sion. :. >.'-V .V.; ...
Harrison indicated doubt that
^ (See Harriapp Offers, Page-2>
HOPES HIGH FOR
GREEMENTUPON
SLUM CLEARANCE
SITES INSPECTED
Final Selection Wilt
Be Made Today Bv
USHA Officials' :
Bunny made one picture a week.
•rills wasn’t fun for Miss Finch.
Bunny weighed almost 30f! pounds -
and the customers always felt with t^ou.Jtev^XJV
i— Than), member of the Pellv com-
"Begional officials of the Unit-
ed States Housing Authority and,
members of the Pelly housing
commission today were to make
final selection of a Wte for the
$209,000 slum clearance project Purchase the tunnel after a
In Pelly. ‘ yearj period! at a price to be
The selections Will be subject
to approval by the USHA at'
Washington, Victor Lannou, Pelly
chairman said.
C. A. Johnson, of Houston, pro-
ject advisor for the USHA in this
area, O. H, Koch, of Dallas, site
adviser, and William Killough,
Houston architect, Inspected the
Modified Proposals
v Are Offered By
- * Cockburn '•
Hopes were, high today that an
■greement suitable to both the
sponsors and the county on a ship
channel will be reached soon, as
the result Of a conference held In
Houston yesterday.
TYi-Cities and La Porte mem-
bers of the county advisory com-
m Ciiambc^ of Commerce ex-
pressed the opinion that the modi-
fication .of his original proposal
by H.-C. Cockburn, Houston cap-
italist, wilt lead to an acceptable
basis, ---------
p New Proposals j,.. -..-,
Cockburn agreed . to continued
operation of free ferry service
provided they are not enlarged or
improved; offered a special rate
ef- 30; tunnel crossings for $5 for
TINQties and La Porte resldenta;
agreed to increase the bond guar-
anteeing coaipletion for the con-
tract from 11,000 to $50,000, and
offered the! county an option to
10-
aided by bombing airplanes, have
so seriously hampered traffic on
Russia's vita} railroad supply Una
to the Arctic that the civil popu-
lation of Murmanaky is threaten-
ed with a serious food shortage,
it was reported today.
Reindeer herders and other men
inured to the bitter cold of the
Far North have now joined the
aki patrols, It waa reported.
Constant Forays
Finnish officials decline to dis-
cuss the ski patrols activities' but
It was understood that small ma-
rauding groups of between 15 and
20 men each; camping in the snow
at night and living on dried rein-
deer meat and beans are engaged
in constant forays across the
frontier.
There was no amplification of
the bare reports that bombing air-
planes are now aiding the patrols.
Hamper Traffic
The country along the frontier
i.- such mat little lasting damage
pan be done by raiding parties.
,There are no big bridges to de-
stroy. But both the patrol raids
and the Intensified bombing activ-
ities might seriously hamper the
heavy, exceedingly important Ru*-;
, WA SHINGTON, Jan. 5
. (U.RI-Although 124 years had
elapsed since the-close of the
close of the war of 1812-15,
one person still received a
pension tit the last fiscal year
M a dependent of a veteran
of that conflict. J
, The veteran#’ administra-
tion’# said the beneficiary was
Esther* Ann Hill Morgan, In-
dependence, Ora., daughter of
John Hill, a private in the
New York milttiar gbe receiv-
ed $20 a month.
The pension rolls also In-
cluded 166 widows and two
Indigent children erf veterans
of the war with Mexico in
1846-46.
»
ALLIES ACCUSED
OFSEEKING BASES
IN SCANDINAVIA
Berlin Says Help For
Finland Excuse To
BERLIN, Jan. 5. <£» -- Nazi
__________ ___ _______ ne wspapers in - wh»e wa» *reg*rded
wsTaid”.................. ...... “ marking the start of a new
Reports camefdiplomalfc cam-
- . .. . .. .. . .. nttiem aewfittAft fit*naf Rrltain anri
helm line In the Karelian isthmus
that Russian force# had begun,
building concrete defenses at var-
ious points, it was not known
here, in the absence of details,
whether the defenses were of suck
nature au to tndicabe a long stale-
< Faces Page 2 )
(See Murmansk
IRELAND
TERRORIST DRIVE
New Powers Are Given
Police To Curb
Outlaw Army
tablished by a committee of three
engineers. ; '
cheated if he didn’t fail upon her
at least mice during the show,
Mias Finch lived alone, never
married, and told everyone who
dared ask about it, Including the
aarea asa aoouc u, lnciuauig
anthology compilers, that she was white families, and for negroes
“aver l*” * also cmit&lalng 30 units.
ver
INK.KS ( KITH ALLV H£
Gus Intges, Baytown cafe own-
old Uiuets and almost "fwpttar er, seriously ill with pneumonia
days wheif the movies were young in the Goosei Qreek hospital, hk
and a lady 4n the films had .to- day W43 given a blood tranafuskm.
submission to the USHA. An-
nouncemrnt of location of the
sites will not be made pending
“,r
came to America in the gay nine-1 donors group, organization of vol-
ties and soon achieved fame, not1 unteer donog for .egtergenclea
STOCKS CLOSE TODAY
CITIZENS 8TATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY :
" ' - ’ .. * ' , ' . * jo. *
Allied Stores
American Radiator
Anaconda Copper ..... 29 3-4
Betheihem Steel
Burroughs#
Service ...........-
lercial Solvent .
Consolidated Aircraft
C» .. ....
80
....-a-. 12 1-8
■.■..t jT.'hS 1-8 Packard Motors
Lorillgrd ISwA. ■■ 34 1-2
Murray Corporation .......... 6 1-8
Nash Kelvlnator 6 *4
National^ Dairy —........ 17
Tlvarp, member of the Pelly com
mission, and SMannon MOrris,
executive secretary.
They were to make selection for
a site for .a 30-unit project for
Iso containing 30 units.
Morris said a called meeting
of the Pelly authority will be held
He said,
insist that
his* profits.
DUBLIN, Jan. 5. (UFI-FIve
thousand special pollcemeii Armed
with rifles and revolvers were
Stationed along the 180-ralle bor-
der of North Ireland today while
the government of Eire began a
smashing offensive against the
outlaws Irish Republican army.
President Douglas Hyde today
signed a bill, speeded through
both houses of parliament In two
days, empowering the government
iwcver, that he would of Prime Minister Earaon De Val- ,aUr on ^ will ^ a whoU
no. limit be placed on
The county asked that
the profits be limited to eight per
cent %i the investment, that the
free fe;
(t»ee
be maintained, that night, army trucks were prowl-
High Page t)
cwW&“PDam*ged By FIsm“
< - Hw (niiirf) wab ihriiom ulnnir untfCTAV .Tan fl flTPi __ A
has cancelled press conferences
before, the season always has been
sickness.
IMS wupiujeu w vawuuou « jr*
and then an audit of the books
of the Pelly authority will follow
as the final steps before submis-
sion of plana to contractor*, for
bidding. ’
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BRIEFS
.... 8 7-8
..... I 3-8
..... 21
Phillips Petroleum.
Pure Oil
28 3-4 Reo Motors
7-6 1
PARIS, Jan. 5 «JJ» - Bad
weather slowed land and aerial
attli m- Hm wit—' fi ‘
river and artillery exchan Res
were held east of the Moselle.
today that
artillery acti-
Jan. 5 fUJb—
has formally
White
M«
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UK
For the first time since
Roosevelt took office lack of net
cancelled his regular bi-weekly5
press confeihnee-4oday. .._
Mr. Roosevelt _ explained that- Ireland-
presentation of his messages to ~ “
congress on" the state of the union
and the 1941 budget left no news
in immediate prospect Since no j-
news is in the process of develop-
p IWIWWVB.
| The guard was thrown along
boRier of the six Ulster coun-
era tb Imprison Without trial per*
sonssuspectedoftreason, ~
Aa the senate passed the bill
without a recorded vote last
paign, accused Great Britain and
France to^ay of using the Russo-
Flnnh* war as the vehicle for
spreading the European war and
establisbtag bases in the Scan-
dinavian states for action against
Germany.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark,
5 U’»—Press. reports said t
that , the Finns had captured
key town 'of Sal la, near the
circle, after a two.day fight
in importance matched the battle
of Lake Kianta in which the ft#
sian 163rd division waa smashed
A dispatch*'to * the newspapei
Berlingske Tidende from Stodt
hoi me reported teat tee Rusaians
had sent up fresh troop* in hope,
of stopping the Finns but had been
unable to do w.
Bomb Operations
Dispatches last night -had told
of Finnish bombing operation* in
the Sails area, and said that .
bombing the 'Hunhansk railroad
and destroying a section of track
and several stations the planes had
cut Russian troops off from their
base. v- ' .. : ;
An Ekstrabladet dispktch from
Stockholm reported that the Rus-
sians had been beaten back in three
strong attacks on Finnish positions
In the northern a»a of Lake La-
doga. The Russians sought to use
motor sleds to approach Finniah
fort# on tee shores, It was said,
but were dispersed by artillery
fire, which destroyed many sleds.
Mass More Men
The Russians also were defeated
in an attempt to stem the fort on
Bjoekoe inland, south of Viipuri in
tKi' Gulf of Finland. In this at-
tack also, it was said, the Rusaians
tried to use motor sleds.
Ekstrabladet reported also that
the Russian* were massing men
"Latest foreign press dispatches we R“^
indicate that the Western powers {ar a new offensive m the
are convinced of the hopelessness
placing all. their hopes In an ex-
tension of the theatre of war to
Scandinavia, the Balkans and the
Near East, said the official news
agency.- .A ■ __ ...........— -
Watch Relief Fund
German interest iii the aid be-
ing, given) to Finland extended
even to ten United States. The
Deutscher Dienat A^ncy, which
■ is a medium for the dissemination
of inspired comment, said;. "From
the United States come news that
$100,000 has been collected there
for Finland, One jumdred thou-
sand dollars! What a mini! Not
even a whole airplane! Just about
the left wing of a bomber. But
perhaps there is hope that the
plutocracies will soon also con-
tribute a right wing and that
they Ire'TM DHlUin
lien isthmus.
ing the. streets of Cork, where a
r:rc‘i"S pi«nt b.
part of the British empire, to cut
off communications between IRA
members te ttiB Eire and-Nortfr
The IRA operates, as a terrorist
(See Ireland Begins Page 2)
BiSHOF IS NAMED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 4UJR)
pointment of. the most Rev. Chris-
tian H. Winkelmann, auxiliary
bishop of St. Lento to he bishop
j, of Wichita, Kan. '
airplane.
-uid syetem"
(Former President Herbert
Hoover’a Finniah relief commlt-
(See Nnzis Begin Page 2)
first contingent of 650 Norwegian
(See Finns Capture, Page 2)
•DUGATFUNERAL
TO BE TOMORROW
Resident Of Chambers
" County 88 Y^rs
Dies Today *!§
Mrs. Elizabeth Dugat, 88, a
lifelong resident of Chwnberi
county, died at 7:20 ia today 4jp
Uic home ofa daughter, Mrs. R,
L. Montgomery at Cove. , *•
Funeral services will be held at
the Montgomery residence at 10
aim. tomorrow, with Interment in
tee family cemetery at Cove, with
the Paul U. Lee Ftoeral Hemrejpj
Goose Creek in .charge.
Mrs*. Dugat was born in Cham-
ber# county near Cove and had
spent her entire life in that vi-
cinity. She became a member of
tbeX’hurch qrCHrtot 65 years ago
and-bad maintsirsd frsr, member-
ship since that time.
She is survived by six daugh-
ters, Mrs. J. K ilak;’, JtliA S. A,
es comprislriR North Ireland, a $i76^^bima*fe torfy today to the *b. D.
Dutton, ail of Cine, . ani Mrs.
Curtis Reevt-w, ot 1 infrau. >4.
HOUSTON, Jan. 5 — A
three-alarm fire did $160,000 to
$J75J»0.damage early today to tee
plant of the Liquid-Carbonic com-
pany and threatened homes in a
five-Modi area.
“T. M. Stalling, planTmanager,"
said the loss would have bsen
higher had it not been for a “aea-
extinguishing^ feature" iii the bui)d-
r Titjg. terrbon dhwdde liefpea smoth-
17 pieces of apparatus responded
to tee alarm: The flames were
brought under eontroL within 80
minutes. Cause of the fire was not
Juliet Joins Romeo In E lopement With
Dog, Comb And Toothbrush Trousseau
NORTH CONWAY, N- HJ*
Tt’i.aa over now.” ther from his home and Us
'SKESS idgSft»SJ5S»^^S!W^i SSS
were nirrM here tjjbdky cli- JWit fihflv find nrivatAtv htf Tnplfrtp th* W*r rfiiHno’ mhirh ih» - •. *
taxing eocicty's most lurbulent
of the season.
, NEW YORKTJait 5. <E» -*
the long-lovelorn El-
and George Low-
ther HI are
day, so toe stoYy goes, while the
bride's wealthy fatten-, Walter
Herrick, siU at home brooding home) is with them.
silently in defeat.
:'fp)a ends
Papa and Mam* Her?,
rick high society’s most turbu-
lent romance of the season.
Herrick,, Who had done every-
to preserve his pret- Herrick never had
ty, 20-year-old daughter’s singie-
wbo refused, ther as
1 gone, to
not gently and privately,* but for for the fever during which the
Papa Herrick and everybody else father spirited his daughter away
to read in the newspapers. to a country estate, had Lowther
■ "They’ve eloped,” be said, tossed off his property and forced
Mia# Herrick will communicate the insurance man to get a «ourt
with her mother afterwards. They decision that he ym frgc to_ mar-
are property chaperoned and the ty Miss Herrick. - .
grenA-hlldi-Mi ■ ft—
grandchildren. i, - ' 'iS|
tail bearers, all grandsons, wffl
be, J. C. Hibbard, Avery Dutton, *
Harley iiariey, Basll Dutton, GU-.
bert Tyrone ant TUmnaff RiawAJ
Belgian Premier To
Form New Cabinet
_.;USSELS, Jan. 5 (UP) — The
cabinet resigned today to make a
lization possible under Pre-
mier Hubert Pieriot.
The resignation has been pend-
ing for several days •
King Leopold commissioned, Pier-
lot, with whom hs conferred yes-
terday, to folm a new gove
Another .cabinel..of natic-
tiew - Catholics,
berals— was expected
with the number of portfolio# re
duckd-
Pieriot said that negottet
would be necessary I
government could be j
happily for every-, he said, ’’the happy couple sHt
* honeymoon
*---
return to New York where Mr.
Lowther will continue with his
insurance business and she will
i?S2tX
■
a plack setter which
Miss Herrick ‘took for a walk*' was stricken
to get away from
Miae Herrick
with appendicitis.
Her father’s watchful eye still
hovered over her as the recovered ^ The executtve
from the operation but* it
understood that he
request for a
for s Christmas present
the elopement was planned
* •
When*#
•walking the dog,” Mine Herrick
when- wore a house dress and
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