The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 141, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 7, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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GOOSE CREEK. TEXAS. S A T U R 0 A Y, DECEMIER 7. 1940
Delivered Doily — 50c Month
Britain And Greece To Launch
New Attacks On Southern Italy
Goose Creek
Girl Victim
Of Attacker
Britons Ask For U. S. Convoys
Shake-Up In Admiralty Is Forecast
Bases Seized
To Be Used
Assailant Is Captured
By Boys Who Give Chase
After Hearing Screams
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LONDON, Dor. 7. (U.P>~A plea but it added: “We don’t doubt that bo gctng down at the rate of 4,000,-
that the United States navy be the remaining day* of the act are -000 ton* a ysar now and members
uacd to convey American merchant already numbered, and it would of parliament have been demand- Pnntinue To
ships across the Atlantic was mad* die quicker and the American in* more energetic counter-meaa. *Tnenl® .
today by the Daily Mail, coincl- people would be more ready for ures, The replacement of 8lr Dud- Force Fascists DOCK
dent With report* that a shake-up drastic measures if they were made Icy Pound, first sea lord, by a In Drive Alooq Coast
in the British navy command was aware of the urgency of the need." younger man, has been predicted '
British ships am estimated to by newspapers.
M-CITIZEN of Goose Creek last night was
, Claus, w ho came here on a befo.e-Lbrisl-
I inspection tour on Invitation of the Chamber
t-
of Commerce and retail merchants. Here he is
seen being stormed by children as he hands out
bags of free candy.—Photo by Mercer.
imminent because of the failure la
cut down the heavy loss in British
* . - ahlp*.
A 21-year-old Goose Creek girl - The Daily Mall urged the goverr-
today was recovering at her home ment tr. lift the censorship on
from injuries and shock received "‘H*1 information and bring home
ni.h. attacked
near her home by a 28-year-ald sitnat,sn Serious
man > Bfttjn’s danger at sea “Is as
The man, Prise "Shoes” Morun, serious as any we have faced in
is in the Goose Creek jail charg- this war,1' the newspaper said It
ed with intent to assault. said the weekly lists of lost ton-
t'apturt'd by Boy* nage mean little to the average
He was captured by two boys, man here and in the United States Cesare Marla De Vccehi, and the
Herman Thibodaux and,. Jack - "He shculd be told how these appointment of an army veteran,
Hughes, who hearing the girl's attacks art bting made: he should on Rttore Bastlco, to succeed
screams, ran to her assistance, know “the full strength of the
The man fled, they said, but enemy's effort."
they outran him, and caught him “jt mijrht helPi too, if occasion-
about 100 feet from the scene of B||y hr* were given some figures
the attack. on 0-boat losses a subject cn
The boys and a group of four or which . there has been almost a
five men who gathered, held the complete blackout since (Prime
suspect until the arrival of Deputy M|nigter Winston) Churchill left
Sheriffs George B. Scott and How. admiralty."
ard Harvey. The newspaper said the United
The officers said that the sus- gtatep policy of "aid short of
pect was threatened by gome of war- made it difficult for Britain
the men who had gathered, to urge that the United States use
Threatened By Men her warships to convoy her mer-
"One of them had a revolver ,-nant ships to Britain, but it said
and threatened to shoot hom and ag (( compromise, “the United
another man tried to hit him over states navy should exercise its
the head with a hammer.' unchallengeable right to protect
The girl told officers that “he jjg own merchantmen in the high
was on her way home from work ggSgT and convoy them to, say,
about 8:15 p. m. when she saw within ioo miles of the British
the man’begin to follow her. As ghores There they could be met
he- was about to overtake her, she by British escort craft and pro
said, she became frightened end tGCtG,j overhead bv strong forces
Fascist Purge Continues
Dodecannese Governor 'Resigns'
HOME. Dec. 7, CP)—. Italy eon- can, Gen. Bastico, is a veteran ______ . .
tinned her military shake-up to-the war with Turkey during -a base for the Greek campaign,
ATHENS. Greece. Dm. 7. <E*> —
Greek and British warshlpa will
make full use of captured Porto
Edda, on the Albanian coast, in
"the coming offensive against
southern Italy," a government
spokesman said tpday.
Porto Edda Is 80
southern Italy.
Modernised by Italy to i
miles from
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day by announcing the resigna-
tion, “at his own request" of the
governor of Dodecanese islagUs,
him.
The resignation of Count De
Vccehi, one of the qhadrumvir-
ate. which It'd the Fascist march
on Rome, was attributed to the
growing importance of the Dode-
canese ein connection with the
war with Greece. Bastico is best
known as a militarist; De Vccehi
as an administrator
The 13 Dodecanese islands lie
off the const of Turkey They arc
heavily fortified to give Italy
control of the eastern Mcditcrran-
which Italy .wised the islands in
1912.
The change was regarded as
part of the shake-up In which
Gen, Ubaldo Soddu, under-secre-
tary of war, succeeded Gen. 8c-
bastiano Pasha as commander of
the Italian army in Albania, and
Gen, Ugo Cavallero yesterday suc-
ceeded Marshal V^'tro Badoglio
as chief of the general staff.
Gen,. Bastico Is known as the
“hero of Santander." He led the
Italian legionnaires through most
of the Basque campaign of the
Spanish civil war He also fought
in the World war and in. the
Ethiopian campaign, and lately
has been a senator. He. i* 64,
and named for Benito Mussolini's
daughter, Countess • Edda Clnno,
the part has been rechristened
AghU Saranda 140 saints) by the
Greeks and will be so designated
henceforth In Greek war dispatch-
es. It lies at the lower end
the straits of Otranto, across
which Italy shuttles her troops §
and supplies.
Advance In North
Its capture yesterday, and a
further Greek advance on Argy-
roka.it ron, one of the few remain-
ing Italian strongholds in this
sector, assures that Greece soon
will control all South Albania, a
spokesman said!
On the north front the two-
(See Bases Seised, Page 2)
Oklahoma Fights Transfer Troops
Moving Militia To Texas Brings Protests
mta Claus Makes Tuneful Entry
jusands View Parade Opening Yule Season
He chased her for nearly a ^ ^ OKLAHOMA City.-Dec. T. il.H)
block and caught up with her in
front of her house.
_ Claus rode into town last T. E. Hanshaw, L. T. Jones, Gus
'to the tune of Christmas Jacobs and Raymond Haley,
ies and band music. Ilfrey Hardware store won the
appearance made a big hit trophy posted by the Daily Sun
the thousands of youngsters in the annual window display con-
ilined the streets-to see him.- test. Their windows were judged
by a corps of Boy Scouts, best by twe of the judges, second
rad-suited fat man with the best by a third and third best by
JWhiskers tossed over 3000 th- fourth judge,
of candy from his'float. The Style Shoppe, windows were
opening of the Christmas jud£ed best by two judges -and
pon fere waj arranged by the f°u,'fb best by
1,merchants committee of the
Creek Chamber ' of Com-
Downtown Goose C»-eek
Tfit tree of light at the
1 end of Texas avenue had
i flooded with lights as the
Itjof cooperation of the cham-
fc®\ commerce and the Tri-
Cions club.
down. She was able to call for
firms to receive votes were Sum- help and the two boys arrived
nor’s, Jacobs Jewelry, Culpepper's, in time to chase her assailant
The Book Stall, Penney's, The away, she said.
Fashion and Shaw's Jewelry. The girl was taken to the Goose
Judges were H. W. Kilpatrick, Creek hospital for treatment, apd
Norman Hargrave, T. W. Lyons X-ray photographs were taken to
of British aircraft.1
See Shakrttp
This could not be done without
Struck In Face repealing the United States ncu-
Shc said he struck her in the trality' art, the newspaper said,
face with his fist, knocking her
the 45th division, also was ord-
ered to Abilene where officials
said, construction of a tent city
will be started soon.
Rep, Wesley B. Disney, D, Ok*
la,, wired Gen. George C. Mar-
shell, army chief of staff, suggest-
spend *5,000,000 for a cantonment
camp at Fort Sill and then aban-
don it."
Construction at the Abilene
Camp will consist of screened,
floored and framed tents for kit-
chens, mess halls, Infirmaries,
third. Other
and S. W. Nowlin.
This is the second time Ufrey’s
has won the cup offered by the
Daily Sun, and if won again, will
remain in tiieir permanent pos-
session.
Goodfellows To Buy Toys
Bag Packing To Start Dec. 16
Previously reported .$109.98
Wooster Garden club 3.50
... uww vreeic Neighbors 1-00
iteded south on Goose Creek Mr». ,e** Bo>er ,M
■ri and wr d on Texas avenue Today Total $106.48
end of . the business, sec-
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
tg.ol'r;rl E Lee, Cedar Bayou The task of buying toys for
, r< Hill high school the 700-odd youngsters who this
[£*. drill corps marched in year will receive a bag from the
L p The junior high bands 1941 Goodfellows will be done
Bay own and Horace Mann next week.
also *ere In the line of
tparad. started at the J. B.
fBray corner in Goose Creek
have been delivered to the young-
sters on the Good fellow list.
That’s the program, of the act-
ual mechanics—and the program
determine the possibilities of
fractured jaw, and other injuries.
At her home, It was said today
she was recovering, but was still
suffering* from shock as well as the
physical injuries.
Hitchcock Camp
Work Is Resumed
Site Retained After
Draining Puzzle Solved
GALVESTON. Dec. 7. (U.P.)
Then, on Monday, December 16,
- Mrs. Ben Ward, who has been in
[s °f the committee in1 charge of the packing of bags . ......
,of t,lp Parade were Mos- for several years, will assemble hc,Roy?, ^c,*hbJ>r*'
toys for the actual work qf pack- -
ing that will begin. Tuesday with fJRANGK TO MEET
tau. * the assistance of various members AUSTIN, Dec. 7. <U.R) .Represents-'
| I OWN S" of the Parent-Teacher Association tives of farmers In-132 chapters of
i . Jj,,. T . . , ., units. - the Texas st&te grange will meet
Oi and ’ The J, jx . On Monday, December 23,. the here Dec. 12 and 13 to'^lan legis-
j t!le Harold Scar- - bags will be cheeked and delivery jative programs to be pushed be-
5^'^ ttovqd into will .start so that by noon Tues- for the Texas legislature and the
lauit door ne'hle Park and 4ay, December 24, every one will new session of congress.
Stocks Close Today
because his * Courtesy Cititens National Bank A Trust Compaay
ti ■ that's aU he c?n Anaconda Copper .
itbjesmnWS0” wearing a American T. and T. ........169
brUkiy^'SwCnh^b*r- Barnsdall .................. »
until that time, is to raise more Differences between the war de-
partment and Galveston county
authorities were settled today and
construction of the $1,300,000
coast artillery replacement center
near Hitchcock was resumed.
The county commissioners court
appropriated $7,500 to pay for
drainage work demanded by the
war deparement and promised ad-
ditional funds to provide neces-
sary local- facilities at the, camp.
A stop order on the construc-
tion was issued after a heavy
ra.in last Monday flooded the
campsite and army officials com-
plained that Galveston county
had not provided proper drain-
After the action of county com-
missioners’ however, Brig. Gen.
General Richard Donovan recom-
mended that the camp’s location
remain at Hitchcock and that
construction be resumed.
money and obtain the names of
more children. So turn in the
names of youngsters you’d like to
see receive a visit from the Good-
fellows, and drop a few pennies or
nickles or dimes in one of the
milk bottles you see. all over
town. .
The fund today stands at $106.48,
thanks to gifts yesterday of Mrs,
Bristol Channel
Port Is Bombed
Nazi Attack Confined
To Shipping Center
LONDON, Dec. 7. fl’R) — German,
bombers last night "blitz-raided”
a town on the Bristol channel, the
huge shipping and docking center
for many of the supply convoys
reaching England from Canada
and the United States.
, The town was net Identified,
but reports indicated it had been
hit heavily. The raid followed the
single' town, "one-blitz-per-night"
tactics of the Germans because
elsewhere throughout England
there were only scattered, “nuis-
ance” alarms. Not a bomb fell on
London during the night although
(•See Bristol Channel, Cage 2)
ing that the 45th division to moved and administrative units, post ex-
to Braggs; Okla., near Muskogee, change, supply and other faettf-
where the government recently tie*.
bought 40,000 acres from the state. Transfer of the 45th, which was
"We in Oklahoma do not un- mobilized Sept, 16, will become
Gov. Leon C. Phillips today led
Oklahoma civic leaders’’and offi-
cials in protesting a war depart-
ment order transferring the 45th
division of the national guard
from Fort Sill, Okla., to Abilene,
Texas.
Phillips infcrcntially blamed Ok-
lahoma's two Democratic United
States senators, Elmer Thomas
and Josh Lee for the order.
"If we had hard working sen- derstand," Disney said, "why, when effective when the Abilene camp
a more desirable site is available is completed,
in our own state for training Removal of the 45th may be
troops we should be discriminated compensated partiallj?, by the war
against in favor of Texas which department’s tentative plans to
has defense projects arid innum- establish at Fort Sill by March 15
ernble training camps while Ok- an 8-000 man field artillery re-
lajioma has only Fort Sill." placement center. A 1,000-man
C. D. Campbell, president of the recention center is already being
Lawton Chamber of Commerce constructed. In addition, tbs
said: "It does not seem reasonable regular post strength has been,
that the war department would expanded by almost 50 per cent
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ators with any influence, we’d be
saved from this kind of stuff,”
said Phillips, an anti-New Deal
Democrat ’ who last spring sent
state militia to stop construction
of the federally financed Grand
River dam project.
The war department said it was
ordering removal of the 12.000
troops from Oklahoma, Colorado,
ab<t Arizona because of un inade-
quate water-supply at Fort Sill.
Mayor Richard Jones of Law-
ton, Okla., near, where Fort Sill
is located, said the water supply
was "twice as great as it was in
1917 when we had 40,000 troops
here."
The 154th observation squadron
of Little Rock, Ark., attached to
Major Sea Fight Looms
Nazi Raider Sought in Atlantic
Suit Filed On
Taxi Ordinance
J. C, Ward and other taxi cab
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, Dec. 7. a fast raider, “disguised as a §
(t'.l'i— The Carnarvon Castlo, 20,- merchant ship," the report wa#
122-ton British armed merchant widespread that the ship actually gj
crulrer, was expected ».o dock wall a sister to the pocket battle- 4f^_
here today to unload its wounded ship Graf Spec, which is a char-
and repair the damage suffered red derelict just outside the har-
in a battle with a German com- bor here, destroyed by its crew
merce raider. to avoicl., battle with three Brit*
Excitement ran high along the »*•* cruisers which chased It t«
waterfront# There were reports PWL ’ e
that the German ship involved By a strange turn of events, It
operators nieci a petition in dis- roiae, oayioym and iret- was a poejeet battleship; that was believed that* the Carnarvon
triet court at Houston today seek- «y at- a dinner staged Mat night Briitsh warships were after it and Castle might be bringing back
ing an injunction which would at the Baytown dormitory with that a major*battle in the vtcnln- and that the former Graf Sow
restrain tlw City of Goose Creek the Goose Creek department as ity was imminent. The British le- crew. It was recalled that thn
and its officials from enforcing hosts; gation here refused to comment Brazilian steamer Itape was stop-
the ordinance regulating the oper- Art Lintelman acted as master but the 2,091-ton British steamer ped by the Carnarvon Castle Dec.
a °! u , . w ecremomes, and City Manager Argentina which mounts two guns 4 and 22 of its German passengers. ,
courtJOhn 'J #1|rk,na of G,,0,,e Creek on it* stern, returned to port a reportedly including some escap-
the care^ ^hearina TJ^dav Tt 1 W^eom'' th,! K1**18 few hour* after sailing yesterday from the interned Graf 8pec#I
which time the city* was ordend ciJr0 dln#Cr ^ged in apprc* and ,,ome •)t’rROn,< interpreted this crew, were taken aboard.
Was order"1 cat|on of the help given the to mean that the British were pro. It was believed now that'the
Firemen Gather
At Banquet Here
-There were 83 volunteer fire-
men and city officials from G«oso
way.
2r#srx“s5 tst zszjzXxrsrz srst
lmd enlisted the aid ij)f Rep.^J. J. jgsue(j ffre^heM^ Iwortk company und wanted their ships out of the Carnarvon Castle for rev«
* ,r“ ”” ’ an <^hat the former Oraf
seamen were unwilling wH
ship as to the Carnarvon Castle’s I
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T / • • Ed Dickens Wateh Commercial Solvent ........
‘fsffic and conversinAiih Consolidated Aircraft
lianas, Tommy Rochelle Consolidated Oil —........
** Vffy happy about gom„ Curtiss-Wright ..............
iL. ‘ ifred Llntebnan talking Curtisa-Wright A . . ........
^Uatlon'ufftk /». ti PUnfrtift Rnnri unri Kihnrp ..
R-lssr'ss’ojs-
Uddeatp. __
of iuck:.T‘ General' Blectrk
tVn. Hance ‘Busch says General Motors
25£ SS :::
Electric Bond and Share
h. .King, trying^ Electric Power and Light
rjdHt2S®?^n ah<f not Freeport Suip»v .1,-7. ,V
' Electric .
SJSws
£ «rfy •
^ bopjjng on n i-rip
National Dairy ............ 13^
North American Aviation .. 171*.
Ohio Oil .................... V\
Packard Motors ............ 34*
Phillips Petroletim ... —,. 40)%
Pure Oil ................... 8‘A
Reo Motors ............... Hi
Socony Vacuum ............ 84%
Sperry Corporation ... t.... 441
Standard Oil of Indiana .. 26>i •
Standard Oil of New Jersey 33%
Sun Oil ........R........... 53%
Texas Corporation
.. 3% Texas Gulf Sulphur .......
rTidewater- Corpora'-ibn —
,,3314 T-P Land and Trust ........ 1H
.......49% United Aircraft ............ 42%
......■ 13% United Corporation .....-v.... t«
........... % United Om ..v./♦'.%.•%
Greyhound .................11% United State* Steel .:......69 s
Gulf Oil .................. 32 Walworth ......,4..^...... M$
Humble Oil ............«3% Western Union 20%
Kroger Grocery —........ 29 White Motors ..... 5%
Lorillard .....................18% Wilson Company ........... «*
Nash JCemsator ^
veston and
part‘ftoi‘!I.Mp Uw short mule by O. AHhoogb the fi.nuh .dalnity
rsisrtz JKsaz-
"The replacement center means re<JU»re» operator* of taxi cabs to and Chief Ernest Wekh ^ P«mf
sravtw; s sr.-asKT' “*•
amount of money that will be
spent here, approximating $1,000,-
000 a month, but because it will
give work to a large number of
our aitlzenS)" -
Cotton Farmers Vole
On 1941 Quota Today
STATION, Bee: 7. i«!.P/
turnout of Texas farm-
on the national cotton
marketing quota referendum was
predicted today by state agricui-
stment officials.
ing° no loan w
IMi v
Two
cotton
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- °TflSon8riL' enterU,Bm*
er Jack Ward of Goose Creek,
Chief Rufus Bergeron Of Baytown,
E. W. Buelow of the safety coun-
cil, and Fire Commissioner Fred
Ruff of La Porte, ,
Crowd Gate For
RauAii-
DojOil
A fair
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ROME, Bee, 7. (IIP.)—Greek i
against the Italian army’s left
of Pogradec, and are ’ femtin
tone of the south front, the l
ATHENS, Dec. 7. <U,P.)-The 1
into Albania in an attempt to ha
to Greek headquarter* said today. The
in a steady stream, the prisoners
s*A£rt-‘w-,e-
l
left
! offered on *he
if th# nRtinnal
threaten
to *
feature of the
J.jg
said today that Baron
Turkey, has attempted
or at least an armisijca
?.) President Roosevelt, in an exchange
“ of Greece, today pledged United
i» defending IUelf so valiantly"
, r (U.P.)—Secretary o» state Cordell HrB today
report* that Spain i* negotiating for a ^Od.ooo.oWAmert-
•porta that Spain is negottoting for a $J 00,(*»,(*« An
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