The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 184, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 30, 1940 Page: 1 of 6
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For East Harris Is Seen BOTMf
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HOST OF
[S, DEFENSES
ssman Asserts
nv is- Lacking In
ciency In Care Of
sis, Arms
SGTON, Jan. 30. (tip)—
ative Paul W. Shafer,
a, Mich., called today
1 congressional investigation
flaal defense costs. He'
ffive examples of, what he
| were huge sums “foolishly
’ by the army.
> has been so damn much
Sfi"-»*xtevag*Fxe. that, it
t be overlooked,” he s aid,
r the army and the navy are
(for still more money.”
One Of Tour Group
tfer was one of a Commit-
[of senators and representa-
who recently visited the ■
1 posts and bases. He said
.. considered introducing. a
ion for an Inquiry, but be-"
I the initiative should come
|-tte Democrats.
| the Democrats are sincere
■ efforts to .achieve econ-
ly ought to support a
. investigation of the ha-
I dafense costs,” he said.
Cites Examples
r said he found the fol-
examples of waste and
during his recent
CWAZY?
“Monkeys is the ewaziest peo-
ple,” says dialectician1 Lew Lehr
as he goes searching forheart-
beat In Ben Benue, the Old
Maestro, recovering from an
appendicitis operation In New
York. We don’t know what Lew
found, but from the look on his
face, he’s surprised, too. , ■
GOOSE CRM MAN
AND JUROR HELD
IN B1
Paif Ar£
Attempt To Sway
Oil Suit Jury
i the Watertown, Mass., ar-
i the army manufactures 37
ter and three-inch anti-air-
f pms and 16-inch coast ar-
fifles; After assembling
in mobile units it Ships
1 225 miles to the arsenal at
sit, N. Y„ to be rifled.
' maintained toat the Wa-
arsenal should be qeuip-
> do the complete job.
freight Excessive
PHw, Utah, the army
an ammunition depot
Mmmunifion ,18 Shipped for
ng from as far as
A Goose Creek man and a
juror In a civil suit involving
title to oil lands worth millions,
toddy were held for bond of
$1,000 under a joint, charge of
conspiracy to commit bribery.
H. W. Freeze, who gave Goose
Creek as his address,1' and. C. A.
Menefee, of Houston/ were those
charged. '
Conferences Held
The charge was filed by Law-
rence Cook, assistant district at-
torney, after a series of confer-
ences which Cook, posing as one
of the attorneys for the plain-
(See Goose Creek Man Page 2)
—Pay Your Poll Tax—
£ £ S“S a,1 Livratock lncre**®'
SeU Five-Year Mark
DALLAS, Jan. 30 (W—Greater
development of livestock in the
last year than in all of the five
preceding years was reported to-
day for 2,500 East Texas farm
families served by the Farm Se-
curity Administration.
Poll Tax, Exemption
Total Expected To
Reach 6500
An ail-tima record in voting
strength of a possible 6500 was
seen today for East Harris coun-
ty, with one day left for paying
poll taxes.
A, total of 4578 paid poll taxes
were reported today by the depu-
ties in this sector, and Mrs. Be
atrice Massey, branch office col-
lector, estimated that she and her
Staff would collect between 1000
and 1500 more before the deadline
at midnight tomorrow, .
5600 Last Year
The voting strength last year,
she said, was approximately 5600,
which figure surpassed the previ-
ous high registration of 4046, es-
tablished, in* 1.934.
“I would not be surprised if the
poll tax registration reaches 6000,”
she said. /' 4
Exemptions usually average
aboujt 10 per cent of the paid total,
which would bring the total vot-
ing to. more than 6500. .
To Remain Open
With one or two exceptions, all
deputies collecting poll taxes Will
remain at their stations tomorrow
night as long as they are needed,
up to midnight.
Mrs. Massey said that she .will
remain at her office in the Citi-
zens State Bank building bb long
as it is necessary to receive pay-
ments. She also is receiving cur-
rent tax collections,, payment.of
which expires at midnight. The
Goose Creek, La Porte and Felly
city, tax offices, and the Goose
Crefk, Cedar Bayou and La Porte
school district tax collectors also
(See Record Voting, Page 2)
-Pay Your Poll Tax— '
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Britain To Free Nazi Seamei
Intensive Bombing Of
Shipping Renewed By
Germans? Machine
Gun Attacks Bared
LONDON, Jam 30. (tUh-Royal
Air Force fighters shot down a
German plane off the east coast
just after 1 p.m„ the air ministry
announced today as German'
planes made intensive attacks on
shipping in - British waters for '
the second consecutive day.
The air ministry announced
formally that German planes to-
day repeated the attacks on Brit-
ish shipping which they launched
With flights totalling at feast IS
planes yesterday.' ■ , » •
Ship In Distress -
Considerable air activity was
in, progress off the east coast fol-
lowlng a-«4istre6s ,call from a
steamer saying .. that a German
plane was attacking it It was
reported that another ship wag
being attacked and had sent out
an SOS call. Several formations
of British fighters sped to the
scenes of the distress calls.
One of toe attacked steamerh
later was identified as the Jer-
R e t u r n Of Germans
4' Seized In Pacific,
|J Held ‘Etfential*
TOKYO, Jan. 30 ®J>)-Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita denuihded
today that Britain return 21 Ger
man seamen taken from the Jap-
anese liner Asama Mara by
British warship on Jan. 21.
Arita made his demand to
British Ambassador Sir Robert
Craigie, according to a-foreign
office statement Arita “maintain-
ed that the return of the 21 Ger-
mans taken “from the ship (the
Asama Maru) was essential)”
To Confer Again
Following the conference, the
foreign office announced that
Akita and Craigie would confer,
again tomorrow and that pending
the outcome, the British reply to
Japan’s protest on the Asama Ma-
ru incident would not be published.
The British reply already has
bean described remi-.offjgiaJJfem^
unaatiSfStfW’aM aaToreign of-
fice spokesman had described it as
Town
: the Tri-Citres: Doyle Coe
: around for a San An
> sheet . . . Miss Flo
obliging with some
,FSA work in each of the 18 dis-
tricts of Texais and Oklahoma. It
was made at a conference of re-
gional officials with W. O. Finch
and Miss Lucy Givens, district
supervisors for the If &it'TexaB_
coutoiss involved.
in pocket, swinging
... Dr. L. A.
vtymg*hs‘ was glad,
i IMOi to find someone
about antigens
Mrs. Emma
reaching into her
out a folder
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AUTO DEALERS IN
HOUSTON CHARGED
Anti - Trust Violation
Charge Is Filed By
Attorney General
AUSTIN, Jan. .30. (UJK-Atty.
fOen. Gerald C, Mann today filed
an anti-trust suit, against the
Houston Automobile Dealers’ As-
sociation and its members in 53rd
district court and marketing of
new and Used automobiles at
Houston.
in addition to the Automobile
Association, ^ approximaeely toir
ty-five automobile dealers of
Houston, listed as members of
-the association, are named de-
fendants in the suit.
The attorney general’s petition
alleges:
; “That toe defendants ^conspir-
ed and agreed among themselves
that no one of 3e‘fendaht '.*St*B'f
dealers would ^aee a used’ car
advertisement in any one news-
paper larger than tvjo column
inches on t^o coSumns; later,
that when the respective-automo-
bile factories "doing bUktoGki' with
^ As^ mms Vage 2)
SS^ftSBr*' STOCKS emSE TOUAY
® bit of checking up
'.Wells inquiring about
1 of a telephone caller-
.Tom Pruett not be-
) at the moment. ...
Ivt. - sorry he couldn’t
■ ‘"formation . ... John-
on big stomach
-ff*. *»y under a house
at some leaks
P*t Nunan
Courtesy
CITIZENS STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
”y
Yesterday, at least 18 Germah
planes ranged over 400 “miles of
the British east -coast, bombing
*and machine gunning -atmUL
The air minfartiye ammuncement
HERE IS ADVANCED
"copious, legalistic document.”
Prepare Reply
The Japanese government now
is preparing a reply to the British
which, it was expected,
demand in writing toe ire-
tum of the seamen. .......”
. __ Today’s: ajafeence, at AritaU
official residence/-was held1 at
too request of Craigie', according
to a foreign office statement.
* =-P*y V*ur Ml Tsa--
$271,OORfROJECr
cate yesterday’s activity.
RAF fighters and coastal pa-
trol planes pursued German
planes off Yarmouth but the re-
sults were not known imme-
diately, the ministry said.
It waa disclosed today otA a t
there was only one survivor of
the crew of the East Dudgeon
lightship, attacked yesterday by
German plane.
Machine Gun Attack
The bodies of seven other mem-
bers of toe lightship’s crew were __
found on a beach near the wreck- ter by Mayor J.
age of a small boat. T
The lone survivor, exhausted.
See German Raider, Page 2)
—Pay Your Poll Tsx—
JOHNSON DENIES
ALL ACCUSATIONS
Head Of Asylum Takes
Stand; Reputation Of
Witnesses Hit
AUSTIN, Jan, 36 (U^-Chalr-
man Many Kaos; Jn., of the
state board of control and h|eat-
ber TMR GeBorrr angrily aboutv
ed back and forth at each other
today, when they differed over
evidence te be admitted at the
hoard’s investigation of San An-
tonio atate hospital for the in-
Street Levelling Work
Application Is Sent
To Washington
Application of toe city of
Goose Greek for a $271,000 WPA
grant to finance a program of
street levelling has been for-
warded to Washington for presi-
dential approval.
City Manager John W, Harkins
announced today receipt of a let-
H. Meek from
Dallas J, Matthews, area engi-
neer for toe WPA at Houston,
that the application has been ap-
proved by toe state WPA offices
at Rah Antonfo, and forwarded
to Washington.
He said toe application is sub-
ject to immediate approval by,
President Roosevelt, and that as
soon as the president acts, a
work order will be issued and the
work can proceed.
The program calls for grading
and cutting down streets to the
drainage levels established in the
current curb and gutter program,
which is nearing completion.
In addition, culverts how pro-
DISCUSS U. S. LOAN TO FINNS
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As Force
Dwindles;'
Success Is Reported
WITH THE FINNISH A
IN THE FIELD, (Passed by
Censor) Jan. 30 <V£) —A c
seemed imminent today in the
battle of Lake Ladoga.
Russian
wave upon wave, still threw
selves against the Finns nor
of the lake in a weakening
tempt to flank the Mannerhelm.
Counter-Attacks
But the Finns were counter-at-
| tacking at selected points and it
j appeared as if any time the Initi-
might pass to them. %|w|
The Finns estimated tost the
{Russians had lost more men than
in any single engagement of the
war. They regarded the offen-
had poured men and materials
without stint, as definitely
a :
With the senate bsafcing airf earreney eommfttoe amsidertng addi-
tional financial aid to Finland In the form of a 620,000,006 credit,
Jesse H. Jones, right, federal loan administrator, discusses the plan
with R. Walton Moore, left, counselor of the state department. If
th loan is made $ will be handled by Mr. Jones.
failure and they’seemed confident
that they would emerge triumph-
ant.
5000 Killed
It was estimated that toe R
sians Had lost at feast 5,000
killed in the first.sight, '
fighting. At the usual
(See Russian Moves, Page 2)
-P.y Yssr PsU Tax-
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Germany Fails To Fete 21 SOVIET
Hitler Party Birthday! DOWNED BY FINNS
New Russian Bombing
Raids Repulsed By
Ground Crews
By RICHARD C. HOTTELET
(U.P, Staff Correspondent)
BERLIN, Jan. 30. (HP) — The
prevalence of the army uniform
the rigorous rationing of food,
end a grim attention to business
marked today toe seventh anni
versary of toe accession to power
of Adolf Hitler's national social-
ist party.
A year ago today bands
Hand martial airs in ths
streets. Buildings and houses
flew t!i« Nazi swastika. Adolf
Hitter to a speech before the
■-■tdtmmtog expressed hi» faith
in n long peace, emphasized
the value of the Uerman-Pel-
tsh non-aggression treaty,
spoke to friendly terms of
Great Britato snd FtoW*, and
said that Otnsuy' -aided : lh*
nationalists to pre-
vent the ‘Bolshevist Inst of
blood” from sprendtog.
Today 4,000,000 German men
were under arms. Poland and
Chechoslovakia, like- Austria,
were no more. Germany was a
friend of Russia.
It wao estimated by Some
thatr 13,000 war planes flocked
the hangars of the German air
force and there was an increas-
ing belief that many of them
would sen sendee this spring.
Up to 75 submarines, also ae-
dy to prey upon commerce.
The Nasi, party, ah it waa a
year ago, waa the naejhaflenged
authority in Gonnaay.
—ftwas no reichstag meet-
(See Hitler Party’s, Page 2)
Boy Drifting Toward
Niagara On Ice Saved
NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y., They estimated toe Ume It would :
Jan. 30. .Or — Constable, Amos
...... _________ . Voetscb went opt into the Mat-
riding cross-street dramage 0uS»
be removed, and concrete valley
surface drains will be installed.
—Pay Your Poll T«— ..... ............... .
_____ HOTEL MANAGEMENT QUITO j*** ***■*■•<*•■»<■ ******
■^nSBhg'hy Knox that Dr. "National flotri' manatrsasnzt
Johnson should not te remitted pany bounced today that it is 8treiun’ 10 ^
Allied Stores -------
American Radiator
Anaconda Copp||i4|
Service —.........
insolvent -
Aircraft
Consolidated Oil .........
~ -Wright
Kroger Grocery
Louisiana Land ....—».
Lambert ...................——-
Lorillard .........
Murray Corporation
Nash Kelvinator .............
National Dairy .............
North Amer. AvtotidK
Ohio Oil ..........—~
Otis Steel ........ -
Motors .............
j Phillips Petroleum
Teer at the hospital last sum-
mer precipitated the debate.
AUSTIN, Jan. 30 OIB-Dr. W.
J. Johnson, superintendent of San
28 7-8| Antonio state hospital for insane
5 1-8J patients, today testified at the
lg (See Johnson. Page 2)
, J Your Poll T»x—
6 7.'g j Arrest Of Trio May
e 3-4 J Solve Robbery
16 5-8 I EL PA30^ jM< go (Up)—state
highway patrolmen believed today
that the arrest of three men,'who
were in an automobile being driven
down toe wrong side of
Bond & Share T 1*
Power "a« M
Texas Gulf Sulphur ..._
Corporation
BRIEFS
and forcibly rescued 14-year-old
Richard Abby, who sat on an ice
tasteSSEs
30. (UB—<Fin-
nish warplanes and anti-aircraft -
guns shot down 21 Soviet
yesterday while ground forces :
pulsed new Russian
official Finnish communique said
today.
The communique said
large casualties had been
ed on the Russians to
northeast of Lake :
toe Red army has ben on toe
fensive for 10 days—and that
Russian air raid, while
a higher .toil on the Finns,
the Russians dearly to
materials.”
The Finns also reported
had beaten off a day-long at
on toe Important fort on Ml
island, on toe northeast shore
toe lake, where Red planes a
infantry joined in a powerful i
tack.
The fort has been effective i
—P« Yssr PeH Ts*—
take toe boy to drift to toe land- ... ____
*.“* “ Clear Side*
A rope was tted to one end! W<
of the canoe. Voitsch, s master I
mariner, chose toe most difficult „ By United Press
assignment He got mto toe frail Mostly clear skies itod i
boat and paddled out from shore temperatures were t
while those on the; bank held Texas today,
tcf -the other end of the tope to! It will be slightly
keep him from drirting away, joerthesstern tip of the sute
boy on night, the Dallas weather
paddled furiously across j stay around present
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 <tt»
— Secretary of Nsty Charles
Edison told the house naval af-
fairs committee today that the
States needs the emire
fleet expansion
program originally sought by
the navy to order to achieve a
“fair degree” of national
curity.
couragctacnt to him.
...... J "Whit are you d«lJ _
down- young uumf* he asked.
that MintoadwiSs morning i
en-j.ed: Dallas 31, Abilene 32, A
35, Houston 36, San -
at dusk.
Dey saw the boy bobbing along
I-the channel of toe ice-clogged boy, he thought of
river and ran to a nearby hotel cour
to summon aid. Police and fire-4 "V
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Pendergraft, W. L. The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 184, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 30, 1940, newspaper, January 30, 1940; Goose Creek, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1023332/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.