Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 113, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL XXX vm NO. 113
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1038
Czech Efforts to
Fight Nazism Told
Plane *Luck
Nation's 3,500,000 I
Of Gorman Birth G
Gram Problem
Editor’s Note:—Webb Miller,
United Prsaa European news man-
accr, tells today In another dlspatc'i
frcm Central Europe bow the
Csechs are trying to stamp out
Nazism among the 3,500,000 Ger-
mana within their borders. Be finds
that the Nasi sympathisers consid-
er the Caechs despots and are
pressing their campaign for some
sort of unity with Germany. .
War Veteran Say* Germany
1* Given Free Hand in
PARIS, Mb. 25— UP —Germany
has taken a free hand in the Dan-
ube at the price of prom teed aid to
Italian ambitions in North Africa
and the Mediterranean, Deputy
Jean Ybamegary charged at the
critical Chamber of Deputy debate
today on which hanp the fate of
the Chautcmps government.
The Bosque deputy, a Rightist
irprefentauve of war veterans and
the outlawed Croix De Feu. para-
doxically drew cheers from the
Communists and the entire Left as
he upheld Austrian indepandenes
and recalled Brian* phrase “Ansch-
luss means war." The Right was
silent.
"The Berlin-Rome axis Is an al-
banct. the exact terms of which
we art ignorant, but we con deduce
that Berlin promised to aid Mus-
solini in North Africa and the
(Copyright, 1*38, by United Pres.)
was | PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, Feb. 25
e ; —(UP)—Czechoslovakia, fighting to
retain her 3300,000 citizens of Ger-
man birth whom Adolf Hitler wants
^ to reclaim for the Reich, has out-
la wed all outward forma of Naxiam.
lh-t No Nasi flags fly here. No arms
and are. lifted publicly in the Nasi *a-
K.n4 , lute. Neighbor newer greets nelgh-
dTJlbor by saying. “Hell, Hitler." There
armr | was no parade, no shouting last
ified ®un<l*lr wh*n Hitler in his Reich-
lent : stag speech proclaimed a protec-
' * (orate over the 10300300 continental
! Germans living outside of Oermany.
tu j Laws forbid it.
But occasionally on soft soil on*
asea the imprint of the swastika
vj, made by a Nasi sympathiser who
has outhnad the Nasi cross in hob-
»«iu on the solas of his shoes. Xu
™ i that way the Nasi sympathisers in-
dicate their defiance of Caachoalo-
am their determination to
' tchteve seme sort of unity with Oee-
PfVBa
«sr- - ..
void Germans Near Frontier
ind. Most of the Oermans who live in
toot Czechoslovakia are concentrated
Mir along the German frontier. Sixty
Aen per cent are members of the Sude-
hlm ten Deutsche party which gets its
Tie House Appropriations com- CL ID ED IN 1«3S PROGRAM
mlttee reported a $124310.730 In- BT ROAD COMMISSION
terior Department supply bill. $7.- • -
1H7367 leu than the current appro- One Brown county project is in-
priation and $2.400335 leu than the eluded in the State Highway De-
administrallon requested. pertinent's 103$ asphalt campaign
While the House Naval affairs to Improve 1063 mites of roads at
committee wu hearing Rear Admial an estimated cost of $2.444302, se-
Arthur B. Cook. , chief of naval cording to announcement from Aus-
seronautics. uy that it would re- tin today.
quire $.700 airplane* to produce the The local project calls for resur-
volume of fire of 1$ battleships, facing highway 3$ from lta junction
President Roosevelt Indicated in his with highways 7 and 10 nsar Brown-
press conference that superdread- wood to south of May. Several
naughts still are the supreme weep- mites of this highway from East-
ons of naval defense He said that land eounty line south wu rseurfac-
he had reached this conclusion from sd last summer,
tests conducted over the put 2$ Two other projects In this division
yean of relative strength of battle- an:
ships and airpianu. Eastland eounty: Resurfacing
Wu Profits Hit * highway 1ST from Cisoo northeast
During the debate on mineral! - to highway *7.
Ity of battteahipa before tbs Mate Stephans eounty: Resurfacing
Naval committee the House Military highway 1*. 73 mites from east dty
Attain committee favorably report- limits to Bracksnrldge. •
«l the May MB to outlaw wartime Two highway contracts of inter-
profiteering. place a celling on wu set to Brown wood wore tet recently
prices and authorise conscription Of by the Highway Commission. One Is
all men between the ages of 21 and for paving S3 mites of highway 74A
_____- from Mills county line to Lometa
(Continued ON PAQg thuI) and the other ts for grading, drain-
age structures and base on * miles
of highway T in Hamilton eounty.
west of Evant. 1
from the roof of the house In the
its Kannapolis. N. C . home recently,
assmgwn in the plane escaped with
Loyalist Garrison
• Reported in Revolt,
PARIS. Feb. 25—(UP)—Reports
tram the French border city of
Perpignan said today that part of
the Loyalist garrison at Barcelona
had revolted on the grounds that it
would be a useless sacrifice to go
to the Tural front The reports
were not confirmed from Spain.
Other reports from Saint Jean De
Lux quoted the 8panteh military
commander at the border town of
Iran u saying that agitation had
been renewed throughout Barcelona,
chiefly at Plgueraa, a frontier town
when 30 were reported kilted and
wounded in rioting.
Spanish Cabinet in
“Important” Decision
Here was a lynching in a lawful
mamvir to prevent a lynching in an
unlawful manner. At the same time
up in Washington a »»■»**• of
Senators were trying to pass a law
giving the federal government au-
thority to act in cases of lynching*
In any state, punishing thou guilty
far it. fining the county in which \
the incident oocurrrd. and reim-
bursing the family of the mob vic-
tim. To defeat this iniquitous
measure Tom Connally and a Ie*v
others had to stage a filibuster, I
which is directly contrary to the
principle of majority control.
LONDON. Feb. 36 —(UP)—Vis-
count Halifax was appointed For-
eign Secretary by Premier Neville
Chamberlain today to succeed An-
thony Eden.
Appointment of R. A. M. Butter
as undersecretary far foreign af-
fairs. to succeed Lord Ctanbourne.
who resigned with Eden, was an-
nounced simultaneously.
BARCELONA. Feb. 2Sl—<UP>—
The Spanish cabinet, presided over
by President Manuel Anna, today
agreed on a "most important deci-
sion which may affect world his-
tory," usually reliable sources re-
pOlVTU •
A feeling of renewed optimism
was noticeable.
A spokesman said the cabinet
members had no fear of the repuo-
lic's ability to defend itself militarily
pending the "steering up” of inter-
national problems.
RENO, Nev., Feb. 25—(UP)—A
private cabin plane carrying a Mrs.
Lois Clarke De Ruyter Spreckete
Clinton and her divorced husband
and two companions back to San*
Francisco after a gay midnight party
at this divorce mecea crashed at
the take-off today.
The pilot, Robert Hancock, $2, of
8an Francisco, one of the oldest
private pilot* in active sertioe was
killed. Mrs. CUton. who has oh- i
tained thru Nevada divorcee in the
test sU year*, was injured serious-
ly. One of her divorced husbands.
Adolph Bpcsckete. Jr., heir to S
«ugar fortune and socially promin-
ent in Ban Francisco; Mrs. AMH‘
Young of Bmt Prancteoo, and Les-
lie Rex, also of Ban Francisco, suf-
fered cute, bruises and shock.
Mrs. Clinton suffered serioui
head injuries and poatibly was hie,
Internally. I
The party came hera in tha twtn-
moiored Lockheed plana owned Mr
tary to tha Ministry of Labor.
Halifax was appointed despite the
angry protests of XAbor Party tead-
et%. who announced they would force
a 'debate in' the House of Commons
if a member of tha House of Lords
received the foreign portfolio. Al-
ready Indignant over the resignation
of Bdan. labor man demanded that
a member of the House of Commons
be appointed so that he could face
Commons for questioning.
As s result, it was announced that
since the new Foreign Secretary will
be a member of the Houee of Lords.
Chamberlain prepoass himself to
deal with all important aspects of
foreign affairs which would be sub-
ject to debate or question in the
House of Commons.
Attlee Makes Threat
When the Commons met today
M*J. Clement AtUee, Labor Party
loader, tried hard to form Cham-
berlain to admit that ho Intended
to name Halifax.
“I give notice that if the new
Foreign Secretary is a member of
the House of Lords X will aak time
A NT PORT in a storm, and any
method that gets results. Thais
good poll tics. Now from England
comas a story about four young men
found guilty of robbery with vio-
lence. TMsre is nothing unusual in
such a situation In American court*,
accept that these British young men
ware from the best families, ana
they hod entlo.'d a jeweler to a hotel
room where they beat him severely
and robbed him of thirteen thou-
sand pounds. Pound Is a nickname
for five dollars.
• IBS
Bo what happened) In the first
place, contrary to the American cue-
Austrian Nazis Are
Angered by Speech
VIENNA. Feb. 25.—(UP)—Aus-
trian Nazis demonstrated angrily
today In reaction to Chancellor Kurt
Bchuschnlgg* vigorous speech pro-
claiming Austria's independence and
warning against tha spread at
Nazism in Austria.
Tile Ministry of Education or-
dered tha University Technical Col-
lege at Oras closed because students
joined in the Nasi demonstrations.
Between 800 and 000 students cf
the coitege at Una paraded, de-
manding union with Oermany and
shouting:
"HSU Hitter! One nation, out
Reich!"
Winter and Spring
Weather bielniei '
In Texet Reports
Well,
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