Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 63, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1940 Page: 1 of 6
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SPECULAlflO
ON PLANS OF HITLER
ROWNWOOD; BULLETIN
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Conflicting
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Reports on
Troop Moves
Royal Air Forca Drops t
Haavy Loads of Bombs
On ''invasion Coast"
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 27.—<
Ail units of the 36th Division,
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27,
National Guard, except
will be'In Camp Bowie. Brown wood
by January 1A, under plans being
worked out today.
The artillery units will move In by
Aerial Cent
taly's Armies
January 20.
Engineering units of the division
now on the more by highway are
expected to arrive by tomorrow to
prepare ground for artillerymen and
others. They Will find ample provi-
sions, warm tents and sufficient
blankets. Ouard headquarters an-
nounced.
Roads were being .ased sparingly
By JOB ALEX MORRIH
Halted Poms Fereifm News KdMer
* * J;
A London newspaper today asked:
What is HiUor planning newt"
u speculation spread In Europe
Jut widespread and conflicting
reports of Oerasan troop move-
nrnts from the Black 8oa to the
English Channel may camouflage
in imminent Nasi lightning stroke
n some unexpected direction
The British, on double guard
igainst an Invasion attempt across
he narrow straits of Dover, brought
s summary end to the informal
Christmas air truce last night and
*rly today.
UNION CITY. N. J . Dec. 21-
«UP>—When Dorothy Neuman was
12 years old her mother sent her to
the drug store for some medicttw.
That was on Aug 29. 1929
At 3 p, m. last Wednesday. Christ-
mas. 11 1-3 years later, she returned
homo. jBhe bid the family merry
Christmas. Rayed for dinner, and at
11 p m left again.
WASHINGTON Dec 27.-«UP>—
President Roosevelt said today that
a CIO plan for utilizing the auto-
mobile industry to produce MO pur-
suit planet dally la being con.Mdered
seriously by the new .Supreme De-
fense Board.
Mr. Roosevelt added that the;
plan, drafted under the direction of I
Walter P Reuther of the United
Automobile Workers of America, in-
volves questions of technical man-
agement which require further
study to determine whether it is
feasible. He said that if somethiny
concrete can be worked out of the
Reuther plan. It will be a real con-
tribution to national defense
The plan was handed to Mr.
Roosevelt last Monday by CIO Pres-
ident Philip Murray. Discussing it
with reporters today. Mr. Roosevelt
said it had been referred to the new t
four-man office for production
management headed by WUtlam 8
Knudsen and including Lobar Lead-
er Sidney Hillman. Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson and Beere-
SAN FRANCISCO,
i UP i -Two members o:
10 Coast Guardsmen
rescued after battling a
seas 41 hours, were brou
safely today from the Coast Ouard
cutter Ariadne.
1 The transfer from the cutter to
shore was effected by fellow Coast
Guardsmen in a surfboat and <on-
stituted a manuver almost as diffi-
cult as the original rescue of the
Vew in one of the heaviest sea*. In
recent years along the Pacific
coast. j IF *
The Ariadne had picked up 10
men last night from two small boats
in which they set out Christmas
Eve to aid a disabled lumber
schooner. It was impossible for the
cutter to dock in the storm, how-
eVer. and she stood offshore.
'The cutter itself was rtemaged
and one Coast Guard aboard her
had a broken leg Mountainous
seas had swept away four of her
lifeboats, disabled her radio an-
tenna and damaged her superstruc-
ture while she was rn route to aid
the distressed lumber schooner, the
Stan wood.
When the Ariadne reached the
SUnwood another Coast Guard
boat already had it in tow. and
she put about to San Francisco
En route, she picked* up news of
the missing Coast Guards and join-
ed the search. * -
Meanwhile, giant breakers pound-
ed the Pacific ocean front. and
streams were running bankful from
days of Incessant rain A: Redondo
Beach, combers 2S feet high whip-
ped two houses to pieces and dam-
aged 13 more. At Long Beach, en-
gineers fought to save the Belmont
peninsula and 1U homes fnxr
being cut off from the mainland
by the waves Breaker* had smash-
ed a bulkhead protecting the Bel-
mont shore area and were show-
ering salt water over the homes aad
gardens behind It. fT
Coast Ouards at Aberdeen v. ash
abandoned the g2-year-old North
cove lighthouse, at the north en-
trance to Wlllapa Barf. Part of the
wall around the beacon had col-
lapsed and the fall of the 46-foot
stone lighthouse was imminent.
to facilitate drying. . j
Other special troops, headquarter
units and the like, were to arrive a
Ci.mp Bowie by January 1. Im
transport schedule was being work
ed out for heavy rail freight move
meats cancelled two weeks ago
.tainous
That is about as much as anvone
here cad make of it.
hl'.e .old the family that she had
been living across the Hudson river
in New York City all the time She
didn’t tell them her adktreaa or what
600 Due to Arri
At Camp Today
And Saturday
Royal Air Force planes roared off
from their British isles bases to
Turl concentrated bomb loads on
iie “Invasion coast” of northern
Prance in an attack that extended
u far south as Bordeauk; In reply
Germany's Mg cross-channel guns
ipened up on the Dover area.
The Oermans admitted that the
British had bombed aidromes. har-
bors and cities in the Nazi-occupied
area of Prance. They claimed that
no military damage was Inflicted
out that civilians were killed and
Jijured.
Invasion Fears Ease
British fears of immediate Invas-
ion appeared to have eased some-
what There was some belief In
London that an attack of partic-
ular severity an the invasion coast
Monday night by the RAF may
nave again disrupted Adolf Hitter's
plans However, It was believed the
resumption of oomblngs of north
France by the RAF last night
stemmed from British determina-
tion not to give the Oermans a long
breathing spell in which invasion
preparations could be completed.
telephone directory. She didn’t
bring am Christmas presents .Sire
just walked in and said "hello “ Bhe
promised before she left to return
Jan. SO. on her ?«th birthday. Then
the earth swallowed her up agaui.“
as her fat|pr, Francis J. Neuman,
expressed
When sh
was a gang
mature for
ested in Je
trips to 11
which her
Camp Bowie’s military poj
will be increased by more tl
with the arrival today and
day of seven companies a
medical detachment oi iljflM
Engineer*.’
A recent portrait of General
Ugo Cavallero, who succeeded
Marshal Pietro Badoglio as chief
of the Italian General Staff and
head of all military activity.
Until his appointment to the
post Gen. Cavallero arena com-
paratively obscure commander
of troops on the Italian-French
frontier.
left the first time she
r-leggrd Child aUhough
er age and vitally Inter-
tlry pretty clothes and
1 hair dressers, ail | of
srents could not afford
returned this week she
active woman wearing
* fur coat and smartly
Scheduled to arrive
.between 3 and 6 p. r
Company B. Bowie, 3
86 men: Company C
2 officers. 91 men: Me<
ment. Oonzales. 4 offk
and Company E. Vvcta
tary of the Navy Frank Knox
A reporter asked if Stimson had
resigned from the cabinet Mr
Roosevelt replied no. of course not
The President was asked about
Japanese press reports that the
U. S. plans to withdraw American
shipping from Japanese waters He
said he was interested in the source
but had neyer heard of the report
before.
Arriving around not
will be the Hradquane
vice Company. Ccmp
Company D. all of Port
Company F. Houston
$170,473 Bowie
Road Project
Authorized
The engineers will join
vance detachment of tliir
which moved Into Camp Be
14. The strength of the ut
of the*- induction into f**d
vice Nov 30
Cvbm Here by Track
All of the 111th Engine
win arrive In Brown wood b
Convoys were sent fiw
Bo**ie to bring them to'tferf
enter.
multi-winged in
sect, this line-up of over 300 training planes is await
flying cadets who will start basic training at Randolph
after the holidays It will be the largest class ever to
armx’s “West Point of the AirJL
xional
The State WPA has authorised
a 6170.473 project for const rurt ion
of roads an the south and east aides
of Camp Bowie military reserve-
it Roowelt Will prevent
in a fireside chat Bunds*,
a message to Congress on
af the union scheduled for
ittkJaa. 3, the first day of
Thirty-sixth Dlvisiotf‘ifeadquar-
Mrs has announced that it has no
further information regarding, the
movement of ether division units to
Camp Bowie, the 111th Engineer
being the only scheduled move-
■Mil.' 1
The main body of the Thirty-
sixth was to have moved into the
camp today and sa ..-dayjlbut the
movement was postponed because
of the condition of the camp
made in Austin. Brown county will, AU8T1N. Dec 17—(UP*—
contribute 633.191 to the project, but farm crops In 1940 had a farm
this Includes road machines and of 6397.106.000 compared with
caliche which the county already 420 000 for 1030 crops, accord!
WEI BOURNE Australia. Dae. 37
—(I P)—An enemy sea mid*, fly-
in* the Japaneee flag, today heav-
ih shelled Nauru, one of the OUbert
Islands of the South Pacific Prime
Minuter Robert Gordon Mruoes
a:.r mine rd
The ship had S Japanese name. It
was said The shelling caused eon-
Mdrrable damage, but no casual-
ties
Nauru, sot MlkRa* called Pleasant
Island, is S former German pass as
sion administered by Oreat Britain
under a League of Nations mandate
It is 30 miles south of the Equator,
Is approximately 2 000 miles north-
east of Australia Its area is 6J96
acres Its chief commercial ur.port-
ance U the production of phosphate
Mrnzirs said the island was en-
ttMTi undefended in accordance
with the League of Nations man-
date.
In 1930. the Island had a popula-
tion of 3.393. 117 being European,
1,517 Chinese, and the rest native
Roo*c\f|t said that he had no new-
on peace propoaals today. Asked If
that implied that he might have
someth!#* later, be repeated that
he had nothing Ur say today.
He was old that there had been
suggest ions that he had arranged
r- Christmas air truce between
Oreat Britain and Oermany and Was
asked whether he cared to comment.
He didn t eore to comment Neither
would he comment on the Oerman
official «po*e.srTUtr< declaration that
i ■ report issued today by the Agricul-
tural Marketing Service of I the
United Staten Department of Agri-
culture H
Cotton valued at 6147X26 0OQ and
cottonseed at 631,747X00. a local oi
1179 572 ooo accounted for nimrly
half of the total value of farm crops
Due to greater production end a
higher price this total exceeds that
of the 1936 crop by 629 J67.d(|0i or
about 20 per cent
Yield.* per acre of all major Texan
crop* In 1940 exceeded the 1 Of year
(I929-39> average and In mor« in-
stances thOM Of 1939 With 'hr
chief exceptions being wheat aixl
cotton, the acreage of which wgs.re-
duced under government prousrm*
production of major crops in 1940
j also exceeded that of last year and
the 10-year average
should transport so many troops
Into the Balkans and Italy, es-
pecially at a time when limited rail
facilities are badly nrdrd for trans-
port of vital supplies
Winter HMe TraaeperUUea
Some support for the British
view was given by reports from
Bucharest which indicated that
Rumania* weak transport system
was badly Usd up by winter. These
reports mentioned a bad train
wreck in which six were killed aad
five injured, a heavy snowfall that
suspended traffic on many rail
lines and storms which disrupted
Black Sea shipping. Ail river traf-
fic on the Danube has been im-
pended for about 19 days became of
lee floss.
The Oermans declined flatty to
say anything about the reports.
They said that even If they were
advised of the movements they
would not oamment on such a mat-
ter of military importance.
Comparison of the Balkan troop
rumors with those which circulat-
ed before previous Oerman light-
ning moves raised th* possibility
that the reports might be a screen
for a Nasi stroke in some other
direction, poeeihly the kx«-await-
ed direct assault on Britain, a move
across Spain Gibraltar, an
it tempt, to invade Ireland or some-
thing of the nature
There was little newt today from
-he actual fighting fronla. The
Oreeks were said to be continuizw
the* slow, steady advance on all
fronts in Albania. Activity on the,
north Albanian front to the Lake
Ochrtda sector was reported for the
first time In eeveral daps.
The Italians offered no specific
news of fighting either to Albania
or Libya where the slags of Berdto
WASHINGTON. Dec |7-«UP'
—Allen Registration Director Earl
O Harrison promised today that
vigorous action would be taken
against non-citisens who failed to
register under terms of the alien
registration act before last mid-
night's deadline
Harrison said about 5 ooo ooo al-
iens—one out of every 36 persons
In the country -presented \|hem-
selves at registration post offices
and filled out the necessary forma.
Yesterday what little traffic
theremka* rolled on comparatively
good mads The main roads were
vastly different from the muddy,
heavily rutted throuoghfares they
been during previous rains. Con-
struction officials yesterday ordered
stopped all traffic not abeoiutely
necessary, and chatos were removed
from the wheels of all can and
trucks In the camp. Chains were
.not allowed today
Chains Rain Reads .
During recent rams the roads of
the camp have been ruined by the
chains an the wheels of heavy army
and construction trucks. In many
Instances the wheels of the trucks
ground the caliche already spread
on the road into the sub-base
Plumbing, carpenter and electri-
cal work was going ahead this
morning, according to constructing
quartermaster officials Work at
the sewage disposal plant awplts
Vsadeaberg Latest AAveeale
influential members of Congress
are raising the peaee Issue In state-
ment* which roughly outline the
pattern of debate to come on Amer-
ican aid to Great Britain Sen Ar-
thur H. Vandenberg R Mich.. Is
•be latest advocate of a peace m#ve.
He was preceded by Sen..Millard E.
T\ dings D . Md . and Sen. Burton
K Wheeler. D., Mont. None of them
indicated anvthtn* but hope that
Great Britain would win the war
but they seemed uniformly alarm-
ed regarding the possibility of the
United 8tete** becoming Involved
Vandenberg, a member of the for-
eign relations committee, also pro-
posed that Joseph F. Kenney and
Cantonment Work
Copies of an order of the Texas
Railroad Commission denvlng the
as owner of the certificate. U
titled to every right, privilege
protection accorded him as ai
isting earner under the Motoi
laws of Texas."
Owens of the -Army Post
Lines are Rudy Copeland of
Worth: B J. Osmon. Jr.. E.
Ehrany. and A. D Martin. L
banker^
Leral Interpretation
Denial of the application oi
Anns Post But Lines for a pc
nent certificate was Interpreted
as the climax of a contest thai
been in progress for several m<j
In the course of which the j
Post Bus Lines brought Injun
Concrete foundation was being
poured this morning for a new city
mil enclosure to provide space for
temporary detention of military
prisoners awaiting transfer to the
stockade at Camp Bowie, •-
The construction Job is under the
supervision of Newt Staggs, local
contractor.
There will atoo be a separate cell
far women prisoners
The new Jail Is separate from the
present city bastlle, but U in the
name building, back of. the City hall.
It is being erected at the west side
of the building, opposite the old
Jail.
Plans originally provided for ad-
dition to the Old Jail enclosure on
through to the wall adjacent to an
alley at the rear, but this was dis-
carded In favor of the nety project
application of the Army Pont Bun
Line* for a permanent certificate to
operate motor bus nervtce between
Brownwood and Camp Bowie over
U. 8 Highway 389 and on adjacent
JKW YORK. Dec 37—<UP>—
William F. Carey, defense cemmh-
Mon construction expert raid today
that a visit to new afmy' canton -
ments east of the Mississippi had
convinced him that building work
thus far accomplished constituted
nothing short of a marvelous
achievement.” I
w added, however, that new
camps generally would require a
.nor.’h or six weeks more time to
build than was originally estimated
and exceed cost estimates by mil-
liona of dollars. „ -1
Carey recently returned from a
tour at most of the cgmpa in the
eastern half of the country.
There has not been sny bogging
down In work. Carey said, and what-
evgr time and money is expended
over estimates will be due entirely
to optimistic schedules In letting
contract* He pointed out for in-
stance, that tt takes two or three
months to build a seven or eight
room family dwelling and yet no
more time has been allotted for
cantonments housing is many as
50,000 men.
Concerning labor conditions am',
the eight-hour day, Carey said hr
l ad not seen a single project where
union difficulties had caused any
delay.:
roads, have been received in Brown-
wood \ ’ ' dftj l
The order was signed by alt three
Railroad Commissioners Chairman
Ernest O. Thompson and Comnu.s-
slonera Lon A. Smith and Jerry
Sadler and was dated Dec. S3.
At the same time the commission
found that the Bowen Motor
C oar he- operating a service between
Brownwood and the camp under an
existing permit Issued to the Brown
wood-Bradv Bus Line and leased by
BoweR, “can adequately serve be-,
tween Brownwood and Camp
Bowie,” and that the operatic* bv
Bowen Motor Coaches "would be
permanent and that the service ren-
dered by this company would be the
best.”
Cites Nev. 13 Order
The commission cited Its order of
Nov. 13. I960, approving the lease of
J. 8. Poikner, doing business as the
Brown wood-Brady Bus Line, to
Bowen Motor Coaches, which au-
thorizes the operation of a motor
bus Une between Brady and Brown-.
wood and which sendee Unauthor-
ized over U. S Highway 393 pawing
Immediately adjacent to the army
camp.
The order recited the finding that
Bowen in securing the lease from
Poikner. sueoeeded to all the lights
at the Brownwood-Brady Bus Line
as an existing carrier ever the
highway, serving this camp tnd in
this territory, and that Bowen Mo-
tor Coaches, "as successor to the
existing carrier under this lease. Is
tout led to every protection given an
existing candor under the Motor Bus
law from competition where the ex-
isting carrier Is eapabiie of render-
ing every sendee needed and de-
manded by the public; and the com-
mission further finds that J. 8.
Poikner Is still the owner at this
Motor Bus Certificate No. 303. and
that he has operated tt for a great
should
Belter Weather
Due in Texas
ad. The men had Just returned
from Christmas . furloughs, had
plenty of warm, woolen clothing,
hot meals and were living In well-
heated tents. * V * *
Men “Med-FrevT’ >
The men are supplied with heavy
rubber arctics, and when woolen
trousm are tucked Into the galosh-
es. the men are "mud-proor"
Sickness Is deereadag at the
camp and case after case has
returned to duty fiRto the hospital
an£fecxn regimental infimarles
iHlerday the men were kept in-
doors as much as possible and oc-
cupied with routine duties Nat-
urally no outdoor training was done
in tha windy, wet weather.
By UNITED FRE88
Rrliff tram drlvls
stinging rains came
day -
The U 8 Weathrf
cast continued clout
any more rain in a
night and Saturday, f
West Texas Rains
Christmas Day cove
East Texas during thi
R&mfxll included
Brady .90. Corpus Cf
Worth 1.35. Lufkin 3
1 43, Sulphur Sprmi
.43 and Wichita PaU
Amarillo s 36 was tt
perature reported iai
High wind added .
Assistant War Socret
For Air Considorad
t * Qi.jf • l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 37.
Action of the commission
nylng the Army Post Hus Lin
mit apparently came as a as
ton outcome of the permit
for a group qf Brownwood m<
(UP)-
Administrattoo officials today are
considering appointment of an as-
sistant Secretary of War for Air to
centralise the hugs warplane ex-
pansion program.
Authoritative source* said it had
vd much of
last 34 hours
Abilene .38
rtttt 29. Fort
•go
Survivors Indklde his widow; par-
ent*. MrTand Mrs T. H Death-
eragr at Rising Mar. two brothers.
Bill Deatherage of Lubbock and b.
A. Deatherage sf Rainproof. LA.;
a sister, Mrs L W U*an of Fort
46, Waco
I 01.
lowest tom-
night.
) the dim-
si Thursday,
i of M miles
l In North-
The Weather
British Ship Sends
Distress Calls
*
“I have no argument against the
eight hour day ordinarily,” belaid
bik ia time of stress and emergency
certainly we can work 10 hours a
day-six days a weak, even if It doe*
moan overtime.” f* .
He said that parents need have no
worry, that all soldiers win have
comfortable quarters with plenty of
room, good kttttwns aM fpftndtd
recreation facilities.
”ThSM camps Will all overrun the,
estimated cohta.” he saidT but tha:
is not to intimate that they are Fa-
culty of highway
By UNITED PRESS
EAST TEXAS Pirtly cloudy In
west, mostly cloudy in east portion
tonight, somewhat colder. Tempe-
rature near freezing in northwest
portion tonight Saturday partly
cloudy, slightly warmer in north
portion
Austin Rad Crotl Sands
CKasf Bibs to Camp BowSa
an hour were
west Texas.
\The rainfall
I. 17— UP ’"he
chapter today du-
ns! sheet Mbs to
Mayor and Dau^tar
Sick With Infkianxa
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