Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 293, Ed. 1 Monday, August 19, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Trade At Home
For Self Protection
WEATHER
West Texas:: Fair tonight and
Tuesday except thunderstorms
southwest portion. Not much
change in temperature.
VOL. 20.—No. 298.
BRECKENKIDGE. TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1940.
Fries Duly ft—Sunday Be
THE
OBSERVER
WA* IN OWING
■aSMEMTS ACCUSATION
tkxas huthkr
SEEN OS
lot of people who left here to
get Liny from the heat are
probably hotter where they are
than they would be here.
Tf'lLLIAM C. Bullitt, ambuu-
dor to France who has return-
ed home, nays the United States
may not get Into the war, but that
the nrar will surely be brought to
us.
More dangerous t« peace in the
United States than the opinion of
Mr. Bullitt, which is not to be dis-
counted except that he saw the
horrors of it in France and is
more afraid of It than probable
any other American, is the fact
that Germany apparently intends
to sink some of our ships. History
of 1917 repeating itself!
BRITISH GIVE UP SOMALIUM TO ITALf
SO, wc might as well get ready
for a step-up of activity in
the life of the people. Willkie has
come out for some form of com.
ppaury military training. It is
earning. Hundreds of thousands of
men. 21 to 3t. mrill he going into
training. Taken fro mthe ranks of
workmen Preparations for urar
are to be speeded up, making more
work.
Aa the young men prepare to
leave marriages will flourish.
Hqme life is going to be far from
the humdrum. America is going
military mindcJ.
S. R. Ruark came to this office
Monday morning to say that
he hai been acusori of •'being for
Hitler". He added that he wanted
It understood he Is not for Hitler
and that people seem "ready to
tar and fiather people before they
found out ho i they actually stood.
TIMMT Brefwster says If you wish
•* to get kick out of the change
of the times drag out the old fam-
ily album. The one that reposed
on the table In the parlor un-
der a fancy shaded lamp, the room
being kept dark for atl except
state occasion. He said he got a
kick out of showing hl.i father a
m picture of his father and mother
taken the day after they were
married. His father was sitting
down, stiff ss a poker, because of
the head rest at the back, and his
mother was standing. He added
J* he chkied his dad for being 90
* Impolite as to sit while his mother
was standing. Scrr you can ask
Jimmy the answer he got.
rrtflE lawn grass and the flowers
1 .were either burned to a cinder
where no Irrigation was practiced
or looked pretty pale around the
gilla even where "water from the
hose had ben applied tfor there is
no substitute for rain in the care
and nurture of growing things).
But now. thanks to a familiar
micaele. all this has changed. It
has rained.
Even a fo* hours later the
change Is visible to the naked eye.
Graaa la turning green. Weeds
pop up through the washed soil.
Slclrly flowers take on new life.
It Is almost unbelievable; It
would be unbelievable to the
stranger, but wo Texans are used
to the sudden transition. Al-
Candidates Take
Field For Home
Stretch Drive
Polls Open At Eight;
Absentee Voting Is
Running High
Candidates in the second demo-
cratic pnmary, which will held
Saturday entered the home stietcn
today and both state and county |
candMBates were exerting last cf-1
forts in the run*>ff races.
The polls will open here Satur- 1
day morning at # o'clock and clow!
at ~ o'clock D. T. Boalea. county |
eh*: 1 .nan said today with the same
officials in charge as conducted
th* first primary.
With absentee voting approach-
ing the TK) mark, Wednesday the
deadline for that, it was indicated
that interest here is high especial-
ly in the local races.
In the state run-off races one of
the hottest races ever witnessed
In a run-off for congress in one
caiyiidates second year of office is
being conducted by Congressman
Clyde Garrett and Sam Russell.
No little Interest also is found
in the race between Omar Bur:c-
son and John Lee Smith, the racc
for senate of as much ar more in-
terest here, than is that in the oil
commisioner's race between Olin
Culberson and Pierce Brooks. if
street conversation is to be consid-
ered. Local attorneys are making
a strong plea for James Alexand-
er In the race with H. S. Lattlmor,,
for chief justice of the supreme
court.^ithouKh Lattimore also ha-
ft strong folluwing.
The local races, closer to home,
are of personal preference rather
than any issues. In these races
Carl Morton and Walter Clift are
competing for district clerk; Ray
Hlekey and Chase Booth, ror sher-
iff; R. 8. Taylor and Qui nee J
Carey, and George Kelly vs. S. O
Price for commissioners.
Huge Crowd Attends Acceptance Ceremonies
t*
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War Threat Attacked
Part of the estimated crowd of over 250,000 who filled K \
WUIkie Acceptance ccxeniLnies. This ia how t ;e huge crowd
od. H'l.. to overflowing for the Wendell
looked to those on the speakers stand.
Membership Drive
Total Is Now 161
Final reports of the working
teams were shown at the Brcck-
enridge Chamber of Commerce to-
day when 36 employes of the Dun-
Igan Tool A Supply company were
reported to have joined the West
Central Texas Oil A Gas Associa-
tion.
A corrected report from the
Chamber of Commerce showed 161
members had been secured In the
drive, captained by Bill Rhodes,
one the largest memberships ever
secured here.
Contour Lines Are
Being Run Today
County Agent W. R. Lace today
was to un contour lines of the
Pel Taylor place, noith of the
Center School. Tuesday he has an
engagement at he Floyd Ledbetter
plare near Wayland to caponize
chickens.
W. I. Glass, extension service
'*ent. was expected in today to
cuhfer with Mr. Lace on agrlcul-!
tural matters.
never cease to marvel at it. We
do forget sgmettmes how quickly
this country bounds back after s
drouth-breaking rain, but when it
comes r.n smile knowingly to our
•elves and murmur. "We told you
yX/K don't even resent it when
making the customary remark
that all this country needs to
flourish like a garden is plenty ol
moisture, some ribald outlandet
says, "That's all Hell needs." He
I* Just palling our •eg; he hasn't
witnesasd aa many miraculous re-
births of vegetation as >.ve have.
And so we all feel better, along
with the grass, the weeds. the
ftrwers and the growing crops.
Bamthrm the state of the world
outside doesn't depress us as it
did. This is Gods country once
more, and we are the darlings of
fortune. —Abilene Reporter.
is
EEN OR Heard; Nat, Rosen
im recovering from oper-
ation In Dallas , . . Billy .Rhodes
asking what color a barber pole >*
. . . official answer was red and
white . . . W. A. Maloney in Ft.
Worth . . . Milton Daniel
Ing to verify report bridge
ad od below Possum
dam ... R E
Relative Of Breck
Woman Is Dead
Mrs. James G. Karrcll hns gone:
to Sedalia. Mo., to attend the fun - |
era! of her grandmother, Mrs.
Grlnstead. who died at the age of
107 years old.
The funeral wss expected to
at Whitesboro, the lime not defi-
nitely determined.
School Budget
Hearing Is Set
Public Notified $101,000
Amount Needed; Few
Positions Open
Supt. J. F. Bailey today remind-
ed of the public healing to be held
Tuesday evening on the school
budget.
This meeting will be at the
school, beginning at 3 o'clock,
when tli" prO|Hjsed budget of $104,-
C00 for current expenses will be of
fcrcd for approval.
This sura is about ROOD under
that set up last yenr. although not
all a; last year's budget was used
Besides the SICI.OOO there has been
set up $24.IDS for debt service.
The Breckenridge school system
now is seeking to lower the inter-
est rates on outstanding bonds
in a technical plea in bankruptcy.
Hearing on this matter has been
set for September 20 in federal
court.
At the meeting Tuesday night
several teachers vac;: neirs may be
acted on. One of these is to ap-
point and asistant principal at the
North Ward school.
The slight drop in the school
budget set up this year is occasion-
ed mostly by the fa«t that lesd
teachers i vill be needed.
Wife Of Sheriff
Injured In Fall
Mrs. T'.opy Freeland had the
misfortune to fall <f wn the steps
as her home. F:;r si-me time he:
left foot pained her considerably
afterwards A physt.-ian was called
and it i*as discovered it was br.k
en.
Coldest August
Is Registered
This was one of the coldest
Auguit days in Texas history.
Lowest temperature was 32 de-
grees at Childress contrasting
witn 107 degrees Sunday at Mis
sion. The cold snap follows sev-
eral days of rain.
Band Concerts To
Be Re-Ojiened In
City Tonight
The Buckaroo summer band J
will play a concert tonight at the j
court house lawn starting at 8 j
o'clock. Special numbers wilt be j
sung by Mr. James Roeser with !
band accompaniment and the
Cowgirl accordion band directed
by Mr. E. G. Miller will play three
songs. The members of the accor-
dion hand are Barbara Ann and
Charlotte Kleinfclder, Mary La-
vern Draper. Gerald Fay Bridges
and Ernestine Phillips.
Thc band under the direction of
Mr. J. C. Burkctt will play thc
following program:
America.
At thc Rammy, march—Glenn
Morton.
Sleeping Beauty, waltz — Tsch-
aikowsky.
Festal Day, march Buchtel.
Deep Purple, vocal solo—Peter
De Rose James Rosser.
Mcxicali Rose, vocal solo Stone
and Tenney James Ro«her.
Washington Post, march Sutisa.
Darktown Strutters B a I t—
Brooks.
Sylvia .Speaks.
Accordlan Band Home on the
Range, South of the Border, El
Rancho Grande. Buckaroo band.
Varsity Swing - Voder.
Foctlifter, march Filimoic.
Jokes Bother
Geo. Washington
Last Rites Saitl
For Small Boy
W esley Stewart Succumbs
To Illness Since
August 5
Fun-cral services for Wesley
Stewart, four-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. John I. Stewirt. who re-
side on th,. Ivan road were held
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev
P. W. Walker of Eastland officiat-
ing.
Ths child died Sunday morning,
at !>:30 o'clock after an Illness
since August 5. Burial was in the
South Prairie cemetery near Ivan.
Pallbearers were H. S. Heffner,
Dewey Hames, Bill Rowiitw and
Rayford Bundick.
Surviving, besides the mother
and father, are twin brother and
lecn Rhea Stewart, grandfather
leen Rhea Stewart, grandmother
and grandmother. Mr. and Mrs.
Chart's Stewart and grandmother,
Mrs. Mollie Burk, who resides
near Necessity.
Bullitts Speech
Is Target For
Isolationists
Trying to Plunge U. S.
Into Wafr Charged
By Wheeler
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 <U.R>-
: Isolationists senators charged to-
| day that the U. S. ambassador to
France was driving the United
States to war by making ant:
! German speeches.
Senator Burton Wheeler of Mon
tana accused William C. Bullitt of
"trying to plunge us Into war" by
urging that we send world war
i destroyers to Britain to avoid be-
ing the Nazis next victim, if thc
English are defeated. Sen. Worth
Clark of Idaho said Bullit's re-
marks in Philadelphia last night
were "very close to treason."
Ambassador Bullitt, declaring
Hitler will attack this Nation if
Great Britain is defeated, urged
Americans tonight to telegraph
their Congressmen demanding
that World War destroyers be
sent to England's aid.
"America is in danger," he as-
serted dramatically in a speech at
Independence Square. 'It is my
conviction, draiwn from my own
experience and from the informa-
tion in the hands of our Govern-
ment in Washington, that the
United States is in as great peril
today as was Francc a year ago."
As a safeguard he cal'.ed on ev-
eryone to seek some kind of na-
tional service, demand conscription
in communication to Congress-
men and "tell them we back up-
General John J. Pershing, who
has advocated thc release of
World War destroyers for Bri-
tain's use.
To Speak Here
GERRY MANN
When Attorney General Ger-
ald C. Mann comes to Brcck-
enridge August 26 it is plan-
ned to have a combined meet-
ing of Rotary and Lion clutxs
to hear him.
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TWO PROJECTS ANNOUNCED
EASTLAND, Aug. IT. (Spl.l —,
Congressman Clyde L Garrett an
nounced today that he had secui-
ed Presidental approval on two
Federal work projects totaling
$78,300.00 for th- 17th District;
one for Nolan County and one
In Shackelford County.
Approval was obtained on a
county road project for Shackel-
ford County amounting to $76,300.
This brings the total allotment for
Albany and Shackelford County
to t231.47S.83 since January 1,
1M7.
Appproval was also obtained
for school renovating project in
Nolan County In the amount of
13,300.00; increasing the amount
of Federal allotments, inclusive of
R. E. A., (til and Water Con
serration, F. *. A, Farm
ancy, C. C. C., Federal Housing,
and R. F. C Loans, to $710.32T>. 1.
Since January 1, 1939, Congress
man Garrett has secured approval
of project* within the 12 counties
of th- district totaling better than
seven and a half million dollars,
which amount was used to build
hospitals, court houses, city halls,
school buildings, farm-to-market
roads, and other pub'le buildings
and to provide facilities for school
children, indexing of county and
district records, library assistants
for schools, and the improvement
of sewerage systems, water sys-
tems, and Alteration plants, and
further public works. These pro-
jects dm vs also provided work tot
the unemployed throughout the
XT District.
COLLINGCALF, Pa., UJ.tt —
George Washington, 42, is a grent
great - great - great nephew cff
the "Father of his Country" bur
doesn't enjoy the distinction.
He said'he had been joked about
the name throughout his life and
things became particularly bad
around Washington's Birthday.
Then practical jokers have a
habit of telephoning him about
dawn.
"Is this George Washington?"
they ask.
"Yes" replies George Washing-
ton sleepily.
"Well, close your shutters. The
Britlsji are coming."
A constable he has named his
son and daughter George and
Martha.
"I don't kaio-.v why I did It," he
said. "I know what I've been
through But I guess I had a weak
moment."
Man Capitalizes
On Use Of 'Ain't'
FORT WORTH, Tex. —
State Rep H. A (Snity) Hull of
Foit Worth, seeking re-election |n
the legislature, was chided by an
opponent for using "ain't" in his
speeches.
Retorted Hull, do the iklight of a
campaign audience:
"My opponent doesn't like me
because I say ain't. I l.nrw it ain't
proper to any ain't, but I know a
|pt of people iwho don't say ain't
,voh ain't eating, and I know a
man who doe..n't say ain't iwho
ain't ever going tj be state rep-
resentative."
FIRE CHIEF GALLANT )
ALAMEDA, Cal. <U.B—Fire Chief
Thomas Lane maintained his rep
utation for gallantry when his car
reared up to thc box from which
an alarm had been 3ent in, only
to find standing there Mrs. Edith
M. Sante-?. 80, and stranger in thc
city, waiting for a taxi she
thought she had called. Thc chief
descended, waved off the two fol-
lowing Tire trucks, and escorting
Mrs. Santec across the street, ex-
plained the difference between the'
two boms en the corner—one for
tula and 'the other for firs alarms
Unusual Address
Finds Its Way
MINERAL WELLS, 'ti.Pt —
They're testing the ingenuity of
the post office aguir..
A letter arrived here addressed:
•Where They Drink Their Way to
Heath". Pasted on the envelope
wus a newspaper picture of Allen
Gtiinn. * >
The letter wis sent by Walter
Scott. Fort Worth, Texas attorney,
who wanted to see "just hri.v good
the postoffice depart mi it <was-
anjiA-ay."
He s-?dl he matte a bet that tho
letter would toe delivered to Guinn
in Mineral Wells.
Statue Of Vulcan
Salutes Like Nazi
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. <U.R! —'the
fact that Vulcan, giant iron statue
atop Red Mountain that Is the
trademark of Birmingham, is
posed In a Nazi salute, has been
called to the attention of Public
Safety Commissioner Eugene Con
nor.
Connor was nonplussed. No one
had ever before noticed the simi-
larity Sf Vulcan's outstretched
hand, pointing to the city below
him. to the German signal.
Then he thought of a way out.
"That statue was a WPA proj
ect," he smiled. "Go see Presid-
ent Roosevelt about It/*
Weasel Found In
Auto Break Drum
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. U'.R> —
Members of the Murray Catt
family, who live on a farm in
Ca-sco township can't explain huw
it happened but they vouch for
the truth of this story.
One night the farm dogs barked
as though an intruder were pres-
ent. The family, awakened, found
nothing wrong and went back to
bed. But thc next morning thc
dogs were still uneasy, aad a
closer search i.vas launched.
Attention of the dogs was cen-
tered on a wheel of the family
car. Nothing seemed out of order;
there until finally the wheel 'was!
re mo vol for Investigation. Insldel
the brake drum, tightly Impris-j
oned, was found a baby iweasel.
Onee Grid Star
To Talk In City
Account of Stewardship
Of Office Is Being
Given Texans
AUSTIN, August 1!>. (Hpl.) —
Gerald C. Mann, who is making
a month's tour over thP State to
render a report of his stewardship
a« Attorney General of Texas, ts
expected to appear at Brccke;-.-
ridge, Monday noon, August SB.
1940.
Attorney General Mann plans
to rcach every scction of th- State
during August to give a report on
the conduct of the activities of
his officc since he assumed the
position of Attorney General on
January I, 19->9, and upon enm-
pl'tion of the tour, he shall "again
devote my full time to my offl
cial duties."
In announcing plans for the
trip here recently. Mann declared:
"When I assumed thP responsi-
bilities of this office T f-lt it va-
my duty to render to the people
of the State of Texas the highest
(service of which I am capable. It
has been n-cea-ary for me to re
main in Austin in order to pro
perly administer the affairs or
the Attorney General's Depart-
ment.
"Since this is election year anil
I am again offering for Attorn-y
General, I am going to make a
speaking tour into every section
of the Slate and report to the
people on the conduct of the a<
tivitiei of this offic". As soon ar.
thc tour is over. I shall again de
vote n>y full time to my official
duties."
Anthrax fipidemie
Appears Cheeked
One or" two additional deaths n-
mong cattle have been reporter!,
some from fod poisoning outside
thc area quarantined against an-
thrax but, no spread of this disease
has bene reported.
R. F. Chappell. Iwho was acci-
dentally vaccinated when a cow-
kicked the syringe against him.
has gone to Fort Worth, a little iii
from the serum.
AVIATION NEEDS WORKERS
Fire Chief Quits
To Be Janitor
ORD, Neb. - Being a care-
taker or . janitor apparently is
more desirable In Ord than being
fire chief.
T*'o years ago E. J. Shirley, who
had served 42 years as fire chief,
retired to become caretaker at
the golf course.
Now Cecil Clark has resigned as
fire chief to become janitor at the
new postoffice.
NEW YORK (UJB — Thc rapid
defense-spurred incrcase in avia-
tion production has created an
employment problem which is In
no sense an unemployment pro-
blem.
The companies which make air-
planes. engines, propellers and
the multitudinous gadgets ncded
cd for a modern fighting ship
are hunting anxiously for expert
machinists, toobnakers, sheet me-
tal operators, welders, fitting mak
crs, wood toolmakers, and skilled
inspectors, engineers and tool de-
sign experts. There are not enough
of these specialists to fill the
great gap between production de-
mands and production facilities.
. In the opinion of Capt. Gill
Robb Wilson, president of th*
National Aeronautic Association
and New Jersey state director of
aviation, the necessities of the d--
fense situation require that Anter
lean ycuth take off its "white
collar."
"We've been educating away
from hard work and teaching that
you couldn't be successful unless
you wore a white collar," Wlkon
said. "The people without thc
white collars are the backbone of
our country. A standard of living
depends upon the standard cf toil
and every nation that ever stop-
ped Wording foundered upon its
own self-satisfaction. Schools In
America must turn to vocational
training as thc backbone of in-
d us trial and commercial pro-
gress*."
For every pilot, h? pointed out,
(Contianed on Pag* Twt >
English Vessels .
Bombard North -
AfrieaiiTown
Small Attacks Made on
British Isles Today
By Germans
Great Britain today gave up So-
maliland after tv:o weeks fight
with overwhelming Italian forces,
i^hilo Ge.man's aerial war on the
Biitish Isles (Was almost at a
standstill.
The British air ministry said to-
night that small scale German
raids had caused some daamgc
and casualties at Royal air force
bases.
Gonial.land in East Africa at
the k.iiver end of the Red Sea wa3
the fiut empire territory lost by
Britain. Its garrison estimated as
low as 1,200 men iwerc evacuated
with full equipment in boats at
Bcrbera. Italians had estimated
30,000 troops and a London an-
nouncement claimed heavy casual-
ties had been inflicted.
British xuid Son.aliland was left
unprotected by capitulation of
Fiench East African forces.
Meanwhile British naval vessels
heavily bombarded two North Af-
rican towns, Bardia and Fort
Capuzzo, from which Mussolinm
troop3 were expected to launch at-
tack across Egypt toward Suez
canal.
German planes fcmited them-
selves to small attacks today after
losing, according to British report,
141 of 600 planes over Britain
Sur4da>\- — -
Britons this weekend bombed
north Italian factories and heavily
attack German troop and ship
concentrations along French coa3t
acn-ss channel bom Britain.
Some cbservers pred'«t blitzkrieg
invasion attempt may be launched
this week.
Germany iwarncd that reprisals
will be taken If civilians molest
their parachute troops.
German bembrrs struck with
massive new force at the bastions
or Britain Sunday, but England's
determined defenders reported
they destroyed at least 115 of the
attackers, completely routed the
second of two great raids direct-
ed at London, and paid a devastat
Ing call of their own to the Nazi
positions on thc Ccntln-nt.
The Air Ministry declined to con
firm a report by the British Press
Association that the RAF bombed
Into confused turmoil a German
army cf fivp divisions — up to
inn.nno ,men — on the twenty mil-
es of coast between Calais and
Boulogne, ,jnd the press associa-
tion withdrew its stcry.
In combating the renewed ralrj3
after Saturday's sudden German
layoff, the British acknowledge
loss of sixtc-n pltncs.
The German command said 138
British were destroyed and 34
German planes missing.
In the first German onslaught
Sunday, the British Air Ministry
acknowledged that bombs dropped
on several Royal Air Fore air-
dromes where some service per-
sonnel wcre killed and other In-
jured.
This apparently Included Croy-
don, London's gr^at airport,
which the Germans said they han
set afire for the second time in
four day. They said they wrecked
twenty-five British planes there
and also bom!j d Kenley and Big-
gin Hill, London suburbs.
Mrs. Harrison Is
Victim Of C^ash
Mm. Clifton Harrison was treat
ed at the Westside hospital Mon-
day morning for Injuries received
in an automobile accident. It was
reported she sustained painful
cuts and brumes.
Mrs. Harrleon was riding two
miles west of Caddo when the car
hit a culvert, it was said.
Wickard Selected
Agri Chjeftan
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19. —
President Rocscvelt today appoint*
ed Claude Wickard. former under-
secretary of agriculture, to suc-
ceed Secretary Henry Wallace,
who resigned to campaign as
democratic nominee for vice pres-
ident.
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