Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 133, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 6, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Texas U. Senior
'Goes Before Dies
Committee Hearing
BEAUMONT. Aug «. — Ernest
Brown. Houston senior st the Univer-
sity Of Texas, testified in secret be-
fore the Dies Committee
It was reported that he was being
asked concerning alleged • communist
propaganda at the school bat aide* of
Rep. Martin Dies handing the bouse
investigation into unAmerican activi-
ties refused to confirm this.
Brown was called before the com-
mittee just before noon as it resumed
Texas heatings into subversive activi-
ties in thia state.
Dies, who had been resting for sev-
eral days at hia Jaspar county ranch,
arrived here to take charge of the
hearing.
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supplies, the British navy has pot into active service a number of French war craft taken under control after
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the ships in service are those above, left to right, an escort vessel, a destroyer and four sub-chasers.
Seventeen Dogs Raise
Such Din of Noise,
Judge Rules 2 to Yard
EL PAJ9O, Texas, Aug- < (UP)—
Two dogs are enough for mm yard, a
urgmettsn court judge baa ruled.
The legal decision was rendered af-
ter a emnptatet that an U Faso wo-
man had tee many of the c**lne ego- >
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Tells of Birds
In Grimes County
Al Mayfield spoke to. nn enthusiastic
group on the Navasota High School
lawn Monday evening when he discuss-
ed birds in this locality.
County Agent George A. Altgelt. us-.
iUg ap opaque projector, showed pic-
tures of the birds discussed by the
lecturer.
Mr. Mayfield urged his hearers to
take note of the seventy-odd species
in a radius of ten miles of Navasota.
He told of the starling, resembling
the blackbird, which this year for
the first time made its appearance on
the lawns in this locality.
6.006 Specito In Texas
He said that Texas has 6,000 species
and sub-species and that many of these
which spend certain seasons here are
migratory birds which breed in Can-
ada and winter in the tropics.
After his discussion Mr. Mayfield
allowed the audience to ask questions,
and bird lovers In the group brought
out many I
which next near their homes.
The deficiency in the Red Cross
furfd was reduced to >48.82.
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Here August 14
Will Assist
Claimants for
Old-Age Insurance
John G. Hutton, sssistant manager
of the Houston Social Security Board
field office, will be in Navasota on
Wednesday, August 14, and will be
available at the Texas State Employ
ment Service office at 1:30 p. m.
The main purpose of the visit, ac-
cording to Mr. Hutton, ie to assist
claimants for old-age and survivors in-
surance in preparing their claims and to
contact employers in connection with
completing certain wage records on
which information is now lacking.
Mir. Hutton said that he would be glad
to furnish information to anyone in-
terested about the. monthly insurance
payments provided for retired wage
earners over 65. their dependents, and
dependents of deceased wage earners,
in the amended Social Security Act.
He will also be glad to discuss the
old-age and survivors insurance pro-
visions of the law with sny employers
who wish information about their re-
sponsibilities under these provisions.
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Officer Off Night
Duty Leaves Note to
Take Care ‘Pet Mice’
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BL PASO, Texas, Aug. 6. (UP)—
When it came time for an ■ Paso
police captain to make his regular
monthly change in shifts from night
to day hours he left a note to the
officer taking over his duties
"Please take care of my pet mice
here at night. They come out every
night between two and three a. m. for
their bread, which you will find in
the bottom of the desk. Their names
are Mike and Ike,'*
O’Daniel Says
Campaign Cost $4035
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. «. — Gov.
W. Lee O’Daniel spent >4,635.01 on his
campaign for re-election and received
the same amount for his campaign.
His final campaign expense report
on. file in the office ef secretary, of
state shows the expenditures and re-
ceipts down to the final penny.
No single campaign contribution ov-
er >100 was listed in the final report.
The penny was included in "mtacellahe-
ous*’ contributions that totaled fl,
235.01.
Travel was the governor's heaviest
expense in the campaign. It cost 1,-
265.66. Other items were: clerks and
east of addressing. >1,000.70; tele-
graph, telephone, express, etc., >621.86:
postage and stationery, >782; head-
quarters and office rent, >187.25; news-
paper and other advertising and pub-
licity. >75; liabilities assnmed and
not paid (estimated) >02.90
Barry Hines of Wichita Phils, can-
didate for governor, reported cam-
paign receipts of 84.418 and expeodl
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>ota Daily
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. — The
United States and Soviet Bussia, as-
certaining a threatened break in trade
relations, were said to be near agree-
ment on a basis for commercial deal-
ings for another year.
The existing agreement under which
Soviet Buasla ,promised to buy at
least >40,000.000 worth of American
goods during the year and actually
purchaaed tor more than thia, expiree
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Ready for Games
YELM. Wash., Aug. 6.—With half
a division in place and another divis-
ion and a half due Shortly, the north-
west section pit the Fourth army of
the United States was ready today
for the beginning of its least playful
war games in a generation.
Half of the Forty-fltta Division
reached its assigned camps in‘ the
Fort Lewis area yesterday. The other
half was due there today, while the
entire Fortieth Division was mov-
ing towards campe near Centralia and
Chenalis. From those camps, they will
clash in mock warfare along the Dee-
chutes and Nisually rivers.
In all, some 40,000 troops are to
be engaged in the maneuvers.
The concentration of troops is ex-
pected to be 85 per ceht complete tjy
tonight,
' The troops represent regular army
and guard organisations from Idaho,
Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada,
California, Oregon and Washington
The mock warfare begins in earn-
est, Aug. 13.
’ VICHY, France, Aug. 6. — Work-
men in the new France will be paid
in proportion to the slxe of their fami-
lies instead of the usual merit-based
salaries. Youth Minister Jean Ybar-
negaray announced.
French women, he said, "will return
to their prime traditional purpose in
life—being in their homes, having chil-
dren and living only to raisfe strong
useful men." '
Fathers Will IF given preference
over bacnelors in both public and pri
vate employment in this revolution-
ary move to check France’s dwindling
birth rate. Many have offered the
low birth rate as a big factor in
France’s military collapse.
The 1040 defeat by Germany was
expected to be the prelude to "one of
the greatest victories a people ever
won over themselves," the minister
declared
"Mothers will be artisans of thia
secret and magnificent triumph,**
Ybarnegaray said.
A revolution in public instruction al-
so was planned- Obligatory studies of
mathematics snd Latin for young wo-
men will be replaced with courses in
household economy and chUd-roaring.
Women instructors have been or-
dered to towns and farms to train all
young women how to dress, feed and
care for babies.
France lost 1,500,000 men in the
World War, leaving women to fight
out their own welfare to the detri-
ment of rearing children.
Since 1910, 500,000 marriages were
estimated M wrecked by divorce,
with 100,000 other women remaining
voluntarily sterile.
He charged that the system in vogue
tolerated the “voluntary suppreeeiou”
of some 600,000 other births, but that
the new system would guarantee ev-
ery French woumb that “the more
children she has the mere aid she
will receive-"
— Partly cloudy with
reie in the southwest
Today ie fteal day tor candidates
to file tbelr final expense aecount of
the flrot tetaocrsHc
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today tore at |T,
Sumner Wdhs, Acting Secretary of
State, eaM he uuderetood a sew agree-
Southern Dobruja
Will Be Returned to
Bulgaria Government
Agreement Reached
Following Hitler’s
Orders at Conference
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 6.—Bulgaria
and Rumania, owing to the will of
Adolf Hitler after 27 years of ter-
ritorial controversy, will reach an
agreement by '. Saturday returning
Southern Dobruja to Bu^garto,
sources close to the Bulgaria govern-
ment asserted today.
Dobruja went to Rumania in 1813
after Bulgaria's defeat’In the second
Balkan war. ;‘‘y ; ■
Following Hilter’s instructions to
Balkan diplomats at .Salzburg last
week that they settle their differences
peaceably—and soon—preliminary ne-
gotiations were ended today, these
sources said.
Rumania and Bulgaria negotiators
meet Thursday at Craiova in South-
western Rumania. , : :
Balkan experts said Bulgaria would
receive her reward for leaning to-
ward the Romf-Beriin Axis, a trend
Rumania recently copied. German
support fpr Bulgaria was reflected in
the newspaper Slovp. It reported that
Premier Bogdan Phlloff and.' For-
eign Minister Ivan Popoff last week
expressed to Hllter "Bulgaria’s loy-
alty to the Rome-Berlin Axis."
Takes Province Buck
Soviet Russia already has taken
back from Rumania the big province
of Bessarabia, to which she never
renounced her claim. Rumania faces
a third territorial loss, the province
of Transylvania, which Hungary
wants back.
Authoritative sources predicted
Bulgaria would get bock all of her
former territory, remaking the 1816
frontier. Bulgaria will present a bill
for >234,000,000 for damages result-
ing daring Rumanian occupation,
but this is expected to be more than
cancelled by a Rumanian bill for pub-
lic works.
Greece, another Balkan nation, was
stirred by a report of frustrated
plot to overthrow the authoritarian
regime of Premier General John Mo-
texes.
The well-informed newspaper, Kath-
Imertal said an ^ntl-Mtetaxaa group
was banished after it was found plot-
ting to seise control, of Greece.
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Italy Starts Systematic Aerial Drive
To Destroy Important British Bases
Encircling Possessions in Africa
Several Briton
Centers Wrecked
In Sudan Sector
ROME. Aug H — Italy launched
a systematic aerial offensive to de-’
stroy important British bases’ ringing
Italy's African possessions, it was re-
ported by Stefani, official Italian new*
agency, j
Italian .air raids over
Egyptian Sudan. Kenya
wrecked some of Britain's moet valu-
able centers over the week-etfd, Stefani
said. Among them were remote alt
fields hastily built because of Italian
bombardment of regular airdroafes.
Heavy aerial blows also were report-
ed by the high command, which said’
14 British ships were ehot down in
Africa Sunday—including ten in one
big battle. British targets stretched ov-
er fR50 miles, from Mefsa Matrub,
on the Egyptian coast to the port of
Berbera. British HomaliUnd, on the
Gulf of Aden below, the Red Sea.
When British warplanes attempted
to bomb Libyan troops near the E>ypt-
ian frontier, the high command said.
Italian fighters shot doen seven Giou-
cesters and three Blenheims. .
Another was downed during an "ef
fretiye’’ Italian raid on Mersa Matrub,
another by anti-aircraft fire at Kks-
sa la. in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and
the other two in a British raid on the
hafbor of Massau, Eritrea
_______________ The British attack, it said, caused
interesting facts about birds only light damage
Four Are Ki)led
Four persons were killed and 30
wounded No Italian pianes were re-
ported'lost. A
(Two royal air force communiques •
issued at Cairo gave this version; ■
(British fighters beaded off Italian
raiders raiding Mersa Matruh. hit
ting two so badly “it Is unlikely that
they returned to their base and Com-
pelling others' to jettison, their bombs \ .
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(In raids bn Massau. a fuel dump . ’
was attacked, a direct hit was seoreJ 1
on a naval vessel and ''in a lbw level
attack bombs were, seen bursting
among submarines." British said.
("British reconnaissance aircraft,
escorted by four fighters, met ’50 en- .
etRy' fighters in Eastern Libya.: . - •
Three enemy aircraft were shot; down
. one of our fighters is' missing")’
"Our bombing formations have de-
vastated and disorganized the most
important military objectives, whose
efficiency was most useful and essen-
tial to the enerto.” Stefani declared
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phone Company’s
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n Wednesday
arty System
1 Be Sliown
From 11 a.me to 5 p.m.
Navasota’s new telephone building
| located at, the corner of Holland and
Earquhar sjrests will be opened for
Aspection Wednesday from 11 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
Demonstrations of the new two-party
service that will go into effect shortly
jwiU be held. "Thia service is not to
be confused with what has been gen-
S-? v«rally known as “party-line’’ service
kv -rendered heretofore on the rural lines
y > served by this exchange. It is a mod-
7 * era type of service that is being used
-throughout the United States,’’ H. E.
Woodworth, manager, said.
Ground was broken for the new
hollow tile structure by Mrs. Annie F.
Tempiesaan. president of the com-
pany, ta February 28, and the building
was completed last week.
The company installed a new Btrom-
berg-Garlson swltohboard, which has
a capacity of 800 lines and is the
latest type equipment available,
Woodworth -said.
Otter Battdfag Foehn tn
During the tlme the new building
was under construction, the telephone |
company Installed an automatic ex-
change switchboard in the division
office of the ^f States Utilities
7'' flttafahj’. The company also rebuilt
what was generally known as the
Cburtdey line in order to provide mod-
ern, satisfactory service to the sub-
scribers in that vicinity.
The telephone company’s new ground
floor location now makes it possible
for all subscribers to pay their accounts
In the new office. Ventilated pay
Stations have been installed for the
use of the publie when placing long
distance calls during office hours. Af-
ter office hours long distance calls
may be made from pay-stations located
^nt the Brasos. 'Valley Sanitarium,
Camp Hotel, Perry’s Gulf Service Sta-
tion, Humble Service Station, and the
LaSalle Cafe,
• Other points about the building are
7 . the hamtonious asphalt tile flooring,
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system will join ratal Hase
Venetian blinds, (lourescent lighting,
‘ operators rest rooiq, and work room
where repairs oh telephone equipment
are made.
Laredo Pilot
Aids RAF in Fight
7 LCMiDON, Aug 6.—A 27-yoar-old
American from Laredo, Tex., who re-
ported for duty to the R. A. F. only
i yesterday, engaged in an air battle
k with German fighters over the French
® coast today.
The air ministry refused to give
the Texan’s name, but said his squad-
ron shot down two Messercbmitts.
Ute “short, fair-haired American
pilot” chased two Messerschmitts, hit
one and was himself attacked by other
German fighters, the *ir ministry
said.
j7 The American landed safely but
the fuselage of his spitfire plane was
K peppered with bullet holes.
“The fight was great fun,’’ he was
quoted as saying. "I wouldn’t have
aniseed for all the’Tape in China.”
The Texan recruit was “showing
young Americans how to fly’’ in La-
P redo seven weeks ago before decid-
ing to join the B. A. T.
He had three weeks of training in
■ > British spitfire plane before report-
1M yesterday for aettoa.
With German air raids and submarine attacks on shipping convoys threatening serious shortages of vital
the French-Germaf armistice. British crews aided by French volunteers are manning the craft. Typical of
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 133, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 6, 1940, newspaper, August 6, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1382530/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Navasota Public Library.