Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 191, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1939 Page: 1 of 12
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GERMAN PORT
FOR RAPS DIES
FOR PRINTING
Major Test is
Won By New-
Deal Forces
Italy Announces Plan
To Strengthen Forces
Merchants Here
To Make Survey
Of Production
in Rusk County
munist Russia, the Pope warned
that to consider the state as some-
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wonder
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navy and air force.
out tne county beginnnig Nov. 6.
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operations or mines in the
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Status of Ship,
Cargo Unknown
of the Federal statute reqnit ing
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ward to Amarillo. principals with the State Depart-
Cline said there “will be noth-jment.
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said. “We thought it was only
something wrong with the ship
at first.
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ger. There came a second explos-
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Clif ft man George Goiter today
annouaced that Rusk County Com-
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ret.ary of State Cordell - Hull
information regarding the CH
Flint.
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“Immediately thereafter there
was a wild rush. The warnings
were sounded. Men crawled from
below decks, some of them badly
burned by the explosions.
“I learned that all of my sleep-
ing mates had been killed in the
third explosion, which was in the
engine room and which I had
escaped only by going on deck.
—"The-Roval Omk waa sinking
rapidly. Boats were . lowered. I
crawled to the Admiral’s barge
but the crowd in its was so great
that I dived into the water, ex-
souri. Works Progress Administra-
tor. They were charged, like Pen-
dergast and others of his dominat-
ing Democratic machine, with
evasion of Federal income tax.
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— paign agninst sabotage and
even in Scapa Flow at the time.
3. That the German claims the
British airplane carrier Ark Royal
had been sunk or damaged were
"a joke” because he had since seen
her in good condition.
Men died quickly and without
much chance of escape when the
। Royal Oak was sunk .with about
1.200 aboard, the sailor said. Some
Mystery Of Eli
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extend south-
Martin Dies,
TO PROSPERITY-POPE
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) _
The Federal government put the
stigma of political graft and cor-
ruption today upon two of Boss
Tom Pendergast's strongest satel-
lites and geared its court machin-
ery toward placing them within
the walls of Lea ven worth with
their once powerful master.
Cited in the Federal cleanup
were Otto P. Higgins, hard-hand-
ed director of police until forced
from office by public clamor, and
730,690,500 had been allotted
Her husband now is imprisoned "sordid procedure’’ to comment.
tnr draft-dodgine and army de- A reporter' asked him exactly
1 h ged un-American activities
several fronts.
an embargo and strict cash-and-
carry,” requirements on shipments
of all other articles.
The clear-cut embargo repeal
issue was scheduled to be present-
ed later by Sen. Bennett C. Clark,
D., Mo., in the form of an amend-
ment to restore the embargo sec-
tion of existing law to the presi-
dent’s program.
The Senate was moving smooth-
ly and rapidly toward a final vote
on the administration bill — ex-
pected by the leadership before
nightfall.
Amendments opposed by the. ad-
ministration were beaten down
rapidly starting with a proposal to
bar armed merchant ships from
U. S. ports and territorial waters.
Sen. Bennett Champ Clark, D.,
Mo., isolationist leader, offered
the plan as the Senate worked
under a strict debate limitation
in an effort, to dispose of the
neutrality bill before night.
Under Clark's amendment, arm-
PEIPING, China. (UP)—(De-
layed by censor)—Liu Yi-Shih,
former North China leader of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s
East Texas: Partly cloudy and
colder tonight and Saturday.
West Texas: Fair, colder with
frost in north tonight; Saturday
fair,
vestigating un-American
establish the plant if 25,000 pounds
of.milk per day can be obtained.
Neal estimates that there are be-
tween 4,000 and 5.000 good milch
cows in the county today.
Declaring that dairying is not
“a get-ricl-quick" scheme but a
solid program of hard work with
good returns, County Agent. Neal
said that three years ago, when
he came here, he saw the “endless
possibilities” of the industry. With
the fine grazing grounds, good
running spring water and other
assets Rusk County should easily
become the greatest dairying sec-
tion of Texas, he said
Ed D. Palmer, Sulphur Springs
business man and milk producer,
described dairying as the largest
source of fqgi-revenue in । the
United States, having a cash-value
of $1,530,000,000. One out of 15
families are dependent on the in-
dustry. ha asserted.
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h.d
Ity Cheat Month” in Texas. In the
governor's proclamation, he urged
all Texans to observe this month
by giving as liberally as they can
to local chests and by boosting
Community Cheat work at every
opportunity,
Goller’s steering committee and
captains will hold an important
session early next week, probably
Monday or Tuesday, to lay out
final plans to raise $3,850 set up
in the 1940 budget.
The four captains are Jack Hale,
Guy Hale, Henning Spivey and W.
L. Leath. Goller’s steering cbm-
mittee is composed of H. E. Poyn-
ter, T. D. Griffin, C. F. Reaney,
C. O. Pollard, Preston Allison, J.
W. Leigh and Elton L. Miller.
Pollard will head the school di-
vision of the drive and Leigh will
contact chain stores of the Rusk
ef-them-couldn’t-swimeven-when awakened by the-fivat explosion
they were able to escape explo-
sions and jump into the. water,
he said. There was a note of grim
unanswered question today!
Authorised sources in
gave one answer to the qu
They claimed that the Sovie
released the boat to the G
prize crew which even now
route to a German port, the
of which is being kept secret
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young British sailor who leaped
from the battleship Royal Oak
when it was torpedoed by a
U-boat, told the first vivid story
today of how 800 officers and men
died in the oily waters of the
Scapa Flow naval base.
The sailor, who swam two miles
to shore, said:
1. That he had seen German U-
hoais velunterly--mrrenderig te
the British because their oil was
exhausted and they could not re-
turn to their bases.
2. That the British battle cruis-
er, which the Germans claimed to
have torpedoed at the same time
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not revealed.
2. Chairman
ficials, for "flagrant violation”
“frost line’’ .will
Armored motorized equipment now makes Up a formidable component of the new modernized first cav-
alry division. Shown is a lineup of mechanized cars during a phase of the annual cavalry division man-
euvers being held under the direction of Brig. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce nt Balmorhea, Texas. Each car is
equipped for both voice and code radio communication. Note the steel aerials which stick up from
each vehicle like a fishing rod. (Acme Telephoto).
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Lost for more than 24 hours atop
Mt. Washington, N. H., as the
worst autumn blizzard in recent
history lashed the 6288-foot
peak, Anne Pearsall, of Lowell,
Mas-., and two men companions
fought their way down to safety.
Their escape astounded veteran
forest rangers who had given
them “one'chance in a million”
to survive the 96-mile an hour
sleet-laden gale.
BERLIN. (UP)—The American
steamship City of Flint is en route
to a German port, the name of
which is being kept secret, author-
ized German quarters said today.
It was confirmed that the City
of Flint sailed yesterday from
Murmansk.
The future status of the vessel
and its cargo depends entirely on
a verdict by the German prize
officially.
German quarters still were un-
able to say with certainty where
the City g Flint ‘LAmerican sea-
men are, but it wasteportett that
they may have left the ship at
Tromsoe, Norwegian port to which
the City of Flint first was taken
after it was seized by the Germans.
In any case, authorized quarters
said. American members of the
City of Flint’s crew are not being
held and are free to leave the ship
any time they wish.
This statement served only to
deepen the mystery regarding the
whereabouts of the crew.
It was established that the
American Embassy here had taken
no further steps regarding the City
of Flint today.
Nazis, meanwhile, sought to
show that the ship and its cargo
now belonged to Germany and that
the United States had no further
interest’ in it.
completing arrangements for a there are no reports of aubi
whirlwind fund campaign through-
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WASHINGTON. (UP) — TheAdministration today won
a major neutrality test when the/Senate defeated a proposal
by Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D.; to substitute a bill contain-
ing a mandatory arms embargo for President Roosevelt’s
neutrality program.
The vote was 22 to 67.
Defeat; of the Nye proposal afforded clear indication
that the Senate will reject a second Isolationist amendment
which would restore the arms embargo to the Administration
bill.
Nye’s proposal contained both “
W. Lee O’Daniel proclaimed the -
month of November as "Commun- States or Germany?” was
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MMEAkbst.
humor as sailors shouted to each
other that it was a good time to
learn to swim.
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' had any comment on lie commit-
tee's action in publishing the list
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then turn war veterans organiza-
tions “loose with the best wishes
of this Congress” to help the FBI
drive “these Communist rascals
to cover.”
4. Murphy praised the Dies [
committee for its “excellent work '
in the educational field’’ but said
the justice department would en-
gage in no “Red hunts or brass
(hand raids” and would limit its in-
AUSTIN. (UP)—The proposed
state rally of Garner-for-Presi-
dent forces should not be rushed,
Myron Blalock, former state Dem-
ocatic chairman and chairman of
the Garner gor-President organi-
sation, said on a visit to Austin.
County arca. Mayor M.H.M ar-, collapsed,
wil, who is president of the county tore Def
welfare board, will contact some---' —
perature range for the general
area of Dallas south to Austin
of 55-60 degrees.
Cline said showers probably
would precede the cooler weather
in the northeast part of the state
ai d in the Beaumont-Port Arthur
area. For West Texas, he fore-
cast fair weather to accompany
DUBLIN, Treland. (UP) — A a he Royal Oak was sunk, was not • “We were sleeping in bunks plosion. It. rocked the ship,
when awakened by a loud explos-
Valentine
the past
uest at 2
day night,
an Prock
‛s visit in
ROME, i UP) An official an-
nouncement today revealed that
Italy will spend $882,538,000 for
development of the Italain armed
forces.
The announcement said that $6,-
ties, asked Murphy to
chance circumstances,
1'es in ideas by which there is no
hesiation in divorcing civil au-
thority from dependence on the
supreme being.
“Once the authority of God is
denied then civil authority tends
to assume absolute autonomy,
which belongs exclusively to the
Supreme Maker.”
It was quite true, he said, that
arrogant or despotic power, "based
on such weak and unsteady foun-
dations can attain at times, under
d‛h
4,
to what he referred and Mr.
Roosevelt replied he felt that the
point of his reference was quite
obvious.
Mr. Roosevelt made this com-
l ment while several agencies of
| the government pressed a cam-
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Matthew S.Murray.xho.took.the
same route from his post as Mis-
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a minimum tem-these filthy Communists” and
secret organization of Blue
Shirts, was assassinated last
night as he entered the French
hospital to visit his father who
was wounded two weeks ago In
another attempt to kill him.
Japanese gendarmes entered
the hospital to seek Liu’s as-
sassin, who took refuge on the
roof of a church Inside the hos-
pital compound, but French au-
thorities demanded and obtained
their withdrawal. Later Japa-
nese threw a cordon around the
hospital in belief that the assas-
1 sin still was hiding there.
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milk processing plant, in Rusk
County were taken last night when
200 business men heard the ad-
vantages of the new farm 'money
crop” discussed at an open forum
held in the fourth district court-
room here.
Henderson merchants agreed to
. conduct a county-wide. voting
box-by-voting-box survey of the
, potential milk supply and the
number of cattle owned by each
producer so that the nationally-
known manufacturer, who has
agreed to build a plant here, may
know exactly how much produc-
tion they may expect.
There seemed to be little doubt
in the. minds of County Agent S. L.
Neal and the other speakers at the
forum that Rusk County already
has enough milk to supply the
plant. The Kraft-Phenix company
has asked for the survey and will
4
were received from reliable quar-
ters In Murmansk today that a
German crew was in charge of
the American steamship City of
Flint when it sailed from the
Russian arctic port.
The reports appeared to sup-
port a belief held in many quar-
ters here that the ship was be-
ing escorted to a German port
by a convoy of German subma-
rines.
Meanwhile, with the City of
Flint already 1 outside Russian
jurisdiction, Vladimir Potemkin,
vice commissar for foreign affairs
received U. S. Ambassador Laur-
ence .Steinhardt for a 90-minute
interview.
The report from Murmansk said
that a German crew, presumably
the prize crew seamen who took
the ship into that port earlier in
the week after it was seized by
a German warship, had boarded
the City of Flint before it saided.
The German prize crew had been
interned by the Russians for a
time and released.
German sources here said the
vessel was flying the German
flag and expressed the belief that
it was now outside Russian
waters.
As for the American crew mem-
bers, official information to the
U. S. Embassy said merely that
they were safe.
WASHINGTON. (UP)
N. Friant, 58, special a
to Secretary of Agricultu
ry A. Wallace, died today
cerebral hemorrhage.
Friant, long active in l
Democratic politics and
porter of President Roose
fere the 1932 Chicago con
of names. In making the names
pubdc the committee explained
that it was not charging that
the government workers were
members of the Communist party.
Mr. Roosevelt said that he has
not read enough details of the
sertion, but Mrs. Grover Bergdoll
declared “I’ll raise an American
family” when, as pictured above,
she left a Philadelphia hospital
with her two-weeks-old daugh-
ter and namesake Bertha. The
baby is their sixth child.
War Must Rest on “Divine Revelation’
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VATICAN CITY. (UP)—Pope Pius said in his first en-
cyclical today that when the war ends, the new order of the
world, national as well as international, must rest not on
"quicksands, depending only on the selfish interests of
groups or individuals, but on natural law and Divine revela-
tion.” _
In a part of his message which •___
seemed aimed direct at such to- WTTT T worevwT
talitarian types of government. as i •b WJ HahaNa a AI
those of Nazi Germany and Com-
Definite plans to obtain
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count among friendly powers our
dear Italy.”
In a further reference to ideol-
ogies which seemed obviously of
the types of those of Nazism and
Communism the Pope said that
there were two basic errors in an
agnosticism existing in the world
today.
“The first is forgetfulness of
the law of human solidarity and
charity.’’ he said. “The second
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A mass of frigid air overlying
the Rocky Mountains will bring
near freezing temperatures to-
night to the upper Texas Pan-
handle and cooler weather to the against the American League for
rest of. the state, Weatherman, peace and Democracy. whose
| J. . Cline said today. membership incudes Federal of-
; Hopkins County business I The mercury already had hit
described the $i00,000-per- a of 32 degrees at Dalhart. A
thing ultimate, subordinating
everything to it, could not fail to
harm the true, lasting prosperity
of nations.
“This can happen when unre-
stricted dominion is conferred on
the state as having a mandate
from the nation and the people
or even from a social class, or
when the state arrogates such do-
minion to itself as absolute mas-
ter. despotically, without any
mandate whatsoever.” he con-
tinued.
In direct and sharp contrast to
his remarks about unspecified to-
talitarian nations, the Pope said:
"Our heart is joyous especial-
ly at the thought that we can
of the Russian maritime auth
ties releasing the vessel hagib
fc. tarea by ikemik
rele Stbnharde in M. icowa
received The informateh ovri
Taes radio the official governme
news agency At 11:30/p
(Moscow tme) last night, #
carried the announcement Ju
one and one-half hours after Stet
hardt called at the foreign off!
to request a full discussion of tl
status of the City of Flint. 2
The dispatch also was publin
ed in a Soviet morning newep
per appearing at noon, Mosce
time. In the meantime 4M
hardt and his aides are attemp
ing thrice daily for interviews i
th® foreign office. Sometimes 2
Ambassador has succeeded in so
ing Vladimir Potemkin the vis
Commissar. The Embassy h
sought to use telephone, railro
and airplane to get through
Murmansk. If travel commin
cation can be established and tl
crew is still there, Charles 1
Bohlen, second secretary at tl
Embassy who speaks Russian, w
attempt to get through.
Steinhardt was promised 4
telephonic contact at 8 a.m. t
day but due to technical cond
tions he was unable to carry on
conversation after temporal
communication was establish
with the Murmansk operator, 8
This state of affairs, and t
fact that a considerable amou
of news regarding the City 2
Flin’s movements is beng recel
ed in Berlin has caused the ta
Department officials to be r
ticent in discussing procedure 1
be followed by this government
The immediate concern of
State Department is about m
American crew and its wi
cpaaanac.
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years, during
Benito Mussolini
1.— Attorney General Frank
jMurphy revealed that the Feder-
al Bureau of Investigation has
instituted a plan of protective
supervision over important indus-
trial plants to guard against sab-
otage. Details .of the plan were
ed merchantmen would be per-
mitted to enter our waters only
under emergency conditions to be
prescribed by the President.
Senators were restricted to 20-
minute speeches on the bill it-
self and 20-minutes speeches on
amendments. As a vote neared,
the President reiterated his in-
tention to keep the United States
neutral and said that claims that
his foreign policy might get us
into war were a "shameless fake.”
Chairman Key Pittman, D.,
Uev., of the Foreign Relations
committee, opposing the Clark
amendment, pointed out that the
pending bill gives the President
discretionary power to bar arm-
ed merchantmen from U. S. ports.
Clark’s amendment would make
a prohibition mandatory.
The President should be given
authority. Pittman said, to de-
termine whether the vessels are
4 ing list of the American League I
Ai. .for peace and Democracy.
* | Departing from usual procedure
i | at his press conference, Mr.
i Roosevelt authorized direct quo-
| tation of the term “sordid proce-
• dure."
i 1 The President. was asked if he
month industry in his area as “the
salvation of our county.’’ Six
thousand checks are distributed
monthly, he said, giving the peo-
ple of that area four paydays
monthly rather than one a year
from cotton. -
A survey of Hopkins County,
Palmer said, shows that 6,500
head of Jersey cattle are owned
there, an industry that has been
built up in the past five years.
Palmer told the large audience
that net profit on 45 head of cat-
tle of his on a poor Hopkins
County farm, buying all feed and
hiring all labor, averages $125
per month for him, not counting
the increase in the herd. He cited
and example of a farmer with 20
cows that averaged 240 pounds of
butterfat per cow. Milk sold for
$2,448 and feed cost $1,200, for a
total profit of $1,248, not includ-
ing the herd increase and hogs
raised on whey returned by the
Kraft-Phenix company. The milk
sold for an average of 15-cents per
gallon.
Since the opening of the indus-
try in Hopkins County, Palmer
said, 300 new homes have been
built in Sulphur Springs.
WASHINGTON. (UP) — Pres-
ident Roosevelt today character-
ized as "sordid procedure” Dies
committee publication of the
names of government employes
who are members or on the mail-
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