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VOL. 9— NO. 241
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 26, 1939
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Fair, Colder Weather
Promised Henderson
OVER 500 DIE
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DURING WEEK
FRENCH SOIL
DURING XMAS
Russian "Big Bertha" Guns
Bombard Viipuri; Order
Evacuation of Finnish City
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Presidential Politics Will Be a Major
Factor in New Session Opening Jan. 3
Traffic Toll is
Leader in Violent
Deaths of Nation;
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FINNISH ARMY GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Vit-
puri. (UP)—Russian “Big Bertha” shells smashed into Vii-
puri today in a bombardment which started Christmas even-
ing and showed no Lgns of ending.
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Apart from the questions of nom-
inees and party platforms, grave
issues of public policy will have to
be disposed of.
The regular session of Congress
which adjourned last Aug. 5 left
unfinished business which is likely
to disturb both Democratic. and
Republican party lines. Hotly dis-
puted legislation and presidential
authorities expire next year unless
Congress can be persuaded to con-
tinue them.
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WITH FINNISH ARMIES, at Viipuri. (UP)—Fin-
nish officials ordered a further precautionary evacuation
of Viipuri tonight after a long and heavy bombardment
by Russian “Big Bertha” guns.
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WASHINGTON. (UP)—Dies Committee investigators
have prepared a report based on eight months' investigation
of Communism in Hollywood which asserts that at least 20
prominent actors have been Communists, committee sources
said today.
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Japs Near Nanning
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As Soviet bombers celebrated Joseph Stalin’s birthday by raining
death and destruction on Helsinki, this photo, graphically portraying
the destructive power of aerial bombs, arrived in New York by
trans-Atlantic clipper. The wrecked building was an "'apartment
house in the Finnish capital.
LONDON. (UP) — Ten British
ships, totaling 0.581 tons, anus
eight neutral ships. totaling 10,4
839 tons, were sunk last week, but
the scuttling of the German lux-
ury liner Columbus made the Nazi"
tonnage loss more than twice as
much, the Admiralty announced'
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Displaying Her Individtiality
Piece of mahogany wood, two
screws hold together broken rib
of Harry “Chief” Couzzingo, 68,
three-fourths Sioux Indian of
Oxford, O. Couzzingo performed
operation on himself with ice
pick, screw driver and pocket
knife and without anesthetic
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George Peyton, Oil
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dent, proved she is no sheep. PLOT: Her professor of ethics dm
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ENS: To prove him wrong, Rhoda attended class next day attmeM-
as above—in a black satin bathing suit. EXIT LINE: “Get out!"—
spoken by the professor, in the best 100 per cent conformist manner.
mission that provisions of the
neutrality act make it "impossible
to employ these vessels on their
regular run under the American
Flag."
If the commission approves the
transfer and sale, the application
said, the ships will be operated be-
tween New York, Liverpool and
London, with calls at Boston on
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Reds' Heavy Firing
Started Xmas Day
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Dies Committee Releases Report Charging
Communistic Activities in Hollywood
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A rising barometer today prom-•
ised Henderson fair and colder ।
weather, Weather Observer E. F.
Crim said. The barometer stood 1
at 29.4 at noon. (
Week-end rains totaled 4.61 1
inches, U. S. Observer M. Kanger- i
ga reported. A total of 3.83 inches 1
of rainfall was recorded by Kan-
gerga through Saturday, plus .78 i
inch yesterday and last night. i
Farmers, who have been in dire i
need of moisture for winter feed
crops and to season the ground 1
for early plowing, were rejoicing
today because of the precipitation.
en to the hospital in private cars.
Six drunks were jailed for over-
indulgence in Christmas spirits.
Officers made no arrests on felony
charges and reported that, "it was
the quietest Christmas we have
ever seen.” »
Twenty-nine couples, marching
to the alter for Yuletide ceremo-
nies. obtained matriage licenses
F’riday and Saturday at the office
of County Clerk Henry Wilson.
Mr. Roosevelt's authority to ne-
gotiate reciprocal ttade agree-
ments without congressional as-
'40 CONGRESS AWAITS
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WASHINGTON. (UP)—The harmonious Democr9
legislative front established to enact President Roosevert
special session neutrality bill is menaced today by controver
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EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy,
colder tonight; Wednesday fair to
partly cloudy.
WEST TEXAS: Fair tonight
and Wednesday, somewhat colder.
proclaim determine tion to prevent
its extension. That authority will
expire June 12, 1940. The recipro-
cal trade program was sponsored
by Secretary of State Cordell Hull
rather than by Mr. Roosevelt, but
the President announced this
month that he would press for its
extension.
MEXIA Tex. (UP)—George L.
Pevton, 59, independent oil man, AmMTamamne".ua Was Au"nd.
religious and leder here. GOIODVAUIOIA AS “PUEIOE
died ioday of a heart attack "
He was a member of the board
of trustees of Southern Metho-
dist University, Westminster Col-
lege at Tehaucana and Harris Me-
morial Hospital at Fort Worth.
Peyton was stricken at noon
Sunday while talking with a group
of friends at a drug store. He was
taken to a Mexia hospital and had
four more attacks during the aft-
ernoon.
His wife and brother. Will M.
Peyton, with whom he was in
partnership in the Peyton Brothers
Oil Company, were at his bedside
when he, died.
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Ten British, Eight
Neutral Ships Sink 3
> Christmas week-end weather
which brought snow to West Tex-
as and the Panhandle and light
rain to the rest of the state, trail-
ed off in clearing skies today with
farmers rejoicing over the drought
alleviating moisture, the United
Press reported.
Precipitation wa/ small in most
areas but the rains were the slow,
soaking type which gave parched
soil a maximum of benefit.
The snow was heavy in the Pan-
handle. Texline reported 14 inches
nese” should make public the
names of persons accused of com-
munistic activities if it decides to
make the report public.
Voorhis criticized the report for
confining itself to communism and
failing to include evidence on ac-
tivities ofe Fascist and Nazi agents
on the west coast.
The report was based on eight
months of investigation on the
Pacific coast by George F. Hur-
ley, former Justice Department
agent, aided by James Stedman,
an attorney.
The investigators were said to
have obtained statements and af-
fidavits from former Communist
officials relating to the party mem-
HOLLYWOOD. (UP) — Ruby
Keeler, dancing film star, today
obtained a divorce from Al Jolson
after she testified that he nad ri-
diculed her so much she developed
an Inferiority complex.
Miss Keeler, who was 19 when
she married Jolson in New York
on Sept. 21, 1928, obtained the in-
terlocutory decree on the charge
of extreme cruelty. Jolson did not
contest the actio.n
Jolson will give Miss Keeler
$400 a week for life, or until she
remarries, in which event she will
receive $50,000. Another $100,000
will be placed in trust for their
four-year-old adopted son, Al
“Sonny Boy” Jolson, who will re-
main in the custody of his mother.
WASHINGTON. (UP) — The
United States Lines today asked
the Maritime Commission for per-
mission to sell eight ships, which
it previously had attempted to
transfer to Panamian registry, to
the North Atlantic Transport Co., ter political discussion in which
a Norwegian corporation. ’ p--“ - s- T—
U. S. Line officials told the com- ocrats from agricultural
HELSINKI. (UP)—An oifi-
cial communique tonight said
that Russian attacks had been
repulsed with heavy losses at
four points on the Suvanto River
where 700 Russians were kilkd.
The river is on the Karelian’
Isthmus.
• Throughout the night the shells,
crashing into homes and buildings
in twos, threes and fours from the
Russian lines 25 miles away, and
the roaring fire engines on their
way to put out tires had made a
pandemonium of the city.
The city was now under an al-
most continuous air raid alarm.
Planes swept over Viipuri, drop-
ping bombs, during the daylight
hours yesterday and the first
alarm came today just before 9
a.m.
Anti-aircraft fire started at once.
At midnight, the Russian "Big
Berthas,” a new development, be-
gan firing with increasing intensi-
ty. They seemed to carry higher
charges of explosives than had the
first ones, and they were smash-
ing craters six feet deep and 12
feet across in the frozen earth.
In parts of the city the bright
sun was obscured by a heavy pall
of smoke from burning buildings.
All services such as gas and
water had been cut off. Restau-
rants and shops were closed and
there was no food for hotel guests.
The constant air alarms delayed
telephone communications. Some-
times Viipuri was cut off for hours
at a time, and calls were often in-
terrupted after a connection had
been established.
All through Christmas day the
planes had bombed the city, and
all through the night the shells
crashed down, adding new ruins
and sending new families out into
the streets and a temperature of
15 degrees below zero.
As I telephone this dispatch to
Copenhagen, no end of the bom-
bardment is in sight.
But out on the fighting lines,
the Finns say that they are win-
ning new victories. They say that
now, following up a Russian re-
treat, they have cut their way
across the frontier north of Lake
Ladoga to take the war, for the
first time, onto Russian soil, and
to threaten the Leningrad-Mur-
mansk railroad which is the vital
artery of supply to the Russian far
' north army.
Three Russian tanks have been
destroyed, two field guns captured
1 and two companies of Russian in-
' fantry routed in latest operations,
, Finnish communiques say, and Fin-
nish coastal batteries have shelled
the Russian 23,600-ton battleship,
Marat.
The mockery that war makes of
. It was indicated the committee
soon would be called to decide
whether to make the report pub-
lic. The committee’s authority ex-
pires Jan 3, but Chairman Martin
Dies, D., Tex,, has an extension
resokution pending and expects it
to be approved.
Rep. H. Jerry Voorhis, D„ Calif.,
a committee member, said he had
not been notified officially of the
existence of the report, but be-
lieved the committee" in all fair-
retary of War and Mrs. Harry H.
Woodring’s fourth child, a boy,
died,at birth yesterday at Walter
Reed hospital.
Physicians said Mrs. Woodring,
the former Helen Coolidge of
Fitchburg, Mass., was “doing
nicely.”
The Woodring's have two sons
and a daughter.
from the law enforcing department
indicated this morning as the citi-
zenry settled back to normal af-
ter a double he Uday.
There were no major crimes
during the holidays and there were
only a few automobile collisions,
rone resulting in serious injuries.
Two patients—Mrs. Hunter Bear-
den of Mt. Enterprise, and Mrs.
J. L. Miller, Kilgore—were admit-
ted at the Henderson Hospital
with slight ' lacerations after
wrecks near hers. No details of
CLEVELAND. (UP) — Wide-
spread cases of hunger and suf-
fering in Cleveland’s recent re-
lief crisis, with attempted suicides
and mental breakdowns, were re-
ported today in a 30,000-word
study by the Cleveland chapter,of
the American Association of Soc-
ial Workers, assisted by represen-
tatives of 29 other social agen-
cies.
The report covered 374 relief
cases taken at random and was
made at the request of city wel-
fare Director Fred W. Ramsey.
The study found that during the
four weeks from Nov. 15 to Dec.
15 when 16,000 single and child-
less-couple relief cases were off
food orders entirely and 40,000
other cases on curtailed orders
that hundreds went without food
for days, that others rooted out
waste food In markets and that
serious illness increased.
Most of these illnesses were in
the pneumonia, influenza and
pleurisy group, and tubercular,
diabetic and heart cases were ag-
gravated seriously, the report said.
The report said that those stud-
ied, preferred employment to re-
lief, but that no validity had been
found for the claim that hunger
CHUNGKING, (UP) — The of-
ficial Chinese Central News Agen-
cy reported today that Chinese
troops had killed 2,300 Japanese
in fighting at Paotou, western
terminus of the Peiping-Suiyuan
railroad, and that the Japanese
had suffered more than 1,000
causalties in fighting near Nan-
ning, former capital of Kwangsi
Province.
Central news said that Japanese
artillery and cavalry broke
through a cordon which the Chin-
ese claimed to have thrown around
Nanning and reach Yashuitang,
where they were repulsed with
heavy losses.
The Chinese, who claimed to
have recaptured Paotou last week,
said that the Japanese attempted
a counterattack but were driven
back to Kweihua. The Japanese
were said to have destroyed all
bridges and highways in the vi-
cinity of Kweihua.
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Woodring*’ Fourth
Child Die* at Birth
BERLIN. (UP) — Adolf Hitler
stood on French soil at the West-
ern Front, an official announce-
ment disclosed today, and heard
the bells of Spichern in No-Man's-,.
Land—tolled by daring German
soldiers — ring on Christmas Eve.
Ehe Fuehrer crossed the French
frontier during his visit "as a
soldier" to the front lines, the of-
ficial news agency announced in
describing Hitler’s trip to the
Saar sector and especially to
Spichern heights southeast of
Saarbruecken.
It was the first time since 1918
that the Fuehrer had been in
France.
"In the main battle sector before
Saarbruecken, Hitler went from
emplacement to emplacement,
from position to position, and
from soldier to soldier with pack-
ages," the agency said.
"Only at a late hour did Hitler
return to headquarters.”
While at Spichern Heights—the
town of Spichern is in France—,
German soldiers crept out in the
early dusk and rang the church
bells in the village as a Christmas
greeting to Hitler. The village lies
between the French and German
lines.
The Fuehrer had gone to the
Western front for Christmas in-
stead of remaining at his moun-
tain home at Berchtesgaden. He
distributed gifts and at the regular
fare of the front-line troops.
Official sources had disclosed
that he visited pill boxes at the
front but prior to the announce-
ment by the official news agency,
D.N.B., it was not known that
Hitler stepped on French soil.
A correspondent' of the agency
revealed details of Hitler’s front
line visit, which took place while
radio loud speakers throughout
Germany carried to the people the
message that there could be no
peace until complete victory had
been achieved by Germany and de-
claring—in the words of Deputy
Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess — that
providence “has sent Adolf Hitler
to us.” .
"En route to Spichern Heights,
which we re-took from the enemy
several weeks ago, Hitler crossed
the French frontier for the first
time since 1918.” the agency’s
correspondent said.
Describing how Hitler stepped
on French soil, the correspondent
added:
“We stood before a former
French concrete shelter where we
were met by the major in com-
mand of that region.
"The major led us through the
woods,, farther toward the front.
"Here Adolf Hitler spent some
time with the advance posts . . .
as Hitler left the section at 5 p.m.
the bells of the village of Spichern
rang in the Christmas Eve.
"A German patrol had slipped
into the village which stands be-
tween the lines in order to ring
the bells.”
The Germans said Hitler’s visit
to the front lines was unhearlded
and that not even the army offi-
cers knew of it in advance because
be made the trip "as a scldier” so
that he might observe Christmas
among the front line fighters.
One stop was at a military air-
port where the pilots were at
luncheon in a big hall, gaily deco-
rated for Christmas with ever-
green. The Fuehrer entered sud-
denly and sat with the squadron
leader. The pilots were described
as amazed to see him.
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Ruby Keeler Gets
Divorce From Al
ial issues awafting Congress.
Presidential politics will be at
major factor in congress’ 1940 de-
liberations which begin Jan. 3. I
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua, Mex. (UP) |
A live-year search for a "wild
west” bandit who in 1934 staged J
a daring holdup of the Mesquite
N. M., postoffice ended today inm
the Juarez city jail.
Assistant Chief Police Edmundo
Herrera said that he had captured J
Cristobal Sambrano who was vis- -
it mg in Juarez from Durango,
Mexico. . Sambrano’s presence in
Juarez had been discovered by de-
tective Bob Drennan of El Paso, I
Eex., just across the river from 2
here. Drennan had requested his
arrest. S
Sambrano. with a companion, Q
Jesus Manuel Saldana, held up and I
r bbed the Mesquite postoffice of i
$200 Sept. 12, 1934. They were dis-m
covered in the act of committing 4
the crime by Mrs. Pauline J. Floyd,
who entered the store where the j
postoffice is located during the
robbery. Mrs. Floyd fled and gave
the alarm. arousing several citi- H
zens who exchanged shots with the
bandits as they escaped.
Saldana was killed a few hours ">
later in a "wild west” exchange of
allots with members of a posse i
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WASHINGTON, (UP)—Secre-
tary of Commerce Harry L. Hop-
kins, in a year-end analysis of
business conditions, said today
that consumption and capital in-
vestment must be increased to
maintain or accelerate in 1940 the
existing high rate of inductrial
production.
Ii? most respects, he said. 1939
was a better year than 1938 but
it still fell short of 1937, peak of
the New Deal recovery movement.
‘While foreign trade may pro-
vide a stimulus to our domestic
economy in 1940,” Hopkins said,
“such prospects must remain high-
ly uncertain under existing cir-
cumstances, and the outlook must
be appraised largely in the light of
domestic cenditions. The recent
high rate of activity has created
additional consumer purchasing
power and the capita] expenditures
initiated during recent months
have been a constructive develop-
ment,
"But along with this expanded
use of goods for consumption and
investment purposes has come
some accumulation of inventories.
At the present time our rate of
production of economic goods is
not balanced by a correspondingly
high rate of utilization of these
goods.
BY UNITED PRESS
The nation counted Auore than
500 dead by violence today in its
Christmas weekend.
At least 555 persons died in
traffic accidents, shootings, drown-
ings, fires, suicides and other mis-
cellaneous causes.
Traffic accidents killed 389, fires
killed 27, suicide added 42 and 97
died from other causes.
Illinois led all the sta tes in the
number of dad, with a te tal of 55.
They included 37 traffic victims,
six suicides,' one from burns and
11 from miscellaneous causes.
California was second with 45
dead, 29 of them in traffic acci-
dents, Pennsylvania counted 41
dead, Texas 40 and Michigan 36.
Slick highways and poor visibil-
ity were major factors in Texas’
road deaths.
A car skicde l 190 feet. on a Dal-
las street and crashed into a pas-
senger train locomotive, killing
George Mudd. 77, and injuring two
other persons.
Two accidents near Childress,
both attributacle to bad weather,
fatally injured cne woman and
hurt 11 other persons.
Another Christmas fatality oc-
curred near Big Spring. W. D.
Crow. 32. Colorado City, was kill-
ed and hin wife anti daughter in-
jured when their automobile skid-
ded and collided with one occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Anders and
three children of Odessa., Anders
suffered superficial injuries.
Two persons in 'Tenas died of in-
juries suffered in accidtntal falls.
A hunting acrid mt caused anoth-
er death and H. B Stead, 30,
wounded his wife at Monahans,
then shet himself to death.
At Collegeville, Minn., as St.
John’s Abbey was stilled in ob-
servance of Christmas Eve, Broth-
er Waiter Stellner shot and killed
Brother Stanislaus Saworski, then
shot himself twice. County author-
ities said they had not learned his
motive or where he obtained the
gun. They said no inquest would
be held and that they had c«ered
him interned at a St. Cloud hospi-
tal for observation.
Five members of a ■ family—
two children, tlieir parents and
their grandmother—were killed at
Chicago last night while making a
round of Christmas visits when
their automobile was struck by a
Wabash Railroad passenger train.
John 3lavickas, 54, shot and
killed his wife wounded his daugh-
ter and committed -suicide at his
Ludington. Mich., home Christmas
Day. At Worcester, Mass., Mrs.
Benjamin Jacques, 45, a state
hospital attendant, entered a room
where her estranged husband was
eating Christmas dinner with six
Other person«. and opened fire with
a pistol. Her husband and his
host were wounded seriously.
At Princeton, Ill., a groom-to-
be went berserk Christmas Eve,
shot and killed his parents. sef-
iously- wounded his brother and
then killed himself.
One of the most unusual deaths
occurred at St. Paul, Minn. Early
Anger, 35, was run down and kill-
ed by the automobile he was try-
ing to crank.
The engineer and fireman of a
Rock Island freight arain were
killed near Choctaw. Okla., Christ-
mas day when the boiler of their
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