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Spread Of Europe War
FINNS HALT ATTACKS;
RED CASUALTIES HUGE
CONTINUED IN
MARCH ORDER
id built-
smart
or high
Rail Commission
Refuses to Take
Bureau of Mines
Market Analysis
tent . . .
some of
yles for
made no direct reference to the
United States.
"France and Britain would not
wish alone to settle the question
of the new Europe,” Chamberlain
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BIRMINGHAM, England. (UP)
Prime Minister Neville Chamber-
lain Saturday invited the German
people “to take the next step” to-
ward ending Europe’s war by oust-
ing the government of Adolf Hitler
and joining with other powers—
presumably including the United
States—in establishing a guaran-
teed and lasting peace.
The prime minister, who was in-
terrupted three times by “peace”
hecklers, implied that the allied
powers would welcome American
participation in the eventual re-
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DALLAS, Texas. (UP) —Albert
Harold Fletcher, 25, father of two
children, was sentenced to life im-
prisonment Saturday for criminal
assault on a 15-year-old school
girl.
The girl testified that Fletcher
was the leader of four men who
attacked her on a country road
south of Dallas last Dec. 16.
The guilty verdict was returned
by a jury of men which had de-
liberated four hours.
District Attorney Andrew Pat-
ton, in his closing jury argument,
had asked the death penalty.
During the trial, the girl sat
within a few feet of the defend-
ant. State witnesses accused Flet-
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Kingdom.
Total aeronautics exports last
brutality.’’
Chamberlain said that Britain
would never make peace with the
present German Government be-
cause Hitler could not be trusted
RENO, Nev. (UP) — Joe Gab-
arino advertised that he will swap
50 milk goats for almost any-
thing.
Confidentially, he said, it’s not
the goats’ fault, but a south-
Westerly wind that blows toward
the neighbors.
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President Leaves Name on Illinois Ticket
Chamberlain Asks
Nazi People to
Take Next Steps
In Ending War
Ex-(<American Merchant”
Those American flags on the sides of the United States liner American Merchant soon will be replaced
by the red, yellow and black of the Belgian tricol or. This airview shows the ship, one of nine re-
cently sold to Belgian interests, as tugs warped her into a Hoboken, N. J., shipyard to be recondition-
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BY GORDON K. SHEARER
United Press Staff
AUSTIN, Tex. (UP) — "Pa”
and “Ma” Ferguson, 68 and 64,
sit at their cozy fireside these
Texas winter nights trying to
decide if they shall brave an-
other political battle for the gov-
ernor’s office.
“We wouldn’t think of mak-
ing a scramble for the office.
We’ve had it four times”, Farm-
er Jim said.
“Unless there is some expres-
sion general in its nature that
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nerheim Line, although it was
colder today. 1
warmer.
WEST TEXAS
colder today.
Victory Kiss •
Eouistdn’s next governor—victorious Sam H. Jones—kisses thefu-
turn first lady and is-off to work on mapping plans for the cleanup
of his state’s government. Jones describes his job as "the greatest
Shut-down dates for the East
Texas field are: March 3, 6, 9, 10,
13, 16, 17, 20. 23. 24, 27, 30, 31.
lits allowable daily production is
computed at 400,645 barrels a day
Amorg the increaser given to
Amarillo, March 12, changing a has failed because the Russian
previous date for the hearing to “appprentice" could learn nothing
! prevent conflict with a New Mex- from "the master (Germany) in
I ico hearing date.
any official has faced since reconstruction days.” He takes office
May 14.
ler county’s two
claimed should have been $4,-
help us above all to bring about
disarmament, which is essential to
lasting peace . . . We shall glad-
ly welcome collaboration of others
who share our ideals.”
Although recent speeches In
Jackie Coogan Gets
$150,000 as His Share
HOLLYWOOD.(UP).—Jackie
Coogan will receive $150,000 as
his share of a fortune which he
said. "Af the people feel ahere is
a need for us, Mrs. Ferguson
thinks the same as I do about it.
She is getting many letters urg,
ing her to run.”
It they run, for Texas no
longer thinks of one as governor
without the other, Governor Jim
surmised the big issue will be
old age pensions for all over 65.
"We would have the same
trouble about confederate pen-
sions as we do with old age
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DEMOCRATS AWAI
WORD FROM F.D.I
huac, 3080: Hoffman, 2114; Lopez,
stressed that the, Russians were s872iamlasgetgr15334isslLane,
As Deadline Passes But Still Says Nothing
WASHINGTON. (UP)—Conservative Democrats listen-
ed with more eagerness than hope today for word from
troops into the fighting.
Thousands of casualties were j
reported inflicted on the Russians
in Finnish counter-thrusts along
the Karelian front and on the
eastern frontier.
Authoritative sources, com-
menting on the power of the Rust
sian drive on the Isthmus, said
that it was estimated that in the
entire offensive the Red army hai
lost from 80,000 to 86,000 killed.
Nominally, the wounded are sev-
combi-
an or
s with
. Poll
said. “Others must come in
Swedish air force, especially in
AUSTIN. (UP) — Texas,
reinforce her precautions against
the spread of urope’s wars.
The government of Prime Min-
ister Per Albin Hansson took the
country completely off the gold
standard, agreed to establish strict
foreign exchange control through-
out Sweden and called the Tiksdag
into special session on Sunday to
approve its decisions for conserv-
ing the nation’s wealth and build-
ing up defense forces.
An additional $22,000,000 was
• the people want my wife to run. •
There is no occasion for it,” he i
Monday slightly
construction of Europe, but he
the East Texas oil field face ex-
termination unless Gov. W. Lee
O’Daniel calls a special session to
amend existing proration laws.
Senator Joe L. Hill predicted Sat-
urday.
Hill surveyed the three-judge
Federal court’s decision in the
Humble-Rowan A Nichols-Fischer
law suits in Austin last week and
believes that as a result of the
decision, East Texas “faces a
total accounted for 32 per cent
of all aeronautic exports from
the United States fos nearly 29
yeans.
Fnance received $42,484,742 of
this countny’s aeronautic prod-
ucts and the United Kingdom was
seiond with $84,794,800.
M2 $
fare.
4. Germany’s leadership in the
reconstruction of Europe has
been achieved without the aid of
the leaders of the democratic na-
tions and the reconstruction of
the world will also be brought
about without them.
“These old and ossified and
desiccated non-entities babble of
a new order in Europe and the
world," Hitler said.
“The new order will come, but
without them. . ,
“They are making their de-
mands.- But we have our own
spheres. Central Europe was
build by us—not by the British.
In this territory we will live. We
will not allow our life to be en-
dangered. We will not tolerate
any combination against us.
“We demand the return of the
colonies stolen from us by the
capitalistic plutocrats.”
In general, Hitler’s speech was
a recapitulation of the Nazi
struggle for power after the
World War and a restatement of
Germany’s aims, including “the
security of Germany nad German
lebensraum and the removal of
all danger from the hands of
Germany’s enemies.”
He also repeated past refer-
ences to the friendship of Ger-
many with Russia, Italy and Ja-
pan-’—mentioning Italy and Japan,
the former anti-Communist pact
partners, in almost the same
breath with Russia and drawing
a long cheer from his audience.
But the main theme of his
speech was that Germany could
not be defeated and that the
coming events in the European
war may further surprise the
Allied powers in regard to the
strength of the Reich.
He declared that Nazi Germany
had fought constantly against the
spirit of the Vervailles Treaty,
which “is the idea that two or
three nations are chosen by God
to rule the earth.”
“We must and will be victori-
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peninsula of Somme, north of
Kaislahti, appeared to be another
point where fighting was heavy.
Finnish military officials said
at 7 o’clock tonight that they
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Over Half of U. S.
Planes Go to Allies
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eral times the number of dead in
such offensives. . । year were valued at $117,081,-
About 3,000 Russians were kill- i 212, 86 per cent above the total
ed in Friday’s fighting. accord-1 for 1938 and 197 per cent great-
ing to an official communique, er than that for 1937. The 1939
“one-book 11-
.< Mrhe deadline on withdrawal of
candidates from the April 9 Illi-
God Did Not Create
World for England,
Fuehrer Tells Nazi
Party Leaders
MUNICH, Germany. (UP).—
Adolf Hitler shouted a defiant
promise last night that Germany
with the help of providence would
win the war, declared that the
Reich must have still greater
security for Nazi “living space
and warned that the “reconstruc-
tion of the world” would be
achieved without the aid of de-
mocracy’s “toothless old men.”
“God did not create the world
for England alone," Hitler told
a meeting of 2,000 party leaders
observing the 20th birthday of
the Nazi 25-point program at the
Hofbraeuhaus, largest ard best-
known beer hall in Munich.
“I have always had the bad
luck to fight against a lot of
zeros . . . there is a God. I per-
sonally have felt the hand of
providence. I believe in this prov-
idence. Providence would not
have been so long with us if it
were intended to let us lose this
fight in the end.”
But Hitler, speaking most of
the time in a low, calm voice,
made it clear that the Nazis were
counting on much more than
providence to achieve their goal,
lit this speech, he said that:
1. Germany’s war aims call for
security of the Reich’s “living
space” in Central Europe and ne-
tu of colonies taken from Ger-
many after the World War.
2. Germany’s military and eco-
nomic preparation for the war
weme much greater than realized
abroad and would guar ntee
avoidance of the World War col-
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Washington, p). — The In Library Business
Commerce Department announced i
Saturday that more than one-
half of all the cirplanes and air- —
craft engines exported in 1939 braries” did a rushing business
went to France and the United
Oil Operators Face
Extermination—H illj
Hundreds of small operators inconvene a special session "Waven
in the Bay of Viipuri, particular-
ly the islands off the coast of |
Koivisto Peninsula. r . ceive tne”“same‘amount. ""
These attacks were from two Superior Judge Emmet
points:-the Koivisto sector and Wilson Friday approved a
the Kaislahti sector. The small tlement between the “kid”
which said 1,500 of them died in
two big attacks that pounded in
vain against the Mannerheim
Line.
The second line of defenses now
held by the Finns before Viipuri
continues to withstand all Rus-
sian attacks. late messages said,
although wave after wave of fresh
Red army forces were thrown
against the positions around Nay-
kijaervi and the Kaamara railroad
station.
The most bitter attacks today
were said to have been against
strong Finnish island fortresses
BRITISH SHIP I
LOSSES HIGH
CALIS FOR Pa and Ma SanmtPecide GERMANS
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. (UP)——^approved
Sweden moved swiftly Saturday to
fighting planes, as a result of or- i
ders for defending airplanes and
artillery to destroy any foreign
craft that violates the Swedish
border as in the bombing earlier
this week of Pajala.
Soviet Russia’s flat denial that
Russian planes bombed Pajala
aroused indignation in the news-
papers, which asserted that proof
could be provided that the planes
HELSINKI, Finland. (UP)—Authoritative Finnish
sources said last night that the Red army offensive against
Viipuri had been halted and that the Russians had suffered
huge casualties—one estimate was 86,000 dead—in their 25-
GALVESTON. (UP)—The re-
conditioned U. 8. naval destroyers
Buchanan, Aaron Ward, Hale and
Crowinshield have arrived to re-
place other and newer destroyers
for neutrality patrol duty, it was
learned Saturday.
The old-type destroyers will re-
place the Jouett, Land, Ellet,
Davis and Benham. The Jouett
and Lang now are accompanying
the fishing cruise of President
Roosevelt. The Ellet. Davis and
Benham will nall shortly for a new
base on the Pacific coast.
lapse.
3. Germany’s allies and friends
Include Italy, Soviet Russia and
Japan, which makes the. Reich
invulnerable to economic war-
silent pictures and his mother,
ending a dispute that began over
two years ago when Coogan sued
his mother and Arthur Bern-
stein, his stepfather, for an
accounting of the money he had
earned.
England by prominent persons |
have called for greater aid to IFn- i
land or outright action against the
Soviets, Chamberlain merely called
Russia the “apprentice” of Ger-
man brutality and Indirectly
brought out his belief that Euro-
pean neutrals should join the al-
lies becavsof the hardships that
Na 3 2 war has imgrsed otheba
The heckteffwho"Interfupte
the prime minister included one
woman. They shouted such slo-
gans as “we mant peace; we want
Mosley!" The reference was to Sir
Oswald Mosley, the British Fascist
leader. The hecklers were booed
by the audience and ejected.
Chamberlain’s speech climaxed a
series of addresses on war condi-
tions by government leaders.
Chamberlain discussed in detail
the aid being given to the Allies
by the British dominions and con-
cluded with an exposition of war
aims. The small states of Europe,
he said, are living “in a perjetual
nightmare of fear” because of the
Nazi method and the Finns are
winning the admiration of the
world because of their heroic re-
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ulations," he said. "Old age
pensions will cause controversy
until they are paid to all alike
without frills and technicalities.
"The next issue naturally will
be how to pay the pensions.”
For this, the proposal of the
former Governors Ferguson will
be a gross receipts tax. They
distinguish it from the sales tax
as a tax on the seller rather
day drive up the Karelian Isthmus. .
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greatest oil state in the nation,
refused Saturday to accept the
Federal Bureau of Mines analysis
of market conditions in the oil in-
dustry.
The Texas Railroad Commission
announced its allowable orders for
March, setting the state’s oil pro-
duction at 1,479,521 barrels a day.
The commission has made it a
policy for years to keep production
within the Federal Bureau of
Mines estimate on market demand,
with only a few exceptions, but to-
day the commission ignored the
federal estimate, which Commis-
sioner Ernest O. Thompson said
was “absurd.”
The federal bureau had estimat-
ed the demand for Texas oil at
only 1,336,000 barrels a day.
Shut down days are omitted for
aM fields except the East Texas
I field which will have 13 Idle days.
Because of the pending litigation
over that field it was left under
the formula which a three-judge
Federal Court has held unreason-
! able.
The commission has until March
1 to decide if they will appeal
from that decision or attempt a
new East Texas order.
Whether a specal hearing will be
held for the East Texas field will
be decided at a commission confer-
ence to be held Monday, Commis-
sioner Ernest O. Thompson said.
A hearing on spacing in the
Fanhandle field will be held at
a catastrophe.”
“Judge Sibley,” Senator
stated, “said something about
possibility of producing wells
East Texas being placed on i f
barrel allowable. Such an all
able allocated to the indepehe
producers in this section
amount to nothing less than
fiscation df their propertiesd
legislature should not permit ■
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sols preferential primary fell last
night at midnight. Mr. Roosevelt
was entered without his written
consent and the appearance of his
name on the ballot does not com-
mit him to run again for Presi-
dent.
But failure to withdraw his
name will add to the belief here
that he still is available for the
1940 nomination under certain cir-
cumstances. In the Illinois pref-
erence poll, he will be opposed by
Vice President John N. Garner
who is going his anti-third term
way alone since other Democratic
aspirants dodged his invitation
to come out in the open with their
opposition to four more years of
the New Deal.
Sen. John H. Bankhead, D.,
Ala., tonight joined the growing
list of Senators urging Mr. Roose-
velt to make his third term in-
tentions known.
“It would be better for all con-
cerned, including Mr. Roosevelt,
if the President would give ex-
pression to what he is going to
do,” Bankhead told reporters. “I
don’t think there is much disa-
greement on that. He should make
his intentions known. If the Pres-
ident wants the nomination he
can get it without much question.
As long as he is at large in the
situation, there is no way for the
people to make up their minds
about electing delegates. There
is no way for them to test the
sentiment on other candidates.”
Bankhead, whose brother,
Speaker William E. Bankhead of
the House has been mentioned as
a possible Democratic candidate,
said that he had no second choice
"because the people do not have
second choices.”
District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey and Rep. Hamilton Fish,
R., N. Y., are entered in the Illi-
nois Republican contest which
seems likely to be a set-up for the
former. Mayor Fiorello La Guar-
dia of New York was entered with
them but withdrew his name yes-
terday remarking "Phooey" for
Republican candidates in general
and practically endorsing Mr.
Roosevelt for a third term. That
creates an unusual situation in
LONDONA WP) — Greet Br- i
tain suffered new losses in thy war 8
at seh Saturday with annqunce-
men that the naval trawler Ben- ’
vollo had gone down with ten men -
missing and that the British E
steamer Royal Archer had sunk f
while being towed to port by two,
tugs. Both were victims of mines. ”
In addition, the 1,206-ton Dan-
ish steamship Aase, owned by the
Torm Shipping Company, was lost
en route from Spain to England, A
dispatches from Copenhagen said. 5
Fifteen men were missing and be-
lieved drowned. A raft from the
Aase was picked up but the only
survivor was a cabin boy who was
taken to Plymouth. The body of
the ship’s second engineer also J
was on the raft. 5
The 2,226-ton Royal Archer
sank off the Scottish coast while
tugs were attempting to get her |
to port. All of the crew were saved
but 14 of them were injured.
The Greek freighter Panachran-
dos, 4,661 tons, which left Ante .
werp Jan. 13 for Charleston, S. C., N
has not been heard from since
Jan. 15 and was feared lost. -087
The sinking of the Benvollo
brought to approximately 30 the
number of naval vessels lost by the »
British during the war, including 2
a dozen trawlers known sunk. M
Several others have been reported 3
missing and the Germans have
claimed that a number of fEshing 7
trawlers sunk by German air raid-
ers were armed auxiliary vessels,
of which Britain now has abou
700 in service. The commandin
officer and nine men of the Ben-B
vollo were lost, a
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Best Dressed Girl
Passes Along Hints
AUSTIN, Tex. (UP) - Helen
Draper of Pampa, Tex., recently®
chosen best dressed girl on the A
University of Texas campus, Sat- 2
urday told how to dress. J
Her rules are: Good looking
shoes and hose; a simple dress, a 2
flawless complexion and hair with.
a sheen. She choses simple cloth- k
es for school, sports or formal .
parties. She prefers real jewelryE
to costume, wears hats only when 2
necessary and puts particular emmi
phasis on appearance of her shoes. ’
Her ambition, after college. la »
to design clothes. wd
grave crisis.’’
NEW ORLEANS. (UP)—The
Federal government last night
called for records from the Lou-
isiana democratic primary elec-
tion and summoned the federal
grand jury to reconvene.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Gen-
eral Herman Rosenwald and U.
S. District Attorney Rene A.
Viosca announced they had sub-
poenaed ballot boxes, tally sheets
and returns from parts of Or-
leans Parish, and that their in-
vestigations vbuld extend as far
over the state as complaints of
irregularities warranged.
Rosenwald confirmed that the
government had taken a hand in
checking the voting by which
Sam Houston Jones, a Lake
Charles attorney, defeated Gov.
Earl K. Long for the guberna-
torial nomination last Tuesday—
thus extending the investigations
of civil liberties and mail fraud
comvlaints that began when the
machine of the late Kingfish
Huey P. Long first got a threat
of defeat in the Jan. 16 primary.
"Several serious complaints
h ive been registered," Rosenwald
said.
“We announced prior to the
runoff election that we would
investigate all such complaints,
and the government will proceed
to prosecute any violations
found."
Viosca and Rosenwald called
for some records that had been
sent through the mails.
They called back into session
beginning Monday the Federal
grand jury which formerly was
scheduled to reconvene Wednes-
day to continue its probe of al-
leged violations of U. 8. statutes
resulting from the Liouisana
scandals and the elections.
Two federal attorneys left for
Washington to join Assistant At-
torney General O. John Rogge
in preparing the government’s
fight against appeals from con-
victions obtained in two of the
major scandals cases.
Alfred Teton, one of Rogge’s
aides, and Robert Weinstein, an
assistant to Viosca, went to help
Rogge Brief the government’s
case for upholding the conviction
of Seymour Weiss, former per-
sonal advisor of Huey P. Long,
avd three others for mail frdud.
Wind Blows Wrong
Way, Goats for Sale
and because the Fuehrer’s aims
were “the destruction of this na-
tion and domination of the world.”
“On the other hand,” he said,
“we are fighting to secure the
small nations of Europe that they
may henceforth live free of con-
stant threat to their independence
or extermination of their people.
But we do not want domination
for ourselves nor do we covet any
one's territory."
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President Roosevelt indicating he would not be a third term
spdidate.
Saturday. The county’s library’s
ban on the “Grapes of Wrath” had
been beaten.
Irked when the county commis-
sioners withdrew the one copy of
the novel from the free county li-
brary because “it is obscene,” two
newspapers, the Kermit sun and
the Wink Times Herald, bought
copies of the book and began
lending them to the public.
The 1,500 persons who applied
to the library for the John Stein-
beck book quickly switched their
applications to the papers.
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