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ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
IN GAINESVILLE
VOL. XLIX
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22, 1940
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Tempest Over Naming
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Party Affairs
THE DAILY REGISTER
THIS YEAR OBSERVES
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General Butler,
‘Fighting Quaker,’
Of Marines, Dies
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Gambling Raids
In New Orleans
Argentina, Uruguay
Take Lead in Stepping
Up Defense Programs
Foreign Policies and
Aid for Allies Become
Major Storm Centers
ENGLAND’S CHILDREN MOVE AGAIN
AS BATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN MENACES
Forrestal Added
To FDR’s Staff
French Reported to Have Signed Armistice
With Germany; Pact With Italians Is Pending
Pool Resources to Get,
Satisfactory Platform,
Other Considerations
James Forrestal. president of Dil-1
Ion, Read and Company, New York i
investment firm, was"appointed a
$10,000-a-year administrative as-
sistant to President Roosevelt to-
Two South American
Republics Adopt New
Military Budgets
BORDEAUX, France, June
22 (AP).—France announced
West Texas: High and interme-
diate cloudiness tonight and Sunday
with scattered showers and thun-
derstorms Sunday and in the north
and southwest portions tonight.
Not much change in temperature.
Weary Members Seek
To Clear Up Program
Of Emergency Measures
- Italian
bombs
Plenipotentiaries Are
Reported Leaving by
Plane for Rome
Their Idiosyncracies,
Their Joys and Sorrows
WASHINGTON, June 22
(AP). — Members of con-
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sources reported today the French
defenders L'Ecluse Fort, near Del-
legrade, not only repulsed an at-
tack on the mountain citadel early
this afternoon, but drove the Ger-
mans out of the town of Delle-
grade, five miles away.
Airplane flights over Louisiana
recently detected cotton boll moths
2,000 feet high. Pilots also spotted
cucumber beetles at 3,000 feet and
mosquitoes 5,000 feet — nearly a
mile. Experimenters said the in-
sects were blown to those heights
by the wind.
sideration of Col. Frank Knox as
secretary of the navy.
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, June 22.—The
day.
He will begin next Wednesday. He
was expected to serve fn some ca-
pacity as a liaison for the president
in handling the national defense
program.
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profits • taxes immediately and to
set up a systm of high individual
and corporation taxes which would
go into effect automatically upon
a declaration of war.
The committee adopted a resolu-
tion, however, stating that an ex-
cess profits tax, applicable to the
current calendar year, should be
enacted later. Treasury experts
were directed to submit a bill by
Oct. 1.
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missed.”
The furore prompted President
Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y., to
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and its program of aid for the al-
lies became major storm centers
The new’ position is one of six
created under the government re-!
organization act.- Until today only
three had been filled.
. HITS EXTRA KEYS
SEATTLD—A check for $1,-
110,005 showed up in the morn-
ing mail and left the King
county clerk’s staff all aflut-
ter.
It had a different effect on
bank officials who blushingly
tol Clerk Carroll Carter an
, employe had Intended to make
out a $5 check on a protective
machine, but accidentally hit
some extra keys.
(about $180,000,000) originally
asked of congress only two days
ago.
One source said this increase
might be regarded as an indication
of Argentina's determination to be
prepared in a world "where right
is rapidly giving way to might.”
In Uruguay, President Alfredo
Baldomir promulgated a new law
banning associations devoted to for-
eign propaganda or illegal ends and
prohibiting press or radio refer-
ences “injurious" to countries with
which Uruguay maintains friendly
relations.
Uruguayan congressional groups
began a drive for naming a com-
mittee to draft special measures
suggested by a parliamentary in-
vestigation of nazi activities.
Nine Germans Detained
Nine Germans detaiped during
the inquiry were undergoing ques-
tioning by Uruguayan police, who
remark that there were some peo-
ple who think in terms of patriotic
cusing the United States of lead-
ing France and England into the
war.
“Of course America didn't make
any such promises as the senator
questioned regarding plans — said
to have been found in his posses-
sion—for military occupation of
Uruguay.
Argentine army and navy of-
ficials had under advisement the
possible purchase of warplanes and
at least one heavy cruiser from the
United States.
The defense budget as it now
stands nearly equals Argentira’s
ordinary budget, sent to congress
last night by President Roberto M.
Ortiz,, fixing government expenses
at 1,077,700,000 pesos and visible
revenues at 915,900,000 pesos. Spe-
cial credits are expected to be pro-
vided to pay for the armaments
program.
New naval units and equipment
appeared destined to be the heav-
iest item of expense, including con-
struction of submarines, torpedo
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actment was regarded as virtually
certain.
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As war events portended beginning of the battle of Britain, London is again moving school children back
to the country. They had drifted back to the city after having earlier been removed to the country. This
group of mothers is bidding their young ones goodbye outside a school.
committee on the naming of Henry
L. Stimson to be secretary of war,
the naval committee opened Con-
Retired Veteran Is a
Victim of Abdominal
Ailment Late Friday
.S.
Nazi military men said that un-
der any circumstances France was
clearly out of the war, for the Ger-
man armies are driving steadily
southward toward the Spanish bor-
der and the Mediterranean coast,
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German terms are not subject to
negotiation that the French must
accept or reject them as they stand.
In the German view, however.
in this railway car, scene of beaten Germany’s capitulation to the Allies .Noy-. 11, 1918, the tables have
At top speed, joint conference been turned, with Chancellor Adolf Hitler personally meeting France’s peace^se^klng envoys in the room
committees yesterday adjusted dif- where Marshal Foch dictated terms on which Kaiser Wilhelm’s imperial armies laid down their arms. The
ferences between house and senate historic car is enclosed in a building in Compiegne Forest, France.
The Stimson and Knox appoint-
ments were discussed by Vice
President Garner and Postmaster
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With a formal hearing already
ordered by the senate military
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Continued
and two Republicans to the key i de- '
-d- fense posts in his cabinet.
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Mrs. White proposed that cities ton (D-Ind) said the Republican
set up clearing houses to investi- was piling up insinuations and ne-
gate persons desiring to adopt the
British children.
“The English people are clamor-
ing for their children to be sent to
General Farley, friends said, in a
long conference yesterday, doth
men expressed disapproval of the
president's action, it was reported,
Garner with considerable vehe-
mence.
The vice president likewise was
represented in authoritative sen-
ate circles as disagreeing sharply
with the administration's handling
of foreign affairs.
Stormy Senate Debate
The combination of foreign af-
fairs and the Stimson-Knox nomi-
nations plunged the senate into a
stormy debate marked by a de-
mand Mr. Roosevelt resign lest his
tier, June 22 (AP).
Roosevelt, that an “infinitesimal
minority” opposes him.
Regardless of who is nominated,
said Senator Wagner (D-NY).who
was designated by Farley as chair-
man of the Democratic conven-
tion’s platform committee, the plat-
form must endorse the new deal
outright. He announced that he
would start conferring with desig-
nated committee members imme-
diately.
Close friends said Wagner fa-
vors a plank against involvement
in the European war coupled with
without becoming involved our-
mies fight on,
counter attacks.
ALEXANDRIA.
Attack Is Repulsed
CHANCY, Swiss-French Fron-
day in Bordeaux to study the Ger-
man terms for an armistice, set
forth in a 30-page typewritten
----------- document. The report said the de-
HYDE PARK, June 22 (AP). — tailed proposals would require long
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it was emphasized again that the
planes drop many
200,000 Prisoners Taken
BERLIN, June 22 (AP).—The
German high command said to-
day that more than 200,000 pris-
oners had been taken by the ad-
vancing German armies in the last
few days.
The prisoners included an entire
stahi (Algerian cavalry) brigade,
and a number of the highest rank-
ing French army and navy offi-
cials. the high command said.
A British naval communique*
later said 2 persons were killed
and 23 injured. The injured in-
cluded two Italians, the British
added.
which miss allied fleet; city
shaken by explosives falling
in harbor and on breakwater.
CAIRO.—Planes driven off
in city's first air raid of war.
TOKYO.—Stronger Japanese
policy on British and French •
southern Orient possessions in-
dicated 'with closer relations
with Germany and Italy.
CHIEF CASUALTY
YORK, Neb.—It was all in
the Interest of safety, but it
cost Fire Chief John Roth
painful facial burns.
Testing some new gas masks
for the fire department, he
tried to start a smudge with a
gasoline soaked rag.
He knews better now.
where the world war armistice
was signed.
ALEXANDRIA, June 22 (AP).—
A squadron of Italian planes heav-
ily bombed Alexandria at 1:15 a. m.
today, most of the bombs appar-
ently intended for the allied fleet
- falling on the breakwater and in
the harbor.
More than a dozen heavy bombs
were dropped in rapid succession,
shaking the entire city with their
explosions and sending thousands
of persons, clad in their night
clothes, scurrying for air raid shel-
ters.
Anti-aircraft batteries opened
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* BERLIN, June 22 (AP). — This
nazi capital, exulting in the Ger-
man triumph over France and
waiting for her unconditional ac-
ceptance of Adolf Hitler's armistice
terms underwent its first air raid
of the war early today.
Planes dumped bombs on subur-
ban Babelberg, the “German Holly-
wood” between Hitler’s metropolis
and the former imperial residence
at Potsdam.
There is a great military air port
not far away but the big UFA
movie studios at Babelberg re-
semble airplane hangars. What the
bombs actually hit, however, ac-
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-FIRING UNE .
FLORENCE, Ariz.—It’s gotten
to the point a man isn't even safe
in the penitentiary.
John Van Winkle was wounded
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — The
* town's new police radio system got
into the movies on the day it went
'into operation.
Police calls somehow crept into
the sound system of a movie house
near headquarters, producing un-
calculated results along the film
sound track.
Some experts came down from
Boston and fixed it.
GREATER CIEVELAND
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Uncle
Sam can't bumfoozle Cleveland’s
aldermen.
Rejecting the government’s cen-
sus count, they directed Mayor
J. Y. Elliott to make an independ-
ent tabulation. It exceeded the
9,619 reported by federal enumera-
tors so Cleveland is going to de-
mand a recount.
tary assistance to France.
When the “terrible moment” to
(By The Associated Press I
LONDON, June 22.—Waves of
German warplanes swooped over
England early today for the third
time in four days, scattered bombs
along the east coast and killed
three civilians before they were
driven out to sea.
Fierce anti-aircraft fire and
quick action of British fighter
planes appeared to have scattered
the raiders and prevented them
from concentrating on any objec- gress, weary but still wordy,
(Continued on Page Two) tion and then recess a week
for the Republican national
convention.
Tre recess was promised by
; leaders if congress would act fi-
nally by midnight on four essen-L.
tial measures the $1,000,000,000
tax bill, a $1,777,000,000 emer-
gency defense allottment, the $1,-
157,711,357 relief legislation and a
bill to make up deficiencies in ex-
isting appropriations. Quick en-
Two Towns Captured
BERLIN, June 22 (AP).—The
harbor tows of Lorrient and St.
Malo in French Brittany have been
taken, the German high command
announced today and small French
units are still putting up a fight
on the Maginot line in Lorraine.
000.000)—a South American rec-
ord.
The figure was 60 per cent high-
er than the 600,000,000 pesos
today that her delegates
would fly to Italy and discuss
terms with the Italians before
a general peace arrangement
is reached with both her ene-
mies.
The German armistice negotia-
tions will be concluded first
The French public was told over
the radio last night that the ne-
gotiations were still going on and
that the results “must be patiently
awaited.”
Aided by decoders, the govern-
i ment labored all night over the
German terms without announc-
ing a decision on the flat “yes or
I no” answer which the German
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He won the- first of his many
ciations—which included two Con-
gressional Medals of Honor — at
Tientsin, China, during the Boxer
rebellion. From China he went to
the Panama Canal, Nicaragua,
Mexico and Haiti.
During the world war his or-
ganizational abilities kept him
out of the front lines but his work
at Camp Pontznezon, the great de-
barkation point for American
troops at Brest, earned him the
Distinguished Service medal.
। Following his return to this
country after the world war, he
became commander of the marine
base at Quantico, V. He left on
leave in 1924 to become Philadel-
phia's director of public safety and
on his return to the corps served
at San Diego, Calif., China and
again at Quantico where he was
promoted to the rank of major
general.
Shortly before his resignation in
1931, General Butler caused an in-
ternational incident by referring to
Premier Mussolini as a “hit and
run driver.” An apology was sent
to the Italian premier and court-
martial proceedings were ordered
for General Butler. They were
later abandoned.
General Butler was bom in West
Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881. He is
survived by his widow, two sons
and a daughter.
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in the knee by a rifle bullet fired _ - _
by a hunter outside of the prison' said five of them had made state-
ments and that another was being
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administration's foreign policies
its hearings, likewise summon
Woodring. He said he would be
“very much surprised” if inquiry
did not show that Woodring had
been ousted because of his refusal
to give the allies “national defense
secret No. 1"—the army's secret
bomb sight.
Senator Minton, Schwellenbach
(D-Wash i and Democratic Leader
Barkley said the bomb sight as-
sertion was baseless. Barkley told
the senate that the army air corps
chief, Major General H. H. Arnold,
had assured him that “at no time
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reer which started in 1898 as
provisional second lieutenant
the® marine corps.
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BUDDING ECONOMIST
- ' UNCOLN, Neb. If David Weid-
ler, 17, who was this year's Ne-
braska “Boys State” encampment
governor, grows up to hold the gu-
• bernatorial chair he'll have a repu-
tation to uphold.
As “Boys State” chief he vetoed
the budget bill passed by his legis-
lators, because, he said, they
slashed every appropriation except
the one for their own salaries.
(AP).—Blunt, outspoken Major
General Smedley D. Butler, a
“fighting Quaker” who spent 30 of
his 58 years in the United States
Marine corps. is dead.
The retired veteran whose dis-
tinguished service and impressive
speech brought him before the
public eye many times both in
army and civil life, died yesterday
at Naval hospital of an abdominal
ailment. He had entered the hospi-
tal May 23 for a checkup after an
extended lecture tour.
A “soldier’s soldier," General
Butler retired in 1931 after a ca-
the French answer makes little
difference.
Gainesville and Vicinity — To-
’ night and Sunday, partly cloudy.
Today noon, 89; high yesterday,
88; low last night, 72; high for
year, 95; low for year, 2.
fuehrer demanded.
The government was in close
telephonic touch with its negotia-
tors conferring with the nazi lead-
ers in the Forest of Compiegne,
says,” M i nt o n declared. “T h e
United States is not going into any
war until it becomes America's
war.”
Nye, in his speech, also urged
that the military committee, which
plans to have Stimson appear at
a demand for continued large-
scale defense preparations. Gar-
ner also was reported ready to
throw his influence to a non-in-
volvement pledge.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (AP).
Compromise Agreed-Upon 6 Vice President Garner and Post-
Among other compromises, the master General Farley were under-
group recommended a 10 per cent stood today to have pooled their
tax on theater admissions costing political resources once again in
21 cents and more. The levy now an effort to get what they consid-
starts at 40 cents. The senate had er a satisfactory vice presidential
voted to start it at 10 cents and nominee and platform out of the
the house at 30 cents. Democratic National convention- today in the tempest over Presi-
The committee also approved an At least nominal presidential as- dent s Roosevelt's appointment of
increase from 6 to 614 cents a pirants themselves, Garner 1
package in the cigaret tax. The Farley were reported I by col-
house approved a 1-cent increase leagues to have predicated a long
and the senate voted to retain the and confidential conference, yester-
existing rate. day on the possibility that Presi-
House provisions retaining the dent Roosevelt will run again. .
present 30-cent gallonage tax on Thelanti-third term drive of the
whisky rectifiers and exempting CI.ChiefohnHaLewjsumean-
floor stocks of not more than 100 "hie oiiX executive ^^etarv
galons from increased liquor S' iabors’No
taxes were accepted by the con-cio adjunct. He resigned, de-
rerence. . , j daring that an “overwhelming ma-
Provisions Not ( hanged • . jority” of the league favors Mr.
Untouched were provisions to — ..... - - -
lower the individual income tax
provisions, those by adding 2,000,-
000 to the ranks of income tax-
payers; to increase corporate in-
come taxes and surtaxes; to levy a
super tax on incomes and to raise
the federal debt limit from $45,-
000,000,000 to $49,000,000,000.
The tired senate, quitting after
Anticipate Armistice
COMPIEGNE FOREST, June 22
(AP). — Authorized German
sources said today they confident-
ly expect the French delegation to
sign an armistice this afternoon.
There were indications an an-
nouncement might be forthcom-
ing around 10 a. m. central stand-
ard time.
Informed sources indicated that
the. four French emissaries who
heard the terms yesterday in the
same railway car in which Ger-
many signed the armistice of 1918
would be given only a short time
to decide between an unconditional
yes or no.
(The British radio reported that
the French cabinet would meet to-
on the revenue bill and the emer- i
gency defense fund.
Stripped from the defense tax
measure were drastic amendments
to impose a schedule of excess
a 12-hour session at 11 p. m.
(EST) last night, agreed to make
the relief bill its first business to-
day. The house put the compro-
mise tax bill at the top of its list.
PHILADELPHIA, June
NEW YORK, June 22
(AP).— The National Broad-
casting company report from
Compiegne Forest today said
an armistic had been signed
between France and Ger-
many;
The broadcast which- was
received here jointly by NBC
and Columbia, said the armis-
tice was signed at 10:50 a. m.,
central standard time.
William L. Shirer, CBS corres-
pondent, announced the signing;.
The broadcast said the armistice
would not take effect until six
hours after Italy has reached an
armistice with France. French
plenipotentiaries are leaving by
plahe for Rome, the announcer
said. The terms of the armistice
were not disclosed.
BUENOS AIRES, June 22 (AP).
Argentina and Uruguay took the MorA hu vAnnArg
lead among South American repub- IVIOUUC UY I I VVUvl 3
lies .today in stepping up defense * “
and preparedness rograms.
Argentine congressional commit-
tees studied an extraordinary de-
fense budget now calling,for outlay
of one billion pesos (about $300,-
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Be Adopted
DALLAS, June 22 (AP). — Mrs. motives and some who think with
Minerva White, a mother, proposed partisan motives
today that British children evacu- The demand’ for President
ate dfromt he range of nazi bomhs Roosevelt’s resignation came from
be adopted by American families Senator Nye (R-ND), who told
ford duration of the war. Che senate that it “seemed certain”
cans at their own expense would the president had promised mili-
gladly give homes to the young war
refugees.
-"This humane act would be one _ .. .. - .2,
way we could help the British serted, the chief executive was
< unable to deliver."
Challenging Nye, Senator Min-
*1 In France
By The Associated Press
COMPIEGNE FOREST—
French emissaries expected to
be given only short time to
accept or reject stern armis-
tice conditions; Germans say
in any case France is out of
war, with nazi armies advanc-
ing steadily southward.
BERLIN. Germans report
seven injured, “immaterial”
damage in air raid by Brit-
ish planes on Berlin suburb;
claim bombing of Bristol and
Southampton areas in Eng-
land.
LONDON.—German air at-
tacks cause three deaths,
bringing total to 21 for week;
British say “hit and run” raid-
ers driven off objectives.
BORDEAUX. — Cabinet
meets to study 30-page text of
Hitler’s peace terms, keeps in
close touch with envoys in
Compiegne forest; Frehch ar-
policies bring "disaster." The
house, too, heard wordy exchanges,
among them inquiries whether
Harry Woodring, the resigned sec-
retary of war, had been "dis-
NEW ORLEANS, June 22 (AP).
Suspension of the political honey-
moon of Louisiana’s new "reform"
administration and the city of New
Orleans was hinted today in the
wake of two gambling; raids by
state troopers and a sudden shake-
up of city police.
Four troopers, two of them cap-
tains, shouldered their way into
gambling houses in the New Or-
leans French quarter yesterday,
seized chips, a roulette wheel, sev-
eral hundred dollars in cash and ar-
rested 15 persons.
Shortly afterward two city police
captains and six detectives were
demoted for what Superintendent
of Police George Reyer described
as “for the good of the service.”
Persons held in the gambling
raids were charged either with op-
erating a banking game or with
loitering.
Although the amount of the seiz-
ure was small, political quarters
at once speculated that the raids
marked the first rift between the
New Orleans municipal government
and the "reform” administration of
Governor Sam H. Jones.
Mayor Robert S. Maestri sup-
ported former Governor Earl K.
Long, brother of the late Huey P.
Long, in his race against Jones.
When Jones smashed the Long po-
litical machine in last February’s
election, however, the New Orleans
organization made peace with the
new administration.
Steve Alford, head Of the Louisi-
ana state police, said he had or-
dered his men to make the raids
at request of District Attorney J.
Bernard Cocke, recent appointee of
Attorney General Eugene Stanley,
strong Jones supporter.
Cocke declined comment on Al-
ford’s statement, observed “the
raids speak for themselves. Bank-
ing" games will not be tolerated in
New Orleans.”
Cocke’s statement recalled simi-
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America for safety during the
struggle to come,” she said.
“I believe a "bureau could be
opened here and in other cities
where people could register. be in-
vestigated. and then permitted to
care for those children.
“I’d be willing to take one. pref-
erably a girl. I've reared two
daughters. One is married and the
other is a teacher in a Virginia col-
lege. I know’ girls’ psychology bet-
ter than that of boys.”
Mrs. White’s proposal found fa-
vor among Dallas mothers.
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