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LONDON, SEPT. 27(UP)-AUTHORITIES BEGAN EVACUATING LONDON SCHOOL CHILDREN TODAY.
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Garrison New
King Proclaims
Safety Chief
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LONDON, Sept n-'up< -King
Strike Probe
George has declared
state of
Jail Breaker’s
assistant
Body Named
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man afoot on one of the byroads
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Hailed by 'Promising' Executives—
"No," the farmer replied. "bnt
BOISTEROUS FAIR BOOSTER TRIPPERS SWING WEST, LUNCH AT BIG SPRING
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Senator Advocates
Sale of Munitions
machine guns, high-powered fifles
and pistols found the track of a
today
Homer
experts with whom I talked today
believe that it might last three or
1ypical Czech soldier,
one of 2,000,000.
ered to work out final detalis.
Mayor Sadler extended a wel-
come to Abilenians at all time.
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of the West Texas free fair halted
their boisterous junket through half
a dozen West Texas counties for
lunch here toda.
The
royal
and
An-
shaw and were joined there by
or county officers
le posse stopped all automobiles
Fuehrer Declines
To Be Responsible
If War Breaks Out
provided by the fiddle band mak
ing all of the trips.
Stops were to be made thls after,
noou at Sterling City, Robert Lee
Bronte Harriet San Angelo Miles
pany, were on hand, but Farl Dock-
err president, was ovt of town
The first stop was made at Lo-
raine, and the goodwill group also
halted at Westbrook and Coahoma
Still Voices
Peace Hope
Br»i
Tay
"I find Herr Hitler* attitude un-
reasonable in his final demands."
he continued.
"But I shall not give up my hope
for a peaceful solution."
1*11 bet ynu've been trailing i
I just had rot to bed."
A report from Sweetwater
on the highway and side roads last
night. but found no trace of Bu-
ford Officers of surrounding coun-
ties had also been warned to be on
the lookout for the fugitive
tinction, the victims.
At this moment about 5.000.000
men are ready to march.
Backing them up are about 10,-
000.000 trained reserves.
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ed the owner out and asked if the
_ man had been there
Brownwood
FOOTPRINT FALSE LEAD *
"I know every road and pig track
in that country,” McAdams said to-
day and we covered them all last
night ’
A carload of officers armed with 1
Books Closed
< harges
Payable
In
November
(See Page 5 for more about
rail walkout >
last night
After following the trail almost an
Trail Dimming
So far as Taylor county qfticers ford commandeered a tax operated
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Today’s trip is under sponsorship
of the Booster club and the Abi-
lene Lions, with Bob Cannoh act-
per cent wage reduction , proposed
for October 1. ‘
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BIG SPRING, Sept 27 - Boosters
government stil hoped for a peace- hour last night, they came to an
isolated farm house McAdams call-
where officials of the Promising
Oil company—which will drill a
test well st the fair grounds
the week of October 3-8—gath-
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United rress cur
By WEBB MILLER
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press)
LONDON, Sept. 27—(UP) —As
St he diplomatic situation stood to-
Assoctated Press (Ar)
; ry Ratliff: Colorado, attorney and
counsel for the company, read a
telegram he had received from the . ueiure I eaung big op,. -
Abilene Machine company offering ' “alght took his turn at the mike
There 11 Be More to See, More to Do Than Ever Before--At West Texas Free Fair, Abilene, Oct. 3-
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and the Baltic sea.
Britain and France would be ex-
pected to await action by Premier
Benito Mussolini. If he joined ;
See WAK IMMINENT, Pf. 9, Col. 6 i
:s hy
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women and children, without dis- 20.000 and 30,000 airplanes would
FAIR
Rowena, Ballinger. Hatchell, Win-
ters, Bradshaw, Ova lo, Tuascola wiu
arrived in Abflene at 7:45 o'eldek.
"Get out You are not even
capable of asking for a slice off
Czechoslovakia."
Bhtish -French' plan for cession of
9 the Sudetenland and urged that
Germany, too, use only peaeful
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ister Chamberlain declared tonight that "we
out in spite of his peaceful efforts . 1 . . . -
He added that he fully shared the cannot undertake toinvolve the whole of
president s opinion of the terrible the British empire in war however much we
Statesmen still clung to hope i
that a last minute development 1
involved within a few weeks.
It was the opinion of military
men that in the early phases of
such a war France* would remain
behind her Maginot line fortifi-
cations while Great Britain block-
its then adversaries
announced promotion of
Garrison. Jr from the
and musical entertaniment
the principles
were solemnly
abric of infinite
ool in deep fall
silver highlights. -
Ough to be seen
ts — Simple end
5 at Vassar and
w no one will
for them. There -
PRAGUE, Sept 27—(UP) —
• Phe government of Premier
DEFECTIVE, WHO MIGHT BE UNABLE TO STAND THE STRAIN OF ^MARCHING.
he Abilene Reporter ~2ews
“WITHOUT, OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKEIGH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES “-Byron
TESCHEN, Czechoslovak- Polish
Frontier, Sept. 27- (UP)—A Polish
foreign office spokesman, speaking
bv telephone from Warsaw, told the
the outbreak.
As things stand now, it appears
that Germany and Italy on one
side, with about 118,000,000 people,
and Czechoslovakia, France, Russia
and Great Britain on the other,
Europe Fears War Only 96 Hours Away:
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the police station Officers in-
vestigated r
Today Herring Bound*. ju-
venile officers, was laving the
law down' to three youngsters
for shooting at persons with
air rifles
cient cities the targets and men,
Gen. Jan Syrovy denounced
today the demands of Nazi
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler as a re-
quest that Czechoslovakia per
• form a self-vivisection.’’
' We feel we. as any other na-
tion. have a right 'to live and A
right to live independently." a gov-
ernment radio broadcast said.
n STILL HOPE FOR PEACE
"Hitler s last demands are so far-
DUCE SAYS WAR INEVITABLE
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day. Europe was some 96 hours
from a general war involving be-
tween 350.000,000 and 400,000.000.
’ Sadler in turn introduced Charlie
Ellis. oil editor of the Reporter-
News and originator of the scheme
the Promising company is carrying
out Ellis told of the, test. whirl is
, attracting statewide interest Har-
walked past the same house on i
Hickory. Something stung his
arm . •
Thectwo men went to, their,
homes They got to thinking
about the stinging Each called
move Into the Teschen minority
It was estimated that between
’Dan Harper 1125 Hikory,
walked past a house on Hickory
street last night and suddenly
clasped the back of his neck. It
felt like a bee stinging
Charles Turner, 1657 Orange.
WASHINGTON Sept 27
hereby declare that a state of
emergency exists." A
in Britain. a "state of emergen-
cy ‘ has not the wide implications
which it has in some countries,
where often IL amount: to virtual
martial law
In this country* It gives the au-
Sept. 26 — (Spl-
in Louis Downs, 93
's last Confeder!, I •
ied yesterday, was
today at the family i
public safety commission
Storm *
ence, R. I.
nounced bv President Wilson and
just as solemnly adopted by all the
belligerent powers
"Never in history was tne confi-
dence of a nation more shamelessiy
betrayed than in that time The
terms imposed upon the vanquished
nations in the peace treaty con-
cluded in the Paris suburbs fulfill'd
nothing of the promises given On
the contrary they created a politi-
cal regime in Europe which made
outlawed pariahs out of the van-
quished nations and which was rec-
ognized bv all reasonable observers
r EER-NaSe tii7 cS to Daly's 16 army corps today that war is now
ROME, Sept. 27.-(UP)-Premier Benito
decision last night of the privy
councijeto call up the air force aux-
*11 lanes prefaced the announcement
with the following:
PROVIDES KEGULATION
His majesty bv and with the
advice of the privy council, doth
FIRST TO GO WERE PUPILS OF SCHOOLS FOR PHYSICALLY
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any responsibility of the Ger-
man nation and its leadership
should further developments,
despite all my efforts, lead to
an outbreak of hostilities.
"In order to form a just judgment
nt the Sudeten question which is
under discussion. It is indispensible
to look back upon the events where-
in He the fundamental cause of the
rise of this problem and its dan-
gerous implication* may be found
"The German nation laid down
its arms in 1918 firmly trusting that
Entries Pour In
For West Texas'
Big Exposition
Less than a week now until the
opening of the West Texas free
fair! •
Throughout the Abilene trade
territory and West Texas the word]
ha.* bee The West Texas
free fair begins in Abilene Mon J
day!"
Workers on the fair are hurrying
to wind up details before the open-
ing Farmers ranchers, and com-
muniies are putting final touched
on their exhibits Entries are pour-
ing into headquarters Final re-1
pairs and improvements are being
made at the plant
The fair begins Monday.
In every department of the fair
things were happening toda.. Com-
mittee in charge of the Texas Cot J
ton Festival announced the named
of five more duchesses to the coro-
nation of Queen and King Cotton
peace with I
would realize
ideals which
AUSTIN Sept 27 - (P-- The
IAL
Jood House-
ABILENE and vicinity Fair tonight UM
Wednesday, siizhtiv crler tonight. I
Wex Texas Fair and Wednes
day. elightiv cooier fn Panhandie tonight. I
East Texas Fair tonizht and Wednes
day siichtiv cooier in northwest poriom
''•flight and in northeast portion Wedhes
• STYLING 'SELF-VIVISECTION'—
Wednesday night. October 5 They
are Lucile Gentry of A nsor, Eliza-
beth Huff of Wichita Falls. Ernes-
tine Howard of Weinert. and Nita
Lee Gillian of Coleman selected by
the Business and Professional
Womens club of that city.
From the lvestock department
came announcement that Wm. P.
Gibbs general manager of the
White Hat ranch. Blackwell and
the Arledge Stock farm. Knox City
had each reserved space for six
Herefords. J R Pumphrey of Old
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consequences nt a European war
REPEATS ARGUMENTS
Hitler’s answer contained much
background to justify the nazi po-
sition. repeating the arguments
about ompression of the Sudetens
advanced in his speech last night
and the one at Nurnberg The
reply was considered here to be
t, moderate in tone
Hitler began his messare bv
expressing appreciation of Roose-
velt’s "generous intentions" Re
lamented the fact that Wood-
row Wilson's principles were
never realized and that Ger-
many thus was "shamelessly
betrayed” because she laid down
her arms on the basis of them.
The text of his message follows:
| "In a telegram sent me Sent ember
1 26, your excellency appealed to me
in behalf of. the American •nation
in the interests of peace not to
• break off relations on the conflict
which has arisen in Europe and
to seek peaceful, honest and con-
structive regulation of this question
CITES BACKGROUND
"Be assured that I fully appre- ,
date the generot -intentions under-
lying youg word and that I share
in every repect your opinion as to
the incalculable consequences of. a
European war
“For this very reason, how-
ever, t ran and must decline
BARCELONA, Sept. 27- {UP)-
The newspaper Socialista pub-
lished a cartoon today bearing
the title Timid Soul" It por-
trayed a wifejordering her hus-
band to leave home with these
to funish drilling equipment.
Ear! Cypert and Bob May. repre-
sentatives of the Promisir com-
inevitable and Italy will fight with Germany,
it was revealed by an unimpeachable source.
Mussolini, it was declared, had abandoned
all hope that European peace can be saved
and expects events to come to a head within
two or three days maximum. .
@ United Press correspondent today
that the Polish army was ready to
directorship to the directorship of
state police succeeding the idle
Col H H Carmichael
The 37-year-old East Tan who
rose from the ranks will- be exe-
cutive director of the Texas Rang-
ers. highway patrol. driver s li-
cense bureau narcotics division,
bureau of Identification and other
divisions of the far flung police
organisation.
The vppolntment was announced 1
bv W H Richardson J- I
tin. commission chairman, " who
said Garrison would continue all
policies of the former director who
died Saturday of a heart disease
Garrison was born in Lufkin and
became a deputy sheriff at the age
of 19 He became a state license
and weight Inspector In 1929 and
joined the highway patrol In
1930 He successively became a
lieutenant and captain and was
promoted to assistant director of
the entire safety department in i
September, 1935
were concerned. search in the
Bradshaw area for John Buford. 35.
who escaped from the Nolan county
jail yesterday afternoon, was about
to be given up today.
Sheriff Sid McAdam* after
spending most of last night in an
intensive search of the area ex-
pressed conviction this morning
that the fugitive had made good
i his escape in the direction of
received here Sun-
W H Miller from
s Miller, of Pro
Island, the former
bed last weeks hur-
Jew England states
Wo: 1 Mr Miller had .
his son since the
er. who was in torn
wave came ’ w ithoii j
ir Miller were sep-
re than six hours. *
were down and the
kness for more than
filler said Formerly
the Reporter-Neg .
w a free lance writ-
iller is head of the
rtment of a depart-
rovidence.
NEW YORK Sept 27— (UP)— The Czechoslovak consulate
general was advised by the government at Prague, today that a
radio reply by President Eduard Benes tn Adolf Hitler's speech
had been cancelled. Benes was scheduled to speak between 5 and
5:10 p m. The consulate said no reason for cancellation was given.
may sympathize with a small nation.”
But at another point in his broadcast to
the empire and the world the prime minis-
ter said:
"If I were convinced that any nation
had made up its mind to dominate the world
by force I would not hesitate to resist it.”
Chamberlain spoke only about tix minutes. His address,
the most momentous British broadcast since the abdication cris-
is of 1936, was delivered from the cabinet room of famed Ten
Downing street.
After be had finished his speech was broadcast in German.
Chamberlain said he would not hesitate to take a third trip to
. Germany if he thought it would do any good, but at the moment “I
can see nothing further I can usefully do in the wav of mediation.
Drv thermometer 88
Wet thermometer 62
Rejative h imiditv 19
Senator Logan advocated outright
repeal of the neutrality act today •
and a policy of making available to
England and France "all the ma-
terials they need, except manpow-
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this (morning Mid Nolan-county of* The Kentuckian has been a con-
fleer* were continuing the search sistent supporter of the administra-
KIDNAPS CARRY tion in the senate He is a member
Buford had been returned to of the military affairs committee
Sweetwater from Huntsville, where He said he favored repeal of the
he was serving an 18-year sentence neutrality statute because "there
from Coleman county, and sen- I can be no neutrality in a war." The
tenced to 9 years in the penitentiary law woud ban shipment of muni-
(or de armed robbery of the Santa tions to belligerents and limits the
Fe railroad depot there last July 29 , scope of trading in other com modi-
I After escaping from the jail Bu- tie.
delegation received a
reception at Colorado,
iller, pastor of the
church, was to q4-
s a retired rock ma-
r. He was born June
rgan county. Geor-
came to Coleman
resided here since. j
his widow and t&
D, both of Coleman. ?
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by Stuart MeGin.ey At 9 o’clock
last night the pair reached Brad-
shaw. There Buford left the taxi to
buy cigarettes and forgot to remote
the Ignition bevy McGinley drove
away and notified Sheriff Tom
Wade at Sweetwater.
Nolan county officer* headed by
Deputy Horace Cook rushed to
President Rooseveii today that
delav in solution of the Sude-
ten German problem is "impos-
sible” and that it now lies in
I the hands of the Czech gov-
ernment alone to decide
1 “whether they want peace or
reaching that. If fulfilled, they
would destroy the moat vital in-
terests of the nation and its hope
for further Independent existence
• "We are asked to perform a
self- vivisection."
At the same time, the Prague of-
ficial broadcast said that Czechoslo-
vAkta still was ready to settle the
crisis peacefunly on the basis of the
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s--ergaNGg
area Friday or Saturday, if order-
ed. He said, however, that the
four years.
____ ___ ______ ____________ It probably would be the most
would save peace, but the outlook frightful war in history. It would
be fought, in its Initial stages,
neutral military largely by airplanes with rich, an-
. Syrovy’s Regime
Labels Ultimdtum
Too Far-Reaching
LONDON. Kept 27.- (API-
Reuters (British new* agency)
in a dispatch today from Prague
said Crechoslovakia had entered
into friendly negotiations with
Poland.
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war."
। In reply to President Roosevelt’s
peace appeal Hitler said he must
decline responsibility if war broke
emergency exists, the official Lon- * • g._,
don Gazette revealed today. “ Eauk, nK -° •
The Gazette in announcing the ~
to Mr- Roosevelt’s
ge disclosed that it
atement for Prime
• Chamberlain tllt
day a further earn-
settlement by nego- '
h his majesty’s gov-
be ready to lend I
WASHINGTON. Sept 27 — P-
President Roosevelt appointed a
three-member fact-finding commis-
sion today to investigate the wage
dispute between railroads and their
employe*
Member* of the commission are
Chief Justice Walter P Stacy of
the North Carolina supreme court,
chairman Prof Hairy a Millis of
the University of Chicago, and Dean
Jame* M Landi* of the Harvard
law school
Under the railroad labor law, they
will report within 30 days
Railroad workera have voted to
strike if the carrier* insist on a' 15
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