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g, March 14, 1939,
WEST TEXAS'
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their large Germanic populations.
of conservative advice and how.
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Bureau Chief
GERMANY—BIGGER AND BIGGER
Sales Tax to
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Envoy's Recall
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Pope and Prague
Cardinal Confer
With Final Conference Slated Saturday—
GROUNDS CLEARED AND BARNS READIED FOR LIVESTOCK SHOW
Yesterday if approved an Income
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VATICAN CITY, March 16-()
— Pope Plus XII received Karl Car-
dinal Kaspar, archbishop of Prague,
in private audience thia morning-
anything to rent. buy. sell or
■ trade’ don’t fall to take advan-
tage of our Special this week
on Want-Ads.
protectorate" formhg part of the
territory of greater Germany.
A day after he had aped into
the capital of the broken Czecho-
Slovak republic behind the wheels
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POLAND
Item—Hitler boined his grey-
riad armies and marched into
cSxechoslovakia.
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today by (vo
against a staf
MARGIN WIDE
wreath—a replica of the DAR in-
signia. •
Music included the singing of the
' Lord's Prayer by Mrs Lee Clark of
Cisco, with Mrs. Joseph M Perkins
at the piano. ,
.An award offered by Mrs Bea-
trice Prase of San Benito for the
best radio program on the consti-
tution was won by Abilene, she an-
nounced. She is national vice chair-
man of radio Texas likewise won
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grows and grows. The two areas,
once part of Czechslovakia, will
be.no more than German prov-
Incas. (AP telemat)
A 12 WORD AD 7 DAYS
ONLY 99c
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Everything at the West Texas
fair grounds la tn readiness for the
West Central Texas Boys livestock
show and rodeo March 24-25.
The grounds have been cleared
and the bams put into condition
for calves lambs and fat barrows
that will be exhibited by 4-H and
and reserve champion calves wtlT
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Candidates May Have to Elect Selves
OTTAWA, Kas., March 16.—(AP)—Nobody seems to
care much about the coming city election.
No candidates except the incumbents have qualified
for the primaries, and not a single voter has registered.
of his motorised army the master i
of central Europ» laid down the
new fundamental aw for the coun-
try of 7,000,000 Czechs.
DECREE BROADCAST
His decree, read over the radio by
his foreign minister, Joachim von
Rippentrop, made all the quarter
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The state had announced ready,
but withdrew when it was learned
that Earl Davis. negro, was not
present, Davis was present at the
shooting scene at which Ed Hughes
another negro, was slain.
Scarborough and Ely are repre- '
■anting the negro •
No-Hhsea“CepopK
HITLER GRABS ‘FREE’ SLOVAKIA
The proposal provides state as-
sumption of all county and district
road bonds issued prior to January
1 of this year. Such assumption
would be financed wph the one cent
of the gasoline tax which has been
going to retirement of bonds used
for construction, of roads now part
of the state highway system.
The unavailing motion to recom-
mit was made by James H. Good-
man of Midland.
reich as protectorates—the
mintster declined to reply.
Chatberlain announced
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and shghtly
West Tex
house of commons today the gov-
ernment "has under consideration"
the summoning home of Sir Nevile
Henderson, ambassador to Berlin, to
report on Germany's new advance
eastward.
When he was asked whether the
government 'contemplates protest-
ing to Germany against invasion of
Czecho-Slovakla"— incusion of Bo-
hemia. Moravia and Slovakia In the
"WITHOUT, OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES."-Byron.
that of “an autonomous
usually had permitted a lull be-
tween successes, there was a chance
now he might reverse the procedure
and strike while the iron of an em-
pire-in-the-making was still hot.
Hitler had spaced out his three
latest and greatest successes over
slightly more than a year—annexe -
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Budapest P
HUNGARY/
Action came
of this area
Calves will be placed in the old
poultry buflding: fambs h the dairy
barn; hogs tn pens surroundina
the show pavilion and capons un-
der seals in the pavillon, according
to J. I. Moore, superintendent of
the show
Moore has called a meeting of
all department superintendenta at
Resenberg. &me to see me and
read to me an order from the
German foreign office asking
the German embassy to take
over the Czecho-Slovak lega-
tion and consulate.
"My reply was:
“ 'I have not received any or-
der from my government in
Prague which appointed me-
the only authority which could
Paruy etoudy
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon to
make final plans for the show....
perhaps the largest of Ite kind held
in Abilene
gillie Richards. Butterfield 4-H
boy. probably will have the largest
number of lambs shown by one ex-
nibitr He is bringing 25 head A
number of FFA boys will exhibit
and that they will have
nothing to say In these matters
Hitler in his decree issued from
the ancient Hradcany castle of
Prague, charted the future of the
ancient lands of Bohemia and Mor-
Czecho-Slovakia’s Sudetenland and
finally sponsorship of a new Slovak
state and a protectorate over the
Czech part of the former Czecho-
Slovak republic.
Today his armies were in control
in Bohemia and Moravia and on
also win be on hand with fine wool
and medium wool tombs
Between 75 and 109 calves are
expected to be shown during the
two-day event Only the champion
and reserve champio ncalves will
be sold at auction. All others will
be classified and sold In groups
In Fort Worth or to local buyer*..
very
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four
move to return Danzig and Me-
Melland to the lap of "Mother
Germany?"
2. How quickly would Hitler
follow up his regenerated east-
ern push toward the dream of
rich treasures in the Ukraine?
Despite the fact that the fuehrer
• a a
chance that Adolf Hitler now might
strike swiftly to settle other unfin-
ished nazi business in Europe was
sighted today by foreign diplomatic
circles.
Amid the reichsfuehrer’s triumph
in breaking up what was left of the
Czecho-Slovak republic after Mu-
nich, these quarters discussed two
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This map shows the boun-
daries of Germany today, with
Moravia and Bohemia the last
to be swallowed as the Reich
Dr Joseph Tiso (left). first'
premier of the new nation of
Slovakia, confers in Berlin with
Adolf Hitler (center) and is as-
sured that Germany will back
e a a
Appropriation of 5135 300 for a
5 4 miles extension of highway M
between Abilene and Cross Piaina
is one of the major Immediate ob-
jectives of Judge Carl Hulsey and
members of the Taylor county com-
missioners court
Approval of this project, a con-
tinuaton of a six-mie grading and
construction program now under
way on highway M. is also sought
by WPA and highway department
oftielals.
Judge Hulsey and members of the
commissioners court may go to
Austin Monday to appear before the
Texas highway commission in in-
terest of the new project.
Work on the present program on
the Abilene to Cross Plains high-
way is making good progress. Its
completion Is expected by June 1,
3 J. Treadaway, district eight high-
way engineer said today Approxi-
mately 5100.000 is being spent on
the project and 110 men, mostly
from Taylor county WPA rolls are
being employed. Most of the grad- ,
Ing has been completed, as has con-
struction of drainage structures,
Tteadaway said
Then b a 14-mile gap be-
tween the president highway 36
project and one underway out
of Cross Plains west The new
project. If approved, will leave
jects of a German protecto-
rate, his grey-clad legions had
entered their country just as
they did Bohemia-Moravia.
HACHA RECEIVED
It was assumed that now they
would carry out the same duties in
the Slovak protectorate which Ger-
man forces have undertakn in Bo-
hemia-Moravia.
Almost at the same time'as the
announcement that Slovakia would I
be a German protectorate. Hitler
received Emil Hacha, former presi-
dent of dissolved Czecho-Slovakit,
at Hradcany castle.
Hacha had in his hand the text
of the decree explaining the pro-
tectorate for bonemta-Moravia-a
set-up which now may be duplicat-
ed in Slovakia?-
The decree made clear to the
Slavic peoples that there will
be two classes within the pro-
tectorates — a preferred class,
the Germans, who will have all
the rights and privileges of cit-
Isens of Germany, and a etoss
•I non-German who will be
subjecta of the protectorate.
They learned. further, that their
army, foreign policy.' railways and
other communications, post office,
telegraph and telephone services
Larger ads in proportion. of
cource.
Copy must be in this office by
8:00 p m Saturday All ads will
appear the first time in Sun-
day s paper
PHONE 7271 NOW
The Reporter-News
Classified Department
LONDON March 16.
Minister Chambertain
House Kills Income Levy
despite this, his hunches have
worked. They wondered today
what his hunch, it any, on
Danzig and Memel
It was reasonably assumed that
those two bits of pre-war Germany
were not "vital" in British and
French eyes especially because of
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less than nine miles to be
contraeted latr.
Obtaining of the appropriation
for the 54 miles project would go
far toward solving the county's re-
lief problem in that many of the
400 or more unemployed men on
WPA rolls could and would be used
on the project. Judge Hulsey said
today Too. should the project be
approved the number of WPA
workers now being used on highway
36 could be increased, stepping up
completion date of this work Hul-
sep edded.
Shamrock Opens
St. Patrick Fete
SHAMROCK March 15—«-
Donegal-bearded men and aproned
colleens greeted 30.000 visitors here
for -the annual St. Patrick's Day
celebration opening tonight
A band concert was to start the
festivities. A five-mile long parade.
With 26 towns represented by bands,
was to feature the program to-
morrow.
Cowboys vying for the 575 cash
prize for most points in the non-
professional rodeo here the after-
noons of March 34 and 25 likely
will be feuding by show time.
There is more pre-opening in-
terest in the rodeo than any ever
held in Abilene. At least two Tay-
lor county teams have been as-*
sured. Eastland county was the first
to come in, and the latest entry is
from Stephens county.
Buri Hitson; cowboy rodeo con-
testant for 30 years, writes Dr. M
T. Ramsey, chairman of the local
rodeo committee, tht four per-
formers from Stephens county have
already been lined up and others
probably will be on hand. Five
contestants must enter from one
county to be able to Compete for
the eash award
Members of Hitson « team include
Rural Stoker. Ed Powers and Bill
Pugh, all familiar to West Texas
rodeo fans
Ralph Russell, 17-year-old Mer-
kel boy and quarterback on last
year's football team, sends word
that he'll be competing for the calf
roping money. At the age of 17, he
is a veteran rodeo contestant, hav-
ing competed at Merkel the past
five years.
(The Memel territory. 1,099 square
miles, population 151.960. was de-
tached from Germany by the treaty
of Versailles, first placed under
control of a conference of ambas-
sador* but finally handed over to
Lthunania Feb. 18, 1923, Memel
retained a large measure of auton-
dominant questions:
1. How soon would Hitler
i the John Davis chapter of Abilene,
was in charge of the memorial serv-
ice All women participating wore
white. the stage was decked in
white lilies and lighted with white
candles in tall candelabra. As the
name* of Daughter* in Texas who
have died during the last year were
called. Mrs George Likens of Abi-
lene and Alice Moberley of Albany
personal reference*
By The Associated Press
PRAGUE, March 16.—Adolf Hitler, stretching the arms of
his expanding empire 200 miles further east, today laid down
German law for Bohemia-Moravia and agreed to take Slovakia
under his protection.
As German rule encompassed those two parts of broken
Czecho-Slovakia, the third, Carpatho-Ukraine, disappeared from
the European map by annexation to Hungary.
German protection of Slovakia answered the appeal of Dr.
Joseph Tiso, who declared the “independence” from Prague of
the little country Tuesday under Hitler's guidance and prom-
ise of support.
(It was Slovak separatism which furnished Hitler with an
opportunity to step in and break up the Czecho-Slovak re-
public.
Thus, 14,600 square miles and 2,450,000 more of the popu-
lation of central Europe became German-ruled.
A day before Hitler agreed to make Slovakia’s people sub-
whereas our estimate had placed
the increase st three per cent."
White said, “This was a sharp up-
ward turn.
“Our figures have shown this in-
crease sufficient to permit the pre-
diction of a five and one-half per
cent increase in domestic demand lector
March 16.—(P,—The
ASPERMONT. March IS—Fu-
neral for Colleen Rimes, 4-year-old
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Lum
Rimes, who died in a Stamford hos-
pital last night of burns suffered at
the. family home here at noon yes-
terday. was to be held at the
Methodist church at 5 o'clock this
afternoon The Rev H L Thurs-
ton, pastor. was to read the rites.
Maples Funeral home was in
chsrge of the burial to be tn the
local cemetery.
The child's dress caught fire
from a drape in the window which
was set by a match the girl struck.
The child was aloe at the time,
her mother having gone to the
home of her parents. Mr. and Mr*.
Tom Abbott, about 300 yard away.
Hearing the child scream,"*the
mother rushed to the house and'
quickly extinguished , the flames
*hich had enveloped Colleen First
aid was rendered by a local phy-
sicton and the git was rushed to
Stamford where she died at 6
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Details of the accident were re-
lated by the child.
Survivors are her parents, a two-
year-old brother; the paternal
grandparents, Mr and Mrs. W. O.
Rimes and the maternal grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott. .
(The free city of Danzig. 754
square miles, population 407 000. was
taken from Germany at Versailles,
placed under protection of the
League of Nations and made a unit
In the Polish customs administra-
tion. It and Gydnia are Poland'*
sea outlets.)
for crude oil this year."
Previously the commission re-
ceived a recommendation from
_the Independent Petroleum as-
sociaiton of America that erode
production for the area eakt of
California in the second quarter
of 1933 be maintained at the
same* average aa in the first
two months.
The recommendation was con-
tained in a report by Russell Brown
of Washington, counsel tor the as-
sociation. on an investigation at
conditions in the oil industry made
by a committee of the assoclation.
Reduction of gasoline and crude
stocks also was held to be vital to
petroleum prosperity.
"Although there has been a slow-
ing down of general business activ-
ity in the early part of this year,"
Brown told the commission holding
its regular quarterly meeting. "pros-
pects for the near future are some-
whet encouraging
"Gasoline stocks, however. should
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William J Foster (above)
was sentenced to serve
e year in prison for collecting
55 * day for a WPA Job and
hiring a substatute to do the
work for $1.50. (AP telemat).
Lion of Austria, absorption of
up his administration, after an-
nexation of Moravia and Bo-
hemia, left of the Czechslova-
klan republic after withdrawal
of Slovakia (AP telemat).
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once to send the necessary in-
structions.
Dr. Resenberg went to the
legation on orders from Dr.
Hans Thomsen, the German
charge. d’affairs in Washing-
ton.
Thomsen notified Hurban
that Germany was also taking
over the Czecho-Slovak consul-
ates in the United States.
Their feet run to evil,
and they make haste t
shed innocent blood: their
thoughts arc thoughts of
iniquity; wasting and de-
struction are in their
paths The wuy of peace
they know not; and there
is no judgment in their go-
ings; they have made
them crooked paths: who-
soever goeth therein shall
not know peace—Isaiah
59:7.8. •
murder trial of Ell Anderson. ne- < •
gro. In 104th district court today * •
The case was continued for the • •
term 1 •
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many, but not by such a wide mar-
gin.
The income tax which would
have ranged from 1 to 4 per cent on
net incomes, was proposed as a
substitute for the 2 1-2 per cent
general sales tax advocated by the
house constitutional amendments
committee
Today's action restored the
aales tax to the proposed consti-
tutional amendment. Whether
the house would reach a vote
this week on the constitutional
amendment still was not known.
Rep Leighton Cornett of Clarks-
ville. closing the argument for the
income tax, stated that Governor
W. Lee O Daniel "still is bitterly op-
posed to the sales tax.”
"I talked to him yesterday," Cor-
nett said. "and the main thing he
wants is enough money to meet old
age pension needs it does not make
a great deal'of difference to him
where that money comes from."
Road Bond Bill
Weathers Test
AUSTIN, March 18—«_The
county judges' road bond assump-
tion bill weathered its first test in
the house of representatives today
when that body voted. 53 to 55.
against sending it back to commit-
tee.
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First Lady Closes
EDINBURG, March 14—Two
more Texas points remain on the
lecture Itinerary of Mr* Frankim
D Roosevelt before she departs for
the Pacific coast
She is scheduled to speak st Har-
linger) tonight and in San Antonio
tomorrow night
•Aar'CosM
be materially reduced. and, to avoid
waste on June Jo 1353, shoul not Wes Tean: Fair tonient an Frday;
exceed 70,000 000 barrels, which is j ofb in “oune
approximately 10,000 000 less than lax f. Partty eloudy exeept prob-
at the same time last year when 1 tohzeccanan,ra9, algnez, -rmerrn
they were excessive." porthwe poftiom tonig Ana in aorta
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guard in Slovakia. Hungarian
forces, with apparent German ae-
Carpatho-Ukralne, the remaining
fregment of free Czecho-Slovakia.
Early today the Hungarians estab-
lished a common frontier with Po-
land.
Men who have studied ways
of the Cuechs’ new protector
have always noted his disregard
AUSTIN, March 16.—(AP)
—Increase of five and,one-half
per cent in demand for crude
oil and better conditions gen-
erallyin the oil industry dur-
ing 1839 were predicted by Al-
fred 0 White of Washington,
chtef of the petroleum econom-
ics division of the Federal Bu-
reau of Mines, at a meeting of
the Interstate Oil Compact
commission here today.
URGE SAME OUTFIT
"Improved business conditipns |
and favorable weather increased
domestic consumption of gasoline
eight per cent during January
reversal had been predicted Oy of Alpine and round table discussions of A:
issue such an order to me I
must have a written—not tele-
graphic-document, signed by
President Hacha, stating that
the Czecho-Slovak government
of its own will relinquished its
authority to the German
relch.'"
A German official said Hacha
or the former Foreign Minister
Chvalkovsky would be asked at
forc To"
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ing, 90 to 52
income tax.
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
(P) — Vladimir S Hurban,
Czecho - Slovak minister, de-
clined today to turn over the
legation here to German rep-
resentatives until he had re-
ceived written orders from
Prague
He issued this statement:
“The first secretary of the
German embassy, Dr Karl
Highest temperature yesterdaj
Lowest temperature this morn
TEMPERATURES —■
Wed Thun
ABILENE, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1939-TWELVE PAGES.
told the -Britain's diplomatic representation
quiescence. naa marened across
M. Beilin,’/
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Hungary Gets
Eastern State
in Berlin. ___
Sir John Simon, chancellor of the
exchequer, indicated in the house
steps would be taken to keep gold
held by the Czech national bank
in London out of Germany s hands
Sir John said he had asked th?
bank of England not to make any
exceptional transfer of Czecho-Slo-
vak gold or balances without con-
sultation with his majesty's gov-
ernment*
Geoffrey Lloyd, undersecretary
for home affairs, said naz organi-
sations in Britain were "being
watched closely."
Absence of a star witness for the 2 ...... 81
state forced postponement of the * ...... *»
Speakers Take
DAR Spotlight
Addresses by Mrs Weller Dingus of Lubbock and Dr. a. F. Smith
Hendersons recall was being con-
sidered when, he replied to the La-
borite Neil MacLean, who asked
Federal Saving
WASHINGTON. March 16 —«m
Senator Byrd (D-Va) demanded
today that the government reor-
ganization bill be fashioned Into a
two-edged weapon for cnutting fed-
eral expenditures as well ss ineffi-
ciency.
Shortly before the house ap-
proved measure was brought up for
debate In the senate Byrd declared
he would offer some "strong econ-
omy amendments."
"They would provide for re-
trenchment wherever possible.'' he
said, "as s way to start cutting fed-
eral expenditures in the interest
of a balanced budget "
The reorganization debate ap-
peered likely to overshadow for the
present the controversy over anoth-
er question of federal spending—.
President Roosevelt's request-tFa
5150 000 000 emergency relief fund
His recommendation, once turned
down by congress, is pending before
a house subcommittee, which called
WPA Administrator F. C Harring-
ton back to the capitol today for
further examination on relief needs
Administration forces hopes to
bring the bill before the house next
week, although Rep Woodrum (D-
Va), leader of the house economy
bloc, said several more days would
be required for subcommittee hear-
ings.
correct use of the flag and similar subjects drew attention of 150 dele-
gates to the Texas conference of Daughters of the American Revolution
here this afternoon.
The morning session, given over chieny to reports, elimaxed
by the annual memorial service and a luncheon for which Um Wichita
Falls DAR chapter was hostess. ,
"America! Rendezvous with Destiny" was the subject of the address
at 2 o clock by Mrs Digus -from Texas Technological college. Dr Smith,
from Sui Ross State Teacher* college, was to discuss the proposed Big
Bend park.
For the second time today. Mrs. George S Fraps of Dallas, national
vice-chairman of the D. A. R. museum, was to take the floor this after -
--noon During the discussion of the
museum proram which she will
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