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1
mber 1, 1940° 1
Sunday Morning, September 1; 1940
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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PAGE FIVE
Bensan
Grammar
coach,
school
•BRITISH GRAB GERMANS
: FROM AMERICAN VESSEL
car, Mrs. Elsie
Imogene Schure.
ink Helzer, Mil-
Logan Clay, Billy
atterson, Mamie
ylor Mrs. Elmo
on Green prin-
The local school
its term Monday
g to Supt. Ira
public Is Invited
An enrollment 0
ted.
ors and seniors
Thursday, and
phomores Friday,
i Monday morn-
school student
day and Friday,
, Pg. 5. Col. 1
By JOHN A. MOROSO
JERSEY CITY. Aug. 31—()-
Puzzled officers and passengers of
the American export liner Exoch-
orda told tonight how British au-
•horities at Bermuda, disregarding
the captain's protests, removed
three German subjects from he
ship without explanation and seized
rolls of war film from an American
photographer after a scuffle.
a The vessel, which arrived today
from Lisbon, with 166 passengers.
also lost 425 pouches of mail to
British censors at the Bermuda
stop.
Capt. Wenzell Habel said he be-
lieved the incident was the first
Osince the start of the war in which
passengers had been taken off a
vessel flying the American flag
IGNORE PROTEST
He said British authorities asked
by name for Dr. Herbert Block. 37.
eAdolf Sandhaus, 41, and Hans
•Schiffmann, 33.
The British made no comment.
Capt. Habel said, and refused either
to entertain his protest of their
action or to explain why they
EAR
that he was enroute to Boston to
teach political economy in a col-
lege. They did not recall the name
of the college.
Schiffmann had informed ship-
board acquaintances that he was
enroute to Richmond, Va., to visit
relatives whom he did not name
More exciting to passengers
than the removal of the three
Germans, however, was the
seizure of film from Frank W.
Van Lew, of Lawton, Okla., a
photographer employed by the
European picture service, s con-
tinental organisation with out-
lets in the United States.
Van Lew said he had been given
16 rolls of German war films in
Switzerland and that some of the
films, made by Germans, showed
action in the historic British re-
treat from Dunkerque, France.
When the British censor demand-
ed the films the photographer said
a general scuffle ensued on the
ship’s deck.
Later, he said, the censor went
ashore and "came back with three
big police officers who took them
from me forcibly.’
Van Lew said that during the
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wanted the three passengers.
• He said that they questioned a
fourth passenger, Sigmund Egel-
hardt. 59, a jeweler and uncle of
Sandhaus, but did not take him . , .
off past several months he had sent
Sandhaus, passengers related,
told the British he was an Austrian
•who never had been in Germany
but who had spent months In Ger-
man concentration camps in Bel-
gium and France before he was re-
leased after the capitulation of
France
• Dr. Block had told passengers
SCHOOLS-
(Continued from Page 4)
@and formal opening of the local
system will be held Sept. 9 Supt.
E. L. Farr announced
KNOX CITY — Seven Knox
I county schools open Monday of this
week, including the local system.
Others are Union Grove, Munday,
t @Goree, Vera, Truscott and Gilli-
land Benjamin will open Sept. 16
COLEMAN-Registration of high
school students will be held thro-
ughout the coming week, in ac-
cordance with a lengthy alpha-
gbetical schedule already announc-
Ped
ANSON—Registration for the
new term will begin Thursday of
this week, with seniors and juniors
reporting on that day. Freshmen
and sophomores will enroll Friday.
@Ward school enrolling will begin
Thursday morning, and regular
classes will start the same day.
High school classes will start Sept,
9 Supt. E M Connell announces
the following faculty high school
—Frank Collins, principal; Coach
Oc B Roland, Leonora Barrett. Hy-
. hernia Grace. Elvira Marr. Emma
, Robinson. Hesta Harris, Sybil Pir-
tle. Mesdames Amy Fry Gentry,
G P Hudson and Gordon Beck. |
and Assistant Coach Chesley Mc-
aDonald. Ward school — Principal
"Carl Savage Dorothy Castles, Dor- |
othy Wood, Rose Evelyn Arnett.
Rosalie Fry. Mesdames Sally Ho-
nea Mell Barklev Jack Nolan. Hub
Holland. Josephine Tidwell, Rob-
mert Nelson and R T Penn
• LAMESA — The Lamesa school
term begins Monday of this week
V. Z Rogers is superintendent
Others on the faculty: high school
—Principal F " McCollum, Com-
mie Zell Barnes Lovie Beavers, F
OL Gregg. Florence Griffith, Char-
les T Hatchett: Mr and Mrs. R
H Huddleston. C E King. Mrs
‘ Ruth McLaughlin Rosalie Mont-
gomery. Reuben Neie D W Ogle
tree. Roy F Powell, Bess Shanks
, Wendell T Siebert Carr Spray-
Coerrv. Bert C Williams, Mrs Ar-
minda Yates. Elementary school-
Principal G M Roberts, Mrs. Ce-
cile R Barron Pinkie B Brack,
Verdie Brock Thelma Carter. War-
dine Clarman. Vivian Cook. Pau-
aline Dunlap. Marguerite Flaniken.
“Mrs. Grave Garvin Mrs Valda
Guynes, Mrs Myrtle Hardin. Lloyd
Harris. Laura Kelsay. Mrs Flor-
ence Lawson Mrs Alice Lindsey.
Lawrence B McAnally Toylee Mc-
Clinton. Bible Mosby Mrs D W
GOgletree, Lob Rister Robert V
Short. Geraldine Smart. Jeanette
Townsend. Lorraine Wilkowske and
Mrs Mildred Wood Teachers in
the negro school are George S
Durham and Mrs Florence Butler
Woods.
• ALBANY-High school registra-
tion was completed last week for
opening of the school term here
Tuesday Supt C B Downing an
nounces several new faculty ad 11-
tions. They are Mollie Fra ah
@rouchstone. McMurry college grad-
"uate. public school music super-
visor: Woodrow Wilson high
school and Maurise Putnam and
Nadine Hobbs, grade school teach-
ers. Others on the faculty high
school—Principal I M Chism,
•red Barnett. Gaylena Bridges,
Virginia Clarke Gene Crotty, C.
E. Hill. P A Hudson, Carrie In-
mon. Helen Jackson. Coach Jim
T Mobley, Russell E McKiski, Wil-
lie Jim Ratliff Sam P Spears,
Helen Whiteside Elementary
“School—Principal Connie Smith,
Mrs Nancy A Smith, Marjorie
' Beringer Cella Overton, Jerry
Alice Pittman, Melissa King, Ra-
chael Maker Kate Suther, Fran-
ces Cla kt. Lucille Cottrell. Lottie
Gievelk a. Wilma Windsor
HASKFLL — The local school
year will begin Sept 18 Complete
faculty follows high school—Prin-
cipal C. B Ramsey Perry Mason.
Homer Neal Clyde Dean, Pveatt
McCollum. Jessie Vick Willie
Giley. Madeline Breedlove. Mary
Couch Haskell Stone R. L Moore.
South Ward—Mrs Irene Ballard,
principal: Mrs W M Murphy.
Lucy P’Pool, Mrs. Scott W. Greene
Jr Fay L Wilson, Mamie Jones,
North ward—Madalin Hunt, May
Wields, (Linnis L Garrison, Mrs C.
B. Ramsey Mattie Letha Pippen,
‘ Mrs. Ralph Duncan, Arnolia Serv-
er. Mrs Cretia Brooks, Mrs Ada
Rike, Mrs M D Crow Ruby Fitz-
gerald Joe Meacham will be high
@hool band director. ,
2.200 still pictures to the United
States by clipper planes, with as-
surance that the planes would not
stop at Bermuda, but that only 166
pictures ever reached New York.
GOLD ALSO CARRIED
Among other things taken from
him, Van Lew said, was his Phi
Beta Kappa certificate and his
University of Oklahoma diploma
Seventy of the passengers were
United States citizens and the re-
mainder mainly Jewish refugees
In the ship's strongbox was $2,-
964,350 in gold from the Banco
Portugal? consigned to the Fed-
eral Reserve bank, and a private
case of gold and jewels worth $42,-
000. from the Bank of London and
South Africa, consigned to the
Commercial Bank and Trust com-
pany in New York.
House Passage
Sure for Draft
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — (PP) —
Members of the military committee
said today that informal surveys
showed the house would pass the
Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill
next week, but that there was con-
siderable opposition to proposals to
permit the government to condemn
and take over private industrial
plants for defense.
Some legislators went so far as to
predict privately that the industry
provision would be omitted from the
house bill on the final vote. They
said, however, that a modification
permitting government operation of
these facilities would stand at least
an even chance of being accepted.
Coming quickly to the forefront of
the capitol discussion on the legis-
lation, this issue temporarily re-
legated to the background argu-
ments over the fundamental pro-
visions for registering men from 21
to 44, inclusive, and making them
liable for a year's military training.
BATTLE ON AGE
A battle is expected over the age
provisions, however, as the senate
voted for registration only of men
31 to 30, inclusive.
Confident that the conscription
bill would be enacted without de-
lay, congress leaders optimistically
set their sights for a clean calen-
dar within two or three weeks in
order to be in a position to take
an indefinite recess or, possibly, a
sine die adjournment.
Many individual members have
indicated they would like to go
home soon to remain at least until
after election day.
The senate amendment, author-
izing the government to take over
industrial facilities found neces-
sary for defense if a satisfactory'
arrangement with the owner could
not be reached, ran into some op-
position in the house military com-
mittee.
Markets to Close
Farmer Held in
Slaying of Wife
HENRYETTA, Okla., Aug. 31-
(PP)—Critically injured in fighting
arrest, Fred Berry, 45-year-old far-
mer. was charged with murdering
his 32-year-old estranged wife to-
day after a brief series of violent
episodes.
Mrs Berry was shot four times,
an officer was slightly wounded
and Berry was laid low with an
iron pipe He was given an even
chance to recover.
Police Chief Tom Liddell gave
this account:
Berry drove to a house a mile
As Assailant Officially Charged—
AMERICAN GIRL DETAINED IN TROTSKY CASE
MEXICO CITY, Aug 31.—(P)-
Judge Raul Carranca y Trujillo to-
night formally charged Frank
Jackson with the slaying of Leon
Trotsky, exiled bolshevist, and or-
dered him held for trial.
The judge also formally charged
Jackson’s friend, Sylvia Ageloff, of
Brooklyn, N. Y.. wtih complicity in
the slaying and ordered her held
for trial also
The decision in Miss Ageloff’s
case came as a surprise as police
privately had expressed the opinion
she would be released
Police said Jackson, a mysterious
foreigner of still undetermined na-
tionality, would be held in the
station house instead of being
transferred to the penitentiary as
is customary. Unofficially, they said
they were fearful of a plot against
his life. a
Miss Ageloff also will be confined
in a precinct station cell when she
has recovered sufficiently from her
nervous condition to be removed
from the hospital. * •
Trotsky died last week several
hours after a blow from a pickax
split his skull.
NEW YORK. Aug 31—(PP)— All
U. S. Financial exchanges and
commodity market, will be closed
Monday, Sept. 2. Labor day.
PENNEY'S FEATURE
FALL SH
FOR THE
EMPLOYED AT KER
MIT—J. C. Wilson, pic-
tured above, has been
elected choral director of
Kermit high school. Wil-
son was graduated from
McMurry college this
year. At Kermit he will
teach theories of music
and direct the boys’, girls’
and mixed choruses.
west of here where his wife was
staying, called her to the door and
shot her three times in the chest
.MOTORIST CHASED
The farmer put the wounded wo-
man in his car and wrecked it
at the edge of town. Her screams
attracted passerby who called police
and an ambulance
Walter D. Cline
Is Seriously III
WICHITA FALLS, Aug. 31—(A)
—Attending physicians tonight de-
Texas Newsman Ends
45th Year of Work
DALLAS. Aug 31.—(PP)—Charles
A. Price of the Texas Associated
Press editorial staff completed at
4 p. m. today his 45th continuous
year with the organization.
For years Price who joined the
Associated Press at New York City
in 1895, served in the traffic di-
vision and saw many great early
day news stories flash across its
wires.
Among those he recalls vividly
are the laska gold rush, the sink-
ing of the battleship Maine, the
battle of Manila bay and the Boer
and Russo-Japanese wars.
Price also served for years as a
traveling representative visiting
editors of member newspapers
throughout the United States.
He came to Texas in 1930.
A motorist attempted to take
Mrs. Berry to the hospital in his
car but was halted by Berry who
flourished a pistol and chased him
down the highway. Berry returned
to the scene and again shot his
wife in the chest.
Policeman Homer Howard and
ambulance driver Alvie Buchanan
arrived and the officer ordered
Berry to surrender. Berry fired, the
bullet grazing Howard's head. How-
ard shot Berry through the left |
arm.
Buchanan felled the farmer with
a pipe and took the couple to a hos- .
pital where Mrs. Berry died a few
minutes later. |
Wedding of Potosi
Couple Announced
Announcement has been made of
the marriage on August 27 of Dore-
tha Rogers daughter of Mr. and
Mrs D L. Rogers of Potosi, and
Herbert L. Williams, son of Mr
and Mrs John L. Williams, who
live on Abilene route 5.
The couple will live at 2833
Hickory street. Abilene Mr Wil-
liams is an employe of an Onyx
Refinery filling station.
scribed the condition of Walter D
Cline, immediate past shrine im-
perial potentate, as satisfactory but
still serious.
Cline was ill or a heart ailment.
The Wichita Falls, oil operator was
stricken last night en route to Fort
Worth on a business trip
Finds His Relative
KINSTON, N. C., Aug. 31—()-
National guard Sergeant Charles
W. Farmer told how, on a dark
night, he stumbled over a grave on
the Civil war battlefield at Vicks-
burg, Miss., where his outfit camp-
ed en route home from the Louis-
iana maneuvers.
The inscription on the tomb-
stone: "Lieut. William Farther, 81M
Illinois regiment'’—Charles great
great uncle, who had not been
heard from since the day he went
to war.
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More than 600 Taylor county
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1941 wheat crop before deadline
Saturday.
A last-day rush brought more than
100 wheat growers to the county
AAA office Saturday.
Last year, 476 farmers bought
wheat insurance from the feedral
government.
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