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Tune In On KRBC
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 73
Sunday Morning, August 8. 1941 €
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O'Daniel Asks
For Prayers
As Senator
AUSTIN. Aug 2—P—The pray,
ers of Texans when he is sworn in
as United States senator were re-
quested by Governor W Lee O Dan-
lei in the text of his transcribed
Sunday radio program released for
publication today.
Described by ODani.1 as possibly
his last radio talk to the people as
governor, the speech, to be broadcast
from a number of stations a vari-
ous times Sunday largely con-
stituted a review of claimed accom-
plishments of his administration.
The senator-elect concluded the
half-hour-lo, talk with the words:
'si have had the prayers of the
I good people of Texas during my ad-
[ ministration as governor of Texas,
may I ask for your prayers tomor-
i row (Monday) at noon as I take
' the solemn oath as your United,
States senator to serve you and the
people of this nation during these
As An Expert Sees It—
BEHIND WAR NEWS
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Reporter-News Special News Service
The MX weeks which nazi pro-
pagandists proclaimed would see
Russian resistance utterly smashed
by Hitlers steelshod legions ends
with the outcome as uncertain as
It was on that Sunday morning when
the offensive was launched
Within those weeks the great-
Mt battle in history raged. Nine
million or more men have been
• engaged on a 2,000 mile fighting
front. In all probability there
has been the greatest casualty
toll in the blood-spattered war
annals of humanity. Russians.
Germans, Rumanians and Finns
by the hundreds of thousands
are dead, maimed or huddled
only grudgingly and still teaming
with guerrilla, groups far in th’e
rear of nazi front lines.
Russian oil wells, probably the
objective above all else sought
by Hitler when he turned on
his former Moscow "friend", % * 1
still are far distant. Day by day
and night by night Russian
bombers have been hovering
above Germany’s own prime oil ,
source in Rumania, blasting at
3
Sunday Mornii
sou
HOPKINS MEETS STALIN—Harry Hopkins (left), U. S.
lease-lend coordinator, visiting Moscow, is shown with Pre-
mier Joseph Stalin of Russia, with whom he conferred Thurs-
dav. (AP photo by radio from Moscow).
wells, pipelines and refining 6
plants,
There can be little doubt now :
in German high command circles - M
that if nazi and Rumanian armies
do eventually fight their way to ■ 1
physical possession of Russia s great . .
oil fields, the most pros. *
in the
in prison camps.
By reason of its size alone the
struggle baffles efforts to plot its Caspian
contours or assess accurately the ductive high-grade source
strategic effect of vaguely Indi- world, they will find them destroy-
cated day to day changes in front ed. 1
It is made up of three or four bat- No question of private interest or
ties, each In itself greater In size capitalistic investment would deter "
a Russian decision to destroy th o
____ dark hours of world crisis”
Th 1 S naw transport West Point slips into her New The governor explained the pro-
WEST POINT REACHES PIER—The I N mays A naancar, mostly V S con- gram was broadcast by transcrip-
York dock while a crowd waits on the pier togreet her 388 passengers, mostly tion while he and Mrs O’Daniel.
Mar service employes and their families returning from axis nations.____________________alone since tHeir children were
Suar _______—--scattered, were riding a train to
- - Washington. He said it was the
. IF AIT • first time he had been out of the
Japs Gird for Self-Sufficiency,...................-
Hopkin
ive:
Soviet Capital
MOSCOW, Aug 2— (PP —
Lumbar Mill Strike
In New Mexico Ends
I ALAMOGORDO, N. M. Aug. 2
Resumption of work in- the de-
fense-vital mills of the Southwest
Lumber company is scheduled for
Harry Monday following agreement to-
, , 2 day on a flat 9 cent wage increase
Hopkins, personal envoy of Prest-
than any battle of the world war.
Military yardsticks of even recent
war experience are all but useless
to measure its ebb and flow.
Yet out of those tragic six
weeks one lesson of grim sig-
nificance for Hitler has come.
It is that Russian morale at the
fighting front or behind the
lines remains unshaken. The
vital resources in Russia at
wells rather than yield them to the
er-my. Unquestionably a word from
Stalin would touch off the blasts.
109 Yards Building €
Vessels for Navy
Sav Spark Co'
Jan. 17. 1939.
Among asserted achievements of
: his gubernatorial administration.
O’Daniel listed:
Financing old age pensions with army.
$42,000,000 state and national money
dent Roosevelt, left Moscow to-
night with Brig. Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney of the U-ited States
ending a two-day strike.
The walkout or some 140 saw-
yers and mill hands yesterday
morning. In the wake of wage in-
crease demands by the lumber and
FiCiC
Hopkins, who arrived by air from
London Wednesday for a series of
a year:
Providing $3.000.000 annually for conferences with Russian leaders,
aid to dependent children: . tForeien
Making available $1,000,000 a year was seen off by Deputy Foreign
for aid to the blind: Commissar S. A. Lozovsky andoth
teachers retirement er foreign commissariat officials,
U. S. Ambassador Laurence A
buildings for elee- Steinhardt, and British Ambassa-
i dor Sir Stafford Cripps and mem-
submitting a constitutional|bers of the British military mis-
the Russian air and naval base amendment to place the state on sion to Russia
instances of at Vladivostok. a cash basis:
in gasoline i Heavy reinforcements reached :-----------... ------------,
Toivo and the territory of the Japanese pup- and institutions of higher learning: the foreign
The pre- pe: state the past week by way of -...........- - " end - Ped
Korea and 'also directly from J’- from 7 000 pounds to 38,000 over-all
Matching
. — Javan he said -de-| they had information that Japan contributions;
TOKYO Aue 2 P—The Japan-tronuingaid increase in industrial is strongly reinforcing her forces Providing new
ese government — .. replenishment of in Manchukuo and disposing them mosynary institutions
, Ccintep thse she - maintain - thatthey are a serious threat :
bed Sup its already war-greased our standard of living to
domestic economy today to make There were further
the nation economic ally self-se- increased strigenc
ficient and independent of Ameri- and or Regulations in
'‘^e^hontat.ie ness scenes * M Roe for $ d said
told •’•»B«!>./11“:™ ' f^ ef.' Informed quarters said the post-
dispense with the United taxis 210m 5. The private tions taken up placed certain
taxis and automobiles is Russian territory around Vlad ve-
decreasing everywhere, stok in a dangerous position if it
pressing were attacked."
xith her plans for an Vladivostok is on the tip of a
sin -er sphere- narrow segment of territory which
toward Thailand Us: drops down between the Japan
Shanghai Sea and Manchukuo. The Ussuri n •
Prices Lower
sawmill workers union (AFL), was
partially responsible for a shut-
down today on $3,000,000 of de-
fense projects at Fort Bliss, Tex.
The strike agreement, partici-
pated in by State Labor Commis-
sioner Vincent Jaeger left for fu-
ture negotiation additional mat-
ters which, according to Louis
which Hitler grasped seem even
farther from his reach than they
were six weeks ago. His hopes
of seizing by force from Rus-
sia the oil and food stocks
he desperately needs to consol-
idate his continental victories
are waning, not brightening. The
spectre of winter warfare in
Russi- is dogging his generals
Every Berlin war report and Hit-
ler ‘sown cryptic official progress
bulletins reflects increasing fanati-
cal Russian resistance, both by the
army and civilians. Well authenti-
WASHINGON, Aug. 2 (P—The
navy department ’ reported to-
day that 109 private shipyards
were building naval vessels 9
July 1. compared with only 15
cards a year ago..
a cash basis:
Boosting funds for public schools
Hopkins was accompanied to the
frontier by two representatives of
affairs commissariat
Carr president of Southwestern,
embody demands for a sliding In-.
crease of 5 cents an hour for cated neutral eye-witness reports
every $2 increase per 1000 feet in tell of blasted
lumber prices. _ Ukraine
Police were to file a charge of
asault w ith intent to murder against
a. 25-year-old negro man In connect
lion with the stabbing Friday niche
of another negro A J Mann, 142
Plum Mann who had a knife wound
over his left shoulder blade was a
patient in Hendric hospital. His
alleged attacker was arrested at 2
a. m. at Sixth and Plum, the polies
______--,____report showed. Officers said that
grain fields in the the charge would probably be filed
breadbasket surrendered Monday morning. 1
By DAVE <
Associated
The roar Of 1
laden convoy tr
spilt -second pr
across Texas Sa
the greatest pea
in the nations
a significant ph
wak’s role in 1
A few month
these men of
corps were clei
ists, laborers, s
urdav their offi
line that they
The eighth a
of the big Th
meets the Secor
and tumble moi
ed for the geog
' maneuver terr
LLisiana and
000 square miel
starts in Sept
concentration
mid-August. pr
will be held be
starts.
4 won't be 1
civilians who
into the grim
on the plains
Oklahoma and
a real test of
atajor Gener
commander of
officers and ri
the first eche
out of Camp
first nights bi
Simultaneous
‘ f>urday from
Bowie at Brow
movement of t
ed approximat
division of
guardsmen fr
Mexico. Color:
Bone convoy
of Albany, B
Increasing the truck load limit 1
Dome: said Japanese aviation stance banned
could dispense with the United taxis from 6 P ,
States supply of lubricants add- fective immediately
tag that vegetable oils now have use of
successfully been processed as constantly .
aviation oils and 90 percent of Japan appeared to be
used oils are being reclaimed." forward with her plans
The American embargo on mo east Asia co-prosperity
fuels and aviation oil does not by turning
mention Japan said Domei ualle reliable sources in
Put lis competently pointed out said that Tokyo had approached forces it was said, were
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MAT a. tea ‘at: - * SA London - * *. eViadivonon
ed the government’s concern | dar was being attacked
One authoritative source said
today that Britain has "consider-
able confidence ' in Thailand s re-
sistance against reported
in telling Japanese newspap-
ers that “the current inter-
national situation is so tense
that a single spark would be
sufficient to cause an explo-
Nippon Reinforcing
Manchukuo Army
sion."
The economic situation con-
LONDON Aug 2
tative quarters here
weight:
Outlawing force and violence in
strikes.
and a Red army colonel
(Where Hopkins was bound and
the manner of travel were not
mentioned in th a dispatch.)
Abilene’s Largest Store for Men and Boys
Cattle Market
and down to 7 cents on the plain
kine Tobe Martin of Eastland was
a heavy consignor of this class of
stock Jud. Smith was a big buyer ,
I of stockers aending them to grass
! at Dalhart. Stocker yearling’heifers
topped a: 9 1-2 cents.
There were no good stocker calves,
or cows and calves offered. Steer
A straight carload of fat cows
sold for $7.65 per cwt as one of the
features of the Friday sale of the
Taylor County Livestock auction
Consigned by Charley Reichardt
calves topped at 11 1-2 cents. A
few cows and calves sold to S. C.
Ferguson of Hamlin for $93 per
pair
Butcher hogs hit $10 70.
at Sweetwater, the cows went to
O Swift at that price. They averaged
--------------- e e 935 pounds. Reichardt offered a load
P — Authori- ese deamnds for military and °C of two-year-old hellers that sold
today said I onomic concessions for $7.75 to $8.50 per cwt. and
weighed from 800 to 900 pounds.
The cattle market was weak-
er during the week and that was
reflected in the sale. For the
week, some classes of cattle were
off as much as 75 cents per
N cwt., with plain cattle suffering
most.
Dry weather of the past few weeks |
has caused many cattle to be mar-
keted This is indicated in the num-
ber of consignors to the Friday sale,
there being 197. offering 978 head
of cattle.
Butcher cattle topped at a dime
Bulls sold for 9725 per cwt Yearl-
ing steers sold for 9 to 10 1-2 cents
NEW MEDICAL TRAINING CENTER MAY
COST MORE THAN ESTIMATED FIGURE
with the contracting firm on the exchange buildings: two guard-hall .
.on mar sprepa ouses 1 wards w-1 type one The five authorized basic ware-
of work there is ever indication dental building two classrooms for houses will be built on the west side
that the med al replacement cen- mechanics and cooks six admin, of the camp adjoining the 10 com-
ter to be built at Camp Barkeley istration buildings for classrooms: plete warehouses and six more now
will cost con derably more than five warehouses of same size and under construction.
the announced estimated struction as the einal basic I imp-sum construction now in
$3,182,850 warehouses on the west side o. progress at the camp totals ap-
That estimate is for construction camp one fire station one motor proximately $1 600 000 for 336 build-
of 171 buildings and does not m- repair shop one gas station: one ings which will convert Barkeley
clude cost of building necessary wasR rack: one grease rack one into a permanent tent camp
roads parking areas and similar theater one postoffice one, mili- Between 1,500 and 2.000 are now
facilities 1 ary shop general's resi- oyed by the lump-sum contrac-
A J Rife head of the A J Rife dence: two regimental commanders' tors,
construction company Dallas holds residences four officers quarters,
the cost Plus fixed fee contra for and one officers mess, hal__
buildin the replacement center Included in the project too are
Rife new here Thursday night 14 new buildings in the station hos-
but ret urned to Dallas yesterday pitat area They include seven
morning He will be back tomor: wards two quarters for nurses one
row as will w G Reid who will, officers quarters two hospital bar-
be project manager in charge of racks one storehouse and one mess
building the replacement center-----
Ma John w Cope land con- A T
structing quartermag at Cam hinrn ramnino
Barkeley expects soon to receive UuGIU II 91119
authority from the constructing,
q artermaster general To order 1 . . A .
- == . Schedule Oked
facilities for 4.000 ennsted men and -CilVttly U1M.
160 officers will be built direc ■
east of the area occupied by the
180 field artillery of the 45th dive
iston Surveys are being made bi o. the 10th
the engineering department of the nies was approved Saturday by the
CoM AnA guards adjutant general and will
buildings authorized include 66 oe put into effect at the next
barracks, each of 63-man capacit meeting of the companies Ma;
IE mess halls each of 250 capa .r T.N Carswell battalion comman-
16 supply houses four headquar- der said yesterday
ters buildings 12 recreation build- The first three periods of each
ings two infirmaries three post, meeting will be identically com-
----- - . ed of 10 minutes of physical
A four-weeks schedule Of train-
ing for the Texas Defense Guards
battalion rifle compa-
Between 1500 and 2.000 are now
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2. five nute
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1 owed by a . five minute
in the last 40 minutes of each
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guardsmen will study a variety of
subjects
For the first meeting the final
period will be devoted to the man-
uel of arms individual instruction
stressing proper carriage of piece
and position while marching If
rifles are not available the period
will be devoted to military cour-
tesy and inter guard instruction
and duty
Second meeting final period will
be devoted to interior guard duty
general orders special orders tour
of dut and practice of forming
guard posting reliefs and dispo-
sition of prisoners
Third meeting, will Include a
study of riot duty with practice of
riot formations as skirmishers
squad wedge platoon wedge, squad
diagonal and close squad column
F ‘ meeting n the series •
return to mapuel of arms for squad
and platoon drill stressing carri-
age and proper angle of rifle fol-
owed be an. Ir pection check of
individuals and equipment. 1
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week is expected to return to her
home today.
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