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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune in on KRBC
PAGE THREE
December 30, 1941
THRILLS
Tuesday Evening, December 30, 1941
Guard Auto Tires,
Urges Police Chief
NOTED SUFFRAGIST
Ln’s National league
rictory—because the
Jason-lone hattle with ,
• uis Cardinals kept .
ins in a continuous
Itement. The triumph
gers, a team popular
I, climaxed a 20-
O
• Chief ol Police T. A. Hackney to-
day warned Abilene motorists to
take .every possible precaution
against theft of automobile tires,
. now that rationing of new tires has
been ordered
• Hackney said that already a wave
of tire and wheel thefts has broken
out here, and he stated that it will
। take the cooperation of the public
with the police department to keep
it curbed.
a Three motorists reported loss of
Wires and wheels during the week-
end
As No. 1 precaution, Hack-
ney urges all automobile own-
er, to take the number, of
their tires in order that they
a may be positively identified
• when they are recovered.
“We could find s lot of stolen
tires st second hand establishments,
but we can not prove it unless we
know the numbers,” he pointed out.
ists lock their cars in garages rather
than leaving them outside—this, for
two purposes. :
"In the first place, the tires will
be safer, and in the second place,
if a thief breaks Into a garage and
steals a tire, that’s burglary, a fel-
only offense for which the thief can
be indicted by grand jury and sent
to the penitentiary on conviction."
the chief said.
On the other hand, theft of tires
is not a crime punishable by peni-
tentiary sentence unless enough
tires are taken to amount to more
than $50 in value.
Cars left on streets at night will
be easy marks for crafty tire
thieves. Hackney warns.
Other precautionary measures
suggested were locking the tires
within trunks with inside locks, or
if none of the above suggestions can
be met, put the spare time in the
house for the duration
Hackney made no effort to
HORIZONTAL
1,5,10 Pictured
late suffragist
14 Grandparental
15 Follow. ,
It Air (comb
form).
17 Divan.
1B Sloth.
18 Lone Scout
(abbr.).
20 Sea swallow.
21 Tendency.
23 Sheltered
Answer to Previous Puszle 13 In that place.
5 Ml HOVER 22 Doctor (abbr.)
PAI ADOEO 24 Pertaining to
EDEL ANOLM the liver.
REX
28 Having ears.
RMART 30 Hostelry.
LEDARTER 32 Assam silk-
HATOPNTOCALM E worm.
OTOREMTETRAY 36 Indian clan
ONSLAT - Asymbols.
38 Head covering
40 Combines.
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aide.
24 King of Judea
in B. c. 40-4. 45 Symbol for
25 Suffix. iron.
MBETRAY
JENDHSLs CROVER
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NTEWAGE UNABF
Twor AVER—A
26 Woody plant. 46 Ripped.
27 Prophet. 48 Courteous.
30 Enoun so Type of jacket 4 Tilts.
31 Church part. 51 Pronoun.
33 Opposed to off. 53 Like.
34 God of war.
NEW 41 Skirmishes.
- 43 Sacred vocal
VERTICAL composition.
Subdue. 44 Egg-shaped.
2 Elephant tusk. 45 She was the
—— woman to
3 Out of danger
minimize the seriousness the tire
theft racket may develop
•The average man can't buy new
“If a car owner who loses tires has
The numbers, and we find that those
tires have been sold to a second
hand dealer, all we have to do is tires, so used tires are going to
walk in and take possession.'
Instructed Verdict
For the Plaintiff
Advancing in Libya—
AMERICAN NEWSMAN TAKES’ TOWN FOR BRITISH
Wood’s National Open
pionship triumph-
sod, suffering from a a
ly and tightly corG 3
polo belt, outshot the
1st to finally win a
Ir having been run-
ic very big champion-
USE GARAGES 1.
Hackney also suggests that motor- declared
bring premiums and there will be
plenty of thieves after them," he
TWO BILLION DOLLAR CUT IN
.GOVERNMENT EXPENSE URGED
S Prep
WASHINGTON Dec 30—UP)—!
An economy program to slash $2,-.
The Brookings research experts
decided that the curtailment of
$2,000,000,000 anuually “can be made
ngelo
‘agles yesterday began
for what Coa ch How-,
ars will be the tough-
Int of the district 3AA
085,000,000 from non-defense federal without great difficulty."
expenditures was proposed today in Nui-ucicnipe capenuntureo „. tase
Ma Brookings Institution report hold- federal government have been at
ing that such savings are necessary ( the - -----
for efficient prosecution of the war.
Prepared by Henry P Seidemann,
the report recommended that agri-
cultural and public welfare agencies
bear the brunt of the cuts—that
*$625,000,000 be cut from agricultural
budgets and $615,000,000 from pub-
Non-defense expenditures of the
rate of approximately $6,500,-
1st game on the Eagles’
i is carded for San An-
esday night, Jan. 6. - ■
ts have for years been,
byers of the Millermen.
fly ever beating them.
Iways been difficult to
eky Rundell boasts
leterans from last sea-
eluding Bill Jones, on. 1
performers in the dis-
worked on defense for
then participated in a
lineup remained the
the Christmas holt »
Ing Gone Spires and
1 forwards: Taylor
land Don Cranfill and .
I guards
Ins operatives include
I John Higdon, J
by Patton and Blu
On. who lettered last
as ineligible for the
les this time was one
i goalers of the drill.
lie welfare costs.
The report was made public only
three days after the congressional
special joint economy committee
recommended a cut of $1,301,075,000
in expenditures not directly con-
Plain Dresses
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(Preston Grover, a native of
Farmington, Utah, who lists
farming, ranching and work in
smelters and sugar mills as
previous occupations, is a
former captain of artillery of
the United States organized re-
serves who joined the Associat-
ed Press staff at Salt Lake City
in 1927. For three years he
conducted a daily column of
Washington political gossip.
“Washington Daybook." A
crack shot with rifle and pis-
tol. Grover described the fol-
were 600 resident Arabs plus sev-
eral hundred coming from the sur-
rounding desert to enjoy the plun-
dering.
MOB QUIETED
A mob of Arabs gathered around
us in the middle of the street as
we reached' a hotel where the man-
ager spoke English
' Tell these Arabs that If loot-
ing and shooting is not stopped
immediately the English will exe-
cute at least 50 when they enter
I the town.” I directed the hotel
1 keeper.
At the same time I motioned to
five or six Arabs to come forward
and hear what was said
the center of the wide valley. The
columh had encountered no Ital-
ian* during the day so I felt sure
they were in retreat far ahead.
Thinking it would be safe to
walk into Barce. I set cur.
When barely out of sight of the
motor column. I could hear much
shooting in Barce, but with my
glasses I could make out no defense
works.
A mile farther along the road
I asked an Italian farmer
CHICAGO Dec. 30—.S>—Plain-
tiff being the party of the first
part. Walter P. Armstrong of Mem-
phis. Tenn., president of the Ameri-
can Bar association, deposes, alleges
contends, swears (not under oath)
that, to wit
"American lawyers don't know
how to read and write—effectively."
Said plaintiff further states, in a
speech before the Association of
American Law Schools today, that:
Many B A s from the blue rib-
bon colleges do not possess the fac-
ulty to read; they are merely im-
pressionistic readers.
Few briefs and not many op-
inions are written in lean, limpid,
concise English Contracts. Inden-
tures and pleadings are not infre-
quently embedded in jargon. x x x
Not a few are so phrased that the
experienced lawyer finds it difficult
to understand them on the nth
reading
Plaintiff rests. __________
Germany Runs Short
On Grain for Bread
what the shooting was about,
and be replied, “Arabs.”
I put two good rocks in my
pocket, picked up a stick and
went on.
By then the shooting in • all
quarters of Barce was growing in
intensity and I was becoming
lowing unarmed adventure in a
note to his New York desk as
“absolutely screwball, but an
unadorned description of what
happened.")
By PRESTON GROVER
1 WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
NEAR BENGASI IN LIBYA. Dee
23.—(Delayed) —P — Armed with
two rocks and a stick an Ameri-
can newspaper correspondent walk-
receive a vote
for the U. S.
presidential
nomination.
47 Memorized
57 Rugged crest 8 Regulations. role.
of a mountain. 9 Copper. 49 Device for
10 Provides food. " holding work.
____________11 Look askance. 51 Mutilate.
61 RajaK’s wife. 12 Feathered 52 Age.
62 Matching shaft used as 54 Perceive.
groups, a weapon. 58 Half an cm.
55 To weary.
56 Apportion.
35 Symbol for
ruthenium.
37 New Bruns-
wick (abbr.). 59 Existence.
38 Toiletry case. 60 Let it. stand.
42 Mystic
ejaculation.
44 Norse god.
5 Pasture.
6 Imbecile.
1 We.
8 Regulations.
plenty nervous
From the direction of the center ;
(of town came a horse and buggy
carrying two Italians and a native,
the latter with a rifle. I stopped
them
“Are you a British officer?"
one of them asked in French.
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ed five miles ahead of a British
armored column to Barce, entered
the town alone, quieted rioting
Arabs and organized an official
Italian reception committee to
welcome the British who arrived an
hour later. • kilometers back and asked them
The correspondent was this to take me to the police station
The rifleman jumped out of the
“No. American
eorrespon-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.--
Germany the agriculture depart-
ment reported today, has encounter-
ed trouble in her campaign lor a
bigger 1942 crop of the bread grains
so important to Europe’s food sup- writer,
ply. .. , „ .| The British armored column was | buggy. I took his place and we
Unfavorable fall weathesbar am | winding through a mountain pass drove into town.
acute shortage of farmae the toward Bengasi when it was fore-; Rifles were firing in all quarters
portediyi have interfered, "material ed to stop to repair the road blown
Narkaetfor "seedings" or "Winter up by the retreating Italians at a
bread grains for harvest next sum.1 point five miles east of Barce and
mer 6 55 miles east of Bengasi.
wintry weather set in early this HEARS SHOOTING
year especially in southern coun- The little town of white Italian-
tries, and checked plantings. As a style houses was easily visible in
consequence, seeded acreages of
winter wheat and rye generally have
not come up to expectations. The
department said it was possible that
the total acreage may be below the
low level of the past season.
dent," I replied.
“Good,” was the reply.
I told them the British were five
| of the town. There were some
hand grenade explosions, too.
I asked one of the Italians why
they did not put a stop to the
looting and he replied that there
| were only five gendarmes and 100
Italians in the city, while there
They took to their heels with
the message. The mob melted
and as the message was broad-
cast. quiet came over the town.
In 20 minutes scarcely a shot
could be heard.
A young sergeant gendarme,
who was chief of police, appeared
with his four policemen. The hotel
keeper sent for the mayor.
The mayor, who also was the
town doctor, came from the hos-
pital with an overcoat pulled over
his white surgeon's gown. He said
that the last Iulian soldiers had
' left early in the day, but that the
main force had left two days earl-
| ier.For two days the Arabs had
been looting unchecked.
The mavor waited in the hotel
while a French-speaking druggist,
i the chief of pciice and I drove in
an automobile to the edge of town
where the armored cars were just
approaching.
We piloted them to the hotel, and
the lieutenant was presented to the
mayor.
Minter’s
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59
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000.000 a year since July 1. 1940. The
institution recommendation thus
would reduce non-war costs by.
nearly one-third
The report said there "would seem
to be no good reason why virtually 1 1ITCT TTV A C DAVC IKI I TAIILADAA .
all new construction for flood con- | WIG | LY A\ KI TY\ INIF
trol, reclamation- and irrigation. I VVLDI ILAAD DU 1 J II UNVII VAN
non-defense water power projects. 1
and river and harbors improve-
ments should not cease during the
emergency."
60
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Sam Wylie Matthews. In the navy
nearly two years, was visiting in
Jayton with his parents, Mr and
duty, going from Abilene to Los
Angeles by plane.
The St Lawrence Seaway, the -—----
Florida ship canal and the Tom- Mrs, L. H Matthews. last.October
The institution report recom- bigee river development in Alabama
mended these specific economies: ■ were among the projects that would
Flood control, rivers and harbors, be shelved
etc. $350,000,000, e ---------------------------------—
netted with the war program.
G Agriculture, 625,000,000.
Public domain. 19,000,000.
Public welfare. 615,00,000
Funeral Today for
Highway development. 171 000.000 co r
Executive and general activities Cedar 80 Farmer
1,5,000,000 - VUUUl VOP luillivi
Transfers of costs to state and
@ocal governments. 300,000,000. Funeral was to be held at the
Total, $2,085,000,000. Eula Methodist church at 2 30 this
■------------------;-----------------afternoon for E R Wright, 80. re-
1
Take
now!
—home on his first furlough. He
had been there two days when he
was ordered back to immediate
By Ignoring Doctor,
He Saves His Nose
OAKLAND, Calif . Dec 30—-
Patrolman Earl Rumetsch had fore-
sight in ignoring his physician s ad-
vice. They counseled an operation
but he resorted only to tape after
his nose was punched awry by a
man he sought to arrest 10 days
ago.
Christmas ere he was punched
by seven men—one blow striking
his nose—as he sought to arrest a
drunk.
Now physicians say he needs no |
operation His nose is back in line
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man. boarded ship and sailed for
the Pearl Harbor base The family
1 has not had word from him since
ond-largest from the Jones estate
in Taylor county.
Suffer Distress At This Time!
[ the Japanese attack
1 He is just hslf of the Matthews
/ family serving in Uncle Sam’s
\ forces. His brother, 23, is stationed
1 at Fort Bliss as * technicalsur-
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DALLAS, Dec 30. P—It is co- |
operation not competition which
is the more vital element in the |
evolution of mankind.
It is not always the strong who |
survive
Dr Alfred E Emerson, president
of the Ecological Society of Amer-
les avoided specific application of
these scientific statements, to the
world's current turmoil, but he did
hold out some hope for improve.
| ment in the way humans live with
each Lothfer
Dr Emerson, who teaches zoology
st the University of Chicago, ad-
dressed the society last night in
connection with the American As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Science meetings
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further developed, he said, should
some dsy achieve s more harmon-
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L. H. GOODWIN JR.
spent six months in San Diego, and
then was sent to Hawaii. He is now
a third class storekeeper
His mother explained that he was
In the first draft and the only man
out of the first 60 called to pass
the physical examination and be
classed in 1-A. He has a sister here,
Mrs Kenneth Ross.
Kiest Estate Pays
Third Largest Tax
AUSTIN. Dec. 30—S’—Comptrol-
lers department officials today re-
ported they had received $421,802
state inheritance taxes from the es,
tate of Edwin J Klest. publisher of
the’Dallas Times-Herald who died
last August.
The comptroller’s report listed the
net value of the Dallas philanth-
ropists estate as $4,846,335 and its
gross value as $5,028,954.
The officials said the state tax
was the third largest i history The
largest was from the M. F Yount
estate in West Texas and the sec-
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