Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 312, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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DENOUNCES POLISH TREATY, LONDON NAVAL PA
Warsaw Circles See Negotiations WithReich
Officials Are
Not Surprised
By Hitler Talk
Sources Emphasize That
Germany And Not Poland
% Broke Off Peace Treaty
WARSAW — (UP) — High
political circles expressed be
lief today that Adolf Hitler had
not definitely closed the door
to further negotiations between
Germany and Poland.
Political quarters said that it
appeared Poland had no choice
r except German denunciation of
the non aggression treaty which
has to run until 1944. It was
emphasized that Germany and
not Poland was abandoning the
agreement.
Actually official circles were
not surprised by Hitler's action.
o —
* Street Surfacing
Is Completed On
Eight Block Area
Surfacing of eight blocks on
Fowler, Eleventh, Beall and
Walnut with asphalt was com-
, pleted this week and the city
engineer's department is work-
ing up additional surfacing pro-
jects on Walnut, Twelth, Oak,
ana Silas.
Streets included on the third
WPA paving project yet to be
surfaced are:
Five blocks on Walnut, 6 on
Twelfth, one block on Oak, from
Eleventh to Twelfth; one block
a) on Silas, from Beall to McCaul-
ley. t
A project is being worked up
to pave with concrete an alley,
for half a block, east from Elm
between First to Broadway,
between Elm and Locust, was
recently paved. Completion of
this latest alley will provide
concrete alleys east and west
from Oak to Cedar streets.
Projects completed within the
- last few days were:
Three blocks on Walnut, from
Fourth to Seventh; two on Fow-
ler, between Tenth and Ele-
venth and Twelfth and Thirteen-
th; one on Eleventh, from Lo-
cust to Oak: one on Beall, from
Josephine to Silas: and one on
Oak, from Tenth to Eleventh.
It is expected that a work
order for the fourth city WPA
V> project, totaling $211,490, and
city-wide in scope, will be receiv-
ed here within the next two
weeks.
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AFL Indicates
Business Trend
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Business the first four months
of 1939 drifted gradually down-
ward, the American Federation
of Labor said in its monthly bus-
iness survey.
Business is now 30 per cent
below normal, the AFL report-
ed, but is not expected to drop
to last year's level, when it de-
clined to 40 per cent below av-
erage levels.
f The AFL reiterated its plea
for a centralized planning board
to coordinate national econom-
ic activities.
Sweetwater .Reporter
VOLUME XLI
SWEETWATER, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939
NUMBER 312
Mrs. Lindbergh> Children Reach U. S*
Charge On Nanchang
Bayonets poised, members of a Japanese assault unit thrust i
at Nunrhang, China, capital of Klangsi province.
75 Policemen
Escort Family
Off French Ship
Flying Colonel In Dayton,
Unable To Come To N. Y.
And Meet Wife, Sons
NEW YORK — (UP) — Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh and her
two children arrived today from
France on the French Jiner
Champlain and came ashore with
an escort of 75 policemen.
A nurse carried the younger
Lindbergh child, two-year-old
Land, and Jan, age 6, walked
beside his mother down the
gangplank to the freight level
where an automobile with New
Jersey license plates awaited
them.
Col. Lindbergh, on a tour of
the country for the army air
service which has drafted him
to active duty, was in Dayton,
Ohio.
Holland's Air Defense
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Denies Germany
Threatens America
BERLIN—(UP)—Adolf Hitler today re-
jected President Roosevelt's peace mes-
sage, caustically and point by point.
He denounced German treaties with'
Great Britain and Poland.
He demanded the return of Danzig and a'
German path across the Polish corridor into
East Prussia.
He offered direct negotiations with any
other power.
In a strongly worded speech to the Ger-
man reichstag that was packed with defiant
threats and declara-
Two Boy Scout
Events Planned
tions of peace, Hitler
characterized Presi-
dent Roosevelt's mes-
sage to the dictators as a breach rrii • _ yrj l t
of good manners. He chided tlnj I J. U1S W CC-KenC!
president for not solving his j two jj0y Scout events have
own domestic problems. been scheduled for Sweetwater
All of Germany and a laise district members this weekend,
part of the world listened as
Hitler spoke. Every form of acti-
vity in Germany was suspended.
Hitler laid down his position Trail council round-up at Big
clearly. He considers the Polish- Spring May 5 and 6 is to be
A practice meet in prepara-
tion for the annual Buffalo
Three Sweetwater!
Solons' Views On I Musicians Win
Hitler Talk Vary
Whether Europe's small nations admit fear of .Nazi Fascist ag-
gression or not, they are not neglecting preparations for de-
fense against possible invasion. Peace-loving iMitchmin at
the Hague, are silhouetted against a >k,v in which planes of the
newly modernized Netherlands air force practice defense
maneuvers.
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Official and congressional quar-
ters commented in guarded
fashion today on Hitler's ad-
dress.
Administration officials " said
nothing for publication, but pri-
vately some expressed ihe view
that Hitler's statements seemed
to leave ony a slim prospect for
peaceful negotiation ot Euro-
pean differences.
A few congressmen and sen-
ators indicated that the speech
was not as strong as anticipat-
ed.
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River Bargemen
Out On Strike
ST. LOUIS — (UP) — Felix
Siren, chamber of the general
council of river workers, said
the strike of 3,500 barge and
dock workers in protest against
breakdown of contract negotia-
tions between the Inland Boat-
men's union and the federal
barge lines has halted operations
of the government-owned com-
mon carrier on the Mississippi
river and three of its tribu-
taries.
Federal Mediator John R.
Steelman said he considered the
situation "slightly hopeful."
New Deal At Nude Ranch; Police
Force Sally To Make Girls Dudes
SAN FRANCISCO — (UP) —1 her Golden International exposi
Sally Rand, the show girl who
made nudity pay, capitulated to
a police edict and put brassieres
—mesh ones—on the girls of
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Fair and
warmer, tonight and Saturday.
Maximum temperature yester-
day, 82 degrees. Low last night,
57 degrees. Reading at 2 p. m.
today, 83 degrees.
WEST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy tonight and Saturday; light
showers in west portion tonight.
Warmer in north and east cen-
tral portions Saturday.
EAST TEXAS — Generally
fair tonight and Saturday; warm-
er in north Saturday.
tion nude ranch and her petite
little "Miss America" in another
of her gayway shows
It was sort of a compromise
as police Captain John J. O'
Meara also had suggested the
girls wear panties, instead of
G-strings.
With the girls dressed more to
the police censor's taste, and
with Sally a little fearful too
much clothes would ruin her
business—which has been ex-
ceptionally good—the Sally Rand
nude ranch and the "Miss Am-
erica" show reopened in time
to catch evening crowds at the
fair on Treasure Island.
For a time, though, it looked
like a standoff as Sally Insist
ed she would rather close up
shop than accept the police die
turn.
1 j Judge Reprimands
Child's Parents
In Divorce Case
"You have placed a responsi-
bility on the court that should
not be his," Judge A. S. Mauzey
yesterday afternoon told the j
principals in the case of Ilia !
Brand vs. Dude Brand, divorce
suit, in which the parents of
both parties have intervened.
The parents of the couple are
seeking custody of their 10-
month-old son. The grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith
and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Brand.
"You have brought into the
world a child. The court had
nothing to do with it, yet you
have placed the destiny of this
child in my hands.
"You should settle your own
difficulties, and so far you
have shown little consideration
for the child. Testimony has
shown the court one thing, that
you have been more concerned
about your own feelings in the
loss of the child than you have
over the future of the child.
"When you love a child
enough to agree never to see it
again, ,if that is best for the
child, then you are worthy to be-
come its parents. Any mother
or father, and I believe most of
them do, loves their child enough
to lay down their own lives to
save it, then they qualify for
parenthood."
When the judge had conclud-
ed his observations which caused
the mother to sob into her hand-
kerchief. the court said he would
delay final action, hoping that
parties concerned would settle
their differences among them-
selves. As to the granting or
refusing of the divorce, the court
said that the custody of the
child first had to be determined.
In the meantime, said Judge
Mauzey, the temporary orders
which he issued several weeks
ago, In which he awarded the
child to one parent one week
and to the other the next would
continue.
In Band Contests $11,000 Expansion
Planned By Store
Three Sweetwater high school
bandsmen in the solo events of
the national regional band con-
test at Abilene last night were
rated in the first two divisions.
Dwight Tomb, drummer, was
placed in the first division in
the drum solo. He and Jack
Perry were rated in the second
division in the student conduct-
ing contest and Graham Rob-
ertson rated second division in
the sousaphone solo.
The high school band is to
take part in the marching con-
test at 7:30 p. m. today in the
Oil Companies
Lose Attempt To
Stop Proration
HOUSTON — (UP) — A three-
judge federal court today denied
Hardin-Simmons university foot- j the application of two oil com-
panies for an order to enjoin the
ball stadium.
Mine Walkout
Deadline Near
NEW YORK — (UP)—With
a nation-wide tie-up of the soft
coal industry scheduled for next
week, eastern operators and
United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca went into separate caucuses
apparently to consider new pro-
posal to break the deadlock in
contract negotiations.
Texas railroad commission from
enforcing its April oil prora-
tion schedules in five gulf fields.
The case was application by
the Harrison Oil company, the j enlargement wi
j A building permit, totaling $11,-
j 000, was issued by City Secretary
W. H. Whaley this morning to
I the F. W. Woolworth company
| and to Lang Aycock for enlarg-
ing the Woolworth store, corner
I of Broadway and Oak, and for
altering ami adding new equip-
I merit, on the interior.
The permit brought the total
for the year to $89,930, which is
i $34,144 above the total to the
same date in 1938.
The first floor of the Aycock
building is to be enlarged 22 by
39 feet, which will extend the
area for the merchandising com-
pany almost to the alley. The
take in all the
German treaty of friendship and
non-aggression abrogated by the
! military guarantees of Britain
to Poland. He consider the Brit-
ish attitude has nullified the
| naval treaty under which the
| German navy was limited to .35
| per cent of the British.
Hitler said that Danzig is
German and never will be
Polish and therefore must be
returned.
He also demanded n life-line
I into East Prussia, which is cut
off from the reich by the Polish
corridor. The road would be a
controlled highway, .which j
Germany would not regard as of
a military nature.
Hitler said that Germany
threatens no nation and that all
of the 31 nations mentioned by j
President Roosevelt as threat-
ened replied "no" when Hitler j
asked them if they felt in dang-
er.
The German chancellor
asserted that President.
Roosevelt's proposal for a
general peace and disarma-
ment program was futile.
Germany, he said, is fed up
with roundtable eonferences
and will enter no more such
meetings except with an
armed nation behind her.
Hitler made concrete propos-
j Abercrombie Oil company for a
j permanent restraining order re-
j quested on April 4, naming the
Railroad commissioners and oth-
er. state officials. The com-
i panies had claimed that the
j commission's production sche-
! dules in April were unjustified,
abitrary, and discriminatory.
Russian Fliers Pass Greenland;
May Reach New York By Midnight
greenland
Jaooo milesL.
iceland
MOSCOW
'RUSSIA
TLANTIC
BAN
gulf of
st. lawrence
YORK
Arrow indicates the position of the Russian fliers shortly be-
fore ;t p. m. Sweetwater time.
NEW YORK—(UP)—Two Soviet fliers today winged their
way past Greenland in a two-motored monoplane, speeding to
arrive on the North American continent by dusk on a non-stop
Moscow to New York flight.
The fliers Brig.-Gen. Vladimar Kokinaki and his navigator
Major Mlkahal Geordinko, who left Moscow at 8:19 last night,
reported shortly before noon that they were passing over Cape
Farewell on the southern tip of Greenland.
Soviet officials at Floyd Bennett field said they had covered
two-thirds of the 4,600 mile flight. If they maintained their pres-
ent speed they may arrive here before midnight.
officcs at the back of Wool-
worth's excepting the one oc-
cupied by Walter Carter, attoi*
ney. The store's rest rooms are
to be moved to the second floor.
The walls are to be refinish-
ed and floors are to be renewed.
This cost was estimated at $4,-
500.
Cost of new fixtures and
equipment was estimated at $6,-
000.
Sells Coffin
To Aid Chiang
CHUNGKING — (UP) — Mrs. |
Yao Tan sold her own coffin
for 2,000 yuan (about $300) and {
donated the money to Generalis-
simo Chiang Kai-Shek's war
chest.
In line with Chinese custom
Mrs. Yao's son. Gen. Tang Huai-
Quan, a divisional commander,
bought his mother a fine coffin
when he went to war so that
she would be properly buried in
event of her death while he was
away.
Mrs. Yao, however, decided she
was not going to die until the
war with Japan is ended and
explained that her son could
buy her a new coffin when he
returned home.
32 Killed In
Manchurian Blast
MUKDEN, Mnnchukuo —
(UP) — The final dealth list
in yesterday's explosion in the
Fushun coal mines was announc-
ed tonight as 32.
held at the Boy Scouts' cabin
at Lake Sweetwater Saturday
afternoon.
Members of troops in the
Sweetwater district are asked to
report at the cabin by 1 p. m.
Sea Scouts are asked to report
at 4 p. m. These events are to
to be in charge of Area Execu-
tive A1 Stiles.
At 4 p. m. Sunday a board of
review is to be held at the high
school, followed by a district
court of honor. These events
are in charge of Ross S. Covey,
district chairman of the court of
honor.
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FDR Sleeps As
Viorld Listens
To Hitler Talk
HYDE PARK — (UP) — While
Adolf Hitler was adressing the
German reichstag and every man
i woman and child in Germany,
the man whose appeal for peace
he was answering. President
Roosevelt, was in his bed sleep-
I ing.
Mr. Roosevelt regarded Hit-
als to Poland. In return he said ]er's speech, it was said authori-
that Germany, was prepared to datively as a speech only and in
recognize all of Polish economic
■ if ■ t-. tv, no sense an answer to an ap-
rights in Danzig. To insure Po- , r
land a free harbor in Danzig, to i peal which he made to Hitler
accept the present boundaries and Benito Mussolini on April
between Germany and Poland as ; 15. He anticipates a direct reply
final, and to conclude a 25-year from of them.
non-aggression pact with Poland. 0
In return Hitler asked that Dan-
zig must be given back as a
free state within the reich and
that Germany in addition to the
road through the corridor, must
have a railway line at her dis-
posal.
Japanese Blast
Toll Exceeds 100
SAPPORO, Hokaido. Japan—
(UP) — More than 100 of 1279
men trapped in an explosion at
the Yubari coal mine still were
missing today and were given
up as lost.
Britain Rejects
Denunciation Of
German Navy Pact
LONDON — (UP) — The
German charge d'affaires today
deivered a note to foreign of-
fice denouncing the British-Ger-
man naval treaty. A British
spokesman said that the govern-
ment however would regard the
denunciation illegal because the
j pact does not provide for direct
i are unlatteral determination.
Inter-Irish Struggle Developing
Over British Conscription Plan
DUBLIN — (UP) — An inter-; for the cancellation of De Val-
Irish struggle over Britain's in- era's voyage were strengthened
tention of conscripting youths of today by developments here
Northern Ireland for her army and in Belfast.
developed after Prime Minister In Belfast. Prime Minister Vis-
de Valera suddenly cancelled his count Craigavon sent a message
Saturday sailing for the United to British Prime Minister Ne-
States. j ville Chamberlain "requesting"
The New York-born premier I him to apply the conscription to
of the former Irish free state. Northern Ireland.
regarding the six northern Ul- In an apparent rap at De Val-
ster counties as part of sover- i era. Lord Craigavon said:
eign Ireland under Eire's new i "The government of Northern
constitution. previously had Ireland i- a most loyal part of
warned that any attempted Brit
ish conscription in Ulster would
lead to "great trouble."
Every step will be taken, he
said, to prevent Irishmen —
whether in Eire or Ulster —
from being forced to fight for a
"foreign power."
Indications that Britain's re-
sort to military conscription af-
fecting 20-year-old men of Eng-
land, Scotland, Wales and Nor-
thern Ireland was responsible
the United Kingdom and would
deeply resent any suggestion
that she should not be included
in the military training bill . . .
any alternative would be regard-
ed as a slight . . . and would
strike a blow at the attachment
which the province bears to
the crown and to the empire."
(In Scotland, the Glasgow mu-
nicipal council sent to Cham-
berlain a protest against the
conscription of Scottish youths).
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