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ALLIED ATTITUDE TOWARD THE NEUTRALS STIFFENED
COMMUNICATIONS DISRUPTED
BY 'TORNADO' ON THE SUN
NEW YORK — (UP) — The
sun's bombardment of the earth
diminished in its fury Monday
and the affairs of puny man re-
turned to normal.
The sun used, not explosives,
hut electrical impulses and was
flinging them through 92,830,000
miles of space at its satellite,
the earth.
As a result the communica-
tionp of tl^e earth were disrupt-
ed, continents had but the feeb-
lest 'contact at the height of the
bombardment, cities lost con-
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And the Boche said, 'KameradP "
All but bursting with jolly pride, the mustachioed French
miner above recounts his first World War experiences to a
young British soldier. The millers of the French village of
Lens recently subscribed money from their small earnings
to enlertain a group of British soldiers stationed near the
town.
Sweetwater Scouts Place Fourth and
Fifth In District First Aid Contest
♦Cold Remains in
Most of Nation
By I'NITEI) PRESS
It, was cold again Monday in
most parts of the nation.
Temperatures, wlaich. were 20
to 30 degrees below normal
when Easter paraders stepped
out in states in the greater mid
* die west, stayed there. The U.
S. weather bureau forecast said
that they might rise slightly
Monday night or Tuesday on
the fringes of the cold area.
The cold belt extended from
Texas and the Mississippi river
valley eastward to the Carolina*
and the middle and north Atlan-
tic states. Minneapolis, Minn.,
reported zero weather Monday
* and Jacksonville, Fla., 53 de-
grees.
In many regions it was the
coldest Easter on record. Only
Florida, Southern Louisiana and
parts of the far west reported
ideal promenade weather.
British Unions
* Demand Peace
BIRMINGHAM, Eng. — (UP)
—Delegates representing the na -
tional union of shop assistants, I
warehousemen and clerks, de-|
dared in a resolution Mondayj
that the war was an imperialist|
one in which the working class j
es had no interest.
Saturday, the Essex district
9. council of the national union of
railwaymen had demanded that
the war be stopped, and C. A.
Smith, president of the indepen-
dent labor party, had advocated
a strong anti-war policy.
The union which disapproved
Monday has about 175,000 mem-
bers.
Sweetwater Boy Scout first
aid teams gave a good account
of themselves Saturday in the
Buffalo Trail council contest at
Midland, but not good enough
to beat Big Spring's troop 3 team,
first place winners. Odessa's
troop 72. second; and Wickett's
troop 00 team, third.
However, one of two teams
entered by troop 18, sponsored
by International Harvester with
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Senators Report
Anti-Lyneh Bill
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WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Chairman Pat Harrison of the
senate finance committee Mon-
day advocated extension of the
reciprocal trade agreements pro-
gram as a "beacon light" to
guide warring European nations
back to channels of peace and
trade.
Opening the senate fight over
a three-year extension of the
program, Harrison described the
agreements as the "greatest in-
fluence" to promotion of "ration-
al" international trade and the
maintenance of peace.
"if the policy written in this
resolution is destroyed," he as-
serted, "if we as a great govern-
ment turn our backs upon it—
a policy which we inaugurated
—if we renounce this program,
we throw to the winds an op-
portunity in the future to help
the peoples of the world along
rational, unselfish and just prin-
ciples of international trade."
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Dozen Scolders to
Attend Roby School
A group of Sweetwater Scout-
ers, about a dozen, plan to at-
tend the opening session Mon-
day night of a three-night train-
ing school for Scout leaders to
be held in the Roby high school.
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3 Bridge Workers Killed In Explosion*
New Effort Made
To Block Traffic
Northern Seas
Air Pressure Tank
Blast Occurs at
Liberty. Texas
Three Others Injured,
None Seriously, On
Bridge Project
LIBERTY. Tex. — (UI^) —
Three bridge workers were kill-
ed and three others were injur-
ed Monday when an air pressure
tank exploded half a mile west
of Liberty.
Dead are: .
Zollie Carl Gage, 23, Longview.
A. L. Alvey, 2G, Coleman.
Owen W. Kerfees, 25, Caddo
Mills.
Those injured were C. W.
Bramlett, Dallas; M. D. Avant,
Kaufman, and John Webb,
Greenville. They were not hurt
seriously.
All were employes of the
Austin Bridge Co. of Dallas.
The firm has started work
widening a bridge across the
Trinity river a mile west of
Liberty. A supply yard was es-
tablished half a mile from town.
A pressure tank, 16x13 feet, was
mounted on a truck and the
workers were building up air
pressure in it preparatory to
operating air hammers at the
bridge.
Bramlett, superintendent of
the crew, said that at the time
of the explosion the three men
killed were gathered close to
the tank. The injured were
standing about 50 feet away.
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY MARCH 25, 1940
NUMBER 275
WCTU Leader Likes Qarner
Redistricting Of
State To Be Urged
Market At A Glance
BY UNITED PRESS
Stocks irregular and quiet.
Bonds irregular; U. S. govern-
ments higher.
Curb stocks irregular.
Foreign exchange lower in re-
lation to the dollar, sterling at
new low since 1932, around $3.68
Cotton easy.
Wheat up 1 -8 to 1 7-8 cents;
corn up 3-8 to 5-8.
<J)ies Probers Find Communist Card
With Name of Franklin 1). Roosevelt'
WASHINGTON — (UP.) — A
Pittsburgh communist told the
, Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Cloudy,
warmer and unsettled. Maximum
Sunday temperature 48; low
flMonday morning 38; at 2 p. m.,
Monday 52. Easter Sunday mor-
ning the thermometer tumbled
to 32 degrees. March 24, 193!),
high 65, low 40.
WEST TEXAS — Fair Mon-
day night and Tuesday preceded
by clearing southeast portion
Monday night; somewhat war-
mer north and central portions
Monday night and north and
Aeast portions Tuesday.
* EAST TEXAS — Cloudy, oc-
casional rains near lower coast
and southwest portion Monday
night and Tuesday; slightly war-
mer Tuesday and north portion
Monday night.
Dies committee Monday that
party members sometimes use
false names on their member-
ship cards to conceal their iden-
tity. He identified one such com-
munist card on which the name
"Franklin D. Roosevelt," had
been written falsely.
The witness, James H. Dolzen,
refused to reveal the party mem-
ber who used Mr. Roosevelt's
name.
He said that the card had been
left with him by a member, and
was found by Dies committee
agents when they subpenaed
Dolzen's communist material.
White House Secretary Steph-
en T. Early ordered a secret ser-
vice Investigation of the inci-
dent. The card, Early said, "can-
not be anything less than a
forgery."
$2 Bogus Check
Costs Moon $105
A $2 check, given to The Waf-
fle Shop, cost Harold Moon ap
aproximately .$105.
Fined in Judge Charles Lew-
is' county court Monday morn-
ing $1 and costs on a charge of
swindling with a worthless
check, the costs amounted to
more than $100. Moon was re-
turned here frorn El Paso by
Constable Neely Fteeves to face
the charge, to which he pleaded
guilty when arraigned Monday
morning.
Constable Reeves was aceom-|
panied on the El Paso trip by
Deputy Sheriff Will Samples
who stopped in Midland to check
up on B. L. Tisdale, wanted here
on charges of petty and felony
thefts. A third charge, forgery,
was filed against the missing
man Monday morning. He is al-
leged to have forged an $8 check. |
signed by .1. D. Pike and endors-
ed by Ethel E. Woodson.
Tisdale is charged with steal-1
ing a truck belonging to H. G. i
Wilke, a beverage wholesaler
for whom Tisdale worked.
T. W. Owens was fined , $11
and costs, the total amounting
to $19.40. for passing an auto-
mobile on the wrong side of the
highway. Owens was arrested by
members of the highway patrol.
Big Spring Group
At Rotary Dinner
"The most powerful and po-
tent thing in the world is an
idea", said W. C. Blankenship.
member of the Rotary .club in
Big Spring, in a talk before the
Sweetwater Rotary club, Mon-
day.
"It was an idea 'hat caused
a lonely lawyer in Chicago, Paul
Harris, to found Rotary Internat-
ional", he continued. "From an
idea it has grown to be a world
institution."
"Men everywhere are taking
the teachings of Rotary and put-
ting them into their daily living
and thinking."
Albert Darby, president of
the Big Spring Rotary club, had
charge of the meeting with
Shine Phillips, Big Spring, as
program chairman.
Two song numbers were con-
tributed by William Dawes, ac-
companied by Miss Nacy Daw-
es, followed by two piano numb-
ers by Miss Dawes. Other Big
Spring members attending were
E. V. Spence. Jim Friend, Bill
Farhrenkamp, Ira Driver, Dave
Duncan. /
President Aubrey Legg, intro-
duced E. B. Lovvorn and J. L.
Hornbuckle as two new club
members. Visitors introduced by
Secretary Charles Paxton were
little Caroline Boyd, Lloyd Wit-
ter, W. H. Bennett, Sweetwater,
and Vernon Blocker, Roscoe.
Rehearing Denied
Texas Truckers
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The supreme court Monday de-
nied the petition of a group of
Dallas, Tex., trucking firms for
review of the constitutionality
of a Texas law limiting the size
and loads of vehicles moving ov-
er state highways and prescrib-
ing means of enforcement.
The group attacked particu-
larly the portion of the state al-
lowing weight inspectors to halt
trucks suspected of being over-
loaded, weigh the load and re-
quire the driver to remove ex-
cess weight.
The state court of civil ap-
peals held the law constitu-
tional, contending such statutes
have been "definitely upheld"
by the U. S. supreme court.
The truckers told the court
the law places too much discre-
tionary power in the hands of
weight and license inspectors,
requires "involuntary Servitude"
in the unloading of overweight
trucks, and imposes such "forced
labor" without a judicial hear-
ing.
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Conviction of
Negro Set Aside
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The supreme court Monday set
aside the conviction of Bob
White, Polk county, Tex., negro
under sentence of death on a
rape charge.
It was the third time in less
than two months that the tribun-
al has overruled state courts to
free negroes who appealed on
the ground that they were sub-
jected to inhuman treatment for
force confessions.
EL PASO — (UP) — Repre-
sentatives of west and south
Texas will seek to introduce
legislation into the next session
of the Texas legislature to redist-
rict the state to provide for
"more equitable representation",
Rep. W. W. Bridgers of El Paso
said Monday.
The El Paso legislator point-
ed out that since the 1920 cen-
sus—the basis for the current
districting—scores of oil com-
munities in West Texas had
grown into "thriving towns
where once the cows grazed."
"The constitution requires re-
districting at the session follow-
ing the census, Bridgers said. "It
wasn't done last time (1930),
and I doubt that a single law
passed since then is constitution-
al."
Bridgers said he could not
"see how they can get out of
redistricting the state at the next
session."
He charged that there were
several Texas senatorial districts
with approximately 50,000 popu-
lation, while "there are more
than a million people in the area
from Brownsville to El Paso,
represented by only two sena-
tPA'S*
"West Texas cannot get just
consideration in the legislature
until it is given equal considera-
tion, a fact which has defeated
redistricting in the past", Bridg-
ers said.
Wins by a Nose
Easter Vacation
Is Ended Monday
After a joyful Easter holiday
approximately 4.500 Sweetwater
and Nolan county school child-
ren returned to their books Mon-
day morning for the final se-
mester of the 1939-40 school
year.
Many of the instructors in the
city system vacationed at their
homes and with friends for the
three days.
* Sweetwater merchants report,
an upswing in business as high
as 20 per cent over the spring
buying period. The week preced-
ing Easter brought out throngs
of shoppers and in many stores
Friday and Saturday business
was best since Christmas.
Court Rules on
Radio Licenses
WASHINGTON — (U-P) —
The supreme court, ruled Mon-
day that the federal communi-
cations commission can license
new radio stations regardless of
whether they will hurt the busi-
ness of existing stations.
Justice Owen J. Roberts as-
serted this principle in an opin-
ion. upholding the action of the
FCC in granting a radio station
license to the Dubuque, la., Tele-
graph-Herald.
Ethyl Company
Decision Upheld
WASHINGTON — (|UP) —
The supreme court Monday af-
firmed a decision holding the
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation guil-
ty of anti-trust violations. It up-
held a lower court decree ord-
ering the firm to abandon its
country-wide system of licensing
gasoline wholesalers.
BCD Group and City
Commission to Meet
The Board of City Develop-
ment directors and the board of
city commissioners meet Mon-
day night at the municipal build-
ing. Tne BCD in the secretary's
office at. 7:30 p. m.. the city com-
mission in the American Legion
headquarters at 7 p. m.
Nolan and Fisher County Herefords
Win Numerous Prizes in Odessa Show
ODESSA — tSpl.l—Nolan and
Fisher counties Herefords, both
in the boys' classes and the
breeders' division, were much
in evidence here last weekend
during the 7th annual Sand
Hills Hereford show.
Nolan and Fisher counties 4-H
Club boys were major winners
in the calf show. Members of
FFA chapters in both counties
also took a number of places.
The following places were won
by the youthful feeders of Coun-
Hold your breath, girls. You're
looking at Ihe "Perfect Profile
of 1940." That, anyway, is how
the co-eds of Blue Ridge Col-
lege in New Windsor, Md„
rate Movie Actor Albert l>ek-
ker (above).
Gallogly Back in
Georgia Prison
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REIDSVILLE, Ga. — (UP) —
Richard Gallogly was back in a
Georgia jail Monday to resume
life imprisonment after an un-
successful five-months fight for
freedom in-'Texas. where he fled
with his bride last October.
Gallogly was docketed at the
state's Tattnall prison Sunday
after a 21-hour ride from Dallas
under guard of Georgia high-
way patrolmen. He was re-fing-
erprinted and received a blue
denim uniform to replace the
pin-striped suit in wrhich he
made the trip.
Gallogly escaped last fall while |
being transferred from an Atlan- J
ta hospital to Tattnall. His bride:
had been accompanying him on I
the ride to prison and he took |
her with him in his flight.
They surrendered to Dallas
authorities a week later but j
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel granted |
Georgia's extradition request j
and Gallogly subsequently lost j
attempts to gain freedom on hat)- j
eas corpus.
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Canada to Vote
Doesn't Object to
Vice President
Because He Drinks
Texan Looks as Good as
Any Other Presidential
Candidate
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
(UP) — Vice President John
N. Garner, whom Labor Leader
John L. Lewis called a "whisky-
drinking, poker-playing, evil old
man," looks as good as any oth-
er presidential candidate to
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, nation-
al president of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Mrs. Smith, here for a regional
WCTU meeting, was asked for
her opinion of Garner and his
publicized taste for liquor.
"Well, what about some of the
other prospects for nomination?"
was her reply.
The Evanston, 111., woman em-
phasized that the WCTU draws
no party lines.
"We take no stand in politics
unless there is a definite wet-
dry issue as there was in 1928
when we supported Herbert
Hoover for president," she said.
Mrs. Smith said that a man
need not be condemned for
"drinking wet and voting dry."
"Perhaps he does like his liq-
uor," she said. "It's logical for
him to vote dry to remove the
temptation."
Allied Submarines and
Warships to Crowd
Scandinavian Coast
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
I P Foreign News Editor
The Allied powers stiffened
their attitude toward Soviet
Russia and the little neutral
states Monday in a struggle to
strangle Germany.
On the North Sea central stage
of warfare, it was indicated that
allied submarines and warships
would crowd the three-mile limit
along the Scandinavian coast
henceforth to block sea traffic
to the reich.
British submarines already
have sunk two and probably
more German merchant ships
off Norway and Denmark. The
2,189-ton Edmund Hugo Stinnes
IV, carrying coal to Copenhag-
en, and the 4,974-ton Heddern-
heim, carrying iron ore from
Norway for Germany, have been
sunk by British torpedoes. Paris
reported two German steanv
ships carrying iron ore (one of
them possibly the Heddernheim)
had been scuttled or sunk off
the Danish coast.
Neutrality Violation Charged
British warships violated Nor-
wegian territorial waters at least
See ATTACK Page 6
Cash On Way Back
To Texas Prison
HUNTSVILLE — (UP)—Rob-
ert Lacy Cash, 25, the slickest
prison breaker in Texas, will
arrive back at the state peniten-
tiary Monday under close guard.
Bud Crane, prison agent, tele-
graphed Warden W. W. Waid
that he would arrive with Cash
in a convict truck from Bisbee,
Ariz.
Waid said that Crane was driv-
ing with one eye on the high-
way and the other on Cash be-
cause the prisoner once before
had been in his custody and es-
caped.
He walked away from Harlem
prison farm near Sugar Land in
May, 1938, and escaped while
working on a prison rodeo arena
last summer and then fled from
Crane after his capture in Dal-
las.
Champion Calves
Sold at Odessa
ODESSA —-Talmadge M cC la tch -
ey of Bangs, who exhibited the
grand champion calf of the Sand
Hills Hereford show here last
week, received 66 cents a pound
for the champion when he was
placed on auction Saturday. The
calf weighed 670 pounds and
brought Talmade $412.20. The
calf was bred by MoX and Mc-
Innis of Byrds.
The reserve champion calf,
fed by Billy Joe Payne of Di-
vide, Nolan county, sold for 33
cents a pound. The calf was bred
by Winston brothers of Snyder.
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Warring Billings
Trial of Garment
Worker Started
SAN" ANTONIO — (UP) —Se-
lection of a jury began Monday
in the trial of George Glass, St.
Louis garment worker who was
indicted with Mayor Maury
Maverick on charges of violating
the poll tax law.
Maverick already has been
tried and acquitted on one char-
ge against him, and whether he
will be tried on other charges
will depend on the outcome of
the Glass trial.
Glass, former business agent
of the San Antonio local of the
International Ladies' Garment
Workers' union, is charged with
unlawfully advancing the money
to pay the poll tax of Refugio
Huizar. a clothing worker.
On W ar Policies Marries at Reno
OTTAWA — (UP) — Nearly
5,500,000 Canadians vote Tues- j
day in support or condemnation j
of Canada's war effort as direct-1
ed by the liberal party regime of j
Prime Minister William Lyon j
MacKenzie King.
The election was called by j
King after a three-hour session j
of parliament Jan. 25th, the first j
session after the declaration of j
war. King dissolved parliament!
and announced that "in view of
recent attacks directed against j
this government, a mandate I
from the people is deemed nec-1
essary."
Premier Mitchell Hepburn of I
Ontario had accused the govern- j
ment of "bungling the war ef-
fort". and got the provincial leg- j
islature to pass a resolution to j
that effect.
RENO, Nev. — (UP) — War-
ren K. Billings, the "forgotten
man" of the Mooney-Billings
case, and Miss Josephine Rudol-
ph, a WPA worker, were mar-
ried here today in the chamber
of District Judge B. F. Curler.
Their marriage followed a ro-
mance which began while Bill-
ings was serving a life term in
Folsom prison in connection
with the 1916 San Francisco
preparedness day bombing.
Nazi Ship Sunk.
Another Scuttled
PARIS—(l"P)—A war office
spokesman asserted Monday that
allied warships had challenged
two German steamships, laden
with Swedish ore. off the Dan-
ish coast with the result that
one had been scuttled and one
sunk.
(It was not clear whether one
See NAZI SHIPS Page 3
Increase in Cotton Surplus Feared
As Britain Plans to Curtail Buying
t.v Agents R. B. Tate and T. E.
Roensch:
Calves weighing 850 pounds
and over:
Billy Joe Payne, Divide, first
and reserve champion: Kenneth
Lewis, Sweetwater, second and
sixth: Warren Barton, Divide,
fifth: and Harry Rotan, Divide,
eighth.
Calves weighing under 850
pounds tmilkfed class):
Barton, sixth, and George
See NOLAN-FISHER Page 3
Senate Debates
Trade Program
c
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The senate judiciary committee
voted 10 to 3 Monday to report
the hbuse-approved anti-lynch-
ing bill to the senate floor,
where it probably will be killed
by a senate filibuster.
Sen. Tom Connally, D.. Tex.,
one of the trio opposing a fav-
orable report on the measure,
promised that it would be resist-
ed "to the utmost."
Sponsors of the bill said they
would seek early consideration
of the measure.
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
British plans to curtail purch-
ases of American cotton to con-
serve foreign exchange threat-
en to increase this country's un-
marketed surplus problem.
The agricultural department
announced British plans to de-
crease their purchases. As a re-
sult, it was said, growers may
find difficulty in disposing of
their 1940 crop and the govern-
ment may be forced to provide
again large sums for loans <>n
unmarketed surpluses.
The United Kingdom recent-
ly has l>een the largest import-
er of cotton. It took approxi-
mately 1,500.000 bales in the sev-
en months ended March 1. In-
creased imports by France, Italy.
Japan and others has increased
U. S. exports to the highest lev-
els in recent years.
See INCREASE Page 4
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