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$42,505 School Work Project Starts Monday
Painting. Repair
Job To Include
All Buildings
■ Federal Government
t Furnishes $32,000
Of Job’s Cost
Work on the $42,505 school
district WPA project for paint-
• ing, landscaping, repairing and
construction of additional side-
walks will be started Monday,
Ross Covey, superintendent of
Sweetwater schools, said Thurs-
day.
^ The project, approved for sev-
eral months but which has
"hung fire" for some time due
to defense industries, will in-
clude $32,171 in federal aid and
$10,334 in Sweetwater school dis-
» trict funds.
According to original plans, all
school buildings of Sweetwater
will share in the project, with
the high school campus obtain-
ing a lion’s share of the work. |
*' All buildings are to be painted
inside and out, Covey said.
Work at the high school is to
include remodeling work, level-
ing of the old high school build-
ing campus to street level and
> landscaping, construction of
sidewalks.
Reagan junior high, John P.
Cowen school, Philip Nolan
school, and the John R. Lewis
school also are expected to gain
J improvements from the project.
Presidential approval of the
plans came early this year, but
the work was delayed because
of priority of defense projects
throughout the nation.
) Superintendent Covey has
been working on the matter for
the past few months in an ef-
fort to have the work designat-
ed as a defense project.
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Just Who in This
Family Was Lost?
NEW YORK — (UP) — Po-
lice who watched a gradual re-
union of the Paul Ecke family
still were uncertain Thursday
as to who had been lost.
A 4-year-old son, Paul, reached
the police station first, accom-
panied by a patrolman he had
met on the street, to report his
father lost. The hoy was so
calm about it the police let him
play in a back room while they
hunted the parent.
The father, Paul, reached the
station breathless to report the
son lost. The child saw him and
exclaimed: “Were you found al-
ready?”
Mrs. Ecke, a dancer, arrived a
few minutes later looking for
the rest of her family.
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Baron Haranuma,
Jap Minister,
Wounded by Shot
Would-Be Assassin
Nabbed As Aged
Man Chases Him
TOKYO - (UP) — Baron
Kiichiro Haranuma, 75, minister
Sweetwater Reporter
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941
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Mrs. Vinson,
Pioneer Resident
Taken By Death
j
Sudden Illness
Fatal At Keenan,
Home of Brother
Mrs. L. C. (Ella) Vinson, 72,
prominent club woman and li-
brarian here since there was a i
public library, died at 10:30 p. 1
m. Wednesday at the home of a
brother, George Emerson, at I
Keenan, near Houston.
The body will- arrive in Sweet-
water at 10 a. m. Friday and
will lie in state at Yates Fun
eral Home until the services ai
10 a. m. Saturday at the First
It Happened—They Finally Met
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Lord Beaverbrook
Arrives For Parley
On Battle Plans
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON—(UP)—Lord Beaverbrook arrived here
by airplane Thursday and proceeded at once to the British
pmbassy,
BULLETIN
BERLIN—(UP)—Authorized German quarters said Thurs-
day that tin- RoosevrJt-Uhurchill meeting was “propaganda
bluff.”
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At
First Tanker
With Oil For
Russia Sails
without portfolio, long known Christian Church, witli Rev
as Japan’s No. 1 fascist, was j Bedford Smith, pastor, official
wounded Thursday by an assas- j ing. Assisting will be Rev. J. M
sin reported to be affiliated with I Sibley of the First Baptist
the strong ultra - nationalist! church and Rev. Sam Young of
Black Dragon secret society. i the First Methodist church.
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The assailant was Naohiko ls-
hiyama, 33, who obtained en-
trance to Baron Hiranuma’s su-
burban home by u ruse and,
Burial will be in city ceme-
tery beside the body of her hus-
band who died Jan. 2, this year.
Mrs. Vinson died after a sud-
drawing a pistol from a roll of | den illness at her brother’s home
paper, shot him. , where she was on a three week
It was officially reported that j visit. Mrs. Myrtle Grossman,
Baron Hiranuma was wounded j nurse and companion who ae-
; in the neck and ii was implied companied her there, will return
that his wound was slight. Well! , .
informed Japanese quarters re-1 w" 1 t“e 'IJ( -v‘
ported that lie was also shot in
See JAP SHOOTING Page 7
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had never met previously
IiiiI who had talked many times by telephone, line-a dramatic setting for their first meet-
ing—on the high seas. Result (if their conference, rumored lor nearly a week, was an eight-
point program of peace after “Hitler has been conquered and the axis power blasted from
the battlefields.'’
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON _ (UP) —
Defense Oil Coordinator Harold
L. Ickes announced that the
t first American tanker assigned
to carry aviation gasoline to
Russia would sail from Los An-
geles Thursday.
Ickes said the tanker, one of
four American ships assigned
' to transport gasoline across the
Pacific as part of this country’s ™ >" memoersn
assistance to Russia, would car- -yLal s objectlve has
ry 95,000 barrels of aviation
fuel.
Ickes also declared that new
"rigid steps" were imminent to
restrict gasoline consumption in
eastern states.
Reporting that gasoline sales
in the east went up eight per
cent during the first week of
Counci] Scout
Reports Given
At Big Spring
Buffalo Trail Council has
shown such an encouraging in-
crease in membership that the
year’s objective has been dou-.
b,ed’,nnaouncedPaXt0n’ SwCCtWatC^
Four Sweetwater
Teachers Resign
Survivors include two sons,
Garland of Sweetwater and Ger-
ald of Wichita Falls; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Grace Faver, Sweet-
water, and Mrs. Gertrude With- i . ,, , , ,
el's New York City i Resignation < ol tour teachers m Sweetwater school.- haw been
She was a member of the First ! accepted with regrets by the board of trustees. Supt Re- Coves
Christian chuich. i announced Thursday.
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Mrs Tim Turner, history instructor in senior high, resigned
to accompany her husband to work in Fort Worth; Ruby Gul-
| Cotton Stamp
Business Opens
Treasury Head
\pproves Flan To
Curl) Inflation
Higher Social Security
Assessments Seen As
Part of Proposal
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor
An unprecedented meeting at . ea between President Roose-
velt and Prime Minister Win ton Churchill resulted Thursday in
an eight-point declaration designed to sharpen the allied war ef-
fort and open the way for an international new deal.
Greater American cooperation in the war against nazism, great-
er unity between London, Washington and Mo-coy and greater
United States collaboration ir. a post-war security system were
promised or implied in tire statement of peace aims as viewed
by- Britons
But—as the German in vs ion of Russia raged more fiercely
and British air fleet- hammered again at Nazi targets—the inter-
, pretation of the declaration in
j London also was that a radical
j departure had been made In
United States and British for-
eign policy.
"It shows that Britain and
America have abandoned the
old nation of a general all-around
laying down of arms,” said the
authoritative British press asso-
ciation. which often speaks for .
I the foreign office.
"Instead, it is made clear that
while peace-seeking countries
remain strong, the war-
making nations will have to be
by Pres. Roosevelt and Prime | disarmed.
Minister Winston Churchill. ; The ] ■ association also de-
Chairman Sol Bloom, demo-' scribed the declaration as a
erat of New York, of the house “chat tel if future freedom” that
foreign affairs committee said covere„ vlr RooM.Velt’s -o call-
. that the joint, statement “cry-
talizes the aims and «-pi rations «• fourjreedorr.- and as "more
in which all freedom-loving £Ei5 'than ever’’ before identifying
i pie are so cio»e!y joined. the United State.-. with our war
! Senate Democratic Leader Al- objective
i ben W Barkley of Kentucky :.
said that the declaration will Hr t rP3rt"’r- to thc stat<?-
find an "enthusiastic response merit, which was compared to
in the hearts of all peoples ev-j President Wilson 14 - point
erywhere who believe in free- j world War declaration, was
dom and democracy. that it a! answered the peace
“It will arouse hope among 1
1he peoples who are opposed to offensive which Lritons have
wars of aggression as an instru- been expecting Adolf Hitler to
ment of national policy,” Bark- launch s - . in thi. connection,
Administration
Leaders Give
Approval To Plan
Barkley Says It’ll
Bring- Hearty Response
To All Peoples
WASHINGTON — (UP)
Administration leaders in con- win
gress gave hearty approval of
the joint declaration of war aims
WASHINGTON — (UP) _ -
ledge, of John R.’Lewis school, bus accepted a clerical position | Secretary of Treasury Henry wiivers^toterest among tlle tw : fiiin-
has announced.
Members of the executive
board meeting in Big Spring
Tuesday night voted to seek 120
more Boy Seouls and 100 more
clubs this year
A membership report showed
that the council has grown from
the filling station curfew Ickes a membership of 2,357 to 2,654
said, he "may issue a statement I 'vitl? Sweetwater, Midland, Big
later in the day” on his next
step.
It was understood that re-
strictions on deliveries to fill-
g ing stations were being con-
sidered.
181 Transfers Of
1 Students Okayed
Applications for transfer of
181 students from one school
district to another have been
f approved by the Nolan county
w school board, J. T. Harmon, pre-
sident, has announced.
Spring, Snyder, Odessa, Kermit
and Pecos reporting outstand-
ing gains. Sweetwater had 710
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Indicted Suspect
Returned Here
To Face Charge
Constable A. C. Cook returned
late Wednesday from Conroe
with Finis Grayson who was in-
dicted by the Nolan County
Grand Jury during the April
term of court on a charge of car
Fifteen Sweetwater merch-
ants selling cotton goods are
lined up to accept cotton stamps
in exchange for products made
from 100 per cent cotton, Amer-
ican grown and manufactured,
J. E. Ferguson, chairman of
the Nolan county cotton indus-
try committee announces.
Distribution of the stamps to
cooperating farmers was begun
Thursday at the county AAA
office under supervision of Wes-
ley M. Nail, administrative offi-
cer.
Approximately $3000 worth
of stamps will he distributed in
Senate Reports
Cost of Camps
Far Too High"
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By GEORGE K. REEDY, Jr.
United lVe*s Correspondent
WASHINGTON - (UP) - The
See ADMINISTRATION Page (i
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Police Holding
Apparent Alien
Suspect In jail
national defense charged in a n
port Thursday that costs of the
army’s $1,000,000,000 camp con-j
-auction program were “undul.v
and unnecessarily high.”
The report, presented to the
ly called for the destruction of
"Nazi tyranny” as an essential
prelude to world peace, and
sought, to sway powers still out-
side German domination to re-
I main neutral.
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Germany Claims
Huge Victories
LONDON — (UP) — Radio
Berlin, heard by the United
Press listening post, asserted
that the German victories in the
Ukraine announced by the high
command represented Russian
The board voted to pave Bell nG-nJ! IT'!,', T- dBvaV.'BT" decisive tin Rus-inn war ma-
at Camp Barkeley, Abilene; ; Morgcnthau, jr Thursday ex-
Maude Harrison of J. P. Cowen pressed approval of proposals to
school, resigned to accept u increase social security a.-sess-
place in the Greenville high ments us a part of the program
school, and Jean Hendrix, Phil ,0 curb inflation,
ip Nolan school, has a perman Morgcnthau said at. a press
j ent position in the state comp conference that the tr-a ir\ is
I I roller’s office at Austin, where 1 studying various proposal: aim
1 . ... ____. ed at controlling inflationary |
; - ne has done temporal> w k trenfjs m tjle United States. The, a 60-year-old hewhiskered man
m the past.. general program already in-! who said he was a Ru.-sian-Pole
No action has been taken as chidi curbs on in tallment buy-! but refused to give his home
senate committee investigating. t Qn the vacancics although it ing and fixing -f prices under .iddre-s, is being held bv Sweet-
" " was indicated that some might Tendin« b111 [water police for investigation
Morgenthau said that three , after he was
lie filled later this week.
Salary raises totaling
$3,000 mostly for teachers has follows:
said to have ex-
! possible revisions of the social. pressed an extreme di.-iike foi
about security act being studied as I the United States, according to
j Chief J. A. Bland.
been granted by the board.
1. Broadening the scope of the, -The man reportedly said lie
...I . ' ^t-nate bv Chairman Harrv S . , ’ mc>tu- aim rtln r w>-rker- who ivgisna
*5? a. ™?. MS “ Truman.'D.. Mo., asserted that ' s1reet on ,h<‘ John do not m u pay these taxes or fingerprints.
t hi? Sweetwater trade territory
Ferguson estimated.
in addition to Sweetwater
firms, stores in Blackwell, No-
lan and Roscoe will accept tlie
stamps as the same as cash on
the purchase of cotton goods.
and photograph
the Federal Bu-
The board upheld protests ofi — - -
local trustees against approval theft. The car allegedly stolen
of approximately 20 other appli-1 waR that of N. I
liSDA Seeks
cations.
Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Tempera-
tures: High Wednesday, 94;
Thursday morning. 73; at 1:35
p. m., 92. Continued cloudy, not, f nrlrnp
much change in temperature1
and scattered showers.
KiSweaentdwaWter!PnOl*it\ Ratillg
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j On Machinery
wrecked east of
Sunday night, April 6, in a col-
lision with an Abilene car.
Grayson is under $500 bond.
Mrs. Cook accompanied the I WASHINGTON —. (UP) —
constable, who visited his sis-: The Agriculture department has
R. L. Brooks of Gal-, requested the OPM to provide
to 3o companies with priority rat-
ings on building materials and
machinery to expand egg drying
ter, Mrs.
veston. before
continuing
By UNITED PRESS It 111()' Uprkj«nrp Hog
EAST TEXAS—Partly c.oudy; '-fCOi IldS
.with scattered thundershowers | ft i ni
Friiiiy11 ^parUy Thllr"<,ay night'1 nUUSOIl 113110
cloudy with lo- f ; LONDON — (UP) — King
cal l bunder- ‘
showers in east
and south por-
tion except in
Rio Grande Val-
ley and on the
lower coast.
Gentle to fresh
southerly winds l
on the coast.
m
W4PMER
George VI now has an Ameri
i can-built Lockheed Hudson re-
j connaissance bomber assigned
| to him which he used recently
•for the first time v*hen he vis-
ited the home fleet in northern
waters. »
The plane belongs to the
| “king’s flight” which has three
“apacity by 88,000,000 pounds a
year for army, navy and lend-
lease requirements, it was learn-
I ed Thursday.
Present egg drying capacity is
estimated at about 12,000,000
pounds annually.
Defense officials sajd the ex-
pansion program was being un-
dertaken principally for lend-
lease requirements for highly-
concentrated foods. Priority rat-
ings also have been asked for
evaporated milk and cheese pro-
duction facilities.
Several companies have been
designated to dry the eggs, it
Truman, D., Mo., asserted that, ,
lack of planning had resulted in R- Lewis school provided prop-1 enjoy benefit of the act. j "’cre mailed t
high wastage and unnecessary erty owners paved the east side 2. A possible increase in the reau ot Inxestigation. Wa.-hing-
expense. The camp were so Conditional approval of paving percentage <4 the social security ton. I». I
poorly laid out, it added, that ,c ...___, . „„ nr the i lev-v-
i hine will never be able to re-
cover from them.”
poorly lam out. it aciaeu, mu ()f streets on tv.-, sides of the
sssg sst t,nos,«:s ."w'. - ?iv«i
equipment.
"The? generals were running
tlie army along civil war lines
and had not properly worked |
out the requirements of a mech-
anized army," tlie senators ‘bar-
ged. “When tlie Germans sur-
prised them, as they did
France and England, the re-
Fraiuv s Lebrun
Gets Freedom
He was arrested on Highway
3. Adoption of some plan of 180 at the cast edge of Swee:-
“separation wage" to cushion water Wednesday after _ a scuff li-
the shock of unemployment that! with the arresting oiticer, and :
may result with the termina-1placed in city jail. He said he]
Markets At A Glance
VICHY—(UP) —
brun, president of
Albert Le-
Franee at
quirements of a mechanized ar- tlie time of the French defeat,
my were not sufficiently under-! has been allowed to return to
tion of the defense program
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Germans Speed
Airport Work
LONDON
at Mercy Le have speeded up the building of
Ry United Press
Stock.-: Firm in quiet trading.
Bonds: Firm.
, Curb stocks: Irregular,
was on his way from LI Paso j Chicago stocks: Mixed,
to Fort Worth. Wheat 1-8 cent a bushel low-
His English is very poor, ap er
parently, Bland said, although 'Corn 5.s t0 3.4 cent jower
the man claimed to have land- Cotton off as nmch as S1.50 a
ed in New York City 34 years |ia]y
ago from a German boat. j ’ _v_
What he has done since then.
iup) -Germans!'vl1ere h' - h,"n" "|,W and h- 1881 Sweet wafer 1941
purpose in hitch-hiking through
stood to be considered in the his family home .... ......v„. ,
plans made for the camps.” Haut in French Lorraine, ac- airports and defense works houa \\.-ie que-uons no nas n
The original estimates pre- cording to special authorization along the Norwegian coast the lu-''ert 10 an.-woi
sented to congress by the war granted by German authorities pst two weeks, apparently fear- .
department for construction of in occupied France, it was ing a Briti-h invasion, a high \]]](^|*|(“| p IfStS
France, it was ! ing a British invasion, a high :
the camps were in most cases I learned Thursday . Since he xx: 1 ■ Norwegian source said Thurs-
Britlsh planes of the Royal Air
WEST TEXAS—Partly clou- Force. The Lockheed-Hudson is ’ was said. The Fort Worth Poui-
dy with scattered thundershow- for the king’s use exclusively
and is piloted by flight wing
commander E. ' H. (Mousiel
Fielden, commander of the
“king’s flight.”
See CONSTRUCTION Page
Berlin Raps
’W ar Mongers’
BERLIN — (UP) — The one-
vote house of represen/atives
majority favoring an 18-mon(li
extension of military service in
the United States. German au-
succeeded by Mai.dial Henri day •, * I *1 I
Philippe Petain a: chief of state. Thou-ands of workers are be- Ilfktl | j lkP If
ing moved into Norway from
Denmark and Germany to work ; NEY\r YORK—(UP)—John T.
on the airports, military roads, | Flynn, chairman of the New
Lebrun has lived at Castle Viz
ille in the French Alps.
60 Years
Of Progress
DID YOU KNOW—
That the first deed to be filed
of re< rd ifter the organization
of Nolan county in 18S1 was one
from D. C Da is and wife to
W. H. Cowan for section 38,
President Names
Thai Minister
WASHINGTON -
The White House
(UP) —
Thursday,
ers in southportion Thursday
afternoon and evening. Friday
* fair slightly warmer in south
portion.
try and Egg Co., Inc., was among
firms granted a certificate of j
necessity to build new drying whether the United States
plants. The Fort Worth plant makes its soldiers serve one or
will cost $89,000. ^ 10 years,” they added.
thorized quarters asserted Thus- sent to the senate for confirma-
liay, shows “clearly” that a large tion the nomination of Willy-
segment of the American public R Peck, counselor of the Anieri-
“opposes the war - mongering j can embassy at Peiping, China,
policy clique in Washington.”; to be U S. minister to Thai-
It makes no difference to us land.
Peek, a native of California,
will replace Hugh G. Grant, who
has resigned.
railway extensions and fort if i- York chapter of the American j block 22 Tin the section of
cations, thc informant said. All First committee, -aid Thursday land on which the Orient addi-
Norwegian unemployment has , that the joint statement R.-ued tion is loca'ed. The considera-
been absorbed and a labor short- b\ Prime Minister Churchill i lion w;i $150. The deed is dated
age created by the “feverish and President Roosevelt “i> a \nril 7, 1881. The first residence
construction,” it was said. lot of words—a cover-up state- lot was bomrht in Sweetwater by
. -v- j ment” G. S. Connell Sept. 12. 1881. It
"They didn’t meet to draw up was lot 6, block 11, where the
a statement such as they is-! home of Mrs. Silas George now
sued.” he said. “They should be j stands. Read the complete his-
frank to tell the American peo- tory of Sweetwater and Nolan
pie why they did meet and what county in the Pioneer and Pro-
they actually decided to do. gress edition of the Sweetwat-
LONDON — (UP) — The board*) What the American people , er. Reporter to be issued on Sept,
of trade Thursday night banned should like to know is whast 128. Make your reservation for
all exports to .Japan effective j Churchill demanded and what your extra copies of this inter-
Aug 13. j Roosevelt promised.” estlng edition now.
Britain Bans
Japanese Exports
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