Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 68, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1941 Page: 8 of 8
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^mes Nev-rangted Automobile
’& Displays Plastic Model
Gasoline Blackout for Eastern U. S.
G. De LORENZO
«N, Midi. — (UP)
displayed a plastic
Thursday. Only Its
>tor, and wheels are
The trim, cream-colored coach
—was unveiled Wednesday night
at the climax of this communi-
ty’s 15th annual festival.
frord wasn’t there to hear the
cheers as the low-slung machine
swung slowly around the light-
ed field but Robert Allen Boyer,
his young research chemist who
for 12 years has been experi-
menting with the manufactur-
er’s idea of utilizing farm prod
ucts in industry, was.
Boyer, who is only 32, now,
said the plastic car was lighter,
tougher and more economical
than any on the road. He
thought its production in large
quantities is “at least" several
months—and possibly years—
away.
“This is purely in an experi-
NOW under-arm
Cream Deodorant
safely
Stops Perspiration
1. Doe* not rot dresses or men’s
shins. Does not irritate skin.
2. No waiting to dry. Can be
from petspvation.
4. A pure, white, greaseless,
stainless vanishing cream.
5. Arrid has been awarded the
Approval Sealofthe American
Institute of Laundering for
being harmless to fabrics.
Axrid is the LARGEST SELLING
DEODORANT. Try • jar today!
ARRID
__ At all stores selling toilet goods
(also in lOt end 59f jsrs)
mental stage just now,’’ he said.,
“Naturally we want to get’ Into
mass production eventually but
that will take time. For one
thing, we’d have to build the
plastics 'industry from the
ground up.
“Although we’ve been work-
ing with the Idea of a plastic
car for 12 years, the defense
emergency and the shortage of
steel and other materials has
speeded our program.”
The plastic car is a hand-made
model. Its body is made of 32
strips of plastic mounted on a
tubular-welded steel frame, was
rushed to the public showing
with its interior still unfinished.
The panels have a thickness
of only 3-16ths of an inch, but
will absorb a blow 10 times as
great as steel without denting,
Ford officials said. They would
not reveal the formula of the
plastic used.
Production of 1,000,000 cars
annually with plastic bodies,
Boyer said, would consume at
least 170,000 tons of agricultur-
al products and 50,000 tons of
synthetic chemicals. Moreover,
it would free thousands of tons
of steel and strategic materials
for defense.
“Mr. Ford saw the car for the
first time Wednesday,” said
Lloyd E. Overly, an associate of
Boyer. “He seemed to be very
pleased with it.”
A compltely new engine has
been designed for the car and
now is under test. Boyer declin-
ed to reveal its specifications. It
is now powered by a 60-horse-
power V-8 engine.
The car has a wheelbase of
110 inches, stands 63 1-2 inches
high, five to six inches less
than most automobiles. Although
it now weights 2,300- pounds
Boyer said the weight eventu-
ally would be reduced less than
one ton, or about 1,300 pounds
less than a steel car of compar-
able size.
Frd said he was confident
plastic bodies could be produced
practically and economically.
"Plastic raw materials may
cost a little more,” he said, “but
we anticipate a considerable
saving ns the result of fewer
fabricating and finishing opera-
tions."
Champ Says Wife
Is Extravagant
CHICAGO — (UP) — Joe Lou-
is, world heavyweight boxing
champion, Thursday accused his
wife, Marva Trotter Louis, of
“reckless and extravagant spend-
ing” in an-answer to her peti-
tion for alimony.
Louis’ answer, filed in circuit
court, also charged his wife with
“promiscuous squandering of
money, thereby imuoverishing
him.”
The fighter 'said his average
net earnings had been only $56,-
000 a year for the last seven
years rather than the $250,000 a
year claimed in his wife’s di-
vorce petition. His answer es-
timated his earnings for the cur-
rent year at $51,000 after tax de-
ductions.
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N. DAKOTA [MtN^
Remember-
We Accept Cotton Stamps
Bring them to Levy’s!
-at Levy’s
Silks and Nylons
We still have a large stock of
both silk and nylon hosiery on
hand, but we advise early se-
lection. Choose from these fa-
mous nationally-known brands:
Kayser—
Vanette—
Artcraft—
Shop In Air-Conditioned Comfort
Ig^BRSjg
* *\_SggMrtmenf Store,
Invest In Your Country—Buy Defense Bonds
Times-Herald
President Named
DALLAS — (UP) — Tom C.
Gooch, editor in chief of the Dal-
las Times-Herald, was elected
president of the Times-Herald
Printing Co., at a board of di-
rectors meeting Thursday.
Gooch succeeds Edwin J.
Kiest, Times-Herald publisher,
who died Monday.
Gooch was also named chair-
man of the KRLD Corp., control-
ling board of Station KRLD,
Dallas, succeeding Kiest.
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Liv estock
WORTH — (UP) —
■ Oil Fipolinot ■■■« Proposed Pipolinot Cj
: Sordino Pipolinot —.— Oil Tankor Roufos «
| Oil Fields
SOil Blackout Area
Map shows gasoline blackout area of eastern U. 8. where
011 Coordinator Harold L. Ickes asked filling stations to close
12 hours each night to conserve vital fuel for defence. Present
pipelines and reduced number of tankers fail to bring oil
east fast enough to me.et demands.
FORT
Livestock:
Cattle 2,200; calves 1,100; stea-
dy to 15 higher; steers and year-
lings 7.00-11.00; fat cows 6.25-
7.50; cutters 4.00-6.00; calves 7.25-
12.00.
Hogs 1,500; steady to 15 high
er; top butchers 11.00; good
butchers 10.75-10.90; mixed grade
10.25-10.75; packing sows 9.75
down.
Sheep 1,900; steady; spring
lambs 9.00-10.00; yearlings 8.00-
8.75.
Senate Passes
Military Bill
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The senate Thursday completed
congressional action on the mili-
tary service extension bill and
sent it to the White House. It
authorizes Pres. Roosevelt to
hold all men in the army—se-
lectees and all others—in ser-
vice for 18 months beyond their
original terms.
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Jews Reported
In Paris Riots
VICHY -nr (UP) — Paris news-
papers arriving in Vichy Thurs-
day reported that rioting pro-
voked by Jews and Communists
occurred in Paris Wednesday.
Shots were reported fired,
wounding several persons, dur-
ing the rioting.
FDR—
• (Continued From Page 1)
Apparently with Japan chiefly
in mind, the statement promised
that world trade and world
markets would be open to all
after the war and at the same
time indirectly warned that all
steps were being ’aken for pro-
tection against nations associat-
ed with nazi aggression.
I President Roosevelt and the
British prime minister were un-
derstood to have sent joint let-
ter to Premier Josef V. Stalin
expressing their admiration for
' the Red army’s resistance and
promising all possible aid to
Russia.
The encouragement to the
Russians came at a lime when
the German high command was
claiming that Nazi armies push-
ing against fierce Soviet resist-
ance in the Ukraine had reach-
ed the Black Sea near the Bug
River, had encircled large forc-
es at Odessa and had threatened
the big Russian naval base at
Nikolaiev.
FINAL! 4'Day Drastic
Summer Clearance
Federal Agencies
Work Overtime
To End Disputes
Communications,
Propeller Plant Among;
Stricken Firms
By UNITED PRESS
Two major strikes continued
to hamper the national defense
program Thursday and govern-
ment agencies pressed their ef-
forts to end them.
The National defense media-
tion board asked striking ma-
chinists to resume work at the
Caldwell, N. J., propeller plant
of the Curtiss-Wright corpora-
tion while Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox sought means of
terminating the strike tying up
the Kearny, N. J. yards of the
federal shipbuilding and dry-
dock company which has sus-
pended work on $493,000,000
work of naval and merchant
ships.
A strike threat in the tele-
phone industry, which might
hamper communications of de-
fense industries and army can-
tonments, loomed.
Mediation board officials tele-
graphed their appeal both to the
AFL machinists union and the
Curtis corporation shortly after
Labor Secretary Frances Per-
kins referred the five-day strike
to the board.
Efforts were being made to
avert government seizure of
the Kearney shipyards. Knox
and other officials confer again
today with L. H. Korndorff,
president of the company.
Gov. Charles Edison of New
Jersey has asked federal author
ities to reject both union and
company proposals for govern-
ment operation. He announced
a three-man board had been ap-
pointed to begin negotiations if
the state’s mediation offer is
accepted.
U. S. Labor Conciliator James
W. Fitzpatrick called officials of
the Western Electric company
and the Association of Commu-
nication Workers to a confer-
ence at New York tomorrow for
negotiations to prevent a na-
tion-wide strike of the installers
of telephonic equipment. The
ACEW has authorized a strike
unless its representatives reach
an agreement with Western
Electric, which manufacturers
and installs teletype, telephone
and telephoto equipment.
The ACEW, which claims
8.006 installation workers in 13
cities, said other unions affiliat-
ed with the parent national fed-
eration of telephone employes
had promised they would not
pass picket lines. Such action
would disrupt the Bell Tele-
phone systems and cripple com-
munications of defense indus-
tries and army cantonments.
TANSIL’S
WOMEN’S APPAREL SHOP
Comfortably > tr-Conditioned
Skip-a-heart-beat dress . . .
that swirls and swings and keeps
you gay and young. Black woolen
with full circular skirt, new long-
torso waistline. White braid edges
the scarlet yoke and makes the belt.
For an extra gay touch, two red
worsted pompoms bob gaily at the
bodice, two more swing at the waist.
It's a darling.
Truck Convoys
Moving Into
Maneuver Areas
CAMP BEAUREGARD, La.—
(UP)—Long truck convoys pull-
ed into bivouac areas Thursday,
bringing troops from over the
south to what promises to be
the largest peace ■ time war
games the world ever has seen.
While thousands of troops
rested after rides under a hot
sun, other soldiers played at
was on a small scale.
Units have been assigned
on simulated reconnaissance and
patrol duty west of here and
other small bodies of troops are
moving into position for the be-
ginning of the August maneu-
vers next Monday.
These maneuvers, however,
are only the forerunner of big
things to come. Leaving skele-
ton forces to police the army
camps stretching from Texas to
Florida, the nation’s revitalized
army—550,000 strong ■— is mov-
ing into place for the Septem-
ber maneuvers when two arm-
ies will clash in the “no man’s
land” along the swampy Texas-
Louisiana line.
Fort Smith Is
Awarded Camp
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Rep. Fadjo Cravens, democrat of
Arkansas, announced Thursday
that the war department has ap-
proved the construction of
Camp Barling, to be located near
Fort Smith, Ark., at a cost of
$22,500,000,
The camp is to accommodate
an armored division. Chavens
said that construction would be-
gin as soon as land titles are
acquired, lie expected it to be
completed and ready for an ini-
tial force of 16,200 men by dark
L 1942. Ultimately the camp win
accommodate 35,000 men. The
site will consist of 71,600 acres.
'TEXAS
Today Only
Twt looioa*
twoiemu ki-
f ightlaf
immoowl-
Every Piece of Summer Merchandise Has Been Drastically
Reduced! Final Reductions Good Through Monday Only!
Sale of Summer
Fabrics
Vain,to 98c yd.
• 39" Dress
Lace
*39” Seer-
sucker
• 39” Yippi
• 39“ Alpaca
• 39” •
Sharkskin
• 39" Printed
and Solid
Sheers.
4-DAY SALE — Our Finest
i
2.00 to 2.50
Dress Shirts
• Sport Shirts
• All Sanforied
Shrunk
1-49
No Whites
Included
Don’t Miss
Our Final
Dress Sale!
Summer Dresses
At Tremendous
Savings!
Group I
Summer Dresses. Val-
ues to 0.50 O AA
to clear at .
Group 2
Summer Dresses. Val-
ues to 10.95 to A AA
clear at .
Group 3
Summer Dresses.
Values to 16.75
To clear
at
Mining Company
Ends Long Fight
r* n
JOPLIN, Mo. — (UP) — The
Eagle-Picher Mining Co., largest
in the tri-state area, moved to
end a six-year labor controversy
Thursday by agreeing to a la-
bor board decision requiring re-
employment of workers fired be-
cause of a strike.
The company sent letters to
ISO former employes offering
thym jobs, but the management
said no hack wages would be
offered and that the question
would be carried to the U. 8.
supreme court.
The workers were dropped
from the pay roll in 1935 when
the mine workers
Public Debt
Hits 50 Billions
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The public debt of the United
States Thursday exceeded the
$50,000,000,000 mark for the first
time in history.
The Treasury’s daily state-
ment fixed the debt at $50,004,-
821,748.06 — or approximately
$377 for every man, woman and
child in the United States.
The debt a year ago was $43,-
821,566,734.87.
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Couple Disappointed
Because They
Didn't Have Twins
(dfflund LOW!
Ptfgy MORAN
lino MfRKfl
Rond BROOKS
6.00 ///
Monday Ik the Last Day!
Save on Men's Light Suits
Men’s 27.50
Suits, reduc-
ed to
Griffon
16.95
1 Pant
Men's 25.00 Pace Set-
ter suits, re- Jg
' 1 Pant
Griffon
19.95
1 Pant
Extra Pants 3.50 • 4.50
Men’s 31.00
Suits, reduc-
ed to
duced to
Entire Stock Men’s
S™ '"nch 10.00
We Will Glady Accept Your Colton Stamps
In Exchange for Our 190% American
Processed < otton Goods
'fiuMel&'LleptStole.
THE STORE TOR ALL THE F A M 11 ^
on strike. A labor board decision
later upheld in appellate court,
forced the company to rehire
them.
The company said that set-
tlement of die six-year wage
claims would probably require
additional litigation and hear-
ings.
Night Watchman Is
Worrying Because
He Never Sleeps
HAVANA, Cuba — (UP) —
Evelio Rodriguez Gomez, 27, a
nightwatchman, hasn’t slept
more titan five minutes consecu-
tively in the past two years and
he’s afraid no woman, for that
reason, would marry him.
His plight, with accompany-
ing photographs, was described
by the newspapers Avanoe and
Pais.
“I’m desperate,” Avance quo’-
ed him. "If this continues I’ll
kill himself.”
EAST THOMPSON, Conn —
(UP)—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fi-
field said Thursday they were
union went i “disappointed" because their new
Also
"Picture People"
"CahalY’l’o College”
Bargain Day
•Adults.....15c
Coining Friday
Bud Abbott-lou Costello • Dick Powrll
MTMNHftdA
ith the ANDREWS SISTERS ,
five-pound, 13-ounce son was not
I twins.
In 17 years Mrs. Fifield, 39,
has had 17 children, including
six sets of twins. She and her
61-year-old husband, a $48-a-
month WPA worker, wanted a
seventh set.
They said, however, that they
were delighted with the new
arrival, who brought the total
of Fifield children still living
to 14. '
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Bebe Daniels,
Ben Lyon Will
Visit America
LONDON — (UP) — Ben Ly-
on and Bebe Daniels, former
American movie stars who have
appeared in British musical
comedies and radio programs
the past two years, announced
Thursday that they would leave
for th? United States Aug. 27
for a six week’s visit.
“We will try to tell the peo-
Now Showing
SHE HELD THE KEY...
to the most amazing
mystery ever imaginedl
“Nobody wants to rrarry me | pie of America what is needed
because nobody wants a hits- j for the war effort—guns, planes,
Also
“Winners of the West"
“Kitty Acts the Bird”
Bargain Day
Adults - - . - l.v
Comtmr *Widav
hand whose eyes are always op-
en.” Pais quoted him.
The newspapers said physici-
ans could not understand his
case.
munitions and war materials of
all kinds,” Lyon said. “For the
first time in our lives we are
going to stop being comical and
get down to business.”
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 68, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1941, newspaper, August 14, 1941; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709842/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.