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The Paducah Post
Friday, September 27, J
The PADUCAH POST
Serving Cottle County for o4 Nears_
Published Every Friday by
The Post Publishing Co.
Corner of Eighth and Richards btreets
E. A. Carlock........................Owner and_Publi*he'r
E. D. Fyke.............................. Editor.
Mrs. E. D. Fyke. .. .....................Secretary-treasurer.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Paducah,
Texas, under the Act of March 30, IS<9.
The Paducah Post is an Independent Democratic
publishing the news impartially and supporting what it belie
to be riglit regardless of party politics._____
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I Give You Texas
Bv Boyce House
It. all depends upon the point of view. Grandpa used to
One time when 1 was in town and walking along with a
kill-jov named George, he kept up a running-tire of criti-
cism, of the men who drove by in automobiles ^This was
back when cars were not so eommon . "Look at em. ne <
say. "a!! reared baek. feel in’ better than folks that have to
walk, as much as to say. Git outta my way.
Well, a friend happened to see me and he stopped and
invited u.s to ride in his big touring car and we accepted
He turned around to say something to George and looked
back just in time to keep from hitting a pedestrian.
• ■I’ll have to be careful." the driver remarked. But
George, sitting back on the cushions, said, "Let the so-
and-sos’ look where they're going.”
Readers of these weekly vaporings may recall previous
mention of Braun Garner, Ranger theater manager. The
latest story is that the banker called on Gamer and said,
• I've employed a new man in a business enterprise id
mine. I’m paving him all that his services justify but he is
going to make die town a good citizen and 1 wish you 1
issue him a >easmi pass—he wont use often hut it
will make him feel welcome in Ranger.
“Of course." Garner replied. “By the way, l have a
young fellow working for me; I can’t pay him as much
money as I'd like to but he is a mighty good citizen and
I wish you would give him a bank account down at your
bank He won’t write checks very often—not more than once
or twice a week-
•• You win; you win." said the banker, waving his arms
and backing out the door.
Lobby of Hotel Texas in Fort Worth is in the grand
manner that was customary until a few years ago when
hotel-builders started designing lobbies with the dimensions
of band-boxed and oversized telephone booths. A big lobby
suggests an equally broad hospitality and, if there is a
hotel iu the State with as large a lobby as the Texas has,
I've missed it. Above the balcony is a high-vaulted ceiling,
the whole scene flooded with light which makes for easy
reading of your newspaper or for readily recognizing
friends. And I’ve never gone in there but what I've seen at
least one familiar face. Cattlemen, oil men. business men,
prosperous farmers, traveling men and just travelers they,
fill that football field-sized lobby, because Hotel Texas in
Cow town is the meeting place of Texas.
‘ There was a young man from the city
Who met what he thought was a kitty.
He gave it a pat.
Saying ‘Nice little cat!'
They buried his clothes, out of pity.
The joke-of-the-month is the one about a Mr. Cohen who
called every day for a week at Buckingham Palace to see
the king. At la-st, he was ushered in and gave the monarch
this advice: 'King, if 1 vuz you. 1 vould put Canada in
mine vife’s name.
And L. B. Mayes of the Whitney Messenger wonders why
the "old joke" contest has missed this one:
‘‘Drunk—You know John Smith?
Second Drunk—No: what's his name?
First Drunk—Who?"
Most popular tune of the moment in the taverns is a
melancholy ditty entitled “All \ ou Left Me Is a Worried
Mind.”
Postmaster Dick Brown of Pioneer, one-time oil boom
town in the corner of Eastland county, gives curb service,
selLs stamps and money orders on credit and liasn t lost two
bits by it, writes Jack Scott in the Cross Plains Review.
‘‘Our nation rose with Roosevelt—why wilt with Will-
kie?" asks hard-hitting Frank Harrison. Corpus Christi
Press editor.
Slogan of the Burkbnrnett Star is: "Liked by many,
cussed by some, read by everybody. ’
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
Germany Continues Pounding Britain
As Autumn Stormy Season Arrives;
Italy Reports Deep Drives Into Egypt;
Oct. 16 Set as Draft Registration Day
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
- Released by Western Newspaper Union. , ..... ■—
In the I leaiUin
THE W \R: j REGISTRATION:
Britain W aits Oct. 16 the Day
While self-propelled barges were, 'October IBsGit see 1WOO.OMyoung
noised at French channel ports, American, between the age, of 21
1,0 e*!.r firman soldiers on and 36 march to polling places and
was set by President Roosevelt when
i3ter Churchill called a secret ses-
sion of parliament.
Tides were favorable for the at-
tempt by sea. London was being
bombed day and night almost with-
out letup, and reports said Big Ber-
tha guns were shelling the British
capital from the French coast.
Buckingham palace, home of the
king, was bombed three times in
he signed the measure over which
congress debated more than three
months.
After registration, local boards—It
is intended to have about 6,500—will
shuffle the cards and give each man
a number. Then a series of num-
bers will be drawn in Washington by
lot. When the numbers are drawn
each man with a corresponding
number in a local board's file w’ill
be put down for service in that
sequence.
Questionnaires will be sent to each
man in the order in which their num-
bers were drawn, asking about de-
pendents, physical disabilities, etc.
On the basis of this information each
man will be classified as follows:
Class L available for immediate
services; class 2, service deferred
because due to employment in nec-
essary defense industry; class 3,
service deferred because of depend-
ents; class 4, service deferred by
law—judges, legislators, etc.
Meanwhile, Washington will de-
cide on a quota for each district,
based on population and the number
of men from the area already in
Prisoners in Federal reformatories receive aeronautical
training, and no cracks about preparing them to fly the
coop.
Conscription will be voted successful in this country if if
does no more than tuck in the shirttails of raw and splendid
youth.
News comes from the White House on the heels of the
latest [Kill that President Roosevelt is allergic to straw
votes.
Prime Minister Churchill warns the House of Commons
that the danger to Britain has not yet passed and if they
don’t believe it, they can just look out the window.
Synthetic rubber makes good tires, but reports are await-
ed on synthetic rubber checks.
Japan spells it Do-In China.
Maybe it's a little unfair to propose taxing bachelors.
It taxes a fellow to stay a bachelor.
It is our impression that Stephen Decatur, toas’ing,
‘‘My country! may she always be right!” didn’t mean Left.
One way of turning the crank is to turn out the cranks.
Italy now claims Paul Revere was an Italian. This in spite
of the fact that our Mr. Revere raced in the right direction.
LONDON, E\GL.4XD—That classic
crack by former I’remier Chamberlain \
thal the Xazis had "missed the bus
meaning they had failed in their
conquest attempts: i, recalled to mind I
bs this one in a London street. It teas ,
u recked by a German bomb in one of
the raids on the British capital. .No ,
one was hurt suss the censor, as the ;
drtter, conductor and passengers had |
taken shelter in a nearby raid refuge.
five days. Craters appeared along
the Strand, in Fleet and Bond
streets, in Leicester ar.d Berkley j
Squares, houses in fashionable Pic- |
adilly and the slums of Cheapside 1
were demolished, the bank of Eng-
land was hit by splinters, the house
of parliament did not go untouched,
subways and railroad yards were |
damaged. In 10 days, 2,000 were
killed and 8.000 injured in London
alone.
Berlin radios warned that London
could choose between the fate of pul-
verized Warsaw or surrendered
Paris. The British replied that the
Germans' hope was to force king
and government to leave the city,
thus gaining a moral victory. They
said there would be no evacuation
of the capital. They warned citi-
zens, however, that Hitler's attempt
at invasion might come ‘‘within a
few hours" and that only Hitler
knew when the signal would be
given.
In Nazi Territory
The Germans faced handicaps,
however. While their flying was not
stopped by heavy fogs, gales in the
channel made shipping perilous.
And British fliers were not forced
out of the air. They plowed the
fields of Nazi airmen at Schiphol
and Ypenburg in The Netherlands,
around Calais, Dunkerque, Abbe-
ville and Antwerp. They dropped
calling cards in congested Berlin,
weeded out gun emplacements along
the channel near Boulogne, sunk
barges on the coast, wrecked oil
tanks and rail sidings through Ger-
man areas, hit the Bosch spark-plug
factory at Stuttgart, docks at Ham-
burg and ammunition dumps in
the Black Forest.
But throughout the British were
fighting against superior odds.
Egypt
In the Near East the British were
pressed by Italian armies which in-
vaded Egypt and pushed on to vital
Bankrupt—Perry county, in east-
ern Kentucky, filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the federal court. It
is believed the first county in the
nation to take such action.
Steel—Ingot production in August
amounted to 6.033.037 tons. It was
the third largest in industrial his-
torv.
Wheat—Grain experts in Chicago
predicted the Canadian spring wheat
surplus at 508,000.000 bushels, sec-
ond largest on record.
Education—Fear that defense Jobs
and conscription would cut into col-
lege enrollments was dispelled when
fall enrollments showed a normal
figure. University of California was
one of the few below last year, the
drop being 700.
Living Coate — Government sur-
vey. aided by private commodity ex-
perts, indicates cost of food is not
likely to rise much for the balance
of this year. In communities
swamped with defense contracts,
rents will rise. Over-all costs may
go up 2 to 5 per cent by spring.
POLITICS:
Democratic
President Roosevelt made the first
official speech of the campaign when
he appeared before the Teamsters'
union convention in the D. A. R.'s
Constitution hall in Washington. He
told them the gains of collective bar-
gaining, maximum hours and min-
imum wages, and social security
must be maintained. He said his
"one supreme determination” was
to keep war away from these shores.
Republican
Wendell Willkie grew hoarse in a
single day of receptions in Chicago,
reported unequaled since Lindbergh
rode through the Loop. The official
opening of his 15-day tour designed
for the winning of the West was in
Coffeyville. Kan., where he once
taught school. From there he went
on to Oklahoma, Texas, and a four-
day campaign in California, the
greatest attention any Republican
presidential candidate ever has giv-
| en that state.
| Willkie’s speeches raised the issue
| of the dictatorship of a third term.
He said Roosevelt was the godfather
of the unhappy Munich conference,
and declared if President Roosevelt
should be re-elected "you will be
serving under an American totali-
tarian government before the third
term is over.”
DEATH:
The Speaker
William B. Bankhead, third speak-
er of the house under the New Deal
to die in office, was the victim of
overwork. The speaker exerted him-
self in active days and tedious nights
in the extended congressional ses-
TTIIKAyKYSER IN
^ PALACE FILM
..TI| vr,S RIGHT —YOrRE
\VR<)\'G ” Is l GMLI >\
WITH Ml Bit
The exciting experiences of a
popular dance band leader and
ids musicians in Hollywood are
woven into a hilanous _ screen
comedy with music, “Thats Right
—You’re Wrong,” starring Kay
Kyser and Adolphe Menjou. The
picture shows at the I aiace The-
atre Saturday midnight, Sunday
and Monday* ,
Marking his motion picture de-
but. Kay Kyser, whose College
of Musical Knowledge is an air
lane favorite, is appropriately cast
ss himself, in Hollywood to make
a picture. The selected story
paints Kyser as a Latin lover
which he definitely is not.
The frantic efforts of the
scenarists to create a suitable ve-
hicle the near disintegration of
the orchestra as each member goes
Hollywood, and the producers
scheme to make Kyser forfeit his
cor tract provide a continuous
chain of uproarious events.
Five new tunes headed for the
hit-parade are introduced i n
"That’s Right—You’re Wrong,
which David Bulter directed and
produced for RKO Radio. May
Robson, Lucille Ball, Dennis O’-
Keefe, Edward Everett Horton,
Roscoe Earns and Moroni Olsen
are in the support and the popular
Kay Kyser soloists, Harry Bab-
bitt, Cinny Simms, Sully Mason
and Ish Kabibble are also cast.
Joseph A. Hardin
Of Kirkland Di
KIRKLANdT^piGt r
services were held MoridT,. 11
r.oon at the KirklandV
church lor Joseph A h-,,j *•
var-nlri KirVK.ka , '
year-old Kirkland business
Quanah6 hospitals 1
A resident of Kirkland fj
years, Hardin was a barbel
15 years. His wife died twoLl
ago. Wtf
Rev. Marion Brotherton J
Kirkland Methodist church 1
assisted by Rev, Clifford ul
of the Baptist church in
ing final rites. Burial waa Si
Kirkland cemetery. ®f
Survivors include four ,|
ters Mrs Bruce Atkinson/1
J. I. Atkinson Jr., Mrs vl
Robinson and Miss Jean Hal
all of Kirkland; three
'!"!?' Chi
and Louie Hardin of KirkloLTl
Doyle Hardin of Abilene’1.
brother, Frank Hardin 0f’t|
land; one sister, Mrs. Sebeil
ris of Kirkland, and eitrhr LI
children.
Pallbearers were Lee
Preston Harp, R. D. VlnW|
N. Adams, A. D Clements3
O. Cobb. In charge of fij,
were Mesdames \\. g tVilli
Lee Harp. R. D. Vinson, L(
lins, A. B. Clements and t
Mahon.
North Ward New*
Hundreds of young National Guards-
men in 26 states who are mobilizing are
busily engaged in getting their first
taste of duty in federal service. Here
are some of the boys learning the ins
and outs of machine guns at the 71 it
Hegiment armory in IXew York.
the army or navy. Enough men
then will be taken from class 1 to
fill out the quota. Each man will
be given a physical examination. If
he cannot meet the requirements
he will be passed over and the next
man taken.
When draftees arrive in camp,
they will be given another examina-
tion, physical and mental. Those
not measuring up topnotch will be
placed in separate sections for
physical care.
Base pay will be $21 a month
for the first four months and $30 a
month after that. Service will be
for one year, but may be extended
by the President in case of emer-
gency.
First Call Nov. 15
The first cadre of 75,000 will be
called to camps about November 15.
Successive calls for about 100,000
men each will bring about 400,000
into training by January 1. On that
date the army expects to have 1,000,-
000 men under arms, including
regular troops and National Guards-
men.
On the same day that the draft
measure was signed, 60,000 National
Guardsmen in 26 states reported to
By Melba Stennett
Mrs. C. W. Fonville and chil-
dren spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Turney Stanley.
Those who visited Loetta Bragg
while she was ill were Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Young, Mrs. C. W.
Fonville. Mrs. J. I). Stennett,
Mrs. R. A. Stennett, Fay Cle-
ments, C. M. Bradford, Mrs. C.
X. Willingham and Mrs. Charlie
Wilson.
Ruby Hooper spent Saturday
night with Martha Jo Jones.
C. W. Fonville is visiting his
brothers in New Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Bigbee
aid Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tucker
spent Sunday with Ira Tucker and
family.
Mrs. Emma Bigbee has re-
turned after visiting a son in
Shamrock.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cunning-
ham visited Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Hooper Tuesday night.
Mrs. Bill Wisenmiller has been
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McClendon
of Amherst visited Mr. and Mrs.
Clark McClendon last week-end.
Maltha Jo Jones and Ruby
Hooper spent Sunday with Mrs.
W. T. Fonville.
Loetta Bragg spent last Friday
night with Margie Hooper.
Mrs. F. C. Bourchardt of Cro-
well spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Howeli.
Mrs. W. T. Fonville visited
Mrs. Arthur Jones Saturday eve-
ring.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith of
Wellington visited Mr. and Mrs.
Clark McClendon Sunday.
Mrs. John Sossaman of Valley
View visited Mrs. W. T. Fonville
last Monday evening.
Mrs. Clyde Tucker spent last
Friday with Mrs. C. M. Hooper
and Ruby.
The ’North Ward Sunday School
will visit at Dunlap next Sunday.
oases. There was no declaration of | their armories for active service
war. Egypt, which had threatened
to join the British if the Italians
crossed the border, showed no in-
clination to resist at once.
The Italians captured Sidi Bar-
rani, 60 miles from the Lybian bor-
der on the fourth day. Sidi Barrani
is only 180 miles from Alexandria,
one of the main British strongholds,
and 350 miles from the Suez canaL
By that time the British had re-
vealed the strategy of their cam-
paign. With only 230,000 troops, 500
planes and 1,000 armored cars they
were hopelessly outnumbered. Plan
was to retreat to a shorter line, thus
extending the Italian forces before
engaging in a major battle.
NAMES
Birthday—Gen John J. Pershing,
commander of the A. E. F., at 80
had no special message for the
United States. He said, however,
he believed England could hold out.
"At least I hope so," he added.
Veteran—Leonor F. Loree, 82, on*
of the last of the railroad "giants"
of the era of Harriman and Hill,
died in his Jersey estate. Until 1938
he was head of the Delaware and
Hudson.
which will extend for a year, and
the President gave orders to call
out an additional 35,700 on October
15.
Swinging full tilt into the defense
program, Washington also:
ft Heard President Roosevelt ask
congress for an appropriation of
$1,600,000,000 to defray expenses of
the first year of training of draftees,
ft Saw President Roosevelt sign a
$5,350,000,000 supplementary defense
appropriation.
ft Awarded 21 aviation manufactur-
ers orders to prepare for construc-
tion of 14,000 planes, at the rate of
900 a month. This production rate
will be doubled within a year.
in the news
Taxes—Lester P. Barlow, inven-
tor whose liquid oxygen-carbon
bomb failed to kill any goats recent-
ly in an official test, won a patent
claim of $592,719 from the govern-
ment for an invention used in the
World war. His income taxes on the
sum amount to $412,817. Barlow
said he would "rock the capital"
before paying it. His new oxygen
bomb, however, had far greater
force than any explosive now used.
RRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is pic-
tured here leaving the church in Jasper,
Alabama, after attending the funeral
services for Speaker fVilliam B. Bank-
head. An army aide attached to the
W hite House is pictured with him.
sion. When he agreed to speak at a
Baltimore political rally his physi-
cian protested. But before he could
speak a blood vessel ruptured in
his abdomen. He died four days
later. Mr. Bankhead, father of ac-
tress Tallulah Bankhead, was bur-
ied in his home town of Jasper,
Ala. President Roosevelt attended
the ceremonies.
Sam Rayburn, who entered con-
gress in 1913 after being speaker of
the Texas house of representatives
at the age of 31, was named fourth
speaker under President Roosevelt.
Grow News
Dunlap News
By
Mr.
Mrs. Claude Stewart
MISCELLANY:
ft Hundreds of families whose wage
earners have been imported to Phil-
adelphia for employment in the
navy yard are living in automobile
trailers just outside the gates. Con-
ditions brought a protest from near-
by housewives who told the city
council that lack of proper sanita-
tion was a health menace. Similar
conditions are reported in other de-
fense industry towns, including
Bremerton, Wash., Newport, R. I.,
am Mare Island, Calif,
ft Jne of the first acts of the new
pc itmaster general, Frank C. Walk-
ei was to authorize three new
stamp issues, carrying out a nation-
al defense motif. First day sale is
It Washington October 12. A one-
rent stamp will depict the farmer
i.nd laborer, the two-cent the army
ind navy, and the three-cent secur-
ity, education and conservation,
ft A campaign to turn over some
of the army’s "flying fortress”
planes to England is expected in
Washington. Reason given will be ;
to test out the super-American air
fighter under combat conditions.
and Mrs. Horace Fields
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Goodg-ame.
J. It. Black of Fort Bliss, near
El Paso, is visiting his mother,
Mrs. L. J. Hunt, and other rela-
tives.
Mrs. Claude Stewart visited rel-
atives at Dallas last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McClendon
if Amherst visited Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. McClendon Saturday right.
Mrs. L. J. Hunt, Mrs. Lavisa
Mi Knight and son and Joe Tap-
per of Valley View met relatives
< f McKinney and Xocona and had
lunch at the park in Wichita Falls
Sunday.
Mrs. Florence Kirkland of Hoi
li-. Okla., spent this week with
her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Walters.
Lawai da Rhodes spent Sunday
night with Betty Jo Majors.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Walters
have announced the birth of a
son. Milt Kiikland, born Monday,
Sept. 16.
The Society of Christian Ser-
vice met Monday with Mrs. H. H.
Majors and will meet next Monday
with Mrs. C. T. Morris of Padu-
cah.
Mr. and Mrs. Colquitt Bulter of
Wichita Falls were guests last
week-end of Mrs. Butler’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Morgan.
By Rev. R. L. Shinn
Sunday School and B. TI
were well attended at Grow |
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hudspeth L
Guthrie visited Mr. and Mrsl
E. Miller Sunday afternoon.
Buddy Tipton and J. D. L
ments had dinner Sundav J
Buddy and Ray Miller. ’ |
Charles Miller and Hugo cJ
bell visited Raymond Keg J
day.
Bonita Loving- visited ][J
and Mildred Schell, r SundayT
Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Denn'inl
and Mrs. Pryor went to Kiiul
Sunday afternoon where X|
Pryor’s uncle, Joe Hardin, i
Sut day. Funeral -• ivices we|
held Monday afternoon.
Ervin Smith of Valiev vj
visited in the J. VV. Smith
Sunday.
The Crow School had a arjj
and pie supper lad Wediwi
night. Proceed- were used toT
rhythm band instruments and^
ball equipment for the school
The Shannon family had dbJ
Monday with Mr. and Mrs. D.|
Johnson.
South Plains Fair
Attracts Attenti
LUBBOCK, Sept. 27—Mow
terest than ever is being tin
in the South Plains Fair this y
than at any other time in f
history of the Association,
ficials believe it is due to tit
cent announcement of the ill
ing of the Entrada of Coroii
the $200,000 federally bad
-how which will be featured**
night during the Fair.
Larry Doyle of New lorkj
rector for the Entrada, iM
rehearsels last w ek and wilt
tinue until final dress rests
Sunday evening before tat
position opens. With Mr W
are Mr. and Mrs. John Bu*
rectors for the sound cast. T
have been rehearsing local "
parts for the drama.
The presentation on the
largest stage has been 400 B
in the making and it coaiM
rates the famous ride of lot"
through the Southwest a™
search for gold. Beauhf?
tumes, scenery and lignting l
fects make this presentation I
of the most outstanding r
formances ever shown ®
section of the statc „
of people from New MefiMJ
visit the Entrada to
huge show for the last time-
The grandstand Pr’ces, ’
night show have alread
set. The price is 25 « j
general admission and
for reserved seats.
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