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THE
PALMEH RUSTLER
Published weekly by the United Publishing Co.,
which also publishes the Ennis Daily News and the
Ennis Weekly Local.
THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
All the King’s Horses and Men Couldn’t Do It!
1M
Washington.—Several weeks before he
crunched a phial of potassium cyanide be-
I-Iermann Goering had j
given to American investigators a play-by-
play account of how he and- the whole Hit-
ler machine tried to undermine American
public opinion, defeat Roosevelt, and keep
the United States neutral during the war.
R. W’. Nowlin _----------------Editor and Manager-j. Goering’s testimony, pieced together with
statements from Foreign Minister Ribben-
Entered at the post office at Palmer, Texas, as sec-! tween his teeth,
ond class mail matter under the act of Congress
March 3, 1879.
All communications of business and items of news
should be addressed to the .company and not in-
dividuals.
K WASHINGTON COLUMN
trop, ex-ambassador Dieckhoff and a dozen
other Nazis comprises one of the most re-
vealing chapters in recent American history.
Out of County
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In the County
Three Months_______________________35c.
Six Months ------------------------------------- 50c j it has been written by O. John Rogge, special
One Year J-----------------------------------$i.oo j assistant to the attorney general and the man
who convicted Boss Pendergast of Kansas
City, Gov. Leche of Louisiana and the old
Three Months ---------_------------------------- 50c j H.uey Long machine.
o^eMYea?S -----------------------"-------------I The minute word leaked out that Rogge
_________I_1~_. ____| was writing this report, however pressure
FAVOR rnnn roaog I began to pour in on the justice department.
FAJ°f ^0J?D R?A1?S j Many interested Americans wanted the docu-
Most of the states officials have placed! ment suppressed for reasons easy to under-
their stamp of approval on the Good Roads stand. So far it has been. However, this
nstitu ional Amendment Tuesday, Oct. 22 column has been able to obtain one of the
TJtl c°Pies and Will publish some of
' y
during the last two weeks before the Novem
ber 5 General Election.
Gov. Coke Stevenson and Democratic
Nominee for Governor, Beauford Jester, led
the parade of supporters of the Amendment.
Governor Stevenson asserted, “From my
study of road building problems, I am con-
vinced that the Good Roads Amendment
should be adopted on November 5th,” while
the nominee for his office, Jester, proclaim-
ed that adoption of the measure “will es-
tablish a sound financial policy upon which
our road planning agencies may base their
plans.”
John S. Redditt, Chairman, Texas High-
way Commission, issued a statement de-
claring, “It is my firm and considered be-
lief, as a citizen and as chairman of the
highway commission, that the passage of this
amendment is- to the best interest of all
Texans, and for that reason, I am for it and
advocate its passage.”
We here in Ellis County are vitally in-
terested in better roads, especially in the
bettefing of our farm-to-market roads. The
Good Roads Amendment will continue al-
location of one-fourth of the gasoline tax
for the Available School Fund under con-
stitutional protection and it will also assure
the availability of funds With which many
miles of all-weaher roads for school bus
routes will be constructed. /
Adoption of the Amendment will establish
a sound system of road financing that will
result in more and better roads for the peo-
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the most important portions.
In view of the dangerous state of our
international relations today, it seems im-
portant that the American people realize the
manner in which a foreign government
partly poisoned our public opinion before, in
order to make sure it does not happen again.
Suppressed Highlights
i Here are some of the highlights of the
suppressed Rogge report:
1. The Reader’s Digest, largest circulating
magazine in the United States, was being-
used to some extent by the Nazis. It actual-
ly paid $4,300 to Lawrence Dennis, self-
styled head of the American fascist party
and one of those indicted for sedition.
Wm. Sosthenes Behn, head of the giant
International Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
was being used by the Nazis for business
contacts in the USA. Behn was especially
close to Nazi agent Gerhard Westrick, and i
the justice department has one letter from | STRANGE CENSORSHIP
Westrick to Behn proposing to divide up| Strange indeed are the workings of the censorial mind.
Edson
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BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent \
WASHINGTON, D. C.— (NEA)—U. S. government seizure and
** operation of the nation’s 2300 coal mines is now costing the tax-
payers $150,000 a month. This $5000 a day may be a cheap bribe to
.pay to keep the mine owners in clover and the miners digging coal and
contented. But it’s burning up money at the rate of
$1,800,000 a year, and that ain’t ashes.
Continued operation of the coal mines by the gov-
ernment has now dragged on to the point of being a
national scandal. Not that there’s anything crooked
about the government’s administration. That’s han-
dled through the Department of Interior.
The actual work is done by a staff of 125 Navy
officers and about that many enlisted personnel,
plus 25 civilian technical experts. They’re all under
Capt. Nathan H. Collison, the Coal Mines Admin-
istrator. Collison recently succeeded Admiral Ben
H. Moreell on the latter’s retirement from the Navy,
but the admiral is staying on as consultant.
The government took over on May 22—nearly five months ago-.
Seizure was made under the Smith-Connally Act. It specifies that
properties taken over by the government must be returned to private
owners within 60 days.
J^ROM May 22 to Sept. 1, cost of government operation was $350,000.
That covers salaries, subsistence, travel, clerical help—everything
except rent for the offices, which are furnished free.
For the last three months of the year, the Coal Mines Administration
has asked the Bureau of the Budget for $450,000.
The unfortunate thing is that there is no way in which the cost of
government operation can be assessed against the operators and the
union, to take the taxpayers off the hook.
But the really disgraceful part of the coal situation is that the
government is left holding the bag through the bullheadedness of the
mine operators and the United Mine Workers’ union leadership, who'
have been unable or unwilling to get together on a new contract.’
^HE present contract between Lewis and the government is a national
contract. The last contract which Lewis had with the operators was
also a national contract. Before that there were separate regional-
contracts.
Faced with the possibility of going back to regional contract nego-
tiations, Lewis said he would have to put the issue up to the UMW
national convention. Then Lewis had his appendix cut out and couldn’t
go to the convention. In his absence the convention passed resolutions
calling government operation of the mines “a farce and a delusion,”
stuck to the decision that it would negotiate on a national contract
only.
No further meetings between Lewis and the operators have been
scheduled. It may be a couple of weeks before Lewis is able to do
business. By stalling around, not being able to agree among them-
selves, the operators are in a worse position than they were before,
in that they now can’t just take over the Krug-Lewis contract.
EDITORIALS.. By James Thrasher j QUAnswers N°
• BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
Program to Cut
Cotton Costs
i I Pushed in Texas
pie of Texas. Before our road building and Holland
agencies can plan with certainty, they must
be assured that our road funds will be pro-
tected. This amendment will give that pro-
the assets of a Czech company—After Cze
choslovakia was overrun by the Nazis.
3. The Nazis knew in March 1940 that
John L. Lewis was coming out against Roose-
velt in the November election, though Lewis’
own coal miners did not know it until six
months later.
4. James D. Mooney, vice president of
And none of recent memofy is stranger than the mental
process which evolved the decision to ban a Japanese news-
paper editorial which informed the Japs that General Mac-
Arthur was not a living god, and counseled them to begin
thinking of him as a symbol of democracy and not “the
reincarnation of the Emperor Jimmu.”
This editorial first appeared in a paper bearing the
Q—-What party holds the most
seats in the Australiian Parlia-
ment?
A—Labor, 44. Next highest,
Liberal, 17. Before recent elec-
tion, Labor held 46 seats.
Q—How many gold mines are
j there in the United States?
fascinating name of Jiji Shimpo. The censors didn’t mind
General Motors, had told Nazi Agent West-jits being printed for and read by the Japanese. But when j a-4180. as of 1939 thev ™
rick thahhe would ^tiy^to sell Roosevelt on it was translated into English and reprinted in the Nippon ployed 25,000, but gold mining
•Times (whose* circulation i$j largely amopg Allied occupa-
tion troops) the occupation government put the lid on.
|3y the best American standards, the Japanese editorial
was eminently sensible. It deplored the ancient and per-
sistent Japanese habit of hero worship. It cautioned that
getting along with Germany—even after
Hitler had taken France, Norway, Belgium
5. Father Coughlin wrote a letter to the
German consul in Detroit gusking^ German
tection ana insure an orderlydevelopment i f°r °0ug“!n’s war against the Jews the habit might lead to a search for a' “superman”'dictator
of both Itete a"mt-Markdet SdTfe t? Berlin^ and' I af(%'General MacArthufs departure.
_0______ j e°5 b _eaydon> also ^went^ to^ Berlin andj Furtner, ulie newspaper gave its readers this pertinent
1 definition and admonition.: “Democracy means freedom.
CHICKEN FEED SAVINGS
| made a similar proposal to Ribbentrop.
; 6. Carl Byoir, the well-known New York
Only a quaiter of a century ago congress- public relations man, collected over $100,000
men were distributing free garden seed to fr0m the Nazis for publicity work, using the
t eir constituents, but the practice was dis- German railroad information office as a
continued as wasteful. A billion dollars was! fr0nt
still a figure looked upon with awe by our These are only a few of the many startling
awma ers. Times have changed since then..) highlights of ■ Hitler’s desperate gamble to
ow e axpayer has more than garden seed j keep America neutral. If he had succeeded
to worry about m the way of government
spending.
The popular order is to have the Federal
government finance everything from kilo-
watts to fertilizer, and from local comrpunity
spending to compulsory cradle-to-the-grave
security. “No seed” is chicken feed savings
too small to figure in the new order.
As the Portland Oregonian put it, “Some-
times we find . . . we are wishing we were
brack ... in the comparatively innocent,
carefree and simple times when free garden
seeds were considered to be an unholy
political racket.”
having been discontinued during
the war, they are not back in full
production yet.
C—Does the Treasury still issue
$2 bills? ' ______
A—Yes, 33,425,340 are in cidcu-^
lation- 'Limitations on
TF the meat situation holds as is,\
maybe two WILL be able to j
live as cheaply as one. i
•I* $ ;
A headline that tells the whole j
story: “Fires at His Wife’s Par- j
ents.” \
* * *
It won’t be long now until you’ll.
be able to get home before the ice;
cream melts.
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A wealthy alumnus gave a
college 1000 volumes of humor.
And with so many freshmen on ;
the campus, too.
* # « - . .
Canning season doesn’t need to
worry the fellow who really
works.
FARMERS’ WAR SAVINGS
Farmers are less disposed to hang on to
their; wartime savings than the rest of the
population, a recent Federal Reserve Board
report says.
But, the report said, the principal use of
farm savings has been to buy farm ma-
chinery and repair and construct buildings
so as to increase production. Bdying addi-
tional land ranked next in importance. A
survey showed that while half of the general
population expressed unwillingness to cash
ill government bonds during the next five
years to invest in houses, land or business,
only one-third of the farm operators were
similarly unwilling.
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CULTIVATION BY FIRE
One of the most intriguing inventions of
this fast-moving age is the flame cultivator,
for cotton, which carries bottled gas and
throws a flame alongside cotton rows, killing-
off all weeds, but leaving the. cotton stalks,
which happen to be more hardy.
One of these days they’ll probably be
using bazookas to shoot grasshoppers.—
Daily Oklahoman.
—--o—--
HOW MUCH FOR TOUGH STEAK?
Recently we read a sign in a cafe “It’s
tough to pay 85c for a steak but think how
tough it would be for 50c.”
Now that the ceiling has been removed
from meats* we are just wondering how
tough the 85c steak will be. While meat is
much more plentiful now the prices have
soared to higher and higher prices.
Most housewives have decided to go on a
meat buying strike until the prices can be
stabilized. It should not be long before
if the United States had not gone to the
aid of England after the fall of France, the
story of the war’s outcome might have been
entirely different.
Plot to Defeat Roosevelt
Here are some verbatim quotes from the
section of the suppressed report dealing with
Nazi attempts to influence American elec-
tions:
“Concerning the 1940 elections, Paul K.
Schmidt (of the Nazi embassy in Washing-
ton) told us: ‘Both Ribbentrop and Hitler
were of the opinion that any president would
be better than Roosevelt. The embassy
was requested, and did furnish, extensive
reports with regard to Willkie. The report
stated that Willkie would not be friendly to
Germany, but would not be as energetically
opposed, and also that Willkie would not be
capable of as sweeping political decisions
as Roosevelt. Ribbentrop stated, and I be- f p • a*
lieve that he was quoting Hitler, that if the IVlayor
United States would go to war it would be
only with Roosevelt. *
“Dieckhoff Key-Ambassador to Wish-
ington, had this comment: ‘Ribbentrop
always had the idea that the foreign office
should try to influence the election against
Roosevelt. He even had the same idea in
1944, which was more, foolish than it was in
j 1940. In the foreign office we did not par-
ticularly like Willkie either but we thought
that- anybody would be better than Roose-
velt.’
“In the 1940 . elections the Nazis had a
scheme to get John L. Lewis, the labor
leader, to come out against the re-election
of President Roosevelt.
“The Nazis had more regard for Dewey
than for Willkie. Accordingly, Ribbentrop’s
America committee was again on the job,
this time headed by Colin Ross.
“I recall very well a conference in Ribben-
trop’s private quarters at Wilhelmstrasse
wherg the elections and the possibility of in-
fluencing them was discussed. Present were
Dieckhoff, Gaus, Steengracht, all sections
chiefs, and several members of the America
committee.
It asserts human rights and does not entail divine rights,!
or the deification of personalities. 4f the conception that’
government is something imposed upon the people by an
outstanding god, great man or leader is not rectified,
democratic government is likely to be wrecked.”
Perhaps the occupation, authorities prefer a servile
people as being easier to manage and believe that hastened
democratization is incompatible with continued servility.
It niay be that they think of themselves as conquerors
rather than as educators.
We do not know that this is so. But we are reasonably
sure that the Japs are also studying the editorial and
Wondering at the reasons for keeping it out of the hands of
the soldier-citizens of a democratic nation.
It could scarcely be hoped that whatever conclusion
they reach would be flattering. And they might have a
light to think that if it were not against occupation policy
for a Japanese newspaper to preach democracy to its read-
ei $, jat least it was against that policy to permit the oc-
cupation troops to know it.
The identity of the person who issued this censorship
order is not revealed. But whoever is responsible seems not
Q—Where was “Russian Amer-
ica”?
A—That was the name of Alas-
ka before the U. S. bought it.
Full Property
Loan Explained
Texas veterans who use their
maximum $4,000 guarantee bene-
. fits under the GI Bill to buy a
Q Wnat four political parties 1 home cannot sell the property and
hold seats in the Australian Par-
liament?
A—Labor, Independent Labor,
Liberal, Country Party.
Q—-Is world food production
greater per capita now than before
sc many millions were killed in
the war?
A—No, 12 per cent less. World
population is about 7 per cent
greater than in 1939.
Q-~What is absolute zero, at
which all heat theoretically is ab-
sent?
A—459 degrees below zero F.
Q—What was Navy’s largest
single construction project?
. *■----------- ------------ A—Transformation of Guam in-
only to have committed a 'senseless error, but also to have!to a naval and air base,
hurt our effort to “sell” democracy to Japan at a time v/hen
beyond the broader and more idealistic aspects of the pro-
gram, it is decidedly to our national self-interest to do a
positive, effective job of salesmanship.
Has Praise for
New Congressman
Rep. Olin E. Teague, neur rep-
resentative in congress from the j losi a ie§' in battle,
the battie-beaten College Station
war veteran, Mayor Calhoun said.
Rep. Teague was wounned six
times while serving in the Euro-
pean theater, and is crippled in
one foot. One member of his
staff is an ex-army lieutenant'who
Q—How much currency is in
circulation in the nation?
A — Around $27,000,000,000
worth. Treasury keeps the
amount fairly constant.
-'How big is Alaska?
-586,400 square miles.
WORTH REMEMBERING
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up
all the evil that a man can be guilty of.—
they get settled if the buyers use their heads. [ Swift.
Silijlln congressional district, is go-
ing his way in Washington with
the precision of a man who has
a new job and is learingit step
by step, Mayor John C. Calhoun
of Corsicana said Saturday.
Calhoun returned this week
fi'ojn ; Washington where he and
Teague appeared before a CPA
priority group and won approval
of starting immediate construction
of the Texas Miller, Inc., hat fac-
tory building in Corsicana.
“I think he is going to be a
maun 1 this district can well be
proud of,” Mayor Calhoun said.
“I think we are going to find him
capable, intelligent, and a repre-
sentative with good, common sense
and judgement. He is fast learn-
ing his way around Washington.”
Mayor Calhoun reported that he
was already making friends with
this? Texas delegation, had visited
j with Speaker of the House Sam
j Rayburn of Bonham, and had con-
ferred with other congressional
leaders.
Luther. A. Johnson, federal tax
judge and veteran representative
off this district, spoke highly of
Q—Is Navy still building capital
ships?
A—Yes. Battleship Kentucky,
the mayor j 45,000 tons, is under way, as is
I battlecruiser Hawaii, 27,000 tons,
in Washington, Mayor . Both will be armed with batteries
of robot rockets, and designed as
“atomic age” warships.
said.
While
Calhoun had dinner with the Tea-
gue family at their home in Chevy
Chase, Md.
“It’s a typical Texas home with
Jack, Jim, and Jill, the Teague’s
three children, running about,”
the mayor said.
CHRISTMAS LAY-AWAY
Why not pick out a nice Chenille
bed spread, make a small deposit
. on it, and let us us put” it away
! for you for Christmas. We have
full Christmas
Pennsylvania’s 416,636,000
watt hour production last June just recejveci our
1 w.qs 50 - per . cent greater than the j election
nation’s second highest industrial
power producter.. I ALLEN FURNITURE CO.
OIL STOVE PARTS
For All Makes
We Carry the Largest Stock of Oil Stove Parts in
Ellis County.
Burners, Chimneys, Tubes, Wicks, Jugs, Valves,
Reservoir, Jackets, Flame Spreaders, Jug Caps
and etc.
ALLEN FURNITURE CO.
Ennis, Texas '
apply for another real estate loan
guaranteed by the VA. If a World
iWlar II veteran borrows $2,000 to
buy a business and uses his. full
guarantee benefit, he is ineligible
for a home loan through the VA,
Will Dealing, Ennis VA Contact
Representative said ttoday, even
though the loan is paid off before
maturity.
The GI Bill allows the VA to
guarantee home loans up to $4,-
000 for real estate or $2,000 to pur-
chase either a business or supplies.
-Should the veteran use only $2,-
000 of his guarantee in financing a
home, he is eligible for another
$2,000 for a home or $1,000 to be
applied to non-real estate.
The law allows veterans 10 years
from official end of . the war, which
hasn’t yet been declared, to make
D'allas, Tex., Oct. 18, (UP)-
Texas’ growing demand for her
own versatile cottonseed has fa
outstripped production, and the
industry now is vigorously pushing
a program to cut costs and to in-
crease yields of the state’s cotton
acreage.
The economic significance of this
program in the daily life of the
average citizen is presented in the
cottonseed and cottonseed products
exhibit of the. East Texas.Ciiamber
of Commerce at the State Fair of
Texas. The display is sponsored
by the Texas Cottonseed Crushers
Association.
“The only real problem of our
mills these days is to get new ma-
terials,” says C. B. Spencer, agri-
cultural director of the association.
“Our production of cottonseed is
no longer sufficient to supply fats
and oils for our rapidly increas-
ing ui ban population in Texas and
to supply proteins for o-ur expand-
ing livestock industry.”
Spencer pointed out that Texas
has mills to handle the seed from
a six million bale crop, but that
this year the state’s cotton produc-
tion likely will not exceed one and
three-quarter million bales.
Through scientific research hun-
dreds of new and valuable uses of
cottonseed have been developed,
but this year the kernels, hulls and
linters of the cottonseed will be
processed largely into the most es-
sential products only.
Callous Drivers Penalized
Prague (U.P.) —Czechslovakia’s
new traffic laws include severe
measures against drivers who fail
to stop when., asked to help acci-
dent victims. Any driver who re-
applications to any lending agency j fuses to help care for or transport
for guaranteed loans. injured will lose his driving license.
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