Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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Timpson Weekly Times
VOLUME SS
TIMPSON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940
NO. 52
Washington, Aug. 5. — The
whole nation is about to get a
foretaste of what war, or at
least preparation for war,
means. With almost no ap-
parent opposition In Congress,
the outlook is that before Sum-
mer is oTsr, every male citizen
of the United States between
the ages of 18 and 64 will have
been registered for military
service. In the same period,
or shortly thereafter, every
alien residing in this country
will be registered, so that the
police can put their hands on
them at any time.
The estimate is that about
three million aliens will be
finger-printed and otherwise
identified. The citizens of
fighting age will also be finger-
printed, so that if any of them
tries to dodge when his num-
ber is eslled he can be picked
up and sent to prison or fined,
or both. There will be about
12 million of those. Each will
get a number.
On October 1, if no slip oc-
ean in the present plans, num-
bers will be drawn out of a jar.
Each number may be held by
several hundred different men
between the ages of 21 and
30, scattered all over the coun-
try, There will be 400,000
.-neh men -called in the first
"■ drift— The'numbers wflTbet
published in every corner of
the land, and each man whose
number has been drawn will
have to report to a designated
place for a year of military
training. |
Only Single Man
Only single men are to be
taken in this first draft, and
“key men” in essential indus-
tries and others who can give
valid reasons why they should
not go into training will be ex-
empted. But the idem is to
start 400,000 into military
service, under Army and Na-
tional Guard officers, just"
quickly as possible, and keep
them in uniforms for a year.
Next April the plan is to con-
script another 400,000, and a
year from October 600,000
more, and so on.
These men will get quarters,
subsistence and S21 a month
wages. Washington hears that
many business concerns have
agreed to keep employees on
their payrolls through the
training period. The Senate
committee pat into the new
law a provision that an em-
ployer who refuses to reinstate
an employee because of ab-
sence for a year of military
training shall be considered
guilty of "unfair labor prac-
tices.
Provision is expected to be
made in another bill, now be-
ing drafted, for the payment
by the Government of such
items as life insurance premi-
ums and mortgage payments
which a soldier in training
eoold hardly be expected to
pay out of his $21 a month.
That is the beginning of the
Army’s program for an armed
land force of not less than two
million men as quickly as pos-
sible.
Less Optimistic
William Knudsen, the indus-
trial production expert of the
National Defense Council, re-
porting to a committee of Con-
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fllMISM MIS IT
MEETING TIM
CtiHOFIHGE
Talk on Soil Conserva-
tion By Ben ChSds In-
teresting; Committee
Appointed to Plan Bon-
An enthusiastic meeting of
the Timpson chamber of com-
merce was held Tuesday even-
ing at the school auditorium.
The meeting was announced
as a mass meeting, and was
called by directors Friday af-
ternoon.
An outstanding feature of
the assembly was the talk
given by Ben Childs, promi-
nent fanner and member of
the Soil Conservation Board.
His address was interesting
and gave beneficial and prac-
tical information concerning
the preservation of our soil.
“A tagger and better com-
munity,” was the central
theme of talks made by all in
attendance. Loyal and enthu-
siastic support was pledged to
the organization.
' A banquet is being planned,
to be given at an early date.
Mrs. F. T. Cooke, Mrs. W. A.
Taylor, W. D. Whiteside and
Robin Hooper were appointed
as an entertainment committee
to complete arrangements.
The tickets will be placed on
sale and the public is urged to
Purchase tickets and attend.
r. Corry, president, pre-
sided.
Those present included:
Mrs. F. T. Cooke, Mrs. S.
Kelley, Mrs. W. A. Taylor,
Mm. Ed Taylor, J. W. Kristen-
sen. G. P. Weaver, Tot Taylor,
J. D. Hairston, Ben Childs, F.
R. Bussey, Robin Hooper, E. E.
Phelps, E. H. Hebert, W. F.
Cony, Houston Cheek, R. W.
Mathis, Z. B. Ramsey, G. D.
Pruitt, J. Homer Smith.
HEW I. OEMS
ill COHGT MEETING
XT OLD MOMTHCHORDH
Revival services will begin
at Old North Church, near
‘Nacogdoches. Sunday, August
11th, and will close August
21st. Rev. J. A. Derrick, pas-
tor of the Timpson Baptist
church, will do the preaching,
and also lead the singing.
Services will be held twice
daily, at 10 a. m. and 8:16 p.
m.
Call Our
‘Lee'; He Likes the
Personal Tench
Austin. (UP)—If you want
to Impress your friends with
how well you know the Texas
governor, just call him "Lee.'
"I may be governor to some
folks,” Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel
said in a radio broadcast by
remote control from the gover-
nor’s mansion Monday night,
“but I’m still just T«ee' to my
friends.”
The broadcast was from Los
Angeles and Governor O’Dan-
iel referred by name to many
ex-Texans who now are screen
celebrities.
The temperature of the wa
ter in President Roosevelt’s
swimming pool at the White
House is kept at exactly 88 de
grees at all times, which is the
average heat of Georgia’s
Warm Springs.
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London, Aug. 6. (UP)—
British raiders tonight were
reported to have bombed the
"partly ruined” German port
of Hamburg and the great
Nazi naval base of Kiel at the
same time. Britons were warn-
ed that Adolf Hitler is ready
to unloose his blitzkrieg forces
against Britain, perhaps with-
in two weeks.
Squadrons of British bomb-
ers blasted military objectives
in Holland and northern Ger-
many in a raid designed to
weaken Nazi invasion prepa-
rations, the air ministry said.
With the port of Hamburg
already reported partially de-
stroyed, tiie air ministry said
that British bombers struck
there again, damaging freight
yards and docks.
The Germans deny that
Hamburg is in "ruins” and
said that British bombers have
caused no damage there. They
said the British reports were
designed for home consump-
tion and classed them as
“purely fictitious.”
In attacks on Holland and
Germany last night and early
today, the air ministry said
that British bombers raided
vital objectives at Wismar,
Kiel and Hamburg and freight
yards at Hamm.
The Schipbl airdrome near;
Amsterdam was bombed, the
air ministry said, with ‘British
raiders turning then to the
German island of Sorkum,
vital Nazi bpse, where an air-
drome also was attacked.
There was a sharp decline in
German air activity over Bri-
tain with only a few planes
appearing during the day. A
British fighter was said to
have intercepted a Nazi bom-
ber over a northeast English
town and chased it out to sea,
but not before it had dropped
three bombs which set fire to a’
house.
Another tiennan raider was
driven off by anti-aircraft fire
when it appeared over south-
east England. One Nazi plane
appeared over Wales, it was
reported, but did not drop any
bombs.
British newspapers under
blazing headlines said it was
believed officially that the
German air force nearly had
completed its reorganization,
and that an attempt to invade
the British Isles was likely to
come from both Baltic and
English channel ports.
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FIELD AftMT
Officers, 83 Enlisted
Men Entrained San-
der Morning For
Cravens, Is.
21 DAYS TRAINING
, Company D, 144th Infantry,
a machine gun unit of the
Texas National Guard, head-
quarters Timpson, -left
Sunday . morning for Cravens,
La., for annual camp of in-
struction. Prior camps of
training have included: Aus-
tin, Galveston and Palacios.
The company left Timpson
at 4:40 a. m. Sunday, over the
Southern Pacific to Tenaha,
where the remainder of the
trip was made to Cravens, La.,
over the Santa Fe. The troop
train reached Cravens at 11:45
a. m„ and a four-mile hike was
made to point of concentration,
where the Timpson company,
with others, established camp.
"The twenty-one days train-
ing of about 14 hours per day,
consisting of alt phases of
training from combat firing,
problems from squads to divi-
sion, shonld put tiie Texas Na-
tional Guard in excellent con-
dition.” Captain CoiiTpton said.
The Third Field Army, com-
posed of tiie Fourth and Eighth
Carps, will be engaged in the
maneuvers, in which some
eighty or ninety thousand men
will participate, It isilnder-
stood. Headquarters will be
maintained at Alexandria.
The commissioned and en-
listed personnel:
Captain—Joseph J. Comp-
ton.
1st Lieutenant—Zannie B.
Crump.
2nd Lieutenant (Attached)
—Vaughan Shepherd Irvin.
1st Sergeant — Mansfield
Coan.
Sergeants, Grade IV—Lovis
K. Cogbum, William L. Davis,
Carl H. Jones, Joseph P. Kyle,
Lester D. McWilliams, Alford
M. Richards, Ellis J. Whisen-
hunt, Woodrow C. Wilson.
Corporals, Grade V—Eldon
D. Alfred, Grant J. Frederick,
James M. Hartley, Arthur F.
Horton, Thomas L. Jones,
Frank L. Morgan, Olen B.
Oliver, Gaston E. Porterfield,
Vernon B. Sparks.
Privates (First Class)—John
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HOME GI10S
Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 6.
(UP)—President Roosevelt,
seeking manpower to operate
the greatest defense machine
in world history, disclosed
plans to organize home guard
units in the 48 states around
American veterans of the
World war.
Anticipating congressional
approval of a measure calling
national guard divisions into
active federal service, the
President disclosed he is work-
ing on a plan to organize aux-
iliary home defense nnits.
The President turned to
home defense after acting to
strengthen the new intercon-
tinental ties by which the 21
American republics pledged
themselves last month at Ha-
vana to preserve the western
hemisphere status quo and re-
pel economic offensives from
overseas. He declared that the
republics of the new world
have effected a meeting of
minds on mutual defuse and
economic problems and Pan-
American unity now is mors
nearly a fact-than ever before.
He discussed last night with
Gov. Herbert C. Lehman of
New York a plan to organize
home guard units to replace
national guard troops expect-
ed to be called into active
service.
Indicating that replacement
of regular national guard regi-
ments is primarily one for the
48 states, Mr .-/Roosevelt skid
he explored the problem in
some detail with Lehman. Un-
der the plan already under de-
velopment by war department
officials at Washington, he
said, members of the Ameri-
can Legion and the Veterans
of Foreign Wars shortly will
be called upon to organize
protective service to localities
once the national guardsmen
have been called up for feder-
al service.
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Vacation Bible School
Ribbons for an makes at
typewrites. The Times.
Helpful
Rev. Walter L. Cannan, pas-
tor of the Timpson Methodist
church has returned home af-
ter a two weeks revival meet-
ing at Kirbyville. Reverend
Cannan reports a fine meeting,
with several additions to the
church and a successful vaca-
tion Bible school, with enroll-
ment of 106.
Rev. Cannan states that
plans are being completed for
the revival meeting here which
will begin Sunday. Reverend
John Ford, of Kirbyville will
bring an evangelistic message
message each evening, and ad-
dress the adult members of the
church each morning at 10.
The vacation Bible school will
not begin until Wednesday
morning and the time each day
will be from 8 to 10. The fol-
lowing courses will be offered.
“Our Happy World", “Living
in Our Community"; “Learning
About the Chureh", “What Al-
cohol Does Tor IJs.” The latter
course will be offered for inter-
mediates and young people.
All workers are requested to
meet at the church Tuesday
evening at 8 o’clock to arrange
schedules and class work. In
addition to the courses above
mentioned each group will
have an intereat or Guild
No. 2 Convention Will Meet
at OM Homo Sooday
According to announcement,
the next regular meeting of
No. 2 singing convention will
be held at Old Home Baptist
church, Sunday, Aug. 11, be-
ginning at 2 p. m.
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