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Timpson Daily Times
VOLUME 39
TIMPSON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
NO. 174
Wli.5. DEFENSE
VOTED BY 5ENJTL
Two-Ocean Navy usd
18,421 Warplane. Pro-
vided for in Measure.
Washington, Aug. 29. (UP)
—The senate tonight passed
the ¥5,133,169.277 “total” de-
fense bill carrying funds for
starting construction of a
two-ocean navy and for 18,421
warplanes—the largest air
armada in the nation’s histcry.
Passage was by voice vote.
The measure, last segment
of President Roosevelt’s $15,-
000,000,000 rearmament pro-
gram, now goes back to the
bouse for concurrence in sen-
ate amendments. It is design-
ed to build up the army and
navy to unprecedented
strength.
The chamber acted two
days after Mr. Roosevelt and
the national defense commis-
sion charged that congression-
al delay on the measure was
one of the chief bottlenecks in
the preparedness drive.
The senate added $100,000,-
000 to provide housing faeili-
: ties for persons engaged in de-
fense activities. It also added
$5,000,000 in cash and a $5,-
000.000 authorization for a
drydock in New York harbor
to handle the 45,000-ton bat-
tleships now being built.
Quick approval is expected
in the house.
, In addition to funds for the
warplanes and the two-ocean
navy, the measure also pro-
vides funds for authority to:
1. Complete total'moderni-
zation and provide equipment
for a land force of about 1,-
200,009 men.
2. Procure reserve stocks of
tanks, guns, artillery and am-
munition for 800,000 men in
addition to the completely
war-equipped 1,200,000,
should mobilization of such a
force become necessary,
3. Provide manufacturing
facilities, public and private,
necessary for producing criti-
cal items of equipment needed
for an army of 2,000,000, and
for producing ordnance requir-
ed for the army and navy air-
craft program- -guns, bombs,
armor, bombsights and ammu-
nition.
4. Produce 28,401 motor-
propelled vehicles including
tanks.
■For ship construction, it
provides $183,000,000 in cash
and $47,000,000 in contractual
authority; $75,000,000 for al-
teration and conversion of
naval vessels; $72,000,000 for
public works.
Construction of 200 new
warships is made possible un-
der the navy building pro-
gram. This does not include
the 68 under way on July 1.
This congress previously had
appropriated for 87 new com-
batant units.
The measure also carries
more than $2,000,000,000 for
procuring 14,393 warplanes
for the army and 4,028 for the
navy, complete with spare en-
gines, armament and mo3t
modern equipment.
MIG INKflED
TO SCHOOL Oil
CONCERT TONIGHT
The Timpson school band
will present & concert in the
city park tonight and the pub-1
lie is cordialiy invited to at-j
tend. Tbe program will be-
gin at 8 o’clock.
This Will be the first public
appearance of the band, and
will be directed by J. I. Bar-
ron. instructor of band music
in the Timpson school. Mr.
Barron has announced the
evening’s program as follows:
Eventide...........Buchtel
Tone Poem
Rhythm Rascals......Buchtel
Novelty
Chapel Echoes.......Buchtel
Tone Poem
Over the Waves. .Arr. Buchtel
Waltz M
March of the Marines
.............Arr. Buchtel
March
Courage............Bennett
March
12,111,101 IN U.S.T0
REGISTER UNDER SCI
Singing.
The regular meeting of No.
1 sieging convention will be
held at Jericho Baptist church,
seven miles north of Center,
beginning Saturday night, Au-
gust 31, and continue through
Sunday, Sept 1.
The home-coming service
will be held at Bethel Sunday,
Sept 8.
Officer. Will Be Elected
At Meeting of'Local
Legionnaire.
Ferguson-Tims-Morrison Post
No. 90, of the American Le-
gion will meet Tuesday night,
7:30, at Legion hall, A. L.
Whitson, post commander,
said Thursday. The meeting is
an important one, Mr. Whitson
states. Officers for the ensuing
year will be elected, and other
business will be brought up-for
the attention of the group.
Mr. Whit3on asks that all
ex-service men and members of
the American Legion attend
the meeting.
UNDER THE DOME
AT AUSTIN
(By Gordon K. Shearer, Unit-
ed Press Staff Correspondent)
Austin, Tex. (UP)—Texas
will end another fiscal year
this week. State appropria-
tions and state accounts run
from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31.
Appropriations are made by
the legislature for two years at
a time, but the appropriation
is divided so that the amount
to be expended the first year is
separated from that appropri-
ated for the second year. Bal-
ance of any amount appropri-
ated for the first year does not
carry over to the second year.
As a result state departments
and institutions are checking
up this week to see how they
will come out. Some of them
have found themselves in pe-
culiar position. For instance
one of the departments has is-
sued orders for materials au-
thorized in the first year ap-
propriation. The order is
placed but the supplies will
not be delivered until Aug. 31.
What to do in such a situ-
ation proved so puzzling that
Attorney General Gerald C.
Mann was asked to rule upon
it. His decision was that in
genera! appropriation mnst be
expended in the year specified,
but if the appropriation is for
machines, fixtures and books
not consumed during any one
year, the purchase may be
made out of the appropriation
for either year or the bi-en-
nium.
Appropriations for employ-
ment of help are held jftrictly
to the fiscal year for which
they are made by the legisla-
ture. If the material purchas
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Washington, Aug. 29. (UP)
—Major provisions of the con-
scription bill passed by the
Senate and how it wouid work:
Who must register
—With few exceptions, ail
men who have passed their
21st birthday and have not
reached their 31et birthday,
must register. This applies to
citizens and aliens alike, but
aliens wiil not be subject to
draft unless they have declar-
ed their intention to become
U. S. citizens. The fact that a
person has dependents does
not exempt him from registra-
tion.
Election officials throughout
the land will conduct the reg-
istration, probably 14 days af-
ter final enactment of the bill.
It is estimated that 12,000,090
men must register.
Exemptions from registration
—Specifically exempt from
registration are active, reserve
and cadet members of the
Army, National Guard, Navy,
Marine Corps, and Coast
Guard; members of the Geode-
tic survey and public health
service; officials of the Feder-
al and state governments.
Who will be drafted and how
—The bill permits 900,000
conscripts to be in training at
any one time. About 400,000
probably will be drafted this
fall. A lottery will determine
the order in which men will
{be called before local draft
boards throughout the country
"for determination whether
they should be inducted into
the Army.
The bill gives the President
broad powers to lay down reg-
ulations for the boards to fol-
low in deciding whom to se-
lect. The Army says it does
not intend to take any men
who have dependents or who
are employed in essential in-
dustrial or agricultural pur-
suits. College students prob-
ably will not be drafted. The
bill exempts divinity students
for service. Physical fitness
of course will be considered.
The Army estimates that af-
ter deferments for these rea-
sons there will be about 4,500,-
000 able-bodied, single men
from whom to select. Each
state and locality will be given
a quota in proportion to the to-
tal man power it registers. In
brief, those to be drafted will
be mostly single men with un-
important jobs or no jobs.
Appeals—Boards will be set
up to hear appeals from'men
who wish to contest their se-
lection by the local draft
boards.
Penalties—To evade the
draft, and assist anyone to dc
so, would be punishable by up
GERMANS GLAM
RAF PUKES MAIL
Berlin, Aug. 30. (UP)—A
A bow-secret type of v*Tais,> which
makes British bombers invisi-
ble under the glare of search-
lights has made it impossible
for German antiaircraft gun-
ners to turn their fire on enemy
raiders attacking Berlin, air.
force officials said Friday.
The British bombers, such as
those which attacked the capi-
tal for nearly three hours early
Thursday, were said to have
been invisible when the full
glare of searchlights was turn-
ed on them. But in London;
British air circle described
the charge as a lot of nonsense.
“It sounds like an excuse fofi
the failure of German search-
lights to pick up our bombers,”
it was said.
to five years’ imprisonment
and $10,000 fine, or both. The
cases would be heard in the
Federal courts rather than by
military courts, which decided
World War draft cases.
Length of service one year.
This could be extended inde-
finitely if the country became
engaged in war or Congress
declared the national interest
wa3 imperilled. Conscripts
would become members of the
reserves after completing their
year of active duty. Almost
all the conscripts will be taken
into the army. The Navy may-
fake a few later.
Conscientious objectors—Ex-
empted from military service
if they can prove to the de-
partment of justice that their
objections are based on legiti-
mate religious scruples. The
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Struck By Lightning
8tb Tune
Kenton, O., Aug. 29. (UP)
—The proverbial cat with nine
lives has little on Charlie
Brown, 48-year-oid Kenton
jobber.
For the eighth time in his
life, Brown was felled by a
bolt of ■ lightning yesterday.
He was knocked unconscious
but physicians said he would
recover. ' .
Biscuit of 1862 Owned
Luverne, Ala. (UP)—W. D.
Hudgens of Luverne owns
what is believed to be the
world’s oldest biscuit. The bis-
cuit was baked in Mobile, Ala.,
in 1862 by Joseph Hudgins, a
soldier of the Confederate
army.
Britain’s Minnie Women
MATTRESS MIKING
STARTED IN GOUNTI
Mattress making in the dif-
ferent communities of the
county started in earnest Mon-
day morning, according to
County Agent J. O. Moosberg.
Out of the first shipment of
cotton Antioch is making , 12
mattresses, Excelsior 21; Jack-
son 25. Fellowship 21, Enter-
prise 20, Weaver 18, Wedge-
worth 28, Blair 21, Boles 30,
Huber 30, Ballard 32. Campti
21, Sardis 31, Crockett 21,
Huxley 32, Neuville 21, Lamar
21, Folsom 19, Shady Grove
11, Tennessee 21, Beuna Vista
21, McClelland 22, Harrison
11, Sties 30, Dreka 33, Patroon
32, and Hawthorn 11.
Representatives from all of
these communities attended
mattress making demonstra-
tions held in the fair park in
Center Tuesday and Thursday,
and in Timpson and Huber
on Wednesday and Friday of
last week by Miss Beulah
Blackwell, district home dem
onstration agent of the Exten-
sive Service of the A. & M, col
iege, On Monday of this week
Miss Blackwell visited Antioch,
Jackson, Campti, Sardis, Bal-
lard and Huxley with County
Agent J. O- Moosberg.
Other communities of the
county at which mattresses
wiil be made as soon as com-
mittees can be appointed by
County Agent Moosberg are:
Arcadia, Ashton, Bobo, Brady,
Cltver Creek, Carrolton, Day,
Edgefield, Hamilton, James,
Joaquin. Jericho, Liberty, Mt.
Herman, Mt. Pleasant, Pine
Hill, Stockman, Shelbyville,
Waterman, Timpson and Ten-
aha.
When the program is com-
pleted’ 2520 mattresses will
have been made from 260
bales of cotton and 26,000
yards of ticking that is being
furnished by the Federal Sur-
plus Commodities Commission,
working in cooperation with
the Extension Service of the A.
& M. College and the County
A. C. A. Committee.
RECLFTION F08
LAGiNTT MEMBERS
51MWMT
A reception for members of
the Timpson school faculty
will be giver. Saturday night
by Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Pruitt,
the affair to be held upon the
lawn of their home on South
Second street.
All members of the faculty
will be in the receiving line,
Mr. Pruitt states, and the pub-
lic is cordially invited to at-
tend. The reception will be-
gin at 8 o’clock. In making an-
nouncement of the reception,
Mr. Pruitt says: “We will be
happy to welcome the people
of Timpson, and people from
all tbe surrounding communi-
ties.
Report on Shreveport
District Drilling Activity
Lisbon Field
Union Producing Company’s
Meadows A-l, section 18-21N-
4W Claiborne parish is drill-
ing at 6,166 feet in shale and
lime.
Joaqum-Logen sport Field
Union’s Garrett B-l, De Soto
parish, section 33-12N-16W is
drilling at 3,011 feet in shale
and lime. The Garrett A-i,
Wm. Moody survey, Shelby
county, Texas, is waiting on
gauge.
Bistinesn Field
The Tooke Unit No. 1, sec-
tion 16-16N-10W, Bienville
pat« Vis drilling at 3,685 feet
in shale and lime. Haris No. 1,
Bienville parish, section 11-
16N-10W is waiting on gauge.
Waskom Field
Union Producing Company's
Kaisiake No. 1, in the T. D.
Wilson survey, A-809, Harri-
son county, Texas, is waiting-
on gauge.
Beuna Vista School •
Begins Term Monday
The Beuna Vista school will
begin the 1940-41 term Mon-
day morning, Sept. 2nd, it was
announced today by Delmer
Honeycutt, one of the trustees.
BANK HOLIDAY
Next Monday, Sept. 2nd, I .fi-
ber Day, being a legal holiday,
we will not be open for busi-
ness.
Kindly permit us, as usual to
take care of your banking
needs Saturday.
LONDON, England . .. WCltng to take their chances with the men
m resisting the invaders of Britain when iter come, these women are
members of a women’s- Farachct < rg.uilzmlca who arc brushing ap
on their markamenshin.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS
The Cotton Belt State Bank
TIMPSON, TEXAS
Deposits in this bank are insured by The Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation of Washington, D. C„ each
account insured up to $5,000.00.
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 174, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940, newspaper, August 30, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth812753/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.