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BANK HOLIDAY
Tomorrow, Thursday,
Columbus Day, being a
legal holiday, we will not
be open for business and
we request our custom-
ers to be governed ac-
cordingly.
The Cotton Belt State Bank
Daily
Times
Timpson
VOLUME 38
TIMPSON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939
NO. 201
cm council m
IN flECULM SESSION
New Ordinance Provides
For Reduction in Gas
Rates.
80SSIIW MUSES
fINIiNO ID MOBILIZE
TROOPS AND FLEET
Helsingfors, Oct. 10. (UP)
Finland’s fleet was mobilizing
‘tonight at the port of Abo
(Turku) in readiness to trans-
port troops and war materials
to the nearby Aaland Islands
if they are threatened by Rus-
sia.
The Finnish bourse (stock
This Young Skate Cuts Dashing Figure
With Mayor J. W. _Kristen-
sen presiding, the regular
meeting of the city council
was held Tuesday night.
A new ordinance was pass-
ed at the meeting which pro-
rates for Timpson, Mayor J.
W. Eristensen states that the
reduction will amount to ap-
proximately thirty-three and a
third per cent.
The ordinance appears in
today’s Times.
iMIHISm SCH
SflUSHWC mCTORY !N
WHITT PHIM
Washington, Oct- 10. (UP)
—The administration today
scored a smashing victory in
the first fairly conclusive test
of strength on the embattled
neutrality revision bill when
the senate rejected 65 to 26, a
motion to recommit the meas-
ure.
The motion, proposed by
Sen. Charles W. Tobel, (R--
N.H.), directed that the meas-
ure be sent back to the Foreign
Relations committee with in- tenda tp make on Flnlalu}.
structions ta isolate-the-arms ~ ", -
The capital was blacked out
for the first time in its history
and large "-scale evacuation of
Finnish cities vulnerable from
the air was being carried out
as a “precautionary measure.”
{ It was estimated that 124,-
000 persons from Helsingfors
would seek greater safety in
the country. Sixty-four' thou-
sand persons, comprising those
under 16 years of age and all
ill persons, were ordered out
by the authorities. An addition-
al 60,000 volunteered to leave
the capital in . order to clear
the city and facilitate govern-
ment activities there.
The Finnish people appear-
ed calm and resolute to defend
their neutrality if it is chal-
lenged. A Finnish political
delegation, traveling by train
instead of rushing by airplane
as did the representatives of
the other little Baltic countries,
journeyed to Moscow on Rus-
cia’s invitation to ascertaip
what demands the Soviet in-
embargo repeal provision from
those dealing with the “title
and carry” and other intend-
ed safeguards.
Tobey contended .that it
WGuld require at least anoth-
er month for congress to dis-
pose of the neutrality legisla-
tion and that in the interim
American might be dragged
into the European war by in-
discriimir.ate sinking of its
ships by belligerents.
Chairman Key Pittman, (D.-
Nev.), of the Foreign Rela-
tions committee argued for the
administration that the legisla-
tion is nearing a vote and that
no time would be saved by
Tobey’s plan. He urged its re-
jection, and it went down with
seven Republicans and one In-
dependent joining 57 Demo-
crats in opposition to 15 Re-
publicans, nine Democrats,
one Farmer-Laborite and one
Progressive.
■ Democratic floor managers
and strategists were jubilant.
Pittman described the result as
a ‘positive test vote” which re-
vealed the "strength of the
two factions.”
"The vote ought to -satisfy
the country that no further de-
bate is needed,” he declared.
Russia apparently had com-
pleted her diplomatic "con-
quest” of Lithuania, but Fin-
land gave every indication
that she was determined to re-
sist any attempted encroach-
ment upon her sovereignty.
Shortly after the government
suggested the voluntary civil-
ian evacuation of Helsingfors
and Viborg, it was learned that
the removal of civilians from
certain northern villages had
already started.
Six trains were dispatched
to the villages and it was un-
derstood that between 9,000
and 10,000 persons were re-
moved to places of safety.
The government insisted the
blackout and evacuation were
being undertaken for precau-
tionary reasons only, empha-
sizing there was no fear of at-
tack. The nation was calm, it
was said. The evacuation will
be continued tomorrow and
Thursday. Helsingfors’ pop-
ulation is 255,000 and that of
Viborg, between-here and the
Russian border, is 71,000.
Some 250,000 Finnish
troops were kept ir. positions
of strategic importance within
maneuvering distance of the
Russian frontier.
Half Transportation
Claim of Schools Paid
Austin, Tex., Oct. 10. (UP)
A payment of 50 per cent of
all rural school claims for
transportation of pupils for
1938-39 term under the rural
aid appropriation was ordered
today by the Legislative com-
mittee named to supervise the
administration of the fund.
Final adjustment of the
claims will be made later. Pay-
ment of the 50 per cent at this
time will give the schools a
considerable fund for use im-
mediately.
Ribbons for ail makes of
typewriters. The Times-
Indirect Taxes;
Texas Ranks Eighth
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 10. (UP)
—Only seven states in the Un-
ion have higher indirect taxes
than Texas, the National Con-
sumers Tax Commission re-
ported today.
In 19S8. indirect taxes pro-
duced 88.6f per cent of the
$134,942,700 which Texan?
paid in taxes, according to a
report released by Mrs. Keneth
C. Frazier, chairman of the
board of the tax commission.'
Gasoline was the principal
revenue producer, the analysis
said, providing 842,228,405 in
taxes.
Severance taxes totaled $21.-
558,851, and taxes on payroli.-
were $18,810,000.
Two One-Act Plays
To Be Presented By
Speech Department
Timpson High School
Octogenarian’s Will
Fete at Hale Center
Patricia Mcrileld, Bollywood visitor at Ski Taler, Idaho, makes ■
dashing picture as she executes a leap ea skates that apparently takes
her over the rugged Idaho mountain tops, that ushering ha a new whites
season of outdoor sports in the northern states. _*
UNDER THE DOME AT AUSTIN
(By Gordon K. Shearer, United Press Staff Correspondent)
Austin, Tex. (UP)—If the | of such an amendment (SIR
financing of old age pensions j 12) in the last regular session
by a sales tax Ls voted upon in - and a ’ constitutional amend-
the next state Democratic pri-i ment cannot be submitted at a
mary election, as proposed by‘special session,
former Sen. V. A. Collins of • —UP—
Livingston, it will be the sec-j Members of the Capitol
ond time 'a major issue has Press were agreeably surprised
been left to popular vote in i this week to receive a formal
that manner. [invitation from State Land
Submission of_a prohibition; Commissioner Bascomb Giles
amendment to the state const!-; to attend the first meeting of
tution was put before the j the new state land board of
Democratic voters in a primary : which Giles, Gov. O’Daniel
election in 1908. The proposal! and Attorney Genera! Gerald
carried by a vote of 145,530 tojC. Mann are members.
141,441—but prohibition was ”—— "—£
not submitted by the next leg-
islature.
The Collins’ plan tracks' a
provision of the state law
which says no call for specific
legislation ever shall be made
a party demand unless it has
been submitted to vote of the
party members. The law pro-
vides that it shall be placed on
the ballot upon request of 10
per cent of the total number of
voters who participated in the
preceding general primary
election.
At the time the law was
passed there was a single pri-
mary. Runoff primaries have
since been added. There now
arises a question if a ballot re-
quest must be made by 10 per
cent of those who voted on
July 23,"or on August 27, 1938.
The August election was the
last primary but there is a
question if it was a “general”
primary because the run-off
primary August 27 was only
for races in which no candi-
date had a majority in the first
primary of July 23. Total
vote in the first primary was
1,115.485; in the run-off 857,-
Regardless of whether Sen.
Collins obtains a sufficient
number of signatures to his
petition, the state Democratic
Executive Committee may
place the question on the bal-
lot of its own volition.
Collins is father of Carr Col-
lins of Dallas, who, generally
is credited with the strategy
that elected Gov. O’Daniel on
a S30-a-month old age pension
program.
Placing such a plank on the
primary ballot would hasten a
popular vote on the issue. Its
direct submission in the form
of a constitutional amendment
cannot be ordered until Janu-
ary, 1941, when the next regu-
lar session of the state legislr-
ture opens. The House ard
v»r.r.t? split over submission
The casting for two one-act
plays is now underway in the
speech department of Timpson
High School.
The plays, a murder mystery
and a light comedy, will be
presented in the high school
auditorium to raise money fpr
a make-up kit for the depart-
ment.
Those cast for the murder
mystery are;
Mrs. Pearce, mother—Vir-
ginia Jarratt.
Mark, husband of Elizabeth
—J, R: Nichols.
Elizabeth Pearce, sister of
David Pearce—Beth Hutcher-
son.
Jack, a neighbor—Mitchell
Crausby. .
Those cast for "Who Gets
the Car Tonight,” are:
Mary Jones, daughter—
Bennie Mae Sapp.
Jack, her boy friend—Vid-
mer Hilliard.
Valenta Amos, Dorothy
Jean Hooper and Jean Brinson
will do the technical work,
that she will resist “the slight-
est treatening gesture against
her frontiers” hut adds that no
power presently menaces the
country.
Hale Center, Tex., Oct. 11.
(UP)—The young in heart,
but the persons aged 80 years
or more, will be honored again
October 12 here in Hale Cen-
ter’s 10th annual Octogenarian
Banquet, a dinner originated
by Dr. S. J Underwood,
pioneer physician.
Program for this year's
event will include, the usual
reminiscing of days past by
the oldsters, memorial services
for former guests who have
passed on since the last dinner
was held, old songs—both re-
ligious and Civil war ballads
—4alks by guest speakers and
special numbers by the local
school music department.
Mere than 20 persons aged
80 or over have been attend-
ing the previous programs.
Many of the guests are non-
ogenarians, Dr. Underwood re-
ports. Guest tickets are pro
vided by local merchants, who
join with the oldsters in the
banquet to make it a communi-
ty affair. The meal is prepar-
ed'and served by Methodist
church, ladies in the church
each year.
It is believed Hale Center's
octogenarian fete is the only
one of its kind in the South-
west.
Min Marks of Marshal]
Returns After 12 Years
Residence in France
Recalling that they were
barred from the meeting of the
State Automatic Tax Board,!
when the state ad valorem-taxi
levy was increased, newsmen
contrasted the attitude.
—UP—
Portland cement, much in
the news these days, has no
connection with Portland, Ore.,
Portland, Me., Portland, Tex.,
t rontinued on Last Page)
No Request For
Mediation President
Roosevelt Says
Washington, Oct. 10. (UP)
—President Roosevelt has re-
ceived no requests from bel-
ligerents to mediate in the
Euiopean war, he raid today.
His statement appeared to
end the possibility of immedi-
ate United States intervention
for peace, despite reports at-
tributed to Nazi sources that
such a move would be wel-
comed by Chancellor Adolf
Hitler.
Ribbons for
typewriters.
•I! snakes of
The Time*.
Smiles at Tragedy
Egn-}UMg Dorothy Lewis
smiles Iran her whesl chair at a
New Tack hospital where her right
leg was amputated to stem the rav-
ages of beae saucer. AmputaUea
was made et the hip.
Marshall, Tex. (UP)—Al-
though the French people have
heard war talked about for
months, actual hostilities came
as a surprise to them, accord-
ing to Miss Eleanor Marks,
who returned to her home in
Marshall after living in France
for nearly 12 years.
“The French think that
the world,” Miss Marks said.
for material aid, and feel they
could drawn on them to pre-
vent a serious food shortage.
In addition, they believe their
army is the world’s greatest.
But it is Benito Mussolini
who has united France, she
said.
"Feeling that Mussolini is
back of the Italian desire for
French territory — Corsica,
Nice, Tunis—the people of
France are united against
him, forgetting labor troubles
and internal strife,” she aifld.
College Station.—Accidental
deaths are more frequent on
the farm than elsewhere, ac-
cording to accident studies of
farms and other occupational
groups made recently by the
Adolf Hitler is a fool to defy United States Department of
Agriculture. According to M.
They look to French colonies R. Bentley, agricultural engi-
neer for the A. and M. College
Extension Service, factors con-
ducive to farm accidents are
the need for haste in rush sea
sons, which often means
working after dark or with
makeshift repairs; and occa-
sional attempts to use “home-
made” electric wiring.
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