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CamptoBring DAVID BENEES BARKELEY IS DEAD;
HIS MEMORY AND RECORD AREN’T
New Roads in
Abilene Area
Building of access roads and im-
provement of existing highways In
this immediate vicinity are plan-
ned because of the location of an
Winy camp nine miles southwest
Abilene.
Officials of the army. W. P A.,
Public Roads administration, Texas
By PREXY ANDERSON
Reporter-News Staff Writer
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 14 —Grave
No. 1302 in the National cemetery
here is that of David Benees Barke-
ley. • -
There are hundreds of other
graves just like it, although few of
the hundreds of other men sleep-
ing here were heroes on the same
scale with Barkeley Each is marked
by a small white slab.
Here David Benees Barkeley, for
soldier He was Ango-Saxon. He was
a soldier at least as early as 1889.
when there is a record of hist en-
listment at Cincinnati, O. There
were many subsequent honorable
discharges and reenlistments.
About 1895 Joseph Berkeley and
Davey's mother were married at Rio
Grande City, Tex , while he was
stationed at Fort Ringgold. She was
15 then’ and he, 29. A picture of
the bride and groom are among the
family souvenirs. He was a hand-
highway department. Taylor coun- whom the new army camp at Abi-
' lene is named, has lain for 20
ty and chamber of commerce high-
way, committee yesterday agreed
upon location of an’access road to
Camp Barkeley.
It will be built from U. S.
highways 83-M about one mile
south of Lake Kirby to the
east side at the army camp
about five or six mile*.
The access road will meet
specifications for a strategic mili-
tary highway It will have a 22-foot
triple penetration asphalt surface
with 10 foot stabilized shoulders,
giving it an overall crown width
of 42 feet. The right-of-way will be
all
a minimum of 120 feet.
Taylor county will sponsor the
construction project, provide the
right-of-way, furnish a specified
amount of road building equipment
and royalties for caliche.
WPA IS BUILDER
The access road will be built as
a Works Projects administration
undertaking. The W. P A. will pro-
vide finances through national de-
fense funds, and will provide labor-
or* and engineering supervision.
WPA engineers here yesterday said
some labor will have to be imported
for the project.
The state highway department,
through its district office here, will
make preliminary estimates, survey
and stake out the right-of-way.
Estimated cost of the five
or six miles access road has
been - set at about $30,000 a
mile. It likely will be complet-
ed this year-
Other road work in this area to
come as a result of the building
of Camp Barkeley includes the im-
provement or rebuilding of U. S 84
from its intersection with U. S. 83
' to the Coleman county line, a dis-
tance of about 15 miles This high-
way, now in poor condition, crooked
and narrow, will be forced to carry
an additional heavy traffic load
from Camp Barkeley to Camp
Bowie, Brownwood Highway engi-
neers say it is now carrying a ca-
pacity load
PublicRoads administration offi-
cials have recommended that U S
84 from Abilene to Coleman be
added to the state's system of stra-
tegic military highways and placed
in the third priority class.
CAMPS LINKED
According to present plans. Camp
Barkeley will have neither a bak-
ery nor laundry and will be served
by Camp Bowie As a result there
will be much heavy traffic between
the two camps after the 45th di-
vision of 20 000 men moves here.
U E 80 is the only highway in
this area placed in the first prior-
tv group of the states strategic
highway system A total of $81,000,-
years. It has been more than 22
years since the youthful Texan gave
up his life in what was adjudged
the most heroic act performed by a
soldier from this state in the world
At 121 San Juan street, San An-
tonio. there are more prominent re-
minders of the deeds of David Bark-
eley. One hundred twenty-one San
Juan street is a very modest cot-
tage. It is only a half mile from
the busiest part of the city On the
walls of the living room hang two
enlarged pictures of David There
are framed citations, signed by Gen.
•John J. Pershing commander of the
American Expeditionary Force in
France: and by the president of
France
(There are, for that matter, also
an American flag on the wall: a
picture of President Roosevelt; a
soldiers cartridge belt, and other
mementoes of a like nature. David
Barkeley s family is a patriotic one.)
Rut at 121 San Juan street
David Benees Barkeley is just
Davy. And Davy isn't dead. He
to a vibrant, living memory. And
Davy's mother and his only sla-
ter, for all the pictures and the
certificates that hang on the
living room wall, do not think so
often "of him as a soldier.
They remember him as a laugh-
ing little boy who played soldier. 1
then as a schoolboy, who was very |
quick;" a little later as a news-
boy; then as a grocers delivery boy.
Always he laughed and danced and
sang
Davy’s mother is Mexican born.
Mrs Joseph 8 Barkeley She is 61.
She lives with her daughter. Amelia
Amelia is Mrs Fred Hernandez
The two and Amelia's husband and
the four little Hernandez children
compose the household. Amelia was
born three years after Davy. There ′
DAVID B. BARKELEY
were no other Barkeley children.
FATHER SOLDIER, TOO
Davy’s father was an American
Industry and Labor Draft
Urged to Speed Defense
some man.
BORN AT LAREDO —
When Mrs Barkeley was 20. Davy
was born. It was at Laredo. Three
years later Amelia was born This
was while Joseph Barkeley was
soldiering aggin at Rio Grande
City.
The professional soldier is much
on the move. Mrs. Barkeley and
her two children came to San An-
tonio when the boy was five and the
girl two The father probably was
not with them much more He died
a master sergeant at Philadelphia
in 1921, having spent nearly 30
years in the army.
Meanwhile his boy was growing
up in San Antonio.
Davy inherited a taste for the
military. Mrs Barkeley tells about
it in her broken English.
‘He say, ‘I’m going to be sol-
dier, too,’ and he would put
spoon or fork to his mouth like
a horn, and go, ‘Rootty-ty-toot-
ty-ty-toot’"
Davy attended Eleanor Bracken-
ridge elementary school here, mak-
ing good grades That was the ex-
tent of his education The money
he could earn as a newsboy and by
FDR to Let DELUXE GAMBLING BACK
Solons Fix IN OCEANS WITH TAXIS
Aid Peri ’
Martin Asks
6-Day Week
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-
(AP)—A White House official
said today the question of
whether there should be a
time limitation on the powers
contemplated for the presi-.
dent in the "lease-lend" bill
to aid Britain probably would
be left up to congress.
TAFT -ASKS LOANS
Asked what the attitude of the
White House was on such a restric-
tion, Stephen Early, presidential
secretary, told reporters:
"I think the White House will
just let the congress work it out.
So far as I know, that is the dis-
position."
Early said so far as he knew also
the president s' mail on the lease-
lend plan was not particularly
heavy, now that the program was
before congress.
Outright scrapping of the pease-
lend plan was demanded by Sen-
ator Taft (R-Ohior in a counter-
doing odd jobs was needed to sup-
plement the income of his mother, proposal calling for cash loans, 11
who did housework for other fami-and
when needed
lies..:,—
He must have been a good news-
boy, too. His sister remembers that
he once won a suit of clothes in a
contest sponsored by the newspa-
per.
Davy was just 17 when the Unit-
ed States declared war He already
had been in the National Guard
The family is a little uncertain as
to the date of his enlistment in the
army, but it probably was in Au-
gust, 1917. about four months after
See BARKELEY. Pg. 9. Col. 6
Also today, Senator Clark (D-
/ Mo), said he favored calling
Jospeh P. Kennedy and William
C. Bullitt to testify before the
senate foreign relations com-
mittee regarding the adminis-
tration's lease-lend bill for aid
to Great Britain.
Clark said that the two should
be able to give valuable back-
ground information on the war.
Bullitt, Clark said, has been
traipsing up and down the country
trying to get up a war I would
like to know what commitmenu he
has made on behalf of this coun-
New Texas Legislature
Opens 120-Day Session
Leonard Named CONTRACTORS STEP ON GAS
House Speaker TO FINISH CAMP BY FEB. 15
AUSTIN Jan. 14.—(UP)—The
47th Texas legislature convened at
000 has been designated for 1m- noon today for 120 days of law-
provement of strategic military .
highways and according to unoffi- making for the state.
cial reports, about $4,000,000 will be
With 1.000 or more carpenters Walls and roof frames were be-
and laborers placed on the job thisgun on two buildings in the ware-
house area yesterday and this type
week and more being added daily.
indications today were that con-
A senate caucus shortly before ‘tractors have gone into high gear
spent on U. S 80 from Port Worth the session opened agreed upon se-I in an effort to complete the $5,-
to Big Spring. This will include lection of Seh Rudolph A Welnert 000,000 Camp Barkeley construe -
modernization of the route widen- of Seguin for president pro tem tion project by the Feb. 15 com-
ing of shoulders, eliminaiton of to serve when Lieut Gov Coke R. pletion date.
I dangerous curves and railroad. Stevenson is not present. - *--
’ crossings... Rep. Homer Leonard of McAllen
TO REBUILD 158 was unopposed for speaker of the
house
Weinert has been a senate mem-
ber five years, first being elected
State highway 158 from Abilene
to View will be rebuilt after the
- See ROADS, Pg. 9, Col. 5
Italo General in
Command at Sidi
Barrani Captured
CAIRO. Egypt. Jan 14.—The
British reported today that the Ital-
ian blackshirt General Argentina
had been captured by a motorboat
after he had been spotted
from the air ’ hiding by the water’s
edge in North Africa.
Argentina was said to have been
commander of Italian forces at Sidi
Barrini, recaptured Egyptian town
"Search for a large party of Ital-
ian generals and senior officers,
which already has proved success-
ful. still is being carried out by hur-
ricane aircraft of the RAF," the
British statement sald
These Italians are the vanguard
of enemy troops who escaped from
Barilla and were making for Tobruk
along coastal paths before Bardia
was surrounded and finally taken
RAF hurricanes are flying low.
sometimes skimming cliffs at 50
feet, and spotting lurking Italians
who are taking refuge in caves.
80 CALLS SUNDAY-
MANY MORE MONDAY!
are the results Mrs. Tom
McWhirter, 1634 South 12th
street reports from her Want
Ad below:
NICELY Furnished garage apartment,
extra nice- furnished bedroom call
4707. :
If you nave a vacant house,
room ar apartment, remem-
ber—people are leaking for
places to live—and they look
• In the Reporter-News Classi-
tied Ad- FIRST.
Phone 1271
Charge Your Want Ad
More than 4,000 are now en-
gaged in the camp construction
program and the total is ex-
pected to be much higher be-
fore the weekend.
The camp has been divided into
11 zones for construction opera-
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 14.—(PP)—Deluxe gambling once again is back
just outside New Orleans and the limousines are running on regular
schedule to give free taxi service to the patrons who get off at the end
of the street car line. • i
The luxurious casinos, bunched just across the city boundary in
adjacent Jefferson parish, reopened over the weekend after being in-
active since last October when citizens protested against their operation.
A good many people drive up to the air-conditioned palaces of chance
in their own automobiles but nearly as many ride the street car to a
point about a half-mile away and then transfer to the free limousines.
The limousines take/them back later, too.
You can have a big time with a dollar or $10,000. Those short of
"change can play 5-cents-a-card lotto; big spenders can amuse them-
selves on the roulette or dice tables.
The casinos have operated for many years with only infrequent In-
terruptions. The last serious trouble they had was when the late Huey P.
Long had his state, police bar their doors But that was not for long
He let them reopen, and just before he did, he went on the radio
and gave his reasons, mostly humorous, for three hours;
“I’m dad-gum tired Of trying to police every half-house and half-
square." he said. "They ought to move the insane asylums right next to
the gambling houses so the gamblers could walk right out and into
them I dont care if there’s a little gambling, just so they don't make
it the whole thing around here."
Cuts
ekrieg
/mouth
By the Associated Press
Nazi fire raiders showered more
than 10.000incendiary bombs and
many tons" of high explosives on
Plymouth, big English shipping
port, leaving uncounted victims still
buried in the debris today.
RAF bombers attacked the Ger-
man U-Boat base at Lorient and the
Dunkerque area.
Civilian fire spotters were credit-
ed with saving Plymouth from "ev-
en greater disaster" as the Germans,
try."
Kennedy and Bullitt formerly oc-
cupied key positions as ambassador
to Great Britain and France re-
spectively. / *
Taft, a member of the foreign
relations committee, said that for - ...
congress “the important thing in was said, dropped thousands’ of
this issue" was to refuse the presi- incendiaries, illuminating the city
dent the broad powers proposed in 5 -
the administration bill, and to keep
striking in waves, took advantage of
a brilliant moon and spreading
fires to give the city of 205,000 in-
habitants one of its worst pound-
ings.
The first wave of 30 bombers, it
congress “th
with a grotesque light.
Two surface air-raid shelters were
British ald separate from our own hit by bombs, and two hospitals and
defense, instead of linking them in ---------:— --
the legislation.
FIGHT TO FINISH
The Ohian s announcement to
newsmen that he would devote his
efforts to getting the bill killed ap-
parently put him on the side of
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) and
those others who have indicated
that, regardless of modifications.
only the defeat of the administra-
tion plan would satisfy them.
The substitute loan program which
Dive Bombers in
Sicily Destroyed
work was to begin on at least two . -
more today Concrete wall founda- Taft advanced would become oper-1
Mon: ve" seen completed on
of • the—ten buildings and frames
have been completed for pouring
the other four foundations.
CAIRO. Egypt, Jan 13.—(Delayed)
— IP>—Destruction of nine airplanes
believed- to be German Junkers 87‘s
a church damaged In one hospital,
a-single patient was reported kill-
ed with a direct hit on a women's
ward Ceilings and walls were blast-
ed apart.
Early reports said casualties were
feared large, but officials declared
the toll was remarkably light con-
sidering the intensity of the raid,
which lasted about three hours
Eye-wtneisses said Plymouth at
dawn was "a sorry sight."
More cheerful news for Brit-
tons came from the London ad-
miralty with a report that only
four merchant ships totaling
14,687 tons were sunk in the
week ended Jan. 5—one of the
lightest week’s losses since the
war began.
Authoritative British quarters said
the decrease was due to bad weath-
er conditions, concerted RAP at-
lacks on nazi naval bases and the
gradual" reinforcement of escorts
for British shipping convoys.
Premier Mussolini’s high com-
mand, meanwhile, pictured a joint
axis offensive against Britain’s
Mediterranean fleet as having hit
ten British men o war since Jan 9
including a battleship of the 31.-
100-ton Malaya class, two aircraft
carriers, two cruisers, three destroy-
ers, one "big warship" and one sub-
marine "a
Fascist newspapers also claimed a
third cruiser and two British steam-
ships damaged, another submarine
See THE WAR, Pg. 9, Col. 5
Activity is equally as intense in
the hospital area with work begun
on more than 80 buildings. Wall
and roof frames of 15 to 20 bulld-
hausted and would be limited in Catania, Sicily was reporMd.
the first instance to $1,000,000,00 or by RAF headquarters.
$1,500,000,000. Taft said commerce (Catania is on the east coast of, ----------------------
the Italian island of Sicily and near -
the Strait of Sicily where, accord-
ing to the. Italian high command * UIUMICCTS I III
department reports showed that
Britain still had $4,000,000,000 of cash
and marketable securities
United States If the first
000.000 loan proved insufficient for
ings have been begun in this area. Britain he added, congress could
Buildings are springing up daily in grant further sums.
other zones of the cantonment
to succeed Sen. Welly K. Hopkins.
who resigned to become an assistant tions and late yesterday workmen ...______,„.,___, _____,______„
entered the last two zones, areas of concrete for another 1.250 feet
to be occupied by one of the artil-
to the U S attorney general. He is
serving his first full term.
In the .last legislature, Wein-
ert was author of SJR 12,
which proposed submission of
a constitutional amendment to
establish definite limits on so-
, rial security appropriation and
to designate what taxes should
bemused for the purpose. It in-
eluded a two percent sales tax.
He is son of the late Ferdinand
C. Weinert, a former senator
and house member, state tax
commissioner and secretary, of
state.
Sen J Franklin Spears of San
Antonio, a captain in the Texas
national guard on active duty, at-
tended the session in uniform. Un-
less a special order is issued by the
! commanding general he will be re-
| quired to wear his uniform through
the session, at such times as he is
able to leave camp and be present.
In the house Rep James E Taylor
of Kerens, also an officer in the
national guard, to under similar re-
quirement
Sen A M Aikin Jr of Paris is a
captain in the national guard but
has not been called into active
service as member of the state
staff corps He was not In uniform.
For the first time, the opening
of a house session was broadcast.
STOP and THINK
Thia government has brought
more happiness to those who
live under It than has any
ether kind of government on
earth.—Daniel Willard, railroad
president.
But ye are a chosen genera-
tion, a royal priesthood, an
holy nation, a peculiar people;
. that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called
you out of darknrtt into his
marvellous light: which in time
past were not o people, but orc
now the people of God: which
had not obtained mercy." but
not have obtained mercy.—I
‘ Peter 2.9-10, T
Road work
moved along
schedule
on
yesterday with pouring
lery regiments and the medical
regiment of the 45th division.
of the more than four miles of this
type road. A similar amount had
in the - 1 - 1
$1,500.- German dive bombers have joined
with the fashist Air force in an
offensive against s British Mediter-.
The Taft counser-plan was the
widest departure from the admin-
istration program yet offered by
critics with positive suggestions:It
Stonewall Quota
ranean seapower..
(Junkers 87‛s are two-seater dive- ASPERMONT Jan 14—'Sob-
bombers.) 1 ASPERMONT Jan 14- p
The communique said three hang- Stonewall country’s January quota
ars were set on fire, one of them of six draftees under the selective
Citizens Bank
Adds to Staff. -
Changes in the list of officers
and directors of The Citizens Na-
tional bank in Abilene were to be
announced'this afternoon following
annual meetings oftockholders,
and directors
Malcolm M Meek, president, an-
nounced the directors had approved
appointment of B E. Hamilton,
cashier of the Roscoe State bank
from 1920 to 1938, as a vice presi-
dent of the Citizens National: the
promotion of Homer H Scott, to
the position of vice president and
cashier; promotion of Owen Ellis,
a teller, to assistant cashier, and
appointment of J B. Castles, an
employe, to the new post of audi-
tor
Twa members were being
added to the beard of directors
—Hamilton, the new rice presi-
dent, and W. P. Wright, local
oil company representative who
to serving as president of the
Abilene chamber of commerce.
Hamilton, well-known in banking
circles throughout Texas, will join
the Citizens National staff Feb 1.
For the past two years, since leave
ing the Roscoe bank, he has been
state bank examiner for the Corpus
Christi district. 5
"Of all the places m Texas where
I would have preferred to locate
In the banking business, Abilene
has been and still is my first
choice." said Hamilton
Other officers of the Citizens
National, besides President Meek,
are W O Swenson, vice president:
M P Wilson, assistant cashier: E.
E Hollingshead, assistant cashier
The board of directors now will
See BANKS, Pg. 9, Col. 1 _
ran contrary to President Roose-
velt’s recent assertion that the dol-
been completed Sunday. Starting lar sign should be eliminated from
from state highway 158, the 22- the whole question of American
foot concrete slab now. extends aid to Britain. .
through the warehouse area and ----------------------------------
along the south line of the camp- FDR Returns
site to the south end of Pershing WASLINAON ,
Drive, the camp s main boulevard WASHINGTON Jah . P
President Roosevelt returned to
MATERIALS POU R IN . ,
Materials continue to arrive in Washington today after • week,
large quantities and traffic agent
for the contractors said today be- home,
tween 75 and 100 carloads of lum-
ber. pipe, etc., will be arriving
daily by the end of the week
Removal of downtown tempo-
rary offices of administrative offi-
cials of the construction program
began Sunday with the auditing
and engineering departments of
the contracting firm moving to of-
fices in the new administration
building.
The " contractors, constructing
quartermaster- and staff, and the
architectural engineers will not
move to the camp until telephone
service is completed, probably the
latter part of this week.
Nine Drunkeness
Cases Docketed
Nine arrests for drunkenness
Monday afternoon and night re-
sulted in $40 in fines—$15 sus-
pended-in city court this morn-
ing Only six of the cases were
heard by Judge W J. Cunning-
ham, for one case of drunk driv-
ing was transferred to the county,
one case was passed until 5 p m.
today, and in another the many
charged had not sobered enouga to
come to court said officers
One fine of $15 was suspended
to Jan. 1g. another of $10, to Jan
18 ′
The arrest reports gave Rich-
lino Springs San Saba Wich ta
Falls Abilene, Buffalo Zap and
being demolished, in a heavy raid
the night of Jan 13-13.
Heavy explosions were
and numerous fires were
service act has been filled by vol-
started lunteers. the county draft board
started announced.
among administrative building*, it The six who will be sent to the
*AMA petrol dump was MX on Ure induction station- in Lubbock Jan
and at east nine aircraft thought to 24-are Vernon Lee Petterson. Pea-
be German junkers 17 s were de- cock, Robert Orgin Newman old
stroyed Glory: waymond Elliott and Wil-
Other bombers hit the main liam Charles Nelson. Aspermont:
end rest at his Hyde Park N Y runways and railway line along the Charles Durward Kluting and John
west side of the airdrome Otis Nelson. Peacock
THEY HELP BREAK GROUND FOR STAMFORD'S AIR SCHOOL
%
City officials and business men really “turned out” yesterday at Stamford's ground-
breaking ceremonies for beginning of work on an army-training flying field to be complet-
ed.at a cost of $250,000. The field is located five miles east of Stamford. Shown here left
to right are: Charlie Green, manager of the Stamford chamber of commerce, C. E.
Coombes, Buddy Wheeler, A. C. Cooper, W. O. Gillian, W. J. Bryant, R G Bowdry. G.
L. Inglish. C. F Upshaw. Neal Atkins, H. G. Andrews, B P Davenport, R. B Buie. Roy
Arledge, president of the chamber of commerce and June Neff In the front row‘are May-
or C. M Francis, Capt. Bob Arnold of Muskogee, Okla who will be commanding officer of
ausea.” addresses of the sen the camp, And Lou Foote, flying instructor from Grand Prairie. (Staff Photo)
In Factories
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-
(UP)—Glenn L. Martin. Bal-
timore aircraft manufacturer,
told the house naval affairs
committee today that he be-
lieved it may become neces-
sary for the federal govern-
ment to “draft” industry and
labor to overcome defense
production lags.
Martin's suggestion was made at
a committee hearing on production
problems He also said that estab-
lishment of the six-day Work week
in defense industries is essential-
and that it would increase produc-
tion 12 or 15 percent.
Martin made a series of recom-
mendations which he concluded by
saying:
“I think you must finally have in
mind the draft of labor and indus-
try if the situation' gets serious
enough. I think the government
should have the power which would
permit it to draft labor and indus-
try."
Martin said he did not know
what laws should be passed to speed
production but declared that the
following objectives should/be ac-
complished:
1. There should be a "strong
coordination” of all industry,
“both defense and commer-
cial." This could be accom-
plished: by creation of a gov-
ernment agency with broad
powers or the placing of such
authority in some existing
agency.
2. The coordinating agency should
have power to "draft” idle machine
tools and put them to work on de-
fense material.
—3. It should have authority to
curtail non-military production in
commercial plants, and turn the in-
creased capacity to defense work.
Using the aluminum kitchenware
industry to illustrate his third
point, Martin pointed out that
while the tools could not be adapt-
ed to making steel pots and pans,
the manufacturer could be told to.
cut his production of aluminum1
were in half, and devote the bal-
ance of productive capacity to de-
fense.
Martin said that the granting of
"draft" powers to the government
would prevent labor organizers
from taking a; bite Into a bigger
and bigger melon " and trying to
"put the manufacturer in a jam"
through strikes.
•SETTLE ALL QUESTIONS'
Draft of labor and industry, he
said, "would settle all questions aa
to who was going to do what."
Asked by Rep W. Stirling Cole
(R-NY), whether Industry was not
accepting government order*. Mar-
tin said at present the government
was offering business if the man-
ufacturers wish to do It "
"Do you mean to nationalize the
aircraft industry?" asked Cole
"No sir," said Martin ."That
would kill it ” ,
"Labor should be given Its fair
wage and its social security, but it
certainly should not be permitted
to take advantage of national de-
fense"
He said labor was making a fair
living now in the industry but
should not be permitted to double
it by taking advantage of the emer-
gency.
Reopening of Eaton
Plants Demanded
.DETROIT. Jan 14.—(P)—James
F* Dewey, federal labor conciliator,
announced today that as "a defense
measure" he would insist that all
plants of the Eaton Manufacturing
company be reopened and ab strik-
employes put back to work. /
strike began at the Eaton"
in Saginaw Mich and has.
spread to the company's factories
in Detroit. Battle Creek, and Mar-
shall in Michigan and Cleveland'
Ohio About 3,300 workers are af-
rd'
his marks the first time such
■ asticestep nas heed taken any-
where in the country,' said Dewe/ •
in announcing nis demand that ths
plants be reope ea
The dispute can be settled after
the plants are running again.” *
The Weather
t. s. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BL REAL
ABILENE and vicinity: Mostly cloudy I
and slightly colder tonight; Wednesday 1
partly cloudy
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th meridian):
Increasing cloudiners over southwest por-
tion, mostly fair elsewhere tonight Wed:
nesday partly cloudy with occasional
rains over mountains of southwest portion
late Wednesday; little change In temperas
ture.
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th meridian):
Mostly cloudy, rain in northeast portion .
and near upper coast, slightly colder in "
the inferior tonight: Wednesday parti# A
cloudy .
Highest temperature yesterday: city of *
fice, ST airport, ST.
Lowest temperature this morning city ,
office, 40; airport, 40.
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