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In Stolen Plane, Pilot Pound Shot To Death
Dull War News!
No Sugar
KIDNAPED AIR
INSTRUCTOR'S
BODY FOUND
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —(UP)
—Ernest Pleteh, 27, "airmind-
ed Romeo" of Frankfort, Indiana,
was seized Saturday night with
an airplane stolen at Brook-
field, Missouri, airport Friday by
a student flier who kidnaped the
instructor-owner.
Carl Bivens, instructor-owner,
was found shot to death near
Cherry Box, Missouri, 50 miles
! from the scene of the kidnap-
| 'ng-
Pleteh was seized when he
landed the stolen craft in a
clearing in a state forest 70 miles
Louth of Indianapolis, 'there
were bloods.air.s in the cabin.
State police said Pleteh told
them the stains came from nose-
1 Iced he experienced flying at
j.igii altitude. He said lie let
Livers out of the plane Friday
night, but did not say where.
WIDE HI*NT STARTED
AFTER KIDNAPING
Sweetwater Reporter
43RD YEAR (18 PAGES, 3 SECTIONS) SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939
NUMBER 148
Senate Passes Neutrality Revision Bill
1 >uII reading is the war news
that, little Per Jansen finds in
Copenhagen, hut it. hits close
to home. He finds he must
get along on hut five pounds
of sugar a month under Dan-
ish government's rationing
schedule.
Germans Report
City of Flint Is
Stiil in Russia
BERLIN — (UP) — The Ger- j
man foreign office informed the!
U. S. embassy Saturday that
according to latest advices the
American RS City of Flint, cap-
tured by* Herman naval fortes
as a contraband carrier, still
J was at Murmansk. Russia.
The foreign office told the
American embassy that the re-
port the City of Flint had sail-
ed for a German port was in er-
ror. It was stated that the City
of Flint had been ordered to
sail by Russian officials.
<'APTAINU WIKE GETS
ASSURANCES FROM NAZIS
MELROSE, Mass. — (UP) —
-Responding to her direct ap-
peal, the foreign ministry at
See GERMANS Page 3
BROOKFIELD, Mo. — (In-
state authorities appealed to air-
ports and fliers throughout the
country Saturday for aid in
fcee KIDNAPED Page :i
Group to Request
Work on Highway
A Sweetwater delegation is
to leave here at 7 a. m. Monday
for Dallas where members are
to appear before the state high-
way commission for a hearing
on a proposal to improve high-
way SO, the Rarkhead, from
a point two miles west of Roscoe
to' the Sweetwater city limits.
H. A. Walker, chairman of
the highway committee of the
Board>>f City Development, and
George.;; D. Barber, secretary-
manager, are sure to make the
trip.
Ccunty Judge Charles W. Le-
wis and Commissioner Melvin
Thompson, is whose precinct
lies the proposed project, are
expecting to accompany the
BCD representatives.
Previously, the highway com-
mission has indicated a desire to
make the improvements on the
highway, which includes widen-
ing of the pavement and cul-
verts and other work, as soon
as funds are available for the
work.
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PLYMOUTH TO
USE ROTARY
TO GO DEEPER
In order to make it unneces-
I aty to under-ream and reduce
J the size of the hole, Plymouth
I Oil company is again moving in
I rotary equipment to ccntinue
! t.be deep test 5 miles west of the
! city. For the past two weeks a
standard rig has been m opera-
tion, reacmng a depth of 4,735
feet and carrying a 10-inch hole.
Caring was set at 4,500 feet and
cemented about a month ago.
There is row about 2,500 feet of
water in the bole. The formation
is lime and shale. Rotary drill-
ing should start by Tuesday, ac-
cotding to Percy Bosworth of
BOs worth Drilling Co.
There has been no change in
plans to drill the well to S.000
feet, making it the deepest test
in Nolar. county. This depth will
permit testing the Ordovician.
Plymouth company;has a block
| c f 52.000 acres Surrounding the
See PLYMOUTH Page 3
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Do*rs on Liaison Duty for French Poilus
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Third Term Plans Wallace Sees U. S.
Not News, FR Says HoPe in Americas
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
^President Roosevelt insisted to
reporters at his press conference
that questions about his third
ierm possibilities are not news.
Mr. Roosevelt told a reporter
who asked 'lim about his 1940
plans that lv; .should confine
himself to news.
1-Ie also declined to comment
on the presidential boom for
Vice President .John X. Garner.
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Plan Revived for
Giant Waterway
WASHINGTON — (UP* —
President Roosevelt has an-
nounced that he is reviving long-
dormant plans for construction
of a Great I.akes-St. Lawrence
river waterway.
t First step in renewed nego-
tiations for the gigantic water-
way, he said, will be (he com-
plete reorganization of the inter-
national joint commission, which
drafted an unratified treaty be-
tween Canada and the United
States to make it possible.
Weal her ford Road
-iProject Is Approved
AUSTIN — (UP) — Proposed
Improvement of U. S. 80 in
Weatherford was announced Sat-
urday by the state highway de-
partment. The state will place
asphalt on. the highway, upon
completion of work by the city.
.WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Fair to-
day, warmer.
WEST TEXAS — Fair, warm-
er north and east portions.
EAST TEXAS — Generally
Wr, rising temperature north-
est portion.
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SAN FRANCISCO — (UP) —
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace said America's future
lies in the western hemisphere,
and he urged greater coopera-
tion among the nations of tfie
new world.
Wallace outlined four, steps
for the United States to follow-
in developing what he called
its "new frontier" — the road
between the Arctic and Antarc-
tic.
His program called for con-
servation of United Stales' soil,
waters and other national re-
sources; development of closer
cultural relations with the Latin
American nations; adjustment in.
national economy to gear it to
the two preceding steps; and
building up'of national unity.
Speaking before the San Fran-
cisco commonwealth club, Wal-
lace said the United States
should take the lead in build-
ing closer trade, cultural and nat-
ional defense ties with the 20
Latin-American nations and clos-
er trade ties with Canada.
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6,000 Soldiers In
Balmorhea Review
BALMORHEA — (UP) — Top
rank army men watched Satur-
day while more than 0.000 sold-
iers on horses and motorized un-
its passed in review to end the
first of a series of army man-
euvers in the eighth corps area.
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Jobs Chief Concern
Of Most Young Folk
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
Employment is the chief con-
cern of most Texas young peo-
ple, Sidney Reagan, president
of the University of Texas stu-
dent body, said Saturday as 300
persons met for a three-day
youth Institute sponsored by the
National Youth administration.
Exposition Ends
After Five
Successful Days
The 1039 Midwest Exposition
ended its five-day show at 10 p.
m. Saturday after breaking all
records for attendance, interest,
premium list payments, and en-
tries since the fair was revived
last year after being suspended
in 1930.
Secretary-Manager George D.
Barber announced that the ex-
ecutive board of the fair asso-
ciation would meet Tuesday to
check up on the year's activity.
He requested that all outstand-
ing accounts against the asso-
ciation be presented before the
Tuesday meeting.
Secretary Pleased
"The members of the fair as-
sociation feel that the 1939 ex-
position has been successful in
every way," said Barber Satur-
See EXPOSITION Page 4
House to Begin
Debate Tuesday;
Passage Is Seen
Bill Repeals Embargo on
Arms Sales to
Warring Countries
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Speaker William Bankhead ex-
pressed confidence Saturday
that the house will uphold repeal
of the arms embargo and pre-
■ dieted final congressional action
on the neutrality bill
week.
He announced that the house
plans Tuesday to bring up the
bill passed by the senate Friday
a
Southeastern Scotland had
raid alarm Satur-
a single German
"Dogs of War" is more than a figure of speech on the Western front, where the French
arm.v is making good use of the canine "sold iers." How the highly trained animals a/re
used ioi liaison work between isolated outposts and the post of command is pictured above. At
top. the dog is on the alert with observers in an outlying trench. At left., below, he stands
by while a poilu scribbles a message. Then with the note fastened to his collar, he goes
over I he top, intelligent enough to take advantage of every hit of cover in a swift dash
back to he idquarters.
Murder Charged
In Double Deaths
COMANCHE — (UP) — Hen-
ry P. Haynes, 23, has been charg-
ed with crushing the heads r,f
his grandmother, Mrs. Martha
McGuire, and an uncle, J. B.
Haynes, then setting fire to
their home.
The bodies were found in the
ruins of the home Monday after
young Haynes told officers (hai
See MURDER Page 4
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Atlanta Man Killed
When Hit By Truck
GLADEWATER, Tex.—(UP)
—James King of Atlanta, Texas,
was injured fataliy Saturday
when his car hit a truck.
Girls Would Urge
Men To Go to War
ST. LOUIS — (UP) — Sister
will urge bro'her to war should
the United States become involv-
ed ir. hostilities, a poll of St.
Louis university students reveal-
ed.
Although the students voted
overwhelmingly against United
States participation in. the Euro-
peat"; war, 38 per cent of the wo-
men said they would want their
brothers and friends to volun-
teer if congress declared war
while only 20 per cent of the
men said ihey would do so.
With 2,645 students voting, 44
per cent of the women said they
would have the men willingly
accept conscription. Only 10 per
pent of the man said they would
be drafted.
Reds to Furnish
Nazis With Beans
BERLIN — (UP) — German
informants said they were in-
formed from Dairen, south Man-
churia, that Russia has agreed
to transport 1,000,000 tons of
soya beans from Manchukuo to
the German frontier over the
Russian state railways.
If correct, the report means
that Germany has solved an im-
Sec REDS Page 5
Election Called To
Pick 3 Legislators
AUSTIN — tUP) — Possibil-
ity of a special session of the
Texas legislature was seeu Sat-
urday as Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel
called special elections for Nov.
28 to fill three vacancies in
the legislature.
O'Daniel reportedly held the
view that special elections were
unnecessary unless the legisla-
ture is called back into session
to deal with the social security
tax problem.
But he said Saturday that, "it
just means that there are so
many openings and there was
quite a demand for the elections
so I thought it best to call
them."
lie said no resignation had
hern submitted by Clay Cotton,
senator from Palestine, recently
appointed head of the gas util-
ities division of the rail com-
mission.
O'Daniel is reported to have
toi l friends of Bill Corey of
Tarrant county that an election
would not be called unless a
special session was to be held.
Other elections were called to
choose successors to E. R.
Wright of Huntsville and Mar-
vin London of Montague.
Senator Joe Hill of Henderson
said that the governor may be
undecided now but that he will
call a special session.
"We are going to make him
call a session," Hill said.
Negro Confesses
Slaving Woman
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CARROLL, la. — (UP) —
A negro odd-jobs man has con-
fessed the hatchet slaying at
Omaha, Neb., of Mrs. Abraham
Schwaczkin. 49, wife of an
Omaha cantor.
Sheriff Thomas J. Finagan.
saiil that Jeff Lowe, alias J. B.
Loyd of Omaha signed a full
confession.
1-v, the statement, Lowe said
he killed Mrs. Schwaczkin
Wednesday as the aftermath to
a dispute over five dollars
which he said the victim owed
him for odd jobs around her
home.
Mrs. Schwaczkin's dismember-
er! body was found in her home,
the head, an arm and both legs
liar! been stuffed inside a chim-
See NEGRO Page f>
Durant Citizens Propose to Swap Governor Phillips ior
Hill-Billy Band and a Few Biscuits Thrown in for Good
O'Daniel With
Measure
GIVE FIGURES
ON ALLIED
SHIPS SUNK
BV UNITED PRESS
Germany Saturday claimed
big successes for her submar-
ines and air forces against the
British and French forces, ad-
mitting the losses of but three
U-boats.
Authorized circles in Berlin
said that Germany had destroy-
ed 70,500 tons of British war-
ships since the outbreak of war
while 125,000 tons of war vessels
have been damagetl.
The German high command
said since the start of the war
155 allied and neutral ships, to-
taling -375,321 tons had been
sunk.
Allied pleasure and German
displeasure marked European
reaction to the U. S. senate's ap-
proval of repeal of the arms em-
bargo.
Allies Are Pleased
The French and British pre-
dicted that within a week the
house will have acted, making
it possible for allies to buy U.
S. airplanes and munitions, in
the allies own ships.
In Berlin official comment
awaited action by the house, but
next there was unconcealed disap-
pointment.
In some quarters there was
the feeling that Germany must
strike an immediate knockout
blow against Britain.
night by a two to-one vote. The French announced that
"I am confident that we have t they sunk a German submarine
a majority in the house to sus-j Friday morning
! tain the major features of the I
1 one-hour air
j senate bill, Bankhead said. He L]ay When
j expressed hope that the house ; plane made a scouting flight. The
j would adjourn and end the spe- j plane was forced down in Scot-
j cial session after acting on the , land.
bill- Increased patrol activity mark-
The senate passed the bill by ef] operations on the western
| a vote of 6.3 to 30. front.
\ For passage were 54 demo-
j crats, eight, republicans, and one
| independent. Voting against
j were 12 democrats, 15 republi-
J cans, two farmer-laborites, and
! one progressive. Both Senators
| Tom Connally and Morris Shep-
| pard of Texas voted for passage
of the bill.
The vote climaxed four weeks
j See SESSION Page 4
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Franee Approves
Pact W ith Turkey
PARIS — (UP) — The French
government waived the custo-
mary 21-day diplomatic delay
and authorized President Albert
Lebrun to sign the ratification
of the French-Turkish mutual as-
sistance pact, which thus be-
comes an immediately effective
instrument of French foreign
policy in the eastern Mediter-
ranean and the Balkans.
This coincided with word that
King Carol of Rumania has be-
gun conversations with several
leading politicians to reinforce
his National front in order to
strengthen Rumania against a
menace from outside.
The national front's purpose
particularly is to eliminate the
influence of the Rumanian iron
guard and other elements likely
to be sympathetic to Germany in
a crisis, according to French re-
ports.
Snow Cruiser Has
Trouble on Road
LIMA, Ohio — (CP) —
Officials said Saturday that
i< would probably be several
days before (he snow cruiser
for the Byrd antarctic expe-
dition could be removed
from a small creek into
which it tumbled Saturday
after hitting a bridge near
(.omrr, Ohio, while enroiite
ircm Chicago to Boston.
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DCKANT, Ok la. — (VP)—
Down here in the Red River
country, where a coon dog
swap sometimes takes two
weeks of dickering, Durant
citizens offered to trade the
governor of Oklahoma for
the governor of Texas—no
questions asked.
Durant citizens said, how-
ever, they wanted n little
"boot", a hill-billy band and
a few biscuits.
It all started when Gov.
Loon Phillips of Oklahoma
offered to trade Durant for
the Texas cities of Wlchite
Pal's, Vernon and Quanah.
Durant is located near the
Texas line at the site where
the federal government is
building the S34,CltM),(H!tt l{ed
Itiver dam. Durant citizens
favor the project. Phillips
opposes It.
Durant citizens said they
held no particular brief for
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel of
Texas, hut admitted they
were a little stirred up by
Phillips' suggestion, "even If
he meant it as a joke." This
point Phillips did not clari-
fy.
Said B. <;. Brown, a busi-
ness man:
"We'd be cheating Texas
even if we traded for some
of their former governors.
What is our chance of land-
ing Ma Ferguson?"
Fred l/owry, another busi-
ness man, regarded the idea
a "fine opportunity."
"If we can trade Phillips
for O'Daniel and then sell
O'Daniel for what some of
his ballyhoo boys say he is
worth, we would have
enough money to build two
dams," he said.
•f. lv. HarrlfSon said Phil-
lips would like to "get rid
of Durant for political rea-
sons."
"Phillips didn't like the
size of the vote lie got here
in the last primary, and he
might like the vote he would
get now even less," Harrison
said.
Safd the Durant Democrat,
the town's daily newspaper,
sizing up the situation:
"Okay, Mister Phillips,
we're ready."
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind.—(UP)
-Thirty-five tons of man-made
monster was stalled here be
cause it sideswiped a truck.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd's
giant snow cruiser was pulled up
along side the road while its
crew hurriedly made repairs to
its steering apparatus.
The pressure system which
controls the steering of its four
10-foot wheels had not been
odining any too well since it
left Chicago, according to Dr.
Hhomas C. Poulter, Its designer
and scientific director of the
Armour Research Foundation.
A brush with a truck owned by
Bourman Peebles Co., of New
Castle, Pa., proved too much.
Powerful Nazi 4
Raiders Sought
LONDON — (UP) — The Brit-
ish navy and air force have
started an intensive search over
four oceans for two powerful
German raiders — the sister
pocket battleships Deutschland
and Admiral Scheer, of 10,000
tons each — believed to have
escaped from the North Sea on
October 8 when a portion of the
German fleet was sighted and
chased by British warships.
The admiralty radio flashed
orders to all British warships
to make a close search for the
raiders, already credited with
-inking at least two merchant,
ships.
Both ships are so heavily arm-
,'d, armored and speedy that
inly Britain's three battle
•ruisers are both fast enough to
?atch them and powerful enough
o destroy them. Battleships of
he line, would be too slow to -
'un a pocket battleship down.
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Finns Prepare to
Resist Demands
HELSINGFORS, Finaland —
(UP) — The Finnish govern-
ment has given visible proof of
is determination to resist any
Russian demands which impair
his country's sovereignty.
With Russo-Kinnish negotia-
ions soon to be resumed in
Moscow the capital was comple-
ely blacked out as part of ex-
ensive air-raid precautionary
Irills.
Additional troop movements
tlso took place.
The population took the prep-
irations calmly. The people have
icen prepared for days "for
any eventuality."
Two Escape From
Jail at Haskell
HASKELL — (UP) — Suite
police and local officers in West
Texas searched Saturday for two
prisoners who escaped Friday
night, from the Haskell jail.
The fugitives are Floyd Tid-
well, under a three-year sen-
tence on federal charges and a
two year state sentence for cat-
tle theft, and C. B. Bland, under
a two-year sentence for forgery.
The jailer discovered their cell
door unlocked Saturday morn-
ing. Deputy Sheriff Isbell be-
lieved the two men fashioned a
makeshift key and unlocked the
door.
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 148, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 29, 1939, newspaper, October 29, 1939; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282259/m1/1/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.