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battles at Home
Germany and Italy Have
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Charges ami Rumors
By JOK ALEX MORRIS
I'uitcil Press Foreign Editor
: The governments of. Great
•Britain and France directed a
battle on the home political front
today as well as on foreign fields
of war.
In the house of commons,
Prime Minister Neville Cham-
berlain faced a surge of criticism
in connection with failure of the
allied expeditionary force in
Central Norway and the effec-
tiveness of his expanation ap-
peared likelv to affect the fu-
ture of the French cabinet head-
ed by Premier Pau Reynaud.
Both at home and abroad, ev-
ents built tin a dramatic back-
ground for Chamberlains speech.
In Britain and France, a series
%'if governmental disclosures was
designed to bolster the opposi-
tion of the cabinets at home and j
convince neutrals that the allies j
could win the war.
Nazis-Italy Spread Humors
% In Germany and Italy the;
controlled press had a field
day with charges and rumors in-
tended to increase anxiety gen-
erally in Eurupe and to confuse
the allied powers. These includ-
%ed charges that the allies had
decided to start action in the
near east or Balkans this month
and were seeking to buy Bul-
garia's hel]). London and Paris
denied them as a nazi effort to
^stampede Italy into the war.
Perhaps the most, sensational
report—denied aso in British
sources—came from diplomatic
circles in Rome which asserted
that the allies had asked Italy
^to define its position toward the
war by May 1<>.
If that should prove accurate
it would appear to be tanta-
mount to an allied deadline to
Italy to make up her mind,
ig Other developments included:
German Losses Heavy
A British admiralty statement
that Germany had lost 300,000
tons of merchant shipping in the
last five weeks to raise the war's
ftotal to 545,000 tons and that
probably 30 other nazi ships, to-
talling 150,000 tons, had been
sunk.
A British press estimate, ob-
viously officially inspired, that
.about 200 German airplanes had
' been destroyed in the Norweg-
ian campaign as compared with
37 lost by Britain.
A British-released story of the
withdrawal of allied forces from
_ central Norway — the saga of
"'courage and endurance in the
face of great odds that was in-
tended to make Britons proud of
their fighting forces and deter-
mined to avenge their defeat.
All of these maneuvers — like
t'the allied fight to oust Germans
from Narvik on the north Nor-
wegian coast—were intended to
strengthen the positions of the
British and French cabinets not
only with their own people in
jit lie face of defeats in Norway
but with the European neutral
states in which the allies have
lost military prestige.
There were reports in Stock-
holm that the allies had landed
^forces mid-way between Trond-
lieim and Narvik in an effort to
stop German troops.
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Found Murdered
Prime Minister
Pass Fortified In Effort To Stop Nazis^^r*™
Two New Thrusts
At Germans Made
By Allied Forces
Mine Field Laid Off
Southern Coast of
Norway by Subs
Wftflf Tpvn«' T.onrlinnr Pifu
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Norris Demands
Reins for FBI
1
WASHINGTON — (UP)—Sen.
George W. Norris, Ind., Neb.,
*(old the senate Tuesday that
a rein must be put upon the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation to
prevent destruction of Americ-
an n liberties.
Norris read into the record
,Jet,tors he had exchanged with
Attorney General Robert H.
Jackson concerning the arrest
of Spanish loyalist sympathizers
in Detroit, lie reiterated his j
charge that the prisoners had j
J>cen subjected to "conduct that j
'can not be approved" and de-
clared:
"They (the FBI) ought to be
curbed in their activities at the
present time. As I see it, un-
less there is a rein put on that
'bureau it will eventually mean
the destruction !n the United
States of all the liberties and
privileges that we all like to I
believe are given to every citi-
zens under our flag by the con-
stitution."
Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — Scattered
showers and not much change
*in temperature. Maximum Mon-
day temperature 83: low Tues-
day morning 07; at 1:30 p. m.,
Tuesday, 73.
E A ST TEX AS—Considerable
cloudiness, scattered showers
1 west portion Tuesday night and
interior Wednesday.
WEST TEXAS—High cloudi-
ness Tuesday night and Wed-
nesday, colder Tuesday night
over north portion.
Faye Gales, 24, Bellefontc,
l'a„ girl whose body was found
in creek lie<l near Itellefonte
after she had been attacked
and murdered by person be-
lieved to be sex-crazed maniac
hunted by police for two sim-
ilar crimes committed within
past weeks. (\ HA Tele-
Photo).
Enraged Citizens
Demand Capture
Of Sex Maniac
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — (UP)
-—An aroused citizenry demand-
ed Tuesday that, authorities track
down the sex maniac responsible
for the brutal murders of two
girls within five weeks.
While police worked on a
"very hot tip" in the slayings
of Rachel Taylor. 17, Pennsyl-
vania State college co-ed, and
Fate Gayes, 21. factory worker,
the Rotary club declared bitter-
ly m a resolution that "the auth-
orities in charge have failed so
far to even approximate an ar-
rest and conviction."
The mutilated body of Miss
Taylor, daughter of a wealthy
Wild wood, N. J., family, was
found March 28. Miss Gates'
bludgeoned body, gagged with
her brassiere, was found early
Sunday.
"Enemies Within'
Feared by Dies
PHILADELPHIA —■1 (UP) —
No power or any combination
of powers could in vaclp the Unit-
ed States but America must give
attention to its "enemies from
within," according to Rep. Mar-
tin Dies, D., Tex., chairman of
the house committee investigat-
ing un-American activities.
"No power on earth or any
combination of powers can in-
vade this country if we remain
united, giving our allegiance to
our country and our God," Dies
told 1,500 members of the Lamb-
skin club Monday night.
Jt is the enemies from within
that should command your earn-
est attention. You might as well
harbor a rattlesnake in your
bosom as any of these enemy
groups."
Spy Planned to
Kill. Anti-Nazis
PARIS — (UP) — Carmen
Mory, the 34-year-old blonde
awaiting execution as a spy, was
on her way to murder an ex-
patriate German and anti-nazi
editor when French counter-es-
pionage agents arrested her, it
was learned Tuesday.
Mile. Mory. the first, woman
to he sentenced to death for
espionage in France since Mata
Hari in the World War, was a
Swiss newspaper woman. She
was sent to Paris, it was learned,
to murder Max Braun, editor of
an anti-Hitler newspaper ser-
vice , his assistant, Helmut Klotz,
and other political refugees.
Suez Canal To Be
Kept Open to All
PARIS — (UP) — The offi-
ces of the Suez Canal company
said Tuesday that waterway
would be kept open to the ships
of all nations regardless of any
war in the Mediterranean.
The canal is a "universal pro-
ject," a company spokesman
said, and does business with all
comers. It. is open to the war-
ships of belligerent nations as
well as peaceful merchant ships
and for the same toll fee—$1.02
a ton.
STOCKHOLM — (UP) —Two
new allied thrusts at German
forces in Norway were reported
Tuesday in dispatches to Stock-
holm.
On the far northern front the
allies were reported by neutral
military sources to have fortifi-
ed. a narrow pass between Mos-
jean and Narvik in an effort to
halt the northward advance of
Germans from Trondheim to-
ward Narvik, where some 3,500
Germans are besieged by Brit-
ish, French and Norwegian
troops- WASHINGTON — (UP) —
(In Berlin, the German high secretary of the Navy Charles
comand said that Germans ad- j Edison Tuesday defended the
vaneing from Trondheim had battleship as the
reached Mosjean and that. Ger-' a
man airplanes attacked and dis
Census Recheck Is Continued
Edison Defends
Battleship as
Defense Backbone
persed British troops near Nar-
vik, also bombing a British
cruiser and flying boat off the
port.)
.Mine Field Laid
Off the south coast, of Nor-
way, the newspaper Dagens Nv-
retlier reported, the British
have laid a new mine field in
an effort to interrupt German
sea comunications with Norway.
The mine field was laid some-
where off the Swedish coast in
the Gothenburg area, where a
Swedish fishing boat and a Ger-
man steamer struck mines yes-
terday, the ditpatch said.
It was suggested that submar-
ines were used to lay the mines.
Greatest interest here center-
ed on the fate of the Germans at.
Narvik, where both sides were
rushing reinforcements.
Neutral military sources were I
doubtful that the Germans had I
advanced far past Mosjean,
which is about 175 miles south of j
Narvik. They pointed out howev-
er, that the Germans probably
were trying to set up air or sub-
marine bases as far north as pos-
sible for operations against the
allied forces at Narvik.
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Stories Told of
'Plummet Plane'
ROME — (UP) — Stories are
circulating here of a German
"plummet plane" that carries a
one-ton bomb and dives at, its
target from 1(1.000 feet altitude,
attaining a speed of 603 miles
an hour before releasing the
bomb.
Aviation circles here said the
plane was used effectively
against British naval units off
Norway.
It descends to within 600 to
000 feet of its target before the
bomb is released, according to
reports here, and has a secret
device which automatically
turns the plane upwards again
when the bomb is released. Such
a device would overcome the
dangers from the momentary pe-
riods of unconsciousness which
pilots experience when "coming
out" of a power dive.
"Red Rose' Slayer
Is Found Guilty
j
LOS ANGELES — (UP)
John Frank Reavis, 26, son of a |
Butler college professor, found j
guilty of murdering Alice ",Ier-1
ry" Burns, Ft. Worth, Tex., cafe I
entertainer whose nude body j
was found lying on a 10 cent |
imitation red rose, will be sen-
tenced Thursday to a term of j
from five years to life in pri- j
, son.
Reavis entered a dual plea of
i not guilty and not guilty by j
i reason of insanity. He contend-
ed that he was in a state of am- j
I nesia when he stabbed Miss I
Burns 14 times.
Harmony Seen in
Party Convention
backbone of
American national defense and
said that he will ask this session
for funds to begin building the
navy to the top strength author-
ized by congress.
The proposed construction
would increase the navy by
about, one-third to a total of
nearly 1,500,000 tons.
Edison was summoned before
the senate naval affairs commit-
tee to explain his statement last
week that under certain circum-
stances airplanes have a "tem-
porary advantage" over war-
ships. He backed up the previous
statements of admirals before
the committee that the battle-
ship is still the most, important
cog in defense of the western
world.
"Judging from information
available about the war in Eur-
ope and my impressions gained
during the fleet maneuvers", he
said. "I am convinced that, so
far as the United States is con-
cerned battleships were, are and
will he for years to come, the
backbone of our first line of nat-
ional defense."
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Of All Residents
Important to City
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the "IJlue" 4th (southeastern) corps, with the Sabine Ri\er
. as a boundary between the two armies.
24,000 Troops To
Have you been counted in the ]
federal census?
Any person living in Sweetwat-I
er knowing him.sell not to have
been enumerated during the |
regular census in April still has
time to be listed in Uncle Sam's!
population for 1910.
If the slip appearing again |
Tuesday on the front page of!
the Sweetwater Reporter is'
filled out. handed or mailed to:
the Board of City Development
office, or to Mrs. E. S. John- j
ston. an enumerator will be sent j
to the address given and the per-!
son will be included in the count.;
Mrs. Nina Head rick, Sweet-1
water, assistant district super-
visor. announced that District j
Director .Shipman had granted!
enumerators several extra days j
to recheck their territories to f
see that no citizen is omitted i
from the county.
It is important, 'hat. Swectwat-|
See CENSUS Page 3
Of All Parties
Chamberlain Heckled
By Opposition as He
Defends Government
LONDON -(CP) —Prime Min-
> ister Neville Chamberlain Tues-
i flay named aggressive Winston
Churchill to supervise Great
! Britain's armed forces in the
war against Germany and call-
ed upon an angry, heckling
house of commons to close ranks
and "set our teeth" in the face
of imminent danger that Adolf
Hitler will strike again.
The Prime minister's appeal
for "cooperation of members of
all parties" in a unified effort
to mobilize "every ounce" of
strength for the war was regard-
ed as an invitation to the oppo-
sition leaders to enter a reor-
ganized government.. There was
wide doubt that it. would be suc-
<■<■ -.ful. however, as the labor
; leaders have refused such sug-
! gestipns.
Speech Interrupted
Shout-; of "re ign!'' and cries
of "who missed the bus?" inter-
rupted Chamberlain as he sought
to explain to the house of
commons how nazi aggression
and superior air power had caus-
ed the failure of the allied ex-
peditionary campaign in Cen-
i tral Norway.
That campaign, he contended,
•iil is unfinished; the Norwe-
gian government and King Haak-
on still are in Norway and the
allied powers will give the Nor-
wegian ■ all the aid possible as
rapidly as possible.
But, he said, the British peo-
!e apparenty fail to realize the
danger of another German blow,
possibly directed against the
Bri'ish Isle.-, and the allied lead-
ers will not relax their precau-
tions in other parts of Europe.
Then he announced that Church-
ill. the fiery first, lord of the ad-
miralty. henceforth would have
responsibility for supervision of
r; Hit try operations from day to
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Li^ht Showers Invade Louisiana By Lions ciub
Falling Tuesday
Light showers began falling | Louisiana is
in Sweetwater shortly before
noon Tuesday and continued, in-
termittentlv, well up into the af-
ternoon. The forecast was for
continued showers.
The weatherman had given
the best promise of rain in
weeks. Farmers, ranchers, busi-
ness men were hopeful he would
come through with a good rain.
Many farmers planted feed
crops following the last sizeable
rain, which fell in early April.
There was sufficient moisture to
bring the crops up to a good
stand, but the small feed is suf-
fering badly. Some cotton was
planted following the rain on
April fi and is needing moisture.
Pastures, likewise, are need-
ing rain. A number of grain
farmers in the county have al-
ready claimed on the federal
wheat insurance ' policies 1.00
per cent losses to their wheat
crops on account of drought and
wind erosion.
Tuesday's moisture was y
insufficient to be beneficial.
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Racing Driver Is
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NACOGDOCHES — (CP)
going to be invaded
Wednesday.
Twenty-four thousand troops,
members of Maj. Gen. Walter
Krueger's red army, were mass-
ed in the pine woods of East
Texas Tuesday, ready to dashj
across the Sabine River.
Waiting for them in Louisiana]
was the blue army led by Maj. I
Gen. Walter P. Short.
The "war" is only make-be-
lieve, but it won't be any fun
for the 70,000 soldiers who even-
tually will be involved, with new
troops going into action every
day as the battle program is
expanded.
The invading troops trying to
take Louisiana will have to swim
rivers to reach their objective.
They will wade through miles
of underbrush and slosh through
countless sloughs. For days they
will work and sleep in the in-
sect-infested woods. At least
they will work. Whether they
get any sleep is a question, be-
cause wars don't go on schedule,
and this make-believe war is no
exception.
Markets At A Glance
By I NITKI) I'lU SS
Stocks irregularly higher in
quiet trade.
Bonds irregular.
Curb stocks steady.
Foreign exchange lower, with
the pound at a new 7-year low.
Cotton moderately lower.
Wheat 1-1 to 3-4 cent lower;
corn up 1-8 to 3-8.
"War of Roses' at
Meeting Banned
AC ST IN — (CP) — A pro-
posal that those who really are
for President Roosevelt wear a
white rose to the democratic
state convention in Waco was
out of order at the Travis
y democratic convention
Tuesday as strict obser-
■ of the Roosevelt-Garner
was carried out.
Ti
III
INDIANAPOLIS — (CP) -
George Bailey, 38, Detroit racing
driver. was killed Tuesday
when his racing car crashed into
a retaining wall at the Indian-
apolis motor speedway.
His clothes caught fire when
a gasoline tank on the car ex-
ploded. as he was tuning up for
the Memorial Day race May 30.
He was the first casualty
since workouts for the speedway
classic began this year.
Germans Report
More Successes
BERLIN — (CP) The;
high command said Tuesday that
an "enemy" cruiser had been
hit, by a medium size bomb off
Narvik, Norway, Monday: that
an "enemy" submarine ■ had
! been sunk in the Skagerrak:
i two British planes shot down ov
] er Helgoland Bight and one Brit-
! ish flying boat sunk by bombs.
ruled
count
here
vane
truce
Mayor Tom Miller, chairman
of the state Roosevelt, third term
committee, was elected chairman
of the county convention. He de-
clined to put the white rose
proposal.
"Remember hmv the war of
the roses crippled England,'" Mil-
A harmonious county democra-
tic convention was expected at 2
p. m. Tuesday at the county
courthouse, according to Coun-
ty Chairman \V. IT. Jobe.
Delegates elected at the pre-
cinct. conventions last Saturday
had passed resolutions approving
the administration of President
Roosevelt and had endorsed the
candidacy of Vice President
John N. Garner for the demo-
cratic nomination for president.
Based on attendance at the
precinct conventions, not too
many were expected at Tuesday
afternoon's session.
HERE'S YOUR POPULATION SUP
Board of City Development,
Sweetwater, Texas.
Gentlemen—I believe the census enumerator missed me
in the current 16th census of population here. In addition
to myslf, there are also members of my fam-
ily who have been omitted. There are board-
ers at our house who were not. included in the check
made by the enumerator recently.
Signed
Street address
City State
NOTE—If you have moved to the above address since
April 1, 1940, please give the following information:
Conv
plain ly
sident's
loudly,
silence.
The
dorsiny
admin i:
county'
for Gat
■ntion sentiment was
pro-Roosevelt. The pi-e-1
name was applauded j
Garner's was met with I
harmony resolutions en-
the present democratic!
itration, instructing the ;
s 30 delegates to vote I
ner and condemning any
were
Former address
Date of change
stop-Roosevelt movement
adopted unanimously.
SP1.IT LOOMS IN
HOI STON CONVENTION
HOCSTON — (UP) —- A strug-
gle between rival Roosevelt and
Garner forces loomed Tuesday
as the democratic county con-
vention opened. A convention
split, appeared likely.
An hour before the conven-
tion started, Roosevelt, third-
term forces pledged "no sur-
render" in their fight by naming
a slate of leaders at a caucus.
Without, a formal caucus, Gar-
ner supporters repeated their
claims that they held enough
votes to send a county delega-
tion to the state convention at
Waco on May 28. instructed for
the vice president for the presi-
dential nomination.
A slate of officers nominated i
to head the Sweetwater Lions!
club for the coming year was j
approved by the members at the i
Tuesday noon meeting of the or-1
ganization
The slate is as follows:
Don W. Smith, president,: A. ■
B. Crowder, first vice; Dr. E. A. j
Dann. second vice: R. B. Tate, j
third vice; Homer Williams.!
Lion tamer; Walter Baucum. tail j
twister; G. E. Williams, secre-1
tary; R. R. Lacy, treasurer: Kir- i
by Kinsey and Howard Yates, j
directors.
Otis Henderson, chairman ofj
the softball committee, announ I
ced that his group would meet.;
at 7:15 p. m. Thursday in the I
office of the Community Gas!
company. Henderson said spon-;
sors of teams for the league!
were needed. Only three spon-1
sors had been obtained, he said. I
Coach Lauranee Priddy an- i
i nouneed that a football game be-
tween the 1010 Mustang team
iand the "exes" would be played;
: in Mustang bowi at s p. m. \Ved-
1 nesday. Coach Priddy said there
| were only two days left, under j
I the interscholastie league rule
i in which to play the game and
! since part of the team are memb-;
ers of the band and are going to
Waco Thursday it would have to
j be played Wednesday night.
A small admission charge is to
S be made.
Faculty of Divide
School Reelected
The entire faculty of the Di-J
vide consolidated school was re-
elected Monday night at a meet
| itig of the school board.
H. D. Norris. superintendent,
was named to head the system
J at a meeting early in the year.
The affiliated high school ha-
a scholastic census of 232 stu-j
dents. Graduation exercises m>' •
to be held May 21 with an a!!-
day picnic to be held for pa-
trons. friends, and pupils.
The facility is composed of E.
j H. Parris, R. Ft. Petty, E. .T.
Klv, ,lr., Olga Ann Elliott. Maud
M Sexton, Foy Sliger Craver.
| Alta Love lady.
Relief Only Bar
To Adjournment
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
| President Roosevelt's congres-,
-ional leaders informed him
| Tuesday that they still believe
I action on the relief bill is the
| only major obstacle in the way
of adjournment by the first
; week in June
Chamberlain's
of excuse and
< Imposition C nsatisl'icd
His announcement and his ex-
planution failed to satisfy the
opposition and lie immediately
was assailed by opposition lead-
r for complacency In the face
of "a reverse" unci a "rebuff"
'■n Sorvtiif. Churchill also was
< r. ijeized as "too optimistic.."
Clement R. \ttlec. labor lead-
er. opened the counter-attack on
Chamberlain' explanation, char-
ging the government with hav-
ing made misleading speeches.
He said that,
speech was "one
explanation."
"The withdrawals from south-
ern Norway were a rebuff and
represent, a setback," Attlee said.
"Wo must not forget that, there
re other fronts which at any
moment may blaze up into con-
flagration." Chamberlain said.
Campaign Not Finished
i'i campaign is not yet fin-
he-:." he continued in urging
tl; i commons avoid hasty
jo- ament of the Norwegian cx-
pi-ditionary force. He said the
• •.•imp ign failed because the Ger-
.rot the jump on allied
because the allies lack-
it er planes and because
rw. irian troops retreating
sdheim failed to destroy
i communications lines,
elevation of ChurChill,
to Britons as an advo
vigorous action and gen-
credited with favoring
• daring in the Norwegian
■ ii. was viewed as an ef-
quiet the wave of com-
linst conduct, of the
mans
forces
ed fit
! ood Trusts to
Face Prosecution
WASHINGTON (UP)—-As
> da in Attorney General Thur
>n H \mold s iid Tuesday that
tin,' anti-trust division of the
ustiee department probably
•••onId undertake "a comprehen
e prosecution" of trade re-
'mints in the food industry il
uf'fieient funds were available
for an investigation.
U'AVS TO MORK
M.KI KCT LIi I;
Noted educator at recent
■ < ichers' convention made
two suggestions: il) Teach
children in such fashion
th; i they may keep an open
mind through life and (2i
insist on their getting sus-
taining food at lunch time.
Good-ideas An open mind
and an open mouth, are two
things that children should
l>e able to shut on something
solid.
Many people are able to
overcome obstacles by using
tin- Reporter Want Ads reg-
ularly. You can sell, buy,
rent or trade thru the classi-
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 308, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 7, 1940, newspaper, May 7, 1940; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282306/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.