Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 175, Ed. 1 Monday, January 13, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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* Bride Sobs, Father Languishes in Jail
PORT WORTH—(UP)—Karl T. Brewer, 40, (he Ertor
filmier who stabbed to death his son-in-law, Monday stayed
looked behind Iron bars in the eoiinty .jail. He was held for
> $10,000 bond. Brewer stabbed and killed H. G. Cox, l#-year-
old Rotor athlete who married 14-year-old Virginia Brewer a
week ago. I’ly-tty Virginia, right, sobs on mother's shoulder.
> Wednesday Set
As Sale Day In
, Cattle Auctions
Weekly sales of ihe Sweetwat-
er And ion company have been
changer! from Tuesday to Wed-
nesday at the auction barns west
of Sweetwater, it was announc-
\ Monday.
The sales, which have attract-
ed large consignments of cattle
during the past several months
here, have fieen held starting
Tuesday at noon since the auc-
♦ tions got underway. They are
to begin this week on Wednes-
day at the same hour.
Construction already is under-
way on new barns in which to
house the auction. The new
♦ buildings are to be located on
highway 80 a short distance
west of the present location.
Sales and attendance of buy-
ers have increased to such an
extent that enlarged quarters
« became a necessity, it was said.
J The Sweetwater Auction com-
pany is owned by W. W. Fam-
bro, O. L. Nichols, A. G. Lee and
Jay Turner.
' Houston Shipyard
Gets U. S. Contract
,s WASHINGTON — (UP)—The
maritime commission said Mon-
day that contracts have been
signed with shipbuilding com-
panies in Los Angeles, Houston
and Portland, Ore., for the con-
^ struct ion of some of the new
shipyards needed under Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s 200-vessel ship-
building program.
The contracts have not yet
been approved by the defense
- commission which must pass on
them.
Under the agreement the
Houston Shipbuilding Corp., will
build six ways.
Officials said that the con-
trails had no mention of the
• ships each company would built
in the new ways.
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^ Add More Workers
At Camp Barkeley
ABILENE — (UP) — More
than 3,500 workers labored at top
speed Monday to complete Camp
® Barkeley on schedule.
The fourth week of construc-
tion started Sunday when 350 ad-
ditional laborers were added to
the crew rtf the $5,000,000 pro-
ject nine miles southwest of
® here. Only five weeks remain to
finish the camp when the 45th
division is scheduled to take ov-
er. The 2,300-acre project alrea-
dy has produced a “boom" in
Abilene and smaller surrounding
• communities.
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Weather Forecast
SWEETWATR—Slightly clott-
* dy and warmer. Maximum Sun-
day temperature 02: low Monday
morning. 50; at 1:30 p. m., Mon-
day. 03. Rain that fell in a sud-
den shower Sunday night total-
oil .15 of an inch, bringing the
• total fall for January to .24 inch.
WEST TEXAS — Fair south
portion Monday night and Tues-
day: cloudy north portion to-
night. clearing Tuesday: some-
what colder north imrtion Mon-
* day night.
EAST TEXAS — Occasional
rain, colder northwest portion
Monday night, Tuesday cloudy,
colder: rain east and south |>or-
tion: moderate southeasterly
winds on coast, shifting to nor-
therly Tuesday.
Report of Dies
Reviewed for
Rotary Luncheon
A recently published report by
Congressman Martin Dies on
“Subversive Activities in Am-
erica”, was reviewed at the regu-
lar meeting of the Sweetwater
Rotary _club, Monday by J. H.
Williams, principal of the Sweet-
water high school.
The presentation started with
the meeting of the 7th Internat-
ionale in Moscow in 1935, when
certain precepts of the com-
munist organization to be used
in the United States were laid
down. Among thi^notorious Am-
ericans in attendance at the
meeting and who sat on the
platform with Dies, were Earl
Browder and William Z. Foster,
both of whom since have been
carrying on the work in Am-
erica.
Williams poinieu out thae the
report gives proof that "decep-
tion” or the weapon of the
“Trojan horse” was the spear-
point to tie used in the opera-
tions in the United States. The
report states that the Com-
munist party in America has
more money to spend on its acti-
vities than either of the two
major parties.
The report also shows that
many persons occupying import-
ant places in the government
aVe sympathetic to the aims of
the Communist party and are
using their influence in helping
it attain its end.
In closing Williams said Dies
states that as an antidote to the
spread of communism in this
country, the government must
cease restricting private enter-
prise and get back to the true
funcations of government.
II I). Norris, superintendent
of the Divide schools, was intro-
duced to the club as a new mem-
ber by James H. Beall, who high-
lighted some of the important
experiences in his life.
Guests and visitors introduced
by Charles Paxton, secretary, in-
cluded Ross Covey, L. E. New-
ton, O. O. Harris and John Cog-
gins. Philip Yonge presided in
the absence of C. R. Simmons,
club president.
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Alley Cat Tops
Feline Aristocracy
DETROIT — (UP) — Sever-
al months ago a woman picked
up a five-month-old kitten, spat-
tered with mud and covered
with automobile grease, from an
alley, it was raining hard and
the cat had just been kicked
bv a passerby.
Monday the cat, named Mys-
tery Marvel, in Cinderella fash-
ion is it champion in the short-
haired white division. It found
a place in the upper crust of
feline aristocracy at the Detroit
Persian Society's 20th champion-
ship show Sunday.
The year-old tom achieved the
distinciion after competing in
only three shows—a phenomen-
al rise, according to cat fan-
ciirs. The owner is Mrs. Bryan
Shine, a machine operator in an
automobile plant.
Hopkins Received
By Kin" George
LONDON — (UP) — King
George received Harry Hopkins,
personal emissary of President
Roosevelt, at Buckingham Pal-
ace Monday.
Hopkins remained with the
king for more than 30 minutes.
RAF MACHINE GUNS GERMAN TROOPS
IN FRANCE DURING DAYLIGHT RAIDS
Recommendations
To Be Placed
Before Meeting
Development Board
Session Is Slated
Monday Night
Members of the safety com-
mittee of the Board of City De-
velopment plan to recommend to
the board at the regular meet-
ing Monday night four propo-
sals for the purpose of eliminat-
ing traffic hazards within
Sweetwater, O. D. McCoy, chair-
man, announced.
Included in the proposals will
be plans to erect highway signs
relative to Sweetwater’s long
“deathless day” record, printing
of windshied stickers calling at-
tention to the safety campaign,
reduce the hazards for school
children with a police patrol
of school zones and a warning
to taxi drivers of Sweetwater
to curb several driving habits.
Principal J. H. Williams at
Sweetwater high school, said
that he plans to warn student
ay to drivers to drive more slow-
ly and with more care, and
Sweetwater Reporter
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
“West Texas’ Leading Newspaper’’
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
44TH YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1941
NUMBER 173
509
DEATHLESS DAYS;
LET’S MAKE IT 600
simultaneously with that plan,
city police will cooperate by
placing plain clothes officers on
duty to arrest reckless drivers
among the students.
The safety committee held a
meeting Monday morning to set
up its plan to prolong the safe-
ty record in Sweetwater, which
Monday -eached 509 deathless
days.
The campaign to prevent fa-
tal mishaps in Sweetwater took
definite form several months
ago when the local record be-
came one of the highest in Tex-
as for the size of the city.
At the present time, the 509-
day deathless record is thought
to he leading the entire state
for cities between 10,000 and 20,-
0(H) populations.
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His Luck Holds
But Its All Bad
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
Ben Poole’s bad luck simply
amazes him!
The 28-year-old mechanic frac-
tured his left leg in an automo-
bile accident last September.
Sunday he broke the same leg
again when a motorcycle fell on
him.
“It couldn’t have been the
other leg,” he wailed. “Nah, no
such luck.”
Army Air Chief
Visits In Texas
SAN ANTONIO — (UP) —
Maj. Gen. George Brett, army
air corps chief, and Brig.-Gen.
Carl Spatz, ending a one-day vis-
it, left Duncan field Monday for
an undisclosed destination. They
will return at mid-week, howev-
er to inspect military air-
dromes in the San Antonio area.
Greeks Crack
Finest Italian
Defense System
Hail Retirement
Of Army Commander as
Important Victory
ATHENS — (UP) — Greek
circles hailed the retirement of
Italy’s Albanian commander,
Gen. Ubaldo Soddu, Monday.as
an indication that Greek capture
of Klisura has cracked the fas-
cist defense system in south-
ern Albania.
Greek troops are pushing up
the coastal road toward Valona
and fighting forward in the
Klisura-Tepelini area and Greek
opinion was’ that an important
hinge of the Italian Albanian
defense system had been smash-
ed at Klisura.
(London reports said that
Italy had pushed almost an en-
tire division—about 15,000 men
—into the Klisura-Tepelini area
in an effort to block the gap
punched by the Greek attacks.)
At another sector (unspecifi-
ed hut believed to be the Tepo-
lini-Klisura region, where fight-
ing has been heaviest) Greek
troops attacked the rear of Ital-
ian fortified positions and found
dead Italians still in battle posi-
tion, the spokesman sail. The
rest of the Italian force had fled,
leaving behind eight mortars, 10
machine guns and ammuni-
tion, he said.
(In the north sector, accord-
ing to Struga reports, Greeks
captured a whole Italian bat-
talion, with all officers and
equipment, in repulsing an Ital-
ian attempt to break through
the Greek lines between Brzes-
da. in the Shkumbi valley, two
miles south of the Lin-Elbasan
road, and Kjuks, two miles
southeast of Brzesda.)
A dispatch from Mary Mer-
lin, United Press correspondent
with the Greeks in the Tepelini
sector, said the Italians were
being driven from heights
around the town although
the town itself, consisting of
a few hundred yellowish stone
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Stamford to Have
Air Base Ceremony
Ceremonies are to be held at
Stamford Tuesday at the offi-
cial opening of construction
work at the new Stamford air
base for training pilots for the
United States air corps, it was
announced Monday.
Although actual construction
already is underway on the pro-
ject, high officials of the air
corps -ind other officials are to
he present for a formal opening
of the project.
Construction was begun last
week. Nearly 150 cadets are to
be trained in opening classes
at the school after the air base
is completed.
As Leaders See All-Out Aid
By UNITED PRESS
A summary of the week-end discussion of President Roosevelt's hill for “all out aid to Givai
Britain follows:
Pro
Wendell L. Willkie, 1910 presidential can-
didate: (in an interview) “It makes a vita!
difference to the United States which side
prevails in the present conflict. * * * The
people chose this administration and we
must abide by that choice. We must not fall
into the fallacy of depriving it of powers
necessary to defend us in order to preserve
the mere forms of democratic procedure. We
must give it the power to act in this emer-
gency, while at the same time assuring
ourselves by competent amendments, of a
reversion of that power to us after the emer-
gency is over.”
Sen. Josh Lee, D„ Okla., (in a radio de-
bate) “Hitler is a madman standing at the
switch of the most powerful and destructive
machine that the human brain ever devised.
* * * America has only one chance to escape
total war and that chance is England. Eng-
land is the only barrier between America
and a baptism of blood.”
Herbert Agar, editor, Louisville Courier-
Journal, (in a radio debate.) “Speed is of
the essen.se. The war may go against us
in April if we haven’t done prodigious
’’work between now and then.”
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A If Landon, 1930 Republican candidate
(statement) “There is no essential difference
between Mr. Wilikie's position and Mr. Roo-
sevelt’s position, which is to go to war if
necessary to help England win. If Mr. Will-
kie had revealed it before the Republican
national convention he would not have been
nominated, and if Mr. Roosevelt had reveal-
ed it before election he would not have
been elected.”
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, tin a
radio debate) “Never before have the Am-
erican people been asked or compelled to
give so bounteously and so completely of
their tax dollars to any foreign nations.
Never before has the congress of the Unit-
ed States been asked by any president to vio-
late international law. Never before has the
United States given to one man the power
tit strip this nation of its defenses in time
of war or peace. Never before has the con-
gress coldly and flatly been asked to abdi-
cate.’’
John T. Flynn, economist and writer:
(in a radio debate) “The belief that Hitler
will attack the United States after he has de-
feated England, is an invention of British
pri paganda. He couldn’t invade America, if
he had the British navy, his own and Italy's.”
Mayor Drank 'Ice Tea'
Others Ate-Au Jus Ribs
Au jus listen to this.
Proof of the pudding Is in
the eating. This was proven def-
initely to a group of Doubting
Thomases Saturday night when
prime rib roast au jus was the
piece de resistance at a well ap-
pointed dinner given for the
Toms.
It happened this way.
Johnnie Schriever, who sort
of looks after things for the An-
dy Mellon estate out at the Gulf
refinery: B. B. Brown, aide par
excellent to Ben Roberts who
ramrods the business of the In-
ternational Harvester Co., Jack
Armstrong, who every one
knows directs the municipal
band, watches after the Veter-
Willkie Will Go
To London For
Personal Survey
J
Endorses FDR’s Plea
For British Aid, But
Not Going Officially
NEW YORK — (UP) —Wen-
dell L. Willkie, raving endors-
ed the lend-lease bill for aid-
ing Great Britain, with its grant
of full power to President
Roosevelt, prepared Monday for
an inspection visit to London.
He will have no mission, offi-
cial or unofficial, representing
only “myself."
Alf M. Landon, 1930 republi-
can presidential candidate, had
declared in a speech at Tulsa,
Okfa., Saturday night that he
did not believe future United
States security depended on a
British victory, even though he
favored all aid to Britain short
of war. In his statement Sunday
Willkie said he “refuted the
statement that our national se-
curity is not involved in a Brit-
ish defeat. The difference be-
tween a British defeat or victory
is not only military hut econo-
mic.”
She's A Mighty
Mite; Big Robber
Quickly Learns
EL PASO — (UP) — Fran-
cisca G. De Harris weighs
less than 100 pounds, but a
110-pound alleged thief is of
the opinion that each pound
is just that much dynamite.
Mrs. De Harris, 40-year-
old laundress, captured the
man, officers said, when she
caught him stealing clothe
from her clothes line.
Neighbors nearby heard
the man’s screams for help
and called police. When the
policemen arrived they
found Mrs. De Harris had
beaten the man badly with
a chair, tearing his shirt
and undershirt off. The big
fellow’s body was badly bru-
ised and scratched.
Foreign Affairs
Group Retains
All-Out Aid Bill
Speaker Rayburn Refuses
To Transfer Measure to
House Military Committee
WASHINGTON — (UP)—The
house with a shout Monday up-
held Speaker Sam Rayburn’s de-
cision placing the administra-
tion's important aid-to-Britain
bill in charge of the foreign af-
fairs committee rather than the
military committee.
Chairman Andrew May of the
military affairs committee
sought to win jurisdiction over
J the hill on the ground that it
| was primarily a defense mea-
sure.
Overwhelmingly Beaten
His motion to get the Dill was
defeated so resoundly that no
| effort was made to obtain a rec-
| ord vote.
j This issue of jurisdiction -
bor has pledged its support of while not concerned with merits
President Roosevelt’s projected! °f ’'le measure-- was the fit
, , of manv big and little controvci
defense plans but repeated .is>jps su’rrolfn()ini, the legislat„
determined opposition to any re- which would give President
Nazis Intrenched
At Invasion Ports;
Suh Bases Bombed
British Carrying Aerial
War lo Hiller In Daring
Thrusts After Dawn
LONDON (UP) —- London
newspapers Monday headlined
report that the Royal Air Force
had machine-gunned German
“invasion troops” on the coast of
1- ranee as powerful forces of
British bombers smashed at vital
axis oil facilities in Germany,
Italy and Belgium.
The London Evening News ap-
peared with a double-banner
line in big type proclaiming
that:
"Royal Air Force fighters
machine-gun German invasion
troops in day attack.”
The headlines followed the re-
port of the air ministry that the
RAF, following up its new poli-
, ey of daylight raids on the Ger-
man-held invasion coast, had at-
! tacked German troops in tren-
ches on the beaches along the
: coast facing Britain.
Trenches Are Mystery
Official sources declined to
speculate on the purpose of the
trenches or the presence of Ger-
man troops in such ground
works.
The trenches, it was thought,
, might be designed to repel Brit-
^ ish invasion attempts, protect
troops against air raids or for
; carrying out drills and maneu-
vers.
The attacks on axis oil sup-
! plies were made at Porto Mar-
gera, near Venice, Italy, Regens-
burg, Germany and Ostend, Bel-
1 gium.
Small forces of, the,bomber
I command were dispatched to
Regensburg and Porto Margera.
At Regensburg several fires
were started and at Ostend a
i large explosion followed by fire
j was observed.
U-Boat Bases Attacked
During the night, planes of tire
i bomber command attacked Ger-
man submarine bases at Brest,
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AFL Pledges Aid
In Defense Plans
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The American Federation of La-
strictions on civil liberties or the
worker’s right to strike.
In announcing the AFL’s 1941
legislative program Sunday
Willkie said the grant of pow-1 night, President William Green the leadership of Sen. Burton
er to the president proposed in [ said it did not seek "selfish ad-, K Wheeler, D , Mont . for a
the bill was necessary if demo- vantage for labor at the expensej fight to the end against the bill
Roosevelt unlimited authority
to provide the British with Am-
erican ships, planes and muni-
tions.
Isolationists organized around
cracy was to compete with the
dictatorships.
Willkie. 1940 republican pre-
sidential candidate, revealed that ] fare,
he had obtained permission from
the state department to go to
England by Pan-American Ait-
wavs clipper within two weeks.
He said he was going of his own
volition to get a better "inter-
national atmosphere," and would
not represent anyone but him-
self.
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of national welfare” but ou the! Jhnefoe was considerable evi-
, , , | dence of support for proposals
contrary pledged labor to make IO j,]ace limitations on the pre
sacrifices for the national wel-j ,jdent’s power
ans of Foreign Wars and be-
tween times conducts the af-
fairs of the Nolan County draft
board, gathered in Chet Church-
ill's cafe opposite the T and I1
station for their evening's re-
freshment.
Eventually the conversation
turned to food and the group
began a complaint about the
things an epicure likes to eat
and which he cannot find in ATLANTA. Ga — (IP)
Sweetwater. Of course Chet Gov. E. R. Rivers Monday grant-
didn't appreciate this so much ed a full pardon to Richard
because he is quite some shakes j Gray Gallogly, scion of a prom-
as a caterer and knows that one inent Atlanta family, who was
Georgia Governor
r
Pardons Gallogly
Historic Relics
Opposes Time Limit
• 0 j A time limit of one or two
. wt 'years was the most popular
VIPYlI'illK 1 llirnver suggestions. Speaker Ravhurn
1TXX 4UUUO said that lie did not care to dis
cuss any specific time limits
but would not oppose an ar-
rangement that would terminate
EL PASO — (UP) — Import-I the president’s powers when
ant archaeological discoveries this emergency passes,
dating hack to the 6th century Democratic House Leader
when the Toltecas and Tarascos John W. McCormack, co-sponsor
Indians inhabited Mexico have j of the hill, -aid ho had noted a
been made near Jiquilpan, Mexi- a couple of constructive sug-
co, in tile southern state of I gestion.-..” He would not identify
Michoacan. Mexican Consul Gen- them.
eral Francisco de P. Jiminez re-1 -o----
ported Monday. ...... „ .
Jiminez. who returned during •*’ * <.l. II’I'OIVTKI)
the weekend from a vacation AUSTIN (UP) — H. O. Met-
trip to Michoacan. said that die ealfe of Marla was appointed
discoveries were "the most val- Monday by Governor O’Daniel
Italian Destroyer
Slink by British
WITH THE BRITISH FLEET
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,
via Alexandria — (Delayed) —
(UP)—German airplanes inten-
sively attacked the British fleet
in the central Mediterranean
Monday after Bruitish cruisers
and destroyers sank an Italian
destroyer in a spectacular run-
ning battle.
The British fleet units sank
the Italian destroyer within
cannon range of one of Premier
Benito Mussolini's Mediterran-
ean strongholds.
After the running battle at
sea. the German planes recent-
ly sent to Italy's aid, flew over
the British fleet and launched
a strong attack Seven planes
are known to have been.shot
down.
Horses Received
For Vrm\ Service
FORT BUSS, Texas—(UP) —
The U, S army's first cavalry
division is rapidly equipping its
cavalry and field artillery ele-
ments with horse, from all parts
of the country.
Fort Bliss veterinary' officials
said Monday that ince Dec. 1,
more than 1,600 remounts had
been received at the post for ser-
vice. Sixty more animals are ex-
pected within the next few days,
officers said.
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