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RAF RELENTLESSLY POUNDS AXIS IN MEDITERRANEA
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Qovernor To Submit Budget Calling For $165,242,870
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Letter Urges
Legislature
Name Director
Co-Ordinated Effort Held
Requisite for Economy
And Best Advice
AUSTIN — (UP) — Gov. W.
Lee O’Daniel will transmit to the
Texas legislature next week a
board of control budget calling
for expenditure of $165,242,870
for the two year period begin-
ning Sept. 1, 1941.
Past budgets have included
only proposed1 expenditures for
courts, state departments, state-
supported colleges, and state
eleemosynary institutions.
Willi board members Tom De-
bt rry protesting that it is no
part of flic board’s duty to bud-
get old age assistance, aid to
needy blind, aitl to dependent
children and contribution to
school teachers’ retirement, the
beard majority included a total
of $90,848,810 for these pur-
poses in the budget.
Governor O’Daniel in his pre-
pared letter of transmittal, makes
only general recommendations
and again asks the legislature to
See O’DANIEL Page 2
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Greeks Repulse
Italian Attacks
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1911
NUMBER 216
Paxton Re-named Scout Head
.STRUCA, Jugoslavia — (UP)
—Greek troops Saturday repul-
sed three Italian attempts to re-
capture the village of Saljari in
the Tepelinl sector in Albania,
frontier dispatches reported.
It was reported also that in
the coastal sector, south of the
port of Valona, fierce fighting
raging in the Kerauniaj moun-
DEATHLESS DAYS;
LET’S MAKE IT 600
515
tains, nine miles northwest of
Strade Biancha (Aspri Ruga).
Italian troops were reported
nearly cut off near the village
of Arza in the Mali Trebesini
mountains, 10 miles northwest
of Klisura. Tile Greeks were re-
ported to have reached the
main Klisura-Berat road, along
which Italians driven out of
Klisura were retreating.
Auto Theft Ring
Nipped at Border
EL PASO — (UP) — Police
officials announced Saturday the
beginning of an intensified drive
to break up what they believed
was a new automobile theft ring
operating from across the border
in Mexico.
The announcement followed
the arrest of a suspected thief
who. it was believed, has been
stealing cars in El Paso and run-
ning them across the interna'-
icnal bridge into Juarez, Mexico.
The man, believed to be one of
the leaders in the suspected
Mexican theft ring, was captur-
ed by Highway Patrolmen E. L.
Brownson as he tried to drive
away in a pick-up truck.
WillkieToTalk
To Secretary Hull
WASHINGTON — (l’P) —
Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republi-
can presidential candidate, will
call on Secretary of State Cordell
Hull Sunday for an “exchange
of views” prior to his departure
for Great Britain, it was an-
nounced.
The state department announ-
cement of the conference said
that Hull would discuss any
subject of interest to Willkie.
German Officials
See ‘GWTW’ Film
BERLIN — (UP) — Although
all American films are banned
in Germany a small group of
German actors and producers
saw “Gone With the Wind” at
a private showing Saturday.
The audience was selected by
Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul
Joseph Goebbels.
Weather Forecast
SWEETWATER — The mer-
cury dipped to a low for this
year Saturday when the ther-
mometer showed 26; high for
Saturday 51. Forecast: Fair and
sliehtlv warmer.
WEST TEXAS—Fair Sunday.
Little change in temperature.
EAST TEXAS—Sunday, fair,
slowly rising temperatures in
the Interior.
Garland Vinson
Receives Silver
Beaver Award
Five Other Sweetwater
Men Selected For
Buffalo Trail Offices
Charles E. Paxton, Sweetwat-
er, Friday night was elected
president of the Buffalo Trail
Boy Scout council at Big Spring
to serve his twelfth year in that
capacity.
Two other Sweetwater men
were named to council offices
at the annual meeting and ban-
quet. T. P. Johnson was selected
as a vice president and R. M.
Simmons was named treasurer,
i Simmons also served as treasur-
' er last, year.
Three Buffalo Trail council
scouters, including Garland Vin-
son, Sweetwater, were given the
Stiver Beaver award, highest
award given in scout ‘work for
outstanding service to youth, at
the banquet. Others who receiv-
ed the coveted award were Joe
See SCOUTS Page :t
Roosevelt to Take
Oath On Monday
WASHINGTON — (UPl —
President, Roosevelt will take his
third historic oath of office as
president of the United States
Monday on a two-century old
Dutch Bible which has been in
his family for generations.
Mr. Roosevelt’s left hand on
the open Bible will cover the
first Epistle of St, Paul to the
Corinthians, 13th Chapter, 1st to
13th verses.
Because the last verses of this
group are printed on the reverse
side of the page, the entire
Biblical text will not be visible
at the moment of oath-taking.
It will be the fifth time Mr.
Roosevelt has taken an oath of
office on the historic Bible. He
used it twice in taking the oath
as governor of New York, and
twice ars president.
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Sen. Smith Named
For 3 Committees
AUSTIN — (Spl.)—Senator
John Lee Smith has been placed
on the following committees of
the senate. Chairman of state
Committee Institutions and De-
partments, also Game and Fish;
Vice Chairman of Commission
on Constitutional Amendments;
and is a member of following im-
portant committees;
State Affairs. Military Affairs,
Civil Jurisprudence and Com-
merce a n d Manufacturing,
Highway and Motor Traffics, Ju-
dicial Districts, Mining, Irriga-
tions and Drainage, Public
Lands anil Land Office, Rules,
and Stock and Stock Raising.
Sweetwater Scouters Receiv e Honors
M. SIMMONS
.
Knudsen Fears
If Nazis Win
We Must Fight
Urges Prompt Passage
Of Lend-Lease Bill to
Help Great Britain
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Defense production Director Wil-
liam S. Knudsen, appealing to
congress for prompt passage of
the administration’s British-aid
bill, said Saturday that the Unit-
ed States probably would have
to war against the axis powers
eventually if Britain falls.
•'If Britain falls, do you
think we would eventually be-
come involved in war with the
axis powers?” Knudsen was ask-
'd by Re]i. Lawrence F. Arnold,
1 ., Ill,, during hearings on the
i,:1 before the house foreign
,.ui., committee.
I think we would,” Knudsen
eplled.
“That in time we would have
o fight a war anyway?” Am-
id askeo.
“Yes. sir,” Knudsen rep,led.
Knudsen’s testimony ended
he first week of hous • hearings
n the administration bill.
Session Adjourns
Chairman Sol Bloom announ-
•ed in adjourning the session
hat the measure’s leading re-
publican supporter, Wendell L.
gee DEFENSE Page 6
HSU Cowboy Band
Serenades Rayburn
WASHINGTON — (UP)
—The Hardin-Sifnmons uni-
versity Cowboy band, in
Washington to participate in
the inaugural parade, seren-
aded Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn at his capital
office Saturday.
The Texan speaker thank-
ed the Texas band and spoke
informally for a few min-
utes.
The band's selections were
“the Eyes of Texas” and
“Home on the Range.”
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German Raiders
Sta<re Daylight
Raids On London
British Make Long-Range
Fighting Planes (o
Accompany Bombers
LONDON — (UP) — German
j raiders dropped five bombs on
I an outlying London district Sat-
urday in the city’s first day-1
| light air raid alarm in 12 days.
Children playing in the streets
j 'where the bombs whistled
| down flopped on the pavement
! and then resumed their games
j after the raid.
The London sirens shrieked
: when raiders flew in toward
London from the southeast
Rhodes Airdrome
On Dodocanese
Is Raided Again
Smashing Attacks at Other
Flying Force Bases
Reported by British
CAIRO — (UP) — The Royal
Air Force reported Saturday that
! it wa pounding Italian forces
in the Mediterranean area with-
, out relaxation and that a new
raid had been made on the fas-
ri ■( In at Rhodes, in the Do-
i docanese Islands.
The Rhodes attack was center-
1 ci.l on the airdrome at Maritsa.
Outer Italian bases raided
A i dut. nuN night and Thursday
morning included Tobruk and
Deine in Libya, the Caproni
j workshops at Maiadaga and
j A.-sab, in Eritrea, and Berbera
and Zeila, in Italian-occupied
| British Somaliland.
The attack on Tobruk was
described as particularly violent,
i ’ mbs fell on military buildings
ml marled two large fires and
■ -ions. Smaller
ti s and a large explosion oc-
: d in nr the main wharf.
-• air raid was report-
-ai.■ i i Friday night,
f w over the s val
0 .pcd bombs in the
1 I'.o Ue-xandria-Caito
An eni
Hitler, Mussolini
Will Meet Soon
coast.
Anti-aircraft batteries sent up
a heavy barrage hut ihe planes
canal.
BOMBS DROPPED
IN ALEX ANDRIA CANAL
CAIRO — (UP) —- Bombs
wco dropped in the Alexandria
canal zone Friday night, it was
reported officially today.
Raiders were reported to have
a near > nan age mu me plants flown ,jVt r ,he big British naval
were not seen from the ground lia„. of Aioxondria and then on
because of low snow clouds. I he
batteries went into action before ;
the alarm sounded.
ROME—(UP)—A meeting of
Benito Mussolini and Adolf IIit- ■
ler will be held within the next;
24 hours at Munich or
to the vicinity of the canal.
No casualties were reported
_ | and there was virtually no dam-
BRITISH BUILDING aS£'. . .
LONG RANGE PLANES 1 n” , ln th<' '1(in|-
LO.N'IX IN— i UP i - Britain is li-;...... ‘“mal which
.buiiding long range-two motor- ,,i:' Au-xandria and ( an'o.
Salz-' ,fj fighter planes which will per- A general headquarters com-
burg, it was said reliably Satur-j mit tbp H,,\al Air Force to os muniqtt- of tlm middle east corn-
day. eort bombers in daylight raids ’ r.,.ind n-i.-orted 'hat there was
Reports of such a meeting had much farther in enemv terri- See CAIRO Page 5
been current for some days, hut i0)-v than the invasion coast to
responsible sources had declined j u-hi<-h the limited range of Hur-
earlier to comment on the pos-:,.jcane and Spitfire fighters has
siljility. _ restricted them, it was reported
these sources pointed out Saturday
that the time and place of such ' ‘ Aviation-experts said that the
meetings is considered a mili-j nresent production drive was
secret- : the third phase of a battle for
Ihe last meeting of the dicta-1 masterv 0f the ajr, which Brit -
rc wao ho,H ,n on |aln hopes to gain by 19-12.
Nazis Weir Supreme
In the first phase Germany
was supreme, as in Poland and
Balloon Record
Claimed in Russia
*ors was held in Florence
Oct. 28,8 a few hours after Ital-
ian troops had marched into
Greece.
HR. E. B. POOL
Month’s Permits
For Building
Sets High Mark
January building permits, un-
usually brisk this year, soared
again Saturday when two re-
modeling and repair permits
totaling $700 on Sweetwater
homes brought the month’s list
to $4,000, records in the office
of \Y. H. Whaley, city comptrol-
ler, disclosed.
Hist of the permits was issu-
ed to J. I i. Hubbard for $40!)
worth of remodeling work on a
dwelling located on Fourth
street. The other was purchased
by E. L. Langley for remodeling
and repairing a dwelling at 502
East Avenue B.
Many of the permits issued
this month are for remodeling
and repair work, indicating that
home owners here are beginning
See PERMITS Page 2
HIGDON EDWARDS
DR. « . A. ROSKBKOl'GH
Markets At A Glance Boards tO Meet
Monday to Let
Tax Contract
from tile war.
BY UNITED l*BESS
Stocks firm and dull.
Bonds irregular; U. S. govern-
ments lower.
Curb stocks mixed.
Chicago stocks irregular.
Cotton about steady.
Wheat off 1-8 to 1-4 cent and
corn of 1-4 to 1-2 cent.
-o-1-
$50,000 In Sales
Are Recorded At
Cattle Auction
Sale of cattle at the Sweet-
water Livestock Auction eom-
City commissioners and school
board members likely will meet
Monday to select a bid on the
revaluation of property In the
city and the outlying school dist-
rict. it was announced Saturday.
City Comptroller \Y. H. Wha-
ley said that he had received two
bids on the project, one from
Freese and Nichols, the other
from the George E. Ehrenborg
company. Representatives ot two
other firms who met with the
British Capture
French Vessel
$635,000 Sought for New Buildings,
Equipment at Texas Tech College
AUSTIN — (UP) — An $8
243,968 'building program for
the next biennioum was recom-
mended Saturday in the board of
control budget.
An expenditure of $1,064,350
for eleemosynary buildings and
$3,577,618 for college buildings
was suggested.
The recommendations includ-
ed;
College buildings:
Texqg State College for Wo-
men -— Home economics build-
ing, $300,000; educational build-
ing $50,000.
Educational buildings $250,-
000.
Texas Technological Col-
lege — Agriculture building
$250,000; chemical and petro-
leum engineering building
$125,000; home economics
pany Wednt ulav at ring west i commission and board members
of town was the'largest since lie- last week and asked to bid on the
project have not turned in then
ginning of the wmte. months,; t)ids wiialey said.
trailing volume nearing the $50.-, -p]le Ehrenborg company con-
000 mark. J ducted the last revaluation in
More buyers attended anil 1935 here. At that time the city
.j-}
any previous time since organ!-| ()Ut pIans thjs veai. similar to
zation. Many were order buyers j those in 1935.
fi rm northern and eastern mar-j Although commissioners said
kets and packing companies and that bids were to life in the city
, , (office not later than Thursday,
many head were -shipped out. a(Wuj(;nal ,ime has beon granted
The livestock company cliang- j lbe Uvo firms who have not re-
ed tlie sale day from Tuesday j ported in an effort to obtain as
i The report of the Hitler-Mus- France. ,hev said: in the second
solini meetmg came shortly af- Germanv. \vhil(. having lost
ter it was announced that Ger-j comnlete mastPrv, was sim
man and Italian economic ex- ponderan, an(1 Stained the stra-
.perts will assemble in Rome ,egi(. initiutiVL>. As part „f this
Mon,lav to discuss issues arising second pha8e Gerfn been
i bombing Britain destructively
i but that it had lost complete
j mastery, the experts said, was
shown when it failed to destroy
the helpless British army at
; Dunkirk and was beaten off by
| the Royal Air force when it
! tried sustained daylight bomb-
RIO DE JANEIRO — (UP) — I ing in September.
Captain D. S. McGrath. British In the third phase, which ex-
naval attache, said Saturday j perts see as just beginning, Brit-
that the French steamer Men-jain will continue to take hard
doza, carrying a cargo of Ar- blows, it was said, hut at the
gentine wheat and wool for same time will grow stronger
Marseilles, was captured by a and stronger in the air so that
British ship outside Brazilian the balance of striking power
territorial waters. ; wi(] start to level.
McGrath said the capture or- Strength Growing
curred almut daybreak. He said The experts said that evidenc-
he had not been informed as to es of growing British strength
the exact position of the vessels were to be seen in the British
when the seizure took place, but counter-offensive in the air. tin
that it was outside of Brazilian j attacks on such heav ily defend
territorial waters. ed German bases as Wilhelm-
McGrath did not identify the shaven and Bremen and the day-
British vessel that took the Men- light raids on the invasion coast
doza. , j Experts looked for two more
The capture presumably oc- Phases—the fourth when t -
curred within the 300 miles se- Royal Air Force takes the stra-
curity zone established by th'e.tegic initiative, the fifth when
Panama conference of foreign it gains control of the -kies and
ministers of the American re-: prepares the wav for an often
publics. See NAZI RAIDERS Page 4
MOSCOW — (UP) — A new
world record for balloon flight
into the stratosphere in an open
gondola was claimed Saturday
bv A. T. Fomin and Z. I. Gob-
lishev. They said that Friday
they reached an altitude of 36.-
300 feet.
Fomin anti Goblishev said
they remained at their maxi-
mum altitude for 15 minutes at
temperature of 70 degrees be-
low zero, fahrenheit.
The' said the.v were in the
air for three hours, during
which they made important me-
teorological observations before
alighting near Moscow.
30 Armv Planes
Hunting Bomber
TACOMA. Wash. — (UP) —A
‘loot of 30 army pianos took off
from here Saturday to search
•lie Bonneville Dam area along
imbia river for a twin-
homber that has been
two (lavs with seven
the
fi
building $200,900; lllirary
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—Scionc, l.ui """" ™ '■">« "
Southwest Texas Teachers! the trading.
College—Improvements totaling j Among the larger buyers were
$285,618, including $150,000 for | Ral,)h sliamhaker of Lubbock:
fine arts building. j p,jtv j»at-kins Companv, Fort
Sul Ross leathers College —, • ;
Improvements totaling $210,000. Worth: C. Patterson. Abilene,
including $75,000 for fine arts i Tom Donahue. Royal Headrick
building. I and Jud Smith, Sweetwater
West Texas Teachers College j _0_
—Science building, $260,OIK).
many bids as possible.
Tlie bids arc to include revalu-
ation qf all city property, includ-
See COMMISSION Page 3
which
m a camp
joined the
id. diesel povv-
■ working near
'"ii hearing p
i nearby bluff
led searchers
that area.
North Texas Agricultural Col-
lege Fine arts building $250,000.
John Tarleton College — Agri-
culture building $150,000. boiler
$12,000.
Prairie View Normal — Lib-
rary-classroom building, $150,000.
Eleemosynary I nstit uthms
Alabama-Coushatla Indian Res-
See BUDGET Page 2
FIVE DIE IN BLAST
MEXICO CITY — (UP) —A
toll of five dead and 12 injured
was reported by Monterrey po-
lice Saturday as the result of a
boiler explosion in a hath house.
The explosion was caused by the
removal of the pressure guage
from the boiler.
Sweetwater-Bred Colt \\ ins Rate
At Hialeah. Annexing Rich Stake
A honor coveted by all horse 34-4 in the 3 s mile race,
fanciers came to Tom Hughes. in the letter \lr Hughes rc
Sweetwater cattleman and out- reived Friday from New York
standing West Texas horse MeCamey said: 1 know you wiTl
breeder, who received word ihe interested in hearing that I
Friday that a colt he bred and J Florence F's colt Yokel, made
raised won the nursery stake a grand looking colt and that ;
Saturday Jan. 11. at the Hialeah still own him He won tin ::.s
Park track, Florida. | mile race Jan. 11, at Hialeafi
The colt, (Yokel), now owned Park. Fla., bringing in subslan
by George B. MeCamey of Fort' tial nursery stakes.”
Worth and New York, was sired Since the days of Newman’s
by Letalone of the Lea and Rav Pan Zareta. one of the greatest
Boothe ranch, its dam being mares that ever stepped on a
Florence F. of the Hughes ranch race track, and whoso record of
on the cast fringe of Sweet- 5-s mile in ,57 15 made at ,lua
city limits. Yokel was n : in 1915. h i- never been
Hull Licenses
Canadian Exports
WASHING
tcretary of
ed Sa
the expi
numtier
TON — (UP) —
State Cordell Hull
•day that he had iS-
!a nst - permitting
Canada of a large
-ential war materi-
subject to speci-
al! such important
tungsten, alurni-
and >il production
i dm type- of
Order Mobilizes
More British Men
Greeks Torpedo
2 Italian Ships
ATHENS, Greece—(UP) —
(Greek troops captured 1.000 Ital-
ians. according to an official
communique, and some of them
were quoted that two Italian j water . .....
liners, the 20.00Q-1on l.amliardia raised on the Hughes place and | equalled. Sweetwater lias been
and the 15.351-ton Liguria, were sold when a yearling last spring continuously in the linviight as
torpedoed in tlie Adriatic while to MeCamey. j a horse breeding center Mr
hound for Albania filled with Said to be one of the best colts | Hughes, whose extensive knowl-
i troops. Jin the nation and vioing with edge and keen interest in the j etivity Herbert Morrison.
! A government spokesman said the big eastern stables at the i development of a higher type of > Americans anil other aliens
l See GREEKS Page 3 I track, Yokel’s running time was Sec HUGHES Page 2 ’ lure exempted from the order.
LONDON iUI’) —Compul-
sory mobilization of all male civ-
il!: a between 16 and 90 to fight
fire bombs was announced Sat-
urday by Minister of Home Se-
-i-t.
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