Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - June 3, 1941, Midland, Texas FIRST With The NEWS WEATHER WEST TEXAS Scattered In southeast portion dealing to The Best Investment for Your Advertising Dollar 74 AND BEST FEATURES JUNE 1941 Price 5 Cents Capitol Predicts Is Headed For Hughes Place Chief Justice To Retire 1 President Will Name 2 New Members By The Associated Press June Evans the eleventh man in history to serve as chief justice of the United will relinquish high office July 1 and retire life because of considerations of health and The decision of the 79yearold jurist to retire marks the end of supreme court service that has covered 19 as associate and later as chief It also closes a career in public life that has been unusually varied and dis As soon Justices in to became ft speculation here fastened on the question of his Inform ed sources freely arid almost unan jh Attorney General leading be Pres ident choice to succeed By filling this vacancy and an earlier one that has existed since the retirement of Justice James j last President Roosevelt will have named seven of the nine members of the Senator Byrnes upon whom the administration relies heavily in pushing legislation through Con is expected to be the other Chief Justice Hughes sent his retirement letter to the White House yesterday before mounting the bench to preside over the court for its last session until next Oc tober Roosevelt wrote out the tele gram of reply in The he came as a great shock because he had counted on Chief Justices continuing his splendid service for many years to My every the Pres ident is to beg you to re main but my deep concern for your health and strength must be para Illness of Hughes for the past few months also contributed to his decision to leave the it was said Behind The Headlines By Fred Special News Service The French are proving to the sat of the Axis that a country cannot get out of this war even by being Militarily de signing only to lie for a while in the grave of the the con quered are prodded from the tomb to become the zombies of the con I war That is the meaning of French collaboration with Germany by VicePremier Ad miral violent tirade against the British last Saturday by the conferences of Marshal cab inet today with General Maxime supreme political and mil overseer of the French em pire beyond the Mediterranean and expert on Syrian It is no accident that these events coincide with the finish of the Crete campaign and with another of those meetings of the Axis dictators at The symptoms of French however in the new Axis military phase are plain feverish resurrection ofa state of armed preparedness among the heartsick French armies of Syria against their the man spokesmen that they will per the French to have what is called the sacred right of fighting the British if the latter try to seize Syria from nextdoor Iraq and Pal estine reports denied by Germans that the vanguard of motorized Nazi desert fighting units already are in British predictions that France will give unto German pro all her possessions from Dakar to No one need be surprised to see an Axis airborne attack on the British fortified Island of less than 100 miles from by the Nazi planas which already squat on the air bases of Syria and Le banon or tremendous air raids on the Suez which is less than 300 miles from event a mechanized land assault on headed for the and a sweep of the panzers and dive bombers into The men and supplies for such land drives probably would have to through Turkey to and not by but the Germans are counting on Britain May Declare Syria Enemy Sector For Attack June fied observers predicted today the war cabinet soon would declare an opening the French mandated wedge between Turkey and Palestine for fullscale British Reports from Turkey that the Nazis already had landed seaborne infantry with motorized equipment at the Syrian port of just east of Britains island of interpreted in some quarters the race for positions on a new war front already was There were indications British of circles would not be surprised if the Vichy government soon re quested German of all French colonial includ ing Syria and Lebanon in the Mid i die Registered Pig Program Starts A program that will provide every club boy in Midland County with a registered pig was started It is by Midland merchants arid County Agent Sturkie ob eight registered gilts at Clar endon yesterday and delivered them to Travis Claud Ran dall Junior Bunky Kelly Jerry Bohan and George Seven Yhe gilts will form the basis for the A world champion Smooth was grand sire of the Each club youth will give the top gilt from his first Ut ter to another club boy as the pro gram Sponsors are Barrens Supply Texas Service Com Packing Perry Wilson Dry Goods and Mid land Production Credit They provided funds to purchase the Illness Claims Life Of Baseball Great By Judson Bailey NEW June the great iron horse of is The handsome fellow who was a marvel of power and endurance for 14 years as the first baseman of the New York died last night at his home in the Bronx after an illness of two years from a rare and apparently incurable disease described as hardening of the spinal cord which caused his muscles to The end came 17 days before Lou would have been 38 years old and wrote finis to a fight with disease See Page Two Courtney Talker Fred Wemple will be principal speaker at a goodwill meeting in Courtney tomorrow night for citizens of that community and The event is sponsored by the Lions Fifty persons are pledged to make the goodwill but one hundred ore Delbert who is in The trippers will meet at tomorrow at the Chamber of Commerce office and go from there to Courtney for the meeting at Courtney and Midland citizens have been Court To Try Field Worker At Fall Term June A second trial for Pete Winkler County oil field charged with the murder of Charles was postponed to the fall term of Ward County dis A key witness for the state is con fined to a Wink hospital with in juries received in an automobile ac Senate Turns Down Three Appointments June Three appointments of Governor Lee ODaniel were rejected and a num ber confirmed by the Senate Rejected were Claude De Van Watts of Austin as chairman of the liquor control Edwin Lacy of Longview as a member of the fish and oyster commission and Yarborough of Corpus christi as a member of Ihe state prison Among those confirmed was of appointed state life insurance Classes In Summer Term Courses Start Classes started today for the sum mer term of Midland public schools Enrollment is with two The term lasts six to eight weeks and gives fully and in most units of the Senator Houston Goes To Washington Appointed by Texas Governor Lee ODaniel to fill the unexpired term df the late Senator Morris Shep Andrew Jackson reads Senate manual before oath under the supervision of Senator Tom Connally of At the new senator receives a kiss from Marie Texas Rangers after taking oath as Texas new junior NBA France Verges On War Against British Forces In Syrian Area By The Associated Press France appeared today on the verge of plunging into the war against her old Great with strong German support on a new battlefield in Syria in the Middle In Chief of State Philippe Petain called an urgent cabinet meeting late this the second of the after conferring with Generalissimo Maxime commander in chief of Frances African Adolf Hitlers high command re ported today that tons of British merchant shipping was de approaching the tons of Allied ships sent to the bottom in Britains most critical month of the World This was in when Kaiser Wilhelms backed by a fleet of ill seagoing sank 430 At the height of the it was reported Britain had only six weeks of food supplies One out of every four ships leav ing the United Kingdom ports nev er The German high command said that in last months assaults on British Nazi sank tons while the Luftwaffe de Destruction of the remaining tons was at to surface 46th Raid On Berlin In the war in the RAF night raiders spread large in an attack on the London air ministry and bombed the cities of Duisburg Ruhrort and other targets in Ger manys industrial It was the 46th assault of the war on the Nazi Other British raiders struck at the docks of German Uboat base in and at Os The Germans acknowledged that apartment buildings in Berlin were damaged by bombs and a number of civilians killed and Britons mulled a statement by Her mann Goering that the conquest of Crete proved Adolf Hitlers asser tion that there are no able wondered if the next German blitz would strike in the Middle East or in an attempt to invade the British Nazi quarters in Berlin said world would not long be kept in In a dramatic epilogue to the 12 day struggle on British navy officers who directed of more than British and Greek troops from the island de clared Germans drowned when their transports were smashed by British naval Germany To Give French Free Hand June will give France a free hand to repel any attempts by England or other powers on authorized German sources intimat ed today without flatly saying The question arose in connection with British press demands for seizure of Asked whether Germany could af ford to let England take this French these sources said We dont cross bridges before we come to For the present we have Marshal and Ad miral statements that they will defend all although is ready to concede this sacred right and duty of every nation to the French Walker Receives Prison Sentence Robert charged with was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by a 70th Dis Court only 30 The jury was out Anderson pleaded guilty be fore the court on charges of Judge Cecil Ceilings heara the testimony but has not pronounc ed Wreyford pleaded guilty and received a fiveyear suspended for The Willie case is set The negro is charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Wade May Court visited Odessa to Included were Judge District Attorney Martelle McDon ald and Court Reporter ODaniel States Wish To Help President As Race Keeps Fast Pace The Associated Press While Lee ODaniel de livered the first address of Ms at Waco last night to the accompaniment of rain and thunder the other candidates continued an unabated ODaniel declared that he favored President defense pro gram and he wanted to go to Wash ington to help the in an address at said American youth must determine whether or not this country can retain its free institutions against within and Mann Urges Cushion Pay The chairman of the House com on unAmerican activities told the first graduates of Cisco Junior College tnat the chief pur of American education is to train youngmen and to be good Americans and to ground them in the principles of Christian citi Rain Since Midnight Amounts To Inch Rainfall amounting to of an inch fell in Midland since midnight last the Midland Municipal Airport reported The airport reported thunder showers at El Paso and west and at Sari Antonio and Drizzles of rain intervals today in the Additional Bids On Midland REA Project Additional bids for a 25mile ex tension of the Caprock Electric Co operative lines into Midland County under a project will be opened in Big Spring June Three bids received last Friday were too the cooperative an A meeting of the REA board of di rectors of the unit of will be held June Commission Reports Rules In Rhodes Pool June special railroad commission order has pro field rules for the Rhodes Pool in Cochran A 40acre proration unit was pro vided for the Rhodes with no well to be drilled nearer than 440 feet to any property and not nearer than 880 feet to any com or drilling well on the same lease or Corporation Court Fines Midland Man City officers arrested a Midland man for violation of the law of the He was fined today in cor Odessa officers reported a stolen AXIS WARPLANES ATTACK TOBRUK MILITARY POINTS June and planes yesterday at tacked military depots and hangars at port in Italian with good said At Galveston Attorney General Gerald Mann urged that basic pay of soldiers should be rais ed from to to provide them with a financial when they are mustered out Lyndon without referring to ODaniel name told a Goose Creek audience he favored keeping the states best salesman and money raiser hi Oil Companies Move Turkey Headquarters June 2 foreign oil companies are removing their head quarters from Istanbul to Konya in tha it Members Of House Override Two Vetoes Issued Bg ODaniel Ickes Requests Representatives Qf Petroleum Industry To Make Report On Threatened East Coast Shortage June Interior Secretary In his role as Federal Oil asked representatives of the petroleum in dustry to report to him today on the threatened East Coast oil The oil industry representatives compose a 24man ap pointed by Boyd of New president of the American Petrol eum to make a factual Siemoneit 1 Walsh In Abell Pool Recovers Simpson Pay Sand Core San Directors At Meeting June Houses passed despite executive dis approval a measure State Board of Water Engineers to appoint directors of the San Reclamation and Conservation dis The Senate vote on ing was 30 ayes and no By The Associated Press June House today overrode two by Governor By Frank Gardner Oil Editor Another large producer in the study of East Coast petroleum was witnessed today in the pipeline and tanker Ordovician pool of Northern ties and anticipated Pecos County as Siemoneit Drilling Aides of Ickes said the report Company of Fort Worth 1 would be checked with Walsh et al recovered six and feet of Simpson pay sand in passed notwithstanding the Owner is preparing to run tub executives disapproval a findings of the Federal Bureau o Mines before any course of was decided Officials were to em there was no shortage of oL in the country put merely a lack of getting it tc Nor at the present time any actual East Coast it was but indications are that supplies will become in tight over the next few FBI Looks Into Fatal Air Crash SAN June unexplained performance of a British Liberator bomber that into San Diego Bay and killed four aviation experts aroused some suspicion today of FBI and company investi gating the awaited salvaging of additional pieces of wreckage for Failure of the controls apparent ly caused the crash yesterday of the giant camouflaged of the type used by the British to bomb A crash boat rescued Lewis of one of the live men The body of William was Still unfound and believed pin ned in sunken nose section of the ship were the bodies of Consol Aircrafts chief test William one of the most able airmen Alan Kansas assistant test pilot and Bruce aviation Move Offices To Scharbauer Hotel Offices of the Permian Basin Association were moved today to the ground floor of the Scharbauer The new 105 South are on the west side of the Since its organization in the PBA has maintained offices in the Thomas The move was authorized to af ford more space for the organiza tions expanding By a vote Of gg to 34 it rng to test the it had shown employers of con tract workers to retain the test Was tak employes Seniority rights sn from when he was called to mill The oil the top feet of core from tary the total By even a larger majority it also prospect is located 330 feet out of the Southwest corner of lot sec tion block Company 1 east outpost to the Abell is drilling at in sandy lime of middle Or voted to upset the governors veto of another measure authorizing the state board of water engineers to appoint directors of the Sah Ja cinto Reclamation and Conservation an upper is flowing three and onehalf barrels of oil plus a varying amount of water believed to be drilling while testing through onehalf inch choke on 2 inch Magnolia Petroleum Company 1 on the northwest edge of the is drill ing at feet in Magno lia and 2 McKee is drilling lime at Company 2 showed nothing in cores from feet and is drilling at feet in lime and Mag 2 is coring at feet ia The firms 1 McKee is coring below in green 23 Flows gallons at feet in Gulf Oil Corporation 23 Waddell etal cleaned itself into f recovering 268barrel 6fl then gauged 91 barrels of new oil in one Oil tested ity and gasoil ratio was cubic feet per The well has been shut in awaiting potential It is a southed offset to Gulf 17 pro ducer which recently extended the Sand Hills pool of Western Crane County four and onequarter miles south by Gulf lF deep test in Eastern had shown no oil or gas in swabbing down feet from the Amerada Petroleum Company 1RA University is drilling at feet in shale and lime thought to be of Permian Mascho Test Logs Mascho Oil Company of Midland 1 M Northwestern Andrews County wildcat southeast of Shatter a slight showing to feet and is ahead Germany Denies Report Five miles northwest of the same t is drilling at feet In Mso ta Northwestern Mag man Admiral Bohn and said current abroad regarding him were Norwegian sources in London said Saturday Admiral described as the Nazi naval commander in chief to Norway and a friend of Rudolf recently committed suicide in Oslo after a visit from Gestapo Chief Heinrich Terry The LATEST NEWS FLASHES i Jury Indicts 200 Organizations For Monopoly SAN June 200 organi and persons in six industries were accused today of fixing prices and of other monopolistic in the greatest mass of indictments ever returned by a spe cial federal grand jury Observers Believe Britons Beat Nazis To Syria June awaiting some word that Britain has taken steps to beat the Germans into qualified observers tonight suggested that the cur rent wall of official British silence a highly signifi cant RAF Planes Attack Enemy Troop Column June fighters swept across the channel and attacked a column of enemy troops to the air ministry announced Gayda Says Axis Is Ready To Fight June and Italy are ready for action against the United States if that country enters the the authoritative Fascist Virginid indicated phy was cored from feet and recovered 16 feet of dark gray dolomite with anhydrite in Core was bleeding a small amount of oil and gas in a tired army urged colleagues to approve the seniority which he said would prevent a repe tition of conditions following the last war when one out of 20 men returning from the service got then jobs Answering he said the measure would also hold open pub lic office fcr incumbents drafted into the armed Denied RunOff BUI Some of the opposition was grounded on A new attempt to die ad came in the which adopted order ing the end of the session House concurrence was necessary for final and a group of cosigners were denied permission to introduce a contests after all special elections if a majority V not received by a candidate in the first said he planned a sec I ond attempt at The House quickly passed a to correct the caption of another recently enacted by the legisla ture raising the legal speed limit for motor The attorney gen department had ruled the law defective because of the Legislators Seek RunOff Election June a proposal to require a runoff elec tion in the senatorial cam was the hardy 47th legislature seemed aiming at a new record in the length of its general session More than 20 members of the House yesterday signed a which would make mandatory a runoff election in the senatorial race July Under current 28 and the candidate with the highest number of not necessarily a will represent the people in the federal Apparently determined quit any time the lower legislative branch yesterday hotly debated sev eral adjournment and recess pro zone one The without accepting wildcat is drilling ahead below The nearest the which has 132 feet in sent the Senate a proposal to re cess instead of came to agreeing on a quitting date was when it 65 to a resolution to adjourn June The two years lasting 163 days and ending June smashed all longe Rites For Bleiker Are Held At Church Funeral services for John Midland County tanner who died yesterday at the home of his Charles six miles west of were held at 2 today at the Church of Christ with the CT Morgan In terment was in Survivors include his two and one Honolulu Geologist To Address Society geologist here for Honolulu Oil Corporation will address the West Texas Geological Society at a meeting 8 Wed in Hotel His topic is Geology of the Wasson Field at Yoakum and Gaines coun The societys Permian Bassin cross section also will be displayed and discussed before being sent off for Big Spring Veteran Dies From Injuries June hitch hiker identified by papers as John 51yearold Big war was killed night when an automobile struck the rear of a tractor near vity Haigh To Present Geologists Award Berte geologist in charge of University Lands offices in Mid land will present the annual West Texas Geological Association Petroleum Geologists award to Harry Max at commencement exercises tonight of the Texas School of Mines at El Georges Midland consult ing presented a to Robert Estes at commencement exercises of Tex as Technological College last The awards made to students on the basis of general abil and qual ity as prospective member of fixe Awards are paid up memberships in the APGA and nine volumes of its bulletins for the preceding Rankin his degree in petroleum engineering
