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Big Spring Daily Herald (Newspaper) - March 31, 1940, Big Spring, Texas R a Complete Only the Herald Hee a the Horae new flue world new the big Spring daily Herald vol. 12 no. 253 Twenty two pages today Bio Spring Texas sunday March 31,1940 full a leased wire Price five cents weather fair sunday and bion Day Little change Iti temperature. M h reports to president Leon then in hour after returning from i fact finding trip to Europe Sumner Welle right undersecretary of state called at the w hate House to report to president Roosevelt on what he Learned in Rome Berlin part and London. Welle a accompanied to the executive Man Lon by i chief Secretary of state Cordell Hull with whom he i he in. _ Call for changes in Wagner statute committeemen say labor Board is a perpetrating wrongs daily w Ashington mar. So Abs a majority of the Smith committee retesting Oil it love Olga ton of the labor Board told the House today that amendment of the Wagner act at thl Congre session was a imperative to Correct a wrong a that Are being perpetrated daily upon Industry labor and the general Public. C chairman Smith id a and representative Halleck Ltd ind it and rout Rob n a Ohio filed a my word report recommending 17 re Shin and acc Iii the present Bourd of a overzealous Quot and a Spreda Tor it encroachment on b a i six a Britain warns of More vigorous warfare turkish Aid in Allied blockade reported tightening of sea blockade would permit 1940�?Ts nose count jets underway tuesday ships through in gig Spring and throughout the nation Dardanelles right. The majority previously had submitted in the form of a Bill the eluded substitution of a new Board proposed amendments which info the present three Man Agency separation of the boat d e prosecuting and judicial functions and other changes in Board procedure. The report filed today summarized the testimony received at lengthy blaring and explained the majority reason for Recti mending the amendment. To he other two members of the investigating committee representative Healey a a and Murdo it in Tah a opposed the recommendation c o n t e n Ding that they would Nero timely impair the act. At the outset of it report , the majority said a in suggesting the amendment it. The committee reaffirms its belief in the right of employees to organise and bargain collectively though representatives of their own choosing a and in the obligation of the government to protect that right. It asked Congress to study the proposals carefully and asserted a such impartial study will reset changes Page 8, column 8 reviewing the big Spring week by Joe Pickle you say the Weatherman Laid an easter egg Lut week would you that cold snap burned Many a modish woman to a Crisp and froze the annual quota of religion in Many other to a standstill. That postponement of the Caa hearing on the North South airline proposals a second time would seem to mean that the heat is on. Meantime you can help plenty by sending As much airmail As you possibly can. Some of our neighbors have been doing a bit of this inflation it seems. Lilacs we Are told Are supposed to be the official Shrub according to meagre results in a Garden club poll. Which proves along with the several votes Redbud Drew that they Are now in Bloom. This is True of the a c. Walker Redbud Grove in a Glorous Way. Incidentally six More votes for Lantana struggling in late saturday too late to be counted. First Quarter business it would seem could have been better. However a painful february aft Dee the week Page 8, column 3 party Hurt by of dry a delay Washington mar. 30 of a senator Johnson a col declared tonight that president Roosevelt while keeping silent on the third term Issue had a Sharp owned and torpedoed Quot other potential presidential candidates until the Deino Mcatic party was a floundering in confusion. The coloradans who is supporting senator Wheeler a Mont for the democratic nomination added in a statement a if the pre ident intend to go through with it and accept the nomination no one can Well Conn Plain because smart politics Are played in that cold hooded Way but if at the eleventh hour he should abandon the scuttled democratic ship he my accept the responsibility for the disaster which i so obviously and relentlessly hearing Down upon her. Johnson said that the president is certain to be nominated for a third term unless he positively refuses to accept the the a practical hard boiled politicians a he added want the president to run a for the simple reason that he can during the Day another Westerner senator 8chwarts a Wyo declared he favored a third term for the president. Schwartz previously silent on the third term Issue told reporters that a in View of conditions throughout the world i think it highly advisable that the president remain at the the Wyoming senator made Plain his belief however that there were other candidates fitted for the presidency who could be called on if or. Roosevelt refused to run again. London officials deny knowledge of any agreement Bucharest mar. 30 apr Turkey was represented in usually Well informed Balkan diplomatic quarters tonight As having agreed to permit passage of British and French warships through the Dardanelles to choke off germany�?T3 Supply line from Russia in the Black sea. Contraband hmm the newspaper be moment regarded As close to the French embassy Here reported moreover that Turkey had agreed to place her naval bases at Trebizond Samsun and sin Ope at the allies disposal for use As contraband control bases. Official circles in London professed no knowledge of the proposed agreement with Turkey. It was said however that if it is True it will be a Strong boost to the Allied diplomatic offensive in the Balkans and an Impi Tant Aid to tightening the Allied blockade of Germany informants Here reported the turkish decision a reached at a a Rutish French tii Kish military conference a few Days Ugo at Allevo although much action is contrary to the Montreat convention of 1936 to which Turkey a a party. That convention stipulated that the Dardanelles would be closed to warships of belligerent nations except when they were serving under league of nations mandate or helping a victim of aggression under a Mutual assistance pact concluded within the framework of the league to which Turkey was a party. A Way for Turkey to got around this however a explained by Deputy Petkun Staynoff of the foreign affair committee of the bulgarian chamber of deputies hot told the Sofia newspaper Blavo that Turkey would a let herself he forced to fail to prevent British warship from crowing the strategic Dardanelle As a Black sea nation Bulgaria is vitally interested in this possibility. Turkey might satisfy formalities other persons indicated by voiding a protest against passage of the Allied warships and having this protest a duly filed in the archives of the league of 1st moment stated flatly that Turkey would give the Reen Light to the Allied warship Quot no that these ship can control the traffic of War supplies from russian port to if the Black sea blockade become reality diplomats Here predicted russians non German Trade will be scrupulously respected. Soviet Premier foreign minister Mol toffs reiteration yesterday of russians non belligerency was regarded in some quarters Here As a promising sign for any Allied blockade in the Black sea. Everybody alive at 12 01 monday to be included Washington mar. So aha an army of 120,000 census takers rested its Arches today ready to trudge to each Doorstep in America for the biggest question Campaign of the decade. The Zero hour will be 12 01 a. M Progress reported on Road project rapid Progress was reported saturday on the Howard county spa lateral Road project to Elbow. More than 2,100 feet of caliche has been installed on the Road from Elbow eastward and sub Grade is in on two Miles of the three mile Job. The chief Structure is completed on the unopened portion of the Road and As soon As this Bridge has cured properly the remaining mils of Road win be improved. Meanwhile the new base material will be roiled and shaped said Thurston Orenbaun county Road Engineer. City election shapes i p As record event a record number of candidates and a record number of Absentee votes saturday foretold much interest in the annual City commission election Here tuesday. A total of 46 Absentee ballots were on file at the City Hall a count showed saturday after the deadline a passed. According to available records this was in record. No candidates filed by petition saturday thus the Field was limited to eight men a still a record number of office seekers since the City went under the commissioner manager form of government 14 years ago. Although there Are approximately 4.500 eligible voters within the City limits few believed that the record vote of 1,255 piled up in 1034 would be surpassed or even the 1,176 in 1931. Name of candidate a they will appear on the ballot Are e. I. Merrill. R. V. Tone. J. C. Loper j. B. Collin e. R. Cravens ii. W. We Blier a s. Satterwhite. Aud r. L. Cook. Jones who is mayor and Craven Are incumbent Aud Victor Mellinger whose in Rill also expires ii not running. Two others Cook and Webber have had a taste of City politics Cook having been elected to the commission in 193n and subsequently resigning and Webber having made the race in 1938. Merrill Loper Collins and Satterwhite Are making their debut in a municipal election. Polls will open at 8 a. In. In the City fire station under supervision of l. S. Patterson judge and a b. Younger his assistant. Voting will continue until 7 p. In. The three with the greatest number of votes will be declared elected for two year terms. Local time monday though count wont actually begin until tuesday everyone alive at that moment will be counted disregarding either births or deaths a few minutes later. Four other censuses will go on at the same time. The censuses of manufacturers and other business such As wholesalers and retailers rutted Jan. 2 and Are still operating. A tally of housing and agriculture will Start next week. Population enumerators will Start their rounds on tuesday because of technicality. Ten years ago Congress ordered censuses to begin on april 2 each decade because april i 1990, was a sunday. Things to be tabulated include not Only the age sex and location of every person but such other items As individual income from wages up to $5,000, location five years ago education Citie Enship. Employment status marital status and occupation. In the housing census will be questions about value Type and size of structures mortgage indebtedness and whether occupancy is by owners or renters. The agricultural census will tabulate the number acreage and value of farm and farm buildings nature and acreage of different crops mortgage indebtedness an i number of workers. Population figures for the nation and each state must by taw be reported to the president by dec. I and May be available several weeks earlier than that. In 1930. The count wan 122.775.048. Now it is estimated at roughly 132,-000,000. 13 enumerators to be at work in this county tuesday the decennial nose count will be launched in big Spring and surrounding area simultaneously with the population census Over the nation. A. G. Bearden Lamesa District census supervisor said saturday lege a. Mar. Jio. investigating the baffling three Day old be fiend murder of Chubby Rachel Taylor 17 year old coed above admitted tonight their exhausting work had led them nowhere hut up a mind Alley. Miss Taylor 120-Pound, athletic and Monde freshman at the Pennsylvania state College was slain Early thursday. Lier nearly nude body battered bruised and mistreated a found several hours later in the driveway of a nearby Public school. That there would be is enumerators serving big Spring and Howard county. Martin county will have four. In big Spring the canvassing must be completed in two weeks. According to Bearden thus necessitating cooperation on the part of the citizenry for a Complete Check since Only eight enumerators Are available. For the Rural Section there will be five enumerators and they will have so Days in which to Complete their work. Martin county has four enumerators for Stanton and Rural sections. A two Day school of instruction one of three in the 12-county District was completed Friday in Colorado City Bearden said this finished the schooling for the Dis trial a a 85 census takers. In addition to population counts the census will include housing data. Urban dwellers who operate farms will answer agricultural questions. Enumerators in big Spring will be Thomas d. Johnson Caroline Mccleskey mrs. Harold Harvey mrs. R. Lee mrs. Kathleen we Hunts mrs. Mary m. Jenkins mrs Anna Mae Lunebring and g. A Lloyd. Outside the City will be mrs. Gills Finley of Coahoma mrs Minnie Birkhead of Coahoma Jack t. Proctor of Vincent. Cecil Phil lips of Moore j. Alien Hull of big Spring. In Martin county Zenum craters Are mrs. Floy Bass Flower Grove mrs. Gladys Mcpherson Stanton mrs. Florene l. Maddison Lenorah and i. G. Peters Stanton. Major plan Churchill says no War wanted with reds japs Italy suit aftermath to fatal Grade crash damages of $10,250 were asked by or. And mis. M. J. Bodine Coahoma in a suit filed saturday in 7txh District court against the t a. Railway co. Plaintiffs alleged the company was guilty of negligence which contributed to a grads crossing crash in which their son Aubrey Allen Bodine 9-months-old, his Uncle Luther Bodine 24, and his son l. E., 3, were killed instantly on March 4 at Coahoma. The original petition charged that the crossing was improperly maintained that insufficient warning had been Given by the approaching train before the crash and that the train was travelling excessively fest. Damages of $10,-ooo were asked for death of the infant and $250 for funeral expenses. Texas astronomers to get a Good look at suns eclipse next week Austin mar. So i University of Texas astronomers Are going to gang up on the Sun tomorrow week. At 3 38 p. In. April 7. When the Earth is treated to its first annular or a bring Quot eclipse since 1885 and its last before 1904. The big guns in University astronomical equipment will be trained on the heavens from three widely separated fronts the Mcdonald Observatory North of fort Davis in West Texas a Peak of the Remote Chiao mountains too Miles South of the Observatory in the big Bend country and the University a Small Observatory in the physics building on the Austin Campus. When the Moon unsuspecting by begins to slip Between the Earth and the Sun University scientists will launch their mass assault front flanks and rear recording the phenomenon with television equipment movie camera and Infra red recording apparatus. An annular eclipse according to or. Otto Struve Mcdonald director occurs when the Moon passe close enough to the Earth to leave visible even during its Central phase a Bright solar ring. The eclipse area or. Struve re ported to University officials will fall across Texas Iii a 160-mile wide East West Belt from Southern Louisiana to the big Bend area of Texas and thence into Mexico along the Center line of the Belt where Aud Only where the eclipse will be a Complete ring about 9-per cent of the Sun will be obscured. On either Side of that line which will stretch or. Struve Cal Culatta just North of Beaumont South of Austin and Del Rio the Sun will be visible Crescent shaped in partial eclipse. The farther away on either Side is the observer the Aiger will be the visible Crescent Maks initiation 8an Antonio mar. So. A a the mass initiation of Mort than too pet sons into the order of Hermann sons of Texas saturday night highlighted the first of the two Day Golden Jubilee Observance Here. Mexican badly Hurt in blast Primitevo Naverette mexican air Hammer operator on a Highway construction Job South of Here was critically injured in a dynamite blast saturday morning. Ills right Eye a removed and Little Hope was held for sight in his other Eye St the Malone a Hogan clan la Hospital where he was rushed following the Mast at 7 10 a. In. Workmen said Naverette who had gone on the Job for the first time Only an hour and a half earlier was drilling holes in a Lime stuns formation while powder men filled them with charges of dynamite. Apparently the mexican at tempted to clean out a Hole he already drilled and which had been charged causing the Load to explode in his fees. His face left leg and Groin were severely lacerated and scores of Rock particles were minded in his skin. He was resting Well late saturday night and was expected to recover. Weather forecast West Texas fair with High cloudiness sunday and monday Little change in temperature. East Texas a partly Cloudy with mild temperature sunday and monday. Oil Well blast fatal to four new publisher for Herald continue probe of Atlanta terrorism Atlanta Amar. 30 he a prosecutors encouraged by flogging indictments against ten men on Kun flux klan Rolls Drew further reports of terrorism from uneasy witnesses today in a drive to find the whip wielder who beat a suburban Barber to death the night of March 7. While Fulton county officers rounded up the indicted men including two Deputy sheriffs solicitor general John a. Boykin expressed belief the inquiry which had disclosed two old Narings and 23 floggings about Atlanta in the last three years was a a oily scratching the Bob Whipkey a change or executive personnel effective monday is announced today by the big Spring Herald inc., with the naming of Robert w. Bob Whipkey at publisher to succeed Joe w. Galbraith Galbraith who has been Asso rated with the Herald since 1029, Nerving a publisher since 1932, is resigning to accept a future place with the Corpus Christi caller times. Whipkey who has been manag no editor of the paper for the past our and a half years will continue tis duties As editor in addition to sliding direction Over All a Persona of the Herald a k. House win continue to Erve As Bushless manager Pollard Runnels will be associated with Whipkey a manager of advertising and Joe Pickle will be the publishers associate in direction of the editorial department Centralia Iii mar. 30 a a four men were killed and four other persons were burned seriously today in the worst Oil Well explosion and fire in the three years of the current Illinois Boom. Seared when a pocket of escaping Gas ignited and exploded St the Well West of Centralia the dear were John Smith about 19 years old and Dave Hardin both of Hominy okla. Charles under Wood. 54, of Drumright okla. And d. Red be Van of Tulsa All Oil workers. They died in a Hospital a few hour after the Gas exploding in a one big Sheet of flame a set fire to he Well and a House. The others burned in the sudden intense Flash of the explosion were Joe Butrick of Hominy and Carl Lycette of Avant okla., also Oil workers and or. And mrs. R. W Stow formerly of Kilgore Tex. Flu trick had been employed Only this morning at the Well which was timing completed in the backyard of the House occupied by Hie stows and two other families. Or. Stow saved six persons from injury. Familiar with Oil Wells she realized Tho danger of an explosion when she smelled the escaping Gas running upstairs she warned the other families in Tho House enabling them to escape. Before mrs Stow end her husband could teach the front door the explosion of culled and Flamer enveloped the building. Mrs stows stockings were burned from her legs Aud Ber jacket caught fire six dead in storms Wake Pierre part la. Mar so a debris was stacked on s grim scene today at the site of stricken Pierre part Louisiana Bayou cajun Village Laid waste by yesterday s Tornado while its French speaking survivors turned to mass. The service will he held tomorrow in the elementary Ai Hoot which we out of the path of the storm with its in pupils in Ria. St. Joseph s Catholic Church or this quaint Little fishermen a and Moss pickers Community a swept away by the wind but its religious statues were left stand ing in a quagmire. Old women Shaw led and mute with Little children beside them watched rescuers in Pirogue probe the Waters with Long poles in search for additional bodies. Funerals for three victims whose bodies were recovered will be held tomorrow afternoon. Frank h. Grayson red Cross Relief director for Mississippi and , said today at least six Lier sons were killed by the storm and added he believed one or two Oiler were in lining. Two of the dead were children drowned Iii the Bayou. Temporary shelter a arranged for More than too homeless. Latest figures listed 31 persons injured in Pierre part when the storm levelled their Small Frame houses stretching along the Bayou Home in hospitals at Donaldsonville and other neat by cities were stil in serious condition. London mar. 30 apr pugnacious Winston Churchill Britain a first lord of the admiralty coupled a new warning of intensification of the War tonight with the significant hint that Britain scarcely could be expected in the future a to take As a matter of course interpretations of neutrality which give All advantages to the for neutrals Thi belligerent speech Broad cast to America and elsewhere recalled the first lords declaration of january 20 in which he called on Europe s anxious neutrals to join the allies in a United action Quot to bring the War against Germany to a speedy end. It followed closely too upon continuing demands from various quartets in great Britain for a More vigorous prosecution of the War and the disclosure that the Allied navies Are determined to tighten their stranglehold on Germany by Way laying scandinavian Ore ships and by greater activity in the Pacific against shipments of raw materials from Mexico to Vladivostok from where they can find their Way to Germany. Some quarters saw a distinct re lation Between Churchill a assertion that a time has been on our Side but it is a changeable ally with the Treasury a annual statement showing a deficit of 767,685,000 pounds about $3,071,720,000 for the first fiscal year of the War. In ritalin s expenditures for the fiscal year ending tonight totalled 1,816.873,1810 Pun rids about $7,-267,000 against Revenue of or 040,188.000 poll lid about $4,198,-853, Ami despite a 35-per cent income tax and other heavy levies. Chinchilla assertion that a there is no need for Russia to be drawn into this struggle unless she wishes it so and that a we have no quarrel with the italian or the japanese Peoples reiterated the British wish to confine the War to a Hitler and the taxi German it is no part of our policy to seek War with Russia a he said. Asserting a mail is quiet on the Western front and today also thus far nothing has happened on the sea or in the air a he went on but More than a million German soldiers including nearly All their Active divisions and armoured divisions ars drawn up ready to strike at an hours notice All along the frontiers of Luxembourg Holland and Belgium. A at any moment Hose Neutral countries May be subjected to an Avalanche of steel and fire and the decision rests in the hands of a haunted morbid being who to their Ternai shame the German people in their bewilderment have worshipped As a god. A that la the situation in Europe tonight. A and can anyone wonder that we Are determined to bring such a hideous state of alarm and menace to end As soon As May be for ones and for All a music drive is Success Joe Galbraith garage destroyed fire saturday night destroyed a garage at 1711 Donley Street. Firemen said that no car was in the Structure Ettha time it caught. Accidental shot fatal to youth fort Worth mar. So pm a shot from the .22 Rifle of Hie Best Friend 14-year-old Ray Fuller jr., fatally wounded Richard w. Cory 15, Heie late today. Young Cory son of or. And mrs. Nelson Cory died in an ambulance Enro Ute to a Hospital. Justice of the peace gds Brown returned an inquest verdict of accidental death. The victim s father is regional coordinator and office Engineer for the United states housing author Ity her although the second annual civic music Assoc tat Ion membership drive did not teach its goal of 800 members organization leaders saturday night counts it a Success. Final results of the Campaign were not announced pending Check w Ith averal unreported workers but with estimated outstanding memberships included Cha official Felt that the concert series to be offered next season would be equal if not better than the past one. J. H Greene pie aident of the unit said that the artists committee would not make its selections until ail workers had reported. In Thi Way he pointed out the maximum Quality of Talent could be presented this season. Hat Iowa f. Dean civic concerts representative who assisted in the drive said he was a Well pleased with results of this a a second year Greene expressed thanks to All who had a part in the work and to those who became members. All contributed to the cultural growth of the City he believed. Oratory Hinners Austin mar. 30 Iab a chalice Wellborn of Gladewater today won a statewide oratorical contest leading to regional and National Competition which nets a $4,000 College scholar ship As a prise

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