Big Spring Daily Herald from Big Spring, Texas • Page 7

BRITISH HAIL U. AS ALLY IN BATTLE LONDON, Dec. 19 of tte arms speedup in America and President proposal to lend aid to Britain crowded the front pages of London newspaper! today, and some sections of the press described the United States as a full-fledged ally in the) war against Germany and Italy. Editorial and special writers acclaimed flu president's proposals as having wiped out Britain's war debt default and her current credit dilemma. "America is our ally in the struggle," proclaimed the Daily Sketch, which deplored the necessity of such expedi-1 ents as arms loans and said they arose from "the fictiop that America is not in the war as much as we "America hi much a belligerent as only difference being that we are in the front VMS" declared this commentator.

Mail's editorial page assured readers that declarations by Secretary of State Hull and William S. Knudsen of the national defense advisory committee had finally shocked Americans "out of their smug slumber" in which they "tried to lave their guns and candy, production of "peacetime niceties." "But America Irving IddOB, the Mail's New York the noa-beUigerent uily of Great Britain. supply base and plane and ship pro The News Chronicle declared that President arms lease proposal was "a stroke of political which he showed "the logic and genius that practical leader of the world democracy." TODAY Today's News BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD VOL. 13; NO. 214 Presi) BIG SPRING, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940 Twelve Pages Today WEATHER Partly cloudy with change In GERMANY GOES TO ITALY'S AID Churchill Preparing To ns British Hitler Play Hole Card SCHOOLS CLOSE TO STOP MINOR FLU EPIDEMIC By the Associated Press Several schools in Texas have closed early for the Christmas holidays due to the prevalence of a mild form of influenza.

Schools In Highland Park and University Park, Dallas suburbs, suspended classes yesterday because of an increase in influenza cases and a. continuance of mumps Absences ranged from 10 to 22 per cent of the student bodies. The schools in Dallas proper still open. Reports from Wichita Falls said that the schools there closed yesterday until after the Christmas holidays. Classwork at Marfa was suspended yesterday due to outbreaks of influenza and other diseases.

The Texas A. M. college cadet corps last Saturday be- Danger Near In Conflict, Leader Says Prime Minister Tells House Of Commons Foe Is Not Napping I.ONJ>ON, Dec. 19. UP) Prime Minister Churchill, warning iiis dismissed cause Christmas Mail Business Grows Postal volume gained another notch Wednesday as Christmas shopping and mailing picked up in Big Spring.

Total cancellation of letters Wednesday amounted to 15,275 under the 18,676 for the same day last year. Insured parcels received ran to 628, slightly under the 648 for the same day a year ago. However, the volume of letters for trie first week of tabulation was 8,311 ahead of the same period last year a daily average increase of 1,190 letters. On other fronts the way was cleared for more Christmas spending. December checks in the amount of $4,358.19 were cleared try Auditor Claud Wolf for all county officials and their deputies and assistants.

Little less than $2,000 more will be paid out by the county to county laborers on Dec. 23. American Airlines employes wore big smiles for they were in receipt of handsome Christmas bonuses voted by directors of the company. Three assigned to the terminal here drew the $50 bonus voted to employes i v. i a record of a year or more with the company.

Two others drew the $25 for those over six months anJ leas than a year of service, while ncne qualified for the J10 for less than sin months. people that German Invasion still is a "surprise danger," took note today of a let-up in German air attacks and declared iney might easily have slackened in preparation for some other form of activitj against Britain." Addressing the house of rom mons, Churchill acknowledged tha the weather might have been tin chief factor in the easing of aerial siege and said: ''It would be a disaster for any one to suppose that the supremi danger of invasion has passed." Adolf Hitler, he asserted, "has gf eat need to do something; now or at any rate in the next two months. "We must suppose that he making plans which would be particularly directed against us." At the same time Churchill dropped a hint of Britain's own long range offensive planning when he said that she would be "well armed in 1941" and no doubt we shall fiiid opportunities on forces, if not defense of this island, in other theatres on terras of moderate equality in numbers and equipment." As for the danger of invasion, the prime minister said: "We are not afraid of any blow our defense of the beaches is complete." It was the prime minister's final war report before the short Christmas recess of parliament. "We are not making the mistake which was made by the French Fifty Texans Will Die In Yuletide Accidents AUSTIN, Dec. 19 travel of perhaps 50 Texans will lead but to the morgue.

This on experience of former came today from the public safety department which issued a few simple rules to prevent holiday carnage on the highways. These preventive rules have been suggested by Col. Homer Garrison, department director: In taking long trips leave early so that you can drive at a safe speed and still arrive on time. If you must take a taxi or let a sober person Avoid long drives which produce fatigue, dulling the Hitler Sends Troop Planes Into Albania Troop Transports Carry Reinforcements Across Adriatic Sea driver's reflexes. Reduce speed when visibility is limited on roads wet.

Use ex-tra precaution in passing other vehicles. If you are a pedestrian cross streets only at intersections. Executive and central tax committees of the Permian Basin association voted here yesterday to carry a program of tax control to local taxpayers through use of local groups. This involves creation of a tax bureau with an analyst to assist local committees on invitation. The program will be effected to the extent of the association's financial abilities, Hamilton McRae, Midland, president, said.

The session on the Settles mez- general staff when they thought that holding the Maginot line was all that was necessary," he said. "The watchword must be unceasing vigilance." and as Churchill muttered the word he interjected, umid laughter: "I should certainly deprecate any comparison between Hitler and do not want to insult the Hitler wields gigantic power and Is capable of wielding it lit a ruthless manner." of a Western Union Charges Dropped CHICAGO, Dec. 19. (IP) The federal court today threw out an indictment charging the Western Union Telegraph company and 11 individuals with conspiracy to violate the lottery laws by sending horse results over interstate boundaries. The charges were dropped when Judge William Holly sustained a demurrer to the indictment returned in April.

Moat of the individual defendants were associates of M. L. Annenbcrg, former Racing CIO Seeks Aid In Ford Fight DETROIT, Dec. 19 (IP) Roosevelt was asked today by the CIO United Automobile Workers to instruct federal agencies to intervene in the union's long- smouldering dispute with the Ford Motor Co. Michael F.

Widman, director of the Ford organizing drive, declared in a telegram to the president that "the management of the Ford Motor Co. is attempting to provoke a strike in its plants" by "open and arrogant violations of the labor laws of the Jim Birkhead Death Victim Jim Birkhead, 44, memb; pioneer Howard county died Wednesday afternoon in a Lubbock hospital following a short illness. Services were set for 2 p. m. Friday at the First Methodist church with the Rev.

Noel Bryant, Sparen- burg Methodist minister, officiating. Burial will be in the Masonic cemetery. Birkhead waa born near Cott- homa March 28, 1896, six years after his parents moved here. Most of his life had been spent in this county, although he and his family made their homes at Sparen- burg at the time of his death. He leaves his widow, to he was wed at Stanton in 1931, three children, Jim Frank, 8, Jean, 5, and Charles 3.

Other survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Birkhead, four 1ATE BULLETIN BASIL, Switzerland, Dec.

19 (jm Le Democrat of Delemont reported today "from a good source in Zurich" that freight and civilian traffic have been suspended on Brenner railway line to permit the pnssnge of German divisions who arc on their way to Italy. STRUG Yugoslavia (At The Albanian Frontier), Dec. 19 of German transport planes were reported today to be shuttling Ital- ian reinforcements across the audit Adriatic to the Albanian bat- ters. tlefront in an effort to halt the Greek counter-invasion. German pilots, because of their experience In this blitzkrieg method of moving troops, were said to be flying huge Junkers sent after urgent pleas from Premier Mussolini.

Military sources, where tho report of German aid originated, said' that each Junkers carries 20 fully equipped men on tlio short hop across the Adriatic and that a crossing could be made several times a day. These 'quarters Indicated tlmt "FKeltallans were InhflcTI close to the front lines and thrown into battle without loss of time. Especially trained Alpine troops were understood to make lip the hulk of the air-borne reinforcements. ATHENS, Dec. 19 reports from the illan battlefront In Albania said today that Italian forces had withdrawn from the key mountain British Told To Place Orders Under FDR System Immedately WPA TO GIVE PLAY AT CITY HALL TONIGHT "The Perfect Gift," an unique Christmas play, is to be presented at 8 p.

m. today in the municipal auditorium by a cast of 60 charac- zaninc, last of a series of three, was attended by 26 basin officials and tax representatives of oil, transportation and utility companies. Cruir of any fax control lies In selling local groups on economy and efficiency, D. H. Griffith, acting chairman of the basin central committee, declared.

Sponsored by the WPA-City recreation department, "The Perfect Gift" is being offered without admission charge, and the public has been urged to attend. Under direction of Hcrachol Summerlin, Midway, the Chora club will share in the program. Among pastors of Big Spring churches who have parts in th play are the Rev. R. E.

Dunham E. 4th Baptist; Dr. D. F. McCon noil, First Presbytcrhin; Dr.

Homo W. Haislip, First Christian; th Cnurctt'of God; Ma 'Jor L. W. Canning, Salvation Army; the Rev. E.

K. Mason, West Side Baptist; the Rev. J. F. Simmoiia, Nazarene; the Rev.

Digby, Church of God; tho Rev. Inez Briggs, Church of God. Others who have leading roles in the Christmas dramatization arc H. L. Wllkerson, J.

M. Mobloy, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Knuckles, and Mr. imd Mrs.

Hubert Clawson. Contracts Will Not Be Signed Until Congress Acts, However WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 Morgenthatt announced today the British government has been authorized to proceed at once with negotiation of billions of dollars worth of new war material contracts, but not to sigp the contracts, until congress acts on President Roosevelt'a "leasing-lending" plan. The secretary said he had been instructed by President Roosevelt to send this word 1 to the British pvirchasing commission this morning. The White HOUND, meanwhile, disclosed Hint the president had under consideration at least i'onr or five plans for Injecting speed Into the defense program.

Ono involves a proposal to establish "high command" for the program hfiidod by SceretarloN Stimson and Kviox and William S. Kniul- Industrial production chief of tho defense commission, Morgentlmu said thnt t'ne first contract in the new program wouli bo for 60 merchant vessels. The British are going Jor British Count 31,546 Italians Taken Captive CAIRO, 19. (7P) British general headquarters today said 31.540 Italian prisoners, including officers, had been counted since tho offensive In the western brothers, K. G.

Birkhead and Tom Birkhead, Coahoma, Howard Birkhead, Turlock, and Elmo and five sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Lola Birkhead and Minnie Birkhead, Coahoma, and Mrs. John Birkhead, Khott; Mrs. W. Grouse, "All of the budget analysis in the world won't accomplish anything," he said, "if local committees do not follow them up." R.

K. Kelley, Midland believed "we have arrived at the point where our yardstick for public expenditures should be concerned with not what we need, but with what we can do without." Although the association is primarily concerned with petroleum interests. Kelly warned that it should in no sense restrict Its tax program to that field. Budgets should be thoroughly analyzed before valuation and equalization problems are attacked, asserted Ben LeFevre, host committeeman, who added that elimination of tho tendency to aaddle towns of Klisura and Tepclenl. Another dispatch snld Greek occupation WHS Imminent.

The Greeks apparently were following the usual practice of delaying entrance until mirroundlng had been mopped up. In the case of Tcpcleni and Klisura In the middle sector of the front, the fascist warriors were said to have withdrawn merely to about the towns, In position to fire on Greek troops should they try once to occupy the two places. The current Greek offensive also is aimed at the seacoast town of Chimara. Meanwhile, the British Royal Air Force told of a "most successful" attack yesterday on the port of Valona, which IB In the path of the Greeks' coastal column, 25 miles north of Chimarft. Substitute Gets Permanent Job In Draft Army HATTIESBURG, Dec.

19 Charles DuBois, private from Coushatta, only wanted to be accommodating when he got into the army, but he's discovered too Inte that when you're in the army you're in nnd thut'u that. Hero's the way he explains his predicament: his brother, Harvey who also lives In Coushatta, called up by the draft board Harvey had the flu, and afraid his brother would was Bu Charles be sen Davis, Big S-pring. Pallbearers will be Noble Road, News prison magnate term for now serving a income tax evas- Dutch Princess Sees Washington WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands slipped easily today into the role of a royal sightseer. She planned to be present at Mrs.

Roosevelt's all-feminine press conference, to have tea at the Dutch legation, and to attend a formal dinner at the White House, where she is the guest of President Roosevelt and the First Lady. Otis Green, Shine Trice, Oley Shaf- ncr, Ira McQuerry and Joe Wheeler. All friends will be considered as honorary pallbearers. Birkhead was a member of the Coahoma Masonic Ic-Jige which will be in chnrge at the graveside. Nalley Funeral home will be in charge of arrangements.

tax increases would work to payers. on select benefit of groups all tax- KNOW YOUR "LITTLE MERCHANT" If you live between 1st and 8th streets, and east of Owens, the little merchant delivering your Hcraid to your door each afternoon anil Sunday morning is EIAVOOD CARLILE Thi.s territory is listed as Routo 11 in our circulation department and servos as a good source of income fnr Elwood as he goes alxMit his job of serving his customers in a business that is all his own He Is anxious to serve you to your entire satisfaction and when you have, a suggestion offer ns to how he might BETTER SERVE YOU as an Individual and highly appreciated customer, lie to hear It. Too ElvrooJ aska that folks on his be reminded that Annual Butgaln Kate on yearly subscriptions lasts only until Dtc.fl, for 13 Red Cross Lacks $150 Of Quota With the Red Cross luck ing only $150, Shine Philips, county chairman, issued another appeal Wednesday to the town to make the $2,300 quota complete. With the thermometer on tho courthouse lawn practically at a standstill, officials advised that. It would be left up until the amount WAH reached D.

H. Holder, Dallas, and J. E. Allen, Dallas, told of accomplishments of a similar program in East Texas. Berry Brown, tax analyst who worked with the association's local committee in Yoakum county, outlined the basin's plan which included a central lax committee, local groups, and a tax bureau maintaining continuous expert ner- vice.

He pointed out that studios would deal with total valuations and equalizations as opposed to individual problems, nnd would make exhaustive studies of proposed budgets tn avoid "90 per cent of what we don't have to have." Attending were G. H. HaywarS Cliff Wiley and Ben I.eFevip, of Big Spring; R. K. Kelly, W.

Charles D. Vertree.s, Wm Y. Pcnn, F. H. Fuhrman of Mid land; M.

C. Llndsey of Foreign Wool Swamps Boston BOSTON, Dec. 16 Every available customs inspector has been assigned to handle a hug- accumulation of wool which has arrived at Boston during the past ten from Africa, Australia, to jnil for not appearing, reportcc in his stead. Charles signed reams of papers passed the physical examination nnd went to Camp Shelby merclj to wait for Harvey tn come an take his place. But he found tha he was really a soldier.

Now Charles, who says he has wife dependent on him so he can afford to stay In the army, IK wail ing for Uncle Snm to do somcthin about his mlxup. SHOPP1NG.DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS Holder and Allen of Dallas; W. of Tulfta, Ben New Zealand and South America Assistant Collector of Customs Owen P. McKenna announced today. With 80,000 bales, weighing about 40,000,000 pounds, already on llu wharves, more wns known to be enrnute.

A large portion of the wool will go to New England niilh to fill defense orders. Shipping circles said Boston nl.so was expected to handle a large part of the rjuaiter-hillion pounds of wool winch the British government will send to this country for storage. Bids for storage, of the wool will be oponnd in Washington next Monday. Weather Forecast 0. S.

Weather Bureau iiese shiiisjrbo declared, and woiin ot wait for approval of the "Icaso- endlng" plan, He declined to say how much the cw British contracts would total, to comment on reports that the igure was $3,000,000,000. The exhibited to re- ortcrs a sheaf of closely-typed ocumcnts which he said was a 1st submitted by the British of heir military requirements. The go ahead" from the president, he xplalned, referred to this list. He explained that he did not mean that individual British con- necessarily would be submit- ed to congress, desert' h'egan. Several thousand more prisoners were being evacuated from the battle area, the communique added.

The condition of the of the beaten Italian army in Barciia, Liyya, area, the commutt- Ique said, "can now be regarded precarious." Communist Gets Prison Sentence OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 19 UP) District Judge Ben Arnold formally Alan Shaw, 22-year-old communist convicted of criminal syndicalism, to ten years In prison today and fined him $. Shaw, convicted nine days, then declared In a low, husky voice: "Over the entrance to thla courthouse there Is an inscription with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson, 'Equal and exact justice to all men, regardless of state or persuasion, religious or "That inscription and those words have been disregarded In my case. It hag been a mockery from the very Wounds Fatal To Fugitive MIDDLESBORO, Dec. It William Buchanan, 4B, died today four hours after a of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia officers wounded him in a gun battle near Wheeler, whore they found him after a two and a half day search of the tri- state Cumberland mountain area.

Bell County Attorney Walter B. Smith, who directed the hunt for Buchanan, reported the capture late last night of Buchanan's son. Clyde, 115. Tho younger Buchanan fled into the mountains with his father after their trailer camp a pistol fight in which Deputy Sheriff George W. Fisher, was killed and two other peace officers were wounded early Tuesday, Smith said.

WKST tonight and J-'rldny, except cloudy with occasional light rain in extreme southeast portion tonight. Slightly colder In north portion tonight. light lo- r.al rains In cast portion; warmer in extreme portion tonight. Friday mostly cloudy, general io modrrafo northeasterly on coast, becoming variable. LOCAL WKATHKR DATA Highest Temp.

Wednesday 83.7 Ixiivest Temp. Thursday 37.9 tomorrow 7:42 H. m. Death Of Army Pilots Probed RIVERSIDE, Dec. 19 Strict secrecy surrounded an inquiry March Field officials launched today Into tho deaths of six army fliers in the crash and explosion of a Riant 22-ton, four-engine bombing piano on the frozen, flnow- peaked slopes of ncnrby San Ja- einto mountains.

Flying through Intermittent patches of clouds, heavy mist and clearings, the B-17 type plane, which was on a routine training flight, struck the 6,700 foot snow- line of Marion mountain in San ncrnardino national forest yesterday and left wreckage strewn for half a mile along the boulder and tree-dotted slopes. HAIJINF: RIVKK DROPS ORANGE, Dee. 19. Sabinc river was falling today al'ter flooding parts of Orange. The highway to Port Arthur was closed hat highway 90 lending into Louisiana and highway 87 to Deweyville were open.

We Knew This Would Happen PORTLAND, Dec. 19 woman whose patience with yule reached the breaking point suddenly gave way to impulse. She shouted "I've had enough of this," walloped an amazed woman bystander with her umbrella and bustled down the street. Smith of J. D.

Duncan, Paul C. Tens and Thomas B. Duggan, Jr. of Wm. R.

Edwards and T. G. Roach of Mc- Gamey, and Wllburn Page, Midland, executive necretary of the association. NO ADJOURNMENT WASHINGTON, 19 Scnntor Earkley of Kentucky, thu democratic leader, uald today that congrewi would remain In until it automatically with opening of tht new JMI. ft.

Like Factory Assemble Postoffice Work Moves Rapidly, Accurately Speed, efficiency find accuracy of a factory assembly line employed at the postoffice here Thurnday by 84 employes, aided hy exti-a workers, to get. that pair of Hocks from Unc'r; Jim and that rtrrs" from Aunt Minnie to you Sn for opening. Postal employes wem sorting of "Cfcriafmai material ana plain But whether it wns a "Merry ChiistmaH" greeting or a "pleaie remit," all mall was being shoved through the channels according to plan. Thers was, according to estimates, arnund 35,000 to be handled for local delivery, and an even larger amount to sent to other points. Three truck lo.idi of parcel poit package! delivered and tha truck backed up to door, two anm ajipaartd unload, dump and sort the packages into big baskets, The packages were sorted with regard to street ad- drcaHCg to oxpeditfi delivery.

A Rpecial rack, only for rm.s linen tf.t up In one corner of Hie po.stofficc to relieve Christmas congest ion. Special delivery letters were handled firit, then letters according to box num- aod were flven in their own racks. While magv.zinea, papoiH and packages moved the that them finr.Hy boxea or mail boxes, steady stream of mail dispatched out-of-town. by another eocye put la 9Mfl their.