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Back Our Team Buy a block of Appreciation to Bomber BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD VOL. 14; NO. 48 BIG SPRING, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1941 Cotton Fields Inspected For Insect Foes Leaf Worms And Boll Worms May Damage Crops With a reward that may total $5,000,000 for their efforts, Howard county farmers today started a week of anxious inspections of insect- threatened cotton fields. Cotton dusting and spraying machines were being bought, borrowed, repaired and readied, and supplies of calcium arsenate for pols- 1 oning were being checked. County Agent O.

P. Griffin will meet with farmers of two communities each afternoon to inspect fields and discuss the situation. He will cover the county during the week. Increasing reports of leaf worm Infestation were being heard, but In previous years farmers have done a good job of controlling these pests. The same poisoning process used on leaf or dusting with calcium effective against boll worms.

For that reason, the county agent has suggested that cotton growers hold back on poisoning the leaf worms as long as is safe, in order that the later-hatching boll worms, if they appear, may be poisoned at the same lick. A preliminary check of the county by the county agent these prospects as to boll worm infestation: Northeast quarter of county, including Vincent, Morgan and oth- ft Infestation which may not develop as serious menace in cotton, but which may destroy more cotton than the cost of poisoning. infestation of boll worms In feed. These may go Into cotton and do much damage SIX PAGES TODAY Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; little in If uncontrolled. Lomax Heavy feed Infestation In Northwest corner of county In- eluding Hartwells, Moore, Center Point, Fairvlew, Garner, Soash and side of Vealmoor communl- ties heavy Infestation in feed that may spread to cotton and do damage.

Southeast quarter of county, from Big Spring southward and as far west as Elbow school such light infestation in feed as to make poisoning likely unnecessary. The county agent will be In the Morgan and Gay Hill communities today to make more detailed Inspections of cotton. Tuesday he will be in Vealmoor at 2 p. and Garner at 6 p. Wednesday in Lomax at 2 p.

m. and Center Point at 6 p. m. Credit History Discussed At Luncheon Here Credit business goes back to Biblical times and today is such a fixed part of the commercial structure that 90 per cerx of business Is based on it, Mrs. L.

A. Eubanks told members of the Retail Credit Men's association in the regular semi-monthly meeting today. Women, s'la continued, accounted for 85 per cent of the total volume of credit. In tracing the history of credit, Mrs. Eubanks said the first organization of dealing with it was formed In New York City, and that it had undergone many developments and changes, such as that depression years in 1931-32.

Credit, she defined as "trust in a person, his business integrity, uprightness, honesty, virtue, soundness, his financial capacity to meet obligations when due. Matt Harrington was named as program chairman to succeed George Tlllinghast, who resigned because his work now keeps hJm on the road most of the time. Next meeting will be visitors' day and will be Aug. 17. Schley Riley, president, presided over meeting.

the Monday Coke Stevenson became acting governor of Texas when Senator-elect W. Lee O'Daniel left the state en route to Washington. Here Stevenson, who has been lieutenant governor, reclines in his office chair. He plans to take the oath as governor Aug. 8.

it. Alt AA Af Jt At Af O'Daniel Takes Seat In Senate WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 W. Lee O'Dan- nel took the oath of office today as senator from Texas to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Morris Sheppard. The new senator said Texas laws automatically terminat- Stevenson Is New Governor Of Texas Aug.

4 Coke R. Stevenson, 53-year-old ranchman and lawyer, became governor of Texas shortly before noon today when Governor Lee O'Daniel took the oath in Washington as a United-States senator. Stevenson had been serving his second term as lieutenant-governor. AUSTIN, Aug. 4 OP) Coke R.

Stevenson formally took over the office of governor of Texas today. Doors of the beautiful gubernatorial suite on the second floor of the red granite statehouse were flung open early in tha morning, and a big crowd of state officials and. others moved In to extend congratulations to tne new head of the state government Stevenson became acting governor when Governor W. Lee O'Daniel left the state early yesterday en route to Washington to assume the senate vacancy caused by the death of Morris Sheppard. He asserted his main activity of the day would be to keep open house and receive those who wanted to see him.

The mere opening of the reception room to the general public was a sharp departure from the custom of the O'Daniel administration. Long ago Governor O'Daniel converted the room, one of the most beautiful in the capitol and designed by the builders of the capitol for receptions, Into a private office, and comparatively few persons saw It thereafter during: his tenure. Stevenson indicated as he had done previously that he thought there was little demand and no justifying need for a special session of the legislature in August. He has been urged to call one some time soon to consider renewing the county road bond law. Plans had not been perfected for his inauguration beyond the tentative setting of the date for August 8, he said.

With the definite vacating of the office by O'Daniel, arrangements were expected to crystallize rapidly, but it certain nothing elaborate would be had. He disclosed that he had arrived at the office at 7:30 a. m. but found none of the office staff, holdovers from the O'Daniel setup, on hand. ed his term as governor of the Lone Star state.

Senator Connally (D-Tex) escorted him to the chair, where Senator McKellar (D-Tenn), presiding, administered the oath. The new senator then signed, his name in the senate register and Edwin Halsey, secretary of the senate, presented him with the pen he had used. Immediately after O'Daniel took the oath, the senate confirmed his selection by the senate steering committee to be a member of the commerce, claims, District of Columbia and irrigation and reclamation committees. Connally then introduced O'Daniel to McKellar. A moment later O'Daniel stepped down from the rostrum and was congratulated floor by Senator first from tho Langer (R-ND), Several Texas representatives stood in the senate to watch the induction, then came around to one side of the chamber and O'Daniel advanced to meet them.

Those greeting him included Representatives Lanham, Russell, Kleberg, Thomas, Worley, Beckworth, Gossett, Luther Johnson and Sumners. A few minutes before the session was called Connally had met O'Daniel in a reception room off the senate floor. Representatives Lanham, Poage, and Beckworth met him when he arrived at the capital from the hotel and went to the reception room. Immediately after taking the oath Senator released a telegram, written shortly before noon, congratulating Lieutenant Governor Coke Stevenson on becoming chief executive of Texas. The telegram: as United States senator at 12:02.

Thus you immediately became governor of Texas at the same time. Glad to be first to congratulate you. I wish you success as governor of Texas. W. Lee O'Daniel." Smiling broadly, O'Daniel stepped down from a train at union station at 9:30 a.

m. with Mrs. O'Daniel holding on to his arm. First to rush up to meet them were theirly newly-married daugh ter, Molly Wrather, and their son, Mike. The son's presence was a surprise to them, for he had flown up from Texas yesterday after having first decided not to witness his father's senate induction Joint Income Tax Return Issue Argued Roosevelt Suggests Three Changes In Revenue Measure WASHINGTON, Aug.

4 ways and means committee decided today against making any effort to raise additional compensating revenue if the house should eliminate from the $3,529,200,000 tax bill the provision requiring all married persona to file joint income tax returns. It was estimated that elimination of the provision, criticized by President Roosevelt, would lop about $300,000,000 from the bill's estimated production of revenue. At a hurriedly-called session, however, the committee rejected a proposed substitute by Rep. IMngell (D-Mich.) which would have permitted separate returns in all states and provided for a drastic Increase in Individual Income tax rates (a make up the revenue loss which would result. Chairman Doughton said the committee was informed that the legislative counsel could not have the amendment drafted in time for house consideration and, therefore, the committee decided to do nothing about it, because the house -would be voting ori final passage of the bill about 4 p.

m. (Eastern Standard Time). For his part, Doughton said he did not believe the house would strike out the joint return provision. But Speaker Kayburn was among many legislators who expressed belief that it would be eliminated. In an appeal to he house ways and means committee, made public Saturday, the hief executive suggested three changes in the revenue measure, ncluding modification of the joint provision so as to exempt ncome actually earned by either husbands or wives, but the commlt- ee rejected all three proposals by 'decisive majorities." Nevertheless, informed legislators forecast that as a result of he president's action, the already strong to the joint return provision eould count on sicking' up additional votes.

Mr. Roosevelt also suggested committed revision of the excess profits tax so as to hit certain ypes of wealthy corporations hard- and the lowering of existing individual income tax exemptions rom $800 for single persons to and from $2,000 for married persons to $1,500. Nazi Troops Advance Near Ukraine Capital British Rumors Persist That New Front To Open Three Killed, Seven Hurt As Gunman Goes Berserk SEATTLE, Aug. 4. Jitter- fingered gunman cut loose with deadly bursts of pistol fire in a dingy little nightclub saloon just before daybreak Sunday and, when the smoke cleared, there were three dead men sprawled around tho bar and seven others, including the gunman, lay wounded.

Just what mental quirk caused the gunman, who entered the basement club with the admitted in tention of robbing it, to start firing Into the crowd around the bai was something that had not been explained. No one, apparently made any attempt to resist. A doorman called police nmJ, two of them charged through the door, they were wounded, but one of their bullets ripped into the gunman's head. Then a bystander snatched his pistol, another slammed him over the head with a bar stool and the fight was over. The gunman, in admitting to Deputy Coroner Harlan Callahan and Deputy Prosecutor C.

H. Rails he had planned a holdup and that he did the shooting, identified himself as James Green, gave his age as 28 and said he had arrived ir Seattle on Saturday from Tampp. Florida, riding freight trains. Slain were Monte F. Brown, vice president of tho.

Seattle Dail Journal of Commerce; Gus Gqlma is, 48, Bartender Binder, a bystander. and John 4-H Girls To Go To Camp Approximately 63 girls and women will leave here at 10 m. Tuesday for Christoval for the fourth annual Howard County 4-H club girls encampment. Lora Farnsworth, county home demonstration agent, said that there would be around 50 girls from the various clubs of the county and that a dozen womei. besides herself would supervise the two-day camp.

Program for the session Tuesday and Wednesday Include reports from delegates to the short course held recently at Texas college, various short talks, dri! work in the club pledge, the Texas food standard, and several patriotic features. Among the women sponsors planning to make the trip with club girls are Mrs. George Bre shears, Knott; Mrs. Porter Hanks VeaJniooi; Ivlrs. W.

J. Jackson homn; Mrs. R. F. Jenkins wn Mrs.

Leila Blrkhead, R- Bar; Mrs. Duke Llpscomb, Over ton, and representatives from Moore, Center Point and Hiwa; clubs. Other women going with the girls will be Mrs. K. G.

Blay lock and Mrs. Leroy Echols, Coa homu, and Mrs. Roy Tonn, Mid way. Legion To Name Officers Tonight American Legion members were 'eminded again by Post Commander Bruce Frazier of the Important meeting set for 8 p. m.

today in ie chamber of commerce offices Election of officers will be observed at the meeting and Frazler was anxious for a good turn out The election is being held in advance of the state and natlona' conventions this year although the new officers will not be inductee until November. By electing now new officers will have an opportunity to attend the state convention In Fort Worth this month Japan Suspends Ships To U.S.A. TOKYO, Aug. 4 Japan has suspended all regular direct steamship services with -the United States, It was reported reliably to day, and next week is likely to invoke complete national economic mobilization to meet United States and British economic pressure. Weather Forecast WKST TEXAS: partly cloud tonight and Tuesday; scatterei thundershowers west of the Peco valley.

Llttlo change In tempera ture. EAST TEXAS: partly cloudy to night and Tuesday; scattered thun dershowers In north portion. LOCAL WEATHER DATA Highest temperature Sunday, 96 Lowest temperature today, 70. Sunset today, 7:41 p. m.

Sunrise tomorrow, 6:04 a. m. LONDON, Aug. 4 flood of but unchallenged officially persisted today that Britain soon would open up a northern European front, possibly hi Finland, while Germany still Is heavily engaged with Soviet Russia. The press carried reports, from Goteborg, Sweden, that a largo British naval force already Is In the Arctic.

Editorial comment was lacking on this score but the Bally Express printed what called "Stories of Axis Fears" from points as far apart as Finland and Iran under the heading: "All the Axis Is Asking Where We Will Invade." Britain Is known to have prepared a shock force for an amphibious drive against the continent but there was no confirmation of the current rumors In any London quarter. Naturally, a foe Is. not tipped off to such an operation. (The fnct this dispatch was permitted to move through the stringent British censorship might mean the British felt tlmt enough currency to rumors of an operation might serve to divert considerable German strength.) British said that obviously un invasion undertaking could host be attempted the farthest distance possible from tho nnzl air force and near occupied territory in which resistance to German rule is believed to be gaining. This led neutral observers to put their finger on northern Finland as the most likely spot, possibly near Petsamo and Rylmchl peninsula, at tho northernmost point of the Russian-Finnish frontier.

Vctsamo is Finnish; tho peninsula Russian. On tho west Norway, Some quarters looked upon Wednesday's assault on Petsamo by bombers of tho fleet air arm as tho opening move In this kind of operation. Further raids on German airdromes or possibly a landing assault troops to go- cure land bases arc not considered out of the question. Vichy Refuses To Yield North Africa VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 4 axis will not be'given military facilities in French North Africa such as Japan got in French Indo-China even should Vichy consider the African territories menaced, authorized sources in- Soldiers To Encamp Here Two units of the 30th anti-aircraft regiment from the coast ar- moving in 650 trucks, will jltch camp late this afternoon at Morlta, 10 miles west on U.

S. hl- way 80, according to Information given by advance officers here last week. City officials said that they expected to confer with representatives of the military police relative to handling traffic when tho contingent rolls through Big Spring at about 1 a. m. Tuesday enroute to Abilene, where camp will be staked Tuesday evening.

The contingent Is enrcjjte to the army's maneuvers In Louis- uia. Water for the camp here will be taken on by 20 trucks at the fire station and transported to Morita. In clearing Big Spring early Tuesday, It was estimated that it would require about an hour and a half for the two sections of 15 miles each to get through. dicated tonight. The German-controlled Paris press today professed to see tho hand of United States Ambassador William D.

Leahy behind "the brake applied to the policy of French-German collaboration." Following the reported decision of Chief of State Marshal Petaln at a Saturday cabinet meeting to stay within present agreements with Germany despite pressure for HITLER ALSO CLAIMS WINS ELSEWHERE By The Associated Tress Gorman troops lunging- past the hloody Zhitomir sector on the southern front have advanced within 60 miles of Kiev, capital of the Soviet Ukraine, the Russians admitted today, while both sides told of new slaughter by tho thousands In tlio 44-day-ola struggle. Adolf Hitler's high command also claimed now success on the vital central front gunrcling- Moscow. "Tho hulk of Soviet armed forces now have been destroyed. Tho remainder Is facing dissolution," a German communique an Id. Smolensk ia 230 miles weslr ol Moscow.

Nuzl dispatches said 2,300 Russians were killed, thousands taken prisoner and 71 tanks captured In an unstated northern area. This may have been tho samo action reported by the German high command, which said 10,000 red army troops were taken prisoner west of Lake Pelpus In Estonia, on the northern front below Leningrad, along with many tanks, cannon and supplies. The Russians countered with a report that a Soviet tank column smashed through German forces near town on the northwest front, killing at least 1,000 nazl soldiers and littering the battlefield with the wreckage of more than 100 shell-torn tanks, armored cars and quantities of field artillery. On tho African war front, British Middle East headquarters reported that German and Italian troops were withdrawing from advanced positions In the 4-months-old slcgo of the British garrison at Tobruk, Libya. "The enemy haa apparently refused contact by withdrawing from forward positions under cover of darkness," a British communique said.

a military Dakar, the accord Paris respecting Aujourd'hul thundered, "Are or for collaboration with Germany? Unconditionally and unreservedly? That is what they want to know on the German side." An answering voice In tha press of the unoccupied zone meanwhile, praised tain. L'Effort at Marseille was the boldest paper in this respect, declaring Petaln was "trying sometimes to resist, sometimes to maneuver." Saturday's cabinet meeting: followed a 45-minuto conference bo- Petain and Ambassador The Paris press also pro- Federal Judge Moves Court To Cool Lawn KANSAS CITY, Aug. 4 UP) Federal justice in Kansas haa peeled off its coat and rolled up its sleeves. It Isn't the press of business. IPs the heat.

Stifled by Saturday's near 100- degree temperature, District Judge Richard J. Hopkins moved his court to the lawn of his home in Johnson county, Kas. There no paneled walls barred the summer breeze. Air Raid Brings Cairo Casualties CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 4 The heaviest casualties yet recorded In an axis bombing of the Suez canal zone were reported by the Egyptian ministry of interior today.

In an air raid last night in the delta area, a communique said, 17 persons were killed and 58 were Injured but material damage was slight Air alarms sounded hi Cairo, Alexander, Suez, Port Said and In several provinces. Belgian Official Says Nazi Collapse Not So Far Away LONDON, Aug. 4 Camille Gutt, finance minister of the Belgian government in a BBC broadcast tonight said he believed a sudden German collapse "is no lone 1 fa- wff tween Leahy. fessed to see the "united States ambassador's hand behind failure of Petaln to name Fernand De Brlnon, French envoy to the Germans In Paris, to a new post. Buy Ball Tickets Twenty-four Big Spring business Tien and firms added their names the list of Appreciation Night ticket purchasers, swelling the to-al amount of money received to $473.40.

Those in charge of the drive to express in financial terms appreciation of the Big Spring Bombers standout showing in the West Texas-New Mexico baseball league race estimated Monday that around $550 would be obtained before the drive closes. Appreciation Night, Thursday, August 7, features a clash between the Bombers and the Clo- vls Pioneers at Roberts Field. Those buying blocks of tickets are scheduled to distrbiute ducats as a good will measure in addition to bolstering the Bombers' financial standing. Additional buyers of tickets are L. L.

Spears, Shirley Robbing, Big Spring Troy GIfford, W. S. Satterwhite, Southern Ice, Thomas Typewriter, Rowe and Lowe Garage, Harry Stalcup, Darby Bakery, Cash not given, Dr. M. H.

Bennett, Seaman Smith, Dr. B. G. Cowpcr, Johnny Whltmire, Miller Pig Stand Public Supply, Oil Well Supply Courteous Service Station, McDaniel Service Station, Albert Fisher Company, D. H.

Electric, The Herald, and J. W. Fisher company. Axis warplanes were busy attacking other British strongholds North Africa, however. Seventeen persons wore killed and 50 wounded last night in a raid on he Suez heaviest casualties yet recorded there raid alarms sounded In Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and In several Egyptian provinces.

The Germans' grave new threat to Kiev and to rich granaries of the Ukraine was conceded In a red army bulletin. Nazi legions, it indicated, had swept past tho bitterly-contested town of Zhitomir on both sides, driving to the vicinity of Bel Tser- tov, barely 50 miles south of Kiev, and Korosten, 80 miles northwest of the provincial capital. In theso advances, the German nigh command said nazi and Hungarian panzer columns had out ofl so far off. "We have now started on the road to victory," he said. "Nobody can name the dates, but the day is no longer so far off when the Germans, realizing as in 1918, their losses, their failures, their shame, will crack up all of a sudden, and collapse because, let us not forget it, they are the same as 27 years ago." Gutt said the German people did not believe Russia would put up a fight, and God.

how she i Pastors Plan Evangelistic Effort Here Rev. Harry Vom Bruch To Conduct Cooperative Services Plans for a community- wide evangelistic campaign were developed Monday at a meeting of the Big Spring Pastors' association, and Aug. 30 was set for the starting date. The Rev. Harry Vom Bruch, one the leading evangelists of tha latlon and who has conducted meetings in Canada as well as tho United States, has been engaged or the campaign.

He will be by J. c. Davis, noted soloist vho has played the lead in the aster production of the Messiah California for the past several easons, and another musician. According to an announcement by the pastors, the meeting will start officially with the evening service on Aug. 30 and will continue through Sept.

8. The municipal auditorium has been eu- Raged for tho series of meetings. Thoro will be no disruption of egular Sunday morning services iy cooperating churches, but thesi longregations will join In the Sunday evening services at the audi- orium. Committees appointed by Dr. O.

Haymes, First Methodist pastor and head of the association, Include: Publicity, the Rev. R. Elmer Dunham, Joe Pickle, the Rev. Homer W. Sheata, and Lou Palner; club announcements, ho Rev.

O. R. Savage and the Rev. Robert J. Snell; ushers, Cliff Wiley, R.

E. Satterwhite, Joe B. Harrison, Henry C. Burnett, C. M.

Wilkorson and E. E. Fahrenkamp; 'Inanco, Dr. C. E.

Lancaster, B. Reagan and Maj. L. W. Canning; evangelists and aingers, the Rev.

E. Bowden, the Rev. H. W. Salslip, and the Rev.

Ernest Orton. Dr. Haymes will be general chairman for the meeting and will presiding officer. Cooperating include tha First Methodist, the First Christian, First Presbyterian, Main Street Church of God, the Salvation Army, the Assembly of God Tit vital railroad armies. lines of the red Questionnaires Go Out To Young Men Questionnaires to the new crop of 21-year-old registrants with the Howard County Selective Service board were being mailed Monday Bruce Frazler, chief celrk ani Olyve Chumley, secretary, sail that around 25 would go out the first day and that by the end ol the week all of the 118 likely wll have been mailed.

Prompt reply was expected from these questionnaires. Meanwhile the number of original registrants falling ot receive their blanks is steadily dwindling, said Frazler At one time tha number was wel above 50. Ordinance Workers Go Back To Jobs By the Associated Press AFL unionists at four mldwes ordnance plants were ordered bacl to work by their officials today after Saturday and Sunday "holl days" which a union chief described as occasioned by miaunder standings. the Mary's Fourth Baptist, Episcopal, East Church of Nazarene, and the First Baptist church. Death Takes V.

A. Masters Virgil Armstrong Masters, 81, long-time resident of Big Spring succumbed at 1:10 a. m. today in a local hospital. Although he had been 111 tor a.

long time, hfa condition did not become critical until Saturday. Born in Georgia on Oct. 13, 1859, Mr. Masters had been a resident here since 1906. He worked for many years for tho Texas and Pacific railroad and later farmed in Howard county.

For the past eight years he had been inactive. were set for 10 m. Tuesday In the Eberley chapel, and burial waa to be In the city cemetery. Surviving him are his widow; two sons, John Masters, Big Spring, and Sgt- Ervin Masters of the U. S.

marines in Quantlco, and two daughters, Mrs. Eula Bu- banks, Stanton, and Mrs. Alice Shanks, Big Spring. He leaves 12 grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. Pallbearers were to be H.

C. Burnett, Doug Thompson, D. C. Maupln, J. R.

Phillips, J. A. Klnard and M. A. Ralney.

Oiler Player Weds In Home Base Rites PAMPA, Aug. 4 Before of flowers, Miss Katherina Louise Stotts of Pampa and Left Fielder Frank Scott of the Pampa Oilers were married at home plate last night. More than 1,500 persons saw tha ceremony performed by Judge E. P. Young.

Negro Woman Faces Charge Of Murder Myrtle Ree Noal, negro woman, was held in Howard county jail today under a charge of murder of Ethel Mas Stull, also colored, Tho victim was stabbed with a knife at Grlf's cafe on northslde Saturday night. The woman under charge received knife wounds dur- Ing tha Kltorcttion. i 'Reckless Holiday Spirit 9 Prevails Among Englishmen LONDON, Aug. 4. Today marked the beginning of the 101st week of the current war and the 27th anniversary of the start of the last conflict but Britons took the day off for their traditional August bank holiday.

They ignored Prime Minister Churchill's warning that the zero hour for Invasion is lesa than a month off and they thought, instead, they saw hopeful signs of progress in the allied fight against tho axis. "Tho news Is good," the the cheerful comment ere dmona neonla onnlihad bar bomb- Ings as many months of grim reverses. A discordant noto came, however, from the press, which angrily flayed the public for "flouting" tha government's request to stay home and scolded tne government for making it a "request Instead of a demand." The Dally Sketch called it r. "reckless holiday spirit" and tha Daily Mirror emblazonedr "Joy trains halt arms." It took 700 srecial of them from take a million or more holiday makers to during.