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PAGE POtTR THB AMAHILLO DAILY TEXAK Hike in Income and Excise Taxes Favored Bill for Defense Levy May Be $683,000,000 May 28. VPj-A 10 per cent boost in all Income taxes and Increased excise taxes was reported today to comprise an administration's defense-tax bill designed to provide an over-all revenue of $633.000,000 The proposed 10 per cent super tax on and Individual income would be levied as of Jan. 1,1940 and would provide an estimated $210.000,000. These taxes would become payable March 15, 1941 when first-quarter payments on 1940 incomes Tall due. Other sections of the bill were reported to provide: The Items A 10 per cent increase, in-all ex- se taxes except the following four items: Irish Unite in Defense Plan DUBLIN.

May 28. the second time In Irish history, the Fianna Jail and Fina Gael, government and opposition parties, respectively, coalesced tonight on a policy of defense of the nation. Agreement to unite against any aggression came after Premier Eamon de Vaiera had brought to the attention of Parliament the dangers now confronting the country. The labor party joined the Fine ft Systematic Slaughter Triumph Of German Bombers in France NEW YORK May 28 W) strafing, laying merican ambulance driver with iwrvlw Arm the American field sen'ice. In a broadcast over the French radio from his hospita! bedside tonight, said he had witnessed "one of the mast systematic slaughters anyone could ever see," when German planes attacked a town near the northern front.

"Wave after wave ot German bombers were raking the entire valley." said 32-year-old Francis P. Hamlin of New York and Boston, in the broadcast picked up by CBS. Hamlin. the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Mass, suffered a broken ankle dur- Cigarets--Present tax per new tax, $3.50. Estimated yield, 000,000. IJquor--Present tax per gal- BUILDS NEW ARMY -Franz van Cauwelaert, president of the Belgian Chamber, helped lead an attempt in Paris to organize a new Belgian army to fight the Germans. Fair Executives Discuss Plans for the 1848 edition of the Tri-State Fair were discussed by members of the executive committee of the fair association last night. Although no final decision was reached on the dates for this year's fair, September 16 was set as a tentative date.

This is contingent upon ability of the association to sign contracts with amusement com- for that week, Ray Pintney president, said. "We are dealing with carnival company that is one of the finest in the country--one that has never been here before," said Mr. Pinfc- I Is the purpose of the Tri- State Pair Association to cooperate with. the. Coronado Cuarto-Centen- cial Celebration and with the New Jfexico State Fair, Mr.

Hnkney said; dats for the latter has set for September 23. The matter of employing a manager for the association was discussed by the executive committee but no decision was reached. There are several applicants for the position. Mflton Cos resigned as manager early this year. The meeting, held in the Amarfflo Hotel, was attended by about 15 Floodwaters Damage Fort Worth Area FOBT WORTH.

May 28 W) -Lightning and high water resulting from a more than two-inch rainfall here early today resulted in the damage of several structures in. eluding an oil storage tank. The tack of oo.poo gallon capacity ana containing 7.000 barrels of oil was destroyed at tha Magnolia Petroleum Company's re- flnery on the North side when lightning ignited the contents Belmont Baptist Church was burned to the ground after a bolt of lightning struck the frame structure after the parsonage, part or the church buildine proper, was pulled from its foundation and washed a quarter-mite down a swollen creek. Other horns In the vicinity were endangered by the high water which EWirled nearby, and'numerous chickens were drowned, after the rain began shortly after midnight At lesit one other -home was struck Ion; new tax $3. Estimated yield.

$85,000,000. Beer--Present tax (5 per barrel; new tax $6. Estimated yield 000,000. It was understood that the excise tax boosts including those on gasoline, beer, liquor and cigarets would become effective at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1. Earlier in the day, the President and prominent members of Congress had agreed to ask the enactment of new defense taxes 'yielding or more in the next live years, and to request that the existing.

$45,000,000,000 limit on-the national debt be raised to $48,000.000,000. It was disclosed that under the plan. $3,000.000,000 of "national defense obligations" would be floated to be paid off hi five years. Want June 24th Adjournment The officials did not decide at that time what form the new taxes should take but later conferences brought forth word that the bill probably would Include the new Income tax, applicable on 1940 incomes of individuals and corporations. A taxpaper who would pay $1,000 under present law would find his tax bill raised to $1,100 under the new law.

Senator Vandenberg, Michigan Republican, predicted Republicans generally would approve the idea to finance the defense problem at once, although he added there might be "sharp disagreement" oh Chairman Harrison Missisippi Democrat, of the Senate finance committee expressed belief the tax and borrowing program could be enacted and Congress adjourned by June 24, when the Republican national convention Is scheduled to --eet. In appointing the national defense commission, President Roosevelt went back to the World War national defense act, signed hi August, 1917. This authorizes the formation of a national; defense council consisting of six cabinet members, 'with, a national defense, commission of seven operating under i actual work of Industrial, labor and consumer coordination. As it works out in "this instance, however, Mr. Roosevelt advised cor- This led to a general view that the commission would function under the consult on international matters and national defense.

"Dangers threatening the country now are obvious," De Vaiera said in referring to his Galway speeches last week-end in which he declared S. B. Nason Hamlin Bedham, American "Bomber after bomber appeared on the horizon," Hamlin continued. waste to everything below them. The Germans seemed unmolested until shortly we could see one, Jone 'French pursuit plane appear from nowhere and attack all those German bombers singlehanded.

It seemed a matter of minutes from the time he attacked one boraber until It burst into flames." Hamlin described how 20 ambulances and 37 men traveled to the scene in convoy, -spreading out in open country, closing up in tha towns, and darting under dumps trees when planes appeared: "Some times these German planes tent even dive when they attack." he said. "They have guns trained downwards from the bottom of the fuselage which they can use from a considerable" height." Rural Students Get Diplomas Potter County rura! students received their eighth grade diplomas last night at graduation exercises held in the McKlnley School sudl- torium. Hev. Jordan Grooms, assistant Ireland "really Is In the war zone' and should plan her defenses accordingly. At the same time de Vaiera nounced an immediate campaign to add thousands of troops to Ireland's armed forces.

He said reserves of the regular army and first line volunteers were being called to the colors. WAR IN IKE SAIKAKS ROME, May 29 (Wednesday) (ft --Civilians began taking over some posts left by men called to arms today, as the Belgian collapse on the northern front heightened Italy's war fervor and made active Italian intervention appear to be only a question of days. Young Fascists served as traffic police, and helmeted women and girls of were seen in uniforms astride motorcycles equipped for anti-air raid duties. At the same time the Italian jress Indicated that any chance the French and British ever had of obtaining continued Italian non-belligerency by relaxing their blockade probably had been lost. Spain also returned to Italian headlines with reports of anti- En g.l I demonstrations, together with- reminders that Spain might see a chance now to recover Gibraltar.

The doors for unrestricted departure from Italy were closed on British and French nationals In what some observers took for another step toward war. The government also announced volunteers were being recruited into a parachute corps, with technique borrowed from the' German troops dropped behind combat lines. The exit visa requirement, clamped on in a surprise move, stopped the departure without permission from Italy or her colonies of citizens of any countries which Impose similar restrictions on Italians. That WAR NORWAY STOCKHOLM, May 28 W)-3er- rnan troops landed from planes were reported today to have crossed Rom- bafefjord In collapsible boats for an attack on British flanks near the Arctic ore port of Narvik, Norway. The newspaper Aftonbladet said dispatches fVom across the border indicated the action was intended to relieve German forces hard pressed at BjornfJell, near Narvik.

The dispatches said the Germans parachuted from planes a mile east of Narvik and crossed the Ijord "under difficult conditions." protected by fire from their ORB pursuit planes. WAR IN CHINA CHUNGKING, May 28 VFI -heavy bomb fell within 100 yards the United States gunboat Tutui today as the foreign quarter of th city was severly damaged by Japanese air attack in which 3d Chinese civilians were believed 1 have been killed. The sel similar to sunk by Japanese air bombs Dec 12, 1837-was not damaged. i river patrol ves the U5.S. Pana: Amarillo Band Event Tonight Graduating members of the Amarillo High School Band will be presented with gold pins ak a party to be given in their honor tonight.

The party, to be held hi the hand room at the Senior High School building, TtiU be sponsored by members of the Band Parents' Associa- respondents that they could forgei about the cabinet council. Thi President's immediate supervision and report directly to him. The commission, Mr. Roosevelt said, is to have no president but vrfll have a secretary, William H. HcReynolds, an" executive assistant to the President, whose task be to act as liaison man between the members and to coordinate information coming In to the commission.

The first meeting will take place Thursday at the White House. In actual operation, the armv and navy will place its own consultation with the commission, and it will then be the latter's task to see that materials are on hand at the proper plants as needed, that production schedules are maintained, that transportation is available as needed, and that labor Is available to do the task. ipplied to French, British and Egyptians. There was no Immediate comment from the government oh King Leopold's surrender of the Belgian army. However, Virginio Gayda wrote in the Giornale dltalia that the surrender was "an act of high political and humane, wisdom." His newspaper article said, the British had planned to use the Belgian army to cover their withdrawal from Flanders.

There was speculation as to whether Premier Mussolini might have influenced King Leopold's surrender through King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. The king is the father-in-law of Princess Marie Jose, sister of Leopold and wife of Italian Crown Prince TJmberto. Some observers suggested that Italy might be.holding off entry into the war to see what effect ths Belgian surrender would have on the British and French defense. Italians privately and in govern- tion. It will begin at 8 o'clock.

will be. an entertainment program, consisting principally ol musical numbers, followed by refreshments. There are about 23 graduating members of the band this year. The party will be open to all members of the Band Parents' Association. Elmer J.

Sowder Is president of the association. by Ruby Baldwin Rites Are Incomplete Fins! arrangements for the funeral rites of Miss Ruby Baldwin, who. cued in an Amarillo hospital Monday morning, had not been completed last night. Services prob- aory will be held Thursday morn- lug. It was announced.

from Boxwell Brotners Funeral Home. ls Bal who resided at 204 Jiorth Pierce street, had been Lafayette Escadrille Boots Lindbergh Out PARIS, May 28 Uf)--Honorary membership In the Lafayette Esca- driile conferred on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh after his 1927 Atlantic crossing was withdrawn today by order of the Trench and Air Association of American Volunteer Combatants in the French Army hi 1914-18, representing former pilots of the escadrille. The association announced Its action was the result of Lindbergh's speech of last Saturday, which It classified as "definitely opposed to the spirit of the American volunteers of the Lafayette Escadrille and Foreign Legion who rushed to the defense of France In 1914." Survivors include and four sisters.

four brothers Leopold's Children Are Safe PARIS, May 23 Wt-King Leopolos and two sons arc reported safe in a chateau "somewhere In France." Tne children are Princess Josephine Charlotte. 12 years old; Prince Baudouin. nine years old and Albert, five old. Aztrid, died August 23, 1835, of in- Switzerland. Fwo British 2a The ava! tra Melbourne ffld Cape Passaro have been bomb- a and.

sunk, the admiralty said In Raymond'Caldwell Gets Suspension Raymond Caldwell was convicted on a charge of burglary In 47th District Court yesterday and given a five-year suspended sentence. He was charged with the burglary of the Brown Boot and Saddle Shop, Germans Nab U. S. Ambulances BERLIN, May 28 W) German sources reported today.that numerous American ambulances and hospital equipment have fallen Into Nazi hands. German wounded are using some of the American hospital facilities provided by the Franklin Founda tion.

The Voelkischer Bbebachter sala some American per sonnel had been overtaken In the German advance. ment circles have expressed curiosity recently as to what effect Italian intervention in tile war would have in the United States. Expressions of American opinion on the war are being followed closely. Americans were' not included in today's regulations requiring visas to leave the country. mm AT WAR As a result of the Belgians giving way, the peril of the British Expeditionary Force In Belgium has reached a gravity not even exceeded, by that of the British in the disaster at Gallipoli in tie World War.

The chances of extricating the BEF from the Germans' slowly tightening ring of steel has been seriously lessened since the Belgians held the right wing of the front. The odessey of the British Expeditionary Force which was begun with an almost joyous advance into Belgium when the Belgians ana Dutch called for aid, now is wound up in a narrow elipse surrounded by Germans and by bombers and After continued withdrawals the Germans Vow They'll Chain French Fliers BERLIN, May 28. airmen henceforth will be clamped in chains immediately, field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering an- nounced'tonight. In retaliation for similar treatment reported by a lieutenant-colonel of the Nazi air force. A radio report said he speciiied also that "every time the murder of a German flier is reported" five captured French fliers will be shot and that for every report of firing on a Nazi parachute from a damaged plane 50 enemy prisoners will be shot.

His order exempted the British because so far they have "not given cause for such retaliatory measures." The Nazi air chieftain's announcement followed receipt of a report from Squadron Lesder Lieut. Col. Lackner, who told of being firei upon by French troops as he par chuted to earth from his flamin plane, set upon and beaten and fin ally being chained. The officer was said to have bee "temporarily a prisoner of war pastor of the Polk Street Methodist Church, addressed the graduates. Carl G.

Clifft, county superintendent. presented the diplomas. Graduates were from HIver Road. Highland Park, Brady, Long 8 and Bushland schools. Diplomas were presented to tha following: Frances Jean Barnes, Ella Ruth Barton, J.

E. Battenfleld Mary Anna Bedenk, 'Ruth Ann Blessen, Frank Bufkin, Edith Bull, Andrew S. Dehner. Bob Ben Hall. William E.

Hill, Mary Lou Jones. Thera Elaine Jones, William LeRoy Krabbe, James Thomas LeGrand, Robert S. Louthan, William E. Magnuson. Bella Jo Meeks, Mary Frances Pretcott, Sylvia Carlene Reavis, Billle Joe Sanders, Dorothy Jean Troup, Lorena Turner, Ruth wells and Rosa LawrenceKronen Brick Donors That fxttoai contributed one or more bricks toward the Panhandle Historical Society brie fund: Central junior High Children who or more brick.

Wayne Dunmler. Bill Sustat, Bot Vfnr. Bmtty Buclur. William Lampt. Olenmar Shook.

J.cl llotfcenluad. Mark Taylor. Dlci sues. Vlrslala Black, Moore. Horadnt Gibson.

6alr- ley Jackson. Joe staa Morgan. Bill? xelui Irrtn. Houston. Ufa Hang, Coleeta DaYltfson.

Patricia Bob Stanley. Lois Ann Irene Jlorln. D. form. Paul Davidaon.

Billy Bobtrt Hloshman. Gene Milone. Hoyt Mulken Nolan Murr. Howard Patterson, Ray Blmms Prances PhulIM, MacUlne Rlpnv, phylln Foreman, Doyle Foreman. Doris Blttlck Kathryn Denny, Prea HodjM, Ralph Grooms.

Nina Crlgsi, autn Drtskiu, Clifford Morgan. Mlanie Belle Parker. Betty Zane Connell. Irons Scarborough. Robert Irving, Kithnrynt Dam.

Betty Jean Ham. aeorge Ballard, Rachel Boren CecU Bozeman, Grace Cracrait. Melvln Duncan Lorna Jean laebertnecht, Jean Btulah Hamby. Douglas Ammons. Eu- Speer.

w. C. Weaver, Helen Scarborough. Walter Matthews. Travis Rat- 1i 5 mt JamM Msry Nell Park.

Vancle SpeU. Viola Ballard Don Catef, Carson BurrouBh. Virginia nODerson. Onlta Htmby. Juanlta Hamby.

Donna Jean Autry. Blllle Robert Lee Burnett. Loyd Jobe. Betty Jo Cathey. Mahdeeae Barrtngton.

Barbara Boiweil. PiCTURfen NEWS Lawrence Kronen, 80 years old died in a local hospital yesterdaj afternoon at 3:40 o'clock Although he had been a resident here the last la years, making his home the last few years at the Gibson Hotel, acquaintances little of his history. knew FACES HARD TASK -Hubert Pierlot (above), Belgian Premier, broadcast 'appeal from Paris that Belgium's government had no part in the capitulation of, King Leopold IIT and would continue the battle against the Germans. He said the government had ordered reorganization of the Belgian army in France. iow Many Words pelled Wrong? AUSTIN, May.

.28 (ffh-A blitz- eig for, spellers was devised here day by Dr. L. L. click. University Texas professor of English who ays any person who misses fewer mn eight words in the following tory will rate a grade of excelnt: "An irreligious peddler and an mbarrassed cobbler were harassec bulletins charging that kidnaped a bottle of asafoetlda to inoculate some picnicking acquaintances against catarrh.

"Your innuendo is sacrilegious, spieled the peddler, fingering a woolly queue which he used to camouflage his skull. "I saw the.thief, a traveler in the cemetery, reveling in the symmetry of the "His alibi seemed impregnable enough to supersede legal procedure; so the sheriff recommended that the bailiff "release him. "This plaguy, desiccated and rarefied ah- will give him a hemorrhage he said." He had told i'riends that he had no relatives except one son whose whereabouts he did not know. He is said to have had farm lands and oil and gas holdings in Gray County. Mr.

Kronen was a native of Ger- lany. The body Is In the charge of N. S. Griggs Sons pending completion of funeral arrangements. Gallup Jury Convicts Two in Break GALLTJP, N.

May 28 I jury'took less than an hour late today to convict Lynn Fryback and Donald Combs, two 18-vear-olds of Fort Wayne, Indi, of "charges of armed jail break. Tomorrow the boys go on trial for murder. Young Fryback and Combs, while in the county jail on charges of killing a 19-year-old filling station attendant, overpowered Sheriff D. W. Roberts last January, took his gun, and escaped with two fellow prisoners, Paul and James Thompson.

The Thompson brothers pleaded guilty to the armed break charges, and all four were sentenced Immediately to terms of 25 to 50 years imprisonment by District Judge David Chavez. A jury will be drawn tomorrow to try Fryback and Combs for tha fatal shooting of 19-year-old James Fry in the course of an $18 holdup of his filling station near Gallup late last year. Hay McCain. Loretta Davis, Brian Mitchell, Betty Joe McWIUlams June Roland. Peggy Mlddaugh.

Sonny McGinley, Nell Ward. Bobby Lynn Johnson, Donnle Jean Hurd. Alice Marie Kyan. Saodle Rogers. Collie Moye.

Loren'e Speer. Dorothy Jean Marfcham. Charles Adims, Mrs Tutt. James Maberry. Elizabeth Ann Norton, Jeannette Prazler Barbara Boyce.

Bobby Bowman. Alice Mayne Elaine Johnson. Betty Cowart, Wllma BrookB Fret! Seldenstrang. Pat Newman. Rob- Wllbanks.

JUIred Daniel. Juanlta Hobdy. Evelyn Mccarty. Audrey Lambdin. Ralph Will Jack Martin' Robert Crawford Ross Kaulhold.

Jlmmle Allison. David Morrow, Geneva Morrow Jeanne Catherine Loutnan; John win Kathenne Ferryman. Anita Ruth Hale. Algonla Louise Simpson -alvln stock, Ralph Wright. Maedell lays.

Peggy Woodson. J. Andrews Jetty Volklnburg, Gwendolyn Latra Januel Qulntero. E. w.

Fowler. Fred ioDert Jones. Thomas Gwlnn Billy HunSlson. Horace leaver, June Whicker. Richard Adams, fcrsche! Halman.

Ernest Archambeau. Billy Wedg- wortrj. Lady Eunice castleman. Arthur 6 1 Northern, Bonald Mock, Jane Albright. Bonnie Mae Caldwell rSi B1 Jo Warnlcks.

Dwlght Brady. Duane Redus. CharlS alfs Osiaoi. Wjland Reed. Blllle Louise Games.

Katie Alice Harvle Johnson, lM Louise Vander- JOOI. Frederick Peterson. Emma Sue eDh McCulstian. Eugene mer Betty -nobles. ill McKenzle.

Leo Woodrlng Adele Jackson. Larry Vauzhan Webb, velda Stecy. 5J MItchri1 Joiner. Marlon A I A I S-Here'i how at least one student picketed the classroom of Paul Cram, Harvard history instructor who is strongly in faror of American aid to the Allies. The students refused to give their names, wore gas HedcUn lotils a -Flight of The a queen, Wilhelmina, to Britain when Nazis invaded her country was defended by Alexander Loudon (above), Netherlands minister to U.

S. He explained was in personal danger. Airplane Engine Speedup Planned EAST HARTFORD, May 28 (U.PJ--United Aircraft Corporation today planned an immediate $8,000,000 plant expansion to Increase by more than 30 per cent its output of airplane motors. That would provide a maximum production of 1,200 per month. A previous production step-up resulted from Allied demands for American-built planes.

Allied orders amounted to approximately $20,000,000. French hands" and presumably es caped. situation which confronted the British army this morning was this: In company with some French and Belgian troops they held a shelf of land from Maulde to Audenarde (a line running from 10 miles northwest of Valenciennes to 15 miles south of Ghent, a line which the Germans fiercely attacked. Slashing at Rear Effin Crysfoff Resting Well Eftin Crysroff, Amarillo caf operator, suffering from a broke leg in St. Anthony's Hospital, wa reported last night as getting alon well.

Crysroff was found in the mu beside pavement In the 15K block on North Fillmore Street earl yesterday morning, after be ap parently had become the victim a hit-and-run "driver or other fou play. In talking to officers, Crysrof vaguely mentioned "a dirty deal but did not elaborate further. Of ficers were investigating yesterdaj and last night. I Seek Pair in Bad Fire Case To the south lay Arras and the VANCOUVER, B. May 28 (Gauge of the gap through which the nadian Press)--Police sought a mat ost from Cape ram' the 590 FARM AID OKAYED WASHINGTON, May 28 Senate banking committee approved unanimously today a $50,000,010 increase in government funds for MOD loans Intended to protect farmers from wartime price shocks Germans were pouring tafantr, and artillery in support of the! mechanized columns, who slashing with a cruel scalpel armored knives at the rear of the British forces.

This morning the BEF left Hank --with artillery and small antitank guns-rwas on the defensive from Ypres to the Scarpe River. Lord Gort, of the BEP, and the remainder of his army lie inside a ring of German ateel which already is pressing toward the center with scores of darting attacks by mechanized forces, all preparing the way for a general attack aimed not only at victory but at annihilation I Press)--Police sought a man and woman lor questioning today In connection with a $100,000 -fire which broke out in the boiler room of the Union Boat Works, last night and destroyed the plarit, another shipyard, two" boat engine plants and damaged a third shipyard. Officers, who had not established an origin for the blaze, had information a man and woman were seen leaving one of the plants Just before the fire broke out. SENSE OF HUMOR? BROWNWOOD, May 28 was merely a typographical error, operator set up a utline under a picture of the King Belgium Earl Williams Rites Incomplete Funeral arrangements for Earl Williams, 52-year-old Amarillo plas- were incomplete last night Utes will likely be held in Here-' ord Thursday afternoon however was said. Mr.

Williams died yesterday morning at the Veterans' Hospital The family home is at 2213 Buchanan Street. Survivors are bis wife and four sons, Robert Lucian, Donald and Richard, all of Amarillo- three brothers, A. R. Williams of Amarillo, Carl Williams of Hereford and Gerald Williams of Copeland' and five sisters, Mrs. John of Adrian, Mrs.

Clyde Kink- Globe Arte 1Irs Fannie Whitnure and Mrs. J. Key both of Amarillo, and Mrs. B. G.

Grigance The body is In state at Bcxwell Brothers Chapel. Directors, in announcing the addition, gave no indication of whether it was to be financed privately, or through government aid. The present output Is triple that of a year ago and the payroll during that period has increased from 2,700 to about 13,000. Another 4,000 employes will be added when the new plant Is completed. IStt Jane Jami monds, Nella Jean Payne, Harriet Twlng, Ernst Patterson.

Eva Patchlnu, Curtis. DoUy Williams. Edna Sui IIUM uu Houston, Evelyn Boyd." HaEef'Palme? Georgia Bell Currle. Vera Prances Harp, Ruth Bell. Prances Mayo, Jeanne Pyeatt.

Lurlne Roddy Miriam Cornell. Maxine Deason. Gerald Blackburn. Clyde Lee. G.

O. Pitt Virgil Hogland. Bert Wuwjun. oiiu wmiaras. jonn Slssom.

Patricia Berg, Allen Grigas. J. F. Taylor. Kona Fay Tennlson.

Cecil Hall. Emma Jean Mead. Doi Jack Holt. Sylvia Martin, George Hall, Dorothy Frisbee. Dan Ingram.

Sam Inmin Gene Lawson, Edna Britton, Flora Jane Fowkles, R. 'P Bird Hene Batson. C. w. Crltes John William Brltt.

Mariano Cucllar. Ho Etheridce Dumas Man Named Lions Officer 1 28 W-The oint convention of district Lions, was tafay-fol- owing a luncheon honoring district Tovernors-elect. The newly elected officers and heir districts are F. V. Wallace Dumas, 2-T; Frank Cripliver, wirtii-' ta Falls, 2-E; WiHiam A.

Shirley Paris, 2-X; Roy J. Davenport! Uvalde, 2-A, and Mel -S. convention renamed Annette nd Janette Tucker, twins, of Winters, as Lion sweethearts for nother year and voted to send lem to the international conven- on at Havana in July. High School Graduates Hold Banquet Boys and girls who within a few days will bring to a close then- high school days last night attended a banquet given In'their honor at the Amarillo Hotel. Some 470 graduates of the 1940 class heard R.

A. Selby In the principal address of the banquet. Mr. Selby is director of guidance and secondary 'Following an entertainment, consisting of vocal and Instrumental numbers, and the class prophecy bi Scharlene Barker, the students engaged in dancing until a Jate hou Those who did not attend the dance were entertained with a motion picture show and other attractions. Red Cross Fund At $1,576.85 Contributions of $77 yesterday afternoon boosted the Potter County Red Cross war relief fund to $1576.85.

Contributors included P. S. Bailey ar.d William Q. Boyce, $10 each; J. J.

Hastings snd Mrs. Dick Galie, S2 each; Dr. I. j. Haugen, Cash S25, and Don D.

Parker of Grande Courts, $25. garrel Gaut. Katnerine Gooden, Billv Hawkins. Hector Hernandez, Mary joulse Boleii, Ervln Hitchcock. Richard Hogan.

Joan Lane, Judson Eoop, Annette Appleby. Sanimle Kae Bones' Clyde Bassett. Kelda Butler, Fen'ton Farwell, Georgia Lou Mode, Kathryn Jane SlrkpatrlcK. Billie Cohea. James Sue Kuykendal! Tirnmve Berg, Dwayne Atkins, Joe Deri- ton.

Charles Hughes Charles Burgess. Edward Nobles. William Parr. Carolina Cooper. Donna Boyd.

Pat McClamey. James Andrews Dorothy Archlboid, Kathryn Bledsoe i Davls Betty Greathouse Netty Greathouse. Edith Green, Margie Dorothy Looney. Pauline McBrlde, Sue Ellen Beams, Ruby Shearer. Geneva Smith.

Joan Swegcrt Thomas. Lydla Thompson. Catherine Weathered. Betty Lou Webb. Edwina Wilson TM ef Ea Dunn, Jack Harris.

Willis Hamilton, Harold Ivlns Travis Klsner Paul Lasson. Edwin Nickel, Norris Raffkind. Lazelle Raleigh. Jim Snider. Jack Troupe, Mrs.

Ethel Wells Jack BulIocK. "jean Salmons, Geneva nn erman Bergman, Benny Pelz Lob Whitaker. William Janzen. Wanda Saunders. Jackie Dodson, Lea Southern.

p. L. MUler. Kenneth Thiry, Wanda Manning. Doris Brown, Billy Caldwell.

Jack Poser. Melva Jean Anderson Gene SIner, Charles Bales. Ronald, Earl Noland. Donald Posey Jean Blank, Ruby Lander, Boyd Reynolds. L.

B. King. White Margaret Tomtinson, Kathryn Walker Bonnie Ruth Harrison. A -Sumner T. Pike (above), Maine Republican nominated by to Securities Exchange Commis-' sion, was a World war coast artillery captain.

ROWNS IN RIVEB BTJRNET, May. 28 WV-Guthric stum, 25 years old, of Liberty Hill rowned In the Colorado River near last night while on a fishing U. S. Sport Planes Sought By Plane-Hungry Allies NAZI STEAMER SAItS BELEM, Brazil, May'28 (U.pj--The 400-ton German freighter Koenigs- rg sailed for an undisclosed desti- tlon today with a cargo of rub- wood and hides. ST.

LOUIS, May 28 being sought by the observation work at the front, it was learned today. Guarded inquiries have beeri made in flying circles here about 1939 models of a certain type of three- Three Are Killed In Auto Crash McKDJNET, May 28 (U.B-Three persons were killed late last night a. head-on automobile collision three miles north of Van Alstyne. The dead were Francis Lee Burgess and Collie Bridgefarmer of Mc- Kmney, drivers of the automobiles and Miss Gertrude Hatchelt of-Van Alstyne. Five other persons were seriously injured, a I a Sherman hospital today.

L. A. Woods Will Bun Again AUSTIN, May 28 W--state Superintendent Public Instruction A Woods today announced his candidacy for reelection and cited his accomplishments In office Woods asserted the performance the -absence of mass production of this type of and extravagant promises," does not need elaboration. I. asked the citizens of Texas to place me 6t the head of their public I made no extravangant promises, of a iia- air caiiiival to'; be Lynne, born singer.

She'll be throned by Stedham er, carnival dirgstprand' manager; of theaminicipal airport..