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tdte Fair Ope Ik For Over A Century Has Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism Prints All The Ncm That's Fit To Print And Prints It First mi FTJIi ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS JACKSON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1939 ESTABLISHED 1837 iLxhioiis Monday us ro rung 3 -p All The Daily Washington Merry-Co-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Authors of -Washington Mer-17 Go Round" and "More Merry-Go-Round is KM LA LJ LJ UVJi U. S. Warships Rush To U. S.

Ship Vote Nears lest If FDR Offers Services, World Confab Is Seen On Neutrality In Congress Debate 0 500 1000 Tyr 7r i Hiaf f-- OCEAN SP? ross the Atlantic to protect the American ashington received an amazing "tip" from the reliable information the Iroquois would be sunk sinking would "be accomplished through a ss of the steamship Athenia." Shortly after land, German sources accused the British of submarine. The Iroquois left Cobh. Ireland. A flotilla of United States warships raced ac steamship Iroquois after the government in head of the German navy who said he had near the eastern coast. The warning said the repetition of circumstances which marked the lo the British liner Athenia was sunk off Scot sending her down.

London blamed a German -for New York October 2 with 584 passengers, war. 7 This showing the Iroquois and the to. mark exact locations nor indicate the num mostly Americans, fleeing from the European naval vessels racing to her, makes no effort Chocs Rally To Tie TV boga, 0-0; Delta 11 Fcuhrer's Offer Stands Good for Week, But Probably Will Fail BUCHAREST, Oct. 6 plot to assassinate King Carol and other government leaders was asserted by police to have been broken up today with the arrest of two men and two women alleged to be members of the outlawed Nazi-inclined iron guard. Police declared they held a professor, his daughter and another woman, who had just returned from Berlin, and the nephew of a retired chief justice of Rumania's highest court.

With the arrests, the police declared, they found a prepared list of victims including King Carol, Premier Constantine Argetoianu, Minister of War General Gabriel Marinescu and Victor Iamandi, the new minister of justice. The group was not connected with the Iron Guard members executed after the assassination of former Premier Armand Calincscu Sept. 21, the police announced. BERLIN, Oct. 6.

Adolf Hitler today offered peace in Eurcpa or a fight in which "I do not doubt for a single moment that Germany will be victorious." "Let those who consider war to be the better solution reject my ut-stretched hand." he said and authoritative sources Indicated he ex- (Continued On Page Three) LONDON GIVES HITLER "NO" Careful Examination Promised German Proposals, However LONDON, Oct. 6. WV-Adolph Hitler's peace proposals were promised a careful but wary examination tonight by a British government proud of its naval might and the quick dispateh ct expeditionary forces to France. Britain's cautiously worded comment on Hitler's Reichstag speech coincided with accounts of achievements of its armed forces that the royal navy "continues successfully to hold the seas" and that British expeditionary forces were arriving in France "in greater numbers and with a larger volume of material than was thought possible." On official British statement dismissed Hitler's survey of past events with the assertion that it "abounds in perversions of the truth which will be readily recognized by the people of this coun try and indeed of the whole world." Of his "last- peace bid the statement said: "In their present form than (Continued On Page Three) Abe Martin Ther's all kinds o' wives, mcludin tli one who refers t' her husband as "my man." If it wusn't er Hnooth stranger lots o' money would never git in circulation. L( hM ORQtO Lrrg3 will Brass Ring: to Hiram Johnson, still a Warrior After Lifetime of Battles; Used to Fight Big Utilities, Now Supports Vigilante Associated Farmers; Strong-Willed Johnsons Broke up Family Law Firm by Fighting Each Other; Senator Has Dauntless Courage but Fcr-sonal Years.

(Editor's Note The Merry-Go-Round's Brass Ring is awarded this week to Senator Hiram Johnson or California, leading Isolationist In the arms embargo controversy.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 For four decades Hiram Johnson has been a gTeat public figure. He sat for 22 years in the United States Senate, usually a battler for lost and liberal causes. He was a crusading Governor of California He ran for Vice President of the United States with Teddy Roosevelt on the Bull Moose ticket. And in younger days he waged incessant warfare against the big utilities of California.

Yet now, In what should be the crowning years of his life, Hiram Johnson remains uncrowned. Still respected, still feared, he (Continued on Page Four) ITALY FEELS FEW SPARKS Hitler Speech Received But Draws Minimum of Interest ROME. Oct. 6. (JPh-Adolf Hitler's reichstag speech today received maximum publicity In Italy, but did little to fan the snarfc nf r'M-VW nopes.

There was no official reaction. Newspapers published the full text with moderately approving headlines. II Giornale DTtalia's Headlines described the speech as "An offer of peace, reason and justice." Lavro Fascista's headline read "Reaffirmation of Germany's will for peace." It was believed in informed circles that Italy's policy of taking no initiative in peace moves remained unchanged, at least until there was some indication of British and French reaction. (A British government statement said Hitler's proposals would be given "careful examination" in consultations with France and the British Dominions.) Little nnfiiirns vos tAflCOOCU that the speech's reception in London and Paris would be favorable, in view of previous declarations by British and French government leaders. Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano re-fivd a copy of the speech from the German ambassador two hours before Hitler started speaking Well informed sources said that If the western allies agreed to a conference with Der Fuehrer, Italy would agree to participate.

PEDESTRIAN HIT BY AUTO HERE Mrs. F. A. Miller, Columbus street, was oainfullv tnnw? r. terday afternoon when struck by of.

Gallatin and Capitol streets. Brought to the Infirmary, examination disclosed she sustained a broken wrist, cuts and bruises and a knee injury. Police listed the driver of the car as Edward M. Warren of Meridian. WEATHER MISSISSIPPI Saturday: Cloudy to partly Sunday: Continued cloudy.

LOUISIANA Saturday: Cloudy to partly cloudy. Sunday: Continued cloudy. ARKANSAS Saturday: Mostly cloudy. Sunday: Cloudy, hundershowers and cooler. I'ieh low Rain JACKSON" 4tlant 4 58 Birmingham US 6 Chicago 2 56 Henver 79 42 Jacksonville 83 64 Little Rocfc 93 65 Memphis ...83 69 Hi-in 83 54 84 63 0.63 Mobile 86 70 New Orleans S3 72 J-k 73 Vicksburg S4 67 MISSISSIPPI stations riood Present 21-Honr e.

State State Change bt. Louis 30 3.8 0.0 Memphis 34 0.2 0.2 Jail Helena 44 0 7 0 faJ1 Arkansas City 42 0.7 0.2 fall Vicksburi 0.8 0.1 fall N'chej 48 0.8 0.2 ta'l nf'a 45 2 9 0.0 Baton Rouse 35 3.0 0.2 rise PonaldsonvUle 28 3.4 0.3 rise eSerH. 23 -9 0.7 rJse Orleans 2.0 0.3 rise OHIO ClaIT 1.1 1.S iaU MEN OF STATE GET ILkWAGE Mississippians Listed Drawing Fine Government Paychecks Several. Mississippians are drawing fine salaries from the United States government, it was revealed yesterday by. a survey by the Associated Press, wrhich listed the juiciest stipends as follows: Judge Edwin R.

Holmes, member of the fifth IT. S. circuit court of appeals, Senators Fat Harrison and Theo G. Bilbo and their seven colleagues in the house, $10,000 each; Mrs. Ellen S.

Woodward, member of the social security board, Federal District Judges Allen Cox of Aberdeen and Sidney C. Mize of. Biloxi, each; John A. Tyson, member of the U. S.

board of tax appeals, a third district Mississtopian, Richard S. Field, sixth district, director of the bureau of marine inspection and navigation, $9,000. Roy R. Watson, eighth district, chief of the quartermaster supply department of the Panama canal, Leonard J. Calhoun, seventh district, assistant general counsel of social security board, Williams L.

Austin of the seventh district, director of the bureau of the census, Sam E. Woods, sixth district, commercial attache of the commerce department, Ber lin, Don c. Bliss, (6th), trade commissioner, Calcutta. Ind George Allen member of board of commissioners for running Washington and the dis trict of Columbia $9,000. Wiley A.

Blair, state manager of (Continued On Page Three) FOOTBALL RESULTS BIG EIGHT Clarksdale 14, Jackson 7. Laurel 27, McComb 0. Meridian 7, Brookhaven 0. Gulf port 6, Moss Point 0. Newton 7, Hattiesburg 6.

Tupelo 7, Picayune 6. Vicksburg 28, Newellton, 9. Greenwood 53, Cleveland 0. Columbus 7, Sulligent, 0. Greenville 6, Memphis Central High 0.

HIGH SCHOOL McGUl 14, Pascagoula 12. Bay High 13, Wiggins 12. St. Aloysius at Vicksburg 13, Tallulah 6. Mize 37, White Oak 0.

Sallis 6, McAdafns 0. Utica .31, Florence 0. JUNIOR COLLEGE Decatur 24, Wesson 0. Ole Miss Frosh 8, Sunflower 0. Millsaps Frosh 12, Perkinston 0.

Goodman 13; Ellisville 7. COLLEGE Miss. College- Chattanooga 0. Furman 20; Georgia 0. La.

Normal 18; Southeastern La. Loyola Birmingham-Southern 6. Sam Houston Teachers 7: S. T. C.

7. (tie). Commerce Teachers Southwestern La. 0. Murray Teachers 20; Morehead 7.

Villanova 40; Carolina 0. Kansas State Marquette 0. Citadel 12; Presbyterian 7. Wake Forest 33 Miami 0. Rollins 27; Stetson 7.

St. Louis TJ. Bradley Tech 0. tie). Union TJ.

13: Memnhis Tfarh. ers 0. Boston College 20; St. Joseph 6 Spring HU1 13; Troy o. Mercer Carson -Newman 0.

Dayton 32; Cincinnati 2 Duquesne 20; Waynesboro 0. Wofford 0, Oglethorpe 0. Central 26, Iowa-Wesleyan 6. Bethany 6, Baker 0. Parsons 6.

penn College 6. SCHOOL FIRE DAMAGE HIGH n-TA BENA, Oct. 6. (P Fire originating from the furnace today damaged the Itta Bena high school buildnig an estimated $10,000 to $15,000 accord-in? to school The blaze was extinguished with the aid of Greenwood fire fighters. No one was hurt.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. The senate leadership decided today to take advantage of a Republican parliamentary maneuver and force a test vote next week on the administration neutrality bill. After a series of cloakroom conferences, administration lieutenants said they had agreed tentatively to demand a vote Monday on a motion by Senator Tobey to send the bill back to the foreign relations committee. They were confident they could defeat the motion.

Tobey has suggested that the committee should split the bill into two parts one carrying out President Roosevelt's recommendation for repeal of the present arms embargo and the other embodying re strictions on American shipping and travel to belligerent zones. Tobey contends congress should act quickly on the second part, in order to keen America out of trou ble, and discuss the first part later. After checking on sentiment for Tobey's motion, strategists for the embargo bloc made it plain they would prefer that the senate delay action on it indefinitely. They said it was certain to be defeated and that its defeat would be regarded as a clear-cut victory for the administration. A "gentlemen's agreement" between Tobey and Majority Leader Barkley would oermit a vote on the motion Monday.

Administration senators indicated thev would call for a vote if the oppo sition railed to do so. While debate on the neutrality legislation continued, the adminis tration picked up two new commitments for repeal of the embargo. Senators Bailey and Barbour joined the repeal camp. Meanwhile a group of opposition senators met and issued a statement offering to support compro-mist legislation which would con tinue the present embargo and put an trade with warring countries on a strict "cash and carry" basis. The administration measure would prohibit transportation of any goods to belligerents in American vessels and would require that all purchases by belligerent governments be paid for within 90 days.

Administration supporters have argued that the 90-day credits arc equivalent to cash, but some senators have demanded an absolute "cash on the barrel head" requirement. Some administration supporters interpreted today's declaration by the opposition as a sign of weakness, Senator Hill saving that "it is like suing for peace after you know you are licked." FRANCE FIRM FORJBATTLE Daladier Gives Emphatic Answer to Hitler's Address PARIS, Oct. 6(JPh-Premier Daladier tonight gave France's answer to Adolf Hitler's peace proposal with a blunt declaration that the European war would be fought until "the victory which alone will permit assurance of a regime or real justice and lasting peace in Eu rope." Only two hours after Hitler outlined his peace formula in his speech before the Reichstag Daladier pounded out the assertion to the French senatorial foreign affairs committee that: "France and Great Britain will never lay down their arms until that peace has been effectively assured. As though to cive emDhasis to fh French -British determination to 1 mr iiiic, jtjiexai Aiaurice uustave Gamelin, commander-in-chief of the French and British nrmios -ri re ferred today with Major General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief nf tho Rrit- ish imperial defense staff. They were 'accompanied by their air commanders as well as Maior General Alpfconse Joseph Goerges, French armv eronn ommnnrtor- tt-Vh is in general charge of French operations on the northern flank of tnt western front.

Fightins at the front tndav still was bogged down by bad weather which hamDered scouting nianps and conseauently artillerv. whirh in moaern warrare uses planes as tar- i get spotters. Tonight's hich command mm- ed a new stirring of activity on the iront wnicn nas been relatively quiet for the last lour days. Plot to Assassinate King Carol Thwarted After Hitler's Speech BERLIN, Oct. 6 An authorized source said tonight that Adolf Hitler would accept an armistice if proposed by President Roosevelt with the view to a general European settlement.

This source also said Hitler would accept it if proposed by the head of another important neutral state. The statements were given in an interpretation of the salient points of Hitler's speech today before the richstL Hitler's address, this source said, essentially was an "appeal to to consider the present European situation as one of peaceful war in which their own vital interests would be seriously affected if the war continued, rather than one of conflict to be settled between two warring groups." In other words, he said, Hitler would look favorably upon intervention by a neutral or neutrals to bring the war to an end. The reaction of neutrals and Ger many's friends such as Italy and Soviet Russia to Hitler's "peace speech'; was considered more important than the reaction of Britain and France, although the first reports as to how the British government took the speech were regarded as "optimistic." (Britain promised a careful but wary examination of the speech. Premier Daladier of France said the war would continue until "the victory which alone will permit as surance of a regime of real justice and lasting peace in There was even a hint that the German government might consent to the holding of a peace confer ence in Washington or somewhere else in the Americas. Hitler was represented as willing to wait from eight to 10 days- longer than originally expected for world opinion to consolidate.

Failing a reply through neutrals or directly from Britain and France, the sinking of a submarine or a ship or the shelling of a city would be taken as a negative an swer and the "expectable German reply would follow," the authorized source said: If, however, he went on, it becomes clear Hitler's "peace efforts" are taken as a sign of weakness his "reply" will come swift and fast. This source added that "our readiness for peace is Just as great as our readiness for war." Germany's present plan stated by Hitler, it was said, includes proposals which democratic countries had been making for years but which Germany then felt she could not accept. She rejected such proposals as collective security, free trade, solution of minority problems and other ideals associated with the League of Nations activities because, it was asserted, "the fundamental conditions which would permit Germany to have accepted them were not present." Now, however, with revision of the Versailles treaty considered accomplished, Germany wa: represented to be in a position to accept many of the things which Britain and France themselves formerly advocated. It was stated flatly that Hitler did nf, intend to create a Polish proectorate, but beyond that it was asserted the fuehrer has not made up his mind as to the exact form the new Polish state would have. Although Hitler said Germany and Russia alone would decide Poland's fate this, however, does not eliminate the possibility of discussing the Polish future in an international conference.

As for the solution of the Jewish question, which Hitler also raised in his speech, this source asserted the fuehrer was thinking about a Jewish reservation within the Polish state where not only Polish and German Jews could live, but Jews from other lands. It was pointed out this reservation, which would be modeled some what after the American Indian reservations, would be larger than Palestine and have at least 3,000,000 inhabitants at the beginning. AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP HICKORY FLAT, Oct. 6. Miss Zoara Murry of this place, a recent high school graduate here has been notified that she was the winner of NYA college scholarship to Holmes Junior college.

Besides this she already had a part time scholar ship from the athletic association as a star athlete. With these scholarships it will insure her a full Humbles Choctaws Resist Strong Moccasins; Fumble Halts Drive PROVTNE FIELD, Clinton, Oct. 6. Chattannooga's Dixie conference favorites found no easy road either by air or land to Choctaw scoring territory here tonight, as a stubborn Miss. College squad battled the Moccasions to a scoreless tie.

Over two thousand supporters who filled the new stands for the first Tribe home game under lights found the inspired efforts of Charley Armstrong, Boyce Jones and a half dozen other heroes good indeed. Underdogs who had already mowed down one heavy favorite Centre the fighting Choctaws carried the attack to Chattanooga at every opporunity, though they were too few for pleading fans. A hard-charging Moccasin line rushed Miss. College passers so hard they completed only one pass out of ten efforts, with big Barber looking like King Kong chasing Hairbreadth Harry when he started after Ma jure. Their own touchdown ideas bilked in the ozone, Choctaw Backs Landrum, Tadlock, Ma jure and Armstrong fumbled five times always at crucial moments to chill (Continued on Page Seven) involved.

IROQUOIS is SAFE AT SEA American Steamer Given Protection On -German Tip HYDE PARK, N. Oct. 6 (TV-Persons in close touch with the White House suggested tonight that the American steamer Iroquois would be one of the safest vessels plying the Atlantic as a result of publication of a German tip that she would be sunk and ensuing provision for her protection by United States warships. Naval vessels and a coast guard cutter were sent speeding to the Iroquois, now three days out of Ireland, after the government received the German warning, with its im plication that England or France would sink her as she and her 584 American passengers approached the United States coast. White House officials said Presi dent Roosevelt had leceived no de finite reports on the Iroquois today and assumed that "no news is good news." And if the president, who came to his country home to check up on the damage done to his spruce trees by the drought, knew where the Iroquois and the ships to accom pany her were to meet, or whether they had met, he kept it to himseii, (Continued On Page Three) FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT OKEHED WASHINGTON, Oct.

6. MP) Representative Rankin (D-Miss) announced today president Roosevelt had approved $142,022 flood control along the Tombigbee river in Mississippi, including the west fork, or Town creek. "Of this amount," Rankin said, $102,913 will be a WPA allotment for employment of labor, and the balance, $39,109, will be provided by the war department." Mishap On Utica Road Results In Injuries To Two Two men were injured late yesterday in an accident on the Utica road and both were treated at the Baptist hospital for fractures and bruises. Involved in the mishap were Arnold Currie," driving toward Jackson in a coupe, and George Harris, driving a truck toward Utica. Both are residents of Utica.

A passing motorist brought them to the hospital. Their injuries were described as painful but not critical. ber oi ships JHS 14-7 Tigers Confused As Aggressive Clarksdale Team Wins An inspired Clarksdale Wildcat came to Jackson last night to trim an overconfident Tiger team 14 to 7. Striking at the opening kickoff the upstaters beat the Capital City crew at is own game for a well earned victory. Neither team scored in the first half but the Wildcats outplayed Jackson and after the Tigers realized they were in for a fight the Clarksdale outfit scored in the third period.

Statistics of the game give Clarksdale a net yardage rushing of 171 to Jackson's 175 but the Delta boys outdistanced the Tigers 140 yards to 26 yards in the air. ClaarksdaJe's firsit touchdown late in the third period caught Jackson napping when Charles Conerly shot a 21 -yard pass to E. Q. Mitchell on the sidelines and he broke clear to race for the score. An aroused Jackson team came to life soon and put over the Tiger touchdown early in the fourth period when Doug Kenna doggedly fought his way across the stubborn Wildcat goal line.

Fullback Furr brought the ball (Continued on Page Seven) acres have been leased by the firm and it is tentatively planned to drill seven wells in the county. The Pioneer Drilling company does the driUing for Randall's firm. Also among the company's plans for developing this section is the building of a refinery near Yazoo City should the field pan out as expected. The company has already procured a 250 acre tract vhich will be used for erection of trie refinery. Drilling operations will begin, Randall said, in Section 9 of the Tinsley sector.

With the arrival of several hundred out of town people during the past week, interest in oil interests has hit a new high with the excep- (Continued On Page Three) Expert Says Tinsley Oil Field Covers 220 Square Miles; Lease Prices Up YAZOO CITY, Oct. 6. The Tins-ley Oil field was described today as approximately 20 miles Ions and 11 miles wide, in the opinion of William Randall, state field man ager for the Illinois Refining com pany, which has taken offices here. Randall declared that his firm was ready to take its part in developing the field. The field lies northeast by south west, the oil expert said, and added that people should not be discouraged if some dry holes result from drilling, as this is a natural consequence in plotting the outline of the field.

Randall's company is now engaged in clearing titles and will begin drilling operations as soon as this work is completed. Around 4,000 time college course..