Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

Ward, Miss Foot lie Highway For Over A Century Has Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism Prints All The Ncics That's Fit To Print And Prints It First FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS JACKSON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1939 ESTABLISHED 1837 Ole haii Ace Ki i i WW) f3 I i fi The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Authors of "Washington Merry Go Round" and "More Merry-Go-Round" I it it ic it ik Ole Miss And State Romp Hard On Homecoming Foes Dies In FOOTBALL RESULTS Rebs Take St. Louis 42-0; Bulldogs Bite Southwestern 37-0 Jackson May Get Supply Fr6m Oil Field Outskirts ST JE55E WflRu-f s. This ace end of the Ole Miss football team was killed xin a highway accident near Hernando Saturday night. Ole Miss Football Ace Dies Instantly As Car Turns Turtle On Road Hitler Fears Stalin Will Posh Into Scandinavia in Drive for Seaport; Heavy 3d Term Approval, Write-in Vote for Landon Feature Straw Poll; Neutrality Blocs Have Exchanged Places Since 1935 Cash-Carry Defeat; Justice Brandeis Back at Old Routine; More Nepotism to Add to Lists.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 21 Diplomatic dispatches from Europe indicate that the real worry among the Scandinavian countries is not po much a Russian conquest of Finland but the possibility that the Russian bear will walk beyond Finland to Norway and Sweden. This sounds preposterous, especially when you recall that Norway and Sweden are unaggressive countries which have been keeping out of other people's business for nvpr renturV- However, diplomats who have. their ears to tne grouna report that the Soviet Comintern is urging Stalin to take Norway and Sweden and that this fact is also causing Hitler all kinds of worry.

Reasons why Russia would like to hug Norway and Sweden to her breast is easy to understand. It is merely her ancient problem of a western outlet to the sea. The Soviet Union, biggest country in the world, has no means of reaching the open sea on the west except throueh the Baltic and the Dardanelles, both of which can be closed in wartime; or via the Arctic Ocean, where ice closes navigation most of the year. The Russian encroachment on the Scandinavian peninsula naturally would be disguised in the form of ceding certain strategic naval bases, though whether the Swedes and Norwegians would permit even this without war is doubtful. At any rate, most interesting angle of all is the inside report that the Hitler high command is (Continued on Page Nine) COTTONWAGE STAY IS WON Mill Owners Must Put Up $10,000 Bond to Get Delay, However NEW ORLEANS, Oct.

21 (JP A group of Southern cotton mill owners secured a temporary stay against a special wage increase ordered Oct. 24 by the wage-hour administrator. The stay order, issued by the fed- eral court of appeals here, does not become effective until a $10,000 bond has been posted by the owners. This bond, intended to ensure payment of the employes if the protest against the pay hike fails, had not been made late today. The petitioners argued the wage regulation discriminated against Southern operators and challenged the unconstitutionality of the wage-hour law.

Suit was brought by the following committee representing owners of 300 cotton mills located mainly in Mississippi. Texas, Alabama and Georgia: D. Sanders of Jackson, Miss, owner of the Aponaug and Sanders mills in Mississippi; Paul Redmond of and Bill Vereen, Moultrie, Ga. The case may be heard here early in December. Extenuating Circumstances HELENA, Mont, Oct.

21. -A parolee wrote the Montana parole board he had violated terms of his release by crossing a state line. But, he said, there were extenuating circumstances. WEATHER MISSISSIPPI Sunday Fair la partly Monday Fair to partly Louisiana Sunday Fair to partly cloudy. Monday Fair to partly cloudy.

Arkansas Sunday Generally ir. Monday Generally fair. Jackson Atlanta Birmingham Chicago Denver Jacksonville. Little Rock Memphis Meridian Miamt Mobile New Orleans New York Vicksburg 85 58 84 53 ,.71 50 .19 72 42 80 68 88 55 86 53 87 50 85 78 .85 63 88 68- 70 58 86 66 it it it it "Hard" Sand in Union's Stevens No. 1 Sends Drilling Deeper YAZOO CITY, Oct.

2L An authentic report circulated this morning that the union Producing Stevens No. 1 had struck pay were denied this evening when Cores at 4800 feet recovered "tight" sand with traces of oil. The crew was going ahead with coring activities howeMT, and it is believed pay will be struck shortly. Fifty-four feet of sand, it was reported, had failed to produce what the drillers are looking for. Striking of pay' at two mor wells this week brought to a today the most exciting and active week in the history of Yaaoo' oU boom which began August 29, and will no doubt be the signal for a wave of drilling in this county.

Further tests in the Tinsiey Field by the Union Producinff company will be announced. It is reported, while Inauguration of drilling tests by Southern Natural Gas, O'Brien Brothers, Amerada, Barnsdale, Gascon, Merrin, Magnolia, Byrd, Frost and others who have leases in the field will probably be announced at any time. A drilling contract will probably be left next week for the Yazoo Refinery, Jnc, Brooks No. 1 which is in the Tinsiey field. The derrick has already been erected on a location described by Frederick Mellcn, geologist who discovered the Tinsiey field, as the most promising in the area.

Southern Illinois Refinicry company is another interest which is being looked to for early drilling and refinery developments. The concern already has a 250 acre tract near the city, it is reported, which was secured for a refinery site. H. E. Gardner, senior traffic economist out of the United States Engineers office, in Vicksburg spent Saturday in Yazoo City at the office of the Chamber of Commerce gathering data on shipments originating in Yazoo county which might go by way of river freight in case transportation were avail able.

A complete survey will be made by Mr. Gardner" of all counties bordering on ne Yazoo river with a view td submitting to congress a recommendation with reference to providing a nine foot channel in the Yazoo river. Secretary Foster of the chamber of commerce assisted Mr. Gardner in securing available data for this county and a summation of the total tonnage in freight which originates in this county astound ed the statistical expert. The development of a potential oU field vill vastly increase the amount of freight originating in Yazoo county which could go by water transportation.

A detailed report will be prepared by Mr, Cardner and a copy furnished the chamber of commerce. Formation of a pipe-line corporation is being talked here, whose facilities would transport Yazoo oil to water where cheap barge line transportation would be It is pointed out that the cost of a line would not be over $25,000 per mile and there would be few engineering problems due to the absence of cold weather. Only one booster station would be needed between the field and Vicksburg it was stated. However, a nine foot channel in the Yazoo river would allow tanker traffic and eliminate the need of laying the line to the Mississippi. Italy Concerned Over Turk Pact ROME, Oct.

21. (INS) Italian concern over Turkey's mutual aid pact with Britain and France received its first public expression today when two automobiles in which Relto Del Carlino cf Bologna. "It is uselss for them (the allies) to present the pact as an act of homage to Italy," the paper said. "It is clear that it modifies tha status quo in the eastern Mediterranean, which the British, with us, axe obliged to respect," Crash IBARGO Irked at Speechmaking, Garner to Seek Vote On Act This Week WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.

IP Vice President Garner, impatient over long-drawn-out speechmaking on the administration neutrality bill, was reported today to be exerted his influence to secure a final vote next week. Friends said that Garner, who has given whole-hearted support to President Roosevelt's recommendation that the arms embargo be repealed, believed that the three weeks of-debate had been ample and that opposition snators now should accept a limitation on future debate. The vice president advised Majority Leader Barkley (D-Ky) it was said, to ask the senate to agree to a restriction on debate. If that is not accepted. Garner was quoted as saying, then the leadership should call the senate into session at 10 a.

m. each day and delay adjournment, until 10 p. m. The chamber usually meets at noon and quits about 5 p. m.

Senator Nye (R-ND), an opposition leader, told reporters he would block any effort to limit debate by unanimous consent. Another oppositionist. Senator Johnson (R-Cal), declared that there had been no effort to delay the bill and that a limitation on debate was not necessary. JAPS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE WAR TOKYO, Oct. 21 (INS) Japan'i.

determination to carry on the cam paign in China in 'spite of American opposition was strongly reaffirmed today by Foreign Minis ter Kichisaburo Nomura. "We are engaged in the recon struction of East Asia from a broad viewpoint," he said. '-'We hope th United States understands both our aim and our determination. DEBATING NEAR END IIIGn SCHOOL Riverside 27; Isola 6. Purvis Petal 0.

Mize 21; Raleigh 0. Canton 20; Yazoo City 0. Winona 13; Kilmichael 0. Durant 19; Carthage 7. Monticello 27; Prentiss 7.

Utica 12; Port Gibson 7. Charleston 48; Water Valley 0. Jeff Davis 25; Olive Branch 0. Taylorsville 31; White Oak 7. JUNIOR COLLEGE Goodman 19; Southwestern Frosh 14.

STATE Ole Miss 42; St. Louis U. 0. Miss. State 37; Southwestern 0.

SOUTH Tennessee 21; Alabama 0. Tulane 14; North Carolina 14. Ga. Tech. 14; Vanderbilt 6.

Richmond 21; Gettysburg 0. V. M. I. 16; Virginia 13.

Roanoke 20; Randolph Macon 6. W. and L. West Virginia 0. Kentucky 13; Georgia 6.

William and Mary 26; Hampden Sydney 0. Duke 33; Syracuse 6. Mercer 10; Birmingham-Southern 0. V. P.

I. 28; Centre 0. Louisiana Tech. 26; La. Normal 0.

W. Ky." Teachers 12; Memphis Teachers 0. Howard 33; Chattanooga 14. IjSU 20; Loyola 0. Sam Houston Teachers Rice 8 Florida Tampa 0.

MID WEST Indiana Illinois 6. Oklahoma A. M. Washburn 6. Oklahoma 27; Kansas 7.

Slippery Rock 13; Indiana Ten. 0. Missouri Kansas State 7. Purdue 20; Mich. State 7.

Drake Iowa State 0. Cincinnati 21; Wayne 0. South Dakota 14; North Dakota 13. Case 15; Ohio Wesleyan 13. Butler 33; Depauw 0.

Nebraska 20; Baylor 0. Michigan 85 Chicago 0. Ohio State 23; Minnesota 20. Northwestern 13; Wisconsin 7. Detroit 21; N.

Carolina State 0. SOUTHWEST S. M. U. 16; Marquette 0.

Texas 14; Arkansas 13. Tulsa 15; Centenary 7. Texas A. and M. 20; TCU 6.

EAST Holy Cross 20; Brown 0.. Dartmouth 14; Lafayette 0. Penn 22; Harvard 7. N. Y.

U. Carnegie Tech 0. Susquehanna 14; City College 6. Princeton 14; Columbia 7. Notre Dame 14; Navy 7.

Colgate 31; St. Lawrence 0. Boston U. 13; Upsala 3. Cornell 47;" Penn State 0.

Georgetown 13; Bucknell 7. Rutgers 25; Maryland 12. Manhattan Auburn 0. Union (NY) 19; Vermont 6. Boston Coll 19; Temple 0.

Maine 20; Conn. U. 7. Duquesne 21; Pittsburgh 13. Oberlin Hamilton 0.

Yale 20: Army 15. Catholic 60, w. va. wraieya" 0. Thiah 99.

Buffalo 0. Williams 0, Bowdoin 0 (tie) Amherst 32, Rochester 0. Swarthmore 14, Drexel 0. Texas Tech 19, New Mexico 7. FAR WEST Gonzaga 12; Oregon 7.

Colorado 13; Colo. State 0. Colo. Mines 20; Montana St. 7.

Denver Utah State O. Oregon State 13; Washington 7. California 13; Washington State 7. UCLA 20; Montana 6. Brigham Young 7, Nevada 0.

Pacific 14, Whitman 0. Utah 35; Idaho O. Denver Utah State 0. RIOTS ANNOY COTTON MEN Pickers in California Sector "Up In Arms" Over Conditions MADERA Oct. 21 OP) Violence broke out late today be tween striking cotton pickers and growers, and state highway patrolmen hurled five tear gas bombs to drive the crowd from the county park.

Chairs were wielded by combatants as strikers and growers met on the bandstand in the park. A caravan carrying men believed to te cotton growers rushed into the park, where the strikers and their sympathizers were holding a Maroons Score Five Touch- downs and Safety Over Lynx By JACK MOORE (See Play by Play Story on Sports Page) SCOTT FIELD, State College, Oct. 21 A homecoming day crowd of 6,000 watched the Mississippi State College Maroons smash a scrappy but luckless Southwestern eleven here today, 37 to O. rotate struck soon after opening of the ga le, when Charles Sham- burger dropped Henry Peek behind the Lynx goal for a safety, and were never headed during the rest of the game. After Coach.

Ed Kubale's Lynx had throttled the Maroon offensive throughout the first quarter, Coach Allyn McKeen substituted his second eleven and got results. With, Harvey Johnson, reserve tailback, doing most of the run ning, the Maroons drove 56 yards for their first touchdown. Toxie Tullos, fullback, scored from the 1 yard line after Johnson had set the stage with a brilliant 30 yard dash. The second State score came 2ls a result of a fumble, with less than two minutes to go in the first half. J.

W. Patrick dropped on Will Winfrey's fumble on the Lynx 18 yard line, and from there it was a simple matter for Johnson to pass over the goal line into the waiting arms of Arnold Moore. Wilbur Dees, serve quarterback, converted both placements, giving State a 16-0 lead at the half Another fumble gave State the ball on the Southwestern 46 three (Continued On Page Fifteen) polish fate That's German Warning as Russian Anger Over Pact Increases BERLIN, Oct. 21 LT) Authorized officials held tonight that Turkey's step in allying herself with Great Britain and France might turn her into another Poland meaning she would lose her independence. Signs taken as ominous for the republic were seen as the press reproduced an article from Izves-tia, Soviet Russian government newspaper in Moscow, which authoritative quarters interpreted as 'a warning to Turkey." Izvestia's article said the three-power mutual assistance pact "cannot be evaluated as an instrument of peace" but -assertions the treaty could injure Russia were "wrong." It also said Russia "has no ground to regret what has happened." Authoritative sources said those passages "are a threat to Turkey.

"Russia does not need to regret Turkey's new it was said, "because she is free now to occupy the Dardanelles if she desires. Before, with Turkey friendly toward Russia, it would have been harder." There was a general German belief that Russia had made up her mind to deal roughly with Turkey. CONGRESSMAN INJURED IN ROAD ACCIDENT NEAR BUDE BUDE. Oct. 21.

Congressman Dan McGehes and Hiram Sullivan, assistant postmaster at Meadville, were painfully injured last night in an automobile accident near here. Both are being treated in the Natchez Sanitorium. The congressman suffered a broken shoulder bone, and Sullivan received a possible fractured skull in addition to cuts and bruises. The two men had embarked on a fishing trip when their automobile slipped out of control and crashed into an Ole Miss Uses Finesse and Power to Crush Billikins By BILLY GATES (See Play by Play Story on Sports Page) UNIVERSITY, Oct. 21 Ole Miss's homecoming celebration today was a complete success.

The Johnny Reb football team licked St. Louis university from the start to the finish of an in-tersectional clash, polishing-off the Billiken's well organized but helpless aggregation for a 42 to 0 victory. The game brought a measure of -revenge for the close margin of last year's 14-12 win, and gave every man on Coach Harry Mehre's benchful of players a chance io see action. The game was less than a minute old when-Ole Miss scored. Erm Smith pointed a beautiful spiral skyward and Wally Rafalko STATISTICS Miss, st: First downs .15 6 Yards rushing net .203 54 Forwards attempted .11 18 Forwards completed 5 4 Yards by passing 129 69 Passes intercepted by 3 2 Punt a v.

from scrim. 40 25 Yards lost by penalties 50 15 sophomore quarterback for the Missouri team, chased it fruitlessly across his goal line after having touched the oval on the 10. Junie Hovious grabbed Rafalko 's resultant fumble and there was the first touchdown chalked up against the Billikens this year. 'Smith split the uprights for the early 7-0 lead. There were more touchdowns to follow, and they came with little effort for the most part.

St. Louis on its side of the offensive fence showed a fair passing attack, a set of hard -running backs, but the blocking need to set them on the loose was nowhere in sight. Coach Mehre substituted so frequently that there was little (Continued On Page Fifteen) bankerpBses in yazoo city Brother of State Insurancs Commissioner Dies; Funeral Sunday YAZOO CITY, Oct. 21 C. H.

Williams, member of a prominent Yazoo county family and brother of J. Williams, III, state insurance commissionei, died here today at 52 years of age. Mr. Williams nad been in ill health for a number of years. He v-as a lifelong resident of the city and had been assistant cashier of the Bank of Yazoo City where another brother, P.

C. Williams, is president. The rites will oe conducted tomorrow afternoon from the family residence at 4:00 o'clock. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Pearl Felton Williams; five brothers, P.

Williams, Judge C. D. Williams, Duke Williams, and R. S. Williams, of Yazoo City, and John S.

Williams, III, of Jackson; and one sister, Mrs. James A. Butler, Yazoo City. Railroad Heads Worry Over Two Turkey Holidays CHICAGO, Oct. 21.

(INS) Thanksgiving comes twice this year and that's quite a headache to the officials of the Milwaukee railroad. The road operates in twelve mid-western states. Division offices in seven of these states will 'e closed on Nov. 23, the day President Roosevelt designated as the holiday. Others will adhere to the traditional last Thursday in the month, Nov.

SO. Increasing Pressure in East? ern Fringe of Tinsiey Field Noted Increasing gas pressures in oil test wells drilled in the northern and pastern fringe of the Tinslev field i in Yazoo county raised hopes Jres-terday that a new source of natural gas for Jackson may be found near at hand. Geologists interested in the Ya zoo development reported that the pas pressure in the Jones-O'Brien well, newest oil producer tapped in the Tinsiey area, was considerably higher than in either the Woodruff or the Perry wells previously drilled by the Union Producing company. Increased gas pressure also was r.oted, they said, in the Jennie Stevens No. 1 well of the Union Producing Although doubt was expressed that a profitable gas well can be made in the Tinsiey ansa at this time, the possibility of a large pool or gas between the field ana jacKson was admitted by oil men and geologists.

The news of increased gas pressure in the Yazoo area was heartening to local interest very much concerned with the rapidly dwindling supply of gas in the Jackson field and the discouraging efforts to bring in new wells to supply lo cal demands. Drilline continues within the city cf Jackson but officials admit very franklv that, the chance of discov ering a new supply of gas is rapidly growing more remote. Meanwhile, the Yazoo oil field is the state's chief center of interest. Oil men who have followed the Tinsiey developments carefully since the first well came in six weeks ago declare that the Jones-O'Brien well is by far the best producer in the area thus far. This well showed 19 feet of coarse.

cil-bearinsr sand in a drill stem test Friday and the experts agree that it will produce in the neigh oornooa oi 7,000 barrels a day. Further tests were made yester day at the Union" Producing com pany's Jennie Stevens no. i witn results that were more or less discouraging. The project has not been nhnnrinnefi: however, and following the tests the drilling was resumed at a depth in excess of 4,800 feet. Yesterday's test, it was learned, showed twentv feet of sand in this well and strone indications of oil.

The sand was said to be too fine grained, however, to permit tne profitable expelling of the oil. Officials of the Union company expressed the hope that the coarser oil-bearing sands would be encoun tered at a greater depth. In the meantime Texas interests ro-e nrenarine to drill one or more test wells in the vicinity of Bolton, and hone to start the first well by November 1. Harold Byrd, of Dallas, has a contract for the fatewarc company to drill the first well In Section 12. Township 6, North, Range 3, East.

E. R. Owen, local driller, is working on a well at Brownsville, north-cast of Bolton, and was reported yesterday to have encountered the Wilcox formation. Little information concerning ths well has been made available. The Byrd interests of Dallas have leases on some 10,000 acres in the Bolto narea and their geologists are hopeful that this section offers better oil production than the Tinsiey dome section of Yazoo county.

Notwithstanding this. Yazoo actually has three producing wells al-leady and plans are being made rapidly for the drilling of other tests in that area. The output of the Woodruff No. 1. the state's first commercial producer, is being utilized in drilling operations in the immediate area.

TOO LITTLE TIME WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. W) Treasury officials wondered today whether war news and more active business are taking up so much of John Q. Public's time that he has little left to nlav cards. The monthly treasury analysis of excise tax receipts siiuwcu uiuicua- Ifed collections on every item except nlaying cards.

The September total for all items was $272,085,446, or i $94,430,251 more than in September, 1938. HERNANDO, Oct. 21. Jesse Ward of Louisville, ace end on the Ole Miss football team, was killed late tonight near here when the car in which he was riding turned turtle on the highway. Accompanying Ward ware Johnny Whittington, of McComb, Rebel wingback, and Billy Mann of Grenada, former halfback with the University gridders.

They were taken to Memphis to the Baptist hospital for treatment. Marshall R. E. Bell, of Hernando, said he arrived on the scene soon after the wreck and helped pick up Ward and carry his body to the funeral home in Hernando. He said two of the other occupants in the car were badly hurt and were rushed to the Baptist hospital in Memphis.

One of the young men told him, the town marshal said, that the brakes lock ed when the driver applied them quickly at a curve. "The car took a flip in the air," Officer Bell quoted the boy as saying, "throwing Ward clear of the wreckage about 20 feet down the middle of the hard highway." Bell said Ward must have died instantly. "His head was smashed and brains were spilled over the pavement," the town marshall said. Bell added that- the car did not leave the highway when it turned turtle, but was wrecked with the top splintered, glass shattered and one of the doors torn off. The accident happened about 2V2 miles north of Hernando on Highway 51.

The car was owned by Billy Bailey of Grenada, not a University student, and was driven by Ward. Bailey and Mann were most seriously hurt, with. Whittington only slightly bunged up. Whittington talked with Coach Harry Mehre of Ole Miss from the hospital, reporting the accident. Susie Herring, eight-year-old Hinds girl, was in a serious condition ei the Infirmary last night, after being knocked down on Highway 51 by a Jackson ice cream truck lte Saturday evening.

The girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Herrinj, Route 5, was unconscious for several hours. The complete extent of her injuries had not been determined. Mrs.

Lyda Johnson, sister of the girl, witnessed the accident. She said Susie and two companions were walking along the highway. The driver of the ice cream truck, apparently attempting to avoid hitting the girl, slammed on his brakes but swerved against her. Both girl and truck tumbled down the embankment. 1 Justice and Mrs.

Virgil Griffith, driving along soon after the accident, brought the girl to the MISSISSIPPI Flood Present Star Statrr Stations 24-Hour Chance 0.1 fall 0.1 fall 0.2 fall 0.2 fall 0.2 rise 0.2 rise 0.2 rise 0.2 fail 0.2 fall 0.1 rise 0.1 fall St. 30 Memphis 34 Helena 44 Arkansas City 42 Vicksburg 43 3.7 0.4 0.3 0.1 5.7 0.4 2.2 2.9 3 5 2.3 2.2 Natchez 48 45 35 38 22 17 Angola Baton Route Oonaldyonville Reserve New Orleans OHIO 6ir 40 B.O ..0.0 i.