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Today's Index The Weather Amumrnta .1, Builitinr Parw 1. 11 Comics Sec. 4 Aufttn nd vicinity Fair Sunday. Eatt Teif Fair nl continued mild temperatures Sunday and Monday. West Texan Clear ikies Sunday and Monday except soma cloudiness developing over southern portion during the afternoon.

Little chanre in temperatures. Volume 25 4 SECTIONS-44 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS T.C.U. Frogs Lambast Longhorns by 0 insdl (Last ry Wndl Cal Etspot Faces Msfani Glory Rr iCOOTAVi iv 1 NIX yj ADAMS I TAYLOR O'-' 14 library tower brightly white outside the academic room windows. It was the first time the lights have been all-white after a U. T.

game since something more than a year ago. The usual post-game hue is victory orange, but last Saturday, after the tie with Baylor, the tower was orange on two sides, white on the other, two. The electrician didn't have any such problem in symbolism on his hands this time. I LAYDEN A faked a Capt. Pete for Texas', 7 Mortaory 4 MotI Calendar Music 9 Court Record 4 I National t.

7 Editorial! Radio Society Sec. Sporta .13, 14. IS, 1. Teiaa Weather 4 Featurta See. I International Interpretative See.

Local .1, 4, It, 12 Market! 1 Number 168 20 Nazi I roop Ships Sunk By the AsHociatei Press Destruction of 20 troop-laden German transports attempting a sneak-landing along the frozen wastes of the Murmansk coast was announced Sunday by the Russians. The report of this smashing success on the far northern front was accomnanierl hv a announcement of another victory in the south annihilation of 2,500 Italians in the Donets basin. In its account of the Arctic victory, the Moscow radio said Russian troops made a forced seven- ine marcn across rrozen Tundra the Murmansk region to foil the azis. Hit by Point-Blank Fire The Russia ns sairl rprl nrmv forces reached the coast a jump ahead of the Germans, whn lannnh. ed the abortive landing from the nyoacni peninsula, which juts out into the Barents sea from the Finnish-Russian border.

Before the Gprmam Via1 rhan to land, the Russians said they 'ere destroyed Dy tne point-blank ire of the red fortes. CoUflled With thpJ ronnrlcd cesses at both ends of the front, the Russians declared that Adolf Hitler's invasion armies, huddling in trencnes before Leningrad and Moscow, now have lost their ehtninff-war (pmnn tnr th fircf time since the fuehrer sent them rampaging into France and the low countries 18 months ago. WhUe admitting a critical situation in the Crimea, where the Germans asserted that the fall of Rus- (Continued on Page 6. 2) Southern Denis Plan Strike Fight 6-Point Program Is To Be Offered Soon WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (INS)1 A militant group of southern democrats Saturday night rallied behind a six-point legislative program to halt defense strikes that will be introduced in the house Monday by Rep, Howard Smith, (D-Va.) Meanwhile, Rep.

Cox declared that the house rules committee may block further legislation in the house until Pres. Roosevelt acquiesces in a plan that will definitely put a stop to defense labor tie-ups. The proposed legislation would: Compel a 30-day cooling off period, during which the labor department's conciliation service would function, between a strike call and the effective date. Forbid a strike unless it was approved by the majority vote of affected workers by secret ballot under government supervision. Forbid sympathy, jurisdictional and boycott strikes.

Freeze existing open and closed shop arrangements between ployer and workers. Forbid masif picketing. Provide for protection of workers against violence. Taylor Civic Leader Dies TAYLOR. Nov.

15. (Spl) Ver. non D. Mann, 59, Taylor civic lead er and district manager of the Texas Power and Light company, died at his home here Saturday night. A native of Taylor, he received his education in the Rocitport and Taylor schools and completed special courses in telephone and electrical engineering.

His first job was as messenger boy for Western Union and he worked with the telephone company for 16 years prior to becoming affiliated with the light company. He was a charter member of the Taylor Rotary club and had served as an official of the Taylor Chamber of Commerce. Survivors are his widow, one daughter. Mr.i. Val Pennington of Wichita Falls: five sons.

D. T. Mann of Big Spring, C. V. Mann of Corpus Christi, J.

H. Mann of Dallas. A. L. Mann of Corpus Christi, and K.

M. Mann of Taylor ami one brother, John H. Mann. 15 GUNNERS TO GO WITH EACH MERCHANT SHIP GUV NEW HAVEN, Nov. 15.

(UP) The navy recruiting station disclosed Saturday that 15 gunner3 will be assigned to each gun placed aboard an American merchant pass, ran a few yards and lateraled off to Layden, who rated down the sidelines touchdown. "This shot shows Layden Photo by Nral Douglase. gathering speed aften taking Crain's toss on about the 40-yarcf stripe. Bright spot of Saturday's distressing 7-14 defeat of the Texas Longhorns by the T.C.U. Horned Frogs "was this first-quarter play on which Jack Crain 'Christians' Take Over Austin as Happy T.C.U.

Football Followers Whoop It up and Down nd 1 iOC CfC Winning Ride Of BibSemen Touchdown Toss With 10 Seconds To Go Brings Victory By WELDOX HART American-Statesman SporU Staff Texas 34, Colorado 6. Texas 34, L. S. U. 0.

Texas 40, Oklahoma 7. Texas 40, Rice 0. Texas 4S, Arkansas 14. Texas 34, S. M.

V. 0. Texas 7, Baylor 7. Texas 7, T. C.

U. 14. When the spry young blades of Texas current vintage, are old and gray and come back to the Forty Acres as honor guests at some distant Homecoming, they will still be trying to explain the inexplicable Texas Longhorns of 1941. A grand team it was in the balmy Saturday afternoons of Indian summer, and in the crisper, sharper Saturday that ushered in November. The best in the nation, they called it, and the evidence wa? on their side.

A fortnight later their wonder team was tied and beaten and out of the glory for good and all. On successive Saturdays, while the hands of the clock slipped past the last quarter-minute mark, enemy backs caught forward passes in the Texas end zone, bringing disaster to the rosiest hopes Longhorn fans ever entertained. Nix Finishes Job Emory Nix, a cool sophomore from Corpus Christi, Saturday finished the job Kit Kittrell of Baylor started a week before. With 10 seconds to play he fired the pass from Texas' 19-yard line that Van Hall, another sophomore, caught in the pit of his stomach for the most amazing of all Texas Christian's victories over the Longhorns. It came after Texas was resigned to another 7-7 deadlock, it made the final score 14-7, and it passed the University of Texas out of the Southwest conference and post-season pictures.

Losers now of a game and a half, Longhorns could not even tie for the title by defeating Texas A. M. Thanksgiving Day. Nix had run the ball into position for that winning score in the dying minutes, and so Nix is a great T.C.U. hero Whipped to Frazzle Dean Bagley is a T.C.U.

hero. Dandy Dean of San Saba, one of the fanciest steppers in Central Texas schoolboy history, was here for his first game in Austin against the school he almost chose over T.C.U. He celebrated with a spec- (Continued on Page 13, Col. 1) Smithville Auto Accident Fatal SMITHVILLE, Nov. 15.

(SpD Bernard Gonzales of Galveston died on the operating table here Saturday morning after being critically injured in an automobile accident about three miles north of Smithville on Highway 71. Gonzales was one of four Galveston men en route to the Texas-T. C. U. football game at Austin.

Hugh N. Lawler, driver of the car and accompanied by Bob Wilkins, George Rousett and Gonzales, apparently lost control of the car causing it to run off in a ditch. The other three in the car suffered Were given medical attention by Dr. Martin Hoch of Smithville. Gonzales' body is in charge of a Smithville funeral home.

Four Men Die In Copper Mine BUTTE, Nov. 15. (INS) Four men died -in an abandoned shaft of the Anaconda Copper company's Butte mine Saturday when they were overcome by bad air. The victims were Charles Make-la. 62; Jonathan Thomas.

53: Nltk Butko. 38. and Fred Bugni, 32, all of Bute. Mine officials said the four men had entered the unused portion of the mine to inspect a ventilator built to confine dead air to one section of the shaft. F.D.

Lauds Radio NEW YORK, Nov. 15. fUP) Vfts. Roosevelt, in a letter to the national Broadcasting company which is celebrating its 15th anniversary, said Saturday he was con fident broadcasters would work "with redoijsled zeal to make our American system broadcasting the best in the world." To Illinois Men Warned Of Likely Halt Mine Union and Steel Officials Make Final Stab for Peace Today WASHINGTON. (Sunday) Nov.

16. OP) A spreading work stop page throughout the soft coal in dustry to reinforce the United Mine Workers' demand for a union shop in the captive pits appeared imminent Sunday as a midnight strike deadline passed with the op erators and tne union still deadlocked. With the dispute still unbroken. Pres. Roosevelt conferred with Secy, of War Stimson and army officers, apparently mapping a course of governmental action.

The president has voiced determination that the captive mines, supplying fuel for vital defense forces, must operate. A few hours In advance of the midnight deadline which John L. Lewis set and stuck to for expiration of the truce in the captive mine strike, a lieutenant served notice on the Illinois operators that "it may become necessary momentarily" to call out all the miners in that state. Last Step for Blow The Illinois operators signed a contract lining up with the Appalachian agreement only Oct. 27.

Lewis, as president of the C.I.O. United Mine Workers unions previously had warned the commercial operators under the eight-state Appalachian agreement with major producers that work mieht be stoo ped in the commercial mines if the captive mines held out against the union shop provision embodied in tne Appalachian contract. Thus the notification to the Il linois operators, served by Ray Ed-mundson, state miners' head, was viewed as the last step to solidify tne miners ranks for the gigantic blow or bluff of a complete coal mining shutdown. Another Parley Today Although the strike truce expiration wag -midnight Saturday, the Sabbath holiday prevented any strike from taking effect until Monday morning. Meanwhile representatives of the union and the steel companies, which own the captive mines, will make a last-minute stab at reaching an agreement with another conference Sunday.

About 30,000 miners are covered by the Illinois agreement. However, it Is fundamentally the same as the Appalachian agreement which covers about 350,000 commercial miners. And the implication was plain that the U.M.W. must regard both in the same light. Cite Contract Clause These agreements include clauses assuring the operators that the U.M.W.

will not make a contract giving other (Operators more advan tageous terms. Since these contracts provide for the union shop, the U.M W. contends that they would be violated if other operators were given an "open shop" contract. At United Mine Workers head quarters, officials said Edmundson's action was in line with the policy established by Lewis last Sept 16 when he notified all signatories to the Appalacnian agreement that the captive mine dispute "imperils the integrity" of their wage agreement. Llalm Contract The decision of the policy com mittee not to recall orders for a strike at midnight in the "captive" mines was on the grounds that there was no agreement covering further work.

"We have no contract after mid night," Lewis said. The miners' president referred to the temporary agreement, expiring at midnight, which ended a three-day strike in October affecting 53,000 miners. Says Men Can't Work "There'll be no coal mined Mon day unless an agreement of some kind is reached Sunday," another member of the policy committee said. We don't need to issue a strike call Our men can't work after the contract expires." Lewis reported to the policy com mittee on an earlier three-hour conference with officials of the steel (Continued on Page 4, Col. 5) The McDonalds only a few months moved into their new home in suburban Belvedere north of San Francisco.

The executive had but few inter ests outside of his job, although he maintained membership in sev eral exclusive clubs, such as the Bohemian and Pacific Union. He was a graduate of the Uni versity of Notre Dame and a trus tee of the school Public Opinion Survey Shows Voters Now Favor Stevenson Over Mann for Governor's Race (EDITOR'S NOIE: The Texas voters' frame of mind today is being reported br the Balden Poll in a series of surveys designed to define the background for state political activity due to start in ix or a even months. This Sunday the governorship is taken up. On following Sundays the race i4 V. S.

Senator and campaign expenditures will be the topics). By JOE BELDEN Editor, Texas Surve s.of Public Opinion Since last summer important changes have taken place in Texas public opinion regarding the forthcoming race for governor. These shifts in voter-sentiment, recorded by Texas Surveys of Public Opinion, take on significance as potential candidates begin touring, speaking, and getting into the headlines gener Kurusu Claims Fighting Chance Yanks Not Inclined To Minimize Trouble WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. IP) Asserting he had a "fighting chance" of success, Saburo Kurusu, special Japanese envoy arrived Saturday for conferences intended to settle Japanese American difficulties in the Orient and the Pacific.

Landing at the Washington national airport, he was greeted by Kichisaburo Nomura, the Japanese ambassador, and told reporters: "I realize the difficulty of my task, but so long as there exists such sympathy on the part of the people of the United States, I still have a fighting chance to make a success of my mission." "If you were a betting man, Mr. Ambassador," a reporter said, "what would you say were the odds against you?" "You'll have to be the bookmaker." Kurusu laughingly replied. He had come to America, he said, to "assist not to instruct" Ambassador Nomura, in the trying negotiations that lie ahead. American officials as well as Kurusu were hardly inclined to minimize the difficulty of the emissary's mission. Japan is committed to economic, and if necessary, military domination of the Orient.

The United States has told her in plain effect that war expansion can go no farther without, risking a war with this country. EMPEROR OPENS SESSION WITH GENERAL MESSAGE TOKIO, (Sunday), Nov. 16. Emperor Hirohito opened a special session of the Japanese diet the first extraordinary meeting of that body since the beginning of the Chinese war in 1937 with a brief generalized message Sunday. The emperor told the legislators they had been called betause of the need for additional budget and other legislation and expressed his personal wish that they fulfill their duties "in a harmonious spirit." 10 Badly Burned In Bus Explosion 20 to 30 Others Also Injured Near Ranger RANGER, Nov.

15. (ff) Ten persons were burned critically and from 20 to 30 others were less seriously hurt when the gasoline tank onja truck exploded after another truck had crashed into it eight miles east of here Saturday night. Reports to investigating officers said the truck, loaded with lumber, stalled on the hill and put out flares to warn approaching vehicles. Another truck crashed into the stalled machine and both caught fire. Gus Tank Explodes The driver of a Greyhound bus stopped his machine and was at tempting to put out the fire on the lumoer truck wnen tne gasoline tank exploded, spraying scores of spectators who had alighted from their cars after being attracted to the crash.

Both hospitals and all doctors in Ranger were called into service by the accident. Because of thecon-fusion and the larger number of injured, names of all those burned were not immediately obtained. Hunters Among; Injured The two thought most critically burned were Alvin Johnson and his brother, both of Lewisville. Others reported burned included James Goolihan and his son, James M. Goolihan, both of Dallas, en route to West Texas on a deer hunt: Alex Goban and Ellis Granville of Fort Worth, Garland Branton, Eastland county treasurer, Herschel and Roy Ely, both of Abilene.

Others who suffered less serious burns included James Sanders of Ranger and Les Barnes of Eastland. 9 FATALLY BURNED IN INDIANA WRECK RUSHVILLE, Nov. 15. Eight passengers and the driver of a Greyhound bus were injured fatally Saturday night as the vehicle plunged over a 25-foo embankment and caught fire after a collision with an automobile, four miles east of here on Indiana road 44. Ten other persons were hurt, some seriously.

Andrew Hansen, 26, of Cincinnati, the driver, escaped from the flaming wreck, only to die of his injuries in a hospital at Greens-burg. The accident occurred as Hen. sen swerved to avoid collision with an automobile driven by Paul T. Conneil, 39, of Glenwood, Ind. The bus careened against a culvert and then plunged down the embankment.

As it overturned the rear end was torn out and some of the passengers escaped through the opening. The bus burst into flames as it rolled down the embankment. Though Texas fans were gloomier than a boy who has lost his picture show money, that redoubtable Texas spirit did not fail entirely in the 14-7 loss to T.C.U. Even before the Christians' dramatic last touchdown was accomplished in the fading moments of the game, the Longhorn band had straggled around the oval and massed itself behind the Texas players' bench. With the game over and miracles (Continued on Page 7, Col.

2) ally. Jasi weeK ooin ijrov. vukc Stevenson and Gerald C. Mann were belieevd by commentators to have put forth their first feelers: Stevenson has said he will seek election. A state-wide poll completed this week elicited these facts from the farms, the citjfes, the towns, and the forks of the creek: 1.

While Mann last August in a Texas Surveys poll was by far the favorite as a candidate for governor in 1942, the public mind in three months has undergone a reversal, and now Stevenson leads with a majority. 2. W. Lee O'Danicl who observers believe is more likely to announce for the senate than the governorship is definitely not wanted and has in fact lost support foj a third term. 3.

More and more people are beginning to reserve their opinion, apparently until candidates definitely announce. Today three out of every twenty say they are undecid- (Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) Canadian Forces Reach Hongkong OTTAWA, Nov. 15, VP) The ar- rival of a Canadian force in Hong Kong was announced here Saturday night by" Prime Minister W. L.

Mackenzie King. The Canadians will serve with other empire units making up the Hong Kong garrison. They are commanded by Brig. J. K.

Lawson. King did not give the strength of this Canadian force, the first to be dispatched to the Far East. By LORRAINE BARNES American-Statesman Staff A lion with a kink in its tail, Austin was taken over by the Christians Saturday night as T. C. U.

football followers perhaps a little amazed at their upset victory whooped it up and down and up again. On the University of Texas campus. Dr. and Mrs. Homer Price Rainey shook hands with nundreds of dads and mothers at the homecoming reception, the lights of the Contract Made For Potash Job Government Deal For $9,000,000 Plant Bared Contracts for the construction of a $4,000,000 unit to produce magnesium at Carlsbad and for a $9,000,000 refining plant in Austin by the Union Potash and Chemical company had been entered with the federal government Saturday, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Albuquerque, N.

quoting the Albuquerque Journal. Max Starcke, general manager of the Lower Colorado River authority, which will furnish power for the Austin plant, said Saturday he had not been advised officially concerning any contract awarded but said he presumed the $9,000,000 refining plant is part of the $12,000,000 magnesium plant which the Union Potash and Chemical company, a subsidiary of International Agricultural corporation, will construct here. Mr. Starcke said he could offer no definite statement until he had official information or further de tails concerning the two contracts which the Albuquerque newspaper said had been made. Reports have been heard the plant at Carlsbad would be expand ed and the plant here later will be enlarged, but Mr.

Starcke said he could not confirm "this since he was lacking in definite information. The Albuquerque newspaper quoted Caswell Neal, attorney for the Union Potash and Chemical company at Carlsbad, as saying the contracts would be let at once for the Carlsbad unit. At Carlsbad, the newspaper said, magnesium concentrate would be made from potash magnesium sulphate, which is now being rejected. The concentrate in liquid form would be shipped to Austin for refinement by electrolysis. NOBEL OFFICIAL DIES OSLO, Nov.

15. ity-Prof Fred-rik Stang president of the Nobel committee 1921, died Saturday. Prof. Stang. 74, was a former president of Oslo university.

Famous Austin House For Sale Elks Club Is To Sell John Bremond Home The turreteoS house hich John Bremond built for his family in the glamorous '80's then as now a show rjlace among Austin buildings is up for sale. Austin Elks, who acquired the property at Seventh and Guadalupe in the 1920s, announced the sale as preliminary move to constructing a modern clubhouse on a new site still to be acquired. Decision to sell the property, dominating at least a quarter of a block, was reached at a conference last week by Austin Elk- and M. A. deBettencnurt of Houston, president of the Texas Elks State association; A.

C. Huwieler of Houston, district deputy grand exalted ruler, representing the grand lodge: Bob Grobe of Houston, Elks state secretary, and A. W. Jeffreys of Herring. 111., special deputy to the grand deputy.

C. A. Hyltin, Austin granu exalted ruler, appointed Henry Wendlandt, J. O. Garrett and Joe C.

Carrington to the sale committee. A committee (Continued on Page 10, Col. 4) Angus McDonald, President Of Southern Pacific, Succumbs SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 (UP) Angus D. McDonald.

63, president of the Southern Pacific company and one of the nation's foremost railroad executives, died Saturday at the company hospital. McDonald was operated on Tuesday for a recurring abdominal ailment, and he failed to rally. McDonald had been head of the vast Southern Pacific rail transportation system since 1932..