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today's Index ie Veaiher 191 iQitln and vicinity Cloudy with local wcrs Sunday. i American Market IS Mortuary 2 Marie Calendar 4 Manic National 2, 2 Radio 7 Society Sec Sports .13. 14. IS, If Tea 2 Weather 2 Amutmmti 7 Buildinr Panel 19 II Central Teui 4 Careica Sec 4 Court Records ....20 Editorials Sec. 3 Features Sec.

International Interpretative Loral 19. 12 last Tetat Considerable cloudiness ttered thowers west Sunday and Mon-' moderate aoutheast winds on coast. Vest Texas Partly cloudy Sunday and nday. Little change in temperature. rolume 28 4 SECTIONS-44 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS.

ussians Face Zero horns Long our, Nazis Assert I Rice, at hO-O Speed As Hitlerites Roll On If ltr nu Fr Irs en Pi ian pa ik: ma h. Icr i I i as 1 1 I Si LI Photo by Neal Douglass. blocking by teammates, reeled off the season's I The pack of Ricers behind him are Mitchell Sad-most sensational run, going through all the Rice ler (76), Harold Stockbridge (19), Jeff Brown (26), was the run that started the Longhorns Ted Brannon (75). The Texas player visible in the rolling toward a mighty lashing for the Owls. I picture is Noble Qoss (11).

JACK CRAIX, the nation's No. 1 ball lugger and an outstanding field general, is seen here as he pulled off an 82-yard all-American runbaek of a Rice punt for a touchdown. Crain, abetted by some is Stevenson Enjoys Wide Lead as Time Nears For Him To Make Race for Governorship Number 147 Steers March On for New Smashing Win Game Furnishes All The Thrills, Including 80-Yard Crain Gallop By WILBUR EVANS The Austin American Sports Editor It was the day, the day Dana X. Bible's Longhorns were to meet a type of team that would furnish the clue to Texas' real strength. Rice institute, master over Texas in eight of eleven previous meetings and victor this season over mighty Tulane, was to furnish that test.

But still they passed, and still they ran and still the wonder grew as to just how far this great Orange and White machine would go before meeting its master. Jess A NEW HIGH IN GRID GOINGS ON A new top in goings-on at football games was established here Saturday afternoon during the University of Texas-Rice institute game. You have heard of people throwing their cushions, hats, about. You have heard of people pulling the hats of folk seated in front of them over their ears. And, of course, you have heard of people pounding on their neighbors at these contests.

But have you heard of this one: A woman became so excited at the game here Saturday that she pulled her corset off and stripped it over her head, leaving it there for half of the game. Neely's blue-clad Owls were tougher than Texas' first foes but there wasn't much they could do Saturday afternoon as an inspired herd of Longhorns thundered to a 40-0 triumph. It was a second straight conference victory for Texas and the thoroughness of it all ripped from the calendar many bitter experiences of recent Rice games. It was the Longhorns' most decisive conference victory since they beat the 1915 Owls here, 59-0, in the Southwest conference inauguraL All the Thrills It was a game that gave a packed stadium of 42,000 fans all the thrills they could ask for, barring, of course, the Rice followers who seldom had an occasion to cheer as the Steers stampeded to six touchdowns. And it was a performance typical of this Texas team that moves with, speed and poise.

They struck through the middle, off the tackles, around the ends and through the air to pile up an amazing advantage. Jack Crain Run The crowning point of the runaway triumph was reached in the second quarter when Cowboy Jack Crain returned a brilliant quick-kick by J. C. "Stoop" Dickson for 82 yards and the second touchdown of the day. Until Crain, the nation's No.

1 leather lugger, broke loose on that terrific gallop, the Owls were ver; much in the ball game, although Texas had pushed (Continued on Page 14, Col. 1) Cameron Man Is Named Treasurer Jesse James of Cameron. Milam county, chief clerk in the treasury department Saturday became state treasurer by appointment of Gov. Coke R. Stevenson.

James succeeds Charley Lockhart who resigned because of ill health Lnrkhart's resienation be came effective at the close of busi ness Friday night r- Extra! Extra! 40 tankers returned from Britain Mr. Ickes' gas pressure returns to normal Divorces, too. are caused from couples going 50-50. Half a couple going in one direction The other half in the other. What a duck hunter wouldn't give for one of those nazi antiaircraft guns that are accurate at 25.000 yards! Who says there's nothing to a name? Hasn't Hull the fine trait of putting everything he says in a nut-shell? Inflation is kinda like gangrene.

When it sets in you darn near hav to amputate a limb to get rib of it Over J- Gus B. Michel 1 By JOE BELDEN Editor. Texas Surveys of Pubii- Opinion Although about one-fifth of the voters of Texas have not yet made up their minds about him. Coke R. Stevenson today enjoys tremendous and widespread popularity as governor, a poll of public opinion reveals.

Beginning, its month-to-month index of popular approval for the new governor, Texas Surveys erf Public Opinion finds for October: 1. Three fourth "generally approve of Stevenson as governor." Roar ing. During that time he averaged a 67.4 per cent vote of approval. His peak was reached in March. 1641, with 76.5, omitting undecided ballots.

Stevenson's present popularity tops 7a.2 per cent, and if the large "no opinion" element is not con sidered, he finds 94 per cent of the voters satisfied with hi administration. "He hasn't made any blunders yet, but he has been in office too short a while to tell." was the type (Continued on Page 9, CoL 2) LCRA To Sell Plant Power Contract Made With Magnesium Factory Lower Colorado authority Saturday executed a contract under which it will supply electric power for operation of the magnesium plant to be built and operated here by Union Potash company to supply metal to the United States government The contract calls for a supply of 30,000 kilowatts of energy. The magnesium plant will be financed by the government defense plant corporation and operated by the Union Potash company, a subsidiary ot International Agricultural corporation. The contract is with the International company. Directors of the authority approved the contract Saturday and Mgr.

Max Starcke executed it on behalf of the authority. Terms Accepted Mgr. Starcke and General Counsel W. S. Gideon of the authority returned Saturday from Washington, where final terms of the power contract were agreed upon between representatives of the defense plant corporation, the International company, and the authority.

Engineers for the company recently were here and inspected sites in the vicinity of Austin for establishment of the plant, and secured options on several sites. They announced the plant will be near enough to Austin for company employes to live in the city. Site Selection Due I was expected supervising engineers of the government and construction executives of the company will reach Austin within a week to make the final site selection and start steps toward construction of the plant. Cong Lyndon Johnson announced the defense plant corporation had entered a contract with the company for establishment of the plant at or near Austin. At that time, the overall cost of the plant plus ore-extraction facilities, was fixed at but later, it was announced from Washington that the government, agency had approved an addition, bringing the total cost to $12,601,000.

CIVILIAN DEFENSE MEET SCHEDULED AT DALLAS DALLAS, Oct 25. 0V-Law enforcement officers from North Texas, West Texas and the Panhandle will meet here Monday and Tuesday for civilian defense Instruction in war-time defense duties. The Greatest Guy in Grid Game Gallops Flood Threatens Water Supply Of 5 Valley Towns Plant Located Upon Rio Grande Virtually Isolated by Waters RIO RICO, Mexico, Oct. 25. (VP) The flooding Rio Grande threatened the water supply of five Texas towns Saturday by cutting a new channel a half mile south of the Mercedes, Texas, pumping plant.

Virtual isolation of the plant which supplies Mercedes. Wes-laco, Edcouch-Elsa and Lavilla was reported by Mayor D. L.Heid-rick of Mercedes. The plant is located 300 yards upstream from the $60,000 international bridge where the rampaging river was tearing at a small patch of earth supporting the south approach. There was no danger of a water shortage immediately as the towns had an ample supply on hand.

W. W. Hall, engineer for the international boundary commission, began a survey of the water situation after appeals were made to Washington officials. Facts, Figures Agency Formed WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.

(UP) Pres. Roosevelt Saturday night created a new federal agency, the office of facts and figures, to keep the country better informed on the defense program. Archibald MacLei.h, librarian of congress, was appointed director of the new unit which will serve as a pool of defense information, available to other government agencies and the public. A presidential executive order made the agency part of the grow-ing office of emergency management. The purpose of the agency, the order said, will be to facilitate "the dissemination of factual information to the citizens of the country on the progress of the defense effort and on the defense policies and activities of the government" White House Secy.

Stephen Early said creation of the agency would not affect the present set-up of any existing government information office, including the press sections on Monday in the captive mines," Lewis told newspapermen. He said that he had made this decision known to the president in a letter delivered at the White House. That letter, which he distributed, was sharply critical of the defense mediation board and Associate Dir. Sidney Hillman who at one time was a co-leader with Lewis in the Congress of Industrial Organizations movement. Lewis explained that the United Mine workers' contract with the Captive mines had expired.

"We have no right to go on mining property (after midnight) without an agreement," he added. ii able team. It really Reds Before Moscow Face Supreme Test Plight of Southern Soviet Army Said On Disaster Verge By the Associated Press Russia's armies battling over the snow-covered front before Moscow faced a supreme test Saturday night as the Germans hurled great masses of shock troops, tanks and guns into a violent new offensive and unconfirmed reports placed nazi spearheads within 20 miles of the U.S.S.R. capital. Untold thousands of dead, Germans and Russians alike, lay in the drifting snows, with Soviet dispatches declaring that 300.000 nazis had been killed on the central front alone.

Disaster in South Near In the Ukraine, the plight of the southern red armies under the new command of Marshal Semeon Timo-shenko clearly verged on disaster. Jubilantly, heralded by a fanfare of trumpets. Adolf, Hitler's high command told the German people that their legions had captured Russia's "Pittsburgh," the big war foundries city of Kharkov, in the heart of the Donets river industrial basin, and that nazi troops now overran all but a tiny corner of the extreme southeastern Ukraine. The high command said the city of 840,000 population, lying 400 miles south of Moscow and 260 miles east of Kiev, the German-held capital of the Ukraine, was "one of the most important armament and economic centers of the Soviet Union." As a production source for tanks locomotive engines, coal and metals, Kharkov's loss meant a heavy blow to Russia's war supplies. Moreover, the Germans claimed the capture of the key rail town of Belgorod, 47 miles north of Kharkov, on the main line to Moscow.

The Soviet Sunday morning communique, broadcast from Moscow (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) Hitler, Ciano Talk at Front BERLIN, Oct. 2.1 UP) Adolf Hitler conferred with Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign minister, for two hours Saturday at the German front headquarters in a meeting officially described as occurring "in the spirit of their two countries' proven comradeship-in-arms." Although no official statement of the purpose of the conference was made, observers said the reference to comradeship in arms would seem to indicate that the military situation provided the main motive of the talk. Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, also participated in the conversation. Latin Americans Get Export Financing WASHINGTON, Oct.

25. (UP) Fed. Loan Admr. Jesse H. Jones announced Saturday night that the Export-Import bank had agreed to cooperate with central banks of 20 Latin American countries in financing exports from the United States to their respective countries.

The effect of the arrangements will 'be to permit Latin American nations to purchase United States products with less immediate outlay of their own cash. Jones said the Export-Import bank would establish special credit arrangements for Latin American banks to assume uninsurable risks incidental to making deliveries to ports of destination. Fraternity Head Says Reds Active on Coasts DALLAS. Oct. 25.

MP) H. Roe Bartle of Kansas City, president of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, charged Saturday "the communistic element is very active on both seacoasts, examples being groups at the University of Washington and at the City College of New York." Bartle was addressing delegates of the fraternity from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. "Communistic groups on the college campus are fighting us, but let them come; we like to fight Bartle said. 8,000 Dentists Meet At Houston Convention HOUSTON. Oct.

26. ((National defense and the good neighbor policy, as well as scientific advances in the profession, will hold attention here next week during the annual convention of the American Dental association. Approximately 8,000 dentists are expected to attend the five-day meeting which opens Monday. D. Speech May Outline U.S.

Policy Roosevelt Address Monday Night May Clear Eastern Stand WAQHTKr.TnN Drt 2S IIP) rps tinnspvplt shunted aside the sual routine of callers and confer- nces Saturday and devoted his me to composing a Navy uay trh pxnprted to contain imnort- nt statements on foreign policy. The speech Monday evening win a Mr. Roosevelt first since me snt 11 hrnnrieast in which he re- ealed that he had ordered the navy "shoot on sight" when axis raid-rs were encountered. Since that line, the immediate focus of mter-ational events, so far as this coun-rv is concerned, has shifted to the liripnt Onlv Fridav Navy Secy. Ivnox said that a collision with Ja- an anneared virtually inevitable.

pfficial Washington looked to Mr. speech for cluj, not utright announcements, as to mis ountry's policy in the threatening ar Eastern situation. Mr Roosevelt's address, at a Tavy Day dinner at the Mayflower otel here, will be Droaacast ian etworks) on a program beginning 9 p. in, (CSX). iJ.S.

Takes More Steps To Boost Far East Force Major General Is Sent Jo Command American Air Forces in Sector WASHINGTON. Oct. 25. (INS) Hie United States Saturday night ook additional military measures bolster further Pacific defenses hopes for a rapprochement with lapan waned and Far Eastern war louds neared the bursting point. The magnitude of the new meas-ires was kept secret.

But a war iepartment announcement assign-ng Major Gen. Lewis H. Brercton "command the American air rorces in the Far East, with head- martprs in Manila." was interpret ed as indicating they concerned air -trength, primarily. War Hrnartment officials declin ed all comment on the decision to lame a comrrmnder of the air force that region but conceded it was significant that a top ranking offi-er and veteran aviation authority of Gen. Brereton's caliber should Ibe named to such a post at this time.

Tt inill hp thp first time that a major general takes over the command of the Far Eastern air force, which heretofore, because of its mnJne nrrtnfip i ha Hppn COIYl- u-'. "viiu, jmanded by lower ranking officers. Gen. Brereton will operate under iput fien Donelas MacArthur. commander of the United States army force in the Far East who is reported in military quarters to be setting up at least ten more modern-equipped divisions In that area and strengthening xne de fenses generally.

TAP PAPERS DEMAND PACIFIC AID STOPPED TOKIO, (Sunday) Oct. 26 (INS) rokio newspapers Sunday demand-in pffprt that all forms of merican aid to Russia across the Pacific cease and warned that Tapan does not consider herself peased by Washington's decision ship supplies to the soviet wnne Port of Archangel. For Football NEWS Read the Sports Pages! For some of life's biggest opportunities Read the Classifieds Classified Dept. OPEN SUNDAY for counter service only Call Only These Numbers 4393 and 4396 during this time regarding cancellations, corrections, etc. We cannot handle these matters after 6 o'clock.

The American-Statesman CLASSIFIED 7 grfoW State Police May Enlist Aid Of 8,000 Dentists in Solving Lampasas Roadside Death The 8,000 dentists attending the American Dental convention in Houston next week may be called on to aid Texas state police in solving the identity of a dead woman whose body was found near Lampasas Oct. 21. The decomposed form was discovered by a transient on a Petain Acts To Check Nazi Killings Severe Punishment For Those Knowing Of Terrorism Acts VICHY. Unoccupied France, Oct 25. Pi The Petain government adopted iron-fisted measures of its own to suppress attacks on German occupying forces Saturday and announced it was pressing nazi authorities to stop the execution of innocent hostages in reprisal.

The new law passed by the cabinet provided for severe punishment for eye-witnesses, accomplices or others who have information of acts of terrorism against the German authorities but who fail to make their information known to officials. A communique said it had been decided "to strengthen considerably the measures of precaution and repression against criminal attacks aimed at the occupation troops and for which the French population is suffering the consequences." As the cabinet acted, the fate of 100 hostages at Nantes and Bordeaux hung in the balance. They were threatened with execution by firing squads if the French people fail to apprehend and turn over to German custody the assassins of Lieut. Col: Paul Friedrich Hotz, nazi commandant at Nantes, and a German military councillor at Bordeaux. Already 100 French hostages had been executed for the two assassinations, bringing to 188 the number of announced French deaths at the hands of nazi firing squads.

Rep. Fish's Secretary Released on Bond WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. (UP) George Hill, secretary to Rep. Hamilton Fish (R-N.

was released on $5,000 bond Saturday to await trial on charges of "corrupt perjury" before a grand jury that examining activities of axis propaganda agents. He was taken into custody yesterday when the grand jury returned the indictment Fed. Prosecutor William P. Maloney described him in court as the "key man" in disseminating propaganda "under congressional frank all masterminded by foreign, German agents." He pleaded innocence. 2.

Less than one in every 20 disapprove of him. 3. One-fifth are undecided. While it may be true that Stevenson did pot have to wage a controversial campaign as did W. Lee O'Daniel to reach the highest state office, the Southwest Texas ranchman appears in three months to have attained as favorable a position as O'Daniel achieved during his second term.

For one year, beginning in June, 1940. Texas Surveys conducted a monthly measurement of pro-and-con O'Daniel feel Johnson Gets Boulevard Fund The WPA has made available $209,396 more for continuation of the Lamar boulevard project, Cong. Lyndon Johnson announced Saturday in revealing that the president had signed the appropriation. Johnson also said that $77,636 had been appropriated for continuation of street work in Lockhart. City Engineer James Motheral said the money will be used to take the boulevard work on from West 24th to West 29th street Workmen will soon be ready to start on that phase of the boulevard, he said.

Julian Montgomery, Austin engineer who is handling the WPA work at Lockhart, said that appropriation is for a continuation of the street paving and storm sewer work that has been going on for a year. Motheral also said Saturday thjat draftsmen in his office have completed the topographic map of the newly-acquired Butler tract, which shows the elevation contours in the area. Such a map is a prerequisite for laying out the master plan for improvements on the tract, which will include a golf course, the proposed baseball park, and boulevards feeding the new Lamar boulevard bridge over the Colorado. Ex-Publicity Man Billed for Perjury SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 25. (UP) A federal court jury of eight men and four women Saturday convicted James B.

O'Neil, former publicity man, of perjury in connection with the Harry Bridges deportation hearings. This was O'Neil's second trial. Fed. Judge Martin Welsh sentenced him to three year's imprisonment and fined him $100. William Licking, assistant U.

S. attorney, said a motion for a new trial will be argued in Sacramento Tuesday. creek in a roadside park one mile north of Lampasas, where the Hamilton-Brownwood roads fork. Police laboratory experts have been unable to find an indication of the cause of death. With meticulous attention to detail, stale police laboratory experts headed by J.

H. Arnette have meanwhile listed possible clues to identity, including the woman's bridge work. Two Austin dentists said the bridge work, probably costing between $50 and $75, is a type not made in the last 15 years. Greatest Meeting Since great numbers of Texas dentists will be concentrated in Houston for the national conference starting Monday, state officers Saturday said they may take the bridge piece to the convention to see if any dentist there may recog-( Continued on Page 12. Col.

3) El Pasoan To Build Army Theaters WASHINGTON, Oct 25. fPj Contracts announced by the war department: "Robert E. McKee, El Paso, Texas, construction of theaters at Fort Bliss. Texas. $105,300.

Hettrick Manufacturing company, Toledo, Ohio, (for manufacture at Denison Cotton Mill company, Deni-son Texas.) 75,000 yards cotton tent duck, $18,468. End Coal Strike The decision will cause an estimated 53.000 miners in Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and at one mine in Illinois to leave their jobs after midnight. The principal issue was the union shop, a concession written into the U.M.W. contract with other Appalachian field operators. The mediation board had asked that the union and the steel companies engaged in further negotiations and.

failing an agreement by that method, agree to arbitration of their differences. Mr. Roosevelt had asked both factions to continue production pending these Lewis Rejects F.Ds Appeal To WASHINGTON, Oct 25. (UP) Pres. John L.

Lewis of the United Mine workers late Saturday rejected Pres. Roosevelt's request that work not cease in the steel industry's captive coal mines and ordered the 53,000 workers to stop operations at midnight Bitterly criticizing the defense mediation board, which had gained a five-week postponement of the threatened strike, as "casual and lackadaisical to the point of indifference," Lewis made his intentions known less than eight hours from the walk-out deadline. "Thare'U be no production of coal.