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of Tradition Upheld as Aggies Crush Steers, 20-0 A A Gallantly Hold Ground For First 2 Periods 'Bama Smith's Sideline Sneak Starts Ball Rolling for Farmers PLAYED IN RAIN Victory Gives Aggies Perfect Record For Year; Bowl Chance By WILBUR EVANS The Austin American Sports Editor KYLE FIELD, COLLEGE STATION, Nov. of football's oldest tricks furnished the spark that started mighty Texas A. M. Polling in its traditional battle with Texas Longhorns here Thursday afternoon. Earl 'Bama' Smith, the only outof -state player on Texas A.

roster hid out on the first play after the second half kickoff and that led to 20-0 downfall of the caught a pass, good for 44 yards lighter but game Texas Longhorns. Nearly 40,000 rain-soaked fans, the second largest crowd in Southwest conference history, looked on as the Farmers found it too wet plow for two quarters, thanks to some gallant, play by a Longhorn line throttled offense better than conference team had been able this season. Margin Not Indicative By virtue of some disheartening breaks, the Aggies started moving in the second half to chalk up the most decisive victory over a Texas team since the Aggies won their first conference championship back in 1927 by beating the Longhorns, 28-7. But the three-touchdown margin Thursday was not indicative of the comparative strength of the two teams, for the scrapping Longhorns deserved a better fate. Texas didn't disturb the Aggies offensively, but a fast-charging line and capable 1 ne-backing worried the powerful Aggie running attack more than has been the custom.

The triumph was the 10th straight for the Aggies, who already had clinched the conference championship. Homer Norton, who less than three months ago was the target of vicious alumni wolfing, became the third Southwest conference coach in five years to produce an untied, unbeaten champion. Smith Substitute Back It was Smith, a substitute back, who suddenly changed the complexion of the biggest football attrac- (Continued on Page 19, Col. 1) Co-Ed Seeks To See Wounded Grid Star Visitor Refused as Colorado State Fullback Fights for Life FORT COLLINS, Nov. 30.

PAn attractive Colorado State Mege co-ed sought unsuccessfully hursday to see Walter (Bud) Lyns football star shot and seriously wounded by another woman student the school. The woman who attempted to visit -yons was identified only as a frehman student from Fort Collins. Lyons, 105-pound fullback on the Colorado State eleven, was refused permission to hear a radio broadcast of the game which his team lost to New Mexico university by a 21-19 score. He was, however, told the quarter scores. In another ward of the hospital Lois Jeanne Vannorsdel, who Dep.

Dist. Atty. Winton M. Ault declared had confessed shooting Lyons, was held in technical custody. Ault blamed the shooting on the cooling of a campus romance be21.

Miss del. 19. An acquaintance said Lyons reI another girl. Wife of Ex-Solon Dies in San Marcos SAN MARCOS, Nov. C.

Bass, wife of a prominent druggist and a former member of the legislature, died Thursday. Survivors are her husband. three sons, Charles. H. W.

and Horace; four daughters, Mrs. Ralph Bruce of Houston, Mrs. Norman Schlemmer of Kyle, Mrs. W. A.

Williams and Mrs. Taylor Cliett of San Marcos: and her mother. Mrs. Janie Kone Garrett of San Marcos. Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 p.

m. from the home with the Rev. F. L. Meadow officiating.

Burial will be in the city cemetery. Some Boy Or Girl is new going "bike" to have a dandy this Christmas! IT MIGHT BE YOU! Read about the Gift Guide Contest on page 23 in the classified section. To place your ad Call 4391 "Classified Corner" Free Messenger Service today until 4 p. m. Pi The Austin TITI merican Volute 26 24 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS Finn Government Quits; Cities Burn Under Soviet Bomb Attack; F.

D. Issues Dual Plea Finland Declares War; Reds Say Finns Hit First Finnish Heads Hope To Reach Armistice With Soviet ULTIMATUM ON SURRENDER SET Russian Soldiers Close In by Air, Land And Sea Routes By the United Press HELSINKI (Friday) Dec. The government of Finland resigned early Friday in hopes a new regime might reach an armistice halting Soviet Russia's crushing invasion and spare the nation from a reported Soviet threat of "complete destruction." Parliament was convened late Thursday night, in city lighted only by buildings set ablaze in three terrific aerial bombardments, and received the resignation of the cabinet of Premier Aimo Cajander, who had been branded by the Soviet as "A war-monger tool of Russia's imperialist enemies." The cabinet resigned as reports spread that Russia had served an ultimatum threatening to "completely destroy" this nation of 800,000 people unless the government capitulated immediately and completely to all of Russia's territorial and military demands. Enemy Army 50 Times Larger Faced with virtual annihilation at the hands of enemy 50 times its size and strength, Finland sought a way of escape from the invasion which since daybreak Thursday had struck with sledgehammer blows. Several hundred persons were killed and many times that number wounded in daylong attacks on Helsinki, Viborg.

Petsamo, Abo and a half dozen other cities by lowswooping Soviet bombing planes which unloaded big thermite bombs, said to have been incendiary. Unofficial estimates placed the dead in Helsinki alone at 200 but the government listed only 80 known dead. red army troops hammered at land's defenders who. fought Andy Finns Claim Invasion 'Halted' The Finnish high command claim that the Soviet invasion had been "halted." The government of Premier Cajander decided to resign despite a vote of confidence from members of parliament, who met dramatically in the darkness on the steps of the parliament building and then were carried in buses to a secret meeting place. Soviet Premier and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M.

Molotov in his announcement at midnight Wednesday that Russia had broken off diplomatic relations with Finland made it clear that the Soviets would refuse to deal in any way with the present Finnish government. Finns hope that, with a new regime which might be looked upon favorably by Moscow. the invasion shattering attacks by land, sea and air might be halted. Trying To Reach Soviet Officials There was speculation that the new government might be headed by Finance Minister V. A.

Tanner. who, with former Premier Juhu K. Paasikivi, handled the futile attempts in Moscow to reach a compromise settlement of Russia's demands. Some reports indicated that Tanner was trying to reach the Kremlin in Moscow--all communication lines with Moscow were down--to plead with the Soviet leaders to halt the bombardment of Finnish cities and towns from the air. Officials refused to contirin these reports or admit that a Russian ultimatum had been served.

In this connection. however. a government spokesman had said only a short while before the gov- (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) Weather Partly Cloudy, Friday Number 185. Don't Bomb Cities Not Fortified, F.D.

Pleads of Nations Double Agreement On Part of Nations Is Requested by Chief ANXIETY IS FELT Finns' Minister Sees Roosevelt and Hull, Then Blasts Soviet an effort to avert demolition of Finnish cities by Russian forces. the Soviet and Finnish authorities he addressed identical entreaties that each promise not to bomb unfortified cities on condition that the other make the same pledge. The messages, repeating almost verbatim the appeals the executive addressed to Germany, Poland, Britain and France at the European outset, went to American Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt at Moscow and American minister, Arthur Schoenfeld with instructions for delivery at the earliest possible hour. Anxiety Dictates Speed Speed with which the appeals were transmitted, officials said however.

was dictated by anxiety lest wholesale, indiscriminate bombings usher in the second day of Europe's new Baltic war. Recalling the maiming and killing of defenseless thousands in other recent and current wars, the president declared such practices had "sickened the pro- By International News Service WASHINGTON. Nov. Roosevelt acted Thursday night in the bombardment from the air of civilian populations or of unfortified cities, upon the understanding that these same rules of warfare will be scrupulously observed by all of their opponents." With apparent White House cona half-hour session with the president, Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope had earlier branded Soviet claims cf Finnish provocation "false" and pronounced the military operations as a "ruthless attack upon a peaceful nation." foundly shocked the conscience of humanity." He declared: resort is had to this form of inhuman barbarism hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. will lose their lives.

Finn Envoy Hits Soviet "I am therefore addressing this appeal to the Soviet government (Finnish government) publicly to affirm its determination that its armed forces shall in no event and under no circumstances undertake High-ranking officiais meantime declared a serious deterioration of Soviet-American relations has been made inevitable by the Soviet military measures. which the administration sought to avert by a tender of its good offices to both sides. Officials, confirming a department study of means to make known this nation's listed among the measures open, the recall of Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt from Moscow, can- (Continued on Page 22. Col.

8) Mrs. F. D. Listens To Dies Witnesses First Lady Lunches With Officials Of Youth Congress WASHINGTON, Nov. and uninvited.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt strolled into the Dies committee hearing room Thursday. heard the American Youth Congress described as a communist-dominated organization and then took six of its officials to lunch with her at the White House. After listening for an hour while William Nowell.

Detroit negro, told of a purported red plot to establish a republic of negroes in the South, Mrs. Roosevelt departed. Dog's Desire to Catch Frog in Memorial Pool Brings Firemen and Police to Drag Cold Water A little white dog that wouldn't go away brought a police car and a fire truck i in a hurry to Memorial fountain at the University of Texas Thursday night. all because the little dog wanted a frog. Passersby saw the dog swimming in the pool and called him.

He came to the bank quickly enough Russian Troops Move 10 Miles Into Finland INVASIONS HELD FROM POPULACE Prisoners Are Taken As Russia Claims Finn Offense By the United Press MOSCOW (Friday) Dec. Soviet government announced at 12:50 a. m. Friday that the red army had invaded Finland, striking 10 miles deep into Finnish territory at several points, while the Soviet air force bombed Helsinki and Viborg. The announcement was the government's first admission of the invasion, which began at 8.

Thursday but was withheld from the Russian for 16 hours. The government's announcement, made radio, said the red army struck because of new attacks by Finnish troops in the early hours of Thursday. No Hint as To Soviet Declaration AGGI' FIRST SCORE- -James Sterling, sophomore Aggie end. slippebehind the Texas secondary to take a 16-yard pass from Walen Price for the Aggies' first touchdown in Texas A. Photo by Neal Douglass field in the traditional battle between the two teams.

Gilly Davis is shown charging in to grab Sterling, but it was too late. for the 20-0 vory over the Texas Longhorns Thursday afternoon at Kyle Farmer wingman made the reception back of the Texas goal. Cogregation At Session Is lecord for City Relion of Christ Is Stessed by Truett Ir Talk at Meet Adding the largest congregation ev to assemble in the city of Austinor. George W. Truett, veteran Itor of the First Baptist church! Dallas and a former head fed more tin 10 10,000 persons at Gregory gymnam Thursday noon that "the or thing that can take civilizationif the rocks and keep it off is the if ligion of Jesus Christ" as he changed Texas Baptist young people, rededicate themselves to the we of Christ's Kingdom.

Dr. mett served a double role in deliring the sermon, appearing as the onvention speaker for the annualtate meeting of the Baptist Trainin Union of Texas and as the preache for Austin's largest union Thanksiving service. ntroduced by Posey Dr. Tuett was presented by Dr. osey, pastor of the First Baptist church of Austin.

PrecedTruett's appearance, Dr. Edmun Heinsohn, pastor of the Univenty Methodist church of Aus- (Conqued on Page 23, Col. 1) Appoval of Oil Grab in Mexico Hinted by Court MEXCO CITY, Nov. The onstitutionality of Mexico's expropriation of the $400.000.000 foreign oil industry in 1938 was upheld Thursday by Supreme Court Justice Jose Maria Truchuelo, president the court's administrative section. In a 90-minute address opening final debate on the appeal of the 17 American and British petroleum companies whose properties were seized.

Truchuelo, however, asserted that the companies should be indennified for the buildings, refineries, furnishings and other property affected by Pres. Cardecree. The administrative president concurred with all the major points enunciated in the provisional opinion his colleague. Justice Rodolfo Asiain. leading to the impression The court would vote unanito sustain the constitutionality the expropriation.

Hell From the Sky Stuns Helsinki as Flames of of From Burning Homes Provide City's Only Light BY NORMAN B. DEUEL 50 times her size and strength, faced lian frontier. United Press Staff Correspondent HELSINKI, Nov. telephone to Copenhagen) -Women and children dazed by the horror suddenly heaped upon them from the skies fled Thursday night from this bomb-torn city lighted only by burning homes and public buildings. Civilians were in full flight from Helsinki but the evacuation was impeded by a shortage of trains, dye to frantic rushing of army recruits and conscripts to the frontiers.

war an enemy Spot Cotton Hits New High Ground For This Season By the Associated Press NEW ORLEANS, Nov. buying by spot cotton houses and trade interests boosted future prices into new high ground for the season on the local exchange Thursday and the December delivery sold above 10 cents a pound for the second time since the beginning of September. Contracts calling for delivery of the staple in March and October 1940, reached new peaks for the cotton year which started Aug. 1, while the December option touched 10.03 cents a pound, the same price reached Sept. 7 following the outbreak of the European war.

A general shortage of contracts during the continued past two active weeks demand coupled for actual cotton at Southern markets were the prime factors behind the advance. The best prices of the session were reached in late dealings when March deliveries sold at 9.88 cents a pound and October 8.79 cents. Other positions approached but did not reach the seasonal highs. Spot cotton here sold at 10.05 cents a pound. a new high and 30 cents a bale above Wednesday's close.

Other Southern markets where the 10-cents-per-pound price was surpassed. were Savannah, 10.04 cents; Charleston. 10.04; and Augusta, In New York the spot price was 10.16 cents per pound. DOCTOR'S RITES SET SAN ANTONIO, Nov. Funeral arrangements were made Thursday for Dr.

T. J. thall, 60. prominent San physician, who died of a heart tack Wednesday night. The broadcast referred to Finnish Pres.

Kyosti Kallio's declaration of the existence of a "state of war" in Finland but contained no hint as to whether Russia would formally declare war. "At 8 a. m. Thursday Soviet troops crossed the frontier on the Carelian isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Lagoda northwest of Leningrad as well as in other regions and advanced 15 kilometers (9.3 miles)," the radio announced. The announcement said that at 3 a.

m. Thursday, only two hours after announcement that Russia had broken off diplomatic relations with Finland and ordered the red army and navy to be ready for "all emergencies," Finnish troops attacked a Soviet frontier post near Mainila. her second fight for independent existence in 22 years with calm. There was no hysteria. Many seemed stupefied.

The main railroad station, target of the bombs of three terrific bombardments by the Russian air force during the day, was crowded with women and children patiently awaiting trains to take them from the city, The city was dark except for the blazing buildings. The Russian bombers had shattered a big hydroelectric plant during an attack on o5 tinies north or the care- Wichita Falls Leader Dies At Age of 82 By the Associated Press WICHITA FALLS, Nov. E. Huff, lawyer, banker and business leader, died at his home here Thursday at the age of 82. He came to Wichita Falls in 1882, before a railroad had been built here, and at the insistence of new acquaintances decided to stay instead of to Vernon, his intended destination.

In his 57-year residence here he had a leading part in virtually every, important civic undertaking. was chairman the board of the First National Bank of Wichita Falls and of the Times Publishing company of Wichita Falls. When Wichita county was organized. Huff as a young lawyer, secured Clay county's permission for the action. Wichita county then being attached to Clay for judicial purposes.

From that time until his death he occupied a leading position in city affairs. Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church here at 10 a. m. Saturday. There was no need for the people of Helsinki to carry out their carefully-rehearsed blackout against air raids Thursday night because the blazing skyline was visible for miles.

Thursday began as a normal one in this capital city on the Gulf of Finland, although everyone knew that Russia had broken off diplomatic relations and that almost anything might happen. The weather was brisk and, for the first time in a week, the streets Continuta on Mage Cot: French Deputies Vote Continuance Of War Powers By the United Press PARIS, Nov. French chamber of deputies, after voting, 319-175, confidence in the cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier, Thursday night voted continuance of the government's emergency decree powers for the duration of the war and thereby avoided a ening cabinet crisis. Daladier must, however, submit his cabinet's decrees to parliament for ratification within a month after they are issued, except at such times as parliament is sitting. Daladier opposed the proposal of the chamber's finance committee that his cabinet's decrees jected to parliament's approval within a month of their issuance.

Eventually, during recess, a compromise was worked out by which this approval would not be neces- (Continued on Page 7, Col. 8) but wouldn't go far from the pool. To the passersby, the dog seemed to act like a dog whose child playmate had drowned in the pool. Police and firemen were called. In the icy pool, the firemen fished, shivering all over.

Finally the dog crawled up on one of the horses at the fountain and peacefully watched the labors of the I firemen. Only Leningrad Soldiers Used Finnish artillery opened fire, the announcement said. but finally were thrown back by the which took 10 prisoners, including the were said to nave attacked again. At 9:02 a. it was said, another detachment of Finnish soldiers attacked in the Lake Lagoda region, crossing to Soviet soil before they were thrown back.

The assault was said to have occurred near Kucka. In all, the radio announcement (Continued on Page 7. Col. 5) Gloomy Gus B. Michel Horoscopes for Husbands for Dec.

The 1 moon will cause quite a change in your life during the month of December Home life will be much sweeter the comforts you have longed for, such as a handy ash tray. the softest sofa in the house and your favorite section of the newspaper, will be at your command. You will notice a pleasant change in the dispositions of the children and will be somewhat surprised to hear them answering "yes sir" and "rio sir and displaying an anxious smile at your slightest scowl. This may cause an emotional arousal. Try to keep steady Neptune rules your life (and pocket book) Your problem is how to use this Neptunian factor in a positive way.

Avoid mental confusions which are sometimes caused by Neptune taking on a too expensive "window tour. (Make de-tour within your price range.) Stress public activities Conclude business deals Ask for credit (And, avoid blind alleys). (P. I'm afraid to give you your horoscope for Jan. 1 but it looks like a bunch of men coming into your life for a spell.

Pay em or just skip Finally Asst. Chief John A. Luckey found a boy who owned the dog. The boy said the fountain was the rat terrier's favorite play spot. The dog catches frogs there.

The firemen then crawled on their truck shewing great control and not harming the dog. The noise and confusion had drawn between 50 and 75 spectaI tors. being WalAntonio at-.