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i THE WEATHER Little tempe ratura change tonight. (Complete Weather Report on Market Thermometer Readings: 8 1 9 10 11 I 12 I 1 2 3 84 I 89 I 801 92 PM 84 I 96" I 95 FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIDE WORLD NEWS SERVICE MARKETS AT A GLANCE NEW YORK. June 'JO firm; resume adranee, recorerr 111 Cotton, hijher; trade huring and firm higher: trade buying and firm outeide Wheat, higher; mill buying, rovering. Corn, higher; better demand. steady to 10 higher; top smaller supply.

Cattle, ctaady; other cattle weaker. VOL. XLIV. NO. 160.

CORSICANA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942. PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS LITTLE DAMAGE DONE IN ENEMY AIR RAID DUTCH HARBOR BUT VIGIL KEPT Explosives Firms Indicted Under Anti-Trust Laws PHILADELPHIA, June (JP E. I. Dupont De Nemours and company, five other explosive manufacturers and 10 of their officials were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of conspiring to fix prices in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. Also named were the Hercules Powder Company and the Atlas Powder company, both of Wilmington, The Austin Powder com- pans of Cleveland: Illinois Powder Manufacturing Co, St.

Louis; and the King Powder Cincinnati. The 10-page Indictment contended that the effect of the alleged SITUATION QUIET FOLLOWING ATTACK UPON NAVAL BASE DAMAGE NOT HEAVY AND FIRES EXTINGUISHED; STIMS0N WARNS WASHINGTON, June 4. Navy, describing the situaton at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, as quiet at present, reported today that the second wave of my planes which flew over the base yesterday failed to drop bombs and probably was engaged only in reconnaissance. A communique declared total damage at the base was not extensive and fires were quickly extinguished after the initial raid yesterday morning. While the source of the attacking aircraft has not been definitely determined, the eommuhique said, they are believed to have been carrier-based The communiqus also announced the loss of the USS Cythera, a small naval patrol vessel, in the Atlantic area and said that next of kin of personnel aboard the converted yacht had been notified.

The Cythera was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Thomas W. Rudderow of Highland Lane, Bryn MThe total of men lost aboard the i to 1938 Cythera, which was described as overdue for more than three weeks, was not given although as a yacht the vessel had carried a crew of 28. Text of Communique. The communique, based on reports received up to noon, Eastern War time, today: Pacific area: The situation at Dutch Harbor is at present quiet. first raid by the Japanese appears to have been made primarily to test our defenses.

High explosives and trrbs dropped but, as previously announced, our casualties were light and damage was not extensive. The few fires which were started were quickly extinguished. The second wave of enemy planes which was reported to have attacked six hours after the initial suffered in an attempt on his lite attack (Communique No. 85) failed May wag announced BRITISH COMMANDOS IN RAID ON FRENCH COAST LAST NIGHT BRITISH BOMBERS SAME TIME HEAVILY BLASTED PORT OF BREMEN LONDON, June (JP British bombers heavily blasted Bremen, Germany's second seaport, and British commandos fruitfully scouted the Boulogne-Le Touquet area of Adolf French coastal defenses conspiracy i.Uin th. I prices of commercial explosives ral and blasting supplies to all classes of consumers at high, arbitrary and artificial The indictment also charged that the defendants controlled 75 per cent of the total voulme of commercial explosives and blasting supplies produced In the nation.

Sales at collusive prices were The Bremen raid, the 94th of the war, was linked with an attack on the Dieppe docks and the air ministry announced that 10 bombers and two fighters were missing from the night operations, A strong RAF force flew through moonlit skies to strike at Bremen targets- such as ship- made, the indictment said, building and submarine yards, only to consumers and Jobbers generally througfhout the country, but to state, county and municipal governments, to contractors for use in connection with construction of federal defense projects, and to agencies and departments of the federal The true bill declared that the REINHARD HEYDRICH, GESTAPU HANGMAN, IS UEAD OF WOUNDS HUNDREDS OF CZECH H0S- TAGES EXPECTED TO VY WITH THEIR LIVES BERLIN (From German Broadcasts) June (jP) Heydrich, 38, Relchs protector for Bohemia and Moravia, died in Prague this morning of wounds to drop any bombs and appears to have been engaged solely in reconnaissance. "3. The source of the attacking Japanese aircraft has not been definitely determined but they are thought to have been carrier based. The USS Cythera, a small naval patrol vessel taken over by the navy last December, has been overdue in this area for more than three weeks and is presumed to ba lost. The next of kin of personnel ally today (The assassination of the man known among scores of millions of oppressed peoples as Hangman is expected to bring about the shooting of hundreds of hostages in addition to the 163 already slain in swift reprisals, Czech circles in London asserted.

(London sources declared Heyoi- rich recently was appointed Gestapo chief of Occupied Europe and it was pointed out ironically in the Cythera have been notified, i that the of There is nothing to report in virtually the same manner as hundreds of hostages hs had ordered shot in France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Poland and other countries during his hated career.) (A Czech source in London said automatic rifles used by two men to shoot Heydrich were from the ordnance of the disbanded Czech army and possibly were dropped by parachute. The Czech government appealed by radio to the Czechs to stand firm against the Gestapo bloodshed and not disclose those connected with the shooting. (Forty-six more Czechs were reported executed yesterday Among the 163 thus far shot were 29 women The Berlin radio announced from other Secretary of War Stimson told See DUTCH HARBOR, Page british I mal ARMORED FORCES OUSTED AXIS UNIT FREE FRENCH CONTINGENT HOLD ROMMEL OUT OF BIR HACHEIM docks, railways, steel works, oil refining installations, an aircraft a follow-up to the mass raids upon Cologne and Essen. Only Hamburg ranks ahead of Bremen as a German maritime center. Nazi airdromes in Occupied France and the Low Countries and the harbor installations of Dieppe, on channel coast also were attacked and mines were laid in enemy waters, the air ministry said.

Black-faced commandos, escorted by navy warships and protected in their withdrawal by RAF fighters, stabbed across Dover Strait after midnight on a reconnaissance raid officially declared to have produced "valuable It was the second commando thrust against the Boulogne-Le Touquet area, scouted before on Apid 22. Boulogne lies 25 miles south of Dover and Le Touquet is 15 miles farther south. Between them is a coast of dunes and marshes. The force was described as a See BRITISH, Page 7 Dulaney F. Romans Died Thursday At Home Near Corbet Dulaney Romans, about 53, died at his residence in the Corbet community Thursday morning shortly after 7 Funeral rites are planned for Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the family residence.

Burial will bo in the Hamilton cemetery. The rites will be conducted by Rev. E. O- Stewart, pastor of the Missionary Baptist church. A native of Navarro county, See HEYDRICH, Page 6 NEW SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM AND SlIPPLi BILL FOR U.

S. ARMY WASHINGTON, June (JPh- A. new, gigantic ship-building pro-! gram and another forthcoming supply bill for an army of 4,500,000 men probably will push this, nation's war and defense appro-1 priations for the past three years beyond the $200,000,000,000 mark( within a month. The total allotments already had amounted to $161,000,000,000 when the house yesterday voted 499,740 for the Navy, and marine corps Even as that bill was hurried' over to the senate for early ac-! tlon, Rep. Vinson (D-Ga), chair-i man of the house naval commit-! tee, submitted a new $8,300,000,000 measure designed practically to' CAIRO, Egypt, June British Imperial armored forces were reported today to have routed axis soldiers from a desert stronghold in a fierce engagement while thejr Free French allies held fast against efforts by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to sieze the key position of Bier Hacheim.

A Middle East command munique said British forces, attacking at the light of June 2," drove the enemy out of Tamar, 21 miles southwest of Tobruk and six miles west of Knightsbridge, a center around which has occurred much of the fighting in this latest Libyan campaign. enemy is known to have lost at least 14 tanks in this the communique declared. The German field commander apparently desires to capture Bir Hacheim, southern end of a severed line which once extended to Ain El Gazala, to make impossible a British counter-attack from that tiny oasis, about 50 miles southwest of Tobruk. There are British Indian troops at Bir Hacheim, but British sources said the main force consists of the size of the fleet by Free French metropolitan troops bulding more than 500 plus a battalion of the French For- ships, eign Legion which now is about 85: Meanwhile, congresss awaited ar- ARMED JAPANESE TRANSPORT, MIDGET SUBS SUNK BELIEVED 12,000 INVASION TROOPS LOST WITH TRANSPORT (By The Associated Press.) Gen. Douglas head quarters announced today that an al-1 lied submarine had sunk a 6.000-ton armed transport with the probable loss of 12,0000 Japanese troops in the waters of the Southwest Pacific, while four Japanese midget submarines were listed as sunk in the abortive raid on Sydney Harbor last Sunday.

Previously, only three of the tiny two-man Japanese underseas raiders had been reported sent to the bottom by harbor batteries and depth charges. In addition to the Japanese troopship, United Nations headquarters said an allied submarine sank two heavily-laden Japanese supply ships and damaged a third. A communique also reported that Japanese submarines operating close off the east coast of Australia attacked three alied cargo ships and sank one of them, but indicated that the other two escaped undamaged. Amid these thrusts at shipping, suggesting an attempted blockade of the down-under continent, the war on east coast raged on with mounting fury. A Tokyo broadcast asserted that Japanese offensives were forging ahead in three Chinese Chekiang, Kwangtung and Klang- that Japanese troops had broken through the outer defenses of Chuhsien, key rail city In Western Chekiang province.

A Japanese army spokesman said See PACIFIC WAR, Page ATHLETES HAVENO PRIORITY RATING IN RANDOLPH COCKPITS RANDOLPH FIELD, June 4 football stars, cinder path artists and other muscle men of headline fame don't have any priority on Randolph cockpits. Gone are the days when you could find a college immortal between every other pair of earphones at the Point of the The air forces need thousands of young men with strong agile bodies but that mean, necessarily, that aviation must be athletes In fact, a survey of the present record-sized class here shows 62.5 per cent of the cadets never hit a lick for WHERE JAPANESE map shows the extensive Alaskan area of the United States which recently has become of great importance to the United Nations in their stepped-up operations against Japan. Dutch Harbor, target for Nipponese bombs Wednesday, may be found In the lower left sector, and other vital bases are also shown, along with an are of the Great Circle route to the Orient. It will be noted that Tokyo is within easy range of modern bombing planes based at Dutch Harbor. HITLER BOYS WILL REALLY BE IN GRAVY Allied Subs Get Three Large Jap Ships and I nriTUCD comc in 1 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus- LULKnLK GIVES SUME tralla, June 4 UP) allied sub- TEREST1NG FACTS CON- marine cruising shipping lanes, has sunk 22,000 tons of Jap- rCDNINr INCinr rCBMANV anese vessels ln- LEKMInG 1N51UE GEKOTAIlI oiuding a armed troop transport, allied headquarters said (EDITOR'S another Ira- today, portant by the Wide World All thoss aboard the transport, ioreiirn correspondent P.

Lochner, mnnv a 1 information on Germany, many ft! 12,000 troops, which been cloaked under a heavy probably were lost, the COmmuni- since Hitler started the World que said. War He ju.t returned to thi. coun- In addition to the transport, it Romans had resided in the Corbet lalrna mater on the sports fields, community for the past 30 years. I Most of the cadets went to He was a well-known farmer, and college, all at least to high school, in addition to his own farming However, they puttered around in interests, had been the foreman the laboratories, thrilled to Ohau- of the John W. Carpenter farms in that area.

He also was active in civic affairs of his community. Romans was found with a 20- guage shotgun charge in the chest, officers reported, A verdict of "death from gunshot wounds, was returned by Judge Pat Geraughty, Justice of the peace, after an investigation. Sheriff Cap Curington and Deputy Shenfi Sam Curry answered the call. Surviving are his wife, two sons, Newton and Graham Romans; two daughters, Mrs. Bobbie Jo Womack and Miss Helen Romans, all of Corbet; a step-son, Cart Robinson, Austin; a grand- ison, Kenneth Romans, Corbet; a brother, Mack Romans, Corbet, and four sisters, Mrs.

Mayma Scroggins, Pursley; Mrs. Virgil Cagie, Hillsboro; Mrs. Clyde Hopson, Blum, and Mrs. Alfie Hazelwood, Waco. Corley Is directing.

cer, or learned bookkeeping while the other 37.5 per cent, now flying teammates, played either varsity or lreshman teams Basketball was next most popular sport, followed by track, swimming and baseball. The largest class ever to register at the oldest and largest basic flying school included 225 aviation cadets from Texas where there is more football played than in any other state in the Union. Only 61 were ex-athletes. Latin-American flying students now at Randolph, however, followed a different pattern Eighty- eight per cent had participated in games followed in the American sports pages, in addition to rugby, horsemanship and shooting, motor car racing and pato. try.) By LOUIS P.

LOCHNER NEW YORK, June ail gravy for the Hitler Der Fuehrer should win the war. The Nazi party will be in more complete control of the country than ever, and the party button will open the doors to all positions, all graft, all swag. There probably would be one grand purge first, during which all those members who have rendered mere lip service to the ro- gime would be ousted as dramatically as were Ernst Roehm and other Nazi leaders during the famed June purge of 1934. But whoever survived such a purgs and remained a party member in good standing might look forward to a lifs or power, plenty and possession. During the first two years of the war the army seemed temporarily to eclipse the party and its formations.

But Hitler was quick to see this His top men like Goebbels and Himmler, jealous of the power, were, perhaps, even quicker to sense it Army Had Appeal- The army with its thrust through Poland, its blitz victory in the West, and its conquest in Yugoslavia and Greece appealed more to the public imagination than the brown-shtrted, pot-bellied Nazi ward heeler who remained at home to organize the distribution of food cards, check up on the loyalty of the population, and render other service far from the din and danger of battle. It came to the point that in small localities Nazi party officials deemed a part of wisdom no stated, two armed supply ships" of 6,000 and 10,000 tons were sunk and a third of 7,000 tons was badly damaged. The communique did not epecify the time covered by the operations but said the sinkings occurred in a raid on enemy shipping lanes. Earlier, General headquarters announced that Japanese submarines had sunk one ship off the east coast of Australia, and Prime Minister John Curtin said at Canberra that three of four Japanese submarines which entered Sydney harbor last Sunday were sunk before they could attack. u.

s. IN FAR EAST CONFER WITH CHINA LEADER STILWELL AND BRERET0N VISIT CHIANG KAI-SHEK AT CHUNGKING CHUNGKING, June Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, American commander of Chinese forces which fought the Japanese in Burma, and Major Gen H.

Brereton, commander of United States army air forces in India, arrived by plane today for conferences with Generalissimo Chlang Kai-Shek. At the same time, the influential newspaper To Kung Pao editorially urged a new four-point allied program for the Pacific war, the first point being assumption of greater responsibility for conduct of the war by the United States. Other points were: Amalgamation of the London and Washington Pacific councils, the new body to have headquarters in Washing- snsssrstfs: i should launch at- velopment In thT.lr war, an by air force attack on Rabaul, north-1 an? ln collaboration with Chi- eastern New Britain, which caused I "Vh! ri W.nmSt ln the wharf and mill- lJ Chennouft, large fires tary camp area See HITLER BOYS, Page 7 GOT. STETEIMSON SEES NR NEED FOR RATIONING OF GAS BRIEVE IT WILL SAVE RUBBER; WOULD WRECK MANY BUSINESSES per cent French. The British communique said Italian troops and some German tanks approached the defending positions at Bir Hacheim but the attack "was not pressed columns in the neighborhood attacked the enemy in the i rival of the 1943 army supply bill in anticipation it would reach the appropriations committee within ten days.

Congressmen in close touch with the war department have estimated that it would bundle up army needs amounting to close to $45,000,000,000, a new peak the communique said, while for an appropriation bill, the RAF successfully engaged! "The flood of weapons and mu- Stuka dive bombers which assault-j nitions pouring from American ed Bir Hacheim. 1 factories, and now on Its way to Strong Free French and British! our allies and our own forces at forces were said to be assaulting Gerfhan supply lines which flew around the British position at Rotunda Segnali, 44 miles west of Knightibridge. the front exceeds all estimates, and It is just declared Rep. Cannon (D-Mo) chairman of the house appropriations AUSTIN, June fighting Stevenson today vigorously 1 reiterated his opposition to gasoline rationing in Texas, asserting "I don't believe gasoline rationing in this state will save Speaking before a meeting of county judges, state officials and representatives of state civic organizations meeting in the cap- ltol to consider the effects of gasoline rationing on the states economy, the governor declared: "The proposed extension of gasoline rationing to Texas aJ- rects us more vitally than anything yet advocated under the war program. It would wreck many businesses And it wouldn rave rubber." Stevenson expressed concern See STEVENSON, Page 11 WAR ANALYST DISCUSSES RAID ON DUTCH HARBOR AND WHAT IT MAY OR MAY NOT BRING FORTH SENATE COMPLETES WAR DECLARATION THREE NEW NATIONS BULGARIA, RUMANIA AND HUNGARY INCLUDED IN U.

S. ENEMIES By DEWITT MACKENZIE Wide World War Analyst. Key to the significance of the Japanese attack on our naval and air base at Dutch Harbor, up among the fig-shrouded and inhospitable Aleutians off the Alaska Peninsula, lies in the strength employed in the second raid and the amount of damage done, it points on which we have no information at this writing. The first raid with four bombers protected by fighter palnes, was a mild affair. If the subsequent assault was of kind, the Japs obviously attempting a major operation but likely were staging a nuisance raid for its propaganda value at home and abroad and its possible effect on American nerves.

It may easily have been a face-saving reprisal for our recent devastating raid over Jar an In any event, Seattle gives us the good news from Rear Admiral Freeman, commander of the 13th naval district at Seattle, that Dutch Harbor taken by surprise and was prepared to meet the attack. That is as might be expected ln view of the great strategic importance of these defenses which ars vital to the protection of this rcrthwestern approach to our continent. Irrespective of whether tha pree- ent Jap attack was a minor operation, it may he expected that sooner or later they will make an all- out drive against these defenses. The position was summed up in Washington by Anthony J. Dimond, Alaskan delegate to congress, like this: "Of course, it shows good sense and Judgment on their part If they can bust up what we are doing in Alaska and the Aleutians.

They believe their greatest danger lies in the approach to their shores which we are going to make from The danger of attack from this region isn't the only reason, however, why the Taps are anxious to deliver a knockout blow to Dutch Harbor. It Is quite on the cards that they harbor ambitions to take over base and establish themselves in the Aelutians as a preliminary to further attacks on Aalska and the rest of the western coast of the North American continent. The Nipponese must have been operating yesterday from an See THE WAR, TODAY, WASHINGTON, June formally voted war against Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania today, with the senate tinanimousyl approving resolutions passed by the without dis- sent yesterday. i Without debate, senate quick- ly voted to include the three axis puppets with other nations, Germany, Japan and Italy, against which the United States declared war last December. The senate vote on the resolutions was 67-0 on Bulgaria, 71-0 on Hungary and 73-0 on Rumania.

The balloting was completed In 82 minutes. Congress had been informed by President Roosevelt that Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria were fighting against the United Nations and were preparing to extend their activities. Introduced in response to a special message from President Roosevelt, the resolutions directed the Chief Executive to "employ the entire naval and military forces oi the United States and the resources of the in war against the three axis satellites Rumania declared war on the United States last December 11 and Bulgaria and Hungary followed suit on December 13. Senators showed far greater interest in a maneuver by administration leaders to avoid an immediate showdown on the polttically- potent issue of a pay increase With President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines scheduled to address the chamber, Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky said See CONGRESS, Page 11 commander of the American Val- unteer group (The Flying Tigers) come to Chungking with Stilwel, having boarded the plane last nighf at Kunming, A Chinese spokesman said he had heard new reports of Japanese concentrations ln Manchukuo, but he could not give their size. The reports increased speculation in Chinese circles over Japanese failure thus far to attempt invasion of Australian or India There was increasing belief See COMMANDERS, Page 11 ITALIAN FOUND TO HAVE CASH HE HAD FORGOTTEN HOUSTON, June UP In Texas is a middle aged Italian grocer who when he was picked up as an alien enemy forgot about $45,000 in cold cash he had cached in a half dozen Houston hanks.

Assistant United States attorney Miles Moss told about It today. The Italian ran a little corner store and lived on the premises. The FBI searched it in a recent roundup and found some contraband items, along with a picture of Benito Mussolini. The Italian was taken to Moss' office and there filled out a questionnaire in which he listed property as the store and $500 bank account. Making a routine Investigation of the cose, customs officers were more than a little surprised one day to run across a $10,000 bank account ln the Italian's name The investigation coutlnued until a total of $45,000 found.

The Italian was then asked where in the name of Mussolini he had gotten all that dough, and recovering his memory, he said he had made it in the grocery business His wife, who was not picked up, is carrying on the business and the $45,000 is frozen, except for a small portion on which the wife can draw for living expenses The story was told to the alien enemy board, which promptly decided the grocer ought to be, and he was, TWO WAVES PLANES visit mm post IN WEDNESDAY RAID SECOND VISIT BY NIPPON AIRMEN FAILS TO BRING ATTACK By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Preee War Editor American coastal kept sharp vigil from Alaska to the Panama Canal today, ready to combat possible new blows, in the wake of two face-saving assaults yesterday on the U. S. naval base at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands A navy department communique said the situation at Dutch Harbor today was quiet and reported that the second wave of enemy planes which flew over the base yesterday failed to drop bombs, apparently engaging oniy in reconnaissance. Total damage at the base was not extensive and fires were quick- yl ertinguished after the first attack at dawn, the navy said, ing that the raiders were believed to have flown from an aircraft I carrier.

In Washington, War Secretary Stimson, who orecast Japanese air raids a week ago, predicted that the attacks on the Alaskan base were the only and lest to be expected on American territory. Stimson declined to eay where further might he expected, commenting that he did not, to go Into that phase of the Japanese Terse official reports Indicated that the doublo-barreled attack, the first air raids ever to strike at North America, Inflicted few casualties and little serious damage. Attack Not a A hint that the raidere apparently met a fiery reception came from Rear Admiral C. S. Freeman, commander of the 13th naval district, who declared after the initial dawn assault on the Alaskan outpost: attack was not a surprise and the station was prepared to meet Other major crowded the international picture: 1.

The British announced that RAF bombers heavily pounded Germany's big northern seaport of Bremen (pop. 325,000) in a follow- up to mass attacks on Cologne and Essen, while British bodly scouted the Bolougne-Le Touquet region of the German-occupied Frnech coast overnight. 2. Adolf No. Gestapo chief, Reinhard Heydrich.

known to oppressed millions as "the bloodiest of all the bloody as as "Der Kenker" (the hangman died from bullet wounds in his spine inflicted in an assassination attempt in old Czechoslovakia May 27,. Expect Hundreds of Simultaneously, Czech in London predicted that hundreds of an estimated 5,000 Czech hostages would be executed by the Gestapo in addition to 163 already mowed down by nazi firing equads in bloody reprisal for the attack. Forty-six were reported executed yesterday. An official Berlin announcement said Heydrich, 38, Reichsprotector for Bohemia and Moravia, died in Prague this morning. London sources declared that Heydrich had recently been appointed gestapo chief for occupied Europe and pointed out that the ruthelss "butcher of died in almost the same manner the hundreds upon hundreds of hostages he had ordered shot in See INTERNATIONAL.

Page 9 LUTHER AJOHNSON HAS OPPONENT FOR SEAT IN CONGRESS SEEKING ELEVENTH TERM AS REPRESENTATIVE OF SIXTH DISTRICT Congressman Luther A. Johnson of Corsicana, representative from the Sixth Texas district, is opposed for re-election, according to an announcement Thursday afternoon by Sadie Ransom, chief deputy county clerk, who is assisting N. S. Crawford, Kerens, county democratic chairman, in the work for the approaching democratic primaries. W.

E. Reid, Italy. Ellis county, newspaper publisher, made his affidavit and mailed his request for a place on May 30. It was stated the letter was postmarked May 30, but did net reach Chairman Crawford until Wednesday afternootR, and was brought to Corsicana Thursday afternoon. Time limit for filing for Congress expired June 1.

Congressman Johnson is seeking his eleventh term as representative from this district. He was first elected in 1922 and took his seat in 1923, and has been re-elected each succeeding election He is vice chairman and ranking Democrat on See JOHNSON, Page 06326303.