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FAK1S TEMFJEKAIL'KES Ihuridar, 6i, loir 55, SLN'RISE Saturday 7.17 a. m. EAST TEXAS Generally fztir, colder, frost to coast, nrartv to coast, temperature 'IG to 30 Jn and nen in Lowfr Hio (irarulr FYirla.v nicht; fivir. ri tr in Mixjrr-ulf nortln-rU on OKLAHOMA fair i ive-t. ill I riih rain in fmriiiyn, inrrt-it Mnz in portion.

wanner in portion i'rulny rain. Fuii Leased Wire Associated And Local News (AND THE DINNER HORN) FINAL EDITION 1941 FEBRUARY 1941 LJ LJ LLJ 1 2 3 L- 4 6 7 8 91 llj 12j l'3l U''S VOL. 72 NO. 237 TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1941 EIGHT PAGES ESTABLISHED 18S3 i And Time By W. N.

F. Lindbergh's Testimony "THE TESTIMONY being given 1 by Col. Charles Lindbergh be- lore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continues 10 hold the spotlight of the Congressional debate over the proposed lease-lend bill under terms of which this government would help the British war effort. Testimony of Col. Lindbergh is interesting for at least two reasons: the publicity he has received because of his feat in making a solo hop across the Atlantic and his admitted skill as an airplane pilot resulting from this feat.

Argues Against fj BILL Flier Avers Bill Would Ruin 'Americctp Stimson Says Plane Deliveries to Accelerate WASHINGTON. House defeated a Republican ef- fort to amend the British hill Friday to forbid the disposal by i President Roosevelt of any part of the United States Navy to a belligerent without Congressional consent. WASH ING TON. Sccrc-ta ry Stimson informed the Senate foreign relation? committee Friday that the War Department expected "accelerated to the As a public character, Army Air Corps of the latest type he says holds interest to the! com bat planes "within four to public; as an expert pilot, what I months." he says holds-interest to the pub-j chairman George (D-Ga) plac- 3ic which is interested in having cd in lhc C0m mittcc record a let- flying knowledge. The fact that, tcr from the Secretary of Wai- he moved to England to get away containing this Maj.

from a curious American public Al Williams, former Navy speed Is forgotten To the for the moment. skeptical, however, man doub statements. there seemingly always will re- about some of his For example, these persons want to have explained flier, had testified that he believed there was not a single- seater, interceptor fiighting plane the United States todav modern in any sense of the either in armor, fire power to them a statement by Col" Lind- performance." bergh, who admits he still pos- Stimson's letter went into the sesses the Order of the German record only after Senators Gillette Eagle, received from Hermann Goerring in Germany, that Ger- (D-Iows). Johnson (R-Calif) and Clark (D-Mo). had protested that many is the "natural airpowcr of the Secretary was being permit- Europe." Why is this necessarily ted to make an additional state- so? Why not France, or England? And this slightly mystify ins observation: that the United States, given ''several 7 was the one nation that could equal or excel Germany in aviation but that he does not believe American assistance could give Great Britain air superiority over the Nazis.

But that's not all: he said it was obvious that England could not reach Germany's air strength great assistance from the onited States. Now go over that again: the Jjnitcd States could, in time, equal or excel Germany in aviation; American assistance could not give Britain air superiority over the Nazis: it is obvious England. not reach Germany's air strength without United States help. ment without subjecting himself to cross examination. In his letter, Stimson said that the American defensive program had not been Impaired by delivery of planes to Britain and other countries.

On the contrary, he contended, American airplane production capacity has expanded approximately 100 per cent since the latter part of 1939. Supports Foreign Orders Without the "head start" giv- $100,000 Athletic Riant Gets Work Order From WPA Construction nf Noycs Stadium. a S100.000 athletic' plant for Paris Junior College, begins Monday, Upon receiving a work order from the sU-tc WPA office, Walter Ph.elan. Lamar County's general superintendent. Friday afternoon notified President J.

R. McLemore that work would get under way next week. One hundred and twenty-five men have already been assigned to the project. Th-c same administrative force that constructed tnc main building and is now building" a gymnasium at the new PJC plant will be in charge of stedium work. W.

C. C'hristenscn is superintendent of the college nnd John Mahaffey timekeeper. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh ons uniino Ban Ready Next Fall President McLcmorc said Friday the stadium will be ready lor football games next Fr.ll.

Its stands according will scat to pans. about Scc BILL. Page 2, Column 7 Considerable grounds work has already been done for the new athletic pic Jit. This includes grading and filling and building a foundation for a cinder track. C.

H. Noyes, for whom the stadium is named, donated $10,000 to PJC for the stadium. This money, plus other assets of the college, enabled PJC to obtain iWPA funds totaling $65, 972. These sums and the grounds Signatures More Than Number Needed To Bring April Vote With a few petitions yet to be returned. Jess B.

Alford, leader of local movement to call a city election to close Lake decide Gibbons whether to to hunters, Fridr.y announced that 535 signatures have been obtained. This is more than the number needed, Alford said, explaining Second Prohibition Against Convoy Use Written Into Act WASHINGTON. After writing into the British r.id. bill a Officials Discount Possibility Of Any Sabotage Of Bomber LOVELOCK. Ncv.

a cordon of CCC Camp rnrollees stood guard and cnmpfiros lit the £'-uesome scene, anny invostis'n- torr, early Friday sought to determine why a new-type bomber crashed on a mountainside near here Thursday, crcmatinr; its crew of eight. It was the fourth air disaster in the West since December involving 1 United States warplanes. The plane, one of the army's newest four-motored bombers, carried equipment for experiments in cold weather flying and might have had installed the nit- corps' jealously-guarded secret bomb-sight. Scene of Uic tragedy was a mountain which abruptly rise." 1,000 feet from the desert 1U miles southwest of here. Possibility of sabotage discounted by Col.

F. C. Nelson, commanding: officer of IVIcClel- lan Field at Sacramento, starting: point of lhc ill-fated flight. A rumor that an attempt to sabotage planes at the iickl had been discovered about a week ago was neither confirmed nor denied by Colonel Nelson. The four-motored, ton bomber left Sacramento at 8:28 a.

m. Thursday en route to Denver with Capt, R. S. Freeman, commandant of Ladd Field, Alaska, at the controls. The plane and crew had arrived in second prohibtion against use of, Sacramenlo last month fi Al- convoys, the House rctusca 1- n- and annccl to pL OCC cd to day to exclude Soviet Russia from countries for which defense ma- terials might be By a tclclr vote of 185 to 01, the House defeated an amendment by! Rep.

Tinkham (R-Mass) making! Russia the only specific exception Can't Equal Nazis? Apparently it all means that the United States alone could equal or excell Nazi air power, but the United States and Britain together could never surpass Nazi air power. What, then, does this indicate for British air production? It must indicate that Britain can manufacture virtually no planes. But how can this be true when all the Spitfires and Hurricanes are hurtling through the air dealing the Messerschmitts and the Dor- niers and the other Nazi planes plenty of misery? British Dominion I proximatcly $100.000. Not Repersented Aftcr Noycs donatcd to thc Directly At Present I stadium fund. Paris Junior mediately hsd plans drawn up WASHINGTON.

iTP) The and submitted an application for United States and the self-gov-j government aid to thc WPA. that signatures of 10 per cent of, among nations "whose defense thc President deems vital to the defense of the United States'' and which conceivably could be provided with znihUu-y equipment from thc United States. Tinkham argued "Stalin's those who voted in the last city election are needed to make the petition valid. 464 Signatures Needed Records of City Secretary Mrs. project makes the plar.t cost D.

Well, vote, were jf nnyth ns aro OQdy erning dominion of New Zealand are planning to establish direct Presidential approval of the project was received in December, diplomatic relations, it was Ijarn- and ii was announced wor ed authoritatively Friday, a move characterized here as presaging closer and more friendly collaboration in the increasingly important South Pacific. Viscount Halifax, the. British Ambassador, is now conducting conversations with the State De- Tn this connection, it might be partmeni, it was understood, look- I well to inform the pilots of Nazi ing to establishment of legations fighter and bomber planes shot and exchange of ministers thc down by British Royal Air Force pilots flying British-manufactured immediate future. No Minister Xow planes that it can't New Zealand is the only British no matter what happens, Britain dominion not represented in can never put enough planes into I Washington by its own minister, the air to equal the "Nazi strength, Thc country's interests heretofore Of too, the Colonel says have been represented by the that the United States by helping BriUh embassy. ISgitain, is encouraging prolong- The decision to provide diplo- and increasing bloodshed; that ma tic channels for more direct Ke thinks it very important that and closer collaboration was saia would begin soon.

Construction Delayed However, actual construction was held up and college oHicials began to iear the plant would not be ready this Full. Appar- emy, the last hitch was ironed out Wednesday. The college received a request for official ap- cast in 3 7 cars city election, making 4G4 signatures necessary. T1---J petition, asking that the City Council include on thc April 1 ballo'; the question of closing Lake Gibbons to hunting, will be to thc council at its than Hitlers" and that this country should do nothing which might place weapons in thc hnncls of Russia. He became so aroused during his argument that he frequently meeting Monday, Alford stated.

backing 'nan hunting at the lake is J. C. GamjJ; 1, who owns a game preserve near Lake Gibbons. the microphone in the well of the House and members kept ic movement 11 1 brI him Texan Opposes Motion Rep. Luther Johnson (D-Tcx), wf-11 known for his friend- clucks geese and all other wild life, has reported that ever-increasing numbers of gec.sc have been coming to his preserve proval of the project by the board curing the past two weeks.

Mosquito Invasion Of Shelters Beaten Off LONDON. VT-) A mosquito invasion has been repulsed by London's air raid shelter dwellers. People congregating underground, warm air and water attracted the pests in the early days of the Nazi air raids, and officials were flooded with complaints. The government then attacked the problem with a vengeance. "Now we have driven off most of them," Alderman Key.

chairman of lhc London shelter? committee, said Friday. "Only a few big ones aro left, and we'll get them soon." CAPT. 11. S. FREEMAN Plane.

Commander Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio, before returning to thc territory. Thc last report, was heard from thc piano at 9:30 o'clock, and news of the crash came soon after as eyewitnesses raced to telephones to notify authorities. Lloyd M. Carpenter, foreman of the Lowcry Wells CCC Camp, 10 miles west of ho re, saw thc Last Stronghold Eastern Libya Taken In Sandstorm Garrison Estimated At Fascists Flee Towards Tripoli By EDWARD KEN 7 NED CAIRO, Egypt.

Bengasi, Italy's last big stronghold in eastern Libya, has been captured, British general headquarters announced Friday. The British now claim control of all Eastern Libya, with Italian forces there capitulating or fleeing. Bengasi, military and naval base and a provincial capital in a territory which Italy regards as a-part of herself, was taken Thursday by British forces which cut through a blinding sandstorm to strike, at the city from two directions. After skirting the Jebel El Ak- dar range on the inland side, to Bengasi's cast, British armored forces, including swift Bren. gun carriers, armored cars and tanks, knifed across the main coastal highway south of Bengasi and straddled that road while Australian assault troops lunged against the city's defenses on the northeast.

The first communique on the victory said merely: "Bengasi is in our hands." A later communique gave the plan of attack. This com- munique, reporting on other African war fronts, said in 'part that plane plough into the mountain, more than 3,500 prisoners had'been shortly after hearing it some clouds. "I couldn't sec it at 1 he related, "but pretty soon it came out of the clouds and went into a dive. They gunned the motors but they couldn't pull it out of the dive, apparently, and it went into a power dive. "When it hit the ground there Sec CRASH, Page 2, CoIumnB Irike Sentiment Proposal Is For Annual Vacations With Benefit Of Pay WASHINGTON.

Fourteen railroad labor organiza- taken on the British advance into Eritrea, Italian East Africa. At Bengasi, about 1,500 miles northwest of the Eritrean -battle front, the Italians were said to have bsen "demoralized and outmaneuvered" and "unable to put into effect their plans Bengasi and that region had been heavily by the RAF in recent days. This was the 61st day qf a British offensive which started out as a tentative effort to drive the Italians out of Egypt, which they had penetrated more than 70 miles, oh the coast. Now the British offensive has carried about 350 miles into Bengasi is the second of Libya's provincial capitals to fall. Derna fell a week ago.

Some British circles have said that the biggest and, as they put it. final Italian staiid probably will be made in defense of Tripoli, capital of Libya. Tripoli Is about 400 airline miles west of Bengasi, Fridav to poll considerably further by the curv- I mg coastal road along the Gulf of of trustees Wednesday from the Dallas WPA office. Six copies of the opproval were promptly drawn up. signed by the president and secretary of the board and mailed to Dallas.

And Friday, just two days later, a work order wired to the local WPA office. England not be beaten in war, but he doesn't think that Is in Amen- been a natural development of can control. So here we are again in informed circles here to have Recommend Bogota Man For Naval Promotion New Zealand's increasing irnpor- at an impasse of thought: by help- tance in the Pacific, a storming England, we are encouraging threatened area in which the Unit- WASHINGTON. of naval officers number recommended Pica For Feed i Persons wishing to see the! geese have been invited to do so by Grmibill, who has issued a pica asking ihst some feed for the birds be donated. It is reported that Gambill's present supply of feed i.

nearly gone and that it is impossible for him to secure more unless some is donated, Both Alford and Gnmbiii termed the movement to gain signatures on the petition a "great success" and expressed their desire to the hunting ban voted into effect. opposing the amendment, declared that it would be "merely a grntui- tous slap ni country which is i not a of the Rome-Berlin-j Tokyo axis. Rep. McCormack (D- See HOUSE. Page 2, Column 6 House Suggests ndy v-ar: England must not lose, but i Cc states has vital interests.

I our help apparently won't prevent Xa'lks between Richard G. Casey tenart to it. The question then is, if we don't the Australian minister, and Sec- help England win, who will? And I re a ry of State Hull recently if we stop helping England win brought reports from Wellington, the war, we will stop bloodshed, j- ew Zealand's capital, that Aus- by line selection board for. pro- motion from tne grade of lieu- Uf, nr that of lieutenant com- il IIC mander were approved Thursday Aoainst by President Roosevelt. i Included was James A.

Prichard exec. USS MacDonough. Paris, Pricnard is the on future contingencies in the South i Prichard oi Bogata, nnd a cousin Pacific. of Bob Pricnard of Paris. At another stage, Lindbergh testified he believed that if war had not been declared (by and France against Germany) i the Nazis would not have turned COMMENTS ON and that if we had kept the arms embargo, peace would be under negotiation in Europe now.

Fred NEW YORK. $500,000 libel suit has been filed in supreme court by William Randolph Hearst and the International News Service against Friday, of the magazine "Unbeliever Motions Against Flier Draw Cheers And Boos On Floor AUSTIN. Tox. resolj- ticn urging deportation of Col. Charles A.

Lindbergh if he did not prove his loyalty to the American government and another asking the Dies: committee to or! As Aufo Overturns Dentist Suffers Fracture Of Leg Thursday Night DEPORT. John Britton, Deport dentist, suffered fracture of the left leg above the knee when the car in which lie was riding with Earl Wcstbrook overturned' about and a half miles west of Honey Grove on Highway 82 between JO and 11 p. m. Thursday. I come effective before late spring.

1 Harrison called on President I Roosevelt, who, lie said, cxpress- i cd hope a could be avcrt- ed. Then the union loader said he would sock a conference with John J. Kcllcy, president of the AssociritioM of American R.ail- rOrtds. for effort to work out on agreement. The 14 unions planned to mail st.rilte ballots to their members by Feb.

lo, then allow 30 days for voting. If strike was authoriz- Hc was resting well at Grant 7 President Roosevelt's first Hospital horc, Westbrook being tcp under the mediation law tions made their 750,000 members on a proposal to strike for annual vaca-1 Xhe British said that the fall tions with i of Bengasi, an important naval "No other course is ooen to and Arrn basc m. Italian North Africa, marked collapse of the George M. Harr.son sa.d gfasp Thursday Announcing tnc strike older division of Libya votc. Harrison heads a commit-j ing up the provinces cf Bengasi tee of loader- of the 14 affected anc Derna.

Bengasi is capital of; union- lne of that name. of the mechanics ls union balloting and terms of the railroad mediation law, a strike, if voted, could not be- dismissed there after treatment of minor cuts The two and bruises. men were return in, from a trip to Sherman. Reports said that the car swerved to avoid hitting an approaching one, lights on the latter blinding the driver so that railing. the car crashed a bridge so and peace at those of defeated I Yes, perhaps terms, Poland, liquidated Czechoslovakia and anschlusscd Austria: of cowed England snd scared France, or peace on the terms of a vigorous, vital, super Germany? Didn't Say Nothing.

I Just Looked' investigate him cheers and boos in the Texas House of Representatives Friday. The former, which also mended Lindbergh's reduction to i "buck private," was sent to a 425 MILES AN HOUR committee. The effect of such action usually is to kill a resolution, although technically it remains alive and may be considered again. The resolution re-questing the would be f.o appoint a fact finding board. That automatically would delay any strike until 30 days after the board made its recom- Since by law the board has 30 days in which to report, "cooling off" period of about GO days would be provided in all.

Dies investigation was killed outright by the adoption of a motion to table. U.S. May Produce RAF Plane WASHINGTON ican production of Britain's new Hawker Tornado pursuit plane, one of the most efficient fighters Amer- this country as much as possible. FARGO, N. OD.

1:15 p. rn. Thursday in St. John's Brown, with a smile as big as his Hospital. big face, one fist full of cigars and the other full of handshakes, had heard the question 20 times i These mystifying observations by Col.

Lindbergh almost.lead to the observation that if he had no more of where he was ing in 1927 than he seems to o-w now. he might never have ached France. But these are his simons, and he has a full and icontested right to voice them. To doubt we in America need the issenters to help keep our course if he'd heard it once Thursday: That doubled the Brown family. They have four other boys, ages 16 months, three, 10 and 1.2 years.

"Seven boys to get a girl," what did you say when laughed Nick. they told you you had four new Nick, who's about 40 and runs stantly by kids?" a farm and filling station, thought who fed Nick's smile grew bigger "Boy, I didn't say a dang thing. I just Through, a glass window as two nurses scurried about he looked at a girl three boys to -whom hi? 37-year-old reddish-haired more level. Hvife save birth between 1:10 and shifts of them by of their four-room house on the bcbics cried lustily. whcatbnds near Leonard, N.

30 miles southwest of here and mused: "Nick. I guess you're gonna have, to build an Tn another hospital room, tired but happy and in. good health was the tall, slender mother. She ing Lindbergh, by Rep. Roger Q.

smiled faintly and murmured she! Evans of Denison, was read amid was glzd it was over and that a scene of mild confusion, "they're all right." They came Representatives rushed to the a month prematurely. public address microphones and Immediately placed in separ- shouted for recognition by atc incubators and attended con- er Homer Leonard of McAllcn. two nurses I The resolution suggested that bottle, the Lindbergh be deported if he fail- The resolution sharply criticix- in the world, was reported reli- Since last Dec. 3, when Mrs. Brown entered the hospital, she and.

her middle-aged physician, Dr. J. F. Hanna, had known through X-rays the possibility she would bear quadruplets a once in the millions birth. co" to prove his loyalty and integrity, to ''what part of the Hitlcr- controilcd territory he may choose." It declared "one ot our citizens" broke faith with his government See LINDY, Page 2, Column -i ably Friday to be under serious consideration.

British authorities were said to be weighing the advisability of the powerful new warplanes available for manufacture in this country both for the Royal Air Force and the United States Army and Navy air services, ii desired. The Tornado, which is reported to have a speed of 425 miles an hour and to be armed with eight machine guns and three cannon, may figure in efforts now being made to standardize American and British aircraft production in American experts pointed out that manufacture of th-c new British superplanc in the United States would expand Britain's supply of this powerful defensive weapon, give her a source of the planes far from German bombing bases and, at the same time, develop productive facilities which in case of necessity could be turned entirely to American use. American authorities do not concede ihat latest model planes developed by the United States Army Air Corps and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics are. inferior power. to ships of any- Bother They regard the British Tornado highly, would be glad to'navev facilities for The communique gave no detail, but it was reported that final attack on the city was car- See WAR, Page 2, Column 3 REA Work Will Start Saturday 162.2 Miles Of Lines In 3Counties Will Cost 85 Thousand Work will start Saturday in.

clearing and preparing ground for the construction of 162.2 miles of rural electric lines in Lamar; Red: River and Delta Counties, it was: announced Friday by V. A. ers, project manager lor. the County Electric Cooperative' Association. 'v -v' Construction superintendent for the REA project, $85,273.86, will be R.

J. representing. Quisle and Ft. Worth contractors in of the Compton arrived- ind Paris Thursday and 1 warehouse on Bonham formerly used as Motor Lines, Inc. The project, according ers, includes about 60 lines in Lamar County in Red River and i County, starts at about' 15 "miles.

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