San Angelo Standard-Times from San Angelo, Texas • 1

San Angelo Standard-Times 'TOl WIZ33TM WEST TEXAS Showers south- -east portion Sunday Monday Much colder Monday A (AP) Means Associated Press THIRTY-SIX PAGES SAN ANGELO TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 10 1940 nundni -rurty-sixtii Tr im THIRTEENTH YEAR NO 285 34 Hurt As Stands At SMU Game Fall 'WHAT IS THERE TO BE GAY Democracy Doomed In England Kennedy Says 'National Socialism To Be Result' Many Spectators Suffer Broken Legs Big Spring Woman Hurt When Section Of Temporary Bleachers Crashes Down DALLAS Nor 9 At least 34 persons were Injured some seriously when temporary bleachers buckled and collapsed during the Texas A M-Southern Methodist football game here today The stand folded in the center and gradually settled tumbling 1200 persons out of their seats and piling many of them were on top of each other Some were trapped when their legs were caught beneath the crumpling seats Ambulances screamed to the1 ANKARA UNEASY BUT WILL FIGHT DESPITE REDS IF THREATENED By The Associated Press Disclosure that the Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissaf Vyacheslaff Molotoff will visit Berlin shortly brought a quick declaration today from informed Turkish quarters that Turkey will fight "if vitally threatened" regardless of the outcome of Axis talks with her friend and neighbor Russia Turkey received the news of Molotoff impending conversations with German officials and presumably Italy's Foreign Minister Count Ciano with grave misgivings and Ankara quarters said Turkey tocracy for keeping it down If It come up" what does It mean to have labor men now at the center of government?" Kennedy was asked means national Socialism Is coming out of It" the paper quotes Kennedy as replying and adding: Is finished In England It may be here Because It comes to a question of feeding people all an economic question I told the President In the White House last Sunday send me 50 admirals and generals Send me a dozen real the loss of our foreign trade going to threaten to change our form of government We felt the pinch of it yet ahead of us" The paper quotes Kennedy as saying: we give England we think of getting it back Insurance As long as she is in there we have time to prepare It that fighting for democracy That's the bunk She's fighting for self-preservation Just as we will if It comes to us draw any line on how much aid" BOSTON Nov 9 The Boston Globe In a copyrighted story no tea Joseph Kennedy ambassador to Great Britain as saying today that "democracy Is finished In England" and that national socialism would be the result call me a pessimist" the paper quotes Kennedy "I say What Is there to be gay about? Democracy la all done" The ambassador was asked "You mean In England or this country too?" and eras quoted by the Globe as replying: I If we get into war It will be In this country too A bureaucracy would take over right off Everything we hold dear would be gone They tell me that after 1918 ire got It all back again But this Is different a different pattern In the about British the paper said Kennedy was asked there real opportunity there or does the aristocracy keep a rigid class structure that keeps the common man down?" a strong upsurge from beneath you stop the paper quotes Kennedy as answering "You blame the aris- CRACK DIVISION OF 15000 ITALIANS IS TRAPPED BY GREEKS ous Internal Injuries Mrs Corcoran Big Spring broken leg released Bray 40 Waco At Sparks Clinic: Philip Babin 19 Port Arthur treated for foot Injuries and discharged At St Red Kelsey Denton bruises released Decker Greenville fractured left foot released Mrs Louie Lee Barnes Xtotan abrasions released At Medical Arts: Cummings Paso severe back sprain At Parkland: Mrs Beatrice Gaines SB Marshall lacerations released Bany Greer IB MarshalL Patsy Jordan and A Jordan 49 CarUbad lacerations released Also Injured and given first aid at the field were: Mrs Marcella Goepplnger Tulsa Okla Miss Edith Goepplnger Tulsa Mrs Lb Fortner Sherman LEE MAKES STATEMENT Dr Umphrey Lee president' of 8MT7 issued a statement on the accident saying: "Hie fall of some sections of the south end cone seats during the SlLUw-AAU game Is a matter of deepest regret to everyone connected with Southern Methodist university "An Investigation Is already begun to determine the cause of the aoddent that can be said at the moment is that the athletic officials had these stands care-folly Inspected and approved three tlmee by Insurance company represents tires as well as by members of their own slaff "In additloh 409 more sente were provided than sold so that there would net be overcrowd- Ing" The game was stopped for about five minutes after the stands went down It was resumed from mid-field before many in the unseated crowd had climbed down to the muddy ground German Bombs Hit Transport Carrying Japs Britain's Empress Of Japan Taps Out SOS Domei States By the Asaoelated Tnm 4 NEW YORK Nov 9 Bombing by German planes of the 26032-ton liner Empress of Jspan a British transport about 300 miles west of Ireland was reported today by a correspondent of Domei Japanese news agency The correspondent told of the attack In a wireless message to his INVASION WEATHER LONDON Nor 9 A westerly gale lashed the Strait of Dover tonight There woe heavy rain and the channel was covered by a thick mist New York office from the Japanese liner Fushlml Maru CNo Information was available in London or Ottawa) The Fushlml Maru had picked up an from the Empress of Japan which said a direct hit had disabled her engines the Domei correspondent said The Japanese ship carrying several hundred Japanese home from Britain left Galway Ireland Nov 7 for Japan by way of Bermuda and the Panama Canal Domei said the attack occurred In latitude 5354 north longitude 1414 west approximately the same area where the 42 348-ton On-press of Britain flagship of the Canadian Atlantic fleet was crippled by German bombers Oct 25 and sunk two days later by a Nari submarine with a loss of 45 persons The Empress of Japan former flagship of the Pacific fleet of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company was built in 1930 cost $7500-000 and had accommodations fra 1212 passengers She formerly ran between Vancouver Honolulu Japan and China ports and Manila She was converted Into a troopship at Hbngkrag last April and In July arrived at Manila with 1640 British women and children who had left Hongkong when the situation there became serious The liner 644 feet long set a transpacific speed record of 8 days 6 hours and 27 minutes In 1930 and a month later broke the Honolulu-Yokohama record Johnny Palferson Brady Has Champ At American Royal KANSAS CITY Nov 9 WV-Bennie Peterman Carter Okla showed the champion Hereford steer In the Vocational Agriculture Junior Division of the American Royal livestock Show today George Cas-sody Garber Okla exhibited the reserve champion Johnny Patterson Brady Tex showed the champion Hereford steer In the fat market cattle competition of the 4-H Club senior division Proclaims Nov 21 Thanksgiving WASHINGTON Nov 9 F) President Roosevelt today proclaimed Thursday Nov 21 as Thanksgiving Day and declared that in these times of calamity and sorrow elsewhere In the world we give thanks for our preservation" It was the second time the Chief Executive had set Thanksgiving a week earlier than the customary last Thursday in November which this year falls on Nov 28 In 1939 he said It was done to benefit merchants by providing a longer Interval between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays hoped for "benevolent" Russian neutrality in the developing Balkan warfront Count Ciano is expected to go to Berlin next week Rome circles said Bulgaria has been considered fay many observers as likely to siring publicly into the Axis camp opening the way fra a German sledgehanv xner attack on Turkey and Greece to aid thus far apparent failure to crack Greek defenses Molotoff was expected in Berlin next Tuesday upon acceptance of invitation and it was regarded certain that Adolf Hitler personally would talk with him on a wide range of mutually interesting topics Observers believed too agenda would Include: Effect of the triple military alliance between Germany Italy and Japan too status of the Balkans and Near now closer to war because off Invasion of Greece and the matter of German troops sto Honed In Rumania ostensibly to guard oU wells If Bulgaria makes say move against Turkey It will be sldered sufficient cause for Turkish quarters sold Anxiety about status has been observed in London quarters since that country failed to go to toe aid of her Greek neighbor and because of reprated Axis pressure on Russia to keep Turkey out off toe camp of her avowed- ally Britain Turkey steadfastly has sought to avoid Russian displeasure in her stand against toe Axis but reposts from Sofia and other Balkan quarters Intimated Germany and Italy were attempting to Turkey" with Russia on division of spheres of influence In the Balkans and the Near East Turkey had no doubt that her position would form a major topis in the German-RusslanrZtaUan talks since she guards toe strategic Dardanelles and bars toe way to an Axis drive to knock out the British Mediterranean forces Rumania opened toe first fie sure In Balkan union by permitting German troops unofficially estimated at numbering 279 000 to enter The Turkish press believed Bulgaria would open the and Yugoslavia perhaps the third a a Yugoslavia sent more troops to her Albania-Greek frontier in a desperate effort to remain neutral and keep Jhe Greek-Italian fight from spilling into her territory MOSCOW Nov 9 JP Soviet Russia announced tonight that she had accepted a German Invitation to send her premier and foreign commissar Vyacheslass Molotoff to Berlin for consultations Munich Bombed Heavily While Fuehrer Spoke Eight More Ships Victims Of Nazi Aerial Blockade RUilirl-TlMi Nisi S-rric BERLIN Nov The RAF picked Munich for its bombers on the night Adolf Hitler addressed toe annual rally of old-time Nazi leaden toe German high command confirmed today while reporting toe sinking of eight more British ships in the air blockade The time of toe British raid on Munich last night was not disclosed but informed sources said it was after" the Fuehrer had addressed the party faithful on toe 17th anniversary of toe unsuccessful 1923 beer hall revolt The commemoration was marred last year by explosion of a time bomb which wrecked toe Buerger-brau beer hall a Nazi shrine The Fuehrer escaped by minutes that time Eight persons were killed Wreaths were placed on the graves of those eight today as wen aa the graves of toe 23 killed In toe 1923 putsch by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner on behalf of toe Fuehrer The high command announced that Its dive bombers commanded by General Field Marshal Keo-selrlng had scored two hits on a 10000-ton British cruiser the second so attacked In two and sunk six more merchant ships totaling 34000 tons In an attack on a convoy off the east coast while other bombers had sank two merchant ships totaling 9000 tons in the Atlantic a Seven more merchant ships of a total tonnage of 7000 probably were sunk toe communique said and four others damaged LONDON Nov 9 VP) British bombs exploded last night on toe Munich beer hall where Adolf Hitler exhorted his Nazi old guard in faraway northern Italy and upon many another vital center of the Axis war effort qualified sources announced today The press association punctiliously described toe Munich hit as an Inadvertence said toe stick had overshot its mark The air ministry's official communique was even more restrained It announced: strong force of RAF bombers attacked railway stations and goods (freight) yards in toe city of Munich" Despite this official reserve the press and public exulted that the Royal Air Force had kept speech off a scheduled broadcast had carried its bombs 600 miles to toe city that is the very home and birthplace of Naziism Quake Strikes In Rumania BUCHAREST Rumania Nov 10 Rumania was hit by the worst earthquake in its history at 3:30 a today (7:30 Saturday CST) The quake which lasted five minutes sent a 10-storyTiuiId-ing containing 50 apartments crashing to earth in a mass of rubble in Bucharest Houses and buildings in all parts of the city were damaged and the death toll was expected to be high Indo-China Army Massed Near Siam HONGKONG Nov 9 Domei Japanese news agency reported today that French IndoOhlna authorities have Increased their army and massed large forces in disputed territory claimed by Thailand (Siam) All resident French males 40 to 50 years of age have been called to toe colors and large forces of troops in the Tonking area are being moved by train and truck to toe south where half toe Indo-China air force already has been concentrated Domei reported London Silent As Early Raid Suddenly Ends Bombers Strike At Earliest Hour Yet But Are Repulsed LONDON Nov 10 (Sunday) VP) raiders returned to toe aerial assault an London shortly before dawn today after subjecting the empire capital to a heavy attack early last night and then giving Londoners a few hoars of peace and uninterrupted sleep LONDON Nov 10 (Sunday) VPh-The customary German air raid on London opened with a heavy assault last night but tapered off early tola morning Into a period of extraordinary quiet and even toe distant anti-aircraft guns fell silent It hid been tor a time a thunderous loosed at toe earliest hour yet known here and bombers had approached in relays from several directions others striking simultaneously at Northern England Wales and the Midlands So heavy was toe gunfire during toe evening that tag solid buildings were shaken by toe concussion One plane shot down in Southeast London demolished two houses and was believed thus to have trapped at least tiro people In Its descent Another night raider was reported shot down at Cornwall The passed" signal was given after midnight Two daylight thrusts at London yesterday were turned back with comparatively little damage here save for the destruction of several business buildings Rome Threatens A 'Tremendous Air Attack' On Britain ROME Nov 9 The Italian press today cried threats of a air bombardment of England and Its allies" The radio and newspapers In Rome declared Italian bombers were preparing great reprisals against toe British and their allies On toe military side toe high command announced that toe Italian army was reinforcing Its bridgeheads on the eastern side of toe Kalamas River Dispatches dwelt upon toe difficult terrain In Western Greece where toe defenders were reported resisting behind almost every rock and Indicated that any thought of a blitzkrieg In Greece must be given up Dismissal Of 4f000 Oil Workers Sought Mexican Board By MEXICO CITY Nov 9 government commission of three experts proposed dismissal of 4000 of 18000 workers as a means of reducing operating expenses of Mexico's debt-ridden oil Industry It was learned tonight Removal To Brownwood To Get Under Way Soon BROWNWOOD NOV 9 MaJ Gen Claude Blrkhead command' er of the 35th Division said tonight members of toe general staff would go on duty In Ran Antonio Tuesday to prepare fra removal of toe division to Brown Camp Bowie The 11th Quartermaster Regiment will leave Austin on Nov 28 and division headquarters Trill move here Dec 2 the commanding officer said Adolf Hitler edge of the playing field and many of the injured some of them on hastily improvised pUnk trrtchm were loaded la and taken to arreral different hospitals Policemen who abandoned a race with a croup of youngsters who had crashed the gate to aid In un-talgUng the mass of humanity and folded seats said they did not be-Zlere any of the injuries would prove fatal although several persons had back Injuries SOME BROKEN LEGS Many were bruised- when they were tossed from their seats and others suffered broken legs So Intent was the crowd on the ball game and on the chase between policemen and gate crashers that many did not see the collapse The crowd totaled 27000 The game was halted temporarily when spectators surged from the scene of the collapse at the south end of the gridiron to the edge of the playing field The bleachers caved In during the second period of the game Miss Lena Hardcastle of Oarland Tex who was slightly Injured said the stands seemed to settle and shiver before buckling beneath the weight of the hundreds of overflow spectators for the grid headliner of the day THROUGII SPACE" Miss Edith Goepplnger of Tulsa Okla said she to be floating through space" course I did not realize what was happening" she said first was Intent on watching the game ended up beneath a pile of people" The seats had been erected to care for the anticipated overflow crowd Several years ago there was a similar collapse at the 8J1U stadium during a game with Texas JL ds but no one was Injured Persons treated at hospitals of whom some were released after receiving first aid Included: At Baylor: Virginia Brown 18 Amarillo bruises released Mrs ZX Leatherman 27 Denison bruises released Mr and Mrs Carey Abney Jr Marshall fractured legs Mrs Clayton Amarillo seri Sub Sunk Off African Coast Admiralty Denies 'Landing Attempted LONDON Nor 9 British admiralty announced tonight that the PTench submarine Bracelet had been sunk in an engagement with British naval forces off French equatorial Africa The admiralty denied flatly a Vichy announcement that a British naval squadron had shelled or that light British ships aided the landing of "free troops near there A communique Issued by the admiralty said the only naval engagement the British naval squadron had been concerned In was an attempt by the Rench submarine Poncelet to sink a British warship without warning" The Poncelet the admiralty said was forced to come to the surface as a result of action" and then was scuttled by its own crew All members of the crew were saved the communique said The 1739-ton Poncelet was one of France1 large and successful class She was built In 1929 at Lorient now a Kazl-held "invasion port" on the French coast and carried a crew Of 67 Holder Of No 1 Draft Order Joins Army Here Howard Neeley Route 1 Rolan who held aerial number 158 In the recent drawing of draft order numbers In Washington has eshsted In the United States Army here Sgi John Mozingo recruiting officer reported here Saturday Neeley enlisted for a three-year period Mozingo said and is to be stationed at Fort Ram Houston Tex Barracks Shortage Postpones Second Draft Call In East BOSTON Nov 9 CP) Declaring that going up aa rapidly aa we had hoped" Maj Gen James A Woodruff commanding the First Army Corps Area has announced that New second draft call scheduled for Dee 2 had been postponed It now was expected the call would be made early la January Fascists Without Food And Supply Lines Are Broken ATHENS Nov 9 VP) Greek soldiers fighting stubbornly on home ground have halted the most serious Italian thrust so far offered by the Invaders a move down the western coast It was reported here tonight Authoritative circles said the Greeks actually were on the offensive on the remainder of the mountainous front' and were pushing the Italians bock at several points By the Aesoelsted Press ATHENS Nov 9 Italy's Centaur Division of perhaps 15000 one of the best-known units of the Fascist forces was reported today to have been so hopelessly entrapped by the Greeks in the Findus Mountains that its surrender was imminent Greeks said the Fascist troops were without food and with lines of supply cut Military Informants said hundreds of the men and Its commanding general already had been taken prisoner The Greeks said the Italians In attempting to take a road leading southward to the stra tegie Greek town of losnnins had gone so deep into the mountains as to permit a break In their own communications Big Italian guns and much war material were said to have been dumped Into a ravine to prevent their seizure All along the 100-mile front here was action today and the -heaviest fighting yet seen was reported from the Koritza sector where the Greeks appeared to be slowly pushing back the invaders LONDON Nov 10 (A) crack Centaur Division of 15000 men trapped by Greek troops in the Pindus Mountains were reported annihilated a Reuters British news agency dispatch from Athens said today Two Infantry regiments and one of artillery formed the Italian division cut off from the main Fascist forces A great number of the trapped men were reported to have been drowned In a flooded mountain gorge swollen by heavy rains while others perished from hunger and cold the dispatch said Heavy Greek forces seeking the destruction of the Italian division scaled 6000-ft mountain ridges Women from neighboring villages aided them in hauling their armament up the mountain sides the Athens report said Hamilton Quits As Republican Leader WASHINGTON Nov 9 VP) John Hamilton resigned today as executive director of the Republican National Committee a post he has held since Joseph Martin became national chairman last July He gave no reason for his resignation in a letter to the committee Scientists Nome Ullrich SAN ANTONIO Nov 9 Dr Oscar Ullrich dean of Southwestern University Georgetown was re-elected president of the Texas Academy of Science which closed a three-day convention here Saturday No Business In City On Monday Several Affairs Planned In Area be a light day In Ban Angelo Monday Business and schools are to be closed for Armistice Day and San Angeloans are to seek their celebrations elsewhere with many local folk going -to Big Spring fra the Bobcat-Steer football game Others are already out of town for the week-end and holiday The St Parish in Owens Is to have its annual festival today with Rep Dorsey Hardeman of Stan Angelo speaking Just before the dinner hour It Is expected several from here Trill be there Other celebrations Monday Include programs at Eden MUlers-vlew Bronte Coleman Brownwood Brady Midland Big Spring Kermlt and other places Some of the county's schools will be closed and there will be neither carrier nor window service at the post office Banka here are- also to be closed The cowhouse Is to be closed except fra the court which Is to canvass election returns and Judge John Sutton Is to Impanel the Slst grand Jury The Jury however may defer work until Tuesday Bad Weather Delays Opening Here Of Annual Turkey Pool Unfavorable weather and the Jubilant spirit which followed the two-day rain in Tom Green County delayed the opening of the annual Thanksgiving turkey pool at the Farmers Co-Operative Poultry Association here Saturday Officials last night were making plans to open the pool Monday the weather permitting 000000000 Increase In the national debt limit "Is not an the senator said is merely a and not much of that More and ever more borrowing is not a It Is creeping suicide" Vandenberg said the sharp upturn in the stock market after the Morgen thau announcement was a redllght signal" of the dangers of on the one hand and bankruptcy on the other" The senator said his party although it lost the presidency was required to surrender Its principles nor to suspend Its critical vigilance" the contrary" he aafal Is required to vigorously represent more than 21000000 voters who Just gave Its presidential nominee the largest vote ever achieved by us There were two not just one in the recent election At the same time he said the Republican party ungrudgingly accept President Roosevelt as the chosen leader of our whole people" either side be an Sky Clear After 48 Hours' Rain West Texas Helped By Precipitation Skies of West Texas which were clouded much of the last week-were cleared by a bright sun Saturday and range and farming land soaked by more than 48 hours of rainfall warmed by the welcome rays The more than two days of rainfall was general over West Texas and welcomed In every -section Hardly a place In the vast sheep and cattle country of which San Angelo la the center was skipped by the rain The precipitation was beneficial In every respect and win bring up winter weeds and grasses to help flocks and herds In the area But the Associated Press last night said the rain In Texas was sandwiched between two areas of cold one to the north and the other to the east Cooler weather was forecast fra this area today by both the Associated Press and Bob Growth er local volunteer observe Zn San Angelo the total rainfall for the two-day period was 202 Inches Mr Crowther sakl last night He said the maximum temperature Saturday was 75 degrees compared with the minimum of 45 degrees maximum temperature was 52 degrees Heaviest precipitation during the week was west and north of San Angelo Mertxon first county seat west received three and one-half Inches The report on total rainfall compiled Saturday by the San Angelo Telephone Co follows: Blackwell 1S0 Martian SM Sweetwater Midland 141 Menard 300 McCamey 911 Del Rio 041 Brady OiT Coleman 14S Bi sprint Brownwood 175 Winters 1 ron 00 (To rtlday night) The Associated Press reported that rain extended as far south as Corpus Chris tl where rain fell for the fifth consecutive day Zn the northwest Wichita Falls reported early wheat and oat pasturage was foreseen as the result of rains that ranged from half an Inch to an inch All of North Texas Including Dallas had good rains Winter crops were benefited In Central Texas by the rainfall and farmers reported the moisture was Just what was needed for fall plowing Adjournment In The No 'Rubber Stamp Unify' From Republicans Vandenberg Says English Submarine Is Believed Lost -LONDON Nov 9 The Admiralty announced tonight toe submarine H49 is overdue and considered lost 4 JOIIN IL KIRBY John Henry Kirby Dies In Houston a HOUSTON Nov 9 VP) John Henry Kirby 80 Houston lumberman and financier died at his home at 10:10 tazilght after a long illness He was chairman of the board off the Kirby Lumber Company although active management of toe company was In toe hands of others Mr Kirby built up one of toe largest lumber businesses In the country- Today's Doctor 'Bounced' WASHINGTON Nov 9 Declaring that there must be no stamp in Congress Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) said today that Republicans had a duty to maintain "critical vigilance" toward administration actions The Michigan senator told reporters that both major parties should drop partisan politics In the Interest of but added: do not want unity In the sense of totalitarian government In which the voice of all opposition Is It appeared meantime that the first post-election dispute In Congress would be over the question of adjournment Democratic spokesmen have talked of possibly adjourning on Nov 18 Representative Martin of Massachusetts the House Republican leader said however that he would object to ending the session long as there Is any emergency" He was joined In this attitude by Vandenberg who said Congress should stay In session and work out some solution for the financial problems of the defense program The proposal by Secretary Mor-genthau fra a $15000000000 or $20- DALLAS Nov 9 VP) A visiting eastern physician today claimed to be probably toe only living man who ever Adolph Hitler and got awaywlth it He is Dr John Gelbert of New York naturalized German-bom physician who said he was Hitler's personal medical attendant from 1924 to 1927 While practicing medicine In Munich In 1923 Gelbert explained dead and wounded from a nearby riot were brought to his quarters Hitler then comparatively unknown rushed through toe door shouted Hitler" and demanded to know toe nature of the riot last words mode so much noise and got so much In the way that I shoved him out the door on the seat of his pants" too doctor recounted After the Incident Gelbert said Hitler endeavored to win the patronage and employed him as his persons! physician until Gelbert left Germany for a series of International travels.