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No 40 LAWTON OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JUNE 6 1940 Price $100 Per Year Inside County Bobby Hopes or ALLIED LINE HOLDS News la Passir 4k Third Termer tot Hamburg where the Gcrmawt sale three persons were killed and 21 injured the specific on this activities In Latin in Holly I 7 The American National Bank BRITAIN MAY EVACUATEI CHILDREN TO CANADA carries a thorough coverage of today's news as well as news of can twirl he twirls tanks in at Chaulnes the 41 now or captured previous re At Golflto near the Pacific coast of that country and only 230 miles from the Panama ca nal authorities found a cache of several hundred hand gre nades and rifles and immedi ately posted strong guards on the Panama frontier i Bobby born and reared at Spiro will return Saturday to make per zonal appearances at the its the ater at matinee and night showa Theater patrons will remember Bobby in a western feature pictureTrigger which showed St RURAL CENSUS IN AREA LOWER 73 Projects In Given Priority WPA Official Harrington Reports REYNAUD SAYS TANK UNITS NAZIS HALTED REYNAUD GETS RENCH REINS DALADIEROUT Hundreds Are Destroyed Weygand Is Satisfied With Allied Answer IRST COUNTY WHEAT 1940 BROUGHT HERE ORT SILL PUT ON IRST PLAN OR DEENSES Mr 9c to He 14c to 30c HUGE DEENSE NAVAL BILL IS PASSED TODAY ITH COLUMN TRACES OUND IN COSTA RICA Hitler Hurls His Entire orce Into Offensive To Break Somme Authorities were close mouthed about the cache but said it con cerned an alleged revolt that the Panamanian government frustrat ed last week But the well informed in" the tiny republic were inclined to take a more serious view A German private airplane pilot from Punta Renas was removed from his post GODLOVE ILES OR ATTORNEY MRS HILLIS IS BURIED TODAY tine press publications navy minister Leon Scasso ordered a special watch at the Bahia Blanca naval base to (See Page 3 No S) DOGS AND CATS WILL BE SHOT Chief Estahakee Seminole dian of Wewoka Okla who reelected by tribesmen and serve a third as tribal leader tahkee known outside his tribe as George Jones is a prosperous far mer and oil land holder Never in the history of the tribe has a brave river (Although the rench military spokesman described Chaulnes as six miles from Peronne measures on big scale maps showed the dis tance to be approximately ten miles Indicating that the Germans had smashed ten miles south of the Somme at the reported point of deepest penertation instead of six miles) of tanks has rench lines it 10c 62c Me 6139 UO 65c 610 Mayor Gives Order Here After Kitten Is ound To Have Rabies The dog that were bitten by the apparently harmless kitten are Hke ly to oeveiop rabies within short while creating a menace to tha public Dr Hathaway warned Load authorities have full ad thority under the Oklahoma stat tes to enforce the quarantine Dr Hathaway asserted Ho warned authorities said the matter under complete The Costa Rica discovery spurred anti fifth column activity in other countries In Mexico Garcia Tellez secre tary of the interior ordered a checkup of all foreigners in im portant Mexican cities to facili tate the round up of those who en (By United Press) The tiny republic of Costa Rica in Central America lying between Nicaragua and Panama and bound ed by the Caribbean sea and the Pacific ocean drew major atten tion Thursday in the fiht against imn column America The war ministry Thursday is sued a special communique con cerning charges published in the Italian press concerning the con duct of rench officers during the landers campaign Deny Italy Charge seems unnecessary to deny information published in the Ital ian press that rench officers dur ing recent operations committed acts of violence and even crimes against Italian caught in the flux and reflux of battle The rench army's officers corps is abpve such The rench defense lines are holding all main and German infantry attempting to smash through behind the tanks has been hurled back it was stated Twenty five German tanks were reported destroyed at Chaulnes the Leader Is Invested With Dictatorial Powers 1 Reforms Cabinet Pioneer Resident Expires Suddenly Wednesday Was Church Worker Rural Population Shows Drop Gain Is Listed or All of County rank Vaughn Sells Over 400 Bushels Thursday 'j To anners Union Latin American Republic Discovers Hidden Guns And Hand Grenades WASHINGTON June (UP) Work Projects Com missioner Harrington Thursday notified WPA ad ministrators to give priority to 73 projects which the army and navy consider "of first to national de fense 1 Harrington announced the orders as the 1941 relief appropriation bill LONDON June The pos sibility of evacuating British children to Canada and Auatralta la under urgent consideration by th government Geoffrey Shake epere parliamentary secretary tor the dominions said today in the house of commons Replying to a written question'' he said he hoped to make a Statement on the subject soon Measure Sent By SenateTo White House Guard Control Opposed last vestige of had been lopped off Edouard Daladier and Anatole De Monzie last of the ar da" bad been eliminated as had Albert Sarraut of the who had failed as pre mier to act When Adolf Hitler in vaded the demilitarized Rhineland Spam Parliament Hardly 20 per cent of parliamen tary votes were represented in the a inner cabinet But Reynaud did not want to depend on parliament for hl power at this critical time It was on an indefinite leave and he was in no hurry to call it back By a dramatic sudden informal reorganization after a midnight meeting he had avoided the ne cessity for parliamentary discus sion Had he resigned formally so as to effect the reorganization by the usual means he would have had to summon parliament and get a vote of confidence Now he needs and asks no blessing from sena tors and deputies Taira Key Port Reynaud took over the foreign ministry himself and now holds this key post as well as the defense ministry In naming Gen Charles recently promoted from colonel his first aide in the defense minlstiy 4 he brought to a key point a man who thought of the entirely mech anized division before Adolf Hit (See Page 3 No 2 may be needed in the defense pro gram Shipments to Japan were the first to be stopped The senate also may act on an administration sponsored resolution unanimously approved by its for eign affaire committee putting this country on record as opposing rec ognition of the transfer of any ter ritory in the western hemisphere from one non Amerioan power to another The resolution also pro vides tor consultation among th American republics in the event such a transfer appears Imminent Drouth and low prices have made tough going for them in recent years but most of them have come 1 through in spite of these conditions and this is to express our admiration for the courage and ability they have shown under adverse circumstances 1 irst Comanche county wheat deiivenees of the 1640 crop were reported Thursday in Lawton and Geronimo rank Vaughn Hulen farmer brought in more than 100 bushels to the Union exchange in Lawton He reported an average of about 17 bushels per acre The exchange was 62 cents The wheat tested 62 Qtte Kluck 4 exchange manager reported Two other Hulen farmers Har ry Hilbert and Ketels made wheat deliveries Thursday 'At Geronimo Pince de livered approximately 300 bushels to the Chickasha Milling company elevator Wednesday afternoon Clarence Wilson Lawton an nounced Mr Pihce has 85 acres and hia wheat was producing about 15 bu shels per acre It also tested 62 Louis Beznoska Geronimo elevator manager advised Mr Wilson Both Mr Wilson and Mr Kluck raised their estimates of the prob able county production from an earlier forecast of five bushels an acre to between eight and ten bu shels IM Year Old Benda Son To Receive Degree NEWTON Masi June Too old to attend commencement exercises himself Rev Thomas Babb sent his 70 year old son to Andover Newton Theological school Wednesday to obtain his de gree for him The degree of bachelor of sacred theology was awarded the elder Babb who will be 100 years old in August on the basis of a diploma earned in 1898 two years before the school was authorised to con fer degrees 1 Comanche county's rural popula tion and number of farms decreas ed materially during the last 10 years but the county as a whole showed an Increase in population preliminary census figures showed Wednesday i The county's population exclu sive of ort Sill military reserva tion as of April 1 was 33605 com pared with 30338 on April 1 1930 an increase of 2767 announced Merton Munson Chickasha sixth district census supervisor The number of farms in! the will Es United Press oreign Editor Allied armies battled strongly Thursday against an increasingly furious German offensive into rance Adolf Hitler threw assault tenka dive bombers and massed infantry In vast number perhaps the full Nazi into the attack along the Somme and the Aisne rivers and the high command said the German armies were advanc ing everywhere In Paris and London official military spokesmen said that the Germans had failed to break through the line established by Generalissimo Maxime Weygand and that tanks which stabbed into the deep rench deterges were shattered by murderous fire from tne famous rench 75s of World war artillery fame Hamburg Bombed Allied warplanes also struck back: at the Germans from the Sommo to the Ruhr valley blasting' com munications lines and supply de I pots and bombing the great port The bombardment of Hamburg by large of Allied war planes intensified the methods of total warfare now being employed by both sides with results which still are mostly hidden by cens ship but which probably are vast in both damage and loss of life It also appeared that the attack on the big German port might be important because it would prob ably be a central base In any at tack on the British Isles I German plane also bombed the I English coast striking at air bases I New ragmentary I News of the fighting front was I still fragmentary but it was indi cated that the battle spreading1' I along a line of more than 200 miles I and no winy probably 2WCki Q00 men' were ifevelopihgimeruiely ana witn great rapidity rne Uer mans obviously had crossed the Somme at some point and claimed to have broken across the import ant Aisne Oise canal 60 miles from Paris but the rench said that their 'Amiens positions were hold ing firmly and that German infan try had suffered heavy losses vain attempts to follow through the holes made by tanks i New tactics devised by Gen Max ime Weygand to stem the impact ot German tank and dive bomber at tacks were reported working well Allied quarter indicated moderate optimism over the situation Pressure Placed Greatest German pressure was developing at two points One was a 23 mile sector from Amiens west where the Germans appeared to be attempting a thrust down the Norman coast to cut orf additional lines of rench British communication and form one flank of a pincers attack on Paris The other was the Peronne Soi son region where a break through would give the Germans the spear head of a second flank only 50 to 60 miles from Paris (See Page 3 No 4J uneral services for Mrs Hillis 60 who died suddenly at her home 920 2nd Wednesday were conducted at 4 Thurs aay at tne calvary Baptist church with Rev Ar Wilcoxson pastor aond Rev A Brown officiating Burial was in Highland cemetery airs Hjws was bom Anna Penland Auril 7 1880 at Knoxville Tenn and moved with her parents to Laxas wnen a rniid She was married to Mr Hillis Jan 26 1898 at McKinney Tex and moved to Lawton from Prince ton Tex 37 year ago Mrs Hillis had been a member of the Baptist church 36 year and was a charter member of the Cal vary Baptist church here She was a faithful worker in the church She was a member of the Security Benefit association Survivors are her widower one daughter Mrs George Hudson Lawton seven aona rank Kelly and Steve aD of Lawton: Bill and Hubert Beaumont Tex ay Ok lahoma vity ana unsrie of Pauls Valley 11 grandchildren and two brothers Jim Penland east of Lawton and John Penland near 4MfleAVvV Amon funeral attendant ara Mra Spurlock Geronimo Ufe tong friend of the deceased Tn AAvton iraeral home wa IMrta Market armer are Invited to watch fi Lawton News Review for local market Price ar for today and are subject to ehanye without notice Grain price are quoted through courtesy of Clarence Wilson manager ot th Chlekaaha Milling company Industrial frtreeL vream Hen ryer Cock Ec Wheat Barley Kaiffir Alfalfa Hay Corn (ear) PralriHky Pasini Jn Review Okla" Oklahoma City LAWTON MARKET REPORTS Many good farmers are among our customers In good years and bad we have found them aa depen dable as any class in the community perhaps more SO Hitler Pratsed A Military Genius BERLIN June German praised Adolf Hitler Wednesday a a military genius and cheered him a Che real hero ot the Ger man victory in landers At hl field headquarters Hit ler was said by military quarter to have personally directed the whole operation against the al Daily communique from hi headquarters have told the Ger man publie of repeated successes The crowning Success came Tues day with the report Dunkerque had fallen And Wednesday Hitler ordered an eight day celebration to commemorate the victory End Kid" Plane To Marry Show GM HOLLYWOOD June Muntz Hall on ot the "Dead End Kids" and Elsie Anderson a showXiH lived only a dosen blocks from him in New York are going to be married Both are 19 The wedding be held until after Christmas' the couple said and in the meantime Hall will build a home in the San ernando valley Hall made hl start In the mov ies in End" after playing In the stage production of the play In New York His fiancee entered the show business here Lifetime Movie Career App ear In Lawton i'l'f' rf 4 Oklahoma's 14 year old western movie star Bobby Clark enjoys every minute of acting and hopes that it wilj be his life career 'That' is what He told friends in Lawtoil Monday as he stopped a few hours on his way to Childress) Texas where he made personal appearances that after noon and Tuesday at a theater iwv re omm 4 1 4 4 1 1 44 ZA yVol deepest point of penetration six Suspected fifth column members miles from Peronne on the Somme were under close observation but Lawton police were instructed Wednesday by Mayor A Jones to shoot all dogs and cats on signt after a report from the state lab ratory revealed kitten that at tacked a two year old city child was Infected with rabies Dr Kne who is treating the lad eald the child Harold Dill ingham eon of Mr and Mrs Earnest Dillingham 306 I was playing on the sidewalk when the kitten viciously bit him on the thigh Urge Enforcement Dr Hathaway county health commissioner urged county residents to help enforce th county wide quarantine It provide that aJt dogs and" eat running loeae shall bo eht by ommty peace effieera even tkangta the animals mnexled Dr Knee reported that the kit ten that attacked young Harold bit several dogs in the neighborhood 4 and attempted to bite sevrar resi dents before authorities captured the crazed animal Inventors Offer Radical Plane to US Government I before the senate for debate late I Thursday or riday art Rill tiu huiaH program covers many navy I yard military reservations of ma jor size and certain civil airport located in strategic areas" Harring ton said "Types of WPA work to I be expedited in every possible way include In addition to airports and airfields construction of housing and other facilities for en larged military garrisons camp and i cantonment construction and var ious improvements in navy yards" I The WPA chief himself a colonel i in the army engineering corps esti mated that a half million relief (See Page 3 No 1) powers the president to dissolve foreign group he deems harmful The smoke shell were fired to nd regulates foreign and Argen try to screen movement of German troop operating on th left flank of the German offensive toward Paris and the lower Seine river (See Page 3 Na 3) Seven German planes were shot I tere illegally down in Normandy it was announc 1 In Argentina passage was vis ed and three others probably were luallX assured Thursday night or destroyed In raids against central riday for the government spon rance sored bill aimed at checking fifth The military spokesman said that colunu ectivitiea The bill pro the Germans had used smoke shells 1 hibits cithraiw ot belligerent coun in bombarding the town of RetheL tries rom becoming citizens of Ar on the Alsne rver northeast ofKentina while the war lasts em Kheims Try Screen Method PARIS June (UP) Hundreds of German tanks have been destroyed in the Al 1 lied stand against strong pres sure along the rivers Somme and Aisne Premier Paul Rey naud said Thursday in quot ing vreu uuaxiine weyganu as I saying that he was satisfied Willi Lite riUJltll illlSWUI LU the German offensive Reynaud in a radio speech to the people said that Adolf Hitler had uaed every airplane and tank he could muster in the present offen sive but that the rench operations were being carried out satisfactor ily PARIS June 6 rench au thorities claimed Thursday that 41 German tanka have been captured destroyed along the Weygand line and that rench troops were suc cessfully resisting the German of fensive These sources said that Jt was still too early in the battle to ex press either pessimism or optimism over the outcome but that rench lines generally speaking were holding firm Tank attacks have been met suc cessfully It was said by allowing them to infiltrate into the rench lines then cutting them off and destroying or capturing them Indi been nominated for a third term viauany Tanka Enveloped (Earlier the rench claimed destruction of 100 Amiens sector and 25 It was believed that reported destroyed were in addition to ports making 166 German tanks put out of action The dispatch nowever was not pointL As each group ploughed into the I has been enveloped by the rench it was said preventing the masses of German infantry from following up the advance However It was admitted that the Germans have made a "dn of some five or six tnilea in a drive south of Peronne It ap peared that the Germans were trying to straighten out their lines in this area where the rench hold a curved salient coLuty as of April 1940 Is 2082 i whlc the government believe ma Itrt 14 I eU comparsa witn zss on Jan 1 1935 and 2913 on April 1 1930 Although Comanche county as a whole shtxr a gain the rural area exclusive ot Lawton and the small towns showed a Iom ot 3420 people over 1930 The small town showed a gain of 364 people over 1930 and the city ot Lawton 5323 over 1930 GODLOVE getically to the best of my ability strive to enforce the laws entirely free from the domination ot any there would be no' favorites no clique faction or dan and that outcasts no discrimination because ot race or other: conditions in ths conduct of this office You were further assured that I would de vote my full time to this office for I did not then have nor do 1 now have any other side interests or business Upon the strength of that promise and your confidence In me I was favored by your votes and chosen to represent you In this A I OJtlK AltA iCIICi MAL4U1I UlM the Ritz lazt fall Bobby also apof which a considerable portion has peered in a serial With 't been earmarked for stlch emerg Kit which ran at the enc defense projects was placed theater The youth has just finished the first in a series of pictures entj tied 'The Sagebrush amily Trails He will be accompanied tb Lawton oy his father Arnold Clack who acts also in the new picture Other pictures in wfaicn Bobby played outstanding roles In clude: "Arizona and "Bad Boy" 4 Bobby's rise to picture fame was due to his own initiative At ths age of eight he accompanied his parents to the Oklahoma Arkansas rodeo at ort Smith Ark His fa ther noticed his unusual interest in the trick riding and roping stunts and asked: "Do you think you could do that? The youth re plied: me a horse saddle and rope and show Without taking the youth Seri ously Mr Clack bought him a Shetland pony and the necessary accessories During the next feW months he hardly remembered hbt 'progress One day however when he sw him twirling rapes and roping steers he was convinced he had a future rodeo star The next year Bobby was giving public exhibitions and appearing in rodeos in Oklahoma and Ark ansas He has appeared with such western actors as Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson His name is well i I but one tribal leader remarked Seminoles thing as much of Estahakee as the Democrats do of Roosevelt NEA Telephoto Re election Is Sought By Incumbent Cites Pledge Of urther Service Since January 2 1939 I have been your County Attorney When I sought your support for this my first term I assured you that I I would honestly fairly and ener RENCH STAND GROWING NAZI ATTACK TODAY Italy Continues 1 War Preparations ROME June Italy still prepared for war kt top speed to day massing resource men and machine tor the long awaited blow at thoae who stand In the way of her aspirations" One of the final step in the mod ern scheme of surprise warfare was taken when the government for bade telephonic communication with Great Britain and rance Mobilization was underway tn It aly's African colonies old men and women wore grantea permission to take th place of mobilised work ers more money was appropriated for naval purpose and it was re ported that the council of minis ter Tuesday had discussed a food rationing plan 4 LOONEY TO GET DEGREE Charles Looney 6 8 11th will receive hi Ph Dt dgr in graduation exercise at th Uni versity of Illinois June 1(1 Approx imately gwv students wui WASHINGTON June The senate Thursday approved and sent to the White House an important part of President Roosevelt's national defense program the $1492000000 navy de partment appropriation bill It was the first major part of the 35000000000 program to com plete it course through congress The bill carried peacetime record appropriations far the $1308 171000 In direct appropriations and $134371612 in contract authoriza tions Army Bill Next The senate action on the final conference report on the measure was taken without a record vote Still to be passed are the $1823000 000 army bitl about $1277000000 in supplemental appropriations for both the army and navy and inci dental other fund While the navy money wm voted with dispatch opposition to the request for complete authority to order out th aatlonal guard aiipeared to increasing Senate republicans joined their house colleagues in demanding that congress stay in session to deal with any emergencies such as might require use of the militia After a 45 minute conference with 20 other republican senators Re publican Leader Charles I McNary announced: was the unanimous sense of the conference that congress should remain in session for th duration of the emergency" 5 He made no announcement of the minority party's attitude toward a new phase of the defense program which is receiving clou attention from military leoders gthe proposed to build up th regular army to 375000 men The army's presept actual strength is 227000 enlisted men The authorized now is 280000 and funds for enfiansion to that level are In the pending army appropriation Gen George Cl Marshall chief of staff has urged Songreu to bolster the stfengthi even more Chairman Andrew May of th house military affairs commit tee Is writing a bill to increase the authorized strength to 375000 in cluding an additional 40000 men for th air corp This was in line with General recommen dation He said that if congress approves such an increase it might not be necessary to require authority for the president to summon the na tional guard and other reserve to active duty However May told re porters: not only going ahead with the national guard but going the limit on the regular army" He added that If th army could not obtain enough enlist ments from among the unemploy ed men eager to join the army gnd from various reserve unite the national guard then might be call ed upon to fill the gap The senate delayed Wednesday by minor disputes planned to act Thursday on a house approved bill giving the army Is the limit" authority on construction of air plane and munition The measure also contains a provision granting Roosevelt authority to embargo shipments of any materials deemed necessary for this defense Pending enactment of the legisla tion manufacturer already have cooperated with the government In effecting what amounts to an In formal embargo in order to stop certain foreign order of machine By JOSEPH RAVOTTO United rees Staff Correspondent DADYQ rMl vvw rifuvi MiDMon nix name wvu i 4 uune $urj rremier known in circus circles where he Reynaud invested with more has traveled with Hagenbeck Wal I personal power than any rench lace and other nationally leader since the Clemenceau re troupes in the last war took control Bobby gave a brief trick roping Thursday of a new compact and exhibition before emphyew twJrgetie qahlnetfroiiL which the cntcKasna mj mng company Mm day morning Clarence Wilson manager and bead of the Lawton Buckaroo club said negotiations are underway to obtain the youth as a featured attraction In the Lawton pioneer celebration Aug ust 6 Although a roping artist Bobby appears also In pistol and rifle shooting stunts He has 12 ropes measuring in length from six to 86 feet Despite the bi flliaht screen career and his assured fu ture success he is just an ordinary boy at heart He is tutored by a private teacher three hours a day while on location and lives much the same as any other boy He is not conceited but has the self confidence that carries him through difficult stunts that few adults nave accomplished He four ropes as easily as one Bobby's favorite "girl wood is Jane Withers His everyday attire consists of a black Viat black shirt with white buttons jeans and cowboy boots SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA'S GREATEST ARM WEEKLY Lawton News Review xHOUSTON Tex June A radican new aircraft motor whidh its designer claim devel ops twice the horsepower with the same displacement and less weight than the conventional four cycle type was offered Wednesday to the United States government Oiarleo A Toce and Victor Toce brothers and the designers said that the moor was inexpensive ef ficient and feasible in mass pro duction engine Is the result of nine years of said Char les Toce a mechanical engineer has now rached the point of perfection and is ready to go into prodution The production cost will be approximately half the cost of aircraft engines The engineer said the motor has minimized fire hazards requires no carburetors: has no crankcase compression permits a dead cold wide open throttle gives a sea level performance at stratosphere pressure and has 50 per east less moving parts than the ordinary aircraft motor Hxe brothers notified Chairman Morris Sheppard of the senate military affairs committee that they were reedy to produce three motors of 300 cubic Inches dis placements each developing 300 horsepower and could have them ready for testing within 60 days Senator Sheppard replied that he would submit the offer to the prop er authorities In Waahingtou fobmer dohahqman here A Howard returned to his home at Sun Ray Tex Wefenes uay alter spending 10 days with his father Howard India dird 10 WL injr at hnVnm annual defense inds enW SRin VLIa Bartaute IG CT June 5 reminlne attire exceoA if does not have utnithrian advantages jtha corusfk fn nf the uv ir Edward Bauer Phila Liter Ricuivai evciciy i New Jersey convention hero Wednesday He criticized modern mothers for dressing their children ty instead of and said Incidence of rheumatic feve In children is Increasing becausetheir legs are freezing from ankle to groin I A ntw nnOdorn iHl io as a ir airmtug 7 fc 6 A 'fl I I 2 7 that an appeal be UMU to SOT receive caDOCirv i ne suonort riven tnv ad Homa Mr HomM (Irene I VHAM I 1 1 1 (NM Harn'XNfi 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