Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 51, No. 244, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1941 Page: 3 of 16
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to be defended tn common.
tow, and have learned too
Nazism builds Trojan horses
Qninea from within—through
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KERR'S FIRST FLOOR
WASHINGTON March 3. — —
Administrator R. M. Evans of the
agricultural adjustment administra-
j'hey Can’t Believe America Will Leave Them to Destroyer
Nazi Slaves Keep Faith
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white. Ladder folds under stool
when not in use. Sturdy construc-
tion we ve never seen priced so low!
more papers tn Oklahoma City than then are home*
the earth* surface.
These are the facts. These are the
things which the voiceless masses in
the Nazi-enslaved or Nazi-dotninated
countries of Europe, where 1 have been
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America with hope in his voice.
The overwhelming majority of Eu-
Members of the nominating com-
headed by Mrs. Walter L.
bray, were to meet Monday afternoon
to compile a slate of officers.
Program for the meeting_ will be
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sixth vice-president. assisted by Mrs.
To tWm America means hope—and
hope means opportunity and gener-
osity. It also means leadership and
championship of freedom and. above
all, human decency,
a • •
iHEY believe that Americans, more
than any other people on earth,
are incapable of shutting their hearts
‘ to human suffering and misery. They
believe that Americans are incapable
of remaining indifferent to the de-
struction of freedom and parliament-
ary government among nations, large
or small, which had always shared
the* privileges with them.
I think you will understand ths dif-
ference between these two convic-
nd a baldly egotistical aasump-
1st they expect Americans to go
| over and fight the# war for them"
despit* the spectacular gains of the
i In the quietest election in Chilean .
I history, the Cncimun**' strength tn r
. 7 to H seats. They won three unex-
pected senatorship* in the single larg-
est gain of any party.
Oscar Schnake. socialist party lead-
er who broke with ths popular front
government. in opixjsition to the Com-
munist party, appear* to be the big-,
gest man in Chile now.
Unhurt by their
Socialists doubled their congresttona^
seats to 15. and their senators re-
last year. ,
It seems unquestionable, however.
At last, a lamp that makes reading in
bed a healthful pleasure The plastic
shade and shielded bulb give you the
glareless light your eyes have Aw
longed for. Use a standard 40 to 60-
watt bulb. Try it——you II love it.
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February, according to a summary
of the month by Frank Whitney,
| weatherman, was an unpleasant
month,
wetter
I than normal.
The month's mean temperature
was -----
normal M t. Total precipitation, in-
cluding 3 inches of snow, was 183
inches, compared with the normal |
for ti* mouth at 111 inches <tt
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Police saved Horan
Hubert Snell, 18 years
old. of Muscatine, Iowa, after the Ice broke as he was walking
across the Mississippi river between Rock Island and Daven-
port, Iowa. Sunday. Rescuers threw him a blanket and safety
belt attached to a rope line from the top of the Rock Island
centennial bridge. Snell then was pulled feet to safety.
The triangular opening at lower left is the hole into ahicn
Snell fell. (Wirephoto.)
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late, how
and unde_ ,
treachery {and exploitation of ambi-
tion and greed Now they know these
things from Experience.
—iHAT'B why the mass of Europeans
cannot imagine that Americans, if
Hitler once rules all Europe and Africa
and inevitably dominates Latin Amer-
ica, can possibly fool themselves into
thinking they can be the only demo-
cratic people on earth to remain im-
mune to the perfected •'conquest from
T1CUUIU, T. within'* tactics of the brown bolsbe-
America's role in regard to the war. vt*m of the Nasis. Maybe they credit
- — •-----• *- • ug with being more prudent and intel-
ligent and farsighted than we are. I
suspect that time will answer that
question before very long.
Anyhow. Europeans of aU classes
look at America and they have certain
very widely-held ideas about America
and the yar.
They think that Americans cannot
Yes conceivably risk destruction, even more
from within than from without, by let-
ting the Nazi system engulf the British
commonwealth of nations and so con-
solidate k gigantic, forced-labor in-
two-thlrds of
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Leftists Parties Boost
Strength in Quiet
Chilean Elections
By ALLEN HADEN
iCbiesao <XU» New, FWrtian Serv’ —'
March 1 — Chile's
Ke of confidence at Sun-
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Paced by a five-death traffic acd- |
denu at Chelsea, weekend highway
fataliues in Oklahoma stood Mondav
at 11 to give the *t*U its heaviest
weekend toll of the year and push
1MI deaths to S3—13 more than a
year ago
The state highway patrol termed
the Chelsea accident the most disas-
trous traffic mishap In the »tate “in
years." .
Two of the fire killed when a fast
Frisco paaaenger train struck a 192S
model car at a Chelsea downtown
crossing were small children and an-
other was a 16-year-old bride of three
days. .
Weekend deaths reported to the {
highway patrol:
MRS MINERVA SMART- 70-year-
old Catale. Rogers county, farm wom-
an. who died Sunday of injuries suf- |
fered in the Chelsea accident.
THEODORE SMART. 32 years old.
her son. injured in the same accident.
KATIE SMART. lg-year-old bride |
of Theodore Smart.
MONTGOMERY JOHNSON. 4 year*
old also a Chelsea crash victim.
BILLIE JOHNSON, 6 years old.
killed at Chelsea.
ROY HUGHES, 28 years old. Paw-
huska. who died Sunday of injun**
suffered tn a collision six miles north-
east of that city.
MAX ZIEGENMEYER. 21 years old.
Grinnell. Iowa, killed early Saturday
south of Caney. Atoka county
RAYMOND NIX. 48 years old. Get-
ty, Hughes county, killed Friday, in
a collision near Calvin.
MELVIN CALDWELL. 18 rears old.
■ Gerty, killed in the same accident.
JAMES R. FINK. 20 years old
Denison. Texas killed Friday in •
collision near Colbert.
D. M. MAHAN. 15 years old. killed
tn the same accident.
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It’s smokeless, won’t spatter! It
broils steaks, chops, fish to a tender
turn. Fits your standard size Nesco
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H stance, is much the same. 1 have had
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restaurant waiters, with counts and
SANTIAGO,
sweeping v
it was colder than normal, day’s national elections in the leftist
than normal and drearier parties, an-1 the strengthening of the
socialist party's representation in con-
gress. appear to have assured a mid-
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48 I degree*, compared with ths - ■ ■;--------------- ■ —
I tn 1942 major farm crops.
Under the request, congress would ap-
propriate 349.868.180 and would au-
thorize the secretary of agriculture to
incur 3162.000.000 in additional obli-
gations with presidential approval.
Assuming 1942 prices to be equal to
those tn 1940. he said, the 3212.000.-
000 plus conservation payments would
give producers of basic crops 80 per-
cent of parity.
INCE this is supposed to be a re-
I porting job let me tjy to give you
Europeans currently think about
America. Although I have been in 21
L7 *"2 • this
ansiysia for accuracy^ sake, is lim-
ited to the 12 northern, eastern and
Kitchen Stool, with
Folding Steps $198
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far 1OIH
tlackn and aport togs
Donovan in London
LONDON. March 3—Coi. Wil- . <
liam J. Donovan, unofficial American f
observer who has been touring EXirope I
and the middle east, arrived in Lon-
don Monday.
Asthma Agony
Don’t rely on smokes, spray* and injec-
tion* if you suffer from terrible recurring,
choking, ssspins. • heeling rpeil* of Asthma
rr>ou»*nd» of »uBerer* have found that the
first dose of Mendaco usually palliates
Asthma spasm* and loosens thick strangling
mucus, thus promoting freer breathing and
more restful sleep Oet Mendaco in tasteless
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AMERICAN SPECIAL
"Mello-Beam" Bed Lamp
for You Readers-in-Bed
HE overwhelming majority of Eu-
- mpean peoples, whether in Fm-
H had and Scandinavia or throughout
I Wntral and southeastern Europe, are
I absolutely convinced that the United
9 States cannot permit Britain and the
’ I l»M non-American strongholds of par-
■ Damentary government to be de-
I Broyed by Hitler. -
I This is why the vast majority of
I Northern and Balkan peoples, however
I Ughth underneath Hitler’s instep they
I are now compelled to live, still believe
I with a surprising confidence tha
I Britain and her allies will win the
1 w*r in their eyes. Americans and the
I Ameriran form- of republican govern-
II mem would simply be committing «ui-
I tide if they allowed anything elac t°
I happen.
Thev are convinced of that because
they know, all too painfully, what baa
| happened or is still happening to
1 them They know now the things they
themselves didn't want to believe—and
learned too late. Such things as the
I frightful cost of hoping to remain neu-
tral and free and unharmed, au alone^
Buch things as the terrific price of the
of' Scandinavian nations and
Balkan nations to unite and
A beautiful new fabric
weight, hard-finished, muted
- like-mad in FIFTEEN different colors’ Press
it into service at once. It wont
easily. .
Eliot O’Hara ater ]
(Colors Are Placed On -
Display at University -
NORMAN. March 3— < Special.)—
An exhibition of 25 water colors by
Eliot O'Hara opened Monday in the
lobby qf the University of Oklahoma
art building. The collection is val-
ued at 86.i50.
O'Hara of Waltham. Mas* , was the
first American painter to “Pend three
months in Soviet Russia. That wm
in 1929 when he literally painted his
way from Moscow to the Caspian and
^In^'lm *nT1934. he made his long-
est painting expedition. This took
him down the east coast o< South
America, across to Chile and back.
Harmonica'e Charms
Work in Courtroom
PITTSBURGH. March 3 —The
magistrate was a bit dubious when 71-
vear-Old Edward I. Clark.
on charge >f intoxication, said: I® i
a music teacher—I teach piano and
harmonica.’
To {prove « Clark produced a har-
monies and broke into the
-Show Me the -Vay to Go Home.
“All right, dad.’ said the mag»-
trstc. joining in the courtroom laugh-
ter. “Case dismissed."
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Norman Paator Called
Ab Chaplain in Army
NORMAN. March 3—(Special.» —
Frank A Wilder, associate paztor ot
tAe McFarlin Memorial Methodist
active duty with the army at Ran-
dolph field. Texas.
Wilder holds the rank of captain ,
of chaplain service. He
the army at the age of 19
service with the air corps tn Franc*
as a non-commissioned officer.
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Marlie Blsda* t
Th<y'>a «ep« '■ VL-
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closely to regulate the
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to the level that we would
J rope's millions should be mU- uge to have it."
■ouut the role of the United He appeared before the subcotn-
in buttressing and defending mittee in behalf of the department of ----- - j n Grrene
Vhe only international front for free- agriculture's request for authority to J. Levitt, nm
dom that now remains. Americans—It make parity payments totaling 8212.-
seems clear to me—would shortly be 000.000
living in the same kind of blackout in
i blackW-out world.
what America represent*, of the
much-discussed American way of Ute.
Maybe that’s our hard luck. Maybe
that put* some pretty terrible respon-
sibilities upon us—at least in the eyes
of all those peoples who have sent
their eons and daughtera to help make
America great But the fact remains
that the common men and women of
turope, the voiceless millions, got this
conception of America from an acute
understanding of all that America has
l*en. done and stood for throughout
«ur history. If they arc mistaken or
tf we have changed, we can't blame ,
them.
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THf OUALITV STO»
New U. S. Envoy Telia
Britain Aid Increasing
LONDON. March 3 —<1P>—John
Winant. new United States ambassa-
dor to Britain, told a press confer-
ence Monday that American aid to
Britain was Increasing daily and pre-
dicted that the German contention
that thia hekp would come too late
would prove to be wrong.
The ambassador said be had an
appointment to see Prime Minister
Churchill thta week *"d,.ho^,
meet other members of the British
government shortly.
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"LORADO"
in charge of Mrs Ralph B^
Ben F Thompson, art chaiman: Mrs
accompanist: Mrs. J. L. Powers, char-
acter education: Mrs W 3. Jerkins,
parent education, and Mrs. John T.
Barry, hospitality.
Mrs. C. I Wellman, peec /ent of the
Roosevelt P.-T.-A.. will be hostess for
the luncheon at 1 p. m.
Did John L. Sullivan Fight
With Stomach Ulcer Pains?
rhe famous heevyweieht ehampion was
notes as a voraciou* eater Could be
na»e eaten and fousht as hs did U be
’ suffered aftar-eatin* pains’ Don't ne«iwt
I stomach or ulcer pains, tndlsestion sas
pains -heartburn, ournin* sensation, oloat
and other condition* caused by exeea*
acid Trv a »e bo* of Odea Tablets They
1 must help or -none* refunded at dnia
stores everywhere 1 Adv, i
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greeter happiness .. .by oywcOTilog a
run-down condition due to
2d poor .tomacb. digeetion by taking B
coureeof 8AA. Tonic.
8 SA. Tonie. in the absence of an W-
ganic trouble or focal
K« body in th* formation M rich, red
Mood ... it aids in promoting the
tlte... two important ttepe back to
I a trial will convince you
Thousands know of the amazing bone-
fits of 8 S S. . ,. scientist* base proved it,
££ TJtiowe it to yourself and fa^ly to
enjoy it* benefits Soon you abouid on-
thusiasticBliy say wtade mo
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Conquered Peoples Convinced Their Own
Ruin Shows Surviving Free Nations The
Price of Failure to Unite Against Hitler
By LELAND BTOWt
(Chlcaso Dailv News Porelan Befvioo'
When we returned to Athens from our last front trip I was
ta loek. There were letters from home at last and several issues
af the Chicago Dally News which had come through from some-
rhere That was just after Christmas and the date of the latest
ngjiv News was September 11.
You might think that a pretty sUde newspaper. It was three j
nd a half months old. but an American newspaper of any vintage
b*s long been as rare and treasured an article, anywhere in the
Likans. as a Havana cigar. f
Pn- printed news we had to depend.
the Balkan public*, on such items
.nd interpretation* as the Nazi offi-
£1 news agency. DNB. thought it
taeful to supply to the preas of south-
—gtern Europe about a very few
American developments or alleged de-
vetoDS»«u , e *
—by way of confessing that the
Tfolk* in Tahiti are much better
infonned about the United States than
i •* been possible for me to be for a
1«k Um« Th“ atao way 01
nlaihing how moat Europeans today
haw a tremendous lot more faith in I
America than they have information *npl
about th* sharply divided and con- ! A
fused atate of mind which prevails ”••
among Americans at this moment.
In all the neutral or now-occupied
countries where I have worked since
Finland, one year ago. I have en-
countered extremely interesting con-
victions about America's interests and
Meat of them have been baaed funda-
mentally on "the amaslng faith which
almost all Europeans have in the
I United States as a nation which al-
ready wears the mantle of world lead-
I ership and therefore----so they as-
I sume and believe—could not ooncetv-
I ably toss that mantle into the ashcan
I Europe look* at America.
I You can repeat this at least three
I timw to let the meaning sink in. 7™
I today Europe looks and looks and
I never stops looking at America. May-
I t* you have already reacted something
I like this: “Sure, they want us to go nw
lover and fight their war for thenL ow
I But before we get too hasty let me
I say. in all honesty, that there’s a
I tot more than that to the very great
I twnreness which European peoples
I have for the U. S A.
I takes 10 inches of snow to equal
one inch of precipitation h
The state had only 48 percent of
sunshine, when it should have had
60 percent There were only seven
clear days The rest were cleudy or
rainy.
Hottest day during this February
was February 12. when the ther-
i mometer touched 70 degree*. Cold-
est was February 8. with 20 de-
1 greet. Hottest February day in his-
: tory. incidentally, was Feb. 1, 1911.
when the thermometer soared to
90 degrees, while the coldest day
was Feb 12. 1899. with a reading of
17 below aero.
1 socialist party's representation in con-
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for Chile, malned unchanged, at 5.
and in neutral Switzerland, for in-
stance. is much the same. L------
• I of people, with cabinet members and
11 chambermaids "with army officers and 11
> | soldiers, with Scandinavian labor union a
> I members and with Rumanian peasants.
'■ Well, with quite a hodge-podge of old
{ I world •citizens of all classes I never
> I met anvone—except an outright Nazi.
> ■ an outright Fascist or an outright
9 Communist—who didn’t speak of
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’ I ropeans look at America with hope.
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City School Patrons
To Elect Officers
At Meeting Friday
The Oklahoma City Parent-Teacher
association will elect officers at 11
a. m. Friday in the Roosevelt junior
tion told a house appropriations sub- highschool auditorium.
KUH me committee s “tighter control pro- 1-----
which they*wtll pass the rest gram** for basic farm crops is needed
“in order more t----,
wouldn’t make much supply to the demand and to bring
difference to most of us Americans, the price t_
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the role of the United
mrttar believe "with an almost fan- Qf Farm Production
tastic faith.
Mavbe they are wrong. I am merely
reporting! what I know about, them.
Maybe they are terribly wrong. If they
are wrong I wonder what these tens
of millions of European men and
women will think about America
throughout the long, unbroken black-
out in C--
of their lives?
Perhaj* that
EUn.
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