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BULLETINS
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Independent (Hl Lender Savs
Industry Needs U. S. Regulation
hoisted over the
jumped for it.”
Blessing of Germany
Claimed for Move
Louis Johnson as assistant sec-
retary of war and the nomina-
tion of Robert Porter Patterson
of New York, judge of the second
United States circuit court of
gasoline "Just as the crude purchasers
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Roeser’s first suggestion was for a
law to compel refiners to post refin-
ery’. tank wagon and retail prices for
Danning.
Chicago
Boston
Baseball Bat Injury
Kills Bryan County Boy
RERUN, July 25 — (P-- < By Radio,
—The executive committee of the Bre-
ton National council has decided that
Brittany shall break away from France
and become a national state, the Ger-
man radio announced Thursday night
' The broadcast was based on a dis-
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necessary, soon after Secretary
Morgenthau confirmed stoppage
of two shipments of oil to Spain.
The order amended a procla-
mation and regulations issued
July 2 designed to keep in this
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WASHINGTON, July 25.
— P)—P r e s ide nt Roosevelt
the '’sums involved are colossal."
"For our own national defense and
for the benefit of American industry,"
he continued. "I believe this is the
most important thing with which I
have come in contact.”
Specifically, Morgenthau explained, ।
the British proposed immediate action
so they can get delivery of 3,000 air-
planes during each month of 1941 and
1942.
Roosevelt Sign* Order
For License as Two
Tankers Are Stopped
Louisianan Gives Bond
NEW ORLEANS, July 25 — (UP)—
Former Governor Earl K Long was
free under bond Thursday on three
indictments returned by the Orleans
parish grand jury charging him with
embezzlement and extortion.
LONDON, July 25 (UP)- Britain has notified Bulgaria
that it is sympathetic towards Bulgaria's claims to the Ru-
manian territory of southern Dobrudja, it was learned authori-
tatively Thursday after the Bucharest government had re-
called its minister to London, Viorel V. Tilea.
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo, July 25.—(UP •—The birth of a 20-
pound child to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hunter. Negroes, of Mococco,
near here, was reported Thursday by Hunter.
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Johnson Quits
Army Post In
Charles Roeser, Fort Worth, former president of the associa-
tion, suggested a national conference to be called by President
Roosevelt to write a bill permitting “federal participation" in
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gestapo, press for the invasion.
Britain claimed victory Thursday in
the first major phase of the 5-weeks-
old struggle against Nazi conquest of
planes were alleged by survivors to have set fire with incendiary
bombs to oil-covered waters in which men. women and children Thursday added petroleum
were struggling toward safety and petroleum products.
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By CLAUDE V. BARROW
(Oklahoman-Times Oil Editor)
In a fast moving open session at the Biltmore hotel Thursday
morning, directors of the Independent Petroleum Association of
America declared for drastic revisions in the oil picture of the
United States.
) to Meet In radin e
metal to the list of commodi-
ties subject to possible em-
bargo.
Two Tanker* stopped
He signed an order subjecting
these to a system of export li-
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George lighted a cigaret and strolled
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। a few minutes. and after a look at the
sky ordered the tour continued.
The king had reached the next
point on his tour 20 miles away when
the raiders passed.
Besides the training of British sail-
ors he saw Dutch, French and Nor-
| Medians and looked over warships of
these nationalities
year, set by President Roocevelt as a ■
goal in his May 16 defense message. ■
He declined to estimate the exact ca- I
pacity planned. E
Immediate Start Sought
Saving the British "seem to have
plenty of money," Morgenthau said ___
House announced
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W omen and ( hileren Dead
patch from Paris which said that the
council had decided on the break "at a
given time.”
(The Breton autonomist movement
through past years had caused minor
disturbances in France, but never was
Uken very seriously by the leaders of
the old French republic.)
The broadcast said that German au-
thorities had created the post of gov-
ernor for the five departments which
make up Brittany. The Breton na-
tionalist weekly L’Heure Bretonne was
quoted as saying that, by setting up
the governorship. German authorities
officially recognized the autonomous
existence of Brittany.
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Texan Calls States' Compact Control Failure;
Refineries Blamed for Present Emergency
The Cunard White Star liner Lancastria, sunk by German bombs with a loss of hundreds of British soldiers
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Survivors of the Meknes, landed at reaching Germany and Italy through
a southwest England port Thursday Spain. (Related details on Page 9.)
Lee and Hartnett. Salvo and Berre*.
St. Louis at Philadelphia, night
game
Only games scheduled.
big craft inshore, smoke pouring from its still
droning engines while the pilot strove desperately
but in vain for a safe landing.
“It seemed to me and my mate that it was com-
ing straight for us and we threw ourselves into a
hedge,” said one spectator.
“The plane hit a low brick wall and plowed
across the field where we had been standing. It
burst quickly into flames and I saw one German
throw his comrade out. The man had a broken
leg
"The pilot burned to death. A third member
of the crew who was uninjured was seized by
soldiers. This fellow had a package of English
cigarets in his pocket."
Ten minutes before the appearance of the
bombers, a solitary plane, flying so high that it
was invisible, left a thin trail of white smoke.
When it turned tail for France, eight Junkers
87’s swept from the clouds, cutting loose with
bombs which kicked up huge geysers of water. A
heavy smoke pall hung over the water sprays,
forming a multi-colored display in the bright sun.
subject,” he said. "I don't want it
understood I favor federal control as
such, but aid from the federal gov-
ernment in stabilizing the industry.”
The Weather
STATE AND LOCAL—Fair and eon.
tinued warm Thursday nizht and Friday.
Fourth Meatless Din Set
ROME, July 25— (P)— The Italian
government decreed Thursday that
Tuesday shall be a meatless day.
making four such days a week. and
ordered sharp rationing of bread
served in restaurants.
the resignation of
R A F. fighters roared to the challenge and a
series of dogfights broke out.
A strong force of British craft pursued the Ger-
man bombers to the French coast while other
British planes engaged in a free-for-all with the
strong force of German escort ships.
Watchers along the southeast coast said the
bombers kept coming relentlessly despite the anti-
aircraft fire which rocked the earth for miles
around.
The bombers split into three groups, each
keeping in formation as best it could.
The first group attacked the British ships hov-
ering near the shore. The second and third
blasted away at land objectives from which rose
spirals of thick, brown smoke
Later another formation of 15 German planes,
apparently fighters, flew in from the channel.
They were strung out in a long line, one after the
other.
Ground defenses set up a curtain of fire and
R A. F. fighters took to the air to chase them
back across the channel.
, /P Wire photo Brings the
j Pictures with the News
Jimmie Receives the Press
" idents son. sets the pace
in informality at a press conference Thursday in Chicago.
Perhaps the temperature i101 degrees) had something to do
with it. Jimmie said he probably would do some campaign-
ing for his father, but that he would have to "stick pretty
close to business.” (Wirephoto.)
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New York .. .000 010 0
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M’ALESTER, July 25.—(Special.)— England—by repeated, violent attacks
struck in the abdomen a week ago by on German “blitzkrieg bases" across
a bat accidentally thrown by another the channel—and at the same time
youth during a baseball game. Mar- tightened her blockade of the reich.
shall Childers. 13-year-old son of Roy with more than 1,000 mass air
Childers. Caddo. Bryan county, died raids, a London spokesman said, the
in a hospital here late Wednesday British royal air force now has "made
night. it extremely difficult for Germany to
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LONDON, July 25.—(-In a sky "alive with
airplanes,” British anti-aircraft gunners and fliers
Thursday fought off a German bomber fleet
swarming down on a merchant convoy off the
southeast coast of England.
Four of the Nazi planes, estimated to number
about 80, were shot down and the rest were
chased back to France after planting a half-mile
long string of bombs near the surface vessels,
which escaped damage.
Glittering in the sunlight, the Nazi planes
made brilliant targets for anti-aircraft guns.
The thunder of the big guns, the rattle of
machineguns and the thud of bombs set up a ter-
rific din as the raiders, their whining motors wide
open, twisted, turned, dived and climbed to dodge
the bursting shells.
A Nazi bomber crashed in a field in southwest
England after taking part in the unsuccessful at-
tack on the convoy.
Eyewitnesses said British fighters chased the
but the number still unaccounted for was put at 2.823 to 3.023,
out of which it was estimated about 1.700 perished. On the
Meknes. about 300 out of 1,300 French navy officers and men
aboard were feared lost.
VOL. 1.1. NO. 65.
afternoon. said the German motor
torpedo boat that attacked the ilium- RritLI* ( 11", F/Lro
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ship first machine-gunned them late i A • iw c
Wednesday night ill Air W artare
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the enemy torpedo boat know she was _. . no, r.g,nL .»
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•tk. h „ , , „ Adolf Hitler’s advisers delays the at-
"The. shipshowed >°f her lighttstempted invasion of Britain The
soing. he. channel. When the paper said Goering. Paul Goebbels
torpedohit. there was a rush for!the and Col. den. Wilhelm Keitel, chief
boats, which became overcrowded o( the high command. Insist the in-
to oc vasion must not be launched because
man the risks are too great, while Von
Ribbentrop and Himmler. chief of the
If the number estimated to have country materials essential to
fallen into German hands proves to the national defense.
be smaller than 1,000 the death toll
on the two ships may mount above WaY -car For Embargo
3,000 The law these regulations imple-
' ’ , ... mented provided legal authority for
Survivors of the sinking of the Lan- the control of exports of munitions,
castria told of repeated attacks by materials, and machinery needed for
German and apparently Italian bomb- defense. Stephen Earley, presidential
ing planes, which bombed and ma- secretary, said the order did not mean
chine-gunned the crowded decks of an embargo was being placed on these
the big liner from a low altitude. products but that the authority merely
dropped bombs—one of which went was being provided to control ship-
down a funnel—and then attacked ments.
survivors seeking to swim through oil- While Morgenthau would supply no
' overed water to the shore or to rescue reansons for the oil shipments stop-
craft Two of the attacking planes pages, it was learned elsewhere that a
were shot down. virtual embargo already had been
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Harold B Fell. executive vice-presi-
dent charged the refining industry is
responsible for the excessive stocks of
refined products and the general
chaotic condition in the industry.
Compart Board Criticized
Russell B Brown, general counsel
from Washington, charged the inter-
state oil compact commission "has not
met the opportunity it had and has
not done the things necessary to bring
about lasting benefits to the industry.”
Frank Buttram, president. charged
the state regulatory commissions with
failure to abide by the bureau of
mines estimates on production and
thus have not worked in the best in-
terests of the states and the industry.
Interspersed in these discussions
were continuous criticism of the com-
pact commission, state regulatory
commissions, inequities in the new
trade agreements which permit gerat-
er imports of cheap foreign oil, and
condemnation of the refining industry
for failure to adjust refinery opera-
tion;. of producers for drilling of
thousands of unnecessary wells. and
actions of major companies in refusal
to co-operate on stabilization pro-
grams.
Refinery Postings Demanded
Roeser’s declaration for federal par-
ticipation in regulation of the oil in-
dustry came as a surprise to the more
than 40 delegates at the meeting.
"For four years I’ve laid off this
England to Pay For
New Plants and Buy
3,000 Ships Monthly
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The difficulty in estimating the
number who perished on the Lancas-
tria arose from the fact that some
HAVANA, July 25 - iv Karl M. Sorrick of Jackson, Mich.,
was elected president of the International Association of
Lions clubs Thursday for the 1941 term. George R. Jordan,
Dallas, Texas, was named first vice-president.
HOURLY
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Nazi Raiders Send
Kins to Shelter
SOUTHCOAST PORT IN ENG-
LAND, July 25 - Pi—King George VI
was forced to take cover in an air
raid shelter during an inspection of
naval training camps Thursday but
no bombs were dropped nearby.
When the alarm sounded King
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DETROIT, July 25.—(/P) — Labron Harris of Guthrie,
Okla., canned a 60-foot chip shot for a birdie three and a
win on the ninth hole to draw even with Edward Furgol
of Utica, N. ) .. in their quarter-final match in the na-
tional public links championship Thursday. Both con-
testants were out in 37. two over par, a high wind handi-
capping the golfers.
STOCKS
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BUCHAREST. July 25 -(P- Rumania was reported
Thursday night to be preparing to requisition 60 British-owned
or chartered Danube river barges to increase the flow of oil to
Germany. Official quarters promised the reich full support
in the drive to deliver 200,000 tons of oil this month.
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Repeated Attacks Made
it was stated that from 5,300 to
5.500 were aboard the ship. including
troops, women and children. Of these
2,477 were known rescued, leaving 2,-
823 to 3.023 listed as missing.
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Boston ..... 000 02
Chicago.....010 02
Bagby and Glenn; Knott and Tresh.
Philadelphia .200
Cleveland ...001
Rom and Hayes; Harder and Pytiak.
Washington .020
Detroit .....Oil
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LONDON, July 25 < UP Great Britain reported Thursday
। that German and probably Italian bomb and torpedo attacks had
j sunk the famous transatlantic liner Lancastria and the French
steamship Meknes with apparent loss of from 2,000 to 3,000 civil-
ians. soldiers and sailors.
The 16,243-ton Lancastria sank under a furious half-hour
aerial bombardment of.' the French harbor of St. Nazaire during
the British evacuation of France on June 16. when the attacking
. ... 76 though numerically outnumbered by
; ;; 75 German warplanes, had “to a great
• • • 73 extent succeeded in breaking down”
• 85 Hitler's scheme for a cross-channel
.....(89 invasion of the British isles and had
92 made new air bases "acquired nearer
• •• 98 our shores practically untenable.”
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—(P)—Secretary M o r g e n-
thau said Thursday the Unit-
ed States has pledged “every
facility” to enable the British
to buy 3,000 military air-
planes a month in this coun-
try, in addition to huge or-
ders previously placed.
Confirming an announcement
in London by Lord Beaverbrook
the treasury head said the new
arrangement is in addition to all
previous orders, and will require
construction of new factories.
Britain to Pay for Plant*
The British have promised to pay
for erection of the new factories as
well as buy their output, Morgenthau
said.
The secretary asserted the treasury,
war and navy departments are in com-
plete accord on the commitment, and
that William S. Knudsen, production
member of the defense commission,
has agreed to undertake to work out
the details.
He said the new factories will give
the United States capacity to build
"far in excess” of 50,000 planes a
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BERLIN. July 25.—(A)—Walther Funk, German
economics minister, said Thursday he had a low opinion
of the Pan-American economic plan under discussion in
Havanna, and warned South America it would be boy-
cotted if it entered any united American front arrange-
ment. “Trade between Germany and South America,”
he declared, “either will take place on a basis of free
agreements with sovereign South American countries or
it will not take place at all.”
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organized massed attacks on this
country from airdromes in Holland.
Belgium and France, or from bases
the enemy hoped to establish in Nor-
way.”
The spokesman said the RAF, al-
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LONDON. July 25.—(A)—The royal air force, de-
spite thunderstorms and chill winds which iced the
wings of bombers, continued Thursday to hammer at
Germany’s blitzkrieg bases. The air ministry said all
the attackers returned.
tary, told reporters that “since time
immemorial.” a cabinet officer has
had the right to select his assistant
secretary and that Henry L. Stimson,
new secretary of war, had asked the
chief executive to name Patterson.
Early said Johnson resigned Wed-
nesday and flew to Bohemian Grove,
near San Francisco.
There are indications that Johnson ।
may become a presidential adminis-
trative assistant—filling the last of :
six such jobs at the White House.
“If Louis accepts the administra-
tive assistant’s job—and we hope that
he will," Early said, "it is the presi-
dent’s intention to have him, as an
official member of the White House
family, become his eyes and ears, his
progress reporter on the entire ques-
tion of national defense.”
Judge Patterson. 49 years old, is a
native of Glens Falls, N. Y., and,
Mke Stimson, a Republican. After
graduation from Union college and
Harvard law school he was admitted
to the bar in 1915. The next year
found him serving on the Mexican
border with the national guard.
In the World war he was first a ।
captain and later major in the in-
fantry, winning the distinguished ser-
vice cross "for extraordinary hero-
ism in action.” He was appointed a
Laderal judge on March 21, 1939. 1
Troops on Second \ essel
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