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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy to cloudy in
Denison and vicinity
THE DENISON
Representative United Press and International News Service.
DENISON, TEXAS THURS. DEC. 30th, 1937
• fSJK MONTH
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930— DAILY 1934
fi A FAST GROWING PAPER
VOL. 4—NO. 163
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Motorists Again
Hampered By
LowHangingFog
Monopoly
Is Aim Of
Congress
Many Claim Monopolistic
fracticei Brought on
World Depression; Solons
to Consider Matter, Said.
|
ft
Other Bills To
Be Rushed Thru
However, Weather Prophets Believe Possi-
bility Good for Better Weather by First of
Year; Thankful High Temperatures Here
Denison today was hoping for were forced to drive their cars at
clearer weather New Years with Snail paces when visibility thru
predictions of less cloudiness in the long hanging fog was very few j
the next forty-eight hours, de- feet. Car lights, even the most Congressional_ M embers
spit© heavy clouds and fog here powerful, could not penetrate the1 Make Ready for Opening'
late Thursday morning. j mist and many drivers turned off j Session Early Next Week
High temperatures remained in their lights while creeping along, j
this area today, with the King- A clear area was moving into | WASHINGTON — A drive
ston thermometer falling to slight- West Texas at midnight Wednes- against what is being termed a
ly above 50 degrees following a day from the north and west with monopoly among business men is
high of 65 degrees Wednesday Amarillo and Lubbock reporting'a part of the program of the
afternoon. Denisonians were fair weather. Skies were clear | forthcoming congress, it is defi-1
tliankful colder weather has not Wednesday as far west as Utah nitely, known.
struck during the continuous rains and northward to the eastern por-j With announcements that such
and heavy fogs, leaving the tion of Wyoming. Much of New practices brought on the present J
RR Heads
In Bonham
Conference
Six Denison Business Men
Leave for Bonham Today
to Contact Cogressman
Rayburn on Dam Project.
Hope to Rush
Thru Measure
Sherman And Durant Dele-
gations Take Part in Meet
At Bonham Thursday.
Six Denison business men left
today, for Bonham to confer with
Congressman Sam Rayburn, urg-
ing action on the Red River dam
project early in January, climax-
ing several years of active work
by interested persons in North
Tsingtao Is Bombed by Japanese;
Chinese Troops Leave City in Ashes
Greater
Suffering
Reported
streets free of ice and possible
dangers.
Late Wednesday night motorists
DENISON
62-50-35
YEARS AGO
By DULCfc MURRAY
December 30, 187S
.. - --- . -- | Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and
Mexico also enjoyed . sunshine, drop back into a depression, such Arkansas.
There was no snow or rain report-! statements being made by Sec- j Those attending the meeting
ed throughout the section Wed-I*etary Roper, Assistant Attorney from Denison are J. W. Madden,
nesday night and the prevailing , General Jackson, the president, is j l,,c Greer, Mayor Clarence
clouds were froin 12,000 to 30,-' declared, will definitely urge some j gcott( <pon) Suggs, Jr., W. L.
000 feet high. j closer control of such monopolies. Peterson, and Ford Senle. Walter
Light rains continued Wednes-j Also in the foreground is to bp | Archibald will lead a Durant dele-
day night at San Antonio, boost- J renewed efforts to put through the while the Sherman group
ing the year's rainfall to within president's reorganization bill,
an inch of normal and hiking De- [ the anti-lynching bill and the wage
cember's total precipitation to ov-1 and hour bill.
er the six-inch mark. High wa '
WINNERS IN FIRST PLANNED FLIGHT
m
j ter blocked a few Southwest Tex-
A singular accident occurred as highways.
half a mile from the city on the! Major creeks were flooding in
M-K-T. road last night. A heavy j Navarro county. Saline Creek ov-
freight train could not get up erflowed the adjoining highway
the grade and Wm. Allen, who! at Grand Saline and flood warn-j
73-Year-Old
^Resident Of
Denison Dies
posted along the Sa-|
Talco and East Texas •
has been fireman on the road un-' ings were
til quite recently, was sent from j bine river.
the roundhouse where he is now j oil drilling operations were halted
emp'oyed, with engine No. 60, to; by water in creek bottoms. The
assift. He ran down with consid-! Llano river rose ten feet and n!
Mrs. Emma Maynard, 73-year-
old resident of Denison, died
Thursday, at 3:30 a. m- at her
home, 425 West Sears street, fol
will be headed by Judge Jake J.
Loy,
The group hopes to have Con-
gressman Rayburn push the pro-
ject at the January 10th hearing
before the National Harbors and
Rivers committee in Washington,
after which it may be placed be-
fore Congress for either accept-
ance or rejection.
When the proposal is presented
to the Capital City committee for
consideration,'' southern citizens
BERNARR MACFADDKN (extreme left) presents
handsome trophies to the winner* of the Mao-
fad den Planned Flight Contest held recently be-
tween Tampa and Miami, as the opening event In
the All-American Air Maneuvers at Miami. Con-
testants, from many states throughout the United
States, (lew their planes In accordance with a
previously announced olan. Peter J. Sonea. icaninrt
came nearest to completing his flight as planned,
and won first prize. Larry Cook (next to Mr. Mac-
fadden) won second prize, and Clare W. Bunci* of
Robertson, Mo., third prize. On the right Is Grover
Webster. Chairman of Flight Contest. Mr Wa--
tadden oldest licensed pilot in the U. S., m.de a
nonstop tliphi from Newark, N. J„ to Miami to
r rAM*i4f th* it mi .
ARRESTS MADE IN
MIGRANT SWINDLES
Everyday
DENISON
enable speed and the track being; low water bridge between Llano: lowing an illness of six months.j has been to army engineers who!
Series of Explosions Shake
Tsingtao as Chinese Blast
All Lines of Communica-
tions and Vantage Points.
Sino Airships
Bomb Hongkong
Chinese Are Fleeing in Ev-
ery Direction to Escape
Oncoming Nippon Forces.
SHANGHAI—More than 100
civilians were reported left dead
following an air raid b;r Japanese
planes at Tsingtao. The report
is unconfirmed.
Defending troops in the city are
throwing up everything as a barri-
cade against the approaching Jap-
anese and should the city be tak-
en, nothing hut an empty shell
will be left, it is declared. De-
struction of everything that might
prove advantageous to Japan will
be carried out.
A series of explosions in the
w city shook it violently, and it is
O. O. Mclntyye the other day believed Chinese have blown up
recounts a fact of "they never; telegraph, radio and olher sta-
tions of communication as well as
public service buildings.
So far 159 Americans still re-
a Dallas woman'main in Tsingtao and fear is felt
seem to learn," dealing with Bar-}
num's philosophy of "there's a
sucker born ever minute." Just)
two days later, a Dallas woman1
wet, he could not control the en- and Mason
gine as soon as he expected. The j impassable.
on Highway 29 was. yhe had resided here 55 years.
Flood waters in the
m
result was he ran into engine No. I Nueces were reported. Corpus
52, in charge of Engineer Burton,] Christi's 3.81 inches of rain dam-
stading on the track, demolishing! agde winter vegetables, but bene-
the pilot, breaking the headlight I fitted ranges. Webb county's
and staving in the front of the Ilsht rains turned to a downpour
boiler. The trucks under the ten-j Wednesday while rain halted on-
der were knocked out by collision: ion transplanting in Zapata
and the tender was forced up on; county.
the rear of the engine. Engine! -
No. CO was also slightly damaged,!
a truck was broken and the water
tank smashed so as to allow the j
water to escape. No one was
hurt.. The brakeman on No. 60
jumped off when he saw a col-
lision was inevitable.
The truck for the Denison'
hook and ladder company arrived lil aftpr l,ew years' extra equip",
Tuesday evening. As the boys! men' coaches, sleepers, etc., will■
pulled their beauty up the street,! '3C added to a" trains, con-
it attracted universal attention J taini"K «tudent returning to their |
The truck is fully equipped with
recently completed a half million
Funeral services will be heidj dollar survey of the dam site,
at 9 o'clock Friday morning at northwest of Denison
St. Patricks church with Rev. B.
for their welfare.
Katy Adding
Equipment For
Collegiate Rush
Beginning Friday and lasting un.
after new
'
universities schools
passengers returning
holiday visits.
and other
home from I
J. Deeney officiating. Interment
will be conducted at Calvary cem-
etery with Short-Murray direct-
ing. A rosary service will be hel l
at Short-Murray chapel Thursday
at 8 p. m.
Mrs. Manyard was born in Chi-
cago and came to Denison ag a
child. She married Munson Man-
yard, now deceased, in 1896 at
Denison.
Sha is a member of the St.
Patrick's church.
Surviving are a son, Harry
Manyard of Deninnn and two
grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Jo'hn Scul-
ly, C. J. Corcoran, Steve Bruno,
Tony Bruno, George Hoey and
Terrance Fox,
■ . , , NEW YORK—A series of wide was to be made extremely valuable
| wi e en lg tene , it is earne j spread arrests this week revealed by having a large number of in-
just ow avora c t e movemen , Qne ^ mo8j. darjng an(j gi. j dustries located near the land
gantic real estate swindles ever bought. They presented exten- 'ets a Pa'r SO'Psies swindle her
perpetrated and had to do pri-' sive drawings of buildings showing out °' $1,600, her life savings.
marily with immigrants. Some what was in prospect to be im- ^af' t() d° WJls t0 perform HONGKONG—Thirty Chinese
1500 immigrants have been mediately built. They even a couP'e of slight of hand tricks planes conducted a raid of several
swindled of their money, it is promised that they would have aru' tbcy ^d ber believing the minutes over the city today, doing
shown. | parts of the New York harbors ear"1 was oetogan shaped . . . considerable damage.
A woman, as one of the ring located near the site, although not j ^ame thing happens here on1 The attack was the heaviest in
leaders, has been arrested. She ls'one 0f them was even near the' occasi°ns- but few are reported j several days.
Mrs. B. Smoland. Other arrests . f | to P°''ce ""'ess the amount taken j
are pending. i . ,s enormous. . . A few months ago! SHANGHAI — With Japanese
The plan was to contact the Their opeiations were on a arge here a traveling salesman decided J attacking along several fronts,
new arrivals and sell them pro- scale and worked through twelve he wanted to get on a tear with a fleeing citizens
perty which, they were promised, different corporations
Roper Believes
Business To Be
Better In 1938
WASHINGTON—According to
Secretary of Commerce Roper, the
outlook for better business in
1938 is justified. He declared,
however, that monopolistic con-
trol of business had no more place
in democracy than monopoly of
politics.
woman
night .
he picked up
. . He went all
late one
right, hut i
in great numbers
in every direction,
hooks, ladders, a dozen buckets,
etc. The whole is neatly, painted
red and on the side of the truck
appears, "Denison No. 1" In
bold, white letters.
December 30, 1887 , , tll
The marriage of James Simpson' is topping over at Dallas and will
and Miss Lizzie Topping, which take the Burlington streaml.ned
was announced to take place last sr,PC,al from that po,nt t0 Houston
Wednesday night, was consum-
mated on Tuesday night instead, it
having been deemed advisable ow-
ing to the serious illness of the
bri le's father, not to give a re-
ception- as at first intended; The
ceremony took place at the resl-j
dence of Samuel Morton on West
Morgan street, only a few inti-j
mate friends of the contracting;
parties being present. WASHINGTON—Metthew Wall,
The Presbyterian, Episcopal, former head of the A. F. of L.,
Methodist and Christian churches declared today, that something
of the city celebrated Christmas j would be eventually done to pre-,
Monday night. Each had a beau-1 vent lnbor from introducing into
tifullyj decorated treo replete with tl,is country through its ranks,
lights and numerous presents for! *Ueh doctrines as Fncism or other
the juvenile members of the con- anti-democratic forces.
grogations who sang Christmas | 'He declared that an. amendment
oarrols and otherwise entertained i national lnbor relations act
the adult members of the congre-jto «Uch an end wns bound t0
gations as well as the youngsters, j ^'n®*
O. B. Kone of Denison was!
i married in Gainesville Wednesday: CROUP DIVIDED ON
morning to Miss Eliza Johnson, of machinery f
R. D. Jones, chief clerk to di-l
vision superintendent, has left to j
spend the weekend in Houston. He!
where he will visit his brother.
Richard Jones, a former Denison- j
ian. 1 *1'
—— !
Asks Something
Done To Prevent
Introductions
Americans Sit
Hour Watching
Panay Scenes
LOS ANGELES — Americans
last night saw the first showing
of the sinking of the U. S. gun-
boat Panay in Chinese waters by
Japanese bombers and for more
than an hour sat tense at the
scene. As the pictures were un-
folded, an unemotional narration
of it was given by an authority on
the matter.
Hither And Yon
WITH KEN
Earthquake At I Paris Strike
Buenos Aires Ends Suddenly;
Claims Many Many At Work
Twenty-five Dead and One Labor Trouble End# as Rap-
Hundred-Fifty are Injured «<Hy a Started Follow-
in Quake in Argentina ng Agreement Made Wed
are running
the highways being clogged with
she tore him loose from about|there. They, are moving in every
$90 (so he said) chiefly by roll-j direction and meet and cross each
ing him after he was slipped a other at the meager mads of the
Mickey Finn ... lie howled his 'country.
head off about it, but that was ; Great suffering among them is
because he knew his wife was in'reported. Some carry the last
Kansas City, or wherever he liv- semblance of their earthly posses-
ed, would never hear about it . . . sions, most of which can be p?ac-
Barnum was right after all— an ed in swmi] containers.
intelligent man was he. j
BUENOS AIRES—Twenty-five
The Life of the Party" proves j
be ever famous as tiiej j,ml property damage to the extent aspects France has evpr had. most to be a gay comedy, bringing love
of the 140,000 employes of public ly Harriet Hilliard to the screen
works who struck Wednesday are for the second time. . .Parkyakar-
PARIS—Following one
Speaking of Valley Forge thatj persons were killed, 150 injured most threatening labor
place will
nt ; where Washington's remnant, af hundreds of thousands of Dol
o! an army spent a most teruiy-l jars f0u0we(j an eartnquake here
inp. winter cKewing the toes out of, ias(. njKht.
ih-ir mocctiMUS, then in emi, j More than fifty' of the injured
spritia, tak . t a cross-country, 45; are expected to die.
mile hike, thru snow and slu--,. to! Hundreds are left homeless bv
Trenton and victory after cross-1 the destruction of their homes.
The quake lasted for several
minutes and was over a wide area.
of the,
trouble
that city. The bride is a daugh-1
ter of R. C. Johnson of the Wilion
O'Bear Grocery Company of St.1
Louis.
Joe Irwin, Libbe's popular pre-
scription clerk, was settin* 'em up
to the boys Monday—cause, a
Christmas present—a ten pound
boy.
December 30, 1902
Johh E. Brook, «ged eighty-
(Continue* on Pace
MACHINERY QUESTION
WASHINGTON—With businc-vj
men nnd some editors divided on
the point as to whether machinery
tends to create idlenesg or create,
more jobs, the matter was being
discussed here at a conference.
Owen D. Young took the posi-
tion that introduction of machin-
ery In the field of Industry may
bring about a temporary disloc i-
tion of workers, but it finally
resulted In creating more employ-
ment
Services For
Mrs. McGrew
Held Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs. Jeanie
McGrew, 80, a resident of Wich-
ita Falls three years and former
resident of Denison, who died at
Wichita Falls following an eight
year illness, were held Thursday
at 2 p. m. from Short-Murray
chapel. Interment was at Fair-
view with Short-Murray directing.
Mrs. McGew was born June 23,
1857 in New Jersey as Jeannie
Nicholson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Nicholson. She was
also a former resident of El Paso.
Her husband, Robert B McGrew
a formed MKT telegrapher, and
flagman, died here during August
1922.
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs.
Ethel M. Fahey of Ames, Okla.
ing the flood-swollen Delaware
amid ice floes. Antique collect-
ors' paradise—this highway across
southern Pennsylvania. A pro-
fusion of shops, mostly in resi-
dences, all along the way. Coates.
villc, Penn. Home of the famous
Coach and Four Inn, still in ac-
tive service as in olden days.
Lancaster, Penn., home of the
i Hamilton watch and those bundl-
ing Mennonites! Here mustached
men are so conspicious by their
absence that to see one so im-
mediately brands him a new-com- j
er. Full beards or chin whiskers j
on many local young swain are, j
however, not uncommon. And j
those pretty local damsels with
such attractive extremities that
the pillars of their church have
decreed they shall go about in
coarse ribbed cotton stockings—
black at that, as arc their bon-
nets. The demands of some re-
ligions! Gettysburg—apparently
it's the deadest town in America.
It must be the cemetery influence
and the cx-battlegrounds, where
sheep, lambs and wild flowers
abound, symbolizing perpetual
peaer o:i one-time plains of peril.
For comedy relief, someone has
placed a milk bottle over the
back at work Thursday.
Settlement was reached late
Wednesday, and the thousands of
workers went back to their jobs.
Subway service is about normal
again. Only a few of the em-
ployes of private transfers are
still out.
Texas Farmers
Reap Harvest
Of Pecan Crop
BICYCLE STOLEN FROM
YOUTH WEDNESDAY EVE
A bicycle was stolen from J.
C. Chappcll, 422 West Day street
about fl p. m. Wednesday, accord-
ing to reports of city police. The
vehicle had not been recovered
shortly before noon today.
SCHOOLS PRETTIED
(FOR OPENING MONDAY
Denison city schools were being
cleaned thoroughly and floors ns-
polished this week as officials pre-
pare for a reopening Monday,
January, 3, according to Superin-
tendent B. McDaniel.
Denison Plants Ship Goodies
To All Sections of United
States, Report Reveals
Denison pecan incomes were
included in the 1937 estimate of
$1,775,000 by the United States
Department of Agriculture, for
the state of Texas. Most of the
Woman Sees Turkey Egg Turned
Into Ball Of Hair; It Cost Her
$1,600 Life Savings To See Turkey
DALLAS—It took three days
but two gypsy women finally wig-
gled Maria Perez into surrender-
ing her life savings of $1,C>00 to
them Wednesday.
Maria, convinced gypsies were
appointed by the Lord to cure
sick souls in this world and pre-
vent accidents, gathered all her' artists failed to reappear as prom-
cash in one bundle and watched!ised- Mari® bewJme auapicioufc and
reported the whole affair to po-
lice.
ks provides practically all of the
laughs and Gene Raymond deser-
ves better roles in the future. . .
A few of the sonns have been hits(
for several weeks, but they leave
a pleasant taste. . .Dramatic critics,
have been receiving their share'
of puhlicity dnrmg the past few
1 days from a number of columnists j
' . . .It's swell to have a job where
one can leave the theatre when (
the actors lay an ecc, then go to Denison goodies were handled by
the office and fry it in print. . . local plants, shipping them to all
Dramatic reviewers are all rurht parts of the Nation.
when they, tell the truth about a1 A total of 31,200.000 pounds of
film or play instead of just «<v- pecans, all varieties, were pro-
ing four stars to every one they
see. . .Of course it makes a hit
' with producers, but the general
| public gets wise too rapidly. . .
many believe a critic must have1
j a swell job with nothing to do j
. but sit in a theatre—free—and i
! watch. In reality they have a ;
' very, difficult job, many times th in production of Improved var-
• wishing they were blacksmiths. | ieties with only 1,250.000 pounds,
j i Georgia leads in improved var-
A wire report gives receipes to
get rid of that New Year hang-
over. . .If our memory serves
duced, compared with 10,400,000
last year and 24,360,000 for the
1928-32 average. Of the Texas
crop, 29,950,000 pounds ore wild
and seedling varieties, more than
twice as much as the nearest
state, Oklahoma, whieli has 13,-
100,000. But Texas is nmly fif-
feates of 'magicw necessary, one, j
one "changing" a turkey egg into
a ball of human hair.
All was well after Maria placed ™ onn wfts published
ieties with 7,810,000 followed by
i Mississippi, then Alabama, Lonis-
iana and Texas.
The 1937 Texas crop is one of
her money <n a bedspread and ^ ^ bMt ™ rccord- In 19SR 44"
gypsies told her it was merely, N-Wg ^ hpst wnv not to have 000'000 p0Unds P™1"0*1 foT
being borrowed by the Lord. Af-1 that headache is not to .rink, but
ter a week and the pair of bunco'
the highest crop.
irnsket of one of the countless
(Continued on page four)
it disappear—with the two wom-
en. But before Marie was con-
vinced she should bring out her
worldy cash, there were many
Two suspicious women were
picked up in the case, but were
released after brief questioning.
few think of that until the next
morning. . .One shouldn't show
hi# appreciation by forming a set
of resolutions. . .Jokes on resolu-
tions should be outlawed. . .Elliot
McClung finally got rid of those
(Continued on pa*e four)
NOTICE
If you do not T™"
paper br 5 p. • c'
pleaaa phone SAO end one will be
tent you
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