The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 22 x 18 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
nfgmm
rj\\
WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Fair and continued warm
Friday and Saturday,
THE DENISON
PUBLISHED DAILY, except
SUNDAY
YOUR HOMjE-OWNEp
DAILY NEWSPAPER
35c PER MONTH
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS FRIDAY, AUG. 2nd, 1900
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 7—NO. 35
Panama Canal Zone Shown Infested With Spies
England Showered By
Nazi Fliers With Tons
i
Peace Plea Leaflets
M:.' -
PEOPLE RECEIVE
PEACE TALK WITH
INDIFFERENT AIR
Contractors Erect
Hospital At Damsite
gle to spread Nazi propaganda
among the British people was dis-
* %■ m, playied last night when instead of
m
I
DEATH ROLL
LC(N!D0N, Aug. 2—A new an-; dropping bombs, the Nazi fliers
dropped propaganda pamphlets for
peace.
The propaganda was showered
in a section in the southeastern
part of the country and con-
tained what is called the last ap-
peal of Hitler for peace, which
speech was also placed on records
and broadcast for several days af-
ter it was delivered.
The people of England are al-
ready conversant with the speech,
and it will have the effect of
tightening the determination to
carry on, it is declared, rather
than the reverse as was hoped for
by the Germans.
'One thrifty Britisher observed
after having helped gather up all
the pamphlets and turned them
over to the police, that he should
have saved them as he could have
sold them for a shilling each as
souvenirs.
This is about the attitude of the
whole people, who look, on the
of
FRANCIS M. LE\\CH
Francis /.VI. Leach, 73, a retired
Katy railroad engineer and resi-
dent of Denison several years,
died Thursday at 4:10 p. n>. at
the M-K-T, employes' hospital fol-
lowing an illness of five days, one
of which was spent at the hos-
pital. His home address was at
510 W. Morgan.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
from Short-Murray chapel with
Rev. Ben F. Hearn officiating. In-
terment will be at Fairview cem-
etery, Short-Murray directing.
Mr. Leach was born February 7,
1867 at Herman Mo., and was
reared and educated there. He
came to Texas at the age of 19,(move as showing a weakness
Nazis Secretly
Move Hundreds
locating near Blossom Prairie,; the Germans rather than a sound
propaganda move.
Newspapers also took up the
matter and played it up in big
headlines and the whole was made
a joke rather than something to
be taken seriously as the Germans
had hoped.
The people in general are going
about their life in a humdrum
manner, and only as the black-
outs are on, can one determine
anything is on of an unusual na-
ture, so composed are they.
Britons, alreadyi acquainted with
.the speech of Hitler, consider the
(threat of Hitler to destroy Eng-
where he farmed for a year and
they came to Denison. After do-
ing construction work here for a
while he entered service of the
'M-K-T. lines in the car depart-
ment, which position he held for
three years. He later left for
.Raton, N. M., and became a black-
smith's helper in 1894 for the
Santa Fe railroad. Returning to
Denison in 1897 he fired an en-
gine for the katy for three years
and was promoted to engineer in
1902. He retired in 1931. He was
married to Miss Margaret Rone
March 22, 1900 at Denison
*
He was a member of the Bro-' land if they do not submit to
peace, regard the whole thins as
something yet to be done.
The thousands of leaflets were
dropped following a lull in the
bombing which was carried on for
several hours.
In the main the bombers flew
as high up as they could for
safety purposes, only daring to
make a swift dart dowhward or.
reaching the point intended to be
bombed and letting go their load
of explosives. This form of tac-
therhood of Locomotive Engineers
and the organization is to conduct
a service at the cemetery in his
honor.
Surviving are two sons, Arthur
F. Leach and Robert Guy Leach,
both of Denison, and a grandson,
Robert Guy Leach, Jr., also of
Denison.
MRS. MARY<F. HELVEY
Mrs. Mary F. Helvey, 84, a
resident of the Preston Bend com-
A showiing how complete the down the wrath of the overseer,
Guy F. Atkinsoh company takes even though no accident results,
care of every detail while work- But when an accident does
ing on the $54,000,000 Denison come, they have the emergency
dam, announcement is made of the hospital to take care of the sit-
company erecting a special hos- uation. This week the company
pital to take care of any emer- is erecting a five-story frame
gency accident that may arise. building on the Oklahoma side of
The company, first of all, is the river near their river office
very strict regarding careless ac- and will be used as a first aid sta-
tions on the part of workmen, tion.
and the least infraction brings Dr. c. P. Liscomb, physician
for the C. F. Lytle .company, also
1 will be in charge of the Atkinson
( hospital. The Lytle company has
' its hospital on the Texa3 side,
t Like the Lytle hospital, the At-
IVIi,,, pAtnuafrl kinson station will be maintained
\ji ivien rorwara for routine health 9ervice t0 its
'employes; to take care of minor
GRENOBLE, France, Aug. 2— |njurjes and more emergency
German armies occupying France treatment in more serious injuries
today were reported in motion where the patients will be remov-
from the Spanish border to the ed t0 re(n,iar hospitals as qukkly
Belgian frontier, moving toward #s p03Sible.
the French channel sea ports fac-1 ' The Atkinson staff also includes
ing the British Isles* under condi- ^d Brennan, in charge of first
tions of secrecy. aid and Bob Moore, safety en-
Most of the German forces, in-
cluding two motorized divisions to-
taling about 23,000 men, which
had crossed the Loire river and
occupied the French seaboard as
far south as the Spanish frontier,
were said to have been turned
about in the last 48 hours and
sent northward.
Comparatively small detach-
ments were understood to have
been left behind to occupy Bay-
onne, Saint Jean de Luz, Bor-
deaux, La Rochelle and other im-
portant ports on France's south-
ern Atlantic coast.
BRITONS READY
TO MAKE POLICY
ATTACK DEFENSE
gmeer.
Two New Wells
Staked Out By
Pure Oil Co
bidden to return to the regions
near the great nothern ports of
Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne
DURAiNT, Okla., Aug. 2—Pure
Oil company's Cumberland field
lyas extended north and east to-
day with announcement by the
company of two new locations,
bringing to twelve the number of
wells completed, drilling, or wait-
French war refugees were for- ing on derricks and rigs.
The two new locations are No.
3 Little-100, in nenese of section
28, 5s-7e and No. 2 Little-101 in
sur-Mer, toward which the Ger- neswne of section 28, 5s-7e.
man forces were understood to be The two new locations are al-
moving. most on the Marshall-Bryan coun-
Entrance to the German-occu- ty ijne and according to the de-
pied zone of France was reopened scriptions either or both could be
at several points, however, to per- on the Bryan county bank of the
mit the return of refugees to their Washita river.
homes from south of the Somme. One is a direct northwest dia-
The Germans have shut off all gona| offset to the No. 1 Stewart
mail, telegraph and telephone com- 103 and the other is a southeast
munications between occupied 0ffset to the Stewart and a north-
France, presumably, to prevent d.e- ea9t offset to the discovery well,
tails of the German preparations First announcement of proauc-
from leaking out. tion being taken from the disCov-
Two days ago a dispatch from ery we]j jn the field, No,
LONDON, Aug. 2—Had Adolf
Hitler followed through his drive
toward England immediately after
he had approached the shores of
the English channel last May, he
might have had some chance of
landing on the coast of England
as compared to what he faces to-
Meeting Against
Conscription Is
All Mussed Up
Washington, d. c., Aug. 2
—Charges were not pressed
against a heckler who threw an
anti-conscription meeting into an
uproar here Thursday night.
The heckler, Hedley Grayson
and wearing an American Legion
button, climbed onto the speaker's
platform after a speech by Rush
ID. Holt, democrat of West Vir-
ginia. He had been criticizing
conscription.
After the lunge at Holt, Gray-
son then made a motion toward
Burton K. Wheeler and Gerald P.
Nye when they intervened.
A companion said Grayson was
a sergeant in the world war. He
was arrested on a peace disturb-
ance charge.
The disturbance started while
Holt was criticizing the Plattsburg
training camps. Grayson, seated in
the back of the hall, shouted:
"Were you ever in Plattsburg?"
Holt replied he never had been
because' "these camps are set
aside for the wealthy."
Grayson forced his way through
the crowd, estimated at about 900
and sat near a press table in front
of the speaker's platform, whence
he continued interrupting Holt's
speech. When Holt finished, the
skirmish took place.
Holt criticized Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson and the
national defense advisory commisu
sion in his attack on compulsory
training.
"You how me one move to get
the United States into war," he
charged, "and I'll show you Henry
L. Stimson behind tKat move."
I Referring to the defense com-
mission's endorsement of conscrip-
tion, he charged that when com-
mission members recently appear-
ed before a senate naval affair.i
committee hearing they opposed a
proposal to place a 7 per cent lim-
it on profits in battleship con-
struction.
day, it has been said.
But the .weakened condition ot
his army, the bad condition of
much of his motorized equipment
necessitated a rest and revamping
and while that was going on the
people of England were awakened
to the need of making this coun-
try impervious to the approach of
the Hitler forces and as a conse-
quence the advance they; have
DRAGNET BRINGS
IN 81 ARRESTS
FOREIGN AGENTS
'M
EVERYDAY
DENISON
G
B. McDaniel, superintendent of
made along this line is nothingl city) schools, assures us no motor
short of mervelous.
The people are generally deter-
mined more than ever that such
a thing as the landing of Germans
on the shores of England shall not
come about, and everyone is do-
ing his part and today the situa-
tion is far from what it was two
months back.|
Indeed it is freely predicted that
within a short time the English
may b carrying the fight to Hit-
ler on a larger scale than they
have been. It will be an elaborate
offensive defense at the start
which Hitler forces will face.
vehicle driver training will be
offered as a course at the high
school here next fall. Mr. Mc-
Daniel said such courses are to be
offered in technical high schools,
the nearest of which is located at
^Dallas . . . Among the major items
Superintendent McDaniel is work-
ing on is an ROTC training course
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—In a
prepared statement made to news-
papermen last night, Secretary of
War Henry, L. Stimson declared
that a total of 81 persons had been
placed under arrest in the Canal
Zone as foreign agents and en-
emies of the government of the
United States.
Names nor nations represented
j were not disclosed, but it is de-
clared that the arrests followed a
period of careful checking of the
activities of the men. All of them
were aliens and would be deport-
ed to their own country in time,
it is stated.
Secretary Stimson made the rev-
for high school students and as
soon as authority can be obtained j elation of "the arrest when asktd
the unit is to be included among* fj,e djrect question if there were
studies at the DHS . . .Cartwright,! Bny threats t0 the zone or thu
a townsite located at the north e id j country was in any danger.
of the Denison dam, got off with. Thig is the second time the
a slow start a year ago, but is retary has been in htadlines
Many of the steel and concrete! now reported buzzing with activ-j jn the pagt few days his first be-
traps along the shores and road- ity . . . The Texas National Guard jng. when he urge(j the people of
ways were ordered removed this j is to receive 98 new officers, the | thig country t0 authorize compul*
week by Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, is
taken as a shift of the war plans,
and is generally, taken as a return
to the old theory that to attack
ia the better defense.
England now has several mil-
lion men who are well trained and
equipped and the whole nation is
a seething war machine ready to
war department reports, with the. sory military training.
bulk to come from ranks of the, The secretary based his plea
enlisted men who have qualified fo). a ,arger interest in military
themselves for commissions. j afafig( u jg stated> on the kllow_
I ledge he had gained while an in-
Mrs. Helen Bower., attractive; cumbent of the office. He stated
stenographer in the administrative gome weekg ftfter beinj, inducted
office of the army engineers here,
into office that he had learned
(Continued on Page 4)
Infantry To
Entrain Here
On Katy Sat.
went golfing at the Rod and Gun en through the secretary serv-
club the other day and made a 08, j(,p men to make the .<hair sUnd
out of nine holes, four being made; ^ gnd ,,
on hole 3 . We know this to be. step placing under
a fact as this news-hound was| ^ ^ of gl sp,es „
among those she was proudly
showing her score card to back up
(thought to be only a part of the
, . ! work that is to be done, there be-
| her statement . . . Reversing his( other, who wln follow.
j procedure of two years ago, Gov | ^ m&jor roundup of the 81
I w- Lee O'Daniels has announced. au ts affects the whole Pana-
S.U.H., „<*. .. 7:30 the K J
.ulLUr.'Tth SZc*"ndTii" ? e0V'™<"' e"l. ft00 inhabitants* had b«n p mon-
, „ - n d 0 ' dorsed six candidates, four of, , , M
ficers of Company L, 144th infan- whom became elected . . . Deni- ""v chtcked' Mr'
t^ of the national guard aboard onians by the hundreds were ga- ed,
two extra coaches for twenty-one, thered Thursdav ni(tht about the!
Stimson declfir-
For several months mysterious
munity s_eventy years. died Thurs- tics is" taken as indlcating that thej reported that"" German £n Tit'tle-ioo! was"' made' today"
troop trains and naval forces had The announcement said 600 bar-
been massed in and near France's rejg Qf crude a day were being
northwest coast ports and that taken from the well and pumped
military forces were in movement through the gathering system to
day at 7 p. m. at her home ffl- unusual care is indicative of the
lowing an illness of one month. Sure fire of the English anti-air-
Funeral services are to be held craft guns.
this afternoon 'at 3:30 from thej (Only one such flier has so far
♦Preston Bend Methodist church struck boldly, and'that was Thurs-
■with Rev. Minor Bounds officiat-l day when he flew down within a
ing. Interment will be at Preston [ few hundred feet, let go his ex-
Bend cemetery, Short-Murray di-, plosives an sprayed the town with
recting. ; machine gun bullets.
Deceased was born in Polkj v "
county, Missouri, February 29 i CfAnnvfii*
1856, as daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | OtOpOVer nere
Coleman Johnson. She received
her education at Missouri and at
Says Election
Is Battle Of
2 Philosophies
B
1
I
(Continued on page four)
Standing Head
Used For Weather
These Torrid Days
By Soldiers
From Ft, Sill
The weather head for these
hot days may not necessarily have
to be changed, since the weather enroute to war maneuvers in the
man in and around 'Denison hands Sabine river area of Louisiana,
Second Lieut. A. Z. Varland, of
the seventy-seventh field artillery
battalion of the army at Fort Sill,
Okla., was in the city today mak-
ing final arrangements for the
overnight stay here of his com-
pany, Sunday, 'Auugst 11.
The battalion is expected to ar-
rive in Denison about 2:30 p. m.,
throughout the part of the Ger- tbe storage tanks, piped to Aytes
man-held zone opposite England, worth in a pipeline, arid theve
"The zone of heavy military ac- ]oaded on tank cars and shipped
tivity extended from Dunkerque, t0 Tribbey, Okla., where it is j Wendell Willkie put the situation
near the Belgian frontier and close turned into a pipeline for ship- in sizing up the national political
DHNVRR, Aug. 2—The people
of this country have been voting
mostly in the past as partisans,
but they are now going to vote
more as philosophers, is the way
to the British Isles and the Thame ment to the company's refinery,
estuary,, to Brest, which is op-j This is far short of the well's
posite Plymouth. Travelers re- potential capacity as it was tested
ported that gigantic Nazi military at 4^60 barrels a day when put
preparations extended 100 miles on production test soon after iti
inland, where all supporting ser- completion
campaign for this year.
He stated that wh^re people
once prided themselves on being
party men, they are now going to
take another slant at the matter
and vote to protest against a ten
vices and materials necessary for( Meanwhile No. 1 Little-101,'dency away from government by
operations had been fjrst 0j pure>s wells after the dis- the people and the evils of the
immediate
massed.
covery to be completed, set a new j past few years under a form of
plug today at 5,119 feet in a new 9ocialize<l government.
attempt to put it on production So, he concludes, that the elec-
test after salt water from the low- j tion will be a battle between two
' er horizon had spoiled three test philosophies rather than two par-
flows. ties.
out the same dope each day—
"fair and continued warm."
And brother it is plenty hot.
One Denison man says he fried
an egg on his sidewalk this week.
The weather reporter will not
say he was stretching the truth
fabric, as we have heard of such
a thing being ^ione before.
But while it is hot enough dur-
ing the day, the nights have been
generally comfortable.
According to the readings of the
Kingston thermometer, the hot-
est point today was 93, while the
coolest was indicated as 79.
and will camp at Loy Park, de-
parting southward early Monday
morning.
The company is commanded by
Lieut. Col. Louis A. Craig and is
composed of 500 men and 20 of-
ficers, divided into A. B, and C
batteries, 70 trucks and twelve 165
millimeter howitzer battalion field
guns. First Lieut. C. H. White is
n charge of battery A, Capt. Eyer-
ly is the commanding officer of
batterer B and Capt. T. E. Bin-
ford is comamnder of battery C.
Capt. P. H. Conner is the head-
quarters company commander.
Demos Pleased
At Successor
Of Big Jim
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Dem-
ocrats were generally pleased to-
day following announcement that
the successor of Jim Farley, as
chairman of the democratic na-
tional committee, the reason being ,
that both are the closest of friends Although the eityi is supposed, son is assigned to the fact that
and resided in the state of New t0 have pienty 0f water to tide it the usual lower summer rate was
SUMMER WATER RATES
SO FAR NOT OFFERED
Y<>rlt' ?her j' Ta*t-,the\ newt over for more than a year, there
man, Edward J. Flynrt, put it, he
can confer often with <Mr. Farley has been no announcement of
as to matters. summer water rates to customers
Since the work of Mr. Farley to encourage sprinkling lawns,
was so outstandingly successful, Water rates this month were
it is believed that his aid will en- unusually high for the month, in
able tho new chairman to carry many cases, although there has
on the work without much break been considerable rain to help
in the general run of things, keep tKe lawns in shape. The rea-
not on.
During the past several years
the citizens have been offered a
special rate during the summer
months to encourage beautifying
the lawns, and although there is
reported to be ample water now
following a shortage of few
months back, no lowyr rates have
been announced.
The outfit is under the
mand of Lieut. William D. Hoag.
Mechanized equipment of the
company will be placed in an ex-
tra baggage care of the train.
When the train arrives in
Greenville, 147 guards of the two
companies there will board three
extra coaches and place their
equipment in another baggage
car.
The train will leave Texas with
a total of 239 guards in five
coaches and two baggage cars.
C. T. Mayo, connected with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
at Washington, D. C., is in Deni-
son today visiting friends and rel-
atives. "Mr. Mayo jvas formerly
traffic manager for the Kraft
Cheese company here for several
years and is on a two-weens vaca-
tion at the present, one week of
which is to be spent here.
days of war maneuvers at Cravens 1 1 1 ** *1 r* ? i fires have been occurring in the
y maneuvers cravens , y watching Company. l i Zone and when the report
infantry unit of the national, current that there were 325
guard, go through their drill pace,, aeents ,n that area> news.
•on the lighted street. j papprnien asked Mr. Stimson If it
| were true. He then told what had
If you see a huge flame-co.ored, been dor)p a„d of the arrest of the
ir downtown at night, don't be-j rsons affer the four nations
come alarmed, the world isn't on ' , affected had been
fire as it's just the new neon sign , , r ,,
, , . . . combed carefully.
workmen have just finished erect-
star
ing on the Star theatre . . . Fol-
lowing a move taken recently by
the city, school board here comei
word from Oklahoma City that H.
E. Wrinkle, superintendent of
schools there, would recommend
(Continued on page four)
ANOTHER BICYCLE
ACCIDENT REPORTED
Giant Machines
Require Another
Stronger Bridge
Work started this week on the
new bridge which is to be 600
feet east of the present tempor-
ary structure at the Denison dam
Elm.' to serve the Guy F. Atkinson
atuii company while it is throwing up
Timothy Griffith, 920 W
sustained slight bruises
scratches about his face and body I the earthen dam.
Thursday night shortly after 9; Work started on the Tex .s
o'clock when the bicycle he was ! side, with a giant pile driver
riding was struck by an automo-! ing the piles for foundation wor
A total of 718,489 ears of rev- bile driven by Cecil McKinney of I On the Texas side the approac
enue freight was loaded by Class
1 lines during the week ending
Saturday, July 27, the Associa-
tion of American Railroads report
ed todayi
The association revealed figures
showed a decrease of 11,408 cars
•or 1.6 per cent, compared with
the week before; an increase of
62,958 cars, or 9.6 per cent com-
pared with the same week a year
ago, and an increase of 129,792
cars or 22 per cent compared with
1938 figures.
Declines in miscellaneous
freight, grain, livestock and ore
shipments caused a larger than
seasonal drop in total loadings,
the association Said.
Pottsboro, at the intersection
of | will be a short distance from the
Morgan street and Armstrong avr-1 outlet works trench at a point
nue. McKinney was pulling out j where the river will return to i
of a drive-in stand and Griffith j regular course after passing
was riding south when the acci- j through the outlet works.
The M-K-T Texas Special
through IDenison early Monday
morning will have an extra sleep-
er with the Miss Hallie Wanzer
tour party enroute to Mexico
from St. Louis. Thirteen or more
people will mBke up the party.
Appearing as an unusual ship-
ment in Katy, freight billings here
was a carload of raspberries for
Kansas City from a city in Mlch-
1 V.
den occurred.
NAVAL AIR BASE
AT CORPUS TO COS.T
SUM OF $23,300,000
CORPUS CHRISTI, Aug. 2 -
Contract has been let for the con-
struction of a $23,300,000 naval
air station here, the contract go-
ing to W. S. Bellows Construction
company, Brown Root, Inc., and
Columbia Construction company.
The station, when completci,
will be added to general defense
purposes of Texas, it is annour-c
ed.
QU> STORY OF WATCH
LEFT IN LAVATORY
Issac Bryant, 305 E. Shepard,
negro dishwasher at the Saratoga
cafe, reported to police he left his
watch In a lavatory at the cafa
this morning about 5:30 and when
he returned a few minutes luter
the watch was gone.
tOn the Oklahoma side the At-
kinson company, has a road prad-
ed to the river bank at a point
where the north end of the new
bridge will approach.
The new bridge was made ne-
cessary on account of the giant
trucks and other heavy rolling
stock of the company. The trucks
seventeen of which are being built
at 617 Main, are the largest ever
to be seen in this vicinity.
Johmon Home Entered
Mr. Waltz, caretaker of the J.
A. Johnson home at 924 West
Morton called city police Thurs-
day night to investigate a burgl-
irv a* the Johnson home. Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson are away on a two-
weeks vacation and it is not
Vnown whether anything was miss-
ing ^ —
NOTICE
If you do not receive your Press
before 5:80, please phone 900 and
one will be sent you.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1940, newspaper, August 2, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth327997/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.