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WEATHER
UENISON AND VICINITY
Little change in temperatures
tonight and Friday
The Oenison
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REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXASTHTJRS., JUNE 4th, |J
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930- DAILY 1934
VOL. VIII—NO. 270
Pacific Coast Is On Double Alert For Japanese
170 D. H. S. GRADUATES RECEIVE DIPLOMAS! No Serious Damage
Reported Done To^
Dutch Harbor Wed.
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
BY THE EDITOR
Nortfe Texas Battle Front.
With the threat of an eastern
battle front facing Hitler, North
Texas this week Rets a battle front
opened with a bull dog and a Ger-
n. in police dog as the contestants.
You can pick your choice as to
which is the bulldog, but the fight-
ing opened with a fierce lot of
growling and name calling
Morale to Win
The War,Says
Class Orator
Democracy's Strongest Defensors An
Education, 1942 Graduates Are Told
Ray Shiflett, senior class orator bor, the enemy had its answer
and commanded the attention of 161 insofar as the school* of this na-
with the throat of each contes- other Denison high school gradu- tion were concerned—the answer
tant in the mouth of the other, ates, as he declared that when'of the 7,000,000 secondary school
IRoads are supposed to lead schools opened their doors on children of this nation in a united
people places, but it seems this ^Monday morning following the1 chorus who voiced their determi-
particular road has led to fighting treacherous attack on Pearl Har-: nation to .lo all within their now
| cr to help bring victory to the ai-
l lied cause.
Speaking at the annual com-
mencement exercises of the D3ni-
son high school Wednesday night
in !lughes hall, Schiflett pointed
out:
"Every board of education, ev-
June 4—R 'ery school official, every teacher
Rehearing In
Cases Of Jehovah
Witnesses Refused
(Continued on page four)
Five Enlist In
Marine Corps
Here Wednesday
dogs of war together.
One calls the other guilty of
doublecrossing them and not keep-
ing faith, while the answer is
made that the other dog was not
willing to let him have any road
at all if they could not have their
way. So the fur is flying.
There need not be any shortage AUSTIN, Texas,
of fur nor freezing of that par- hearings in recent cases in which jn the public schoois of our nation
ticular kind of material, if it can members of Jehovah Witnesses and every student enrolled, are;
be used for material, for never be- appealed without success from now earnestly endeavoring to ad-
! fines for violating ordinances of just themselves in such a manner
Paris, Floresville and Comanche us to make the greatest eontribu-
in distributing literature of the tion to the cause of victory, for
sect were refused today by the the secondary school system of our
state court of criminal appeals, 'nation, as well as the citizenship
Judge Harry N. Graves dissent- at large, realize that it is truer;
|ed in the case of Daisey Largent, today than ever before that de-j
who was fined for distributing mocracy's strongest defense is ed-i
literature on the public-square in ucation.
V , ,. . Paris. Review* Course of Study.
five recruits for enlistment in The additional point was raised The orator believed this war
the U. S. Marine corps were ac- j„ the lLargent case that Judge will not be won by ships, tanks,
cepted at the local recruiting sta- Tom L. Bcauchamp of the court planes or guns, hut by men and
ti®n Wednesday by Staft . ergeant 0f criminal appeals was d:squall- women with a unconquerable mor-
Grady^ Pendleton. fied to sit because he wrote the ale.
Enlisting were: > Paris ordinance before becoming a He reviewed the courses of
Harold Evans Luton, 22, air- member of the court. |8tudy in his own high school which
craft builder and son of MiTaniJ Graves agreed with the remain- include the teaching of the funda-
Mrs. Joseph R. Luton, Bonham. 0f tj,e court tj,at thig did not mentalg of democracy and patriot-
Jesse Lee HodjcKinson, Jr., *1 disqualify Judge Beauchamp. lie — ■ ———— —
Southern Ice Company oiler, Den- insisted, however, that because the'
ison route 1. His wife will re- fine ^ costs in the c|)se amount_l -
main here. ed to $113 that she was entitled r_ II * „ DL „^
Willard Burton Cooley, 18, C(- to an appeal, a statute limits ap- railing I lane
C enrolee at Sherman, and son of peals from county court to coses 'if J|l_ —
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Coooley of jn which th<; fjne
is more than IV11..8 uvalTian
Rosston, Texas. $100. j -
Milford Herrell Cooley, 21, v ! TEXARKANA, Ark., June 4—
brother of Willard, and an em- EODIE DUCHL'.v ENLISTS James Thomas Freund, 18, seanvin'
ployee of the Guy P. Atkinson |N NAVAL RESERVE first class in the United States!
company, dam embankment con- CHICAGO, III., June 4—Eddfr navy, was killed at sea May 15|
tractor. Cooley, with his wife, <j>Uchin, the 33-year-old band lead- when struck by the propeller ofi
resides at 227 W. ^funson. er> wa8 Lieut- Edwin Frank Du-'a crashing airplane, his parents,
Phillip Eaman Horn, 21, dieael c^jn 0f United States nava1 .Mr. and Mrs. William J. Freund,
mechanic and son of C. <L. Horn, reserves today. i Texarkana* were advised today by
1524 W. Crawford. a native of Boston, Mass., Du- the navy department.
•Horn is to be sent to Dallas for ch|Q w|l| report for active duty| Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs,
final p*iysic;!j examination this shortly after June 215. He will take chief of the bureau of navy per-
week while the others will leave a gjx.weefc officers indoctrination sonnel, said in his telegram it wrs
next Monday. All will receive course Harvard university, then necessary to bury F'reund's body
their^basic training jit San Diego. wi„ be assijnied as assistant to at sea.
Lieut. Comdr. Eddie Peabody,' In the navy nine months,
Sluice
Sandlin
A wads
Prizes
Class Of '42 Is
Smaller Than The
Number Last Year
Perhaps due to the war, which
Alaskan Harbor Is
11 Hours Flying
Time From Toyko
Radio Stations
In Three States ■!
Silenced Last Nite
WASHINGTON, June 4—From
Alaska to Panama, the Pacific
coast is geared today to give a
■Washington, June 4 — The
Island of Unalaska is shaped like
a pistol, pointed right at the
heart of Japan, and Dutch Harbor, hot reception to Japanese ,planes<
is its trigger. | Every gun crew, every interceptor
Such is the graphic description! squadron from the canal to Kodiak
of Julius C- Edelstein, news cor- is on the double alert.
has caused many male candidates'respondent, who toured the Alask- „ . ,
for graduation to enlist in the an defenses last year. Edelstein , P^autions immed-
armed forces and perhaps due to said that whatever Japan's ulti- e'-v we,e inxo e 0 ovu'1^ e
the lure of families to cities where mate objective, she knows that wo aP®neSe air r"' 3 on "
war industrial plants are located,'the Dutch Harbor bases is a po- *leUt'a" W'and baSe at JS
iDenison high school last night tential threat to her bomb-vulner-i a.r ... . ,,r . .
graduated but 170 in its senior able mainland. I _ In Washington and
class. | From Dutch Harbor, it is 2,500 radio stat.ons have been
On /May 31, last year, the school miles or eleven flying hours to ? en °n^ 1
saw its largest class in history, Tokyo, and there are plenty of (f'*".'* enemy lal
212, receive diplomas from the stopovers on the way. j eir ar*e 6'
hands of E. R- Bryan, president of, Edelstein said that when he! The western delense command
the city school board, now retired, toured the Alaskan defenses last in San Francisco has asked the
Last night, in Hughes hall, high year, the question was whether public to watch for Japaneae wear
EDUCATION IS ONE OF DEMOCRACY'S GREAT STRENGTHS.
WE AMERICANS HAVE PROVIDED THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE
'SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD - HALF OF OUR BOVS
AND GIRLS FINISH HIGH SCHOOL ONE OUT OF 16
IS GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE GIVEN THIS
opportunity BV the SAVINGS OF MOTHERS AND FATHERS,
EDUCAt ignal INSURANCE POLICIES, SCHOLARSHIPS-
AND
THROUGH INDIVIDUAL EFFORT.
school auditorium, diplomas were they could be completed before
presented actually to but 162 the Japanese attack that was con-
graduates, by W. L. Peterson,1 sidered inevitable. Work went on
successor to Mr. Bryan as school day and night in the race against
board prexy. Eight of the stu- time.
dents were absent, Betty (McLain A combined air and submarine
Badgett, Thomas Earl Bear, Lila base that was begun late in 19391
Gene Guilloud, Travis Newsome, was nearly finished by the end of
Shaffer, Charles Shirley, 1941.
Edelstein asserted that the wea-
ther has been Dutch Harbor's
(Continued on page four)
Scholastic Awards Are
Presented 35 Students
Bonnie
| Dickie Joe White and Delane Wil-
I liams.
jNo Out-of-Town Speaker.
Those absent who still make(
their homes here, but due to some
unfortunate incident were unable
to attend the exercise, will call at^
(Continued on page four)
(See AlLASKA on page four)
ing American army uniforms-
possible fifth columnists.
9 Minute Alert jin S.F. ( j
San Francisco had a nine-min-
ute alert during the night, but it
was without incident.
There still are few details of
the attacks on Dutch Harbor.
The raids—the first in history
on North America — were an-
nounced in three brief navy de-
(Continued on page four)
Thirty-five students of the Den-
ison high school received as many
awards, including $105 in cash, at
the school's commencement exer-
cises in Hughes hall last night.
and highest girl with a four-year
average were received by Robert
Speegle and Betty Jo Blakemore.
The Girl Reserve cup for com-
plete womanhood to Nancy Casey;j
The presentations were made by (the Hi-Y cup for complete man*
Principal R. N. Sundlin as follows: | hood to Bobby Cherry.
Scholarships to the highest boy| The J. V. Conatser prize to the
two graduates earning less
Connally Renews
Protest On Gas
Ration Extension
Curtailment In
Political Rally
Is Asked Todav
WASHINGTON'.
than eight letters in major sports,
Gestapo Chief
Is Dead Today
LONDON, June 4—Thr Vi-
chy agency Havas reported
from Berlin today that ,Rein-
hard Heydrich, deputy dhief
of the Gertnan gestapo, ha*
died of wound, inflicted by
a.aa.tint in Prague la.t week
COMMANDOS RAID
FRENCH COAST,
PRISONERS TAKEN
LONDON, June 4—British com- raided the French coast for the
mandos and British bombers, pav- second time in six weeks.
ing the way for an allied invasion, British warships and fighter
struck anew at the German-held planes covered the landing, which
Ilarlen Lowe and Bill Seabaugh.l LOiNI>ON. June 4 Forty-six continent last night. j was made in a 15-mile area be-
$2.50 each. The Conatser prize more Czechs fell before German! The commandos, faces darkened' tween Boulogne and Le Touquet,
for the graduate earning eight orj firing squads Wednesday, bringing an(* feet shod in rubber shoes,j 32 miles across the channel from
more letters in major sports went the total to 163 in a week of | England.
begging as no graduate was elig-
ible. The prize would have been
June 4—Sena- $10.
of
steady executions in reprisal for, Scout Exec. 'Board Meet*,
the shooting of Reinhard Heydrich,
gestapo boss of Czechoslovakia, the
The commando objective this
time was information—vital de-
Discussions regarding the sum-j tails of the German coastal de-
nazi-controlled Prague radio an- mer camp to be held soon at Rob- fenses which allied armies some
nounced today. I bers Cave state park, Wulburton.j day will storm. A British com-
At least twenty-nine women Okla., and plans for the councit munique, which described the for-
were among those executed — all growth will be laid at a meeting ay as a minor reconnaissance raid,
band music and entertainment of- Freund was stationed at Pearl ly took the lead
tor Tom Connally of Texas today j Highest Average Students
renewed his protest against any) Dads club award to the highest
proposal to extent gasoline ration-1 average student in the three high-
ing beyond the areas in which an er grades went to Joyce Vanston,
actual shortage exists or is threat- ninth grade; Myra Mae Post, tenth' charged with harboring anti-axis' tonight at 8 o'clock of the Red j ,
ened. Last week Senator Connal- grade and Jack Weaver, eleventh agents or of publicily expressing River Valley council's executive
th?
senate
ficer at the Great
Training station.
'Lakes Naval harbor prior to the accident
which he lost his life.
iflCURT WORTH, Tex., June 4—
State OPA Director Mark ;McGee
called upon Texas office seekers
today to forego political rallies
and campaign speaking tours this
summer in order to conserve rub-
ber.
NAVY ENLISTS FIFTEEN
AVENGERS OF PEARL HARBOR
in fight against rationing and called,
a conference of senators froml
producing states to formulate]
plans for opposing the threat.
"We are willing to abide by any
rule or regulation necessary for
the proper persecution of the
war," Connally said. "We favor
making every sacrifice that wll in
(Continued on page four)
Russell W. Bryant, yeoman sec^ Richardson, McKinney; John
ond class, at the postoffice here Charles Douglas, route 2,
He warned that rationed tires today to accept further enlist- Alstyhe; James Homer Burrows,
are not to be used for political ments in the navy for the nation- Jr., Thackerville, Okla.; Merwln
campaigning and said county ra- al "Avenge Pearl Harbor Week,'*! Delashaw, Gainesville and Alia
tioning boards will not grant s.u- said fifteen recruits thus far have, Winston Robertson, Sh.rmar
thority to replace other tires so been secured and will be sworn in'cruits to be sworn in will
used, during a public ceremony at Shcr ( known as the "avenger? of Pearl
iMcGee's warning was directed man's municipal auditorium next| Harbor."
particularly at the prevalent prac- Sunday afternoon. | Families of the class or.d
tiee of holding a series of political
rallies in each of the larger coun
ties, attended by candidates and
Ayniar Cater
Is Appointed To
Tex. Safetv Assn.
approval of the attempt on Hey-! board. Dr. Charles A. Hess, coun-j
drich's life. ' cil president, will preside.
GRAYSON PRESENTED WITH
NEW ABSTRACT VOLUME
any way contribute toward thatl A^mnr Catf.r' .flafety, en*ineer
rnd. However, in states where re-!°f thp L• S" dlstr,ct en*lneera of"
V.,ni fineries are producing more gaso- . . ,
line than can be consumed under member of the executive commit
present conditions and where such.lec t'1e Industrial section, ex-
gasoline I? readilv accessible to! ns Safety association.
'Mr. Cater will serve with ten
Barrymore Leaves
Property To His .
Three Children .
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 4
—John Barrymore left his pro-
perty to his three children, his
Bascom Giles, commissioner of need for such a compilation, as it ( attorney today disclosed
~ i fice here, was appointed today a the general land office, today pre- is the first complete list of land ^ ctUte of the veteran actor,
- sented Grayson county, through titled of both the republic and who made ftn estimated million
Collier Yeury, tax assessor-collect-(the state of Texas. j dollars during his long years on
or, a copy of Volume I of the; Printed in eight permanent vol- lhe gtafJt ,in(, of
eight new state abstract volumes umes of 60,000 abstracts^ each, . $10>0n() jn ^ fom of
I cash, an automobile, household
furniture and bric-a-brac, it was
transportation! te« for th« «nsuing fiscal year of original Texas land titles^ both oi, volume published In 1878. and| stated
Re- tho consuming public there j otu'".V outTtandinc industrial safety listing by counties and on a single the 6,000,000 entries w
be' c7nsiL^s'nberrationed experts on the executive commit-, line all of the information about piled directly from the original
1 u. vi.ar nf original Texas land titles both of volume published in 1878, and
the Republic and of the state from each of the supplementary
al The oath will be administered others already in th>j naval service 'he difficulty >s to trawllno.
by Lieut. Commander R. F. Hern-! will be given'seats of honor In the| Su;"h rat'°h' K order would not In
id don of Dallas at 1:25 p. m., ex- anditoriurr:. The -eremony will be '£y remedy ihat sanation.
(heir followers and held usually actly six months to the minute, broadcast over IvRRV Music will
at points that can be reached only from the time of the beginning of
by automobile. These rallies, he the Japanese attack on Pearl Har-
said, should be discontinued. bor. The ceremony is one of hun-
-V———— dreds to be held simultaneously
be provided by the Shcrm tn mu-
nicipal band, (Pre rod by Roy Hes-
ter.
Ths Invocation will be said by
"Long-distance
0f ti the eastern seaburd affortls' association.
' rhe chief difficulty to tnuo!ine.| A major objective of the Indus-
trial section "program will be the
reduction of industrial accidents
We want the subject fully devel-
oped in an open he ir'n.r so that
Woman Drown* In [Tank.
MARITN, Tex., June 4—The a special recruiting campaign,
body of Mrs. Charles King, M, Those accepted thus far, Mr.
was found in a tank near their Bryant said, are:
Groesbeck fcome Wednesday by Willie Bullock, OOf S. Lumar;
her husband. She apparently fell George King Washington, Jr.,
in when she went for water.
over the country as the climax of Lieut. Col. Myn ki'J Van Fatten,
U.S. army chap'.a:n, followed by
singing of Amerri by the aud-
ience. Spexki-rs in - jJj R. L.
Hall, Shorn-.an mayo-, represent•
ing the city; Forrvi W. Ptvnto of
under the speeded up war pro-
gram of the state. Off-the-job
, times the number of on-the-job
' accidents in Texas war industries
Marietta, Okla.; Raymond Cecil(the American Le^'i jn, representing
( Nichols, Gainesville; Eve'ett Don-'service men of -he f'Mt W«rld
Expansion For IKelly (Field. aid Gregory, Sadler; Robert Ber-( war, and Judge G. Slagle rep-
VHASHINGTON, June 41—The nard Otto, route 2, Gainesville; resenting civil! m on the home
war department today announced Tom Kelly, Anna; Raymond Lee front. The haul w'll play "An-
an expansion of the army flylnR Price, route 1, Savoy; Hnrold chors Aweigh, rt nivy son*'.
school at Kelly field, Texas. The Woodrow Hash, Sherman; William
expansion will cost more than Lorrane iUne, Sherman; Clea Ar-
$3,000,000. i Ithur Martin, Sherman;
the proper course may be pursu-j traffic accidents which now
ed." ! amount to seme three and one-half
V
KANSAS CITY CHOSEN
FOR LEGION MEETING I will he given special attention.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 4 The Industrial section of the
—The national executive commit-! Texas Safety association has a
tee of the American Legion today! membership of over 1,000 safety
selected Kansas City, Mo,, as the engineers and industrial safety ex-
legion's three-day convention op-
ening on Sept. 19.
Taking cognisance of war
transportation problems, the com-
mittee agreed to make every ef-| the Jndustrial
fort in plnnnlng the annual na
Gordon Levoy, the attorney, said
which heretofor, was contained at volumes issued annually thorpuf-i Harrvmore si(fned the will ir| the
MM M jJ M SM ? M Ik 9 t* A 111 mAO I i - .. .. « n 1 .4 ta.\ /, r\ l.H . «I*A ft* A t h ft
lawyer's office last T)ec. 30. It re-
placed a former will drafted short-
ly after the actor and his fourth
wife, Elaine Barrie, were divorc-
random in 63 volumes. ter. These old records were then
"Covering 56 East Texas coun- checked and rechecked against
ties, this volume is invaluable to'the original land offce files. Un-
county tax assessor-collectors, ab- der the old system, information ^
stractors, and attorneys as a cross about the abstracts in one county ™
index and source of information was taken piecemeal from each of i jn additlon to bequests to Di-
regarding land titles. It also forms the 63 volumes, necessitating the j nr a earrymore the daughter of
the basis , for assessments as to purchase of the complete set at|hi> aecond wif^ Michael Strange,
acreage," Commissioner Giles slid, ^or* than $200. But the new thp novel^t and the two children
Authorised by the 47th leg.sla- vastly-simplified books give all the of Morev Costello, his third wife,
ture, the voluminous work of com-(data about one county in a single| John By,the Barrymore, 10, and
piling the complete record of 406.- volume at a cost of $12.50,^ and;Ethel 'cogtello Barrymore, ,12,
Following th otth th* audience tional convention "to conserve
will sing the "St.ir Snangfled Ban-
Vortrles' ner."
drastically the country's transpor-
tation facilities."
000 Texas abstracts wag completed the information nbout each ab-
in the general land office with stract on a single line.
the cooperation of the WPA- | Six of the remaining seven vol-
Commissioner Giles exhibits a umes are now in the hands of the
great deal of justifiable pride in printer, and the last volume is in
General the completion of the abstract the final editing stage. Each coun-
W. B. Pyron, president of the | books. His 17 years experience ty will receive a copy of the *ol- -
Tex x Safety association, and in the general land office before ume in which its records are listedj jf y<iu do not receive r" r
George Clarke, managing director,'his eie tion as commissioner con- ——
are other officers. vinced him of the great value and (Continued on page four) ] #«
perts.
William Grant, Jr., safety en
gineer, Humble Oil and Refining
company, Houston, is chairman of
section.
Barrymore left personal memen-
toes to three or four persons.
Levoy said th« testament will be
fil«d for probate next Tuesday.
NOTICE
before «•'<>. p'"**' 800 MM'
wlll be sent vo - v
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