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The Whitewright Sun
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937.
VOL. 59, NO. 8.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year.
MORE NAMES ADDED
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Bu-
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Battle Over Red
\ River Bridge Is
1 Brought to End
Grayson Farmers
Face Charges of
Damaging Roads
D. E. Low Retires
After 33 Years As
Agent For Katy
Attorney General
Not to Try to Oust
Graves From Seat
Prices of Eight
Farm Commodities
Drop 29 Per Cent
Baptist Workers
In Meeting Here
TIGERS TO PLAY AT
PLANO FRIDAY NIGHT
NB CUT IN AGED HELP,
PROMISE FROM STATE
CONNALLY RETURNED
TO WHITEWRIGHT
COTTON CROP WORTH
GILLION DOLLARS
$100,000 Grant
For Power Line
In North Texas
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES
WOULD BE ENORMOUSLY
BOOSTED BY NEW PLAN
AIN’T NO SUCH SPIDER,
SAYS PROF IN ANSWER
TO “BARKING” REPORT
19,865 TAX NOTICES
MAILED TAXPAYERS
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farmers to begin
using electricity within a year.
LEONARD YOUTH
KILLED BY TRAIN
will
on
be
want
last
to
YANKEES GET $6,471
APIECE FOR BEATING
GIANTS IN WORLD SERIES
BRUCE BARTON, AD
MAN, AUTHOR, WINS
SEAT IN CONGRESS
1936
esti-
L
325,000 Texans
To Be on Relief
During Winter
Supplies Arrive
For Enrollment
Of Jobless Here
Farley Enlarging
TO SUN HONOR ROLL Grain Storage and
Feed House Here
SHERMAN.—A total of 19,865 per-
sons in Grayson County have now
[received their tax notices, said Tax-
ICollectpr Collier Yeury Monday. The
l.emaimni
[.nailed S
U. S. BUREAU SAYS
SLUMP TO CONTINUE
the first half must be paid before
Nov. 30, and the last half before next
June 30.
PRISON BOARD OF
TEXAS CONSIDERS
SLICING PAY ROLL
feeling that his eligibility must
determined before many cases
decided by the court.
AUSTIN.—November and Decem-
ber grants to old-age pensioners in.
Texas will not be reduced, the State
Board of Control announced today.
The average grant has been $14 a
month.
Checks will be mailed as usual on
Nov. 15.
A reduction of the . administrative
staff and rigid reinvestigation to cut
off ineligibles will be necessary, the
board statement announced. A ten-
tative arrangement for gradual re-
duction of a bank debt of $1,626,000
and increased State revenues for Oc-
tober partially relieve the situation
that resulted in discontinuance of
old-age assistance warrants on Oct.
27.
During the past week a number of
names have been added to The Sun
honor roll, and we are expecting to
see several hundred more added to
the roll within the next few days.
A large number of subscriptions ex-
pire on November 1 and December 1,
and they will be renewed, we hope,
before the special subscription cam-
paign comes to a close.
During this campaign The Sun is
going at only $1.00 a year—the big-
gest bargain in the world for one dol-
lar. Most of the daily newspapers
and a number of weeklies have ad-
vanced subscription rates recently,
on account of the increasing prices
on newsprint and other products used
in publishing a newspaper. We may
be forced to discontinue our special
rate at an early date. We advise all
who want to take advantage of the
special rate to do so at once, and be
on the safe side. Do it today and save
fifty cents on your subscription.
The following have had their
names added to The Sun honor roll
this week:
Mrs. H. A. James.
J. A. Stuteville Jr.
F. L. Starr.
Claud Thompson.
T. J. Lilley.
Clyde Hansard.
J. A. Harper.
D. E. McCoy.
Mrs. E. R. Johnson.
Mrs. Claud Phillips.
H. B. Turner.
Jesse Bow.
H. M. Hamilton.
T. L. Cowart.
Emmet Penn.
R. H. May .
L. C. Smith.
W. T. Farrow.
Guy Stedham.
Mrs. J. D. Lane.
Miss Merle Robbins.
Mrs. M. E. Greenway.
Homer Craig.
M. T. Craig.
Rev. Leslie O. Evans.
Mrs. Lula Whitworth.
Miss Hazel McLean.
O. A. Hefner.
J. H. Looney.
Mrs. Callie Cooper.
G. E. Scott.
Mrs. W. T. Ross.
Roy Benson.
Mrs. J. H. Truett. •
Miss Tommie Chenoweth.
MUSKOGEE, Okla.—The famous
“‘Battle of the Red River Bridge” was
ended today after Federal Judge Eu-
gene Rice approved sale of the Col-
bert toll bride to the Texas Highway
Commission for $50,000.
Former Governor William H. Mur-
ray called out national guardsmen in
1929 and ordered approaches to the
bridge plowed up after Oklahoma
and Texas built a parallel free bridge
on Highway 75. A decision award-
ing damages to the toll bridge com-
pany was set aside by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Texas Legislature authorized
purchase of the bridge, franchise and
approaches.
AUSTIN.—Attorney General Wil-
liam McCraw, who returned Tuesday
from New York, does not agree that
his department can file and prosecute
a quo warranto proceeding to test the
eligibility of Judge Harry N. Graves,
appointed to the Court of Criminal
Appeals by Gov. James V. Allred.
The eligibility of Graves is under
discussion becuase as a member of
the House he voted to raise the sal-
aries of the members of the court to
which he has been appointed and will
now be the beneficiary of his own
ballot. Those who think him inelig-
ible construe the Constitution as for-
bidding his acceptance of a post
where the salary was raised by his
own vote as a legislator. There is a
be
are
In the fiscal year ending with
June, 26,050,943 long tons of cargo
were carried by ships passing
through the Panama Canal, a gain of
l|603,000 long tons from the preced-
es fiscal year.
The Whitewright High School Ti-
gers will go to Plano Friday where
they will meet the Plano High
School eleven on the gridiron at 7 p.
m. A large group of local fans ex-
pect to make the trip, and the pep
squad will be there to encourage the
team.
Plano defeated Whitewright
year, but the local boys expect
turn the table Friday night.
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A 40x60 foot addition to Pascal
Farley’s grain and feed building east
of the Whitewright Lumber Co. will
more than double the building’s stor-
age capacity. Outside walls and roof
on the addition have been completed,
and workmen are now building the
inside walls and partitions.
All the new portion of the build-
ing will be available for storage of
corn oi' other grain with the excep-
tion of the space occupied by a corn
shelter. A concrete floor will be
constructed.
Mr. Farley plans continued
provement of the property, he said
yesterday, with further enlargement
of the building, installation of load-
ing and unloading machinery, hop-
pers for his feed mill, and a feed
mixer. He will be prepared to mix
and grind any kind of feed. He has
had a hammer mill in operation for
about a year.
CHICAGO.—Twenty-six members
of the world champion New York
Yankees today received checks of
$6,471.11 each for their world series
victory over the New York Giants.
Other fractional awards were made
to make up the total players’ share
of the receipts $193,044.33.
The Giants divided their share
twenty-seven ways with each player
receiving $4,489.95. In addition,
nine fractional awards were made.
The Detroit Tigers and Chicago
Cubs, second in the two leagues, di-
vided $34,472.20 each among their
players, according to an announce-
ment of Baseball Commissioner K.
M. Landis.
The third place Pittsburgh Pirates
and the Chicago White Sox split $22,-
981.47 each and the fourth place
Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Car-
dinals divided $11,490.74 each.
Rev. Joe M. Connally was re-
turned to Whitewright to serve the
Methodist Church as pastor for an-
other year by the North Texas
Methodist Conference which closed
its annual session Sunday night, aft-
er a five-day session in Dallas.
The Rev. Connally came to White-
wright one year ago from the Wolfe
City Methodist Church. Under his
leadership the church has made
much progress. He was able to make
a one hundred per cent report to the
conference, which means that all ob-
ligations of the church were paid in
full at the close of the conference
year. In addition to all claims being
paid in full, the pastor was paid $300
more in salary than the salary was
set at at the beginning of the confer-
ence year one year ago.
Other Sherman district assign-
ments follow: D. E. Hawk, Waples
Memorial, Denison; Paul E. Cardwell,
Trinity Church, Denison; John Mc-
Cormick, Aubrey; Cecil Ellis, supply;
Bailey, C. P. Combs; Bells, A. B.
Davidson; Bonham circuit, W. B.
Reaves; Bonham, Hugh E. Anderson;
Celina, O. M. Turner; Collinsville, H.
F. Brandon; Denison Mission, A. H.
Logan.
Dodd City; J. L. James; Ector, E. F.
Lancaster; Howe, J. Roy Williams;
Pilot Point, E. B. Jackson; Prosper,
H. M. Secrod; Ravenna, W. W. Carl-
ton; Sadler, A. R. Morgan; Sherman,
Key Memorial, M. L. Hamilton;
Sherman, Travis Street, H. G. Ryan;
Southmayd, F. A. Ray; Trenton, J. B.
Hibbert; Van Alstyne, C. S. Wilhite;
Whitesboro, W. D. Craig.
Dr. George C. French was reap-
pointed as presiding elder of the
Sherman district with headquarters
in Sherman.
SHERMAN.—Charges of unlawful-
ly damaging county roads were
filed in County Court against Char-
ley Calhoun and George Humphrey,
farmers, as officials Tuesday re-
newed efforts to protect the newly-
laid blacktop system.
Bart Shipp, deputy sheriff, and
Earle Whiteacre, county highway of-
ficer, filed a complaint after a trac-
tor with iron cleats had badly dam-
aged a three-mile stretch of road be-
tween Sherman and Dorchester.
On Oct. 27, a farmer dug a deep
furrow and literally turned up the
blacktop surface in pulling a plow
across the road west of Van Alstyne,
Mr. Whiteacre said.
“I dislike to penalize farmers in
their use of the roads, but I have or-
ders to enforce the county’s protec-
tive law,” Mr. Whiteacre said.
HOUSTON. — The Texas Prison
Board considered economies today,
involving dismissal of employees and
reduction in salaries.
A spokesman said that several mi-
nor changes in the prison payroll
were made yesterday. The board
abolished an appropriation to pay
cattlemen to care for livestock, sav-
ing $450 a month. The position of
cattle supervisor was abolished.
Details of more drastic economies
under consideration were not re-
vealed. The Legislature has threat-
ened to reduce the appropriation of
$1,800,000 for the board in 1937-38
by $500,000.
“Love Under Fire”
At Palace Theatre
Postmaster T. J. Lilley has re-
ceived instructions and supplies for
local participation in the national
unemployment census to be made
Nov. 16-20. On recommendation of
President Roosevelt, a census of all
unemployed and partially unem-
ployed persons throughout the nation
will be taken through the Postoffice
Department.
Questionnaire cards to be distrib-
uted to all homes, blanks for a local
of the survey and other materials
have been received.
The questionnaire cards will be
delivered by rural carriers on the
four Whitewright routes, and will be
distributed through the postoffice to
persons receiving their mail in town.
A card must be filled out by each
person without a job or who is only
partially employed.
In addition to the customary facts
regarding name, age, sex, race and
address of the individual, the card
seeks information regarding the type
of work he or she is qualified for, the
extent of employment during recent
months and other information. Par-
tially employed persons will
asked whether or 'not they ’
more work.
All questionnaires will be returned
to the local postoffice by Nov. 20 to
be recorded in the Whitewright sum-
mary of the census and then
warded to Washington.
Have 114,000 Names
Present rolls carry approximately
114,000 names. Continued undimin-
ished grants to them, it was an-
nounced, will likely leave the old-
age assistance funds at a point where
February, March and April adjust-
ments may be necessary.
The announcement that payments
will continue undiminished relieved
the old people of a threatened stop-
page of the aid for several months.
In a radio address of Oct. 16 Gov.
James V. Allred said that unless the
Legislature raised additional revenue
“payments to our needy old people
will be absolutely suspended for
two or three months after Nov. 1.”
Expense Over Maximum
Administrative expense, it was an-
nounced, has passed the maximum 5
per cent as a result of salary in-
creases voted by the Legislature and
made effective on Sept 1. An attempt
to revise these appropriations was
held out of order at the special ses-
sion of the Legislature because the
topic was not submitted by the Gov-
ernor.
Financially the board reported it
had on hand Oct. 31 $921,766. The
State Comptroller advised that in-
come from liquor, cigarette and oth-
er licenses for October would be
$845,000 which is an increase of
about $120,000 over the average
monthly revenue, leaving a possible
balance on Oct. 31 of $1,766,000. The
November payments and November
administration will cost $804,000, the
board estimated, leaving a balance
Nov. 30 of $962,000.
COLLEGE STATION. —Dr. Alex-
ander Petrunkevitch of Yale Univer-
sity has ruled in effect that “there
ain’t no such animal” as Texas’ bark-
ing spider.
Recently Dr. A. J. Rickies of Eagle
Pass, Texas, sent to A. & M. College
the remains of a spider which he
said “barked” when disturbed.
The college entomology department
sent the specimen to Dr. Petrunke-
vitch, who determined that it was of
a new species in the genus olios of
the family sparassidae.
Dr. Petrunkevitch added, however,
that the Eagle Pass spider, nor any of
the species of olio, possess noise-
making organs.
The entomology department now
is searching for a live “barker.”
NEW YORK. — New York’s so-
called “silk stocking” district was
restored to Republicans today with
the election of Bruce Barton, writer
and advertising executive, to the
United States House of Representa-
tives.
Barton, clergyman’s son and au-
thor of a widely read life of Christ,
ran for Congress in the seventeenth
district as the Republican-Fusion
candidate and gained a 12,773 plu-
rality in a three-cornered race for the
seat vacated by the death of Demo-
crat Theodore A. Peyser.
His victory over Stanley Osser-
man, Democrat, and George Backer,
American Labor party candidate,
gave the Republicans a net gain of
one in the House.
ig 9,615 statements were
Saturday night to persons
F whose last names begin with letters
from M to Z. Last week 10,250 per-
sons had received theirs.
The taxes are payable before Jan.
30, but if a person wishes to take ad-
vantage of the split-payment plan,
Feature picture at the Palace thea-
tre tonight ahd Friday is “Love Un-
der Fire,” starring Loretta Young
and Don Ameche.
Saturday, Dick Foran will be star-
red in “Guns of the Pecos.”
Preview and Monday, “New Faces
of 1937,” starring Joe Penner, Milton
Berle, Parkyakarkus, Harriet Hib-
bard and others.
Tuesday and Wednesday, bargain
nights, Peter Lore and Virginia
Bruce in “Think Fast, Mr. Moto.”
Thursday and Friday next week,
“The. Road Back,” featuring John _ _ _________________
King, Richard Cromwell, Slim Sum- cient handling of the work, will en-
merville, Andy Devine and Barbara | able these Texas f---------- J ~
Read.
Taking advantage of the provisions
of the railroad retirement act, D. E.
Low, veteran Katy station agent, re-
tired from active duty Oct. 31, after
railroading for nearly half a century.
He was succeeded as local agent by
E. A. Douglas, who will serve until
the job is bid in by the man with the
greatest number of years of seniority
who wants it.
Mr. Low came to Whitewright as
station agent for the M-K-T Rail-
road in 1922, which position he has
continuously held with the exception
of a brief period spent as agent at
Hillsboro. Prior to coming here, he
had been Katy agent at Bells and
Garland.
He began railroad work in Indiana
as a young man, his first regular job
being station agent and telegraph op-
erator in a country town in that
state. He was learning the business
under a none-too-dependable agent
and operator, who failed to show up
for work one morning. Mr. Low
telegraphed the facts to the dis-
patcher, and was told to hold down
the job until somebody was sent to
relieve him. Incidentally, the relief
man was never sent, and Mr. Low
became a full-fledged railroad man
because his boss got drunk and hit
the road.
Mr. Low does not plan to leave
Whitewright, he said this week.
A total of 138,220 persons were
in jail in this country on January 1,
1935. The most prisoners any one
state had was 10,748 in llinois.
WASHINGTON.—Government of-
ficials estimate the increased cost of
a 5-day, 35-hour week for govem-
, ^ment employes at, roughly, between
'^>U,000,000 and $100,000,000.
This, one official said, probably
would be prohibitive in view of
President Roosevelt’s desire to bal-
ance the budget during the fiscal
year starting next July 1.
The Civil Service Commission re-
cently was asked by the Budget Bu-
reau to survey the added expense of
a shorter work-week for between
350,000 and 400,000 of the 848,000
federal employes. A rhajority of the
federal workers in Washington al-
ready are on a 5 % -day, 39-hour
week.
WASHINGTON. — Cotton growers
will receive a gross income of about
$1,000,000,000 from this year’s crop
despite low prices. Government
economists predicted today.
They said a decline in prices from
nearly 15 cents a pound early this
year to about 8 cents recently would
be offset somewhat by the 42 per
cent increase in the 1937 production
over 1936.
Income from the 1937 crop “is ex-
pected to equal or exceed” the
figure which the economists
mated at $987,100,000.
The estimates, made by the
reau of Agricultural Economics, in-
cluded money received from actual
sale of cotton and cotton seed, from
the loan and subsidy program on this
year’s crop and from payment under
the 1937 soil conservation program.
The bureau estimated gross income
to producers from recent cotton
crops as follows: 1932, $464,300,000;
1933, $896,100,000; 1934, $822,200,000;
1935, $858,000,000.
The bureau, in summarizing the
“cotton outlook for 1938,” forecast
these trends:
A probable sharp reduction in pro-
duction in this country.
A decline in the amount of cotton
consumed in this country compared
with the record of domestic mill con-
sumption for the 12 months ended
with July.
A possible increase in foreign con-
sumption of American cotton, which
has been decreasing in recent years.
CHICAGO.—Prices of eight major
farm commodities from which the
bulk of farm income is derived have
declined an average of 29 per cent in
Chicago markets since the recovery
peaks were reached, a survey showed
Wednesday. Their average level is
the lowest since June, 1936.
Six of the items—hogs, wheat,
corn, oats, cotton and eggs—are sell-
ing well below what they were
bringing at market here a year ago.
The prices of only two—butter and
cattle—are higher.
All, however, are well above the
low levels of 1932 and 1933.
Market authorities said the extent
to which the drop in prices has lop-
ped off farm production valuation
could not be determined.
Latest estimates released by the
bureau of agricultural economics in-
dicated farm prices are expected to
average lower in 1938 than in 1937.
Crop and livestock marketings are
expected to be larger in the early
months of next year.
AUSTIN. — Texas probably will
have 325,000 persons on relief rolls
this winter.
Authority for that estimate is
Adam Johnson, director of the relief
commission which spent $116,000,000
aiding the destitute through the de-
pression.
Johnson excluded old age pension-
ers from his calculations. They have
been assured regular grants through
December. The 325,000 figure com-
pares with 1,250,000 in January,
1935.
“It looks like a bad winter for the
unemployed,” he said, “worse than
last year. However, with the aid of
cities and counties, I think we can
get through without the extreme of
starvation.”
Johnson said the state would have
to depend on city and county coop-
eration in the distribution of federal
surplus commodities.
“The unemployed which industry
has not absorbed due to age or one
deficiency or another may have a
hard time of it. The WPA, an agency
which has supported thousands, has
been cut in half since last winter.”
'The relief director saw one silver
lining in an expected increase in
foodstuffs bought by the federal sur-
plus commodities commsision with
customs receipts to stabilize market
prices.
Johnson described the people who
would be forced on relief as those
who “had not had the advantage of
education or training” plus “some
who never did work.” The latter, he
said had to be supported to keep their
children from starving.
“And they usually have a lot of
them,” he added.
The commission, in Johnson’s opin-
ion, has sufficient funds to continue
its work until the summer months.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Govern-
ment trade analysts predicted today
the letdown in business would con-
tinue into 1938 and the national in-
come for that year would be lower
than in 1937.
The forecast came from the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, which
makes a survey of Government and
private data at this time each year
for the guidance of farmers who are
making arrangements for next year’s
production and marketing.
The economists offered these pre-
dictions for next year:
National income will be less than
the estimated $69,000,000,000 for
1937.
Prices and buying powers of farm
products will decline.
Exports of farm products, except
possibly cotton, will increase in vol-
ume, but will move at lower prices.
Government “pump priming”
moves—such as large relief expendi-
tures—will taper off.
The economists said there were in-
dications the economic recession
would be only temporary.
They declared all general recovery
periods have been characterized by
short periods of recession. At such
times “business sentiment becomes
less optimistic, security prices de-
cline, and business men postpone ex-
pensive commitments for expansion
or rehabilitation.”
All of these lead to “hesitant buy-
ing” by consumers, the bureau said,
and eventually cause stocks to pile
up in retail stores, wholesale chan-
nels, and at factories.
Business has entered “such a
phase” this Fall, the bureau said,
“following the period of decided op-
timism in the winter of 1936-37.”
The economists said the “tendency
to curtail Government spending and
expension of credit by deficit financ-
ing through banks” would remove
stimuli that had spurred business and
industry since 1933. Business will
have to take up the slack, they
added.
The bureau found several “favor-
able factors” in the long-time out-
look which, it said, indicated the
present recession was temporary.
“Business debts are low,” the re-
port said, “credit is cheap and plen-
tiful, banking resources are not
strained, there is no building boom,
and there has been an absence of
violent speculation of the type which
generally precedes the end of a bus-
iness boom.”
WASHINGTON.—The Rural Elec-
trification Administration ha§ an-
nounced a grant of $100,000 as a par-
tial allotment for the construction of
a rural power line in Fannin, Gray-
son, Collin and Hunt Counties. The
grant is made to the Fannin County
Rural Electrification Association at
Whitewright.
This project calls for 224 miles of
rural lines which will serve 853 farm
homes at a total cost of $222,000.
It is expected that the co-operative
will use the present funds to skele-
tonize its project. J. B. Richey of
Whitewright, Texas, who has been
very active in the development of
the project, has been asked to send
nominations for an engineer and a
lawyer to REA for approval.
Forms and suggestions for incorpo-
ration of the project sponsors will be
furnished by REA. Following this,
the loan contract will be executed,
plans and specifications for line con-
struction approved, and the project
released for bids.
A schedule for legal and engineer-
ing steps will be sent to Mr. Richey
in the immediate future. Strict ad-
herence to this schedule, which is set
up to assist in the orderly and effi-
The Grayson County Baptist
Workers’ Conference met at the First
Baptist Church here Tuesday, with
124 persons present, 88 of them being
from out of town.
General theme of the meeting,
which got under way at 10 a. m., was
“Missions and Stewardship.”
Appearing on the program were
Rev. J. A. Henderson of Pilot Grove,
Rev. F. A. Tippen of Whitesboro,
Rev. H. W. Thompson of Sherman,
Rev. L. R. Lamb of Denison, Miss
Stallings of China, L. A. Johnson and
E. W. Marshall of Dallas,' and Mrs.
O. L. Jones and Mrs. Guy Hamilton
of Whitewright.
GAINESVILLE. — Spurgeon Dor-
sett, 22, of Leonard, was killed
Wednesday when a freight train
struck him two miles west \of here’
Dorsett apparently had gone I to sleep
with his head lying on a cross-tie.
His widow survives. >
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