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VOL. 55, NO. 38.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940.
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Registration Day
Set as President
Signs Draft Bill
Big Attendance at
Marvin Homecoming
Last Sunday
Court Refuses to
Uphold State in
Johnson’s Ouster
Interviews Offered
To Pension Clients
SECOND TEXAN
MADE SPEAKER
OF U.S. HOUSE
Experts Announce
Measles Vaccine,
Crazy Water Company
Accused by Trade Body
1,676 BALES OF
COTTON GINNED
WHITEWRIGHT BOYS,
GIRLS OFF TO SCHOOL
TEXAS DROPS TO SIXTH
PLACE IN POPULATION
COTTON QUOTA
IS PROCLAIMED
LIQUOR DEALERS
SUED BY MANN
CONSCRIPTION
IN A NUTSHELL
MANN MODIFIES RULING
ON GOVERNOR’S POWERS
ANOTHER YEAR OF WAR
TO PUSH U. S. EXPORTS
TO AN ALL TIME HIGH
The white sturgeon, which attains
a weight of 200 to 500 pounds, is the
largest fresh water fish of North
America.
NAZI LEAFLETS
VILIFY POLES,
LAUD GERMANS
The American Indian came orig-
inally from Asia.
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off
and
Sam
House
of
ex-
Tigers Will Help
Bonham Dedicate
New Athletic Plant
be-
sell
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AUSTIN.—The Supreme Court to-
day refused to review a lower court
decision permanently enjoining the
Board of Control from ousting Dr. W.
J. Johnson as superintendents of the
San Antonio State Hospital.
Without written opinion, the high
tribunal refused to grant an applica-
tion for writ of error filed in behalf
of Harry Knox, chairman of the con-
trol board.
Its action upheld the Austin Court
of Civil Appeals which declared the
board did not have authority to dis-
charge the superintendent or other-
wise interfere with his duties.
Declaring a conspiracy to oust him
existed, the 56-year-old superintend-
ent obtained an injunction, contend-
ing the board could not remove him
before his term expires next August
and that in any event he was entitled
to a court trial which the board was
powerless to conduct.
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YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER qJ ESTABLISHED IN 1885
Texas Now Has
Presiding Heads
In Both Rouses
WILLKIE IN APPEAL
FOR DIXIE VOTES
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Leonard’s Annual
Fair Sept. 24 to 28
A group of Leonard folks made up
•an automobile caravan which visited
Whitewright Tuesday night for the
^purpose of advertising Leonard’s
22nd annual fair to be held Sept. 24
to 28. An opening day parade is to be
staged at 4:30 p. m. Sept. 24, after
which the fair will be officially
opened. A feature of the second day
will be a public wedding at 7:45 p.
m. A feature for the third day will
be the Goodland Indian Presbyterian
Orphanage Band of Hugo, Okla., and
•an Indian quartette. Persons over 70
years of age will be admitted free
Friday, designated as pioneers’ day
and school children’s day; school chil-
dren will be admitted free until 6 p.
m; there will be an old fiddlers’ con-
test at 7:30 p. m. Saturday’s feature
will be a football game between
Leonard and Commerce High School
teams.
Up to Wednesday night the three
gins had ginned 1,676 bales of cotton,
which is half the number ginned up
to the same date last season. On the
» same date in 1939, 3,312 bales had
been ginned and on the same date in
1938, 2,654 bales had been ginned.
The season is about 30 days later than
last year and the year before.
Cotton is opening rapidly now and
pickers are plentiful, and, with fair
weather, the receipts will double in
the next two or three weeks. Many
farmers report that their cotton is
■loaded with boles, especially on the
heavy black land.
Buyers were paying 9.25 for cotton
Wednesday and $23 a ton for seed.
On the same date a year ago cotton
was bringing 8.50 and seed $23.
Good Rodeo For
Trades Day Monday
WASHINGTON. — For the second
time in ten years a distinguished son
of Texas has been elected Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
Monday at noon amid the hushed
solemnity of mourning friends, as the
flower-banked casket containing the
mortal remains of William Bankhead,
their beloved Speaker, reposed in the
well of the House where they often
had stood in debate, the House mem-
bership unanimously decreed that
Representative Samuel Taliaferro
Rayburn, who has represented the
Fourth district in Congress since
1913, should assume the responsibil-
ity of presiding over the House as
Speaker.
The only other Texan to have be-
stowed upon him this highest honor
within the gift of the greatest legis-
lative body in the world was John
Garner, who had represented the
Uvalde district for thirty years and
who now is nearing the close of eight
years as Vice-President.
Sixteen and one-half million men,
21 to 35 years old, inclusive, must
register.
Seventy-five thousand are expected
to be mustered into service in No-
vember for a year’s training. A total
of 400,000 conscripts are due to be in
training early in January, 1941; oth-
ers later. The bill places a 900,000
limit on the number of conscripts in
the army at any one time.
Exemptions and deferments to be
granted to men with dependents,
ministers, theological students, men
in essential occupations, certain gov-
ernment officers, aliens, the physi-
cally unfit and conscientious objec-
tors. The latter are liable for non-
combatant training.
Draftees to receive $21 a month for
the first four months and $30 subse-
quently, with opportunity for raises.
Industries balking at filling gov-
ernment orders can be taken over on
rental basis.
SHERMAN. — Old age assistance
recipients or persons seeking infor-
mation regarding the program may
now obtain interviews at the office of
the Texas department of public wel-
fare, in the 200 block East Houston,
from 8 a. m. to noon on any weekday
except Saturday.
Mrs. Margaret Markes, area super-
visor, said applications were received
formerly on Mondays, only. Lately
the interviews were available until 2
p. m. weekdays but the new sched-
ule was announced Monday after-
noon.
AUSTIN.—Attorney General Marjn
said in an opinion Tuesday Governor
O’Daniel can assume command of the
Public Safety Department for the
purpose of performing his constitu-
tional duty of causing the laws to be
enforced.
The opinion modified an earlier
one in which the Attorney General
said full power to command the safe-
ty department which includes the
Ranger force was vested by the Leg-
islature in the Public Safety Depart-
ment.
To keep kitchen and bathroom
nickel faucets bright, rub them daily
with cleansing tissue or other paper.
the
and
Mont-
3 to
give Bonham’s eleven a run for their
money. He wouldn’t be surprised if
his boys win, and would like to see a
large number of Whitewright fans go
to Bonham tonight to root for the
PHILADELPHIA.—Discovery of a
vaccine for measles was announced
Tuesday at the bicentennial confer-
ence of the University of Pennsylva-
nia.
This vaccine is universal, good for
both children and adults, and in war
promises to protect soldiers from the
fatal attacks of pneumonia that have
followed measles outbreaks in mili-
tary camps.
The vaccine is the first for this al-
most universal children’s disease, and
is the culmination of years of work
in numerous laboratories. It was de-
veloped by Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. of
the University of Pennsylvania Medi-
cal School and Dr. Goeffrey Rake of
the Squibb Institute, New Brunswick.
N. J.
AUSTIN.—Attorney General Mann
Saturday filed in District Court here
suits charging seven national liquor
distilleries and 23 Texas wholesalers
with violation of the state’s antitrust
laws.
The suit asked the statutory penal-
ty of from $50 to $1,500 daily since
Jan. 1, 1936, to date, and a perma-
nent injunction against the distillers
and wholesalers further combining
and operating under alleged agree-
ments.
Allegations were that the distillers
agreed with wholesalers on a fixed
territory and wholesale and retail
prices on all brands of liquor made
by the distilleries, and that a price-
fixing agreement was effective
cause wholesalers refused to
products to package stores that
dersold the retail price agreed upon
by the wholesalers and distillers.
Distillery defendants were Schen-
leys Distillers Corporation, Calvert
Distilling Company, Inc., Hiram Wal-
ker, Inc., National Distillers Prod-
ucts Corporation, Seagram Distillers
Corporation, Glenmore Distilleries
Company and Frankfort Distilleries,
Inc.
WASHINGTON. — Texas dropped
from fifth to sixth place among the
states in population rank by counts
so far announced from the 1940 cen-
sus. The Bureau of the Census Fri-
day completed preliminary tabula-
tion for California, which gained
more than 1,000,000 during the dec-
ade to forge ahead of Texas. Texas
was in fifth place in 1930, California
sixth.
California’s 1940 population totaled
6,873,688. This represents a gain of
21.1 per cent, or 1,196,437 more than
the 5,677,251 population in 1930.
Preliminary Texas figures give a
population now of 6,418,321, com-
pared with 5,824,715 in 1930, a gain of
10.2 per cent.
All but one of sixty-two cities in
California having 10,000 population
or over in 1940 registered a gain dur-
ing the ten years. San Francisco was
the lone exception, which registered
a loss of .7 per cent. This slight loss
is attributed to the tremendous
growth of the surrounding territory,
encouraged by the construction of the
bay bridges. Thirty-six of the forty-
two cities in Texas having population
of 10,000 or more in 1940 registered
gains during the 1930-40 period.
All except four of the fifty-eight
counties in California showed gains
in population, while in Texas 135 out
of the 254 counties in the state regis-
tered gains.
WASHINGTON.—President Roose-
velt signed the draft act Monday,
fixed Oct. 16 as registration day for
16,500,000 young Americans now sub-
ject to compulsory military training,
and asserted the United States was
marshaling its strength to avert “the
terrible fate of nations whose weak-
ness invited attack.”
In addition, the Chief Executive
called upon the governors of the
states to provide suitable places for
the registration, urged local elec-
tion officials “and other patriotic cit-
izens” to man the registration boards
and asked employers to give their
affected employes “sufficient time
off” to present themselves and fill
out the forms.
Roosevelt, moreover, emphasized a
section of the act and a phase of the
building up of the army which re-
ceived much discussion in Congress
—the voluntary enlistment system.
All between 18 and 35, inclusive, he
said in a formal statement will be of-
fered an opportunity to volunteer for
a one-year period of service and
training, and those who offer them-
selves—provided they are suitable—
are to be accepted before any others
are selected.
Would Reduce Quota
Thus an influx of volunteers from
any particular area would reduce the
quota of men conscripted from that
area. «
The new law itself requires that all
who, on Oct. 16, have attained the
twenty-first anniversary of their
birth and have not passed the thirty-
sixth year, must register. A national
drawing by lot will determine the or-
der in which questionnaires will be
mailed to the men. On the basis of
the questionnaires, local boards will
place the men in various classifica-
tions—those available for immediate
service, those deferred because of
dependents, etc.
The local boards will select suffi-
ficient men from among those avail-
able for immediate service to fill the
quota for the area. Those so selected
will undergo physical examinations
and, if they pass, will be inducted in-
to service for one year.
“In the military service,” Roosevelt
said, “they will be intelligently led,
comfortably clothed, well fed, and
adequately armed and equipped for
basic training. By the time they get
physically hardened, mentally dis-
ciplined and properly trained in fun-
damentals, the flow of critical muni-
tions from factory to combat units
will meet the full requirements for
their advanced training.
From All Walks of Life
“In the military service, Americans
from all walks of life, rich and poor,
country-bred and city-raised, farmer,
student, manual laborer and white
collar worker, will learn to live side
by side, to depend upon each other in
military drill and maneuvers, and to
appreciate each other’s dignity as
American citizens.
“Universal service will bring not
only greater preparedness to meet the
threat of war, but a wider distribu-
tion of tolerance and understanding
to enjoy the blessings of peace.”
The registration date was fixed by
a proclamation, in which the Presi-
dent also said that “America stands
at the cross roads of its destiny,”
adding:
“Time and distance have been
shortened. A few weeks have seen
great nations fall. We can not remain
indifferent to the philosophy of force
now rampant in the world. The ter-
rible fate of nations whose weakness
invited attack is too well known to
us all.
“We must and will marshal
great potential strength to fend
war from our shores. We must ____
will prevent our land from becoming
a victim of aggression.”
In national guard
throughout the land,
some 60,000 militiamen
in the guards’ first federal mobiliza-
Next Monday is trades day in
Whitewright. It is announced that
the regular rodeo will be given in the
-afternoon. This part of the program
has drawn large crowds in the past,
and a large crowd is expected to be
..present Monday, notwithstanding the
busy cotton picking season.
If you have anything you want to
trade or sell, bring it to Whitewright
Monday.
WASHINGTON. — Foreign trade
experts estimated today that another
year of war abroad would push
United States exports up to a $450,-
000,000-a-month volume next sum-
mer, or double that of the period be-
fore hostilities started in Europe.
Coach S. T. Montgomery will take
his High School Tigers to Bonham to-
night (Thursday) where they will
play the Bonham High School War-
riors in the season’s opening game for
both teams. The game will be played
in Bonham’s new stadium, dedication,
ceremonies for which will be held
just before the game. Gus W. Thom-
asson, WPA director of this area, will
be present and will address the as-
semblage. Dedication exercises will
begin at 7 o’clock and the game will
start at 8 o’clock. Several high
school bands will take part in the
ceremonies, as will pep squads.
Although Bonham plays in
class AA football division,
Whitewright in class A, Mr.
gomery is expecting his Tigers
ing officers
Congress.
Vice President John Nance
ner, however, has been at his Uvalde
home for several weeks and has giv-
en no indication that he will return,
to Washington. His term expires in
J anuary.
Rayburn is the. second speaker to
be furnished by Texas within the
past decade. Garner was the House
presiding officer before his election
as Vice President in 1932.
The Lone Star State usually holds
a large share of the House honors,
partly because of its voters’ habit of
returning their representatives to
Washington for term after term.
At present, Texans head several
important congressional committees
and, in addition, Jesse H. Jones of
Houston has been chosen to be both
Secretary of Commerce and Federal
Loan Administrator.
Rayburn is expected to return to
Texas immediately on adjournment
of Congress to take charge of Demo-
cratic campaign work in the South-
west. If the party should lose control
of the national House in the Novem-
ber election, Texans would be forced
to relinquish their speakership and
committee chairmanships.
BERLIN. — Thousands of leaflets
■extolling the German “master race”
and villifying Poles as second-rate
human beings were distributed to
Berlin households Tuesday by the
Volksbund for Germandom Abroad.
The circulars bear a purple Ro-
man-letter P against a yellow, dia-
mond-shaped background and called
attention to Reichsmarshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering’s order for all
Polish laborers, both men and wom-
en, to wear such an insignia sewed on
the right chest side of every garment.
Poles were called unfit for inter-
marriage or even comradeship with
Germans.
The conquered Poles were de-
scribed as especially despicable, the
leaflets said, “because the atrocities
in Poland compelled the Fuehrer to
protect our Germans there with
armed forces.”
The leaflets then cite a series
alleged Polish atrocities, and
■claim:
“Fellow Germans! The Pole is
never your comrade! He stands be-
neath every German on your
or in your factory. Be just, .
comes a German, but never
that you belong to the master
“If anybody comes and tells you
his Pole is decent, then counter with:
‘Today apparently everybody knows
one decent Pole, just as at another
time he knew one decent Jew.’
“The obsequiousness shown by the
Pole toward the German farmer is
perfidy. His friendly demeanor is a
lie. The greatest care is essential to
prevent Poles from grouping togeth-
er and possibly engaging in espion-
age.”
Farmers and factory owners were
warned not to permit Polish laborers
to write long letters home lest they
contain untrue statements about
Germany. The Poles, moreover, are
to be given no cash.
More than 200 persons attended the
annual homecoming at Marvin Meth-
odist Church, northeast of town, last
Sunday. Ninety-five visitors from
outside the community registered,
many of them being from a distance.
Some of the towns represented were
Sherman, Bonham, Ivanhoe, Dallas,
McKinney, Wolfe City, Paris, Ed-
hube, Windom, Bells, Randolph,
Greenville, Anna, Denison, Bowie,
Farmersville, Grand Prairie, Wichita
Falls, Ector, Nocona and White-'
wright. Those in attendance said it
was a day long to be remembered,
and they are looking forward to an-
other meeting on the third Sunday in
September next year.
The program began at 10:30 a. m.,
with the pastor, Rev. G. C. Randolph,
in charge. After a song by the choir,
M. R. Smith gave the address of wel-
come, and response was given by a
Mr. Dobbs. The choir sang again,
and readings were given by Vic Mor-
row and Mrs. A. S. Broadfoot. Rev.
H. B. Johnson delivered the sermon,
following which the group was dis-
missed for lunch, which was served
picnic style. Rev. Ben Bell of White-
wright offered thanks.
The afternoon session was opened
with a song by congregation, after
which Peggy O’Neal gave a reading.
Roy Robinson gave a talk, Johnny
Nell Massey and Joe Doris O’Neal
gave readings, the Marvin Quartet
and the Bonham Quartet gave special
music, followed by readings by Etha
Louise Brown and Lotta Faye Brown.
The session closed with the singing of
“God Be With You Till We Meet
Again” by the congregation. Rev. H.
B. Johnson gave the closing prayer.
armories
meanwhile,
participated
tion since the World War, called out
for a year’s training by a previous
presidential order.
During the day, the White House
announced that of the first 400,000
men to be called for the draft, 34,000
would be negroes.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Feder-
al Trade Commission announced
Wednesday it had issued a complaint
against the Crazy Water Company of
Mineral Wells, Texas, and Carr P,
Collins, H. H. Collins, W. W. Woodall
and J. A. Pondrom, company officers,
charging misrepresentation in the
sale of Crazy Mineral Water, Crazy
Water Crystals and Crazy Fiz.
The complaint said the respondent
falsely represented and implied that
use of the waters and derivatives
would cure or be beneficial in the
treatment of about thirty ailments.
The commission said the company’s
products possessed no therapeautic
properties in excess of those of a
cathartic or laxative.
Elevation of Representative
Rayburn of Bonham to the
speakership gave Texas the presid-
both branches of
The Sun isn’t sure whether fewer
Whitewright boys and girls are going
off to school this year, or whether we
failed to learn about all of them.
Anyway, the .list this year as com-
piled by The Sun is the smallest in
several years. A supplementary list
will be published next week if any
omissions are called to our attention.
Following is the list:
Texas Tech, Lubbock:
Jackson.
Texas A. & M. College, College
Station: Robert Doss, Billie
Earnheart and Jack Meador.
University of Texas, Austin: Lloyd
Morgan.
Texas State College for Women,
Denton: Dorothy LaRoe, Sarah Belle
Gillett, Mary Lee Reeves, Edith Mae
Sears and Sara Kathryn Arterberry.
North Texas State Teachers Col-
lege, Denton: Floyd Everheart Jr.,
Imogene Head, Gladys Gosnell and
Claire Doss.
Austin College, Sherman: Boyd
Newman and Noel Ashinhurst.
East Texas State Teachers College,
Commerce: Winnie Ruth Morgan,
Pauline Dixon, Drunette Farley and
Ralph Kent.
Texas Wesleyan (
Worth: Jane Bell and Jo Willa Stute-
ville.
North Texas Agricultural College,
Arlington: Houston Darwin and Mar-
tha Jo Darwin.
Durant Teachers College, Durant,
Okla: Charles Howard Jr., Red Con-
ner and Emma Joyce Hinton.
Draughon’s Business College, Deni-
son: Frances Pope and Bettie Jo Mor-
row.
Draughon’s Business College, Dal-
las: Earleen Benson.
Nurses Training School, Wilson N.
Jones Hospital, Sherman: Marcelle
Gosnell, Ruby Pierson and Dorothy
McSpedden.
Albert L.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wickard proclaimed a na-
tional marketing quota for cotton of
12,000,000 bales for 1941, subject to
approval of growers voting in a ref-
erendum Dec. 7.
To become operative, the quota
must be approved by two-thirds of
the producers voting.
The quota is the same as that es-
tablished, and approved, on the 1938,
1939 and 1940 crops.
Such a quota, Wickard said, would
permit planting of about 27,900,000
acres of cotton. This acreage would
be apportioned among individual
growers on the basis of a formula set
up in the 1938 Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act. Growers would be permit-
ted to sell all they produced on the
acreage allotments. Cotton grown on
acreage in excess of the allotments
would be subject to a penalty tax of
3 cents a pound. Likewise, growers
overplanting would be denied full
government benefit payments and
commodity loans on cotton.
Under the 1938 AAA act, establish-
ment of quotas is mandatory when
the total cotton supply reaches 107
per cent of “normal.” Wickard said
that on Aug. 1 the total supply of
cotton was 24,900,000 bales, or 137
per cent of the “normal” supply of
18,200,000.
AMARILLO.—Wendell L. Willkie,
Republican presidential nominee,
sought to crack the solid Democratic
South with a speech here Tuesday in
which he pleaded with voters to let
logic and reason, rather than preju-
dice and emotion, guide them in the
national election to be held seven
weeks from Tuesday.
The speaker, his voice still just a
bit husky from the throat ailment
which has been troubling him, was
given the “thunderous reception”
which he had been promised by May-
or Ross Rogers of Amarillo when he
stepped upon the platform.
A few minutes later his remarks
were being warmly applauded and
generously booed by the crowd that
fell short of the anticipated 50,000.
Police officials estimated that not
more than 10,000 persons were in the
park during the speaking, and that
possibly five times that many had
caught a fleeting glimpse of the can-
didate as he sped in an open automo-
bile from his special train at the
Rock Island Depot to the park, 35
blocks away.
Declaring at the outset that the was
here for the frank and specific pur-
pose of talking to the people of the
South, simply and directly, of the
things which are in his heart, the
candidate said that he would return
to the South again before the cam-
paign is over.
Has Friends in South
He predicated his attack on the tra-
ditional Democratic vote of the South
by saying that he had a wide person-
al acquaintance in this section, and
had been told by many that they be-
lieved in all of the things he stands
for.
“But some of them also have said
that they can not vote for me, be-
cause they have a great tradition in
the South of voting Democratic,” he
said. “I realize it is difficult to aban-
don this tradition, because it arose
out of necessity. No one in all this
land could be more sympathetic with
that viewpoint than I, because tradi-
tions have a way of being true. They
are one of the finest and most stabil-
izing things we have.”
“But,” he said pointedly, “the peo-
ple of the South are now faced with
a conflict of traditions. In order to
keep their 80-year-old Democratic
tradition they must abandon another
tradition that is 160 years old, and
one which is the very essence of
Democracy.”
Willkie was cheered lustily when
he said that the tradition of rotation
in office was so firmly imbeded in
Sam Houston that he saw to it that
the constitution of the Republic of
Texas contained a provision to insure
such rotation.
“For 160 years,” he declared, “ev-
ery political leader of America has
advocated the preservation of De-
mocracy through rotation in office.”
Willkie declared that the only dif-
ference between democracy and to-
talitarianism is the continuance in
office of one man.
“Germany, Italy and Russia found
‘the indispensable man’,” he said
pointedly.
His assertion that there is no logi-
cal argument which can be advanced
for a third term which can not with
equal force be advanced for a fourth,
fifth and sixth term brought forth
cheers and boos from the crowd, as
did his next statement, to the effect
that “the people who have lost their
democracies and their liberties are
those in the countries where one man
has said ‘I am indispensable’.”
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