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VOL. 54, NO. 22.
WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939.
5c a Copy, $1.50 a Year.
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Library to Remain
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Motor Boats Not
Permitted on Lake
North of Bonham
Roosevelt Can Not
Make Third Term
Race, Says Doctor
Headquarters For
Anti-Beer Group
Opened at Sherman
Mixed Wheat From
Excess Acreage Is
Not to Be Marketed
Curlee Cummins
Superintendent of
Dodd City Schools
His Prayer For
The Graduates
COTTON MARKETING
INFORMATION GIVEN
CITY POLL TAX
NOW REQUIRED
CARAWAY CASE
IS POSTPONED
GAS EXPLOSION IN
SCHOOL INJURES 57
MUSICIANS PRACTICE
TOO MUCH; ARE SHOT
BITTEN BY RATTLER,
WORKER OPERATES ON
HIMSELF; SAVES LIFE
Stewart said cutting
away the flesh kept the poison from
spreading, possibly preventing death.
The opportunity is often lost by
deliberating.—Syrus.
J. A. (JIM) DOUGLAS,
LANDOWNER, BURIED
BOY ROPES FREIGHT
TRAIN AND TAKES
TRIP TO HOSPITAL
The first requisite of a good citizen
is that he shall be able and willing to
pull his own weight; that he shall not
be a mere passenger, but shall do his
share in the work that each genera-
tion of us finds ready to hand; and,
furthermore, that in doing his work
he shall show, not only the capacity
for sturdy self-help, but also self-re-
specting regard foi’ the rights of oth-
ers.—Theodore Roosevelt.
caught under lath and plaster
desks which were not
YOUTH WHO SHOT OWN
FATHER GETS PRISON
TERM OF 2 TO 5 YEARS
are
been
Aerial Maps Being
Used in Grayson
County This Year
PHILADELPHIA. — Two amateur
musicians practicing in a field for a
Memorial Day parade, were shot and
slightly wounded by an irate house-
holder. He told police they disturbed
his sleep.
The mere apprehension of a coming
evil has put many into a situation of
the utmost danger.—Lucan.
TEXAS CLUBWOMEN ASK
PRISON TO ABOLISH “BAT”
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EDINBURG. — Charles Peterson,
who last Christmas Eve shot his
father to death as the climax of a bit-
ter quarrel, awaited transfer to the
penitentiary today to begin serving a
sentence of not less than two years
nor more than five.
Peterson, 17, brother of Dorothy
Peterson, film actress, yesterday
pleaded guilty to a charge of murder
without malice.
BELLS.—Cur lee Cummins, prin-
cipal of the elementary schools and
athletic director of the high school
here, has been named superintend-
ent of the Dodd City school system.
He succeeds John Pirtle at Dodd City
who has been named superintendent
at Hagerman.
In 1937 Mr. Cummins coached a
county champion boys’ team in bas-
ketball. He formerly taught at Pilot
Grove and Prairie and Elwood in
Fannin County. He is a graduate of
East Texas State Teachers College at
Denton. Mrs. Cummins is the former
Miss Amateene May of Whitewright.
Call The Sun when you have news.
worker
his home
Diplomas for 33 Whitewright High
School graduates were presented
Friday night by Supt. H. W. Key.
Hardly anything more eloquent could
be said for these graduates than was
said by Homer M. Price of the Mar-
shall News Messenger on the occa-
sion of his home-town graduates, as
follows:
“Sunday I went to hear the bacca-
laureate sermon to the 147 high
school graduates. I saw all those boys
and girls march in dressed in their
caps and gowns and take their seats.
I determined then and there I would
never complain about paying a school
tax. I only wish all the taxes I pay
went to as worthy an object. I looked
at those young people and thought of
what was before them of happiness
and sorrow, and asked God to make
their lives useful, not necessarily
successful as we usually envision
success, but each doing his task ear-
nestly and courageously. I did not
ask for a life of ease for them, I did
not ask that life be all sunshine, I
just wished for those boys and girls
courage to meet all the vicissitudes of
life, an unfaltering faith in them-
selves and God and their fellowmen
and women. Heaven bless them, each
and everyone.”
A quarrel is quickly settled when
deserted by one party; there is no
battle unless th^re be two.—Seneca.
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to, as a prerequisite to the right
vote at said municipal election
contravention of the constitution
Texas?”
“If the first question should
answered ‘yes’, then was evidence ad-
missible to show how members of the
excluded class of voters have voted
had they been permitted to vote?”
The court’s answer:
“Under the constitution and laws
of this state, a voter subject thereto
must pay his ciy poll tax at the time
required by law, in order to qualify
as a legal voter in any election in this
state. Obviously, this answer makes
it unnecessary to answer the second
certified question.”
children
and for
on
BARBERTON, Ohio. — A recheck
Wednesday night of victims of an
explosion which shattered a grade
school building here in mid-after-
noon showed 57 persons injured—53
children and four adults.
Three were not expected to live,
hospital attendants reported. They
were Dorothy Young, 6; Frances
Fisher, 7, and P. S. White, 59, janitor.
Two teachers injured were Miss
Mabelle Miller, 38, who suffered
fractured leg and ribs as she was
crushed beneath a piano, and Miss
Albertina Mills, 44, with possible
fractured back.
H. P. White, an electrician work-
ing nearby, also was hurt.
Thirty-one remained in hospitals
at night, several suffering fractures,
many burns and all shock.
The explosion, which all concerned
said undoubtedly was from gas, lit-
erally tore the two-story frame struc-
ture apart. It was a former house
being used as a school while a new
building is being built.
Outer Walls Fly Out
The outer walls flew out. The cen-
DALLAS.—Dr. E. H. Cary of Dal-
las, former president of American
Medical Association, declared Tues-
day night President Roosevelt was in
such a fatigued condition it would be
physically impossible for him to
make a third-term race.
“I sat across the desk and talked to
President Roosevelt and I know,” Dr.
Cary told members of the Baylor
Medical College graduating class at
a banquet.
“He has sagging muscles and is a
worn out man,” he declared. “That
talk about a third term—well, I think
it’ll be a real job if he makes it out in
good physical condition until the end
of his present term.”
Dr. Cary, implacable foe of com-
pulsory socialized medicine, said Vice
President Garner despite his age, was
in fine condtion.
The grammar school library will
'be opened June 5 to school children
•and to others who wish to avail
themselves, of such material as is
contained in the library. This is the
first attempt to keep a school library
open in Whitewright during the va-
cation period and it is hoped that a
program can be arranged that will be
-of real pleasure and value to the par-
ents and children of the community.
Mrs. Clara Myrick will remain in
charge. She reports worthwhile do-
nations of books from Monty Atkin-
son, Kirk May, Mrs. H. T. Arterberry
and Pauline Magers. A number of
other appropriate books for interme-
diates are expected to be added in
the near future.
A large cool room on the south side
of -the building is being used for the
■summer months, with plenty of com-
fortable chairs and tables for those
who wish to read in the library.
Books will be lent for a period of
seven days oi' more with the under-
standing that those books lost will
either be paid for or replaced by the
borrower; also that borrower shall
"pay a fine suitable to any unreason-
able amount of damage on books
■while they are in his possession. The
dollowing program has been submit-
ted for the present:
Story hour, 8:30 to 9:30 each morn-
ing except Saturday and Sunday. The
stories are arranged for pre-school
children on Mondays and Thursdays;
for first and second grade
on Tuesdays and Fridays,
"third and fourth grade levels
Wednesdays.
From 9:30 a. m to 12 the library
is open to intermediate children, and
-others, who wish .to read or to check
'■out books. Cultivating the “library
habit” may prove to be a very
worthwhile and a very pleasant one.
High School Library
The High School library will also
^remain open during the summer, for
the convenience of students and oth-
ers. The reading room will be open
from 9 to 12 each morning for the is-
suance of books, with Mrs. Hannah
Viser in charge. No charge for use of
library will be made to students, but
others will pay a season’s fee of 50c.
Within a few weeks it is hoped to
liave a number of new books, includ-
ing some best sellers, Mrs. Viser said.
Several leading magazines are in the
library now. Mrs. Viser will devote
the afternoon hours to mending
repairing books.
before and after the illness and oper-
ation, and up to a short Jime before
indictments were returned this
March.
It was stated that E. F. Caraway
would add his testimony to other evi-
dence tending to show the mental in-
capacity of the defendant to distin-
guish between right and wrong at the
time of the alleged offenses.
Mr. Webb said that he would not
ask that the case be continued until
the next term of court, which begins
the third Monday in October, since
it was highly probable that E. F
Caraway be present June 14.
District Attorney R. C. Slagle Jr.
said that the state was ready to go to
trial, but he did not want to deprive
the defense of any material witness,
and asked that the case be postponed,
and not continued.
E. F. Caraway, the motions stated,
was a football coach at a college in
Amherst, Mass., and former Purdue
University and Sherman High School
star.
Five indictments charging misap-
propriation of public funds, also set
for trial Wednesday, were not acted
upon. All the indictments were based
on alleged defalcations while R. B.
Caraway was district clerk of Gray-
son County, from which he resigned
Feb 8 after an audit of his books.
TITUSVILLE, Pa. — Bitten by
rattlesnake, Bruce Redfield probably
saved his life by breaking a bottle
and cutting the flesh about the
wound.
The 24-year-old oil lease
walked nearly a mile to
after “operating” on his right leg
yesterday.
Dr. W. E.
AUSTIN.—The voice of the Texas
Federation of Women’s Clubs Tues-
day was added to the chorus asking
that the use of the “bat” as punish-
ment in the state prison system be
abolished.
Board members, holding their
spring meeting here, adopted a reso-
lution asking that the instrument be
abolished.
SHERMAN.—The groundwork for
a plea of temporary insanity by R. B.
Caraway, resigned district clerk, was
laid in fifteenth district court
Wednesday, as he obtained a post-
ponement until June 14 of trial on an
indictment charging .embezzlement.
Postponement was granted by
Judge R. M. Carter on the defense’s
plea that E. F. Caraway, brother of
the indicted man, could not be pres-
ent now.
The defense Wednesday filed mo-
tions for continuance in all of the six
cases against Caraway, but the post-
ponement was not based on those mo-
tions. Thus Caraway still has oppor-
tunity for continuance, which is gen-
erally granted.
Spearman Webb, defense attorney,
stated that he would urge the insan-
ity plea, and that E. F. (Ebb) Cara-
way was a material witness to that
defense.
Webb read the motion for contin-
uance of the embezzlement charge,
before asking that postponement not
be granted on that motion alone. He
stated that the defendant was a
healthy young man in 1925, when he
was suddenly stricken with poliomy-
elitis which affected his physical and
mental condition. From 1925 to 1934,
it was stated, the defendant suffered
from severe toxic poisoning and then
underwent a dangerous operation for
hyper-thyrodism, a glandular condi-
tion.
This operation also affected his
physical and mental condition, and
E. F. Caraway, it was stated, was
well acquainted with this condition j ter partitions remained" upright. The
upper floors , slanted downward,
shooting children out, sliding down
like a toboggan.
Dozens of tots on the first floor
drooped into the basement and were
covered with debris.
The roof fell upon the mass of chil-
dren and wreckage.
A carpenter foreman, John Ruhlen,
working on the new building, went to
the rescue. He said:
“I was on my hands and knees
when I heard the explosion and the
screaming. As I ran to the building
the sides fell out and the roof came
down with a second roar.
“Most of the buried children were
—x " ’ ’ , ’ ' ’ and
very heavy.
Many of them slid or were blown out
of the house.
“There were about 20 on the sec-
ond floor and I believe some of them
fell cleai’ to the basement.
“I pushed a piano off a teacher and
carried her and another teacher out.
I took out about 15 little fellows.
“One of the worst parts of this is
that some of the little girls probably
will be disfigured for life.”
Burning Paper Caused Blast
Before Janitor White lapsed into
unconsciousness because of burns, he
said he had been burning .papers in
the basement when the blast let go.
“The whole basement must have
been filled with gas,” he said before
lapsing into unconsciousness. “I’m
sure it was a leaky main.”
AUSTIN. — A voter must pay his
city poll tax in order to qualify as a
“legal voter” in any election, the su-
preme court ruled Wednesday.
The ruling was in answer to ques-
tions presented by an appellate court
as an outgrowth of a bond election
suit in the. city of Baird, Callahan
County.
The questions were:
“Is requirement of payment of a
city poll tax, by those subject there-
to
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The Sun has received a letter from
Malcolm Campbell, project manager,
giving rules for boating and fishing
on Lake Fannin, north of Bonham,
and Lake Davy Crockett, north of
Honey Grove. No motor boats will be
permitted at Lake Fannin, but will
be permitted on the 450-acre lake
north of Honey Grove.
A charge of 25c per day will be
made for a “fishing day.” A “fishing
day” begins at 5 a. m. and ends at 7
p. m at both lakes. A concessionaire
will have both bait and boats at both
lakes. The concessionaire was just
recently notified of his award, Mr.
Campbell said, and probably will not
be in position to give as good service
to the people on the first few days as
a week or two later. The lakes open
today for fishing.
Rules and regulations governing
boating stipulate that all boats shall
check in before sundown of each day
at designated places at both lakes.
Every boat must be inspected and ap-
proved by the concessionaire and
must conform to the requirements for
capacity and safety. Reckless opera-
tion of boats of any type will not be
permitted. Persons using the lakes
for boating and other purposes will
be subject to the state and federal
laws and regulations. This is par-
ticularly applicable to the use of in-
toxicants and to personal conduct.
Infractions of any rules gives the
project manager the right to deny
privileges of the lake to any person.
SACRAMENTO. — Twelve-year-
old Marvin Smith lassoed a Western
Pacific freight train Tuesday and is
in the hospital with serious head in-
juries.
Patrolmen Ernest Laubinger and
Turner Hough who took him there
said that except for the quick think-
ing action of a spectator the boy
probably would have been killed.
Young Smith had looped one end of
the rope around his shoulders. His
throw caught a door hinge of one of
the freight cars and he was dragged
several blocks before an unidentified
spectator raced alongside the train,
knife in hand, and cut the rope.
WASHINGTON.—High army offi-
cials are preparing the most intensive
recruiting campaign since the World
War, with a goal of nearly 115,000
recruits in the next 13 months.
The drive is designed to meet re-
placement and expansion needs of
the Air Corps and other branches.
Eighteen huge recruiting stations
■on wheels, new slogans, posters, mo-
tion pictures and the radio will be
"used.
Major Harold N. Gilbert, recruiting
officer-in-charge, said some “high
pressure salesmanship” might be
used to assure that the Air Corps,
particularly, gets properly qualified
men for the treble expansion author-
ized by Congress. t
“We’re going to make sure the
boys back in the country, as well as
in the cities, know what the army has
to offer,” he said.
“They have the chance to get free
a technical education that would cost
them a lot of money otherwise.”
The army’s present need is so un-
precedented for peace times that of-
ficials are unwilling to predict
whether the intensive recruiting will
be successful.
The navy, too, needs men but
recruiting job is much simpler. It
will add only 5,000 men in the next
year, and there always are more ap-
plicants than vacancies.
To join the army, a man must be
between 18 and 35 years old, in sound
health, from 64 to 78 inches tall, and
weigh between 128 and 211 pounds.
He must be of good character and
reputation, an American citizen, and
—except in unusual circumstances—
i -single. Enlistments are for three
years.
Measurement of farm lands
Grayson County to determine
pliance with the 1939 farm
is getting underway, with about
field men to be engaged in the work.
For the first time, aerial photo-
graph maps of the county, made up
in sections covering tracts of about
three by three and one-half miles,
will be used in the measuring, mak-
ing chain measurement unnecessary
except where more than one crop is
planted within well defined boun-
daries. Measurement from the maps
will be done by a scale and mathe-
matical calculation. This method
cuts costs and the number of men re-
quired to about half that of the old
method, which necessitated work of
about 80 men.
It will be necessary for a farm op-
erator or some person well ac-
quainted with a place to assist in
measurements, said W. W. Gunn,
county administrator. He urged that
farmers give this assistance so an
accurate total of crop acreage may be
obtained and Grayson County may
get its fair share of future acreage
allotments.
Measuring is being started earlier
than usual this year so that checks
may be obtained earlier, Mr. Gunn
said. He added that all assistance
given the field workers would help
in speedier handling of the work.
To date, $305,120.56 in agricultur-
al conservation payments for 1938
and $15,491.52 in wheat parity pay-
ments for 1939 have been received
for Grayson farmers, with more ex-
pected daily.
Because the checks are being re-
ceived in smaller numbers than for-
merly, it would not be practical to
conduct a county-wide distribution
schedule, Mr. Gunn said, but if farm-
ers wish to save a trip to Sherman,
they may sign and return their appli-
cations by mail and checks will be
mailed to them.
AUSTIN.—Thirteen senators Tues-
day put it squarely up to the House
whether the regular session is to vote
for social security purposes.
The Senate State Affairs Commit-
tee, by a vote of 12 to 3, chopped off
the Morris-Keith omnibus tax bill
and voted 12 to 2 to kill the Hardin
gross receipts tax.
The double action, taken after a
brief hearing of omnibus bill propo-
nents, leaves only two general tax
measures alive—the Senate proposal
for a constitutional tax on retail
sales, services and natural resources,
and the Pat Dwyer House luxury tax
bill.
Although the constitutional amend-
ment now apparently offers the last
hope of financing social security ade-
quately at this session and some who
have opposed it earlier probably will
switch rather than go home without
having raised new revenue, propo-
nents doubt that the measure will
muster 100 ballots.
Earlier Recess Likely
Regardless of its outcome, the Sen-
ate committee’s peremptory action
created prospects of earlier sine die
adjournment. After the House passes
or kills the sales tax resolution and
conference reports on the biennial
appropriations are adopted, the Leg-
islature will be ready to quit and go
home, unless the House bloc pledged
to remain until taxes are levied can
block adjournment. Many members
hoped Tuesday night they would get
away early next week.
Presenting the omnibus bill, Rep-
resentative Morris of Greenville,
joint sponsor, declared: “This meas-
ure represents a sincere effort on the
part of more than 40 House members
to solve the social security financing
problem.”
Morris estimated the bill would
yield $16,000,000, or about $11,000,-
000 for social security.
“If this is done,” he added, “I be-
lieve the people will be satisfied with
the job.”
COLLEGE STATION.—Anticipat-
ing fully 92 percent compliance with
1939 cotton acreage allotments, AAA
workers at state headquarters here
do not expect much Texas cotton to
be penalized through the application
of cotton marketing quotas on this
year’s crop.
Arrangements nevertheless were
made here this month to single out
the comparatively few growers ex-
pected to exceed cotton acreage al-
lotments and to place a 3-cent a
pound tax on cotton they sell in ex-
cess of their marketing quotas.
E. N. Holmgreen, state AAA ad-
ministrator, explained that the tax,
which is a cent larger than it was last
year, will be collected by the buyer
at the time of the sale.
A farm's marketing quota consists
of either the normal or the actual
production, whichever is the gerater,
of the farm’s 1939 cotton acreage al-
lotment—plus any carryover cotton
which would have been subject to a
penalty had it been marketed in
1938.
Producers who have no carryover
penalty cotton and who plant within
their 1939 cotton acreage allotments
will receive white marketing cards
and may sell all their cotton in 1939
without a penalty. The producer who
overplants his allotment gets a red
card. If he also has carryover penalty
cotton on hand, he gets a blue card to
go with the red one. If it happens
that the producer with a blue and a
white card actually produces less
than his 1939 marketing quota, he
may sell carryover penalty cotton, to-
gether with the 1939 crop, up to the
amount of the 1939 quota without
penalty; but any carryover cotton
sold in excess of the 1939 quota will
be subject to 2-cent penalty which
prevailed in 1938.
Four-fifths of the Texas cotton
growers who voted in a referendum
last fall voted in favor of cotton mar-
keting quotas for the 1939 crop.
VAN ALSTYNE.—Funeral services
were held Monday at the First Meth-
odist Church for J. A. (Jim) Douglas,
72, who died at his home. Burial was
in the Van Alstyne Cemetery.
Born at Weston, Mr. Douglas came
to Van Alstyne in 1903, living here
until his death. He was married to
Miss Eula Caldwell at Weston on Mr.
Douglas’ twentieth birthday.
Mr. Douglas was a retired land-
owner and farmer, who spent all his
time looking after his farms near Van
Alstyne and in West Texas.
Survivors include his wife; a son,
W. F. Douglas; a daughter, Mrs J. L.
Greening, Van Alstyne; two brothers,
Jess Douglas, California, and Eb
Douglas, Graham; a sister, Mrs. Ida
Herrington, Van Alstyne, and four
grandchildren.
SHERMAN.—Contrary to general
belief among farmers, wheat mixed
with other grain may not be har-
vested and sold under the federal
farm program without throwing the
farm out of compliance, W. W. Gunn,
agricultural administrator for the
agricultural adjustment administra-
tion, said Tuesday.
However, a ruling states that wheat
mixed with other grain may be har-
vested for home use as feed, but the
acreage so planted and so harvested
will be included in the general allot-
ment. If a farmer is to remain in
compliance, only wheat from the al-
lotted acreage may be harvested and
sold.
For failure to comply, the penalty
is 50 cents per bushel on all wheat
sold from excess acreage, to be sub-
tracted from the agricultural con-
servation payment, and cancellation
of all parity payment on wheat raised
on that farm.
SHERMAN. — The committee of
ministers and laymen seeking an
election to vote beer out of Grayson
County will ■ open headquarters
Thursday in the Stinnet building at
214 North Travis, the space now be-
ing vacated by John and Lee Mar-
shall, realtors and insurance men.
Thursday night a meeting of the
250 workers over the county will be
held at 8 p. m. at the Central Chris-
tian Church. Dr. J A. Ellis, pastor of
the First Baptist Church and chair-
man of the committee, will preside.
The meeting is for the purpose of
organizing the workers selected in
each of the 61 voting precincts, so
that a concerted attack may be made
as the campaign nears its end.
The central committee will appear
June 12 before the commissioners’
court, to present their petition for
election, supported by lists of names
of more than 10 per cent of the qual-
ified voters.
Should the court find the petition
in good order, it is mandatory that
the election be set for a time not
more than 20 nor less than 10 days
following. It is desired to hold the
election on Saturday, July 1.
The workers have reported good
success in raising the small amount
of money with which to conduct the
campaign. Since many services
being offered, the budget has
small, but the expense of mailing
pleas to all of the qualified voters
will have to be met through contri-
butions.
Miss Hazel Cole, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. F. C. Cole, will be in charge
of the office.
O’Daniel Scored
Morris said it has ceased to be a
question whether Texas is going to
have a sales tax, but whether it will
be a general or selective sales tax.
Speaking foi’ “all labor in Texas,”
W. H. Gallagher of Denison reiterat-
ed his opposition to a sales tax, but
said labor favored several features of
the bill.
He blamed Governor O’Daniel for
the legislative tangle over taxation
and scored him for warning the
House members “if they don’t vote as
he tells them he will pillory them on
every stump in Texas because they
would not do his bidding.”
“I don’t believe a more infamous
crime could be perpetrated upon the
state,” Gallagher added, “than to
write a general sales tax into the
Constitution and tax the bread and
meat of the poor.”
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