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Associated Press I .eased Wire
NO. 278
VOL. XXXVIII
ONLY TO PROTECT
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POLISH FREEDOM
Kentucky Mountains
TEXAS LEADS
JAPS REPORT
.si i i r lost
NATION IN JULY
JULY EOURTH
lecturer Asserts
4TH FATALITIES
1
Denton's 1939 Julv
4th celebru-
I
While
18
f
14.
victories
and
Kwantung
the period
I
accidental shooting
1
who during the day had attracted
1
re-
No Silver Bought
Ivan.
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Washington. Pa
Death by \ iolence
J
to
, f
iSix Killed in
out the hazards.
Highway Collision
lace Richard R Middleton was ar-
ediicntor
v. .us
In
first
auto
his
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asked- near midnight
Tuesday city police had
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46 Reported Dead
Alter Cloudburst
Human Misery
Grave Problem
bor-
£
Remain Silent
Situation
DEATH TOLL MAY
MQUUT TO TOO
Auto Deadly
Holiday Instrument
Roosevelt Confers
On Dem Strategy.
Claim
Restore Power of
Devaluation
i Away in Morehead
Section
c lie
. . .....------ —, Mrs
Johnnie Brown Faught et al suit in
for Wednesday afternoon, but had
not gone to trial at 2 p m
noUced
Finally
cure what was thought to be mi
.... • *. but we cannot intro-
here
while
al and mental hygiene. and r“
| port unity for growth and play.
and then feel sorry about it and
sentimentalize "
Harmon said that frontier days
when human lives were as cheap
and abundant Us the resources of
nature had stamped the material
point of view on American thought,
The two families were tmvrttng
in the automobile driven by Wendt.
Passengers on the Blue Ridge bus
figuring in the crash were reported
unhurt.
ROUND
ABOUT
strut k
playing
will
mbit apt,
cotnmtui-
6. 1930
what
were
with
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Wife’s Ring Still
Lost and Husband
Barely Saves Arm
Butcher
nu al do you
June Bride
And pleast tut it oil
mince "
|
(Treasury Decides Fol
Remain Silent on
greatest J admfnistration’s
I bill today after
Texans were victims of traffic; ft!
drowned. 9 were shot, and one was ■
new I
winch
to < tier a
which
I lion lie headed for nine years
! Unable immediately to rai.se $r>0 -
r Smith .pent the night
the parr 11 jail. With his wife,
as i* t ini r
cow' -
joint 1'.
OUIlilLUi I I lllllld.-', 141 V -
eral thousand teachers, pointed out
that "the average American citizen
I STATE BANK REFORT OF JUNK
30 CALLED
AUSTIN July 5.—bPl—The bank-
ing department today issued a call
for condition of all state banks and
trust companies as of June 30.
Checking deaths
I tile Independence
■ Texans counted
' and
drew I
persons ex-,
manager of
Teachers Study
o'
School Problems!
i of the National
tlonal Associations 77th annual con-
vention yesterday were talks bv
REPUBLICANS i
HIT LEGALITY OF
MONETARY BILL
The only Fourth of July blaze of
re|x>rted in the
a fire Tuesday
U
Chronicle, too
Hanv has about become adjusted
to the lad thu< he is giandpa.
but when he had the news by tele-
phone. he overlooked getting when
the baby was born, the. u.une, and
in fact, he was so irtlgety, he even
forgot ius daughter's married name.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 5-ols i
Tiie nation's teachers studied prob- j
lems of their profession today after
LOUISVILLE, Ky . July 5- )
bTfr—Mrs Guy O Hawks, lost
her umethyait ring and told her
husband she tiiougtrt-t4w-—had
dropfied Lk iuwirif dram pipe
Hawks covered ills right arm
wita axle grease and reached
into tiie pipe ffts hand became
stuck.
Two hours laLcr. with the
help of two neighbors, a plum-
ber. gtivc patrolmen, two crow-
bars and three hack saws. Hawks
was freed ——
Mr» HiiwitiV etng-
Inabilit y T o
i'
| siastlc
thrift
can't
rates that
years ago
But While the banks can't be
generous. Uncle Sam. who doesn't
$2 000.000 000 stabilization fund
The*monetary powers, contended
Austin of Vermont, ac'-
,SperiaI Judge
(powers and winning support
for neutrality legislation.
' Picking up tiie monetary fight
American
and cited a <<m-
"objective" ' to "bankrupt
■ —
Her Attitude Clear
Walter L, Morris of Fort j
in Denton as special Judge | ~
| ducc into society an evil to destroy
an evil without risking the conse-
qi fence of having that evil turn
on us and bring our own' destruc-
tion ’’
Representative Mason assailed
"Communists ... in the depart-
ments of government" and "in the
I schools, labor and, churches," and
i
.• $
DENTON HEAVES
SIGH OF RELIEF
AS NO JULY 4TH
CASUALTIES HERE-- X .XSut^F
pression for development. Hannon'
) said And under such compulsion, |
he added, people react with nerv- j
Wm Having Big
Day with Dynamite
For Firecrackers
And ye shall observe to du all QD|TA|M D| CLlL^dT
the statutes and judgments w lili li i |J K | I |111)| | I rlJIpl)
I set before you today—DeuUiono- ;**'*• I *‘H ’ ■ LLUUuU
my 11:32.
Douig me will of God leaves not |
time lor disputing about ins plans j
—O. MacDonald.
y as one <
and best ever ringed here
.The
more than tiie
Jiected. O 1, 1
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While there was much to do in |
Denton on tiie Glorious Fourth, it ’
was a sane and sale day. us no ac- !
cidents ol any serious nature oc- !
curred People began to gather in
Denton early Tuesday morning to . . . „.
*_h: 1 ? 1 Undersecretary Utives
Commons Stand In
Imbroglio
NEW YORK. July - i.4’l -The,
widow of former Supreme C,ourt
Justice Joseph F, ice Crater assert- .
ed in Supreme Court
the lonu-niissfng must du ii by "ex-
ternal. violent or accidental means" . gyle
and lliat his body was dis|xxscd of
by cremation.' It was the first
Soviet-
i State
eu-
enjoys and appreciates licme-town
news I thoroughly "mince" and
digest every column and I sincere-
ly believe "we" have the bill... pa-
per published. L> "Grandpa'' Harry
Teasley uble to deliver the
after the’ announcement of an 8
lb 15 m gratiason? LH-tie Robert
Harrison, thcugh born in Indiana.
Judgi\
| Worth ii
Journey ficm j hi the Cleber Wilkerson vs.
Brockville, Ontario, where he siir- | J—.-.i-h 2. “ ”
rendered Sunrlav to auUiovitlea.: District Court Hie case was on cau
Smith was brought by plane from
j New York, to New Orleans, thence
bv police car to the jail here
nm'ne Y '(dl Issued for
Hauk Condition
Tlnmk-S, Mrs.
Sile writes
“I have
STOW, Mass., July 5—oPy—
Each time Daniel J Cady, a
miner, set oil a firecracker
yesterday. residents
their houses rocked
they called police.
The officers took Cady to
J?,il cn a charge of disturbing
tiie peace. They said Ills fire
ci ackers were dynamite sticks'.
with delinquency,
and witli prostitution; they escape
j t.lirough pseudo religions, pseudo
I cultures, romance., and illusion;
We hud to coini tq‘town to get
u mower-ton. i,e sau! Joe May .
with bls son. J A who tvft. hire
Wednesday "Crops up 1 our away,
near Aubiey, are m excellent con-
dition.' tliev agreeri.
Dallas and Fort Worth
in line witli recent action by banks
in other sections of
have cut
ings to 1 per cent annually The
banks still believe that savings and
should be encouraged, but
afford to pay I „
were customary
Traffic Cop says. ,,
Safety can t, grow mile.';;, w< weed1 bezzlcd SlODOOti
"And hew much mince
want, ma am?'
' Ahum 11 di u |x> it'd
nice, lender
lor
eariv inclu forr of Hea1 ieP_Jjuyja in
under way B. E Drake won. i
night, the putting green was op-
ened for the first tune and it was
enjoyed by many men and women.
Tiie putting green should make tiie I dependence.
Asked if Britain's policy against
any aggression covered jxrfisible at- ’
i By Associated Press)
progress over
holiday period,
42 persons killed
scores injured—the g.—
I’o-iloll in the nation's states
i bind only in event there was ;t While thousands frolicked.
|“c;hmr Llirimt” Lu 1’uland’s in-; _
j a victim of fireworks Two died un- for recovt'ring his devaluation
said the "objective of “Americnn
communists" was to "bankrupt the
nation so a receiver will then be
required—which receiver will be
the highly-organized,
small group known al
ists."
JapaTTs.nl bill to the citizams of Texas
| the minimum cost
™‘ ' ' " • lawn and
filled Elm Street on tiie west side
ol Hie square until late in the
hearing two addresses which decried ■ nigh' as couple after couple climb-
n I I <iebi mv A ivuieion »1 • • t i 1H n - .. .i in. » I, .. ♦ (,>>>>, .. ■ » , I t I . .. t, .f
Former k. S. I
Head Says He'll
yiol Be "Coal
BATON ROUGE, a . July 5 —tZP'
An assertion by Dr .’allies Mon-
roe Smith he was "not going to ;
nave another birth- be tJ1[. goat" Indicated today the,
. ‘ ' j resigned President of Louisana State
; University soon would end his rct-
J icence concerning charges he em-
from the instttu-
The
bund, Manchoukuo garrison, asserted 365
tixik enemy planes had been shot down
in the intermlttmt fighting on Die
Manchoukuo-Outer Mongolia
der since May 20 in addition
planes de troved on the ground
a i
base at Tumsk iTamskxumu).
communique at tile lime said 98
Soviet or Mongol planes were de-
stroyed at Tomsk
Japanese, losses for
were not stated
an un-
ing biuslness. still sells baby bonds
that return nearly 3 per cent over
tile lile ol tiie bond, and postal sav-
ings still pay 2 per cent If Con- i
gress decides to pass tile Mead bill I
permitting government loans to j
small business, banks will become
simply a clearing liousft for checks’
with the bulk of the lending done
through governmental agencies or
through governmental permission.
Denton's two biRikx; the First
State and the Denton County Na-
tional. both of which pay two per
cent, on savings account*, have
not Joined tiie city banks in lower-
ing the interest rate Both continue
to credit tiie savings accounts with
two per cent interest.
der tram wheels.
Latest victims, grouped by cause
tempt to change ttie status of the , Of^death,| included
Free' City of Danzig, Butler refer- ’ '
member of the La Follette civil lib-
their plane^dived j ertj,.s committee and Representa-
j\joab Mason of Illinois, mem-
ber of the Dies committee on im-
, American activities.
1 Politics, in the main, went bv the
j wayside yesterday when Amy H
] Hinrichs of New Orleans was nom-
i inated for the presidency unoppos-
ed Only remaining opposition for
Senate even if the bill was approv-
ed it would not legally restore to
I thp executive authority to devalue
Paul Vaugh. 20. and her 12- 1 the dollar or power to operate tiie jn tp,.
fiddle band c: i
tiie feature of
poll active business dunng live day
and night. that is tiie business
houses tfiat were <jx*n Altogether
the celebration put on by tile Dt-n-
Chaniber ct Commerce and <
organizations was
; I ! EA^T TEXAS: Generally fair
four life Insurance policies total- j tonight and Thursday; fresh south-
ing $30,000 with the Fidelity Mu- erlr winds an the roast.
tual Life Insurance Company and OKLAHOMA AND WEST TEX-
the Mutual Life Insurance Com- AS: Generally fair tonight and
pany of New York Thursdajr.
H i jh'i 's Fid- ing Japanese victories, and Moeg-ovJ*
Dallas copjied dispatches overwhelming
■, and Coak s Fox lor the Soviet force* >
I CliH'rrs BaiWl ol Dallas took second The Kwantung army,
them (’prize money of $15. A l<x*nl
like Emory s Fiddle Band,
fthird prize of $10
sag I Joe
who tva.,
up;our
but that the nation’s material ad- I
vantage is now narrow, and our
jx-rverted values are beginning
fall
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
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DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5, 193D
the extent that he is unconscious
of them." but that "the Civil I.ib-
"indus-
because
in our
had all tiie
: seeds of the destruction of Amer-
I lean fundamental tights "
Treasury Silent
— The treasury m a i ' ’
small outboard motor bout whlcii/ eg, policy, decided today
,__j ... ------------ issue any silver •
apy
-3 before tiie Senate sons
I votes late today on the monetary ! the money
otiier i
organizations was a success, as it >
gave pleasure to thousands ui ped- ,
pie Tiie Ponder Rodeo, too. iiad its ’
share of people, as the stands, its
tliey have been al t-.ich pertorin-
unce, were idled with rodeo-lans.
As he was being led to a J
car he said Into a microphone
thrust at h|s face:
"I'm glad to be back' I'm sorry
I went away. I was ill advised to
leave."
Thin morning the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, pursuing its cam-
paign for a complete investigation, tional banks at the clone of busi-
asked "Who advised him?" I ness Friday. June 30, 1939
tiie generous J
few; SanihC’.. Dr Smith su.lilpn- 1
I ly asked- mar midniv.ht to speak k
I with Sam lux. .Inti officials sa'd he]
; then declared I am not going
have to make a profit in tiie lend- ; to be made the g< at in tills tiling." j
..... ..... ... ....... San< liez bad. by that time, ~~
tired and Sheriff Newman H
j Britton did not call him.
After an tasv-siage J
A cut earlier last week had brought
tiie price down from 43 cents an
ounce, where it had been for more
than a year The price quoted in
London today was 37 92 cents
ities widely banned explosives Ln a (
"safo-and-sane" observance report-]
ed fewer injuries.
Yexa-s led the death list with 42 1
followed by California with 39. ]
Ohio witli 37. New York with 35 and , bas enjoyed rights and liberties to
fatalities
j erties Committee' studied
WASHINGTON, July 5—
(Al’)—Senate Republiea nsj (
attacked the legality of the-]
> moneta r y ;
tbc B:Ti >li-French mutual a'v ist-
am e ai.ie. im nt in face of the Dan-
zig sitiiatin.i, met at. unusual length
this morning^ind agreed to meet
1.111 t ■' W'.
Both the tension over tiie Free
. Cuv ami the stalemated negotia-
tions in Moscow were tx'fore tiie
num tcis at tneir regular session.
'I he tn rangement lor another
’Lnei lmg led to belief in some quar-
ter. their de isions were not yet
sufficiently crystalized lor Prime
Minister Chamber lain to make an
ex]M‘Ctcd statement
It had been lx lleved Chambei lain
Would inform tiie House of Com-
mons this afternoon on progress of
'negotiations to btlng Soviet Russia
into the British-French front
lawn
to stop tin
was ccmpletod because the enthu- quantity of grain and hay. though |
F,1U' '•us Ublc •s:u'' «JU,P- j them ” he declared.
I ireinen made only one other
holiday run. Tliey extinguished a:
gi'itss fire on Scripture Street qt
about 8 30 o'clock in the evening..
No damages were reported on this
run.
Fireworks: i-icauig up uiv iiiviiciuij iupi-
Hildred Sawders, 14. Marlin — | where tliey left off Saturday morn-
jugular vein severed by piece of tin ] nig. Republican speakers told the
blown from a can under which a
firecracker was .set off
Drowiiings:
Mrs
year-old sister, Esther Foster—bout
cap-ized in Colorado River near I
Austin. I Senator .... ~. -----------. —
Mrs. Irene Miller. 22. Olney—at-, jtlg Republican leader, “are entire- idlin'
* ....... .....................■- d-~- lv dead " It would be contrary luli'ie $25 first prize
Trinity jaw jle .said, to approve legisla- 1 r« ,,wi ,.i r
tion designed to continue
after they had expired
one intoxicated [verson, and
were called out to Investigate a re-
! ported attempted suicide. Tliey had
only one call, to quiet a noisy party.
The widow added her belief that ' That came late Tuesday night.
the Jurist had died “on or about" I
the day he disappeared ■
Seeks IJotiWe Indemntty H
She said her theory was based |
on information compiled by ixilice |
and other agencies ui a world-wide !
search j
Justice Crater, whose disappear-
ance became one of the greatest I
mysteries in many years, carried |
trial and labor abuses"
"something was occurring
! American life which
In (jOurt Here, --r^.nut aoun
i Tiie Senator flayed the "Indus-| from the Mutual Life Insurance , only
I trial spy" as "an evil employed to , Company of New York and the Fi- ;
drlity Mutual Life Insurance Coin- j ported attempted suicide. Tliey had
pany
nor Foreign Secretary Lord
I Halifax had mentioned the Danzig
I situation specifically in any of their
recently speeches nor been more
spec ific concerning Britain’s pledge
to aid Poland if her indejx-ndence
, were threatened.
1 iOther detir.ltions of the British
1 stand have not been consistent.
. Saturday a
man declined to
Putsch in Danzjg
ily" bring British guarantees into
force Sunday foreign oilice sources
sail Pi.land. Britain and 1
had agr< ed to resist any effort to
change tiie status ot the Free City.
. cither finm within or without Tills
.■ Itilrmenl has not been emlo.sed
by citlier ChambrtLun or Halifax!
The prune muibter ileclined to
;;ive di-taiN ot what issues are ob-
.■■triicl mu Sow t Rit-. la s jmrtlcipH-
tion i’i tiie British French mutual
trout hut declared Mos-
r< acti’ !['. were bi’lny .-tudied
bv Biilai.i ami France.
< onler it ith Russia
'Ilje British cabinet, anxious
fe.u.- ;'ay celebration marred
more‘than 600 violent deatlis.
A survey today listed onlv four
Ilves lost by exploding fireworks to
277 sudden deaths tn automobile
accidents throughout tiie 48 states
'The total toll was at least 612
compare.! with 517 reported lor the
three-tfay celebration lastiyear.
Thronging of beaches by merry-
making millions accounted for the,
second highest number of fatalities
—183 drowiiings Trains killed 29
persons. There were 36 fatal shoot-
ings. eight plane deaths and 79
dead in miscellaneous accidents.
Ironically, Edward Fisher. 21, of.
Chicago, who was studying to be a
safety engineer. Was killed when
his auto skidded oil a road in Mi-
< litgan.
In the largest group tragedy six
West Virginians, including three
children, were killed when their
light sedan and a bus collided near'
Washington. Pa vention yesterday were talks bv I
At Carman. Ok . a 28-vrar-old pl-I senator Elbert D Thomas of Utah,
lot and two high school students
were killed when t’ ‘
from 1.900 feet after a wing cover- ]
ing ripiX’d loose. Three persons died
when a motor car tumbled 100 feet
into a canyon near Alamogorda.!
N M
Lightning took several lives.
Although the total of the four
fireworks deaths was one more than
the nnnilver a year Hgowommun- ■ tomorrow night's election was with
" " the nominees tor the vice presiden-
cies and executive committeemen
Senator Thomas, speaking to sev-
»lub even more popular with tiie j
women players, as it will prove a t
pleasant place to [Kiss .some of the |
hot evenings Denton merchants re- j
red his questioner to the "terms of
<Mir pledge to Poland, which Great
Britain will certainly lultill."
| i Tiie British-From h undertaking,
, as announced last Mareh 31 by
Prime Mini.iter Cliainberlain, is to
lend "all support in their power"
to Poland "in tiie event of auv ac-
tion which clearly threatened Po-
1 li:.h independence and which the
Polish government accordingly con-
sidered vital to resist witli their na-
tional force:. ">
Cliiunljerlain .shortly before bad
declared:
HLs Majesty's government will
fail to take any steps which
necessarv and
their attitude
tempted to rescue two children dur-
ing a holiday picnic.on -
i River near Dallas. Their father suv- j
ed the children. ' 1
i Bergt. A. C Rounds. 38, drowned '
Just oil shore in Rockport. Rounds.,
his wile and four friends were in I The treasury m a sudden change j
a small outboard motor boat wlilei^ ig. polity, decided Joday.. not to The fiddle contrat wic. held on
capsized in the rough water. > issue any silver prices or make ITTie £ourt house lawn from 3 to 6
Automobiles; apy otiier comments on tile mon- I o'clock liefot'e a large crowd of per- ,
Dave Smith. 68. Dallas- feet sev- efury situation before tiie Senate | sons 'I w Ive banu
ered from body in collision.
Jim Boyd. Burlington railroad
agent at Bardwell, near Corsicana— .
fast train struck his automobile at
a < rassitig.
Arlyn McCasland. 25—midget rac-
ing car lie was piloting on a Fort
Worth track struck another car and
, tlipijed over three times.
Elizabeth Shackelford, '* ~
Worth—died of
injuries
Shootings: ,
Raymond Landry. 13. of Orange—
by a .22 rifle bullet while
'■ Western-style
LONDON. July .’>— ( Al’)— !
..... Undersecre- 1
play hard baseball, winning eight f K Aff..;rs told
two At Hie Denton Country Club, lar> Ioi rcilt ijfn Ail.nrs, told
throughout the day, there was uc-, the House of ( ouinioiis today
tivity as tiie Flag Tournament was Brithin was obligated to re- '
AM s.ist aggression against
SHOOTING DOWN
! PROGRAM BRINGS 53 SOVIET PI ANES
BIG CROWD HERE
banks, (gjq pond. Di
in th , . . .
the country, I U|1() W(U, indicted ns an accomplice.1
tiie interest rate on sav-I f|H. venial educator was returned - - ,
- ve.4erd-.iv atd r n tup i.nd.r -uard ^Michigan and Illinois with 31 each
from Ciinada | 01,10 . *as nrst ln 1111,0 f“‘a—**
After refusing to talk with Fed- I wdh 23.
end ngent.s or District A’tornev
WASHINGTON. Pa . July 5 —uP) '
—Collision of a light sedan auto-
mobile with a passenger bus early
today killed six persons, including
three children, as they sped to-
their West Virginia homes
after a holiday outing.
Victims were Fred Wandt, 35, his
wjfg, 35. and two of their three
children, Joaii. fbur. and an eight-
I month-old daughter, aH of Wells-
burg; AH>ert Bailey, Sr., 55. and his
son, Jimmy, 14. Follansbee. I
Mrs Bailey. 53. and Albert Bal- ,Mnl“ portly after, mid-
The two fimllTes were travrttmr
datlons.
i By Associated Press i
Tl.e motor car killed 70 times as
many jx»r ems as did fireworks a-s
Amt i i< a
Large Barn Burns
On Fritz Farm
Louis Carlton, II L. Camp
owner, staged a lie.il fry ler several ,
of his friends Tuesday ni^lit. Will ]
Williams Sr. said "It was a birth- ,
day party, but it seems that Louis
confuses tiie date, as last year, it ]
was on June 4; this year on July
4. and I'm cf the opinion that if
Louis catches another sixty [Xiund
catfish, hell 1
day about August 1
bi t wean Manchoukuo and
[iroiecitni Outer Mongolia-
The Japanese asserted this
the Chamber r-f (’nnmiw" -esH- counter involved 15U alrphuies and
mated He was in i . n<ml cha:ge lusted for an hour and a half late I
<4 arrangements for Uie day'* ac-: Tuesday The Japanese indicated
th Hies which were sponsored by tliey suffered no losses |
the Chamber of Commerce and ' ilTiere was no report of such a
th'- Junior Chamber ol Commerce battle in Moscow Japanese and So-
Dallas fiddle bands walked away viet t
with $40 of tiie $50 in prizes offered warfare
.. ■ annual Imb |« ndeia c Day Mongolian frontier tn tiie Lake Bor
ntest which came as region since May 11 Jaimnese dis-
1 Hie allci noon en- patches have reported overwlielm-
tcrtainment program "
Foci Band of
'I ht ^Denton golfers will go to
Dallas this coining Sunday wl.en
they will meet a team liGin El
l ivoli club Th Denton boys have
ooiie nngi.ty we.l in their matches
with some .trong teams They have;
wen Letter than half their inat< he.-.
disappeared Aug
"I don’t know
io him." she said, on that
sion I believe if he were
I would have found some trace or
clue
Mrs Kunz is suing to collet;! on
double indemnity totaling
Dead May Reach 100
Mrs N L. Wells, chairman ol the
Rowan County Red Cross, said the
loss of life may run to 100 She al-
so estimated there would be a
thousand refugees and many
quiring medical attention.
Bodies of the following had been
recovered:
Mrs. George Boggess. 78.
Mrs James TelUver, 71.
Mrs. Minnie O. Carter, 30. and
her son. Junior Days Carter. 11.
Mrs Curt Salyers, 28. and three
children. Albert 2; Bobby
Mrs Salyers' mother, a Mrs Rat-
liff and the latter's son Lorene, 6.
A man named Porter
The missing:
Jennie Amburgey, about 50.
Marjory Amburgey. 13.
Evra Lee Amburgey. 6.
Lula Mae Perry. 27.
Selva Lee Perry. 17.
Maggie Frances Collins, 12.
i Evra Lee Goebel. 10
i Elmer Sparkman, 9.
John Paul Sparkman. 6.
Thelma Lee Sparkman. 4.
Robert Sparkman
Mrs Salyers and her three chil-
dren. her mother and her brother,
were drowned as they were at-
tempting to start an automobile to
flee from the onrushing water. The
car was overturned and washed
several hundred feet.
No students of Morehead Teach-
' era’ College, located hero, were in
the flood.
Paul Morthorst, delivery truck
driver for a Louisville newspaper,
who was stranded here by the
cloudburst which, preceded the
flood, estimated “at least 40 or 50
[versons" were drowned
measiu'e' before
the j Thirty -eight of the dead were
I’e~ ' liutnrl hnrn hv Dnctrnnctor W
E. Curtcher.
. ... , Tiie State Board of Health In
Manchoukuo- more than 60 000 deatlis in the state Louisville said it had been Infonn-
——i last year. 20 000 or one-third, were -• -----
I due to preventable disease,
pointed out
Huge Disease Bill
Harmon said th-.t death
disease present a $211,000,000 annu-
______i us
tiie minimum cost of physical i
I health hazards, that, with concen- !
traced effort could be eradicated.
Approximately 200.000 children.
! he declared, are living in under un-
, - .. ... „--- satisfactory environmental condl-
rald June 27 on jhe Mongol alr tinns in Texas when viewed in
’’ A tertns of proper sanitation, person-
an op-
Wliije. thanks, a
lot! She writes liujii Valparaiso, .
Tffff'T “I- have jirocrastmiited in
telling you how much a 'It x.is girl i
not
may seem to them
de-lrable to make
absolutely clear."
gixxis I Silent on Danzig
] Dc-plte Chamberlains statement
; some of his hearers recalled neither
he nor Foreign Secretary
will lx* brought up on the Record- I
le. Irving. Carrollton. Fort
i Worth and Grapevine Several
state- .bands which had registered did not
get here for the contest, Fowler
raid. Judges w'ere W H Nall and
I’Tom Turner of Denton and Harve
Wils.in of Justin.
' 'Ar 7 o'clock the Denton police
department roped eff the court
square and the cclebrators were
given the court house lawn, the
streets and the side walks on which
Ito "make mirry". At 7:30 o'clock.
. the evening program presented on Denton area
[ tiie court house lawn opened with evening about
selections by I lie Peacemaker destroyed a
Quints Also i»c-forming were a the Ben
Worth musicians, northwest of Denton ’
"Plough Denton firemen w ere call-
„for tlie T' xa'\ Th,‘“,,,r- Tlu‘ <’d out to fight the fire, they could
not save tiie structure as it was
almost envelo[)e I In flames when
of,‘covered The Fritz family was
away from home at the time the
blaze started, they tqld firemen
Tiie Humes destroyed u large
ed at least eight were drowned
he when a wall of water rushed down
the gorge of the Kentucky River
at Jackion Ln Breathitt County.
Bridges, homes, stores and school
buildings were swept awgy, the de-
partment said.
Loss Uncertain
Curthcer said the death toll U
expected to be high in the rural
sections of Rowan County with
which it has been impossible to
ccnununicate.
Farmers, a village seven mile*
west of here, was completely cut
off and Clearfield, a factory town
of approximately 500 persons, on
the oppoaute side of Triplett Creek .
from Morehead, was feared to have
suffered heavily ' — *
Water on Railroad Street. More-
head's main thoroughfare, vailed ■. <*.' ’
in depth from four to ten feet at
the peak of the flood.
Reacuere said between 50 and 75
persons were taken from tree tops
along banks of the creek.
Reports from ail sections of East-
ern Kentucky indicated the heavy
rainfall had been general and that
streams throughout the section
were flooded.
] At 9
l begun on t!..
’the court house lawn
Bund, Ike Emory s Band and Joe
Bush's Band played lor daiulng
j The crowds jammed the
■■
. * / \ - .a
_______
—
Roy Cui tsiiiger, Bolivar, sues
I've never seen a better crop vea.
and the bo\ s will s.xm be tnroui-’li
tht'esliing. V.e've had the best wheat
crop ever, better than a vet age oais
uial barley, a bumper corn crop
< i.inn.g on and ivtton is in cx< Cl-
ient condit.. 11. tin.in li a bl Acruy.
The buvs will ink. ell" <4 that
lu wevei as mkiii a- ..iri !i;iu;
GV’Cl
I lie old Cur . nig> r
PiU. which li.ui qc.'n
'.lie [last 49 '.eiirv, lias
io a new Lioilern attractive build-
ing Winch enable. Ille Cl.11. Higers
IHoie [lltu'.ani p..aT 111
to shop
Over a quarter of a million Tex-
as c)iil;liwn. he a**arU>d. ara retard- ,
ed in school or eliminated from tiie
educational processes entirely be- 1
cause they, through nutritional de- ,
i ficlencies. developmental defects, ]
I or Inadequate health insight on tile
I [-art, of ahter- parent*, rtumot moke ’
adequate school adjustments
I "It would be impossible to esti- :
mate the entire amount that death,
i disease, and Insufficiencies are ex-
any. commence reported ,n the T^'’ !
was a tire ddiesday I — ... ...... . i
.t 11:30 oclock which I
large, frame born on
Fritz, farm four miles
.. r ■ Denton Wednesday heaved a ... .,— r ........ .
attacks on American “funda- j ,xi to the platforms mid the cry of sigh of relief as tiie three-day July | oils and mental disease, witli bod-
mental rights" and cited a com- j the "culler rang out swing your 4th week-end came to a close with ’ ily deflciinciea.
mynistic "objective"'to "bankrupt ■: partner ", "cut a flgger
the nation." "dough-c-dougli"!
Highlighting the extra-curricular |
pregram of the National Educa- |> !• /’
---------------- -------------- Believes Crater
swing your
eight", no casualties and no serious injur- ]
; ie.s attributed to holiday celr.bra-|
lidns reporOed in or near the city. --------- --------
Evidently Denton heeded the ‘ "they gouge each other's eyes out,
admonitions made by its mayor ,v,m' —• “ —‘
last week to "celebrate July 5tli
but not make July 5th a day of
reckoning", as both the city police
; department and the county sher-
iff's offline reported little trouble
from the Independence Day cele-
b raters.
Two men were charged
today' that Wednesday with driving
drunk Tuesday 8. Arellano of Ar-
was arrested Tuesdaj' after-
noon at Argyle and brought to
Denton by Wallace Beasley and I
deluiite theory she THIS expressed r Ray Hoyle, highway patrolmen A
as to his fate. [charge was driving while drunk]
As recently as In t Mav 11. the was filed, rffid hLs bond, which was
widow , now Mrs. Stella M Kunz. ; set nt $750. was made Wednesday"
expressed doubt as to wh it lia[>-. by B. W Meadows and Roy Wal-
pened to Justice Crater alter lie ' —‘ ‘ ;
] rested by the highway patrolmen
happened on the Fort Worth Highway Tues-
ocra- ’| day and brought here Also charg-
alive; ed with driving while drunk.
. bond was set at $750. and it had ! ward
not been made at noon Wednesday.
k.si .... j Tuesday city police had an un-
$60,000 usually quiet day. They arrested
Ask for Help
Mayor Warren C Lappin wired
Arthur Gamble. WPA district di-
rector at Paintsville, 70 miles from
here, asking "all WPA help avail-
able" He said "saltary conditions
worst possible.”
Morthorst said railroad and high-
way bridges east of here were wash-
ed olit and railroad tracks had been
swept away on both sides of town.
Tjie American Red CTOas ordered
Mr| Sheridan Connally, field rep-
ntatlve, from Lexington. Ky„
the flooded town to set up re-
offtecs.
vo other Rowan County towns.
ners and Clearfield, also were , I
Irtually isolated as the flood wo-
ts of Triplett Creek roared out
CONGRESS ; •. '
(By AMoetetod Pra* ■ ,
Senate votta on continuing Pm-
tdent's moflbtary powers.
Senate foreign relations commit-
tee considers neutrality legttlaUcn.
House acta cn minor bUta.
Harmon said that the future and
•salvation of American society lies
neither in the discovery and explol-
. tation of new natural advantages
for personal gain nor in the com-
tielling of further standardization
and waste in individuals
Must Awaken Power
I ' We must find, awaken, and com-
pletely develop tiie native abilities
. of tiie [veopie that have lain dor-
mant or have been supprewaed in
the past, so that tiie people may
gi.,w in power and our society with
tiii*m ** he dix-larei!
To do this, he added, means that
the prix esses of education, of pub-
lic health, end of public thinking. •
must first be truly democratized
Wiille subscribing to the ideals
of democracy, society has actually
determined value in terms of pos-
se'sion of material wealth rather
! than in terms of real wealth—the
' powers that lie within the indivl- .
. dual—Harmon said.
] Such "materialization” regiments
life ignores those that fall by the
way. destroys real wealth r*’—
than builds it. and substitutes re-
.- ------ ----MOREHEAD, Ky.,,July 5
I deffclt in the stale s budget a- any —(AJ»)—Forty-Six persons
wn“B* ‘“i«y r^rtM .tawwd
mental health education for tiie floods that followed qUlCK-
Board of Health, declared in ly a night cloudburst and1
here'^XKTv a^o^I SWPpt CrPek8 and rivers Out
u.s state Teachers College. ° their luinks in Qib moun-
That preventable disease alone' tai ns of Eastern Kentucky.
constitutes a grave problem in $*--1 • - -■* ■" - 1 -
conservation of our human re-! lifted here hv Postmaster W
sources Is borne out by morbidity ., /. , V r ,’sl,Ilasl-tr W.
and mortality statistics for Texas)
forces have been in sporadic , during 1938. which show that with
along the I
sye tiie ojxning entertainment, the !
kiddles in their scooter-cars, and ,
irom then on till the wee-small
hours of tiie night Denton was a |
busy place. The liddle-bands and ]
dancer*, a* always, attracted large , ,
crowds to enjoy then favorite mu- Britain to , Make
sic and dances Tile softbahers gave
entertainment at night when the j
Denton Ljeven-Uppers took the Dal- >
las boys ol that company into camp. ; [)anzi<r Situation Not
getting revenge lor their previous I * .« •
defeat A large crowd paw that I Mentioned OV
game, and, seemingly, did not de- ] ’ 1 ' J
tract from Hie crowd on tiie square UI IlClfllS
to see the dances Dec Bitners
pubs, in the atternoon. showed tiie]
Wealheiloru Independents how LojUjchard liUtldT
• lined i.,,. ,.i,« I l zil <> 11 ♦ 1') b .. v ’
At the Denton Country Club. —
WASHINGTON. July 5 (M— The
Cotntproller of the Currency issued
a call today for condition of all na-
I
not been
foreign office *pokas-
giy that n Nazi
"would nfeessar-
hring British guarantees into
curves - - ------------ ■- stick-eml
France UP ' co'isui. Earl Richards eign silver
A verdict of .... -
wa-s returned.
TOKYO. July 5 —<A's—The Jap-
anese army t..... ?_
lairmen ill Manchoukuo shot down
j L/riuon s iw.ia uuiv sin ceteoru-
I’resident | tion is over, and it will «o down-ill
Roosevelt discussed with!Ichistory
■ llr d lunf in .
Democratic leaders strategy
day s entertainment
• 10 out)
Fi iw ler
“ill-nourished or neglected chii-
dren. people forever handicapped ' Many HoUSCfl Washed
through preventable disease, men a a a J
Wild women atrophied by unwhole-
some environments and through
, unemployment. lives sacrificed
reported today that its) through neglect-—all are
.tanehixikuo shot down) _niorp c7‘'* ^dal than any
53 Soviet airplanes in a great, awe-
cf the biggest inspiring battle" along the border , Dr.
I. ..... i...... .. > ■ , ».____........ i <•«____c *
I iddle Bunds Play
The fiddle contest ' was held
e j ine co
- I o'clock
before the Senate soils Tw Ive banu. com|a‘ted for
lour fiotn Dallas, three
bill. I from Denton, one each from Lew-
Thi* decision was disclosed less | isville Irving. Cai rolltom
than an hour after an official | Worth and Grapevine I
| spokesman had promised a state- > ‘
ment around noon.
No reason was given for inq,
change
Tiie decuion meant there was no
18. Fort public price for newly-mineo do-
automobile wreck niestic silver, and the foreign sil-
ver market, for which tiie treasury
customarily posts a price at noun
daily, was unadvised of the treas-
ury [xisition
_The last treasury price for ior-
■ was 38 cents an ounce. .
quoted both Thursday and Friday (Selections by the
• ■ ■ ■ • Quints. Also [ic-forming
I group cf Fort
I Dalia., Murn'.incite .show Company
i attenqited i.> gi‘.e ils show on the
I ground alter it was lound tile ap-
Bic.iuse of week-end and fourth ' imratu.s w >uld not tit onto tiie court
ot July holidays, the treasury had ! house lawn platlorms. but was
no upportunity to buy silver be-] forced to stop the show before it
observed the 163rd anni- : tween Friday night, when the Sen- •
of its inrk'ix’ndence witli a' a'f detailed to |>ass the monetary | siastlc celebrators crowded in too
by mca-suer. and today when Hie mild close and nearly wrecked the equip- in.:,t ,‘torcd in the barn
offices reopened. I merit
The monetary measure - before Attracting as much attention as
the Senate would fix a 7L11 cents ) any phase ot tl.e day s entertain-
an cunce price lor silvei t uned ■ ment was a greased pole m front
sfnee Friday | of tiie ’lexa-s Tlieater wiilcLi boys
--------- I and men. during the day and eve-
ning tried to climb lor a prize
Square Dancing
p m the square dancing
tiie three platforms on
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