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VOL. XXXVII
DENTON, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 4, 1938
NO. 277
- SIX PAGES
Associated Press Leased Wire
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC HERE ROLLS
CHINESE LASH
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CONFLICT NOW BEING FOUGHT
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NATION’S TOLL
OVER WEEKEND
if
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MOUNTS TO 262
had re-
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Miner Testiffies
managed to pass the Matowchen
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drew to a close.
dollars will be set aside for
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1100 teet-ofeny-
alley er
tteast 3 deaths
heat prostration and varlous mis- government defenses on the Teruel
highway to Valencia. bare rebort-
haps.
far below that of a year ago. Acci-
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dents during the In
Day
Vaiverde.
WIRE BRIEFS
under treat-
WASHINGTON, July 4 -=
to
proving. according to
CERRO. N. M., Juiy i-F—-Two
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appointment of a new ambassador
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n Dore finished his
OALVESTON, July 4-(Te
speech he stripped to the
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Young
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A. Cooper of the Demonstration
Crownover, defending champion, to-
slotter
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Franco Suggests
Port “Immunity
Holiday Program
Slated Downtown
Roosevelt Busy
At Capitol With
Departure Near
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The Blue and the Gray—In Gettysburg Harmony
Socialite Slain
by Her Husband
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Chinese had forced the
retreat from Pengtseh i
the time
as he sat
the machine be)
gan ot Penton
a Roman Catholle
ly elubbed as be i
Counter-attack Is An
Effort to Save
iWaterway.
pital tn l
ment and
Named to Head
Kiwanis Club*
24 motor deaths, Including six mo- the past two days along a nine-
torists killed in a collision with a mile segment south of Puebla de
Rangers Seeking
Child in Rockies
was shot last week
s coupe in front of
was bad
from the
week-end for a Glorious Fourth
Monday peacefully - and with
little disturbance, city police re-
t has been va-
S Davies was
SEATTLE. July 4--A hus-
band who police said fatally blud-
geoned his socially prominent wife
and then heeded her dying re-
Deputies Seek
Hitch-Hiker For
Sunday Hijacking
had been forced to retreat toward
Matowchen.
• District of Columbia showed more
than ISO motorists met death in
highway crashes. Approximately TO
persons dlimited as dense throngs
sought relief from July heat at
beach and lake resorts.
There were 11 suicides and at
WARSAW, My 4—Father
Ths idles Fader. a Jew who became
—)
Four million dollars to be divid-
ed equally between four agricultural
research laboratories, to serve four
major agricultural regions of the
United States, has been made avail-
able in Federal Department of Ag-
ceful chat about the "old days". Left to right. above, are: Cyrus Stamets,
hwood, O; John W. Turnbough, 94-year-old Confederate from Eldorado,
'-old son of the South from Lattle Rock, Ark. Featured event of the
inter-state monument, capped with an "ternal peace flame". by Presi-
coast, mostly woutherly.
ARKANSAS. OKLAHOMA AND
WEST TEXAS: Fair tonight and
Tuesday.
A national soft coal strike was in
progress at ths time, he said
Today's session was the first of
the eighth week of the trial in
which M corporations and 40 indi-
viduals are accused of criminal
conspiracy to deprive miners in the
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were in jail charged with the theft
of the craft.
Edgar Peel, arrested on board by
coast guardsmen, and M Ryan, dis-
covered in a cubbyhole several hours
after officers retoed the yacht, were
charged with theft of a boat in ad-
miralty Jurladiction. U 8. Commis-
month should
I course, which
car was badly damaged but he
escaped without injuries. The horses
belonged to the City of Dallas. Moore
and Deputy Sheriff A. L. Denison,
who investigated, said.
Ambulances were called out on
several accidents in which no one
was injured. Among these were
a collision between two automobiles
st the corner of Congress Avenue
and Carroll Street and a ear which
struck a telephone pole at the
corner of Vine and Withers Streets
here Sunday night. Several am-
bulances were called to.the Lake
Dallas Highway Just outside the
city limits, to pick up a man sup-
posedly struck by a hit and run
driver, who had been seen lying
by the side of the road. On arrival
drivers. found he was only asleep.
ed that the comb
see the opening of
a;. ,
was able to take a thirty-minute
auto ride Saturday.
toC LDug-
was parked
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W. Coltaer, who start-
continued Uto hear-
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to Moscow. The
cant since Joan
transferred to B
The ■ presiden
held severelle
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While a mounting list of accidents, blamed largely on the
holiday traffic stream, was going on the records of hospitals
and officers in Denton and Denton County this weekend, it
had brought no fatal or grave injury up to noon Monday,
those sources reported.
FOR ABILENE TITLE
ABILENE, July 4—em—1Gordon
Im-
He
Two Charged With
Theft of Artemi*
On the slope below the tree-cov-
ered hilltop the vast throng stood for
hours yesterday to hear their Presi-
dent sound the challenge for "an-
other conflict • • • seeking to save
That message is carved in the
granite shaft that stands above Ute
g
Considerable oil activity in the
Bolivar area to expected as a re-
sult of the second well on the Ekl
Forrester tract which was recently
brought in by Vanderhoyer, Bour-
land and Gannon. They have made
another location, one location West
races with his political advisora
devising strategy for his campaign
in behalf of “liberal" candidates
His principal speeches for admin-
istration aspirants probably will be
given in Kentucky and California,
where Senators Barkley and Me-
Adoo are reeking renominaton.
______________ ________ ... umable
falls, by frontal attack to smash through
of the Democratic Party Few peo-
ple in Texas realise the extent of
the Garner boom Quietly. he is
the most talked of man in the
United States."
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the
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Underwater Boom
Still Halts Fleet
Close .
KINSTON N C — Louis Cam-
eron and H C. Phillips, seek-
ing the Republican nomination
for coroner in the June 4 pri-
maries. got one vote each.
In the run-off the vote was:
Phillips 3, Cameron 3.
the past 28 years He came to Baird
62 years ago. -
MARKETS OF NATIONS CLOSE
FOR HOLIDAY
NEW YORK. July 4—(—An
important commodity and financial
markets to the United States were
closed today in observance of Inde-
pendence day. In Canada, Great
Britain and on the European con-
tmnent trading was conducted as
Q. E. D.
PASADENA. Calif.—C. E Lat-
ter. 68, was wernins children
of the dangers of fireworks.
About all. he said picking up
a dub. one never should handle
a firecracker that fails to ex-
plode. He was treated at em-
ergency hospital for burns on
both hands
the Hollywood postoffice, reading
-A-"Dear Daddy" letter from Mia
EAST TEXAS: Fair tonight and
Tuesday. Mederate winds on the
MUSSOLINI SATS WILL BUY NO
WHEAT
APRLLLA, Italy, July 4—(MH
Premier Benito Mussolini declared
today Italy would need to buy no
wheat desptte this years short
the Abilene Country Clubs invite"
tion golf meet.
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has been changed on nearly every
hole with the exception of one
and two greens. The golfers will be
following a course that to practical-
lv the reverse of the former route.
The small lake, below the larger
hill till the strike to settled."
Bennett said he was employed by
the Kentucky Jellico Coal Compa-
ny of which Bryan W Whitfield,
Jr., a defendant here, to president.
Told of Armed Force
Japanese Vanguard is
Within Few Miles
of Goal.
of the Na 3. and it is expected that
drilling will start on it in the next
few days Ed Forrester here Mon-
day morning said. "The well was
put on the pump Sunday night but
no guage of production has been
made as yet, but tt to a consider-
ably larger producer than the No.
1 well. so we all feel most encour-
| aged about enlarging the oil pro-
ducing area."
trying to navigate the Rio Grande
from Atomssa. Colo, to Albuquer-
gue, NM.fora vacalion, were
hurled into the seething waters yes-
terday when their home-made 11-
foot boat eapetoed in the Black
Canon of Northere New Mexico and
rivermen expressed fear today for
their lives.
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PORT CHESTER. N. T. July 4—
(P—The condition at Associate Jas
tice Benjamin N Cardoze of the
U. S Supreme Court convalemeing
from a eerteus heart el Im ent was
described as "fair and better" to-
day.
early arrivals got together for a pear
95-year-old Union veteran from Rict
Okla. and Gen. M. D. Vance. SS-ysar
celebration to the dedication of an
dent Roosevelt on July 3.
d
e-meu.
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enepeoreoagehe r/iu? '
on th- side of the road H* car
than angled acroes the hghiway.
Striking a car owned by H. R May-
nard of Lake Dallas and then hit
a car belonging to Melton Ashton
of Lewisville and finally overtumned
himselr All machines were knocked
into the dtches. Stanford received
lacerations on the face
Several collisions in which ears
False Report
Daughter Hurt
Fatal to Man
trolley.
Lightning kilted one person in
Idiarfa, and a 9-year-old boy tn
Mistmippi was fatally injured when
a driveries stunt car crashed
lasting pledge to "eternal peace in
■ a nation united."
mer at the University of Texas and
Sam Houston Teachers Collese.
Those enrolled are envouraged
to quality as Red Carnes lay insiruc-
store in Ural aldso-tmt they may
be certified to teach Red Cross
courses in their respective schools.
Etudents tn the class in scout-
craft and first aid. taught by W
m A
B.U Hatfield
Taking office unopposed. H. Q.
Hatfield, above, of"Oklahoma.
City is the new president of
Kiwants International. Hatfield,
who stepped up from the post of
treasurer of the service organi-
zation. was chosen by 7000 dele-
gates meeting in international
convention in Ban Francisca
a research laboratory tn some cot-
ton-producing state which will be
primarily engaged in finding new
and extended, uses for cotton and
its by-products.
The Bast Texas Chamber of Com-
metre has been active for a long
UP LONG ACCIDENT LIST, BUT
NU GRAVE INJURES REPORTED
Plainview Girl Hurt
Miss Ardeth Riek, daughter of 3
Mr and Mrs. George Riek of Plain-
view. received badly bruised legs j
and lacerations about the knees
Sunday at noon at the Plainview j
Church. She was injured when a
car which got out of control struck
her, pinning her legs against the ,
beck bumpers of another machine ।
on the church , grounds. 1
Feer-Way Crash.
A freak accident occurred about 3
two miles north ot Denton in which ,
four automobiles were involved, one :
over-turning No one eras badly in-
jured. Deputy Sheriff Roy Moore,
who with city Officer Jess Grit- •
ttth investigated the collision said
Bill Stanford of Denton, driving
toward Denton from Dallas, struck
J 3 j _____ (Niangniangmio after a transport.
ali E riding flood waters to the Yan
"N V <W Associated trees)
.. At least 383 persons-died violent
L deaths as the nation celebrated the
Frances Bleakiey in New Castle.
Penn.
"It is stm possible he was killed
by a jealous rival.' said Leutenant
Miles Ledbetter. We know he led
a double life with one woman and
might have done the same with
others." ..__ _____
Paraffine testa of the victims
hands proved conclusively that he
did not take his life, police report-
ed.
captured nearby Niangniangmio
Japanese troops were landed at
t 30.
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tmetannttempttosetsuchatwerebmdtyemmagedbutnoisurles
laboratory in Texas and it has co- | sustalned to those in the machines
operated with the State-Wide Cot- occurred over the week-end Har-
ing CnonmII-gusenErtaim PSef. onfnoy rpaFpcniomacunsou 10
stwsjsss
f it seems certain. and surely Texas
has a logical claim for it as this
। boom Saturday. The troops at
---------I Pengtseh had advanced up the riv-
162nd anniversary of its independ- er bgnk after the transport nego-
William Marlon Coffman. 84, who
died last night He was a teacher
. _______.________ m the early days here, and had ________
School faculty have been merged been m the lember buetness for day in the 36-hole final match of
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Denton County Ha* Escaped Fatalities Up to
Noon Monday; Local Minister Painfully
Hurt in Collision Sunday Morning.
eSiasmtt"a.
WARNER IS TO HEAD TEXAS
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
AUSTIN, July 4 IP—University
of Texas regents have announced
appointment of R W. Warner, head
of the electrical engineering de-
partment at tie University of Kan-
as, to a similar position at the
Texas institution, effective tn the
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CLEVELAND, July 4—OF—The
American Youth Congrem was ou
record todny as opposing the beta-
tag of the IMS Olympic games in
Japan. Delegates to the Congrem"
national eesusrsaci recommended
an internatlonal campaign to move
the games te "semi other country
with more peaceful intentiona."
business house
Police have also been enforc-
ing the ordinance which pro-
- hibits the erection ot stands on
sidewalks around the square,
unless the stands are located
within the doorways of build-
ings. City Marshal O C. Pass
said
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for the wage-hour law. select a
board and administrator for the
new system of civil aviation regu-
lation. and give subordinates final
advice on the big spendie-lend-
ing program.
Dimeu Moscow Envoy
He was expected to discuss with
state department officials today the
Dallas, played
zaan FOR AMERICA, PRESIDENT SAYS [
2 as the three-daY hotqm-“weeren Entebe orme woo- p
■ drew to a dose. ’ anese who landed at Nlangnsangmio
& Reports from 46 states and the were killed and that the remainder
the bronze urn atop the memorial.
Must Take Up Challenge
Many of the 2.000 veterans who
came here for this reunion saw
» the unveiling from seats beneath
was held on an open charge after
Detective Captain Ernes Yons
quoted him ae admitting he killed
the woman, his second wife, as the
climax to a family quarrel Friday
Yoris said Butte told how he
struck his wife with a heavy, wood-
en pole when they quarreled on the
eve of a projected second honey-
moon which was to have followed
the patching up of a recent ea-
"as fundamenital as Lincoln's," is
being fought "not with glint of steel,
but with appeals to reason and Jus-
tice on a thousand fronts," the
Pre jidm t said - , ____-___—
Governor Earle, in introducing
Mr Roosevelt and turning over to
him tiie deed for the land on which
the monument stands, invoked the
memories of Gettysburg as a chai*
lenge for peace today.
Traditional square-dancing, a va-
riety program and a political ad-
dress ar booked for the court
square downtown tonight at Denton
and Denton County citizens observe
Independence Day.
From 13 to 13 entertainers are
expected to take part in the variety
program, scheduled for 7:45 o’clock.
Featured will be singing, dancing,
tumbling and fencing.
Square-dancing will begin at •
o'clock Both these programs are
sponsored by the Chamber of Com-
meroe " “ ■ “71
At 7 olelock, preceding the vari-
ety show. • Gossett, candidate for
Congress, will speak. Whether or
not other political aspirants would
take advantage of the day and
night holiday crowds to make talks
here was not known at the court
house Monday morning
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Whitfield testified last week he for our common country opportunity
led an armed expedition to prevent " mm* security for cutizens tn a free
union organisers fro m entering society-" "
Knox County, sevteniny as has rea- The memorial was unveiled by
sons a wish to protect the Uves of A- O. Harris, 91, of McDonough,
his employes . Qa. and George N. Lockwood. 91,
Bennett said he received it in I of Los Angeles
the latter part of September, 1935. i Seventy-five years ago they
- - - . . _ fought during Sherman's march to
the sea. Harris with Humphrey's
; daughter had. been involved in
a accident, William Martin .
J Forman. 75. Jumped into his
automobile apd started for the
scene 1. ' ■ - _■
Before reaching it he collaps-
ed over the steering wheel and
died of a heart attack. His
daughter, It was learned later,
was uninjured.
YOUNG MEETS CROWNOVER
attack on Hukow.
Claim Ferro Isetated
Chinese advtoes said the Jap-
anese had captured Pengtseh. on
the south bank of the river above
Matowchen, but that a counter-
attack had cut communications,
isolating the Japanese force in
Pengtseh. '
Hrller chinee reporta said the
lake. Is filling with water and the
perch anglers hope yet to hare their
sport there The first dam to form
the small lake went out i oneorfedan
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The slaying, victim of which was transcontinental speaking tour.
Mrs. Emily zigler Butte. 58. well
• Cursed be he that setteth light
......dy hls father or his mother. And
■H the people shall say, Amen.—
Deuteronomy 37-16.
Unblessed to the son who does
not honor his parents, but if rever-
ent and obedient to them, he will
receive the same from his own
children.— Euripides.
------ The John Garner move for Presi-
dential nomination in IMO at the
Democratic Convention seems to
9have taken hold. There are many,
not only in Texas, but over the
Nation that think him the man to
put at the head of the ticket. "Old
Tack", in the Amarillo News, says,
"Just a little lop-down. The move-
ment to nominate Jack Garner for
the presidency at the Democratic
National Convention has spread all
over the United States and to very
deep-seated Mr. Garner to the
choice of most of the conservatives
State to the grentest producer of
cotton. It is understood that Okla-
homa has already endorsed Texas'
claim as has the California-Artooma
Cotton Association.
Dwindling markets necessitate
new avenues of cotton consumption
and new uses will surely be found
in a laboratory such ss to proposed
J. S Oambuu. who to in a hos-
A mist of memory hangs over Gettysburg, Pa. where 75 yean ago the smoke of battle choked the meadow- Attraction
- - _ _ - - - — . .. - - - . OKLAHOMA OTTY—Mrs. C.
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ness cases Saturday night, po-
lice sprat s qurtt week-end. they
said, but were preparing to
take csrt of any over-enthu-
siaatic celebratora tonight. >
They warned Denton itizens
today, too, that they will en-
force the city's ordinance
against fireworks, a number of
complaints aving been received
at headquarters The ordi-
nance prohibits the shootitng
of fireworks on or across the
public square, on any street or
Most paifully injured in the
week-end accidents was Rev. N. B
Baker. 1403 Maple Street, who
suktosest tun.bgkrw vth internal
chest injuries, bruises about the
body and shock when his car col-
lided with another automobile as
the drivers of the two machines
turned into s South Locust filling
station about 9:30 a. m. Sunday. He
was taken to the Medical and Sur-
gical Clinic, where he was reported
resting well Monday. ___
R C Burch of Denton received I
a gash in his left arm, requiring 13
stitches to close when he acci-
dentally rin into a barbed wire
fence here about 5 o'clock Mon- l
day morning. Burch was riding I
a bicycle on his way to work at the
Parks Dairy Co. at the time of
the accident He was taken to the
Medical and Surgical Clinic for
treatment and returned home.
Little Disturbance
As City Celebrate* ;
Denton prepared over the i
ing beyond recall." _____ , .
But this present-day conflict trangement.
c
T. C. Enrolment Is
Red Cross Record
scription of the youth. He remem- : _ _
bered only that he was wearing a' ____
light shirt, carried a bundle under GETTYSBURG. Pa.. July 4m
his arm and appeared to be about' —A flickering flame, crownung a
33 hr 23 years of age The deputy monument dedicated by President
sheriffs searched until after 1 a. m Roosevelt, burned today on the hal-
but found no trace of the boy. ' lowed hills of Gettysburg—an ever-
Fifty-four teachers, the largest
group in the United States ever to
enroll in a Red Cross lay instruc-
tor’s course in first aid, are reg-
istered for the coure being given
at Teachers College June Xi-July 1A
according to Dr R M. Muirhead.
Rod Cross tst aid representa-
tive.
Training of this kind has been
offered but a short time by the
Red Cross, and the work to being
given for the first thme in a Texas
college or untversity at the local
isttution. Dr Muirhead stal-
ed He will give the course this sum-
eF
E{o
ESTES PARK, Coto. July 4- 1
Forest rangers directed nearly ,
150 searchers today in a hunt for .
four and a half year old Albert Beil- ,
harts, lost on a family week-end
outing in the rough Fall River area :
in Rocky Mountain National Park.
His parents, Mr and Mrs. William
Harvey Bethartz, said they feared
the boy fell into the rapid river and
was swept downstream.
holidays last year claimed 583 Uvea
Fireworks Injure Many
Fireworks caused numerous in-
juriea, but no deaths were zeport-
ed early.
Pennsylvania led the nation with
Life Threatened I of America's foremost battle shrmes
: 40-toot memorial, topped by
If Broke Strike: "egeepranugmapnnoui
: rotted yealerdayoz a veteran of et
" ' ’* ; blue ahd b veteran of the gray More
shenBonaSnssesmns a mma mes
H arlansibontriahtoda hereceived week-long’celebration of the 75th
a noir containing a threat ne •___. _ .. L1.
would be shot it, he returned to annivprsar.o qthesbat u>c theme
work anrino a strike Ihe President turned for the themne
m, 4", f ir ,, E, I of his address to Abraham Un-
com. the Civi War President, who
tiffed the note was signed The Bell t mA Ub*L dmw aba
County "commi"te-and“ stated ih ^ht and perished on this ground
writers would “shoot the bell out Thave consecragdi far.aboye
ot him" if he did not “stay off the poor power to add or detract.
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। spreading, fertile, panorama of otoe Aside- from Tour tirunken——
Confederate Cavalary. Lockwood
rememrain
After a handshake they stepped tomney.agne xe —.1
f The toU, while exceeding that of ad to a wide flanking movememt.
the T2-hour Memorial Day week- They hope by the flank attacks
end when 350 were killed, was still to force the government miuuamen
Denton golfers are eagerly await-
ing the opening of the new grass
greens on the Denton Country Club
course, and from reports the grass
to coming along nicely It to bellev-
Southeastern Kentucky fields of the aside and the setting sun's rays,
benefits of the Wegner Acts guar- burning down on an electricar ap-
paratus, ignited the gas flame in
SHANGHAI, July 4—(AP>
—The Japanese vanguard to-
day fought its way to with+
in seven miles of Hukow, E
Yangtze River town 150 mile*
below Hankow and gateway
to Lake Poyang, second,
largest lake in China.
Hunkow, 35 miles up the river
from Matowchen where an esti- '.
mated 100 Japanese warships were
being held up by a submerged boom,
to the next major objective of the
Japanese.
13m Chinees were reported to
have thrown a boom acron the 7
river a Hukow to hold the Jap- ~.....
anese -Back from the lake and to
have strengthened another barrier
already formed at Kluktang, 15
miles above Hukow.
A counter-attack, the Chinese ,
said, was holding off an immediate ,
presumably- will
minute eenfer-
to withdraw from their strong po-
sttons at the western end of the
50-mile Eastern Spanish front, po-
sitions which planes and tanks were
unable to creek.
me insurgent high command an-.
nounced today that the taetics
brought a 7 1/3 mile advance in
7 J
A-
T, C. Dormitories
Funds Acceptt^d
The Board of Regents of the
Texas Teachers College, meeting
Sunday in Fort Worth, accepted s
PWA loan and grant providing for
the erection of a men's ormitory
and a wamens dormitory at Tench-
ers College, according to news
stories tn Fort Worth papers to-
day.
Funds for the two buddinga had
already been allocated by PWA.
The men's dormitory will cost $257,-
737, and the women's hall will cost
*315.000. The board also
PWA allocations for new______-
fa three other tenchers colleges
in tits state.
. . •
The Nook Cafe and the Denton-
Oreenvie bus Une have ..moved
from the J. B Farris Bldg. South
Locust Street, to the Ray Lakey
Tourist Court. North Locust Street
It to understood that the offices at
the REA will occupy the Farris
building.
Ed Gossett, candidate for Con-
grees. will speak here tonight at 1
. o'clock on the Court House lawn,
t ----
Omicials at the railroad station
admit that business with them,
both passenger and freight has been
on the upward trend for some time.
Passenger ticket sales for the
Fourth of July holidays show a
considerable increase over the last
year's, the ticket agenta state.
Henry Cunningham has turned
weather-prophet and he says that
he has figured out by signs of his
own that it will rain between now
and July «. Parmers say that a good
| rain would not be amiss right
now on all the row crops, and
there's no doubt but that both corn
and cotton, as well as garden-sass
would be benefitted by some mois-
ture. Com looks as fine right now
as could be hoped for and with an-
other rain com-growers feel certain
of a crop.
V
known in San Francisco and' I-
dianapolls social circles, ended
tragically a romance which once
resulted in a $100,000 alienation of
affections suit.
Charles Felix Butte. 5*. once
wealthy engineer and contractor.
President Roosevelt arranged today throuuh afenceatafatn.
a busy four-day schedule of “home m . M
work' before setting out on his F OOtpHDt uue
Thazchhedurrarutiys-mhatsturaz in Mystery Death
dresses in the East, hoped to clear : J •
his desk of governmental matters HOLLYwoOD July 4 ——UDs-
and thenconcentrateon.whatt covey oL another mans prit
say and do to help elect New Deal in the car that carried King D
auMe^tets _ Gray to his death cotused today
Among other things. Mr.R002e- the pollce theory that the movie
veil must appoint an admintetrator cameraman was slain by a Jealous
woman.
The imprint on the rubber floor-
mat was clear and was made about
5c -v "
m ' 1 :
Rebeks Try Flank Attack
HENDAYE, France, lat the Span -
toh Frontier. July 4 —(2—General-
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
S___
LONDON, July 4—0—An offer
by General Francisco Franco, the
leader of Insurgent Spain, to make
Almera. government-held Mediter-
ranean port, an "immune port" for
British ships trading with govern-
ment Spain was announced in the
House of Commons today.
Sir John Simon, Chanceilor of
the Exchequer, made the announce-
ment and said the offer waa being
discussed by Viscount Halifax. For-
eign Secretary and Sir Robert M
HodgsotL who returned Friday from
Burgos, where be has been British
commercial agent.
Sir John spoke as deputy for
Prime Minister Chamberlain, who
was receiving an honorary degree
from Leeds University
"When the annual automobile
show opens this Fall, the spotlight
will be on Buick, as the forward
strides in sales during the past
year have resulted in the award to
Buick of choice of third position in
the allotment at space at the 1939
National Automobile Show in Grand
Central Palace in New York," said
Ben Ivey of the Headlee-Ivey Buick
Motor Co "Choice of space is
granted by the Automobile Manu-
facturers’ Association, which spon-
• son the Show, on the basis of dol-
lar volume of sates by members of
the association during the twelve
months ended May 1, and the Buick
having achieved the third greatest
dollar volume wins the right to
one of the choicest display spaces."
A hitch-hiking youth about 33
years old held up and robbed Har-
ry Neal of Fort Worth Sunday
night about two miles south of
Denton on the Fort Worth High-
way. Neal told officers Deputy
Sheriffs Roy Moore and A. , Den-
toon. After taking *13 from him.
the boy fired a shot and fled into
the woods bordering the highway,
the driver said The shot, which
missed Neal, passed through the
too of the truck cab.
"Red had picked the youth up in
Oklahoma City, and was taking
him on to Fort Worth. The hitch-
hiker told him he was on his way
! '
i
PIONEER EAIRD TEACHER DIES
AT HOME
BAIRD. July 4 -U- Funeral
services will be held tomorrow for
-- By Associated Press ——
ST. LOUIS — Notified his
M. Beachy 73, of Wichita. Kas,
is spending the Pourth in Ok-
lahoma City a "haven of quiet"
—she hopes
Hearing of an ordinance
which forbids possession or ex-
plosion of fireworks here she
decided to gel away from “a
sinking feeling in the stomach"
which the noisy Wichita cele-
bration gives her.
a breeze-rippled canopy.
Mr Roosevelt heartened back to
Lincoln as he spoke of the great
emancipators understanding "that
when a chanenge to constituted
government is thrown down, the
people in selr-defense must take
it up; that the fight must be
fought through to a decisdon so
clear that it is accepted as be-
altar today by Rafael MiehalsL
a sheomaker, who cried oat "Lefs
beat the Jew." Partohm, among
whom were many ehristianine
Jews, overwhelmea and beat the
amllant Re waa taken te a hospital
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