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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy, unsettled today
arid Saturday
THE DENISO
A FAST GROWING
PAPER
35c Per Month
MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 1938
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 5—NO. 51
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FOREIGNERS TOLD
TO LEAVE HANKOW
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2 (UP) —
The Japanese army today warned
all Americans and other foreigners ,
in areas along the Western Lung- j
Hai and Southern I'eiping-Hankow'
railways to flee immediately in
advance of an impending intensi-
fication of Japan's dx'ive on Chinas
p rovisional capita!, Hankow.
The warning was taken to mean
destruction of towns and cities in
these railway areas, still controll-
ed by China, will he undertaken at
once by fleets of Japanese bomb-
ing planes which have killed
thousands af Chinese soldiers in
the Hankow area during the past
forty-eight hours.
Japanese military dispatches
said unprecedented bombing oper-
ations were envisaged to hasten
the retreat of Chinese General-
issimo Chian? Kai-Shek and his
forces from the Wu-Han (Wu-
chang, Hankow and Hanyan) trl-
city area.
Will (Protect Fleers
Japanese scout planes flew ov-
er the Lung-Hai and Peiping-
Ilankow railwav areas showering
leaflets in English and Chinee |
urging nationals of third powers
and Chinese non-combatants to I
seek designated safety zones at
once. The leaflets explained Ja-!
pan's armed forces would make !
every effort to protect foreign
lives and nronertv. but could not
guarantee that safety would pre-
vail in a zone if impending major!
hosti'ities. Japan assumes no re-|
sponsibilitv for the safety of for-1
eigners who fail to leave war'
areps, the leaflets said.
Hundreds of Japanese planes
bombed and machine-gunned more
than 500,000 Japanese soldiers in
the battle zones east and south-
east of lHankow with tremendous
loss of life and destroyed areas in
more South China cities as part
of a plan to prevent South China
from sending additional assistance
to Hankow, (traditional military
heart of China.
Reinforcements Needed
Usually well-informed Japanese
said the general staff in Tokyo
had ordered the occupation of
Hankow to be completed by the
end of September but that com-
manders on the spot had replied
this could be accomplished only
with heavy casualties. The com-
manders urged that their plan of
blasting Chinese defenses by aer-
ial bombing and long-range artii-
lery be maintained and promised
occupation of Wu-Han area dur-
ing October with only small cas-
ualties to Japanescs troops
The commanders warned the gen-
eral staff that reinforcements
must be sent to garrisons in
Shanghai, Nanking, and other cit-
ies in the Japanese occupied areas
because of increasing attacks by
Chinese guerrillas.
Famous Jurist
KIDNAPERS HOLD CAL1F0RNIAN FOR RANSOM
Davis To
Appear For
Last Time
Shabbily Dressed
Men Tie Husband
And Take Spouse
Everyday
DENISON
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
o e
Went dove hunting on the first
day Thursday, and for the first
time in years on the opening day
the birds were wild as Africa,
flying a mile high and swift as
the wind . . . Jack Ussery, son
JUDGE—Justice Ferdinand Pe-
cora steps from his car to enter
the New York courtroom where
Tammany district leader James
J Hines is on trial for conspir-
acy in Harlem's policy racket.
Pecora once sought the Demo-
cratic nomination for District
Attorney in New York, but
Tammnnyite William C. Dodge,
a friend of Hines. was chosen.
Katy Employe
Shoots Self
After Attack
Defense Attorney Makes Da-
vis Admit Frauds, Perjury
Adultery in Court; Says
He Watched A Murder
Accusations
Are Unshaken
Davis Came Into Court As a
Witness, and Not A Law-
yer, Tells Judge Pecora
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UP)—J.
iRichard (Dixie) Davis, wily law- |0f Commissioner C. J. Ussery, do-
yer for the Dutch Schultz lot- jnated two for our breakfast to-
jtery racke', makes his last appear- |day ... it must have been the
j anee today under cross-exam n- shells we were using, always good
ation at Tammany leader James jfor an alibi . . . Boy, there's a
.J, Hines' conspiracy tr'al. !million of 'em, but you can't hit
! Defense attorney Lloyd P. Stry- j 'em if you can't see 'em . . . Ask
ker had forced him to admit hab- Steve Bruno how he does his dove
itual perjury, adultery with his hunting, It's novel . . . L. S. Har-
show girl sweetheart, Hope Dare, ris tells us he is doing swell in his
judicial tampering and election new garage business . . . Hope to
frauds. He even had to admit drop over to Munson field this
that he watched a gang murder afternoon and take a squint with
and the District Attorney of Troy all four eyes at the Jackets work-
jN. Y. was in court listening for jnjr out. May get a line on what
! evidence with which to charge him they wiil do in the district race
| with murder. j this season . . . Fans all tell us
I But his accusations against Hin-j they look to Denison to win the
es were unshaken. Stryker had district this year after Gainesville
' not even questioned him about the ]ost jts Swede McMurray, un-
numerous times he said he paid (]0ubted!y the best mentor in N.
Hines money to provide legal pro- Texas . . . paris anti Bonham
tection to the Schultz mob; the gridders mav look better this year
Magistrates Court that he said than last They cou]c]n't be worse
Hines had influenced, or the el- that's certain.
ection of District Attorney Wil- j
liam C. Dodge in 1933, which he | Pub,ic demand brought back
said Hines maneuvered by using «Man.s Castle," showing curren'ly
gangsters as bahot manipulators. ;n Denison starring L'retta Young
The shifty "kid mouthpiece | and Spencel. Tracy. The film waR
was a bantering witness. He had made several years ago, but was
quick and perfect legal retorts for of the m0Ft popu!ar thc pair
Stryker; he had to be rebuked sev-|cver tU],ned out . . . Lcw Avrcs
eral times by both thc defense 'e wag a drummer for the Hen-
lawyer and Judge Ferdinand Pec- rv Halstead orchestra. He made
or for blurting information, at. comeback in -Holiday'
Seek Relief
For Tourists
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 2
fJl')—Authorities today sought
to obtain relief for 1,000 tourists
fi om the United States whom Hal.
C. Worth, Dallas showman, re-
ported last night were endangered
by food scarcity in the vicinty of
Valles, Mexico,
"There are a thousand of u.<
sleeping in our cars and in thc
streets," Worth said last night
when he appealed to radio sta-
tion WOAI here for aid, in a long
distance telephone conversation.
"Food is running low. We've
stood about all we can nnd we
want to get out," Worth said.
Mexican officials earlier hail
said that about 300 United States
tourists, including 'many school
teachers, were stranded around
Valles by washouts of bridges on
the Pan American highway.
The Mexican Automobile asso-
ciation issued an advisory to the
stranded travelers to return to
Mexico city in their automobiles
nnd board trains for Monterrey.
It said that automobiles could be
freighted to Monterrey, whence
highway travel could be resumed.
Floods of streams In northern
and northeastern Mexico were
precipitated by cloudbursts which
accompanied a tropical hurricane
that moved inland from the Gulf
of Mexico Sunday.
Conductor Dies Almost In-
stantly After he Fires A
Bullet into Left Breast
W. P. Hulon, Katy conductor,
605 W. Owings street, fatally shot
himself shortly after 9 p. m.
Thursday at his home after suf-
fering a bad heart attack, accord-
ing to city police records.
Judge E. A. Wright, following
an inquest, said death was due to
a gunshot wound, self inflicted.
Hulen, in bad health for the
past five years, suffered a heart
attack late Thursday, his wife
said. As she was calling a local
physician to attend her husband,
Mr. Hulen walked into another
room.
Mrs. Hulen said she heard a
pistol shot and hurried into the
room where her husband was, only
to find him still standing with the
pistol in his hand. She took the
pistol away from him, police rec-
ords show nnd he laid down or
thc bed. lie was dead when his
physician arrived.
Police said Hulen shot himself
in the left breast, orer the heart,
| thc bullet emerging from his bacl:
near thc arm.
Mr. Hulen and his wife had just
returned from a two weeks stay
in Colorado where Mr. Hulen had
hoped to partially regain his
health.
Mr. Hulen was one of the Katys
most popular conductors.
The funral will be conducted
by Rev. Harry B. McRae of Dal-
las and wiil likely be held at 4
p| m. Sunday at Short-Murray
chapel. Burial will be at Fair-
view cemetery, Short-Murray dir-
ecting. The remains will lie in
;state at the home Saturday morn-
ing until service time Sunday.
Mr, Hulen was horn in Halls-)
ville, Mo., where he was reared
nnd educated. He began his
railway career out of Moberly,
Mo., as brakemnn for the Wabash
railroad from Mo' erly to St Louis
He came to D nison in 1894 and
with
and Cary
Grant. . . . William Frawley helps
out Bob Burns no end Thursday
nights. Burns was referred to as
j times damaging to Hines, not re- Katharine Hepburn
quired by the questions.
Admits Perjury
When the judge asked him if he
had forgotten his legal training he «Mr. Allen" bv Madeleine Carrol],
| said he was "here as a witness said she thought he was the
'not a lawyer." He admitted he dumb one . . . Exhibitors report
perjured himself before the 1935 than "Snow-White," "Alexander's
grand jury that investigated the Rafr Time Band" and "Test Pilot'
j rackets at his disbarment proceed- j are three greatest moneymaker?
ings, at courts where he represent- 0f 1938. No other films even ap-
ed gangsters and before ths tax proach their levels . . . The middle
commission. Stryker asked him film is due to hit Denison the
'when he had first perjured him- first of next week.
•self. j
I "The year I met Jimmy Hines," j When Hitler refused the offers
he replied. j of Czechoslovakia, he should have
! Once District Attorney Thomas Czeehed and Czeched what the
E. Dewey jumped up, objecting possible outcome might be . . .
[ to a question but Davis already j When a man gets too much pow-
| srapped an answer. The judge er> he goes sort of crazy . . . Those
j remarked: "The witness has over- jwar babies now are growing up so
ruled your objection." When the | they can be cannon fodder in an-
judge told Davis he had warned i other conflict . . . Which still re-
him "the last time" to desist from cars Henry Fonda in "Blockade
MARYSVILLE, Cal., Sept. 2
(UP)—Two shabbily dressed ban-
dits, both young, wearing white
masks today kidnaped Mrs. W. K.
Meek, 55, wife of a priminent
Sutter county peach grower, and
held her for $15,000 ransom.
The gunmen entered the Meek
home while Mrs. Meek and
National
Defense
Raised
Sirens Blare
In Berlin As
Hitler Figures
President Confers With Cor-j
dell Hull, Then Begins A| WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 2
Move to Strengthen De-j(UP)—Leaders of the German
fenses of Both Land, Air . minority in Poland have taken the
I first step toward massing all Ger-
Commitiee
Makes Plan
BERLIN, Sept. 2 (UP)—Air
raid alarm sirens roared dramatic-
ally in Berlin today while Fuehrer
Ado'.f Hitler, surrounded by his
most trusted aides, worked out his
strategy in the Czecholovak min-
ority crisis in his mountain re-
treat in Bavaria.
Followng up a scries of air de-
fense drills last night, authorities
imans in the country—estimated at
•800,000—in one organization, it
was understood today.
It was learned that Erwin Hass-
i bach, a German member of the
her husband were listening to a Two Moves Are Announced Polish senate, explained to Gen.
radio. They were ordered to Simultaneously by Govern- Felicjan Slawoj-Sladkow:-ki, the drilled the air protection corps
lie down on the floor. While ment; No Tieup With GB nremier. yesterday a proposal toitodav. The sirens sounded and
"union members of anti-air craft crews
and the eivi ian defense corps
dashed to stations. One station
for anti-aircraft guns was on a
premier,
one held a gun on them, the other ! concentrate Germans in a
bound them with rope and pieces WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UP; 0f Germans in Tolan:!."
of clothing and plastered -their —President Roosevelt put into ae- j Gen. Slawoj-Sladkowski was re-
niouths shut with adhesive tape, tion today two plans for strength- ported to have sa'd that the govi-1
One bandit stood guard while ening national defense on lan.i eminent would not object, provid-
the other ransacked the house top and sea. ied the Germans remained loyal to |Sy.
to bottom. After the one had The moves were made a few the Polish state. At
housetop near the French cmbas-
made a
completed his search of the home, hours after the president had con- ] it was uncertain
approximately a half mile from ferred with Secretary of State German minority
the nearest neighbor, Mrs. Meek-s Cordell Hull over the latest dev- was formed, it would include all
feet were untied. elopments in the European crisis Germans. Certain elements of
Hollt On To Her ^rm —a conference such as has be- the German minority are undeT
The kidnapers grabbed her by Cpme a daily and sometimes twice- • Roman Catholic or Evange'ica'
the arm and started out of the daily matter on the president's church influence and hr.ve oppose1
house, calling to Meek as they and Hull's schedule. ! those elements friendly to Nazism.
left: The navy depar'ment announ- j
"You'll get your wife back ced that it is forming immediately j BERLIN, Sept. 2 (UP)—Ger-
when we get $15,000. a "temporary" squadron of the U. 'many has assured Great Britain
Meek rolled around on the floor S. fleet for duty on the Atlantic that she will not undertake any
for what he estimated was half ccast. The new squardon will over-hasty steps in settlement of
an hour before he was able to free consist of seven of the navy's now- the Czechoslovak minority prob-
himself. He yanked the adhesive est cruisers and seven destroyers, 'lem, it was said authoritatively to-
tape from his mouth and immedia- Simultaneously Mr. Roosevelt day.
tely called the sheriffs office. asked a special committee headed j •
His wife and her abductors had by assistant secretary of war ! Qprn«J
driven off in his 1938 Chevrolet Louis J. Johnson, to devise a plan j v*"t UCCUIJU
sedan. The automobile was lo- within 60 days for industrial mob- I PhiliiD Nolail*
cated abandoned a few hours lat- ilization of eleotrict power to link ! "
er on a Marysville side street. 15 of the strategic manufacturing j She Worries
Meek was so excited when the cities, which are considered key
officers arrived it took then some points in war industries. John-! ,
time to learn details of what had son said that the purpose of the! ".ro°klynIs Part of Amer-
happened. Meek did not know p]an was to "Make America so] 'ca ' k-now It, Screen
" ' Star Says During
whether the kidnapers had taken strong that no foreign nation will
valuables from his home.
Open Offices
For Road Work
bother us." i„
The two moves were annonnc-; (~opy,"'gh.t'. 1938> Uni,ed Pre5S>
ed separately, and no mention was' HOLLYWOOD, S^pt. 2 (UP)
made in either announcement of S'P1''1' Gurie, who producer Sam
the European crisis. The timing
of the announcements and their
Goldwyn hailed
Garbo until he
To DfSlT! Sit*51 nature left little doubt, however, ^10m Brooklyn,
™ wil?? it— -1 1— •—ji—that she is almost a
with the situation in
that they at least were indirectly
* _ connected
Oklahoma Highway Engin- Europe.
eers To Start Construction - ....
On Durant-Dam Highway Atlantic Squadron
his villa, Haus Wachenfeld,
whether, if a juear Brechtesgaden, Hitler was
organization understood to be considering the
aclvi ability of a counter-offer by
the Sudeten German minority par-
ty of Czechoslovakia td new pro-
posal- made by the Czechoslovak
government. In addition, Hitler
was mapping his plans for next
week, when he is to tell his Nazi
party at its annual congress at
Nuremberg—and thus tell the
world—what he proposes toward
Czechoslovakia.
Henlein in Spotlight
Konrad Henlein talked with Hit-
ler for 15 minutes yesterday.The
United Press was informed auth-
orit tively that this was purely a
courtesy visit. There was no
discussion of the Czechoslovakia!!
problem, it was said.
An official spokesman of the
Sudeten party said at Prague that
Henlein made his sudden visit to
Berchtesgaden with the approval
,of Viscount Runciman, British ad-
IVIixup vjser jn the minorities dispute.
It was expected that Henlein may
confer with Runciman Saturday.
The newspapers here continued
to emphasize the "p light" of thc
Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovak.
The Zwoelfuhrblatt described the
"heart rending" scenes at Troppau
where it was alleged that mothers
demonstrated against the Czechs
' ecause 2,000 school children were
as a Norweigan
learned she was
discovered today
emale Philip
The formation of the Atlantic
extraneous remarks, Davis tried to
reply.
"Don't argue with the court just
obey," the judge commanded.
TWO FIREMEN DIE
IN FORT WORTH BL,\ZE
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 2
(UP)—Fire flashed from the vul-
canizing plate in a downtown gar-
age Thursday afternoon to engulf
three buildings and kill two fire-
men who fought to subdue thelCOme of the railway brotherhoods'
flames. Two other firefighters,vote. It's hard to determine the
banned in many foreign nations,
when he turned his face squarely
into the camera at the end of thp
picture and pleads with the world
to cease fighting. "Where and
when will it all end?" he cried . .
. Dallas promoters claim the ticket
buyers are flooding in for that all-
star-pro dream football game there
next Monday night in the cotton
bowl . . . 46,000 persons can be
seated in the bowl . . . Railroads
claim they will slash employees'
salaries regardless of the out
and two bystanders were injured.
The dead are Capt. Oscar Mc-
Cain, 64, and J. E. Westmoreland,
47.
TEMPERATURE LOWER
HERE ON THURSDAY
(Continued on Pngr 4)
Temperature in Denison Thurs-
day went only to the 95 degree
mark for the first time in more
than a week, falling to a mini-
mum of 76 degrees this morning.
! A slight rise to 85 degrees was
noted before noon.
Weather forecasts showed un-
settled and partly cloudy weather
I today and tomorrow for Denison
' and vicinity.
stand taken by local railway em-
ployees, they would rather not
talk about it much.
J. W. Madden Co. will present
its fall style show at the Rialto
theatre tonight . . . Local girls
will probably act as mannequins
as they have in years past , . .
Rev. Don L. Harwell's father, who
left recently for Jii shme in Kyle,
Texas, is an officer in the largest
Confederate soldier post in thc
nation, although he was born af
ter the Civil War. Mr. Harwell
was recently given n commission
in the Trans-Mississippi post which
She asked for a passport to
England, only to find that the j, admission to a German
government figures she probably . schooL ]t was said that the moth-
,„oo _ . ,. 11 a woma", without a country. 1 demonstrated at the town hall
DURANT, Sept. 2 (Special)—squadron was considered specially Her researches 111*0 federal red aluj on being dispersed by gen-
G. R. Stout, head of a party of S1ffni^icant« This marks the first.tape indicated further, she said,! " "
six highway engineer, opened of- 'arKe-scale result, in terms of,that the United States must bcl-
fices in Durant Thursday prepara- sea Powcr> of the huge naval con- ieve Brooklyn, X. Y.. her birth-
tory to starting surveys for the ^ruction program begun J>y the place, is a foreign nation.
proposed road from Durant or
darmes, "had to trudge a long way
back home."
Roosevelt administration. Hereto-1 Miss Gurie applied to the immi-
near the city to the Red River f°r®> new warships have taken gration bureau for her passport
dam site, southwest of here. their places, singly, with the U. S £0 she could leave next month to
More than one, probably three ^'ee' as were commissioned appear in a British movie being
surveys will be made, Stout said, pr,(' after completing their trial produced by Alexander Korda. The
so that the most logical and most runs- Their additional strength; bureau refused even to accept an
beneficial as well as the most eco- tlle 1"'rpt was scarcely noticed'application and said the would State's Attornev Claims For
nomical one can be selected. 'n terms of world naval force, jhave to send it direct to Wash
One Route Selected ' Establishment of this squad-on, ington for an official ruling.
The first survey to be made is scheduled officially to come into! Under 1871 Law
to start on U. S. highway 69 near being Sept. 6, the day after Ger-j Because ot' a com, l c.,ted im-
the tourist park, two miles south man Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's Nur- migration treaty signed in 1S71
of Calera and will be approximate- emburg speech, is be ieved to be a between the United States and
ly an airline to the damsite, Stout direct outgrowth of Mr. Roose- Norway, affecting children of i™
said. ?.clt's recent declaration that the migrants born in this country and
The engineers have established United States "would not stand ' later returned to their nutiv ^lan I
offices on the second floor of the idly by" If Canada were attacked , the experts refu t<t to certify her
Harle-Stevens building at Second by a foreign power. ja.; an American Thev <ai i tw
and Main street. • American military and naval ex- .didn't know what she was
The work was to start Friday perts said that such service in no j xh.at threw r„ L>1
morning. ^ise constitutes a "tie-up" wilfi lcm_Bd BrooiSs-in the lat
Stout did not designate where Great Britain in its foreign pol- Secretary of Lai o • Frai
the other proposed routes would ity, or in the present crisis, but , erkins and Secreiar of State
run, but all of them will lead from represents a basic necessity i" | Cordell Hull Gurie sent
Offshoot Of
Capone Gang
Rules Gaming
mer Gang Members Mus-
cle Into Gambling Racket
tlie Highway 69, which is already National defense. They said the j,er ag.ent ^rj. .
paved. It was believed one of the conclusion was reached long ago Washington to seV whether*5 he
proposed routes would start at a that domination of the sea for at
point halfway between the tourist - 1
park and Colbert. (Continued on Page 4)
JEWISH STUDENTS
BANNED IN ITALY
he
couldn't get a decision from them
before Korda is forced to seek a
new leading lady.
"It is untrue about Brooklyn
not being American," Miss Gurie
said, a trace of a tear in her blue
eyes. "Brooklyn is a part of the
fcountry, I'm certain of it."
CHICAGO, III., Sept. 2 (UP)—
State's Attorney Thomas J.
Courtney said today that a syn-
riireet offshoot of old A1 (Scar-
direct ofshoot of the old al (Scar-
face) Capone gang, had muscled
in on Chicago gambling and was
in control of the multimillion dol-
lar racket.
The 43-year-old. square-jawed
prosecutor said the Billy Skld-
omers, the Big Bill Johnsons and
other legendary names in the
gambling world had all but been
erased and today even the small
handbooks were the prey of the
syndicate.
Katy Employes VUit
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Moad left
yetserday for a two week's vaca-
tion to Colorado. E. L. Rheay
that till j will replace Mr. Moad in the cal-
(Contlnued on Page 4)
ROME, Sept, 2 (UP)— The | The cabinct decreed
Facist government banned Jewish Jewish members must resign from j office of the Katy.
students and teachers from all
Italian schools today as the first
step in a campaign to eliminate
all Jews from Italian cultural life.
Italian academies, institutes, scien-1 «.
.... ... _ . .. .. i Mrs. John W. Scully and son
tific, literary and artistic assoca- John> were viFi.inf? |n DaI1„
tions, effective Oct. 1$. .with relatives this weekend.
CITY ENGINEER
RETURNS THURSDAY
City Engineer A. M. Brenncke
returned to Denison Thursday af-
ier an extended vacation in parts
of a number of northern states.
Mr. Brenneke, his wife and chil-
dren, drove to the Gulf, from
where they took a boat to New
York City.
NOTICE
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