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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and cooler today
and Thursday
THE DENISON PRE
A FAST GROWING
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MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON. TEXAS WEJD. OCT. 12th, 1938
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 5—NO. 85
elations Are Imperiled
Fierce Fighting Again Flares Between Arabs and British Troops
* Foresee Grate
Consequences
In Holy Land
Federation Analyzes 5
Years Of FDR's Labors
Quits Position
Seek New Deal For Farmers
No Effort to be Made to
[ Censure President for La-
j bor Policies, Indicated.
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LONDON, Oct. 12 (UP)—The
Daily Mail quoted well informed
sources today that b'g scalo hos-
tilities would deve'oo in Palestine,
unless the present disorders sub-
sided.
The British governmcrt, the
newspaper reported, would not lie
jroti ite with (ho Arab robe's u"-
til their guerrilla tactics c ns°d.
It also was assorted that the
govern emont w."s rv,f concerned
regarding the sources of the rebel
munitions sunp'y, and was watch-
ing the Palestine coast clo-'cl
coincidently taking steps to stop
the supply nearer the source.
JERUSALEM. 0"t. 12 (UP) —
Arab rebels and Brit'sh troops
battled to''ay al nost within view
of the Holy Land's most sacred
shrines.
;A. military patrol encountered
and fought an armed band m the
road five miles southwest of Jeru-
salem. One soldier was Wiled
and one wounded and the Arabs
fled cnrrving an unestimated nnm-
b'er of their dead and wounded.
&
Evarvday
DENSSON
Bv
LOUIS ANDERSON
©
onlv
they
Bees and butterflies aire
human. Sometimes even
take a little mre than they can
hold and v.ind up on a "jag.'
Don't 1 vlieve it? Judge M. M. |
Scholl says a certain species < f.
rose he gr< ws at his home, must!
contain some alcoholic contents!
because the insects that feed on
them fall off in a stuper, remain
stunned for a while, then get up
and fly or crawl off like a man
who has just thrown away the
keg . . . Paris reports tell us
that Denison had better not take
Paris high too lightly in the
game here Friday night. The
Wildcat line is said to be one t f
the best in the district. There isn't
a sportswriter in this area that
doesn't pick Denison to win, but
in these high school circles you
The baHlo was near Bethlehem, ... .
the birthplace of Christ and the can't tell what might happen next.
scene of the life of Ruth. l'^8 thats they are 'ots
The outbreaks were increasing of„tlme morJ interesting tha*i
despite a heavy influx of British collegiate settos.
reinfocements from Egypt, Malta) , ,
and the British Isles. Native po-f 'Are there any better boosters
wj,0 than the Elmore brothers, Drs.
and Choice? . . . John
lice
were hunting terrorists
threw four bombs from the city' Clayton
wall of Jerusalem yesterday at a, «™ard, Paying the leading role
conv. v of cans escorting the Bri- <" "Touchdown Army showing
tish ^strict commissioner. Two,currently, is not out of place in
bombs exploded but caused, allege. He holds a Ph D degree
lamn*ro in Enprlish from one of the largr-
At Nazareth, the assistant man- ft universities in the nation . . .
r f the Barclays bank was Mary Carlisle, playing opposite
him, can grab no Class A film
of th-
little
ager
shot.
Tr.ops had set up field hemd-'l leads except when she plays op-
quarWs at Bethlehem and trucks'P"site Bing Crosby ... Oh. for
and i rmored cars were employed the life of Jane Arden . . . Jack
ab'out the courtyard of the church'Benny Sunday (he's not too fun-
of th: Nativity, revered by pil-Jny these days) turned out the best
grims frorii all nations anil site,crack of the week (which seems to
of priority religious disnutes be-j contradict the first remark) when
tween Greek, Latin and Armenian in looking over his gifts, found
Christians for 1.000 years. 'an efTS beater The studio audience
Rebels were still in control of I didn't seem to catch it . . . Per-
Bethlehom. The government, haps he could whip up those eggs
had been forced to abandon its he has laid in the past . . . Shei-
police post, post office and courts lah Graham says Shirley Temple's
of law. The rebels had establi-j stand in makes $7.50 a day while
shed their own courts in nearby the child star herself draws down
fields, among the olive trees and $750 a day. Which isn't chicken
sheep herds. The troops had feed—or hay.
barricaded the site cf Rachael's!-
tomb, commanding the entrance j Reports on the street claim Roy
to the town. The residents re-j McCorkle will be out of the line-
malned Calm. Aged preists could up against Paris this weekend,
be seen loitering in the streets,, Who's trying to fool who He'll
d'scussing the turn of events with be in there or we miss our guess
rbl .Arab leaders who complained,. . . He's in better playing condi-
thni they had lost their influence tion than Ed Harris and Ed pro-
over young nationalist zealots, lably will see action . . . Pu ling
v/h m they blamed for the trouble.
The outbreaks, which have con-
tlnved sporadically for five years,
we e of a racial and political na-
ture—a revolt by Arabs against
Jt wish immigration and an in-
sirtence that Jews be kept sub-
HOUSTON, Tex. Oct. 12 (UP)
The American Federation of La-
' ci ivention today is expected
antt'.vje the effect cf five vears
AID FOR FARMERS—Senators Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith of
South Carolina, standing, and Walter F. George of Georgia, who
successfully withstood the Preside nt,l?l purge, nif t in Washington
to consider Federal aid for cotton and wheat larmers.
of President Roosevelt's labor p"l
jc'«-b on millions of workers.
, The pma'ysis showing effect on
the fundamental principles of the
trade union movement hps been
prepared by the potent resolutions
committee, which jammed th,-ou^h
an attack on the National L-ibir
Ro'ations Board, demanded vn-js-
iors of the wage-hour and Wa -
nc labor acts, and called for a
te t of strensrth with the president
over His roaonointmonf of Donald
Wakefield Smith to the NLRB.
Barring possible mention of the
Smith reappointment, the firsf
sharp break between the white
house and VFL. it was reported no
at.temnt will he mMe to censure
Mi'. Roosevelt. This was thej
cours charted bv the executive
council's annual report.,
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**Corri'« r Control" i
The Metal Trades Department
jrha''tfed that powers gi'*en Elmer
| F. Andrews, administrator of the
j wage-hour law, threaten to impose
■ "ecmisar control" over emplover
and employe. But it blamed this
on congress and vigorously de-
fended the need
tion.
Jap Troops In
Final Effort
To Crush Foes
LONDON, Oct. 12 (UP)—Sir
Robert Craigie, British Ambassa-
dor to Toky
HONG KONG, Oct. 12 (UP)—
J "panese troops stai ted an inva-
>, ha.-
•irni'd th - .sion of South China today in an
CRITIC — Alfred Duff Cooper,
peppery Britisher who resigned
as First Lord of the Admiralty
and then attacked, in the House
of Commons, Prime Minister
Chamberlain's foreign policy.
For 45 minutes he condemned
what he termed the Prime Min-
ister's surrender to force. %
Lund Changes
His Mind And
Finally Marries
HOUSING PROBLEMS
HERE ARE CHECKED
WPA administrator Harry Hop-
kins' labor policies were labeled
"vicious" but President Roose-|
velt.'s choice of work relief to the j
"dole" were praised. Only the.
PWA and IT. P. Housing authority,
have been cheered. The conven-j
tion sidetracked a resolution de-i
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 (UP) —
Edward Lund, who announced af-
ter a flight around the world as
a member of the Howard Hughes
crew that he would never marry
Miss Eleanor Hoagland or any
one else, informed his friends to-
, , . . day that he had changed his mind,
of such egis ai- They were married Saturday night
at Elkton, Md., and are at home
with the bride's parents here.
Mrs. Lund, a secretary at
Floyd Bennett field announced her
engagement to Lund while he was
on the world flight and she was
living day and night beside the
radio at flight headquarters, only
. to swoon from fatigue
manding that the president remove, Ws before he landed
all high officials of the RFC for
few
McCorkle out of the lineup would
be like pulling Dick Todd out cf
the Aggie backfield . . . John L.
Lewis probably has no intention
of resigning as CIO president, ev-
en if William Green did in the
i AFofL. Lewis has too good a
dued as a minority in the land thing in the labor group to let it
of their forefathers. All terms'p0 so easily . . . Germany is now
for peace offered by Arab' leaders
have demanded that Jewish immi-
gration stop.
More Materials
^ For Army Here
Denison can handle the housing! are anticipating building new
problem cf incoming army engin-j homes here to rent to incoming
eers for the next few months pro-! engineers provided additional
vided many of them will accept funds are allocated to the engin-
good apartments, informed circles, eering corps to continue work on towa
said today, pointing out that most'the dam here covering nearly five
of the decent rent houses have al- yCars, ;t was reported. A num-
ready been occupied or asked for her have refrained from building
by newcomers. because it was not certain how
<A number of local business men
lending public
ing" employers.
funds to "chisel-1 ,
his
he
de-
Find Body of
Murdered Girl;
Widespread Hunt
Girl, 17, Dreaming of Be-
coming Nun, Found Brut-
ally Attacked, Murdered.
When he was told of
ported engagement then,
r.ied it angrily.
Althouch the federation appears] ________________
to have lost little of its amity|
d the chief executive whom' .1. J. Bruton, Jr., brother of S.
It regards as the best friend of D. Bruton, left yesterday for his
labor in the white house in many home at Collinston, La., after a
years, there is an unconcealed hos-j visit of several days with his par-
tility toward some new deal ad-! ents, Mi-, and Mrs. J. J. Bruton.
long the engineering offices would ministr;ltors- There is growing Sr. Mr. Bruton, Sr., celebrated
renviin in Denison j demand 1o curb' political control his eiphty-seconjp birthday Satur-
I over workers. | day.
Local circles, helping engineer-)
ing officials find suitable homes
and apartments for engineering
employees, said once building gets
underway enough space will be
released to care for incoming Red
River dam workers.
Ejection of Mrs. Barnett Baffles
Police; She Buys Shotgun Shells
A Chamber of Commerce of-
ficial, commenting on the housing
conditions here, said the organi-
sation was keeping a close check
on heme owners to see that rents
I.VRCHMONT. N. Y.. Oct. 12, .
(UP)—The assault and murder of!wo,e npt ra,uod h,;'h,'r than oth(>r
Mary Imelda Coyle, 17. a shy and'I,eccs?,tie8 ln c^panson.
pious high school graduate who
dreamed of being a nun, led police
I.OS ANGELES, Oct. 12 (UP)
—U. S. Marshal Robert P. Clark
admitted today that the problem
of getting Anna Laui'iv Barnett.,
widow of the millionaire Creek
Indian, out, of the. white colonial
jje' mansion on Wil hire boulevard had
I him baffled.
today over the same trails along
which, a few months ago, they
hunted the 'kidnaper and murderer
of 12-year-old Peter Levine.
Miss Coyle lived in a twostor'y
houseboat with her mother and
two sisters, on the mud flats of
Long Island sound, only half a
mile from where the Levine boy's
headless body was washed ashore
May 29.
'claimed most of the local home
owners who have property for| The GO day period of grace
rent, are asking fair prices, but granted her by the government ex-
that a few had been reported ask- pires Saturday. After thr.t it will
ing much more than the buildings be Clark's duty to evict her, un-
were actually worth comparative*! less the government decides to
ly. « £ <*|give her another extension. That
po
seeking a trade pact with the
United States. Hitler is always
seeking something for nothing
. Look this week calls on a noted
expert who. claims Hitler is slight
ly nuts, and who can disagree?!
Anyone who claims he was a"p-| She disappeared Monday night
pointed by the Divine Being,(on her way to St. Gabriel's church,
couldn't be without those bats in
is what Clark is hoping for.
It was in the colonial mansion
that Jackson Barnett, whose mil-
lions came from oil holdings in
Oklahoma, spent the last years of
his l'fe. The government void-
ed Mrs. Barnett's 13 year mar-
riage to the Indian and said she
had no light to the property.
To make certain the marshal
gets a warm reception when he
arrives to serve the eviction order
Mrs. Barnett said she was laying
in a supply of ammunition for her
shotgun. She recently put a hijh
fence around the mansion.
! the belfry.
Calcium carbide supplies airriv-j
ed at the U. S. engineering office McKinney formed a Dads club
Tuesday to be used in drilling op-|last night. A fine organization.
orations on the dam site soon.
The carbide is to be used for
lighting night operations when the
work is begun in earnest on a
twenty-four hour basis. .Some
drilling has already been done,
but a full schedule has been de-
layed due to adjustments and re-
pairs that were necessary for the
machinery.
-I!-'
<A special train of twelve cars
of bananas came into Denison
Tuesday night from Fort Worth.
The cars are assigned for various
northern points.
r
it does much for any city. Deni
son was one >ef the first to form
such ai club in the state . . . Mc-
Kinney is looking to a win from
Gainesville this week, hoping to
thwart revenge hopes of the Leo-
pards. Coach Swede McMurray,
formerly of the Cooke county cen-
ter, once could have had anything
he a^ked for, but now the Gaincs-
villites dislike him thoroughly.
Why? We know, but we won't tell
a mile and a half down a dark and
winding read from her home.
Her body was found yesterday
in a weedy lot behind an apart-
ment building. Her head was bat-
tered, her straight black hair mat-
ted by blood to her face. One
Mow, apparently with a hammer,
had made a hole two inches deep
at the base of her brain.
Physicians believed it might
have been dealt while she was on
her knees and had her head bent
in prayer. They said she had
been criminally assaulted.
Police had a list cf known de-
generates in this region, compiled
ONTARIO FIRE NEARLY UNDER
CONTROL; MANY REPORTED DEAD
Enforcement
Of Wage-Hour
Measure Urged
Jap ie-e government' that B it- effort to crush the last great
ish Japanese relations mi.'ht lie Chinese center of resistance,
imperiled by a Japanese una1 en Tens of thousands of troops
of Southern China, it was said were I inded from 70 transports
authoritatively today. on the .ihores of Bias Bay, the no-
- —-— toricus pirate lair on the coast
e st of I long K >ng.
They entrenched themselves, es-
tablished a base and sent advance
units inland toward Canton, 90
miles northwest of Bias Bay.
Within a few miles of the coast
they met the first contingents of
1,000,000 Chine c\ Foreign mili-
. tary observers hnre received re-
Act Gives Employes Right to r,0vts that heavy fighting was in
Sue Employers for Mini- progress.
miim When Pay is Low. j 'fhe opening of a new drive ex
tended the Japanes theatre of op-
erations in China to a total of
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UP) 774,000 square miles, about 1,290
-—Wage-hour administrator Elmer miles from north to south and
1'. Andrews will rely to a large about 600 mi.es from the coast to
extent upon employee enforce- central China.
ment of the new wage-hour law Long Planned Drive
when it becomes effective Oct. 24. Japan had contemplated advLs-
The act specifically gives em- ability of a big scale drive for
ployees the right to sue their etii- many months. For several days
ployers for wages below the mini- past, their units had been landing
mum and provides that they shall along the coast near Hong Kong,
receive double the amount of un-' ,.\t dawn today the Japanese be-
paid wages, attorney's fees and pan pouring ashore at the village
court costs as damages. of Hachung, 40 miles from Hong
The teeth in the fair labor Kong,
standards act are much stronger Within a few hours of the
than those in NRA, or in other landing, word reached Hong Kong
new deal statutes, constitutional- that there were 50 transports in
ity or which has been attacked, the bay and that 30,000 men had
In addition to double indemnity landed. Then the figures were
for refusing to pay the legal raised to 70 transports and 50,-
minima, the employer may also 000 men and the landing contin-
be liable to a fine of not more ued.
than $10,000 for the first offence Massed Japanese planes coinci-
or up to six months' imprisonment dently made a devastating bom-
for later offenses. b; rdment in the Swatow area, 150
"Competition based on submini- miles up the coast.
mum wages is so severe aind so jt was expected that the first
immediate in its effect that it strategic problem of the Japanese
should not be permitted for even would be to cut the Canton4Cow-
■s short space of time, the wage- ioon railroad which runs 110 miles
hour division said. from British Hong Kong to Can-
"Employers who meet competi- ton and thus cut off one of the
tion based on violation of the law most important Chinese sources
wi 1 be doing a service to other ()f wa,. m ^mials from abroad,
employers, to wage earners and The Japanese navy commander
to the public by reporting such jn chicf in the southern zone said
violations. Employees who ar.' (j,at the purpose of the new in-
worked in violation of the
vasion was to
'disillusion the
a point north of Fort Frances
FORT FRANCES, Ont., Oct. 12 southward across the border to
(UP)—Five thousand volunteers Rosseau, Lake of the Woods and
and CCC workers, aided by ob- Koochiching countries in Northern
servers in airplanes were gaining Minnesota.
control' today of brush aind forest] Fort Frances and International
fires which have raged for two Falls, the onlv large communities
days over 700 square miles along in the area, were threatened for
the International border. j a time brt the danger abated
Seventeen persons already were when a 30 mile an hour wind,
dead and Provincial police said which had driven the fire out of
many more were missing. It was| control, died down.
rot known whether those missing! The situation had eased today,
had fled to safety, were trapped fire fighters reported. They said
or had perished in the flames and several smill fires bad burned out.
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The Dallas News writes: "Ar during a drive against molesters there seemed little chance of de-land they beleived they would be
rogance, egotism and pride arej0f children after the Levine boy's
triplets, conceived by man's arch murder. The list was being ex-
amined closely for men who might
(C«nHnu«d on Pace 4)
have known Miss Coyle,
termining their fate until search-! able to prevent other fires from
ers could penetrate the stricken spreading if winds did not rise
area. | again.
The firs region extended from! Hardest hit section was in
Dance township, Province of On-
tario, 50 miles northwest of Fort
Frances, where 13 of the victims
were found. Twelve were mem-
bers of the families of William,
Frank and Noar Labelle, broth !
ers.
The brothers were working on'
the fire line when their wives set
out in a horse drawn wagon toj
remove themselves and their chil-1
dren from the danger. But flames
and fallen trees blocked the roads.
They abandoned the wagon and
continued on foot.
Hours later the bodies of Mrs.
William Lab<elle and her five chil
dren and of Mrs. Noah Label'e
and her four children were found
a few feet apart.
ooirements of the law should, in Chinese people." He warned that
their own interest, file complaints, though they would not molest non-
The act specifically protects them ,esisters among the Chinese, no
from discharge or discrimination orev would be shown to those
because of starting any proceed who challenged the Jaipanese.
ing under the act. | Knowing the expense of a Can-
"\n inspection system will be ,lrjvp th(. Japanese had
ret un to investigate and take s.pu{rht for many months to im-
proper action unon complaints of prp=, thc independent-minded
violation of the law. Regional and. Cantonese with the "hopelessness"
lrcrl offices are being set up to of th(1 Chinese government cause
receive, investigate and act on' ) cffwt a separate understand-
complaints." j j^g. which would have left the
One clause of the law siys tha*; south effectually neutral,
"no provision cf this act sha'l On th'1 Hankow front, the Jan-
justify any employer in reducing!nncse put back from week to weal
a wage naid bv him which is in the date when they would occupy
excess of the applicable minimum Hankow, the provisional govern-
wnge under this act or justify any ment capital.
employer in increasine hours of Each new advance met fresh
employment maintained by him Chinese resistance.
which are shorter than the maxi-.
mum hours applicable under this
act." but there is no enforcement firE d \MAGES
section. Administrator Andrews RADIO REPAIR
refers to this as pious wish on thc
rnrt. of congress and says that fjre, believed caused by a short
he regards reducing higher wages jn jj,e wiring system, damaged a
as economically unsound and pret-, transformer on the switchboard
ty generally unfair. panel at the Charles Johnson ra-
"I think it is not going to make dio shop, 408 South Mirick ave-
for any happier industrial rela- nue, shortly before 2 a. m. today,
tionship," he said. "It is not go- The blaze was quickly extinguish-
ing to make for any better feel- ed by firemen, called to the
ing between employer and em- scene.
ployee." !
i Mercury Lower
:: j Temperatures earlv this morn-
FREIGHT MOVINGS ' inP fo11 to a 1ow of 60 degrees
ON KATY GOOD following a Tuesday afternoon
high of 86 degrees. Forecasts for
J. V. Singiser, chief dispatcher today and Thursday are for slight-
i or thc MK-T., was back at work lv cooler and cloudy weather.
Monday morning after a vacation Rain has been fcrecast for parts
trip to the coast.. He spent the of Texas.
r ek fishing, landing mostly tar ——— " J.
jvn and speckled trout. ; NOT ICE
I If you do not reccive your paper
Freight movings on the K; ty hr S p. m. each d«y, pkin phono
are good tfiis week as cotton ship-, 300 and one will be tent you.
monts begin to drop. ^ THE DENISON PRESS
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