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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
somewhat cooler tonight
and Thursday
The Denison
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DENISON, TEXAS WED.a MAY 18th, 1S42
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930- DATLY 1934
VOL. VIII—NO. 259
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German Claims Of
Russian Losses Are
Declared Unfounded
Johnson May
Enter Race
ILONqON, May 13 — Extiava-'
gant claihis of Russian losses on
the Caucasus front are made by
Germans, but there is nothing to
confirm it. Oni the other hand,i
the lines are being successfully
ALONG TH€
N6WS B€flT
BY THE EDITOR
• 0
Sugar Rationing Stories.
Some >iteresting stories are be-
ginning to crop out in regard to
the recent signing up for sutfar
lutioning.
T'w beu comes from . neighbor
town wh'ie the principal jf one
of the schools left the day's rec-
ords lytr.v on his desk. Stepping
out ut tht room for a short tin.*,
he returned to his room to discov-
er some one had moved them.
!He immediately started a furtive
held by the Russians and they are
reported to have a big reserve
awaiting them behind their front
lin«s.
The Russians say the Germans
are using a large number of planes,
tanks and troops in their effort to
break through to the oil fields, but
so far there have been no great
gains scored by either side.
Germans are broadcasting the
claim that they have surrounded
the Russians on the Caucasus front
and taken 40,000 prisoners, but
th«re is no evidence to substantiate
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(Continued on page four)
Italy Desperate
About The War,
Declares Envoy
LISBON, Portugal, May IS—
Italy is as desperate about the war(
as Prance was before its defeat, an
American said on arrival here to-1
day with a group of western hemi-|
sphere nationals from Rome to|
await exchange for axis internes
now crossing the Atlantic.
iHe denied stories of antiwar
riots that have come 6ut of Itifly
from time to time, however, and
said discontent has yet to take vio-
lent form.
"The people are not so dumb,"
he said. "They know they are help-
less under the Heinies and there-
for are hopeless.
' "Pood shortages are noticeable,
and there are many queues out-
side stores."
Venezuelan and Bolivian consu-
lar officials in the party agreed
that the situation in Italy is not
good and said the Italians are eag-
er for peace.
•William E. Cole, Jr., American
embassy secretary in Rome, headed
twenty-four United States nation-
als, including fourteen without of-
ficial status from Greece, among
the ninety-seven persons in the
contingents which will sail for
America about May 17 aboard the
Swedish liner Drottningholm.
Jerry Sadler
Takes Physical
Exam In Army
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 13
—With the statement, "I'm mak-
ing applications to become a priv-
ate in Uncle Sam's* army," Jerry
Sadler, member of the railroad
commission, today took exainat'ons
at the army medical examin'ng
board at Port Sam Houston.
Sadler, who has been a number
of the commission three and a half
years, declared that the outcome
of his examination would deter-
mine whether or not he would re-
sign his position on the sommis-
sion.
Questioned about his decision to
enter the army while he was be-
ing weighed and checked at the ex-
amining center, Sadler said:
"I'm 34 years old and in good
physical condition, I see no reason
why I shouldn't enlist in the ar-
my. In fact, there is no reason
for any other 34-year-old man not
getting in the army if his flnacial
status permits."
The commissioner denied that
ihc was seeking a commission as nn
officer, saying, "I'm Just getting
tn the army."
JAP VIOLATES CURFEW
REGULATIONS, GETS 5 DAYS
YA'jMA. Wash., May 13—Joe
Konishi, Toppenlsh, Wash., Japa-
nese, today pleaded guilty to a
charge of violating the curfew
regulations in effect on the Pa-
cific coast.
Konishi was sentenced to five
days in the Yakima county jail.
Officers said the Japanese was
found in a movie house afer 8 p.
m-
Dallas To Get
Regional WPB
Office, Disclosed
WASHINGTON, May 13—The
War Production Board branched
out in all directions today.
The board established 13 re-
gional offices in various parts of
the country in a big decentraliza-
tion move. Prom now on ttte WP
B's Washington office will handle
only policy making, program plan-
ning and the coordination of ef-
fort. Day-to-day work will be in
the hands of the district staffs.
(Offices will be set up in Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta,
Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City,
Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, De-
troit, 'Minneapolis and Seattle.
^Directors for six of the offices
already have been chosen. They
are Orville Bullitt, Philadelphia:
Ernest Kanzler, Detroit; FVank
Neely, Atlanta; John Virden, Cle-
veland; Joseph Overlock, Chicago
and Walter Wheeler, Boston.
Freighter
Sunk In St.
Lawrence
41 Surivors
Drift Into A
Cove Safely
Reinforced Jap Troops Moving Forward
For Another Assault On Southwest China
Coast Guard
Recruiter Due Fri.
A recruiting officer for the U.
S- Coast Guard will be at the Den-
ison postoffice all day Friday to
receive applications for enlistment
in this branch of service from
young men 17 to 35 years of age.
Applicants must be in excellent
physical condition and must not
have a criminal record. The age
limit for ex-service men reenlist-;
ing is 45.
The coast guard, it is announc-
ed, offers rapid advancement, and
makes it possible for young men
to continue in the service at the
trade they have been following
in civilian life. Men with special
experience such as auto mechan-
ics and lathe operators will be en-
listed as motor machinist's mates.
Three Oklahoma
Candidates Issue
Protests Today
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 13—
The Oklahoma election board to-
day has a big problem on its
hands.
Three candidates for federal and
federal positions have protested to
the election board over the shadow
names being carried into the po-
litical campaign by opponents.
Hearings on the protests will be
held at the capital on May 215.
Protests have been filed by Un-
ited States Senator Josh Lee, who
wants the name of Josh Lee—a
Vinita farmer—stricken from the
July 14th primary ballot. State
Senator Paul Stewart, a candidate
for congress, wants the name of
an opponent—Parmer Paul Stuart
—.knocked out of the race. Cor-
poration Commissioner Reford
Bond has asked the election board
to make R. L Bond, an Oklahoma
City salesman, get out of the race
against him.
DARRYL ZANirCK IMPRESSED
AT RRITISH FILM UNITS
tLOVDON, May 13—Col. Darryl
Zanuck, the Hollywood producer,
is in England as special observer
concerned with the production of
military training films.
The producer, now a member of
the United States signal corps, said
today he will seek to establish a
basis of cooperation between the
American, British and Rusqfan
forces in photographic work. He
adds that he is greatly impressed
with the photographic units of tie
British army.
Lyndon Johnson
MVUSHINGTON, May 13—Wash-
ington political circles were talk-
ing today of the possibilty that
Lyndon Johnson of Johnson City,
Texas, may enter the senatorial
race in opposition to Dan Moody,
James v. Allred and Lee O'Daniel.
Johnson. CDaniel's chief oppo-
nent in the special election last
year that sent the flour salesman
governor to the senate, is now a
lieutenant commander in the naval j
reserve, on active duty on the Pa-
cific coast.
Johnson had the active support
of the Roosevelt administration in
the special election last year, and
it appeared that he had been elect-
ed until final votes from the re-
mote rural districts in Texas were
counted and O'Daniel was given a
few votes margin by the late re-
turns. It is known that the ad-
ministration would like to see Mr.
Johnson in the senate in place of
O'Daniel and if some way can be
found to have Johnson's name
placed on the ballot he is expected
to be given the full administration
support again.
School Teachers
For Next Term
Elected Tuesday
Edna Mae Steele
Named New Music
Teacher By Board
Teacher assignments for the new
school year, effective ia Septenv
ber, were made last nigist by the
city school board.
One new teacher was appointed
tc teach music in the elementary
grades. She is Miss Edna Mae
Steel, daughter of Mr. nd Mrs.
Ernest Steele, 623 W. Crawford,
a Denison high school graduate of
Durant this month, wi,2>-< she ma-
jored in music.
The request of Miss Jennie
Watson, principal of Houston
OTTAWA, Canada, May J3—
The Royal Canadian navy and eir
force today are searching the St.
Lawrence river for the submarine
which sank a freighter.
Navy minister Angus ',MacDon-
ald said, "Long prepared plans"
for the protection of shipping have
been put into effect. Apparently,
submarine attacks in the river had
been expected, but this is the first
one.
Mac Donald assured the Canad-
ian publifc "every .step is being
taken to grapple with the situat-
ion."
Forty-one survivors of the ves-
sel sunk in the St. Lawrence river
proper, inland from the spacious
gulf of the same name, drifted to
safety in the nearby tiny fishing
coves. "Forty-two of them landed
at one point Tuesday and a woman
and child in another lifeboat turn-
ed up at a fishing village not far
away. None was lost.
All were taken to a nearby town
where the injured were treated in
a hospital.
Soldiers Caught
In Mo. With Car
Stolen In Denison
GUARDING TWO SEAS*
PiBCxJ
5#^
New Enemy Fleet
Forming North
Of Australia
All Communications
With Philippines
Are Now Cut Off
SPRINGFIElLD, Mo., May 13—
Two young Texans have been cap-
tured here in what police said to-
day was a stolen automobile.
The youths are Ray McCarthy,
20, of Big Sand, Tex., and Alvin
Dickerson, 21, of Bonita, Texas.
Detective Howard Curtis said
that the car they were caught in
had been stolen in Denison, Texas.
■He said they will be turnd over to
federal authorities for prosecution
on Dyer act charges.
Curtis also said that the youths
are two of the nine soldiers who
ecaped from the Port Leonard
Wood military jail on Easter Sun-
day.
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Racial Problem
To Be Tackled
Washington, May ,13—'The
President's committee on fair em-
ployment practice plans to tackle
the problem of discrimination
against people of Latin American
or negro origin.
The committee will hold hear-
ings in the Southwest on reported
defense job discrimination against
iLatin Americans — particularly
Mexicans. Hearings on the nogra
job problem will be held at Birm
ingham, Ala.
Chairman 'Malcolm MacLean of
the committee said the Mexican
situation in the southwest is like
the negro situation in the south in
its worst aspects
DEATH ROLL
JAMES ACKLIN
James Asklin, 60, an employee of
the Katy baggage department at
Port Worth, died this morning at
4:45 in a local hospital where he
had been a patient seven months.
■Remains were removed overland
to Port Worth later today by the
Short-Murray funeral home- Serv-
ices will be held there this after-
noon.
His widow survives.
DWARFED BY GIBRALTAR'S ROCKY BULK towering in the background, a U. S.-built Consolidated
Catalina bomber receives its load of depth bombs and supplies. Soon its R.A.F. crew will take it off on a
'ing patrol voyage over the Atlantic to spot and sink enemy submarines and surface raiders trying to
ek Allied shipping. Thus, with the help of American bombers, Gibraltar guards two oceans, a wide
. .tcep of the Atlantic as well as the mouth of the Mediterranean.
Local Delivery Services Ordered
Curtailed To Conserve Equipment
WPAEngineerTo Scout Drive
Inspect Randell Effective June 2 Squadron Heads
Are Announced
Dam Here Friday
Will Determine How
Soon Construction
Work Can Begin
CHUNGKING, China, May 13—
The Japanese ale regaining the
initiative they lost briefly to the
Chinese and General MacArthur'i
forces, it was reported today.
Reinforced Japanese troops are
moving forward for another as-
sault on southwest China, and a
new Japanese fleet is forming
northeast of Australia.
Chungking reports that some of
the Japanese reinforcements are as
deep as 56 miles inside China from
Burma. Others are at Chefang,
2*5 miles inside the frontier.
American volunteer pilots, straf-
ing enemy concentrations along
the Burma road, are reported to
have set fire to twenty trucks.
In western Burma, the Japane3«
are pressing closer to the border
of India. A British communique
reveals enemy columns are fifty
miles or less from the frontier.
Dispatches from advanced al-
lied bases in the Australian area
indicate that the Japanese are
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W. L. Peterson
Elected President
Of School Board
Stolen Here May 1.
Police Chief Paul Borum said
today the vehicle was stolen here
tVlay 1 from V. L. Vieusel, 211 W-
Munson. The insurance, company
will recover it, he said.
Thief Caught
In Fifth Stolen
Auto Tues. Night
Pending action by military au-
thorities, Private Edward E. Feath-
er, 19, of South Bend, Ind., sta-
tioned at Perrin field, is in the
city Jail charged with theft of five
automobiles from Denison during
this month.
The youth, in a written confes-
sion to Assistant District Attorney
Alexander Gullett, has admitted
the theft of all five, which, ,v-
cording to Police Chief Paul Bor-
um, clears up all the stolen cars
reported this month.
He was captured in a ear last
night about 8 o'clock by Patrolmen
Louis Winchester and Borum
southwest of the city. The auto,
a black two-door 1938 model se-
dan, was owned by Lawrence ^fet-
calf.
The other cars were stolen on
May 5, 6, 9 and 10.
George W. Caldwell, state field
engineer for the Work Projects
Administration from San Antonio,
accompanied by J. jD. iMorgan, as-
sistant W1*A director of opera-
tions, Dallas, will be in Denison
Friday to inspect the cracked Ran-
dell lake dam, according to a let-
ter received by Mayor T. J. Long
late Tuesday.
The letter, signed by Mr. Mor-
gan, disclosed the pair would ar-
rive here between 10:30 and 11 a.
m. Immediately upon their arriv-
al, they will be taken to the lake
site, accompanied by City Engin-
eer A. L. Cornell and Akel X>- Al-
in, chief of the engineering divi-
sion of the U. S. engineer office
here.
Following the dam inspection a
consultation will be held to deter-
mine extent ol repairs and esti-
mated cost and a date will be set
for the work, to be partly financed
by 'WPA funds. The WPA sup-
plied the money for the original
contract on the enlarged dam two
years ago and accepted the. project
as complete.
900,000 Texas
Drivers4 Licenses
Issued Since Oct.
Joseph B. Eastman, director of
defense transportation, today had J
issued a genera! order curtailing
local delivery services as a means
of conserving transportation facili-
ties and equipment.
The order (general order ODT
No. 6) prohibits most special de-
liveries and "call-backs," and limits
the number of deliveries and the
mileage of local delivery carriers.
Effective May 15, local carriers
are forbidden to make any special |
deliveries except to hospitals and;
the armed forces of the United
1937 and wi)o will graduate f<-om'
Southeastern Teachers college in'
(Continued on page four)
S. E. GOI.OEN
S. E. Golden, retired Katy en-
gineer of Waco, died this morning
at 9 o'clock at the ,M-K-T Employ-
ees hospital here. Funeral serv-
ices are pending with arrange-,
nients in charge of Short-Murray.J
Missing Texas Roy
And Sister Found
CORPUS OHRISTI, Tex., (May
15—Officials of the sheriff's de-
partment announced today that
16-year-old George Clyde Hengy,
Jr., who had been missing from his
home since his mother was found
shot to death, as been taken into
custody at Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
With him was his three-year-old
sister, Zina, who was unharmed. (
The boy was arrested by high-
way police when the automobile he
was driving was involved in a min-
or accident. He and his sister were
to be returned to Corpus Chrlsti.
Young Hengy disappeared four
days ago. His absence was dis-
coered when the boy's father re
turned home after a business trip
and found Mrs. Hengy shot to
death-
Nine hundred thousand Texas
drivers' licenses have been issued
under the new drivers' license law
since Oct. 1, it was revealed here
today by Harry Painter, state driv-
ers' license examiner.
This is considerably less than
half the 2,250,000 licenses which
are expected to be issued by the
end of September, Painter said,
warning Denisonians that an un-
manageable rush will occur late
in the summer unless the rate of
applications is speeded up immedi-
ately.
"The drivers license division is
issuing only 160,000 licenses a
month, now, and is prepared to
give rapid service," Painter said.
If the applications continue to
come in at their present rate, the
number of applications each month
will have to jump to 250,000 or
300,000 in July, August and Sep-
tember to meet the deadline."
Applications now are being ac-
cepted from any holder of an op-
erator's license regardless of its
serial number.
Miss Anna Mosse
To Retire After
Teaching 35 Yrs.
The resignation of 'Miss Anna
(Mosse, teacher at Central Ward
school, was accepted at a meeting
of the Denison school board, held
at the high school Tuesday night.
A resident of Denison all her
life, Miss Mosse, 1*131 W. Walker,
has been teacher for more than
thirty-five years here, the last
three of which she taught the sev-
enth grade at Central. She re-
ceived her education at Western
college, Oxford, Ohio; Austin col-
lege, Sherman, and attended
schools in Boulder, Colorado. Her
retirement will go into effect Sep-
tember 1,(1942- Her plans for the
future have not been announced.
Six-Shootin'
Fiction Favorite
Of U. S. Soldiers
l/tiBRIdAN army head-
QUARfTERS, In Iceland, May 13—
If yon want to make a hit with
the American doughboys in Ice
land don't send them Shakespeare
or Keats.
What they want is straight-from
-the-hip, six-shotin' fiction. That
and pictures of pretty girls, boxes
of candy and cookies and phono-
graph records heavy with that
eight-to-a-bar stuff.
'Don't bother about cigarettes,
soap, shaving cream, razor blaoes
and other traditional soldier gifts.
The boyg in Iceland can buy those
articles in their post exchanges
cheaper than you can at home.
The Americans in Iceland don't
want intellectual and moral up-
lift in the packages from home,
They want entertainment and the
"homey" touch.
Campaign Begins
With Breakfast
Thvrs. Morning
Squadron and flight command-1
ers for the Boy Scout finance j
campaign to be launched by the!
Red River Valley council following!
a breakfast Thursday morning at
7 o'clock in Hotel Denison were;
announced today by Scout Bxecu-J
tive George A. Holland.
The council has set a goal of
$0,652, divided between Denison
and Durant.
'.M. G. Hauser is squadron com-
mander of the Lions club division
and his flight commanders are B.
V. Hammond, M. D. Richards, Rev.
J. C. Oglesby, Fred Conn and A.
N. Norman, Jr.
The Rotary divison is headed by,
Ralph Porter with !dillard Cope,
B. A. Mitchell, Pred Kirkpatrick,
David G. Platter and Joe Ward
as flight commanders.
Kenneth Mills is squadron eoni-j
mander of the Boosters division1
and has Fred Sneed, Paul Jen-j
nings, Edgar Clark and Arthur
Anderson as flight commandefs.
Composing the American Legion'
flight division are Leon tlcMillianJ
commander; Harold Schmitzer.i
Orbey Phillips, Adolph Johnson,
Pal Noe, R, T. Dunn and Paul Wc-|
Bee, flight chiefs.
TJhe Dads club is represented
by Roy K. Ownby, commander; R. |
N. Sandlin, J. S. Kimble, Rev !
Hugh S. Porter, F. H. Taylor and'
Rev. James Spivey, flight chiefs.)
The U. S. engineers division is
made up of Lynn T. Webb, chief;
George W. Demeritt, H. E. Cox,
Bob Fowler, Hank Johnson, T, R.
Wall, C. R. McNeely, Edward An-
ton, Alford S. Havner, Taylor
Fisher, Geo. E. Swindell, D. J.i
Coons, E. M. Buck and Paul Du-|
pont.
Special flights comprise Leon
Womack of the Kraft office and
plant and J. J. Madden for the
Knights of Columbus.
The Katy flight comprises Car-
son Sebers, commander; Sidney,
Moad, Damon Vanston, O. P.
Sammons and Franz Waltz, I
Nrfw BottU* Fot Ol J Cut
WASHINGTON, May 13—The
cry now ig "new bottles for old tin
cans." The war production board
said today the supply of tin and
other nietals for packaging goods]
is shrinking fast, and it has oi^
dered the nation's bottle-makers to!
stretch their glass thin and cut,
out the fancy work
W. II,. Peterson, president of the
State National bank and a member
of the school board since 1936,
was elected the board's president
Tuesday night succeeding E. R.
Bryan, whose resignation was ac-
cepted by the city council last Fri-
day.
The board officially swore into
office ,Mr. Peterson and JIarry K.
Steele, a new member who was
nominated by the city council to
fill the vacancy caused by , Mr.
Bryan's resignation.
The board re-elected w. G.
Langston, vice-president and W.
L. Steakley secretary.
No Rationing
Of Beer in GB
LONDON, May 13—There will
be no beer rationing this summer
in England.
\Lord Arnold suggested today
that enough barley could be saved
by cutting down on beer produc-
tion to feed enough hens to pro-
duce four more eggs per family.
Lord Woolton, the food minister,
replied:
"I do not propose to add to the
government's problems by ration-
ing beer."
At the same time, the govern-
ment set new top prices for res-
taurant meals in Britain. Average
meals will be pegged at one dol-
lar, although luxury hotels and
restaurants will he allowed to
charge as much as three dollars
and a quarter.
Air Station
Markers Mowed
SEATTLE, Wash., May 13—On
suspicion that the yellow blossoms
may have marked a nearby naval
air station, Washington state high-
way crews today moved the blooms
from two turnip fields.
The farm, near Sand Point Air
station, has been uninhabited since
the Japanese operater was taken
into custody after the start of the
war. Navy authorities made an
observation flight Sunday and re-
ported that the blossoms formed a
marker on two sides of the air
station. It was recalled that
flower beds and sugar-cane fields
in and around Pearl Hart>or were
discovered to have been used as
guides, so Governor Arthur Lang-
lie gave the order to mow the
fields.
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