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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Continued warm tonight
and Wednesday
The Denison Press
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT
SUNDAY
YOUR HOME-OWNED
DAILY newspaper
35c PER MONTH
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS TUESDAY, Jl NE 2, 1942
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930- DaILY 1934
VOL VIII—NO, 274
Largest Shipment Of War Supplies Reaches Reds
ANOTHER 1,000 PLANE RAID
ON GERMANY MADE BY BRITISH
BOTTLENECK CORKED
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
BY THE EDITOR
Minister Enters
Are ,Rent» Still Up Here?
It is credited to one of the of-
ficers in charge of the engineers
who recently came here to place |*,* a wj
the ponton bridge over Red River IOilllCHj 1\cl CU
,h“,S: :Z’ZZZ’"SZ Against Rayburn.
Explosives Leave Many Huge Fires
Burning Throughout The Target Area
LONDON, June 2—The Royal the vast Krupp armament works
Air F|oree made another pulver- irf the city of Essen. The number'
izing, one-thousand-planc raid on of planes in the attack was an-1
Germany last night. nounced to a cheering house of
Exactly 1,03(! planes took part commons today by Prime (Minister
in the attack. Their target was Churchill. He said that 35 Brit-
ish bombers were lost—compared
with 44 in Saturday night’s devas-
| tating raid on Cologne. Churchill
declared that many huge fires are
I burning throughout the target;
! area at Essen.
Hurricane bombers diving at
| more than 400 miles an hour plac-
ed their explosives “smash in the
middle of the factory,” the air
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outspoken on the rates asked for ---..
officers and men when it came to Late Monday afternoon, the listj
rooms and lodging and placed a 0f candidates filing for the various
protest against it. state and district offices and Un-
The trouble is too many here ited States congress, showed that
do not see the point and prefer to ;r the congressional race, Sam
take the position that rates are not Rayburn, present incumbent, had
too high, simply because they sue- as his opponent George T. Balch,
——----------of Commerce, for representative.
(Continued on page four) He ciassjfjed himself on his filing
papers as being a minister of the
gospel.
Also in the Texas senate race,
Olin R. Van Zandt has as his op-
ponents additional men. bringing
the total to three, Van Zandt mak-
ing the fourth man. The three op-
—- ponents are ,1. P. Buck, of Col-
General rules for the operation linsville, who is a' school man. Also
of I.oy park have been announced W. S. Moore of Gainesville, who
for the summer by J. H. White, has served in that capacity be-
park superintendent, with the ap- fore, is a candidate. Charles R.
proval of the Grayson commis- Jones is the fourth candidate,
sioners court. R- /M. Carter, county chairman,|
The park will be closed to all says that the number of candi-|
traffic at midnight, and no over- dates filing for the various of-
night stays will be permitted with- fires is the smallest the county has,lr0“r;
out (Mr. White’s permission. No had in many years. Some of the
beer or liquor parties will be al- candidates have no opponents,
lowed, he said.
Operating Rules
For Loy Park
Are Announced
ministry News Service said.
Reports from neutral countries
on the continent said t'tai al-
(Continued on page four)
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NAZIS CLAIM OF
SINKINGS SAID
TO BE UNFOUNDED
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iLONJJON, June 2—After four1 shipments of war supplies ever to
days of weaving its way through land in Russia is reported -afe at
a German network of subs and » northern port today,
fighting off attacks from airplanes The claim made by the Ger-
by the enemy, one of the largest; mans that they had sunk the ves-
sel: or hud prevented the ship-
Sergeant York To
Address Texans
Al. San Antonio
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Student Air Corps
Mechanics Taught
In Circus Tent
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June
2—.More than 1,000 army airj
corp studen mechanics are going;
to school in a big circus tent.
They sit in the bleachers. In-
structors on a raised platform in
((he main ring speak over a public-j
| address system.
It is part of an aircraft manu-j
facturer’s program leading to thisi
THE NAZIS WERE USING ROSTOCK to send supplies across the Baltic to their forces fighting in
Russia, Throughout the winter, while the port was icebound, supplies piled up. They were to be moved a-
soon as the spring thawed the sea. But before the Nazis could unchoko this bottleneck, the Royal Air Fore
“corked” it with a devastating five-night series of powerful attacks with squadrons of Britain's newest an
heaviest bombers, Photographed afterward in daylight by a daring low-flying reconnaissance airplane the
once, important Nazi port was still smoking as shown in this picture.
Stevenson Opposed Bp Five
Candidates In Governor's Race
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Wire Confirms
Discontinuance
Of Paper Pick-Up
175 Elementary
Students Will
Graduate Tonite
Grayson County Brother Of Jim
Ferguson Mails In His Application
merit, was without any basis in
fact, and the landing of the sup-
pliv- under the allied convoy is
another' demonstration of the sea
prow. of tiie united forces in
can;, big forward their agreed
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 2- '' ---
j Sergeant Alvin C. York, hero No.; Prepare for Outbreak
1 of World War No. 1, and othe) (MOSCOW, June '&—iKach side
military and civilian notables, will dug in on its new lines in the Cri-
speak from the portals of the hi.- rnea and the Ukraine and prepar-
toric Alamo over a Texas network ed for a possible outbreak of even
rtation and to an expected crowd. greater battles on the southern
i at the “Win the War Recruiting ----- -------------
'Rally” here at 4:30 p. m. Satur1 (Continued on page four)
; day, according to Col. Kinzie B.
. Edmunds, San Antonio district ar-
! my recruiting officer.
The rally program i prepared Ppnrir.f#»rl Micaino
by the district army recruiting lVIISSlUg,
public relation: office and -pou Wnrri^J
v ntr nui n un icu
ing service, 102 Texas Junior, ;—
I Chambers of Commerce, Legion DF, IRolT, Mich, June 2 Mrs.
naires and the City of San An- Arthur Wermuth. a nurse in Ard-
tonio Plans are being completed n,ore hospital, aid today the war
for the appearance of rationally- department had notified her that
known personages from Washing- husband, the army captain
ton and Hollywood, officials of "ho>e exploit.- won him
Bataan Captain
The swimming charge has been
removed this year, and while there
will be a life guard on duty, swim-
ming will be at personal risk. No
swimming will be allowed outside
the ring of barrels,, after 11 p. m.
or anywhere except at the beach.
No dancing will ho allowed in
swimming suits.
Pishing will be permitted free .
t . ... . , >, . ment earlier this week, that
fbfhing1' from the' pier ‘is forbid- *cout weekly ,waste-paper pickup, eSuifnlenit in^lled and h°w to in-, Hughes
den. No trot lines or throw lin.s
will be allowed.
Iairge motor boats will he al-
lowed on the lake only three days
a week, Sunday, Tusday and Fri-
day,_ smaller boats, from 1.5 to
6 horse power, being permitted . .
any day until 10 p. m. Lights must PrnAnMinn
Rev. Hugh S. Porter
Will Deliver The
Principal Address
Approximately 175 elementary
| UAl LAS, Tex., June 2 — The the July democratic primary could
j political fireworks are starting to- file.
| nay. Of main interest today is the
Yesterday was the last day that fact that Governor Stevenson will
j candidates for elective office who have five opponents.
| want their names on the ballot for (Hal H. Collins, (Mineral Weils
be used on boats after dark. Row
bouts are available for hire.
American Jap
Hides 3 Weeks
Without Food
For every airplane delivered to
the army, a crew of mechanics are
especially trained to keep it fly-
ing.”
This student group, taking a
four-week course, is described as
| currently the largest in the na-
I tion-wide program.
With Douglas Aircraft corpora-
Ition engineer and technicians serv-
A telegam received today byj ing as instructors, the army men
George A. Holland, Hoy Scout ex-1 see and hear how Douglas plane- -chool graduates will receive their
ecutiv , confirmed his announce- are built, the engineering and shop j diplomas tonight in an impressive i
the j procedures employed, the various ceremony to be conducted at!
„ , ' , ' “ . . haH, high school, audi-j d"on nrfved J ^ni"n today
campaign would be temporarily!-pect and service ships. | torium, beginning at 8:30. ,1||d pffecljvp Wednesday wi- -u ■-
suspended. ! Kach day the student mechanics] Principal address will be given ppp() gtaff Ser-ennt Curl Seaberg
The telegram, signed by James! attend classroom lectures, later do by the Rev. Hugh S. Porter, pas- non'(.om'm;.V>ne(i off j,-, -• in
E. West, chief scout executive, practice service work on planes. tor of the Trinity Methodist ' ,'. ‘ f ,, ,, , r
miit J"* off,the line’ h] the evening chu«h. who will -peak on “What ,,...... .
“Conference with represent*-! there is homework stud> in main- [s Life For?” 1 huildimr here
tives of paper industry and hu- tenance handbooks. When the The program includes a proces-,
course is completed results of sicnal; invocation by Rev. Ray*1
written examinations will be for-
the cooperating organzation- said
'Featured with the speakers, will
j be the Second Division band of
Fort Sam Houston, recogn.?.•:!, it
was said, as one of the out-tan 1-
j ing military band- of the nation.
Planners of the rally declared
■ they were preparing for the larg-
i est crowd ever assembled before
hotel and mineral salts company ,hp famoM Alam0. ln addition
owner, appeared personally at the to thfi broadcast loud speaker
office of s ate democratic Chair- u,^ a,.p bei in!italled on A!am0
man E B. Germany to present hi- p| and at Mililarv p|aza nnd
name for a place on the ticket .n|Travi, park here. Kred Moriran,
the July primary. president of the Texas Junior
, Chamber of Commerce, <aid local
__ /'** M’ Fe**u*?n. •-*<' breeder,^ of th, .iaycees had been in-
Staff Serfreant Grady K. Pen- f ow» 111 lla **,ltl<)n ^ vited to arrange listening: parties
mail. He accompanied his appli- for reception of ,h„ broadc:ift
cation w,th catmogues ot ] throughout Texa-
rergruson gave hi acre CP ! ^ ^. , , . .
r . * - - I Col. Edmunds explained that
Ferguson is a brother >f fonmr .l ,,
the purpose of the rally was to
Sgt. Pendleton
New Marine Corps
Recruiting Officer
the title
“one-man army of Bataan.” as
well a.-, more formal decorations,
was mi--ing in action in the Phil-
ippines.
Alwaj confident in her hus-
band'- ability to take care of him-
-elf, Mr Wermuth -aid she had
not given up her faith in his knack
for getting out of tough spot*.
“And I won’t even think about
anything else,” she declared.
Three letter- from him in the
past two weeks have buoyed up
he. hopes, fMr- Wermuth admit-
ted. That makes seven since Good
Friday," she said, "but the new-
est onv was written on March ,1.”
Mrs Wermuth : continuing her
nursing duties.
Gov. James F'.. Fergu
mer governor said in
on. The for-
A ii -tin that
the War Production Board
veals such a magnificent job has warded to the
been done in collection of waste fields,
paper that the excess supply avail-
able makes it desirable to shift our
emphasis to greater need in sal-
vaging every conceivable type of
rubber. The paper industry ascso-
iation tells us all existing accum-
ulated waste paper now in course
Sergeant Seaberg !« completing
five months of recruiting duty
mond S- Ottensmeyer, pastor of her(1 und Wednesday will leave
tended to be a cand d'tt
ernor.
Another unheralded
need for volunteer fighting men."
He added that “as the ybung men
fm gov-!of na^jon are aroused to the
present needs and opportunities’
of the army, there could be no
candidate
trainees’ home the St. Luke’s Episcopal church; Tation at ; Hope Wheeler, 62, that ^
Oklahoma Act
Unconstitutional,
Supreme Court
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June of collection or transit to junk
2—Koji Kurakowa, 38-year-old dealers or others must and will be WASHINGTON, June 2 — The
Japanese-American janitor, was in absorbed. Supreme Court today held uticon- gram director and William
a hospital today recovering from “I felt it necessary to get this! stitutional the Oklahoma habitual Tallmadge is accompanist.
malnutrition. He had spent three advance notice to you in this criminal sterilization act which -\
weeks without food, hiding in a form. It will be followed by de-i provides for the sterilization of]
oeller because he wanted to be tailed bulletin making suggestions] any person convcted in Oklahoma
free and not be sent to an intern- as to how to organize for compre- f0r the third of a crime involving
ment camp. hensible rubber salvage program: moral perfitude.
Kurakowa was janitor at the in response to direct request from The decision was in favor of
home of Simon Levitt. I-evitt’s son, the government. Please take the |lu.k Skinner, a former prisoner
Aaron, went to the cellar and in necessary action with your in the Oklahoma state peniten
,song, “Sundown,” by the class, cbl.iati for m.t:ve ]in, dutv.
and song “America” by the class. ,Vndleton ha, heen wilh the
The presentation of diplomas four and a ha,f years, on-
will be made by the principals, |j?tjng New Orleans in 1933.
!Mrs- N- E- Campbell, Central; f(p thp ,l)n 0f pyir. and Mrs. W.
Mi- Bess Coppin, Peabody; Geo. r Pend|eton of Cranfill’ Gap,
P. Mechani, Houston; James Do- j>0><,ue countv, in central Texas,
sey, Raynal and Donald McDonald! and has been a-igned to iveruit-
of 'Lamar.
Miss Beatrice Burrus
Arlington newspaper publisher. <nfird
Wheeler brought in a petition]'
signed by thirty-four Rusk county
citizens and twenty-eight residents]
of Lubbock county, making him ni
candidate.
C. L. Somerville, 48, who -aid
FDR’s Opinion To
Er.d Deadlock
WASHtNG'TjOfN, Jum 2-
Freight Rate
Hike Petition
Denied By TRC
he is a law school operator, made
n- duty ''iindvr' tlu'1 D'llhis head- 5°rn.ml fj,linK a,t*r announc'- grcs’siona*rieadws’ toda> • nt ...
ProJ quarters station See December Sun,day' Gern’an> ' al.-o know just hou- much of a '-or , an republic
”ce'ved the aPPlication of Gene {hp commander-in-chief would like " W
„ . . . . S. Porter, 35, Belton insurance- , ,,iv bs enlisted men
(Hr was married to the former h h , previouslv telephon-: ‘ mui
T nVppno ‘iTnpmpp nf'A'f«ridian , , , T *' A *enate-hou>e conference com-
LaVerne warmer ot Menaian, cd that he would be a can(iidate.
Tliese late filings place
• Mi*s
: Texas, in March cf 1942. Mrs. nmse'late'fibn^ appeaW ‘° be
Financial Blow
Dealt Axis Powers
WASHINGTON, June 2—The
foreign policy association said to-
day A Men a’- efforts to foster
mutua cooperation among all the
Wc-terr hemisphere nations is ac-
pi g gratifying results, and
the u.-socuition noted, this is being
achieved at a time when the
United States ... suffering serious
military setbacks.
A survey compiled by the or-
g in•: at on'- Latin-Ameriean ex-
i" rt points out that 19 of the 21
have expelled
confined key enemy aliens,
whether diplomats, agents or
merely suspects.
T! 1 program also is -oiid to have
<1 alt a telling blow to the finan-
Pendleton accompanied her hu-- candidate-' al;ai nst St even son who k" whct.h" t0 ™,st‘ th' , p:,y ” , nil power of the axis in the west-
band to .Denison today, where they k fillinR thp unexpired ter’mof bu( k P"vates :ind aPPrpntlcp - '......: ---
will make their home
W. Lee O'Daniel, elected to the
>50
hemisphere.
—v
a dark corner saw a figure crouch- council.”
ing. He ventured nearer and —-V—/---
found Kurakowa, famished and ATH ROLL
| A,so accompanying them was genate ]ast sunimer. Stevenson
Staff Serjrcant Earl S. Wade, who stepped up from lieutenant gov-
] will remain here until Saturday Pinor
tiary at ,McAlester. Skinner was] AUSTIN, Texas, June 9—Peti- to interview applicants desiring Other filing- Monday wen"
convicted in 192C of chicken steal-] tion of the railroads and trucker- -erviee as .Marine hviation cadets p0). ¥,.ltp tre.i-urer Harry Mi
• " c'-1 ~ •• .n iyee, 4c, Austin ac otintant, tor- ., ,
bery with firearms. He was releas- state freight rates was denied to- reserve. The latter is for men mer]y 0f j.ort Artbu,. \y civ l"‘>' would give then okay i!
cd Nov. 7, 1939, after serving his dav by the Texas Railroad Com- between the ag- of 4n to 50 and Hatcher 65 Dallas attorney l.ar- Ples'dent C'1V<'
I * • • 1 L .. . .. ’ * * • * I)ut K'kut/ii'oo i .1.,.,! 1 .1
ing and in 1929 and 1934 of roh-| f01. a to per cent increase in intra- ^r for enlistment in the Class 4 ig Austin ac-.ountant. for
near collapse.
“I want to stay in this free
country und be free,” the Ameri- MRS. CLARA ALICE STOCKTON term.
can-born Japanese told police. “I Following an illness of a year,] Skinner appealed from a hear-] Olin Culberson and Jerry Sadler,
don’t want to be interned." (Mrs. Clara Alice Stotkton, 62, a! ing ordering the operation. He con-] which, it is estimated, will save!
■Kurakowa, taken to the hospital resident of Denison but one wetk, tended that the law was “a cruel residents of the state $15,000,000 ’T,pY Givlc Arnono
» n.w.i„>ri "on died Mondav at her home. 1615!nnfl unusual nunishment" nrohibi- n.,niinllu 4 “X. V’lliS . -IIIUI1
; mission in an order signed by, preferably ex-service veterans.
—V-
for treatment, was booked “en died Monday at her home, 1515, and unusual punishment" prohibi
route to the United States mar- E. Nelson. i ted by tile constitution and that
shat," which means that he will Funeral services will be held tjbere was r,o basis in fact for the
go to a reception center when he Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock] legislature’s contention that erimi-
recovers. with E. J. Deckel officiating. In-;nal tendencies are inheritable.
_______v___terment will be at Oakwood cent-! ---------------
SOUTH AMERICA TO ALASKA etery, Short-Murray directing. TOKIO RAID BOMBER
HIGHWAY IS PROPOSED Mrs. .Stockton was born at Rod-] HONORED AT BOWIE
annually
The commission held a ten-dav
hearing three months ago on the
proposed increase in rales, which
railroads and truck lines said \va
Nurses Arriving
WASHINGTON, June 2 The
ry Mills, 64, Dallas.
Bailey B. Ragsdale, Crockett,
former legislator, filed for com-
missioner of agriculture through a
petition signed by twenty-eight!
Houston county residents.
Boyce House, 45, Fort Worth
newspaperman and writer, -ent in
his application as a candidate fort
necessary to meet increased oper- war department announced today. lieutenant governor.
atine costs. 1 that twenty-two army nurses re- ___——V
‘From the evidence before us in.eently on duty in tHi- Philippines
men to $42 a month or to
a month. The President’s opin-
ion on the .-ubjecL probah y would CCNVIC” ION OK PENDEJRGAST
-wing them one way or the oC.ei. UPHFLD BY APPEAI.S COURT
The house already has approv pons, June 2—The eon-
| ed the $50 a month minimum viction of Thomas Pendergast,
j twice, and senate conferees say former Kansas City political boss,
on contempt of court charges has
heen upheld today by the United
But whatever finally is dccil.d. state- circuit court of appeals,
-oldiers and sailors won’t get til T Th, court also upheld the convic-
raise right away, it is pointed out • ,ms of K Emmett OfMalley and
Aiphon-us McCormack on similar
charge-. Contempt charges were
placed against the three men in
connection with the 1935 Missouri
fire in uranee rate case compro-
mise.
Nightly Blackout
Scheduled For NY
NEW YORK, June
blackouts may be in
New York’s metropolitan area.
2—Nightly
-lore tor Scout .Emegency Corps Tonite
.Method- of transportation for
AUSTIN Tex., June 2_A high- gers, Ark., daughter of M* an(' BOWIE, Tex., June 3—James these proceedings, and with duejhavr arrived in Australia. HOLLY WOO. MOVIES lO BE ■ commander ni , ■: , nv d fireman’s carrying and
way from Alaska to the tip of Mrs. John Whitehouse, March 24, v. Allred addressed a large crowd) cognizance taken of the very sub- Gen. Dougla- Mm Arthur re- SUBJECTED TO bJEW CENSOR cotp are . 'Major Gen 1 ■'.> 1 u „f -mu’ fir* lighting equip-
South America was visioned here 1697. She also -received her edu-; here as they gathered to pay trib-stantial increase in tonnage handl-j ported that most of them had serV | , -;— , , "'erry, -aid today ’h- d -out now ment u jd b- taught senior Boy
today by delegates attending the cation at that point and was mar-, ute to Lieut. Kenneth Eugene Red-1 ed by the applicants and of the, ed both on Bataan peninsula and MASHING I ON. June Ho m ellect annost won , Scotr in th- outdoor emergency
t
annual convention of the Colo- vied there. She was -a member: dy 0f Bowie, who dropped bombs substantial increase in revenue
rado-Gulf highway association. of the Pentecostal church. ! on Tokyo in the raid under Brig, resulting therefrom, since the in-
Completlon 0f the Pan-Amerl- Surviving are four daughters, Gen. Doolittle. creases in operating expenses bo-
can highway to the tip of South Mrs. L. Drumm and Mrs. Alta Wo-i Allred called the roll of the] came effective and since the hear-
Ameriea anil the military highway Iters of Qualla, Okla., ,Mrs. Mae Bowie soldiers who lost their lives( ing was held, as shown by reports
to Alaska would complete the Bassett of Denison and Mrs. Char-
project Johnson of Muskogee; a sis-
The Colormlo-Gulf route begins ter, Mrs. Stella Sumpter,
in the first World War. He also, made to us by the applicants, we
paid a special tribute to James] are of the opinion, and find, that
Ciari- Solomon and Roy Dumas, Uu ihe increases prayed for arc not
at Laredo, Texas, and extends to more, Okia., 12 grandchildren and! Bowie boys who have given their
Denver. ' threp great grandchildren. (lives since last December.
justified,” the
stated.
commssion order
lywood movies going to foreign General Terry surveyed the dim- trajnjn(r course tonight, according
countries soon will ho subjected out from a navy blimp and this to ^ ^ Finch, director. The
to a new censorship. is his report: se0Jts will mobilize at 7:30 m the
Uncle Sam will pass on the, Brooklyn is a blaze of lights; a <cb0ol gymnasium.
out-going movies to see that they night baseball game lights the, _ ---- —---— ■ —
C. Hatohitt; mother, Mrs. don’t give an unfavorable imprea- j skies over Jersey City and. as for^
Hatchitt, box 26, Rosan-Uion of the United States. News- Queens, Terry remarks, “It seem- [NvA 1 Iv.lL—
on Corregidor island and nearly
all of them left the Philippines
only a few days before Corregi-
dor fell to the Japanese.
Among them were Second Lieut.
Eunice C. Hatohitt; mother, Mrs.
Wallace Hatchitt, box 26, Rosan-j-
ky. .;r,d Soonuri T.leiu Lucv Iris reels r!so must pass through the ed that the only unlighted area jf j^,u dll not receive roar Prm
Wilson; mother, Mr- Ada Ignore’ censors’ ip to make sure they don’t in Queens were the many giaw before 6;.m, pleas# plwM 200 ts/
Wilson, route 1, Big Sandy,
I reveal any military secrets.
| yards.”
me will be sent voa.
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