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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Cloudy and unsettled today;
colder Friday
THE DENISON PRESS
MEMBER OF THE U NITED P RESS
DENISON, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEB. 9, 1939
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35 cents
Per Month
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL 5-NO. 186
Loyalists To Make Decision To Fight or Surrender
Dam Looked on Favorably By Most
Of Affected Area, Writer Claims
Power Issue Is Hottest Part
Of Fight; Phillips is Still
Against the Giant (Project <
(Ed. Note: After complet-
ing a series of stories dealing |
with the feelings of people |
all through the affected area I
of the Ited River dam project.
Lorrc’i Williams of the Okla-
homa News, summed up a vis-
it with all this area as fol-
lows, with his story given on-
ly in part).
By LORREN WILLIAMS
If construction of the $54,000,-
000 Denison dam should be put
up to a vote in the four counties
most closely affected, it is prob-
able the project would be approv-
ed by a considerable margin.
That seems a fair prediction af-
ter a survey of sentiment in the
area in an attempt to arrive at n
fair cross section of opinion.
It seems a fair inference, too,
considering the outcome of the
July primaries in which Denison
dam was a strong issue.
The four counties that would be
partially submerged, Bryan, Love,
Marshall and Johnston, have a
combined population of more than
75,000 persons.
Laborers Hack Dam
Laborers and renters through-
out the entire area appear strong-
ly in favor of the big double reser-
voir because it would open up
thousands of jobs for the next
five years.
Land owners seem to favor the
project where they are convinced
a fair price would be paid for the
■■ale. This excludes some who have
sentimental ties and do not wish
to leave the valley of the Red
and Washita rivers to make way
for the 145,000-acre lake.
Butinetftmrn in Madill and
Tishomingo seem strongly op-
posed to the dam. But they
would be outweighed by fav-
able sentiment in Durant and
throughout Bryan county,
which is the largest of the
four in population and terri-
tory.
3 Day
Prayer
Is Set
NEGOTIATIONS WITH
INSURGENTS UNDER
CONSIDERATION NOW
: PERPIGNAN, Fretnch-
|Frontier, Feb. 9 (UP) —
Spanish j Premier Juan Negrin, fori
( • - ---- Spanish minister AI < lei Vayo, re
Hopes General Condition » loyali i leaders expect to reach a sentatives of thi <
Satisfactory; Vatican says final decision by tonight on con-:eminent and meml.-. of
Indisposition is Persistent | turning the civil war or surrend- my general staff met at .
As World Awaits Newsjering to the nationalis , it was 22 on the broad
understood today.
Has Restful
Night Wednesday
Second Physician is Called
In; Condition is Not Alar-
ming, is Reported Today
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 9 (UP)
Everyday
DENISON
LOUIS
Bv
ANDERSON
Rome churches today as the Vat-
ican semi-official news
highway
I runs through Le Perhtus to
— | their decision.
£ "Nothing ■
I del Vayo told the United
| It was intimated that wi
few hours the world mai
whether the loyalist leadei
decided to give up a fight
all tow knew was
fight on, hoping
peace terms and, at the sum
ma army gambling on an outbreak
ild foi
and st
I.
mpe
for
Other reports
whether. and coming dir
persi 'tent—
‘rom central
ICY BHEATII—Violent storms sweeping the Atlantic with high winds and below freezing tempera-
tures not only have made transatlantic crossing perilous for big ships, but has brought hardship to
fishermen in their smaller craft. Here is the trawler William J. O’Brien, ice-coated as ‘he arrived
in Boston to discharge her cargo at the fish pier Rigging and spars are encrusted with ice and
nets are frozen on the deck. Men must be rugged to follow a life like this.
(Continued On Page 4)
Radio Of British Freighter Silent
Today; Four Ships Speed to Rescue ReDen"8lnFour
"The Kid” To Make Personal Show . Years, Dies
NEW YORK Feb. 9 (UP)—The
radio of the British freighter Mar-
_ . ..... . ... ia de Ijatrinaga last reported sink-
ill Denison Despite Wires Illness ing in mid-Atiantic with its crew
_____ j of 37, was silent today while 4
Coogan, skyrocketing to gagement might be cancelled due sb>Ps speidi..g ‘l-s
Charlie |to the illness of his wife, Betty ,Urgent appcals for direet,ons’
making
, , , . Tony Latona, the Denison we
-Three days of prayer for the teweight from the Oklah
popes health were ordered in all post, and a brother of Phil La- in Europe which w
tonn, best known fighter ever French to intervene
... ac< c' ’urned out of this city, drew praise n publican cause,
satd m a special bulletin: from a sportwriter in the Daily There were p-.-istc- ■ t
The pope s ind.spos.tion is per- Vrdmnreite, who relates or. a re-1 from Pari- that Gen. Jo., Mi.-,
s.stmg, with depression and gen-1 Mt hoxinjf tournament there. I lovali. t command-: in chief 'i,
era weaken,ng of strength, ae- thmdv in a column: The best c. ntral Spain, hue asked I an-
companted by slight fever. _ The|physiqU(. theae Hred oM ,y(,c,for H safe ,a.uhlct t0 !eav, th{
tionarv ”L ''' ' ' ' "" '* s a" I*a7ed on during the meet belonged country and was negotiating with
. ' , ... r°"y Latona, who !os: to Mai- the 'nationalists on surrender.
An unimpeachable Vatican'eolm Smith in the semi-finals
source said that Dr. Giovanni Ric-ill’s still undetermined
chi, the pope’., physician, "P-i" S’- Jackie «*«*, .ill b, h,„ „|a ,h.„|
a.m chair be- his personal appearance next Sun- L„ mt.n, favored a finish fjKht.
Hi n ' y,' UA s01'V fr°'n Ho"ywood Foreign Minister D<
Bian-1 said that he was there last night L a frontier presc cr
his wife, Betty Grab!*, re- "Everything is not
cently operated on for appeodi-;e. ,
Despite the obvious gravity of citis. . .The New York Sunday' 1
the reports, it was asserted that. News this week carries a full pa ire
story with a banner headline-
“Texas Has A Hangover” relat-
ing the strange and weird things
supposedly done by W. Lee O’Dan-
iel since he was inaugurated intc
the governor’s office. The story
said that most Texans had lost
their regard for him. V new
angle was that there were im-
peachment rumors going around,
which we haven't heard about.
entire night in an
side the pope’s bed.
A secord physician. Dr.
chi Go-a. was called in this morn-[with
ing.
CANADA'S JIM — Counterpart
above the Canadian border of
Uncle Sam's Postmaster General
James A. Farley is Norman A.
McLartv, above, Windsor attor-
ney. He recently was appointed
to the Canadian Postmaster
Generalship by Prime Minister
W. L. Mackenzie King. The new
appointee is now serving his
fourth year in the Canadian
Parliament. He is a Liberal, a
Presbyterian, is married and has
two daughters. He is 49.
Trains Make
Better Time
in January
Vayo said .Railway Accidents Over 1st
iferenee: Ten Months of 1938 Fall
o=t. Thi | Off From the Year Before
urrendered ---
----I The percentage of Katy passen-
____ |the pope’s condition was not one
Best funny line of the week
Key Won in Area
The Denison dam was a factor
in last summer's primary election
in the governorship race. Gen. W.
S. Key campaigned in favor of;
the dam and carried all four coun-|
ties over his opponents, Governor
Phillips and former Governor Bill
Murray, who opposed the dam.
Key had a lead of nearly 5000
votes in Bryan county over Gov.
Phillips. >
Other factors entered into the
race. It was charged that Key!
drew heavy support because of j
relief groups since he formerly
headed the Works Progress Ad-
I Jackie
fame as "The Kid” in
iChaplin pictures, will be able tolGrable. Coogan was
make his personal appearance ini personal appearance at Brown-
! Denison Sunday, reports reaching I wood, Texas, Tuesday night when
this city indicate. he received word his wife
It was originally believed his en- dergone an appendicitis operation
---.-• I at Glendale, Calif.
The youthful actor raced by au
Mrs. Lucy K. Baker, 83, resid-
ing in Denison the past four years,
rescue 1We*"8da5’ aftcrnoon 2lcame from Fred Allen last night,
poeiinnu I ° c 01 11 hei home, 1009 S. Per- joking Jack Benny about his early
ry avenue following an illness of
Civil Service
Examinations
Held Friday
I7-1___, A message to radio marine's f0ur
Chatham, Mass., station from the
SS ........
had un- *r had rcachcd ,he P°siti<n *ivc" 1‘chap Jw"^ Rev.’ T.'.' R
in distress calls from the Maria ciating Interment
de Lurrinaga and had found no-jview cemeter>. Short-Murray di-! n(.r radio
thing. She was searching the vie-1 reetimr . °
* . | theatre *
tomobile to Dallas, arriving about 1111 ! ^ra’ Baker was boon Dec. 7, managers
an hour before an airline plane The last message from the! ^H55 as the daughter of Mr.
was due to depart, but was told stricken ship, received by
the plan had a capacity load and marine’s costal station at
vaudeville days. Allen, as though
could
take no more passengers, ham last night was:
jCupt. F. E. Davis, a New York “SOS, SOS, all stntions ashore
Civil service examinations for!pi,0‘’ d*'^cd his sleep- and afloat please stand by. This
male senior and junior typists to|erl.tor ‘hc K,d and let (°°Kan "hlP has 37 mon aboard so for the
/mi ............. . . ... sub for him.
and a half months. ...... „c„„.v ,la
Veendam said that the steam-r c, TnT’ hdd tbis ”d his car^'r « « stoker for a,
Veendam said that the steam , afternoon at 2 from Short-Murray fire-eater's act . Ed Sullivan,
I.amb offi-, columnist, this week said Holly-
,,n , . was Fair- wood is having a fit over the man-
,v ew cemetery. Short-Murrav Hi-:--- ’—11 - has been cutting into
________ gate receipts. Theatre |
Mrs. Baker w’as bonn. Dec. 7, managers all over the n
— 'vr t o and j supposedly complaining to movie |
radio “°"n Rawlein of Cave City, producers that they book ______
Chat-l ',b" and wasg reaied »nd educat- pictures, have to charge admission.
fill vacant positions at Washing-
ton, I). C., will be held in the ex-
amination room of tie Denison
post office Friday morning at 9
o’clock, it was announced todoy
by Mrs. Mary K. Roach, civil ser-
vice executive here.
Senior typists will draw an an-
rual salary of $1,440. while jun-
ior typists will make $1,200 year-
. I * * ly, Mrs. Roach said. The exsm-
VlCtS vJnCl6rW2iy .illations, following completion will
_ jbe sent to the New Orleans dis-
(UP)_jtrict office for grading.
(Continued On Page 4)
Hines Case
NEW YORK. Feb.
Counsel for James J. Hines had I Exams win b(1 h(,|(i ht,rL. later!^ould be able„to
admitted today that the Tammany for scnior arK, j(lninv stenograph- Tt'xas toul' _ „
l?nder had taken money from!P„ jn whjch both malo a,„, open in Wichita Falls today.
exist, it was learned.
I Salaries of $1,200 annually to
safety of these men please stop
„ . , all radio telegraph signals.”
Coogan paid h,s fare with pen-, E t for crisp me8sa(fes
mes, mckles, dimes quarters and’ thc re8CUC shipSi the ra()io
dollar bills, his pay for the Brown- channel was k(.pt clear throughout
ivood appearance which he had not ,h(. ht hu( there WBS no further
changed into bids.
The couple had planned a reun-
ton at the end of his tour. Miss
Grable was stricken while at work
in Jack Benny’s “Man About*
Town.”
iHer physician, Dr. li. G. West-|
phal. said Betty was improving,
and indications were that Jackie 1
continue his
was scheduled ;
(Continued On Page 4)
ed at that point. After bccom- whjiP
ing the bride of Mr. Baker, she1 stars
moved with him to Oklahoma which conies in.t
City, later coming to Denison.
the film boys allow their
to appear over the ether,
home-
Most of the magnate
free
\vith-
Shc was a member of the Cal-, di'awincr their stars from the air-
'«'■>’ Baptist church. ways, Tyrone Power being the lat-
Surviving is a son, Thomas Bak-|eSt. . .Sullivan believes film
er of Oklahoma City and a daugh-|hoads may have waited too long
te”. Mrs. Ida Sherrill of Denison. | hefore taking the necessary action
Pallbearers will be R. T. Dunn, j . Most sordid story of the week
Homer Summerhill, Cecil Whit- reveals a Dallas dope peddler sun-
ten, Allen Overturff, Rnlph Dar- pij0,i his own mother with <h-
(Continued On Page 4)
Iyer tra■ ’ - malvin
uled time
or better during
January of this
! Surprise! The
year was 2.43 pe
same month la t
ve
nt
above the
and 3.17
Weather Man
iper cent above t
ious month, a sta
bat
em
of
L»nt
the prev-
issued bv
Wrong Again
Frank W Grace,
president and pen
era
Dallas, vice-
manager of
the M-K-T., revei
lls.
A cold wave, scheduled in Den-
The Ka tv ra .
tl
ains over
ison today, wa? postponed another
the North Texa-
district
in Janu-
day after forecasts had soured
lary of 1939, compa
ed
with the
and warm weather with light rains
same number run
in
January.
fell this morning.
1938. Of the t
ain
n.57 pei
Temperatures reached a 53 de-
cent made schedu
ed
t:m
com par-
g'ee mark today after a low of
ed with 98.21 per
cent in
January
•42 decrees Wednesday afternoon.
of 1938.
Forecasts for tonight and Friday
The road ran
1,798 t
rains ov-
were for cold and possib'e snow?
er the whole sys
tern
di
irir.g the
in section* of Texas and Okla-
first month of 1'
139
anc
ran th*-
homa.
same number dur
ing
le 1938
The cold air mn.*-* was moving
period. Of those
°2 per
over the northe. n plain? state.-
cent made sched
ie, while
today and was centered around
only 95.77 per c
ma
ie ached-
Pembina, N. D, where the mer-
ule time during* i
same month
eury siood at 26 below zero.
ot last year, the
tem
ent indi*
Subzero weather wa? reported
cates.
throughout that sections, with Hu-
rot:, 8. D.. reporting 12 below;
Railway crossin
enU in
Helena, Mont., 24 below; She
the first ten mont
f 1
'36 num-
dan. Wyo., 14 below; North Platte.
bored 2 fih'J a train
in the
Neb. 4 above and Dodge City.
same period of 19
acc
ordinff to
Kan.. 10 above. Freezing weather
the Association of
V n
leri
can Rail
extended past Oklahoma Citv and
roads.
Amarillo where temperature?
Fatalitio v< suit
1 rt
=•100(1 at 30
accidents totaled
.15
! d
iring thc
Bill Revises
ti n month period
compared with 1
510, a
t yeat.
decrease
nell and C. Stovall.
, body wrecker.
Registrations
fromi
Tluteh Schultz’s gang of policy vacancjes
racketeers, but an effort to show I
that the money was used
Committee
Urges Defense
, . „ ^orjjunior stenographers and $1,440j
charitable purposes was balked. ;to scnior stcno(rraphers.
Lloyd Paul Stryker, chief conn- ... ..... _ j
scl for Hines, made the admission
during the cross-examination of
J. Richard (Dixiel Davis, one-
time mouthpiece for the gang, who
has turned state’s evidence. Hines
is charged with receiving bribes
Mrs. J. C. Carter
Dies Thursday
Human Chain
Breaks; Thief
Chuck Waldron tell us his j AUSTIN Tex , Fo P (UF
wife, Ruth, and recently Revision of the motor vehicle reg-j
daughter, are very well, thank ijstration laws to prohibit use of,
you. That s swell . . Thr n scrip in paying fee-', but permit-1
cent president’s birthdav balls all 1.jnR. l.or|mrationK t0 ve„wWr
over the nation, netted $1,021,000. i(,ountk,? nthcr than thdr domi.
after all expenses were paid. Den- w88 ,.pcommend(,d ,rtd;n !n
ison did all right on the event , i the house highwav- .< > .!
Gen. Franco of the Spanish rehe - tral-fjc cnmmittL.t
has promised France that
Person
in 193
tin -a
year.
injure i
iod
for-
The
mec
A-
safe:
Amc
Bake
3,081
)82 in
regional
of the
Railway:
hotel in
tract sever-
inity, it is
a
t WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UP)—j thur Anderson (I).-Mo.) held that eien "nation will not dominate Thi bill, ' . I \ K. :
If war breaks out in Europe it .with the exception of one amend- Spain when the civil war is over. Sherman, was design '■ ■ loos
Franco know? a? well as we Ho| restriction- which in thi
indie
fo
rail me
Mrs. James C.
to use political influence in the dpnt 0f Denison 35
gang’s favor. Thursday morning at 10:45 at a
Davis’ relations with Hope Dare, ]0(.a| hospital following an illness
his show girl friend, were the of three years. She resided at
subject of sarcastic questioning j 903 \\r Sears street,
by Stryker during the cross-exam-1 Eunorn! services will be held
ination. 'Once, when Stryker re-ljrriday at o p. m. from Rhort-
ferred to her as Davis mistress. | Mu,Tny chapel with Rev. J. F'.
Davis f ared and replied angrily j urrcll officiating. Interment
thnt she was the giil I fell in wjjj he in charge of Short-Mur-
love with.”
The closing minutes of the |
day’s session were enlivened by
Carter, a resi-l fleeing theft suspect hung head- °[ Preside"t Roosevelt’s expand
years, died (down from an eighth floor fire «<* naUol>al defense Program,
escape, a detective clutching
ami
1 ray.
a threat from District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey to impeach the
testimony of one of his own wit-
nesses, Max D. Steucr, a lawyer,
who testified that Hines had ask-
ed him to compromise a tax case
fob Schultz. When he reported
to Hines that th* case could nnt.i
be compromised and that he no
longer was interested in the mat-
ter, Steuer said, Hines responded
"I’m not, either."
Deceased was born as Corinne
Greer at Knoxville, Tenn., and
was reared and educated at that
point. She married Dr. Carter
at Knoxville and came with him to
Denison. The couple had resided
at the same address during the
entire 35 years here.
Surviving are her husband, two
nephews, Greer and Hugh Clark
of Knoxville.
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that Mussolini and Hitler did not*have concentrated the registrati. :i
send troops and war munitions,of truck and bus line vehicle.- in
into Spain just out of kindness. |ihe larger counties hut to tighten
They want something and will get 1 prohibition agaii st the u-. ,.f ?rhoo ■
it when the war is over, provided scrip, „ means the highwai ! educat
the insurgents win the brother- partment contended cost the -tivt.o safety
against brother conflict . • Jo-1 large sums in fees last year. : i -nals
I include
"Handling
dangerous
t cars at dc-
Bus Drivers,”
in public
te-ts—safety
track and B&B forces
nd dangers in whistle
tals.”
■it-,” “Scho
Safety educ
1—effioency
ects
othc
>1
itio’
ham
foot,,
second detective
Then the human
dropping Ray A. Squires,
truck driver, to hi- death in
alley below.
HOME OPER \TOR DIES
war
will be imperative and essential ment—restricting the war depart
C11T r\ iL that tbl‘ United States have a ment’.- plane purchases to 1,000—
r Sills lo Death Strong aii fleet and adequate "we believe this to be a reason-
___ ! aimed force, the house military j able and sound program having to
LOR VNGELES Feb 9 (UP)_aHairs committee said today in 11 do with the proper defense of
For a tense instant, last night, a Monty report urging enactment;what we look upon as the eonti-
------ -------- ------ ’ nental United States.”
fire vu ooicuse program. j The reports were based on a
his* 7'be rePort cited thc war prep- $376,000,000 program reported j han.nesburg, South Africa, has a! Under the bill, reported favor
uiutions of two great European 1 favorably by the committee Tues- wav of dealing with human I ab]y. 14 to 2, corporations may FATHER OF FUNERAL
clinging to the first one’s legs. democracies, Great Britain ami day. They were released on the leeches. Those who won’t accept, register their vehicles in any
chain broke, ■ b lanco’ as arguments for the eve of a senate session which may jobs are sent to a penal er.lonv in j county in which they h:iv. branch
.jo’ adoption of Roosevelt’s program.1 bring another collision with Presi-j the Transvaal . President |agencies and operate,
the'The preparations were started two dent Roosevelt over his foreign Roosevelt wants that additional
!years ago, it said, but are still j policy and amid demands for a 1150 millions to help nlong the
j 6hort of the mass-production stage naval building holiday and an i idle.
Squires led police to a room deemed necessary for protection, j arms limitation conference. j ---
where he said he cached $2000 | The majority observed that war I Representative Louis Ludlow) Holding a job down docs have
worth of silk he was suspected of|may come in Europe at an early 1 (D.-Ind.) author of an amend- its drawbacks at times. Only yes-! --—
stealing from his employers. But date and added that "when and if ment which would require a nn- terday this writer missed an op-i MOSCOW. FV :* (UP)—Fif-
’—’ ‘ that unfortunate and regrettable tional referendum before the portunity to make a trip to Mi-.’eon Jasmin :i”d Mnnchukonr. ’ wifi
situation occurs, it will he im- United Rtates could engage ininmi, Fla., because he has to work.!soldiers were killed or wounded attend thc funeral services,
perative and essential that we are, war, wrote Secretary of State Last year it was a possible visit in clashes with Soviet forces near ’■•angement- wcr. no* known
prepared and equipped to provide: Cordell Hull, suggesting a two-to South America . Maybe I Island 227 in the \guti river Mon- j Surviving bc-iJes his son
for our own!year naval holiday, while Senator I some dav we can knock off labor*|day and Tuesday, it was nnnoune-jL a i-n r. M UHv Brooks of
and a brother.
Japs-Russians
Fight Again
Cecil 1.
I the Brook?
| word thi?
o ' hi- fat
fu
Bro
left
Ki-
ll ay
he darted through a window onto
the fire escape. Detective George
Underhill leaped after hint, and in
the struggle, Squires lost his bn!-,.
nnee and toppled over the rail- J adequate protection for our own j year naval holiday, while Senator j some day we can knock off labors , day and Tuesday, it wa- announc ,1 a
ing The detective hung over the shores that we may command re- William H. King (D.-U.) announc-j any time and head out for desti- . d officially tod.’n K ngman
rail, holding the 200-pound man spect of our rights, at least in our .ed he would sponsor an arm limi , nations the heart calls for . . The Manehu-Japao,-- casna’
by one foot. He wns slidimg over own country.” itation resolution in the senate. “King of the Underworld" open- tie? were one dead and two
too, when Itetective Harvey Burch ' J376.000.00n Pmjnm I “The time has come for the ed here yesterday and brings wounded
grabbed him. Underhill suddenly! A simultaneous report by the United States to undertake the
held nothing. Burch and a third majority, signed by ten republi-jrole of peacemaker,” Ludlow told
officer pulled him to safety. I nans and Representative C. Ar-1 Hull.
ak?, pi
■ral hoi
thi?
iprietor of
.me, received
if the death
Brooks, at
30 a m. to-
lanied by his
mo nr. ing to
Ar-
hern
forth Humphrey Bogart, and
(Continued On Page 4)
The elnsho? followed an earlier
battle last week in which both
sides suffered eastualties.
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