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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICI$Vri
Generally fair today
and Sunday
THE DENISON PRESS
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35 cents
Per Month
WHor
ER OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1939
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
ESCAPE JUST AS
TANKER BREAKS UP
CHATHAM, Mass., Fob. 11 before the tanker bioke to pieces.
(UP)—The last 20 officers and The tanker was bound from Port
seamen of the wrecked tanker Arthur, Tex., to Ibovidence K. 1
Lightburne clambered to safety Sixteen members of the crew
down rope ladders onto the deck had been taken off earlier aboard
ot the coast guard cutter, Camp-1a coa t guard surfboat, and land-
bell, today, only a few minutes ed at Block Island. The final
.......... .....| rescue wa completed without a
f eusua ty, while the grounded, bat-
jtered tanker tossed heavily, thiea-
tening at any moment to collapse
Everyday
DENISON
LOUIS
By
ANDERSON
Some of the boys around this
town would try and have you be-
lieve the Press turns out two
copies a day, one for grandma and
the other for grandpa. The ex-
tra copy is because grandpa can’t
stand to read a paper that has
been mussed up by another’s rend-
ing ... This correspondent has a
very tough time of it at intervals
by contemporaries who might be
just s wee bit afraid of us print-
ing some antic he has pulled.
Which is all right, perhaps, but
not very flattering. Some evi
dently have been seeing too many
picture shows showing reporters
as they are—not . . . Next time
you are worried about what we
might do, follow us around a bit
nnd to swamp the coast guard cut
ter.
The Lighburne, a 417 foot ves-
sel of the Texas company, load
od with 72,000 barrels of gasoliut
and kerosene ran aground on
rocks off the clay cliffs of Block
Island, a shoaly patch nine miles
off the Rhode Island coast, yester-
day.
Her master Capt. Woiman, mes-
saged immediately for help. Coast
guard boats put out from Block
Islands and New London, Conn.,
grouping through boiling seas in
the face of a strong southeast
wind.
The Light1'urnc’s radio kept up
a constant stream of urgent mes-
sages until her main set failed, n
half hour after the crash. Her
bo ds were filling fast and she
was being battered mercilessly.
Her pump were useless against the
inward rush of water.
An emergency radio was set up
is captioned: “Next for Louis”
showing Jack Roper of Califor-
nia. It is not added “to knock
head off . . . Denison was off last
night or Sherman was hot in that
basketball game. It was the worst
defeat of the year for the locals.
nad get something on us then put
on a squeeze p ay. . .A picture This mes.sage was intercepted In
[1 Ttt IA ts n rl • ^ * M n v t f T ah j. .
rndio marine 8 Chatham station •
“Wo are going down. Looks like
all hands must leave now. Capt-
ain says he will know soon.”
The last message, as relayed by
radio marine, was: “Lightburne
operator says called aft to leave.’’
Meantime the coast gua’M surf-
‘Zaza’ opened here yesterday jboart had arrived and taken off
»rr) gave ( laudette Cos ert one jp, me!1, She WHS enroute to
of her best emotional chances of B!ock ia!and with tbpm whe„ tbp
a career. She takes full advnnt- kst appPa,s wwt out. Tho
age of it, but those who witness-1 fr(d);btpl. Thomas Track and coast
ed said it was slow in spots. Her-' ard pfltro, u.tjvp wprp
bert Marshall can add to the pres- landing by the tanker, but dared
tfee of any cast . . Jack Fisher not iaunpb a |ifeboat in the bpavv
will move his business place to sra
the basement of the security. The Campbell arrived soon af-
building Monday . . . Headline h!tPr midnight. She was manouv-
Press yesterday: “Issues Sent to!pred dirpptlv U!ldpI. thp „tPrn of
Farm Homes with Invitation to ,bp doom„d tankpr wbich waa
Come Here.” That would be a
bouncing with the waves, striking
the rock bottom of the shoals ev-
ery time she dropped.
SP Asks Eight
Millions From
U. S. Government
sight to behold, hut you know the
deputed power of the press . . . E.
E. Rogers, scout official here,
said the breakfast Tuesday morn-
ing will be at 7 o’clock instead of
7:30, ns first announced ... A
huge spoon has been sent EDI!
bv the Golden Gate exposition.
Giving him a hand to help feed
those reliefers cut off by the
$150,000,000 appropriation slash.
recently? . . Headline- "O'Dnn The Southern Pacific railway
iel Beset by New Woes,” and be- has applied to the Interstate Com-
tween new woes nnd new foes, it’s m,.rce Commission at Washington
tough going. Tor approval of a loan of *8,000.-
|O00 from the Reconstruction Fi-
Life this week gives a augha le nance Corporation, payable within
picture series of a wrestler in j three years with interest of not
New York coming out into the|m0re than 4 per cent, it was learn-
nudience where a woman is dou-Jed from officials here,
ble-handing him. . He finally The proceeds are to be used in
returned to the ring, abashed . . - meeting maturing equipment obli-
And not with a bashed face . . . |jratio-na of *3.878,000 and intor-
They say the loyalists in Spain 8sts on founded debt of *4,122,-
have enlisted women to help them «oo, which becomes due between
.M- -Hi.gt.VM
Sherman
Addition
Bid Low
Wood and Elliot of Sherman
To Get Contract ,For Con-
struction of Denison High
School Addition, Report
Entire Project
Totals $86,401
Dallas and Ft. Worth Com-
panies Submit Low Bids
On Plumbing, Electrical
VOL. 5—NO! 188
International Affairs Forgotten
By Italians as Nine Day F uneral
Ceremonies For Pope Pius Begin
Condolence
Sent By
Emmanuel
Joan Asks Divorce From Tone; Columnist
Claims She Could Get No Rest Can * Stand
— —— Noise Actc
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11 (UP)— from a $30 a week as chorus high-!
Joan Crawford sought a divorce .kicker to a $1,500,000 movie con- Drill,., r„ ~ j .. w
today from Franchot Tone, who'tract as one of the industry’s best, u i i NerJ'es;
left Hollywood last fall and said einoters, charges her socialite hus-i ,e • °n c ,arKf *^es
he hoped he never had to come, band with the usual Hollywood J y,ng federal Property
cR- |dlvorce-o!btainer: "extreme mentalI ga Vg*e rirv »»
The r^-headed Joan, who rose cruelty.” TlipV n , ' r! ' , 11
I ou , , ... , . 'U1 )—Ur. Logan Clendening, hi
--_--she accused him specifically of nationally known health (.0,um|li
Cardinals Who Had Arrived
In Rome to Felicitate Pope
On Power Restoration, in-
noi I'UiU Mike, Joe ana Jack
Crtscuola hauled in a seineful ol
(ish. neai Coupeville. Wash., in
'he northern pari of Puget
Sound and found one of the
fish already bottled, as shown
Here. Apparently the tinny ad-
venturer had entered the bottle
when he was smaller, had liked
j Wood and Elliot of Sherman
submitted low construction bids C<)Ulft Justice n0t ,cttl.ntr her, stay at hom<; of 'steeled himself today to - - die
on the Denison high school pro- ,an evening and get her rest; of the noise of an air compre.-o,
posed addition, opened at a city fO leStif V ill ,ms,?t,n>' th.at ahc •“•■*“1' him roek drill, convinced that In- D . T , . -
US. Mail Fraud : L UQr~.
the construction work. j _ j Jo'K-, who ,s now being pushed A1, tbat it accomplished vva- hi World ^hOWine
'for the work in comparison with J® ; a M'a of wave »«• » and'd.-^^'etVm nf'f'-.l.t'' pr - - Deep MoUmUlg
.other bids ranging up to $84,448.1 j*ea* ^^tirns of savings, broadway stage, is not expected tv *
Bilton B. Levy company, of j Dewey May Take A Pari t-> contest the divorce. He moved rinndnni . , TU i* nx. • ■■
Dallas, submitted lowest bid for) ,, tm out of her house la-t July, took i ® ende""* J'*h ar; ^ Th~?. Chureh Head,
(plumbing and heating in the ad-! ^'M IDLE, 111.. Fell. 11 ICPi |an apartnient by himself and tried , . Believed Most Likely To
dition, *10,500. while the Empire “*• U- S- Supreme Court justicejjn vain to brcak his contiact with!, J'1 h yftc.r"ay’ :,n:'af' ! Succeed the Ute P,u» XI
|Electric company of Fort Worth be a *f»vernment witness »nd|Metrol^}oldwyn.Meypi.- Thp stuJtel P"l'minary l-antenng with n,
for electrical work,
America’s ace racket buster and
dio was adamant; it
working on the sound
kept
iwas low __________ _____M
$5 836. a ^Tew York financier have been
I Contracts for the work will be aske(l ,0 testify in a Federal trial j^ day'
la^nictT-tug^ Monday afternoon" 4^ '^e(1 *l?r.,000 mail order _ fraud. Lh(Maad^erhuM 'S3id he tried to rea<"n with Cien-l^wi-r to the popes and to feiici-
construction foreman, set a bout J VATICAN CITY, Feb. li (UP)
.j to silence the drill which had |—Cardinals who had assembled in
4 ' 1 wrecked h s peace of mind. , Rome to celebrate the triumph of
Walt Baumgarner, the foreman Pius XI in restoring temporal
the uiace and stayed there until I hours after the bids wore opened, The h'Kh comt justice _ is Har-jan.jvpd ftt
'ip bail mown ,.oo large to back
out He is a drum fish plenti-
'nl m t'u : p|P wpnt w
the Seattle aquarium
according to city charter regula- lan F- sto,'B H,‘ hl»s advised n=
jtions. Recommendations will be !'i!‘tant U. S. Attorney Rav Fore-
| made by Architect Preston M. mnn ,hnt h,‘ wi,! here for
iGercns of Fort Worth. thf' trial of Mrs. Maude Ault. 48-
City officials said the basic bids year-old grandmother, and her
'totaled *8fi,401, with the city Knu, Robert Eugene Ault. 28, fa-
!school board to put up the differ- ,ther of two children on March 13.
ence between that and *81,000 in ! The ace racket buster and fi-
Rin»nf»ff WnnHarH t,K furds for the a,l,,ition work- ,,Hncit‘'' whn have been a ked to
Durneu- W UUUdrU An ag.reement to that effect was appear in behalf of the govern
- 'made with the school board sever- mont are District Attorney Thomas
The first in an annual series of.al weeks ago. E. Dewey of New York and Win-
Scout-O-Ramas was being present-! Work on the foundation at the throp Aldrich, chairman of the
She said she
Scout-O-Rama
Opens Tody At
Idening, that the drilling had to go !tate him on 17 years of a reign
a psope y s ®b|en . jmi_ despite the unpleasant noise, (that had endeared him to the
would keep this °set th-rnen t secrin! adn?ittcd ^ tb< ! "f 'oday ™,aad t0 d‘a*
She charged Tone with making'' 1°C -1P°'"t: he h“ 1 tned h'S dcath iind tht <‘U-‘ctlon of
. rr v, , . . .. , idevote ni.s afternoon hours to wri- rt,s Ruccesuor
ii ie misewue y insr-.inr s < jtiner his health articles, but the' As the cardinals met, the body
wear oancing pumps when she ... , ' 1
, , , noise unnerved him and made hip 01 the pope, his face serene n
wanted house slippers. , . , , ., , , .
,.r. „ ., work impossible, 'death, lay on a red velvet covered
“On many evenings," the com- r
Some guys work with their bier in the Sistmc chapel awaiting
plaint said, "he would insist that
the plaintiff go out with him so-
minds,’
those
Baumgarner said. "I know!it.- removal this afternoon (10 a.
noises to a mind worker|m- Denison time) to the Basilica
mighty unpleasant all jSt- Peter’s.
I hroughout the night a mem-
daily, well knowing that she was : nu,^ hp
tired and had work to do and i • ,, „
when she would suggest postpon- n, , , I, , , ,, .
ing to a better time. Tone would!, f (,ndpr’^ P11'.1"1 ■ »hort-hand- '>«r of the Vatican noble guards
become very sullen and angrv- ,ed a*er.from. ma'd« hls c»atf and ad 8t°?d aJ ««h corner of the
wou'd refuse to speak to the !sald' . ’ m c°,rnr *? f1nI' dan,n- I,w.h'-f tkc‘ head confessor of
|ed thing once and for all.” St. I'eter s Basilica, keeping their
VVTA workers scattered to safe- jvigil, recited prayers for the mie-
upon her time” lty as tbe doctor began to swing ionary pope who died yesterday.
' She added that she was “a good!ap°n coraprrasor valve. They This morning the cardinals had
and faithful wife” and said that ,1'"' ,f hB shattered t. r e : ing knelt in prayer for the pope u
Tone pestered her to be a social! tremendous fo,ce the com-|the chapel and the
butterfly “without just cause, pro- ,j u„ injum)
ed today by Denison Boy Scouts addition site, delayed perceptibly Chase National bank of New York,
at the corner of Burnett avenue by bad weather during recent! Foreman said the names of the[j.
and Woodard street, with a hope,weeks, has been speeded up by three well known men were used I plaintf if for days at time and has1
of acquainting local citizens withiplacing double shifts on the site, by the Aults in a scheme by bppn unreasonab|c j„ bis demands I
scout craft. working day and night. As soon .which they allegedly fleeced Illi-jUpnn ber ddl)p „
Exhibits, showing work of every |as the foundation is completed, nois business ard professional
merit budge in scouting, and pre- the Sherman contractors will move men of $125,000. Mrs. Ault had
sided over by every scout patrol in to begin actual construction on been held in jail here since Sept. Tone pestered her to be u soi i il the U emendous force of the com-1 * he chapel and the presented the
in Denison, started at 1:30 p. in. the building project. 17 in lieu of *3,000 bond. 'butterfly “without just cause^'iro pre"ROr tank‘ n11 within range (condolences of King Victor Em*
and will last until 0:30 p. m. to-1--n- | Her son, who allegedly posed as vocation reasons or excuse” Fur" wou,d bp inju,'c<i- nianu.-l and mem ers of the royal
day. Exhibits are open to the FORMER DENISON MAN the -cion of a wealthy family thermore she said his ' ' Pacelli, actin*
public with no admission charge.] IS NAMED DIRECTOR and maintained a 10-ioom house arguments and ,-„mni-,inf0 " i 'vind- ''opped to res' and a- he head of the church pending the
The Seout-O-Ram, is h i>re!nrte| — „ «„h '“T H*-
to a solicitation drive, to begin | Rep. Bailey Ragsdale, who was stab.e of fancy horses at Arlington fc-ring " rived.
Tuesday, to raise the Denison pro born in Denison but now has resi- Heights, was released from Jail I
rata of *1.80l» i'n the Chickasaw,dtnce at Crockett, has been nam- January 13 when his wife posted!
Seount council.
'ed director of activities for the *3,000 bond.
carry on the civil war. Women
for years have fought some men’s
battles for them . . . Norma
Shearer has been drawing down
her role
April 28 and June 30.
A shipment of twenty-six car-
loads of fruits and vegetables di s-
invaluable publicity for ner roic tinod for northem and eastern
In “Idiot’s Delight" more because jmarketg from the Rio Gra,m,e v#].
the public can’t imagine her In |Ipy wpro ghipped through Doni-
the part of an unprincipled g;iljvrn p,-jday night on Katy freight
than for any other reason
"Stagecoach” which started out
to be just another western is be-
ing ballyhooed in the big maga-
zines after a review showed it to
be a hit. John Wayne and Claire
Trevor are in the lead roles. . .
Harry Carey can still consistently
put out the best western films.
Witness: “Ijiw West of Tomb-
stone."
No. 74.
The shipment included eleven
ears of spinach, four cars of cab-
bage, three cars of mixed veg-
etables, three cars of grapefruit
and one carload of oranges.
The University of Arkansas bas-
ketball squad, the Razorbacks, af-
ter defeating tho Horned Frogs
|of TCU at Fort Worth. 4 1 to 32
Friday night in the first of a two-
game series, will return to Fayet-
teville tonight on the Katy limit-
ed, arriving at the union station
here at 12:25 a. m.
\ car of Kline deportees from
Jersey City came through Denison
last night in a Katy prison car on
the Texas Special, hound for San
Francisco via San Antonio where
they will be shipped abroad.
Drop around and see those
scout exhibits nl the corner of
Burnett avenue and Woodard
street this afternoon. They will
be worth while . . . Scouting is a
swell occupation to youth and
should be supported . . . The truth
about Bob Carraway’s resignation
has never been revealed . . . The
Whitewright Sun this week gets
dm&roiled in an argument with a
reader on whether the paper is for
or against O’Daniel, whom you
may recall is the governor of Tex-
as. The Sun editor hastens to re-
late they are not against O’Daniel,
but just some of his measures,
as they favor some of his moves
. , . All papers of the state feel
the same way ... A federal j I’ARIS, Feb. 11 (UP)— The
agency makes three room houses [German government today invited
that can be thrown up in an hourlFoicign Minister George Bonnet
fnrtv minutes . . . There are |of France to go to Berlin to tnlk
10 million people in thus country over general European peace pro
who are allergic to one thing orlblems with Joachim von Ribben-
anothcr. You may be allergic to'trop, German foreign minister, the
this column, as we are at times, i foreign office made known.
i
Japan Asked
Tg Explain
Us Objective
PARIS, Feb. 11 (UP)—France
has asked Japan to explain the
object, duration and nature of its
occupation of Hainan island, off
the south coast of China and op-
posite French Indo-China, the
foreign office announced today.
RESOLUTION AGAINST
RAISING ROAD LIMITS
A resolution against raising
truck load limits in the state of
Texas as proposed in several bills
before the state legislature, was
read at a city commission meeting
Friday afternoon. Copies of the
resolution will be forwarded state
representatives and senators from
Grayson county, at Austin.
]first Dirt Farmers Congress of The alleged scheme the two!
this state to convene at Austin used, postal inspectors charge,!
|Feb. l->-16, it was learned here was based on a mythical fortune!
.today. supposed to have been left Mrs.
Orendorff, who.
Land Act Is
Probed Today
By Attorneys
Census Figure
In Philippines
Tops 15,000,000
prohibition-era ' AUSTIN. Tex.. Feb. 11 (UP)_
Farming and its problems has Ault by a Max
jbeen a hobby of the tenner Deni- they said, was a
sonian for 17 years and he hopes multimillionaire -Attorneys began today a studv to
his position will now enable him Victims were told, authorise determine whether the emergency
to put his ideas into effect. Ap- allege, that Orendorff’s ' '
MANILA. P. I , Feb. 11 (UP) —
Twenty-five thousand enumera-
tors—harassed by floods, 1-eliiger-
money 'a"d net passed this week further ! °' r ’ s rnjfcious disputes r,rlu
proximutely 1,000 farmers are ex- was made in illicit liquor opera- would delay final action on land , d language mf.iculties—have the nine riav funeral ceremonies
pected to attend the meeting. jtiong and that he then Invested it [titles In the area acquired bv Tex "V 'A'" ' ! ■ late pope was the removal
........t____________ :.....and most complete census. _<■ -u
ar- election of a new pope.
The cardinals assembled for the
firs: of their daily meetings pen-
ding thi world conclave of car-
dinals to elect a new pope, who
wi1 he the 262nd in the 19 cen-
turies of the Holy Roman Cathol-
ic church.
It was believed that the cardin
nl - m!ght select tniTav the date of
the ceremonial secret conclave at
which the new pope will be el-
ected.
The p incipal event today of
Eyeglasses are lllutnina'cd
in Texas oil lands.
The government confiscated the boundary settlement case.
LEIPZIG (UP)—Ingenious
luminated eyeglasses,
the wearer to real or move
in the dark, have been
fortune, the two are said to have
,' ‘ told their vieitms, and an invest-
,as fiom Oklahoma involved in the! T, . ctn.u . 0f ,ke od. lrom tnp g)stlne cban.
1 I heir count has not beer tabu- , i
. lB pi A bier was prepared for the
wiw IhT. ta ,1" «*»• •* «•
Concern over the status
raised by emergency passage and
-<j u men Vilnius, mm an inven- ........ .- '".'n' i, c sn-i|.. .. nnn nnn i . r * Sacrament.
ena ung m(.n{ allegedly was represented as j approval bv Gov. Lee O’Dnniel of | r ' , . ' p< "n ', r", ke Sincere Mourning
ic a in.it meaning the investors would get a n hill withdrawing from sale on' . ' " '” '1 . a ' There, start.ng tomorrow the
strated at the Lelp.Jg Fai,Pn,C ^ ^ lor^p.
lenses are surrounded by tiny elec- ooo oon ^ ^ ^ ^ turp adjourns. Tho current sr-^ «a»k over ivi„ filp pn.t hi. Ldy to p£ horn'
trie bulbs which as as a flashlight
following the line of vision.
it from the government.
-■ - -- - ; ;
,sion will continue until May
or later.
in|
The tribulations of the enurner
age.
Mmic Soothes Jaded Nerves
TOLEDO. O (UP)— Exam-hn
rassed Toled'o University student
theatres between quiz periods. to the finance section.
Ordinary pei.ple, whose patriot-
BBfwas
Avoid Court Action,
Stratton Tells Durant
eating the 100th meridian.
I made a number of
— ivesidents of Texas and the
Bonnet Is
Invited To
Talk Peace
Plenty of Time to Be Given co!urt with 110 prejudiced jud8e or
Alfccted Area Residents witnesses to oppose the landown-
To Relocate Their Homes <,p- don,t K,° i,n„for shystcr
methods of any kind.
uWe don’t like court action any
Sudden, Reports ! Pendency of litigation long has a,m< >"e«-eased as the penetrated j m was bpinR rouae(j bv —
Trueman H. Suddeth, of Little 'bdayed seltlement of the matter. (leePer throue’ -iun8h' " »ng Fiench articles in newspapers and
Roek, Ark., reported for duty |Nin° Ye»r* "8° thf Supreme Court n>''unta'n trails ami up remote,magazines stopped all discus*U»(t
had thier jaded nerves soothed ibis morning at the Denison dis- °f tkc United States moved cast of inti--national affairs.
by music. Special organ recitals trict headquarters of the U. S. |w«rd and the east boundary of the I A)ne wa; she, to leath and an- Speculatin' regarding a succe*.
were played in the university’s war department and was assigned l^oxas I anhandlc in officially !o- 0 1 mi, "nun( ’or to th. popi centered on th«
........ THsiLlTwbeUriIff aMd"PUte, T of Cardinals Uvitr.no. ar-
Okaihomans ctaiUd when a resident made fun „hbi<bnp of Palprmo. I)el!a Cwrta>
arrhbi-'hop of Florence, and Piar-
za. patriarch of Venice.
More than usual, the possibility
that a foreign pope might be nnm-
ed this time was discussed in
church circles.
Of the United States, Cardinal
, . l ‘ 'Mundelein of Chicago was most
to be Part of Ok aboma. to pur- WOOOUL OPPOSED frequet v mentioned
_______________Jcha.se the land for *1 an acre. A 1N TWO COUNTIES
in™ in t i , ■ (commission was created to deter-:
can hiindi n 1 e*F a,n ^w0 mine those enti'led to purchase.
S'? the problem without But work of the commission, i KILGORE, Tex., Feb.
y e, e said. comprising the Und Commission-,
attorney jjoneral povornor, i told Gov. \\ Lee O Dnnielj®^ pold And white cloth SundAy in
lnndi0^ the census work.
(they occupied state public school Due was drowned in Surigan
jarea. .province, northern Mindanao id
In 1931, however, the legisln- [and, when he tried to cross the'
]turc sought to modify confusion ■,Kinahutan river on t bamboo rnf:
|by permitting claimants of the,to count tho resident-- of an iso
[land who would have boon the i lated community,
owners if the area had been held,
Capt. Ruberts pointed out the
or house of the dam would
built on the Texas side of
beter than any one e sc.” Capt^vernmcnt would be represented
James H. Stratton, military assist- bY wel1 'formed lawyers, exper-
ant to Capt. Lucius D. Clay, Denl- -icnced m handlmg such cases,
son district engineer in eharge of J Comparing the proposed dam
construction work at the Red Riv-[with an omelet, the army engin-
er dam, said in a talk Thursday |eeG aDcr pointing out similarities
night to third district Young Dem- ,said “an omelet can be broken, in
ocrats of Oklahoma in a public - the dam no one will be broken,
meeting at the Bryan county F. AV. Merrick, prominent Ard-
eourthouse at Durant. jmorc oil man, wrote to Congrcss-
“No one will be removed fron/nian Wilbur Cartwright in which jit means in dollars and cents.”
their property,” he continued, | the oil man stated the dam on- The engineer indicated civil scr
“without ample time to consider gineers had drilled luO feet in ‘.hr vice examiiialioiis for positions on
i Catholic churches of Denison
11 (UP) !aro to be draped in mourning
. 1.-,.ii,,.i-im„b me wnu Gregg and Harrison co and papal colors
q Home in Tesaa J,.. attorney general and governor,1 told Gov, A\ Lee O Daniel gold nnd white cloth Sunday in
i he captain revealed the pow-jWM delayed through the penden* todaY that a petition allegedly fos- wemory of Pope Pius XI whe died
of a vacancy suit involvirg twed by 309 tankers, lawyers, jThursday morning at Vatican City
Abe OS.500 acres with heirs of John imcrcbant* aad oil men supporting it was indicated here today.
foundation is on this side. Tho
limestone on the Oklahoma side is
completely beneath the river, he
disclosed.
“I couldn't begin to sketch for
you the values of the dam—no en-
gineer would attempt to say what
Lieut. Gov. Wa ter Rosary services during which
r,C8enT bceaust’ more lime stoneIworthnm as the claimants. Wed-! G'nmr
nesday, tho Supreme Court held Woodul for highway commission, (prayers of pesei will be offered
adversely to the claim. rr was improper and unauthorized fm th. late pontiff will be con-
—.:.—— ——_ C A. I.oftis, pesident of the ducted during the morsing ser-
MERCURY HITS 14 First Nat opal bank of Longview, vi e- of the two Catholic churches
DEGREES TODAY snid he had contacted off rials of j h ’ St Patrick's and St. Jos
the situation. Plenty of time will bed of Red River, failing to find
be given residents of the area to bed rock nnd because of this the
relocate nnd they will he paid a dam might go out in a flood.Strat-
fair ami just price for their land, ton said his men had had plenty
If court action is necessary, a fair |ol' experience a'ong this line nnd
trial will he given in a federal i he felt no danger of the dam giv-
the dam would bo announced in
the near future and posted in all
postoffices. He expects an ap-]Friday afternoon.
four Gregg county banks.
Temperatures in Denison took j “All denied signing the petition
a dip this morning, throwing the and say that if their names anpe-u
mercury to the lowest point reach- on it, they were placed there with
ed in this area in several years, [out their knowledge," he said.
A low of 14 degrees was register-: Loftis said ho was authorized
ed today following a high of 36,to announce that hankers in Grecg
county and Marshall were united
proximate employment of 2000 or F •ocart? for today and Sunday in thoir support of Roy H. Laid,
wore for clear weather and slight- Kilgore mnyor, for the commission
ly higher temperatures. post.
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oph's Other masses will be held
throughout the day. it is announ-
ced.
Special services originally ar
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The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 188, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 11, 1939, newspaper, February 11, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth527558/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.