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WEATHER
DENJSON AND VICINrTY
Pair and warmer today
and Saturday
THE DENISON PRESS
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SUNDAY
YOUR HOME'OWNEp
DAILY NEWSPAPER
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REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, OQT. 11th, 1940
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 7—NO. 94
Balkan Tension Nay Spread To Soviet Russia
Denison Dam Hearing May Be JVearrf>Martial
In Durant’s Auditorium For Public
FIFTH PRODUCER
FOR PURE FIELD
DURA/NT, Ok., Oct. ,11-
fifth producer in Pure Oil
pany's Cumberland field, sixteen
miles northwest of Durant, was
flowing crude out into tanks to-
day after being washed in. Tho
DURANT, Ok., Oct. 11—The
I possibility that the city auditor-
| ium may be made available for
! the hearing of Governor Phillips’
I latest injunction suit against the
| Red River dam was voiced here
today as U. S. District Judge Eu-
I gene Rice set Oct. 28 as the date
! on which he and two other fed-
———— ierul judges will hear the govern-
-The company’s No. 2 Little-100 in sw ment's motion to dismiss action,
corn-! nwse of Sec. 28, 5s-7e, put on yj. g. Circuit Court Judges A.
EVER!) AY
DENISON
gauge after washing with clean p Murrah and Walter A. Huxman
water, made 189 barrels of oil in wBl sct 0R the case with Judge
11 hours, (through V/ inch tubing Rj(.6i which district Phillips’
and the How is expected to in-[attorneys filed the suit last
crease steadily as the well cleans m0nth.
Law In
Shanghai
Japanese Puppet Mayor Is
Hacked To Death, Evt
dently By Servant Who
Eiscaped From Guards.
Tension Rises
CHRISTMAS EVENTS
SCHEDULED HERE
At a joint meeting Thursdayibeginning at 7:30.
night of the Chamber of Coni- Preliminary plans were also dis-
merce retail and trade extension! cussed Thursday night for a
committees, decision was made to Trades day and it was decided to
discontinue the practice of placing.hold a meeting on the night of
Christmas trees on sidewalks in j Oct. 22 at 7:30 to he attended by
front of stores this year as has representatives of each firm in
been done for several preceeding the city. The trades day plan is
years. It was believed the effeet to he explained by a representa-j
of the trees and decorations were tive of the company holding
Attacks On
Greece, Turkey
F oreseen Today
Katy Enters
Field To Use
DUCHANECT, Rumania, Oct.
I 11—Diplomats today foresaw a n
Italian move against Greece and
a German attempted invasion «f
itself out.
chokes
potential.
This well
It then will be put on , o0t, 28
oi various size to test its be jrjven over to arguments by
rp ij . l .'none too good as far a- the indi- copyright on the feature.
I O INeW rleignt vici nal merchants were concerned. Whether or not the food stamp
observing plan will be put in use here will
be held be worked out at a later meeting
Move In-! here beginning December 2 and of the two committees, it was le-
______ | A series of events
Murder Incident Might Give V ul.'iide pint will
it was pointed out, wiil^ Settlement. Reported, lasting through Christmas day, it cided, when more information an
__ jwas decried. Further plans for the subject will he presented.
both the government and Phillips'|
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
ft — ------ * •
Add simile: As silent as John
Nance Garner . . . Bushy-eyed
Cactus Jack passed through Den-
ison and Dallas yesterday and at
neither place did he have a thing
to say. It takes a real man to re-
main silent when he has so many
burdens to carry on his broad
shoulders . . . Prof. Quizz at the
Texas theatre in Sherman may
not have known it, hut one fellow
who copped a prize last night was
an independent theatre man from
another city . . . George Tucker
says the New York vacation ex-
pert, Larry Nixon, hasn’t had one
himself in seven years . . . About
two-thirds of the Denison fans are
undecided whether to follow the
Jackets to Bonham tonight. Most
of them said they were “disgust
e1” over the showing of the locals
against Graham last week, al-
though the Jackets played their
best game of the season then . . .
Albert Einstein, the great scient-
ist said “this is an important mo-
ment of my life,” when he took
the oath of allegiance to the US;
flag. Instead of dodging bullets!
in Europe, he has had to learn to
dodge car drivers.
, , .this observation and the type of 0. W. Hayes, chairman of the
one-quarter mile representatives on the dismissal, SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 11 | rioj-raru to be prevented are to be retail committee, and Fred Har-
west and slightly south of the dis. motion. If the motion is uphold | Martial law was declared here to-j^ ^ at a ,al Beetlnjs fo, vev, ,.hairma„ 0f the trade exten-
covery well in Marshall county. by the three-judge court, then the day immediately after Fu-Siao-en Thur day night, 0-t. sion committee, were in charge of
Two other wells in the field governor’s seventh attempt to;Japanese puppet mayor, was1
were about to be brought in. 'stop construction of the dam will (slashed today in his bed, and Ja- J__'_____
24 at the Chamber of Commerce, the joint meeting.
(Continued on Page 4)
Scout Workers
Attending Meet
At Durant. Ok.
‘t he company’s No. 1 Metz-105 V(. failed,
began washing in at a total depth jft however, the court decides
of 5,080 feet and was installing to Bea). the governor’s case, the
Christmas tree of tubing for mak-|case w;|| |„ a|] likelihood be ant-
ing tests as soon as it starts flow- ued durjn|, the following several
duys.
The small seating capacity of
the district courtroom here has
inspired discussion of holding the
hearing in the city auditorium,
where many more interested citi-
zens could attend. In view of
the significance of the case it is
considered likely that several hun-
dred out-of-town spectators may
be drawn to Durant.
In his e,ffort to block construc-
tion of the huge dam and reser-
voir, the governor questions con-
stitutionality of the act under
which the project was authorized
and sought to restrain the con-
Approximately 100 Boy Scouts,
scoutmasters, assistants and other
leaders, left Denison at 3 o'clock
this afternoon for Durant to at-
tend the two-day Red River Val-
ley Council’s camporal today and
Saturday. The group will also
be the guests of Dr. T. T. Mont-
gomery, president of Southeast-
ern Teachers college at the annu-
al homecoming game there be-
tween PTC and Edmund Teachers
a conference game.
(Continued on page foun
pan ordered its banking firms in
London to evacuate the British
capital.
The squat front man for Japan,
himself Chinese, was hacked to
death, supposedly by a servant,
regardless of twenty guards sur-
rounding his “stronghold.”
Japan police began a city-wide
search for the slayer and for Chi-
nese Nationalists, supposedly in-
stigators of the crime.
(Diplomats believed the incident
0’DANIEL HITS
AT GOVERNMENT
P 9nrr»lll« Tul'key the German troop oc-
I arm kiur|jllla eupation of Rumanian bases, and
- tension between Germany and
The Katy railroad, in coopera- Russia was expected momentarily,
tion with other railroad and com-; Berlin officially denied it had
pany owned restaurants through-; troops in Rumania, but dispatches
out the country, is participating said Nazi troop ships were mo*-
in a national program to reduce ing down the Danube river and
farm surpluses by featuring on its that several had passed Belgrade,
dining cars such meats, vegetable-j V tigoslavia.
and fruit as the department of ag- Strategists saw in the Reicn
riculture finds are in greater Balkan movements an axis deter-
abundance in the southwest, ac-jmination to continue moving un-
cording to an announcement of| til it had enveloped tiny Greece
T T. Turner, Katy superintendent j and Turkey, both friendly toward
of dining service. i Great Britain.
The national program is pon-1 I he British embassy in Bucha-
sorel by the Farm Jaurnal and (rest hurriedly burned its confi-
Farmer’s Wife, largest among! rential papers with the arrival of
farm and rural magazines in the Nazi iorces, said to be bringing
United States, which is conducting; heavy artillery,
the national survey in coopera- It has been reported Germany
tion with the department of agri-! intended to locate bases on the
culture and certain statistical bu- Black Sea, definitely a threat to
reaus i Russia, hut Red sources did not
First survey of surplus food ■ comment although an uneasy feel-
stuffs completed in the Katy ter- ing was apparent in Moscow,
ritory recently revealed that Russian forces on the Jtuman-
and an border were said to be “dig-
WEATHERFORD, Tex., Oct. i will again make it a government
11—Declaring that “the govern-! by the people," Gov. W. Lee
ment of Texas has been changed | OTianiel brought prolonged ap-
might result in Japan taking overito a raeket,” and expressing the|plause from a crowd of several
the international settlement “t<> hope "that the „• ninety-three new thousand who heard his address ’ beets, cabbage, celery, corn
restore order." I representatives and ten new sen- here Thursday. i tomatoes were of greatest abun-, ging in" in earnest today with the
Americans were awaiting out- ators elected to the legislature The governor had come to, j8nce among vegetables, raisins,I mtlux of Reich troops in the
come of negotiations in Washing-j — ---------j Weatherford primarily for a visit prunes oranges, apples, pears and Balkans, and Foreign Minister ^D.
ton with a steamship line for ships i p . with Arthur Cato, newly elected peaches In the fruit category, and
to evacuate them from the Chi-1 -IxciyDUlTl LVcIll (representative and was prevailed|blitter, rice, pork, flour and egg- SR
A. IA-. 11 o o In i upon to address a gathering of ag .....
/Al LJ 'aS ill choo| children and citizens. All! ciass. All will from time to time ground that much of the propos-
! city schools dismissed for an hour included on Kafy menus, Mi ed pact could never be agreed up-
IContinued on page four)
;M. Molotov revealed that the US
had turned down an accord
gathering of! as tbe meat and other products I Proffered by Britain on the
Denison district scouts will he
in charge of the following scout-
masters: George Demeritt, Rotary
troop No. 201; Omar Briggs and
Assistant Bob Bremmerman, Cal-
vary Baptist troop No. 204; J. D.
C. Smith and Assistant E. A.
. „ n ., , fj Brigham, Waples Memorial Meth-
know? By the simple process or J ,
this corner and Clinton Hicks!
Bonham hasn’t a chance to win
from Denison tonight, llow do we
troop No. 205; Paul Breni-
Whiteacre And
Loy Are Named
County Chairmen
Humble Asks
For Increase
In Allowables
Postponement|.md gathered around the band!Turner said, so far as is possible 0,1
- j stand on the courthouse lawn.'t0 feature them and still maintain I Official Washington looked ou
■DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 11—Be-, where loud-speakers had been set. {|i(. wen balanced meals for which''he Balkan incidents a a prelude
I cause President Roosevelt has re-, up. The high school band headed a Katy diners are famous. I to a relations rupture between the
i quested congressional leaders to j parade and furnished music while - i Soviet and Reich, because Russia
remain at their posts in Washing-, awaiting the governor’s appear-
|ton, two of Texas’ outstanding | ance
11—Hum-1 leaders, Congressman Hatton W.| Continuing his remarks about
A total of 805,986 cars of rev-[“could not afford’’ to have Ger-
enue freight were loaded by Cia-s ; many establish bases on the Black
1 lines during the week endingjSea
picking Bonhi to win. With two jJr’’ Fiwt, the nation-wide fight
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. __ ...... ........„ .......................... ........... ...„ ........ .....,, „„„ .... .............
I ' iwuwj, vwiif.ivaoim.il * ““ I I mica «u * 4“ r- "
—— I hie Oil <& Refining company, j Sumners and Speaker of the, the action of the last legislatures Saturday, Oct. 5, it is announced!
With the campaign for "a mil- which in recent weeks ha? been House Sam Rayburn, will forego and the stubborness of the “re-jby the Association of 'American LONDON Oct 11_The Royal
lion Texas votes for Roosevelt in'contending necessity existed for] ;iny contemplated visits to Dalla.-! bellious fifty-six,” Gov. O’Daniel Kailroads w “Force'struck with renewed
1940," well underway, tho Texas curtailment of Texas’ oil produc- for the present. said, “I hope that these new rep ; \ decrease of 16,448 cars, or 2i'fun. ;u German-held points along
democrats have launched their, tion, today applied fo the railroad j Congressman Sumners wired resentatives and senators will join |)(,r cent, was reported, compared'^' English
.. .. . . - - - ■ de-|,
... , . „ . , . troop No. 207, ami D. L. Finch
of the most infamous pickers put-,c. , ...
.. \ ., 1 ‘ First Christian church, No. 209.
ting the finger on the same team,|
the Warriors have an obstacle ., ill 1
they can't surmount. . .Hollywood j DlUlCl 11C 21 CIS
has gone political, columnists j
say, with Willkie and Roosevelt
buttons breaking out all over the|
jernt . . . Claudette Colbert, |
speaking for the mob, tells Paul I
Harrison that the filmits resell
statewide finance drive to assist
return
the President to office on Nov. 5,
Myron G. Blalock, Texas Roose-
velt campaign manager has an-
from headquarters, at Austin.
A. E. Whiteacre of Denison and
Judge Jake J. Loy of Sherman
have been named by Blalock as
commission for allowable in- Miss Helen Hironimus, superin-] the other good men remaining in
creases of 38,976 barrels in four tcmlent of the new federal re- the legislature to make it a truly
Gulf Coast fields which currently- formatory for women,
have average quotas of 28,52 41 be en forced to cancel
he
his
plane
Are Indicted
In New Jersey chairmen of the Grayson county] tioning for the increases.
another political racket."
barrels daily. | reservation to speak at a dedica-j He said he intends to reeom-
Commissioner Ernest Thomp- tion of the institution Friday.' mend that a constitutional amend-
son announced that James Ander- He said he doubted if he would; ment be submitted to the people
son, vice-president of Humble,'tlH able to attend any of the' making it a law that "no governor
had written the commission poti-Jerrennemies at the institution ei-Wan sign any bill to appropriate
| finance committee and
are
.1
being referred to as a bunch of
snobs . . . Believe it or not, Can-
ada has no flag of its own .
Best news of the year is that Jack
Wilson, the Baylor football star,
was not injured as seriously u -
first thought last week . . • Bill
| NEWlf*>N, N. J., Oct. Jl—The
law moved today against ten Bund
leaders on cliurges of promoting
hatred against people of the Jew-
i?h religion, after they hud been
indicted by the Sussex county
grand jury late Thursday.
Among those indicted were Wit-
charge of
buttons for the
“I have approved the requesti
. v_____:____
|their Friday or Saturday.
collecting local contri-|for special hearing on these fields] Another Dallas organization.......__ ............^ _____
drive, for the purpose of determining if I which had requested an addles? j j)ie treasury and available for
Democrats here have been urged [the oil cm he produced without from Congressman Sumners while
to contact the county democratic waste and for proof of firm mar- j here, was informed by long-dis-
finance chairmen.
Woodside picks Paris high to beat helm Kunze, national leader of
McKinney tonight 20 to 6. If the German-Amevican bund. Oth-
the Cats can win from the Lions
by a larger score than that then
it’ll be had when the Bearcat con-
fC< nitiiued on nage four)
Funds collected in Texas, Bla-
lock stressed, will be used by the
National Roosevelt campaign com-
mittee in the doubtful states to
combat the vast financial backing]
of the opposition. Every Texasiwere:
democrat, he said, is to be offered
en opportunity to make a eontri-
state Nation, no matter how large or
mall, to the Roosevelt cause.
Those who wish to contribute
, ers were:
August Klapprott of Andover,
the bund's eastern leader; Mat-
thias Kohler, Irvington,
bund treasurer; Wilbur V, Kec-
I gan. West New York, the bund’s , , , ,
I attorney; Leonard D. Clark, New may eltb*‘r *1VI! lh* helP t0 the
ket demand," Thompson said.! Dmce phone that President Roose
'The hearing will he had within jvclt hud asked all to stand by
ten days after notice.” Chairman]their posts for the present time
Lon A. Smith and Commissioner] Results of the I’residenial re-
Jerry Sadler were out of the city, quest will be keenly felt by the
Increases sought by Humble Fifth Congressional District dem-
ocratic campaign committee
... ..... Channel early today
with the preceeding week; a 4e‘'aftt>r London had undergone one
. crease of 24,116 cars, or 2.9 P<?r 0f Worst attacks which Nazi
had] representative body and not formlCHlt compared ith the same weekjp|anes uttempt{.j t0 continue in
a year ago, and an increase of|dayli(<ht raids
103,370 cars, or 14, per cent st,uc|5 at Boulogne,
compared with 1938 loadings. Breat> Calais and other channel
A huge drop in coal loadings.! pojnl. with itg fiercest attacks of
about 31,000 cars below the pre thg war and exceeded in doing
vious week and 40,000 cars under heavv damage, the British high
the same week last year, was re-! oommand said,
sponsible for the contra seasonal; Bl.itai[1 admitted London was
decline in total loadings, the a-so hi( ;n at |ea,t fifty areas during
emtion said. german raid last night, and
------"------- I that Liverpool liad suffered heavy
J damage.
[funds unless the comptroller and
i treasurer supply a sworn certifi-
t- that such money is actually
41 BIRJHS, 12 DEATHS
HERE IN SEPTEMBER , York writer for the butul’s mag i- l'ou"ly finance chairman
’ twelveLWi Free America; the Rev. John '■ t0 Democratic Campaign head-
» . .. . . nnui'iAi'o of Vnutin KlnlnuW <mi.
Forty-one births and
deaths were recorded during
the
C. Fitting, Union City, state bund
month of September for the city,]secretary, and Richard Schiele;
a report of City Health Officer] pau| Schaarschmidt, Paterson;
I Carl Schipphorst, Glen Rock and
' Cliffside Park,
Dr. W. Lee revealed today.
Of the births, 20 were whi’e] George Neiippert,
males, 18 white females and three
were negro females.
(()f deaths, three were white
males, five white females, one col-
ored male and 3 colored females.
Deaths were attributed as follows:
heart failure 2, cancer 2, nephri-
tis 1, cerebral hemmorhage 1, ap-
pendicitis 1, apoplexy 1, fractured
hip 1, babies 3.
Temperature! Higher
trustees of the bund’s auxiliary,
owners of the camp.
Hot Literature
Brings Durant
Cops To City
quarters at Austin, Blalock said
An official souvenir receipt will
acknowledge every contribution
reaching Austin, and a second re-
ceipt will be mailed the donor
from Washington headquarters,
he added.
Auuhauc. from current daily
average of 5,230 barrels to 14,-
000 barrels; Hastings, 12,710 bar-
rels to 21,000 barrels; Thompson,
5,522 barrels to ,12,500 barrels,
and Webster, 5,062 barrels to
20,000 barrels.
Commission records show that
Humble is the only purchaser in
the Webster field, one of two
serving the Hastings and Thomp-
son fields and one of four in the
Anahuac field.
the purpose for which appropriat-
ed.”
This, he said, will up a stop to
the state running up a debt that
it can’t pay without special legis-
lation, special taxes and a gen-
] uine hardship on property owners.
The Governor and Mrs. O’Dan-j
Engineer Asks
Sealed Bids
The U. S. Engineer office
to the fact that Sam Hayb^ | ^ ^
hud been named to manage the .
campaign in six southwestern I
Two raid alarms were sounded
in London this morning but the
attacker? were driven off before
! they could teach the heart of the
is] city.
INSTITUTE
MEETS AT HS TODAY
Police from Durant
| Durant this week in an
Temperatures in Denison reach- tion they are conducting over this CI|L 408
NEGRO IS ARRESTED
FOR STEALING DOC
A negro man was arrested by
Patrolmen Wesley Barnhill and 0.
H, Henderson today for allegedly
were in --dealing a thoroughbred grey-
invest itra- ll0U1'd belonging to F. C- Huntti-
F). Chestnut.
ed 83 degrees Thursday afternoon
then fell to 67 degrees early to-
day. More warm weather with
partly cloudy skies has been fore-
cast, for today and Saturday.
VV Jack Cooke Elected
JFM Fat I: Cooke, out'daniline- debater
1 and extemporaneous speaker at
Denison high school for several
« years, was elected president of
* ; the Public Speakers’ Forum, at a
meeting today, according to Ot'S
L. Hilliard, club sponsor.
general area trying to find out T»>e negro allegedly abducted
who printed n job for certain am- the greyhound six weeks ago and
bitious Durant folk who were op
.. took it with him to Celina.
Mr.
with
posed to the nnssave of a city Hunnicut spotted the negro
ordinance authorizing the city his dog in the 600 block S. (,roc-
manager form of government,. j Lett and notified police.
The printed matter was ratheri The officers also arrested a 7-
Imt in its nature nnd was printed year-old Denison youth this morn-
ip red ink, charging some of theA'ig for allegedly stealing a bi-
Durant men with being Hitlers in j cycle belonging to the small
their creed for power, asserting, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A
that the form of government Frank from a garage in the rear
sought was of the dictatorship, of their home, 1406 W. Chestnut,
kind.
[Thursday.
Ship An Hour
To Rumania
Cato. Mr, Cato spoke brief-j
tiie conclusion of the gov
ernor’s talk.
states. I ________
Plans for a large Rayburn rally!
at Bonham, Rayburn’s home town, rtlACHKiRS’
on Saturday already have been;
abandoned and it is doubtful if]
Rayburn will come to Texas mi- Denison white school teachers
til late in the presidential cam-j will hold their first Institute ses-
paign, preferring to stand by the] sion of the school year today at
national congress in hours of; I p. m. when reports on summer
| cr[gig, | vacations and degree work will be
_____________—-----i given by Dr. George P. Mechani,
(Miss Johnny Beck, Mrs. N. E.
Campbell, Miss Blanche Mosse
} and Miss Wylene Wheeler.
Mr. Mecham received his PhD
] degree and Miss Beck worked on
! her masters degree at Peabody
j college Nashville, Tenn.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct.
11- -German troop ships are mov-
ing down the Danube in Rumania,
often passing Belgrade at the
rate of one every hour at a stead-
ily increasing rate, it was said re-
liably today.
The movement of the German
troops and supplies into Rumania
along the Danube water route has
been continuing two days. The
troops arc being moved in groups
of five and six barges.
Most of the German troops,
accompanied by full military
NEW HIOME ROOM
-- POLICY AT HIGH
equipment, were said to be cm j --
barking at Regensburg, Germany j \ new home room policy at
seventy-five miies north of Mu | Denison high school was announc-
nich. | ed today by Principal E. E. Rog-
A large number of German |t,r8( who said each Tuesday from
military experts, presumably sent
to Rumania to instruct the Ru-
manian army in German methods
of warfare, arrived there by the
Danube route, it was learned.
Yugoslavia, it was understood '
was not informed iti advance of
the movement of German troop:
along the Danube inasmuch as the
river is an international water-
way.
10 to 10:30 a. m. would be set
aside for special home room pro-
grams, while from 1 to 1:30 p.
m. Fridays would be set aside for]
school assemblies.
Under the plan, each Tuesday
the separate rooms will have pro-
grams on the same subjects with
teachers allowed to collaborate
with students to outline the hall-
hour event.
to be publicly opened at 11 a. m.
Oct. 25 for the preparation and j
delivery of complete, certified ah ,
-tracts of title to lands situated j
in Woodville, Okla., and the sub-|
'sequent continuations thereof to
show title vested in the United
Slates.
Bids will be cossidered only
from those persons or firms who
are regularly engaged in the bus:-
ness of preparing abstracts of ti-
tle to land, and who arc qualified
to furnish the abstracts in ac-
cordance with the government
specifications, and who have had
at least two years’ experience in
preparing abstracts
The quantity of work to be
done under this contract is undo
terminal because of the character
of the work. The quantity of
contract will be determined by the
government after bids are opened,
but in no event will the total be
more than approximately 170
The right is reserved to increase
or decrease the total quantity
awarded by 25 per cent.
Engineer On
Temporary Duty
C. II Franklin of the mail and
records section, engineer office
here, is leaving Saturday for Wa-
shington where the war depart-
ment ha.- assigned him to thirty-
day- temporary duty in the mail
and records -action of the newly-
created eastern engineering dis-
trict.
Mrs Franklin will accompany
her husband as far as St. Louist
where she will visit her parents,
Mr and Mrs. E. J Heckwolls and
will remain there until Mr. Frank-
lin’- assignment at Washington l<
finished.
DEA TH ROLL
MRS. MARY AKERS
Suitcate I» Stolen
Frank Gilmore, Route 1, Gil-
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Akers, 83, a former Penlsonian
who died Monday at Sunland,
Calif., were held 'his afternoon at
2 o'clo k from Short-Murray
chapel, Rev. James E. Spivey of-
mer, Texas, reported to city po-jficia'ing.
lice late Thursday the theft of a
suitcase .eontaining hi- clothe-
from his oar parked in the 300
block W. Woodard street. He
said the car had been broken in-
to.
Interment was at Fairview cem-
eterv. Short-Murray directing.
Pallbearer- were W. J. Butcher,
B. A. Mitchell, T. C. Coffman, J.
H. Coffman, J H Wilburn. Ed
Van Hoesen and L. I. Newman.
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