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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Fair today and Friday
rain threatened
THE DENISON PRESS
A FAST GROWING
MEMBER €>.f THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS TRUES., DEC. 8th, 1938
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930-DAILY 1934
PAPER
35c Per Month
VOL. 5—NO. 133
Anti-Italian Demonstrations Are Protested
No-War Treaties No Good, U.S.
Foreign Relation FJxperts Say
Has Weird Story
When Deladier Stepped In The Fooling Was All Over There
I Treaty at This Time Only an
Expression of A Day, Sen.
Borah Claims in Capital
WASHINGTON, Dec. K (UD —
Two of tile most influential spok-
esmen of foreign relations in con
I gross—Sens. I’it*man, I)., Ncv.,
land Bo ah, it., Ida., chairman and
I dean, re pedicel)’, of the senate
| foreign relation- comm ttee— ex-
|j;ies.sed disbelief today in the value
of Europe'.-', new "no war" treaf-|
ies.
O' her member* of the commit
tee shared the r cynuism, notably
i Sen. King, It, l t ih. who assalcd]
j "Gc. man i.i-meei Ii ,Borah dos-
I eribed t ho ngrecmcnl - ns “exp 1
j ions of a day."
Skeptical evaluation of the new
I agreements between France and ]
Germany ami Icl.vecn 0 cat B it
I a n and Germany to use pacific!
j means for settlement of dispute'
| between those rt siocHve countries
! was based on previously broken
treaties. The British agreement
| was ........I at, Munich in Septem-
j her• the Franco-German agree*
I ment Hi s week in Paris,
i “A treaty at this time seems to
| be the expression of a day,” Bor-
j ah said.
"Ethiopia was protected by
i treaties and betrayed alike by the
Mrs. Hahn Pays Italian
Extreme Penalty General
Speaks
COLUMBUS, 0„ Dec. 8 (UP) —
Soon after Mrs. Anna Hahn, pois-
oner of four old men, died n the
j, ---g
Everyday
DENISON
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
•
Oregon prospective husbands
ami brides have complained that
marriage laws there cost too much
KIDNAPED—Her clothing half
torn from her body and hyster-
ical and incoherent, Mary Brown,
18-year-old student at Notre
Dame convent near Washington,
staggered to her home at Oxon
Hill, Md„ after she had been
kidnaped for two days by three
men in a truck. The men had
brought her. blindfolded, within
a mile of her home. She was
seized when she and her sister
Lucy were returning from school.
Lucy got away.
before the final knot is tied. The I warden and three notion
total cost s $18 ... If a man her nto the death chair!
electric chair, her attorney, Joseph
Hoodin, was asked: "Did she pro-
test her Innocence to the last?”
Hoodin replied "I won’t com-
ment on that.”
The question was rephrased so
that the attorney was asked i
Mrs, Hahn hud admitted her gui.i
in the last hours of her life.
"I understood the question,''
IL odiri replied, '“and 1 still won’t
(ormnent.”
C'eituinly M Hahn wo- no'
nrote-ting her innocene * when the
brought
of th '
|doesn’t have that much money he Ohio state penitentiay at S ,V „ i
has no business marrying . . . \nv- last night. Illogical!v. irrational!
way, buddy, that's a cheap price she was pleading for her life with
i in comparison with what it oven j persons who could not ^ rant i
| tual y costs . . . Not that it isn't | cry ng out for mercy to person-
"orth it . The Refugee from who had no authority to be no
Hitler shows n Denison ye-ter- ful.
went over with a bang ... In! The first those in the death
Dallas the theatres were picketed; chamber heard her, was a faint
by alleged communists seeking: sobbing in the corridor outside
cash . . . Tragic storv: a Cal - then the door was opened and she
toinia youth, invading an army was there, between two matron-,
bombing range look ng foi silk and behind her were the tense!
parachutes, found a time bomb (drawn faces of her confessor, Fa
and before he could get rid of it. ther John Sullivan, and the war-
'was blown to bits. A companion den, James C. Woodard. Dr.-sel
AH’Anri Mpr-timr 0 f'"' “W,ay was injured l,v 1 ■ pajamas and a fow,
Attena .eCTing ing particles . . . They '-11 us mock which reached a little above
----- ''"7 an' !‘"s "f '"''be her knees, she had little of th<
Ten members of the Kraft, Nad Miss Manton.” n which youthful appeal which had charm-
Kraft Officials
Leave Friday to
BARRICADE—Striking against decree laws lengthening the 40-hour week, more than 3.500 strikers
barricaded themselves in the Renault automobile factory at Billancourt, lust outside of Paris, and
rained spare parts and other missiles on police, who attempted to oust them. Overwhelming num-
bers of police and Mobile Guards finally forced their way in. though many were injured Here are
. strikers receiving food and drink from outside aides.
I democracies and dictators ' who',outhwest <livision executive sales Henry Fonda, one of the better] ,he four oM nien wh„ ,h(.
were s gners of the treaties. The I p<'r80nnel wiU ,pav« Friday n«h' “t'tol s' ** c°-starred with Barbara ioned for their moncv H . flK.
I fame was true of Manchuria and
for Chicago to attend an annual! Stanwyck.
World War Vet Conf esses Plot To
................. wltvl | was ashen and every muscle \va
) the same was particulariv true of !snles meet ne of the cnmpanJ’ Hnd . T *---- 'drawn taut and her h'omle ha
Czechoslovakia. ' dedication of the new Kraft head-, v le»* »» operator has sued|was stringy. She looked many
Treaties Di.regarded | quarters building. la.oh lekes for $750,000 because; years old(.r than her 32 vears
"If it were only the dictators I LocaIKraft comI,anv officials] the 'a“cS warned operators to be She took one step into th.
(who disregarded the treaties that “a,d ‘h.ev d,d not k,K>w what!calefu' >n paling w.'h the Texan toward the chair, then col-
would he bad enough, but the so- ■ wou d he take" durin* V.' ^ “eMcn*?r- “ffi-! lapsed. The three matrons, th,
rr,,, n j y'y j a , n I M «*l!ed r........... of ......... have «"ee ing exeept that they would •'“*»» I-
Kill b other and (collect Estnt£\ioneiineMh
MX l I I 1 If L111 f Iff (.if vyl t V f, DiHUiC arj;n_ these fn'- ‘l'stributinn to southwest di- * a(lvcrtising agencies and men down in the el
------ ------------ . "There I at present no way, no vi^n emPloyeea’ !^Lwhom ^ *hould have sat tens,. "
I rules by which to jwljre the effect
i of a treaty in Europe, and there
Fire Losses
Are Low Here
] fore it won' I in
take to estimate the worth
j treaty between Germany
I (Continued on page four)
RENNSELAER, Ind„ Dec. K
(UP)—Stale police announced to-
day that Ralph Meyers, 45, a
World War veteran and a former
Peoria, Hi. bank employe had con-
fessed a plot to kill his 75-year-
old father and nherit a $75,001'
estate.
The father, George M. Myers,
wealthy retired farmer and form- ----
er of a country te ephone ex Fire losses in Denison totaled Chief I’aL.Lewo revealed today, i
change, was instumental in saving $0,014.77 in November, with the Eighteen fires were reported
h s own life. He learned of the th rd ward contributing the larg- during the month, seven from
plot and reported it to state pol- est amount, a report from Fire third ward with losses of $3,-1
icemen Edward Rose and Fremon , Mashall R. M. Gray and F re 731.29. Of the total amount, $4,-'
— {983.22 was on buildings valued at. ran quarterback wj)) h
'$28,629.84, while stock and fix-;
with the son dur ng a ride ove "*"* HCli l VJ tures valued at $20,800,
Death In Tex. | t0 thc pxtcnt of $1 ,
| after
for
idle to under-
of a
and
Those to attend the meeting wi!l dca*'n$
be J. Riddle, E. A. Klldeau, E deal that
V. Berglund, L. J. Womack, S. A.
Br ster, H. C. Hollowell, J. M of you to° many times
For a secon.
| - ......., her eyes closed.
. If you pul! off on, ; while Straps were being tight-
en i ■ • Tn tourhos on tho on'.! around her arm* and elec-
*h8dy ,"de’ 11 pets arnunfi ahead] trades were being clamped to he.
NutSi fog and head.
Roddy. K. W. Snyder, Warren -,u8(tcst on: a university professor
Atkins and Stanley Dahl.
Kraft loader- said they expect-
ed to return late next week.
Davey O’Brien. TCU All-American,
Definitely to Attend Dad Banquet
Lemler who arranged a trap.They'-----------
posed as killers and bargained ^ Buttled To
lonely country roads Tuesday night
final'y promising to do the jo!, j
for $750.
Two other officers seized the
younger Myers last night a- h"
passed a check for the amount to
an unidentified informed ary at a
downtown department store.
He is an only son anil himself
thc father of a son, 19, a fresh-
man at Indiana univevs tv.
‘My father has been married I
times,” he told police. "Two
of his wives died, he divo'c.d the
third and has a d voree from the
fourth coming up for hearing next
week.
Allowance Wa, Cut tion’
“Ho has been giving his moncv Causes of the deaths during the
to charity and churches. He cu",ast two nlonths wm': '''“thing ig-
off mv allowance hut has sent sev- "i,ad bv c“"lin8 '"to contact w th |
eral boys through c’lepe i w;,n ; fi ''. ton; trapped in dwel.mgs. Ha# No
ted to got the estate before h. toB.S 'mp''“pcr use of gasoline,|
had it all spent.
D..,, O’Brien. 1 GO-pound Ten- „ « ,ehp„, ,.n,te„ i St. S.....j „
<1° no I filed
t_he of the leading Fort Worth sports- better than the second all-pro I
r , | ‘Don’t do this to me,” she cried,
says if you can t get Junior to] The warden had his tinge on
•at his spinach, feed the “food”|the push button.
to a cow and t.ien let the youngs-j hand tightened as he pushed it to
ter dnnk the cow's m k Tho^t > .
, .u , , ; ' ■, >itrna! three uam* m another
tans who once believed Whizzc w , , . .
, ■ , . "' ‘“‘Iroom to close three electro
lei ‘i S°*r '\his coU ches. One of the switches sen.
lea n he Wb ™ HV ’h" current pouring through he-
J Hbody. sealing her lips at the word
] "us” in "del ver us from evil.”
V minute later she was pro-
o__„ i> u , , , i oounced dead and the witnesses
.Sammy Baugh could do no „ ,, f . ,.
' filed out, many of them the worse
for what they had seen and heard
the first all-professional team at!.
Tunis Must Treat Italians
Better or Legitimate Mea-
sures Will Be Taken To
Give Them Protection,
school Kids
Start Fight
Riot Squads of French Police
Are Called into Service
As Trouble Flares Again
(Copyright 1938 by United Pro)
TUNIS, Dec. 8 (UP)—Italian
..on general Michele Silimbani
announced today that he would
pi-.-te t to French authorities on
. n. Italian demonstrations and
give notice that unless the
nu": nations ceased Italians liv-
ing i . Tuni- would put themselves
in “a -’ate of legitimate defense.”
S limbani decided to protest af-
ter a tea lutbreak last night dur-
ing which 1.000 French railroad
v.i'i’kei'r and a scattering of Alabs
ma ched to the lta lan consulate
general and threw bottles of red
and : lue ink at its white walls, so
as to mark it with the French red,
■vh te and blue colors.
One bottle went through u win-
dow, the consul general said, and
siuea "d a picture of King Victor
■ Emmanuel.
Silimbani had just returned to
Tunis from Rome, where he con-
fes-.-d with Count Gaieazzo Ciano,
f r gn minister, on the position
I of Italy regarding Tunis.
\nnouncing to local fascists his
intention to protest against last
n 1 1 - J nonstration, w'hich fol-
ve anti-ltal an dem-
■ nnstratinns last w'eck end, the
consul general said:
"I intend t i protest to resident
general Etik La bonne within the
next 48 hours, and to say that if
t i v.. ,‘tu'e do'.-- not cease th-n
Italians n Tunis must put them-
selves in a state of legitimate de-
(Continu.d on page four!
team.
as Christian University all- Vmeri- and that he m ght bring along one
at
I Dads club banquet December 13, writers.
w o re
]ln P0,'son, t was announced to- Meyer said he would showing
I ......................... ](!a'r Coaf,h Logan Stollenwerck, moving films of two TCU games,
Past 2 Months .>•»• ™ S,' th. N-k!"d", .y"' ‘",'T IV"' ,"'1 ' * M-|.......",ln« ......KJUtw S
Past l Months ^ oU ,..... , "....... fCUS 2„°".......£“‘r »»•»«
UISTIN. Trxps. n.ceml.er H pined'"Vl pm"'. "',ll'n‘"''rS M''-' l'"1" Three hundred tickets are avail- f.eht and a mV coach1 n Mar-hal'l
(Special)—Marvin Hall, live n- !» XSTS Wp *JT
Bonham high will have a better
n
surance commissioner of Texas, with matcheS) $30,45; electric i on, j
today expressed great concern si 81,95; overheated stove, $14.50; |
that more than forty-four men, burn n(? lrnsh. $250.00; gas stove!
vomen and children were burned c]os(, to wal)j $35; smoking, $300;]
to death by fire during the months vats n(,st> S10. spai.ks on roof, *5;'
of October and November. He oi, gt0VCi $6R2.G4.
called upon the public generally!___.._i_____
to help reduce the fire losses, , 2 O 1
particularly dur ng the holiday | LzUK6 S KCtlim
season, by practicing fire preven
Italy Gives
More Monev
For Warfare
To England Is
Foreseen T oday
Plans to Take Up
British Residence; Goes to
See His Mother, the Queen
IOK\0, Dec. 8 (UF’)—Japan
Thursday Informed the United
States and Great Britain that
use of
eight; explosion of gasoline and|
•We posed ns killers from Poo-(' three? fall ng into
rin,” Lemler sa d. “Stivers told j °Pen trash fircs' tw0; scalds- ''v0: LONDON, Dec. 8 (UP)—The
US he wanted us to slug his fath-1 hl"ns flom automobile collisions, Huke of Windsor will return to ____________
er in an nu'nmoblle and drive the two, gas from oil we’ls, four; 1m- England this w'ntcr to visit his they should accept as inevitable
car off thc Kankakee river b id P"onp'' us(‘ °r cleaning fluids, one;f mother, hut his Vmeriean-horn the revision of thc open door pol-
or else take him to Chicago, shoot, "mnkin" in bed, one; and explo- duchess, if she accompanies him, jcy jn China, the usually well-in-
him. and turn his-pockets nut to ?i°n of K:,s' one' 1 probably will remain in thc back- formed newspaper Ashai stated,
make t look like robbery. Frc, Mr. Hall stated, has taken ground to avoid any embarras-j The Amer can and British Am
"We promised him to do i' r. 1 » Magge ing death toll of approx.- sing s tuations. bassadors, Joseph C. Grew and
he said he would give Hie ebemutely 4,000 in Texas during thc An unimpeachable source dose sir Robert Craigie, attended n
to the intermediary The eh c' '’ast tpn >'cars> a'» average annual- to the royal family said the Duke conference with Foreign Minister
was undated and he stinuln'od il 'v of foU1' hundred people burned would arrive the latter part of Hachiro \rlta at the latter’s invi-
wns not 'o he e-ched until he ha- ,lpat’’- February from his two wars’ ex- tat on, and it was at this meet-
obtained h s father’s properly. ] i'0ne of ^he most puzzling fads iie on thc continent and probably! j„g that Arlta was said to have
j conveyed Japan’s view of the
PRESENT CLOSED
DOOR TO REMAIN
Heartened by Reports That British May Ex-
tend Them Credit, Chinese Begin Strong
Counter Attacks On Japanese Troops
^ Bad Feeling With French is
m * DAYS TIL. *
\y CHRISTMAS
PolVe said Moors had confess • I ph°“t <ll':'"’s f,'n'” firc- Mr’ n'lU
ed that, the plot was the s -cond I a<W“'l- «* th»« during the past five
to fail in an aMemnt to k 1> years when the_ annual property
f«fhor. He said he had paid 11
(Continued on page four) '
treaty"
hoodlum $190 to do the job in
1935 but the would be t i'led ran
awav w th the monev without car-
rying out his part of the barg-in
Me-cvry Recd'ng*
Temoeratures in Denison fell
to a low of 45 dcgii-c- c.uK l
day fol’owing a b'gh mark of 66
degrees Wednesday afternoon. |
loss by fire in Texas has been the
lowest in the history of the state,
the annual death loss by fire has
been the highest, which is indica-
tive of the fact that too many peo-
ple have not vet learned to fear
fire and to observe the most simple .................. 1 — ........* •
rules of fire prevention. many’s first aircraft carrier was j averted that third powers can-
launched at Kiel today and ebr s-.not expect continuation of spec-
] tened Graf Zeppelin, as Nazis] ini privileges in Ch n». which
blamed “machinations of interna-1 hereafter must be regarded as in-
of having a
Nazi Carrier
Is Launched
BERLIN,- Dec. 8 (UP)
“out-moded nine-power
to the ambassadors.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi, in
connection w th parliamentary de-
bates, asserted that Japan will
r.ot tolerate British efforts to
I block the new Far Eastern order.
Ger-1 The Japanese press generally
general belief is that
| the weed is non-habit forming, j
i hut that’s wrong. If you have ev-
j er seen a person "hopped up" on
| it, you can’t understand fully why
! they say t’s one of the most dan-
gerous of all drugs . . . When
, Jimmy Roosevelt was questioned
Ion what his duties would be with
1 the movie firm, his boss camp to
: the resuee with: "We’ll fine .vt n
, two months” . . . Jimmy F.,i!er
says Kay Francis will definitely
(not marry her titled fiance. Kay,
i a long time ago, sn d she ■ was
'quitting the films, but so far the
protested to Japan against clos-' ''thr®at" haan,,; materialized
ing China’s great waterways toiA* lhoUBh anyone p*lwp,pd » trt-
their ships, asserting that free
commerce was guaranteed by the j. H. Parrish, Denison postal
nine-power treaty affirming the! employee., receiszed a personal let-
open door princ pie. Japan’s re- ter from Davey O’Brien, TCU'.
ply was that the rivers were not: K,cat 1 ttle all-American quarter,
safe and that military necessity j Ka-cfc, promising him he would bc
eaused their closing to foreign at the Dad’s club banquet this
looming Tuesday night . . . Mr.
There are increasing ndlcations ’ parri»h is a personal friend of the
however., especially in view of (O’Brien family of Dallas . . . W
recent developments, that Japan f hoa,.inK Davey and Dutch Meyer
(loos not. intend to alow the cco- speak isn’t worth tho price of ad-
nomic activities of western pow- n,jw!oni pPrhaps we’re wrong . . .
ers to interfere w th Japan’s plan | Er,( Fitzgerald, the hottest swing
to make ( hina a member of its evel. nmble down the
East Asia bloc, economically Rnd j pj|t®> makes a personal appearance
Believed Cause of New It-
alian Appropriation today Santa’s SnOOpC-T
ROME, Dec. 8 (UP!—The go
‘UP
militarily.
SHANGHVI, Dec. 8
! at Dallas Stindav night . . . Doug
I las Corrigan’s picture w 11 be re-
(UP) — (leased for public consumption
eminent has authorized additional
military appropriation totaling 1,-
224. 723,000 (b llion> lire ($64.-1
451,047) under the 1938-1939 Only complain*
budget, a royal decree disclosed !t0 !'•<* UP fr
today. 'i:'s been tl
Presumably the troublous Kuiv-1 custonivi’s
pcan sitaution, row comp'ice'.ed |! •” waiting ad
cause of renewed bad feeling be-,**-
tween Italy and France, was i-e-!',pUe than
AND DOWN AND 'ROUND
\BOUT TOWN”
It .'n able
’ nts lately
re s>. busy with
-u s no t tue left
t in,., mr windows,
tl i*' bi'tter, lots
i cing business didn't
sponsible for thc appropriations. J justify advertising!
The largest amount, 869,653,000
lire went to the navy. The army
obtained 205,000,000 lire and thc
ar force 150,070,000 lire.
Ju-t a random thought—a little
out of thi- snooper’s territory, but
wc'ic impressed with the Deniaon
The naval appropriation pro-i police force Just about the clean-
vides for new construction and re m“st friendly group of law
pair of old ships, to a total of' enforcement officers we’ve
370,000,000 lire.
run
acro-s Apparently well equipped
and trained, too.
POULTRY SCHEDULE
ON KATY STARTED
The regular dressed poultry!
schedule for Christmas was started
last night by thc Katy railroad.
150 to 200 cars are expected ti
be handled before Christmas da>. j
One car, from the Den son lb u!
try & Egg company, left last nijght [ Furul bottle
for Boston. rv"'Uf
Wonder if anyone “loosened
un" a a result of our recent ref-
"•once to var’ous about town char-
.-r-to ■ If not, we’re sure it’s
boeau. e they forgot in the rush
how much good can be accomplish*
ed ! \ 0 few pennies from a lot
of poop'c if placed in those milk
Clerk in Added Staff
Curtis L. Craig of Little Rock,; tional Jewry" for British govern-1 dependent instead
Tartlv cloudiness nod continued Arkansas, has been sent to Deni j ment declaration, backed up bv a
warm weather have been forecast son as junior clerk with the local parliamentary vote, aga nst sur-
for today and Friday. U. S. engineer ng office. -I render of colonies U> Germany.
scmicolonial status.
Both the United States and
Bhita n. and France as well, have
Heartened by reports that Britain shortly after the new year. Doug load of peanuts to Portland, Ore.
iu anno ilni itur n n)an tn frvnnt ! .......... .,1 v
ton’s Christmas dinner boxes. Then
____ don’t forget those cast off toys
Denison Peanut Co. shipped a; are wanted by the fire depart-
ment.
is cons dering a plan to grant js the on’v one who isn’t worried
credits to China for the purchase whether it’s a hit or a flop. As
of munitions to continue the war, he says: "I have mv money, so if
og«in«t Janan, Chinese armies there is nnv loss, t’s touch on the
Thursday heat back strong attneksi company,” or words to that effet
on both the southern ami northern1 . . Robert Donat, star of many
fronts of their Hengyang Triangle English films, can’t be induced to
make any more American films.
(Continued on page four)
Ditto Charles Laughton
a display
yesterday.
A football special i - schcdi led Today s gift t p
from Temple to Taylor thv week "f lovely cheni’le bedspreads in
for the high school team from Madden’s windows.
Brady.
Big shipments of Christmas NOTICE
trees, liquo s. and fru ts are be- If you do not receive y<mr
ing handled by Katy freight tH by R p m each day, pleeee phene
month. son end or*r wttl be sent VM.
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