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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy, warmer, today
and Tuesday
THE DENISON PRESS
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PAPER
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MEMBER OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS MONDAY, OCT. 31st, 1938
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930-DAILY 1934
VOL. 5-NO. 101
Dies Charges Administration With Sabotage
Charges Administration Sabotage
Hysteria
Follows
Program
Government Gives Barnett Mansion
Back to Indians; Widow Is Ejected
Widow Throws Axe at Depu-
ty Attempting to Get Her
Out of Expensive Home.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. HI (UP)
—The government today gave
hack to the Indians the mansion
of Jackson Harnett, the late Creek
millionaire, after it finally evicted
his belligerent widow in a surprise
>aid.
Sullen’y seated in a jail cell,
i Mrs. Anna Laura Barnett, the
widow, ignored offers of aid from
the thousands of Californians who
appealed even to the president not!
She, and Mrs. I
Presented Medals of Honor
Radio Program Causes Con-
cern to Susceptible Believ-
ing Men From Strange
Planet Invades U. S. Said.
Explanations
Beforehand
Thousand: of Calls Answer- , ,
• , D ,• ti , . to dispossess her.
edhy Police Throughout ^ h<>r d hte .
The Nation Sunday Night. detaine(i on a chal.ge of BU»picionI
RAI*S THE PRESIDENT—Chairman Martin Dies, who made for-
mal denial of President Roosevelt’s charges against the special
House committee investigating un-American activities, asserting
the President had been grossly misinformed President Roosevelt
charged the committee with unfairness in testimony against Gov-
ernor Murphy. Mr. Dies is shown above, speaking at the New
York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Events.
GERMANY SHREDS
VERSAILLES PACT
Michigan Race
For Governor
Grows Torrid
Frank Murphv in Midst of
His Most Difficult Race;
Ignores Red Charges. Said
PAIRIS, Oct. 31 (UP)—Twenty
years after peace, three-fourths
of the treaty between the Allied
and Associated powers and Ger-
many which the statesmen of 28
nations signed in the Hall of Mir-
rors of the Versailles palace, Jun
28, 1919, has been tossed in th
diplomatic dustbin along with
other “scraps of paper.”
With the dismemberment of
Czechoslokavia, six more articles
of the Versailles Peace Treaty, Rl
to 86, wherein Germany reengiz- . ... , , . .... ,
... , . , , , , battle of his political career,
ed the complete independence and
the integrity of the frontiers „f Murphy s principal opponent is
tne man who preceded
NEW YORK. Oct. 31 (UP) —
The Federal Communications Com-
mission investigated a radio pro-
gram today which caused thous-
ands i f persons in every part of
11 ho country to bc'ieve that the
j Eastern United States had been
; invaded by creatures from the
| planet Mars in the first engage
Client of a “War of the Worlds.”
The hysteria following the one
hour radio dramatic program had
'police swamped and newspapers
I of New York City and of New
Jersey towns and cities where the
Martian adventurers were said to
have landed, killing thousands of
persons after they left their space
rocket.
But it was not limited to the
East. In Indianapolis, an un-
identified woman ran down the
main aisle of St. Paul's Episcopal
church, crying: “The world is com-
ing to an end.’’ The congrega-
tion was hastily dismissed.
In Toledo, O., three persons
fainted at telephones trying to
call police.
In Chicago, persons ran out of
restaurants without finishing their
meals.
In Salt Lake City, residents
packed their belongings and were
only dissuaded from fleeing their
home by proof that it was all just
entertainment.
But in the east, in the country
being subjected to the “invasion”
hysteria ran riot. Several per-
sons came forward to swear they
say the rocket land and “strange
creatures" c'imb out of it. In
Newark, N. .1., hundreds fled off
two city blocks, carrying their
possessions in their flight.
Police cars screamed through
the street of a score of towns, re-
sponding to frenzied alarms.
of resisting federal officers.
The charge was filed after, U.
S. Marshal Bob Clark said, Mrs. |
Barnett tried to scalp a raiding
deputy with a hand axe.
Clark, admittedly embarrassed;
hy the widespread protests over
the eviction order, which followed
the Supreme Court’s ruling that
Mrs. Barnett “kidnapped” and il-
legally married the incompetent
old Indian for his money, delayed
the raid until the curious deserted j
the Wilshire boulevard site of the
mansion where he was 1 repulsed
two weeks ago.
Intimidation
Radio Added
T exan Charge
Everyday
DENISON
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VETERAN SENATOR HONORED—Robert Moses, left, New York
Commissioner of Parks, and Carter Glass, center, veteran United
States Senator from Virginia, hailed as outstanding adminis-
trators, were presented the Theodore Roosevelt medals for 1938,
at a dinner in New York City. President James R, Garfield
the Roosevelt Memorial Association, presents the medals.
Hallowe’en Festivities Tonight
menl^UYnSuUei’bcJ DemSOn To Tmtl Out for A 11^1
stormed the house and overpower-,
ed Mrs. Barnett with tear gas. 1
The 57-year-old thrice married j
widow was in the back yard feed-
ing her pet cuckatoo when tht IrL-~„ T1-. D-.-L I H y°u happen to see a goblin
deputies arrived. She dashed to IvtVCb 1U 1 USIl 'or a grotesque figuring lurking
the house and barred the doors. p J* p If
Two deputies Dave Hayden andj V^aiiaQian-'vJl.III
George Rossini, broke in the front j
door. They saw Mrs. Barnett
standing at the foot of the stairj
case, hatchet upraised.
"Got out of here you gangsters”
she screamed.
Hayden took a step forward and
she threw the axe. It whizzed
past his head and he fired a tear
gas pistol. Then he and Rossini,
holding their breath, rushed her.
She struggled briefly, then gave
way to choking, helpless. They
carried her out.
Daughter is Captured
Denison football fans this morn-
ing arc still a-king your corres-
pondent what happened to the
Jackets against Sherman last Fri-
day night. You’ve got me there
| pals . . . You would be suprised
how many thought Sherman just
i had too much on the ball field for
I the locals Some fans hero, after
I witnessing the spectacle, say the
j Bearcats have a Letter chance of
winning from Gainesville than
I does Denison, hut we disagree
there. The Jackets always play
their worst game of the season
against the Cats and their best
against the Leopards . . . Here’?
hoping the government, irons out
the railroad ill of the nation at
the meeting today, where both
ides will he satisfied with the
outcome You’ll have to look fa
and wide to find a better group
of men than those ralload people
-employers and employees
LANSING, Mich., Oct. 31 (UP)
—Frank Murphy, Michigan’s first
labor governor, is engaged in the
Czechoslovakia, ore lorn to shreds.
tAn examination, article hy article,
treaty today
Reaction it Bitter
The reaction was hitter and the
Columbia Broadcasting System on
whose networks the program—a
dramatization of H G. Wells’ nov-
el, ‘The War of the Worlds”—was
There are five other j'br0«dCast, was inundated with pro-
.. , candidates, but if Michigan's past te* telegrams and telephone calls
410 ®Tt.C experience means anything, theyla"<! »*** department was busy,Indians,
"" —*L explanations and apologies.
final result Nov.
him
governor, Fraud D. Fitzgerald,
republican.
of the Versailles
shows that of the
comprising the pence pact, the ......
, ,, . • , will not figure unnortantlv in the
League C ovenant in its prefix and „
the British and United States
Best joke of the year, that
should not be taken seriously bv
the public here: Fourteen (one
witness told us) high school chil
jb'eneath a street light tonight,
I you haven’t the delirium tremens
River Hmhwav mere,y Hal,owe’en- ........... ............
o J | Denison p I they would dren weri
r- , u-T *i. a, I ,P “ w“tchout for tl'oul,1(' in 'he Sherman iail F. Max fur
D mTs’ “'*-hD?y All AloSg ™,ker* throU|rhout " 1 .rake dancing and war who......
Mississippi River May Be follow the expression of Dallas front of ,h„ h-„h
Realization of The Future:officers with "a goblin in a dark|schooi. Th„.
T: “!»**. 5JKEJ5T* S3
out, about the incident . . . The
the Mississippi river from its celebration tonight,' they stilfwill’
pledges of military aid to France
in the event of nnother German
aggression, in appended docu-
ments, only 127 articles are left in
force.
Of the 127 valid clauses, nine
seemingly are due for early scrap
ping—articles 119 to 127 wherein
Gemany renounced in favor of
its conquerors all title to overseas
possessions.
France’s official copy of the
Mrs. Juliet K. Hammond of De-
troit, widow of the late Charles F.
Hammond, heads an all-feminine
slate of candidates as the guber-
natorial nominee,
Murphy defeated Fitzgerald by
18,019 two years ago while Frank-
lin D. Rooseve't. was piling up a
lead of 317,061 votes over Alfred
M. Landon. Murphv was induced
to become a candidate because
Mr. Roosevelt's campaign man-
agers thought he could help the
Versailles treaty, signed by Pres- ., . ....
ident Wilson, Robert Lansing. I)a- '’rc^Pnt ca,Ty M,rh,f"-
vid Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar t*t* 1 ome ° (,<
Law, Georges Clemenceau, Dr. Republicans cast nearly twice
Eudard Benes, Dr. Bell. Herman as many voto;" a? democrats
N. Muller and more than 100 the primary election. Thee Re-
other peacemakers, is preserved in f”,b,!ca" ^ernatorml caiyldmtes
a special treaty archive at the recp,vpd fi’,2 00R votPS- MurPh>’>
ministry of foreign affairs, in a
unopposed, received 336,3!>0. An-
wing on the rue de
l’Univcrsite factor, considered favorable
where all • diplomatic documents
to the republicans, is that Mich
dating back 600 years are pre- hiUhplace of the party, tra
served, including the treaty sign- d,t,ona'ly ,s Ltn,p lts ^hr'w'
imr. Thorp have boon only four
between the 13 Homorrntic governors in the 20th
olutionary war
Aimerican colonies and
Britain.
Great ppntl"-v’
| Fitzgerald, an active campalgn-
; er, with more than two decades of
political experience, is directing a
Hmtingi Funeral three fold attaek at Murphv. He
blames Murphy for the sit-down
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary strikes in the automobile indus-
Bell Hastings, 81, were held Sun- try, accuses him of coddling Coin-
day afternoon from 'Short(Murray munistic agitators and charges
chapel, with burial in Fail-view that he is bankrupting the state
cemetery. government.
Mrs. Hastings died Saturday Murphy alleges that Fitzgerald
morning at the home of her left him with a 813,000,000 deficit
daughter, Mrs. Roy Vinneiigu, which he has reduced to 99 nnn
1306 West Chestnut street. 000 and asserts that his handling
Pallbearers were Shirley Pattie, of the labor crisis prevented
Charlie Cowell, Frank Cowell, El- bloodshed and resulted in settle-
mer Wood, Guy Vinnedge and ment of the big strikes. He has
pell Green. ignored the Communist charge.
with
In Washington, Frank U. Mc-
Ninch, chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission, an-
nounced that he would investigate
at once. He said he had received
no complaints, but that the com-
mission could investigate without
having received complaints.
’'Apparently the broadcast was
quite realistic,” he said.
The broadcasting system had
taken every precauton to prevent
anyone thinking the program was
real. Program listings in Sunday
newspapers had announced that
the time between 8 and 9 p. m.
would be taken by Orson Welles
and the Mercury theatre of the
ail- in the H. G. Wells book. Well-
es, the playwright and actor, op-
ened the program with a detailed
exposition of the series of which
the program was a part. Then,
four times during the hour broad-
cast, an announcer broke in to
inform listeners that it was a
play.
The play was realistic enough
that if heard independently of the
announcements, it was identical
with many ordinary news pro-
grams. It began with a weather
report. An announcer said that
the program would continue with
dance music from a hotel. Then
came a few minutes of swing mu-
sic. This was interrupted with
a flash reporting that an obser-
vatory professor has noted a ser-
ies of gas explosions on the plan
et Mars.
Then eame a scries of bulletins
nnd first hand reporting from the
scene. tOne of the first bulletins
said that a meteor had landed near
source near the Canadian border maintain a close watch in the
to its mouth in the Gulf of Mex-t residential section for persons bent
ic°, is steadily drawing nearer; on destroying private property,
realization. j Hallowe'en the past few years
Originally conceived here a]in Denison has been quiet and po-
lOther officers rushed upstairs' year ago as a proposed river high-1 ijce have had little to do except
and captured Mrs. Starguis. Both I way extending the width of Mis-' pick up a few drunks who cele-
she and her mother were in pa-j sissippi, the plan developed, un- hrate with a whoop, a holler and
jamas and robe. Both refused to^er the sponsorship of the Missis- a bottle.
change to street dress and were^sippi river parkway interstate >\s in past years here, the per-
taken out as they were. Mrs. planning committee, to the stage fect weather today promises to
Barnett berated her captors until, of tentative suggestions for a bring out the witchery en mas-o
locked up. She and her daughter j scenic boulevard traversing five to Main street. The . treet parade
were put in the “tank” where she | states on the western bank of the wji( st8rt soon after darkness and
spent two weeks several months river. > last until the hours about midnight
ago for refusing to let creditors It became a definite program when the goblins will depart from
when Secretary of the Interior the business section for their
Harold L. Ickes, attending a meet-( homes, or private parties that Inst
ing here of governors and repre-! until the wee sma’ hours of the
sentatives of the five states, ap- morning.
proved the proposal warmly, prom- But piayful follows who think
ised the co-operation of the Na- that whacking a stranger on ten
tional Resources Committee, which ^er spots with a two-bv-four pad
he heads, and the National Park ’ dIe> hurling a brick through a
• Service, one of his bureaus, an<b pjate j^ss window, or removing
jpioffei'ed his assistance in draft-, that glider off a porch and into
j ing a bill, for introduction at the!
1 next congress, to authorize the
highway.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UP)
j—The controversy between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Rep. Dies, D.,
| Tex., increased in scope today
with new charges by Dies that the
administration was attempting to
rib toge his committee’s investiga-
tion of subversive activities.
Twenty-four hours before he
a scheduled to give “definite
proof” that high ranking new deai-
e' . including Cabinet members,
ought to obstruct the work of the
House committee investigating un-
Vmerb-an activifes. Dies charged
'bat administration officials had
“intimidated” a radio broadcasting
system.
Dies will speak from 11:18 to
11:30 ), in. tonight from station
W( the Washington station of
the Mutual Broadcasting Company
in defense of his committee’s in-
vestigation which drew a sharp
rebuke from Mr. Roosevelt. That
address was announced hy Dies
Saturday when he said he would
read letters from officials, includ
ing the President, to show that
the administration had attempted
to obstruct his work.
East night WOL announced that
Die would be followed from 11:30
to 11:45 p. m. by Paul Y. \nder-
son. Washington correspondent of
the St. Louis Star-Times, who also
would discuss the Dies committee
hearings.
Dies immediately said that he
had received authentic informa-
tion that William B. Dolph, mana-
rer of WOT,, had been “forced"
to give radio time to Anderson.
He charged that Charles Michelson
publicity director of the democra-
tic national committee, had ap-
proached Dolph with the sugges-
tion that Anderson be permitted
to speak and that no mention of
the White House's interest in the
matter he made.
Anderson, who has been report-
ing the committee’s hearings for
hi? paper, said that he had been
u-ked to speak by only WCL of-
removc certain furniture from her
house.
John W. Dadv, Indian agent for
Southern California, was due to-
day to take possession of the col-
onial home in the name of the
Fishermen
Drift About
For 6 Days
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 31
(UP)—Six fishermen, near ex-
haustion after drifting for six
days in the disabled fishing schoon-
er Angeles, were reported safe to-
day aboard the coast guard cutter
Alaska.
The men, headed by H. J. Han-
sen, captain and owner of the
schooner, were picked up near Pt.
St. Elias on the Alaskan coast.
They were being brought to the
mainland by the Alaska while an-
other cutter, the Spencer, brought
in their disabled craft. It was
caught in an easterly gale, Ovt. 23
which carried away the pilot
house and disabled the rudder.
fConttaaed ftr-om 1)
ASSISTANT ENGINEER
MOVES WITH GOODS
a tree, is real fun, would do well
, to remember there's a hunch of
i boogie men in black, wearing
i shiney stars that resemble badges,
I who arc just waiting around for
I such antics.
kids were not locked up, just put
in the court room. . .The cops
over there probably thought they
were stopping a possible outbreak
of trouble by taking the Denison
schoolers off the street . . . Appli
day at Paradise. Cal has a slogan I
of “An Apple a Dav Makes Para-jficials.
. A few aak us why poiph. when first questioned,
we comment on persons who com paid that the station had invited
pliment us on this column. For) Anderson to speak as a result of
two reasons- we want something.(Mr. Roosevelt’s press conference
probably, and we have too few to! susrireption last week—that corres-
pondent- interview reporters cov-
pass up. Perhaps the o'.d pride has
to be built up some
The Bluebonnet through Deni-;
son Wednesday will have three|
extra baggage cars for the Mc-|
CartyiElliot l-odeo enroute to Ba-i
ton Rouge, La.
Former Prexy
Of Baylor To
Be Interred
Dr. L. H. Hubbard of North
Texas State Teachers will speak
before the PT \ here November 17
on “The \mericnn School . . .
"Marie Antoinette” opened here
Sunday and presented the most
spectacular film seen here in
months. Norma Shearer is billed
as the star, but Robert Morley
steals the show. When you hate
a man in the first scenes and be-
gin to overlook his weaknesses a=
the picture progresses, that’s act-
ing . . . Winchell last night pu'led
a gag that was as unfuny as some
in this column. As Ring Lardner
j would have said: “About as fun-
ny as a brokpn arm" . . . Look
this week attempts to show in pic-
tures the horrors of war .
Peek kids Life with a number of
“pardon” pictures . . . Life edi
tors probably burned as a result
TEMPERATURES in
DENISON ARE LOWER
Temperatures in Denison Sun-
day afternoon reached a high of
74 degrees, followed by a low of
54 degrees early today. Fore-
casts for today ad Tuesday are
for higher readings and partly
cloudiness.
Drive /Continue!
The annual drive for subscrip-
tions among high school students
for 1938-39 Yellow Jacket year-
books will end Nov ,, according
to Miss Marie Arthur, sponsor.
Miss 'Arthur said awards would be
made to students in each class
selling the most subscriptions.
Eb Austin has started construe-' BELTON. Tex., 'Oct. 31 (UP)
tion of a new home on Achesoni Dr. J. C. Hardy, 74, president!
street. 'emeritus of Mary Hardin Baylor E,sa Maxwell, who has night
- j University, will be buried here to- mares, then turn? them into pay-
Two special trains from Denton day following funeral services nt|'nC parties, will lecture in Dnl-
November 5 will carry T.S.C.W.[2p. m. lias Thursday . Her affairs are
(CJA) students to the A&M-6MU Hardy, who for 25 years was digger than she i- \ transient
game at Dallas. There will be a president of the university, diodi^f Fort Worth the other day paid
special from Waco to Austin for yesterday at the school hospital..n« attention to pic,'.? of enninon
the Texas game, and one to Fort where he had been ill for several ions not to sb-ep on the railroad
Worth for tho St. Edwards-Texas weeks. He lapsed into a coma tracks He laid d wn and slept
Wesleyan game. (Saturday, and students of the anyway and they’ll put him six
--- I school cancelled plans for Hal- feet under today . Texas Chris-
A carload of Pepsodent tooth lowo’on celebrations when Doctor(tian moved into second place in
paste enroute to Dallas passed Hardy’s physician described hisjnntional football ranking torla>-)i'HiriEr the committee for allowing
through Denison Saturday. | condition as grave. ja'ftcr walloping the Baylor Boars itself to be used by ‘Msgruntled
- I Hardy retired from the presi-'Saturday . . . The Dads club will
D. U. Gray, assistant engineer dency July 1, 1937. sponsor a trip to Dallas this xvoek-
on the Denison dam project is'---,;. —--------- 1 end to allow the Jackets to see
moving his household good by the; GambiU Service! ;8MU meet the Texa Vggies
MKT from Lansing, Mich,, via --- Bid Conatser, who is doing all
the Dies committee hearing?
for an opinion on the inquiry.
Later, however, when informed
that D'es had announced that he
would subpoena him to testify be-
fore his committee about how the
arrangements for Anderson’s ad-
Iress had been made, Dolph refer-
red all questions to Michelson,
who was not available for com-
ment.
Referring to his charge that the
administration had “forced” the
radio station to schedule a rebut-
tal speaker to follow him. Dies
said:
Mav Deny Charge*
“There you have the Roosevelt
administration using the federal
power of licensing radio stations
to intimidate a hroad^asting com-
pany into permitting a speaker to
follow me on the air in an effort
to deny tny charges.*’
Anderson denied that he intend-
ed to refute Dies’ charges.
“1 n’an simply to give a report-
er’s eyewitnesses account of how
the committee conducted Its hear-
ing? the day that witnesses accus-
ed Gov. Frank Murphy of Michi-
gan of being responsible for the
breakdown of law and order dur-
ing the automobile strikes last
year,” he said.
It was that testimony that pre-
einitated Mr. Roosevelt’s virtually
unprecedented statement admnn-
Kansas City to Denison.
-- Rill Conatser, who Is
DENTON, Tex., Oct. 31 (UP) j right with the Aggies, has played
■Funeral services will be he d in every A. and M. game to date.
Paul Sanders, chief KFF clerk1 tomorrow for Joe S. Gambill, 65.| He’ll ho a regular more than like
has returned from a hunting trip| prominent attorney who died at ly next year. He ha- everything
to Dcleware Bend. j his home yesterday. . . . Harry White tells us his son
- j Gambill was former county at- is making the grade at N. Texas
The Limited through Denison.torney of Denton county. H" had ptrite Hi- 'S” was a lettevman
Saturday night was carrying Fed- practiced law here for 45 years, two years here at center,
oral prisoners and guards enroute Survivors are his widow, four
to Leavenworth via. Kansas City. Isons, one daughter and a sister.
Subscribe to the Denison Prer'
republicans” a? a sounding hoard
for influencing an election. Mur-
phv seeks re election next week.
Meanwhile the committee will
continue its hearings today despite
a threat by Rep. John J. Demp-
sey, I)., N. M. to resign unless
(Continued on Pa«te 4)
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