The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 30, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Fair and continued warm
Tueaday and Wednesday
THE DENISON PRESS
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DAILY NEWSPAPER
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DENISON, TEXAS TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1940
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 7—NO. 12
21 Nations Speak Loud Against Any Invasion
German Blitzkrieg Into
England Near, While Raids
Continue Oier Vital Areas
DRAGNET REVEALS
BANK ROBBERS DID
NOT FLEE TO TEXAS
GROUP PLEDGE
CO-OPERATION NO
UNCERTAIN TERM
GERMAN SUPPLIES
SAID TO BE LAID
100 MILES INLAND
MARSEILLE, France, July 30
—Reports of parties reaching here
long- j
for
^iead to the belief that the
Tanked for German blitzkrieg
’ Lingland is near at hand, wit
Ultimate hope of invasion.
EVERYDAY
DENISON
Our personal congrats to Robert
L. Cox on his promotion from ma-
jor to lieutenant colonel for the
thirty-sixth division, Texas Na-
tional guard, a swell fellow, he
well deserved it in our humble
opinion . . . Thp older generation
now has some facts to back up
their belief that the modern age
is going to the dogs as some fig-
ures compiled by a major life in-
surance company indicate that
hardened, experienced criminal*
are not responsible for the major-
ity of burglaries in the U. S. but
youngsters in their early twenties.
Distressing, isn’t it? ... A Sher-
man man was making the rounds,
of the county courthouse yester-1
day displaying two straw hats he'
won as an election bet.
Motor vehicle driver training
courses are to be offered in Texas
public school systems during the
coming year. Incorporation of
safety education in the school
curridulum was recently approved
by the state committee on accredi-
tion and classification. Boiled
down, this means that education
in safe driving principals and
practice will be made available to
1,2,14 accredited high schools
the state, subject to approval
by local school boards. No ac-
tion has as yet been taken by the
Denison board, but it is believed
doubtful by local observers that
such a course will be offered
here.
Reports are that military move-
ment throughout the occupied
areas in France and Belgium are
similar to those preceding the in-
vasion of the lower countries. All
indications, the reports say, arc
that gigantic preparations by the
Germans for the attack are being
closed up.
While the reports could not be
verified in Yact, it is generally
being accepted as true that such
a move is on. Troop trains and
naval forces are reported to be
massed in and near the principal
ports nearest England and which
be most advantageous for such
an effort. These preparation.!
reach a distance back of 100
miles inland, it is claimed.
Within that belt, across from
England, were said to be massed
all necessary supporting materials
for needed operations.
DOVER MAY OFFER
POINT FOR GERMANS
TO TRY INVASION
tions at Carpenter’s Bluff, Col-1
bert and Preston Bend, the three
Law enforcement officers of
Denison today are of the firm be-
lief the two men who robbed the
First State bank at Caddo, Okla.,
of $400 Monday afternoon, did
not cross Red River.
Deputy sheriffs, local police
and the constables, armed with j
| sawed-off shot guns took up posi-i being about 30 years old and
wearing a light color slack suit;
HAVANA, Cuba, July 30-
the
Red River crossings, shortly after j Showine * solidarity among
word was received here the men c0“ntr,es of, the western h«®‘-
were headed this way, but >JsPhere >n efforts to keep out die-
trace had ,been found
early today.
'The bandits, one described
LONDON, July 30 —'German' other key places in an effort to
raiders struck again early today smash the defense of England,
at various points along the Eng- but most of the bombs struck
lish coast, following up an attack helpless working areas and spread
of Monday. They dropped bombs death among the non-combatants.
#n defense workers at Dover and Residents fled to safety while
--------| machine-guns sprayed them with
'T* R! bullets and dropped bombs among
I WO Diazes them. Other raiders struck in-
land from the southwest and I
northeast, but did no military
damage.
The greatest effort was made
----- against Dover, which it is be-
Two alarms were answered lleved wiu be the point of landing
Monday by the fire department, for any f0,.CP ot- Germans hoping
to land troops for the invasion.
Ih Willkie Man
Answered By
Fire Boys
the
the
in
A local filling station operator
.ells us a certain Indy living near
lis station goes up a notch or two
n his estimation. She presented
lim with a dish of ice cream and
■ake being served at a bridge
jarty at her home one hot after
ioon recently ... If you should
lappen to run across an attraitive
/oung lady about 19 years of age
hat appears to be suffering from
imnesia, she is likely to be Betty
Duvall, University of Oklahoma
(Continued on page fourl
MUtiuippi Engineer, .Consultant
Garard Matthes, principal en-
gineer in the office of the presi-
dent of the Mississippi river com-
mission, Vicksburg, Miss., was in
the city today consulting with U.
S. engineers here on phases of the
Denison dam project. A tour of
the dam site is also being made by
Mr. Matthes before he returns to
Vicksburg.
DEATH ROLL
REBA NELL SCALLY
Reba Nell Scally, 16-month-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Scally, 1731 W. Crawford, died
Monday at a local hospital follow-
ing an illness of three weeks, eight
days of which were spent at the
hospital.
Funeral services are to be held
this afternoon at 4 o’clock from
the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church
with Rev. Bruce Hibbit officiat-
ing. Interment will be at Layne
cemetery, Short-Murray directing.
I’he infant was born March 31,
1939 at Denison, and is survived
by its parents, one brother, Claude
F., Jr., of Denison, and one sis-
ter, Sallie Mae, also of Denison.
were
fire
one doing total damage and
other only slight damage.
Canning foodstuffs for fall use,
Ann Mitchell, negress, placed
sticks of wood too long to fit in
her wood stove with the result
falling ashes caught the two-room
house, located at 1322 Shepard
street, on fire at 4 p. m., resulting
in almost total destruction before .German air forces today
firemen were called. No insurance | of 14 English planes were shot
wa8 carried. I down yesterday while 32 thousand JosePh W el(lou Bailey, Jr
A curtain blowing against ajtons of shipping vessels were re-
lighted candle in a back bedroom ported as put out of business,
of the D. F. Armistead residence .
at 826 W. Morton Monday night j LONDON, July 30—Britain re-
at 11:45, resulted in serious dam- j ports that one plane was shot
| This point is within eyesight of
the French coast and offers what
is believed the place the Germans
hope to try for the first invasion
uf England in the past 84.7 years.
BERLIN, July 30—According
to reports of activities of the
total
and grey hat, and the other j
thought to ,be 22 and wearing aj
blue shirt and light troupers, en-1
lered the bank during the lunch
hour. Engaging Assistant Cashier
Joe Gibson in conversation to
avoid suspicion, they drew their
guns and locked up Gibson and
two customers in the bank’s
| vaults. Grabbing all cash in sight,
they fled, overlooking a large sum
that was hidden.
Officers here indicated their be-
to maintain economic equilibrium,
“Nightmare” Is
Way Banker Put
the conference of the nations of
the Americas is facing adjourn-
ment today.
The action of the^ group was a
of the men !tators' an<* pledging a cooperation most impressive display of unani-
which characterizes the
twenty-one countries forming the
alliance and the Americas. The
political and economic measures
taken are such as to guarantee the
greatest degrees of safety and per-
Monday Robbery *£%
- one nations against the effects of
i According to a report from Cad- war
do, Ok., where the First State Among the subjects given ap-
bank was held up at the noon proval by delegates of all the 21
, hour Monday, the experience was American republics at a private
harrowing and like a nightmare to p]enary session lasting three hour*
Cashier Joe Wallace Gibson. and twenty-five minutes was one
After being approached by uric regarding the establishment of a
j of the men who entered the bang collective Pan-American trustee-
'«-Icr„:'
<ow*rd ,h' 0e.l, and replying in thy n.g.tive.
never entered Texas at all
who
announces today that he has
joined the ranks of the Texas for
Willkie movement. He was born
in Gainesville and moved to Dal
las some years ago. He spoke in
age to the room and furniture. The | down by the Germans yesterday Pen‘son some years back
blaze was extinguished by the j while the English brought down
firemen before it could spread to j twenty German planes, with no
other parts of the house,
ance was carried.
BOXCARS GET LOOSE AT
DAM SITE; SLIGHT DAMAGE
Insur- report of damage done to ship-
jping vessels.
The report tlirtt the port of Lon-
don had been closed by German
gunfire was hooted and it is de-
clared that they were only closed
for a short time checking possible
nresenee of German mines. Eng-
lish are now running business as
usual at that point, it is claimed.
Shipment Ban
Placed Here
On Articles
Sheriff W. O. Taylor, of Du-
rant, had his deputies and posses
I of citizens searching the country-
| side near Caddo a few minutes
after the robbery and notified po-
lice and officers of neighboring
counties.
Durant Troops
Entrain Sunday
For Sabine Area
the stranger then said “you won't
know where anybody livcis unless
you do what I tell you.”
“Then the other one produced
a pistol,” Gibson said, “and cover-
ed Hale and Davis, and the first,
a slender, heavily-tanned and older
of the two, told me to get inside
the cage, where he followed me:
and scopped up all the currency j
on the counter and from
i drawers.
“ ‘This is not all the money
you’ve got. Show me where it is’
| he said as he kept the pistol point-
| ed at my stomach. I went into
ship over American possessions of
conquered European nations. 'An-
other related to economic co-oper-
ation.
The latter embodies the ideas of
President Roosevelt’s so-called
cartel plan for disposal of crop
surpluses of the American coun-
tries. Sponsored by the United
States, it was designed to offset
German and Italian trade inroads
in the western hemisphere and to
prevent Latin America from being
the| forced into the Nazi-Fascist eco-
nomic orbit.
Both the trusteeship and the
economic co-operation plans were
approved unanimously. ,
The trusteeship plan, which, in
DURANT, July 30—Oklahoma
national guardsmen, including five: the vault and showed him where I effect, implements the Monroe
companies in Durant will leave j there was some more currency hut j Doctrine, comprises a convention,
next Sunday for at least three j n°t as much as he had already | or treaty, and a resolution known
Instructions have been received
here by Postmaster F. B. Hughes
from postal authorities at Wash-
ington to accept no shipments fot
Lewis Denounces Willkie
ST. LOUIS, Mo„ July 30-John
L. Lewis today denounced Wendell
L. Willkie as being the same man
who opposed labor while at the
head of great utility concerns. He
stated Willkie is still against labor.
Actor Joins Ranke
BOLLYWOOD, July 30—Rich-
rd Green is leaving the film
olonv today for Vancouver, B.
!., where he will enlist in the
rmy to fight for England.
Facet Death Sentence
FT. MADISON, Io„ July 30-
van Sullivan, who escaped prison
nd killed a guard in the flight, is
acing a death sentence today for
turder,
FRED E. LYDAY
Fred E. Lyday, 56, a carpenter
and resident of Denison five years,
died this morning at 1:50 at his
home, 1113 S. Armstrong avenue,
following an illness since April.
Funeral services are to be held
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock
from Short-Murray chapel with
Rev. Minor Bounds officiating, as-
sisted by Rev. Hargrove Grounds.
Interment will be at Oakwood cem-
etery, Short-Murray directing.
Deceased was born at Ravenna.
Texas, Sent. 5, 1883 as son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lyday and
was reared and educated there. He
was married to Miss Mary Ellen
Bivings at 'Wichita Falls, May 20,
1908. The couple came to Deni-
son in 1910 and after residing
here 17 years moved to Bonham,
returning to Denison five years
ago. He was a member of the
Methodist church.
Surviving are his widow, one
son, Fred T. Layday of Bonham;
one daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Harks
of Denison; two brothers, Henry
of Dallas and Elbert of Wolfe
City, Texas; three sisters, Mrs.
Jerry Nunley of Bonham, Mrs.
Arthur Jensen of Los Angeles and
Miss Eunice Lyday of Los An-
geles; an aunt, Mrs. Ida Penning-
ton of Dallas, and two grandchi1-
dren.
Only slight damage was done
when four railroad box cars sta-
tioned on the government's spur
track at the Denison dam site sud-
denly started rolling Monday af-
ternoon about 4 o’clock.
The cars rolled east about 100
feet and derailed. They were
empties waiting to he returned to
the Katv railroad. No personal
injury was done to any of the C. .. . , ,
F Lytle company’s workmen near. ll[K? ,bu.tto.ns’ ont.on each 'aPel | graphite, wool, manganese,
VERSATILE K C. MRK.EEPS
WEAR CAMPAIGN BUTTONS
KANSAS, CITY, July 30 Bar-
keeps here wear two kinds of po-
weeks intensive training at Pitkin,
La., according to orders received
by Adjutant General Louis A.
Ledbetter at Oklahoma City from
the war department.
The orders tentatively set the
date for the 1940 encampment at
August 24, but the Oklahoma
guardsmen of the 45th division,
were not certain but that they
would be gone a full year for
training under plans recommend-
gotten off the counter, and told
him that was all the money in the
bank.
“He looked at me closely, but
didn’t say anything, and seemed
satisfied as he walked back to the
front.
“He motioned his companion who
then ordered Hale and Davis in-
side the -cage and they told all of
us to get in the vault. After they
as the Act of Havana. The act
provides for iterim applications of
the principles of the convention
| pending its ratification of the sev-
eral republics.
The official test of the plan
revealed that the United States or
any other American nation would
be given a free hand in taking
over European possessions if such
were necessary to prevent a threat
export of a long list of materials j ed by the war department,
named in the preparedness pro-! Local national guard officers j
gram which must be kept in this bad no, received their orders of-
country because of the present ficially today, but they already j
had closed the door they had dif- i0 the peace of the new world,
ficulty locking it and they opened | The act and the convention,
the door again and told me to tell which on ratification will become
them how to lock it, which I did.
“I kept thinking of $3737 more
emergency.
Among the
were included:
items listed,
aluminum,
by and the cars were retailed
within a few hours after the de-
railment.
TROOPS ON MOVE IN
LARGE NUMBERS TODAY
of their jackets. When the argu
ment is for Willkie, they flash the
proper button. And when the ar-
gument among customers is for
Roosevelt, they conveniently drag
that out from under the lapel of
the jackets. ■
WASHINGTON, July 30—The N. SIDE CREAMERY IN
greatest number of troops to be TEMPORARY LOCATION
on the move in peace time in this AS REPAIRS ARE MADE
country got under way today I -
when something over 325,000 men Richard C. Wilson is temporal'- j
are affected. A total of 70,000 j ily doing business as Noi'th Side |
of them will be in Texas and ! Creamery at 411 N Armstrong
Louisiana and it will require a to
her, silk, tungsten and vanadium.
House Entered
J. F. Turner, 819 W Morton,
reported to police his home had
been broken into while he was
away on a vacation. Nothing was
reported to be missing.
have received ration orders and
these' are acquainted with details for the
flax, mobilization. Lacking only official
ru')_! notification, the local troops are
nractically ready for the most in-
tensive peacetime training period
ever experienced by the United
States.
The Durant troops will go
the Frisco railroad bv way
we had hidden in the vault and 1
wanted to save that if I could so
I showed them how to lock the
vault door, but took as much time
as I could, hoping someone on the
outside would catch on to the fact
that the bank was being robbed
I “There is a back door to the
by i vault the robbers didn’t discover,
of! and we were able to let ourselves
pie, Beaumont and to Pitkin.
tal of something like 2,600 cars of
food and other supplies to care
for them over a period of three
weeks.
avenue, while a remodeling pro-|
cess is underway on the creamery i
site at 800 W. Morton. The build-;
mg is to be completely retinished
and modern fixtures installed. i
Conscription Is
“Hot Potatoe” In
Washington, Claim
ALBERT T. MOORE
Albert T. Moore, 69, u retired
textile workers, died this morning
at 11:03 at his home, 633 W.
Starr street, following an Hines?
of several years.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from Short-Murray chapel. Inter-
ment will be at Fairview ceme-
tery Short-Murray directing.
Mr. Moore wa born July 28,
1871, at Shelby, S. C. and was
reared and educated there. He
married Mi#s Annie Robertson at
Honey Grove, January S, 1900.
He was a member of the Baptist
church.
BUS LINES UNDER
BRT IS RULING
The National Labor Relations 43, according to Railway Age
board has ordered the Dixie Motor
Coach corporation and the Sun-
shine Buss lines, which operate
through Denison, to bargain col-
lectively with the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen as the exclu-
sive bargaining agent for the mo-
tor lines’ drivers.
The ruling came after several
weeks spent taking testimony be-
fore a trial examiner at Dallas in
^November of 1938. The board al-
so ordered reinstatement of three
workers allegedly discharged be-
cause of union activities.
In 1938 the average age of all
railroad employes was just under
magazine. Engineers and conduct-
ors were the oldest group with
their nges averaging 55, while ex-
tra gang employes were the
youngest, being just shy of 33 on
the average. The largest group
of pensioners in 1938 were skilled
mechanical department employes
with the conductors and engineer?
n close runner-up.
The Tulsa ball club was aboard
an extra tourist car of the Knty
Flyer out of Dallas to San Antonio
today.
Due to heavy travel an extra
sleeper was added to the Flyer at
Dallas today as far as Austin.
WASHINGTON, July 30—Con-
gress is to take up what is termed
a hot potato in the conscription
measure proposed whereby a draft
bill would empower conscripting
some million and a half men in-
side the next fifteen months.
President Roosevelt has urged
that everything possible be done
to meet the increasing seriousness
of the situation and take every
possible step to bring the highest
stale of efficiency for the army.
Offsetting this is the position of
certain ones who saw that to do
such a thing is not necessary at
this time and their affect on the
senate military affairs committee
may he felt.
In view of this is the fact that
a large number of congressional
members, some 100 in all, ate
hack home seeing to political
fences, and others here, who arc
left, do not feel like taking on the
responsibility of favoring the hill
and bearing the brunt of the fight
that is sure to be made by a min-
ority group, who, it is recalled,
favored with a reservation, going
Madill, Fort Worth, Waco, Tem-;°ut of it in a few seconds after
I the front door was shut,
i “I turned on the burglar alarm
and rushed to the front door, but
' they had disappeared,
i “I wasn’t so badly scared while
j the robbery was being- staged, but
after it was all over I thought
| about what could have happened
; and I feel kinda weak around the
knees.
"I took a good look at both the
___ ; men who came in the bank and I
as far as they have in the matter | won’t have any difficulty identi-
of taking down the restriction.; of | them when they are caught,
the embargo against shipping arms | _ _ ~
to Great Britain. Heat Wave Over
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
(R.-Micln) and CIO President,
John L. Lewis Monday night as-
sailed compulsory military traih-1
iug plans shortly after President; With the heat wave going into
Roosevelt had requested legislative1 its twelfth day over the country,1
authority to call up the National j this section of the state has been
guard for a year’s intensive tram- j remarkably free from torrid
ing. I streaks, the thermometer not
In separate coinciding state-! reaching so far any nearer the
merits, Vandenberg and Lewis 100 mark than 98, and that only
urged that the army enlistment' on about 2 occasions. In the main,
period, now set at three year?, be' it has stood around the SON and
reduced in an effort to build up ( at night something like 75 to 89.
army personnel by the voluntary making the nights productive of
method. Vandenberg said a reduc-: sleep. Denison people for the
tion of the period to one year' most part, have been pleased with
would result in prompt enlistment i the weather conditions and say
of adequate numbers of men. I that no state with its bla bla about
He charged that there has been! ideal weather for summer re.-ort
seekers has anything on Denison.
With the death toll over the
low in the western hemisphere and
is expected to bar Germany and
Italy from ever obtaining control
ot orphaned American colonies of
France, the Netherlands and Great
Britain, represents a comprimse
between the views of the United
States and the Argentine.
The action of the conference In
approving the trusteeship plan
without a dissenting vote, how-
ever was a victory for Secretary
of State Cordell Hull, head of the
United States delegation, who had
labored bard to acvhieve a united
American stand on the question.
The plenary session also gave
approval to all the resolutions of
the neutrality committee, includ-
ing an endorsement of the neutral-
ity code- drafted and recommend-
ed by the permanent inter-Ameri-
can neutrality committee in Rio
de Janeiro, The codes constitute
a most important step In intema-
(Continued on Pairs a)
an effort, whether subconsciously
or otherwise, to dlacourage volun-
tary enlistments. He cited the
case of one youth who had written
him that the army rejected his ap-
plication for enlistment because
he had one cavity In his tooth.
Nation In 12th Day
mg rain badly in some section*
while in most of the western states
hot winds continue to threaten
crops
In this general section the heavy
rains of June and part of July laid
a fine deep season and will be
enough to send cotton far in the
direction of maturing without
much threat for a while.
In Denison the lowest tempera-
ture registered this week wa* at
6 a. m. today when the reading at
Kingston’s thermometer was 75.
Monday the lowest was 78 at 8 a.
m. and the hottest was 95 at 7
last night.
country reaching its highest this
past weekend from drowning? and
heat, the list Monday is reported j
as raising it only slightly.
NOTICE i
If you do not receive your Praia
before 5:30, please phone 300 and
Oklahoma is reported a? need-; one will be sent you.
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