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Insert Edition Gives Complete History of Red River Dam Dream And Realization-Rayburn Honored
WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
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and tomorrow
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TWENTY PAGES TODAY
DENISON, TEXAS SATURDAY, AUG. 19, 1939
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930- *>AILY 1934
Britishers
Take Stiff
Jap Stand
Government Calls Complete
Halt Before Jap#’ Mis-
treatment; Negotiations
Neanhg A Breakdown
Abbrogation
Of Treaty Seen
If Breakdown Occurs at To-
kyo, Tientsin Concession
To Be Tightened, Reported
LONDON, Aur 19—British Jap-
anese negotiations ale near a
complete breakdown, informed
sources said today, after if was de-
termined that the British govern-
ment i= calling a halt to its “re-
treat." V of ore Japanese moves
against it in the Far East.
Britain has formally, notified
Japanese that it will not confer
on questions of Chinese currency
and silver. A rumor said that Brit-
ish may abbrogate its lull com-
mercial treaty with Japan, giving
a 12-months notice.
Japanese spokesmen said Tokyo
would refuse to negotiate an
agreement on what they called the
isolated issue of policing the Brit-
ish concession in Tient in and
therefore there would he no ex-
cuse for continuing the already
stalemated Tokyo talks.
Britain’s firmer attitude to-
ward Japan was believed to have
been decided on as a means of har-
monizing British and United
States policies in East Asia, whch
drifted apart when Washington
denounced the 1911 Japanese-Am-
erican commercial accord and re-
sumed the purchase of Chinese
silver.
May Dispel Distrust
The British stiffening also was
expected to dispel some of Mos-
cow’s distrust toward Britain and
facilitate the conclusion of a tri-
power alliance, because the So-
viets are known to have been
frowning on what they regarded
ns British appeasement of Japan.
If the Tokyo talks break down,
Japan’s anti-British campaign in
China probably will gain momen-
tum and the blockade of the Brit-
ish concession in Tientsin probably
will he tightened, it was said.
There was speculation whether,
in such an event, the Japanese
army would launch ,i blockade of
British Hong Kong, already ap-
proached on the land side By Jap-
anese forces in a mopping-up op-
eration against Chinese guerillas.
Sir Robert conferred twice dur-
ing the day, at Tokyo with Soto
matsu Kato, Japanese Minister at
Large in China, and Kato in turn
conferred with Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita ns well as army
leaders who demand that Britain
be compelled to co-operate with
Japan in establishing a new order
ill Asia.
VOL. 6-NO. 47
Phillips Assails War Department;
Stand Challenged by Land Agent
No Plana Are Definite for
I Reconstructing Highways
i Inundated, Gov. Charges
10,000 EXPECTED
AT RAYBURN DAY
Denison today, was preparing to; afternoon,
be host to approximately 10,000' The event honors Congressman
Texans, Oklahomans, Louisianansj Sam Rayburn of Bonham for his
and Arkansans at the Rayburn outstanding work in helping oc-
seeksi'lay coIebration b«re next Tuesday! tain the $54,000,000* grant from
the federal government to finance
the Denison Red River dam.
RAYBURN
SCHEDULE
1
p. m.
Deni on
DEFEAT CUBANS—Here are three members of the Australian
Davis Cup tennis squad that defeated the Cubans in singles at
Saabright, N. J. Left to right: Jack Crawford, John Bromwich
agd Captain Harry C. Hopman.
Want Danzig
At Any Price
Trip to Denison
BERLIN, Aug. 19—High Nazis
asserted today that Germany i
determined on a quick solution of
the Danzig and Polish Corridor
questions even if it means war be
cause to back down now would be
as dangerous as if it would be to
lose a war.
Indications became increasingly
stronger in newspaper headlines
that Adolf Hitler may feel com-
pelled to intervene and go to the
aid of minority Germans across
the Polish border.
| lore than 5,000 Germans were
reported under arrest in Poland in
what the Nazi press called “Polish
terrorism and bestiality against
our fellow Germans.”
The Polish government, it was
asserted, has lost control of the* window.”
situation in Upper Silesia.
“One can count on one’s fingers
how many more days the Polish |
government can remain master of
the situation,” newspapers said.
With phrase-: reminiscent of the
days preceding the German absorp-
tion of Czechoslovakia and Aus-
tria, the papers told of Polish
“bestiality” in which German girls
arid women have been mistreated,
showing the whole moral depravity
of the Poles.
Hitler’s official Nazi party or-
gan, the Voelkischer Beobachter,
told of “mass removals of Germans
to the interior of Poland, Germans
beaten to death in Polish jails,
mob hurling dead man’s child from
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 19—
Governor Phillips today assailed
rile United Stales war department
or its “failure” to present “defi-
n te information on plans for re-
building of state highways in the'
Red River dam area.”
The governor culled a meeting
of his two special attorneys at the
•apitol next Tuesday for a final
decision on his plan which
to enjoin the government from!
proceeding with construction of;
the project.
The governor said C. C. Hatch-!
ett, of Durant, one of Lis two at-j
t.orneys, had been unn' le to fret |
any definite information on the
war department road program do-
j spite a statement from Secretary
: of War Harry Woodring that the
I highways would lie rebuilt.
I “They, just wanted us to swal-
low that whole,” said Phillips,
“and then they could do what they j
pleased later. We want to know
their plans now. Frankly, I don’tj
tie,nk anybody knows what they
will do because I don’t think they!
have a plan.”
Phillips said Hatchett had writ-
ten army engineers asking specific
rebuilding information but had . .
received “nothing.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—Ad
“We’ll decide Tuesday on our van<-ement m Soviet Russian ag-
next step,” the governor said. (‘'Jl UI* unt^e,1' t*10 collective
Meanwhile Dr. J. A. Ashton, re-1 System reported by the Depart-
search director of the State Cham-
Everyday
Denison
Two Miss
Death In
Fire Here
LOUTS ANDERSON
a 1
Firemen Rouse Sleepers On
Fourth Floor of Security
Building To Save Their
Lives in Blaze Early Today
Lighted Burner
Starts Blaze
Dinner at Hotel
for visiting digni-
taries.
2 p. m.
dam site.
4 p. m.
est Park.
5:30 p. m. Free barbecue
dinner at Forest park.
Speaking at For-
A Dallas man who travels
over the southwest, says it’s amaz-.
ing to him how many persons hej
sees on the highway* practically j
all of them on their way to Den- -------
i-on. Giving the general public a Four Lines of Hose Used;
pretty good idea of what they car Loss Should Total Several
expect to see around in month Thousand, is Estimated
to come. Not that some of then:' --
are not very, nice fellows looking *wo uni. onufied young men,
for jobs, ethically . . . Best erii- ll,out 14 year- of age, narrowly
here during the day to pay trib-J torial cartoon of the month ap- ' d death early today when
ute to the lion ha mite. Of this! Reared in the Press yesterday fl|c swept through four floors of
number, some wili be state repre- lowing a new political party, th< ’li' R“curity building
sentatives, civic officials of four' repuiblicrats. • • Best laugh of the F n, ar.-wering the call at
states, and national figures. 1 week come from Connecticut 3 ;50 a .m.. were told two farm
Chamber of Commerce officials,
sponsoring the event, said that at
least 8,000 persons should visit
| Dignitaries will be given a din- whore a society editor called a: youth- were sleeping in
Women Share
Farming Work
In The Ukraine
in r at Hotel Denison then follows! woman> asking if -he knew any ,,rl ',IJ th >'-:”“r of the build-
a trip to the dam site to which! ncws- Tbe otlu'r woman said shi in” They found the door locked
cars will be furnished as transpor- didl,,t have time to ta’k becaui :,nd " !y '."'id knocks brought the
lation for those who have no
available way to travel, speaking
at Forest park and a free barbe-
cue dinner at the park.
•Outstanding repesentatives from
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Louisiana will speak during the
afternoon, with Mr. Rayburn to
give the chief address of the day.
The names of speakers were not
revealed today.
she was getting married in five youths to the doo'- just as fi-
minutes . . . New arrivals in Den- ; men weer preparing to tea
ison express amazement at the l0"'" r.d net them Ter'
huge number of very pretty worn- minutes, f,semen said, and
en here. Most of the incomers youths might not have bee
can't tell whether the gal; are la t" ,-t‘t out of the room al,
or 35 . . . Jitterbugs have a hard; A report a d the b’aze
time of it in Columbus, Kansas, I !rom " lighted burner in
because a judge has decreed that tbp laboratory of the cot
a law must stand prohibiting play- “ffices of Dr: . W. A. Le'
I ing nickelodeons after 9:30 p. m.i l>earci and D. K. Jamisqj
„ I vs.V* me IgejIOl f
ment of Agrictulture in a detailed Invitations have been sent to
I Residents said they didn’t care for! I <■;,
' i V..,. e . .... . M e
her of Commerce asserted that “a| Sun,t.f. i°day compaiing present
multi-million dollar loss to <Okla-! rond,tlons w,th thoS(' pxlstlnK bp’
horna business may result from a
rumored plan” to use the Red Riv-
er dam to make the Trinity river;
'fore the revolution.
I The survey made under direc-
tion of Secretary of Agriculture
almost 400 dignitaries in five sta-
tes to be here for the day and a
large number have accepted.
The Chamber food and drink
committee, chairmaned by Doyle
navigable. Ashton declared that
conversion of the Texas stream
into a canal would mean the com-
mercial domination of the entire
southwest by Dallas.
Henry A. Wallace, disclosed im-. YViUiams, met this morning to com-
provements and increased effici- !),ete final plans to handle the
eriicy in the area studied but <’r°wds for the free barbecue.
DANZIG NAZIS
SHOUT OF FEAR
said that there is “room for much
improvement. . . .al! along the
line” in farming methods.
The study dealt principally
with the Ukraine, the Soviet
"granary” bordering the Black
Sea. It has a total area of 172,-
000 square miles and a population
of 32,000,000. It is approximate-
ly the same size and latitude as,
Dakota.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 19-
Gov. Leon Philips’ contention that
the Red River dam would inundate
“some of the best farmland in
Oklahoma” was- challenged today
by Curtis Harris, who is acquiring
the reservoir area property for the I‘,'V l‘!K ortl,lt ,
. 4 * J | Montana and North
government. ----.----
of the U. S. attorney general, said! I Oil ClOitfl WcltCll Ullt 1 hftt ullCKCrS
that much of the dam basin is[
Three thousand pounds of boned
barbecue have been ordered, and
iced tea will be served with it.
Denison businessmen have been
asked to decorate the business
houses with flags, buntings and
other ornaments for the day, to
add color. Philip Witz, backing
the decoration project, urged that
buildings be decorated by sometime
late Monday.
that kind of truck, anyway.
While firemen were f
fire on the second floe
Every time a witness appear; *° *be fir.-: floor then
before the Dies committee at fld iour-.n i .»,?■ (
Washington testifying to some 0f! brought under coni
the tricks the Germun-Americnn f - woe torn in t
Bund is pulling in this country. ' a1 ’ o f —wa-.
makes the blood boil of red blood-1 Tirenri'-n they w. i
(Continued on Page 4)
tinguish the flame,
hose v
FOR'.
DANZIG, Aug. 19—Poland has! being augmented by at least
forfeited its rights to share in the | 5,000 special police armed with ri-
t;\N OF EXPLOSIVE MOVED
GINGERLY FROM FT. WORTH
FT. WORTH, Aug. 19— Fort
Worth city workers held breaths
and walked on tiptoes Friday while
an explosive expert carried from
the basement of the new city hall
11 can of nitroglycerin which two
patrolmen had found and brought
to headquarters Thursday.
Expert Harry Claunch, whom
police asked in anxious tones to
please come quick and take that
■ can out of here, received a start
himself when he looked at a ther-
mometer in the safe where the
•explosive had been placed. The
temperature of the safe stood at
only a few degrees below the ex-
plosion point of this dangerous
fluid.
The can contained enough nitro
to blow the entire city hall from
its foundations, the expert said.
Claunch, driven by Loy Bates, a
patrolman, took the enn <0 the
Trinity river and gently poured
the explosive into the stream.
control of Danzig and the people
of the Free City must rely on
their own strength and modern
arms, Nazi Leaders Albert For-
ster today had told 50,000 Storm
Troopers and civilians at a mili-
tary review.
Forster told the crowd Polish
attacks against Germans cannot
he allowed to continue. He spoke
at a ceremony in which a flag was
presented to the recently expand-
ed S'. S. Heimwehr (Home
Guards), 1,500 of whose brown-
nhirted members marched past
with military precision. Four com-
panies of infantry, a machine-
gun company, two antitank un-
its, a light gun company, engin-
eers and a motor lorry detachment
participated in the parade be-
neath a fluttering of Nazi swas-
tikas1.
The Heimwehr is only a part of
Danzig's military establishment,
He; and police reservists who are
armed though ununiformed.
Foreter, recently engaged in
conferences with Hitler in Ber- ’
line and Berchte&guden, spoke j
“over-ripe for the sheriff.”
Harris, who recenty started con-
(Continued on Page 4)
Youth Struck
On Head While
Investigating
contemptuously of the League of
Nations protectorate established
over the Free City in 1920.
“According to tlieii Treaty of
Versailles, the protection of Dan-
zig was entrusted to the League
of Nations, but, since the Lea-
gue has no weapons, the task was
given to Poland,” he said. “But
now the situation has changed so
greatly that the only power which
threatens Danzig is the one which
is supposed to be its protector,
namely Poland. The league today
is not aible in any way to do any-
thing regarding our helplessness.
Therefore, there is nothing for Us
to do except rely on our own
strength.”
Junior Allen, 17, was resting
Are Moving Into City To Take Suckers
WORTH PLANS
ICE PERFORMANCES
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug.
19 It hen the Wili Rogers Col-1
iseum has been made into an ice 1 but believed it
■strung to the buIT '
Heavy water damage wag dolL
| the Commercial club in the base-
■I ' tit :,nd the beer parlor on Main
street. Firemen said it was al-
to check losses,
would amount to
link, the Music Corporation of I tho"ands of dollars.
America may bring ice carnivals .f remen --.aid had the blase bam
thumb route. Some of them are
s j forlorn, others hearty and happy.
A representative of a printers
supply company from one of the
middle states, who visited Denison Saturday morning while walking
Friday, declared that “all eyes ini the length of four blocks, eight
the states through which I passed; different groups were encountered
are focused on Denison. It is the! all the way from a happy young
most talked of town in the country married couple holding hands.
today and one wonders what kind
of city to which they are coming.
It was very anxious to know my-
well at the home of his sister, Mrs.1 self, as I had never seen Denison
Harry, Painter, 1212 W. Walker; unt;! arriving today,
street today, after a harrowing; It is bound to become one of
experience late Friday night in the ] the large cities in the southland
alley at 809 W. Sears street.
According to police reports the
youth was visiting friends there
when they heard someone moving
around in the hack yard. Allen,
armed with an air gun and a flash-
light, walked back into the yard
and into the alley to investigate. J od this way. I don't' know how
He told police that in the alloy1 many asked me for a ride to Den-
a negro, hiding in a clump of ison.”
bushes, jumped out and hit him! While Denison is expecting many,
on the head with something. He | to come at a later date, already
was knocked unconscious but was! the streets are showing persons
not seriously injured. I who have come here a la the
ns this $54,000,000 they are to
spend will attract thousands here
ns well as a large number of per-
sons able to make investments.
“I find the highways up as fat-
north as Missouri and Kansas have
large number of hitchhikers head-
In another group was a father,
mother and five children walking,
while the mother, sunken-eyed and
pale-faced, was holding in her arm
a few weeks old baby.
Denison may have a probem on
its hands soon caring for these
persons, many of whom deserve
pity* while others are no doubt en-
tirely unworthy.
All sorts of schemes come with
some of them. They are here to
outsmart in some fashion or other.
One fellow’ with big money ideas,
wanted a bank to finance him with
the first $400 on an airplane. He
promised to take care of the def-
erred payments amounting to $700
Still another had an insurance
and other major attractions
Fort Worth, it
day.
Lew Washerman, vice presi-
dent of .MCA which staged the
1938 Casa Manana show, was in
itown talikng /business with the
local group financing the enter-
prise, it was learned. City author-
ities are known to favor an ar-
rangement with MCA which would
bring its Ice Follies of 1940 here
in October. The show now is in
San 'FraiiV:isco and goes from
there to Los Angeles.
I discovered a few minutes
was reported to-! tban. !t 'vaSi tbt‘ building probably
’ "HU,d hav< burned almost to the
later
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ground.
The home of Mrs. G. E. West,
631 Morton s'reet, was slight-
ly damaged late Friday night after
a cut tain wa- accidentally lighted
wnh a match. Tile home belonged
to F. E. Bradbury.
I
Prestaee Better
Tlie condition of Fred Prestage,
who suffered injuries in an auto-
mobile crash Friday is reported
to be somewhat improved.
Mr. Prestage suffered injurie-
severe enough to send him to
his bed. His car turned over twice
when it collided with another ma-
chine driven by James Hill. Mr.
Communists
Draw Fire
San Antonio
^A\ ANTONIO. Tex., Aug. 19
—-Lines tightened today in the
controversy over a scheduled Com-
mu’'- rally for which the city
Had granted use of a city auditor-
ium room th. night of Aug. 25.
although there were prediction*
Hill did not sustain any injurio^ | [,lL ; ' ,:ni7 ni! ht ho called off at
-;;__j t"f’ iast ™ nute by its sponsors.
DALLAS, Aug. 19—.Sued for! Announcement wn= made that
divorce, William Davies, 56, shot /1’’ ri<,a» riv'l Liberties Un-
and killed himself in the bedroom j ^‘ °U£r^ ^r Gnrfied Hays,
of his home Friday nigrht afti . insr' f'a^ 'yh’od Mayor Maury
sending his two sons, aged 10 and | ‘ 41 ^ 'iewin? with alarm agi-
12, on an errand. J ,a!,on I-'r concelation of the per-
He had been served with a ci n'!t 11 ;:'-rbl (he Jersey free
tation for divorce Friday morn- j 1 L-'ht The announcement
ing. ' 'ail1 ,he u,li°n also wired six
Bid. Are Asked
J
■Bids will be opened hy army
engineers here at 10 a. m. Aug.
28, for a refrigerating unit, in a
fog room 16’xlB’xlO’, of solid wall
■ construction, with one door open-
ing (ice box type) and without
•'windows. The equipment must be
• capable of maintaining n tempera-
ture of 70 degrees plus or minus 2
degrees and relative humidity ot
•100 per ctnt or more.
r---1
•s«k V
prominent Sun Antonio lawyers
urging them publicly to oppose
recovation of the permit.
The Rev. Harry H. Hodge, le-
g onnaire ami pastor of Sabine
Tabernacle. Beaumont, arrived to
offer hi; -,s - tanee to the anti-
Communism movement and sug-
gested that if there were not
enough legionnaires in Ran Anton-
io to handle the situation, veter-
ans should be summoned from else-
where in Texas.
Trotcs-, against the Red meet-
r mg continued, with protests rang-
j ing fr..m Catholics to Ku Kluxers.
Meanwhde whether the auditorium
actually was dedicated to World
ar dead. claimed by oppon-
| ent; of the Communists’ use of the
building, was answered by Clem'
Smith, commander-elect of a le-
gion post, who produced a 1926
dedication program.
Above are seen sBme of the
men who fought to obtain the Red
River dam project, and some of
those who fought it. Many, ot
them will be here to fete Con-
gressman Sam Rayburn Tuesday,
August 22. From left to right are:
Congressman Wilburn Cartwright
of Durant, Senator Elmer Thomas against the dam, G. W. Archibald,
of Oklahoma; Senator Josh Lee of Durant publisher; Walter M. Har-
Oklahoma; Gov. Leon C. Phillips I risop, Managing editor of the Ok-
of Oklahoma, still embittered! lahoman and Times, Oklahoma
City. Many other dignitaries froni been invited to be here for Ray-
Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas will pay tribute to Mr.
Rayburn. The entire nation has
burn Day.
Denison’s in the national lime
light, let’s go’
NOTICE
If you do not recai^£.^ug.v Preg.
before 5:30, please phone BOO am.
ene will he sent yon.
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