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REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS
WEDNES, FEB. 7th 1940
WEEKLY FOUNDED 4930-DAILY 1934
VOL. 6—NO. 192
Scandinavians Ired At German Ship Bombings
BRAVE SEASONS WITH CREDIT USE, ROSS TELLS RETAILERS
HONORED—Dr. Chaim Weii-
man, president of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, urging
increase of Jewish immigration
in that country, at luncheon
reception held in his honor in
Chicago. Leading Zionist, he
is making a tour of American
cities in behalf of Palestine.
Garner Casts
Deciding Vote
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Vice-l casting the decisive vote on poten-
President John N. Garner, eandi- ; tial saving of $12-1,259 in the $1,-
date for the democratic presiden-I 1:18,000 independent offices sup-
tial nomination, today joined the ply bill,
congressional economy parade by I Earlier the senate had compro-
___________j mised a dispute with President
I 1 Roosevelt by restoring a $710,000
GREATEST YEAR
HERE IS PLEDGED
Pledging himself to tiy and
make this year in Denison the
greatest yet for the retail and
wholesale business interests, Ralph
Geisenhoner, newly elected presi-
dent of the 'Denison Retail Mer-
chants association Tuesday night
took his place at the head of the
organization at the annual ban-
quet of the association, which was
attended by more than 200 per-
sons.
“The former achievements of
the organization have set me a
record to shoot at and 1 am going
to try and reach it and make 1940
the banner year of the association.
And as the old saying is ‘united
we stand, untied we fall’ we want
to push the work until every re-
tail and wholesale merchant in
Denison Is a member,” he declar-
ed.
Mr. Geisenhoner was presented
by the retiring president, L. M.
Newsom, under whoso leadership
tlie organization has grown this
year to where it is the largest in
history. The organizatoin was
reported to have jumped in mem-
bership from 99 to 148.
Mr. Geisenhoner presented the
first president of the parent or-
ganization, which was formed
back in 1900, W. S. Hibbard, at
that time engaged in the grocery
business here . Mr. Hibbard is
now a retired capitalist, but re-' cent
tains an active interest in the af- j
featuring the
'That the field of credit for the
modern day business man offers
a better chance of braving seasons
when business fulls off, such as
depressions, than does the firm
doing a strictly cash business, was
shown by the guest speaker, Rob-
ert A. Ross, of Dallas Tuesday
night at the annual meeting of
the Denison Retail Merchants as-
sociation.
Mr. Ross is president of the
National Retail Credit Men’s as-
sociation and has made the study
of credit a feature for more than
twenty years.
He showed by factual informa-
tion that the field of credit had
jumped in volume in the past ten
years from something like thir-
teen billion dollars to more than
thirty-seven billions, and gave in-
teresting figures of credit for the
years 19S7 and 19S8.
During 1937 he showed that
credit sales increased by 6.5 per
cent while in the same year cash
sales had jumped only 2.3 per
cent.
Is Made
SWEDES IN FINLAND —Thousands of Swedes have volunteered for service with Finns in their war
against invading Russians. These Swedish volunteers are shown in training at Torneaa, Finland,
before going to front for act’ve duty. Picture passed by Finnish censor.
On the other hand, in 1938 the]
cash sales had shown a loss of 5 j --
per cent while credit sales had Timekeeping and accounting
shown a loss in the same year of departments employes of the Katy
8.3 per cent. Men’s stores had ' railway, scheduled to have been
shown a loss in the same year of ' transferred to (Dallas within a
Katy Offices May Not Be Moved
To Dallas, Employes Are Notified
15.1 per cent in cash sales, while
] the credit sales lost only 6.3 per
The New Field
He showed that in the past
twenty-five years the most notable
development in business had been
EVERYDAY
DENISON
By
I,OlllS ANDERSON
5
Best laugh of the week: Jimmy
Fuller believes the horses of Bing
Crosby must he of Russian decent
—they can never seem to go over
the finish line . . . Too bad the
Denison high basketball team boys
couldn’t start off right in the
North Texas Basketball associa
tion race—they could have won
it fairly easily. Now that they
have found their eyes it’s too late
to catch up with the leaders . . .
That Retail Merchants banquet
at Hotel 'Denison last night was
just as interesting ns forecast
here. The chief speaker, a Dallas
man, held the attendance spell-
bound by his informative address
. . . Silliest thing: Earl Browder
convicted recently by tlie govern-
, ment and given four years in the
jug, entered his name in a New
York congressional race and won
third piaec—in a field of three.
Ho couldn’t vote himself because
he was a non resident and a con
victed felon. Even so he polled
3.980 votes, showing (he U. S. is
still cluttered with ignorant dopes.
appropriation for the National Re-
sources hoard, which the house
had denied, but voted to curtail
sharply the agency’s activities.
Approval was by a 38-to-35 vote
after an amendment to cut the
appropriations to $109,000 was
lost by a vote of 35 to 34.
Garner’s vote came as no sur-
prise to colleagues who frequent-
ly have reported of late he is in
complete sympathy with plans of
conservative democratic leaders to
make drastic economies in all sup-
ply bills in order to make unnec-
essary the imposition of $460,000,-
000 in national defense taxes re-
quested by President Roosevelt.
The Texan’s ballot was cast to
break a 34 to 34 tie vote on thc
recommeridations of the senate
appropriations committee that the
house-approved grant of $1,659,-
191 for administrative expenses of
the Civil Aeronautic Authority be
reduced to $1,534,932.
Another Boat *
Member Quits
From Welfare
fairs of Denison
financial fields.
Others were present as visitors
from the retail merchants associa- in a scientific development of the I
tlons of Sherman and Durant, | of credit A quarter of a
as well as some of the mem- j CCntury ago, he stated, in the
hers of the engineers office here lar(fer 8tores over the country,]
who rendered service to the local so per ccnt of their business was'
association in securing credit rat- dore on the cas|, basis with only
'n£s- j 20 per cent credit. Through the
Musical Program | scientific development of credit
The musical program and en- aad resulting very light loss in ;
tertainment feature was in charge collections, these same stores to-
of Bill Regensburger, who gave day have reversed tlie situation
splendid account Of that end of an(| today 80 per cent credit and
the program. He sang a parody j 2o per cent cash,
on “Confucius” that rang the bell, j Problems of Consumer Credit
Otner numbers were accordion
solos by Miss Shirley Jo Irwin,
baritone solos by Bear Cole and
a telephone skit of merit by Mrs.
Maurice Wray.
The opening singsong was led
month and a half, were notified
late Tuesday night that their of-
ficeswould remain in 'Denison in-
definitely.
Whether the notification meant
the offices would definitely not be
moved, is unknowkn, but it was
GAS COMPANY
PRESIDENT DIES
Rumors Persist In Europe
That Germany Conferring
With Russians and Finns
In Attempt To End War
Russians Are
Again Repulsed
Thousands Of Reds Killed
As They Try to Blast Hole
In the Mannerheim Line
(Continued am page four)
DALLAS, Feb. 7 — L. B. Den-
ning, 65, a former water boy, who
became a fuel master of the
__[ southwest, Tuesday launched out
Twelve Girls 0 * ^ ..
Arrested Here Surplus Cotton
i c* d Goods Planned
In rive Raids ~ XT ,
For The Needy
Twelve girls were arrested in j
raids by the sheriffs department,
WASHINGTON, Fob
self, on five rooming houses
The problems that attend handl- ^ iDenison Tuesday night,
ing consumer credit were gone in- j The raids were the first of a
to and the speaker outlined and series to “clean up” Denison by
pointed them out as being t. | the sheriff and his deputies, and
led by Sheriff Pleas Porter him-' retary of Agriculture Henry A
(Continued ou page four)
Former Judge
John J. King
Dies Tuesday
Secure full information on the
customer; 2. Get started right by
clearing up the past and having
all facts on which credit should
be based.
rid the city of many of its unde-
sirables.
The twelve girls were in the
city jail today, awaiting trial- be-
fore justices of the peace. Some
Wallace announced today
goods manufactured from surplus
cotton will be made available to
needy families under an arrange-
ment similar to the food-stamp
plan.
Citing a cotton surplus of 14,-
000,000 bales and saying that tl.ei
European war is liable to harm
on that great adventure—-death—
he had often talked about.
President and founder of the
Lone Star Gas company, twice
president of the Dallas Chamber
of Commerce,, former head of
the Boy Scouts in this region,
Mr. Denning left his mark on Tex-
as before he became ill two years
ago. He had faced death through
three operations, but he never
learned to fear it. When he talk-
•Sec-i ed about death with friends, it
was in a vein of speculative curi-
thaC osity, and he borrowed a line from
a great man who went down on
the Titanic.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb
1 Norway, ired because of Ger-
man bombing of neutral shipping,
planned to send protests to th«
Reich, while apparently the Scan-
dinavians were preparing to form
a solidarity bloc against Russia.
The entire Scandinavian area,
angered because of the German
bombings and machine gunning*
of vessels other than those of
France and Britain, threatened to
clamp a trade boycott on the Reich
unless the Germans immediately
stopped attacking neutral ship
ping.
IA strong solidarity bloc of the
Scandinavians is seen in the fu-
ture which will send men and war
machinery into Finalnd to assist
the Finns against the invading
Russians.
Tlie Norwegian press described
the German shipping attacks a*
“indescribably brutal.”
Meanwhile Finland, again feel-
ing the onslaughts of repeated
Russian attacks on the Manner-
heim line, concentrated near Sum
ma, admitted the lack of Finnish
Add well I’ll he doggone: A
Chicago woman was granted a di-
vorce because she told the court
her husband locked her in the
the house and beat her to keep her
from being so beautiful. The dog-
gone part comes in wondering how
a man can figure angles like that.
The curves threw him a curve. .
. . Miama, not yet over the ignom-
inity of having cold weather visit
a land of “perpetual sunshine,” j
now is blanching under a state-
ment by G-Man J. Edgar Hoover
who claims the city is a mecca for
the underworld. Miami might
mecca something of it, . . . But
the charge brought action from
Florida officials who closed three
alleged gambling joints . . . The
MotKcr-in-Law club of New York
wants to change the name of the
third woman of the family to Kin-
Mother. Despite all the jokes you
may have heard, the Mother-in-
Law, or Kin-Mother as you would
. have it. rates pretty highly with
''9 *,Pr son-
You can have our part: the
strict “censorship” gag of the ra-
dio and the sometimes risque jokes
(Continued on paga four)
IA1USTIN, Tex., Feb. 7—A sec-
ond retirement from the State
Welfare board, that of Dr. M. E.
Sadler of Austin, game to light to-
day, after which Gov. W. Lee
O’Daniel formally made announce-
ment the resignation had been
submitted before Judge Beeman
Strong retired last November but
at the governor's request, Dr.
Sadler had continued on the board,
postponing Hie effective date of
his leave. His successor had not
boon announced.
Tlie governor's announcement
said that Sadler retired because
duties of the welfare board were
so heavy that they seriously inter-
fered with bis other important
work. He became chairman of
tli^ hoard when Judge Strong of
Beaumont resigned.
The Social Security board at
Washington has demanded the
Texas board introduce a merit sy-
stem that conforms to its rules
and unless that is done there wjll
be no matching of Texas funds.
Any attempt to oust employes to
award political favors will be sure
to bring down the disnlea;?afe of
the federal powers.
Adam R. Johnson is state wel-
fare direction by election of the
board as originally appointed. He
was state relief director prior to
its absorption by welfare board.
TEXARKANA, Ar.., Feb. 7—
John J. King, 77, former member
of the Texas house of representa-
tives and one-time Bowie county
judge, died in a hospital her#
Tuesday night.
Born in Louisiana, King moved
with his parents to Bowie county |
when an infant, settling ten miles
west of Texarkana. He studied
law while serving as a deputy
county and district clerk and was
admitted to the bar in 1886. In
November of that same year be I
\ftis elected county attorney, an i
office he held two terms.
In 1890 he was elected to the
house of representatives, serving
one term. He was named county
judge of Bowie in 1892, later
was elected to serve a second term
then retired from political life to
engage in the private practice
of law.
cotton growers to a great degree,;
! He stated that 1225 credit bus- j of them paid fines and were re- j Wallace declared that stimuli!-,
] iness bureaus in the country today leased. ' tion of increased domestic con-5
] made available a fund of infor- j “We have a nice city in Deni- ' sumption has become a matter of
mation that made credit business i son and we intend to kept it that primary importance,
safe and beyond a plane ever i way so it can be more livable foi j The new plan will go into op.’v
I dreamed of by other nations of ; decent citizens,” 'Deputy Sheriff ation within six weeks on an e <-
' iq,„ world I Vire-il Evans said after the raids eerimental basis in cities to jc , , , , , ,
.tlie wo*in. virj.ii r.vans sain auer me rams, i ,.Ves that bad always been weak.
of which he said was merely the first i chosen from among communities .
“It i i re's greatest adventure,”
Mr. Denning often told friends.
He died at 9:30 p. m. at the
family home, 3701 Crescent.
When L. B. Dennings came to
Fallas, lie was already a great ex-
. cutive and all traces of the poor
■ ov he had been were vanished.
Dallas knew him as a tall, lean
man, distinguished in feature,
gray-haired, with a gentle smile
I and a strong jaw. He wore big,
j thick lensed spectacles to shield
He pointed out -ome rules
running a credit business as being ] of a series.
1, don't operate a credit business
where the surplus food \lispnsae hut eyes that for all their dminess
project is being tried. It will be i W(‘re photographic, could scan a
All of the girls were charged i ..... '............. . 7 . | p„ of tvenwritten matter nearly
for the benefit of your friends; 2,' with vagrancy. Deputies said more ; 0,1 a national basis <f initial , '
service your customers; 3, be tact- of them were pouring into Deni- ] operations prove successful and ‘ j? .
son, believed because of the n(1-1 surpluses continue to accumulate n J "
(Continued on page four)
! Relief clients will be entitled to hurg, Ind., Sept. 14.
Greens-
1874, Mr
HOOK WITHDRAWS
FAKE LETTERS
- lh" R - Rl-I- — j purchase VoVton stamps.' For~ea"h l>onnin'-r kaow tho hardships of
J dollar’s worth they buy they will '^e on a sma^ a res,^‘
, be given an additional dollar’s! 01 l*''s X training he was \irt
j worth of stamps. Purchased ] l,a0y what is known ns a self-
stamps will be green, free 3tamos made man.
1 lAfter his early boyhood school-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Rep-
resentative Frank Hook (D.-
j Mich.) had apologized to the house
today and withdrawn from the
congressional record fake letters
King was a director of the Tex- Purported to show a conspiracy
larkana National bank, the Port, between Chairman Martin Dies of
, Arthur Canal & Pock company, I the house committee on un-Ameri-
the East Texas Iron company and
the Hotel Grim company of Tex-
arkana and was vice-president of
the Texarkana & Fort Smith Rail-
way company.
can activities and William 'Dudley
Pelly, leader of the Anti-Semitric
Silver Shirts.
The apology, a rare occurrence
in either house or senate, followed
the appearance before the rules
TEMPERATURES HERE committee of the heretofore elu-
TO GO HIGHER TODAY s‘ve Policy, who denied having any
i Temperatures in Denison will , understanding with Dies whereby
I reach higher mnrks today and ( k's committee would not investi-
Thursday, forecasts said, after a B8*0 tke Silver Shirts.
low of 28 today and a high
Hook-conceded the documents
30 were set here. For the first ] which be inserted in the record in
time In almost a week, skies were support of his collusion ^ charge
unclouded, jwere spurious, that he inserted
them innocently and said “I deep-
ly regret that I did.”
This was after he heard Pelley
testify and after he heard Policy’s
one-time Washington representa-
tive, David B. Mayne, admit to
the rules group he had manufact-
ured the documents in question
out of thin air.
Majority leader Sam Rayburn
brown. Both will be redeemable
(for cotton products at retail1 inS he we"t *° Cincinnati whore
I stores at face value. j he was employed as water hoy,
i The stamps will be issued by] ear checker and later as lumber
the Surplus Commodities Corpor-! clerk. He studied law on the side
ation, as aee the food stamps. Thejaud was admitted to the bar in
free stamps, will be redeemed by Columbus, Ohio, in 1899. Lei
started practice of law in a small
southern 'Ohio town and became
city solicitor. In 1902 he became
attorney for a gas company.
In 1910 he was made general
counsel for the Ohio Fuel Supply
company and in 1918 was vice-
in president of this company in
$2, charge of distribution. Later lie
the Treaury. Both issues will
he in denominations of 25c and
"ill he made available to relief
families once every three months.
Minimum and maximum rates
of stamp purchases are provided as
follows; single person or two per-
011 families, not less than $4
the
Gas
stamps, for which they pay
(D.-Tex. traveled Hook’s request: an<< not 1110,0 than worlh for h'ooaill° vice-president of the Fay-
to approval after Hook shouted ,which ,ll0X PaX t,ireo fo^ pnp countV pas conlJ1anv and th:"
the furore aroused by the letters j P0™”1 families’ aot ,pss than f, ^rotary and treasurer of
at least bad brought Pelley before worth nr more than $10 worth;, North western Ohio Natural
the’Dies committee. families of five or more persons company. He also was an official
Pelley who evaded a commit-! a°t loss than $8 worth or more of the Tropical Oil company and
tee subpena for several months, than $12. I the Ponn-Mex Fuel company. In
appeared without warning or ex- "The stamp plan will supple- ( 1921 he was elevated to the pres-
planation minus the Van Dyke ment the other programs of the jdency of the Natural Gas Assoei-
he wore before he vanished. I department which are designed to ation of America. He had been a
assist in solving the cotton prob- j member of the national committee
lem,” Wallace said. “Funds for | on gas conservation during the ad-
(Continued on page four)
Swedish Ship
Is Destroyed
By Red Plane
HELSINKI, Feb. 7—A Russian
plane Tuesday bombed and sank
the 657-ton Swedish steamer Vir-
go near the 'Aaland Islands, it was
announced here.
The steamer, bombed and straf-
ed bv machine-gun fire, was said
to have been warned of an attack
before it left the southwestern
Finnish port if Turku for Stock-
holm.
The Virgo was attacked near
Mariehamn in the Aaland Islands
at the entrance to the Gulf of
Bothnia west of Turku.
Another unidentified ship was
said to have been attacked and
damaged by the Russian planes.
The captain of the Virgo and
his crew abandoned -hip and, af-
ter the bombing attack was over,
three men returned to the shat-
tered vessel, whereupon the Rus-
sian plane was said to have reap-
peared and started strafing the
decks with machine-gun fire.
There were no casualties, however.
Man Claimed He’s
Rolled For $35
In Rooming House
A Greenville man, R. W. Horse,
told city police early today that
he had been robbed of $35.65 in
a downtown rooming house, but
police said be could not positively
tell bow the money bad disappear-
ed.
The Denison auto company told
officers some thief had been visit-
ing the company used car lots dur-
ing the past few nights, stealing
articles off parked cars.
A flashlight and gear shift knob
were stolen from a car owned by
O R. McFarland. 521 W. Woodard
street.
’Gentlemen, none of those let-
ters was written by me, composed
by me. or signed by me,” Pelley j financing the program were provi-1
told the house rules committee, j ded by congress last year.” j
(Continued on page four)
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