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WEATHER
DfcMSON AND VICINITY
Fair and warmer today
and Friday
THE DENISON PRESS
MILT nCBPT SUNDAY
35 cents
Per Month
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITJED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS_THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1939
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1980-zMlLY 1934
VOL. 6—NO. 147
Germany Concentrates Troops In Northwest
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FIRE LOSSES FOR
NOVEMBER LOWER
WAR WINDOW—Paris devises this scheme to prevent flying glass, or
from shattering, in case of war-time air raid. Design is done with adhesive tape. It attracts
perhaps save
window
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shoppers, permits them to see goods displayed, but is supposed to hold window togethe
ture passed by French censor.
‘RUSSIANS LOSE
,i 7,000 SOLDIERS
File losses in Denison for the were $29,316.80, with 173 calls
fiist eleven months of 1939 we e I answered by firemen, compared
far below tho-e of the same pe -1 with 113 calls and a loss of $02,-
I.OHIS AN DICKSON
Just in ease you need remind*
ing Christmas is about as close as. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dee. were said
HlJ 1 R A IS n I o 4" Vs 1 till* n, .mil i, 4* » » ■■ a
to have lost 700 men.
'Ihe Finns, concentrating large
PDR on his third term assertions > 14—Heavily reinforced Finnish
’ Den‘, °n chec'kln,ff up °" ftU i troops Thursday were reported to forces in an effort to prevent the
dogs in the city and whether they, be laying siege to the strategic
have been vaccinated. It’s a house, town of Salla, just above
to house canvass . . . Joe and J Arctic circle where the Russians
Ethel Turp Call on the President |-------------
is preceded here by rave notices
from clitics who say tiie film is j Rg^Jg Cl&im TO
very funny ... In nsk ng C. na-
tions for assistance, papers are j
calling on citizens in the U. S. to j
shell out fins for the Finns . . .
During the battle off the coast of
South America yesterday between
warships of Britain and Germany,
a radio station put up headquart-
ers nearby and gave the Latins a
“blow bv blow" account of the
whole mess . . . Fred Allen last
night, told by a woman that the
ladies should run the purse of u
family, asked for an explanation
why men arc financiers and bank-
ers. |
Have Marched
In 65 Miles
Red army from reaching the Gulf
the of Bothnia and cutting Finland in
half hoped to recapture Salla on
Thursday frontier dispatches said.
Salla is about 125 miles north-
cast of the top of the Gulf of
Bothnia at the Swedish-Finnish
border and slightly northeast of
the town of Kcmijaervi where
fierce fighting was reported.
----- Against the Russian’s reported
M’OSCOW, Dec. 14—-The Red ki-ses of 7000 men in the new
army has driven sixty-five miles Fini-.h counter offensive the Finns
deep into Finland on the central
front where it is attempting to
rea di the Gulf of Bothnia and
cut the nation in half at its nar-
rowest yioint, a military communi-
que reported Thursday.
Tile communique indicated an
advance of about eight miles on
claim to have lost only 250 men.
Late Wednesday night the Rus-
c ans were reported to be holding
Salla, dc-pite earlier reports that
the Finns had retaken it.
Reports reach these ears that
Gwinn Henry, speaking at the
.Dads club banquet for footballers
Tonight, is as gifted a speaker as
he is an athletic director ... A
case in Dallas where a man at-
tempted to dynamite a girl who
At Kcmijaervi. claimed by both
Russians and Finns, the fighting
Ihe central front, where Wedno*- "?.* takEfn /'fe *eye"t/-f!vc
........ . . miles west of the Finnish-Soviet
(Continued on page four)
Abstract Bids
^ Include Tracts
In Grayson Co.
Sealed bids, in duplicate, will be
received until 11:00 a. m., Dec.
22, 1939, and then publicly open-
ed for the preparation and deliv-
ery of approximately 20 complete,
certified abstracts of title to
lands situated in Grayson county.
State of Texas, and the subse-
quent; continuations thereof to
show additional evidences of title
and releases of liens, and finally
show title vested in the United
States of America, all in strict ac-
cordance with the specifi-
cations and drawings referred to
therein. - ! •■
SPRING FLYING CADET
APPLICANTS WANTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14
—Healthy, 'unmarried men be-
tween 20 and 27 years old may
now apply for appointments as
cadets for classes 'to enter train-
ing next February, ‘March and
April, Secretary of War Harry II.
Wooding anonuncod today.
Candidates must be able to-pas'
rigid physical examinations and
must have completed two years of
college work or equivalent. Pay of
A flying cadet is $75 monthly with
*1 additional a day for rations
with quarters provided. Candi-
dates must agTee that, on success-
ful completion of the course, they
Will serve for three years on ac-
tive duty with the army as reserve
officers If services are required
day’s communique reported the
capture of Maerkaejaervi, fifty-
miles west of the Finni h-
Soviet border.
Finland is about 135 miles wide
at the point where the Ru «!ans
claim to have advanced a total of
sixtv-five miles.
'The communique said the Red
army forces north of Lake Ladoga
continued to press on around tha
northern shore of the lake toward
the rear and flank of the Finns’
Mannerhemi line of defenses on
the Karelian Isthmus.
Occupation of tho railroad sta-
tion at Kit'n (Kitela) between Pit-
karnnta and 8m tavala was report-
ed. Kilta is about forty-five mile?
across the front'er.
Thursday’s communique said:
“The headquarters of the Len-
ingrad military ai ra reports that
on Dee. 13 in Ukhta region Soviet
troops advanced 105 kilometers
from the state frontier. In the
Petrozavodsk region they occupied
the town and station of Kitla on
the railroad line between Pitkar-
anta and Scrdobol (Sortavala).
Due to unfavorable weaklier, no
air action took place.
No mention was made of the
Karelian Isthmus fight'ng.
Dope Prices
Hit New High
DALLAS, Dec. 14—Tho price
of narcotics is skyrocketing and
the quality duo to adulteration is
on tile toboggan, indicative of im-
provement of the Harrison narco*,
ic law, M. L. Harney, a?si?tnnt to
‘he Commissioner of Narcotics at
Washington, said today.
‘"Truffle in narcotic? the coun-
try over hoc not. hern banished,”
Harney said, “hut it has been sup-
ore*scd to a groat extent. En-
forcement and stiff penalties have
done much to curtail activities ami
tho war has to a certain extent
dried up smugglers’ sources of j with
frontier at the terminus of a rail-
road line leading directly down to
the Gulf of Bothnia at Kemi near
the Swedish border.
Another Finni h counteroffen-
sive was reported under way on
the Karelian Isthmus north of
Leningrad.
On the Karelian Isthmus and
at Finland’5 Wasp Waist Finnish
reports claimed advances of sev-
eral miles.
Swedish frontier reports said
that since the start of Russia’s in-
va 'on two weeks ago the Red
army’s losses have been nearly
twenty times as great as those of
the Finns.
The Russians, it was said, have
suffered about 22,000 casualties
a compared with about 1.200 for
the Finns.
The Finns claimed to have tak-
en about 1800 prisoners and to
have captured or destroyed a to-
tal of 114 Russian tanks.
The outcome of the reported
Finnish counteroffensive ea?t and
northeast of Kemijaervi may have
a major bearing on the success of
Finland’s resistance against the
invaders.
In the far north, 200 miles
above the Arct'e circle, the Finns
Moved up reinforcements in the
Petsamo area in an effort to halt
the Rusrinns and prevent them
from striking south along the big
highway leading southeast toward
Rovaniomi.
If the Red army's Pet'amo
force were able to reach Rovan-
'enii it might be able to join the
other two prong-- of the Russian
dive to tho Gulf of Bothnia—the
one from Salla and another from
the region of Kajana to the south-
east.
iod in 1938, a report from Fi e
Marshal R. M. Gray and Fire
Chief Pat Lowe today said.
Losses for the period of 1939
Revamping Of
Oil Allowance
In Field Seen
AUSTIN, Dec. 14 — Railroad
Commissioner Harry Sadler sahl
today he intended to bring up a:
Friday’s state proration hearing
the possibility of a general re-
vamping of field allowables in or-
der to restore seven-day produc-
tion in February.
With the current allowables
teadiiy mounting Sadler said he
and Chairman Lon A. Sm-'th had
decided not to grant additional
special field allowables before
Tamiary 1.
Two reasons impelled the de-
cision he said. 'One i? that the out-
wit is too close to the Bureau of
■Mines’ market demand est'mate,
above which the commission is
pledged not to go. The other is
that “there has been too much
false testimony regarding the mar-
ket situation.” In some area5
where increases have been granted
on the contention a firm market
existed, crude and gasoline stock?
are piling up, he said.
Although the current allowable
is within 3.000 barrels of the bu-
reau’s demand estimate of 1,438,-
100 barrels daily this month, Sad-
ler said, it will be “conservatively
10,000 barrels under it,” at the
end of the month. lie explained
he calculated underproduction
would make the difference.
Sadler said he would recom-
mend that elimination of shut-
downs be made efeetive Feb. 1
Too much work is involved to un-
dertake such a change in a short-
_ er period, he said. In addition, he
explained, it win give operators
two opportunities to discuss the
matter, at the December and Jan-
uary hearings.
“To make this change we must
go into the marginal well law very
thoroughly, for we must determine
what wells are submarginal,” Sad-
er said.
Sadler once more recommended
abolition of the shutdown method
of pinching allowables but en-
countered difficulties in his plan.
942.95, the report shows. The ibf-
firence in the losses is accounted
for in that the lvress store burned
early in 1938.
During Novem er, 1939, losses
totaled $5,640.79 with 16 calls
answered, compared with 21 call
and loss of $6,944.77 for the same
month in 1938.
Carter Wildcat
Is Shut Down,
Water Shortage
ARDMORE, Dec. It — Water
Shortage continued to hamper op-
erations at Carter county’s new-
est wildcat venture, Waco F.
Turner’s No. 1 C. R. Simth Estate
in nesw?e section 16, 3slw, in the
Newport-Woodfof-d sector.
Turner was forced to shut his
wildcat down Tuesday night after
all the water in Caddo creek,
which had been used for drilling
purposes, had been exhausted. To-
tal depth was 3640 feet in lime
and sand.
A 15-foot core was taken from
3625 to total depth, a six-to-eight
foot l-ecovery being made which
showed lime and sand. It was not
learned whether the sand contain-
ed oil, but was reported to have
had a slight showing.
Crews also took a Schlumherger
survey of the hole Monday night
but results had not been obtained
Just how long the wildcat,
which previously has been shut
down once for water shortage, will
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LAMDQN AT LAC.T—Alfred M. Landon, Republican candidate
for president in 1936, ta!;es ease in Washington hotel after
visiting President Roosevelt in White House. He was in Wash-
ington to help launch I 940 Republican campaign.
British Sub
Sinks Cruiser
(Continued on page four)
300 Fans To Be
At Dad’s Banquet
Thursday Night
LONDON, Dec. 14 - A British,
submarine has sunk a U-boat and
torpedoed a German cruiser in the
North sea, tile admiralty announc-
ed Thursday,
the way from the Soviet port of
Murmansk to its home pprt of
Bremer haven hut refrained from
attacking the liner because of the
international rules of warfare, it
Three hundred Denison high,
school football players, fathers I
and fans, were expected at the |
Dad’s club annual football ban-i
quet tonight at Trinity Methodist!
church. The event will begin at 7
o’clock.
Visitors will include leading
] fans, sports figures, coaches and
school officials from Gainesville.
| Sherman. Paris, Bonham.
Chief speaker of the evening
will he Gwinn Henry, athlot'e di
o ,, . , . . . .. , , I rector and head coach of the Uni-
Sadler said nat in some fields | versitv of Kansas
a change would be required ini w' , ,. . . ,, , .
gah-ou ratio? and ?n the method!. f , .n , , /
Of determining allowables “for wej’St C ^ aS hoStCS*eS'
have many fields in which the ra-
tio is erroneous.”
He said he would recommend I
an order to require all operators I
file written sworn reports of no I
tentials. He said the commission!
lias been successful in removing
from schedules man;, dead wells. Representatives from Denboq,
Elimination of shutdowns will j are planning to attend the Denton
necessitate some change in the' highway fete Friday celebrating
East Texas proration formula, | the opening of highway 24. Tho
Sadler said. While the method has | hiway through to Decatur will be
not been decided, he said, it is traveled by the good will caravan
contemplated that the net daily j forming ht Denton,
allowable will not exceed the cur-! At, 'Denton Highway Commls-
rent average of about 437,000 j sioner Harry Hines will join the
barrels daily. The present basic ■ group and will cut the ribbon at
allowable is 690,000 barrels. Denton which will bp the formal
signal for opening of the import-
The British submarine was thpjwas said,
one which on Tuesday sighted the “In the North sen the same
German luxury liner Bremen on Biitish submarine which sighted
----------I the Bremen has sunk a U boat and
torpedoed an enemy cruiser.”
| I he air ministry al-o annour.c-
] ed two British coastal defense
j planes attacked ahd damaged two
(i, /-v • Gi map Dovnier flying boats ov-
ut03f6 Opening or the North sea Wc dm sday.
_ This announcement said both
Opening day for Denison’s new- l'!" m>' n'ar gunners were hit and
Pleased With
Reception On
Major
Naval
Battle
Believe iroop Concentration
I And Ship Refitting Pro-
gram Might Mean Possible
Attack On Tiny Sweden
German ihip
Is Crippled
Britain Admits Warship Du-
chess Sinks With 120 On
Board, Rams Another Ship
LONDON, Dec. 14—Diplomatic
M>uicr today said that Germany
concentrating troop? in north-
v ’ G, 'many and that a gigantic
- out; itting program was going
' n, he' ved to mean that Ger-
many might join Ru.-sia in an at-
tack on Sweden, or other Scandi-
navian nations.
It lent belief that the recent
Russo-German treaty might have
been deadlier than appeared on
the surface when it was signed.
Confidential source; told tho
fate department in Washington
that Riusia earlier this year tried
to get Britain into a pact to est-
ablish strategic naval bases in
the Scandinavians, in ’•etum al-
lowing Britain to establish a!r
ba=cs in Russia near the frontier
of Poland, but that Britain refus-
'd and the Soviet turned toward
Germany to accomplish her aim*.
In the meantime Russia was
ousted from the League of Na-
tion's after twelve nations had
voted today and Finland carried
'on it defense fiercely against the
onslaught? of Russian troops In
the Ru so-Finnish war.
Britain communiques asserted
b it three British battleships had
■von a major naval victory over a
German pocket battleship, believ-
'<1 to be the marauding Admiral
Schorr or her ?ister ship;, the Graf
Souv, off the coast of Uruguay
Wednesday.
More than 100 members of tha
vc sel’s crew and officers wera
either killed or wounded in the
oattie, and dead and wounded
were removed from the ship as it
lay at anchor ;n Montivedeo today.
Representatives
Of Denison To
Attend Opening
CCC. NYA BUDGET
REDUCTIONS PROTEST
WASHINGTON, Doc. 13 —
Drastic reduction in budget esti-
mates for the Civilian Conserva-
t'nn Corps and National Youth
Administration, as proposed by the
budget bureau, was protested to-
day by Rep. Jed Johnson (P-Ok)
chairman of a subcommittee to
consider appropriations for the
Department of the Interior and
other government agencies. Rrp
Johnson d'seus-od the matter with
President Roosevelt.
The p'opo-'nl of the budget bur-
eau to slash the 1940 nopropria-
tiens for these two agencies hy at
nnt stretch of neur road.
The caravan will proceed to
Decatur where a program will he
given and speeches made and en-
tertainment provided hy the citi-
zens of Decatur.
ost grocery, the Den-Tex, operat-
ed by Marshall Drury, saw large
crowds in the store and Me. j
Drury expressed himself as plea - j
ed at the reception given him by '
the people of Denison.
The store was decorated in the j
Christmas atmosphere for the o-'- j
casion and special souvenirs and j
ba-kets of groceries awarded. This
feature will be continued through
the opening days, continuing
through Saturday it is announced. .
The entire store has been work-
ed over and rearranged and stock-
ed with a large line of both gro-
ceries and meats while the bakery
had on display a full line of its.
products. This department is un-
der the -upervision of Mr. and
Mrs. Harris.
In the meat department the
whole setup has been changed and
Jhis department is in charge of
Pete Owens who come5 to Deni-
son from Wichita Falls.
Assisting Mr. Drury in the gro-
cery department are Mr. andMrs.
Ray Couch, who come to Denison
from Vernon, Texas
Conservation
Meeting Slated
both enemy aircraft were damaged
b'y macli lie,gun fire before disap-
pearing in the clouds.
Denison Youth
Is Accepted
DURANT, Dec. 14—S x were
accepted for service in the United
State? army at the local recruit-
ing office, Sergeant Joe F. Atkins
recruiting officer, announced to-
day.
Those accepted w«sre Sam W.
Hodges, Durant; Robert J. Poach.
Denison, Tex.; Herman L. Thorn-
ton, Cal era; Roy L. Parrish Du-
rant and Roy II. Pyles and Roher”
John?, Jr., Colbert.
The group left with Hodges in
command for 'Oklahoma City
where they will receive a further
physical examination, and if they
P-ass it they will he assigned to
army posts. They? have their pref-
erence of Fort Benning. Ga.. Fort
Sam Houston or Fort Sill. All
were enlisted for the field artil-
lery service.
tConMniie/t on t“»a* 41
Texas Estate
Value Hikes
Texas Gets 3
Federal Grants
WOW Elects
Officers Here
Judge E. LA. Wright was elected
Consel Commander of the Deni-
son Woodmen of the World lodge
at n meeting this week, to serve
during 1939-40.
Other officers named were:
DURANT, Doc. 14 — County
lAgont W. F. Lott today received
notice t,hat a public hearing will
he held in Durant January 4 on
an application of Bryan county
farmers for a soil conservation
district in this county.
| WASHINGTON D. C . Dee
14—Thre„ federal grants, allocat
ing $151,965 to three Texas pro
;jeets, were announced today by
the WP.A after approval by Pres
I ident Roosevelt.
supply.”
least 20 per cent. Johnson said. | r'pori?e Hardy, advisory licuten-
ivonld lop off $56,000,000 from Mood, hanker; N. V.
.........”----- I funds for the CCC and would re-• Pmver5' c,erk: J- W. Adamson.
Temperatures Lower j suit in abandonment of about 230 Bloomer and S. T. Millard.
Temperatures in Denison fell to camps. Tho same put would take trustees.
41 degrees early todav after a j $20,000,00(1 from NY A funds and Visitors at the meeting were the
high of 59 degrees Wednesday | would greatly curtail the work State Manager and the degree
afternoon. More warm weather, being done to help young m 'n and 1 f*aff of the Vnn Alstyne lodge,
with clear skies is forecast for young women find profitable em-1 which initiated a class of eight
today and Friday. | ploy went. |f°r the Denison organization.
A petition containing the names ’ For improvement of a municl-
of 125 Bryan countv landowners Pol park and playground. Tvler
was rerentiy submitted to the soil was granted $105,688 Work to
conservation authority at Stillwat-j (,onc include?' erection of n
er requesting a di-trict similar to ; bathhouse, construction of a swim-
the model district recently started ming pool, grand stand and eon-
in McIntosh countv in which the 'sion building and development
•AUSTIN, Die. 14—Upturns in
the value of rural and urban lurto
property of corporations, mator-
a and manufactured products
and cattle contributed the princi-
•' i:i which netted an increase
'f $67,779,021 in ad valorem tar
as s menl? tk ? year. Comptroller
G< >rgc II. Sheppard said today.
Total valuations amounted to
$1,213,897,437 against $4,145,625
U6 In 5t year. Because home-
leads of $3990 value are exempt
from the ad valorem tax. how-
over, the valuation for state pur-
' esc increased only $18.3,07,428
to a total of $3,546,383,712 in
1930.
Vagaries of the assessment of
nroperty are shown bv the sum-
mary. If !>e assessments were
to he considered accurate, then
the stat- ’■ area sank 124.431.41
acres R« compared wilh 1938, for
the land assess'd this year was
169.130,716.08 acres compared to
169,255,139.4 1 in 1938. Despite
Die hrinkage it increased in val-
ue according to the assessors.
Strong Voting For
WAXAHACHIE, Tex.—Dec. 14
- Final tabulations of the 1940
cotton marketing quota vote cast
in Ellin county recently show that
’1 299 farmers arc in favor of the
Mtotn'i while 319 are onpnsed.
(Although there is still a huge
mniority of the county’s farmers
who favor the quotas, statistics re-
veal that there is a slicht increase
There were 2,544 vote? for and
250 voles against the 1939 quota?
WPA joins with farmers in fm-,°f tennis courts, roque courts and jn those opposed to the quotas
proving the soil. ^
Tho hearing will be held in the
di triet courthouse here January
4 when local landowners will sub-
mit their claims and prove their
ability to abide by the regula-
tions
softball diamonds.
A'ietoria was nllotcd $43,525 for
I a city-wide project of improvc-
I men! to streets and storm sewers.
Lufkin received $2,752 for im-
j proving grounds of the Lufkin
j high school.
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