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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940.
VOL. 55, NO. 51.
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Kentuckytown Club
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Heart Disease Is
Enemy Number One
Gifts, Not Loans,
Urged for Britain
By Mrs. Roosevelt
Only 8 Counties in
Texas Fail to Vote
For Cotton Quotas
Many Will Have To
Fill Out First
Income Tax Report
Alexandria, La., Dizzy
From Huge Spendings
$71.60 and Sandwich Found
In Pockets of Panhandler
WII.IYIlIJRLHRISFMAJi
END AT THE MORGUE?
Sun Subscription
Campaign Nears End
Man Who Threw Frozen
Eggs at Willkie Fined $25
CLASS A BASKETBALL
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
COLORED SCHOOL TO
PRESENT XMAS PLAY
all defense
and
LIKE CHECKER GAME-
CONGRESSMEN WAIT ON
OTHERS TO ASK RECESS
liable
pro-
SIX ARMY MEN DIE IN
CRASH OF BIG BOMBER
which
at the
, with
and their
their
roll
list
then?
MEXICO, D. F. — Groups of
identifieed persons shouting
ANTI-NAZI SHOWS
IN MEXICO BROKEN UP
BY “HEIL HITLER”
LETTERS TO
SANTA CLAUS
BRIDEGROOM TAKES OUT
DOGHOUSE INSURANCE
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if you take advantage of our annual bargain rate, good in Texas only.
Elsewhere the rate is $1.50.
High School to Give
Christmas Pageant
Friday Afternoon
Moratorium on
Labor Laws Urged
Uh# Whiiew/unhi
YOUR HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER ZjF ESTABLISHED IN 1885
Hull Urges U. S.
Put Defense Work
On Wartime Basis
“Jim, have you a warning signal on
the front of your car?”
“Yes, Doc, I have a little round
thing that says: Dodge Brothers.”
NEXT WEEK
Next week The Sun will be
published on MONDAY, and all
advertising and news items must
be in the office not later than 1 p.
m. Monday. It was originally an-
nounced that Tuesday would be
publication day, but since that will
be Christmas Eve, it will be nec-
essary for The Sun to go out on
rural routes Tuesday morning. It
will be the annual Xmas Greeting
edition.
WASHINGTON.—Assistant Senate
Republican Leader Warren R. Austin
today called for relaxation of labor
laws, such as the Wage-Hour, Walsh-
Healey and National Relations acts,
during the present emergency.
He said that delays in the defense
-program could be traced to “all kinds
■of clogs and hindrances on the free
^movement of industry.” He praised
Commissioner
urging that
a full-time
Dear Santa Claus: Here’s a little
note to let you know what I want for
Christmas. I have been a very good
little boy. Will you please bring me a
wagon, gun, dump truck, airplane
and a watch. And don’t forget my
cousin Jackie. — Thomas K. White,
route 2.
BIG SPRING.—A panhandler here
got indignant when his begging ef-
forts brought an otfer of food instead
of cash—and so did police.
For they found he had $71.60 in
cash and a good, substantial sand-
wich in his pockets. So they carted
him away to jail where he was being
held on vagrancy charges and for in-
vestigation.
A Christmas pageant will be pre-
sented in the High School audito-
rium on Friday afternoon, December
20, at 2 o’clock. The public is invited
to attend. Mrs. Kathryn Roddy will
be in charge of the verse choir, and
Mr. Russ will direct the singing choir.
The leaders of the verse choir are
Betty Jane Harper and Jack Sears.
Other members of the verse choir are
Margaret Hanna, Etha Louise Brown,
Bonnie May Scott, Mary Frances
Stephens, Kirk May, Clarence Woot-
ten, Merle Scoggins, and Wallace
Reeves. The singing choir consists of
about 59 members of the Glee Club.
If you want a daily newspaper in connection with The Sun, we
can save you some money. The rates below apply to new and renewal
subscriptions alike.
Mrs. Mary Benson has requested
The Sun to make a correction of a
misstatement contained in a news
story about the Pilot Grove hot lunch
project appearing in last week’s pa-
per. The story erroneously stated that
Mrs. Benson was employed in the
lunch room, when as a matter of fact
Mrs. Benson had merely volunteered
to assist for a few days when the
project was started due to the illness
of Mrs. May Waldrop, who with Mrs.
Johnny Reynolds is employed in
the lunch room. The Sun is glad to
make this correction, and regrets that
it was furnished incorrect informa-
tion on which the story was based.
CHICAGO.—Charles Mulrain,
was fined $25 Monday for hurling
frozen eggs at Wendell Willkie, Re-
publican presidential nominee, in the
LaSalle street railroad station last
Oct. 22.
The finfes—$20 for assault and bat-
tery and $5 for disorderly conduct—
were imposed by Municipal Judge
Matthew D. Hartigan after the
fendant had pleaded guilty.
DRAFT DODGER GETS
YEAR; 4 MONTHS;
SAID HE WAS ALIEN
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Federal Judge
John Knight Monday sentenced Al-
fred E. Horrocks, 24, who a jury de-
cided was born in Scranton, Pa., to a
year and four months in the Federal
Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, for
falsely representing his liability for
Army selective service by posing as
an alien.
The defendant contended he was
Thomas Goddall, of Wigan, England,
and denied testimony of Albert E.
Horrocks, Scranton, Pa., of being his
son.
WASHINGTON. — Mrs. Franklin
Roosevelt came out Monday for out-
Great Britain
be-
aid
this
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The perfect
bridegroom has appeared. His hand-
somely engraved announcements pro-
claimed:
“Frederick Harold Green an-
nounces his utter astonishment at be-
ing accepted in holy matrimony by
the most incomparable Evelyn Estes.”
For best results in spreading sand-
wiches, the butter should be worked
soft before attempting to spread.
WASHINGTON. — House Demo-
crats and Republicans alike said to-
ad-
each
other to
Following is the Class A double
round robin schedule for the 1940-41
basketball season, the first round of
which was played Tuesday night:
Dec. 17—Collinsville at Gunter;
Whitesboro at Van Alstyne; White-
wright at Howe.
Dec. 20—Gunter at Van Alstyne;
Collinsville at Whitewright; Whites-
boro at Howe.
Dec. 31—Gunter at Whitewright;
The Kentuckytown Home Demon-
stration Club held its last scheduled
meeting of the year at the home of
Mrs. B. M. Dean in Tom Bean last
week. Principal business of the
meeting was the making of plans for
the annual Christmas party,
was held Wednesday night <
home of Mrs. Burn Everheart,
all members of the club
families present.
Members attending the meeting at
Mrs. Dean’s included Mrs. Everheart,
Mrs. C. M. Fulton, Mrs. Buddy
Stephens, Mrs. Elbert Hansard, Miss
Nelda Hansard, Mrs. P. H. Connelly,
Mrs. V. O. Roberts, Mrs. J. A. Hick-
son, Mrs. Jess Smotherman, Mrs. Carl
Holland and Mrs. Leslie Cox.
Alexandria, heretofore placid
Northern Louisiana railroad and in-
dustrial town, is reported dizzy from
the effects of a weekly million dollar
defense payroll disbursement, 100%
overnight increase in population and
clamor for shelter, food and services.
On the Government’s 13 million
dollar camp program now in prog-
ress 29,000 workers are already em-
ployed. At practically completed
Beauregard 72,000 troops already are
quartered. Two other nearby camps
under construction are to receive
trainees which will bring the total
for the area up to an estimated 64,-
000, but the state has been advised to
prepare fox’ a maximum total of 125,-
000.
The “war” in Louisiana is very
pleasing to the citizens at Alexandria.
MARCH FIELD, Calif. — Six offi-
cers and men of the Army’s Ninety-
Third Bombardment Pursuit Squad-
ron, March Field, were killed
Wednesday as their twenty-two-ton
B-17 four-motored bomber crashed
and burned at the 6,700-foot snow
line of Marion Mountain in San Ber-
nardino National Forest.
Defense Production
"William S. Knudsen for
all machines be put on
operation basis.
Austin suggested that
industry go on a six-day week
that the Government be prepared to
bear whatever additional cost that
■could entail—such as overtime—until
labor laws could be relaxed.
“The New Deal is now reaping
■what it sowed,” he said.
Knudsen, speaking before the Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers
last Friday, said that “frankly, we are
not doing anything compared to the
forecast of manufacturers and the
’Defense Commission in July,” and
■called for “speed, and more speed” in
production of defense materials.
His speech drew a reply last night
:from President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor who,
in a radio address, declared that “we
must not be stampeded into forcing
a war economy upon a nation in
peacetime.”
WASHINGTON. — Heart disease
Skilled twice as many Americans last
.year as any other cause.
Out of the ,1,387,897 deaths re-
ported in the United States in 1939,
360,634 were caused by heart disease.
Cancer was next with 153,846. Other
major causes were: Cerebral hemor-
rhage, 114,967; nephritis, 108,518; in-
fluenza and pneumonia, 99,097; tu-
berculosis, 61,609.
Accidental deaths totaled 92,623, of
which 32,386 were motor vehicle mis-
haps. Suicides numbered 18,511 and
■8,394 deaths were classed as homi-
cides.
Overstirring . and mixing causes
muffins to rise in peaks and burst
open.
Dear Santa: I am a little boy six
years old. I came from California to
visit my grandmother, who is ill, and
I wanted to let you know I was down
here so you could leave my things
here. I want a scooter, some nuts
and candy, some toy cars, and I
would like a tractor but guess that
would be asking too much. Hope you
don’t get stuck in the mud. I’m try-
ing to be a good little boy
Christmas.—Larry C. Cooper.
at the date of expiration of your subscription, stamped on each issue
of your Whitewright Sun, or on the wrapper if it reaches you in a
wrapper.
NO MATTER what this date is, you may extend your time ONE
YEAR from that date (if you live in Texas) for—
are
are
giving aid to England, but we must
face the reality that we are being
paid.”
Van Alstyne at Howe; Collinsville at
Whitesboro.
Jan. 3—Howe at Gunter; White-
wright at Whitesboro; Collins at Van
Alstyne.
Jan. 7 — Whitesboro at Gunter;
Howe at Collinsville; Van Alstyne at
Whitewright.
Jan. 10—Gunter at Collinsville;
Van Alstyne at Whitesboro; Howe at
Whitewright.
Jan. 14—Van Alstyne at Gunter;
Whitewright at Collinsville; Howe at
Whitesboro.
Jan. 17 — Whitewright at Gunter;
Howe at Van Alstyne; Whitesboro at
Collinsville.
Jan. 21—Gunter at Howe; Whites-
boro at Whitewright; Van Alstyne at
Collinsville.
Jan. 24 — Guntei' at Whitesboro;
Collinsville at Howe; Whitewright at
Van Alstyne.
Rainfall in Whitewright thus far
in December amounts to 3.42 inches,
according to the records of C. C.
Cates of the city watei' department.
All of this fell in the 10-day period
■ from Dec. 6 to Dec. 15, the heaviest
precipitation any one day being .76 of
an inch last Saturday. It rained on
' seven separate days, much of the
’ rainfall being in the form of a steady
drizzle which soaked into the ground.
Unimproved roads were said to be in
’ very bad condition first of the week.
How Much Is An Inch?
’ An inch of rainfall may not sound
like a great deal, but just how much
’ moisture is there in an inch of rain?
Here are some comparative figures:
One gallon of water weighs 10
1 pounds and would cover about two
' square feet of surface with a layer
one inch thick. To covei’ a square
’ mile of the earth’s surface with a
layer of rain one inch thick needs
\ 120,000,000 pounds of water, or 12,-
000,000 gallons—which is a lot of
'.water.
A good thunderstorm which pelts
watei- down on the earth for several
hours will result in perhaps a half-
inch of rain. If the storm covers a
hundred thousand square miles be-
fore it wears itself out, it v^ill there-
fore deliver to the earth six hundred
billion gallons of water.
Tight cash gifts to
rather than loans, saying she
lieved that form of financial
would be less likely to draw
•country into the European war.
Asked at her press conference for
hex' opinion on the loan question,
-Mrs. Roosevelt replied spiritedly: “I
~think it is about time we started to
■give something.
“A certain number of people
under the impression that we
Dozens of farmers and others in
the Whitewright territory shortly
will have a new experience in life—
theix- first encounter with an income
tax return—as result of fundamental
changes in the Revenue Act of 1940.
The changes are expected to cause
a 70 pei- cent increase in the number
of returns filed.
Basic revisions were noted in a
bulletin just issued by the Internal
Revenue Bureau at Washington.
Most vital change in the income
tax laws is that which reduced the
exemption fox’ single persons to $800,
for married persons to $2,000. The
old levels were $1,000 and $2,500. The
credit for children or other depend-
ents remains at $400 per dependent.
Another revision is a requirement
that returns must be based on gross
income, NOT net income. This means
that all single persons with a gross
income of $800 or more, and all mar-
ried persons living together with a
combined gross income of $2,000 or
more, MUST file returns even though
it develops that, by reason of allow-
able deductions, no tax is due.
Last year if a man’s net income
was sufficiently low, after legal de-
ductions were made, even though his
gross income was above the $1,000 or
$2,000 level then in force he did not
have to file a return.
Last year, also, a man running his
own individual • business did not have
to file a return if that business had a
gross income of less than $5,000 a
year.
Now, however, he must file a re-
turn if his business grosses more than
$2,000 a year—although in such a
case allowable deductions probably
will exempt him from tax.
Every person will be' held
fox- compliance with the new
visions regarding gross income, fed-
eral officials have warned.
day they expected Congress to
journ before Christmas—but
party was waiting on the
initiate the move to quit.
Adjournment ox? recess
possible if it could be agreed upon
with* a roll call vote. Neither side
wants such a record vote which
would inform “the folks back home”
whether their congressman was on
the job.
The dramatic club of the White-
wright Colored School will present
its annual Christmas play Friday
might, ' Dec. 20, at the C. M. E.
•Church. A three-act comedy written
-especially to meet the demand for a
really funny- Christmas play. This
play is unique in that Santa Claus
appears at the very beginning instead
of the end. Everyone is invited. Ad-
mission 10c.
Basketball
Since their recent victory ovex- Van
Alstyne, the Whitewright Lions feel
able to test their strength on a
mightier foe. This chance will be
.had here Jan. 1 in the High School
gymnasium when the Greenville five
under Coach W. H. Byrd swing into
action. This being on New Year’s
day, the Lions hope to make a record
for themselves.—L. L. Woody, prin-
cipal.
AUSTIN.—John Texan is going to
decide to drive to another town on
Christmas or the day before, but his
trip will end in a morgue.
There are 30—perhaps 40—of these
John Texans who will become traffic
statistics on Texas highways during
the two-day Christmas period, De-
partment of Public Safety statisti-
tians estimated today.
Since traffic deaths for the year
are up roughly 10 pex’ cent, as many
as 50 are expected in those two days
—in comparison to 49 fatalities in the
three-day week-end period of last
year.
Ten ox’ a dozen will meet death in
cities and towns, but approximately
three-fourths of these violent deaths
will occur on highways, where speed
is greater.
When the victims’ names are en-
tered in the state police “Death
Book,” there will be a check mark in
the little square under the word “in-
toxicated” in about 60 per cent of the
cases.
Some of these John Texans won’t
even be in a car when death clutches
them. They’ll just be walking along
the road or trying to cross a street
(several in the middle of the block),
and here again that check mark for
“intoxicated” will appeal- frequently.
Many of these deaths could be pre-
vented by the observation of a few
simple, common sense rules, said Col.
Homer Garrison Jr., director of
Department of Public Safety.
“In starting on a trip, leave
enough that you can drive at a safe
speed and arrive on time,” he sug-
gested.
“If you must drink, either take a
taxi or let someone who isn’t drink-
ing drive youi' car.
“Avoid long drives which produce
fatigue, dulling the driver’s reflexes
and making him careless.
“Reduce your speed when visibil-
ity is limited or roads are wet, and
be especially cautious in passing oth-
er vehicles. A large proportion of
highway deaths result from head-on
collisions.
“Pedestrians should cross streets
only at intersections, and both they
and drivers should be especially cau-
tious when Christmas crowds create
congestion.”
For the past several weeks The
Sun has had on a subscription cam-
paign that has gotten results. During
this period dozens of new names have
been added to the subscription
and hundreds have x;enewed
subscriptions.
The campaign will close on Dec.
31. Only a few old subscribers have
not taken advantage of the special
$1.00 rate, but we feel sure they will
before Dec. 31.
The Sun will make a good Christ-
mas present to a friend, neighbor or
relative. It will be a present that
they will receive 52 times and one
they will appreciate. Subscribe for it
today fox* a friend, neighbor or rela-
tive.
The following have had
names added to The Sun honor
this week:
Mrs. W. L. White.
Gomer May.
O. J. Mears.
Miss Belle Huddleston.
R. B. Mack.
W. R. Benson.
Mrs. Ben Dyer.
W. L. Smith.
G. D. Bennett.
Dr. O. M. Durham.
J. W. Blakey.
T. E. Blakey.
Mrs. J. S. Badgett.
D. G. Coley.
Hugh Trotter.
J. P. Ownby.
J. H. Gosnell.
Mrs. Simmons Powell.
Margaret Boone.
M. B. Bryant.
F. B. Rascoe.
Mrs. C. C. Hill.
Mrs. W. C. Musser.
Mrs. J. A. Titus.
E. W. Fields.
Mrs. C. T. Furgeson.
A. R. Chumbley.
Delmoi- Bowen.
E. A. Douglas.
J. B. Hamilton.
H. S. Moore.
J. T. Williams.
R. G. Bennett.
J. M. Simmons.
John Wright.
WASHINGTON.—While Secretary
of State Cordell Hull urged that
America’s arms production be speed-
ed up toward a wartime basis, ad-
ministration aides on Capitol Hill
prepared to push for. legislation im-
plementing President Roosevelt’s
plan to lend war supplies to Britain.
One expert estimated that this
plan, under which the United States
would take over, future British war
orders, pay for the materials itself
and lease them to Britain, might
add about $2,500,000,000 (billions) to
the $15,000,000,000 (billions) author-
ized and appropriated by the present
Congress for United States defense.
How the additional financing
would be handled was not officially
explained, but Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. al-
ready has asked Congress to increase
the national debt limit from forty-
five billion dollars to sixty ox- sixty-
five billions. The last-named figure,
financial experts believed, would
boost the government’s borrowing
powers enough to cover British war
requirements, at least in the near fu-
ture.
Hull, in disclosing at a press con-
ference he had been urging that pro-
duction of arms, planes, ships and
other materials be brought as nearly
as possible to a war basis, said this
was in complete harmony with the
President’s plan.
Guarantee for Future
The $2,500,000,000 (billions) esti-
mate of British war supplies involved
in the new lending plan was over
and above the estimated two billion
dollars of munitions and other sup-
plies for which Britain already has
contracted on a cash-and-carry basis.
British war supplies for the next
several months, it was explained, will
come from those already purchased
so that the immediate financial ques-
tion involved in the new plan was
largely that of providing a guarantee
for the future. ,
The most urgent problem con-
nected with British aid at this time,
administration sources said, was that
of speeding up output in preparation
for a possible Critical British war
emergency early next spring.
.Britain was said to need ships and
planes quickly to replace merchant
tonnage losses and to strengthen its
defensive and offensive power in the
air.
Sixteen ships of the Maritime
Commission’s laid-up fleet were
bought by British interests Wednes-
day on a bid of $3,295,000, thus add-
ing a total of 147,526 tons to Brit-
ain’s merchant fleet.
Officials were seeking still
tonnage to release to Britain.
COLLEGE STATION. — Twelve
Texas counties which last yeax' failed
to return a two-thirds majority fa-
voring cottoh marketing quotas went
ovei’ the line with majorities ranging
from 67 to 100 pex’ cent in the South-
wide referendum Decembex’ 9.
On the basis of unofficial returns
from 229 counties in which cotton
producers voted, Frank B. Seale,
state AAA committeeman and Rob-
ertson County cotton farmer, an-
alyzed trends as indicated by the
vote and found that only three coun-
ties which last yeai’ gave quotas a
two-thirds majority failed to do so
this year. They were Gillespie, 88
pex’ cent in 1939, 65 per cent in 1940;
Lee, 74 and 63; Cochran, 86 and 52.
Marketing quotas failed to get a
two thirds majority in five othex’
counties, making a total of eight
counties in the state opposing. The
following counties fell short of two-
thirds but all except one showed a
larger percentage of theii- vote favor-
ing quotas: Throckmorton, 46 per-
cent in 1939; 62 pex' cent in 1940;
Fayette, 49 and 53; Lavaca, 35 and
49; Willacy, 62 and 65; Kendall, 50
and 50.
Counties which last yeai’ failed to
give a two-thirds majority but which
did so this yeai' were Floyd, 63 per
cent in 1939, 67 per cent in 1940;
Shackelford, 51 and 76; Runnels, 61
and 73; Eastland, 62 and 75; Brown,
65 and 84; Comanche, 60 and 84;
Erath, 63 and 74; Hamilton, 65 and
71; Van Zandt, 66 and 86; Colorado,
64 and 73; Maverick, 36 and 91; Sut-
ton, 50 and 100.
The final unofficial tabulation
showed 88 per cent in the state fa-
voring quotas with a total of 153,782
votes cast, 135,293 for and 18,407
against. Status of 82 challenged votes
was undetermined.
un-
“heil
Hitler” broke up showing of the anti-
Nazi film “The Man I married” in
eight motion picture theatres Satur-
day night.
The cries of “heil Hitler” also were
the signal foi’ a volley of tear and
stench bombs which were hurled in-
to the audiences.
There were no serious disorders.
Undei' the covei’ of darkness in the
theatres those responsible fled before
police could be summoned. Witnesses
estimated there were about 30 or
persons in each band.
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