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AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 25, 1910
EIGHT PAGB0
Associated Cress leased Wire
DENTON, TEXAS. MONDAY
VOL. XL
NO. XK
INDICATED BULGARIA HAS
Flood Notes
SPURNED GERMAN PRESSURE
Ab-
Amarillo With Little Water and Power
world
TO LINE UP WITH AXIS PACT
I
appreciate to Mime
cull
/
• U.S
Romanian Premier and Ribbentrop Confer
the
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FORMING SLOWLY
Nov
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in-
4
Sees Britain's
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of
&
III
+ i!
smashing
British. Germans
ALL DIRFCUOXS. AMARILLO
Bomb Warfare
Mrs Mac
Bill
11
communication
li.i-
That Kennedy Interview
wel e
By Hil l. W il SON
Ad-
in
di
111
Mrs. Perkins
Hasn't Resigned
11 <
in
WASHINGTON,
25 —UH--
Nov
Land. \ir Success
one
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I
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disprove, never
mg for life and home and hearth
11
IB
Social. Economic Changes
iiu.ili : 1:1
w it h ' id ruck
Meet in *» .s
Re-Set
I I H
E
Olliers I nchan"ed
totalitarianism,
and
£
in
SITUATK )N
BRITISH WORKERS \SK MORE
IN Y EARS LOOMS AHEAD FOR DAD
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appropriation
is -roe Bank ,
to new conditions.
AND
25
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r
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h
I
1.227 Miles of
Federal Aid Road
Believe Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia May-
Have Refused to Join; Turks Warn Bul-
garia Against Involvement.
Willi
Joe s
I,
left here, but look forward to the
time when I can move back home "
Hood
new
too
• the
fol
lo reach its crest after moving
Nov
l» a. i
w t h •
.i\ nlai/lt
beel i
I f Ida Is
tllUSA
! able
Bl it i.sh
main
11 Ills
loi < e
posit ion
man
might
(By Associated Press!
Indications arose Monday that
i
J
drive i
Observe
McEi-
same
snai1
1 leet ( ea.
i • mpei at tires
covering
Tmiperat ures
thioughout
Nov 25
A in
aa
during the year.
• pl.lilt
Sunda \
laid dl
it- i It \
hout "■
of
tire bomb.-
a id
Wilt
'I h<
anew
ill
Ils
whole I have been much Interested
in
I()N1X )N
workers ai
wages
ing in
///./{(/( \l> /OR >11 Mills /A
ment
view
v ill hi:
al. Il
n <• w .-
tin-
i1 <
li
lie
-14A—
River
I an outlet
I Greece
, is
the
ABOUT
TOWN
WAIT....
TO EXPEDITE SHOPPING-
BEFOGE IT’S TOO
LAT€
SHOPPING DAYS
TILL CHRISTMAS
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
or that
Personally I should say
N
lilt’ll •
Bl I
B’ I
< ominert idol
all ♦old
|m na 11
W bile
k on
nd w.i.-
out bv
v H ttiall'.
t home
IW(I
: :-.:baeur-»- N-:rer- ■
1 If
b< toi •
i o .t ored
pumped miff t h»- n
no elect ri< it V
eiuHigh w at» I
up a • pe< lal
with demand
about $2
' »
i
. I
/
Traffic Cop say.s„
You cant
these days
signals
a chance lor that
1940 model oil well
Px li(X)i
ha vmg
Band at
Blackburn and daugli
Both j
reared in Denton ] -
da- -
lion r
don't - it
M;ix or
have
coni mu-
I'he
was
was
I tad
power service
' r restored
I'lie Albu-
went
VERDICT REURNED IN CORPUS
CHRISTI DEATHS
CORPUS CHRISTI. Nov 25 —<>P)
—A coroner's verdict of "murder
and suicide" was returned by Jus-
tice of the Peace Joe D Browning
here last night in tire fatal shooting
of Mr and Mrs Jack McGonagill
of Corpus Christi.
Neighbor
in danger?"
and
al o x
: in
ml. >i mil I
Io '
tin-
That quo
still status." said W E Scherle p bottoms m Bell and Milam Counties
to the Amon G ; waited fol the flooded Little Rivi-/
Drop In the last
or so. but I understand thev
had a fishing .lob a few days back
We've still got i.
I didn't
body
was
than : iC(.
lv
. lint
tanner
Monday
were |Mvt-
Assistant
the AAA
di p.it t mt in
• ill
I H I I !
I -- n
I laced a
Bratcher is grandpa again. I 11'1'■ atcoldillg t
daiq.H of a new
I'lie weuthei
Premier
invasion forces
t Albania from
vU ' ded
poll
Ulll
w : ’ i <
pound-- I
wave
grounded airplane through
ommunication was mam-
10
were dropped b
Bristol a lol i e
CHICAGO. Nov 25 —vV> Santa
Claus, whose incredible job of span-
ning the nation in i a nigjit. will be
completed a month from today, will
stuff Dad sock s to overflowing this
largest toy
As rain continued
through th*' d.ix
scheduled
and
to have
more than 30
miles inside Albania In the deepest
into the Italian-con-
but the
• stated
a threepence
hour met ease
restoration of
condtt ions
t rade
before
evacuate
Another bout
.the Crass was
Houston.
of i military sources as hurling a "ftill-
| fledged offensive" against
1 Mussolini's Italian I
In a drive to wrest
Clark Blackburn left .•'.•inday
Mineral Wells x» I-
•ume th" directorship of the Min
rial Wells High .Scnooi Bund tile '
/former director having assumed'-^''
charge oi tlie Army Band at Port
Bliss Mir
ter. Ann.
until some lime after Christina
moved
mui Jsige
Plain
Baxter Jr
area of the Red Cross at |
. announced n cot |g of fix e I
,t:..i t:r workers left St 1
II// //<H / II ( / /./{ I VD/‘Oil/.//:! 'riH'C Hl,,vvs >n
/i ll/ ICE Rf VS TO yin.i.ioss
pm e I
quirk |
1 I loose powei lines
| been urged to keep
1 111.' Ide y
Mexico contains 28 states, two
territories and a federal distiicl
dropped tlieU
moment
Bluhm .mil
Mmr.t i x
•gi 11 el w ai ds
l.umbc, ot
quered Adriatic state
Warning to Greece
Germany's first ominous note of
warning to Greece since the Italian
invasion was sounded by the semi-
official Berlin newspaper Deutsche
Dlplomatlsch-Politlsche Korreepon-
denz. calling Greek Premier Jain
Metaxus a tool of the British pol-
icy of spreading war "
'Ilie newspaper quoted MetaxaJ
as saying he was1 fighting to defend
the sovereignty of all the Balkans
turd declared the statement was
"extraordinarily risky and danger-
ous."
It was the first German intima-
tion that Greece in fighting to
throw off the Italian Invasion, was
also fighting against German Inter-
ests in tlie Balkans.
farmers
would not
Saturday night, killing four women
and wounding five persons and said
France protested and demanded re-
paration I'lie British, a.r ministry
said it bad no statement to make
Would Wrest Albania
Greece was described by Athens
here
tated !
A.s-
. I . .. I
I to explain the 1941 AAA
progtam. the ■ .itton minketmg quo-
ta referendum f_>ec 7 anil the pro-
, soil
MACHINE SEIZED
CHARGES FILED
Charges of establishing a lottery
were filed Saturday evening In
County Court against Lon A Speer,
after Deputy Constable E B Floyd
seized a device allegedly a slot ma-
| chine.
I1-'
I
Germans ( laim
i
I..;
an estimated
This pr .gram
Hon ot <72 7
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy In
west portion and on lower coast,
rain in northeast portion and on
upper coast, cooler in north and
east portions tonight; Tuesday
partly cloudy.
Central
pat h i
»rx, i I ri
! t ion
! Cit v oltii lal ■ i
A Mcii'dith
tlx WI’A ;ir< t:lmi-
a WP\ ms..... iclict
asking loi 200 .men and
den 1 tile dill;
it reel s ot 11 m. i it \
Lille clew tl"l!i
but utP'ix
pun: ■
U11';. 11: .
ol rail
I are., a
| crating
carefully
traffic
25 I
unloadti .g
plo' ix es alii! Ileal lx 2 1100
i oncentrated '
on Hamburg
< ii'i iimn na-
Mmistrx te-
haven't been out
Carter test near
day or so. but
tonight;
Moderate to fresh
shifting winds on the coast besom-
ing northwesterly preceded by
strong winds on upper coast this
afternoon and early tonight.
OKLAHOMA: Mostly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday, rain east and
central tonight and east Tuesday;
wanner east tonight.
I V
Nov 25 <T)
demanding
r 11 < anmg
moi nmg
1 I1 a I 111 L
Ihu ice coat
• 1 t There
cuat Monday
torecuxt was
English
at 9 a
held
how i an
t-lrt I 1 icl! \ bch.
Ko fl- '.aid
'.’I h(illlv.
1 r)< ■ 1 I it ,d • ! -
lll.l\ bi ’ < \ • I J 1
i .t it uniniihH a
but
were re-
ran into it
But I am sure j
I
Mr. and Mrs Ed Garrison quiet- | Wide Area in Texas
Faces Threats
of Overflows.
Bi it isli
higher
to meet the high cost of liv’-
moves raising passible com-
tor the government ,s
fighting a war which
will be won in the fac-
I
.WHERE CHWSTMAS fUNCS '
the Bratcher home November
Tile Barnards have moved
from Plano and he is luxscx
with the Rural Electrification
sociation prior to marriage
was Miss Loraine Bratcher
biggest
said Ward ,,;l
"I have seen tile noted mud
but
worse
tn the oil business Is I
Scherle
■ Amon
a
they're thinking
so-snakckiller. <
. Italian base
In considering the situation ax a miles inside Southern Albania
liole I have been much Interested The Greek high command said 1.-
tbe hotly debated interview at-' 500 Italian prisoners with guns and
over tributed ox a reporter of the Boston ' other equipment
Voss Globe to Ambassador Joseph Ken-
nedy. who is home from hts post
as Aim man envoy to London Mr '
Kennedy was quoted as saying that
i' demtM racy Is tinished in England"
and that national sixialism will be
the result Also it's "the bunk” that
Britain is fighting for defnocracy”
problem ol
experts sax
tot Il'S
Men in such
war industries as shipbuilding, en
gmeering and railways have reach- | port Thursday to decide Its
In the lace ol refusal ot employers |
tox gran' a three-pence about 5 .
cents an hour increase on basic1
nites and restoration of pre-.lune
1931 working
Three railway trade unions will
shortly place before tip- railway
companies a uniform claim for fur-
ther wage increases the exact
amount of which have not been |
disclosed but which are expected to I
be between five and ten .shillings I
a week I
ed a deadltxk with their employers
ovei wage Increase demands and
tins week Is scheduled to see de-
velopments in the situation
Labor experts say the govern-
ment may be faced with the diffi-
cult problem of satisfying the
workers' demand and at the same
time controlling the cast of living
Tlie Confederation of Engineer-
ing and Shipbuilding Unions, com-
prising about 40 organizations, has
decided to ask the labor ministry
for ,
ten
a week
and .--hl)i-
Such a tribunal
I lie exist itu; Na- j
lx in
what he thinks with adjectives
T.iat sometimes leads to complica-
tions. but lie is mighty smart and
learns fast Next time I see him
I tn going to tell him about a re-
mark made by Uncle Joe, grey- |
thatched patriarch among the ne !
A survey of exhibitors at the
merchandise mart, a f<val point for
retailers' purchasing the past few
months in preparation for the hol-
iday trade, indicated toy "'expendi-
tures this year might be the great-
est in history.
For the first time since Christ-
mas trees were decorated with pop
corn and cranberry chains, trees
will be trimmed with All-American
made trinkets and tinsel. Germa-
ny. whose craftsmen were largely
responsible for developing modem
decorations, was unable to export
any of these Items thia season
Stuffed toys—dolls and animals
and the ever-popular hobby horeee
— formerly were supplied by Ger-*
man factories This year Utile
Johnny will rock away on • ekin-
covered horse made m America al
half the imported article's prica.
of the Lord is
wise the simple-
DALLAS. Nov 25 -<A>- Short
wave radio reports received at Al-
buquerque and Oklahoma City this
! afternoon said that
, had been at least partially
11<. n e plague! Amarillo T!
queique station said power
on at 1 25 p m
1940 parental appropriation for
childhood Yuletide Joy was esti-
mated at $330,000,000. which is ap-
proximately 10 per cent more than
the nation's toy bill last Christ-
mas
This Christmas will be the near-
est to an "All-American" the na-
tion ever has had. dealers reported,
because of the war which has taken
the Christmas spirit out of Eur-
ope and has shut off the flow of
fancy toys and trinkets from Old
World artisans.
Will in.
i<. New-.
lollow mg;
lie Amu
Assn, i -
at-
ot IctiMV e
blggc.'t
bombs on
oil rctin-
aluiouni ed
wcri' .-and to
alone III''
st Ila l.almg
W Illi li W as
mole than an hour
the town in West-
said to tiaxe been
( lei man bombers
in coni inuous
aged
and .<
and saying exactly I
| Fascist control
These sources .said the counter-
invasion into Albania might also
be linked with a plan for a Joint
Greek-British seizure of Italy's Do-
No’e
■ Anat'dlo
telephone
first hand account o' t he !
nllo ice storm to the As
ated Press from Plaint lew
ter an 80-mlle drive
hlghwuvs from the Ti
hand)" < it' i
CLEVELAND
i Floodwaters of
were '
1 iiome< tn low sections of tllLs Texas
’ town today Tlie flood was the worst
history tlie town
s«siW' ;
ini' Mlles HI
down I h< ri
and ; > i.. I >. 11.1'.
. Editor'.,
of t he
slat! i
England? We need a definition of
national socialism'' before ;
very far with thai question
I benevolent socialism already
produced a government in England
.since the World War. for the labor
party calls itself socialist
Anyway, we should be blind if
we didn t recsognlze that in Eng-
land. as in many other countries,
the social and economic structures
are changing Eng! nd Ls in the
melting-pot, and never will see pre-
war days again Tlie life and death
struggle which has brought all
, classes of society together in the , Christmas—with the
bomb-shelters Ls going to send them bill in years, probably the biggest
' fortli a new nation
That doesn't mean there's going
to be
ment
Ls still liitiniiig tint more slow ,
Power plant were expected to
tie operating on a partial basis la- j
ter today but the citx had no wa-
ter supply this morning
Ho pltals were without [lower
"My little boy has just |
swallowed a ten-dollar gold piece ' • Ilo .serious storm injuries
Gracious, is the child ported and no trouble was reported
I This special message, the first
' No. thank goodness, Ins father's to reach t.ie outside from Amarillo,
out of town " ' was received by: short wave radio
from a grounded airplane through
which communication was main-
tained.
No temperature change was fore- !
. t for West Texas, tne Dallas
weather bureau announcing this in-
dicated to immediate relaxation of
the ice conditions ui the Panhandle
Forecast for East Texas called Tor
rum and cooler
to set up a special tribunal
deal'ng with ileuviml tin
shilling about $2 ineliasc
on hoth the etiglheeruig
building sides
would supersede
tional Arbitration Tribunal
The governing body of tlie Anial-
vitally important | gamtited Engineering Union has ,
I been summoned io meet at South-
i twa'I 'TT.. i > < I./, ■ I,, .!/'< i/l,' its ciiurse |
old
war front said Greek ad-
i Vance troops had entered the out-
I skirts of Argiroca-stro. Italy's main
tnililary base tn Southern Albania
land lhat the city was expected to
j fall before evening
Heavy fighting was reported
southwest of Argirocastro. with
Greek troops threatening to smash
But about tlie disputed interview I through lo the Adriatic coast and
suppose there was any- | isolate large numbers of Italians
so naive a.s to believe England I
fighting for democracy, except-
Hundreds of Poles liow'n
Hinidl I'd: ol I'lt'i t ri< and 11 ir
phone pole' ii.ixr been ..li.piped l>x
the lee i oa
of wire no
sc hool ' < ida *
. lie aux i. *:u•
1 lama1 e d
I lb ills V li ! i
| st rui t ion
Its
Bristol, maloi
port, lo anothei
aid la ,t l..t;ht II ■. <1
anils ol pounds ot expIosix
tin- bombs wi re s
ed 4 a ma JOI files
DALLAS, Nov 25 (AID
Stormbound A m a r i 1 I <>
i serious situation to-
E B Bratcher is grandpa again, i• atcoltiinjf to a special
as John Arthur Barnard arrived all message received from the be-
home November 7 ) leaguereti city bv the
have moved here l(.i;tt<.,| |.,.,.ss '
he is asset tated
W as in d
-,he [ mams b
j than 1
No it
I danger exists
"I was in th*- world's
mud-hole Sunday night
Lusk
places in EllLs Count x
have I seen anything
lhat at the Brownwood army field
where he went to take our son
Ward Jr who Ls stationed there "
I As rain continued tailing stcad-
have j ||v through th*1 da\ t wo
1,1 . meet mils scheduled lor
«>h and ext'tung
Admlni.' t rat tve
| I/oyd C Sulllxan said at
I <>ffie,. here
But lie expressed hop' nil others
in the series will go ahead as
s< heduled Tlie Monday
Midway in the 100-niile front, tlie
Italians were reported to have
mg indirectly Primarily she's fight-| abandoned their fortified |>asitlon.s
Mount Ostrovitza, and another
tor the preservation of tier empire i Italian retreat was reported in full
I swing in tlie Mogradetz sector,
north of the surrendered city of .Ro-
ll's true that if she loses we shall I rltza, which lies 10 miles inside Al-
bania
Even Greek cavalry were said to
fundamental I be unable to engage the main body
basts of the Anglo-Hitlerian argu- i of fleeing Italians north of Korltzii
tsn t a clash between democ- I Greek troops were .said
and totalitarianism, in my 1 reached Pogradetz. ----
; pilloe tnci/lA Alhanlc
Will national socialism come to penetration
’ ‘ tion of
getting I
BIGGEST CHRISTMAS TOY BILL
in history
A survey of the country's toy
a different form of govern- merchants disclosed today that the
— u________.... __... L.'in/n
The deer hunters are not having
as gorxi luck as they did last vent
and so far few deer have been
brought hack to Denton I'lie last
contingent to return with a deer,
ns far as we know, brought one
when Joe Gambill. J B Farris nml
F W McKniglit returned Hurry'
Owens and Steve Barron cm
back deerless, but they plan on
return trip and
about taking their
Pete Tobin, along with them
LOUIS Nov 25 (45- Red
Cross I'ffk lais here were notified to-
day that two ixiwer boats have
been rushed from Houston to Bren-
I I ham to help
iixmed families
sent to Sealy
lotiued from
W J Thomas of Orange, Cali-
1 forma, Ls here for a visit with Ins
son. Bluster, and other relatives "I
hope that my health someday pel -
mits me to move back to Denton, a.s
I had rather live here than anv
place I've ever been, but the doc-
14" tors out there tell me I had be’ler
I wait before changing climate I've
\ enjoyed rather good health since I
Tut Key Poised
Turks have warned that any Bul-
garian move against Greece would
bring Turkey into the war and has
given an impression that any Oer-
actiop against tier neighbor
be Hie signal for Turkish
military action Geared for possible
Uxiiible parts of Turkey were under
ifiartial law
Greek troops were reported to
have reached Pogradetz, about 25
miles north of Koritza. in pursuit
of the Italian right arm wing, and
to have started Into the city of Ar-
girocaalro, maiu Italian base
1 tan uppirtiatr ca i
tent Hie situation existing in Ama- |
rillo right now.” said E. C
roy. as something of tile
kind was in Plainview from where'
1 Just returned When I left Plain-
view Bunday morning, the trees,
shrubs and streets were ice Hovered,
und on the way I soon ran out ot
these bad conditions when I readi-
ed Floydada, but 1 ran inio
again at Matador I
it was not near so bad in Plainview
us m Amarillo
18 Inch Snow
Colo measured 18 llicli-
altei a 48-houi fall in
('olorado 1 lie heal ie.-1 ’
lull in eight leal.. Hock
Wvo reported tempera-
17 below zero this morn-I
It was at the center of a small I ile.qiiti
area covering South-Centnil I that
wale be
Colorado
ly celebrated tlieir silver wending
anniversary on November 22 with
u family party at their home They
were married in Mangum Okla-
homa Prior to tiieir marriage,
she was Miss Bertha Pix krus
were born and
County
A meeting ot the Denton Coiintv
Fall directors will be held Tue-dax
night ut the City Hull
were taken
cleaning up tlie Koritza area
British Aid Greeks
British troops it was dLsclostxl,
have landed at Greek ports It was
said they were not combat troops
but specialists to aid the RAF op-
erating from Greek bases
is fighting for defnocrasy ' j A Havas, French official news
she's fighting for self-pres- agency, report from Vichy accused
I British planes of bombing Marseille -ppp white House .said today that
Frances Perkins, secretary of labor,
had not aubiiiilteu her resignation
and "the president has not dis-
cussed resignation with her "
Ifiis assertion vaine from Ste-
phen Early, press secreary, when
asked for comment on a story in
the New York Times hat Miss Per-
kins had tendered her resignation
rind President Roosevelt had ac-
cepted it
I l ilies with Amarillo men.
■ ba! I led t he Ice uu nace
1 yr 11 since Siindax
I weallier Mondax
iiuki und
I about I ri eznig
I increased during tlie nlglit
w a "* .............
I night
! ! ui limit : um
The Amarillo Globe News
1 to Plaint lew to pi uit a
> dit um 11 is 80 mill" 11 um
X to Am irillo
.el • /sene lamps xx i 1 e bei 1 q-
110 |)|! a I.-. All .ixo litlile lamp..
1 and i.mules luixe been sopp'd up
lix I ip hl-bill o; r\ Amarillo ie idelits
the gas xtils .still on and the pie.s-
sure was high tlie morning
Another grave danger Ls lhat o!
powei lines Parent.-, have
then < Inldn 11
John Hobson, who has been in HI
health for the past few months,
has returned from Atwood. Okla-
homa where lie has been with hts cast
son there for the past month He
Is now with another son Joe Hob-
son, on the Fort Worth Highway
AM Alt 11.1 <»
bound loi at
direi I ion.
W< pax.
sila e 10
We lip
sltlew alk
on id
Posit ion Slightly |
I? b 1 ent series of
Mow
m the series will go aheiul
; scheduled Tlie Monday meetings,
i originally scheduled for Bolivar and
! Navo, will lx' given later dates Of-
feared that farmers of
conimiinrt les would not be
t.i get to town lor the sessions
| planned
I t.. ....
1 poosi'd Denton-Wise Counties
dist rict
Remaining on ’he schedule after
Monday are the following meetings ment or that democracy will be!
(slated at 2 p m and 7 p m, re- I dead Personally I should say It
spe< lively, each day 1: I means that democracy Ls thriving
Tuesday Nov 26. D udsvllle after- j and showing itself capable of adapt-
noon and Roanoke evening. W< d-I Ing itself
nesday Nov 27. Aubrey afternoon ,
and Argyle evening; Friday. Nov. j SLOT
29, Justin afternoon. Pilot Point
evening, Monday, Dec 2. Hebron aft-
ernoon and Ponder evening, Tues-
day. Dec 3. rum afternoon and
Sanger evening. Wednesday. Dec
4 Denton afternoon and Little Elm
evening
mg administered to Signor Musso-
legioiLs by Hie Greco-British
. I can't see that the general
has altered greatly
1 should say that on tlie face of
it Britain s position has rather im-
proved
1 liat .smashing Italian defeat
matters considerably, both morally
unj materially, and should raise '
England s stock in Southeastern . (j1(. golden
Europe I’lie adherence o! Hungary.
Rumania and Slovakia to the axis !
adds little new. but merely confirms
Hitlers previous success with the I
big stick He already dominated
these countries and they had to
submit
However my estimate Is made
without being able to know what
is in the undoubtedly worried mind !
ol Muscovite Leader Stalin—and i
that's iinixirtant
It Ls worthy of note that Turkey,
which must be guided largely by
Moscow has warned ambitious
Bulgaria not to join the axis and
not to attack Yugoslavia or Greece
see cherished institutions disappear
from Britain, and maybe other j
countries, but the
Hubert Swisher, former Demon >
County citizen when he lived at I
Garza, is here on business and to
renew acquaintance with his many
oldtime triends Swisher is now in ♦ Rainfall tor the week-end ♦
the heavy1 hardware accessory and ♦ had totaled 4 ol inches at the ♦
oil business Hls mum business is + State Experiment St at ion +
out of Houston, near Katy in tlie ♦ northwest ol Denton at 2 +
rice fields, and he commutes dally ♦ o clock Mondax afternoon. 132 +
from Houston + inches haxllig been recorded ♦
+ since the 7 o clin k reading +
+ when the measurement was 2 +
Leave River Valley
, Families in the Brazos River bot-
(torus m f'enlrnl Texas in vicinity
ot Hem 1 a xx < ie niox 1 ug out a.- flixid ,
water crept up on their homes
W M Baxter Jr. manager of tlie
Midwest ;
St Louis,
trained disaster workers left
Louis for the Texas flood area
A Dallas mail order house receiv-
ed a rush order for hundreds of
pairs of overshoes and for kerosene I
lantern.' from Amarillo The order
was received bv short wave radio,
rclavcd bv the wax of an Abilene, |
Tex. station This re)x.irt said there
hud been no moderation of the ice |
conditi<>ti .
Ix-oii River Drops
Southeast and South
Texas appealed to be in the | “
of floods, the extent ol which eould
not vet lie estimated since damage
thus tar l)us been confined to farm-
lands
Planters in the Lower l ittle River
WASHINGTON Nov 25 -opt
The federal works agency reported
today that Texas built 1,227.6 miles
of roads during the last fiscal year
with the aid of federal funds
Tlie total cost of the program,
including federal funds, was 922,-
608 192
In addition, the report said. Tex-
eliminated 25 grade crossings
reconstructed 3
arid protected 22 with federal aid
Work was under construction or
approved for construction at the
end of the fiscal veer in Texas at
cost of $14,694,365
Including construe-
miles of highways,
elimination of 27 grade crossings,
reconstruction of 1 and protection
Of 16 •
Federal-state co-operative high-
way construction during the year
resulted tn the completion of 11397
miles of roads In all the states, the
report continued
.< .1 1.1:1
1.11'. . ru
ri'i'ui ted
l'h,' licrloi
id Bri'tol xxcic e'.pci lallx
it w :i 1 i'|iul tcd .1 nil .1
<<1 :u'r mill; leaped mtu
ie I esillt of one Jila. t
( irax t send ami Port land
. ot I <ei poll, a l-o w' : <■ li 11
Among
Pol t land a 11.
■ourees claimed
\ oil < ll ax e.send I. on
< Il tile Wax to 1 o|i< lol 1
t‘1 >1111>a 111ig the i< 11011 ox
tol wit h Bl Hi.' li air at 1 a< ks
; Im one ant I lorizeu
usmted the Blltlsli
9(1 000
Beilin. while 700 000 1 iifti'Cm
■xplosive Ixnnbi. ami 10 fxined
incendiaries u.m.. /ir,,oin'<i bx I 1 ■
he Germans on
LONIXiN L
■avx numbers
tol. o|
tire bombs made a
1 attack Sumtax nigh'
! r hipvanb whicli built
val vessels the Air
ixoted tixiay
(..'appini' 11
tlie axis by
port wlnlr I
Roger.', said eV"
being imide sei.-
to getting the watl'i stnrl-
■ Tilts may or may not he one of
those million-dollar rains." said Ed
Young ot the western part of the I
county "but 111 my way of thinking
it's a Jim-dandv Were going to
have a aeep season Hus year for
the first time in about three years,
however, no one can complain ot
the crops we've had for the jgist
two years when we got moisture mg in m
Just at. the time we had to have it plication.'
But I am glad to see that moisture
go down dee|i The warm wet
weather is fine on the grain crop
"I hope that son-m-lnw of mine
brings back some deer meat said
Will Stewart, south of Denton as
lie's down in the deer-country,
while Mrs W S Carter, his wife
our daughter, visits with us " Mr
und Mrs Carter live in Electra
flood-ma- '
was : I inlicatioiis arose Monday that little Bulgaria—whose
200-mile-wide kingdom is all that separates Nazi troops from
Greece may have scorned German pressure to join the axis-
ruled "European him' against Britain.”
Inform*! quarters In Berlin made
the surprising disclosure that the
signatures of Hungary. Rumania
| and tiny Slovakia to the Rome-
I the pres-
1 ent series of acquisitions to the
axis
I In this connection, it was recall-
: ed that last week n high source in
I Sofia, capital of Bulgaria said So-
viet Russia advised" Bulgaria not
to join tlie totalitarian bloc al-
though Nazi fascist quarters had
w idely heralded Bulgaria s Immin-
ent signature in the unti-Britlsh
front
By (lie same token. Spain. Yugo-
slavia and Turkey mux also have
refused to Join
I ifroiipi'd only
1 bombs on
I pound:, of
j nun
I’\Y.COMPLIGATIM; \\ AR MiEDSi
thr Ur
hr;i\ ll\
ilitl s()||
' .111(1 HllUlcfi
t’ U " J t iuuhi
e First of Farmer
Rinnaniati Piemier (Jcncral Ion Antonescu, left, is shown here with German Foreign Mmixicr Jomhim v<»n
Ribbentrop (ienerai Aiiton(*>cu arrived in Berjm to sign a treaty hi.i countrs with the Axis
|>oweis The in in ittin;' m trout ut them i.s an mterpieiei
i week-(*nd ot blows at
raidin;' tne Geiman
100 NiUi pianws
pounding at a West England town
e\ i ra I Bill isl i piloi-
h« >i 11 b a ' the
1 h>' 1111 (x/i I .t: il
. hlp1, a I d> I he
gE Zr Situation Serious in Snowbound
solve you to yourself, und you shall I
have the .suffrage' of tlie
Emerson
Asso-
licciiiise there
ehoHgh water m the
light fires for lofiger
5 minutes.
tires have occulted I
the message
hit
Bv DEWITI' MCKENZIE
Associated Press Stat! Writer
Euiopes tragedy lias produced
numeroiLs stirring events during my
fortnight's absence from this col-
umn on vacation, but despite Herr
Hitlers much advertised political slavm 11|)(| Tll,k,.y
successes and the tel rifle wallop- r,.fus(.{f jojn ^H three have been
I under strong Nazi pressure to en-
list in tlie triple alliance of tier-
many. Italy and Japan
I Slovakia followed Hungary und
Rumania into the Rome-Berlin-To-
kvo alliance yesterday and German
'circles in Sofia. Bulgariu's b;i|)ital,
predicted last night that Bulgaria
"in a verx short time not only
would join the axis but would "seize
opportunity to obtain
to the Aegean Seu from
' T'rindad
-‘S <>l ICW
RrTtTffiei n
I November
will continue to live lieie ! •Spiings
Iture ut
| mg
cold
Wyoming
low freezing
and Mont ana
One ot Lie wol-t November snow-
storms ever to plague Northeastern
New Mexico isolated communities^
ofl mam highways and disriqited I
communications Wires and poles
s hn t: ere: i under their uv burden,
.mil 11 ansportation com-
ported some progress in
g 'lie snarl The drizzle
and sleet ceased in that
were rnod-
I
ICE IS STILL
Al!
a nd
<»b • 1 \ cd a E'xx!
.did cxpli*.' ions
RAF’ chi 1 led iL.
to the Geiman poll
Europe, by (limping
watei front and va.
•s. the Aid Mmi>li\
< >t her B’ l! r h raidci
ha\ e Id 11 boiiib.s
Na/i-l iel<i Fl • n< h ( <»;
1 tic Bi "iloi’iD at ca
hla.stcd hit
The aP.a
• in Eng.
(ail led
coining,
lav> A home foi the aged i wo In the habit of looking you square- I
< hull hes. turn thc it/i.. and .rvc’al di the
shops were among tne buildings re- uhat he
ported Ini
• The German he-Ji command de-
clared hundieds oi its planes sub
jjected Bristol, maloi Biitish west
(•oast port, to anothei C’oventry
I ..aid la -t 1..gid H it e«! ■ • thou
apd
id to have start -
ma ’01 tn i" t (h re ■
I ire Over ( hannrl
Bi it 1. h guns ab »ng !!!••
( (’hannel but st into action
m filing at targets ai i
'him.') a long t h»- ( »• i man
Er. nt li ( o;o t
1.01HIon had one of n . quietest
k ends since the an ' H".;e began
a < ommuniipie todav aid one
ion ot the u e ■ o’ England ua
dtaiked heaVlh d h damage to
bulldllc.' and some I ••: Id' lit killed
1: oin du. k to midnight
crvation just as we will if it comes
to Us ’•
Bis Excellency took exception to
tins mtenicw He said that he
thought the conversation was based
on an nfT the record discussion'*
and that many of the statements
quoted jyure inaccurate "
11 s my observation tiiat
Kennedy s pleasing characteristics
b» el) VK .1
l lo. k . -»i
and .hde
al id U » ! >.
til llll.l/lllglx
thi' 1ncul1.il
h:r. clonki’il 1
sin 111
The rllx
.Hi'i' I! "
I'hllf .nr
lit III 111:1
1 aimot b<
becuilM' (heir i-
There 1 mily
15 liimute:. 1:1 < :
i'll Ill'
lea f 2u :
new puwe!
lx 11 mu ih
ter plant
Mavoi Ross 1)
erythmi', el.-e wa;
ondarx
1 ed
' I
| the:
I today
probably will b<
two da V: . be I ol <
toie,I I:
!el‘ |>l a
Mr and Mrs Hood Barlow
Port Arthur are new resident.'.
Denton They ake associated
her father. Joe Wankan. ut
Steak HoiLse Mrs Barlow was Miss
Sylvia Wankan ami says. \ o>.
know 1 like the meals better here
than I did in Port Arthur maybe
that's the reason we came here to
live
BERLIN
( it 1 maii
: in” h siK
air mid •
: Pol ! ol
.iiioil icr
I and lhal
I crating overseas
| loll, oi
H
Bl : tol de
■ .ipplle- !
hm.drt 'Il of
ol explosives
I da’ s < ommunique aid H av • i
a |oi fires \v» re 'da11cd
of operations • ’ (he <>\ <
"l ident ifl’d :c 'an *c:v
(•! and l! 1 e dal'- o I
.' inkmg.s Vx• 1 c not giv•
and mdu iri.d ai»
Id I
I as been wit uout wait I
i lot K S'liidm. a!t« i noon
111 uno uui 1 ,:.i iloi.. ol w ;•
!»■) 1 Olin | tmik. It
v 2d r Ila-
•mmand reporting
against Faic.laixi )/’>
ea declared todav thai the
Bi 1 tol W as sub |e< ted to
Covent ry i ..id la t ne lb
a Nazi surface riudci op-
had sunk
Biitish shipping
of plma
ci ibed :ls the ( hlef
ot I’nitei
11 mu 11 ids
and
Nov 25
tlie Trinity
windows of
lapping ut
dccane.se Islands
I)isj)Htches from the 29-day
groes who work about the tobacco1 Balkan war front said Greek
and cotton on Mr Horne’s estate
Uncle Joe who is by way of being
a lav preacher and philosopher, ob-
scived the Other day:
Ah believe a man should always
try to improve Yes suii. always, im- i
prove never disprove, never dis-
prove "
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