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VOL. XXXIX
NO. 194
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SHOT DOWN IN FUMES BY
* kind disposition—Marcus Ante-
BRITISH ON WEST FRONT
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office
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Flood Threatens
THREE KILLED
As Result Hard
w.
WHEN AUTO HIT
Rains in Valiev
y
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BY EAST TRAIN
TO ELECT
toward flood
A
der stream
but rfttns in
Tim
at once and
would reach a stage oi
185 feel
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money Tuesday
coming." said
the train
4
on
is survived by hto wife.
NEW FINNISH
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introduced for a
shipping
building
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Karl
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on
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be goaded to send out a cruiser
squadron against three eompara-
Invalidated By
Courts Rulin
France to CJom1
Refugee Camps
Not to Disclose
Secrets of U. S.
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Soviet Ambassador Recalled at France’s Re-
quest; No Declaration of War Due Unless
Russia Moves in Balkans.
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One English Plane Downed Also But Flier
Escapes; Several Combats,Take Place
After Formation Broken Up.
’but there are a lot more to be is-
sued in the next few days prior to
April 1 as some 3.000 hsv» nd se-
cured their 1940 tags '*
And thdy
if thou will
this day. and
speak good
BRITISH LINER
SAILS IN PACIFIC
work
more
construction
Highway
Wednesday afternoon
to be taken for
Tuesday af-
bullet came
’ >*000 remain in France. the of-
ficial* eaid. and i
W
Ijfe,
off the r
and The
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mayor of
Kellam.
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has al-
under
the
is
of the rise
At mid-morning the U
Ot
lei
ill
Thursday.
OKLAHOMA;
treme warn
al tight
Uona (
Soma vtaL
tonight. Thareday.
lenerally fair. Ia-
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37 ,-vO -French
today ■
.','1 a-1 'LT-jM—ai
EIGHT PAGES
Ickes Relieves
Roosevelt to Be
Nominated Again
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cressing.
"I saw
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COMPLETE BREAK OF FRENCH
AND RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC
**<*. J
’W” "'A tl
’"T”'
lb
are buried under the heaviest snow in years following a blizzard
traffic to a standstill. The storm is described as the worst to hit
•Wn above trying to free a locomotive stalled in drifts near Montreal
iff/ . .. T -T * -
X.ilCir* *
"Work Speeding
Resurfacing 24
Not Yet Started \
I.
I
stmctlon Co . who received the con-
tract tart weak.
The new topping to to be done on
the we*t highway from Denton to
the w>e County fine. and on the
•art route from Lake Dallas to CM-
nn County, by way of Little Khn
In t
later on acrcre the north section
: be committed under the
neutrality "
As long ago 14 Phillt
Hennot tiled ‘
Chamber of
severance of
with Moscow
press campaign
an
S R.
I was noted significantly that
Great Britain has refrained from
such a fracture, although the Brit- • ■
ish ambassador to Masco*’ has been
on leave from his post for several
months.
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Santa Fe Road
is a
nioun-
Carolina
Heavy Firing on
Western Front
; I nine British destroyers were slght-
1 ed tn Norwegian waters on at least
I two occasions last
German ships were
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k r^edo* boat WW K Vafnfng 'shot' Th<c«mnrclion wHh
one instance
British foreign office sources said
, a Norwegian protest alleging that
territorial waters had been violat-
ed was being studied and ’the en-
tire affair is being investigated”
Howard Roberts of Corpus Chris-
ti told Justice of the Peace Frank
L Harigel that he was driving be-
hind the death car south along
Highway 44. paralleling the track.
Stubbs’ automobile. Just
turn left into the
Non-Jury Order I*
Written by Court
One non-jury case waa disposed
of by order entered by District
Judge Ben W. Boyd, the civil dock-
ets showed Wednesday It granted
divorce in the suit of Aivtn Krue-
ger v* Fiorine Krueger.
On <*11 Thursday to the damage
suit of C. E. Taylor it 11 n. JLF.
* 1
ayjasyajar
- Appearing before the House mili-
tary committee, the War depart-
ment chief flatly declared that the
revised policy would not result tn
disclosure of military secrets nor
in delay of the air corps expansion
program *
"When it to to the advantage of
the national defense the war de-
partment will negotiate for defer-
red deliveries on contract planes,"
Woodring testified "If manufac-
turers take advantage of foreign
orders, then prior to release for
sa« abroad, manufacturers shall
agree to accept orders on existing
war department contracts
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YOUTH WHO DROWNED MOTH-
ER HELD INBkNE
DALLAS. March 37—(At Arnold
Benson. 11 who drowned hto moth-
er. Mrs Albert Darver. in the Trin-
ity River March 17. will be taken to
the state hoepital for the insane at
Wichita Palis The former Uni-
versity of Texas etudent yesterday
waa adjudged inaane by a Jury In
Dalia* Oounty lunacy court.
| lies'
in"the"itaM7neiiw”"Turito7[h®re b? nightfall, which would be
‘ however to not bound to help the j
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
DENTON, TEXA8, W^^NBSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1940 11 Associated Prere leased Wire
TWO GERMAN W ANES
Work on the new Santa Fe route
j and transport facilities I
"warning” to Russia from toe new
"wln-the-war" government tinder
Ihiul Reynaiid that it intend* to
take a stiffer diplomatic course
The French, engaged in an in-
tensive battle with underground
Conununtot organlzaliana are said
to be disturbed by a reported in-
crease tn Russian espionage
The French spokesman said nor-
KILOORE. March 37—UF—Sec-
retary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes toid newsmen today he came
here to make a speech, had no in-
tention Of invading Texas "with
Blizzard Hits Upper New York, Lower Canada
.......................... ’ - - JI
A censor stopped the measage
before it could get on the wire to
the Kremlin, it was disclosed in
Moscow
Even tn view of the possibility
of a complete rupture, there was
no indication French military put-
poses would be swerved by declara-
tion <>f a formal state of war be-
tween France and Russia
But if Russia makes a decisive
move with Germany in the Balkans
that wodld be another matter, it
was said
The French ivointed to the Allied
horn but thought it might confuse
them I could hear the locomo-
tive blowing it* horn.
Car Dragged 3W Fee*
"The train struck toe car *mff
dragged it about >M feet Mr. KMt
lam tatl out Then I wvfdtaW ‘
,of the train crew pull the other „
«»
men apparently did not hear hto
■JiJ'— XTTiZl .. _____ i whistle until the last minute.
I ’to**1 up horTTr •
Justice Harigel termed the trag-
edy an accident. The right of way
ha* an unobstructed view for a
mile in either direction.
The three victim* were Robstown
pioneer* Kellam to survived by his
wfe. a daughter. Mss NeUe Lee
HELSINKI. March 37
Prime Minister Risto Ryti. who ne-
gotiated jveacc with Momx-w. reor-
ganised hto government today,
forming a government rffk iallv de-
scribed as a coalition ministry unit-
ing all parties for the ta.’k of re-
const met ion
Vaino Dinner, foreign minister tn
tin- old government wlw» was Um>
target of bitter personal attacks by
the soviet pres* and radio, was
W Kellam, i
and Eugene
House Insists
on Slash for
•Wag&Hour Fund
Mr and Mrs A Smith will leaie
Thursday f<v Iowa. La where they
win vtelt thetr son W E Smith,
who fives there "I don’t know
whether or not I’ll get any deep-
sea flailing but I know 111 do some !
freah and salt water snaring I
said "Around Iowa there are sev-
enteen good fishing lakes within a
ratlius of Just a few miles '
Nine Dead in
Warehouse Crash
BANTA ROfiA (XUf.. March 27
—(gv -The bodies of nine homeless
persona, two of them women, were
placed tn a morgue today after be-
ing recovered from beneath a
wareliou.se that collapeed and drop-
ped 250 tons of stored prunes on
i
I
A new business in Denton to
Finckley Bros Furniture Co. Jess
and Frank, who this week an-
.y.
WX j
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L -nl
Forty rescue worker* toiled all
last night hunting more bodtee
The victim*, eight of whom were
Indiana of the Porno tribe, crawled
under the warehouse yesterdAv to
grt out of a pelting rwln They were
crushed to death when the atorm
and the weight of th* sacked
prune* caused too oM building to
•Up from it* attit-Uke aupporta
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NEW SNOWSTORM SWEEPS NEW
YORK STATE
♦ ALBANY. N Y. March 27 ♦
♦ -■■(A5— A new snowfall swept ♦
♦ New York State today to im- ♦
♦ pede work of crews struggling ♦
♦ to clear highways drifted by ♦
♦■an Easter-born storm. The fall ♦!
♦ deposited as much as three ♦.
♦ inches in some sections. ♦ I
.......t
• French border a yeor ago win be
closed the end of th to month
French officials, tn announcing
this decision today, said that of the
flood of refugee Spanish Republic-
ans anly ».<k» men remained in
the once extensive caantonmenta.
and official records were produced
to deny allegation made recently
in the United States and Mexico
that the refugees had received "bad
tree tanent."
Of toe original half million men.
women and children who stream-
ed ecroas the frontier before the
riqtarlWM Franm advance only
wllh toe exception
11 In cMnpk th<jr
illatod in the na-
BHainst Oormany.
mentum
Regarding the possibility of
opcti break with the U. 8
it was noted significantly
fc*
M
; ♦» Hrt MRimiriiiii in toe Ekigir
rak. off the Danish and Norwegian
coasts, was aimed primarily at cut- !
sss.'s:1
' a deeper motive j
v)
CONGRESS
(By* Avoocialed Pressi
Senate ♦
Continue* debate on reciprocal
trade program.
House •
Debates appropriation* for NY A.
N1JIB COC and Social Security
Milltan committee hears Secre-
tary Woodring explain revamped
plane export policy.
Agriculture committee hears Sec-
retary Wallace discuss farm credit
legtolaUon
Ways and means committee stars
hearings on Patman chain store
tax bill
Yertetxtay:
Senate debated trade program;
House approved procedure leading
to vote on MS.OQO.OOO NY A fund.
Farmers on both side* of the Rio
rande were strengthening private
4m Warnings were issued to i
^hek owners in lowlytng arras |
VHwe their cattle to higher
toe new policy of permitting export The commiarion requires common
mtes ef toe newest American war carriers, operating under ancMar
----------. ----- Meep alr type of permit, to show and prove
- With "the surh pleading*
I Text ef Baling
I "If (the statute under which the
permit was granted) clearly mean*
what the commission construes it
to mean, it is. we think, invalid _____ _ ,
as discriminatory < under the due (lively light forces, the British prob-
ably would have some heavy units
nearby to fall upon the Germans
with superior power
1LRgag-iM wFesaa I
i’QWQ " CTIlip
Meanwhile Britain continued to
<ount her mounting Kella^ o^G^' creek, tiro brofh-
| era. John
Robstown.
Robstown
Holchak
a daughter Mr* Ray Sims of Robs-
town. a son. Steve Jr., sophomore
st the University cf Texas
Stubb* wife survive^ him.
CUBA HOPES TO SION MEXICAN
TRADE FACT
MEXICO CITY. Match 27^-tFV-
Jose Manuel Oarbonnel. Cuban
Ambassador to Mssdcn. declared
today that his country hoped to
sigii a trade convanttan «Mh Mex-
ico shortly a* part of Oubab pro-
gram to strengthen diplomatic and _
commercial ttas with -our sister Day. and toe week's jury panel to
American repubitoe.” to report that morning.
EAST TEXAS: OensMsraMo
rtouittaieee, skewers exe*pi in *X-
rtkweet perttom tenigM:
. '-*anto elewdy te cloudy,
shewen near Um upper coast and
in northeoat portion mild teta-
peitoter*. MeSttSlo te freto eeutk-
east and south winds on too coart,
WEST TEXAS: Fair, with seano
high cloudinesa
high cleodlneaa,
(rrmediate etoudhwaa
a
il1
al showers in northwest, cooler ex-
treme west and northwert perttaa
JH
uniting all parties for the heavy
tasks of reconstruction
AUSTIN, March 27. —An
Austin Court of Civil Appeals rul-
ing today apparently invalidated at
least a portion of 1.200 special com-
modity permits issued by the rail-
road commission to truck ojiera-
tors hauling livestock, mohair,
wool feedstuffs, household goods
and other commodities
R at Tyler They
nattona) president
with a spodc plate designed with
Texas scenes and centered with *
i Tyler rose The Tyler chapter was
1 awarded a *10 cash prise for having
' the best^music program during the
MIas Annie Cutter of Palestine,
state chairman of cctviervaUon, re-
ported 30 acres of pine tree* had
been planted in Angelina Oounty
as a reforestation project with 30
Texas chapters cf the D. A R
planting an acre each
At. a separate meeting in the fine
art* auditorium at 8. C. W Wed-
nesday morning, the lunior com-
mittee of the O. A. R held a busi-
ness session.
Representatives from each of the
13 chapters in Texas were present
for the convention meeting where
Mrs George 8 Schermerhorn, na-
tional chairman of Junior group*,
organtoed the representative* Into
the first junior assembly in Texas.
Miss Mary Lake of Fort Worth. 8
O. W student, waa chosen charintan
of the aasembty.
Spec ial speakers at the junior ae-
(8ee DA> PREPARR Peg* «!.
mibU^’-wm^S' today""' reported j thal rWh.L°r
thare had been an exchange of
heavy artillery file along the 40-
mlle line between the Nied and
_s**r ytatendNy. ‘
man patrol was repulsed and a
French contingent followed It* re-
treat with a raid deep into enemy
lines, it was said There also was
renewed aerial activity
and
server in several cabinet posts
Others tn the new cabinet
Justice Oskart Nehtoncn
Interior -Ernst Von Born
War Maj Oeiij
Walden
Finance Maimo Pekkala
Agriculture Fetka lieiklnen
Julio Koivlsto **
Commerce Vaino Kotilalnen
Social Karl Augista Fagerholm.
Welfare V .Tanner
Communications Vaino Saiovaa-
ra and Karl Erik Ekholm
Tanner was minister of foreign
affairs tn the last government and
formerly premier
Pekkala wax minister of finance
, and Fagerholm minister of social
hen expected j welfare tn the last government
The new cabinet wax officially de- .
scribed as a coalition government 1
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I He sai
i I ahead of turn
the cause for temporary relief | LONDON. March 27 —(JP>-While 1 crcfisin<.
The court, in effect, voided the; British warships busied themselves saw e- - ■
permit on grounds the applicant with tightening the blockade against, Robert- ”tarteri u^ horik Inv
the commission to plead and prove
that public convenience and neces-
sity required the proposed service
or that existing 1 ransportation fa-
WABHINfiTON March 27 j4^-- cllities were Inadequate to render
Beerttar j Woodring testified today lhe service
toe new policy of permitting export The commiarton requires common
"Its going to rain between now
and night," said a new chain-
prophet. Ed Lynch, "and surely by
tomorrow morning Tills chain of
mine is showing signs of an early
rain" A light rain did fall Tues-
day night, but not enough to be
of any great benefit What we'
need U one of those million-dollar |
gully-washers and the fainmakers
should get together at once and ' force in the Near East and th* Al- ]
start business
Why do you say gentlemen'?” I
"I am the on-
asked the Registrar
ly one here "
"Only one of you?' asked the new ,
father, astonished Hmmrn guesh |
I d better go home ihic> and make
sure ”
been some
shooting at a bird
ternoon. a 22 rifle
ilirough one of the
landed at Bailey's feet
cf the clerks do say lliat it made
his batt stand up on edge Hr kept
the flattened bullet. ' Ils fine to
see hew the people arr coming in ,
now for iheir car licensiw." he said.
___a as____ _____ _______ i> 1
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A rather inebriated individual en-
tered the office of the local Regis-
, tear of Vital Statistics and said.
' OontkWfn <hlrt I wanna regta'er I
tiie birth of <hic> twins "
PARIS, March 27-<4*?- French
government camp* for Spanish
civil war refugee*, whose num torr
reached 500.000 after Generalissimo
Franco's nationalists drove to the
understanding with Turkey
I who holds the key to tire Black
Turkey.
BALBOA O E. March 27—OP)
—The British liner Mauretania
stripped of her furnishings and
bound on a secret war mtosicn.
sailed out into tiw Pacific Ocean
today for an unannounced destlna
Hop after a cautions trip, which
took 9 1/4 hours, through the Pan-
ama Canal.
„ delivery of equipment for u._™
^Immediately cwamn lot our <te~ j
fense needs.”
Ambasnaderx to Leave
Surits is expected to leave for
Moscow within a few days Then
Sctther nation will have an am-
bassador in the others capital
The French envoy. Paul Emile Nag
gtar. has been on "sick leave" for
somp weeks
The Frrtich demand that Russia
j recall Surtts was interpreted as a
regent for Texas, was
foreign voted an honorary state regent tor
' life at the meeting Wednesday
year-old veteran of varied political morning Thus honor is distinctive
financial experience, including 1 a-s the organization to date has but
j three other honorary life member
, regents. Mrs Charles Wellington
! Watts of Huntington. W Va . Mrs
; Russell William Magna of Holyoke.
Rudlof Mass., and Mrs Martin L. Sigmon
■ of Monticello. Ark Miss Mullins
also was placed tn nomination as a
I 1 LUt iraxgl vv-«y-urnalriei>i --'sarai 1<»C
«> ne hetiaeo cat a<-w
mcctlng of the national congress
I In April
Resurfacing cast and west sec-
tions of Highway 24 tn Denton
Oounty probably will be begun In
about two weeks, it was stated to-
day at th* offices of Public Oon-
I tram* narttat
Thanday
WASHINGTON. March 27 145—;
The House stood squarely behind
Its appropriations committee today
and insisted on slashing President
Roosevelt's recommendations for
wage-hour law administrative ex-
pense*
It defeated, on a teller vote of
115 to 148 an attempt by Rep
Casey iD-Massi to restore n |1,-
1135.000 cut tn budget estimates for
wage-hour salaries for the fiscal
year beginning July 1 That would
have raised tlye total for salaries
to *5.865.000
The appropriations committee
had asked the House to cut » to-
ary item-' from the presidents"to-
tal request for *6.185.000 for the
wage-hour administration because
of a "confused administrative prob-
lem" and because the law needed
amendments The proposed total
was *1.643.800 more than the cur-
rent appropriation
of New York 'and E Saenz of Se-
Jtta were injured. »- -stcv ■ ■ -. - .
State Highway 107 between Santa Toy*1 regoiutton* *tll be adopted
Rosa and La Villa waa cloeed due *nd officer* wUl be elected for to*
-iA~_,to waters in the north floodway now vear
mal relation* had been maintained • which covered the highway
with Russia "above all for reasons
of practical order "
However he added. France "does
not intend to be duped
She will not tolerate the acts
particularly directed against her
cover of
"I've been ail over 1
Texas looking for work, but I didn't ■ lah-French warmongers
above flood stage but six feet be-
low the top of levees
Tire bureau said that if the lev-
ees held there was no cause for
alarm.
The river here has risen 7 3 feet ,®lx Flags
since Tuesday morning The crest
passed Mercedes, u---- „ _
upstream. today
A rise on the San Juan River
near Rio Grande City also was
feared
No rejiort.s of damage ha^i been
received but lowland farms un-
doubtedly had crops washed away
A rainstorm caused one death
and injury to two others near
Alice yesterady Maguin Saenz. 48
<< Sejita. died In a headon auto- -------- ----- -----— — -—
mobile crash on the highway lead- i auditorium of the college Reports
ing to the valiev Mrs Grace Nolte o‘ chapter regents will be heart.
-• •'— —•- ’—-■ *■ -------— Thursday morrgng at 9 o clock
the final buaineas session to to con-
LONDON, March 27.—(AP)—The air ministry an-
nounced today that two Lierman aircraft had been shot down
in flames yesterday in a fight with the British near Metz,
France, on the western front.
The official British account said
that one British fighter plane was
shot down but that the flier escap-
ed by a parachute
It described aerial activity in the
neighborhood of Metz as showing
"marked increase ”
The British version was that a
formation of seven German recon-
™ ~... ^.™t Worth was
aboiit *40 mile* held “ meeting at 10
day
' I<ate
visitors were
drive to the Teachers College cam-
pus. to be followed by a dinner
honoring distinguished guest* and
lor which the Joseph Ligon Chap-
ter of Paris will^ be hostess
'lYmight has ‘ been designated
chapter regents' evening, and the
session will be held tn the science
process and equal protection claus-
es of tiie state and federal ronsU-
tuticni,” the ruling stated
1 "This provision does not express-
ly exempt such carriers of the spe-
cial commodities named (including
also oil field equipment, timber in^
its natural state, farm machinery
and grain) from other provisions
of the act "
Tire suit was filed by six railroad
, companies and one truck line
> ' The 'goveriunent must be full/ *«alnst the commission and Hunt-
protected and any authorized de- pr and was ,j° a district
lay* must not interfere with the cour1 without a jury on an agreed
delivery of equipment for units statement of facts. The plaintiffs i beeh sunk.
j The permit allowed Hunter one Castlemoor
> In the ensuing fight two enemy air-
l craft were seen to go down in
I flames "
aside as Invalid a permit granted .
Thomas O Hunter of Texarkana. '
reversed the judgment of a Travis |
■ County trial court and remanded i
us tin J E McDonald, state
lloncr of agriculture, assur-
ju cotton growers no hard
|Sxl be worked on them tn
to*pl«nting time for their
i’<a, iniglii as well wbdlf i
that trade for the long liandlcunsi
between Jamieson and Huffines.
I just don’t pert with ’em Jami
son wouldn't sell those tilings for
love or money, as hell be trekking
back to Colorado this summer and
hell need 'em. and my guess U
that if Huffines wants some of em
he’ll have to get new uns ”
Tells «f Tamaasre
Feature of the morning business
session a as a talk by Mr* John Lo-
gan Marshall, vice-president gen-
eral of South Carolina, telling of
the work done at Tamassee.
Tama-ssee. she explafiied.
school fee underprivileged
tain children of South
and is supported by the D. A. R.
Climaxing her lecture, Mrs Mar-
shall read a poem dedicated to her
and written by Miss Ruby Crow, a
Tama-ssee student who is ’ now
studying at the University of South
Carolina Miss Stella Owsley sang
the poem. Orchids to You” which
she set to music and plans to have
| published scon.
; Mrs Marshall Coined, that the
school is composed of 150 children
tn the school homes, w) day stu-
1 dents, and that 60 per cent of 811
the students are orphans or half-
orphans All. she said, arc chil-
dren of poor homes and few
opportunities in life, many of whom
have gone forth from the school to
make useful and sometimes prom-
inent ritiaens.
Special guest
brief address was Mrs Perry Wal-
lace McDonald, regent-elect for the
.state of California
, Miss Marion D Mullins, outgo-
stepped down to the post of minis- ' ihg state
ter of welfare The new f,....„.. *“*
minister Is Rolf Johan Wilting. RE
ke unto him saying,
a servant unto thl*
people thj* day. and will serve
them, and speak good words to
them, thert they will be thy servants
forever.—j Kings 13-7
Ask thyself, dally, to how many
ill-minded persons thou hast shown
RELATIONS BELIEVED LIKELY
said Harvey Ridlon, who had placed |
a two-inch single column ad in
the Record-Chronicle in which he
wanted fifteen boy*. “I hardly got
to the telephone after the paper
appeared on th* streets before I
was swampd with calls from boys
and they kept coming till I told
the operator at toe theater to have
them ail meet me at the
They Just kept phoning ''
The advertisements in the Rec-
ord-Chronicle are read each day
as has been evidenced by hundreds
and hundred* of advertisers in it,
and, by the way. the subscrlpUou
list today is tiie largest that |t has
ever been and it reaches the peo-
ple who are willing to pay for it
and that means they want it and
lead it ’
tton would nomirute Presiden*
Roosevelt for a third term.
He spoke at a press conference a
few hours before his aBlieduied
speech at the Kilgore Chamber of
Commerce’s dinner cocnmetncraUng J
the loth anniversary of the discov-
ery of oil tn the East Texas field
ROBSTOWN. March 21—«•>-
Three prominent Robstown business
men were killed Instantly today
when their automobile was struck
by a Tex-Mex line diesel locomo-
tive in a grade crossing crash six
miles west of here. 2
The dead: .
Truman Kellam, M, president of
the Robstown National Bank.
Raymond Stubbs. 48. produce op-
erator
8 J3 Holchak, 54. vegetable buy-
, of nine highways
The appellate court concluded
I the commission had erroneously
(construed the section *f the motor
carrier act under which the per-
mit was granted and asserted
Hunter was not exempt from the
burden of showing a necessity for
the service or that existing facil-
ities were lnadeqt»*le
a H
I
Ickes said b* would bold no con- . |
ferences with Texas third-term
leaders He said he would tea**
tonight for St. Lotto and would be
Friday, when (back in Washington Saturday,
passing the | Some Texans hare been speculat-
thlrd-tertn-far-Roo*evrtt movement
in this state.
The interior secretary said he
-did not believe th* president was
obligated to state his attitude on a
third term before th* Chicago Dem-
ocratic convention started
mounting i
losses. The - reported sinking
Sunaay from an undisclosed cause
of the British tanker Dahestan. 5,-
142 tons, spoiled a British admiral-
ty announcement made only yes-
terday that the week ending last
Sundaj midnight was the first
since the war began in which no
I British or Allied merchantman had
ms | beeh sunk.
— L- -The.. 6A74.ton MclttsTi— ..steasDes
, —■ --— —— - ———Cartiemoor today was reported}'
TfWBk. prrecrtbefl a_20b-tnn* radios overdue and was feared lost with"
her crew of 40.
Thirty-six survivors from the 6 •
i steamer Rowing-
I ton Court, rammed and sunk by
♦ LONDON March 27 —<4>-- ♦
♦ The air ministry announced ♦
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| Truck Permits
NEW OFFICERS. END MEETING
™..l. ;I.v ' Premier Reynaud’s Inner war
be closed on that day. so get pre- | cabinet held its second meeting
pared to make your loan renew or , this morning
deposit, or even draw out what j
you’ll need lor change cr spending '
mnrw»v ThiFuriixv
Next Tuesday April 2 Is City
election day when city officials will .■ — •— ——-
be chosen Both bank.-, the I>en- I Allies to fight Russia
ton County and the First Slate, wll j ‘ " **’"
W T Ballet tax collector Ls
wondering whether or not someone
was trying to take a pot-shot al
him or if one of his clerks could be ,
the one for whom the bullet was I
intended But. he even thinks it .
* might have
at
Grande Valley but rfttns in the
Mexican watershed and upper riv- ' , . ,
watershed were canning most ! 'r*1P National Society of the
, Daughters of tiie American Revolu-
8. wea- | tion 4n Te*8-1’- holding ils annual
ther bureau said the Rio Grande convention at the State College for
would reach a stage of 185 feet Women here. Wednesday was pre-
paring to elect, officers and adjourn
Thursday, which will be the fourth
day since the meeting opened
Business sessions were held Wed-
nesday morning and afternoon,
with a luncheon at noon for which
Chapter of Fort
hostes* TTi* juniors
m Wednes- pi f
lhe hale oi rlanes
« .if
Denton Oounty. according to my
giiem. will plant about 87.000 acre*
to cotton this year." said estimator
John Gerlach "I think that will
be around 3.000 more acres te that
crop than was planted In 1839 and
I'm giving you my guess of pro-
duction now I believe the county
will average around one-third bale
per acre, ao you can figure it up
youraelf ** to the number of bales ’
George Sargeant, lawyer and at
on* time Mayor of Dallas, has writ-
ten a book which wtll be off the
prea* soon Sargeant I* known by
a good many Denton people and
In nls youth he vlaited here quite
frequently, visiting his uncle, the
late Dr. Baldwin, and family He
is a cousin of James L Baldwin,
of Denton. »
"That Kiwanla hog la still aliv*
and going good," said Joe Wilkins.
In the Kiwanta Minstrel, one of the
end men told th* stay about Joel
. telling Roundabout that he was
going io give him a hog but when he
U did not show up with the hog he
’was asked what had become of it.
end he rtpllsd that the hog didn’t
- • BE. ' -
Gift tn Ofltetel
j A memento of her visit to Texas
was presented to Mrs Henry M.
Robert Jr., president general of the
! D A R.. by the Mary Tyler chap-
ter of the D. i
presented the
Ten new fnmiltes movrxi to D"n- I
ton this week when geophysics I
wcriters of the Stanollnd C-o moved ■
t here They have taken office* in :
the Kombiatt building TV un- ; Work or
derstood they'll do Lhrtr first work marketing w
the west part of the county hiki to Southwestern Denton Oounty is
cr =r. icrtT.-, the r.™th .-rctton [progressing at rapid rate. Oornmis-
---- ~ sioner John t'ndcrwood .said here
Wednesday
Considerable dirt
ready been done, more is
nounced the purchase of the Bry- | way and construction of
ent Furniture Co. in the Wright Northwest Highway overpass
building on East Oak Street. • progressing. Underwood reported
. . , I The new road will run from the
a}l **“,} Iar>Kr. i Tarrant County fine into Denton
“““J j County to a point approximately
lcfii. t twq mites south of Justin.
O’) ’be Fort Worth Highway
construction project, wait for more
equipment has somewhat slowed
progress, but work Is continuing on
drainage stnicture*
Building the big Denton Creek
span and assembling materials for
the smaller bridge* and culvert*
is Hie chief item now garrind on for
that project. Underwood said A
small amount of dirt work ha*
been don* there, and will speed up
In the near future When expected
additional machinery arrive*.
| Upper New York and lower Can
| that marooned hundreds and broi
I the cast since 1888 Workmen are
BROWNSVILLE. March 27 <4V fl "|A D DDCDAK
—Fed by heavy rains during the IE M JI | III | Mr
past week the Rio Grande roared
toward flood stage today, causing i
concern on both sides of the bor- .
der stream
From five to eight inches of pre- '
clpitatlon was recorded in the Rio
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PARIS, Match 27.— (AP)—A complete break in diplo-
matic relations lietween Soviet Rua: in and France apiiears to
be foreshadowed in the recall—at French request—of the
Russian ambassador tol’aria.
An official spokesman charged
today that France and her war al-
ly. Great Britain, were "irwulted”
by a telegram which the envoy,
Jakob Surits, recently attempted to
send to Joseph Stalin congratulat-
ing him on the peace treaty with
Southwest I Finland as a stroke against "Brit-
nt T HIHti’f I i«K _ IFvs*>K wa rmnnirars "
find it," said O W Davis, carpen-
ter.- "so I've come back home and
I hope some of the fellows here
will put me to work "
♦ that a British plane attacked ♦
♦ and sank a German patrol ve«- ♦
. ♦ sei during a reconnaissance ♦
♦ flight over the North Sea to- 4>
♦ day. ♦
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! nalssance planes escorted by fight-
ers was intercepted by a Royal Air
Force unit.
"Several combats took place and
our fighters, having broken up the
enemy formation, forced the enemy
to abandon his rcconnalsance
"One of our patrols encountered
' a formation ot nine enemy fighters.
The ruling, which was not Anal '
since the litigation probably will be j
carried to Uie Supreme Court, set !
British Look to
Fliers to Halt Subs
LONDON. March 27 —(45- Whlle
in effect , voided the (British warships busied
■cuinde tha onnlieani ' sk. I
was not required or p,miltted by j German ore imports in hope of
luring the German fleet Into open
battle. Great Britain counted on
the Royal Air Force today fa yeo-
mao service against any spread at
QBtaaan autanarine raid*.
at British dartroy-
and t<*!• t) r
n toward the samet
, end appeared to be gaining mo-
windows and i
and •omc
youngster
i of operation from Texarkana. Itm-
i itAi the number of commodttie* to
, be hauled and prohibited the use 932-ton British
of nine hlirhwavs - . —.
an unidentified tanker in mld-At-
lantic March 13. were landed in
Britain today by a motorship which
had rescued them from a single
lifeboat
cMualtte* reported today inchided *ny hatehrta,’’ but thought UtaJM?
the Italian steamer Halo Baiba. *" " ‘ '
114 tons, damaged tn a collision
with an unidentified Danish ship
off the sqpUieasl coast of England;
and The Netherlands coasting ves-
sel Saba. 400 tons, reported a week
overdue Amsterdam and feared
lost with her crew of seven
Norwegian admiralty
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