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Associated Press Leased Wire
VOL. XLV
No. 22
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Remove Jews
Stores Will Be
1 'ark.
after
a
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attending a parade planning meet-
I ing the city hall auditorium Mon- j
Ross said lie had lost about
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handbook
The troops turned firehoses
her
news
sible to grant loans for food
begins
Denton is I Wednesday Sept.
The Optimist Club of
WEA
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the bottom nlng Of a lad- I Sept 30 to
of |31 at the South San FrancUoo
financial policies abroad.
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DENTON AND
ctoudy, ao iwf
33 Injured As
Clubs Used To
World Hank Is
Ruled Out As
Senate Appropriations
Group to Meet Sept. 20
Jill
The dove hunters don't seem
be having any
luck, however, a
Club.
Commerce,
Hie
Club.
.. ... . .. . .. Ross
In his third floor cell in the Comal
Elliott to .'count I
workers
TWO NEGRO WOMEN
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
restraint around any
t denying priviliges
of revenues . as
purported amend-
At
anna
r’lscussion
fh
to
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plan
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all
hospital by. •’
Home ambulanc
John Mohert 1
ftow Iiuit hu to
ing the ear off
FORWARD
Denton la On The March
America’s Ideal
“Home Town” City
it*. un 20 cents; leg of lamb
84 cents, up six cento.
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Two Negro women received min-
or inJunes and two Negro men es-
caped injury when the light sedan
[ over-
take
Wednes-
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the
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names
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Meal, Butter, Eggs, Corn
In General Price Advance
Probs Promised
In Shooting Of
Prison Fugitive
to
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and many J
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m . all seniors
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to 12 icon,
th: otigh
will
Matthews,
re-
lollows
n . all I
begin
noon.
in .
trnited
Confederacy,
cont inucs
week
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S7/R/V/UA<; LOOP POLLAK
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City Fire Losses
More Than Doubfe
Same 1946 Period
new
to 4
escaped
a tank
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s.
and recommended a
on cigarette stubs, a.
carelessly tossed cigars
known to start fires
cost millions to prop
and even coot livre. T”
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Junior High School students will
register next ■ Monday smd Tues-
venth grade pupils t n Mon-
day and eighth grade '■pupils
/ Enrollment ol < ....
The judge continued, •' Commun-
ism is recognized as not being a
representative form of government
x x X. Communism is more the
dictatorial type x x x elections
Under a dictator are one - sidt-d
affairs. People do not have a free
choice.
“If the Igw means what It says,
the provisions of Its must be com-
plied with.”
60 Feared Dead
a*- As Fire Destroys
Excursion Root
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4 a
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dat Wld
showers t
Mnd soul
Nb linpor
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That Old 1937 Buick
sixth round trip t> 'I raver
this summer and vv<
press our applet
boat. On thou’ six t
fellow hUx acted hkr .1 perfect ren-
lleinen. never once giving us any
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Dr. Ross Is charged with mur-
| der in the Sunday morning slaying
j on a lonely lane near here ot WIL
1 liarn H York, an investment brok-
er who had been an intimate friend
j for years; York’s Wife, mother and
I son. He is also charged in the
I wounding of York’s 13-year-old
1 daughter Ann, who esc aped death
Business concerns and other or- ! by fleeing into underbrush
“—i will be contacted Pay — ■ - -
[V .
atr'.—>
void, and any bonds issued pur-
suant to the provtotons thereof,
would likewise ba Ule<al, void and
unenforceable, and any provisions
tor the ra ‘
provided in
See AMENDMENT. Page 2
saw only *2« In fire danug
pared to 13.W0 for July th
January has been the oai;
this year with fire loeeee b
1M6 figure for the same m
However, the fire tore *
does have a bright atde to
the average monthly ’
has been steadily
past several months,
the average loss was
pared to aLMO-M *
Chief Cook eenphaatosd UM
DUTRA BIDS TRUMAN FAREWELL—Pmident Eu-
rico Gaspar Dutra of Brazil bids farewell to President
Truman on the dock at Rio de Janeiro as the U. S. of-
ficial party ended a week4* visit and boarded the U.S.S.
Missouri for the trip to Norfolk, Va. Left to rights Am-
hassador William Pawley; President Dutra; Brazilian
Minister of War Periero da Silva, and President Truman.
(AP Wirephoto by radio fram Rio de Janeiro).
i .... on
I the shouting and singing refugees
| who rvstsled allepipU to force
them up from the holds
on Jews who pressed against the
elemen- barred windows of the ptilice 'vans
bringing them on the last leg ol
this journey looked bruised and
dishevelled, eyewitnesses said, and
Hie clothing of many was tom.
The convoy of vans was accom-
panied by a bus full of blue uni-
formed military government secur-
ity officers, two military govern-
ment security officers, two mili-
tary police jeeps and a truck con-
See JEWS. Page 2
was^a prerebire. »
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Mnnaay aft-
Hir various |
rep Vsenta- j
at 9 n. tn
be given by Dr
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tutional—legal, consistent and pro- j form of government'
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The ruling was made at a hear-
ing here involving the Of. Workers
International Union iCIO. He held
that the CIO ha a not compiled with
the law, thus the OWIJ did not
have iecourse to the NLRB.
I he OWIU had filed a petition
seeking to force Regional NLRB
Director Edwin A L...„..
ballots in an election ot
r •
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a
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9n which they were riding
turned on Highway 77 at
Dallas about 1:30 p na
day.
Willie Florence Chambera, »,
630 Lakey St . and Gladine Scott
IS. 733 Wilson St., aerr released
from the Denton Hoapltal and
CUnfc after mrving--‘--
treatment for bnitees.
and chock. Thy were to
k, -T
stockyards.
Although grains In futures trad-
ing at Chicago wer^ mostly low-
er tn yesterday's dealings, one
cash com transaction brought a
record high of 12.47 3-4 a bushel.
Two of the nation's largest chain
grocery concerns boosted coffee
two cents a pound retail in New
York. Tallow, used by soap manu-
facturers, was up a cent a pound.
Eugene C. Schult*. New York
City ■ commissioner of markets,
gave these comparative retail
prices there on a few food items;
Porterhouse steak, gl a pound,
up 21 cento over a year ago; ba-
con, 7» cento a pound, up nine
cents over a year ago; butter «7
cento, up eight cento since Septem-
ber; torge e(tgs 47 cents a dozen, up — —---- — — r- —
lb oeota; chuck aleak M cents a at Monticello. Ark.; three
pound, up four cento; chopped beef ” ““ ’ ”
49 cepts. up 10 cento; veal cutlet
yard* yeaterday. and a record top 95 eehl .. „ -■ ■■ -
sponsoring flic Ponder Rodeo per-
formance this coming Saturday I
night at 8 o’clock. The tickets are i
now on kale and rhav be had from
members of that club The profit |
of the performance will placed in |
a fund for the Junior Optimist Chib
building
PITTSBURGH, Sept 9 — (^P) —
The proud, five-decker excursion
boat Island Queen exploded and
was destroyed by fire at her Mon-
ongahela River dock today, caus-
ing casulatlcs estimated unofficaliy
at from three to 60 dead
The blast occurred just before
passengers Were to board the huge
boat for an afternoon ride down
the Monogahela and Ohio Rivera
Aid ‘Stop Gap"
Inj
Halt Co I lege Buildin
Amendment F<
The Judge declared that the non- ( gantr.gtl.ai by .
Communist provision is fully const!- to those who would destroy this
tiitinnal — rnniillitpnf. HIlH tiro— ! r\f <r/»Vmrnrvi«»rit
Davidson ruled that the OWIU
was not eligible for cerlnlcation aa
a bargaining unit because the CIO
failed to comply with the provi-
sion of the Taft-Hartley law which
requires filing of non-Ccmmunist
affidavits.
Un Chicago. AFL President Wil-
liam Green said th*t he believed
top AFL leaders would aign non-
Communist affidavit* in order to
use the National Labor Relation*
Board In Jurisdictional fights with
rival unions.
i A decision was put off by the
executive council until Friday
morning, Green said, to permit •
legal inquiry Into a ’ullng by
NLI’.B General CJopnsel Robert N.
Denham that AFL council mem-
ber* must sign the aifldavlt*.
i Top CIO officers have not yet
agreed to sign the affidavits and
a final decision won’t be reached
by CIO unions until their conven-
tion in Boston beginning Oct. 13.)
In handing down the ruling on
the non - ChmmunlSt provision.
I .1 be*
and ! hooves the government to attempt
In fact. Il sei'ined to us that it did
Just as we.I as H did on its C
trip in 1941
wc can retire the old fellow,
we'll always remember him ns
fine traveler
HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 9—-(AP)—British troops
using clubs and fire hoses emptied today the last of three
transports which brought the Exodus 1947 Jews to Germany.
Some kicking, screaming Jews, their heads bloodied in
90 minutes of fighting aboard, were carried bodily from the
transport, the Runnymede
against landing.
in the odyssey
10 v; h e n the
Jews began a futjl? attempt to
read: Palestine aboard the Exodus
1947 from the port of Sete, Fran e.!
I he steel-helmeted troops under- ,
| took tlie forcible disembarkation of
I the Jews aboard the Runnymede
; Park after the passengers rejected
I two ultimatums to leave peaceably:
When some 300 British troops
moved into position for the opera-
tion, armed with clubs and wear-
ing tear-gas goggles, many of the
Jews began to leave peacefully.
On our first trip around the
square we naturally gravitated to
the meeting of the Shadyside Club
There were only a lew of the boys
on hand It was learned that prexy
Tom Farmer was staying at home,
having a new roof put on his house.
Mark Hannah remarked. "I pasxed
Mr Farmer's house this mornin(
and «aw him In a chair under a
tree' The workmen were on the
other side of the house where he
couldn't even see whether they
were working or not. He mav
be able to find a shady spot on
the other side during the after-
noon. Dick Wood sa|d. 'Well. Tom
Dr. George Odam
Taken by Death
Dr George A. Odam, retired
dean of the school of education at.
North Texas State College died al
his home, 2010 West Oak at 9:30
a. m todUy .following a short ill-
ness.
’ buneral services will’ W con-
ducted Wednesday afternoon at an
hour yet to be set. Arrangements
are under direction of Schmit* Fu-
neral Home. Interment will be in
IOOF Cemetery.
Dr. Odam came to NTSC In the
summer of 1819 and was at first
director of teacher training for the
collete. He retired last fall.
Survivor* are: ’hi* wife, two
daughter*, Mr*. Roecow Cowper of
Big Spring and Mia* Dotoc Odam
of the faculty of A & M. College
daughters. Miser* Brenda. Jane and
Solly Cowper of Bl* Spring; one ren
•tote:. Mr*. C. M. GlHeapte of Cor-
*ic*na.
terday upheld the requirement that ment." Judge. Davidson
labor unions file affidavits th*t "Bnd it is consistent and proper to
their officers are not Communists, throw
ri .
far
r :ure ax described
jAsell Fifer, executive secrc-
<n the American Butter In-
diScus* governmental | stitutc.
The dairy industry, Fifer skid, 1*
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I
going Into the winter with an ex-
ceptionally low supply of butter
and cream in storage and with two
per cent leas milk cows ihan a
year ago Since the peak milk pro-
duction In 1944, he added, the num-
ber of milk cows has dropped
seven per cent while consumer
population *(nce the start of the
war has increased 10.M0.000 many
of them now "in heavy milk drink-
ing ages."
Butter climbed another cent a
pound on the New York and Chi-
cago mercantile exchange* yes-
terday to new peaks for the year.
Eggs advanced to SO cent* a dozen
wholesale here, and porterhouse
steak hit 41 * pound st New York
retail nutlet*.
Probably foreshadowing further
retail pork price hikes, hog* hit
a new all-time high of 931 25 a
hundredweight at the Denver stoek-
FORT WORTH. Tex., Sept 9—UP) | of the deep oil development cotn-
■ In the first such ruling on the pany at Wichita Falls, Tex.
Taft-Hartley law. Federal District) "The constitution guarantees a
Judge T Whitfield Dav.dson yes- representative form <* govern-
'"*■ ”•* ---- -------- declared.
• An official British casualty
IXilt said 33 Jews, including
women, were injured and that 10 of
them were hospitalized. An earlier
RUSSLX SUBMITS U. N.
[POLICE FORCE PLAN
LAKE SUCCESS. Sept 9 - UP) —
Soviet Russia proposed today that
the United Nations police force
have 12 divisions of troops, 1.200
planes, and five or six cruisers.
Russia did not propose apy bat-
tleships or carriers for the U N
LAKE SUCCESS. Sept. D-UP)--
force.
The figures were submitted oy
the Soviet delegation to the U N
military staff commlt'ee as Rus-
sia's estimate of the size and
strength cf the forces to ),e put at
the disposal of the Security Coun-
cil by the U N. members.
| up and started running across ,hc
pasture away from us, so we fired
when he ran."
Easton continued that the prls-
as struck In the right *ide
of the back by a iug.i-powered rifle
slug and a 12-guagr shotgun volley
and lived only a few minutes
Stakes, who had said that there
been more escapes from the Tex-
[ as Prison System duriug the first
j nine months of this year than any
other similar period in 20 yrers. I
promised a complete investigation, | t-r‘al were completed
but said he had no details of the I week-end and yesterday. Saturday,
shooting ' I ,wo psychiatrists visited Dr.
1 |rv Vti* tHirrl flrwxt* z>*«’ 1 in th** (
' county Jail.
loading of Hie Runnymede
ll"’ i ( entrusted with the peaceable de-
| barkation of the refugees aboard
Hie Empire Rival a few houis
| earlier The first of the transports.
' the Ocean Vigour, was emptied,
with some violence, yesterday.
Vans and trains le’t till Ham-
I burg docks with the refugees for
j displaced persons' quarters in the ye®r
j area nearby. Thus was completed)
| another p h use
I which began July
. high j
were to
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Cloudy mmI Warm
CHICAGO. Sept 9 — (AA -Am-r-
lea's shrinking food dollar was be-
ing dragged through the wringer
again today by ■» somewhat gen-
eral tdvance in staple commodity
prices
Except for, a reduction of five
cents a pound retail for margarine
in New York, the general trend
was upward -in the faster moving
race fefr economic adjustment.
“For the fourth consecutive day,
the Associated Press index of 35
wholesale commodltes reached an-
other new all-time high yesterday
at 192.26, compared with the 1926
base year, of 100
Included in the continued ad-
vances were meat, cbffee. butler,
tallow, egg* and com. Moreover,
the who’e dalrv outlook was f
WAIBI TNGTCN, fiept 9 —UP)- from a pretty picti
The Senate Appropriations commit- by RE
Is llke^ me "afraid to ireC hiaher ptee has been called to tnec here j tary <
than on the bottom nlng Of a lad- | Sept 30 to discuss goverhmental
dOT ■■ i financial noliclaa abroad <
k 5
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(UbouJL
Jown.
Bv R J (Bob > EDWARDS
Our trouble is that we want to
B- C’othed more smartly than our
triends Why i,oi give your persm-
ality a chance to adorn you in-
stead
If God so'clothed the rrass which
ts today in Hie field, mid torn or- )
row is < ast into the oven, how much !,
ihore will he clothe you. O ye ot
lilt.e fmlli Luke 12-2C.
Each time 1 — ' - ---
take a trip mid get oaek to about ;
the beat saiall city m the world. I : *-Fe>&--- ----------
lever I ave again. I ,
feeling oi friendship. A | Sl'HlOF Hit'll
F •
r r
f I J
(. -s
Some of Hie bo\s have thani-sl
U.S for bringing a li''!e bit cooler
weather this W. < k Maybe we <nd.
maybe rot. but is i.> really consid-
erably roolr r lie " t >tlay than ::
was Sunday when we m rived
good rain in the next lew day,. •
which wc are going lu start muk- . the
Ing. will bill'.1 the end ol the I1'!,
sutnniei
Denton Record-Chronicle
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~DENTOnTtEXAS, TUESDAY AFi^NTMJNrSEI’l’EM BER 9, 1917
With August fire lose** amount-
ing to only 9314, the total tar Hie
first eight month* of 1947 reacted
*14.257. more than double IMS tea-
se* of *5.425 for the same paeW.
as losses thia year contimtod on
the upswing, according to a re-
port today from Fire Chief Nh*
gen«* Cook.
Losses for August, IMS. were
only *89. while July teat year -
Escaped Convict Shot
To Death While Fleeinf
Searching Officers
HUNTSVILLE, Tex, Sept. • —
UP)— D W Stakes. pr.Uon system
manager, called a meeting tn
Huntsville today io discus* datalls
of a "reorganization" progrand lor
the system and said a complete in-
vestigation will be made into; the
shooting yesterday of a Darrington
Prison Fa,rni Inmate
The prisoner, 22-year-old Wiliam |
Ayers, was shot to death a* he
sought to evade capture by prison
officials and Texas Rangers follow-
ing his cacape from the farm
Ayers escaped Sunday night,
sawing a lank wineow oar aiut
climbing a 10-foot wire fence.
In Houston, Capt. John Easton,
manager of the farm, said Ayers
was serving a three-year sentence
for theft tn Vai Verde county and
had a "clean" record at Darrlng-
| ton since his transfer there from
Huntsville May 20.
[ Easton said he and Texas R»i.g-
j er Johnny Klevenhagen led un all-
night searching party for Ayers
i With the aid of bloodhounds, th?
officers located the prisoner yes-
terday in the Brazos River bot-
toms.
He said the prisoner was told
twice tp come out with his hands
up. ' Instead." Easton said, “he got
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BIGHT!
unction Sought To
REFUGEES REACH HAMBURG ^ean Vigour, one of the three transports
- used by the British to return to t* C^Z^A^Jevvish refugees who attempted to enter
Palestine on the Exodus 1917, is njo<^4j^> at Hamburg. Some of the refugees
can lie seen on the upper deck in this air 1 .lews on the Ocean Vigour
were landed after soldiers clubbed or flail •<. ' tT who resisted invitation to land on
German soil (AP Wirephoto via radio from Loth. t).
Il's fine to spend vane time in
a cooler climate during Hie i;um |..
rner months but one ot the best |\ 1‘(I l^t F‘11 I I (I
things about having been away i CIllx/ll I Vz
the return heme. Each time I , .
Begin Wednesday
think fll never I.-ave again. I
There's that *■; f:;""t2*‘“"
m Dent ’n that otic doesn't find i,
olhi'i < itli"
WASHINGTON. Sept 9 — <*>—
Vice-President Robert Gamer to-
day ruled out the >9,'.00.000.0f0
World Bank as a source of "stop
gap" financial assistance to
rope before the Marshall
goes Into effect.
Garner told a news conference I the non ---------------
the bank's policy makes it Impos- | Judge Davidson declared it
* t • a _____a • __ «___ * J J • V*« amA 4 a a
consumer goods — t|ie items most to control the growth of any *y*-
European countries need during the tern that would attempt to control , ,
next few months : the constitution guaranteed a' re- ‘<*«««
Uncieriecretury of State r.rbert publican form, and the pe- pie war* W reach nearly *22,000
A Lovett last week mentioned the expected to live by the laws which
World Bank as a passible “tern-j their representative* n-ade ,
porary device" of assisting Euro- " ‘ ‘ "
pean nations before funds from
the Marshall plan are gvaliable
"I think it probably is a mis-
take to think the bank can be a
stop gap tn this situation," Garner
said.
( i n<H ‘ii
■ !ch<'( 1'.
I Ivi s on
; vi,’ i..il f<ii<ation. report cards
ch ini ntary schools, health, safety,
. issemblles. handbook m
:chool
'Inis :itt»'rno"n nice' in's were io i
,1,0 ink! ol all elementary school
teachers by grades and ,t mior and [
high school teac.hei.- by depart-;
made its
City
want to ex- 1 inents
lation to that old : At 9 a m Wednesday Miss Jo-
t:it>s the old [ anna Wells, i li.a n wan, will lead a
, rrnn. I r'lsciissioii of the health program
-ivlr.- ar.;,'[ of the Denton schools, and Thurs-
troub'e other than tire punctures , day at. 9 a. tn an address
■ • ' be given bv Dr J ('
as it di«l on its Ai I drt n ot the North Texas State Col- : hut others resisted bitterly.
. > i a i a 'TTc<> t rrvane fiirnorl fiezihAcZ
Mavbe l,y next veer , lege school of education.
but
n '
. day.
,seem to>l luciday
great amount of [ ,arV pupils will be Monday, and
few have bagged | " ‘
the limit of ten Ollie Camp, hear- '
ing that some of his friends had |
only bagger! a single bird, said m i
n friend. 1
'em how He went over in th ■ east '
part of tlie county. 'Us said, saw [
four doves flying about a mile high |
and didn t even get a shot
Tobin, president of the one -
club, seems to he getting i
this year with more
though he did manage I.-
hole through the top of his auto-
mobile His friends say Hint Pete
ha* a radar’ —
the bird perfectly and whi'.t
contact is made, fires th? gun
sitdown strike
re. i Asked to Close
13 i
For Fair Parade
it port said three Britisn soldiers _. .
i were hospitalised. An earlier report J . .
I aid three British so>d‘*rs were
1 hospitalised with injuries.
Correspondents on the dockside
counted at least six Jewish men
with bleeding head*. About 20 oth-
ers were borne down the gang-
plank luce downward, ns ft itncon-
srioiis
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The tragedy followed the lore 4< w-re -■ "Wto H re-re -
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Set url<les and Exchange Coinmis- re- t « T T 1 J X/ 1*1
i clay night decided. I Dr Ross said lie had loti about II lllCFIlo J 1*111 V <XX1.V1
All stores also will be icquexted [ jjoi .000 in all.
A plea of insanity Is to be en-
will begin at 2.30 p m. Sept. ?3. tern| for Ross, his defense has
H M Pitner, chairman of a com- said
~ "[ Sheriff Scholl said Dr. Roas was
the parade, served as chairman of in excellent health, high spirits and
the meeting and urged t> at eWry |
every business concern and many j ™c BOSS ikial, z
individuals have entries in the par-
ade. which will carry out the front-
ier theme as Hie parade did last
I vear
Entries have already been
sured from the Town and Country
Round-up Club, Boy S< outs, Ariel
■ ' Denton Junior Chamber of
Daughters of
Shakespeare
City Federation. Optimist
Club and others. A large pony sec-
tion has been promised by Mark
Hannah arid Pitner.
A committee of Ray Dickson,
G H. Brammer and W D. Burrow
will call on local merchants to ask
them to enter floats in the parade.
Dr. Jack Skiles, fair president,
Walter Wilsop, parade chairman,
and O. L. Fowler, fair secretary
will speak on a program at a
Boosters Club meeting In Pilot
Point tonight urging residents ol
that city to participate In the fair
,'tlid parade. Miss Ann Shands will
present vocal selection* on the pro-
gram
Fair Secretary O. L.‘ Fowler re-
ported at the Monday night meet-
ing that the Gainesville High
School Band, the Elghtn Air Force
Band of Fort Worth, Denton Hl?h
School Band and North Texas
State College Band will be In the
parade and that the Shrine Band
of Dallas and the McKinney Hign
School Band also have been in-
vited.
RI't r.i'leu ft"’ the ut w sc hot I
,e:u will begin Wctlne..itiy nt Den-
ti.ii : , mor Hu ll Sell .ol, followin ',
facility n.'clings Monday and to-
llin' io cl<" t comni'.tte' rt prcs' iit i-
tives and hear discussions ot
new t urrit ilium
Dr Ultimas Pierce, director of
is'CW Demonstration School,
atidres'-ed faculty members this
mt rnmg mi "The New Stat? Curri-
< uli.m and Its Use." followed by a
round table disci is: ion
lacnltTs ot
met io elect
the tolloUiiui irnnmittees
e.m at ion. report cards tor
Jack O'Berry. a crewman said
"I was on thq gangplank There
were 93 aboard.
“X counted those I saw in the
winter, and if the others were on
boarM. I figure they are dead I
saw two women and eight men on
the proch. I didn't sec them after
the blast "
The Island Queen, listed
home port as "Coney Island."
Melvin Stanley, Associated Pres
traffic bureau chief nt. Pittsburgh,
who arrived at the scene a few
minutes after the blast, said:
"The Island Qtfben is one solid
mass of red flames from the wat-
er to the top of the boat. The
heat Is terrific."
The cmiut iv enough which wc
traveled t?a.nn>i: limno Lud sulferc I
from drouth anti In .d in M: mil I
many corn fields hud alicatlv been
< nt amt put if) shot ks About the
first sigti of rtnv rcceui rains wo
met was Just north ol Mt Aie.ter
and trmn iln ie mi to Denton Hie
Helds were coiiifiaratiy olv green
Pete I
- bird
along
re success, f1"1”
to shoot a
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1 to 4 p m .
I h rr*i i irh ‘ ''
j Tuesday. 9
| sophomores;
freshmen
| Senior High classwork
17
Murder Trial Opens
NEW BRAUNFELS Tex . Sept f-----
9 — UP) — The trial of Dr David
I Ross, prominent Ijan Antonio
surgeon, charged with murder In1 H A.
the ambush slaying last May 25 of I F ‘
four persons, opened nt 9 ». m. | j n
Jiere today before a packed, hushed *
courtroom.
Dr Rass. dressed in somber ,
brown, appeared cann and almost '
Indifferent as he walked through a )
side door and took his seat beside i
his lawyers
Sheriff W. A Scholl earlier had I
described him as "confident mid in
high spirits."
District Judge J R Fuchs or-
dered Sheriff Scholl to call the roll
of the venire of 72 men from which
a jury may be selected. A total of
67 answered present.
Both defenre and state attorneys
said they were rexdy to begin live
trial, postponed last July 28 to en-
able defense attorneys to gather
witnesses and testimony they said
was needed to prove the Ohio-born
physician insane.
Last minute preparations for the
during the
Go to Court To >
Block Bond Issues
Application Set Fer
Hearing Sept. 25 In
Austin District Conrt
AUSTIN, Tex,. Sept. 9 lr-
(AP)— Application for a tern*
porary injunction to halt ap-
prove] of any bonds which
might be issued under the
terms of the $60,000,000 Col-
lege Building Constitutional
Amendment adopted Aug. 23
was filed in 126th District
Court here today.
The application was set down for
hearing tot 9 a. m. Sept 25.
Seeking to enjoin Attorney Gen-
eral Price Daniel, the appUcation
was tiled by R. Guy Carter. Dal-
las attorney, for plaintiffs, includ-
ing Clarence Whiteside*, C. W.
Spencer. 8. A. Wells and Homer
Maxey of Lubbock county, and
H. E Speer of Dallar.
The action swiftly Ioilowed yt*9“
terday's official canvass of C_
Aug. 23 election by the election
board composed of Gov. Beaufort!
H. Jester, Daniel, and Secretary
ot Etate Paul Brown. Official count
wax reported aa 102.531 for and
97J18 against the amendment.
Plaintiffs' Petition
The petition tenned the plain-
tiffs a* "all owner* of real esta'e
... and payer* of ad valorem
taxes."
Their complaint seta cut that
"such purported amendment* £o
th* constitution of Texas are Ir-
regular and yold. and any bond*
issued pursuant to tne provisions
thereof, would likewise be Utegal.
void and unenforceable, and any
proviatans for the raising df re-
--------provided In *ur“ —
The violence attendtns the un-1 to close during the parade, which
" " J Pai k will begin at 2:30 p m. Sept. 73.
-1 H AA rholrmnn nf a r»nm- I
mittee to arrange Denton's part of I
will be contacted v4yi '*
I committee worker* for tue Denton th»- yotuig" doctor * fortune.
| County Fair Frontier Parade. I blamed on his lor
which will be held on the opening I friend York had taken bankruptcy
[day of the fair, Sept 33. persons) following an investigation bv (he
2^ k- I
the present rate. Dented Are tea
this year wUl te te—’ *
year in view of the d*
ard Funeral Home fl
of 1946 with a 999M_ _
ing the annual total teat year
over *35,000. At the present n
the 1947 looses may or ----““
Cook warned cWiaeae of 1
grare fire danger prevalent dur
the late summer and early I
when gras* and shrubbery ba
to dry up. The Chief urged <
treme caution when burning tel
ctose wal
"I'm going out to show j
t!- rxt-n** in 9’v ‘ '
tis said.
[ classes will begin Tuesday.
Senior High School registration
begins toinhrrow, when i II
stu'tnts will enroll from 1
[ p. in
Registration
mainder of the
Thursday. 1 to
seniors whose last
"A" through "M."
Fndiiy. 1 to 4 p
' N" through „
Monday, 9 a. ,n. to 12 icon, all
I juniors from "A" through "M"; I
tn. all juniors irom "N" |
' attachment, that spots through "Z
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