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DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY
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PRAISES GALLANT
ACTION OF BRITISH
350 Bodies Found
After Shipwreck
Delivery Boy Fells
Would-Be Robber
U. S. Confers Over
Reported Sinking of
Merchantmen.
nish Congregational Church, "and
(rfiservance will be greatly cut down,
at the same
the Graf Spee
Xma* Theatre Books. $1*0-$2.50.
Inexpensive, Practical Gift.
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of the covenant,
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NO. 105 AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 1ft 1930
ated in 1919.
Russia who joined the league in
1933, was not represented at the
league meetings and had refused
league mediation of tier quarrel
12. _ 1 ’ ind.
Before the vote France declared
she would give the Finns "all the
to the limit of our
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mas we have known.' said the Rev j the
U. S. Officials Confer
WASHINGTON. Dec 14 -(/Pt-
News of the sinking of two mer-
chant, ships during the British-
German sea battle off Uruguay rais-
ed the question today whether west-
ern hemisphere shipping within
the "neutrality belt" had been di-
rectly affected
Secretary Hull and Undersecre-
tary Welles conferred at the state
department on the battle Indica-
tions were that Hull would have
something to sav later with refer-
ence to the Pan-American neutral-
ity zone
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KIRKENES Norway (at the Fin-
niHfi frontier)—Dec. 14. -OP>—Rus-
sian troops neared flaming Balmi-
Jarvt tonight as Finnish forces re-
treated southward except for a
rear guard detachment left to ex-
plode dynamite charges In valuable
nickel mines
As far as could be seen from the
Norwegian frontier town of Pasvik.
all villages and habitations on the
Finnish side were aflame. The R'W-
slans were expected to reach Salml-
jarvi some time tonight.
The Finn., were preserving good
order as they withdraw along the
Arctic highway.
Norwegians laid dynamite on the
frozen river Pasvik, separating
Norway and Finland, to be exploded
if necessary to safeguard their
neutrality.
IGNDON. Dec 14—- Disaster
moved hand in hand with success
today in Great Britain's fight to
remain mistress of the seas and to
break Germany
Even as the nation exulted that
the Admiral Graf Spee, swift Nazi
pocket battleship, had been driven
into the neutral harbor of Monte-
video, these blows against the Brit-
ish navy were announced:
The 1375-ton destroyer Duchess
sank yesterday after colliding with
another warship with an indicated
loss of 120 Ilves. Only one officer
and 22 men were known to be safe
The 202-ton minesweeping traw-
ler William Hallett struck a mine
today and sank with loss of eight
lives Only one crewman survived
Against these losses were the ad-
miralty's announcement that the
same submarine which had allowed
the German liner Bremen to steam
unscathed to Germany had sunk a
Nazi submarine and torpedoed a
cruiser
(The German high command ac-
knowledged that there had been
"an underwater explosion near one
light cruiser." but called the dam-
age "unimportant")
Naval sources acclaimed as "a
brilliant victory" yesterday's run-
ning battle in which three British
cruisers engaged the Admiral Graf
Spee until she reached the safety
of Montevideo
They pointed out that a single
broadside from the Nazi warship
carried more metal—3.700 pounds—
that the broadsides of the British
cruisers, the Achilles, Ajax and Ex-
eter together—3.136 pounds.
Condemned Aa Aggressor and Leagiaa Mem-
bers Asked*to Aid Finland; First Time
Member Ever Thrown Out.
Got Police Escort,
But to Justice of
LONDON, Dec. 14.—(AP)
Prime Minister Chamberlain
declared today “the gallant ac-
tion” of “thre comparatively
small British ships against a
much more heavily armed ad-
versary” proliably would free
the South Atlantic from dep-
redations of the German Raid-
er Admiral Graf Spee.
Lauding tiie League of Nations’
action in condemning Russia for
her invasion of Finland. Chamber-
lain told the House of Common*
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M Dec
14/—<A5—“That'* a bad law,"
declared Mayor Clyde Tingley.
' where'd they get it anyway?"
-n ni passed in 1937. City
Attorney Joseph Dailey told the
mayor and councilmen last
night, “and wm signed by the
governor of the state at that
time"
Tingley was governor of New
Mexico in 1987.
allotment came, almost on the eve !
of Christmas, as a 479.354 remem- j
! sembly had condemned Russia aa
• an aggressor, called on its member*
1 to aid Finland and approved an
nations.
opened the 36 Germans killed, the
Thursday morning when ofllcers ,
here read in a Fcgt Worth news-
paper that a man was being held
for allegedly attempting to rob a
20-year-old d:ug store delivery boy
he had called to a street, asking
medicine be delivered and change
for a 210 bill brought
It was the same modus operand!
reported ‘n the Denton hijacking
A man called Sanford Smith.
Brooks Store employe, with
ftnedlclne and change for a $20 bill,
to north Denton, threatened him
with a weapon and made off with
money and cgr.
DIES FROM 1
EXPLOSION
CORSICANA. Dec 14—(4V-Fu-
neral services were arranged today
for Isaac Cagle. 49. of Frost, who
died yesterday from bums received
When a barrel of gasoline exploded
Tuesday night A lighted lantern
near the gas was blamed for the
accident.
"Good King Wenceslas looked
out.
Dn the Feast of Stephen.
When the snow lay round
about.
Deep, and crisp, and even . . .”
King Wenceslas ruled Bohemia
!rom 928 to 935 and was known for
the |
n tan layers off the target
hem tactics, they worked in
noufch for the Exeter to train
ht-mch gun*. firing 256-
shgte; *nd the Achilles and
Obe thetr six-inch guns.
IDO-pound projectiles
Jf .of the British gunners
tod by the bettered sp-
dt the Admiral Gref Spec.
at anchorage in Montevideo
, W Tt appeared that at least
four eight-inch shells struck the
German vessel, two crashing into
the armored area around the bridge
and two others entering near the
bow and the stern Smaller shells
appeared to have battered the star-
board side of the warship but it
was impossible to determine full
damage from the shore
Work of Cruisers Praised
Jubilant ov^r the cruisers' having
driven Germany's pocket battleship
into a neutral harbor. British offi-
cials gave full credit to the Exeter
and Ajax, which are normally as-
signed to the South Atlantic pa-
trol. and the Achillea, which had
slipped around Cape Hom from the
Pacific to help run down the Ger-
man raider
The British naval attaches
flee announced officially that
heavy battleship Barham had
participated in the battle
HELSINKI. Dec. 14.—MV-
The Finnish army communique
asserted tonight (hat an ex-
tensive area had been recap-
tured hy the Finns in the vicin-
ity of Tolvajarvi and the Rus-
sian invaders been forced to
retreat.
WMlr VUMt _
north and tort gsrtisii toMgM:
FrMay Mr, wgrawr In northoont
porttess.
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(First
reports last night had Indicated the
Barham might have been engaged )
Their own casualties, the British
said, might equal the 36 killed and
60 wounded aboard the Graf 8pee
"If the German battleship is out
of service for the rest of the war.
it appears we paid a small price.”
a British source said
On the other side of the ledger,
the Germans assert they inflicted
heavy damage on the British cruis-
ers One German spokesman said
"It is easy to sec our losses because
we are here, but our enemies suffer-
ed more than we "
Fort worth dcc h—(/pi—
John Bowlen. 20. drugstore delivery
boy. felled a would-be robber last
night with an unloaded revolver
Two blows to the head resulted In
capture of the suspect behind a
church. Bowlen. armed with an old-
style "hog leg.” had met the man
in response to a telephone order
for a bottle of mouth wash and
change for a $10 bill. The "cusfom-
er" had a toy pistol
The 45-year-old suspect, patched
up with four stitches, said he
"made a mistake "
ties included 60 wounded in the
crew which normally totals 929.
Deny Use of Gas
Otto I.angmann German minis-
ter to Uruguay, visited the vtesel
and renewed charges that craw
were suffering from lung and
injuries resulting from gaa $1
fired by the British.
(The admiralty in Ixgidon
Prime Minister Chamberlain M
the House of Commons denial
"entirely without foundation'* I
man allegations that mustu^
grenades or shells bad been ta
Neutral inspectors were not permit-
ed aboard the pocket battleship
One or two gievely injured crew-
men disembarked appeared to have
of tinseawnrUilness. they
apply for an extension of
League of Nations.
"It follows that the U 8 8 R no
longer is a member of the league "
Aaaenibly Adjourns
Egypt and China were elected
members of the new council by 37
I vnt^R and 'Li voIjm wmimaHw*1w
Most parents snd children are re-
----* a curtailed Christmas. 1
said last
Christmas Rus:ian T^P8
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City and county officers left early
Thursday for Fort Worth to inves-
tigate a 45-year-old prisoner held
In an attempted hijacking there, an
a possible suspect In the Denton
lobbery of a drug ttore employe
here Tuesday night
Assistant Police Chief Ray Pow-
ell and Deputy Sheriffs Mark Han-
nah and Rov Moore made the trip.
They nkd not returnee! early Thurs-
day afternoon
The new angle was
Thursday morning when
cw.-'r
“Little Finland”
In Massachusetts
Faces Sad Holidays
FITCHBRG. Mass.. Dee 14—(Ml
—"Little Finland" faced its saddrel I
Christmas today .
The homeland c< Fitchburg's 5.- 1
000 Finnish-Americans has been st- ■
that "Germany alone among the
nations even now Is abetting by
word and deed the Russian aggres-
sion "
"We must give what help and
support we can to the latest victim
of these destructive forces," the
prime. minister said, "but mean-
while it is only by concentrating
on our task of resistance to Ger-
man aggression and thus attacking
the evil at its root that we can
hope to save the nations of Europe
from the fate which otherwise must
overtake them “
In his final war review before
Parliament’s Christmas recess
Cliamberlaln declared "the Finnish
army has proved itself by far the
better fighting force tn anything
but numbers ”
Chamberlain indignantly denied
German charges that the British
used mustard gas shells in the bat-
tle of Uruguay.
The House cheered Chamberlain's
statement that "in addition to air
supplies to Finland the government
Intends similarly to release other
materials that will be of assistance
to the Finnish government."
"Second, tor reasons set forth in
the resolution of the assembly by
breause the people are sending as virtue of Article 18, paragraph 4
much mctiey as possible across the
sea
G. 0. P. Divided .ia;
Over Making Issue
of Foreign Policy .
commander of the Graf Spee had a
minor arm wound
Il was believed the Exeter was
preparing to enter the harbor to
disembark wounded, but the Ajax
and Achilles and possiblv other
British warcraft hovered offshore,
waiting to resume the battle should
the German venture out.
The Admiral Graf Spec had until
midnight (9 30 p m CST> to leave
Montevideo or apply tor an exten-
sion of her stay
Daylight permitted closer inspec-
tion of the Admiral Graf Spec's
wounds- two large
brdle area, another
brance for Denton County farm-
ers today
The payments came to the local
AAA office in 1.031
checks, on 731
tive Assistant
said
It brought the total of swell pay-
ments to $195,155 for r
County, 1.955 checks on 1.377 farms
- abou 40 per cent erf the entire
amount fanners earned
Graf
holes in the
brdle area, another astern and a
fourth at the bow. as well as slight-
er damage from shellfire along her
starboard above the waterline, par-
ticularly in the engine room area
On the basis of ncgmal comple-
ments of the pocket battleship and
her adversaries of yesterday, more
Ilian 2.500 men were engaged in the
battle The Ajax and Achilles each
list crews of 550.
To informed persons tt appeared
i hat more than 30 days would be
needed to repair the Admiral Graf
S[>ee These source scxpre.ssed the
opinion Uruguay would not be will-
ing to make an extension of her
stay.
Uruguayan neutrality regulations
limit the visits of belligerent war-
ships to 24 hours. Should ..tbeir
commanders then desire to remain
longer to make essential repairs be-
cause
must
time
The
along with the cruiser Exeter, were
the conquerors erf the Admiral Grat
Spee—in all. 22.405 tons of speedier
naval power against the larger guns
of the ll.OOO-ton pocket battle-
ship
The Exeter. 8.390 tons, was In the
battle for only four hours before
the 11-inch guns of the German
warship knocked her out o! action
Tlie 7.030-ton Achilles and the
hounded the Ad-
miral Graf Spee for the entire 14
hours—from 5 a. rn„ CST. until af-
ter 7 p m.—their six- and eight-
inch guns almost constantly ablaze
Shortly after midnight the Ger-
man minister to Uruguay. Otto
Langmann, and his staff had gone
aboard the Admiral Graf Spee U)
check the damage and casualties.
It was the envoy who made the
first official announcement of the
warship's identity This was a sur-
prise for theie had been no hint
that the Admiral Graf Spee had
joined her sister ships, the Deutsche
land and Admiral Scheer in Atlan-
tic raiding.
The Admiral Graf Spee had not
been mentioned in European war
reports since the British-German
dispute over whether she had been
hit in the British raid on Germa-
ny's Kiel base Sept 4, the second
day of the war
The question of where the battle-
ship’s dead would be burled 9M11
was undecided
The engagement--the greatest
naval encogmter of the war thus
far—occurred within the American
neutrality belt and much of it
could be seen from the Uruguay
shore.
1.031 individual
farms. Administra- 1 invitation to ncn-league
Sullivan I )uch as the United States, also to
i help the little republic
chpqy- + . Tlie council and assembl
Denton > adjourned after taking acl
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. —(JF>—
A sharp division in Rapubiican
ranks over whether American for-
eign policy should be made an Is-
sue in the 1940 campaign arose to-
day as an
Roosevelt" i
New Deal 4
Rep Dttter of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the Republican con-
gressional campaign swift eerf.
said in regard to it itsmanU by
Ambassadors Joseph F. Kennedy
and Joseph B. Daries a*raeating a
third term:
"All eKBMM are agreed there
should bft-rfF parfkmnship what-
ever in regards to foreign affairs.
Yet here are two United Htates am-—
bassadors who apparently are so
preoccupied with partisan politics
that the first words they utter af-
ter setting foot on American soil
constitute bellyhood for a third
term.”
Ditter's statement, issued through
the Republican national committee,
appeared simultaneously with a
prediction by Senator Borah fR-
Idaho) that “our foreign policy and
foreign euaotimn will ba the most
thoroeaMf dfaauased and debated
' Bonh who oBoototf repeal of tne
arms embarjo.’kwfeJked he would
carry the foreign ‘Policy issue to
the countey htmaslf or Republican
candidates now on the stump at-
tempted to dodge or soft-pedal it.
Ditter's statement referred to a
remark by Ambassador Kennedy on
his return from London last week
that no man, however brilliant or
earnest, could take over the presi-
dency at this critical hour because
he would need two years of train-
ing to handle the foreign situation
as ably aa the incumbent It also
mentioned Davies' comments at the
White House yesterday virtually
echoing Kennedy’s views.
his many kindnesses. Legend has
it thst he and a servant once car-
ried meat, wine and wood to a
peasant through deep snow. The
page was overcome by cold, but
found himself miraculously
warmed by seating his feet in his
master’s footsteps. Words written
in England in 1852 were set to r
16th century folk tune.
Shopping Days
Till Ckristmas
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MONTEVIDEO, Unmua
14 —(A>>—The German port
tleahip Admiral Oral Q|
steel rent by British guns
of her crew dead, clung to J
uge today tn this neotrel bo
two of the three Brtt|a^
which engaged her Ux. a 14-taour
running battle yesterday mounted
guard at sea . ,
The third cruiser, the Crippled ,
Exeter, which was knocked out of |
the fight after four hours of can- ,
nonading, limped into the Rte de
la Plata to a position 12 milea off .<
Montevideo. . ;V ,
As British legation official* mtled
out to board her. reporta were
rent there were many dead ahd
wounded aboard tlie cruiser but
nothing official had been issued on J
casualties either among the' crews 1
of the Exeter or hr fellow tight- we
era, the Achilles and the Ajax, afl of hh
which were damaged . to
Internment for the duration of trv
the European war soemert the only <-
prospect for the warship which ;
Germany in the days erf naval limi-
tation built to outrun or outgHi.
any other warship afloat. Her other
choice would be a desperate gamble
with escape after repairs With
Officers Monday!
Denton County farmers, going to '
election conventions Monday to
name 1940 AAA committeemen to
administer next year's agricultural
program, will name their officials
In eight meeting places
At Denton Lewisville. Pilot Point,
Sanger Little Elm. Krum. Aubrey
and Justin the election conventions
will be started at 2 p ni Meet-
ings will be at the court house in
Denton, at the community build-
ing in Lewisville, and at the school
houses in the six other places
At each meeting will be ejected
three community ronynitteemen in-
cluding a chairman, two alternate
committeemen, one delegate to the
later county convention and one
alternate delegate
appeal of the Finnish government:
J "First, asaoelatet, ‘tself with the
"This will be the saddest Christ-| condemnation by tire assembly of
action of the U. 8. 8. R
Andrew droop pastor of the Fin- ’ against the Finnish state, and,
M » I A .1 Gi.i,^,, I, • • ■* z4 • • Mas • z4 fz\»- # zw«*4 I s * —
Government AAA benetit pay-
ments on 1939 program soil building
practices and lor planting within I
*? TBHFAGKE
RUSSIA EXPELLED FROM
LEAGUE OF NATIONS BY
esult of Battle
ier British Vessels Use
. ^very Trick Known to Modern
p ! Naval Warfare in Atlantic Battle
4 ”
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 —(4V-
Hungary was the first country to
make a war debt payment today,
aa the semi-annual installments be-
gan fulling due from virtually all
of Europe.
As it has in tlie last two years.
Hungary paid $9,828. an amount
equivalent to one per cent of the
principal owed the United Statea.
DNIttVIDEO Dec 14-UP)-
[ AhMe British cruisers, like
kin^ned hounds worrying •
I rear, slashed at the German
|el battleship Admiral Oraf
| gnttl the badly damaged war-
l VM forced to take refuge in
neutral harbor of Montevideo,
de»<#tl>ed by eyewitneases and
loriUes today,
lout* tbete accounts was pieced
hire a pfcture of the day-long
le It Iffiowed the British cruis-
Exeter. Achilles and Ajax, their
i outranged at least 1000 yards
the 11-inch German guns, used
y trick known to naval war-
-to boat down thetr larger op-
int s defenses.
Used Bmeke Screens
to British made "magnificent"
of Moke screens, witnesses said.
Ivold exposing themselves dix-
eusly to the Admiral Graf
ire's heavier gunfire The cruisers
Hb said to have darted from be-
ad these sheltering amoteacreens
> Hre their own salvos then re-
r.oread awiftly from sight, con-
stantly shifting their jiosltions
Although out-ranged and lacking
>elr opponent's heavier armor, a
British official said the lighter
crubera had to close to despite the
850-pound projectiles the [>ocket
battleship, was hurling
To avdM these shells, one of
which almost ripped a turret from
the Exeter early in the battle yca-
terrey. the British cruisers resort-
ed Io hit-and-run tactics maneuv-
ering at high speed behind their
I lense smoke screens to throw the
Oertasn -- - - - .
By thei
clogs enol
its eight*
pound i.
AJak to r
throwing
Accuraci
was at tea
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t I/ONDON Dec 14 -<45— The ♦
♦ admiralty announced tonight ♦
♦ naval forces watching for the ♦
♦ German pocket battleship Ad- ♦
♦ miral Graf Spee "have been ♦
♦ strongly reinforced " ♦
GETTYSBURG. Pa, Dec 14.
—14V-A speeding motorist, halt-
ed by state policemen after a
19-niUe chase, said he wu rac-
ing to see bis wife and his new-
ly -bom son in Philadelphia.
He asked the officers to es-
cort him the remainder of the
trip.
They escorted him—to the
nearest justice of the peace,
who fined him $10 for speed-
ing.
GENEVA, Dec. 14.—(AP)—Soviet Russia, condemned
as an aggressor for invading Finland, was expefled today
from the League .of Nations. The Laa<ue Council vote rent-
ing Russia officially was unanimous, as required by the
league covenant, although four nations abstained from vot-
ing and three were absent from the crucial session which «K-
pelled a member for the first time since the League waa cfa-
i» into
Wax Sinking Merchantmen
BERLIN Dec 14—(45 The Ger-
man high command asserted today
that the German pocket battleship
Graf Spee was sinking the British
merchantmen Tairoa and Streons !
Hall when she was encountered by
three British cruisers In the 8ouUi
Atlantic yesterday
Authorised sources
time denied that
would be interned in Ilontevideo.
where it went after being damaged
in the sea battle.
These sources said tlie ship went
to Montevideo merely to bury 36
dead seamen and to provide hos-
pital treatment for the wounded
That the Admiral Graf Spee’s
battle occurred in the safety zone
around the Americas does not wor-
ry German authorities.
Informed sources said that the
British navy virtually has block-
aded the mouth of the Rio de la
Plata from the beginning of the
war. refuging to recognize the imag-
inary line drawn around the Amer-
icas by the Panama conference.
Germany therefore can disregard
it, they said.
MWfartl by Vlrttai
The Fort Worth suspect was
struck over the head by his Intend- -----------—--
ed victim, who had become suxpt-. loat their sight frern wounds The
clous and was carrying an unloaded
( x iw, rec l me
Many people may even go to the 8 R has placed iteelf outside the
extent of making tots for tlie chil- j " “
dren, because of their many sacrl- |
flees for the cause I know of one
man who gave $40. and two of hts l
(taufchters each gav- $15 And they |
are not people who can well af-
ford It."
pistol, and captured. 'Weapon
found on the would-be bandit was
a tety pistol, according to news dis-
patches.
Sheriff Dallas Curt.slnger said
here Thursday the man being held
in Fort Worth was a resident
Denton several weeks ago
to make the Yuletldc glad has been ; zance of the resolution adopted by
contributed to a relief fund for
friends and relatives In the father-
land.
WAKKANAI. Hokkaido. Japan.
Dec 14—(45—Bodlesiof about 350
persons, Half those hAleved lost In
the blizzard-tossed wreck of tlie
Soviet Russian steamer Indigirka,
drifted ashore today
Four hundred and twenty sur-
vivors were taken by the Japanese
ship Karftfuto Maru to Otaru. Hok-
kaido. where local officials arrang-
ed for their relief.
The Rurnian ship, driven ashore
during a storm, had about 1.100
persons aboard, mostly Russian
fishermen and their families
After Thursday,
WPA projects employing
workman ware to be the
improvement* under way. but both
those will laat months.
In the near future, the city hopes
for work orders so that construction
of the municipal warehouse on the
lot west of the municipal building
can begin. Mayor Lee Preston said.
Rip-rapping the south branch of
Pecan Creek, between 8outh Elm
and South Locust Streets, has been
going on some time, but the work
of building rock wall along the
creek banks closed down some time
Thursday
Going ahead are the city-wide
construction of curb, gutter and
sidewalk, keeping approximataiy 118
men busy and slated to last Into
March, and the first work of the
city wide water line project that
will last weeks Crews, totalling
about 100 men. who began that
work recently, are taking up four-
inch pipe on Bernard and Maple
Street*, replacing it with six-inch
line. Preston reported.
DUCK riUNTMM: DON’T SHOOT
AT AIRPLANES
♦ LOB ANGELE8. Dec 14.— ♦
♦ (45—A couple of hunters took ♦
♦ potshots at low-flying army ♦
♦ planes that scared away the ♦
♦ ducks. They were Indicted for ♦
♦ damaging government prop- ♦
♦ erty. The planes were pepper- ♦
ed with buckshot Damage was ♦
♦ estimated at 81,000 per plane ♦
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the Russian-Finnish Issue.
Joseph Paul-Boncour. the French
delegate, just before the council
i vote declared that although France
| would give Finland a'l possible help
und would vote for Russian expul-
. Mon. Mie could not do so without
' recalling past aggression*
< Paul-Boncour told the <MMMM
which preceded questions la thia
n/.diUa " imh «rhn
He declared that the league ‘per-
haps is waking up a little late."
Text of Resolution
Tlie text of tlie council reaolu-
tacked by mighty Russia and mon- I tion read
ty that ordinarily would be spent "The council having taken cogni-
i SSiice of iiie rCTOiutiOn adOpvcu by
| the assembly Dec 14 regarding the
help we c an up
' own defenses "
Four aeaabers of the council, in-
cluding Finland, abstained from
voting on the expulsion motlcgi
The others were China. Yugoslavia
and Greece.
The vote was otf a resolution
yrtUch declared tltat as a result of
Russia's actions toward Finland
“the U. 8.8 R no longer is a
member at the league."
Unanimous vote erf the council is
necessary to expel « member Ab-
stentions do not affect unanimity.
This was the first time tn league
history that a nation ha* been ex-
pelled.
Candem ned as ztggrcMor
Tile council acted afier the as-
DALLA8. Dec 14 —(4b— Dr W
D Bradfield, chairman of
State Liquor Control Board, said to-
day that the board would abide by
Attorney General Gerald Mann's
ruling upholding the legality of
the statutory definition of saloons,
unless a superior court reversed his
opinion.
"Well abide by the law. just as
we expect the liquor traffic to abide
by the law." Dr Bradfield de-
clared
voter, and 34 votes, respectively
Karl J Hambro of Norway, pres-
signed to a curtailed Christmas ' ident. closed the assembly at 4 p.
One man. a mechanic, said last m <9 a m. C8T) for an "ipdeflnlte
year's sled might have to do as one suspension” after a brief speech,
of the presents for his five-year-old i *■“— ‘----
daughter 1 the assembly
A ten-day relief fund drive which September) our feetde efforta will
ended yesterday netted mon* than I not have been In vainhe said
$10,000 After the vote against Russia the
' assembly received Finnish thanks.
our
would give Finland a'l possible help
a
7
ROUND
season is probably
ABOUT
TOWN
ctlons and
tere by May
tlflcate by
Jay by the
Fifty years ago M W Davenport
Denton, was a Dallas visitor, ac-
cording to the Dallnc News of that
date.
The football
over for Dr Bert Davis He said,
"t knew I wasn't fast enough
the big boys on the gridiron, but
thought surely I could keep step
with my son. David Davis, and tried
Olit. a punt for him I was going
to show him how It was done, but I
missed the ball The old foot just
kept, going up in the air, and nqw
I'm suffering from a sprained knee.
Guess the season is over for me "
| Dr George W Cox State Health
Officer, says the season tor the an-
I ual prevalence of tularemia is
Igaln at hand Reports show that
Ihis disease commonly known as
labbit fever, is increasing at this
ime. nue in a large part to direct
Ixposure to wild rabbits in hunting
|>r dressing of the animals The di»-
lase is caused by a genn found in
larious kinds of infected rodents,
■ofl ran be acquired, among other
U ays through bltaK of tteks. deer
pies, stable flies, and squirrels, but
t is moat frequently transmitted
o man in this aectlon erf the Unit-
'd States by infected wild rabbits,
hence the name rabbit disease',
through wounds or *tiiall abrasions
on the hands of those cleaning or
Otherwise handling rabbit car-
i asses
R Mumcr. formerly a farmer of
Nhe Ponder community, now living
in Wise County, 'is under treatment
Ui, Denton lor rabies, which, he
tears, inav develop from having
helped doctor and skin a cow which
riled of the disease Murner lives
r.n one ot Dr T. C Dobbins'
ranches in Wise County.
l"What started the trouble?" asked
k English Judge
"Well, yer honor, it was like this,
t threw 'is beer over me I 'its 'Im
rrws the face wlv my bag of tools.
Ihen 'e cut* my 'ead open wlv a
>ttle—an' the next thing we knew
’• finds ourselves quarrelin'."
I In Chesterfield cigarette adver-
ha-mente which appeared in papers
liroughout the United States Wed-
k*day. Denton came in for a lot
k widespread publicity, as Denton’s
pomph Girl." Ann Sheridan's pho-
l>graph was used in the ads This
renton girl has, in fact, brought
huch favorable publicity to Denton,
Is she has more than made good
I > the mcwles Each carton of
fhrtstmas wrapping of the Chester-
eld cigarettes carries a picture of
beautiful girl, and it may be that
I qloiiraph. too is of Miss Sheri-
»n. but the advertisement picture
las so small that we could not be
losltlve. except in the larger pho-
pgraph.
rllie very hall's of your head are
I numbered.—Matthew 10-30
'Die very impossibility in which
•nd myself to prove that God is
><. dlacloees to me His existence —
k Bniyere.
While the weather so far lias not
i>een cold, when It does come Win-
ter Pete Tobin dqrs not Intend to
be caught napping Jim Smith, one
of hts boys, has been busy getting
rquirrel tails. Ironing and pressing
'hem out tn nice shape, so as to
make his Boss a squi-rel-tail cap
Hr already has enough of the fur
and Is just about ready to put it
together in cap-form
Some of the late deer hunters
arc having better luck than they
did in the early season, as Ollie
Camp, on his second trip to the
Light Ranch, manager! to bag a
l/ig el' eight-point buck C J Wil-
kirson. hunting near Kerrville, will)
with two brothers. Cal and Thee,
managed to bring down two. Hire
not getting a shot, but C. J. and ;
Cal each killed theirs
Tt seemingly was not the quail's
fault that Carrol Garrison and Joe
Hobson didn't have quail on toast
for Thursday morning's breakfast,
as they found plenty of birds and
the dogs. Red and Dolly, did thetr
part, in making some twenty-five
or thirty solid points Shots were
had on practically each point., but
Carrol managed to bring dqwn one
bird and Joe had similar luck It's
Just too bad to scare the birds like
that.
[The government report states
kat the United States, between tlie
$>palachlans and the Rocky Moun-
lius, from tlie Gulf to Ttanada, is
kfferlng the worst, most disas-
pus drought in the history of the
h'ited States Weather Bureau,
[id says it's becoming very serious
pen the Tackles* Texan," In the
manllo News-Globe, a prophet
lat always says rain will visit that
ction. ha* about given up his pre-
|^ctlons and thinks it may rain
. Gene Howe is one
the flnext sort of optimists and
pen he even thinks of giving up.
atters are Indeed serious. But he
aintains that Amarillo will have a
low-Chrtetmas.
J S Pittman, former Denton clt-
pen. who was associated with the
Masonic Lodge in Amarillo for
fevan yeans, is now irttog in Dal-
hs. where he is representative' of
he Dallas ScoiUsh Rite bodies, the
■ xas Scottish Rite Hospital for
Tippled Children, and the Hella
emple. Aaonms
Persons becoming 21 years old
after Jan 31 but by the time of an
election next year maw vote if they
secure ah exemption Jh-tf"—'- **•’
Jan 31. it was held TuaSdi
Attorney General The opinion an-
swered a question by County Attor-
ney Ross E Burke of Goliad con-
cerning the status of thepe attain-
ing their majority after Jan 31. the
final date to pay a poll tax or se-
cure an exemption Persons be-
coming 21 years old are exempt
from the poll tax that year
■
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Hodges
dly were
I
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ned with
io wlde -
•on came
pn meet-
presided
per Oof-
and dl-
the com-
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Hender-
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A. Tur- J
Howard1 ”
Ada Al-
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