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VOL. XXXVII
NO. 161
1- 11.00
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MODERATE RISE IN GENERAL
20 Known Dead and Scores Hurt
When Tornado Strikes Rodessa
Delivery
Highways Closed, Traffic Disrupted in Northeast
OTHER VICTIMS
g Cream.
CTS
CO.
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Butter
lie
tially successful, in Marshal recent-
Smal,
tai appropriation
Residents Flee
Arkansas Floods
tion
*
to the
for the
‘S
quarters reported receding waters
Hain etays Rescue Work
ronds, approached tracks or other
To Build Cheap Car
this city
and
Highway between
18 —-(P-- Reichs-
al auto show today with the em-
phatic prediction "we shall
Contest Saturday
said.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11{——Izzy
•e
High School
morning at 10:30 o'clock. J D Mc-
New York with his whimsical law
ecutive, announced Friday.
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KEI
Plants,
I Tri-
(See 20 KNOWN DEAD, Page 4)
1 price.
French Steamer
KET
Reed's love.
mitte, has been assigned as a spe-
eata.
tweeen gulf ports and Europe.
LESS
la morth-
WEST TEXAS; Fair, colder ba
tem-
perature near freezing la sdute-
Corporation
Chrough IMS.
and west poruons.
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E
a
France Wants
To Help Austria
Stave Off Nazis
Counsel Wants
Annam en t Fu nd
Ex-convict Held
After Of fleer Shot
soon
the
world ”
Diplomats were disappointed if
$886.76 Contributed For Special
Fupd For Enlarging Children’s
Program of County Health Work
Mb and ad
hreeze tonigh;
elotidy, ristmg tear
to McKinney traffic found its reg-
ular routes blocked by rising creek
Denton can readily be Ibullt into
a much bigger and better business
town by supporting local industries,
.manufacturing. wholesale and re-
tail. and by employing local con-
tractors and artisans Yet, it may
be true that some of those who
permission no solicitation must be
indulged The commission was not
in session and the outfit decided
to go to more greener fields But
they gathered in quite a number
of nickels and dimes before the po-
lice stopped them Barnum was only
ROUND
ABOUT
Elimination first aid tests to de-
termine who will go from Denton
ment. This is the way to increase
the real income of consunmers."
ly. as told by the Messenger:
"Four rather gaily dressed young
women and a very dignified look-
n't be any rackets if there were no
suckers.’
GIBRALTAR. Feb. 1« —(P—The
American tanker Nantucket Chief,
which had been heM 18 days by
Spanish instrgent authorities, sail-
ed this afternoon for Port Arthur.
Texas, with its full crew.
WASHINGTON, Feb 18,——A
single coast defense gun develops as
much power in firing one shell as
do all of the engines propelling
the Navy’s batue fleet, a Navy scdem-
list said today.
Bizarre Sleuth
Dies in Hospital
4
Fhh
To Face Trial in
Holdup Slaying
and armed train robbery, both pun-
ishable by death.
murder, voluntary manslaughter and
1 involuntary manslaughter.
one-half hour time alloted for tak-
ing the examinations.
-A certificate will be awarded ev-
dollars in property damage around
Water Valley.
There were no casualties at Wat-
er Valley but felled trees clogged
streets, windows were blown out of
residences and outhouses were lev-
elled
Balanced System to Promote Production Ex-
pansion Desired; No Further Devaluation
of Dollar Due.
today
three ral-
Mertzon Folk
Survey Damage
A
Vessel Helpless in
North Atlantic Gale
Brings Snow to Western Sections
’——
Louisiana Oil Town Is
Wrecked By
Twister
boats
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Hitler Says Nation
Associated Press I rased Wire
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18,—(AP>—President Ronsevelt
made public an interdepartmental committee report today de-
claring the administration’s program "seeks a balanced sys-
tem of prices such as will promote a balanced expansion in
production." He said this did not mean inflation or further
devaluation of the dollar.
ii in nr mi inn Fear Heavy Loss Texas by Flood Waters; Cold Wave
MAY BE FOUND In County Floods
Somewhat pale but vigorous in ,
gesture. Hitler spoke with strong
voice which showed signs of huski-
ness only after 15 minutes of the ;
20-minute address
LAB CRUCES, N M. Feb 18-
■ (P—Henry Lorenz and Harry Dwy-
1 er, youthful 7astemera, will—in their
Senate Group
Okays Proposed
Emergency Fund
Confess your faults one to anoth-
er. and pray for one another, that
ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much —James 5:16
Heaven is never deaf but when
man’s heart is dumb. —Quarles,
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WIRE BRIEFS
PHILADELPHIA. Fe. IA —(—
Mary OConnor was acquitted today
GUNNISON, Colo., Feb 18.—(P
—Sheriff Ea LIndaley eid today
he would leave for Detrole to take
custody of Edward J. Melford. 60-
year-old millwright whe told De-
troit police he killed Howard Car-
prater, a deer hunter, In the moun-
tains near here 25 years ago.
heaven, fishermen. garbage men or
millionaires. would pop out of the
woodwork or up the dumbwaiter
shaft to flash their badges and in-
form the proprietor empethetical-
ly that "Dera's sad news here."
a program and I saw the boy who
helped the old woman was one of the
Scouts."
WASHINGTON, Feb. U. —(--
The Rouse pasmed and sent to the
White Howse today a Senate bill
Take* Lot of
Power to Propel
Big Gun’s Shell
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DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 18, 1938
CONGRESS
(By Associated Press)
Today:
Appropriation*—H o u s e debates
$130,000,000 supply bill for four de-
partment*.
Anti-lynching—Week-end Senate
recess halts filibuster.
Taxes—House Committee consid-
ers tax revision bill.
Naval—Opponent* of naval de-
fense program testifies before House
Naval Committee.
Relief—Senate Committee studies
8350,000,000 emergency fund.
Profiteering -House Military Com-
mittee considers labor sections of
merchant marine program.
Yesterday:
House—Began debating four-de-
partment snupply bill
Senator Eliender (D-La) spoke
against anti-lynching bill.
The heavy rains of the past two
days have about brought an end
to grain pasturing. according to
report* from grain growers. G. W:
Martin said. “I don't think Fil get
any more pasture this year from
my grain I had intended taking
the cattle off about March 1 and
now I know it will be after that
date before the land will have
become sufficiently dry to pasture.
With continued warm weather I
look for early maturing of grain."
-pe-
.....
rial member of the 'Better Gin-,
ning" division The State-wide Com-
mittee has been divided into three
groups, as follows: No. 1—Cotton
Research Laboratory. No 2—Cotton
Quality Improvement and No 3.
Better Ginning The State-wide
Committee has been called to meet
in Dallas, roof of the Adolphus Ho-
—o
bris a slow process after oil trucks
had hauled away the dead and
coast, rising temperpt
west portion. Fresh to streng north-
erly winds an the coast
aid
The stricken vessel caught in a
roaring northwest gale 135 miles
southeast of Cape Race. Nnd., was
believed to be the 400-foot Azalea
tiona of a major flood
Highwaters tied tip
vivors in the Rodessa area where
on nerricks and construction work
j were land low and gas ond oil spout-
nergy ’
family
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strong
i pton
creasing naUon*I Income through ' the gun puts a 10000,000
increasing production and employ- er push behind the projectile.
IT PAGES
extending lending authorizations of
the Disaster Loan
tween 25 and 30 persons, several
of whom were still unaccounted for
and the injured between 60 and
100.
The tornado struck at 9:45 o’clock
during heavy rains that raked ad-
joining portions of Tennessee, Ark-
ansas, Louisiana and Texas and
crashed "supply row" in the busi-
ness section of Rodessa, causing an
estimated $250,000 to $500,000 prop-
erty damage within a space of less
than five minutes.
It then bounded out toward Ar-
kansas to the northeast and ended
■ E
of
cheapest car in
Every troop in town will have a | enforcement, succumbed yesterday
team represented at the contest, to an operation for a leg infection.
McDonald said There will be four I Izzy was half at the celebrated
teams with five members on each team of Einstein and Moe Smith,
team he stated Each team will be comical. 250-pound arms of the
given three problems to work out Federal law and nemesis of 5000
during the approximate one and speakeastes between 1920 and 1025.
I Ax thirsty New Totten secreuy
' sipped illicit drinks, Izzy and Moe.
I posmg with gay abandon aa coel
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DENTON RECORD-CHRONI
build the
lines and continued ta paralyse traf-
fic on several highways in this dis-
! trict.
High water threatened the Fort
07 eztgt
2
Weathe?
tion and Hilbert Harrison. secre- |
tary of the East Texas Chamber of j
Commerce, is secretary. Jackson |
has made several trips to Washing-
ton in regard to the establishment
of a laboratory in Texas for the
study of cotton and particularly in
finding new uses for it and its by-
products.
they expectey any reference
Austro-German unification
MARSEILE. France, Feb 15-
UP)—The French 'steamer El Man-
sour. 5.818 tons, today wirelessed
she was being shelled by a "Span-
ish squadron" ‘■oft the northeast-
ern coast at Spain Her master said
hazardous and caused widespread
suffering in virtually all sections
\ of the state
FORT SMITH, Ark Feb 18 —
(P—swirling waters of a rapidly
rising Arkansas River sent hun-
dreds of persons from lowlands
in this area and assumed proper-
PRICE LEVEL TO BE SOUGHT
BYNATIONALADMINISTRATION
sM dora
8Mst
R8
, The steamer carried passengers
as wel la* freight. She was on
her way from Oran. Alegria, to Port
Vendres. France
“A shell has fallen 150 meters
(165 yards! in front of us," said
the message, picked up by Mar-
seille radio We are being followed
by a Spanish squadron " The shell
apparently came from behind.
Traffic Rerouted
Dallas busses, however, were still
carrying out their schedule by tak-
ing the Fort Worth highway route
to Roanoke, then detouring down
the Northwest Highway, at noon
Friday, it was reported at the local
bus headquarters
Routes to the west were open, it
was reported.
The McKinney bus due Friday
mornang was not able to make
schedule, its driver telephoned, but
was seeking a detour route. It had
not arrived at 2 o'clock
It was not known whether the
Lewisville and Friscb bridges were
actually .damage or only blocked by
water. at that time.
County officials expected consid-
erable damage over the county from
the downpours and swollen creeks,
but had no definite report*
in several places local bus head-
wall most about needing larger pay- 1
rolls are the very ones who are [ L lepeg from Attack
most careless about supporting the | I IWo II III 11 A--n
institutions that are already paying * ______
EASr TEXAS: Meetly eludy and
much eolder, hard freeze in norih
portion, temperature near MM
la interior at mouth partton tonigha;
Saturday partly etoady, eolder an the
Acquittted
BOISE, Idaho—A jury that
included eight dog owners vin-
dicated sport, a brown and
white pointer, of charges he
bit a two-year-old child.
The Jury found the child's
father was not entitled to 85,000
damages from Sports owner,
Jess W. Hammer. Witneses for
Hammer said the ehlld struck
Sport with a stick.
Don't overlook the engagement
you have this Friday night at the
auditorium of the Teachers Col-
lege where the Kiwanis Annual Min-
strel wiAl toe presented, Your friends
will be there to aid in the good
cause for which the Kiwanians in-
stituted the Minstrels. Of course,
you know the local actors receive
no pay for thetr time and work,
and they have devoted much time
and a lot of work for your enter-
tainment. But the entertainment
is only a side issue, as the real rea-
son for the Minstrel is the under-
privileged children. Each year the
Denton Kiwanis Minstrel has pro-
vided funds for hospitalization and
medicine and with the Kiwanians
the Doctors of Denton have co-
operated most generously as they
make no charge for their services
when the club takes charge of a
"case. There is no other public
fund in Denton through which
these children can be cared for, and
today there are a good many cases
that have become permanently cur-
ed through the funds of the Min-
strel.
Commenting on the report that
declared that in the present sit-
uation a "moderate rise inthe gen-
eral price level is desirable, and
that this rise need not and should
not extend to all prices," the presi-
dent at a press Conference anticipat-
ing questions as to what was to
be done eout it, said the problem
was being attacked on a good many
front*.
H: said examples of steps already
taken toward recovery and better
balance of prices were the new farm
act. the new housing construction
program and the added $250,000,-
000 for relef He added all these
element* would help.
Does the program mean infla-
tion? the President asked himself
and replied with a flat. No.
No Further Devaluation
Mr Foosevelt gave the same
answer to a self asked query wheth-
er it meant further devaluation
of the dollar. ,
He added the virtual abandon-
ment of gold sterilization was part
of th pllan to help restore a bal-
anced price structure.
The committee report, which he
termed noteworthy in that all the
officials and expert* had agreed on
it, declared the price rise "should
take place in and must be mainly
BERLIN. Feb
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County to the Fort Worth area Einstein, whose bizarre prohidition
council find aid competition in sleuthing contributed a droil note
March will be held in the Senior to the cacaphony of the speakeasy
A lose
or the
hr re-
risk the
— All the first aid pmhlsm*—ara
made up by the American Red
Cross and the American Red Cross
First Aid manuel will be the final
authority in the contests. the ex-
ecutive said.
Dr W H Hawley will be chief
referee and judge; Tommy Ken-
I dricks, chief timer; O. C Knight,
chief recorder with J J Maclachlan
BOSTON,' Feb 18.40— Helpless and Judge Gambill as assistant re-
with 51 persons aboard, a vessel \ corders. Bruce Davis will be the
identined only as the 8 6 Azalea announcer and floor manager; J. D
wallowed in the pounding north I Gentry, assistant floor manager; J
Atlantic today with her propeller D Pamell, registrar Four judges
gone, while the coast guard cutter were to be selected later Friday.
Tahoe steamed 300 miles to her ________________
auditorium Monday era, has passed on. .
________— " The genial master of dizqy dis-
Donal. Denton County scout ex- gukses, who for five years convulsed
tel. Thursday morning, Feb 24, be-
ginning at 9:30 o'clock
Burrus C. Jackson, of Hillsboro. is F rent'll l Jef CUSC
General Chairman of the organlza- ' " " "5 ‘ C 1195
RODESSA, La., Feb. 18—
(AI’)—Twenty persons were
known dead today, killed by a
tornado that roared during
last night’s blackness into this
rich Rodessa oil field town.
Two additional were believed
dead and scores were injured.
Unofficial estimates in the con-
fusion attendant to the disaster
east portion tonight; Saturday Mr.
with riminrtemp
OKLAHOMA:
BANK
p.
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fluerer Hitler opened Berlin s annu- of some of the plants had been
moved Box cars were spotted nenton Rov Scouts
along tracks to relieve other plants 1 —enton DOy -cou
The Arkansas reached a 312 foot To Have First Aid
stage —almost ten feet above the ।
flood mark—and indications were
to it wopld go to 33 or 34 feet Satur- ;
1 day afternoon. the Weather Bureau
With a total of $886.76 contrib-
uted at noon Friday for the-special
fund for enlarging the scope of
work of the Kiwanis Children's
Clinic, the Kiwanis Club's appre-
ciation to those who have respond-
ed so generously to the invitation
to become patrons of the activity
was expressed by Walter B Mc-
Clurkan, chairman ot the under-
privileged children's committee. In
behalf of the club membership
Through the contributions. It will
be possible for the clinic to go into
the field of major surgery in em-
ergency cases affecting children. It
was stated
The fund was materially increas-
ed Friday by announcement that
8262 10 had been turned over to the
clinic by the Denton County Child
Welfare Board, this sum having
been collected through Christmas
seal sales for tuberculosts preven-
tion work.
Tonight the club's annual min-
strel will be presented, from which
several hundred dollars is expected
for the support of the underprivil-
eged children's work
Acceptance of contributions from
patrons will not end with the pres-
entation of the minstrel, however.
McClurkan pointed out, but the
Long, Long Trail
EADORE. Idaho—This mln-
Ing town, high on the continen-
tal divide, claims the world's
longest school bus route
School Superintendent Jo-
seph Dilley said the route, only
partially gravelled and thread-
ing canyons 6,000 feet above sea
level, is 92 miles long.
■e RODESSA. La . Feb. 18,—(P) ♦
♦ —Survey of hospitals late to- ♦
♦ day showed 25 dead, three ♦
♦ missing and 41 injured in the ♦
Schools at Paris and 1
were closed and the Paris
said others probably were, but m-
formation was lacking '
Rehabilitation was under way at
====iee- stage_ . . ; _ •_ tes-e,c
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tion* of a year ago. . • In * report
"Oue pi MW eeeks a belanded Asboclatlon for —------
system at przes such as will pro- f of Science Dr. L. Thompsom of the
mote a balanced expansion in pro- i naval proving grounds at Dahlgren
dueton. Our gcariza, constantly m- , said recent experiments have ihnu
ing man struck town yesterday
morning In a car with a nifty trail-
er The women at once went on
the street offering a paper rose for
sale claiming they were selling them
for the benefit of the Baptist Mis-
sionary Society However, their
statements varied about what
church would get the proceeds of
the sale. Chief Ezell and his men
rounded them up and brought them
to the City Manager's office After
quizzing them Mr Graeser told them
they would have to get permission
Snow covered the parched Pan-
handle. aiding crops.
Precipitation for the week rang-
ed up to eight Inches at Caney,
in the South Central portion, put-
ting an end to drought conditions :
over most of Oklahoma.
Telephone and electric power
lines snapped under the weight of
Acehin the Enid area.
Floods menaced Eastern Oklaho-
maPoteau was reported surround-
ed by water Rescue workers re- |
moved 75 families in crude boat*, i
estimated another 100 were ma- |
roonad in lowlands by Arkansas
river < and San Bois Creek wat-
ers
A Midland Valley freight train
was stranded between flood Eo-
lated Krota and Stigler The State
Highway Patrol appealed for more
out weekly or monthly payrolls to
our friends and neighbors Even the
most successful institutions we
now have could grow into larger
institutions with larger payrolls.
Denton County creeks, badly
swollen by heavy rains, were block-
ing highways in several directions
Friday and were feared to be caus-
ing a mounting toll of farm dam-
age as they flooded and washed
bottom-land fields.
The reports here early Friday
afternoon pointed to the sections
north and northeast of Denton as
worst sufferers, with Little Elm
Creek on a turbulent rise
Biggest overflow of a highway
was reported at the slab between
Denton and Aubrey.'That route
was cut off, so that Sherman- bound
traffic was forced to go by way of
Gainesville and cars headed for
Mingo and that part of the county
were taking the Fishtrap Road.
Waters were still rising along the
Fishtrap and it was not certain
whether or not that route would
eventually be blocked.
Denton to Dallas and Denton
MERTZON. Feb 18—(A—IReal-
dents of the West Texas towns of
Mertzon and Sherwood surveyed
the damage today of a tornado that
left 16 persons Injured and 100
homeless. A score of buildings were
damaged.
Five buildings here were demol-
ished A dozen buildings and num-
erous windmills and tanks were
wrecked at Sherwood.
Three-year-old Manuelo Marti-
nez was near death in a San An-
gelo hospital, 35 miles from here
Others seriously injured included
Sweet Davis, 40. agent for an, oil
company, and Mrs Viente Marti-
nez, 26.
The storm whipped in from the
Southwest early yesterday, hit the
business section and part of the
residential area and struck again
I a few minutes later at Sherwood
W I Bishop, of Justin, a mem- .
ber of the State-wide Cotton Com- she was fleeing from the attackers
.----—-----> — _ and asked for help
Roanoke Thursday afternoon but
was reported receding Friday; wat-
er over the Dallas Hignwuy south
of Lake Dallas Thursday blocked
Denton to Lewisville traffic for a
time, but that route- was open
Friday; west of Denton, in the
•llcinlty of Ponder, water was over
the road at several places but was
receding Friday, drivers said in
Denton.
Rising Over Spillway
At Lake Dattas, shortly before
noon Friday, water was reported
going over the spillway some 18
inches, with prospects that will rise
at least 24 hours more
The rainfall this week totalled
518 inches at the Evers ram gauge
in Denton and 4 11 inches at the
State Experiment Station Mini-
mum temperature here Friday was
32 degrees.
There are so many schemes of va-
rious kinds by which some one
hopes to make easy money that it
makes one suspicious of everything
that is fostered by strangers. It
may be said, too, that most of the
out-of-towners are not thinking
about.the.good thT“ do for the + disastrous tornado which struck ♦
town, but for themselves. Here's an-|+a section of this North Loui- +
other scheme that was worked, par- + slana oil town last night. ♦
M.n„ „—— •—-hn‘----- • • , waters late Thursday and by Fri-
+***************64+**+++ | day morning the waters were report-
placed the number of dead at be- ed stil on the rise.
half right when lie said a sucker
was bom .evermimute. He should — mI yemyiemwe vu . .----- ■---------— —
have said two suckers were bom FPHtffit-storteswere told by sur- 1Witter went over the Fort Worth
every minute at least. There would- ---— ---- " —1
confined to classes of commodi-
ties whose prices are too low "
"These include," the report said,
"most of those raw materials and
finished product* which are pro-
duced and sold under highly com-
petitive conditions Such rise must
not be so sharp, or continue so
long, a* to lead to a repetition of
the unhealthy speculative condi-
AUSTIN, Feb 18 ——(P- W E Gar-
ner. Texacs ex-convict, was held
in jail here today while officers
made tests to determine whether
he fired the pistol that wounded
State Highway Patrolman C. H. Key
yesterday Key is recovering
Garner, who was shot and cap-
tured near Buckholts, said "I'm not
saying I didn't do it; I just don’t
remember."
The 50-mile crime ride started
near Hearne, Robertson County,
where Key was shot in a scuffle
while he was trying to adminis-
ter first aid to a woman who had
been a passenger in an automobile
driven by Garner. The automobile
had crashed.
Mr and Mrs. Fletcher Willis,
Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr and Mts.
William Trippe of Reno. Nev , and
E D. Blalock of Aransas Pass had
been picked up on the highway it
was Mrs. Willis who was injured.
Covering Up
CHICAGO—Matthew McCor-
mick told Judge Osar 8 Cap-
lan why he took six blankets
from a hotel where he was em-
ployed
"Your Honor.” McCormack
aald. "I get lots of headaches.
I take a drink for the headache,
and then I get chills frd the
drinks. I took the blanket* be-
cause of the chtits."
The court placed him on pro-
bation for one year
Finds
Burglar
Forgetful
----- By Assoctated Press -----
PHILADELPHIA—A bandit
who had scooped 860 from a
chain store cash register and
taken a wallet containing 84
from Manager Frank Thorpe,
came back for a second visit.
This time he got 820 from the
mney drawer, then turned to
Thorpe and asked for his wal-
let. ?
“Not today," said Thorpe.
"You got that the last time and
I haven't carried one since.”
HOLLYWOOD. Feb 18. —Im- ^ri^d'^X or
Mhen btaname ,nd‘^,n '^i^ta^'^dWra^m^S^
legal squabble of her parenta over1 last mankagiving Dav
love and her film caminzs.._____I They will be called batore Judge
Aa counter-charses.flew .between 1 Numa Frenger for sentenctng on'
Peter A. Reed and Mrs. Maybelle thplr sqpn nigAg oF pity tn *
Hooper Reed, oldtime vaudeville I eharges 1 1ecPd acrE mVrae ' ery team which participates with
troupers, their comedienne daugh- l mhey face a’maximum’penaity" M blue, red and whitenrbbons rep-
ter kept on working at a movie | ire m-rsomen resenting, first, second and third
studio and said I don’t know a me Pmusic, Wiu not be «o re- : Places, respectivety. to be given I
thng about I." , sounding as that they would have the three top-ranking team*. Me
Reed divorced by Marthas mo- faced had the state carried out It* Donald said
therlast spring,, has suedMartha’stomiginafptans, anFcomvtetedihem
monagen PoteaBgemannrfo’Np, on charges o degree murdr
! City, of 5,588 gross tons, owned by
‘ the Waterman Steamship Company, of all charges *n «« mud puddle"
TMoblle,Alact, tc he death of five-year-old Nancy Glenn
The Azalea City operates be- last Labor Bay. The 19-‘ear-ola
I girl athlete has been charged with
from the City Commission to solicit . . . ..wo i..
such sales and until they got such I upn a path across North Mississ-
J ippi, causing several thousands of
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Martha Raye l«
Merely Bystander
a street with the red light against I Guardsmen on Duty
her Cars were coming from both AIthough martini law was not de-
directions and the old woman was clared, several scores of national
scared and bewicered. A boy of guardsmen, armed, were placed
about 13 MS the situation, rushed 1 About the ruins or Rodessa to pro-
to her and safely escorted her across tect them from sightseers and to
the street I don I: know the boys , malntain order.
name but at the Rotary Cr res- . Several dozen special deputies al-
terday the Bo Scouts put on.aiso were sworn m to aid i the relief
under direction of the Red Cross.
Continued rains and sloppy condi-
tions made the clearing up of de-
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LONDON, Feb 18 — (A— Prance
1 today made strong representations
to Britain in favor of "maximum
help" by the two powers to Chan-
cellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resist
further nazi encroachment on Aus-
trian independence.
Ambassador Charles Corbin con-
veyed the cviews of the French
government to Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden after Eden and
Prime Minister Neville Chabberlain
had two long "show down" con-
ferences with Count Dino Grandi
Italian ambassado-.
Between and alter the confer-
ences Grandi talked at length with
Rome by telephone, presumabty to
obtain Premier Mussolini's views on
Austria. The British ministers were
believed to have sought a clarif-
cation of Italy's stand on the spread
of.nazzi influence in Central Eur-
ope
Diplomats said the French gov-
ernment felt strongly that Schu-
schnigg should be helped to' de-
fend "what was left of Austrian in-
dependence."
and ice snapped lines
Lubbock reported a light snow
with low temperature of 18 degrees
Three-tach snow was reported at
Borger and Pampa.. Eighteen-de-
gree weather prevailed at Pampa.
Light snow was reported at Wichita
Falls and Big Spring, where the
temperature was 26
— The cold wave moved farther to
the east and South. More rain fell
at Gainesville where it was 30 de-
grees.
Corsicana reported a light rain,
no high water and 40 -degree wea-
ther A freeze was forecast at Ty-
ler where rain flooded streets last
night.
Severe Blizzard
in West Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb 18—PP)
—The worst Iblizzard in years buf-
feted Western Oklahoma today as
floods, snow, sleet and ice disrupted
communication, made highways
PARIS, Feb 18 —PP>—France's
national defense council, with an
eye on the crisis m Central Eu-
rope. today unantmoubly agreed
to ask heavy additional appropria-
tions from parliament to speed up
rearmament on land, sea and in
the air.
Mem-bers of the Chamber of Dep-
uties said a meeting of defense and
finance ministers, with Premier Ca-
mille Chautemps presiding, agreed
that 10,000,000,000 francs (8329,
000,000) must be voted for a long-
term armament program
Most of this it was said, would go
to the Navy and Air force.
Mertzon and Sherwood in Weat
Texas where a windstorm struck
early yesterday. Residents of At-
lanta in East Texas aided Rodessa
La, tornado victims after a violent
storm struck the little oil town just
over the border from Texas last
night •
Aid Dallas Families
Deputy sherims at Dallas wert
ordered to stand by to aid maroon-
ed families should a levee on the
east fork of the Trinity near the
Dallas-Rockwall County line go
out. The levee went out four years
ago Many roads out of Dallas were
impassable. i
Amarillo reported a five to eight
inch snow blanketed the Panhandle ’
and was still falling Some com-
munities in the Panhandle were
without communication* after snow 1
contribuwons will be invited in the
future from tnose interested in the
project.
Contributions in addition to those
previously published were an-
nounced Friday as follows:
Denton County Child Welfare
Board. 8262.10; Dallas Curtsing-
er. 85: Mrs. Oberia Edwards,
85; Mrs. Imogene Brooks, $5;
Homer Handy. $5; Arthur Mad-
docks, *15; M. D. Penry, $5; F.
E. Pennell, 85; Ed Schroeder. 85;
Lee Preston. *5: Miss Eun*
Belle Estes. 85; John Orr, 85;
Elmer Phillips. 15: R J. Ed-
wards, $5; Miss Nell Morris. 85:
Joe Burks, $5; Mrs. G. E. Tay-
lor. 85; Miss Joy Hawley, $5;
Jackson A Skiles, M; John A.
Harris, 15; Sam Fritz, 85; Nor-
ma Jo and and Mary Sue Wood-
rum. 810: anonymous, 810; Dr.
Richard Mandell. 85; J. P. Ma-
gee, 85; Gay Roofing Co., 810;
Dr. W. J. McConnell, 85; W. O.
Anderwon. $7.50; Verne Carring-
ton, 85; C. P. Taliaferro, 85; R.
L. Hopper. 85; J B. Bovell, 85;
James L. Baldwin, 85; W. W .
King. 85: R. B. Neale Jr. 85;
Harve Gray, 85; R W Smith.
88; anonymous, 88; Sam Laney,
85; Claude Castleberry, $5; RE.
Jackson 85; Marvin Loveless, 85
—--- ' ed adding to the danger of fires.
The Boy Scout movement in Den- ' Continued heavy precipitation in-
ton is on the up and up and more terfered seriously with rescue work
boys are becoming interested in the and it was with great difficulty
fine work Roundabout had the that the snjured were removed to
pleasure of sitting by one of those hospitals in nearby cities, Shreve-
fine boys, Jack Boorman, at a Ro- port, and Vivian, La , and Atlanta,
tary luncheon this week He's Texas
thoroly sold on Scouting, as he says Early this morning Governor
are all the boys ft recalls a story Richard W Leche of Loutslanaseni
H M Price tells, thusly: "An old. 1 Captain Murphy J Roden. Asskst-
old Negro woman hobbling along , ant Superintendent of State Police
with a stick was starting to cross j to Rodessa to direct rescue work.
i Such shells, weighing more than
, a ton can be dropped with accuracy
on a target 30 miles at sea, Thomp-
son added.
WASHINGTON, Peb. W.—(
The Senate Appropriations Commit-
tee reported favorably today the
$250,000,000 emergency relief ap-
propriations bill, stripped of the
"alien" provision voted by the
House.
Senator Adams (D-Coo» said
the amendment would have permit-
ted aliens to share in relief if they
had declared their intention to
become citizens, or had "lived hon-
orably" in the United States UI
years
The committe struck the amsad
ment at the suggestion of Aubrey
William*. Acting Works Progress
Administrator. Adams said.
Adams said no attempt was made
in committee to increase the to-
(By Associated Press!
Terrifie rains in Northeast 1 ocas
the past few days today had lent
rivers and creeks out of their bahks,
leaving 15 towns without gas serv-
ice, inundated highways and cut
off traffic and washed out 1,600
feet of Missouri-Kansas-Texas rail-
road track southeast of Denkawi.
Snow blanketed part of the Pan-
handle and plains area and the cold
wave extended deep into the state
Several schools were closed today
in the Paris area from lack of fuel
after a gas main went out east of
Bonham yesterday. Gas company
officials at Paris aald they expected
service to be restored possibly by
noon.
Meanwhile untold ifTEonveniences
and discomfort was experienced in
towns served by the disrupted gas
line, from Dodge City to Clarks-
ville, from Clarksville to Deport on
the south and Hugo, Okla., on the
north
Townsend Ready
to Serve Term
LOS ANGELES, Feb 18—0,-
Dr Francia E. Townsend, n, gray
haired, bespectacled old age pen-
sion leader, was on his way by train
today to Washington. D. C., to serve
a jail term for contempt.
The Long Beach physician, who
walked out on the Bell Congres-
stonal Committee which was que-
tioning him on how his $200--
month penston campaign was fi-
nanced, left last night amid the
cheers of several hundred follow-
era
They sang songs, and several wo-
men wept
Behind the jail ban. Dr. Town-
send plans to finish writing a boot
about his life and philisophy.
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