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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Wednesday and Thursday
contnued warm
THE DENISON
PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT
SUNDAY
YOUR HOME-OWNEp
DAILY NEWSPAPER
85c PER MONTH
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS WED., AUGUST 14th, 1940
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 7—NO. 40
British Improve Defense; Take War To Germany
Grayson County Shows
Splendid Record With
Other E. Texas Counties
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According to figures released by
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce, Grayson county had a tax-
able value this past year
which is down by
21.3 per cent as compared to the
high point of 1924. In figures of
\aluaUon this means that the val-
uation of 11)24 was placed at $48,-
269,2.19, wtih a county rate of
I .50, while the 1939 valuation is
pluced at $37,968,480, with a
county tax rate of 60 cents.
The basis of assessment for
txes is placed at 60 per cent of
supposed actual values. Col
Tections for 1939 total 84 per
cent. The total for the . year
previous show 88.6 per cent, the
highest reached during the past
ten years.
-The county debt for road,
bridge and courthouse bonds show
a total of $2,690,128.14 with cred-
it for .cash in sinking fund of
$249,371.86. The net debt is
DENISON BOYS FACE
SWOLLEN STREAMS IN
THE WAR MANEUVERS
Wallace To
Quit Post
In Cabinet
WILLKIE SAID
TO HOLD FATE
CONSCRIPTION
the
the
and
The Denison signal company; for a simulated attack to
joined the 10.000 National Guards-j "north" in preparation for
men of the Thirty-sixth division. J mock war to start Saturday
camped near Cravens, La., Tues-j continue through Tuesday,
day under the cover of darkness ! Commanded by Gen. S. V, Birk-
~> ] head, the division marched approx-
wr , i imately 10 miles before pitching
JPwStiy i_ irIK6S j a new camp and were forced to
a , ljl \ «. j combat swollen streams and
/\UlOIllODllC rtl j marshy lands during their march.
fVr ««ina They wi" remuin in the field 0,1
JliCCl Y> i vjooniij ^]le preliminary maneuver until
Thursday afternoon.
Will Announce Retirement
Before Wintering Cam-
paign in Interest of Candi
dacy as Vice President.
Two Vacancies
Made In Cabinet
Will Have to Fill Places
Left by Farley and Wal-
lace It Is
WlnS/HINIGTOIN, Aug. 14—As bill are bitter in their denuncia-
goes Wendell Wlllkie, so goes the tion of the measure, branding it as
fate of the proposed concription out-Hitlering Hitler.
bill, it is being declared here this
morning freely by prognosticatorsj of the bill, says the measure
Bringing Down
Nazi Planes At
Destructive Rate
LONIiON, Aug. 14—With the now winning its own war and the
preliminary work of the Nazis for j English airmen are destroying
Senator Wheeler, arch enemy 'ts Promised blitzkrieg approach- German planes faster than the
ing its fifth day, it is declared by • Germans are making them.
watching the fate of the measure.! not planned as a dejfense program, observers that Great Britain
As the prediction goes, if Mr,
Willkie comes out for it, the bill
will be passed; if he opposes it, it
will be lost. If he should take a
neutral position, then some sort
With the exception of one large
tent to be used as a base hospital
and mess equipment, only shelter
tents were taken on the maneu-
ver.
A Katy freight train, in charge
of a Denison crew, struck a Chev-
rolet roadster at the Sherman Pe-
equal to 7.1 per cent of the 1939j can street crossing Monday night,
rssessed valuation, or $40.86 per! doing slight damage to the auto-
capita, which is a comparatively i mobile's front fender, according to
low ratio but still above the con- l reports filed here. No one was
servative limit of 5 per cent.
•Debts against the county all' to trains operating in that. area.
mrture within the period of twen- The car, driven by L. W. Berry
ty-seven years, and it is possible, of Southmayd, was approaching
for the county to get entirely freej the crossing from the east. He
of debt within that time. | told railroad authorities he puller | r ialarial control. •
With the assessed valuations of the choke of his car, drowning and | Before the units left they were
the ccrunty shrinking one-fifth in j stalling the e'jgme on the crossing ^ ii^pucted by Gen. George C. Mar-
the past 16 years, it meajis that and was unable to get the j shall,- head of the U. S. army, who
the county has one-fifth less a& a started again. The train was too • f|ew jn fjom Port Bliss, Texas,
basis* on wjjich to project, debts, close upon the roadster for Berry | The general was scheduled to stay.
It means also that the county's to shove the car clear. The train! on|y 24 hours and was acconipan-j
was rounding curve and the J ;etj j,y Maj. Gen. Herbert J
WASHINGTON, August 14—
Henry A. Wallace, running mate
of President Roosevelt announced
today that he would resign at an
early date his position with the
cabinet before starting on • his
campaign tour for the vice-presi-
dency.
The exact date was not given,
but it is expected to be within the
next two weeks.
This will leave two vacancies in
the cabinet of the President, since
the successor of James A. Farley,
who resigned as postmaster gen-
eral has not as yet been filled,
The vacancies will be filled be-
Reported. | of a compromise will be formed,
it is stated.
In the meantime, foes of the
but was dawn by Wall street law-
yers and intends to militarize this
nation and slit the throaf of de-
mocracy. He proposed a headstone
for democracy should the bill be
passed the wording to be "here
lies the victim of the war of
world*"
EVERYDAY
DENISON
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While the guardsmen were sta-
Itioned at Camp Beauregard, the! fore the election in November, it
injujred and no delay was caused medical corps, as an experiment,1 was stated this morning, but no in-
gave quinine to one-third of the dication is given as to who the
soldiers, atarbine to another third 1 parties may be. It is strongly in-
and no medicine at all to the re-
maining third of the soldiers, for
taxing resources have shrunk one-
fifth and to that extent is less able
to finance the functions of coun-
ty government.
engine crew were unable to see
the stalled car until it was too
late to stop. Two women were in
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Compared to other East Texkisjthe roadster with Berry.
counties Grayson has a low tax " The train's crew was comoosed
rate. The reduction of 20 cents, of Conductor Fred Myers, Engin-
in 1939 accounts for the present eer J. F. Glover and Fireman Jess
low rate. | Blackburn.
Grayson county is credited with
doing an excellent budget control
job and the county officials are to
be commended for this and tax
payers should give every encour-
agement at a time when keeping
down the county budget on a
sound business basis is so needful
to fit in with the federal program
of having to raise needed fund, 111 company today cont.nued test
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Pure Company
Follows Program
Testing Wells
DURA/NT, Ok., Aug. 14—4Pure
Breese, second in command to
Lieut. Gen. Stanley Embick, who
is directing the maneuvrs.
The Denison infantry unit and
others took part in the movement
less than eight hours after having
returned from two days and one
night in the field on regiment ma-
neuvers.
from taxation,
Giant Racket
Smuggling Jap
Ing its four completed wells in the
Cumberland field seeking the
right ratio of gas pressure and
connections to make them produce
around 500 barrels a day, the an-
ticipated proration allowables
dicated here this week that Mar
vin Jones is being considered as
the successor to Mr. Farley.
There has been no mention of
any one to succeed Wallace.
Cudahy Declares
British Newsmen
Misquoted Him
INEW YORK, Aug. 14—John
Cudahy, 'United States ambassador
to Belgium, returned home on a
transatlantic clipper Tuesday and
denied that he ever had said Ger-
man troops behave better than
Swelled by the arrival of many,United States soldiers.
regular army units Tuesday, offi- Cudahy, called home or con
sultation regarding an unauthor-
ized interview which he gave to
newspapermen in London last
week, said London newspapers dis-
torted his statement.
"I never said the Germans were
behaving better in the occupied
regions of Belgium than Ameri-
cans did in the last war," he said
| emphatically.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 14—While j He also disclaimed the state-
ihe Japanese navy stood by and nient attributed to him last Fril
watched the proceedings, an Eng-' day that he was eo'ng home "to
DOVER HELPLESS
DECLARE NAZIS
AFTER BOMBING
An interesting sidelight on camp
-Iactivities near Cravens, La., was
revealed here in a letter sent by
a Denison National Guardsman to
the folks *at home. Among the
things described was a young en-
listed man (not a Denisonian,
If the estimate of the German
high command that they are turn-
ing out planes at the rate of 1800
per month, records kept officially
by English authorities show that
the English are now destroying
German planes at the rate of 2^24
per month.
Newspapermen wish they knew
just how much truth there is in
the statement of the German high
command regarding their losses
and success. The British high
command is giving out very little
information.
Germany announces that the
BERLIN, Aug. 14—Germany's i day .since the battle of Britain
blitzkrieg sharpshooters today began, and Nazi quarters asserted
claimed a bag of ninety-six Brit-j German fliers haS'e seized air con-
ish planes, largest for any onejtrol over the vital British port of
Dover.
| Air-raid sirens sounded in Ber-
| lin for forty-seven minutes early
toils.:y, driving residents to shelt-
] ers, but no planes or anti-aircraft
fire was heard.
1 It was Berlin's third air-raid
alarm since the start of the war
AUDMlORE, Ok., Aug. 14—Will! "e"rly (tWelv® ,no"ths Rgi°\
H. Smith, Ardmore oil man, has thelr total *launs. I that oroves one noint
of the British planes in three days | tnal Proves one point,
to
however) who had cried for three
days and refused food because hei^ttack on England, now nearing ita
didn't like the activities . ■ . j fifth consecutive day, will be con-
tough, we'll admit, but it takes tinued unrelentingly, giving the
more than tears to soften a sea- British no rest aifd no quarter,
soiled commander and the young- With the English reaching the
ster cried in vain . . . Due almost point where it is returning the
entirely to the effects of expan- fight was as much vigor as It bt«
sion in war industries, American
families now find approximately
Ardmore Pushing
Plans To Secure
Civic Betterment
ir:g given them and with t heir
destruction of German planes
a hundred million dollars a month ■ reaching such high proportions,
in their collective pay envelopes, j the tide of affairs ig strongly in
that in the summer of 1939, just j favor of Great Britain. They •«
before the outbreak of the war i showing that while the highest tide
threw armament buying in high] of the German efforts at sending
gear, a study just completed by a: over hundreds of planes to strafe
large life insurance company, in-I the island from end to end, the
dicates. | English are at the same time find-
ing men and phnes enough to
A thousand apologies to Miss nieet the attack SUCCeasfiitty and
(Continued on Pa«2 4)
Japan Navy Is
iponsor Looting
English Vessel
O TTrk I I ^ when the field is placed under a lish ship owned by George Shaw, he crucified, but the truth must
IVUfijS * O v« Ot proration order by the state cor- it coastal steamer, was looted by be told
The diplomat was asked about
the accuracy of reports on the
controversial interview, which
/
poration commission. | Japanese pirates in a bay on the
WASHINGTON, August 14—A All the wells were near that j I'ukien coast on Aug. 8. it was an-
new source of international trovf-i figure today and are due soon to nounced todav.
tie developed this week when it'be put on steady production. j Shaw said the* pirates unloaded : quoted him as saying that Belgium
was learned that the state depart-j Meanwhile four other wells In, the ship's cargo of whe * and faced a. critical food situaton this
ment has cabled the Japanese the field are drilling ahead, one flour and robbed the Chinese pas- winter; that history will exonerate
government protesting against was changing type of drilling j sengers. Lighters and motor boats Belgian King Leopold for his sur-
A'wliat is said to be a giant smug- machinery, and three were rig-1 carried the loot away, the boats 1 render to Germany, and that Ger-
gling business in which Japanese ging up preparatory to spud in. j flying the Japanese flag. Inipn soldiers in Belgium were be-
rugs in large numb'ers are being The company's No. 1 Park Col-1 Shaw was informed that he had having better than some Ameri-
smuggled into this country lege-200 was drilling at 4,725 fe entered a prohibited area without! can doughboys did in the World
through a well organized ring, in a very hard black lime of the a permit. His vessel was released War.
The goods are reported to V'< Viola horizon, after making 85 after the looting and he returned
coming in at the ports of Ne ' ftet in the last 24 hours. This^ shanghai.
York and Tacoma and more than well is believed nearing tho bot-j .,
17,000 rugs have been smuggled, torn of the Viola and the. Bromide _ _ -
The value of the rugs- is placed where production was found .n 1 eX. I\epUDllCanS
above $10,000. the four completed wells.
been named as chairman
citizens advisory committee
confer with the city commissioners
on ways and means of providing
Ardmore with a new convention ., , .
> ii j e ■ j f„„:i; Wl" have to capitulate."
hall and new fair grounds facili-,
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The nature of the protest Im- The Viola about 700 feet thick
plies that Tokio must do some- in the other wells, may thin out
thing about it, it is understood. in the Park College, in which case
o should cut out much of the
BRITISH SUCCESSFUL IN for mi'tion and come nearer the
BATTLE IN NORTH SEA level of the earlier wells In the
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LONDON, Aug 14—.According No. 1 Metz-104 in Marhsall
to an admiral communique today county was drilling at 815 feet in
from the North Sea here a sea black shale.
battle took place between German The company's No. 2 Little-100
armed trawlers and destroyers and Wr9 drilling at 3,075 feet in black
British forces, the Germans failed shale, and No. 1 Thomas-202,
in their effort to get away behind southwest/ offset to Thonias-102.
p s|«oke jcrcen ar\d two pf the was drilling at 720 feet.
German vessels were sunk. | Emm/ Crissman-100. the only
well in'nec. 29-5-7, had moved out
Deniion Weather cable tools and was rigging up
■■ rotary tools to complete the well,
ijtynperatyres readings in Dcni-; No. a Little-101 has about
son stood at 94 degrees at 1 p completed its derrick and is mov-
m. Tuesday, according to the ing in rotary tools, preparatory
Kingston thermometer, but drop- to spudding in probably the last
ped steadily during the night as of this week.
cool breezes sprang up nnd at 6 No. 3 Little-100 In Bryan
a .m. today, the reading was 78 county, has cleared out its loca-
degrees, a drop of sixteen degrees tion, set up a reserve tank and
in twelve hours. | is awaiting derrick and rig.
Name Dallas Man
"All I saw were the articles in
the London newspapers," Cudahy
plied.
"They were so entirc'v distort-
ed that I didn't recognize them.
I had reluctantly given the inter-
view. The interview took place
r„„ °n Aug. 7 and the London Times
ror Uovernorsnlp was the only newspaper that even
approached the facts of what I
BIOAUMOlNT, Aug. 14—A Dal-
las man, George C. Hopkins, has
been selected by the Texas repub
ties, it was announced by J. B.
Champion, chairman of a group of
citizens which met last week to
initiate action on the two pro
jects.
A committee was selected after
conference with civic leaders,
comniossioners and others and is
named with an eye to having each
part of the city and each civic
organization represented.
Champion said that Smith has
the power to convene the com-
mittee at his pleasure and to or-
ganize it as is deemed best.
It will then contact the com-i rted shot down
missioned and arrange a confer-, ,ncreM|n their
ference on the best methods to be
followed to provide the needs of
the city in the matter of a conven-
tion hall and a new building o
buildings at the fair ground.
Other members of the commit-
tee will be announced soon.
Champion expressed the opinion]
that the enthusiasm manifested at
the citizen's meeting at Chickashaw
lake last week at which appoint-
ment of this committee was au-
thorized, demanded prompt action
on the problems and said that in
his opinion the city officials and
the committee should have little
difficulty in agreeing on a har-
monious solution
Harriet Zukav (we hope it is cor- also to send deelgations of the
rect now) on the mispelling <jf ner|,pl0yai Air force into several im-
t0' name in Monday's Press, but then j por'tant German towns and work
anyway.i havoc with their fire.
of running action, the Nazis said noWspapermen are human, despite^ British planes flew over Berlin
the attacks on the British Isles will sonie beliefs to the contrary . . during the night causing air-raid
become more violent with every , Leland Aiton. pastor of the Arm- Ja|at.m 0f 47 minutes, although the
day until Britain's "warmongers 1 str°ng Avenue ( hurch of Christ, J British chose to drop no bombs,
j is to open a 10-day revival at | \ large radio station at Bre-
shut down abruptly, indicat-
Twenty-seven of the planes Ambrose, Friday night, but H. L
were shot down over Dover, clos- Gentry, a member of the local I either it was damaged by
est point for any attempted Ger- church, will preach at the Sunday bombs from the RAF or that they
man invasion, the official PNB morning service so that Mr, Aiton I were dangerously near the 8t«-
nesw agency said. In this one ma>' f'" bis regular appointments j tjon
battle, which was one of the fierc-j here . . . Dizzy Dean hurled 11 j ifhe English midlands received
est, the Germans admitted losing innings of run I ess, four-hit ball 1 the greater part of the bombs
eight Messerschmidt fighters. | against Rogers Hornsby's Oklaho-, dropped during the night by the
'NDB said that of the d.iy's bag, I ma City Indians Sunday, only to 1 invadiner Germans' Wednesday. In
sixty-five were shot down in aer-1 see the Indians win 1-0 in the j Wales and Scotland numerous
ial combats, fifteen destroyed 011 | 12th after he h"ad retired for a | tombs were dropped with one f&-
the ground and sixteen brought! pinch hitter , . . The Indians were|tality reported and sSVeral
down when two British attacks losing quite a number of games j houses struck.
were made on the Nazi base ot'j util Hornsby took over the man
Aalborg in Denmark. In addition, | aiyerial reins.
! twelve barrage balloons were re-
,A11 new residents to this city
with children between the ages of
fi and 17, as of Sept. ), are urged
by B. McDaniel, city school^ su
IDetling, in southeast England, and perintendent, to contact his office
blasted several planes standing in | at the high school, 700 block W,
front of the hangars. Workshops t Main, before the office closes to-
and living quarters also were dam-, night . . . Unless the names of
nKed' j children who weer not in Denison j
Airdromes at Odiham and Farn-j w],en the census was taken are re- j Dr. H. T. Walker, city fish com-
borough, 011 the south coast, also' ceived by Mr. MdPaniel by to- missioner, announced today that
were heavily bombed, DNB said, I night, the local system will not he had placed 200 goggle eye
with hangars and airplane build-1 receive the $22.50 per student as j perch in Waterloo reservoir this
ings being hit. | appropriated by the state ... 1 morning. The fish were received
"Landing fields looked like Senator Tom Connaliy CD.-Tex.) j by him from the game department
cater fields,'' the agency said. , has pledged his support to the j of the state.
Workshops and living quarters at j conscription bill, saying in a state-1 Vor many years <Dr. Walker has
these two airdromes also were se-, ment that "the welfare of my J interested himself in the propo-
country and the safety of our I (ration of wild game life and fish
attacks, Ger-
man planes were reported to have
destroyed two large hangars at
At MMU Italians dropped
bomb* doing slight damage and
killing one civilian, British war
offices report.
Waterloo Stocked
Wiui Goggle Eye
Fish Wednesday
(Continued on page four) |
said."
In ordering him to Washington,
the state department pointed out
licans as their candidate for the last week that although Cudahy
governorship, when n slate of undoubtedly was sincere in his
state officers was named. j s'rtement, the unauthorized inter-
The meeting adjourned Tuesday view violated standing instruc-
night after resolutions and a platr! tions. t,
form had been adopted, the chief j
object of which was to carry the
state for Wendell L. Willkie for
president.
,FIRE 'DESTROYS CAR
AT RAYBURN. pi"*
A Plymouth sedan owned by J
B. Henry of Rayburn City caught
fire Tuesday night and was com-
pletely demolished before the fire
DISASTROUS FLOOD
STRIKES ARKANSAS
TOWN EARLY TODAY
(Continued on Page four*
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ELIZABOTHTOWN, Ark., Aug.' has not been made.
■A destructive flood in which | The rain came in torrents and
several lives are feared lost struck the small mountain streams soon
became raging rivers destroying a
BOLD .BURGLAR GETS OWN
POCKETS PICKED IN&TIHP
BOSTON, Aug. 14—Instead of
doing the robbing, this time the
hold burglar got hlg own pockets
picked. Mrs. Trances Emerson
was awakened by the presence in
her room of a burglar. She Icor-
nered him and in the struggle to
get uway from her, she relieved
hi* pockets of papers which will
department could arrive on the' serve as identification marks as
scene. The cause of the blaze [to who he is. Police have the
was undetermined by the depart-1 clue and are on the trail for the
ment man.
ifkt an early hour thii morn-
ing relief worker* were re-
moving (core* of perion* from
tree top* where htey had tak-
en refuge from the high wat-
er!. Some ftre believed to
have drowned but no definite
report un be made at thU
time.
this community last night swelling
mountain streams to depths of 20
to 25 feet in residence sections.
Many persons residing there are
feared lost, as a detailed checkup
vast area of crops and doing dam
age to residences, livestock and
outhouses.
More than 1>50 persons Ihre in
worst flooded area and it will be
sometime before their welfare is
learned, according to the sheriff.
Searching parties have already
started work in an effort to give
aid where needed and to discover
the extent of the loss of human
life.
(Until the high waters subside,
it will be several hours before
the whole truth U known,
1 JITTERY CiltZEjSS HEAR
BLOWOUT AND THINK IT
OANCSTERS, CALL POLICE
Residents of the 300 block East
j Chestnut street thought the city
I was beseiged with gangsters Tues-
oday night, shortly before mid-
night, as they reported pistol
shooting in a nearby alley, to city
police.
Patrolmen Clarence Faecke and
Lewis Winchester, arriving on the
scene in their radio-equipped pa-}
trol car, were prepared for any-
thing but what they found. The
allaged pistol shooting turned out
to be a tire on an automobile Mow-
ing out.
in the state and is likely the best
versed man on the habits of game
and fish life in the city. He has
always taken an active interest in
stocking the lakes around Deni-
son with plenty of the best variety
of game fish and is in a position
to secure the best results.
The young fish placed today is
only a part of the stock the doc-
tor is planning to place in the
lakes, he states.
Engineer* A**ign Steno
iMiss Donna Mae Ttoberson of
McAlester. has been probationally
appointed by the U. S. Engineer
office here, as junior stenograph-
er at the Durant engineering of-
fice. Miss Roberson assumed her
new post today.
DSTNISON PARTIES ASK
SOMETHING BE DONE ,TP
HALT CARELESS DRIVERS
Out on West Crawford street at
dangerous corners, and where ev-
ery day 'at intervals the grinding
of brakes and other signs indi-
cate that drtVers of cars are not
using sufficient care, the neigh-
bors are being alarmed. Several
Indies of that section have asked
the city officials that something
be done to check the hazards that
not only threaten car drivers, but
also throw a danger zone around
tha numerous children of that suc-
tion
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