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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
! Wednesday Continued high
temperature in North Texaa
THE DENISON PRESS
7c PER W1KK
A FAST GROWING PAPER
Representative United Press and International News Service.
DENISON, TEXAS, Wednesday, June 23rd, 1937 WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 4-NO. 2
Definite Action On Red River Dam In January
FEAR STRIKE OF
RAIL EMPLOYES
have evaded and.
the
•Declaring that rail-' here Tuesday.
1 The membership forming
five unions of the railway em-
ployes will be asked to vote on
three questions on which, if an af-
firmative vote is given, railways
CHICAGO-
road officials iun» n»u™ ...... j
delayed demands for conferences,
unions forming the big five of the
railroads arc to ask for a strike
vote from their 350,000 employes,
it was unanimously agreed by a
meetin gheld by representatives
DENISON
62-50-35
YEARS AGO
By DULCE MURRAY
•-•
June 23, 1875
Express Messenger going north
Tuesday received a dog at Colbert
Station, I. T. destined for some
‘pcint above. The animal appear-
ed very restless and the messenger
gave him water, thinking that was
■what he wanted but he only made
stronger efforts to break the chain
that held him, in which he suc-
ceeded. The messenger then
shut his ear door to confine the
dog, when he discovered the ani
mal had hydrophobia. The mes-
senger and Route Agent, who were
inside the closed car, hurriedly
climbed on the freight to keep out
of the way of the rabid animal.
Finally the route agent ended his
career with a pistol shot.
While an Irishman was at the
bottom of the well at the Nelson
home yesterday, cleaning it out,
his companion at the windless
above, dropped a rock weighing
(about four pounds, down upon
him, which struck him in the
back. He grunted when the rock
landed on his spine but suffered
no serious injuries from the acci-
dent.
A young man was in town last
Friday enroute from Galveston to
Denver, Colorado. He stopped
here to rake in a bonanza of $105
which his ticket in the Texas Gift
Concert Association entitled him
to. He came to this point in a
box car cn a freight train, but
will travel the remaining distance
in first class coaches.
Mayor Clarence Scott Re-
ceives Official Confirma-
tion from Government In
His Brief Visit to Capitol
GERMAN PAPERS
CLAIM SCHMEUNG
IS TITLEHOLDER
heads of the various organizations
will be empowered to call a strike
if and when they think best.
The three questions to be sub-
mitted will be:
1. Demand for a 20 per cent
increase in wages.
2. Refusal of railroad demands
for downward revision of wage
rates and working conditions.
3. Demand for a conference paving in
with railroad executives.
Lower Water
Lines Needed
Forty-Five Per Cent of Ap-
proximate Cost Will Come
From Government Soon
* Definite assurance of the 45
per cent WPA grant for alley
Board Meeting
Slated; Ohio
Steel Strike
Nazi Writers Claim Schlager is Rightful
Owner of Title After Braddock Gives the
Runaround to Him in “Phantom Fight
Joe Louis is recognized in some
parts of the United States as the
world’s champion heavyweight pu-
gilist, but in Germany he was
given the berries by the Nazi
newspapers, despite his victory
Denison, was received'ever the former title holder,
James J. Braddock, at Chicago
Tuesday night.
The Detroit negro toyed with
Braddock lor seven rounds be-
fore sending over a right hand
at Washington this week by Ma-
lt is declared that the vote will yor Clarence Scott, at the capital
clothe the brotherhood executives i city in the interest of the $3G,-
with power to consider this mat- ( 000,000 Red River dam
ter and carry it through to a con- Baer’s ferry,
elusion as they, see fit, even if it I Lowering of water connections
Everyday
DENISON
leads to a strike.
J and selling of bonds on the
pro-
KATY
Railroad News
ject will begin immediately, Mr
Scott, said, which should take ap-
proximately the thirty days before
the federal grant is forthcoming.
The water pipe lowering to allow
the paving on the Main street al-
i leys will be under the supervision
V 9\ot City Engineer A. M. Krenneke.
To begin the melon season withj The dty recent]y dccilled to
a bang, thirty-three carloads of comp)ete lhe work th ough its
cantalopes from port Worth were ^ fund3 when definit„ action by
handled by Katy freight Tuesday,^ wflK not takcn.
begin
Arbitration Board in Steel
Trouble Undaunted By Its
Failures So Far and Call
Another Session Today
Chief Members
Not To Be There
Men Claim They Will Re-
turn to Meeting Following
Walkout There Monday
CLEVELAND—Undaunted by
smash to the head that sent the failure in their first hearing three
champion down for the ten count days ago to get very far in their
| in the eighth, one minute and ten j meeting with the two groups in-
seconds after the opening bell solved in the steel strike situa-
I clanged. j f‘on> members of the Federal arbi-
Fifty thousand fans sat in stun- U'ation board are slated to meet
J ned silence as Louis, seemingly j ^ a. m. Wednesday.
, the best man all the way, punched) Although two of the chief mem-
Braddock into submission in the,
sixth round, worked him over
carefully in the seventh and sent ,
the final blow across in the
Mayor Clarence Scott gave the
dam situation a new and brighter
outlook today as he returned
from Washington where he has
been in conference with some of I e'Kh>th.
Beginning like a whirlwind, the
men went under full speed for
two chapters before they slowed
down to take accounts of each
Mayor Scott
Returns From
Washington,D.C.
"I’m positive something will definitely be done by
Congress in connection with the Red River dam project
at the next session in January,” Mayor Clarence Scott de-
clared today shortly after his return from Washington
where he had been called by Congressman Sam Rayburn
last week.
After talking with several of the men connected di-
rectly with the project, the outlook is the brightest it has
ever been,” Mr. Scott said. “It will be built as positively
as I stand here, but we have a lot more work to be done
before January and it will take the assistance of every
one interested.”
Witli Mr. Scott and Mr. Rayburn at Washington were
O. N. Floyd, engineer consultant at Dallas and Capt.
Lester I'. Rhodes, army engineer in charge of the recent
half million dollar Ri d River survey here which ended
early in April.
Cubs Tighten
Loop Hold By
Beating Giants
City and
the government was not
Commissioners decided to
the project the this summer af
ter the blacktopping program was
completed if the government of-
ficial approval was not given.
, , , It is estimated the project will
to Kansas C.ty where they will be | ^ ^ by early fall, if the
distributed to their various desti-,^ as prMently planned.
nations. _
destined for Kansas
points in California.
Forty carloads of watermelons
are expected from the Southern-
Pacific tonight at 9 o’clock, to
he handled by the Katy Thursday
W. Wenckens, employee of the *
Railway Express agency, has left
with Mrs. Wenckens, for his an-
nual vacation, part of which will
1 FINDS RING AFTER
4 YEARS IN POTATO
OKLAHOMA C 1 T Y—Three
years ago while planting potatoes,
be spent at the Greater Texas and ]f Qe(>rg(1 ,(>?t his Masonic ring.
Pan American exposition at Dal-, H(j spl|rched for it {or hours ir.
las> j the garden but failed to find it.
' Tuesday while digging potatoes
he win across a peculiar shaped
potato and on digging it out, he
potato has formed it-
The depression has ended, or at [
least for Katy freight as records 1
show that 1004 freight cars were
moved through Denison Tuesday
for various,destinations. This is
the largest number of cars han-
dled in a single day, since 1931,
records reveal.
found the
self around his ring.
June 23, 1887
An incident came uni?er notice
Monday which went to prove the
repressibility of that well-known
quantity we have been in the habit
of calling “the irrcprcssable boot
black.” One of them, aged 14
yt»rs, was standing near to the
Buckhorn saloon when a white _
who looked like a railway ^ special passenger train is
scheduled to leave Tulsa Friday
o
Earl Messiner, manager of the
Union News drug store, has left
for a two-day visit at the Dallas
Pan-American exposition.
Hither And Yon
WITH KEN
the big boys of the nation on
flood control work, when he said
he was positive action would be
taken by Congress in the January |
session. However, he said there
were a number who were too
eager to have the work started
before complete plans have been
laid before authorities. There is
still a lot of work being done
and to be done, the Mayor said
and it will take many more
months before it can be compiled
for submittal to the proper au-1
thorities.
other’s ability. The third, four-
th and fifth rounds were a little
bers of the two sides involved will
not be present, they wil return,!
if and when they are wanted, it is I
declared. Bob Feller Gets Back
The two absent ones are John Indian Lineup But
L. Lewis of the CIO and Tom
Girdler, chairman of Republic
Steel. Both are in Washington.
Monday some of the parties
asked to the hearing walked out
on the meeting and stated they,
Not Last Long at
Into
Does
Game
In a report to the President of
the United States by the chief of
army engineers, Major General
Markham, a copy of which was
brought back by Mr. Scott, said
in part, in the only direct refer-
ence to the Denison dam:
"A reservoir at Denison, Texas,
< n the lower Red River, immedi-
ately below the mouth of the
Washita, would remove the threat
of the coincidence of a large
flood from the Red with a flood
from the Mississippi and would
slower, with Braddock showing the wou^ r,ot retun’' However, tht>
have declared since that they
Mr. Scott further urged every
Denison man who possibly can, at-
tend the Valley association meet-
ing at Paris tomorrow, inasmuch
as it is vitally necessary that they
do. Many reports will be given
by dam authorities which will be
of great interest to every person
in this territory affected by the
construction of the dam. A brief
effects of the terrific pounding
delivered by the challenger. With
his face cut to ribbons and his logs
rapidly giving out, fans wonder-
ed how the champion managed to
stay with the negro as long as he
| did.
Louis went down in the first
round when Braddock smashed
across a telling blow, but jumped
up before the referee, Tommy
Thomas, had an opportunity to
show he could count. F'rom then
on the fight was all Louis’ and
fans sat back, awaiting the inevi-
table end.
Louis praised Braddock a? the
gamest fighter be had ever met
and said he hit the champion hard-
er than he had ever hit another
would return
wanted.
to the hearing, if
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—Ordinarily
this is pay day in Johnstown in
the big steel plants, but today it
is only a memory.
What checks are coming to the
men will be mailed out as early
as possible, it is declared. Closing
down of the plants has greatly
hindered all transactions of busi-
som gave Cincy *5 to 0 win over
Philadelphia, throwing the Red‘
into sixth place, the highest they
have been this season.
. Pittsburgh had a big day and
ness in the office, it is explained, j d(,fcated Boston 4 t0 x when
............... Blanton held them to four scat-
I teved hits, one a homer by DiMag-
j glo. Luke Hamlin was too much
Let Out : ^or St. Lon: and the Cards <kop-
j ped a 2 to 1 decision to Brooklyn.
Pat Malone a:ded New York to
Chicago may not win the Na-
tional loop this season, but the j
boys on the sidelines have to ad-1
mit they are doing a great job of|a,£0 afford highly desirable pro-
holding first place at the «■■■... th(, bottom lands in the
time. iower Ked River valley. Besides
Tuesday the < ub- blanked ;jts flood contro] benefits it has
their former competitor, vaUia!,j,. potentiality for power
York, 5 to 0 behind the close; purposes. This reservoir has a
hurling of Bill Lee. The Cub- oapacity of y,200,000 acre feet,
took the lead in the opening Itg con‘structjon cost is estimated
frame and were never threaten- at 0oo,000, including provision
ed. Six hit pitcl future power development, the
cost of lands and damages being
estimated at $6,700,000.
“The recent great flood on the
Ohio i- convincing proof of the
need f» developing the maximum
reservoir capacity to reduce dis-
Strike Plans
resume of what the recent report; opponent. including waltzsing
to the president by the chief of I Maxic Baer two years ago. Brad-
SAN FRANCISCO—More than
i advance it- American lead by
section hand, came long, slightly
«fe
under the influence of liquor. We
did not learn what the bootblack
said to this man, but whatever
it was he didnt get any opportun-
ity to repeat it, for before he
could bring his blacking box into
use, as a weapon of defense, he
was 'Sown upon the sidewalk with
the white man on top of him. The
heavy fist of the railway man was
laised, and so eager was he to
make the blow effective, he miss-
ed the head of his victim and
rtruck the pavement, a blow that
nearly knocked his fingers out of
joint. Perhaps thinking he was
not using the right kind of wea-
pons on this kind of adversary,
sprang up and began to use
is boots. After giving the boy
two or throe heavy kicks in the
face and ribs, he turned around
and walked briskly towards the
depot where, we were informed,
he boarded a freight train and
left town. There was very little
of his characteristic jauntiness in
the demeanor of the colored boy
as he picked himself up and be-
gan to search for the different
articles of his kit. He looked as
if he had been surprised and was
n t exactly clear as to what had
occurred. The white man was
very lucky in escaping arrest as
two policemen had passed passed
up the street and turned the cor-
ner on their way over to. jail.
June *2,
I A "spotter” received his just
with seven cars containing em-
ployes of the Tulsa oil company
Still way up there on a camel!
Even the stiltwalking of school-
boy days cannot compare with the
“feel” of four long camel legs
perambulating beneath one s - wav-
ing torso. Finally, reins in hand
the animal begins to get ready
to wend his way. Each camel has
enroute to their convention at. bjg respected place in the cara
t-w n_ rrL. ________ „.:n__I .... i ......u
Dallas. The group will return
their special train Sunday.
Since the season opened, a to-
tal of 201 carloads of wheat has
been handled compared to 13 cars
of other grain.
Onion business is picking up
once more and appearing in larg-
er quantities now. Vive carloads
of the vegetable were handled
Tuesday from the Farmersville
area, enroute to eastern markets.
Switchman A. C. Drumb, of
McAlester, has entered the M-K-T
employes hospital for examina-
tion.
Henry Jennings Jr. is recover-
ing from an operation for re-
moval of appendix at the Long-
Sneed hospital.
van and all is not well on the
desci't front until each is in that
respective position. We’re off!
Camels plodding along in single
file, each with a single passenger
plus that passenger's equipment
for the sojourn. From the banks
of the river Nile we actually as-
cend to the pyramids, constantly
climbing a mountain of sand, un-
til the more level surface of the
desert plateau is reached. Ar.d
then, there heaves into view—the
majestic pyramids! Some confu-
sion may arise among our readers
to hear these pyrmids spoken o.
as both Cheops and Gizeh. Tnc
explanation lies in the fact that
Cheops is a name delegated to
that particular group of pyramids
and Gizeh is the name of the sec-
(Continued on Page 41
army engineers in direct reference
to the project, can be found in a 1
banner story in the Press today.
Mr. Scott was not idle when
dam conferences were ended. He
contacted the proper men in con-
nection with the alley paving pro-
ject, the mayor's pet, and found
the project had been officially j
okayed, and that the 45 per rent
government grant would be forth-
coming in the next thirty days.
Sort of killing two birds with one
stone—two big ones.
Speaking of childhood accidents
a group of men formed at the
police station this morning. Desk
Sargcant Ed Judd was displaying
a head scar sustained when seven
as he fell from a tree and struck
a rock. Everyone present gave
dock, thru his manager, Talking
Joe Gould, will continue in the
ring to gather in a few more
sheckles before he retires, some-
thing that should have obviously
been done two years ago.
According to reports coming
from the Nazi Center, the Ger-
man newspapers are sneering at j
Joe Louis and proclaiming Maxi
Schmeling as the world’.- chant- ^
pion. The stand is taken inas-1
much as Max was given the well-j
known run-around by Braddock
when he and his manager kidded
themselves into believing Louis
4,000 employes m down town I gt Louis lo five hits and
buildings, which includes janitors, ^ g ^ g Monte gtrat
elevator operators and others who] ^ three-hit ball and Chi- d,8tmttly P°S* ,
help keep public buildings aerie bIasted Philadelpria 2 to 0.
ed, will be involved in the strike ...... . . __. I fh
if the plans announced are put
into excution, it was announced
Wednesday morning
leaders.
hy strike
Duke Windsor
Is 43 Today
LONDON—Members oi the ro-
yal family today forwarded their
j best wishes to the Duke of Wind-
sor, who is 43 years of age Wed-
was the easier of the two.
There are many in this coun-
try, who recognize, or at least be-
lieve Sehmelfhg is entitled to
the championship as he knocked
out Louis last year, then I-ouis
I went on to win easily from the I
an account of an accident he was champ. \ no SPEAK ENGLISH
proudest of. Lloyd Crawford ---------- I AND MISSES T1CKF.1
"Y''h'' ”•h’"' Parsons Hunted
nesday.
A brief item in the society col-
umn of London papers announces
the birth anniversary of the for-
mer king.
A neighboring sportswriter
a Paris paper started off
(Continued op Page 41
Three Turn Down
Hitler’s Proposal
BERLIN—Adolf Hitler presided
over a session of the cabinet to-
day and the matter of what atti-
tude the nation will take now in
connection with the situation fol-
lowing the turning down ot their
proposal for a four-power naval
demonstration Wore the Spanish
front.
LONDON—What further action
will be taken by Germany is only
a surmise, following the refusal
of the other three nations to join
in a four-nation naval demonstra-
tion along the Spanish coast,
anyone lives 'till he’s twenty-one.”
... . , ~ .. p. „ In Connecticut
This turned out by the Philly
Evening Bulletin: Air is teeming' '
with weddings and commence- SIONA BROOK Si.mi ter
ments in June. No wonder the ^e missing Mrs. 1 aison- centiiei
poet praised it for perfect daze.1 around Greenwich, < onn., follow
___ | ing a report that a woman ans-
jn wering her description had eaten
j,jg' at a lunch room there. Two of the
column with the remarks that to waitresses arc said to rare idea i-
pick a winner of a fight some 900, Hed her by photos ut the missing
miles off with nothing to go on woman.
hut what he has read, is absurd. The woman is said to have
A'et he goes on to pick Braddock lunched there late 1 uesdaj nftei-J
to win. We feel the same way noon.
about it, but sticking our neck Federal men were rushed to the
out several feet, we, too, took scene, and the lend is declared to
James J. to cop the bout. As you
know now, we were more than
just wrong, we were terrible. It
looks like we didn’t underrate!
Louis, we overrated Braddock.!
From this corner, it looks like
KANSAS CITY—Lieutenar,
Mahoney caught a motorist mak-
ing a left hand turn in the wrong
fashion. He stopped him and
was telling hffn of the infraction'
of the law when the motorist an-
-wered, “no speak Engleesh.'
Fishing out his language book to
facilitate the conversation, the
cop found the task still difficult
Finally with a wave of the hand l
he said disgustingly “Vamoose.”
Both understood that language.
Bob Feller was just another |
moundsman and with three bud-
dies, was nicked for 17 hits a?
Washington knocked over Cleve-
land 11 to 2. It was Feller'.-
first appearance since May 18.
In the Texas loop. Dallas kept
its form and dropped one to San
Antonio 2 to 1; Oklahoma City
defeated Houston 9 to 2; Fort
Worth edged nut Beaumont 2 and
1 ami Galveston outslugged Tul.-a
8 to 5.
Wrong Man Held
OAKMULGEE. Ok.—Held .n
prison for three days without
knowing why he was being detain-
ed, Rau Johnson secured bis lib-
erty today by obtaining a habeas
corpus. It was explained later
that he bore a resemblance to a
man wanted on a fraud charge.
TULSA, Okla.—Edith Knight,
while playing with a group of
children at a tank two miles east
of Curley, a small town nitir
here, was drowned Tuesday af-
ternoon. After being removed
from the water, all efforts to tv
vive her failed.
The child walked out on a
plank in the water and stepped
or fell from it into the water
and sank.
)d fro
charge on that stream. The devel-
opment of reservoir flood control
' other -treams should not await
a -imi’.ii; floor disaster, but should
be taken in advance thereof. On
•ht Red River, for example, in-
yi ligations indicate that a flood
; far exceeding any of record, is
The Denison
uld prevent such a
.■( aching disasterous
proportions ii the valley below it.
It i to be observed that the ex-
pense for lands and damages is a
major item in reservoir costs. This
expense will increase as the river
basins are developed. It would
thus appear that the constructions
of these reservoirs, as well as .
those n the Ohio basin, shoub
be undertaken.”
Mi Scott urged every possi^j
Demsonian who can, attend tnc
Par s meeting of the Red Rivet
Inn" ovement association Thursday
when important reports will be
made by Mr. Floyd and J. C.
Smitherman. head of the associa-
tion located at Shreveport.
Ell t McClung, manager of the
local Chamber of Commerce, said
caravan would leave Denison at
noon Thursday for Paris and the
meeting to begin at 2 p. m. All
wishing to go, but who have no
way to attend, should call the
Chamber of Commerce for possible
reservations, Mr. McClung said.
be the most promising since the |
disappearance of Mrs. Parsons,
Pastor Guilty
COLORADO SPRINGS. Col.—
A distinct court jury' declared
the heavyweight boxing situntion 'lie'. Hairy Alliy guilty 1°' th'
is still a? muddled ns it hns been ! slaying his 8irl wifc w'lomT
with killing last Juu-
(Continued on Page 4)
is charged
uary.
Wiae Differences
In Relief Policy
WASHINGTON—Wide differ-
ences of opinion on how the
relief policy should he conducted
in the future is causing consider-
able disputes and friction in the
ranks of Congressmen
A fight to take relief work out
of politics is being made and a
severe penalty, for such practices
is to be proposed, it was declared.
Just wha is to be the policy
for handling relief for the coming
rear ss now one of the questions
causing much activity.
Play Games And
Find Gold Cache
DULUTH, Minn. — Two boys
playing at the game of pirates
Tuesday, were digging under the
front porch of an old house. Only
a few inches under the surface
they struck something wrapped in
newspaper.
The newspaper xvas dated Jaiv
14, 1914, and In it was wrapped
$2,000 in gold.
The gold was n five, ten and
twenty dollar denominations.
NOTICE
If yon do not get you P»P«
delivered to you by 5 p. na.
day, please phone 800 and oia
will he aent you.
THt DENISON rgess
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