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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Cloudy and unsettled today
and Saturday
THE DENISON PRESS
A FAST GROWING
PAPER
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DENISON, TEXAS I'RIDA Y, DEC. 16th, 1938
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930 -DAILY 1934
VOL. 5-NO. 140
Of France By Chamberlain Charged
Digs Up Reason For U. S. Coolness
Federal Agents
Hunt Evidence
In Coster Case
Italian Jews Farced To Register
All Property Under Latest Decree
New Racial Law May Cause;
Wide Shakeups in Italian
School System, Reported
Uncle Sam Catches Up With Him
SEES ERA OF PERU—Right Honorable Anthony Eden, young
handsome self-assured, as he spoke before 4.000 diners at tlv
National Association of Manufacturers' banquet in the Waldos!
Astoria. New York The former British Foreign Minister saw ms
era as one of peril and called on democracy to face ihe challenge
Of dictators He was Rivet) an ovfttiori
Former Theatre Operator, L, M.
Ridout, Dies In Hospital Here
_luri Funning, Alcohol Traffic Angies Aie
investigated; Arrest and indictment Come
As Shock 1 o His Wall Street Financiers
NEW YrtRK, lice. Id (UP)—! wi.u was expo-ed by his finger-
N cicj.it agents hunted today foi | prints as being Philip Musica, a
■virimie of gun mini n ; and aim- ! windier with u prison record,
no I traffic in the aff ii.'.- of Prank! rise unmasking of Coster as a
Don; in Coster, pie. iduiil of Me-] man with an unavory past was
Kesson and Robbins, Inc., a pi ! the second blow to fall upon his
ar in the wholesale tin g business, j associa'i s in Wall Street. His film
~. _________ _________j third largest of its kind in the
^ j world, with $87,00' ,000 i -1 ■ <i a'
I sets and a $174,100,000 annual
, business, had fail wo weeks age
wi n an $18,000,000 shortage. It
i was a shortage not of cash but
of tangible prods—huge wxrchous-
; es stocked with drugs—that had
1 een carried on the books but did
no1 exist.
The enigma of "Coster” was
about oompatajjie on]y t0 that of h’s
company.
He had the admi ation and res-
pect of the leading financiers
Everyday
DENISON
LOUIS
By
ANDERSON
© fll
That stoiy this correspondent
published the other day
probaJe changes in district five
next year, was not, according to
announcement after the meeting,
justified . . . But we’ll bet you it
will be before the next year or
two rolls around. We know dtfi-
KUMK, Dec. l(i (UP;— The
cabinet today approved a die ee
obliging Italian Jews to register
ail their property.
Th i.-e Jews who o.vn property
exceeding limits ou lined in i. de-
cree promulgated Nov. 17 v.i 1 be
ob Red to turn ovc: the ex i s t<
a government agency, which is to
liquidate it and hind beck thi p o
reeds to the owners in th- form
of special government bonds V’r-
ing interest at 4 per cent.
The Nov. 17 decn e foi • !••
Jews to hold city real estate on
wnich the annual ta < i x:\ eriod
2b,0(l lire ($1,070), farm laid on
which the tax excee iod 0,000
lire ($263) or to manage any bus-
ir.es which employed mo o than
100 persons.
Jews who hold bonds or other
property connected v'th t'-i in
tional defense must sel i1 to a
government agenev, which will pay
for it in the special 4 per cent
bonds.
The cabinet a! o approved a
decree making the four Li; van
provinces an intern! part of Italy
L. M. Ridout, 71, former theatre educated ill Luling, Texas, where
opera or here and business man he was married July 12, 1803 to
for many years, died in a local Miss Leona Foster,
hospital at 3:10 a. m. today follow- Coming to Denison he was a
ing an illness of only six days. morn er of the Elks club, the Rod
Born Sept. 27, 1807 in Coldwa- and Gun club,
ter Co., Texas, to Mr. and Mrs. of Commerce.
distributed $1(5,000,000 worth of
his firm’s bonds so tha he could
nite.y a number of coaches want expand his bus;ncss. He haiI
and conferring "sped d Italian
They had len^himJ^O’OOO’OOO and citjlonsh|p.. on ybvan M •i e.-s.
It. was announced til: I the i ib
Henry Ridout, he was reared and
the changes to come to pass
A number have asked this writer
why Roy McCorkle was not voted
the trophy of C. J. McManus as
and the Chamber the most valuable backfield man
He was interested the pa.-t season. The truth of the
matter is the seven representa-
tive business men here did not
Tenant Loans
To Buy Farms
Issued, 1,8S5
WASHINGTON, Dec. l<i (UP)
—The Farm Security ndministra
tion has disclosed that 1,8X7 fa-m
tenants, sharecroppers and labor
evs *ook advantage of the Bank-
hend-Jones farm tenant act rim-
ing the 1038 fiscal yen- to pur-
chase farms averaging 130 acres
ca'-h.
The average loan to finance the
purchase was $4,800, with S 1,077
representing the actual cost of
the farm.
Congress approuria'ed $10,000.-
000 for the first year of the act';-
operntion. which ended a t June
30. It authorized $25,000 000 for
the current fiscal vear, FSA offi
cials estimate that this sum w’V
finance purchase of 5,000 addi-
tional farms.
The Bankhead-Jones Act was
designed to enable farm tenants,
sharecroppers and agridij ut'al
in a 1 civic movements. He en-
tered service of the Katy in 1007
at Oklahoma (litv as construc'ion
contractor and lived there until
1912 when he moved to Denison
and entered the motion picture
business which he continued until
1927, retiring to run a poultry
ranch. His wife died here March
5, 1936.
Surviving are one son, Loo M
Ridout of Donison. a brother, II
T, Kr-izor of Roswell. N. M and
a sister, Mrs. Leo Heilman, Alvin,
T exas.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p. m. Saturday from the Short-
spent three years in prison for
perpetrating a celebrated "human
hair” swindle that cost his hack-
ees more than $1,000,000 twenty
five years ago.
He pulled his company through
the depression with an untarnish
. ,. . | ed credit rating—his fi st business
vote him that, but hi; own team- . ., , , ,
. ,. , ,, ’ venture as a vouth had been smug
ma'es, the eighteen lettemien, , „ ',
, , . . ,, . gling Italian cheese,
voted Ed Hams in ... Congrats who>g who recorded him
to the Denison men named yes-
terday to deputy sheriff posts lin-
er Fleas Porter. Both men, with „ . . KT v -
. ... , ,, —He was in Elnura, N. Y, refor
, n le experience as officers, should i .
ii , „ . . matory in 1909 for smug^lm?
made crood ones . . . Backs of ,
cheese
! Porter say he is the man for the
job.
Who’s Who recorded him as
having received a doctor’s degree
at Hcidelburg University in 1909
Elmii
1909
Murray chapel with intciment at
Fail-view cemetery, Short-Murray
directing.
Rev Minor Rounds, pastor of
the Waples Memorial church will
officiate.
Today, Costei-Musica was under
technical arrest at his home at
Fairifeld, Conn. Tie was indicted
Advance publicity c airns that ] yesterday hy a federal g-and jury
“Submarine Patrol," which opened charged with hav'ng filed false
today here, is one of the best of statements with the N. Y. stock
its kind ever turned out . . Bcn-
inot would meet aga:n Mach 13 to
consider reform of the school sys-
tem to conform to the new racial
laws.
John Garner
Visits Here
On Stopover
Three Special Cars To Take
Corpus Christi Fans to
Temple Game Saturday
—
Enroute from his Uvalde home
to Washington for conferences
proceeding n session of congress.
John N. Garner, vice-president of
the United States, arrived in Deni-
son Thursday night at (5:30 aboard
'he M K-T. Special, for a twenty
minute stop.
Minister
Bargains
With Duce
.'ranch f oreign Affairs Ex*
pert Claim i Chamberlain
i\1uy Force France to Give
rp French Somaliland area
Taiv Weakest
✓
n Axis Tieup
Nov
r
Inst ii'-ti'-ir.s are Sent to
r?n h Minister in Italy by
Georges Bonnet, Reported
BURNS PLEADS GUILTY—George Bums of the radio and screen
team of Burns and Allen pleaded guilty In New York Federal
*ourt to two Indictments charging him with smuggling. It was
th anted he received illicit Jewelry from Albert N. Chaperau.
mdicted on similar charges. Bums is shown above with his wi.e,
(iracie Aden, and their adopted children Sandra and Ronald.
RFC AUTHORIZES
CHINESE LOANS
inio McWilliams is one of the most
cooperative men with whom we
have been associated . . , Here’s
1 odds that George Burns, charged
j in a smuggling scheme, will draw
nothing heavier than a fine . . .
Ruth Etting has finally married
her accompanist. Myrl Alderman. Griffith, 34, former Denisonian
j Why she originally said she was living at Valley Mills who was
; wedded to him was never made fatally injured in an automobi’e
I public . . . Postal officials here accident near Waco Wednesday,
35 Years A.ffO ui<1 that Christmas rush has nl- will he held today at 2 p. m. from
^ 1’PnHv glnrforJ Vmfr it’e nntkSnrr n i tk.. nn>w
U. S. T oSalute
Flight’s Dawn
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UP)
—Jesse Jones, chairman of the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
tion today had authorized the Ex-
port-Import bank to extend $25
in-
Africa Looms
For 15,000 Jews
exchange regarding securi’ies soldi Mr. Garner was accompanied by jOdO.UOU in ciei*ts to t iiii.c
to the public. He already was | his wife, who also acts as his sec-
under $5,000 bond on charge of j rotary. The couple were in car No.
the Federal Securities and Ex- j 400, personal private car of Mat-
chanpo commission. Dhow S. Sloan, pro-blent and hoard
_______.. _ [chairman of the Katy lines.
Griffith Funeral Several important Texas per-
Funeral services for Marvin; 'ona>tps accompanied the vice-
''resident and his wife from the
Dallas union station to Highland
Park. The party consisted of E.
Ii. German, state democratic
chairman and mayor of Highland
ready started, but it’s nothing on j the home of his parents in th"| W. **. Clark, Jr., FHA re
KILL DEVIL HILL, N. C.. Dec.
(UP)—Two hundred airplanes
comparison with what it will fc'cj Cotton Mill community. Interment | lr'ona* director;
» .....- 1 'eador in Garner
next week. This is the time of | will he at Georgc’own cemetery, j
year when mail distributors wish. Short-Murray directing. Pal'bear-
Percy Rice, ]
for president;
................ __ ............. ^ ....... ....... ^ campaign, and W. H. Kitrell.
lauorers to buy farms «f sutl'icic.it wi|f zoom over the gleaming'white they had their annual vacation . ! ers will"he Vnford" GnfoVh, Geo. T,u' vxecutive is expccto to ar-j
size and quality to provide an ade- pyon atop desola c Kill Devil Hill . A Dallas expert says if you want | Tallent. Shelton Taul. AT Ton Tan!;rivetl at ‘ho nation’s capi'al Satur-
quiite living for themselves an „„,orrnw jn commemoration of to please your Engli h friends.; R, L. Sutton and O. ,1. Groff. lla-v morning.
of the birth don’t send them tobacco. King1 Rev. A. II. Logan officiated at I
the funeral services.
terests for purchase of Amercian
agricultural and manufactured
products.
The credits will be made avail-
able to the Universal Trading Cor-
poration of New York, and will be
guaranteed by the Bank of China.
They mature in five years.
The program was evolved dur-
ing three months of negotiations
; etween u special Chinese finan-
cial mission headed by K. P. Chen.
Shanghai banker, and administra-
tion authorities.
The Universal Trading Corpora-
tion of New York is composed of
Chinese stockholders and inco:-
porated under the laws of New
York state.
Chen told reporters the trans-
action is purely commercial, that
' MtIK. Die. 1G (UP) — Andre
Gcraud, outstanding French expert
' u f'-niin affairs, charged today
t;i• Prime Minister Neville Chnm-
belt.in was preparing to offer
Premier B'-nito Mus.-olini, British
Somaliland, in the be ief that
the;, France would be forced
• concedi French Somaliland.
W 1; French Sannli’aml, in anv
. 1 .i .u’d go Djibouti the
f port - f that part of the Af-
• i'-a- ......... an the sole rai’oad to
‘drib-. Ababa, whose terminus ia
Ti - and which is French own-
ed.
Gcraud, who writes under the
rationally known pen name
f p. • . >: made his assertions in
i article in the newspaper l’.Vpoa-
trophe.
He said that Chamberlain, as
; t ft I: friendship agreement
with Mussolini, had prom’sed Paly
that nothing would be done to pre-
vent a victory for the nationalists
in Co- Spanish civil war. , But as
the In niists had not been consult-
ed. and continued to fight, Perti-
iv.x said, Mussolini now was do*
! manding his due.
G rauri said that it was not
; k >w>i whether negotiations had
n, ii -tar'ed between the FYench
<nd PritiHi foreign offices regard-
ng any deal as regards Somalikted
Rut ho commented that if Cham-
; hcrlain executed any such deal he
would add a new error to nn al-
i ready long list.
"Armed Bla-kmail”
Gernud argued that the alleged
I Chamberlain p an would be a con-
cos-ion to "armed blackmail’’ and
(Continued on page four)
George slaps a $4.31 duty a pound
(Continued on page four)
their families. It followed disclos- the 35th anniver8a,.v
ure by the 1935 agricultural cen-
sus that more than two out of „ , ,
every five farmers in the United 0,1 thl‘ :»idy, windswept island | on cigars and $3.30 a pound on
States lire tenants and that leu- below, off the coastal sounds of smoking tobacco. Cigarettes enn-
aney was growing rapidly and Northeastern North Carolina,! not be shipped into Great Britain
larm ownership by individuals army, navy and marine corps rep at all.
declining .c.er.talives will lay weaths upon' --
Vast Mountain Cited the base of the Wright monument. Donald Duck ha- become more
After the tenantry report Was I ater at Fort Ra'eigh on nearby popu'ar with the public than Mick-
submitted, a committee of farm Roanoke Island, they will gather j
leaders appointed by President at a luncheon with the old timers I
Rooseielt found that migration of 0f the Banks who stil talk about j
tenants, estimated in the previous bat fantas’ic dav in the mid-
report at 1,11110,000 a year, rj- winter of 1903 when the increri-j
suited in unsound farming prac- ;iilc wright brothers sent their fly-!
ti es and rapid depletion of the jn(; maehine down the slopes oft
S0‘*I . K l Devil Ili'l and wobbling mil'-1
Under the Bankhead-Jones Act, n(,ulol?sly into th„ nil,
A-s'start Secretary Charles Edi-
■on wi 1 represent the navy, H. H.
Arnold the army and Admiral W.
G Waeseho the coast guard. Also
farm on a payment basis than ho present will be marine corpus ren-
would spend in rent.
af'ernoon and Saturday in
son an southern 'Oklahoma.
borrowers arc allowed 10 years to
repay loans at 3 per cent inter-
est, a financing arrangement
which results in the farmer-leadei
frequently paying less for his
District Plans
Mapped A t Meet
Oxyrt
en Tent
Is Used Today
On Cattledom
DENVER, Dec. K. (UP)— A
"Muoblood” of cntdcdom-Jaysec fly.
Bracelet Ormsby Spofford— ra I
ied today from double pnoumonin
with her head in an oxvgcn tent
Jaysec, a 35 i'av ohl Holstein
heifer worth approximate! $300,
will survive as the first member
of the animal kingdom on record
to receive oxvgen treatment, vet-
erinarians said.
Footba'l schedules for 1939 Basketball league, the teams will
resentatives anil a group of stato were mapped at the meeting play for a mythical championship
officials. ] Thursday in Sherman, of district with the winner awarded a trophy
five officials, with Denison play- at the end of the season,
ing its opening conference g.itrr The formation will call for Ilen-
against Bonham high 'October G. ison p'nying McKinney four games
R. L. Spears of Sherman was and the same number with Sher-
reelected chairman of Ihe district man, two of the ia'tcr to detor-
with H. O. McCain of Gaines- mine the county interscholastic
ville, secretary. I |Pa(rue winner.
ROME, Dec. 16 (UP)—Italy’s
anti-Jcwish campaign. initiated
with unexpected abruptness in
September, is today rapidly ap-
proaching its goal, but it will not
enter the final phase until Feb. 12.
1939.
Branded as "enemies of Fasc-
ism,” Italy’s 70,000 Jews have
been subjected to a series of re-
strictive measures which in three "0'”‘ of the credfs would go for
months have covered almost the military purchases. Among pur-
same ground as the anti-jewish chases being negotiated, however,
legislation adopted in Germany are several hundred motor trucks. ;
during the past five years. large supplies of gasoline and;
According to a ruling of the foodstuffs, a.l of which come un
Fascist Grand Council these mens- »■« the head of military necess-
ures affect only those persons |
whose mothers and fathers are 1 This is strictly a commeicial
both Jewish. Persons of mixed transaction,” Chen said. “The
or .01 per bjQPd arP subject to these re- trucks will be used on our high-
week in 1937 strictions unless they profess the "ays which we have established
cnrs Jewish religion. a- new trade routes and the g'.tso-
wi'h Without waiting for official leg 11 be used to operate tht
' islatiun. newspape s, hospitals and trucks.
-- ! business concerns have been liqui- The agreement provides for use
\ three car special football dating their Jewish employes, of a part of the fund to finance;
train of the Corpus Christi h'gh • Pub'ishing houses have ceased innortation of Chitir-a- tune ori.
! school is scheduled to leave San handling books written by Jews, which is used in paint and nrint-
' Antonio Saturday morning at .theatres have stopped producing ing enterprises. Chen said these
| 8:30 or Temple. j plays written by Jews and radio sa'cs would raise additional funds
----- stations have quit playing music so the Chinese can make more
Kemper cadets at Boonville, Mo.,, composed or executed by Jewish American purchases
will return home for the holidays artists 1 1 elaborate how
Saturday in a three-car special There are a number of exemp- the trading corporation intends to 1
Katy train. tion for families of Jews who function, but he said it would bo
; have voluntarily fought, been beaded by T M. Hsi, member of
bounded or decorated in one of the financial
Loading of revenue freight d'.tr-
---,,— ng the week ending December 10,
Temperature* Higher [totaled 619,340 cars, n decrease
Temperatures in Denison reach- r of 29,740 cars or 4.G per cent
oil a high of 54 degrees Thursd’y from the previous week but an
followed hv a low of 40 this morn-i increase of 74 cars,
ing. Colder weather with unset-: cent over the same
tied skies were forecast for this] and a decrease of 167,732
DAVS TBL*
CHRISTMAS
Santa s Snooper
Deni-] or 21.3 per cent compared
1930 loadings.
I “UR
No'
!above
'can r>
AND DOWN AND 'ROUND
ABOUT TOWN”
The 25th anniversary cclebrn
tion 's sponsored liv th > Kill Devil
Mi I Memorial nsso' iat on. headed
be A. VV. Drinkwater of Mati’eo,
who 35 years ago was the tele-
graph operator at the isolated is-
land who tapped out to the world
the first message that man could
Plans for a basketball schedule i
The district football schedule
Rick*' Service*
this winter between Denison, Sher- fw next scason was.
man, Gainosvil e, Bonham, Paris ^ ^ .
, , ... Oct. 6. Bonham at Denison,
and perhaps McKinney, were d’s
(cussed. Officials pointed out the; ^>al's Gainesville
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Funeral services for Mvs. Sarah loop would in noway affect Inter-1 Sherman at Bonham.
Rl'ks, a resident of Hammond, scholas’ic longue races, but was
Ind., who forme y lived here, will an inducement to create mote in-
be he'd at 3 p. m. todav from te: est in the game among fans of
the George Shield cha"el with Rev. j North Texas. Mar hall Mav, Bon-
H-i’TV Lee Virden officiating. In-j ham coach, was named chairman
terment will be held at Oakwood to form the cage race,
cemetery, George Shield directing. To be called the North Texas
‘hat "7” in the box
Seems that this column
• ger urge “shop early,”
t’s n vv too late to "shop early,”
lit b toi late than never. The
he-t we .an say now is don’t wait
until the last day.
Chiistmas will be u much more
>y.',i- occasion for those who are
o' i i-.ed with the completion of
;mnny last minute details. So,
"min we urge—Don’t wait until
the last day.
Two special trains hound for
Ok ahoma City and Wichita Falls Italy’s four wars In Libya, Europe, sentative of the Central Bank
Will leave Columbia, Mo., tonight Ethiopia and Spain. These exemp- Uhina
containing students of Christian ^ons (^° no aPI^v { l> , an
College for Girls leaving for, a«ain!'t entering Italian schoo.s.
home. ---------,!-------
__ DEN1SONMNS ATTEND
Christmas turkey shipments arc GAINESVILLE BANQUET
expected to close tomorrow with' B. McDaniel nnd E E- Rogers.
Cwtainly there's no reason for
any of Santa's helpers to won-
der a- to the “right” thing to give.
mis'-ion and r me- . j)onjKOn merchants’ windows
arc a romp ete catalogue of wel-
come suggestions. Just look over
'll Denison Press ads, then shop
SNAGGING HOSE IN COURT. the windows a while and you’ll
DEFENDANT GETS CUT have so many acceptable sugges-
1N SPEEDING FINE ' ons ii will be only a matter of
FORT AA'ORTH. Tex., Dec. 16 deciding how much you want to
(UP)—A pretty 23-year-old de-j spend.
86 Katv freights cars loaded with Denison school officials, were fondant charged with speeding, --—
the dressed birds since Thanksgiv- guests at the annual GainosvilV stood before Judge W. II Gib The Denison Auto supply offers
nig. ; football banquet Thursday night.4 martin Thursday and pointed to more than its quota of gift sug-
__ when more than 200 fans from'a snag in her silk hose. gestions Unless reminded you
Now that the Christmas rush this section were present. “Just look at thnt. judge, I might not rea’ise that here are
has started in ea’-n'est, extra bag-' With Charlie Trigg, SMU lint j snagged it on your swinging gate many wanted gifts for men, worn-
or 11. Gainesville at "age ears, mail elerks ami express eoach, as chief speaker, and S. N coming into court and 1 think yon en and children,
messengers have been added to a'! Yarbarough, toastmaster, the gath-i owe me damages. she pouted,
nnaenger trains, it was revealed] e’ung learned the 18 Leopard let-j Judge Gi martin tud'eri the o\i-
today.
Oct. 27. Denison at Sherman.
Nov 10
Denison, Bonham at Paris.
Now. 17. Gainesville at Bon-
ham, Paris at Sherman.
Nov. 30. Sherman at Gaines-
ville, DcniBon at Paris.
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termen for the season. I denee. then allowed her $2, fin-
The event was held at the Tur- j ing her only $8 instead of the cus-
ner hotel. ' tomary $10
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