The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 160, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Cloudy and not so cold tonight
and Saturday.
The Denison Press
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT
SUNDAY
YOUR HOME-OWNED
DAILY NEWSPAPER
86c PER MONTH
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS FRIDAY, JAN. 9th, 1942
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. VIII—NO. 160
U. S. Asiatic Fleet Sinks Four Japanese Vessels
Open Dissatisfaction Displayed In House
Over Set-Up Of The Civilian Defense Unit s
Control Over Expenditure Of Funds
Transferred To War Department
Texas Pays9U. S. 0?ln Full
45 Atkinson
Foremen Get ^
afety Awards
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—First thorize expenditure of $100,000,-
open display of dissatisfaction ov- 000 for civilian defense,
er the civilian defense setup cume The house finally passed thu
in the house Thursday afternoon senute-approved. measure, but not!
during debate on the bill to uu-i until an amendment had been
“ ! adopted transferring from the Na-1
A tional Civilian Defense Director,
I Mayor F. H. LaGuardla of New
[ Cork, to the war department, all
| control over the expenditure of
j the funds. The vote was 187 to
168.
Two Texas 'members of the
house participated spirited in the
debate, during which the New
I York mayor was criticized for at-
tempting to occupy two positions,
either one of which, it was assert-
ALONG TH€
N6WS B€flT
BY THE EDITOR
(Continued on page fouri
“It’. lor America *’
Duri'k the last world war while
we we'e making our home in.
Greats' Cincinnati, many homes od- woul(i rct'uire his p’lt,r<>
from A-hich boys had gone to war: LaGuardia bad announced in New
were ’isited. In one of the homes' York Wednesday that for the pres-
was a mother from whom had gone, ent at least he wou,d rctaln bis pi!'
four Joys into the service. She didj sition as may°r of New York in ad~
not kiow where they were, except!
that they were "somewhere’’ and i
that may have been in this coun-
try, o.i the high seas (or under) Anfl ^nfYXAf
or in a foreign country. 1 Il-C rtllU iJIIUW
In our effort to bring some
word of comfort to the good wom-
an the remark was made that our
heart went out to her and hoped
that she might soon learn of their:
well being.
As quick as a flash she straight-1
ened up, looked us in the eye and j
with a touch of her right hand to.
her forehead as if making a kind ]
of salute, said “I have my comfort (
in being able to send my boys to j
the front- It’s for America.
Only Six Lost
Time Accidents
In Six Months
Forty-three foremen of the Guy
F. Atkinson company, dam em-
j bankment contractor, have been
awarded “certificates of apprecia-
j tion” in recognition of completing
j six months without a lost time ac-
| cident, A E. Holt, general manag-
[ or, announced today.
Mr. Holt said during the period
! covered by the Uward the company
had onty six lost-time accidents,
| with these occurring during May,
June and July. None ot these has
been serious, Mr. Holt said, and
have resulted ir. very few days lost'
time, with the maximum of days
lost being 18. During the first1
year there were 40 accidents, the
general manager recalled, and the
Covers City
For Nine Days
Numerous Fires
Reported; Auto
Traffic Hazardous
Texas has paid its debt in full to th © uited Service Organi-
zations, in fact an additional token of several thousands of dollars was
made possible by the generosity of Texas people. Jay Silverberg, Cor-
sicana business man, and state treasurer for the U.S.O., is here shown
in the offices of E. B. Germany, Southwestern director, Dallas, signing
the final check for $78,000 which put Texas’ quota over the top. It was
forwarded to National Headquarters in New York by Garfield Craw-
ford (right), campaign director for Texas. The U.S.O. is active in the
different troop concentration centers in Texas and throughout the
United States and its possessions. Many new U.S.O. Clubs are now
under construction in Texas communities with many more to be erected
within the next few months.__~~_ ______
Contract For Dam Spillway To Be
Let About February 15, Estimated
Philippine Situation Growing
Ominous By The HouivReported
Kraft Founder Expected Here Today
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(Continued »n page feur)
(Continued on page four)
Okla. Operations
Office Planned
If Denison gets relief today
There you have the spirit of the! from Hie continued cold spell
mothers and wives and sweethearts j which j3 vaguely promised by the
_________| weather man, it will be the first
I relief from freezing temperature
I to be visited here since the open
| ing day of the new year.
| For nine days now the city has j
I ben covered in the main with ice
J and snow and the natives have,
____ , been shivering, while auto traffic |
Army engineers here today are' has been hazardous and pedes-
planning for the opening of an' trians have walked at their own1
operations office in Oklahoma r‘-sk, with numerous falls and in-,
when work begins on the construe-! jurie.s reported. | T/wlo v
tion of bridges for the. dam res-1 The temperature has ranged DUms 1 UUay
ervoir, relocation of both the Fria-from 5 above to not more than 25 j
co railroad tracks and slate high-
ways in that area-
The office will
such a position to
Flans for construction of the eer district-
Denison dam spillway today were The contract will probably
in the final stage of preparation be awarded by April 1 and actual
and should be ready for contract construction should be started by
_ j bid advertising about Feb 15, ac- May, he said,
cording to H. I- Johnson, engin- Designed at first as a 250,000
eer in charge of flood control pro- cubic yard basin, model tests at
jects for the Denison army engin-j Vicksburgh recently proved the
_________spillway might be reduced to 160,
Half Of Jap
Foreign Office
Grayson Defense
Rond Allotment
Is S2,689,000 j
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 9—Texans
will be asked to purchase a mini-,
mum of $326,849,417 of defense'
bonds and stamps during 1942,
Frank Scofield, national defense,
administration for Texas announce
ed today in making public allot-!
ments for the state by counties. I
Dallas county’s share of this sum]
is $36,658,500, the second largest!
in the state. That is an average of;
$92 per person in the county, near-
ly double the average set for the
entire state.
The allotment is over the $1,-
000,000 mark for fifty-one of the
254 counties.
North Texas county allotments
are: Grayson $2,689,000, Tarrant
$19,961,000; Collin $1,613,00;!
I Denton $1,290,900; Fannin $772,-:
200; Hunt $1,810,200; Lamar $},-
$928,000.
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Full Power Of
Enemy Forces Are
Expected By Gen.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Heart-
ening word of United States sub-
marine successes against Japanese
| j shipping came from the Far East
' today, but there was considerable
anxiety here over signs that Gen.
Douglas MueArthur's forces in the
Philippines soon would face the
full power of growing enemy
forces there.
In its first communique for days'
the navy said a Japanese transport
and three cargo vessels, about 10,-
000 tons each, had been sunk by a
submarine of the Asiatic fleet.
With the situation in the Phil-
I>p!i.' obviously growing ominous
by the hour the war department
P;‘- fd its usual night communique
The morning report gave every
indication that the Japanese were
organ zing their growing forces
for a great effort to wipe out Gen-
eral MaoArthur’s American-Fili-
pino army.
Enemy ’•enforcements, MacAr-
thur reported to the war depart-
I ment, were being brought up to
! ‘he front lines, still somewhere
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J\MKS L. KRAFT
m
ahovc for the past nine days and
today opens with little promise of
be located in] relinquishing the hold winter has,
give field men] on the ctiy, the only exception bo-
easy access to both contract jobs.! ing the norther has somewhat died
Contracts for the construction' rown.
of the Washita River bridges forj IDuring the cold spell the city
relocation of the railroad and has had numerous fires occasioned
highways is expected to he let byjby heat being applied to frozen
March 1, and the work will be pipes, or from overheated stoves.
000 yards, leaving the width at
] “-000 feet bl,t reducing the length] 50'S’2on and‘cooke
| of the chute. i _____ ,_______
] Drastic government covering thei
the priority materials are expec- Cjv . C* --.f f'
'ted to affect plans to avoid the V'1
! spillway paving contract the next j OFS CHoSCIl
step in the dam project.
Tl;e spillway paving will require
4,000 tons of reinforcing steel, The special canvassing commit-
which the engineers believe can [fee to check the return of the bal-
be obtained without difficulty. The!
I lots cast by members of the Deni-
speeded up on the projects imme-| Continued cold and possible drizzl- northeast wing and swept through
diately after contract awards. Sub-’ ing rains are promised today.
structures are already being c.,n-j -::--
structed on minor crossings
TOKYO, Jan. 9—Half of the
Japanese foreign office was burn-
ed down today in a two and a one-
haif hour fire which Pomei, the
Japanese news agency, said was .pjl;wav jo|) wi„ require 'aboutj*0*1 Chamber of Commerce to
caused by an oneiheated stove. j one_thir(, as much steel M has bee„| name six new members of the
The fire started at 2:30 a. n’-,'u,0(j in tbe outlet works, but the|board of directors, completed its
and was brought unde- control at ronorrtP win t)„ s,i(,htly nior(, tban!work Wednesday afternoon. Re-
the outlet works consumed. There j suits of the election will not be an-
is no shortage of cement, the en- nounced however, until the annual
gineers have been informed.
5 a. m- It started in ’lie first ?ec
tion of the research bureau in the
the railroads.
Garden Club To
-, I, .11 . • • ______...——
Snowbound Sergt. Assist In Homes
Coasts To Flying I Registration
School On Sled
i the second and third sections of_______
the Bureau of Commercial Affairs,
and burned other sections as well, PROVOST MARSHAL LEAVES
! including the accounts section. FOR INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL
| Domei said all important docu- 'First Lieut. E E. Williams, pro-
ments were saved. The fire did vost marshal and police officer at
J
(Continued on page four!
Civilian Reads
Of Soldier Duty,
Becomes Ashamed
“I was interested in something
1 r ad recently regarding what a
-•oldicr give- up in times like these
and when I read it and thought of
1 ow some of us think we have done
ill that necessary in this Red
"ro; drive when we make one
offe-ing, I had to hide my own
face from myself," declared a
• md Y>fn''soii man this week who
hid contributed $2 he stated to
M'p Red Cre -• and had reeeind a
button and cot his name in the pa-
I am ashamed now when I read
that list and see only two dollars
opposite my name ami recall how
A. J. Riddle
Southwestern Division
Manager
I
Kraft Cheese Opens
2-Days Sales Confab
SIfF.RMAN, Tex., Jan 9—At for the 100 employees of the Rol-
least one member of the army air| Hns & Forrest company, Dallas,
corps assigned to the new- basic: and members of their families who
flying school at Grayson airport! will locate here, the Home Regis-
has been inspired by that portion ] tration committee meeting Thurs-
of the postoffice department’s! day afternoon requested Mrs. E.j
credo, which reads: "Neither rain, I-. Hailey, garden club president,
nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail can
stay these couriers from their giv-
en duty.”
Staff Sergeant Clyde P. Vuiide-
grift chief clerk in the morale and
recreation section, recently had vi-
tneeting the whole body which is
to bn set for some time in Febru-
1 ary, the usual month for the Deni
| son general meeting of all mem-.
] bers.
I At that time also a new presi-
, -v.v. ...v ..... ..... ------------- — .----- ------- dent will be named for the organi-
I rot touch buildings which housed the Grayson county flying school, nation. The canvassing committee
i the information, treaty, American has left for a six-weeks course in this week was composed of Adolph
__ affairs, European and Asiatic af- the Army Intelligence school at, Johnson. Clifford Esler and Quin-j
Discussing the problem of find-' ^a‘ra and b’ast A-S>:>stic affairs bu- Brooks field, San Antonio Mrs. nie Cuff. Six men were picked, the Kraft Cheese company opened
ing suitable housin facilities here reaus> b,ome' said, and a,s0 "n‘ Williams accompanied him. They from a list of twelve names sent ] here this morning with James L.
scathed were the personnel, proto- expect to return about Feb. 20, to all members, the ones receiving! Kraft of Chicago, founder and
col and translation sections. No when Lieut. Williams will resume the highest number of votes being'president of the company, expected
casualties were reported. his duties here. elected as trustees. I momentarily.
C. H. KRAFT
Vice President i/i charge of Production
fContin i*<i on fos
Another Confab
With Oklahoma
Necessary, Says
A two-day sales convention of
WARS NOT WON BY WORRYING OVER ENTERTAINMENT
FOR SOLDIERS DECLARES ARMY, NAVY REGISTER
I Returning today from Oklahoma
J City. Lieut Col. W'ifliam W'. Wan-
] amaker. Den on district engineer,
; l- ertod today he would hold an-
] other conference with the Oklaho-
! •"a State Board of Agriculture on
’ '’I’bruary 6 to continue negotia*
, tions relative to the government
i purchase of 194 pcrcs of land near
Mr. Kraft has assured A. J. Rid-j Tishomingo. The land is owned
die, southwestern division manag-j I y the Murray state school of ag-
er, he would attend the session and ! riculture.
is scheduled to address one of the Col. W’annmaker said the con-
sessions. Thi Kraft president has ference from which he had re*j
made reservation at Hotel Denison turned matters came up that need
but early this morning had not further adjustment before the deal
checked in, nor was he located at, can bo closed and the land acquir-
the local Kraft building ] ed for the Denison dam basin. Tho
A group of other officials from1 engineer was accompanied by H. |
to have her organization considerl
assisting them.
Garden club members will assist
in the survey of rental property]
available and investigation of pro-
perty registered with the office
sions of being stranded in his quar-] clerks. I erican army has .-offered from the Enduring Hardships
ters, sc/ven and one-half miles. The committee issued the appeal conception that it was a training] Wars are not won by worrying
from the post, when unusual wea
ters, rooms, furnished or uniurn-] 'nRe action, and able to alter its] Wars are not won by joy-riding
ished apartments or houses to methods and experiment with tech-J motorized along country roads.
(From Army and Navy Register)
For more than a year the Am-
The new phase will create new
seriousness.
ther blanketed roads between
Sherman ami the air field with ice
and snow. Highways were unfit
for safe travel.
But, ingenious as army corps
men are, Sergeant Vandegrift bor-
rowed a neighbor lad’s sled and
coasted much of the way to the air
field.
phone 242, the Home Registration nique indefinitely. It had no con-
’ office and list the vacancies. i crete mission and no stimulus of
____ | intensive action. It came very
MOTHER OF (McKINNEY BANK nearly to being little more than
VICE-PRESIDENT INJURED I just a game it ivas playing with
McKINNEY, Tex., Jan. 9—Mrs 1 rules and umpires and all that.
F. M. Warden, mother of Henry] Now the situation has changed.
W. Warden, vice-president anil, The assault upon Pearl Harbor has
shown us who our first foe wilt bo
Wars are not won by-
knowledge of technique.
in war, only demands. He must
demand the last ounce of physical
and mental effort from his men,
and they must be ready to give
more than they have.
For the past year, with its com-
plicated training courses, the army
has given the impression that wars
are won by technique, and that su
Wars arc won by being hard, perior skill wins. Those who train
Military police at the gate would
not permit the vehicle on the] cashier of the Collin County Na-
grounds without a registration tag,1 tional bank, suffered a severe
so Sergeant Vandegrift tied the fracture of the hip Thursday when
sled to the gate-post and proceed-] she fell in the bathroom of her
ed to headquarters on slippery home. She Is reported suffering
foot. ] I’onsMernhly tndnjr nt a locnl hos-
Jtegardless of obstacles, he rc-l pital, where she was removed for
treatment.
and has given vigor to our every
effort.
This is not a conflict made by
“warmongers” or “merchants of
death,” or for any vague ideals.
It is a Nvar to the finish for the
future of ourselves and our nation.
by fitting men physically so they
can endure the last hardship, by
fitting them mentally so that they
will be eager to sink the rising
sun, so that nothing else in the
world matters.
troops this way for actual war
have forgotten the Napoleonic say-
ing that the value of the moral to
the physical is as three to one.
Those who train our American
troops for war iionv will he de-
Coddling of men In uniform: manding the last moment of time
ceases at a time like this. A strict
control and an unflinching de-
mand for superlative achievement
are the marks of a ivar-time soldier
life. There are no “desires” or
policies of a commanding officer
and the last ounce of energy. They
wilt be impressed with the need to
push and drive, to exact absolute-
ly the last that a man has to give.
Civil Rights Surrendered.
When a soldier enrolls in the] trained corps
the Chicago headquarters, includ-
ing Charles H. Kraft, vice-presi-
dent of the company and brother
of the founder, all of whom are
service, he surrenders a long list' t0 appear on tb,> Ingram,
of civil rights. He should surren- Resevations for seventy rooms
der himself completely to the f°r the two-day period was made
cause of the nation. This surren- «t Hotel Denison, taking every
der should be acknowledged by his room with bath facilities. Signs
leaders and should be utilized by notifying hotel guests that
them. Only by such acknowledg- Denison will be crowded to eapne-
ment and such utilization can the; ity Jan. 9-10” have been posted
leader make his men into the best in the lobby and in the reserved
soldiers possible. Each Soldier is rooms.
entrusted to his lender by the na- Mr. Riddle is presiding at the
tion so that the nation may have meeting.
the complete services of the sol- Business meetings were held to-
dier. The leader who looks for less day wi(h lunc],e(m at Hotel Deni-
is betrayingTiis nation. The leader son nn(j a banquet tonight. Busi-
who exacts not only perfection of n(,as w;n he resumed Saturday
performance, but also absolute niorninp; with luncheon at the
fullness of effort, is the only lead-1 an(j the conference closing late
er who is doing his job. Both lead- Saturday afternoon,
er and led must realize this. | Among those attending the con-
When they do, America will have; (frence are j h platt, vice-presi-
| a fieUing foue instead of a mere]
in uniform. i (Continued on pag ■ fl>u>)
E. Cox, head of the land acquisi-
tion division.
DEATH ROLL
MISS DOROTHY WILEY
Friend* 0f Mr. and Mrs. Emory
Wiley, who formerly resided in this
‘Hotel city, learned with regret today of
the death in Dallas of a daugh-
ti;. Miss Dorothy Wiley, 27. Miss
Wiley attended the schools of
Denison while the family resided
here.
The Wileys lived at 1027 West
Bond treet while in Denison, lemv-
in<r here about 18 years ago. Mr.
Wiley was in the investment bus-
iness and conducted a business
where the C. C. Odle cleaning
b°‘ plant is now operated
MOTICE--
If yen d* net receive vour Ptbj
fldfl* BY!# I
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