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WEATHER
DENKON AND VICUimr
Slightly warmer tonight,
continued fair Sunday
The Denison Press
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT
SUNDAY
YOUR HOME-OWNED ,
DAILY NEWSPAPER
86c PER MONTH
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS MONDAY, OCT 20th, 194
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930— DAILY 1934
VOL. VIII—NO 97
STATE OF SIEGE IN MOSCOW
PROCLAIMED BY STALIN
EVERYDAY
DENISON
By
PAT PERRY
o *
If you’re single and making
more than $14.43 a week, or if
you’re married and your weekly
wage exceeds $28.85, you’d bet-
ter take out you pencil and paper
and figure out whether you’re go-
ing to be one of the nation’s 13,-
181,000 income tax payers on
March 15. If your income tops
those levels the chances are 13 out
of 32 you’ll have to contribute to
Uncle Sam’s income tax bill . . .
Boat with several new autos
aboard sunk, reports a recent
nows story. Crew, and no doubt a
number of pedestrians were saved
. . First Lieut. Wesley Barnhill
(Continued on page four)
Measure Taken to
Assure Defense Of
Russian Capital
Studio Suspends
Screen Favorite
$ ^.Two Denisonians,
One She.'*manite
Enlists In Navy
Applications for six-year enlist-
ments in the U- S. navy of two
Denisontans and one Shermanite
were accepted here today by
Chief Petty Officer E. C. Hayes.
The youths, James W. Blanton,
17, 132 E. Day and Adam Sowder,
17, 718 W. Murray and Don Mat-
thews, 17, of Sherman, were sent
to the Dallas recruiting station for
MOSCOW, Oct. 20)—Premier
Joseph Stalin today issued a de-
cree proclaiming a state of siege
in Moscow.
The decree said the measure
was taken “to assure the defense
of Moscow and the strengthening
of the rear ranks of forces de-
fending Moscow as well as to halt
the underground activities of
spies, diversionists and other
agents of the German Fascists."
(The BBC said the decree im
posed a curfew between midnight
and 5 a. m., banned movement of!
ail vehicle except by special au-
thorization during those hours, im-
posed the death sentence for sabo-
tage and named commanders ol
the Moscow garrison.)
Naxii Capture Veaael.
The German high command|
meanwhile announced the capture
of Taganrog on the Black Sea by
the SS trod).,, bearing the brunt
of a drive on Rostov, gateway to
the Caucasian oil fields.
German front dispatches indi-
cated, without saying so specifical-
ly, that the German wedge was
driven into the outer ling of de
(Continued on pug'- fouM
(Continued on page four)
High School Band
To Witness Game
At Sherman Thurs
Last Surviving
Oklahoma Gov.
Dies Sunday
! School
Enrollment
Now 3,094
White StudenU
Number 2,634, with
Negroes 460, Shown
Denison school enrollment, in-
cluding those of contract schools
in outlying districts, as of October
1, totaled 3,094 students, accord-
ing to figures compiled by the of-
fice of Superintendent B. McDan-
iel today Of the figures, 2,034
represented white student: and
460 negro students.
The Denison high school enroll-
ed 1,134 students of which 271
were ninth graders, 331 tenth j
grade, 203 in the eleventh and |
209 in the twelfth.
Central ward school reported 1
550 students, 04 in the first grade,
35 in the second, 40 in the third,;
08 in the fourth, 00 in the fifth,
87 in the seventh and 87 in the
eighth.
349 At Peabody.
Peabody ward school recorded
NO CHANCE EXPECTED BY NAVY FOR
RESCUE OF KEARNY’S 11 MISSING MEN
349 students, 51 in the first grade, j
12 in the second, 40 in the third, j
(Continued on ,iagi four)
story of her films led
breach.
The Denison high school hand
| and drum and bugle corps, with
| the Sherman high school and Aus-
tin college bands will attend the
: Austin college - Texas Wesleyan
football game at Sherman Thurs-
! day night at the invitation of Ray-
i mond Stephens, president of the
SAPUlIJ'A, Ok., Oct. 20—Wil-J Austin Kangaroo club, Charles L.
liam Miller Jenkins, 85, last sur^ Crimea, music director for the
viving ex-governor of Oklahoma high school here, announced today
territory, died Sunday of the in-1 T’or Denisonians desiring to wit-
firmaties of age. He had been in ness the game, general admission
retirement for twelve years. j tickets and reserved seat ducats
Jenkins was appointed Terri- went on sale at Sherman drug
torial governor by his friend, stores today. The Kangaroo club a( ^ ^ dot)artnient, air corps,
President William McKinley, in| i* sponsoring the Texas conference j j)Gll|v0n_^|K,miant Texas.
April, 1901, and removed by Pres- game at Sherman and the hand
Deanna Durbin
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20—De-
anna Durbin, credited with having
saved Universal studio from bank-
ruptcy with her golden tones, has
been suspended in an unexplained
surprise. .
She’ll be back soon, the film [
colony predicts confidently — but |
as soon as her contract expires
next year she’ll move along to [
ome other lot, following Director |
Joe Pasternak and Husband
Vaugh Paul through the Universal
exits.
Miss Durbin was silent.
' Friends said they believed her
demand for more personal super- {.jgmric t*Huir early today for
vision of the east, direction and ,.JWninff s oripp|e for pay. Thf.
110 slaying was one of a score disclos-J
ed by a four-state investigaiYon of
Murderer Dies
Early Today In
Electric Chair
BELLFFONTE, Pa., Oct. 20—
Herman Betrillo, Philadelphian,
was executed in Pennsylvania’s
Where the Pilgrims W orshipped
Ten Are Injured, I wo Seriously, As Result
Of iTorpecloing of U.S. Warship Last Week
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i BERLIN, Oct. 20—It was an
jnounce today that so far a.- Ger-
man information goes, they have
- no knowledge of any German ves
I sel attacking the American dc-
troyer, and brand the story as
either not happening or the work
was that of one of the allies.
11 axiway,Run\v’y
Shoulder Biik lo
Be Asked 21st
Successful Bidder
Required To Finish
Project In 45 Days
^Washington Not Surprutd
! WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—Offi-
cial Washington was not surprised
at the a, iciaimer issued by Ger-
1 many today and assigning the at-
, tack on the .American destroyer
Kearny to aliit:. The tenseness
j of [t, situation ii, Washington is
j growing and today prominent Re-
, publican.- headed by Wendell L.
I Willkie and others, have joined in
I a demand for the immediate re-
peal of the neutrality act.
The revelation of the loss of
lives on the attacked vessel,
j along with the attitude taken by
1 Germany in the matter is bringing
ffice will tb country nearer to the hour
when an open declaration of war
is likely.
w m
THE CHUIU H <)F THE PILGRIM FATHERS, dedicated to the mem-
ory of those Londoners who sailed to America on the Mayflower, was
recently destroyed in an air raid. The church, which stood in one of the
older sections of London, was built in t.,e early 17th Century and actually
numbered some of the founders if New England among its original mem.
beis Photo shows oart of the damaged nave, looking toward the altar,
a bizarre murder-for-insuranre
ring.
Petrillo went to his death at
12:32 a. m. protesting his inno-
cence as he was strapped in the1
chair, making several efforts to
arise from it.
Mechnitic’s Helper
Wanted, Grayson
Flying School Base
The United States Civil Service! The for,"er Build(:' and
Commission announces open com- a. a le^er of a wide-, defelu* hous:n,
petHive examination for the po-!sPread P,ot authortt.es sa,d tooklfonteniplating
File Applications Now
For Priority Assistance
The U. S. Engineer
issue invitations for bids on or
about Oct. 21 for the construction
of runway shoulders and taxiwny1 ----
lor the Grayson county airs corps WASHINGTON, Oct 20—Kiev
basic flying school, according to ert member of the United
an advance notice issued bidder- fjtat - destroyer Kearny are miss-
today by Lieut. Col. William W.j |n.? and ten are injured, two ser-
] Wanamaker, district engineer ,,,u:j a -e suit of the torpedoing
I Period of advertisement will be
I ten days.
The successful bidder will be
1 required to commence work within
ten days after receipt of notice to
proceed. Approximately forty-five
I days will be allowed foi the com-
I pletion of all work
i The work to be performed con
' gists of all plans, labor and ma-
'• terial.s and performing, construct-
j ing, furnishing and installing ap-
I proximately 156,000 square yards
I of runway shoulders 75 feet wide
j and taxiway of one of the threc-
! following types of construction:
) (1) Soil-asphalt stabilization
(plant or road mix) tour inches
I thick using topsoil atockpi’ed at
| the site of the work;
(2). Soil-cement stabilization
' i plant or road mix) six inches
the nav
y depanment
today.
The
aama-:ed .Tiip,
trurk -
her. about
.'OUthv.fe
f t of Iceland,
an undi
closed port.
of the Hi, hip or, Friday by a
uMTii.riii? undoubtedly German,
announced
which was
350 milts
ha reached
Naviii ourci- ^id th©P6 w<is
not a chance in a million that the
m..-.-ing wou.d be found uiixe, al-
though tti- navy department re-
fused to -ay whether there was
,u., t ape foi them It added suc-
ointb that next of kin of both the
nil-.-in.- and ou.-ly injured had
(Continued on page fourl
! thick using topsoil stockpiled at
I drowning and
j accidents.
He was brought
ident Theodore Roosevelt seven
months later, after McKinley's
assassination.
the Secretary, board
\il Service examiners,
i air depot, Duncan field, San An-
f>v *
members will sit with students in
the west stands, it is indicated.
Mr. Grimes said members of
Mr. Roosevelt’s action was baa-1 the girls drum and bugle torps T\xa.-. before
ed on charges before the Secretary | cleared $9 in ‘heir candy sale?
of the Interior that Jenkins owned Saturday an $5.06 was the ncti
stock in a Norman sanitarium, to, procoes realized from the dance I
which he granted contracts to! Saturday nightvat the Rod and
care for the territory's insane. Gun club, during which initiation,
Jenkins later was exonerated inl0f nevv band members were held,
investigations by the Territorial, and pictures of the initiates in hu-
Legislature and Thompson R. Fer-| ]a.skirt costumes were made for,1'^"
guson, who succeeded him as gov-j ,(,p yellow’ Jacket, school annual. *. ^ f,,,.,,,.
ernor, reported to the Secretary' The hand and drum and liugle|1 ” 1
of the Interior that Jenkins had' corps will present a spectacular
11 . .. „ ... ' chamber by two guards who held
ol U. a. Ui-:. .
him up
to the death Da„a«.
Nt Ho
As Petrol Ii entered
amine i
n il Service examiners. San Antonio j 1 1,11 UJ’‘ r%' * , . , *1^
, _ . ________ y; .i.i AnJ looked abound at the witnesses and ing co-ordination.
the close of* ^ helped to the chair. J he “Because deleiiso housing’ i.t
business on November 10. ! ^ards h;‘d e“h “m( d0W“ a"d, "veded here. Denson ! as been
be requir-' ,hon bafk an<* Petrll|o turning to 1 designated in a defense housing
them seid: larca where housing priorities as-
"Now gentlemen, you wouldn't ^stlinc(. js avui
want to witness death of an in- 110 help hin t
Competitors will not
ed to report for examination at
any place hut ratings will be based!
11 information -hown in their
contractors in for only 200,000 defense housing; the site of the work, with seal
areas, who are'unts in the United States, builders; coat; two inches of fine grading
building vitally} should not he itate to apply for may be required;
housing units,I the assistance if they hope to( (3). Flexible base (crushed
filing their appli-| erect some of the 200,000 housing -tone) five inches thick single
units.” | course asphalt surface treatment;
To obtain the defence housing one and one-half iucho of five
priorities assistance, Mr Greene j grading will be required
-aid the builder should obtain the
necessary applications forms and TWO DENISONIANS ENI.lSi
instructions from the nearest in U. S. ARMY AIR CORPS
WPA office. Then, after the Wyman L. Thomas and J H.
forms are executed, they should Thomas of Denison were among
be filed immediately so that they the three Grayson county youth.
can he examined by men in Mr enlisted in the United States army
ilile to the builder1 Greene's office so that they can hot week through the Sherman r
obtain materials be passed on to the ntare-Y tield eruiting office, and wen i ’
I should not delay
cation.v for priorities assistance
According to Loren E. Greene of
hief housing priorities ex-
n this region for the Un-
Office of Defense
intervention Of
OPM In Defense
Strikes Hinted
HYDE PARK, N. Y-, Oct. 20—
|;oo ■ velt hinted today
at direct intervention by the of-
ft, ,,f production management in
. . r, , defer, -trike- with the
-■ ;tt. it.* lit 1 it something may be
expected on from that defense
The pn- ident .-aid
application subject to corrwbora-
Further information and appli-
may be obtained
from the Secretary, board of U.
Is Civil Service examiners, post j ,
Dtnison, Sherman, Bon-i 1
Jefferso
third yo
ihere authority has been David Tampten, Jr., of
the issuance of defense boro.
-| curpn «i'i !’*-------- • - | g
suffered a great Injustice. How-! (j <5. flag act during a black-out
•ver he never again engaged in between halves of the Denison- ” ' -i'.\y''^vil,|e''' "(la'i'nesville,' r>etrill° lost hif la-'5t vharict for
PSI.W Ml, ;r.n, «. r.s. M» **. H
or from the Manager, Tenth IJ S., ' ______________ '________
Cu-Tom
Survivors include a >ister. Mrs.
Mary E. Chawner, Pasadena, Cal.,
and two sons, Delbert Jenkins,
Danville, Calif., and Ray Jenkins, j
Denver, Colo.
The flag will he formed through
red, white and blue lights attached Spn,i(,e districti
to caps of the musicians. houMi Nw Orleans, La.
norent man. Give me a chance to j that otherwi-e might he hard to i office of the Priorities Divl.--1.1t: tie air corps *
prove my innocence. I want to seejge^» jj,. Greene -aid. “The n.edlof the Office of Production Man- racks. Mo. Tin
the governor. I for defeme housing in this area agement,
1 His words till became inaudi- ha- been found, Otherwise, it ven foi
hie and the official executioner, woujd not have been included j housing rating ---------- ----
• .Tames J.ee Wilson, pulled thf i among those wilde tin . . -tan.' ! Thu far, mil, a few pr.oritief Mist Ru»*ll Engaged
is available. ratings have been issued in the- WATERBCR5 , Conn , Oct 20
stance is available : southwest. The big rush is ex —The engagement of Miss Uou t-
_I pected in the next few days, Mr. lind Russell, film actress, to Fre<l-
1 Greene said, and ns the applica- erick Rrisson, Hollywood tVeatn-
tions incr< ii-f. more tin < wfll
. ,001
"As the
Swedes Ordered j
Release Supplies
STOCKHOIAl, Sweden, Oct. 20 (
—Dispatches from Norway said,
SANTA’S PACK TO BULGE
WITH MILITARY MOTIF TOYS
423 Cases Liquor
Seized Fii. Nite
Near Cartwright
Texans lo Return
To Daily Prayer
DURANT, Ok., Oct. 20-
WASH1NGTON, Oct 20
-Bryan I world upheaval is, without
NEW
YORK, Oct. 20—Santa id out,
this Christmas will quantities of
county and federal officers today |>ute, caused by the va-t mujoiit,
were studying the legal angles of of the people who dwell in the
required for the examinations her mother, Mrs James Russe
GERMANY WOULD LAUNCH
ATTACK ON ITALY, ASSERTED
Josef Terbovtn, had issued a de-
cree requiring Norwegians to hand
over all tents, windproof jackets,
parkas, knapsacks, heavy s wen tel s
and tik, pants to the German ar- j defending,
my.
A penalty of three years in pri-
son is provided for violation of the
decree and only the Arctic district
north of Narvik is exempted.
A previous decree required Nor-
wegians to give up their heavy
woolen blankets for German
troops
required relatively small ] shipment of liquor through dry \ United State, getting 100 tai ■ .
substances used in territory after Deputy Sheriff j from the true practice of "
| Raymond Harrison Friday night, principlee-. Senator \\ I
this country’s youngsters liowi Some of the new military toys siezed a shipment of 123 cases ofjlumil 10 '* 1 1
their nation defends itself and why'w.m magnetie mine-sweeper, liquor, valued at approximately, d.ence Sunday m
the American way of life is worth! Kanies, model coast defense fortsj $8,000, near C artwright in
today that the German governor, designed to teach, national defense
how
DEATH ROLL
GAIL ANNETTE CYR
The four-months old daughter
of Mr. ad Mrs. R. R. Cyr, Gail An-
nette, died nt a local hospital fol-
following an illness of two weeks
at 4 30 p. m. Saturday with funer-i
ai services Sunday afternoon atj
St. I" iph’ church. Rev. Patrick
McNnnmee offiieated with Short-
Murray directing. Interment was
at Calvary. ;
Surviving are uie p.uem.....'■
grandmother, Mrs. B. Wenckens,
of this city. , _
, and antiaircraft guns, miniature
This was the keynote today in a I counterparts of the newest United
States battleships, submarines, air-
planes and destroyers, and sets il-
lustrating naval training methods..
Thousands of dolls will lie dress-
ed in army and navy uniforms.
Model builders include materials
for constructing play aircraft cur-
ler, tanks, cruisers, submarines
and antiaircraft guns.
Hoard games illustrate military
preview of 1941 toyland opened
by the toy manufacturers of the
U.S.A. on the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of the association’s foun-
ding.
Manufacturers said that al-
though only 2 per cent of the to
tal toy volume was devoted to
toys of a military or defense mo-
tif, such toys were designed os
outstanding additions to this j
year’s list.
the American!
county.
The driver of the truck in which
the liquor was being hauled from
Illinois to Texas, and the liquor
were being held under guard here
pending a decision by the -ifficers.
this' program broadcast by thirteen ■■ lo-
tions.
“\V:e must return t.. daily pray-
er—abide by the rule of our Hi
ble and recognize God as our
Savior,’’ he said. "Tin- world will
DETROIT, Mich.. Oct 20—
Hreckenridge Long, assistant sec-
O'- rotary of state, asserted today that
Germany had asked Italy to send
transcribed 1,000,000 soldiers into Russia.
France and Yugoslavia and sug-
gested that if this were done the
Nazis would then launch an attack
011 Italy itself.
"The examples of Belgium and
Holland, of Norway, of Poland, ot
have peace and property when a Rumania in short the
recent ex
■»•’><,.......... " “eSTS
Antonio, Texas, but the driver had
left the highway at Colbert and
was on the Cartwright road. The
officers said one of the liquor
cases had been broken and a pint
, was missing, which constituted
; one of the legal questions being
| studied
manuevers and naval conflicts.
While others illustrate industrial
processes such as oil well drilling
DEN1SDN YOUTH ON HONOR
The association estimated that, ROLL OF MILITARY SCHOOL
of toy sales this year
those principles
mg, bulling and industrial pro
duotion.
The latter toys, they added,
were designed to give children
constructive play for physical,
mental and social development.
And all the old stand-by toys
will be available inasmuch as ma-
terials used, manufacturers polnt-
Affirming hi.- stout defense of ground for fear by the Italian pe.i
democracy. Senator O’Dnniel com- Pie.” he declared, “that if they
merited: “This nation is .1 nation “end their soldiers away they hare
belonging to all of the peopb, and their breast* to an attack from ,sfl-
our problem.- are problems which called friends and allies whose le
concern each and every one of us gions have carried out nt home,
and require careful study and as well ns abroad, campaign- of
analysis by each and every one of terror and bloodshed, of rapine
and slavery — campaigns which
have, been accompanied by brutal-
ity, have been followed by misery
and which have horrified all r<
fifteen-minute rein ond-
separate
casts.
At the outset of he- remarks,
Long said that Italy had bieu the
cradle of civilization and the
guardian of Christianity ami
thought
uuld have something
I the object of .-trikes, but
, , j no idea what action
he planned.
kt srik< action was
ip 1 ■ at the Consolidated
t plant at San Diego whic-
70 r. lion dollars worth ol
..,,1,.nt bv company and un-
■ the plant, employing
., «-a- -battered by pro-
am A! f machinists against
impnny's statement that
,-reas,-- would not he forth-
anl - the federal govern-
ior the cost.
State Department
Ret uses To Feed
C h i 1 d r on-Hoov er
NEW YORK, Oct. 20—Herbert
11 uavei .-aid today that the state
department hail dismissed with a
cart Utter appeals (0 find a way
to 11 ■, ,t -lfl.000,000 children facing
starvation this winter in occupied
ligion-
Europi and warned that continued
"The significance of all
thi
la pure of the government to h
-hould not he overlooked ll 11
ie«ib 1
would bring the 11:.-ion grief and
that the Germany army ha.-
81?f - j
renior.-.e
fertd such stupendous lo-
OS til 1
\s-eriii that it was the gov-
it.- campaigns against Russia
Hint
nnral responsibility to
it is compelled to ca'l upon
Italy
make in > ffort with every influ-
to send its soldiers to keep
German war machine going
th*1
ence in ie power to solve tha
problem he .e o charged that the
of Mr. FRANCHOT TONE WEDb
Toys teaching
d1—1tats ............
!ll.l.Kl'tr!!lilr!aUoi, ' S'- -'olum- of t.iy ,ale. this y.a. William Pet.vson, son
’ ’ will be slightly higher thnn lost an(j Mrs. W. L. Peterson, 1419 W YOUNG 1 ll-M At •
year’s $240,000,000 despite short-j Woodard street, was on the dean’s j YUMA, Ariz.. Oct, 20 h1 m Pectn J'*op''
to manufacturing diffi : honor roll at Kemper Military Actor Fra,tchot Tone and Actre.-s Long add v-ed , -dl 1 c.
Boonvlllo, Mo., for the Jean Wallace, 18, were married 125 Italian-Aincrican societies. His
-1 here Saturday by Superb r Court address was broadcast by slimt-
C. Kelley
ciatlon said, because only 5 per! roll requires one to he in
cent of me volume had Boer, im group above 87 and takes ill less Crawford
ported during the last ten years, jthan 18 per cent of the corps
ages due
eulties.
War blockades would
school,
have no, first grade month. Thta is an out-, 1)pv To,„?> wave Mations beamed fo, Europ-
effect on the toy stocks, the asso-, slanting acholast.c honor as Wa married t0 Joan NBC sen, Italian, Spanish and
She divorced hint in Portuguese translations of the
l.^‘”r. ~~ . , .1._____ - luSh *r i. by short-wav* to Europe in
"Tile resentment and bitterne
I
f the Russian- toward Germany
1? a natural consequence ol the
faithless attack by Germany m no
it-- recent Soviet ally. No doubt'
the people in Italy are wondering
whether the call to take their -ol- ‘
diers out of Italy and send them
to different parts of Europe may
not mean that they will become
mother Russia once such an at-
tack is made easier hy the removal
of a million Italian soldier- from
their homeland. They will be scat-
tered over Europe where they will
he brigaded with the German' and
easily overpowered if Italy -liouid
resist ar. invasion "
NOTICE
department had taken nu
on his proposals to enlist
rvices of some of the re -
I 1,mining neutral nations in aiding
"those hi Iples- people.'*
Describing the food sifflaiion in
the occupied countries, he said
I luck of meats, fat and milk was
! crucifying children in Belgium and
| that the municipal newspaper in
War-aw was appealing to the peo-
ple not to throw corpses of Star-
cat;,in victim.- In tht street.
If you do not receive vour Prew
before 6 * plea-e phone 800 snd
r.ne 'ill be sent you .
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