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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINrTY
Generally fair and cool
today and Saturday
THE DENISON PRESS
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DENISON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, OCT. 4th. 1940
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 7—NO. 88
Japan Threatens War On United States;
Hitler, Mussolini Meet At Brenner Pass Again
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* dSson * Congress Makes F inal
EOUIS ANDERSON
Tip: Has there been a news
story that a new building for
Kiaft Cheese corporation will be
erected soon? From what we hear
engineers have been here for sev-
eial days making plans. It would
house the Parkay department . . .
Paul Harrison tells how one fan
at a premiere yelled: “Why there's
^ Garbo.” When told of her mis-
take the fan came back with: “I
thought it was Garbo, she was
__- dressed so shabbily” . . . And then
A. goes on to recount how a direct-
or commented to an actress: “You
have eyes like Hedy—Hedy Can-
tor" . . . The new March of Time,
revealing how newsmen have to
cift foreign news to junk the
(Continued on Page 4)
DEATH ROLL
Appropriation Of Session
HENRY t. FULLER
Henry C. Fuller, 80, a retired
building contractor and a resi lent j
of Denison 40 years, died Thurs- j
day at 0:60 p. m. at a local hos-.
pital following an illness of 12
days, all of which were spent at j
the hospital. His home was at j
831 W. Woodard.
'Funeral services will be held at;
2:30 p. m. Saturday from Short--
Murray Chapel, Rev. J. F. Murrell j
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Con-
gress today made its last large
appropriation of $1,482,000,000
for military and conscription pur-
poses with little or no discussion
beforehand.
Running total defense appropri-
ations up to $12,1249,532,516, the
measure was ready for President
Roosevelt’s signature without the
usual procedure of the senate and
house working out bill differences.
White House spokesmen said
Air. Roosevelt would address the
nation Oct. 12 at 8 p. m.
son time) telling the story of Ins
defense program, largest peace-
time program the nation has ev-
er known.
In another action, the senate
passed legislation authorizing the
expenditure of $150,000,000 for
housing defense workers where
such facilities are not now avail-
OKLAHOMA DRAFT
BOARD SELECTIONS
London
In Light
Air Raids
WAR INEVITABLE IF U. S.
ENTERS EUROPEAN FIGHT;
AXIS MOVES IN BALKANS?
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct, 4— nounce the list Oct, 12, after re-
Governor Phillips said today that ctiving their acceptances or re-
he is completing personnel for 108 jections.
local draft boards to supervise Three members will be up-
(Deni-] various phases of selective service pointed to each board.
in their districts. The governor said he hail ask-
Phillips said he was notifying ed the state board of agriculture
the proposed board members of to appoint an acting president for
their selections and would an
Lightest Air Raids Of The
War Felt on Largest Bri*
ish City As Nazis Give Up
Fight, It Is Reported
Two Assaults
During Night
Six Children Are Killed By
Nazi Bomb Blast On Lon
don Ward School, Said.
Wilkie Would Clear
Govt. Of Communists
(Continued on page four)
Jesse Jones Is
Honored With
Capital Banquet
LONDON, Oct. 4—Shielded hv
the Murray school of agriculture a low cioud bank and its usual an-
at Tishomingo, so that President tiairoraft barrage, London Friday
Clive Murray might serve on the pn(i Thursday night had one of its
national guard staff. lightest night raids of the twenty-
Two state senators will remain seven-day-old German airhlitz.
in military service at least until ( German bombers twice gave up
the legislature convenes in Janu- completely and left the metropolis
ary, Phillips said. They are Louis alonfc juring tbe hours they us
---- Ritzhaupt of Guthrie und John ually are hitting the hardest.
A total of 822,434 ears of reve- Sanford, of Pawnee. Some bombs fell, however, before
nue freight was loaded by Ctass -- midnight in the northwest and
1 railroads for the week ending WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 Major southeast suburbs.
Saturday, Sept. 28, the Association Ben Howell, director of the man- ,n c0ntl.ast t0 the nightly toll
Revenue Freight
On American RRs
Is On Increase
of American
today.
Figures for the week
bargaining will have the hard hand
. ... _________ . ------ -------- of "the government against them.’'
Railroads reported power divisions of selective sei- ^ casualties heretofore for twen-. peared in the strongly unionized jThe crowd vigorously applauded
. . I__ b .J ...... .. k*. ,n,,l fAiloW tnilt , .1 ' . _ „
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 4— approved the National Labor Reia-
Wendell L. Willkie, declaring hiaJtiona Act, but suggested
approval of the National Labor
Relations Act, told a crowd of
35,000 in Forbes Field hall park,
Thursday night that “when 1 am lj!bor “Ild industry
cesslty of special
the
legislation
elected President 1 will immedi-
ately clear from the federal gov-
ernment all communits and their
lellow travelers.”
"Mr. Earl Browder," he said,
referring to the general secretary
ol tile Communist party in the
United States, "will have no no
ension or wish to recommend me
for a third term.”
In his prepared test, Willkie
promised to try to end the civil
war in labor, hut in his delivery,
eliminated that section of his
speech.
If he and Senator Charles L.
McNary, his
'TOKYO, Oct. 4—Japan will be
forced to declare war on the Unit-
ed States if the western hemi-
sphere continent enters the Eu-
ropean war, Foreign Minister Mat-
suoka said today in a frank inter-
view with newsmen.
The government head expressed
hope the U. S. would hesitate be-
fore throwing its strength into
the European struggle, and warn-
ed the nation must recognize the
new order in the Far East as pro-
posed by Japan.
sMutsuoka did not hesitate to
show his contempt for the U. S.
embargo on scrap metal to any
nation other than Britain outside
the western hemisphere, and
vice-presidential run-1 vharifed the cuntry with being the
ning mate, who introduced him, direct cause of foicing the axis
are elected, Willkie said, "we will
see to it that any selfish and cor-
The republican nominee, wl.oirupt forces that oppose collective
just completed a tour of Michigan
and Ohio labor centers and ap-
powers into their “present action.”
Ii was the first official com-
ment by Japan since it joined in
a pact with Italy and Germany.
Fairview cemetery,
directing.
A Masonic service will he held
at the grave.
(Deceased was born April 3
1854 in Scott County Va., where |
he was reared and educated and,"
conductd a mercantil business. bualled by any
He was married Nov. 25, 1882 at
Nickelsville, Va. to Miss Kate
vice headquarters, said today that _sjx consecutive nights, there j industrial sections of Pennsylvania
revealed the national draft lottery piob- was no^ s0 muc|, a3 a scratch re told his applauding audience that:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—George!;,,, increase of 9,105 cars, or 1.1 ahly would be held here between portu(1 up to an eariy hour Friday "Ours is the task to put to work
Hill, Jr., Houston, Texas, a per cent, compared with the pre- Oct. 21 and Oct. <26. ^ Corning. 'the free institutions of free men
One small village near an an
L‘l!t le. U member of the Commerce Depart-1ceding week; a decrease of 7,262 The lottery will determine the
snort-Muriay,____, ,____.____ ,.„,„w.ill______ ..„ „ „ , „„„ cent com- sequence in which registrants will
intent's business advisory council jears, or 0.9 of 1 per
. .....r .i . u_____..... (Ml . ............
the night.
Raiders were reported also over a
and president of the Houston Oil .pared with a year ago; and an in- he called up for classification an<1 was bombed during
.company of Texas, declared that |crease of 125,526 cars, or 18 per possible induction into the armed
(Jesse H. Jones took over the .cent, compared with loadings of services.
I duties of Secretary of Commerce, 1938. Howell said that after the lot-
a wealth of experience un- Loadings for the week were the tery d w*d require about ive
his predece.,-(highest since the week ending more days to compile the offioa
sors. I October 28, 1939, the association ™ster lista of order numbers to
Hill spoke at a dinner Thursday Laid, when total loadings number- *)e burned to loea dra t oan s.
, . i honoring Jones. He praised the|ed 834,096 cars. A pickup jn The board then will begin classi-,
Shoemaker. The couple mo.ed(s(jcret a8 a national business;coal |oadings with the approach of W"* the registrants, he said, and
to Downs, Kans., where he 1 leader and as the best-equipped | cooler weather was responsible for by Nov. 15 a ‘‘substantml'number
came a carpenter and contractor ever heid the posi the rise in freight shipments. The °f men" will be classified and be
tor four years, leaving there for Secretary of Commerce. L,in in total loadings was smaller for actual serv,ce
■ in free America, to give the lie to
cient castle in southeast England strutting bullies of Europe with
(Continued on Page 4)
One Dies In
Ft. Worth Fire
their doctrines of super men, slave
classes and subject races.
For Democratic Society
“I stand for a democratic so-
ififty based on the Bill of Rights
|and a system of private property
|with full rights to labor," Willkie
aid.
He asserted that he had always
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull today
of the official state-
the promise. .
But labor agreements, Willkie ieud a CCKpT °‘ tbe_ ...
said, must he based on fact, not ;«'«*»-of Japanese Foreign M.ma-
force, and once reached, must he (er Matsuoka. but declined
kept by both parties. | mentary comment,
Willkie said the new deal hopes
of better conditions had be“nt ~~ ~ . .. „
dashed on the rocks of unemplov-' 1-OM N, Oct. 4 Adolf H
: ■ and Benito Mussolini met once
tragedy of unemployment,' "lore in historic Brenner Pass to:
mo-
while members
of congress c'amored for copies.
circles buzzed
nient.
The _______ . . .
he said is a personal tragedy fori iaV and European
for with “things to come" out of the
those of fifty years
millions of young men and
or more who conference
have many years of good active One source said a new blitzkrieg
would be seen as an outcome ot
\ ichita t cun y, ' xas- • '• '* el j Noting that the statutory func-, than usual at this time of year,
was tie Inst inavoi o own!tions of the department of com-,however, because of a contra-sea-
Paik, Texas, an mivu m ’ls inerce are to foster, promote and|sona] decline in miscellaneous
capacity several years. :dovelop the foreign and domestic flight.
mining, manufacturing i -----
Tlie couple came to Denison 40' mmerce
entered the j ’
years ago where he entered the \ shipping industri.3) ond
contracting and planing null bus- transportation interests of
iness from which he later retired |
become secretary of the local
Sixteen delegates to the Anieri-
lexas Oil Is
Good Enough .
For Defense
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 4—j
A dozen families of moderate cir- j
cumstances were homeless today |
after a fire swept through twoj
flimsy frame apartment houses,,
taking the life of one aged tenant j
trapped in his second-floor room j
P, C- Parnell’s body was remov-
ed from the charred ruins of one!
j of the apartment houses. His eld- |
erly wife, who jumped from th?|
4—An window after trying to fight her
RECRUITING TO
BE MAINTAINED
Rose Queen
DALLAS lOct 4—Recruiting,Texas National Guard was here on jual Biitain,. with a P®--
AUSTIN. Texas, Oct. 4-An [window after trying to fight ^er |#or the Thirty-Sixth Division will route to his home in San Antonio 0 Ru?s,a" %d (. U d
analysis of principal crude oils| way through the f ames to her. »r^h Thirty Six Washington ,n |b" a" of the mutua
, ls ,n a critical condduom^ conation with the coming mobii-b"U" “ th* ^
For some time it was under-
vacancies are filled before
interests of the can Institute of Laundering at
* United States, Hill said: Chicago will pass through Denison
to become secietaiy ot the tocai ^without in any way detract- tonight in an extra sleeper of the
MasoniL. lodges, a position he heldj.^ from the abilities and capaci-|Katy Texas Special, from Dallas.
---------I ties of the predecessors of the; ------ produced in Texas, the first com- husband
(Continued on page four! (present incumbent, it may be re-1 Eighteen or more Dallas musi- plete survey ever made, which is, A neighbor tossed a
! corded as sober fact that no man (iuiis will be aboard an extra expected to be of benefit in the t salvaged from a lower-floor upait-, \>Hior Cen Claud V Birk-
Ithroughoul the history of this sleeper of the Katy Flyer Satur- national defense program as well nient beneath Mrs. Parnell’s win-, 1 D • ‘ ’ ,
'great department, has ever come day night for San Antonio. as in crude marketing, was com- do\v when attracted by her bc'u4 dec ared in a as o ay
/> f*r»w!into tbe i-esponstbiility of its ad __— plcted today by the Railroad Com- screams.
X^OlOflailOIl j mi nistration clothed with as long Oklahoma representatives of mission’s staff. 1 The woman, clothing ablaze,
_ |llnd as diversified an actual expo - the Jewel Tea company, consist- It was the first part of a war leaped, but missed the mattress.
TYLER, Tex., Oct. -I—Coroiu- lienee in public and private admin-ling of twenty-six or more people, resources survey started lat sum- Hospital attendants said she suf-
l^'en'n of Miss Mary John Grelling |istration of business, commerce | will be aboar I the Katy Bluebon- mer to be completed. The second fered multiple Bruises and severe
the 1940 Texas rose queen of-,„nd industry: with as detnile-l and net Saturday night, through Deni- phase, detailed mapping of all burns.
son, for Fort Worth, where they Texas fields, is nearing comp!?-! Origin of the fire has not been
are to attend a sales meeting. tion. determined. It broke out in one
Texas representatives to attend Commissioner Ernest O. Thomp apartment house and spread to
the meeting will leave San An- son, announcing that the extensive the other.
ahead of them.
_ _ _ tin meeting, probably that Hitler
would send his air legions to the
as-stance of Italy in the Medi-
terranean and N . :h Africa, while
[another sai, <' mny might begin
la pa h t’ j the Balkans to re-
, oupe 1 war material sup-
plies.
Rotac circles heard the axis
rowers were making plans to
forep France and Spain into the
that j ization.
"The existing vacancies in
the'
ficially opened the eighth annual jus intimate knowledge of the im-
Texas Ruse Festival here. portant and variegated instrumon-
The ceremony, which took place|tnlities of commerce; with as tire-
in the new $160,000 high school Hess and as assiduous and as pro-
auditoriuni will be repeated Friday ponged a devotion to the solution i<mio aboard the Katy Flyety Sat- report would be sent to the Na-j The fire department estimated
evening. Miss Grelling, formerjof the problems of commerce, in-
student of Hockaday school fordustry and commerce under the
girls, ’Dallas, is the daughter of j American system of individual in-
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Grelling ef itintive an I free enterprise; and
Tyler She was crowned by H.[with as conspicuous an achieve-
M. Bell, Tyler banker and pres:-<ment, starting from scratch and
dent of the Texas Rose Festival |fortified solely by an endowment
association. [of the natural qualities that liai 1
The coronation program includ (brought great distinction and
ed special vocal numbers by Elva|great achievement to Jesse H,
Klab und Lousing Hatfield, botli Jones’
well known for their radio and
concert work. Also on the pro-
yam was Kotchetovsky’s troup of
dancers from Houston. Music was
furnished By the Tyler Symphony
orchestra under the direction of)
Fritz Fall.
'A crowled schedule of activities
Friday will include noon und af-
ternoon addresses by Congressman
Martin Dies, chairman of the com
mittee on un-American activities;
r. garden club luncheon, tours of
the rose fields and concerts by the
United States Marine Band. The
rose show, un annual festival fea-
ture, will he open throughout the
day.
Beak attendance, experted
exceed 50,000, will be reached on
Saturday when the floral
urday, returning Sunday.
Denison Day At
tional Defense Committee in the damage at $10,000—but it
Washington, the Bureau of Mines represented all the belongings of
and the secretary of interior, said twelve bewildered families.
the survey disclosed “there need
_ , _ . be no concern over any shortage
Fair October 13 ,)f crude oil and gasoline," as
Texas alone could furnish all the
additional that might be needed
for war purposes.
Importance of the data obtained
Sunday, October 13, has been
| designated Denison day at the
j State Fair of Texas, Dallas ac s, conducted under
cording; to a communication from *
iuir executives received here by
,A. W. Fong;, Chamber of Com-
direction of I)r. F.V.L. Patton, the
Nat’1:. Program
Is Adopted By
Scout Council
The commanding general of the
81 Tracts Of
Land Acquired
For Dam Site
only recruit up to the permitted
peace strength of 10,085 before
mobilization at Brownwood. After
-- Nov. 25, under present plans of-
A progress report of the U. S. the war department, the division
engineer office’s land acquisition will be brought up to full war
section up to and including the [strength of approximately 18,000
c:ose of business Sept. 30, made [ men. In almost doubling the
public today, reveals 48 tracts ot normal strength, approximately
laud have been acquired thus far [700 new noncommissioned officers
at the Denison dam site and 33 and 300 second lieutenants will be
in the reservoir area, bringing a [required. These ranks wilt be
filled from guard personnel that
demonstrate qualities of leader-
„ , stood Nazi hordes might push into
guard units offer an unusual op-i , _ ,, .. , _
_ , .the Balkans to get vital war ma-
pertumty to young Texans who1 , . .
,, r,ter sources under their command,
are eligible for the draft, Oen.j be!ieved Gorm and Italy
Lo those I, . . . ,
j both arc seriously worried over
rpi or., .. m! ltai> | the dwindling war supplies they
training. The 36th Division can haJ belipved adequate #t th( out.
Birkhead sad, especially
with RiOTC or other
’At a meeting of
Sanders To Speak
9 |merce manager. No special event
Before RotarianSi01 »».V kind are being planned
commission’s director of product-1hoard Thursday night of the Red
tion, in crude marketing, was River Valley Scout council, psesid
stressed by Thompson, who said ed over by Dr Charles A. Hess,
that with the survey Texas pro-1 president, the group went on _rec-
liere for the day, Mr, Long saul. ducers win kll0W „jast t)ie qUali- erd ns accepting the National Em-
Tugene Sanders, assistant state
fire marshal handling fire pre-
vention matters and investigation
for the stale fire insurance divi-
s!on, will speak to members of the
Rotary club Thursday noon. Mi j
Sanders is due to arrive in Deni-1
son from Fort Worth Wednesday
ties their particular e™de posses-] ergency program of the Bos-
ses and what can be made of it.", Scouts of America.
Such knowledge, he observed,) The program is one of action
“will be helpful to operators in.developed for “strengthening and
supporting their selling argu- invigorating democracy" and in-
-- ments. volves growth for every troop, Cub
A. C. Akers, a Denison negro. Tests of 512 samples showed pack, and senior unit in prepara-
i- placed under $500 bond gravity of various Texas crudes tion for service opportunities, the
Negro Is Placed
Under Bond Here
is staged. In the procession will
he about thirty decorated floats
and as many visiting bands and
other marching units.
Thursday in an examining trial tie- ranged from 15 to 50 degrees, A.
fore Judge M. M. Scholl in the P. I., while gasoline recovery (400
justice court here for attempt to degrees F. end point product)
burglarize. .ranged from less than 1 to 75 per
Akers was arrested by city po jeent. Octane rating of the straight
Central ward school. He possibly ^ice after he allegedly entered a-run guooiine lunged from 20 to 8n
parade will visit other schools while here, home at 707 N. Burnett avenue [ Some water-white condensate,
night, will address students at the
high school at 9 a. m. Thursday,
students of the Peabody school at
10 a. m. and at 1:10 p. m. will
rpeak on fire prevention at the
total of 81 tracts, or 6,953 acres
at a cost of $210,069.84.
Of the acreage acquired, 3,-
436.95 were in the dam site area
land 3,516.21 in the reservoir vic-
the executive Unity. The division has received
a total of 798 abstracts during its
operation here up to Sept. 30.
The division made 1,189 ap-
praisal maps, of which 57 were in
tlie dam site area ana 1,132 in the
reservoir.
Appraisals made totaled 877
tracts or 88,706.31 acres on 57
tracts or 4,471.88 acres on the
dam site and 820 tracts including
84,234.05 ucres on the reservoir.
A total of 822 appraisals were
transmitted, 57 on the dam site
and 755 in the reservoir.
Acceptable offers on lands re-
ceived were on 385 tracts or 29,- called."
803.49 acres, amounting to $774,-
056.62. Forty seven of the tracts,
2,879.87
ship.
"The conditions that have al-
ways made guard service attract-1
i\e in war still remain. Enlist i
ment now assures young Texans
training with home troops in Tex-
as. Basic training before report-
ing at Brownwood wwglli evinati
ing at Brownwood will give even
break of the war that has been
dragged on by stubborn British re-
sistance
The axl- leaders might have
j talked over, observers say, a meth-
od of delivering a knockout blow
to Britain and determining the
status of the U. S. and its future
plans in the European conflict.
Official Washington circlfs said
a British victory was more certain
now that it has definitely been
determined that the axis war ma-
ter -applies were dwindling daily
MP Clerks
May Call Strike
organization of new troops and
Cub packs to enable more boys to
become scouts, and training for all
those who serve their country by
leading boys.
Xho need of a special emphasis) including an acreage of
PALESTINE, Texas, Oct. 4—
Missouri Pacific clerks of the In-
the inexperienced'the jump on th, 1 tei nation-Great Northern and Gulf
raw rookie. If the country’s in-'Coast Lines have voted to strike
tense defense preparation avert in event of a complete breakdown
war, 'two years' guard training in negotiations over working con-
substitutes for the tcn-js'ar reser- ,racts. ..
ve duty expected of the new draft Spokesmen for the clerks said a
Under all the circumstances, nr- [tabulation ot about 1.000 vote,
vice in the 36th Division should <ast by the clerks showed 97.12
. «„ mm. .m.i
younjr men who do expect to bt\
program became apparent, it was! were in the dam site area, totaling
Sunday is opening day for the
annual fire prevention observance
with special programs through the
[week before schools and clubs.
Monday night. His bond was
made and he was released, previ
ous to being bound to the grand
jury at Sherman next Monday.
products from gas wells, he said,
have gravities as high as 75 de-
grees and end points lower than
400 degrees.
pointed out, when the rapid prog-
ress of communistic teaching
among youths of this county was
reported.
$108,861.13 and 338 of the tracts
were in the reservoir, made up of
26,923.62 acres costing $665,195-
49.
It wa s said unofficially that the
railroad would ask President
Gen Birkhead thinks there is .Roosevelt to appoint a mediator
wide misunderstanding of a recent to carry on aegotmtioris unde.
statement that the Texas draft. rules of the National Labor Rela-
high11 volunteer figures "from this Mea"wh"a the ram.oau Tilui '
state. “It will Be iessened," “1^ in
(Continued ou page four) j general offices here,
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