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DENISON AMD VICIMITY
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REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUG. 24, 1939
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930AILY 1934
VOL. 6-NO. 52
Europe Totters On Brink Of War; Pact Is Signed
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$70,000 HOLDUP—Six bandits held up bank mrsse i?r C twia
Podsen, right, and Patrolman James Liguori with a e-a. hine g-n,
• scaping with $70,000 in a daring daylight raid near Long Bead)!
N. Y. Police linked fugitive gangster Lepke with the crim*.
DALLAS MAN IS
HUNTED IN WRECK
DALLAS, Aug. 24—A Pallas
county man who escaped from a
state institution is the object of
A nother Veto
By O’Daniel
Is Held Void
AUSTIN, Texas., Aug. 24—At-
torney General Gerald C. Mann
ruled today that another of Gov
I.ee O’Daniel’s appropriation ve-
toes may be nullified by the pro-
visions of a rider. Recently he held
the major veto of the department-
al bill of the highway department
field force was ineffective.
The opinion held that the veto
of positions of five senior anti
a nation-wide search for question-1
iug in connection with thu fatal
Southern Pacific train wreck in
Nevada August Ki when twenty-
three were killed ami more than
n hundred injured, it was learned
today.
City, county and federal officers
have been asked by special agents
t f the Southern Pacific to aid in
the manhunt. A number of the
railroad special agents are in Dal-
las to run down every, possible clue
A chance remark started in-
vestigation, when a relative of the
man told a friend he knew who
wrecked the train in Nevada. He
gave Southern Pacific agents the
name of the man he suspected and
they remembered that the same
man had been investigated in con-
Condon
Locates
Office
Construction Company 1 To
Start Moving In Equip-
ment Immediately; Two
Power Shovels To Arrive
Track Spur
Nears Finish
115 Men From Oklahoma
And Texas Relief Rolls To
Be Employed On Work
Two gigantic power ‘ shovels
weighing about 100 tone each cap-
able of handling 2j4 cubic yards
of earth at each operation, will
he brought in by contractors for
excavation of the Red River dam
site, it was reported here today.
The shovels will be in the first
shipment of equipment but a large
amount more will be brought in
immediately after excavation, to
lay conduits, is started, contractors
j revealed. George W. Condon
; company of Omaha, Neb. was low
i bidder on excavation and construc-
] tion of a temporary, bridge recent-
ly and awarding of the contract j
will not he made until approval!
by district army engineers at ■
Vicksburg, Miss., expected almost:
immediately).
The contract calls for excavn-)
tion of 3,300,000 cubic yards of)
earth at the dam site.
Contractors said that about 115
men will be employed off relief
rolls in Texas and Oklahoma for
the work, expected to begin in
mid-September, or within twenty,
days after contract approval, ac-
cording to government specifica-
tions. The Condon company lo-
cated an office in Denison y,ester-j
day.
One hundred men employed by I
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FRENCH FORESEE
ANOTHER CONFLICT
Ate-
■"God kn >ws| would .stand by Poland in case of
in my poweri a conflict and reiterated that Bri-
LONDON Aug. 24-
1’ve done everything
to avert war,” Prime Minister Ne-| tain was once more prepared for
vilie Chamberlain told parliament any eventuality. He said there will
this afternoon in a special session be “no more Munichs."
as final attempt to prevent blood-
shed in Europe over Adolf Hitler'
demands on Poland for return to
the Reich of ail lands acquir'd
since the world war.
•Chamberlain reaffirmed the Bri-
tish and French stand that tney
Foreign Minister Viscount Hali-
fax, in substance, said the 'ame
thing as did Chamberlain.
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Everyday
Denison
By
UOUIS ANDERSON
ATTACK_Hidden by dense woods, il.f I 0 I st Cavalry goes Into action in the war garnet now
being held at Plattsburg, N. Y. Before Iho games started, Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commanding
the 52,000 men and o ncers deplored the army's lack of trained men and material. "It'i not an
he asserted _ _ ____
LONDON, Auc. 24 — Europe
tottered on the brink of war today
ns comp icalion, arose to bring the
world to its most i.ttery stage
since Germany’s annexation of
Czechoslovakia.
Outstandi g developments in-
cluded :
1. Signing of the German-Ruts-
V'li nonaepre.-.-ion pact at Moscow
bat was more far reaching than
' V en n- expected, which might
1 ,-cp Run.- a from joining the
i'Vi nch-Briti.di front in case of
nr. and pledged peace between
army
Oil Meeting
Is Suggested
Text Of
Fact
Strong rumors have it that a U.
S. armv air training school will be
established before long near Den- ._____
j iron. The land is said to have al-j ih.• S >v:et and Nazis for ten years.
ready been surveyed . . An in- 2. Britain and France realized
J mate of the city, jail this morning' that finally they had come to a
i admitted he had been drinking te- j showdown with llit'er in his Eu-
! quila he had brought with liim.ropean land demands.
from El Paso recently A few| 3. Hitler was immesurably, stren-
: slugs and you stay on a bat for gihened by the Russian German
I about three days and do the silliest
| things . . . Warning: at least one
I short change artist is reported
working in Denison. Those boys
enter a place of business and work
tliusly: purchase an article, pay
tand
Britain and Frarce
the might of Gor-
Following is the text of the
German-Soviet nonaggression pact:: |h(, ri(rht amount fo,. it thpn
The German Reich government ,iround for a whilei finally ap.
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 24—Em- meeting of the interstate agency J “!j_d moved bTVdesireibte'rU!s‘; "!?" “for
est O. Thompson, chairman-of the, in conjunction with the state-wide, ^ Rtrpnirthpn’ thp gtate" of peaff.' ,antr ' ,f he had actlIa,1y hand*
Interstate Oil Compact Commits- oil proraion hearing Monday and I between Germany, and the U.S.S
sion, today suggested a caked invited officials of regulatory] R and jp the spirit of the pro.
-----------j agencies to attend the Texas near-, q{ thp neutrality treaty o{
Hl-linlrpn I 'nC' , ,, ' April. 1021>. between Germany and
l/l UimClI l/l IVCl O j Thnmnson sent thu following
Ar-
Thompson sent me iu..uW,.i8| the y s s K dccided the fo!.
| telegram to the governors of Ai-;lowjng.
j kansas, California, Colorado, lili-J Al.ti'c!e ,._The two contract-
ing parties obligate themselves to
refrain from every
C*aneo FnnrfVl Of j telegram to the governors of
V^ause rourin jkansas> California, Colorado, ...
Highway Deaths miis’ Kansas’ Louisiana, New Mex-I
neelion with an attempted train
three, assistant rammers for the| ,vm.k»n(? several ypflrs #g0>
He was placed in the Harris
I county jail and later committed to
to apply ot the board o control to (,|(l sUte instjtution.
Board of Life Insurance Commis-
sioners did not destroy (lie right)
“This man is said to have been
in California once since he escap-
an informant said.
Dam Is Under
Construction
employ additional examiners.
Although the itemized appro-
priations were vetoed, the opinion- ”d
stated, n rider giving the commis-
sioners the right to apji'y, and re-!
move approval of the board of Marshall Ford
control for additional employees
other than those itemized in the
bill was not eliminated. The rider
appropriates all money collected
under the examning law and exist-
ing balances for the administra-
tion of the act.
“Wo express the conviction the
effect of the veto here exercised
is to place the examining division
appropriation in the same status as
though the vetoed items never had
been’included in the HI as finally
passed by the legislature,” the op-
inion stated.
“It clearly is the intention of(
the legislature that the board of_
control shall determine from the|
application and
the Schutt construction
are now busy clearing land at the
dam site of trees and underbrush
to make way for construction
work. Clearing is being done only
on the Texas side and it might be
another year before clearance of
the entire area is accomplished.
Ju'ian C. Feild, working on the
Katy track spur to the dam site,
said he expected to cross Shawnee
creek by Saturday and the entire
throe mile distance to the river
before Sept, 1. The railroad ha?
started laying track and has two
bridges under constuetion.
ico, Oklahoma and Michigan:
"1 think it would he well for us
AUSTIN Texas, Aug. 24—Tho[.to hav(. a caned meeting of the
company drinking- driver was blamed today .interstate Oil Compact Commis-
by the Public Safety Department SJ-on at Austin Aug. 28 in conjunc-
as the cause of a fourth of the tj(m wjtb tkle m0st important state-
traffic fatalities on highways. wide oil propration hearing Texas
A six months’ survey showed
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 24—In-
tended to greatly increase the
Lower Colorado River authority’s
potential flood control capacities,
work was started this week on the
high Marshall Ford dam 17 miles
above Austin.
The dam, already completed
through its first construction stage
will be raised from its present 100
feet to 270 feet in height.
Rrown and Root and McKenzie
such other infer-' Construct'on company, contrnetor-
mation as may be available, whetli-
i for the low Marshall Ford dam,
(Continued on Ragr 4)
MUNICIPAL EMPLOYES
CLOSED SHOP REJECTION
FORT WORTH, Aug. 24— By
unanimous vote the Fort Worth
city council today had refused to
aign a closed ship agreement with
cily workers represented by the
County and Municipal Employees
Union.
Motion to turn down the pro-
position was made by Councilman
Marvin D. Evans, print shop own-
er and long time employer of un-
ion labor. Evans stressed the
point that unionism, ns expressed
by labor organizations, is in place
in business and industry but is
incomputable with any unit of
government.
“,My conviction on this matter”
Evans said, “is that the city not
go into a closed shop contract
with any labor union, not even a
fraternal organization. This coun-
cil is in sympathy, with organized
labor to make progress in the city
government, But this agree me nt
before us would shut off from
city, employment anyone who did
not belong to the union. That
would, in my opinion, be unfair
to the general public.
City Manager Sam Bothwell said
ho was in full agreement with the
viewpoint of Evans.
Denisonian For
67 Years, Dies
Following Illness
ever has had. At this meeting the
act of force,
every aggressive action and every
attack against one another, includ-
ing any single action or that taken
in conjunction with other powers.
Article 2.—In case one of the
parties of this treaty shall become
I he object of warlike acts by
e4 the employee a quarter, he’ll
claim he had given him 50c. Po-
lice say it works almost every time
and the business man never real-
izes he had been the victim of a
fraud.
Main topic of the day in Denison
streets is the near-war situation
in Europe. Most of the citizens
here agree that war in Europe is
almost a certainty and should not) tacked
be long in coming . . A Dallas
man who knows the whys ami
wherefores, claims that the Rus-
sian-German nonaggression pact is
j just a "bluff." Perhaps so, but if
pact and left
alone against
many.
British subjects were warned by
the government to prepare for an
enemy, air attack any night after
all pleas to Hitler had seemed in
vain.
Prt.-ident Roosevelt hurried
home from a curtailed vacation to
"fire another shot for peace” in
Europe. He was expected back in
Washington today and hfgh offi-
cials prepared to hold a confer-
ence with him in an attempt to
work out some plan whereby they
night be ab’e to help the jittery
European situation.
Rumania announced that it in-
tended to stay neutral in case of
i general war unlcs.- it was at-
**£ SS°o? 5J5S ml “-S'.>nd r^Ctd wuS ’ the other
,ng the first half ot thu yeauwi I)companies of gasoline and nude U nQ way wpp#rt this third pow, think .....
Cyrus Morgan Kirk, 3^, and a
resident of Denison since its earl-
iest history, a retired raiload man,
died at 6:27 p. m. Wednesday at
his homo, 1304 W. Gandy street
after an illness of four weeks.
Funeral services will he held at
10 a. m. Friday at Short-Murray j
will carry the project on to com- ohapel, Rev. William J. Tetter of
pletion in its ultimate phase. Greenville officiating.
Construction of the dam to Its; Mr. Kirk was born at Leaven-
ultimate 270 foot height was'worth, Kans., 'Oct. S, 1856, the
made possible by, the $5,000,000 j son of Mr. and 'Mi's. N. A. Kirk,
appropriation secured at, the last and came to Denison at 16 in
session of congress by Rep. Lyn-jl872, where he entered the service
died in highway accidents and G4j wi]] developed so wc may know ( ]
of the 174 pedestrians killed were] where we „c with regard to sup-' Art 3j_The governments 0f
stlai. °7 c9ia‘ “l * ., e P'.V stock,, on hand ;.jie two contracting parties In the
Blame for 24 per cent of tneft, ..This is a good time for us to. wi„ constant!v, .-email, in
taht.es was placed on drivers »ho off the excess gasoline prob- ronsu!tation with another in order
had been drinking. Their percent | )em We shou,d bp sure stocks ,o inform each othpr warding
are in a good position before 'veJ questions of common interests,
open up again. There s no use do- Art 4 _Neither of the high
ing this thing half way. | contracting part ies will associate
“Will you please inform mean-, itsolf witb anv other grouping of
hers of your regulatory authorities, erg which dircctly or indirectly
that the Railroad Commission of, .g aimed at tho othel. party.
Texas extends a hearty invitation, Art 5_In the event 0{ a ..on-
to them to attend this meeting a. f-jct bptween the contracting par-
observers so we may have >’ gu-» 14;es concerning any question, the
toiv officer, and tern...... o '1 ■ 4wo parties will adjust this differ-
cials of sovereign oil stat ot i .. |pnce 0(. conflict exclusively by
compact on hand? j frjelld]y exchange of opinions, or,
“This will give us all a chance jf necjggary) by an arbitration
to hear testimony of the offtevs commission
of these oil companies under oath, t 6.—The present treaty will
with regard to their
with regard to their
j and suggestions on
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 24—Bud- sprve oil and gas.”
get salary items in the biennial an-1 -------------::
propriation bill may not be divided rlortf- HpFG
In two or more portions to provide KeSlOem OCrC
part-time jobs, Atty, Gen. Gerald| 20 Beal’S DieS
F, Mann ruled today.
age in fatal crashes in both ur-
ban and rural traffic was 19.71
per cent.
Excessive speed was listed as
the primary cause in 15 per cent
of highway fatalities compared to
16 per cent in all traffic. Head-
on collisions caused more than 27
pel* cent of the fatal highway
crashes, while the drinking pedes-
trian caused 2.38 per cent of the
fatal accidents in both highway
and in all traffic.
300 Students
Are Affected
Gov. Phillips gives hi?
daily message in that he will
write to Secretary Woodring again,
to find out once and for all what
disposition the government
make to Oklahoma after comple-
tion of the Denison Red River dam
. . . A card from a friend at the
San Francisco Exposition sayis that
the fair is “just another Centen-
nial,” which makes several who
said the same thing . . . Former
Denisonians who used to never
come back, have flooded the city
this summer to see the old home
town in new dress, and what ef-
fect the dam project has had so
far. Most of
Force* Increased
French statesmen saw “little
chance to avoid war” and increas-
ed her armed forces to almost 2,-
000,000 men. Deep pessimism fol-
lowed announcement of the non-
aggres.-ioii pact completion and
French hurried preparations for
war.
King Leopold 111 of Belgium,
w>lh speaking for the seven small pow-
(Continued on Page 4)
Former Local
Man Succumb*
Funeral services for R. R. Hanks
62. former Denisonian who died
suddenly Wednesday between Lake
Providence and Shreveport, La.
them say everything I will be held at 4 p. m. Saturday
is okay, but that they see so many
persons they don’t know.
t k and Alu ”•—i“c s"' '..... Don Bagwill of the McKinney
1 extend for a period of ten years. Courier Gazette paid high compli-
^ expe u ^ , with the condition that if neither| !tlPm
’0” '* 1 of the contracting parties an-
don Johnson of the Tenth Texas
district.
When completed, Marshall Ford,
being built under direction of the
Bureau of Reclamation, will be
the kev flood control unit of the
L. C. R- A.’s series of flood con-
trol, water conservation and pow-
er generation dams on the Colo-
rado river above Austin.
Construction of the dam to it.
ultimate height will make it the
fourth largest masonry, structure
in the world.
Contractors started the first
crew of men to work on the high
dam structure this week and plan-
ned to have the project going full
blast by December 1.
It will he completed In approxi-
mately two years and will provide
more than 800,000 acre feet of
storage space devoted cxeusivclyi
to flood control plus super storage
and the normal storage for oper-
ations.
The Authority’s engineers esti-
mate that with the high Marshall
Ford dam, the project, can control
any flood equivalent to any of
past record occurring above Aus-
tin.
of the Missouri-Pacific railroad,
working up to agent which posi-
tion he held until his retirement
in 1924
He was the oldest continuous
member of the Easter Star chap-
ter here, having joined in 1892.
He was the oldest Scottish Rite
Mason in North Texas and had
been honored several times.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs.
K. K. West of Denison; a neiec,
Mrs. J. A. Mayes of Denison; Rnil
a number of distant relatives.
A Masonic service will be held
at the cemetery.
nounccs its abrogation within one
year of expiration of this period,
then to L'cn.son in
was married to the
rear Wliiuboro.
MINIATURE GOLF |AJGAIN
COMING BACK, IS CLAIM
Jack Drew, one of the operator?
said that miniature golf is again
coming tack after an absence of
ten years. In the belief that it
will go over hero, a course will be
opened Saturday night.
The court will adion the Texas
service station at Woodard and
Tone avenue. The court will be
known as the Plamor.
Denison’a in tha
light, let’* go'
national lima-
The opinion, answering a ques-
tion bv Comptroller George II., Mrs. Mary E.la Judd bJ
Sheppard, will affect 300 or mors, ident of Demson foi - >"u-
University of Texas students who died after a three week s illness in
have been earning their way, a hospi’al at Sherri:, , a. 1J
through college by obtaining half, Wednesday. She reside! a. 1.U2
time and in some instances, third-, W. Gand> -tr i
time job? in state departmental^ Mrs. Judd «, t arn Mury I 1.
practice has been followed in nurn- Lehman, daa pa.-r of Mr »‘-d
erous departments for many years. Mrs. E. II. Di-am.ui n
Mann’s opinion gave three rea-) Jan. 21, 1»'» «here " ''“Votts"
sons for the ruling: That for the ed and educated moving to 1 ott.
first time the recent legislature boro in IS.’.-
itemized each salaried position sW-1 1919. ,
arately, and made a specific appro- ; late E. 1. . m , _
priation. that from 1927 through She wa? a m. m u' of the Pie-
1939 all departmental appro,pria- bytenan riiui aid
tion bills specifically authorized Circ e.
division of the amount approprint-' Surviving au three sons Lb yd
ed for a position, and that the new, of Denison, Rg.mm.,1 .1 ■
bill specifically named and identi- and Grady o ivioii; de-
fied by number each salaried po- tir.-, Mrs. K . -
sition, listing appropriations to nayi ami Mrs. Joe Everhear 0 01 ’
only two classes, part time and loxas; a ' ' •'1' > "
full time. I of Denison n 1 -i^o' M
Previous appropriation bills,! Alexander of 1 ottsboro
contained a rider permitting use1 Funeral services will be held at
of part-time employees, and div- 3 p. m. Friday from the home,
isons of salaries, Mann said, but Rev. James Spivey officiating as#
such provision was ommitted from sited by Rev. Barney Mariam of
the present act, which made spe
it will continue in force automat-
ically for another period of five
years.
Art. 7—The present treaty shall
be ratified within the shortest pos-
sible time. The exchange of ratifi-
cation documents shall take place
in Berlin. The treaty becomes ef-
fective immediately upon signa-
ture.
Drawn up in two languages,
German and Russian.
5 F
Grocers Close
Convention
from Short-Murray, chapel, with
interment at Fairview cemetery
Short-Murray directing.
Hanks was horn in Granger Co.
Tenn. in 1877, son of Mr. and
Mr? .1. V., Hanks, where he wa?
reared and educated. He was
married at DoQueen, Ark., in 1901
to Miss Beulah Trout, and was a
federal inspector of locomotives,
to Denison for its Rayburn
day celebration. Other papers in
this section also commented fa-
vorably . . . Headline savs “Wally
Loses Clasp Given Her By, Duke.”
Just another of a series in losses, j with headquarters in Shreveport.
The first came when Eddie lost: He began railroad work in Dan-
ins British throne, which he prob-. ison in 1899 as fireman for the
ably doesn't regret, now that Ea-| Katy and rose to engineer in 1902
rope is in the dither it is . . . The which position he held until ap-
pointed by the government in 1928
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 24-
Grocers of Texas closed their an-
nua! convention here today with
resolutions opposing a sales tax
in anv form and expressing disap-
Dies committee seems destined to
make all the ism? die a horrible
death, or at least partially . . .
Now that Germany has signed its
Soviet nonaggression pact, it seems
tho Nazis can Russian into Po-
land. Hitler seems to have adopt-
ed the slogan: “Frist I’ll take a
Silecia of this and then a Sileeia
of that" . . . Hunters in this sec-
tion should be hunting doves about
the time Europeans are hunting, brother,
human beings. Open season on
both seems near at hand.
with headquarters at Shreveport,
He served during the Spanish-
American war and was a member
of the Methodist church. Veterans
of Foreign Wars B. of L. E. and
Masonic lodge.
Surviving are two sons, Jack of
Waterloo, Iowa, and Joe of Fort
Worth; a daughter, |Mrs. R. E-
McClindon of Lake Providence; a
E. L. Hanks of Denison.
DENISONIANS TO GO TO
New Jersey; is finding that its
pro-marital blqod test law is work-
ing out fine now because couples
pointment with Gov. W. Lee O’- are withdrawing their objections
Daniel for reversing his position Texas once had a similar law but
on the sales tav.
The resolution, passed unani-
mously, cnltod upon O'Daniel to
resume his former stand in oppo-
sition to a sales tax and urged; waters yesterday because
that when the legislature meets] crisis between Britain and
again he oppose “any attempts to t many
COOKE COUNTY RAIR
Denison day at the Cooke county
fair, Gainesville, will be Friday,
August 25 and all Denisonians
who will make the trip have been
asked to communicate with the
couples didn't realize it was made I local Chamber of Commerce. A
for their protection and it never) police escort will conduct the lo-
was successful ... A Gorman
liner was ordered out of Canadian
of the
Ger-
Bunk in the first dr-
ill., tav-
cific appropriations
part-time Job*.
for certain
Sherman. Interment will be at^ saddle further sales taxes upon the i gree: A cop in Ccntralia,
Fairview cemetery!, Short-Murray backs of the people least able to — ~ "
directing. I pay.” I (Contonued on page four)
cal caravan into Gainesville, a let-
ter today said. The caravan will
form at the Chamber at 6:30 p m.
NOTICE
If you do not receive youi Free*
before 5:30, please phone 300 am,
one will be sent yotl. •
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