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WEATHER
DENISON ANb VICINITY
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DENISON, TEXAS
TUESDAY,JDEC. 26,
1939
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VOL. 6-NO. 156
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Finland Drives To Cut Off Russian Railway
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EVERYDAY
DENISON
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
Tost Christmas ramblings: Per- !
sonally the most enjoyable in
many years although Santa con- ■
centrated too much on socks that,
wc can al\vays use. . Plenty of i
headholding this morning because
none was mooching drinks this
season, all had their own bottle. . .
Which is all right because it’s their
insides they are burning up, not
ours. , .Everyone reports best
Yulotide in years although the ;
most expensive. . .The U. S. sent i
ne ghhors greetings bv air in form
of le'ters, Europe sent greetings
by air in form of bombs- and
shells. Both are similar in one
respect—they affect the heart. .
Those swell fellows who passed
out Christmas cheer to underpriv- 1
ileged families here were given
the greatest ovation from those
needy in years. It gladdens, yet
tears out, the heart of the good
fellows who deliver the food and
toys.
Looked like ehurehec here mav
hove celebrated a real “white”
Christmas when it started to snow
yesterday. The first of the sea-
son, too. . .The two sons of
Governov 0 Daniel received an el
ocl.ric razor between them. The
legislature has been trimming the
governor for months. . .(All those
reports that intimates of EDR say
he will not run in 1910 for a
third term, should be taken none
too lightly. He will reveal his
plans to run, some believe, if he
cannot find a good candidate to
carry on his policies before the
democratic convention convenes in
1940. . .King George of Britain
has pointed out his country’s un-
ity in time of war. Wasn’t there
a British woman named Unity
that Hitler pointed out a while
DENISON GREETS CHRISTMAS WITH
QUIET SPIRIT; LIGHT SNOW FALLS
BACK TO "U"" ' Housowreckors star! razing Russian pavilion
at New York fair. first part to come down is statue oi Russian
worker atou 2C0 ' it lower. Parts will be numbered, packad
and shipped to Russia.
13 British Ships
Are Sunk In Week
(Continued on page four)
LONDON, Dec. 20—The admir-
■ ally announced today that thirteen
i British ships totaling 6,581 tons
I and eight neutral vessels totaling
10,839 tons were sunk lust week
in addition to the 8,111-ton Brit-
Durant Man Is
Held On Charge
Burg,?ry Here Two Trainmen
A Durant man, Lawrence Smith, i Ifillorl In Rio of
was placed undei a $2,000 ap-j IVIlieU in DiaSl
pearance bond for a preliminary _ --
hearing by Judge M. M. Scholl in ! „ CHOCTAW, Okla., boc. 26-
justice court tiiis morning in con- i ^nff>neer O. L. Henderson and
nection with the alleged burglary i ’’cman ,fY- Crowe, both of
of $300 from the Southern Pack-
ish ship Inverlane, which was
considered a total loss after it
it is estimated that Christmas
shoppers in Denison spent this 1
year from five to twenty per cent l
more for Christmas than has beer !
spent in the past ten years, th
day after Christmas finding
shelves and stocks with les- on
them than at any time in that per-
iod.
Bonbon merchants are pleased
at the business they had and linm
erous of them say they could
have sold more had they stocked
It.
In general there is an atmos-
phere of optimism for the new
year and it is firmly believed tha*
Denison will come into a more
prosperous year than it has en
joyed for some fifteen years
Banks report a splendid year
! and dividend check- will be forth-
1 coming to stockholders in a few
days. Annual statements are ex-
pected to reveal one of the most
healthy conditions of Denison’s
I financial institutions in many
years. Denison banks have always
enjoyed an enviable reputation,
being outstanding among all the
othe- banks of North Texas.
| The year will also round out
, one of the most active in build-
I ing lines according to reports from
'umber yards and building permit'
j 'eeords at the city hall,
j The ct'.y Tias done a great deal
of street improvement, four school
I buildings have been given the city,
| the people have voted near a qttar-
j ter of a million dollars toward im-
j proving its water and sewage sys-
tems and providing for other need-
ful improvements,
j The largest contract in connec-
I tion with the big $54,000,000
Denison dam was let this month
{ and work is expected to get under
| way within a few weeks now, re-
leasing a lot of new money in thp
city.
While as a whole the old year
has been one of relatively slow
ing company November 29.
Charges were filed against the
^ >, Oklahoman by ’Assistant Cliisf of
8 Polio „ 'll Borum after Smith
'and u companion, Pat Evans of
Denison, were arrested by Patrol-
men Harry Painter and Wesley
Barnhill. Evans is held under a
$750 appearance bond.
Smith, police said, is an excon-
vict.
I Shawnee, 'Okla,, were killed Mon-
j day when the boiler of a Rock Is-
] land locomotive exploded with
: such force that only the wheels
I were left on the track.
The blast occurred two miles
east of here on the main line of
the Rock Island.
j Official;, could offer no expla-
| nation for the explosion, which oc-
| currod apparently without warn-
; ing. The train had been to the
Sherman officers arrested a i
Sherman man for the alleged theft
of an $8.50 iron from the Bab, i
cock store here Saturday. The |
iron was returned.
AGED DENISON WOlvy.N
DIES DURING HOLIDAYS
Following an illness of one
month, Mrs. Ann e Robinson, 78,
resident of Denison for the past
53 years, died Dec. 23 at 2:55 p.
m. al a local hospital. Funeral
services were conducted (Monday
at 2 p. m. from the Short-lUurray
chapel with Rev. James Spivey of-
ficiating. Interment was at Fair-
view with Short-Murray directing.
Mrs. Robinson was born in
Scarborough, England, her par-
ents being Mr. and (Mrs. Isaac
Shut-land. With her parents she
came to Montreal, Canada at the
age of 14 vears. She was married
in New Ark, N. J.. in 1877 to
Thomas W. Robinson, later mov-
ing to Chicago where they made
their home until coming to Deni-
son 53 years ago.
She war. a member of the Pres-
byterian church, joining that body
more than thirty years ago, and
for a number of years took an ac-
tive part in the music of the
church
(Continued on page four)
The announcement said that al-
though Britain and neutral coun-
tries lost many ships last week. h^jn^’itTsVnfideTtiv''expected
Ge, many was deprived of nearly I that thp new year will shew a
twice as much tonnage in the scut- dpcjd(1(1 imlirovemcnt and mav es-
t ing of the liner Columbus | tablish a record for business lines.
the statement listed the follow-
ing casualties:
The Norwegian ships Rudolph
924 tons, Foina 1,674 tons and
| Flitrefjell 1,508 tons; the Swedish
vessels Lister 1,362 tons, Mars
1,877, another Mars of 1475 tons.
Adolphbratt 1323, Carlhenckel
1,361; the British ships Pearl 196
ton-, Compaganus 270, Serenity
‘87. Isabella Grieg 210, Active
185, Zelos 227, Trinity 203 City
of Kobe 4 373. Rivercarn 203, Eil-
eenwray 227, Inverlane 9141,
IDanis Bogo 1,214, Jyette 1877
and Panamanian Uke 797.
The 2211 ton channel steamer,.
Isle of Sark, missing for three
I days, arived safely at Southamp-
Fifteen PTA
Meets Slated
For The Spring
AUSTIN, Dec. 26—Fifteen
-J'l ng confe cnees of the Texas
i 'Oiigre'L of 1 arents and Teachers
affecting the membership of 131,-
630, will be scheduled, and the
state board delegates to the na-
tional congress -onvention will be
elected when the board of mana-
gers of the Texas congress meets
here Jan. 9 and 10 in the state
i ton with 200 persons aboard.^ (office. Fifty-one men and women
will spent the two days in congress
j business and some of them will
remain here for the education ad-
ministrators’ conference to be held
Jan. 11 and 12 by the State De-
partment of Education.
The congress board will set the
dates and confirm places for the
fifteen district meetings. The
state president, Mrs. Joe A. Wes-
Olen Eden To Be Moved Only A
Short Distance, Judge Claims
• if this city and Herbert of Par-
' ons, Kan., and two daughters.
,Wiss Clara Robinson and Miss
Wlnnifred Robinson, both of this
city. A sister, Mrs. Emily Jackson,
lives at Santa Barbara, Two
grandchildren and one great
grandchild also survive.
SHERMAN, Doc. 26—Glen Ed- j builders of the home, made it
en, the famous century-old home famous because of their hospital-
at Preston Bend near Red River, j ity, which included such famous
and its outbuildings and cemetery ( men as Robert E. Lee, Albert Sid-
will Probably be moved only a j ney Johnston, Sam Houston and ! somlorff of Richmond, plans to at-
ic. u t o e| ot.ier well-known figures of tFic ! tend five of the conferences and
day. Sophie Coffee continued as state vice presidents will be as-
hostess at the home until late in j signed the others.
the nineteenth century. Judge Bry- _______..___
ant came into possession of the i
Federal Judge Randolph Bryant.! land by purchase from the family i FILLEt> STOCKINGS SENT
Sherman, owner of the property, 0f his mother, who was the daugh- TO UNDERPRIVILEGED
revealed that tentative plans with | ,P1. 0f nn cal.iy Grayson county
short distance as a
backing up of water of the river
by the $54,000,000 dam now un-
der construction, just north of
Denison.
army engineers call for the layout
to be reesablished as nearly as j
possible at a new site in the same
historic area.
Proposed location lies less than
a half mile from the site of the j
home and almost due west but
slightly north, at what will be |
landsond. The high land will form
n promontory or peninsula into
the reservoir, to be reached by a
projected road from Pottsboro. It
is west of the state highway 91
and south of the feeder road
which leads west from Preston.
Ten acres at the end of this
jurist.
The historic structure, a large
two-story colonial structure, is- the
principal relocation caused in
Grayson county by the reservoir,
outside of the Katy railroad re-
moval for a short distance south
j of its present route between Potts-
horo and Sadler. Greatest interest
was attached to the future of the
home and various prono=a!s have
been discussed regarding its pres-
ervation.
Surviving are two sons, Charles promontory to be will he all that
remains of the 300 aero farm on
which the homo is now located,
the farm sp!it about ten years ago
by the construction of highway 91,
the concrete slab itself to he cov-
ered hy water for a considerable
distance from the river south.
Holland and Sophie Coffee, the
I WAXA'HACHIE, Texas Dec. 26
I —Hundreds of underprivileged
tots °f all races in the Waxahach-
ie community were made happy
when the Christmas Cheer commit-
tee of the Shakespeare club’ sent
out over 400 red stockings, hun-
dreds of toys and many baskets of
food. Waxaliachie boy scouts did
the delivering.
The red stockings were deliver-
ed to poor children of Santa Claus
age in the white and Mexican fam
Judge Brvnnt has been discuss- i ilie.s of the citv and to the chil-
:ng the matter with the engineers ! dren of the Texas Baptist Orphan-
for some time and tentative plans , age here. Toys fruits and can-
dies were given hy the commit-
tee to the colored children and
baskets of food were distributed
1o the many needy families.
The Waxahachie fireman a’ded
hy repairing many toys in a Lions
club sponsored project. These toys
were distributed to the poor Mexi-
can and negro children
have been worked out for removal
to the lands end. The land to he
suh/uerged is one of the first
tracts to he purchased in til's
county by the federal government.
At his home in Sherman, Judge
Bryant has a number of pieces of
furniture Lorn Glen Eden house
including the massive guest bed.
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Russia
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i vvith the quietest similar period in
| many years, police records show
| today, although the day was mar-
i red by bad weather with rain and
; snow.
Temperatures in this vicinity
fell to 30 dcgi-ees early todaj
after a high of 38 degvees Mon-
; day afternoon. More bad weather
with some rain is forecast for to-
I night and Wednesday.
Police reports reveal that but
, two calls came into the station
! during the 24 hours on Christmas
day. One was to stop a fight in
which none was hurt, while the
other was in response to a car
accident in the 800 bloek Wood-
ard street where three persons
were sent to the hospital, none
seriously injured.
Police records show that a car i Russian troops in Finland from
owned by a Colbert negro, ( hester j their supply bases near the Lenin-
Chi'ders, was struck from behind j CTad-Murmansk railway, vital ?*
Vital Rail Severing Would
Mean Russian Troop*
Would Not Flood Finland
So Fast, Claimed Now
Western Front
Action Is Seen
Russians Repulsed As Bomb*
ers Attempt To Fly Over
Helsinki, Finnish Capital
HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 26—
Finnish communiques today ad-
mitted for the first time that
| troops of Finland had penetrated
j Russian soil in a drive to cut off
ROW TO SAFETY — Ocean dotted with liteboats, as crew of
scuttled German liner Columbus heads for rescue ship, U. S. S.
Tuscaloosa. Crew, numbering 577, was taken to New York and
awaited decision of status by authorities.
TEXAS CROPS ARE
HELPED BY SNOW
Texas crops received benefits lines. For the first time in thirty
worth several hundred thousand years Big Spring was blanketed
dollars to growers from the heavy ; by snow, with residents trudging
rains and snows falling over the ’ through two inehes of the crunchy
state during the past 48 hours, crystals.
hy a car said to have been driven
by Jack Beard, of Sherman, about
1:40 a. m. Monday. Childer’s car
i had run out of gas and he was
| pushing it at the time of the ac-
cident.
I
Three passengers in the Beard
j machine, C. W. Leach and f . M
i Bale of Sherman, and Billy Brown
! of Tom Bean were taken to a lo
j cal hospital for treatment of min-
j or cuts and bruises received In
j the impact.
j Police said that citizens were
! less rowdy than any Christmas in
many years but that there was
much drinking going on. Very few
drunks were picked up during the
weekend and Christmas dev.
Charity organizations brought
cheer and comfort to many needy
families in the city led hy the
, huge donations by the Katv Boost-
er’s club augmented by toys from
the fire department. The comb
nation of two organizations dur-
ing the Yule period it was report-
ed.
Local churches reported the
largest attendance of the year In
experts declared today, although
-t left citizens shivvering and un-
prepared.
Snow also was reported at Cole-
man, Abilene, Amarillo, Wichita
Fails, Electra and Olncy.
Snow fell over niu"h of North
Texas during the afternoon, b-ut i
.. melted as it fell. Among ooiiits j presents bought in their
- | reporting snow weie McKinney, j which were “just what T
Denison received a light snow
that melted as fast as it fell Mon-
day afternoon, although rain fell
before and after the flakes
rived. Temperatures fell to the j Sherman and
30 degree mark in some parts of j snow added to the burdens of
the city. | holiday drivers and made the go-
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the Soviet cause.
The Finnish communique said
that Finn troops had penetrated
to within seventy miles west of
the railway east of Lake Ladoga.
Russian warplanes bombed
many eitie- in Finland but little
damage to property or deaths was*
reposed Finland branded the raid;,
is a “fiasco” for the Russians, and
:’t at i.-ast ten Soviet bombers
had been shot down hy Finn anti-
rrcrnft fire or by Finnish planes.
A Moscow commuique today ad-
mitted that Russia had made no
material gains in Finland during
the past 2 1 hours, but hooted the
cla'ms of Finland that ten planes
had been destroyed. Russia as-
serted that one Soviet plane had
been shot down but that six Fin-
nish planes had been destroyed.
Twenty Russian bombers were
repul'ed as they neared the Fiu-
ni-h capital, Helsinki.
Two entire companies of Russ,
ion troops wore reported to h»ve
been wiped out by *he Finns i'd
heavy fighting in the east. Russian
idvances were repulsed north of
many instances as citizens Pay | Lake Ladoga, and Soviet soldier*,
homage to He to whom the day were reported freezing to death
is dedicated. ; in the Sala sector.
Business men report the largest
Christmas sales in at least ten
years and today were preparing
for the annual rush to. exchange
store
always
Finland claimed that severing
of the Murmansk-Leningrad rail-
way might -top more Russian sol-
diers from flooding Finland.
That the Russ ans were using
Gainesville. The 1 have wanted" when presented hy j heavier charges of explosives io
friends or relatives.
A twelve inch snow was report-
ed in the Oklahoma panhandle, |
largest fall in years.
Traces of snow continued to j
fall in the Panhandle, drifting
ing slow and difficult.
A chill northeast wind, blnving
out of overcast skie.-. reminc 1 cit- j
izens along the coast that winter
had brought to an end the h.gb I
Women’s Hats
To Be Saner,
around buildings and along fence | temperature readings which con-j Cn<ic
______________J tinned through the late fall. ^ [ Jdys L/cauut.
Former Kaiser
Holds Christmas,
j tinned through the late fall
j From the Panhandle to the
I Gulf, parched soil drank in small j
J hut heartening amounts of pre-
} cipitalion.
r\rr \\J T,1<' snow "Standcd from Santo,
K.eef , /tt War seventy miles west of Fort Worth.
_ | westward to the Guadalupe moun-
DOORN. Holland. Dec. 26—The j tains' n of near'y 300
former German Kaiser, addressing Snow cowris t.ie
die, totaling as much as five m-
a Christmas prayer service at
Doom House Monday stressed the j l’'aci’°'
significance of the Christmas fes-
tival to the world especially in
times of war, but carefully avoid-
ed any further mention of the
Present conflict.
Nearly 81 years of age. the j
former Kaiser was an impressive
figure with snow white hair and ,
beard as he faced some sixty peo- ]
pie of his suite and employees at !
the castle.
In the afternoon carols were
sung J- • large dining room j
where Wilhelm and his wife, Her- j
mine, stood beside an improvised I
manger with their intimates gath- j
ered around. Then they filed jnto ——.
the hall to view a Christmas tree. SANDRINGHAjM, Norfolk, Eng-
At night the former German I land, Dec. 26—King George VI
emperor, resplendent in his guards! Monday broadcast to the Britsh
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MIAMI BEACH, Fie., Dec. 26
-Good tidings came today from
G. Howard Hodge, noted designer
of ladies’ headgear, who said hats
next year-—more so than in the
recent past—would begin to look
like something that belongs on
m 'lady’s head.
shells was reported at Viipuri
vhere heavy Russian artillery wae
dropping shells throughout the en-
tire day.
Pope P us came to the assist-
! anee of Finland monetarily when
, it was announced by the Vatican
that the I’ope had sent a large
sum of ca'h to the stricken na-
tion. In the United States for-
mer president Herbert Hoover re
vealed that he would take a swing
through middle western states to
push his Finnish relief plan. Al-
ready the US plan of Hoover
has forwarded $200,000 to the as-
dstance of Finland, still far too
cmal! to meet Finnish reeds.
Activity on the French German
Hats in 1940, Hodge said, would }
be feminine, flattering, definitely j western front was resumed today
Brmvff airway, reported five : dressy—and sane. a French communique n'•sorted
inches snow in its field at Ar- i Sanity of design however, will | 9nd two Gorman raids near the
lie, near Childress. Airliners were) not extend to colors for nex' \f0zello river were repulsed,
grounded at Dallas and F.l Paso. year’s chapeaux, since heaven j Adolf H tier sva, still on the
Temperatures varied from sev-' pink, dawn green, moonlight, jew- j western front visiting his
eral degrees below freezing in the | e! gold, daring red and undersea j troops.
Panhandle to 57 at Corpus Christi. are among the colors.
crack
King George
Asks F or Peace
uniform with orders and medals
and ITermine. in evening drei and
with pearls, dined with members
of their court and a few chosen
Dutch friends. Wilhelm, ns usual,
ate and drank sparingly.
In a hrinf speech ho mentioned
absentees, including his and Tier-
mine’s children and grandchildren,
many of whom are serving in th"
German armies.
Although in good health, the
former Kaiser bv his doctor’s or-
ders. did not leave the house all
day beeau >e the weather was damp
and chilly.
empire a Christmas message hope-
ful of peace but reiterating a de-
termination that any peace must
bo based on security from aggres-
tate. 'A bearded. 70-year-old Sots-
wold shepherd, Walton Handy,
speaking from his native village
in Gloucestershire, introduced the
king to his subjects.
Before the king spoke at 3 p.
m., the empire’s greeting had been
The first contingent of fighting
men from Australia arrived in
Britain, a London report said
Lad L Burned
GAINESVILLE, Tex., Dec. 26
—Fred Little, Jr., 14 was burned
severely when his sh rt caught fire
from a stove in the living room oi
his home. His mother, Mrs Freda
Little, received burns on her
hands while trying to extinguish
her son’s clothing.
sion and on respect for the rights I broadcast from sixteen different
of free peoples. j points throughout the empire and
He mentioned neither Germany, ; in France.
Russia nor any other country by ; First to extend greetings were
name, but he said: “It is the trag men in the active sendee—aboard
edv of this time that bore arc a destroyer leaving the harhnr to
powerful countries whose whole j resume Dover patrol duty, from
direction and policy are based on
aggression and suppression of all
we bold dear for mankind.”
The king broadcast his message
from the study of his country e»-
a field hospital near the front line
in France and from a plane of the
Royal Air Force whose pilot was
cruising 6,000 feet above ground
somewhere in England
Fire Damage* Church
A small amount of water and
smoke damage was done at the
First Christian church rhout 10:30
a. m. today when fire of an unde-
termined origin blazed. The fire
was extinguished in a few min-
utes by the fire department.
NOTICE
If you do not roeelm yoxt Pri«*»
before 5(30, please phone *00 *ov
«n« wBI he sent
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