The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 180, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 26, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Fair and miner tonight
and tomorrow.
The Denison Press
A FAST CROWING PAPER
7c PER WICK
Representative United Press arid International News Service.
DENISON, TEXAS, TUESDAY. JAN. 26th, 1937
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 3—NO. IS j
* Louisville Evacuated; No Water At Cincinnati
Pestilence
May Come To
Flooded Area
ELECTRIC WORKERS
Two Hundred And Forty
Thousand Left Homeless By
Floods In Kentucky’s Lar-
gest City; Mud Covered.
SQUAT; WILL HOLD
PLANT WITH LIVES
7th Victim Is Barrel Day In
Killed Monday | Denison Wed.
Dallas Traffic For Clothing
GAS TANK ADDS
HORROR TO CASE
Condition Is
Alarming, Say
Men Forcefully Enter Plant Carrying Equip-
ment To Remain Long Time As Whole
City Will Have To Pay The Price, Claim
Martial Law Leaders Give Out
Strict Rules To Be Enforced
On Citizens From Now On.
YORK—-Forcefully »t
2."»0 electrical workers
! entered the main electric plant
NEW
group of
: which controls power for driving
- the city’s cars and other servic
LOUISVILLE—The surge last night
of pestilence hovered over, The men carried with
this city Tuesday morning,. bedding and food supplies
th mi
and
and added to the flood wat-
ers which have already run
more than 240,000 persons
from their homes, the situa-
tion is one of the most dis-
paraging and heart break-
ing sights ever to greet the
eyes of this city of culture
and religion, rich history
and great personalities.
It is little more this mor
ning than a mass of water
DENISON
62-50-35
YEARS AGO
declared they have inaugurated
sit down strike.
All car service of the city wtll|
Waiting For Bus On Ft. Worth 1 Round Receptables Will Be
Highway, 13 Feet Off Con- Placed On Down Town
crete Slab, Youthful Army 1 Streets For One Day Only
Cadet Is Slain Monday Nile.1 To Receive Garments, Say.
AT PADUCAH, KY.
Shortage of
Water is Now
! New Menace
Partner Jumps Need Here For
And Saves Life Relief Efforts
Citizens Flee in Terror As New Danger Is
Threatening-Fourteen Are Drowned A3
Boat Capsizes In Downtown Street There
City Manager Claims Drinking
Water May Be Gone By
[ Thursday Unless S 0 m • -
thing Is Done Immediately.
Water Turned
On One Hour
the downtown business
2G Year-Old Army Cadet Is' Special Group Canvassing I’ADUCAjH, Ky.— This city of. through
Knocked 117 Feet By Vici- Business Area For Cash Do is threatened this morning) section
ous Driver; Doesn’t Stop.* nations , Response Good. : the entire population was in The tank was taking turn atj
soon be paralyzed, it is feared.1 - I __ mortal terror of fire adding to being bumped front one conn r to
and their action will effect some| DALLAS—Melvin Kl,.rt«n or. ! ~ | the havoc being wrought by surg- another as constant and immed j
Barrel Day in
Food Is Plentiful In Ohio But
Care Is Taken To Prevent
Overstocking By Citizens.
I DAI. I. AS-
tl 5.
demands met or will fight w th
’heir lives to hold the •
Melvin Klufton, ... ,
150,000 patrons, it is estimated. J , , , „ l\ eum-day is
The men have given out tm*| . ‘ 1 Denison,
statement that they will have their ■illl'ed hel'<‘ ;'loll<lay m«'ht wht» aj In the down town arte twenty
' Clous hit and run driver knock-] barrels will bo stationed on tilt
ed him lli loot as lie waited for streets where citizens who have
a bus at the side ot the foil : clothing of every sort and size, 01
Worth pike near Hensley field. shoes will he given an opportunity
Klufton had spent several hull- to place them for the welfare
died hour, in the air and was s. work in the city,
private ,11 the army. His Home, Parties placing the articles mayj
i believed to be in Aberdeen,I deposit thorn anv time during the),. . ,
Washington. A letter from his day and names or wrappings need 1,1stened "tvely last night
Group Named
To Canvass
C. C. Election
By DU1.CE MURRAY
January 26, 1875
iiig waters when a 20,000 gallon kite danger from flam- - bursting
gasoline tank broke loose in the; out hovered over the situation,
edge of town and was floating Soon all of the street,- were •■■■a
--- - I coated in that area.
A A Fourteen persons lu.-t tln-ii ii.
ps at the edge of the city wht
Everyday
DENISON
Denison and the United States
There was not a very large at-)
mother, postmarked in that
was found in his pocket.
The victim died at 10 p. m
i , , . , ,, the radio blared oders to r-ouis-
><.' ; not accompany—just drop the rr- „ _
\i,t.....• ..i,.,t,;'„. ............. 'Vllle. ky- "»»• niartial law.
tielu. of clothing1 or shoes into the
commit-
! oration—alive to the importance
increasing our school advan-
soaked, mud'- covered shacka'and [tendance at the school meeting' ----
palaces—-all of which are empty j *' ldday night, bu . o-e "ho "fl,| Announcement of
their occupants having taken to|Present a"; eai-ncH-. itiot.< o '-‘('-jt(,p to canvass electii
flight in the night as the thief of)
their happiness stole on them with;
its far reaching watery arms of,laKPSi .
death and destruction encircling meelinK Wlls oiganizoi i tor- was made Tuesday hv \V. I
the town as if the citys’ time had) pallimr Mayor LinK° to the “! A: Itburn, president of the organi-
come and the judgment day had P,'of- P1,miPs ‘’xPlai,,Pd th',' ne0'^ zation.
sent the octopus of destruction to- / t*le dn'on Seminaly am ^ 'n,0 group will meet imnieditue-
do its worst.
And the worst is being
Last Day For Mailing Is Indi
cated As January 2« With
Announcement Later, Report j,w„ !lftPr the accident. Ued up in the late afternoon, ac-, ... .
l»utb. sirm.N, both leg's and his skull i cording to Jerome McKinney, who1 1 <l ^
: CINCINNATI— This city
I may bn without water by
1 Thursday, is the fateful
i warning issued today by
1 Uity Manager S. A. Dykster,
I who is virtually the dictator
boat in which they Were making "f the citi' under the Present
for safety capsizmi. the b„at | emergency following the
was directly over the .middle of!1, 0od whlch IS the Worst in
one of die downtown street.- ^^01 Jr the metropoi-
it cnp>ized. the parties drownine*
Water lias been placed on
short ration basis and to-
capsized, the parties drowning
where a few hours before autD.s
Louis- made their way on the pavement.
The fate of the city is not yet
a
day
was curtailed more so.
.! container- and they will be gath-i
They were surprised when orders! |;nowil anj „.j|| llot )ie untj) tbe Any breach of tile
crest of the flood waters reach
j cently conducted by
j of Ccnmorce to i
member;
came over the ether to shoot to
men seen looting, or evening which will he some two oi
were fractured He was the scv-!js in clung, of that phase of the'suspecte<l- Another order came' thrr-. days off.
turns 1 enth traffic victim of Dallas j work. iwhen a™? men WL>1'e ref us- As it now
ham' i j county this year. Parties on Main . street are
- 11 Klufton had arrived in Dallas| being canvassed Tuesday for fund i dle
for the board ol dircc-l several
'fornin with ix other men who) dal"' support is being pledged Itake whatever they needed. Mar
regula-
armv
' ed flashlight batteries by one of
city stores. They were or-
doue.
Homes and fortunes, business and
industry, poet and peasant, serv-
size of our school building and
the establishment of a mcrchan-
tile and collegiate department, as
hours before from Cali m cmry on the work and final! idpred to bl'eak ir,to tlle place and most irreparable lo-s of propri.y
wer; being transferred to Illinois j Committees
ary eanvasisng the
tial law is necessary in a case;|ast- persons. None will
tion measures being used to con-
trol food and water will be met
with severe treatment, it is an-
nounced.
Citizen.- are given only Olio
alJhour Tuesday morning in which
to secure enough water to run
The population is fleeing to the'lh('m through the day. All wa .i-
appears the ent
city is threatened and certainly]
a grea part of it will recciv•• >>-'
ing of garments or bathing in the
ant and master, ole massa and Un- a,so’ a normal sch,ooi for t'le qua’“
' ifieation of teachers. Remarks
cle Ike—all are now stripped of
their artificial outside and the
citizens stand shoulder to shoulder
against a common foe—water.
Water by the billions of gallons.
Water that cant' be controlled,
topped and directed. It stems to
have one objective and course and
that is to destroy everything be-
fore and to move on down this
rich section of the country, taking
everything in the valley before it.
River Much Wider
The river here is ten miles wide
and ordinarily is only some 200 to
300 feet.
the importance of mete s g ;|ly on the Iasi day in which vote- The victim was standing thir-Lity
may be sent, in which is the. 2tGh!teen feet off the concrete slab'
of this month, and will check the! with a friend, Robert Lautheisj
returns. A list of names picked'when they noticed a car heading! INFANT O. G
hy a special committee from which];n tlndr direction, off the high-!
the fifteen are to he selected wa , way. I .authors screamed a warn-1
mailed to members of the Cham-i but the fender of the earl
her recently. Votes arc coming -truck Klufton and knocked him
in, however, some of the memb 117 fed.
ers are taking little interest m, checks on the silo revealed the
the election. [driver did not attempt to use his
The fifteen receiving (he most brakes anytime during the tray-
votes will he announced by Th- police wer working on
..... , ... canvassing committee at the an-;vpry meager clue today in an
from this initiative movement.\v j mlft] banquet which is to he held, attvnpt to learn the identity of
have a magmfieient school builu-j Ffil) 9th I lhc (ll.ivn
ing not surpassed in beauty and I Thni,e nanied on the committee 1--------------------
convenience by any similar odt- j tM Newsom. .1. V. Conatso RgJjeCCa Wallace M&11V
were also made by Tone, Jesse
Cook, Otis, Col. Rogers M. V. Ik
Bennett, Dr. Moely and Dr. Ache-
son. Finally a committee was na-
med to devise a plan for further-
ing the object of the meeting, to)
report at subsequent meetings.
Much good is expected to result
for final training, and intended to ; Knotts blocks and report splendid! such a> has ariaen in the floodedi behind to lake the chance of it..j di inking water is to he met with
take off at”8:30 this morning. response from the people of the1 area- footers in these cases are maining in their homes, and on!.v!a lllost f-vere treatment. Water
without conscience and drastic | enoUF(, t0 (,uar(i property ar.dlturned on for only fifteen min-
give what aid may he needed will|ates at night. Bath tubs are us-
measures must he taken to put a 1
=top to this.
stay on the spot
CHAPMAN IS | --
BURIED MONDAY MORNING One announcer last night re-
! marked and thanked the people
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. |
1). I'hapman, Arthur who live)
Jackets Meet
Whitesboro In
Crucial Game
fice in the state. But it is not
targe enough to accommodate the
public. Applications are daily
F. M. McFarland, l.utlier f'hfirry.j
and Louis Wertz.
It is requested that all members |
of the Nation for the support and
financial assistance that has been
.. ,, , , i given the stricken area. He said
a, 120 1 West Hull street dteu.^ ^ frMl seemingly no
Monday night at the iamily horn,.. tunds Hnd supplies appear- . .....— w. R f
rm*™' “’MV,I'PS ... .......... .. ed The people of the United Denison Favored To Win But
ed Tuesday morning ^ States has hPard the ca|l and have! »®ay Find Road Tough
Short-Murray chapel with inter- ccme th,,ough jn typical American A8ainst Q"lntet Tonight
style. What he has seen is aj
drop in the bucket compared to j
what will come within the next j
few days.
ment at Oakwood. Short-Mur
ray directed the funeral.
; ed to hold drinking water in many
I cases.
Should the drinking water fail
j i< it now ,-cems likely, this city of
soil,000 souls, will he facing ,»v-
] aruation or pestilence.
IVstik-.ce is now feared and
■ 'cry precaution is being used to
: jirevent the starting of any d‘s-
| ease.
> All watei i- ordered boiled be-
fore drinking Infraction of this
, >rder rallies severest punishment.
Food is plentiful yet sales are
The
city’s under stirct martial ”om'i"E in abroad while ev- of the organization send in the;,-!
ory department is filled to ovn-lvotcs at onCp s0 that the full1
‘“A force cf 300 soldiers arrived i ,,y ™ ®f "“h^diwcl n"’"'"-,'
takp over the situation.
I building is needed and higher gra-| ,nvs
dos should be established so that
; Sndlov
jut s: I:» p. m Mrs. Wallace has
Orders placed in the city by the) <‘'s ul‘ 7 Tre list as mailed containo 1 livP(t all hei. life „ Grayson
commander in charge indicates Relents can complete them full nl„stly those names who have been | (,n,lnly most nf the time on
educational course and qualily a(,tive in the work of the oigat.i r,(„h ear Sadler,
themselves for business and the zatjnn f,„- several years
professions in the institute. The, ____________
object now is to devise a means
Years Resident Grayson ; Denison offjcials rcport -cvel.al
Dies At Sadler Home p‘'rsoT1s hera havp donated ca?h 10
| the cause and that many more
! were xepected to do so in a very
i short time. Denison should make |
- a good representation in this. Tse
Denison high sctioel Yelloa
Jackets will r- m tlu-ir county) being restricted,
basketball league play after two People generally have resigned
weeks of layoff tonight at Whitcv 1 themselves to the situation but
| boro against Whites!'.,ro hit'll the severity of the flood eor'di-
thc following points which are to
operate, it is declared, to serve
live« and protect property.
Shoot on Sight
Police will shoot on sight and
not ask questions any one seen
looting.
All business and industrial con-
cerns must have some one on duly
day and nV!u to protect their
properly. such persons will be
empowered to arm themselves and
given authority to shoot to kill,
without fear of prosecution any-
one caught looting.
No confiscation of property or
article whatsoever in order to
meet the flood condition will be!
Funds Needed
Badly For Red
to accomplish this praiseworthy
undertaking and the committee
believe they see a way to do t.
Nothing could accomplish mote
for our city than the establish-
ment of such t thorough educa-i ________
tinned it to, and were told that) The resjaiiisp has been gener-
it was absurd. The idea of run j ous jn t)1(. pecial and urgent call
tional institute. | from the Red Cross for funds to
January 26, 1887 j |, sent to the stricken area hut
63, died at I Elliot, both of Sadler. Lila Payne
Monday Jan. 25,:hjof Sadler.
One brother Lee Wilson, 6
miles south of Sherman. One
sister, Edith Wallace, Tonkawa,
Olein, and 1-1 grandchildren. Mrs.
Wallace was a memb -r of the
Persbyterian church and has
been for many years.
YuMornl arrangements are not
and "ill not be until
r.
Mi Wallace was mnt.-ied in
1812 jn Grayson county to A. S.
Wallace, and i survived by her
I husband, one son, Clarence Wal-j
lace of Lubbock, Texas and four complete
people of the stricken states need
the assistance. Let’s all help!
The game will begin at 7:30.
Th- game originally schedule
to be played here, was transfer-
red there due to filial exa.ns
in the local high school. There
will he no home game.- here this
week, Coach Logan Siollonwcr, ;
announced today,
Denison will go into tin- routes:
favorites to win. hut >.nny
tinn 1ms
I daughters, Mrs. Valley Eubanks members of tin
ClfOSS Relief !"f Houston. Eva Elliott and ('lava from.
The Missouri Pacific railroad is
putting in a siding at Bells. This
threw a scare into our contempor-
i ury, the News and it came out
with the following: “It is no long-
rigidly probed.
All smoking, for Hr- iiiolcct.on
is banned-
Denison is asked to hasten with
its cash to meet (he needs of the
hour.
A dollar now will help to stave
off disease and pestilence and will
therefore do move than if not de-
fic yards will he moved from this layed, it is pointed nut by general
city to Bells where most of the headquarters,
switching will be done. This step! All money should be split at
is necessary for the want of room, once to either banks or to this
This, while not a serious loss to] office or to chairman Harry Weill
our city, will have its effect. Just gartcn of this city,
at this time Denison cannot affor'L As fast as the money is handed
So far there have been but few;to [ose anything that will advance in, it is being rushed by treasur-
iietnnccs of fatalities. Several| interests on jot or little. We ,.v Ralph Geisenhonev at the t’iti
bodies arc reported to have been ,jon't want the Pacific to move n Zons National Bank.
permitted und r any circumstnn-j c). n concea|ed fact that the Paci-
ecs unless by a uniformed police-
man.
Absolute ban oil all liquor sales
All cases of profiteering will h
Grape Juice In
Quantities To
Have Long Party
Logan Stollenwerck, hi school
coach Monday afternoon was tell-
. ... , ■ the going tougher than exp--’
q,g us of a game that was being { ii.| i
planned for next week between
Yellow Jckets and the hi school
faculty' members Whether he
lily are heard, was joking, you can guess. He
| said the Jackets would give a ho
; dieap by wearing skirts and being
hobbled. It sounds like a gag.
, hut even so, it would attract moie
I cash customers to the gym than
a regular game. It couldn’t be
any less.
not diminshed-
Traffic Stopped
Orders given last night to
stop all traffic across the suspen-
'on 1., i(iL'- l-ading to Co\ 'ngton,
Ky Th - state is now entirely
cut of from the Ohio side.
Th- suburbs of the city situated
on tlu i-von hill- which surround
The faculty members, eoahees
Stollenwerck, McWilliams and Ma-
lone and David Starr played mem-
! hers of the Mud Daubers squad
Monduv afternoon ard made a .
mg game, tf they play the brand
; fair showing despite the tact, ____ ,. , ___:.,„r!
find) the town ar- still suffering isolu
tion although they are in com-
evon though the Whitesborites do munication by radio and phone
claim but a 250 percentage in [with down town Cincinnati
league play to date Th West| Mt. Washintgon with its 30,000
Grayson squad has won one .tndjha- about on. -third of its citizens
lost three. 1 out nf their homes and seeking
Friday night the Jackets will higher grounds,
meet Bells, loop leaders, at] Washington has about 15,-
Whitewright in a crucial gam ■ nOO .---king higher land while s-
tht they may decide final hear
Earlier |
outfit,
(Continued on Page 1)
ings in league standings,
in the year the Bell
coached by C Cin.nmins. round-
ly outplayed and defeated the, H you do not Ket your paper
Jacket.- in a game that feature > dalrterod to you by 5 p. m. eaeh
near fight-. However Stollon- day, pleate phono 300 and on* will
werck believes his boys will de- he rent you.
feat the Bells Quintet in the com- THE DENISON PRESS
seen floating in the waters, hut'p,,^ f,.om iieV(, and we hope thev
they were unable to be reached,I ran fjn,j plenty of ground to put
confirmation of such reports is* ajj tho side tracks they wish for
lacking. I switching purposes. News. We is now Indicated that five million
It is difficult at this time to cs 1 mnd0 some inquiries respecting will hardly he sufficient,
limato the financial loss to this1 the above, and were greeted with) Every city in the United Stat-
city but will run into 'millions asjn laugh from all whom we men-. cs is asked to give support
rot a single concern in the httsi- ning trains nyvny down to Bell-) —----
ness and industrial nren has esenp-) to switch them and then pulling! "The Angi'n-Hnxoti'’ was the title
; here to have them go of a missionary program studied
11 is declared that at first it
was thought that two million dol-
lars would meet the needs, but it
Everything from c ape juice tojlvi .-a, city,
shop polish in car load lots pa. ed; Phoc polish, ti
through Denison n\
none of them had played a game
in several years. Stollenwerck
amount of a (hit the basket from difficult an-
for most of his
t of hall they displayed
Whitewvight and R.-n-is
week
Husband and Wife
the Katyi whole ear load, out of St. Louis! gjos to account
this week on their way to various] and on its way to Denver. side’s scores. And was he hot
j hound for Seattle, Wash, and Bnt-
I
ora.
out on tho main line is simply^
Power Shut Down
preposterous. Think of pullingj
All power and gas plants are
a train away through to Bcllsj
(Continued on Puce 4)
(Continued «» P»ft 4)
points. Also out of St Louis is a car ——>
If all the grape juice was used load of shoe material on its way! Most powerful sounding
for parties where old maids and to Windsor, Mo. cine on the market, chief Wahoo
coin,nunity singing prevailed, it Two car loads of tobacco from! Kn-Zowie.
would prolong the party for) the factory at Winston-Salem and
many evenings
And if all the shine polisli was'to., Mont,
dumped here it would shine the| ,|(,1)o? \ vv|10i(, P!ll. i„a,i 0f
shoes of Denison people limit tho-thut in aM thp co|ovs and varieties
leather on all stock in West Texas f,.om ! ,.Uoy N y anfi hon,j for
was used up and a part of Foulh: Kansas city
American hides shipped in.
Ait interesting look over the[ A carload of automobile batter-
shipments reveal the following ies from Cleveland on its way In
ty of First Baptist church.
O C Dobson conducted the
lesson,
sided,
ilti.ns.
' tape juice, a car load of it,
Mrs, V C Cndenhead pro- out ftont the factory at Lawton,
Mult., and bound for Dallas and
CITRUS CROP SHORT BY
50 PER CENT, PRIES
medi-, ADVANCE 70 PER CF.N1 |'
LOS ANGELES—-Fruit grow-]
_______________________ ' ers arc working frantically to]
Several radio programs over tie!save what they can that is rental.<
station WLW have left off their ing of their citrus c-op. It i= es
entertainment so that special] timated that tho crop is 5ft pet
boradeasts on the flood situatin!' ott lost now. Pri-■- fir citin'|
might he made. They say they] nth has advanced 71' per cent.
are cooperating with radio offi-l
cinls in
peple. This is true to a certain
extent.
Kansas City; and baking powder
fills another car, the shipment over got.
headed for various points in Tex- ___ - -
s, (Continued on Pn<o 4)
th- hosts interest of th'j Conductor ,, A Wl.i>fht
. . . , , : fined at his residence front a
It is also just about the -
host piece of advertising they will
My wife always forgets to put
i- con niustard on the table.-—C. C. Is
— Brakcman George Gerrick is re-
ported tick.
WHAT DOES YGUR WIFE DOT
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