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DENISON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 6th. 1937
•- WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 3—NO. *65
Fear Disruption Demo
Party on Court Change
Compromise Is RAILWAY
To be Reached
Belief Today
Cabinet Members, So Far Re-
ticent, Are Coming Out With
Statements Concerning Pos-
t sible Moves To Change Court
Tragic Mistake
Members Claim
Peaceful Solution Is Hoped
For Through McCarron Bill,
Indicated At Capitol
PROBE
TO BE STARTED
DENISON
62-50-35
YEARS AGO
By I)ULCE MURRAY
—•
Approval Of
Peabody Plan
wpA Landscaping Project In’
Washington For Final Ap j
proval or Rejection, Letter
To School Board Wed. Said!
Project Goes
Through, Dallas
May 6, 1878
It is quite evident the Denison
City Gas Light company means
business. They have purchased
lots and Wednesday morning clos-
ed the contract with L. M. John-
WASH1NGTON—Threats that'son and G. D. Bat.—two of the
the democratic party will be hope-: best mechanics in tin- eit> to
lessly split weie indicated today'erect the buildings and they have
unless the Supreme Court matter already commenced wmk. I lime
is subjected to some kind of an is not a better mason
agreement in the way of
promise.
WASHINGTON—A senate com-
mittee was asked to undertake to
determine what are all the facts
surrounding what is believed to
be control by a group of the na-
tion's largest railway system. A
I far-reaching investigation will he
conducted, it is planned.
Railway holding companies will
be given a probing and will be
asked to explain abontt he $6,-
330,000 deal with the Van Swear-
ingen interests.
Three men, asid to he active in
the railway interests are also said, ject had been forwarded
to be closely identified with the, Italian to Washington for
Work On Grounds To Begin
Immediately After. Accept-
ance, Is Report By Supt.
Approval of the WPA project
to landscape a.id terrace the Pea-
body school grounds may come
from Washington in the next few
days, according to a letter to the
Denison school hoard from J. D.
Morgan, district supervisor at Dal-
las.
The letter indicated the pro-
from
presi-
Generai Motors interests and alsoldentiai approval, hut that a few
the DuPont interests.
in
com- ison and Mr. Johnson is
class carpenter and house joiner.
i
Den-j
first'
It is certain that a compromise1 There are to be two good-size,
must be reached, it is declared,! brick buildings, each 1.! feet high,
as men of high rank on both sides j both covered with tin loots,. Thttc
of the question are equally de-[are
termined that tney are right instructed,
tlie matter. toP and
Even c Tiinet members, so far, fpel across and . feet deep. us.
reticent, are becoming more em. gentlemen contract to complete
bolden as the issue grows more the buildings and turn them over
1 to the company within 30 days.
four
also two cisterns to lie con-
one 1X feet across the
it feet deep, the other 14
City Orders
Purchases Of
Machines Here
Maintenance Machine To Be
Bought To Fill Crevices And
Holes In Denison Streets.
minor changes might he made be-
fore it is sent, back to Dallas and
Denison with a final check. Im-
Winners In
Regional On
Way to State
Two Debaters, Two Alternates
and One Declaimer, Recent
Winners Of Regional, Leave
For State Tournament Today
Hope To Win
Austin Laurels
Debaters To Stop In Waco For
Practice Debate Prior To
Entrance Of Austin Meeting
City Orders Motor Boats
Kept Off Public Lakes
BRITISH
FUGITIVES
Two debating teams, two alter-
nates and a declaimer from Den-
ison, left for Austi*’ this morning
to participate in., the state Intcr-
scholastic league meet, B. Mc-
Daniel, .superintendent, announc-
ed.
The debaters, Ar..i Clymer, Hel-
en ouike McDaniel, Aaron Witz
and Frank Houghton, with alter-j
nates Charmian Byers and Thelma
Thomason, will stop in
a practice debate today before
proceeding to Austin and the
state meet. They are accompan-
B1LBAO—With British war
ships standing by and trawlers pa-
troling the relief ship sent by
Great Britain to remove children
Everyday
DENISON
C. Wimpee
and other helples., non-com bu«A___________
tants from the city, 2300 children’
were taken aboard late yesterday.I ( on*i!•lt -J1«‘ti11- t-.u 1^ ••
Standing four miles off with!Rotary club membe,>' Joe
guns ready to defend w - a Brit- RalPh Geisenhoner, A
ish man-of-war. while some eight'Hope Huff aml McClun* 00
miles away ste al several war ves-itheir K0,,<1 wo,k at Beaumont the
sels of the Spanish rebels, who!first of th" we<‘k wben they
were threatening to make trouble'cuied tha distli,t invention for
for any who should bring relief Denison in " I,(’,li3on witI.
to the stricken city. * «<-'* behind thc' ,m've- thr' oonve"'
............. As the rescue vessel cruised tion will help the city along m;
Mac. for | away, she signaled the B it ish war Ithe ^ of ,ht‘ hund,,<-lds of
I tarians who will come here
Would Lower
State Rating
Here, Report
Position Offered Commission
Recently, Turned Down Af-
ter Communications With
State Dept. Of Health, Austin
Might Mean
Rating Loss
i Restricted Area About Intake
Valves Will Be Marked Off
In Future, Under Rules.
mediately alter the work order! led by their coach, Otis Hilliard
is granted, the improvement on and Miss West. The teams re-
I To lighten the load
acute, and if the break comes, it
may split the whole machinery
from top to bottom.
"It is a most tragic mistake,"
declared one of the members of
the official family last night, it 1-
i eported.
Sen McCarron, (deni.-Neb.) will
offer a compromise hill, looking
toward a peaceful solutions, it is
indicated.
. John Dunn, who lives
miles north of town, discovered a
negro in the act of removing the
carcass of one of his rows, whirl
the negro claimed had been killed . ^
the railroad by a passenger j S£jjj
the grounds will begin, it was re-
vealed by H McDaniel, local
school superintendent.
Submittal of the project to W
PA officials for approval was
made by City Engineer A. .VI.
Brenneke after a request by the
school board several weeks ago. ,
on
train.
city em-
ployes on stret and pail, .cork, the
city commission Wednesday after-
noon authorized the purchase o
a power-driven lawn mower and
street maintenance machine.
M. Brenneke, city engineer,
the maintenance machine,
The circumstances looking( wol,ld provide labor saving and' Neither Side Making Advances
cently won the regional tourna-
ment at Denton.
Amelia Roots, accompanied by,
her mother, Mrs. L. C. Roots and
Mrs. Stella Byers, faculty mem-
ber, recently won tin. regional
tournament and will engage in
state competition.
Determined to keep the Deni-
lio.j -■'■'! water system's certified rating
come here for with the stale department of
the several day meeting. Without! health, the city commission Wed-
the cooperation of the citizen- it'nesday afternoon lefu.-d motor
'could not be held. (boating on e it he Randell or Wa-
| __ tcrloo lakes.
i Ralph Geisenhoner told a storyt The action .am > .ter a peti-
| »• q -• of how the spirit prevailed in 1 -"O w:. presented the council
in [Nova OCOtia I Beaumont during tin Rotary ,",n- sw ,:.! week , ago, signed by a
vention. Wimpee somehow or large number o.' citizens, asking
other cut himself and he entered 'hat motorboats ye allowed on the
Train And Coal Cars Run- a drug store t<. fix it m, The wat'-r bodies -o that fishermen
ning Wild Leave Disaster.
ship to trail along.
Four Killed In
Freak Tragedy
I.
r Hotel Strike
In Frisco Is
!
Still Raging
Denison Net
Team Defeats
Austin Squad
was ques-
owned
killed the animal
a promise to leave
suspicious, the negro
tioned closely and finally
up to having
himself. Under
thc neighborhood inside of twen-
ty-four hours, the thief was al-
lowed to depart, but as he was
still in the vicinity the next (lay,
Mr. Dunn came to Denison to ob-
j tain a warrant for his arrest.
| Learning of M". Dunn’s intention, j st,.eets heforc gummeT.
I the darkey left. _____
Denison Tennis club defeated! May g, i8.t7
Austin College racqueteers 4 to 3 T))e suppel. p;ven al the Raynal,
| building Thursday evening by the j
ladies of the Cemetery Improve-
I ment association proved a large'
allow better work for patching
asphalt streets. It is composed of.
a tank, heating apparatus and,
pump with a spray to allow a thin SAN FRANCISCO
layer of asphalt to be directed strike which has tied
into holes and street breaks.
The machine will carry a ca-
pacity of 1(5,") gallon-, of asphalt,
ft was hoped to <hnvc it here
time to fill the crevices in the
To Bring Trouble To Close;
Elevators Still Unoperated.
-The hotel
up elevator
service and sent inconvenience in-
to the ranks of all patrons for
the past six days is sti11 at a dead-
in | lock with neither side making any
in a return match here Wednes-
day afternoon. A win in the No,
1 doubles gave the locals the edge.
Krattiger of Austin College
blasted David Starr of Denison in
No. 1 doubles, 0-0, 6-0; Shall of
A. C. won easily from Jimmy Gal-
lagher 8-6, 6-3; M. M. Marshall
of Denison copped fiom Bowe of
A. C. 6-0, 7-5; and Matthews
copped from Andrew Blister of
Denison in a three-set match, 3-6,
6-1, 6-1.
In doubles play Starr and Bris-
Body Strike
Is Unsettled
success. The gross re-, ST I,ouls_Th(. situation in
financial
ccipts were $103.15, expenses! thc two yisi,er body p|ants wherfj
$0.75, net proceeds $96.40.
The large room in which the
supper was given was crowded for
several hours by an assemblage
of ladies and gentlemen, who
seemed to heartily enjoy the ex-
cellent provisions made for their
entertainment. During the even-
an exquisite Begonia plant, a pres-
advances in the way of asking for
a conference,
It has been indicated by the ma-
yor that he would he glad to help
cooperate should a conference be
requested, but so far neither side
in the controversy lias indicated
their willingness to make such a
request.
Governor 111
N. Y. Millionaire
Charters Whole
Line For Flight
Greatest Dirigible Taken Over
By Man To Take Seventy-
Friends To Coronation.
B E R LIN—A n n o u lie i ■ men t was
made today that the giant Hinden-
burg dirigible had been chartered
by a New York millionaire, Ben
Smith, and that he would take 70
of iiis friends from Lakehurst to
London to witness the coronation.
The big dirigible is due to land;
in Ameiicn sometime Thursday af-J
ternoon.
Head-On Collision Between
a drug store to fix ii up. The watt bodies so that
druggist patched it and then re-; might have easier access to fisb-
- fuse to take pay for it because! ing spots which have been reached
SPRINGHILL, N. S.— A head- he knew that Mr. Wimpee was a only in rowboats in the past. Tha
on collision between a fast train delegate from out of the - *y petition pointed out it would not
and a group of coal cars running ------- he used for pleasure boating and
wild took the life oNfour persons We have come to the conclusion'suggested the commission name a
and injured about twenty-five that Winchell is right in one thing group to form rules and regula-
others yesterday afternoon. j—calling those who steal his stuff1 tion.- in regard to motor boat use.
The fast train was the Canad- PiRATS. A lettei tioni the department
ian limited and met the wild cars' - j <>f . 1 alth informed the commis-
head on over a bridge fifty feet! The transposition of two letters;-''"11 that unle: motor boats were
high. The whole wreckage plung- make a whale of a difference. To' kept off the lake and a pvohibi-
ed be'.cw and was twisted in a! King George it is the coronation, j tivo l'W "‘k zone tor a distance of
shapeless mass of steel and iron. To Edward it was coo-r-nation.i 860 feet into the rater nearest
In some manner several coal - the intake valves on both lakes,
cars got loose and ran wild onto; An interesting item to watch is th" rating might he taken away
the main line and started downlthe pitching outcome of games in U'1 ' Demon. At the present
the road. Efforts to catch the which Dizzy Dean of St. Louis, (tin 'hi city' r rating is one of
wild cars or to warn the oncoming participates. T" date Diz has'-L 1,0 : n the state,
passenger train were futile. The( won four straight and look.- good j A M P. city engineer,
crash came several miles down for many more before the season m tin im and bony.- would
the line. j is over. Despite all the hullablooj be placed about the prohibitive
The first one to he removed he raised in the early part-of the! Bone d now would lie allowed
; from the wreckage was the body year over hi- contract,
i of Engineer Clarence Bower.
LAKEHURST, N. J.—Slowed
down considerably f>y adverse Dguj'j WillS 4th
winds, and running about twelve;
hours late, the Hindenburg. giant j
of the air with its crew and 35 i
passengers, is due to arrive here:
NEW YORK—-Lingering at the j about 6 p. m. today.
door of death with double pneu-
monia, the condition of Gov. Tan-
ner is reported critical today.
It will he the maiden trip to
this country of the largest dirig-
ible.
6 3, 4 6. 6-3.
ter defeated Matthews and Bowel ont f,.om m,.s yp p. Brown to the
of A. C, 6-3, 7-5. Then Marshall,* ladies of the ussoc'ation, was put
teamed with L. B. Keel, gavel up iiS a prjZ(. t , he contested for
Denison two points and a victory, between two young Indies and to
by winning the No. 1 doubles| K0 t<• the one, who in the ostima-
niatch from Krattiger and Shall tion of the assembled company,
the most industrious, the
; senee of the meeting to be deter-
mined bv vote, ten cents being
recognized as a vote. The candi-
dates were Miss Lillie Hardenbuw kw
and Miss Ray Alexander. The]......
------ plant was awarded to Miss Har-
Denison elementary » <-* B r o fiephurp after realizing to the la-
schools will present their first' rtios tllc handsome sum of $15.80.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown en-
tertained a large number of
friends Thursday night in honor
of the seventh anniversary of
workmen went on sit-down strikes
following the discharging of 37
employes, is still unsettled this
morning.
A total of inure than 2,000 men
dropped t.hcii tool.- yesterday.
Jury Drsdlocked DESMOND TAYLOR
Killed in Cr«.h NEWCASTLE, Ky—After eigli-i CASE IS REOPENED
OKLAHOMA CITY—Mrs. Elsa teen hours the jury in the murder!
Pearson was fatally injured last|Case against Brigadier General II. LOS ANGELES- Following
J night in an accident when she was, IT. Denhart, is still unable to what is declared to be new evi-
thrown from a car as the machine j agree and is deadlocked this morn- deuce found in two dairies, the
collided with another. ing. case of William Desmond Taylor,
“J ” ~~ “— ----------------— film producer, found dead in his
Grab Firemen, Tie Them And Knot homp in 1022 was '•poi'«'pd to-
1 day.
Straight Game
For St. Louis
D;zz - within it, under any circumstances
about the best hurler in the game' !'■ nit. with health regu-
; today. He talks a lot,, hut he! latiu: , The markers will he plac-
knows his capabilities and rar-'y' <*d ■ ho'.l'. city WPter mpply lake*,
; ever falls short of doing j i -• what ! l’"h'led
j he said he would. • Information -amc front the
---- • t.itn department after the city
I From the Tyler Couri.-r-Times: had written Austin officials in-
Negro Schools’
Pageant Tonight
Hose After Attempt On Stude Bonfire
Less Idleness
I There are many prominent people!‘raising the d ngers which could
)>o i,!j» from the use of mo-
•it ii the lakes or fishing
the National league lead all by j 3 G-string does just ns well icslricted area. ..following
himself and may do it if his pro - --- presentation by men
out streak holds up. | k'°w that the football and (r.u-k who claimed that other lakes in
Wednesday afternoon Ole Diz' -s|,ason ha- finished for the ■year”, this section allowed boats and
fanned eleven men and allowed I in Denison., it look like nterest Wishing if rap- location on public
six hits as the Cards defeated ( 11 bl' centered for the next few -
Boston 13 to t. To cap it off weeks in the softball league, un- -------
Medwieh, Martin, Gutteridge and der the sponsorship f the Boo-t-'
ers club. There are a f w lalk-;
ing of beginning hardball Vague' _
hero. This should meal an added!
interest by the public at large, be-: ' ' Monroe, infant zon ot Mr.
cause the general publii still likes 'and Mrs. Elbert Monroe, 1918 W.
'the hard type much better than Bond ’not, died at the family
I the soft, regardless of the urona-i honii at 9 a. m. Wednesday. The
! who started their careers
Dizzy Dean, the quiet one, may
be Lying to pitch St. Louis into | shoestring. Nowadays, ir stins.
MEDFORD,
annual pageant at Munson field
Thursday night, i idor the super-
vision of all colored school teach-
ers.
Special scats will he reserved’ Hicir marriage (wooden wedding)
for white persons here wishing tot!inil were the recipients of many
attend. A small admission charge beautiful and useful gifts. Dane-
Mass. — College the college.
four firemen and WASHINGTON According
I tied their hose into knots last; A t0tal oi som<?tbin® llk° fi,,° to a statemen by Dr. W. M. Said,
I night when the students engaged students picked up the men hod- there are now in the United Stut-
I them in a fight to prevent their ily, sped them away and loft, the es a total of five and one-half
I putting out a bonfire which had hose tied while the fire burned million persons idle or dissatis-
I been started by thc students at’its way out, fied with their work.
INFANT ELBERT MONROE
DIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT
k
will be made.
Teachers assisting J. D. San-
ford in presenting the pageant
will be Viola Hillard, Dorthula
Walton, Mary Belle Platt, Miss
Samniie M. Taylor nnd Mrs.
M. Riddle, at Anderson schoo;
from Langstou, Miss Allie Big-
gers and Miss Ora C. Burnett.;
and from Walton, .iMrs. Edna A.
Gormany. The pageant begins at
8 o’clock.
FIREMEN VOTE BENEFITS IN LINE
WITH RECENT LEGISLATIVE ACTION
and
Ogroroski hit homers with the
cards scoring in all hut two
frames. Cy Rlanton gave only
five hits and Pittsburgh won an-
other game from Brooklyn 5 to 1.
The Pirates scored all their runs
in the first three innings. (the soft, regardless of the propa-j
Four home runs proved too1 ganda started In th, -of: .ib l :i‘ltl \\a- to :,- .. . ......i. r uneral
much for New York and Cincin-1 boys. Rut don’t mi-inte pi, : us, servn-es were, conducted lhursday
nati blasted the Giants 8 to 5. the softball game is ., good onei m<l1 nu,L at '*'30 from the home
The losers took an early lead, hut and there are plenty of athletes with Rev. J. F. Murrell officiat-
the Reds came hack strong in late who get an enjoyment and rchix-! '"£■ Interment was at 1 .ayne
stanzas. Chicago defeated Phil- j ation out of playing it W, like I ''elite',"-, wth Short-Murray di-
adelphia 17 to 4. hut three men, it ourselves. | reeling. bl
j Grimm, Robert, and Herman were Surviving me the parents and
; chased from the game for argu-! The hoys over in Bonham hvg. ■' '-other, LeRoy and sister, Ger-
I ing with the umpires. (still waiting for thei, annual ■*1,l >■ of Denison.
Driving in four runs and scor- spring game, which was supposed j -----------———
I iug three times himself with two to have been played last night.\ FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
j homers, a double and single, Geo. However it ha- been posponed to j
1 Selkirk gave New York a 7 to 3 some time next week, which date
City firemen voted Wednesday on the local fire fore* aid reac*- ved twenty years,
night to begin a local pension ing the age ot 55, may retire at Should a fireman receive
here under half pay. Each regular fireman jurie. in line of duty, he will
aside by a will he required to pay 2 per cent ceive a stipulated sum during
win over oDtroit. Six runs in
the eighth allowed Philadelphia to
blast, Chicago 7 to 6.
Two games were postponed,
rain, in the American loop.
Pop Loader* Named
Elizabeth Stratton, Anna Louise
Willoughby, John Cornell and
Ben Oram wer elected, pep lead-! stagnant pond of water on the
era at Denison high school Wed-(west side of Maurice avenue. If a
ing was indulged in and social i
conversation, and those present |
say they had the best time the>|
ever enjoyed.
The postoffice clock fell from
its position on the wall last night,
a distance of ten feet, to the
floor, without breaking the front
glass, but it will never keep time
a(,ajn j and retirement fund
M»y 6 1902 | the specifications set
Thc street car company’s track
in the vicinit of Bond street, A committee of firemen com-, fund to derive benefits, which will or will he allowed to retire at, tonio defated Oklahoma City 10f of the
" y posed of Chief Pat Lowe, Assis-’ be matched by the state, which half pay if he is permanently in-lto 4 and Beaumont howled over him, but he will show
FOR FRED BALLIF.T TODAY
rival city coaches are waiting for Funeral service- for Fred Bal-
eagerly to get a peep at the War-! Hot were conducted at 10 a. m.
rior prospects. They tell us over lhursday at Short-Murray chapel
here that Coach Marshall May of1 with Ri v. D E Hawk officiating,
thc Warriors is a plenty good| Tnterment was at Fair-view with
in- In the Texas league Dallas fi-! coach
re-; nally won another one, from to some good records,
the j Houston 2 to 0; Fort Worth beat it won’t be in 1937
recent act of the state legislature, of his monthly wages into the length of his illness he is off duty'out Galveston
A committee of firemen com-'fund to derive benefits, which will or will he nllowed to retire at, tonio defated
nesday by a student body vote.
They will assume their duties dur-
Inf the football season this fall.
just this side of Ed Ford’s pro- .
pertv actsfas a dam every time out Joe Capelle and R. L. Fur will return 2 per cent of all in- jured. In case of death in line Tulsa 10 to 6.
there'is a hard rain and creates a low, was named to wovk with thc surance premiums collected in of duty, firemen's wives will re-,--—
mayor and treasurer In working ^Denison, for deposit into the ceive benefits until death or re- Aooiotant i* Named
out all details concerning the vot-) fund. >4 marriage. H. L. Germillion has been
cd move. j First benefits will be received Payments toward thc fund will signed to assist L. W. Bobb,
Under regulations, all firemen April 10, 1939, inasmuch as no take effect June 15 of this year,
Having served 20 years or more fireman on the force has yet ser- it was revealed.
and will lead hi* charges shnrt-M'ii-ray officiating
However. Pall bearers were Jess Wall,
unless the Gherman; Victor Banzer, G. L.
13 to 6; San An-j mentor happens to pick up some! ^haw, J. E. MeBee^H. ( Hoov-
Oklahomn City 10, of the business men to play for ' v an'* *>:1u1 Krattiger.
the other
private individual created such
j district teams what a hunch of
‘fighters look like on the field.
In 1938 the other outfits will
as-, have to look out for the Warriors
in because May will have a group of
the Denison army enlistment of-'-------——... ----
fices, it wai announced today.
(Continued on Fage 4)
Drive Safelv—Not CarlMtlf
NOTICE
If yon do not get you pap«
delivered to you by 6 p. in. ••£)
day, please phone 800 and otr
w ill be eent yon.
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