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VOLUME XXXVI
DEPORT, LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1944
NUMBER 16
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Anti-New Dealers
Open Way to Bolt
Party Nominee
The way was left open for the
Democratic presidential electors of
Texas to cast their votes in the elec-
toral college for other than the par-
ty nominees for President and Vice-
President by action of the State
Democratic Convention at Austin on
Tuesday.
A convention which was militant-
ly and vociferously antinew deal at-
tempted to forestall the seating of
delegates of a rump state conven-
tion of Roosevelt fourth-term ad-
vocates by giving the Texas Demo-
cratic presidential electors this de-
finite instruction:
The twenty-three men and women
named presidential electors are not
to vote for the Democratic nominees
for President and Vice-President but
to vote for Democrats believing as
they do in the principles of the
Democratic party, if the Chicago con-
vention seats any delegates other
than those accredited by the regular
state convention in the Senate cham-
ber in the Capitol.
The electors were left free to vote
for any Democrats for President and
Vice-President if the Chicago con-
vention fails to restore the two-
thirds rule for presidential and vice-
presidential nominations, and if the
national convention denies platform
planks disapproving the United
States Supreme Court decision ad-
mitting Negroes to Texas Democrat-
ic primaries, and denying the right
of Congress to govern the qualifi-
cations of the voters in a state.
The convention did not directly
instruct bolting the national con-
vention nominees by the electors in
event these matters were turned
down at Chiacgo but declared the
electors were to be free of moral
obligation to support the party nom-
inee.
Delegates named from the First
District were W. N. Furey of Paris
and Otto Aatchley of Texarkana; al-
ternates, C. C. Braden, John Ford
Jr. of Bogata.
Roosevelt supporters who were
outnumbered and outvoted, bolted
the regular Democratic convention
and held a rump convention in the
House of Representatives and nam-
ed delegates pledged to Roosevelt.
Son A 'ormer Deport
Man Get8 Awards
George Calvin Baughn, formerly
of Dallas, has received an Award of
Merit certificate and cash awards
totaling $175 in ceremonies at Brok-
ley Field, Ala., for suggesting im-
provement to the electrical test
bench used in testing gun turrets
and armament accessories. He also
made suggestions leading to im-
provements to the hydraulic test
stand for testing hydraulic equip-
ment, the Army Air Service Com-
mand reported.
He is the son of the late M. H.
Baughn, formerly of Deport, and a
nephew of W. L. Baughn, here.
NEWS OF OUR
MENw WOMEN
IN UNIFORM
S|Sgt. and Mrs. Phil Johnson and
S|Sgt. Duch Decker spent the week
end in Shreveport, La.
Pvt. Malcolm Read, son of Mrs.
J. M. Read, has been transferred
from Love Field, Dallas, to Long
Beach, Calif.
Fifth War Bond
Campaign Starts
Monday, June 12
Deport Singers
Organize Choral
Club Friday Eve
A cooperative choral club, compos-
ed of members of all the church
choirs of Deport and others, was
organized Friday evening at the
Methodist church.
Purpose of the organization is to
promote better singing in the com-
munity and to furnish trained sing-
ers for any union service or special
occasion, according to the sponsor,
Rev. J. L. Hyde. Everyone, regard-
less of his church affiliation is wel-
come to join. Rehearsals will be
held every Friday night.
The following officers were elect-
ed: President, Mrs. Dean Oliver;
secretary and treasurer, M. V. An-
derson; director, Mrs. J. L. Hyde;
pianist, Mrs. Dean Oliver; reporter,
George Grant.
Twenty-one members were pres-
ent for the initial meeting, as fol-
lows: Mrs. Lee Lawler, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Morrison, Mrs. Russell
Lawler, Mrs. William Evans, Mrs.
George Fuller, Mrs. Walter Evans,
Misses Elayne Hughes and Deoliece
Evans, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Joe
Grant, Fred Swint, M. V. Anderson,
W. B. Fuller, Walter Grant, Mrs.
Dean Olivet, Sam Holloway, George
Grant, Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Hyde and
Sgt. Templin.
Lamar county will be asked to
subscribe $1,820,000 in War Bonds
during the Fifth War Loan which
begins June 12 and ends July 8.
Red River county’s quota is $531,-
350. Bogata district is asked for
$57,350, dived as follows:
Bogata .......................:...... ....... $30,000
Johntown ---------------------- 6,000
Mauldin _____________________________2,000
Pine Branch ......................... 1,750
Rosalie............................ 4,250
McCrury .................... ....... 2,250
Glendale ...... ............... 3,100
Halesboro ............. 2,750
Rugby ........................... 3,150
Shadowland .................. 2,100
Texas’ quota for the Fifth War
Loan will be $464,000,000, State
Chairman Nathan Adams of the War
Finance Committee of Texas has an-
nounced.
“It’s going to be the toughest, the
most intensive, and the most impor-
tant money-raising undertaking of
the war,’’ Adams said of the drive,
which will run from June 12 to
July 8.
Texas individuals will be called
upon for $236,000,000—their share of
the $16,000,000 national goal.
Texans answered the Fourth War
Loan call for $395,000,0000 with a
$479,000,000 total.
Quotas are going forth to each
county.
Slogan for the Fifth War Loan is
“Back the Attack—buy more than
before.”
T|Sgt. Robt. C. Denison of Camp
Crowder, Mo., is here for a 10-day
stay with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Denison.
CpI. James N. Holt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Holt of Milton has receiv-
ed his wings and has been transfer-
red from Las Vegas, Nev., to Tampa
Fla.
Mrs. Terry Stricklan of Shreve-
port, La., is spending a few days
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
lie Lee, while Pfc. Stricklan is
spending a furlough with his par-
ents in San Antonio.
Pvt. Bill Kilgore of Brigham City,
Utah, came in Monday for a few,----- —•*“*- •••* »»nc aim
days’ visit with his brothers, Ray- daughters, Karen and Kay at Bo-
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Harley Campbell, AS, arrived on
Sunday from San Diego, Calif., for
a few days’ visit with his wife and
Lightning Strikes
Mathews Home
During the electrical storm and
rain last Friday evening, lightning
struck the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Buck Mathews in West Deport,
came into a room where Mr. Math-
ews and Bob England were sitting,
in the form of a big ball of fire and
appeared to explode there.
Both men admit they were badly
scared, but neither of them was
burned.
mond and Elvis Kilgore.
Mrs. S. L. Upchurch of Patton -
ville Rl, orders The Deport Times
sent to her son, Cpl. Curtis E. Up-
church who is overseas.
Pvt. Malcolm Gooch of Camp
Hood, spent the week end with his
wife and daughter and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gooch.
Pfc. H. L. Anderson of Camp Kho-
ler, Calif., writes his mother, Mrs.
G. D. Anderson, that he is in the
hospital with rheumatism.
gata and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Campbell at Deport.
The War Department has made
public names of soldiers wounded in
action and among them is 2nd Lt.
Paul E. Geers, whose wife, Mrs. Ro-
salie Geers, lives at Bagwell. He
was stationed in the Mediterranean
Mrs. Dean Oliver left Tuesday for
Morehcad City, N. C., for a visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Pat Dens-
man and Major Densman.
Walter Lee Bell, Sic, stationed at
Atlanta, Ga., and Leon Shaffner,
S2c, stationed at Kingsville, were
Mrs. C. W. Morgan and son, James
Richard, who have been making
I their home at Gainesville and have
j been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Othor Pearson, left Tuesday
for Ft. Benning, Ga., to join her hus-
band who is stationed in the army
there.
Mrs. Malcolm Hignight returned
Thursday to the home of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Ervin from
San Bernardino, Calif., where she
ozc, stationed at tungsville, were i ,las keen malcing her home. Sgt.
guests Tuesday of Miss Charlene Da- ! Hien‘ght is stationed at the San Ber-
vidson. i nadino air base.
Red Cross Room
Open Four Days
Workers of the Red Cross surgical
dressing room have plenty of ma-
terial for dressings and all who can
are urged to attend these meetings.
The room is now open from Tuesday
through Friday. The following lad-
ies worked the past week:
Mmes. L. H. Igo, R. L. McDougal,
C. A. Daniel, K. W. Huffman, Ed-
gar Rogers, J. W. Carter, W. H.
Sharp, C. N. Bassett, Marvin No-
bles, George Fuller, Carl Ladd, Lee
Lawler, Lloyd Hayes, Ellis Woodall,
J. H. Eudy, Walter Evans, B. W.
Gardner, Gus Nobles, L. F. Karp-
isek, Roy Boyseau, W. Templin,
Mrs. Duckworth and Miss Ophelia
Mason.
Pvt. Wm. Earl Jeffery is now
somewhere in India with the ground
forces, according to word received
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Jeffery.
Cpl. Lawrence Wood of Majors
Field, Greenville, was a week end
guest of his mother, Mrs. Emma
Wood and his sister. Miss Elsie at
Rugby.
T|Sgt. and Mrs. Carl Bethke of
Milwaukee, Wis., have an apartment
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Storey. Sgt. Bethke is now station-
ed at Cox Field.
D. M. Morgan who has been serv-
ing in the South Pacific for almost
twenty-three months, came in Satur-
day for a thirty-day leave to visit
his father, Claude Morgan near Bo-
gata and his brother, E. V. Morgan
and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allen, Mrs. W.
B. Morgan and daughter, Carol of
Minter and Miss Dorothy Short of
Shady Grove, spent the week end in
Mineral Wells visiting Pvt. Morris
Short and Pvt. W. B. Morgan Who
are stationed at Camp Wolters. 1
Olan Morris Killed
Friday Night When
Shot By Constable
Olan Morris was shot and almost
instantly killed about 10:30 o’clock
Friday night about twelve miles
southeast of Talco near the Mt.'
Pleasant Golf Club, the bullet en-
tering the back of his head and lodg-
ing in his mouth.
The shooting was done by Con-
stable D. R. Cox of Talco, who had
arrested Morris for allegedly beat-
ing up Ellis Lindsey, operator of a
Talco domino hall, with a black-
jack .
Cox was taking Morris to Mt.
Pleasant to answer charges when the
latter got away from him and ran
into a field a short distance north
of the golf course. Cox went on to
Mt. Pleasant to get help to capture
the escaped man, but returned to the
scene by himself, finding Morris on
the side of the highway, Morris
again ran into the field, with Cox
in pursuit and when he failed to re-
spond to the constable’s demand to
stop the officer fired one shot, re-
sulting in Morris’ death.
Constable Cox is said to have suc-
ceeded in getting Morris into his car
and brought him to town for treat-
ment, but he was dead when he ar-
rived at a hospital.
Deceased was 27 years of age and
is survived by his wife, five broth-
ers and sisters, as follows: Frank
Bill, Melvin and Jack Morris, Mrs.
Nora Duke, Mrs. Dora Easley and
Mrs. Ollie Copeland of Titus county,
Jesse Morris, Mrs. R. C. Keener, Mrs.
Leola Morris of Fort Worth.
Funeral services were held at
Gladewatcr Baptist Church Sunday
under direction of Rev. Don Rogers,
with burial at the nearby cemetery
Bogata School Has
Roll Ex-Students
In Armed Service
(From The Bogata News)
Honor Roll of Bogata school, list-
ing men and women who were for-
mer students in the school, now
members of the armed forces, adorns
one of the display windows at Buck-
man’s Drug Store.
It contains 272 names, which have
appeared from time to time in The
Bogata News. More will be added
to this list as more former students
enter the service.
The News was given the job of
printing this Honor Roll by Sup’t
Branson, and the names are all in.
large type with wide spacing to be
easily read, and arranged alpha-
betically.
There are four gold stars opposite
four names, indicating these men
have made the supreme sacrifice for
their country. They are Lt. Billie
Bishop, J. W. Childers, Capt. Eugene
Garrett and James Wallace Thomas.
There are three girls’ names on
the list: Georgia Caldwell, Juanita
McCrury and Doris Lawson.
Mr. Branson has put considerable
time and effort into compiling the
list, and there may be some omis-
sions and others to be added. This
will be done from time to time.
The Honor Roll is in a frame, top-
ped with the American eagle, which
is flanked by U. S. shields, along
with a beautiful picture of the Am-
erican flag in colors.
Authority Talks on
Benefits Present
Diary Farming
Mrs. Hugh Roberts left Wednes-
day for San Francisco, Calif., for
an extended visit with her husband,
Pvt. Hugh Roberts, who is stationed
in the army there.
Sgt. and Mrs. Ralph McDougal of
Greenwood, Miss., have an apart-
ment in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Oliver. Sgt. McDougal is sta-
tioned at Cox Field.
Pfc. Homer I. Chappell, APO San
Francisco, has been promoted to cor-
poral, according to his sister, Mrs.
W. B. Morgan. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lonnie Chappell. |
Born to First Class Petty Officer
and Mrs. R. L. Grayson of Bogata
ir: Florence Nightingale Hospital,
Dallas, May 22, a daughter, Carol
Ann. Mrs. Grayson is the former
Miss Elizabeth Barnett of Blossom
and taught in the Rugby school for
several years.
T Sgft. Jackie Griffin
Awarded Air Medal
Sgt. and Mrs. O. S. Johnson, Sgt.
and Mrs. Russell Barth have moved
from an apartment in the home of
Postmaster C. H. Nobles to an apart-
ment in the home of Mrs. Nora Law-
ler. Sgt. Johnson’s mother, Mrs. Roy
Johnson of Guernsey, Wyo., is vis-
iting in the Johnson home this week.
Addressing a gathering at the
Paris Dairy Show in that city last
week. Bryan Blalock, Marshall milk
Plant operator, made the following
interesting observations:
“Last year 15 per cent of all farm
i'evenue came from milk as 6,000,000
farmers produced 118,500,000,000
(billions) pounds of milk. This year
122.000.000.000 (billions) pounds of
milk is needed to meet all demands.
“Milk produced more income than
cotton, wheat or beef. He cited the
record today: 15,000 East Texas
farmers selling milk as against none
15 years ago, and forecast that 30,-
000 farmers will be selling milk
within the next 15 years.
“Of the annual average food con-
sumption of 1,700 pounds, 25 per
cent comes from the dairy cow, and
20 per cent of food products needed
for the war program arc dairy pro-
ducts.
‘Cotton makes peons. We must
raise something else as a source of
revenue.”
DR. IMOGENE BENTLEY
TENDERS RESIGNATION
Dr. Imogene Bentley, dean of Par-
is Junior College, has accepted a
position as dean of women at North
Texas State Teachers College in
Denton, and will assume her new
duties June 1.
For the past U years Dr. Bentley
has taught at PJC, and for the past
ATTEND ORGANIZATION MEET
FIREMAN’S ASSOCIATION
W. O. Westbrook, W. T. Hughes,
W. H. Griffin and George Grant of
Deport and W. C. Kelley, Chas. Sum-
mers and Melvin Brown of Bogata,
were in Gilmer Sunday to attend a
barbecue dinner and organization
meeting of the Northeast Texas Fire-
man’s Association. Principal speak-
er on the program was Railroad
Commissioner Olen Culberson, who
is also secretary of the State Fire-
man’s Association, and the group
was entertained by two convales-
cent soldiers back from the Pacific
area, who gave musical numbers
and humorous talks.
W. C. (Bill) Howerton, who en-
listed in the Navy on April 22 and
was sent to San Diego, Calif., has
been given a medical discharge be-
MR8. TRUETT SMITH —
UNDERGOES OPERATION
* Mrs. Truett Smith of Paris, under-
went an appendectomy at the Grant
hospital in Deport Monday. She is
reported resting welL Mrs. Smith
is the former Miss Margeria Jeffus,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Jef-
Pvt. Cecil B. Anderson who is in
the Marines at San Diego, Calif.,
writes his mother, Mrs. G. D. An- ------ ------ --------- —-----
derson, that hs is in the hospital with causo of asthma, and returned to his
tonsilitis, and chills and fever. | family in Deport last weok. He has
._ j again resumed his work as freight
Sgt. Russell Hulett who is station- conductor for the Paris & Mt. P. Ry.
ed at Camp Edwards, Mass., came ! ---
Saturday for a few days’ visit with ! C. G. (Bud) Nobles, son of Mr.
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Hu- and Mrs. M. E. Nobles, has been
lett, and other relatives and friends. ! selected for pilot training in the U.
--- ! S. Army Air Forces. He will be
Cpl. Rufus Kelley Storey, son of, transferred from Santa Ana, Calif.,
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Storey who has ' Army Air Base to one of the Army
been stationed in Australia for sev- j Air Force’s western flying training
eral months, has been transferred i commands for elementary flight
to an island somewhere in the ] training.
South Pacific.
Cleo Jeffus of the Merchant Ma-
rine, is visiting his wife and daugh
Lt. and Mrs. Bill Morehead and
TSgt. John B. (Jackie) Griffin,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Griffin of
Deport, with the 15th Air Force in
Italy since the middle of February,
has been awarded the Air Medal. In
recent letters to Mrs. Griffin, who
is employed in Dallas, Jack writes
he is seeing plenty of action and has
been on bombing missions to places
in France familiar to first World
War veterans of Deport.
For six husky young men to con-
sume three dozen eggs in two days
would be nothing in America, but in
Italy to do such a think is worth
writing home about, with eggs at
20c apiece, according to Sgt. Griffin.
Colonel Says WACS
Good Wife Material
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ter, Jackie, and his parents, Mr. and apolis, Ind., are visiting her parents,
Mrs. D. E. Jeffus at Paris and Mr.
and Mrs. John Roach. They are for-
mer residents here.
| O. C. Morgan (colored) who was
overseas, was killed in action re-
a. m 4 .4. -
"»• ™ra. Dm iTiurcucuu aiiu Washington. — WACs will make ing on nonors :
daughter, Ann Carolyn, stationed better wives than women without port and Boga
at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indian- military training, an Army officer
told a conference on war and post-
war employment.
“Husbands will throughout their
lives have something of the military
about them,” said Lieut. Col. Walter
H. E. Jepger of the Andy Industrial
College. “The added appreciation
that a former member of the Wo-
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Rozell at Ful
bright. Lt. Morehead entered the
Army in March, 1942, received his
basic training at Camp Wolters,
Mineral Wells, then attended Quar-
termaster's School at Camp Lee, Va„
where he received his commission
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M ^second lieutentant In July, men
Farmers Have Good
Stands Cotton, After
Levee Break Repaired
After being washed away by the
recent break in the levee on Sul-
phur a month ago, the levee has
been repaired, the cotton crop plant-
ed and now up to a stand.
Lester Bartlett reports that three
acres of cotton on the Vaudie Phipps
place had water over it three feet
deep, and when the water went
down the cotton which had just been
Planted came up to a good stand.
He plowed up other seed, thinking
it had rotted.
Johnson Cow Wins
First Place Paris
Dairy Show
A fine registered Jersey cow be-
longing to Fred Johnson of Deport,
took first place in Class I at the
Paris Dairy Show last week.
This same animal has been carry-
ing off honors at stock shows at De-
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Lightning Kills
Power Employee
Lightning which knocked out
trie service during the rains
last Friday evening, also killed
jgga
I out elec-
rainstorm
M. Millar of
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