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Graham Daily Reporter
They All Read It — Therefore A First Class Advertising Medium
VOLUMB 6.
GRAHAM. TE?AS, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3. 194*.
NUMBER 188.
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Civic leaders of Graham are co-
operating with the mayor and city
council In an effort to work out
plans for securing an NYA center
LONDON.—The United States here, and it is expectdd that definite
protest against British seizure of action will be taken with a short
mails destined for Germany was in time.
the "duecourse” pigeonholed Tuesday . NYA centers are now operating
•long wTth • previous protest very successfully in many places,
against the allied blockade and the * offering varied opportunities for
Pan-American complaint against boys and girls unable to go to col-
neutrality zone violation. A spokes-1 lege. The following description of
man for the government said: "A! the work being done in the Wichita
note was received shortly after Falls NYA center appeared in the
On Plans For Building
NYA Center In Graham
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Christmas containing representa-
tions of the State Department con-
cerning diversion of American mails
carried in neutral ships. It is re-
ceiving careful consideration by His
Majesty’s government and a reply
will be made in due course.” The
protest, sent Dec. 22, asked assur-
ances that British mail seizures
would cease and said the United
States "cannot admit the right of
British authorities to interfere with
American mails.”
PARIS.-)—An organised effort to
build up sentiment for a federation
Of European states took form Tues-
day, with French circles expressing
the hope it eventually would em-
brace the world. The idea of the
British-French Allies was described
by authorized spokesmen as the cre-
ation of a federation of free states
as opposed to what they termed the
German Ketch's ambition to absorb ^ allowed, and now after opera
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Other countries into its empire. Hope
was voiced that some neutral coun-
tries may see fit to join in a co-
operative system similar to that al-
ready in operation between Great
Britain and iFrmnce. even with the
European war going on.
WASHINGTON. — Secretary of
State Cordell Hull vowed Tuesday
that he had no presidential ambi-
tions and denied knowledge of re-
port* that President Roosevelt had
tapped him as the White House
choice for the Democratic nomina
tion. The 68-year-old Cabinet mem-
ber, who is about to start the fight
of his life for his reciprocal trade
program, took this stand on the
presidential question at a press con-
ference, and a short time later an
aide reinforced him by declaring
Hull was out of politics and wanted
no politics intermingled in State
Department affairs.
WASHINGTON. — Administra-
tion leaders abandoned hope Tues-
day night that the 1940 pre-election
session of Congress, convening Wed-
nesday, might he short and compar-
atively harmonious. A review of the
hot domestic issues which must be
settled—amendment of the Labor
Relatione Act, relief appropriations,
the reciprocal tariff program, the
wage-hour law amendments—forced
them reluctantly to conclude that,
peace between the parties and be-
tween fighting Democratic factions
would be difficult, if not impossible
to maintain.
Weihita Daily Times last Sunday:
“The roar of electric-motored
planes, the buzz of saws and the
tap-tap of hammers have turned
one room in the basement of the
Memorial auditorium into a minia-
ture furniture factory and are equip-
ping 26 employes of the National
Youth Administration for jobs.
”1 have two boys who will be
ready for jobs as experienced fur-
niture makers within a year) they
are the beit students, the others
can get jbbs as helpers within the
same tinit," R. L. Sitton. supervisor
of the trades project, said.
“The project is sponsored by the
Wichita 'Falls, Independent school
district, with the county .city and
chamber of commerce furnishing
rental money, the utilities and a
small amount of cash for emergency
supplies.
As set up. training of 40 youths
Rip Van Winkle
Dramatized In
Sckool Assembly
Mrs. Jack Spangler’s home room
dramatized Washington Irving’s
“Jtip Vanf Winkle” for the East
Ward Assembly program this morn-
ing. The play was worked out in
minute detail, even to a gentle dog,
owned by Paul Crawford, which took
the part of Rip’s dog. The little
men also had real. nine pins with
Which to bowl. Rip’s gun in the first
part of the play was a shining bar-
reled shotgun, and the last scene it
was a rusty airgun.
Club Officers
And Leaders To
Meet Saturday
Officers and adult leaders of fif-
teen Young county Boys’ 4-H Clubs
will meet in the District Court room.
Graham, Texas, Saturday, January
6, at 2:00 p. m.
The officers and adult leaders
compose the County Council whose
duty it is to help the agents plan
a program for the county group and
demonstrations which will apply to
each individcal club.
Activities approved by the Coun-
cil in 193!) were: The Olney Beef
Calf Show, District Beef Calf Show
in Wichita Falls, Trip to Fat Stock
Show in Fort Worth. County En-
campment at Graham, 4-H Short
Course, College Station, Texas,
Wildlife Camp at Rockport, and par-
ticipation in the North Central Dis-
trict Fair at Graham.
Officers of the 1939 county group
were: Clarence Klenk, Sunnyview,
president; Jack Shepherd, Monu-
ment, vice president; Horace Blan
Addressing Congress He
Asks Renewal Of Hull's
Foreign Trade Agreements
Chief Executive Declares “We Cannot Say
Europe’s Wars Are None of Our Business,"
But Insists We Do Not Have to Take Up Arms
Fixtures For New
Dry Goods Firm
Are Put In Place
Several big trucks of fixtures and
stock arrived Tuesday Tor the Smith
Dry Goods Company which is open-
ing in the old J. P. Alexander loca-
tion at northeast croner of the
square.
Earl Smith is the owner and man-
ager of the new concern for Gra-
ham. He has a wife and young
daughter, age 15, and they have
been anxious to locate a house so
The cast included: Rip Van Win-
kle, Paul Crawford; Self Important
Tten"’ De^G.rt^n;WRipW)»ugRhU:r «*»• fT™e’ secretary-treasurer; Bob- they can place their furniture which
Betty Reynolds; Little Rip. Billy1 b,e Joe Shepard’ Monument_rePre-1 has alra“dy arrlv*d; from Hamlin.
Rex Sanford; Old Woman, Imogene iwnUt,ve: “'Putative, Precinct, from which place they are moving
Cherryhomes; Little Man. Merle' No. 1. Roy Ste.dham, Bunger; Rep-, to Graham.
Hinson; Peter Vanderdonk, Bernie ™en*t,''e’ **«"? „No’ 2’ P»ul Mr. and Mrs^ Smith and daughter
Townson; Democrats: Ann Wilde, Harrel1’ South Bend; Representative,, Tw, 11a Ruth have been prominent
Gussie Deakinz. and Gene Singleton. N°d3’ Harr'ott Kunkel. -n church and other commumty af-
Vlaitors for the program were s“nnyview; Representative, Precinct, fairs at Hamlin, and come to Grn-
tion of throe months, the force is
to be stepped up to that number.
The boys, who are from 18 to 24,
are the pick of NYA rolls, selected
as the most apt* in spite of lack
of education and other privileges,
to become artisans and having learn-
ed a trade to be able to step out
of the relief caste.
“All of them, Sitton explains,
Mrs. W. A. Moore and
Bales.
Mrs. A. T.
No. 4, Dean Baker, Loving; County
Adult Leader, Joe W. Shepard, Lov-
ing.
ham with plans to make this their
permanent home.
Mr. Smith says he will have a
very complete line of dry goods and
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University Geologist Reports Finding
Of Oldest Trace Of Sculpture Ever
Discovered On Tbe American Continent
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ported last week by a Univers.Ty
have been without much of a chance! of Texas geologist to the Geological
to succeed financially in life. Many Society of America, convening in
have only a sixth grade education ( Minneapolis, Minn,
while some have had less and a few
have qs a background a year in
hl“Their“'job is primarily to learn];' Geology, produced what he be-
to build furniture, but they are *• b. ’ironclad Proof of
. . .. ' ... „ I man’s habitation of this hemisphere
turning out fumituic while they aic
learning. Two long oak benches
and a number of stools will soon
leave the shop for Hardin Junior
AUSTlhj, Texas, Jan. 3.—01dest*boo to all paleaontologists—was
traces of man’ existence on the I banished, Dr. Sellards believes, by
North American continent were re- the perfect preservation of the
stratified earth above the fossils in
Dr. E. H. Sellards, director of
the University’s Bureau of Econom-
it he
proof
LONDON.—Outnumbered, 4-to-l,
British airmen in three bomberi
college. Twenty beds are to be
started in the near f-ture for the
Laimorhea state park Benches aro
tables already have go. e into var-
ious county and state offices and
three score school desks have been
refiniehed.
“Sitton does none of the work
himself, merely showing the boys
how to do it and how to aac their
ttels. He is frankly surprise! nl
the progress which *if.b been made
and points out that when the trade
school opened in October, nine-
tenths of the boys could not prop-
erly drive a-nail and many did not
even have the educational back-
ground to read an ordinary rule.
di-
nt least 25,000 years ago — man-
made stone images, the oldest trace
of sculpture yet found on this con-
tinent, coupled with evidences of a
pre-historic “elephant hunt.”
each dig. Had any of the fossils afternoon at the home „f Mrg w L | greeted with great applause was
been “planted," the 20-foot deep. Ferjr!llgon officers wrere elected |“The fir*‘ Pr**id*nt of our republic
even layers of earth and shale beds,! for thp nPW VPar inciudin(t: Ruggell warTled against this nation enter-
one deposited upon the other, which p^i den chief; Pete Nicolett. den- inE into foreign alliances—and the
geologists use for time-table*,j n„. ’Brucp Spivey aggistant denner?' Pr"‘ent president subscribes to and
would have been broken. I Tommy Wright, song leader; Gerald endor«‘» that doctrine."
Exactly what the stone faces Ferguson, scribe; Jerry Marchman,
mean, the University scientist is leader.
not sure, except that they are "con-1 The next meeting will be held
eiderably older than 25,000 years.”, ne*t Thursday at the home of Mrs.
“They are unique further in thatjT°mm'e Wright at 4 p. m.
they represent-One -of t#*«4very few K 1 ----------
He reported discovery near Bee-
ville in South Texas of the fossilized
remains of a Columbian elephant
surrounded by 25 flint artifacts—
spearheads, knives, scrapers. A sec-
ond excavation in the Texas Pan-
handle, he recounted, had given up
remains of five elephants, three
spearheads five inches long, and one
lint knife—all within a radius of
!0 feet. One of the spearheads was
lodged within three inches of the
elephant's neck vertebra.
Traces of both “elephant hunts”
were approximately 25,000 years old,
he said.
For the first time the
made it known that he is dt
different kinds of elothing, for men. jin favor of the renewal of *
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. X—
President Franklin Roosevelt, in his
characteristic vigorous language^ in
his address at 1 p. m. today before
the third session of the Heventy-
Sixth Congress, gave emphasis to
the need of calm, straight thinking
and careful action during the world
crisis due to European wars.
At the same time he ridieulod
those who say that “Europe’s trou-
bles are none of our own” and an-
nounced that when the annual bud-
get recommendation is issued .to-
morrow, it will provide for decided
increase in Army and Navy appro-
priations for a more adequate na-
tional defense;
At the same time he made it
known the budget recommendations
will ask a reduction in nearly every
other department that has been
requiring major expenditures. Thi* !
statement received vigorous applause
from his hearers assembled i in the
House chamber qf the Capital. Then
he added “But 8b can’t k«er the .
cake and eat it too
women and children.
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Cub Scout Den
Has Meeting
Tuesday Afternoon
Den 4, Cub' Scouts, met Tuesday
eign trade agreements, so vig*
W advocated b> SKWOy'VT
Cordell Hull. This was con
an important announcement
many of these trade tree
now expiring.
President Roosev
some additional tax**
of the deficit and addition
al defense.
Another declaration that a
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evidences of ancient man's sculpture
in existence,” he said. “The usual
things are either flint implements
or skeletal remains."
AMERICAN LEGION TO
HAVE SUPPER MEETING
“The idea of our forefathers in
their serious establishment of this
democracy,” said the President, “was
embodied in three definite concepts,
first: the common defense; second:
the general welfare, and third, the
domestic welfare of the citizenship.
And at the opening of this
Clarence Taylor
Praised by Lions of the Congress I trust we may not
let those fundamental concepts of
ouv democracy fade from our me-
mory or be obscured in our delib-
erations. The domestic welfare of
130 million people is a tremendous
A speech of praise for Clarence
Taylor, soon to leave Graham for
Fort Worth, was made by Chauncy
Penix as the feature of the regular
! weekly luncheon of the Lions Club' f*ctor in a world of unrest to be
The regular meeting of the Amer- in Legion Hall today. jcome as a potent factor for restor-
ican Legion Supper Club will be, Taylor has served as President, j ation of world peace,
held next Monday, January 8, at1 Secretary and Tailtwister of the j „j mp|m th)> th>t ^ TjtJj
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“The 26 _ student workers are di- However, overshadowing the pre-
vvlid into three shifts. Ktseh shift I historic “hunting scene” traces. Dr.
woks for seven and a half days ^ Sellards pointed to his most recent
and then is off for double that time, j discovery ;n East Texas—a 150-
fodght a furious battle Tuesday (.'lass B workers draw pay of $16.20 pound, egg-shaped, rust-colored,
with a swarm of twelve speedy Ger- a month while class A boys get $3 sandstone object, two feet in length
man planes over Helgoland Bight a mi nth more than ’.hat figure. B„d eighteen inches wide, with slant
7:15 o’clock in the club room at the club and Penix enumerated some 1 important that we do everyth!
Graham Memorial Auditorium. Fur- the, accomplishments ad^ted under, jb,p f ,hp wplfarp „f thp
man Christopher will have charge hi. administration and told how the p wtion of „ur groat
of the program. U°n.^nd ,he Graham c‘t'**na j commonwealth. If lower standard.
| ml“8 l™' , . J of living are permitted to continue
A good attendance war. on hand
HOSPITAL NEWS
—the second encounter of the war "Sitton believes that the training
between the big bombers and the the. boys arc receiving will be of
vaunted Nazi aircraft. When the concrete value and saAerts that fur-
fight was over, the Britizh Air Min- nitv.ro factories hs'.’O been ui.ablr
Istry said, one bomber was down, to obtain sufficient skilled workj
another was missing and the third men."
was safe. Of the dozen German
planes, the Air Minisrty slid one
was shot down in flames and two
others were likely to have been lost.
HERE R'OR FUNERAL
HEL8INKI, Finland. — Finland’s
•now-hardened troop# smashed \ back
at the Russians on tha eastern front
Among the relatives and friends
here to attend the funeral of Mm.
M. E. Short Tueday afternoon were:
Mr. and Mrs. R. tF. Short, 8r„ Mr.
, today. Under direction of President
in any small local unit of our na-
:' ” “Vr- tjon then standards are caused to
- iO. B. Rose, a final report on the . ... ,
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Williams °f| Tommie Dinner was had.
and reported Tuesday they had con- | and Mrs. J Mabry Short, Dr. and
yarted enemy attacks Into Finnish Mrs. R. F. Short, Mr. and Ml*.
victories. Icy blimsards cheeked war Howard Farmer, and Mrs I°ne, p^ver was » young stream. He ex-
eyes, holes for nose, mouth and chin.
The first of these stone faces was
unearthed ten years ago in a Hen-
derson county gravel pit in Blast
Texas. Dr. Sellards withheld judg-
ment. In 1935, twenty-five feet o’clock,
deeper in the gravel face of the
pit, a second identical image was
discovered. Three years later, with
WPA cooperation, Dr. Sellsriie be-
gan painstaking search for another
face.
Eliasville are the parents of a baby
daughter born at the Graham Hos-
pital Tuesday afternoon at 4:45
o’clock.
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Flossie Bryant has received
an encouraging report from attend-
ants in the Galveston hoeptial where
A daughter was born to Mr. and [her daughter, Lucille, is undergoing
Mrs. Russell Matthews at the Gra- treatment,
ham Hospital Tuesday night at 11:30
Early in December he found it, in
the third terrace of the banks of
the Trinity Riy*r—cut when the
■mined end photographed the im-
in the air, leading to unofficial re- Burge and daughter, all of Dallas; _____OTHI . H I
ports many Russian beta hers were Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Rouse of D*n- j age’s position before removal, stud-
forced down In Finnish territory, ton, J. C. Owen of Wichita Falls, j*d and photographed the 22-foot
Finnish fire was reported to have John C. Kay of Wwhite Falls, and j stratified bed shove it
Cadman Hinson has returned to
Abilane, where he 1* a student in
McMurray College, after spending
the holidays here with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Hinson.
From 1989 to 1982 Industry re
dueed its production 66 per cent,
keeping price# within 16 per cent
of whet they had been In 1988. Agri-
culture on the other hand, reduced
its production only 6 per cent, while
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R. N. Price of Tyler.
Possibility of counterfeit—huge- prices dropped 8$ per cent
TRANSFERRED
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Wright, who
spent the Christmas holidays here
with their parents, Mr. end Mrs.
Jess Wright and Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Jarnagin, are! to be transferred
from Wichita (Falls to
NAT PRICM ILL
Nat Price, district clerk. Is eon-
fined to his home by illneea
Mrs. W. C Lebenaan of Della*
la tha guest of Mia. R. V. Hamill.
certain extent
for the whole people."
In urging all groups and creeds
to think things through carefully
and calmly that one coordinated
people may be more secure, Die
Chief Executive condemned crack-
pot radicals and ultra emotionalists
as dangerous to our peaceful con-
tinuance as a nation.
He pointed to the cooperative
working plan of the XI American
republics as an example that "We
■re showing we can retain our re-
spective nationalities and yet coop-
erate in a spirit of peeoe and har- p
mony for our mutual welfare.”
He emphasized that “our surplus
agricultural end manufactured pro-
ducts must be sold In world mar- 4Jt
bets If we expect prosperity and
increased employment." Therefore
ho urged the foreign trade acts flex-
ible pro vision be retained, n u Is
permit the executive to make adjust
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Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 106, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 3, 1940, newspaper, January 3, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116911/m1/1/: accessed May 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.