The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 158, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 7, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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WEATHER
DENISON AND VICINITY
Cooler and cloudy this afternoon
and Sunday
THE DENISON PRESS
A FAST GROWING
PAPER
35c Per Month
rlnm'ber of the united press
DENISON, TEXAS SATURDAY, JAN. 7, 1939
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930—DAILY 1934
VOL. 5-NO. 158
Consider Qualifications of Justice Frankfurter
Sealed Bids On
RR Exploration
Are Being Asked
Everyday
DENISON
LOUIS
By
ANDERSON
Seuled l ids will be received by equipment, tools fittings, suppliesj
Itho war department of the United and materials in performance of]
States engineer office at Little all work incident to making loun-1
.Rock, Ark. for estimates on *abor, nation explorations at the Denison]
____________, Red River dam site, it was learn-
A____________ed today.
j The bids, subject to conditions
! will be received at the Little Rock
j office until 11 o’clock Friday,
January 111. Further informa-
tion can be obtained at the Deni-
’ son or Little Rock offices.
.......— ,............^ ! The work consists of furnish-
Max Eggleston, former Denison ing all labor, equipment, mater-
bqy, now living in Denton, almost ials and supplies for drilling and
lost his life during a deer hunt in! sampling the over-burden, coring,
South Texas recently . . . Egg-es- Washing and bailing out drilled
ton had gone out hunting alone1 holes designated by the contract-
and started back to camp, many ing officer and pressure testing
miles away, when darkness and'the foundations at the dam site
rain caught him. He attempted! on the locations and depths spec-
to ,build a fire, but his matches!ified by the contracting officer,
were soggy. Bill Steakley, in] The work also includes deliver-
camp, worried over the non-ap- mg of cores and samples from
pearance of his buddy, turned a
bright car spotlight into the skies
that shone through the murky
weather . . . Eggleston followed
■the light toward camp and reach-
ed within 100 yards of it when
he fell exhausted Somehow he
managed to cry for help and Ben-
nie McWilliams happened to hear
the cry and brought him into
camp, where it took a day before
Eggleston recovered from his or-
deal. His body was literally cov-
ered with cactus and prickly pear
. . . The following day the boys
■in camp backtracked Eggleston
fpr six miles where he had fal-
len into arroyos, gulleys, waded
streams and tripped many times
in his attempt to go back to camp
... He made the entire distance
without a match or flashlight and
the night was pitch black.
1# TEAKS—When the new yeai
rolled in, Lewis E. Lawes, above
observed the 19th anniversary
of his service as warden of famed
Sing Sing prison, at Ossining
N. Y. Altogether 30,814 prison-
ers have entered Sing Sing in
Mr. Lawes’ tenure of olfice. They
now number 2,762. There were
1,105 when he took office.
Violence
Breaks In
Oil Plant
Mid-Continent Oil Company
Violence Hay Cause Gov.
of Oklahoma to Call Out
Hi.; National Guardsmen
CIO Member
Is Stabbed
144 More CIO Members Are
Given Walking Papers by
Incensed Plant Operators
Mooney Leaves
Triumphantly
From Prison
Convicted
Bomber, Wait Outside;
Hearing Scheduled Today
Fans toll us "There’s That
\Voman Again" is bettor than
the first of the series "There’s
Always a Woman" which was
,good entertainment in itself . . .
Thanks to Tony Girraputo for his
fine compliment to the Press for
its growth in the past few months. ]
Mr. Tony, as wo affectionately'
fall him, is a Denison booster |
•from way hack with a heart as big j
t»s the bank of England . . . A j
Ngn near Waco, Texas, of u lock-
smith, as told by Jim May, reads;
"AVe mend anything but broken
Juyyts and the break of day.”
Sprry to see Tom Foley retire
from his post at the State Na-
tional bank. His presense was
oqje’of the reasons why the bank
is ope of the best in the state . . .
And why are all these boys at-
tempting to "pump” this corres-
pondent on our stand on the
coaching setup at Denison high
school. Believe it or not, gentle-
men, we are strictly on the fence
<rotp now on . . . Cold bloodiest
pet of the year: the extortionist
ip Illinois who sent a 13-year-old
kid into a trap of police set for
the blackmailer. The youth was
killed accidentally by police using
a riot gun . . . Nazis, with noth-
ing else to rap, today attacks the
Lambeth Walk as degenerate.
Wonder what they would say if
they could see some of these dy
ed in the wool jitterbugs working
on a dance floor? ... A Lubbock
man, given a ticket at Dallas for
parking in a fire lane, returned
the ticket with a memo: You toid
us we could cut the corners and
Itojd us wo could put them hack
in place,” (referring to the re-
cent Cotton Bowl game) . . . Po-
lice voided the ticket.
the dam site to Denison and fur-
nishing of protection sheds for]Sympathizers of
the goverment inspectors.
The government is also receiv-
ing sealed bids at it Little Rock
office for rental of two tank
trucks, each having capacity of
approximately 800 gallons of wat-
er for use, as directed by the
contracting officer, in connection
with test embankment work at
the Denison dam site. Drivers
are also wanted for the trucks
and bids are scheduled to expire
Friday, January 13 at 11 a. m.
The bids must he submitted on
j government forms.
The trucks are to he used in
hauling water at the dam site and
will he loaded by pump. They
will he required to operate over
both traveled and untraveled
ground near the dam site. It
is estimated the trucks will be re-
quired for approximately 400
work hours, subject to needs.
The total will not exceed 600
hours nor be less than 200 hours.
Four hours is the daily limit.
TULSA, Okla., Jan 7 (UP) —
Col. Chas. A. Holden said today
that renewed violence at the strike
-ridden Mid-Continent petroleum
corporation might cause his Na
tional guard garrison to be stren-
I gthened.
He commanded 400 guardsmen
under orders of Gov. E. W. Mar-
land to protect the refinery and
keep peace when local authorities
could not. His report to Adj.
Gen. Charles Barrett at Oklahoma
City said that two men had been
wounded outside the patrol lines.
G S. Tucker, a non-striking em-
ploye of the company, was shot in
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan i jeg during a revolver battle
(UP) Convict Thomas J. Moon- said, three men in an-
ey arrives today leading a trium-, other aut0mobile forced his car
phant procession from San Quen-L th( curb as he was enroute
tin, where he has been impris- borr,e
oned 22 years for the 1916 Prc- A R,an identified by police as
paredness day bombing, to receive w jj O'Hara, 41, a member of
a pardon from Gov. Culbert L tV, st,.ikinR ’ Internationa! 'Oil
Anxious
To Fire
Questions
HAILS PARLEY UNITY- A
Brownsville, Texas, en route from the Pan-American conference at Lima. Peru, to hi., horn
Topeka, Kas. Left, Republican National Committeeman i;. E Creagei of Texa . Mi Land
the conference hud on. lui in a better uiHier-tuiidin • among Die nations
at
ir
aid
Collection Of
T axes Here Is
Best In 8 Years
Olson.
It was expected that he would
be freed some time after noon
and labor organisations through-
out the world were ready with
joyous demonstrations. A brief
hearing in the governor’s cham-
bers seemed the only remaining
formality.
The pardon was virtually cer-
tain. It had no organized oppos-
'Vorkers union (CIO) was treat-
ed for a stab wound after police
charged into a downtown strec'
con er brawl early -oday. Nino
min were taken \i jail.
Ticket! Ordered Out
\ -pecial contingent of strid-
ing | diets allowed inside tin
military zone were ordered out
and their deadline extended to
two blocks from the refinery
, gates. Police took over patrol
ition. It has had the impassion- j 0f highway 66 which borders the
ed support of labor unions and icfinery j„ wegt Tulsa.
i Holden issued an order forbid-
liberals the world over for more
than a generation.
Mooney emerged from prison
shortly before 8 a. m. (PST). He
had checked out officially, taken
his belongings, said goodbye to
guards and fellow prisoners ex-
changed prison garb and number
ding "undue assembly” before un-
ion headquarters, in a small thea-
tre building 50 yards from the
military outpost.
J. C. Denton, company vice-
president, said a company pipeline
between Drumright and Tulsa had
Taxes collected here during the
past year amounted to $150,077.12
or 89.51 per cent of the total pos-
sible, according to a report from
Tax Assessor-Collector Walter P.
Lebrecht, rend to the city com-
mission Friday afternoon.
Mayor Clarence Scott said the
amount was the largest collected
in the past eight or nine years.
•Of the amount collected, $21,-
253.54 was from delinquent
sources. Disbursements, in part,
showed spending of: library $2,-
234.40; school funds $57,168; in-
terest and payment on bonds,
$54,711.
The collection period covered
from Jan. 1, 1938 to Dec. 31,
1938, Mr. Lebrecht said.
RAYBURN HAS TURKEY
FOR BIRTHDAY DINNER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP)
—House Majority Leader Sam
Rayburn of Texas, celebrated his
fifty-seventh birthday Friday in
for a stripe suit and his own name been dynamited, the third such
lAnvaiting him at the gate was incident. Union leaders denied
a caravan of automobiles loaded j any connection and deplored any
with his relatives, friends and1 strike violence .
sympathizers. They started im-i Denton mailed 144 dismissal
mediately on the 90 mile drive to i notices to strikers whom the
Sacramento. campany accused of damaging
Warden Court Smith, driven by property or other illegal acts.
a prison chauffeur, and a dclega-l--"--
tion from the state legislature p* II_|J |_
were in the procession. * I VC I 1C1U 111
Postal Robbery
CAR STOLEN FROM
CHAMBER SENDS OUT DIRECTOR
LIST; FIVE TO BE ELECTED
A list of ten Denison business
men, i ive to be elected, was sent
members of the Chamber of Com-
merce today, for the annua! elec-
tion of CC directors, according to
Manager Elliot McClung.
Ballots must be returned by
Jan 11, so a compilation can be
made and returns prepared for
the annual Chamber banquet
early in February. When the di-
rectors are made known, officers
for the coming year wi.l he
ed.
Under a recently inaugurated j
Chamber plan, five directors are!
elected each year to terms of i
three years. A director, after a I
term expires is not eligible for!
another term until a year has
elapsed.
Directors retiring this year are]
W’. L. Ashburn, J. L. Greer, O.
W. Hayes, W. I,.
W. J. Smith. Those with one] tional bank made
CITY ACCEPTS
PERRYMAN PLAT
The Oakdale addition, located
on the outskirts of southwest
riam-- Denison, planned by H. B. Per-
ryman, local businessman, was ac-
National Bank
Deposits Grow,
Report Reveals
New Deal Justice, Recently
Appointed by Roosevelt,
To Appear Before Hear-
ing At Washington Today
Frankfurter
Remains Silent
j o p May Ash Him What
His Stand is on Govern-
ment Reorganization Plan
'KINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP) —
—unions—members of u
t" Uiiitti*' of the judiciary
1 'inniitlee meet today to consi-
thc qualifications of Prof,
i ' lix Frankfurter for the sup-
!cm< court. Chairman Matthew
d Neeley, I)., W. Va., said that
: be a use of the criticism which
! followed the quick senate confir-
I man- the appointment of Jus-
j tiii Hugo L. Black, Frankfurter
aou <i he scrutinized thoroughly.
On* i-ommittee member said
!that Frankfurter might be asked
; ; his views on President Roo.se-
|V|,': upreme court reorganiza-
i : -1. which was rejected by
i the senate after a long fight in
1937.
In addition to Neeley, the com-
m to. i.- made up of democrats
Tat McCarran of Nev., Tom Con-
•C.v of I exas, James H. Hughes
• ■ Dcvwa.e; republicans Charles
I. McXary of Oregon, William E.
"iah of Idaho, Warren R Austin
a Vermont, and George \V. Nor-
] ri of Xebaska an independent.
cePted l!,!" the corporati limits Wan* Him Around
of Denison by the city eornmis-1 'I think it would be a good idea
sion Friday afternoon. ] or Mr Frankfurter to be pres-
\n ordinance bringing the sec- ent.” one said "in view of the at-
tion insidi will be * tudi of some persons who f##I
• ruwn up by City Attorney Ro • na + he ha.- een too closely iden-
Stoddard. Mayor Clarence Scot. ' tied with the new deal. If I
said sewage and water connec were Mr. Frankfurter, I would
lions would be available to the certainly ask foi an invitation to
addition within a few weeks. ippear.”
Mr. Perryman revealed tl
n the plut already have
Peterson and [ cial condition of the State Na-| ■. ha ' l'"-i "v ' • V
The addition
According to reports of finan-
thiee months
more year are J. J. Gal.agher, J. • apart, this strongest financial in
1). Bond, Julian C. Feild, Fred ] -titution in all north Texas show
Harvey and H. Rachel. Directors
with two years to go are: W. S
Hibl nrd. \. .1. Riddle, Ford Seale
R. W. Stoddard and Tom Suggs.
some owners
a gain in
be
homc-j
restricted
must nun
all
SHERM \N RESIDENT
A late model Oldsmobile was
IDAiBEL, Ok., Jan. 7 (UP) —
Five men, one a former inmate
j of Alcatraz and Leavenworth pen-
stolen last night here from Reed. ... , .
,, ,, ., , „, itentiaries, are being held in the
Galberth of Sherman, according■ . ’ ....
, . tu McCurtain county jail here today,
to city police reports. The mu- . , ,
charged with robbing James
chine was parked in the 100 block
South Fannin avenue when stolen.
Temperature! High
Temperatures in Denison reach-
ed a high of 64 degrees Friday
afternoon followed by a low of
45 degrees early this morning.!
A traffic officer in another
state ordered a drunk driver to
“stay where you are," when he re-
ceived nonther urgent call a good
distance from the scene. He came
bee'; several hours later and the
driver was still there—cold so-
ber . , . Best joke of the year: A
man toling Richard Himber.
somewhat of a magician, said the
late Howard Thurston could make
rif horse disfinneo* in’o thin sir
"Phooey Henry Ford did thnt
his usual way—eating a turkey] Partly cloudiness with probable
dinner specially prepared for him showers were forecast for this af-
by Mrs. J. L. Vston, a fellow Tex-j ternoon and Sunday in Denison
an. ! and vicinity.
Slayer, With Mind of Child, Can
Hardly Wait to Get in Death Chamber
CANON CITY, Colo., Jan. 7
(UP)—Warden Roy Best clomp-
ed heavily along the steel floor
corridor to the cell where a strap-
ping young man was playing with
an electric train, and, unlocking
the door, said:
"Come along Joe, it’s time.”
"It’s time for me to go to hea-
ven?” asked the young man, look-
ing tin brightly from his play.
"That's right.”
The young man jumped up
Wood, 75, postmaster of Eagle-
town, of around $100 in postal
funds.
The five men include:
A. L. Michelin, 49, of near
Broken Bow.
J. B. Willingham, Jr., 20, Good-
water.
Mack Shinpock, 21, Goodwater.
Elonzo Pierce, 19, Goodwater.
i.Vmon Pierce, 31, Goodwater.
Michelin is former superintend-
ent of the Beavers Bend state
park near Broken Bow.
lgist Friday morning, shortly
j before daylight as Wood and his
| son left their Eagletown home to
go to the office and pick up the
■■ 1 1 | mail sacks to meet a train due
in the chair. He grinned alli about 7 o'clock, two men stepped
'he time. He seemed hardly able I from behind a woodpile, leveled
to wait. He was blindfolded and pistols at them and then beat
Father Albert continued reciting I them over the head.
Investigations
Of Activity
W.H. McDonald
The
r, . , , . . , . al is given for cons
October showing business at th1 !
close of September 30, deposits
were $3,110,506.67, while deposits
as shown in their statement ap-
pearing today in the Denison
Press indicates at the close of
I business Dec. 31, the Denison
bank has deposits totaling $3,-
285,319.53, or a gain as indicated
! of $164,812.86.
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 7 (UP) —
Investigations were in progress
today of the various angles of , „ .
., . . , , has for so many years been iden-
the mineral and vacancy sales . ... , .., •
The name of T. F Foley, active
vice-president of the bank, which
tified with this successful
Cancer Claims
F our To Lead
Death Causes
Typhoid Fever Takes One
Life Here in December;
Car Deaths Total A Pair
Biiths and death- am.'-: rokr
before he retired as Commissioner
of the General Land office fol-
lowing his defeat for a second
term.
Attorney General Gerald Mann
said his department is making a
study of the situation as far as its
limited information will permit
and that ho expected to have a
definite announcement t i make
from active service with the bank
after a period of more than
thirty-five years. Mr. Foley has
asked that his office !e filled by!
another at the annual election this
month and that he be permitted:
to retire.
Also to be noted is the fact;
that for the first time as a di-
the bank, the title of)
Major John W. Hawkins, chief 'ertor of
clerk and Acting Land Commis- District J
sioner, said the records are not name °f T
in shape as vet to show all trans- Mr. Suggs was recently named to Is births there
actions in their entirely, as new that Positi°" b>’ ,ht' F°vernor of I whites 11. female whites
oven during Docom' v
s. ac-
cording to a report f
health offices of P’
W \
. Lee.
today There were
1 dcatl
22 births reported ii
month.
Cancer led death
cause
l victims while other
cause'
s were
heart 3. nephritis
4. an
tomobile accidents 2,
diabetes 1. typhoid
fever
1, tu
berculosis 1. influcti
pm u
nionia 1, suffocation
1 (
)f hr
number 13 were \vh:
it us wi
it h f-
male whites <» t On
e was
nc.i'o with 3 female
negro-.
M Cai ’an said that he “would
!• very much to have a talk
j with Mr .Frankfurter.”
P "HS lea ned that a friend
, o. Frank:urter had been in com-
o mention with Neeley and had
>’ n advised that “it would be
■i—" for Frankfurter to be in
" ashineton today so that he may
i be available if the committee de-
si'eir to question him.
Today’s committee meeting will
i he open to the public. Neeley
said that "any responsible per-
l -on" would be heard, but that no
witnesses had been called.
Frankfurter remained silent
• uring the court bill controvery
; except to deny that he was the
! 'Utho1 of the measure. His
omination to the court to succeed
' he late Benjamin N. Cardozc was
■ eeeived by the senate Thursday
and received almost universal ap-
proval.
The Amateur
Snooper
FEW REMARKS PERTINENT
\ND IMPERTINENT
nale
;the state.
1 negroes 2.
thirty 'mars ago.” Himber cracked j eagerly. His eyes sparkled. Ob-
. , . Drooped down to McKinney vlously he was anticipating am
)„«♦ niwht to see Denison nlay exciting and novel journey,
basketball. The Jackets are p’ny- The warden, Father Albert, the]
Ihc their best games in many sea- prison chaplain, and several oth-
aims, even if they have lost the era took him on down to the exe-
majority of them. cution chamber and strapped him
“Hail, Mary,” to which the young i
man responded happily. He had ]
learned the response painfully ov-i
er weeks.
While 50 witnesses watched at
windows, cyanide pellets were
dropped into sulphuric acid and
the resultant gas rose around the
helpless man in the chair and
choked out his life.
Thus Colorado disposed of the
moral problem of Joe Arridy, a
22 yeai old .Jiot who escaped
from th,1 institution for the feeble
minded and attacked and sil’td
Dorrthv Drain, 15.
Katy Freights
Largest Order
(Continued on Page 4)
Smith Services
Funeral services for Mrs. J.
P. Smith, 73, Hagermnn resident
for thirty-nine years, who died
Thursday afternoon at her home
following a one-week illness, were
held Saturday morning at 10
Dallas Pathologist Experiments
With New Powdered Blood Storage
A certain store was buying
men’s straw hats yesterday for
n xt summer Usually this whole-
sale buying business is very much
worse, struwhnts in mid-winter
md overcoats in Juno But with
-ueh shirt-sleeve weather as the
past few days has offered, it did
not -ovm at all out of place.
________ 1 Even as short a period as six
DALLAS, Texas,. Jan. 7 (UP) for typing h ood from one hour ,n nUls ha-- materially changed
— \ pathologist experimented to- to only IB minutes, another im-1 ibe makeup of the 100 per cest
.ay with a dehydrating machine portant factor where emergency! block on Main street, new firms,
m Main
o'cloc k from the Hagerman Pres- which will permit the storage transfusions are required. They new store fronts and new faces,
hyterian church with Rev. Fred safely of huge quantities of pow- Mood of humans is classif e I into Now with ( J. McManus at the
McFariden officiating, assisted by dered blood for transfusions. four major types and any addition] Baird shoe store, another change
Dr. H. Springn! and Dr. L. L. Chief problem of "canned” or to the circulate y svstem must i has occurred—and that s not alt,
[ MeClitcheon storage blood for emergency in- match that blood specifically. even another building within, the
] Interment was held at a Hag- joction into patient’s veins has Hill said that powdered blood. block is to have a new business
• -j , ilerman cemetery with Short-Mur- ....... iN preservation. Costly re- could not be used in all nstanci tys’
Ull S hipment ray directing. Pallbearers were frigeratlon and elaborate techni- In m • - of extreme l<> •' I i.
_ j Mrs. Smith’s grandsons, Rnlford,, quo is involved. he said, it would he Ineffectual be- Don’t let this summer weather
Katv freight lines received a' J. P„ Ben and Robert E. Mor- But the machine devised by Dr. cause the drying proves ''••moves fool you, '»< l have your overcoat
Fort Worth this morning the lnrg-jrison, Hubert and Morris Smith. J. M. Hill at Baylor dries the essential red e ls. handy, you’ll probably need it bo-
ost oil shipment this year, con-' - serum and preserves it for in- "Actual blood will always be
s'ant use when mixed with
fore long.
sisting of 117 tankards of lubri-
cating oil destined for Houston.
The shipment will be dvided into
City Buy! Hom>
dis-
needed, in many kinds of trans-
ho said. "But the dried
fusions,'
The city of Denison Friday af- tilled water.
ternoon ordered 1,000 feet ofi The machine, employing a ,
hose for the fire department here,] vacuum principal to remove the ’ 0,11 ,u< a mlm 11 11 ' *
to he purchased immediately. water, reduces the time required and will cut the. cost of storage,
NOTICE
If vmi do not rernivn vour poprr
hv 5 p m oacli dsy, plosin Phan*
300 and onr will he !emt you
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