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BER OF • THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS WEDNES., JUNE 15, 1938
WEEKLY FOUNDED 1930-DAILY 1934~
VOL. 4—NO. 804
Flood Control Bill Wrecks Senate Program
Japanese Stop
War to Fight
Y ellow Floods
SHANGHAI, June 15 (UP) —
Japanese troops halted their war
ngainst the Chinese today to fight
DENISON
62-50-35
YEARS AGO
Bv DULCE MURRAY
the Yellow river floods.
Japanese estimated that 150,-
000 Chinese civilians had been
drowned. They admitted many
thousands of their own men were
trapped and the flood was only be-
ginning.
The muddy waters poured thru
dyke breaks that at some points
were miles long ,and steadily were
becoming longer. They swamped
the central China plain which ev-
en at normal times is often be-
tween 15 and 30 feet below the
June IS, 1876
Mr. Tallant, who has been to
Houston to attend the services of ijver bed.
the Grand Chapter of Royal Ar-1 Over miles of territory, the Jap-
ch Masons, returned yesterday atlanese troops, all thought of their
noon. Mr. Tallant reports the triumphant, drive for Nankow for-
attendance large and harmonious] gotten, worked day and night in
thoughout. He brought with him relays side by side with sweating
the charter for Denison chapter
No. 138. At a meeting of the
Royal Arch Masons last night,
a committee was appionted to
purchase regalia, furniture, etc.
for the new lodge. As soon as
arrangements can be perfected
the officers will be duly installed
and probably by the Grand High
Priest.
A meeting of the Denison bas“-
ball club was held last night, and
forty new members elected. The
president appointed Messrs. Schu-
maker, Simms, Mullins and Myers
as a committee to meet the Dallas
base ball club on their arrival a'
noon today and escort them to
the Rusk avenue hotel, and Messrs
Mamlok, and Yardly to act as
ushers at the baseball ground at
the match game this evening.
The board of directors were re-
quired to wait on Mr. Yocum and
Chinese farmers, trying to patch
up the dykes.
But even the Japanese admitted
that their work seemed useless.
The current of the river was be-
coming stronger each hour, fed
by rains which had been falling
steadily for weeks in the far west.
Japanese aviators, flying over
the Yellow river basin, saw noth-
ing for miles but swirling muddy
waters of an enemy more power-
ful than the Chinese who had
fought them for almost a year.
“The battlefields on which we
fought are under water,” a Jap-
anese army spokesman said. “The
roads are submerged. Great areas
of countryside, even entire vil-
lages, are under water. We arc
doing all we can to repair the
dykes, but it looks hopeless.”
Guerrilla Warfare
Chinese army units, fighting as
Avenue |RAIL LEGISLATION
Paintup j BILL IS SCRAPPED
Started! _
' Senate Stumbles Into Unexpected Controvert
Chamber »i.l, Repor,| Aft“,F“#1 °f Wage, and
Response From Merchants! Hours Bui; States Rights Are Brought Up
On Arterial Highway Ave- j -
nues After Canvass Tues.1 WASHINGTON, June 15 (UP)—With wages and
City Limits
Are The Goals
hours legislation enacted, Congress reached the boiling
point of adjournment today but plans for departures from
the capital were jeopardized by Senate dispute over flood
control and state’s rights.
_ Protests against provisions of the flood control bill
M.»y Building* M Und.r“ TSjKTSSf k"“h*
Mnr! *aC IOpi°.? ri*1"*; t'l ^ controversy can be adjusted, the third session
ivi Are (Hedged, hay. ()f tbe 75^ Congress probably will end before midnight.
„ ' . .... 1 The Senate has been summoned to meet at 10 a. m., EST.,
1 piacica > a 0 . .mi today in the leadership’s speed-up drive for adjournment,
included m the recently maugur-. Th(J H takinR adjournment hurdles in its stride,
a ed paint-up campaign, Chamber stwpped work six nlinutes before midnight and wi„ no
of Commerce committees Tuesday me untjj noon>
reached out to the avenues hous- Senate uproar centered around a provision inserted
ing business, part,cuarly o„ arter- in the $375,000,000 flood control bill by Senate Major-
ial highways. ,ity Leader Alben W. Barkley (D.-Ky.) It was accepted
Chamber Manager Elliot Me- by tbe Senate on first consideration without arousing
Clung said merchants on Houston ;much interest and the House agreed to the Barkley pro-
avenues, highway 75, were re-;vision witllout prolonged debate, but when the bill was
spending with enthusiasm to the brought up ,ast night for final Senate action, it was chal-
pa.ntup campaign, pledging their! lenged by a handful of Republicans and Democrats as
effort within the next few days man unwarranted invasion of state’s rights.
an attempt to impress visi.ors-----
with cleanliness and beauty as t
they enter and leave Denison to- InVCStlH&t©
ward Oklahoma. Mr. McClung
rquest him to be present duringr j gUerriilas in independent detach-
the game to keep order. Moved j men,t>s, saw the river now—the
and seconded that, we, as a club, l-river which thcy caU china’s sor-
approve of the election of Mr.'
Campbell as captain—carried un-
anmiously. Moved and carried
that a vote of thanks be tendered
Messrs. B. C. Murray and J. C.
Burson for courtesies rendered,
and to Mr. Wheeler for the use
of his mower.
June IS, 1888
The old one legged freak who
comes to town about once a month
ft om no one knows where and
|\ who was landed in jail about two
* months ago for raising a beer gar-
den mattinee on Main street, ap-
peared in town yesterday driving
row and the scourge of the son
of Nan—as an ally. At this cris-
is in tiheir history, no enemy was
as hated as Japan. The guer-
illa units harrassed the Japanese
who were working on the dykes
and gave them no rest. Day and
night, they crept up to attack
isolated parties.
Japanese charged that at many
points the Chinese were still del-
iberately breaking the dykes, to
send new torrents gushing down
onto the plain.
The main flood area was south
of the river. But the Japanese
Wreck Where
3 Are Hurt
said the campaign on Tfouston J
would extend completely to the |
city limits.
Other merchants off Main street ]
in the business district have al- Special freight movements out . , ,
ready given their consent to the <>' Ft' Tuesday night via actlon 0^ on!y four major
paintup, but many were waiting ^atj consisted of 44 cars of.
until painters were available from stoc*i bound for the Osage graz-]
inh- nndprwnv on Main street inS ,ands at Blackland, Okla. and ,, ,
job.- underway on Main street. nPrishible fruit for' flood control-state's rights contro
Meanwhile on Main street, prae- J0 ca 0 perisnaole lruit for,______ , , , ,,
The senate stumbled into that
unexpected controversy after
Congress had finally enacted wage
-hour legislation, scrapped plans
for emergency assistance to rail-
roads and carried the $3,753,000,-
000 (billions) recovery-relief bill
almost to final passage. Final
bills
now is delaying the last gavel tap.
Plan ii To Altai!
There were indications as the
tically every occupied building has] ,lor,bein destinations,
been repainted on the front andi —
others not yet completely reno- d' ®tee* °f ^ Worth, gen-
vated, will be within the next few' eral frei*ht and Pa*sengcr agent
weeks, Chamber officials reported. |
A few building owners have beeni
for the Frisco lines, was a
| verys developed that several sen-
ators planned to assail the prov-
isions of the Barkley amendment
to the bill. The disputed para-
busi- gral)'ls W0U1<1 giv® the government
ness visitor at the local
contacted
city.
who live outside the
offices Possess'on all titles to dams,
reservoirs, electrical power rights
$30,000 Bonds
Are Peddled to
Small Tex. Banks
Tueday afternoon.
Although not confirmed by Mr.iand otlier developments under thp
Steel, it is rumored importantbill> P^ded that the governtnent
j would assume all costs of finan-
| cing the projects. The bill is so
j written as to make the assump-
changes are to lie made Sunday!
in present schedules of Frisco pas-
senger trains through Denison.
Worthless, Bonds Sold By
Four Men; Trials Have
\V. G. Cook of Ft. Worth, claim
agent for the Frisco, is in Deni-
| son conducting investigations re-
garding the automobile-train acci-
dent last Wednesday night in
that same old horse, with the oncirePortod that Chim>?p ,roops, 'vh°
eye, attached to that some old |sti1' hold Kingahu'' npnr chonK’
chow, junction point of the east-
two-wheeled gig with the tattered
canopy top. He was jyst as
comfortably and aimlessly drunk
rs usual, and went rambling about
the street trying to drive up the
sidewalks and into store windows
until the police interfered an
drove him away. It was said that
his horse had not had anything
to cat or drink for about two days
and he was ordered to take it to
a livery stable and have it fed
and watered. The old fossil Is
hnrdlyworth arresting and conse-
quently the police generally try
to run him out of town.
west and north-south railroads,
were doing nothing to strengthen
the north bank dykes.
It was asserted that the dykes
there were rapidly disintegrating
so that now the northern as well
as the southern area was threat-
ened. The city of Chungmow,
east of Chengchow, was reported
under five feet of water. There
were three dyke cuts between
one west of Chengchow.
/ ’ Tl
v t'olu
MRS. MARIE s. ELMORE
Funera services for Mrs. Ma-
rie S. Elmore will be conducted
The colored population had a
ptious blowout in the shape' Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 0’-
of a grand basket picnic at Asso-| cl0(,b from the Church of Christ,
nation park yesterday. In the'With the minister, Basil Shilling,
merning a procession, composed j officiating. Interment will he at
of 28 colored matrons dressed in Oak-wood with Short-Murray di-
white, 28 Ethiopian damsels in
blue with white military braid
trmmtags, and 46 boys in white
waists, blue knee pants with white
uripes, marched to the Union de-
pot to meet the Sherman colored
band which came over on the 11
a. m. train, and headed by the
band, marched to the park where
the feasting and jollification con-
tinued the test of the day.
June IS, 1903
The Vorwaerts, the oldest soc-
ial society of Denfeon, celebrated
with great eclat its 25th anniver-
™ sary on Sunday, 14th. In all the
history of the society the 26th
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reeling.
Pall bearers will be Eggleston
Ramee, Max, Ramee, Robert Pyle,
Grant Harshbarger, Austin Harsh-
barger, Wesley Harshbarger.
Been Scheduled July 11.
LAREDO, Tex. June 15 (UP)1
—Trial of four men accused of
having sold an estimated $30,0001
worth of forged bonds to small
banks in this region, was schedul-
ed today for July 11.
Sheriff J. C. Martin revealed
that the four men were indicted
by a state grand jury here after
they allegedly sold forged secur-
which Fred Outlaw of Bells Wood-
row Outlaw of Dallas and James
Whitworth of Cooper crashed in-
to a Frisco freight on east Hull
street.
Mr. Cook arrived here after no-
tification of the accident and was
still compiling data today.
tion of government responsibility
for all costs of flood control ret-
roactive to 1928 and would pro-
vide for reimbursements to states
or sub divisions of sums advan-
ced since then for joint flood
control pojects with the federal
government.
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D.,
Mont., one M the leaders of the
1 Senate fight against President
: Roosevelt’s judiciary reorganiza-
tion bill last year, joined the at-
tack on the flood control program,
j Ho repeatedly cited its departure
from the policy of the 1936 flood
T. E. Fox, local depot agent control aet wMch forbade the goy.
for the Railway Express agency ernmcnt tfl condpmn any ,md in
* .1 i 1. ! *-* n 4 u* -\
returned this week from
Miner
And Son
Trapped
Rescue Workers Begin Dig-
ging Toward Bootleg Min-
er and His Son, Trapped
300 Feet Under Ground.
10 Man Shifts
Are In Use
Two Inch Piping Lowered
Down to Relieve Suffering
^o Victims and Food Sent
McCALL INDICTED
ON THREE COUNTS
MIAMI, Fla, June 15 (UP)— Young McCall, formerly had been
"ith tears tolling down his cheeks a roomer at the Cash home at
Franklin Pierce McCall, lanky Princeton, Fa., where little Jim-
21-year-old preacher’s son who my was kidnaped.
confessed kidnaping and killing __________
Jimmy Cash, Tuesday stood with! ^
bowed head before a judge and
pleaded guilty to kidnaping and j
rot guilty to murder charges.
The six-foot farmhand, who ad-
mited to Federal officers that he
snatched the 5-year-old cash boy
from his bed on the night of May
28 and accidentally killed him by
stuffing handkerchiefs in his
mouth, faces a maximum death
penalty on either charge.
McCall was brought before
Judge H. F. Atkinson a few min-
utes after a special grand jury,
deliberating less than two hours,
returned indictments Charging him
Everyday
DENISON
By
LOUIS ANDERSON
43
ASHLAND, Pa. June 15 (UP)
—A rescue crew of 50 men, work-
ing hurriedly but cautiously in
small relays, today attempted to
extricate two “bootleg” coal min-
ers—father and son—who were
trapped 300 feet below the earthlwith kidnaping and murder,
by a slide. i Bit» His Lip
The rescuers were able to eom-j He shuffled up to the bench and
municate with Peter Shinkowsky, stood, biting his lip and staring
the father, through a two-inch! at the floor, while G. A. Worely.
pipe that had been driven down
the shaft, but he reported that his
17-year-old son, Peter, Jr., was
“weakening.”
The two men were working deep! voice, “guilty."
in the pit yesterday when tons of Worely then read the second
earth and rock, dislodged when a indictment charging that Met all
mine buggy broke from its moor-; wilfully and fenoniousy murdered
ings and knocked the shaft timb-i the blueeycd Cash boy by suffo-
•
George Jean Nathan, says Wab
U-i \\ inched, tells the movie ac-
tor who have no further use in
Hollywood to slay off Broadway
where they aren’t wanted. Big
name- go there just to turn out
1 Hop that brings them in Sev-
ern I thousands of dollars before
Hie show closes . . . Some of those
111 Hollywood should go back to
the reul estate business as their
acting is like Mother Nature’s
"dik in the Sahara desert—bad
“Bringing Up Baby,” which
the state’s attorney, read the in- <amt‘ to Denison today is an-
dictments. j othl>r on<-‘ of those plays so poo-
After the kidnaping indiement with the public. Tries to
was read, McCall said in a low "'"he itn actress a commedienne.
Like trying to make Hitler a he-
ro . . However, Cary Grant, the
handsome one, is capable in com-
edy roles—one of the best , . .
Katharine Hepburn was not box
erling loose, roared down the eating him. The prisoner shook “'fie- with her dramatic trials,
and muttered
they have converted her into a
fun maker. She succeded in
“Stage Door,” and advance crit-
ics claim she again turns the trick
in her latest apus.
shaft . The avalanche came to his head slightly
a precarious halt about half way “not guilty.”
down the hole, burying ti e two Tears rolled down bis cheeks a- 1
men below. he spoke and he turned quickly a-
In relays of ten man shifts,! Heputy sheriffs moved forward to
members of the Independent Min- lead him back to the mob-proof ,
ers Union worked through the jail on the nineteenth floor of the j -Most pepped up youngster: a
night and by morning had sue- Dade county courthouse. j 1 ecent college graduate who be-
ceeded in penetrating about 20 The chief witness before th» I Devos he has the world at his
feet throught the debris. They -ran<1 jury was the grim-faced fa- feet. Sometimes it is the world
■worked carefully, lest a sudaou ther of thp kidnaped boy, James trying to get us as far as the
B. Cash, owner of a chain of shins for a good kick . . . Set-
firing stations in South Florida, hack worry the younger genera-
__ ____| tion little in most cases and it
I i- a very good thing at that . , .
wrench should cause the rock and
soil to loosen and tumble down
upon the trapped men.
Hot coffee and egg nog were
dropped down the long two-inch
pipe in special paper containers
Rescuers paused occasionally to
send comforting messages to the
older man who every hour ascen-
ded from the base of the pit to
the point where the rocks had set-
tled.
Worried fOver Son
The father apparently was wor-
Petition On
South Gale
Road Signed
ried about the son’s condition.He what is declared to be “one
urged the rescuers to hurry.They the worst stretches of road’
had a gallon and a half of water
when the avalanche fell, but it
was gone.
Mrs. Catherine Shinkowsky with] is out the
her daughter, Mary, kept vigil at
the top of the shaft until the
girl became ill and was taken
home.
Scores of Denison people -and
many farmers in the section af- b"0°d (In-
fected, are signing petitions this ' ictmia Regina
week being circulated to secure
immediate action in fixing up
of
i"
Grayson county.
The road immediately affeet?
the trade territory of Denison and
Texas street road near "ho tr-v to *0 st,’aight.
the South Gale community, and is
They saw Benny Goodman has
become just another band since
his dummer, Gene Krupa, quit
him to form an orchestra of his
own . . . Sheliah Graham says
Helen Hayes paniced ’em in Hol-
other night on her
opening be-
muse it isn’t often the city (and
it- stars) see real acting . . .
George Raft come.- from Hell’s
Kitchen and Sylvia Sidney was
hern in a Bronx upstair flat . . .
Both are co-starred in “You and
Me,” the story of an ex-moll and
. any state without consent of the
'ties against the American Tele- week vacation at San Antonio, tUte or to coni;truct dams and
phone and Telegraph company.
Houston
about a mile and a half of road
which is almost impassable.
Parties circulating the petition
The father and son are two of. declare that the farmers can bard-
thousands who operate, technical-] ly negotiate the strip and since
and Galveston. He was regervojrs ;n any state, affecting *Y in violating of the law, in they have considerable mark cing
Part of the money received for accompanied by his wife, m™11] anothor state, without consent of
the sales, was spent by two bro- daughter and one of his daughters ^ latter,
thers to purchase a small refinery, friends, Jackie Backers.
HOW TEXANS VOTED
TEMPERATURES ARE
AT HIGH MARK AGAIN -
__ ! Following is the vote of Texas
Temperatures in Denison hit members of the House on the
another 92 degree stage late Tues- wage-hour bill:
day afternoon, falling to a maxi- For: Dies, Garrett, Lyndon B.
muni of 74 degrees this morning. < Johnson, Jones, Mahon, Maverick,
A rise to 48 degrees shortly bo- 'McFarlane, Patman, Poage, Ray-
fore noon today forescasts aa- burn, Sanders, South, Sumners,
o'her record making thermometer Thomas and Thomason.
.reading. Cloudy and unsettled Against: Luther A. Johnson,
weather has been forecast for Kleberg, Lanham, Mansfield, Pat-i
Denison and vicinity Thursday. ton and West.
MRS. SIDNEY ARMSTRONG
Funeral rites for Mrs. Sidney
Arsmtrong will be conucted at
2 p. m. Wednesday from the chap-
el of Short-Murray, with Rev.
Ben F. Hearn officating. Inter-
ment will be at Fairvicw ceme-
tery with Short-Murray directing.
Pall bearers will be Joe Cox,
M. A. Cliff, Con Corcoran, A. II.
Preston, Jim Lindsay and L. Han-
son.
Texas and Mexico Are Joined
As Natural Boundary Dries Up
“ Why,” he demanded \ha- the
guarantee of state’s rights been
removed? Let someone answer.’
Sen. Warren R. Austin, R., Vt.
opened first fire on the flood bill,
attacking it as a “shocking in-
vasion of states rights” pointing
toward a “change in our form of
government."
Packed galleries saw and heard
legislators perform in their long
night session.
13 Month* on Bill
The wages and hours bill was
passed after 13 months of con-
troversy in which the House once
defeated it only (0 revive and
pass it under the New Deal whip.
It authorizes Mr Roosevelt to put
a floor under wag.es and a ceiling
over hours.
With that legislation passed and
only waiting Mr. Roosevelts sig-
nature, Congress must dipose of
Strange why each side of war-
ring nation- should play follow
the leader in “official Reports”
Yesterday China caimed 5,-
000 Jai soldiers were drowned
n; M a Rivi i- floods and today
• l.i a’ii -i 1 port 150,000 Chinese
felt he touch of death. If one
abandoned pits to which the col- and trading to do in Denison, ae-
lieries still lave title. tion is wanted b> the petitioners
Frank Wontzel, chief burgher The petition is to be present* 11 sure to conic
of the town said that “if every- to the commissioner of roads foi...... ■
thing went according to schedule” ] that district to be in turn band-
they hoped to have the men out ed to the county court
this afternoon. j --------—
WESLACO, Texas, June 15 Forty lower Rio Grande valley
(UP)—Texas and Mexico were cities were placed under a rigid
without a natural division in many proration of water. For the first ........ _____................
places today as the Rio Grande; time in ^ist°5;ilp^_W_a\P^ major bills before adjourn-
ment to the 1938 political cam-
paign. They are:
1. Recovery and relief appro-
priation which has been approved
bad dried up entirely alongside Hi-
dalgo and Cameron counties.
At Mercedes and Brownsville,
the river had stopped flowing.The
stream’s sjage fell further up-
stream.
Prorate Committee mot yesterday
and set quotas for 14 irrigation
districts depending upon the Rio
Grande’s water.
Growers as well as townspeople
were worried as no indications of
relief appeared.
'by the House in final form and
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- The father and son were work-
ing the mine with a third man
who bad hired them as helpers.
The “employer” whose identity
was not learned immediately, hail
come out of the mine to get some
dynamite. When he had reached
the top, the buggy snapped fi'ee,[gjx
causing the eavo-in.
Rescuers, working on the top ofid,,d with newly-arrived refugees
the rock heap, shoveled earth into from Sugunto and the north
sail buckets which were attached Valencia today,
by pulleys to a truck on the; Many bombs were dropped In
ground surface, about 50 ferC around fastellon de la Plana,
above. They handed the larger| Tbc port was raided twice. Ai
Valencia Is
Bombed Today
By Insurgents
VALENCIA. June 15 (I'l’t-
loia Nationalist airplanes bombed
the central business district, crow-
historical events
Now that Gloria Vanderbilt
ha- '1 ached 14, she is being clas-
sified in the sub-deb group . . ,
Them is a New York woman shot)
shiner who has the sogan “I’ll
take a shine to anyone— for a
dime'' . We wouldn’t believe
this one either, but we saw and
heard it personally: two youngst-
ers. one aboue 20 .and the other
about 2’>. bit town today asking
where the army engineering of-
fices were located so they could
go to woik on the dam. They
drew the horse laugh from most
of those they contacted. Unless
they have plenty of money on
which to live, which they seeming-
rocks by hand.
Woman Behind Plow
STROUDSBURG, Pu. (VP) —
Mrs. Davis Stroul is a pioneer
mother. When her husband was
injured in an accident, Mrs.
Stroul left her 5 small children
with neighbors and plowed 30
acres of their farm for the spring
planting.
cante, further to
was bombed.
Barcelona and the northeast
coasta district outside the city
were bombed but the damage was
slight and there were no casual-
ties.
The Czechoslovakian state rail-;
way has begun the operation of
streamlined trains by covering all
the working parts of a large
steam locomotive wnh steel plates.
the south' also havpn’t’ thp>'
before they pet that job they are
looking for.
Outsiders have been contacting
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