Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - December 22, 1937, Denton, Texas ROUND ABOUT TOWN DENTON VOL XXXVII NO Ill TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER Associated Press Leased Wire EIGHT PAGES We are his workmanship created j in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them A good name like good will is j got by many actions and lost by j Jeffrey i IS THERE A SANTA That question was answered in the New York Sun some forty years ago in an editorial which appeared in that paper in reply to the tion Skice that time the editorial has been reproduced in thousands of papers over the world as it an- swers so aptly We take pleasure in repeating again this year The question was propounded by an girl Dear am 8 years old Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus Papa says you see It in The Sun it's so Please teil me the truth is there a Santa O'HANLON 115 West Ninety-fifth Street Virginia your little friends are wrong They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age They do not believe except they see They think that nothing can be which is not by their little minds All minds Virginia whether they be men's or children's are little In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect an ant in his intellect as compared with the boundless world m n LEFT p AIR O Sudden Adi J Finds Bills Enacted WHEAT CROP PALO ALTO Calif Dec 22 size of a nation's wheat crop may be a deciding factor in drawing a country into war the Food Research Institute of Stanford sity said today The institute reported that an analysis of recent policies of countries ed that nations which went to war had just harvested a good wheat crop and the nation red upon had a bad one iMH 4 F OF L LEADERS TALK PLAN FOR AND CONQUER CAMPAIGN AGAINST C I O Much Preliminary o Work Done However S t Farm and Housing Legislation in Conference WASHINGTON Dec of Congress left the administration's cial session program up in the air today and began a Christmas vacation that will defer enactment of major legislation until the new year The sudden adjournment at dusk yesterday after the Senate passed Subscribes To Charities Fund WASHINGTON Dec Federation of Labor leaders talked today of starting a divide and conquer the C I O now that negotiations in labors factional war have collapsed Jolm L Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization ed at the same time to enroll more recruits and consolidate its ranks The first step in- formed persons said might be an attempt to get the tional Ladies Garment Workers to leave the C I O and rejoin the A F of L Then the federation may expel the United Workers and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers at the Executive Miami meeting next month and start a membership battle in the coal fields and clothing factories The United Garment Workers and the Progressive Miners of America would lead the fight officials said but the federation would back those unions with funds and organizers Lewis forces on the other hand discussed a call for an early national convention and creation of more city state and industrial councils With the total received here in the campaign for funds for the port of the United Charities tion still far below the goal of the charities officials were cheered by a contribution of teachers and employes of the State College for Women which taled Rev L P Parker president ofi the association announced this gift j Jude Sleeps At Court to Be Handy By Associated Press the Housing 66 to 4 found none stating that it was a 100 per cent of President Roosevelt's dations actually written into law about him as measured by the in- capable of grasping the j whole of truth and knowledge j Administration leaders however Yes Virginia there is a Santa contended the session had served a Claus He exists as certainly as love valuable purpose in finishing pre- and generosity and devotion exist and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy Alas how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa It would be as dreary as if there were no There would be no childlike irom six weeKs faith nn nn to the regular 1933 S work on farm housing and other administration measures and the largest gift from any institution to the tion so far in the 1937 drive All Denton public schools ing the colored school have also contributed 100 per cent to the drive Parker said It was believed that al approval will be after tne Christmas rush and when a bedroom atmosphere in night court where Magistrate ny Lucas is presiding in: jamas Police said they a magistrate immediately able at all hours during a Christmas season crusade against drunken drivers So Lucas moved a bed into a downtown police station and re- tires between hearings regular session convening faith then no poetry no romance to make tolerable this existence We should have except in sense and sight The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished Not believe in You might as well not in You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the neys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down what would Nobody sees Santa Claus but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus The most real thing in the world are those that neither children nor see you ever fairies dancing on the Of course not but that's no proof that they are not Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and un- seeable in the world You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise in- side but there is a veU covering the unseen world which not the strongest man nor even the united strength ol all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart Only faith fancy poetry love ro- mance can push aside that tain view and picture the beauty and glory beyond Is it all real? Ah Virginia in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding No Santa Thank he lives and he lives forever A and years from now Virginia nay ten times ten thousand years from at the Jan 3 Democratic Leader Barkley Ky asserted the session had ped from six weeks to two months The Re- publican leader Senator McNary of Oregon predicted the regular session would end in May if the President doesn't keep sending new recommendations to Congress Leaders originally had intended to wind up the five-week session today so that a joint conference committee could adjust differences in the House and Senate Housing bills before adjournment Some of the men appointed to the tee however were among the many members who already had gone home necessitating postponement of final action until January many employes receive Christmas bonuses the Denton business houses which have not already done so will i contribute thcor quota Parker urged individuals as well as institutions to mail their con- to the United Charities Association office municipal ing Dentou without having to be personally solicited This office is located on second floor of the building and is under the super- vision of Miss Ha Decker case worker for Denton The phone ber is 1340 Surprise RICHMOND E tow the Virginia Commissioner of Insurance and Banking was puzzled by a telegram addressing him as president of the al Association of Building and Loan Supervisors He wired the an explanation He had been elected president two months ago at a Los An- geles convention which he did not attend Suspended Payment Most Business Houses to Close For Christmas SPECIAL SESSION COST IS WASHINGTON Dec officials estimated today the special sion of Congress cost about This total they explained 4 did not include such items as salaries of Senators and were 000 a much dental expense which is paid on an annual basis without regard to how many times Congress meets About of the total expense for the extra session went for travel expenses for members of the Senate and House ti til li i I I I MB li I I I II i I Award Given by Jury's Findings business houses iai Ion will be closed all day day in observance of Christmas This is one of two an- holidays generally observed here It is expected that only institutions such as cafes drug stores hotels and the like will be open and many of these will operate only a part of the day Most of the drug stores ably will close the major part of the afternoon it was stated Many filling station operators had Damage compensations totalling about were awarded Mr and i Mrs Ben Seyler of Muenster by the findings of the jury that heard j their suit against land Transportation Co The jury returned answers to the 103 cial issues to District Judge Ben W 1 Boyd late Tuesday after ations extending over one and half days It was the largest damage suit award made by a Denton County jury within the memory of court officials The suit had a tal of Attorneys for the transport firm have previously indicated they I would move for a new trial if a AGGRESSIVE BID FOR PUBLIC CONFIDENCE EXPECTED TO BE MADE TO CONGRESS IN JANUARY f resident Due to Insist on Legislative Program But Propose No New Psycho- logical Fear WASHINGTON Dec Administration ad- visers said today President Roosevelt would make an sive bid for public confidence in his January message to Con- gress based on the contention the business recession is ly They said the President would insist on his legislative program but that he would propose no new reforms The message they fore- cast would contain a broad offer of cooperation with legitimate ness but no retreat from present regulations The chief executive laid the ground work for this approach in his press Nation Mourns Death of oo conference yesterday by asserting ST PAUL Dec sota and the nation mourned today the death of Frank B that a psychology of fear was being Qf who fostered by a large percentage of to heights Of world newspapers and a small minority of public utilities His accusation followed a secret conference with seven of his most loyal supporters in Senate liberal ranks in which he was reported to have pledged no slackening of New Deal activities While Mr Roosevelt wao ing his conference with utility word spread chat he had told his liberal confidantes he was standing firm for the powers and utility policies Motor Car Found Farm on Conference SAN j coupe bearing a New York license KANSAS is a poor investment Betsy is a cow The Merchants Bank took her over on a note last fall and put her on a farm Now she milk item on the with blood But administration is a in i same status as the housing tion Crop control bills passed both houses ami now are before a late next week Barkley predicted both the farm and housing measures would be sent to the White House almost a Tatum man had appeared was located by detectives j garage here this morning committee which will mccl i Police here were asked by j 1 view officers to be on the lookout i for the car after a blonde woman j hired Jack Whitaker 21 a County taxi driver to after the regular car to Sail Antonio First re- ports said she intended to visit over the holidays had Roosevelt mit for further study That re- volt led by Southern Democrats with blood Whitaker had said Police here reported the car was Some Dowry DES MOINES brides Mrs Henry H 21 said through an interpreter furnish their husband's homes That she asserted was why a huge 18.000 pound box was rolled up to her new home here It contained worth of household furnishings she had brought to her new husband a Des Moines eye specialist Shipping costs from Germany by boat and rail totaled j They have until Saturday closing day of this court term to do so In the event Judge Boyd over- ruled such motion they will then inform the court whether or not the case will be taken to the pellate court The suit grew out of a collision near Sanger last June The sought damages on the grounds of injuries to both the man liis wife the an unborn child born dead allegedly because of the accident and damages to the ler car remain closed all day Saturday The post office will be closed two days Christmas day and the Sunday following City and rural carriers will not make their rounds either and the windows at the office will be closed Effort will be made however to deliver all Christmas packages Postmaster B W said Offices Following annual custom city and county employes here will be given the day off Christmas Both the court house and cipal building offices will close that day and no public officials will be on Cremen and city and county police officers The fact District Court will be in the closing day of its winter term may make it necessary for Judge Ben W Boyd to enter orders on the dockets that day but indications now are no trial will be in j year it was announced Wednesday ress and the court will be closed j A few reports have not been com- and several additional dollars for memberships are expected Aside from Denton contributions were received from Pilot Point Aubrey Lewisville and vicinity Roanoke and Justin i For the roll call L A McDonald AUSTIN Dec was county Mrs Bess mess was better than that of the McCullar City chairman and Mrs About in Red Cross Drive greatest legislative setback for the I administration since the court was sidetracked last summer The measure has ed the Senate now he will continue to make glad i A fourth segment of the Ihc heart of childhood I 1 slated by Only two more shopping days j iey today for Senate action j and night before Christmas j after debate on tho anti- ton merchants are keeping their lynching which the Senate has i WPA Says Denton Sewer Work Now in a wreck according to the police j pi 1 AT 1 and contained a blanket and other trt i T lyA t Approximately was raised in the annual Red Cross roll call this Texas Business Aver The former secretary of state lomat and world court judge died last night of the eve of his birthday He was en with cerebral thrombosis early last month His physician Dr J L Lepak said bronchial pneumonia which developed last the immediate cause of With him at the end were Kellogg Dr Lepak household vants and relatives Kellogg survivors include and that he contemplated new Burnham Harris and Mrs return for the car but there was no trace of the woman The car appeared to have been in a wreck according to the police articles said stained have been places of business open at nights now for the convenience of those shoppers who find it difficult to shop during the days Stocks of dise are still good as most stores heavily stocked at first for the ex- big volume of business have made reorders of holiday goods You'll find wide ranges of stock of low medium and high priced merchandise in Denton stores Comers and Denton last week saw many of its temporary zens leave their class work and start home for the holidays but Denton is seeing many of its own come back to spend the Christmas days with parents or friends ton families will have many guests during the week other than dren coming home from school work agreed to begin Jan 6 Filibuster Threatens The latter measure a point of controversy between the North and South for years may encounter a j lage of di Romagna col- lapsed early today and tumbled on j The long-sought sewer line j tensions in Denton approved for the city as a WPA project months ago may become a reality next week city officials said today FORLI Italy Dec A I Beginning the first such project Feared is castle atop a in the is now set for Wednesday Dec 29 City Engineer W N Harris was told Tuesday afternoon by En- to homes lying below gineer Nesbit of sibly 20 persons while they slept Laying 5.350 feet of sewer line is Southern filibuster as it did al the start of the special session Regional planning bills also on the administration's special session Five bodies were recoverd by contemplated in the opening project program arc pending before the I men and soldiers Four persons were j on Frame Bernard Myrtle and House and Senate committees j removed alive three of them in- Johnson streets The work probably They would establish agencies simi- jured Eight families were j be begun on Frame Street A clay's salary is not much for a man or woman with full time em- ployment to contribute to the lar to the Tennessee Valley ity with power to undertake dam construction and similar projects Leaders however expect passage of a modified merely setting up research agencies Tax revision will be a paramount issue early in the regular session The widespread clamor for cation or repeal of taxes pressing mast heavily on business went un- in the special session be- cause a House tax subcommittee found the task too intricate to counted for Recent heavy rains were thought to have weakened foundations of the castle Assert Leadership Of World House Says country at large during November statistics of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research re- today although a basic trend downward continued from October Dr F A Buechel assistant j tor of the bureau said the basic j trend indicated a 2 per cent decline but still was distinctly favorable i when compared to November a year ago Commercial failures declined partner secretary Indian To Test Theory of Living On What Woods Afford forts to obtain lation Only Psychological Friends said the chief executive was gathering data to show the business slump was psychological rather than fundamental This view had been expressed by several of the Senators with whom he conferred This theme also was partially expounded in the Presidents press conference yesterday He ed the subject by telling of his conference earlier in the day with Frank R Phillips president of the DuQuesne Light Company of burgh and William H Taylor ident of the Philadelphia Electric Company agreed Federal government had not inter- with their industry in adelphia or Pittsburgh but that fear was making it difficult for them to get money for needed expansions This fear the President added had been caused by a small mi- of industry which sought to give the impression the ment was attacking all utilities He made a distinction here between holding companies which have been the subject of legislative restrictions and operating companies The attitude of hesitancy the President commented was fostered by a large percentage of the papers Asked what the newspapers had to gain by creation of fear the President replied he had been wondering about that and so had most of the country Clark nieces both of St Paul a sister Mrs Jean K and her daughter Mrs Seabury ton both of New Bedford Mass and another niece Mrs John of Madison N J Mr and Mrs Kellogg had no During his long career in public life Kellogg served as United States Senator from Minnesota dor to the Court of St James secy of state and judge World Court He named latter two posts by former dent It was while he was secretary of state that he joined Aristide Briand of France in authorship of the peace which he from tne World Court in 1935 after five years of service and returned to his private law practice Kellogg announced funeral services would Thursday in the Church of St John the list Tne body will then be sent to Washington for burial in the tional cathedral Heavy Loss in Blaze at Frisco CANTON N Y Dec the interests of science Alton from the preceding month j per a Seneca Indian will test his but were substantially above those of a corresponding month last year Sales measured in dollars in de- and specialty stores ing November were well above those of the same month in 1936 but food or blankets theory that man can live for an extended period without implements or food He will spend a month in the heart of the Adirondacks only a hunting knife and no resented a decline from October BY GOVERNMENT cd Charities and that is I ish in a hurry all that the association has asked that each employed person give Send or take your pledge to the Association office in the Municipal Building or phone M D Penry or O L Fowler legislation GREENWICH Conn Dec of American leadership in world affairs without any ling advanced today by Colonel Edward M House a-s a major TIC of international peace The world looks to the United ris said Labor rolls will be made up from a crew of WPA workmen who have previously been on projects at Teachers College and who arc to complete that by next week Harris was told by Nesbit Scarcity of men eligible for WPA pay has been given by the government officials this summer and fall as the bar to issuance of work orders on the city projects J Santa Claus Must er administration objective still is j States wrote the confidante and i being studied by the Justice advisor to President i Visit Group Of Travelers Twice ment Mr and Mrs Jack Bishop of Llano are guests of her parents Mr and Mrs E C for the holidays Bishop is Court Reporter Report Attempt to Pad Voting Rolls 1 son in Greenwich Time a j j paper 1 If we fail or even dawdle MANILA P L Dec to get tne HENDAYE Franco-Spanish der diers have captured Teruel In- surgent officers said they were ad- vised today by Generalissimo co's headquarters Official government following an earlier premature an- that the strategic provincial capital had been part of the old After a four-day test stay he said today he was confident he can keep from freezing indefinitely but still was uncertain whether he can find food enough to sustain him during a period in ter I've long wondered whether a fellow could exist without food or other comforts except such as what the woods he said FIVE BURN TO DEATH IN HOME Autopsy Ordered After Healy's Death i IOS ANGELES Dec autopsy was ordered today on the body of Ted Healy screen comedian who died yesterday under circumstances that ated a police investigation Although Healy's death was an- by his studio as due to a heart attack in his wood home police said they learned later he was engaged in a fist fight Sunday night outside a gay wood night club the Trocadero with an unknown adversary Coroner Frank Nance claimed Healy's body from an undertaking establishment late yesterday after Dr Wyantt La Mont who attended the screen stooge master refused to sign a certificate certifying to death from natural causes FRISCO Dec feed milling plant grain elevator and about bushels of wheat were destroyed by fire here last night The loss was estimated at Cause of the blaze was not known The mill arid elevator were erties of Fount Shrader and the Sherman Milling Company owned the grain Jasper Barber Dies Of Bullet Wounds CONNELLSVILLE Pa Dec 22 ter known as the city of rock j persons perished today remained in insurgent hands j in names which destroyed Only isolated bands of the farm home near here while gent garrison still were resisting i Francos officers acknowledged They William Yothers 71 said Salamanca headquarters con- j his Annie Yothers 69 the city which had been j mcr D Crow Jean Crow and JASPEE Dec Dickerson 27 a barber of bullet wounds he received a home yesterday Sheriff A G Maxwell said arrests had been made but a was being held Survivors in- cluded his widow and three children spearhead of Franco's lower Aragon line as lost Official insurgent spokesmen re- fused to confirm or deny ment capture of the city Insurgent Crow all under 16 years KANSAS CITY Dec for seven counties of the Judicial parent attempts to pad Kansas District and the first person he j city's vote registration wanted to call on was Emory covered the midst of a new ton Court Reporter of this district J designed to end such frauds the prospect of a grand will not I sert itself because it must In that thembling in the balance will be The double Christmas will be line R E Cobb sustained painful though not serious burns Tuesday afternoon He was mixing to repair a roof one of his store ings when his trousers leg became ignited In putting out the blaze his right hand was burned Dr Finer does not claim to be a excepting the time for cleanups but he's a better prophet than Paul Dunkle at that Tuesday the Doctor and Paul were talking about the expected er the Doctor said it was going to rain Paul said not Paul will buy the drinks jury investigation today Finding 20 persons in one ward giving identical elates and places of birth and the period of dence in Kansas City Prosecutor W W Graves said it could mean nothing but padding Winter in Debut by seven passengers and seven members of the crew of the Transpacific China Clipper which will take at dawn tomorrow on its way to the United States They will spend two distinct Christmas Eves on Pacific islands and two Christmas Days in the air from Albarracin across the highway about six miles north of HERE'S WHAT CONGRESS DID CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS STORK DERBY WILL IS UPHELD HAMBURG REPORTED BACK AT HAMBURG BALTIMORE Dec Baltimore Mail Line announced day word had been received from Hamburg Germany of the return j there of the liner City of Hamburg j damaged in a collision in the North j Sea yesterday NEW YORK Dec The sun entered the sign of Capricorn and began the od of its most Southern ation today That's another way of saying winter is here The official debut was timed a m CST and the exit will be a m March 21 As another bit of distinction today is the shortest of the year with a few minutes more than nine hours of daylight i if everything goes according to the schedule reach Wake Island on j Christmas Eve On Christmas Day j the flying boat will fly over the in- dateline and back into the day before Christmas landing at Midway for a second Christmas Eve Captain J H Tilton assigned to play the role of Santa was puzzled over whether he should distribute gifts at the first or second mas Eve or on Christmas Day in the air between Wake and Midway or between Midway and Honolulu Wholesale Butter Prices Take Flop CHICAGO Dec sale butter prices dropped more than three cents a pound today ing decreased consumption and in- creased production reports Extras were quoted at 34 cents a pound compared with 3714 and two weeks ago a seven year high Traders said evidences of lessened consumer demand were visible in the weekly storage figure which showed the movement of stocks out of storage in the 35 principal cities last week was more than pounds less than in the ing week of 1936 WASHINGTON Dec enacted five pieces of legislation during the special for each week The measures all minor in character 1 Payment of about for transportation of Senators and Representatives to and from the capital 2 Exemption of Federal Credit Unions from all but property taxes 3 Payment of salaries of ate and House page boys for the session 4 The Secretary of ture to furnish information an an elixir of sulfanilamide caused a number of deaths in the South and Middle West 5 Loan of paintings of George Washington and other historic figures for an art ex- OTTAWA Ont Dec dian Supreme Canada today upheld the eccentric will of Charles Vance Millar gator of Toronto's Unique stork derby Millar's will provided that his tate estimated in excess of should go to the mother or mothers giving birth to the most children in Toronto between Oct 31 1926 and Oct 31 1936 The Supreme Court left to rio courts the task of the mother or mothers entitled to the money for which a dozen or more women have filed claims Validity of the will was by two relatives of the wealthy Toronto lawyer Arabella West and Alexander Butcher the relatives claimed the will vas con- trary to public policy On Christmas Eve in parts of Bavaria and Switzerland girls seek to leam of their future husbands by drawing sticks A long stick meant he would be tall a short one stout and a crooked one deformed 2 East Partly and with occasional rite in east portion this early tonight colder in cart aid south portions except hi the Rio Grande west and raDey southeast to smith Mi coast late tMt afternoon and West Partly and Thursday not in MT and to and
