Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - December 29, 1937, Denton, Texas I I n ROUND ABOUT TOWN Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed way behold all things are become Cor- That best portion of a good man's little nameless bered acts of kindness and of love Wordsworth Automobile accessory dealers were busy Tuesday morning and Monday night with orders to get antifreeze of various kinds in radiators Some few owners had already taken this precaution but many won't even think about keeping a freeze from the radiators until a cold spell ar- rives Automobile supply men have warned owners that it is better to be safe than sorry as a frozen and bursted radiator costs real money to And State Press of the Dallas News of us think about putting in the but are not ready to for same The question of cost enters into this matter and sometimes that means a decision between ten gallons of gasoline or two gallons of antifreeze We decide that we can risk the weather a few days longer backed by the opinion of Dr Cline We can do without antifreeze but can't do without gasoline Gasoline is ed for mobility while antifreeze is required only for safety against a crack in the cylinder These tions come from one who ed to the weather once upon a time and got a cylinder crack No ness is involved in this reminiscence The ignorant sooner or later must pay for their ignorance Once paid twice wise It costs money cash money not metaphorical money to own an automobile and pay its board Mr Roosevelt is earnestly endeavoring to start a ing boom It is a righteous effort even if it may not come to much It must be considered that lions of Americans prefer car to home ownership The ily that owns its own car and its own home both clear is regarded as quite well-to-do There are different standards of wealth today as contrasted with yesterday And the new standard of wealth means a new standard of comfort Many families are comfortable in rented houses but relatively few are com- without automobiles No doubt Mr Roosevelt and his advisers are aware of this DENTON VOL XXXVII NO 117 DENTON TEXAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER Associated Press Leased Wire Chinese Blowing Up SIX PAGES Abandoning Tsingtao Jap Military Law Extended Into Settlement SHANTUNG Dec apparently preparing to abandon the threatened port of Tsingtao tonight began a campaign of destruction ing up all telegraph cable and Miss Margaret Marable of T S C W and former member of the staff of the Chronicle who has been in the sales promotion work with the Star Gas Co of Dallas for several years has received a promotion in her work and will leave Sunday for New York to do work using a picture of Miss Marable ried the This is a grand Miss Margaret Marable above said Tuesday as she received a of life membership in the Dallas Advertising League of which she is a director Miss Marable a former president of the old Dallas Women's Ad- Club plans to leave day for New York to do sales motion work there She was the first woman to be enrolled in the Dallas Advertising League when the organization was merged with it Sig Badt president announced the life membership was being given in recognition of outstanding ice by Miss Marable to her cisty and to the league radio terminals This is the policy the Chinese FOREIGNERS FEAR JAPANESE COMPETITION AT SHANGHAI CHINA MAY NOT PAY DEBTS Indications Point to Roosevelt Striking Back By Associated Press Japanese moves to cash in on their Chinese conquest intensified the apprehension of foreigners day over their economic future in the Orient While Japanese armed forces were penetrating deeper and deeper into Chinese territory Nipponese chants were landing cargoes at Shanghai duty free and without customs examination at controlled docks Foreigners also feared China would be unable to pay her debts to the United States and other countries since her internal and external indebtedness estimated at is guaranteed by toms revenues Another cause for concern was the attempt of the Japanese army to extend provisions of its military law into Shanghai's International Settlement and French concession where thousands of Americans and other foreigners live A Japanese army spokesman contended troops could enter foreign areas and ar- Roosevelt May Shanghai Has Ask Additional Naval Armament The City political pot boiled over Wednesday morning with the first announcement for political of- fice when Judge Ed I Key present City Attorney announced for re- election to that office City Authorities call upon people putting out trash for the December cleanup to put the rubbish in such containers as will stand the rain If paper containers are used the rain melts them and thus scatters trash in such a way as to be impossible to gather said John Thomas who has the contract for hauling the trash If the man who took 21 cents from my milk bottle will return Thursday morning or tonight to get the 42 cents which will be left in the bottle I'll give him 52 in addition and ask no said Jot Akins the Tuesday night or Wednesday morning some one purloined the at his house Duck hunters are bemoaning the fact that the open season for ing them is over having expired December 26 The be- moan the present brand of er as it has stopped many a er on his last trek to the deer country and quail hunters fear to get out here as they say they might bog down The quail season ever will continue through January while the deer and turkey season closes this week Mrs R W Bass and two dren Bob and are in Atlanta where they are the guests of her parents Dr and Mrs J F King They left Sr at home and seen Wednesday morning at the bank he seemed to be the ordeal of being sole housekeeper Dr P E Finer City Health cer who has selected the days for cleanups in Denton over a long riod of years is all with the weather This is the first in- stance during his reign that he has been let down by weather as each time heretofore the weather has been ideal The other prophets miss ing often feel somewhat better since Dr Piner has been proved fallible n military has followed in other cities when Japanese occupation seemed imminent The explosions which shook the entire city cut off all tions and resulted in the greatest tension among the populace ing 159 Americans who had not yet evacuated Meanwhile Japan's conquering army claimed in principle today the right to extend provisions of its military law in Shanghai's In- Settlement and French Concession where thousands of Americans and other foreigners make their homes The Japanese army spokesman announced the claim under which troops could enter foreign areas still outside Japanese control and arrest and try all persons ed of crimes against Nippon's ed forces Japanese forces would proceed cautiously in any cases where and other foreigners holding treaty rights to be tried by courts of their nations were suspected the spokesman He stated that the of the Japanese claim was de facto military occupation and specified it would be enforced in occupied territory When asked whether anese claimed occupation of the in- areas he refrained from answering Extra Rights Question The new claim brought into inence again the question of extra- territorial under rent treaty stipulations make all foreigners except Russians and Germans subject only to laws of their own countries It came two days after the anese put Americans and other foreigners in China's ed areas under military law which among other things provided death for acts against Japan's armed forces It was announced as Chinese troops bitterly contested Japanese invasion into two of the nation's richest provinces Shantung and Chekiang The invaders already have raised the Rising Sun flag over most of Northern China the rich Lower Yangtze Valley and a handful of China's wealthiest cities Tsingtao Shantung's main port virtually was cut off by anese troops closing in on the city where destruction of some 000 of Japanese property brought a Japanese threat of drastic punitive action Latest advices received by the American were that 159 Americans remained in Tsingtao and 13 were in the city's environs The cruiser Marblehead and the de- JERSEY CITY N J Dec 29 stroyer Pope stood by to aid them persons suffocated today Forty-five were en route to in a spectacular fire nai on the wnich endangered the lives of scores of others and damaged the city's largest hotel Mrs Ida Thomas 50 negro maid and William Marx 24 a house boy were overcome by the dense smoke which coursed through the story Plaza and failed to respond to respiratory efforts They were dead three hours after the fire was brought under control Marx witnesses said died a hero Arousing guests in their rooms he pounded on door after door before falling in a hallway Corporation License Reported Endorsed May Be Chief Vehicle In War Against Monopoly WASHINGTON Dec developments gave fresh support today to the belief expressed by many Service With Capital S By Associated Press rest and try all persons suspected of crimes against Japanese armed forces Bitter Fighting Japanese and Chinese troops fighting bitterly in two richest and Chekiang vith Tsingtao that the Roosevelt Shantung's main seaport in im- administration would make an minent danger of capture Two active iu United States wai craft stood by to I A llb evacuate Americans j collies Heavy fighting was still going on Reports reached Congressmen in Spain for possession of the from high administration sources Aragon City where tnat the President at a recent several thousand insurgent soldiers and civilians were and cut off from insurgent troops around the city The government reports its troops occupied two of the three ings which the besieged insurgents had been defending They were driven back into other buildings the report said Outside the city reinforced gent troops were trying to break through government lines and re- lieve their trapped comrades 1 to 5 a m on the first day of 1938 Fred A Nolan said there will be- a lot of people who will not feel like walking any father than necessary And there'll be motorists who won't want to drive home from a party So Nolan general manager of Detroit's street railway and torbus system announced that between the hours mentioned all our buses will go right to the door of any passenger who lives on a paved street not more than two blocks off the regular route The service will not include ringing doorbells No Game Today ABERDEEN game between the Posey Co and Grays Harbor independent teams was lie Posey outfit sent word a at their plant had put the team on a picket line HEAVY LOSS IN DOWNTOWN BUILDING BLAZE DURING NIGHT MAY EXCEEDS Origin of Fire Damaging Concerns in McCrary Building Not Determined Many Estimates Not Yet Available Heavy loss suffered by a group of business firms men quartered in the McCrary Building southwest court square from a fire that about Wednesday probably will run above best estimates available indicated today WASHINGTON Dec President Roosevelt announcing the projected construction of two new battleships and 16 lesser craft left a- distinct impression today his growing concern over international conditions might prompt him to for even more naval armament Facts are Tacts and the United States must recognize he said in a letter yesterday to man Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee Citing the failure of his own forts to arrest the world armament race the President The fact is that in the world as a whole many nations are not only but are enlarging their armament programs Mr Roosevelt emphasized at a press conference however that the prospective increase in UHS fleet was not a part of a preparedness program Some ob- servers interpreted his action as reflecting a desire to hasten the achievement of maximum naval strength which under present icy would not be attained until 1942 The number and types of now sels which may be recommended the chief executive said still are subjects of study Naval officers said the fleet now is most efficient in auxiliary vessels and destroyers They also said ships soon to reach status should be replaced The President's letter said cally he was not referring to any one nation as threatening the peace of the United States Two Killed in Jersey Fire hai on the gunboat Sacramento and 26 others had evacuated on wise vessels Plane Strikes Lake Three Die TOLEDO O Dec persons drowned today when a plane plunged into Lake Erie near The pilot was saved A Nancy Howard 42 Delbert kins 30 and Albert Anderson 45 all of North Bass Island William Somogy 30 pilot The plane fell into open water as the pilot blinded by a fog tried to land on the ice Kiwanis Club Installs Officers Officers for 1938 were installed at the meeting of the Kiwanis Club Tuesday Fied H Minor paid tribute to Judge Gambill retiring president and presented him a past dent's pin Gambill gave a review of the work of the club in 1937 and presented the new president Champ who asked co-operation of members of the club in out a worth-while program during 1938 Geo P Elbert was program man and Introduced the other in- coming and retiring officers and di- rectors Blaze on Farm Claims Five Lives BELMONT N Y Dec A farm house fire claimed of four children ana their heroic father who tried to save them early today The father Theodore 43 died a few hours after his son Theodore Jr 10 succumbed to burns The bodies of the other three children Lucille 6 Jack 3 and Ruth Eva 2 were recovered from the ruins of their home two miles east of here FORMER SENATOR HEFLIN UN- DER OXYGEN LA FAYETTE Ala Dec Thomas former senator was placed under an oxygen tent today at Wheeler Hospital where he is ill of lobar pneumonia Worries Over Dec There was growing apprehension in Shanghai today over the future of the American and other foreign firms in China and the nation's ability to pay her debt to the ed States and other powers Increased daily landing of cantile cargoes from Japanese sels without customs examinations or duty payments caused the con- cern China's internal and external in- guaranteed by customs revenues has been estimated at Of this amount for- eign loans total and Boxer indemnity payments Major loan and indemnity United States land France and far have received full payments but payment of the next installment due February 1 was considered American and other foreign firms pointed out that Japanese cargoes were being landed without duty at Japanese controlled and docks while own consignments were sub- ject to customs payments This in- equitable they said might soon make profitable ness impossible American firms understood the position of the United States to be insistence on customs which would accord uni- form and equal treatment of all nations in accordance with the open door policy Britain Won't Accept Japan's Story of Attacks TOKYO Dec 29 The British embassy today informed the Japanese foreign office that it could not accept the Japanese military version of attacks on the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee The military section of Imperial headquarters yesterday issued a statement explaining that the at- tacks were a mistake and sing regrets One British sailor was killed in the incident which occurred on the Yangtze River on the same day United States Panay breakdown of the unexpended sums j to the states Predict Traffic Deaths New All Time High for This Year net meeting endorsed the principle of the to cense interstate corporations 2 Senator Norris a Roosevelt backer suggested the Senate renew its investigation of lobbying in an effort to offset what he termed organized propaganda against the President's legislative proposals 3 Secretary Ickes announced he would deliver a radio speech row night on It is happening here Associates predicted ha would dis- cuss relations between government and business The reports concerning Mr Roosevelt's views on the tion licensing bHl encouraged its friends to believe It might become the chief vehicle for the proposed attack on the monopoly problem Antitrust Views In hife last Fireside Chat Mr Roosevelt declared there need for tightening the laws but he has not outlined publicly any proposed legislation He was reported by usually well informed persons to have said the did not go provides that an enlarged Federal sion would charter corporations en- gaged in interstate or foreign com- merce licenses be denied to firms violating the laws Cabinet opinion on the was said to have been divided one or two members expressing strong op- position Denunciation of monopolies day by Assistant Attorney General Robert H Jackson has led to that the President would touch on the subject in his message to Congress next Monday Mr Roosevelt said he probably would deliver the message in person Observers took particular note of Secretary Ickes forthcoming speech over an NBC network Thursday at 8 p m Central Standard Time because it follows Jackson's address so closely Several administration supporters like Jackson have been blaming monopolies for the business recession Senator Norris in his demand for a lobbying inquiry said that if body is going to do anything about the business recession it have to be the President because ness won't Utility and other large tions he declared are in league with most newspapers to fight everything the President wants May Cut Budget Senator Adams an economy advocate said he might try to cut budget recommendations by a fiat 10 Such a re- duction he declared could not be applied to national defense relief funds or interest on the public debt A compromise with President Roosevelt on his demand for highway aid was being con- by legislators favoring con- road expenditures They gested cancelling some funds ready appropriated but not yet spent by the states Mr Roosevelt on the other hand had suggested cancelling a 000.000 apportionment authorized for 1939 and limiting future Senator Hayden pre- paring to submit the proposed com- promise to a Senate committee has asked the Bureau of Roads for a Reverse English Mo Mrs Fern teacher at Lone Star rural school let her pupils decide how long their mas vacation should be Instead of two decided on only one day It was the most disastrous fire to strike Demon in over half a year since the Evers Building blaze For a it threatened to spread to adjoining buildings but was brought under control by firemen after two hours and a half ing iii they were aided by slow ruin and the face a big central skylight allowed much of the smothering smoke to escape overhead 1938 Resolution OMAHA persons arrested here for drunkenness stood before Municipal Judge Lester Palmer Todas and made this I hereby promise not to lake a drink in 1938 If I fail to keep my word I will serve a year in jail Judge Palmer released them all Building activities in Denton swept on through 1937 permit ords at the municipal building show climbing far past last year's total with a figure of During the 12 months of 1936 permits totalling were reflection of a boom time of activities as compared with the previous several years This years construction was again paced by the building of private residences which constituted an Item of in the total It was ly above the 1936 total for homes which was Building of business houses ed chiefly by the erection of the Coca Cola Bottling Co plant climbed to above the total fcr 1936 Repair of residences during the year fell off slightly under the previous 12 months against in 1936 And the repair of structures slumped edly against the pre- vious year In Denton 1937 was a year of new building rather than renovation and repair Ruin Hampers Clean-up But Not to Holt It in Stockroom The fire evidently began in a storeroom at the rear of the P M Brickey store store in which shoes and other merchandise stock was kept Here the fixtures and goods were burned to charred fragments though Fire Marshal W E Smoot who Wednesday was making an investigation could not determine a cause for the blaze Smoke smell ed by persons in a cafe adjoining the McCrary ing led to detection of the fire and from the cafe fire department men were notified When firemen arrived the ing was so filled with smoke they had great in locating the site of the actual blaze until opening the overhead skylight ed the interior of the store what Shoe Store Heaviest Lostr store was by far the heaviest loser He estimated a loss of roughly in fire water and smoke damage to his stock and Next heaviest damage was to the building itself though J E McCrary owner declined to make an estimate until a more complete check of the place was completed Nor would he make any ate estimate on water loss ed in the offices occupied by him and T E HIett in the rear of the building's first floor Scott Tailoring Co with water damage to clothing suffered an approximately loss John Scott owner believed Wednesday ing Some Smoke Damage The Grant Vogue Shop stairs adjoining the Brickey Shoe Store and the offices of Dr T C Dobbins and Rural Electrification Administration upstairs had only slight smoke damage those pants said Wednesday The fire marshal pending com- of his Investigations did not make any estimate of the loss total Insurance was carried on die building and by all the firms by the blaze they said Commissioners Reach Agreement On Agent's Pay The Denton County ers in a lengthy session behind ed doors with representatives of A M College's extension service reached an agreement Wednesday morning on their controversy over the county's participation in ing a county home demonstration agent What the agreement was could not be learned Wednesday after- noon because County Judge George P Elbert was out of the city and none of the four commissioners It was understood however the commission agreed that an order will be passed by the court next January and presumably therefore the agreement was that all or part of the county fund ly allotted will be restored Had the commission stood unmoved from their stand when they eliminated the Monday no further order would be necessary Accuses Big Business Of Going on Stf ike Strikers Evicted From Plant By French Police Although hauling of trash in the city's clean-up campaign will not start until the weather is better Denton residents were urged by Dr F E Finer city health cer to place all trash in sacks or wood boxes and not to put trash out for the trucks in paper tons Householders should place their trash out as soon as possible he said as haulers will be on the streets just as soon as the weather permits The will be com- this week however Dr Finer indicated The rain will play havoc with the paper cartons and if you have your trash out in these cartons please change to sacks or wood boxes im- he said He expressed satisfaction over the manner in which residents are in this respect stating that most people have placed their trash in sacks PARIS Dec evicted striking workers from six electric plants and two gas works in Paris today in conformity with Premier Camille Chautemps tion that the government would combat the dangerous French strike situation with the greatest or Mobile guards were sent into the electric plants In the industrial suburb of Puteaux to assure their continued operation Assistant General ert H Jackson accused big ness today of going on a strike against government in an fort to liquidate the New Deal The administration's oly crusader in an address ed for delivery before the American Political Science Association said big business had seized upon the recession as a cudgel to concessions out of They wish he added liquidate the New Deal and to throw off all governmental interference with their aristocratic anarchy Jackson said government the only agency with the power to condition capitalism and ism to survive and suggested ness was blind to the advantages it derives from the process i The unvarnished he said Is that the government's recovery program has succeeded nowhere else so effectively as in restoring the profits of business Labor has had no such advantage The small chant has had no such prosperity The small manufacturer has had no such advantage The just criticism that can be made of the economic operations of the New Deal is that it set out a breakfast for the canary and let the cat steal it it did not guard recovery from the raids of the monopolist One grotto in the United States that has no cause for complaint Is the big ness group Allred Lunches With WASHINGTON Dec A strike of public service Governor James V Allred of Texas lunched with President Roosevelt CHICAGO Dec 29 The National Safety Council predicted today traffic deaths in the nation during 1937 would approximate 000 an all-time high Ever mounting the traffic toll was in 1936 and in 1935 the council said During the first 11 months of 1937 traffic deaths numbered a six per cent increase over the toll in the corresponding period of 1936 On a mileage basis the council reported there has been no tual increase in the traffic death rate Gasoline consumption the means of estimating mileage in- creased six per cent ly the same as traffic deaths for the period There were 4.290 persons killed in December 1936 Traffic deaths ing the current month would have to show a 50 per cent reduction to keep the year's total as low as that in 1936 The council said statistics showed such a decrease was out of the question Everett Wash with a population of was the largest city in the nation having no traffic deaths for the first 11 months of 1937 i Music Teachers I In Forum Sessions SAN ANTONIO Dec 29 1 Forum sessions occupied the tion this morning of delegates here for the annual convention of the Texas Music Teachers Association Miss Mary Morgan El Paso pre- sided over the piano forum Philip A Williams Southern Methodist University Dallas violin Miss la Owsley Texas State College for Women Denton voice and E B Gammons Houston organ forum Horace Clark piano music er and charter member of the sociation from Houston declared that swing music is written to ca ter to employes began in the French cap- ital early today forcing upon the People's Front government of Pre- mier Chautemps a vital test of strength Chautemps inferred that hidden reasons lay behind the significant in the light of recent rightist allegations that com- plotted to overthrow the government during mid- November The walkout with the ment of the French communist ty halted bus and subway service for the city's workers The street cleaners workers gas water and electric employes and garbage collectors walked out All struck in protest against a wage economy section of the French budget It would curtail automatic wage increases promised public employes to cope with the increasing cost of living FORMER RESIDENT OF DENTON DIES IN PADUCAH W A Bobett about 68 a er resident of Denton died in ducah Sunday and funeral ices and burial were held there Monday He was a nephew of the late W S Fry and has a number of cousins living here He had lived in West Texas about 40 years He is survived by his wife Mrs W S Fry visited him the latter part of November He had been ill for some time today and said later they discussed tilings except their third term Smiling as he left the White House the governor told he and the President about a lot of things in general Allred who is here conferring with the Board about a jobless insurance plan which goes into effect in Texas January re- cently endorsed Mr Roosevelt for a third term Allred himself may be a third term candidate for governor next year The governor said be would see Secretary Wallace later in the day bul did not disclose what they would talk about EAST with mild temperature tonight Thursday Light to moderate winds on the coast mostly easterly WEST to cloudy and Thursday aMy some light rain or mist in ex- treme southeast portion mild and Thursday rain or mist in
