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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
3
A 1939 piece argues war ruins virtue and asks why societies fight. It condemns conscription and profiteering, notes postwar economic and moral decay, and urges peaceful principles rooted in Christian ethics and natural rights. It advocates understanding just causes and choosing peace over bloodshed.
Berlin reports a new German rationing law that permits little clothing for women. A woman may own only two dresses, three underwear sets, two nightgowns, two petticoats, six stockings, and six handkerchiefs, with shaving soap limited to one stick for five months. Men face fewer limits, with two suits, three shirts, two pairs of shoes, and two winter gloves allowed.
Baylor University summer students ranked their top four books for five years solitary confinement. The Bible led the list, followed by the dictionary, Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind, and the complete works of William Shakespeare.
State game warden L C Cole and Earl Watley watched a tree limb as they killed what seemed to be two snakes but proved to be a two headed reptile with one head at the normal end and another at the tail root. The three foot creature moved after being shot and its smaller head had a tiny mouth and single eye while the larger head sported a two pronged tongue. Nearby, an Opelousas catfish nest yielded several big fish, with one sixty-one pounder taken by a seine. Texas Game Commissioner Will J. Tucker shared that his seven months pay amounted to 2100 dollars, far short of the 3600 monthly or 36000 annual figure due by a stenographer error. The heaviest canvasback duck concentration is reported on Surprise Lake in Chambers County with more than half of the migratory birds of that species visiting there, during the open season a daily limit of three applies along with redheads buffleheads and ruddy ducks.
Bob Burns, in Fort Worth, recounts how the bazooka originated with a gas pipe instrument made during a Van Buren Silver Cornet Band practice in Hayman s plumbing shop. He jests about two gas pipes and a whisky funnel creating music and links the name to a punchy coil of phrases, later turning to show business where a minstrel act folded after a few weeks.
An Arkansawyer plans a visit to the Cobb household saying his wife has a morbid desire to meet them. The piece notes Burns’s 1909 travels building railroads into Menard and his friendship with Irvin S. Cobb. Cobb later praised Burns’s stories and credited him carefully, though softly, in his writings.
Marcel Lenz, 18, had just completed a Red Cross life saving course when a friend's dog was trapped under a bridge by flood waters from a cloudburst. He revived the dog with artificial respiration after pulling it free, and the animal later regained consciousness though it died days later from poisoning.
An advertisement touts Black-Draught as a spicy all vegetable tonic laxative that clears lazy bowels and relieves symptoms like headaches biliousness sour stomach belching and loss of appetite promising improved well being the next day.
Texas Attorney General Gerald Mann issued two major rulings this week. He ruled that Gov. O D Daniel's veto of Life Insurance Commission examiner funding does not bar the commission from appealing for power to re employ inspectors. He also held that part time student jobs in state departments are not authorized, ending a common practice of splitting single jobs among several UT students. Senate killed the driver license bill. Highway deaths in first half of 1939 reached 394 with 25 percent involving drunk drivers. Calls for special sessions to fund pensions and aid the blind were echoed by lawmakers and lobbyists amid possible later changes as pension payments face reductions.
Gov. O'Daniel fills posts with F. C. Branson to head the Banking Commission at 5000 dollars a year and a Galveston loan society role, while Ella Mae Murphy of Corpus Christi joins the Board of Cosmetology succeeding P. A. Houston. Leon adds new duties as disbursement officer at Camp Mabry, supporting his radio program.
A discussion in the regular session focused on pressuring the Senate to end filibuster tactics and advance a strong driver’s license bill. Advocates argued timing and enforcement were key while lawmakers weighed the political risks and potential public safety benefits.
Joseph Eisenstein avoided carrying receipts after a dream warned of a robbery. Friday night he dreamed of being robbed and stayed home from his market trip. Two armed men later held him up, taking 311c.
Nashville gas station owner B H Ladd served a customer, gave $7.40 change on a $10 bill later found to be stolen from his desk. The remark about the Amazon river being the longest at 4,000 miles appears as an outlier note.
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