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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun declares second class mail status for Whitewright Texas. Notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect will also be charged. J. H. Waggoner Glenn Doss publishers.
Subscription price listed at $1.50 per year payable in advance. The publisher will gladly and fully correct any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person firm or corporation that appears in the columns upon notification.
Whitewright residents praised the Navy Mothers and high school students for successful community efforts. A pure food show last week drew wide attendance and a Navy Day observance filled the Palace theatre. The window display at the Community Public Service Company captivated visitors over the weekend.
The Gallup results claim Roosevelt leads Willkie narrowly with 53 percent to 47 percent in the popular vote, suggesting a close contest due to Southern support for Roosevelt. The piece notes past predictions and urges voters to participate Tuesday, highlighting local political shifts and endorsements.
Secretary Hull warns at the National Press Club that victory by dictators risks a postwar pattern of economic aggression. He argues oceans are barriers and highways, urging vigilance against any threat to the hemisphere and stressing trade treaties as a pillar of world order.
El Paso Times notes that by 1938 the Securities and Exchange Commission protected the public, prosecutions of bucketshops rose, and stock values surged from 18.7 to 46 billion as fraud waned. It argues the New Deal ended old corrupt practices and killed the goose that laid the golden bricks.
A readers section argues against isolation and supports staying out of a European war while urging home defense and civil liberties. It cites Roosevelt and Wilson, warns against profiteering from war, and stresses aligning policy with broad public sentiment.
Berlin report: a clever German man devised a way to make a girl’s bare legs resemble silk stockings. He was sentenced to four years in prison. Stockings are rationed in Germany and demand exceeds supply. The businessman’s unrationed substitute toyed with this shortage and drew many inquiries.
A dealer demanded cash in advance and shipped a pencil like device in brown and gray hues. Instructions urged drawing lines from heels up the legs to simulate sheer stockings with crooked strokes for a hurried appearance, targeting girls seeking a realistic look.
Durant Oklahoma three federal judges sitting en banc refused to sustain the government demurrer in Gov Leon C Phillips suit to halt Denison Dam construction valued at 54 million dollars. The court will consider the constitutionality of the 1938 flood control act authorizing the dam and ordered briefs from both sides after hearing four hours of argument.
Federal attorneys pressed that the dam serves flood control and national defense, while state lawyers argued it is mainly a hydroelectric project and a matter of states rights. Charles O. Butler said the questions are whether flood control is within Congress powers and if the dam is part of a national flood control program.
A large revolt grows in East Texas as 20 schools from 15 counties withdraw from the Texas interscholastic league over the 20 game limit. The new Lone Star high school basketball league, directed by Kara L Cooper, invites all schools to join while allowing participation in other league activities. Final playoff to crown the champion will be at Stephen F. Austin College.
Grayson County gin shipped 40 501 bales of 1940 cotton before Oct 18 versus 37 385 bales a year earlier. Government statistician G O Peterson said this season’s gins ahead of last year’s total 39 611 bales, the first periodical report showing 1940 surpassing 1939 on the same date.
The 1940-41 world cotton crop is tentatively set at 30,500,000 bales, up from 28,900,000 last season. U S production climbs to 12,741,000 bales. Russia yields 4,300,000. British India 4,200,000. China over 2,200,000. Latin America 3,240,000 with Brazil at about 2,200,000. Planting continues in several Latin American regions.
A National Safety Council bulletin details freak accidents across 1939. A Cincinnati dancer fell through a theatre floor and weighs 5,500 pounds. In Long Beach a dead man saved John Perrillo from an elevator shaft fall, landing on Charles Altman. A Jersey City man’s toothbrush reappeared in his stomach. An embrrassed Temple Texas pedestrian had his pants ripped off by a passing car. Salt Lake City bicyclist crashes into a parked car then rides atop it. Waterloo New York sight-restoration via car crash and ignition of sight. A Fourth of July accident ends with unknown outcome.
Whitey Long of Elk Okla. forgot the fuse and got burned when a firecracker exploded in his mouth. He destroyed a tooth in the blast. A cow belonging to H. R. Morris of Kings Tree South Carolina died after becoming tethered to a tree by a swishing tail and starving.
Purdue University engineer Thuman E Hienton cautioned farmers against DIY electric fence devices noting they cost about 50 cents per rod and can cause serious injury. A Indiana survey of 72 installations found 47 commercial and 25 homemade units with eight homemade incidents causing livestock fatalities and one young boy's death.
A Victorian style exchange has a maid respond that her references are like her photographs none do her justice. The housekeeper questions why she did not bring them, highlighting humor in social hiring banter.
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