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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
1
By Wednesday night 1,676 bales had been ginned, about half of last year’s level. The season runs about 30 days later than 1939 and 1938, with opening picking rapid and plentiful labor. Prices stood at 9.25 for lint and 23 a ton for seed, similar to the prior year.
Next Monday is trades day in Whitewright with a regular afternoon rodeo drawing large crowds. People are urged to bring items to trade or sell despite the busy cotton picking season.
Leonard residents tour Whitewright to publicize the 22nd annual fair set for Sept 24 to 28. Opening day parade at 4 30 p m followed by the fair opening. Highlights include a public wedding on day two and the Goodland Indian Presbyterian Orphanage Band from Hugo Okla on day three. Friday offers free admission for those over 70 and pioneers day with school children free until 6 p m. An old fiddlers contest at 7 30 p m. Saturday features Leonard versus Commerce High football.
Old age assistance recipients or information seekers may obtain interviews at the Texas Department of Public Welfare office in the 200 block East Houston Sherman from 8 am to noon on weekdays. Mrs. Margaret Markes, area supervisor, said applications were previously handled Mondays only and interviews were once until 2 pm.
Berlin residents received thousands of Nazi leaflets from the Volksbund for Germandom Abroad. The circulars show a purple Ro man letter P on a yellow diamond background and quote Goering ordering Polish laborers to wear the insignia. They denigrate Poles as unfit for intermarriage or comradeship and warn farmers and factories to avoid Polish workers or letters home. The notices are paired with advice on anti Polish behavior and espionage fears, asserting Poles as inferior and dangerous. The document also includes unrelated notes on the white sturgeon and home faucet care.
The Sun lists a small group of Whitewright students bound for colleges and schools including Texas Tech Lubbock Albert L Jackson Texas A M College College Station Robert Doss Billie Glen Earnheart and Jack Meador University of Texas Austin Lloyd Morgan and others from Denton Sherman Commerce Fort Worth Durant and Denison. A supplementary list will follow if any omissions are reported.
More than 200 people gathered at Marvin Methodist Church for a homecoming last Sunday. Ninety five visitors registered from distant towns including Sherman Bonham Paris Wichita Falls and Denison. The program ran from 10 30 a m with Rev G C Randolph leading and features readings music and a picnic lunch.
Attorney General Mann filed antitrust suits in District Court against seven national distilleries and 23 Texas wholesalers. The action seeks daily penalties from 1936 onward and a permanent injunction to prevent further price fixing and territorial agreements. Distillers named include Schenley’s, Calvert, Hiram Walker, National Distillers, Seagram, Glenmore, and Frankfort Distilleries, with multiple wholesalers affected.
Sixteen and a half million men aged 21 to 35 must register. About 75 thousand will be mustered in November for a year of training, with 400 thousand in training by January 1941. The bill caps conscripts at 900 thousand. Exemptions cover dependents ministers students essential workers government officers aliens and the physically unfit. Conscientious objectors face noncombatant training. Draftees receive 21 dollars monthly for four months then 30 dollars with potential raises. Industries resisting orders may be taken over on a rental basis.
Washington report on Samuel T. Rayburn being chosen as Speaker of the House after the death of William Bankhead. Rayburn has represented Texas’s Fourth district since 1913 and follows John Garner as a Texan to hold the post, amid ceremonial mourning in the chamber.
Census partial 1940 figures show California overtaking Texas in state population, California at 6,873,688 with 21.1 percent gain. Texas logs 6,418,321, up 10.2 percent. California cities over 10,000 mostly gain. San Francisco down 0.7 percent. Texas counties tally 135 of 254 with gains. California 58 counties rise.
The Supreme Court refused to review a lower court ruling that permanently enjoined the Board of Control from ousting Dr. W. J. Johnson as superintendent of the San Antonio State Hospital. The decision upheld the Austin Court of Civil Appeals which said the board lacked authority to discharge him.
President Roosevelt signed the draft act and set October 16 as registration day for 16.5 million men aged 21 to 35. The plan includes a one year service option for volunteers and a national drawing to assign questionnaires. Local boards will manage classifications and inductions. About 60,000 militiamen mobilized nationwide. White House said 34,000 of first 400,000 called would be African American.
An opinion issued Tuesday permits Governor O'Daniel to assume command of the Public Safety Department to enforce laws. The ruling changes an earlier AG view that the Legislature held full authority over the Safety Department and Ranger force. The article also notes the American Indian origin from Asia.
Secretary Wickard announced a national cotton marketing quota of 12 million bales for 1941, subject to growers approving it by referendum on December 7. The quota mirrors the 1938 39 and 40 levels and would allow about 27.9 million acres, allocated by the 1938 act formula with penalties for overplanting and excess production.
Republican nominee Wendell L. Willkie spoke in Amarillo to a park crowd estimated at about 10 000 with as many more glimpsing him from a fast train. He urged South voters to choose logic over tradition and warned that indefinite rule erodes democracy citing rotation in office as a democratic safeguard.
Coach S. T. Montgomery takes the Whitewright Tigers to Bonham for the season opener against the Bonham Warriors in a new stadium dedication. Dedication begins at 7 with the game at 8, featuring several bands and pep squads. WPA director Gus W. Thomasson will attend and speak.
The elevation of Representative Sam Rayburn of Bonham to the House speakership gives Texas the presiding officers of both congressional branches. Vice President John Nance Garner remains at his Uvalde home with no return planned. his term ends in January. Rayburn, the second Texas speaker in a decade, heads key committees while Jesse H. Jones of Houston holds Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator. Rayburn will return to Texas after adjournment to lead Democratic campaign work in the Southwest. a party loss in November could strip Texans of these roles.
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Crazy Water Company of Mineral Wells Texas and officers Carr P Collins H H Collins W W Woodall and J A Pondrom charging misrepresentation in selling Crazy Mineral Water Crazy Water Crystals and Crazy Fit. It alleges claims of curing or benefiting about thirty ailments though the waters have no therapeutic properties beyond a laxative.
Experts from the University of Pennsylvania announce a universal measles vaccine developed by Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. and Dr. Geoffrey Rake. The shot targets both children and adults and could protect soldiers from pneumonia linked to outbreaks. The discovery marks a milestone after years of lab work.
Washington foreign trade experts estimated another year of war abroad would lift United States exports to about 450 million dollars per month next summer, doubling the prewar volume before hostilities began in Europe.
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