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ROUND ABOUT TOWN An angry man stlrretli up strife, find a furious man aboumlelh in 19-22. Never made good guard SB Tor Commercial airlines pf the Untt- ed Slates last, week finished full year without a single passenger inlity, record aval means much JftJ to the traveling public. More than 2,000,100 passengers were carrieJ jf, during ihe year nr.rt the total length I of all Die flights equals 33.000 trips JjS around the world. This accom: plishment, more than anything else the airlines have, clone in the last 10 years, proves to the average cit- izen that air travel is safe. Gcod equipment, rigid inspection, trained ''Us nA tesponslble personnel, better i weather forecasts and some luck I entered into the setting 01 this ree- ord.

But luck rapldlv becoming minor factor In air safety. The Art Department of the Ariel Club, through the of an art exhibit the public schools and demonstration schools, un- doubtedly has shown people of I 5 Dentc-ti that Ihere is a let of tal- em among the students here. The display of arc in the Russell siore 5 window would convince niosl any 'I one that Dent on some tl.iy is to fur-. nisli a great artist. It hasn't been so ninny years i that this section of (he state had no biuebonnets nnd people i wished to see the beautiful patches uid fields had to travel ninny miles to see (hem.

Bui, recent years, Ihr flower lins thrived in Denton soil. If you haven't seen the field of biuebonnets c.u TSOW campus, northwest, corner in the have missed a beautiful sight. Bobo the musician, whose com- liany will appear In a magic show nt the High School nuditurlum Friday evening. April nt 8 ''o'clock, finds great deal in common with a number of the vvr.rld's celebrities in that his profession is t-xtremely popular wllli f.unoup men In Ihis eounu-y and abroad, sane of them being screen actcrj, James Chester Morris and Harold Lcyd, the Duke of Windsor iintl President Franklin D. HooseveH.

He said that it is a par! o( the human personally to find fascination in the Miiknown, and for this reason Bobo nui account lor M.IE- ic's being the universal entertainment, holding the at- ter.tion of all ayes. Bobo is beiny sponsored in ton by the Ihe High School and the members of classes urge you lo attend i his entertainment, us the proceeds to to a fuml for Ihe Juniors lo tertnln the Seniors, an annual -par- ly, and. too. because you'll get a lot of tun amusement from it. DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE VOL.

XXXIX NO. 207 DENTON, AITERNOON, APRIL 11, 1940 Associated Press Leased Wire EIGHT PAGES Allies Claim Victory Over Germans In First Major Naval Battle of War 18NAZISHIPS El Fighting Continues As British Seek to Cut Off Germans. 'Ihis Thursday nhjlil is lu be Big Night at the Sam Laney 5ti2 North Locust Street, as lie and (he boys Ihere are celebrating Iht' Ici'Mial opening and completion rl Uieir newly remodelect station, ision. Irom seven till leu o'clotk. The (By Associated Press) The jillies today laid claim to victory over Gecniftny in the war's first great naval battle which they said had cost Germany 18 eluding four" cruisers and 10 troop allied losses were put at four warships.

A picture of the poiienlious sea fighting on" Norway emerged slowly as Norway, battling beside the' I'lh'es, reported fresh success against the German invaders. The Norwegian commander announced Hint Bergen ha3 been recaptured and farther up the west const other forces were massing for un attempt, to reiake Trondneim. The staie Department announced itmnval of all Americans wLshing to leav? Norway. Sweden and Denmark had been authorized-. Preparing ngainsl a possible German offensive on Ihe western front.

Prance suspended nil nnny leaves s'ci'jn after premier Reynaud had made a report on the northern naval engagement. More British Losses The French premier's statement was made in parliament while in the British House of Commons Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, was drawing a less complete picture of the fighting but remitted the less of two moi-e Brilish destroyers. The recapture of Bergen was reported in a radio message lo Stockholm from the Norwegian com- nnnidcr in that section. Norway, blowing arming civilians, struck back nt her German Invaders reporting success cnsl Narvik and In tlie Hamar north Oslo. The Norwegian government ordered its forces to co-operate with the ullle.s aiui tolti Germany of Nor- intention resist lhe illva- First Spot Newspictnres Radioed from War Zone Gets News From Census-taker That Prisoners Missing ATLANTA, April took a census-taker to inform a suburban jail-keeper that two of his prisoners were missing.

The jail's population was two off from that of the jailer. "Great Scott!" cried the jail- keeper, "two of 'em are gone." German soldiers are shown above boarding a transport "somewhere Germany" Nazi sources sav the troops landed on Norwegian soil. Piioto radioed from Europe. sources say tne said the four German public is forcliallj to come cruisers represented one-tenth of Mid be ilu-it guests during Hit- nlng whfn reire.sliincnts be served and moilon picture shown, Tlie following Denton institutions in advertisements in the Ueeoi'Ct- ClH'Ciniclo's Wednesday Issue extended their congratulations and test wishes for the Sam Lai.ey Tire Lakoy Court. Denton Print Shop.

Owen Griliin Ttmple Lumber First State Bank, Mullins Motor Pans. Pavne Dicksou Motor Jack Hrv- or circllUltcd a. wr.rnln: D. C. lac French to be prepared for son, Waldrip Motor Co.

sniil, "I have louu dreamed setting to the point Unit I i-oukl Germany's tuual lighting strength, artl litlded that ten German troop tninsports were sent lo the bot- The destroyers Glowworm and nzi tro tl eir to Norwny nre shown above on the deck of a Gurkha were listed by Churchill as 1 Oemiai sh 'P as left, an undisclosed port. Photo radioed from Europe. newest British losses in addition to the two ue.stioyers which were lost at Narvik. ot Outlook Meanwhile, Fretich military au- '8 to Eiblc heavy fighting on the previously quiet western front. Heaviest mu'al fighting was re- have such a stftllcn as we now contlmmig lociay in the nar- havc for our lires and accessories, rc elbovv ana ai.

w.ishiiif and greasing I nls lhe hcrc llle Skagerrak in an apparent other busings the automobile." to British attempt lo cut off reinforcements for the German army of occupitaon. Stockholm Uisiiatclie'i said nl least five of Ihe flotilla 10 German trtwp transports had been tend 'smicVaV "school" for "the "next' sullk ln lhnt 8ion. Another was You beys of the Men's Fellowship of the Melhodisl Church liael just as well Bet rendy to weeks at as tilercs a contest un during that time for a big feed. Two sides have I.een named with Clillord Hastings captain of the BHtes and C. A.

Ho- captain of the Reels, and the losing side is going to be host to the winners at banquet to be given niter the attendance 1 closes. Those basebnlleis over nt Little hnve been sunk In hot niylH-long llghUng, The Norwegian minelayer nnd contest s'llp Olnf Tryggvason, S90 tons, was credited in several reports wltli sinking the Gerninn cruiser Emden, a proud Elm are iti there pitching this sumlucr, as they have recently built' i'. new grandstand and made other Improvements to Ihelr field, and they have together a bunch of that say they expect lo BO places. The rpeniiiij game there will be on Apiil 21 when Doc Pilncr nnd his boys open the Little Elm 'season. Tis not known just when Doc nnci the banar.a peddler will start ofl their f.rewoiks.

but il is probable Hint lhey'11 meet here tills coming Sunday on Hnrrisnn lhnt is if Claude l.inyllle Is no 1 alrnld (o stage his boys against Wonders. The tittle tilin- 13cnton ynrne is definitely- set. for 21 In Little Elm. "I guess didn't want me on the Inside, a.s nmt. cie at lite I rant rtoor." snld F'rank Hulsc when found at.

the step of the First State Uank wllli 11111 Buss. In a crowd someone pointed out Abo Scoll an.l s.ilil "(here's Hoptibllcnn" and O. Dcckncr re- niftrkrd, "Vonh. they're celling to be nhout as ninny of (hem tw Ihere lire of us white folks." Scott, Hc- 'publlc(ni county chnlrmnn, ntUlcd, "Yeah, and Ihis coming November you fjlmniccnns nnd Intighed. will lind II Traffic Cop says, When you cnn't sen ts.

nhead giimDIc, nlaw tluwn, safe. set mho. at least one other while another fled to safety in Sweden. Pour German cruisers also were reported without connrmalton lu ton vessel. On the sc.ulliwcst const, the Norwegian destroyer Acger wns said to have sunk a German transport before being herself sunk by aerial bombs, On land, lhe Norwegians reported recapture of llnraar, town 60 mites north Oslo mid briefly the seat oi the reuigee government, 'I lie defenders also were salci lo have driven lhe Germans south from Klvcrutn.

present seal of the Government, but the German command said Klvcrnm was captured yesterday. Deny Oslo Mcnaca 'llic a cumins also denied reporl.i Him British wtirslifns Imd forced Ihelr way Into Oslo fjord to menace ihe caijlta), and that the British had Brrgt-n and Trondheim mul landed Narvik. neports from Sweden, however, said lhe British luul bombed Oslo airport and thai the Norwegians held Oslo fjord shore ballcrles which were lioinlnirdliiB Qermnn transports. Regardless ot lhe disputed fale or Elvonini, Norway's KlUR Hiinkon and Premier Nygnarcisvold proclaimed their Kovcrnment's continuing lo Germntxy's enforced "proleclornie." NotwcBtan Korelgll Minister Hnl- vdun ICoht n.isertod: "We aro at war wllli nennany; Ihtrcby In nllluncc wllli others nt (Bee AU.ira CLAIM, Four Killed in- Family Quarrel MONTE VISTA. April family quarrel provoked a gun fight in which three men and r.

woman were killed and her son critically injured on a Southern Colorado last night. Police Chief Max Hichardson Pal Maes, 50. operator of a sheep ranch, artmiltetl killing Raymond Martinez. 33, Conejoh County deputy sheriff; Manuel Ortega. -10, brother-in-law, and Edward Donilnquez, Maes' confession said he shot the three with a rifle alter Martinez had Mrs.

Mnes. -11, and her son. Frank, 22. Mrs. mother of 10 child)en, died todav.

Boy Slayer to Go to GatesviUe FORT WORTH, April 11. Ernest Joe Butler, 15-year-old dairy farm worker, today was sentenced to serve an liKletermiimtc term in Die training school for bo.vs at Gatcsvlllp nfter he pleaded guilty lo juvenile charges In connection with the slaying last Stmoay ot Mrs. Mildred Ueck. The sentence means Ihe youth will remain at the training school until he Is 2t years old, unless paroled sooner. The same sullen appearance Butler lins assumed since he killed Mre.

Beck, 20-ycnr-oUV comely moiher of a 14-months-old son, after she resisted his amciTOus advance, was evident In the courtroom lortay. LONDON. April German Cornier ttymg bout was reported shot down in the North Sea today by a Royal Air Rirce coastal command plane. STOCKHOLM. April Tite president of the Norwegian Parliament, burl j.

Hambro. announced today that Norway's northern forces now ore co-operating fully with British forces against tlie German Invasion. LONDON, April tcrs news agency) dispatches from Stockholm today reported more German warships had readied Oslo Fjord and that some troop transports which escaped PRISONER FACES On the written state- By ALVIN J. STEI.VKO^P WJRE BERGEN FROM INVADERS, iLL ATTACK TRONDHEIM Germans Mass Troops for Expected Battle; Seek to Cut Off Nazi Reinforcements From North. BERLIN, April 11.

Nazi tack will come shortly he reported. Germany is steadily tightening her I Norwegian iroops were said lo be 1 i ron on Norway, authorlz- advancing from the north in Die STOCKHOLM, April forces have recaptured the port of Bergen from the German invaders, the Norwegian commander at the city reported todav by wireless, and are massing for an attempt to wrest Tronrt- heim, further up the west coast, from the enemy. German troops are being conceit-1 trated arotmd Trondheim in the expectation that the Norwegian at- I ed Germans contended today, and to loosen her defying the Allies hold. "German positions hope of cutting of German troops operating between and Norway nre so thoroughly consolidated." these sources asserted, "that there is not the remotest possibility they could be dislodged by English and French "forces." They pictured a steady stream 01 German soldiers being transported to the northern kingdom to strengthen the forces landed Tuesday at strategic points. Authorized then Swedish Border, throughout Following the commander's report on Bergen, other sources rc- pcirted German planes had dropped light bombs as circled tile Kongsvinger railway station.

Blowing Up Bridges Reports pouring into Sweden said the Norwegians were blasting bridges to make German advances difficult and cut oil German forces already in possession of Norwegian territory. Norway, ordering her Iroops lo co-operate wiih the British French allies, was h.istily fortifying every defense point arming workers, said, but-reports of a clash of members at rifle clubs, and mili- 5" rces of the nav are wholly tary school pupils to help defend made the most categorical denial of reports of an extensive sea battle. "In only two places did the GeV- man air force have encounters with the British fleet (yesterday)," they unfounded. "Our transport continued crossing the Skagerrak unmolested until the Norwegian situation was completely in 1 Wight long fighting between naval forces, however, was reported from Sweden to'have taken place in the Skagerrak and four out of 10 German troop ships this morn- ing were reported sunk, another i ports said. ment secured from a prisoner in Kuntsville penitentiary Wednesday afternoon.

Sheriff Dallas Curtsinger Thursday swore to a complaint charging the hijacking' of a Denton filling station April 12, 1939. Source of the information that took Curtsinger and Deputy Sheriff A. L. Dentspn on their trip, was not made public, but the sheriff revealed the case had been under Investigation some time. He brought written statement from the prisoner.

25-year-old qazzell, man now serving time from Dallas County, In regard to the filling station robbery. 4 filling station burglary, and a ear theft. OsTo'wd Charges of robbery with fire- 1 along Oslo Fjord and the nution. From Southern Sweden came further reports of Britisli Gernian naval engagement fought off Pa- terncster Reefs at the eastern end cf the Skagerrak yesterday, saying that six of eisht German troopship transports had been sunk. BUCHAREST, April 11.

Large 1 numbers of veteran Soviet Russian troop reinforcements were reported today have moved into the Odessa region from the north Odessa on the Black Sea, lies about 25 miles from the Rumanian Bes- sarabia border. The reports, reaching this can- ital from the frontier region, couM not be confirmed. (Russia lost Bessarabia to Rumania in the post-World War territorial changes and has never renounced her claim to It.) the Rumanian government Issued a decree that all national defense factories must immediately store supplies'for use in Among the ships sunk was case of general mobilization, ammunition supply ship, these K- I An embar so was put on export was burning and a sixth was dam- i' aged High Points High points of the official nouncements Issued here included'I 1. high command announced extension of Nazi control yesterday to the Danish Baltic Germans Repelled Tlie Norwegian government said i German troops, trying lo advance n- toward Elverum, the temuorary Tne captured capital's outer tort Between Elverum and Hamar'an- oUier contingent of German troops commanded the farmer aviation attache of tlie German It-gallon in back by hastily who manned machine guns nt barricades thrown up Frank Rlney, owner of a boring station who had stepped across the street to chat with Stuart and who.se own cash box was looted of $4,55 during his absence. Lenisville Burglary Also charged, after Curlsinger and Denison returned here, was Alton Logglns.

Huntsville convict, in a complaint alleging burglarizing the Urban Moore residence near Lewisville in June, 1937. A statement signed by Loggins cleared up case and revealed the loot watches, eight dollars, silverware and a been sold in San Antonio, Curtsinger Thursday. Must Give Age of Minors Working on Interstate Goods WASHINGTON, 11. The labor department announced that beginning next Monday federal certificates of age for minors would be required of Texas em- yesterday's battle had landed diir- plovers engaged in production of ing the night. PARfS, April 11.

The I goods shipped in merce. interstate com. French army, preparing ngninst a possible German offensive on the The certificates would protect employers from unintentional violation of the child labor provisions Western Front, tonight suspended I of the fair labor standards acC the all army leaves. department said. ies to Get Armada of Latest JFighting Planes from V.

Navy to Build Ships WASHINGTON. April 11. The Franco-British Allies today got long sought "go nhead" signal for the purchase of an armada of the latest typo American lighting planes. Simultaneously the, navy decided to expedite the construction of 10 now warships, in Congress, opposition appeared against proposed reductions in Ihe building program. The war department cleared tlie Allied way yesterday by releasing tor export three or the air corns Renews Fight, on Dam TULSA.

April Leon C. Phillips, again challenging i 5'f lri Coi has filed in Tulsa Federal Court his newest pursuit ships, all credited answer to the government suit lo.wllli of -100 miles an hour restrain him and others from in- or belter. The planes nre designed tortcr ng with construction ot (ho to prey on raiding bombers and Clraiid River dam. Tho governor asked dismissal of a temporary restraining order granted by Vlnlta fVxicriil Court atlor "ne sent national guardsmen to the PWA- (Inn need dam In mt effort lo prevent Us closing. Tlie onlcr Inter wiu continued to May it, wlirn lirnrlng on a temporary injunction will be held hero.

(o tight (iff any faster craft accompanying them. The action promised nn end to tlio Allied delay in placing estimated SI.000,000,000 order for r.bottt 8.000 American military planes and 13,000 cnetnes. Tlie con- Iracts had been held up because Hie Allies claimed that tuvyUimir but tho latest type ulnnes would typo of the pursuit which which already has be outclassed by the enemy. The planes released were: the Bell P-39, known as the Aira-Cobra and said to be one of the world's fastest pursuit ships; the Lockheed 0-35, ft Iwo-motored, hcavily-arm- Inlerceptor craft, and an improved mode! ot the Curtlss P-40, an ad- shlp been praised by the French for its performance nsainst the Nazi Messer- sclimltl. In Ihe field of American defense, tile major developments concerned tho navy.

To avoid loss of time, the department decided lo slart building 10 new vessels and lo refit three submarines without waiting for Congress to vote the funds. The appropriation. 1 bill covering tiie construction pending. Whether or not Influenced by tlie week's events abroad, the Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to restore $812,878 previously sliced off by tho Housa and approved a total of 1 878 to operdte the navy In Uiu yenr beginning July I. ermon warplanes patrol- ig the North Sea hit a British destroyer with "heaviest caliber all- bombs" and In a raid on tlie Scapa How region put out of commission one anti-aircraft and one searchlight battery.

A British chaser was shot down and two German planes are missing, British planes carried the air war to Norway and attacked the airport of Stavanger, now occupied by German air forces, "without success." 4. DNB, official German news! agency, in a special bulletin re-1 ported that the German army at' Bergen had confiscated five British steamers loaded to capacity with cannon, machine-guns, munitions and other -war materials. These seizures, it contended showed that the British had planned to land expeditionary forces at Ber-! gen and other points. It added they were sent in lhe guise of "aid for Finland." Not at War In their review ot the situation The Germun commander killed and severe lossss inflicted an his forces, Norwegians said, adding that only two Norwegians were Injured. A Swedish newspaper reported Narvik recaptured by the British.

(Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, had 'declared, however, that "we have not reoccupied any Norwegian ports." His statement apparently did not cover any themselves might have regained). of sunflower seeds to Germany which previously has bought almost the entire Rumanian crop to replace her deficiency in fats. The government issued a denial of what it called "wild reports" that three German-bound Danube River freight boats had been sunk by explosions. The freely-expressed fear in the Balkans that Germany might into -Qoutheastetii VriuS heightened by comments' of British and Franch officials in the Near East that Allied forces were unable resist effectively The Rumanian ond YugosJav governments were reported by usually reliable sources to have agreed on German insistence to call all their Danube River pilots for military service. This action would void contracts which many Rumanian and Yugoslav rivermen signed with British and French agents and make them available for assignment to German Danube shipping by military command.

Study III 17 Norway in Effort JL L'UtJtCJiatfa, SHOW- tei lo learn Secrets not at war with Nonvay. (Norwegian Foreign Minister Kalvdon Koht on tlie controry was quoted as saying that Norway was at war with Germany.) They said there was confusion as to the precise status of the Norwegian government. "Most of the legal government, according to reports received in Berlin," it was said, "is somewhere on the Swedish bonier. "This government now seems to be somewhat in the position of the former Polish government when it fled to lhe Rumanian is, completely out of touch wlUi Ihe Norwegian people and state. "At the same time discussions between the German minister to Norway, Kurt Braucr, and King Haakon cannot be described as broken off.

"Tlie best description is that up fo now there have been discussions without positive result. There Is a. posslbllily they may be resumed." Tlie Germans said Unit In Oslo and other occupied regions co-op- cralton between the Germans and Norwegians was proceeding without Incident. More Scholastic Funds Are Received Receipt of $3.634 from tho State Department of Education Thurs- tlny morning by R. L.

Proqer, county superlnlendent of schools, marked of the total per capita allotment ot S2350 paid. The $3,634 represents the pajTncnt oi $1 for each student In the common school districts of this county. BERUN. April sources said today German troops who occupied Oslo found 50 new American CuVtiis planes wliich had They said they would be studied for any possible information or new construction details. (Aviation experts said there were no secrets of design and that no military secrets could be involved because tlie airplanes could not have been sent to Norway had there been).

Americans to Be Moved From Zone WASHINGTON, April 11. The state department announced today It had authorized tho removal from Norway, Sweden and Denmark of all Americans wishing to return to the United States, Tlie department decided to remove those wishing to go, on' an overland route through Germany lo Genoa, Italy, for embarkation there, on American, ships. American shipowners have assured, their co-operation, it was said. Tho department ts communicating with the German government lo obtain transit permission. The state department listed 1.067 Americans in Norway, 1,753 in Sweden and 552 In a total of of Jan.

1. Jnstrucllons were sent to American diplomatic representatives In tho three countries on lhe removal plan, Americans who cun will be expected to pay their passage. Funds will bo advanced, In exchange for promissory noles, for those who cannot. F.D.R.Submite Board Plan of Reorganization WASHINGTON, April 11. A broad government reorganization plan, designed to save $300,000 annually aiid produce "more effective service" was submitted to Congress today by President Roosevelt.

Affecting' most of the executive- departments and several independent agencies, the fourth reorganization plan, recommended by Mr. Roosevelt projected these major revisions in tlie governmental set up: 1. Putting the Civil Aeronautics Authority, now an Independent agency, into the structure of the commerce department: S. Transferring the weather bureau from the agriculture department to the commerce department 3. Shifting the food and drag administration from the agriculture department to the Federal Security Administration, except for two activities considered closely related to agriculture involving insecticides and naval stores, 4.

Transferring to the interior department from agriculture those activities of the soil conservation sen-ice relating to soil and moisture conservation on lands already under the jurisdiction of the interior department. EAST TEXAS: Mostly cloudy, thundershowers In south and extreme east portions, niuth coldtr, cold nave in north portion wllli temperature nrar frcenlng In north- fast and somewhat below freezing in northwest portion tonight; Frl- fair to partly cloudy, colder in south and extreme cnsl portions. Strung northerly on the coast reaching force tonight and slron; northerly winds over interior thli afternoon and lonlghl. WEST TEXAS: Mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Friday) colder tonight with freeiunr north and central tomorrow. OKf.AffO.nA: Fair (onljhf except cloudy TanhandU) to-- nlghl, colder;.