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The Paris Newsi
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SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, THE PARIS NEWS, PARIS, TEXAS J. O. Richardson Of Paris Assumes Rank Of Admiral SAN PEDRO, the accompaniment of three 17-gun salutes, Rear Admiral James O. Richardson advanced Saturday to command of the United States fleet's battle force. Assuming the rank of admiral, Richardson succeeded Admiral E.

C. Kalbfus, being transferred to naval war college at Newport, R. to resume an assignment he held from June, 1934, to December, 1936. Admiral Richardson was relieved recently as chief of the navy's bureau of navigation in Washing- ion, D. by Rear Admiral Chester W.

Nimitz. First of the salutes was fired aboard the force flagship California as Admiral Kalbfus' flag was hauled down; the second as Admiral Richardson's flag reached its peak. His salvo was a tribute to Admiral Claude C. Bloch, commander-in-chief of the fleet, aboard the flagship Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania responded with a salute.

Admiral Richardson. better known to his fellow-townsmen in Paris by his middle name, Otto, began his navy career when as a 20-year-old "plebo," he entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, during the Spanish- American War. He was born in Paris, which he still calls home. Son of the late Prof. J.

J. Richardson, one of the best known educators of Paris, J. O. Richardson attended school here before entering Annapolis. His wife is the former Miss May Fcnet, also of Paris, nnd their son, Joe F.

Richardson, a graduate of Princeton, is now connected with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mnyer Corporation. He is a brother of Mrs. D. A Chambers of New Boston, Miss Moss Richardson, faculty member of the teachers college at Cnrtyon, and Mrs. William Ogilvie of Ottawa, Canada.

During the World War. he was navigator nnd executive officer of the U. S. S. Nevada, being ordered in 1910 to the United States Naval Academy for duty, He was In command of the gunboat Ashovilip in the Asiatic fleet and commander of the South China patrol, and in 1024 was made assLstnnt chi-' of the bureau of ordnance.

Three years later, he was made commander of the destroyer squadron's scouting fleet: In 1928, returned to Washington as director of personnel, and In 1933, WHS assigned to the Naval War College at Providence, R. I. In that year, he was advanced to the- rank of rear-admiral; in 1935, he was appointed chief of staff to the commander-in-chief, Admiral Joseph M. Reeves. In 103fi, when he stood 51st in the list of 64 rear-admirals, he named chief of the navy's bureau of navigation with jurisdiction over the navy's 100,000 men MOTION DENIED NEW ORLEANS, UP) The Texas Railroad Cornmwsion here Saturday was denied a court motion to allow it to put into effect its proration order againri the Rowan and Nichols Oil Company in Gregg County, Texas, pending a hearing of the case on appeal.

Read The roi-y f-fort for XKKK Fnr ConipUtw Mi-JcflTn a -11 WALL STREET JOURNAL ImluitrUI of au.lBft. sr; 4 Dr BRO.U! Bt. NKH- VOKK. T. PERSONALS Mrs.

Bessie Harvey, ill at her home, 50 South Fourteenth Street, is improving 1 Miss Ruth Christy left Saturday for a week's vacation trip to Houston and Galveston. New Rotary Head Misses Opal and Gladys Bokamper of Idabel, are visiting Miss Vesta Maxwell at 779 Eonham Street. Mr. and Mrs. William Corley will return Sunday from a visit in Galveston and Houston where they have been vacationing.

Mrs. F. E. Patterson of Ft. Smith.

has arrived for a visit with her son, Floyd H. Patterson, 195 South Twenty-Eighth Street, Mrs. C. W. Taylor of Houston, and her daughters, Betty Jo and Wanda, aro visiting Mrs.

W. E. Martin at 318 Bonham Street. Mrs. Mary E.

Rodgers of 486 Bonham Street, seriously ill at her home five weeks, was reported unimproved Saturday. Mrs. W. O. Gaylor and daughter, Mrs.

Cunningham of San Antonio, en route to Oklahoma points, spent Friday here at the home of J. L. Gaylor. Walter D. Head, New Jersey schoolmaster, became president of Rotary International He was elected at Cleveland to C.

Hager of Chicago. Tfie new president is headmaster of a Montclair, academy. (Teiemat). DEATHS Robert Shirley, Tommy Pierce, Jam2s Booth, and Billy Woodside, have returned from a vacation trip I to Galveston, Houston and other South Texas points. ADMIRAL O.

RICARDSON Brief Items of Local About People, Places and Tilings A fined 13 in City Court Saturday morning for speeding. Mrs. Holmes ts on Iwo weeks vacation from J. C. Penney Company store here.

C. S. Whltehouse, of the Western Union office here, is on annual vacation. open the Bill Lewis Eat Shop on North Main Street in the location now occupied by Earl's Sandwich Shop No. 2.

City Sanitary department trucks will be in Third Ward beginning Monday noon to make collection of rubbish and trash. All refuse to be collected should bj at the curb in boxes or sacks, ready for the trucks. Dr. and Mrs. R.

H. Spell an Ln Dallas this week to attend the Na tional Convention of Osteopaths. R. V. Free returned Saturday from Hartford, where she attended a three music normal.

Dee Locke 1 new rock-veneer home on Lamar Road is showing rapid progress in construction. J. H. Jackson is contractor. Richard Blyth reiurned Saturday from a week's trip to New York on business for the Southland Cotton Oil Company.

Dr. T. E. Hunt, who Buffered leg injury on a recent trip to Hillsboro, has recovered and will be in his office Monday. Dr.

T. E. Hunt, who suffered a knee injury at Hillsboro last Sunday, has recovered and will be in his office Monday. Clerno Clements Paris Junior College athletic director, is her-3 for the week-end. Clements is attending Southern Methodist University this summer doing work toward his MA degree.

Miss Eleanor Webster, employe of Perkins and now on her vacation, returned Friday from a trip to Shreveport. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Ja- rmj Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Ewtn, and their son, Dickie Dan. Mrs.

C. W. Taylor of Houston, and her two daughters, Betty Jo and Wanda, are visiting in the home of Mrs. W. E.

Martin at 318 Bonham Street. Mrs. LouLs Welch and Miss MRS. R. O.

HORNE Death of Mrs. R. O. Home of Commerce, 62 years old, occurrec at 7:25 o'clock Friday evening at the Sanitarium of Paris where she was a patient. The body was taken to Commerce for burial by Odom Funeral Home.

BETTES FUNERAL Funeral service here for Harry and Mrs. J. H. Htitto and Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Conley. Alice McNamee of Marshall, are Bettes who died here Friday spending the week-end with Mr. morning at the Sanitarium of Paris, will be held at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Church of the Holy Cross, Episcopal, by 1he rector, the Rev. Norman Alter. Interment will be made at Evergreen Cemetery, and the pall- Mrs.

Mack Cox and daughter, Carolyns, of Brenham, are visiting Mrs. R. H. Rheudasil, mother of Mrs. Cox, at 394 Bonham Street.

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Whiting and children, Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Adcock and Mrs. Van Cox and children have returned after a few day's camping trip to Turner Falls and Sulphur, Okla.

Howard DeShoni, who AJWO- ciated with ths Lamar Chevrolet company, together with his wife and son. Jimmy, will leave Sunday for a combination business and pleasure trip to Galveston. They will be gonj a week. L. A.

Nance of Nance Bus IJnes ssid Saturday his business has picked up since the tomato market opened at Powderly. He said he will attend the Tomato Festi- x-al at Broken Bow, through which town he operates buses. by Bill Lewis, well known restaurant operator, announced Saturday that effectfve July 1 he will SAVE ON TIRES June To July 4th 50 SAVING From Standard List ON BIG HUSKY GENUINE NEW GOODYEAR TIRES LOWEST PRICES IN HISTORY 4.75-19 $574 5.25-18 $666 6.00-16 4.50-21 $556 5.50-17 $732 6.50-16 $970 Net incfadinc your old tve for you. For one-half the cost of little known or off-brand "standard" tires, you get the PATHFINDER, made and guaranteed for hre by GOODYEAR. Pathfinder is a big tough tire with long-wearing center traction tread and bruise-resisting, biowout-ptotected plies of low stretch Supertwist Cord.

Don't detay special prices are good ana') July 4th so buy BOW far your Holiday Trip! MeCUirS SEIVICE iTATKM Havinsr heard the address Bishop Hughes Saturday, the Homer T. Fort returned to Paris Saturday after attending several of the sessions of the annual Pastor's School which is being held at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Price, accompanied by Mrs.

T. E. Belew and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Belew, are driving to Ennis Sunday to take Bobby and Jack (Buddy) Price, for a week's visit with their grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. H. A. Price. Thomas Bsker and Glenn Keller returned Friday from California where they accompanied the DeShong family and visited the World's Fair in San Francisco.

The DeShong family will remain at Berkley, for the remainder the summer. Pressure In London Is Mounting Indignant Public Aroused By Tientsin Incidents LONDON. (JP) mounting pressure from an indignant publip, the British government indicated Saturday a showdown was approaching with Japan over treat- ment of Britons in China, desoite dangers threatening the British- French front at two other vital points. The two most important factors staying Britain's hand in the Orient have been: 1. The virtual impasse reached in British-French negotiations with Soviet Russia for a mutual assistance agreement.

2. Increasing signs that Germany is waiting for Britain to be- com; involved in the Far East to provide a favorable moment for a Nazi coup in the free city of Danzig. Most British ministers, however, were said in usually informed quarters to be convinced retaliatory measures were necessary soon to end what Prime Minister Chamberlain called "insulting treatment of British subjects by Japanese soldiers." The Prime Minister, addressing a Conservatiys party rally at Cardiff, declarecf that "no British government can tolerate that its nationals should be subjected to such treatment as we have heard of in Tientsin and no British government could submit to dictation from another power as to its foreign policy The 48,900 public accident deaths in the U. S. last year was 52 per cent of deaths from all kinds of accidents.

A rusied steel rttoe recently found in Texas is believed to have been part of a coat of mail worn explorer in the 18th century. (Dawn), of Commodore Mstthew 'and American in 1856. bearers will be Joe Gorham, Walter Wortham, Richard Blyth, S. W. Wilbor, Henry P.

Mayer, M. F. Wise. Ben L. Billingsley and Sam L.

Bedford. MRS. J. D. READ ROXTON.

(Special). Mrs. J. D. Read, 79, who died at her home in Sour Lake, was buried hare Friday in the Restland cemetery.

The Read family lived here until the death of Mrs. Read's husband in 1915. She is survived by one son, Carl of Beaumont and two grandchildren. Byron A. Bassel.

area supervisor for NYA. Lamar, Delta and Hopkins Counties, who has been in the ROTC training camp at Camp Eullis, San Antonio, for the past two weeks, will return to Paris Monday. He is a First Lieutenant in the medical corps. "Happy Jack" Morris, former Commerce Hieh School and Antlers, High School athletic coach was here Saturday. Morris was accompanied by Mrs.

Morris and their three sons. They en route to Mt. Pleasant where they will make their home for the rest of the summer. and Mrs. Lamoine Miller with Mrs.

Miller's nephew, Charles Emmett Sharp of Macon. junior student at Kirksville College of Osteopathy, go to Dallas Sunday to attend opening of the National Convention of Osteo- naths. 'and will return for sessions in the week also. Sharp will remain here until late in July when the Millers accompany him to Missouri for a visit. Sergeant H.

GremllHon, U. S. Army recruiting officer, said Saturday four young msn had enlisted during the past week. They were Samuel H. Garner, Rt.

5, Paris; J. L. Snelgroce, Rt. 1. Clarksville; Calvin L.

Crockett, Rt. 2, Blossom; James A. Houser. Albion. All were sent to Ft.

Sam Houston, Tex. Two men, Clyde H. Clarkson, Rt. 6, Paris and John W. Scott, Rt.

3, Mt. Pleasant, enlisted in the army reserve. Gremillion said vacancies still exist in both units. 1937-38 drop in accidental deaths In the U. S.

was the greatest ever recorded in a single year, a reduction of 11,000. A FIRE NAZI MONEY RULES LONDON. German Jew has found a new way of defeating the Nazi currency regulations the tune of A British lawyer called to Berlin to take details of British stock certificates, watched astounded as his client threw them on the fire. After reaching England the refugee had the lawyer file a sworn statement as to the destruction of the certificates. Under British law this enabled him to obtain the necessary a of around $7.20.

Deaths from work accidents on farms numbered 4,300 in 1938, the greatest total for any single industry. LANCASTER RITES 1DABEL, Okla. (Special). Funeral services were conducted at the Church of Christ here on Thursday for Mrs. A.

L. Lancaster, 81, long-time resident who died Wednesday. The Rev. Howard Carter, Church of Christ minister, officiated. Burial was made in the Denison cemetery under the direction of ths Coffey Funeral Home of Idabel, She is survived by four daughters, Mrs.

Hardy of Idabel; Mrs. Mollie Lauderdale, Dallas, Mrs. Nicie Hanson, Ennis, Mrs. E. E.

Gunn, Ponca City; two sons, E. E. Lancaster, Childress, and J. J. Lancaster, Kerrville, one sister, Mrs.

Joe Dax'idson Neita, niece, Mrs. Fannie Flippins, and one nephew, Jim Davidson of Nelta, Tex. According to health statistics 60,000 babies are born in the United States each year with congenital syphilis. Twenty-three states since 1921 hsve passed acts levying taxes on cigarettes. SELECTIVE AIR CONDITIONS $5.00 Monthly MMERS-WADE FBRNITURE CO.

Japanese police statistics show that most crimes are committed by unemployed men. WHAT will a bark account do for You Your primary benefits arising from a bank' account are that you have money in a safe place, instantly available to buy the things you want or ready to meet any emergency. It's 1 ready to satisfy your hopes and ambitions to buy a home, a car, to pay for children's- education. Such a bank account is within the reach of regular saving of even small amounts. Such a goal is a worthy one.

this bank is ready to cooperate with you in way! OUR SERVICES AND ADVICE ARE COMPLETELY AT YOUR DISPOSAL FIRST NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation The Bank In Lamar County IT'S TOO HOT TO WEAR THESE DRESSES IN PARIS NOW! If You Are Going A Trip To A Cooler You'll Need If you we Thrifty Enough To Want to buying now for later wear HERE'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY Justine And Other Well Known DRESSES 7.95 VALUES 5.55 10.95 VALUES 7.77 These one and two-piece styles. Prints and solids, darks and lights, Delightfully pretty styles you'll be proud to wear on yocr for drees up street wear for sports for travel. Come in Monday, you'll probably find the very dress you admired so much earlier in the season but just put off buying it it's yours now ct very generous savings! Half Price Sale Monday Of Regular 25c Quality SHEER COTTONS This special group offers you some of summer's lovetiest sheer cottons. PRINTED BATISTE, LOTUS LAWNS, DOTTED VOILES and other 36 to 39 inch 25c quality sheers. WW.P*™ You'll Like.

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Years Available:
1933-1999