The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1943 Page: 6 of 6
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THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
It's Gertie From Bizerte
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Branch Numbers Added to Addresses Junetcenth Plans
in Effort to Speed Up Mail Delivery Made for Annual
No Punishment Is Comanche Affair
Allowed for Nazis
DALLAS, Tex., June 0 (U.R)
The German military prisoners
who escaped early today from the
BRANCH MEMBERS PI JUMP.
Manpower shortages within
potal department ranks were the
the main reason in the new change
in mail addr sses in all large!1 i •£ O f* L J
cities, so Acting Postmaster Joe j J| |\C~ vflBtUrGQ
C. Stubenrauch explained today. |
Addition of a 'vanch post office
number to the address on mail
being sent to large cities went into
effect June 1, when millions of re-
sidents had been advised of the
number hereafter required on their
official addresses.
According to the new set-up,
each branch office in a town whose
post office is large enough to have
branches has been assigned a num-
ber of its own. Each letter going
to a resident or business office in
thj section served by that branch
office must carry, in addition to
the usual information previously
carried on the envelope's address,
Two full days of activities will
b;' held June IS and 19, at Booker
T. Washington Park, Comanche
Crossing, according to plans being
made by negro residents of this
section.
J. W. Heard, president of the
committee in charge, has announc-
Camp Hood internment aiea were e(^the theme of this annual cele-
recently transferred to the camp hrn,jon mai king thP signing of the
tor work on military roads and: Emancipation Proclamation will
ether duties, according to Col. Dan- 1 thjf. ye;u. b(1 ..what We shculd Do
iel B. Byrd, Chief of the Eighth | To j,p,p Rl.inK victory To Our
Service Command's Alien and Pri- pountry
soners of War Branch.
Colonel Byrd declined to say [ Recreational, educational, and j
from what area the men trans-; religious activities will be included j DA^t A r\AniU
ferred. He said the prisoners work- j in the full two-day program being JsjVCIltS oClOFC fi/C <111
ed on roads and cut wood for fuel, j planned. Beginning Friday after-
,Vhen re-captured, the priso\ noon at 2:30 o'clock, such games as DALLAS, I ex., June
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1943.
Accidental Death
Is Claimed Today
TULSA, Okla., June 9 (U.R) —
The defense in the manslaughter
trial of Mrs. Ella B. Howard as-
serted today that socially promi-
nent Mrs. T. K. Simmons, wife
a millionaire oil man, was shot to
death accidentally in a struggla
for possession of a pistol,
The defense called its first wit-
noises to substantiate the claim
Proclamation, will present L. G.
„ , , ,, . j that Mrs. Simmons, a nationally
McDonald of Ferris, Texas, and , . . , ...
known horse fame r, came to Mrs.
Howard's room In n fashionable
hotel here and threatened her with
the gun. Mrs. Simmons was shot
to death last March 25.
Charles Ingram, Sr. of Free-
port, spent the week end with his
family here.
prayer meeting scheduled for 6:00
o'cl ek will be held, followed by
Memorial Services at 11:00 o'clock.
Singing by united choirs of local
chinches will lie included on the
program, whose invocation will be
given by the Rev. A. I'i rl i ; scrip-
ture lesson by the Rev. M. H.
Bilkley; and sermon by the Rev.
Troy Sparks.
Dinner at 1:0() o'clock Saturday
will honor ex-slaves.
A final !1:00 o'clock meeting be-
ginning with music and including
a reading of the Emancipation
C. E. IlnriiHnn of Prairie View
College in talks.
The committee in charge.of the
program includes Heard, Frank
Bi isco nnd Roseoe Murphy.
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Private Tells About
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The fame of this glamorous girl has traveled the length of North Africa In song and story, and here
she is in the flesh—or, rather, the plaster. Sergt. V. M. Gemelli found the mannequin in front of a
wrecked shop in bombed Bizerte and pro mntly decided she was the famous Gertie.
sunrise
Severe tfeu Seqiw . . . Mhcur £aclt
, Next Aleutian Battlefront? ,
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3996 FT.
I Jap figltter plunc airficly,
submarine base and weathar
stotion on Kijka Herbor are
targets of American attack
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Kiska Islandv last Jap foothold in the Aleutians, may be attacked
by Americans in a quick follow-up of the victory on / ttu. U. S.
watfrplanes have already blasted enemy installations or/ Xiska
Harbor# n ri.I.-ls averaging 100 a month. The fight for Klska may
be haiucr, fir Japs have been here continuously since last June
arid have a larger garrison than they had on Attu.
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Wets Bi nhm Bick
Wien
For Pel
Former Teacher
Commander atSan
Diego Naval Post
TOS ANGELES. J.ine 9 (U.R)
An r.'*■ mi' t•' kin :n;>)lkeman by
tntifllR? hi iV.n'n \\ iJ li an auto
mehilc hr ii11)t■ )!.'• I the driv.< a-
p'ainsl ynnirr tv i • tnl Mexican
llvmIIiitv'■ clad in ;. i | its today
in til" • i Cnn late made, an
iffkdrl i " rt rf h • .!::.turbanco5
ti itr, f" >vi: rnrri'-nt.
rntr'd:v!<n ' i y ' f Ver-
ron wiis '! - th ■ .h a hr- ken
back aft - r 'ifin.r 1 n d into a "zoot
flit trap." Modlfj - ■ i l ho stepped
i-;t.o t.h" *i r." t to investigate when
h ' raw a man lviiv.r there. As he
Flapped fr">n ll,'' urli. ho said, an 1
t'titomobilf park- ! tit lit* curb sud-
c'nly started up mid ran him down.
The nan Jyinpr on ihe street ap-
raHotly «r«t ip an'1 ran away. (
"Th y wcr" II M cr bans," Med-
J-y sail, "even tin decoy in the
• treet."
Vernon, vlv re the patrolman
va1? injrired, is an industrial sub-
rrb of Los Angeles' which the Navy
lys deel>i"d "out of bounds" be-
cause of the r'o! ing bet.wettn ka.il-
i 's rnd. youn;r haodl.im wearers
r * the soot suit.. P.y its order tlje
Tavy hoped to tt;d the fist fights,
1 dfines, nnd tnlnfTwhich have
raged for five days and caussd the
Mexkan Consulate te report V
the Washini^ton Enibnsxy and th_
Foreign Office at Mexico City.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilly Crlder are
tie parents of a daughter l>orn at
a local hospital late Saturday. June
r\ The be by weighed < i'rht pounds
i id ten ounct :ind has been nnm-
«:d Frances Ellen. Mr. and Mwi.
' '-'or h:iv> <inf~ other child, a sen.
liill, age 2. Mrs. Crlder is the
i fhter of Mr. arid Mrs. Cox
X odnax
Central Texas on
l ookout Today for
Armed Desperado
ri.ERURNE, Tpx., June 9 (U.R)
—Slate and lecal officers spread
out between Cleburni and Waxa-
ha -Vii t"day in a manhunt for a
•.vell-ermed desperad > believed to
he Rrlvrt MfEarchern of l.ab-
h"> k. who fl?d from Retrieve Pri-
sm Farm last week.
Latest clue to the whereabouts
of the fugitive, who stole at least!
two cars, robbed a filling station
and kidnapped a farmer during
yesterday, came ear!;/ today \vh« n
one cf the auomobik'F was found
r.ba'i.luifd n ar i*£,.,,ado.
l'l( > abounds •*,ei.; imported :i( ai
Fort Worth ai't ir the car wax I
foiui'l' this mori'lrg, but, .• ♦. «'a\- j
break no rej,,.r! %>'as availahl" n (
the pro>rr:s- of the rpnnhun
The farmer was kidnapped by !
a young man carrying a rifle who ,
drove away in the car after re- !
leasing the fervr.er went of town i
The kidnaper tehn doubled back j
into Alvarado and held up a fill-i
it strfion before abandoning the
armer's vehicle.
TV sece nd ear wai. stol-«i wle n
He held up a car on tiiu highway.tl
T1 vas eceuo'ed bv three soldiers' !
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wives and several children, in-1
luding a "mall hahy. The man
'"ft the party at t.h:' roadside an I
reve a-.vay with the car and nion- [
y. some war hands 9 1 luggage '
aken from the wnnen and ehil-1
'ren. It was this car that was j
'ound near Alvarado.
The victims idnnlirio(l th" hold-1
I Mrs. Edwin Katten, of New Or-
, . . . 9' j lenas, La. arrived Monday for a
ers will be placed under a heavier ; soft hall and basc'i.ail will be play- Pvt Norris J. Hughes told a court. visit with her mother and sist'r,
guard. Colonel Byrd said. Prison-1 ed. At 8:00 o'clock Friday night, martial today of the events l"'*''" i Mrs. J. Desenherg rnd Mrs. Leigh-
the number of the branch post' ers of war are not punished for ; an educational program is to be ing up to the fatal choking of his ^on
ofiice concerned. Thus the only ' escapes. presented, featuring a talk by Carl attractive 20-year-old^ife. I
wsy the new requirement affects' — . Rrss, Negro County Agent of On direct examination, he said San Francisco's 1912 tuberculosis
the general public is that those i A. R. Price, of Italy, was a busi- Limestone County. that duiing a quarrel he grabbed Christmas senl wle was more than
coiresponding with people livipg ness visitor in Mexia Tuesday. Saturday, June 19, a sunrise Mis. Hughes. -80,000, the largest in history,
in larger towns with branch post 1
offices must learn the number of J
their branch post office and affix
it to every pi:ce of mail in the
future.
The new system speeds up the
separation of mail for distribution
to branch offices and permits much
more rapid handling of mail by ih-,
experienced postal clerks, thous-
ands of whom have recently ve- >
placed personnel who have gone
into 11;•• armed forces or war in-
dustries.
An example of ths new typs of
address is:
Anthonv Withevspoon
232 Mattapan Ave.
Dallas 7
Texas
The number alter the name of
the city indicates the branch po.it
rffic through whi'h delivery i3
nnd". Mexi-i. having no branch
post offices, will not have its lo-
f"l inai|in*r rddresses changed by
this recent innovation. '
However, local residents are ur-
gently [equated tc inquire of their
correspondents in large cities con- ,
cerning the number assigned to j
the city resident.'.' branch post of-'
fice. Delivery of mail will be de-1
layrd considerably to such places
if the branch number is not used. .
Local post office employees say!
the new sys tent will expediate de-1
livery of mail considerably.
OVEN CANN
Commander Raymcnd C. Peery,
chairman of an examining board
which interviews applicants for
- fficers candidate's school at the | "f m"n MeEnrchern by pictures
F. S. Naval Training Station, San ! "hown fhr'v hy
Dieg.", California, was a former j
teacher in the public school system !
hero, friends made while he was j
here duiing boom days learned to-
day. j
Tommy Hendrix, who came be-
fore the hoard recently, and who
is stationed in San Diego, passed
the word back after talking with
Commander Peery at some length.
M ery began his teaching ca-
reer in Mexia as a high school
science teacher, residents here will
recall, after having finished at
Stanford University. He taught
here fr.r some tint?, staying with
the late Phil Earner, Sr.
Recalled to California hy his
mother's illness, he subsequently
became director of public schools
in that state. Since Hendrix talk°d
with him, Peery has been trans-
ferred to the position of director
i f the Navy College Training Pro-
gram.
Peery evidently lemembered his
oil boom experiences here vividly,
MESQIJ1TE NEWS
Bethel Willnrd nnd Lee Caddell
had business in Mart last Tuesday.
Miss Barbara Rogers spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. T. A.
Cargils.
Mrs. Will Popojoy of this com-
munity and Mrs. Fountain Kirby
of Groesbeck vi"-ited in Thornton
one day last week.
Bethel Willard and family visit-
ed the Caddell's last Sunday.
We are glad to know that R. L.
Cadell and Thomas B. Popejoy
have landsd safely overseas.
Due to the muddy roads we did
not have service last Sunday after-
noon.
Rrss Howard spent Monday
night with his sister, Mrs. J. R.
Rhodes of Groesbeck.
Open Hearing on
Coal Dispute
WASHINGTON. Junne 9. (U.R)—
The War Labor Board today called
i public healing for tomorrow on
he coal wage dispute to receive
"such reports" as any party may
care to submit.
The board's order came as jockey-
ing In the operators-United Mine
Workers bargaining session indi-
cated that last-minute efforts were
being made to reach an agreement
which would cover northern soft
coal mines.
Southern mine operators, how-
ever, made is clear that they still
regarded the negotiations as hope-
Lssly deadlocked and were pre-
pared to submit a detailed report
to the War Labor Board on the
prints still in repute.
The northern operators were be-
accerding to Hendrix, who said he 1 lieved to be considering the pos-
thought the former teacher would . sibility of agreeing to payment of
enjoy getting in touch with anyone ■ $1.80 daily prrtal-to-portal pay
here who remembers him. ! pending an investigation to deter-
mjnp t|,e average miner's undcr-
W. J. Williams, of Dallas, was j ground travel time. It warf believed
a business visitor in Mexia Mon-1 John L. Lewis and the miners un-
doubtedly would agree ■ to such a
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Compton
are spending several days in Dallas
visiting in the home of their niece
and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Basyl
'G. Bates.
provMon.
Thp Vengeance is a two-seater
plane equipped with a 1000-h. p.
engine, and carries a capacity load
I of 2000 pounds.
ALTO SPRINGS
The good rain Saturday was
fine and crops look good. Canning
is ths order of the day for tho
women and girls,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kennedy en-
joyed her father's 72nd birthday
dinner Sunday at Kosse. All the
children were there.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lewis
spent th? week cm: at Blue Ridge
with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Funden-
burg.
Mrs. Madry of Mustang is visit-
ing her daughter, Mrs. Luther'
Williams.
Joe Lewis of Waco spent Sun-
day night in the home of his sister,
Mrs. J. C. Kennedy.
Miss Evelyn Alford of "Waco
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Springfield
of Jew. tt were Sunady visitors in
the Lloyd Springfield home.
Most of the 46 million dollars'
worth of new commercial laundry
machinery in 1943 will go to mili-
tary uses, some of it will be re-
served for civilian hospitals, but
almost none for around-the-corner
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laundries.
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All fruits and tomatoes, and tomato
mixtures containing at least 50 per
cent tomatoes, may be processed by
the oven method. However, Lone Star's
Home Economics Director, Albertine
Berry, does not recommend this
method unless the heat of the oven cnn
be accurately controlled and main•
tained, because a constant, even tem-
perature is most important. In oven
canning, follow these steps:
/
/' Be sure that the oven heat can be accurately con-
' trolled.
5? Preheat and maintain oven temperature at 250 de-
fm* grees, making sure that temperature does not build up
during the processing time.
3 Use only tempered jors ond check them to see tha*
• none are cracked or nicked around the rim.
ft Count processing time from the time oven door is
TT closed. In filling jar, have at least one holf inch head-
room at top.
5 In removing from the oven, be careful that cold air does
• not strike the hot jars. Pine them on several thick-
nesses of towel out of drafts until they have cooled to
prevent breakage.
if Complete seal immediately upon removing jars from
oven if necessary.
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Mrs. Floyd P. Williams, Mrs.1
Clyde Ezell, Mrs. Marcus Glover'
and Miss Datha Hawpc were Dal- |
las visitors Tuesday,
Art Martin of Corsicana was a
business visitor In Mexia TUcs-
day. ;f.i, ;
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