Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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JIM HOGG COUNTY ENTERPRISE
21, 1941
'Jim ^000 (Homttg 'ptttrrprac
Entered as Second Class matter May 5, 1926, at tne
Postoffice at Hebbronville, Texas, under the Act of
March 8, 1879.
Published Every Thursday at Hebbronville, Jim Hogg
County. — Official County Organ.
W. A. Dannelley & J. Frank McGee
Owners and Publishers
J. Frank McGee, Editor
NOTICE:—Obituaries and Poetry are published In this
paper at the rate of 1 cent per word. A charge of $1.00
is made on Cards of Thanks. Stories of deaths and funerals
published in time to retain the news value are not
rated as obituaries.
Any Erroneous Statement Regarding Facts, Corpor-
ations, Firms or Individuals will be Gladly Corrected when
Called to the Publisher’s Attention.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
To Subscribers Residing in Jim Hogg, Webb, Duval, Starr
Brooks and Zapata Counties: One Year---$1.50
To Subscribers Residing Outside Jim Hogg, Webb, Duval,
Starr,Brooks and Zapata Counties: One Year--$2.00
ADVERTISING RATES:
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25 per cent Extra. Readers lc per Word First Insertion
and 2c per Word for Subsequent Insertions. Tabulated
Matter and Solid Composition in Display, Extra._
AMERICA’S DEFENDER
Body Plant Gets Auto Industry’s First Navy “E”
WHO has been the better defender of America—Roosevelt,
who tried to stifle the beginning of Hitler’s war and called upon
others to help him from 1935 up until the very day when the war
actually began, or the Wheelers, the Nyes, the Lindberghs, the
Hoovers, and the other Roosevelt critics, who struck down Roosevelt’s
hand with their criticism every time he dared to raise it in that
holy cause of Peace?
WHO has been the better defender of America—Roosevelt
who began in 1935 to build a greater Navy to lie around American
shores, or Senator Wheeler, who opposed him?
WHO has been the better defender of America—Roosevelt
who in 1939 tried to build a greater air force for America, or
Senator Wheeler and Senator Nye, who opposed him?
WHO has been the better defender of America—Roosevelt
who tried to put weapons in the hands of those who stood before
Hitler, or Senators Wheeler and Nye and their allies who opposed
him?
WHO has been the better defender of America—Roosevelt
who after Dunkerque, when Britain was absolutely stripped of guns
and ships for her own defense, let her have these guns and ships
from our old war stocks, or the Wheelers and the Nyes and their
allies, who denounced him?
WHO has been the better defender of America—Roosevelt
who, when the battle of the Atlantic and Hitler’s assassinating sub-
marines had shrunken Britain’s hard pressed Navy, had let Britain
have fifty old but reconditioned American destroyers, and got in
return therefor Naval bases to screen the Eastern coast of America
and the Panama Canal, or the Wheelers and the Nyes and their
allies, who denounced him for it?
WHERE would America be today if she had followed the
counsel of these critics, instead of the leadership of her President,
who has dedicated his life to keeping both Hitler and war from our
fair land?—U. S. Senator, Claude Pepper, Democrat, of Florida.
A HITLER’S TRIUMPH—THEN WHAT?
WHEN it is urged by those concerned with American na-
tional defense that a Hitler triumph would spell slavery for the
non-Nazi world, some people are inclined to regard the statement
as a propagandist exegeration. Wild as it sounds, it is a simply
actuality.
The totalitarian project is the establishment of a system
under which the supremacy of one set of Germans will be establish-
ed . They are to constitute a universal aristocracy, arrogating to
themselves all the power, all the wealth and all the opportunities of
a superior race. This is not according to the Hitler program to
embrace all the German people. The German farmer, for example,
must stick to the farm. He may not sell it or mortgage it except
with express consent of the Government. It descends to his oldest
son, whomust marry a farm girl. Gradually the system is being
extended to industrial workers, mechanics, etc. The younger sons
are to be taken into the army and subsequently be supplied with
farms of their own in the conquered countries.
Higher education is being restricted to a small class of the
ruling Germans. As .Douglas Miller, who was our Commercial At-
tach^ in Berlin during the whole of the Nazi regime, put it, this
restriction "will soon allow exact scientifle and technical knowledge
to die out among the slave peoples. After a generation they will
be unable to use the tools of modern science as their own." Mr.
Miller mentions also another group of leaders, who will constitute
what amounts to a superfine gangster mob in the government
service. "They must be fanatically loyal to Hitler and the Nazi
movement and imbued with the idea of the master race and their
chosen privilege as leaders. This group will not be burdened by
conscientious doubts and inner troublings of the spirit."
'T’HE United States Navy’s cherished
"E’’ sward for excellence now flies
from the staff of the Fisher Body die
and machine unit in Detroit. The "E”
pennant—the highest service award
in the Navy—was presented to the
Fisher plant for its excellence and
ahead-of-schedule production of naval
ordnance. The Fisher plant was the
first in the automotive industry to
receive the coveted award.
Rear Admiral Wat T. Cluverius
presented the ”E’’ pennant to Edward
F. Fisher, vice-president of General
Motors and general manager of its
Fisher Body division, in a colorful
ceremony at the plant. In making the
presentation, Admiral Cluverius said
the Fisher die and machine unit was
the "finest naval machine shop’’ he
had ever seen. •
High ranking officers of the ninth
navsl district, executives of General
Motors and the 1,500 employes in the
plant witnessed the presentation and
the raising of the flag.
Pictured above is Fisher, left, as he
received the pennant from Admiral
Cluverius, center, while a member of
the color guard waited to hoist it to
the plant flag staff.
The “E" pennant will fly below the
naval ordnance flag, which was pre-
sented simultaneously to the plant.
The plant also is entitled to paint a
large block "E” on its stack—similar
to the Navy practice by which crew
winners of the award inscribe an “E”
on the ship funnel or gun turret. *
DEFENSE
BONDS
QUIZ
Q-
A.
Q
A.
Can my children by Defense
Savings Stamps?
Yes. Hundreds of thousands
of American children are buy-
ing Stamps regularly as their
share in the national savings
program.
Why should children be en-
couraged to buy Savings
Stamps?
Because by buying Stamps
they write their names on a
Roll of honor of Americans
who are doing their part to
show the dictators that united
America will never flinch to
preserve her sacred liberty.
After my child has collected
enough Stamps to exchange
for a Bond, can the Bond be
registered in the child’s name?
Yes. A minor may own a De
fense Savings Bond. Many
parents are registering Bonds
in their children’s names to
prepare for future educational
needs.
NOTE.—To purchase Defense Bonds
and Stamps, go to the nearest
post office or bank, or write for
information t<^the Treasurer of
the United States, Washington,
D. C.
Q
A.
ARMY CAMP THEATRIC
ALS TO BE INSTALLED
A nation-wide program of Army
Camp Theatricals is to be installed
under the direction of trained civil-
ian driectors, as the result of two
test projects, one of which was car-
ried out last spring by a University
of Texas man at Fort Bliss, Texas,
it has been announced.
First step in the movement to af-
ford wholesome diversion for soldiers
in camp — sponsored by the Nation-
al Theatre Conference and financed
by the Citizens Committee for the
Army and Navy, Inc.—is to place
civilian directors in each of the nine
corps areas of the U. S. Army.
Gordon M inter, assistan professor
of technical production in the Uni-
versity’s department of drama, was
one of two men selected last spring
to set up a program of dramatics as
a “trial balloon” for this nation-wide
undetaking.
CLASSIFYING CHURCH
MEMBERS
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence has been granted
by the University of Texas to Dr.
D. C. Reddick, associate professor
of journalism, for the first semester
of the 1941-42 session to permit him
to teach at Columbia University. Dr.
Reddick is well-known throughout
Texas through his direction of the
University Interscholastic League
Press Conference, composed of higs
scsool newspapers.
Church members are a mixed lot.
They can be divided into these classes
"Futurists—who are always going
to go to church soon, and wish they
were not booked up every Sunday.
"Specialists—who come to church
only on very special occasions.
"Roadsters—who work so hard
they must rest on Sunday, the rest
consisting of traveling far and fast
all day Sunday, and returning dead
tired.
"Drifters—who go around from
church to church. They give no
church their loyalty.
"Sermon tasters—who worship the
preacher more than the Lord.
"Radio worshipers—who give no
collection." —Watchman-Examiner
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Middlebrook
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Franks
spent Thursday and Friday in San
Antonio.
* * * *
We are glad to have Mr. and Mrs.
Buddy Shelton home again, and to
see Mr. Shelton’s smiling face back
in the Hebbronville Motor Co.
UNITED GAS PIPE LINE
COMPANY TO CONS-
TRUCT SUPPLY LINE
United Gas Pipe Line Company an-
nounced Tuesday that construction
of a 200-mile natural gas pipe line
has been started to supply the in-
creasing fuel requirements of indus-
tries and cities in Louisiana and
along the Gulf Coast of Mssssiipi and
Alabama to Pensacola, Florda.
The new line will run from the gas
fields of southern Louisiana across
Lake Pontchartgain to Madjenville,
La., eastward to Gulfport, Miss., and
thence to Mobile, Alabama, At Mande
ville another line is being laid to
Covington, Louisiana. It has been
estimated that 56 per cent of the
line’s capacity of approximately 8Q
million cubic feet <Iaily will be used
by industries engaged in fillling na-
tional defense contracts.
The crossing of Jake Pontchatrain
will be the longest underwater natu-
ral gas pipe line in the world. A
single line, 14 inches in diameter,
will traverse the 25 miles of water
from the southwestern bank to Mande
ville on the northern shore. Cons-
truction on this section of the line
will start the latter part of August.
The new line will tie-in to existing
lines at several points and at Mobile
wll connect with the Pensacola later-
al line constructed several years ago,
but built large enough to handle suf-
ficient gas for all the requirements
of the growing Pensacola industries
and the U. S. Naval Training station
near that city.
United Gas Pipe Line Company’s
main transmission lines will, upon
completion of the new project, en-
circle a large portion of the Gulf
South. This part of the United sys-
tem extends from the fields in lower
Louisiana northward to Shreveport,
Louisiana, anl across to Monroe, La.
and Jackson, Mississippi southward
to Mobile and Pensacola. The new
line completes the loop by linking
Mobile and intervening points with
the Terrebonne parish gas wells, runn
ing from west to east. The Lines are
supplied from numerous gas fields
which are tapped all around the big
circle.
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Office Next to
Enterprise
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