Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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' Published in the HEART of the BRAZOS VALLEY
KEEP ’EM FLYING
VOLUME XLVII.
NAVASOTA, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 25, 1942 •
NUMBER XI
Farmers Faced
Has Rubber Answer?
Fifty-Six Are
Brule Says Council
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C.
60A Is Not Requesting
Candidates for
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ell, Robert Nemir, W. R. Odem, Jr.. —
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Jr., George Wingard.
Jr., Dorothy Worbington,
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be in Palestine for the last rites. the Java Sea.
Mrs. Kohler, Jr., will be remembered
“There is nothing to report from
here as the former Mise Reba Lord. other areas."
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SCOREBOARD: March 15, 1942
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Total
PerOent
E. Bonds
F. Bonds
Quota
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TOWN
30,747.
consultant to the South-
years was
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20,000.00
37.01
7,400.35
6,956.25
100.00
19.8
1,800.00
lota...____
960.30
74 n
63,000.00
3,712.50
6,546.80
457.65
33,000.00
11,463.90
34.7
52,000.00
1,000.00
13,699.00
26.4
305.85)
30,000.00
3,056.25
4,056.25
13.5
from
were Ian
30,821 00
TOTALS---
at the spring Round-Up, March 27- the Mediterranean basin. Java, Dar-
win, and other battle areas.
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With Shortage
Of Cotton Seed
Loss of Two More U. S. Destroyers
Around Java Brings Total to 21;
Ships Reported Missing Early in March
Garvin
Frances
11,006.25
12,398.75
Navasota------
Richards—-I
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378,900.00
32,000.00
derson, Ethelee Mask, Louise Mick-
an, Patsy Ruth Miller, Aldon Mitch-
tin Spell of
Washington-,
1,200.00
412.50
5,343.75
80,456.26
3,431.25
130,438.06
3,701.50
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BUY
Australia to Care
For U. S. Wounded
. $
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treated in Austr
pitals with wound.
Whitehall________-...
Stoneham. ...__
Plantersville.....
The navy communique, No. 61, an-
nouncing the loss of the Edsall and
Pillsbury said;
"Far East—The United States de-
stroyers Pillsbury and Edsall have
been reported missing since early
March and must be presumed lost.
The next of kin of the personnel of
the Pillsbury and Edsall have been
Informed accordingly.
' “The Pillsbury is believed to have
been lost in the vicinity of Bali Strait
subsequent to the naval engagement
in the Java Sea which was reported
in communique No. M.
8,775.00
2,231.25
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Varnado, Bernice Waller, Fritz Well-
man, Jr., of Washington, Walter Og-
Anderson:__________
Bedias_______....
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Roane Prairie.
Homer Pilkington, a former stub
dent in Heidelberg, believes he has
found a substitute for rubber. Pil-
kington said he used a plant from
his farm at Salisbury, Md., for the
base-and treated it with chemicals.
Samples have been sent to Washing-
ton for analysis. Photo shows the
44-year-old farmer with a sample of
his product.
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munisue No. 24) and the Battle of
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Sheppard. In a statement Monday.
mied
600,000 German
Reserves Hurled
Against Reds
Soviet Leader
Reports No
Changes at Front
MOSCOW, Mar. 26—The Germans
have hurled 600,000 reserves into a
massive but futile effort to wrest
Palestine Resident
Dies on Tuesday
G. J. Kohler, Sr.,, of Palestine died
at his home Tuesday, it was learn-
ed here today.
Funeral services were held this af-
ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Kohler,
Jr., left Natchez, Miss., Tuesday to
ungohomsrdomn
said operators who had not
Moseley Wright, Anderson,
The last report from the Edsall
placed here in waters south of Java.
These destroyers were units of the
original United States Asiatic fleet-
which has been used since the be-
ginning of the war in an attempt to
frustrate the Japanese invasion of
the islands of the Southwest Pacific.
The ships, of this fleet were fought
with distinction as units of the allied
naval forces at Macassar Strait (com-
muniques numbers 32. 33. and 34),
Lombok Strait. Ball Strait (com-
Shiro, Robert Druckhamer; Franklin
George Dupree, Robert Fleming.
Also Fay Garner,. Rex Bryan Gar-
rett, wima Harrington, Mildred
Frances Harris, Roy Mac Horloek,
Lawrence Fritz Jensen of Washing-
ton, Joyce Jones of Anderson, Mary
ern Pine Association In
leans.
90.85
263.26 J
344.10
Lucile Yarborough, and Imogene
White.
ing and are also advising farmers
where additional stocks of desirable
' planting seed of the higher yielding,
better staple varieties may be ob-
tained.
“The call has come from Washing-
ton for a greater production of cot-
ton from tthe fuH allotment of 27,-
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WORLD WAR I CLASS HONORED
The University of Tatas’ World
War I <dasa—IblT—will be honored
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Public Schools to
Have Easter Holidays
The Navasota Public Schools will
observe April 3 to April 6 as Easter
Holidays.
This will mark the first time that
the school has observed an Easter
vacation.
The destroyers had been missing
since early March. The navy said
that the last word came from the
Pillsbury when she was in teh vicin-
ity of Bali Strait after the great Java
Sea battle of Feb. 27-28, during which
the allies lost 13 ships, including the
United States cruiser Houston and
the destroyer. Pope. The Japanese
with numerically superior forces, suf-
fered known ship casualties of only
seven vessels sunk or damaged in
that battle.
The Edsall was last head from in
“waters south of Java," the navy
said.
Whether either ship actually had
the initiative from the red army, the wilson
Russians reported Tuesday, and a 1 ,__..
participated in the Java- Sea engage-
ment was not made known. Possibly
they were on other duty at that time
■but were trapped when the Japanese
through that battle won naval su-
premacy in the waters around Java.
Both the Houston and Pope and sev-
eral others of the 13 Java battle vic-
tims were lost in that way, having
encountered Japanese forces when
they were trying to escape to .Aus-
tralia.
Navy’s Communique
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wiu divide his time between teach-
ing and the A. A M. College Engin-
eering Experiment Station.
A graduate of Purdue and Tu-
lane universities, Hansen for ten
..Threnavy men pictured on their way to the White House to confer
with President Roosevelt on the Far Eastern war situation. They are,
Ann Langford of Millican, George '•« W right, Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of th»U. S. fleet,
Letlow, Jr, Bule MCCown of An- who hasibeen placediin charge of the activities of the navy;secretary of
Knox, and Adm. Thomas C. Hart, retired commander
of the Allied forces in the Far East. ) a
Stamps ।
34,722.80
270.26,
New Or-
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Navasota Daily Examiner
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Report on Far Eastern War Situazl:
Texas Truck Drivers
Warned of Fines
AUSTIN, Mar. 26-State Comptrol-
ler George H. Sheppard warns truck
operators who have not filed re-
ports for Intangible tax assessment -
that the filing deadline has passed
and they are subject to fines up to
$6,000.
G. P. Pearson, Jr., Naldia Peteete of
Singleton, Gertrude , Evelyn Powell
of Singleton, Velma Adair Quinn,
Hildegarde Reese of Washington.
Also Lee Scrivener, Rosa Leona
Shook of Singleton, Jane Lou Short,
Sylvia Eugene Sloane, May Dell
Sommers of Washington, Joe Quin-
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CANBERRA, Australia, Mar. 25.
Army Minister Frameia M. Forde an-
nounced Tuesday the Australian ar-
my had undertaken to provide hos-
pital attention for wounded United
States soldiers for three months.
Arrangements thereafter have not
been made but it was indicated U.
s. facilities might then be estab-
lished.
Forde said Allied soldiers from
northern war theatres were being
entire front Monday against 15
soviet losses.
Units of the soviet fleet operating
in the Barents Sea were credited
with sinking a German submarine.
Front line dispatches said one of
Hitler’s reserve divisions on the Ka-
linin front northwest of Moscow at-
tempted a counter attack with 50
tanks, only to be routed with the
loss' of 700 nazis killed and 17 of
their tanks.
High School Diploma
Senior Class
Members Are
Listed
Fifty-six students are candidates
for diplomas from the Navasota
High School, Principal C. W. Lucas
said today.
Senior examinations will be held
the first part of May, and activities
and entertainments for the class will
follow.
Members of the senior class are:
Frances Alexander, Annie Zula Al-
len of Anderson, Mildred Loren#
Breland, Joel Chaney, J. c. Chaney,
Jr., Jerriel ©lepper, Henry Douglas
Crawfora of Millican, Robert Brew-
ton Curry, Gladys Kay Davis of
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safeguard against poor stands of
plants which results in low yields.
The cost Of the treatment is small
and the benefits to be gained often
far exceed the small amount of
trouble apd experse involved. Tests
conducted by the Texas Agricultural'
• Experiment Station, reported in Tex-
as Station Bulletin 531, show that
seed treatment increased the num-
ber of seedlings from 11 to 65 per
cent and the yield of cotton from 4
to 25 per cent as a result of the in-
crease in stand of healthy plants.
“The cottonseed oll mills of Texas
and Oklahoma are showing a keen
interest in the present shortage of
good quality . planting seed. Many
wills have submitted samples of their
seed stocks for germination tests
to determine their value for plant-
two more old four-stacker destroy-
ers of the United States Asiatic fleet
in the enemy-dominated seas around
Java was reported by the navy de-
partment, raising to 21 the total of
American naval vessels destroyed
since last fall.
The ships were the 1190-ton Pills-
bury and Edsall, each of which had
a normal complement of about 145
officers and men. The number of
those on board when they last were
heard from was not given,
Missing Since Early March
Stoneham, Worth Stoneham, J. M.
Sullivan, Jr., Martha Marie Sullivan,
William Joe Terrell, J: G. Thomas of
Anderson, Dowell Trant, Imogene
Petition Filed for
Re-Election of
Present City Council
Petitions have been signed by
twenty-five qualified voters to place
the names of the present members
of the city council on the ballot for
re-election.
The petition asks re-election of
Mayor M. C. Peters, A. J. Youens,
L. A. Millican, L. N. Yeager, and Dr.
H L Stewart. .
The city election is scheduled Ap-
ril 7, before which time any other
petitions for additional candidates
for commissioner must be filed.
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Matsuoka Is Reported
Envoy to Vatican
LONDON, Mar. 25—The Paris ra-
dio broadcast a report Tuesday that
'Yosuke Matsuoka, former foreign
minister, had been appointed Japa-
nese ambassador to the holy see
while Cardinal Morelli would be ap-
ostolio delegate to Japan. The Amer-
ican-educated Matetoka, largely re
sponsible for Japan's alliance with
Germany and Italy, has been out of
office since last July.
Agronomist Says
. Care Must Be Taken
In Selecting Seed
COLLEGE STATION, Mar. 25 -
Farmers are faced with a serious
shortage of good quality cotton seed
in many sections of Texas and Ok-
lahoma for planting the 1942 crop,
according to D. T. Killough, agron-
' omist, Texas Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, A. & M. College. Ger-
wmination tests conducted by the
state department of agriculture at
Astn and Lubbock show that much
of the seed in Texas is below normal
in germination. In Oklahoma the
percentage germination of a large
number of samples of seed tested
from various parts of the state rang-
ed from 2 to 96 and averaged 44.3.
‘These facts indicate clearly that
care must be exercised in selecting
seed for planting the 1942 crep." Mr.
Killough pointed out. “If there is any
doubt whatever about the viability
of the seed then germination tests
should be made, and where the ger-
mination is low, good viable seed
should be obtained from reputable
seed breeders or growers.
“Cotton seed for planting, whether
home-grown or not, should be treat-
ed with new improved ceresan to
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400,000 acres to meet the growing
need of the national defense program.
Farmers can best answer the call by
planting only the better varieties of
cotton seed of known satisfactory
germination and preferably seed
which have been treated to control
seedling disease.” _
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Steel, Concrete
Shortage Brings
Texas Timber Back
COLLEGE STATION, Mar. 25. —
Shortage of steel and concrete brings
* Texas timber back into: the picture
as a prime building material; and
Texas A. & M. College has employ-
ed Howard J. Hansem, specialist in
design of wooden engineering struct
tures, it was announced by Dean
Gibb Gilchrist of the School of En-
gineerihg.
Hansen has joined the staff of the
Civil Engineering department, and
New WPA Project
Job Okayed in ‘41,
But War Changes
Picture, He Reports
Fifty men were suspended from
the WPA rolls here Tuesday, City
Manager R. J. Brule said today.
This makes a total of 115 men
that have been taken off the work
in the past week or so, he continued.
Fifty-five men have been retained
to complete the ’ parking lot and
drive-way between the two bridge*
on Highway No. 6 and Nolan Street.
"No future work has been ap-
proved by the city commission for the
extension, of the program, and the
completion of this work will prob-
ably result in a shutdown bf WPA
activities in Navasota," Mr Brule
said. ’
"The storm and sewer project for
Navasota was set aside by the WPA
offices on May 9, 1941, six months
before the outbreak of the war, but
When the war was declared I told
the commission that no additional
projects could be carried out with-
out additional finances and no def-
inite action was taken by the com-
mission," the city manager said,
"The, regional project called for ■
sanitary storm sewers, paying, side-
walks, and driveways with the fed-
eral government furnishing $44,855,00,
and the city to furnish $17,524.00.
making s total of $62,379 100," he went (
on to- add s
“Both sanitary and stornr sewer
projects were, to be financed partly
by city funds and partly by proper-
ty owners' assezsments. The main
trunk line 'was to have gone through
the alley from the Missouri Pacific
property past the E M. Perry Store
to the creek with lateral lines across
Farquhar Street, and Holland, thus
eliminating dips across Highway No.. /
6 and other streets in. the busineas
district, eight in all," the city man-
ager said.
"Other features in the project con-
sisted of 11 miles of sanitary sewer-
age in districts of the city which
now have no sewerage. The storm
sewer project was partly suggested
by the Highway . Department, who
wished to remove the four dips on
the highway," he added.
“The project was completed and
approved by the city commission
early in 1941 and given presidential
approval on May 9, 1941, but no work
order has been issued by the dia-
trict WPA office and the city com-
mission did not request the work, as
previously stated before, the war has
changed the picture,” he concluded.
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O. Bonds |
23,500.00
special announcement said 16,000 of
the enemy had been killed on the
Leningrad front alone,
More than 38 newly-arrived naai
divisions were declared to be takeng
part in fighting raging from one
end of the front to the other with
battles in some areas as savage as
any witnessed in this war.
But despite this gigantic effort by
the Germans, Tuesday's regular sov-
let communique said tersely that
during the day "no substantial
changes occurred at the front."
The subsequent special announce-
ment said the. 18,000 nazis were slain
from March 9 to 22 on the Lenin-
grad front by red army units which
captured enormous stores at booty,
including 2617 guns and rifles, sev-
en tanks, 6040 shells, 15,481 mines,
482,200 rounds at ammunition, 4170
hand grenades, and a number of ra-
dio transmitters.
In this area during the same pe-
riod it listed 86 German planes de-
stroyed.
The regular communique said that
31 planes were destroyed along the
Assistance Asked
In Seeing School
Census Complete
Patents whose children have not
been enumerated on the school cen-
sus by D M. Mayfield or M. - E
.Boone during this month are asked
to call the school.
All children who will be six years
of age on or before September 1
should be enrolled. Mr Boone,said,
adding that any not enrolled at this
time will have to-present a birth cer-
tificate-before beginning school this
fall. ’
The scholastic census for the school
year 1942-1943 must be completed
during March. “If the census trus-
tees have missed you, it is import-
ant that you ntify the achool so
that the enumerators can call and
get the census blanks filled out,” Mr.
Boone concluded.
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“,“00 MS."
Shiro, William Stolz Of < -
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 1942, newspaper, March 25, 1942; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1383029/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.