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larch 18, 1941
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At Barkeley LONtrol Voted
Weather today continued to al-
ter the training program of the 45th
division and unless conditions im-
prove field maneuvers scheduled
Thursday and Friday likely will be
postponed, division officers said.
All regiments staged road marches,
some within the camp, this morning.
Most of the hikes were for seven
or eigth miles with full packs.
The 179th infantry regiment,
commanded by Col. Murray Gib-
bons, carried out an alert order this
morning. Given only an hour s no-
tice. the entire regiment, fully
equipped, hiked to a designated IP
• initial point) and returned, all
AUSTIN, March 19.—(UP)—A bill to put much more stringent reg-
ulations on the sale of liquor by drug stores was approved today in the
Texas house of representatives by vote of 111 to 23.
The vote was on a motion by Rep. Dallas Blankenship of Dallas, the
author, to order the bill engrossed. The house failed to give the necessary
four-fifths majority vote to suspend rules so the bill could be passed
finally today.
The Blankenship bill limits each physician to 100 prescriptions for
whisky in any 90-day period; provides that each patient must be ex-
amined by the doctor; requires druggists to preserve complete records of
liquor sales for two years and make the records available to officers; and
forbids any drug store to keep more than 10 gallons of liquor in stock.
Opponents claimed that the bill would increase the number of boot-
within an hour.
Seventieth field artillery’ brigade,
commanded by Brig Gen. Raymond
6 McLain, engaged in its mobiliza-
tion training program, specialists
training and full pack hikes within
the camp
The 189th field artillery’ regiment
is scheduled to go on a reconnais-
sance. selection and occupation of
position maneuver tomorrow in the
Lake Abilene area
Weather permitting, the combat
teams of the 179th and 180th in-
fantry regiments will go to the large
maneuver area 15 miles west of
Camp Barkeley tomorrow for night
ind day exercises which will in-
elude night movement, assembly
and deployment followed by a day
attack. Combat teams of the 157th
and 158th infantry regiments are
scheduled for the same maneuver
Friday night and Saturday morn-
ing.
No activity, other than "house-
keeping” duties, was scheduled at
the camp this afternoon, the mid-,
leggers in dry territory and add greatly to the work of the Texas Liquor
Control board. Proponents stressed that dry areas were dry by popular
vote and that sale of liquor for beverage use is illegal.
The house defeated a substitute bill by Rep. Lon E. Alsup to permit
each doctor to write 100 liquor prescriptions a month; and to leave the
drug store permit license fee at $50 a year instead of reducing it to *10.
Alsup said that the legislature should "either do away with prescription
liquor sales or regulate them in at
reasonable manner."
After an apparent agreement had
been reached among senators on
the bill to limit truck loads, the
senate recessed
until tomorrow
morning without a vote. The recess
was ordered when a question was
raised as to constitutionality of in-
creasing penalties for second and
third violations of the weight limit.
The amendments agreed upon
adopt a weight formula that it was
decided would conform to the pro-
vision that overall weight for truck
and load
pounds
shall not exceed 38,000
Other amendments call
for a maximum of 10 hours driving
periods with at least eight-hour
rest periods and prohibit fee of-
ficers from collecting any fees for
enforcement of the act. This leaves
week half holiday. As usual, troops enforcement to salaried officers
will be given reaves from camp dur. such as state motor patrolmen,
ing the afternoon and night | weight inspectors of the railroad
commission and sheriffs or their
deputies.
By recessing instead of adjourn-
Cold Wave Fading
Over United States
By Associated Press
PRICE FIVE CENTS
KIS British Take Key Town in Ethiopia
........liers Hull Laid Waste by Nazi Bombers
Abilene's old Elks building is * *
For
rapidly becoming a modern army
recreation club.
To residents who, as a matter of
course, have come to consider the
building as outmoded, the reform-
ation will be a pleasant surprise.
Many probably have forgotten, too,
its size, much greater than an ex-
terior glimpse of the building sug-
gests.
The structure, two-story and
basement, is strikingly free of the
furbelows which usually adorned
buildings put up in its day. Lines
are modern, and its arrangement is
well adapted to recreational needs
—its original purpose.
NEED LIGHT FIXTURES
[ Now, painters are transforming
WHEN GERMAN WAR SUB STARTLED AMERICA
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Did
ospita
Building Asked
AUSTIN. March 11 — (PP)—A $3,-
270.000 building program for elee-
mosynary institutions is proposed in
a $16,636,744 biennial appropriation
bill sent to the floor today by the
senate finance committee.
Chairman A. M. Atkin Jr. of
Paris said the committee is at-
tempting to complete a four-year
building program in the next two
years in order to remove numerous
insane persons now housed in jails
because of lack of institutional fa-
cilities and otherwise improve the
system:
With few exceptions the new
buildings would be constructed in
the first year of the next biennium.
beginning Sept. 1.
Construction recommended
ing the senate left the bill pending
business for tomorrow morning the committee would benefit
The house adjourned until tomor-
Severe cold overspreading a large row.
part of the country appeared to be, _
breaking up today. Some sections Hot Debate Looms
ir the Midwest reported as much C1 L • i
as 20-degree rises in temperature On Sale-by-Drink
over yesterday. *
following institutions:
Abilene state hospital—Dor-
mitory and equipment. $80,000.
by
the
I musty walls into light, inviting
rooms again. Woodwork is being
cleaned, floors rejuvenated, and
shortly the arrangement of furnish-
ings will be in order.
Ceilings and walls down to a
three foot wainsc it are white.
The next need will be floures-
cent lighting fixtures to replace the
brass and ruffled-shade light fix-
tures now hanging in the various
rooms.
"We are in need of six or
eight flourescent lighting fix-
tures," a member of the cham-
ber of commerce recreation
committee said in a new appeal
this morning.
Big Spring state hospital—Four
ward buildings and equipment,
$130,000 each: chapel and recrea-
In Pennsylvania, New Jersey, AUSTIN. March 19—(AP—The is-
New York and the New England sue of legalizing liquor sales by the
states, however, there were strong . . ,__- .
northwest winds and gales, accom- drink today foreshadowed another
panied by snow squalls At opposite round of acrimonious debate in the |
extremas of the United States, Texas legislature.
Florida and Maine reported colder1 Posted on the house calendar for
weather. I eventual consideration as the re-
The weather in Southeastern sult of a 6-to-4 committee vote last
states generally was fair. Light night was a bill permitting sale of
rains were reported in South Texas cocktails and highballs, taxed at ___
-— --------I the rate of 10 percent, in counties dren’s dormitory and equipment,
- which had voted to adopt the plan $50,000
STOD THIINE Similar proposals in previous leg- e. .. . ” ,
DICE ana LINE islative sessions have failed. Farm Strike Asked
The drinks could be sold only by WASHINGTON. March 19-(UP)
dispensers whose food sales consti- —Senate Agriculture Committee
Chairman Ellison D Smith (D-SC)
Times may change bal what
remains forever unchanged is
American generosity. — Jean
Barraud, Marseilles official wel-
coming sn American Red Cross
ship.
And he took bread, and gave
thanks and brace it, and gave
unto them, saying. This is my
body which is given for you
this do in remembrance of me
—St Luke 22:19.
143 DEATHLESS DAYS
In City: Make, It 200:
| tuted at least 50 percent of their re-
M
By United Press
; Great Britain’s hard-hitting im-
I perial army today smashed another
i prop from under Benito Mussolini's
tottering East African empire by
capturing the key Ethiopian town
of Jijiga. •
The capture placed British forces,
within 70 miles of the railroad
which links Addis Ababa, the Ethio-
pian capital, with the sea coast at
Djibouti, French Somaliland.
LAST OUTSIDE LINK
Once the British cut that railroad
—the only link the Italians have
with the outside world except by
air—the fall of the capital presum-
ably will be only a matter of time.
There were indications that a
final assault on Cheren, the moun-
tain fortress of Eritrea, is in prog-
| ress and that the British soon may
A. U. S. navy launch is shown alongside the German submarine U-53 on Oct. 7, 1916,
A few hours earlier he had spok- 2. : navy launch IS shown alongside the German submarine U-53 on Oct. 7, 1916,
en for 96 yards of 72-inch unbleach- after the U-boat unexpectedly popped up off Newport, R. I., and briefly visited port with
ed sheeting and about three times -
that many yards of ball fringe for
drapes for the wide downstairs
windows Several merchants im-
mediately came to the rescue.
ROTARY GIVES $100
While the response for furnish- |
ings has not been as spontaneous |
as might have been expected, the
needs are being steadily met
Largest gift to date has been made
by the Rotary club—$100 in cash.
It will be used to equip the game
room on the main floor—for pur-
chase at cost of $35 worth of
dominoes, checkers, Chinese check-
tional building $90,000. ___________
Wichita Falls state hospital—Tu- lers. card games, etc and for mater-
berculosis hospital .nt equipment,'
*130.000. ward building and equip-
ment. *130 000
Gainesville school for girls—New
hospital and equipment, $85,000.
State tuberculosis sanatorium-
Dormitory building and equipment.
$120,000: administration and scien-
tific facilities building, $100,000.
Kerrville state sanatorium—Chil-
ceipts and who had qualified for today advocated a farm strike for
$2,500 annual licenses.
Rep Pat Dwyer of San Antonio, take
the bill's author, estimated it would
a year to force the government
to
steps so that agriculture
I - would not be left “to the exigen-
yield $16,000,000 a year for social cies of the market."
security purposes
The senate moved forward cau-
tiously on the $25 500.000 omnibus
River Treaty Signed
tax bill, its state affairs committee OTTAWA. Ont. March 19.-
authorizing a sub-group to sched- Canadian Press) — The St. Law.
ule hearings rence river power-seaway agree-
House committees on highways ment between Canada and the
| United States was signed today in
(See LEGISLATURE, Pg. 11, Col. 4) the names of the two countries.
Petain Appeals to U. S. for Food
ORENOBLE France March 19 —
(Pr—Chief of State Marshal Petain
told-his nation today That Ameri-
can aid is necessary for feeding
France He also announced that a
new French constitution would be !
drawn only after European peace
is concluded
"I have no need to tell you that
the question of taxes, the lack of
food and the depletion of stocks are
the object of all our pre-occupa-
tions and we count much upon
American aid. " Petain said
Speaking before a Grenoble audi-
ence and addressing the nation at
the same time by radio, the chief
of state said: "My duty is to pre-
pare for the day when France will
become free Main a treaty of peace
and a new constitution."
Notion Ready to Start
Shipments to Britain
WASHINGTON March 19 —
Only a few hours notice will be
needed officials said today, to start
assembling food supplies for ship-
merit to Great Britain.
When the order comes through, it
was explained all the surplus mar-
keting administration will have to
do is to increase the food orders
constantly being issued for domes-
tic relief distribution purposes
A detailed program for supplying
Britain with essential foods was ex-
pected In a few days
Agriculture department officials
expect pressure from Southern con-
gressmen to require the British to
take cotton. These officials said,
however that a shortage of ship-
ping space probably would elimi-
nate cotton, at least for the pres-
ent
Finland negotiated a $5,000,000
credit with the Export-Import bank
yesterday to be used here "primar-
ily for the purchase of food within
the next few months.”
Neutral Eire, pinched by the sea
ar, has a representative en route
here to seek supplies.
FOOD MAP OF EUROPE
FOOD SHORTAGE IUT NO
THREAT OF STARVATION
SHORTAGE APPROACHING
FAMINE
CRITICAL FOOD SHORTAGE ESPECIALLY
ENERGY PRODUCING FATS"
THREAT OF STARVATION
RUSSIAN OCCUPIED
(Information Unavailable I
NORMAL FOOD
SUPPLY
AX22%L‘c
(0%
,NORWAY
C.IPOLA
GERMANY A
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STATISTICS CONFORM TO FINDINGS OF AMERICAN RED CROSS
AND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EXPERTS
mail for the German embassy. Leaving Newport, she took station just outside the three-
mile limit and in quick succession sank five Allied ships before heading back across. The U.
S. has been informed that at least one of Germany’s U-boat fleet now is on its way across
the Atlantic. (More about Subs on Page 5.)
lals for 30 game tables. These lat-
ter will be built as a cooperative
work of the WPA housekeeping aid
project, in charge of Clara Jackson,
and the WPA receration project, di-
rected by Charlie Pond
In recognition of this $100 gift,
the game room will be named the
Rotary game room, It was announce-
ced. this morning.
APPEAL FOR CHAIRS
Yugoslavia to Join
Axis, Re' "
CAIRO, Egypt, March 19.—
(AP)—British forces have cap-
tured additional “important po-
sitions" south of besieged Che-
ren in Eritrea and repulsed
Italian counterattacks with “se-
rious losses" to the fascists, the
Middle East command an-
nounced today.
smash through the estimated 40,000
fascist defenders and seize Asmara,
capital of Eritrea.
If the British succeed in beating
down Italian resistance in Eritrea
where, it appears, the Italians have
concentrated the cream of their
Western Actor
NALL: __
WAfomA regular and colonial troops, further
VI WII V V VION | resistance on the part of the Duke
of Aosta Mussolini's East African
With a fanfare from the Hardin- Pro-consul, would become a hope-
Simmons Cowboy band and a less formality,
" Howdy, neighbor" from Mayor COLONISTS CLEAR OUT
Will W Hair. Ken Maynard, west- The British have the railroad
ern film star, was welcomed to I from Addis Ababa to Djibouti un-
Abilene today for pesonal appear- der air bombardment and plight of
ances at the Bobby Walker theater, the Italians in the Ethiopian ape:
Maynard mounted on Tarzan, tal surrounded for hundreds or
his teammate in many Western with 005 ,
thrillers, headed a downtown parade miles with ill-developed country
from the courthouse to the theater teeming with hostile Ethiopian na-
on Pine. tives already has given some cause
The HSU riding school mounted for alarm. , .
color guard including Gloria Sadl- The bulk of white Italian colon-
er Ruth Evelyn Foote, Billie Sears, ists. it is believed have been sent
Will W Watson, Bob Rogers and to Eritrea, where the African na-
Joe Ann Stephens, accompanied tives are more civilized and docile
the Hollywood celebrity, and less prone to bloody vengeance
Mayor Hair, Chief of Police T. | than the warlike Ethiopians.
A Hackney and Bob Bourland, By Associated Pres
Germany s luftwaffe thundered
fire bombs and high explosives on
the English shipping city of Hull
'pop. 300,000' in a violent overnight
assault, leaving great numbers of
His the only thing that can prevent Maynard responded to the may- dead and wounded. .
a German victory - in the Balkans, or’s welcome, expressing pleasure 9 spatchesfrom the bomb-torn
Diplomatic messages reaching at visiting West Texas He was to Stxutoday said the. attack was the
Belgrade said th British began appear on the Bobby Walker stage
landing American-made planes to- four times today. The mayor was
day in Greece fo. the anticipated also scheduled to welcome Maynard
battie of the Baikans. at the first of his personal ap-
TRAF pilots were said to have pearances at the show.
flown the planes from Cairo De-
tails as to the number and types
were not disclosed
Despite the German reports here.
aims
BELGRADE Yugoslavia, March 19.—(P)—The war-threatened
Balkans, hoping for the best but fearing the worst, edged nearer a show-
down in the British-axis diplomatic struggle today with a German re-
port that Yugoslavia would cast her lot with the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
lineup March 26
Already being repaired and re-
finished are a number of chairs
which were in the building, a few
tables, etc. All game tables are to
have masonite tops and will be of
a sturdy type. Now this sign hangs
out
WANTED: 200 chairs, the
sturdy straight type or metal
folding chairs.
The large front room to the right
of the main floor hallway will be
the reading and reception room
Casual furnishings will be used
there, suggesting casual comfort.
Across the hall another large
room will be another lounge, con-
nected by arch and counter to a
German circles here circulated this report following a 90-minute
meeting between German Minister Viktor von Heeren and Yugoslav
Foreign Minister Alksander Cincar-Markovic.
Furthermore these quarters said the signing would be witnessed by
Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, now en route to Rome and
Berlin for axis conferences.
The German-Yugoslav negotiations were matched at the other end
of the Balkans by reliable reports that Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu
of Turkey had left aboard a British plane for Palestine He was believed
to be enroute to Egypt to confer with British Foreign Secretary Anthony theater manager preceded the band.
Eden cutting its marching didoes under
With the British pouring some the baton of Drum Major Owen
300.000 troops into Greece, the Is- Baggett. A motor cycle escort kept
tanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah de- traffic moving until the welcom-
clared that a strong British stand ing ceremony.
Negroes Admit
Wave of Thefts
canteen where soft drinks, sand- Juvenile Officer Elmer Lowe and
wiches. ets., will be available The Policeman George Preston yesterday
i Rotary game room is at the rear of arrested two negro boys, 13 and 15
this floor who confessed to having stolen ov-
worst of many suffered there.
Berlin said several hundred planes
engaged in the raid attacking
through the “entire night."
RAF HITS BACK
BALLROOM SPACIOUS
The big basement room, with
concrete floor, is being made ready
See SOLDIER CLUB, Pr. 11. Col. 6
Australia Studies
War With Japan
NEW YORK, March 19--
Domei (Japanese news agency) in a
radio broadcast today quoted Jap-
anese arriving from Sydney. Aus’
tralia. as saying that Australia is
considering seriously the possibility
of war with Japan "
Thirty-four members of the staff
of the Takashimaya company at
Sydney arrived at Kobe The same
steamer also brought 14 Japanese
women and children who have been
residing in Australia
er a months time loot valued at
several hundred dollars
The two were tried in juvenile
court this morning by Judge Carl
Hulsey He sentenced the older to
serve two years in the state reform-
atory at Gatesville, and probated
the other to his father.
Hulsey said two adult negroes and
a second hand dealer either would
| be prosecuted in his court, or would
be called before the grand jury next
week on charges of receiving and
concealing the stolen goods
Lowe said the boys accumulated
the loot through prowling cars, ga-
rages and houses. Some of it has
already been disposed of, what was
high Yugoslav quarters declared
the Belgrade government had stif-
fened its attitude toward the nazis,
especially since British troops have
landed in Greece
There was an unconfirmed report
here that a special Russian envoy
had arrived from Moscow to dis-
cuss foreign policy with Yugoslav
leaders, but official quarters said
no Russian had been received re-
cently and the Soviet legation de-
nied the story.
recovered is at the police station
Where it may be viewed by the
The Weather
I is DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
r = WEATHER BI REAL
ABILENE and vicinity Cloudy and
warmer tonight, Thursday partly cloudy
and warmer
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th meridian)
Mostly cloudy with occasional rains in
southeast portion, elsewhere scattered
cloudiness tonight Thursday decreasing
•mudine**, except partly cloudy in south-
east portion little change in temperature
EAST TEXAS least of 100th meridian?
• loudy and warmer tonight Thursday
partly cloudy and warmer
OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy in west and
north cloudy in southeast, somewhat
warmer in east port ion tonight Thursday
partly cloudy, aomewhat colder in north
portion
Highest temperature yesterday city of
fice. 42 airport, 43
Lower temperature this morning: eity
office, 8, airport 37.
TEMPERATE RES
Mon-Tue Tue Wed
P.M
* 39
Hour A M
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31
38
Tiny Portugal is the only country in Europe that is not
on short rations. Before the first of the next harvest can be
reaped, many weeks must elapse and in several countries
remaining food stocks will have been exhausted. In some
countries the home harvest adds only a small portion of a
year s normal food supply.
i
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30 39
— 32 40
»— 34 41
00-TU- 35 42
3811 36 41
— 38 12- 38
Sunrise ..6:44 a.m.
Sunset 6:30 p.mh
WARMER
Army Schedules
Fall Maneuvers
British RAF bombers countered
with a heavy attack on the North
German port of Kiel, and again
,pounded the German naval base at
Wilhelmshaven and oil storage
tanks at the nazi-held city of Rot-
terdam. Holland.
The German high command re-
scores who lost articles recently.
Lowe said it was known the loot
consisted of eight overcoats, six
bicycles, a clarinet, three suit cases,
an unknown number of fitted bags,
fishing tackle valued at $50. a pis-
tol. and chickens. We don’t know
yet what all they got—there’s still
some more Lowe stated
Judge Hulsey recalled he had the
older boy before him Saturday a
week ago when he was caught
prowling in a garage Earlier, he
had been accused of chicken theft
This is the younger one’s first
brush with the law.
Pennywise, Etc.
DALLAS, March 19 —( UP)- He
Republicans Battle
British Aid Funds
WASHINGTON, March 19.—P—
A small opposition band of house
republicans, expressing belief that
all-out British aid betokened war
for the United States, decided on a
last-ditch fight today to slash the
big $7.0000,000.000 lease-lend ap-
propriation before final vote sends
teh bill to the senate.
Former Abilenian
Dead at Austin
ported " a number of civilians were
killed and many injured in the
RAF’s forays against the Reich, but
asserted damage was " slight."
German long-range bombers slab.
. ________bed by daylight at % convoy of 35
between 350.000 and 500.000 troops— merchant ships escorted by six
more than four times the number British destroyers in the North
of troops ever assembled, in peace- Atlantic, DNB (officials German
time maneuvers-.ere announced news agency - reported. One ship of
here today by Brig Gen Raymond 5.000 to 8.000 tons was listed as
H Firming adjutant-general of the
Louisiana National Guard See THE WAR. Pg 11, Col. 6
General Firming s announcement,
which followed a recent trip to
Washington where he said the plans
have been worked out coincided
with an announcement of Second
army headquarters in Memphis to-
day of the war games to be held
Sept. 15-27. *
Participating will be the Third
army composed of units now train-
ing in Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas, with its base at Lake Char-
les and the Second army of troops
training in Arkansas, Tennessee,
Michigan Missouri, Kansas and Ala-
, bama which will operate downstate
from a line drawn approximately
NEW ORELANS. March 19.—P)
September army maneuvers in
West Central Louisiana involving
. between Shreveport and Monroe
Co Commissioner R. L Young The two main armies, in which
today reported the death of Mrs H from 15 to 20 full divisions will
F Blaylock, ormer Abilenian in march in full fighting equipment
Austin Monday * and supported by the greatest as-
was just trying to have 7 cents car- He said Mrs Blaylock, the form- semblage of mechanized war equip-
fare by riding his young wife on er Mamie Badger was a sister of ment ever brought together in the
his bicycle handlebars the youth his mother, the late Mrs J. L United States, will meet in simulat-
told a magistrate hearing him on Pegues. She lived in Abilene in the ed battle somewhere in the piney
charges of creatin ga traffic hazard early days and attended Simmons woods forest area west of Alexan-
The ticekt cost him *1 fine, college dria
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STUDENT EARNS$93 IN SIX WEEKS TO TOP DIVERSIFIED CLASS
Topped by a student machinist
who earned $93.22 the 29 members
is of the Abilene high school diversi-
fied occupations class earned a to-
8:30 p.m 6.30 a.m 12.30 p m.
Dry thermometer 39 39 “49
Wet thermometer 37 38 * 46
Relative humidity, to 93 3 Ta
tal of $941 59, an average of $32 47
per student, during the past six
weeks, W. Rainey Owen, bourse dl-
rector, reported today
“The course, inaugurated in 1936.
is open to high school juniors who
are at least 16 years old The stu-
dents spend their afternoons’work-
ing at some occupation of their
choice in one of the local business
establishments carry two regular
high school courses during the
morning and spend an hour and
a half each morning studying sub-
jects related to their work
The pay they receive for the
work depends on the length of time
they have been in the course, the
employer for whom they are work-
ing and, most important, them-
selves: Owen said
“It is noteworthy that the boy
who made the highest salary for
the past six weeks was working
with his hands as well as his head.”
Owen emphasized . “The greatest
difficulty we have with the stu-
dents is finding those who want
something besides a white collar
job When we do find them, how-
ever they make the best record#
in the class. ,
There is hardly a day goes by,"
he continued "when some employer
does not ask for a full time or part
time worker However, We now have
all the students in the course which
the state department will permit
us."
Of the 64 students who were en-
rolled for the 1939 40 school year, 33
have now finished the course and
a check on 33 of them last fall
showed their average earnings to
be 124 53 per week
Of the others who are not now
in the class two quit school three
See EARNINGS, Pg. 11, Col. 1
A
4.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 284, Ed. 2 Wednesday, March 19, 1941, newspaper, March 19, 1941; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1634953/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.