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Treasure Chest Scheduled Wednesday 3 P.
The Orange Leader
VOLUME XXVIII
OKAN'GK, TKX'AS, Sl'XDAV, DKCKMBKM 14, t! 4l
NUMB EH 2!>l
$5000 Beaumont Open
Golf Tournament Will
Draw Galaxy Of Stars
Bcaumpnt, Texas, Dec. 14. —In
less than two weeks, the nation's
mechanized golfing forces will
move into this city for the first
$5000 Beaumont Open Golf tour-
nament and an attack on one of
the state'? toughest 18-hole cour-
ses — the 6043-yard Beaumont
Country club layout-
Of the unestimated number of
ranking professional and amateur
linksmen who have played the
course, only two have been able
to c|ip par 71 by as many as six
strokes. Bobby Riegel of Hous-
ton, former state amateur titlieist,
turned the trick once and Barney
Clark, erstwhile Country club pro*
fessional negotiated the tree-bapk-
ed layout in 65 on two occasions.
But not since 1939, when the
course was given a thorough reno-
vation, has par suffered cruel
treatment. Since that date, the
Texas P. G- A. tournament, the
state amateur, two statewide club
invitationals and the state Junior
tournament have been held here:
It is true that a galaxy of pros
and amateurs such as the crew
which will be here 'or the .Open
December 26, 27 and 28 has never
before attacked the course in a
group, but even this aggregation
is expected to have its difficulties
during the 72-hole event.
The course isn't particularly
'long, but, trees that tower along
each hole, bending fairways,
countless numbers of traps and
unusually small greens combine
to form a golfer's nightmare,
It will be highly interesting to
see What luck such players as Ben
Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nel-
sion. National Open Champion
Craig Wood, Lloyd Mangrum,
Clayton Haefncr, Dick Mcti,
Ralph Gudahl. E. J. (Dutch)
Harrison, Johnny Bulla and Jim-
my Demaret will have when they
tackle the layout.
^ pro • amateur on Christmas
five, December 24, will start the
tournament. A praotice day is
carded for December 25 and the
three-day battle opens the follow-
ing day, concluding Sunday, De-
cember 28 with 36 holes.
MRS. J. H11ER
AFTER ILLNESS
Mrs- Jennie Miller, age 80, died
at 8:30 a. m. Saturday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. L- E.
Chapman, 507 Border street, after
several days' illness.
Mrs. Miller was a native of Cold
Water, Michigan and had resided
in Orange for the past forty years,
She was the widow of the late
■ George Miller who was an em-
ploye of the Lutcher and Moore
Lumber company for many years
She was a life long member of
.the Methodist church.
Surviving are: two daughters,
Mrs. Chapman of Orange and
Mrs. R. W, Brydson of Austin
and one grand daughter, Mrs.
Miller Martin Davis of Beau-
mont.
Funeral services will probably
be held sometime today from the
family residence and burial will
be in Jett cemetery under diree-,
tion of the Fuller Funeral home-
ESTATEOF
BOLUS KINARD
IS PROBATED
Weather
'"Partly cloudy to fair weather
today; cooler In south and cast
portions, rising temperature in
west portion.
Daniel de Foe wrote Robinson
Crusoe.
n
War Needs Money!
"It will cost money to
defeat Japan. Your gov-
ernment calls on YOU to
help NOW. - .
"Buy Defonae Bonds-
or Stamps today, r Boy
them every day, if you
can. But buy theta on *
regular basis.
"Bonds cost as little aa '■
$18.75, Stamps cOme as
low as 10 cents. Defense
Bonds and Stamps can be .
bought at all banks and
post offices, and Stamps
can also be purchased at
retail stores and from
our newspaper ^carrier.
"This newspaper urges'
all Americans to support
your government *Wtth
your dollar*.'1 -
r«'
Mrs. Margaret Wynne Kinard,
wife of the late Hollis M. Kinard,
former district attorney, wilY re-
ceive the major part of life es-
tate,* according to, application for
probate of the wAl, filed Friday
in the office of the county clerk.
"The will, in substance, reads:
1. "I give, devise and bequeath
to Miss Margaret Wynne (who la-
ter became Mrs. Kinard) Who at
that time was a teacher in the
Anderson school, all my interest
in a six-acre tract of land in the
William Dyson survey, part of the
Joe Granger 50-acrc tract, said
land being under oil and gas lease
to the Gulf Oil corporation and
referred to as the Orange Nati-
onal Bank - Bruce lease, on which
are three producing oil. wells.
2. To the former Miss Margaret
Wynne, 1-J6, royalty in all oil, gas
and other minerals (are-deceased
interests) in a 3.96 acre tract in
the R- M. Ha'rmon tract of Wil-
liam Dyson survey.
3. To brother, Knox Kinard,
all household and kitchen furni-
ture at 610 Eighth street.
4. To brother, Knox and sis-
ter, Betty Cochran, all lands and
interests . in oil, gas and other
minerals, all oil and gas royalties,
share and share alike, in all other
lands in Orange county ^luring
their life times. At the "death of
Krtox Kinard and Betty Cochran,
it was specified shares go to the
children of Porter Kinard.
5. To brothers. Porter, Bcnand
Krtox and sister Betty Cochran,
subject to bequests to Miss Mar-
garet Wynne, Knox Kinard and
Betty Cochran, all other lands,
share and share alike.
6. To children of Sam Kinard. j
deceased, $500 each out of life in-!
surancc.
7. To Epsic Manning Kinard,
proceeds of life insurance policy!
for 15000.
8. To Mrs. Margaret Wynne
Kinard, proceeds of two life in- j
surancc policities totalling $10,-
onn.
9. '"AH persons omitted from1
this will are intentionally omit-
ted"
10. It was specified that any
person contesting the will would
cancel his own bequest, bequests
of contestant to be revoked in fa-
vor of Mrs. Margaret Kinard.
Knox Kinard was named exec-
utor. The will wtes dated April
15. 1939.'
The complete inventory of the
estate is not yet available.
McNeill Praises
Yule Decorations
Business Section
W. A. McNeill, general mam
of the Orange Senior Chamber of
Commerce, as spokesman tor the
organization expressed hi^h praise
of the Christmas decorations
which cover the entire/ business
section-
McNeill said that in his opinion
the decorations were more exten-
sive and of a higher class than
ever before.
Rev. Corkern Will
Preach at Mt. Zion
Homecoming
Rev. W. A. Corkern. pastor of
the First Baptist Church. will
preach at 3 o'clock this afternoon
at the Mt. Zion Colored Church.
Fifth and John streets. The oc-
casion Is the fifteenth anniversary
and the Annual Homecoming of
the church.
There will be special music by
the senior choir. *
This program is one m a series
being sponsored by the church as
a part of the financial drive to
meet the church budget for the
coming year. j.
The public is cordially invited,
by Rev. W. J. Clark, pastor.
JAPS AIM REPEATED ATTACKS HERE Lieut H. Majewskilf T Q D|
Relieves Murdock |V/ • O • I IdliwS
On Guard Duty \w% ■ i w
Battle Japs
Red Cross Offers
Place For Women
To Do Part
Due to present world conflict,
again we hear the call for Amer-
ican Red Cross volunteers. To
every woman who has uttered in
the last few days, "I wish there
was something I could do," Mrs-
Harold M. Rice, chairman of the
Navy addition branch of the Red
Cross, says she believes the an-
swer will be found in service to
Otffc Country and Our Boys
through the work which lies a-
headof Of. "tt is" in airaihcerlty
that I call upon each and every
woman to enter into this work re-
gardless of how little she may
feel she can do," Mrs. Rice said.
"We of the Navy addition ex-
tend a hearty invitation to the
women of the Gilmer Homes to
meet with us at any time. We ^re
at present finishing our quota of
layettes and are now starting on
hospital gowns," Mrs. Erma7 Hud-
son reports-
-/iThe sewing room which is lo-
cated in the administration build-
ing of the Navy addition will be
open from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. on
the following days:/Monday with
Mrs- Frank Lacy and Mrs. N. A.
Cain ih charge; Tuesday, Mrs.
Harold M. Rice; Wednesday, Mrs-
Melvin E. Hudson and Mrs- Mil-
iton Jones;/Friday. Mrs. Joh
ILawler and Mrs- R. Kerr. *
IJAT AN
PHILIPPINE
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BUVAN
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&K/NLBY
mum
QCiAN
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MMI
MIX DAN
the Philippine group,
Lieut. Harry Majweski arrived
here Friday night and Saturday
\morning relieved Lieut- O- N.
Murdock, of the command of a
group of 32 army men brought
here during the past week to do
guard duty at local industries and
public places.
Lieut., Murdock' was transferred
to the air service at Sim Angclo
and left irnm&i lately for that
place Saturday-
Over Manila
By the Associated Press _ !attack by Japanese naval units
J. P. Hilliard
Ordered To
Fresno, Calif.
Word was received here Satur-
day/ by Mr. and Mrs. 2. W. Mil-
liard that their son. J. P, Hill laid,
former Orange Tiger football
captain, "who has been in air
school training at Denver for some
time, had been ordered to Fresno,
California for service, Hilliard
had been in college training for
the past two or three years.
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Every Man and Woman can
HELP. Register NOW for
Civilian Defense at Old Court
House building!
f
LET'S DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT IT!
Shown
•!
above arc the principal Islands
gathst which the Japanese have launched repeated aerial assaults,
apparently in an attempt; to cripple the American army and navy
bases indicated
Merchants Will
Remain Open For
Lat^ Shoppers
Bidders For
School Contract
Expected Thurs.
Vacancies Listed
Available In Army
Signal Corps
Authority j has been received by
the U, S. Army recruiting sta-
tion, Beaumont, to enlist an un-
limited number of radio , opera-
tors for signal coYps. A recog-
nized license will be accepted as
evidence of proficiency.
You are urged, if qualified, to
present yourself to the recruiting
station, 313 Post Office building,
j Beaumont, Te^as, and enlist tjg
the army is greatly in need of ra-
dio operators.
All enlistments are for the du-
ratioivof the War arid will include
the men who enlist tor this duty.
Sea - borne Japanese troops
which gained a foothold at Lin-
jgayen on the west Coast of Luzon
I Island, 100 roiled north of Manila,
| have been wifiod out, it was re-
ported officially Saturday as Am*
erlcan fighter plane:, pitched into
waves of Japanese bombers in
Hocctaculnr dogfights over the
l'hitjppinc capital.
Other bud news for Tokyo wos
reported by the Batavia (Dutch
East Indies) radio, which
■1,0(50 Japancrx- troops lost their
lives When Netherlands submar-
ines sank four Japanese troop
transports off southern Thailand;
near Malaya.
Simultaneously, imperial Toky
headquarters obliquely concei
that American forces were /still
holding out on tiny Wake Inland,
about midway between Honolulu
and Manila, where U- S/marines
have been fighting off savage
Japanese air apd sea/attacks for
days-
Japanese headquarters said mil
Thursday. The Japanese sulfet>
ed some losses. It was admitted.
A Tokyo communique said eight
American planes were shot down
in aerial attacks on tlxr Philip-
pines and 14 other* destroyed on
the ground Eleven American
flying boats also were claimed
destroyed,
In the far east, Domei broadcast
a dispatch from Saigon. French
Indo - China, asserting that Brit-
said Isli troops defending Hongkong ]
had Withdrawn from their first |
line/of defense following Japan-
ese- capture of Kowloon on the
alnland facing the great British
ayal base.
Domei declared that "British
forces in Hongkong have been
trapped and the fate of the crown
colony is virtually scaled."
A bulletin from the Manila
headquarters of Lieut. - Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. Uv S. army
commander Ji'it chief of the Far
East, indicated-that Japanese for-
ces attacking the Philippines had
Beginning Monday, December i Indications -wiftc Saturday that
15/ the Orange merchants will lone of the largest aggregations of
icep their stores open later in
he eveping to accommodate hol-
iday shoppers. W. A. McNeill,
secretary manager of the Or-
ange Retail Merchants association ] building to represent a cost
announced Saturday. nearly half u million dpllars.
bidders ever brought to. Orange
would be here next Thursday to
bid on the contract for the Or-
ange Junior ,- Senior high school
of
Poll Shows Texans Are
Prepared For Pacific War
The riado operators will all be ure requested tp bring sandwiches,
given that rating shortly after 116 be ssrVed to "the VFW mcfrt-
tlieir enlistment in the signal jbers.
corps which will carry increased ; ———————~—
pay along with tine promotion. !
We ure also greatly In need of | TAVflg CfeOSOterS
men for ground work duties as1 _
technicians in the air corps and PurchftSe Of $375
flying cadets. Vacancies are also
available in other branches of the
army.
Write or come to the Army Re-
cruiting Station, 313 Post Office
building, Beaumont, for further
information
itury objectives /ft Wuke Island j to gain any new bridge-
had been severely damaged in an
Auxiliary To
Entertain VFW
At/a meeting of-the auxiliary of
Veterans of Foreign wars held
nesday night, plans were
by permission of Comman-
Lee Davis, of the local
post, to entertain that group at
the next regular meeting on Wed-
nesday night, December 17.
Games and fun will be provided
for all who attend.
All members of the auxiliary
heads on Luzon Island.
"The situation on the ground
has not changed," the communi-
que said, adding that "mopping
up in the Lingayen area hag been
concluded."
Manila itself experienced a
Wild, gun - blazing night In which
sentries and police battled with |
fifth columnists who fired red sig-
nal rockets over the city.
Rifle fire crackled in the sec-
tions where the rockets were sent I
up, and sentries shot into several1
houses showing lights in violation I
of the city's rigid blackout.
By Joe Bclden
Editor, Texas Surveys of IVollc
Opinion
Austin. Texas, Dec. 13. —Tex-
ans were probably better prepar-
ed for the transition from ^uasi-
pcace to forthright war than were
most other Americans, compari-
sons of Tcxos Surveys of Public
Opinion polls on various phases
of the war problems indicate. On
practically all questions, except
the country needed compact
and highly mechanized army.
Again three* fourths of- Texans
hove consistently favored all
measures for all - out aid to Bri-
tain. In June, 1041, 44 per cent
approved convoying supplies to
Britain in American ships, while
4li per Cent preferred to hand the
ships over to the English to be
used under the Union Jack. Only
7 per ccnl failed to sanction eith-
er plan Rurly In October of this
J
'300TREASURE
AWARDTOBE
GIVEN HERE
The Treasure Chest party will,
be given on Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock at the Stark park un-
der the sponsorship of the Orange
Retail Merchants association, it
was announced by W. A. McNeill
who called attention to the change
of time as being more convenient
to a large number of the work-
men.
The award will be *300 this
week and a large attendance is ex
pccted.
IT'S TIME TO COOPERATE
now In every rcspect, the next
item on the list here being that of
the post office in conducting the
parcel post station at the Holland
hotel where air packages will be
received and from which point
packages Will be delivered. The
statement is made that no pack-
ages beginning Monday will be
received at the post office, until
after the holidays.
THE SALVATION ARMY -to
appropriately representing Santa
Claus on the streets each day now
preceding the Christmas holidays,
standing by the Christmas kettles
and the "mile of dimes" board.
Scores of chlldreh as well as
grown-up* will receive gifts of
food and other necessities through
agencies of the Salvation Army
during the holidays-
. In England, government securi-
ties are known as Consols.
Service Men
Prove Cupid's
Easiest Target
Chicago, III- — Uncle Sam's
service men are not such a tough
target for Cupid.
Cities end towns located near
army camps are reporting record
sales of hope chests, according to
a survey by the Cedar Chest Man-
ufacturers of America. The sol-
diers are buying chests for their
sweethearts, the survey enclosed,
as symbols of love and devotion
"for the duration."
Of all hope chests sold toddy,
4S.I per cent are bought by men,
jthe manufacturers report, proving
jllic stalwart males,
14C0NTRIBUTE
TO CHRISTMAS
TREEFUND
A total of .fourteen businCt-H
concerns and individuals have
contributed to the Community
jChristmas tree fund. It was an-
nounced |i Friday night at a meet-
ing of the Christmas tree com-
mittee held at Holland hotel
with ,S. J. Calllavet. chairman.
If
; firing line for romance.
actually jumping into the melee,t year, 77 ,per cent declared thom-
Ithey showed three - quarters ma- sclve„ jn fuv01- of changing the
joritlcs in favor of aiding oui .neutrality law so thai American,
present allies to defeat the dicta- supply *hlps could be armed and!"1® sla,v'url nunes,
torships. Lent ink, war rones. |Privates to generals,
Anxiety to prevent further Jap-i By Ju)y lia cent believed
anesc aggrandizement in the Fai jthnt W(, WCPC in ,,|jec1 already at
East was evinced In November i war willl Germany, and (Hi per
1940, when 74 per cent of the pco- ccm fc|t th.,t it would Ite impon-
pie of Texas declared that thcylsjb|(. tor Uj) t„ gtay ,mt ,-t the war
favored forbidding shipments erf |entirely.
cptton and oil to Japan, even atj Despite the seeming be'lliger-
the expense of reducing the salcjonce 0f about three - fourths <>i
oJ these two chief products of the thc pP01>|(. ot Texas, the number
4tjate. By August 1941, 79 P^>' advocating a dedication vlt wai
int approved the cessation of {against Germany declined during
trade with Japan, and many the thrw . month period from
individuals interviewed for this jujy (o October of this year, per-
poll declared that they had been haps as thc result of Hitler s fail-
applying personal boycotts to ail|U{t. t(, deliver a knockout blow
Japanese goods for some time.
All the progressive phasc^ of
our own defense program have
met thc immediate approval of
Texang. Three of every four ad
from buck
ure on the
Defense Bonds
Office employes of thc Texas
Creosotlng company purchased
$375 w rth of Defense Saving*
Bonds Saturday morning during a
brief canvass of the building made
by Curtis Beaty and Louis UHn.
Mr. Beaty was sent to town to
purchase the bonds which In-
eluded one each for two of thc
girls employed in the office. presiding
Nearly all the office employes! Al, contributions should he
arc buying defense savings turm.d jn to Mr„, ^tha Mallin
stamps for conversion Into bonds. jBl lhc Falr |U>rc „8 ^n M ,M(K.
slble as an effort is being made to
provide toys for about 300 chil-
dren. 'v
Those who have contributed to
date are: Gulf States Utilities Co , j
Lutcher Stark, First National
bank, George Sells, Orange pulp
(and paper mill, Sablhc Supply
jCo., Texas Creosotlng company,
(Orange Ice Co.. American Legion,
| Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Belle
s MacFarlane, Sime Peebles Jr .
and Mrs. Ras Buteman.
TUSCARORA
BYU.S.NAW
Court House
and
City Hail Briefs
The navy fleet tug U- S. S. Tus-
carori was commissioned at 1:20
o'clock Saturday afternoon at the
[Levingston Shipbuilding company
(yard where it was constructed.
Commander Robert R. Ferguson,
USN, port director of Poft Ar-
thur, repr^eritlng the commsft, umlncss „w.nl
dant of the Eighth Naval District #0|, orun|{e carpenters' local,
Shortage of
Carpentry Work
Is Seen Here
Carrol Bishop,' business agent
at New Orleans who in turn rep
resents the Chief of Naval Opera-
lions, Admiral Stark, cohirnis
stoned the new tug.
j\ This 1$ the first vessel built in'
stuted Saturday that there was a
genuine shortage of employment
developing for carpcnters in this
city with completion of some of < j
MISTAKES OF THE PAST can
best serve as guides to accuracies
In the future. Much unnecessary
energy and time can be lost by
pausing to quibble over errors of
thc past. In most instances those
who offer the greatest non - con-
structive criticisms are capable of
making the greatest aod mos<
glaring mistakes themselves.
voeated conscription (August,
1940) even before thc Selective
Service Act was passed. In Au-
gust 1941, 71 per cent voted for
the extension of the period of en-
listment. The same percentage
thought that the government ought
to take over plants handling de-
fense projects if strikes were call-
ed in such plants. Eighty - six
per cent bellived that a limit
should be set to the amount of
profits industry should be allow-
ed to make out of defense con-
tracts- By October 1941 a major-
ity had become convinced that
Only one real estate transfer
was filed for record on Friday at
the office of thc Orange county
either to England or to Russia. Injclerk, that being from Osborne
July, 30 per cent voted to declare M. Wallcs to Florence Cormier,
war Qvhilc only 21 per cent of thc jiot 3 block one, West Orange ad-
nation was then willing to t*ke jdition. $100 ri
the extreme step); ih early Sep-
, , , . , line major building projects,
this area which is to become a,which include the North Sixteenth
partj.it the U S-fleet. Others hav- j.j^i Home Defense project, the
ing been added to the shore patrol Navy addition Hnd thl. Gilmer
duty squadrons- The keel for the Ho |Ws addition.
tcmber. 27 per cent; and in Octo-
ber. 23 per cent. Marriage licenses of record on
On the morale side, there wa^ Saturday at the office of the Or-
evident an antipathy for the!<> «'-• county clerk were: Billy Da-
"America - Firsters;" 82 per cent vis and Miss Grace Lee Mworc;
In October 1941 would have de-
nied Isolationist speakers the use
Of municipal auditorium. In thc
same month 82 per cent believed
that the United States should
treat Mexico as an equal, indi-
cating and era of more sympa-
thetic reeling between the repub-
lics might have been engendered
by the imminence of mutual dBn-
«r.
C- V. Grlnstead and Miss
Landry of Orange.
Dora
Only one real estate transfer
was filed for rccord Saturday
morning at the office .of the coun-
ty clerk, that being front Clarence
W. Richardson otux to R. P. Tur-
pin, lot 4 block 18 of Gilmer's
First Cove addition. IS and other
considerations.
Tuscarora was laid April 3 and
the longer time than usual Squir-
ed in finishing the vessel was due
to the stiff novy specifications ! tho new yoor
this particular tug.
Chief BeatsvOaln George F. Ka-
hlc will be in Command of the'
Tuscrarora and he has a picked
crewN Jhe ship has' passed Its
la) runs successfully. No news!
its future operations could be
announced. i,
Thc Levingston yard is the!
same yard that built the Sea Otter'
II In record time recently.
There is a general belief that
new house building projects will
materialize soon after the first of
9 SHOPPING DAYS
to Christmas
Every Man and Woman can
HELP: Register NOW for
Civilian Defense — at old
Court House Building!
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