The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 256, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 6, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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WIN THE WAR!
VOLUME XXIX
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ORANGE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1942
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NUM£ER 256
GETS HUMANE SOCIETY MEDAL
Given Pearl Harbor
Services Here Today
. —1_ :■■
A concert of patriotic music by
the Consolidated Employes' Band
and an inspirational address by
A. D. Moore, prominent Beaumont
attorney, will feature a public
Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony
to be held in the USO Club Social
Room at 2:30 tfils afternoon, un-
der auspices of the ex-service-
men's group from the shipyard of
Consolidated Steel Corporation,
Ltd.
A religious aspect will be given
the ceremony by Rev. Roy H. Ri-
ser, pastor of Beaumont's First
Christian church; Rev. Father
John Cody of Beaumont's St. An-
thony's Catholic church, and Law-
rence Gale, layman of Beaumont's
Temple Emanuel, representing
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish,
faiths, respectively.
Mr. Moore, principal speaker,
Will be introduced by Capt. H. B.
Hird, vice president in charge of
the Orange shipbuilding division
of Consolidated.
The national colors,will be post-
ed in a brief ceremony by a color
"guard from the Consolidated Plant
Protection force. The musical
program will be under direction
of Bill Noonan. —
Members of the executive com-
mittee of the Consolidated ex-
service group, which arranged the
program, are Raymond G. Krieg-
er, chairman; Mason F. Triplett,
secretary; L. B. Herring, Jr., Ralph
Sterling, Perry M. Gallier, El-
bert R. Sitton, James B. Hood and
Claude McDaniel.
Judge J. M. Combs of Beau-
mont, associate justice of the
Ninth Court of Cinil Appeals, will
be. principal speaker at Pearl
Harbor memorial ceremonies to be
- held in the shipyard at the noon
and night shift lunch periods on
Monday.
WMCWILL
RECRUIT TO
150,000
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President Roosevelt has author-
ized the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps (better know as the WAAC)
to recruit to the full strength of
150,000 as authorized by Con-
gress. ,—
Women of this area interested
in joining the WAAC may secure
information and application
blanks from Staff Sergeant Gor-
don Y. Wilcoxson, recruiter in
charge of the U. S. Army Re-
cruiting Station, 313 Post Office
Building, Beaumont, Texas by a
perosnal visit or by mail.
The WAAC is a newly formed
organization and with the rapid
expansion planned it offers un-
limited opportunities for women
who enlist now.
Every WAAC enlistment re
lieves one man to send to our
fighting front.
LET'S DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT IT
HERE'S A WARNING to those
{responsible for the upkeep of the
heme to provide the necessary
protection for the water lines ser-
ving the premises in view of a
possible freeze and the" scarcity of
materials there will be in the
event of bursting water lines- It
will also be a problem to secure
services of a plumber to make
the necessary repairs.. Already
many people of this city are cov-
ering exposed water lines as a
precaution against freezing weath-
er. ■ Other protection may be pro-
vided.
NEED OF A LUNCHEON
PLACE in Orange has come to be
an outstanding ' item especially
since the advent of gas rationing
which tends to outlaw distances
on all, scores. Regardless of em-
ergency conditions, those of vari-
ous organizations have throughout
the years found it highly benefi-
cial to assemble themselves for
conversation contact while their
meals are served. It,is to be hop-
ed that the problem of securing a
the Orange area where priorities,
scarcity .-of materials equipment
and sufficient types of help are
conditions that have been con-
stantly faced. Now as work of
constructing 2300 more housing
units progresses slowly, the mat-
ter of procuring a suitable site
for 200 more trailer houses as a
means of partially relieving the
acute emergency in shelter short-
age, is being studied with prob-
abilities of immediate action.
For his appeal for kindness to animals In his new film, "Ban
Walt Disney, Hollywood producer of animated cartoon movies,
been awarded a gold medal by the American Humane society for
promotion Of kindness to animals. Screen Star Joan Bennett la
plctvi (1 above presenting the medal to Disney in Hollywood.
Bill Stringer
In Charge Of
Lions Program
Bill Stringer will be in charge
of the program for the regular
meeting of the Orange Lions
club to be held at the Woman's
club building on Monday, 7:30
P-«•
Tom Williams, club president,
will preside.
COURT OF
ONOR SET
Male Civilian Employees Needed
For U. S. Army Air Forces Service
U. S. FLOUR
TRADE AT
STANDSTILL
Chicago, Dec. 5. (AP) — The
nation's flour trade was at a vir-
tual standstill today while millers
and government officials endeav-
ored to find a way out of a unique
predicament brought on by the
ceiling on prices and a rising
wheat market-
The crisis was precipitated by
Thursday's ruling by the office of
price administration extending
without change the flour, price
ceilings which have been in ef-
fect since October 3.
Many mills complained that as
a result of recent wheat _ price
gains they were unable to buy1
grain at prices low to justify
their doing business under the
flour ceilings. They had expect-
ed the OPA to permit a moderate
advance to relieve this situation.
Since this was not done, the
jjj j complaints of mills from all parts
|of the country were renewed with
I vigor. The millers national fed-
The Boy Scouts of. (grange will
have their Board ofKtview on
Tuesday eyehing, December 8, at
7:30 o'clock at the Knfchts of
Columbus, Green andl Ninth
streets, W. H. Randow.l district
scout executive, announcijd today.
Court of Honor will bj held on
Friday night, D
'7:30 o'clock at the USO Club
Reading Room. '• > , . , ,,
All troops meeting on Friday'?™"™ ^ mnny /lo"r ™'
are asked to meet at the USO Club * hl,d w,Uuliawn from thc
WASHINGTON
CABBIES GIVE
SAFETY TALKS
Washingtoh, Dec. 5. (AP) —
Giving us gossip and philosophic
patter, the capital's gabby cabbies
turn teacher today — delivering
traffi'c lectures in / some 1,700
"four - wheeled safety schools."
The tuition is only the fare
from here to .there-
with their own safety record to
prove they practice what they
preach, those garrulous guys who
tool their taxis all over town take
up the task of tellihg folks how to
live long and learn to love the
traffic light*.
Traffic [Director William A. Vap
Duzer set up the motorized col-
lege of vehicle knowledge as part
of the city's campaign to cut a
rising accident rate.
"MASTER X"
PREPARED FOR
[JONG WAR
Richmond, Va., Dec. 6. (AP)—■
Mastex' X., portly purveyor of in-
cens, oils and lucky charms, bal-
anced.his past against his future
today /and it all added yp to 60
automobile tires (mostly new)
8,500 gallons of gasoline and
mountainous quantities of food.
Master X, who works as a red-
luncheon place centrally located, robed mystic, once predicted the
will soon be solved. iday would come when fish Wbuld
Icome down the James river "kick-
HAPPENlfoG BY DEGREES ing up dust" behind them: As a
tells the story of developments .in matter of fact, the drought last
year did leave thousands of fish
high and dry.
The personal counsellor to hun-
dreds of fellow Richmond negroes,
Master X,. whose little - known
name is J. L. Boland, figured there
was no prohibition against laying
in food, so he stored it up. He
bought the gasoline in pre-ration-
irig days and stored it in tanks
buried deep on his farm near the
City. His tires were purchased be-
fore the rubber stocks were fro-
zen, although later he was wor-
ried momentarily by the limita-
tion of five tires per car,1
He held on to his rubber re-
serves, however, by the simple
expedient of buying 11 old auto-
mobiles and mounting the excess
tires on them.
Master X says he's still look-
ing ahead. Now.he is in the ,nar~
ket for a horse and mule to solve
his transportation problem when
the tires, automobiles and gaso-
line are gone.
As for the hundreds and hun-
dreds of cans of food, he says he'll
divide In the lean days ahead
with neighbors who help him on
the farm.
- "You can't get them to save
things," he said.
Everybody essential to this
country's" vast output of military
planes doesn't have -to be an en-
gineer, welder, machinist, me-
chanic or pilot. There are lots of
more prosaic jobs which form ne-
cessary parts of the production
scheme. For Instance, Army Air
Forces officials announced here
today they need production ex-
perts, auditors, accountants, ex-
pert cost analysts, stenographers,
clerks, and inspectors-
Col. Ray G. Harris, Supervisor,
Midwestern Procurement District,
Army Air Forces, appealed to
many men in businesses not es-
sential to,the war program to give
their assistance. He expressed
hope that in combating ^ the Axis
powers which threaten our entire
economic and democratic system,
men able to delegate their busi-
ness authority to subordinates
would enter the War Department's
service despite the financial sac
riifCes that, would be involved.
As ah example, Air Forces of-
ficials said men who have had
executive experience in banking,
insuran'ce and especially in pro-
duction were needed.
Among the responsibilities to be
assumed is the job of renegotiating
war contracts among airplane
manufacturers. They literally will
be "treasury watchdogs".
It's a long way from columns of
figures to a big bomber in action
over enemy installations, but cor-
rect interpretation of, statistics
makes for production of even
more of those bombers at lower
COURT HOUSE
NEWS
Scout Leaders
Must Fill Out
Ration Forms
All Scout leaders who wish to
take their cur* with the scouts to
the Pleasure Pier in Port Arthur
on Monday, December 7, are ask-
ed to fill out Form RSS2 and turn
it in to the Ration Board as soon
as possible, W. H. Randow, dis-
trict scout executive urged to-
day. *
Condition Of
Mrs. A. Dillard
Reported Better
Mrs. A. A. Dillard of this ci
who suffered a fractured hip las1
Sunday afternoon Was Operated
on Friday in Houston and is re-
ported doing nicely. She is in St.
Joseph's Hospital.
L
stance, fourteen cost analysts of
the Army Air Forces need jpxtsi"
be capable of determining costs
of raw materials and parts and
able to mak'e breakdown esti-
mated from blueprints of thp ma-
chine hours in aircraft production.
Though in civilian garb, ac-
countants, inspectors and stenog-
raphers can work for the Army
and do their part in shaping
blows agains tthe Axis.
Male applicants must be at
least 46 years of age or classified
3-A with dependents or better, so
men who might have reflected,
"If only I were 10 years loung-
er," or "if only I didn't h ve a
family," or girls who might have
thought, If only I were a man,"
will have a chance to be <jf ser-
vice.
Salaries will range from $ 1260
a year all the way up to $6500 in
some special categories, according
to the type of job and the ex-
perience and ability of the appli-
cant. There is one iron-clad re-
striction. Applicants must not be
employed in essential war indus-
tries-
Applicants should apply in per-
son at the local office of the Unit-
ed States Employment Service.
Interviews with Army officers
will be arranged on December 14
at thc Beaumont Employment of-
fice. Those chosen will be put to
work in the production centers of
the 13 Midwestern and Southwest-
ern states which make un the
Midwestern Procurement District.
Many, jobs in -various enter-
instead and nil other troops are
asked to be present Scouts are
asked to woar~vT)mplelo uniforms
or any part qf uniforms that they
possess. |
The main event will be presen-
ilation by all troops of their new
Dc-
a-
members from May, 1942 to
cember 11, 1942. Individual
wards will also be given.
At this time each troop will be
presented a placard from the na-
tional office for , various defense
work..
Four Vessels
To Be Launched
^H||^Hpondayjg
Capt- J. M. Schelling, supervi-
sor of Navy shipbuilding in Texas,
announced Saturday the following
launching* to take place in Or-
ange shipyards on Sunday and
Monday:
Three LCI(L) vessels will be
launched Sunday at the Consoli-
dated Steel Corporation Ltd. Ship
yard, with sponsors as follows:
LCI(L) No. 70, sponsor, Miss
Jeanlne Moore, a student at the
Thomas Hughen school for Crip-
pled children. Miss Moore was
designated by the Shipwrights.
LC1(L) No. 80, sponsor, Mrs. J.
T. LaBordo. wife of J. T. La-
Borde, shipfitter leadingman.
LCI(L) No. 81, sportsor, Mrs.
W. A- Smith, wife of W. A. Smith,
special apprentice shipfitter.
LAUNCHING MONDAY
The launching for Pearl Harbor
Day. Monday, December 7, will be
held at the Weaver shipyard when
the Navy vessel YMS No. 250 will
be sponsored by Mrs. L. W. Hust-
myrc, wife of Capt. L. W. Hust-
myre of Company -D o f the Texas
Defense Guards.
All lnunchings will be prffcate,
Capt. Schelling said.
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HUSTMYRE
MRS. L. W.
$260,600
FOR SCHOOLS
IS APPROVED
Approval of altbtmvfi'pW $20d,-
000 by the Federal Public Hous-
ing Authority for three elemen-
tary school buildings of one-story
emergency war type construction
fn Orange was received here Sat-
urday in an announcement from
James W. Bradner Jr., regional
director of FWA at Fort Worth.
The sum provides for construc-
tion together for necessary equip-
ment of the three buildings.
market until the situation is clar-
ified. Army and navy buyers
were reported complaining thati
Ithey were unable to place orders.
| As a result, the OPA's action
has thrown thc whole problem' in-
to .he laps of commodity credit
corporation officials- J. B. Hut-
son, president of the CCC, con-
ferred with Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wickard and other officials
here yesterday but Mutson said
the CCC, outright owner of about
250,000,001) bushels of old wheat
and holder of collateral on almost
400,000,000 bushels of 1942 wheat
under government loans, was not
ready to act. Hutson said steps
may be taken next week to re-
lieve the conditions. Thc gov-
ernment officials were here for a
regional AAA meeting.
Hutson pointed out that tmder
the law the CCC can sell none of
its wheat to mills except at par-
ity prices, which are almost 30!secretary-tieHsurer.
cents abo.vci the present market, Directors are; Mrs, John W.
although Borne of this grain can Plexco, Frank C. Lankford, W. J.
be sold to feed distributors or dls- |Hebert, Mrs. W. W. Cordray, Mrs.
tillers below the market. Thus, itjT- L. Gunn Jr., J. W. Gilbert,
cost to the taxpayers. For in- prises sire available in Texas-
Deeds filed yesterday at thc of-
fice Of the Orange county clerk
included:
Henry F. Green etux to Sher-
man D. Stephens, 3-4th acre in T.
H. Breece League. $10.
E. W. Brown Jr. ctal to City of
Orange, outlot 26, Amended Shel-
donsurvey. $10, *
A marriage license was issued
here Friday afternoon to James
A. Estes Jr. and Miss Edith Jones,
both of Port Arthur.
N. 0. Baptists
Raising Funds
To Build Rectory
Plans to raise funds for a $4,000
rectory for the North Orange Bap-
tist church pastor by thc sale of
non - redemption bonds were in-
stigated at services last Sunday
an4 approximately $400 was rais-
ed oil the opening day, according
to Rev. Jaroy Weber.
The bond sale program will be
pushed this month and it is hoped
that the full amount will be paid
in within 90 days, Rev. Weber
stated.
Our Men In The
Service
GILMER HOMES
TENANT GROUP
IS FORMED
Gilmer Homes Tenant Associa-
tion was formed at a meeting held
in the administration building Fri-
day night at the call-of John It.
Basiger, liousihg manager for the
Federal Public Housing Authority
in Orange.
Temporary officers to serve for
ft^periodiaif tl\ree months, were
elected as'Toiiows; Mrs- William J.
Peel, president: I. O- Runnels,
vice president; Mrs. Brady Berry,
is possible, he said, that, the CCC
may offer producers who have
stored 1942, grain the chance to
pay off their loans at a discount
of several cents a bushel to Induce
them to turn wheat oyer to mills.
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Engines built for use in Amer-
ica'* fighter and bomber planes
are tested to operate in tempera-
tures ranging from 87 degrees be-
low zero to 120 degrees above, so
that they will functlOh properly
in any section of thc world to
which the warplane may be dis-
patched.
Rainfall Is
Welcomed Here
LABOR LEADERS
TO AID WITH
CHEST DRIVE
Captains for the annual com-
munity chest drive 'were named
Saturday by the colonels Oscar
Dancy and Mrs- Mattie Adams, it
was announced by K. W. Steph-
fvnson, community chest chair-
man.
The annual drive will get un-
derway early next week when
each employed person in the city
is asked to give at least one day's
payv to help cartfy on this im-
portant program in the commu-
nity next year. ^ '
The captains Will name lieu-
tenants and the lieutenants will
name the privates to work in car-
rying out the county wide cam-
paign.
A special eommlttccfOf business
agents of the various labor Unions,
local business, agents Who will
contact members of their organi-
zations, will be named. \
Mr. Stephenson said that labor:
union officials had not only
shown a willingness, but a desire
to contribute in .the campaign and
to help with solicitations for the
driVjtf.said that with the very
fins interest shown, w far, it is
expected the drive can be almost
completed In one day-
A complete list of thc various
groups will be announced within
the next few days.
Services For
Thomas Infant
Held Saturday
Mrs. J. F. Woods, and Allen B-
Currie.
Olney Black, project manager
will serve in an advisory capacity
with the board of directors.
Purpose of the organization is
to promote cooperation in the war
and welfare effort of the commu-
nity as a whole.
Committees will be appointed
at a meeting of the board of di-
rectors.
Funeral services for Coy Me-
rcal Thomas, eleven - month old
4on of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Thorn-,
as, who died at the family res I- Of Old Racket
Ellington Field
Cadets Warned
James Dodd. son of Mr. and
Mr,s, R- A. Dodd, now, in England
with the American/military for-
ces, has been ■advjjhcad to the Fi-
nance Department in a respon-
sible position, according to infor-
mation received here.
Mr. awl Mrs. Dodd recently, re-
ss&rss, "-stm set-ESS jsst mjzzis i us
z'sizSfixfxrr-jr-,rrM r* ,
ASS.5?ifk' *• —
people to be very polite and hos- [gnindparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
pltable to the American forces Math is of Portales N M„ and ( Mother "had given John the
I Mrs. B. If. Smith of Dallas.
dence, 1002 Cherry, Friday, were
hold Saturday 10 a. m. from the I E,nngton p|oldi TcxuSi Dcc. 6
fuller Euncral home w.th Rev. UEHington Field Aviation Cadets
Kelley 1 errell, p.,tor of MoDon- , cn,lBtt,d m„n tod
a d Memorial Baptist church J f- fc,irnwl #gn,n(lt th,„ onCrl_
ficiating Burial wus in the Lv-
Joe wanted the money to buy u
comora, she said.
there.
"YOUNGEST" SENATOR SEEKS WINGS
• _
Rainfall In Orange Saturday
morning occasioned the general
remark that this section was
never In a more receptive mode
in regard to rains, in that farm- Hunter Beaty, president of the
era had completed their Work of .Orange Public school board, E. L.
harvesting and marketing and Reid, attorney, and J. W. Edgar,
School Officials
Attend Hearing
In Ft. Worth
really needed some rain to aid
them In preparation of their
lands for the 1943 crops f
Only slight interference with
outside work was occasioned in
Orange by the rainfall.
city school superintendent leave
Saturday for Fort Worth^-where
they will attend a hearing Mon-
day on the heating contract for
the new Orange Junior - Senior
high school building.
RATION BOARD
TO BE CLOSED
INDEFINITELY
. h.
Orange War Price and Ration
board will be closed indefinitely,
beginning Mbnday, to allow em-
ployees to catch up with the work,
it was announced today.
Beginning Tuesday, those who
want to make application for the
basic A rution books should go to
the grand jury room on. the third
floor of the courthouse.
In response to numerous re-
quests, the list of tire inspectors is
published again, as follows:
! "? TIKI. INSPECTORS
B. W. Stringer, Charles. Pre J tan,
J. L. Jelljfon, J. M. Muiiff, Major
Inman. T. B. Reed. A. P. Fuller,
Robert Hodge, Charlie Hempel,
Russell Fleig, Raymond Sanders,
Scott Broaddus, C. C. Pratt, J. O.
Carter, D. H. Wiggins and C. W.
Wiggins.
Supplemental ration books are
to be placed in the mail just as
Soon as possible, ration board of-
ficials said-
Committee For
J aycee' Ladies
Night Planned
A committee composed of Hen*
ry Golightly, Sidney Ifotlemnn
and Travis Westmoreland, bis
been named to work out plans for
a dance to be given at the liadies*
night meeting of tile Junior
Chamber of Commerce on Wed-
nesday, January fl. *
Thc^cQmmiltee will meet next
Wednesday night to complete
plana.
William Jennings Bryan Dorn of Greenwood, 6. C, who at 34 Is
South Carolina's youngest state senator in history, is pictured,
right, above, at thc San Antonio, Tex., aviation cadet ccnter where
lie Is a pro-night Student At left Is Raymond E. Home, Jr., of
Rogersvllle, Tenn., great-great grandson of Stephen ¥, Austin, one
Virf-TsXKfecmt heroes. -r-
motrt-y to deliver to Joe. She
j hoped that Joe was enjoying the
| camera, she added, as she knew
I he always had wanted one.
That was the story.
I Naturally, Private Donks had
no camera. Neither did he have
a friend named John l)oe. But
well - meaning mother knew nei-
ther. She was the victim of an
old racket.
'Kach soldier should make it
plain to the folks back home that
he, and he alone, will corry on
all money dealings with them,"
;thc warning, issued by Col. W. H.
Reid, commanding Ellington
Field, stated. "Only through that
means will such unfortunate-oc-
currences be guarded against."
Improvements
At Local Post
Office Planned
Information was received here ^iscussed.
Saturday to the effect that the U. Appointment of seversl new
S. postal department was com-!mt'mbtr,! to the board of directors
pletlng a contract with J. E Ba- wns also considered.
ket, a building contractor of Port
Artfiuf to make extensive^ %n-
prwemcnt to the building hnd -fa-
cilities' at the Orange pt^t office'.
The contract whi^h wTll include
construction and ^equipment of an
annex approximately 30 by 40 on
the north side of the old structure,
enlargement of the lobby section
to -lnclude more windows for ser-
vice, also additional lock mail
boxes, and putting on a new roof,
I# expected to run around $10,000.
The contract is to be exeCutlfd
as near as possible within B0
working days, although some mod-
ification of that portion of the
contract, was hinted in informa-
tion received here, on account of
scarcity of certain materials.
Navy Town
Tenant Group
Directors Meet
A meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the new tenant association
in Navy Town, was held Friday
night at the administration build-
ing with E, D. C'hoate, president,
in charge.
A lengthy discussion of an ap-
propriate name for tl>e organisa-
tion, was had, but definite ;deci-
sion was deferred until the next
meeting.
Among activities proposed at
this time, included a Christmas
party for children -of the addi-
tion, and n holiday party foi
adults- |
Means of obtaining a larger
milk supply for that section was
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