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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Dutch *Quisling'
It a Pint Flatk
Of Pure Poiton
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features— WNU Features.
YORK.—Anton Adrian Mus-
sert Is the little man who gets
jthe poison ivy garland as the Neth-
erlands Quisling. There has been
keen compe-
tition be-
tween Mus-
sert, Himm-
ler’s man,
•nd Ross von Tonningen, a protege
of Goering, tor the above supreme
dishonor. Late dispatches indicate
that Mussert has definitely won.
Clinical historians will, as they
examine Mussert's career, find a
classical pattern of the origins and
inducements of Quislingism. The
scrubby little boy of the lovely vil-
lage of Werkendan in south Holland
was a short-ender in everything he
tried, and in addition to that had a
gift for getting himself disliked by
his schoolmates. Furthermore, he
suffered from a delusion that he was
■ reincarnation of his great-grand-
father Reus Mussert. Reus was a
giant who smacked everybody down
for miles around and became a sort
of Paul Bunyan in the Low Coun-
tries. Little Anton made many mis-
calculations in trying to be like
Reus. He became like Horace’s
"even-tempered man”—always mad.
His aunt paid for his education
In civil engineering at the Univer-
sity of Delft. His wife wanted to be
a grand lady, perhaps co-ruler with
him of a subjugated Holland, and
she and the aunt were always fan-
ning up his frustrated power mania.
He did well enough in the univer-
sity but when he finished they filed
him away in a grubby little civil
service job.
A little dash of printer’s ink
lanced the boil of his suppressed
hatreds, and headed him toward
his great betrayal. In 1929, there
was a row on between Holland
and Belgium over a joint canal
project, and, tearing loose with
some wild invective, he hit the
headlines. He formed a new
political party, patterned on
Mussolini and Fascism, and be-
gan recruiting the less literate
section of the country in public
yelling matches against "deca-
dent parliamentarianism” and
"capitalistic plutocracy.” Hitler
sent him an "atta boy!” mes-
sage and there was the begin-
ning of a beautiful friendship.
His domineering aunt made him
divorce his wife and marry her.
Then she caught him philandering
with his pretty stenographer and
jerked him out of the management
of the new party. Holland was vast-
ly amused by the tough-talking little
dictator being owned and operated
by his wife, but underestimated his
gifts as a germ-carrier—until he
helped let the Nazis in.
GMmAND
JOHN MASEFIELD’S cargoes ol
** “pigiron and old tin trays” are
apt to take wings before this war
is over. A friend of this writer, a
«'*•” W. Reap, ££»,-
We Find Another told us about
Ha. Done Sowing ^
coming through soon, built quickly
•nd stoutly of plywood, capable of
long flights with a heavy load, and
with production costs so low in man-
power and materials that quantity
production will be swift and easy.
It wouldn’t take many of them to do
the work of a fair-sized ship, said
my friend, taking into account their
•greater speed. He is lit up with
the idea that here is the answer to
the submarine problem, and he says
It is, right now, a lot more than a
blueprint.
Back in March, 1932, Walter
H, Beech resigned as vice presi-
dent of the Curtiss-Wright cor-
poration, to design and build
commercial planes. He has had
some tough going, but his dec-
ade of chance-taking in the
commercial free - for - all, has
blossomed into a whale of a
plant at Wichita, Kan., making
wooden planes, trainer planes to
be sure, but right In line with
coming air argosies of plywood
and pre - fabricated mahogany.
The side of a plane is slammed
together and attached to the
fuselage in only a few minutes.
The plant business, in dollar ac-
counting, has risen 4,000 per
cent in the last 18 months. All
fears of a financial forced land-
ing are past.
Mr. Beech has never hesitated to
take a sharp turn off the main road.
He resigned from the army air
corps, in 1921, eager to try out some
new ideas, and organized the Swal-
low Aeroplane company. Then came
Ms Travel Air Manufacturing com-
pany, building the famous “Mystery
S” in which Capt. Frank Hawks
outflew the crack army ships. His
Beech Aircraft corporation turned
out the plane which won the Mac-
fadden Trophy race from St. Louis
.to Miami last January. He is al-
ways experimenting, with the sky as
bis laboratory.
HO was the toughest piece oi
’ ' ruwhide that ever came to the
ring?
The recent death of Chuck Wig-
gins brings this nr
gument into the
spotlight. For Com
mander Gene Tun-
ney says Chuck
Wiggins was the
roughest piece of hu-
man rawhide he
ever met in a ring
—and Chuck picked
Harry Grcb.
It might be men-
tioned that Tunney
Grantland Rice Places Greb a close
second to the un-
breakable Chuck in the way of
toughness—not as a fighter. Greb
was the fellow Tunney always
placed on top as the best man,
pound for pound, he ever met.
Commandct Tunney is now help-
ing dynamic Stan Griffis in the
Navy Relief drive. We were talk-
ing about Wiggins (almost national-
ly). and about Harry Greb.
“I’ll give you two examples,”
Gene said, "which bring in both
men. On my way to my first
Dempsey fight I met Chuck Wig-
gins. At the time I was working on
a right uppercut to the body. 1 was
still raw with this punch. As Wig-
gins came in I happened to hit him
low punches on two occasions. Each
time the referee warned me. Wig-
gins could have dropped and
claimed a foul either time, and would
have been awarded the fight.
"But when the referee warned
me, Wiggins turned to him with a
snarl. 'Leave us alone,’ he said,
•Tunney didn't hit me low. It was
fair punch.’ Naturally that stopped
the referee.
The Gamest Fighter
“About the fifth round,” Tunney
continued, “I whipped in with
right body uppercut and I used all
I had. Chuck had come in fast
and the punch landed low—way be'
low the belt. Again the referee
warned me and once again Wiggins
told him to get away, that the punch
was belt high.
“But as we moved into a clinch
Wiggins whispered, ‘Say, Gene,
keep ’em up a little. That last one
hurt.’
"That was Chuck Wiggins, the
gamest, toughest man I ever fought.
He could have claimed the fight
three times against me that night,
and gotten away with it But not
Chuck.”
Wiggins always said Greb was
the toughest man he ever fought
I suggested to Tunney.
"I can’t say he was wrong,” Gene
said with a grin. “I’ll tell you
something about Greb, too.”
“The last time I met Harry he
was blind in one eye. Maybe the
other wasn’t any too good, but he
was still something to handle. In
one round as Greb came charging
in I nailed him with a full right to
the body. I could feel my glove
against his spine. I saw his mouth
fly open and his eyes start rolling.
I stepped back to let Greb fail,
knew this was a knockout punch.
The next thing I knew Harry had
me on the ropes trying to hammer
my head off. I felt for a few sec-
onds that I was in a cage with a
wild tiger. I had to finish the round
protecting myself. That was Harry
Greb.”
The Making of Tunney
Commander Tunney will tell you
that his battles with Chuck Wiggins
and Harry Greb were the two main
factors in getting him ready for the
first Dempsey fight.
Tunney won’t admit that he thinks
both Wiggins and Greb were even
tougher than Dempsey, but that’s
how he feels down in his heart. I
don’t mean harder punchers. Nei-
ther was a killing puncher. But 1
mean rough, tough, to-hcll-with-the-
rules, anything goes.
In getting ready for Dempsey I'll
say for Tunney that he never picked
the rose-patched or the violet-
bordered road. When he selected
Chuck Wiggins, Harry Greb and
Rubberman Risko he elected to
walk through a garden of thorns
and poison ivy Anyone who could
wade through this trio, especially
the Greb part, even though he was
half blind, was about ready to walk
into a cage and grab the raw meat
away from a Bengal tiger
Tunney still rates Greb the great-
est fighter he ever met. So docs
everyone else who ever met Greb,
especially the bigger fellows who
were his meat. Or you might ask
Mickey Walker, on the smaller side,
and about as good and as tough as
they happened to come along.
The ring knows a far longer list
of great fighting men under 150
pounds than over that mark—Jim-
my Wilde, Joe Gans, Kid Lavigne,
Joe Walcott, Benny Leonard, Owerr
Moran, Frank Erne, Terry McGov-
ern, Driscoll, Welsh, Altell, Nelson,
Wolgast, on and on.
And how many fighters, pound for
pound, ever could match Harry
Greb, Stanley Ketchell, Sarn Lang-
ford, or Jack Blackburn?
Greb at 160 almost murdered such
heavyweights as Gene Tunney,
Gibbons, Jack Dillon and
from 190 to 200 pounds.
Wooden Ships That Pack a Punch
When steel became scarce, New England builders of fishing
trawlers went back to wood. They convinced the navy they could
build swift, useful auxiliary ships of wood. And now Uncle Sam's
one-ton featherweight mosquito fleet—unarmored and made of ply-
wood—have sunk transports and warships. It was a mosquito boat
that got General Mac Arthur out of Bataan.
Above is a typical logging
scene in Washington. A coast
guard cutter is shown in the
circle. Left: Working on a
wooden minesweeper at
Rockland, Me.
Little Stories About
II ell-Knoten People:
Pearson and Allen like to tell this
story about F. D. R. . When he
was u young lawyer he was retained
to handle a difficult civil case. The
rival attorney was an effective jury
pleader and he completely outshone
his youthful rival in the argument
to the jury. However, he made one
fatal mistake. He orated for sev-
eral hours. As he thundered on,
Roosevelt noticed the jury wasn't
paying much attention. So when
his turn came he rose and said:
“Gentlemen, you have heard the ev-
idence. You also have listened to
my distinguished colleague, a bril-
liant orator. If you believe him and
disbelieve the evidence, you will de-
cide in his favor. That’s all I have
to say.”
The jury was out only five min-
utes and brought in a verdict for
F. D. R.’s client.
Picture at top shows a coastal minesweeper. Below: coast guard
cabin picket boat, 38 feet in length.
Stretch of virgin timber in Washington on which logging opera-
tions are just starting. Mt. Rainier is slioivn in background.
A U. S. navy sub-
chaser is on her way.
Tills is the reason for the H. L.
that goes before Mencken's name.
As a youth he had a little printing
business and used to print cards
with his name on for advertising
purposes. But his father smashed
all his black letter lower case ‘‘r's’’
so he had to print his name H. L
Mencken—instead of Henry L., and
that's the way it has remained.
Years ago in Wisconsin, a young
man was chopping wood and acci-
dentally hit himself in the foot with
the axe. He moaned and groaned
and his face was contorted in pain
while his shoe was slowly being re-
moved—so the wound could be treat-
ed. However, when the shoe was
taken off it was revealed that he
wasn't even scratched. One of the
onlookers commented that he had a
wonderful imagination and would
make a great actor.
His name—Alfred Lunt.
S'*a*
il.Phillipr Jr
Clever Flower Holder
Cutouts of Plywood
When the piano Beethoven com-
posed his music on was exhibited in
a European museum, visitors were
given the thrill of sitting down and
playing it Everybody took advan-
tage of that honor—except Paderew-
ski. When the museum guard asked
him why he didn’t sit down and
play, he replied: "I do not feel
worthy enough to touch it”
Henry Clay, the eminent states-
man, knew how to say the right
thing at the right time. A pretty
young thing once reproached him
for failing to remember her name
. . But Clay was equal to the oc
casion, replying gallantly: “I didn’t
recall your name, because when wc
last met I was sure your beauty
and talent would soon compel you
to change It.”
This is one of the best
squelches we have ever come
across. A friend once told Vol-
taire: “It is good of you to say
such pleasant things about an
enemy when he always says
such nasty things about you.”
To which Voltaire replied:
“Perhaps we are both mistak-
en.”
When Marshal Focb visited Amer-
ica he went to see the Grand Can-
yon. As he stood looking down into
the depths of the amazing natural
wonder, reporters all around him
waited breathlessly for a comment
that would go down in history. Aft-
er a few minutes of dramatic si-
lence, the Marshal observed: “What
a beautiful place to drop one’s moth-
er-in-law!”
Among other things, Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes was a doctor, but he
wasn’t very successful in that pro-
fession. Seems that people were a
bit doubtful about the flippant medi-
co who posted this sign above his
shingle: “Small fevers gratefully re-
ceived.”
Among the better talcs about Cal-
vin Cooiidge’s brevity is this: A re-
porter was interviewing him. “Do
you wish to say anything about pro-
hibition?" he asked.
"No.”
“About the farm bloc?”
“No.”
“About the World Court?”
“No."
The reporter turned to go. “By
the way,” said Coolidgc, “don’l
quote me.”
THE WOMEN’S ARMY
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the
girls arc marching!
• * •
Women in uniform will be the 1942
feature of our war program. Girls
will be doughboys.
• • •
The bill creating a Women's Aux
iliary Army has been passed and
one creating a Women's Auxiliary
Navy is in the works.
• • •
It ia soon going to be a ques-
tion whether to tip your hat to
a lady or give her a salute.
• • •
There will be 150,000 gals in the
new army, and it is fairly obvious
that before long there will be so
many of them in uniform that a
woman dressed like a woman is
going to feel conspicuous.
• • •
It is all going to be a terrific
blow at feminine daintiness and
charm. The boudoir is going to
look like an army locker room,
every clothes hanger is going to
have a military garment on it
and the male members of the
family arc going to have their
troubles telling which arc their
hats and which belong to mother
and sister.
• • •
We fear a big drop in charm. A
woman has to have everything to
project oomph in flat heels and an
army hat.
• • •
There will be no generals, majors,
colonels, etc., in the Female Re-
serve. Those responsible for the
matter were smart enough to know
that chaos might result. But there
will be other less militant titles. The
ladies will be ranked as directors,
assistant directors, first leaders,
second leaders, junior leaders, etc.
The preliminary battles will be
fought over the question who are
to be plain everyday members.
• • •
The gals will be paid. Directors
will get $3,000 a year and expenses,
assistant directors will get $2,400
and expenses, and those from junior
leaders to first officers will get from
$648 to $2,000 a year and expenses.
r ET’S take pattern Z9396 to the
I"-' workshop. There, from scraps
of plywood and with the aid of jig
or keyhole saw, we can make
these clever flower holders. Out-
lines for a dachshund, two blue-
birds, a muffin-cheeked cat and
his quizzical companion, for the
sad-eyed hound, a wise owl, and a
cute deer are traced to wood,
sawed out, assembled and painted.
• • *
These are fascinating to make, and
you've practical as well as decorative
Items when you’ve finished. Direction*
come with the pattern, which Is IS cent**
Send your order to:
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No...............
Name...................•••••••••••••*
Address...............................
If You Bake at Home . . .
We have prepared, and will send
absolutely free to you a yeast
recipe book full of such grand
recipes as Oven Scones, Cheese
Puffs, Honey Pecan Buns, Coffee
Cakes and Rolls. Just drop a card
with your name and address to
Standard Brands Inc., 691 Wash-
ington St., New York City.—Adv.
Expenses will
bridge losses.
not include
Albert Einstein once had the mis
fortune to be a guest at a very dull
party. Throughout the evening
yawns ran wild ... At the end of
the affair, the host remarked sym-
pathetically to him: “I’m afraid you
were terribly bored” . . . Einstein
smiled and replied: “No. On occa-
sions like this I retire to the back of
my mind, and there I am happy.”
f
For the last five months of her
life Marie Drcssler’s illness let her
be up for u few days, then down
again-getting worse all the time.
Each week, no matter how busy he
was, Louis B. Mayer used to take a
brief case full of scenarios to her
home. Her illness was never men-
tioned. Mayer merely discussed sto-
ries and plans for the future, ex-
actly as if she were still working.
Right through the last week of her
life, Miss Dressier remaired cheer-
ful and happy because of Mayer’s
thoughtfulness.
Just what the ladies will do has
not been completely decided, but if
the boys in the army could get their
wish some of them will be assigned
to cook, make beds and do the gen-
eral housework which the boys now
have to do.
• • •
Nothing would raise the morale ot
the American buck private like be-
ing relieved of the job of making
his own bed.
• • •
The Women’s Army will be non-
combatant. (Except within its own
ranks.—Ed.)
• • •
It may be sent anywhere in tht
world. And there is this one great
consolation: it will not be sent out
in those funny spring and summer
hats.
• • •
DIMOUT
"Get the flashlight, Willie!
Popper’s gonna take us to New
York to see the sights!”
• • •
It's so dark in the heart of New
York now that folks are doing their
necking OUTSIDE the movie houses.
« • •
“U. S. to Use Alcohol to Make
Rubber.”—Headline.
• • •
We suppose this will mean a
return of those wobbly rear
tireB.
• • •
Private Purkey’s sweetheart, Har-
riet, says she supposed all those
soldiers are being sent to Ireland
because they are green troops.
• • •
THOSE MUSICAL COMMERCIALS
Radio advertisers are going jingle
mad. There is hardly a product on
the air market today that hasn't
been set to music.
• * •
You can’t tune into the radio these
days without finding yourself in the
middle of some musical boost espe-
cially written for infantile intellects.
* • •
There was a time when an an-
nouncer would plug a drink,
hair oil, bon bon or cigarette
in a straight TALK. He didn’t
need an orchestra to say a good
word for a loaf of bread, or a
choir to emphasize the value of
a can of beer.
* • •
He didn’t have to set a Mother
Goose jingle to music to beat down
your sales resistance.
* • *
Radio is the most imitative of all
the arts. Let some sausage maker
come on the air with a sales talk
via a male quartette and a dozen
other business men will have their
commercials musicalized.
Are you a cigar manufacturer?
Very well. You’ll want something
like this to convince the American
public that you have the best smoke,
Health and vigor’s what yon
need,
You can get ’em, yes, indeed;
Smoke Bazookcr’s new cigar ... '
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BIG i 1 SIZE !
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HIT THAT RHEUMATIC PAIN
RIGHT WHERE IT HURTS
And look at the Silver Lining
in those Clouds of Pain
The big idea i, that you want to feet
better. When pain eases, your mind
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pain. C-2223 brings you pain-relieving
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