Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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The News from Every Section of Refugio County
VOL. XVI—No. 40
REFUGIO, REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944
Four Pages*
Impressions
A swell bunch of people. You
have heard me talk about the fine
people that live in Refugio and
how they are friendly and cooper-
ative. Well, I am happy to ex-
pand that sphere to include Refu-
gio County.
Saturday evening we tabulated
election returns from this county
for the Texas Election Bureau,
and contacted by telephone and
wire a number of people we have
not had the pleasure of meeting
and knowing personally. Each
and every one-man or woman
were very cooperative and very
happy to assist in every way pos-
sible. It was a real pleasure to
work with these people. If they
did not know what we wanted,
they would volunteer to get the
information for us.
Incidentally, we certainly had
wonderful cooperation from the lo-
cal telephone office. It was a real
pleasure to gather the returns
last Saturday.
* *
Confidential reports are that the
pony is in as bad shape as Dorothy
Vance, after their engagement last
week.
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Let’s attend church service next
'Sunday.
LYLE WINS
NOMINATION
TO CONGRESS
Capt. John E. Lyle’s lead over
Rep. Richard M. Kleberg dropped
to 9,974 as the last four counties
in the congressional district were
111!
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F. W. HARTMANN
DIED SUNDAY
Frank William Hartmann pass-
ed away at Spohn Hospital, Cor-
pus Christi, Sunday morning, July
16, 1944, a victim of a heart
attack.
He was born at New Braunfels,
Texas on November 23, 1883. On
May 29, 1909 he was united in
marriage to Miss Wallie Schulze
at Seguin. Three children were
born to this union.
In November of 1913 he and
his family moved to Woodsboro.
After seven years residence here
the family moved to Robstown
where they lived three years. The
family then returned to Refugio
County where the deceased lived
until his death. During his entire
stay in Refugio and Nueces Coun-
ties he was engaged in farming.
He was past president of the Holy
Name Society and active in Par-
ish affairs. He was president of
the Order of Herman Sons Lodge
No. 260 at Woodsboro, at the time
of his death.
Recitation of the Rosary was
led Monday night by Rev. Joseph
Furman, O. S. B. The funeral
services were held at the St.
Therese Church, Woodsboro, Tues-
day morning at ten o’clock with
Rev. Furman officiating a t
Requiem High Mass. Rev. E. J.
Miller gave the sermon and con-
ducted the services at the grave.
Also present was Rev. Alcuin
Xubis, O. S. B.
He is survived by his widow,
Wallie Schulze Hartmann and
three children, Mrs. Celestine
Schubert and Mrs. Marie Walsh
of Woodsboro and Captain Frank
W. Hartmann of Neosho, Missouri
and three grandchildren, Frankie
Marlene Hartmann and Michael
and Josephine Walsh. He is also
survived by his mother, Mrs. Jose-
phine Hartmann, one sister, Miss
Elsie Hartmann and two brothers,
Max Hartmann of New Braunfels
and Fred Hartmann of Seguin.
The following were active pall-
bearers: Leander Piehl, Arthur
Henkhaus, Harvey Messer, Otto
Goetzel and Henry Symastrala.
The honorary pallbearers included
all the members of the Order of
Herman Sons Lodge No. 260 at
Woodsboro and also the following.
Ed Fricke, T. D. Thomas, C. A.
Tuttle, H. Cummins, Alex Wolf-
sohl, Ed Mason, Herbert Pfullman,
W. C. Pfiel, R. E. Miller, Hilmer
Hultgren and Ludwig Zarsky.
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Weeds a Breeder
Though few people realize what a
burden weeds add to human exist*
«nce, farmers have an accurate idea.
So do th‘e railroads. These two
groups use 40 million pounds of
weed-killing chemicals in a normal
year.
heard from. Paul Martineau still
faces W. B. Hopkins, his runoff
partner, with a lead of more than
1,000.
In the congressional race Lyle
dropped 191 votes from his lead
as complete results came in from
Atascosa, Karnes, Jim Wells and
Gonzales Counties although he
carried all except one of them.
The tally in the race stood last
night at 28,332 for Lyle and 18,358
for Kleberg.
Returns, complete from all 19
counties were:
Nueces—Lyle, 7,943; Kleberg,
5,035.
San Patricio—Lyle, 2,575; Kle-
berg, 1,118.
Wilson—Lyle, 1,867; Kleberg,
1,360.
Comal—Lyle, 1,275; Kleberg,
824.
Duval—Lyle, 3,420; Kleberg,75.
Live Oak—Lyle, 921; Kleberg,
490.
Bee—Lyle, 1,404; Kleberg, 927.
Aransas — Lyle, 563; Kleberg,
154.
Kenedy—Lyle, 1; Kleberg, 84.
Kleberg—Lyle, 637; Kleberg,
967.
Refugio—Lyle, 225; Kleberg,
203.
McMullen—Lyle, 240; Kleberg,
263.
DeWitt—Lyle, 1,513; Kleberg,
1,495.
Guadalupe—Lyle, 333; Kleberg,
514.
Brooks—Lyle, 106; Kleberg, 346.
Gonzales—Lyle, 1,757; Kleberg,
884.
Jim Wells—Lyle, 2,054; Kleberg,
1,385.
Atascosa—Lyle, 516; Kleberg,
534.
Karnes, (figures approximate)
Lyle, 1,000; Kleberg, 500.
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WOODSBORO DANCE
SATURDAY, JULY 29
Woodsboro.—Mrs. L. M. Piehl
has requested that it be announced
there will be a dance at the Civic
Club in Woodsboro on the night
of Saturday, July 29.
Paul’s Orchestra will furnish
the music for the dance, and ad-
mission price is $1.50 per couple.
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Clean Heating Plant
When the heating plant is clean,
the heat loss or wastage is 0 per
cent. With a slight deposit of soot
(one-eighth of an inch) on the boiler
flues, the heat loss is 3 per cent.
A medium soot deposit will cause
4.9 per cent of the fuel to be
wasted. A heavy soot deposit (in
excess of one-f®urth inch) will waste
more than 6 per cent of the fuel.
These studies, which were confirmed
by a total of 16 separate tests, were
limited to the exterior of boiler flues.
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Balsa Cutting
Considerable care is required in
selecting and handling balsa wood.
First the woodsman picks the trees.
Some operators then circle them
when the sap is down (hew moon)
to deaden them. In about three
weeks (dark of the moon) the trees
are cut into logs and hauled to the
sawmill. Two logs usually are ob-
tained from each tree. In the Pa-
cific area a tree yields about 100 to
150 feet. In the Atlantic region, with
lighter and smaller^trees, the aver-
age is 75 to 125 feet.
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ADDING MACHINE RIBBONS
—For R. C. Allen, Corona, Rem-
ington, Burroughs, Sundstrand,
Victor $1 each. Timely Remarks.
PRIZE OFFERED
IN BIRLE CONTEST
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is
offering a Bible to the person
that submits the nearest correct
set of answers to the “Know Your
Bible” quiz questions appearing in
this week’s issue of The Timely
Remarks, and for the next four
weeks.
In this week’s paper appears
questions to Set No. 9, along with
answers to Set No. 8. The person
submitting the best set of answers
to these ten questions and the sets
to be published during the next
four weeks will be awarded a $6
Bible. This award Bible is com-
plete with maps, references, con-
cordance and dictionary of Biblical
names and terms.
This contest is open to anyone,
and answers are to be submitted
at the conclusion of the contest,
to Rev. Martin Lopahs, c| o 'Gloria
Dei Lutheran Church, Refugio,
Texas, not later than August 30.
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Driscoll Henkhaus
Makes Honor Roll
At A & M College
Woodsboro.—Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
thur A. Henkhaus have been in-
formed that their-.son, Driscoll
Arthur Henkhaus, has been listed
on the Distinguished Student list
at A. & M. College for the third
(Spring) semester of the 1943-44
term.
Driscoll Henkhaus is a sopho-
more at the college and made a
wonderful scholastic record while
attending Woodsboro High School.
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George Toland Made
Manager of Feed Co.
George Toland has been elected
manager of the Refugio County
Feed & Seed Co., Inc. at Woods-
boro, effective with the first of
this week it has been announced by
officials of that organization. Mr.
Toland will continue to serve the
organization as secretary-treasur-
er as well as manager.
He succeeds W. C. Lewis, who
resigned after serving'as manager
for some nine months.
APPRECIATION
DAY SCHEDULED
TO START AUG. 5
Thirty-six Refugio merchants,
under the supervision of the Re-
fugio Chamber of Commerce, will
sponsor a series of Appreciation
Days starting with Saturday,
August 4.
Co-operaung merchants will dis-
play on their show windows an
insignia stating “Appreciation
Day”, and patrons can learn full
details of the event from these
merchants.
Making of the Appreciation Day
award will take place in the late
afternoon on each Saturday. See
next week’s issue of The Timely
Remarks for further information.
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Refugio Girls Hit
Hard to Win 10-4
The Refugio Girls Softball team
hit hard and often to pile up ten
tallies and dowh the ' Woddsbdr6
team 10 to 4 here Monday night | Woodsboro.—Edward Haag, 65,
in an interesting game played be- father of Mrs. George Dahse, died
fore one of the largest crowds of | at a San Antonio hospital Sunday,
the season. I July 23> after a lengthy illness. A
resident of N. New Braunfels St.
ATKINSON
IN RON-OFF
WITH SHELL
Harvey Shell and H. L. Atkin-
son entered a run-off for the nomi-
nation as State Representative of
the 70th District as a result of
voting in the four-county district
last Saturday. I. E. Crow of Taft
was the low man in the three-cor-
ner contest.
Tabulation of votes in this race
(all unofficial, but complete) by
counties show: y
County Shell Atkinson Crow
Refugio ........ 231 103 77
San Patricio 1665 657 1292
Aransas .... 313 208 147
Bee .........*..... 869 1410 • 221
Total........ 3078
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2378
1737
Father of Mrs. Dahse
Dies in San Antonio
Grantham, local pitcher, was
hurling steady ball and hung up
ten strike-outs during the evening.
Eddie Mae of the losers managed
to strike out seven of the local
batters, but more of the hits off
her were for extra bases.
Another game has been matched
for this coming Monday night.
Cpl. Corando Martinez
Wounded in Italy,
Home on Furlough
Woodsboro. —Corporal Conrado
H. Martinez is home on a twenty-
three day furlough to visit his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Martinez
of Corpus Christi, formerly of this
place.
Corporal Martinez, wounded in
action in Italy, is the wearer of
the Purple Heart. He has been
in the U. S. Army for two and a
half years, having enlisted on Jan-
in San Antonio, he is survived, be-
sides Mrs. Dahse, by his widow,
Mrs. Emile Haag; son, Clarence
J. Haag; brother, Arthur Haag;
sisters, Mrs. E. F. Kneupper, Mrs.
John Hendricks, Mrs. Raymond
Dickey, Mrs. Henry Agold and
three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Mon-
day at 5 p. m. in the chapel of the
Riebe Funeral Home of San An-
tonio, Rev. William Durlop offi-
ciating. Interment was in Sunset
Memorial Park. Mr. Haag was a
member of the Carl Rompel Lodge
Order of Hermann Sons.
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July 31 Deadline for
School Transfers
Next Monday, July 31, is the
final date for pupils to transfer
from one school district to an-
other. Those wishing to transfer
into the Woodsboro Independent
uary 20, 1942, and spent twenty- [ School District may attend to it
six months overseas. He will re- I at the office of Judge Jeter, or
port to San Antonio on August 7. H. Cuipmins, or J. K. Kerr.
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Minnie Fisher Cunningham ...
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15
Alex M. Ferguson.....................
..... 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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William F. Grimes ...................
..... 1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
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Martin Jones .............................
..... 3
2
0
1
5
0
0
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12
Herbert E. Mills .......................
..... 0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
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W. J. Minton ...........................
..... 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Gene S. Porter .........................
..... 0
2
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0
1
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0
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Coke R. Stevenson...................
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
.....128
99
64
31
12
9
24
23
390
Mat Davis .................................
..... 9
4
0
2
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1
1
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24
Lee Satterwhite .......................
..... 55
51
27
16
8
4
11
13
185
John Lee Smith.........................
..... 56
50
29
18
10
4
14
6
187
William David Turner ...........
ATTORNEY GENERAL
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4
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Fred Erisman ...........................
..... 11
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39
Jesse E. Martin .........................
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46
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139
Grover Sellers ................................ 83
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF SUPREME
50 31
COURT:
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220
Richard Critz ...........................
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159
James B. Hubbard ...................
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78
Charles T. Rowland .................
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Gordon Simpson .......................
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Tom Smiley ..................................... 23 26 6
JUDGE OF COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS:
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Joesph D. Dickson.....................
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F. L. Hawkins ................................ 92 89
COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS:
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Clifford E. Butler ...................
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12
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Harold K. Shelton ...................
.... 8
5
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George H. Sheppard ......................106
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE:
90
45
34
19
8
22
20
344
Virgil E. Arnold .......................
..... 10
8
1
3
5
1
3
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32
Edgar E. Hunter .....................
..... 26
24
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3
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J. E. McDonald .............................. 86 74 43
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION:
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Walter Scott McNutt ...............
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Earl Rogers ................................
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L. A. Woods.................................... 90 81 51 28
CONGRESSMAN, 14th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT:
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Richard M. Kleberg .................
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16
17
203
John E. Lyle .............................
STATE REPRESENTATIVE,
..... 61 68
70th DISTRICT
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H. L. Atkinson............................
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34
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103
E. I. Crow...................................
..... 22
20
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4
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7
7
77
Harvey Shell .............................
..... 74
55
33
22
15
3
18
11
231
ELECTION DRAWS
VERY LIGHT VOTE
A light vote of 587 ballots for
Refugio County was cast last Sat-
urday in the first Democratic pri-
mary with voting taking place in
eight of the precincts of the coun-
ty. The two Refugio Boxes marks
the heaviest voting with 125 bal-
lots being cast in Precinct 1 and
114 being cast in 1-A. This was
the smallest July primary vote in
the last five elections.
Refugio County was the only
county in the district to give Har-
vey Shell a clear majority in his
contest for nomination as State
Representative. This county gave
John Lyle a majority of 22 votes
over Congressman Richard M.
Kleberg.
Elsewhere on this page will be
found a tabulation of the unoffi-
cial complete vote for Refqgio
County in all contested races.
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TIRE INSPECTION
STATIONS MUST
RENEW PERMITS
All tire inspection stations in
the San Antonio OPA district, in-
cluding Refugio County, have had
their authorizations revoked, and
must apply for reinstatement be-
fore August 10, George Dahse,
chairman of the local War Price
and Rationing Board, announced
today.
The revocation of authorization
to inspect tires was brought
about to tighten qualification of
inspection stations, Mr. Dahse ex-
plained. An already critical situ-
ation became much more serious
when the Government announced
a short time ago that all future
new production of truck tires
Sized. 8.25 x 20 and larger will be
requisitioned for the armed forces,
until further notice. This means
that only larger truck tires now in
dealers’ hands remain for civilian
rationing, and that these tires
must be rationed much more care-
fully, Mr. Dahse added.
“Better inspection of tires, to
make sure that no tire goes out
of service before it has given its
last mile of wear, is sought in this
move restricting authority for in-
spections to stations having facili-
ties and personnel capable of do-
ing a thorough, specified job,” he
stated.
Newly authorized inspectors
will have two typer ^f stations:
Those designated as Official Truck
Tire and Passenger Car Tire In-
! spection Stations, authorize* , to
j inspect any tire, and Passenger
Car Tire Inspection Stations, lim-
j ited to inspection of passenger
car tires find smaller passenger
| car-type tires.
I Starting July 26, farmers,
/anchmen and others employing
seasonal labor will be able to ob-
tain allotments of rationed foods
for periods of employment rang-
ing up to 60 days, George Dahse,
chairman of the local War Price
and Rationing Board, has an-
nounced.
Formerly, allotments of this
type could be obtained only for
workers employed for 30 days or
less. For those employed longer,
the employer had to collect ration
points from the workers. Now,
however, application can be made
to the local board for allotments
to cover longer periods of seasonal
employment.
REFUGIO C-C
MEMBERSHIP
FIFTY-SEVEN
Membership in the recently re-
organized Refugio Chamber of
Commerce now totals fifty-seven,
with the addition of several more
firms this week. Since the last
published list of members the fol-
lowing have been added:
Refugio Feed & Produce Co.
The Economy Store
Mrs. Mame Day
First National Bank 1
Griffin Consolidated Theatres
Roger’s Tailor Shop ji Jj
L. A. Weiss, Jr. 1 ! '
Local Oil Co. : • > ;
Stryker’s Fruit Stand
United Oil Corporation ’ l-
Western Union : ;
Refugio Refinery ? 11
Quintana Petroleum Corporation
R. S. Morgan ;:*r&
Mission Service Station 1 : v •’
Humble Service Station ; {
Starrett Tubing Pulling Cn.; r»f •'
Refugio Furniture Co.
Highways, airport and housing
have been placed on the list as the
first three major projects of the
Chamber of Commerce. i f
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Mrs. J. T. Vance, Jr.
Painfully Injured
Mrs. J. T. Vance, Jr., was pain-
fully injured late Thursday after-
noon of last week, when she at-
tempted to prevent her children’s
pony from escaping from the pen.
The animal carried her down the
driveway in his "rush from the gate
and she will be confined to bed for
several weeks with a broxen right
arm, and fractures of the right
ankle.
She and her daughter, Betty
Lou, are at the WT A. Leighty
home, while the boys, Johnny, III,
and Harry Reese, are in Robstown
with their”grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Nichols.
ROTARIANS HEAR
ASSEMBLY REPORT
Meeting of the Refugio Rotary
Club on Monday was featured by
reports of the District Assembly
held last week in Houston. Six
members, Bill Leighty, W. R.
Hounsell, Gould Sparks, Forest
English, Carter Snooks and E. X
Freeman, gave summaries of var-
ious topics of the assembly pro-
gram.
Rotarian Norton Bailey of Dal-
las was the guest of his brother,
Vivian Bailey, and Jimmie Jacks
was the guest of Bill Leighty at
the meeting.
W. L. Fricks Gets
First Bale Cotton
Bayside.—W. L. Fricks got the
first two bales of cotton for Ref-
ugio County. The two bales,
weighing 511 and 605 pounds, re-
spectively, were raised on the M-
D. Fricks farm in the St. Mary
Addition to Bayside, and was gin-
ned at the B. & R.Co-Op Gin. The
first bale of 511 pounds was gin-
ned free.
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RIALTO THEATRE
Calendar for August
DATE FEATURE and Stars
1- 2 HIGHER AND HIGHER ^
Michele Martin
Jack Haley
Frank Sinatra
3- 4 The FIGHTING SEABEES
John Wayne
Dennis O’Keefe
5 FRONTIER LAW
Russell Hayden ..
6- 7 THIS IS THE ARMY a
8- 9 BANJO ON MY KNEE
Barabara Stanwcyk ;. j
Joel McCrea
10-11 THE UNINVITED
Ray Milland
Ruth Hussey
12 SUNDOWN VALLEY
Starles Starrett
13-14 COVER GIRL
Rita Hayworth
Gene Kelly
15-16 PHANTOM LADY
Franchot Tone
Ella Raines
17-18 MADAME CURIE
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
19 COWBOY AND HIS
SENORITA
Roy Rogers and “Trigger”
20-21 SEE HERE, PRIVATE
HARGROVE
22-23 WOMAN OF THE TOWN
Albert Dekker
Claire Trevor
24-25 THIS IS THE LIFE
Donald O’Connor
Susanna Foster
26 OH, SUSANNA!
GENE AUTRY
27-28 BUFFALO BILL
Joel McCrea
Maureen O’Hara
29-30 BEAUTIFUL BUT BROKE
Joan Davis
31- 1 THE PURPLE HEART
Dana Andrews
Richard Conte j
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