The Herald (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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There is but one job to do.
feat the enemy!
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On Monday, December 1, "Ninl"
Landrum and this writer visited
Bob Huebner in Houston. Mr.
Huebner predicted that the United
States would be in the war with*
in a week.
Exactly one week later, on De-
cember 8, the United States de-
clared war on Japan. Hostilities
had begun the day before.
____V____
Roy Lee Anderson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Lee Anderson and a mem-
ber of the United States Air Corps
at Las Vegas, Nevada, had u very,
very short furlough.
Mr. Anderson was given a two-
week furlough and arrived in Bay
City Saturday. Monday he was call-
ed back to Nevada because of the
declaration of war against Japan.
If
f Now were getting some of that
scrap iron back we've been send-
ing Japan . . . getting it right
back in the back!
____V____
While in Austin Saturday this de-
partment found out that Juy Serrill
of Bay City had received his com-
mission as a lieutenant in the com-
munications division of the air corps
at Scott Field, Illinois.
Friends will be glad to hear of
his promotion.
____V____
At the halftime period of the
Texas-Oregon game, we saw The
University of Texas Naval R. O.
T. C. put on an interesting drill.
The lads looked plenty spiffy in
their natty blue uniforms, white
gloves, and blue and white caps.
Watching them made us wish
we were back in the University
and in their organization.
____V____
C. C. Hadsell, editor of the Donna
News-Advocate in the Rio Grande
Valley, writes in his interesting
column, “Around the Paves”:
“Pass him up on the highway,
crowd him out of a seat, send him
to muddy maneuvers, rush him off
to Iceland or urge his dispatch to
North Africa, but don’t ever, EVER
call him a ‘sootier boy’.”
----V____
We were under the impression
that the Boy Scouts were collect-
ing old newspapers and maga-
zines. The Herald has a stack
nearly three feet high. . . but no
collectors have been by.
Dozens of housewives have ask-
ed when the Scouts were coming
around. How about it, Scouts and
Scoutmasters?
----V..._
The Camel Caravan is scheduled
to put on a show for the boys at
Camp Hulen on December 15 and
16.
----V____
Mrs. Elmo Hatcher, our adver-
tising solicitor, writes:
‘The holiday season is ap-
proaching and local citizens visit-
ing other cities already decorated
are reminded that we haven’t dec-
orated our city.
“Our courthouse decorations for
the past several years have evok-
ed wide praise, but this year let’s
go a bit further and decorate our
■ streets and shops, which have be-
come a shopping center for so
wide a trade territory.
“The psychological effect of
holiday decorations on Bhoppers
and visitors will certainly repay
us for our efforts. People like to
be reminded of the glad season
that is Christmas.
‘This promises to be the best
Christmas in a decade. Jobs are
plentiful, wages are good, and
Bay City merchants will certainly
finish a grand year with a pro-
fitable holiday business.”
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE IN TERESTS OF THE GULF COAST OF TEXAS
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VOLUME III
BAY CITY, MATAGORDA CQUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941
NUMBER 11
COUNTY COUNCIL WAITS OROERS
Inspection of Food Dealers Being Made
$4,100 SET AS REO CROSS GOAL
County Gets
New Quota
In War Time
Workers Launch
Drive Soon As
Word Is Received
“Again the American Red Cross
is called upon to serve our nation
in war,” Norman H. Davis tele-
graphed the Matagorda County Red
Cross Chapter Tuesday.
“Both nationally and locally wc
face vast and definite responsibili-
ties for services to our armed forces
and for relief to distressed civilians.
‘To provide essential funds Red
Cross today is launching a cai
Tom Hale, chairman of the Mat-
agorda County Chapter of the
American Red Cross, is conduct-
ing a class in Red Cross First
Aid each Tuesday night in the
District Courtroom in Bay City.
This work is extremely import-
ant in civilian defense. Mr. Hale
said that he had a class of thirty-
five and that he expected to have
other classes soon.
Classes at Markham, Wads-
worth, and Collegeport will be or-
ganized soon.
The first aid course is twenty
hours long, with two and one-half
hours taken up in study each
week. The classes now being con-
ducted begin at 7 o’clock.
County Farmers
Jo Decide On
Cotton Quotas
Matagorda County cotton farm-
ers will help decide the course of
cotton again this year when they
vote in a national cotton marketing
quota referendum, according to Mr.
Hickl, chairman of the Matagorda
County A. A. A. Committee.
The deoision will be made next
Saturday, December 13, and 9 poll-
ing places will be set up within the
County, the Chairman explained.
While increased production is
needed in many commodities in the
Food-For-Frcedom Program, any
increase in cotton will cripple the
defense effort because of the enor-
mous supply on hand, Mr. Hickl
said.
Due to naval and war blockades,
export trade has dropped from 6.2
million bales during the 1939-40
geason to 1.1 million bales during mark.
paign for war fund of minimum of
fifty million dollars. The President
will issue on Friday a proclamation
supporting this appeal.
“Your chapter quota is $4,100 dol-
lars.
“Chapters may retain fifteen per-
cent their colections for local war
relief expenditures. Chapter should
at onee devote full efforts to rais-
ing their quotas in shortest possible
time. Please report action taken.
We must not and shall not fail in
this crisis.”
The Matagorda County Chapter
immediately went into action this
week. Those in Bay City actively
engaged in this additional Red
Cross work are G. P. Hardy Jr.,
Tom Hale, A. Greenberg, R. Gus-
.ian, Miss Laura Pier, F. O. Mon-
tague, R. Bussell, A. H. Wads-
worth, J. D. Voyles, M. L. Hale, E.
J. Nedbalek, Roy Wertz, Miss Alma
Stewart, Layton Moore, Lee Ander-
son, J. D. Tabb, Mrs. J. C. Lewis, P.
R. Hamill, and Mrs. E. L. Carleton,
among others.
Rigid Clean
Up Campaign
Under Way
A rigid clean-up campaign among
food dealers in Bay City and Mata-
gorda County got under way here
this week under the supervision of
the State Health Department.
Bruce Sasse, sanitary engineer of
the Gulf Coast Health Unit, an
nounced to The Herald that the de-
partment has two experts, H. F.
Shaper and E. Roy Nichols, making
the investigations.
The food inspection tour among
cafes and restaurants of the coun-
ty is being made in the interest of
protecting food from flies and in-
sects, to discourage displays of
fruits and vegetables on sidewalks,
to require hand washing facilities
and adequate toilet facilities, to re-
quire adequate equipment and ster-
ilization of all utensils, to be clean
in general.
The initial inspection is being
made now, Mr. Sasse said, and a re-
inspection, after due warning, will
be made in two or three weeks.
Mr. Sasse said he hoped food
dealers and cafe owners would com-
ply with the department’s requests
so that they wouldn’t have to face
possible prosecution.
Accompanying Mr. Sasse here
was Stephen Megregin.
Air Raids Aren’t Impossible ^/It Has Been
At Once! Organized
Since July 16
In This Section Of Coast
Brazoria County
Auto Licenses
Are Announced
New auto licenses in Brazoria
County are;
Ernest Upham Jr., West Colum-
bia; W. A, Lee, West Columbia;
W. F. Jackson, Alvin; Roy Martin,
Pearland; Paul S. Lorraine, West
Columbia.
Ray Sumners of San Antonio was
here over the week-end.
Gulf Coast Cities Should
Provide Ample Protection
AN EDITORIAL
Air raids in this section of the Texas Gulf Coast?
Absurd? Fantastic?
Well, just about everyone a week ago would have
thought enemy planes over San Francisco were fantastic.
But there was. Manila thought so too. The city is going
through Hell. There are no public air raid shelters in
Manila.
Men, women, and children are being killed without
chance because of this lack of foresight. They have no where
to run for protection from the bombs of the invaders.
This Gulf Coast is not invulnerable from bombing or
sabotage. Camp Hulen and Dow Chemical Company and
Texas Gulf $ulphur Company are some of the nearly
choice targets for enemy aircraft or even saboteurs, who
may be lurking in our shadows this very minute.
And Bay City itself is nestled dangerously among some
of the richest oil fields on the coast.
Gulf Coast cities should adopt the watchword: “Bet-
ter be safe than sorry,” and provide some protection for
their resources and for their people.
This is war, ladies and gentlemen, and the sooner we
wake up to the fact and do everything we can to help our
country the better off we’re going to be.
But, above all, let’s go about this systematically and not
hysterically. Right here, I must say that a traveler, passing
through this section the other day, said that the people here
were the calmest that he had seen yet. That’s a compliment
to our people’s courage. Let’s keep it that way.
But let’s do something about this war. Let’s organ-
ize immediately an efficient home defense guard. Let’s
have air raid wardens spotted throughout the section.
Let’s prevent sabotage of our principal industries, espec-
ially those vital to defense. Let’s build ample public air
raid shelters for our men, women, and children.
Let’s do it—not tomorrow—but today! Before it’s too
late!
Bay City Mother Believes Son
Captured, Interned By Japanese
Southern Fishermen
Furnish Majority Of
Annual Shrimp Catch
Special To The Herald
NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 11.-
Picturesque little trawlers, bearing
such colorful names as “Legal
Gamble,” “Depression” and “Dipsey
Doodle,” are plying the waters of
the Gulf of Mexico and South At-
lantic these cool falls days in quest
of millions of pounds of shrimp for
Amorica’s dining tables.
Operating from bases along the
bayous of Louisiana and the rivers
and harbors of Mississippi, Texas,
Alabama, Florida and Georgia, the
tiny trawlers are expected to bring
ashore more than 125 million pounds
of shi'imp during the period between
August and next June.
the 1940-41 season. Export trade
for the present season is expected
to hover near the 1.1 million bale
Castleton Was
Suspicious Of
Nippon Attack
A Bay City man, Vallie Castle-
ton, son of Mr. hnd Mrs. John R.
Castleton of Bay City, is believed
to have been in the garrison of Ma-
rines that was captured by the
Japanese in Tientsin, China, on
Monday.
It is also believed that he will be
interned for the duration of the
war.
His mother said Tuesday that he
had been in Tientsin for a year and
that the last letter she received
from him was on October 8. He had
intended to leave China in Novem-
ber and spend the Christmas holi-
days here, but Mrs. Castleton ex-
pressed a sincere doubt that he had
left.
In Navy 8 Years
She said she immediately wrote
authorities in Washington for word
of him, but as yet she has not re-
ceived a reply. Her son is 36 years
old and has been in the Navy eight
years. He is in the pharmeceutical
department. •
Evidently Vallie was suspicious
of a Japanese attack for he shipped
most of his belongings to his moth-
er, who received his trunk Monday.
In the trunk Mrs. Castleton found
a 1940 Christmas card from Lieu-
tenant-Commander Roger Perry to
Vallie. Perry, a former Bay City
boy, was in command of the U. S.
Naval base at Guam when the Jap-
anese blasted it the other day. This
deduction was made by Mrs. Castle-
ton because Perry was stationed in
Guam, the card was dated Guam,
and his two-year period there has
not expired.
Mr. Castleton and Mr. Perry had
sailed together for the Far East.
Mr. Perry is a graduate of Annap-
olis.
Larry Bane is in the U. S. Navy
at Honolulu. Mr. Bane is the hus-
band of the former Miss Nancy
Senkyrik and the sister of Mrs.
Lloyd Nixon of Bay City. Mrs. Bane
has a brother, Ignace D. Senkyrik
of Markham, who is stationed with
the Army in the Philippines.
Curl’s At Schofield
Sergeant Vincent L. “Knothead”
Curl, popular recruiting officer in
Bay City until recently when he
was transferred to Hawaii upon
request, is stationed at Schofield
Barracks, Territory of Hawaii. Ser-
geant Curl was succeeded here by
Sergeant Harry B. Luckemeyer.
Sergeant Curl has served in the
Army for fifteen years, is about
35 years old, and hijs mother lives
in Washington, D. C^, where she is
a government employee.
Mrs. Dora H. Dienst of Bay City
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Roger Perry Is
Said To Be At
Guam Island
has two sons, twins, in the armed
forces of the nation. One, Vance, is
in the Army and the other, Theo-
dore, is in the Navy. Mrs. Dienst
said that she had not heard from
cither in a long time and it is pos-
sible that both are in Hawaii.
Captain Herman Hauck, son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hauck of Valley
Falls, Kansas, is the grandson of
Andrew Huebner, pioneer Matagor-
da County cattlemun, and is station-
ed in the Philippines. Captain
Hauck’s wife, mother, and sister
recently visited Mr. Huebner at his
ranch home near Bay City.
Davis Is At Hawaii
According to Sergeant Luekemcy-
or, the following men, many of
them recruited by Sergeant Curl,
were nssigned to Hawaii or the
Philippines upon enlistment and
may be in the war zones at the
present time:
Thomns E. Drake, son of Mrs.
Ora E. Drake of Bay City, assign-
ed to Hawaii in 1939; William P,
Gernand, son of Fred C. Gernand
of Ashwood, assigned to the Philip-
pines in 1939; Floyd C. Keith, Sar-
(See “B. C. MOTHER,” Page 5)
The United States Army and
Navy need volunteers at once, ac-
cording to Sergeant Harry B.
Luckemeyer of the Army Recruit-
ing Station in Bay City and Chief
Quartermaster Ray George of the
Navy Recruiting Station in Vic-
toria.
Now that the United States is in
war with-Japan, all available man-
power is needed, these officials
stated.
Sergeant Luckemeyer’s office is
open in the basement of the Post-
office from 8 o’clock in the morn-
NEAREST RECRUITING
STATIONS
Bay City—United States Army
Recruiting Station with Sergeant
Harry B. Luckemeyer in charge;
located in the Postoffice. Office
hours—8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Victoria—United States Navy
Recruiting Station with Chief
Ray George in charge; located in
the Postoffice. Office hours—24-
hour basis.
Galveston—United States Navy
Recruiting Station with Chief
Quartermaster A. G. McNair in
charge; located in the Postoffice,
room 604. Office hours—24-hour
basis.
Houston—United States Army,
Navy, and Marine Stations.
ings until 5 o’clock in the evenings.
Chief George’s office at Victoria is
practically on a 24-hour basis. Re-
cruiting stations are at Galveston
and Houston also.
Volunteers in the Navy must be
between 17 and 50 years of age,
while Army volunteers must be be-
tween 18 and 35.
A communique received by The
Herald stated: “On Sunday, Decem-
ber 7, 1941, at the very moment her
representatives were in conference
with our President, the Japanese
Empire made a vicious, premeditat-
ed attack on our Pacific possessions.
The time has now passed when we,
the Army or the Navy or the Ma-
rines, must “sell” ourselves to the
citizens. It is now the duty of every
patriotic American—every citizen
who is able-bodied, single, without
dependents and within the age
limits, to present himself to the
nearest Army, Navy, or Marine re-
cruiting office and offer his ser-
vices in the defense of our country.
“Perhaps you are already in the
services, or it may be that you
have received your orders to report
for induction or physical examina-
tion at an Army examining station.
Once you have received such orders,
you cannot enlist.
“But to' those who qualify in oth-
er respects, this message is address-
ed—this urgent appeal to assist our
country in time of dire need.”
Coordinating
Council Becomes
Civilian Defense
A Matagorda County Civilian De-
fense Council has been organized
since July 16 but ns yet don’t know
its duties, Judge Thomas H. Lewis,
head of the council, told a Herald
reporter Wednesday morning.
Judge Lewis said the council is
expecting a manual from the nation-
al civilian defense council soon, ex-
plaining the duties of the local
council.
Here in Bay City the Coordinat-
ing Council, headed by its chairma!
Richard Gusman, offered WednJ
day morning its services to MayOr
S. E. Doughtie as a City Civilian
Defense Council. Mayor Doughtie
accepted the council’s offer.
The County Council has a cen-
tral committee of seven members:
Mayor A. G. Skinner of Palacios;
Mayor Doughtie of Bay City: Miss
Laura Pier, representative of the
Bay City Business and Professional
Women’s Club; Miss Alma Stewart,
representative of the 4-H clubs; R,
P. Newsom, president of the Pa-
lacios Chamber of Commerce; E. O.
Taulbee, president of the Bay City
Chamber of Commerce; T. P. Hale
chairman of the Matagorcja County
Red Cross Chapter; the Rev. Paul
Engle, J. Hickl, and Father Elmen-
dorf.
Has New Command
Certificate Title
Warning Again
Made By Eidman
The owners of a motor vehicle
registered in this State shall not
after January 1, 1942, operate or
permit the operation of any such
motor vehicle upon any highways
without first obtaining a certificate
of title, County Tax Colelctor and
Assessor S. O. Eidman announced
again to the public.
Nor shall any person operate any
such motor vehicle upon the public
highways knowing or huving reason
to believe that the owner has failed
to obtain a certificate of title there-
fore, Mr. Eidman said.
Brigadier-General Harvey C. Al-
len, above, was transferred front
the command of the 33d Coast Ar-
tillery Brigade at Camp Hulen to
the command of the camp and anti-
aircraft artillery and training sta-
tion there, according to advices
from Washington earlier this week.
He was succeeded in the 33d com-
mand by Colonel Charles C. Curtis
of Allentown, Pa. Curtis formerly
comman^Jed the 213th Coast Artil-
lery Regiment of the Pennsylvania
National Guard.
OHIO COMPANY TESTING
Ohio Oil Company is testing its
No. 13 and No. 14 Carlson at North
Markham.
NO LOCATION YET
Stanolind has not announced a
now location for its Lucky iFeld
but it is due to be made shortly.
The company recently completed
No. 1 Thompson for a good well.
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Wilkinson, Bob. The Herald (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1941, newspaper, December 11, 1941; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth719844/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.