The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 23, 1941 Page: 2 of 6
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Entire Coast of
Texas Will Feel
Effects of Storm
had been moved to safety up the
Brazos, and the wind had not
— reached destructive force from the
frequent rainsqualls.
Dow chemical company work-
ers, who are rushing construction
of huge magnesium plants ulti-
mately coating about 170,000,000
for defense production, had been
removed inland with Freeport’s
regular population. Equipment
at the plant was battened down
for the blow. Operations at the
properties ceased yesterday and
the company placed its fleet of
material trucks at the people's
disposal tor evacuation.
The weather bureau said the
hurricane was moving about six
miles an hour and warned of
dangerous winds on the middle
and upper coast and of dangerous
tides from Port Aransas to Cam-
eron Parish, La. *
' "If the preseat movement con-
tinues." the advisory said, “the
center will reach the coast line
: fnedr Port O’Connor tonight.”
Hurricane warnings were hoist-
ed from Port Arthur to Port
Aransas and storm warnings
were displayed south of Port
Aransas to Browsville and east
of Port Arthur to Biloxi, Miss.
At the apparent eastern fringe
of the main blow, Galveston was
subjected to torrential rainsqualls
after ajiight of battering at the
city’s seawall and backwash tides
which entered the business dis-
trict from the lea aide of the
island;1 Damage was slight.
Thousands of civilians and sol-
diers fled to safety .of public
buildings In inland cities as f*J
away as Houston where some
6,000 men from1 the Ellington
Field air base and 2,000 coastal
refugees spec’ the night in the
city coliseum.
School children from Freeport
to JPort JfirSnSas were on “vaca-
tion," having been moved from
their homes to inland shelters
well Ja advane<
threat
About 100
THE DAILY SUN—GO(
TEXAS
“ride out” the hurricane. Elling-
ton Field sent 26 bombers engag-
ed in the Louisiana war games,
to the safety of Randolph Field,
San Antonio.
As tides rose at some coastal
points to nearly seven feet above
normal, residents of the Freeport-
Port O’Connor area recalled the
disastcrous hurricane of 1632 and
1934 and took no chances 'with
this one. They moved out
The hurricane was the second
disturbance to threaten the Texas
coast in a week and weather of-
ficials were having trouble chart-
ing the course of the new storm
because of the lack of reports
from the war-reduced shipping in
the gulf.
Texas Traffic
Deaths Increase
Over Last Year
AUSTIN, Sept. 23. <UE>-An 11 per
cent increase in Texas traffic fat-
alities during the first eight
months Of 1941, as compared with
last year, was announced today by
Col, Homer Garrison, state police
director.
The increase represents 115 ad-
ditional deaths, Garrison said.
From January through August
this year, the stale’s traffic toil
was 1,182. Last year, it was 1,077.
The number of fatalities increas-
ed in cities and towns and on the
highways. Fewer deaths occurred
on country roads. Ten per cent
of the fatal accidents involved
military personnel.
Garrison added:
“We hear and read so much
about the slaughters abroad that
a thousand deaths at home seem
to make little ikpression on the
public mind. J „. j -
“This is an appalling record,
.but we’re fortunate the increase
isn't bigger. Throughout tbe rest
of the Ration, where there is
proportionately less defense traf-
fic and men in training, the In-
crease so far this year la running
close to 20 per cent. ,
“The worst traffic period of the
year -winter lies just ahead, and
we may expect further increases
About 100 persons were maroon- in deaths. The drunken driving
ed at Fort Travia on Bolivar pen- and drivers license laws passed by
the recent legislature are begin-
ning 4o produce results, but their
full effect will not be felt for
of the storm
inaula, across the roads from Gal-
veston, but army officials report-
ed by radio that they were in
no danger.
From Freeport alone, 4,200 per-
sons moved into Houston to es-
cape the storm. More than. 300
persons from jthe marshlands
were quartered m the courthouse
Bay City,
Officers Ig charge of Camp
Hulen, near Palacios, decided to
some time yet. And the 100 new
patrolmen in training can’t pro-
duce results until they get out on
the highways.”
*e Dick Bradbeirsl
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FRIED HAM TRAPS BURGLAR
HOUSTON, TMjfc OIPi-Hous-
police’arrested * 38-year-old man
in a cafe the night of March 31
while he was frying ham In the
kitchen. He received a two-year
suspended sentence. The other
lAwC*^ ...... patrahRityniiheponded
to a burglary call at another cafe.
They entered the place and found
the same man. Again, he was
frying ham. V
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who-o-o, me?
Here's,h*>w to make the boys look on you as a
who old owl. Whonovor you art asked If you
prefer some other liquid refreshment to Grand
Prize, put on that surprised look, and say,
"Wheo-o-o, lie?" Than give out with those
word* of wisdom, "Serve Grand Prize, it's grand-
tastin' beer." You can then sit back with satis-
faction and listen to their exclamations of de-
light as !hey sip those tall *
glassfuls of golden dear am-
brosia and ease into a mal-
low mood.
For taste satisfying goodness,
this grand-tastin' beer h un-
surpassed, regardless of price. Grand Prize is
undeniably smooth and mellow. If you havo
not yet enjoyed the paiato-pampering flavor of
Grand Prize, "who up" and try a bottle today.
Then, introduce your family and friends to the
cunftrh aflfltlnBti *f ih<« arnnd-tastin' br«W that
iwpvru ^Buurwn H1*” u ”**
er good
h* won th,
Berlin Clans
7504100 Russian
Troops Destroyed
(Continued from Page One)
commander in chief of the 9th
Russian army.
There were increasing signs of
disintegration of the Russians
caught in the pocket, the high
command said, after the smashing
of Russian attempts to break out
of the crushing German ring of
tanks and troops.
It was alleged that at many
points Russian officers and po-
litical commissars had deserted
their troops to save themaelves.
In the battle which brought de-
velopments reported in the Uk-
raine drive, the communique said,
the armies of Col.-Gen. Baron
Maximilian Von Welch and Gen.
Henrfch Von Stuelpnagel partici-
pated “brilliantly."
Before the special communique
was issued, dispatches from the
front had reported Russian re-
sistance in the Ukraine weaken-
ing and usually well informed
sources here had intimated that
the Germans might now be within
37% miles of Kharkov.
Hungarian official dispatches,
likewise asserting that resistance
was weakening and that the Rus-
sians were retreating precipitate-
ly, said also that the Russians
had riot only made some counter-
attacks but that they were de-
fending the lower Dnieper river
bank and even “attempting some
powerless counterattacks" there.
German informants indicated
that the dramatic recent series of
special high command communi-
ques on German gains in the Uk-
raine had not yet ended and that
further big claims were to be ex-
pected soon.
TUESDAY, Sfito&BE,,
JASPER, By Frank Owen—“I hope they don’t transfer your la-
ther to another type plene!”
Court Rescinds
Action on dric
(Continued from Page Doe)
it became apparent that the
county might loac army canton
men to because of the lack of a
recognized health'” department,
the commissioners considered
confcrmtng’to requirements.
The state and federal govern-
ments immediately agreed to con-
tribute $20,900 for the year If the
county would contribute $31,810.
'Hie commissioners then asked
incorporated cities of the county,
except Houston, to contribute
$4,710 of Its portion of the bud-
get, based prorata on valuations.
One community, South Hous-
ton, :Knt .* check for $180 to the
court and several others agreed
to contribute. Goose Creek, which
would have been required to givje
than informed the
court it could not make the con-
tribution since its budget for -the
year -already had been adopted
and i^ did not have a surplus
from which to draw the money.
Pelly city council tabled the re-
quest
The commissioners court on
the following day held a special
meeting khd voted to void its
contract with the Tri-Cities Wel-
fare league under which it had
agreed to contribute $2£00 dur-
ing the year.
The approximately $1,000 re-
maining in the clinic contribu-
tion was ordered transferred to
the county health department lor
support of the clinic here which
treats only the indigent sick.
The clinic has no connection
with the Goose Creek city gov-
ernment, is not located in -Goose
Creek and only a small percent-
age of its patients live is'Goose
Cieek. The Welfare league,
which operates on money eontri
bated by the C items of this en-
tire community, including Goose
Creek, had been giving a large
part of the cost of operating the
clinic and local doctors had giv-
en their service* without charge.
Officials of the Tri-Cities Wel-
fare league and the Health clinic
today commend ’d commissioners
court for rescinding the order
which would have cancelled the
county's share in the coot of op-
erating the relief clinic here.
L. G. Sanders, chairman of the
board of directors for the Wel-
fare league which shares the
clinic cost with Jtfo? county, sa*d
that “wc are naturally very’hap-
py that the county apparently
will continue to supply funds for
the clinic. .
"We are certain all along that
when they reconsidered their ac-
tion and saw its effects In their
true light, they would rescind the
decision to cancel the contract”
Recently the Welfare league
directors dispatched a letter of
protest to thj commissioners
court and offering to pay the
amount asked from GWe Creek
and Pelly for the county health
program $1,420 _ if the funds
for the cl’nlc were restored. No
formal action was taken on the
protest. ’
The Health Clinic, although
sponsored and financed in part
by the Welfare league, is admin-
istered by a board of physicians
who donate a week's services In
alphabetical rotation. The League
supplies the quarters, th* cquip-
lar part of the
by the ate
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Barometer Here
Continues Drop
(Continued from Page Gael
finery wore reported to have been
curtailed as a precautionary mea-
sure. It was said that pressure
had been reduced on some atilLs
and other refining unite.
Outlying: districts In the oast
end of Harris and West Cham-
bers county were cut-off from
the Tri-Cities today, and only
two qf^the five orossings over
Crystal Bay, Sylvan Acres, .and
Tri-Cities beaoh ureas were all cut
off when an eight foot tide swept
in from the bay on the heals of
a high, squally wind that pound-
ed all nearhy shore lines unmer-
ficifully for hours, clearing the
entire bayshorc area, from Ban
Leon" to upper Trinity Bay, of
pleasure piers, fishing piers, and
boats that were left in '
Residents of West
county were hard hit by the
tag wind and rain that
the short line in that area
today. The Dick Long tom
two cars were about the firrt to
leave their Trinity Bay
and had to push cars
section of the beach
der water just this
bascule bridge. For a
about 3Q0 feet cars had to
gate water over the
'vGftflte*
Johnny Mercer. Daily Sun pho-
tographer. dispatched to the area
for storm pictures, got them SI- ,
right, but he was floarly maroon- |
ed when he came back and paw
the road flooded in front of
He got a raincoat and atave^on
the fender of Chester Rojpr*'
car to keep the rain from going
through the radiator and flooding
out the, motor. "Slim" Rogore,
veteran storm navigator, who has
seen many of them on the coast,
yelled directions to Johnny above
the storm’a fury.
Ixmg’s long fishing pier, boot
houae, and other shoreline edifices
were swept down by the rip tides
that swept along the Trinitv Bay
shoreline. Only one other pier in
that vioiniiv was left standing, a
concrete affair. ;■
Ernest Fisher's place in Sylvan
Acres, the little settlement near
Cedar Point, was surrounded bv
water when the tide was fig feet
above normal, and wfl'rc wonder*
tng what happened after the wa-
ter stopped rising, say at * feet
above normal. There are about 95
home* in the area, the road to
them under water since Monday
Bight; S
AH of th* -Tri-Cities emergency
and disaster crews, volunteer fire-
men, and others were ail on duty
last night at their various posts,
many of them neine stationed at
the Goose Creek city ball avail-
able for instant duty in case of
an emergency.
There were about 80 Tri-Citlan*
who were afraid the storm would
wreck their homo who stayed in
nubile school buildings last m-ht.
There were 38 in the Ashbel
Smith Elemental school, some to
Lamar. The Pelfv cit” hall, th*
Bavtown Communltv Hoi'”" and
1oM»r public buildings sheltered
jpthers The rebools end also the
Commujittv House will be open
ag"’n tonight.
The high tide to th- dav
ed un ,tn inundate th- altcrnati
routes between Goo— Creek ant
Bavto>’ n. ot>!v the P-llv-Bavtown
route being open Wnt.rto fk»o»-
Creeg stream covered the Wert
Tevas Aver’— Estcorton. and th-
back road through Merrcil Park.
/ About 350 pound* of paper and
about,600 pounds of steel are con-
sumed annually tor each person
■ In the U$5. ' J
sfroyers
Speed Search for
Atlantic Raider
(Continued from PagejDne)
irotected by the UnRed States.
Pink Star waa the former
Danish vessel Lundhy taken over
by the United States and sailing
for the United States lines under
Panaman’an registry. She car-
ried a erew of 34, none Ameri-
cans.
State department information,
relayed from the navy depart-
ment, failed to state whether the
crew had been rescued, nor did It
indicate whether the ship had
been bombed, torpedoed or sunk
by shellfire.
Officials indicated that they be-
hoved a German submarine was
respflRoiblc, t y ^ \v y
General Cargo , ■
* The announcement revealed
only that the Pink Star carried
a, "general cargo" and was sunk
last Saturday 45 miles northwest
of the point at which the S. S. S.
Sossa was torpedoed and shelled
on Aug. IT with the loss of all
but three of her crew. It was
also in that *an>.e .general area
Where the 8. p Montana was
sunk Sept. 11 just % few hours
before President Roosevelt an-
nounced his “shoot on ’sight"
policy and where the United
States deatroyer Greer was at-
tacked by a submarine.
The Sessa, Montana and Pink
Star aU were of Panamanian re-
gistry and were among the Dan-
ish ships taken over by the Un-
ited States last summer.
The Pink Star was en route
to a United Kingdom port via
Iceland, having left New York
Sept. 3. She was built in 1926
and was of 6,850 tons deadweight.
In Combat Stone
American warships are convoy-
ing ships of all flags over the
North Atlantic saalanes at least
as far as Iceland. Whether the
Pink Star waa being escorted by
warships at the time she was at-
tacked was not made known Im-
mediately.
The area In which the Pink
Star, Sessa and Montana went
down is well within the combat
Tffiftg dofined by fitrmany which
follows along the three mile line
of Greenland's western shores.
The president has refused ip re-
cognize this sons since Germany
has given the United States no
warning of Its existence and be-
cause It Interferes with the avow-
ed U. 8. policy of freedom of the
seas.
To Spur Mwi
It likewise falls to comply, It
Is said, with the recognized prin-
ciple that a blockade need not
be recognized unless It ’’i* effec-
tive, Germany, It waa believed,
would find it difficult to block-
ade either Iceland or Greenland
because it is not at war with
th’ United States and because
Greenland is considered to be
within the western hemisphere.
All three sinkings took .place
within the hemisphere as com-
monly defined. -
The Pink Star sinking was ex-
pected to spur the hunt for Axis
raiders In the aealanes which the
government considers “necessary
for the national defense.” v '
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Pendergraft, W. L. The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 23, 1941, newspaper, September 23, 1941; Goose Creek, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1029295/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.