Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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Far Naval film
Brian Aherne does double-duty as
a co-star with Kay Francis in "The
Man Who Lost Himself," which
comes Tuesday to the Guild Theatre.
And the result is hailed as one of the
cleverest comedies of the season.
A dual role accounts for Brian’s
double-duty. In the film with Kay
Francis, he is seen as two characters,
Evans and Scott, and when Evans is
consistenly and persistently mistak-
en for Scott, even by Mrs. Scott, the
comedy begins. Miss Francis is the
mistaken Mrs. Scott.
The picture, produced by Law-
rence W. Fox, Jr., and directed by
Edward Ludwig for Universal, is a
screen adaptation of English novelist
H. DeVere Stacpoole’s novel, “The
Man Who Lost Himself." One of
England’s beet-sellers, the novel was
on the way to stage and screen pro-
duction in the British Isles when the
war_ curtailed theatrical activities
there.
Producer Fox obtained the valu-
able property, in which he saw a hi-
larious screen comedy. He engaged
Aherne and Miss Francis, added S.
Z. Sakall as the befuddled butler.
Nils Asther as Mrs. Scott’s admirer,
I Henry Stephenson as the family at-
j torney, Dorothy Tree as Mr. Scott’s
.lady friend, and Marc Lawrence as a
(peculiarly obnoxious blackmailer.
Fox gave Director Ludwig instruc-
tions to wring the last possible bit
of comedy out of Eddie Moran’s
script, and the result is said to be a
brilliant laugh-maker.
FBI LAW ENFORCEMENT
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
AT DEL RIO SEPT. 30
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 23 —
Roger Thurman, District Attorney,
will be the principal speaker at the
Federal Bureau of Investigation law
enforcement conference, to be held at
the District Court Room at Del Rio
on Tuesday (September 30th).
The conference, tenth and final one
of its kind to be conducted in South-
west and Central Texas this fall, will
begin at 12:30 p. m., with the regis-
tration of all peace officers and
guests scheduled to be present.
About sixty officers are expected
to gather from Zavala, Maverick,
Kinney, Edwards, Val Verde and
Terrell counties for the meeting.
The meeting will mark the second
of such affairs ever to be held at Del
Rio. Last May there were sixty-four
persons who attended, forty-eight of
them officers and the other guests.
There were 21 law enforcement
agencies represented.
The officers will come from the six
counties to participate in the FBI
sponsored mobilization plan for na-
tional defense.
M. W. Acers, Acting Special Agent
in Charge of the San Antonio Divi-
sion of the FBI, who will be in
charge, announced the detailed pro-
gram for the meeting today.
Acers, pointing out the extreme
national and international situation
which exists today, declared that the
meeting of the law enforcement of-
ficers will be of vital importance to
the welfare of the Southwest and of
the Nation.
He stated that at 1:00 p. m., Tues-
day the meeting will be called to or-
der and the guests will be intro-
duced.
Thurman, who will deliver a 30-
minute address, will speak on “The
Citizen’s Duty in National Defense.”
His talk will begin at 1:14 p. m.
Following a fifteen-minute recess,
the officers will go into a secret and
closed session which will begin at
2:00 p. m.
Acers said that all law enforce-
ment officers, including police chiefs
and members of their departments,
Sheriffs and their deputies, city
marshals, constables, railroad police
and others, have been invited to at-
tend the session.
After a brief roll call and the in-
troduction of officers, Colonel Homer
Garrison, Director of the Texas De-
partment of Public Safety, will
speak.
Beginning his 30-minute address at
2:15 p. m„ Colonel Garrison will talk
on “L?w Enforcement’s Task in Na-
tional Defense.”
The officers will then discuss na-
tional defense cases investigated by
themselves or members of their de-
partments. They will talk from 2:45
until 3:00 p. m.
Acres will bring to the officers the
latest information from the San An-
tonio Division of the FBI. He will
stress the investigations of national
defense cases. His talk will continue
from 3:00 to 3:30 p. m.
A discussion and practical demon-
stration of hypothetical cases depict-
ing the different phases of internal
security investigations will be held
from 3:30 to 4:00 p. m. Officers pres-
ent will take part in the demonstra-
tions.
Throughout the meeting, the peace
officers will stress matters relating
to saboteurs, spies, violations of this
country’s internal security and other
vital subjects.
From 4:00 to 4:30 p. m. lantern
slides illustrating air raids and the
effect of bomb explosions as recently
photographed in London will be
shown.
A sound motion picture “Men of the
FBI,” will be shown from 4:30 to 5:00
p. m., after which time the group
will adjourn.
Similar conferences are being con-
ducted by the FBI throughout the
country so that the officers present
might pool their ideas and informa-
tion to better protest the welfare of
this country.
Acers, pointing out the ability of
the Southwest officers in doing their
part, said today that Federal, State,
County and Local agencies of the law
must conduct an all-out war against
enemies of this Nation.
--WGD-
Dale Irwin, who almost lost his
life in a daring trek by dog sledge
across the North Pole several years
ago, will present the Eskimo Village
on the Midway of the State Fair of
Texas. Included are a complete Es-
kimo family of father, mother, and
children, and dogs, sledges, bears,
and the implements by which people
of the far north eke a living from na-
ture.
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The river soils include the Frio silt
loam, Frio silty clay loam and Frio
clay loam. The total of these soils in
Zavala County amounts to 28, 160
acres. This test was made on the Frio
silt loam of which there are 14,912
acres in this county.
Varieties tested were the Imperial
152, Imperial 847, Imperial 44 and
New York 12. The original plan of
the test contemplated six plantings
at approximately 20 day intervals
from September 26th, but weather
conditions necessitated revising this
plan so that plantings were made on
September 26th., October 16, Novem-
ber 20, November 26th and January
8th.
The organic content of the soil was
very low by reason of continued
planting of spinach during the win-
ter and clean cultivation during the
summer for a long period of years.
No cover crop was produced on the
land the previous summer and ma-
nure was not available in the vicin-
ity. The land was broken flat or
broadcast with a disc plow and trac-
tor approximately 8 inches deep. The
land was then bedded with a walk-
ing middle buster drawn by two
mules, on approximately 40 inch cen-
ters. Two rows were planted 14 inch-
es apart on the bed and the plants in
each row were thinned to 12 inches.
Thinning to 14 inches would be bet-
ter. The trickle system of irrigation
was used. Discarded lVi inch railway
air hose tubes were used in each
middle to distribute the irrigation
water. Both well and river were
used.
Although various fertilizer treat-
ments were applied juet prior to
planting no definite results were ob-
tained due to the fact that the use of
inexperienced labor prevented
weight or size measurement of heads.
Also a considerable quantity of heads
from the fertilized plots were lost in
trying to hold the lettuce in the field
until it could be harvested and mar-
keted. Some beds received heavier
application than others and from cas-
ual observation the less fertilized let-
tuce matured more slowly, the heads
were smaller and the yield lighter,
however, there was not a very great
difference in yields in comparison to
the heavier fertilized plantings.
No conclusions can be drawn as to
varietal differences by this test, ex-
cept that New York 12 is least adapt-
ed and will be abandoned for future
tests. Imperial 847 and Imperial 44
were very consistent under all con-
ditions to which the tests were sub-
jected. Imperial 152 was more erratic
but made the highest average yield
for the four plantings harvested. '
The average yields in crates of five
dozen each per acre for all planting
dates and treatments for the four va-
rieties were as follows: Imperial 152,
226 crates; Imeprial 47, 215 crates,
Imperial 44, 215 crates; and New
York 12, 188 crates.
The January 8th planting was
abandoned in the last week of April
as being too soft for commercial let-
tuce, although it was free from bit-
terness and was of very excellent
flavor.
The weather conditions during the
life of .this test were characterized by
slightly lower average temperatures
during September and October,
slightly higher average temperaures
during November, December and
January and lower average temper-
atures again in February, March and
April than the normal. The rainfall
for the period was 18.74 inches as
against a normal of 11.30 inches. The
greater part of this rain occurred
during January to April, while the
lettuce was heading but no slime rot
showed up until the last week in
April.
According to records at the Winter
Garden Experiment Station, lettuce
is well adapted to this section of Tex-
as. As early as 1935, L. R. Hawthorn
reported in Experiment Station Bul-
letin 508, “Vegetable Varieties for
the Winter Garden Region of Texas,”
on four years of testing lettuce. In
these trials all conducted on fhe
sandy soils of the Station, no less
than 28 varieties representing all
types of lettuce had been grown. The
bulletin states: “Lettuce is excellent-
ly adapted to the Winter Garden
area. For four years lettuce of the
highest quality has been raised at
the station with comparatively little
difficulty. All types do equally well.
Commercial crops of lettuce have
been grown in spite of some danger
from loss thru freezing injury. Ma-
turing heads of lettuce can be made
unfit for market by temperatures 4
to 6 degrees below freezing.”
In line with the recent local inter-
est in growing lettuce commercially,
the station conducted an additional
trial in the 1940-41 season, and has
already started another for the pres-
ent season. These trials have been
primarily time of planting tests in-
volving the few important varieties
in which there is commercial inter-
est Seed for these tests was taken
SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN
but most of them do!
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There are always a few ‘‘smart alecks”
who want to stand up and rock the boat.
But most people try to keep out of
trouble.
The same sort of thing happens in the
retailing of beer. The great majority of
beer retail establishments are dean, law-
abiding and wholesome. But occasionally
you may find a “smart aleck” retailer
who violates the law or permits anti-
social conditions.
We of the brewing industry want these
anti-social retailers wiped out! Because
they imperil your right to drink good
beer...and our right to make it.
We want to protect the benefits that
beer has brought to. Texas—employ-
ment for 31,165 persons since relegaliza-
tion, an annual payroll of $22,076,182
and taxes of $2,273,968.64 paid to the
state last year.
This state, too, has an important stake
in Beer’s purchases from over 100 in-
dustries supplying the brewing industry
with materials, equipment and services.
Vou can help us in our public-spirited
program by (1) patronizing only repu-
table and legal beer establishments and
(2) by reporting any irregularities you
may see to the proper authorities.
BEER ...a beverage of moderation
from the same bags from which seed
for the plantings on the E. W. Hays
farm came. Thus a comparison be-
tween the experiments in the two lo-
cations is possible. Any differences
which occur can not be due to the
seed, as the seed is the same in both
places.
The trials at the Station last year
turned out quite promising, and were
just as favorable to the commercial
production of lettuce as those on the
Hays farm, and were a repetition of
the favorable results obtained at the
station in early 30’s. The chief hazard
in growing lettuce would seem to be
unseasonable sub-freezing tempera-
tures near the time of maturity. A
temperature as low as 25 degrees F.
might cause “burning.” Lettuce is
really fairly resistant to cold as
shown by the fact that many lettuce
plants lived through 18 degrees F. at
the Experiment Station in 1933
whereas crops like cauliflower, broc-
coli, and English peas, were killed
outright. However, none of the let-
tuce was left in a marketable condi-
tion, and to the grower that is the
important point. Temperatures only
4 or 5 degrees below freezing may
sometimes “scorch” lettuce heads, de-
pending on other climatic conditions
at the time, as well as on the variety
or strain. Last winter, all but one of
the five varieties at the station came
through 27 degrees F. unscathed. The
exception was New York No. 12
which suffered slight injury to the
outer leaves. These could have easily
been removed in packing. However,
since New York 12 did not equal the
performance of the other varieties in
some other aspects as well, it is not
being considered any more. Under
conditions of low relative humidity
of the atmosphere there is likely to
be less freezing injury than when the
relative humidity is high. Unseason-
jablc weather, of course, is a risk
which most farmers take with many
'of their crops.
The experiments being conducted
on the Hays farm should answer well
some of the questions which may
arise. There is obviously more hand
work with lettuce than with a crop
such as spinach, but if returns war-
rant this, much of the objection has
been removed. Both the tests at the
Station and at the Hays Farm indi-
cate that proper thinning is impor-
tant. On the sand the heads should
not be closer than 12 inches apart in
the row, and 14 inches may be better.
Care has to be taken that the lettuce
is thinned to just one plant at a
place.
Lettuce responds to fertilizer both
barnyard and commercial. With
changing conditions, due to National
Defense activities, some fertilizers
are now hard to get and normal
recommendations cannot be made.
Applications of around 300-500
pounds per acre of such a mixture as
5-15-0 should probably work out all
right.
-----WGD-----
Since the modern laborer uses ma-
chinery and must have some skill in
its maintenance and repair, he makes
a good factory worker, according to
the Selective Service Board.
WIHITA FAILS JOINS
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Still Another Texas Town
Boosts Fun By Increasing
Orders for Delicious
Soul&enM Sfi£fcct
Everywhere you go you find more and more
people switching to Southern Select. Most
of these folks thought the brands they had
been drinking were pretty good—but when
they compared them side-by-side with
Southern Select they quickly saw what they
had been missing. They realized
that Southern Select is the beer
that tastes right Prove it for
yourself—today!
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Hardy, J. H. Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1941, newspaper, September 26, 1941; Crystal City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1092505/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .