Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1941 Page: 6 of 8
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Edward O. Robinson, Marlene
Dietrich and George Reft are the co-
starring trio of ‘‘Manpower," the new
picture which will open Saturday
midnite at the Guild Theatre. With
this triple-threat star grouping, an
exciting story by aee scripters Jerry
Wald and Richard Macaulay, and
lives. She plays the daughter of one
of the older linemen, and no better
a B-girl than she should be. She has
just come out of the penitentiary,
and soon after her release her father
is killed on the job. Robinson, whose
character in the film is that of a sim-
ple, vigourous soul without too much
insight, feels sorry for her, and over
his friend’s hard-bitten protests,
marries her. They set up housekeep-
mastcrful direction by Raoul Walsh, ing in a small apartment,
director of such recent hits as “High i Raft, injured in an accident, comes
Sierra” and "Strawberry Blonde,” i to stay with them and recuperate.
"Manpower" stacks up as entertain- Although he is attracted by Dietrich,
ment-plus.
The new film is set against a back-
ground of the Pacific Coast’s night
he refuses to meet her halfway when
she plays up to him. She decides,
since he will not have anything to
life, where the hard-boiled linemen j do with her and she doesn’t love
relax between the dangerous jobs of Robinson, that she may as well go
adjusting high tension power lines.
Second home for most of them is the
cheap and joyful Club “28," where
they are entertained by the B-girls
(dance hall hostesses), and forget the
dangers of their daily life. It is a
close little fraternity, the men bond-
ed together by the hazards of their
job.
Closest of these bonds is that be-
tween the two characters portrayed
by Raft and Robinson. In a crashing
electric storm, as they are dealing
with hot wires, Raft is knocked un-
back to her old work. She goes to
the club to ask the proprietor if she
can have a job at his place in Chi-
cago. While she is there, the place is
raided and she goes to jail.
Raft hears about it and hurries
down to the jail to get her out before
Robinson finds out. Furious and dis-
gusted with her, he slaps her down
a flight of stairs, makes her promise
to go back to her husband. But de-
termined to be honest, she tells Rob
inson she’s going to leave him, that
she loves Raft.
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"OH, OH - / LEFT THE BEDROOM LIGHT BURNING!
conscious, and Robinson attempting) Murder in his heart, Robinson
to save him, receives a permanent I rushes out in a storm to find Raft.
leg injury. Raft, in turn, drags him
to safety. When he recovers, the two
men are closer than ever.
Then Dietrich comes into their
The ensuing clash has all the fury of
a strong friendship turned to hate,
and makes a thrilling finish to the
powerful dramatic story.
20 NEW SHORT COURSES
OPEN AT U. of T. OCT. 1
To fill new needs in expanding
business and industry, 20 new engi-
neering, science and management de-
fense training short courses will be
opened at the University of Texas
by Oct. 1.
The courses will be co-sponsored
by the University and the U. S. Of-
fice of Education, with all instruc-
tional costs paid by the Federal gov-
ernment. Twenty-eight like courses
have already been offered, with a to-
tal enrollment of more than 700 men,
and instructors report a 95 per cent
replacement of those who completed
the work.
Courses open to high school grad-
uates and in-service employees:
Engineering Drawing — open to
high school graduates with two years
of mathematics—begins September
29 and lasts twenty-ofur weeks.
Control of Water and Sewage
Treatment—for high school gradu-
ates with some experience in actual
plant operation—night course, starts
September 29, and runs twelve
weeks.
Courses open to students with col-
lege engineering work:
Aeronautical Engineering —enroll-
ees must have completed their junior
engineering year—begins September
29 for fifteen weeks.
Materials Inspection and Testing—
two years college engineering re-
quired—begins September 29 for 12
weeks.
Advanced Engineering Drawing—
one year college engineering re-
quired—begins September 29 for 12
weeks. (This course will also be of-
fered by the University at the Fort
Worth emergency training center.)
Elementary Sturctural Design—
night in-service course for men with
two years’ college training—begins
September 29 and continues sixteen
weeks.
Marine Engineering and Naval Ar-
chitecture—only advanced engineer-
ing students are eligible—courses of-
fered by the University at Orange,
begins October 1.
Students who finish any one of
these courses will be eligible for eith-
er industrial or civil service posi-
tions, University officials said. Pend-
ing approval or due to begin by No-
vember 1 are additional courses in
aircraft drafting electronics, tabulat-
ing machines, personnel manage-
ment, physics, and chemistry.
-WGD--
Cafe Esplande, the State Fair of
Texans’ new night club, is*the largest
in the Southwest. It seats 3,000 per-
sons, has a big stage which is mount-
ed on rollers so that it may be moved
from one spot to another, and has
7,000 square feet in its dance floor.
Dimensions of the night spot are 250
by 185 feet.
HE: You left a light burning. So what?
SHE: So we’ve got to go back and turn it off, of course.
HE: Oh, phooey.
SHE: Jim, don’t be silly. We’re going to be away for two
whole days and nights.
HE: What of it
SHE: Listen, Mr. Moneybags—turn this car around —
we’re not millionaires.
HE: Now you listen to me, sweetheart, while I give you
a little lesson in arithmetic.*
SHE: Arithmetic? What’s arithmetic got to do with it?
HE: Everything. Look—we’re about 20 miles out from
home, aren't we?
SHE: Just about, I guess.
HE: If we raced back home, turned out that light, and
drove back this far, that would be 40 extra miles,
wouldn’t it?
SHE: Yes, you mathematical wizard.
HE: Well, most car owners figure that with gas, oil,
tires, license, depreciation, and insurance, it costs
them about 5c a mile, all told, to run their cars
Forty miles at 5c each would be $2.00—right?
SHE: Right.
HE: And for the $2.00 it would cost us to go back and
turn off that light, we could leave every light in the
house burning all the time we are gone, plus some
of the neighbors’ lights.
SHE: Really?
HE: Sure. That’s a 100-watt bulb in the bedroom. It’ll
burn about 10 hours for a nickel. For the two bucks
it would cost us to go back and turn it off it can
burn for about 400 hours, or for 16 days'and 16
nights. So you see we’d be just plain silly trying to
save money by going all the way back to turn out
that light.
SHE: Of course we would—I never thought about it that
way. Drive on, James!
The aim of this little play is not to get you to leave
your lights burning, but to point out how much elec-
tricity gives you for so little money.
The idea that forgetting to turn out the lights will all
but throw a household into bankruptcy must be a hang-
over from 10 to 15 years ago when electricity cost about
twice as much as it does now. In those days it cost you
about as much for lights alone as you now pay for light-
ing your home belter, pint running a vacuum cleaner,
iron, radio, toaster, and washing machine!
This reduction in cost, which gives you about twice as
much value for your money, has been possible because
this company and other electric companies are managed
by business men in the American way of business opera-
tion. It is the aim of the people who have helped to
accomplish these things—the employees of this company
—to keep on bringing you more and more of the benefits
of electricity at less and less cost.
The Sign Good Service
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Four members of the world’s
largest show family, some of the
youngest members, who will be seen
on the Independent Midway at the
1941 State Fair of Texas, Oct. 4 to
19. The Plankett Family—15 in all
— present a variety of entertain-
ment All members of the family
perform. The youngest child is six
and the oldest is 32. The mother
manages the troupe.
The Plunketts present a com-
plete minstrel show, a dance revue,
specialty dances, a dog and pony
act and many other novelty num-
bers. The family can put on twenty
separate shows daily.
accidents almost always throw the
workers on relief.
“Investigators for the Michigan
Social Welfare Department,” Mc-
Willliams writes, “found that most
Mexicans are destitute when they ar-
rive in Michigan and that throughout
the season ‘they have barely enough
! to
| to them is constantly decreasing.—
are, The workers average about $8 a
, . .. .. I week per person and live on about $1
beet fields as fast reaching another „ ,
wr »u.. ui .. °f foodstuff per person a week,
Grapes of Wrath problem, writes,... . ’
, which is the average credit extended
Carey McWilliams in an article, a ,
, , ... , . „ to them by the company. As a rule,
“Mexicans to Michigan,” appearing! ..... f ,___. J “ ’
■ * i. they work from 5 a. m. until sun-
in the Autumn issue of Common
Michigan Authorities Report Plenty
Local Labor Without Texans,
While Cotton Men Here Call for
Imported Mexican Laborers
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A new American “army” of farm !t0 on' '^,e acreaSe allotted
laborers—Texas Mexicans who
being shipped to the Michigan sugar!
Quick frozen cottage cheese will
soon be available in many metropoli-
tan markets, following successful ex-
periments in New Jersey.
--WGD-
Although it is supposed by many
to be parasitic, scientists say it has
been proved that Spanish moss lives
entirely on the plant food which it
derives from air and rain.
—ONION SEED — Have limited
quantity Tenef'iffe grown yellow
Bermuda and Crystal Wax Onion
seed. Write for prices. A Vails, Lare-
do, Texas. 21-3tc
Ground. McWilliams is the author of
“Factories in the Field,” a study of
migratory farm labor in California.
“Mexicans to Michigan” carries Mc-
Williams study of the Middle West,
where thousands of Texan field
workers are imported yearly as a
means of “cheap labor.” Common
Ground, the magazine in which the
article appears, is edited by Louis
Adamic and published by the Com-
mon Council for American Unity.
Between ten and fifteen thousand
Mexicans make the “trek” each year,
Mr. McWilliams reports. Both the
trip—by train, truck, or jalopy—
and the seven or eight months stay
in Michigan are made under unbe-
lieveably bad conditions. When go-
ing by railroad, “Mexicans crowd the
cars to capacity on special trains that
go directly from Texas to Michigan
without making any stops—The
shipment is handled like a cattle
freight train, with a bill of lading
and invoice for each load.
Traveling by truck is likewise a
nightmare. Planks or benches are
placed on the trucks, and it is load-
ed with passengers and equipment.
Frequently 60 or 65 are huddled to-
gether. Once the Mexicans have
crowded into the back, a heavy tar-
paulin is thrown over them and
fastened around the edges so they
are “concealed.” Under these condi-
tions, the Mexicans are delivered as
“contract laborers” to their employ-
ers in Michigan. About a third of the
workers are women and a great
many are children.
Both the families involved and the
state authorities find themselves pre-
sented with the new problems as the
“army” grows in size. Rarely are the
wages sufficient to cover anything
but bare living expenses. Many of
the workers are stranded after the
season and have to be returned to
Texas at public expense. Illness and
they work from
down in the field.
“Mexicans arrive in Texas as they
left, with scarcely any money. The
report of the WPA in San Antonio,
for November 1939, states *hat Mexi-
cans are returning in a much worse
state than when they left. Of all
these people re-interviewed, not one
has started his children to school this
term. They state that they barely
buy food enough to exist and can
buy no clothes at all.”
The incentive for this extensive
migration of seasonable labor, Mr.
McWilliams points out, is twofold:
Mexicans will work for less than na-
tive “white” labor, thus creating a
demand on the part of the growers;
and Michigan wages, low as they are,
are somewhat higher than those paid
for comparable work in Texas. “Dur-
ing the war the Mexican labor has
been imported to Michigan, there
has, at all times, been an adequate
supply of resident local labor,” Mc-
Williams states. On June 3, 1938, the
A. F. of L. reported that there were
hundreds of Michigan workers, many
of them unemployed members of the
Agricultural Workers Union who are
anxious for employment, while these
Mexican families are brought jp from
a distance of 2,000 miles.”—South
Texan.
-WGD-
People eat about the same total
quantity of food now that they did
30 years ago, but less cereals, pota-
toes, beef and tea. Consumption of
citrus fruits, sugar, poultry, eggs,
chocolate, coffee and fresh vege-
tables has increased.
-WGD- .
According to the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, by the end of Sep-
tember 12,000,000 persons will be
working on farms in the United
states harvesting crops, filling silos
and preparing seedbeds in the Plains
country for new crops of winter
grains.
“FAMILY OF ELEVEN
and all take ADLERIKA when need-
ed.” (W. N-Iowa) When partly di-
gested foods decay, forming gas,
bringing on sour stomach or bloat,
ing, try ADLERIKA. Get it’TODAY
at your drug store.
CLASSIFIED ADS
—WANTED A good Mechanc for
Ford Agency. Write Hoff Motor Co.,
Cotulla, Texas. ltc
—FOR RENT: Three-room modern
apartment, reasonable. Mrs. Don V.
Moore, Corner of East Zavala and
Bexar Streets. tfc
RELIABLE
WATCH SHOP
All Work Guaranteed
Crystal City, Texas
E. Uvalde St. tfc
—FOR SALE: Section 80—28, 29,
30, 37; Section 127—54 at $25.00 per
acre. Tel. 256J.
—HOMES IN Crystal City for Sale—
Priced to sell, terms reasonable. W.
T. Childress. , tfc
—Adding Machine paper, casn reg-
ister paper, sales books, typewriter
ribbons, carbon, etc. may be had in
any quantity at Sentinel office.
JOHN H. BAKER
ACCOUNTANT — INCOME TAX
CONSULTANT
Crystal City, Texas
DR. S. S. PETERS
DENTIST
Crystal City, Texaa
Phone 53
NARY WEST
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office: No. 302. Corner East
Uvalde St., anq Second Ave.
W. T. CHILDRESS
LANDS, ABSTRACTS A LOANS
Established 1999
Reference: Any Bank or Bnsi-
ness man in this or any
adjoining County
Ne. 217, Wert of Conrthowe
CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS
GEO. C. HERMAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
In Charge ef
Zavala County Office ef
Garner Abstract S Land Co.
CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS
Dr. Cary A. Poindexter
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Phvsirlan A Surgeon
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OFFICE: CRYSTAL HOSPITAL
Office Phone 77. Res. Phone 77
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$500.00 REWARD
for the arrest and conviction tm
stealing: any of my cattle.
$100.00 for Goats and Hogs
GEO. W. WEST
BatesviUs, Texas
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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/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .