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V.
Yoakum — The Home of a “Live-at-Home” and Diversification Program
Yoakum — The Home of The Tom-Tom
Volume XLV
Yoakum, Texas, Afternoon of Tuesday, April 8, 1911
No. 7
build yoakum EASTER EGG HUNT
SHINER COUPLE
Waltz Me Around Again. Bilh
FOUND DEAD IN
THURSDAY AT 3:30
By 11- 1). Meister
SAN ANTONIO
ZEKE SEZ
All Children Asked
S'.
to Assemble on
N igeiit Ezekiel Brown
Son of Doc’ Burkett
Pershing Square
i
One of Murdered
Pair
muddle, all
I couple,
a- .
i mg
. .1
YHS STU BENTS ON
STOPPEDl
LIONS PROGRAM
capitoi uni. Sweet Home Negro
Plans Completed
k
For Easter Egg
Hunt
forehead.
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H
Hl
11-
c
I
— (Tom-Tom, .lune 1'3.13-11) —
strikes ,
I' ■
1
Bill For Govt Plant Control
Will Be Amendment to Selective Service
a
— (Tom-1 om. Juno 12 13-14)—
More Surplus Foods
Listed by S. M. A.
ii
i»
E- Samuels, of Phoenix.
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1
} Ji
Mahoney,
lunch counter!
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a
only possible obstacle to
la ration of
IJiii
would i
take !
w'Gheq
_£rices
£
It
in
1 h<
d at the
. Salon ikni
asked tn
Pershing Square at 3:311
Never
events
marred
i
I
- ami
not
-igtia-
blue
•hides:
£iltinsi
■ "Mon
C. L.
da v.
world
had
in •
t a e
(X-
the
n ice
rd,
sit
i a i >1
-bU
, suit
■« JU
OFFENSIVE SAID
bwwiw
— (Tom Tom, JMMr <tfl3-14)—
WEATHER
Vegean I
: ' Greek
Macedonia,
I >1 ’dvr-
ma rters
WASHINGTON, I). C.. April 5. ( I
ot Texas I
1 N
\\
a v v
Im
anv
' Hie
a- it
War
- I>.
Robert Jackson, negro of Sweet
Home, uhaiyred with the murder
Johnson in a fight re-
5« de^it argument.
BS
AIi'iimjB
out tnj
lion is^
•»/ Thera is
ur^nnan Drive
; In I®fort to Divide
GreVce-Yugo
s E- Samuels, of Phoenix. COLLEGE ST A.,
found time to play |>olo, | Fresh carrots
a junior college
10 hriofies bed been
en htwirs when dis-
added
Is avail-
food
iin’rv.
M a rket
P. J’
. ha-
il i.-.
t tv,
tlnu it v
tak,
supplies.
I e ri
of
on
the
th.
eminent
ami i»ower
to
| Hiorney C. L. Stavinohti
appointed as attorney for
defense with a special
called for jury service.
— (Tom-Tom, June 13.13-14) —
was
t h e
venire
Paul W. S'milt-
was a
National metal
M.ller, -h , ' meal, shell
his hominy (corn)
Leans, wheat
wheat (Graham) flour.
. i
Save said taut | reetion of Lio,n Park
deaths would
.'rouii I in
r tv-
of
at-
I he
• on
( iernmn
is
Tex-
i. E<l
and
young 1
fight !
. .f ■
, t act n' ’
t< riaX it
d< lr ,- , •
b. II
■ Bal land on the head
■ w atd< I he f.ght t' *
: help the put ■ . .
I h e
a green colored
powder was found cl itched
the girl’s hand,
his verdict on the
be announced later-
YOAKUM DAILY HERALD
t wo
in fur
GERMAN SPRING
ami driven
, mountains.
planes are
Judge Sumners’ great
was followed hy
Congressmen from all
as and the
Cosset t of
MB/
I Nmk J ugos’av ia
’ mu hordci. a
iv i rmy
in cl tort
orc Ip.rd
YOAKUM:
change in
and tomorrow,
variable winds p
C't temperature t
for tonight
• /a ‘
I’d.
tr
sold .-r,
, I;, m2
III tile
hi»m-> of
\\ o drill'
is in one
will agi
JkArff
Hljbir
i’pp’x
t(» rOOpi rite
X-£osts
Mm qMwwh «
An expected spinach seed short
age for next year is causing many
farmers to consider growing the
seed for sale.
Spinach seed is not diff.eult
— (Tom-Tom, June 12.13-14)—-
•>f I -
a I ee
Radio annoime- | nui|,tin„ today
| pointed Lions
I Moore, Rinn
SAN ANTOX in,,
bullet-riddli d hi.dies
Dolly Mari?
AVoodrow Burkett.
Monday morning in
quarters of a San An'oi’io I
where Miss I aezer
The bodies ol th.
kett,
were
side
Both high
school students gave declamations ‘
that were exceptionally interest-
ing and presented in a very ac-
complished manner.
The program was under the.
Lions Gi<‘ger, Beil ami Kellv
of Hallettsville wei«- pr> sent to
invite the members of the Yoa-
kum Club to the Charter Night
at. II illettsv ille o A pril
( im.
ATI 11 V
rumor. .1 < i
broke loo-,
f glil ing ii.
(•a. and "i
j ‘ roip's i e
( >el Hl.I Ii
the u .11
'fhe
Jgjh
i a men
British sources stated fliatt'.-
ming more .ioti'
'•■m - tir. ei< t rm t
" ■•oiiim'i:ii<- iti . i
Wit messes to t
.11 the
he Strumvr !
with Fmdi.s
■ attack timd
back. I i
Nazi tail ire
t'.ie
position
was during
and tha> the
mg mini.' to
Washington:
an
war on the
Sam is the mi-
preparing for it.
jt* now that o|>en
Is country may
e Summer, if not
was a- seaman- Al-
in t h o
j infantry, Harold H. Moon** of ternal
New Class of Cadets at Randolph
Had Varied Jobs In Civilian Life
? .T&cyvK ’.WW1
M
Tt....
^jtfVt.aside a total of $6,310,695
| free lunches for distribution
Beating drums for
was the specialty of
Sullivan, of Madi-
ot | thejA-'vffro
plant l/rfnts n|t
pot yetl|
! A total
employed ifv__ ,
'and colleges'
J’"!’'1'5- / n-
■ I
.7
Bulgaria,
have
one
of
I h <>
II in -
Greece stated
penetration
deelari'ti >.i
• v
the
draft ah
covered.
According to Justice of
Pence -I. W. Save,
was
a
defense r
. aid . . w hieh )>lan‘, tine I)
mil iomd .1 ii'ii'i program is im-
)>i !■ ! hi delayed b\ an exisfing'
Ol t h 11 at i le d laiI’l re ot | HT-dlVe
linn .'i' n rc'iill of a strike/ or
other lai or disturbance or /other
cause. It provides that tKe gov-
ernment may o|h rate the plant
purely in the public interest.
‘The primp and paramount ob-
jective of the government is to
secure continuous and maximum
production of war munitions am!
A nvl lung w hieh inter
■s with that kind of o]>erall"ii
all available plants, whether
the part of employers or ■
part of cmnlovees, is agaii
public interest ami the g"
ought to have the ri
under such ci rm
staimi s to step into the p! ’
and to take charge and opm
the plant a national defer,
project purely in the national a
terest.
; ‘ll''
i The
tiiat the attack
' smidenlv ami
the
Seed May Be
ainst the German shock. America Profitable
is weak inside or these
would not be happening.
eral Works Agency has just set j liis law degree i
• a total of $6,310,695 tor i nn
in
Texas through the Department of
Public Welfare mid the Depart-
ment of Education. At 25 cents
each, that will be exactly
242,780 free lunches, or
for four meals for <
Woman, and ^liild in Texas! Some j ready a 2nd Lieutenant i
to tae
iville o April 2":L
, I Zone chairman A l‘>. ( tin. urgid
members of tlm A oakum eluh
I to attend, especially in view >:
t act I hat t he A oakum eiiili
llalle-t''.ii
truth about the thing, there would Growing1 S|)inaC‘h
be no more strikes in America.
France went io p.eces inside or
it never would have broken ag-
I or<|
•al YngO'l
\ batua in
country,
enemy.
h i rom
' are said t.»
Sea ; t
t own
, near
Usually v'
in
'icw of the
Aegean Sea, a
on Germany by T).'.
'< forthcoming within
: tew days-
l.‘< |>oi'ls continued to l irenlate
more and more British
■o|»s and atria! unit, Im ■
Sputheni Greek )>ort
with tniii'pmt utter
id to Im -teaming
tw -British forces have
Mi Dht Germana.
Mte, fanr 13-U-I4) —
6^ |MTHons ar»
xas schools
1.464,«02
'fhe Annual Liens Club E'i t<r
Egg Hunt will lie staged 'his
Thursday afternoon at 3:3<t
o’clock, and evei vthin r has bi eii
v. .
t ■ know vv e
■B^^^ng rapidly toward actual
JPlIigerent contact with this war,
unable either to carry it on or .
Ilefend ourselves, Mr. Speaker, if
fhe American people knew tac 1
of Senator Mor-
Secretary Potter i
‘WVerage of 450 letters
i the highest daily ave-
|e history of the senior
li Texas- A year ago,
i was only 300 a day
ie increase is a result
Jl^Klefensc program. “It’s
feap of |iuiil,’’ Potter says, as
eyes it each day. But it is all
answered each day, also, as the
senior senator has never been
known to fail to answer any let-
ter sent to him. In Senator Tom
Connally’s office, at the week-
^emitor Tom Connally
mu! prepared and will intro
an amendment to the Scire
Service Act, providing an
tor the government P
over 1
eno,! of the emergency anv
.ii-tn.il plant, producing deti
m it rial- or convertible into
deli n-c manufeetnring plant,
which the national defense
gram mav be impeded or
bv an existing or threatened fail
ure o production at -ich plant
as a result of a strike or labor
distiirhanee or other cause.
‘The Selective Service Act."
said Senator Connally, ‘now pro
vi'des that the President is
tnorized to take over and
crate any industrial plant, 1
ow ners or operatois of w hieh
or decline to makt
of war. or
5c Pet Copy
grow n
considered i servant’s quarters at the
Koester.
amendment to the Sei
Act, providing i
government
and oiM'rate during th. ,
■ in-
ense
a
in
pro
delayed
"oiigh the Secret a rv
Secretary of th
• ver and op-eratv.
"I o! the emergem v
'ped for the inann-
v articles or ma
■d lor the national
v plant capable
Hired into
' 1. ' lie cf
pro-rram
:in
I i.'iil'ire of
-i'll of a i
disturbance
t hid
it
■r -X •’•-•a
ii
a \ ia in
\ bania
r> i>ort cd
I'UIIH' t’MJ
h feriM'.tv
) igos la vs
'V -urpriM’
:.to the
' o Tman
iav> worked
with the at
I n t ormei
O' oba b|
v i- t
SANTA CRl Z,
Jack Rhein of the
ment realized the
nearly every human
\i ril Sth.
have bee.
to the list of surplus <
able during April m
stamp plan areas of tl.>
according to the Sutpi '
ing Administration,
rice, listed for March. . i
included in the April
tions. The complete list >•
im
of | fresh grapefruit, oranges, apples,
carrots, onions (exeejH grism
onions), Irish potatoes, bu/ter,
I raisins, pork lanl, all |>ork (cx-
I cept that cooked or packed in
or glass containers), corn
e-ggs, dried prunes,
grits, dry edible
Hour, and whole
latter t Iriv'>
«>; 111 «'ii ;i 1 i •< 11
XI \ Teh
Congress will
|N Lm take-over some
h'jftjlants ami let
h^Boperate them'
■r this prediction.
Kiow is to let the
Ii Board attempt to
(troubles. But
w ct'se
I
! NAZI
ed the k ynote
•“We are I
cockjail parties, we play the ;
horse races, we act like children
‘ at piny. We stop munition fac-
feh^naes when this Nation is facing
ife/ peril that it has
MaMbfafeMBtl Lct’an to be a pa
Misses Marlyn Jean Wade and
Mary Katherine Wel|ia»tseii p^g-
Club meeting today.
ATTACKS throavn
BACK b't SALONIKA AND
STRUMEP R’VEr. FRONT
event lias
now is
outstanding events for I ]|arrv M
year Never in I Iturke! is the son o| ‘'Dm " Bu.
kett, Lavaca County commis-don-
The
new
iron
‘.he sitna-
getting werse every
I no doubt in the
that most of the trouble- makers
are Communis' members of the
labor organization^- There have
been 73 strikes * fcince Sept. 8,
1939, involving a total ot
‘291 Jili n, says Kepresentat iv c ('a rl
A'inson of the Georgia delegation.
Vinson was the author of a re-
R Mtolution passed this week to pro-
» de two House investigating
committees to probe all the
f»’ strikes- Then the House took a
11-day recesp, 4Mf(“r the Easter
holiday period- <
• Texans Take Lead
A’esterdav a miner—today a
Flying Cadet—tomorrow a pilot
in the Army Air Corps-
Morton A. Boss, of Bisbee,
Ariz-, is only one of nearly 400
Flying Cadets in Class 41-F,
latest arrivals at Randolph Field,
Texas, For basic Hight training-
Slightly more than 10 weeks ago
he was in the mining business,
following up a degree at Arizona
State Teachers College, at Temp’.i.
However, urge to pilot one ot
Uncle Sam's sleek monoplanes
completely changed plans tor the
future. Thirty weeks from the
time he laid away his mining
papers he will become one ol
Uncle Sam’s defenders of t h e
skyways
Boss is not the only Randolph
Field Flying Cadet who did an
“about face’’ from earlier plans.
Herbert N. Henckell, Jr., of
Cairo, III., already was a regis-
i tered pharmacist. Herbert IL
end, it. was learned that the Fed- i Hill, of Litle Rock, Ark., received
in 1936 and was
established attorney. Waler
T. Snow, of Hartshorne, Okla.,
was a zoology instructor at Bay-
lor University.
Ranching struck the fancy of
25,- | Fred T Mahoney, of
enough j Wyo., Clnrcuce L Marthcy,
every man, i Canton, Ohio,
H. i;.,
I ea. imi "i i ... V In: ■
| ' I Oop- | < -1II >•,'• >•< I1 \ ;) . .
I (I < • i m. 111 a t!; i < • k ; ', •
the w .i i ' ron! i ii ii ; I. ..'
I The German i a-lr i w
| to li'iv (• aiiiio im-i 'l ' 1.1
I victory w it Ii t Im <1 ri v ii
_____ spearhead through Yiijh
general direction of
' ierman stateim ■ ’
the attack had .
with -
that the defendin :
were taken absolut. Iv !
tar ba<k .
Low fl. ii.
said to
close coordination
| tacking ground troop-
; quar'i r- stated that th.
i G c r m :i n s t r a t <■ g
i break I inns ot eommunieat ioi
bt tween Jugoslavia and (Ireeee
The Yugosln v inii capitoi
’ Belgrade is reported to have
fered its fifth and sixth air
StdJdi divp bomfinrs.
speech '
speeches by
over
United Stutts
Wichita Ealls
Lindley Beck worth,
men, took a lead
last week.
Tn the Senate, Tom Connally
predicted the best course
lie for the Government to
over operation of the plants.
Congressman Lyndon Johnson, i
Mtrong administration leader, is
Understood to favor like action-
■ Undercurrent in
Bbe.
Brly 4
oil
aid’ I he
Fair with little
temperature tonight
Light to gentle
n v ailing. Higli-
ndav S6 degrees,
lowest for tonight 52 and the
highest fo rtomorniw S6-
EAST TEXAS: Fair ton’.gnt
I ittle temjx'rn-
Gen;le variable
an
op-
t h e
I iv-
f use or decline tn make imple-
ments of war. or national de-
fense nrtii'li s. tor the governnu nt
upon icasomdile term-. These
provision- rpidv to the laibire of
cmplover- to loopcrnte w.Hi 'Ik
governnu'I' ol' nntio: d
defense.
‘The ame.
prepared and
duee adds
Section 9
v ieo Act
('al.—('apt.
fire ,1.......
* I • 11
dream hat | ‘
being at some ' ' _
time has—Hint of digging up Im- j. ■
r ed treasure. His 'spade turned !
up at his Glen Canyon property |
a metllic fox containing a collec-
tion of old English coins, seme
of them dating hack _’<M) years.
& AVMHNGTON. D. ( . (Sp.-
vial)— Here’s an inside tip on the
National strike situation, which
heck of a
Sometime in the near
ask the
: of
the
dust ( nounced.
All children 12 years of age or
under have been asked to meet
on Pershing Square it 3:39 p. m.
where free transportation will he
provided lor all who want I.> l ike
pail in th.' hunt.
This an mm I
each year ami
( one of t h<-
children of (itch year Never in
' 1 fae history of the events has
inelement weather marred t he
fun and frolic and each year the
nnml'cr of children has inereiised
until more than 69(1 children took
part in the 19441 hunt.
The site lor the hunt was not '
announced by the committee, and I
probably will not be announced
• tint.I the children leave Pershing
I Square af 3:30 p. m- Thursday.
The Texas delegation in Con- ' —(Tom-Tom, ji.ne 12-13-14)—
gross, admittedly the most power-
ful state group on Capitol Hill, Sweet Home Negro
Ted in demands for action. Judge 1
Hatton Sumners of Dallas sound- Given 25 Years for
• when he said, i
like children. We go to 5c Slaying
will lie stareil
afternoon at
'clock, ami eveiv thing Ims
made ready for the big even', the
Lions Club committee has an-
Louisiann state police lost
man in Edward D.
Natchitoches, La. 1
Momw, Mich., gave up criminal
invest igat ion.
ruth, of Seattle, Wash.,
Mulett, j j-anger in Mt. Ranier
of | park, while Earl S.
of Norwalk. Ohio, tinned in
badge of an agent tor the in-
revenue depnrtmcnt-
Officers reported they Lund a | '
32 caliber postol lying near the t}1(q
I bodies in the servants quarters o
| the home where the girl had 1 eci:
' employed since September 1949.
An identification card on the
body of the soldier gave the name
of Woodrow Burkett, Battery (’,
Twelfth Field Artillery, Fort
Sam Houston, officers stated.
The bodies were found by
Koester when the maid tailed to
report tor work early Monday
morning a n <1 lie inimedrtely
called officers and the slieril f’s de-
partment.
Officers stated that tlm girl
had been shot twice in the left
side of the breast. Burkett
been shot three times; twice i
the chest and one time in
There were five
irW* »heito in
RAE is now Ih coi
I along t hr Bul'gari
; w ith om1 roail
severly bombt • I
I attack stall ,!
t he vieiiiit v
er was -tr'
dead (rm; ■ -
' t nek vv a -
I face o|
I t he Sal,,
I press -I ;
not as i••
t he t ii -'
I gIra 11 - '
th, m,"
. A-
t -r
I Senator Conally to Introduce
J i wJI n<‘ nrlil I hursd iv :i I t'-’ i.'»• | •/
I under ‘.In sponsorship of T I
Lions ('lub. All children u i<i- t
12 years of age have Imcn i*
I vited to meet at the Ilandelmae
l corner at .3:30 p. m-. w here trai -
I portation will he waiting to tak
them to the set ti<’ <>:’ the h int
Lion Hanilelman appoint* d
Lions Long and Beck as program
(■hairman for the next two meet-
ings Lion President Winchester
appointed Lions Bourke a n d
Anderson to provide an initiation
, .’reinony two weeks from t he
Lion Carlisle ap-
E. Moon*, Sco't
and Morgan to
transport fcotball boys dur.ngthe
coming week.
I
i' -' and Wednesday.
i tun- change.
winds on the coast.
i WEST TEXAS: Fair tonight
ami Wcdnetd*y except partly
, lotidy at times over the Pau
handle- Little change in tenijiera-
I till I'- ,
— (Tom-TMB, JOM ib-ls-14) —
1*
Tabb, V.a., decided to become
pilot also
Janies W. Ingram, of Fieldon,
III., and Gerald F. Dunn,
Yakima, Washington, became
newspaperman,
ing attracted Robert W. O'Brian,
of laigansport, Ind., while pho-
tography was the profession ot'
Bovd J. O’Donnell, ot Bakers-
field, Calif.
A young man from F illerton,
Calif., Preston L. Renison, was
a lite guard and florist. Ed-
ward H Osander, of San Fran-
cisco, Calif-, a blood donor, hlb-
oreil as a longshoreman and a
teamster.
.Lam
A riz.,
although he was
teacher ami co-owner o*' a lum-
ber compiui'-
daiici’ bands
Raymond T
son. Wise.
Even the ‘law' decided toi try
blazing a trail across the clouds.
a good | stamp foods for April i
Black,
Fred J. Sill.ot j
V.r. G-Th-
<»'' a Shiner
Laezer and
vvvie luiifii!
t Im -m'V,,i'! ’-
Hmm
w is i mplov
maid nid B
a Eort Sam Houston >
lo’iinl fully clothe’l.
by side on l,ie bed i
Billy Conn, Left, is apparently hitting (inn: a
ir alleged ‘light’ at, ( .in ago, 111. fhe r< u i
Sth; the crowd booed, ami tim Boxing ( ommi-'i
whi.'l; 1 Imv-'
h 1 ■ I sf il’ ini ro
anoi'm r paragraph to
o' tin ScH'.'ive Ser-
Uti'l provides t haj i h e |
depart- ■
i hat 1
, ....... especiallv
j • h<> i a< t t hat
I is t he sponsor of th,
i club.
Lion Gerhardt Witte anuouti.•• !
I that everything wa- in riadit i"
j for tlm big Easter Egg hunt whii 1.
a I fi ' i.ii-
O’
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