Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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per cent below the same period for
last year, with llabluties 42 per cent
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More Questionnaires
Sent by Draft Board
Questionnaires have been sent to
chose registrants whose order num-
bers are from 10,801 to 10,399, the
Grimes county selective service board
announced today.
of their tomato pack which is pur-
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on to say that he was not in a posi-
tion to discuss the international legal
aspects in the absence of a report
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news dihpatches from Russia indi-
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Notification of presidential approv-
al of federal allotments tor mainten-
ance and operation of two schoola in
Texas was received here today by
George F. Harley, regional engineer
tor । the federal works agency.
The allotments were:
Rodwater - independent school dis-
trict, Rodwater, Bowie county, $753.
BRAZORIA COUNTY oums
60100 ALOTMENT
FORT WORTH, Tex, Apr.
45 and 64 years, inclusive, in conti-
nental United States, the territories
of Alaska and Hawaii, and Puerto
Rieo.
The registration will include every
male citizen and every male alien
resident, other than persons exempt-
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oation of production, added ehirta,
and other speed-ups brought on by
the war effort.
Total electrio power consumption
during March was 12 per cent below
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that officials here were 'quite con-
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Vrozen and dried eggs are reduced to
ehel equivalents for comparison
.< Iutrastate shipments included 895
To be certified, canners were re-
quired to contract, with growers tor
their tomato crops, guaranteeing a
price of pot less than $17 per ton.
Canneries recently certified include
the following: Schmidt Cannfhg.oh-
the legislation calling for immediate 1
construction of the pipeline and of
the canal, would be introduced Mon-
day.
Already there is an inland water-
way from St. John’s, Fla, to Trenton,
N. J, and from the Apalachicola riv-
er on the west coast of Florida to
Corpus Christi, Texas.
The war department is drafting a
bill which Mansfield will introduce, j
He said it would authorize dredging
of the waterway to a uniform depth
of 12 feet and extending the water
route southward to Brownsvile.
Long range plans of Mexican in-
terests call for continuing the canal
on along the Mexican gulf coast to
the big Tampico oil fields, he added.
Total ; cost of the waterway im-
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cated that the matter was being dealt
with according to international law
and precedent.
Russidand Japan have a non-ag-
greasion past, Hull commented, add-
ing that it might be on the basis of
Mansfield,1 chairman of the house
DAILY Examiner
Rev. John Hines
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VAVASOTA, THCM, BATUBDAV, APRIL 26, 1042
To Give
Sermon Here
On May 24
The Rev. I John E. Hines, rector of
Christ Episcopal' church, Houston,
will give i the baccalaureate sermon
for the graduating class of the high
school Sunday, May 24, at 8 p. m.
The Rev. Hines has visited Nava-
sota several times and is well known
to the congregation of St. Paul’s
Episcopal church.
He is considered one of the out-
standing young ministers in the
Diocese of Texas, and came to Hous-
ton about two years ago from At-
lanta, Georgia, to take the place at
Christ Church of the Very Rev.
James P. De Wolfe, who is now in
New York City. 1
Benito; Adams-Heaner
this pact that the soviet action was AUSTIN, Tex„ Apn 25-Speed ain
creation of new businesses is appar-
The ‘Atlantic inland waterway is 12
feet deep. The gulf inland waterway
si only nine feet deep from Apalach-
icola river to Corpus Christi, but the
Mansfield bill would provide for
deepening the channel to 12 feet and
for dredging the waterway on to
Brownsville. ! ,
Oil men in Texas told him there
were enough abandoned or unused oil
storage tanka there, to provide steal
for making .1200 barges, Mansvield
said.
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are.geaadehdren‘ot un Tat-
towdon < tha.Chinepe, royabr
provements probably would be be-
tween $40,000,000 and $60,000,000, not
including the coat of the pipe line,
Mansfield estimated. He said he did
not have, estimates of the pipe line,
but added that ft coutebe built from
unused pipe in Texas fields. Th line
would cross Florida from the term-
inus of the Atlantic Intracoastal ca-
nal at St. Johns river to the Apalach-
fore February 18, 1942, and has not
attained the 86th anniversary of his
birth on or before April 27, 1942.
These men who register on April
27, state headquarters officials point-
ed out, are not liable for military
service under the. law. They will be
given certificates of1 registration
which they mhust hav in their per-
sonal possession at all times and pro-
duce at the request of authorized
February, 239 par cent above March.
1941. For the first three months,
1 228 per cent above
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for the inorene
Register Monday |
Will Be j
Classified ,
As to Skills
Approximately 780,000 male real- l
dents in Texas will be registered j l
Monday for classification according *'
to their skills and aptitudes for, war N
production work, state selective ser- j
vice headquarters announced today.
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New Businesses
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Postoffice Busy
AUSTIN, Tev, Apr. 25.-War-con-
; acipus Texans . whose correspondence
is being stepped up through defense
lang fighting duty are writing a ninth
more letters than they did last year,
the University of Texas bureau of
business research reported.,
March postal receipts in Texas were
up 118 per oent from the same
month last year, 11 per cent above
February. Receipts for ths first three
months are up 8.2 per cent.
its, Inc, La Ferdia; Union Can-
Company, Lindale; Cha*. L pi-
FDR and Hull
Think Russia
Should Intern Ship
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.High ot-
fieials indicated Friday that the
United States government hd no
disposition to object to the reported
Russian internment of an American
plane and its crew which landed in
Siberia after bombing Japanese cit-
les.
‘ When reporters called President
Roosevelt’s attention at) a press ‘con-
ference to Moscow dispatches con-
cerning the incident, the chief ex-
ecutive replied with light banter.
However, he did supply the tangible
information that he had received
• an official communication from Mos-
oqwretaing.to interoment of a
plane Presumably, this communica-
tion was from the soviet government.
Tor Seg. of State Hull told a later
press conference that nothing had
been received s* yet from Ambassa-
shipments continued to boom during
March, passing the corresponding pe-
g; riod of last year by six-fold, the Uni-
eralty of Texas bureau of business
research reported.
A total of 1,306 car|oad« of eggs
left Texas loading stations in March,
compared with 247 the same month
$ President Roosevelt, in his ex-
change with reporters, declined even
to confirm that American warplanes
had raided the Japanese islands.
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Episcopal Sunday
School Members
Attend Festival
r Hpjacopal yoyths wors ih Bryan
today to 1 attend the Sunday achpol
Easter featival. .
Those going were Velma Quinn,
Joan Dee Quinn, Ellwyn Brown, Earl
Quinn, Jr., Dolleen Boone, Mary Lois
Garth, Inc., Loe Free nos; Alamo
Products Company, Alamo; L Maxey
Texas Corporation, Weslaco; Apts
Canning Corp., Edinburg; Raegan
Canning Company, MaAlen; Quality
red with 4 year, PEo
tats, a four-fold in- ton;
206 March. 1941. ven
. COLLEGE STATION, Apr. 25. —
It’ll take plant of machinery to get
full production from the more than
a million acres of peanuts Texas
farmer* are planting this year, but
ths Toxa* USPA war board has been
asured equipment will be available.
5 The board has been informed that
WPB has authorized the manufacture
of 3,600 peanut pickers for harvest-
ing this year’s secord crop in the
United States. I addition, WPB has
authorised ths production—in addi-
tion to original quotas—of 5,000
planter*, .9,500 weeders, 8,900 fertiliz-
er distributors, 2,900 cultivators, and
a,0oo digers.
The supply of peanut pickers will
be handled by the Southwestern Pea-
nut Growers’ Association at orman,
the USDA war board has announced.
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Boon*, Eugene Bond, and Mary
Frances Bond. They were accom-
panied by Bra F. Watts Brown and
Mia* Nettie Brosig, Sunday school
teachera, and Mrs. H. E. Brown.
To Internment of
Canal Construction
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New Canal
Across Florida
Is Planned
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vide a protected waterway from Texas
and ‘of her gulf coast oil fields to
Trenton. N. J., and relieve the' pe-
troleum shortage in the east, Rep.-
Mansfield will offer congress a pro-
posal for a 12-foot-deep barge canal
and a pipeline across the Florida
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quarters in Washington, D. C., antici- l
pates a total registration of about ?,
Appearing before the Truman senate committee, investigating nation-
al defense production. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones painted a
pieture of the many practical difficulties in, developing manufacture of
synthetic rubber tires, etc. Photo shows Secretary Jones shaking hands
‘with Sen. Harry S. Truman, chairman of the committee.
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p,“wrmnatFsotater. °ThEhiddd“uPeaE.
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Arranged for
G. S. Sandel
Grimes Countian
Passes Away
Friday
’ Grandberry S. Sandel, 74, of Sin-
gleton, passed away at 10:45 p..m.
i Friday at. Harris Hospital following
a short illness
He was born in Walker county,
and was . a long-time resident of
Singleton. ,
I Surviving are seven daughters. Mrs,:
J. W. Martin of Wharton, Mrs. George
J. Cotton of Singleton, Mrs. Edwina
i Crutchfield of Huntsville, Mrs.
Winnie S. Harris of Pledger, Mrs.
E. L. Williams of Houston, Mrs.
Charles McCall of Savannah, Ga.,
and Mrs. E. G. Beach of Navasota;
one brother, J. M. Sandel of Ladoqia;
two sisters; Mrs. Mi A. Poteet and
i Mrs. Mattie Franklow of Shiro; ten
grandchildren, and one great grand-
child.
Funeral services will be held at
4 p. m. Sunday at the Shiro Metho-
dist church with the Rev. Horace
N. Cunningham of Navasota, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, of-
ficiating, assisted by the1 Methodist
minister of Shiro.
Interment will be in the Shiro
cemetery under the direction of
Lindley Funeral Home.
i Pallbearers will be W E. Beach.
O. H. Polk, W. M. Stanford, C. A.
Tribble, C. H. Prestwood, and Her-
screl MeGiIberry.
During March, the number of new
charters granted for domestic cor-
porations declined 12.7 per cent from
February and was 18.3 below March,
1941, levels. For the first quarter of
the year, howeyer, there were 13
per cent mor new corporations char-
tered than in the corresponding seg-
ment of1943.
i Foreign, corporation charters
granted duris "March were 429 per
cent below February and 65.2 per
cent below March, 1941.
An indication that business to be-
coming more stabilized, however,
came from a report showing that
commercial Mailures declined per-
ceptibly during March. Only ten
companies closed their doors, and
liabiuities were only $92000, a* com-
pared with 28 failure* and $800,000
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Student Receives
High Honors in
Forensic Activities
Word was received here recently
that Robert MeFariane Moore of
Trinity University and grandson of
Mrs. E C. McFarlane of this city
has received exceptional honors in
the field of forensic actiyities.
The degree of special distinction
in both oratory and debate was re-
cently conferred upon Moore by Pi
Kappa Delta, national forensic fra-
ternity.
He is presidert of the debate club
and chairman of debate at Trinity
University where he is a senior
speech major.
During his four years at Trinity,
Moore has participated in 120 inter-
collegiate debates and,has won "97
of them. This year he did not lose
a single preliminary debate, and he
was defeatetd only four times in th*
elimination round*. The team of
which he to a member won two first
places, one second, and two third
places in intercollegiate tournament*
this year. Only once out of the six
oratorical contests which he ha* en-
tered has Moore failed to win a place.
In addition to debate activities,
Moore to on the staff of the school
newspaper, vice president of Alpha
Psi Omega, national dramatic fra-
ternity, associate director of religious
drama, and an honor roll student.
He has played all of the male lead*
in the university dramatic produc-
tions of the year..
A ministerial student, Moore will
ary in the fell after hie graduation
. Later they will be required to fill
out an occupational questionnaire, de-
tailing their civilian qualificatios
and skills, but that will be for the
purpose of obtaining information
only. . ‘ .
Equipment for
Peanut Production
ess About Rubber. Bill Offered to
Industrial Areas
AUSTIN, Apr. 20 —Effect of war
time was becoming evident in Texas
electricity consumption during
March, University of Texas bureau of
business research report* indicate.
In comparison to February level*,
commercial—retailing and whole-
Baling—establishments were using 6
per cent less electric power, and reei-
dential consumption was off 7.2 per
bent.
Long-range effect of war time on
commercial consumption was seen in
the fact that there was a nine per
cent decline in power used during
the first three months of ths year
as compared with the .same period
of 1941. Residential use, moreover,
was.only 4 per cent above 1941 levels
for the same period, despite the fact
that late 194 reports had indicated
growing residential consumption. ‘
Only In the field of industrial pow-
er was the March take above Febru-
ary. and that increase was but 2
per cent. Industrial concerns used
44.8 per cent more power in the first
More Tomato
Canneries Certified
cox.am STATION, Apr. 26. -
The Texas USDA war board ha* cer-
tified 12 more tomato » canneries
which are guaranteeing producers
fair price* for tomatoes for canning.
Previously the board had certified
11 canneries, the new addition* bring-
ing the total number certified to 28.
Canners who are certified will re-
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Building Activity
Show* Increase
During March
AUSTIN, Apr. 25.—After a slump
during February, Texas construction
activity stepped up during March by
20.2 per cent, University of Texas
bureau bf business research records
show.
Building permits for March were
29.2 per cent above February, and
were Al per cent above the corres-
ponding month for a year ago.
The January and February per-
mits of this year, however, were un-
der 1941 figures, with the result that
first quarter building permits are
7.1 per cent below corresponding lev-
els for last year.
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Nemir, Lucile. Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 25, 1942, newspaper, April 25, 1942; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1383056/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Navasota Public Library.