The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 72, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 25, 1942 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXIX
Marine Engineering,
Naval Architecture Classes To Be
Sponsored By University Of Texas
ORANGE, TRXAS, WEDNESDA Y, MARCH 25, lU-tt
d&U. S. Soldier is Buried at Sea
-Thv-
following announcement
-Was made from the Consolidated
Steel Corporation, Ltd., shipbuild-
ing divisicAn, Tuesday: On April
H, at 7 p. m., enrollment for a 20-
\v celts' course in Naval Architec-
imv and Marino Engineering will
i>egin at the Orange high school.
Classes are to be held on Tues-
day and Thursday evenings from
7. to 10 o'clock. Subjects to be
covered ate as follows:
Theoretical Naval Architecture,
four weeks; Ship structures, four
weeks; Elementary Marine Engi-
neering, four wepks; Thermo, and
Heut Transmission, two weeks;
Marine Power Plants, four weeks;
Applied Naval Architecture, two
weeks.
The purpose of this course is
to train engineers, advanced en-
gineering students, and other qual-
ified persons for subsequent em-
ployment in the local ship yards,
and to up-grade present employes.
This course is conducted as a part
of the nation's defense training
program, conducted in this area
under the auspices of the Univer-
sity of Texas, and the response
to previous courses has been grat-
ifying. The promoter of this
coUrse of training said, "Let us
continue, to train for our national
defense".
Sh'P Drafting Class
A further announcement from
the Consolidated Steel Corpora-
tion, Ltd ,- shipbuilding division
tolldws: On April 6, at 7 p. m.,
enrollment for a class in ship
drafting will bogin at Orange high
school, offering training for high
school graduates and other quali-
fied persons. This will be of spe-
cial interest to young women who
are eligible to take the course.
High school graduates with cred-
its in mathematics, physics, draw-
ing and vocational work are pre-
ferred.
Classes will be held on Mon-
day and Wednesday evenings
from 7 to 10 o'clock for a period
of sixteen weeks. The outline of
the course is as follows: first two
weeks, lettering; ten weeks, engi-
neering drawing and calculations;
four weeks, ship drafting.
Local high school teachers and
engineers from Consolidated Steel
Corporation, Ltd-, are tentatively
Scheduled as instructors.
These classes are sponsored in
this area by the University of
Texas.
A 10,000 INCREASE in popu-
lation over and above that antic-
ipated when the 500 dwelling units
now in the course of construction
on W c«t Park Avenue
Were planned will evi
dently come when the proposed
2375 defense housing project is
consummated. • All in all Orange
may expect an increase of as
much as 15,000 people in addi-
tion to the present total, in tile
course of the next few months.
It is by no means impossible that
these figures are entirely too low,
as the most optimistic predictions
have been in the past. Let's Do
Something About It.
VALUABLE TRAINING is to
be offered the enterprising young
men and women of this city in
training schools sponsored by the
University of Texas in order that
the trainees may be able to ren-
der profitable service in the em-
ploy of local ship yards engaged
in construction of war ships.
These training classes to be taught
by experts in the various lines
will be held at night in order to
afford the opportunities to those
now at work as well as for others
who wish to become better pre-
pared.
y Founder of AWVS
To Visit Beaumont
April 20-25
LOCAL BUYS
'1500 MORE
DEFENSE BONDS
At a regular meeting of Orange
Ship Carpenters and Caulkers lo-
cal H55 held in Union hall Tues-
day night, the organization voted
to purchase $1500 worth more of
defense bonds, which runs the
total to several thousand dollars.
The local also voted to donate
g5-o0 a month to the local Boy
out council to assist in carrying
on the work. The Order is to be
in force for five months.
Thero were eleven new mem-
bers received by the organization
at this meeting. AH members of
the local are urged to attend
meetings to be held each Monday
night.
USO CLUB
CALENDAR OF
ACTIVITIES
,■■■■"
WEDNESDAY. March 25
Social Room, Games, Adults, 0
AM to 3 PM. _ ^
Social Room. Games, High
School Students, 3 PM to 6:30 PM.
Social Room, Games, Adults, 7
PM to 10130 PM.
Ladies Auxiliary, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Reading Room, 7;30
PM to 9:30 PM.
THURSDAY. March 26
Social Room. Games for Adults,
9 AM to 10:30 PM.
Social Room, students of Play-
er's Guild, Orange High School,
{tanking, 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
FRIDAY, March 27
Social Room, Games for Adulta,
0 AM to 10.30 PM.
SATURDAY, March 2«
Social Room, Games for Pre-
High School Age Children, 9 AM
to 1:30 PM. * JS?
Social Room, Games tor Adult*,
1:30 PM to 4 PM- , ' -
SHIPFITTERS SOCIAL CLUB
DANCE. SAM GENARO'S OR-
CHESTRA, SOCIAL ROOM, $
PM to 11*8 PM. ADMISSION
Mc per Coup!*. _
LET'S DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT IT!
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FIGHTING EPIDEMICS will be
on the program at intervals
throughout the war duration and
in the meantime, rumors and er-
roneous reports may be expected.
However it should be remember-
ed that it is always better to be
safe than sorry. Wholesale vac-
cination of people against small-
pox will no doubt be the means of
preventing an epidemic in that
NFIELD
ONTUESDAY
Dr. Martin Bernfietd was the
principal speaker Tuesday for the/
regular meeting of the Orange
Pilot club held at the Holland ho-
tel dining room at 7 p. m.
Mrs. Ras Bateman, president,
- .was in charge of the business
line and In the meantime, other meeting at which final report was
BRITISH WAR
PRODUCT!
UP 40 PERCE
immunization methods will be
resorted to as a means of com-
bating other diseases.
The American Women's Volun-
tary Service's of Beaumont an-,
nounccs that Mrs. Alice T. Mc-
Lean of New York, national foun-
der of the AWVS, will visit that
city April 20-25 for a state civil-
ian protection institute. The
Beaumont AWVS is eager to have
representatives from every city
and town in Texas and Louisiana-
Mrs. Lucy. Benjamin Lcmman
of New York and New Orleans
will teach the course In Civilian
Protection.
A special invitation is extended
to all Orange women who are
eager to do their part in defense
at home or in an organisation.
The AWVS is a non - political,
non • profit making membership
organization having no affiliations
with any group, but co-operating
with and supplementing the ac-
tivities of other. organizations in
kindrod fields.
It has as its basic purpose, the
tree and voluntary cnlisUnetvt of
American women, to the end that
they may serve more efficiently
their community and their coun-
try and through such service
compensate in part for the privi-
leges they enjoy as American wo-
men.
Easter Seal
Funds To Be
made on the dancc given at the
USO club last week. Miss Geor-
gia Bclilc reported on the pro-
gress of the hospital unit which
the club is establishing in the
Gilmer Homes addition.
A nominating committee com-
posed of Miss Ava Lowe, Miss
Helen Rose Barry and Miss Eu1
nice Robinson was appointed for
election of new officers at the next
meeting April 14 at the USO club.
Gifts were presented to Mrs.
Rolf de Trentini and Mrs. Robert
Bare, recent brides. Eighteen
members and fiVe visitors were in
attendance.
were hold for Pvt.
a formal
USO Committee
Plans Meeting
Thursday Night
A meeting of the Indoor Recre-
ation committee of the USO club
will meet Thursday, 7 p. m., at
the club to complete plans for a
Defense Stamp Bingo party to be
given at the club on April 0, it
was announced ■ today by Fred
Hanscom, committee chairman.
Other members of the commit-
tee arc W. L. Brent, Mr. and Mrs-
Graham Bruce,'Miss Louise Jack-
son, Dclbert Nantz and Mr. and
Mrs. Smith of Gilmer Homes ad-
dition.
VAn entire Iceland-bound convoy came to a halt In the North Atlantic as funeral ssrvteps were hoi
[Francis E. Metras, of Detroit, believed to be the first American soldier in this warTo be given
1 burial at sea. The flag-draped plank Is shown being lifted over the rail and the weightod My Mides uito
ths Milt Metras died after an abdominal operation* •" v (Cwlrsi ftiuj
NAVY RAIDS
JAP-HELD
Citizens Asked
To Donate
Scrap Iron
Persons wlio have scrap iron
donations and no way to bring
them to the city schools on Fri-
day for Student Committee Scrap
Iron day, may telephone Harlcy
Bass at phine 2155 and tile ar-
ticles will bo collected.
Old-Time Fiddler
Visits Here
B. F. "Pop" Mofris, of Beau-
mont, who claims Texas state
championship as the king of old*
tiine fiddlers, visited Orange, his
former home town yesterday.
Morris und his large family liv-
ed here 35 years ago when he was
employed at the local sawmills.
Washington. March 20.. (AP>~
The navy told today of highly
successful raids on Japanese-
held Wake and Marcus islands
which so disturbed Japan, reports
from Pearl Harbor said, that Tok-j
yo's lights were blacked out for
several nights.
Enemy small boats, seaplanes
and numerous shore installations
were destroyed, the navy said, at
both the strategic, Pacific islands.
The attacking forces, meeting
"little" opposition,' lost one air-:
plane at each No United States
ships were damaged v
Marcus island is only 950 miles
from Tokyo and so far as is
known, the attack there was the
closest United States navy forces,
with the exception of American
submarines, have carried the war
to Japan. . , .
Scve.'al prisoners were taken at
Wake, picked out of floating deb-
ris after two Japanese patrol
boats were bombed, shelled and
sunk.
The raid on Marcus island,
which lies 7(10 miles west-north-
west of Wake and about 2,000
miles northwest of Honolulu car-
ried the American vessels, obvi-
ously including an aircraft car-
rier, to within 050 miles of Yoko-
hama.
The report on the Wake island
raid was the first official ■ dis-
closure that the Japanese had per-
manently occupied it and were at-
tempting to fortify that central
Pacific island which they finally
raptured from United States ma-
rines December 23 at a heuvy
cost in men and ships.
At Wake,® a navy communique
said, 210 bombs from aircraft and
many shells from cruisers and de-
stroyers were rained on shore in-
Continued on Page Four
Sixth Minesweeper
Will Be Launched
Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
WPA PROJECT
TO BUILD PIT.
TOILETS SLAT D
H. P Spears, Jr., Sanitary En-
gineer of the Orange City-County
Health Unit, advised today that a
WPA project to construct pit type
toilets will be put into operation
in the near future to help allevi-
ate the unsanitary conditions in
and around rural communities In
Orange county.
Mr. Spears polnted out that the
toilets will lie built with WPA
Mis It. G Chafkley. wife of
Lieut- Commander H. G. Chalklcy,
assistant to Commander E. B.
Perry, supervisor of navy ship-
building. will be the sponsor at
launching of the motor Mine-
sweeper "YMS-71 to take place
at the Weaver iilupyurd at 4:30 p.
tomorrow.
This will make the sixth mine-
sweeper and the seventh war ves-
sel to be launched from the Wea-
ver ship yard since January 1 of
this year.
Sunset Addition
Mail Service To
Begin April 1st
London. March 25. (AP) .—
official British spokesman said to-
day war production figures had
decreased more than 40 per cent
since last September but the min-
istry of supply ''already sees a
way to go far beyond this."
The government will not be
satisfied with anything less than
the very greatest volume of pro-
duction of which we lire capable,"
he said.
He said the period of great
physical expansion was past its
peak and that "our task is to
make the fullest possible use of
our capacity "
More, than 1,000,000 people are
working for the ministry of sup-
ply in the manufacture of engines
alone, he said.
In more than 40 ordnance fac
lories, 300,000 workers are cm
ployed while '^0,000 are employed
in smaller factories.
MAKE EVERY PAY DA*-|
BOND DAY
JOIN IKE MMMUHl SAVIMM fUM
NUMBERS
a
ATTACK ON
RUSSIA SEEN
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Volunteers Called To Serve As
Auxiliary Firemen In Event Of
Bombing Or Other Emergency
- r ■
All persons who received Easter
Seals arc urged to return the en-
velopes as soon as possible to Rus-
sell Flelg, treasurer, for the drive,
in order that a final report may
be made on the campaign.
Funds received from the seals
will be use dto give medical aid
to crippled children in the coun-
ty. V
Auxiliary firemen are being
recruited to serve under . Utc, di-
rection of Fire Chief JulOs (ten-
ders of the Orange Volunteer Fire
Department in the event of emer-
gency resulting from, war or other
causes. An application form is
being printed at the end of this
news story which may be used by
anyone wishing to volunteer for
this type of defense work. Appli-
cants arc asked to fill out the
form and bring or mail it to Fire
G. Schaumburg
Reports To Army
'Assistant City Engineer George
Schaumburg, a first* lieutenant in
the U. S. Army Engineer Re-
serves, has received orders to re-
port for duty at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri. .
Lieut. Schaumbugjtv
Thursday for Houston to
go a physical MMtiMNlMl
Itis Wife and son will remain at
their home in Beaumont for the
prrtairt.
Chief Jules Sunders at the f'eti
tral Jfire Station.
These voluntary auxiliary fire
men would be call in event of
bombings and conflagrations
which threatened the safety of the
people Of the community
Classes will be formed in which
volunteers may be trained in the
latest methods of fighting fires,
incendiary bombs, and other dan-
gers.
APPLICATION AS AUXILIARY FIREMAN
Muil or bring to Kin* Jules SuikIcih
at Central Firo Station h ■
('lease Print;
Xtums ; Age
* . ■ ;. "Av
Keaidoncc
Itotjideiice Phone BumiicuulP1iou«
Place of birth ...........
Do you belong to auy other national or home dflfeu#®
■ ■■■■ ■' ■■:'■, . ' . ■ '
organization! ...
Sign
«•« • *V * 4 **.<• «•* ••• •«••♦.
furnishing all labor and the prop-
erty owners furnishing the neces-
sary materials. The cost of a
complete new unit under this set-
up Is abhut $10; however old lum-
ber and other materials may be
used and thus reduce the cost t«s
low as $4 to $5.
It was emphasized that action
in the correction methods of ex-
creta disposal Is imperative since
there is a very grave possibility
of a typhoid or dysentery epidemic
due to overcrowded conditions in
this immediate area.
Mr. Spears said that anyone in-
terested in. obtaining one of these
unltyi may obtain information
through the Orange City-County
Health unit.
JAYCEESPLAN
EXTERMINATE
OF RODENTS
Regular delivery of mail for
4fchS>4 )WSun«et I'ark Addition on tcndfltK'O.
Sixteenth Street will begin on
April first- * ■
This service will be the same as
that given the City of .grange
which consists of one carrier de-
livery in the morning, one In the
afternoon and parcel post deliv-
ery
Post Office patrons residing in
this area should give the local of-
fice a change of address immedi-
ately.
Tho Orange Junior Chamber of
Commerce will cooperutc with the
Orange City - County health unit
in a rodent extermination drive,
'Russell '■Flelg,-t .faycee president,
stated today, '
A committee eorniiosed of. Hen- mru v
ry Log Block, Lausert Cox und^f j rtva|
U Taylor Jr. has been appointed
to work out, plans for the cam-
paign.
J. E. Johnson
Visiting Parents
J. F., Johnson, of Orange, of the
U, S. navy, Is at home on a brief
furlough which he' is spending
with his parent*. Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Johnson, at 0Q<5 Border street.
The young man was said to
have sustained slight injuries in a
naval battle fought somewhere in
the Pacific ocean waters.
He expects to rejoin his outfit
on the Pacific coast In the next
few days. \ .
Civilian Sanitation
Committee Holds
Meet Tuesday
The Civilian Sanitation com-
mittee of the county - Wide civil-
ian defense program, met at the
courthouse Tuesday night with
C. H- Meeks, chairman, presiding.
Duties of the committee and the
personnel needed, were discussed
and another meeting scheduled
for next Tuesday to work out a
general program.
County Judge Frank Hustmyre,
Civilian defense coordinator and a
representative of the Orange city-
county, health unit were in.at-
I
IM
Post Office
Needs Motor
Delivery Vehicle
The post office is seeking the
use of a motor vehicle, either a
passenger cai'or truck, for the use
In collecting, delivering and re-
laying mail.
Anyone in Orange interested
contracting for such work should
get in touch with the Postmaster
before April finst,
ROBBERY
Camp Callan, Calif., March 25
(At'> — Private Harmon Shannon
penned a letier lo A girl friend and
enclosed ii check for one thou-
saind t 1,000) kisses. Presently the
check cbrne back. It whs can-
celled, endorsed by the young
lady and cashed by the trooper's
RC. DISASTER
COMMITTEE
PLANS MEET
A meeting of the lied Cross
Disaster, Preparedness and Relict
Committee has been called for
Thursday at 5 p. m at the home
of the general chairman, F.- W,
Brown Jr.
All of the general committee
and all sub - committees are ask-,
ed lo be present (nomptly at II
o'clock.
CITY BRIEFS
PATKOLMEN HBHF.
State Highway Patrolmen H, I
OIiiss and R. W. Howie will be in
charge of the driver's license !>u
reau at the Orange county Court-
bouse from 0 a. m. to, 4 p m.
. !. O.
A dinner
o. F. DINNKIt
will be served
lo all
fi
WBBii
Drew Middlcton
I.nndini, March as. (AP) —thij
r.'onceiiM^s of military opinion .
^pt ing heralds the great battles of i
ill 12 is/ that the advantages t / jj
Japan of an invasion of Siberia
outweigh the dangers and the utf jl
tuck may come soon - - before the
Nazi/ launch their drive in'we$£,
n Jtusslo. .
liven though Japan is deeply
involved in the southern Pacific,
ilitary sources point ouy that •
lh\rewards of success into /mi/bs-
sault on Siberia and Vladivostok,
the t). S. S. It's big Pacific port,
are too\rich for the Japanese gen-
eral stuff to ignore
First and most important
Vladivostok •
United States bombers based
there would b«KW(ithln easy range
not only of Tokyo and Yokohama
but also of NuguMigi, the great
Japanese naval base, which is
only 055 miles by air\
Oti the other hand, Vladivostok
could be a Secondary Japanese
baste for attacks on Alaska.
Secondly, there is the grand
strategic design of the Axis based
on diversion of United Nations
forces Only the Soviet, so far,
has been able to concentrate Its
armies on one fighting front.
Thus, an attack by Japan on
the east ahead of a German thruat
In western Russia could have two
beneficial effects for the Axis, it
is reasoned It might draw Rus-
sian forces eastward or. at least
compel the Russians to hold some
tVoopH in reserve against the i>o -
sibility of a Japanese advance be-
yond Siberia
Russia's strength in Siberia Ih
not known. The Axis claims to
have identified units of the first
and second Red banner armies,
which once formed part of the
Siberian garrison, in western
Russia.
Observers generally agree thot
Japan inay bu- spurred to. attack
on the belief of her generals that
the U. s. S. R. has drained at least
some power from Siberia.
Conversely, it is pointed out,
the Japan&e^have used relatively
small forces in Malaya and. Java.
Authoritative estimates ' "
pan's current strength in the
south Pacific now at a minimum
of 10 and a maximum of tft di-
visions —225.00 men at most--
and s y that only four of
three In Burma and one split*'
tweon Java and New* Uuine*
actively In the field.
These divisions form only'
small part of the Japanese ar
mobilized since 1037 from a na-
tion of 70,000,000 or more. ...
Air and sea power have beeu
the chief factors in Japan'! south-
ern progress, military men say,
and with air und scii control she
does not need large land forceH
to hold her guins.
While that Is accomplished by
stages through the summer, imp
military observer commented, a
force of 10 Japanese divisions
could move against Siberia.
''Once the northern air frontier
is secured," he said, "Jupan can
move westward against India or
southward against Australia."
Russian sources, who ore. opti-
mistic over the, Rod army's chan-
cess of "finishing" the Germans in
1042, are silent when a possible
Japanese attack in the east is.
mentioned.
ccs of "finishing" the Germans in
informed sources say, arc tearful
of a war on two fronts. . { 7 .
members of Woodbine liebekah
lodge No. I0« at the I. O p F(
hall Thursday night, March 20, t|!
7 o'clock, it has been announced,
All members are urged to at
tend.
Epidemic Is
Weather
kaiit Texas: Showers and local
tliundeistorms this afternoon and
MWt portion tonight, cooler Irt
west p jrtion tonight, except con-
•Merfably colder in extreme north-
Mt portion., Fresh to strong
north winds.
The spread of smallpox epi-
demic at Vldor has been stopped
and noWcw cases reported, Or. L.
P. Waiter, director of the Orange
City - County Health unit, an-
nounced today.
- All active cases have been plac-
ed in isolation and a rigid quar-
antine has been carried out ac-
cording to Dr. Waiter who said
member* of the Health unit have
vaccinated all Immediate contact*.
£; In order that wide - spread im-
munisation may be secured the
OroaM' and Jaffeison county
health units have established free
immunisation clinics throughout
this defense area for thoSe indt-
vldMSlff -who cannot secure this
protection on their own resources.
The latest clinic to be estab-
lished is located In the old court-
house at Orange and will be
open every Saturday from 9 to U
a. m.
A new clinic Is also being es-
tablished at the Episcopal Mission
Community center located at
Herring and Buford in Heaumont
and twill also be open tromV to U
a. m. 00 Saturdays. ; ■■
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Court House
and
City Hall Briefs
«a>i
sa '
Warranty deeds filed for iec«rd
TneHdMy at the offlcc t>f the Orr
Huge county clerk include*!:
II. F. Baker <ital to Charles K.
Baker, i(/t 0, block 0, Orange
County Farms *t and other con-
tiderations
Charles E. Baker etux lo Jame«
G ThomuH, lot fl. block 0. grange
County Farhuir. $1500
H. Jt, L. Stark to L. McCuIre,
south half or block II, West Or-
ange sub - division. One - half of
all mineral rights reserved.
and other consideration*. ,
D. 0. Ingram and wife to A M
H. SUrk and wife, lot 10. bl«>ek
(15,i Amended Sheldon survey.
|793, Deed dated. April 13, 1022
Gilmer Company to J. E. Scott,
lot 7. block 2, Gilmer's rirst "
addition. $«0.
Oeorad M. Flaming etux
eph H. Ungivta
block J-l, Hart and
division. $10 and
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