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FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943.
THE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
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Sam Houston Fights Again
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Second Half of Tokyo Trip Revealed
by American Captain Who Was There
Best Woman
By Capt. Harold F. Watson icame down to 10,000 feet again.
Witten for NEA jl couldn't evon see-the wing tips.
(Second of Two Articles) . We coulil only judjfe where we
Time stood still, as we bombed ' were by our npeed and the time
Tokyo. I looked at my watch, from the last checked spot on the
From the time we first flew into I chart.
the flak until we cami out after
hitting our target, only five min-
utes had passed.
I Now, with our bomb load drop-
ped, wo headed west—through still
more flaV-^-iit a much better
speed. The AA fire didn't touch us.
At about 1:30 we were out at
sea and figured we were out of
danger. I relaxed for the first
time, and discovered that my hands !next. morning.
We circled what we, thought
should be our pre-arranged air-
port, but couldn't see a thing. So,
with about an hour's gas, we kept
on, hoping for clear skies.
Scott had parachuted a couple
of times before, and told us what
to do. We planned to jump as close
together as possible, stay where
we lit that night and join up the
were crainpod from gripping the
wheel and that I was wringing
wet.
i, But I hadn't been too busy to
The gas indicator showed emp-
ty, but the engines were still run-
ning. We shook hands with Scott,
who went to the reftr 'hatch. We
see the Imperial J YKce, ubout tv o ; loaded up with what \ve wanted
miles noith of nuf wrti rfront J- I ■—cigarettes, first-aid kits mor-
get, or to notice that downtown phine tubes.
Tokyo seemed solid and well eon- We tried to carry on a eonver-
structed, and not the flimsy fire sation, but everybody was pretty
trap that many people think. | busy with his own "thoughts. Si
The mission had been a success, we ate a couple of candy bars and
but we realized that the rest oi it finished our coffee. Everyone kept
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"1/ n woman can be a soldier, she can be a best man too." That's
how Lieut. Bailey M. Barrett ol Cincinnati felt when he ask^d his
sistei Shirley, right, a lieutenant in the VVAAC, to be "beA man"
at his New York wedd'ruj. The bride, left, is the former Lois Moon.
(V. S. Marine Corps Photo From NEA)
Four generations after his great-great jincle Sam Houston made
history as a soldier and Texas pioneer, Pvt. Sam Houston, Jr., 18,
leaps into military life with enthusiasm as a Marine trainee at
_ . . Parris Island, S. C.
Local Schoolman ! OPA Enforcement
Dons Gold Bars
After 25 Years
SAN ANGELO, May 10 (Spl.)
—Joe D. Foster, Mexia football
coach and high school principal for
the past 11 years, again is wear-
of Food Rules
Will Lop Costs
was just beginning.
Navigator Busy
Griffin, the navigator, was try-
ing h:s best to try to lind a way
to get us to Ghina. We knew we
checking his parachute and har-
ness. r.
Time To Step Out
It finally came. The right en-
gine sputtered, and I lowered th-;
eouldi't make it, but there was • wheels to reduce our speed. "This
still rhr.t spark of hbpe until Gri/- j is it, Scott," t said, "out you go."
fin checked the gas against the dis-i "Aye, aye Fir," Scott' (killed back.
WASHINGTON, May 10. (U.R)—
The Office of Price Administra-' and WM the deciding fact
tion's admission that "effective" .i_* • i .... * _. * *
tunue.
I got the boys up front .and we
talked it over. I '.ad a plan for
some time—pick out ' a sampan,
overpower its crew, crash-land be-
side it—and sail it in t.> China. The
crew agreed. But before we could
carry out the plan we picked up a
definite tail wind <>i about 35 miles
> l k. .T
That rveived the spar
"See you later."
I was the last one Out. I took a
final look around, and' suddenly
knew how a Navy captain feels
when he loses a ship . . . Then I
slid out of that black hole.
Eyewitness Tale
School Bus Wears
Patriotic Colors
by Stubbs' Bill
AUSTIN, Ti x„ April 30 (U.R)—
Texas school buses will be striped
red, white and blue under terms
of a hill engrossed today by the
Texas Hous? of Representatives.
Authorized by Rep. John I'eter
| Stubbs of Wort ham. the bill re-
I quires the lower two-fifths of th-
i ;>u. to be painted red. the next
1 two-fifths white and ton portion
blue. Stubbs said the bill was a
safety measure.
i Rep. Richard Craig of Miami
called it "the biggest monstrosity
: of the session." Rep. Augustine
Celnya of Brownsville offered and
then withdrew an amendment to
I require legislators to go about
draped ini.pad, white and blue.
| Amendments to exempt nearly
100 counties were killed.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cooper and
little daughter, Ina Louise, are
spending the week <nd in Beau-
mont where they are guests in the
home of Mrs, Cooper's uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Roberts.
Local Club
Sponsor Canning
School May 10-11
Instructions on how to conserve
food for wHr by cauninjr home-
produced vegetables and friuts will
be available for women of Mexia at
a free Victory Canning School 10
•m? conducted by Lone Star Gas
Company at . the Municipal Au-Ji
| torium Monday and Tuesday, Mai
10.J1, nt 2 p. m., according to A. A.
Johnston, Mexia District Manager
for the gas company. The school i'
sponsored by La Belle Maison Club
The canning clini" it: part of «
service to aid the home front in
preparing vitamin-packed foods to
1 patriotically offset rationing re-
strictions, Johnston said, and it is
open to the public with no fees
charged. Advance registration is
not required.
; Mias Julia TTunter, home econ-
omist for Lone Star Gas Company,
will conduct the school. Those who
j attend will receive copies of the
company's new Wartime Canning
Booklet which describes modern,
efficient an^l simple methods of
canning vegetables, fruits and
meats.
By actual demonstration, Miss
Hunter will can fruits and vege-
tables. She will use recipes call-
ing for minimum sugar and those
eliminating sugar. She will demon-
strate the pressure cooker, oven,
1 open ketne, and water bath meth-
ods of canning.
"Canning retains vitamins in
fresh vegetables, fruits, an.I
meats," Miss Hunter said. "A
housewife can make the most from
•mcli products by canning and pre-
ioon as they are
Representatives
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AUSTIN Tex.
Texas Represent
to thrash rut th
of the .State I.
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than 100 in a s<
early this morning.
The S'lritc will hold no see
until Monday but conference (
mittee members put in a busy
trying to adjust differences
tween the House and Senate
several measures.
No conferees were required for
final passage of a curfew law on
beer, wine and liquor sales. The
measure, recommen''d by Gov.
Coke R. Stevenson in his opening
message to the Legislature, was
enacted finally by the Senate yes-
terday afternoon without any
change in the hours fixed by the
House.
Th final vote was two shy of
the number needed to give the cur-
few immediate effects and will not
govern until Aug. 9.
The curfew act requires bser and
wine sales to stop at midnight with
a 15 minute grace period for drink-
ing after that.
An exception is made for the
week-end when salts may con-
tinue until 1 a. m. Sunday with the
the grace period ending at 1:15 a.
m. Sales may start again on week-
days at 7 a, m., on Sunday at 1
p. m.
;L;:;,hv-: of Biggest Raid
tion's admission that "effective" (,etermine(1 to Kot ns }ar from tIu.
enforcement of retail food rcgu- pan ag possible" and atlcast reach Told DV
ing the Second Lieutenant's gold lations would reduce consumers . one 0f ^ jsjrnfjs jn t|K. china "
bars which he put aside at the food budgets some five per cent gea
A light rain began at dusk, and
grew steadily worse. I put the
ship up to 10,000 feet, then to
18,000, which was as high as we
could go without oxygen. But we
couldn't break out on top. We
close of World War I a quarter of coincided today with the opening
a century ago. of OPA's campaign to roll racK
Colonel George M. Palmer, com- prices to last September's levels.
manding officer of the San An- As a prelude to the scheduled
gelo Army Air Field, yesterday June 1 roll back—10 per cent re-
announccd his selection of th? Mex- ductions in seven major food items
ia officer as a ground school in- — community dollars - and-cents
structor to cadets at the bombar- prices went into effect today in
dier school. Lt. Foster reported small retail stores in more than
here from Randolph Field, where 130 cities. The roll-back will bo
he spent a few days after com- accomplished June 1 with the aid
pleting his studies at the officer of government subsidies at tho
training school in Miami Beach, processors' levels.
Fla., April 17. But from two sources—and for
Rising through the ranks dur- two different reasons—came loud
ing World War I, Foster was com- dissents. One organized labor
missioned a sccond lieutenant ayid spokesman described OPA's roll-
was scheduled for overseas ser- back program as "peanuts." Chair-
vice when an influenza quarantine man of the House committee which
was clamped upon his post to keep holds the government's purse-
him in this cruntry until tWe Ar- strings cried "unsound and un-
mistice. Going into the officer re- American" to the subsidy propos-
al rve, he kept his reserve com- al.
misrion until 1920, when he allowed OPA admitted for the first time
it to terminate. that effective price control never
"We weren't expecting another has existed in a report on a reccnt
war in those days," he said. survey of prices in 230 coal min- .
Active in athletics at South- ing communities. The survey rP. 11 ^ Rand member, who was gradu-
western University, Georgetown, vealed that the opinion of 2(10, :.lt ^°"1_ ' p cxn' 18 a "•>
v/Itcre ho took his bachelor of arts OTA investigators was unanimous ,n ' iav<> flccn on )U^ 1 VkaI 1
degree in 1917, "Skipper" Foster, that food price eosts in mining ' f"r a long time. I tnought
as he is known to his intimates, communiites was approximately1 ^ e 1 an< *u> "Mt
has kept in touch with the sports the same as those in comparable |vo' '' ■'n,ost tl-H' r,V( 11
world ever since he went to Mtxia communities hut that, "substantial" i 1 11 wa-;nt 'ip 1 at al
in 1932 nnd served there as high price violations were found,
Mexia Sergeant
Has Had Enough
of Sea, He Says
Mr. and Mrs. O. I.-. Brotherton
have received word from their son,
Sergeant O. L. Brotherton, Jr.,
now stationed at some unknown
pest in North Africa, that hs isn't
likely to want t.i go to Galveston
again after the trip he and other
members of the former National
Guard group from here have just
made across the Atlantic.
According' to the former Black
school football coach until 1939,
who. he was named principal, the
job which he has held for the past
four years.
Growing interested in aerial de-
velopments which accompanied tho
outbreak of war in Europe, Foster
completed a ground inn'ru:? ir's
course at the University of Texas
in th" summer of 1942 an I iauuiit
aeroixulics in Mexia Hiijii School
divir.g the 1912-43 session.
PRAIRIE GKOVE
A short but interesting program
of mother songs was given in a
sons service here Sunday night,
which every one enjoyed.
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. I. W. Hall Sunday were his
children, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Hall and daughters from Axtel,
Mrs. Sum Jackson and children
from Mexia, Mrs. Buster Hard-
wick and girls of Groesbeck, and
Odis Smart and Garvis Little.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Robbins of
Datura and daughters-in-law, Mrs.
Varnell Robbins and baby of
Opposition Hits
Moving of Dental
School to Houston
"At first, it was a little v.!t..l;t
Init then it unco-died out M; ■ "-ilk.
and from tlu on we had no t,i n-
ble. Some of .i e boys got : V Go
seasick. 1 just eov weak i.t :l e
• 'oiiia 'I. i nee or twice, Hw.ver I
never missed a meal and kept
everything down.
"We could go tip on th.' top
deck all we wanted to. I spent
quite a few hours up there watch-
ing 'lie ships and water and read-
I'nited Press S'aff Correspondent
U. S. FLYINb FORTRESS
BASE. NORTH AFRICA, May 10.
(U.R)— Reconnaissance phctographs
today showed that the biggest of
American raid in history had taken
a tremendous to'l of A.^is war
- works at the Sicilian port of Pal-
' ermo on Sunday, and knocked out
at l ast 13 enemy fighting planes.
; More than 409 Flying Fortresses,
Billy Mitcheis and Martin Maraud-
ers carrying enormous loads i f ex-
! f losives droned across the M'ed-
I itcrranean to this important Ital-
ian base Sunday noon, following
up the Axis rout in Tunisia.
The entire harbor of Pal rmo
was shrouded in billowing el; uds
of dust and smoke, Here and there
tongues of flames broke through.
Visibility was good and we could
see the whole show clearly.
Ths American formation was
protected by many twin-tailed
Lightning fighters.
Hundreds and hundreds of bombs
were dropped. There was a flash
and flames fmm the center of
town leaped 300 fe:t into the air.
It probably was an important oil
dump.
There were black tuffs which
mu-hroomed apd exploded around
us as the planes passer' through
flak fields. The big bombers shook.
Four German Messsrsehmitts |
attacked a Fortress. The P-38 !
Lightnings darted in and one Mes- j
serschmitt burst into frames. Th ' '
others peeled off and disappeared, j
Freestone Farmer!
Finds Planting !
Vetch Good Idea
You'll need this helpful book on
HOME
CANNING
Tftil handbook (a special wartime edition) it available by mailing your
name and address to Julia Lee Wright, P. O. Bon 660, Oakland,
California, and enclosing 15* to partially cover the cost of preparing and mailing.
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NOTICE—Apply at your
Ration Board for addi-
tional sugar for canning
purposes.
Louisiana Extra Fancy
STRAWBERRIES
Pint Box
$fwaLte^ (JakuiL
NOT RATIONED
HOUSTON, Tex., May 10. (U.R)
—Houston and Harris County phy- jnK „ little,
siciuns received with mixed re- "The hardest thing for me to
actions today the news that the pet used to were the two meals
Baylor University Medical and „ (>Uy. We had breakfast and sup-
Dental colleges will be moved here per, but when we did eat w.' had
from Dallas in time to open a new plenty. I never saw cooking pots
session Oct. 1. ; so large. They held a hundred gal-
Heaviest opposition' came, from ions. , .
dentists and doctors who pointed "We slept in canvas bunks built
out that the city already has one ( three high. The aisles between
Dental college and that a gigantic I them weren't very wide, and we
project for building up a Medical jwere always squeezing in and out hl,ndml per Cf>nt Pr0.( WM offer.
Center around a post-graduate ; It waan t ban. We had a lot of
unit of the University of Texas | fun with nothing to do but eat and
sleep
Howard Biggs, on his', farm one
mile north of Freestone, Texas,
finds that money put out for vetch
is not lost. It is one of the few
investments which gives an inter-
est return b.tween one and two
Schrol of Medicine already had 18'cep. I put in some lazy days,
been planned. I "Don't be alarmed if you don't
The majority, however, favored receive many letters from me. The
the move, although most doctors ma" seryicc at its best couldn't
ex-ressed sur prise at the quickness ho K°otl-'
. with which the deal was consum- 1 Brotherton, who attended both
Coolidge visited Mr. nnd Mrs. Fred maUfJi All offerC(1 t0 co-operate Wt",tniin!,t''r and Texas Tech, was
Franklin Sunday evening. in itg establishment here, and one ** Ca™,p Blandi"C' Florida, and
Miss Florene Parson of Fair- ,wtnr ovnro„ao(l K„1in, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, be-
oaks spent the week end yith her
grandfather, M. T. Parson and
Mr. and ftirs. Buck Hines
l11'1 doctor expressed belief there was
room enough in Houston for two
Medical schools.
. .. The school will be establised
Monroe Cox \s vory sick nt ths ^ wjth thp he] f the Andmon
home of his sister, Mrs. Mae Car-
gile.
fore he was recently shipped ,a-
cross.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Felz had as
Mrs. Oliver Callaway and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Kathovine Knight and
babies of Teague spent Mother's
Dey with their mother, Mrs. Ella
Williams and sisters, Mrs. Lau-
rence Herring and Mrs. Herman
Williams.
Mi
Day visitor Sunday
from Moxiu.
Foundation, a research and phil- ! thcir *Uests riurinK thc WPek end
anthropic organization founded by 1 Mw- Fe,*'« mothe,•• brotht,r Bnd
sister-in-law, Mrs. W. W. Jones
and Mrs. Claude Jones, of Gaines-
ville, and J. T. Jones, of Tyler.
heirs of the Anderson cottor.
family.
The Anderson Foundation
ed last fall when cotton piekerrs
found it easy to pick four hundred
pounds rer day.
Biggs had thirty-three acres in
cotton last fall and harvested twen-
ty- thro; 500 lb. bales on his up-
land farm. The three year average
yield of peanuts that followed
vetch has been between 12 and 52
bushels per acre. This land was
con«id:red by his neighbors to be
" worn out" ten years ago.
Biggs suggests that those who
have never planted vetch try a few
acres and plant at the rate of fif-
teen to twenty pounds per, acre.
Inoculate th? seed and fertilize
each acre with at least a hundred
pounds of 480' plica;hate. He
states, "There is no doubt in my
mind that they will find n new
j way to make money, save soil, and
greed to give an unrestricted site , 000,000 for research, to be made
of 20 acres within the general tract in 10 annual installments.
provided for a Medical Center to i crow $1,000,000 in cash and secur- j improve soil." He further states
Mary Byrd was a Mother's the Baylor Dental and Medical (ties for erection of permanent that the first assurance in building
afternoon schr.ol|. In addition the Founda- buildings; provide temporary quar- worn-out soil is to terrrace and
|tion immediately will place in es- Iters; and assign to the school $1,-
worn-out soil is to terrrace
use soil building crops. 1 .
CL . Kitchen Croft
llOUr ENRICHED
18 Lb.
Bog
2.25
F!0Ur Bloisom
48 Lb.
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1.99
Flour Be'tbur^'*
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1.19
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Texas Firm Slicing
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