The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1944 Page: 4 of 12
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THE TAFT TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, March -3, 1944
NOTICE
We have a car of
Calcium Arsenate
due to arnve in the next few days.
Inasmuch as we are in need of our
storage space, we will make a very
dose price on this Poison, if you will
take it off the car.
This poison is absolutely fresh,
having been manufactured less than
30 days.
Let us have your booking now.
Phone 31
Taft Implement Co.
TAFT, TEXAS
Lt. Robert Keng Is
Named Honor Guest
WILD YOUTH, ‘JUKE JOINTS’
IN FILM OF JUVENILE CRIME
V/n-ciri/ to The Tribune.
SIXTON.—I.t Robert Kent:.,
V. S. Army Air Corps, station.^ ,letttiN ,he operation f bom,■ I-tn-nlal neab-et iniprop i
at tiwrcnceviile. III., was named , . „ or housitm. unhappy cwullumiH a'
honor puest. Saturday night when ”1 i,° ''1 ' ' ' 1 ‘ , 1 j home all are tthown to have an
Miss Kvelyn Striede! of St. Paul. I part that these deadfalls | important hearing <m the qu< -tlou
entertained several friends and in the demoralization of thn l jim.nilo delin'iu**in*y. and lit- ]
relatives in the Mleanlnstic school v ,,,,», o( .i1(, rountry. ar< exposed j, rally lino" tin younger ,
in -Where Are Your Children t" Into I he arms of those who t
builfilrg.
informal games
were played
land refreshments were served
i Attending wer, the honoree. Ru-
by Ethel Da Bose, Happy DaBoae.
Rosa Syiru. Gladys Syina, ( bris-
tinc and Edith Underwood, Anna
Johnson. Nona Rhine, Jean Un-
derwood of Refugio; West Col-
i Her, Walter Person, Charles Ram-
i -el, Raymond Mick, LeRoy Mar
| burger, Joe Hybner, Marvin Bey
j er, Lawrence Syma, Morris Keng,
J Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Keng, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B- Torno, Mrs, H. P.
Itarasei, and Mrs. H. Al. Striedel.
DO YOU KNOW?
An order for thousands of
bombslghts of a British design
has been completed by an auto-
motive company which mastered
the complexities of making the
4,200 tiny parts required for each
sight, and of holding tolerances
as low as 0.0009 of an inch.
peacetime vehicles have been
turned over to military services
for war vehicle testing.
More than 3,255 leather lackers
and windbreakers for seamen and |
service men fc-.ve been made from
25 tons of scrap auto upholstery
leather donated by rfn automotive
company.
One of the larges* automotive
companies has 75,000,000 square
feet of floor space devoted to
war production, and another ha:
teamed up with IS,735 subcon-
tractors and suppliers to accom-
plish its war production job
I A testing machine developed by
an automotive concern has re-
Engines for more than 6,000 I
heavy bombers, totaling nearly
30,000,000 horsepower were pro-
duced, by a single automotive
concern during 1943.
craft shell fuses from 20 per cent
to one tenth of 1 per cent, vir-
tually eliminating “dud” shells.
An automotive plant lias been
forced to make fingernail polish
and long fingernails worn by
women workers taboo on the job
, , .. | after it: found these styles might
All proving grounds operated by | ,rallsmit
the industry for field-testing of
msui
foreign particles into
j the delicate mechanism of the
j aircraft detection devices being
I produced,
Dr. Perkins Named
Defendant in Two
Damage Suits
(Corpus Christ! Caller)
Recovery ot $16,366 damages is
sought in two law suits filed In
117th District Court, running as
defendant. Dr, Maury J. Perkins
of 345 Clifford Street.
Plaintiffs are two San Patricio
County residents, W. L. Edwards,
32. who farms a 930-acre tract
near Ingleslde, and P. G. Cook.
39, employee of the Humble Oil
A- Refining Co. at Ingieside.
Tim suits are nil outgrowth of
an automobile accident at the cor
iter of Carroll and Chaparral
Streets at 5 o'clock in the after-
noon of Dec. 24, in which the
plaintiffs a J lege Perkins drove his
ear into Chapparral Street with-
out observing a stop sign at the
corner.
Edwards claims a permanent
knee injury fi r which he uiut-r-
went surgical operation in Medi-
cal Professional Hospital. H e
seeks $12,090 damages, plus $142
for the repair of his automobile,
a 1942 Plymouth, and S4<15 medi-
i al expenses.
Cool,-, who was riding in the
Edwards ear. asks $4,000 plus $19
for medical expenses.
W. p, Moss of Sinton. and
Hood Boone of Boone, Hender-
son, Boone ,V- Davis, are counsel
for tlie plaintiffs.
Monogram's dramatic story of
child delinquency whic h comes to
the Texas Theatre on Tuesday
arid Wednesday. March 2S-29,
with Jackie Cooper in the stir-
ring role.
Against the background of vio-
lent jitterbugsing and wild music
the even wilder youngsters of
teen age become the dupes of
shady night dub operator-. Thu e
is the surreptitious supplying of
illegal liquor, the “spiking" of
soft drinks, the easy violation ot
conventions and the inevitable
careening joyride, with intuxiia
turn at the wheel and tragedy
linking -at the roadside.
Juvenile probation officers ire
on duty at the night dubs, but
the only solution of the question,
as the lilin shows, lies in the
arc willing to debauch them for J
i profit.
In -whet- Are Your Children?" !
the joyride in a stolen car cul- j
minutes in a charge of murder, |
with an innocent girl drawn into |
a situation which threaten.- '-lot;
only her future happiness, hut
her very liberty itself.
Gale Storm appears In tile lead
lit„• f,-mluiue nde opposite Juekii
Cooper, and other import int roles
are in the hands of Patricia j
Morison, John l.ilel, Gertrude
Michael, Anthony Ward, Evelyn i
Eaton, Addison Richards, Betty
Blythe and lln-b.-i* Itawli-.urn. \
William Night directed under the |
production supervision of Jeffrey
Bernerd, and the original story j
by Hilary Lynn was adapted for \
the screen by George W. Sayre.
Rocket Guns New?
British Used Them
Throughout War
First el. rtrb steel making fur-
nace in the United States was in-
stalled at Syracuse. X Y., in
1906
LONDON. Britain officially
disclosed Saturday night that ale
has b"en using rocket guns ef-
fectively avairst German planes
since the very outset of the war
steadily improving liietn, and
now is using a propellant ma-
terial manufactured in the United
Slates Middle West.
Tin announcement, uncovering
one of the war’s best secrets
r RESTAURANT I
A The Fiiidtot of
Chinese Food?
+ Chicken
Seafoods
Choice Steaks
K •
, Special Noonday
. V:, Luncheon 50c
b^op ,-$u:ey • bi , G"M
• ii^dV'.'-Mo-»n.:;
Take Out
$ t ? jut aj v^r&T v*
liw T ,v',''v
The poetry of Homer was writ-
ten in blank verse,
The Uniter! States reached its
present continental size mainly
hy purchase of territory, between
1S03 and 1853.
McGregor Studio
said flu* rc'ckH. t?ung already ur<
in use in vonaii:. th» Fm-s of op-
■ rations, avd it railed th° pro-
on Han l (o shoot them one of tbe
most effeidiw yet known.
Dis.losiiro that t! * rocket fuel
Was boinu mad** in Amm-lcn was
a •loot sum that the United
Plates Army also is usiru? rockri
suns.
While the Germi-ins have In ♦ ri
whooping up talk of rockets in
their nerve war, tin? British have
remained discreetly silent- so si-
lent that even the mere mention
of the word rocket wa censored
from all stories.
‘How mini: flit jookel haHeria.r
have eon; : to the d- ft u
of Britain cannot ye:. he dis
J el'est'd." the military statement
* said. “The number of kills, how-
ever. is proof (b it tin > are a
very potent weano:
seeret work in Jamaica.
Workmen were trained in their
manufacture and for three years
have been making them without
knowing just what this funny
looking weapon; ill they know
was that they repeatedly were
cautioned to use painstaking
care.
Friend in Need
rr\YjJ )
Relieve yourself and family
of troublesome details when
death occurs. We feel cer-
tain that we can be of im-
measurable assistance in the
complete service which we
and our chapel provides.
Costs here are no (.treater
for the added advantages.
CAGEl
FUNERAL HOME;
Phone 72-
GENTRY REYNOLDS
Taft
FRED D, JAMES
Roving Subs Spread
Nip Food Worries To
Jap-Held Hong Kong
sub* i
I 1! \ I I N:
l*'* ‘cuts pur nard ^
fir st ifi‘.«'Mu>n anil 1u per word ^
irlt :\(d)M‘<|u* nt insertion. ^
WASHINGTON.—American
murines are leaving Japan’s-
The rockets originally were tie-j |lr,,;|l,.ri)v „pi,er<-“ in Hu- grip of [
signed t.) hold off low Hying j.,., ... on<>mi, paralysis t i. n ’ ;
dive bombers, hut since the j M,r„fid- ncctliwio-l '-dpp u -• 1
spring of 1941 ltoy have been j shorlagc grow- ec-re j WANTED 1 Julies to !e«ra t»k
tic UUi.
to h,
..' i I’, \ .ihie in Bdvatice.
against
i o;;shit tvd t.. !.<«• '
.•< led with (IlF dov*<
uii.-i rtielMi IJ o i > ,l;
To Hon* K
ia bit ant
used with gr»'ai hUcc-uFf-'
high-flying homhers. | T|„. inf#***tinu ,••
Itoukotj* iheniHt lvo.-t ar*.* not | i •• it-hod IB am Ku'ia w!i
new. and vv<-t»> u:-» d haial.i il- oi I Tokyo i.« " •* • ’h.v
y- a"s ;u:o hy ilm ChiiT.so for I anv^rniihaif distrih ;ti
fireworks. Hut df' olopmvn, of will . ’op Aj . il l‘i. Atf* : i!
fin modein roi kut wi» tpon r»'!illy I .vill ......anphi'd onh !
h*,gfin in Hh'M. the Briti.-li said
when they haarmHl that tin* ('»• r
fji o ? i w * ■ hf'k'inninu t*> tak<
keen intia thotn, and "wt
d'-tfrininud not to h,> hat Inhltaf |»m-;:ns *h• •
and slops l.-unodiaPd v Avers* tak<in h p* ; at ■ •
It) if s! it uI<• j tii; .'ii Bail r 111
The man ht bind the British j Hon,? K a -•
v* *;. ;pa,**f; i was jir. AHvyn iJ'ii.;: | i : '' : •>;,
las (!r*»w In > . a;'old controller (if Kow
Ministry of supply, and an in-
futitrytivan in the I.* -.* war. Siru.-e
lit SB ho itas worked with a t* urn
of ehemisTH, physicists, ballistics
experts and engineers, exploring
the possioilif!**;-' of roj'kets. an.d
conducting <''v:pcriment? in -.t-riaa
<h "i i.t c 'HMijr.
t"icphoi;-» operators. SoBtfej
tem Associated Teieplitt
ti
i"on;n;-ny 'l ift, Texas.
Wilr dining !;*£
- x <bsira and hd
Mr O. U Hopkbu, S3
f-'l)K SALK
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Partv in l><>rtland
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CAMERAS -- SUPPLIES
FINISHINGS
| The rocket barrage touches ofi 1
i virtually an umbrella of explosiv
Native Says Ainelia
Earhart Taken To
Japan From Marshalls
-try
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i'nulioe and Dw
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it -line JtMg
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f'tatili
SOI’IIMMORE ( LASS
das r.virn
Elizabeth Barrett was 41.1 years
of age when slu- married Robert
Browning.
and iri some respects is even a
jinote tte.oying sound than the; M '-I
i 't:is), r.f bombs. E' en a blitz-;
By Eugece Burns
ISLANDS
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Telephone 7021 1015 N. Ch-ipsrrai I :-!- - I - 'mm, finds i: bard in (>,,,.
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Buenos Aires.
el is-1
so 1 lid
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bombs by tV--i 1 10a;
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Photos made anywhere, anytime,
--------- ! of anything.
's the largest! I down i-iti t!ie explodiug rocket
Spanish-speaking city in the ; Pane] Art Print--, gcaoset Albums pro.?* - >i! -s like hail peiiting on a.
WOrM‘ ; Exclusive In Corpus t heist! |Tili roof.
- -- ; Fioia 1 he day? 0f Munich, the
—Give to the Red Cross Fund— (unouiKvment ijisclo^ed, Britain
------------------------------- 1 j rf-iivlj to begin turning out
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ran out ot p,
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in tin Marsh;,
taken 10 Jap-i
by a remark <
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N»?vv York tax la wye ond now
a representa* ve of the Mar-
shall Island military governor
A dm. Chester W. Nimitz, com-
mander of the Pacific fleet,
sa ;d Elieu, the 30-year-old na-
tive. limited himself to these
statements and stuck to them:
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Boyce House In
Past Two Months
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if it is a Gift you want, we have it. Come in and see the many items we
have that will make nice and suitable GIFTS FOR ANY OCCASION.
HAVJLAND DINNER SETS, NOVELTY VASES, BUFFET SETS
TABLE DECORATIONS, SALAD BOWLS, TEA AND COFFEE SETS
CAKE PLATES, CREAM PITCHERS, ETC.
Cage Hardware & Furniture Co.
Hardware Service
E„ E. DEVILBISS, Manager
‘A Friendly Service Organization"
Fi rni.-ihings For the Home
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uti "-oni.'in jii)..-.' i*•-, it \ooiian
flow -.- : . Miss Putnam u-- n-w-
■Pu'or on her worlti-girdlfrig trip.
i.t. Jiillli-: 'I ”-»]i Washing
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ti •• -util-- story. H.. wiiS pr.siiL.-
in . 01.'i,iltis liini ■ If u> what In
" : 1' '"Id hy \jiti.ii, the Jap i- .-.d
TEXAS
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mpresxmi of voiu
tin- v.o:o in fih-r. and 11!*» imj> rf
aticf1 of f 1» 0 man would not
r.mount to iunch - tcinalr-s ar<-
inferior in Japan/’
ni Kxr-»sit;
with | Show in Fo
st conelud
ccos-'-DjJ ,
In making
the Souihwt- -a -
n and Far tfou-k
r Worth, w-Hcli hits
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SATURDAY, MARCH 25—
“RIDERS OF THE
DEADLINE”
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Ten .Arrested For Theft
Of .‘50,000 Ua> Coupons
From Ration Hoard
Dallas, me*eh 22.—t,o. Pr
I'liiL, have iu-i-ii ma-ie here today
with theft of 30,-
»iii..- s in
Two v
ltd id. 1
BILL BOYD
“Till. KM,Hi MAN"
ALAN LADD
SERIAL—“The Batman"
Govern*
hits !/♦•{
a in-cn
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It cijucntly
M’ I'-’i .to fm- that
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h'u) g isolin* ■ oupons from rhe ;
Au rin rationin.- hoard. \V J '
H h r-hiof district (>|».\ * nforr»
moni attorney, said. | Otm
Korn Da I in. youth; li.n he. n ' *nu
iuvulv.ai in gov.-rnmeiit crlmiiml ; s<e>ve
- iiiuplaititv a-,j .itti-mptw an- be- <a-';l1
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5SSS
SUN. MON . MARCH 26-27—
“THOl SANDS CHEER"
In Techr, ccJot-
The Greatest Cast In HisMfJ-
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you. Qui. k
'* anwhi-i-i" is another tk-.iii<-!
f-ir the l • i'i States silver del nv
norso.N g FURMTUHF
EXCHANGE
TUE. WED., MARCH 28-29—
“WHERE ARE
YOU! CHILDREN?”
•Starring—
JACKIE COOPER
EXTRA—“Heavenly Day#
tTui'h Biwplf* Oil,I 2-6361
Corpus Christ!. Texas
Trade With Your Home Merchant
THUR.FR!,. MARCH 30-31—
CHARLEt LAUGHTON
•THE man FROM DOW!
l'\DER”
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