Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 11

THE roiirrs CHRISTI CATTERTFWES THURSDAY DECEMBER 23 1911 PAGE 11 Sion in Sort ire VMi lloiiim in Rohalown ROBSTOWN (Sp) Werner WiKian stationed at Camp Bowie Ja visiting in Robstown with bis parents and other relatives fapt Williams Jr and Williams visited in Robs-fn this week with his parents and Mrs Williams Cap tain Williams is stationed at Camp Howie and was recently promoted to the rank of captain Miss Melba Gillespie Miss Jerry Bloxom and Mrs Robert A Cornet AM College students are Spending Christmas with their parents Mr and Mrs Gillespie Mr and Mrs Ernest Young Jr and Mr and Mrs Forest Sassman Copt Evans stationed at Camp Bowie has been visiting in Robstown with Mrs Evans and sons Jimmie and Jack Jack student at Shreiner Institute at Kerrville is spending Christmas with his parents HE SIIOL'II) KNOW GREEN Don Hutson star end of Green Bay Packers believes pass receiving is 90 per cent faking and 10 per cent catching TO OUR FRIENDS EVERYWHERE MAY THIS DAY CHRISTMAS 1941 BE LONG REMEMBERED AS A DAY OF HAPPINESS AND THANKFULNESS We would feel that we had not been grateful if we failed at this time to express our thanks for your friendship and patronage It is our privilege to serve you at all times CLYDE RAINEY PRINTING CO PRODUCTS OF BETTER PRINTING Dial 6542 408 Taylor Street BULLETIN The Ntarf of busy bank on the Join your friends In wishing you a Good Christmas They want you to know too that the rolls of the 1912 CHRISTMAS SAVINGS C'LI'B are now open Today some 1290 persons can look bark over the year and thank themselves for their foresight In spreading Christmas spending over the year 1912 club rolls will rlose at 12 o'clock noon January 17 1912 The CORPUS CHRISTI BANK TRUST CO LAUNCHING PEARL HARBOR Mrs Charles Russell left sells Mayor A- McCaughan his tickets for the Pearl Harbor Dances to be conducted throughout the city on January 3 Looking on are left to right Charles Marshall chairman Mrs Sam Wilson Jr Mrs Harris and Mrs Beck Lonesome Over the Pacific Especially at Christmas Time Thousand's of Children Guests of at Four Theatre Mulinees lour Corpus Christi theatre? held morning iratinces yesterday for Corpus Ci-rMi children after which police a sack of randy fruit and mils to each A least non attended '-01 the matinees at the Bench Melba Grande and tlientres as police distributed that many jat sucks of cnntections to the chil- dren Oh icers and their wives 'S' prepared the sacks Sunday Open 1 0: house was held at the police sta -j tion for the children after the show jf- 01 0 01 1 01 the war relief chest Suspending Stuplojff of Victoria lank Receive Bonuses )t Three Months' Salary t'IIr-Tim Xm linln BICTORIA Dec 24 The sum of $7000 is being distributed this month among the employees of the Victoria Bank A Trust Co as extra salaries according to an announcement by Blackburn president of the bank The announcement is In pursuance of the banks established policy of sharing its profits with its employees The distribution will approximate three month' extra aaiary to each employee Besides voting the cmDloyee bonus the board of directors at the December meeting also declared the bank's customary semiannual dividend or five per centum for the stockholders' The announrement stated that the year 1941 was easily the most prosperous in the history of the bank We are happy to express to our friends and neighbors our best wishes for a joyous holiday season-We are proud to have the opportunity of living and working in this community and in appreciation we renew our pledge to continue our standards of quality workmanship fair business practice jM ll-rtll Mi-NifNi9iMti Mgn9iiiiiioiio oluiN 0 i meRfUL By HENRY HOWELL SAN ANTONIO Dec 24 (D The co-pilut glances to a Christmas card attached to the instrument board He is silent for a moment Then he turns to the chief pilot wonder what the wile and kids are doing back home Nostalgic memories conjure a wistful smile "I'd like to be heme I guess every man wanta to be with his family on The Chief pilot deep in thought has no reply The drumming motors keep up their ung-ung-ung It is lonesome over the lar Pacific especially when folks back home are singing on Earth Good Will Toward Men" guess I'm a pushover for sentiment" the co-pilot per-ists "but I can't get them off my mind I wonder what Alice got for little Jim For Catherine and Louise" The chid pilot eases around in his seat Flying is tiresome Then as it his thoughts returned from another world: thing to be out here today But we gotta do it They wouldnt be sale bark home if we weren here" That's right" says the co-pilut resignedly The steady ung-ung keeps up The big bombers becomes a tiny speck on the horizon then ducks behind the winging its way to defend such things as Christmas trees toys fruit cake nuts and the people for whom they are meant Other men are thinking the same thing today in the skies over and on tne ground at such lar-olf places at Rangoon Iceland Panama Alaska Hawaii NewioundlanU Puerto Rico Manila in warships studding the oceans While-Silent Night" "Noel" and other Christmas carols rise toward heaven from throats back home guns are firing planes are Hying at America's outposts of freedom The men who guard the skies over Rangoon life-risking American volunteers today lor instance helped shoot down 10 planes I 0 0 0 9 9 ir i -1 i i 0 0 0 10 19 if i "DRY CLEANING BEAUTIFUL" 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 cRRsrms Old Fashioned Greetings to You Dial 5535 drive lor the Cnrislmas and New Year holidays the Red Cross will 5 resume the campaign arier Jnnu- gi ary with persona solicitations according to Chairman Earl Cal- S' Inway gt' The campaign treasurer Louis Berman announced yesterday a total of $18077 of a S31700 goali' had been raised since the cam- paign started a week ago SOLDIER GETS MEDAL WASHINGTON Dec 24 The War Department da awarded a soldier's medal fori heroism to Pvt Vernon Bow- man El Paso Texas lor rescuing I 01 01 SUNSHINE LAUNDRY In: 92 Men Volunteer for Duly in Home Defense Unit KINGSVILLE (Sp) -Ninety-two applicants have been accepted as members of the Kingsville Unit of the Texas Defense Guard according to Capt Roy Terrell The applicants accepted however are subject to physical examinations which will be given I next Monday evening December 29 at the Missouri Pacific Booster llaii on Yoakum Avenue Practicing physicians of the city will bo present at that time to give the examinations alter which such further steps toward organization will be taken ns may be decided upon by Captain Terrell and Lts Jeff Smith and Cavazos The Missouri Pacific Lines has 1310 Leopard Street One and All May your Christmas be merry your tree laden with good tilings and your happiness in the heart of your family un-endiug! Simple pleasures of the old fashioned home-spun vaiicly are still most enjoyable at Christmaa time even in this streamlined ago So in the modern manner with old fashioned sincerity we say Merry Christmas" DU PONT PAINT SERVICE STORE S33 Upper Broadway Dial 2-6S45 BilV Is Attraction Now Showing at Texas Drive-in An unscheduled thrill for the i into rough water immediately and cast and crew of Metro-Goldwyn- wave and spray breaking about Mayer' BilV added the equipment i it- Wallace Beery and Leo Carrillo real life excitement to the newest jjn smaller bou engjneered the Wallace Beery starring vehicle rescue with tugs which took out 01 0 01 an enlisted man from drowning i jt in Beckwith Creek Near Seale La August 15 Bowman is sta-j tioned at Fort Bliss Texas ip which Js now showing at the after the larger craft and brought them back into the protection of the San Pedro breakwater until Texas Drive-In Theatre A 40-mile-an-hour gale hit sud- given the use of the Booster Halljdenly on location at Fish Harbor tearing the camera boat with Director Richard Thorpe Cameraman Clyde DcVinna and other crew members from their moorings The boats were washed out for meeting place and armory of the guard list III ismbHi iicimi nW the gale subsided Bill" deals with the sanguine adventures of Beery as a shiftless roustabout who finds love on the waterfront and is suddenly faced with the care of a small daughter he hasn't seen since since she was a baby The result is a comical romance with Marjorie Main with whom he was teamed with hilarious success in He becomes a leader of the tuna fishermen waging their battle against a price-fixing combine and fights comedy and drama results The picture was largely filmed on location at Fish Harbor seat of the Pacific Coast tuna industry and was directed by Richard Thorpe who directed "Wyoming" Players include Donald Meek Barton MacLane Sara Haden Connie Gilchrist and others Virginia Weidler plays the small daughter Interesting details of the opera-lion of the tuna fishing fleet bat- ties and other thrills vie with the comedy episodes in the story i Army Boys Drill Bishop Home Defense Guardsmen BISHOP Sgt Cecil Patrick who is home on a Christmas furlough and Pvt Bethea Martin home from Army service gave drill instructions at the Monday night defense guard meeting Between 50 and 60 men turned out for the meeting to crowd the high school music building to overflowing Plans were announced for weekly meetings each Monday night at 7 o'clock Capt Butts stated that 27 men had signed up for the Texas Defense Guard unit and he hoped that organization could be completed soon after the first of the year FOR THE MOST JOYOUS CHRISTMAS YOU'VE EVER HAD JHE EMPLOYEES of Montgomery Ward join the management in expressing their gratitude for the privilege of serving you during 1941 and extend good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year abmoA ww tea May You Find Your Christmas Day Wonderfully Joyous and Gay and Your New Year just as Happy and Bright through its entirety We extend a cordial invitation to visit us often during 1942 Grceti'ig8 FURNITURE COMPANY 309 Meiquita St.