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Page Feet THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE, ViCTOKlA, TEXAS. Editorials The Victoria NEA Features King Features United Press Intemotional News Service Features Advocate Turkish Bath The Victoria Advocate Dally Established 1897 burning Back the paaei of Gf me 25 nb lo Bao (Vrssa rue al Tfc Alteeate) Weekly Established 1846 Entered it the Post Office at as second clusi mail IN AND OUT -OF VICTORIA Br "STICKS STAfiALA BUSHED Every week day afternoon (except Saturday), morning edition every Sunday. Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, Publisher Editor Associate Editor Advertising Circulation remnants of the crcp of Victoria County and is in excess of the local consumption. H. FRENCH CHESTER EVANS EDWARD 1.

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Mi (5 TEARS AGO Thwradar. February 14. 11 Those who attend the benefit performance at the opera house tonight will have an opportunity cf hearing among the best of the musical talent -in Victoria, and that is saying a great deal, as Vlc-trtrSa hoi h(iMn t-ppotfnized as a t.lonl In the musi- LTlim im cal field. Among the contributions to the entertainment win oe uw: voice of Mra. J.

3. Welder, Mrs. Venable, Mrs. Oscar ftoos ni Mn Jnhn Cleffff and Law rence O'Connor and August Rehm. two full cars ef pecans, aggregating about $0,000 bounds, were shipped out of Victoria today by Joe Montag, the well known Victoria merchant, to a cold storage company In Chicago.

This shipment represent! the He was then assigned flying planes from factory to air base, delivering planes from one field tn ortnthvr mntt aprvint in any other neutral capacity possible. www Feared Armed BOWHAN declaaed he at no time feared an attack by the Jer-neift We flew low. The Jerries were up around 18,000 feet, above antiaircraft fire and you'll find very few that are daring enough to attempt to break through. "Our main worry was the thought that something might go wrong with our ship and that we would be forced to ball out. Every farmer and his boy on the island has his rifle ready, and a parachutist Is just parachutist to those farmers.

We were afraid that if we had to bait out they would start plunking at us." Nad Tenth 1: IN DESCRIBING his three week's In London, the flying In structor told the whistling bombs used by the Germans to terrorize Britishers. "They can be heard five miles away when a Jerry turns them loose and they sound like they are right over your head it's an eerie sound, I can tell you." "I remember ene Jerry who was shot down by anti-aircraft fire, his plane crsshtny in Victoria FJE- -is-: 6 Plastics as Ersatz Materials Fortunately the plastic industry has had a great develop, ment in the United States during the past few years. Never before have there been so many materials available with such a Variety of properties. And just in time, loo. The National Delensr Commission has already told magnesium pioducers for the time being they should allot all their stocks to defense industries.

Magnesium alloys are used to product a strong, light metal of the greatest use in the airplane industry. 1 hat is one field in which Germany has a head-start. It is widely using magnesium metals in its planes instead of aluminum. I he United Stairs had make a start in magnesium production, but this NDC request indicates that it has not yet progressed far enough for defense needs, let alone for other peace-time purposes in addition. The NDC has also requested that non-defense industries devise means of replacing aluminum in their products with sub-Ititute materials including plastics.

That means ersatz in the German manner, though fortunately it should not involve any hardship or any inferior products, for in most of these cases the finished product will be just as good made from the substitute materials as originally: in most cases the buyer probably won't even know the difference. This i going to Rive a sudden artificial impulse to the plastic industry, which is already growing by leaps and bounds. jCases, rabinets, and housings fcr business machines, scales, radios, vnccum cleaners; kitchen utensils, flashlight cases, cameras, even the bodies of automobiles, may soon be coming off the production lines in plastic or other materials rather than aluminum or magnesium metals badly needed for NEWS -and -VIEWS FROM SURROUNDING TOWNS DRAFTED FOR LOVE It isn't a rase of accepting shoddy ersatz goods of inferior quality. It is merely a matter of change. And the changes brought about may well continue after the emergency has passed.

It is more than possible that it may be so great as to alter visibly the sie of the industries concerned, meaning fewer Jobs in the metals and more in the plastic industries later on. 1 hat is just one more way of the hundreds of ways in which the defense emergency is altering our ways of life, perhaps for good. Cut Short: NOT A FEW Victorians were disappointed in that the rein Sat nrrla curtailed the demonstra tion of army equipment on the City Hall Square. True, the equipment was set up but was shortly packed up again, with the army breaking camp early In the afternoon and call ing the whole thing off because of the weather. And how ther did break campl With the efficiency of army tradi tion, guns were nwstea oacic on wheels, trucks loaded and they were ready to be on their way before one could say bignor Be nito Mussolini.

And that 37-millimeter Bun the army now has it's latest addition to pur expanding arms. Soldiers with whom we discussed the gun think it just about the hottest thing the army has turned cut in many moons. One would almost say that it is the answer to the dive bomber. The big 75-millimeter anti-aircraft guns are a bit too awkard for raDid aim at a bomber diving 300 miles an hour at you, but that little 37, which shoota a mgniy explosive shell, can be spun around on a dime and aimed el-mcst without effort. The 37 can also be used as an anti-tank gun and as such is a highly effective weapon.

Flew British planes; ONE OF THE instructor at the army air field now beihg constructed at Cuero only a short time ago was ferrying British planes over the war-scarred British Isles. He is Francis D. Bowhan and in an interview with a Cuero Record reporter said that American fly ers now engaged in ferrying the planes from factory to Sir bases and fields on the island are paid $600 monthly and worth every penny of it. Bowhan left Montreal, Canada, In August of 1940, his ship being one of an unescorted convoy of 38. Eighteen days were required to make the zig-zag trip and after landing, he and four other American flyers checked in at Bristol for schooling in English planes.

SERIAL STORY BY RUTH AYERS AH1 Ann's mar tk nntl with Kmm. im r-rtr4 Brsta' (tttni trmm tkrlr trip April la will fcrr a-rlrf u4 krr rklria. Mat Krai will iMTlaa; mm, Ttttm a teller rr II trmm Amm KENT FINDS OUT CHAPTER XII A NITS letter was a brief scrawl, written in a shaky hand. "Dear Ones I will be home In a few days. It's no use staying any longer.

The audition with Vlvano was a miserable failure. It seems as if all I want how is to have you close to me, so I can forget these last weeks with my foolish hopes and dreams of success. Perhaps It was necessary to teach me A lesson. For the rest of my lif I will ask- nothing more than to be happy In the real blessings of my family and my beloved It was signed "Ann" and it looked suspiciously as if tear bad blotted it "It's Ann," April found herself saying to Octavia. "Our Ann Is coming home." Octavia burst into such a hallelujah of song that it Vivano had heard her, he might have thought he had the find of a century.

At last, April Burnett knew there was only one thing to do. Ann was returning, to be, as she had written it, "happy In the real blessings of my family and my beloved Kent" Ann's beloved Kent jPRIL must reach Kent at once, confess to him what she hid done and beg his promise never to tell Ann. "Don't bother with supper for me," she told Octavia. "I'm going out." Octavia's cream and chocolate smile vanished. "Not tonight, Miss April! You clean out of your Wit?" "I think I am." "For what for you goto to sail out in a storm like this?" April was reaching for her own fur jacket and the tiny calot she Wore like a monk's cap on the back of her shining hair.

"It you must know, she said, "it's to bring a little breath of April to the winter bliisard," Octavia eoaxad, cajoled, threat II YEARS AGO Tuesday. February 14, i9Sl Victoria, known far and wide as the "City Of will be broadcast to the world late today over Radio Station ItPRC, the Post-Dispatch station at Houston, when G. Pringle, chamber of commerce manager, appears before the microphone as the guest speaker. By virtue of their victories over Port Lavaca, Edna and Halletts-ville, the Bloomington High School cagers today are champions of this district and are soon to meet another district winner for the bi-distrlct title. Square.

The pilot bailed out and was captured. He was a boy of only 16 years of age and aid he hud only 72 hours in the air. The young flyer appeared happy to know that It was all over as far as he was concerned." Mr. Bowhan also stated that a squadron of night flyers Jaking to the air only recently is doing a good job Intercepting Nazi raid-era. Hitler Caa't Win: IN DISCUSSINO an attempted invasion of the Isles, he stated: "I believe that England will soon take the war to Hitler's back yard.

I don't see how Hitler can Invade the isle. He's helpless without his mechanized units, and he can't get them across the channel. Hitler lost his chance when he. failed to strike the real blow after France fell. Britain Is getting stronger every day and the people are ready fcr anything that might come.

I don't believe Hitler can Win this war." flece your order for copy the eook, "Victoria." prk $1 0 if ordered previous to publication deadline dote. $12.50 after March 1. This book will contain Interesting historical facts and biographies of the loading, cititens. eoemiaKT. imi, nca aeavict.

inc. bitter laugh, "Yea, quite a storm." The snow was drifting en the hill, fuzzy clouds, of It eddying along the road. April turned to Kent Did She imagine It or had he changed. He was back In uniform and the broad-shouldered coat had a cer ium swagger, ine visor oi uei oncer's cap shadowed his faor and made Uie aarK glasses noticeable. That wasn't alL April saw the turn of his chin; was aware that his mouth was set in an uncompromising line.

i mue eariy so we a nave plenty Of time to make the train," she began haltingly. "Maybe we have plenty of time for this, too," he said. Before April could move. Kent's arms encircled hers, arms without gentleness. Slowly, his lips brushed across her cheek and then came down to crush her mouth.

She tried to tusn away, but the hammering of her heart made her limp. This wasnt the kiss he had given her yesterday on the hilltop. This was something different, a searing, shattering kiss. VTTHEN it was over, April pressed 4n Km IT had no right to do this unless unless he knew. He'd said ho hated cheap love-making.

By the dashboard light, she saw he was shaken, too, and sat remote, aloof tn hta corner of the seat "Better start," he advised in the same expressionless tone. Automatically, she set off. The snow was a blessing; the treacherous toads an escape. Intent en the driving, she could push every other thought and question from her, except the memory of that shattering kiss. The windshield wiper labored as it cleared an are In the glass and the tire chains rattled with a Steely discordant clatter.

Neither April nor Kent spoke until the car had reached the foot of the hill. Then Kent broke the deadlock. "What Was It you wanted to ell Deep within her, April sensed what was coming, so on Impulse she stopped the car. The white night came down like a curtain as she turned to Kent What she read in his tense face made her realise there wasn't any heed for her to speak at all. Kent Carter knew! "You're he said.

"Thafe Why I kissed you as I did, to let you know I knew. Why did you do it, April? Was it to annex another scalp to your belt. Did you think your charm would be fatal?" Te Bo Continued) 1 WASHINGTON COLUMN By PETER EDSON NEA Service SUIT Correspondent'. WASHINGTON, One of the tricks, one of the fine points of play in the great game of international diplomacy, is the development of a sense of timing, When a card is played it is Just as important as what the card itself may be. Hitler and his playmates are past masters of this technique, in handling foreign affaiis.

'Naii speeches and moves are usually co-ordinated with beautiful cunning, and they can be counted on to catch any unguarded kings at hugs in the deck. For many years it was considered that Americans didn't know how to play this game. We were too direct in our dealings. We believed in open covenants openly arrived at. We said what we meant and we didn't play the diplomatic game with aces up our sleeve and motives concealed.

The result was that the boys from Europe made us look like suckers at Versailles, and in the Kellogg pact. In the early days of the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt manifested a certain mastery of timing in handling domestic issues. Later, there was some belief that he lost the gift and that bad timing was laigely responsible for much of the f.econd-term confusion. Recently there have been a cou )le of moves on the American diplomatic front which have made Washington observers won der again about the smartness of our timing, and as situations in Europe, in the Orient and at home become all the more acute, this sense of timing becomes all the more important.

The incidents in question all have to do with our relations with Japan. To set the chain in motion, two things may be said to have happened in the natural course of events. First, a scare went up from the region of Singapore and Netherlands East Indies. The Japanese fleet was reportedly on the move, and the British and Dutch from Malaya to Australia feared for the worst. Second, Admiral Nomura arrived in Washington as new ambassador from Tokio, charged with imDroving Japanese-American relations.

Glad hands were extended all over the place. Official Washington really believed there was a chance for these relations to improve. The President's clear "No!" when asked if he thought war would break out in the Pacific was big news in Toklo. Sideline experts who had been predicting war In another IS minutes had to suck back most of their predictions. And then what happened? The president asked Congress to appropriate S898 million to build bombproof shelters, ilm- prove harbors and strengthen air arid submarine bases in Alaska and on half a dozen tiny islands south and west of Hawaii, outposts of defense and' offense against No Army to Go Abroad The assistance that the United Slates extends to Great Britain should not be based upon sympathy but upon the interests of this nation.

While we would regret to see the British empire destroyed, we would not favor intervention solely to prevent this catastrophe. It is only because we believe that the safety of this country requires British survival that we advocate all-out assistance to the British. I laving accepted the conclusion that our own safety depends upon the continuation of British resistance, for many months least, we are in favor of extending whatever assistance the circumstances require. We are not in favor of sending soldiers to Europe for several reasons, among them the obvious fact that this is a different war from that waged in 1914-18. The struggle today is mechanised and the fire power of an army depends more upon its equipment and armament than upon its numbers.

Another major factor must not be forgotten in connection with the dispatch of soldiers to other lands, whether in Europe or South America. This is the necessity that our Navy is adequate to maintain communications, insuring supplies and preserving a route home. With the battle fleet in the Racific, where it stands off Japan, we have no naval force irf the Atlantic available to insure the safety of any army that might fight in other reas. ADOPT CAFE ORDINANCE PALACIOS. Palacios was one of the first cities of its sire in the entire State of Texas to adopt the standard restaurant ordinance, drawn and recommended by the United States Public Health Service after several years of study, according to state sanitary Officers, after the City Council passed a resolution authorizing Its adoption Tuesday night.

The ordinance, recommended by the State Department of Health, requires that each place of business dispensing food or drinks will be issued a permit and will be graded according to its standards of sanitation and that the grade awarded it after inspection will be posted in a conspicious place. No business place coming within the meaning of this ordinance will be allowed to operate without first receiving a permit issued by the City Health This permit will be revocable upon failure to comply with the -regulations regarding i 31 EL CAMPO "DRYS" EL CAM Pp. Thirty young El Campo drys were among the drys of Texas to appear before the Legislature in Austin, Tuesday to protest against liquor and gambling. The crowd gathered at the Methodist Church and marched four and six abreast to the capital to fill the Senate and House galleries. T.

C. Gardner, Dallas, Jiead of the United Youth in Texas cautioned the rallyists to enter the capital in a "spirit of reverence." There were bands, badges, singing, cheers and placards declaring. "Vote Liquor out of Texas," "Take Liquor out of Entlng plac- Japan. Westernmost of the projects is at Guam. Only $4,700,000 was asked for Guam, and that was earmarked for harbor improvement.

Such a sum is of course only a fraction of the $800,000,000 or so that the navy has previously estimated necessary to do a real fortifying job on Guam, but this Is a first step that must be completed before the real defenses can be begun. It is therefore an indication that the administration would like to see Guam fortified, eventually, and as such it must be salt water and sulphuric acid in the slant eyes of the Japanese. For Guam is only 1500 miles from Japan and the subject of its fortification has been so painful to the Japanese that Congress always previously refused appropriations for such projects. The island today is practically undefended and indefensible. What, therefore, about the timing on this move? It could hardly have been accidental, and so the whole day's proceedings had the effect of saying that while we don't think taere will be any trouble in the Pacific, till, we won't trust to luck.

es," "Down with Hohky Tcnks," and etc. Dr. Homer Price Rainey, president of Texas University, introduced by the president of the student body, called, for a renewed educational program against the uses of alcohol. Citizen. MAN, 103, DIES GONZALES.

Alkendra Man-zana, born one year after Texas wen her independence from Mexico; here late Friday at the home of his nephew, Manuel Rodriguez. Manzana, whose exact birth dute is not known, was In New Braunfels in the year 1837. He moved to Gonzales with his parents when he was only two years old and has been a resident here for 101 years. For the past 50 years Manzana has been keeper of a Mexican cemetery legated north of Gonzales on the Stleren road. He was buried there Saturday in a grav? among those he has kept attractive for the past half fentury.

The' aged Mexican, who has worked for several Gonzales firms, never married, and his only relative here is Rodriguez, his nephew. Inquirer. TRUCK ACCIDENT FATAL WHARTON. A series of truck accidents which occurred on the highway near Wharton befcre the break of dawn Thursday morning claimed the life on one man and seriously damaged four trucks which were Involved in the accidents. Dennis F.

Lucas, whose home residence had not been established when the Specta tor went to press, was instantly killed when the truck he was driving crashed the rear end of a truck of the Gordon-Sewall Company near Hungerford about 4:30 o'clock. The heavily loaded truck overturned and Lucas was His companion, Chas. A. White, His companion, Chas. A.

White, escaped with minor cuts and bruises, the Spectator was informed by a member of the State Highway Patrol. The truck which Lucas was driving belonged to the Valley Corporation and was destined fcr Corpus Christl, highway officers said. It bore an Oklahoma license and was loaded with small pipe. Spectator. FOOD STAMP PLAN LA GRANGE.

Fayette Coun ty bankers and business men will meet Thursday night Feb. 22 when Food Stamp plan for Fayette County will be explained by Judge Sam Stone of Williamson County where the plan has been successfully operated for some time. In brief, the food stamp act entitles families on relief and W. P. A.

workers to get $1,00 of groceries with each $2.00 worth of fdod stamps bought, free, increasing the 'purchasing power for the holder of the stamps 50 per cent. ened, and finally glowered suspiciously. "Walt 'til your mother hear about this. And your father, why he's like to clean get rid of me after the 10 years Ah's spent raising- you and Miss Ann." April was to remember this sfterwards, even to the questioning look la Octavia's hurt eyes and the last words, "Lswd help us Lawd help us all." The sentence started ringing in April's head. If Ann hadn't written, it the letter hadn't arrived at this deadly psychological time with it pathetic appeal, April knew ahe would have remained stubbornly Silent Frankly, as she told herself, "she would have lacked the courage to have confessed to Kent Ann's letter changed everything.

This time when April started out there was no pretense of being Ann. From the ealot and the jaunty coat with its lingering scent of the corsages that had been pinned on it, right down to the suede shoes with the high heels, she Was aU April, Yes, April Bur-nett on her way for the reckon ing with Kent Carter. THE trip up the hill in the road-el. omiiM alrna rmtln something out of a nightmare. At a garage along the Way, April stood ankle deep in snow while a mechanic put on chains.

"Bad night for driving, isn't It?" he asked with a bumptious "What oh, yea, very "Should I charge this to your father, Mist Burnett? "To my father? Yes, please," "Better take it easy on the road up the Carter place." The me chanic grinned knowingly. Vaguely, she wondered how he should know she was going to the Carter home. Small town were funny. They knew everything. Ann would never honk a horn.

She thought it rude, bad-man nered. But April honked tonight until the home on the hill opened and a wrinkled face appeared briefly. Then the door opened again' and Kent came out stooped old Negro beside him to help him to the cat- with his bags. "Kent," April found herself saying, "I'll take you to the train. There's something I must tell you." "There wasn't any can for you to chauffeur Kent answered in an eipreasionleu voice.

"I've been trying to get you say by telephone, but I fUeas yw know me storm's put ike lines out of Curto ft storm we startod yet ttnley, wain't itf the toreed A People Face a Right The Biitish, it is announced, will soon call to the colors the youth of 19 year and older men between the ages of 37 and 40. With 4,000,000 soldiers under arms the English people prepare to defend their far-flung empire from the most dangerous assnuU it has ever faced. One has to admire a people who are willing to face their foes without surrender regardless of the apparent odds against them. When an idle gossip meets an idle rumor they both go to work. It's estimated that 2,350.000 babies were born in U.

S. last year. That's a wail of a lot of youngsters. The I 5 tons of metal fence taken from Parliament square in London to be made into war munitions ought to help spike any German invasion. More than 300,000,000 postage stamps are printed daily there's no eeu (r not writing that letter your folks..