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BACK THE INVASION! IGtbrrtu BUY MORE BONDS NOW! Volume LVII Combined with LIBERTY COUNTY NEWS Liberty, Texas, Thursday, June 15, 1944 Number 44 Hollywood Sends Star Bond Sellers Stepping Out For A United Home Front OPENING TRINITY SLATED III TENT REVIVALIST Melvin L. Vaughn, Baytown evangelist, above, will conduct a tent meeting at Dayton, sponsored by the Church of Christ, beginning Friday, June 16. Services will be held each evening at 8-15 for a period of about 10 days. Church leaders invite the public to all services. LIBERTY OPENS FIEU LOHN ORIVE WITH BREAKFAST E.

W. McLendon and 45 Workers Hear Inspirational Talks A J. Hartel Names Workers; Cleveland Tops Goal on D-I)ay TIIK STARS ARE COMING! Four Hollywood movie stars, with a pair of war heroes and a sparkling master of ceremonies, will come to Liberty County Tuesday, June 20, to help push the Fifth War Loan drive over the top. Liberty and Daisetta will be visited by the party. The appearances were arranged by A.

R. Milentz of the Park and Daisetta Theatres, through Texas war activities committee. The party will include: Raymond Walburn, well-known character actor; Lassies White, comedian, who played with Tim Holt in westerns; Jean Brooks and Jeri Wayne, RKO starlets. Definite plans are being worked out today by Liberty County War Bond leaders with Francis Farris, advance agent for the stars. They will be announced by circulars, posters, etc.

E. W. McLendon, chairman, reports $135,000 pledged in two days work, Monday and Tuesday, in the Fifth War Loan Diive in the city of Liberty. Forty-five enthusiastic men and women gathered for breakfast in the city hall in Liberty Monday morning, June 12. at the call of W.

McLendon, chairman of Fifth War Loan Drive for the City of Liberty. Following the invocation by Rev. Bruce Power, Mr. McLendon introduced Frank Doughurty as the master of ceremonies, A. J.

Hartel, Liberty County chairman of War Finance, was introduced and responded with explanations and detailed instructions on selling Bonds in the Fifth War Loan Drive. Inspirational talks were given by K. B. Pickett, Nathan Waldman and Col. R.

W. followed by a subscription drive conducted by Dean Tevis. The impromptu drive netted the committee $67,500. This starts off the quota which has been named as $250,000. Mr.

McLendon named the following workers for the city of Liberty, giving them definite locations and names to solicit: E. C. Fuller and Doc Holstead; Mrs. E. Buchanan and Mrs.

Brookshire; W. C. Crawley; Mrs. L. Waldrop; M.

E. Shelton; Miss Miriam Partlow; Bob Grlnns, Mrs T. Mullins and Mrs. C. D.

tery Mrs. L. Dismukea and Mrs. rt Hays; R. D.

Peterson and Fred Matthys; R. E. Pitts and Cordon Hart; Cocke; Partlow; Green Abshier; T. Pinchback; N. Waldman; J.

D. Ireland; Jack Hill; Gus DeBlanc; Roy Lyons and W. Mearns. The Large Funds Committee was named as: A. Hartel, C.

A. Miles and W. O. Mearns. The benediction was said by Rev.

B. B. House and Liberty group was on the job by 10:30, ready to go ovt-r the said the chairman. With the full faith and credit of the United States Government behind them, citizens of Liberty County communities started out early Monday morning, June 12, to sell War Bonds in the Fifth War Loan drive, A. J.

Hartel, chairman of Liberty County Finance committee having appointed his workers several weeks ago. The quota for Liberty County is $760,000 and the appeal for this drive is one that goes home to each one so definitely that we feel that the quota will be oversubscribed well within the limit set, stated Mr. Hartel. Mr. Hartel expressed warm appreciation to Cleveland, which was over the top on D-Day with its quota of $150,000.

V. W. Miller reports that Dayton is at work the War Dads of Hull-Daisetta are busy with plans E. W. McLendon of Liberty plans to exceed quota and so it goes Liberty County is really to sell Firemen to Collect Needed Scrap Iron Liberty Fire Chief Bob Martin is making an appeal for scrap iron.

First because it is so urgently needed by our Government, said Chief Bob, and second because the proceeds will go to the fire department for necessary up-keep and equipment. The Liberty fire department will send trucks to any home in the city, or to any community, to collect scrap Iron. Clean up your yard, farm, garage, barn gather iron, put It in a convenient place and call the Liberty Chamber of Commerce or The Liberty Vindicator, and the message will be given to the firemen to collect it. This is a picture of 9 residents of Texarkana, Arkansas-Texas, better known as Texarkana, U.S.A. it is a picture of a lot more than that.

It typifies the chins up, united front, flexed muscles, flexed mind, do-or-die spirit with which the whole American home front marched Into the $16,000,000.000 Fifth War Loan drive that started this week. Texarkana, in the role of typical American community. and with Secretary of the Treasury Mongenthau as a guest, was the scene of the civilian D-Day launching the loan drive. The Texarkanians you see here letting our flghterR know' that the homefolks are back of them to the limit, come what may. are (left to right) Sam Holleman, er; Mrs.

David McGaha, homemaker; Curt Wetz. war plant work railroad man; H. Bailey, butcher; Charles Barber, youth; L. G. Smith, cattleman; Margaret Thacker, woman war plant worker; Il C.

McCurry, business man; W. F. Springer, farmer. marching down State Line Avenue. the boast of the people of Texarkana that the State Line divide, but Unites them.

Prominent Speakers To Appear on Each Bi-County Program With an array of prominent speakers representing both Chambers and Liberty counties, the program of rallies for Chambers-Liberty County Navigation District election, ordered for July s. will get under way with a meeting at the Baptist Church, Romayor, in northern Liberty County at p. m. Thursday, June 15. LIBERTY RALLY The city of Liberty is planning to set aside the night of Wednesday.

June 21, for the great rally to he held in the city auditorium in the interest of the Chambers-Liberty County Navigation District election. Leaders of the Forward Trinity Valley Association, who have worked for the Trinity plan for years, believe It will be the most largely attended F.T.V.A meeting in the history of the prominent organization. Local men and others will BOND RALLY AND AUCTION AT Twin Cities Seeking To Reach Quotas in Double Event Friday No long-winded but plenty of music and other entertainment will feature the mammoth Fifth War Loan rally at Hull-Daisetta High School Friday night, 8 o'clock. Committees working on the event say there will be snappy auctioning of bonds by the self- styled E. Getaz.

Prior to the big rally, during the afternoon, a parade will be staged under the direction of (J. Gardner, Ernie and It C. Thomas. Everyone in the two communities is invited to take part. On the central War Bond committee are C.

O. Dale, Clyde Pedigo and E. A. Johnson. Dudley Whitcomb and F.

L. Clements are in charge of solicitation at Hull. Bob Reid and Zack Crow at Daisetta. V. E.

Geisendorff heads a committee handling special sales. boys spilling their blood on the Normandy beachheads, and on countless other fronts, the Home Front can do nothing less than go far over Fifth War Loan quotas in a hurry," Mr Dale said yesterday. means every last one of us must sacrifice to buy that extra bond. FATS SALVAGE PROGRAM CLEARED BY MANAGER LIBERTY SERVICE CLUBS JOIN THURSDAY IN PEACE PROGRAM Liberty TO PRESS CONFERENCE Jake Smyth was in Dallas last week to purchase office supplies for Trinity Publishing Company and to attend the two-day wartime conference of the Texas Prfcss Association, of which he has been serving as a director. Addresses by outstanding war correspondents and heroes, and on cooperation of the press with the war effort, were feautres of the meeting.

The local man visited one day with his parents in Fort Worth. Pilot Club will be Joined by Liberty Lions Club and Liberty Rotary Club in a patriotic dinner-program, Thursday, June 22 at 8 p. m. Dinner will be served by in the banquet of the city hall. Both the Lions and Rotary clubs are relinquishing their regular meeting dates, Monday evening and Tuesday noon, to meet with the Pilots on their regular meeting night, It was announced by Presidents E.

W. Pickett and Wm. L. Sc hupp. Mrs.

Neal Wyatt Kyle, president of the Pilot Club, announces the committee responsible for arrangements of this Joint meeting as: Mrs Sarah Kay. chairman, Miss Jennie Stovall, Miss Clara Powell and Miss Esther Friedman A nationally known speaker has been secured for tin evening, Hon. Wm Nathan of Houston, who will lecture on the subject Mr. Nathan Is. an outstanding speaker and has gained national recognition as president of District 7 of the Jewish charitable organization, Beni Brith, which includes all southern slates.

Fred Matthys of the Lions (Tub will give a short talk on the subject Will" and Mrs Robert Pike, accompanied by Miss Robbie Telford, will be presented by the Rotary Club iu two solos. The combined service clubs and their guests will together the opening and closing songs, Country of and room Be the Tie That Binds." State Salvage Manager A. rick Flood, of the War Production Board. Austin, sent the following Hear and concise picture of the ats salvage project in the county: The Fat Salvage Program iti its bare essentials can be quiek- ly described. The wife saves her waste kitchen fat in tin cans which she takes to her butcher, She is given 4 cents per pound for the fats turned in.

The butcher will also give her 2 red points for the purchase of meat in addition to the I cents in money for each pound delivered to his place of business. The butcher in turn can sell to any fats rendering plants he chooses. He in turn gets 5 cents per pound for each pound of fat and is reimbursed with red points. If there is no truck pick-up for fats in town, the butcher shop can ship in 50 to 100 pound steel drums, collect, to nearest renderer, by express. Liberty can send its fats to the Jefferson Packing Company, Port Arthur Road, Beaumont; or to any of the following companies in Houston; Dixon Packing Company, 108 Milan street; Houston Packing Company, Houston Grease Company, Texas Soap Company, Finnigan Hide Company.

These are the closest fats collectors and dei to Liberty. Will make every effort to have one of our field representatives visit and check Liberty at the earliest opportunity. REVIVAL LEADER Pickett Endorses REV. J. P.

OWENS Revival services, conducted by Rev. J. P. Owens, evangelist of Fort Worth, started in the Hardin Baptist Church Sunday, June 11, with E. L.

Hardin of Liberty as choir director. Morning services are held at II o'clock and the evening services begin at o'clock. The paH tor, Rev. 11, Fortney, cordially invites the public to attend. E.

B. Piekett, Liberty torney, and first vice-president of the Forward Trinity Valley Asso- eit Ion, ihis week gave bis indorse- ment to the proposed I Liberty Navigation Dtstrict in the following Statement make oue general Statement 1 ahout the district proposal," said Mr. Piekett, favor it because out ide interests would eome in and create this development if vve did not. So it appears tu me ithat if do not initiative nt this projcct and putting local peopie in control, the result may Im- that Outsiders, whose interests in the area are not deep rnnted as ours are, will take advantage of our inaetion in a way that would he detrlmental to the great interests of the en tire of both Chambers and Liberty Cuunties. managed such a navigation district will grcatly aid in the industrial and commercial future of this section of Texas" Kor alrnost a half Century Mr.

Piekett has advocatcd of the entlre Trinity River, as one of the foremost means of the de velopment of Texas last deeade he has devoter! much energy tu the over-all Trinity pru- gram iu which development wIthin the area of proposed navigation district will occur. The entire plan of the proposed district, which, leaders are firmly convinced will result in the tahlishment of a great industrial district and the creation of deepwater ports on Lower Trinity River, work in conjunction with the long-planned canalization of at" the Trinity River from Anahuac to Fort Worth, will be taken to the voters of the district. They will be given opportunity to present questions which will be wered during the six tallies. Plans Are Tentative It was pointed out this week by Guy C. Jackson, Jr.

of Chambers County Court, Anahuac, Herbert J. Allen of the Engineering Company, Dean Tevis. secretary manager of the Forward Trinity Valley Association and other advocates that the present plans for the Ion of water storage and other facilities are entirely tentative and must be passed upon by the navigation district commission, which will be appointed following election. Tin job they aid. i.ii 111 district if i inii then no plafM foi jvelopment have weight.

These will be taken up by the three commissioners to be named, and it Continued on Page Eight) (Signed) A State trick Salvage Flood Manager. HERE ARE PLACES AND DATES FOR SIX BIG TRINITY RALLIES Mr. Rat Will Be Given the Works In Liberty Soon Mr. Rat, that filthy, thieving varmint who delights In harboring typhus-carrying fleav, will be en the In an extensive campaign that will be conducted in Liberty on Friday art atuiday, June 26 27. The initial campaign will be ear rled out in the business district only, under the supervision of Max Hoffmann from the States Department of Interior The nty of Liberty will furnish the labor.

The only direct cost to stores will be for the poison, ranging from 50 cents to $1 per business house, according to Williaim Scbupp, city manager. You put your name on the list by calling the city 84. common rat is a menace (Continued on Page Eight) Urging greater returns, OPA- district officials point out that no usable fats are wanted but ounce of waste grease means ammunition and medicine." The ernment asks every American housewife to save at bast a tablespoon of used cooking grease a day. Every drop is desperately needed to make Liberty County housewives, get busy! LIBERTY STARTS IWP.fi DADS UNIT Fifteen interested men signed for membership In the proposed Liberty Chapter of the American War Dads at a meeting held in the county court room Thursday, June announced Crawley, county superintendent, temporary chairman for the organization. Qualification tor membership, principles and purposes of the organization were outlined by a group of visiting members from the Hull-Daisetta American War Dads unit, including Clyde Pedigo, E.

A. Johnson, C. (). Dale on Page Eight; Here are the places and dates'- of the six navigation district election rallies planned for Liberty and Chambers counties, with the probable and the election officials In each of the six pn cincts: Election Rallies Romayor Thursday, June 15, churchhouse Cove Monday, June 19, school house. Walllsvllle -Tuesday, June 20, school house.

Liberty Wednesday, June 21, auditorium June 23, court I house Mos school Thursday, June 21 Bluff ho1, Rally Speakers Probable speakers at the tallies will Pickett, iirst vice-president of the Forward Trinity Valley Association, Liberty; A Miles. Liberty; Artie Hartel, Liberty; County Judge Guy C. Jackson, Jr, Anahuac; Dean Tevis, secretary manager of the Forward Trinity Valley Association, Liberty; Herbert Allen, vice-president of the Garrett Engineering Company, Houston; F. Riley, superintendent of schools, Anahuac; Grover Chambliss, president of the Continued on Page Eight) SATURDAY LAST DAY FOR FILING County and precinct candidates are reminded that Saturday. June 17, in the final day for getting their names on the Democratic primary ket Candidates should file with Joe Farris of Daisetta, chairman of the county committee secretary, The filing deadline for dis trlet and candidates has already passed Therefore, the full county ticket can be announced after the Saturday according to J.

of Cleveland, deadline, Manthey, secretary. DAYTON BAPTIST The First Baptist Church, Day- ton, Is in the midst of a vacation i Bible school. There were rolled up to Tuesday morning The public is invited to the commencement program to be held Friday night, June 16 at 8 The young people's choir is doing splendid work this summer. All young people are invited to rehearsal on Thursday nights at S. 3l), orchestra practice at 7:30 if you play an instrument DISTRICT COURT JUNETFRM QPFNS With Judge Clyde Smith of i Wood vilie tin the bench, the dis- I trlet court June term opened Monday.

June 12. The grand jury was impanelled and Tanner ap foreman After hearing one case, C. N. Smith vs. Texas Royalty Pool which Judgment for the was declared, court was adjourned until Tuesday, Juue 20, I at 10 A Petit jurors for the second week June term, as announced by District Clerk Pickett.

are as follows; Terry Wood. Liberty; W. J. Bradshaw, Cleveland; I Cour. Rt I.

Liberty; Jack Eckols, Liberty; Carr, Daisetta; Ross Gordon. Devers; Richard Shanks, Dayton; Million, lit. 1, Liberty; G. 1 Mason, Liberty; Davis, Cleveland; W. Rathburn.

Rt. 1 Liberty; Lane Dabney, Daisetta; J. N. Jackson, I Rt. 1, Cleveland; Hardin, Liberty; E.

N. Kirkham. Dolen; Gingles, Cleveland; Orval Rice, Dayton; Ted Raxsoon, Cleveland; J. B. Barrett, Daisetta; G.

W. Adams, Liberty; Haltom. Dolan; G. Weaver, Liberty; W. Hare, Rt, Cleveland; Builey, Liberty; Lee Fudge.

Daisetta; G. Stinnett, Daisetta; H. S. Ashy, Daisetta; Spear, Rt. 1, Liberty; Ford, Dayton; Hudgins, Romayor; Joe B.

Farris, Daisetta, J. Hammons, Romayor; Cherry, Rt. 1, Cleveland. Joe Ed Smith, Rt. 1, Cleveland, Buchanan.

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