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BRENHAM, TEXAS,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1945.
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Zionsville Lutheran
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75th Anniversary
PUBLIC SCHOOL
PROGRAM FOR
YEAR APPROVED
High Powered Bombs
Bring Destruction
To Toyama
PHILIP FREITAG
FUNERAL RITES
HELDATKENNEY
; Date Is Set
For Monday
Sept. 10
Henry Thornhill
Seriously Hurt In
Automobile Crash
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Methodist Institute Meets At
Blinn College In Annual Session
HAISEYFUET'---
SAILS INTO JAP
HOME WATERS
12(So Carrier-Planes
Are Unleashed
Against Enemy
hospital there Wednesday after-
noon. Funeral services were to
be held late thia afternoon.
Mrs. Arledge had many friends
11. Brenham, having frequently
visited here as the guest of Mrs.
Teague. She had been in failing
health for many months.
Second Atomic Bomb Dropped
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Navy Trains De Gaulle’s Son
MAJOR NAVAL
BASE BLASTED
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Superfortress Crew.
Reports Results
Are “Good”
KIBWII
Intermediates of the Bryan Dis-
trict, Ifethodisi church, convened
Monday for their annual institute
at Blinft College.
Ten churches of the district are
represented as follows: Came-
ron—Ronald Hudson; Brenham —
Mike Niebuhr, Billy Morgan, Wil-
bur Morgan. Earl McIntyre, Mer-
cer Rogers Jr., Marilyn Niebuhr;
Bremond,La Verne Miles, Nancy
Walker; Somerville—Marion Lau-
derdale; Caldwell -Patsy Alford,
SUphlna Navratil, Mattie Ken-
nedy, Dorothy Navratil, Herman
Homcyer, Desmond Payne, Ray-
mond Loehr; Bryan—John V.
King Jr., Calvin Pigg. Ann Rose-
borough, Mary Ann Norman, Hel-
en Ann Carol, Allie Koaarck, Bet-
ty Ann Clendenin, Dorothy
Don't Let Your Banner-Press Stop!
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We started across an old
pasture, which served as
landing field. Halfway
a wing struck a stob
MILLION REDS CRASH INTO MANCHURIA
AT KEY POINTS ON 1,000 MILE FRONT
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an hon- O .
the
us. Joe Ben was a ‘'barnstorm-
er” back in 1919 and 1920, tak-
ing up passengers in his old
wartime model „ plane, at so
•nuch a head. He was not ham-
pered by any laws or rules and
regulations, for the flying in-
dustry was young, and a fel-
low who was fool enough to go
up In one of those "flying cof-
fins” did so at his own risk.
Spectator was one of that class,
and so Joe Ben took up for a
ride for whatever publicity we
could give him. It was our first
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We’ll have to admit that aft-
er several days of reading, lis-
tening, and reflecting on the
atomic bombs we have no clear-
er understanding of just how
the thing works than We did
when the first announcement
was made. So far as ye are
concerned,—It--is sufficient" to
— kftow^jbkit it docs' work. And,
we suppose, it makes no differ-
ence to the Japanese, who is
unlucky* enough to be within its
area of destruction when it ex-
plodes. Whether it is caused
.by busting atoms or amalga-
mating molecules is of little
consequence to him; he is ef-
fectively sent to join his ances-
tors in either event. Even some
of those who worked on certain
phases of the experiments that
perfected the atomic bomb seem
a bit in 'the dark concerning it.
Bo it is eonsohng- to team that
Einstein, the mathematical
Whiz, admits he understands the
thing "perfectly.” So far, he
has enlightened us qn the bomb
about as well as he did on his
famous theory;
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Anyway, it is bomforting to
know that we have possession
of this destructive weapon of
our enemies- Had the Germans
stumbled on to the secret before
we did, it might have been too
bad for us. If the bomb is on-
ly half as effective as reports
Indicate, we have great cause
for rejoicing. The Japs will be
unable to stand up under, its
blows ntuch longer, especi'ally
now since the Russians have
joined us and are battling the
Japs on the Asiatic mainland.
Unless' the Japanese are much
more foolish than we believe
them to be. they will be throw-
ing in. the sponge most any day
now. ^Looks like a lot of folks
arc going to have the happiest
Christmas they have experienc-
ed in the last four years.
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J - item that. Jue Ben Lievre, vet-
• eran pilot in the last World
: , War,.da serving a« a,fiKhter test |
course at the Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., Lt. (jR>
Philippe H. X. de Gaulle, right, »on of the French leader, is pic-
tured as he gets a talk on plane recognition from Lt. Edward F.
Fogarty, USN, ol Boston. Mass., one of the school s instructors.
Sam Low Decorated OpenJj1#
With The Chilean
Med al Of Merit
SANTIAGO," Chile, Aug. 9
Sam Low of Houston, Texas, was
decorated by the Cttilean govern-
IweaVreccntly with. »h- c>‘‘—<•
IWrdST of ’Merit and voted— ----
orary life membership by
United States Chamber of Com-
merce here for his work as head
of the foreign economic adminis-
Chile. .
Grim-faced, sturdy-looking soldiers of the Soviet Far Eastern
Army (top) «re typical of the crack troops facing the Japs on the
Madchurlan border. Lower photo shows troops of Japan s Man-
churian army firing at Soviet force! during one of the many
wnr border clashes, some of which amounted to large-scale battles.
TEXAS FUNERAL
EAST TEXAS — Partly cloudy
tonight and Friday, scattered
showers in south, gentle winds on
coaat.
ministry of economy and com-
merce in a ceremony attended by
several hundred Chilean and
United States businessmen.
His duties here were to
welcome
Reese B.
cordial
-Soviets" Arc-Already “Tl
Several Miles
Over Border
In Chungking
already were
FIRE DESTROYS SMALL
BOI SE THIS MORNING
A small cottage in the northern
part of town, near the Santa Fe
arch, was destroyed "by fire of un-
known origin at about 4:30 this
morning. The house is the prop- September 8, (o be used as make-
erty of Mrs. Frank Allen and was
occupied by a colored family.
Firemen did good work in prcvcnl-
spread of the flames to nearby
buildings,______________________________
1st Six-Weeks Period Ends Fri-
day, October 19.
2nd Six-Wee ks Period Ends Fri-
day, November 30.
3rd Six-Weeks Period Ends Fri-
day, January 18 (End of First
Semester).
4th Six-Weeks Period Ends Fri-
day, March 1-
5th Six-Weeks Period Ends Fri-
day, April 12.
8th Six-Weeks Period Knds Fri-
day, May 24 i End of Second
Semester).
Holidays: Thanksgiving Day —
Thursday, November 29, and Fri-
day. November 30. i Saturday,
ride in a plane, and we climbed
in with much fear and forebod-
ing.
cow
his
across,
to which a cow had been tied,
and we had to taxi back and
repair the rent In the fabric-
That didn’t reassure us any. We
got off on our seepnd attempt,
and we can still feel that, sick-
ening feeling in our stomach-
like going down an elevator—
when the plane settled down to
an even keel after a swift ss-
cenL Joe Ben gave us every-
thing he knew, which was
ajflenty, including loops, barrel
rolls, turns, and what have you.
We tried our best to keep up
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up day for Friday. Novemb€t 30).
Monday, December 31, and
Tuesday, January 1.
Good Friday—Friday, April 19.
Easter Munday April 22.
i COLLIDE WITH
"HEAD-ONFIGHT
Blinn Tracers Tn
Consider Budget At
Meeting August 14\______________
for the fiscal year of 1915 to 1918
st their next meeting, August 14,
1945, at eight o'clock in the eve-
ning The meeting will be held
in the college office and tax pay-
ers are invited to be present,
President C. F. Behm id t said to-
day.
Prominent Resident
Of Austin County
Is Dead
" I^ihi-irji 'sarvuha toF'Mlifip Frei-
i tag,, pruijiinent merchant of Kcn-
ney,*who died suddenly from a
heart attack Saturday afternoon^
| were held from the family resi->,
| deuce Tuesday afternoon, with
j of the Giddings .Memorial Metho-
: list church of Brenham and for-
Onarfprlv of the Kenney Metho-
vqjUdl uli ky ounnlUll (hunh. officiating. President
Held Wednesday At '' p s<hmi<tt of inmn college as-
t • T t I ’listed in the services, and the
laCglOn Home | Pete E. Ettinger Funeral Home of
Bellville directed.
Buna) was in Oak Knoll ceme-
tery, Bellville, and pall bearers
were Erwin Luhn. Robert Stem,
John Kamas. E. H, Sonsel, John
Streb, and M. H. Schwarts. ATI
other friends of the family were
considered honorary ptill bearers.
Mr. Freitag was born at Mill-
IContinued on rage Four)
pur-
chase strategic minerals and oth-
er products for the United States
war effort.
Low is returning to Houston to
practice law.
Hated Vichy Leader
Declares That Petain
Never Played Politics
PARIS, Aug. 9. <l'.E) Fernand
De Brinon, Vichyitc collaborator,
regarded as one of the most hated
men 1n France, testified today,
that there never was any ques-
tion of Marshal Henri Petain play-
ing politics or a double game for
the Nazis.
WITH ADMIRAL HALSEY
THIRD FLEET. Aug 9. dll’)
Admiral William F. Halsey’s Third
gleet sailed into Japanese home
Waters today, unleashing 1,200
farrier planes against dwindling
Centers of enemy resistance as the
Japanese reported a pew strike by ,
100 Superforts against Tokyo.
Simultaneously Gen. Car)
Spaatz announced that the most
complete devastation over brought
to any Japanese city by high ex-
plosive bombs wns visited on-To-
yama, on northern Honshu, a
w eek ago.
Spaatz said that reconnaissance
photographs showed 99.5 per cent
destruction.of. Tjuyamft. one of the
four cities, and-an oil refinery hit
by 800 Superforts August 2.
By Hermann L. Zschappel
The Zion Lutheran Church of Zionsville, six miles west
of Brenham on highway 290, will celebrate its 75th anniver-
sary, Sunday, August 12, states Rev. Fred Mgebroff, pastor.
In the morning Rev. G. Senff
of New Wehdem will be the guest
speaker. During the noon hour a
barbecue dinner of potk, beef and
mutton will be served. In the aft-
ernoon, Rev- A. L. Pfenning of
Shreveport, La., grandson of the
founder, Rev. Wm. Pfenning, will
deliver the sermon. A luncheon
,vyill be served following the after-
noon service. Rev. W. G. Till-
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the evening service. At thia serv-
ice, a reunion of all confirmed
members will be featured.
The congregation is sponsoring
fund of >5,000.00 for
GUAM, Aug. 9.— (UP)— Prelim-
inary reports indicated that the
second atomic bomb to be dropped
‘on Japan all but obliterated Na-
gasaki, a major naval base and
Japan's eleventh largest city, dur-
ing the noon rush hour today.
Crew members of the Super-
fortress which loosed the terrify-
ing bomb on Nagasaki watched
the earth shaking explosion and
flashed back to Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz, commander of the strat-
egic air forces, that results were
"good,”
But to all hands that brief re-
port "results good” indicated that
Nagasaki, a city Of 252,630 per-
sons, virtually had been blbwn off
the map of Japan by an explosion
equal to that which leveled 4.1
square miles of Hiroshima, targwt
oi the first atomic bombing raid
last Monday.
Radio Tokyo was silent on the
results of the Nagasaki attack,
but admitted that even four days
after the mighty atomic explosion
in Hiroshima it was impossible to
assess fully the devastation
wrought by the bomb. Bodies
burned beyond recognition and too
numerous to count still remained
In the ruins.
Nagasaki lies on the western
coast of Kyushu, southernmost of
the Japanese home islands, ap-
proximately 175 miles southwest
of Hiroshima.
Mrs. S, ArJed^ „
Of Crockett Dies
At Hospital There
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Hearne, Willie Brewer, Melba Lou
Willis; Rosebud — Norma Fae
Faulk, FldYen'ce Warren; Gid-
dings—Lena Ann Farris, Caro-
lyn Longly, Rose Marie Mut-
schink, Helen and F a e Smith,
Eola Nell Tate, Kenneth
Hodges, Lindy K^lly. Max Fasris,
Phillip Spruill, Kenneth Smith;
Bellville—Janet Newsom, Marga-
ret Lamb. Bonnie Jean Lange, El-
sie Ann Lange, Rose Maris Gra-
wunder, Lillie Rose Geisendorf,
Wayne Eastman; A. * M. John
Gordon Gay, Lloyd Gay. Anna
Jean Go$lby, Barbara Birdwell,
Winona Terry. lindy Kelly of
Giddings wag elected president.ol
the assembly.
Instructors at the institute are.
(Continued on rage Two)
that brings back memories to « life-long friend, Mrs- Sallie Ar- property as a thank offering for
lift jne Ren was a "barnstorm- ledSe of Crockett, who died at a the diamond jubilee. This fund
lacks only $1,400.00 and the goal
will be obtained by next Sunday-
In the spring of 1870. the four
John Steck, ,
Henry Hafer, Wm. Lehde and G.
Krueger began to solicit funds for
the building of the church.
(Continued on Page Four)
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VOLUME 80
With attendance of about one j
hundred, the South Central Texas |
Funeral Directors and Embalm-
ers Association met at the Amer-
ican Legion Home Wednesday aft-
ernoon in quarterly seMyion, with
Gilbert Koenig of La Grunge, the
president, conducting the business
session. Mrs. Della Marrs of
Smithville, secretary- was present
A program of short talks and
round table discussions of mat-
ters of intsre/t'tq th'- aMociation-
had been arranged by the pro-
gram committee, >hlch was com-
prised of A. G. Mercer of Bren-
ham, chairman, Eddie Gall of
Brenham, John Schiller of CSld-
weli, >nd Benty Lindley of Nava-
sota. The address.of
was made by Mayor
Lockett, who extended
greetings to the visitors
At The conclusion of !N(- busi-
ness meeting, dinner was served
hy ladies of (the American Lcgiori
Auxiliary, after which I
_ < lane Ing waa enjoyed.________
LONDON, Aug; 9— (UP) —A
Red army of 1,000,000 > or more
men crashed into Manchuria from
_ .tUe-eust. and' west at key points
along a 2.000 mile front today, *
and Tokyo said collided head-on
in battle with
Kwantung army.
Allied sources
said the Soviets
several miles Inside Manchuria at
a number of points.
Radio Tokyo said that Ru—Ian
forces had crossed Into Manchu-
ria from the cast along a 300
mile stretch of the Siberian bor-
der from Hunchuni 80 miles west
of Vladivostok, to Hutou,
njiles north of Vladivostok.
In the west, Tokyo aaM, tha
Russians forced the border at
Manchouli, 50 miles east of the
j. outer Mongolian border,
Russia exploded her first far
Eastern offensive of World War
2 only a few minutes after her
declaration of -war against Japan
look effect at midnight. Tokyo
said the assault began at 12:10
a in
The Japanese version indicated
the offensive was taklrijf the shape
of a giant pincers from east and
west, aimed perhaps, at cutting
Man< huna In two.
Henry Thornhill wi, taken to
the Surah B.- Milroy Memorial
Hospital this afternoon, suffering
from serious injuries received
v hen the car- he yas djivir^ ,
crashed into the concrete bridge
near the Ell wood place on tha
Burton highway.
Physicians state that though t
his injuries are serious,, he ' will
frnbebTy recover. He is suffer-
ing from chest injuries, five brok- .
ere ribs, a lower jaw fractured in
informal three places, and other cuts and
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Trustees of the Brenham inde-
pendent. school district, meeting
Wednesday evening, approved the
official program of the Brenham
Teachers Meeting — Saturday.
September 8.
School Opens —
tember 10.
ber 29 and 30.
Christmas Holidays Begin
day, December 21.
School Opens after (Tliistmas
Holidays Wednesday, January 2.
First Semester Ends — Friday,
January 18.
Second Semester Begins- Mon-
day, January 21.
School 'CIosm. for Vacation—
Friday. May 21.
Combat Crews Train
In Japanese Tongue
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M <11’1
Combat crews In training at
Kirtland Field have had a course
in the Japanese language added
to their training.
The air force wants the men to
learn a minimum of 2<M) Japanese
•words.
This language course was ad-
ded to the fliers' studies so that
men either forced down In areas
under Japanese control, or taking
part in Invasions of Japanese-
held territory, can talk to the na-
tives. American forces have found
that many people who arc ruled
hy the Japanese, and speak only
Jrpanese, are’ willing Ur help
Americans if the two can under-
stand each other.
Brrnha«ii Weather
Maximum: 100.
Minimum: 74.
8:00 a.m.: 78-
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