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BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DEC. 6,1951
NO. 241
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BIRTH ANNOUNCED
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BRENHAM --
Former Burton
Oil Dealer Dies;
Funeral Friday
Mrs. Emma Suter
Claimed By Death
At Residence Here
Brenham Boy Enters
Calf in Stock Show
Girl Scout Board
Will Elect Friday
HIGH SCHOOL
SENIORS WILL
PRESENT SHOW
Variety Will Mark
Program Set For
Friday Night
Negligent Homicide
Brings $3000 Fine
U. N. Negotiators
Reject Freeze On
Forces_
Dogs Fight Over
Bodies of Hundreds
Killed
HOUSTON, Dec. 6 HR—The Hous-
ton
Frozen Bread Now
Flown To Alaska
Britain Will’ Not
Flinch, He Says Of
Danger •
FOUR TEXANS
DIE IN PLANE
CRASH IN DUST
Stories In Shakedown
Plot Differ
Widely
Counsel For Internal
Revenue Bureau
Resigns
alamo
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[Cushman, Maifest As-
president, set the meet-
SEATTLE, Dec. 6 flh — Frozen
bread now is being shipped to Alas-
ka in large insulated boxes lined
Mrs. Emma Watts Suter, 83, of
518 Charles Lewis street, died at
9:15 this morning at her resi-
dence. Funeral services will be
held from St. Paul’s Lutheran
R
etate
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HOUSTON, Dec. 6 lh- Edgar
Jackson, 35-year-okl porter, was
killed Wednesday when the station
wagon he was driving crashed into
the rear end of a pipe-laden truck
on highway 90.
Driver of the truck. Glen Gil-
bert Drctoert, 21. sai l he felt a
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. ■ <*—
Rare coin collector Raymond
Thursday lor aUeardiy pursu-
ing his hobby too vigorously .
O’Leary was arrested
Wednesday by police who said
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AST and SOUTH CENTRAL
AS: Partly cloudy to cloudy,
widely scattered showers in
•ast portion, and colder Thurs-
night and in the Interior
sday afternoon. Friday fair,
•r near the Coast. Fresh to
*“t¥jgrong southerly, r
'Oil
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Brenham Banner
d<> you al wavs play
with the toy* I get
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..JURY CHARGES FL”™7
by Ken Reynolds
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There will be no admission
charge but donations to the sen-
ior class fund will be accepted.
Program
"Sentimental Journey," orches-
tra composed of Shirley Mitcha-
more, Dolores Neinast, Myrna
Ash, Janie Lind, Charlotte Alien-
son, Jayne Ballew, Dorothy Jane
Moerbe, Marion Dorbritz, Cath-
erine Wilke, Dorothy Kicsewetter,
and Bettie Sue Klngsbery, Other
numbers played by the band will
be “ ’Till the End of Time” and
"Winter Wonderland.”
Hillbilly musical comedy, Ma-
rion Dorbritz, Charlotte Allenson,
Bettie Sue Kingsbery, and Janie
Lind.
Negro Spirituals b y Evelyn
Sander, Virginia Mohr, Floris
(Continued on page two)
Washington County Chamber of
Commerce, who was re-elected
by the board of directors last
night.
Oklahoma Boy Will
See Last Christmas
WONT DISCUSS
PRISONERS TIL
PACT SETTLED
Take Advantage
Of Anxiety Over
Captured Men
Storm Blamed For
Accident In
Oklahoma
Points in Churchill’s speech in-
cluded :
Wants German Aid
German re-armament— ’'There
should be a European army and
(Continued on page six)
SEGUIN. Dec. 6 (Spl.) — Helen
Weber and Joanne Steinbach, of
Brenham, have been listed as
honor roil students for the nine
weeks period at Texas Lutheran
college. Helen, daughtw of Rev,
and Mrs. R. J. Weber. and Joanne,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. L,
Steinbach, are two of thirty stu-
dent* included on the honor roll.
HOUSTON, Dec. 6 (Spl.)—Wil-
Ham W. Smith, member of the
Brenham Future1 Farmers of
America, entered a Holstein Jieif-
er in the Junior dairy division of
the 1952 Houston Fat Stock Show.
About two hundred and twen-
ty-five head of dairy cattle are
expected to compete in the Junior
dairy show for *2000 in prize
money, said John Kuykendall,
livestock manager.
The Houston Fat Stock Show
opens January 30 and runs thru
February 10. The boys’ livestock
show will be held January 30 thru
February 3, with the breeding
(TSYtle amoving In on that date to
remain until the end of the ex-
position. Capacity entries are ex-
pected in every division.
December *t
. Brenham Maifcst Association at
A CAA team left Oklahoma Cityj at Chamber of Commerce 7:30 p.
Thursday for the crash scene.
The four men were en route
(Continued on page two)
GALVESTON, Dec. 6 W -Dr. WiL
Ham Marshall, 29, of Smithville,
was fined $3,000 het e Wednesday
night after he was conw.c'cd of
negligent homicide
The trial grew out of the death
of Cecile Hunt, 60, of Galveston,
who was killed in an automobile
collision Nov. 14.
Marshall filed a request for a n
trial. He was free on $1,000 bond
pending appeal.
Calendar of Events
R^Elected •
’ress
testimony that
Ingl” The Wiscon-
Idrnandcd that the
testimony be turned over to tho
Justice Department, jmd King said
this would be done.’
Teitelbaum, Chicago attorney
who once represented the late Al
Capone, testified he was the vic-
tim of the shakedown attempt by
Nathan and Bert K. Naster, Holly-
wood, Fla. He said the two men
demanded $500,000 to settle his tax
troubles.
Nathan, promoter, gambler and
"Influence peddler” who operates
in Miami, Washington and New
York, called Teitelbaum’s story a
"dirty, filthy lie.” Naster, who
claimed he knew nothing about tho
(Continued on page six)
I. Spencer brings an
?g report for Blinn
in the meeting of the
Lssociation of Junior
In the meeting- of the
L Petersberg, Fiori*#,
th before the asso-
L Jesse P. Bogue, ex-
[retary of the Ameri-
fation of Junior Coi-
fed that Blinn is the
■wing college in the
Itcs. with a 300 per
Ise in enrollment for
gnester of 1951. •
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Irce office.
v will presonally ex-
plan to the directors for
nsideratlon,” Cushman
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TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 6. (U.R)—Three persons were be-
lieved killed and at least 200 injured as police and troops
broke up riots Thursday between Communists and National-
ist students.
More than .30 of the injured were
RINGER, Okla., Dec. 6 W
team of Civil Aeronautics authority
investigators Thursday nought the
cause of a light plane crash which
killed four Texans near hero
Wednesday night.
The Oklahoma highway patrol
identified the victim/ as Claude
Bailey Cook. 27; R. G. BoUcs, 26.
and George Robert Despain, 26,
the pilot, all of Plainview, Tex ,
and Guy Carpenter, 35, Lubbock,
Tex,
The plane crashed ami burneo
in a plowed field near this Caddo
county town in southwestern Okla-
homa. One farmer witness said the
plane "Just seemed to explode in
the air."
Weather was believed a possible
factor in the crackup as visibility
was fogged by a heavy dust storm
blown by winds of up to 50 miles
per hour.
Going to Plainview
m.
Sons of Hermann meeting, 7:30
p.m.
Docombor 71
Girl Scout board meeting, 7:30
p.m.. Girl Scout hut. Election of
officers.
December 10;
Central school P-TA 3:30 p.m.,
School auditorium.
Pilot Club, St. Anthony hotel,
6:30 p.m.
December lit
Eastern Star initiation, 7:30 p,
m.. Masonic hall.
December 13;
-Rainbow girls meeting, 4:30 p.
m., Masonic hall. Christmas par-
ty follows.
and Bryan Dixon of San Antonio;
one sister, Mrs. Carrie Clarkson
of Houston; 7 grandchildren; and
three great grandchildren. His
wife died December 12, 1948.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock
from the chapel of the Foehner
funeral home, and continued at
the Christian church. Burial will
be in the Oak 'HHl cemetery with
Adoue Foehner, Thad Knitted,
Hugh Derrick, John Stanley, Ben
Blackburn, and E. D. Knittel as
pallbearers. .
■ bow, president of the
Chamber pf Commerce,
kfore directors of the
bsociation tonight with
purchasing an electric
be used during the an-
lest and for other civic
Ipoti his re-election.
Bit of the Chamber of-
■ for the coming year?
m-to thhi-post -eomes-
ti is given only jn rec-
f outstanding service,
las devoftM a large
■ time to discharging
I of his office during
tear. He has proved
n able leader, and, as
n the case when one
libre comes along, a
I of honors and du-
I been heaped upon
Brved as chairman for
kt last spring and did
jrTding job. He has
led president of the
pn County Fair Asso-
r the coming year. He
kly chairman of the
Committee for St.
Hospital, which soon
rh a campaign to fi-
[cw $600,000 building.
I with his re-election
ler of Commerce pres-
[will continue for an-
|r to do those things
plic interest which the
[nds that he do. De-
[ fact that this has
Lsy year for Gus, he
[time to build a beau-
[c at his country es-
pc Houston highway.
L has leased out the
[Livestock Auction for
mo \e trs. he hopes to
| in the coming
r> get in some time at
ng as a professional
ued on page two)
will
Sunday. ;
operation
ness.
Christmas is being staged 16 days
early while the tot can still sec.
William Vemle Smith, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Smith, lost his left
eye nine months ago when doctors
operated to stop the growth of can-
cer. The boy's remaining eye will
be removed next Wednesday.
Doctors gave up hope of saving
his right eye after 40 X-ray treat-
ments failed to* help.
The youngster already has start-
ed receiving greeting cards and
gifts for his early Yule celebfa-
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Houston Negro
Killed In Wreck
MAMBAJAO. Philippines, Dec. 6
(th—The evacuation of 30 more
villages was ordered Thursday as
Mt. Hibok-liibok heaved out tons
of molten lava in the third major
eruption of the volcano this week.
The verified death toll rose to
209. Estimates of the total dead
remained at 500..
But no officials in this devasta-
ted region, where six villages were
Six newly appointed directors
of-the Washington County Girl
Scout Association will join with
the incAimbent members of the
board Friday to select a new set
of officers to lead the organiza-
tion during the coming year.
The meeting is set for 7:3Q p.m.
at the Girl Scout hut at Fire-
man's Park.
New directors, appointed for
three-year terms, are Mrs. Gus
Grabow, Mrs. Frank A. Avis. Mrs.
------- rwr < -r-.-W. ...sre
Henry Roehm, arid Dr. rred Gra-
ber. '
WOODWARD. Okla., Dec. 6 flft-
A three-year-old Woodward boy
see” his last Christmas this
and then undergo an eye
1 that will bring total blind-
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In Harris County | g™
"HOUmvrr, ijtc. « - mcirupv*,-
tan Houston -which include* all of
Harris county—will have a record
population of *74,000 by Jan. 1
while an estimated 640,000 will be
living within the city's incorporated
area.
These estimates were made
Thursday by the population and
housing division of the Hrnston
Chamber of Commerce Research
and Statistics committee.
Harris county^ population stood
at 806,701 and incorporated Hous-
ton's al MM.163 aa of April 1, 19M).
when the last U.S. census was
taken.
TAe City of ’Hospitality
ews . Service'
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Group Will^
er Organ Deal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 —
House investigators asked tho Jus-
tice Department Thursday to
prosecute for perjury witnesses
who lied under oath about an al-
leged $500,000 tax shakedown at-
tempt. .
The House Ways and Means sub-
committee investigating tax scatv
dais has heard directly conflicting
testimony about the purported
shakedown from Abraham Tictel-
baum and Mrs. Shyrl Menkin on^ ,
the one hand, and Frank Nathan
on the other.
uW~ABW>(i^:thy-yyf*—
have perjured
this aubaomlUoe,” Chairanril Co-.. —,
cil R. King (D-Cal.» said late
Wednesday.
- ‘Somebody Is Lying* r
Rep. John W. Byrnes, a subcom-
mittee member, commented after
Nathan's detailed contradiction of
Teitelbaum's
j "somebody is lyii
sin Republican d<
C - C President
For Coming Year
Gus Grabow and two other officers of the Brenham and
Washington County Chamber of Commerce have been re-
turned to office for second terms.
President Grabow, Second Vice-president. John Grabow,
and Treasurer Ollie Finke, were returned to office by a un-
animous vote of the directors
Wednesday night.
George Spurger was named to
succeed Bill Buske as first vice-
president. “Buske was not re-
nominated because he has al-
ready served the maximum num-
ber of years allowed a director
under the Chamber’s by laws,”
Manager Gene Merrifield said.
Following the election, the di-
rectors tackled an agenda of six
items, headed by the December
22, Christmas pageant. The*3freo
| tors approved the final details
r for presenterioh -oF Nativity
Christmas baskets for needy fam-
' Hies.
Other business Included* offi-
cial endorsement of the current
campaign to raise $150,000 for
the construction of the new St.
Francis hospital in Brenham. The
endorsement followed presenta-
tion of the details of the cam-
paign to the board by President
(Continued on page two)
proximately 20 persons were ar-
rested,
Mobs can riot through the cen-
ter of Tehran at the height of the
clash. Bystanders fled the streets
in panic.
Shop windows wore smashed and
carts and news stands over turned
in the center of the Capital.
The riot started with a clash of
Communist and anti-Communlst
students in Parliament Square.
The Nationalist students waylaid
Communists and the fight began
and spread.
Black • helmeted police were
rushed to the square. They fired
into the air and mounted troops
barged the rioters.
At Tehran university police
swinging their rifle butts smashed
a march of young Communists on
the university Injuring about 20
boys and girl*.
The police troops, with fixed bay-
___________ oncts, had been posted before the
church at 2:30 Friday afternoon, ^university gates to prevent a Com-
muniat youth organization from
holding an announced demonstra-
tion.' ’ 1 . *
saw he was dragging a station
wagon. He discovered Jackson in-
side after Im had slopped.
with Rev. Theo. R. Streng offi-
ciating. Burial will be in Prairie
Lea cemetery.
Mrs. Suter was born’ February
15, 1868, at Washington, daugh-
ter of the late Frank and Emma
Stearn Watts. She was a mem-
ber of St. Paul's Lutheran church.
She was married the first time
to Louis Seidelman and to thia
union were born-two daughter.
Mrs. J. N. Terry of Wharton, and
Mrs. J. M. Bryan of Houston, who
survive. Mr. Seidelman died No-
vember 23, 1889. In 1894 she was
married to Celestine Suter, and
to thia union were born twins,
Mrs, tigroid Graeber of Dallas
and William Suter of Brenham,
both of whom survive. Mr. Suter
died November 6, 1912.
Besides her children, she is sur-
[ vived by three grandchildren,
Mrs. Henry J. Graesner of Dallas,
Mrs. F. J. Brownlow of Houston,
and Mrs. J. H. Faael of New Or-
Richard Graeser of Dallas, and
Joe and Terry Ann Faael of Nev{
Orleans; one sister, Mrs. IJiuj*
Gchrmann of Brenham; one Hicce,
Mrs. Day Sampley of Brenham;
and one nephew, Frank Gehr-
manQ of Houston.
. FaJlheartrj wljj be_Dr. Fred
stein, Ernest Baumgart, Joel Wil-
liams, Robert Schawe. Ernst
Wehrtng. and Alvin Schroeder
The Brenham funeral home
.In charge of arrangementa.
ONHONOR ROLL
decks of cargo ships, a Seattle
firm announced Thursday.
Anchorage long has been
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a'short*i lrfWfrigerirtM-WllWMr}'
space has resulted in the new
method of shipping. A pqpnd-and-
a-half loaf sells for about 40 cents
in
By ARNOLD DIBBLE
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Dc« 6 OB
—Communist truce negotiators are
using Allied war prisoners as
- - - hostage^ in an attempt to extort
aiiqns are due Gus I concessions by “blackmail.’’ the
. . jTJhifcd Nafidtis^eommandTharged
-n
Allied request to discuss. the ..
change of war prisoners under *n
armistice agreement, while the ne-
gotiators are still discussing means
of enforcing a truce.
North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee
Song Cho said that the Reds "will
not give any answers abojit prison-
er^ of war” while the stalemate
continues on the truce-enforcement
issue*. '
"Negotiatory blackmail." Allied
spokesman Brig. Gen. William P.
Nuckols said.
Felt It Was Blackmail
“Those of us at the meeting felt
something of the implication of
blackmail,” briefing officer Lt.
Col. Howard Levie said.
It was obvious that the Reds
knew the anxiety of Americans
over the fate of 10,856 Americans
listed as missing in action. The
Reds have reported to the inter-
national Red Cross the names of
only 174 prisoners. Secondly, the
Reds do not seem to care about
(Continued on page five)
8 VILLAGES
EVACUATED AS
~ LAVA FLOWS
MBB vanwMaci
Rescue workers frantically dig to save the life of Eugene
Davis hi Austin, Texas, where he was trapped when 4000 pounds
of sand caved tn on him in a pit. Luckily, he escaped with only
a fractured left leg. (NEA Telephoto)
ds Accused Of Blackmail1
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Grabow Re-Elected
r r WILUNGTOUSE
ATOMIC BASES
But British Will
Strengthen Their
Defenses *
He Collected Coins
From Wrong Place
LONDON. Dec. 6 liB-Primc Min-
ister Winston Churchill said Thurs-
da/Hhat Britain would not hesitate
to tasc American atomic bomb
bases in the country against Soviet
Churchill, preparing .to confer
Riot
neo strength In^XfiST - ” *
Making his first major speech
on defense since his Conservative
government entered 'Office, CJjurch-
ill told the House of Commons:
Hee* I^-Hsenlng Danger'
“I can not feel that the danger
of world war is so great today as
it was during the Berlin blockade
of 1948.
AP-
rentA have increased and that as
they have increased the danger
has become njore unlikely.”
Churchill opened a Commons de-
bate on defense in his capacity of
defense minister, an office he holds
■jointly as he did in World War
John D. Dixon, 79, of Burton.! II with the prime ministry. /
died Wednesday afternoon in a
local hospital after a short ill-
ness.
Mr. Dixon was in the wholesale
gas and oil business before retir-
ing a few years ago. He was serv-
ing the Burton precinct as Justice
of the Peace at the time of his
death.
He is survived by three chil-
dren, Mrs. Dorothy Stanley of
Brenham High School’s senior Burton, Burton Dixon of Austin,
class will stage a full length - ru-- • 4-•—(-■
variety show December 7, at 7:30
p.m. in the school auditorium.
Tthe show- will feature an 11-,
piece band, musical hillbillies,
acrobats, and comedy skits. Bar-
bara McNeil is mistress of cere-
; monies.
auUquc and rare eota atere and
loaded 82.9M WW«te MiM fofo
• papar ba*.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Bock-
horn of Fort Worth announce the
birth pt a son. Bruce Frederick,
at Harris hoapital, December 3.
He is the first grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Bockhorn of
Brenham and of Mr. and Mrs.
John Tares of Houston. He is the slight bump and looked back and
first great grandson of Mr. and "
Mrs. Wm. Bockhorn who bears
the family name.
Chamber of Commerce will
hold its 111th annual banquet and
meeting Thursday night with Gen.
Robert E Wood, chairman of the
board of Scars. Roebuck and Co..
n the main speaker
Wood will be introduced by H R.
Oriim. Houston oilman and philan-
thropist
Some 1600 Chamber members
and their adves are expected to
attend the meeung. . ,
Member of the U fitted Press, the Greatest Wona-rv sa
0 p.m. at the Chamber wiped out, knew how many bodies
‘ would be * eventually recovered
from the dismal ruins where dogs
tore at the bodies of the dead and
inhere . dazed, starving villagers
roved helplessly in search of food.
Gov. Pacienco. Ysalina ordered
the 30 yillagcs around the cities
•--wf(<I»JM«mbajao and Cats rm an clear-
ed as the lava ppured down the
mountain.
Government trucks jammed with
refugees clogged the roads Of the _
disaster zone on Camiguin island, [-vrith dry ice and lashed to the
Nearly one-third of the island’s 60,-
000 population has been transported
ta other Islands. , ,
Yburadalis <Mnunm*4 —
(Continued on page five)
Gen. R. E. Wood Is
Houston Speaker
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