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BRENHAM, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1941.
VOLUME 76
NO. 255
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RITES TUESDAY
SPEAKS TONIGHT
Judge W. W. Searcy,
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Serve In Texas
Brenham Relat i v e s
Leave To Attend
Funeral
BRENHAM the City
of
Hospitality,
Letter To Knox Sets
Stage For Radio
Broadcast .
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Presbyterian Church
To Be Scene Of
Services
Sounds Keynote For
Observance Of
Navy Day
Former President Of
Texas Bar Assn.
Succumbs
Heavy Rain,
Limit Air, Land
Operations
Dall
game
PTA CARNIVAL
AT SOMERVILLE
DUE THURSDAY
VANCOUVER. B C. <U»—Van-
, rouVer's star victory bond sales-
man is a 20-year-old lad who never
I sold anything before in his life.
I £. A. Cleveland, Jr., took on the
| salesmanship job after an .injured
I back forced him to give up his
r training with the R. C. A. F. He
1 rang up 183 sales totaling |113.-
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AID. RUSSIANS,
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one „of
Brenham's oldest and most promi-
nent citizens, diqd at his home
here Monday morning.
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Herblock’s cartoon illustrates bootie-wootie build
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SAVS WE MUST
UNITE TO HALT
FORCES OF EVIL
Ixw Requires Vaccination Dogs
For Rabies, Also Payment Of Tax
Private Satisfies
Wish To Boot
, Sergeant Once
Extensive Prope r t y |
Damages Are concert on the court house square
Caused
Canadian Youth
Of 20 Star War
Bond Seller
W. W. StAKd
EARLY MONDAY
LADIES AUXILIARY OF
FIRE DEFT. TO MEET
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East Texas-Fair,
night. Tuesday, fair,
• cool.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. (U.R1—
President Roosevelt sounded the
keynote for observance of Navy
Day today with a call for "total
defense” and “willing sacrifice” so
that the United States can halt the
'"■forces of evil” and remain united
and unconquerable.
He saluted the navy in a letter
to Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
and thus set the stage for his •na-
tion-wide radio broadcast at 9;00
p. m. C. S. T. (Brenham time) over
all major networks.
The president spent the week-
I end drafting his address, which
t one
since September 11 when he or- I
dered the navy to “shoot on
sight" any Axis raiders in Amer-
ican defense waters.
colder to-
continued
Brenham Banner-Press
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The 1941 Washington County
Fair, just closed, will go down
in the records as one of the
most successful in recent years.
It not only paid its way, hut
preliminary figures indicate
enough money was left over to
retire the deficit accumulated in
previous years. That is a tribute
to co-operation of the people of
—‘—Brenham and the county as h
whole. It shows what we Can do
when we work together. Par-
ticular credit belongs, however,
to two young men who devoted
their efforts to njake the fair
both entertaining and profitable.
We refer to Buddy Fisher, man-
ager of the Chamber of Com-
merce and secretary of the fair,
i and H. L. Henslee, president of .
the fair. This pair worked to-
gether in splendid fashion, and
contributed liberally of their
time, effort and thought to put
over the big event. They deserve
a big hand for their efforts. —
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.John L. Lewis' defiance of the
United States government, by
his refusal to call off a strike in
the coal fields, should bring 4
showdown on the labor situation
. In this country. Lewis is appar-
ently determined to wreck the
national defense . plans of this
country through unjustified
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CAMP WOLTERS, Texas. IU.FI—
It's just as well that Texas has a
number of army camps; there are
six Baker brothers of Friona, Tex-
as, arid thus far five have joined
the arfny and are stationed at as
many posts.
Eldest of. the brothers is First
Lieut. George F. Baker, who en-
listed in 1929 and now is property
officer of the headquarters depart-
ment at Fort Hulen, Texas.
First Sgt. Elmer L. Baker, with
10 years service, came to Camp
Wolters in February from Fort
Francis E. Warren, Wyo.
First Sgt. Oliver W. Baker, now
serving his fourth enlistment, is
on duty at the Fort Bliss reception
center.
Fourth of the brothers to enlist
was Corporal Arthur B. Baker,
who began service at Fort Clark,
Texas, in 1931. He. has been as-
n .. —-----aApi.«cu to vne Wipe nir«
strikes But in doing so, he will j command, Fort D. A. Russell, at
Marfa.
r Pvt. Raymond Baker, inducted
this spring, received his 13 weeks
of basic training at Fort Leonard
Wood. Mo., and is stationed at
Cgmp Bowie.
That leaves Gilbert Baker at
home. He's hoping to sent ’to a
Texas post when his number comes
up, and wants to make a 100 per
cent brotherly army record.
By DR. ROBT. A. HASSKARL.
Now is the time of the year Ao
give attention to dogs so they will
not be a menace to children and
others. Any unvaccinated dog is
liable to be a carrier of rabies, or
hydrophobia. This disease is com-
> municated to human beings by a
germ in the secretion of the mouth
of the affected animal. About nine-
ty per cent of cases are due to the
bites or scratches inflicted by
rabid dogs. Sometimes the disease
is conveyed to persons by a rabies
Infected dog licking a hand where
the skin is broken.
A locally enacted ordinance re-
quires that dogs be? vaccinated
against rabies and that a license
fee be paiS for each dog. It should
not be necessary to exhort our
citizenry to comply with this law
and ordinance, but we must face
.the facta that such exhortation is
needed if protectloh i* to be given
against dogs in this community
which shows a greater percentage
of rabies or hydrophobia than
average communitlea in the State
of Texas
: There ought to be compliance
| with the ordinance calling for vac-
cination and license, since Uiia
17 ARE KILLED
of
than ten years was reopened BY TORNADOES
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forts and financial assistance. At '
the time of his death he was sen-
ior elder, a position he had held
for years.
Leaves Large Family
Mr. Searcy was married to Miss
Mary Etta Shepard on December 4.
1878, and they were the parents .
of the following children, all of
whom survive: Seth S. Searcy of
San Antonio; Miss Katherine Sear-
cy, Austin; W. W. Searcy. New
Braunfels; and Mrs. Richard M
A composite battalion of the 203rd Coast Artillery, Mis-t
souri National Guard, commanded by Col. Roy E. Watson,'
will visit Brenham to participate in the Armistice Day cele-
bration, and Lt. Col. Cliff Titus, public relations officer of the
regiment, will deliver the Armistice Day address, it was an-
l nounced today. ■ "The one person who knew
’The men will arrive on Satur-1 cause of last night's bus-disaster
”*-■■■ -- - - remain In 'Bren- died-early today, bringing the toll ,
to 15 known dead, eight injured.,
and perhaps as many as ...JUye^j
"missing." which would mean that,
they too are dead.
Patrick Aultman. driver of the I
bus, died of burns six hours after j
1 he tumbled out of the flames He ■
muttered that he had had 27 pas--'
sengers but could say no more. Au- |
l and said that if Aultman's figure*’’
I was accurate, five bodies had been
i reduced to ashes. >
The bus *lde«swipcd the wall of I
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SPECTATOR
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PRAISES POULTRY SHOW
' ADVERTISING PAYS
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FAIR IS SUCCESS
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ROTARY GOVERNOR DUE
Women ts'Join Anucn
CANBERRA. AUWtraUa. (TPJ —
Australian women have come in to
more of "their own.” The govern-
ment has decided to send 1,000 of
thfcrti to replace men as clerks, j
cooks and nursing orderlie* with |
the Anzac troop* abroad. «
CAMP WOLTERS, Texas. (U.I’>
, ___ r___ —At least this is the story:
,.e.d to the corps area servLge^, v ^ " y?®x±lninncr, Brook-
lyn, N. Y., was promoted to be
sergeant, a private barracks-mate
said:
“All my life I’ve wanted to boot
a sergeant id the seat of the pants.
Now you and I-axs-pretty good
friends, so I’m asking you to grant*
me my wish.”
And—it's reported—the sergeant
graciously compiled.
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Made By Japanese
On Siberia
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means protection for the dogs as
well as protection for the members
of the human family. It is a mat-
ter of safety, good health, good
citizenship, and diseaseless dogs.
If dog owners have great affection
for their pets, they certainly
should see that they are vaccinat-
ed to keep them from suffering,
from the agonies of rabies.
The cost of vaccination and 11-
! censing Is so little compared to
the risk’ taken by failure to com-
ply with the ordinance that it is
difficult to understand any reluc-
tance to do so. But many have
failed to comply. The result is that
about three hundred unvacctnated
and unlicensed dogs roam about
the city and constitute a serious
menace to.chlldren and adults.
Instances bore are frequent of
persons being bitten by dogs. This
indicates the seriousness, of the
rabies threat and the necessity for
vaccination of dogs. The ordinance
requires that dogs be vaccinated
every twelve month* and that a
certificate of vaccination be ob-
tained before the animal* may be
properly licensed. If full coopera-
tion is given by dog owners, rabies
jCouUnucd ou Fa^c Four)
BATTLESHIP ■■ ’
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The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Brenham Fire Department wjll
meet at the city hail at 7:30 Tues- i
day evening. Mrs. E. W. I$flug-
haupt. the president, ask* that all
UPJUiUer* attend.
only bring the labor movement
into disrepute. The people of the
United States are not going to
permit a handful of labor rac-
keteers, of which Lewis is the
chielr, to throttle our defense
production. The President • has
long been too lenient with these
men and it is now high time to
crack down,
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Brenham Rotarians will ob-
serve ladies' night tomorrow
night at the American Legion
Home when they will have the'
district governor, Bert Ansel of
Richmond, for an official visit.
A special musical program is be-
.Ing arranged by Mrs. J. C. Lau-
derdale of Blinn College, and the
dinner Will be served by the
American Legion Auxiliary. No
noon meeting will be held.
The dinner will begin, at 7:30
p. m. Rotary AnngVdlT be served
free. ’ * • •
By UNITED PRESS.
I j The Red army again pushed
B back German jabaJnto the wintry
I Moscow front today, but in the
I south Ukraine faced a mounting
* threat to the Donets basin and the
I road to the C'aucaaus oil field*.
I 1 • Axis armies hammered so vio-
lently1 towards Rostov that Sir
|. Archibald Wavell, commander of
I 1,000.000 British imperials in the
I near East, was Mid to have.start-
I ed urgent talks at Tiflis for joint
I British-Russian defense of the
I , Caucasus.
A Nazi military spokesman.
I j talking of the weather, said the
I 1 German and Italian armies need
I j "only a few firm road* irj order to
I liquidate what remains of the Ru»-
I : slan army."
J The Russians reported, and Tok-
1 ; yu denied, that Japanese troops
I bad- crossed the Siberian frontier
| | for a minor test punch on Soviet
I 1 defenses. There was no indication
■ that the small attack was follow-
I I ed up.
Berlin Claims No Gains
The Moscow front has shewn dlt-
* tie change in two weeks,, despite
’ fierce attacks in which the Reds
I' 1 said 50.000 Germans were killed in
I rec< t days.. It was -ig mt leant th«|
I : Berlin claimed no recent gains
REDS AGAIN HALT NAZIS AT MOSCOW
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[Roosevelt Calls For ^Totai Defense And Willing Sacrifice’8™1}^
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With a loudspeaker blaring between them, worker* on U. 8. 8. Alabama rivet to raatime.
Workers on the U. 8. S. Alabama at Portsmouth, Va., yards arc setting a hot pace witli the
hot licks from a loudspeaker system that carries music around the job. When NEA 8ervlce-Banner-Presa
Cartoonist Herblock drew a cartoon on this, the men liked it so well they gave it top position on their
company bulletin board.
Judge William Williams Searcy,
86, member of a distinguished pio-
neer Texas family and former
president of the Texas State Bar
Association, died at his home at
8:00 Monday morning after being
in failingjwajth for many months.
Sixyi^a,
age of 80, *1
law practice.' He was familiarly
known to his friends’as "Buck"
CADT WADTU Seacy
r I* I Hllllin Born near Hallettsville,' Lavaca
| Ccunty, August 1, 1855, Mr. Sear-
| cy was the son of Albert Wynne
land Mary Louise Searcy. His
| father, a farmer and rancher, gave
his life in the cause of the Con-
! f^deracy. After attending Texas
Military Institute in Austin he se-
cured his professional education at
Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tennessee, where' he graduated
with highest honors in 1876. re-
ceiving the degree of bachelor of-;
laws. After a brief association with
Baker and Botts, attorneys jrf
Houston, he came to Brenham in
1877 and started the practice of
law, in which he continued active-
ly and successfully for more than
sixty years. He was a member of
the Washington County Bar Asso-
ciation. a charter member of the j
Texas Bar Association, of which |
he served as president in 1912-1
1913, and was also a member of I
the American Bar Association. He
was a member of PhLGamma Del-
ta fraternity.
Active in Politics
A life-long democrat Mr. Searcy
was a political leader. He served
as city attorney from 1880 to 1886,
1 was state senator in 1892-1894, and
I from 1880 to 1892 was chairman
1 of. the Washington County demo-
1 cratic executive committee. For
many years he was a member of '
the board of trustees of the Bren-!
ham public schools and was very j
active in promotion of educational
advantages for children of Bren-
ham.
- Judge Searcy was a member of
•the, Presbyterian church from
early youth and assisted in organ-
izing the Brenham congregation in
1877. The charter was drawn up
by him, and he was the last sur-
viving charter member of the
church. Many j -*rs ago th»>
church was closed because of the :
small membership and lack
funds, and after being closed for j
more I .
chiefly through Mr. Searcy's ef
n n-4 financial uuoiatarif'h Al
of the Amer lean Legion al Joplin.
Mo., and past district commander.
. ... w. ...~ -- aaonigon
and 8 He is a former state senator 1 belongtHl
in Missouri, president of the Jop-1 houncj c<
Hn Chamber of Commerce, and
j member of the board of education.
For 20 year* he has been pastor of
j the First Community Church at
Joplin.
He is widely known as an ora-
tor, and will be heard with great
interest at both the Sunday night
service and thc^ Armistice Day
colebraliou. .
, Judge Joe H- Barwisc, promt-
I iicnt- member of the legal profes-
sion in Texas,"died at his home in
Fort Worth at midnight Sunday
night, after being in failing health
for some month*. .He was about 70
years of age and for years had
been one of the outstanding law-
yers of Texas. L
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Lucy Mayfield Barwise, for-
merly of Brenhaip, and a son. Seth
Barwise of Fort Worth.
Mrs. C. A. McMeans and Mrs.
J. M. Mathis, Sr., sisters of Mrs. |
Barwise, were called to Fort I
Worth Saturday because of the
critical illness of Judge Barwise.
C. A. McMeans and Billie Albert
McMeans left Monday morning to
attend the funeral.
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Radio Moscow said the Germans
had .made slight, advances south-
• west of the capital, but that? the
jgpl Russians regained important
ground to the west near Mozhaisk.
. Dispatches from both sides said
• - - heavy rain and snow had limited %
aid ofI aerial operations and ground
movements on the central front.
On the northern front the Ger-
mans reported that their artillery
fire had set large industrial plants
ablaze at Leningrad.
Rostov -Threatened
Both sides indicated that the
battle whs close to the important
communications and industrial
center of. Rostov in the qputh. Thia
was b<-lieved responsible for Wav-
, ell s talk with Soviet Marshal
[ Semyon Timoshenko.
' All available 1 uad building. g
1 equipment in the middle east was
."said to have been brought into |
play to’ improve communications
, routes through Iran to the Cau-
■ casus. ’ 3
| On the western front big British
bomber squadrons attacked Ham-
burg and Bremen during the night,
, finding visibility good, but they
1 lost four machines. • •
at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
Nov.'8. ' a culvert and the gasoline tank,
On Sunday night, it is planned mounted along its side beneath it*!' ,
«..u Tor-1 to hot(| a community-wide church body, ripped open. Then- was an Th. Somerville Parent-Teacher.’
Kleberg of Corpus Christi, wife of nadoes struck at two widely sep- Firemen'* Park with! <‘xPloslon and ln 11 "pltt AsM,:cl4“lon *»> sponsor .the an-
Coneressmsn Klcbere After the'arMte<1 points in Arkansas last i flames were leaping through the nual school carnival Thursday
- -- — night and early today, leaving at : Col. Titus as speaker. All churches between and around the evening, October 30, at the school
least seventeen persona dead and j of the city will be asked to parti- 8euta Only those passengers who park,
causing extensive property dam- j cjpHtP — ■' ----------- ...u..u xr...
1 The *erviccs will be held had been seated at window* which Vari.xia attractions are sched-
| outdoor* if weather permits, other-i b«PP«ned to be open, escaped The uled for th.- entertainment The
1 others perished in the gasolme-fed Caldwell band will furnish music.
Inferno ‘I The high.school students have
Authorities believed they had cs-1 elected Mabel Neinast, daughter of , ,
tablished that no other machine* Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Neinast, a*
were nearby when the accident oc-1 senior queen. She has chosen Hsr-
curred and suggested that Ault- old Lloyd Smith as king. The
man may have dozed at the wheel, grammar school has elected Rose
The bus was en roiite from Leatherwood as junior queen. She
chaplain of the 40 f Montgomery to Birmingham. It has chosen William Henry Ncin-
1 to, the Alabama Grey- sst brother of the senior queen, to
hound Company. , reign . with her over the junior
----------------------------------4— 1 .court.'- ._ ■ j
The following duchesses and
their escorts will represent the . •
i various classes in the Court of
Roses: Seniors, Yuvon Beilmon,
escort. Bryan Russ; juniors, Ida
Louise Gaines, escort, Ike Shel-
burne; sophomores, Mary Irene
Tuttle, escort, Loracc Garrett; 3
Continued ou r*ge.Fuwr)
Jack Drumm, chairman of the
poultry division of the Wash-
ington County Fair, has received
a letter from E. D. Parnell, as-
sociate professor in the depart-
ment of poultry hustyindry,' A.
•A M. College, telling of his
pleasure at serving as judge in
the recent show. He writes:
“The boys and I enjoyed thfr
opportunity we had of judging
your poultry show last Wednes-
day. The quality of your exhib-
its was exceptionally good. That
Leghorn exhibit was a beautiful
sight to see, and some of the
other breeds were not far be-
hind. We really did enjoy that
barbecue. I know I have never
eaten any that was better.”
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"Advertising in the Banner-
Press really gets results," re-
ports W. F. Brown. "I sold the
pick-up truck I advertised in
Saturday’s paper before all the
ena dialling ms auuress. w
I will be his first important
death of his first wife Mr. Searcy
was married December 6, 1899, to
Mrs. Nina Jones Bozman, who died
years ago, and they had two son*.
Edward Oscar Searcy of San An-
tonio and Albert Winn Searcy of
Corpus Christi. He also leaves ten
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren, and many other persons. Six others died at Darda-
rclfttlVCfi pr*1ls*« ar>/l an.
Funergl services will be held at other tornado ripped Into the Ar-
! and nation*)
450 Soldiers Due 15 DIE IN BUS
To A ttend Brenham FIRE AND FIVE
Armistice Service WORE MISSING
.. - - —— - .. .'said t
Vehicle Bursts In t o play t7JnipT‘‘.
Flames After
Crash
dam-
wise inside the pavilion.
Lt. Col. Titus is chaplain of the
203rd Regiment, CA. and public
relations officer for the 33rd Bri-
CLANTON, Ala.. Oct. 27 (I’D
The one person who knew tbc
i ...v men will arrive on Satur-
1 day, Nov. 8. and
ham Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1 and Tuesday. They will bring with
j them their huge anti-aircraft
* at/* * n sca,ch,l8ht.*< and 3-inch guns, and
Im A DY A Alv A v, put them on public display during
111 rllXIWlllM M their visit here.
I Accompanying them will be the
I famous Missouri Hound Dog Regi-; thorities had accounted for only 22l
| mental band, which Will present a ‘ and said that If Aultman s figure j J^pinast VV ill
Reign As Senior
Queen
cauaing extensive property
ages.
Eleven were killed at Hamburg,
Arka-nsas, where the wind leveled !
homes and. cut a wide path
through the community- of 1,500
naraon ■> Civ #li **z< r* ♦ T~li» r-/4»» , I ... — - - - --
nclles and New Bethel, when an- g"dexHe is past poat commander
3:00 Tuesday afternoon from the i kanaa* River Valley.
Presbyterian church, of which hr j —
hail been tbc principal supporter INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
for many year*. Rev. Norman An- j AT MER<TDES FALIJ4
MERCEDES, Texas. Oct. 27
friend or Mr. Searcy for yearn, wm, • . •
officiate and arrangement* are -in I The Rio Rico International I
chcrgc of tk* -Mercer-Graber Fun- | bridge weakened by seven days of I
eral Home. Burial will be at Prai-1 pounding by flood waters of the
rie Lea cemetery. [ Rio Grande, fell into the stream
Active pall bearei-a will be Quin- today. The south anchorage had
nie Wilkening, B. Eldridge, A. W I been cut out by the water and fin-
Hodde, Frank W. Wood, T. A. ally gave way. A ferry service will
Low, 8r.; aiul J. L. UhappalL j be «tailed.
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