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Brenham Banner-Press
The Weather-
Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service,
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942.
BRENHAM, TEXAS,
VOLUME 77
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28 Charged With SeditiousJActivities Among Armed Forces
Churchill’s Son In U. S.
Dan Moody To Speak Here Friday
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A&M Graduates
To Be Trained In
Commando Work
Election Party
At Banner-Press
Saturday Night
War And Summer
Bring Informality
In Harris County
DIES AT HOME IN
INDEPENDENCE
AUSTRALIA IS
FACING BIGGEST
THREAT OF WAR
RUSSIANS FIGHT
IN LAST STAND
FOR CAUCASUS
Recreation Cou n c i 1
And C-C Sponsor
Drive Here
INDICTED FOR
CONSPIRACY TO
OBSTRUCT WAR
Enemy Plane Shot
• Down And Allied
Fighter Lost
Candidate For U. S.
Senate Here On
Closing Day
Must Sign Affidavit
With Regards
To Age
Federal Grand Jury
Conducts Long
Investigation
Mrs. Henrietta Schneider, .aged
00 yCara. a^fs of Adolph Schnei-
der, died at 8:00 p. m. Wednesday
at her home in Independence.
Born in Germany, May 21st,
Funeral To Be Held
At Prairie Hiir
Church Friday
r , wav. vtaiie'
Capt. Randolph Churchill, 32-yaar-ota son of British Prime Minis-> port and an invasion barge and in.
ter, shown crushing out his cigarette stub during a press Interview in '
the War Department announced
today. Bradley is leaving on a mls-
Kast Texas—Warmer in north-
west portion, little change in tem-
perature in east and south.
Crosby Threatened
By Letter Writer
HOLLYWOOD, July 23 -Georgs
Henry Baker; 24, today was under
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SPECTATOR
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AIR RAID WARNINGS
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efficiency planned
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HULL SPEAKS TONIGHT
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NO LIQUOR SATURDAY
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F. R. Urges Drastic
Measures To Halt
Wage-Price Rises
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nEDS SLOW DOWN NAZI DRIVE ON DON
assigned to command the 1st AirI
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feeding Msj. Gen Follett Bradley salaries
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Woman And 27 Men
Disseminating
Publications
WARSHIPS OF
U. S. HCHTING
WITH BRITISH
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COAT HANGERS |
ARE NEEDED Al '
CAMP SWIFT
Pvt. Paul W. Wehmeyer, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weh-
meyer of the Salem community,
who is stationed with the 7M L.
H. Ordnance Co., Langley Field,
Va.
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The public is invited to at-
tend the Banner-Press election
party Saturday night to receive
the returns from local and state
political races.
The usual fast bulletin serv-
ice will be given those tn at-
tendance, far in advance of in-
formation obtainable elsewhere.
The polls will close at 7
o'clock, and Immediately there-
after first reports should begin
to come In.
Regardless of what candi-
dates you vote for and support,
you will be welcome to attend
the party and cheer for their
votes.
Election judges over the
county are invited to bring in
or telephone the results in their
boxes in the same efficient
manner as in the past, by which
Washington county has estab-
lished a reputation for being
one of ths first in the state to
tabulate its complete vote.
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... I JP** courthouse girls who form-
Force. Mitchel Field, N. T., sue- erty spent a good portion of their
. - —. Jn gtockings, which
sd freely upon the building’s federal indictment on chgrges of
it furniture, now are glam-
A request for coat hangers to
be sent to Camp Swift for use of
soldiers was made Wednesday,
when Chaplain (Capt). F. E.
Merse of camp Swift visited C.
D. Dallmeyer, I. H. Bartz, and
Bilddy Fisher, special service com?
mittee of the Brenham Chamber
of Commerce.
Since soldiers are pouring into
Camp Swift now and will need
these hangers immediately, a
whirlwind drive will be conducted
jointly by the Chamber of Com-
merce and Brenham and Washing-
ton County Recreation Council
The box formerly placed at the
laundry for collection of old pa-
pers has been placed In front of
the Chamber of Commerce office
and those having extra hangers
are urged to leave them there be-
fore Sunday.
, As the hangers come ft they
will be sorted and tied at the
Chamber of Commerce and will be
taken to the camp Monday by a
Brenham Wholesale Grocery truck.
Dan Moody, former governor of
Texas, and now candidate for a
seat in the U. S. Senate, is
scheduled to speak in Brenham'
Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The address Will Ur delivered
from the oourthouse steps, and a
large crowd is expected to be
present to hear him.
Moody will have a uusy day. He
wilt broadcast from La Grange,
then> coma to Brenham for the
afternoon speech, and proceed to
Austin for a big rally cjosing his
campaign.
Local Moody leaders considered
themselves fortunate to 'book his
speech pn the important conclud-
ing day of the campaign.
He will he Introduced by former
Sen. Albert Stone ,a longtime
personal friend. ■
Absentee Toting
In County Probably
To Reach About 100
2500 Japs Disembark
On North Side Of
New Guinea
New York City. Capt. Churchill is recovering from injuries received
as a British Commando in the Middle East, arrived in New York from
a southern-city unheralded. (NEA Teephoto)
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high school faculty to fill the va-
cancy caused by the resignation of
K. R. Menefee, who will enter the
United States navy and try for a
commission, as lieutenant, junior
grade.
Sands was elected to the vocati-
onal agriculture, position here
some time ago, but his acceptance
was deferred until he could secure
a release from Hutto. He will
move to Branham- with his family
next week and assume his duties
with the school agricultural "pro-
gram August 1.
School trustees snd superinten-
dent say they feel that the Bren-
ham school is fortunate to secure
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WASHINGTON, JULY 23- (HE)
Attorney General Francis Biddle
announced today the Indictment of
28 persons on charges of conduct-
GENERAL MacARTHUR’S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia. Ju-
ty - The Japanese have
landed t new invasion force of
about 2500 men in New Guinea
in their biggest threat <o far to
: the Allied base of Port Moresby
and, potentially, the Australian
continent, It was atmdhncCd to-
day.
A small enemy convoy landed
lhe troop, under heavy and dan-
gerous attacks by Allied planes
at the Gona MbwAon, near Buna
on the north rdde of New Guinea,
110 miles by, air line and 1’10 •
miles by roml from Fort Mores-
by and about 420 miles from
Australia.
In attacks on the convoy and the
area where it landed the troops.
Allied planes sank one large trans-
flicted heavy casualties on disem-
barking troops with bombs and
machine gun fire, a communique
sakk An, enejpv. fjkxj olane was
/ hot dtf-,’",.-xwu mned ngtrters
were Jost.
?.r1.™™.h.w. sands to
BE TEACHER OF
VOCATIONAL AG
sending threatening letters to
singer Bing Crosby and Producer
Harold Lloyd. v i
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Giffen did not reVeal the time
or place where the action occurred
•but he said the U. 8. ships suf-
fered little damage and no cas-
ualties
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Enemy Advances To |
Caspian Sea May :
Be Halted
. COLLEGE STATION, July 23—
(HE)—Plans are underway to train
Army officers graduated from
Texas A. A M. in the future in
commando practices, said Col.
Maurice D, Welty, Inf., professor
of military science and tactics and
commandant at the college.
Lt. Col C. L. Caphton, senior
instructor in the Infantry Unit. R.
O.T.C., has been placed in charge
of the commando training and,
designed a cross country course
which should fit a soldier for al-
most any hazard hf might find
in combat.
Log hurdles, 10-feet high, fences
to be scaled,’ barb wire entangle-
ments, natural obstacles such as
trees and thick underbrush, as-
cension bars, low bridges spanning
creeks, other water hazards, cul-
vert pipes which will have to be
traversed on hands and knees or
on stomachs In snake fashion,
swinging ropes to cross gullies and
streams—all will go toward physi-
cal training intended to ' toughen
men who may be assigned to com-,
mando after graduation. z
ed to stop the enemy advance to-
ward* the Caspian Sea and ths
Caucasus oil fields, but appeared '•
unlikely to held Roster, where
the Nazis paid they had already 1
broken into the suburbs. -----;
The Rostov gateway ta unME 3
attacks from three directions as
well as from the air. Opg Axis 'Jj
report said that the Germans also "
had crossed the Don and had cut
off Rostov from the sauth, bat '
the last Russian report *put ths
action about 30 miles northeast I
of the city orf Wednesday.
There was not much to indicate I
whether Russian Marshal Simeyoa
Timoshenko would be successful
In stopping the main German drtvs
southeastward. • >
Egypt Mituatkm Improves
Late dispatches, meanwhile,
from Egypt aald that severe fight-
ing win. m progress on sit sectors
Where the British made limited i
gains and repulsed Axis counter - J
attacks. With the nid of RAF and.
United States sir squadrons they
apparently were still bolding the
initiative in tank - and^infantry
battles of Increasing .intensity.
As a result of ths British at-
tacks, which ars degtgAsd to F*at
the enemy to the offensive, ths
situation in Egypt appeared con-
siderably improved as the smith
Russian front became stead!^*
more, critical.
“One nation indivisible, with |
Liberty and Justice for AIL"
'County Clerk Travis Phillips ra-_
, ports that 95 absentee votes had-
I been cast In his office when tbs'
period for absentee voting closed
Wednesday night,-. An additional*
[seven ballots, for which applica-.* •
tion has been made, were still out
and may be in the mails, he said. ”
When all ballots are received lt\
I is probable the absentee vote may
reach 100, about ' the average,
neither very light nor very heavy.
BIG CROWD
EXPECTED TO
HEAR MOODY
O’Daniel Misuses
Telegfaph Frank
Privilege, Claim
WASHINGTON; JULY 23—Sen-
ator W. Lee O’Daniel of Texas,
whose use of his senatorial postage
frank in -behalf of a candidate iri
MiMissippi, has already aroused
criticism, was revealed today as
apparently having made some mis-
use of his telegraph frank.
This has occasioned him to be
billed personally for more than
11,000 in telegraph toile.
He appealed to the Senate com-
mittee on audit and control for It
to approve paymen of this sum
out of government funda.
But the committee this meaning
did not approve this tail. Unless
O’Daniel can get the committee to
change its mind, he will have to
pay that bill out of his own poc-
ket.
Apparently in transgression of a
rule promulgated by the audit and
control committee, O^Danlel has
sent some telegrams "to Texas to
newspapers ami radio stations. In Wagner,
addttlbn, he apparently has trans-
greased the committee's rule on
book telegrams.
UNITED PRESS MOVES ’
OFFICE TO TEXAS
DALLAS. July 22 —(TLE)—Dallas
today became headquarters of the
operation of United Press’ 8<nith-
divislon, comprising the
of Texts, Louisiana, Arkan-
Mahoma. Missouri Kansas,
Io, Wyoming and New Mex-
DALLAS, July 21 TIP-State
Democratic Chain. £. B. Germany
. announced today that it was his
opinion that a peraon who became,
of age since Jan. 1, 1912, will be
allowed to vote in Saturday's pri-l
mary election on signing an affl-!
davit in regard to his age.
Germany a statement was in re-
ply to questions in the atate capl-,
tol about the status of new voters I
Rulings filed in the attorney gen-;
eral’g office require that persons
who became of age since Jan 1. in I
cities of 10,000 or less must secure
exemption certificates before they j
can vote. The rulings gave no pro-1
cedure for new voters in cities of
more than 10,000 po'pulatmne
“I cannot understand why new I
voters in^small cities, must have'
exemption certificates, while vot-|
ers In larger cities need only toj
sign an affidavit,” Germany aaid
“It la my opinion that anyone who1
has teaehed the age of 21 since |
Jan 1, may vote Saturday after;
he has signed agndav it.|
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preceded her to the* grave. HOUSTON, JULY 23. (IIP)— The
Funeral services will be held ; w*r and summertime are bringing
from the family residence at Jn- informality in dress
dependence at 2:30 p. m. Friday I County employes
uri.w D—. D rt----- — County Tax Assessor-Collector
posted a notice that girls may
rie HUI Lutheran church, follow-' «>me to work without stockings.
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Dan Moody, former governor and candidate for the U. S. Senate,
will speak in Brenham Friday afternoon at 3 o’cock from the court-
house steps. Moody is shoWn above snapped by the camera as he
delivered one of his characteristic fighting speeches during the cam-
palgn.
WASHINGTON, July 23. (U.PI—The United States is in
danger oT the moat disastrous economic upset in history un-
~ ' less the present price control system is scrapped for an iron-
SliCCeeds Menefee As clad prohibition against waige and price increases, President
Roosevelt was reported today to have told his congressional
leaders. *
The president indicated, at a Conference with his leaders,
it was said, that there is no longer any doubt of the neces-
sity of drastic action in the fight against inflation. The only
question to be decided is whether the action requires new
legislation or whether the president already has sufficient
powers.
Tne leaders urged him, it was learned, to act by execu-
tive order. He had proposed, they said, that Congress enact
a short, clear-cut resolution, conferring on him authority to
"control wages and prices."
British And U. S. Air |
Forces Gaining
In Egypt I
By Unital Prree 1
The Red army battled with its |
back against the Caucasus today |
for Rostov and the Don Rlvsr, J
barrier to the important industrial I
center of Stalingrad.
A* the British continued to push
back the Axle in heavy fighting I
In Egypt, the Rusaians guardtag '
the Caucasus and thq Nsar East
from the north, were* reported to
have ilowed down the enemy of-
fensive on the lower Don River
and taTcen up new and more fav-
nf-able positions for-a ahowXAw, ^
Three Nasi Attacka Mads
The Russian army, supported by
air squadrons Including American- '
built flying fortresses,, was intend-
the dissemination of seditious pub-
lications among members of the
armed forces.
One woman—Mrs. Elizabeth
Dilling of Chicago, the author of
"The Red Network”-— was named
in the. indictment. Among the
" ;n were William Dudley Pef.
.. la already under indict-
ment on other sedition charges,
and Gerald R. Winrod, an un-
successful candidate for governor
of Kansas in 1940. ’
The indictment was handed
down by a special federal grand
jury in Washington, which for the
last two years has conducted an
inquiry into seditious activities.
Mr
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■ion to Russia, according to' the ‘’rising with suntan and suntan
White House.
Members of the central com-
mittee in charge of the control
room tor the air raid warning
’ station service met Wednesday
afternoon and discussed mea-
sures to be taken to obtain more
■ ' efficient manning of the room
on a 24-hour a day basis. It
was reported thht some diffi-
culty has been experienced in
getting all workers to report
for duty as assigned, and an ef-
fort will be made to Impress up-
on them the importance of the
wbrk and the responsibility rest- ___ _
tag upon each individual workejr.
I cnairttan W. J. omarf Wah tBren abgt™t the war effort through
a rising vote of thanks for his
I 1^ * efforts in organizing the work,
i ‘ and each member of the com-
[x mittee pledged himself to "do
what the chairman says do when
he tells us.’A
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Experiments were under way 27 men v
Thursday to determine whether > >
• or not it will be feasible to use
the sound system in the court-
, ]|ouse as an air raid alarm.
Teets will be made to dete^mipe
how far the sound will jfene-
trate. If the tests justify, the
system will, be wired into the
control room where the alarm
, will be given by means of a
phonograph record made for the
purpose by the war department.
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Members of the Gun & Rod
/>’’>!> and their families will en-
jOy tfoir annual barbecue this,
evening at the club at 7 o’clock.
At 6:30 preceding the barbecue
the annual meeting for election of
officers will be held, and other
business will be transacted .
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Secretary of State Cordell
Hull will broadcast to the nation
tonight an important statement
concerning the war situation, it
" Is announced. The address, pub-
licized as ‘‘Ute most important
of his career”, is scheduled for
8:30 p.m. ovet* the NBC network.
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If you getwa little thirsty Sat-
urday and can’t get a beverage
that satisfies, just blame it on
the election. State law prevents
the sale of beer, wine and liquor
from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on state
primary election days, and
warning has been sent out from
the State Liquor Control Board
that its agents have been in-
structed to enforce the law.
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We don’t put much credence
in these pre-election polls, but
just for the heck of it, we. give
the following straw votes an-,
nounced by the Coke Stevenson
headquarters:
Hillsboro: Stevenson 70; Col-
lins, lt|; Wheeler, 1.
Huntsville: Stevenson, 187;
Collins, 7; non-committal, 5.
Eldorado: Stevenson will car-
ry Schleicher County, 40 to 1.
Conroe: Stevenson, 39; Collins
1.
Navasota: Stevenson, four to
one majority.
Trinity: Stevenson, 102; Col-
lins, 14.
Caldwell:
Uns, 6.
• Seguin: Stevenson, 99; others
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Navy Task Force In
Action And Is
Attacked
LONDON, JULY 23-(V.E>-
Many warships of the United
States navy task force, which is
with the British Home fleet, al-
ready have been in action and
subjected to attack. Rear Admiral
Robert C. Giffen, commander an-
nounced today.
ed by burial Mn the Prairie Hill Mo-t them already were going
cemetery. Arrangements are in because of the high price
charge of the Leon Simank Funer an<l nylon.
al Home. Oopnty Clerk D. W. Miller also
authorized the men working tn
oenc. to wear slack suite if
,^rtJ^ch’ R,am"nd^ri?nm’, they liked. Many of Miller's sm-
G*"kamP> Chris p)oyeB already had abandoned
Mertin and Otto Glenz. - neckties and long-sleeved shirts.
H. L. Washburn, the county au-
ditor, set the pace for heat suf-
ferers by appearing at his office
WASHINGTON, July 23.-Maj. during business hours in a low-
Gen. James E. Chaney has been neck, short sleeved sports shirt.
THOSE 21 SINCE
JAN. 1 CAN VOTE
SAYS GERMANY
reach 100,
Member Of High
School Faculty
Supt. Frank W. A Henson states
that H. W. Sands, who has suc-
cessfully taught vocational agri-
culture at the Hutto school for
the past weight years, has been
1882, she came to America with elected a member of the Brenham
her parents when” a young girl
and settled in the Independence
community, where she had since
resided. She was married to
Adolph Schneider 45 yeafs ago.
She was a member of the Prairie
Hili' Lutheran church for many
years.
Surviving are her widower and
the following children: Mrs. Fritz
Moehlmann of Independence, Mrs.
John Loesch of East Bernard, Mrs.
Ed Loesch of Wm. Penn, Mrs. Ot-
to Krueger of Burton, Miss Annie
Schneider of Independence, Willie
Schneider of Independence, and
Mrs. Arthur Grimm of Prairie
Hill; the following sisters and
brothers: Mrs. August Schmidt of
Needville, Fritz Koehne of Need-
ville, Mrs. Willie Rogas of Rocky
Hill; Willie Koehne of Rocky Hill,
and Mrs. Fritz Burro of Prairie
Hill; and one uncle, Herman
Koehne of Waco. She also leaves
25 grandchildren. Four children
preceded her to the* grave.
from the family residence at Jn- informality
flsarwanrfonrtA at 1 OotlYlt V d»nil
with Rev. P. Gogolln officiating,
and will be continued at the Prat-
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