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Breiiham Banner-Press
The Weather-
Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service.
FRIDAY, OCT. 23,1942.
BRENHAM, TEXAS,
OLUME77
NO. 226
Equatorial Event
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CO-OPERATION
TRIAL CONTINUES
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port of Genoa. where supplies are
LONDON, Oct. 23.
(UT).
The county road employes said
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Ball Toler
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late
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Army Recruiter Due
lieved to
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I. Senate Sidetracks
Move to ‘Dry Up’
/ . Army Camp Areas
Claims Gadget
Restores Old
Light Bulbs
Two of East ham’s
Fugitives Caught;
Two Still at Large
FEWER TANKS
BUT STRONGER
ONES PLANNED
ARMY VEHICLE
DROVE TO SPOT
THREE TIMES
BRENHAM NYA
BOYS GET JOBS
AT BEAUMONT
ADMIRAL SAYS
LOAFING SLOWS
SHIPBUILDING
San
and
Nelson Cites Sc r a p
Collection As
•• An Example
Nazis Will Transfer
Troops To Libya
For Campaign
EAST TEXAS — Slightly cooler
tonight In north portion; cooter in
southeast portion tonight.
not
she
her arrival was supposed to have
been a Strict secret. ,
Mrs. Roosevelt and her secre-
tary flew by plane to England.
Drive continued to pour into st
headquarters Thursday.
Thornion Hall, director of l
Newspaper Drive for Metal, a
the latest tabulation gave Tw
a total of 447,068,857 pounds.
The average per capita 4
President Reports
• 1942 Goal Will
Be Lowered
was
St.
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The...
SPECTATOR
SEES SON IN LIFE
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ON THE RADIO
NEW HOPE FOR TIRES
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FARMER SURVEY
ny and other enemy points.
I. TftK-.K- - RrtttilavSd
that
„_____w > have to
In fact, Giddings has about
five lettOTnen back from last year
to match their experience against
Metal Tabulation
467,088,657 Lbs.
WINTER HALTS
.GERMAN DRIVE
... ON STALINGRAD
O’Daniel Will
Sponsor Ban On ,
40-Hour Week
HEADS RATIOfl
BOARDONGAS
City Gives Extra
Pay To Employes
Joining Service
Nine-Man Board Is
Teamed To Pass'
On Matters
Cu b s Have Problem
Of Stoi’pinK Heavy Co[ HM
BrilT?ter . Visit Britain, See I
Women at Work
King and Queen Meet
• Her Aft Train
Tn Secret’
* | Negro Woman Saw 2
Figures Leave
■ Carryall
Should Do More In
Shorter Time,
He Asserts
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war and dropped bombs on the
port of Genoa, where supplies are
embarked for ‘the Axle forces in
Africs.
It was also revealed that France
fhas massed 5W planes at Dakar.
Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Lon-
don late today and wan met by
King George, Queen Elizabeth and
many other notables. Mrs. Rooee-
RUHNIAN'N capture
STALINGRAD POINTS
MOSCOW, Oct. 23-The Rus-
sian army stormed and captured
another important hill above Sta-i
llngrad today and fierce Russian
In an effort to get out, but the
door failed to open.
City and county pence officers
the
They reported finding
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GIDDINGS MAY
GIVETROUBLE
HERE TONIGHT
Urn
*T idafing were made by high
. ''
■r moves. " ■“ '
-^Mediterranean
was moving to-
An Axis attempt to
knock out Malta has been under
way for nearly two weeks.
London revealed that last night
YAKIMA. Wash.—(UPi — Epi-
cures who believed that they were
going to have to go without that
“bit of sage” in their^Thank.glv-
ing dressing this year because of
the shutting off of the principal
supplies from Turkey and Greece
have a surprise in store for them.
The surprise is a 15-acre crop
of sage which has been produced
by E. C. Price, a Buena Heights
farmer. The crop, now in a dry-
ing process, will be packed in
bales for shipment to the spice
counters of the nation. It is be-
the largest planting
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Born just cs American ship
Westpoint crossed the equator,
this baby was named West-
point Leslie Sheldrake by his
English mother, shown with him.
According to U. S. law he'll be
an American citizen until 13.
She said it parked twice on the
road a few hundred yardq. from
her house and the third time turn-
ed around without stopping.
The negro woman could
Identify its occupants but
pointed out on .map that it was
parked only a few feet from the
spot where the girl was found.
May Ellen Sutton, another ne-
------ o'clock. stion In the Newspapers'
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DAUGHTER BORN HERE ■
TO SOMERVILLE COUPLE
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If IW had 'been taken from a rear door great crowd had gathered at the lhe (lefsJ1,lve t
in an effort to get out. but the station to welcome her. although ,, h.-h-J
GAS'
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W. C. Lipscomb has been named
chairman of the Washington
County GasoMne Ration Board it
was announced today by County
Judge Dick Splnn.
Other members of the committee
have been selected as follows: W.
J. Embrey, W. E. Hoting, Hugh
Lusk, Lquis Fischer, W. F. Bock-
horn, A. L. Niebuhr, Walter Wer-
chan and John Wiese.
This committee will administer
the gasoline rationing regulations
in Washington county, but is
awaiting receipt of instructions
before it can begin tt> function.
It is reported that rationing of
gasoline will begin in Texas
in November.
Placed As-Welders
In Shipbuilding
Company
Hohlt Department
Store Robbed Of
Burglars Thursday night broke into the H. F. Hohlt de-
partment store and escaped with an undetermined amount
of merchandise.
A check was being made today to learn what was taken,
but among articles missed were two suitcases, two jackets,
several caps, several pair of socks, and possibly some men’s
—*---------------'suits.
Entrance waa gained by taking
out a transom in the rear of the
..iu*.*Uln»'_..-nd .U^JjwrjrUu ^^gft by
MEXIA, Oct. 13. Two long-
term convicts were captured here,
leaving at large only two of the
eight who fled the Eaatham pri-
son farm near Huntsville Sunday.
The fugitives were bejng hunt-
ed by Mexia officers and btate pa-
trolmen when a blowout just at
dark forced them to abandon the
automobile they stole and the ne-
gro they abducted at Huntsville
just after their escape.
The convicts, Cora Hodso'n, 39,
and Valton Van Jennings. 30, then
struck out through bottom lands
to a highway above White Rock
dance hall and were walking to-
ward Mexia when policemen rec-
ognised them, tired, hungry and
unarmed.
SEATTLE—(U.P>—If you have a
dim bulb in your house, Charles
R. Pierce, Seattle electrical work-
er, has a gadget which may re-
store its brilliance.
Pierce, who claims to have de-
veloped a machine to re-weld the
tungsten filament in electric light
bulbs, believed more than 12,000,-
000,000 lamps could be saved each
year by using his apparatus.
Through a series of transform-
we-od wkeeotaMe «*♦• *;. >cre-
ates a temperature at 3,080 de-
grees Fahrenheit which melts and
mends tungsten filaments inside
the lights
Pierce had been working on the
device since 1929 and sought to In-
terest the War Production Board s
conservation division in its de vet
thte specialised training on the Xj’mi
co-operated in investigating
burglai
fingerprintk by which they hope to
•trace the cuiprfts.
This is the fourth time the
Hohlt store has been robbed in
the last few years.
No effort waa made to open the
safe, although a few pennies were'
taken from a cash drawer.
Two Washington
County Boys In*
Signal School
CAMP MURPHY, Fla., Oct. 23.
—Hech. Cpi. Johann A. Quebe,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frits H. Que-
be, Rt. B, Box 273. Brenham, Tex-
as, and Joseph Q. Klingsporn, Gay
Hill, Texas, have been enrolled in
a special course of instruction at
the Signal Crops' School at Oamp
Murphy. ‘ They were selected for
BASTROP, Oct. 23 — A signed
confession in which Pvt. George
Schubert Knapp of Camp Swift
admitted that he left 8ryear-old
Lucy Rivers Maynard lying un-
conscious in a pasture three miles
from her Bastrop home was In-
troduced Thursday as evidence be-
fore the general court-martial try-
ing him for the child's murder.
Knapp's statement was read in-
to the record by Lt. Haney E. Ih-
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WM. PENN <X)UPLE
PARENTM OF .NEW NON ,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lenz of1
Wm. Penn announce the birth of
•> son on October 22 at the St.
France! hospital. The baby weighs
eight and one-half pounds and
mother and son are doing fine.
g means of conserving
tala which go into man-
light bulbs.
A representative from the U. 8.
Army Recruiting Station, Bryan,
will at the poetoffice in Brenham,
between the hours of 10:00 a. m
and 3:00 p. m. on October 28.
1M2.
Anyone requesting Information,
or wishing to enlist in any branch
of the army of the United States
will be Interviewed at that time.
Courtmartial Hearing
Evidence Against
Pvt. Knapp
CAMP SWIFT, Texas, Oct. 23.
—(U.R)—Four witnesses testified
today at-the genaA^/£j’w<" *'***..
which is trying Pvt. George Knapp
on a charge of killing Lucy Riv-
ers litaynard that they saw an ar-
my vehicle of the type normally
drjven by the soldier near the
pasture where the dying 8-year-
old Bahtrop school girl was found
Oct.. 7,
Marian Mirgan, a negro woman
who lives in Piney Creek road a
few miles from Bastrop, said she
saw an olive drab carryall on
three separate occasions the aft-
ernoon the child disappeared.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23— (U.F)
Pres. Roosevelt disclosed today
that the volume of American tank
and airplane production has been
lowered on purpose to achieve
higher quality. He pointed out
that although the original goal of
45,000 tanks will not be achieved
because of changes in design, the
same amount of steel will be used
in the total tank construction this
year, making the tanks stronger
and giving them greater fire pow-
er.
Ten young men from the
Marcos War Work Center
twelve young men from the Bren-
ham War Work Shop have been
placed as welders in the Pennsyl-
vania Shipbuilding Company at
Beaumont, according to W. S.
age” oF Ausfln.“
These boys were referred to
NYA training by the United
States Employment Service, ,who
also made the placements through
a representative of the shipbuild-
ing company. These boys will be-
gin at a wage of 75 cents per
hour and be permitted to take
testa periodically to be classified
at a higher wage. They are
George D. Dykes, Clinto D. Smith,
Billie E. Pannell, and John C.
Locke of Austin, Felix F. Vyvjala,
Fred W. Quitta and Ivan F. Psen-
clk of Smithville, Howard A. Hud-
son of Cedar Valley, Williams A.
Bullard of Elgin, Charlie R. Gre-
gory of Calvert, Gliffard Schroe-
der and Charles L. Lanford of
Brenham, Richard Lara, Charles
J. Thompson, John A. Norville
and Alex A. Meschewitz of Gid-
dings, Joe J. Spacek of Bellville,
Billie F. Frazier of Hempstead,
Rudolph J. Herctk bf Weimar, An-
J drew L. Haverland of McDade,
Frank D. Bajac of Chape] HUI
1 and Emil M.^Iyvl of Caldwell.
« Birdwell also stated that these
vacancies would be filled by boys
from Brenham and surrounding
I counties and that boys between
the ages of 17 and 25 might ap-
ply at their -nearest United States
Employment Service office or to
the NYA Work Shop in Brenham.
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Symbols of faith in the holocaust of war, a cross marks the .burial place of two ?..;j airmen. In<xrv-
diary tombs, jettisoned by the bomber crew before their ship was brought down, ring the grave.
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MRS. ROOSEVELT
VISITS LONDON
Men's Merchandise FLIGHT
the other short and
voef, aXJti ricapp-^
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they had seen a car parked on
the road during the afternoon
wheh they passed in a gravel
truck but said they saw no one
near.
vVaHHINGTON. Oct. 23. <I R) I „re, n boy,
W. L<ee b’Daniel of Texas — ■ —■
said today that he will sponsor an j
amendment to the pending teen wifh than this
the Royal Air Forqp raided Italy
in greater strength than at any
other time since the start of the
German resistance above Stalin*
grad waa fierce. However, the "
Russian drive into the Germsa
left flank picked up momentum
and crushed all realstance as it
roiled on toward the galant gar-
rison of Staingrad now fighting |
in the <JOth -lay of one of. the
greatest buttles of history.
Front line dispatches said that ,
unprecedented losses, cold and
heavy raj ns and mud had forced
the Germans to ease up in their
attaches against a northwestern
section of Stalingrad and that the
Russians were gaining local Initia-
tive.
| One nation indivisible, with
Liberty and Justice for AU."
Mrs. M. A. Tlemann received |
a thrill this week when she rec-
| ognized two pictures in Life
magazine as being those of her
son, Cot C. F. Tlemann, former
Washington county boy. He ts
now in England with the bom-
ber command, on the staff of
Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. The
pictures show him on duty in
the meteorological room which
4a responsible for weather infor-
mation upon which the bombers
rely in their raids upon Ger-
,«« T many " " ~
OM. _____ „________
from West Point in 1933 and
s has spent the intervening years
In the army. He was at one
time stationed in Hawaii. He
has received numerous promo-
tions, the latest being on Sep-
tember 23 this year when hC*ad-
‘ vanced from lieutenant-colonel,
to colonel.
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A note from Pvt. Arnold E.
Naumann tells of his being one
of five selected to appear over
Radib Station WWL at New
Orleans Tuesday night in the
Regal Beer company quiz pro- •
gram, “Play for Pay”. Although
not winning top prizes, which
were war bonds, he was third
and received 110 cash.
AFRICA LOOMS AS NEXT BATTLEFRONT
Soldier’s Car Was Seen By Four At Scene'Of Bastrop Crime
Bombs-vand the Cross
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—The
on«-m»n crusade of Senator Josh
Lee (D., Okla.) to “dry up” armyL
camps suffered a crushing Bet-
back Thursday night when the
Unking prohibition with the ’teen-
age draft bill to the hostile mili-
tary affairs committee.
The vote was 49 to 26.
The vote—on a moton by Dem-
ccratic leader Albenf W. Barkley
—climaxed four hours of turbul-
ent debate and removed the last
major obstacle to passage, prob-
“|Way. of the 18-19 coo-
PAUL HODGE HEADH ?
EL CAMPO NCIKMilJI
EL CAMPO, Oct. 22. Paul
Hodge has been elected school
principal to succeed Milton Haus
mann, resigned to accept a posi-
tion in defense work at Ponca
City. Okla., it is announced by the.
11* t olled PrM«
The war today appeared to be
reaching a definite turning point
with indications multiplying that
the African front soon may blase
into action.
Dispatches from half a dozen
[wilnta Indicated that major opera-
tions nuMi be in the making and
Axis iWXlcty over a possible Al-
lied- offensive ip Africa qaamed,,
tl>—wA•• r**, "‘T
The evebta moved . forward
against a background which indi-
cated that offensive operations
will not be long delayed.
Reports fromg Russia Indicated
that the long front virtually waa
bogged down for the winter with
the Germans assuming defensive
positions thus enabling them to
transfer men to the west to meet
»ny Allied counter
I The Libyan
front gradually v.
ward action.
A daughter, Linda Sue.
born on October 18 at the
Frances hospital to Mr and Mrs.
Charles Barton, Jr., of Homer-
' vtlle, _____ [jUa^-ed at 724 pounds.
"To tell you the truth, I am !
looking for some trouble tonight."]
Coach J. M. Moorman said .this
afternoon,-a few hours before the!
Brenham High school team, is
scheduled to meet Giddings at:
Cub Stadium here.
"To begin with,” ho continued,
Gkldings has all to gain an^J noth- j tiv«-ly Thursday.
..... . z- .* Mrs-. Hobby's visit, returning the
LONDON, Oct 23 -Col. Oveta, '
Culp Ho'bby, director of the W. A*
A. C.'s. i« coming to Britain short-
ly to see Britain's women at war
yrbrk, it wax learned authorata-
Ing to lose In tonight’s game, and H„bb < vlj(it rcturnUl<
, ! J o ? »<> ‘h’’ I-• ntterf State, of Chief ,
. .... .Controller Jean Knox of Britain’s
"The <>ib» are on top. arid there- UJX)||a territorial service, may j
fore every team we meet Is con-. wltb M r. Rooaevelt who, .1
centrating on defeating us. i haj| becm announced, is expected
"Giddings ha. a big back named [ _
Preus, who has be»-ti running owr - , , :
the option H. !. bigK-r th.<n , Arrangeu.-we .a.J to have j
our Horstmann and plenty fast, j b**” mad* for Mr*
We have a job on our hand* to-'
night in stopping him.
“Then there is a,
tackle named Kalt wasser
i4omcbody is going to
i block. I- ___1, „
Some hope of possible early
relief for autqmobillsts whose
tires are worn out is contained grom woman testified she also
in the following dispatch from | saw a car three times while she
Washington in the morning pa- waa sitting on her porch half a
pers: mile away.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.— She said that she saw two per-
The office of price adminiatra- sons get out of it, one of whom
tian Thursday made arrange- was tajl and dressed in khaki and
, menta td . allow all tire dealers the other short and dressed in
fjt stocik* MP-7-'I'AtaeSbe thought that both of
of reclaimed rtiWber,
ed and used tires for sale to
owners of passenger cars who
will become eligible for ra^on-
« ed tires in the near future.
, Under the new mileage ra-
tioning program'’ which will go
into effect throughout the coun-
/try Nov. 22 every car, 'which
actually needs it, will be able to
get tlrps of one kind or anoth-
er.
Each dealer's establishment
will be allowed to stock up to-an
amount up to its 1941 sales.
After the first stocking up, how-
ever, the dealer will have to
turn In a ration certificate tak-^
en from his customers in order
to replenish his stocks.
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L. T.‘Stone, field representa-
' tive of the National Cotton
Council of America, was a vis-
itor in Brenham today in the in-
terest of the work of this organ-
ization .which seeks to enlarge
the market for cotton and cot-
ton products. He is making a
survey of the state to determine
the attitude of the cotton far-
mers toward next year's pro-
) duction. He said the probable
' shortage of farm labor is caus-
i Ing concern in many localities,
t but' he urged that farmers go
I < ahead and do their fall plowing
j the same as ever, and ex-
i pressed confidence that enough
I manpower -will be found next
[ spring to get the seed in the »
ground. “Everybody is just go-
ing to have - to do a little bit
. more than in the past, and we'll
K come out all right,” he said.
CHICAGO — <UJ?> — Officers
and city employes of Lo. Angele,
who enter the armed forces after
one full year's service with the
city will receive thirty days’ ex-
tra pay’ under an ordinance re-
cently adopted by the city coun-
cil, according to the Civil Service
Assembly of the United States
and Canada. *
To reserve the .alary of the ab-
sentee for his use, his vacated p>
skion will be kept open for thirty
days. *| 8en.
GENOA BOMBED
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British Rain Missiles
On Italian City
y From Planes
Texas Latest Scrap
"But I’ll »ay thia: I've never |
I had a finer bunch of boys to work
-..I™ th" thia year. Th« y like to
age draft bill fo qbolish time and wln ,nvl they II give a good ac-
a half overtime pay requirement* count l)f themselves tonight."
for wwk In^szccas..^ • ...
a week.
Mfl
rr i
He is bigger than
Hobby to
make a full inspection of the A.-
| T. S , including women serving as
205-pound P°U“’
• - ! graphinU. anti-aircraft gun alta
1 vftwa and barrage balloon operas
tor«-___
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Ap-
peals that they "help to do more
with less in a shorter time” and
/■ jeply to runfers , .of-
...J—* i.v rixVlri
and governmerff officials Thurs-
day to representatives of civilian
employes In naval establishment*.
Rear Adm. A. H. Van Keuren,
chief of the bureau of ships, prais-
ed the more than 200 employes
representatives assembled here by
the navy for a conference In pro-
motion of morale and harmonious
labor relations. He lauded ac-
complishments to date, but added:
“Yet all is riot sweetness and
light. From an overall point of
view,. I am persuaded that oru
naval shipbuilding program In
both navy yards and private yard*
is progressing on a fairly even
keel and at a better than aver-
age rate of speed, but it is not
gbove improvement."
CWted On to Explain
Recently ,he said, he had, re-
peatedly been called upon "to ex-
plain the rumors that are so wide-
ly rife concerning the loafing that
is going an in our shipyards.
“Most of the inquiries are di-
rected at the private shipyards,
but in some cases the contention
has been put forward as an indict-
ment of the whole shipbuilding in-
dustry.’ '
"be n.Adr abouf material aflo) tafeo.
and training program., the admi-
ral atated:
“I found the conclusion still
persists that with all this smoke
about loafing in shipyards, there
must be some ticks of fire lurking
in remote corners. It is your job
to stamp out the sparks before
they take hold in a flame.”
The plea that the workers "help
to do more with less in a shorter
space of time” came from Donald
Nelson, head of the war produc-
tion board.
v Cites Scrap CtoUectkm
Asserting that the WBP could
not accomplish its task without
the voluntary cooperation of the
public, Nelson cited the scrap col-
lection drive as a nexample of
how that cooperation could work.
The labor-management commit-
tee system, established In many
industrial plants, also was held up
by Nelson as “an example of what
democracies can do when they are
determined to do it.’ ’
Price Administrator Leon Hen-
derson also stressed the necessity
of public cooperation, comment-
ing that "no amount of planning
and programing in Washington
ca take the place of what must
be done by civilian, on many
fronts."
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And Dressing
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