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Brenham Banner-Press
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BRENHAM, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25,1942
VOLUME 77
NO. 2-
Everything’s Okay Now!
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RITES THURSDAY
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RUBENSTEIN IS
APPOINTED ELKS
EXALTED RULER
Confesses Hope To
See Wife Was
His Motive
Bodies Found In
Ruins Of Front
Porch
COFFEE TOO THIN
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SELLOUT FOR GAME
■AST TEXAS- Wanner in east
and south portions, colder in west
and north, temperature near frees,
ing in extreme northwest tonight.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. <T.P)
The War Production Board today
CHARLES BROENCHEN ARE
PARENTS OF DAUGHTER
last report, more than 400 miles
of pipe already had been laid.
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Strain On Italy Seen
As Youths Called
— To Service
Sales Of Heavy
Cream Prohibited
By WPB Order
GAS RATIONING
POSTTCiaiENT
URGED BY BLOC
Rainbow GMe Te Meet
The Rainbow Girto will hold a
regular meeting at the Masonic
Hall nt 4:00 Thursday afternoon
and a full attendance Is requested
by officers.
BEAUMONT, Nov. 25.-<CJ?l—
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Claude (Cowboy) Henry, escaped
murderer, confessed after his re-
4 sided at Welcome fur
last (fentury. Both
Both Semi-Invalids
Unable to Reachjl|
Safety
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producers from distributing whip-
ping. cream or other heavy cream
to household consumers, retailers,
restaurants, hotels and other in-
stitutions. ; , v
The order is effective fcnmedl-
'. Coffee eream or ordinary
Io cream is not affected.
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Literature Prepared
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“Rick” Bounces Back After Pacific .Rescue
Only Three More
Days For Split
Tax Payments
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World’s Largest Pipeline To Take
Oil From Texas To North and East
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In an effort to make sure
transportation system
throughout the country does not
suffer a sudden and drastic col-
lapse . ♦F’-yugh premature •vyi
forced gasoline rationing.”
Anderson presented his recom-
mendations before the house inter-
nor said
He recalled that Pres Roose-
velt's and his own proclamation
asking a 40-miie driving maxi-
mum were issued last spring. Ths
speed limit has since been reduced
to 35 miles on recommendation of
the Office of Price Administration.
The governor, long an opponent
of rationing, cites the figures In
support of his contention that
speed limitation and voluntary
elimination of unnereesiry travel idly as ttaps in N
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For every household In your
county there is literature avail-
able on ways to conserve essen-
tial meat products which are vi-
tally needed-for our prosecution
of the war, R. E. Smith, director
of the Office of Civilian Defense
. '—i;'"1 -—•—.renidence.
COWBUY HtNKY
IS RECAPTURED
AT BEAUMONT
Tax Collector Robt. J. Schawe
calls attention io the fact that on-
ly three more days remain in
which to make the first tax pay-
ment according to the split pay-
ment plan. Property owners who
pay the first half of their taxes be- |
placed! tore December 1 may defer tha
A num-
asaiteiMM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. —OB
A fact-finding committee of the
Oongressional bloc seeking poat-L
ponament of natidn-wlde gasoline
rationing today recommended a
•lx months tryout of voluntary
tire saving'in all or part of the
now un-rationed area before ra-
Mrs. O. H. Fisher, president of
the Beoevo>--‘ ———
that an Important meeting w... oe
held at the cP* - y:00 Fri-
day afternoon ana requests
that all officers and others inter-
ested in local charitable activities
will attend. J ,
The recent campaign for funds
to conduct the work of the socie-
ty will be canvassed, contributions
to the old clothes drive will be
checked, and work for the coming
year will ba planned.
I less private car travsl becau.se
I commercial traffic is virtually un-
changed from a year ago.
Voluntary reduction of speed al-
so was a factor in lower gasoline
sales this year compjgcd vytth the
PLANTS ARE WANTED
FOR CAMP SWIFT
Garden Club members and
friends who have donated flowers
and shrubs to be planted at Camp
«*-■*•» c<‘*"' * <to leave them at
j' i i . gbt Depot Mon-
day, November 30. For further
Information as to packing phone
j Mrs. Robert Lange, or Mrs. Carl
[ Reich.
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LEGION SALES
OF CHRISTMAS
SEALSSTART
Solicitors - Appoint e d
To Canvas^ Various I
three times as much petroleum
will have to be available above
ground before the first oil comes
out at the Illinois end. That rep-
resents about five days of Texas'
total production.
The line’s estimated daily capac-
ity ig 300.000 barrels, of which
1T5.000 barrels probably will be
crude and the remainder fuel oil, ■HHMNHMBMMMV
when. tta “Big Inch” starts. cpsr- Imamd. an order -to prohibit dairy
ating. Plans are to obtain about
186,000 barrels of the line's sup-
ply from the Gulf Coast area and
the remainder from East Texas.
The Gulf Coast crude likely will
be moved to Longview by rsvers-
» flow of four smaller pipe- ate
tC-Un-d on P^ Three) ta
Expulsion Of Nazis
In South Russia
Expected
Supply Sufficient For
| 16 Months Said On
Months Voluntary
Saving Of Tires
Recommended
Parts Of City
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Sponsored by the Buddy Wright
Post, American Legion and Aux-
iliary, the annual sale of Christ-
mas seals will open Friday, No-
vember 27, with Paul Klingspoin
serving as chairman for. (he coun-
ty. Purpose of thia sale is to
raise funds by the Anti-Tubercu-
losis Association to fight the great
white plague.
Christmas seals add to the at-
tractiveness of parcels and letters
and carry messages ot good cheer.
Funds ralAed thereby are used to
help finance the anti-tuberculosis
drive and to provide proper care
‘-■•stment. (or, Bilferers from
• sna -u.-et-.-.. —,
Following is a.list of solicitors
and the respective block and areas
wherein they will solicit funds:
J. L. Routt, Washington County
State Bank block, City Hall, Tele-
phone Company and Library.
A. F. Wiede, Lockett, Penney’s
and Farm Pro. Ass’n.
Father Charles Pr *ochial school
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Benevolent Society
To Meet Friday To
Plan Year's Work
Am urgent appeal went out
today for transportation for the
Brenham high school band to
the Bay City football game to-
morrow night. Although request
was made yesterday for volun-
teers to take band members in
their automobiles to the game,
up until noon today nobody had
room
in their cars for* band members
should notify Buddy Fisher,
manager of the Chamber af
Commerce, or M. M: Saxer, di-
rector of the band.
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Admission to the game has been
set at 75c for adults, 35c for
children, tax included.
Incidentally, the Bay City
team, champions of District 34-
A, has rolled up a total of Jit?
points to 34 for Its opponents;''
averaging be^er than 35 points
to the game. It won the title
two weeks ago by defeating Ro-
senberg. Following is the stand-
ing in District 34-A:
Team—
Bay City
Boling
Rosenberg
Eagle Lake
El Campo
Richmond
Wharton
His Holy Temple”: and if we go
there we will find Him Who came
to bring peace on z earth. This
theme should be impressed upon
the consciousness of every Ameri-
can citizen on thia Thanksgiving
Day in the year of our Lord 1*42.
The maintenance of these high-
er and finer things which we kXe
and cherish can be guaranteed On-
ly when a nation to Interested in
developing a civic righteousness, i
and Um beginning of it must be<
with the individual,- you and me.
To understand what that begin-
ning means, we must kneel at I
tbs Altar in humility and praise
and thanksgiving to God. Let us,
than, go to God's Altar on Thanks- 1
giving Day with the members of i
our family in our church home. I
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The commitee, headed by Rep.
Andereon, demccra| of New Mex-
ico, further reconimended "that
the studies of the office of Pe-
troleum Coordinator and the Of-
'flce .
utill
that our
state and foreign ■ commerao oem-
| mlttee.
He said the United States now
has a sixteen months supply of
crude rubber, on hand-epougjl
aynthetic plants "atnplt%» >
to come Into production.”
Earlier Rep. Hatton Summer
democrat of Texas, urgled aband-
onment of nation-wide gasoline
rationing and charged that "it
looks too' much like the same bug
that bit Hitler is biting some peo-
ple in this government.”
“One nation indivisible, with :
Liberty and Justice for AIL"
By GOBDON ». BHSABK*
Unite* FmN Staff CsrTMposkest
AUSTIN, Nov. 25 —OLE) -When
le record of construction achieve-
isnt in World War II is compiled,
ic operation of the t'Blg Inch”
Ipeline may rank high on the
i coh’nyj* were
the Don River bend
in a position from which they
oeuld strike southwest towards
Rostov in an effort to isolate the
Nazi army of the Caucasus.
The Russian press said the Red
Army was driving for the exter-
mination of the whole GA .
Charles, Louisiana, where
awaits execution Ssturdsy.
"You don't think I did It for
myself do you 7” he said to offi-
cers who questioned the motive of
hie break from central prison at
Sugarland Monday,
As word of Henry's capture got
along, Beaumont's love story fans
began calling officials at the jail
and urging them to let Henry and
hto wife, Toni Jo, see each other
before she is executed and Henry |
is returned to prison.
Thanksgiving Day Observance
By REV. *. MOYLAN BIRD
Thanksgiving! How much that
word contains of praise, humility,
belief, trust, faith, and gratitude!
When one approaches Almighty
God with thanksgiving, he ack-
nowledges by this act hto depend-
ence upon God and his belief that
He is the author of all good things.
Thanksgiving Day is a national
holiday, when the whole nation
bows in prayer and humility to
the God at us aU. The responai-
bUlttes placed--upon thia nation
are very great,- greater by far
than most nations of.Jhe world.
We have been given much, and
surely God expects much from us
Bo, if we ars really serious about
maintaining our liberties, we
must go regularly to Him in wor-
ship and praiaa, "The Lord 1* in
At a South Pacific base a few hours after his recent rescue from
a life raft on which,he’d floated for three weeks, Capt. Eddie Ricken-
backer, right foreground, flashes his famous smile on his way to « ttontng is enforced,
meal of soup and ice cream. Col. Robert L. Griffin, Jr.1; USMC to at
the wheel of the jeep. (Official U. 8. Navy photo radioed from Honolu-
lu to San Francisco from NEA Telephoto).
By United Press
Germany's grip on South Russia
and the Nazi .foothold in the Cau-
casus were threatened today by a
Soviet offensive that was splinter-
ing the whole web of German de-
fense posts and communications
from Stalingrad to the graat bend
of the Don River, 100 miles to the
west. —--------
Three separate Red Army col-
umns were knifing through the
area, disrupting both rail -and
highway connection between the
Don and the Nazi siege force be-
fore Stalingrad. German casual-
ties ^re estimated at more than
160,000* men and the arm^ of
360,000 on the Stalingrad siege
line were threatened with encir-
clement.
oou »UMion
qqI converging at the
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The magnitude of the line to re-
vealed by the
°f .O11 *'S^tte-to»*Meat-for-Victory" mesL
quired to fUl the pipe, and about (CosUnued ra rasa toart
k s
We happened to have a couple
of tickets left over for the Tex-
as and A. A M. game and put
an ad in thA paper. The re-
sponse was so great we could
have sold the tickets many
times over, if we had had a sup-
ply. From all indications the
game at Austin tomorrow will
be a sellout, and Brenham will
be well represented in the crowd
as usual for the Turkey Day
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purptMK in fleeing prison was to
deliver hto wife from jail in Lake
she
Mrs. Anna Mahlmaqn, 82, and
her daughter, Miss Sophia MaM- -
mahn. 5», were burned to death by
fire which destroyed their hams
in Um W**—*"• ■ *Vt, mntn-J
Wbicome, snout lx mflssnMmr*!
Brenham, late Tuesday afternoon. -1
Both were, semi-invalids, able to
get about only with the aid of a
cane, but had managed to get as
far as the front porch before they
ware overcome. Their bodies, bad-
ly charred, were found in tag |
ruins of the porch after the firs J
was dlscoversd by neighbors.
They were slone In the house at
the time .and no indication has
been found as to whet caused the
blaze.
A son, Henry Mahlmann, had
gone into the town ot Welcotta, j
about two miles distant, taking -
the Stove pipe with him foe re-
pairs. He reported he had put H
Brenham relativmi have been
informed of the birth of a daugh-
ter to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Broesche of Humboldt, Tennessee,
on November 24. Mother and
Infant are reported doing well.
The infant is the first grandchild
of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Weimann of
Brenham .and is also a grandchild j
of Mr, and Mrs. H. Q. Broesche.
TWO BURN TO DEATH AT WELCOME
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Encirclement Threatens 350,000 Germans On Stalingrad Line
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COLUMNS MOVE
TORIVERBENO
where,” he was getting along fine
reported that heavy and happy to be on active war
! Nazi planes nwu ~ ~ )
CONSERVATION
OF ESSENTIAL
MEATS URGED
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"Please use yoar influence so
our water chemist makes the
Whvct thicker
getting toq thin." We received
this appeal in the mall this
morning from “A. Sympathizer,”
and respectfully pass It on to
Max Hoffmann, Doc Beazley,
and Henry Eldred. We ’spec
they'd like a little relief them-
selves, with rationing coming.
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In common with the remaind-
er of the city, the Banner-Press
will observe Thanksgiving Day
tomorrow as a holiday. No pa-
mper will be published. <1
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And speaking of Thanhsgiyf
ing, we send our thanks to Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Ehlert for their
Thanksgivjnr pheer.
How much meat each adult and
child is now supposed to eat, in
adjusting the diet ahead ot actual
It to under- meat rationing, is outlined in ma-
terial to be distributed by block
leaders for town and city, and by
neighborhood leaders for rural
areas, during the week of Novem-
ber 30 to December 6,
Literature prepared and sup-
plied by the Office of Defense
Health and Welfare Services will
be used throughout the nstlon in
the Meat Conservation Program.
Distribution will be under direc-
tion of the local Civilian Defense
Council, in cooperation with the
State Defense Council.
Technical and educational su-
pervision of the Meat Conserva-
tion Program is in the hands of
the state, county, and municipal
nutrition committees.
The Extension Service and U. S;.
A. War Board have assumed
responsibility for taking the
Lt. Chas. W. Rankin
Writes His Parents
From S hip At Sea
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rankin hgve
heard from their son, Lieut.
Charles Wr Rapkin; Jr., of . the
United States Air Force, for the
first time since he sailed for an
unknown destination about 'ten
weeks .ago. 1 His lett-y at
, , 7 1.—. i, gave nd indications
force in South Russia and declar- as to his whereabouts, but said
ed that Stalingrad would soon be he was on ■ ship bound tor "some-
free.
London f - - -
transfers of Nazi planes nun.
sia to the threatened Mediterra-
nean were under way, aiding the
Russian air force in protecting the
advancing ground troops.
Reports from the African fight-
ing front were eexaty. However,
it was apparent that major efforts
were under way by both sides to
bring In air reinforcements to the
allied attack to drive the Germans
from Bizerte and Tunis.
The growing strain on Italy
was emphasized by the broadcast
pdrtlng tne relfikining is year OKU
had been called up for military
service.
||y fmfvgg, when
Children Uj^oed Ta
Organize Tin Cu.t
Clubs In Brenham
Mayor Reese Lockett said today that he heartily favors
the plan proposed by the Junior Chamber of Commerce to
have children of Brenham form tin can clubs over the entire
city and that all children be urged by their parents, achool
teachers, and friends, to organize such clubs. The Mayor
has bein concerned over the number of man hours required
to collect the cans and also, the numerous stops the city
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Gasoline Tax Drops $5,0uu,w- <5
Since May 1 As Texans Drive Less
AUSTIN, Nov. 25. Voltint.try
rationing of gasoline ha» reduced
the state'* revenue . from motor
fuel fax collections about
000 since May 1, Gov Coke R
Stevenson declared today.
The governor aaid the reduc-
I tion, reflected in figures compiled
. by the comptroller's department, |
was accounted for principally by i
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‘ that governors of other states hM
protested extension of rationing toU3
gasoline producing states. " 9
Some of them have communl* V
— c®ted with him. including Sam ’
same period last year, the gover- Houston Jones at Louisiana. Leon
C. Phillips of Oklahoma, Payne
Ratner of Kanaaa, Dwight Gris*
wold of Nebraska, and John B.
Miles at New Mexico, *,■
-3?exaa!.p>z»test against ratfauuxxg
ha< produced a stataraaat £nNMb ;
Rubber Admr. William M. Jaff era 7
who declared in a telegram to
Gov.-Elect John Lee Smith admtt» $
ting there Is no gasoline ahortagn ft
in thia state but assarting titaMMuH
Texas ears win wear out as MV*17'
w York.
will accomplish rubber conserva-
tion without compulsory restric-
tions on the use of gasoline.
A copy of the comptroller's re-
port was sent to the group of
southern and western Mates coo- i
gresamen who seek a delay in the
ndleage rationing plan scheduled S
to begin Dec 1. j
Stevenson said he was gratified' i'“
“Fight For Freedom”
Class Initiation
Due Tonight
Past Exalted Ruler Harold 8.
Rubenstein has been appointed ex-
alted ruler of the Brenham lodge
of Elks to fill out the unexpired
te- - Exalted Ruler O. J.' Ack-
*, ■«<* hS' serving tn the U. 8.
armed forces at a camp in Cali-
fornia.
The Elks will initiate their
"Fight for Freedom” class at a
meeting tonight when Exalted Ru-
ler Rubenstein will be aaslated In
initiation ceremonies by the fol
off tears and past ex-
..^fi L a-r- today that hto sole
N. Reichardt, esteemed leading'
knight; Franklin (Buddy) Fisher,
esteemed loyal knight: Billy Zetos,
esteemed lecturing knight; Alvin
Behrens, esquire; F. L. Amsler,
Moratory; Julius Fisher, Inner
guard; Sam J, Muery, tiler; and
Rev. G. Robert Forrester, chap-
lain.
Candidates upon whom the ant-
(Continued on Page Four)
Large Group Of
Selectees Leave
Thursday Night
A large group of-Washington for ths Elgti|h Region, laid to-
county selectees will leave Breh- dAP - — - •
ham Thursday night at about ten
o’clock for physical examinations
preliminary to induction into the
United States army. I'. — —
stood that this group, one of the
largest yet to be called from this
county, includes a / *- "Tried
men. '.'7-
Most of the selectees from this
county have been sent to Houston
for physical examinations, but
this group will go to the induction
station at Tyler.
t The world's largest, pipeline, 24-
hches diameter and almost 550
kites long. will begin about Feb.
[ to carry 300.000 barrels of oil
Itily from Longview, Texas, to
forris City, Ill., for distribution
I the oil-thirsty North and East.
■An extenstlon of the line east-
Krd from Norris City has been
Kte "Big Inch," so-called be-
Kse pip* of that size has never
Kn used before in a kmg Hae.
& not authorized until last
Ke. Seven contractors went to
■k on it. and they are coming
Kugh despite some difficulties ing the
Kibor and supplies. At the («■“
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instructed the others not to start 7
another until be had returned. ■ ,7
He was summoned from town 'J
when neighbors discovered tito"’
house in flames, but it was be- (fl
. he arrived
The Mahlmann family to widely 1
known throughout Austin and
Washington couhtlee, having re-T®
manti and her daughter were born
in the family .^sidancW
the/ loot their lives.
‘ Justice of the Pease Julius -I
Franke of Welcome conducted an
Inquest.
Mrs. Mahlmann was the widow
o( the late Henry Mahlmam.
died many years ago. She Is sur-
vived by a daughter, Mrs. Johnny
' Herr of Welcome; and two son%
Willie Mahlmann ot Shelby, anQ
Henry Mahlmann of Welcome. .
Funeral services win bo cow- z,
ducted Thursday afternoon at 1 i
, o'clock at the Industry cemetery.
Rev. I. Mansur, pastor of the Lu-
theran church at Industry, will
trucks have to make in order to pick tip can a kt each
. _ . . ^.ufflciyte Ueraaah^LahnngtMh. j
two blocks, should form a club be In charge of arrangements, '-jy''
and have one depot where all of
the persons living in that section
will place their cans. One such
club has been operating in the
city since the beginning of the
can collection, and it has worked
out splendidly. Thia club is lo-
cated on Lubbock and I^e streeta,
and there to a container built sim-
ply of a frame and chicken wire,
which was painted, and has a sign
on it deaignatlng the streets and
namea of the children belonging
to the club. All of the children of ■
this Hub have faithfully placed j
the cans from their homes in the ' last payment until June.
container, and at each collection i ber ot taxpayers annually take
the truck has had to stop only [ advantage of this method of pay-
ing their taxes.
Capt. William T. Cherry, Jr. has no bed of rosea, but judging from
the expression on his face he's happy. Captain Cherry was the pilot. ^t'”th« "ire ZrnS
th* kllsimm ire ulhirxh Hani aMkanbaa nvaakiaM r4«>»»4nrv «■ eeihM^AB _ a ■ a- » a.
flight. Cherry to shown on a stretcher as he was taken to receive
treatment after his rescue. His wife lives in Dallas, Texas and to em-
ployed at North American Aviation, Inc. (NEA Telephoto) (Official
U. 8, N*vy Photo)
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