Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 89, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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Plan Expected
After Hearings
Canning Sugar
May Be Secured
At Burton Office
Pinned Against
Beaches
One - Act Comedies,
Specialties To Be
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TUNISIA BATTLE I
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Fred J. Nelson, barber shop oper-
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a bear with a perfect "V” neck
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BRENHAM, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 7,1943.
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Steady Progress II
Made Through
Caucasus |t
Other outstanding talks were
made by Frank Scofield, state
chairman for the sale of War
Bonds, and George Butler, state
salvage director. Mayor Miller,
in making his welcoming talk,
caused considerable surprise by
his pointed remarks about bu-
reaucracy in the federal gov-
ernment whose arbitrary rulings
he believes have hindered the
war effort. The convention elect-
ed District Attorney W. K. Mc-
Clain of Georgetown as district
governor for next year, select-
ed Schulenburg as the conven-
tion city, and endorsed the can-
didacy of Past Deputy Gover-
nor Mel Miller for the Texas
director of Lions International.
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Dallas Mother
Kills Children
In Custody Row
WOMAN DIES
INCRASH AND
CHILD INJURED
spectator FARM LANDS
AND GARDENS
WILL BENEFIT
Mrs. Henry Is
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hieewhere In occupied fluaaia.
JUNIOR-SENIOR
PLAYS TONIGHT
A.A.C.W TO MEET
MONDAV EVENING
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vessel Most of the crews were months’ annual custody of —
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One of America’s proudest mothers on this Mother’s Day, 1943, is Mrs. Frank Foes, a farmer’s widow
Of Sioux Falls. S. D. Her son, <■*- T\" Morine Ace Capt Joseph Foss. At 64.
Mother Foes still does s men’s work on Ker preinsr -Mia her son. Jo^J'ha* won herb’s recognition
by shooting down 26 Jap plnnes In the South Pacific.
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DAVIES TO VISIT Sub Commander Gives
PREMIER STALIN Life To Save His Craft
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Nazis Desperately
Trying To Protect
Lines Of Retreat
No New Stoppage
Of Coal Mines Is
To Be Tolerated
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WASHINGTON, May 7^-<lLD-
Prestdent Rooeevelt aaoerted at a
press conference todsy that the
government does not expect nor
will It tolerate—any new stoppage
In the nations coal mines because
the miners now are employees of
the federal governascai.
Officers of the local Rationing
Board report that an arrangement
has been made with the Burton
Chamber of Commerce to upon up
a temporary, office at the Burton
State Bank for the purpose of
1 Grilling applica^lontf-far canning
This office will be open for the
public on Monday morning, May
10. This arrangement has been
made for the convenience of peo-
ple living in that community.
Those interaated in canning sugar
are urged to make their applica-
tions therie. ' , ’
MRS. IDA THIEL
IS WAR GARDEN
FREE WINNER
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county, word has been received
that Boin Bay of Richards was
killed March 31 in action in
North Africa. Before entering
k the army, be was employed at
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EAST TEXAS — Showers and
thunderstorms today and tonight
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Meeting Monday 1
The Central Parent-Teacher Aa-
sociation will hold the final meet-
it 3:30
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her own
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the submarine were: “Take her i
■ E. Koon, recently elected as preai*
! dent, and other officers who are
and loot as the submarine dived. I to ’•rve ,or *“
Gilmore was awarded the con-[
1 will act as hostesses.
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a special invita-
Central P T, A. To A
Install Officers At
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RENO, Nev.—(UJD—Angered at
some remark by a pissing sailor,
Victor E. Montelna, 21, made a
U-turn in the middle of the Mock
to tell the sailor what he thought
of him. However, what be thought
of the sailor was not nearly aa
much as what Municipal Judge
Guy Walts .thought about the U-
lurn. He aseeseed It at gid
Albert Fricke reports that
the rainfall at hig home west of
Brenham measured 1:75 inches
Thursday night- This was slight-
ly in excess of the rainfall in
Brenham which was 1-59 inch.
The Spectator happened to be
on the highway between Austin
and Brenham whin the rain
came. We ran into the rain be-
tween Bastrop and Giddings, and
the downpour was so heavy at
- times it was- difMetrft to see the
highway. We ran out of the
rain just outside the city lim-
its of Brenham and we were
greatly disappointed to corner
into town and find the ground
still dry and our Victory gar-
den unwatered. But it wasn’t
long until the rainstorm caught
up and Brenham was drenched.
Crops along the route to Aus-
for rain like the gardens WeTe"
doing, but the moisture will no
dbubt be S* great htftp.
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We went to Austin with Ollie
Miller and Dick Spin* and our
wives to attend the Lions club
district convention there. The
convention was well attended,
in view of war times, and an
excellent program was present-
bed. Dick Spinn responded to
the address of welcome given by
. Mgyor Tr’(^jiMill^r of Austin;
Ollie Miller acted in his capac-
ity of deputy district gov^y*-
nor; and Spectator served as
chairman of the rules committee.
The outstanding feature was the
appearance of Dr. Ramiro Cal-
lazo of Havana, Cuba, third vice-
president of Lions International,
.. ‘•wight a message of good-
, will from thT i-^Kmericaji
. nations and told what they are
doing to Help win the war
against the Axis. He pointed out
that sugar is the major and al-
most sole export crop of Cuba,
anj! that whereas in the last war
, «v-xar was sold ;to the United
- ?.J» at a price as high, as 23
cents a pound, the entire crop
of last year and this year has
beep sold to us at a price of ,
2.65 cents per pound, as a con-
tribution to the war effort. Cu-
ba, he said, is now engaged in
an effort to diversify its crops
to. feed its people, now cut off
Mrs. Kocian’s child,
among other injuries
fractures of both legs. 1
ports were that her condition was
critical-
Mr. Kocian sustained cuts and
bruises about the head and other
injuries. Both he and the child
are at- the hospital at Halletts-
ville.
W. A .Preslar of ’Beaumont,
driver of the truck which figured
in the accident with the Kocian
sedan, was also cut and bruised.
Sheriff Wm. Loessin, who was
called to the scene, said that the
truck, heading toward Houston,
and the car coming from the op-
posite direction met head-on about
300 yards west of Bob Adamcik’s
place. Both machines were consid-
erably damaged by the impact.
The truck was en route to Beau-
mont from San Antonio and the
Kocians were on their way home
from Schulenburg when the crash
happened.
Preslar was brought to La
Grange by Sheriff Loessin and
placed in jail pending further in-
vestigation into the accident-
A.A.U-W. will hold a regular seS- ’
■ion at 8;0Q Monday evening at
the residence of Mrs. Charles
Puckett .and officers request that
all members be present.
"One nation indivisible, with
Liberty and Justice for All,"
miles from th*.heart ui the Htvx
cup up isolated enemy rear guardfe,
and pinned the remainder of the
once powerful Axis army back
against the beaches of Tunis and
Bizerte. The victory came just
one day less than six months aft-
er the Americans invaded North
Africa.
A "Dunkirk battle’’ on the
beaches of Tunisia appealed im-
minent.
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A Hero's Mother Hears From Her Son
crash, shortly
brought there.
Kocian’s
other
By Vnlted Frees
A London broadcast quoted
a German radio comment*- |
tor today as admitting that
Allied troops have penetrated
the inner fortifications of Bl-
serie and Maying that “the
battle of Tunisia has entered 1
its lant stage.”
Mrs. Otto Kocian Of
Flatonia Killed
In Collision
from imports by the shipping ... - ■»
shortage. May 7.
A resident of Flatonia lost her
life, while her small child Is In
a serious condition and her hus-
band and a truck driver were in-
jured‘when a car and truck were
in head-on collision on the high-
way between Schulenburg and
Flatonia late Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Otto Kocian of Flatonia
passed away-at a Hallettsville hos-
pital ot Injuries, sustained in the
after she was
f WAoKINGTGN, May 7. LU-Pi-^^The navy revealed today
hnw ,s fatAlly wojinded U. 8. submarine commander ordered
his craft to dive to safety? while he remained topside after a
night surface engagement with a Japanese gunboat.
The skipper was Commander)
Howard Gilmore, a native <>f Sei-1
ma, Alabama .and a resident of |
Allied Hqrs-, North Africa, May
7.—(Uj!>--American forces «m»«h-
*d IntoWhe outskirts of Biaerto
and the British First Army cap-
tured the suburbs of Tunis today
in lightning thrusts that pinned
the Axis beck against the beach-
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Bardo on the’ northwestern
skirts of Tunis .the district _
which the palace of the Bey of
Tunis is situated).
Everywhere the Germans were
reslstlhg desperately to protest
their line of retreat to the hills of 3
Cap Bon east of Tunis, but they - ,
were battered by sledge hammer L
blows of a great Allied air on- f
alaught over the entire battla-
, The Axis front in Tunisia has
been cut in two,* with Bizerte is-
! olated from Tunis Enemy trans- 1
port columns were fq|Jing back
twtore Allied infantry and were
being pounded furiously from the
air.
Many prisoners were taken by
the Allied forces as they seized
' the race track at Tunis, only four
Heavy, drenching rsdns that will
be of immeasurable benefit to
farm crops and gardens fell over
Brenham and Washington County
Thursday night, breaking a drouth
that had lasted more than a
month .records showing that last
month was the dryest Aprtl in
more than thirty years-
amounted to 1.59 inches and re-,
ports Indicate that the rainfall
was general over this section,
rains being heavier at some points
in the county than others.
Farmers and Victory gardeners
are jubilant, for the greatly-need-
ed rains came just when they will
do the most good ,and several
well-kno#n» farmers who were in
Brenham this morning were heard
to remark that this was another
of those, “million dollar rains,’’ .
The moisture that quickly soak-
ed into the parched ground will
place the crops now growing into
good condition for further cultiva-
tion, and planting of cotton may
be completed. Corn, potatoes, pas-
ture lands, and all other field and
garden crops will take on new
life since the rains.
morning,
of $5.00.
Second prize of $3 went to Mrs. 1 IdJTl A 17 A^JAAAMJAA A
street. j ATHIGH SCHOOL
prize, and the owners were given |
duplicate awards of $2.00 each.
| They were Mrs. Charles Sohns,
416 Jackson street; Mrs. Ben
Thielemann, Washington Heights;
and Mrs. Paul Gindorf, Dixie Ad-
dition.
All prizes were donated by W.
H. Schwenker, Dr. Pepper bot-
tler and councillor for the East
Texas Chamber • ? >; r
Schwenker increased the ' prfew 'Way
from $10 to $15 when the ties de-
veloped.
Mr. and Mrs. Schwenker them-
selves have a wonderful garden,
bnt thev didn’t compete for the
Prize winners shouia cau^it the.
Washington County Bottling Corp,
for the awards.
Judges as appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce were Miss
Myrna Holman, home demonstra-
tion agent; Joe Frobese, county,
agent; and Et r. 1 Cruse, chairman
of the .......... ‘
Committee of the
Commerce.
The following persons, in addi-
tion to the prize winners, entered
the contest: Mrs Wm. Wendt, Sam
J. Muery, M. H. Niebuhr, Miss Ed-
na Ruppert, Chas. Muegge, I. R.
Wegner, Wm. Schmid, Mrs. J. F..
Baler, Mias Marie Wigand, Mr
and Mrs. Bunk Zemial, Alvin
Borman, Mrs. Will Dobert, Mrs.
W. H. Wamasch, and Mrs. Oscar
Hoffmann.
The judges stated that all of
the gardens looked at showed that
lots of time and effort had been
devoted to them.
The Caldwell News reports
the death of Aviation Cadet
Louis J. Charanza, star block-
ing back on the Caldwell Hor-
nets’ 1939 football team, in an
airplane crash at Fort Gunter
Field, Ala-, Tuesday afternoon
of this week. The body was
shipped to Caldwell where fu-
neral services will be held at 9
o’clock Saturday morning. The
youth, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Charanza of Route 4,
Caldwell, is the first Burleson
county fatality of the war.
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General MacArthur Hqrs., Aus-
tralia, May 7—Japanese subma-
rines trying to blockade Aus-
tralia sank five freighters in 13
days for a record blow at Allied
shipping in thia war zone but fail-
ed to dent the flow of supplies
from America, a communique said
today.
Ths .communique reported Al-
T11.* .®re,'.’?Mnl ,9U,pter ,°f th* u«d “n<1 •*»’ •dresses. Allied
troops took Bobdurl village,
threatening to cut uff considerable
enemy forces south of Salamaua tn
Nsw Guinea, and destroyed nine
Japanese planes in a raid on a
base in the Aroe Islands
The sea losses were first fruits
of ths Japanese submarine cam-
paign against the Allied lifelines
announced May 1. Victims were a
medium-sised U. 8. freighter mak- planned to go to Miami Beach,,
Inez her mablor. vavaa. ana lar<r.> Fla. With their father. Watt Mar-
WASHINGTON, May 7.—(UB—
The senate finance committee,
speeding up action in an effort to
place the nation’s taxpayers on a
pay-as-you-gb basis starting July
1, concluded public hearings to-
day and went into executive ses-
sion out of which is expected to
emerge a modified Rumi plan.
It was believed that a vote by
the senate on the plan might
come late today.
WJH G«s7ry e c i a 1
Message To
Moscow
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Tonight at 8 o’clock in the high
school auditorium the junior and
—ilor classes are presenting their
r Night, and they say they
oorially invite the public to at-
tend.
The program will consist of
two one-act plays and some spe-
cialty numbers.
i- -q The ju!fy>r''play Is a one-act
comedy called “An Early Start.”
The senior play is named “Dates,
Incorporated.” It is also a com-
edy, the story of an enterprising
senior girl who opens a date bu-
reau to eke" but her
She manages to lose
dates for the senior dance,
Agricultural and Lives** another she Hke» better any-
itee of the Chamber <rf way.
Specialties between plays exhi-
bit talents of members of the two
classes. Natalie, Moench will sing
to her guitar accompaniment. Er-
nest Bosse and Harvey McIntyre
will present an original sketch.
Another skit will be the original
interpretation of Jive-talking col-
ore rd boys, worked by Fred Hod-
de, Robert Pennington, Wilburn E.
Schultz, Wilburn Beaumier and
Ruth Powell. Joyce Matthews
will read a humorous monologue, conference questions
Other musical numbers will be
two popular pieces with words
and music composed by Arthur
Earl Mgebroff and a boogie-woo-
gie piece composed by Ernest
Bosse. Wanda Nelson and Mar-
garet Mikeaka will sing Arthur
Earl’s songs. Elois Schoenemann
will be the announcer.
Those who haven't bought tick-
ets may buy them at the door.
Proceeds will be used to defray
expenses of the two classes.
WASHINGTON, May 7.—(U.l’>-
Prnsident Roosevelt announced of-
ficially today that Former Ambas-
sador Joseph Davies is going to
Moscow with a special message
from Pres. Roosevelt to Premier
Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union.
Mr Roosevelt cut off all press
about the
contents of the message, declin-
ing even to say whether it called
for a reply, it has been reported
that the message probably would
propose a meeting between the
president and Stalin.
VOLUME 78
AMERICANS SMASH INTO BIZERTE AND
BRITISH CAPTURE SUBURBS OF TUNIS
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Long Drouth Broken As MiluOu
'Officers an.I members say they
wish to extend i
tion to mothers of pre-schooi chil-
dren who will enter Central school
in September and to mother* of - ■ J
fourth grade pupils of Alamo who
will enter the fifth grade at Os*- J
tral in September to attend thia 1
meeting and become member* of '
Central P.T.A.
A social session will follow tlN j
business meeting. Prior to the
general seagion the executive board 3
will meet at 3:00 Monday after* I
n<M>n.
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SCIO, Ore. — (HE) — After 40 |
years without a jail the town cd J
Scio, in Oregon’s Williamette VaL J
ley, u ging to have a hooeegaw. .3
The dty council is scurryin* tev “
find suitable lodgings tor wrong- ,
doers, following the threat of City J
■ Marshal C M Syru, that he’d rea l
sign unieae a i»“l forthoo** ®
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DALLAS, May 7— —Charg-
es of murder were on file t<xlay
against Mrs, Mary K. Frailey, 41,
who told police she shot ami kill-
ed her two children rather than
see them go away with their fath-
Dctective Inspector Will Fritz
filed charges of murder against
Mrs. Fralley .after she told him
she shot* her two children. Watt
Martin III, 7, and Louise Martin,
6, on the day that the children
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ing her maiden voyage, one.large i Fla., with their father, Watt Mar-
and two small Australian merch- ttn, Jr.
New Orleans. His last words as ’
he |ay wounded on the bridge of;
til. ■UMiiiaiu.y r*viv. « one __ ,
down " I **ontoiy afternoon, when
The crew obeyed and the skip-, . . .
per was swept off into the sea
be installed -by Mrs. Robert A.
Hasskarl. Seventh grade mother*
470 Enemy Aircraft I
Downed By Allied
Attacks
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Russian arrtfR
powerful air fleet and massed ar*,
tlllery, pushed steadily southwest* •
ward through the Caucasian moun-
tains towards Novorhskiak today, f
cutting a vitaf highway and de- n
cupylng a ch^ln of hills.
Speedy two-ebglne Amer
ajtui Soviet hPP’hare of the
air force destroyed or dami
^Context- .. JMfegS
Mrs. Ida Thiel, 906 West First i
street, received first prize in the
East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce Victory garden contest
when entries were Judged Friday
She received an award
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