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Brenham Banner-Press
BRENHAM - -
The City of Hospitality
Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1948.
BRENHAM. TEXAS,
NO. 104
VOLUME 83
BRENHAM MAN KILLS SELF WITH GUN
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Dewey and Stassen
Continue Campaigns
A&M Graduate
Leaves Soon For
South America
Civil Service Has
Stenographer And
Typist Jobs Open
Predicts Wallace
Will Quit Race
One Dead, 10 Hurt
In Fire Truck Crash Margins Reduced
On Grain Trading
Five Graduate From
St. Stanislaus In
Chapel Hill
DENOUNCE CIVIl
RIGHTS, STAND
ON TIDELANDS
Stricken -Wh i 1 e On
Job; Succumbs In
Local Hospital
ALB. B. MUELLER
DIED TODAY OF
HEART ATTACK
ARABS ATTACH
CONDITIONS TO
ACCEPTANCE
A. KILGORE
FREIGHT AGENT
TO BE RETIRED
CHAS.F.TONN
FOUND DEAD
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Texas Rice Crop
Worth 80 Millions
Would Have State Of
Israel Dissolved
By U-N
Dairy Show Here
Proves Success As
Justice Of Peace
Rules Death Is .
Self-Inflicted
Victim Had Gone Up
Stairs Several
Times In Day
Miss Werna Lenert will pre-
ent a fifteen minute program
end on the floor of the nominating
convention at Philadelphia.
record acreages in an 18-county
region.
In Harris county, best estimates
place the 1948 rice acreage at 35,-
000 for an Increase of about 10,-
000 acres over last year.
An estimated 535,000 acres are
in rice in the 18-county area which
represents about 50,000 more than
last year.
was
action aimed at answering
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and business mathematicts. Regis-[tion
tration for these courses will * _
June 1 at 7:30 p. m,
Director, 14th U. S. Civil Service
Region, 210 South Harwood Street,
Venetian Blind £ op, occupying
the first flood of the building, said
hr had left The building to go to
the filling station next door, when
l he heard the gunshot. Some chlP
jdren hail been shooting firecrack-
■ shot through the mouth, and the
bullets had ranged upward through
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(’IX)SING COTTON PRICES.
New York: July 37.30, up 35
from opening; Oct. 33.92 up 40.,
New Orleans: July 37'28, up 36
from ypening; Oct. 33.89, up 39.
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THE WEATHER
EAST TEXAS- Const d e r a b le
cloudiness this afternoon, tonight
and tomorrow with scattered
showers in south portion. Not so
warm in south and central portions
this afternoon. Scattered thunder-
showers in the south tonight and
near upper coast Thursday. ■
Navasota Pool Now
Open For Swimming;
Leased by Engineer
May 26:
Maximum 86
Minimum 68
7 a. m 70
Rain .47 inch
State Convention Has
No Praise For
President
----1 will featdre semi-clas-
sical and popular numbers. Mrs.
Theo. R. Streng will be accom-
panist.
Mrs. Goldie Myerson, .who was
formerly, a school teacher In
Milwaukee, Wis., is now adruln-
by.
Replacing Mr. Kilgore will be
J. C. Stewart, from- Rogers. Stew-
art has 31 years Of railroading to
his credit. He is married and hps
one son, he a Methodist, and a,
Mason. Mr. Stewart has arrived
His family will follow during the
coming Week.
gree plan for either graduate or
undergraduate students.
For the benefit of students who
A. O. Hamon Jr., son of Mrs. S.
C. Towell of Brenham, will grad-
from Texas A 4M college on
’ June 4. Ten days later he will leave
Oarles F. Tonn, about 73. well
known retired Brenham business
man. was found shot to death with
a shotgun cn the second floor of
a building he owned on West Mail
■ street, at 1:30 o’eLoek this after-
noon.
Justice of the Peace H. A. Beck-
er, wl*o h«Id an inquest, reported
Mr. Tonn had ended hfs own life.
' W. H. SeMke, proprietor, of the
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Texas Democrats Repudiate Leadership of President Truman
All Democrats
COLUMBUS, O.. May 26. (U.R1—
A Columbus. Ohio, city fireman
was killed and at least 10 other
persons were injured when a bus
and a fire truck collided this morn-
ing.
Sixty-eight-year-old Louis Mar-
tin died when the fire truck on
which he was i
as it careened off the bus and
rammed into a grocery store.
M a g e 1 y n
J.udekc. Tulip boys: Jackie Luedke,
Victor Spinn. Terrence Warmke.
Hans ’and Fritz: Wilbert Rosen-
baum, and Adolph Wittner.
ling proved that both
[were wonderful.
Characters
Dutch children:
to gain more time fqr the drive
for control of Jerusalem. But they
did attach cpnditlons obviously un-
acceptable to the Jews.
' The Arabs informed the security
j council they would agree to a truvei
United Jewish Anneal.
| Diocese, and in recognition there tional anthem by Henry Boehm,1 appointed extension range special*
were awarded if* diploma at the Jr. while the Dutch children wav- ist.
Acting Director J. D. Prewit of
the extension service said Walker
will take over his new duties June
1. He will be a member of the
countriis I range and forestry department
[with headquarters at College Sta-
tion. ’ u
The Civil Service Commission
[announces examinations for filling
vacancies in the positions of Sten-
ographer and Typist at entrance
to
U. D. <’. TO DECORATE •
GRAVES FOR
. • .MEMORIAL DAY
ed them on the outstanding quali-
Ities on which the awards were [forms may be obtained front the
Members of the U. D. C. will made. . post office or from the Regional
decorate graves in local cemeteries | The^^ening was topped off by
Saturday even ing, beginning atI a dance in the honor of the grad-1
6:30 p. tn. uatea. Dallas 1, Texas.
Fight Expected To
Go To Floor In
Philadelphia
BROWNWOOD, May 26. (V.P.)—.
Texas Democrats have repudiated
‘he .leadership of President Tru-
man. And all indications are that
the Texans have embarked on a
Leslie D. Williams and Harry
Ferguson have returned from
Brownwood where they attend-
ed the state democratic con-
vention yesterday. Williams re-
• ported an interesting conven-
tion wit;/” thfe'ftntl’Truman Cl.',",
in complete control. The con-
vention passed resolutions con-
demning the Truman civil rights
program, and he said he judged
from the bitter words sppken on
alternate delegate to the' nation-
convention does not write a plat-
form for its candiate that is
satisfactory to the Texans, this
state will vote Republican in.
the fall. Williams was elected an
alternate delegate to the natian-
^al convention to be held in Phila-
delphia. Max C. Smith of San
Marcbs and K. L. Berry of Aus-
tin were named _ delegates from
the 10th congressional district.
Polk Shelton of Auston was also
named as an alternate. As a
candidate for presidential elector
in the November election. Judge
John Simmang of Giddings was
selected to represent this dis-
trict.
|only if; First, the Jews give up
the idea of their new state of i
Israel, returning -Palestine to the
status which existed before the
new state was proclaimed 11 days
ago; second, the Arabs asked that
the UN give guarantees that all
military supplies and reinforce-| “
ments to the Jewish fighting. .
forties be halted during the peri-
od of any peace negotiations.
Both conditions clearly are un-
Oldest On South e r n
Division Santa Fe,
them, at least, is equally u natal ”
ceptablc to the United States and|
Russia, who have recognized the,
new state. Acceptance of the se> |
ond probably would mean tha' the
United States which has warships! '
in the Mediterranean would have £
to enforce a blockade of Israel ’ ,,
ports. . • Ka,lr<7'*n8-
‘San. His Lt
That the Arabs will gain mr.iiI
time by th Mt new maneuver s»eir.s i
doubtfu). The security council" is
meeting today . and the United |
States is expected to-press hard:
for a new truce demand, bat-kid
by threat of economic sanctions
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WASHINGTON. Mnv 26. <UB»
The UN now has the job of find-
ing a new way out of the Pales-
tine prohlem for .the Arabs arc
saying "no” to a truce. > ’ ■
Actually, the Arabs avoided a
TEXAN OIES AT 96
STAMFORD, May 26. (U.P>—
Final rites are scheduled today for
Mrs. Rebecca Busby, who died in
Stamford yesterday at the age of
96.
Mrs. Busby used to tell of how
the Texas Rangers at one time had
to guard schoolchildren from In-
dian raids in the old days in Texas.
She had lived in Temple almost
half a century and was a native of
] Gonzales county.
Albert B. Mueller, carpenter,
aged 70. suffered a heart attack
• on a job on Baber
'Street. An ambulance, was called,
Political observers in Brown-
wood agree that anti-Trtiman lead-
ers went as far as they could st
the, state convention yesterday in
opposing the domestic policies of
the nation's chief executive.
Observers believe that, had they
gone stronger, the action may have
drawn rebellion from borderline
groups. That possibly could have
resulted in opposition pro-Tru-
man-forces edging into convention
control. ,
Political lieutenants of Governor
Beaufort! Jester say the convention
subscribe to a plainly-worded plat-
form opposing the president of
‘ederal control of the oil-rich tide-
lands and his program of civil
rights.
The convention conspicuously
omitted the customary courtesy of
passing • a resolution commending
the titular head of the national
party. Mr. Truman was mentioned _______ __
only once by name in a resolu-'j - --
tion expressing opposition to the today while
"Truman civil rights program.” .
The anti-Truman forces agreed and np was rushed to a local hos-
trt support all nominees. This was pi tai, where he died a few mo-
an action aimed at answering ment8 later, at 11:05 a. m.
He was born in Germany, Feb-
ruary 18. 1878 and immigrated
to America at the age of nine.
Since that date his entire life has
been spent in Washington county.
He was mess sergeant for the
Brenham cavalry troop in the
National Guard for many years.
He was married to Miss Mary
Green in the Berlin Lutheran
church on February 22, 1900. Mrs.
pri-1 Mueller preceded her -husband to
CHICAGO, May 26 <U.P> The
Chicago Board of Trade has reduc-
ed Initial margin requirements on
grain futures transactions.
The president of the board, Rich-
.— .... ------ ard Uhlmann, says the new mar-
riding overturned'jjjn requirements will go into ef-
eff the bus “nd feet at the opening of trading to-
morrow.
The. initial margin on wheat fu-
tures transactions will be 55 cenis
a bushel. The margin on corn fu-
tures will drop to 50 cents a
bushel, on oats to 18 cents, and on
soybeans to 80 cents.
was made by Herman L.
Zschappel rtf the American Le-
gion, Washington county, Bren-
ham. He expressed great pleasure salaries ranging from 31756
in being pt^-Meged to be among
for Maricoibo, Venezuela. South paint,
coast growers. The planters- IRW America, where he has accepted a ’m—
are in the last stages of sowing position as petroleum engineer
record acreages in an 18-county Wjth the Gulf Oil Company.
Certificated of perfect attend-
v.-ere given to the Cegielski [
Stephen, ** ' ‘
Marion
Santa Fe began as ticket agenf in j themselves.
ferred to Brenham as ticket agent, Houston Post, wrote the following
a position he held until 1928, when article about the dairy day here:
he became Santa Fe freight agent i Witshmgfbn/^nty i
here. > -
Mr. Kilgore is next to the oldest started
agent on the Southern division, business two and a half years ago.
1 brought their dairy stock to town dri'n
Tuesday for a round of, judging. C---—
It was the first dairy dSy in the ing. with the help of Miss Bettv go through jrttii
Moebe of Blinn, as accompanist, V -1" “ u K““
'spent many 1_________________„ ,
TRENTON. N. J., May 26.
—Republican presidential hopefuls
Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey
are on the campaign trail,. al-
though all pre-convention
maries are over.
Dewey, his western trip over, is
scheduled to speak in Trenton,
New Jersey today. Dewey is bid-
ding for the support of New Jer-
sey’s 35 GOP convention delegates.
Stassen already has made his New
Jersey bid.
But Stassen has started off on
another cross-country tour for
more support. He hits first into
New England, then west and fin-
ally into the deep south.
In a letter released today. Sen.
oyer KWHI^ Friday morning at tential 80-million dollar rice crop
has been planted by Texas Gulf
the. grave in August 1941. He is
survived by the following children:
Mrs. Ed Maeckel of Corpus Christi;
Alvin Mueller, Houston; Mrs. W.
F. Wehmeyer, Brenham; Lt.. Col.
Paul Mueller, now’ serving in the
armed forces in Germany; Mrs.
Melvin Emshoff, Houston; Mrs.
Leona Davis, Houston, and Morriss
J. Mueller, Houston.
.Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by the Leon Si-
mank Funeral home, after the son,
... _ ______ ______________ Lt. Col. Mueller in Germany, has
Arthur Vandenberg stated that he been heard from.
has no desire or intention, of be-
ing a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination. Vandenberg’s let-
ter was written to the "Yale Young
Republicans for Vandenberg Club."
The swimming pool in Navasota
is now open, having been leased for
the summer by A. E. Stein of New
Braunfels, a certified water en-
gineer, and former employe of the
State Health Department, and
Capt. in the U. S. Army sanitary
corps during World War II.
The pool will be closed each
Tuesday to give the management
an opportunity to bring in fresh
water by means of a spray, and to
clean the bottom by means of a
special type vacuum cleaper. With
special permission from the State
Health Department, Mr. Stein,
does not plan draining the pool at
an ytime this summer. Frequent
chemical and bacteriological tests
will be made as a check on im-
purities. f
The baby pool will be free to ail
youngsters under 8 years of pgc.
Foot baths and shower stalls, as
well as the baby pool have just
received a coat of rubber base
The first political speech of
the coming campaign has been
scheduled over KWHI for Fri-
day morning at 7:25 o'clock by
Creekmore Fath of Austin, can-
didate for congress. Fath will
speak for five minutes, and
promises something unusual in
the way of political speeches, he
says,
.he heard the pellets hit the metal
roof, and about that time an em-
ployee .called from the shon that
blood was coming through tno
ceiling.
"Then rktiew what had happen-
,ed.” Sehlke said. "I called his
nephew, Hervey Tonn. from the
filling station, and we went up-
. stairs. There we found Mr. zTcni\"
seated on a metat can he had rig- “
T T * "Fon it,'and
g f r* /Tf T Z3 p—l 1 n his slu,T1P<:d against a cot. Ha
Lts 2 2 put the shotgun on f.tc bed,
a ibut j don t know how he managed
—------ pUt trigger. He hs< been
The one-day dairy show held at Fireman’s Park Tuesday
was proclaimed highly successful, particularly in the high
quality of the dairy cattle exhibited by the farmers them-
. selves.
j Tn fact, none of the cattle were
'exhibited by the so-called fanciers,
but by the commercial producers
| Leon Halp, farm
When Bob Colvej-t, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the State Democratic Party of Texas ers day before, and he ‘bought
asked for a show of Democrats almost the entire crowd stood in the convention hall. The Texas Demo- iu»
ratic I’arty. held its state convention in Brownwood. Texas to elect delegates to the national copvention.
'nu E. H.
socral.' 3:00
Education 477, Educational Tests just the beginning
and Measurements on the Blinn time
College campus this summer. Reg- religious and secular education re-
istration for these courses will be- ceived really - promotes love of
God and true patriotism for flag
These courses will fit into any dr-- and country.
I From church the graduates
| marched to school for the Amerl-i
can legion awards. Miss Augustine j
are employed, Blinn College will Ltickerk and Stephen Ccgielski
offer night classes in business law were the recipients. The presents- I
The pool will be open dally ex-"
cept Tuesday. Regular hours are
2:00 to 9:00 p. m. Paul Pearson,
high school principal, will serve as
manager for Mr. Stein.
BEING COMFIJ MEN JED
RETURNS BY REQUEST
And speaking of Truman’s
so-called “civil rights” program,
' Ulft president today conveniently f<
" ‘,^i^i*re<i ft crisis in the public
► • schools of the country. He pro-
. - claimed that unless the federal
government helps support the
schools, they will face a near
breakdown. It may be true that
the schools need more financial
support, just as they. have al-
ways needed it. But we don’t
think they need it badly enough
to accept help from the fedenjl
government. For when the fed-
eral government puts up money
to support a local governmental
function, the federal government
takes charge. And when the fe 1-
eral government takes charge
.of our schools. Mr. Truman’s
"civil rights" program- will be-
come operative- meaning white
and neggo children will be re-
quired to attend the same
schools. We fought two wars
with Germany and greatly
criticized it because the cen’ral
government itself operated the
pohools and taught therein cer-
tain propaganda known as “kul-
tur” in World War I and “Naz-
ism” in World War II. With
men like Truman and Wallace
active in American public life,
we can resign ourselves to
plentiful doses of Washington
propaganda in our schools, once
we deliver them into the hands
of the central government. <
• * •
Mrs. Linda Anderson is receiv-
ing compliments on the verses
she wrote for use in the junior
coronation at the Maifest. They
were composed especially for the
event, to carry out the theme
of "Dreamland”, -and, as read
over the public address system
by Harold Hulebak, added much
to the pleasure of the event.
• * •
10:45 o'clock, it was announced
• today. Miss Lenert recently
sang over the station, and re-
turns at popular request. Her
program will featlire semi-clas-
j .Began Here 1905 i
. Arthur Kilgore is now retired,
as freight agent of the Santa Fe
Railroad. For 53 years he has been I
fniimmiino-. He started on the Old '
■Sap. His initial service with the
of First Baptist
church .residence of Mi
Neibuhr. business and
p. rh.
Rainbow
4:30 p. m.
American Legion and Auxiliary.
Is p ni,.
Ladies Auxiliary to James F.
Dillon Post 7104. City hall. 8 p. m.
May 28:
High school graduation service.
8 p. m. ’ , --------
James Dillon Post 7104. VFW
regular meeting, N. Y. Cafe din-
ing room. 8 p. m.
May 30:
Memorial Day.
American Legion. Memorial serv-
$2391 (Mir annum. Employment will ice. First MethodiSt church, 11 a.
the students’and highly commend-[be with various Federal agencies ;m.
In the state'of Texas. Application ! Baccalaureate service, Blinn col-
lege. 8 p. ni,
June '2:
U. D. C. meeting, residency of
Mrs. T. O. High on Day St. 3:30
p. m.
were as follow^,
Jimmy Zwerne-
imann. Charles Ripple, Henry
I Boehm, Jr., Joyce Wiecker, Aman-
After the presentation—of-- the da1 Rosenbaum. Marsha Bpske.
Donald
Masonic Ha IL
retirement, due to company age Sixty head of calvjs, cowg and
limit requirement, will now give bulls were classified in the dairy
him and his family an opportunity jay judging. Twenty-five head
to rest and enjoy, their farm near- took blue ribbons and only five
(Continued on page three)
[ Arthur Krock said he had never
been certain that Wallace would
‘‘I his capdidacy.
.murw ui imiuu, u.-» —Krock said hF-baseil his doubts on
spent many hours in training these what he called "long acquaintance
children tor their gay performance.' with Wallace and his fluttering
. The setting of the play was a lit- '
tie Dutch village m Holland. The | *>*» to’d. of
scenery consisting of green coun- [Indu.tna is s and advertising men
try side. Dutch mills, homes and a thinks President Truman
little village church was painted ,has H^hance for re-election. .
by Marvin Doering, son of the!
tether. Pasture Specialist
The children representing little I r" < 4*
I Dutch children were dressed in [ VllV Pll 1 rOIllOllOll
gay colorful coattimes and wooden ------
[shoes and .presented s’-ng. dialogue COLLEGE STATION, May 26.
The following have completed and dance about their native Hol- 'l l’1 A. H. Walker, assistant pas-
the ‘course of studies, prescribed land. Th cclimax of the operette ture specialist of the Texas A & M
! for the CatlwUi’ schools of this was the singing <4 the Dutch Na- Colleg extension service, has been
'annointed extension range special-
awarded rf* diploma at the Jr. while the Dutch children wav-,1st.
.Stanislmw cchool in Chapel cd Dutfh flags, followed by the ‘ ‘ n n “
warpath of opposition that will
' istrator of Jerusalem and deputy firm “no”, apparently in an effort
foreign ^minister of the riew
state of Israel. The only woman
member of Israel’s cabinet, Mrs.
Myerson is now in the United
States, making a first-hand re-
port on the new nation's strug-
gle to a special conference of the
Grace Lutheran
Children Present
Dutch Operetta
„ i-pf*cSented to a
mr\ > .I........... y www —I tSCl
evening, by the sixteen little chil- j November elections.
’ 1 attending Grace Lutheran
school. The teacher, W. O. Doer-
CHICAGO. May 26 Il'.Pt The
Washington correspondent for the
. fticue York. told^q
started their county-WTd’e milk (house both Monday and Tuesday the presidential race before the
the Southern division, i
During his years of sendee he has I
trained so many operators he has ,
long since lost count, he say». His COunty since 1041.
University Houston
(Of
‘St .
I HUI? Stephen J. Ccgielski. Albin singing of “America" by Gloria
|S. Cegielski, Eugene A. Kubeczka, Jean Fiiske and Donald Boecker,
Registration for Blinn College Augustine V. Luckerk, Clara C. waving American flags, after hav-
summer term (June 1 to July 31) Springer,
will be on June 1. Courses will be
offered in bl o 1 o gy, chemistry, ancc
physics. English, history, govern- brothers, Stephen, Marcel,
ment, algebra, trigonometry, bus-‘Christopher, Marion Gurka,
inesa mathematics, accounting. Bibion Stempuhowski..
typewriting, education, and ec<>-i
nomlcs. eighth grade diplomas to the grad- Twins from America;
The University of Houstori will uates from St. Stanislaus school, Boecker and Gloria Faske Tulip
offer Education 436.. Principle's—<»f-R«-v:—J -Lj. W-esoleJc^t-oftprafcttLated girls.- —Barbara Litz.
Guidance in Elementary apd Sec- them and said, that comrncnce-
ondary School Departments, and ment was not the end but rather
Now was the
show that the
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