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Brenham Banner-Press
BRENHAM
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BRENHAM, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARC^ 25, 1949.
NO. 60
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Still Uses The “V” Sign
kets Pray In Protest
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CARRY PLACARDS
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Axis Sally Gets Off
Mississippi water 1*
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Calendar of Events
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Many Attend Rites
For Drowning Victim
First Calf Roping
Exhibition Due At
" Burton This Sunday
JANE WYMAN
AND OLIVIER
WIN OSCARS
500 KNEEL IN
FIFTH AVENUE
AS REDS MEET
Harvard Profe s a o r
Denies Movement
Communistic
Best Performances In
; Movies In 1948
Proclaiified
LEWIS DEALT
SEVERE BLOW
BY NLRB RULE
DALLAS HAS
DAMAGE FROM
HEAVY WIND
Buildings Unroo fed
By Sudden Gust
At Midmorning
HAIL REPORTED
FLYING BOXCAR
DOWN IN ARCTIC
WITH 4 ABOARD
FIVE BOY SCOUTS,
SALEM, BE GIVEN
HIGHEST AWARD
2 HIGH JACKING
SUSPECTS PICKED
UP IN BALLINGER
Unel la almost nil
• tent How eoon
to shove oat his
WASHINGTON, March 25. (U.R1—Axis Sally learned her
fate today.
Arison, manager
uu Chamber of
M through with
ittlng editorial
las Magazine"
famous fables,
r story of the
his Arab mas-
onto put his
it. HU master
'hen the camel
k Jn, then his
la whole body,
>ved his master
p. m. I* Harris Memorial Hos-
pital at Fort Worth.
Sweetwater Solves
Its Water Problem
Market,
the
>y by
lighway
.Vi. >
World Peace Parley
In New York,
Draws Fire'
SWEETWATER. March 25. OU”
- Sweetwater’s water problems are
solved, apparently. The eity says
* North And West
~--Teju..7.;- 7 ;>ort j
| Big Hailsu
ky #0. known lo-
pvasota highway,
I business district
' on Main street,
frth on
p showing
pnged tqda;
a State Higl
K new route goea
Lturns north on
tea into the prea-
■ghway on East
It. This change
tested for many
tarns of removing
|l from Central
brands hospital,
nld route.
hl
Got Their Man But
He Proves Problem
* -1
Bk
Best movie song award went to
Buttons and Bows.
Island,
to
_ I ! FLOODWATERS,
With 10-Year Sentence OF MISSISSIPPI
FALLING TODAY
Greenville aaya the twister went
through the town once. Then it
backtracked and retraced Its path,
without electric
without
NADOES SWEEP NORTH TEXAS
Winston Churchill, wartime Prime Minister of Crest Britain, makes his famous "V" for victory. sign
on his arrival in New York aboard the Queen Elisabeth.* From left to right, are: ('apt. Christopher
Soaiues, Churchill's son-in-law; his daughter Mary; Churchill, and Mra. Churchill. iblEA Telephoto).
Mrs. Ida
sp«I Otto
an J Mra.
WASHINGTON, March 28. «V.R>
—The Fair Employment Board has
ordered all, government agencies to
end racial' and religious discrim-
ination in federal employment. The
ruling supplements President Tru-
man's order against discrimina-
tion in the federal civil service last
July.
The directive which applies to
more than two-million federal em-
ploye calls for aU agencies to
practice the American creed of
equal opportunity.
In the new “fair employment"
Instructions, ths board tells' the
agencies to appoint a fair employ-
ment officer. It also allows em-
ployees or job applicants to ap-
peal to that fair employment of-
ficer or directly to the agency
bead.
f Commi
a?Sf
r^d to bo’Jftmed
The sheriffs department has
been notified that two young -men
suspect^ have been picked up in
Ballinger, answering the descrip-
tion of the two who held up R M.
Fielder, negro garage owner st
Old Washington, Thursday of last
Discrimination In
Federal Employment
Ordered At End
The highest award offered by
the Lutheran Committee on Scout-
ing Will be presented to five scouts
of troop No. 858 at the Salem
Lutheran church Sunday, March 27
at 7:30 p. m..
Field Executive Walter McGhee
<«f Navasota will address the con-
gregation on the value of Luth-
eran Scouting, highlighting the
Lutheran Scout Award, The Pro
Deo Et Patria, for God and coun-
try. The local Scoutmaster, Ernest
Wilhelmsen and the senior scout
leader will also take part in the
ceremonies and the presentation of
the awards.
According to the latest informa-
tion 18 such awards have been
made in *the Texas District of the
American Lutheran church, which
covers all of the state of Texas
part of Arkansas and part of
Louisiana.. F o u r t e en of these
awards were issued to Scouts of
Washington county of Troops 181
and 858. The five local boys have
all attained the > rank of Life
Scouts. This Lutheran award is
equal to the Eagle Scout award.
"The following scouts will re-
ceive the special citation and be
awarded the Pro Deo Et Patria
award at this service:’ lAfe Scout
Clarence Hodde, Life Scout Charlie
Rosenbaum. Life Scout Luther
Schwetlmann, Life Scout Arthur
Koester, and Life Scout Edward
Lee Sonfrnerfeld.
The following four Star Scouts
have made eppilcstion for the Pro
Deb Et Patria .handbook and will
be presented with the Certificate
of Service Record far Lutheran
Boy Scouts at this service: Louis
Winkelmann. Jr., Roger Draehn.
R Lee Blmank, and Edward
Bchwarze. The public is cordially
invited to witness this impressive
ceremony*
DALLAS, March 25. (V.H)—
Heavy property damage has been
. canned by light tornadoes and
other elemerfiAl disturbances which
I swept across North Texas today.
However, no deaths or injuries
have been reported.
A tornadlc wind lashed the husi-
Bess district, of Greenville, 50 miles
northeast of Dallas, shortly, after
11 a. m. It was less than an hour
after a wind and hall storm struck
at Dallas. The weather bureau and
moat eyewitnesses agree that the
storm at Dallas was not a tor-
nado. ,
A tornado dipped down twice In
the Seymour area near Wichita
Falta shortly after dawn. It Mt
first on a farm, damaging a bouse.
Then it bounced down at the out-
skirts of the town, blowing ths
roof off a lumber shed and partial-
ly unroofing a cotton compress
warehouse.
The center of the Ore e n v i 11 e
business district caught the brunt
of that tornado. The new fumi-
tfiro company, a three-story build-
u half-block long, was dam-
aged heavily.
A United Press correspondent al
I
EAMTLAND. March 28. ffJll—
Report" from the Germa* Hos-
pital say 14 person* ore Injured,
three seriously, in a tornado at
Desdemona. There are no known
deaths.
A United Prrnn rorrenpoadent
reports that he has received in-
formal bin showing “several per-
sons hurt critically.”
■ way socialiam
Locracy, as illus-
Kln todsy and in
Kes. A little gov-
■ of our lives..,is
■drug It ta pleas-
Lt it grows to be -
Ksidiously under-
■knee until the
Biens welcome
■ Washington to
■them and make
Btor them—even
K dictator.
■k> c 1 a 1 tat-Labor
feady deep in' the
Government con-
Ke investment in
Standstill because
Stations, now pro-
K government not
Eta I business but
Eaurant and laun-
Rbrase, and also
["governments to
■g houses and sell
[the installment
Booe to delete the
■ class" from the
m 1538 and open
[(f) of govern-
!to all.
LA., the Tennessee
totate socialism, It
M by the do-good-
kon that the pur-
Ifoject was' flood
tonaervation. and
bition. and that
bower waa merely
p It ta proposed to
■vemment fund*
Isteam generating
bhicfi win put the
rectly in th* pow-
kstneas. The sup-
k new generating
Li* neceaaory to
lie project function
i the government s
A large crowd attended funeral
services for stx-year-old Jimmie
Dale Kramer, Pleasant Hill com-
munity boy who was drowned in
a pool of water in a pasture at
5:30 p. m. Tuesday. Services were
held st the Leon Blmank funeral
home, and continued at New Weh-
dem church, with Rev. G. C. Benff.
the pastor, officiating.
The Ladies Aid Society Choir
sang two numbers, “Safe in the
Arms of Jesus'* and “Rock of
Ages”, and at the cemetery they
sang “Nearer My God to Th*e”.
Th- Primary Department of the
New Wehdem Sunday school sang
"Jesus Loves Me.” at the church
service*. Many beautiful floral of-
ferings came from friMds.
The hoy is survived by his par-
ents. Mr. and Mr*. Marti*
Kramer; » four - year - oM sta-
tor. Virginia Lot* Kramer;
Henske of Houston
Frieda Henske of Walter.
MIC_______
FIRST YEAR BERE
Company TT. 3Mth Armorad
HOLLYWOOD, March 25. O>
~-Actress Jane Wyman and Actor
Sir Laurence Oliver are wearing
the croivns of queen and king of
the movies today.
Miss Wyman and Oliver were
awarded “Oscars” for the best
movie performances of 1948 by
the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences in Hollywood
last night. Miss Wyman got her
award for playing a deaf.mutc
girl in the film "Johnny Belinda”?
Sir Laurence,. whose sward was
made by proxy because he is in
London, was tapped for his per-
formance of "Hamlet”.
, In addition, the British-made
Hamlet ^jvon the award for the
best picture of the year and three
other prizes, costume design, di-
rection' and set decoration.
Walter Huston got an "Oscar"
u the best supporting actor for
his role as the toothless prospector
in Treasure of the Sierra Madr/
Claire Trevor, who played the
gangsters* moll In Key Largo,
toted home a gold statuette for her
supporting performance in that
film. ______- ‘
Am CORPS RESERVE BEING
CALLED TO MEET MONDAY
The 323rd Composite Squadron
of Air Force Reu*rve, here in
Brenham, is beiftg called for s
meeting, together with any others
who are InMreated, on Monday
The City of Hospitality
Marc* SSI
The Scarecrow Creep*,” High
.sohool, g p. tn.
’ .MbH* S7i <
Anniversary service, S/leag,,
Luthera* church, 3 p. m.
Mtau* Mt
Francoe DeMond, memo-eopranRa
‘“J^tS^p.m.
EDINBURG, March 25 <UP»-
County health officers at Edin-
burg ar* awaiting a laboratory
report oa an taau* they found al-
nuwt too hot to handle.
The case involved a youthful
M«xie*n picked up yesterday He
wa* a auapeet la a S1000 burglary
—and also a swpectod carter *f
Pending the report, th* youth
th* regular Hidalgo enmity jail.
IMS COTTON I
____ A
F '
Th* first of a series of coif rop-
ing exhibitions wiU be held Sun-
day afternoon at 1 6 c!ock at J*ck
CWttar** new arena recently com-
Ptoted aear the American Legion
Okttor said *
ha* been constructed, witji ade-
a new
week.
Fielder was forced to drive the
men into Grimes county, where he
wm forced out of the car near
Allen farm, and the men sped
away.
It ta known that the same car
was used In s filling station high-
jacking In Edna, on the same
nlgnt, and the car picked up later
in Ban Antonio, where it wa*
rbsndoned Two men were arrest-
ed still later when a rubbery waa
cttempted in Bi 11 Inger. Officers
here will go to Ballinger In a few
days for positive Identification of
tl»e suspects, who were reported as
White, 18 or 19 year* of age, and
wealing tan cowboy shirts with
brown shoulders. One wore cow-
boy boots and the other field boots,
and each wore a reddish colored
sweater at the time of the Old
Washington high-jacking.
■Kia
al Guard Unit, located at Fire-
man's Park in Brenham completed
!£it\£ ^*ldTnrM^h
unit wm otfanised on March 17.
IMS with S <rffte*ra and IT en-
listed men. Today, on* year later,
ths strength *f th* company I*
4 Rial * aa mahM^mrf mSkn
Cart A. Schlottmana M cmnmander
Including 8 R-tea temha. S IK-
tCMM « s*m tw*> I.
and rooepttan-fe u
I receiving re-
mts who heard
it broadcast in
r hour* *f Feta
mm tetton «M
ted from point*
Muwylvanla asid
BkM *»d from
ta^Wwt. AM
Itatenlro la
•aland. On* *f
d hl* Mme a*
, mid he heard
,JW>iiuL
NEW YORK. March 25. <U.P>—
More than 500 persons knelt in
prayer In the middle, of Park
Avenue before New York’s Wal-
dorf-Astoria hotel today.
The demonstrators were pickets
protesting the so-called "World
Peace Conference" Which opens at
the hotel tonight. The picketing
started shortly before noon while
some of the foreign delegate* were
holding a news conference In the
hotel.
Within minutes, there were 200
chanting, placard-waving persons
marching in the picket line. Their
placards said “Sovleta* pitiful
slave* go back to Stalin" and "Psi
Joe wants peace—piece of every
nation.”
Urges Him To Jump
One woman stepped from the
line and pleaded with Soviet Com-
poser Dmitri Shostakovich to
“jump through the window” as
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina did last
summer. Shostakovitch. ta a Rus-
sian delegate to the conference.
The crowd had grown to more
than 500 by noon Eastern Time,
Mihen the pickets knelt in the
street to pray. More than 100 po-
licemen were on hand to keep the
pickets in line, and a crowd of
more than 5000 stood watching.
An enterprising vender shoul-
dered his way along the packed
curbs selling buttons with the
Mme "Cardinal Mlndszenty” on
them and a crucifix at the end of
a ribbon for 15 cents each. „ „ --
The picketing was sponsored by
th* People’s Committee for Free-
dom of Religion. The conference
1* sponsored by the National
Council of the Arts, Sciences and
Professions—and the State De-
partment expects it to turn into
a sounding board for Soviet propa-
ganda.
Harvard Profess** lavetve*
But Dr. Hsrlow Shapley, a Har-
vard astronomer and leading fig-
ure In the conference, denied that
in a meeting with reporters Inside
the hotel. Shapley told 100 news-
men: "Thia has been faleely label-
led a pro-Communlst meeting. It’s
not. Its organiser* are American
citizens who seek to contribute to
the establishment of the spirit of
peace at a time when there is the
heavy noise of the.great arma-
ments of war.” -
I . Shapley added: "We believe that
better understanding between the
United States and Russia la es-
sential to world peace.”
The reporters were anxious to
question the delegation* from be-
hind the Iron curtain. But Shapley
urged them to save their queries
(Conttnnea oa page five)
................................
NATIONAL GUARD
Decision Threa t e n s
Validity of Mine
~ “Conmcta
y ELECTIONS DUE
Refusal To Sign Non-
Red Pledge Cuts
Out Union
WASHINGTON, March 25. iEt)
— A great new threat to the pow-
er of John L. Lewis and hia United
Mine Workers has developed in
Washington.
The National L a b o r Relations
Board has opened the way for
employe™ and other mine union*
to chdlleng?'the rooat the UMW
has practically ruled in the coal in-
dustry.
Labor board sources cannot re-
call when, if ever, the jurisdiction
of the Lewis union in the coal
mines has been challenged before
the board. It ta now being chal-
lenged in a relatively small case
Involving the Mid-Continent Coal
Corporation at Marissa. Illinois. “*
The company is the first to ask
for an election to decide whether
a union represents its employees.
The right for a company to' ask
for such sn election is provided in
the Taft-Hertley law.
Both the UMW and its rival, the
Progressive Mine Wo r k e r s of
America, claim bargaining Tights
and contracts with the Illinois
firm.
The labor board has ordered an
election in 30 day*. But the Lewis
union has been 'denied a place
on the ballot because Lewis re-
fused to sign a non-Communist af-
fidavit.
Obviously, with this precedent,
if other mine opeatorrs chose to
ask for elections and the UMW
were barred from th* ballot, John
L. Lewis would have big trouble on
his hands.
The NLRB also ruled Indirectly
that the United Workers con-
tract is illegal.
The Progreaaive Mine Workers
asked that the Illinois company's
petition for an election be dismiss-
ed because rof an existing contract
between the PMW and the com-
pany. But the board ruled that this
contract is illegal under the Taft-
Hartley law because it continues
a union shop or preferential hir-
ing clause without an NLRB elec-
tion.
The board added in a footnote
that the Mme provtaion is contain-
ed in the Iwwls contract.
WESTOVER FIELD. Maas.,
March 25. <U»—A C-83 Flying
Boxcar attached to the Military
Air Transport Service I* reported
missing in the Resolute Bay are*
south of the Arctic Circle In
Canada. .
Four men
plane.
Air Force officials at West-
over Field, Massachusetts, say the
ciaft reported Its position in a
leutine message shortly after mid-
night end hasn’t been heard from
since. But the Canadian Air Force
headquarter* at Halifax picked up
a meaaege early todaw from a
plane that said It had only one
hours fuel left and expected to
moke a crash landing.
Canadian officials believe the
plane went down between Baffin
Island and Cornwallis ”
Search planes have been sent
th* ares.
But Tornado Smashes
Negro Cabins With
Three Deaths *
» BATON ROUGE. Mur 25 <l’f»
— The muddy Mississippi river is
roaring through a widening hole
in n 'fvee near Port Allen, Louisi-
ana, but there's good news for
people who live in the area any-
way.
A helii'optrr lnn|>ectlon this
morning indicated that the waters ing
were draining off and that bwyou '
residents are not in immediate
peri). -The state adjutant-general
mao* the recon naissa nee flight
thia morning. He say* it'* doubt-
ful that the break In the levee can
be cloned before Monday.
Some 1500 peraona live in flak-
ing villages along the bayou into
Which, the
dramj.id.
Disaster of a different sort hit
Mississippi last qight. A tornado
smashed negft» cabins In South
Washington county, near the Ar-
kansas border Three persona were
killed, and a score of tenant farm-
ers were injured.
Mildred Gillars, the woman who broadcast for the war-
time Naxi radio, was sentenced to serve from 10 to 30 years
• and pay a $10,000 fine.
She was convicted by a federal
court jury in Washington on
March 10 on charges of treason to
the United State*. The mixinniin
penalty for treason is dea’h
Federal Judge Edward Curran
imposed sentence on the White-
haired woman today after reject-
ing a defense motion for
trial.
In imposing sentence, the court
noted that Misi Gillars was con-
victed of only one of the ciijht
olher acts whi*h the government
pressed in Its prose c u t b n. She
I wjih found guilty of participating
in a Nazi radio drama. "Vision of
Invasion,” which wa* broadcaot
to American troops in England
jr.st before D-Day. It was an at-
tempt. to prevent or weaken the
Nurpiandy invasion.
Judge Curran noted that the evl-
dei cc did not disclose that Miss
Gillars took part in conferences
V ith high Nazi officials to formu-
late policy. That waa the caa<* with
Douglas Chandler, a former Amer-
ican newsman convicted of treason
Chandler, also a commentator for
the Nazi radio, was sentenced to
life imprisonment and a $10,000
fine.
Robert Best, another United
States correspondent convicted of
treason, received a similar sen-
tence.
As sentence wa* pronounced nn
Axis Sally today, she waa poised
but pale. She took it unflinchingly.
r—--------
MBNHIM WEATHE*
BT TEXAS—Considerable
lne*s thia afternoon, tonight
amorrow Showers and thun-
Mters tonight and tomorrow
n extreme west portion and
the upper coast this aftsr-
Not much change in temper-
WASHINGTON, March SS. (Ill
•One of th* hotteet diplomatio
jobs in the World, that of Amer-
ican mbaasador to Russia, was
vacated today.
Lieutenant - General Walter
Bedell Smith resigned as our top
representative In Moscow. Pre*!-
dent Truman accepted hta resig-
nation with great reluctance.
Smith will be given * field com-
mand, perhaps command of the
First Army.
Mr. Truman's new* secretary,
Chaeta* Roas, says the choice nf a
man to succeed Smith is "wide
open.”
Another announcement reveal*
that Fleet Admiral William
Leahy. President Truman’s 73-
ysar-old chief of staff, resigned
his post Monday. *
Ttie city was
The city was without electric
power for more than a half-hour
as the wind and flying debris con-
tinued to cut wires.
The town of Seymour, 180 miles
to the west, was still without pow-
er early thia afternoon — seven
hours after the tornado. The twls- ,
ter struck there' it I a. m., doing
upward* of flO.OOO In damage at
the lumbershed and the cotton
warehouse.
The storm sheared the main
power line of the Tcxaa Electric
Service Company It disrupted
three circuits carrying a total of
82.IMI0 volts.
A 38-year-old painter was killed
at El Paso today when wind caused
him to lose hta balance while
working on the roof of Mmar
(Continued on page six)
...........ri «*»',.i w.
Ambassador Smith
And Advisor Leahy
Quit Their Posts
m 1-1
Former Governor
j Ross Sterling Dies
Early This Afternoon
———- .
FfMRT WORTH, March 25.
(VFi— A former governor of
Texas, Rosa Sterling, died to-
day In Fort Worth.
. Death came to the man who
was the chief executive of Tex-
es I* 1980 through IMS /it 1:51
night st • (Cm. at the American
Legton hall. A representative will
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