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Native of Brenham
Dies in Galves'ton
Closer Pacific Ties
Needed, Dewey Says
Sears Swine Show
Scheduled To Be
Held Here Sept. 21
Morrison Defends
British Trade With
Iron Curtain Nations
R. S. Muske Laid
To Rest in Somerville
Prosecutor Prepares
For Carlino Trial
r ENEMY BEING
DUG OUT FROM
CAVES, BUNKERS
Marines F i n d Little
Resistance In
Eastern Front
DERAL AGENT
PROVED LOAN
EN GOT JOB
Noise Of B a 111
Silences Talk
Of Peace
Refused Right To Fly
Airlines Over .
Germany
Lovett Approved
For Defense Post
fcame Treasurer Of
I Concern He
Helped
toYLEQUIZZED
$400LIn Prizes Will
Be Offered In
Projects
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Morrison, in a direct reply to
American criticism of British for-
eign policy, also defended Brit-
ain’s recognition of Red China.
Morrison says the recognition of
communist China is nothing
more than acceptance of a com-
mon fact.
"Our recognition does not im-
ply approval,” he said, "how
could it, when our boys are fight-
ing alongside yours in oKrea?”
Other p<
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PASTURES AIDED
Cattle Men Happy
As Feed Bills Get
Relief ~ '
HEMPSTEAD, Sept 13 —A
28-year-old Houston automobile
salesman, Larry Armstrong, was
killed yesterday at Hempstead
when his car collided with a
truck. Armstrong came to Hous-
ton from Minnesota about six
months ago. •
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 —
Governor Thomas Dewey of New
York said after a 40-mlnute con-
ference with President Truman
today that there is need for
"much closer political and mili-
tary alliance” between this coun-
try and the free nations of the
Pacific area.
Dewey predicted that the en-
tire Pacific would be "The” crit-
ical area of the world for the
next few years.
He said he and the President
did not discuss politics in any
way. - . ■ I
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Him To
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HOUSTON, Sept. 13 <U.P> — Dis-
trlct Attorney
San Angelo is
sengers want to remain in the
Western Zone. American authori-
ties say they are now being ‘‘pro-
cessed.’’
SHINGTON,.Sept. 13 (UB —
late sub-committee was told
that a government em-
e who recommended a 3L-
0 federal loan, to American
>ld Corporation in 1944 be-
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BEAUMONT, Sept. 13 (HD —
Upper classmen at Maumont'g
new state senior college, Lamar
Tech, agree today a certain new
freshman haa the proper atti-
tude.
The Frosh entered the library
for processing and asked fheek-
ly: “Where do I sign up for class-
es in humilities T’
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1M0RE PRESSURE
PUT ON CZECHS
IN DATE CASE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (OR) —
The Navy haa disclosed that It
has grounded Navy privateers of
Squadron Nine in Alaska after
four crashes by such planes cost
45 lives. ______ ’ - ■ '
An official investigation has
been ordered.
- The action was revealed in a
letter by Undersecretary of Nayy
Francla Whitehair to Representa-
tive Hugh Mitchell of Washing-
ton. Mitchell had demanded that
all the privateers, of which the
Navy has about 90. be grounded
as risky.
• OMAHA, Sept. 13 — More
than 200 midwest fanners leave
.Omaha today for a tour of the
east coast and eastern Canada.
They will observe snd study
agricultural operations in South-
eastern Canada, New England,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Dlinota,
with stopovers in the nation’s
capital and New York City.
' The farm study tour is spon-
sored by rsdio station WOW of
Omaha.
CLOSING COTTON
. New York: Oct. 34.60-63, up 4 7;
Dec. 34.65S8. up 2 4.
New Orleans: Oct 34.52, up 2;
Doc, 34.56, down 1 to up X
“Four-H club boys from ah
eight county area will participate
in the Sears Foundation swine
show scheduled for the Wash-
ington county fair grounds, Sep-
tember 21,” Lawrence Vaughan,
assistant county agricultural train’s engineer and 26 other paa-
agent, said today.
"Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Rob-
ertson, Walker, Madison, Leon,
and Washington cbuntles will be
represented in the Brenham-Bry-
an stores show,” Vaughan aaid.
begin at 9:30
p shortly after
French Approve
German Soldiers
In European Army
PARIS, Sept. 13 France
has dropped its demand to limit
German participation in the West the only surviving heirto Jhejda-
European defense forces to small
combat units.
The disclosure came as govern-
ment officials In Paris voiced ap-
proval of the agreement of the
Big Three foreign ministers in
Washington on a European army
including the Germans.
While France- agrees to Ger-
man Uhtts within a European ar-
my, reliable sources In Paris say
France never will retreat from its
Insistence against the formation
of an independent German army.
The official weather observer
for Brenham said this afternoon
that almost two Inches of drouth-
breaking rain haa already fallen
within the city, washing the tem-
perature down from a Wednes-
day high of 88 to a cool 71 at 2
p. m. today.
Mrs. W. G. Stein said 1 Aft U- --
t hes of rainfall was recorded at
Democratic Japan upon the signing of the Peace Treaty Septem- mid afternoon In Brenham but
FORT WORTH, Sept. 13 —
A garage employee plunged to
death in an automobile last
night when he drove the vehicle
Into an open elevator saft
Authorities says 30-year-old
Robert Holt apparently believed
the freight-type elevator car was
waiting. The gate was up. Holt
lived three hours, most of the
time conscious, as firemen, po-
licemen and metal workers at-
tempted to rescue him from the
late-model automobile.* It draped
V-shaped over a beam on the
elevator roof, two stories below.
Once Holt pleaded with k news-
man: “Get a jack and get this
car off of me. Oh Lord, get me
out of here.” He died shortly aft-
er a doctor injected a narcotic
to relieve his suffering.
Privateer Planes
Grounded By Navy
■ . Tbe Air force calls Ua “guided w a 1I71I I
JAYCEES WILL
SP0NS01&0RN.
HOG CONTESTS
A former Brenhamite, Roy Ray
Miller, died early thia morning
at St. Mary's hospital in Galves-
ton, following a heart attack
Wednesday night Mr. Miller had
ben In ill health for some time.
Mr. Miller was born in Bren-
ham August 2, 1887, and on Aug-
ust L 1908, became baggage
agent here tor the Santa Fe rail-
way. In 1915 he went to Galves-
ton with the passenger depart-
ment of the railroad, and dur-
ing the years advanced to chief
clerk of the baggage department.
Funeral services will be held
at 4 p. m. Friday at the J. Levy
A Bros, funeral home In Galves-
ton.
Mr. Miller Is survived by his
widow, Maggie Ralaton Miller;
two sone, Roy H. Miller of Hitch-'
cock and Wallace H Miller of
Galveston; three daughters, Mias
Annie Melton Miller of Galves-
ton, Mrs. Vernon Lakey of Edge-
water, Va., and Mrs. John E.
Mills, wife of a Baptist mission-
ary now en route to Nigeria, Afri-
ca; and two slaters, Mrs. Helen
Bolton and Mrs. W. H. Allen of
San Antonio, The Miller home is
at 3221 Avenue in Galves-
ton.
VY RAIN BREAKS DROUTH HERE
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The once conquering flag of the Rising Sun of Japan flew again
in the breeze from stores add building windows along Tokyo's
Ft. Worth Schools .
To Spend 3 Million
FORT WORTH. Sept. 13 <U» —
Fort Worth schools are preparing
to call for bids on more than
33.000,000 in bonds issued in 1948.
The Fort Worth Board of Edu-
cation has authorized business
manager, Ed Williams to call
tor the bids. Three building
projects wll.be completed with
Boys’
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the plane as the B-61 "Matador.”
Apparently it is faster than
sound and flies high enough to
pierce the earth's atmosphere.
To get the weapons ready for
combat, the Air Force will train
special squadrons at its missile
teat center at Cocoa, Fla., start-
ing early next month. The meh
wil be handling a plane that al-
ready, has passed its test flights.,.
The Glenn Martin coiripany of
Baltimore will build the new
planes, which are the first the
United States has put into pro
duction for coihbat use. There
may be more coming. The Air
Force will spend $130,000,000 this
(Continued on page four)
French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, left; U. S. Secretary of
State Dean Acheson, center, and British Foreign Minister Herbert
Morrison, open formal peace negotiations in Washington.
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Car Plunges Down
Elevator Shaft
To Kill Driver
RAIN DELAYS
compeetionof
TENNIS COURTS
Other f City Projects
Also Held Up By
Downpour
WSHINGTON, Sept. 13 —
Robert Lovelt was approved un-
animoualy by the Senate Armed
Services committee today as sue
cesaor to General George Mar-
shall as Secretary of Defense.
Marshall stepped down from
hi. poet yesterday
»
The show will 1
a. m. and wind up
noon.
“All counties with the excep-
tion. of Washington will hold
county eliminations prior to the
September 21 show, and bring
only the champions and reserve
champions to compete,” Vaughan
said.
, The Washington county entries
will be 1951 gilts and males, plus
five pens of three from 1950.
Nebraska Farmers .
Tour Eastern States
City Engineer B. P. (Buck)
Greenwade took one look at the
cascade of water that poured off
the city htfll roof this morning
and allowed as how the comple-
tion. date of the new tennis
courts “Is entirely in the hands
of the weather man.”
The chain link backstop and
posts for the net are all that re-
main before the courts are com-
plete, but the steadily'f ailing
rains made Greenwade shy off
from any prediction of just when
that would be.
"The posts for the nets have
been on hand for quite sqme
time and the fence for the back-
stop wa'S shipped in this week,"
Greenwade said.
About one week’s working time
will be needed to get the back-
stop and posts in place and clear
the concrete slab for play.
Elsewhere, C ‘ ‘ *‘;
crews are also being held up by
the weather. The workmen spent
the early part of the week con-
(Continued on page two)
Kentuckian Inherits
r> . . rx . aearn was an employee oi <nc
Estate Despite Opat Washington National Life Insur-
ance Co. .
HOUSTON, Sept. 13 — An
elderly Vinegrove, Ky., farmer
had not seen his Houston sister
since the two quarreled more
than ’ 30 years ago over some
furniture she wanted. But today,
John Harper has been declared
He Is survived by his wife Hat-
tie Muske, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Gus Wiedemann Sr. of
Somerville; his mother Amelea
Wichel; five brothers and ope
sister; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held at
the Woods funeral home
ber 9 with Rev. Paul Fisher of-
ficiating. Services were continu-
ed at the Oaklawn cemetery. Mr.
Muske’s nephews served ss pall
bearers.
Electric Shock fells'
Rhorer at Houston
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HOUSTON, Sept 13 — A
ter". 325,000 estate. Mrs. Frsnces
Meyers, widow of a Houston
Lighting A Power company em-
ployee, died March, 1950. Her bro-
ther owes hts new 325,000 fortune
to leg work by Houston Attorney
Clarence M. Wilchar, Jr. The law.
yer was appointed by Judge
Clem McClelland to hunt up any
missing h»..« of Mrs- Marm
fore turning the estate over to
the State of Texas. After a long
search, Wilchar located Harper
. in Kentucky and established that
he was the Houston woman's bro-
ther.
R. S. Muske, died suddenly Fri-
day, September 7, at his home in
Houston. ' f
Mr. Muske was born June 8,
1903 in Welcome. In early infan-
cy he and his family moved to
Burton. He was married to Hattie
Ahn Wiedemann in 1930 at the
Rehburg Luteran church.
Mr. and Mrs. Muske lived in
Somerville for two years while
Mr. Muske was associated with
the American National Life In-
surancecompany. He then moved
to Houston and at the time of his _______
death was an employee of the a stool perched precariously over
The Brenham Junior Chamber
of Commerce will launch the sec-
ond phase of Its agriculture pro-
gram thia winter with two con-
tests offering a total of 3400 in
prizes to the winners
Preston D. Klei, agriculture
chairman, said today the Jaycees
will sponsor a hog Improvement
contest among the 4-H and FFA
boys in the county, and a com
growing contest open to adult
farmers as well as 4-H and FFA
members.
“The contests will begin De-
cember 1, but complete rules and
information will be printed for
distribution early in November,”
Kiel said.
Al Smith, Jaycee president,
said today the organization
would finance the project partly
by furnishing “human targets”
for the local FFA chapter’s "Afri-
can Dip” concession during the
county fair. “Jaycees will sit on
ton skyscraper
Police say. Henry Rhodes and
several other men were moving
a scaffold from one part of the
building being built for the Pru-
dential Insurance company of
America to another. It had a steel
frame and a plank on top.
It la believed that a hail in
the top touched • live wire and
led the current to the steel. The
bottom of the scaffold was In a
shallow puddle at rain water at
the time.
the Mueliersville and New Weh-
dem communities have reported ■ .. |
five, inches.
The rainfall in Brenham ’
a. m. today wax only .44 Inches,
but a steady morning downpour
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total. .
The rain was the heaviest that
has fallen here In months and
is believed to have brought a
definite end to a record-breaking
drouth that has scourged this «
area, as well as most of Texas
Cotton growers with fields still
white-with the harveet did not
want rain at this time, but beef
as) dairy cattie owners were
jubilant. Pastures had become
parched and many were forced
to feed their cattle in mid-Sum-
mer. It is believed the rain will
provide fall pastures and bring
them relief from heavy feed bills.
(Continued on page two)
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~ BRE1NHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13,1951.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 <UE) —
A top British official says Britain
must trade with iron curtain na-
tions if It wants to remain strong;
Foreign Secretary Herbert
Morrison, in Washington for a
meeting of Big Three foreign
ministers, says Britain depends
on overseas trade for its very life.
Morrison says Britain would be
a weak Atlantic Pact partner if
it had to do without the things
Bad News
WASHINGTON, Sept
13.— President Truman
said today that Dean
Acheson will be Secre-
tary of State “as long
»» I am President of
the United States.”
BERLIN, Sept. 13 W.P) — The
Western powers are putting more
pressure on communist Czecho-
slovakia.
The Allied high commission in
Germany have announced that
all Czech airline flights over
Western Germany have been
banned. The commission says the
Greenwade’s city order became effective last Tues-
— *"■ day.
United States officials refuse
to comment on the reason for
the air ban. But informed quar-
ters believe the move is part of a
campaign to free Associated
Press Correspondent Wil jam Oa-
tis, who was jailed by the Czech pt gets from Eastern Europe,
government for alleged espion-
age.
While getting tough with the
Czechs in one action, the West
eased up In another. American
officials have decided to give
round trip tickets to 87 Czech
citizens who took a freedom
train to the Western Zone by mis-
take last Tuesday. However, the
Earl W. Smith of
In Houston today
to go over in the Vin-
cent Vallone murder case. He
says bayou city grocer, Diego
Carlino will get his second trial
on charges of slaying Vallone at
San Angelo either late in October
or sometime in November. Car-
lino's flrat trial, held at Austin
on a change of venue, ended with
hung jury end was declared a
mistrial. Judge .John f. Sutton of
the 51st K—L.I District Court,
will try Carlino the second time,
47-year-old laborer was killed also on a change of venue to Tom
late yeai*"***-^electrlci Green county.
September 13l
I Fair meeting, 8 p. m. at Cham-
ber of Commerce. All members
of the fair committees are asked
to be present.
St. Paul’s Lutheran Brother-
hood, Brenham, meeting at
church, I p. m,
September Mi
Football. Brenham Cube.
Lamar Consolidated Musti
< Rosenberg). Cub stadium, ;
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Wesleyan Service Guild at fei-
lowshlp hall, Methodist chureh,
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Rising Sun Over Japan
The City of Hospitality
main stem, Ginza street The humbled flag, few over a new Japan,
ber ,8, 1961. (NEA Telephoto).
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the smaller war plants corppra-
The loan went through. Toole
later became an official of Lith-
fold.
Meanwhile, Democratic Na-
tional Chairman Wiliam Boyle,
Ju told Congress today he al,.
wFPr-Ras fflftfTfrFdnfflift him-
self the way “my mother would
want me to.”
Boyle, underfire for past legal
connections with a St. Louis firm
that got an RFC loan, defended
(Continued on page two)
(BT THE UNITED PRESS)
The noise of battle has almost
silenced the talk of a truce In
Korea.
With high-level bargaining at
a standstill, UN forces have
fought some of the bloodiest bat-
tles of the Korean war to posh
■>t>rnn. their lines forward.
■n ’Aiotcrvuh" “Marines went into
the caves MtfTTiunkers on thef^
Eastern Front with flame throw-
ers and behind point-blank tank
fire to rout out communists and
take high ground. Facing an un-
explained slackening of resist-
ance on the Central Front, Allied
infantrymen pushed ahead one
and one-half miles, and in the
West the advance thruat forward
five miles.
The Fifth Air Force helped out,
flying -a record number of night
missions to hit the Reds wherever
they could be found. And for the
first time, giant Marine helicop-
ters were used on a supply mis-
sion, carrying cargo right into
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vealed another of its atomic age weapons. It is a jet-power-
ed bomb, a pilotless plane, for use In front-line warfare
rather than in strategic bombing like the V-2*s that the Ger-
mans sent against Britain.
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