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GUS HALL - A DETERMINED ENEMY
Attend Conference
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AGAINST
Address your questions to Dr.
Hargis at P.O. Box 977, Tulsa
Oklahoma.
BY
BILLY JAMES HARGIS, D.D.
FOUNDER CHRISTIAN CRUSADE
CARMINE
Mrs. Eric Braun
■I for CHRIST-against
COMMUNISM
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PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Dulas Livers of
Ashland, Nebraska, parents of Mrs.
Tom Piper of here visited with
them the Thanksgiving weekend.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bolin of
Omaha, Nebraska, visited with the
Pipers. They are an uncle and
aunt of Mr. Piper.
Mr. and Mrs. Erich Braun and
Ronald of here visited their daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Bobbie Lee Rosenbaum and Terry
Lee in Houston on Thanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gene Rosenbaum
also visited them.
Pastor and Mrs. A. M. Hanne-
mann, Steven, Joel, and Valoria
of here visited friends in Weslaco
last week and also had a chance to
see the Mexican Lutheran Mission
works while there.
bert Noack, Charles Lehmann,
James Prihoda, David von Minden,
Ben Allen Krause, Jimmy Weikel,
Harry Lee Vogt, Mike Lobpries,
Jerry Haluska, Douglas Keilers,
Albert Oeltjen, Roger Robbins,
Allan Levin, and James Zuhn.
It C. Giese, J. G. Banik, Emil
Kern, Howard Anderson, Mrs.
Lillian Zingelmann, and Mrs.
Grace Robbins were the teachers
attending the conference.
The various lectures and work-
shops visited were Drama, Debate,
Individual Speech Events, Ready
Writing, Slide Rule, and Number
Sense, and Journalism. Journalism
included Newspaper and Yearbook
Workshops.
A group of La Grange High School
students and several teachers at-
tended the Central Texas Student
Activities Conference at Southwest
Texas State College in San Marcos
Nov. 19.
Students attending were Karen
Schultz, Bobbie Robbins, Mary
Jane Darilek, Linda Salfn, Peggy
Freeman, Sondra Pape, Lynelle
Maas, Marian Tannler, Elizabeth
Tannlcr, Rose Maeckel, Lillian
Kirsch, Mary Ann Zoch, Annette
Williams, CarolynSumbera, Mar-
y AnnStolle, CfeoKubccka, Wil-
quoted from the testimony ol
Mr. Lester Abele, former ad-
jutant of the 73rd. Brigade ol
the Ohio National Guard, and
former speaker of the Ohio
House of Representatives. This
testimony was given on Novem-
ber 4, 1938 before the Special
House Committee On Un-
American Activities. Before
quoting this testimony, the Sub-
committee’s Counsel, Mr. Sour-
wine,, advised Hall that if the
testimony included any state-
ment which he considered in-
accurate or untrue to interrupt
and correct it.
Mr. Abele’s testimony was in
regard to his special assignment
in working to solve bombings
in connection with the Repub-
lic Steel strike during 1937 at
Warren, Ohio. Among other
things, Mr. Abele testified that: *
. Gus Hall was the leader
of the group who obtained, or
sent for and obtained, dynamite
and nitroglycerin . .. The orders
of Gus Hall... were to blow
up and destroy the property
of the Republic Steel Corp.,
homes of nonstriking workers,
railroad property ...” Gus
Hall did not interrupt and in-
voked the fifth amendment
again.
This cominuist leader and his
fellow conspirators mean busi-
ness. They intend to overthrow
your government by force and
violence, and it is time that our
Congress, Supreme Court and
Executive Department face up
to that fact.
At the last Communist Party
convention which was held in
New York City from December
10 to December 13, 1959, Gus
Hall was elected general secre-
tary of the Party and is now the
Number 1 man in the open Com-
munist Party. FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover said, “The elec-
tion of the fiery Hall to lead a
strongly knit Communist Party
which has and always will have
as its chief objective the com-
munizing of America should
certainly shake even the most
apathetic American from his
lethargy ...”
In addition to being an
avowed enemy of our American
Republic, Gus Hall is also a
ruthless ex-convict. While a
member of the Young Commu-
nist League back in 1934, Gus
Hall openly boasted that he
was willing to take arms and
fight to overthrow the United
States government. This frank
revelation by communist Gus
Hall came during hearings be-
fore the Municipal Court ol
Minneapolis, Minnesota on
April 18, 1934. These hearings
concerned labor riots in that
city, of which Gus Hall was a
leader. During the questioning
of Gus Hall before the Senate
Internal Security Subcommit-
tee on February 2, I960 the
transcript of these court hear-
ings Was inserted in the record.
Hall was then asked, “Do you
still hold today the opinions
which you expressed in 1934
before the Minneapolis court?”
Gus Hall invoked the fifth
amendment and refused to an-
swer.
Next, the Internal Security
Subcommittee’s Chief Counsel
Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Braun of here
visited in Houston with Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Zapp and Gary and
a Iso got to visit their great-grand-
daughter Terry Lee Rosenbaum,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie
Lee Rosenbaum in Houston.
MRS. EMIL SPIESS DIES
Funeral services were held Mon-
day afternoon at the Carmine ce-
metery for Mrs. Emil (Clara) Spiess
86, of Austin. Mrs. Speiss passed
away at an Austin hospital Friday
night. She had been a resident of
Austin for the past 18 years. Prior
to that the Spiess family lived in
Carmine, then moving to Taylor,
and back to Carmine, where they
operated a bakery shop.
Mrs. Spiess, nee Giese, is sur-
vived by one daughter, Mrs. Alma
Mauer of Austin; two grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
Rev. W. E. Doerr of Warrenton
ofhere officiated at the graveside
services.
ENGAGED
Mr. aijd Mrs. Bennie Leonhardt
of Carmine announce the engage-
ment and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Ruth Fay, to O. B.
Schoenemannof La Grange. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Schoenemann Sr. cf Carmine.
The wedding will take place on
Dec. 17, at 3 o'clock at tne Beth-
lehem Lutheran Church' at Round
Top.
IT'S A GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. Job H. Currie of
here are the proud parents of a baby
girl born Tuesday, Nov. 29, at the
Lee Memorial Hospital in Giddings.
The baby tipped the scale at seven
pounds, and six ounces and will
answer to the name of ?atty Lyn.
Little Patty Lyn was welcomed by
her tv-o brotnefs Glenn Roy and Phil
Ray. Mr. Currie is the Round Top
Carmine high school principal.
Mrs. Currie's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Allie L. Lewis of Memphis,
Tenn. , were visiting here over the
Thanksgiving weekend and Mrs.
Lewis remained here to be with the
Curries for a while. Mr. Lewis
left by train from Rockdale to
Memphis, Tenn., to return again
for Christmas.
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Durwood L. Fuchs
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First Things First
♦
The change in Presidential administrations may
mean a change in approach to some of our national
problems. But the problems themselves haven’t
changed.
We still must deal with the Communists, the space
race, farm situation, foreign affairs, race relations,
labor relations, the need to prevent inflation and
maintain a sound and expanding economy. Basically,
all these problems boil down to an effort to protect
and improve the chances of each individual American
—and all the other people who share this planet with
us—to enjoy the best life possible.
Many Americans cling with child-like trust to a
belief that the federal government is best qualified
to solve all problems and to provide the good life
for all. All that is necessary, they seem to feel, is to
spend a little more money, pass a new law, set up a
new federal program or agency.
The evidence betrays their trust. Take a look at
the farm problem. The federal government has been
fiddling with it for 30 years, and it’s worse than ever.
I he squabbling and waste in our military programs
is legendary. Certainly the U. S. Information Agency
is no model of how to win friends abroad.
Still, when the new Congress opens in January
there will be demands for federal action in yet more
fields. Personally, we think Congressional effort could
be better spent in making existing federal projects
work rather than in setting up a whole new set of
bumbling and expensive programs.
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EDITORIAL
At This Busy Season, Let's Put
Christ Back Into Christmas
Advent, the first season of the
church year, began last Sunday. We
are well into the pre-Christmas season,
with three weeks to go before Chris-
tians celebrate one of their two princi-
pal feasts of the year.
It is an unusually busy season, for
there are many preparations to make.
Buying, wrapping and addressing gifts
to relatives and friends; sending greet-
ing cards; preparing for entertaining
during the holiday season—all these
things demand time and attention.
The trouble is that all too often we
allow these merely material provisions
for Christmas to crowd out of our
minds, or at least to subordinate, what
is vastly more important. And that is,
of course, full appreciation of the cause
of all this activity, and preparation in
mind and heart fot the observance of
the anniversary of the advent on earth
of divinity clothed in the flesh of hu-
manity.
For we give gifts because wise men
brought gifts to the Babe born in a
lowly manger. We rejoice because the
prophecies were fulfilled and the Re-
deemer came. We are, or should be,
more generous to the unfortunate at
this season for it reminds us that He
said love of our fellow man is second
only to love of God.
In recent years there has been a
swelling movement to “put Christ back
into Christmas.” Every Christian
should join in that movement; and not
merely in the outer manifestations
such as sending greetings bearing
spiritual messages rather than depict-
ing New England winter scenes or cute
animals, but more important by attun-
ing our hearts and minds to the act of
infinite love that took place in Bethle-
hem. Reprinted from Houston Chronicle.
THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, I960
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Fuchs, Durwood L. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1960, newspaper, December 8, 1960; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1254332/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.