Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 187, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 7, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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Student Quizzed About Texas Reds
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Finding of Communist propaganda books, letters and documents, left in the room of Ernest Brown-,
Houston University of Texas student at Austin, led tothe quizzing of the youth by the Dies committee
investigating un-American activities in Texas. Brown, at right, is shown as .he was sworn In before the
’investigators at Beaumont.
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LouisianaSuffers
ITALIANS STRIKE
LONDON. Aug 7 if I!)
The
Air
■ ate galea wckt to Temple (including Brenham), and north
fire*
16 BOYS NOW
at
n
At Courthouse
fot
..(.'I
the
VMLLKIE TO VISIT TEXAS
supper and all the trimmings.
Grand Total
Senate Committee
Urges Speeding Up (CARRYING ON
• Contrib u t i o n s
Sends Total Up
Above $900
German Plants Hit
As War Carried
To Nazis
Nearly Eight Millions
Contracted - For
In Month
Funeral Services Be
Held Thursday
In Brenham
night, it was discovered by em-
ployes reporting for work today.
BUSINESS GIRLS TO
POSTPONE MEETING
SPAIN ON VERGE OF
WAR WITH BRITAIN
MADRID. Aug^>7 <1 l’I
t others sought
sheltci in [eiiillc buihtlngs.
H|(|
U.ly
t In-
in-
30 rritlcx
with two feet -if
July Rainfall
Is Behind 1939
1.7b inch
Hurricane
Toward Texas ?ls
son at
o clock
TO PLAY HERE®
8:30 THURSDAY
MANY CONCERNS
IN TEXAS CIVEN
DEFENSE WORK
I 2-....Z-. --- --
Birthday Club
African Colonies Arei
Invaded; Suez
Objective
Conscription Billie PROJECTS
_____i__JT. _ ______ 7^ Todd Tells Lions
About Activities
Of Group
i the
Great
Though the schedule for this
season has been the heaviest ever
undertaken by the Brenham Con-
cert Band for a summer season,
few of the concerts have been
’presented in Brenham, the great
majority taking the form of good-
will appearances in neighboring
towns. Therefore it is expected
that An unusually large crowd will
gather from all parts of the coun-
ty Thursday evening, August 8,
when one of the series of concerts
will be given on the south side of
the court house square.
Plenty of seats will be arranged
in the court house yard and in the
streets, there will be an abundance
of parking space, and one of the
best concert programs ever given
(Continued on page four)
LaGrange C-C Will
Pay Carmine Visit
BRITISH BOMB
PARISIAN AIR
HEADQUARTERS
; Blit HI Ol SON is
AS SOI N< Ell 111 EANG R bl risen
. h ■»•■>*.• f a* » 1 aat 1
bombing’ planes had raided l.e
Bourget airdrome at Paris and at
tacked oil plants, supply bases and
leaths'attributable to ttu-b—■ —- ■■■ —
MRS. H. BRANDT,
PIONEER* DIES
AT CHAPEL HILL
e of April 23. 1941
contract awarded
(Continued on page four)
Mix Ih-nry C. Brandt. 83 years
of age. one of the pioneers of
Washington County died* at her
home In Chapel Hili today at 855
i. in
Born N.iiu y Elizabeth Wilson on
February 28. 1853, at Unionville,
j Tennessee, she < ame to Texas in
1871 an-I settled at L- ng Point. In
1873 she moved to Chapel Hill and
has lived there since that time.
tin f>e< ember 3, 1873. she "was
, married to Henry Christian Brandt
sldower with five children, all
whom are still living. Mrs.
(Continued on page four)
Rainfart here during the month
of July fell exactly a half-inch be-
low the total for the same period
in 1939, according to Albert
Fricke, amateur weatherman.
The total for July was 1.75 in-
ches while a year ago the rainfall
was 2.25 inches. *
Day by day record follows:’
July 3 ........................... 1.20 inch
July 13 ...................... .03 inch
July 14------------------. .28 inch
July 19 ...-----------------------„ .15 inch
July 20 .........09 inch
Iiia Belle Wen han. Aug.rTB.
A J Werchan, Aug. 8.
Mrs. Alma Hodde, Aug. 8.
Theresa Wisniewski, Aug. 8.
Willie Muegge, Aug. 8. »
Mrs. F. C. Winkelmann, Jr.,
Au* I
Min. Frank Ksipeowtcs Aug. M.
Charlsa Ucalitr, Aug A
| honor of the foster grandfather,
Billy ■chunker, who was receiv-
' uig congratulation., lot the youii.
i paranta today.
The
newspaper APiiba said today that
Spain—wax "physically on
verge <>f battle" against 1
Britain
several arf the events scheduled for
the regional meeting.
Thirteen Jaycees from Bren-
ham were tn attendance at the
luncheon.
mLv nt the .Houston .iayceert
uigmfied their intentions of being
here both day* for the conclave.
LA GRANGE, Aug. 7 — La
Grange Chamber of Commerce
good-will trippers will trek to
Carmine Thursday night in the:
second of a series of visits to com-1
munities in Fayette county. L
The Lutheran Ladles’ Aid of'
Car.mine is arranging for a chicken ' Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
supper and all the trimmings. |--
2 HOLSTON STORES koBBED
’ ' * ------ f r «« «. l>V • V IVX. VWIIilMIOeUVIIs
riu- top of (lorilon-Si wnll warehouHe blew off, with heavy
rain (iiimagi* to the $(>(1,000 ntock of groceries. The streets
were littered with blown down «ignn and other small art idea,
bul no one was killed and about two dozen were injured. The
wind waH r<’|>orted tp have reached a velocity of 70 miles an •
hour.
'rhe barometer rose from 28.S3 at 12:30 p. m. to 29.10 at
2 p. in.
At Beaumont, only slight damage was reported. r
(BY THE UNITED PRESS)
Fascism challenged thr power
of the British power tn Afiicii to-
day In a long range canipnlgn for
a new Roman Empire .around the
Mediteli anraii..
Italian armies aimed at control
of the Hues Canal ns their ulti-
mate objective, but Immediate op-
erations, so far preliminary to an
apparently Imminent general of-
fensive, were, centered along the
tJbyan frontier nf Egypt In Nnrth
Kenya Colony and In British
Somaliland Which has been invad-
ed by three Italian columns.
PORT ARTHUR, <U.P) A 90-mile an hour hurricane was
predicted officially for Sabine on the Gulf coast within a few
hours nnd hundreds poured out of this southeast Texas city
nt noon today in flight from the storm.
Sabine is 20 miles-below Pbrt Arthur at Sabine Pass and
although the storm was forecast-to lose its intensity as it
strikes northward through this heavily, populated area,
winds of 70 to 80 miles an hour were expected hbre and at
Birth <’t a s<m at St. l-’i’.im i* |
I hospital at 5 o < lock Tuesday
afternoon is announced by Mr. and I
The regular meeting of the
Business and Professional Wom-
en's Club ix to be poatponed from
Thursday until a later date, it
was announced tod<1y.
Navratil To Present,
Excellent Program i
At Courthouse v
factories in Holland mid Germany. I ______ _______
starting many fires and doing I Station KTAU and put the [k>Wer service put of commission,
much damage. i mi... > ... ..»■ «•—■— ------i- ■ >.------
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1 Frill- -, I
A’*,-i ,.- , bli th-, t\
at.,Cm ! M<
of the county to $918.53.
This amount is still short of the
original quota of $960, which was
later doubled as the need for relief
work in Europe Increased.
Therefore, more funds are still
needed, and those wishing to con-
tribute or to increase their 6fi-
ginal donations can do so by
sending the money to the Banner-
Press office or to the county
chairman, Mr. Welsler.
WASHINGTON, Aug. ,7. (U.PI—The senate Military Af-
fairs Committee in a majority report on the revised con-
scription bill today urged speedy enactment of the measure I
because "weapons without men arg as futile as men without
weapons.”
’ The report warned that it is.tooa^---:--—
late to train men after the ^rner-J rag jrarji/NBi /3 II P
geno^is upon u. 1 UN I H E IK
It asserted that ‘‘reasonable , ’ / --- - K.
prudence” demands an | OflOQTC T T A I
diate and substantial increase in i KI II l?\ I A I II I Xl L a
the nation's armed forces.” IWWWBk/ • V B th»i
CONCERT B AND F°RREDCR®b
t id»-s f<n Sn bine I •>
Lake soiitb of here ui-ir forecast -f
in the latest weather bureau ad- j
visory
While hiin-lir-ds fled this city of |
September 27. 1940 with expected 60.000, hundreds of
delivery date of Apr il 23. 1911 j r1”'"..... ........
Another contract awarded by
’ j BOYS I EEE Y CAMP
I N I II. STORM PASSES
GOOSE CJtEEK. Aug
Contracts totaling $7,807,701 Ol
were awarded to’ Texas* concerns
from June 13 to July 17 under the
national defense progr am, Gnvei-
nor W la-e O'Daniel announced
today
The list of awards was compiled
by the office of government re-
[torts
The largest single, award was
to the Pennsylvania Shipyard, Inc.,
at Beaumont for two cargo vi-s1-
seis to cost $1,974,(MM) each One
.of these vessels is scheduled for
< jell very on February 22. 1911. The
keel for the other will la- laid on
High winds arc due t<> strike Brenham early tonight as
part of the tropical hurricane which struck F’ort Arthur thia
uHernoon with only moderate damage, according to an ad-
visory storm warning issued in Houston by the U. S. Weather
Bureau.
The advistory, issued at 2 p. tn. said that the hurricane
I was centered south of Port Arthur at 12:30 noon, and was
• moving west northwest at the rate of 90 miles an hour. The
advisory indicated strong gates ior Jefferson, Liberty and
Montgomery countu’s, and north Harris county, and moder-
Mtnistry said tonight that British L|t ] Rifkin *' ’ •■‘'■“■'••‘‘S wr™ vruv«^
At Houston, the wind was cx|a>et<*d to reach 50 to 55
miles an hour, and itt Galveston 10 to.-lK miles an hour. '
At Port Arthur, the wind blew down the radio tower of
d p-
1<X> boys in the Ross Stei bug Y
I M. C: A Camp ik-.ii Gooh<- Cicek
today were taken by bti* t.> Holm-
ton to remain until dangei fro.in
Hie Gulf Coast-irt.pi m turn passed.
‘Stinky’, Baby Skunk, Steals
Show at Houston ]C Luncheon
--
Brenham Jayccr orchestra, put’ on !
a few- numbers for th<- gathering I
and drew much applause and an
encore
Buddy Fisher, generel-ehalrman
<>r the convention committee. ■
spoke shortly as did Red Buehrer.
publicity chairman. Both explained |
j Mrs. Eugene Lang The youngsb-t j
weighed 6 [xiunds and 7 ounces,
and has been named Robert Wil-1
ham Lang The "William” is in
The Brenham Jayccea f-iriHshe-l
a short, novel program bo-wding
the district convention litre Aug-
ust 17 and 18 at the membership
of huncbcon of the Hoitaton Jfinioi-'
rn I Chamlwr rrf Commerce Tueadav
noon, but "Stihky” stole the show.
‘‘Stinky." a "deodorized” baby
2 HOLSTON STORES ROBBED skunk, nearly ran everybody out
— ot the Texas State Hotel when
• HOUSTON, Aug 7 CEi—Knob' first released, but the group got a
knockers stole $1,600 in cash from big kick out of the little fellow
two adjoining houses during trte when they were assured that he
was “harmless'.
Tubby and Hu. Boys, otficU>
Sixteen boys are already
Work on their Vocational Agricul-
ture projects, B. E. Todd, Bren-
| ham high school instructor in lids
j subject, announced Tuesday night
w-heri he spoke to membgra .at the
Lions dull. .
Tok I has lieen on the Job’only
i month, and progress made in
j that time is considered remark-
lie.
le went into the various phases
lhe vocational agriculture, work
which is iieing instituted at Bren-
ham high for the first time this
fall. It Is conducted on a year
around basis, with the iioys re-
ceiving instruction in classes dilr-
ing the wnter and carrying on
their home projects throughout
the year.
The boys form an organization
they call the Future Farmers of
America, and in its meetings they
learn parliamentary procedure ami
good citizenship.
The meeting was held at the
St. "Anthony hotel with a good at-
tendance. C. W Moore, Jr., new
Southern Pacific agent, and .1 F
Kimball, new athletic director at
Blinn college, were guests
During the business session the
club voted to pay $5 toward the
expenses of Milton Lippert to an
i encampment in Michigan. He won
T 7 ~7", .’ ...” the right to attend by being
the total contributed by citizens ()|llstan,lnjg clljb
' boy of Texas. '
FORT WORTH. Aug 7 <1 l‘>
Wendell Wlllkie is so convinced he
can win Texas he will visit four or I
five cities here just before the
Npyemlier election. John Herbert.!
Fort Worth republican committee
man said t<*lay
HIGHWAY PATROLMEN
OFF TO STORM MH. \
HOUSTON’, Aug 7 -ri’i
offll'eis - f the state hlgiiwny
tlol attached to Hie Houston olfne
left-today for the I’ort
area today fot possible
service.
Washington county's contribu-
tions jo the American Red Cross
I war relief fund passed $900 Wed-
, nesday and mounted toward the
1 first $1,000 mark, County Chair-
man J. E. Welsler announced.
The spurt was taken~"tohen a
check for $65 was received from
the Burton Chamber of Commerce j
which conducted a drive for funds
there.
Two other contributions, $5.00
from Post.Q, Travelers’ Protective
Association, and $4.00 from the
Senior Bible class of the Seventh
Day Adventist church, brought
Beaumont.
Two
storm were re|M>rted.
Sine-n Al phon so, 55, of Dels-
Croix Island, La , died of exi ite-
ment when remove.I from Ids sick
bed amid rising waters
Miss Hi li'ii Reed, 18, uf New I
Ib<;i in, La, was k. lied—n'-)i r Lake I
Cliarles when she junqs-d from her i
cm
The wind overtuined a number
of mitoinobiles in southw,ext|
Immsimin
Seventeen persons weie rescu'd
by the Coast Guard at B.iy*-u d<-
West, soiitli of N<-w Orleans
Thr smashing wind, pulling III
hug.- toll's with tin i)i, forged i
northward pass at tlu- forw
ap<-<-d of |U miles an hour Ain-
the stoini tiad swept across
soul I 'Wratf-i n tip of Imuisiana.
uraluting Cameron I
southeast of h<-r<
water Wind damage wfi.-t reported
moderately hem y tin s, and roads
between Port Arthur and < 'arm-ion
weje mipassahle b<-<auae of high
"Very high
Names must in- printed in the! ..
jia[»»r before tickets will be I
I given. Names will be printed
' the day before the birthday.l
t Sunday birthdays w ill lie print-
<--! on Friday, Monday birth-
; - days on Saturday. Do not wait
' until the last minute but send •
i j it> your name at least a week!
before your, birthday. ■
Twill siatos Will receive free
I t.< ket.s to thr- Simon theater
1 ' ' ....... «m , <-i< biatmu of their
They are Mrs. Gus
letuh tad Mrs. Erlmuud Mueller.
B- tii live in Brenham.
1 The birtpday celebrants will see
Brother Orchid starring Edward
i in another of hM
{ chai ai terlstic mief.
Thursday's birthday list follows:
Mrs Gus Mocnch, Aug. 8.
Mrs Edmund Mueller, Aug. 8.
COOLER WEATHER
JOBS FOR ALL
One good result of tlie. Gulf
hurricane is that it brought
much lower temperature to
Brenham after a week of almost
insufferable heat. Most of the
time nights are cool in Bren-
ham, no matter how warm the
days, but the last few nights
have been an exception. Tues-
day night started hot but ended
up comfortable after the wind
changed and a brisk breeze re-
sulted.
A. B. O’Flaherty, publisher of
a weekly newspaper at San An-
gelo, was a visitor to The Spec-
tator today. We used to work
for him a dozen years ago at
Cisco, when he was publisher- of
the Cisco Daily News. He brings
the news that WHlkie for Presi-
dent clubs are being organized
throughout West Texas, and
says he would not be surprised
if Texas votes Republican this
year just as it did when Hoover
ran the first time. People in
West Texas, he said, do not be-
lieve in a third term.
* * *
America’s unemployment pro-
blem may soort be transformed
into an acute labor shortage, ac-
cording to an article from the
United States News, brought us
by O. W. Eichmann, in charge
of the local re-employment of-
fice. The national defense, it is
estimated, will provide jobs for
four million persons within a
year. The article, containing
many interesting figures, fol-
lows:
Unemployment is going to de-
crease sharply, if not disappear,
within the next 12 months, ac-
cording to present calculation of
the effect of defense spending.
Present unemployment esti-
mates range frbrn 8,500,000 to
10,000.000 persons. The Federal
Employment Service reports 5,-
100,000 registrations of persons
actively seeking •employment
since April.
Between now and next June,
experts predict that actual
spending for defense will amount
to about $5.000,000,000. These
funds will give work to an esti-
mated 1,000,000 men needed for
production without expansion of
plant facilities. Another 500.000
ire expected to be used by con-
struction and allied industries to
, build new plants, and still an-
other 1,000,000 persons will get
jobs In service industries as a
result of the re-employment of
the others.
In addition, should the army
expansion program be enacted,
270,000 men in the National
Guard probably will be taken
from their jobs in September;
300,000 trainees will be drafted
in October and 400,000 more
next April. To provide food,
clothing, equipment and trans-
portation for this army, another
500,000 men probably will be
needed by industry.
In all. the defense spending
plus the draft would mean jobs
for approximately 4,000,000.
Considering that "normal un-
employment,” or the persons
who are unemployable or who
are unemployed in the process
of changing jobs, totals about
2.000.000 to 2,500,000, the num-
ber of jobs that will be needed
to provide work for everyone by
next July probably will be no
more than 2,000,000. A further
expansion of the training pro-
gram and the Regular Army to
2,000.000 men, now being dis-
cussed, would absorb most of
the remaining unemployed.
As it now stands, the defense
program coupled with the draft
probably will accomplish, tem-
porarily at least, what the New
Deal social legislation failed to
do—make full' use of all avail-
able man power. But, as it docs
that, it will provide another
■complicated labor problem, a
shortage of labor in particulkr
industries in particular sections
of the country.
Public employment offices, op-
(Continued on page four)
COLLEGE SAVES
Total
552 164
716
Notes T o B e Given
. Back to Signers
Of Guarantee
BLINN BONDS
WIN BY HUGE
VOTE MARGIN
Over Three to One
Majority Given
Gym Bonds
are complete, unoffi-
from Tuesday's elec-
7
29
13
2
2
15
9
2
22
3
383
10
13
9
7
22
6
392
19
20
10
73
8
11
8
13
17
32
20
2
< 17
19
5
0
5
0
3
9
9
1
3
44
0
5
4
13
2
30
17
0
2
12
Funeral Services
At Round Top Held
For Mrs, Merkel
Blinn college won its bond Is-
sue election by a vote of better
than 3 to 1, complete unofficial
returns from Tuesday's election
revealed today.
Total of 716 votes were cast,
with the result as follows
For bonds, 552.
Against bonds, 164.
The bonds, totaling $12,000, will
be issued to finance the college's
share of the cost of the new
gymnasium being erected on the
campus bx the WPA.
No additional taxes will be ne-
cessary to retire the bonds, the
present 10 cent levy for benefit of
the college being deemed suffi-
cient to care for the needs of the
college as well as taking care of
the bonds.
Voting of the bonds will save
the college $320 in interest, since
they will bear a lower rate than
the loan now outstanding. Notes
signed by business houses and in-
dividuals for use as collateral in
borrowing money to start the
gymnasium will be returnee to the
guarantors.
Following
cial returns
tion:
Funeral services were held at
Hills Cemetery near Round Top
Monday afternoon for Mrs. Emma
PauHae-sMerkel. wife of Jacob
Merkel, whp died Sunday at their
farm home following a heart at-
tack.
Rev. W. Krallk, pastor of the
Round Top Lutheran church, offi-
ciated, with E. Von Minden and
Leon Simank in charge of arrange-
ments. ,
Mrs. Merkel was bom June 11,
1890 in Germany, daughter of
Ludwig and Huida Arndt. At the
age of 2, she immigrated to this
counter with her parents, settling
at Burton.
She was married to Mr. Merkel
at Woodville, Texas, in 1914. They
later moved to Round* Top, where
she lived a number of years.
She is survived by the following
besides her husband and her fath-
er: Five sons, Ludwig, Jacob, Jr.,
“ftieodore, August, and Herbert
Merkel, all of Round Top; two
brothers. Emil and Gua Arndt.
Carmine; four half-sisters, Mrs.
Bertha Hehman, Mrs. Elsa Mach-
enroth. Mias Anna Arndt, and
Mrs Minna Meyer. Burton; a
step-sister, Mrs. Olga Koopman.
Warrenton; and two half-brothers.
Henry Arndt of Burton and Aug-
ust Arndt ot Ben Arnold, Texas.
For Agst. Totl.
No. 1 Washington .. 8
No. 2 Graball ______
No. 3 Flewellen
No. 4 Chapel Hill
No. 5 Wonder Hill
No. 6 Brenham .....
No. 9 Berlin
No. 10 Rosenbaum ...19
No. 11 Wiede ville
No. 12 Burton .....
No. 13 Independence . 8
No. 14 Wm. Penn .6
No. 15 Prairie Hill .....4
No. 46 Wesley ......... . .8
No.1 17 Greenvine
No. 18 Gay Hill
No. 19 Long Point......3
No. 20 Cedar Hill ...
No. 21 Sandy Hill ...
No. 23 Mound .........
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tonikht and Thursday- Partly
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