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BRENHAM, TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1940
COMMUNITY
NIGHT DRAWS
GREAT CROWD
BRITISH SMASH
AGAINST CENTER
OF BERLIN AREA
JAY
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Events O f Selective
Service To Move
With Precision
of
Hospitality
Direct Hits Scored On
Oil Stations And
Aircraft Plants
French Points Held
By Hermans Are
Attacked
When
the conscription I
mtn C an
can use
recommends
Representat lies
community in
f i <> m
county
visitors
that
and
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J. Giese is co-chairman of
Individual Farm Exhibits
Ament of the Washington
ty fair inatead of "A. G.
a» printed in Friday *
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Rep Horner Leonard oi Mi AH0i •
i will lx speaker of the house of rc-i
The pamphlet says one cup of ; presentativcs if
Walked down to Ross Brumfields. Tomato Receives
Boost AsJlealth
And
only
East Texas — Fair to partly
cloudy tonight and Sunday, some-
what unsettled in Lower *Rio -'
Grande Valley, little change in
tehiperature.
i ,'(aimed
.«<!<• shot
I thlt
were
of their
event was also a mix cess. The .lay- ’
"Warehouseman's Certificate and j cees <11'1 not contemplate making 1
Waiver." an essential ,pai-t of the i any money, since the gathering
i was for promoting fellowship -and I
becoming better acquainted i
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about I
taken
Continue
weeks.
UNDLAY <) <11’1— A 16-year-
old ■ bivy )r owned by Dr. L. J.
i .oi Findlev optometrist has
br*n licensed tor u^e. Du lacyvla 1
Pace nt Tyler Gordon Burna al,v * porch*c*d by Dr Cook u»
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Meanwhile, W, C.- Lipscomb
says he would give $100 to know’
who Will win in November. "I've
had two pretty good offers fori
my term. * he said. "If Roose-
velt loses. I have a good mind to
sell out. as his farm program
makes it profitable fbr me to
farm, and ,1 don't know what’
Willkie might do.”
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Brenham Compress
Now Authorized To
Store Loan Cotton
crowd- estimated
attended the
in Berlin con-
attacks on the
little material
although an
Henry A. WAIlace is pictured allow ns
Many New Faces Will Be Seen
In The Next Texas Legislature
V, la. <>1
the I'-giHlato
FT opi pax'
About 2000 Persons
Attend Jaycee
Event ’
five days to-mall to tnc local draft ington. He is not expected to re-
board. , I turn to the capital for the closing
Thirty-fourth t q thirty-sixth j d«ys of Congress. Only^ an urgent
days—(Oct, 19 to Oct. 211 — the! ‘ . •->- .... - «> <■
draft board goca through the ques-
tionnaires and determines those
who are class A-l. Unless a regis-
trant has reported he has depend-
ants, his boss finds him vitally
necessary for his business, or he
has some physical infirmity, the
board will classify him as A-l.
To Report to Board
Thirty-sixth to fortieth days —
(Oct. 21 to Oct. 251—men in class
A-l will report to the draft board
in the order determined by the lot-
tery fqr physical examination and
to present their alibis in case they
think they were wrongly chosen.
The board will call men until it
has filled its initial quota.
While many may be called under
thia schedule, few will be chosen—
immediately, at least. Only 75.000
will be taken in the first contin-
gent out of many million regis-
trant*.
iff the family air r^jd shelter—but this London housewife comes up
* smiling. The bombproof lived up to the promise of its name.
I i .xi-ri will ,bs.uheld
thin hummer for -
master's degrees,
I .hl< rt the coveted
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Garner Will Never Return To
Washington, Is Uvalde’s Belief
BY JOHN ROSEN FIELD I Holsombach. banker from near-by
UVALDE, Texas. Aug. 31 Both Crystal City, who said in New
Uvalde and John N. Garner act as York Mrs. Garner had pinned a
if the Vice-President of the United Willkie button. oti*®ni. All Uvalde
Credit Corporation and the Re; i fifty
construction Finance Corporation I dancing,
to receive loan cotton and issue
under its insured receipts the
Texas |igi-.Lit a.
irw f i'
I <•( I’llt
I H Hp
lit Ites Moines. Iowa, accepting the iwmiimUion Wallace hittcily
Hailed the Republicans as appen* 11» <4 the Fairopean dictuto’rN
summons from President Roosevelt
could get him out of his house on
North Park Street and then the
conference would have to do with |
the national emergency and not'
the campaign for the third term.
So a close friend explained.
The Congressman wh<» served
from 1903 to 1933 without making
a nrtjor speech, the Vice-President
who outsilcnced Coolidge has al-
ways been reticent from habit. He
is now mum as a matter of tactics.
To several newspapermen who
have penetrated his acreage he has
made cordial if concise references
to his pecan grove. To others who
have tried to bait a statement by
telegram or note, he has this mes-
sage:
"We positively have no story "
John Garner 1* 'working inten-
sely to send out no breezes for the
many political straws heaved in
his directWi He has no comment
to make oa the story of Bruce
purchased by Dr. Cook in
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(h 1.1*4 I.,
of Seattle just received a check for | men this summer
$1.70 from a Malone. Tex., resi-
dent! as a first payment on delin-
quent property taxes. The check
was dated June 10,1916.
M. //. Lhlcrt Is
Awarded Master's
Decree At A & M
ing County shipped a number of
bales .to Navasota. He found
prices . there not to his liking,
and so he came to Brenham with
hi* aamplcs. Without difficulty,
he got the price he asked here
and the deal was closed. He will
haVe a number of other bales to
market during the coming sea-
son, Kid no doubt will market it
here. Day in and day out, the •
Brenhan cotton market is the
best to be found in this part oi
Texas.
We were talking to a govern-
ment employe the other day and
obaarved that we supposed
Rooeevelt will go back into of-
fice for another four years, since
there are enough drawing money
from the federal treasury to re-
elect him "Don't be too sqre of
that,” he replied. "Jf you got out
and talked to the people over the"
county as I have done, you would
find a surprisingly large number
of people in this very county
who arc going to vote for Will-
W..-e O' \
NAZI BLITZKRIEG RAGES OVER LONDON
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United States Machinery Ready For Start Of Conscription
I
take seieral state papers,
but I wouldn't know how to get
along without the home paper,"
says R. E. Blum of Chapel
Hill, as he comes in to renew
hi* subscription for another
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A ll'l h«1' I IHT! I
•'hiveMi Ip.ite < h i hi.i
v I Id- I Diiiiini' .in ) upiilil
4
. last nig ht was taken as an tn-
dication of an early winter. They
flew Bround outdoor lights in !
such tremendous numbers that
the lights were dimmed. Specta-
tor* at the Brenham high band
concert at Firemen's Park syni-
!pathized with the musicians as i
They attempted to play and j
fight off bugs at the same time, j
BAND CONC ERT
Dance Is Concluding
Attraction Of
Program
Ic
Cattle Rustling Cases San Juan Newspaper ;
Says Liberty
Endangered
( loan papers, it was announced t<>-
I day. <.
The compress has room to store
j 6,000 bales of cottoii.
| An advertisement- in today's I
Banner-Press announces that the
compress will weigh and -sample .
IjOan cotton without making any j
charge.
■grown tomato will pi
vide at least half of the daily vita- ,
min C requirement and one-fifth '
of the vitamin A needs, according ; senate
| to a new recipe book, "Top Grade j lirut<’iin>it^Jt'»vcn>oi
Tomatoes." which the department j f ,
has made available.
he Hounded the key riot of
his campaign for vice president on the D.imociatic ticket In ii sp<■<•< h
A crowd estimated at ,
2,000 attended the community !
night observance sponsored by the
Jaycees at Firemen's Park Friday I
evening Representatives
eiery community in the
were present, as well ns
from many neighboring towns.
New Ulm whs well represented 1
there being about forty, persons
from that city. Ernest Baumgart !
I kept „his word when be stated t tint '
I he would bring the tow n along
with his sho-.ttng team.
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143.0(H) wounded, and 43.0(H) missing, a total of 235,000 having to fight the thousands of 1
casualties.
A total of 3,100 enemy planes
have been brought down in air
battles in the same period ami
MISS M \<.<.IE HIM s
Rt poll I t il VERY II I
Germans List War
Loss For Year At
235,000 Casualties
ques- 1 BERLIN, August 31. (UP)—Nazis said today that Ger-
’ " I man army losses in the first year of war were 19,000 Itilled,
The Vice-President has been |
something of a recluse since he
brought hip feelings and his secret
LuNlniN. Aug
.ng | knock out
f.acr
the i
ki leg " i lei man
over England tn
causing
' .inis.' i
.•ins to lune cd -t
hi.i p ll'd.'s ' i I,, lions,
sent a t ll < ■> but to u. ■ > .
senate ' H t lie ■»*> iioii.i*
who st<H>.I firm t*■ th*
I6:h legisl.it'll' .. o >"■
pmelrtii.g HUliiii.sai.-rt
st duti"' a) asiK-nd"" ' ‘ ■
»al< s’ only 1 '• I
h legislature Lcad' i s
gr oup,/how ci er. will return
u.aln/Of th' K> who lot' 1
SJR/12 I
Tliile of the
last
States were home to stay. Whether i will tell you that Bruce wits kid- [
days—(Oct. 9 to Oct. 19) —boards wounded and embittered by ■ the ding and that it never happened. 1 *""" "" "
will distribute eight-page question-i third-term convention or not, 4hC
naires, which registrants will have obviously has had enough of Wash-
Fred Amsler says it looks like
a bumper pecan crop this year.
Clusters of pecans are so heavy
"S on hi* Success trees at his home
here he has been forced to prop
up the limbs to keep them from
breaking Limbs on his Mahan
‘Ltrees *re stronger and do not
need tfpport.
A*u<l den influx of insects here | redesigned. The samples
on hand in every state, ready for |
' the printers. When President |
Roosevelt signs tbv whou
bill, the presses will start to roll, j
About Sept. 15 [ 3 850 others had been downed by
From that day— the zero day in
United States selective service No.
|2 events will march with
’ tary precision. It appears
Many of them itl'ie cotton fleas, j
DRAFT PLANS
ARE CAREFULLY
WORKED OUT
Arrangements Made
To Reach Homes
Over Nation
dint I let colli t
/ will open
Srptenili't 2.
Tate of Gid
31 dl’i Seek- I
knock out the Royal Air
in wlmt Hiltons described as I
.•al it,ut of the aerial blitz- I
IiouiIh-is roared
suiveaane waves |
tod.iv < ausing f. ur air raid
i< la inis in 1 .iiiulon. 1
The "all ■ dear" signal was I
sounded aftei the fourth raid at |
7 16 p in Tin- hx minute alarm I
pei n d v .is the longest of the day. I
I lie Get mans attacked the t’roy-
dim Audi <>me- just outside metro- I
pohtian London during the third z
alm m I luring the fourth alarm I
tiie Geim.ui bombers appvarea.
high in.'i the capital district with
.inti mi ' ratf a Ii e I I s bursting
a i oimd t hem
Ylrdromes Are Boinhtxl
Eat tier the .air ministry said
German bombers attacked an air-
drome m • ast Angalla and another
near file Thames River without
1 ' any serious darnngr."
The ait ministry told tn detail ■,
of a smashing two to three hour I
British mid against the very cen-
ter of Berlin last night and quoted .
pilots as say -tg tbit great fires
and explosions in. the greater Ber-
lin a ii.a... resulted
The air ministry said that Brit-
ish plains scored direct hits "on
impmtant mibtaiy targets which
in. lud. I p. tti.l installations, air-
. raft f.u furies and an dromes."
British plan's heavily attacked
German liases m h iiince. including
Ifoiilogn., and < 'het p.su g. Other
attacks wire made on C’ape GriS- '
m z l iatii e Gelsenkirchen. Magd-
tang. F.md< > Hammand Soest,, in ■
G. i ma 11y and I b l land
'Official Hour.es
I II me. I tfie I h Itisb
capital lint saut
daiii ige 'as caus**.I
eh i I i i. d m k.s- w as Jut.. I
Nazis <'liascd I rum Dmer^*
I . addition to sending four waves
■ <f i.i.uiii.is nd . Hie London area
I i mat ion ..I ' h i man planes
turned hai k by anti-aiicraft
’Ill i tight. Il befoie it icached
, d another was chased
a tl< ie It attack' <1 the
'with a generous number of ter-
mites. Many crickets, known as
I* kure sign of fall, were also
j noted.
An indication of how good a
cotton market Brenham affords
was given here Saturday. A
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in lht> i«'
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f a tin-
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Building Bargain
ALBANY N. Y 'I l’> An applb
day fnay keep the doctor away ;
are nearly as great a i
i health bargain, according to state
agriculture dcpart'Aicnt tei hm-I were up for
clans. a. \ ■ • entir.; house
One
anti-aircraft guns of destroyed on
the ground for a total of 6,950, the
Nazis claimed.
The Germans said that 155
enemy barrage balloons had been
shot down over the English Isles
by German planes and that Ger-
man bombers on almost-220 days
had carried out 3,500 raids, drop-
ping 5,000,000 bombs.
They said that more than 500
warships and merchant ships, to-
taling more than 2,000,000^ tons
had been sunk by Germans and,
that almost 700 ships totaling '
3.500,000 tons had been damaged
by bombers.
German artillery was credited
with destroying mote than 100
enemy tanks, sinking four “enemy
warships and severely damaging
30 other ships.
garage only twice, the folks say.
Keep* Thunderous Silence
He doesn't want to be short with [
i the boys on the street but he wilt)
not .be betrayed into a statement. I
His intimates drop in to sec hrin in j a ,IIly
the afternoon or early evening hut but tomatoes
treat the presidential campaign as | ‘
if they never had heard of it.
Uvalde shares the national in-
ference that John Garner is too
g.xxl a Democrat to bolt the party
and too good a Democrat to cam-
paign for the third term His (>ohi-
tion, therefore, is a thunderous
silence.
,There arc Indications that re-
opening the Garner manse is more
tnan l
The detached garage is being en-
larged to accommodate more cars |
The Squire of Uvalde Is about, to I m«nt recommends Hu- use of j
let cont:acta toe.the erecUon o< six | stainless steel knives and non
Ia-i ssamA «■ z al 1 «at llz t •» ftf** ri-S>*l 11 ft I 14 Lf
mily 16
The
150 is
1 chosen at each bi-< nnia) <■)<•. tion
Coke Stevenson of Junction will
again be presiding of tier of flit
|due to his rc-elcctioi) to bdi 17th
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—<U.P>
A small group" of veteran Army
officers at the Army War College j
who know the virtues and faults ■
of the World War drafts are ready I
to set the printing presses rolling I
for Conscription No. 2.
Arrangements have been cafe- i
■fully worked out through the years
for the process by which the Gov- i
ernment will reach into homes i
throughout the land for men toi
train for the armed forces. Ever !
since the World Waf*J'a group has j
been planning and demising the |
machinery of compulsory military j
service.
Through the intervening years. |
vital statistics have been careful-
ly watched. The adjutants-general j
of every state have been care, ful-1
ly instructed in the manner the I
draft would work if invoked. Sam- !
pie registration cards and <
tionnaires have been designed and
are now
only 1 i
legislatin'' I
zhow ci n
t th> 19
|5 w ill I etui n
f.-.ui ».‘n<it'irx .ie- I
Suturday fot ie-elc<-|
"ordinary"T-rson's system members have pUdgrd him them tkm held the cummendal...y lettc
tn one day The depart- ' vote He w ill wuceeed R E Morse ft>
Ehlert has
.1 master's
• union work . i'
cooi sen. and’
t!><. graduate .'•]
■i'exc that he .
.' ■ tn. Mas-
•I i .imaUon.
in. c-Imation
■ oi ex tensive'
etInsl.i ,in.l a*I-
u.j lnni*clf ca-
lx ■ illy i nhi .i’i t i tir.il’edtn a-
tion tli.it in- f.'<ii.< i tn to hts.-mw-—-J-i
t il ' - .......inty i'ip.1 inti'ndcnf
ui'l ill ' |i.in ii.H fiuthcr to i.
] pryuiol. the el’ ue and adiaiicr* * n
...........-J.!i. oi Aashmgtoii
f "i i< ivt ii ye.ii.i Mi Ehlert has
Aorio ig (owaids his master':'
A atm M I’ollege. where-
a iplvmlnl terord in his
■x-.H ill work ami imzderu school
. t‘loij.1.
No tom,
\ a 1.1. .M
tin ' pre.u nta!inn of
the states Mi Ehlert. the
lb< sheepskins will be' mailed to those •
who haie won them.
ill
It docsn t seem that long ago
■tnc* the Get inans invaded J’ol-
and »nd set off the spark nf a
' aonflagiI ion that has engulfed
(Europe, but nevertheless. World
War Jl will be one year old next
week. It was on.the morning of
Sunday Sept. 3, 1939. that
Prime Minister Chamberlain of
England made his historic radio
troadca.-t at I o'clock in the
jnornln; announcing to the
world that a state of war exist-
ed. Binie then, the mechanized
hordes of Hitler have overran
Poland Norway. Denmark, Bel-
gMaM, Holland, and rance. Hit-
ler has forced or permitted other
change in the European map.
* “ ‘today, Great Britain is the
bower opposing the will of
t Whether- England will
Ihc list of the vanquished
loon be determined, as the
aerial blitzkrieg must get re-
ralia- before the winter weather
proves too great a handicap. It
has been a momentous year in
world history. We wonder what
the hext 12 months will bring
about
Under the bright fights there |
were perhaps three hundred men
shooting and watching others
shoot. There was’a spirit cf good
fellowship around the whole event
and everyone seemed satisfied.
=“r:!“r|FALL TERM of hitler agents
SiS' - district court said plotting
OPENS MONDAY AGAINST U. S.
Hobby horses were in operation I , ,
and various games were also pro-
vided for the children.
After the band eoimert l lie peo-
ple gathered .in the pavilion to
dance to the music of Tubby and
' his boys, the official Jaycee
i chestra Hundreds crowded
H |..,l I.
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'p ■I bi. .1 Ie G
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so. .a! Ml 'll ifv I
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_ CHESTER, S. C. tl'.Pt-A stu-
SEATTLE, Wash. (IT)—The city] dent at Winthrop College for Wo-
was Mrs. J. L.
| Glenn.- Mrs. Glenn studied as- I
j tronomy Mrs. Glenn is Hl years
i old and the mother of a federal
Judge.
niiples weir on the floor
JTO
NG,
;>air-
k'ers.
Shop
609.
n\.s m<’H,
been approved by the Commodity ] an(| „ |llln,|n.,'| /"J, The fall term «.f 'list
i for Washington County
! Monday morning.
From a financial standpoint the ; .Judge John II
. dings jircsiding and I nst nd. AJitm -
ney Leslie D. Williams in attend-,
; ani e..
WrtM nil jll DHIUllli^ i t T|UV\ Hill j* x|ll<l 1
’ " 1 with I ,
.. ... .... . i docket iv 1) lie heaviei
the people throughout the county ■ , ,
, ' some years, a.iording I
and other communities. i •’
The general chairman, Judge
Dick Spinn, wishes to thank ill
who aided in putting on the event
■and he feels pioud that the C'lii-
1 mimity Night observance was so
| well attended.
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F. R. May Declare
National Holiday
For One Day Draft
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WASHNGTON, .vug. 31
t o the giand jm V I or
Most ot t h< ' i
haiges at.- of ainimoi nntnie
prol.ii life
of i outt
to t lie gl and Jill y
until Tmvdny.
, in session
SAN Jt'AN Puerto Rn-o. Aug
31 J I’t The ie .ipa p.-i I*.I Miludo
L "( ha I ged to. hl V that \dolt 11111' I .H
iigenjs in tl>' 1 >'mum an Republic
I wete . n.Hpn mg against ' the
! meignty and llliei Iy" <3 tin
el I. IIS and mspe. t Ing b,(i. •<
I might eiidar.gi I I I
From all indii'atimiH the i riminal j f.-nse of the Panai
than lol Th.
o I bat rl' I Jiitse.I .
Who S'VS Badillo
I the rival docket will tie about ai
erage.
Outstanding on the nmiiiial
do< ket will Is- the tii.il ot a num
her of mi'll charged with cattle
rustling These cuttle theft iai<‘.
will probably I’onslinie i oimid' labli-
time
Tiie grand Jury is fa, mg a biny
ti-iin Nuiiki oils examining ti'ali
have been held in the past sell in!
months and the defenda nt i bound
! over Io the gland Jin V for in'-"
liegis tigl'tio'1- Most "t the ilimmal
tration of the nation's man jiowei
in a single day undei the selective
I draft bill is being consideied and
1 the President has ajijiomted a
I civilian committee to co-oj>erate
I with Army and Navy officials in
’ working out details, it was learned
! today.
In such an eventThc President'
w’ould probably declare a national
holiday or at least call on all em-
■ ------- ■ > give their employes
j time off for registration.
The plan to register rgen m one
j day is an indication of how the
President feels about the foreign
to Uvalde a month ago. He hasn't potentialities,
been to the bank yet and he has
til
I
BY (.ORDO5 K SHE \R* R
I nited I’reiM Staff < orrcspmi.l.mt
A' S TIN Aug 31 (I I'' . The
I next Texas IcgnLitute ill pies-
• «mt mme new 1 I' es than any leg -
IStatun in i. ient V' -<( i> l li' ie^ .’ lll
—^,,.1 m I,/ fi2 _________
trrJ .,f th', iioii'.ie rep ■ ter"
(.h jii<»iin.*»♦••> <4
Thr (ii’HeiU- tui );-<».» i ih
Klf.'Mt hm that t'rl Die hi
pi op »! tion to 11)* nuiiiiM r
<H the 31 pla* r*
Votn g this yea
iiiuiiitx i ship of
nnli-
It appears now
thal that date will be about Sept.
15.
Then follows this schedule (all
| dates still tentative, depending on
j date of final congressional action ).
i First to 14th day—(Sept. 15 to
Sept. 29)—printing of registration
I cards and questionnaires. . Regls-
tration boards will be set up, using
large planter living in an adjoin- | precinct election ntachincfy.
Go to Registration Place
Fifteenth day—(Sept. 30) —Each
man between 21 and 31—or 21 to
45 if the House bill should be
adopted—will go to his registra-
tion place, fill out a card about
two inches by three, with his age,
birthplace, citizenship, occupation,
residence and a few simple, similar
minor items.
Sixteenth to twenty-first days—
(Oct. 1 to 61 —Draft boards will be
set up in each locality. Registra-
tion cards will be numbered.
Twenty-first to twenty-fourth
days—(Oct. 6 to 9)—A pile of cap-
sules, each containing a number
ranging from No. 1 to the highest
number issued to any registrant,
will be placed in a bowl in Wash-
ington and some dignitary will
draw a capsule out. Each man I
who holds that number on his
registration card will thereby be- i
come No. 1 candidate for the draft I
in his locality.
Questionnaire Distributed
Twenty-fourth to thirty-fourth
J
. . he is cotr.it in
a temporary home-coming tomato juice will give all the vita- his claim that a majotity of th< t"zt"t
.J.at fhr g.nr'i’ r had written f”
• >f Houston who return* to the/tho»< who voted for sift 12 v> 'h<
( j-lhous* a* * member but who u> not last session They were Mns utli
more |ow-rent dwelUnjs, * project metal otonsti* ui priparuig tomato i ing the „pe*krr. hip ‘»41' / ■ , r*l‘* f ' urd Ob p^. trur i
dear to h» he*rt. ] jmc. at home. ‘ (C &<• X ...
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Robertson, Ruby. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 208, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 31, 1940, newspaper, August 31, 1940; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1334273/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.