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VOLUME 79
BRENHAM, TEXAS,
FRIDAY, DEC. 22. 1944
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RETURNS FROM OVERSEAS
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Package-Wrapping .
Holiday Urged By
Salvage Committee
REDS LAUNCH
NEW ATTACK
ON GERMANS
Mrs. Lawrence Of
Brenham Killed ’
Americans Strike At
Front With Fresh
Divisions
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CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
AT LONG POINT SCHOOL
THEO HENRY DRECHSEL
AT HOME HWM HAWAII
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Back Into Hills
Of Leyte
LT. LAWRENCE
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B, V. Pattersons
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No Celebration
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Slowly recovering from wounds i
and wearing several military dec-
oration!, Pfc. Harry C- Wiese-
pape, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Wlcsepapg of Brenham Route 1, in
at home on sick leave from the
Herman General Hospital, Long-
IS STOPPED
z Driver* Office (kxtnl .
,,, , | If 50,000 retail merchants in
The driver* licenses offices In i Tcxaf including every store us-
the courthouse wiU not be opening pujier for wlapping, will quit
December 23 and December
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Aircraft Plant City
Of Nagoya Hit
By Bombs
SHOPPING DAY
TILL CHRISTMAS
HttS. FIGHTER— iPfr^^ksepa,^ h
PLANES SWEEP
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With crowbar ae leror
luy those gifts today,
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Only
EAST TEXAS — Considerable
cloudiness this afternoon, tonight
and Saturday, not quite so cold
in northeast, warmer in south-
/ eaat portion Saturday, fresh winds
along coast.
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Lt. J. B. Keeley, Houston, Tex..*Is raised by Ukrainian girls In celebration of,their liberation from
forced labor Ln German factories In Schirineck by Americans of the Oth army. The girls were brought
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Lt.J.E. Inglehardt
Is Reported Killed In
J ciion In Fa^t Indies
H.i.ht •
ADVANCE IN
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by village and foot by foot, in an
effort to make our victory .
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view, Texas, where he has been
a patient since September 29.
Young Wiesepape, a member
of an infantry unit, had been in
active service in the Pacific for
two and a half years, participat-
ing in many battles with Japs.
He was wounded in the leg by
shrapnel April 30, in the battle of
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rcajcheti the fiftieth asnlixrMiry homeland,
of their marriage, but nt the time ’
illness in the family and other
• First E. ingTehardt, only non or Mr.
and Mrs. James Inglehardt of Fort Worth, formerly of
Brenham, has been reported killed in action in Netherlands
East Indies November 30, according to a message from the
First Lieutenant James w ! War Department received by his parents.
Lawfence of CJHmer, Texne. was | -----a—Sii
SUPERFORTS
BLAST MANY
JAP TARGETS
Children of the Long Point
school and community under the
direction of Mrs. Dora Korthauer,
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• Today we pilnt our annual
Christmas greeting edition, in
w'hich the merchants and pro-
% fessional men extend their- beat
wishes of the holiday .season to
their friends and customers.
Our advertisers have been most
‘ generous in the use of our col-
umns for this edition, but we
owe an apology to many who
were missed. Some were out •
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■v—%orne were not -njheheflFoeefitrse
of a shortage of help. Those
who were unable to extend hol-
, iday greetings in this edition
will have an ppportUoHy to .do
so next Friday when we print
onr New dear's greeting edi-
tion. Please chll our office, and
• a solicitor will be sent.
Brenham Heather
Maximum temperature for the ( will present their annual Christ-
f 24 hours ending at 8:00 Friday: mas program on Saturday night,
irornlng was 57 degrees, mini- December 23. beginning at 7:45
mum, 40 degrees. At 8:00 am. pm.
the mercury stood at 41 degrees, vited to attend.
T-F Herbert E Keim, with the
Signal CorfM, will return from 22
months overseas service in th*
American theater of operations tn
the near future and will arrive at
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, prior
tc reaching his home in Brenham
for a Christmas visit to his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Keim.
BELG.
HouHulizc*
STEVENSON’S
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The hundreds of Brenham
families who have one or more
of their own members fighting
oversea! can do nothing more
than they have already done to
make Chriatmas more comfor-
table and enjoyable for their
own boys. But they can still
do more by proxy. Many serv-
A Ice men from the nearby camps
will be tn Brenham Sunday and
Christmas, boys far a* ay from
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by <<•ming' out o71i^nxe^ --- '-4,sjj
Line defenses “may
give us a chance to turn his great
gamble into his worst defeat”
Eisenhower’s stirring order of
the day coincided wlth-word from
F irst army headquarters that the
Git man sweep had been halted in
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the Country and were trying to
destiny b^-passed American units
lii their reilT.~ '“' * * "
There was still no indication
that the dangerous, thrust through
Luxcndiourg toward the Sedan
Gap'into EriuiK' had been check-
ed. / i
Gen. Elsenhower Mid the Ger-
J n.ann are staking everything
aupw.--•*_ ---.
ilesperale plight, but predicted
present battle is t)»« < riQcaj one
which may decide whether the
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NO BANNER-PRESS MONDAY
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“SMALL WORLD” ITEM
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REMEMBER SERVICEMEN
SKV-2-C Theo. Henry Drechsel
has arrived from Hawaii for a
Christmas visit to his mother,1 Retailers, — -------
Mrs Henry Drechsel, and other I manufacturers of sUch shoes,
relatives, and will spend most of
his thirty days leave here He en-
tered the naval service tn No-
vember, 1942, and this U his first
visit home in two years. He is
serving with the Aircraft’Main-
tenance forces and is stationed at
RImk4u1u. 1 ' .
I of thousands of
ntr’tmX. Hn+- ■
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ces for the Soviet winter offensive
in ea.it Prussia and Poland.
A United Press dispatch from
Moscow said the Russians were
believed massing the greatest
concentration of men,- artillery,
tanks and aircraft yet seen on the
eastern front for a "campaign
that Li expected to conclude the -
war.”
Mr. and Mrs. B. V. Patterson,
old-timers who have spent their
entire married life in and near
Brenham, will attain the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage on
Decern be® 23. They were mar-
ried at Chapel Hill two days be-
fore Christmas in 1894, and both
are members of pioneer families-
For various reasons this fine
old couple will hold no formal
celebration of their golden wed-
ding, biit many friends will re-
member the day and offer felici-
tations.
He was serving as a bomiier pr-
int in the United States Army |
Air Forces and jiad seen much '
a< ttve combat service in the Pa-
cific war zone. Before going to
the East Indies he had s< ive.| ten
months In New Guinea.
Lt. Inglehardt, who was 23
years age, was born and reared (
in Brenham, anti was a graduate! 400,000 Men Hurled
MAgainst Nazis
in student activities and a'mem- ; Jn Latvia
tier of the band at both schools.
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autumn, 1944; others
Harbor Day, December
others at Chriatmas,
first of the year, 1945.
“I think it is without doubt the
consensus of all of our
Easing Of Rationing
Of Shoes Is Urged
By Retailer Group
z * i press to all friends to call at the
i Nix home Sunday afternoon and
join tn celebrating the golden
wedding- of a popular old couple
Reunion In England
ALBION. Ind O» - For the
of I first time in five years and then
< ir England the three Hollopeter
The public has held Its ration brothers, sons of Mr. and Mrs.
coupons for higher priced shoes. Lewis W. Hollopeter, saw
Atkins said, and has “refused.to other. 8-Sgt. Earl W., T-Sgt
spend them for the popular jjrlc-l Frank R , and 1st Lt. Wayne W.
ed footwear.” had not seen one another since
Atkins declared 15.000,00 pairs, 1939, when they attended
of leather shoes are thus Virtual-1 parents' silver wedding
ly "frozen'’ to dealers* shelves. ; sary
PARIS, Dec. 22 H'Pl The
Grrrpan advance through Bel-
gium has been stopped, front re-
ports said today, as Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower called on his for-
ces t»> ‘ kq forward /to our great-
enemy I
I Siegfried
European Situat i o n
Calls For More
AUSTIN, Dec. 22, Gov. Coke
R. Stevenson has issued a state-
ment to the people of Texas, urg-
uig. alUwiukers not now on war
Jobs to get one quickly, ahd all
those already on war jobs to
stay there and cut down absen-
teeism The statement followed
a. cQn/ereypgwlth War Manpow-
er ComrrtisSteK—effkrtsUe.-who-told,
the governm - -tire- nation facewe-
critical shortage of 300,000 war
workers. . ___
In some quarters, the gover-
nor’s appeal was believed to be a
forerunner of drastic, compulsory
steps to be taken by the govern-
ment if voluntary response falls
to develop. '
Following Is the governor's
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hgve beer\ in conference dur-
KF pOt” few days wtth fiffrj
of the War Manpower Com- I
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Germans continue their drives into Belgium and Luxembourg
(black areas indicate the extent of penetration since the start Of
drive) while Americans counterattack at spots shown .by black ar-
rows. The white sections An smith shuWAIlied gains. The American
strategy could be to pinch off the Nazi drive by the Ninth and Istl
Armies in north and the 3rd Army in the south. (NEA TelemajJ).
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300,000 Additi o n a 1
• Workers Needed
At Present
.AUSTIN,’ Dse, 22 Chairman
A Patrick Flood of the state
‘ salvage committee of the war
production bogrd Thursday su,
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chants declare a hptidsy on
ping packages for their custom-
ers’to save paper for «ar needs.
He made the suggestion In a-
circular sent to managers >f
CThainhers of Commerce and Re
tail Merchants’ Associations out-
lining local programs for putting
a wrapping paper holiday into ef-
fect.
j Flood said that except
| rrvats and some other types
I merchandise where the use
wrapping paper was absolutely
essential, goods couid be deliver-
I ed direct to customers in moat
I case* U'ilh a tremendous saving
I In pajier resulting directly.
He suggested that in each com-
munity merchants be .asked to
hold back present stqcka ot wrap-
ping paper for emergencies, or to
channel it to butcher shops.
If 50,000 retail merchants
j Texas, including every store
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‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. <l’Jf>
' A big fleet of Superfortresses
bombr-d the aircraft manufactur-
ing city of Nagoya and possibly
other targets or the main Japa-
nese island of Honshu today, step-
ping up an offensive to smash
the enemy’s air power in prepara-
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‘”Upwards of 100 B-29'b thunder- -
e<! out of Saipan to hit what the
War Department identified only P*
as "Industrial target*" on Hona- er
hu. However Tokyo soon after-
ward reported the main objective I
was Nagoya, Japan’s third largest P1
city and biggest producer of air- la
craft. / , I
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Governor Urges Workers Get On War Jobs At Once And Stay
Thu. Today’s War Ma^ ~ ■ —- , By Americans ,
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LGNDON, D*C. 22. H’.Pk Ber-*”
lln isid" t<xlay that the Red army,
launching a n<-w offensive at the
northern end of the eastern front,
hurled 27 divisions possibly 4U0j-
(MX) men against, the southern
tun" of th<- (Ivrman pocket in
northwest Latvia and conceded
that the Soviets had broken Into
th/- Nazi lines at several points.
. The offensive, if confirmed,
would appear an “'’-■.■‘■t __
j to liquidate tens of thousands of
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ALL IED HEADQUARTERS.
Philippines , Dec. 22.— (t’.W —
American fighter planes swept
over a wide area of central and
southern Luzon from new bases
on Mindano island today, ready
to cover the next phase of the
American liberation of the Philip-
pines.
‘On Leyte the American 77th
division from the south and the
First Cavalry from the north-
west linked up Wednesday near
Kananga, 14 miles north of Or-
moc, and drove the Jap remnants
into the hills in the northwest
corner of the island.
reported killed in action
Philippines, October 3.1,
serving with a United
Tank Corps.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. E. L- Lawrence of Gilmer
one sister, Edith Lawrenee^of
College Station; four* brothers:
T/3 Everett Lawrence with the
U. S. Army in England, C’pl. Clif-
ton Lawrence with the U. 8. Ar<
my In the Philippines, Kj-nnetfi
Lawrence of Crawford, Nabras-
ka, and Willie Lawrence of Capi-
tola, California; and a sister-in-
law, Mrs. Everett Lawrence
Brenham.
25, v. rapping bundles, tha paper mills
according to informstion received can divert that production to
war materials, he said.
In keeping with our annual
custom, we plan to omit pub-
lication of the Banner-Pre^s
. Monday, Christmas Day. That
f Will enable ouf fellow workers
to be at home with their fam-
' Hies on this sacred day, and to
participate in its observance.
While the war news from Eu-
’ rope tends to modify thcTChrist-
4 r mas spirit this year, we do
- ■4i«p»*kU , Ijey-U -Vo-the
4 est extent of their capacity un-
der the circumstanOM. W« sliall
~ ’ in mind the sorrow
that hangs over many a 7ome
*• this Christmas where a vacant
- chair is a grim reminder ot
what is going on in the world.
* We shall all hope that that
chair will be filled again soon,
or that the spirit of Christmas
• will lesser! the bereavement in
those homes where the chair
will never be filled again.
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’ Here’s another of those "small
world” items. Ensign August
Hoting has written to his fath-
- er, W. E. Hotihg, telling him of
a recent incident in Honolulu,
Hawaii. He and another Texas
- boy "hitch-hiked” a ride on an
# army truck, occupied by a cou-
ple of majors and a negro
chauffeur, the latter from Hous*
ton. Learning that Ensign Hot-
in was from Brenham, one of
the majors asked if he knew H.
Dornberger. "Sure, he is a
t good friend Of mine and he fix-
ed my raincoat before I left,"
the ensign replied. The major
then reported that his own
♦ father, Fred Erhart, an archi-
tect now living in Louisville.
Ky., knew Mr. Dpi?»berger back
they went to school together,
and that his father-had_a«ked
him to visit the Brenhamite
when he was at Camp Swift,
Bastrop, but that he had not
had the opportunity. The ma-
jor’s name was Herman A. Er-
hart.
Gahwlie May Se /
Worst Defeat
Golden Wedding
“Open House” Due
At ], R, Nix Home
EISENHOWER
URGES FORCES
ONTO YICTOkt
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KOBLfNnv
Ditttvd I me Sliow\ IP 1S.
Pinot Wlu*/<’ fijg f
Nuri Ottvusufv Stuitvd
On Muchly, Pr< IHfh
Atklni said, and has "refuaed.to other. &-Hgt.
Wounded and Wears .
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Slowly recovering from wounds i agency which is charged with re-
sponsibility for staffing the war
plants of the nation with the man-
power needed to keep guns, am-
munition, and supplies rolling to
the various fronts to supply our
armed forces in this global war.
"These officials have told me
that the‘nation is confronted by a
desperate shortage of manpower,
needed to produce enormous
quantities of certain supplies and
equipment. ‘
"This shortage of manpower is
due to several factors. During re-
cent months, optimistic state-
ments by government and mili-
tary leaders in this and other na-
tions .have resulted In much loose
talk, speculation and conjecture
a.< to when Germany will be de-
feated. Some of these forecasts
fixed dates as far back a^ early
Pearl
still
the
4Brother-in - L aw -Of
are^ ui for a long, bitter, b'lixidy..
land costly struggle to defeat
Germany. The Nazis do not sur-
render, but are fighting village reasonk delayed the celebration of
--.i u.. u their golden wedding day..
Members of the family of Mr.
and Mrs. Nix will compliment
them with "open house" Sunday
afternoon. December 21, from
3:00 to 5:00, at the Nix residence,
418 Botts street. No,formal in-
vitations will be issued, but an
' invitation Js extended through the
I press
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—A tem-
porary end to rationing of shoes
costing S3 50 ’ a pair or less was
urged Thursda/ by Edward At-
kina, secretary of th$ National
Association of Popular Price Shoe
an organisation c-
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