Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, February 19, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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BURGLARS AT
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GET 35 CENTS
Safe But Door Is
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Washington Native
Dies In Beaumont,
Buried Here
Russian Spear head
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PETE HENTZEL’* INFANT
NON DIEM AT HOSPITAL
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Hereford Cattle
Auction Due At
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HUTCHINSON
FUNERAL HELD
HERE SUNDAY
Locals Prepare For
District Tourney
February 23
held on Friday, Feb. 23, but the cations must be in by March 5.
place and time of games will t>e
In contrast to the usual scene of mud, broken towns and tired troops on the Western front as Yanks
slog through, this picture shows the 10»th American Regiment passing saluting base in Colmar, France,
during a’ parade after the town’s recapture from the Germans. Note paved streets, undamaged build-
ings and dreaaed-up appearance of troops. (NEA Telephoto). • '
open, and a sledge hammer'that
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7:00
Cub Growl
Postponed
Til Tuesday
Because ut the press of ad-
vertising and news for today’s
Banner-Press, it is necessary
to postpone publication of the
’•Cub Growl’* page until Tues-
day. ' ,
The barbecue supper with which
_ ... . -- — 7 t(J
have honored the Boy Scouts at
Firemen’s Park this evening has
b?en postponed on account of the
bad weather, the rain and mud
making an outdoor entertainment
impossible. Date of ths barbs-
• u« will lie announced later. ;
BATTLE HEAVY -
OPPOSITION OF •
JAP GARRISON
Nimitz Scans Map Of Action
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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific
Fleet, examines a map of Japan at his headquarters on Guam nt the
moment when carrier planes of a iNuvy task force were attiu king the
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Giaeser
of the Welcome community are
the parents of a daughter, Dar-
lain Faye, who arrived at the Sa-
rah B. Milroy Memorial Hospital
February 12, weighing seven
peunds and eleven ounces. Moth-
er and baby are reported doing Brenham when a child and made
well. - - - - -
The Infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Pete Hentzel of Chapel Hill died
at a local hospital Saturday morn-
ing. immediately after birth. Fu-
neral services were held at the
Chapel Hill Catholic church Mon-
day morning, with the Mercer-
Seidel Funeral Home directing.
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Rainbow Giris of Brenham will
hold Initiation ceremonies at the
Masonic Hall at 7:30 Tuesday eve-
ning. All members are urged to
be present and members of the
Eastern Star are invited to at-
tend.
By TOMMIE BLAKE
With the session now over
this half of the district race
LONDON, Feb. 19. (U.K) - A
-German military spokesman said
today that the Red rtrrny cracked!
fcito GubdC key fortress city 57
miles southeast of Berlin, but whs
thrown oiit after a violent battle.
Moscow reported that Soviet
forces pushing westward from the
Breslau area had unlimbered their
big guns of Goerlitx, gateway to
Dresden and PragUe.
Soviet dispatches said German
resistance vias stiffening all along
the front but Russian-assault for-
ces wore battering forward with-
in reach of *t number of anchor
bases in the defenses before. Ber-
lin.
Nazi broadcasts said the Rus-
sians smashed across the Oder
south of Croasen and struck west-
ward for Guben, 17 miles distant.
Berlin later said that the thrust
from the Crossen area had car-
ried ts Gubrt), but that the Ger-
mans braced and shoved back the
spearhead.
Their sole task was to
the Japanese, probably
man, frpm their hiding
Fricke Reports Inch
Rain West o*f Town
Volunteer Weather Observer
Albert Fricke reports thst rain-
fall registered on his gauge this
morning showed a total of 1.09
Inches Yesterday the precipita-
tion totaled .37 inch, he reported.
communications targets on the
Malay peninsula.
The Superfortress raids came
simultaneously with an announce-
ment from advance Pacific Fleet
headquarters here that carrier
planes had destroyed or damaged
at least 36 Japanese ships and
659 aircraft in their raid# on the
Tokyo area last Friday and Sat-
urday.
Elks Teams Practice
Friday Nights At
Germania
Tiny Island Is Raked
By Fire And Three
Landings Made
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-OLD AND YOUNG
BOWLERS FIGHT
IN TOURNAMENT
Ii^asion Supported
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Sea Barrage . |
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EAST TEpCAS—Rain this after-
noon, tonight and Tuesday.
Slightly w.armer Tuesday.
CUBS WINNERS
IN EAST HALF
OFDISTRICT' Exams Will Be
Held AT Blinn
to steady and less labored flight-
Gradually the Intense tropical
heat of the ground fades away,
and a chill comes over the cabin.
Then the flight orderly turns on
the heater, and Idjutsts it until
you are comfortable in your light
clothes, even without a jacket.
It was after midnight when we
took off from the little island of
Kwajalein, in the Marshalls, and
we were' not to stop again until
we reached the Marianas.
Passengers are not allowed to
smoke until the plane has stop-
ped climbing and leveled off.
Then the flight orderly stands at
the head of the cabin and shouts
in good Navy language, "The
smoking lamp paper cupe for you
to use as ash trays.'*
About every three hours the
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LOCKETTS BARBE4 UE
K>R SCOUTS POSTPONED
THOUSANDS OF U. S. MARINES LAND ON
WO WITHIN FIGHTING RANGE OF TOKYO
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Reds Smash Into Guben Against Violent German Opposition
SOVIET FORCES
PUSHING WEST
FROORESLAU
Batter Within Reach
• Of Anchor Bases
Before Berlin
Th. ic examination# win be giv«
_________ bn under the sponsorship of the
will be played.. It is slated to be Merit System Council, and appli-
held on Friday, Feb. 23, but the cations must be in by March 5,
place ami time of games wiU be 1945 Blanks may be procured at
decided at a meeting to be held Blinn CoDege.
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What? No Mud For Marching!
By KELLY WALTON
Should you see Paul Lemm,
Frank Behrens or Jimmie Crews
hobbling down on the square don't
accuse them of doing too much
har<) work they just went a
bowling and how* Just ask them.
Robert Appel found the pocket
for two nice games and was . a
big factor in helping his H. F.
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Both Sides Fortress
Guarding Manila
Bay Secured
' MANH. X Fl >> 19 'fT' -<ne
eriian para trooper# and infantry-
men joined today In the. arduous
job of cleaning out-, hundreds of
die-hard Japanese from the tun-
n<la and crevices of Corregidot
Fort res#. , ,
Both side# of the rocky fort,
teas guarding the entrance to
Manila Bay were secured by the
two American contingent# which
Invaded Corrrgldor from the air
and #ea.
dig mit
man by
places
JONES’ APPRECIATION
WRITES BANNER-fttESS
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CHAPLAIN WRITES MOTHER
Open competitive examinations
will be held at Blinn College aC
9 ik) a in., March 17, 1945, for the
' following positions: field worker,
l junior < laims examiner, junior
in j field Auditor, claims interviewers,
for I junior stenographer, apprentice
the crown in basketball, the Bren- clerk, kep punch operator, and
ham High Cubs will take it easy i senior P. B X. operator..
this week, waiting for the decision
on where the district tournament
(By United Press)
American Marines won a solid
beachhead on Two Island and bat-
tled Inland against heavy J spa-
te «e opposition today, in a bid to
overrun the island’s three air-
fields within fighter range of To-
kyo.
Two full Marine Divisions, about
30,000 strong, were pouring ashore
on the southeastern coast of Two,
750 mile# southeast of Tokyo,
supported by a terrifle air-ata
barrage that raked every yard of •
the eight square mile Island.
The Japanese garrison, esti-
mated* al 10,000 to 15,000 man,
was . reported fighting furiously
front pill box.'s and slit trenches
several hundred yards inland,
and eye witness accounts said the
4iattlc,was fuHy as desperate as
those fought for Tarawa and Pe-
lellu.
. Japanese accounts said the Ma-
rines weresashore at three points
on the smith, southwest, and east
coast of the island after a record
four day bombardment.
| Enemy broadcast# said the Mg
American carrier force that had .
been pounding Tokyo hud turned
south apparently to join In the
assault on Two,
36 Jap Ships, 659 DIE-HARD JAPS
Aircraft Desfroyea CLEANED OUT
TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COMMAN'D HIMJRS., Guam, i flp PflDD FP|rW>|I?
February 19. (U.P)—The largest force . of SujierfortreHHeH Vl VvI\I\LljlIzVll
ever atudgned to the Japanese run bombed Tokyo and itk
industrial neighborhood today in a follow up raid to Vice
Admiral Marc Mitcher’is two-day carrier ntrike.
—.....................*----------- ‘ A second force of B-29's thun-
deredOut from bases in India to-
. COLLEGE STATION,Feb. 19.--
Fifty-five high quality Hereford
bulls and females selected from
19 well known purebred herds of
this area are consigned to the 5th
annual auction sale by the Mid-
South Texas Hereford Associa-
tion to be held at 1:00 p.m. Feb
22 in the livestock judging pavil-
ion of the Texas A- 4 M. College.
This offering Is equal to and in
many features superior to those
handled in four previous auc-
tions. declared Ward Moorings
secretary of the organization.
They will be on display in the
sales arena the morning of Feb-
ruary 22.
I-ast year 49 Hereford bulls
sold for Mid-South Texas breed-
ers at an average of 9248, while
seven females returned >319 each.
‘ The regular meeting of
Lions Club to be held at
American Legion Home at
Tuceday evening will be featured
by a barbecue 'supper, A. W.
Shannon, the president, announc-
ed today. He said he hope# for
100 per cent attendance. —
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 19
Pfe Robert Hoefelmeyer, 24,
. of Brenham, Texas, has arrived
at Angy Aip-Br—
ttoft- .7,<*.•»- Mlto.u
Beach for reassignment process-
ing after completing a tour of du-
ty outside the continents United
States.-
Medical examinations and 'clas-
sification interview’s at this post,
pioneer Of several redistribution
stations operated by the AAF
Personnel Distribution Command
for AAF returned officers and en-
listed men, wiU determine his
Inw assignment. . He will remain
V . *U tne reaisuiuurion siaaun auuai
two weeks, much of which will be
devoted to rest and recreation.
Private Hoefelmeyer was a
truck driver in the South P®<4r
fic. He is the son of Willie Hoe-
felmeyer, Route 5, Brenham, Tex-
as.
Jesse H. Jones, recently de-
posed secretary of commerce
'and head of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, has writ-
ten us a letter of appreciation
for our remarks concerning his
displacement. His letter *■ fol-
lows:
I have noted with .much inter-
est the editorial attitude of the
Brenham Banner-Press with re-
spect to the appointment by the
President of Henry Wallace to
the post of Secretary of Confc
merce.
I appreciate the reference to
my work. Tt has been a long
and. tedious job -13 years—con-
stantly calling for decisions
. 4 that affect not only those im-
mediately concerned, but often
many others, and sometimes the
entire country. The added au-
thority and responsibility which
have been delegated to the
RFC and me from year to year,
and the almost limitless funds
made available to us have been
very sobering.
I am glad to be able to say
that operation of the Corpora-
tion has been on a non-partisan
basis as was contemplated
the law creating it.
It has been a privilege
have had the opportunity
serve my country since Janu-
ary 1932, first in the depression
and later in the war- Undoubt-
edly errors haye bce^ ^acte-»”'t
I am satisfied they ,
/elatively few when compared
to the wide scope of the opera-
tions. •
With best wishes,
Bicerely,
Jesse H. Jones
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C W. Korthauer has received
a letter from his son, T/5 Harry
Korthauer, somewhere in Bel-
gium, which encloses a group
picture of the Army’s football
~ .W-i^’-PwnWit .. i»
the group is Milton Routt, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Chip Routt of
Chspel Hill and f6rmer star in
the line for Brenham High
school. Harry reports he is
feeling fine except for an old
knee ailment, and that he had
finally received all of his
Christmas packages. The letter-
was dated Jan. 27.
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Fritz Buerger of Sandy Hill
was a visitor in Brenham Sat-
urday. He reported rains of
the last week had saturated the
land, slowing down farming op-
erations, and had put the small
creeks out of their banks.
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Mrs. Minnie Klehm, Chapel
Hill, Route 1, has received a
letter from Captain Howard H.
Scarborough, chaplain of 330th
Engineers, APO 689, c/o Post-
master, New Tork, telling her
that her son, PFC. Willie
Klehm, Jr.,'was present at spe-
cial a Christmas service held in
the company area. “On Christ-
mas day this year we sensed
the feeling that your thoughts
and the thoughts of thousands
of parents throughout our na-
tion were turned in the direc-
tion of sons who are serving
with the armed forces in all
parts of the world.’’ he wrote.
"I want you to know that your
son, in fact each man here, is
convinced of the justness of his
cause and Is carrying on cour-
ageously in these months of
difficulty. We find our strength
I tn the strength of God, and in
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(Ernie Pyle H with the Navy In
the Far I’artflc. This Is an ar-
ticle written on his way.—The
Editor).
By ERNIE PYLE
IN THE MARIANAS
LANDS—After you take off from
one of the island stope crossing
the Pacific, your plane climbs
noisily and laboriously for about
half an hour, then it levels off in-
Wiedeville Resident
Probably Suffered
_ Heart Attack
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The de^d body of Henry Schul-
ze Was found Monday morning in
his bed *at hl# residence In the
Wledeville community, where he
lived alone on his farm. When
neighbors failed to #ee him for
several days an investigation was
made and from Indications ho had
been dead about two days. He was
73 years of age
Justice of the Peace H. A.
Becker was summoned and held
ar inquest, returning a verdict of
death from natural causes, prob-
ably a heart attack.
The house wherein the laxly
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ALLIES CLOSE
ROAD TO RUHR
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' *■ Americans Throu g h
Siegfried Line
Fortifications
PARIS, Feb. 19.—(U.P>—Scot-
tish troops . cleared two-thirds of
the west wall fortress of Goch to-
day and closed in from two sides
or the companion stronghold of
Calcar, barring the road to Ger-
many’s industrial Ruhr valley.
’ Far to th* #vJr.. '
Third army advanced a half mile
Into the German west wall de-
fenses along a thirty mile front
between Pruem *and Echtemach.
At the southern end of their as-
sault line Lt. Gen George S. Pat-
ton’s Third army was completely
through a seven mile stretch of
the Siegfried fortifications to a
depth of two miles and threatened
a further breakthrough across the
Pruem River.
Field dispatches said the entire
chain of west wall fortresses on
the Third army front was rapidly
turning into a death trap for their
Nazi defenders under the grinding
American attack.
Burglars visited the Brenham
High school Sunday night and
knocked the knob off the safe
door after prying open several
doors leading to the office..
Though they caused considerable
inconvenience, and - did , some,
acmiaae, Ctvatr mrry
small change, about 35 cents. The
intruders were evidently after
money as nothing was missing.
Several , doors, Including one
leading from the hall to the su-
perintendent’s office, were prized
had been used in the effort
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Mis# Katie Hutchinson.» native
of Old Washington and former
resident of Brenham, died early
Saturday morning at the residence
of her sister, Mrs. E H. Sharp of
Beaumont, after a lingering IU-
neas, having been an invalid for,
several years as the result of a ;
fall in which she suffered a brok-;
en hip.
Meftiber of a poineer family
that was among the early set-
tlers of thia section Miss Hutchin-
son was born at Old Washington
February 10, 1859. moved to
Ernie Pyle “Eats
Way From Marshall
Isles To Marianas
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Robertson, Ruby. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, February 19, 1945, newspaper, February 19, 1945; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1334349/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.