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Brenham Banner-Press
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Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service,
BRENHAM, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 2,1944.
VOLUME 79
NO. 87
Carrier Has Historic Name
Brenham’s Oldest Fireman
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SERVICE WORK
spectator OFFENSIVE IS
NOW THROUGH
ITS 16TH DAY
U. S. Naval Task
Force Makes Raid
On Big Truk Base
Hoard ‘Defers’
Private As An
‘Essential Worker
FIERCE PATROL
BATTLERAGING
BELOW ROME
Spanish Anti-Nazis
To Meet In Mexico
Fighter Penetration
Of Skies Reported
, By Berlin
Liberators Bombers
Pace Sweep Far
Over Europe
RANGE BIG AREA
Scheduled At
Park Friday
Cross, Czechoslovak
Foothills Into
Rumania
FIGHTING RAGES
Brother Of Brenham
Women Buried Near
Livingston
HAS twisters
SRIKE TEXAS
Hundreds Thousands
Acres Farm Lands
Inundated
Cakes Chairmanship
Of Important Red
Cross Committee
Sears Distribution Is Navy Announces
Heavy Strikes
Continue
Comparative Lull Is
Succeded By Large
Scale Action
Verna Mae Lehrmann
Is Elected As
President
Brazos Rises Almoi
Top Of Levees At
Waco East Side
MORRIS FRANK HERE
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TO WRITE UP BRENHAM
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ENTERTAINS rfOTARY
SGT. MARVIN KRAMER
RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA
of
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Fritz H. Giesecke,'SI year old
•Brenham fireman, oldest member
and only living charter member of
one large tanker, two
sized cargo transports,
medium (sized cargo ships.
Funeral services were held from
the chape! of the Pace Funerzl
Home at Livin,
EAST TEXAS—Scattered showers
' and thunder storms. Little change
in temperature.
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this year*
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H.R.GOLLER
DIES SUDDENLY
WHILE AT WORK
LONDON, May 2.—(UP) Amer-
ican warplanes of all types paced
bridge
pre-
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The Weather-
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New Schools for Mexico
MEXICO C1TT—CJ9—The Mex
ienn government has announced II
will spend 30,000,000 pesos I about
>6.000,000) on construction, of new
primary and .secondary schoo^i
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NINE 4-H CLURU.S.U-ROATS
BOYS DUE TO HAVE SUNK 544
GET DUROC HOGS JAPANESE SHIPS
i window washing film recently,
Ing the right flank of the beach-
head.
Allies Attack Right
Flank Of Anzio
Beachhead
Window Washing
Firm Bans
‘Dirty* Windows]
’ Fritz H. Giesecke, only living charter member of the Brenham
Fire Department and for many years president of the former Conner
by Liberato? heavy bombers rang- Hose Company, is pictured driving one of the up-to-date fire trucks
I that hums part of the fire-fighting equipment now in use in Brenham.
These latest sinkings bring the
total Japanese vessels hit by our
submarines to 695, of which 541
have been sunk.
E. .MONROE SMITHS
ARE PARENTS OF SON
<LJ!> — if you
everything
ture and the rains will be
beneficial. Farmers state,
ever, that enough rain, has faller),
and fair weather would be i
come.
CLEVELAND -
think you've heard
wait!
A Cleveland housewife called
dirty,
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other
Aerial Invasion Of Germany By U. S.Warplanes Hits New Record'
SOVIET ARMY
ADVANCING IN
CARPATHIANS
SIX RIVERS FLOODED, WACO IN DANGER
A ghiup of about 35 negro reg-
islranU left this morning for
Houston, where they will take phy-
sical examinations for the Unit-
es! States army. Those w!ft> are
accepted will be eligible for draft-
ing after several weeks. Men fall-
ing to pass the teat will be reject-
ed for service and return to Bren-
ham Ulis v veiling.
Glee 'nirmMMiM-ter 3 Min.
CHICAGO - (L'JIi The Journal
of the American Medical Assn, ad-
vises that a thermometer should
be loft in the mouth a minimum
of three minutes to obtain the ao
curate temperature of Uw body.
British Sink Dewtroyer
And Four Merchantmen
LONDON, May 2. -<V.E> British
submarines blockading Japan's sea
lanes between Singapore and Bur-
ma, have sunk a destroyer and I
four merchant vessels and bom-1
bardad Port Blair in the Bay of;
Bengal southwest of Burma, the
admiralty annotated today.
REV. ORAALMANN LEAVES
FOR VISIT TO IOWA
$
CAMP BLANDING. Fla. <L'.E)
I Pvt- Earl Ray (larr, Co. A, 227tW
Battalion, thinks that his Coving-
ton, Ind., draft board has misplac-
ed a record or two.
Carr received a letter from his
board the other day saying that
he was defcred as an "essential
worker." • , • *
The private feels that he must
certainly be in the '/ssentlal"
class as he has almost completed
tiiis infantiy basic training here.
T-Sgt. Marvin Kramer left
Monday for Camp San Luis Obis-
po. California, where he is station-
ed with the United States armed
forces, after spending an eleven
days furlough here with hie wife
and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Her-
man Kramer of Brenham Route 4.
at-
on I
will
and
. Wood. 5. New Sweden.
Although highway and I
WMshouts and crop damage
dominated today's . flood. ptetvje
along the Brazos, Trinity, Neches,
Sabine, Sulphur and Cypress Riv-
ers, the major threat loomed at
Waco, where the Brazos stood at
KU.2 feet, less than a foot from
the top of protecting levees shel-
tering ths entire east side of the
. city.
MEXICO CITY, D. F.— (UP)—
President Manuel Avila Camacho
has approved a meeting in Mexico
City next September of the “Free
World” Spanish anti-Nazl groups
of New York City and Mexico
City.
Isidro Fabela, former Mexican
delegate to the League of Nations
and now'^pVemor of the State of
Mexico, U president of the Mexi-
can branch of the group.
Good showers of , rain fell in
Brenham Monday night and early
Tuesday morning, precipitation to-
taling .75 Inch. Added to the half
Inch rain that feel the previous
night rainfall for the past two
days totals about 1.25 inches.
Crops, gardens and pasture
lands were badly in need of mq|s-
most
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Birth of Daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Baccus
have announced the birth of a
daughter, who arrived at the St.
Francis Hospital April 27. The
parents are now residents of
Brenham, having moyed here re-
cently from Somerville Mother
and infant are doing well.
and I would take the jecretai.y-
ship, which w as done, ao 4 served
as secretary until 1917, when the
city bought the big pumper and
it was decided to consolidate the
three" companies Hook and Lad-
der, Mechanics Engine, and Con-
ner Hose Companies into one com-
pany and name it the Brenham
Fire’ Department. a
•'After organization of the Con-
ner Hose Company we applied for
a charter, which was granted for
2<* years. On it my name appear-
e-t ns first aasiatant foreman. Jja
1905 the charier expired arid we
applied for a new one and were
granted a 50 year charter, on
which my name appeared a» pres-
ident. So you sec I was in har-
ness all the time for 32 years, cx-
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test |
in
several years, although numerous
geophysical crews have been in
the county almost cohtinuously for
three or four years, working out
this area.
“One nation indivisible, with
Liberty and Justice for AIL”
C. D. Dallmeyer, chairman of
the Washington County Red Cross
Chapter, announces that Mrs.
Robert E. Lange has accepted the
appointment as home service
chairman and will devote muoh of
her time to active service in this
important department of Red
Cross endeavor. Those who wish
to consult Mrs. Lange may find
her each day in her office on the
second floor of the Washington
County State Bank building or
outside of office, hours at her
home on the Burton highway near
Brenham.
In appointing Mrs. Lange to the
home service chairmanship Mr.
Dallmeyer pointed out that home
service is one of the most Import-
ant activities of the Red Cross, in
fact is a “must” department, ac-
tive operation of which is essential
if chapter charter is to be re-
tained
During wartime duties of the
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hr WasniHgtcn
County Slated
ed far over Europe, today, carrying
a record offensive through its six-
of Capistrano •' ‘"*nth day.
•----- - ? A United States communique
now called the offensive "the aer-
ial invasion of Germany apd ene-
my occupied territories.”
The Berlin Radio reported a
‘ i of the
skies river western Germany, in-
dicating a renewal of widespread
offensive sweeps over the con-
tinent. ,
The Brenham Federation of-Lu-
ther Leagues observed their semi-
annual meeting at’the Wicdevillc
Lutheran <hur<h Sunday, with a
crowdof approximately 150 Leag-
uers, pastors, and (Visitors in at-
tendance.
Decorations’Of potted hydangeas
and quantities of colorful spring
flowers and ferns were arranged
in the church.
At 2:30 o'clock, the meeting
opened with the Fcdeiatiup presi-
dent, Miss Lillian Elmann, .presid-
ing. With Doris Mac Addlcks at
the organ, the group sang, “God
BlesS Our Service Men” after
which Rev. Paul Czerkua gave the
scripture and prayer. The presi-
dent than Introduced Rev. W. A
Siefkes, of the Lutheran Service
Center in San Antonio, who gave
an inspiring message to the Leag-
uers on "Lutheran Welfare Work
in Texas.”
The business session opened
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Rainfall For Past
Two Days 1.25 In.
Sunshine Needed
Rev.,T. H. Graalmann, pastor of
Grace Lutheran church, left Sun-1
day night for his old home in Fort
Dodge, Iowa, where he will
tend a reunion of his family
Mother's Day. En route he
stop at Carthage. Missouri,
also at Ottmwa, lowe, for a short
visit to relatives. He has been
given, a trfo weeks vacation by his
congregation-
MOSCOW, May 2. <U.P» Front
tdiapatchcs said today the Bed Ar-
my was advancing siowly but
steadily in the Carpathian foot-
-hills-on a broad front from the
Czechoslovak border into Ruma-
nia
These reports were interpreted
‘to mean that large ccule fighting
■ apparently had been resumed on
the Rutialan front, after a compar-
atively quiot period of nearly two
weeks.-
: . It was the first time that Sov-
iet dispatches have meutiuned im-
portant offensive operations since
the Red army clamped a siege arc
on Sevastojiol two weeks ago.
sisters,
SpringR
of Bell-
Charlie
, Golfer of Bellville and Gus Gollcr
of Monrovia, California,
to resume active naval duty. The j nuisu .rl n>: I literary piugram w ill lhjj Chapel ~of the” Pace
|pound<< |, pn.-M.ntH by the pupils and j at' UvinvMw* Monday, and
> burial was at the Bernard Chapel
| community cemetery near Livings*
ton. Rev Mr. Bonner, BapUat
pastor of Livingston officiated.
Relatives from Brenham and
other points went to Livingston
Monday to attend the funeral.
NAPLES, May 2 (!.P> Fierce
patrol fighting broke out all along
the main battlefronts below Rorni:
yesterday, a communique report-
ed today.
Allied bomliers maintained their
day and night offensive against
enemy supply ports and jail lines
tn central and northern Italy.
German skirmishers cut into th>
Fifth army forward positions on
the Anzio beachhead three miles t
southwest of Aprilia and forced a,
slight Allied- withdrawal, but Al->
IJed cornbat patrols were atta< k-
A deep oil test to a depth of 12,000 feet has been con-
tracted for by the Magnolia Petroleum Co. to be drilled in
the Clay Creek pool of Washington tounty, it whh announced’ 2L Neyr Hw<den7 and Beth Jean
in HouHton today. •
Location has bean made ,<>n the
Herman Lauter tract of 119.64
•cres in the N. (’I.cy ieilgue; in
I what is commonly known as the
Sun Oil field. A test was drilled
on this-tract m 1936 with a gootl
show-
It is understood that the com)
pany wHl move hi, at> once fur lite
test. -
Magnolia is reported to have
under lease a block of 9000 apres,1
extending from th<’ ‘Clay Creek I
field to the Yegua.
This will be the first oil
drilied in Washington cismty
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TrtffllEAClT
WASHINGTON, May 2. d’Pi —
United States submarines, contin-
uing their heavy strikes against
Japanese shipping have sunk 12
more Jap ships, the aavy announc-
ed today.
They included two destroyers, a
light cruiser, one large auxiliary,
medium
and five
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Th.- new 27.1oo ton sin nift carrier Bon Homme Richard, 13thOf
the Essex class carriers to be built, is launched at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. It is named after John Paul Jones' famous frigate. (NEA Tele-
photo). , <7 S -
Official r« js rt of Brazos flood
rontftttonw- aa rec cited ' froor
Houston at S:M) this afternoon
hy the Bo nham |«-.toffice fol- ’
lows:
On Brazos flooding will begin
at Valley Junction tvidgta with
stage- about l« fret t^uicurtsy
mom.ng. ( onsMcrablr flooding
Valley Junctiaa to Waehingtiwi
and light flooding expected late >
this week at Vtaslngton and be-
low.
' DALLAS, May 2. »l.f!)- Brim-
ming over as the result of week- •
end rsimr that totaled more than
10 inches in some sections, six . 3
Texas rivers aiuJ numerous tribu-
taries inundated hundreds of thou-
sands of acres of farm lands U>
day and threatened serious dam- J
age t<> a densely populated section • 1
of Waco. - z-J
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sons were killed m srtirfl<-t»_____
.which struck in central Texas and
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Two soldiers, Pyt C. F. Mat- •
' lock of (’allfornla and Pvt. James
i J Cox, Jr. of Ector, Texas, were
killed In a small twister on the
(’ imp Fannin military reservation, ,
north of Tyler early today.
In Central Texas late Monday
three persons were killed. They
were James V. 'Alexander, Jr.
J light, of Hutto, Betty Mae Wood,
F. H. Giesecke, Veteran Fireman,
Writes Of His 59 Years Service
In Brenham Fire Dept. Activity
ccrs in June, 1890, I was electeT
president, which office, I held un-
til 1915, when Mr. Tesch, who had'
*—the Brenham Fire Department. ] been secretary of*the company for rw
it 4»« «a.aSSr5S«ar.z-u« rnrjmwm.inurwm **
/ fCorrheF’Hav^ftmipan^Tgi M^rck, secraUry any longer and nobody f ■
groups meets!
Nine Washington County 4-H
club boys will receive registered
Duroc hogs Friday, May 5th, here
in Brenham at the annual distri-
bution of the Sears Cow-Hog-Hen
Program. Boys winning these hogs
and their respective cluba are:
Clarence Boeker, Khimp; Otto
Gaskamp, Jr., Wm. Penn; James
Henry Kettler, Long Point; Eu-
gene Thielemann, Mound; Floyd
Hueske, Gay Hill; Charlie Pfeif-
fer, Harrisburg; Fred Louis Heck-
mann, Sandy Hill; John Edward
Tiaden, Stone; Vernon Blum, Bur-
ton.
These hogs will be- distributed
at 10 o’clock Friday morning at
Firemen’s Park. At 11 o'clock a
film on Texas agriculture will be
shown to these boys and their par-
ents and other 4-H club boys In
the county. . At noon boys Who arc
giving hogs and boya who are re-
ceiving hogs and their parents will
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For many years Morri? Frank
used to journey up to Brenjiam
from Houston “each May to “cov-
er” the Firemen’s Maifest for
| the Houston Post. Whenever
the dogwoods would bioom or
the bluebonnets show their col-
or, Morris would begin to bom-
bard us with the query: "What's
the date of the Maifest this
year?” Came the war, and the
Maifeat, like many ’another
peace time activity, folded for
the duration. But not so Mor-
ris Frank. Yesterday was May
Day, and before the shades of 1
night had fallen, here came Mor- 1
ris with the same regularity as 4
the swallows t
.Wb're sorry*'we didn’t have a
Maifest for him to cover, but 1
he'found the sanw brand of 1
Washington County hospitality 1
awaiting him- Hq.wjj' —........... —r
few days In this vicinity, “writ-" Fighter plane penetration
ing^ up” Brenham and neighbor-
ing communities, with special
emphasis on their war activities.
IM' “v~
W Morris .and the. Post staff
tended the "ftbtfcry
L. , „ eon at «h»(- - »*IPWRILF
man had faHen duwu w
) and so the burden fell on The'
rather ample shoulders of the
lx* visiting scribe, Morris regaled
E . .. the club members with anecdotes
I ■ about his experiences in news-
paper work since the fire de-
• partment rnoved up too close to
Papa Frank’s clothing store in
Lufkin and cut the profits
•t much the younger Frank had'Jo
seek employment elsewhere.
These experiences included an
> interview with Ma* West; an
attempted Interview with Clark
Gable, prevented by the movie .j
star’s women admirers; and flat j
failure at interviewing the iras- ,
cible Bill Terry, manager of the (
Giants' baseball team, who ran |
him off the bench. Frank paid |
high tribute to the brand
hospitality he always finds
Brenham, and said wherever he
goes be spreads our fame
"the home of hospitality."
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The Rotary club Tuesday noon
heard a talk by Mayor Reese B.
Lockett in behalf of a campaign
tojaiae >152,900 with Which to
improve Camp Strake at Con-
roe, recently donated to Sam
Houston Area Council, Boy
Scouts of America, by Mr. and
Mrs. George Strake. He point-
ed out that the camp will be
open to all scout troops in this
I area. While no vigorous can-
! vass will be conducted In Bren-
‘ ham, he said everyone will be
given an opportunity tri donate
to the fund. He said all con-
tributions will be welcomed, re-
gardless of amount, as the main
thing Jthe council wants is to en-
list the interest of each com-
munity in the camp. He said
that some towns in the area
have pledged themselves to
raise >1,000, which is the cost of
Betting up one Individual camp-
site. The Rotary club voted ap-
proval of the idea that Wash-
ington County seek to finance
one of these campsites. All
contributions to the fund should
”be left at the Reese Lockett
store or, if more convenient, at
the Banner-Press office.
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A Brenham sailor writes In to
ask us to see if he can buy or
borrow a rod and reel for fish-
ing. He is stationed at Corpus
Christi naval base where, he
says, the chief recreation is
fishing, but that equipment is
unobtainable. Anyone wishing
to help out the sailor boy should
communicate with Us.
H it. Goller, 47, of Livingston,
I brother of Mrs. A- A. Vi'Tech,
Mrs. Herbert Linnsteadter, and
“(Mrs. Alice Ruets ,ot Brenham,
■ <1 ropped dead last Friday morning
nt ten o’clock while at work at
i'amp Wallace, where he was em-
ployed by the J, C. Robinson
Truck Company. Death was caus*
' !•<!' hy a cerebral hemorrhage.
. Suivivors Include his widow,
Mrs. Cealy Sutton Goller, and two
daughters, Mis» Dolores Goller of
N*xr Yrirk and Miss Modene Col-
lar nt Houston-; hl# father,- William .
j Collar of Peters: htf three slaters
, two morts
Fred Palm of Cat
and Mrs. Willie Viereck
ville; and two brothers.
“Are tiie windows very
lady?" she was asked.
“Certainly, that's why ’’
The gentleman bn the
end never let her finish. ,
-----X "LT----- ------1 ”8°rry> lady, can't take the job. j
.. | Takes t<s» long tn cli in drily win-i
Chief Maehinest E Monw’
Smith of the United States Navj | , ’ __
and Mrs Smith are the parents-ol 1 4 LjJSlNG 1‘lio’ill 1'1 DI E
a son who Arrived at the Sarah B | AT < EDAR II1I.I. M.HOO1.
Milroy Memorial lli/Hpftal last I • ' in Brenham.
Thursday- April 27. _ pie father | d r,',' Thurs-!Mr
was here to welcome his son,|jAy evening. May ). at eight)
reaching Brenham on leave two! o'clock, announces Miss Eloise;
days previously And leaving the j Wiese, principal* .and • Miss Ellaj
night of April 27 for New York ' Mae Quebe, ummlant’teacher. 4.,
BEN BARONS ANNOUNCE
BIRTH OF 10 PyUND SON
’ Mr and Mrs. Ben Baron are the
parents of a son, weighing ten
pounds, who arrived at the St.
Francis Hospital Sunday f after-
noon. The Infant has been name J
Leroy Benard Baron, and he and
his mother are reported doing
well. , Thi» baby Is the first son
of Mr. and Mrs. Baron, who arc,
however, the parents of three lit-
tle daughters.
infant, who weighed seven )
y and nine ounces, has been named public is coi u.tliy invited
Patrick Monroe, and he and his | tend,
mother are doing well. She is the
daughter of Mr- and Mrs J. 1
Yawn of Brenham Route 3. The
new baby has a sister, Patricia
Ann, two and a half years old.
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organizatipn. In writing a brief
hietory .Qf his connection with the
/ire department Mr. Giesecke
states that a man by the name of
Norris was elected foreman, but
after two months he left Bren-
ham, putting Mr.,Giesecke in as
foreman of the company, which
position he held until June 15,
1887, when he moved to Houston
but still retained his membership
in the company, though of course
he resigned aa foreman. Julius
Kollmey, then second assistant
foreman, being elected to the po-
sition.
Mr. Giesecke continues his sto-
ry as follows:
“I came back to Brenham in
June, 1889, having been gone two
years, and resumed my member-
ehip. At the next election of offi-
(By United Press)
A Japanese communique report-
ed today, that an American nava
task force mpde a two day raid on
the big Pacific base of Truk in
the Carolines.
It acknowledged "some
age” to shore installations.
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