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FORMS GO TO
EVERY STATE
Texan Takes Oath
In Office Of
President
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British Forces Attack Axis War Machine Over Wide Area cavalry
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America Goes On Guard On Land And In The Air
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BRENHAM
The City
of
Hospitality
TO BE ORDERED
TO FORT BLISS
and
>w is
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Dive Bombers Strike
Ancient Landmarks
In England
New Type Weapons
Used By Nazis
And Britons
Tent Camps Will Be
Erected At Four
Texas Points
n<>te<| beau-
•ttrez, will be
a' tin;; today
to aid Bren-
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child of Mr.
ningharn. His
ago, but his
s, along with
on Munz have
wedding trip
rlsbad Cavern
at the Dippel
Hl known in
riea with her
Hi lit
ftltllt
r is the series of ad-
its now being publish-
W AR BLOCKADE CUTS OPE
IMPORT OF RAT POISON
1 of cattle
. senten-
iioa being
iltant
< itl/rils
LONE GERMAN
PLANES BLAST
LONDON AREA
MONTGOMERY. Ala. The’
European warts giving Alabama's
rata a break.
The state health department b
looking about for a substitute for
red quill, deadly rat poison which
has been in use in rat extermina-
tion campaigns, because the Brit-
ish contiweatai blockade luw cut
cf? the -upply which caaae from
AJgiws and •Pfl£A
FOOTBALL HERE
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start In a
M definitely
different
comedy h.l'
eft today for
re he will at-
llege. '
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t WAR DUTY CALLS _
I CALL TO COLORS
Cleverest advertising we have
seen lately
vcrtiseqjent
cd in the Banner-Press for Karo
corn syrup. The series was writ-
ten especially for Texans, and
the “copy” is of particular in-
terest to them. The advertise-
les wffl"oe iit-connecTion "with
the conscription program in as-
signing those drafted to duties
they are best qualified to per-
form.
. John N. Carmean, assistant
manager who has been station-
ed with the local re-employ-
ment office for the last month,
will take charge of the office,'
while Eichman is away on a
leave of absence. The captain
will leave for Washington Fri-
dent Roosevelt's office. The oath
waa administered by Associate
Justice Stanley Recd of the su-
preme court.
Eloise JViese, Blonde Co-Ed. Has
Chosen Aviation As Her Lifework
Willkie Is Greeted
By Huge Crowd At
Los Angeles Today
Walter Schomburg of Brazos
Chevrolet, Inc., is one of the
proudest folks in town f '-~
4ie went to Austin Tqesda’
night and there, in competition
with (salesmen1 from all over this
' part ’of Texas, won third prize
in a quiz concerning the 1941
Chevrolet, new models of which
will be shown Saturday. As a
prize, he received a picnic kit
for six persons.
EATRE
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A UNION, N. M
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which each man from 21 through ; than sew."
35 must fill out on Oct. Bl, certi-
ficates which the men will be giv-j spoke,
Girl, Prize Winning
Seamstress, Prefers 1 the Jury on
To Raise Swine
In Rome Nazi Foreign Minister
Joaohim von Ribbentrop conferred
with Premier Benito Mussolini on
important territorial and political
questions in the Balkans,’ possibly
involving a move against Greece.
British Hit Channel Bases
Ancient land marks and fam-
ous buildings in London were
among Wide-spread damage caus-
ed by German dive bombers dur-
ing the night, as British airmen
attacked Nazi-held channel invas-
ion bases. The Germans claimed
to have shot down eleven British
planes over Germany during the
night.
Berlin indicated that few un-
usually heavy bombs were being
dropped on London, Billingham.
Liverpool and Newcastle. The Ital-
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portamt than the Nazi attacks on
his- du A- London an-.1 English, cities.
The war reached into Bren-
■ ham today and took the ser-
1 vifes of 65 men and three com-
i missioned officers who are mem-
, bers of Troop E, 124th Cavalry.
k The boys will be leaving next
B month for Fort Bliss, and there,
| probably, their duties will be to
! train the thousands of young
[ men who soon will be drafted
| for military training. How long
! the Brenham boys will be gone
is a matter of conjecture. World
r events will decide that. They
| will be missed while away anc|
I wc are sorry to give them up.
But we are also proud that
: Brehham and Washington coun-
ty had so outstanding a group
of trained young men to re-
spond when the nation called
them to duty.
America on guard! Bayonet fixed, eyes ahead, mouth'determined, this modern American doughboy
symbolizes the national resolve to prepare the U. S. for all eventualities. Sgt. Arthur Sehworzel,
above, army regular at Fort Dixx N. J., demonstrates what the finished product should look like after
hundreds of thousands ^f-eivHiana-^lgfeAJtOL I—HIM iwwwiizir aaUitarM trninuui.called.
one* FhlT Dix V’HI -be one M ih« laUkibt. dl.'ift cantonments
Wes Da^ Pla^^^
Used At Conroe
To Be Told Here
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 19 <W!<
"—Thtxisands of Los Angclert vot-
ers turned out today to greet,
WenWfT Wmkfrr
didate, on his automobile tour of
Callfornia't&jVf'Mit populous areas.
Art Trea^ufi^T ^
Of France All
Safely Stored
ments run each Thursday! Joe
Bentley, local salesman for
Karo, is particularly proud of
the series.
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iUo pu>id *ub tb» *«*u>
ham Conctrt BaM.
Eloise Wie.sr, beautiful blonde I
■ o-crl at Blinn College, is ambi- that of be omtng ■ skillful pilot
tlous to become an aviator and ! She Is intelligent,
was one of the first to make ap-
plication to enroll In the Civil
Aeronautics Unit recently author-
ized to be established here.
It is probably not generally
known that ten per cent of the
group may be girls, and as it is
expected that there will be at
least twenty applicants, one other
girl may have an opportunity to
join tluf classes,^Which require at-
tendance of four nights a week,
with class periods of one and a
half hours each night. There will
be 72 hours of ground school
;wnrk. __
An honor graduate of the Bren-
ham High school in lft39. Eloise
has completed her freshman col-
lege courses and will graduate
from the Washington County Jun-
ior College wext June. . —,«v
will have plenty to do. with her' the unit here are Elroy Schwartz,
college work during the day .and i Delhe Ullrich. Johnny McNeil,
her ground and primary flying Fritz Schulze. Leroy Grebe. Law*
st’jdien at night Sl«r ha- elwien ' rente tVflUar.it, Ir.ln Ludwig,
aviatKD a* her K* work Wfltoa (Budfly) Schmid
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House Seat Offer
Due Mrs. Bankhead
BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19,1940
The football season has arriv-
ed. Tomorrow night Brenham
will have its first home game of
the Reason when the c^i,» meet
Navasota. Despite a disappoint-
ing showing against the super-
ior Bryan team last week, the
Cubs arc apt to put up a real
fight with the Rattlers and af-
ford a game well worth watch-
ing. Merchants of Brenham give
the Cubs their best wishes for
a successful season in a page
advertisement in today's Ban-
ner-Press. and most all of us
will be in the stands tomorrow
night rooting for them. Mean-
while, some of the "old grads”
of the various colleges are read-
ing the sport pages with renew-
ed enthusiasm these days, eag-
erly counting the few days re-
maining until they can slip off
for Saturday afternoon pecks at
their favorite teams in action.
Wc look for Will Stuckert. Ed-
' win Hohlt. Hugh Miller. T. A.
L Low, and a few others t^» find -
[ they have pressing business in
Austin or College Station on
| Saturdays hereafter.
I Yam From Maste Cuttings
I LONDON <VP —- Eric Pasold.
head of Fa^olds Knitwear, Ltd..
Langley. Bucks, has invented a
■scret process for spinning ykrh
from waste cutting*. He has given
It to fnglgnfl.
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dodged
12.000 Soldiers Will
Start Training
At El Paso
will br to | Brenham Has Six
Boys- M. 31 jrs Of
Band At A&M
charge of the Brenham rc-em-
ployment office, received orders
Thursday to report at once ■
Washington. D. C., to receive in-
structions before going into
active service with the U, S.
Army. Eichman has been a re-
i- serve: ©mcer. ' . . ? ,1
wi^*^e permanently stationed
' n't" tnw reception-service ----, -
draftees, at -’ ^aev, - Crerrnarry were perbs^s
Texas.
ttaids were made on tW ■Rvfrh,'
one of which, Nazis said, wrecked
a children’s home at Bethel in the
Ruhr Valley. kRlfng seven. The
Germans threatened unrestrictive
‘‘punitive" air warfare in retalia-
tion.
The British navy bombarded the
Mediterranean coastal road lead-
ing fo Solium and Sidi Barrani,’1
Evmit, now occupied by the Ital-
ians.
The British air force also "suc-
cessfullv'' bombed Italian bases
tAwtr-fco..
ian-Libyan
Dodecenes Islands />ff Turkey anti
r from the Sudan to
Creation of the draft machinery
I was moving slowly, pending ap-
I potntmeht by Presside.nt Roosevelt •
of a director of selective service.
H9 was expected to name one to-
day or tomorrow.
The master forms were sent to
the adjutant-general of each state.
They were the regislrkUon cards > rather.
’Brenham is rcmaikably well
repi rented in the A. ami M. Col-
lege Rand fur a town of thia size.
According to >» United Prens
Item received" this afternoon the
■Mith Cavalry Hrlgnde, of which
the lufal cavalry troop la a unit,
called Into active oervtce
November IM at Fort Hllna, El
Piumk . ThU maana that U Bren-
ham Mildlrra, Including three offi-
cers and HA enlisted men, will leave
for the tiorder post in November,
probably for a year*e training.
< apt. W. C. liorhritz U com-
mander of Troop E, 124th Cavalry,
Texas National Guard, |he local
organization. M. H. Rhlert la
t.rsi lieutenant and WIIKam Eld-
red second lieutenant. i
grkm that has been successfully operated at. Conroe the last
.....five years when he speaks to a special meeting of directors
JRirattorw-m-Xbo-Egypt- of jjoth Brenham Chambers of Commerce and merchants
an frontier area In the interested nAxU^nday,
Jones accepted an invitation ex-
tended Him by a special commit-
tee of the Chamber of Commerce
appointed to. devise a trades day
program to stimulate business
here this fall.
(I’l’» "I’d;
Poland < tmi.i pigs. for tin-
I mg •been’
; Thev are Hoffman Reese, Ren
[ Si hinder Harold Lenter Bartz.
Robbie .Schultz Alfred Wehnng,
I and James Ingtehart. These boys
got their first experience in the
_ WA3HINGTON>4Jept. HI. <ITI
frjyMia^er ^copies of the forms to
1 work seriously towaixl .her goal,
I *Um* >.< toe* .->-<«•« 4 Me. *•» uie.ttga.t mAAmA
healthy, and
pretty -an i,dcal type for the vo-
cation she han chosen, and there
is nd question that she will be ac-
cepted.
Pres. C. F. Schmidt reports that
he has nine applications to date
and several others arc conirtdcring
the matter seriously. The class
will meet for organization Mw=
day. September 23, at 6:30 p. m.,
at the coliege, and all-who arc
considering applying for admission
thereto should’ consult ’ Pre*.
Schmidt at the college or Julian
E. Weisler, county attorney, at
the, court house, without dflay
Tills is a remarkable opportunity
for young people to enter aviation
and eventually to beixmie skilled
pilots for ifiduatry or government.
In addition to Miss Wiese those
Thus, ohe 1 who have, made application for
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Mrs. Adelaide Eugene Bank- I LU ILL * 1 Ivl L
head, yvWow^of the late .flpeaker
William B. Bankhead of Alabama, I
— will be offered the opportunity to
I succeed to her husband's scat In
__! the house ffom the TtH congrrs !
sionul district, denuK-ratlc
_ ’ j hWlr waMlo^ay.
_____________________ O • x s* pi These merrjbers at
Oscar Jones, manager of the Chamber of Commerce at Registration Lai Q Sj funeral of Bankhead
Conroe, will describe and explain a trade stimulating pro- Will Be Printed
By The Ton
1 or *
> Months before
r France, emptied the
i orating th*- statuary an«l rolling
| th' paintings'th*t wete tso big to
be i allied i>i thair flames. Tlwy
w-ere removed into the central
highland*, wheie some were bur-
l<uithermorc, the arinv ,.ud rt 1 jed in <oncn-ic undeiground 'suits '
plans tn cntabllHh closer iv bit ion-, safe from Iwmibi, Part of the
between camps uud neightroi mg , eulb < lion had been hidden m the
comftiunitim The ho*tcn»e.< to be lame xajlsy, necessitating a ace-
selected .by post cominandei .. will qnd lia.*t> (light wlnui Uielnrrmari
li. requited in ha-c id. I«k al .1 army <-i • ^l uia. <■.
quaintancM. a...
The hosteaic* duties, t"
plained by the army
ciia|>crmie visiting rimthcu. run tees I
Hte-I-SVA*;;. ; :*r-1
range dances and othci a<x‘(ai I
events.
Athletic*’ botthall iMHelian. V"1-1
ley lialf .hoxTlig will tw- htiesae.i !
of ibT expense, ]
cast. For others, printed form* |
- furnished from which photo-
. Soldiers Happy In Draft Army
WASHINGTON. Kept'- l~'
— Hostesses, employed by the
al my to dlre< I < Inbh<si.se calet<1 las
and ariangc raicial event*, will
seek to 1 ui nlati a tranli of home
and mother at Hie new conscript >
hi my camps? ' 1
Taking due note of the fact that;
many of the conscript* aged 21 tot
35 will be away from hmm- for j
fjflUIMM...Ui-1-•.«*!_
sting of Army ami Navy offl u«iay that it wants to try to keep
them happy.
It Im* re-cstabii*hc<i as part of ,
the adjutant ^genrral'M uffu.e the .
morale division which functioned ,
... __‘ Football, l»e< auw
' ” i >i"*i ... 1 1 , wdl he confined to teams lepre- ;
Die army: said It (rained a lot ' - — ——----
fin (Tie IssL wm Ybour rrtllntoinlng*'' 'V the wx
high morale, m some things will. *’*’ , J*’?" ’hi" • •ty who Me in«m-
he dirterrnt now lor mstome, it h *•’’ •”<»•»• “ •’
said, all entertainment bn-reserva talent theatric*to 1 here *b*o will
tions will he under direct army ( hr personal appeargn'e* 'H slag'
aupcrviaioti Private organizations •**'1 iht**** stars, many of «horn
will he fms tz> establish any ktnd“h“v* "tiered tMIr aarvuea
of recreational canter outside the At large trip-- there wilt be
post but t*’> rt -1U bt • ■ Y A! ' A ' a >f d.ur u. - 1 'i;g * traol Ua;-d^ and
1? o! C or fther pn.ata flat-up flmaliar caiup* will ha.s smaUei
AdUMMM/paato. jkeraru.
kp.
• By United Pre**
Lone German planes ___
through low clouds in related
attacks on Britain today, after .
British naval anil air forces hea^v- ,■ *7]
ily counter-attacked the Axis war ‘ ; ri
machine from Germany to North f j
Africa. 1
London admitted heavy damage *1
in the last 24 hours, with at least
90 dead and 350 badly wounded <
. jn the center >f
German night raiders caused the
greatest destruction.
The Nazis used a new type bomb
that exploded with comet-like
flashes, but the British said they
too were employing a new device
to destroy German raiders, hint-
ing it was jsimple, economical and
effective.
Reich Is Raidixl
-HrttM* btows.»*rmiirt Italy ewk
EAST TEXAS Partly cloudy to-
night and Friday, little change in
temperature.
The Conroe plan has been out-
standingly successful in keeping
trade at home and combatting
mail order business. A committee
from the senior chamber of com-
merce visited Conroe last year to
sec the plan in operation, and
they were impressed by what they
saw.
Directors of both the senior and
junior Chambers and all mer-
chants interested in stimulating
retail trade here are
attend the meeting. It will
held at the ciy hall auditorium
at 7:45 o'clock Monday night.
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n.fWM TO IlHoWNMtMMV .
WASHINGTON. Sept 19. <l.R»
The War Department announced
today formal allocation of funds
ton. a lent camp, h<»p|t«), and
‘!‘l'»?iyy.jAftyUM,for thj army
a1 Brownwood, Texas, to house -
27.000 men. 7 . ' ’
Trni jMMujpf wdi-tor ereoMMcflrt r -
March incbl f<w1 IzjRK) men,
2xaJUh4»Jbluifi^->i' lO.'MMfliHllL.aArt: - 4
, at Fort Bliss, El Paso, fbr 12,000
••’Wr.fnpnrtmrnFifhio onoaneMT
I that the 56th f’avalry Bllgade of
Texas, with 1,377 officers*and men, !
would be ordered into Federal ser- r .*
Many Guilty Pleas v,“’ ,,n November IM at port Blisa,
,a w. L’nfT»v ' ,"1<l th'' Mth r’lvl,*',rl Texas. 3
Aie hinteteu m I into service at Camp B Aiwo wood
District Court I «n November 25 ’ J •
- . Meanw hile the hoime pissed and
attended the | Because of; th* fact that nfost I *‘,nt to the senate a.bill lippropri- 3
______ ______,_____1 at JasperJ of the ilcfendnnt* iileiulvl guilty | ,ll**ig *4 IN.iMMIjWW) for housing of
Atir . W6<Tne*<Hy. TFfey return. <T? before Uw eirtifl ,.iul a'< i < ' *br <s*n*eeit>4 »e**rw-a*wA. w- ----I
their sentences (iie’criniiiud doc ket.
Bankhead had been rimomlnalsd in district court, though the luuit - •
for his 13th term in the house mid test in many yeiusj was disposed |
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His successor will be pi< k-1 criminal cases to ti led at title «t“t' s t<» create home defense
f rnm-1 Term hf po»h I -------unit* u> «upp|m| ri..T—r 1
ui-.t i*.hoH*,u ^.w^L'.mts:mtlsreit..mt:w
j^faiiuly pointed suspended iwuHihumju ii. t "’•tsT-e , , '
icad IlHd r " ^arrirhr-rx- e Iim KUtLAjJ|> _^jiI f 1111V
his life to~ public service and had; burning moitgage.l properly
virtually no Income other than his i-onnectlort with the bmnfhg f in 1
salary, which was largely eonsuin- automobile, pleaded guilty before !
cd. ■ • 1 a jury and wiis given five years !
I suspended Sentence
| John Meschewltz,. was given a!
| t| rec year suspended s.uiti-ni <■ by j
1 a charge of theft by j
bailee Hr urrlrt a ealf I
been left In bis charge while he
ha’l Use of the. cow
The Jm< Has been dim barged
week', all Jury tiial.s htiv-
implcted
Heveral civil
trial next week
Several min ■ onviiXed <1
... ............. , wh'/werr
I to pl laon ti l HIM .<!*■ HO
all-cotton I held in the county Jail and in the
1- j near future w ill la- tianaf4;i 11 y, ti> '
slate |wnitrrtti»ry at Hinrts-j
to la-gin serving I hen lei ins
Platea < net
Precautions were taken to in-
sure against any mistake In re-
printing. .for some items the se-
lective Hcrvic c board sent matrices,
from which printing press plates,
are cast. For others, printed forms 1
wifrc 1 ‘ -
stats will be made.
These precautions were to avoid |
' any mistakes by type-setters or j
I proofreaders. A “not" dropped |
' from the wording or a word plan-'
, dd in the wrong sequence, selec-
tive service headquarters said:
might grcally alter the import of
the question.
Alteration* Made
The forms and questions have
been in preparation for years by
1^^"-
ciala but the final version en
route to the states today was con-
siderably altered by the fa< t that
cdnacrfpiidti*. instead of being a
wartime measure, was a peace
ptMauUon.
The exact queeliona bii me ref
1 strut ion forms have not yet la-en
made public but Uiey were ex-
pected to be similar to those on
the old form. That form called
only foe name addre**, date of
birth, employer* name “"d ad-
dress, citizenship status and name
of persons aF* ays knowing tin
regiMgantj addnas. plus a uimrt
<*. -i- ■
Flying Cadets *t Randolph Field, Texas, must learn ground dis-r
I , cipllne ss well ns discipline in the air. Here, they go through "dough-
fl boy drill'', armed with rifles as part of their training as future pilots
of’ Uncle Sam's air arm. _____ .
WASHINGTON. Sept. 19 - (I’lb
—Federal lending agencies and
invited to ^c broad powers of the com-
| mcrce department today went tricacics of l egistralion.
under the direction of one man.
Jeswc'H. Jones of Houston, Texas, ;
former Texas financier.
Jones took the oath of office as-
secretary of commerce in Presi-
’ Young Misa Virginia Bogart :
, and the statement nqght !
en to show they have registered, , not have been so unusual had, it »7V y v 1 « 1 Hi' l|
and placards explaining the in-; not been for the fact that the Uu-ft nn>i ntbci-
faim girl had just been presented |<
; with first prize In nn -.-.it.,.
ill can making contest at the South
western Irrigated Cotton Growers 1 the
A«*<a ialion. I vlilc
epted ■ •*"”"eciptnrmy—*o»flr~tm_1>r"
l.sketl CMj'e'l Up
The senate and h-aise military
affairs commitlOrs approved leg-
his election in November was iiiP" of'quickly" ~an<i'Tlicre ari' Tih lliore |
mired. His successor will,be 'pick-1 criminal t ases t * ■
, ... frrt by a rtemocrgtlc dtslfin mm-j term nr w»hi
IF^F
JLhJlJIu J V 11 Li kJ men for the draft were airmailedl[oiit^fhal Bank
in nrnnrT inu lod,y 10 lhe 18 aUtc‘ wh,cB win
IS SECRETARY
OF COMMERCE
that had t
! Vli’HY HI'' France’s great
| museum collections, Gnefly lhe
i priceless heritage of centuries of
+ ruyal ami imperial col>ectioh«,
ha'c survived the war in perfect
1 condition and the hidden art treas-
ure* are not damaged by their
i IraiuafMii t <>i storage. M Jaujard,
director of nAtionaf museums visit-
ed the hideouts and insjiectcil the
paintings to ascertain the extent.
, of poH.xtble damage. He reputed
j that none of the paintings tapes-
1 Illes ol s<U I pt tire .sutfcied.
Months iieforr the blitzkrieg.
museunux
Army Says Hostesses To Keep
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