Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 234, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 1, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 75
BRENHAM, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1940
NO. 234
NAZI BLASTS AT BRITAIN INTENSIFIED
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Nearly Ready For Picking Contest
Arkansas Guardsmen Begin Training
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Lieut, Owens Will
Be Instructor For
Blinn Flying Unit
SHIP SINKINGS
HIT NEW PEAK
FOR ONE WEEK
Attends C o nvention
Of Legion And
Auxiliary
Discuss Work,
Name Teams
Senate Approval I s
Due Before F. R. -
Gets Measure
near Blytheville, Ark., where First-National Cotton Picking Champion-
kon
German Soldiers Arc
Concentrating
Jn Norway
Massive Waves Of •
Bombers Attack
With Fury
East Texas—Generally fair to-
night, Wednesday partly cloudy,
local showers in northwest por-
tion.
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itudents'
BRENHAM
The City
Lieut. Dick Owens has arrived
in Brenham from Brooks Field,
San Antonio, where he has been
stationed, and will remain here
permanently, having been assigned
to the work of instructor of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority flying
unit recently organized here at
Blinn. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Owens.
The new- instructor will meet
members of the class at Blinn Col-
lege at 6:30 this evening.
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BOSTON MEET
LEGION RIFLE WILLK1E HITS
I CLUB TO PLAN OPPONENTS AS
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YEAR ACTIVITY ECCS THROWN ■
lied To I Audience Hostility Is!
Encountered In
Michigan
POOR SPELLERS
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AIRPORT OUTLOOK
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BM Lieut. Dick Owens, hying in-
sUuclpr for'the new Bliiju c<4-.
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Brenham Banner-Press
F o 11 o » i n g
Operati o n
NAZI-SOVIET
BREAK IS DUE |'
REPORT^AY |
Reds M a s,s Million
Troops Along
Border
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U of T Economist
Predicts Sales Of
Cotton To Increase
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Texans Are Named
IRSmiNG For 341 Selective k-
- -- — ■ 1 — than a dozen- harbors, sic being
OLD CATTLEMEN MUMBLE
EL PASO, Texas. il'.Fi—Old-
time cattlemen and buyers are
aghast. Th* livestock auctions
sales pavilion being built by- W.
M. and Nay Hale is air-condition-
ed. Comfortable iron chairs circle
the auction ring for biddcis.
Evacuation Starts On
Large Scale From
German Capital
I follow ing the operation, but com-
| plicalions developed and his condi-'
tiort became’ critical Sunday night.
Ilia two children. Wijliam Har-
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Roscoe Crafton, left; president of National Cotton Picking Asso-
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Albert Fricke, volunteer
weather observer, reports thiL
rainfall in Brenham during Sep-
tember was two inches ahead of
the same month last year. This
September's rainfall totaled 3.S9
inches, compared with 1.52
inches last year. The heaviest
downpour came on September
21 when 1.45 Inches fell. Figures
for the month follow;
Sept. 20 ...
Sept. 21
Sept. 22
Sept. 23
Sept. 25
Grand total. .._
HOUSTON BI SIN’ESS BOOMS
HOUSltlN. Texas. iV.P> Postal
receipt^ in Houston have shown 78
Consecutive monthly increases,
Postmaster John Dunlop reported.
July receipts were $216,618.89.
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Billion Dollar Excess Profits Tax Bill ApproyedJJyHouse
(.•Otinnissidner. also tame here
when they teanxal of the serious-
u<Uw ui 1U- buudlUMk
discussed and f<ir- I
inulatcd. The members to i epic-
sent the Legion tennis for fh<-,
Burton Man Secures
First Poll Tax
Receipt
With the opening of the tax-pay-
ing season today there were sev-
eral who hurried to offices of
county, city and school tax collect-
ors in the effort to be the first to
pay their taxes.
Fred L. Amsler, collector of tax-’
es for the Brenhan independent
school district, reported at an
early hour that Mrs. Nelia.. Bren-
ning called shortly after his office
was opened and paid her school
Large Corporations
Would Pay 24
Per Cent
projected airport, he told the
Rotarians in a brief talk today.
In most cases, he pointed out, it
is difficult to arouse enthusiasm
before the airport is built: but in
Brenham the reverse is true. He
said he has inspected the site
for the airport and found it ade-
quate, with ra^jn for growth. He
said he hopes to have an air-
plane available for use here in
the next week or so, and pre-
dicted that, with the good start
already made, great things will
result.
AMnlrunni tH Boards Over State\
| bled
AUSTIN. Oct. 1. <U.P>—Texans who will comprise the
341 selective service boards of the state have been chosen,
Brigadier General J. Watt Page, state director of selective
service, announced today.
The boards are fully manned and the names will be for-
warded at once by Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel to the president,
who must make the appointments. Names of the various
board members will be announced after appointment by the
president.
In the near future
step in cementing Pan-Ajncrican
solidarity, reliable quarters infi-
cated today.
It was believed in some quarters
that the officers be sent to
some South American countries
where there are no missions, as
well as an increase in some of the
present groups.
Stringent State Department pro-
hlv Wright. Post No. 48, R‘«* L wmklr m,.t midiem
si>e< i«T’cnl1e<l I hotUuly [ll(|uM*4al. MUlignn
meeting of the club to. be held in today with un asM-rlb ti til7if” pci
the J
Thiirxrlay at if p hi. A11,interested j
ir^. rtfle shooting are mvitcd to
present.
The committee Is
Hugo O. Breitkrruz, Newt Humph--
riea. A. W. Kelling. A E. Froebcl.
H. C. Witte. W C. Kieekr, A. W , thr
Kae< hele- M- W. Oakes, I. E Sei- ,
del, and H R- S< harff
about two we*ks {Igo.
Physicians said he was suffering
from an intestinal obstruction.
He apparently was recovering
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EVERYTHING' SEVEN
DAN&URY. Neb. <U.P> Sevens
turned up in droves for the Alvin
O, Newports of Danbury. On the
seventh day of the acventh month
At seven minutes before 7 a. m., a
daughter was born to them. She
weighed seven pounds. The New-
porta haver been married seven
years and the little girl Is the
seventh grandchild of A. W. Dut-
cher -of - McCook, who has seven ,
daughters.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. <V.P) -
The house today approved the
conference report on the 51,000,-
000,000 excess profits tax bill,
drafted to prevent creation of
“war millionaires.”
The senate has yet to approve
thec report before the bill is sent
to President Roosevelt for signa-
ture.
The tax measure is the last ma-
jor piece of controversial legisla-
tion on the administration's con-
gressional calendar. Two vital but . ,
undisputed appropriation bills also, ciation. and. Ross Kuhlies; examine cpttqn“on’’Hughes’ 400-acre tract
are pending. ,
The tax biy^89isls Xrp^
cess profits taX-and related ijf-
fense features, would Increase the
normal corporation income tax on
corporations making $25,000 or
more, to a total of 24 per cent.
A novel idea as to why the
average school boy or girl of to-
day cannot spell, work arithme-
tic problems, or recite his Eng-
lish lessons as well as the aver-
age pupil of several decades ago
_wax advanced before the Rotary
'club Tuesday by School Supt.
C. M. Selman. The superinten-
dent pointed out that in earlier,
years, only an "academic
nority"- attended school ,^nd
therefore the average scholar-
ship was high. Today, he said,
every child, regardless of aca-
I » dcnuc ability or’ desire to learn,
L is required to attend school, and
*^*tnifs the average is brought low-
er. As a result of this mass edu-
L - cation, cun-*ef4»-have
justed to" put ISSs’ emphasis on
academic subjects, but to pay
more attention to current events
! taking place in the world about
the student, he added. With
which ideas inis column, being
of the old-fashioned variety, is
in complete disaccord, but we
i ' ' don't -know what we can do
'about it!
Mrs. L. E. Seidel today urged
that anyone going to the after-
noon concert of the U. S. Ma-
rine Band at A. & M. College
Thursday and having room in
their automobile for others,
should get transportation for
the band members ami any other
students wishing to go.
taking students with thj
be admitted at the -SI
price of 35 cents, she pointed
out.
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desires to have llieir. fingerpnnta I
made a permanent record. This
sei vice will be purely voluntary.
The preaident stated that the
Jaycee trailer is being used to|
transport I
football equipment to and
varkais towns.
A financial report of the organ-
ization given by A. E. Nie-
buhr, treasurer.
The .Jay^eea are aaked\to takg. Howard Hunter, the deputy WPA
‘notice that all Jaycee .fleeting/, “ .
i wUl continue to begin al 3 u cluck
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By UNITED PREMS
Herman warfare to starve Great i
Britain l>y sea anil blast her is-
land fortress'by air approached a J
ifFU creacendo bxlay.
London admitted that ship sink-
ings had touched the peak figure
of thr war at 131,867 Iona, for the • 1
week ended September 22, or'more J
Yhaii the highest weekly average
losscs'ln tiniestrlcted U-boat war-- '4
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Berlin reported massive new
waves of bombers attacking the
British Isles, promising that new
raids would exceed, the fury of- • _3
previous ones, "like, a cyclone com-
pared to a gentle zephyr.”-
British Eight Sub Mrniu-r
Thr British wrrr expected, how- -S
rvrr, to take steps as they did in ]
- 1^-12-xg.uujJ. .U>e ii£w^ submarine _ J
offensive, which presumably is be- '
mg carried out jointly by German
and Italian underseas craft 500 to •, j
600 miles west of Ireland. x *
In air labls on the London area .. j
'isolated German planes broke ,J
tnl loiliiv. but the main body of
Brenham High School | rlngton. a student at Vxfe,
from | Miss Eleanor Harrington, were al
the bedside.
Harry Hopkins, former secre-
tary of commerce who is a close
personal friend, of Harrington, and
Mrs. M. H. Ehlert, president of
the Texas State department,
American Legion Auxiliary, has
returned -Zdwtv,.. ,.
attended tm* fiantirutr t*drrv<
of the Legion and. Auxiliaiy as
delegate at large from Texas. She
reports a wonderful convention
with "Americanism" the outstand-
ing theme.
In addition to attending the ses-
sions of the convention, which
lasted four days, Mrs. Ehlert and
the Texas group with which she
made the trip visiti^l, Buffalo, Ni-
agara falls, points in Canada, lh£
New York World's Fair, Washing-
ton, and Nashville.
Mrs. Ehlert will go to Wichita!
Fails for an official visit'to the*
Auxiliary Thursday, and will give
a radio talk on “Americanism”
Thursday night. She will also ad-
dress a county-wide patriotic rally
at Wichita Falls Friday morning.
A detailed report of the national
convention will be given by Mrs.
Ehlert in the near future at a
meeting of the Legion Auxiliary
to Buddy Wright Post.
Rising costs in newspaper ,
operation this week c?*eie re- (
fleeted in announcements from
two Texas newspapers. The Dal-
las Semi-Weekly Farm News (
j-.Announeed that it- will discon- ,
tinue publication after Decem-
ber 31, 1910, thus closing near-
ly a century of service to the
farm rentiers of Texas and ad-
joining states. The Houston Post
announced an increase m its
subscription price from 90 cents
, to $1.00 p^r month. The Post’6
^ ...^ tumouncejuexil _fj,teil,:._uuj^ased ,
' national defense taxes, heavier
costs of “c AC, mg ■ nqws of the
war, and increased general costs
as reasons for the boost in the
maintain its present subscript'
tion price, which, is among the . J
lowest of any daily paper in
Texas. • How long the present
rate Can be maintained is prob- I
lematical,. in view of the con-
stant rise in cost of newspaper
production. .
AUSTIN, Oct. 1 Dr. A. B.
Coil, University of Texas econo-
mist, who has asserted the gov-
ernmental policy blocked United
States cotton from foreign mar-
i keto, fiirecast Monday that 19W>
cotton sales would increase $60,-1
OOO.OOO over those of last year.' I -
-m. >. » -A i._ Junior Chamber of Commerce
The director of the sch<M>l s!
bureau of business research pre. Grant Wo«sls was appointed
dieted a larger crop'and a four-1litypce lire I re-
year price would booM the total i vention Committee which will,
income from cotton* well above ; work with the Rrennam Mre l»e-t
I partment on Fire Prevention Week '
Asserting his belief an all-time i ^*-ld October 6 to 12
high of 8,000,000 bales would tie A motion was carried that suf-
used in the Urilted States alone; fit-tent money tie sppiopriaUid Lo
Cox estimated foreign sales would pay for drawing of"the pielimin-
not exceed 1,500,000 to 2,U0tt,0U0 ary plans.of the airport.-
bales. 5 AXMg cuduiaiu^ Um. Lcj,u>u-
By KALPII i'ORTE,
Utilted Press Staff < orrespoiulent. '
STOCKHOLM, Q“' t Neutral
diplomats- reported today that
*in the Baltic states. Germany, it
whs said, has concentrated possibly
35H.OOO in Norway where honsrn
and nidi are being trained, appar-
ently for an invasion of Britain.
Hut the feeling grows that the
Naii* uuiy offer tv ..aid frinlaniT
if that country is attacked again
by Russi^.
(’oneentratioii of tlwae .Jie,lA.VY. .
«... . * .. aa« forces in a-nd aroqnd Scandinavia,
Oct. 14 andUrn~.LmiLjmze.jun<AmtjJ
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mean - imminent developments on
the northern front. Activity, it
was suggested,“mafoi nwey not
develop after winter freezes north-
in Lithuania Arkansas Observation squadron of thr National Guard, after Major
■ fields, and, moi v ! Willi.iinsoil led u gioup-W nine pin ties from Little Roek hi Fl. Sill, (
I than a dozen- harbors, are being j okia., for training of nearly 200 guardsmen to be rn<’um|M*<l
built of enlarged by Russians in | lhcr|> f<(f R ,B t|m# • .
the Baltic, states, returning diplo-
mats said. Larger .numbers of hie-
chunizcd . units arc . being asseni-
„.^d in Lithuania.
A large number of German sol-
diers best estimates say 50,000
are concentrated in the not th. Nor-
wegian province of Finnmark.
JHiilandA single iweaii, fsirt of I
Petsamo is otdy 18 miles from the
German-controlled Nor w e g i a n
frontier.
Should'Rtissis a-ttempt to Invade - _
Finland again, Germany is expect-, McetinE; Ca
ed to help h inland, with a sizeable ”
number of "volunteers" and large
quantities of materials according
to informed Scandinavian observ-
position in
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> Buddy Wright Post No. 4H, Rifle
.club, announces' a
“This JfiJTe Club Is yattr organi-
zation, kindly* be on hand." urges
the chairman of the Legionnaires
]aycees Will Work With Legion Major
To Promote Home Defense Move **l f’> Col. F U. Harrington, na-
.. 1 J tlonal commissioner of the works
‘ | day night, at a hospitsl- here where
that a committee ol Jay<’ei will - . .. .
, , , i, ha underwent an operation a week. •
be appo.nted to ivot'K with the f
local American Legion Post. , ,, , . , .
• I col Harrington was stricken-til
Jh' < n il hl> rtitb ati n iji u, a,' -m the.summer home
'-<<•<.tly -adopted hy Hu-/nyc-.-s I (>< ’ („„lhM4n.taw, William
will have 1U—ia gmnmg- lU-iksH RflyhnrTV w,t rf,te,^r~nir hospital--
Wijishmgttm County 1 air. A buolhj -• -— - . —
will beA rfialntained and finger-1
i The Texas Home defense nio\< -
I ment sponsored by the American,
Izgion was endorsed < nth'isia-du -
i ally by the-Birnham and Wash-
, ington County Junior Chamber of
: C.'ommeice, meeting in regular sea-
I Sion Monday ntght at thr city hall I
with 110 members prosent and
C. Winkelmann, Jr»- m the
chair. ’ j prints will be taker* of anyone who'
President Wmkclmann appoint-
ed chairmen for the y;in<’Us tiri-
i portant committees of the Texas
furthernig goodwill between the
United States and the countries
where they are stationed.
Nine CNflorrs In Brazil
Military1 missions.are; Jn Brazil,
where nine officers arc stationed;
Colombia, four; Argentina, seven;
Haiti and Chile, three each; and
Ciu ate mala and Nicaragua, one
each. -?j.
Naval missions have been sent — .
1 o Brazil, Argentina, Colombia | that of the laat three yea'rs
and Peru, with eight, three, aix
and three jnen respectively. Two
officers were recently added to
lhg Peruvian mission.
Representatives o( the army air
(GuuUuueU Ou X’uye FpUQ
DEFENSE LINKS
IS BACK FROM ^-OF 2 AMERICAS
fNFi/llBT HP/X l/BTirr *8n of Soldiers at Vasa and the
KrlsllM III KIMI I KfaptihK of the right of transit,
UJuVslll 1 V lai 11 1 has led to suggestions that Ger-
| many openly has offered to help
I Finland In case of attack. -
More Army Missions
From Washington Classes In Advanced
Probable College Courses To
By OLIVER H. KNIGHT Be Conducted Here
United Press Staff Correspondent . :
WASHINGTON. D. C. (L’.R) '
AUXllary and naval .n»iaaixw««v.,*,*U 8uuth and I H h.th- ...... .....
iStili .America may Jw ' Stat. | pt;. .V5Y.- 5
... th.’ ■ «’.ir futii:.’ .is i fiiCh.t I 1 lunfsmII.’ t,(bl, ,,,,,
r. In Pan.Amrriran Will be in Brenham at 5 00 Vied- •
nesday afternoon to conduct class-
es In advanced English, business
administialion, government, and County Fair are also to t«. < hosen
education.
Teachers and others interested
in advanced college ' work arc
urged to attend these classes,'
which will be conducted in the
county coOrt room al the court I
tocol prevents disclosure of new house. |
missions until negotiations with
the countries concerned are com-
plete.'
There arc now seven military I
missions in Latin America com-1
posed of 28 officers, and foui j
naval missions staffed by 20 of-
ficers.
Their -duties consist of aiding !
military and naval officials theic
in strengthening their forceji, and
American Le g I «i n -Hom.’,.| apna Who 1 efuse to list.-ii to oppoal - '
«zl«v nt M n io All infer rated ' 'l‘”' al gu.mvid» b.u> n>,>. , f,'..
' funrtionmg members 'rf society • . , .
be . , ■ , normalize ituaso-.Japanese rt-la-
and a m’enair to the rlrrn.H tnl i<
: turns ami asserted that the Unil-
1 wrt\ "I li < ,states role jii the piesent, war1
<,r Tin- i.piibii.an presidential num , . , ....
rmposr.i or 1 > ... is consideiably Intt-naified.
i Ince was greeted with scattered | >
in Pontiac Flint, ami Lan-1 rb’' R’Tlm press, meanwhile,
sing At Pontla. some one threw i United States and
...ree eggs nt--Winkle a car and I-K11 <0 < r,me mil m the open on
sputtered Mrs Wllftiiea staking the other.
ami ah'res ’ • h lit Washington Pr<u>ideni.Roose*
—-----s'- 3Httr.r<ed~iie‘♦on - u£-• -'
Mlttl %llM — ■t,v . Muh-
",l f'“'' Tin F re Deprrrtrrrmrt I "l’”’mg ' ertatn types of- military
to an. -alarm slimily ' ta-foie 5 equipment tv,llie export licensing
Monday afternoon amt fmind a system.
grass fur blazing at the H'si<|rno-
nf A T h-w-lz on Svcarnou’ Stlcet |
Firemen quickly extmgiiished the
blaze snd there was no damage
It was aimounce.I officially that
5,000 persona were killed and 8,-
<HM» wounded m Nafi attacks on
London in Sepfsniber, .
The ofttmt German news agen----—i
_cy said^ British pianaa dropped
bomha ’mllscrimma tely |n nortfepaJB
land northwest Berlin in a raid . 'j
last night that lasted five hours,
th>- longest of the war. Two Brit-
ish. plums were reported stuH ——J
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Meanwhile Stockholm dispatches
fl r.ni , I t.'itln -raul a, large sc ale
| . vac uatlnh i t rged persons, worn-
‘~leiijuid children .had started in liie
I German rsipltnl ,■
Arab Revolt Planned
Tn Rome Italian Sources said 1
Prehiler Benito Mussolini ' and . 1
ft;
'' ' ' - , 1 Uxmy foran
Ikle met .imliinri Arab rcv.ilt in Africa atid'Asla
against th<- British Empire under
Balo-Spanish leadership.
The -'offfiHtf- arewspoptr,.
er in the day.
Tax Assessor-Collector Robt. J.
Schawe reports that the first pay-
ment of state and county taxes at
his office came from the adminis-
trator of the estate of Hattie Mor-
ris, negro, of Chapel Hill.
Henry Kiecke of Burton had the
distinction of being the first per-
son in the county to pay his poll
tax, also paying his property tax
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A A unit, has founder’-—’ ’ 8 >\.|*iis< to pay
enthusiasm in Brenham for its I cneir taxex rfrirtrfgnflhe day, but
" there was no rush.
Mrs. Brenning was also the first
person to call at the city hall to
pay her city taxes. However, City
Secretary George Zeiss reports
that the Home Owners Loan Cor-
poration has sent a check for
taxes due several days ago and
he issued the company the first
city tax receipt this morning.
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