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Dixiecrats Confer In Houston
PLAN CAMPAIGN TODAY
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‘SPIES’ PROBED
FRANKFURT RIOT
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Familiar Faces —
E. A. Faulkner traveled through
Car Hits Broadside
HELD IN ILLINOIS
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barbecue.
fairly comfortably at home.
Brenham Ready
For Big Crowd
At V-J Events
FIVE KILLED AS
ARMY FORTRESS
FALLS IN KANSAS
SECRET PARLEY
BEING HELD IN
KREMLIN TODAY
D1X1ECRATS SAY
JESTER MAY GET
FALL OPPONENT
Demonstration On
High Prices
BUNN COLLEGE
BUILDS NEW DORM,
4 APARTMENTS
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Pair Claim Innocence
But Won’t Deny
They’re Reds
F. J. Kubitza, president of the
Brenham Lions club, today urg-
ed all Lions to be on hand and
take part in the V-J Day pa-
rade Saturday morning at 10
o’clock. He said a bus will be on
hand to transport members of
the club tn the parade.
on the road for pharmaceutical
houses. And of the many he made
on his rounds he liked Brenham
man of-the Brotherhood of Loco-
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LEE ROY MEAKER* OF
PANHANDLE ANNOUNCE
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SPECTATOR
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STATES RIGHTS RALLY
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WRIT IGNOR
BY RED CONS
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Fire Department To
Train M en In U s e
Of Resuscitator
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Labor Support
Major Issue In
Senatorial Race
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M’CAINE GIVEN
SANITY HEARING
INAUSTINTODAY
Third Effort Made To
Save Slayer
From Chair
Two Crewmen Escape
Death In Early
Morning Crash
Claims I m m u n i t
From Control
Of Court
---_ RAN AN-eaa re
FOR TEXAM CAR THEFT a
DANVILLE, Ill. Aug. 12. ll’P» „
Jas. Hay Hurt When detail, large enough to house 20j
wwjx w»- V J i j [students. It will be completed by |
bepiemoer *. mu ouuuing vuu win
be located on the same property
mentioned above.
Next week a long delayed roof-
ing job on the main building will
be started. It Is estimated that 30
days will be required for its com-
pletlon*
a. m.
Augwt 17:
Lions Club
1 today to discuss the German sitiia-
, tion.
I It waa the sixth of a series of
meetings in the Russian capital on .
Germany, But what was said at
the sixth meeting is as much a
secret as the details of the other
five conferences. There still has
not been one official word about
what is going on.
Trygve Lie, 'secretary general of
the United Nation*, hinted that
the explosive . Perman problem
might be taken up by the United
Nations general assembly when it
meets in Paris. Lie didn't say how
he expected to get the German
case on the assembly's schedule.
But he believes that the next gen-
eral assembly meeting will be the
most critical in UN history.
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the
Democratic Party Back to the
Democrats." Still another: "We
want our schools as they are.”
There had been rumors' that the
Wallace party would picket the
rally but we saw -*one. Perhaps
the 150 policemen assigned to
keep order deterred them. At"
any rate, some of the banners,
crudely lettered on homemade
standards, said: "Down with.
Communism.” Segregation was
advocated on other banners. The
Confederate Stars and Bars were
prominently displayed, and took
part along with the American
Flag and the Lone Star Flag in
the procession that followed
Thurmond’s speech. A band play-
ed alternately “Dixie”, “Deep
In the Heart of Texas" and
“The Eyes of Texas Are Upon
You". Thurmond-Wright cam-
paign buttons were distributed .
to the crowd by the bucketful.
Despite the gala trappings, it
was a scriou* convention, with
the delegates expressing their
determination
the defeat of
the program.
Bitter Words Fly
___At Gathering
In Houston
2,000 Expected to Be Fed At Big Barbecue—
Parade at 10 Wffl Start Full Day of Music, 10,000 Union i s t s In
. Sports And Patriotic Oratory.
NEW CHEMICAI, PLANT
SLATED FOR HOUSTON
HOUSTON. Aug. 12. The
Shell Chemical Company has ac-
quired a new multl-million dollar
chemical plant in Houston.
The t>l*nt is to manufacture
Methyl Ethyl Ketone and second-
ary butyl alcohol .
Brenham today was eagerly awaiting V-J Day and the Moscow, Aug. 12. cob—West-
all-day celebration sponsored by the American Legion, the diplomats and Soviet officials
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Meaker
of Amarillo announce the birth of
u son, Kenneth Wayne, on Au-
gust 8, at the St. Anthony hos-
pital. Mrs. Meaker will be remem-
bered as the former Jeanette
Gurka.
The baby's grandparents sre Mr. .from^opening,
and Mrs.. O. R. Meaker of Ama-1
of a national convention. Dele-
gates had come by special train
and otherwise from many South-
ern states. They sat behind the
standards of their states. We 1
noted banners from Texas,
Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri,
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and
Virginia. There might have been ’
others. Numerous other banners
were also displaced. One >said:
"Harry, Henry, Dewey . .
Phooey!” Another: “Give
Blinn College is having its own
building boom, in preparation for
an expected enrollment of 400 the
fifcst week of the fall semester, be-
ginning September 1.1
Four apartments are being com-
pleted for teacher occupancy. Two
are six room apartments, and two
are four rooms each. They are be-
ing built on college owned property
at the corner of High and Fifth
streets. *
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James Hay suffered cuts and in-
juries about the head Wednesday
night, when the p*ck-up he waa
driving was hit broadside, just as
he attempted to make a left turn
into his driveway on North Park.
He was knocked unoonscious, and
had to be kept overnight in the
hospital.
The driver of the oncoming
Chevrolet waa Aubrie Scott of A 44-year-old Matoon, Illinois, man
Killeen, who is at praeent employ- has been arraigned in Danville,
ed with the Farm to Market Cow- HUnoU. for transporting a stolen
struction program.
Hay waa released from the hos-
19.000 GERMANS IN
RIOT AT FRANKFURT
FRANKFURT, Aug. 12. <l'.P)
Ten-thousand German trade union-
ists took over the center of Frank*
furt today and almost wrecked
the area before they finished.
It all began as a demonstration
for lower prices and higher wages.
But the crowd, jamming one of
Frankfurt’s squares, got wilder
and wilder aB the leaders talked.
One group, reportedly led by a
Communist agitator, attacked an
American Jeep.
German police moved in when
it seemed like a full-fledged riot
was developing. The crowd stoned
them. ’.
The demonstrators also tried to
wreck a United Preas car, but po-
lice held them off.
BERRYTON, Kan., Aug. 12. (U.P)
—Five of seven crew members
were killed today when a B-17
Flying Fortress Crashed and burn-
ed at the Grange Fairgrounds at
Berryton, Kansas.
Two survivors were rushed to
Winter General Hospital in ’ To-
peka, where authorities say their
condition is fair."
Topeka Air Force base officials
say the big plane was on a rou-
tine training flight when it crash-
ed. Three of the seven aboard
were thrown clear of the plane
and in this group were the two
survivors.
The wings of the plane were
scattered, but the fuselage was said
to have "stayed pretty well to-
gether." Two of the plane's four
engines were torn loose.
Berryton is seven miles south
and four miles cast of Topeka.
Mrs. Pelagia Mur ski
Dies, Be Buried From
Home Of Daught e r
auto from Camp Hood, Texas.
The accused, Cleo Quinn, is
charged with transporting the car
46 Youths Attend
Methodist District
Institute At Blinn
to bring about
Pres. Truman in
Leaders of the
group were meeting in Houston
today to map plans for the cam-
paign.
• • • -r— a lot of towns in theNouth, ln-
The address of the Blue Bird. clMOing Brenham, during his time
Beauty Parlor was incorrectly
given in Wednesday’s Banner-
Press. The correct address is
Main and St. Charles streets.
AUSTIN, Aug. 12. (U.P)—A
victed slayer facing death in the
electric chair will be given
chance to live today.
He’s Riley MCCaine, who’s sched-
uled to die in- the electric chair
August 20 for the killing of a
Houston gift.
But today in Austin, McCalne
will appear before the State Board
of 'brfrdons and Paroles for a
sanity hearing. Incidentally, this
is the third such hearing' for Mc-
Caine.
McCalne was adjudged sane at
each of the two previous sanity
hearings. And earlier this week,
the parole board unanimously re-
jected a plea for commutation of
McCaine’s sentence to life impris-
onment
The hearing was requested by
McCaine’s defense counsel -Hous-
ton Attorney Sam Winter. If Mc-
Caine is found insane, he’ll be com-
mitted to a slate Institution .
( MIRING COTTON PRICES
New York: Oct. 3130. up
from opening; Dec. 31.33, up 18, V-J. Day celebration. Parade 1
C- -- — ‘ — .*——■[ New Orleans: Oct. 31.18, up 12
riUo, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gurka I from opening; Dec. 31.24, up 10
of tide city. fru® .
AIRLINER FORCED
DOWN IN KANSAS
GREAT BEN&, Kan.f Aug. 12.
<m»—A Continental Airlines DC-3
airplane has been forced down at
Great Bend, Kansas. The ship was
on a- flight from Denver to Tulsa
carrying nine passengers and three
crewzniembers. None was injured.
DOCTOR ACCUSED^
FORT WORTH, Aug. 12. «L»—
A 56-year-old Dallas physician has
been arraigned in Fort Worth op
charges of violating Federal Nar-
cotic laws.
Dr. Roy N. Blackwell was un-
der 11,000 bond today after be-
ing charged with writing narcotic
prescriptions without a federal
license.
Mrs. Pelagia Murski, 78, died at
1:40 today at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Twardowski
on the Navasota highway.
She was born in Poland, and
has been a resident of the United
States for the past 84 years. She
is a member of St. Mary's Catho-
lic Church, and the Rosary Society.
She is survived-by two sons, 3.
A. Murski and Frank Murski, and
one daughter, Mrs. Twardowski,
all of Brenham. Her husband pre-
ceded her in death April 23. 1920.
Two brothers and one sister have
also preceded her in death. »
Mrs. Murski is also survived by
four sisters, Mrs. Mary Wcsolek,
Mrs. Elizabeth Wesolek, Mrs.
Frances Kwiatkowski, and Mrs.
Stella Stegent; also one brother,
Pete Antkowiak; 18 grandchildren
and 22 great grandchildren.
The Rosary will be recited at
the home of the daughter, where
. Mrs. Murski had made her home,
at 8:30 p. m> Friday. Funeral ’
i services will be held at the home
i Saturday morning at 7:45 o'clock,
> and continued at St. Mary’s Catho-
r ic church at 8:30 a. m.
Pall bearers will be chosen from
i Mrs Murwki's grandsons Brenham
I funeral home will be in charge of
i arrangements.
The Volunteer Fire Department
is planning to train others in the j
use of the new resuscitator,
so far has been handled only by J
members, in as much as it fr**fl
quently takes one to two houraf
•time for its use. This month tha 1
machine has been used twice, re.- :
ported Fire Chief E. W. Pfltig-
haupt. ^"-1
Insurance Commissioner Frank |
Williams, of Austin, is to be ask- I
ed t« come to Brenham to explain 1
the operation of Firemen's Pension I
Laws, far members of the depart- I
ment. j
> Two members of the fire de- I
Ijabor support is rapidly becoming a storm center in the partment. Robert Buntzei and Kie-
U. S. Senate run-off race.. burg Struckmeier, attended the
Today in Austin, Coke SteverisPn’s headquarters issuediFireman’s Training School at cofc
a statement quoting a Texas railway worker. And in the J,**™1"*
statement, the worker charges •- "
that what he' called “eastern'
bosses” were responsible for
■irecis. . | the recent endorsement of Lyndon I
A boys dormitory is being con-1 . . .. „ I
latructed that is modern in every | John"t’n bX th* National Railway (
ncitail larirn ennneh tn house 20 I Brotherhoods.
| The statement quoted George T.
September 1. This building too will Hinson of Mineola, a local chair-
We went to Houston last night
and attended the rally of the
States Rights Democrats, at
which G6v. J. Strom Thurmond
i of South Carolina and Gov.
Fielding Wright of Arkansas
accepted their nominations as
candidates for president and
vice-president, respectively. It
was a colorful event with huge
Sam Houston Coliseum more
than half full of delegates and
spectators. Houston newspapers
estimated the crowd at 8,000 or
9,000, which we consider mighty
good, in view of the hot .weath-
er. A crowd of that size in an
inddor meeting during 100-de-
*• gree weather in August shows '
the group means business. We
heard the addresses of the two
candidates, which were frequent-
ly interrupted by applause. We
were particularly impressed with
the speech of Gov. Thurmond,
who accused the . Democratic,
Republican and Wallace parties
as all willing to barter the rights
of the people for a bloc of
minority votes. He said the
platforms of all three of these
parties advocate the setting up
of a totalitarian police state un-
de> the guise of misnamed civil
rights. He said the issue of
state’s rights is not sectional—
that it is as important to Ari-
zona as’it is to Alabama— and
he urged Americans everywhere
to vote next November to retain
state's rights which are npw be-
ing threatened.
BRKNIIAM WEATHER
August 12:
9 a m. 7B M i.
Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Brenham Concert Band, at the Kremlin for thgee hotR-s
which will be observing its 60th Anniversary.
All major arrangem e n t s
had been completed, and only
the miscellaneous details re-
mained to be taken care of.
All Indications were that a large
crowd will be present for the fes-
• tivittbs, which will begin at ^0
o’clock .with a street parade, and
run into the night.
Parade Marshal Frank Wood III
announced the route of the pa-
rade will be as follows: Beginning
at St Anthony hotel, west on
Main to North Austin; norln on1
Austin to Vulcan; east on Vulcan
to North Park; out North Park to
Fireman’s Park.
He asked that Main street be
cleared of- all cars after 9 a. m.
He also issued an appeal for the
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est method* in fire fighting and 1
kindred subjects. The city receiv-
es a 3% credit on its insurance
rates for having had members at-
tend this school.
When the regular monthly meet-
ing of the firemen wa < held Tuee- I
day, there were 48 members pre*- I
ent They reported the sale^if the I
past accumulation of Maifest I urn- |
ber. and announced receipt of re- j
cent donations made to the fire I
department. j
Calendar of Events I
Auguat It:
Elks Bowling Alley open. 7:M|
p. m. |
Indies Auxiliary to James F.1
Dillon Post 71M. Qty halt I p. m.1
August 11: . I
HOUSTON, Aug. 12. (V.P» Tex-
as Dixiecrats ..meeting in Houston
have set out to organize a cam-
paign to corner the slate's 23
electoral votes. And apparently
they don't care whose feelings get
hurt in the process.
The states’ righters have launch-
ed a blisteringj^ttack on the men
whom they regard as their arch-
foes- President Truman and Gov-
ernor Beauford Jester.
Dixiecrat Leader E. E. Townes
of Houston cracked at the presi-
dent as he addressed some 250
persons in the Houston Music Hall.
He dismissed the president as - a
“chuckle-headed little fellow who
ought to be running a peanut
, roaster on the ctyncr."
I And the Texas Dixiecrats -
angered by the Truman civil
rights program, cheered and(
whistled and screamed, “pour it
on".
Then another Houston Dixie-
crat, Nowlin Randolph launched
into a violent attack on Governor
Jester.
Said Randolph, “I think it la
time to warn a high state of-
ficial that he may have an op-
ponent in November an well as
in July.”
He also promised the governor
a fight to the finish for control of
the Democratic state convention
in Fort Worth next month.
BULLETIN
NEW YORK, Aug. It. «B—.
A Russian woman school teaob-
• er who has made a lot of news
lately plunged from a fourth-
floor window In New York to-
day. Gray-haired Mrs. CMmnmb
Kosenkina landed In a court-
yard next to the Soviet consulate.
Police, summoned by neigh- ]
bors, arrived just as Mrs. Ko- 1
senkina was being esurrted in- T
side the eon-ulate. They say she
wm moaning in Russian, ’leave
me alone." 4
The teacbed was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital, where at-
tendants say she suffered a |
broken right leg and Internal
j injuries. Police lieutenant Wil-
liam McNamara forced his way . j
imide the ambulance ami sat
be'ide two unidentified rivlttnas |
! from the coonulate Who sceom- 1
panled the injured isouM to tbn 1
- hospital.
Five men and three women,
«a > >»*a -■ a bar **- . — —J
•toff, also tried to rater the ass-
hutamcr. Talking excitedly ts * 1
Russian, they were puslwd aside I
by another |K>iice nergcant.
Police nay Mrs. Kosenkina la
in fairly good condition, al- I
though she has a broken leg
and Internal Injuries.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. (ILB— 3
Russia has protested to the State j
Department against the serving of |
a habeas corpus writ on Sovifet 1
Consul-General Jacob Lomakin in |
New York yesterday. The note; I
signed by Soviet Ambassadoc I
Alexander Panyushkin, claims dip- j
lomatic immunity for Lomakin^' 1
It asks the State Department to |
take up the matter with the NeW I
York county supreme court. 1 I
The State Department sent c 1
telegram to Governor Dewey at; J
once advising him of the protest 1
But a spokesman for Dewey sayg 1
he has not received it yet.
Meanwhile, the judge who order* |
ed Lomakin to prvduce a Russian I
school teacher, Mrs. Oksana Ko- 1
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Governor J. acrom inurmonu of South Carolina, left, Dixiecrat
nominee for the Presidency, discusses the details of the convention
being held in Houston, Texas, with W. H. Talbot, center, National
Committeeman from L°ulsiana, and Leander Perez, well-known Louis-
iana politician. . Beliav: Governor Fielding Wright, of Mississippi,
hss cup of coffee upoff his arrival in Houston, Texas, for the Dixie-
crat convention. Governor Wright is the Dixiecrat Vice-Presidential
nominee. (NEA Telephoto).
There are 48 young people at-
tending the Bryan District Inter-
mediate Institute being held this
week in the main building of Blinn
College.
Fourteen instructors are con-
ducting the course of study. The
girls are located in the girls dormi-
tory on the campus, and the boys
are across the way in the boys
dormitory.
Sixth Of Series On
German Problem ‘
Under Way
E.A. Faulkner Picked
Brenham For Home
the best so he decided to make it
his home. — —-
He opened his MedlcM Arts
Drug Store in 1946 and he says
he is here to stay. He plans to
build a new home on Mulberry
street in the near future.
Mr. Faulkner was born in
Huntsville and went to school
there. He was graduated from the
New Waverly High school and
during his time in school worked
part time in a drug store. He did
his pharmacy work at the Uni-
versity of Te*as School in Galves-
ton.
After his schooling he worked in
a number of places including
Wharton, Lexi n g t o n, Beaumont,
and Austin. He was on the road
for pharmaceutical manufacturers
a' number of years and was also
manager of the Northwestern Di-
vision of Ledererle Laboratories in
St. Louis.
He is a member of the Baptist
church, the State and National
Pharmaceutical Associations, the
Rotary Club and the Masons. He
is married and ha» one daughter.
His horn* is at 812 West 3rd street- pi tai this morning, and is resting
-TOMMY WHITEHEAD, fairly comfortably at home.
RUSSIAN TEACHER INJURED IN FLUNG
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12,1948.
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