Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 161, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1948 Page: 1 of 4
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V-J DAY TO ATTRACT LARGE CROWD
FOR THE DAY
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SAN ANGELO FOR JOHNSON
CROP PRICES DOWN, NOT VP
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FIREMEN RECEIVE CHECK
BANDS GALORE
CUBS BEGIN PRACTICE
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tives of those killed or
KILLS ONE, SENDS
Calendar of Events
WILLIE O’SHEA
WHITEHEAD.
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LYNDON, COKE
SWAP VERBAL
BLOWS IN AIR
REFUSES TO SEE
CONSUL IN HER
HOSPITAL ROOM
100 ELECTORAL
VOTES CLAIMED
FOR DIXIECRATS
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Campaign Dire ctor
Says Communists
For Truman
Former President i a 1
Aide Denies He
Gave Reds Help
KNEW f<EY MEN
Second Ex-Off i c i a 1
Says Miss Bentley
Lied About Him
DRIVE DATES SET
TO SELL CONCERT
SEASON TICKETS
Barbecue At Noon,
Baseball Game
Big Event
Success Claimed
In Meat Strike
Case Attracts World
Interest, Causes
Complications
CHARGES FLY*
American Embassy
' Denies U. S. Had
Hand in Affair'
Johnson Hits Sitting,
Calculating; CIO
Backing Told
carries a crew of 11.
The brief
Parade Will Start
Activities At *
10 o’clock
1948
31.20
31.50
It
in
in
the state's current heat wave.
They tried to fry an egg on an
Arlington street yesterday. But it
just wouldn't cook, even though
the state’s current heat wave,
was checked at 120 degrees.
Absentee balloting ends at
o'clock, Tuesday, August 24.
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ROSWELL, N. M., Aug. 13.
(I’.Ri—The public relations offi-
cer at Walker Air Base said to-
day that 12 men were killed and
eight others were injured in the
crash of a B-29 Super-Fortress
near Roswell, New Mexico, last
night.
William ‘Craig Voelkel, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Voelkel,
of 430 W. Lynwood, San Antonio,
passed awsy Monday, and was laid
to rest at Shslby, Tuesday after-
noon. The baby is a nephew of
Travis T. Voelkel.
DAUGHTERS BIRTH
ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. John Vierus of
Latium announce the birth of their
daughter, Clarice Gene, bom at
the St. Francis Hospital Monday
August 9. The baby weighed nine
pounds, 13 ounces.
ARLINGTON, Aug, 13. <W>—
Members of the Arlington, Texas,
BRENHAM WEATHER
August 13:
Maximum 104 *
Minimum 75
Oats, 1.14-1.16
Corn 2.50-252
Maize_3.34-3.42
Eggs, 47c
cotton
The
SPECTATOR
the
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k*.
Band practice. High school. 1
p m.
August IB:
Auguat 10:
Elks Bowling Alley open. 7:30
I
late last night.
Maj. C. A. Beck, command-
er of the base, said “some” of
the crew members were killed.
He did not reveal the exact
casualty figure. A B-29 normally
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In Victoria Man’s
Death On Tracks
Bandera Tavern
Operator Slain
Voelkel Infant Dies,
Buried In Shelby
Fire Chief E. W. Pflughaupt
reports the receipt of a pheck for
$10 from Mrs, Charles Sirnank,
in appreciation for the firemen’s
quick response, and success
putting out the radio fire,
her home, a short while ago.
He said he never has been a Com-
munist and never has had reason
to believe that any of his friends,
acquaintances or associates
Communists."
Knew K«-y Figures
But under questioning by
Club
I Hatt 7 p. m.
ROSWELL, Aug. 13. (UP) —Air force officials at the
Walker Air Force Base in New Mexico announce that a B-29
Superfort crashed and burned three miles south of Roswell
11 FL ARED LOST
IN PLANE CRASH
ON PACIFIC ISLE
PAIR ACCUSED
IN SPY PROBE
DENY CHARGES
HOUSTON, Aug. 13. <l'.l!> The
mangled body of a Victoria cattle-
man has been found near railroad
tracks in Houston.
He was 32-year old Virgil Lee
Kirchner, whose legless, decapi-
tated body was found by an en-
W-hen the juk* box wouldn't PUX JKJSJS*;
Jerlin air-lift began.
2 TO HOSPITAL SusP^e1
Most young men of Washington
and Waller counties will be get-
ting to know Willie O'Shea before
long if they don’t know him al-
ready. Mr. O’Shea who operates two
drug stores here, was last week
made permanent chairman' of the
local draft board of the two coun-
• ties.
• Be’ing an ex-serviceman himself,
he served about four years in the
army medical .corps with r-- ”-**■
overseas, he should be able to un-
derstand the problems of the draf-
ts lai m of R. D. tees and prospective draftees.
Mr. O'Shea was born in New
York and came to Brenham from
an orphan's home there. Here he
went to work for Barnhill's Drug
Store at sn early age. He attend-
ed school here and later did some
college work by correspondence.
He went into the army in 1942
and when he got out in 1946 he
bought Barnhill's Drug Store In
the St. Anthony Hotel. Seven
months later he opened his second
place on South Park street.
His wife is the former Irma La-
cina and they have one son. Their gion. and the VFW.—T O M M Y
TRASH UKb,
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were
DALLAS, Aug. 13. <U.P)The
boycott of high-priced meat which
started in Dallas has been pro-
claimed a nationwide success.
That’s# the
Vaughn, the husband of the 71-
year-old Dallas woman who start-
ed the housewives rebellion.
Vaughn says the telegrams, calls
and letters have poured in frdm 47
states. And he asserts the com-
muniques indicate that women are
refusing to buy meat even in plac-
es where there's no organised
Strike. j i
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by mail has come from nine oth-
ers. Those who plan to be out of
town on August 28 should apply
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NEW YORK, Aug. 13. <U.P> j
The Kosenkina case—the story of I
the Russian woman who jumped I
from the Soviet consulate in New I
York—is causing a great hubbub «
in international affairs today.
Everybody is talking about it— ■
from the Kremlin and the Ampri- •
can State Department down to the . j
man in the street outside Roose-’ ■
velt hospital in New York. |
HehUPriaoner
''There, the" central figure in The ■
international incident is recover- I
ing from the many injuries she I
suffered yesterday. Mrs. Oksana • . 1
Kosenkina says she was held pris- I
oner for six days in the consulate I
. . . and the fear of slavery and . I
death caused her to jump three
stories to get ..away from Soviet
officials.
0 Today, the Soviet vice-consul,
Zot Chepurnykh, was allowed in
to see her. She kept her eyes shut
tightly most of the time after he
entered her room. She refused to
see Consul-general Jacob Doma-
kin at all.
A Russian speaking member of
the New York police force said he
heard Mrs. Kosenkina tell Che-
purnykh she d idnot want to go to
another hospital. He quoted her
as saying, "No, you kept me a
prisoner. You would not let me
go-”
HOUSTON. Aug. 13. (U.R1—A
fight over a jukebox has resulted
in the. death of one person and the
injury1'of two others in Houston.
Thirty-five-year-old George Pope
was killed yesterday in a shoot-
ing in a Houston grocery store.
According to reports, Pope en-
tered the store where C. E. Live-
ly was working on a wall switch.
ner's body was placed on
tracks after he was fobbed
murdered.
Republicans To Make
Truman’s Spy Stand
Big Campaign Issue
NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (U.K)-—
Governor Thomas Dewey's camp
aign manager says the
presidential choice will make a big
campaign issue of the current
congressional investl g a t i o n of
Communism within the govern-
ment. Herbert Brownell, Jr., says
mail received at Republican cam-
paign headquarters shows the peo-
ple are, to use his words, "shocked
and surprised at President Tru-
man’s attempt to cover up Com-
munist infiltration in the govern-
ment." Brownell will continue his
strategy sessions with Dewey in.
Albany today.
as
bumper crops and way above
the average, u.——
the above pi
keeping of
and demand. Wheat is not men-
tioned as we know the wheat
crop is the largest all over the
world. - Arguments based on
facts will always win; although
it takes time sometimes to
prove it. As time marches on
and these bountiful crops are
gathered and converted into
cloth, beef, pork, etc., prices of
these articles should decline, if
not, the law of supply and de-
mand did not pan out.
Soviet teacher Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina Iles in the courtyard next I fourth floor window of the Consulate. (NEA Telephoto),
to .the Soviet Consulate in New, York City after she plunged from the |
B-29 Crash May
Be Fatal To 11
AUSTIN, Aug. 13. (IIP)—Both
Coke Stevenson and Lyndon John-
son have unleashed new verbal
blows 4n their campaigns for the
U. S. senate.
Broadcasting from Austin today,
Johnson highlighted his efforts to
bring new business to Texas. And,
in a jibe at Stevenson, he added
that the job couldn’t be done by—
as he put it—"just sitting quietly
and calculating.”.
Johnson asserted that persuad-
ing business to come to the state
requires what he termed "plain,
old-fashioned hard work.”
The congressman said he had
been criticized by some business-
men because he refused 'to help
(Continued on page four)
Though the temperature still-
hovers above the 100 degree
mark, king football is making
its way into the sports pic-
ture these days. Out Brenham
High, school way the Cubs will
report early Monday morning
for their first practice session of
Mr, O'Shea Is a member of the
Catholic church, ths American L«-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. (UJ?)
Tin- Washington campaign direc-
tor for the Dixiecrats Austin
Seay predicts that his party will
get at least 100 electoral votes in
the November election. Seay says
the states rights revolt is based
I in his words -"upon the'neces-
sity of preserving local self-gov-
ernment" He says the Commu-
nists support the administration’s
civil rights program because it
would be what he calls "a long
stride toward . . . the creation of
the dictatorship necessary for
Communism.'’ . „
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. (V.R)
j Two more former government
workers'have accused Elizabeth
Bentley of lying when, she charged
that they gave wartime secrets to
Soviet spies.
The first wa8 Lauchlin Currie,
a slight, neat man with a soft
voice, who used to be an aide to
the lat,e President Roosevelt. Miss
Bentley had told the committee
—that Currie was not a Communist,
but that he supplied information
to members of the alleged Soviet
spy ring. Once, she said, he told
them that American authorities
were on the verge .of breaking a
■» Soviet code..
Currie told the committee there
is no foundation to _ the charges.
He insisted that he never had dis-
closed ‘any confidential informa-
A big crowd is scheduled to be
present Saturday morning for the *
opening parade'of the V-J Day
celebration and 60th Anniversary
,of the Brenham Concert Band,
and to stay for the full day . of*
entertainment provided for them.
Admission to al! events except
the baseball game will be free of
charge. ’ t
The parade is scheduled to start
at 10 o'clock at the BL Anthony
Hotel corner, proceeding along
Main street to Austin, then turn-
ing north bn Austin, east on Vul-
can and finally north on Park to
Fireman's Park, scene of the day's
events.____ ________ ' rM
Committee members urged that
the public follow the, parade to the
park and be on hand at the band-
stand‘it 11 o'clock when memorial
services for the dead tn World
Wars 1 and II will be held.
Attorney General Price Daniel
will be the principal speaker, and
it is hoped to have a large crowd
on hand to hear him. -v*«l
Music will dominate the day.
Officials Face Trouble
Chepurnykh is hardly the hap-
(Continueo on page two)
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Lively said Pope began cursing
and fighting with him.
A passerby broke up the squab-
ble. But Pope returned a few min-
utes later with a gun. He fired
twice, hitting a customer 61-
year-old Ross Valdez —and
store owner's wife, Mrs. E.
Werth.
At this point, a nightwatchman
who was nearby, William R. Moye,
pulled his gun and shot Pope five
times.
Meanwhile, Valdez is reported in
a critical condition at a Houston
hospital.
the fill training grind. Coach
Owen Erekson is expecting
ground 60 boys to report for the
initial session. Tentative plans
• as set up by Erekson call for
two-a-day workouts throughout
next week before the squad
leaves for training camp at Pa-
(Contlnued on page four)
home is at 811 West Third street.
corm
mittee members. Currie said he
knew Nathan Sil ver master and
Dr. George Silverman — former
federal employees accused by Miss
I Bentley as being key figures in the
alleged spy ring. He said he also
j had a purely social acquaintance
(Continued on page four)
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■ Mrs. Arthur Becker brings u#
a copy of the San Angelo Stand-
ard-Times which reprinted a re-
cent Houston Post editorial en-
dorsing thq candidacy of Lyndon
Johnson for United States Sen-
■ ator. The PoSt editorial recount-
ed Johnson's years of experi-
ence as.a national legislator in
Washington, and said he has
ueen forthright in declaring his
stand on all national questions.
“We add our endorsement to
- that of the Houston Ppst. The
people of West Texas should
endorse Lyndon Johnson with a
substantial majority on Aug.
28," the San Angelo paper said.
Authorities De7fCVC t?rtrt~’Ktrrh- Optomat-GlM-b- are disappointed in
the
and
The dates for the Municipal
Concert Association’s membership
drive have been set. The camapign
will officially start on Monday
morning. August 30, and will close
the following Saturday evening,
September 4. The association's
headquarters for the drive will be
the Brenham Chamber of Com-
merce office on West Main street.
“This concert association is be-
ing planned for the betterment
and education of the community,"
Gordon Langston, president of the
Chamber of Commence, said to-
day.
The purjKMie of the municipal
(Continued on page four)
Familiar Faces —
Men 18-25 To Meet
Willie O'Shea Soon HS
August 14:
V-J. Day celebration. Parade 10
August 16:
Elks Bowling Alley open. 7:30
p. m.
I a. m.
August 17:
Rotary luncheon. Hotel St.
Anthony. 12:15 p. m.
Lions Club barbecue. Region
Injured Teachey Says Russians Held Her PrisonergS
Russian Teacher Plunges From New-York City Building
NEW YORK. Aug. 13. <f.l!>
Doctors at New York’s Memorial
hospital report there haa been no
improvement in Bjbe Ruth's con-
dition. The morning bulletin said:
"Babe Ruth continues to run a
moderately high fever and in gen-
eral there is no improvement In
his condition."
THIRD SOX BORN TO
THE JOE BRUHSESi
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brusse an-
nounce the birth of a son. David
Lamar Brusse, bom at the St.
Francis hospital Tuesday. This la
their third son. i
PANDERA, Aug. 13. (U.R)
37-ye»rr-old tavern owner in Bam
dera, Texas, has been shot I
d^ath in an argument over a bus- j •
iness deal.
1 ' Bink West, who was also a for-
merHarris county deputy sheriff,
1 was fatally wounded in his tavern
last night. Murder charges have
been filed against a Bandera cafe
operator, Vance West. Incidental-
ly, the accused man isn't related
to the victim.
Police say’ alJout 20 customers
were In the tavern when the shoot-
ing occurred. They reported that
the two men got into a "hot ar-
gument" over selling an interest
in the cafe.
They Should Try Here No Improvement
Is Shown By Ruth
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. (U.R)
• The charred wreckage of a miss-
ing navy Privateer patrol bomber
was found halfway up an 800-foot
cliff on Rota Island in the Pacific
today. All of-its crew members are
presumed dead. sIt's not known
announcement said just how many were wboard, but
the plane crashed at 11:30 P. M. Privateers usually carry 11 per-
Mountain standard time after tak-1 sons.
ing off on a routine training flight. Berlin, another American
Further details are being with- >’,anc h»PP‘nK the Russian block-
held pending notification of rela- a<?c O,?h.e Qe™Bn Capit“1
. .. . .. ed up today. A four-engined C-54
injurra. | transport crashed and burned try-
I ing to make a ground-controlled
landing in bad weather. The three
men- in the crew were not hurt.
The eggsh is the third since the
so-l jerlin air-lift began.
tion to any unauthorized person, with six brass bands ud sever*!
string bands scheduled to partici-
pate.
The famous Ben Hur Shrine
band from Austin will be a special
attraction, and will play a con-
cert at 1 o'clock during the barbe-
cue,, which will be served from 12
to 2 o’clock.
A massed band concert, partici-
pated In by all the bands, will be
given at 2:30 p. m.
From 1:30 to 2:30 a broadcast
of the Saturday Jamboree of
KWHI will be given from the
bandstand, featuring all the bands
on KWHI, plus its other stage
performers.
Burton and Brenham meet in a
baseball game at 3:30 o'clock and a
large crowd is expected, as these
two teams have become heated
rivals in the last few years.
The baseball game will be broad-
cast over KWHI through the
courtesy of friends of Kelly Mc-
Clain, candidate for congress, who
with Mrs. McClain will attend the
celebration. .
At night, the Brenham Concert
Band will give its 60th Anniverx
aary performance, and a massed
choir of 100 voices will sing as 8
special feature, under the direction
of Tom Sweeney of Bryan.
Cold drinks and other refresh-
ments will be available on the
grounds all day, and other conces-
sions will be operated. '
All business houses are expected
to close for the entire day.
from opening.
five New Orleans: Oct. 31.08, down 8
from opening; Dec. 31.14> down 1
from opening.
FLAREK-VP,
h»E.MEN ( AU,ED
Firemen were called at nine
o'clock Thursday .night to the
Reese Lockett residence on Crock-
ett street, when neighbors thought
Absentee balloting for the Au-
gust 28 runoff primary is in pro- a *“h ** *
greas now, County Clerk Travis tha had, “PP-""”/ «P
nu,,, again, after workmen left in the
To'Pda’e there Vhave been five ^^noon. There was no dam-
ballots cast in person, and request, a^e 0 an^ n • _______
GLOBING COTTON PRICES
New York: Oct. 31.16, down 4
for an absentee ballot atjhe coun- from opening; Dec. 31.21, down 3
ty clerk's office at the court house.
A V. —. _ U A — L... 1 1 I « 4 1
A
to I Absentee t Voting
Ends August 24
With all the talk of inflation
going on during' this political
year, Albert Fricke brings us
some figures showing that
prices for major farm crops have,
gone down instead of up during
the last "12 months, in Response
to the law of supply and de-
mand. He brings us prices as of
Aug. 11 ;last year and Aug. 11
this year and comments as fol-
lows:
. ________ ________
Cotton M., 33.95
Cotton G. M., 34.55
89c to'90c
2.20-2 23
2.35-2.42
45c
All cotton quotations are
Houston; grain quotations are
Fort Worth.
This is simple proof that pric-
es of major farm crops are on a
downward trend. The forecast
of a 15,169,000 bale cotton crop
and a 3,506,363.000 bushel corn
crop, both, pronounced by the
Department of Agriculture
should reflect Aat
irice decline is within
the law. of supply
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Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service
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