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FOR NEW RULES
BIG CAMPAIGN
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INDONESIA WINS Berserk Rahchhand
Shoots Four To Death
Deserted Ship Drifts
Into Japanese Port
Truman Leaves For
Speech in St. Paul
ALLDAYTIME
TRAIN SERVICE
TO CEASE SOON
47 Bodies Recovered
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Marshland
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Two FFA Boys
Are Given Gilts
Hot Competition In
Money Raising
Expected
Special Program Due
For Workers
Thursday
Senator Would Bar
Military Planes
At Airports
Dutch Government
Agrees To New
Republic
Railroad Commission
Grants Request To ’
Southern Pacific
io had to
nd money
includii ,
buach leaves tonight to attend the
■ervice, tomorrow.
DR.R.L MEYER, 58,
FORMER RESIDENT
DIES, FORT WORTH
cause of this that I Join in
order.”
TO AID HOUSTON
BUILD STADIUM
THE HAGUE, Nov. 2. (U.P»—
Indonesia has won its independ-
ence from Holland.
The agreement follows the ex-
ample, but not the pattern, set by
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warmer in the south and central
portions thia afternoon and to-
night, a little colder in the north
portion tomorrow. Moderate most-
ly JWtherly winds on the coest.
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FREEDOM BT
M’CARTHY OFFERS MUTUAL PACT
‘Love Russia9 Day
Observed By Czechs
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at three o'clock. Miss Addie Wie- „
vakia.
As
tire prospect lisj,
one day without
on any worker.
S. p. Gaskin of Sam Houston
Area Council,. Houston, will be
present to assist Field Scout Ex-
ecutive McGee and Co-Chairmen
Odin Tomaehefsky and Leon Sl-
mank in getting the drive under
way.
"Phoenix Phil", A talented ven-
triloquist who Qiade a hit here last
year when he entertained at the
kick-off breakfast, will play a re-
turn engagement, to add humor to
the brief program planned.
Following are the leaders and
members of < the various teams
which will solicit contributions to
(Continued on page two)
Rtos Brideux, who piloted ths P-38^
and was the only survivor of the
crash.
He is in a hospital at Alex-
andria. • Virginia, in what is de-
scribed as a very satisfactory con-
dition. He has not been told of
the death toll. Doctors fear the
shock might be too great. But
the hospital reports he has been
asking anxiously for newspapers.
Along the murky waters of the
Potomac, the search for the last
bodies of the victims is going on.
Thus far, 47 have been recovered.
Representative Thomas Lane of
Massachusetts demanded tighter
air traffic control ruled and the
banning of military planes from
civilian airports. He called the ac-
cident "mass murder."
Chairman Edwin Johnson of the
senate commerce committee said
all private and military planes
should be "kicked off" National
(Continued on page five)
JOHN BOLLING SCIIAER II
BORN AT NT. FRANCIS
Mr. and Mra. J. B. Bchaer, of
PRAGUE, Nov. 2. (ILF)- Today is
"Love flussla"- day in Ctechoalo-
the United States, which freed the pcrently
Philippines in 1048, and the Brit-
ish, who granted independence to
India in 1947.
After 800 years of Dutch rule,
Indonesia is to be set up as the
so-called "Republic of the United
States of Indonesia" by the end
of the year. The new government
will be a partnership between the
Indonesians and the Dutch, under
the Dutch crown.
The agreement was reached to-
day at The Hague. Officials of
both countries announced complete
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BRENHAM WEATHER
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Fifty Three Die In Air Crash
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Pio sent a Mast whistling over her
head.
She called help, but before police
and volunteers could move into ac-
tion, Pio drove to another ranch
where 40-year old Tony Abaya,
brother of Mrs. Silvas, another
Filipino ranchhand, had a cabin.
Pio leveled off again and killed
Abaya. A neighboring worker
came to his door. Pio said, "You
call police tomorrow," and waved
him back inside.
At least 24 discharged shotgun
shells were found around the
scenes of the killings.
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* Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UP)—
A far-reaching investigation of
history’s worst commercial plane
disaster in which 55 lost their lives
yesterday, is shaping up In the na-
tional capital this afternoon.
Officials of the Civil Aeronautics
Board already are deep in the in-
quiry, trying to find out exactly
why the pilot of the P-38 plane
smashed into an Eastern airliner
over National Airport in Wash-
ington.
On Capitol Hill, a rising chorus
is demanding a study to prevent
anything like it from ever hap-
pening^ again.________________________
The CAB investigation will be
directed for the most part to testi-
mony by the Bolivian air ace, Eric
HOUSTON, Nov. 2. (U.K)—The
Houston city council has before it
recommendatiops for a stadium
seating 75,000 persons, and fi-
nanced under a plan in which Mil-
lionaire Oilman Glenn McCarJJiy
would carry the ball.
The proposed stadium, which
would be built for expansion to
100,000 seats, was recommended
to the council today by the special
stadium committee. The plant
would cost about $50 per seat and
would "ba the approximate size of
the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Councilman Harry Holmes, in a
formal report, said McCarthy is
willing to underwrite half -the
stadium cost through purchase of
three-per cent stadium; revenue
bonds. The remainder could be
raised by a public subscription
drive.
BE KICKOFF FOR o'1’” STIRS DEMAND
MEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 2.
(UP)—A Boston lawyer was kill-
ed today by a gas explosion in
his Medford home. A major gas
breakdown is threatening Med-
ford and eight other communi-
ties.
Emergency crews are inspect-
in house-to-house today trying
rto eliminate the threat of just
such explosions and asphyxia-
tion. Some 250,000 resident* of
the area are'in danger as a result
of an illuminating gap company
breakdown.
Fumes leaked into several
homes when pilot lights of ap-
pliances were put out by im-
purities in the gas after the sys-
tem broke down Monday.
Earlier, two people were "re-
ported affected by the fumes,
but they weren't seriously hurt.
Lewis Asks Indiana
Operators For
Conference
Preliminary arrangements for
annual financial campaign to fi-
nance operation of the Boy Scout
movement in Washington county
the coming year have been com-
pleted.
The one-day campaign will be
"kicked off” with a breakfast at
Hotel St Anthony Thursday morn-
ing at 7 o’clock, at which the 100
workers will receive final instruc-
tions and supplies.
Each worker will have an aver-
age of six cards, so that the en-
can bee seen in
undue hardship
Jones and Laughlin
Reported Ready
To Sign Up
COAL BREAK DUE
LXAHACHIE GETS HOUSING
kASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (UB—
i Public Housing Admlnlstra-
i has approved an application
104 units of new low-rent hous-
st Waxahachie. The prt»-
Inary loan of almost 341,000
it be approved by the. presi-
is nothing this ccftnmlssion can do
when a showing is made that "the
particular train" is not profitable,
except to grant its discontinuance.
I have never been able to find a
case where such a doctrine has
been enunciated before. I do not
think the "public convenience'’ was
considered in the least by the
court. However, much though I
may disagree wt^h such a decision
it is the Isy and it is only be-
this
CINCINNATI, Nov. 2. (UP)—Six
people were killed today and seven
were injured ar overcome when
fire swept through a tenement
house in downtown Cincinnsti.
Firemen say the blaze apparent-
ly was started bp a clgaret drop-
ped accidently in a hallway couch
on the first flour of the three-
story building. The flames shot
upward, trapping victims on the
floors above. • j
bed his shotgun, and fired point- Five of those killed died I
blank, and as Howard fell, opened j flames. The sixth, a woman, was union which doesn'*t mend its
fire and killed Mrs. Howard and “*■“ " * —— ■m— * ■*-*
her sister. As Esther fled, she sAI
November 3:
Fortnightly Art Dept., residence
of Mrs. F. E. Buehrer, 9:30 a. ni.
Guests invited.
St. Paul's Ladies Aid, at church,
3 p. m. Mrs. Benita Schroeder and
Mrs. Robert Stoll, hostesses.
Sons of Hermann regular meet-
ing at 7:30, at the Sons of Her-
mann hall above Schmid's.
November 4:
Cube vs. Navasota football game,
here 7:30 p. tn.
November 9:
Poppy Day.
Navarro Co. Jr. Oolli
College footbell game,
" ■,r» arete selected te receive a
registered Duroc gilt from the
Brenham FFA chapter.
This project was started in 1947,
when Sears, Roebuck company
gave the chapter enough money to
purchase twe gilts to be given to
FFA boys.
The boys were to raise the gilt,
breed her and return a gilt back to
the chapter. The chapter would
then select boys to receive the
gilts. The president appointed a
committee to select the boys that
would receive the gilts.
The committee appointed Wil-
liam Spitzer, H. C. Pohlmeyer,
and Herbert Boeker, Jr. The Com-
mittee questioned all the boys that
(Editors teots: Texans will
vote on Nov. 8 on ten proposed
changes to their constitution.
Here is one In a series of discus-
sions on these amendments):
AUSTIN, Novz 2. (UB—When
Texas voters go to the polls No-
vember 8, .three of the 10 consti-
tutional amendments they’ll con-
sider will be local option measures.
The amendments will embrace
proposals creating hospital dis-
tricts, city-county health units and
rural •fir* prevention districts.
If each of the amendments is
adopted, county voters will ballot
again to determine whether the
provisions will apply to their par-
control health education programs a son, John Bolling Bchaer II, born
at St. Francis hospital this morn-
ing. Mrs..Schaer will be remem-
AKTTA. Japan, Nov. 2. (UJP)—A
deserted ship drifted ashore near
Aklnta, Japan, today.
The 185-ton coastal vessel was
traced to a Hokkaido firm after
it stranded. It was on a run to
Hokl aldo with a cargo of rice.
Chapel Hill, announce the birth of Nine crew members and the Jap-
-------------------- t anMe believed to have
fallen prey to the squalls and
1OJ. mra. acnaer wui oe remsm- rough SeSS Of the Storms that
•1 tai' bared as the formdr Mias Milly Ann struck northaril Japan three days
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An Eastern Airlines DC-4 and a P-38 fighter plane collided over the National airport at Washington
D. C., killing fifty three passengers and crew members. Top photo was made by ACME-NEA photo-
grapher Charles Corte, showing how the DC-4 crashed near the waters' edge. The lower photo made by
ACME-NEA photographer Frank Cancellare, shows victims of tbs crash, cowered by blankets. Ambu-
lances at left rear are taking the victims into Washington. (NEA Tslephotoe). ,
. The second provision is
specifically at the electrical
workers. But the board can use
it as a club to threaten any other
leftwing unions following the Com-
munist party line.
taxing authority. >
The hospital tax would have no
ceiling. However, limits of 20-cents
per 100-dollar valustion woqld be
placed on the city county health
units, and three-cents per 100-dol-
lar valuation on the fire district
taxation.
The health unit amendment is
designed to ease the financial bur-
dens of some 47 Texas counties
now operating such Joint proj-
ects.
The health groups mske surveys
on disease incidence and control,
M H
a special feature of the
Ckech friendship week, the minis-
try of education broadcast a mes-
sage to school children telling
them they must learn to love Rus-
sia and Marshal Josef Stalin.
The broadcast, heard by hun-
dreds of ttiouskndb'jO^ btykfre’rf
the Czech schools, revealer tM
from now on It will be readin’,
writin';’ ‘rlthmetic — and Russian.
In other words, the ministry said,
study of the Russian language is
going to be stepped up in all
schools within a few weeks.
The Southern Pacific passenger
trains, numbers 42 and 43, -op-
erating between Houston and Aus-
tin, will soon be a thing of the
past, according to official an-
nouncement made by the Railroad
Commission of Texas. The date on
which the change will go into ef-
fect has not been announced.
Application from the Texas and
New Orleans Railroad company to
discontinue the service was heard
in August by the commission, and
in view of evidence submitted at
the time of hearing, in favor of and
in opposition to the granting of the
application, the commission au-
thorizes discontinuance of the
service.
Tn making public the announce-
ment, Railroad Commissioner Olin
Culberson had this to say:
"Under the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Texas in both the
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. (U.P)~
President Truman is leaving today
for his first long train trip since
the election campaign.
Mr. Truman will speak tomor-
' Minnesota centennial celebration.
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Scout Week": Now that
Hallowe’en Carnival with
famous “ballet" is over,
eyes and ears are focused on the
national observance of Girl
Scout Week. This week was
designated yearsago because it
includes the birthday, October
31 of the founder of the Girl
Scouts of the United States of
America, Juliette Gordon Low,
'some 30 or 40 ye«IT ago. This
year the keynote of the observ-
ance is “Come Along With Us."
lit Is a call to all girls, mothers,
fathers and adults to join forces
with the Girl £couts. Particular
emphasis is placed on the need
for leaders for as the organiza-
tion grows more and more moth-
ers and women are needed to
train these girls In carrying
out the Girl Scout Promise, "to
do my duty to God and my coun-
try, to help other people at all
times and to obey the Girl Scout
Laws." In carrying out these
laws our girls become the type
!of future mothers and citizens
of which we are justly proud
as they learn "to be trusted,
Joyal, useful, helpful, courteous,
tfriend to animals, obedient,
kheerful, t h r 1 f t y, clean, in
thought, word and deed."
The Girl Scout organization
meeds the support and help of all
parents and the mother particu-
larly. She can and should serve
kt* leader, assistant leader, com-
mittee mother, council member,
nnd help in hundred other ways
to ensble our group of li5 girls
Ito grow until it reaches every
Rirl in Brenham, Washington
county and on the face of the
earth. We can do it, but, “Moth-
Ire, we need you.” Won’t yoa
■come along with us."
• * •
I Members of the Alamo
Central Parent-Teachers Associ
Ition appear overwhelmed with
knthusiasm, and appreciation for
lhe wide spread co-operation
■ven by the citizens and busi-
less men of Brenham in making
Ke Hallowe’en Carnival an outr
Handing success. They are ex-,
■resslng their gratitude to the
■ty of Brenham for furnishing
■> many workers for preparation
Bid cleaning up afterward; to
Be leading dignitaries who for-
■ok business to become mem-
y of the Follies; to Bennie
Krski's band; to the mer-
Mints and housewives for do-
■tions; to mfanbers of the po-
Hk Ayr* ‘
Borge A 'njshnnm' and men of
K lighting company; to mer-
■knts for spot broadcasts on
BlFHI, and to the Banner-Press;
■ the American Legion; and to
■ citizens. Even the hobby-
B-ses were donated for pleasur-
Bb service. Those who attend-
B feel appreciation should be
■pleased in rtverse.
were eligible to receive the gilt [ow night in St. Paul to wind up a
and after careful consideration the
above were selected.
The Rotary club of Brenham also
gave the chapter a gilt. Last May
Elroy Kuecker received the Ro-,
'ND OF STEEL STRIKE BELIEVED NEAR
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Dr. Raymond L. Meyer, 58, a
former Brenhamite, died at his
residence in Fort Worth, of a heart
attack, at 7:30 p. m. Mondhy.
Dr. Meyer was a resident of
Brenham for many years, <>efore
entering the practice of dentistry Palacios and Yoakum cases there
in Fort Worth which Me continued
until a few years ago when he was
forced to retire because of ill
health.
He was a grandson of the late
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Wiebusch, of
Brenham, who reared him from
infancy, following the death of his
parents, the late Mr. and Mrs.
■George Meyer .He was a veteran
of World War I, and saw service
overseas. *
Surviving him are his widow,
Mrs. Mgyme Sweet Meyer, an only
aunt, Miss Addie Wiebush, and a
coustn, Mrs. C. B, Thompson. His
only sister, Miss Lessie Meyer,
preceded him in death a number
of years ago.
Funeral services will be held in
Fort Worth, Thursday afternoon
(BY UNITED PRESS)
The steel companies sre falling ;
quickly into line behind Bethle- |
hem’s pioneering pension program. J
They’re messaging CIO President 1
Philip Murray they’re willing to |
talk contract.
Republic and Jones and Laughlin .1
of Pittsburgh are expected to be 1
the next big companies to come j
to terms with the steelworkers.
Republic, the. country's third j
largest producer, is meeting with ]
union representatives at Cleveland, j
Before entering the session. CIO ]
District Director William Done- I
van announced: “We’re going to j
work on a new contract today.”
Discuss Secret Talk
The Jones and Lsughlin board I
of directors is meeting at Pitts- I
burg. The directors sre going over
the results of a secret talk Murray j
held with JAL officials last night,_ ■
TTnlon bffldals ix^ot a tentative'!
agreement to be worked out short-
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Incidentally. Philip Murray said ,
he would have an important an- -■
nouncement on the Jones and j
Laughlin tslks later today.
Murray also is getting peaee 1
feelers from other major stssl j
companies. But U. 8. Steel, usual- j
ly the Industry pace-setter, Is ex-
jpected to be the Mat to settle, j
probably not before Monday at
| the earliest.
Coal Strike Mine
Hope for an early end to ths
six-week-old soft coal strike comes i
from a telegram John L. Lewis
sent today to Indiana Governor J
Henry Schricker. The United Mlns
Workers’ chief told the governor 1
he Is willing to meet the Indiana
coal operators, as long as operators
from other areas are not Invited. 1
The Lewis move follows his old
“divide and conquer” strategy, and
there have been persistent reports
that ths Illinois and Indiana op- I
erators might be willing to make
a separate peace.
Relief rolls in Illinois have been
hit hard by the nation-wide strikes.
The executive secretary ofths
State Public Aid Commission—
Carl Schmidt, Jr., predicts strikes
and layoffs will swell the state
direct relief rolls this month to thd
highest point in six years.
Relief- Load Grows
At the same time, Chicago Re- J
lief Director A. H. Rose reported
to Mayor Martin Kennedy today I
the city’s relief load is Increasing
sharply , . , that aid requests for
September were 61 per cent higher
than for the same month last year.
Along with the steel talks, the
CTO Is busy completing its first
major action against Communism
in the American labor movement.
Delegates to the CIO convention
have voted on const i t u 11 o nal
changes enabling them to throir
out the giant electrical workers
union.
The delegates overwhelmingly I
voted to bar Communists and fel-
low travelers from the CIO execu- j
H |tlve board. And also, to give the
in board the power to expql any left-
The Municipal Light & Power
System is on the Job early this
year putting up the Christmas
lights on the county court-
house. The work was begun this
morning and will require several
days. Brenham has become wide-
ly known over this part of the
state for its Christmas lighting,
and by starting early on the
lights, we should stimulate
Christmas buying early, and
avoid the usual last minute
rush. Light department em-
ployes were also at work to-
day replacing underground
cables for the white way system
around the square.
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Mrs. Buddy Fisher brings us
the following comment on *Girl
the
its
our
Local. Opt ion Amendments
Would Provide for More Taxes
, CLOMNQ COTTON
New York: Dec. 29.99, up 2;
March* 29.98, up 4. , ________ _
New Orleans: Dec. 39.90, up 1; ticular locallty^ And each M the
March 29.94, u;
SANTA ROSA, Calif. Nov. 2.(ILB)—A California ranch-
hand went berserk and killed four people near Santa Rosa
last night. Among the victims of the crazed Filipino work-
man, 37-year-old Henry Pio, were his former ex-sweetheart
and her husband of one week.
Deputies said the ex-sweetheart,
27-y4ar-old Mrs. Louise Howard,
went with her husband, Clyde and
her sister, Mrs. Maria Silvas, to
Pio’s cabin last night to get some
of her things.
Authorities said the killings ap-
stemmed from Mrs.
Howard’s refusal to return to Pio
after she v « released from the
hospital recently.
Mrs. Silvas’ daughter, five-year-
old Esther, told police what hap-
pened. She said she waited in the
car when the others walked up on
Pio's porch. Pio said "You come
back daytime.’1
Then Esther said Howard tried
to push open the door. Pio grab-
shotgun. and fired point-
n(j killed when she Jumped from alWMy*
life, Carl McBeath, says he was
saved when his wife pushed him
out a window. She and their young
son tried to follow, but were struck
down by the flame* before they
could make it. They perished.
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