The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 98, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 5, 1946 Page: 8 of 8
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THEATRES
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J. W. RAGSDALE
Opiometric Eye Specialist
115 Blackburn Street
BRADY, TEXAS
Phone 34
FRESCRIPTNMS
Ernest Allen, Fort Worth business One American had 250 stools in
through the last ten days.
Christmas night because
•Compounded Accurately
and Promptly by—
Registered Pharmacist
go
FOR RENT
Carlson’s Cleaners
on
(To Be Continued)
a
WEST SIDE OF SQUARE—BRADY
FOR SALE
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LIKE A RABBIT
^aves your tires . . .
MAYHEW & JORDAN*
FEE! STORE
Back of Commercial National Bank-----
101
PHONE 164
Brady, Texas
R. E. MOHLER, Mgr.
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Cleaning £k Pressing
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A perfect balanced
wheel makes your
car drive better and
TO NEST
Oom. SufpLf
All Ytur Peeltry Neeh
SPECIAL ONE DAY SERVICE
GIVEN WHEN REQUESTED
Call at 1103 So. China
or Phone 257.
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HATCHING
I EGGS J
Run
didn't
because his hand was swolen and
was hurting.
At ten o’c
guard came
the door to let one of the four of
AIR VACUUM PRESSING SYSTEM MAKES
CREASES STAY IN BETTER
. . . Is what you may expect- when yon send
your clothing to Carlson’s Cleaners.
That is the reason we have so many satisfied
customers. Why not give that hard-to-get
clothing the best of care?
Two Feature** FRI. - SA'f.'
Johnny Mack Brown —In—
“FRONTIER FEUD”
Boris Karloff —In—
“ISLE OF THE DEAD”
Pv. - SUN. - MON. .
Contance Bennett
—In— M
PARIS UNDERGROUND”
New Arrivals
Priced At
$1.35 to $2.00
sang.
An
America The Beautiful,”
Are We Down Hearted”.
POULTRY
WATERER
would
Llano
FRI. - SAT.
—Double Feature—
Duncan RenaMo —In—
“SOUTH OF RIO GRANDE”
Tom Neal —In—
“DETOUR”
56c at
CITY DRUG STORE
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4
piece, easy to
dean. Holds 3
gallons.
Count
Solve]
LocalEEDERLAYENA
PALACE
TUES. - WED. • THURS.
Humphrey Bogart &
Lauren Bacall —In—
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT"
WED. > THURS.
Eddie Bracken - Veronica Lake
—In—
“HOLD THAT BLONDE”
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bal ance your wheels
with. our new Bear
Balancing Machin
both Dynamic and
Static . . •
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CORDER-
RUDDER
LTD.
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Several good used elec-
tric radios—
$18 TO $35
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2
Years Day
>rget and that
That morning
guard brought us our
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CHECKERBOARD
See Us For All Of Your
Sanitation
LIVESTOCK AND
POULTRY
Supplies
and I
all Will Al way
were
move.
five
“THE STORE FOR MEN”
give eviden
farm is ini
dealer is q
titicates if
days and I
is in his d
A dealer
an order fl
on hand, fl
qulpment 1
after the c
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evaiNA
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ramen
E. Commerce St.
Phone 18
? FOR V!
i Ordei
Relatives Are Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Birk had
as their week-end guests, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Birk and son, Ronald
of San Antonio, and Willie Birk
and son, Harold of Llano.
teed superior or your money back.
Generous bottle, with applicators
on, 56c at
Come into th* Checkerboard Store and
*** our line of poultry equipment to
help make your Job easier. All Purina
reeeurch approved items!
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s Be
The
I
$
| Colonel.
, tor were beaten horribly and
(Ceived serious cuts on
They were given no 1
were bleeding badly and in
L|ge
ASmake‘
v •< th
EGGS-
PouHry
attractive prices.
QU* QUALITY CHICKS I
Public Address systems
—with turntables, re-
cords. and mike—ideal
for dances, meetings.
Zy ^Zf/ton
now being set
- Mr. Corder
owners of the
the south side
friends and pi
new store and
of the opporti
number of hard
I they have in
The etore h
December, but
ftkturaa, which
if ore retell
that exten
gives reaso
Is neceoaan
Applicant
able at the
now. Also i
the revised
the dealers
county offli
R. Shurtle
County Con
college that the Japs were using
as a hospital and I
’Av wete herded into a small
guard room and were made to
stand on our bare feet for the
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K FEEDER
A new, improved
feeder that hangs.
Feeds 20 layers nr
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CITY DRUG CO.
Phone 252 Brady, Texas
RAUNAB
CHOWSM
seems
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GIVE!
A contribution of 81.88 to
the 1948 Red Cross fund will
provide a set of nine games
for blind veterans in hospitals.
Give to the Red Cross to help
carry on Its rehabilitation and
recreation work Tor disabled
servicemen.
ghway,
) the
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SUN. - MON. - TUES.
Ingrid Bergman * Gregory Peck
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•SPELLBOUND”
irk
BRADY-LLfl
Mason,■
Hits At!
Letting oB
building of B
between MaB
ly dashed hB
ites for a n^K
in a southeM
here and liB
Llano to crB
Austin. H
The High^B
ter of contB
Llano road B
proposal ma<B
go by BradB
was first afl
several surveM
It was gel
that the Higl
jected th pr<M
that the pre!
and thence tB
miles longer!
Brady-Llano ■
quire some «
tion on th!
where all th!
the present I
Llano link. I
Brady ites M
new route b|
San Raba. 15U
■•8 Alliul
gineers was |
paralie ■
nighwal
NEW FIXT j
Formal (I
Corder-Ia
Formal opea
Rudder tire arU
has been ann<U
•t 10 a. m., |
I with 1
’ earlici
ing set
Wilson War T-Shirts in assorted weaves, colors and pat-
terns will set you up for work or play! They’re form
fitting, absorb perspiration, wash easily, seem never to
wear out. Quarter-length sleeve as shown.
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She,. Xgyf- .'ff *W!>
£et yourse^
Use Standard Classy-Fi-Ada.
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Japs would laugh at him. They
were having a good time.
There is one New
that I shall never foi
is January 1, 1945. *.
the Jap
rice and I reached out between the
bars and picked mine up. He saw
me and screamed at me and un-
locked the cell door and took a
club which compares with a
small soft ball bat add came at
me and knocked my food out of
my hand on the Door. He beat
me over the head, on my wrist,
and elbow.) I was very lucky. No
broken bone* Tlut the places he hit
were swollen three times their
normal size.
I got down on my knees after he
left and ate all the rice I could
because I was so hungry. Then 45
minutes later we were sitting
down on the floor and another
guard slipped up on us in tennis
shoes and stood with his hands on
his hips. He screamed at us and we
jumped to attention and bowed
but it was too late, he took his bat
and hit us across the back five
times each and I was sure that he
hit a home run on me each time.
I thought I would die, but' some-
how I didn't. I never will forget
that day.
The Japs lost one third of the
prisoners in the Rangoon prison
in the three years the prisq* was
cd to attention and bowed just
in time or we would have been
1 Deen has announced that rodeo
matter ticket sales this year are unpre-
cedcnted. Even before the show and out of proportion from the
eyes were
TO BRADY STANDARD AND HBART (F THXA1MWWH, HlADT.TKAa TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1948
Ft Worth Stock Show
Will Open March 8
Gov. Coke Stevenson of Texas
will be in Fort Worth Friday.
mounted parade and preside over
the opening ceremonies of the
golden anniversary of the South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show.
Invitations for the Governor to
open the exposition were extend-
ed by Amon Carter, vice president
Maehl
The g|
Order n!
ans a pr!
ing new I
complete fl
ruary 201
ficates al
Agricultul
mittee ufl
ans. Cerl
February!
presented!
20th and!
April 20.1
.extended I
» written I
stating rl
is necessil
Principl
ed order I
is the req]
evidence 1
arrangem]
operator, I
_of a farnl
bills of sJ
greementJ
cause vetJ
plication J
tablishingl
self as a I
Principal
the fact 1
• void if no!
er within I
issue and.I
pi re 80 d|
issuance.
< presented I
trade terri
is located,
the veter
certificate |
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We Have A Large Supply Of
PURINA GARDEN AND
FLOWER SEEDS
Also Purina Plant Foods
One day I saw an English pilot
that was about to die from hunger
and malaria. He was too weak to
stand Et attention when the
guards canie by so they unlocked
his cell door and took him out in
the hall and one guard beat him
in the face and head while the
other Jap heat him from the waist
down until he collapsed then they
time, a guard stood on each side
of a New Zealand pilot and both
guards hit him in the face at the
. same time. His face was lopsided
cedchted. Even before f*
_.. the cold opens, it appeared that every seat knocks on his face. His
headquarters, floor wihout co—er. The only thing vvill be
That night we i
Machine, ■ We Pgy. Top Prices^Fnr— -
an<I
k' Americans Paraded—
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we could wash our hands and face
J we hurtied and didn’t get
, caught by the guard. We would T • Y
take turn about emptying the ban-
jo box.
There was a T. Sgt. Montgomery
who had been shot down recently
and had been shot in the hand and
gangrene had set in. The Japs de-
cided to optg-ate on his hand so
1 they took a, butcher knife, gave
him an aspirin, and cut his hand
off. They didn’t cut it off high
enought so a few days later they
cut it off a^ain above the elbow,
in the same. manner as they did
before. We dould hear Montgom-
ery scream -^ith agony, he was in
so much pain. We all wanted to do
i .-.viat^eanaiK n, aarap i>ui were neip-
! less. When lie »».- aid cry out the
SORE THROAT—TONSILITIS! |
: For quick reltaf from pain and dis-
I comfort try our Anafhesia-Mop. It
direction, j _
( hristmas day. we^ar- With our prayers and God’s help
. could go or
goon which was formerly a British what they would do
.rated about three miles
. west from downtown Rangoon.
We were all questioned again
by a Jap captain who used an
; occupied in thu coliseum shut,
slept on the cold for each of the 19 performances,
floor without cover. The only thing Deen said plenty of good seats re-
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ifi°ur!<- ^The college was lo- curl up close together to get the show.
-•? ! ; three e.;2e.i north- warmth from the other fellow’s J ”
One prisoner was slapped 65 times
by one guard. The guard stopped
ORDfR OKKS
Let us know when you 7 J
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. I treme pain.
II Arrived Rangoon Priaoa
I Dec. 25, At 5 O’Clock
I They loaded my crew and the
I Aussie Mosquito bomber pilot and iit . ..
I his t Bn,<*‘an .nav.‘**to.r .’nto.u* March 8, to participate in an all-
I small truck and started to the - - -
I prison. We arrived at five o’clock
I in the evening. We got out of the
I truck and they opened the prison
I gates and marched us inside.
I The Jap guards lined us up in
I two lines and started down the
I lines thumping us in the nose and t
I stepping on our feet and kicking1 of the show and Edgar Deen, gen-
I our legs. Anything to aggravate.; «ral manager. The Governor will
I us. I noticed that all Jap guards : speak briefly to more than 6,000
I that wore glasses were the mean- spectators in the Will Rogen
I est and beat us more. The reason ■ Memorial Coliseum at 8 p. m. for-
III give for it was that they were1 mally opening the world champ-
■. self-conscious and had an infer- . ionship rodeo.
iority complex.
- They gave us a small dirty pan |
<that we would use till we were,
liberated. The Aussie bomber pilot ■
1 got a pan with a hole in it so he
asked for another one. The Jap
I jerked the pan from his hand and
i hit him over the head with it and
I tutted and walked off. Then they
marched us to our future home.
They opened the door to the dung-
eon, or what we called the cell
blo.k. On the way there we saw
naked and skinny men, so we knew
what was in store for us.
Darkness came soon after we
arrived. After darkness the Jap
| guards left us till early the next
I morning. They didn’t give us any
food that night. After they left,
1 to us
and gave us instructions on how to
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cover. After traveling until 4 a. They told us to bow every time a
WCIX? F ♦ a m jw ^•eeeaaa I os — •
In about 8 hours we traveled some ' ^nd call him
” * * * * * * _ "
in a cold room in a Burmese de-
pot, where the rats were as large
as housecats and as thick as ammunition box lined with tin for
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and his English naviga- ^_5et the s,n?,, ,amou^t °,f ri®e
fast.
They also put some brown bran
_j soup on our rice. The
oth»-r prisoners had told us the
night before that if we would eat
I this brown soup it would prevent
Beri Beri which is one form of el-
ephantitus. Actually it is a vita-
min B-l deficiency. The rice had
big white worms in it which look-
led the same as a grain of rice,
i but I ate the worms too, hoping
that they would be nourishing. It
tasted terrible but I managed to ;
tret it down, because a pound lost (
is a pound that you would never ,OTnethin^ to h , b t help.
get back under such conditions. • —• -* - -r'
The guards were privates, but I
every time one came in front of I
your cell you had to come to at- I
tention. bow and call him “Mas- I
ter”. Everyone had to do this, gen-
erals as well as enlisted men. The i$ a doctor * ’prescription that *hq$
guards would came around and I ive„ re,Jef f thousands. Guaran-
point a gun at you and get ready - v |
then pull the trigger. The
I would be empty but we
know. Just any thing to aggra-
vate or make our life miserable.
on no
i to us.
That night we slep
GOV. COKE STEVENSON
Interspersed with more than a
Bv^aeai ales
ed onto a truck and traveled in the same cell. That night we had riders and period vehicles drawn lings, hunger, malaria, typhus, chl-
over us through what we had been business streets at 2 p. m. Friday, sentary was the biggest problem,
through the last ten days. Ernest Allen, Fort Worth business One American had 250 stools in
My morale wasn’t too high that man, and P®r*de committee tchair- two and one-half days. One lad
Christmas night because of all „ 2
i this and it was my birthday too, t>on to join in the colorful western 90 pounds in 3 months.
«A T rtPVarI<» na inrliarirltin I veirlnvec.- n0 f
man, has issued a blanket invita- waisted away from 215 pounds to
parade, as individual riders or as
family, community and organiza-
tion groups.
Near the head of the parade will
ride a typical son of Texas, Gene
Autry, singing star of western
and rodeo impressario,
in the morning a
>und and opened
we
beaten. He walked bv with a gun. i Let us know when you
growled, and walked on. Then a Th^t wL T want chicks. W® offer
1 , ♦ ♦ 1 1 O V A «■ ♦ L A •— L. m xv • « xwk a •• ee xv •** 4^ ** a K°,od J0b b<‘c®use husky, fast-growers at
mander, the equivalent to our Lt. 1 ice so w« had to put our pans out if'
].e. that we were to have for break-
i their legs.;
medical aid,1
ex. t like
so you can easily see I was not
happy. The prisoners in the next
compound asked the Japs for per-
,night and
B-29 and I they let them. Their songs consist-
were put lack in the cages until 9 hymns. They also
p. m., at which time we were ’’ ‘
screamed at and motions
made for us to get ready to
Loaded onto a truck with
Jap guards, we
in a southerly
one a. m. < ‘ ’
rived at the headquarters at Ran-
we could do to keep warm was to mained unsold for the 2
north- warmth
body.
The next morning before day-
in- light we were awaken by a shout-
terrogator who had been educated ing guard. He was making his
in Washington State, graduating morning inspection and we jump- .
with an aeronautical degree.
At two n. m. an Australian Mos-
quito bomber pilot and his navi-
1 gator were put in the small room .... , .
I with us. The Aussie Wing Com- later theV brought us some
and loaded onto a train which v„.v IIlK,lu
moved very slowly. He had sever- the other prisOners called
al air alerts where the train would ......
stop, and everyone would run for act ,n tbe presence of the guards.
s; , a will ub vv ww viiiix; »
takcri off thetrain. I gUar(] walked in front of our cell.
*',,■/ ” li—— —• -—J “master” because
lo rn'l^si-j At 4j» clock Put they expected it and it might pre-
vent a beating.
The guards gave us a small
as housecats and as thick as ammunition box lined with tin for ——r— — -—- —— - ... *...»« vne pn<a«g was
fle*s. j hat evening we were load- our toilet. Four of us were put in do^en brass bands, the horseback , in operation. They died from beat-
an easterly direction over a rough prayers to thank God for watching by horses will move through the ■ orea and many othe7’dleases. Dy-
country road, arriving at dusk in a • - . ... •.—«— «s_.j— t .
. forest area and then put into,
1 cages and remained therein over-
( night and all the next day and the
next. Dec. 23. all the crew were
interrogated again. That evening^
they said I was very uncoopera-
tive and heat me over the head j
with a bamboo pnle. They had ask-1mfss’ion to’sing that
ed me the speed of a P ’
* 'a«e^ee v. * v • • v. • • ■ • aee cs \ a v ~
had told them 600 m. p. h. We Jed of Christmas Carols and church
'There movies
England”, who will be the star of the rodeo
and during the ten-day stock show sea-
son. It will be like a homecoming
I was told that the men singing for Autry who was born at Tioga, threw him back in his cell. Another
started traveling had been in prison over two and a a few miles north of Fort Worth
About half years. So that gave us hope, in Grayson County.
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