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BRENHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962
6 PAGES
NO. 172
Trio Indicted for Rice Scandals
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W. W. WIRTZ
With Ben Blanton
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fraud and manipulation of
Cameron, La.
Cleaning Up
Supreme Court Position
lowland
on one count of
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the high court. President Kenne-
dy has named as his replacement
_ Brockschmidt
berg, a 54-year-old lawyer whose
The
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Rites Friday
raised in the political arena aft-
all humility to this high office.
matter, of quick course.
He is now awaiting sentencing
da at a.m. with Father S “
pet project of both Kennedy and
Goldber
Mam
Bible reading and recitation of
count
and responsibility.
the Lord’s Prayer in the public
Of Frankfurter, the President
minds which have not yet applied classrooms.
Kennedy Reports
Church School At
Palm of Austin on Nov. 19, 1900, mile Chicago and North Western
9 30 o’clock under the leadership government have, so mismanaged
nouncement concerned efforts to stores.
Mr. Brockschmidt became a part-
by comparison
was
needed before the winter freeze.
Texas Senators
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R. T. Bradshaw in 1880. and the
re-
ran Fohn Tower voted for it.
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House Splits On
Public Works Bill
Club Style Show
Set For Tonight
At Legion Hall
President in his news conference
Wednesday. The crowd was small
JFK Appoints Goldberg Successor
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Frankfurter Retires From
Still another case involves the
supplying of textbooks to paro-
chial schools at public expense.
It was Kennedy’s second oppor-
tunity,-in his 19 months as Presi-
ner in the business. He sold his in-
terest in 1902, when the company
became known as the H. F. Hohlt
Clear to partly cloudy and warm
through Friday. Widely scattered
afternoon and evening thunder-
LENZS HAVE DAUGHTER
I Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lenz of
Brenham are the parents of a
for its output of liberals — Ala-
bama.
the economy that Russia has had
to rush «n help.
An economic slow-down in Cuba
flee in Brazoria County.
The grand jury indicted Ste-
Georgia’s county unit voting sys-
tem and a number of other cases
involving alleged racial discrimi-
nation. • ,
There also are pending, as a
sequel to. the last terms decision
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it will be I tai Thursday at 2 38 sm Sh
weighed eight pounds, one-h a l f original sanctuary
damage to "downtown busineeces
many of which were flooded tem-
porarily. An estimated 13 inches
of rain fell during a 24-hour per-
iod, with water standing 3% feet
deep in the streets at one time.
La Grange Schedules C uba Buildup Due
Formal Opening
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For And Against
WASHINGTON (UP!)— Texas’
two senators split Wednesday in
the 54-39 Senate vote to liberalise
a bill on business expense deduc-
tions passed by the House.
_____Sen. -Ralph Yarborough, a D—-_____
ocrat, voted against it. Republi-
on prayers in public schools, chal-
Pecos, Tex. •
Former Office Manager
FBI agents said David C. Ste-
OPEN FOR BUSINESS FRIDAY—-R. H. Wieghat’s Service Station and Store,
which was destroyed by fire on April 3 0, will re-open in an attractive new build-
ing at the same location on the Independ ence Highway Friday. The grand open-
ing of the store will be held on Friday, September 14. (Staff Photo).
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- STORMS
VOLUME 97
By ALEX ADWAN
Cnited Press International
shouldering a heavy administra-
tive burden.
The Golf Club Style Show, pre-
viously scheduled to be held at
the club this evening, wHI be held
at the American Legion Hall at
8 p.m.
Supplying new styles in costume
jewelry for the models will be
Arp, Faske and Jaster’s jewelry
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CAMERON, La. (UPI)—Weath-
er-weary Cameron mopped up the
debris today from a tornado that
sliced through the outskirts of
town, killing two persons and in-
selection at his news conference
Wednesday. It appeared the nec-
essary" Senate approval of Gold-
berg’s nomination would be a
Hits 9 States
The railroad sent furlough no-
tices to most of its 16,000 other
employes Wednesday in anticipa-
tion of the walkout.
It was the first walkout against
a major U.S. railroad since a
strike shut down Vermont’s Rut-
land Railway several years ago
By CHARLOTTE G. MOULTN
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Su-
preme Court has lost its chief
conservative and will get a labor
specialist whose judieial philoso-
phy has yet to reveal itself.
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Railway servicing nine Midwest
states.
The strike began at 8 a.m. edt,
At age 79, on the advice of his
doctors, Felix' Frankfurter is re-
on
tional Wage Stabilization Board in
1946—at the age of 34— and was
a law professor at Northwestern
University before going into pri-
vate law practice.
As- the free-wheeling Goldberg’s
back-up man, Wirtz has played a
peacemaker’s role in airline and
raHroad labor disputes as well as
HOUSTON UPI—Texas and the U. S. Department of .
’Agriculture shared another scandal today in the form of
federal indictments returned against three, men in a rice
acreage allotment fraud.
A federal grand jury indicted the men, two of them
former USDA employes, Wednesday in an investigation
of bribery and conspiracy to • induce farmers to buy
transferred allotments.
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of conspiracy.
298, and at
Garrison said the man Griffin
pointed out could not have been
i the Heare area when Marshall
died June 3, 1961.
er the President announced
commuters to find other transpor-
tation.
The line's crack "400" passen-
ger trains pulled into Chicago and
Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday
night on their final runs before
the strike deadline
On the Great Plains, where box
car shortages are routine at grain
harvest time, the strike posed a
announcement. Frankfur
will be open for inspection.
On the lower floor of the build-
ing there is the ladies parlor, the
large fellowship hall (that can be
converted into temporary class-
rooms), the pastrLs study, four
classrooms, and the large, well-
equipped kitchen.
On the second floor there are
two classrooms, the youth chapel,
the church school office and ii-
brary, and a storage room. The
new building and the sanctuary
ate centrally air conditioned.
The property on which the pre-
sent sanctuary was built was pur-
Goldberg's job will be taken
an In^ad&u
ment conference in Geneva pro-
posed earlier Wednesday that all
nuclear testing end by next Jan. 1.
The President seemed to leap
at this suggestion, although he
made clear he did not think the
Russian proposal presaged Sovi-
et acceptance of a workable ban.
To Mismanagement
vent a strike now”
Railroad officials said that even
if the strike should be settled lat-
er today, eight hours would be
needed to get the line back in
service.
The failure to avert the strike
was a bitter blow to Labor Sec-
suspect as the man who asked
directions to Marshall’s farm.
"But we checked the man on
our polygraph and our investiga-
tion showed That in out opinion he
mailed a clipping of a letter to the
editor of The Press, from Ben Wac-
ker of 1)11 Clay in Houston.
..y s H- told his fellow citizens that
a stay of several days, in the beau-
tiful, hospitable city of Brenham
impressed him with things-Houston
' could aflord to copy. The lack of
ste p limits and controlled walk
light is a boon to the pedestrain,
he says. And the price of beer in
Brenham is seven to 12 cents a
bottle less than is charged in
Houston.
. Naturally, we recognize these as
advantages of great moment, al-
though I thought that Burton had
the most fame for having German
Soda Water available at all times—
reasonable.
Postal Couriers
lam 'happy to report that two of
my favorites are still capable of
sharp epistle- writing — Mrs. Mag-
gie Potter, temporarily residing in
Springfield, Missouri, and Mrs.
Alm'S S. Wynn, my grandmother,
temporarily staying in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, and both of them keep-
ing close watch on our grammar,
spelling, and other literary pur-
suits: Come this fall, both of these
ladies will have to make their ac-
quaintance here in Brenham.
Grandmother Wynn, supplier of
Alma’s Scrapbook, which has suf-
ft red lately because of our inability
to get everything into type on time,
sent me the jeremiad of Jenkin
Lloyd J6nes, editor of the Tulsa
Tribune, titled "Who Is Tampering
, with the Soul of America?"
Grandmother undoubtedly agreed
with Editor Jones, and 1 may pub-
lish his remarks, which are lengthy
at a later date. But he objected
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CHICAGO (UPI) A thousand
telegraphers today launched the
higgest U.S. railroad strike in 16
j ears, closing down the 10,000-
• . Moylan Bird officiating. Burial
will be in (he Prairie Lea Ceme-
voterya
Pallbearers will be. Herbert
Scharff, R. S. Rogers, Edgar Mat,
chett, Julian Weisler, Allen-Hohlt,
P. J. Lemin, Jr.', Erwin Wehmeyer
and Lewin Routt,
Born Feb. 24, 1878, at Pleasant
Hill, Washington County, the son of
the late C. and Anna Ringener
Brockschmidt, he was baptized in
the Lutheran faith at Salem. After
the death of his mother, he made
his home with his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. Ringener at New
Wehdem. He was confirmed at St.
James Lutheran Church at New
Wehdem, where he also attended
school.
At the age of 15 he came to
Brenham and attended the Luth-
eran college. After the death of
his father in 1892, he attended Hills
Business College in Waco.
He was married to Miss Wendla
LA GRANGE — (Spl) - Sun-
day, Sept. 9, The Travis Street
Methodist Church of La Grange,
will celebrate the formal opening
of its new Church School Build-
ing-
Opening services and ribobn
cuting ceremonies will begin at
least a fourth of these were vis-
tors. But the conference was
speedy and news-packed
Kennedy opened with two ma-
jor announcements, one of which
caught this gossipy Capital by
surprise. He announced the re-
tirement of Associate Justice Fe-
lix Frankfurter and the selection
of Labor Secretary Arthur J.
Goldberg to replace him.
No Advance Rumors
Federal job' shifts of this mag-
S"auwet
choosing him and pledged every
effort to “dedicate myself with
five-year-old job security dispute.
Goldberg, appointed Wednesday
by Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme
Court seat being vacated by As-
sociate Justice Felix Frankfurter,
began his cabinet career with
successful intervention in a New
York tugboat strike. He will end
it with an unsuccessful interven-
tion in a Chicago railroad strike.
The labor secretary planned
to fly back to Washington today,
leaving further government con-
ciliation efforts to national medi-
ator Francis O’Neill. "The full
struct ion of the $124 million Big
Bend Dam in South Dakota.
fired both Stephens and Thornhill
last June- , _
Some observers say the rice
scandal may involve as many as
40000 acres’of land. Texas is tf
nation’s biggest rice producer
with a yearly crop estimated at
$66 million.
Pleads Guilty
Victor M. Dziewas, a fired ASCS
employe from College Station,
pleaded guilty to five counts of
* at Bellville.
After the death of his father who
founded the Brockschmidt and
of the pastor, the Rev Paul A.
Grout, Jr.
Morning worship will begin at
10:45 in the morning: the Rev.
Elmer Hierholzer, District Sup-
erintendent of the Austin D i s-
tritt will bring the message at
the morning hour, his topic being
"What is the Church for?”
in the afternoon there will be
an open house between the hours
of 2:30 and 5 o’clock, at which
months and his departure from
the Supreme Court was more or
less expected, but the Goldberg
selection came unheralded.
Kennedy’s second major an-
over temporarily by Undersecre-
tary W- Williard Wirtz, who was nbl the man,"-Harrison said.
believed. But that figure does not
include crop damage and damage taking bribes from Stephens.
to a large amount of rice stored He is now awaiting sentencing
in Iwo rice dryers in the town. in the case, as is John William
Excluded also is wind and rain Killough, a Beaumont rice farm-
segregation, lunch counter sit-ins,
film and book censorship; anti-
trust matters, a challenge to
The jury’s investigation
said few men have had a greater
or more lasting impact on the
nation’s legal system. “We shall
miss him,” he said.
Kennedy explained that Frank-
furter’s - health would not permit
him to continue on the bench
The White House later released
an exchange of letters in which
the justice said his recovery from
a recent stroke had not been suf-
ficient to allow his return.
Frankfurterwillretire at half
pay—$17,500 a year--
Goldberg, who was in Chicago
carrying out a typical assignment
of trying to settle a labor dis-
pute, thanked the President for
Hohlt General Mercantile Business, just before the rush hour at Chi-
cago, where it forced 70,000 daily
girl born at the St. Jude Hospi- chared from A. T. Bradshaw and nitude usually are bandied around
Washington days in advance—el
know of nothing that would pre- has been Hugo L. Black, who is
from a state not generally noted
ter has been sick for some
Aug Brockschmidt, 84, of 1502
South Market Street. died in a
Brenham hospital Thursday at
1:45 a m.
Funeral services will be held at
the Brenham Memorial Chapel Fn-
and Wendy Koseoglu, all of Hous-
ton. One daughter died in infancy, where special crushed rock
ReTSelyassociated-with a Kennedy, himself described dent, to-name a Supreme Cour
" proiit ofYssokemned"AndGoldberg‘as “superbly qualified” justice. What effect will this lat-
oldbcr^—the President’s Labor- for dmkuathsldhaticarrias pies "applied 4 final Sattegab requirements - on
fanagement Advisory Committe the uitimate in upea prestige downs? * I Pikle -enHine lnd -ecitatia- of
Two of the indicted men are---------------
former employes of the Agricul- phens, *46. of Angleton, Tex, was
ture Stabilization and Conserva-J the key man in the rice case. He
tion Office. Both have been fired formerly managed the ASCS df-
from their government jobs.
in the Houston Press. Herman
________ _______ _______ . retary Arthur Goldberg, sent here
critical threat to the shipment of Wednesday by President Kennedy
in a final effort to conciliate the
t showers. Low tonight 78. High and the largest rail tieup since
- “ the brief 1946 walkout of engineers
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi
dent Kennedy's appraisal of the
Soviet build-up in Cuba is that
Premier • Fidel Castor and his
tioned in speculation for the post,- -—
possibly because very few ob- "tiring after neary 24 years
Servers expected Goldberg to de-
The total vote was 221-192.
Texas Democrats who voted for
the motion were Reps. Beck-
worth, Burleson, Casey, Dowdy,
Fisher, Kilgore, Mahon, Poage,
Rogers and Rutherford _
Democrats recorded aginst it
were' Brooks, Gonzalez. Patman.
Purcell, Roberts, Teague, Thom-
as, Thompson, Thornberry,
Wright and Young.
Republican Bruce Alger voted
for the motion.
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was built in formal
Other Brenham merchants furn-
ishing help and supplies in the pro-
duction of the show are Giddings,
Weghorst and Schubert’s florists,
who are furnishing corsages and
other arrangements; Farmers -
Merchants Lumber Co., Washing-
ton County Electric Co., Wollie’s
Radio and Appliance and Bren-
ham Broom and Mop Factory. all
of whom gave supplies and help
in staging.
Door prizes are being furnished
by Avon Products, Merle Norman
Beauty Products, Gillespie's Phar-
macy, Roy Wiese Pharmacy and
, Medical Arts Pharmacy.
Among the issues: School de-,House delegation split evenly, 11
• - ”to' 11. Wednesday as the House
rejected a motioq to-kifiFesi-
dent Kennedy’s public works bill.
, wiichfofftees of the government w >•
ended I made available at O’Neill’s
. quest,” Goldberg said.
rice; phens Wednesday on six counts
acreage allotments paralleled the of offering $1,000 in bribes to
state and federal probes into! other ASCS employes and on 14
Billie Sol- Estes’ cotton acreage counts of taking $20,905 in bribes
allotment dealings Estes is from himself. He also was indicted on
p.m. CST, Tuesday. Recovery op-
erations, hampered by heavy
rains and lack of communica-
tions, were late getting started
Cameron residents are accust-
omed to cleaning up storm dam-
age in 1957, the town was struck
by Hurricane Audrey and about
500 residents were killed. Last
September residents were re-
moved in advance of Hurricane
Carka before that storm veered
off to the west.
Tornado damage estimates
ranged between $250,000 and
$350.000—much lower than first
part so suddenly. dy has named as ms replacement
Wirtz was chdirman-ofthe-Na-LaborSecretaryArthurJGold
conspiracy- Newman, 3$, was ac-
cused of posing as a farmer will-
ing to sell his allotments. He was
indicted for conspiracy.
The Agriculture Department
There were coincidences in
Wednesday’s development:
—Both . Frankfurter and Gold-
berg are Jews — the former an
immigrant, born in Austria, the
latter born in Chicago of immi-
grant parents. a-
—Both are Democrats, and both
spent considerable time in the
private practice of law
—Both were picked for the post
at a time when the nation was
in a period of major political
change, and when both political
and public eyes were keeping a
close watch on what the court
was doing.
Jteadiiqp for H hours up 16 T against *11 U.S. thihl
a.m. today: Max. 101. Mln. n. 7 President Harry Truman
a.m. 71. Sunrise St 57 Sunset 6:46. with a draft threat.
the court's most conservative
member.
It appeared safe to predict,
however, that at least for the
near future Goldberg’s vote
wuld lend at least some assist-
ance to the liberals on issues
where his opinion might prove
decisive.
Should the new justice take a
broad view of civil liberties cases
—one of the major legal issues
of the day — the only remaining
members almost certain to dis-
sent , would be John M. Harlan
and Tom C. Clark.
Another example of unpredicta-
bility: Frankfurter’s chief philo-
sophical adversary on the court
Lake Jackson, Tex. V )
The government charges the
three men with leading rice farm-
ers to believe that rice allotments
were available for transfer upon
payment to them. :
Illegal Transfers
Such transfers cannot be made
legally.
juring more than 50. I Thornhill, 66, was indicted on
The twister hit the southem nine countsiof taking bribes total-
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public service began on the New
Frontier. ,
Hardly a dissenting voice was
work out a nuclear test ban
treaty with Russia. The Soviet
have been largely responsible for
the recent influx of Russian-made
goods, foodstuffs and technicians.
This seems to be the “main
thrust” of Russian efforts in Cuba
rather than a military build-up,
according tn the Chief - Executive
Cuba was among a number of
time the Church School Building subjects touched upon by the He said he was happy to report
mediately received prominent
mention as a permanent suces-
sor>- M
Others given a chance for the
job; U.S. Solicitor General Archi-
bald Cox and Frank McCulloch,
chairman of the National Labor
Relations Board.
When Goldberg takes his seat
Oct. S (presuming" almost., cer tain
Senate approval), he will face a
big backlog of .Cases filed during
the summer.
against bootleg underground test-
ing The Russians for years have
found inspection in any form
quite odious.
The President appeared to be
jarred by a suggestion that the
United States invade Cuba The
reporter who raised the subject
referred to an assertion by Sen
Homer Capehart, R-Ind, that
Communists were reading
wheat to Mingeanolis flour mills.
A long strike--couid delay con-
that this government regarded
Jan. 1 as a “reasonable target
date.”
Kennedy followed this with a re-
newed demand for an effective
inspection system to guard
and a record of crop failures delegate to the current disarma-
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“troopa’’ into Cuba and this coun
try should invade to atop the flow
of troops and supplies.
Company. In 1904 Mr. Brock-
schmidt went into the insurance
businessi retiring in 1958.
He was a charter member of
BPOE No. 979 of Brenham.
Survivors include his wife; one
daughter, Mrs. Perry Menking of
Houston; two'grandchildren. Perry
B. Menking and Mrs. H. F. Koseo-
glu. both of Houston; four great
grandchildren, Lynn Menking and
Brock Menking, Elisa Koseoglu
An under-the-gun effort to
avert the walkout failed at 3 a.m
EDT today when negotiations be-
tween the line and the Order of
Railroad Telegraphers (ORT)
were suspended for 10 hours.
George Leighty, ORT president,
said after talks were recessed, "I
Biggest Strike in 16 Years
Railroad Strike
History demonstrates that
WASHINGTON (UPI)- W. Wil-
lard Wirtz, a tall, crewcut New
Frontiersman, was selected by
President Kennedy today as new
secretary oflabor.
Wirtz, now undersecretary of la-
bor, will- be nominated to succeed
Arthur J. Goldberg. Kennedy
Wednesday announced Goldberg’s
selection as an associate Supreme
Court justice.
The selection of Wirtz was an-
nounced by Kennedy personally
in the White House conference
room before a crowd of reporters
and photographers. The President
expressed confidence that Wirtz
would carry on in the “fine tradi-
tion” set by Goldberg.
"Wirtz, 50-year-old former Chica-
go law associate of Adlai E. Ste-
venson, has been Goldberg’ sright-
hand man during Goldberg’s 19
months in the Cabinet/
Goldberg will succeed Felix
Frankfurter who is retiring from
the nation’s highest tribunal be-
cause of ill health. -
AFL - CIO President George
Meany held an unannounced con-
ference with the President this
morning to discuss the appoint-
ment.
Few other names were men-
themselves to these vastly com-
plex tasks simply cannot be read.
Frankfurter, for example," was
appointed by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt at the height of a
- liberal resurgence, yet became
AUSTIN (UPI) The best lead
into the mysterious death of Agri-
culture Department official Henry
Marshall came to nothing, De-
partment. of Public Safety direc-
tor Col. Homer Garrison Jr., said
Wednesday,
The DPS and Texas Rangers
had been looking for a man who
asked directions to Marshall's
farm near Franklin, Tex , the day
Marshall was found dead.
Marshall, believed to be the
first Agriculture Department offi-
cial to investigate Billie Sol Estes
cotton alloment dealings, was
found dead on his farm June 3,
1961. He had been shot five times,
had inhaled a near-fatal dose of
carbon monoxide and had suf-
fered a severe blow on the head
Marshall’s death officially re-
mains a suicide.
Garrison said Texas Rangers
took a Hearne, Tex., service sta-
tion attendant to the Odessa-Mid-
land area. The attendant, Nolan
Griffin, tentatively identified a
Mrs. Jean Craft,, of Bay City,
a former ASCS office secretary,
gave the government a tip that
led to the investigation. She said
she was offered a $2,500 bribe not
to divulge her suspicions.
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three counts of conspiracy.
The other ex-government em-
ploye indicted was Tacitus C.
Thornhill of Chappell Hill, Tex.,
who once managed the5 ASCS of-
fice in Waller County. The third
defendant is Laurence G. New- •
man, a chemical worker from
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