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THE FAYETTE COUNTY RECORD
Published Twice Weekly By The Farmers Publishing Company, La Grange, Texas
• •
Devoted to the Interests of the People of Fayette County and of
volume xxm
LA GRANGE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1945
NUMBER 75
3 AREA GTS, LIBERATED FROM
PRISONS, NOW ENROUTE TO U. S.
Trio Men Held By
Germans Are On
Their Way Home
Normandy Base Section,
France.—Many Texas soldiers
liberated from German prison
camps, are now on their way
home. They have received me-
dical attention and general ad-
ministrative processing at
RAMP (Recovered Allied Mil-
itary Personnel) camp Number
1 in the Normandy base sec-
tion.
RAMP camp Number 1 is
the first installation to be set
up on the continent for the re-
turn of such soldiers. To this
camp the freed soldiers are
brought from central points in
Germany. Each man receives a
complete new issue of clothing
and free rations, which include
toilet articles, cigarettes, cigars,
pipes and tobacco. Candy,
doughnuts, and other foods too
indigestible for systems long
unused to a proper diet are now
issued; cocoa, eggnog and soup
are dispenced at various hours
between regular meals.
Recalling starvation treat-
ment while in the hands of the
Germans, the liberated soldiers
are unanimous in saying that
without American Red Cross
food parcels, although they re-
ceived them irregularly, they
could never have survived the
diet of moldy black bread and
foul soup doled out to them by
the German*.
Many of these victims of Ger- ,
man brutality recounted hard- ’
ships they endured as they
were marched
to
miles, were made under straf*
ing of German positions by Al-
lied planes, and were marked
by total neglect of food and
shelter for the prisoners by the
frightened Germans.
The liberated Texas men
from this area now enroute
from the Normandy base sec-
tion are:
Cpl. Francis Kovar, Plum.
Pfc. John Kellar, Smithville,
Route 2.
Pfc. Alois Weikel, Round
Top, Route 2.
Cpl. Hrncir Says
He's Doing Fine
"I guess it won’t be long and
I will be on my two feet again,”
writes Cpl Elias J. Hrncir to
his mother, Mrs. Joe Hrncir of
near La Grange, . from some-
where in the Mariana Islands.
Cpl. Hrncir, who recently
sustained a leg injury in action,
said that he still can’t walk on
the injured member, but hopes
to soon. He adds that he’s tired
of being confined to bed “all
the time,” but that the food is
very good and that sort of
makes up for it.
“How is everything on the
farm?” he queries. “Boy, how I
wish I could be there this very
minute instead of in this hospi-
tal bed.”
He added that he was
brought to the hospital by ail-
transport, and described it as
“a nice long airplane ride.”
RETURNS TO FRISCO
Rd. M 1-c John L. Sulak, ac-
companied by his wife, left
Friday of the past week for
San Francisco, after spending
two weeks here on leave. Ra-
darman Sulak, who for several
years was managing editor of
The Record, until he volun-
teered for service in Decem-
ber, 1942, has been in the Pa-
cific for two and one-half years.
“Our boys are pouring it on
them,” he said, “and we will
licit them, I am sure of that,”
he went on, "but it will not be
in the immediate future. We
still have many hard fights a-
head of US,” he added. Mrs.
Sulak will remain in San
Fraiicisco with her husband
for some time. It is not known
when he will return to the Pa-
rific to join in the drive against
th<* Japs, ( * » «
La Grange NFLA’s
Annual Meeting Is
Scheduled July 27
The annual meeting of the La
Grdhge National Farm Loan
association will be held at the
association’s office in La
Grange on Friday, July 27 at
2:00 o’clock p.m., it was an-
nounced by Secretary-Treasur-
er Will Roitsch, following a
meeting of the association’s
board of directors.
“There is considerable in-
terest among the stockholders
in this meeting,” Mr. Roitsch
said, “because, as landowners,
they are interested in maintain-
ing a strong, home-owned as-
sociation for long-term credit
service.”
Farmers who are not mem-
bers of the association but who
may be interested in the advan-
tage of a land bank loan are in-
vited to attend the meeting, Mr.
Roitsch said.
Houston Woman
Dies At Carmine
Mrs. Martha Etzel Weisncr,
49, of Houston, wife of Paul G.
Weisner, passed away at the
home of her brother and sis-
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Al-
fred Etzel of Carmine, at 4
o’olock Sunday morning.
Funeral services were held
at the Etzel residence at Car-
mine Monday afternoon at 4
with Rev. Leo H.
Simon, pastor of the Carmine
Lutheran church, officiating.
The body was then taken to
was bom at
_ after-
noon at 4 o'clock, and burial
was in the Forest Park cem-
etery.
Mrs. Weisner
Round Top on February 29,
1896, and on November 11,
1915, was married to Paul G.
Weisner. After their marriage
they moved to Dallas, where
they lived for four years, and
then moved to Houston.
She leaves her husband; one
son, E. M. Weisner of Austin;
four brothers, Herman Etzel of
Giddings, Louis and Emil Et-
zel of Round Top; and Alfred
Etzel of Carmine; and one sis-
ter, Mrs. Otto Bathe of Car-
mine.
County Service
Officer On Job
There were 66 claims of va-
rious kinds filed through the
office of Edwin E. Scheel,
county service officer, for the
month of June, according to a
report filed by Mr. Scheel with
the commissioners’ court.
In his report Mr. Scheel
shows that 47 persons were in-
terviewed during June, in ad-
dition to the number of claims
filed.
The following are the num-
ber and nature of claims filed:
For pension, 7; claims pend-
ing, 14; claims rejected, 1;
claims for widows’ pension, 2;
Widows’ pension pending, 3;
widows’ pension granted, 1;
claims for death insurance, 6;
for death gratutity, 2; depen-
dent parents, 2; applications
for family allowance, 4; for
hospitalization, 1; for muster-
ingout pay, 1; social security,
1; for employment, 1; referred
to employment benefits, 4;
discharge corrected, 1; widows’
pension granted, $35.00 month
beginning Feb. 24, 1945.
Most of the services above
anumurated were for veterans
of World War I; however,
there were several veterans of
World War II among those
served by the county service
officer’s office.
Veterans of first or second
world wars may secure the aid
of the county service officer at
any time by calling at his of-
fice in the department of pub-
lic welfare building in La
Grange, or meeting him at the
various towns he makes from
time to time.
ST. PAUL’S WILL
STUDY $40,000 V
BLDG. PROGRAM
i
Lutheran Congregation
Meets Sunday Morning To
Take Vote On Proposition
A special meeting of the con-
gregation of St. Paul’s Luther- |
an church will be held follow-
ing the 10:45 a.m. services Sun- '
day relative to a building pro-
gram, it is announced by the
pastor, Rev. H. T. Flachmeier. |
The meeting is being called
by the church council for the
purpose of obtaining a vote of j
rejection or approval on the re- |
solution: “Resolved, that the
congregation launch a cam-•
paign for a building fund with!
a goal of $40,000 as a minimum :
necessary in addition to any
funds now on hand.”
No subscriptions will be ask-
ed for at this meeting, it is
pointed out, the session be call-
ed principally for obtaining
authority to proceed with or-
ganizing and putting over a
congregation-wide campaign
for funds at the earliest possible
time. • '
Also to be taken up will be a
council recommendation that
necessary arrangements be
Work On Locker Foundation
Is In Full Swing This Week
At left is Mayor C. G. Rob-
son of the City of La Grange,
breaking the first ground for
La Grange’s frozen food locker
plant at ceremonies held Mon-
day, July 2, and attended by of-
ficials and directors of the
chamber of commerce, city
councilmen and several other
citizens. \
Actual construction work on
the foundation for the 41x100-
U. S. WILL PROBE
‘HITLER IS SAFE’
NEWS ACCOUNT
Adolf And Eva Braun Said
Hiding In Argentina; Two
Subs Were Reported Seen
Washington, July 18.—The
state department is going to
check up on a report that Adolf
Hitler and Eva Braun are hid-
ing out in Argentina.
It directed the United States
embassy in Buenos Aires to
follow up a Chicago Times sto-
NEGRO IS HELD IN CONNECTION
WITH SEVERAL LG BURGLARIES
foot building is now in full j ry from Montevideo which said
swing. Several carloads of tile ( Hitler and his alleged wife have
; have already been unloaded at found haven in Patagonia.
the site, and the bricks are due
to arrive shortly.
The handsome structure is
being erected by E. C. Spencer
of Consolidated Frozen Foods,
Houston.
It is expected that thd plant
will be in operation by October.
T-4 L. C. Lenert Gets
Bronze Star Medal
For Good Service
'technician Fourth Grade
Lloyd C. Lenert, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Lenert of Oldenburg,
, - ... i was awarded the
started for the congregation to medaj
Brazilian Agent
Leaves For Valley
become incorporated.
Drug Compliance
Survey Under Way
The first survey of retail
druggists’ compliance with
OPA price regulations since
ceilings were established is un-
der way in the Houston OPA
district, with price panel as-
Mario V. Teixeira, regional
agronomist; (similar to our
county agent) who had spent
three weeks here, left for the j £ the‘Alhes7’De Pascai wrote.
w *. b-*» °"r, r’s Th,,! H“-
VE-Day for mento- farming. 'ler Put death on his own or-
Argentina has assured other
Allied governments that it
would not harbor Axis war
criminals.
The Chicago Times story was
from Correspondent Vincent
De Pascal. He said he was vir-
tually certain Hitler and the
woman he is supposed to have
married in Berlin’s last days
are on an immense, German-
owned estate in Patagonia.
“The pair reportedly landed
on a lonely shore from a Ger-
man submarine which sup-
posedly returned to surrender
10 Svetlo Farmers
Consider Erosion
Control Problems
Ten landowners of the Svetlo
conservation group, formation
of which was recently approved
by the supervisors of the Bas-
trop-Fayette Soil Conservation
district, met Friday afternoon
at Sig. Jurecka’s farm to con-
sider the erosion control pro-
blems of their land and means
of developing complete conser-
vation plans for checking soil
performance of military; He had spent
rious
duty.
The citation accoi
the award, issued on;
said:
“T-4 Lloyd C. Lenert: For
meritorious service in connec-
tion with military operations
against the enemy of the United
States in France, Belgium,
n , ders. Some Germans claimed to
- , .. . „ 10 have seen his and Eva Braun’s
moanvine ? W3S burning bodies in Berlin. Al-
,nPMav 8 t f V- the Amer- lied Sources have not agreed
May 8, lean way of farming and nee definitely on what happened to
Cf rmirinrt nnHnr , + in
growing under irrigation in
particular. They grow rice in
Brazil, but they grow it with-
WtL.___, _____ ____ _ . Luxembourg and Germany yield may be increased. As a
sistants of local war price and during the period July 27,1944, result the visitor put in several
—.1—j— «----»- —'-----*—n u- v— J- weeks at Eagle Lake harvest-
them.
Meanwhile Argentina naval
out Irrigation. That • country au^orities are investigating re-
wants to know how to grow it ^ *at one and tw£
under irrigation so that the submannes were slghted off
San Clemente Del Tnyu Tues-
rationing boards visiting every
retailer, Harvey W. Smith, dis-
trict price executive, said this
week.
The volunteer board workers
will assist druggists to compli-
ance with OPA regulations
covering the pricing of cost-of-
living commodities wherever
necessary, he said.
to April 20, 1945. He has de-
monstrated outstanding initia-
tive, attention to duty and con-
asclc 1
ing rice—actually working as a
hand—to get first hand infor-
mation.
versified farming.
He said that he was very
favorably impressed with our
way of doing things. While here
No Driver License
Draws $25 Fine
Joe Winters of Houston was . _
fined $25 and costs, totaling military service.”
$38, in justice court here Mon- | T-4 Lenert was
day for not possessing a valid armored division,
driver’s license. ^
The charge grew out of an
accident Sunday morning on
the highway fronting Hank’s
place, in which a truck driven
by Winters and a ear driven by
Mrs. Hank Rotter figured in a
collision.
nert, with a minimum of sup-
ervision, maintained a very
complete and comprenhensive
record of the assignment, trans-
fer, promotion and duty status
of the division officers, in ad-, J. C. Yeary to a number of
dition to his multiple duties of ] meetings in the county,
stenographer for the section.
His initiative, ability, versatili-
ty and soldierly appearence are
in keeping with the finest of the
losses and increasing producti-
vity.
Those present at the meeting
were Julius Sokol, Carl
Schroeder, Herman R. Konvic-
ka, Edwin F. Berger, Max V.
Mazoch, Sig. Jurecka, August
L. Krecmer, L. M. Mayes,
George A. Ahgelt, Henry Ju-
rak and Master David Altgelt.
Also present were County
Agent J. C. Yeary, Mario Vil-
lela Teixeira, a visitor from
Brazil, South America, and W.
W. Dominy, work unit conser-
vationist of the Soil Conserva-
tion Service.
A conservation survey map
of the Jurecka farm was exam-
ined by the group and Mr. Do-
miny explained this map, which
he compared to a business in-
ventory.
“Before a conservation plan
is developed for a farm, it is
important that an inventory of
the soil resources of the farm
be made,” Dominy said. "And
that is just what the conserva-
tion survey maps prepared by ‘“jV
, , j, the Soil Conservation Service'
aamiramy said y
day only a few days after the
German U-530 surrendered at
Mar Del Plata.
The British
Monday four German sub-
«*>(MM.
The editor of the newspaper
El Tribuno of Dolores, near the
Atlantic coast, said there r •
Suspect, Arrested
At Fort Worth, Is
Jailed On Tuesday
Ernest Kellough, 48-year- '
old negro, who was arrested at
Fort Worth Sunday, was
brought to the Fayette county
jail here Tuesday morning and
is being held in connection with
several burglaries in La
Grange about two weeks ago.
Kellough, who lived in Fay-
ette county until he was nine
years old, was talcen into cus-
tody by Fort Worth officers fol-
lowing an altercation with sev-
eral other negroes, in which
Kellough sustained a cut in
the arm with an ice pick.
Sheriff Wm. Loessin, who
had previously given officers
of the larger Texas cities a
description of Kellough, said
that several hours after the
negro’s arrest, a check of the
description was made. It tallied
perfectly.
The sheriff was * notified
Monday that “his man” was
being held in Fort Worth and
Mr. loessin, Deputy Sheriff
Charlie Prilop and G. B. Wor-
ley left immediately to bring
the prisoner to La Grange.
Kellough had not been ques-
tioned by officers and the
county attorney up to Thurs-
day relative to getting a state-
ment from him; however, Mr.
Loessin said this would be
done shortly.
Kellough has had a number
of “run-ins” with the law dur-
ing past years, Sheriff Loessin
Houses entered recently and
agencies
vith the )
in the sixth
attached to
Gen. Patton’s third army in its j ness of a month’s duration,
dash across the four mentioned
countries. He is now stationed
at Apolda, Germany.
Discharged Vet Gets
Major State Position
The first veteran to be ap-
pointed to a major state job
under the new preference law
is Erwin K. Stork, named state
budget director by Weaver H.
Baker, chairman of the state
board of control.
Mr. Stork is a nephew of
Kenny L. Stork of La Grange.
He is a law graduate of the
University of Texas, and serv-
ed as a pharmacist’s mate in
the navy from March 16, 1944,
until April 25, 1945, when he
was given a medical discharge.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Stork, reside near Aus-
tin.
Only 24 Confederate
Veterans Left
There are 24 veterans of the
Confederacy on the State’s
pension roll.
Those who are married and
residing in their homes or
with relatives receive $150.00
monthly. Others rseiding out-
side the Confederate pension
home receive $100.00 monthly.
Those in the home receive
$25.00.
There are 1595 widows of
Confederate soldiers. Of these
about 60 are in the State
Home for the widows of Con-
federate veterans. They re-
ceive $25.00 monthly. The oth-
er 1535 residing outside the
he accompanied County Agent no doubt two submarines were
" ■ — * sighted by more than 100 peo-
ple shortly before 11 a.m. Tues-
day. The editor said the vessels
surfaced three miles off San
Clemente.
The navy ministry said it had
no confirmation.
The Argentine government
has decided to deliver to the
United States and Britain the
German submarine U-530,
10 at
the Argentine port of Mar Del
Plata, it was learned.
New Ulm Lady Is
Claimed By Death
Miss Ottilie Weber, age 61,
of New Ulm, died at a local
hospital Tuesday after an ill-
held
ting with the Bastrop-Fayette
Soil Conservation district, and
the assistance available to land
owners in soil conservation
work.
oney in various amounts i
colored. An
possibly the same who
the homes of the above,
frightened away at several oth-
er places.
services
Funeral______________
on July 19, at 3 p.m. from which surrendered July
New Ulm, with interment in
the Sealy cemetery.
She is survived by her moth-
er, Mrs. J^ilia Ann Weber of
New Uhn; «fnn five sisters. She
was a sister of Mrs. W. E. Tie-
mann of La Grange.
Koenig Funeral Hoipc was
the funeral director.
Timberwolf Division ,
Has Enviable Record
The 104th Infantry (Timber-
wolf) Division was the first to
travel directly from the States
to France. Little more than a
month after landing, the Tim-
berwolves, led by Major Gen-
eral Terry Allen, went into the
line and renfeined in conti-
nuous combat for over six
Sehulenburg Man
Aboard Destroyer
Aboard the USS Gregory in
the Western Pacific.—(Delay-
ed)—Alfons Ryba, 20, seaman
first class, U.S.N.R., son of
Joe Ryba, of Sehulenburg,
Texas, serves aboard this des-
troyer which already has shot
down six enemy planes and
taken part in two major en-
HAVE BABY GIRL
Pvt. and Mrs. Lester E. Ro-
senberg of La GYange arc the
happy parents of a baby girl,
bom Monday. She weighed sev-
en pounds and three ounces.
Pvt. Rosenberg is presently
stationed at Camp Hood.
ENROUTE HOME
With the 13th Armored Div-
ision in the Assembly Area
Command.—Enroute to the
United States from the Euro-
pean continent, Second Lieut.
Morris E. Albers of La Grange,
Texas, is now being processed
at Camp Atlanta in northeast-,
era France, as a member of the
first ETO armored division to'
be ordered to the Pacific.
Lieut. Albers is a member of
Company F, 93rd cavalry, and
served with the 13th armored
division in the battle of the
Ruhr pocket. He holds the pur-
I The Gregory left Pearl Har-
bor for Iwo Jima last January
21. A month later she shot
which opened the port of Ant
werp to allied shipping, the
Timberwolves took their place
in the First army line at |
IN PACIFIC AREA
Pfc. Gilbert J. H. Wessels, ... ,
who is stationed somewhere in ! P e a'^ar ’
the Pacific war theatre, asks Lieut. Albers is the son of
that friends write to him. His Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Albers of
home receive $50.00 monthly.1 address is: ASN 38701710, Co. La Grange. He will be given a
There is a balance in the Con- I, 17th Inf. U. S. Army, APO 7, leave before the division begins
federate Pension Fund of some j Care of Postmaster at San its training for action in the
$3,000,000.00. Francisco. Pacific.
2nd Division Coining To Swift For Retraining
Camp Swift, July 18 —It was
in France in World Wav l A
truck driver was fooling a-
rourvd with some paint, some-
thing to identify his vehicle.
He painted a black shield, sup-
erimposed on it a white star
with an Indianhead in the cen-
ter.
Thus it was that the striking
shoulder patch worn by the
second division came into ex-
istence.
It won’t be long before resi-
dents of La Grange and Cen-
tral Texas will be seeing many
these patches, for the famed
second division is coming back
to Texas, its peacetime home,
for redeployment at Camp
It earned further glory in the
World War II by capturing the
fiercely defended Normandy
town of Trevieres and speeding
through Germany and into
Czechoslovakia, where is was
pushing ahead on V-E Day.
Under command of Maj.
Gen. Walter M. Robertson, the
second went into action on D
plus 1—June 7, 1944—at St.
Laurent sur Mer. After libera-
ting Trevieres, the unit had its
______ _ _________ __ __ first encounter with the third
the oniy U. S. division in which j parachute division of the wenr-
every wartime unit therein la macht, the beginning of a
entitled to wear the fourragers grudge fight which was renew-
of the Croix de Guerre award- j ed many times in the days to
ed by France for World War I follow. After the battle of the
action. j hedgerows, the unit began a
Swift.
The Germans will have'
cause to remember for a long
time the Indianhead outfit,
whose slogan is: “second to
none.”
How well the second has
lived up to that motto you have
only to look at its record in
two wars and the interval of
peace between. In World War
I, It won more American and
French decorations for bravery
than any U. S. division. It is
300-mile journey to battle for
the stronghold of Brest. Hitler
had demanded that the garrison
hold out for 90 days. But it fell
to the second in 39 days. That
was in September.
It then began biting into the
Seigfried line, from Viesalm,
Belgium, to St. Vith. It battled
snow and ice as well as Ger-
mans during the breakthrough,
but by February the tide turn-
ed and the second was inching
its way into Germany itself. It
captured Monschau and Ahr-
weiler, key enemy towns, and
by the end of April was at Pil-
sen, Czechoslovakia, where it
was fighting when the Euro-
(See SWIFT, Page 3)
down a Jap torpedo plane,
while alternating as support
that was featured by night duties. L.....-
u 1 ■ d7T-n,'1 fe* ! On February 26, the Gregory
through the industrial jS^ch- braved shellfire from enemy
we.ler area, thenassault.boat-^ to rescue three
ed the Roer, pushmg ahead to|downed American alrmen.
take Cologne. During the same period, she
Once across the Rhine at the ; prevented the loss of a B-29 re-
Remagen bridgehead, the div- turning from a raid on Honshu
ision stabbed furiously into the by guiding it to an emergency
heartland of the Reich, taking landing field,
part in the Ruhr pocket encir-
clement.
The final phase of Timber-
wolf combat in Naziland saw
the men of the 104th racing to
the Mulde river where the last
remnants of the Wehrmacht
were crushed between the Rus-
sians and the American First
army, making that sector the
first in Germany to be cleared
and completely conquered.
'This victorious division
which has never given an inch
is in the United States now.
While here, combat veterans
will be granted furloughs and
will then be given training to
prepare them for further bat-
tles in the Pacific against the
Japanese.
One of the Timberwolves,
Jack Scharnberg, is spending
a few days with his mother in
La Grange.
IN McCLOSKEY HOSPITAL
Sgt. Mae L. Bolimeyer, who
recently returned to the states
after serving for nine months
in New Guinea, is now station-
ed at McCloskey General hos-
pital in Temple.
OPERATED
Mrs. O. C. Clark underwent
an appendectomy in the Bas-
trop hospital last week. She ia
reported to be doing well. Mrs.
Clark is the former Miss Joyce
Brauner, niece of Mr. and Mrs.
E. H. Francke.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Thursday, July 19, 1945
The following prices were
paid in La Grange on the
above date and are subject to
market changes. Eggs and
poultry prices are those paid
by produce dealers, -
Cotton, middling....... 22:00
Strict middling ............ 22:10
Strict low middling .... 20:50
Eggs. Garde A .........42c
Grade B 35c; Grade C 20c
Fryers ....................... 'V; 29c
Hens................................^ 23c
Roosters ................... 14c
Turkeys, Toms 25c, Hena |0c
Sour cream:
Station price___45c to 4$r
Direct shippers__47c to
Hides
Cotton Seed, per ton
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