Franco Baiting Continues Over Franco Neutral Stand
The piece defends Franco’s neutrality in Spain, contrasts American coverage with actions by the United States such as lend lease and arms sales, and questions the double standard in criticizing volunteers and aid to allied fronts. It cites Churchill praise, media criticism, and the Lincoln Brigade as context.
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Churchill
Franco
Spain
Germany
Russia
Japan
China
France
Abraham Lincoln
No Tuesday Off in War-Era Strife
A wartime editorial argues strikes threaten national effort as 250 000 battle casualties loom. It blames union officials for leadership that puts comfort over vital output and urges workers to resist walkouts to keep ships and arms flowing.
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America
June 18 Year-Old Registrants Named by Gillespie Board
The Gillespie County Selective Service Board lists 18 year olds who reached age in June and registered. Names include Alex M. Ransleben, Melvin L. Burrer, Nathan C. Johansen, Leonard R. Wision, Lee Roy Itz, Orville Gammenthaler, and Harry H. Barsch. Also notes Mrs. McAdams of Fredericksburg visiting Harper, and Edwin Siers leaving July 5 for Navy induction.
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Gillespie County Selective Service Board
Alex M. Ransleben
Melvin L. Burrer
Nathan C. Johansen
Leonard R. Wision
Lee Roy Itz
Orville Gammenthaler
Harry H. Barsch
Gillespie County surpasses fifth war loan quota in 1944 drive
Gillespie County residents exceed the $405000 quota for the fifth war loan with about $485589.50 in bond sales by July 8 and optimism the $500000 target will be surpassed. The community previously faced a $272000 shortfall but rallied after a last minute appeal led by Gilbert Kaderli. The report notes strong participation across Gillespie County and highlights the forthcoming page four comparison with prior loan drives.
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County 5Th
Gilbert Kaderli
Gillespie County
The
Herald
Kaderli
Navy Ensign August Eberle Receives Commission
August Eberle 21 son of Mr and Mrs Emil Eberle received his commission as Ensign in the U S Navy at graduation services July 1 at Harvard University Boston He is a Fredericksburg High School 1941 graduate and attended the University of Texas before entering the Navy in June 1943 He arrived home for leave last Saturday and will return Thursday to Boston for a training course through next March
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August Eberle
Emil Eberle
U. S. Navy
Harvard University
Boston
Ens. Eberle
Fredericksburg High School
Navy
University of Texas
Harper Lions To Meet Next Wednesday
Harper Lions Club members will gather on Wednesday night July 19 at 9 00 pm at Clouds Cafe for their bi monthly meeting Dean Hopf is program chairman and Gilbert Anderegg will discuss Membership President Wm Root urges all members to attend Belmore Roberts and Wm Root visited San Antonio on Friday Belmore then went to Hondo to see Mr and Mrs Charlie Barret and family
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Harper Lions Club
Cloud’s Cafe
Dean Hopf
Gilbert Anderegg
Club
Wm. Root
Belmore Roberts
San Antonio
Belmore
Hondo
Charlie Barret
Austin Woman Visits Kin Over Weekend
Miss Ida Mae Kneese of Austin spent the weekend with her mother Mrs Ida Kneese. Junior Sageser and J B Birt Jr returned to Houston after visiting their mother and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Mae Kneese
Austin
Mrs
Ida Kneese
Junior Sageser
J. B. Birt Jr
Houston
Mae Dora Lorenz
Bonnie Jo Icke
Mary Icke
San Antonio
Barbecue Dinner Honors Fort Smith Couple’s Visit
Mr and Mrs Walter Markworth hosted a barbecue at Bein's Hall last Thursday to honor Sgt and Mrs Roy Steitle and their baby from Fort Smith Arkansas visiting relatives and friends. Dancing followed the meal with many relatives in attendance.
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Walter Markworth
Sgt
Roy Steitle
Baby
Fort Smith
Arkansas
Bein's Hall
Oswald Feller of Blanco Visiting Harper Friends
Oswald Feller of Blanco is in Harper this week visiting longtime friends and enjoying local hospitality during his trip.
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Oswald Feller
Blanco
Harper
Tucon Woman Hurt In Car Crash Freeman
W. E. Fletcher learned his mother Mrs. W. E. Fletcher of Tucon Oklahoma was badly hurt in a car wreck and hospitalized. Mrs. Fletcher visited here this spring and friends wish her a speedy recovery.
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W. E. Fletcher
Tucon, Okla
Gillespie County Mutual Holds Annual Meeting Saturday
Gillespie County Mutual Aid Insurance Association met at the courthouse on Saturday with 15 members present. Officers elected Hugo Weinheimer Chas J Lang and Henry Hirsch. The board named Otto Henke president Henry Hirsch vice president and Wm Dietel secretary treasurer. A $3000 mortuary fund investment was approved for the Fifth War Loan Drive.
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Gillespie County Mutual Aid Insurance Association
Court House
Wochenblatt
Radio Post
Otto Henke
Wm. Petmecky
Hugo Weinheimer
Hy. Hirsch
Theo. Heep
Chas. J. Lang
E. A. Feuge
Henry Hirsch
Presi
State Insurance Department
Gillespie County Mutual Life Insurance Assn Report
During fiscal year 1941 the Gillespie County Mutual Life Insurance Assn admitted six new members, dropped five, and saw twelve members die. One policy was not reported. one member was killed in action.
Lives of Citizens Directed Regulated Regimented From Cradle to Grave
The Texas Democrats in Austin condemn duplications of federal bureaus and commissions as Texans live under a growing bureaucratic class. The piece cites April 1944 federal payroll at 3,305,460 civilians, rising since January, with rising per capita deficits and wartime costs. It argues agencies are over staffed and overreaching in wartime policy.
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Halcyon
Harry F. Byrd
United States
Helping Hands Club Meets Thursday at Harpper School House
Members of the Helping Hands Club will meet Thursday July 20 at 2 30 p m at the Harpper School House with Mrs McAdams to lead. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend. Also reported is the death of Private First Class El Rin E Becker of Doss born April 25 1916 who was killed in action in France as of June 10. He is survived by his parents and 11 brothers and sisters with many relatives. A Requiem High Mass was held at St Marys church in Fredericksburg for the deceased soldier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo. Oehler
Margaret Oehler
Bert Hood
U. S. Navy
Corpus Christi
H. Ellis Thomas
Little Oak Methodist Church
Corpus
Adella Strockes
Duman Yarborough
U. S. Navy Reserve
Hvlping Hands Club
Harpper School
Adolf Becker
Doss
U. S. War Department
Washington
Elrin E. Becker
France
Pfc
Becker
Gillespie County
Fredericksburg
Army
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Barkeley
Louisiana
Camp Granite
Calif
Fort Dix
N. J
England
Cornelia Hopf
Elizabeth
Edgar It
Pearl Kramer Weds Alvin Feller in Harper Ceremony
Pearl Kramer and Alvin Feller married in a double ring ceremony at St. Anthony Parish Hall Harper. Rev Francis J Ledwig officiated with W A Bill Kaiser as wedding drummer maid of honor Helen Kramer best man Walter Feller and several attendants. The couple, with Pearl from the Kramer and Alvin Feller families, planned to reside in Kerrville with him awaiting reassignment to Camp Van Dorn. The affair featured wedding flowers by Mrs Emil Gammenthaler and a cross shaped cake baked by Mrs Walter Holly. Afterward guests gathered at the couple’s home and later danced at Arthur Reeds Spring Creek Hall.
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St. Anthony Parish Hall
Harper
Francis J. Ledwig
Pearl Kramer
Alvin Feller
W. A
Bill) Kaiser
Helen Kramer
Pfc
Walter Feller
Tommie Feller
Pete Kramer
Jean Heffington
Gladys Feller
Darlene Kramer
Betty Lee Kramer
Gene Tatsch
Allfred Kramer
Elizabeth Gammenthaler
Alifred Feller
Aleutian Islands
Camp van Dorn
Miss
Kerrville
Emil Gammenthaler
Walter Holly
Arthur Reed
Spring Creek
Martha Rischner Weds Cpl Darrell Holmes
Miss Martha Rischner daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Rischner of Harper and Cpl Darrell Holmes son of Mr and Mrs Lee Holmes of Fairfax Mo were married by Father F X Wolf at St Marys Church Fredericksburg in a 3 pm ceremony. The couple then hosted a reception at the family home near Harper.
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F. X. Wolf
St. Mary’s Church
Fredericksburg
Martha Rischner
Frank Rischner
Harper
Cpl
Darrell Holmes
Lee Holmes
Fairfax
St. Mary's Parsonage
Ira Fiedler
Tip Top Cleaners to reopen next Monday
Fredericksburg shop owner Bill Rausch says Tip Top Cleaners will reopen on Monday July 17 after reconditioning all equipment. The business aims to improve service in dry cleaning pressing and alterations. Local notices mention related community updates and area happenings.
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TIP Top Cleaners
Bill Rausch
Fredericksburg
Rausch
Harper Luther League Entertained at Doss
The Doss Luther League hosted the Harper Luther League on Sunday evening at Doss Itz Dam. Seventeen leaguers attended and enjoyed a barbeque supper ice cream and cold drinks. Dorothy Nell and Inez Whitewood stayed with their aunt Mrs A C Wendel overnight.
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Harper Luther League
Doss
Doss Luther League
Itz Dam
Dorothy Nell
Inez Whitewood
A. C. Wendel
Coleman visitors include Mrs Fairchild and relatives
Mrs Manley Fairchild and her granddaughter with Miss Billey Autrey from Coleman visited relatives here this week.
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Manley Fairchild
Billey Autrey
Coleman
Mise Jean Heffington Visits Brownwood Family
Mise Jean Heffington visited her father and relatives in Brownwood on Monday and Tuesday.
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Mise Jean Heffington
Brownwood
Harper ISD election set for Monday July 17
The Harper Independent School District schedules an election on July 17 with two ballots. One authorizes a maintenance tax up to one dollar per hundred valuation, the other covers bond-related district assumptions. Voters from old and new portions may participate. The board aims to fund new school buses and equalize tax rates district wide.
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Harper Independent School District
Board of Education Authority
James River
Board of Education
Office of Defense Transportation
Washington, D. C
State Department of Education
State Department of Safety
Board of Trustees
Harper
Texas
Harper Independent
Harper Volunteers Donor Drive At Red Cross Mobile Center
More than fifty Harper residents donated a pint of blood at the Red Cross Mobile Bank in the Home Economics Cottage Fredericksburg on Thursday morning. Over two days Wednesday and Thursday a total of 384 citizens were accepted for volunteer service.
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Harper Community
Red Cross Mobile Bank
Fredericksburg
Barbecue Brings Harper Scouts and Fathers Together
About twenty five members of the Harper Boy Scout troop and their fathers enjoyed a mutton barbecue at Stewart's Grove Saturday evening. The event was sponsored for the benefit of the scouts by J. D. Lennon of Harper. The next meeting is set for Wednesday July 19 at 7 p.m. with Gilbert Ander egg and Chester Brown as scout masters.
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Harper Boy Scout Troop
Stewart's Grove
J. D. Lennon
Harper
Gilbert Anderegg
Chester Brown
Llano District Attorney Carlos Ashley to Speak on WOAI
Llano district attorney Carlos Ashley will speak on radio station WOAI Saturday from 12:30 to 12:45 p.m. to support Judge Sellers for re election as Texas attorney general. Everyone is invited to listen to this address.
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Carlos Ashley
Llano
WOAI
Sellers
Texas
Ashley
Couple Moves to Solomon Residence New Home
Mr and Mrs Dan Arnold moved to the Solomon residence recently purchased by Eddie Ken sing. Visitors in Mrs Ida Kneese home Sunday included Edgar Ellebracht and family Ida Mae Kneese Chester Granville J S Whitewood and A C Wendel.
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Dan Arnold
Solomon
Eddie Kensing
Ida Kneese
Edgar Ellebracht
Ida Mae Kneese
Chester Granville
J. S. Whitewood
A. C. Wendel
Fred Whitewood
Sunny
Doss Ace Earns Air Medal For B 17 Attacks In Europe
Sgt. Ewald E. Rode of Doss, waist gunner on a B-17 stationed in England, receives the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in bombing operations over enemy Europe. The citation notes courage, coolness and skill reflecting credit on Rode and the U S Air Forces. June rainfall across the county ranged from under an inch to over two inches with Doss recording .82 inches and Morris Ranch 2.09 inches.
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England
Ewald E. Rode
Doss
Europe
United Tes
Rode
Seth D. Rode
van Uyse
L.C.R.A
Karl Durst
Morris Ranch
Tom Carr
Mr. Carr
Mr. Durst
Willow
Oswald Eckhardt
Alfred Neften
Ieee
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McAdams of
J. L. Farris
A. B. Barker
Arthur Loth
Sam Parker
Duboise
Edwin Siers
Fort Worth
New Mexico
B. D. Hood
Ensign August Eberle
Harper Lions
Gillespie County Mutual
Gillespie County Mutual Life Insurance
Wat, Pees
Tora
Ing
Bowes
By Tom S. Whitehead
Elgin Becker
Gillespie CO
Helping Hands Club
Martha
Rischner
Morris Rein
Chas. E. Bein
U. S
Richard Roeder
Jenschke
Upper Main Street
Theresa, Houston
Mrs. Siers
O. Ruskey
Claud Burns
Dave Ferguson
Junction
Edgar Fiedler
Louis Stevens
Raymond Cottle
Oscar Fiedler
Felix Feuge
V0 Pvt
Buster Gammenthaler
Fred Gammenthaler
Von
Albert Kramer
Midway
Kramer
Feller
First State Bank
First State
State Banking Commission
Chas. J. Whitewood
H. P Gartrell
Jno
J. Morris
Helen Doris Brown
Herman Harper
S. Whitewood
H. P. Gartrell
S. Morris
Herbert Gamel
San Angelo
Red Cross Mobile Blood Center
Watkins Tarr
Homer Lee Stevens
Douglas Duderstadt
Watkins Tarr and Sons
Jack Jones and
Kirchhoff
Ewald Rode
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