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DIES CHARGES GERMANS ARE NOW AFTER MEXICO
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BRITISH FLEET BLASTS GERMAN SHIPS
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P-SJ-A WINS
LEAGUE MEET
Brownsville Youth
Wins State Contest
FD Statement Get s
No Nazi Comment
District Contest Is
Held At Edinburg
Ski Race Results
In Death For One
Fleet Maneuvers To
Start Monday
Threatening
In East Areas
Rights Of Neutrals
Said Overrun
Scandinavia To Get
Red Cross Aid
Norwegians Battle To
Defend Nation
ing German infantry marching into Oslo. The picture was transmitted from Berlin to
New York by radio.
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Bombers Are Active
HONGKONG — (A*) — Bombing
squadrons of both fareastern bel-
ligerents struck Saturday, the Chi-
nese claiming they damaged a war-
ship and munitions dump at Yo-
chow, Japan's Yangtze valley base,
while the Japanese said they de-
stroyed many military establish-
ments along the Chinese supply
road from Indo-China.
of
the
Its origin was not
determined immediatley.
Iron
Gate
WASHINGTON —(AV- Repre-
sentative Dies <D-Texas) assert-
ing that he had information of a
Russo-German plot to set up a
puppet government in Mexico,
called on President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull Saturday night to
declare that any such attempt
wc’Jd be regarded as a vic tion
of -ie Monroe Factrine.
“The President and secretary of
state should say to the world." the
House investigator told newsmen
"that the Monroe Doctrine not
only bars armed intervention but
prohibits outside powers from set-
ting up puppet governments in the
western hemisphere.*
WASHINGTON -W- National
per capita income averaged $515 in
1938. as compared with $679 in 1929
and $376 in 1933. the commerce de-
partment reported Saturday.
Dies, chairman of the committee
inquiring into un-American acti-
vities. declared that Germany and
Russia were violating "the spirit
if not the letter of the Monroe
Doctrine by indirection."
"They are sending thousands of
agents and smuggling arms end
ammunition into Mexico for the
purpose of overthrowing the gov-
ernment there and setting up a
threat against the United States,"
he declared.
"They have other purposes, too.
They want a foothold in Latin
America, and Mexico by itself is
richer than any ol the countries
ftaj
PARIS— (JP) —The French high
command announced Saturday night
that German infantry attacking un-
der a violent artillery barrage east
of the Moselle, near the frontier
with Luxumbourg, were cut down
bv the French.
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Captured Nazi Ships
Are Taken Into Port
LONDON— —Three German
ships, captured by the British navy
off the Norwegian coast, were taken
into northern ports Saturday man-
ned by British prize crews.
The ships were all trawlers, the
393-ton Nordland. the 344-ton Blank-
enburg and the 247-ton Friesland.
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Nazi Command Says
British Subs Sunk
BERLIN—(AV-The German high
command announced Saturday night
that two British submarines had
been sunk in the North Sea by Ger-
man battle planes which surprised
them just as they rose to the sur-
face.
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FD CONDEMNS
INVASION OF
TWO NATIONS
TEXAS CROPS
SUFFER FROM
SUDDEN COLD
CHURCH MEET Panama Zone City
EXPECTS 1200
Christian Convention
Opens Monday
SHOWERED WITH
NAZI LEAFLETS
CHARGES ARE DENIED
NOGALES, Ariz.—(A*>—Charges of
Rep. Martin Dies that Russia and
Germany are attempting to set up
a puppet regime in Mexico were
described by Tomas Morlet Mexican
consul here, as "pure bunk ”
By Norway Deitroyer
LONDON—(A*)—A German trans-
port, near Haguesund. has been
sunk by the Norwegian destroyer
Draug. which imprisoned 67 men
from the Nazi ship, a Reuter (Brit-
ish) news agency, report from Stock-
holm said Saturday.
The prisoners were turned over
to the British. A German plane
attacked the Draug. but did not
damage her.
Crops Are Severely Damaged
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Above helmeted Norwegian air-raid protection workers (foreground) are shown watch-
WASHINGTON —(AV— President
Roosevelt, in a formal statement
Saturday, condemned Germany's
invasion of Denmark and Norway,
and declared that if civilization it-
self is to survive “‘powerful neigh-
bors" must respect the rights nt
small nations to independence.
The president’s statment, first for-
mal expression of this government's
attitude toward the Nazi blitzkrieg
into Scandinavia, was handed to
reporters at the White House.
Aggression On March
"Force and military aggression arc
once more on the march against
small nations, in this instance
through the invasion of Denmark
and Norway.
“These two nations have won
and maintained during a period of
many generations the respect and
regard not only of* the American
people, but of all peoples, because
of their observance of the highest
standards of naUonal and interna-
tional conduct
Unlawful Act Hit
"The government of the United
j Stales has on the occasion of receut
invasions strongly expressed its
disapprobation of such unlawful
exercise of force.
"It here reiterates, with undimin-
ished emphasis, its point of view as
expressed on those occasions.
“It civilization is to survive, the
rights of the small nations to in-
dependence. to their territorial in-
tegrity. and to the unimpeded op-
portunity for self government must
be respected by their more power-
ful neighbors."
in the Harlingen First 1
Church, begin Monday night with
STOCKHOLM (Sunday)—(AV-
Overcoming brief Norwegian re-
sistance. German troops early
Sunday occupied at least three
more towns on the southeastern
tip of Norway end continued their
brisk drive northward toward
Oslo.
whether Southeastern Europe will be next. It was reported 100.000 Nazi "lightning
troops” had massed on the Hungarian border (arrow, left) and that Russia had con-
centrated troops near Odessa (arrow, right). Nazi leaflets scattered in Belgrade and
By The Associated Press
Hurling repeated blows upon the German expeditionary force
in Norway, Great Britain Saturday night reported that her fleet
had sunk seven German destroyers in a second-daring naval attack
on Narvik Harbor and assured Norway that the Allies are sending
her “all help in their power.”
An Admiralty communique said a British destroyer force, led by the battleship
Warspite, swept into the German-held Narvik harbor around noon, shattered and sank
four destroyers there and then pursued andsank three more Nazi destroyers in Rhum-
bas Fjord, a small inlet behind Narvik town.
The new engagement at Narvik, where one German and two British destroyers
were sunk last Wednesday, capped a day marked by British aerial and naval attacks on
the Germans in Norway, a fresh German advance near Oslo which broke through Nor*
wegian defense lines south of the capital, and an unsuccessful German attack on the
western front.
Germany challenged the full power of the Allies to break her increasing hold
Tension Mounts In Rumania
Tension heightened between Germany and Rumania over Rumania*!
virtual embargo on exports to Germany. At the Name time. Buchareyt
heard reporta from German sources that the Soviet Russian govern-
ment had handed a note to the Rumanian minister at Moscow protest-
mg against a number of incidents on the Rumanian side of the Ruwiqp-
Rumanian frotier.
Rumania’s cabinet economic council was unable to decide on the
complete list of products to be banned for export and adjourned until
next week without lifting an order forbidding the loading of freight
cars and river barges with products for Germany. The embargo followed
a German order prohibiting the export to Rumania of a number nt
German article*.
to Norway
_ w_____r'** and told
the Norwegians to fell trees and destroy bridges to impede the Ger-
man advance.
BERLIN (Sunday) — (Ah — Pres-
ident Roosevelt's statement con-
to take care of the delegations, but demning Germany's invasion of
that if any home owners in Harlin- Denmark and Norway, given out
gen or San Benito had extra facili- here early Sunday by DNB, official
ties for the housing of visitors con- German news agency, found no of-
chairmen finals at hand for comment
A spokesman at the propaganda
I “no comment.
they are fooling with over in
Europe.”
The Texan asserted that he
wished the state department to
answer two questions:
"Can the United States, under
the Monroe Doctrine, demand of
Mexico a full statement of th«
whole situation?
"Does the Monroe Doctrine pro-
hibit attempts from outside the
western hemisphere to set up
puppet government* withi nthe
hemisphere?”
He said the questions might be
submitted by resolution of his
committee.
Dies who said the report came
MT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK.
Wash— (A*) —One man was killed
and two injured Saturday during
the sixth annual running of the
Silver Skis Race, won by Paul Gil-
breath. of the Washington Ski Club,
Seattle.
Segurd Hall. 25, of Seattle, losing
the trail in the heavy fog which
hungover the mountain, crashed
headlong into a rock and was kill-
ed.
from apparently "authentic”
sources, declared the committee
would develop all United States
angles. One of these angles, he
said, is a report that agents of
Moscow- and Berlin intend to re-
cruit soldiers in this country for
their coup, just as volunteers
were recruited here for service
in the Spanish civil war.
Urging that all federal law en-
forcement agencies be on guard
against such recruiting. Dies said
that the sources of his informa-
tion included "elective officials”
EDINBURG — With the compila-
tion of final track and field events
results late Saturday. Director Gen-
eral J. Lee Stambaugh. Pharr, said
the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo schools
had amassed a total of 47 1-2 points
for first place in the district Inter-
scholastic League meet here.
Harlingen and San Benito tied
for second place with 45 points;
La Fena had 34; Donna. 35; Lyford.
32; Weslaco. 24: Mission. 15; Wilson
Tract, 15; Highland. 15; Raymond-
ville. 10; McAllen. 12; Mercedes. 9;
Brownsville. 8; Rio Hondo, 7 1-2;
Sharyland, 7; Lasara, 5.
Na Championship
Stambaugh pointed out that rules
of the league do not provide for a
district championship, but that if
they did, on the basis of deciding
county meet winner the Pharr
schools would be champions.
Results of the two-day district
meet here in literary events were
announced as follows:
One Act Play: 1. Wesiaco; 2, Edin-
burg; 3, Harlingen.
Debate. Girls: 1, Alta Mane
Smith and Lida Frances Crow,
Pharr; 2. Jo Carolyn Lewis and
Betty King. Harlingen.
San Benito Debater*
Debate. Boys: 1, Roy Cowart and
Joe Boswell. San Benito; 2. Ned
Davis and David Donalson, Harlin-
gen.
Declamation, Ward Junior Boys:
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By The Associated Press
The severest April cold wave in
half a century gripped the east
and south Saturday night, bringing
with it sub-freezing temperatures,
gale winds and spring flood threats.
While the eastern half of the na-
tion shivered from the late-season
wintry onset that took at least
seven lives, the Pacific coast swel-
tered under temperatures topping
100 degrees.
Warnings Are Hoisted
Storm warnings were hoisted from
Eastport. Me , to Sandy Hook, N. J ,
as a gale moved toward New Eng-
land in the wake of cold, snow, rain
and sleet.
Brimming rivers spilled over into
the lowlands in some New England
communities, but New Hampshire
Meteorologist A. D. Ross said the
sudden freeze had averted serious
floods.
Lawrence. Mass., mills began re-
moving stock from their lower floors
as the Merrimack River moved
toward flood stage. The Connecticut
River also was expected to cover
some Hartford streets when it reach-
es its crest Monday.
The North Atlantic states, includ-
ing New York, were partly snow-
blanketed. and ice sheets closed
some roads and made many others
hazardous. A low of 16 degrees was
registered at Buffalo.
Texas Crops Hit
Great damage by the cold was
wrought in the south to truck and
fruit crops. The temperature fell
below freezing along the Louisiana
eoast. It dropped to a record low
of 27 at Knoxville, 29 at Montgom-
ery, 25 at Gainesville, Ga., and 35
at Jacksonville.
Meanwhile balmy weather was
promised Texans for Sunday after
a two-day cold spell nipped fruit,
com, tomatoes and other crops. Ex-
tent of the damage to young cotton
was undetermined.
Saturday's frost, which extended
to the coastal region where lower
temperatures prevailed than in the
Panhandle, left widespread damage
to truck crops.
In Dallas county, some com must
President landed in these waters, fought two
hours after it became entangled in
bly will follow at 9 a. m. at the the shrimpers' nets.
COLON, Panama—<A*i—Cutting a
. swath 16 blocks wide through Colon,
a wind-swept fire Saturday night
destroyed hundreds of frame tene-
ment houses and left approximate-
ly 10,000 persons homeless before
it was controlled by a small army
of firefighters.
The fire raged for hours in this
city on the Atlantic side of the
Panama Canal before United States
Norway and Denmark, an authorized jwurce in Berlin declaring that “the German
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WASHINGTON — GP) — Norman
Davis, chairman, disclosed Saturday
night that the Red Cross was con-
sidering chartering one or more
ships to carry relief supplies to
Norway and Sweden.
Asserting that this action was
“highly possible." Davis said that
“flying the Red Cross flag they
would certainly be allowed to pass
unchallenged through the war
zones.”
Airdrome Is Bombarded
In other areas, the British said they had bombed the Stavanger air-
drome, damaging a hangar and planes; destroyed a Nazi munitions
warehouse at Bergin; bombed three more German supply-transport ships;
machine-gunned a German destroyer and motor torpedo boat, and de-
stroyed at least four other German fighting planes.
The British admitted the loss of eleven planes since early Friday
while the Germans put the figure st 12. The Nazis put their plane losses
at five.
For Germany, the Nazis claimed that warplanes cruising over the
North Sea bombed and sank two British submarines They also said
a steady stream of German soldiers was moving across the Skagerrak
and reaching Oslo in "large numbers" while heavy artillery went to
Trondheim to augment the captured Norwegian coast defenses.
The Germans also said their troops in the far north had taken over
the Narvik railway which brings Swedish ore to the port.
Fresh Nasi Ferees Landed
In Stockholm, refugees from th* area south of Oslo reported that
fresh German expeditionary forces had landed at the head of the Skag-
errak and had smashed their way toward Oslo through the hastily-
formed Norwegian defense ring around the capital.
Oslo has been in German hands since Tuesday, when the invasion
of Scandinavia began.
In the western front action, the French high command said a strong
German attack against th* French line near the Luxembourg frontier
was repulsed. French barbed wire broke the wave of Nazi infantry-
men, whose attack was accompanied by an artillery barrage.
Europe's low countries, The Netherlands and Belgium .faced a critical
period fully prepared for any eventuality.
The Netherlands put new strategic areas under martial law and the
government reiterated its determination to maintain a completely-in-
dependent policy despite pressure from the belligerents.
Belgium posted military guards at all public properties, radio stations;
ministries and airdromes.
PORT ARTHUR — (Ah — Shrimp
netters working out of this port
thought they had caught a sub-
marine.
________ ____________ It turned out to be a 14-foot saw
Tuesday's program begins with a weighing nearly half a ton.
breakfast at 7 a m. at the Reese- Th® *«•*>. largest of any kind ever
Wil-Mond Hotel, with T ' --------,—
Morgan presiding. General
tact with assignment _____________
would be greatly appreciated. ! A spokesman at the propaganda
Convention sessions, to be held ministry simply said “no comment.
! Harlingen First Baptist yhe statement arrived too late.”
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♦ position in Scandinavia is impregnable against the mightiest blows the
I enemy possibly can deliver."
W A 7IC DDIVI7 A’ if ln an,WeT’ British ‘n London broadcast I
Is/AJuIm Izlwl V Ll Prom**« that "Allied help is coming and coming quickly
TOWARD OSLO
I of Christ in the Church Trium-1
HILO. Hawaii---(Ah— Lava was phant." Song service for the open-
hurled some 500 feet into the air in ing meeting, set for 8 p. m.. will
the great central firepit of Mauna be led by George Cherryhomes,
Loa Saturday higher than at any Mineola, state director of worship
time since the eruption began-and an<i song, and special music will be
then the glowing fountains dropped Presented by the choir of the First
an estimated 200 feet. , Christian Church of Mission.
An observation party at the sum-!
mit of the volcano telephoned Ed-
ward Wingate, superintendent of
Hawaii National Park, that the mass
of lava which had threatened the
rest house on the slope of the moun-
tain still was stationary.
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King Broadcast* Message
Then King Georve VI, in a message, assured King Haakon nt Nor-
way that the British and French governments "are bringing all help
in their power to Norwsy so that Allied forces, fighting side by side
with the Norwegians, may prove this latest outrage by Germany to
have been as rash as it was wicked."
The British said they were unable to give the German loss to* per-
sonnel at Narvik, but estimated that seven destroyers must have h—4
more than 1,000 men aboard. The Admiralty said British losses were
"very smallThree British destroyers were damaged.
The British communique on the Narvik battle mentioned that a
field Howitzer which had been mounted ashore was put out of action
by the destroyer Cossack. It was the Cossack which forced her way
in February into Norwegian waters and liberated 300 British sailors /rum
the Nazi prison ship Altmark.
Baptist Church. Children’s Work-'
at the.
Madison Hotel at 12:15 p. m.
Afternoon sessions begin at 2 p.m
and adjourn at 4:30 p.m. At 6 p.m.
- 1 v i 1 the convention missionary ainner
188Ued in lingl&nd will be staged at the First Methodist
LONDON —<A>>— A plea to stop
the war was issued Saturday by
th> executive committee of the
independent labor party.
“There are signs that the war will
extend over further parts of Eur-
ope. submerging one small nation
after another m destruction and
death," the statement said.
STOCKHOLM — (AV- Germany
Saturday landed new expeditionary
troops in southeast Norway and
began a brisk drive northward to-
ward Oslo in fierce fighting with
Norwegian defenders.
Refugees from the region reach-
ing Stockholm said that throughout
large areas in this part of Norway
citizens had fled, leaving their homes
to be fought over by the opposing
armies. Refugees poured into
Sweden.
Ring Is Smashed
The newly-landed Germans, com-
mandeering buses and motor cars,
smashed their way through a hasti-
ly-formed defense ring which the
Norwegians had built around Oslo
to prevent the Germans from aug-
menting the force* which captur-
ed the capital Tuesday.
The Germans, according to le-
fugees arriving here, smashed tne
Norwegian ring between Holen, 25
miles south of Oslo, and Moss, 10
miles further south, on the east side
of Oslo Fjord. The invaders were
heading northward.
Nene Fight Hard
The Norwegians fought hard >ut
unsuccessfully to repel them, at one
point dynamiting a bridge as the
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dinner TEMPLE ---<AV- Helen Conrad
of Amarillo won first place in
girls' extemporaneous speech at the
Texas Junior College Speech As-
sociation annual tournament here
Friday night
Ted Manzano of Brownsville was
first in boys oratory.
ROME—(A*!—Amid unusual sec-
recy imposed because of wartime
conditions, the Italian fleet was
gathering Saturday to embark Mon-
day on maneuvers which naval of-
ficials described as the regular
spring training.
Concentration points
disclosed.
Meanwhile the Italian press spec-
ulated on the possibility of the
European war spreaking in the wake
of fighting in Scandinavia, which
most Fascist commentators said had
resulted in a first round victory
for Germany.
In this connection the official Ital-
ian news agency, Stefani, quoted
The Netherlands foreign minister,
Eclco N. Van Kieffens, as saying
in an interview that his country
would resist any attempt at invasion.
HARLINGEN — Last-minute pre-
parations were under way here
Saturday for reception of an esti-
mated 1200 delegates expected to.
begin arriving here Sunday and army officials announced its spread
Monday for the opening of the four- wa* stopped,
day convention of the fifty-fourth
annual convention of the Christian
Churches of Texas.
Valley pastors of Christian
Churches, hosts for the visitors
from all parts of the state, indi-
cated Saturday reservations had
been made or indicated sufficient
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