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HARLINGEN, McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1940
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LEAGUE MAY
MOVE TO U. S.
Extremely Wide Area, Including Arizona,
Feels Temblor; Damage Undetermined
Reynaud Takes Over Post Of War Ministry;
Temporary Slackening Of Drive Seen
Holland’s Princess
Flees Home Because
She Expects Child
French Stiffen, But
Nazis Continue
American Army Ship
May Be Sold
Sweep West, South
Into France
But Nation Expects
More ‘Bad News’
German Resistance Is
Growing Weak
leaps every Sunday had agreed to
be the target*.
despite some bad golf over the back
nine, she managed to hold a four-up
LONDON—^— Prime
Minister Winston Churc-
hill will broadcast a mes-
sage to the British people
at 9 P. M. (2 P. M. CST)
Sunday.
ed 45 seconds. There were no
ports of any damage.
DESTROYER LAUNCHED
BATH
The German push across the low
countries eliminated from the world
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IRON LEGIONS’
TAKE ANTWERP
President Candidate
Visits Border
U.S. BUSINESS
BOOM SLATED
institu-
tes
r deepening simulta-
neously toward the west and south, puts the irAaders roughly mid-
CINCINNATI — UH — Cincinnati
rifle fans who have formed an
anti-parachute troop legion are go-
ing to practice Sunday with cam-
eras and light-ray guns.
Carl L. Noelcke, manager of a
Warned About War
After the rally. General Almazan
and his party were guests in the
home of Senator and Mrs. Manuel
Garza Zamora, where in an inter-
r‘ 2 More than $100 000 damage was caused by demolition of buildings
Camargo, Comales and in the border cities of Mexicali and Calexico, said reports to police here.
Fires raged in these two cities.
drawal in Belgium, he asserted, and
“there was no question of a break-
through or of troops retiring in j
confusion.” The morale of the troops
LONDON—<(P)—Waning power of
the Nazis' massive blows was re-
ported Saturday night to have eas-
ed some of the pressure on the
western front but Britain steeled
itself for bad news.
A calm military spokesman ad-
mitted the Allied armies In “the
WASHINGTON — )£’) — Taking
emergency action to halt modern
history's most sensational break In
wheat prices. Secretary Wallace
asked the nation's grain futures
markets to peg prices at not less
than Saturday's closing quotations.
re-
case
EVEN ARIZONA RECEIVES
MINOR QUAKE SATURDAY
PHOENIX. Ariz.. -(Ah- A slight
earth shock was felt in scattered
sections of Arizona Saturday night
at 10:38 pm <CSTi but no injuries
and only minor damage was report-
ed.
The quake was felt in Yuma. Tuc-
son. Phoenix. Kingman. Oatman and
other communities. The shock, ap-
parently an offshoot of a heavier
quake in Southern California, was
more severe in Yuma than m other
cities.
parachute company, disclosed Sat- .. . .
4 » - up margin over the first nine and
3 number of student . ■ . . -- . . . t
'chute jumpers w ho make practice
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Antwerp Falls As French Change Cabinets Naming Petain New
Vice Premier; Reynaud Tells Country Situation‘Grave’At War Front
Visited NAZI ADVANCE Munitions Plants Placed
iSLOWED DOWN
CLAIM BRITISH
NEW YORK — W — Sweeping
changes in the business activity
may result from the gearing of the
United States' vast industrial capa-
city to defense needs and from dis-
location in foreign trade. Wall Street
analysts said Saturday.
Despite the collapse of specula-j
tive markets this week and fear
in financial circles the German on-
slaught may curtail Europe's ability
to buy in this country, many econo-
Moat of the fury of the battle on
the Western front was concentrated
j in the Guise and Landrecies sec-
tors To the northwest in Belgium,
where Brussels and Antwerp have
been abandoned, and to the east on
the Maginot Line where German
assaults have been repulsed, to-
night's communique said “nothing
of importance to report ”
German bombers visited the
Paris region Saturday afternoon
at the very moment Premier
Reynaud was dropping a bomb-
shell of his own with announce-
ment of a cabinet shakeup, mak-
ing himself war minister as well
as premier, naming Marshal Pe-
tain vice premier and George*
Mandel, former minister of colo-
nies. minister of the interior.
The German squadron of 16 planefl
An estimated 25.000 turned out to greet Gen. Juan
Almazan Saturday when he visited Reynosa and Mata-
moros. The photograph above shows the crowd packing
the Reynosa plaza as the popular presidential candidate
rode into town on a white Palomino mare. Below, an
enthusiastic Almazan fan. showing they start as politicos
young south of the border. The boy has his Mexican
flag. Almazan picture in his hatband and everything.
putt to halve
down the
ed at Pans
-authoritative sources said Ger-
man troops are within 60 miles
of the French capital, but they de-
clined to state just where.
What the authorities call com-
plete "pacification" of the Nether-
lands is proceeding speedily, with
Dutch resistance ended on Wai-
ha 4"
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STOCKHOLM —(Ah— Norwegian
authorities announced Saturday
night that German resistance in
th' far Narvik area appeared near
an end. and that Norwegian forcea
had taken up positions south of the
city and close to the Swedish bor-
der on the East.
A communique released by the
Norwegian legation here said:
“The Norwegian unit if the Nar-
vik district Saturday occupied a hill
close to the Swedish bolder on the
arvik-Swedish railway.
“It is reported that only a small
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until the match was closed out. At
| any rate. Mrs. LaRoe came up with
' golf shots that could not be whip-
ped Saturday.
The new champion won the first
hole w’ith a par f< as her oppo-
nent took a five. From then on it
was the Terrell star. Her sensational
brand of golf carried her to a four-
tie bit better" than Friday.
"Progress Slackens”
German progress, he said, “has
very much slackened, perhaps only I
temporarily, but exhaustion of
German units taking part in the
operations is apparent”
The situation in France necessi-1
tated the British and Belgian with-
| region, but were driven away from I
I the city itself, with one-fourth of
their 16 raiders reported shot down
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Well-
informed persons felt this portion
of the league would be the most
logical to transfer to the New
World.
Officials would not be surprised
to see also a transfer to this coun-
try — temporarily — of the Inter-
national Labor office at Geneva, of
which an American, John G. Win-
ant. former governor of New Hamp-
shire. is secretary general. That
organization, which seeks improve-
ment of labor standards in all coun-
tries. has likewise begun prepara-
tions to move to France.
The danger of German or Italian
invasion of Switzerland has result-
By The Associated Press
Germany’s wartide of men and machines engulfed Antwerp and was
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LONDON (Sunday)——A general headquarterfl
communique announced today that “the British front was
held firmly yesterday in the face of strong enemy press-
ure.’*
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’‘THIS IS FAR
WORSE THAN
WORLD WAR I’
NAZI OIL RAIDED
The British Royal Air Force an-
nounced bombing of German oil
supplies with heavy damage in
Bergen. Norway; Bremen and Ham-
burg. Germany.
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PARIS —(Ah— Speeding German
columns swung west across France
Saturday night toward the Oise
Valley—the road to Paris—meeting
stiffened resistance from French-
men fighting under a new govern-
ment headed by Premier Paul Rey-
naud and Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain, world war “victor of Ver-
dun.”
The French high command's
night communique said the Ger-
mans were “attacking in a west-
erly direction with powerful re-
sources, despite considerable
losses.”
This was at the end of nine days
of the battle in Belgium and north-
ern France which fighters and war
correspondents wy is like nothing
ever witnessed in history.
This Is Really Hell
battle of the bulge” in northern
France were being shoved baek
ever closer to the gates of Paris.
The spokesman made no effort
’ to minimize the “very serious” ;
situation but declared it was "cer-,
tainly no worse and possibly a lit-1
FDR RELAXES
WASHINGTON —(Ab— After
busy week wi.„l. ~
desk for many overtime hours. Allies, the Facist Press Saturday
President Roosevelt left the White night openly exulted at the ad-
comphcity in
glanes.
Officers quoted one of the boys
as saying they were "more or less
pranking” and did not intend to
launch on criminal careers.
Included in the list of firms looted
were the J. C. Penney store, the
Henshaw variety store, the Edin-
burg junior college office, which
was entered three times, the Hidal-
go county courthouse, which was
looted on April Fool's day eve.
Nicholson's service station, Bright's
SAN BF.RNADINO FEELS
SHOCK FOR TEN SECONDS
SAN BERNARDINO. Calif , - <0
-An earthquake was felt at 8© m,C experta lookwl ,Or ”Panslon
o’clock Saturday night in San Ber- . ___«
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nardino. The shock was followed by
a slow, rolling motion, strong:
enough to swung chandeliers. The |
tremor lasted about 10 seconds. Na
damage was caused.
NEEDLES. CALIFORNIA. HAS
45-SFCONI) TREMOR
NEEDLES. Calif.. -opi- A strong lied orders, particularly if the Al-
earthquake shock w as recorded j lies hold out in face of the Nazi
here at 8:39 o clock. The shock last- effort to achieve a quick knockout
re- on the Western front.
The Imperial Valley felt the full force
a beautiful palmino horse belonging of a heavy earthquake Saturday night as buildings collapsed in El
to Esteban Garcia of McAllen, and Centro. Brawley and Imperial, injuring several persons
rode into Reynosa behind two ■ One man was killed as the walls of the El Centro Hotel here col-
LONDON—(Sundayi —Prin-
cess Juliana of the Netherlands, a
royal war relugee in England, is
reported to be expecting a third
child
This is the real reason Queen
Wilhelmina was persuaded to leave
her kingdom and come to England German force is left m the town of
Me —-The destrover with her daughter, the London
Niblack, the navy s newest 1 800-ton Sunday newspaper, The People, fighting was near an end in this
war craft, was launched Saturday. »said. i sector.'*
EL CENTRO. Calif..— P'—Scores of persons were injured and some ,
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Bridges collapsed in some sections of the Valley, the largest vege-
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AT A GLANCE
By The Associated Presa
PARIS—French command re-
ports heavy fighting in vicinity
of Guise and Landrecies,
roughly 90 miles from Pans;
widening of German foothold
in France acknowledged;
Premier Reynaud revamps
cabinet
BERLIN—Germans take Ant-
werp; Report they are within
60 miles of Pans but fail to
say where; “Pacification” of
Holland proceeding, with mora
troops to be released for drive
against France and Belgium;
Blame British fliers for civil-
ian deaths m Bremen and Ham-
burg.
LONDON—British say German
drive slackening a little but
admit it still advancing; Royal
Air Force bombs Bergen.
Bremen and Hamburg oil
stores and swoops on German
columns west of Namur, Bel-
gium.
ROME—Italy believed to be
awaiting Nazi death blow at
Allies before acting; Keeps
eyes on Balkans.
WASHINGTON—Roosevelt re-
ported determined to back
faster delivery of planes to
Allies; possibility that part of
League of Nations "nay move
to United States is suggested.
into Reynosa behind two I One man was killed as the w alls of the El Centro Hotel here col-
bands and thousands of shrieking lapsed,
supporters, through one of the larg-
est and noisest crowds Revnosa has j
1 MRS.LAROEIS 'BOYBURGLARS -s-i
NEW CHAMP ARE ARRESTED
. "TT . . i orated platform in the Plaza del i
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riving about 4 p.m. after brief stops killed tonight as a heavy earthquake jolted the Imperial \ alley.
at a number of smaller commun- T
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nosa. En route home Saturday of highways.
night, he planned to make other I
stops at I
Mier.
Leaving his car two miles south of
the city. General Almazan mounted
a I
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PLANES TO
AID ALLIES
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disgorged 2.000 horsemen and an
estimated 25 000 citizens here Satur-
day. to welcome General Juan Al-
mazan. independent candidate for
the Mexican presidency, as he
brought his campaign to the Texas-
Mexican border for the second time
in the past year.
An enthusiastic crowd of over
5.000 heard General Almazan at
Matamoros Saturday morning prom-
ise Mexican prosperity to rival
that of the United States, and lash
out at government interference in
private business. He declared that
if he were elected. Mexico would
be governed by’ law'—not by poli-
! ticians.
Two Border Stops
The candidate drove from his
Monterrey home Friday night to
Matamoros, and following his speech
there, drove back to Reynosa. ar-
BERLIN —(jpi— The iron legions
of Adolf Hitler hoistru the German
battle flag Saturday on the city
of Antwerp, fortifieu North sea
anchor of the whole Allied line,
and swept west and south toward
the heart of France and the Eng- IkJ DV 1 DUthrong, which, dressed in holiday
lish channel ports needed for * - _ . . j costume, had waited for hours for
frontal assault on the British Isles. kirW P IT A M P APT APP^QTCD the candidate s arrival They cheer-
Antwerp fell to the German mo- IvLTV V/aI/bIVIi /xlVlL 1 Dlx ed him repeatedly during his speech
tor columns in 9 days, 57 days ' of nearly an hour, given from a dec-
ahead of World war schedule. The ------ ------ : ‘ "
troops of Imperial Germany enter- ■ State Golf Tourney 2 Prominent Hidalgo Campo.
ed the city on October 9, after j tt °
shelling it for eleven days. They
invaded Belgium on August 4. 1914
Objectives Unknown
The German plunge through Bel-
gium and through the Netherlands.
Midway between the Germans and
Paris, however, runs the Aisnfl
River line.
36 Mlles Into France
Farther east, at the point of thfl
triangle they have driven int®
France, the Get mans were reported
to have reached the Aisne in thfl
Rethel sector. 30 miles south of the
: Belgian border.
EDINBURG — Two college fresh-
men who told officers they had
is staged a series of eight burglaries
i in Edinburg recently as ’’pranks"
more than with criminal intent
were held under bonds of 11.000
each Saturday. Their cases will go
before the grand jury’ here Wednes-
day.
Marion Moon. 17. and Gilmore
Williams. 19. of Sebastian, both of
whom have been living in Edinburg ■
while attending college, i
statements in which they admitted
the series of bur-
latest effort to prevent spread ot J over opium production and sale, ana
the European war. it was learned suppression of white slavery.
was severely jolted and that at least
two persons were killed and sev-
*eral injured
Imperial’s buildings are old and
the damage there was extensive.
Telephone reports here from Impe-
rial said many persons were in-
jured and most of the buildings on
the main street were wrecked
the force of the earthquake.
urday that a number of student
REYNOSA — Northeastern Mex- ig high he and
♦hey were in-
ico’s ranches and two largest cities d,Knant at the withdrawals, for
which they saw no apparent reason.
While Germany’s ponderous
tanks were approaching the time
when lack of fuel is expected to
halt them, at least temporarily. Brit-
of heavy industry under stimulus of
spending here
since world war years.
Armament Climb
Aircraft, shipbuilding, machine
tool, metal and machine accessories
industries were judged in finan-
cial quarters destined for faster ac-
[tinn to supply both home and Al-
One French officer told H Tay-
lor Henry. Associated Press war
, correspondent:
’Two hours of this is worse than
two days ot the battle of Verdun."
Saturday the Germans advanced
to Guise, about 14 miles west of
Vervins, and to Landrecies. about
12 miles w’est of Avensnes and some
85 miles east of the English chan-
nel.
Avene* heretofore had been thfl
u’estern edge of the salient into thfl
northern French plains, its lower
edge* well within 100 mile* of Paris.
Far ahead of the main German
forces, advanced units struck in all
directions. Six German motorcycle
soldiers who reached Laon. 25 miles
south of Guise, were captured.
Other light units were reported
to have reached Saint Quentin. IS
miles west of Guise. (It «aa in
this vicinity. In a railroad ear In
the forest of C’omplegne. that the
world war armistice was agreed
upon).
German parachute soldiers roam-
ed behind the French lines, but
“these can have no effect nn the
general development of operations."
declared a French w’ar ministry
spokesman
The German objective in turning
to the west appeared to be first,
to try to cut off the main French
armies from the Allied forces in
Belgium: and. second, to reach thfl
Oise Valley.
The sectors of Guise and Landre-
cies lie about 20 miles within France
from the Belgian border, near the
headwaters of the Oise river and
ities between Matamoros and Rey- table producing area in the West. Fissures were opened in secti*i* roughly 100 miles northeast of Paris,
route home Saturday of highways. .
Foreign Trade Lost,
But Arms Helps
WASHINGTON- -President
Roosevelt was said authontatveiy
Saturday to have decided to put the
administration's force behind ef-
forts to speed deliveries of Amer-
tadcan-made warplanes to the hard-
▼pressod Allies
Informed airmen said means to
hasten completion of more than 4.000
planes which Britain and France
had ordered since the war started
would figure prominently in a con-
ference of industrial leaders with
government officials Monday.
May Use U. S. Planes
The feasibility of turning over
to the Allies new pllines manufac-
tured for the army probably would
be considered also, it was predict-
ed. though officials said no formal
requests that this be done had Deen
received thus far.
Mr. Roosevelt's extraordinary pro-
gram to strengthen defenses at
home made swift progress in Con-
gress during the day. and word
spread that the chief executive
might ask still more millions for
armament later if he deemed them
necessary.
Working with rare speed, a Sen-
ate appropriations sub-committee
approved a $1,827,491,724 army sup-
ply bill carrying the army * share
of the special defense fund proposed
by the president earlier this week
The subcommittee provided that
the money should be available the
moment the law is signed, instead
of next July 1 as most appropria-
tion measures specify, and sent the
bill to the full appropriations com-
mittee for consideration Monday.
To Approve Fund
Many members of the Senate pre-
dicted that that chamber would
approve the huge fund, and send
it back to the House for acceptance
of the extraordinary additions, Dy
mid-week.
As Senator Hill <D-Ala) told re-
porters after a White House visit
that the defense program would
involve "speed, more speed ana
^^^'1 more speed.” the House naval
gift airs committee tackled the ques-
• By E. C. (Doc) OSBORN
Star Sports Editor
HARLINGEN — “The Queen
to the north, is so swiftly fluid that deed, long live the Queen.”
it is difficult to pick out its im- Such were the murmurs of the
mediate objectives. large gallery as Mrs. Guy LaRoe of
But the thrust through the Terrell dropped a
French fortifications of the Meuse Number 15 and take
and over Maubeuge and the Sam- championship of the Tenth Annual
bre. further northwest, seems aim- Womens Public Links Golf
Association tournament with a 4
and 3 win over Mrs. E H Wohlf-
ahrt of Houston, defending cham-
pion and medalist, here Saturday.
Tt would be hard to say just
' what took the crown from the
Houston matron. Perhaps it was
the 36 that Mrs LaRoe threw at her
on the first nine holes Or it
I might have been the really consis-
tent go’f that the Terrell ace dis-
played for the defending champion.
!uho was 8*ekin« her fourth public
Cincinnati Kirie Fans links crown, from the first hole
WASHINGTON—(A*)—A shift of
portion of the League of Nations
to the United States was consid-
ered a possibility in official quarters
Saturday as the Geneva
tion began preparations
! moval to Vichy, France, in
But Is Noncommital s*“xerland is Evaded.
—.. The transfer would be in line
On Vv Sr ilans With the desire of the Roosevelt
------ administration to promote the non-
ROME— uP' —Premier Mussolini political activities of the league—
has replied to President Roosevelt* such as economic studies, control
Swiss Invasion Would
Force Action
The British and French professed, however, to see some slackening
of the unprecedented assault in its ninth day.
The indicated German position, widening and
neously toward the west and south, puts the irfv
way between Pari*, one apparent objective, and the channel ports, ideal
The French said the main fighting was In the vicinity of Guise and
Landrecies. about 90 miles from*.
Paris.
<In the World War the Germans
were stopped at the outskirts of
| Paris.)
They admitted a widening of the
German-held portion of France, and
Premier Paul Reynaud told the na-
tion that the situation was "grave”
Reynaud himself took over the
ministry of war and national de-
fense. named former Premier Ed-
ouard Daladier foreign minister,
and chose Marshal Henri Petain.
83-year-old World War hero, as
vice-Premier in a general cabiMt
revision.
Munitions plant* went on a 24-
hour work schedule.
German planes bombed railway
stations and highways in the Pans ;
from a reliable source Saturday
I night. The nature of the reply was
not disclosed but it was believed
to have been non-committal with-
out being alarming.
The reply, in courteous terms,
was said in informed quarters to
have been communicated to Mr
Roosevelt through United States
Ambassador William Phillips, who
delivered a personal message from
the president to II Duce May 15.
With Italy's entry into the war
a believed by most observers to be
,c awaiting a Nazi death blow to the
hours.
rre-iaeni nooseven ion me wnne
t House Saturday night for a brief ' vance of Germany s war machine ed in the League of Nations prep-
ouung. • into Franc*. 1 arations to move.
Communication with Imperial was interrupted, but reports, which
He was showered ; could not be verified, said the city
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