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San Benito Area Registrants Notice! Your Name and First Draft Number Will Appear In The Herald Thursday. Save Time ~Cc
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THE WEATHER
Tot the Lower Rio Orande Valley; \ J \ f I
Partly cloudy Wednesday night and \/ /—V I I . I
Thursday not much change In tem- T i 1 u 1 J
berature. 1 _
High Tide— ■ 1 ..
Wednesday . 10:31 p m. r H I T l H ■
V Thursday . 11:22 p. m. L U 1 Jl 1 U 1
Low Tide— TT>
Wednesday .. 2:07 p. m. |C
Thursday ... 3:13 p. m.
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FORTY-NINTH YEAR—No. Ill BROWNSVILLE TEXAS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 1940 TEN PAGES TODAY ★ ★ ★ ★ .
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.Escaped Fort Brown Prisoners Caught After Search'
Valley Rail
Deal OK’d
By ICC
f -
WASHINGTON—(&)— The In-
terstate Commerce Commission
authorized the Port Isabel Sc Rio
Grande Valley Railway Wednes-
day to abandon its line from
-^Brownsville to Port Isabel approx-
imately 26 miles in Cameron
county Texas.
It also authorized Guy A
Thompson as trustee of the San
Benito Sc Rio Grande Valley Rail-
way and tre St. Louis Brownsville
6c Mexico Railway to acquire two
segments of the Port Isabel As Rio
.Grande Valley. He also was au-
to thorized to construct 3 6 miles of
line to connect the present line of
the San Benito A; Rio Grande Val-
ley with the line to be purchased.
Cost of the construction was estim-
ated at $65000.
When the connection completed
the ICC said train service would
be extended to Port Isabel giving
tha* port direct service from and
Sail points on the Missouri Pa-
fic system.
ATS A LITTLE THING. BUT
Y the Information concerned Is
Important to some business peo-
ple and to lots of western people
who might want to visit the Val
ley.
We are talking about the daily
weather bulletin of the United
States. Weather Bureau at Den-
ver. Colo.
This bulletin had not been car-
rying the Valley temperatures.
The fact was noted in Denver
the past summer by W. M. Cal-
loway of the Shippers’ Prcc x>ling
Service of Brownsville.
Mr. Galloway wrote to The
Herald about it suggesting that
something should be done to get
the Brownsville daily report into
the Denver bulletin.
The Herald carried the matter
^ to the attention of Congressman
“'Milton H. West of this district.
• • •
]UR. WEST TOOK THE MAT-
ter up with the United
States Weather Bureau at Wash-
ington.
The Washington headquarters
%roie to the Denver office sug-
^*sting that Brownsville might be
included in the Denver daily bul-
letin.
Denver accepted the sugges-
tion and has written to Congress-
man West as follows:
“With reference to previous cor-
respondence between your oflice
and the chief of the United States
Weather Bureau relative to pub-
lication of the weather reprorts of
Brownsville. Texas on the Den-
ver Daily Weather Map.
• We are pleased to advise that
upon receipt of a copy of letter
to you from the chief of bureau
dated September 23 1940 the re-
port for Brownsville was included
In the list of stations for which
data are published on our map."
• •
•THE RESULT OF THIS PAR-
1 * tlcular activity is that for the
first time the people of the Den-
ver area will have their first chance
to know’ about winter weather in
>::o Lower Rio Grande Valley of
fTf xas.
In addition newspapers in Den-
ver and the area will receive the
Brownsville weather report daily
and will Include the station in
Aheir daily weather summaries.
▼ It Is as we said a little thing
—this single line on the Denver
Weather map.
But It is important to the Val-
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LONE PRIVATE
HALTS FLIGHT
ALOW RIVER
Pair Slug Guard Take
Pistol Riot Gun;
Thought Trying To
Enter Mexico
Two For* Brown prisoners armed
with a riot gun and a .45 caliber
pistol created minutes of excite-
ment in Brownsville Wednesday
morning in an unsuccessful attempt
to escape custody of military police.
The prisoner?! Billy Day and
Robert L. Ryon. overpowered their
guard. Private Clarence M. Risinger
in the eastern part of the post
reservation at 9.20 a m. and fled
into a wooded section of the fort
grounds with Risingers shotgun
and pistol.
They were captured at 10 a. m.
by an armed sentry. Private F. A.
Weaver on the eastern bank of
the Rio Grande inside the post
grounds a short distance from the
uoint of their escppe.
Did Not Resist
Military authorities said the men
made no attempt to resist capture
and the weapons they took were
recovered.
Day and Ryon were cutting grass
with Private Risinger as their
guard before the escape.
According to Fort Brown officials
the two men tackled Risinger
from both sides threw him to the
ground and took his weapons.
(See DSCAPERS Page Two)
Court Affirms
"Chon’ Sentence
AUSTIN — //»*—A contention of
insanity was thrust into final ac-
tion of the court of criminal ap-
peals Wednesday in affirming a
death sentence lor Ascension
«Chon> Martinez convicted of
murder in a Hidalgo county court.
Martinez was accused in the slay-
ing of an unidentified man whose
bodv was found floating in the Rio
Grande.
After affirming the verdict the
court overruled a motion for re-
hearing but. at the request of
Maritnez's attorneys stayed issu-
ance of the mandate to permit an
appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The tribunal issued the mandate
with the notation no effective ef-
forts to appeal the case had been
made with attorneys asserting Mar-
tinez refused to sign necessary pa-
pers. They suggested the man had
become insane.
The notation concluded with the
ruling the issue of insanity was |
without the jurisdiction of the
appellate court but was a matter
lor the trial court to decide. 1
Registered
■Mr* ..... SoMiMMI
Miss Rrika Schwankr above of
Austin Minn. misunderstood a
radio newscast on Oct. 16 con-
vinced a woman registrar to ac-
cept her and registered for the
draft. In the rrgular procedure
her card was given number 14.
As numbers cannot be transfer-
red she may be called. She'll
be disappointed if she's exempted
she says.—NEA Telephoto.
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OFFICIALS EYE
DRAFT BLANKS
Aim to Prevent What
Happened In 1917
WASHINGTON — (*) — Armed
with thousands of bullet-like cap-
sules—each one meant to hold a
draft number—selective service of-
ficials are guarding against shoot-
ing off any blanks at next Tues-
day's national lottery.
One big blank was fired at the
first 1917 drawing and profiting
by the embarassing mistake these
who load the capsulee are aiming at
% perfect score next week.
Into Action Friday
A ccpsule-loadlng contingent will
move into action Friday.
Every capsule loaded will be giv-
en a certain number of paper slips
each bearing a draft serial number
and the same number of capsules.
When each loader has completed
his task he should have no capsules
or slips left. If he does something
went wrong.
Triple Checked
The capsules and the numbered
papers will be triple checked be-
<See LOTTERY Page Two.)
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Cameron County Draft
Registrants Can Save
Time—See Herald List
Registrants for the draft must have their local draft number
before they can know their order number.
Their local number* were given them after their registration
before their local draft boards on Oct. 16.
Thrir order numbers will be assigned to them in the Wash*
ington drawings which will take place on Oct. 29.
Registrants cannot know their order numbers—those which will
come from Washington—unless they know their local draft numbers.
For this reason The Brownsville Herald has arranged to pub*
lish as many as possible of the names of registrants in the Valley
together with their local registration board numbers.
The list for Brownsville comprising a total of 3150 names was
published in alphabetical order on Monday October 21.
The list for the San Benito draft area comprising 2651 names
will be published in this newspaper on Thursday October 24. This
draft area includes San Benito. Rio Hondo. Los Fresnos. La Paloma
Pt. Isabel Olmito Los Indio*. Santa Maria and Rangerville.
It is hoped to have the list for the Harlingen draft area ready
for publication either on Friday afternoon Oct. 25 or Saturday
afternoon. Oct. 26.
The Brownsville Herald is publishing a* many of these lists
for the Valley as it can. before Oct 29 as a service to registrants
thrir families and their friends. By consulting the list in The
Herald the registrants for these three districts can find thrir
names in alphabetical order without having to stand for hours in
front of the single list posted in their local postoffices.
Only one person can consult the postoffice list at a time.
You can save hours of time by getting a copy of The Herald
containing your local draft list.
When the registrant knows his local number he will promptly
recognise his order number when it is announced from Wash*
ington.
DONT SHOOT!
HE MIGHT BE
THE MILKMAN
Be Sure It’s Burglar
Before Taking Aim
Nervous Citi z e n s
Cautioned
Hold your fire men!
An appeal to armed household-
ers of the Riverside-West Browns-
ville sections not to use firearms
unless very certain the target is a
burglar was expressed by police and
cit yofficiaLs Tuesday.
Same innooent pedestrian or
even friends making an unannoun-
ced social call may be victims it
was feared. It was also suggested
thta friends announce their inten-
ded visits in advance.
Until last week police had put
four plain clothes officers in the
area to walk the streets. On two
occasions they were mistaken for
burglars and pot shots taken at
them forcing the officers to take
to the brush in self defense.
Patrol Given I p
The foot patrol plan had to be
given up. Now the area is ‘•spot-
ted'* by policemen working singly
and in pairs and patrol cars make
frequent rounds. Police traps are
placed in likely runways and mov-
ed nightly to different locations.
The raids now in their sixth
week account for practically every
burglary reported to police. One
of the twins ads as a lookout while
the other gains entrance. Twice
the entering burglar has been de-
scribed as nude but all recent re-
ports Indicate that both men are
fully dressed one generally remov-
ing his shoes when entering a
house.
All davs off. leaves and vacations
have been cancelled according to
a bulletin posted in police head-
quarters Tuesday by Capt. Lozano
(See NUDE Page Two.)
COURT REFUSES
CITY PIER PLEA
Gulf Not Subject To
Mortgage Ruling
AUSTIN—The City of Gal-
veston failed Wednesday in its ef-
fort to have the supreme court
rompel Attorney General Gerald C.
Mann to approve SI.300.000 in bonds
Lv-ued by the municipality for con-
struction of a pleasure pier in the :
Gulf of Mexico.
The court refused the city’s ap-
plication for permission to institute I
mandamus proceedings against the
attorney general who had declined
approval of the bond record on
grounds the city was not the own-
er of and did not control the land
over which the pier would be built.
No Mortgage Power
In an opinion by Chief Justice
W. F. Moore the tribunal said the
city had no power to mortgage any
portion of the Gulf of Mexico a
requirement which the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation stipuated
to secure lx>nd indentures.
Court Orders
Market Values
Valuation of property for tax |
purposes shall be based on “market
value."
That was the effect of a fourth
court of appeals ruling this week in
the case of B. H Dunlap of La
Feria vs. the Harlingen Indepen-
dent School district attorneys for
the plaintiff say.
G. Lorimer Brown attorney for
the school district adds that the
decision also holds that the “in-
trinsic value” shall be used if the
property has no actual cash value.
Mr. Dunlap sued the district for
cancellation of the district’s 18690
“intrinsic value” on his property
and he contended that It had an
actual cash value of 12 500.
The court of appeals in uphold-
ing the 103rd civil district court
here in effect cancels the “intrin-
sic valuation” and orders the pro-
pertey reassessed on a basis of
market value according to the at-
torney for the school district.
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ON THE HUSTINGS
FDR To rake Off Gloves9 Willkie
Heads For N. Y.; Rayburn Given Big
Send-Off; Farley Hews To Dem Line
By DAVE CHEAVEN&
BONHAM. Tex. — •*>)— Speaker
Sam Rayburn hurled his weight
into the final Democratic drive for
votes Wednesday hurrying toward
the midwest after urging a south-
western audience Tuesday night not
to trade "a tried and true horse for
one we know nothing about.”
Going to Missouri
Rayburn conferred with Texas
Democratic leaders and planned to
entrain Wednesday night for St.
Joseph. Mo. where he had a night
speaking engagement Thursday.
This and other midirestern and
eastern speaking dates he referred
to in his homecoming speech as a
"great crusade to convince the
people of America that the way to
keep this democracy safe is to vote
for representatives senators and a
president who believe there should
be no forgotten man in all the
land.”
TDR T*. Dictators”
He said he did not know or care
whether Hitler Mussolini and the
emperor of Japan "are taking any
stock in this election” and added:
• But I do know they have such
tough dealing and sailing with
iSee RAYBURN. Page Two*
40-HOUR-WEEK
START SLATED
New Law Will Become
Effective Tonight
WASHINGTON——The wage-
hour law reaches at midnight ore
of its twin objectives—the 40-hour
work week.
For some 2.000000 out of an es-
timated 12.600 000 workers in inter-
state lommerce covered by the law.
the change to 40 hours from the
present 42-hour week will mean
more leisure or overtime pay at the
rate of time and a half. The 40-
hour standard is not a rigid limita-
tion.
Little General Effect
The change may have little gen- 1
eral effect on the nation's economy I
because the 40-hour week accord-
ing to wage-hour officials .has been j
widely adopted in industry.
At the same time the 40-hour
work week begins the wage-hour
agency's new definitions of exempt-
ed white collar workers becomes eT-
iective exempting from the law a
group of executive. administrttive
and professional employes and out-
side salesmen estimated to exceed
200000.
Canning Plant Exemption*
In addition other revised regula-
tions previously established opened
the wav to exempt from the max-
imum work week and overtime pay
canning packing and processing
plant employes for as much as 28
weeks a year during the busy sea-
sons.
The 40-hour week and overtime
requirement the agency said is I
applicable to the first full m-ork
week beginning on and after mid-
night.
The second goal of the wage-
hour lam—a general 40-cents-an-
hour minimum wage—will be reach-
ed In 1945.
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Former Treasury
Chief Succumbs
NEW Y*>RK —/**— George B.
Cortelvou. Sr. one of the nation's
outstanding fiixnciars and a for-
mer secretary of the treasury died
Wednesday. He mas 78. and a for-
mer president of the Consolidated
Gas Company of New York.
Cortelyou mat; secretary to Pres-
ident McKinley and continued in
the same capacity for President
Theodore Roosevelt m-ho in 1907
named him to head the treasury
department.
Active for mftny years In Repub-
lican politics he mas national
I chairman for thre; years from 1904
' until 1907. ... -- - - --
i (By The Associated Press)
President Roosevelt ready for a "bang up" finish drive took to the
campaigning trail Wednesday for the first of a series of major political
addresses in populous eastern territory.
Even before Mr. Roosevelt entrained for Philadelphia where he speaks
Wednesday night his Republican antagonist. Wendell L. Willkie. chal-
lenged the chief executives statement that he would do everything in
his power to "keep war away from these shores for all time.”
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McDonald Backs
GOP Candidate
AUSTIN— (AP)—Wendell Wlll-
kie Wednesday had the support
of Democratic State Agriculture
Commissioner J. E. McDonald.
McDonald announced for the
Republican standard bearer be-
cause he was “more interested in
the survival of a free American
agriculture than in mere patris-
an politics."
PRESBYTERIANS
HEAR REPORTS
Corpus Pastor to Head
„ Unit
HARLINGEN — With the elec-
tion of & moderator behind them
members of the Presbytery of
Western Texas took up routine
business reports Wednesday morn-
ing in the second day of their
three-day conference here at the
First Presbyterian church.
A Corpus Christ! pastor. Rev.
George W. Diehl was named mo-
derator at the opening conference
Tuesday night. Rev. Diehl succeeds
Rev. Paul C. Edgar of Taft who
preached the first sermon of the
session.
The churchmen were expected
Wednesday to receive two Valley
ministers. Rev. A. T. Dyal of Mis-
sion and Rev. E. A. Lindsey of
McAllen and enroll four new
churches in the Presbytery. Stand-
ing committees also are expected to
be appointed. Wednesday's enter-
tainment features include a bar-
becue in the afternoon for mem-
bers only.
Other officers named at Tues-
day night s session were Rev. Carl
B. Brown pastor of the Crestholm
Presbyterian church of San An-
tonio. reading clerk; Rev. W R.
Penny pastor of the First Pres-
byterian church of Laredo tem-
porary clerk; Rev. James John-
ston of the First Presbyterian
church of Yorktown. permanent
clerk; Rev. Harry W. Hamilton
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Cotulla. stated clerk
and treasurer and Rev. Sam
Hill pastor of the First Presbyte-
rian church of Beeville press re-
porter.
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Veteran* To Give ^
Armistice Breakfast
HARLINGEN—All Harlingen Le-
gionnaires and ex-serwee m n are
invited to an Armistice day break-
fast at he Reese-Wil-Mond hotel.
Dan C. Murphy will be toast-
master and W. C. Black will be
in charge of music. Sam Feldman
is arranging the breakfast.
Willkie. at a Chicago rally Tues-
day night also demanded that the
Democratic nominee tell the people
whether he. Willkie had -falsified
the record" in the attacks he has
made on the administration.
The Willkie demand apparently
was aimed at Mr. Roosevelt's asser-
tion. in announcing his political
speaking program that his pur-
pose was to discuss the "systematic
program • • • of deliberate falsi-
fication of fact" which he charged
had characterized the Republican
| campaign.
Set for "Bang l’p" Drive
Secretary Ickes said Mr. Roose-
velt would “take off the gloves' in
a sneech Wednesday night and
White House aides said their chief
was set for a “bang up" campaign
finish.
The president will speak at 8:15
p. m. tCSTi. Two national radio
iSee CAMPAIGN Page Two)
NY. VOTE FRAUD1
CHARGE PROBED
Seek Evidence From
Communist Leader
WASHINGTON—OP'— The Sen-
ate campaign expenditures com-
mittee invited Farl Browder Com-
munist presidential nominee. Wed-
nesday to submit any evidence tn
support of his charges of "election
frauds” In New York.
Chairman Gillette <D-Iowa> said
Browder had telegraphed protests
about "outrageous Interference In
election rights” and -intimidation'
of petition signers.
Also. Gillette said that commit-
tee investigators had been unable
to corroborate charges that hun-
dreds of District of Columbia re-
sidents were voting illegally in
West Virginia through absentee
ballots.
Gillette CD-Iowa) said the Sen-
ate committee may recommend
"tightening” the provisions of the
Hatch act limiting political con-
tributions. Gillette said the com-
mittee had data indicating that
there been evasions.
Arraign Ministers *1
On Registry Charge
BOSTON——Two young Bos-
ton ministers pleaded innocent in
federal court Wednesday of wil-
fully falling and neglecting to reg-
ister for the selective service mili-
tary draft.
The Re". Keith Kanaga. 25. as-
sistant minister of the Mount Ver-
non Congregational church and the
Rev. Harry H. Kruener. 24. pastor
of the Commonwealth Avenue First
Baptist Church were released in
tl.000 each pending hearing.
Kruener we.s arraigned despite
the fact that he reconsidered his
earlier action and subsequently reg-
istered. Kanaga .however has in-
dicated he would not change his
stand.
IT HAPPENED IN MONTERREY
Strike Blackout Snuffs
_Romance as Prices Soar
MEXICO CITY—(£*}— Monter-
rey made famous by romantic
songs and ballads Is virtually
helpless In the grip of an electri-
cal workers' strike.
Mexico's largest industrial city
of 150.000 population has been
without electric power since Fri-
day and the inhabitants find
themselves on wartime rations of
many necessities.
The dispute arose between the
Canadian-ow ned power company
i and union workers over higher
wages which the company says
it cannot pay.
All oil lamps in the markets
and stores have been sold. Can-
dles. which ordinarily sell for a
penny apiece are bringing three
and four cents and the supply is
running short.
Tortillas are difficult to get
and then only at triple prices.
Electrically-powered mills which
grind the corn meal for the an-
cient Mexican food are paralysed.
iSta STRIKE* Page Two.j> |
VICHY BATHE.
REPORTED ON ■
HELPTO AXIS
Spokesmen Say Nation
Will Not Undertake
War Against Formei;
Anti-Nazi Ally $
LISBON—(AP)—Gen-
eralissimo Francisco Fran-
co was reported en route
Wednesday to San Sebas-
tian at the French-Span-
ish border and belief was
expressed in informed
quarters that he might bo
meeting Adolf Hitler
Wednesday night.
Earlier reports from
Spain said Spain’s leader •
was on his way to meet
“one of the world’s lead-
ing personalities.”
(Hitler Tuesday was
“somewhere in France”
presumably in the Paris
area where he met
French Vice-Pr e m i e r
Pierre Laval.
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By The Associated Pres#
Triple defiance of reported Axis
pressure on France to join the war
against Great Britain emerged
Wednesday following a mysterious
meeting “somewhere In France”
between Adolf Hitler and French
Vice Premier Pierre Ignal.
The vanquished republic will un-
dertake “no military naval or .
aerial action against England." a
French government spokesman said.
“France will not declare war on
England under any circusmtan-
ces ’ he added-
Want French Navy?
<Reports from Berlin previously
said events seemed to be shaping
• See WAR Page Two)
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SPAIN DETAINS!
CAROL’S PARTY
Return to Rumania Is
Threatened
SEVILLE. Spain —vin— Former
King Carol of Rumania his red-
haired friend. Magda Lupescu. and
Ernest Urdareanu. minister of the
palace were under virtual arrest
Wednesday with a strong jiolic*
guard around their hotel.
They were notified of this Tues-
day and were to have been taken
to Granada while the Spanish gov-
ernment considered their case and
the possibility of their return to
Rumania but Wednesday the
foreign office apparently acting
on an appeal from Carol staved
execution of the removal order
pending conferences with Urdarea-
nu.
Carol argued that International
law did not sanction the extradi-
tion of Mme. Lupescu and Urdarea-
nu to Rumania “where the threat
of death awaits them "
Carol had been reported making
preparation* for going to th*
United States.
Patterson Heads \
Edinburg C. of C.'
EDINBURG— S. M. Patterson
will takP take over the manager-
ship of the Edinburg Chamber of
Commerce No. I succeeding Jim
Courtnev. who resigned recently.
Whether his post will be perm-
anent will be decided by the chain-
tier's board of directors at a
meeting the first of next year Mr.
Patterson will serve through Nov-
ember and December.
Mr Patterson has held similar
positions at McAllen and Weslaco
and is familiar with Valley pro-
blems.
The new manager through hi*
friends in army and aviation cir-
cles. Is expected to give added im-
petus to the chamber of com-
merce’s paramount project—that
of obtaining an airport her* lor
training atudeut iherfc
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