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VALLEY SUNDAY
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HARLINGEN, McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1940
THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY
FRENCH FALL BACK BEFORE NAZI
THRUSTS ALONG 60-MILE FRONT
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British Armed Merchant
Ship Sunk By Nazi Sub
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pronounced
In peacetime the crew was
Paris Balks Raid
Refugees Due
Reserves Called
ture," Sadler said.
Did Their Part
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WARNING SET
ON BOMBINGS
OF ANY CITY
Another Liner Aids
Stranded Americans
Border To Be Open
During Mexico Vote
NUEVO LAREDO. Mexico—/JT—
Mechanized Groups
Watch Border
Placido Handy Gets
Electric Chair
Rumanian Army Still
Being Enlarged
Popular Cruise Liner Lost In Attack By
U-Boat; Many Rescued From Vessel
Weygand Line Gives
At German Will
French Claim Of Air
Raid Denied
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ships would fail to make their sail-
ings from Italian ports as sched-
uled during the coming week.
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CRISTOBAL. Canal Zone-(4b—
With water in her bow up to the
anchor line, the 7.216-ton Chilean
liner Copiapo was towed Saturday
to an anchorage just off the Panama
Canal channel after striking the
west breakwater at the entrance of
Cristobal harbor.
The ship’s 110 passengers and her
crew were rescued without injury.
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MEXICO STRIKE ENDS
MEXICO CITY—(Jb—More than
400 street car employes returned to
work Saturday to end a protest
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BROWNSVILLE—Five Japanese
diplomats, reported to have been on
a Latin American trade commission,
were in Brownsville briefly Satur-
day night en route from Mexico
City to New York.
The group was said to have toured
South and Central American coun-
tries, and Mexico, seeking the estab-
lishment of closer commercial re-
lations between the countries and
Japan.
They had nn comment to make
upon their arrival at the Browns-
ville airport, however.
Arriving here by Pan American
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IS FXFCIITFD Airways were S Kato Japanese
1U IIjU minister at large: S Koshida, Jap-
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Italy’s War Move Is Seen
'This Week; Bombs To Rain
NAZIS CLAIM Germans Hurl Million
FRENCHFALL Men Into Paris Drive
AT MAIN LINE
anese minister to Mexico: and I.
Mizune, K. Ohno and M Harada.
They left for Neu’ Orleans by
Missouri Pacific Lines, and also
plan to visit Washington and New
York.
One of the group said they were
going to New York to see the
World s Fair.
American Liners To
Dock Today
Italy Will Retaliate
Five-Fold
Anti - Aircraft Guns
Drive Off Planes
It had fallen back from the Somme to the Bresle
> ik* «.■•«» < r—nn of Novon in the cen-
ter -and from the Ailette to the Aisne in the east.
Pedro Coronado, chief of immigra-
tion for all ' f Mexico, announced
at his headquarters here Saturday
that the Mexican government would
keep open the nation’s borders dur-
ing national election week. July 7.
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Allies Branch Out
In U. S. Purchases
NEW YORK — — Allied war
purchasers, who have heretofore
concentrated mostly in aircraft and
tools, pow are tapping United States
industry for an assortment of other
weapons and materials.
Wall Street sources said Satur-
day British and French agents sud-
denly appeared to have widened
their range of orders and inquiries
to speed equipment plans and re-
place losses. Total orders placed
since September, are estimated at
$1.300 000.000 now. and the figure
is expected to grow rapidly.
Diplomats Pause In
Valley City
BUCHAREST — — Rumania,
with more than 1.500,000 men al-
ready under arms in the greatest
peacetime mobilization in her his-
tory. called up five more classes of
reserves Saturday m a prepared-
ness measure reported to be con-
nected with Italy’s possible entry
into the European war.
Although Rumanian dispatches
placed the number already under
arms at more than 1.500.000. tabula-
The ship will then proceed to walkout which tied up the city’s tions of previous calls indicated it
l Galway, Ireland, for another group, railway transportation Friday night, was probably nearer 2,000,000.
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PARIS —(AP)— The French were falling back Saturday night
along nearly 60 miles of the front, but still fighting against the Ger-
man offensive on Paris—facing the strongest attack of the war and
the most massive mechanized onslaught in military history.
The Germans threw 60 infantry divisions and seven armored di-
visions - more than 1,000,000 men and 3,500 tanks-into the assault
south of the Somme.
This mighty push reached its peak in the center of the front,
an Italian
further by
sources <
the Nazi steamroller is breaking the
Weygand line at will and pushing
down the path to Paris just as
planned.
Three confident sentences made
up the high command communique
Important Yangtze
River Port Is Lost
SHANGHAI — (Sunday) — i/Pi —
Japanese military authorities Sun-
day claimed capture of Shasi, im-
portant Yangtze river treaty port
west of Hankow.
Capture of Shasi was regarded as
a major gain in the drive on Ichang.
another port on the Yangtze which
is the principal present objective
of the campaign in western Hupeh
Province
ABOARD S S. WASHINGTON
AT SEA 'Sunday)——This Unit-
ed States Liner, with some 900
American refugees from warring
aboard, was en
Sunday from Le Verdon.
i Libson. Portugal, to
mation—that American naval ves- P‘£k up more stranded Americans
seis and planes would escort the
Roosevelt into port.
BURKBURNETT— (JP>-Searchers
•ibed Elk Mountain in the Wich-
ita mountains of Oklahoma Satur-
day night in a hunt for eight-year-
old Wilmer L. Gibson, Burkburnett
youngster who disappeared Satur-
day morning while climbing the
rugged slope.
Ernest J. Greenwald, superintend-
ent of the wildlife refuge headquar-
ters. appealed to Fort Sill military
authorities for 75 additional search-
ers to augment the efforts of ap-
I proximately 125 persons who have
been combing the area in addition
to refuge horsemen and an air-
plane.
aboard driven by the terrors of
modern war from their European
barriers all the way to Paris.
In his night communique, General Weygand singled
out two artillery units for special praise for the destruc-
tion they wrought amnng German panzer units.
“The artillery group of Commandant Pouyat de-
stroyed 38 German tanks,’’ he said. “One battery of this
group commanded by Captain Vandelle destroyed alone
19.
Sadler Will Remain
In Chief State Race
GATESVILLE —— Several
thousand persons attending the an-
nual rodeo here Saturday heard
Jerry Sadler, candidate for gover-
nor, tell why he had to remain in
the race
“I have received no reply from
Governor O’Daniel to my offer
made more than a week ago to
LONDON—<jP>—The sinking of the armed merchant cruiser Carin-
thia—a 20.277-ton former Cunard-White Star liner popular with Ameri-
cans as a world cruise ship before the war—was announced Saturday-
night by the admiralty.
It was the largest merchant ship yet sunk by enemy action since
the war started.
Two officers and two seamen had been killed when the ship, one of
50 merchant cruisers in the British fleet, was torpedoed by a U-boat.
Other officers and the crew were*
saved. In peacetime the crew was
405
More than 200 of the crew wer*
landed at a British port by a war-
ship Saturday night. Another 100
were expected on a second rescue
ship. The crew said the Carinthia
remained afloat for some time after
being torpedoed but that two war-
ships failed in .an attempt to tow
her to port
Location Not Revealed
The admiralty did not say where
the Carinthia had been attacked.
The Germans, however, a few
hours before, announced a 14.000-
ton auxiliary cruiser had been sunk
off the northwest coast of Ireland
The Carinthia was the second
British armed merchant cruiser
sunk sin e the war started. The
Rawalpindi. 16.097 tons, was lost
last November 23 with 280 of her
personnel
Allies Grow Stronger
Earlier an official admiralty state-
ment had obsreved that “the bal-
ance of naval strength in favor of
the Allies is now far greater than
at the outbreak of the war."
On the other side of the book, the
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Pausing in Brownsville briefly late Saturday was the Japanese diplomatic mission
(above) enroute from Mexico City to Washington, D. C. left to right are: I. Mizuno,
secretary; S. Koshida, minister to Mexico; S. Kato, minister at large; K. Ohno and
M. Harada, secretaries. The group was reported to have constituted a recent Latin
American trade commission. (Staff Photo)
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1 Europe already
;route
It was reported—without confir- France, to
German pressure diminished Saturday
might on the extreme left (west) flank, where
the Bresle Rvier blocked their infantry. A
tank column of 200 to 300 which penetrated
south to Forges-Les-Eaux was reported being
pounded to bits by French artillery and can-
non-firing planes.
The battle raged with varying intensity all along
the new, shortened 110-mile front from the sea to the
Aisne.
Military authorities not given to exaggeration called
the battle frankly “the greatest of all time.*’ The num-
ber of tanks used almost doubled those employed in the
battle of the Meuse, when the Germans broke through to
PARIS—Under assault by Million
Nazis and 3.000 tanks French
withdraw on 60-mile line from
Aumale on west to Noyon st
center of battlefront after in-
flicting tremendous tosses; Bat-
tle rages on 110-mile shorten-
ed front; On west Nazi tanks
plunge to Forges-Les-Eaux in
20-mile push; French Admir-
alty says Berlin factories bomb-
ed.
BERLIN—High command com-
munique. devoid of details,
says. Nazi army pushing on to
Paris on schedule; spokesman
denies Berlin bombed.
ROME - Observers say Italy will
enter war either next Monday
or by following Friday, attack-
ing secret objective; Italian
war preparations complete:
Gayda says five English cities
will be bombed for each Ital-
ian city attacked.
LONDON — Carinthia, largest
merchant ship victim of war,
sunk by U-boat torpedo; Brit-
ish fliers back French with
bombing raids
BUCHAREST —Five classes of
reservists called to arms, ad-
ding 100.000 to nearly 2,000,000
Rumanians under arms.
BERN—Swiss fliers shoot down
Messerchmitt, force Nazi
bomber to land; two Swiss
pilots killed in plane shot
down by German fliers.
WASHINGTON—Reports circu-
lated that Roosevelt will ask
another billion for defense if
Germans break through to
Pana.
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HANDY
Berlin. —German military where reserves were brought up in the Oise valleythe route to Paris—
s^M^ier^toiXinJ'mJ and hurled into the battle in the region of Roye and Noyon, in an area
48 miles north of this capital.
In this sector alone the Germans were estimated to have used
half a million men. Starting at dawn, after dive bombers, artillery
and tanks had opened the way, the Nazi infantry charged, each man
advances without disclosing any I
details.
But those at home were advised
nnt to fear that this meant a bog-
down of the drive by veteran
troops and fresh divisions. Instead
military sources said, the march to '
the heart of France continues each
day ahead of the peace first set by
the high command.
Berlin Not Bombed?
An authorized spokesman called
“absolutely" untrue a French an-
nouncement that naval bombers
dumped explosives onto factory dis-
tricts in the Berlin suburbs Friday
night
“We have been out with spyglass- '
es looking for damage." the spokes-
man said. "There have been no air-
raid alarms in Berlin and no rumors
of such a bombing."
Meanwhile, gams were claimed
for four big thrusts, steel shod and
supported by plunging stukas.
Objectives Are Listed
Hitler's own newspaper. Volkiscb-
er Beobachter. lister the drives and
their objectives as:
Southwest from Abbeville over
the Bresle river toward Le Havre.'
extending Germany’s grip on the
northwestern coast of Europe from
the Arctic Circle in Norway to
south of the mouth of the Somme.
South from Amiens; south from
Perrone and south from Oise-Aisne
canal—to merge into one smashing
punch at Paris.
"Operations south of the Somme
and the Oise-Aisne canal are pro-
gressing successfully." the German
communique said, “and the enemy i
and tanks had opened the way, the Nazi infantry charged, each
holding the shoulder of the men before him.
North of the capital the French withdrew for the second succes-
i*sive day. The general fall-back was called a
“retirement maneuver,” and a military
spokesman declared the main line remained
unbroken.
The Nazis also struck a tremendous blow
on the French right (east) flank and succeed-
ed in establishing a foothold on the south bank
of the Aisne River. In that sector the French
AUSTIN——A modern, mech-
anized detachment of Texas Ran-
gers was engaged in secret opera-
tions along the lower reaches of the
Rio Grande Saturday to protect the
state against possible flare-ups from
across the border.
Split in small groups, the Ranger
force, whose numbers have not been
disclosed, was under orders calling
'for swift action in any emergency
while an Austin headquarters staff
catalogued and classified a deluge
papers substantiated the reports by °f r,?fX’rts °n po5SJle co1’
r f J umn" operations m Texas.
A competent source said Italian
the sea.
On the central sector of the front—running nearly
60 miles from Aumale on the Bresle to Noyon on the Oise
—The Nazis sent wave after wave of machines and men
smashing against the French lines.
German losses were reported by the French high
command to be “enormous** but—still they came.
The French clung to the support points of the Wey-
gand line on the rolling hills and in the scattered woods
of the battlefield, pouring fire into the tanks with their
artillery.
The advance guards had fallen back Friday under
General Maxime Weygand’s orders and the movement
continued Saturday night after French frontline positions
had been swamped under the attack waves.
But still ahead of the Germans stretching a field of
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NEW YORK. —6Pv- Two Am-
erican liners neared New York
Saturday night with 2.634 humans
i withdraw from the race if he would
abodes"toi’ the 'safety of”the United caU « special session of the legisla-
HUNTSVILLE (Sunday) —/*»'—
Placido Handy was electrocuted
early Sunday fnr the murder in
Hidalgo county in 1934 of an
identified man whose body
found in the Rio Grande.
The current was applied at 12:02
■■ am. and Handy
M was
H dead eight min-
H utes later.
■ Speaking In
H Spanish just be-
■ fore going to the
V chair. Handy said
J ”1 am dying un-
jl justly and paying
for a crime I did
K, not commit.”
He handed Rev-
erend Hugh Fin-
negan. prison Catholic chaplain, a
package of cigarettes, and nodded
goodbye to those in the death cham-
ber.
Chilean Liner Sinks
Off Panama Channel
PARIS —(gh— Anti-aircraft guns
thundered into action in th* Paris
area Saturday night for the third
succeMive night but no air raid
alarms were sounded and the firing
soon died out.
The guns were heard shortly be-
fore midnight with the firing much |
heavier than on the two previous
nights.
Bombings were reported near
Pans Friday night and the night
before, presumably the work of
planes at which the anti-aircraft
fire was directed.
States
The President Roosevelt was
scheeduled to dock at 7 P. M. Sun-
day with 720 passengers, most of!
them Americans They boarded the
ship at Galway. Ireland.
The sleek Manhattan radioed she
te*ould dock at 2 p. m. <CST) Mon-
with 1.914 passengers from
F Italy, haif of them aliens who
booked passage before the state de-
partment ruled that American citi-
zens must be given preference.
A state official who would not
permit use of his name said the
Rangers, mounted in automobiles
for fast transit on roads and on |
horses for work in mesquite thick-
et backlands were prepared to
thrust in any direction.
Possible oorder disturbances de-
veloping out of the national elec-
tion in Mexico July 7 or anv ac-
tivities of an un-Amertcan nature
on this side of the border, the of-
ficial said, would find Rangers ready
to strike quickly.
Meanwhile. Governor W. Lee
O’Daniel's call to citizens to. report
suspected "fifth column" activities
brought voluminous replies which
were being filed in a cross-refer-
ence card index system at state
police headquarters.
Last Neutral Week
Some observers heard that an
Italian attack on their first secret
objective would come in the early '
hours Monday but a source con-
Xadered reliable indicated it probab-
ly would be later, possibly Thurs-
day or Friday night.
Although only Mussolini and pos-
sibly his axis partner, Adolf Hit- j
ler. are supposed to know the date
of the expected entry into the war.
confidence that Italy has closed
her last week as a non-belligerent
nation in this war was based on
Impressions In Italian circles as
well as war preparations which ap-
pear to be complete.
The imminence of
move was indicated
foreign reports that Italian ships
are being kept in neutral ports.
All Ships Docked
Government - controlled
POCATELLO. Idaho
youthful residents of this southeast-
ern Idaho city put on a dog-and-cat
show.
British marked down new bombing Th* proceeds—89 cents—went to
the Reel Cross tor relief of war ref-
| ugeea. • '
“Another artillery group commanded by Command-
ant Gunen, attacked at a distance of 100 meters by tanks,
destroyed 17.”
The Allied air forces, outnumbered since the start
of the campaign, stayed in the battle with one squadron
of more than 150 bombers protected by both British and
French pursuit planes and raining explosives on the Ger-
man lines.
Some planes swooped down to an altitude of only
50 feet to bomb and machine-gun enemy tanks and troops.
An air ministry communique announced German pon-
toon bridges over the Somme wera destroyed Friday night
and that Reichswehr reinforcements were dispersed.
One pursuit squadron was reported to have attacked
a German tank park and to have destroyed a “consider-
able number” of machines.
The Germans moved in two vast thrusts: from south
of Roye in the Oise Valley in the center, and to Forges-
Les-Eaux on the west flank.
While the front thus erupted with new week-end
violence, the French replied with bombs to the Nazi raid
of last Monday which killed and wounded about 1,000
Parisians.
Without giving details, the Admiralty announced
that a squadron of naval planes had raided factories in
the outskirts of Berlin Friday night, and had returned
without losing a ship. Speculation arose that some of the
raiders might have been American-made, but the ad-
miralty spokesman said he thought not.
The supreme effort of the Germans had created this
general change in the front:
It had fallen back from the Somme to the Bresle
ROME —— A pointed warning
that five English cities would be
bombed for every Italian city at-
tacked by Allied bombers m the
event Italy enters the war was pub-
lished Saturday by the Rome news-
paper Il Giornale D'Italia just
W’hile foreign observers were ex-
pressing belief Italy would enter
the conflict next week.
Il Giornale D'Italia's editor is
Virginio Gayda. long recognized as
Premier Mussolini’s editorial mouth,
piece.
Reports have circulated here that
the British and French plan to
bombard Italian centers if this na-
tion entered the war against them.
London Is Threatened
To these reports, the authoritative
newspaper said:
“For every Italian city bombed
five English cities would suffer the
same treatment “
Bombardment of Rome would be
th* signal for "similar, but great-
er. bombardment of London," the
newspaper added.
However. Rome was considered
here to be fairly safe from attack,
with the Italians prepared to make
it an open city by removing gov-
ernment offices, troops and air- ,
craft.
fcdered reliable indicated it prnbab-
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