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Bandits Get $108000 In Daring Daylight Bank Holdup
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FORTY-NINTH YEAR—No. 26_'_BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS. TUESDAY. JULY 30 1940_• * * *_EIGHT PAGES TODAY_5c A COPY
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^yHERE CAME A FREIGHT
rate reduction.
Dlscu&s it with a railroad man
and he will tell you how far-
reaching the effects of the reduc-
tion; how beneficial how unprof-
itable to the railroads and how
profitable to the shippers.
Then discuss the particular re-
duction with a shipper.
And you get an entirely differ-
ent picture of the situation.
I The rate is not so low they will
tell you.
Besides there is nothing to be
shipped under the rate even
though it has been reduced
And anyway the bootleg truck-
er will continue to earn the same
tlung at an even leer rate.
AJthough the shipper would
prefer to have it hauled bv the
railroad.
And that s the wa1 it goes Your
answer depend:- on the mter^t ot
the person to whom \ou happen
to be talking.
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THIS IS ALL DUE TO A LET-
ter received from J. A.
Bunch secretary o! the Soutn
Texr.s Canner/ Association.
Bringing with It the announce-
ment of a rate reduction on can-
ned goods to Texas points. The
reduction is a purely intrastate
•'one. and developed apparently to
meet truck competition.
It reduces the rate on a mini-
mum 60 000-pound car approxi-
mately one-third to all points in
the state. Adding five rents a
ftiundred to less than 60.000-pound
cars down to 20.000 pounds.
The reductions look good to us
as we scanned the list.
For example;
The old rate to Dallas was 43
cents. It's now 30.
Fort Worth. 43 and 30.
Houston. 28-34. and now 24
Brownwood. 42 «old» 36 inew.l
Lufkin. 40 »oldt 28 (new.
Wichita Falls 48 <old» 35
(new >
San Antonio. 30 (old) 22 <new).
El Paso. 59 cold*. 42 (new).
And so on over the state.
• • •
THESE REDUCTIONS LOOK-
* ed good to us. for canned
a vegetables and for Juice.
1 So we called an affected ship-
per We thought we were bring-
ing good news
His voice. o\er the telephone.
% shewed hardly any interest in
the subject.
•Reduction? Yeah we heard
about it. Well what about if*"
No. it doesn't mean much to
us You know the vegetable
cannera up in Arkansas and Ok-
lahoma have got us shut off an' -
how Naw. we cant get into that
North Texas ternton against
their competition and lower
freight rates Haw. we don't
make any carload shipments up
there Oh. ma.'be the new rate
will help here and there but it
don't amount to much"
We decided that he was talk-
ing about canned 'ec*tables en-
tirelv. so we thought we had him.
• Well.'' we said. "Arkansas and
Oklahoma don't can grapefruit
juice and that's the most ltnpor-
;nt item that we ship No com-
Jjjjetition. All you have to do Is sell
! Oh. yeah." came back the cyn-
ical voice.
"Why. we haient shipped a
carload of canned Juice into that
territory in years it said.
xf wanted to know how
in blazes do they get our canned
JUlCf?
Oh they get a little now and
then Our canned juice goes
mostly into New England into the
e#:. ’ The Texas folks eat fresh
Jr-The railroads have missed the
boat as they say in England
^hey give their reductions where
(Continued on Page Two.)
EARNING RISE
FOR QUARTER
37 PER CENT
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Gains Widespread In
Industry Excepting
Food Makers; Rails
Also Move Up
By JOHN L. BECKLEY
Associated Press Statistician
NEW YORK—Profits of
the first 300 companies to
report for the second quarter
of 1940 were 37 per cent
greater than a year ago.
The gam was made In th£ lace
of increased taxes for defense pur-
poses and despite uie fact that
most leading corporations charged
added taxes for the entire first
naif against second quarter earn-
po.es.
Rates Retroactive
The leci-lation was not passed
until the second quarter but made
|N increased rates retroactive to
cater the enure calendar year.
New excess prolus legislation now-
planned m Washing .on may cut ;
lutner into 1940 earnings.
rniags of the first 300 com-
panies roof to S.j 19 829.CKH) compared
with 1232.688 000 in the Aurii-May-
Jur.e quarter of 1939.
Excluding the relatively stable
pro'.;is of tne American Telephone
•Ml Telegraph Company net in-
come of the group was 43 per cent
greater than the same period last
year.
The gam in earnings was wide-
‘ See PROFIT^ Page Two
Country’s Record
Heat Wave Death
Toll Reaches 765
Bv -he Associated Prrss
Thundershowers brought a mea-
sure of relief to some parts of the
parched nation Tuesda but for
most of the country the day was
just another lap in the heat mara-
thon.
As the mercury again climbed
toward*the nineues Uie number of
deaths from the season's most
prolonged heat wave increased to
765 heat deaths attributed to heat
prostration most of them in Chi-
cago. Ohio's total was 36 Michi-
gan s 35. Pennsylvania s 34. and
Wisconsin's 29.
Weather observers reported a
"rather slight" cool air mass mov-
ing eastward from North Dakota
and Minnesota but it was not ex-
pected to afford much rciief beyond
northern Illinois and Indiana.
Showers brought temporary re-
spite m the lake region and at
scattered points in th Atlantic
and Gulf states the Appaia nan
distrirt and the upp?r Ohio Val-
iev. Torrential rains in the foot-
hills west of Fountain Colo. caus-
ed extensive damage to crops
washed ou* railroad tracks and
delayed automobile traffic between
Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
HITLER S PET DREAM
Goose-Step In London
But Not Out On a Limb
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Speculation continued as to
whether the long-promised Nazi in-
vasion of Britain is at hand and
Berlin offers no discouragement on
an idea which series to keep Eng-
lish nerves ragged.
The concrete evidence on which
we must judge the trend of affairs
however is that there has been an
increasingly heavy and persistent
Nazi bombing of England and Brit-
ish shipping. To my mind this rep-
resents a double-edge strategy
I which can cut in these directions
Double-Edge Strategy
(1). It is calculated to establish
a counter-blockade which will atari •
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Britain into submission if collapse
doesn't come from some other
cause.
<2*. It is calculated to pound
the country into a state of help-
lessness which will insure surren-
der and make invasion possible
There is no indication that Hen-
Hitler has abandoned his pet
scheme of goose-stepping his troops
through a conquered London. There
are signs though that he is pro-
ceeding cautiously with an opera-)
tion which might easily result in
disaster for him
Invasion To Mop I'p
It seems to me. as I have lndl-
(See MACKENZIE. Page Two.) |
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NOTED JURIST HEARD HERE
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W. ijiFll .* ... .... ..... • *
Federal Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson (extreme left! of Houston is. shown
here Monday night addressing the Hidalgo and Cameron county or-
ganization meet of the University of Texas Law School association.
Seated next to Judge Hutcheson is Judge Harbert Davenport Browns-
ville who presided.
Law Students Termed
‘Slap-Happy’ Idiots
Judge Hutcheson Urges Selective Enrolment
Improved Staff At U. of T.
The needs of the University of Texas law school were sketched by
Federal Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Houston of the fifth U. S circuit
court of appeals New Orleans who spoke Monday night at the Hotel
El Jardm here.
President of the University of Texas Law School Association he was
U T. STUDENTS |
UNPATRIOTIC’
Davenport Upbraids
Student Body
i
Judge Harbert Davenport pres-
ident of the Texas State Historical
Association roundly scored the
University of Texas student body
Monday night for what he termed
its present day unpatriotic atti-
tude.
He based his observations as a
summer school teacher of Texas
history at the university after an
absence of 32 years from the cam-
pus.
There is an attitude among the
students of “Why light for any- |
i thing anyhow" he declared be.ore
the Hidalgo and -ameron organ-
izational session of the University
of Texas Law School Association
here.
Judge Davenport asserted that
there is even a “secret admiration"
among some for the otalitarian
countries who think democracy
and the wniteu State' are a fail-
ure.
' The general sentiment is out of
proportion’* he added.
. principal .speaker at the organiza-
tion of Hidalgo and Cameron divi-
sions of the association.
Needs Higher Salary
Judge Hutcheson who said he
studied his law in the basement*
of the school back in >900. said the
Texas law school of today needs
higher salaries for its faculty new
administration building and more
selective enrolment.
The enrolment of the school
snouid be cut down instead ol
raised he said in declaring that
1 some of the law students today are
I slap happy idiots ’ neither litted.
nor qualilied.
Faculty salaries should be rais-
ed to a standard that would en-
able the school to call promising
iSee HUTCHESON. Page Twof
SENATE SPEEDS
FD GUARD BILL
WASHINGTON—«/P;— The sen-
ate military committee Tuesday
delays tinal action on the Burke-
Wadsworth compulsory military
training bill and ordered hearings
immediately on a measure to au-
thorize President Roosevelt to
train the national guard and the
officers reserve corps.
Chairman heppard «D-Tex> said
he thought the senate should take
up the guard-reserve officers bill
before acting on the general cons-
cription measure.
Although it was by no means
certain that this would be done
the committee’s action in delaying
final approval of the one and ord-
ering hearing on the other opened
I the way for that procedure.
Favors Conscription
Mr. Roosevelt asked the guard-
reserve officers legislation Mon-
day and Tuesday he was repre-
sented by Sheppard who had just
spent a weekend touring Hampton
Roads defenses with him. as fav-
oring the conscription bill.
Mother And Child In
‘Iron Lung’ Survive
LOS ANGELES— (X* —Medical
! history is being written here in
the birth to Mrs. Virginia M. Mat-
thews. 23 ill with infantile par-
alysis and encased in an iron lung
of a normal healthy son.
Dr Edwin S Bettett. director of
the County General Hospital said
two similar births had been report-
ed in North America but to his
knowledge this is the Tirst in which
both mother and child have sur-
vived.
CAA AND WPA
ARE EXPECTED
TO AID PLAN
Improvements Would
Care For Needs For
Next 30 Years Say
City Officials
A municipal airport for Browns-
ville that will rank among the na-
tion's best and will meet the re-
quirements of air transportation de-
] velopments for 30 years to come
was seen by city officials Tuesday
with early acceptance of plans by
the CAA and WPA anticipated.
To Cost Million
Improvements for the city's mu-
nicipal airport that will cost ap-
proximately SI.000.000 or even more.
are called for in plans now well
on their way toward approval.
The dtjr’S application for WPA
funds for the airport improvement
has passed through all preliminary
channels and now is in Washington
where early approval is anticipated
it was announced.
The latest CAA suggestions Yiave
been incorporated in previous plans
MILTON WEST
and the new plans have been traa<-
mitted to the “proper offices.' with
CAA certification anticipated dur-
ing the current week.
Plans Forwarded
Plans for a contemplated 1200-
000 administration building have
teen sent to all government agen-
cies and to all airlines now operat-
ing at the municipal airport for
'whatever suggestions they may
have for expediting service.”
City officials Tuesday named U.
S Representative Milton H. W'est.
Brownsville as having played a ma-
jor part in the city’s efforts to ob-
tain the improvements that will
make its municipal airport one o!
the top-ranking in the nation.
He has been carrying the burden
in Washington." they declared.
Runways Added
Original plans for improvements
at the municipal airport would have
provided five runways with three
of them more than a mile in length.
Later CAA suggestions have result-
ed in incorporation of two other
jimways each 3.870 feet long.
It was estimated that the ongi-
tSee AIPORT Page Two i
Thompson Fired
Off Lee’s Board
At'STIN —(API— Governor W.
Ire ODanirl Tuesdav removed
Ernest O. Thompson one of his
opponents in the recent guber-
natorial campaign as Texas' rep-
resentative on the interstate
.oil compact commission.
In a letter which he made pub-
lic. the governor informed Thomp-
son. who placed second in the
democratic primary which saw O'-
Daniel nominated for a second
term that "this letter is to notify
you that in order to promote the
welfare of this state and bring
abcut a more effective regulation
and conservation of our natural
resources. I have this dav remov-
ed von as mv personal represen-
tative from the interstate oil com-
pact commission.”
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NOT HOW MANY BUT
WHAT KIND OF YEARS
Henry F ord 77 States U.S.
Not to Be Drawn Into War
DETROIT— <AP> — Henry Ford reached his 77th birthday anniversaiv i
Tuesday at peace with himself and witti the world in excellent physical
condition and more optimistic than ever about the future
"I was never more confident” he said in an interview “than I am
today that the future will bring happiness contentment and pioapenty
to our people ”
The noted Industrialist whose philosophy of life centers largely upon
the idea that ‘ there never has hern j
produced too much of any useful
commodity-* planned no formal
celebration.
• When you Ret to be 77 years
old.” Ford said -you’re more or less
used to birthdays; the years them-
seltes don’t count anyway; it's
v hat you have done with them that
adds up to success or failure."
Repeats Conviction
Ford repeated his conviction the
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United States would not be drawn '
into the war. ‘ despite tremendous |
pressure on the part of certain
elfish interests that would like to
see all or enormous resources de-
voted to the production of the '
machinery of destruction ”
The extent of the prosperity he
sees ahead Ford said •depends
of course upon our youth and
• See FORD. Pace Twot
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Bandits Get BigSum
In Daylight Robbery
ASBURY PARK N J.—*AP>—A trio of bandits armed with shotguns
robbed two bank messengers of $108000 rash in front of the post office
Tuesday and in full view of scores of spectators
They escaped through the congested traffic of this shore resort s
main thoroughfare in a sedan bearing Pennsylvania license plates
James Forsythe vice president and cashier of the Asbury Park Na-
tional Bank At Trust company estimated the loss and said it was covered
by insurance. The money was con-:-
igned from the bank to the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank of New York
and was being taken to the post of-
fice.
Forsythe said the messengers.
Clarence Barton and Joseph Sturm
were accosted by the trio as they
stepped from their car
The robbers wore dark glasses.
Forsythe said that during the
holdup a fourth man remained Ul
the bandit car with the engine run-
ning.
VISA ISSUANCE
! ACCELERATING
—
50 Filed Monday In
Matamoros
George K. Aziz chairman of the
merchants committee of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce
announced at a committee meeting
Monday that progress is being
made in the number of border
passage permits being issued by
the Uni ed Slates consulate in
Matamoros
“We have been advised." Mr.
Aziz said. that Consul Goforth
reached the figure 01 fifty in the
number of visas issued Monday.
Since the permits are issued
mostly to family groups such a
figure—filty—will account for an
average of about six persons or
around 300 persons a day.
“If the Tigure is maintained it
will be possible to add some three
thousand every ten days to the
number permitted to cross into
American territory" he said.
"At that rate it will not take long
to get over the hump and the
pressure will not be so great."
ONE UMPIRE WHO’LL
GET NO BACK TALK
SALEM. Ore..—if — The state
prison baseball team will be in
perfect agreement with the um-
pire's decisions in its first game
outside the walls in 20 years
Umpire for a game August 12
with the Carl Mays team will be
Roy S. Keene—Parole Board Mem-
i ber.
U. S. Planning Nets
To Trap Submarines
WASHINGTON—f/P — The de-
i fense commission has disclosed
plans of the nav vto station 'ea-
sels in major amencan harbors to
lay submarine nets in emergencies
The commission listed in a re-
port of armv and naw orders Tues-
day si6 ooo for construction of
net tenders.
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War at a Glance
Bv The Associated Press
THF. MILITARY FRONT
German planes swarm again
over Britain; Germans credit
Nazi sea and air raiders with
destroying 257.000 tons of Brit-
ish shipping in week ending Julv
28; British place figure at 37.577
ton for week ending July 21;
claim l.lfto.noo tons of axis ship-
ping destroyed throughout war.
Italian high command reports
several ships seriously damaged
in air attack on British oonvoy
in .Mediterranean.
THi: DIPLOMATIC FRONT
Foreign affairs up before Brit-
ish parliament; nation aroused
over axis remaking of Balkans.
Japanese ai rests of Britons.
Tokyo sources see arrests as Jap-
anese step toward eliminating
foreign influence and economic
inroads. Rumanian opposition to
further territorial concessions
grows. French protest British ar-
rest of two admirals seizure of
ships.
Spain and Portugal sign mutual
defense consultations agreement.
"Academic'* Argentine reserva-
tions berloud Pan - American
unanimity on “Act of Havana.'*
Wartime Jitters
Blamed For U. S.
Auto Deaths Rise
—
CHICAGO — Wartime jit-
ters —the war's psychological ef-
fects on American motorists—were
held partly responsible Tuesday lor
a sharp increase in the nation s ■
traffic deaths.
Reporting an eight per cent In-
crease In traffic deaths for the
first half of 1940 compared with
the same period last year the Na-
tional Safety Council attributed
the rise to greater travel and war-
time jitters. -
There wer 14 740 persons killed
In motor accidents during the first
six months of 1940. or 1040 more
than in the like 1939 period.
The Jt.ne death toll of 2.820
was 15 per cent greater than that
of June. 1939. and the largest for
any month since March 1937 June
also was the ninth consecutive j
month to show an increase over t
the same month of the preceding
year the cojncil said
The council found that traffic
deaths began tr increase sharply
almost r multaneously with the
i outbreak oT war and that the rise
reached a peak m June when
i Prance surrendered.
BLITZ ATTACK j
ON ISLAND IS
ABOUT READY
Britain Prepares To
Tighten Blockades;
Export Deal With
U. S. Talked
BASEL. Switzerland — 4* —The
German* iMesday closed all rail
and road frontier posts on the
Swiss-German frontier except
that at Samt Margsrethen m
Austria apparently In a move to
ensure secrecy for troop move-
ments through southern Ger-
many In connection with prepar-
ations for the offensive against
England.
NEW YORK — (AP) —
Heavy masting of German
troops in Nazi - occupied
France across the channel
from England was reported
Tuesday by Edwin Hartrich
CBS correspondent who just
has toured the area.
Moving only under the
cover of darkness he said
they are mobilizing in trem-
endous numbers toward the
French coast from Marseilles
as far north as the Belgian
channel ports.
He said the touring corres-
pondents were warned by
their military guides not to
divulge in which direction
the troops were moving.
Many Civilians
Killed In Raids
LONDON—German war-
planes struck punishingr new
blows on Britain's coast
Tuesday taking an undis-
closed toll of civilian life
with attack* that continued
'hrough night and day.
Heaviest hit were towns on the
• See WAR. Pag* Two*
DEATH TAKES
MRS. BOWIE
FAN BENITO—Mrs. Elizabeth
McCnndle Caldwell Bo-y i* 86.
member of a prominent Sin Be-
t lto family died at her home here
at 12 50 a m Tuesday.
Born in Ayrshire. Scotland. Julv
12. 1854. Mrs Bowie came to the
United States in 1904. and has re-
sided In San Benito for 22 years.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 4 p m. at the First
Presbvterian church her* with
Dr Hugh Robert«on. Presbyterian
pastor officiating. Interment will
b« at V>’a CM r
Brownsville under direction of
Clav Hall F“unerat Home
Pallbearers will be R T. .Agar.
Clarence Hagar. I V. Jolly. James
E Shafer. E L Barmore. Robert
Oerlach. J W Hafner. Ted Hud-
son and Quinton Lou than.
Mrs Bowie is survived by seven
sons of whom six are San Benito
residents and by one daughter.
The sons are William Bowie of
Moulton. Iowa; James Bowie man-
ager of the Port Isabel-San Benito
Navigation District; David Bowie;
Robert Bowie; Alec Bowie post-
master at San Ben o; Andrew
Bowie; Cameron county rlghts-of-
way agent; and Charles Bowie
former Cameron county attorney.
The daughter surviving Is Mrs.
Andrew R. Black. Watsonville.
Call? There are 15 grandchildren
and eight great grandchildren sur-
viving.
Paris Schools Open
GRENOBLE. France—WP— Main
schools of Paris reopened Mondsv
according to a Parts dispatch to
the newspaper Le Petit Dauphi-
nota.
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