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' DEMOS DRIVE
• BOOK BUYERS
JAILJXEMPT
Flynn Says Book Not
* To Be Sold; Dispute
Brings Demands For
Hatch Act Change
WASHINGTON — OP) — Justice
Department officials indicated
Wednesday in guarded private
comment that there was little
likelihood of prosecution for pur-
chasers of the Democratic 1940
campaign book in the event that
the Democratic national committee
decides to sell the volume despite
f the Hatch act.
One official said that prosecu-
tion under a law which could Im-
pose a maximum $5000 fine or five
years in prison on a person who
merely bought a 25 cent campaign
t book was ‘an impossible situa-
tion."
Tan t Jail Them All*
Another asked what might be
done if 100 000 persoas bought the
books recalled the observation of
an English lawyer many years ago
that “you can't Jail a whole peo-
ple"
Edward J. Flynn. Democratic
national chairman and Charles
Mirhelson. puoli"itv chief disclos-
ed last week the committee intend-
ed to go ahead with the campaign
book because it was projected be-
fore the new Hatch “anti-politics"
act became effective July 19
Flvnn said the book would not
be sold but Republicans assailed
the publication as a violation of
the Hatch law Senator Hatch (D-
NM' the laws author said the
book would constitute an “eva-
* Finn" of the law and demanded
publication be abandoned
How Law Works
The law specifically prohibits
the purchase of anything by anv-
^ one when the proceeds would di-
rectly or Indirectly benefit either
a randida’e for a federal elective
office or a political group sup-
porting such a candidate.
Attorney General Jackson how-
ever. has told Senator Hatch that
failure of the law to apply equally
to the seller was a weakness. He
suggested the act be amended to
Include the vendor as well as the
buyer “If we are to be successful
in going before Juries."
Weather
(For Valiev forecast. see page one)
For Fas* Texas ica*t of 100’h meri-
dian' Fartlv rloudv Wednesday night
and Thur«dav with scattered showers
In extreme northwest portion
Gentle to fresh southerly winds on
the .
For*West Gulf of Mexico (west of
9Tth meridian' Gentle to fresh most-
ly southerly wind* over north and
rrntral portions and gentle to moder-
» ate ea«t and southeast over extreme
•nuth portion partly cloudv weather
Wednesday night and Thursday.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Atmospheric pressure was moder-
atelv high Wednesday morning over
the Great lakes region and in the
ext-eme Northwest while moderately
low pressure pretailed over the south
e«st quadrant of the country and
over that section extending from
Arirona and New Mexico p Into Mon-
tana and the Dakotas (Buffalo N Y
30 04. Nrattle Wash 30 13. Salt Lake
City 29 73 Knoxville Tenn 20 79'
Ra-ns occurred during the last 24
hours over the greater portion of the
eastern half o fthe country particul-
arly In the interior. tTnusually high
temperatures occurred Te*da\ In a
few «po?« over the country hut on the
whole weather was cooler.
Brownsville 110 i m <CSTi sea-
level pressure 29 93 Inches.
RIO GRANDS RIVFR BI LI.ETIN
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
_ Stage stage Change R#m
Laredo _ 27 3 0 -03 05 cloudv
Rio Orande 21 2 7 4 0 3 00 pt.cldv
H.dalgn .... 2! 5 0 06 00 pt rldv
Mercedes .. 21 «1 08 00 pt cldy
Brownsville . 18 1 8 0 3 00 clear
Sun-et Wednesday . 7 07
* Sunrise Thursday .. 6 02
There will he no material rhange in
the river during the next 24 to 36
hours.
6TAT10N Lowest H.gheM Prectpt.
last last tat ion
Night 24 hour* (Inches)
Abilene 72 92 .04
Albuotierque .... 60 79 00
Amarillo . 64 76 03
A Atlanta Ga .... 71 A3 60
Boise. Idaho .... 52 90 00
Boston Mas*. ... 70 84 00
Brownsville . 78 93 .00
Br'vllle Airp't .. 76 95 .00
Chicago. Ill. 72 88 .05
Cincinnati Ohio .71 — 00
Cleveland. Ohio .71 94 .00
♦ Corpus Chrtstl .. 76 93 00
Del Rio . 70 79 1 26
Denver Colo ... 57 87 .00
Dodge City Kan . 67 87 00
El Paso . 64 80 no
Port Worth . 79 97 no
Houston . 73 95 00
Huron F Dak .67 90 .00
Jacksonville. Fla 75 A3 .00
Kansas City. Mo 74 91 02
Memphis. TVnn 72 90 70
Miami. Fla ... 73 R« 4?
Mp's Ft F Minn 70 90 00
New Orleans. La 76 92 00
North Platte Neh 61 86 00
Oklahoma City .. 72 96 00
Pensacola. Fla. ... 79 94 00
Phoenix. Arle. 76 io.5 01
Port Arthur . 79 92 00
St Louis. Mo ... 70 92 04
Salt Lake City. . 62 101 .00
Fan Antonio .... 75 98 00
San Diego. 83 75 00
. San Francisco. ..54 89 00
Sheridan Wvo. .. 65 96 .00
Shreveport. La. .. 73 93 .00
Tampa. Fla ...76 90 22
Washington D C 74 91 .00
Wllllston N Dak 84 94 .00
• DEL MAR 77 96
•Dnofflclal. Courtesy Chamber of Cora*
r merce.
Tick Infestation Is
Assailing Oklahoma
• OKLAHOMA CITY —(An— The
heaviest tick infestation in Okla-
homa in 25 tears la sweeping
westward from the Southeast. Pres-
ident Joe C. Scott of the state
hoard of agriculture said Wednes-
day.
•Thousands of cattle and thou-
sands of dollars are betna lost."
Scott asserted. The ticks now cov-
er all or part of 19 counties.
With no state funds available to
carry on a dipping program. Scott
• said he was advising that stock
owners form cooperative associa-
tions to purchase dip and recharge
that owned by the state
l Java is the twelfth largest Island
In the world having an area of 4S-
100 square miles.
_WHATZIT ANYWAY?
C arrying bows and arrows rods and reels pop-gun. tennis rarquets
and othrr whatnots. John .Mrflinlev (abovei shows what the well
dressed Debonair takes on safari. >lrfiinley wasn't on safari how-
ever. hut is shown Saturday as he was being initiated into the l>e-
bonairs. The pop-gun was to keep ding-bats away.
J. P. ALEXANDER
VISITS VALLEY
Candidate Tells Of
Qualifications
Judge James P Alexander asso-
ciate Justice of the Texas 10th
District Court of Appeals at Waco
brought his intensive run-off cam-
paign Tor Chief Justice of the
State Supreme Court to the Valley
Tuesday.
Judge Alexander was guest and
speaker at a luncheon meeting In
McAllen at noon Tuesday and that
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JUDGE ALEXANDER
night at a dinner meeting In Har-
lingen. Attorneys business men
friends and supporters from various
Valley points attended.
The judge in his talk at Harlin-
gen. told of the great importance
of the Supreme Court during these
| times how the rourt is so greatly
necessary for t-he preservation of
the American system of govern-
ment and liberty and the need for
electing the best qualified chief
justice possible.
Others at the meetings reviewed
Judge Alexander's qualifications for
the supreme Judgeship It was said
he has demonstrated his fitness Tor
the supreme court justiceship by
his record dur.ng the nine and one
half years he has been on the
court of appeals at Waco. During
that time he has written more
than half of the 1.-00 opinions
handed down by the court in cases
appealed there and of the 617
opinions written bv him. only 15
have been reversed by the supreme
rourt. giving him the high average
i of being right in his rulings 98 iter
cent of the time.
Leading supporters of Judge
Alexander pointed out that his
run-off opponent is not the late
Judge o S Lattimore. who has
been dead several years that his
opponent does not hold any judi-
cial position.
Judge Alexander is well known
In legal civic lodge and religious
circles. He has had 32 years of
continuous legal experience and
has been a judge for 18 years al-
most ten years oT which time he
has been a justice of the 10th Dis-
trict Court of Appeals. He also
practiced law for 14 years.
For the past 20 years Judge
Alexander has taught legal proce-
dure and court practice as a pro-
fessor of law at Baylor University
at Waco teaching in his spare
time outside of office hours Form-
er Governor Pat M Neff now pres-
ident of the famed Baptist college
says: “Judge Alexander would
adorn the Suoreme Court equal to
anv who have preceded him.”
From Harlingen Judge Alexan-
der will travel northward Wednes-
day going into the Gulf const
country. He will speak Wednesday
night at Corpus ChrLsti. During
Tuesday afternoon before arriving
at Brownsville he campaigned also
at Donna. Mercedes. Weslaco and
San Benito.
_I
JAP UmlEK
EYING EAST
Army Captains Pause
In \ alley
With characteristic silence and
carrying cameras two high offi-
cials of the Japanese Imperial
Army left here by different routes
Tuesday afternoon lor Washing-
ton. D. C.
They were Caotain Atuo Sigehiro.
Japanese military attache at Buenos
A'res. and Captain K Srvo.
military attache at Mexico City.
The Jap captain* arived here by
Pan American Airways but sep-
arated at Brownsville taking dif-
ferent air routes to Washington.
Captain Sa'o left in Braniff Air-
ways for Dallas where he was to
connect 'with American Air Lines
while Captain Sigehiro departed
by Eastern Air Lines.
They had no comment on the
nature of their trip to Washington
D C. and declined to be photo-
graphed.
Vigilantes Form
To Run Vice From
Old New Orleans
NEW ORLFANS— /T — A “vig-
ilance' committee of 100 mapped
plans today to drive vice from
New Orleans' historic French
quarter cne of Americas tour-
ist playgrounds.
Residents of the quarter or
Vieux Carre gathered in mass
meeting Tuesday night demand-
ed that houses of prostitution and
illegally operated saloons be
closed.
A spokesman for Superintend-
ent of Po.ice George Rrver pledg-
ed the committee cooperation.
JOSE R. CORNEJO
Last rites were to be held Wed-
nesday at 5:30 P- m. for Jose R.
Cornejo 55. who died at 2 a. m at
his home In Brownsville.
Services were to be at the Im-
maculate Conception church with
interment in the city cemetery
under direction of Delta Funeral
home.
Mr. Cornejo a native of Browns-
ville was a brick layer. He was a
member OT the Hidalgo society.
Sunning are the wife. Mrs An-
drea Cornejo and a son Jose Cor-
nejo Jr.
Atteberry Heard
MERCEDES — A classification
talk on air-conditionmg was given
by Clark Atteberry at the Tuesday
luncheon meeting of the local
Rotary club.
Dr. O. G. Halliburton presented
the entertainment program with
lour Latin-Amcrican player* on
stringed Instruments furnishing
music.
Since July 1. beginning of the
new year each week’s attendance
has been lorrv. A number of vis-
itors was present.
WCTU Reelects Head
CHICAGO —<*»■— Mrs Ida B
Wise Smith of Evanston. 111. was
reelected president of the national
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union for the seventh consecutive
time.
BRISTOL INTACT
R AIR RAID
Writer Finds People In
Normal Status
Bv DREW MIDDLETON
BRISTOL. England—<4**—A tour
of the city and port of Bristol shows
the great aircraft plant and the
busy harbor unharmed despite re-
peated German air raids since June
17 and little damage elsewhere.
I entered Bristol with a press
party invited by the ministry of in-
formation to "see for ourselves" the
effect of the Nazi attacks
Thousands of acres of docks are
piled high with wheat frozen meat
and canned fruit unloaded from
ships.
Bus and trolley lines are operat-
ing. The streets are filled with
people none of whom seemed wor-
ried while they tramped toward air
raid shelters as we entered the city.
Those Financiers
Do Have Trouble
With The Bulls
;
—
Bulls have ruined many a brok-
er and they came near putting
out the lights for Horace <Alec>
de Pourtales. New York finan-
cier who changed planes here
Tuesday afternoon.
The New York broker wasn't
thinking of the bullishness of
the New York Stock Exchange
but had flesh and blood bulls on
his mind however.
He had his shoulder disrolated
by a bull and narrowly escaped
being gored to death while visit-
ing his brother-in-law. Corby
Fox. Mexico City banker.
Mr de Pourtales carried his
arm in a sling when he stepped
off the Pan American Airways
plane here.
The accident happened when he
was "practising" bullfighting with
one of the young fighting bulls
on his brother-in-laws estate.
He was doing cape work and
Just wasn't quick enough at get-
ting out oT the wav. he explained.
The bull hit him in the side.
Mr. de Pourtales plans to leave
bullfighting to bullfighters hence-
forth and onlv tackle the bulls
of the stock exchange
Arriving with him. and also
leaving by Eastern Air Lines for
New York was Paul Buttles a
friend of former Senator J. A.
Hastings of New York who is well
known here.
Berwald to Have
Florsheim Shoes
—
Frank Berwald. owner-manager
of Berwald* Shoe store here Wed-
nesday announced that Berwald's
will carry a complete line of Flor-
sheim shoes for men this Tall. The
shoes are now on display at the
. store.
Florsheim shoes have long been
recognized as a leader in the field
of better shoes. Mr. Berwald points
out. Mr. Berwald said that he
would stock all sizes and widths.
The fall line of Florsheims is the
smartest and most attractive in
several years according to Mr.
Berwald.
Hollywood to Fight
Nazi Radio Blasts
HOLLYWOOD— Two eastern
radio stations. WRCA and WNI.
will start short-wave propaganda
broadcasts to Latin - American
countries Sept. 15. using recordings
by Hollywood film stars.
RKO studio official said actor*
from five studios RKO MOM
Paramount Universal and Warn-
ers—would provide the talent for
| the twice-weekly broadcast* to com-
pete with German and Italian
propaganda.
FINDS LOST UNCLE
AFTER 35 YEARS
Joe W Holland of Beaumont
who is visiting here held the un-
usual experience of finding a "lost*’
uncle recently whom he had not
seen for 35 years.
The uncle. William Abadie. (M.
was found to be a ranch owner at
Glenrock. Wvo after Mr. Holland
had practically scoured the state
for him.
Mr Holland is visiting his aunt
here. Mrs J A Tamayo and later
plans to visit Port Isabel.
MRS. DOYLE LEAVES
SAN BENITO— Leaving Sunday
for Nebraska was Mrs. Mary Doyle
who was called there by the serious
illness of her mother Mrs. John
Novotny a former San Benitan.
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F.AT IN
Air-Conditioned
Comfort
WAFFLES — BACON
COFFEE — 23c
ANTHONY’S
WAFFLE SHOP
Jimmy Nicholas M(r
611 - Twelfth Street Brownsville
.r ” — Z 7 " i f~Z ;
Historic Savannah Battered By Storm
The force of the tropical hurricane which struck the
coasts of Georgia and South Carolina is clearlr
demonstrated by htis photo of a battered building
in Savannah. Georgia. Entire second story was
blown from the building.
iNEA Telephoto!
AS SENATE DEBATES CONSCRIPTION
- -_______
iB5m» •• i
This photo was made in the Senate Chamber dur- photo while Senator Morris Sheppard is between
in* the heated debate on the conscription bill. the two men. Senator Key Pittman is presiding
Senator George Morris Is standing at the left wiih over the Senate from the rostrum at the right in
his hark to the ramera. Senator Burton K. Vice President Garner* absence.
Wheeler is standing in the left background of the tNT.A Telephotol
Special Service Set At
Immaculate Conception
Preparation for a Perpetual No-
vena to Our SorrowTul Mother will
begin Wednesday at 7:10 p. m. with
a triduum at the Immaculate Con- '
ception church here.
The Perpetual Novena to Our
Sorrowful Mother ts to start Fri-
day at 7:30 p. m at Immaculate
Conception church and will be
held each week.
The service Involves congrega-
tion singing and pra\er and a Via
Matrls 'Wav of the Mother' In
which worshippers traverse a circuit
of seven Stations of the Crass rep-
resenting the seven sorrows of the
Virgin.
Many write petitions on blanks
handed them before the Novena
begins.
First of the Perpetual Novenas
to Our Sorrowful Mother here was
started at Our Lady of Guadalupe
church recently bv the R*v Father
Fred DeRoche. OMI. pastor and
has attracted hundreds in increas-
ing numbers.
The Perpetual Novena to Our
Sorrowful Mother is an outgrowth
of a devotional of the Servite Fath-
ers of Ron years ago. and was put
in popular form In 1937 in Chicago.
As many as 40000 today attend
the Novena in Our Lady of Sor-
rows church. Chicago.
The new Novena at Immaculate
Conception church here will be In
charce of the Rev Father Esteban
de Anta. pastor and superior who
will be assisted by the Rev. Father
Eloy Fuentes and the Rev Father
Frank Duffy all of the O M I. or-
der.
Gen. Marshall Favors
Army Conscription
CAMP BEAUREGARD. La. —’A1)
—General George C. Marshall chief
of statT of the United States Armv.
here to view troop maneuvers said
conscription was the only way to
raise the army to needed strength.
The General arrived here Tues-
day by airplane and toured some
of the Sabine Valley area in which
regular army and National Guard
troops are training. More than
70ooo will be concentrated In the
section this week-end for simulat-
ed warfare.
STORE CLOSED
ALL DAY THURSDAY
To Prepare for Our Gigantic
SURPRISE EVENT
Your Dollar Will Buy More Friday
and Saturday
See Our Announcement in Thursday’s
Brownsville Herald
a
COUPLE PLANS
TRIP DOWN RIO
Y'oyage From El Paso
To Mexican Gulf
•
LOS ANGELES —Mr and
Mrs. Ray Wood left for El Paso.
Texas Wednesday to launch upon
the Rio Grande a 16-foot "combi-
nation sailboat canoe and kayak"
which they hope to take on a
three-year voyage into the Gulf of
Mexico to Florida and up the
Atlantic coast.
"We are going to prove that it Is
possible to live off the products
I of the sea and land.” said Wood
We are leasing our money at
home and will not purchase any
| lood supplies.”
BODIES ROT IN
RAVAGED TOWN
French City Is ‘Ghost*
Of Nazi Onslaught i
Br roy f. porter
ARCIS SUR AUBE France (Via
Berlin*i (Delayed!—Virtually
raxed by bombing planes in lesa
than an hour during the battle of
France. Ards Sur Aube in the
Champagne region of German-oc-
cupied Prance Is being given Am-
erican assistance
Of all the bomb-blasted towns I
have seen In battle-grounds of tha
new war. Ards—famed a* tha
birthplace of George Jacques Dan-
ton. French revolutionary leader —
presented the worst picture.
Out of more than 3000 inhabi-
tants. only a few hundred remain.
Bodies of many still lie in the ruins.
Entire blocks of house* have no
more than a few wall* Rtanding and
the 15th century church 1* a wreck.
Today for the first time since tha
German military push American
Red Cross trucks rolled Into Arcis
with food and medical supplies.
One Picked Two More
Women Run As Solons
AUSTIN —JT — There mill be at
least one—and possibly three—wo-
men members of the ISO-member
Texas house of representatives
when It convenes next January.
Mrs. Neveille Higga Colson Ni-
vasota brunette and one of two
women members currently mas re-
nominated In the first primary and
canvassed primary votes show two
others in the Aug. 24 run-oTf. They
are: :
Miss Elizabeth Suiter of Winns-
boro. attractive 28-vear-old attor-
ney and daughter of W. D 8utter
eight years a state senator and
Muss Rae Files winsome Waxaha-
chie school teacher and student of
government. Both face incumbents.
The 47th Legislature will have at
least 70 new members and could
have 99 The first primary nomin-
ated 78. of which 27 mill be nevr-
comers. The run-offs list 29 in-
cumbents.
YES MISTER BUT WE
STILL HAVE THE HILL
BOSTON —iff*'— H.nrv j Ack-
rovd. tourist Information expert on
Boston Common is quick on th®
trigger.
A Canadian Inquired about
Bunker Hill. Arkriyd gave him th®
usual story of the “red coats" and
the "whites of their eves."
“You know muster.” said th®
Canadian "up In Canada me've got
one of the guns the British captur-
ed that day at Bunker Hill"
Cracked Ackroyd after a mo-
ment:
“Yes but me've still got the hill.”
HAVE YOD
MALARIA?
ir SO - WATCH OUT
The medical profession knom-s
I that though a person may be rured
of common malaria they may have
it come back on them. So. if you
are once more feeling tired run-
down. have pains tn back and legs
• feel weak and bilious no appetite
and nervous—though chills and
lever haven't struck you vet. and
you have common malaria it
doesn't pay to take any chances.
Try a bottle of Oxidine. Oxidtne
us made to combat malaria giv#
von iron to help creation of red
blood cells. You onlv have to take
it for 7 da vs. And. if this FIRST
:»0c bottle doesn’t satisfy you vour
money mill be returned. Oxidln®
has been used for over 50 years.
Try a bottle today.
f'Unerns Drug Store
Eke you bet. camel's
UR SLOWER BURNING
GIVES ME THE
S EXTRA MILDNESS
I WANT AND EXTRA
SMOKING TOO
U? ... • I
GET THE “EXTRAS”
WITH SLOWER-BURNING
UHELS
THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS
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