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FORTY-NINTH YEAR—No. 57 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS FRIDAY AUGUST 30 1940 it it it it EIGHT PAGES TODAY Sc A COPY
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T^HIS NEWSPAPER WISHES
4 to add its congratulations to
the long list extended to E. O.
Anglin. Jr. and Roy Davis.
These two young aviators one
an Instructor the other a stu-
^ dent acted with commendable
coolness and calm when they were
faced with an emergency.
J. It is to the credit of the avia-
tion school with which they are
connected that Its auplane was
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equipped with parachutes.
The two men found their air-
plane acting badly at 2000 feet.
So they brought their para-
chutes into use. baled out. and
landed safely near the field north
of the Brownsville turning basin.
Their airplane crashed to the
earth a wreck.
Here are two men who are bet-
ter aviators because of their ex-
perience.
It is reported that the student
flyer previously had expressed the
hope that he would have an op-
portunity to use the parachute.
He got his wish.
• • •
IN THIS CONNECTION. WE
4 wish to say that messages
came to The Herald asking this
newspaper to "play down” the
story and not to print pictures.
To have done so would have
been rather silly.
If the new spaper had not carried
the story and illustrated It all
sorts of unjust stones concerning
the accident would have found
their way around.
With scores of thousands of
airplanes flying around the coun-
try there are going to be airplane
accidents.
Just as there are hundreds of
thousands of automobile accidents
with more than 30.000 automobile
deaths a year.
Are people going to quit driv-
ing automobiles because 30.000
persons a year are killed because
4 of them ?
m3 a a a
QERMANY BEGAN TRAINING
its air corps by using gliders.
During the twenties thousands
were flying gliders and how
many were killed in this method
of training will never be known.
But did Germany give up that
9 sort of training because of the
accidents?
They did not.
Nor will an occasional accident
# tn the United States deter our
young men in their flying ambi-
tions.
They are still going to want to
fly.
Since March. 1939. not one pas-
senger has been fatally injured
in a commercial airplane acci-
dent. A year and a half with
a perfect score and with hund-
reds of millions of passenger
miles flown.
It is newspaper experience that
suppression of such stories mere-
ly creates gossip—unjust unfair
and even malicious gossip.
• • •
^E WONDER IF ANY OF THE
temale sex ever read this col-
umn.
If they do. we w ant to tell them
about something we saw on a re-
cent trip to New York City.
Our wanderings brought us to
the comer of Fifth Avenue and
* Thirty-eighth streets. The Lord
and Taylor corner.
A crowd of women possibly
seventy-five of them were crowd-
ing In front of a small display
window.
|t Our curiosity aroused as to
what the window might have to
show we shoved in among the
crowd Thats right "shoved in."
Finally we came near enough to
jcee what the excitement was
about
There were two items of mer-
chandise in. the windows only
two.
They were lady’s hats made of
velvet and attractive In shape
m and size.
f Each of the hats had a small
figured decoration of trimming
apparently stones of some kind
^*set in what seemed to be plati-
num.
< Continued on Paga Two.)
V V V V v v V • V V Y T V V Y Y V ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ r
ITALIAN TROOPS KILL TWO AMERICANS
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Davis To Build $750000
Plant In Rincon Field
HOUSE BATTE
ON DRAFT BILL
OPENS FRIDAY
Foes Assail Measure;
Advocates Pred i c t
It Will Be Passed By
Next Week End
\V ASHINGTON— (A P) —
Pre-debate s»kir m i s h i n g
opened in the house Friday
on the peacetime conscrip-
tion bill with a group of foes
assailing it as •unnereisary" and
its advocates predicting it would
ride through to overwhelming ap-
proval by the end of next week
The attack was incorporated in
an eight-man minority report fil-
ed on the revised Burke-Wads-
worth compulsory military train-
ing measure approved Thursday by
a majority of the members of the
house military committee
Actual debate is scheduled to
1 start Tuesday on the house bill
which differs in one vital particul-
ar from that passed by the senate
The house measure would require
male ntizens from 21 to 44 to reg-
ister for possible service The sen-
ate ace bracket was 21 »o 30 Lead-
ers foresaw a hot fight on the a***
question.
“Dangerous Departure”
The minority report declared
that this proposal and others
inevitably to follow to conscript
man power conscript the farmers
conscript industry conscript labor
to run industry and conscript the
wealth of the nation is not only
unnecessary at this time to ade-
quate defense of the country but
that it is a distinct and danger-
ous departure which will lead
ultimately to the destruction of
• See DRAFT Page Two*
ROADS HERE IN
DEFENSE PLAN
San Antonio Highway
May Be Improved
—
Strengthening of the road and
bridges b?t\r?en Brownsville and
San Antonio has been proposed
jointly by the War Department
and the federal Public Roads Ad-
ministration as a national defense
measure the Associated Press re-
ported Friday.
The Brownsville - San Antonio
stretch is included in proposals to
strengthen 80.000 miles of high-
ways and 2 000 bridges over the
nation.
Several thousands of miles of
Texas highways would be desig-
nated defense routes wherever nec-
essary to insure swift and safe
passage of heavy military equip-
ment construction would be or-
dered to unprove certain stretches
of roadway or bridge*.
Several weeks ago the war de-
tartment submitted to the PR A
a chart showing the highways it
deemed strategically located and
asked for a report on their pres-
ent condition.
Because of Its size its Interna-
tional boundary and it* natural
iMOurces Texas had more mileage
outlined or the chart than any
other state. In designating defense
toutes the war department took
into consideration also the loca-
tion of existing and proposed
army and naval posts location of
industrial plants manufacturing
defense materials and the problem
of ingress and egress from urban
areas.
French Newspapers
Open Drive On Jews
VICHY. France——The French
press began editorial attacks on
Jews Friday following promulga-
tion of a decree lifting a b*n on
newspaper attack* based on race
i or religion. i
Britain Employs
In visible Paint
For Raid Planes
BERLIN—fJP>— Something "re-
sembling rough black soot." which
is smeared on some British planes
and makes them difficult to see
at night is giving German chem-
ists something to analvize. inform-
ed sources said todav.
This new "war paint" absorbs
the rays of German searchlights so
that on clear nights raiding Brit-
ish planes are hard to detect it
was said.
WASHINGTON — .*»>— Develop-
ment of a paint which so reduced
the visibility of an airplane that
it was able to run a gauntlet of
searchlights without being detected
was reported by army air corps of-
ficers Friday.
Commenting on reports from
Berlin that the British were using
a sooty coating to black out their
oombers. the officers disclosed that
the United States army had been
experimenting for years with var-
ious so-called “Invisible" paints.
In contrast to the reported Brit-
ish method the army has been us-
ing a special buff pamt which ab-
sorbs light so that when subjected
to the glare of a searchlight it re-
flects few rays that can be seen by
observers.
WOOTTON DIES
IN AUTO CRASH
Was on Way to Valley
Safety Meeting
ELSA—The Valleys 61st traffic
latality of the year occurred Thurs-
day about 7 p. m. near here when
James Bonner Wootton. 24 of Ed-
inburg was killed en route to a
safety meeting.
The accident happened at Mile
5 and Highway 107 near here when
the youth was reported to have
collided with a car driven by J. C ]
Pike 28. W'eslaco who received
only minor bruises.
Wootton. who was president of
the Edmburg 20-30 club was en
I route to a Harlingen meeting of
Valley 20-30 clubs to discuss instal-
lation of 200 Safety Sally signs In
the Valley.
He was an employe of the Farm
Security Administration. Edinburg
and had been stationed in Browns-
ville a year ago while connected
with other government agricultur-
al work.
The body was forwarded Friday
to Sabinal for burial after having
been taken to the Martin Nelson
Funeral Home at W’eslaco.
Wootton’s car was said to have
; leaped into the air after the
crash almost hitting phone wires.
(See WOOTTON. Page Two)
Bandits Escape
With $25000
TRENTON. N. J. —«jpi— Holdup
men made off with bags Of cash es-
timated bv police at about 125.000
in a daylight raid Friday on the
Crescent Insulated Wire and Cable
Company plant.
Sulfanilamide Family
Drug Curing Dysentery
ATLANTA—^— Sulfathiazole.
baby member of the amazing sul-
fanilamide family is bidding
strongly for recognition as the
long-sought effective weapon
against dysentery bacilli rugged
pest equally at home In nursery
or army camp.
At Henrietta Egleston hospital
for children physicians have
watched this drug score repeated
spectacular victories over acute
dysentery in children one to three
. years old.
I Tha hospital stall is unwilling <
yet to say positively that -thiazole
is the long-needed curative agent
for this ancient ill. but it definite-
ly is encouraged.
The drug was first made avail-
able for experimental use about
a year ago and Egleston was
among the first to receive suppUes
of it. Sulfathuuole was designed
primarily to attack staphylococcic
Infections as sulfanilamide deal*!
with the dead streptococcus
Sulfathiazole was used in treat-
ment of pneumonia and did its
ifiea DRUG. Fata Two.)
ULTIMATELY ;
TO INSTALL
VALLEY LINE
Engineering Work To
Begin In 20 Days;
Reiterates Faith In
Brownsville
BY A. I> HAWKINS
W R Davis president of the in-
ternational oil firm of W R Dav-
is .Inc. announced here Thursday
afternoon that he plans to build a
$750000 absorption reeve ling and
repressuring plant In the Rincon
field of Starr county.
The oil executive also said that
he plans to build his own pipeline
from the Rincon field to his Port
of Brownsville terminal a pipeline
that can handle 50.000 barrels of
black gold daily.
Th plant is to built at Davis City
in the heart of the extensive Rm-
con field development.
Engineering work will be In
charge of the Hudson Engineering
company of Houston with con-
struction expected to start in about
20 days and be completed about
90 days later. Mr. Davis said
He said the plant will have a
handling rapacity of 60.000.000 feet
I of gas daily.
The erection of the Davis City
plant will mark another stage in
the extensive Valiev oil program
planned by Mr Davis
His plans call for 100 producers
in the Rincon field and possibly
more; the Davis City plant with-
in the heart of the field; his own
pipeline which he said would elim-
inate a bottleneck: an oil termin-
al of 1.000.000 barrel storage cap-
acity at the Port of Brownsville
and finally erection of $2000000
: refinery here.
Engineering contract for the
Brownsville refinery' has been let
;o the Wmkle-Koch Engineering
company of Wichita. Kas. and
plans have been under formula-
tion for the past two months Mr
Davis continued
However construction is not ex-
pected to get underway here until
(See OIL. Page Two.)
Indict Film Boss
In Bribery Case
NEW YORK — /P) — George P
Skouras. part owner of the largest
chain of independent motion pic-
ture theaters In the country was
indicted Friday bv a federal grand
\ lury for conspiring to bribe form-
er U S Circuit Court .Judge Mar-
tin T Manton. now in prison.
The indictment accused Skouras
and others of loaning Manton S30 -
ono in return for which the jurist
allegedly approved the sale of as-
sets of the Fox Theaters Corpora-
tion by the receiver of the Skouras
chain.
Cubs Buy Player
CHICAGO — V— The purchase
of Lou No’lkoff. Los Angeles out-
fielder and leading hitter of the
Pacific Coast league was an-
nounced Friday by the fchleago
I Cuba.
RAF Turns Back Repeated
Plane Attacks On London
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Missionaries
Die Waving
U. S. Flag
CAIRO—(AP)—The gov-
ernor general of the Sudan
announced Friday that two
American missionaries were
killed and two wounded by
deliberate' Italian machine-gun-
ning of an isolated missionary post
in the Sudan
The large territory just south of
Egypt has been under repeated
Italian attack particularly on the
eastern frontier near Gallabat op-
posite Ethiopia and Kassala op-
posite Eritrea.
The governors report said two
Italian planes attacked Doro m the
Upper Nile province Aug 23.
30 Bombs Dropped
At least 30 bombs were dropped
and then the Italian fliers used
their machine-guns the report
said.
Of the staff of five persons. It
said. Dr and Mrs. Robert Grieve
were killed and Rev. and Mrs.
Kenneth Oglesby were wounded.
All were Americans.
A Miss Walsh an Australian
was unhurt.
Wave American Flag
The Grieves were said to have
run out Of the mission station wav-
ing a large American flag but that
this failed to ward off the machine-
gun attack by the Italians
Two boys of the Marway tribe
nearby also were wounded.
The missionary station was de-
scribed as "at»oiutely isolated with
no sort of military objective in the
i vicinity ’*
(See AMERICANS. Page Twoj
Morones Here
On WayJoN. Y.
Luis N Morones. Mexican labor
leader and one of the managers of
the presidential campaign lor Gen-
I eral Juan Andreu Alma ran now
in the United States was in
Brownsville Friday en route to
New York
Morones. one-time powerful fig-
ure in the Mexican labor move-
ment arrived by Pan American
plane and was met bv several Al-
maramstas who declared they are
on vacation" here.
Duval West Jr.
Taken By Death
SAN ANTONIO—Funeral services
were held here Friday for Duval
West. Jr. who died Thursday night
at Legion hospital. West son of
the retired federal Judge had prac-
ticed law here and in the Valley. *
Survivor* include his wife sister
two daughters a son at West Point
and an uncle William 8. W'est ol
Brownsxille.
Reynosa Station To
Address
AUSTIN—X>—Governor W Lee
O'Daniel announced Friday he
vould utilize his regular weekly
radio program Sunday at 8:30 a. 1
m. to outline the part Texas and
Texans will play in national de-
fense activities.
He said 20 Texas stations and
XEAW at Reynosa would carry the
address.
Italians Say Oil
Pipelines Are Cut
Popolo Dt Roma reported Friday
in a dispatch from Athens that
the British oil pipe line from Iraq
to Haifa. Palestine had been closed
as a result of Italian air bom-
bardments of norts of Bntlsh-
loandated Palestine
It iaid the pipeline to Tripoli
had been closed aarUar.
SKY BATTLES
RAGING ALONG
WIDE REGION
"
Powerful De f e n s e s
Force Nazi Pilots
! To . * outes
Of Invasion
Bt The Associated Presa
German raiders swept In from
the coast Frida? afternoon for a
third attempt to raid London in
five hours after twice unsuccess-
fully trying to penetrate this
capital's air defenses.
Bombs were dropped In the
London area and several dog- !
fights developed among plane*
flying at a great height.
LONDON^TaD— Brit-
ish fighters and anti-aircraft
defenses turned back wave
after wave of German planes
—numbering 400 in all—
trying to break through toward the
London area for the second tune in
three hours Priday.
Repeatedly the raiders stormed
against the capitals outlying de-
fenses only to meet with fUm re-
sistance.
Shift Their Route
The German attackers who lost
at least 19 planes in their fust at-
tempt to reach the London area
shifted their route for the second
try.
The day’s second alarm sounded
about 3 30 p. m <3 30 a m. CST>
• See AIR RAIDS. Page Two.)
PAA BETTERS
TIME TO SOUTH
Miami - Rio Schedule
Cut In Half
N"EW YORK Detailed
schedules of an express ' air ser-
vice which will cross the Brazil-
ian interior to cut in half the
Miami-Rio de Janeiro travel time
were announced Friday by Pan
American Airways.
The company s intention to in-
augurate such service on Sept. 1
with four-engine supercharged-
cabin landplar.es which can as-
cend to altitudes of four miles was
made knowm in June.
The new planes of 22 tons will
bring the Brazilian capital within
two and one-halT days of Miami.
Fla
The elapsed time to Buenos Aires
will be three and one-half days as
against the fastest previous sche-
dule—via the South American west
coast—of four and one-half days.
For the present the new land
planes replacing the flying boats
in use for many years will termin-
<See PAA Page Two)
FD Says Willkie
Charge Political
i See Related Storv on Page I)
HYDE PARK. N. Y-.
President Roosevelt charged Fri-
day that effort* were being made
to involve him in a political con-
troversy over a provision of the
conscription bill authorizing the
government to take over private
industrial plant*.
He declined at a press confer-
ence to answer Wendell L. Will-
kies demand that he state hi* po-
sition on the provision asserting
that an attempt was being made
to invole him in a political discus-
sion.
Let us all acknowledge It and
stop there the president said.
The provision woyld empower the
chief executive to take over plants
or facilities when the secretary of
war or secretary of navy was un-
| tble to negotiate an agreement
with the owner* lor production of
I naada
FASCIST TERMS
ARE FORCED ON
BALKAN NATION
Red Army and Navy Begin Secret Maneuvers
As Axis Pledges Rumania Protection
MOSCOW— lAP)—The Russian nary has begun maneuvers with
submarine flotillas scouting theoretical enemy buses so as to permit
the surface fleets to take the open sea for mock battle. Red Fleet
the nary’s organ announced Friday. The locale was not disclosed.
The sham battles were announced as the Red Army also con-
ducted maneurers In unspeeified western parts of Russia.
PI— with 8-72—FASCIST TERMS—2-36.
(By The Associated Press)
Rumania under the whiplash of Germany and Italy
surrendered the greater part of Transylvania to Hungary
Friday.
A pledge that German troops will he sent immediately
into Rumania to block further inroads hv Soviet Red
armies on King Carols little s-
Balkan state was reported simul-
taneously.
Rumania made qlear she was
capitulating to what she regarded
as the axis ultimatum that she
rede most of her World War-won
province to Hungarv. The Ruman-
ian government Issued a com-
munique stating:
Rumanian Statement
“Rumania ha* derided to ac-
cept arbitration on the Transyl-
vania question as a result of the
ultimate demand of Germany
and Italy."
The Berlin radio reported that
the axis powers would “grant Ru- j
mama ■ guarantee of absolute se-
curity for her territory'’ in return
for Rumania s cession of 19.300
square miles of the rich oil and
timber province of Transylvania to
Hungary—roughly a little more
than half the province which be-
longed to Hungary before the world
war break-up of the old Austro-
Hungarian empire.
Tropt Strung Out
I’nder the agreement drafted
at a 4-power parley in Vienna.
German troops would be strung
out all along the Rumanian side
of the new Russian border which
was established when Rumania
recently ceded Bessarabia and
Northern Buimtna to the t'.S.
S.R.
Thus Germany and Italy In
their chosen role of creators of
the new Europe" overnight made
the long-haggling Balkan neigh-
bors settle their dispute under a
threat of force and. in the Nail
view ended the last territorial
conflict in southeast Europe.
In Berlin authorised sources
said they had no information on
reports the German and Italian
ambassadors in Moscow had dis-
cussed Balkan problems.
German Sphere
They insisted however that It
has long been known to all pow-
cts. Including Soviet Russia. that
Germany considers the Balkans
her special sphere of Influence
whereas Russia in her recent
phase of expansion merely want-
id the frontiers of her former
empire—that of the Czars—re-
stored
These sources said that with the
acquisition of Bessarab'a this had
oecn accomplished and the gain of
(See BALKANS. Page Two)
Cardenas Probing Trotsky
Killing Warns Communists
MEXICO CITY—<AP»—The full powers of the Mexican go-rrnment
were pledged Friday to determine responsibility for the assassination of
Leon Trotsky while warning was served on the Mexican Communist
partv that any involvement m the crime constituted treason to this
country.
The pledge and the warning were contained a statement issued
by President Lazaro Cardenas who reaffirmed Mexico's determination
to maintain "the unlimited right +
of asylum.”
Cardenas condemned Trotsky’s
assassination "with all force" then
said:
“If the Mexican communists have
allied with a foreign power which
would represent aggression against
the sovereignty of this country in
organizing armed assaults fn
league with Mexican and foreign
ielement! iu then these elements
have committed a crime of treason
against the fatherland**
The Cardenas statement was dis-
played prominently in the capitals
newspapers most of which had
published editorial charges and
police report* that Frank Jackson
held for the ktl'lng of Trot*kv. was
an agent of the OGPU 'Russian
secret police* and was aided by
Culinist aympathuer* in Mexico.
»
OEMS APPROVE
VOTE REBATES
Candidates Will Get
30 Per Cent More
The Cameron County Democratic
committee met Friday to canvass
returns from the recent run-off pri-
mary. and to approve refunding to
candidates 30 per cent of their in-
itial filing fees
The candidates already had been
refunded 25 per cent of their filing
fees and the added refund makes
a total of 55 per cent they will get
bark.
A total of 99 119 was paid In fil-
ing fees by candidates In the coun-
ty. the fees ranging from S600 for
some offices down to $5 to 130 fee*
for justices of the peace and con-
stables. and a SI fee for state rep-
resentatives and officers running
for district offices involving several
counties
Fred Wagner. Brownsville chair-
iSee DEMOS. Page Two »
War at a Glance
(By The Associated Press.!
Rumania yields to Berlin-Roma
"ultimate demand" in Balkan dis-
pute. cedes over half of Transyl-
vania province to Hungary; Ger-
man troops reported pledg'd Im-
mediately to guard Rumania
against further Soviet Red arm?
inroads. Russia threatens Ru-
mania with "grave consequences**
if border clashes continue.
400 Nail warplanes twice at-
tempt to storm London; British
RAF fighters break up assault-
report shooting down 19 German
planes; Berlin says Manchester.
Liverpool heavily bombed.
Italians say Malta bombed
again scattered land and air raids
along African frontiers.
Mexico agrees with France to
bring 250.000 Spanish refugees to
Western Hemisphere.
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