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FEDERAL JURY INDICTS KRUPP U. S. COMPANY
I
THIS NEWSPAPER WISHES
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.
It is to the credit of the avia-
tion school with which they are
connected that its airplane was
•quipped 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 nortn
of the Brownsville turning basin.
Their airplane crashed to the
•arth. a wreck.
$ | Here are two men w ho are bet-
ter aviators because of their ex-
perience.
It is reported that the student
fiver previously had expressed the
hope that he would have an op-
portunity to use the parachute.
He got hi£ wish.
• • •
IN THIS CONNECTION. WE
* wish to say that messages
came to The Herald asking this
newspaper to "play down" the
atory and not to print pictures.
To have done so would have
been rather silly.
If the newspaper had not carried
the story and illustrated it. all
sorts of unjust stories 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
i 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 jear are killed because
of them?
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pERMANY BEGAN TRAINING
♦ ^ Its air corps by using gliders.
During the twenties thousands
were flying gliders and how
— many were killed m this method
of training will never be known.
But did Germany give up that
aort of training because of the
accidents?
They did not.
Nor will an occasional accident
in 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 witn
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.
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YTTE WONDER IF ANY OF THE
w female sex ever read this col-
umn.
If they do. we want to tell them
about something we saw on a re-
cent trip to New York City.
Our wanderings brought us to
th^ corner 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.
Our curiosity aroused as to
what the window might have to
show we shoved in among the
crowd. That's right "shoved to."
♦ Finally we came near enough to
see what the excitement was
%bout.
There wfere two items of mer- j
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Davis To Build $750000
Plant In Rincon Field
HOUSE BATTLE
ON DRAFT BILL i
OPENS FRIDAY
Foes Assail Measure;
Advocates Pred i c t
It Will Be Passed By
Next Week End
W AS HINGTON— (A P) —
Pre-debate skir mishing
opened in the house Friday
on the peacetime conscrip-
tion bill with a proup of foes
assailing it as "unnecessary” and
its advocates predicting it would I
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-
1 worth compulsory military train-
ing measure approved Thursday by
a majority of the members of the
house military committee
Actual debate Is scheduled to
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 citizens from 21 to 44 to reg-
ister for possible service The sen-
ate aee bracket was 21 to 30 Lead-
ers foresaw a hot fight on the age
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*
COUNTY LINE
TO BE CHANGED
Weikel Precinct Adds
I 2000 Acres
More than 12.000 acres of land are
involved in a new division of Cam-
eron county commissioner precinct
lines approved by county commis-
sioners Friday. The area lies west
of Olmito and is taken from T. A.
Kinder's Precinct No 2 and is ad-
ded to Grover J Welkers precinct
No 1 Commissioner Kinder and
Weikel were in accord on the di-
version and both expressed belief
that greater benefits would result
to the resident* of the territory in-
volved.
The territory involved begins at
a point on the intersection of the
west line of Share 15. Espiritu San-
to Grant with Drainage ditch No. 3
of the Cameron county Drainage
Dist. No. 1. thence west crossing j
Shares 14. 17 and a part of Share 1
and 4 of the Espiritu Santo Grant
to the east line of the Barreda Gar-
dens subdivision to a point at the
southwest corner of Lot 60. block 17.
corftinumg west crossing blocks 17
and 16 of the Barreda Gardens sub-
division. passing a point on the west
line of the subdivision at the south-
west comer of lot 24. block 16. and
continuing to a point on the west
line of Share 1 of the Espiritu
Santo Grant the point being 35.-
000 feet south of the intersection
with state highway No. 4.
Commissioner Weikel stated that
residents of the area had asked him
to bring about the change in order
that road repairs might be more
easily available from Precinct 1.
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 ban on
newspaper attacks based on race
or religion. ■
It
Italian Soldiers
Kill 2 Americans
In Sudan Region
—
CAIRO—(AP)—The gov-
ernor general of the Sildan
announced Friday that two
American missionaries were*
killed and two wounded by
• deliberate-' Italian machine-gun-
ning of an Isolated missionary post
m 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 in the
Upper Nile proiince Aug. 23.
3A 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 Mra.
Kenneth Oglesby were wounded.
All were Americans.
A Miss Walsh an Australian
was unhurt.
Have 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 absolutely isolated with
no sort of military objective in the
vicinity.”
Cameron County
Gets New Test
A Pure Oil drilling crew Friday;
were moving equipment onto a Jo-;
cation on the Garcia lands Just off
the Port Isabel-Boca Chica cutoll
road.
The location Is about 1*« miles 1
southeast of the last test sunk in
Cameron county.
The rig. powered by two Diesels
will have an 80 foot derrick. Drill-
ing will get under wav as soon as
possible
This will be the fifth test sunk
in Southwestern Cameron county.
Bandits Escape
With $25000
TRENTON N J. —Holdup
men made off with bags OT cash es-
timated bv police at about 125.000
in a daylight raid Fridav on the
Crescent Insulated Wire and Cable
Company plant.
Reynosa Station To
Carry Lee’s Address
AUSTIN— t/P—Governor W. Lee
O Daniel announced Friday he
vould utilize his regular weekly
radio program Sundav at 8 30 a.
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. 1
ULTIMATELY
TO INSTALL
VALLEY LINE
Engineering Work To
Begin In 20 Days;
Reiterates Faith In
Brownsville
BY A. D. HAWKINS
W R Dans 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 recycling and
repressurmg 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 50000 barrels of
black gold dally
The plant is to be built at Davis
City in the heart of the extensive
Rincon field development.
Engineering wont will be in
charge of the Hudson Engineering I
company of Houston with con-
struction expected to start in about
20 days and be completed about
90 davs later. Mr. Davis said
He said the plant will have a I
handling rapacity of 60.000.000 feet !
of gas daily.
The erection of the Davis City
plant will mark another stage ir.
the extensive Valley 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
to the Winkler-Koch Engineering
company of Wicmta. Kas. ar.1
plans have been under formula- j
tion for the past two months. Mr
Davis continued.
However construction is not ex- |
petted to get underway here until
(See OIL. Page Two.)
Indict Film Boss
In Bribery Case
NEW' YORK — (JP> — 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
jury 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 Minton 130.-
000 in return for m-hich 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 — The purchase
of Lou No"ikoff. Los Angeles out-
fielder and leading hitter of the
Pacific Coast league was an-
nounced Friday by the Chicago
Cubs.
Sulfanilamide Family
Drug Curing Dysentery
ATLANTA—*&'— Sulfa thiazole
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
dvsentery in children one to three
years old.
The hospital staff is unwilling
§jk
yet to sav positively that 'thiazole
is the long-needed curative agent
for thus 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 supplies
of it. Sulfathiaaole was designed
primarily to attack staphylococcic
infections as sulfanilamide deals
with the dead streptococcus.
Sulfathiazole was used in treat-
ment of pneumonia and did its
(See DRUG. Page Two.)
■
Trust Charged
To General
Electric
I ___
NEW YORK —(AP)— Tn
what federal prosecutor?
termed the most important
national defense indictment
yet returned a special U. S.
grand jury Friday indicted
the General Electric Com-
pany and the Krupp Com-
pany of Essen Germany on
charges of conspiracy to fix
prices and restrain interstate
and foreign commerce in
hard metal composi t i o n
tools and dies. I
The government charged
that the Krupp corporation
famous for many years as
Germany’s chief source of
war materials held a veto
power over the issuance of
patent licenses to American
firms in the manufacture of
hard metal compositions
used in machine cutting
tools.
These hard metal composltioa-
mclude tungsten carbide for which
virtually every arsenal in the
country Is now bidding as a result
■ of defense contracts.
Tungsten carbide and other
materials mentioned are said by
the government to harden cutting
tools.
Th« government said It was an
essential element In the manufac-
I ture of military and naval equip-
ment. Including gun* shells arm-
or plate tanks trucks aircraft
engines and automobile and rail-
road equipment
The defendants are charged with
j having agreed through secret
pacts that krupp would not ex-
' port tungsten carbide tools and
dies to the United State* and
General Electric would not export
j these materials thus setting up an
international control of these vital
elements
——
Morones Here
On Way to N. Y.
Luis N Morones. Mexican labor
leader and one of the managers of
the presidential campaign Tor Gen-
eral Juan Andreu Almazan. 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-
mazamstas who declared they are
on vacation" here.
Duval West Jr.
Taken By Death
SAN ANTONIO—F'uneral sendees
were held here FYiday 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.
Survivors include his wife sister
tmo daughters a son at West Point
and an uncle William S. West ol
Brownsville.
Wire Flashes
RESERVE BILL PASSES
WASHINGTON— tAPi —Legis-
lation expanding the naval reserve
officers training corps from 2.400
to 7.200 men was passed by the
house Friday and returned to the
senate for action on a minor
amendment.
SARAZEN LOSES
HERSHLV. Pa.— (APi —Gene
Sarazens game went to pieces
right at the finish Friday and
Sam Snead defeated him. 1 up. in
their 36-hole quarter final match
of the Professional Golfers Asso-
ciation championship.
Sarazen led three up with only
nine holes to play but began to
spray his shots all over thr land-
. scape as Snead (Unshed with a
1 rush.
•
Dogfights Mark Air
Attacks On London
SKY BATTLES
! RAGING ALONG
WIDE REGION
Powerful Defenses
Force Nazi Pilots
To Change Routes
Of Invasion
LONDON — (AP)— Fu-
rious dog fights raged
high in the skies over Lon-
don Friday as waves of Ger-
man bombers some of them
dropping bombs m dive attacks
upon the outskirts struck again
and again at the British capital.
Three air raid alarms kept the
city running to and from air raid
shelters from just before noon un- j
til nearly 6 p. m. <11 a m. C. S
T i when the clear tignal ol the
last alarm founded.
The first two waves—perhaps*
400 in all—were turned back after
fierce battles
Large Numbers
But in the last attack the
*ound of dive bombers could be
heard at a distance in the out-
skirts. and the sounds of motors
indicated there were large num-
bers of them.
British sources said the third at-
tack too was turned back by the
british fighters aided by an intense
anu-aircraft barrage. First re-
piorts indicated that at least three
of the bombers had been des-
' troyed.
At least 20 bombers flew at a
great height over one district In
(See AIR RAID. Page Two)
PAA BETTERS |
TIME TO SOUTH
Miami - Rio Schedule
Cut In Half
NSW YORK - 4* — 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 companys intention to in-
augurate such service on Sept. 1
with four-engine supercharged-
cabin landplanes which can as-
cend to altitudes of four miles was
made known in June.
The new planes of 22 tons will
bring the Brazilian capital within
two and one-halT davs 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
roast—of four and one-half days.
For the present the new land
planes replacing the flying boats
in use for many years will termin-
<8ee PAA Page Two)
FD Says Willkie
Charge Political
I See Related Starr on Rage 2i
HYDE PARK. N Y. —<JP—
President Roosevelt charged Fri-
day that efforts 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 plants.
He declined at a press confer-
ence to answer Wendell L. Will-
kies demand that he state his po-
sition on the provision asserting
that an attempt was being made
to lnvole him in a political discus- j
sion.
Let us all acknowledge it and
stop there the president said
The provision would empower the
chief execu. .< to take over plants
or facilities when the secretary of
war or secretary of navv was un-
able to negotiate an agreement
i with the ow ners for production of
Idefenaa needs. I
FASCIST TERMS
ARE FORCED ON
BALKAN NATION
Red Army and Navy Begin Secret Maneuvers
A* Axis Pledges Rumania Protection
MOSCOW—(APi—The Russian nary ha* begun maneuver* with
submarine flotilla* scouting theoretical enemy bases 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 battle* were announred a* the Red Army also con*
ducted maneuvers in unspecified western parts of Russia.
(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 be sent immediately
into Rumania to block further inroads by Soviet Red
armies on Ring t_arois utile
Balkan state was reported slmul-*
taneously.
Rumania made rlear she was
capitulating to what she regarded
as the axis ultimatum that she
rede most of her World War-won
province to Hungary The Ruman-
ian government Issued a com-
munique stating:
Rumanian Statement
“Rumania has derided to ae-
rept 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-
mania a 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.
Troopa Strung Out
I'nder the agreement drafted
at a 4-power parley In Vienna.
German troop* would be strung
out all along the Rumanian side
of the new Russian border whirh
was established when Rumania
recently reded Bessarabia and
.Northern Bucovina to the 1.8.
S.R.
Thus Germany and Italy. In
their chosen role of creators of
the new Europe” overnight made
the long-haggling Balkan neigh-
liors settle their dispute under a
ihreat 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-
ns. including Soviet Rutaa. that
Germany considers the Balkans
her special sphere of Influence
v.hereas Russia in her recent
phase of expansion merely want-
td the frontiers of her former
empire—that of the Ciars—re-
j .stored.
These sources said that with the
acquisition of Bessarab a this had
oern accomplished and the gain of
• See BALKANS. Page Two)
DEMS APPROVE
VOTE REBATES
Candidates Will Get
30 Per Cent More
The Cameron County Democrat 18
I 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 bid been
refunded 25 per cent of their filing
fees and the added refund makes
a total of 55 per cent they will gei
back.
A total of $9119 was paid In fll-
inf fees by candidates in the coun-
ty. the fees ranging from $600 for
some offices down to $5 to $30 fees
for justices of the peace and con-
stables. and a tl fee for state rep-
resentatives and officers running
for district offices involving several
counties.
Fred Wagner. Brownsville chair-
iSee DEMOS. Page Two.l
War at a Glance
(By The Associated Press.)
Rumania yields to Berlin-Roma
"ultimate demand" in Balkan dis-
pute. redes over half of Transyl-
vania province to Hungary; Ger-
man troops reported pledged im-
mediately to guard Rumania
again*! further Soviet Red army
inroads; Russia threatens Ru-
mania with "grave consequences'*
if border clashes continue.
400 Nasi 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 tn
bring 250.000 Spanish refugees to
Western Hemisphere.
Cardenas Probing Trotsky
Killing Warns Communists
MEXICO CITY—< AP>—The lull powers of the Mexican government
were pledged Friday to determine responsibility for the assassination of
Leon Trotsky while warning was served on the Mexican Communist
| partv that any involvement in the crime constituted treason to thu
country.
The pledge and the warning were contained in a statement lrstied
' by President Lataro Cardenas who reaffirmed Mexico's determination
to maintain ' tne unlimited right*
of asylum."
Cardenas condemned Trotsky's
assassination “with all force" then
said:
“If the Mexican communtsta have
allied with a foreign power which
vould represent aggression against
the sovereignty of this country in
organizing armed assaults in
■ league with Mexican and foreign
Iciementa sag 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 reports that Frank Jackson
held for the kil'ing of Trotaky. was
an agent of the OGPU «Russian
i-ecret police) and was aided by
CttUnist sympathizers in Mexico.
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