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PROFITS BILL |
OVERHAULING
r IS PREDICTED
Senate Starts Talks'
On Measure Passed
By House In Rapid
Voice Vote
WA8HINGTON—</F>—The excess
profits tax bill which whisked
through the house in leas than four
hours went to the senate Friday
where signs pointed to considerably
less speed and a possible overhaul-
• lng.
Opposition to the bill wa* re-
ported In the finance committee
where Senator LaFollette <Prog-
Wlsi already was talking of even
atlffer taxes than the excess profit
levies of from 20 to 50 per cent
provided for by the house
Speeds Through House
The house gave its approval to
the complex measure Thursday
passage coming on a voire vote
which found only a handful of
members dissenting Its approval
was urged on the ground that It
would end the •bottleneck” of tax
uncertainty on defense contracts
and at the same time prevent the
•massing of huge ' war fortunes."
Besides the imposition of a 20 to
80 per cent excess profits tax. the
house-approved bill would:
1— Permit government contractors
to "amortize” defense plant expan-
alons by deducting the cost of new
facilities from taxable income;
2— Suspend the present profit
limitation on warship and aircratt
contracts;
3— Yield an estimated $300000000
revenue In 1940 and $900 000.000
annually thereafter
The legislation went to the fi-
nance committee and. Chairman
Harrison <D-Miss» said hearings
would commence next Tuesday. The
aenate leadership plans to start de-
bate the week after next.
PAA
(Confirmed from Pare One.)
at* their runs at the Brazilian
capital.
On the east coast schedules fly-
ins boats will continue to link
Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
The stepped-up schedules were
made iinssible by cutting 900 miles
of? the Miami-Rio de Janeiro route.
The new planes will fly over in-
terior Brazil between Para and the
capital city instead of following
the old route along the coast.
. PAA* new South American east
coast express route will not af-
fect traffic here. C. P Hilliard.
PAA tratfic manager at Browns-
ville. said Friday.
The new route undoubtedly will
diver traffic from t>'« 8oufh Am-
erican west coast and the Miami-
Cristobsl run. however. Mr. Hil-
liard opined.
DRUG
(Continued from Page One.)
work here with fewei unfavorable
reactions than sulfapvrldine but
the rral ‘kick’ came from the
dramatic outcome of the first test
in a virulent dysentery Infection
This disease heretofore has
been fought without the aid of
*ny specific curative agent Se-
rums and various forms of medi-
cation have been tried without
consistent or extensive results.
Deaths
MRS. J. IV. BRIGANCE
8AN BENITO—Service* were held
Wednesday morning at Big Spring
Texas for Mrs J. W Brigance.
sister of Mrs. F W. Burgess of San
Benito.
Mrs. Brigance became seriously
ill at the week-end. and Monday
Mr and Mrs Burgess left to be i
with her. She passed away Tues-
day
Mr and Mrs Burgess remained
for the funeral rites and return-
ed to their home near San Benito
Thursday afternoon.
Bus Service Improved
." ' |
First of the two new buses of the Brownsville Transportation Company
is shown above. The bus line is to add a third route Tuesday the
West Jefferson street run. and plans additional serviee when warranted.
Brownsville's third bus line route
will be inaugurated Tuesday when
the Brownsville Transportation
company puts Its new' West Jeffer-
son street loop into service.
The company bought two busses
for the new service. One bus has al-
ready been delivered and the other
will "arrive September 10. Joe Coi-
unga. Jr- operations manager. Mid.
The West Jefferson loop will be
operated every; 30 minutes from 7
a. m. to 7 p m dally and will pro-
vide service to the city line on the
San Benito highway.
The route will not only service
the schools and the central plant
but also Mercy hospital and the
numerous tourist camps along the
highway.
Fare will be five cents. Mr Col-
unga Mid School tickets will he
available to youngsters at Cisneros
Drug atore at half fare. I
The Brownsville Transportation
Company now owns four busses
and has another ordered. Its other
routes include the West Brownsville
and Los Ebano* loops
Rome of the new West Jefferson
loop follows:
Starting at Washington and 11th
streets the terminal the bus goes
west on Washington to Eighth
street turn north on Eighth to
Adams west on Adams to 7th. north
on 7th to Jefferson west on Jeffer-
son to the San Benito highway and
out the highway to the city line.
Returning the bus goes south on
San Benito highway to JeTferson.
east on Jefferson to 7th street south
on 7th street to Adams east on
adams to 13th. south on 13th to
Washington and east on W'ashing-
ton to the termtnaL
_ %
Today's Markets_
Market a at Glance
New Yorfc
Stock*—Firm. rail*. Industrial*
lead rally.
Bonds—Higher; rail* lead gen-
eral advance.
Foreign Exchange—Quiet; Cana-
dian dollar up.
Cotton—Higher; textile activity
induces broader demand.
Sugar—Mixed; raw market stead-
ies.
Metals—Steady; fair demand tor
copper at 11 cent*.
Wool Tops—Improved; spot house
support.
Chicago
Wheat—1*»-1\ cents higher.
Com—Firm.
Cat lie—Steady.
Hogs—10-30 higher; top 17 75.
New York Stocka
NEW YORK- (jf*i -The stock
market pulled a surprise rallying
rabbit out of the hat Friday.
The list wa* mildly improved at
the start but subsequently slowed
and prices wavered. Buying In rails
then touched off a runup In steels
motois and other Industrial leaders
Osins of favorites ranged from one
to more than two points.
Volume stepped up to around 550.-
000 shares. Quotations were shaved
In many cases st the dose by a
little profit taking on the bulge.
Bullishness brokers said appar-
ently was bolstered by the bright-
ening domestic business picture in
addition to tne feeling of some that
the British were giving a good ac-
count of themselves in their battle
with the Nazis.
A sharp increase in purchasing of
cotton goods in New York* Worth
street with a consequent hardening
of textile rate* wa* interpreted a*
a constructive factor.
Prominent shares on the forward
shift included Great Northern
Southern Railway Preferred. N. Y
Central. Southern Pacific. Santa
Fe. U 8 Steel. Bethlehem Chrys-
ler. General Motors. Sears Roebuck
Montgomery Ward. United Aircraft.
Glenn Martin. Bullard. Internation-
al Paper preferred. American Tele-
phone. Westinghouse Du Pont and
American Smelting.
NEW YORK STOCK LIST
By The Associated Preas
Trade tn 100 High Lorn- Close
A1 ChmADve 9 159 153% 1.59
Allis Ch Mfg 5 33 % 33% 33%
Am Can 2 99% 99% 99%
Am MAFdv 3 13 11% 13
Am Roll Mill 13 11% 10% 11
Am SMAR 15 39 % 39% 39% j
Am TAT 11 191% 190% 191%
Am woolen 34 9% 9 ®%
Anaconda 40XD 21% 20% 21%
Atrh TASF 29 19% 19% 1S%
Atl Refining 9 21% 21% 21%
Avia Corp 100 4% 4% 4%
Rarnsdall Oil 3 9 9 9
Bend Avia 13 30% 30 30%
rteth Stl 97 90% 79 79%
Borden Co ft 19 11% It
Case ' T1 * Co 2 49'- 47 49’
Chrys Corp 95 75% 73' 75%
Colum OAB1 23 5% 3% 3%
Consol 011 31 9% 9 9%
Com Can 13 40 39 % 40
cm Oil D! 12XD 19% 19% 19%
CntiM Wri 99 7% 7% 7%
rvniglaa Aire 11 73 71% 73
El Poa-ALt 10 3% 3% 3%
Treeporl Bulph 9 30 % 30 30%
Gen Flee .7.7 33% 33% 33%
Gen Food* 9 41% 41% 41*.
Gen Motor* 79 49 % 47% 49
Cdrich i BF' 4 11% 11% 11%
Odvr TAR 4 13% 11% 15%
Ot Nor Ir Ore 9 14% 13% 14%
Grevhnd Crp 19 11% 10% 11%
Houd Hersh B 9 12% 12% 12%
Kowe Sound 4 30' 30 30'
Hudson Mtr 9 3% 3% 3%
Hudson Mtr 9 3% 3% 3%
Tnt Itervagt a IlH 44 45
Int Hvd El A 1 2% 2% 2%
Tnt TelATel 3 2% 2% 2%
.1 Man vine 4 95 92 - 93
Kenne Con 31 29% 27% 29%
Lorillard < P> 7 19% 19% lt%
Marsh Field 14 U% 12% 13%
M'd Cont Pet 9 13 12% 13
Mo Kan Tex 2 % % \
Montg Ward 29 42 40% 41%
Nash Kelv 22 5% 3 3%
Nat Btsoulf 5 19 19% 19
Nat Dairv Pr 21 13% 13% 13%
Nit Po«A-l» 1.7 9 7% 9
No- Amer Co 14 20 19% 20
Ohio 011 7 9% 9 • 9%
Par GasAEl 9 29% 29% 29%
Packard Mtr 15 .7% 3% 3%
pan Am A'r 9 14% 13% 13%
Pnhndle PAR 1 S S H
pennev JC 3 93 92% 93
Penn RR 37 31 20% 21
Petrol Corp 4 9% 9% 9%
Phillips Pet 7 84 32% 34
Plvmouth 011 1 16% 19% 19%
RCA 39 I 4% »
Pemlng Rand 12 84 74 84
Repub 311 81 174 184 174
Beaboard 011 1 124 124 124
Bears Roe 17 804 79 4 80 4
3ervel Inc 4 104 104 104
Bhell Un Oil 6 84 84 84
31mmon* Co 4 184 18 18
Soconv Vac 21 84 8 4 84 !
8thn Ry 41 12 114 114
Stand Brands 14 64 64 64
BUnd Oil Cal 12 184 184 184
Stand Oil Ind 8 254 244 264
Stand Oil NJ 42 344 34 4 34 *
Stew Warn 1 84 04 04
AtoneAWebs 8 74 74 74
Stdbkr Corp 34 74 74 74
TexAPac Ry 1 04 84 84
Tex Corp 15 354 354 154
Tex Oulf Piod 1 2 24 24 I
Tex Oulf Bui 2 314 314 314
Tex Pae CAO 4 6 54 54
Tnrs&Wat Air 8 174 174 174
Un Carbide 7 74 724 734
Un Oil Cfil 7 124 124 124
United Alrr 71 404 384 404
United Carbon 1 49 49 49
United Corp 8 14 14 14
United Drug 5 4 4 44 44
Un Gas Imp 17 12 114 12
UB Rubber 19 19 4 184 194
VB Steel 176 544 524 544
Walgreen Co 4 20 204 204
Warner Bros 5 24 24 24
WU Tel 22 184 18 184
West ElAMfg 6 101 99 4 101
NEW YORK FUTURES
NEW YORK—''.P>—Continued ac-
tivity in cotton goods and firmness
In securities prompted a broader
demand for cotton futures Friday.
Hedge offerings were readily ab-
sorbed by trade price fixing orders
mill buying and New Orleans and
Liverpool support some resistance
was met on the advance however.
as hedge pressure Increased at the
higher levels.
Late in the day prices were three
to six points higher. Oct 9.29; Dec
9 24. May 8 90.
Futures rlosed 3-0 higher.
Open High Low Last
Oct 9 21 9 30 9 21 9 29
Dec 9 15 9.24 9.15 9 23
.•an
Mch 9 01 9 09 9 01 9 09
Mav 8 85 8 93 8 8* 8 91
Julv 8 65 8 71 8 83 8 69
Middling spot 9 93.
NEW ORLEANS FI'TI’RES
NEW ORLEANS—Trade buv-
lng. short covering and strength in
other markets bolstered rotton fu-
tures here Friday closing prices
were steady 7 to 10 points net high-
er.
Open High Low Close
Oct 9 27 9 34 9 27 9 33
Dec 9 19 9 27 9 19 9 27
Jan 9 17 9 17 9.17 9 17
Mfh 9 06 9 12 9 06 9 11
Mav MS
July §67 8 75 8 67 8 73
N. O. COTTONSEED
NEW ORLEANS—-P— Cotton-
ed oil closed steadv. Blearhable
prime summer yellow 6 08 nom;
prime crude 4 78B Sep 5 30B;
Oct 5 34B Dec 5 45B Jan 5 46B;
Mch 8 86B.
B—bid.
N. O. Spot Cotton
NEW ORLEANS — ***— *t»o»
cotton closed quiet and unchang-
ed Sales 40 Low middling 8 65;
good middling 9 63; good middling
1010 Receipts 1.810; stock 828.584.
TEXAS SPOT COTTON
DALLAS — iA» — Cotton 9 01;
Houston 9 35; Oalveston 9 39
CHICAGO GRAINS
CHICAGO— >/P —Whest prices
shot up slmost two rents s bushel
Friday to the best level In more
than two weeks.
Buying stimulated by strength in
securities and some purchasing of
mills helped to start the upward
movement which gained momentum
ss previous short sellers covered
account*.
Whest closed 1 -1\ higher than
Thursday. September 73-73'•. Dec
75%-t; com unchanged to S
higher. Sept 6lH-\. Dec 57\-';;
oats *«-’» higher.
—
Preparedness
Bill Backed
Twenty-six well known Browns-
ville men includin* a reserve of-
ficer and some available Tor the
draft signed a strongly worded
| telegram to ronaress this week at-
tacking obstructionist* to early
passage of the conscription bill.
The telegram printed in Thurs-
days issue of The Herald pointed
out the folly of unpreparedness
and strongly urged becking of the I
conscription bill.
Among thos* signing the tele-
gram were:
R w. Sutherland. Burt E Hink-
ley. Jr.. Leon Perl. Sam Perl. W.
8 Heppel. n A. Lackner. S Spen-
cer Nye. N B Hexamer S D Ray.
W. E McDavltt. W T Jennings.
Wir. T. Aldridge. F F Pilgrim. F
O. Willis. Ham Z Crowe. Royca
Russell. H. L. Stokelv. Dennis
Elliot. J. w English w w. Ely.
Harbert Davenport. R O Ransome.
A. C Hipp. S W Bell. H W Bell.
V. W Taylor V. W Taylor. Jr. and
F.. A. Rendall.
Highway Chiefs
Given Thanks
!
Impressed by the urgency of
Cameron county traffic problems
but remaining noncommital. mem-
bers of the State Highway Commis-
sion returned to their homes Friday
after a tour of the Lower Valley
A resolution of thanks was passed
bv the Cameron county commis-
sioners in special session Fridav.
expressing the county's appreciation
Tor the vtsit of Brady P Gentry
i chairman cT the State Highway
Commission. Robert Lee Bobbitt
member of the commission. DeWltt
Greer chief high***' entiree*
John W Puckett district engineer
of Pharr.
The resolution proposed by Com-
missioner Charles Morris of San
Benito also stated that Cameron
county would abide by whatever
decision the highway department
reached regarding widening or par-
alleling of highwaya.
WOOTTON DIES
IN AUTO CRASH
Was on Way to Valley
Safety Meeting
EU6A—The Vilify a 81st traffic
latglity 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 2ft Weslaco who received
only minor bruises.
Wootton. who w<a president of
the Edinburg 20-30 club was en
toute to a HarlinRen 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 m Browna-
vllie a yeai ago while connected
with other government agricultur-
al work.
The body was forwarded Friday
'o Sabinal for burial after having
been taken to the Martin Nelson
Funeral Home at Weslaco.
Wootton’s car was said to nave
"leaped’ into the air after the
crash almost hitting phone wires
and then rolling over seieral times.
Wootton suffered compound frac-
tures of both legs and died as a
result of a rib puncturing his
heart. He was dead by the time
the ambulance arrived.
The crash was under me investi-
gation Friday of Assistant District
Attorney Jack Ross and patrol-
men.
Wootton was a graduate of Texas
A and I. College Kingsville in
193ft. where he had been editor of
the college weekly newspaper.
BALKANS
(Continued from Page One.)
Northern Bucovina had gone be-
vond this aim.
Government quarter* in Bu-
charest said King ( arol had been
given only until nightfall to ac-
cept the Vienna plan—without
argument or discussion—under
threat of attack from Hungary
and Hutgaria. supported by the
powerful Rome-Berlin axis.
Despite repeated Berlin asser-
tions that the axis powers attended
the Vienna conference only to
guide and help the Balkan na-
tions kettle their quarrel govern-
ment sources in Bucharest said
Oerman Foreign Minister Joachim
von Rtbbentrop minced no words in
indicating what Rumania must do.
or els» ..."
Hitler Wants Quirt
Hitler has insisted that the Bal-
kans remain quiet to safeguard the
smooth llow of oil and grain sup-
plies from southeast Europe into
Germany while the Reich pushes
its all-important battle against
Britain.
With Oerman troops manning
Rumania s Irontier Soviet Russia
was expected to adopt a softer tone
than the stiff virtual ultimatum re-
ported in Moscow earlier Friday.
Before the Vienna bargain"
settlement terms became known the
Kremlin was reported to have de-
manded an "early and satisfactory"
reply from Rumania recarding
alleged provocative actions' by
Rumanian troops on the Ruman;an-
Rua&ian border.
The Soviet note also contained a
warning of grave consequences’
for any future incidents.
Army In Maneuver*
'Moscow dispatches .said the Red
army was holding elaborate maneu-
vers m a western area practicing
river crossings under artillery
smoke screens).
It was believed the Hungarian
occupation o' the ceded portion of
Transylvania would take place sim-
ultaneously with Bulgarian occupa-
tion of southern Dobruja. which
Rumania already has agreed to
yield About gnnono Rumanians
live in the territory to be surren-
dered.
• Budapest dispatches said the
ceded territory would extend as far
east as Brasov and give Hungary
a frontier with Soviet Russia tn
the Carpathians — the mountain
range which Hungarians have call-
ed a barricade to communism.*
Third Slice Yielded
For Rumania the Transylvania
decision Involves a third slice ol
territory she has yielded in * little
over three months.
On June 27 she accepted a So-
net ultimatum which resulted in
ihe Red army's occupation of Be^a-
rabia and northern Bucovina an
area oT about 13.300 square miles.
The cessions of Bessarabia north-
ern Bucovina southern Dobruja
and part of Transylvania total
about 43 000 of Rumania s 113.884
square miles reducing her to a
little more than her pre-World
War size.
War Through Winter
Meanwhile a reported crowing
German conviction that the war
will continue at least through the
winter—blighting Hitler s time-table
for an early conquest of Britain—
was related in a dispatch from Les
Verrieres. on the French-Swiss
frontier.
The dispatch said that because of
the expected winter-long continua-
tion of the conflict the Oerman
army of occupation In France plan-
ned to remove all French war pri-
soners—more than 1.000.000 of them
—from the Nazi occupied zone and
take them to Oermany.
Crewmen Rescued
CORK. Ireland Eighteen
crewmen of the 8 000-ton British
cargo ship Gophlands. destroyed
Sy German air attack 300 miles
routhwest of Cork last Sunday
while carrying iron ore from Afri-
ca were landed Friday. Eighteen
others were still missing.
Rows of spines found on the im-
mature tenrer. an animal of Mad-
agascar. disappear when It grows
up.
'! The War ||
I Today |
>»»»»#»< #»»»#♦<'1
By DeWITT MACKENZIE
If England can hold out one
momh more against the intensified
German bombing until October 1—
approximately the beginning of bad
uying weather and rough >eas in
the average year—I believe she will
nave estuoiisned her right to claim
that she may win the war.
II she cracxs up before this fate-
ful month is passed obviously Hit-
ler has his conquest in the bag. We
shall be smart too. if we recognize
i that his position is powerful.
Uamife tnrevealed
There s one vital thing lacking
' to mane it possible for us to give
a close estimate ol what may hap-
pen In the next month—ana that's
how much demage the British Isles
are suffering materially and how
much in morale if any. The Brit-
ish government won t give us the
answer to that and the Germans
are unable to.
It would be hard to believe that
the material damage isn't heavy
out 1 believe more depends on the
condition of civilian morale Eng-
land can stand to lose a lot of
homes and factories before ner
situation will become desperate.
Public morale though must in-
crease with adversity.
Morale Seems High
Indications are that the morale
of the British Isles is riding hign.
A striking picture of England s will
to win is painted in an article ear-
ned for fYidsy mornings papers
by the Associated Press from E. A.
Montague. an English newspaper-
man in London.
His theme is that he la happy
and Britain today is a happy
country * because she at last ' set
to work to make good the years that
the locust had eaten'* during the
period of appeasement and mdrt-
lerenre. and is determined *to
fight until either this nation or
Hitler is destroyed.**
AIR RAID
(Continued from Page One.)
London during this raid but a
swarm of British fighters met
them and split up the formation.
Fight In Suburb*
Heaviest fighting occurred over
a London suburb wher* hundreds
of afternoon shopper* saw a
force of British fighter planes
pounce on a formation of more
than a score of raiders flying In
the s»n.
The planes swirled and dived
and looped in a virtual free-for-all
as the formation broke up
Some of the attack bomber*
dumped their missiles in their
flight
A moment after the formation
*as broken up. one bomber wa*
reen falling with two fighters
down on it* tail.
Two others crashed near where
the first one fell.
During the first raid battles rag-
ed from the outskirts of the London
area all the way to the roast
Raid Manchester
Coming over in formation* of
15 to 26 plane* the flermans ran
into a solid wall of anti-airrraft
fire and swarming flghtera pro-
tecting London following earl?
morning attacks on the great in-
dustrial northwest including the
textile center of Manchester.
The attack on the northwest one
of the heaviest of the war. was
roupled with others on the south-
east. the midlands and south Wales.
Many persons were killed and In-
jured in these forays.
Manchester has a population of
766.000 and is 31 miles east of Liv-
erpool. to which it is connected by
a large canal accomodating seagoing
vessels.
OIL
(Continued from Page One )
probably the first of the year
pending completion of his plant at
Dan* City building of his pipe-
line and completion of adequate
Brownsville storage facilities.
Three S5.000 barrel tanks and
three uo.ooo barrel ones have al-
ready been rumple ted at the w R
Davis. Inc. oil terminal here and
iour mono barrel tanks are cur-
rently under construction Joe
Stead is general superintendent of
the terminal.
Mr Davts was accompanied here
Thursday by his secretary. Miss E
F. Wehrle Thev arrived by Pan
American Airways and left by
Eastern Air Lines for Houston
and New York.
He reiterated hi* faith In the
future of Brownsville whtrh he
ha* often expressed pointing out
Brownsville's strategic position
and predicting that "great thing*
are in store "
Three Are Added to
Summer School List
E C. Dodd superintendent ot
Brownsville schools. Friday added
three more teachers to the recently
published list of Brownsville teach-
ers. who attended summer school.
Maurice pipkin received a master
of science degree from Texas A. Sc
I College: Mrs. Mattye G. Stell at-
tended the same institution and
Mis* Velma Wilson attended the
Bavior university summer session.
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Pine sun glasses magnifiers etc.
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ROADS HERE IN 1
! DEFENSE PUN
San Antonio Highway
May Be Improved
Strengthening of the road and
bridge* between Brownsville and
San Antomo has been proposed
jolntlv by the War Department
and the federal Public Hoads Ad-
ministration *sti national defense
measure the Associated Pres* re-
ported Fridav.
The Brownsville - San Antonio
stretch is included in proposals to
strengthen SO.OOO mile* of high-
way* and 2000 bridges over the
nation.
Several thousands of mile* of
Texas highways would be denig-
rated defense routes where'er nec-
essary to insure swift and safe
passage of heavy military equip-
ment. construction would be or-
dered to improve certain atretches
of roadway or bridge*.
Several weeks ago the w-ar de-
iartment submitted to the PRA
a chart shov ing the highways it
deemed strategically located and
I'slted for a report on their pres-
ent condition.
Because of its sl*e. it* interna-
tional boundary and its natural
resource*. Texas had more mileage
outlined or the chart than any
other stats in designating defense
mutes 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
area*
DRAFT
(Continued from Page One 1
the American form of government
In a totalitarian military econ-
cnv-l
The report bore the names of
Representatives Anderson <D-Mo>
Byrne <D-Tenn> Short <R-Mo»
Arends «R-Ill». Shafer iR-Micht.
Martin <R-I*>. Elston tR-Ohio*.
end Harnes tR-Ind'. It was report-
ed that at least one more com-
mitteeman was expected to sign.
Discus* Amendments
While waiting for debate the
house firat had to dispose of sen-
ate amendments to the 15.133 «2A -
277 defense appropriation bill car-
rying funds to start conduction
of 200 warships for a “two-ocean"
naw and more than 14.000 air-
planes. The senate Thursday com-
pleted consideration of the bdl In
a single dav Senator Lundeen
iFL-Mmn» raised the only voice
against passage.
The senate change* among oth-
er things would appropriate $100-
oooooo for housing for defense
workers. $13.005 000 for Improve-
ments at nine naval yards and
training stations and an Increase
of $10.000 000 for naval aviation.
Dems Claim Votes
In getting readv for Burke-
Wadsworth bill debate neither
party planned a poll of its mem-
bers The Democrat* s*ld senti-
ment on their side of the aisle wa«
overwhelming; Republicans sakl
that “k 1* not a party matter; It
will he ever) man for his own
ideas ••
The House committees' conscrip-
tion bill was approved Thursday
oy a vote of 20 to 4 although
some members who favored send-
ing it before the house reserved
the right to opop** it later.
Like the Senate bill the house
legislation would provide training
deferments for ministers men with
oependents. the mentally and phys-
ically unfit and men in occupa-
tions deemed necessary “to the
maintenance of the national health
safety or interest."
It also would limit service to
the western hemisphere and United
States territories and possessions
including the Philippines and
would virtually require that the
trainees be restored to their orlg-
mal Jobs when thev return to civil
j life.
The houae rommitfee's suhatitu-
| Mon of the 21-T0-44 age bracket
for the senate's 21-to-30 would
1 make 24.ooo.ocn men subject to
registration and possible service.
The narrower bracket would af-
fect only 12.000 000.
Another change in the bill was
the maximum of 1 ooo 000 set for
the number of trainees in train-
ing at any one time The Senate
maximum was OOOOOO.
The Hoi se military committee
avoided immediate action on the
question of including the senate-
approved Russell-Overton amend-
ment which would empower the
government to take over defense
industries when no satisfactory
price and profit agreement could
be reached with th» owners on
armv and navy orders.
Two proposals were made for a
slm'lar amendment but no vote
was taken and the sponsors were
given the weekend to work out
such a provision to be presented
to the house as a committee
amendment.
Eleven men are given the job of
safeguarding the wild animal lif*
In Alaska over an are* one-fifth
as large as the Uni'ed States.
The Women Never Forget#
The Men Who Remember# to
Send Flower*
McINNIS FLOWER SHOP
1253 Elizabeth Brownsville
DINE IN
Air-Conditioned
Comfort
Try Our Siuling Steek . . .
IF# Delirious
_ ^—
ANTHONY’S
WAFFLE SHOP
Jimmv Nicholas. Mgr.
811 - Twelfth Street Brownsville
4
CMA FOUNDER
I J
Here briefly Ihandiy afternoon
«u W. L. Mallory (abovet one of
the founders of Pan American
Airways. He founded Ola. Mexi-
cana de Av.arlon back in I9tl
whidh was the nucleus of present*
day PAA.
0*00
PAA Pioneer
Pauses Here
W L Mallory one of the found-
er* of a forerunner of Pan Amer-
ican Airways changed plAnes
Thursday afternoon here en route
from Mexico City to 8an Antonio.
He «k« founder in 19*23 of eta.
Mexicans de Aviacion. together
with Oeorge Rlhl. now vice presi-
dent of PAA. and Randall Piper
of San Antonio.
Ou* of his company which used
to fly payrolls to Tampico oil
fields the present day PAA grew.
Mr Mallory sold his interest In
192« however shortly after Cia.
Mexicana de Aviacion had started
carrying mall between Tampico
and Mexico City.
Mr. Mallory is now representa-
tive in Tampico of an independent
New York oil firm.
While no longer connected with
i aviation he still gets a thrill every
once in a while to think that he
was one of the founders of the
world’s largest auway. and one ot
the worlds first commercial air-
ways.
Here on the same plane was Muss
Ruth de Savigny. daughter of a
Nicaraguan coffee planter. She was
enroute to Oakland. Cal.
VALLEY
(Continued from Page One.)
chandise in the windows only
two.
They were lady's hats made of <
\chet. and attractive in shape
and size.
Each of the hat* had a small |
figured decoration of trimming
apparrirlv tones of some kind
set in what seemed to be plati-
num.
What was causing all of the at-
tention?
The price tag*.
One of the price tags revealed
the hat was available at 14332 00
The other price tag was *5100
We stood quite awhile to see if
anyone rushed in to buy one or
both of the hat*.
No one did. no far as we knew.
• • •
V^/E NEXT WENT ON DOWN
to a marvelous Kres* store
and acquired a couple of trinket*
for fwo bit* And then happily
hotelward.
City Briefs
The Valley Basin*** College an-
nounces opening dare September
' 9. New tuition rates for day and
night rl*.Nses Enrollments are now
cnder mar Special and general
information by writing or calling
President G W. Moothart. Phone
744 Brownsville —Adv.
J. C. Torker head of the huri-
nesa administration department of
Brownsville Junior college was re-
ported resting comfortably at Mercy
Haspital Friday following an ap-
pendicitis operation Thursday night.
I j
w
ITS MILDER finer flavor it creating a demand let
Lent Star everywhere la Texasl Now it's one of Texas'
moot popular boors—wherever it's sold! FIVE MILLION _
BOTTLES IN FOUR MONTHSI *
Lone Star's liner flavor comes from finer premium
brewing methods. We use highest grade ingredients—
plus pure sparkling artesian water. And we carry our
brewing an important EXTRA STEP further. It's a slower
mere expensive method. Yet in Lone Star you get a
premium brew—at no extra cost to youl Ask lor Lone
Star tod ay I
LONE STAB S EXTBA STEP
in bffw\A| fluurti DODfitltic*
•fly co«tF#U#d. mofD
gtote o«is« — tkreugh %
LOUIS S. WITTE CO.
VALLEY DISTRIBUTORS
General Office SAN BENITO Phoa* SI
COUNTY TO AID '
SEWING ROOM™
Will Contribute $273J
Toward Projects
- jl.
Hedged by condition*. Cameron
county commissioner* Friday agreed .
to contribute a maximum of |2 .-
131 60 for the WPA sewing projects
In Brownsville. Harlingen and San
Benito This will allow a contribu-
tion of $4 00 per woman employed #
.per month. County participation
wtll end Jan. 1 under th*> plan
adopted.
Commissioner a A. Kimn »>i] ot
Harlingen introduced the motion
supported by Commissioner T. A.
Kinder of Brownsville. Limits were
I set on the number of employed a
maximum of 72 was set for Browns-
ville 43 for Harlingen and 34 lor
San Bemto. a total * How able max- \
imum ot 149. County participation
is to become effective September 1
and end Dec. 31.
I Commissioner K.mmell pointed |
! out that the county* rost may nor
reach these figures as project* hi
all three cities sre not now oper-
| sting at fixed maximum* allowed
Some opposition to any county
participation whatever developed
at Friday's special meeting Com-
missioner Grover J. Weikel of the
Port Isabel precinct opposed the .
resolution on the basis of the sew-
ing projects being entirely muni-
cipal matters Tor the three cities
involved.
Commissioner Charles Morris.
San Benito was emphatic in his
statement that Cameron county
must sooner or later quit trvtng to
match pocketbooks with the Fed-
eral government"
Commissioners expressed belief
that It was only the offer of Ken-
edy county to settle an old law suit
for 12.000 that made county parii-
ctpstion on the sewing projects pos- q
slble.
DEMOS <
^Continued fro mPage One)
man of the county committee said
the first primary cost approximately
$2446 and the run-off primarv
about 11 659 for a total of approxi-
mately 14.107.
The 25 per cent rebate to candi-
dates touted about $2 279 and the
70 per cent rebate about 12.759. for
a total of approximately $9019 they
will be returned.
An offer by the committee to al-
low Mr. Wagner $750 for his work
in directing the party’s two pri-
maries was refused by him. The
county chairman accepted $70 05 to
cover his expenses
Canvassing of the election re- *
turns found the unofficial ftgur*s *
prepared the night of the aecond
primary to be accurate.
Cuba to Sign Trade
Treaty With Mexico -
MEXICO CITY— P— Ruben «
Romero. Mexican ambassador to
i Cuba said Fridav the two Amer-
ican republics soon would sign a
'reatv designed to Increase trade
————■■ ——.—. ■ m .... .— ...
STUDENTS ....
Protect your books and
other property.
COMBINATION
PADLOCKS. ODC
Also Fall Line of Padlock*
lAc to $1.25
BROWNSVILLE
HARDWARE CO.
112k Washington Phone kd*
Brownsville Sheet
Metal Works
WILL MOVE TO
NEW LOCATION
226 S. E. Elizabeth ^
SEPTEMBER 1
Telephone 289
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