El Heraldo De Brownsville (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 83, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 25, 1940 Page: 3 of 12
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STARR FIESTA
TO GET GOING
r ON THURSDAY
Annual Show to Open
With Coronation Of
Queen Followed By
Parade Rodeo
RIO GRANDE CITY— S*arr
County’s Greater Frontier First a
opens Thursday night with a fan-
fare of trumpets when Miss Virgi-
nia Guerra of Roma will be
crowned Queen of the 1940 Fair
and Rodeo in elaborate coronation
exercises at the fair grounds.
Members of tire roval court this
>ear are Dr M. J RodriEuez.
Pimce Consort to Her Majesty;
Arareli of the House of Sanchez.
Queen of the 1939 Starr County
Fair and Rodeo and Fred D Guer-
ra. Prince Consort to the 1939
Quern; Princess Rerta of the
Hou.'e of Diaz and her escort.
0 Prince Jose Adan Garza; Duches
Norma of the House of Hinojosa
and her escort. Duke Martin Ca-
vazos; Lady Anita of the House
of Saenz and her escort. Lord An-
drew McLellan
Featured Participants
Featured participants in the co-
ronation this \ear are the Sweet-
heart and Mascot of the Fair and
Rodeo Margarita Guerra and Er-
ne :o Lopez. Other youngsters
taking part are Antoinette Guerra
and Rene Villarreal crown and
scepter bearers and Cehnda Trejo
and Hector Garza train beam
Music for the occasion will be
furnished bv the Rio Grande High
School band under the direction of
Mr Roque Guerra. The program
will include talks by reprrsrnta-
tive.s of local civic groups in addi-
tion *o musical and dance num-
bers Mr Vernon Hill of Mission
will be the speaker of the evening.
The Fair and Rodeo will get un-
der wav Friday morning at 9 30
O'clock with the big parade which
wil include the entire garrison of
Fort Ringgold in addition to floats
entered by merchants clubs and
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Liquid CAPUDINE
PUENTES DRAWS
GUILTY VERDICT
Three Year Term For
Murder Assessed
Flwncio Puentes was found
guilty of murder and sentenced to
'hree year* imprisonment Tuesday
l>v a Jury in Judge George C.
VVestervrlt's criminal district court.
The jury deliberated about two
hours and failed to recommend
he suspended sentence requested
by O B. Garcia. hLs attorney.
Puentes was charged with the
billing of Francisco Torres last
January 1 at Port Isabel Judge
H. L. Yates conducted the trial
as special state prosecutor
The jurors who heard the case
which took two days were; Felix
Cano. Brovnsville; L. D. Inman.
Brownsville: Joe Cox Rio Hondo;
I Juan Bestetro. Brownsville; Eddie
Cavazos Brownsville; Joe Gavito.
Brownsville: Joe C. Shafer San
Benito; C M Gregorv. Santa
Rosa; Hcrrison H. Buck. Los In-
dios; Morton Ecklund. San Benito;
\ W Piggott. Brownsville and L.
*V. Hough*ling. San Benito.
DAY GOES BY AND
CUPID GETS BLANK
For the first time in many
months not a single marriage li-
cense w:j> issued for a full days
operation of the county clerks
office Tuesday. But they almost
. ued one. A couple appeared but it
war. found the man was married
aud had neglected the necessity of
Lftting a divorce.
schools The line of march will
lake in the two main streets the
full length of the city which ha-
already been decorated with flags
and bunting to add a festive air
I for the annual three day celebra-
tion.
Needlework Display
Featured exhibits at the fair
grounds this year will be an out-
standing display of needlework and
art work under the supervision of
Mrs J. W Rutledge at the do-
mestic science building and the
' livestock show directed by county
agent Cha A King. Jr which
a h ead v has signed up numerous
registered entries Thoma* and
i Turner of Raymondville and Wes-
laco reserved ten stalls Monda\
for exhibit purposes and Tino
| Garcia of Raymondville has stat-
i cd that he wili show some register-
ed Palomino colts.
Two rodeo shows daily on Fri-
day Saturday and Sunday promise
rare entertainment with a lively
card
Let Us Make You An
INNERSPRING
MATTRESS
FROM YOUR PRESENT MATTRESS
Complete renovation and a good quality
innerspring unit—for only
$9.95
BUDGET
PLAN
TERMS—
So
Cents
Weekly
We call for your old mattress in the morning
—and return it in the afternoon.
OVER A QUARTER CENTURY OF QUALITY
SERVICE AND GREATER VALUES
Brownsville—Corner of Elizabeth and Thirteenth Sts.
PHONE 307
kf
All prior* quoted are Net. Small carrying
charge on budget account*.
Housing Of New Army Big Job
But Not As Heavy As In 1917
Valuable Lessons In
World War Now
Useful
By MAJ. PAIL L. REED
XEA Special Correspondent
One of the toughest of all the
tasks lacing conscription admmis-
trators is the job of housing the
new army.
Thu part OT the defense pro-
gram must be tackled from scratch
but the terrific pressure of the
1917 housing problem will not be
telt. Experience gained in the
World War is going to be a big
help—and. incidentally will make
things more comfortable for the
drafted men.
Money is appropriated: work has
already started. Congress has ear-
marked $100000000 for general de-
fense housingand $128 000.000 for
national guard barracks. Under
Senate consideration 1s an addi-
tional appropriation of $338 000.000
for conscript housing already pass-
ed by the House.
As early as July a relatively
small program for construction of
temporary barracks mess halls
warehouses administrative quar-
ters at 18 regular army posts in-
dicated preparations to handle ini-
tial training of conscripts as well
as 100.000 new recruits.
Formal authorization of seven
army housing projects for national
guard units has just been an-
nounced by the War Department
and funds have been allocated and
construction program initiated for
nine camp and hospital sites. The
new national guard camps will
house 111.1300 men the nine others.
307 000.
Each national guard camp will
provide quarters for a full division.
World War Camps
in 1917 somp 32 training renters
—camps or cantonments for na-
tional guard and national army
• conscripts of 1917'—mushroomed up
o\er the country. They were com-
plete towns of 1700 buildings water
and sewage systems lights streets
tailroads laundries bakeries hos-
pitals. otfires and quarters.
They were built in three months
and haff of them cost $10 000.000
apiece Each trained a full wartime
division of 27 152 officers and men
The first - barracks were long
narrow one-story buildings with
rlngle board walls covered with
bunding paper or weather striping
depending on climate Also—depend-
ing on weather and the efficiency
of a single central heating unit—
they were hot or eold as World
War veterans well remember.
Later a two-story wider barracks
was introduced housing a full com-
pany of 200 men and a mess hall.
National guard camps were mostly
tent clues since the guard was
partially trained carried its own
canvas There were if? of these
camps built at about one-third the
cost of the national army units.
Old Sites Being l sed
All th** World War camps have
disappeared They were either torn
down atter the war or allowed to
so to pieces But the government
still owns most of the land and
many of the sites will be used for
the conscript army.
Already the national guard has
been ordered to traminr In some
of the 1517 ramps
Construction of the conscript
army camps will be handled by the
quartermaster corps but private
contractors will do the actual build-
ing Wonu War contractors who
built at cost plus sliding scale fee
would marvel at the completeness
of 1940 specifications. The new
camps will not be slam-banged to-
gether. and they will be built at
a minimum expense.
The baste building—the barracks
—remains the same plus added
comtorts and improvements with
both one and two-story types plan-
ned.
Use of power equipment and em-
ployment of standard construction
units and pre-fabrication will pro-
vide better barracks in less time
and at a lower cost than 23 years
ago Mlstal es of 1917 will not be
repeated
Camps will be smaller less crowd-
ed. saTcr. The modern ■‘triangular ’
division numbers 15 000 men. about
two-thirds that of Pershing’s divi-
sions. Additonal structures to house
motorized equipment searchlights
etc. will be necessary.
Special detail of camp layouts
will give greatest margin of safety
from aerial attack and fire Camou-
flage will be limtled to nets and
screens and will be incorporated in
the training program.
.>o flurry-1 p yerf'^arr
The "hurry-up'' program of 1917-
18 will not be necessary and there
will be no log-jam In the training
camps before the first conscripts
're called on Nov. 15 two echelons
of the national guard »soooo each*
will have started training The
training ramp quota of 4onooo will
not be reached until tan. 1.
Alter preliminary training con-
scripts will be assigned to Till re^-
ular armv and national guard
sions. making room in ramps tor
the additional 400.000 to be called
beginning April 1.
Full minimum armv to guarantee
«afetv will be 1 200 000 men. approx-
imately the same as the rapacity of
the 1917 camps and cantonments.
Rice Mart Unsteady
WASHINGTON — <g*> — With
rams in Southern Texas and
Louisiana delaying harvesting agd
threshing the agriculture depart-
ment reported Wednesday rice
markets continued unsettled for
the week ended September 23.
SEEDS
BEANS PEAS. CABBAGE
Custom Grinding
WE BUY CORN
W R. Jackson Feed &
Seed
BROWNSVILLE
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SornM lik** this nnr trrrlrd I'nele S»tn'» World War conscripts. t'nder prrwurf In 1317 draft ad*
ministrators threw barracks together In a hurry—and often they didn't have all the comfort* of home.
This photo was taken at Uuantico. Va.
NEW ROAD WILL
CUT DISTANCES
San Antonio Brought
Nearer Rio Grande
RIO GRANDE CITY The let-
ting of the contract by the State
Highwr.y Department for a $260.-
(HiO bridge over the Nuece.s River
north of Freer brings a step near-
er the realization of the highway
ironi San Antonio to Rio Grande
City. As the proposed bridge is
the largest single item of expense
in the project it is frit that the
building ol the entire highway is
now assured. County Judge H
Garza Jr . said.
It is reported that a recent
military map issued bv the War
Departmen* at Washington show-
ed the proposed route from Fort
Sam Houston at Sun Antonio to
Tort Ringgold at Rio Grande City.
A direct highwav between these
joints will make the mileage about
200 miles as compared to the pres-
ent route of some 250 miles.
According to Judge Garza the
Starr County comnvssioners are
now waittng th« action of the Jim
Hogg County commissioners before
designating the road through Starr.
At an earlv date the commission-
ers of Starr Countv will meet
i with the State Hnhwav Commis-
sion in Austin for the construc-
tion of this highway he said.
Vehicle Income
Listed By County
A total of $222.787 71 has been
collected hv the county tax asses-
sor and collector's office for 1940
from motor vehicle licenses it was
announced Wednesday alter a
compilation of figures to include
Monday. Of this amount the coun-
ty’s portion is $138 775 08
Tor the fiscal month ended
Sept. 20. certificates of titles for
all motor \ehirles came to 1.672
bringing the year s total to $16738
Total money collected on certifi-
cates of titles for the month
amounted to $4 307. about half of
which is retained bv the county.
O’Daniel Turns Down
Hoosiers’ Invitation
AUSTIN—'/T— Governor W. Le*
O'Daniel rill bA unable to arrept
an invitation of Governor Clif-
ford Townsend of Indiana to visit
that state Oct. 5 when the Uni-
versity of Texas Longhorns play
the Indiana Hoosiers at Bloom-
•ngton.
A tour of Texas br O Daniel to
meet new members of the legis-
’ature in their homes now under
wav. will not have been completed
lv that date. William Lavson.
O Daniel's secretary said.
Funeral Is Held For
E. H. Poteet’s Father
MERCEDES — Pin al services
were held in Haskel Monday for
the father of Supt. E. H. Poteet
cf Mercedes who died September
22 Mr. and Mrs. Poteet are ex-
isted to arrive home this we«k
from Haskel where they attended
♦ he services Mr. Poteet was well
known in Mercedes having visit-
'd many times.
Third Term GOP
Women’s Topic
‘The Third Term Isue” the
tootc of several talks given at the
semi-monthlv luncheon meeting the
Republican Women’s Club of Cam-
eron County at the Madison hotel
in Harlingen Monday according
to Mrs. Millicent Hill who presid-
ed.
Mrs Robert Pollock of Harlingen
led the speaking program. Care-
luilv prepared talks and papers
were presen’ed by Mrs. George
Gmbtoert Mrs John Qumrv Adams.
Msr R W Frush and Mrs. Parce.
all of Harlingen and Mrs. Lamber-
ton of La Feria.
Talks of the session were also
marie by Mrs. Lena Gay More of
Brownsville and Mrs Beatrice of
Donna Mrs. More national Repub-
lican committeesoman from Texas
described her recent trip to Ama-
rillo to meet Wendell Willkie Re-
1 publican candidate for president.
Mrs. Beatrire a member of the
state executive committee for the
Fifteenth District instructed mem-
bers on assistance to the county
chairman when Willkie headquart-
ers are established in cities of Cam-
eron county.
Next meeting of the club will be
held a* the horn* (If Mrs Adams
m Harlingen on Monday Oct. 7. at
3.30 p m.
Chamber to Assist
In Fire Prevention
The Brownsville Chamber of
Commerce will co-operate with
chambers of commerce throughout
! the United States in sponsoring lo-
cal Fire prevention Week begin-
ning Oct 6 according to Col. W
F. Talbot vice-president and gen-
eral manager.
Nationwide observance of Fire
Prevention Week this year brings
out the fart that damage from
fires in the first six months of 1940
topped losses in the same period
last year.** Col. Talbot said "We
urce all citizens of Brownsville to
ro-operate fen this one-week cam-
paign to cut down local fire haz-
ards."
Elliott Roosevelt
Winds Up Affairs
FORT WORTH — ofh — Elliott
Roosevelt was at home Wednesday
■ to wind up his business at fairs be-
fore reporting October 7 to Wright
Field. Ohio for duty in the pro-
curement division of the army air
corps.
He will leave H A. Hutchinson
general manager in charge of fhe
Texas Stare Network of which he
I is the head and will cancel his cur-
rent radio broadcast contract.
Planning Board Is
Completing Report
DALLAS— 4*—The Southwestern
regional planning advisory commit-
tee Wednesday was completing a
report on the resources of the re-
gion to be marie m Navember to
President Roosevelt.
Sub-committees assembled a mass
of data on soil erosion flood water
supplies natural resources popu-
lation growth and trends and wild-
life in Oklahoma. Arkansas Louis-
iana and Texas.
Farl O. Mills of St. Louis is head
of the committee.
Educator Dead
DES MOINES la - V Freder-
ick J. La7ell. 72. former professor
of journalism at the University of
Iowa and past president of the
American Association of professors
tearhers and instructors of journal-
ism. died Monday night.
FROM SAN ANTONIO
LA FFRIA — Mrs. Lloyd Elliott
and Mrs. Gordon Sibson have re-
| turned from a visit m San Antonio
with relatives.
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RAIN PUTS OFF
AIRPORT RITES
Roosevelt Will Speak
On Saturday
WASHINGTON —opt— Rain up-
set plans Wednesday for a coming-
out party for Washinsttn’s giant
new airport and President Roose-
velt's laying of a cornerstone was
postponed until <2 30 p. m CSTt
Saturday.
The chief executive who on Nov.
19. 1938. watched workmen start
dragging 1.250 000 cubic yards of
gravel from the bed of historic Po-
tomac river drew the assignment
0! getting the cornerstone into place
for the terminal building of one of
his pet projects.
While considerable ceremonv
marks the exercises Saturday the
729-acre airport will not be com-
pleted and formally dedicated until
Dec 17. the great landing field
actually covers an area where the
river used to flow.
500 Millions Spent
On Defense Projects
AUSTIN—<4»—The WPA and
^ponsoTtng organizations have
s a*nt an estimated $500000000 on
projects designed to strengthen
military Rni navai defenses. Har-
old J. .Stafford. Texas WPA ad-
ministrative assistant said Wed-
nesday.
Stafford declared 33 such proj-
ects err pin ;ng 4 3.58 persons were
operating in Texa .
Rotarians Mark
19th Anniversary
_ •
MERCEDES — Mercedes Rotary
Club celebrated its nineteenth an-
niversary here Tuesday. Fre<|
Johnston introduced some fifteen
. former members of the club in
addition to a number of guests.
Fred E Bennett first president
of the club gave an Interesting
talk on the club# history and
Fred Johnston talked on My Sev-
enteen Years in the Club ' Miss
Marunret Mallatt gave two vocal
numbers accompanied at the pi-
ano by Mb. H. T. Stotler.
The club adopted resolution* of
sympathy in the death of the fath-
er of Erne>t H Pnteet. There vrill
he no regular meeting of the Rot-
ary Club next week but the club
art’ll s'age % barbecue at the homo
of H. D. Lauderdale. Kiwams
Cnib. will hold the annual banquet
f-nd reception for the teachers of
*he Mercedes school faculty.
Socialist Candidate
Assails Conscription
? rere-
time conscription as undemocratic
iNerman Thomas said here Wednes-
pay it was on of the fa udi-
cattng thLs nation can become Fas-
cist.
The socialist presidential candi-
date spoke from the steps of Evan*
Hall at Ttllotson college for Ne-
groes under sponsorship of tha
University of Texas social problem
council. The University bars cam-
paign speeches on the campus.
He asserts peacetime conscription
is democratic only as slavery may
be democratic.
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