The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 92, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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U.S.-Jap War Fear Driving Americans From Orient
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FORTY-NINTH YEAR—No. 92 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1940 EIGHT PAGES TODAY * * * * 6c A COPY "
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Americans
Fleeing
Orient
SHANGHAI —(AP)— A
general with d r a w a 1 of
American women and chil-
dren from the Far East es-
pecially China appeared
• probable Friday a* the feeling grew
among Americans that conflicting
Japanese and United States pol-
ities in the Pacific are heading
toward an eventual frontal collis-
ion.
It was reported reliably that
ti>e Texas Oil company had sug-
gested to it* employes that they
send their families home as soon
as accommodations are available.
Similar action by the Standard
Vicuum Oil company was report-
ed.
Many American women are re-
ported also to have left and to be
preparing to leave Japan as much
became of the difficulties of liv-
ing and raising families under
present conditions as because of a
war scare.
JAP PREMIER W ARNS
UNITED STATES
TOKYO —i/P>— Domei Japanese
news agency quoted Premier Prince
Kono^e Friday night as saying that
•whether the Pacific will become
the scene of war or peace solely
depends on whether Japan and the
United States will respect and un-
derstand each other’s position.”
^ Tn an interview at Kyoto with
m the Japanese press the premier
(See JAPAN. Page Two)
I.
IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT
Brownsville does not have a
aoordinated set-up for the various
philanthropies that exist In this
city.
Something on the order of the
Community Chest idea or a Com-
munity Chest itself.
Harlingen has a set-up of this
kind and it appears to be work-
ing smoothly and to the satisfac-
tion of those behind the project.
4i Because there is no plan of this
sort in Brownsville a group ot
women who make up the Public
Health Nursing Association are
forced once a year to hold a tag
day.
There will be such a Tag Day
Saturday.
Some twenty or thirty ladies
will be on the streets. They will
ask a small contribution of you
for the benefit of their Milk
Fund.
• • •
"THE TAG DAY IS NOT EX-
1 actly the only source of reve-
nue for the Milk Fund.
There are several other sources
including the local percentage
from the sale of Christmas Seals.
Several hundred children in the
schools and out. depend upon this
Milk Fund of the Public Health
Nursing Association for their daily
supply of milk.
These children get this milk be-
cause they need it. They get it
because they are undernourished.
They are supplied it because
their parents for one reason or
another cannot afford to get it
□ for them.
The bodies of these children
cry for milk. The vitamins con-
tained in the milk help to build
up their physiques.
• • •
VOUR OWN WAY OF LIFE
1 may be fairly easy. You may
have your three meals a day or
more.
You'd be surprisedsH you knew
(Continued on PaglhTwo.)
TAMAULIPAS
CHIEF HOLDS
ROADPARLEY
Gov. Gomez Confers
With Brownsvi 11 e
C-C In Regard To
Victoria Highway
Marte R. Gomez governor
of the state of Tamaulipas
i Mexico was to arrive in
Brownsville at 4 p. m. Fri-
day to confer with Frank
Davis president of the Brownsville
Chamber of Commerce and other
local officials on the proposed Ma-
tamoros-Victoria highway.
Governor Gomez was to be ac-
companied here by Julio Galvan
president of the Matamoros Cham-
ber of Commerce.
He conferred with the board in
charge of paving Matamoros
streets at the tax collector's office
there Friday morning and was
1 honored at a banquet Thursday
night by the Matamoros Chamber
of Commerce there.
Representatives of the agrarian
colonies and labor organizations
(See GOMEZ. Page Two)
SALESMAN AND
WOMAN KILLED
Murder and Suicide Is
Inquest Verdict
PORT WORTH — UP) — Mrs.
Gwendolyn Pelton 34. Port Worth
horsewoman and wife of Herbert
E. Pelton. oil man and Gerald
Earl Freeze. 41 salesman were
lound shot to death Friday morn-
ing in an automobile just outside
the city limits and near the Stove
Foundry road.
Justice of the Peace Hurley re-
turned an inquest verdict of mur-
der and suicide.'*
A pistol was gripped in the right
hand of Freeze The body of Mrs.
Pelton was slumped under the
wheel of the car a coupe which
belonged to her. while Freeze's body
still was erect in the seat.
Mrs Pelton was shot through the
head. Freeze was shot through the
right temple.
A blood-stained note was found
in Freeze's trouser pocket.
FD Cites Story Of
Axis War On Him
WASHINGTON — <*» — Presi-
dent Roosevelt quoted Friday a
newspaper dispatch saying that
• "the Axis is out to beat President
Roosevelt" when asked at a press
conlerence whether he had “any
reason to believe Germany and
Italy are working for your defeat
in the election.’*
The news article was a New York
Times dispatch from Rome. Mr.
Roosevelt picked up a copy of The
Times on his desk and quoted from
the story in reply to the question.
Army Set# New High
Mark For Recruiting
WASHINGTON —UP— The reg-
ular army shattered all peace and
war time recruiting records in
September mith the enlistment of
more than 45.000 volunteers.
The previous monthly record was
59.589. established in May. 1917.
The September enlistments raised
the regular army strength to 335.-
000 men out of the authorized
400.000 maximum.
_
Catholic Bishop Says
German War Is ‘Just*
BERLIN —(JP<— Dr Franziskuk
Markowski. Catholic bishop of the
German army says in a pastoral
letter to Catholic soldiers which
was published Friday that the
German people “knows it is wag-
ing a just war"
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New Theatre Of War
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6 50 Mediterranean Sea —
A 1 -*«»»«'»**M
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 111
Hap shows the Balkan area into whirh the European war moved with
lightning speed Friday as Italian troops 130.000 strong armed with
120 tanks massed on the Greek frontier soon after Hitler and Mus-
solini held a three-hour conference at Brenner Pass. At F-3 on the
Map is Epirus whirh Italy has demanded of Greece In the name of
Albania.
'...
Reissuance Of Cameron
Road Bonds Is Opposed
—
Proposals to reissue $454 000 county bonds to expedite state highway
construction in Cameron county received a body blow Friday when word
was received from Lon C. Hill chairman of the bondholders sub-com-
mittee at Corpus Christi. that three of the four members of his com-1
nuHcr anc iu mu bvuuh. I
Consent of the bondholders com-
mittee was one of the essentials
to the plan to reissue Sam Ran-
.son. Conn Brown. James Tucker
and Mr. Hill represent the bond-
! holders.
“If the commissioners' court
passes a resolution asking the
bondholders to amend the' federal
court decree and the contract which
they have with Cameron county
(See BONDS Page Two>
First Parachute
Battalion In U.S.
Army Is Forming
WASHINGTON —ol»>— Forma-
tion of the army's first parachute
battalion with a strength of ap-
proximately 500 volunteer soldiers
was announced Friday by Secre-
tary Stimson.
The new unit designated the
501st parachute battalion is being
formed with nucleus of an experi-
mental gToup which has been un-
dergoing training for several weeks
in the lessons suggested by Ger-
many’s success with this new wea-
pon.
Headquarters will be at Fort
Benning. Ga. where the test bat-
talion already is in service.
BOMB THRE ATS j
SENT NEGROES
Dallas Group Orders
Tenants to Move
DALLAS— i.Ph-A crowd estimated 1
at 100 white persons Thursday
night warned occupants of negro
houses in a section of South Dallas
to move out by Friday night or be
bombed.
Police reported several men en- 1
trred the home of one negro whose
garage was bombed less than a
month ago. jerked his pipe from his
mouth and warned him to vacate
his house.
More than a score of officer*.
>ome armed with tear ga.t bombs. 1
patrolled the district duiing the
night. i<
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Quake Registered
BUENOS AIRES —UPv—'The Ar- I
gentine national seismograph reg-
istered a “strong temblor” Friday
at 1:59 a. m. CST. The epicenter
was believed to be in the Pacific
i ocean off the Peruvian coast.
I-
BACHELOR WOES
Prof. Says Insanity Suicide
Jail Rut Trail Single Folk
EAGLE ROCK Calif. — „p> —
Married people have fewer prob-
lems than unmarried and are
more successful in avoiding pris-
on. insane asylums and the un-
dertaker. Dr. Paul Popenoe gen-
eral director of the institute of
family relations declared Friday.
“The extraordinarily high rate
of insanity suicide and imprison-
ment. and the short span of life
of the single divorced and widow-
%
ed as compared with married per-
sons. is the best possible evidence
that those outside of maniage
do not lack serious problems. ’ he
said in an address prepared for
delivery at a conference of the
Institute.
A study of 5000 persons made
by the National Recreation As-
sociation Dr. Popenoe said
“showed that it is the unmarried
i not the married who slump stead-
j ily into a rut.1*
Hitler\ Duce Talk 3Hours
At Brennero War Council
AXIS LEADERS
NAP FIGHT TO
FDWPLANS
U. S. Help to British
Reportedly Taken
Up At Meeting Of
Two Dictators
BREN NERO Italy—(A P)
—The directorate of the
Rome-Berlin Axis Benito
Mussolini and Adolf Hitler
held a three-hour council of
war Friday and discussed "all the
problems” confronting their coun-
tnes. according to a communique
Issued just before their parting.
Hitler's armored train headed
jack through Brenner Pass at 2 40
p. m and II Duce s armored train
relied away southward five min-
utes lcter. leaving the world to
wonder what if any. world-rock-
ing move had been planned.
iThe United Stairs and her
possible place in the long-range
war plans of the Axis were reli-
ably reported in Rome to hare
hern a nrime topic of consulta-
tion. along with plans for all-
fmnt extension of the war
against Britain.)
Met At Mid-Day
The mid-day meeting of the two
eaderjs. here in the Italian Alps
shere their two realms join lasted
(See PARLEY. Page Two>
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World
Series
BRIGGS STADIUM. DETROIT—
4*i—Two Tennessee boys who made
tood in baseball. Tommy Bridges
ind Jim Turner shared the spot-
ight Friday as the Detroit Tigers
ind Cincinnati Reds collided in the
:hird game of the 19% world series
The sun broke belatedly through
Detroit's morning mist to provide
sright cool weather lor the game.
Turner. 34-vear-old right-hand-
;r. won 14 and lost 7 in season.
The surprise change in Cincin-
nati's lineup was big Ernie Lom-
jardl. the injured catcher.
McKechnie said Lombardi who
sprained an ankle on the Red's last
scstem swing had improved daily
»nd wanted to try playing.
Bridges who had a record of 12
ind 9 in the regular campaign was
o be received by Birdie Tebbetts.
FIRST INNING
CINCINNATI — Werber doubled.
M. McCormick struck out. Good-
man singled sharply to center
scoring Werber. F. McCormick lined
to Campbell. Goodman holding
first. Ripple was called out on
strikes One nm two hits nc er-
rors.
DETROIT — Myers threw out
Bartell. Joost tossed out McCoskv
Gehringer grounded out. Turner
lo McCormick No runs no hits no
errors.
SECOND INNING
CINCINNATI—Lombardi doubled
Joost fanned. Myers popped to
Bartell. Turner filed to McCosky
No runs one hit no errors.
DETROIT—Greenberg struck out.
York struck out. Campbell doubled
Werber threw out Higgins. No runs
one hit no errors.
THIRL INNING
CINCINNATI—Bartell threw out
Werber Bidges tossed out M. Mc-
Comrick Goodman lined to Mc-
Cosky No runs no hits no errors.
DETROIT—Tebbett filed to Rip-
ple. Bridges fanned. Bartell fl*ed to
M McCormick. No runs no hits
no errors.
Fuehrer Goes To Duce
BENITO ADOLP
Nazis Pound British Town
Where invasion May Come
LONDON—'APi— As if to even war scores after Britain announced
destruction of nine Axis submarines and a destroyer. German planes in
relays thundered up the Thames against London Friday afternoon and
blasted viciously at a southeast coast town.
British sources said that the pounding of the unidentified southeast
BRITON BEATEN
BY RUMANIANS
Officials Press Probe
Of Oil Sabotage
BUCHAREST — — Eighteen
Rumanian battle planes flew in
a "defensive reconnaissance flight-
over Rumanian oil fields and Bu-
charest. authorities said Friday as
they pressed an investigation of al-
leged British sabotage plots against
gasoline shipments for Germany.
Some of the planes were German-
made Messersch mitts.
Secret polcie for hours question-
ed A Miller director of the British
dominated Astra-Romans Oil Com-
pany. who was suddenly turned
over to them by persons re|x>rted
to have kidnaped him two days
ago.
British legation officials alter
interviewing the oil man in his cell
said he had been beaten during
the 48 hours he had been held by
a band of youths in plain clothes.
Jap Cargo Vessel
Beached in Texas
G AL VEST ON—(JP)—The freight-
er Panamanian loaded with gas-
oline and other cargo for Japan
a as beached early Friday in Bol-
ivar Roads after a break in the
intake pipe flooded the engine and
boiler rooms of the big freighter.
The vessel was listing 15 degrees
to port and was nosed aground by
' tugs when officials feared it might
capsize in the main anchorage
atea of the roadstead.
(The Panamanian loaded cargo
in Brownsville last month.)
—
Siam Indo-China
Troops Massing
TOKYO—— Dome! (Japanese
news agency > reported Friday from
Bangkok that both Thailand
•Siam) and French Indo-China
were concentrating troops along
their common frontier where a se-
nes of border incidents was said
to have occurred in the past lew
ideye.
coast town—in an area long regard-
ed as the likeliest place for an at-
tempted German landing—was the
worst it had experienced.
Earlier in the same region. Ger-
man coastal guns on the French
.^hore picked a British convoy out
of the murky dawn on the Strait
of Dover and raked the ships with
booming salvoes.
Shell geysering the water of the
strait shook houses on the Kentish
shore. It was not disclosed in Lon-
don whether the Germans scored
tSce WAR. Page Two.)
Labor Law Violation
Contract Ban Urged
PITTSBURGH. —<#>— The Steel
Workers Organizing committee Fri-
day renewed its demand that the
government "Incorporate in all con
tracts a provision prohibiting
awards to firms that are violators
; of the labor laws.”
The union directed Its demand
particularly against the Bethlehem
Steel corporation which SWOC
chairman Philip Murray said has
received more than 11 000.000.000
in national defense orders “despite
multiple citations for labor law
violations.”
Engineer Speeds Away
To Escape Nazi Plane
LONDON—(A*)— The engineer of
a passenger tram turned on full
speed to escape a German bomber
which attacked his train with ma-
chine-gun fire and incendiary
bombs Friday in Wales the British
Press Association reported. The
tram reached the next station un-
damaged.
Envoys Told to Stop
Philippine Propaganda
MANILA- -(**>— High Commission
er Francis B. Sayre disclosed Frida j
he had warned two foreign consul:
to stop their propaganda activltlei
in the Philippines.
He did not name the consult bu
a reliable source said they repre
sented Germany and Japan. A Ger
man war film shown here recently
caused considerable controversy.
Late Oil King’s Son
Is Prisoner Of Wai
LONDON—Lieutenant Hen
rl Deterding. son of the late oi
king. Sir Henri Deterding. is i
prisoner of rn-ar. the admiralty in
formed his wife at her Davent;
home Friday.
DUCE FORCES
MOVE ALONG
BORDER ZONE
Intense Movement Of
Italians In Albania
Reported As Eyes
Focus On Parley
By The Associated Press
Italian troops 130000
strong with 120 tanks were
reported masning near 4he
Greek frontier Friday while
Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini met at historic Brenner
pass amid reports that big event*"
were in the offing.
Reports from Athens said It*l«
BRITISH NAVY FAILS
TO DRAW FIGHT
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt —(API
—After failing to draw the Ita-
lian navy into a fight during a
l.lMNI-mlle sweep of the Medi-
j terranean and Aegean seas but
downing tour Italian planes.
British warships \ ere bark la
port Friday.
tan troop* in Italian-dominated
Albania had shifted to new posi-
tions along the Greek frontier
within the last few days.
"Pawn of Britain”
The Italian press has repeatedly
turned it* propaganda guns on
Greece asserting that the ancient
• See OREECF. Page Two)
MERCEDES MAN
TRAFFIC VICTIM
Auto Death Toll Hits
67 In Valley
MERCEDES — Funeral service*
were held Friday for Scab Barnett
Ashby. 69. victim Thursday *f th*
second fatal traffic accident near
here within two days as officers
investigated the fatality that
brought the Valley'! traffic toll to
67 for the year.
Mr. Ashby a resident of the Val- <
ley for 10 yeari.
was killed almost
M instantly when
m he walked or fell
m mto the side of *
:ar driven by Fred
Lange of near Mercedes. Mr. Ash-
by alighted from a truck and was
struck* when he walked from be-
hind it. His skull was fractured
and his right leg broken.
The accident occurred * short
distance from Mercedes and near
• See TRAFFIC Page Two.)
School Staffs
To Aid Draft
Teachers of four county schools
1 Friday notified County Clerk H. D.
Seago that their entire staffs would
be available for registration . work
; Oct. 16. The 100 per cent volunteer
i schools were Rio Hondo. Los Indies.
Las Yescas and Olmito. The total
t of volunteers reached slightly over
• 300 Friday with offers of service
• i coming in hourly.
r j Needs for help in some precincts
are already over required quotas.
Mr. Seago said while other* have
no volunteers at all. Surplus work-
ers from one precinct will be assign-
ed to others it was said should it
• become necessary.
. j Names of the chief registrars In
1 each of the 35 precincts are expec-
ted to be ready Saturday. A few
. changes are to be made In tha
f places of registration and the**
twill become available Monday.
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