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THE WEATHER
Per the Lower Rio Orande Valley:
Jartly cloudy Saturday night and
unday; not much change In tempera-
ture.
High Tide—
Saturday .. 6 33 p m.
Sundav . 3 30 a. m.—7.39 p. m.
Low Tide—
0 Bunday . 12 39 a m —11 32 p m.
FINAL
EDITION
FORTY-NINTH YEAR—No. 121_
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 1040 EIGHT PAGES TODAY
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. Nazis Foiled In Attempt To Seize Greenland Point
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„ NORWAY BOAT
CAPTURES 50
. IN EXPEDmON
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Broadcast By British
Declares Try Made
On Meteorological
• Station
NEW YORK—(AP)—
A German - language
broadcast by the British
• Broadcasting corporation
Saturday said a German
expedition of 50 men had
been captured in an un-
successful attempt to seize
the meteorological obser-
vation station at Green-
land. The Norwegian pa-
trol boat Fritjof Nansen
made them prisoners it
said.
• The broadcast was
heard by CBS in New
York.
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ON THE HUSTINGS
Lenin Trotsky Hitler
In Campaign Spotlight
Surprise RAF Raid Sends Berlin
Crowds In Panic To Air Shelters
FDR: I
ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN
ENROUTE TO CLEVELAND— P — |
President Roosevelt pitched into his
last lull day oT campaigning Satur-
day contending that “something
evil" Is happening in America when
“organizations which make no se-
cret of their admiration for the
dictatorship form of government'*
distribute “vast quantities of Re-
publican campaign literature."
**l'nholy Alliance"
He rode into up-state New York
cm the way to Cleveland for an-
other major political address after
telling a Democratic rally in Brook-
lyn Friday night that an “unholy
• See FDR Page Two)
* * * *
CAMPAIGN TALKS
ON AIR SATURDAY
NEW YORK — <AP) — Political
broadcast schedule on the net-
works as announced for Saturday
(all time p. m. Central Standard):
WEAF-NBC— 6 Jesse Jones
from Washington (Iiem).
WABC-CBS — 6:30 Porothy
Thompson d»em‘.
MBS-Chain—7:45 Thomas E.
Dewev from Kansas City iRepi.
WEAF-NBC. WABC-CBS — 8
President Roosevelt from Cleve-
land (Pern).
MBS-Chain—8:15 John Aiken
(Soc. labori.
WEAF-NBC—8:45 Sen. Bennrtt
Champ Clark from Columbia
Mo. (Pern).
WABC-CBS—8:43 Sen. Geo. W.
Norris from Omaha (Pern)
MBS and NY State only—8:45
Rep. Bruce Barton from New
York (Rep*.
WABC-CBS WJZ-NBC — 9:15
Wendell Wlllkir from Madison
Square Garden (also WEAF-NBC
9:30) (Repi.
WW:
ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN IN
NEW JERSEY —Wendell L.
Willkie declared Saturday that
President Roosevelt's Brooklyn
speech was designed to “stir up
class hatred and divide our peo-
ple." an aim he described as “the
tactic of Lenin the strategy of
Hitler and the preaching of Trots-
ky."
The Republican presidential
nominee restirtg before his final
campaign appearance Saturday
right at Madison Square Garden
New York issued a statement call-
:ng Mr. Roosevelt's address his
iSee WW Page Two)
PARTIES SPEND
OVER $900000
GOP Fund Double
That Of Demos
WASHINGTON— (/Pi — Report*
filed with the house clerk showed
Saturday that the Democratic and
Republican national committees
each had spent more than $900000
since June 1.
The Democratic committee the
reports showed received $981462
and spent $942 883 during the June
1-Oct. 22 period while the Republi-
can committee reported receiving
$2030554 and spending $95582“^
In addition the campaign efforts
of the two parties were re-enforced
by such amounts as these:
Democratic— National committee
of independent voters $160671; na-
tional committee for agriculture
$49750; senatorial and congression-
al campaign committees. $49613.
Republican — Associated Willkie
clubs. $624605: Democrats for Will-
kie. $148720: United Republican fi-
nance committee for metropolitan
New York. $889806: senatorial and
congressional campaign committees.
$307925.
BRITISH ALSO
HIT HARD AT
AMSTERDAM
Germans Increase
Defense Battery
As Attacks Are
Intensified
LONDON —(API— Berlin suf-
fered two of "the heaviest and
most concentrated aerial attacks
of the far at the hands of the
RAF” overnight the air ministry
news service said Saturday.
BERLIN —(AD— A sur-
prise attack on Berlin by
Royal Air Force raiders
shortly after other British
planes had bombed German-
1 held Amsterdam caught thousands
of Berliners in cafes and on the
streets Friday night and set the
! capital's defense guns thundering
>n a volume not often equalled here.
Defenses Increased
A communique Saturday said at
' least 26 persons were killed in
Amsterdam while ‘several” Berlin
civilians were killed and injured.
The extent of damage in Berlin
was not immediately disclosed but
every phase of the raid was marked
bv intensive counter-fire that in-
dicated the pover of defense bat-
teries had been strongly increased.
Come Over Early
The British came over at an un-
expectedly earh’ evening hour.
At some point- the surprise was
so complete that numbers of Ber-
J ners were turned away from pub-
lic .shelters jammed to overflow and
had to take shelter in doorways
until a lull permitted them to seek
safer quarters or hurry home.
At one time early in the attack
a British plane was caught in
searchlights and held there for a
minute or so of harrowing fire but
apparently escaped. The official
(See BERLIN. Page Two) .
Goal Of Italian Drive On Greece
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SALONIKA AND
ATHENS PORTS
ARE HIT HARD
Greek Troops Holding
Ground As Italians
Intensify Assault By
Land And Sea
BF.R.V. Jtwitieriand — 'API —
Greek detachment* penetrated
•bout three mile* into Albanian
territory and captured four or
five Italian po*t* in a bayonet at-
tack Friday night the Greek high
command announced through
Athen* Agence Greek newa
agency.
Nine Italian officer* and 15.1
soldier* were raptured. tho
agency quoted (he communique at
saving.
ATHENS.” Greece—(AP)'
—The Italian air force re-
sumed its attacks ajrainst
Greece Saturday bombing
Canea on the Island of Crete
Corfu I.*land and the port oT Pa-
tras. where about 10 casualties wero
caused.
About 50 bombs were dropped In
the latest attack on Patras.
In another raid directed against
Perama. on the island of Mytilene
near the Turkish coast all bomb*
were reported to have missed their
targets.
Athens also had an air raid
(See GREECE Page Two)
• CORPUS TO GET
. LOWER FREIGHT
Valley Port Interests
Study Changes
WASHINGTON — Iff) — Lower
railroad freight rates on traffic
moving through the port of Corpus
Christi Tex. were recommended
m today by an Interstate Commerce
“ Commission examiner-
Terming the present rates "un-
* duly prejudicial'• examiner Claude
A Rice said the commission should
prescribe the same rates on imjiort
aC and export traffic between Corpus
Christi and points in 22 states as
rates contemporaneously applied be-
tween the same interior points and
other Texas points.
Present rates between Corpus
Christi and the 22 states are high-
er than rates to and from other
Texas ports.
Should the commission adopt the
examiner's recommendation re-
duced rates would be put into ef-
lect between Corpus Christi and
points in the following states:
• Arkansas Colorado Idaho Illi-
nois. Indiana Iowa. Kansas Ken-
tucky Michigan Minnesota Mis-
souri Montana. Nebraska Newr
Mexico. North Dakota. Ohio. Okla-
lioma. Oregon. South Dakota Utah
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
The examiner also recommended
that rates between Corpus Christi
and interior points in Texas should
not be higher distance considered
than rates to and from Houston.
Galveston and Texas City on light
tra ffic.
Rate experts said the effect of
the examiner's recommendation
would be to give Corpus Christ! rate
equality with o.her Texas ports.
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VALLEY LIKELY
TO ASK c hang: 1
4$ OificiaLs at Port Isabel and Port
Brownsville Saturday were study-
ing what effect the recommended
Corpus Christi rate reduction would
have on the Valley ports.
In the event the commission ap-
0 proves the reduction it was indi-
cated both ports would join in a
light for parity oi rates between
Corpus Christi and the Valley out-
lets.
A general view of Salonika. Greek port on the Aegean Sea and considered one of the finest naval bases In
the Near East. Key to control of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean tho city Is tho goal of Italy's
drive across Greece.
»British Threaten Italian Sea Supply Linesi
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S* Italians Attack Linas "t" Italian Ait lata "r.
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Italy’s supply lines across the Strait of Otranto and her air and naval attack lines in the Mediterranean
will be difficult to maintain if British planes and warships succeed in bringing swift aid to Greece. Map
shows how Italy must make an overseas campaign of her invasion of Greece via Albania.
HARRY BRIDGES
OPPOSED TO FD
Labor Urged to Fight
Demo Candidate
SAN FRANCISCO—P— Declar-
ing himself “100 per cent in sup-
port of John L. Lewis on every thing
he said." Harry Bridges asserted
Friday night that the re-election ol
President Roosevelt would mean a
severe blow at the labor movement
and a sure step toward war.
“Support of President Roosevelt."
he told 700 members of the CIO in-
dustrial union council “Is one ol
the most foolish things a working
man or woman can contemplate."
The California CIO director and
president of the district council ol
the International Loneshoremen’s
and Warehousemen's union stated
flatly he was “not endorsing any
candidate" but declared that the
most Important Job before labor
was to see that Lewis remains as
president of the CIO.
Lewis in a radjo address a week
ago. indorsed Willkle and said that
if Roosevelt were re-elected he
would consider It a mandate from
the CIO to resign.
Don’t Want to Vote
In Bank That Failed
FAYETTF. CITY. Pa —CP—Some
10 persons asked the Fayette
county court to prevent transfer of
next Tuesday's polling place from
the borough building to quarters
cnee occupied by a bank.
“A lot of people lost money In
tne bank and they won’t go near
it again—not even to vote." said
Pat F. Hynes one of the petition-
ers.
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OFFICIAL RAPS.
BIG STICK IDEA
Cites Improved Latin
American Status
NEW YORK—<;rv—Laurence Dug-
ran. adviser to Secretary Hull on
Latin American political relations
said Saturday that the solidarity of
American nations “could be lost
overnight" if the United Statea
‘again undertook to dictate to the
other American nations how they
should run their own affairs"
Raps Old Policy
In a speech prepared lor deliver?
to the Foreign Policy Association
the state department spokesman
asserted that a return to the pol-
icy “of the big stick dollar diplom-
acy and intervention' woukl have
uch a result because “Interven-
tion and hemisphere solidarity are
incompatible "
“If th* people of this country
prie the friendship of the othtr
American peoples." he said “then
iheir government must base U»
relations on recognition of the
(quality and inviolability of the
sovereignty of each of the 21 re-
publics."
Cites Development
Citing evidences of the degree of
solidarity already attained Duggan
said that much has been done to
promote development of economio
resources In Latin America. One
i accomplishment he related has
been the perfection of a strain of
rubber tree with an average yield
three times as high as that of trees
in the Far East where most rubber
used in this country now is pro-
j cuced.
I “We may anticipate a consider-
able reduction in the cost of rubber
to the United States consumers as
this development proceeds” he
aid. adding that the present price
ef 20 cents a pound might be cut
1 m hAlf.
Italians Claim
| Gains In Sudan
' ROME—1!T—An Italian column In
East Africa “overcoming enemy re-
sistance." occupied the heights of
the Seiuaceib mountains near Kas-
sala. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan domi-
nating the Sudanese plain theltal-
i lan high command reported Satur-
. day
British patrols supported by ar-
f mored cars attacked an Italian
border post in the T?ssenel son*
along the border between Erlterw
» and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan the
. high command said In a communi-
i que but were repelled.
Britain .Watches
Election In U.S.
Quote Vote Odds
LONDON —i'.T'— News of the
United States presidential cam-
paign competed Saturday with
war communiques for the atten-
tion of a British public eagqrly
watching the politics of a nation
to which they look for planes and
guns.
Although British commentators
frequently say “no matter which
side wins it's all right for us.” the
press features news of the cam-
paign second only to war develop-
ments.
A prominent headline In the
London Ctironlcie informed lt«
readers that “odds on Roosevelt
are now* 5 to 4.'' while a Daily
Mail head said: “Roosevelt and
Willkie neck *and neck.”
Army Cadet’* Death
In Crash Is Probed
SAN ANTONIO —<&>— Officials
of Randolph Field Saturday sought
tne cause of a plane crash that
brought death to flying Cadet
William D. Croft Jr. of Millington
Tenn.
Croft was killed when the basic
'raining plane he was flying solo
fell about two miles east of the
field while the cadet was partici-
pating in night flying practice.
PILOT SPEEDING
TO NEW RECORD
Flies From California
[Toward Florida
DALLAS— P—G. T. Baker ar-
rived at Love Field the municipal
airport at 10:28 a. m. CS.T. Sat-
urday on a speed flight from Bur-
hank. Calif. to Jacksonville. Fla.
The airport's control tower re-
ported that he took off at 10:41
a. m. after refuelling with 500 gal-
lons of gasoline. A small crowd was
cn hand to greet the National Air
1 Lines president.
Baker said he was flying a little
ahead of schedule and hoped to set
a new Paclfic-to-Atlantic coast
record.
A slight tail wind pushed his
plane along at a nice clip. Baker
said he was flying at an average
rale of approximately 240 miles an
hour at an altitude of 13.000 feet.
He left Burbank at 3:03 a. m.
j • PST * in a new Lockheed Lodestar
1 and hoped to complete his flight
to Jacksonville In nine and one-
iialf hours.
The plane a standard transport
ready to go into airline service
carried four passengers into Dallas
and left with a fifth. Don Marshall
local Lockheed representative join-
ed the party here.
Weather Is Too
Good for Ducks
A few Valley nimrods opened
the duck season in this section
Saturday but the weather was too
good for shooting.
Hunters found weather so clear
that ducks could spot a gun bearer
a mile away so most of the sports- 1
men spent the morning getting the
lay of the land
Heaviest opening rush of hunters
is expected Sunday morning.
Reports from Walter Meven.
manager of Del Mar beach said
the water there is “wonderfully
clear” and that “prospects for
ducks are plenty good.”
Duck season closes December 31.
so "Johnny get your gun.**
Citrus Stamp
Hearing Slated
A hearing on the state regulation
requiring the stamping of No. 3 or
cull grade citrus rill be held Nov.
12 at the Weslaco city hall. J. E
McDonald Texas commissioner of
agriculture announced Saturday.
The meeting v. ill convene at 9
a. m.
The hearing ts expected to settle
a month's dispute which arose over
the "regulation. A referendum was
first suggested but. a group of
citrus shippers protested it and
aiked for a hearing.
Opponents of the regulation will
be heard. Commissioner McDonald
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NEW SUIT SUITS
NUDE BURGLAR
T. D. Haelwood. Brownsville
publicity man. doesn't believe the
nude burglar Is nude now.
Mr. Hazelwood thinks the burglar
is wearing his suit—his only fall
suit too. the publicity man lament-
ed.
The suit and six shirts disap-
peared from Mr. Hazelwood s home
at 1328 Washington. Police theor-
ized tiiat the thief came through
a window into and adjoining room
ihencc to Mr. Hazelwood's room.
Mr. Hazelwood went to the foot-
ball game Fridey night in a Palm
Beach suit.
END OF THE ROAD
HUMANSVILLE. Mo.—«*»>— Bur-
rell Hughes Is in the two-car class
but rot for much longer. He’s
going to have to quit riding In hi*
1908 Mason—the tires are worn
thin and no one makes them that
size anymore.
Tunnel Fall Of
Guard Reveals
Plot To Escape
HUNTSVILLE—4^— When L.
C. Archer guard at Wynne pris-
on farm fell Into a tunnel being
dug by a group of convicts he
nipped in the bud an attempt to
escape by "2 prisoners.
Archer Friday spied a small
hole that had been drilled up-
ward by the convicts to see how
much progress they had made.
When he investigated he sank
into the soft earth.
The plot originated in the tu-
berculosis ward. The tunnel had
been dug 45 feet beneath the
fence that surrounds the farm
The dirt had been concealed in
the attic of the ward.
Willkie or Roosevelt
All Same to Matsuoka
TOKYO—'/Pi— Foreign Minister
Yosuke Matsuoka Saturday declar-
ed himself ‘ utterly at a loss’* to ex-
plain what caused withdrawal of
American nationals from the Far
East and expressed lack of concern
over who is elected president
WRIGHTS f~AVE
SAN BENITO — Mr. and Mrs.
Simpson Wright left Friday for
their home in Columbus Ohio
after spending two * eeks in San
Benito where they visited Mrs. Asa
Agar and Mrs. Scott Brown and
• families 1
WPA REPORTS
VALLEY WORK
Highway Improvement
1. Big Item *'
The Laredo district of the WPA
including the four Valley counties
announced Saturday that 1.522
miles of roads had been construct-
ed or improved over the entire
district of 17 counties.
Here are the V&lley figures:
Cameron county: Highways
roads and streets 57 miles; new
bridges built two; bridges recon-
structed. 16; culverts installed or
improved. 75; public buildings im-
proved. 22; stadiums built and Im-
proved. one; utility plants built
and improved one.
Hidalgo county: highwavs. roads
and streets 155 miles; new bridges
built one; bridges reconstructed
three; culverts Installed or improv-
ed. 18; new public buildings con-
structed. two; public buildings
improved four; stadiums built and
improved one; utility plants built
and improved two
Starr county: highways roads
I and streets 348 miles; culverts in-
stalled or improved 431; public
buildings Improved three; utility
plants built and improved two.
Willacy county: highways roads
and streets 103 miles new bridges
built one; culverts installed or un-
1 proved one.
• ‘Elect Corry’
Meeting Slated
A mass meeting of farmers of
• (South Texas and the Valley pro-
tesung Agricultural Commissioner
J. E. McDonald’s stand for Willkie.
will be held Monday Nov. 4. at
Corpus Christi.
J. H. West of Bishop will be
j* Chairman.
99 Farmers attending the meeting
Will be urged to scratch McDonald's
name off the general election ballot
and write in the name of Bill Cor-
• rv of Tarrant county as agricul-
tural commissioner.
• _
. BRAVE BUNNY BOPS
BAD BLACKSNAKE
TOPEKA. Kan.—04*)—State Game
Protector Art Benander noticed a
w| rabbit Jumping up and down and
not getting anywhere. Investiga-
tion disclosed the little animal was
trying to kill a black-snake bv kick-
ing it. Bernander finished the Job
0 end found bunny had inflicted sev-
9 eral cuts in the reptile's hide
Under-Rated Jap Air Force
Surpasses Ours Expert Says
By DEVON FRANCIS
Associated Press Aviation Editor
NEW YORK—i/P —Charles Heady ]
Day aircraft plant manager who
has lived through 35 Japanese
bombing raids in China has
brought back to the United States
a belief that the Japanese air force
is better than America's "in Quan-
tity and quality."
"We have consistently under-rat-
ed the Japanese in the ah-." he
said Saturday in an Interview.
"They ha\e splendid an'lanes ana
lots of them. In China alone they
are operating between 800 and 900
first-line planes.”
He added he had no doubt the
United States had better designs
on drawing boards than the Japa-
nese actually have in service.
• Americans are too supine in
their belief that the Japanese copy
occidental airplanes.’* Day said.
"I examined one Japanese pur-
suit plane shot down in the Chi-
nese war. It resembled nothing
made abroad. It had been design-
ed by the Japanese themselves and
was good for 315 miles an hour. It
did have a Japanese adaption of
an American engine."
Day lias been in the aviation
business since the World W’ar when
he was vice president and chief en-
gineer of one of the major Ameri-
can aircraft plant*.
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