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Nazis Draft Peace
Offer For Britain
German Expeditionary Force Of 600000
Reported Ready To Start
Invasion Friday
(By The Associated Press)
An apparent “trial balloon" peace offer to Britain by
* the axis powers—with an alternative threat of a full-blast
assault on the British Isles—was floated by diplomatic
circles in Rome Tuesday.
Simultaneously the international picture was darkened
by the reported resignation of the Japanese cabinet head-
• ed by Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai. It appeared
likelv the Yonai cabient would be succeeded by a group
favoring stronger action against western powers in the
Orient including the United States.
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This report coincided with
the departure of strong
'forces of the United States
battle fleet from Pearl Har-
bor Hawaii — numbering
two battleships 12 embers the
aircraft carrier Enterprise and a
powerful array of destroyers.
While the navy department
maintained silence speculation was
aroused that the American men
a w ar may be steaming to patrol
British and French isle* in the
South Pacific.
Other reports said Germany
now has an expeditionary force
of 600.000 men and hundreds of
ships poised for a rroas-channrl
attack on the island kingdom
next fridav night. Le Petit
Oauphinois of Grenoble. France
rrp'trted the ships were waiting
in harbors from Brest. France to
Bergen. Sorwav.
Three-Point Plan
The Nazi-Fascist peace move
as described by diplomatic quar-
ters in Rome would be sounded
bv Adolf Hitler in a three-point
plan as follows:
1. Settlement of European af-
fairs. presumably with Germany
and Italy to dominate the con-
tinent—and Britain to keep "hands
off
2 Return of British-held col-
dues owned by Germany before
the world war.
3 Economic rehabilitation of
Europe.
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill in a broadcast Sun-
day night seornfullv rejected in
advance anv axis suggestion of
a peace parlev.
In Berlin informed sources said
a clue to the situation might b*
lound in a statement made Mon-
iSee WAR Page Two!
WRITER SAYS
NAZIS TRYING
’ TO END FIGHT
*Speedin£ Of Britain
Defense Has Hitler
w orried. Proceeds
Cautiously
Bv DeWITT MarKF.NZIE
News from Rome and Berlin
rather forces the impression that
the Nazis \ ould be Just as happy
IT they didn't have on their hands
the .job of making good their threat
to invade England and annihilate
that island kingdom.
With a month passed since
France succumbed the conquering
Germans are still withholding the
blow of their upraised fist. Mcan-
* while the continent is drifting
towards chaos and lnrmne. while
Britain dailv grows stronger mili-
tarily and displays real power both
on offense and dcTcnse
And now diplomatic quarters in
Rome say Fascist Foreign Minister
Ciano intends to co to B-rhn Wed-
nesday to consult Hitler aoout a
sj^eech m which the Furlirer might
offer England a chance to sur-
render Thf alternative would be a
smashing attack.
Gavdas Prediction
This follows Monday's jvredtction
bv Vlrginio Oayda authoritative
Fascist writer who frequently speaks
for Mussolini that Britain would
be given a last chance to line up
%:th Italy and Germany in ‘reno-
vating ’ Europe—a rhoice between
surrender and "Inexorable destruc-
tion '*
Official Nazidom remained silent
#Tuesday morning However. Gav-
ria s prediction was said by inform-
ed sources to give a jaossible clue
to the situation
B*ill. any sort of rompromise on
the Nazi avowal tn "annihilate"
vEngland and dismember the Brit-
ish Empire seems to indicate a
desire to get the war over as soon
•s possible.
Germany’s Aims
As late a.s June 7 authorized
sources m Berlin announced Ger-
many's aims as ’the annihilation of
France and the annihilation of
'See NAZI. Page Two »
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War At A Glance
1 'By The Associated Press)
ROM!'.—"Trill balloon" axis peace offer to Britain floated by
diplomatic quarters; full-blast assault is threatened on British Isles
If rejected: t'iano rxprcted to meet Hitler Wednesday to frame peace
ultimatum for Britain.
(iRI NOBI.l . F rance—Newspaper reports Germany has MMl.OOfl
e men hundreds of ships massed for cross-channel invasion of British
Isles; Naii expcdiUonarv force ready to jump from wide-spread
••front" ranging from Brest. France to Bergen. N'orwav.
BERLIN-\-N'a«is sax titanic blow to smash F ngland is “inevitable
necessity"; hfgh command reports sinking 4I.MMI tons of British
shipping and renewed air raids on harbors airports war factories;
bases from Norway to France now ready for attack on island king-
dom. \
TOKYO—Japanese cabinet resignation paves way for new coup
more hostile to Western powers in Orient.
W \SHINGTc\h\ I) f .—Powerful forces of 1’. S. battle fleet leave
Pearl Harbor. HaVaii: believed steaming to patrol British French
isle* in South Pacific.
LONDON—British air forre bombs 22 German airdromes to
*cripple jump-off points for attack on Lngland: navy warns shipping
of peril in Italian Mediterranean waters: German air raids on Britain
dwindle. \
( \iho—British fleers bomb port of Tobruk in Libya and raid
Italian troops near Morale after British fround troops abandon town.
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Crude Oil Output
In U. S. Declines
TULJSA. Okla—T— Daily rrude
oil production in the United States
declined 48 874 barrels to 3.663 984
for the weel* ended July 13. the
Oil and Gas Journal said Tuesday
Heaviest decline was m Illinois
down 18 461 to 486 025 California
was ofT 7.900 to 623.250; the Rocky
Mountain area 7020 ot 95.300;
Oklahoma. 6 700 to 411.575; Louis-
iana. 5.957 to 281 975; Kansas. 4 -
250 to 178 200; Michigan. 1.750 to
.54 163 and Eastern fields 500 to
105 750.
Fast Texas increased 1 848 to
374 746 with all Texas up 4.998 to
1 143 333.
TAKING OVER
OF EUROPEAN!
LAND TALKED
British Conside ring
Offering America
Island For First War
Debt
SANTIAGO. Chile—(AD
—Foreign Minister Cristobal
Saenz disclosed Tuesday
that he has received and is
studying a note from the
United States on establishment ot
a protectorate over European po-
sessions m Central and South Am-
erica.
Details of the communication
were not immediately forthcoming.
tit is probable that the note re-
lates to Latin American proposals
for a protectorate over European
possessions in South and Central
America—already advanced—rather
than any proposal originating with
the United States*.
FALE OF ISLAND
TO T. S. PROPOSED
LONDON— i/Pt — Oswald Lewis
Conservative member of parliament
suggested Tuesday that a British
island in or near the West Indies
be sold to the United Stales for an
air and naval base "In full .satisfac-
tion of the balance of our debt out-
standing to the United States in
respect of the last war.”
MEXICO PREPARED
TO CO-OPERATE
MEXICO CITY— T — Mexico Is
prepared to cooperate in any plan
for the military defense of the
Western hemisphere approved by
the Pan-American conference which
meets at Havana July 20. Finance
Minister Eduardo Suarez said on
Tuesday.
Suarez who will head the Mexi-
can delegation declared however
(See CHILE. Page Two.)
WOUNDED PAIR
IS RECOVERING
Lantana Couple Found
Shot In Head
HARLINGEN— Porfirio Galvan.
25. remained in very serious con-
dition at Valiev Baptist Hospital
here Tuesday morning although he
was reported apparently a little
better
He and his wife. Celia Mendoza
Galvan. 18. were found lying
wounded tn a ditch about mo yards
from their house near Lantana.
Sunday evening by a neighbor who
said hr heard a screem and went
to investigate
Galvan suffered a 22 ralibre
bullet wound in the head His wife
suffered a wound in the bark of the
head also said to be a bullet wound
bv a San Benito physician who
treated the injured couple Sunday '
night at the hospital and be1
Justice of the Peace J R George
of Rio Hondo who was at the hos-
pital and is investigating the'
case Hospital attendants said Mrs.
Galvan sefmed better Tuesday.
Judge George said both wounds
appeared to have been caused by
22 ralibre slugs A 22 calibre rifle
lay beside the couple when he and j
Deputy Sheriff Jim Porter arrived
at the scene he said
Judge George said he and De-
puty Sheriff Porter were continu-
ing the Investigation Tuesday. He
indicated the ras* mav be com-
pleted after Mrs. Galvan is able to
talk.
Assault to Murder
Charged Valleyite
HARLINGEN — Charles Cle-
ments. Harlingen us under S500
appearance bond on a charge of
assault with intent to murder fol-
lowing an affray Sundav night in
which Jack Biihler. 22. Harlingen. ]
was §everly stabbed
State Highway Patrolman Ben
Thomas signed the complaint be-
fore Justice of the Peace F D
Nance Monday.
Buhler. who lost considerable
blood was released from the hoe-j
pital Monday. I
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Texans In Chicago
Some of the members of the Texas delegation to
the Democratic National Convention in Chicago art
shown in their places in the Chicago Stadium. Ther
are. left to right: in rear row. C. W. Winkle of
Pittsburgh; R. E. Stalrup. Dalhart; Dr. W P. Har
rison of Teague. In the front row in the same order
John H. Sharjr of Mituon; Mrs. Fannie C ampbell
Momark of Palestine; and Mrs T. B. Griffith of
Terrell.
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BRITISH FLEET
POWER GROWS
Merchant Tonnage Up
Since War Began
—
NEW YORK—‘4*.—The British
merchant fleet swelled bv new
construction and ships of other
nations gamed through the for-
tunes of war probably is stronger
now than it was when the Euro-
pean war started a study of avail-
rble \enfied figures indicated
Tuesday.
Germane claimed last week
up to July 1 lb* had de-
stroyed 4 329.213 tons of British
ihipping a figure which an au-
thoritative British source said was
more than four times the real
losses.
The Associated Press figures
taking account only of merchant
ships whose loss is admitted by
the British or verified indepen-
dently. showed the British had lost
243 ships of 932.138 gross tons up
to July 14
At the start of the war. accord-
ing to Lloyd s register of mari-
time shipping the British empire
had 21.001.925 tons of shipping
corrpri'ing 8 977 ships—«team and
motor—of 100 grass tons and up-
ward
The loss of 243 ships would
’eave the British 8 734 ships total-
ing 20 069 767 torts.
But this would not take into ac-
count Britain* production of new
ships since the start of the war
end her acquisition or control of
an undisclosed amount of ship-
ping gamed when Germanv invad-
ed Norway. Denmark. Belgium and
Holland and when the French
signed Adolf Hitlers armistice
terms.
63 Bodies Removed
From Blasted Mine
Pennsylvania Mine Disaster Is Worst In
Decade; Fathers And Sons
Die Together
By WILLIAM BLAIR
80NMAN Pa— AP1—In a deluRe of ram. Rrim rescue workers
early Tuesday trundled out of the depths of a bituminous coal mine the
canvas-covered bodies of 63 men killed bv an explosion Monday.
AlthouRh the Koppers company operator of the mine announced
belief all the victims of Pennsylvania's worst bituminous disaster in a
decade had been found the gas-masked rescue crews still explored pitch-
black shafts In the possibility others might have been trapped
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Puzzling Request
In Donna Trials
SAN ANTONIO — In a move
puzzling to both court and prase-
cutton attorneys defense counsel
in the Donna river-bank murder
case scheduled to be called to
trial in criminal district court
here Wednesday on a change of
venue liled application for writs
of subpoena duces tecum in the
court here.
The application calls on the court
to order that the confessions taken
over a period of years from all
persons except those Involved In
the rase on trial be produced by
the Hidalgo district attorneys of-
fice.
Judge Bryce Ferguson of Pharr
who arrived here to preside over
the trial declared that on Its face
the application was ‘ridiculous’.
The same attitude was taken by
District Attorney Tom Hartley of
Hidalgo county.
Most of the dead had been suf-
focated Others were burned.
Only 21 men escaped from the
mine sloping two miles into the
earth from a mountainside when
either gas or coal dust exploded
and snuffed out the lives of those
cauzht farther in. The 21 made a
quick scramble for safety some on
all fours to shelter themselves from
the heat and lethal gas that filled
the tunnels.
The company received an un-
verified report that a spark from a
coal cutting machine set off the
bias' Little damage was done to
the mine itself.
Stanley C Yuwus. 23. one of the
survivors said: •
"It was more of a concussion
than an explosion A great ball of
white fjre swept down the tunnel
I was knocked down With the
others. I scrambled out on my
hands and knees."
About 1.200 were emploved In the
mine in three shifts. The explo-
sion swept through only three sec-
tions. however.
One rescue worker discovered
that a group of 34 miners erected
a brattice of wooden planks and
put a canvas over It in a vain ef-
fort to keep out the deadly gas. But
• See BLAST. Page Two*
committee hinged on several
other planks he has in mind.
He was quick to add that
it was not to be taken for
granted that he would be the one '
to offer the proposal which most
everyone around this convention
cltv believed would be promptly
killed.
Cabinet Member
Predicts FDR |
Nomination
CHICAGO STADIUM—/T — A
member of President Roosevelts
I cabinet openlv forecast his nomina-
| tion for a third term Tuesday while
Democratic delegates pushed their
convention through more gusts of
oratory before the actual balloting
begins Thursdav.
Secretary of Labor Perkins told a
' breakfast gathering of several
thousand women that “we are
about to break tradition and no-
minate a man for a third term
tSee CONVENTION. Page Two )
OFFICIALS SAY I
CAMACHO WINS
1 *
Diplomats Advised Of
Government Stand
-
MEXICO CITY—<JP—A foreign
ministry official said Tuesdav his
ministry had advised all Mexican
diplomats that General Manuel
Avila Camacho. administration
candidate had won Mexico's pres-
idential election two Sundays ago.
This represented the first of-
ficial statement by the govern-
ment. on the victor in the presi-
dential struggle
Both Avila Camacho and his
principal independent opponent.
General Juan Andreu Almaran.
have claimed •■overwhelming’* vic-
tory. Unofficial returns gathered bv
the adminiMration's Mexican Revo-
lutionary Partv have credited Avila
Camacho with » 20 to one margin
In a statement published in the
capitals press. Almaran's political
(See MEXICO. Page Two)
ASSETS OF BALTIC
NATIONS 1FROZEN9
WASHINGTON- if*. —The three
little Baltic nations—Latvia Esto-
nia and Lithuania—have been ad-
ded to the list of European nations
whose assets in the United States
have been "frozen'* to forestall pos-
sible confiscation.
President Roosevelt issued a proc-
lamation Monday night impounding
ihe American holdings of the coun-
tries now virtually under Russian
domination Officials indicated the
purpose was to prevent any ’‘trans-
fer" of the assets to the Sosnet
ANIMAL LIFE IN AMERICA:
Turkey Hatching Potatoes--Dog Has Gold Tooth
Blackbird Kills Snake-Cat Prefers Death to Marriage
halter*. She *av* ther are polite
little animal* which «carrely
ever do what skunk* ace notor-
ious for doing.
• • •
NORFOLK. Va—Better enforce-
ment of the local ordinance pro-
hibiting dogs from running at
large is expected as a result of
city council s deletion of the word
"allow" from the law. Owners had
been winning dismissal of charges
against them by testifying they did
r.ot "allow* their dogs to leave
Lome.
JUNEAU Alaska—Gail Osborne
« Bv The A«*ori*t»d Pre«« i
MUSKOGEE. Okla. — Mrs Bar-
hara T. Lanntng ha* a black cat.
"Dusty.” which responds to the
question “which would you rather
be—dead or married?" “Dusty"
stretches out on the floor moans
and lies perfectly still.
• • •
MOULTRIE. Ga-Farmer E. L.
Exum insists a turkey gobbler on
his place is industriously trying to
hatch seven Irish potatoes.
• • •
CLEVELAND — Mr*. Charles
Demhavl breed* skunk* for pet*.
She leads them around with
and Flovd Hagerwon were tak-
ing amateur movie* of tun fortv-
foot humpback whale* when
suddenly the whale* sounded.
The men figured where the
whale* might come up. and in
their ten-foot boat equipped with
a baby outboard motor they
put-putted orer there. One whale
rose to rlo*e to them he loosed
their motor from it* fastening*.
• • •
NEWARK. N J— Morris Weiner
put a police dog on guard at hi*
poultry market at night Someone
forced a door escaped with tl in
pennies $6 in stamps and the
rioc The chickens were not dis-
’ turbed.
• • •
ESTHERVILLE. la. — farmer
N. J. Johnson had a ringside seat
at a death duel between a red-
winged black bird and a big
grass snake. The snake lashed
with lt« fangs. The bird dive-
bombed with Its beak on the
reptile's head. The control *»f
the air proved decisive.
BOSTON — “Laddie.'* wolf-collie
l»et of Albv Hodgdon. is a dog with
» golden bite Laddie" has a gold
I tooth. Hu master u a dentist.
Issue Comes Up At
Platform Meeting
CHICAGO—(AP)—The possibility arose Tuesday
that Democratic platform makers might be forced to pass
on a plank putting their party on record against a third
term for any president.
Senator McCarran of Nevada disclosed this as the
drafting subcommittee settled down to tackle the ex-
plosive issue of sending aid to Great Britain an issue
which may provoke a fight on the convention floor.
Declining to discuss details. McC arran told newsmen
that introduction of an anti-third term proposal for a
show-down vote within the*
MEET FACES
FLOOR FIGHT
ON W AR HELP
Senators Wrangle In
Effort to Provide
Dem Platform On
Aid to British
CHICAGO—- The threat of ft
floor fight over the issue of send-
ing aid to Great Britain confronted
Democratic policymakers Tuesday
when they tackled the party's plat-
form - building job.
Senators Wheelev of Montana
and Pepper of Florida advocates of
different courses in foreign affairs
served notice the question would
be submitted to the wohle conven-
tion unless their respective views
were incorporated by the platform
committee.
Against Aggression
"Wheeler and Senator McCarran
of Nevada members of the 17-man
drafting subcommittee have sub-
scribed to a declaration which
would pledge the party never to uso
the nation's armed forces for ag-
gression nor to send them to Eu-
ropean or Asiatic battlefields.
While opposing foreign encroach-
ment in the Western hemisphere
the declaration would also express
opposition to “any attempt on the
part of the Americas to dictate or
control the affair* of other pow-
ers.'*
Favors British Aid
Pepper who Is a member of the
resolutions committee but who waj
left off the smaller drafting group
said on the other hand that the
party should adopt 'a straightfor-
ward plank for aid short of war to
Great Britain” He declared that
if the committee ' brings out a pus-
syfooting platform it will be re-
pudiated by the convention *
Would Denounce Hitler
Although pessimistic about hi*
chances of persuading the rommit-
tee. Pepper said he was hoping his
senatorial colleagues in tho group
would "express different sentiments
In the platform than thev have in
the senate ano in the* press
He said the platform should
•'make it clear that we denounce
Hitler and Hitlerism and that we
will never clasp in friendship the
bloody hand of dictatorships.*
Elks Favor Military
Conscription Rules
HOUSTON- JP— The Benevo-
lent. and Protective Order of the
Ellc*. meeting In naMonal conven-
tion here. Is expected to consider
resolution* favoring compulsory
mllitarv conscriptions and the
deportation of fascists nans and
communists
Leaders predicted the grand
lodae would adopt resolutions in
line with singest ions made Mon-
dav night in an address bv C.rand
Exalted Ruler Henry C. Warner of
Dixon III / "**
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Cardenas to Inspect
Border Farm Region
MEXICO CITY—'P— President
CArder.as plans to make an inspec-
tion tour to government-financed
irrigation project* now under con-
struction around the Rio Bravo IP
Tamaullpas atate.
The chief executive told news-
papermen that he al«o wrould visit
Ma'amoros. Just across the fron-
tier from Brown«vilie. Texas as a
cuest of the governor of Tamaull*
pa* auto. *"*
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