The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 79, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 21, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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BRIGADIER
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GENERAL
IN PLANE MISSING
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CHIEF McRAY FOUND
Former Chief of Police John McRay who dropped
from sight after attending the state democratic con-
vention at Waco has been contacted in the northwest
and he plans to return soon it was learned here Sat-
urday.
City Manager Ben Freudenstein confirmed the
fact that the missing chief had been contacted. The
city manager has been acting as chief of police.
FORTY-NINTH YEAR—No. 79 •
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21 1940
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FREE HAND
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2nd Housing
Unit Here
Approved
4 _
President Roosevelt Sat-
urday signed an FHA loan
for $168000 for the con-
struction of a 49 unit brick
and concrete low rent proj-
ect to be located on West Jeffer-
4 ijon street m Brownsville accord-
to word received by Mrs.
Volney W. Taylor Sr.. head of the
Brownsville Housing authority
from Charles R. Prins. director of
Information for the U. S. Housing
Authority ;n Washington.
The unit will be located in the
western section of the city in an
unplatted section and will have
?3 three and one half room units
15 four and one half room units and
1< five and one half room units.
Plans and specifications have
been drawn and bids from con-
tractors will be adverVsed for
within the next 30 days writh con-
Itrurtion to get under wav at the
(See HOUSING. Page Two)
Qn Ouk
f VALLEY
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THERE ISNT A TOWN IN THE
Valiev that doesn’t have a
parking problem.
That is. in the business section
of the town.
Harlingen has been wondering
what to do about it. So has Mc-
Allen. So has San Benito and
Mercedes and Edinburg and oth-
ers.
Every few weeks the police de-
partments of the various towns
announce that two-hour parking
limits will be forced or one hour
©r whatever the time.
And then for a day or two they
enforce the regulation—and find
that they haven't sufficient po-
lice to do the job.
So they tell the local city com-
mission that more police are need-
ed. And the city commissions
look at the payroll o! the local
police department compare it
with the budget—and off go the
two hour parking limits.
VTHE BUSINESSMEN COM-
* plain about the crowded park-
• ing But every day they — and
their employees—will drive down
park their cars for the day. be-
fore some other fellow's business
house.
And gripe about the difficulty
their customers have in finding
parking places.
And the customers complain. >
They ride around the block
•round and around and around. 1
waste gasoline and patience. And
park a few blocks away. %
There was a time when custom-
er did not mind walking a few
blocks.
They don't want to walk even a
block in these days of the auto-
mobile.
• « »
LJERE IN BROWNSVILLE THE
1 parking meter question has
come up again.
Put before the city commission
which handed it over to the city
attorney or the police depart-
ment. *
4 There are a lot of folks who
don't want parking meters. A lot
of others don't care one way or
another. Some others see them
•s a solution of the problem of
4 parking.
Some businessmen favor them
aome don't.
Up at Austin the state capital.
Mayor Tom Miller asked recently
what he thought about the park-
ing meters in Austin said:
"Take ’em out—leave 'em stay
—I don't rare a whoop what they
do with 'em "
The mayor of Austin evidently i
(Continued on Page Two.)
GREEK VESSEL
IS 500TH TO
ARRIVE HERE
Imposing Records Are
Piled Up Since Unit
Opened Here In May
Of 1936
With the arrival of the 500th
ship at the Port of Brownsville F.
W. Hofmokel manager of the
Brownsville Navigation district Sat-
urday declared that $7280009 In
treight bills had been saved for
Valley growers manufacturers and
merchants since the opening of the
port in 1936
Vast Saving
Since the first ship arrived May
16 1936 the total Valley freight
handled through the port was
placed at 455.000 tons at a saving
oT $16 to $23 per ton as compared
with current all-rail tariffs Mr.
Hofmokel said. About 75 per cent
of this tonnage was Irought to the
port or distributed from the port
to the Valley by trucks.
The tonnage handled is equal to
22.500 railroad freight cars each
loaded with 20 tons or 562 trains
of 40 cars each. Of the total. 341-
250 tons were carried by trucks.
This Is equal to 97.500 trucks load-
ed to the legal capacity of 7.000
pounds.
In addition to these figures. 70.-
000 tons of freight were piled on
(See PORT Page Two)
UTILITIES VOTE
GRASP CHARGED
Solons Ask FD to Take
Legal Action
WASHINGTON —Nineteen
house members appealed Saturday
to President Roosevelt to use “ev-
ery existing authority in law” to
balk what they said was an “ef-
fort to elect men to congress who
will vote for the interests of the
private utility corporations."
In a letter to the chief executive
the congressmen. 17 of whom are
Democrats asserted it was “a mat-
ter of common belief among per-
sons wnwrinl with public af-
fairs that privately owned public
utility corporations throughout the
nation particularly those engaged
in the electric power business are
contributing through indirect and
carefully concealed channels very
large sums of money to influene
the outcome of political campaigns
and to affect the election of can-
didates for public office.”
Italians Bomb
Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt—/*»—Nine
persons wer* injured in a raid of
Italian bombing planes on this
British Mediterranean naval base
early Saturday. Officials said most
of the bombs fell harmlessly into
the sea.
The last raider made off in the
direction of Aboukir. where a few-
other explosions were heard.
Naval anti-aircraft guns and
coastal defenses forced the planes
out to sea after a 45-minute alarm.
Lenin Letters Among
Trotsky Possessions
MEXICO CITY— T—A complete
file of Leon Trotsky’s correspond-
ence with Lenm his fellow giant
in the Soviet revolutionary move-
ment. and the completed manu-
scripts of six books were among
the items listed Saturday in an
inventory of the possessions of the
murdered Russian exile.
No will or directions for dispos-
ing of Trotsky's property have yet
been discovered by the staff of
Triwl Judg.* Raul Carranca Tru-
jillo which is preparing the in-
ventory. However the cataloguing
Is still Incomplete the Judge s as-
sistants said.
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Wealthy Child Kidnaped
91
Marr lie Tristan 3 years old son of Countess and Count Marr lie
Tristan wealthy California socialites who was kidnaped in Hills-
borough. California. (NE.% Telephoto)
IHBSnHiW i&B&m
The (ountes) and Count Marc De Tristan.
Pool Yields Body Of
Slain Woman s Escort
PITTSFIELD. Mass—'AP»—The body of Sylvester Dellear. 51. sought
since Friday in connection with the slaying of Miss Madeline Clark. 44-
year-old Lenox choir singer was found Saturday in the same reservoir
where her body was recovered.
Miss Clark s body was found floating In the reservoir Friday—Just
a month prior to her scheduled marriage to another man.
Police broadcast a call for the arrest of Dellear ‘for questioning on
a muraer case alter Medical Ex-
aminer George S. Wickham pro-
nounced the attractive paper mill
clerk a victim of “murder." Her
head bore three gashes.
Assistant District Attorney* Har-
old R. Goewey said he had been
informed that Miss Clark was es-
corted by Drllear when she left
choir practice at St. Helenes
i chapel in nearby Lenox on Thurs-
day night. Goewey described the
escort as married and estranged
from his wife.
Police Lieutenant John F. Hcr-
rigan said Lane Fyler. 45. a mech-
anical engineer in the mill em-
ploying Miss Clark had told him
that he and she had intended to
marry next monih. Horngan quoted
Fyler as saying he had asked her
to “break the news gently to Del-
lear.*
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London to Hold
To Last Ditch
LONDON — tX* — Sir George
Broadridge. former lord mayor of
London declared Saturday in a
broadcast to the United States
[conference of mayors at New York
that London would be defended to
the last as the very bulwark of
| civilization as we know it.”
He spoke on behalf of the pres-
ent lord mayor. Sir William Coxen
who was present in the studio but
unable to deliver the address be-
cause of a sore throat.
Never before had London faced
an ordeal "so cruel so searching **
as the daily bombings he declared.
PARENTS ASK
COPS NOT TO
IITOEDEAL
Wealthy Socialites
Will Pay $100000
To Man Who Stole
3-Year-Old Boy
HILLSBOROUGH. Calif.
— (AP)—The safety of kid-
naped Marc De Tristan. Jr.
was placed ahead of all
other consideration Satur-
day as the 3-year-old boy's wealthy
family uncompromisingly declared
its readiness to meet the beak-nos-
ed abductor's $100000 ransom de-
mand.
FBI agents and local police with-
drew from the pretentious de Tris-
tan home in this exclusive little
peninsular community tucked away
in the coastal hills 20 miles south
of San Francisco and gave the
family a free hand In establishing
contact with the dark-complexioned
kidnaper
In a 600-word typewritten note
dropped where the boy was seized
just before noon Friday the De
Tristans were directed to get in
touch with the kidnaper through
an advertisement inserted in the
advertising section of a San Fran-
cisco paper. This was done and
the ad appeared in the papers
iate morning editions
Out For Airing
Little Marc the son of Count
and Countess Marc de Tristan and
step-grandson of Louis Shattuck
Cates president of the vast Phelps
Dodge Corp. was out for an air-
ing In his go-cart accompanied bv
his nurse when the kidnaper drmp
up In a car and roughly carried
him away. The man threatened
the nurse with a pistol.
Norse Hurt
The middle-aged nurse Mary
Foley was knocked to the ground
and painfully bruised when she
tried to save the boy. In her futile
struggle she knocked off the man's
gray hat. It is expected to be a
valuable clew in trailing him later.
The chubbv curly-haired lad was
speeded away in a dark sedan
pursued Ineffectively for some dis-
tance by Albert Williams a Negro
chauffeur who drove up In a sta-
; tlon wagon Just as the kidnaper
lied Persons in the neighborhood
managed to catch a glimpse of the
license number.
Kidnaper Described
The kidnaper was described by
Miss Foley as a husky dark-skin-
ned man with a prominent hook
nose about 48 or .V) years old.
She and the boy were nearly
half a mile from the De Tristan
home when the man accosted her
'See KIDNAPING. Page Twoi
Army General
Plane Missing
In South Area
FAYETTEVILLE. N. C —
(AP)—An airplane in which
Brigadier General Francis
W. Honeycutt commander
of Fort Bragg near here was
passenger has been missing
since 6:34 p. m. CST Friday
night when it was reported
over Savannah Ga. en route
to .Jacksonville Fla.
Lieutenant Col. Earl C
Ewart public relations offi-
cer at Fort Bragg said that
great concern was felt ovei
General Honeycutt’s safety
A squadron of five plane?
left at 6:15 a. m. to search
the territory between Savan-
nah and Jacksonville but re-
ported finding no trace ol
the missing observation
plane which bore beside?
I General Honeycutt. Capt
George F. Kehoe pilot and
I Corporal Robert J. Schnitz
JAPAN-COLONY CLASH
EXPECTED; SHO WDO WN
IN AFRICA WAR IS DUE
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ROME—(AP)—Germany and Italy may ask Turkey and Greece to define theif
positions as the last two countries of Europe under British influence Virginio Gayda
the authoritative editor wrote Saturday in 11 Giornale d'ltalia.
He declared the Axis powers at the same time would intensify their war with
Britain.
HANOI French Indo-
China— (AP)—The French
1 Indo-China government re-
ported a turn for the worse
Saturday in negotiations
with Japan after there had been
indications the crisis had passed
A gove.nment communique said
; a new shift has compromised’’ the
negotiations and that the situation
was back where it was Sept. 19
when General l§saku Nishihara
packed up and prepared to walk out
on the conferences.
The negotiations were resumed
Friday the announcement said
’ when the viewpoints of both par-
VICHY. France —(APi— The
colonial administration of the
New Hebrides. French islands In
the Pacific has gone over to
General Charles dr Gaulle and
the governor-general also has
taken control of New Caledonia
a French spokesman said Satur-
day.
ties appeared drawing closer to-
gether.” But new Japanese de-
mands. it declared have put a
monkey wrench in the proceedings.
HONGKONG—'/P— The British-
owned newspaper China Mail re-
ported Saturday that "since yes-
terday morning’ Japanese warships
have moved Into Tonking Bay ’as
persuasive gestures* to back up
Japanese negotiations for military
rights in French Indo-China.
At the same time Chinese sour-
ces said that crack Chinese gov-
iSee JAPAN Page Two>
BULGARIA EYES
GREEK REGIONS
Dobruja Is Occupied
By Sofia Forces
VARNA. Bulgaria— P—Flag-dec-
orated border villages Saturday
welcomed the vanguard of Bulgar-
ian officials and troops reclaiming
Dobruja. lost in war and regained
from weakened Rumania without a
fight after 28 years of dispute.
While Saturday's forma! entry'
into Dobruja extended Bulgaria’s
Black Sea front to the north many
Bulgarians clamored for similar ex-
pansion to the south.
They urged that Greece be forc-
ed to return Thrace and Macedonia
which Bulgaria lost in post World
War treaties cutting her off from
the Agean Sea.
Although complete occupation of
the territory ceded by Rumania Is
expected to* take ten days. Bulgar-
ian officials said the first section
would be occupied in 24 hours after
the dynamiting of the old frontier
markers at 9 a. m.
. .
Six Young Men Die
In Head-On Crash
NEW KENSINGTON. Pt —
Six young men were killed early
Saturday in the head-on collision of
two automobiles near here.
The victims: Louish Rush 24.
Springdale. Pa : Arthur Thomas and
Van P Nolker. Curtisville. Pa.;
Norman Baughman. Bairdsford Pa.
and Dominic Patera. 17 and Gus
Christos. 22 New Kensington.
THE WEATHER
For the Lower Rio Orande ValltT:
Partly cloudy Saturday night and
Sundar
Hurh Tide—
Saturday . 7 «1 p m
Sundav . 4 SI a rr —» 08 p m
Low Tide—
. Saturday . 12 04 p m
Sunday . 104 a. m —12 M p. m
4
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War at a Glance
(By The Associated Press.)
Nazi raiders complete second
week of nightly forays over Lon-
don return to southeast roast by
daylight; casualties fewer than
in recent attacks British say;
RAF again bombards "invasion
bases'' cn German-held French
coast.
Crisis over Japanese demands
for military facilities in French
Indo-China averted as French and
Japanese officials resume confer-
ences; Japan reported ready to
attempt seizure of Indo-Crina if
requests are denied.
Bulgarian troops marrh into
Southern Dobruja. given back by-
weakened Rumania.
Ails statesmen believed to have
derided In Rome parley on how
Spain may help ptosectfte war
against Britain.
ITAUANPLANES
SMASH MATRUH
British Preparing To
Resist Graziani
_____
ROME—&—Swarms of Italian
planes trying to clear the wav for
the eastward drive of Premier Mus-
solini's legions through Egypt
made a smashing bomb attack on
| the entrenched British camp at
Matruh. it was officially reported
Saturday.
The attacks. said the official
! Kalian news agency Stefanl blew
up trench'-orks and started fires
In the important town where Brit-
ish have been rushing up muni-
tions and other supplies for the
stand against Marshal Rodolfo
Grazianis mass attacks.
<Sce ITALY Page Two)
Storm Entering Gulf
__ _
——— —
JACKSONVILLE Fla.—(AP)—The weather bureau
Saturday warned shipping in the southern Gulf of Mex-
ico that a tropical storm crossing the Yucatan peninsula
may increase in intensity after it completes its passage
over land and enters the Gulf. An advisory issued at
9:30 a. m. Central Standard Time said the center of the
disturbance at 8:30 a. m. was passing over the Yucatan
peninsula a short distance west southwest of Cozumel
and apparently was moving north northwest 12 to 14
jmiles an hour.
/
LONDON —(AP)— The
RAF has ‘‘visited and bomb-
ed*‘ 90 percent of Germany's
synthetic oii plants and 80
percent of her regular oil
refineries Hugh Dalton minister of
economic warfare declared Satur-
day in a speech at Speunymoor
near Durham.
•These targets have been heavily
hit. even though production still
continues at a reduced rate" he
.aid.
Royal Air Force bombers have
smashed two supply ships in long
night raids on both the French
and Belgian channel ports the
air ministry announced.
Run Into Storm
Adolf Hitler s air raiders. Inaugu-
rating the third week of mass as-
saults aimed at London soared
through channel mists and drizzling
rain Saturday but were reported to
have run into a storm of British
anti-aircraft fire along tire Kentish
coast.
One group of raiders appeared
over the British capital after a
night long series of attacks and
British counter-attacks on Nazi-held
cnannel ‘invasion ports." Anti-
aircraft guns blazed away for a
short time in central London tho
first formation of raiders soon dis-
appeared and the brief raid alarm
ended.
East central and south L*>n<^
(See LONDON Page Two.)
Governor Will
Visit Valley
MeALLKK — Governor W Leo
O'Daniel will arrive in McAllen at
10:30 a m Sunday have luncheon
with the Homer Leonards go to
church then be greeted at In-
formal reception Casa de Palmas
5 to 6 pm He will .‘pend Sunday
night here and go to Browns villa
Monday morning to see Rep.
Augustine Celaya. and to Edinburg
at noon for lunch with Roger*
Kelley family.
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