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JJJJJWWJ ***nr Wertday Afuraooo at Thlrteaatb tad Adams Btreeta
r».5t*rf? Secood-Claas Matter at tba Poatatttee at Brownsvtll*. Texas
ouder the Act ef Cnngrexa of March 3. U7».___
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1940
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AXIS INVITATION DECLINED
\
THE United States ha» at last been offered a way
out of the international dilemma.
About all we have to do is to set up a dictator
kick out the Constitution reject the fundamental
principles of liberty on which the nation was found-
ed set up concentration camps persecute racial min-
orities and religious sects swoop down on our neigh-
bors on both American continents scuttle our pro-
British sentiments and agree that Hitler Mussolini
and the Japanese are pretty good guys after all.
That’s all. Then we shall be eligible to become
part of the bloody Axis.
The invitation comes from Mussolini’s news-
paper Popolo d’ltalia. It is a slightly left-handed
invitation. It carries with it the threat lhat if we are
so silly as to prefer our democratic way of life and
if we insist on shouting loudly across the Atlantic
how much each of us is enjoying our liberties then
the Axis—Germany Italy and Japan—will have to
beat a little sense into our head.*.
America must recognize the fact the paper says
that there’s a new world order. We must concede
the fact that the planet is under new management
with main offices in Berlin. Rome and Tokio. If
we are willing to agree to this our corner of the
world will be set aside for our exclusive use—or at
least for as long as headquarters thinks we are
behaving.
You see there have been signs lately that the
United States is becoming a little bit too recalcitrant.
We’ve been shouting cheering words to the Britons.
Wq’ve been using our moral influence to keep
Hitler from quietly sinking the British Isles. That
has been noticed in totalitarian capitals and there
has been no end of frowning and viewing with alarm.
So Italy thought maybe we ought to be warned.
Okay we’ve been warned. The invitation to
join the Axis has been received and placed on file.
We’re not quite sure yet whether it’s a compliment
to our strength in the world or an insult to our
collective intelligence.
At any rate there’s one thing Mussolini ought
to know. Preserved in Washington under a glass
case are two documents. They are yellow with the
years nearly illegible. Millions of persons have
seen them. Thousands of school children can recite
them by heart.
They’re called the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United States.
If II Duce insists on an answer he will find it
there.
_
BROWNSVILLE REDUCES TAX RATE
BASED on the expectation that a City of Browns-
ville refunding operation on its approximate in-
debtedness of $2500000 will become an establish-
ed fact in due time the city commission has adopted
a tax rate of $1.80 on each $100 valuation for 1940.
This is a reduction of 70 cents a hundred as compared
with the maximum rate of the previous two years.
This is practical relief for overburdened taxpay-
ers but it is still some distance above the average
tax rateior the last eleven years which including the
1940 rate is $1.67 per hundred. The 1930 rate was
$1.50 the next two years it was $1.30 the following
three years a rate of $1.50 prevailed then $1.90.
The rate for 1938 was $1.12 and the two succeeding
years $2.50. It now goes down for 1940 to $1.80.
It should be noted however that in the eleven
years taken into consideration the valuations placed
on taxable property have been greatly reduced.
Their maximum was reached in 1930 when the figure
was $18000000. Since that year they have gone
down fr*m year to year until a low figure of $6-
1 140000 was established or approximately one-third
what they were ten years ago.
The current reduction which has been in con-
templation for a year or more is moving the tax rate»
in the right direction. Nothing will help the com-
munity more than a reasonable tax structure noth-
ing will tend to put real estate on a more desirable
investment footing than lower taxes.
WANTED: A MACHINE GUN
*pHE United States Army is out looking for a new
1 machine gun. It is willing to talk turkey with
any inventors who have ideas about a little iob
1 weighing less than 22 pounds and embodying other
technical specifications which army engineers have
set forth.
To defense chiefs at least the man with an idea
is not a crackpot. The spare-time inventor may be-
come an important part of national defense. The
machine gun the army is looking for may come out of
a dingy basement or a garage workshop.
The army holds no monopoly on militaristic in-
ventions. From among the thousands of amateur
inventors may come developments sorely needed in
safeguarding the continent. The field is always wide
open to anyone who can produce a better mouse
trap or a better machine gun.
******** *
7APPS STORY Is that he came
^ to this country in October 1938
to start his German news service
a» an offset to the allied propa-
ganda In this country’. He erected
zll he well known facades of a
legitimate organization has em-
ployed 14 or 15 person* in his oi-
iice operating a teletype machine
between Washington and New York.
He took yams with his work. The
owner of his concern he has told
government agents is not the Ger-
man government tut private banks
in Berlin Most of his money seems
to have come from a Berlin office
called. Trr nt-Ocean News Service;'
which further screened the official
nature of his sixmsors. But he
negligently permitted the screen to
wear woefully thir in spots. He
addressed a letter to Supreme
Government Councilor George May-
er" at Weisbeden. Germany March
19. 1940 in which he* boldly told of
his journalistic and lecturing ef-
forts .... "Trans-Ocean has become
a symbol for the American press..
I believe that I am on the right
spot here ...only yesterday X have
seen Roosevelt at a big dinner..."
He further told of how he ob-
tained a room next to State Secre-
tary Hull at the pan American
conference in Havana. He said he
was recognized by a Jewish ac-
rjuantaince who reported him to
the police and he was arrested and 1
investigated being ultimately re-
leased for lack of evidence.
DIGOEST GAP in the screen Is
° the fact that he is a member
of the national socialist party and
icceived many letters addressed
“dear party comrade." He even
paid special assessments for fest-
ivals and celebrations in the secret
•forefen division of the national
socialist party."
But perhaps the most striking
illustration of the peculiar “ethics"
he represented in government-spon-
sored German journalism is dis-
closed in a rej-ort In which he
claimed to have planted German
news propaganda without men-
tioning the source" In a French
language newspaper in Canada. He
contended he had arranged with
Answers to Your Questions
BY FREDERIC 4. HASK1N
A reader can get the answer to
any ques’lon of ‘act by writ-
ing The biowturtUa Herald In-
formation Bureau. Frederic 4.
Haakln Director. Washington.
D. C. Plcaae enclose three (3)
•eats for reply
Q. How many belb are there in
the carfdon at Duke tniversityf I
L.S.F.
A. The carillion consists of 50
cells the largest being 6 feet 9
inches wide at the mouth and
weighing 11.200 pounds. The total
weight of all the bells is 63500
pounds.
Q. How many men deserted from
the A.L.r. oversea*? J K.
A. Out of the 2.084.000 men who
went oversras with the American
Expeditionary Forces there were
approximately 1236 deserters.
Q. What is the widest point of the
Mississippi River? D.W.
A. The Mississippi River Com-
mission says that according to the
latest survey the widest point on
the Mississippi R.ter at bankful
stage was found 77 miles below
Cairo. Illinois where the river was
14.420 feet across.
Q. Wa* "Wulhering Heights" pop-
ular when it was first written? T.
J. H.
A. When Emily Bronte's one nov-
el was published in 1847 under the
pseudonym of Ellis Bell It was an
almost complete failure with both
♦he public and the critics.
Q. Of what great building has H
been said. "It requires neither
moonlight Mr sunset* it brings its
own atmosphrre its own light 'that
was never yet on land or sea' "?
C.L.
A. That statement was made
with reference to tire Taj Mahal.
Q. What causes a mirage? M.R.S.
A. A mirage is due to conditions
existing in the atmosphere. As a
result of deviation of the rays of
light caused by refraction and re-
flection objects seen with the eye
appear in unusual positions and
often multiple or inverted. One
cause of a mirage in the desert is '
otten produced by the radiation of !
beet the denser stratum being thus
placed above instead of. as is usu-
ally the case below the rarer.
Q. Are there any rtties In Eng-
land other than London where the
title lord Is prefixed to the word
mayor referring to the chief exec-
utive of the city? J.H.G.
A According to Whitaker’s Al-
manac. there are nineteen English
cities five Scottish one Northern
Ireland five Australian and two
rit‘es in Eire whose mayors carry
the distinction of the prefix lord.
In Scotland the term lord provost
is used.
Q. Please give a sentence con-
taining all the letters of the alpha-
bet. J.E.D.
A. A sentence given in typing
classes is as follows: "A quirk*
movement on the part of the en-
•my would Jeopardise six gun boats 1
in the navy."
the Canadian fascist leader. Adrien
Arcand. means by which his un-
identified German news would be
carried to the French of Quebec
through "L’illustration NouveUe.”
CTRICTLY conforming in detail
to the movie conception of
vhat a Fifth Columnist should be.
this newsman with the Nazi ethics
wrote a certain German consul:
Dear Kerr-:
"I snoulri like to send you today
through my Secretary' Frau-j
3 file and request you to lock this
up in your safe.
“I m ould like to ask you that In j
rase you burn your archives you
Iso burn this package.
"Hell Hitler!” |
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CONSCRIPTION
By MILTON BRONNER
Manager. NEA-Brownsville Herald
Selective Service Information
Bureau
Day-to-day changes in War De-
partment rulings on selective ser-
vice matters pending final revision
nnd adoption are making it diffi-
cult for many men eligible for draft
to find their exact statui.
A few instances will make clear
wnat is meant. Many men of draft
sge wrote in to this department
isking if there was any way to en-
list for one years training before
the draft machinery went into full
swing. The Wai Department there-
upon ruled ther* was only on# way:
Mi'tan Brmner will an-
swer questions of The Herald
readers regarding conscrip-
tion rulings and interpreta-
tions. Address questions to
Milton Brenner manager
NEA-Brownsville Herald Se-
lective Service Information
Buresn. 1013 Thirteenth St.
N. U.. Washington. D. C. BE
SURE TO ENCLOSE pottage
prepaid postcard or stamped
envelope self-addressed.
After a man registered he could
go before his local draft board and
indicate his desire to be drafted at
once. Then if he had no riepen-
lent* was physicaly fit. and was
not doin sonv* work essential to
Lhe national defense program the
local draft board could put him m
the first batch of draftees sent
from that community.
This was told many inquiring
people.
Test Enlistment Ruling
Then down came this late deci-
sion from the War Department:
“Men of * the draft age da not
have U wait until they register
on CcL 1C. next. They ran go
right to an army recruiting sta-
tion and enlist for one year’s
training."
This bureau began to put out
hat news. Ami the first thing wa
•.new. we got *n indignant letter
from a man in New York City
vho wanted to know ‘ How Come?'*
He said he went to a recruiting
jfiice in New York City and was
told they were only taking men
for the full three year* regular
•rmy enlistment. Next day the
Washington Daily News sent out
two reporters who made a bluff
at enlisting for the one year’s
training. In both cases in Washing- j
ton itself they were turned down.
Or. at least the sergeants told
them to come back later.
When I made inquiry at the War
Department the reply was:
"The order as to this only yent
forth on Saturday Sept 28 It
takes some tune for such an order
j to percolate down to the men in 1
'he recruiting offices’*
Commission Training
Here’s another example:
Many men wrote in seeking if
there was any chance for draftees
to try for commissions. The bu-
reau was advised to say that un-
der present conditions it was
hardly likely So that answer was
^ent out.
At a press conference later Gen
George A. Marshall army chief of
staff told reoorters that after
draftees had had about nine months
'raining the i rmy would pick the
cream of the men and give them an
opportunity to etudv for commis-
sions in the army reserve.
Just what other changes in con-
ditions the army will make be-
tween now and October 16. the
army alone knows. The best this
nureau can do is to answer ques-
tions as nearly up-to-date in fact
os the changing rules allow.
A stringent law against pipes
was proclaimed by James I. king |
of England during his reign. King j
James was very puritanical
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By WUllur F«rgusoa
i CALI LEO
BECAUSE HE BUILT THE
FIRST ASTRONOMICAL TELE-
SCOPE WAS THE FIRST
PERSON! TO SEE THE FOUR
LAROE /MOQMT OF ^UFV73SQ
the /viouvWAvy and osatkrs
ON OUR OI44V /MOCVV AMO
V40V4US AS A C*9JBSCMA>/r.
Walter Winched OjL
Broadway
Mark RactMaro*. Carmatt. 1*4*. P»ur Mirror) B
MAN ABOUT TOWN
The Blf Parade: Mabel Ball and the Betel flawy-Plans • tiding II
an Thursday night but with such a crash! Angler Biddle Duke (re-
cently unwound from Priscilla In Reno) confiding to chums that he will
wed again In about a month. Is she a famed society matron almost
twice his age?....The Messrs. Alaop and Kmtner (Washington histo-
rians) whose colyum shifts from the Times to the Trib Nor. 15...
Louelia Gear's constant companion. Horton Amory of the Lifted-Plnky
Set...Peggy French and David Orrick of “G. Wsshmgton Slept Here**
who are giving each other the Haartfoot....Jsrk Dempsey sizzling over
the various reports (in all the colyums) whicn link him with women
■HU ■ »C HUWU}'. OUUUll WU UT*
cause he and Hannah might recon-
cile. he in toned... Jinx Palkenberg
of the Jolson show and Life’s cur-
rent cover—her 35th mag front.
halllas in Ow Alley: Elite Wilson.
editor of Everywomans mag and
Marion 8aportas were chatting
about politics. Marion said she
hadn’t voted in 12 years but that
this year she registered—so she
would vote for WiUkie... La Wilson
said aha had never voted but that
she also registered so she could
vote for Roosevelt.. .“Well then.”
added Marion “why should we
bother voting. Our votes will simply
offset each other—yie hell with it"
...The clowns tell the one about
the King of Italy who talked back
to Mussolini who warned: “One
more crack outta you. and I’ll take
your picture off the sardine cans!"
New York Nevelette: This Is the
very sad story of Strawberry Sam.
a Bordens milk-wagon horse who
had the West 53th Street beat. Sam
would walk up to the sidewalk to
greet show-folks coming home m
the wee hours. They usually gate
him sugar lumps or they’d pet his
nose...One dawning Sam went too
far and bit a chorus girl's fingers...
So they treated him like a police-
man who Is being demoted.. .They
banished poor Sam to the Jackson
Heights “sucks’* for three months
...But he took It all like a man.
and is now back on the 5Sih Street
beat again.
"Memos af a Midnighter: The fin-
gerprinting of night club employes
etc. revealed six convictions against
a lamed joynt owner...Joan Bur-
gees the lovely dancer and million-
aire furrier Merl will middle-aisle
...What's happening to the Broad-
way Royalty? •Prince" Mike Ro-
manoff has gone to work In a
night dub. and now “Duchess"
Cynthia Cavanaugh is booked at
Bertolotti's as a thrush...A famous
actress was locked up in Los An-
geles on a dope charge ..Paul
Muni and Nigel Bruce almost came
to blows on the “Hudson Bay” set
...Page 40 in life has the mid-
towners giggling ... Georgette Mc-
Kee (who plays Hilda in "Ramp-
arts We Watch’’) became Mrs. N.
H Willis in Illinois...Mischa Auer
will next ma ry Joyce Hunter vo-
calist with the Henry King orches-
tra. Auer gave his wife the 325.000
house and big coin for his free-
dom...Steffi Duna and Dennis
O Keefe will be stitched in a fort-
night... Lit erotics say Christopher
Morley didn’t write * Kitty Foyle**
that his daughter did. and that the
book was peddled under his name
to make bigger money for her.
G. R. Crain Assumes
Tax Attorney’s Job
SAN BENITO — Gilbert R. Crain
Monday assumed his duUes as at-
torney for the city in the filing of
suits against delinquent taxpayers.
Crain who served as city secre-
tary during the Barm ore adminis-
tration. has signed a special con-
tract witlf the city for this work
He will have headquarters in the
old city hall.
VISITS RELATIVES
SAN BENITO—Guest of relatives
here Saturday was Mrs. Ella John-
son of Harlingen.
(Continued from Page One)
friendship would dissolve and they
would fight the “real battle of
Europe.”
What Nasi* Said
The fioviet government s state-
ment waa in direct contrast to an
assertion by informed Berlin spokegw
men. who declared on Oct. 10 thM
powers friendly to the Rotne-Ber-
lln Axis had been notified German
troops had arrived in Rumania and _
that others were to follow. ▼
Russia's belated disclosure waa
all the more surprising in view of
the Kremlin's extreme reticence on
matters concerning Soviet-German
relations.
Meanwhile. Nasi daylight raiders
roaring across the English Chan-
nel in wave* at 5-minute intervals
attempted to storm London six
times up to early afternoon.
While bomb* rained dawn In a
7-hour night assault selling
fire* in many secliens af the
capital one reacne crew found W
to 50 persons still alive in a
basement shelter under s blorh of
fiaia shattered by bomb* Sunday
night and Monday morning. t*n-
rounted others were killed.
Metropolitan newspapers carried
these typical headlines:
‘ London’s Worst Terror Raid ”
“Fiercest Night Raid of the War *
New Type of Bomb I’sed r^L.
Firemen had scarcely .brought a
network of fires under control he-
fore the German* dropping a new
type of combination fire-and-ex-
i plosive bomb renewed the attack ill
; successive waves.
Th* Intensified daylight assault
waa apparently Admit Hitlers
answer la a double-barreled night
j attack by RAF bombers over Ber- ^
lln. which underwent two alarm*
with a reparted toll of one killed
and It wounded.
Three Raiders Downed
i Nan authorities said a number of
j dwelling* and a hospital were dam*
t **ed in the German capital but
I that a furious concentration of
anti-aircraft fir# brought down
three RAF raider* In flames “en
i route to Berlin” and drove off other#
I before they could reach the capital.
The Britsh Air Ministry said th#
RAF -*ffective»y bombed” several
! "important military objectives” tit
Berlin and set great fire* at the
German-held port of Le Havre on
th# French coast.
Other Target* Hit
Other targets off the British
bombing squadrons the Air Minis-
try said. Included oil depots i®
Stettin. Bohlen. Botha. Magdenburg
! *nd Melaburg: the big north Ger-
man shipping port of Hamburg and
railway lines and Industrial area#
in the Relehland.
®*rly Tuesday afternoon. British
long-range gun* posted on th*
Dover coaat opened fire hurtltrg a
shell* across the 22-mile-wlde Strait W
of Dover.
Naaw angrily rharged that
apartment houses were th# prin-
cipul target* #f RAF raiders in
Bcrim and they acknowledged
that many Berlin resident* were
being removed from the bombed
a reas Tuesday — el t her bera use
thetr homes had been destroyed
or because of danger from un-
exploded bombs.
In southeast Europe—heralded
scene of the next major conflagra-
tion—Britain was reported heavily
strengthening her defense of Egypt
Queen Mary In Convoy
Dispatches from Rome said the
British liner. Queen Mary which
left New York several months ago
presumably en route to Australia
was reportedly convoyed through
I the Mediterranean with ll.Qon Brit-
ish soldiers aboard. The liner Mau-
retania was also reported in the
convoy as a troop transport V
8o\1et Russia’s attitude toward'
more or leas secretive Rome-Berlin
Axt* ambitions in the southeast re-
mained the key to the critical
Balkan situation
Stalin Give* N# Sign
But while Joseph Stalin. Sphinx-
like as ever gave no open sign rf 1
Russia’s intentions foreign observe\w
er* in Bucharest saw increasing
evidence that Russia la speeding
to mobilize a powerful military
machine all along the Ruxsian-Ru-
manun frontier—ready either to
clash with German soldier* now
overrunning Rumania or Join In a
new land-seixur* bv the Axis pow-
: era.
Soviet Red Army troop* were re-
ported pouring into border areas
*nd rushing th# construction of
flv# new military airdrome*.
Rumania OU Weils Bum
A mysterious fire officially at-
tributed to “a spark from machin-
ery.” was reported to have destroy-
ed three well* in Rumania’s Floesti
fields before German experts ex-
tinguished it
The official Soviet new* agency
Tass. meanwhile described as a
fantastic Invention” reports that
Russia. Britain. Turkey. Greece
and Yugoslavia wer# negotiating
on the question of Germany's later.4
miliar)'1 move in th# southeast.
Well-informed sources in London
mid Britain counted on Turkish
and Oreek aid and the sympathy
of Russia to counter any AxiiK
move toward the Iraq oil fields \
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