The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 167, Ed. 2 Thursday, December 19, 1940 Page: 3 of 16
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BUSINESS UP
OVER HOLIDAY
PERIOD OF ’39
About 15 % Increase
Expected For Xmas
In Brown s v i 11 e's
Stores
Christmas business in Brownsville
his year promises to be slightly bet-
ter than in 1939.
A cross-check of representative
etail merchants here Thursday re-
vealed that buying is up over 1939.
>ut that the increase probably ’ will
not be over 15 per cent.
Christmas shoppers in Brownsville
made their -purchases much earlier
his year than last and showed a
rend to more practical gifts re-
ailers reported.
Think of Future
People seem to be thinking more
C the future use and value of gifts
lan they have in past years" one
lerchant said.
Increasingly attractive merchan-
dise in a wide price range has step-
ed up buying it was reported and.
ilthough there are not a great j
nany expensive gifts being sold the
olume of trade is somewhat larg-
k r.
Toys always the best Christmas
viler are predominated this year
y things military—soldiers tanks
ntl-aircraft guns and even minia-
ure parachute troops. For older
hildren educational toys have
bout crowded out everything else
t was learned.
Receipts Are Up
The general rise in business is
fleeted in postal receipt figures
cleaseri Thursday by the Browns-
llle post office.
Since the first of December and
hrough the 17th—taking in all but
lie last few days of the parcel post
Christmas rush—receipts have to-
aled $5177.36 a $1255.15 increase
iver the first 17 days in December
1939.
Priority Board To
Get More Powers
WASHINGTON —UP)— President
oosevelt by executive order broad-
nfd the powers of the new prior-
| ties board Thursday to assure a
right of way for defense orders over
irivate and export contracts.
Defense commission officials sa.d
hat the effect of ihe amendment
* vas to extend the boards authority
>ver subcontracts ior munitions as
•veil as primary contractors.
7reeport Sulphur
Gives Pay Increase
NEW ORLEANS— NP — Five per
ent wage increases effective Jan.
1 for all hourly-rated employes will
be given by the Freeport Sulphur
company which operates mines at
Port Sulphur La. and Freeport
• • Texas Langbourne M. Williams Jr.
-'resident of the company announc-
’d Thursday.
The increase will raise to 71 cents
:n hour the company’s minimum j
nd to 91 cents an hour its average
t lourly wage.
SAILOR VISITS
Ralph Seymour Higgins. Jr. is on
i ten-day leave from the U. S.
Navy training station. San Diego j
Calif. where he has completed the
two month training period. He is
visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. j
Higgins of Brownsville. After he re- j
urns from leave he will be sent to
he Hospital Corps School.
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i REYNOSA
I Bull Ring
' I REYNOSA TAMPS.
9 SUNDAY Dec. 22
H At 4 P. M.
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Valley’s Largest Christmas Tree?
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This eight-year-old tepeguaje tree in the yard at
the home of Mrs. C. W. Dawley 101 Riverside
boulevard is believed to be the Valley's “largest
Christmas tree.” It has a spread of 60 feet. On this
tree there are 225 Christmas lights. In the center
there is a star with 25 lights. It is lighted regularly
each evening between 7 and S p. m.
36 VOLUNTEERS
TAKING EXAMS
Six Physicians Aid In
Work
Thirty-six of the Brownsville;
draft boards 43 volunteers began
taking their physical examinations
Thursday morning.
The examinations will continue
through Saturday. Seven of the
volunteers who already have been !
examined will be given laboratory
tests required under a new ruling i
The tests will be given by Dr. E. M. j
Carranza.
The other examining physicians
all of whom are serving voluntarily ;
and without compensation are Doc-
tors R. F. Breeden George R. Da-
shiell Jr. B. L. Cole T. P. An-
drews and B. M. Works
Doctors Breeden and Dashiell will
examine their quotas of the volun-
teers at the City-County clinic;
the other physicians will conduct
examinations in their respective
offices
Weather
(For Valley Forecast see page one)
For Falfurrlas-Laredo-Wlnter Garden
Section: Claudy Thursday night: Fri-
day mostly cloudy; not much change
in temperature.
For East. Texas (east of 100th meri-
dian); Cloudy light local rains in east
portion warmer in extreme east por-
; tton Thursday night; Friday mostly
cloudy.
WEATHER SUMMARY
Atmospheric pressure was moderate-
ly high to high this morning over
| the eastern half of the country and
; over the Southwest and Interior West
i with a crest across Texas and Oklaho-
ma connecting the two areas while
moderately low pressure prevailed over
the north-central U. S. (Washington.
D C. 30.61. Los Angeles. Calif. 30.24
Salt Lake Citv. Utah 3041 Fort Worth
Texas 30 17 Williston N Dak 39 92 >
Weather was warmer this morning
over the greater portion of the U. S.
particularly in the East and South
Precipitation occurred during the last
24 hours In the far West along the
middle and west Guif coast and over
the western Mississippi Valley.
Brownsville 6:30 a m. (CST) sea-
level pressure 30.07 inches.
RIO GRANDE RIVER BULLETIN
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Change Rain
Laredo . 27 20 —0.1 .11 cloudy
Rio Grande . 21 —0 1 00 .— drizzly
Hidalgo .... 21 3 4 0 0 .17 cloudy
Mercedes .. 21 5.7 -4-0.2 .22 drizzle
Brownsville 18 2.3 0.0 .09 cloudy
There will be no material change in
the river during the next 24 to 36
hours.
Sunset Thursday . 5 43
Sunrise Friday .t. 7 33
STATION Highest Lowest Preclpl-
Inst last tatlon
24 hours Night (inches)
Abilene .- 60 46 .00
Albuquerque . 48 27 .00
Amarillo .... 56 29 .00
Albany. N. Y. ... 32 31 .00
Atlanta . 54 36 .00
Boston . 36 25 .00
Chicago . 38 33 .07
I Cincinnati . 40 27 .00
I Cleveland . 37 26 .00
j Corpus Chrlsti ... 60 56 .20
Del Rio . 60 52 .00
Denver . 51 24 .00
Detroit . 36 28 .00
I Dodge City . 41 28 .00
1 El Paso . 61 37 .00
Fort Smith . 43 36 .03
Galveston . 64 56 .39
Havre Mont. 50 33 .00
Huron . 30 10 .—
Jacksonville . 66 56 .00
Kansas City .... 39 35 .01
Los Angeles . 64 51 .88
Memphis . 52 4 .02
Miami . 80 72 .02
Mobile . 66 53 .08
Mpls. St. P.33 32 .02
New Orleans .... 62 54 .00
New York City .. 40 31 .00
Norfolk . 44 34 .00
North Platte. 37 16 .00
Oklahoma City ..51 36 .00
Palestine . 53 49 .00
Pittsburgh . 34 25 .00
St Louis . 29 35 01
Salt Lake . 29 24 01
San Antonio .... 65 54 .00
Sheridan . 40 17 .00
?'?mPa . 79 66 .00
Washington . . . .
Wtliuton . 28 13 :<K)
Wilmington N. C. 56 37 .00
STATTnN* Highest Lowest Precrpl-
5TATIONS tation
-TEXAS- (Incites)
Brownsville (City) 61 53 .08
Br'vllle Airport ..62 56 .09
Harlingen . 63 55 J5
Raymondville _ 65 57 u
Weslaco Exp. Sta. 62 54 'l4
Mission . 59 54 ‘iq
Falfurrlas . 59 56 .21
Laredo . jq 24
Springs .. 57 45 ->00
■ r LORIDA—
!«rtOW . 78 gj -00
Belle Glade .... missing
jEuetls . 72 57 .04
Fort Mvers . 81 63 .00
Gainesville . 73 58 .03
Hastings . 74 60 .00
Orlando . missing
—CALIFORNIA— December 18 1940.
Orovllle . 61 46 2 30
Salinas . 61 55 .18
Lindsay ..71 46 .08
Santa Barbara .. 66 50 .00
Riverside . 58 44 .03
Escondido . 70 41 .00
Imperial . 54 45 .00
* DEL MAR . 65 66
‘Unofficial courtesy Chamber of Com*
mere*.
Row May Bar Grid Music
On Radio In Bowl Games
NEW YORK — <JP) — Although
there have been hints oT the possi-
bility of some sort of a settlement
of the radio music fee row between
now and January 1 the networks
are making ready to take every
precaution against picking up in-
cidental music at special events
like the New Year’s day football
games.
Such a move would avoid relay-
ing any tune under copyright to
the American Society of Composers
Authors and Publishers that a
college band might play. The five-
year radio contract with ASCAP
expires December 31 and the
broadcasters have formed Broad-
cast Music Inc. to supply their
tunes.
At Cotton Bowl
MBS headquarters in New York
has notified the stations which will
originate the Dallas Cotton Bowl
and the San Francisco east-west
games for that chain to this ef-
fect : “Not even strains of back-
ground music of any kind may be
fed to the network if it is not
cleared in advance.”
MBS advises the erection of
soundproof booths for the an-
nouncers with emergency studio
standbys to be cut in if necessary
to eliminate the chance of relaying
ASCAP copyright compositions.
Similar Precautions
For its Orange Bowl broadcast
from Miami CBS is putting up a
special soundproof booth for sim-
ilar reasons and NBC is arranging
to take like precautions for the
Pasadena Rose Bowl and the New
Orleans Cotton Cowl events.
While there has been no direct
statement it Ls understood that
the broadcasters even should they
come to terms with ASCAP expect
to continue maintaining BMI as an
additional source of music.
SHIPPERS
(Continued from Page One.)
“It is apparent that the grape-
fruit growers of the Valley are not
ready for regulation.” declared T.
M. Melden of Mission. “So far as
I am concerned I am through with
offering panaceas.”
However Mr. Melden revealed In
the meeting that he had recently
spent several hours with a man
who had a long term plan that
he believed worthy of considera-
tion. He said he had referred this
plan to some eight other shippers
that it would be presented to larg-
er and larger groups both growers
and shippers to determine whether
there were any kinkt.
He revealed later that the plan
contemplated the formation of a
commission of five men to preside
over the industry. It calls for the
elimination of the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture from the pic-
ture.
The meeting which began at 2
o'clock broke up three hours later
with no one being willing to offer
any ideas or suggestions for meet-
ing the price emergency. T'n*re
was general agreement that only
a long-term proposal will do any
good or get anywhere.
Cramer Speaks
It was suggested that now’ is the
time to get busy with the prepara-
tion of legislation if it is contem-
plated that any be brought before
the next legislature which meets
in January. A. L. Cramer of Engel-
man Gardens stating that his or-
ganization would not join in any
emergency actions suggested ap-
pointment of a committee to for-
mulate a long-range program. No
action was taken at this meeting.
Hugh Williams of Weslaco of
American Fruit Growers also was
opposed to any emergency mea-
sures.
It was Marvin Goodwin of Mis-
sion who delivered a hard-bitten
criticism of the shippers for their
failure to insist all along on a
standard pack.
He also charged that shippers
bidding against each other had a
great deal to do with price disrup-
tion.
Larry Lightner of Brownsville
offered a suggestion that growers
and shippers organize by com-
munities in view of the fact that
they had been unable to organize
the industry on a Valley-wide scale.
He said that under this plan the
local shippers would have a chance
to buy before offerings were car-
ried elsewhere. He suggested ad-
vances to growers about equal to
canning prices thus allowing them
to hold their fruit for a better
market.
Suggests Publication
Claude Garner of Edinburg sug-
gested publication of the names of
all shippers with the type of lic-
ense held under the bonding and
licensing act. The McCormick of-
fice advised that there were a total
of 132 maximum bonded dealers
which figure does not include the
hundreds of grower-shippers.
He charged that there was a
great deal of “packing for neigh-
bors” among grower-shippers
much of it probably in violation of
the bond and license law.
The idea of a return to the
marketing agreement that was dis
carded last year is not a popular
one. it was pointed out although
it was thought possible that a re-
vision of the agreement might
change the situation. This was re-
garded as a step about which
nothing could be done for this sea-
son.
The Rio Grande Citrus Growers
Exchange was represented by R.
Barbers Artists
Best Prospects
For Plane Work
ALBANY. N. Y. — Discovery
that barbers and artists—among
others—are well adapted for work
in airplane plants has led the
director of the state employment
service to assume the role of an
■ indstrial detective.”
A year’s time has turned the
service’s major task of finding
jobs for the unemployed into one
of bringing the job to the man
or the man to the job Richard
C. Brockway its director said.
“The Nazis found the best
source of airplane assemblers
were former barbers” he said.
‘The barbers had developed a
manual dexterity and their train-
ing enabled them to do delicate
work. So they made good work-
ers on jobs of putting together
sensitive instruments on control
boards of airplanes.
“This trick was demonstrated
only the other day when we
found work for an unemployed
artist in an airplane factory. The
man had learned to use his hands
so he was given work on the
smaller parts of an airplane
wing.”
Son to Thomases
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert LeRoy
Thomas Jr. of Cristobal. Canal
Zone announce the birth of a son
Herbert LeRoy Thomas. Ill in
Cristobal at noon Wednesday. The
baby who weighed 7’2 pounds at
birth is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert LeRoy Thomas ot
Brownsville and Mr. and Mrs
James A. Maxwell of Brady and the
great grandson of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Galbert of Brownsville. Mrs
Thomas Jr. is the former Miss
Katherine Maxwell of Brady sister
of James A. Maxwell Jr. of Browns-
ville.
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BUXTON BILLFOLDS
R. L. Lackner
THE VALLEY’S OLDEST
ESTABLISHED JEWELER
Brownsville
ROAD CARNAGE
PERIOD NEARS
• ——
Caution In Christmas
Driving Urged
AUSTIN—<VP>— Chris i.nas travel
of perhaps 50 Texans will lead but
to the morgue.
This prediction—based on exper-
ience of former years—came Thurs-
day from the public safety depart-
ment which issued a few simple
rules to prevent holiday carnage
on the highways.
Last year 49 fatalities marred the
three-day Christmas week-end and
since 1940 road deaths are about 10
per cent ahead of those for 1939.
statisticians estimate possibly 50
persons will die in traffic Dec. 24
and 25.
Most ‘‘Intoxicated’’
Unless universal safety is prac-
ticed these results may be expect-
ed:
Ten or a dozen persons will meet
death in cities and towns but ap-
proximately three-fourths of all
violent deaths will occur on high-
ways. ‘ Intoxicated” will be the no-
tation besides the names of about
60 per cent of all victims which
will include some pedestrians.
Rules Proposed
These preventive rules have been
suggested by Col. Homer Garrison
Jr. department director:
In taking long trips leave early so
that you can drive at a safe speed
and still arrive on time.
If you must drink take a taxi or
let a sober person drive.
Avoid long drives which produce
latigue dulling the drivers re-
flexes.
Reduce speed when visibility is
limited or roads wet.
Use extra precaution in passing
other vehicles.
If you are a pedestrian cross
streets only at intersections.
Teachers Pledge Aid
To Xmas For Orphans
LUBBOCK. Tex.—(/P)—W. B. Ir-
win of Lubbock newly-elected pres-
ident of the Texas State Teachers
association Thursday pledged Gov.
W. Lee O’Daniel his association's
aid in finding homes where chil-
dren of state orphanages may spend
Christmas.
The governor had requested such
cooperation. Irwin said the method
of cooperation among other mat-
ters would be studied at a meeting
of the teachers’ executive committee
in Fort Worth next Saturday.
XMAS SERMON TOPIC
MISSION—Rev. A. T. Dyal pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian church
has chosen for his Christmas ser-
mon topic ‘ Why was Christ Born
a Man” he announced this week.
Special music will be presented by
the choir under the direction of
Mrs. T. E. Wiedemann.
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Unwanted Nazi Sailors
To Live In New Mexico
FORT STANTON N. M. —W—
This little southern New Mexico
mountain community in the one-
time stamping ground of Billy the
Kid No. 1 southwestern gunman
prepared Thursday to receive some
300 Nazi sailors from the scuttled
German liner “Columbus.”
After scuttling their ship to avoid
capture by a British man-of-war
1 of I the Atlantic seaboard the sail-
ers were rescued by an American
destroyer and held temporarily at
Ellis island.
The men were left at Angel is
land near San Francisco until citi-
zens there complained they had
been actively spreading Nazi prop-
aganda.
Feelers sent out some time ago
to Albuquerque and Santa Fe met
cool responses and the Washing-
ton authorities explained communi-
ties elsewhere seemed not to want
them.
Authorities in Fort Stanton and
Washington both pointed out that
the German sailors have special
privileges as “distressed seamen."
The German government must pay
for their support under martime law.
MALLORY CUTS
SAILINGS HERE
Only Two More Ships
On Schedule
Valiev shippers received another
blow late Wednesday when Gilbert
Philen local agent for the Clyde
Mallory Steamship line was noti-
fied that they would have only two
more sailings out of Port of
j Brownsville instead of five as an-
f nounced earlier.
Final schedule of the Mallory line
to Port of Brownsville now stands:
S. S. Medina Dec. 2? (to.New
York and Boston) the final Boston
sailing and the S. S- H. R. Mal-
lory Dec. 30 to New York.
“Only a small amount of space
is still unbooked on these two
steamers and we urge Valley ship-
pers to act quickly if they have
any intentions of shipping on
them” Mr. Philen said.
Bad weather Wednesday and
Thursday has slowed up arrival of
cargo at Port of Brownsville for
the two steamers. Mr. Philen stated.
“We are attempting to get one
more Mallory steamer to come here
about Jan. 20 to clean up the loose
ends of the shipping schedule but
Valley shippers should not count on
this” he declared.
The Mallory line had previously
announced Wednesday that it
would suspend service here January
20 in line with suspension to other
Gulf and Atlantic ports because of
steadily increasing operating costs
without any reasonable expectation
of an increase in freight rates.
The remainder of the schedule at
that time included three more
ships the S. S. Ozark to New York
on Jan. 8. the Medina to New York
on Jan. 13 and the H. R. Mallory
to New York on Jan. 20.
Announcement that the three
extra sailings would be cancelled
came as a “severe blow” to the
i Valley Mr. Philen said.
Cornhuskers Off
For Rose Bowl
LINCOLN. Neb.—(JP^~ Nebraska's
football squad foe of Stanford in
the coming New Year’s Day Rose
Bowl game leaves Lincoln Thurs-
day night for Phoenix Ariz. where
the Cornhuskers hope to regain the
thing that made them great last
fall—their timing.
The squad that swept through
eight opponents after dropping the
season’s opener to Minnesota was
essentially a precision outfit. It was
perfect timing that got Halfback
Walter Luther into the open on re-
verses that opened the way to an
outstanding pass attack featuring
tossers Harry Hopp and Herman
Rhorig. and ate up the ground in!
Hopp’s powerful drives over tackle.
Timing is the thing they must
regain in the two-a-day practice
sessions Major Lawrence M. Jones
had outlined for the nine-day stay
at phoenix.
There’s been a bit of irony In the
weatherman’s treatment of Nebras-
ka since the Rose Bowl bid game.!
During the two-week period that j
Jones set aside for his players to
rest the sun shone brightly and
the temperature was perfect for
football.
TRADEMARKED BREAD
A baker and prominent advocate
■ of woman's suffrage in Albany. N
Y. between 1884 and 1887 baked
on his bread loaves the words
“Equal Rights” as a trademark.
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KENTUCKY COPS
SLAY FUGITIVE
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Posse Traps Deputy’s ^
Killer In Hills
MIDDLESBORO Ky.—/T'—Clyd«
William Buchanan 4*' died Thurs-
day four hours after a posse of
Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia
officers wounded him in a gun-
battle near Wheeler Va.t whera
they found him after a two and a
half day search of the tri-stato
Cumberland mountain area.
Bell County Attorney Walter B.
Smith who directed the hunt for
Buchanan reported the captura
late Wednesday of Buchanans son.
Clyde Jr. 15. The younger Buchan-
an Tied into the mountains with
his father after a pistol fight at
their trailer camp in which Deputy
Sheriff George W. Fisher 63. was
killed and two other peace officers
were wounded early Tuesday Smith
said.
The elder Buchanan was wound-
ed fatally two bullets striking him
in the head and one in the abdo-
men when he refused to surrender
peacefully to 50 possemen who
surrounded him in a cedar grove a
quarter of a mile from the Wheeler
railroad station.
NAZIS RAP U. S. ACT
NEW YORK —i/p\— Regret over
the United States government deci-
sion to transfer 300 Nazi seamen to
an abandoned CCC camp in New
Mexico was expressed in a broad-
cast Thursday which CBS reported
it heard on the wavelength of tha
German station DJC.
The seamen from the liner Co-
lumbus. which was scuttled a year
ago Friday off the Atlantic coasl
to avoid capture by a British cruis-
er. first were taken to San Fran-
cisco.
In ancient times a king’s glov*
was a guarantee of safe conduct
through his realm.
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