Del Rio News Herald from Del Rio, Texas • Page 1

i DEL Rio NEWS-HERALD WEATHER Wanner this afternoon and tonight. VOL. XV DEL ttlO, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 10, 1913 NUMBER 21 Forces Drive Near Tunis INCREASE ON OIL Ickeg Recommends Upping- Price 35 Cents Per Barrel April Pctroleum Odmlnlstrator Ickes has recommenced general crude oil price Increase averaging 33 a barrel, he told House small business committee today. He the recommendation was sent to the Office ot Price AdmtoMtwior April 7 but an OPA offtcM tMtifled he told Price Ad- minMratm- Premiss Brown he thought it a "pretty, bad time" for such an Increase. Earner today, Brown told the It was an "obligation" of his atwiey to Increase the price of cnMte If such an action was necessary for the war's successful prosecution.

He emphuuted, however, It Is incutabent upon the petroleum Industry to make the "strongest kind of showing" If the OPA is to be persuaded to make an exception to the President's anti-Inflation order. Assertion) W. 0. COMPROMISE ON INCOME TAX BILL SOUGHT WASHINGTON, April 16 House Republicans supporting the skip-a-yeur ux plan And Democrats opposing it met with Speaker tyijfHirn today to launch going to try to target the Burnl plan aU other plans," and try to work out 6omethinff acceptable to all. It Is eKpected any reached would embrace 20 per oant aintt 'ti or Woman Whose Nude Body Found ts Identified LO8 ANGELES, April 15 A young woman whose nude and ravished body was found (ait night in a bakery truck was identified today ac Mrs.

Margaret Kelly, 28, mother ot three children, Her husband. James D. Kelly, 32, defense plant worker, Identified wile's body from police pho- tograpbft. He said they were married In her home city, eight months ago. HeW tor questioning in her death was Henry Sanudo, OS, a recently dlschargta Army Private.

Police C. McOtwler nald Banudo admitted having ul an automobile with (he WOHWJ but night atoortly before her body was found, declared they hp4 unwnt but dented he had killed i xs Keilf Md wife had been twice nuurted was DM mother of a firl by her first marriage and a toy and a girl second. R0.M*i|l had drinUng for wwral Sergeant B. A. Ttaxler, top kick of Twelfth Base Headquarters and Air Squadron at the Central Instructors' Bchool, Randolph Field, Texas, ponders for a solution to tho maternal triangle of a stray mother cat, which, without benefit of proper military i enforcement, gate paw, or official permls- sto.v-crcpt into a private's wall locker and supplemented the squadron with three additional members.

At Inspection time, she uttll defied all military attempts to vacate her family. (NBA Photo). Seek Settlement Of Newsprint QUEBBC, April 15 Oodbout of Quebec tonight asked Price and Company, to meet with government representatives by tomorrow to seek settlement of 10-day-old and mont would be sought through islation, Speaking from the floor of the Legislative Assembly, Godbout did not explain how the government would attempt to end the strike, but during his statement he waved in his hand a copy ot legislation which he Bald he would ask the Legislature to pass If the company does not comply. The strike affects same 1,275 workers at three mills at Kenogami, JUvorbend and alt in the Lake St John district some 150 miles north of Qubccc, The Riverbcnd and Kenogami Mills, among the biggest in Canada, have a maximum capacity of more than 370,009 tons annually. The unke Qcgan when the asked the company tu ccl a bargaining contract with the International Brotherhood of Pulp and Paper Workers (A.

p. of and requested that the National Catholic Syndicate be recognized as representing them. Effort of provincial and dominion labor department conciliators -to Mediate the have been untuccesaful, although the company Is reported, to have made certain Strike Which Halted Jeep TOUEDO. April 15 strike of 150 CIO unionists at the Spicer Manufacturing which halted assembly of Army jeeps and NAZI ATTACK IN DONETS AREA FAILS Soviets Struggle Ahead In Kuban Sector To South MOSCOW, April 16 Soviet troops turned back another sharp Nazi attack on the Donets River line north of Chugucv and struggled ahead In the Kuban area of the Caucasus, capturing another enemy stronghold and dominating the position despite fierce counterattacks by large numbers of German reserves, The Reds arc throwing a mount- Ing force Into the bombing of Nazi military objectives and cities. Following the third raid against Ko- cnlgsberg, and the year's first assault against Danzig, Russian fliers attacked an enemy airfield on the Leningrad front and destroyed 13 grounded planes.

The Danzig raid was made on. the port's warehouse, shipbuilding yards, chemical plants, machine tool factories and other industrial objectives. FIGURED IN ALCATRAZ PRISON BREAK Three of the four prisoners who attempted- to escape from Alcatraz penitentiary are believed to have been killed by gunfire or to drowned. The fourth was captured. Harold M.

Best, left, of Pittsburgh, was captured. Fred Hun-' ter, center and 'Floyd Hamilton of Dallas, Texas, right, who was believed wounded and drowned. fNEA Telephoto). CIVILIAN SITE IS NAMED FOR LOCAL RANCHMAN Location of the civilian dwelling units at Laughlin Army Air Field has been designated Marshall Heights, It was announced Friday. The site was named for Gilbert Marshall, on whose ranch the field was built.

The name was selected at a meeting ot John Rowland 8r J. Autrey Walker. Mayor Prank Walton, Jos. C. Netu, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, with Colonel George W.

Mundy, commanding officer of the field. Work on the civilian units has made 2,500 workers Wte at Willys-) already started. H. holds Overland Motors, ended contract A IB Ma of I Workers Local at Spicer, said the strikers agreed to return to: work and vote later on the question of asking the International UAW to authorize a strike. Soviets Delegation To Food Conference Includes Krutikov LONDON, April 16 The Moscow radio announced today that Joseph Frazer, president of the Soviet delegation to the Unit- Wlllys-Ovcrland, asserted resumption production at Spicer, which supplies axles, would permit the jeep assembly line to resume operations Monday.

ed Nations postwar food conference in the United States would be headed by M. Krutikov, Soviet deputy commissar for foreign trade. Track Team Seeks Transportation to Uvalde Saturday for Dual Meet JANITORS NEEDED BY DEL RIO SCHOOL SYSTEM Janitors are badly needed by the Del Rio Independent School District, Drury Wood bupenntendent Quallflcations Include a willingness to work and knowing how to push a broom around," Wood said. Anyone Interested is urged to call Wood at his office, 534, at the Del JUo High School. MARKET Pat lambs were selling steady to IS cents lower Friday on the Fort Worth market.

Good and choice wooled lambs moved at $15. Good shorn lambs with No. 2 pelts- brought $14.25. Sheep salable 1,000 and total 1,200. Cattle salable 500 and total calves salable 100 and total 300.

TODAY'S AFRICAN WAR MAP Si The Del Rio High School team, which placed third at the San Angelo meet last week, Is to participate in a. dual meet with Uvalde Saturday If, and the if is a h-ig one, transportation can be arranged. Coach Jiinmle Jacks said Friday his boys are ready to meet Uvalde tomorrow if they can find anyone willing to them get there. There are 15 members of the team noon over around 6 o'clock. Jacks estimated, and the boys will want to return just as soon as the meet Is over.

i Anyone who is willing to help the boys out on transportation to Uvalde Saturday Is to call Jacks at the High School, and tet him know how uutny they 7 Wallace Thanks Ecuador For Contribution RAIN THURSDAY NIGHT TOTALS .05 OF INCH Five hundredths of an Inch of rain fell in Del Rio Thursday night, records of the United. -States Rain betfan to fall as a bprlnklc at 4:15 p.m. Thursday and most it fell between 9 and 10 p.m. Ranchmen in the Blue Hills country reported a rain of approximately three-fourths of mi inch fell there. Bain Thursday brought to 1.37 inches the mcisturo received dur- weather observer, Previously, 1.32 Inches had fallen during month.

Normal rainfall for April is 1.79 inches, leaving only .42 of an inch needed to reach normal. THREATEN KEY CITY OF TEBOURBA First Army Holds Highest Ground In Northern Tunisia ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 16 British First Army Infantrymen drove within 15 miles of Tebourba, key road junction, in fierce fighting yesterday, it was announced today. In a series' of local attacks east of the Allied mo.vin- tain line reached points between 2S and SO miles from Tunis, Teboui'r ba lies 18 airlines miles west of Tunis. The First Army now holds the highest ground in northern sia. it overlooks the plain to Tunis.

Only patrol activity was reported on the Enfidaville line front, where the British Eighth Army awaited artillery to blast the Nazis their positions. Weather restricted air operations I but Allied bombers raked the re- I malning Axis airfields and fighters attacked enemy tanks and vehicles. A United States Air Force bulletin said enemy traffic into the important port of Perry vllle had ceased as a result of bombings. BILLfREEZMi LABOR IS APPROVED AUSTIN, April 16 bill. freezing labor union dugs at the 1939-43 levels and Imposing.

ties, of to dollars? ai i who of employment and amount of "worlr' to be done as well as nature of the work and. working- conditions was passed by the Senate today. The bill passed unanimously. QUITO, Ecuador, April 15 Thanking Ecuador for her contribution to the cause of United Nations, Vice President 'Henry A. Wallace of the United States promised In a speech here tonight that gratitude would be justly measured out after the war to those peoples making sacrifices in the common Speaking at a banquet given In his honor, Wallace declared: "We know how to measure this contribution and we shall know how in the happy days of peace tomorrow to measure well the gratitude owing to the peoples who in these hours make sacrifices in the common cause," Wallace reached here by plane from Peru on his Latin American tour.

Negro Killer Goes To Death In Chair McALESTER, April 1C (fl'K Porter, slender, 40-year- old Negro killer, went calmly to at SEVEN MEN FOR SABOTAGE WASHINGTON, April 16 Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau ot Investigation director, announced the arrest of seven men, employed as welders, on charges sabotaging Liberty Ships being built, at Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards. He said there was no evidence of Axis sympathies or direction on this welders' piirt, but they ad- Speed Limit, Gas Rationing Are Praised CLEVELAND, April 15 Mlnckler, supply division -director in the Office of Petroleum Administration for War, declared today such ''minor Inconveniences as the speed limit and gasoline and 'oil rationing operations his death in the electric chair the State Penitentiary today. The Okmulgee convict, who went up for life for the slaying of his wife, then drew tho death penalty for the knife murder of Negro cellmate, showed no emotion. "No, he said, calmly, when Warden Fred Hunt asked him if there were any last words. mitted faulty welding in order to Phono-Postal Service For Mexico Opens MEXICO CITY, April IS complete their work in a hurry and cam more money, Twenty-Two In Georgia State Prison Break REIDSVILLE, April 16 --Twenty-two prisoners, described by the warden as "the worst we've got," overpowered three unarmed guards and escaped from the stute prison today.

service was an-; tne convicts dismantled the prison nounced today by the communlca-, telephone switchboard and fled in tlons ministry, i two prlsoi) trucks and a cor be- Phonograph records of messages will be made for the public at the larger Mexico post offices, at a cost of 14 each. By paying the regular postage, the client may have the records sent to points Mexico or foreign countries, longing to a guard, Del Rio Weather (nforniatioii Ai. 'A ORATT KVAOER TO on oil ron today Ingrwn, to five years.