The Brownsville Herald from Brownsville, Texas • Page 11

5an Benito Area Registrants, Notice! Your Name and First Draft Number Will Appear In The Herald Thursday. Save Time-Consult this List. WEATHER For tho Lower Bio Grande Valley: Pnrtly cloudy Wednesday night M)d Thursday not much change In temperature. HlKh Tide-Wednesday 10:31 p. m.

Thursday 11:22 p. m. Low Wednesday 2:07 p. Thursdny 3:13 p. m.

mile roiu I A I I FORTY-NINTH YEAR--No. Ill BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940 TEN PAGES TODAY if 5c A COPY HITLER, FRANCO MAP DRIVE ON 'ROCK' AS REVOLT THREATS RISE IN FRANCE Brownsville Port Gets Free Access To Boxcars For Mexico Traffic The three year battle of the Brownsville Navigation District to secure 1'rce movement of railroad freight cars between tho Port of Brownsville and points in Mexico came to a successful conclusion Wednesday with nouncement that the Interstate Commerce Commission, In Washington, had authorized abandonment of the Port Isabel RlO Grande Valley railroad between Brownsville and Port Isabel, The Missouri Pacific lines were authorized to acquire the tracks between their lines In Brownsville ivnd the Port of Brownsville, find nlso a stretch of about five miles of track on the Port Isabel end. Others Provisions The Missouri Pacific nlso was authorized to construct 3.6 miles of (Sec PORT, Page Two.) PRIVATE NABS ARMY PAIR IN ESCAPE HERE Two Slug Guard, Take Pistol, Riot Gun; Thought Trying To Enter Mexico Two Fort Brown prisoners, armed with a riot gun and a .45 caliber pistol, created 43 minutes of excitement in Brownsville Wednesday morning in fin unsuccessful attempt to escape itistocly of military police. The Billy Day and Rpbert L. Ryon, overpowered their guard, Private Clarence M.

Rislnger, in the eastern part of the post reservation nt 9:20 a m. and fled into a wooded section of the fort grounds with Risinger's shotgun snd pistol. They were captured at 10 a. m. by an armed sentry.

Private F. A. Weaver, or. the eastern banl; of the Rio Grande inside the post grounds a short distance from the uolnt of their escape. Did Not Resist Military authorities said the men no attempt to resist capture, and the weapons they took were Dixy and Ryon were cutting grass with Private Rislnger as their guard before the escape.

According to Fort Brown officials, the two men tackled Rislnger from both sides, threw him to the ground and tool; his weapons, (See ESCAPERS, Page Registered IT'S A LITTLE THING, BUT the information concerned is Important to some business people and to lots of western people who might want to visit the Val ley. We are talking about the dally weather i of the United States Weather Bureau nt Denver. Colo. This bulletin had not been carrying the Valley temperatures. The fact noted In Denver tho puss summer by W.

M. Galloway of the Shippers' Prccoollng Service of Brownsville. Mr. Galloway wrote to The Herald about it. suggesting that something should be done to get the Brownsville dally report into the Denver bulletin.

The Herald carried the matter to the attention of Congressman Milton H. West of this district. R. WEST TOOK THE MAT- tcr up with the United States Weather Bureau at Washington. The Washington headquarters A wrote to the Denver office sug- that Brownsville might be included in the Denver daily bulletin.

Denver accepted the suggestion, and has written to Congressman West as follows: "With reference to previous correspondence between your office nntl the chief of the United States Weather Bureau, relative to publication of the weather reports of Brownsville, Texas, on the Denver Dally Weather Map. "We arc pleased to advise that upon receipt, of a copy of letter to you from the chief of bureau, dated September 23, 1940. the ro- port for Brownsville was included in the list of stations for which data are published on our map." -THE RESULT OF THIS PAR- tlctilar activity is that for the first time the people of the Denver area will have their first chance to know about winter weather in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. In addition, newspapers in Denver nnd the area will receive the Brownsville weather report dairy nnd will include the station in Ik their daily weather summaries. It is, as we said, a little thing --this single line on the Denver weather map.

But it is important to the Vai- (Continucd on Page Two.l Court Affirms 'Chon' Sentence AUSTIN (fP)--A contention of insanity was thrust into final action of the court of criminal appeals Wednesday in affirming a death sentence for Ascension (Chon) Martinez, convicted of murder in a Kldalgo county court. Martinez was accused in the slaying of an unidentified man whose body was found floating in the Rio Grande. A affirming the verdict, the court overruled a motion for rehearing but. at the request of Maritnez's attorneys, stayed issuance of the mandate to permit an appeal to ihc U. Supreme Court, The tribunal Issued the mandate with the notation no effective efforts to appeal the case had been made, with attorneys asserting Mar- rinez refused to sign necessary papers.

They suggested the man had become insane. The notation concluded with the ruling the issue- of insanity was without the jurisdiction of the appellate court but was a matter for the trinl court to decide. Miss Rclka Schwankc, above, of Austin, misunderstood a radio newscast on Oct. 16, convinced a woman registrar to accept her and registered for the draft. In the regular procedure her card was given number 14.

As numbers cannot be transferred, she may be called. She'll be disappointed if she's exempted, she Telcphoto. OFFICIALS DRAFT BLANKS Aim to Prevent What Happened In 1917 WASHINGTON (fP) Armed with thousands of bullet-like capsules--each one meant to hold a draft number--selective service officials are guarding against shoot- Ing off any blanks at next Tuesday's national lottery. One big blank was fired at the first 1917 drawing, and, profiting by the embarasslng mistake, those who load the capsules are aiming at perfect score week. Into Action Friday A capsule-loading contingent will move into action Friday.

Every capsule loaded will be given a certain number of paper slips, each bearing a draft serial number, and the same number of capsules. each loader has completed his task, he should have no capsules or slips left. If he does, something went wrong. Triple Checked The capsules and the numbered papers will be triple checked be(See LOTTERY, Page TWO.) Cameron County Draft Registrants Can Save Time--See Herald List Registrants for the draft must have their local draft number before they can know their order number. Their local numbers were given them after their registration before Ihelr local draft boards on Oct.

16. Their order numbers will be assigned to them in the Washington drawings which will take place on Oct. 29. Registrants cannot know their order numbers--those which will come from Washington--unless they know their local draft numbers. For this reason The Brownsville Herald has arranged to publish as many as possible of the names of registrants in the Valley, together with their local registration board numbers.

The list for Brownsville, comprising a total of 3150 names, was published, in alphabetical order, on Monday, October 21. The list for the San Benito draft area, comprising 2851 names, will be published in this newspaper on Thursday, October 24. This draft area includes San Benito, Rio Hondo, Los Fresnos, La Paloma, Pt. Isabel, Olmito, Los Indios, Santa Maria and Rangerville, It is honed to have the list for the Harlingen draft area ready for publication either, on Friday afternoon, Oct. 25 or Saturday afternoon, Oct.

26. The Brownsville Herald Is publishing as many of these lists for the Valley as it can. before Oct. 29, as a service to registrants, their families and their friends. By consulting the list in The Herald the registrants for these three districts can find their names In alphabetical order without having to stand lor hours in front of the single list posted in their local postofflces.

Only one person can consult the postoffice list at a time. You can save hours of time by getting a copy of The Herald containing your local draft list. When the registrant knows his local number he will promptly recognize his order numBer when it is announced from Washington. DONT SHOOT! HE NIGHT BE MILKMAN Be Sure It's Burglar Before Taking Aim Nervous Citi Cautioned Hold your fire, men! An appeal armed householders of the Riverside-West Brownsville sections not to use firearms unless very certain the target is a burglar was expressed by police and city officials Tuesday. Some innooent pedestrian, or even friends making an unannounced social call may be victims, it was feared.

It was also suggested thta friends announce their intended visits in advance. Until last week police had put lour plain clothes officers in the area to walk the streets. On two occasions they were mistaken for burglars, and pot shots taken at them, forcing the officers to take to the brush in self defense. Patrol Given Up The foot patrol plan had to be given up. NOW' the area is "spotted" by policemen, working singly and in pairs, and patrol cars make frequent rounds.

Police traps are placed in likely runways and mov ed nightly to different locations. The raids, now in their sixth week, account for practically every burglary reported to police, One of the twins acts as a lookout while tho other gains entrance. Twice the entering burglar has been de scribed as nude, but all recent re ports indicate that both men are (See NUDE, Page Two.) ON" THE HUSTINGS FDR To 'Take Off Heads ForN. Ray burn Given Big Send-Off; Farley Hews To Dem Line Court Orders Market Values Valuation of property for tax purposes shall be based on "market value." That was the effect of a fourth court of appeals ruling this week in the case of B. H.

Dunlap of La Feria vs. the Harlingen Independent School district, attorneys for the plaintiff say. G. Lorimer Brown, attorney for the school district, adds that the decision also holds that the "intrinsic value" shall be used if the property has r.o actual cash value. Mr.

Dunlap sued the district for cancellation of the district's $8,690 "intrinsic value" on his property, and he contended that it had an actual cash value of $2,500. The court of appeals, in upholding the 103rd civil district court here, in effect cancels the "intrinsic valuation" and orders the pro- pertcy reassessed on basis of market value, according to the attorney for the school district. Local Couple Escape Injury In Car Wreck George M. Smith, dairy owner, and Mrs. H.

O. Kirk, Highway 4, escaped serious injury Wednesday when the car in which they were riding turned over in a roadside ditch between Mercy hospital and the Boca Chica cutoff road at noon Wednesday. The car was badly damaged. Scott McKay, Harlingen, brought Mrs. Kirk to the home of Mrs.

E. B. Wortman, 703 Levee. George Barclay, Brownsville, brought Mr. Smith to the city.

Los Ebanos Project Starts; Big WPA Job Sixty men were at work Tuesday on Brownsville's biggest WPA sewer project, involving an expected expense of $121,868 of federal money and $41,179 from city funds. Work was started in the Los Ebanos section, where new sewers are urgently needed. Crews will later be increased until 208 men will be employed. U. S.

Envoy Confers With Japanese Head TOKYO--(--United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew conferred lengthily at the foreign office Wednesday with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Chuichi Hashl. DALLAS--(AP)-- Speaker Sam Rayburn Wednesday challenged Wendell Willklc to explain how he would carry forward certain points in his farm program which Rayburn claimed are opposed by the "great majority" of Republican members of congress, By DAVE CHEAVENS BONHAM, Tex. W) Speaker Sam Rayburn hurled his weight into the final Democratic drive for votes Wednesday, hurrying toward the midwest after urging a southwestern audience Tuesday night not to trade "a tried and true horse for one we know nothing about." Going to Missouri Rayburn conferred with Texas Democratic leaders and planned to entrain Wednesday night for St. Joseph, where he had a night speaking engagement Thursday.

This and other midwestern and eastern speaking dates he referred to in his homecoming speech as a "great crusade to convince the people of America that- the way to keep this democracy safe is to vote for representatives, senators and a president who believe there should be no lorgotten man in all the land." "FDR vs. Dictators" He said he did not know- or care whether Hitler, the emperor of Japan "are taking any stock in this election" and added: "But I do know they have such tough dealing and sailing with (See RAYBURN, Page Two) 40-HOMEEK START SLATED New Law Will Become Effective Tonight WASHINGTON--W)--The wage- hour law reaches at midnight of its twin objectives--the 40-hour work week. For some 2,000,000 out of an estimated 12,600,000 workers in interstate commerce covered by the law, the change to 40 hours from the present 42-hour week will mean more leisure, or overtime pay at the rate of time and a half. The 40- hour standard is not a rigid limitation, Little General Effect The change may have little general effect orl the nation's economy because the 40-hour week, according to wage-hour officials, has been Widely adopted in industry. Canning Plant Exemptions In addition, other revised regulations previously established opened the way to exempt from the maximum work week and overtime pay canning, packing and processing plant employes for as much as 28 weeks a year the busy seasons.

The 40-hour week and overtime requirement, the agency said, is applicable to the first full work week beginning on and after midnight. The second goal of the wage- hour law--a general 40-cents-an- hour minimum wage--will be reached in 1945. (By The Associated Press) President Roosevelt, ready for a "bang up" finish drive, took to the campaigning trail Wednesday for the first of a series of major polities' addresses in populous eastern territory. Even before Mr. Roosevelt entrained for Philadelphia where he speaks Wednesday night, his Republican antagonist, Wendell L.

Willkie, challenged the chief executive's statement that he would do everything in his power to "keep war away from these shores for all time." Willkie, at a Chicago rally Tues- Former Treasury Chief Succumbs NEW YORK George Cortelyou, one of the nation's outstanding financiers and a former secretary of the treasury, died Wednesday. He was 78, and a former president Of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York, Cortelyou was secretary to Pres- McKinley, and continued in 'he same capacity for President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1907 named him to head the treasury department. Active for many years in Republican politics, he was national chairman for threi years, from 1904 until 1907. McDonald Backs GOP Candidate AUSTIN--(AP)--Wendell Willkie Wednesday had the support of Democratic State Agriculture Commissioner J. E.

McDonald. McDonald announced fur the Republican standard bearer because he was "more interested in the survival of free American agriculture than in mere partisan politics." Growers Ask Low Grade Fruit Ban s- day night, also demanded that the Democratic nominee tell the people whether he, Willkie, had "falsified the record" In the attacks he has made on the administration. The Willkie demand apparently was aimed at Mr. Roosevelt's assertion, in announcing his political speaking program, that his purpose was to discuss the "systematic program of deliberate falsification of fact" which hp charged had characterized the Republican campaign. Set for "Bang Dp" Drive Secretary Ickes said Mr.

Roosevelt would "take oTf the gloves" in a speech Wednesday night, and White House aides said their chief was set for a "bang up" campaign finish. The president will speak at 8:15 p. (CST). Two national radio (See CAMPAIGN, Page Two) LAKELAND, Fla. W)-- Seeking to bolster a grapefruit market which has declined sharply since opening of the shipping season less than three weeks ago, Tederal control committees Wednesday recommended to the secretary of agriculture that shipments of seeded grapefruit for the two-week period beginning Monday be confined to U.

S. Combination and better grades and to sizes 80 and larger. Permitted to move now are U. S. No.

2 and higher grades and sizes 80 and larger fruit. change was requested in seedless grapefruit regulations. Growers administrative and shippers advisory committees joined in recommending to the secretary that first grade and size restrictions be imposed beginning Monday on the late maturing orange crop. Balk Plot to Slay Honduras President TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras W) --The government disclosed Wednesday the thwarting of an attempt against the life of General Tiburcio Carias Andino, president oT Honduras, and said several suspects had been arrested for military trial. Italian Planes Raid Bases At Alexandria ELEXANDRTA, planes attacked British warships at the Alexandria naval base before dawn Wednesday, but authorities said they Tailed to score any hits.

KNOCK OFF TO EAT IN NICK OF TIME London bomb disposal squad gave thanks Wednesday that one of its trucks arrived late. They had dug out a delayed action bomb and prepared for its removal, but the truck didn't come. So the men went off to lunch. While they were eating, the bomb exploded. No one was injured.

NY. VOTE FRAUD CHARGE PROBED Seek Evidence From Communist Leader WASHINGTON-- W)-- The Senate campaign expenditures committee invited Earl Browder, Communist presidential nominee, Wednesday to submit any evidence in support of his charges of "election frauds" in New York. Chairman Gillette (D-Iowa) said Browder had telegraphed protests about "outrageous interference in election rights" and "intimidation" of petition signers. Also, Gillette said that committee investigators had been unable to corroborate charges that hundreds of District of Columbia residents were voting illegally in West Virginia through absentee ballots. Gillette rp-lowa) said the Senate committee may recommend "tightening" the provisions of the Hatch act limiting political contributions.

Gillette said the committee had data indicating that there been evasions. Arraign Ministers On Registry Charge young Boston, ministers pleaded innocent in federal court Wednesday of wilfully failing and neglecting to register for the selective service military draft. The Rev. Keith Kanaga, 25, assistant minister of the Mount Vernon congregational church, and the Rev. Harry H.

Krucncr, 24, pastor of the Commonwealth Avenue First Baptist Church, were released, in each pending hearing; Kruener was arraigned despite the fact that he reconsidered his earlier action and subsequently registered. Kanaga has indicated he would not change his stand. IT HAPPENED IN MONTERREY Strike Blackout Snuffs Romance as Prices Soar MEXICO Monterrey, made famous by romantic songs and ballads, is virtually helpless in the grip of an electrical workers' Strike. Mexico's largest industrial city, of 150,000 population, has been without electric power since Friday, and the inhabitants find themselves on wartime rations of many necessities. The dispute arose between the Canadian-owned power company trad, union over hieher wages which the company says it cannot pay.

All oil lamps in the markets and stores have been sold. Candles, which ordinarily sell for a penny apiece, are bringing three and four cents'and the supply is running short. Tortillas are difficult to pet, and then only at triple prices. Electrically-powered mills whica grind the corn meal for the ancient Mexican food are paralyzed. (See STRIKE, Page VICHY BATCH REPORTED ON HELPTOAX1S Spokesmen Say Natiori Will Not Undertake War Against Former.

Anti-Nazi Ally VICHY-- (AT)-- Vice Premier Pierre Laval returned to Paris Wednesday night after a Ions conference with premier Marshal Philippe Pctain, it was officially announced. By The Associated Press Adolf Hitler was reported in secret conference with Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco on the- French- Spanish frontier. Wednesday- night, and there were indications of major new developments in offing. These reports said the German, and Spanish leaders held two conversations, beginning at 4:15 p. m.

and 6:15 p. m. (10:15 m. and 12:15 p. m.

CST) and were expected to meet again Wednesday night. Officials Present Their meetings were attended by Foreign Minister Joachim von! Ribbentrop and Ramon Serrano Suner, it was said. After the afternoon conversations, the Spanish party returned to its side of the border, and the Germans to French territory Tor dinner. France Balks at War Amid a day of flurrying diplomatic activity, in which a French government spokesman declared emphatically that France would undertake "no military, naval or aerial action against England," Rumanian newspaper llared black headlines over a Berlin dispatch saying the Rome- Berlin Axis now plans: Axis Plans 1. Immediate entry of Spain into the war.

with an attack on Britain's great rock fortress of Gibraltar. 2. Definite military and naval action by Japan to counter Brit- reopening of the Burma Road for war supplies to China. 3. Entry of France Into the war as a belligerent -before the Nov.

5 presidential election in the United States. "Warning to America" The dispatch said the Axis powers were determined to smash out all possible directions before (See WAR, Page Two) Indict Clerk For Threatening FDR WASHINGTON--Wj--Edward Do Rov.lhac Blount, 30-year-old government "Jerk, was under indictment Wednesday, on charges of threatening to kill President Roosevelt. Blount, son of a retired lawyer, pleaded guilty at his preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner, but his attorney said ie would pleaa innocence when he was arraigned in district court Friday. He is free on S5.000 bond. Government attorneys said that on two occasions Elount asserted he would kill the president at the first opportunity.

Blount formerly lived in Evansville, Ind. Half-Inch Rain Cools City An intermittent rain, local In Brownsville area, brought a slight temperature drop Wednesday afternoon. At 2 p. m. the U.

S. weather bureau reported that a little over a lalf-inch of rain had fallen. No rain was reported at McAllen or rJarlingen. The forecast for Wednesday night and Thursday was partly cloudy, with little change in temperature- The mercury here Wednesday morning stood at 75 degrees, ris- ng from a low Tuesday night of 67 degrees. The highest of the past 24 hours was 82.