Brownsville Herald, The (Newspaper) - September 27, 1939, Brownsville, Texas THE WEATHER For the Lower Rio Grande Wednesday Thursday Wednesday p in Thursday p m Low Wednesday p ra Thursday a p m rom TRAFFIC TOLL yea trin i thaw tor Deaths 269 Accidents FORTY-EIGHTH 73 Valley In Valid TEXAS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1939 TEN PAGES TODAY it 6c A COPY FLAMING WARSAW OFFERS SURRENDER Nazis Soviet Expected to Form Military Alliance TWO AGED WOMEN ARE FOUND SLAIN JEANETTE MacCONACHIE returns to Brownsville from Europe Just a few hours after a brief note from this traveler ten from Rotterdam The letter Is dated September 5 And must have traveled a devious course through war zones j at sea before reaching the United i States Anyhow Miss MacConachie Last Sunday morning at half past eleven a state of war was de- clared between England and many On August 25 I to don Irom Northern Scotland where POLAND FATE VITAL ISSUE German Foreign Chief Arrives In Moscow j For Parleys With Russians Succumbs ister Joachim von trop of Germany arrived Wednesday for talks with the Soviet government amid unconfirmed reports a military was under I had heard no rumors and was i Three planes bearing the German surprised to loam that Americans I landed from Berlin to M ibc by a brass band and an had been advised to return borne j honor guard touches that were As I had expected to spend the missing when Von ar- time before sailing In rived Aug 23 to sign the Holland and it being a neutral nonaggression pact Vladimir Potempkin vice com- hg country I caught the boat train of Harwich Hundreds seemed to j soviet officials welcoming have the same Idea as they ran two j party sections i 3 Developments Seen I The coming ot Germany's for- minister coupled with the 1 ln MoscOw of the Turkish MORNING WE at the Hook of Holland and went on to Rotterdam Have enjoyed my stay in this de- little country with Its toric old towns and cities foreign minister caused diplomatic circles to speculate on possible de- rivaling in importance the Russian non- aggression pact These developments said diplo- Watching their preparations for mats might defense has also been most of a military agreement of a new Ing The galleries arc an closed and many valuable works of art safely j hidden Large buildings filled with j stacks of railroad ties etc The railways were taken over by the government for two days toj move troops to points of tlon for border defense Sunday we motored to Rotterdam j so as to be near our ship in See MOSCOW Page Two CITRUS VOTE SET OCT G W Johnson Pan American representative here who was one of the founders of commercial aviation In Mexico died here Tuesday night DEATH TAKES G Pioneer of Mexico's Aviation Dies George Wilfrid Johnson 73 neer in Mexican commercial airways development whose Cia Mexicana de was one of the nuclei BOTH BOUND THEFT SEEN AS MOTIVE Brownsville Police Join In Probing Deaths Of Couple Across River Angry ment reigned In Matamoros morning when two aged women were found dead in their home apparently victims of a bery that climaxed a reported series of petty thefts In the city during the past several days A milkman found Mrs Manuela Casas Garza 75 and Mrs Juanita Perez Garza 56 dead in the patio of their home here about a m Wednesday police said their home was in a state of disorder with trunks opened and suitcases strewn about the house Both women had been bound hand and foot and sacks of beans and grain placed on their bodies An report was that they had died either of suffocation or Another report was that sacks of sugar were found placed on their faces Brownsville Police Aid No official report as to the cause of their deaths had been returned by medical performing autopsies On the bodies Wednesday morning Brownsville Police Captain H D Lozano said Wednesday morning that Brownsville police cooperated with Matamoros police headed by Special Investigator Jose Castro and Police Chief Jose Maria French Send Tanks to Western Front This scene is somewhere In France their turrets camouflaged are being Tanks with loaded onto railway cars for transporting to the Western front This picture radioed from London to New York Acme Matamoros in checking the home for of the present giant Pan American Airways died suddenly of a heart I death-stricken attack Tuesday at p m at his said that Mata home nere He was special executive had an empty of the western division of mTy Pan American Airways Funeral arrangements were in- complete Wednesday pending re- j of word from Mrs Fred J Wheeler Glendale CaL the former of earlier Milling Tomorrow Referendum On Mrs Helen Johnson his sail at 5 p m nothing preventing j The Dutch ships are not calling j at English ports nnd HARLINGEN A referendum wishing to embark from England that will give citrus growers of Pact Scheduled must cross to Flushing Holland to do so I am extremely fortunate to have nailed on a Dutch ship meron Hidalgo and ties an opportunity to vote on the question of whether or not they in-law Surviving is his widow the for- mer Bessie Kirkland Houston The arrangements are in charge of Hinkley's Mortuary Many Friends Mr Johnson's character gence and disposition had made him friends here in Mexico and vor the proposed new citrus I American countries and French Claim Destruction Of Part of Siegfried Line BLAZE OF WAR 56 OF SENATE FAVOR REPEAL See DEATHS Page Two eting program will be CAM PERL PRESIDENT OF THE I during the period October 1 to 13 rt TS i 14 Inclusive it was announced Band Boosters Club Mrs b R c Evans ot the is Jennings chairman of groceries y 5 department of agriculture Jack purchasing agent land L E Pratt of the state nnd George McGonigle on meats j ot agriculture nre all busy as a CM on a steeply i and stale referenda Both federal will be tin roof Getting ready for the benefit barbecue to be big band concurrently and jointly Federal referendum ati ers w vote on whether or not they Tucker dedication exercises i the issuance by the Secretary in many sections of the world McAllen Offers Mexico Apology Visitors Leave Field When Grid Teams Rush On of the State of Tamaulipas bordering Texas the the south of the Rio Grande of City of Reynosa Mexico and He had lived in Mexico for Reynosa Chamber of Commerce years prior to coming to ville and was a pioneer in the de- velopment of Cia Mexicana de will receive public and written logies for admitted discourtesies to a group of Mexican officials and later absorbed by Pan school children at the football game erican Airways He secured an interest and made treasurer of Cia Mexicana de Aviacion and following absorption by PAA he became chief between McAllen and was High Schools last Fri Thursday night of Agriculture of an order barbecue firm of and ing Interstate shipments of citrus mm 01 Amos ana from and Willacy counties in the same ner as is provided in the marketing agreement regulating such ling tentatively approved by the Secretary In the state referendum the vote will be on the question of the Issuance by the commissioner of Agriculture state of Texas of a license regulating shipments In in- commerce Ballots are being mailed to all known resident and non-resident growers and growers will be mitted to return these ballots by mail between October i and 14 Ballots returned by mail must bear postmark on or before October 14 in order to be accepted In addition to permitting growers to vote by mail polling places have been designated throughout the three counties Andy will look after the preparation of the meats the and so on Amos Andy Is sort of an in Brownsville And is said to be intent on outdoing itself for the big event Thursday night The Band Booster Club believes that at least one thousand ville folk should turn out for the Thursday night evens at 75 cents each preparing to serve that many And hope that many will be present The high school band u a young and growing organization It needs to pay for instruments And that's what the barbecue Is all about TWO TROPICAL Dis- occurred in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer now coming to a rapid close One of those back in June in the east Gulf nnd ted the west coast of Florida ing no damage only fairly high winds and considerable rain The second developed in the ex- treme south portion of the Gulf off Yucatan and for a few hours ed to be taking a somewhat course Which might have carried it to the Mexican coast or to the Texas t But it was pushed back and a northerly course which carried it to the Louisiana coast in the ity of New Orleans And spent It- self there quickly with only some and considerable rain The storm record shows that there is little chance for ment of another disturbance though they have been known in this region as late u October It See CITRUS Page Two Tropical Storm Disintegrates The topical storm which had swept northward up the Gulf of Mexico this week had disintegrated Wednesday in the south central states Heavy rains followed the ance Some sections of southeastern Alabama reported as much as four inches of precipitation The storm had moved inland on Tuesday near Grand Isle Louisiana I Fair Wednesday night Thursday is the Valley forecast The i ant of western division His offices were transferred from ico City to Brownsville in January 1932 Three years ago Mr Johnson was appointed special executive of the western division of Pan American Airways night The officials a large number of Mexican school children and 1 win FDR's Aides Predict Quick Victory Supporters of the administration's neutrality to repeal the arms embargo and bar American ships from any cargoes to belligerents claimed 56 senate votes day and began talking of a quick victory One member of the group said the revised to be considered by the entire senate foreign relations committee Tuesday had stolen much ol the thunder by its cash credit and carry vision Opponents prepared to confine their fight primarily to the em- I bargo issues Senator Johnson Calif said it was going to be a long scrap and we expect to Great Future Foreseen For Brownsville Senator Hastings Pauses Here En Route To South America Brownsville as the Chicago of the South was envisioned here on Nazis Answer Attack With CITY IN RUIN NAZIS CLAIM TRUCE NEARS Officer Of German Army Is Ordered To Occupy Fallen Polish Capitol German embassy said Wednesday it had a report from the Trans- Ocean news agency that Warsaw had surrendered The embassy said its in- formation was that after the capture of several during night the Polish com- mand offered to negotiate and shortly afterwards surrendered the city to general von Blaskowitz BERLIN AP commander of Warsaw's de- fenses offered Wednesday surrender the Polish cap- ital it was officially an- and General von Blaskowitz was ed by the German supreme army command to negotiate the delivery On the day of Warsaw's siege a German radio station ing the wave length of the silenced transmitter in the Polish capital urged the city's defenders to the lives of your women and dren by surrendering Conditions in Warsaw were con- by the announcer with con- in i of th was reported Wednesday to wiped out portions of the German City Senator Hastings who was re- sponsible for cotton compress and other Investment here by R Fageol two years ago was in the city for a day on his way south via Pan American to Mexico City Central and South America I expect to make a quick flying trip over a large part of South erica and to return to the United States by way of Brownsville about three he said before front blazed with heavy ing Dispatches said the Germans had answered the bombardment with an intense counterfire on French ad- vance positions in the Saar and Palatinate areas to protect Nezi working feverishly to re- build shattered blockhouses The city is entirely cut of the rest of the world the J caster said and the citizens of i Warsaw are living under the false belief that they are defending and when there is no Poland The speaker described the tion now controlled by Germany being in complete order Command Condemned The command of the Polish cap- ital's defense forces was condemned for permitting the city to be destroyed and its citizen killed The Warsaw radio returning to reported success and ber of the Tampico police band at- the leaders claimed of McAlien city chamber of com- merce and school officials The en- tire group including a number of visitors from Victoria capital of the state cf had at- See APOLOGY Page Two least 35 votes and said they hoped to swing more to their stde during the senate debate A senate ity is 49 one of the matters taking him into Mexico at this time is the possibility of constructing a railroad from rango to Mazatlan Important ican port on the Pacific coast Look at the said Senator Advocates of repeal were j Hastings See for yourself what a there were 30 to 40 boxes to the square See NEUTRALITY Page 2 See HASTINGS Page Two Nazi Officials Pay Tribute to Dead Army Leader highest temperature was 91 degrees the the night here Tuesday i lowest during High Nazi and military officials paid tribute to Col Gen Werner von former German army commander in chief killed ly while on duty near Warsaw u toil picture shows Indicated by the HITOW is Field Marshal Hermann Goering saluting before the bier of von This picture passed by censors was radioed from lin to New York Acme wjs The sector extends along a front at the northern end of the German frontier where French sources German pill mile French military men were to have held the belief these works were constructed too ly to stand up under heavy Reports from the front said the French force was proving a large factor in enabling the artillery to score direct hits on German fortified line Claims Secret Returns NEW land Bergdoll World War draft dodger testified Wednesday he re- turned to the United States twice from his self-imposed exile in many and recovered in gold he had hidden belore his arrest Bergdoll went on trial before a general court martial today on charges of desertion and escape Irom a military prison The court consists of 13 high ranking army officers Bergdoll said his first trip back to the United States was in 1929 when he returned by way of real under the name of Joseph A Marm a hotel porter become a destroyed inferno in its 20th day of German siege The announcer declared more than civilians had been killed in the past 24 hours Warsaw has been said the radio announcer declaring however that the morale of the population is excellent and we will never give in while one of us still is alive Speaking at p m a m CST he reported German said planes were throwing in- bombs into the center of the city Dead Lie in Street The Warsaw garrison's offer to yield the supreme German com- mand declared the 20th day of the Polish under the thrust of German saults which Tuesday carried the first line of fortresses in the north and the second line of fortresses in the south The Polish commander the com- said this forenoon of- to surrender the city and j the military and the chief I of the German army commissioned j General Johannes Von Blaskowitz I to conduct negotiations for tile capitulation Dead and wounded were said to be lying in the streets be- cause of the breakdown of all transportation and communication facilities Fires were raging un- checked because water mains were broken Destruction of the of the 25 Years Ago Today Asso Sept 27 retreat rom Niemen Germans occupy Malines Child Jesus shortly before noon said to have caused the deaths of 17 nuns and three physicians Siege Guns Boom More than 100 heavy German scige guns were said to be pouring shells into the center of the city a stream uninterrupted since There tie more than 500 fires burning now About all that is left to burn is now blazing Hundreds of horses killed each day were said by the announcer to See WARSAW Page 31
