Brownsville Herald, The (Newspaper) - December 1, 1939, Brownsville, Texas THE WEATHER N For the lower Grande Partly cloudy Friday night and day not much change In temperature High Friday p m Saturday p m Low Friday p m Saturday p m v TRAFFIC you Vallera J tor SS Injuries SIS FORTY-EIGHTH 129 ta nw BROWNSVILLE TEXAS FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 1939 TEN PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY RUSSIANS RENEW FURIOUS FINNS DROP ANTI-SOVIET CABINET In full operation Houston and New Orleans Such progress has been made in construction work between Houston and Galveston and Corpus Christ that It seems sure that the section will be completed months Union Secured Fund After Telling Maury Poll Taxes SAN Jury luncheon she continued Maverick ing Mayor Maury Maverick on telephoned David Dubinsky of New first of several charges that he paid j York international president of the poll taxes for members of a union and asked for a campaign ment Workers union was told by a contribution prosecution witness Friday that Referring to the money allegedly in silver half dollars was delivered to the union headquarters brought to the union headquarters by two of associates Miss Taylor Glass George business RUSSIA KEEPS PASSPORTS OF Envoys Are Refused Permits to Leave Moscow Telephone Service Out unit of the International Ladies Garment Workers union a C I O within eighteen affiliate She said the money was I delivered only three days before the So leaders of the Intracoastal February deadline for paying poll here by Maverick campaign era The witness was Miss Rebecca i agent of the union and I opened I spokesman Taylor head of the San Antonio the The was we Finnish legation said Friday rial Association of Louisiana and Texas are looking forward to ther extension of tho project to the of a luncheon at which she said she the package The money was ped in brown paper Ten pieces were in each stack The witness said she knew about of the money was used to pay union bills and therefore could not taxes but she did not know that have been spent for poll taxes any of it was used for that purpose Every seat in the small courtroom was occupied and the aisles and The spokesman the Finnish 1 that the Soviet How Russ Invasion Started Scale ef Miles Miss Taylor previously had told Lower Rio Grande Valley Always it has been the plan toj extend the canal to the mouth of the Rio Grande That plan has been amended because of the of the ports at Brownsville and I Port Isabel I So that now if and when the j and Maverick discussed the need for members of the union to purchase their poll taxes Shortly after the back wall were lined with people Maverick arose from his seat and personally entered a plea of cent to Tie charge canal Is completed it will serve when that project is completed AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE on that extension south or Cor- pus has been called It will be held at at the Strand Theatre at 10 o'clock the morning of Wednesday ber 6 C S E Holland Houston dent of the association has called the conference That name land has been Identified with the association since its organization more than thirty years ago Says Mr Holland in his We the time has arrived when consideration should be given to a program looking to the final completion of our great project to the Rid Grande Valley In view of the splendid progress being made in construction work we may anticipate completion of j the canal to Corpus Christl within the next eighteen months It therefore seems timely and tune to consider and formulate a definite program for the future The conference will conclude with a dutch treat banquet at the hotel at in the ing Brownsville's Eagles Enter State Title Race Golden Eleven to Play Austin or Kerrville In Clash Next Friday Russian ment had removed the telephones and that the staff was still unable to obtain passports for its departure Officials of the legation were un- able to say when they would leave for Helsinki and it was thought possible in some quarters that mission might be refused until the staff of the soviet consulate in sinki had reached Moscow The United States embassy re- ported no reply been received from Soviet officials on the offer of American good offices in the dispute Some sources believed the reply would be delayed until Russia had disposed of the j Finnish situation j Soviet newspapers published what j they called an appeal by the I nish Communist party to take over map shows the Russian invasion of Finland by air land and sea There was plenty of joy in Brownsville Friday The Golden Eagles of Brownsville high school were the first pions of the new football district in which reposed CROWDS GOING TO DIA GRANDE Donna's Big Event Is Under Way FROM AUSTIN the talk that Undo COMES Elmer Pope of Corpus clean of the house doesn't want to see a session of the legislature and doesnt I think there will be one Representative Hope one of from Valley cities were converging on Donna Friday afternoon to aid this city in celebrating its annual Dia big day dedicated to fun and frolic Tourists and from all over this section were pouring into the city to witness the big events of the personality parade and a terrapin race Even Tulsa turned up with an entry for the terrapin trot Other cities entering high speed terrapins were McAllen Alamo Weslaco and others The big event however will be the coronation Friday night the queen whose identity has been determined as yet Votes were ing in Friday in the queen contest nnd an unknown entry was ing many ballots Entries In the contest Included the remains of the Corpus Texas high school state champions in 1938 Given little chance at the start of the 1939 season the Eagles crashed proudly through their most brilliant year since 1929 to end the season unbeaten on scoring and grasp the championship from the faltering hands of the Robstown Cotton Pickers by whipping town 6 to 0 for the second time in one season Brownsville becomes one of the 16 Texas high school district pions all or whom will be known See LEGATION Page 2 A W CAMERON J u d g e's Rites Up Friday A handsome silver football trophy emblematic ol the pionship of the district of Texas high school football was presented to the Brownsville Golden Eagles Thursday at town The awarded by the district committee will remain the permanent possession of Brownsville high school It will be placed on exhibit at the school next week Helen Moss of the chamber of c i Commerce Betty Sue Capen lean Legion entry remaining four horsemen of the legislature of eight years ago a conservative and opponent of pension proposals emphatic in the belief that ing would come of convening the lawmakers in special session He was Just as pointed in his re- to attend an informal sion requested by some members to some type of levying measure designed to raise old-age pension to or above former levels Holmes of the high school band Meredith Wood Rotary entry and tnc unknown lady Numerous attractions will come before the coronation scheduled for 10 p m They include doll buggy parade burro chariot race mixed horse and burro race duck race and a water basket ball game between Valley teams A ball will follow the coronation Dewey to Run NEW noy Thomas E Dewey Friday for- many entered the campaign fL the republican presidential nomination Replying to a declaration of a group of state party leaders he could carry this pivotal Dewey told them he would glad to make the fight governmental problem that salt water of the Gulf of Mexico is too salt for certain types of water fish Bo the state has cut ditches through the fringe off Hie coast such a the Padre land to let some of the briny tcr Jn the enclosed lagunas run out and permit the rest to be freshened by land drainage Protection and development of the fish resources in the coastal waters is one of the official jobs ot the state government TALKING ABOUT NEW industries complain that Texas wool is shipped to New England for but this complaint fulls to rival that of shipping torpedo boat a German submarine tempting to a freighters Bad Weather Slows Western Activity Bad weather is hampering aerial reconnaissance the German high ed Friday its communique In the west feeble artillery and scouting activity German Submarine Is Sunk By French PArtIS An official an- Friday said 14 French cotton to England and Japan for Continued on Page nad sunk was at- of by Saturday morning and will play the winner of the game Friday night at Austin for the honors of regions 15 and 15 Eagle Officials at Austin E C Dodd superintendent of Brownsville schools Coach Brooks Conover and Assistant Coach Bob Jackson will witness the game and following the contest complete arrangements for the clash The game will be played probably next Friday night cither in Brownsville or in Austin or Kerrville depending on the result of negotiations between Brownsville and the District 15 winner Austin is favored to win over Kerrville being still ed this year Kerrville has been whipped by Robstown Austin's Maroons can clinch the title by winning or tying Kerrville Superintendent Dodd notified the Brownsville Herald Friday afternoon that he would meet with officials of the winning team at Austin at 11 a m We will make every effort to bring the game to Dodd telegraphed The Herald The championship Eagles ed to Brownsville Thursday arriving at p m The team was in high spirits and with only minor injuries I Mike Macmanus sustained a j sprained hand when injured during j the game Victor Lee Stuart has his arm in a sling and Alfredo was nursing a bashed Fullback Joe Hahn had a bruise over his right eye Whether Brownsville held a jinx i over Robstown or not the Pickers have been beaten only twice this year and both times by the Golden Eagles the Thanksgiving clash Thursday was a cinch for ville after the first qua er Win In First Qur ter The Eagles won their d title in the first ten minutes recovering a Robstown fumble on the Cotton EDINBURG Funeral services for former Hidalgo County Judge A W Cameron 53 who died at his home here Thursday at 7 p m will be held at 5 p m Friday at the Skinner Funeral Home chapel Complete funeral arrangements had not been announced Friday ing Judge Cameron who headed the county government during the tical regime of the late Sheriff A Y Baker and was one of the most colorful figures of Hidalgo ty's political of 30 became slightly ill Wednesday night but his condition had not been considered serious He died suddenly 24 hours later He is survived by his wife of Edinburg and an adopted ter who lives up-state Other tives reside to Mississippi Judge Cameron was born at Meridian Miss December l 1886 He received his law degree at George Washington University and came to Texas in 1912 Establishing a law at cedes in 1916 he was appointed county attorney in 1922 and ELEANOR VISITS DIES HEARING Mrs Roosevelt Hears Youth Testimony WASHINGTON Franklin D Roosevelt Friday made her third visit to the Dies tee to hear testimony by leaders of American youth organizations The first lady said she joined the committee spectators again to hear Joseph Lash ex- secretary of the American Students Union I thought I'd like to hear what he had to Mrs Roosevelt smiled to newsmen as she took her seat among a group ol young men and women on the front row She showed up at the hearing In the House office building for the first time yesterday morning and returned again in the afternoon when the American Youth Con- ress had its hearing Asked Friday how she thought the Youth Congress leaders had quitted themselves Mrs Roosevelt thought for a second and then Well don't you think I'd ter leave that to rather than FDR REQUESTS Russia Finland Asked To Protect Civilians WASHINGTON President Roosevelt declared that sia's invasion of Finland was a profound shock to the United States and Jeopardized the rights of mankind to self government The president asked Russia and Finland to pledge before the world that they would retrain from bombing defenseless civilians and lied cities Mr plea was made public shortly after J the Finnish minister told newsmen that Soviet warplanes had dropped bombs on Helsinki and nine other communities jn Finland cf which he said were un- fortified said he had received numerous messages from expressing sympathy lor his country and indignation at sia's invasion of the little Baltic republic In his message to the Russian your judgment and Finnish read almost word for word like his previous appeal to Germany and the president asked Specialist i both countries to avoid a resort to i i tne inhuman barbarism of aerial Is I aken By attacks on civilian centers HOUSTON Funeral I Mr said that the ments for Dr W G who ruthless bombing from the air of died in Brownsville Thursday j civilians in centers of ing while in the Valley with his population recently had resulted ed to that position in 1924 He was first elected county judge In 1926 and two terms He did not seek re-election in 1930 As head of the Hidalgo county commissioners court during the late the period of the ty's greatest development Judge Cameron signed millions of dollars worth of county bonds and See CAMERON page 2 wife on a fishing trip were finite here Friday morning The body was forwarded here from Brownsville Thursday night Dr McDeed one of the leading X-ray specialists in the Southwest died at a Brownsville hotel at 9 a m Thursday from a heart attack He is survived by his wife who was with him at the time of his death and returned here from Brownsville by auto and three daughters Mrs Bufus McFarlan of Burkham Mrs Lloyd Rodman of Bloomington 111 and Miss Janette McDeed of Canton Mo in the maiming and in the or thousands of defenseless men women and children and had sickened the hearts of every man and woman Co-Ed Shoots College Football Sweetheart Pickers own 18 yard line nett had snagged Barnard's 30 yard Continued on Page Girl's Motive Is Kept Official Secret FORT COLLINS motive for shooting and ically wounding tall blond Walter Bud Lyons her football player sweetheart was kept an official cret Friday by Deputy District At- torney Winton M Ault Ault Indicated that pending the outcome of Lyons condition he would not discuss the story of the shooting told him by Lois Jeanne sophomore at Colorado State College in whose apartment Lyons was injured late Wednesday His powerful physique is aiding the fullback on the Aggie team in his fight to recover from a let wound that punctured his left lung The deputy district attorney said ons had reached the parting of the way Miss romance with custody at the same hospital patient She be- gan keeping company with eight ajo Bank of Finland Changes Cabinet Risto Ryti governor of the Bank of Finland Friday night formed a new et to replace the resigned ment of Aimo K Both Cajander and Eljas Erkko the foreign minister who directed Finland's recent policy of resistance to Russian demands were dropped from the new government Annihilation Of Helsinki Threatened By LYNN AP formed a new ment night leaders who had been sailed by Moscow as Russian armed forces renewed and extended their attack upon the country While the new government was being formed Russian bombing planes swooped low Finns Get Sympathy But No Aid By TUe Associated Finland got sympathy from most of the world today but no concrete offer of assistance in her defense against the Soviet sian invasion Germany and Japan notably kept aloof from the general out- By The Associated Press COPENHAGEN Russian ships bombard at advices from Finland re- port new government under Russian sure air alarms sound man? civilians flee nish Arctic town aflame after Russian air raids Russian diers dropped by parachute had taken Finland's chief Arctic port of Finland announced 16 hours late armed provocations by Finns blamed Finnish legation without ports telephones Roosevelt peals to Russia Finland for pledge against bombing of civilians un- fortified cities says German mines submarines sank tons of allied and neutral shipping headed for Britain in less than three months wins extension of power to rule France by decree pouring of indignation at the Russian onslaught In the United States President Roosevelt asked Russia and land to refrain from bombing de- civilians Senator King suggested of the United States recognition of Russia Germany was officially silent but authorized sources in Benin said the Nazi regime which ed Poland with the Soviet was sympathetic to Russia and had an understanding of Russia's de- sire to protect Leningrad Japan kept silent both ly and in her press It is too far away British King Calls Males Age 20 to 23 King George VI Friday summoned all male British subjects from 20 to 23 years of age to register for military service Dec Approximately men are expected to answer the call The call into actual service is expected after the first of January Survivors Of Finn Craft Blame Mine Survivors of the Finnish steamer Mercator said the vessel had sunk after ng B mine off the Scottish coast en route to Finland All except one member of the crew was missing member of the crew was Vessel Is Mined LONDON IP The British tons struck a mine and sank Friday off the Southeast coast of England Her rescued See SYMPATHY Page Two France Continues Daladier's Rule Parliament ing approved Premier Daladier's rule of prance by decree for the ration of the war turned iw tion Friday to providing funds for the Friday morning's communique of the high command some artillery fire during the night Thursday night we repulsed an my raid Hoover Is Proposed As Peace Mediator SPRINGFIELD Mo A movement to draft Herbert Hoover as mediator to seek world peace was suggested Friday by Howard Pierce Davis Boston author and radio program director owe Hoover debt of gratitude and they look him to stop the war before it destroys the best of civilization he said in a speech before the university club Southerner to Sail The SS Southerner of the mack Line prepared to sail Friday with citrus and general cargo for Boston New Bedford Baltimore and Philadelphia Expected Sunday afternoon Is the SS Texas Banker of the Line to load for New York direct The vessel will sail Monday morning the Shipping Com- pany over the capital and civilians in the streets Viborg and cities also were raided Helsinki's chief of police said that 30 women and dren were killed by Russian bombs dropped in the raid on the capital early Friday afternoon Finnish reports said that 16 Russian tanks were wrecked by gunfire or mines Friday in bitter fighting along Finland's southeastern border Russian attacks extended Finland's extreme Arctic tip soldiers were reported dropped by from warplanes to important towns to Finland's ex- treme southwestern corner Red warships opened blasting slaught Hie strategic Port of the entrance to the Gulf of Finland Rust Vessel Sunk Finnish defense batteries on the fortress reported to have sent one of the attacking stops to the bottom of the gulf and the fortress was said to be still holding out this evening despite furious shelling from the sea and bombardment from the air The new premier is Risto Rytt governor of the Bonk of Finland His foreign minister is Vaino Tanner socialist finance minister in the outgoing ment and regarded as friendly to Russia included also as minister without portfolio is former premier in Russian affairs and of the delegation which had been conferring in Moscow over demands Dropped altogether were Aimo K Cajander and his foreign minister Eljas Erkko both of whom lad been attacked bitterly by ow as trying to lead Finland into var against Russia Porte Bombed Russian warplanes bombed land's principal ports of her south coast including large tions of which were set aflame Thursday and Kota about 65 east of Helsinki Ten Russian bombers were re- ported shot down at The air attack was carried all j way to Abo On west coast 250 miles from the sian frontier where it was reported without confirmation that civilians were ai they were in Helsinki No estimate Of the day's casualties in the tal or elsewhere was available Hundreds of Russian were reported captured on the Ka- isthmus where the Red army was invading overland Moscow re- ported an advance of from 6 to 10 miles here Helsinki newspaper offices ed reports from many sections of the capital that citizens were beinK machine gunned from Russian planes in the early afternoon No Surrender Considered Copenhagen reports said diplo- mats expected the new government would come to terms with Russia The Finnish legation in London however said there was no question of a The new attacks followed tion of an ultimatum broadcast by the Moscow radio threatening an- of Helsinki unless an agreement was reached by 3 a m 7 p m Thursday Valley Russian forces were striking day at Finland's farthest northern outposts at points along mile eastern frontier and along ths southern seacoast around to the ex- treme southwest A great squadron of Russian bombers raided Helsinki and itt suburbs at p m a m Valley time Friday dropping bombs strafing with machine Bombers Raid Helsinki The raid still was in at p m a Valley Finnish antl aircraft were reported to have shot down several of the raiding planes which were flying low One bomber said to have crashed ac
