Valley Star-Monitor-Herald (Newspaper) - August 24, 1941, Brownsville, Texas TUX Partly Cloudy on Page 4 BALLET SUNDAY far MONITOR u Mean M Cents FINAL McALLEN BROWNSVILLE TEXAS AUGUSTS 1941 THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY FD ORDERS NAVY Leningrad Seen In RUSS FORCES HAVE BACK TO Populace Gets Ready To Defend Capital MOSCOW Sunday Red army defenders nre battling fiercely against steadily mounting pressure on Odessa and Leningrad the sians announced Sunday while in old capital Red Marshal Klementi Voroshilov organized a triple defense for a fight to the death the Germans Leningrad proclaimed officially to be in terrible was the object of particularly heavy man assaults from the find Novgorod sectors on the west south Sunday's said Titanic Seen There and on the Odessa front well In the Smolensk area ing Moscow the Russians said their forces were locked In titanic tles with the Invaders t Although the Russians were silent on the progress of the operations In the north about Leningrad arc nt Smolensk they declared great losses were being inflicted on Ru forces stabbing at Odessa Division Said Smashed In this theater where powerful i1 Red army were in progress the Russians reported that In one weeks fighting the 15th manian Infantry division about 000 was smashed The said Rumanian di- visions on the southern front had been cut to 20 or 25 per cent of their j manpower with corresponding losses Inflicted on their equipment Marshal Voroshilov Issued more urgent warning to Leningrad's population to hold fast against the Germans approaching the former capital of the Czars British Royalty 5 Nudism Must Stress Mental Sun Benefit STOCKHOLM N J The nudists of the were advised Saturday that their physical health had become Ineffective d and they must now concentrate on the issue ot mental benefits through jun bathing Donald Stetson national public relations director of the American Sun Bathing Association told 150 delegates to the tenth annual con- vention of the association in a eluded North Jersey wooded re- treat that the rediscovered gospel of sunlight has spread until today the whole family has sun suits Shown above are the Duke and Duchess of Kent who ar- rived in Hyde Park N Y Saturday for a visit with President and Mrs Roosevelt Entertain Duke Of Kent And Wife At Home War Games Disclose Tank Power Limits CAMP POLK La Third Army maneuvers over west ana's bogs bayous and hills have demonstrated to United States of- the deadly striking power of have also brought out many limitations of the steel sters Lieutenant General Walter ger discussing use of tanks in the maneuver problems declared they must be directed with boldness and daring but that recklessly directed tanks wasted strength Officials Attempt To Minimize Import Of Visit j No Seen PARK N Y President Roosevelt and a member of Britain's ruling family met here Saturday night and the very fact of meeting served to cement more firmly the bonds of ican so closely the dramatic conference at sea between the Executive and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill the visit of the Duke of Kent at the home could not help but i take on a measure of significance j The temporary White House j ed however the Duke youngest I brother of King George VI was here primarily or art informal social visit The President also had sought to minimize the tance of his having a royal guest Flew In From Canada There was not even a hint that an of announcement might be I expected as a result of the visit j Yet the meeting did underscore HAND TO HAND FIGHT RAGES Nazis Admit Neither Side Quitting BERLIN hand to hand engagements outside the Black port of Odessa between troops and fanatical bands of defenders with neither side asking quarter were described Saturday night in dispatches from the eastern front Equally desperate struggles be- tween the Nazi forces and the vast Russian population soldiers and civilian were reported in the ingrad area to the north while DNB spoke of violent battles along the Dnieper River and the capture of the river city of 90 miles southeast of Kiev capital of raine where the Germans were ng to force a crossing Documents Are Seized The news agency reported also that the courier plane of Marshal Klementi Voroshilov commander of the Soviet northern forces had been shot down when it flew over a airfield and that important secret documents of the Soviet high command had been seized Waves of German bombers were said to be smashing Russian dromes on the outskirts of grad as the ground troops pressed their offensive Russ Forces In the middle sector German dis- patches indicated a new threat to Moscow was developing The Nazis scid they smashed 60 miles be- yond Gomel towards Bryansk John R Brinkley of Del Rio Tex gland surgeon was taken to a Kansas City hospital Saturday suffering from severe circulatory condition He became ill at a hotel there where he has been living recently CHIEF TELLS OF PARALLEL Details On Highway Are Released HONEYMOON COUPLE SLAIN Wounded Also Food Supply Enough For Next 12 IOt culture Department inventory of the nation's food on hand and now being grown or processed Saturday that with few possible exceptions there should be plenty tor the next 12 months Present stocks ot most foodstuffs were mid to be larger than a year OAKLAND blazed in a honeymoon cottage and a bride and her husband of four days were shot to death The woman's former husband was gravely Deputy District Attorney ence Dayton said James H ald 47 an army sergeant killed Robert A Newcomb 42 and othy Newcomb 35 and then put a bullet into his chest Last Wednesday at Mexico the married On last June 14 at Carson City Nev McDonald and the woman had wed Presumably she divorced ald at Ensenada prior to the comb wedding Dayton said McDonald wrote a note which said this act which 1 am about to commit is a terrible thing in itself but for all ed it is the best My wife married me with a selfish is getting a marriage certificate I loved her so much I cannot live without her some 300 miles south of the Soviet This force annihilated the bulk of two Soviet armies in said But ignoring all these reports the high command's bulletin from ler's headquarters merely operations on the east front con- according to plan 13 SOLDIERS DIE JN WEEK Honkytonks Guarded By Officers Now THIRD ARMY FIELD QUARTERS In Louisiana With 13 soldiers killed in during the first week of Louisiana war maneuvers military police and state authorities ed the guard Saturday over honky tonks and traffic through out a area After closing up three night clubs in Lake Charles State Cap- tain Berry commanding See Map on Page 14 BAN Engineer J W Puckett Texas Highway De- meeting in special session Saturday with civic San Benito discussed official of the Benito parallel road which includes for a boulevard drive on Washington Street in this city Plans for the boulevard drive on the highway entering San Benito from the resaca to the eastern city limits were advanced by city and chamber of commerce officials Rights-of-Way Needed The highway department neer said lie expected field notes on the highway beginning north of Harlingen on the Combes road and running to the Brownsville highway at Dead Man's curve would be completed immediately These be sent to the county commissioners court probably in the next two work on securing will be ed County Commissioner Charles A Jeopardizing U S Defense Contracts For Half Billion In Ships Is Tied Up By Strike WASHINGTON The Navy said Saturday It would take possession of the Federal Shipbuilding and Yards at Kearny N J Monday and operations would be in charge of Rear Admiral Harold G Eowen for- mer chief of the Navy's Bureau of of the plant will be resumed as promptly as possible a Navy statement said adding that workmen be notified through newspapers and over the radio when they should return to work The statement was issued after President Roosevelt at Hyde Park N Y had ordered the Navy to take possession of and operate the plant because stoppage of work jeopardizes the Morris expressed the unanimous and its rights of vessels essential to the defense of the United States The been closed since August 1 by a strike of CIO ers On the ways there are cruisers and six destroyers as well as several merchant ships Union Will Co-Operate Altogether the yards have con tracts for naval and merchant ship building aggregating Before the Navy's statement John Green president of the strik ing CIO Industrial Union of Mar ine and Shipbuilding Workers ha pledged co-operation of the union members He added that this pledge was made without in any way con to the Navy's taking over of the Kearny Green in a statement which in concern over the future con status of the wen on to say that the union viewed as most unfortunate the decision the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry deck Company to abdicate its duties Churchill May Talk On Far East Crisis In Radio Broadcast Far ern situation probably will be among the topics discussed by Prime Minister Churchill Sunday when he goes on the radio with his first public comment since his dramatic sea with ident Roosevelt The broadcast which will be rebroadcast in the United States will begin at 2 p m CST the extent to which ican collaboration has developed in the all-out effort to defeat Nazi Germany And it gave the President an additional opportunity to explore the British viewpoint on the war and obtain further first-hand in- formation on the progress of the conflict The Duke of Kent flew to New York Saturday from Canada where he has been surveying the pilot training program and then motored to Hyde Park Inspections Are Planned He was greeted at the spacious Roosevelt home by the President and Mrs Roosevelt and there was time for a brief chat with the Talks Okayed By Ecuador Ecuadorian Senate and Chamber of Deputies Saturday approved a resolution by Colonel Filemon Borja senator from Cotopaxi endorsing the ciples of the Churchill declaration police work jn area prepared for a conference with the Third Army Provost shal Col E O Sandlin to effect further precautionary measures Six Soldiers Grilled Six soldiers were grilled for 24 hours following a barroom fight at i Leesville in which Private Harold P Clark 25 Fort Worth nal corps soldier was killed by a thrown brick None of the six could throw light on responsibility for the death but the investigation is being continued Clark's body was found with the neck broken on the lawn of a neral home Most deaths were in traffic dents two of them involving men crushed by tanks Taverns Are Warned Captain Yeldell declared repeatedly were warning side tavern proprietors against intoxication or prostitution but it would be up to military lice to decide whether certain places would be placed off limits Yeldell said state police had made j 71 arrests within 19 days in the maneuver area opinion of the San Benito leaders when he said we think the location is excellent and will do everything possible to co-operate in speeding data needed by the department in order that actual construction work can get underway To Be Three Lanes Puckett explained that plans In- clude a strip of about miles from the intersection at the parallel highway into Street in San Benito Stenger Approximately pounds of structural steel will be needed in the construction of the arroyo bridge which Puckett said may be difficult to obtain due to national defense priority but work on the highway and foundation for the bridge would proceed while ing the steel order Over pounds of steel will be needed also but it is thought that such orders will be filled without delay as there is no age at this time Bids To Be Called After rights-of-way are obtained bids will be called and a contract probably will be let for the entire project Puckett said Survey of the entire highway has been ed with the exception of the Y- on Pane 14 Col S CAA Instructor Has Narrow Escape When Landing Gear Fails Finns Say Viipuri Near Encirclement W Finns re- ported Saturday that the port of Viipuri was near encirclement by victorious Finnish troops smashing dent before a family dinner southward across the Karelian No formal functions had been ar- mus that an avalanche of- i for the Duke White House i fensive now was being directed officials said his call was so in- against the Red army defenses formal that the had de- permission for a single ture to be taken to record the visit RAF's Raiders Blast Nazi French Bases LONDON fP The industrial city of Mannheim in western many and Nazi coastal bases of cuped Belgium and France were reported by the air ministry news service Saturday to have borne the brunt of the RAF's aerial offensive overnight Among other targets were listed the harbor facilities of Le Havre and Dunkerque France and the docks of Ostend Belgium tlon of supplies sufficient to well Into 1042 Convict Nabbed Huntsville Fugitive Held In Oklahoma ATOKA Okla Lois Carl Cobb fugitive from Huntsville Tex prison was captured by two state highway patrolmen who ed his carr off the rood four miles south ot here Saturday night State Highway Patrolmen les Recce nnd Carl said the mtm about 30 offered no re- He told them that he was ing 99 years for murder nnd ed about a month ago They said he added that he had robbed jewelry at Ardmore Okla that nji car wai at I tor landed a Lockheed 12 safely a the municipal airport Saturday af ter cruising over the field thre hours because of ed landing gear When his gasoline supply was ex Stiles brought the ship down on an open area The righ wing tipped to the earth flipping the plane around and nosing it up The ship stopped a few feet of a concrete runway which Stiles cautiously had avoided Ceiling Prices Set On Pennsylvania Oil erson price administrator imposed a schedule of ceiling prices day on Pennsylvania grade crude oils levels about 23 to 25 cents a barrel below prevailing Henderson said the price ceilings ivere at the levels prevailing before went into effect on 14 i His highness will arrive in ington with the by special train Monday fly to Norfolk Va on Pan U Col THROCKMORTON DIES BORGER Tex J W Throckmorton 69 whose father the late J W Throckmorton was governor of Texas in 1886 and died Saturday at the home of a nephew Fred Throckmorton Japs Withhold Mail SHANGHAI Unconfirmed reports Saturday night said ese authorities who control the cal post office were withholding 70 bags of American mail which had arrived here in the past month This was described as further re- prisal for the American freezing of Japanese assets Pair Charged Jehovah's Witnesses Held After Fight members of the Jehovah Witness religious sect ran into more trouble in gen Saturday afternoon when a short fist fight occurred in which they and other local men were in- near the corner of son and First Street The two wound up in precinct court The sect displaying their bers had been literature along Jackson Avenue Union Demands Rights Then extending the offer of ful co-operation with the government Green In turn of course expect that arrangements will be made whereby not only wil the Board decision be vindicated but all rights and of collective bargaining wil be preserved for our union and its members at Kearny The Mediation Board ed that the company management sign a contract with the union in- a clause providing that members of the union and those joining in the future must keep in good union standing as a condition to ed employment The company de- to agree to this clause and the strike followed Speculation fs Seen Navy officials to discuss what the navy's attitude on the point of a contract with union would be apparently intending to leave that for settlement by Ad- miral Bowen and whatever person is named to advise him on labor relations There was considerable tion however that the Navy would accede to the demand for a clause in view of the fact that Defense Mediation Board previously had upheld the demand and Roosevelt specifically mentioned in his executive order that the company had refused to accept the ruling There was speculation also hat once this point was settled the might then move as rapidly as could be to return operation of the yard to its private management MARTINIQUE TO BE TAKEN IF NAZIS ACT Texas Solon Warns Of Aggression WASHINGTON Chairman Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Saturday night that if the Vichy government permitted German con- trol of Martinique or other French territory in this hemisphere we shall seize that island or any such territory and hold it by armed force Such action he said would be essential to national defense He spoke under auspices of the Com- to Defend America It was in behalf of national de- fense he said that the United State adopted the policy of aid to Britain and nations resisting We have declared that no non- American nation shall set up any part of its system in the Western he said Already sporadic incidents in Latin ca reveal Nazi infiltration and plotting to saturate Latin America Nazi philosophy It requires no penetrating sion to foresee that if Nazi armies master the continents of Europe and Africa their ambitions may soon leap across the seas to the Western Nazis Forbid Dutch Jews Kosher Meats Jews are forbidden to eat kosher meat as decreed by their religion under one of the many anti-Jewish ders promulgated by Nazi in the conquered Netherlands just prior to fight witnesses according to authoritative reports to the altercation said I received in diplomatic quarters The two sect members both here ing near here were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Boynton Fleming and City Patrolman Wes Fonville and taken before Justice of the Peace F D Nance Fleming filed disturbance of the peace charges against the pair The men entered pleas of not guilty and trial on the charges was set for next Thursday by Judge Nance He set bond for the sect members at Texas Youths Nabbed As Robber Suspects OKEMAH Okla Two who gave their names as Charles Stacey Martin 20 and ames Mathew Scott 20 both or Texarkana Ark waived ion Saturday and were taken to Amarillo to face charges of rmed robbery The pair and a third man who aid he was from Little Rock Ark ere arrested by Highway men Hamilton and Howard Eden east of Boley Okla Friday night Hamilton and Eden reported they were riding in a car owned by Milton Groves Tulsa who was bed of his car luggage and in cash at Amarillo Thursday night by three men Honolulu's Bombing Insurance Rates Up i surance has shot tip from ten rents for protection to 50 cents W B Brandt of San Francisco Pacific Coast representative for Lloyds of London said Saturday Mystery Surrounds Willocy Woter Office Location Now No One Seems To Know Just What Is What Probe Is Expected Monday Morning the acy county irrigation district of- fice now in Willacy county or Hidalgo It may not be until District Judge George C Westervelt re- opens court here Monday that the question will be settled but in the meantime rumors persisted that the has been moved to the pumping station in county When called district tele- phone numbers Saturday in an effort to confirm or disprove the rumors none of the persons who answered would Identify selves or answer any questions ths matter which came head week when temporary injunction was issued restraining officials of from moving their headquarters Just a said a man who answered the telephone reporter asked for ager Kenneth McMullen of the district Ke then that McMullen had started for town Who is this ths reporter asked I don't the man said and laughed McMullen was finally reached by Saturday night and said that didn't know when the move was or who made it but when I went to work Saturday morning of the and personnel had been to tht relift station There are still a to be cleared up McMullen said that some facilities would be maintained in Raymondville Only man with any official connection with the who would comment early Saturday was Art only director who the move from to a point near Hargill He obtained an injunction to vent the move Baughman SEid that he heard Saturday morning that the dis- office had been moved out of the building here to a frame building near the relift pump He he went to the local office and found a desk and some of thf other equipment missing The director said that he then called the relief station near the Delta Orchards clubhouse but that those who answered med and hawed They told him said that the office was open but just to take ets The directors had voted four to one to move the office for reasons of efficiency and omy when Judge Westervelt sued his temporary injunction on which a hearing will be held August 30 It was indicated that Judge Westervelt will be asked Monday to investigate and determine whether there was a violation of tbt temporary injunction Navy Marines Corps To Be In War Games navy announced Saturday that naval and marine corps aircraft squadrons will participate in the large-scale army maneuvers in Louisiana in ber Admiral Harold R Stark chief of naval operations reported that all the aircraft squadrons which can be spared temporarily from duty afloat would take part with the soldiers in the largest ever held in this country Admiral Von Hintze Succumbs In Berlin Admiral Paul Von one time aide-de-camp to the late Kaiser Wilbelm II and German secretary for foreign fairs in the waning days of the World War died Saturday The admiral who spent his last years in retirement was as at home in a diplomat's chair ss on the bridge of ship having served as minister to Mexico China and Norway Army To Start Use Of Re-Tread Tires W army will start using re-tread tires shortly on thousands of its ger cars and trucks to help con- serve the nation's stocks of rubber Announcing this Saturday the War Department reported that re- conditioned tires proved entirely satisfactory in recent experiments Jap Steamer Sails CALLAO eral false starts from South ican ports the Japanese steamer Maru sailed for home night with Ernest Wendler expelled German minister to Bo- livia aboard News Index Page demos mobilized hind FD War interpretative Oin output cut Page aid not planned in new lease-lend Page legions still fight Nazit in Crete French study now acts Latest weather Page wonders what ter foreigners leave Page Day fuel supply said ample Page to attend coastal canal hearing Picture of war maneuvers Pages 9 10 11 12 and society news Page map of new allel highway Plane plants ing money Page protests general sales tax Pages 16 and arid ley sports news Pages IS and classified Fage
