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INFLATION IS DUE ATTACKS POUGHVETO ixpect F. D. To Take Definite Stand In Message Against Cheap Money WASHINGTON, May 13. (PV 1th the bonus issue heading to ward a showdown, some leading Semocrats on Capitol Hill predicted Monday that President Roosevelt tn vetoing the Patman bill, would elude a stand against inflation nong his arguments. Back from a week-end fishing trip with the president in Uie Blue Ridge mountains, congressional leaders were unchanged in their opinion that he wotnd veto the bill, which is expected to go to him from the sen ate Tuesday. Borne of the conferees, who did not wish to be quoted by name, held that it would be impossible for the president to tetreat from a stand aPtady taken; that is, that bonus money would go to those who had jobs, as well as the unemployed, while the administration’s program designed to taka care of the r first. Conferees forecast that after stressing that argument, the presi dent would contend that while the mus might be paid in. nJw money thout actual damage, the experi ence of history was that Initial steps toward outright Inflation al ly* have led to disaster. Backers of the bonus drive con tinued their efforts to put the Pet in bill across. Father Charles £ ughlin. In his radio address Sun y night, appealed to the president sign the bill. Senator Thomas (D-Okls ), lead of the senate Patmanltes, pian to withdraw, probably Tuesday, motion by which he has kept e bill bottled up in the senate while its backers sought to 11ns up angport. That will speed it to the House. Before the president and the congressional leaders returned from their week-end trip, Representative Patman (D-Texas), author of the bill, had said soma lsgllslstors felt J certain leaders had urged the pres ident to suggest a new compromise. The Weather Eui Texas (east of 100th meri dian): Cloudy, local showers in ex Itreme north portion, cooler In north [west and north-central portions tonday night; Tuesday cloudy with showers, cooler in north and rest portions. Fresh southerly winds on the RIVER BULLETIN There will be no material change the river during the next lew lays. Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr Stage Stage Chang. Ram 10 27 1.7 0.0 .00 Grande 21 2J -0 8 JX) tidalgo 21 4.1 40.7 .00 rrced es jwnsville 21 18 56 4.6 40.2 -0.2 .00 .00 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Port las Dei jesday, under normal meteor logical condition.*,: th.2:23 a. m. 12:08 p. m .8:17 a. m. 7:22 p. m MISCELLANEOUS DATA unset Monday.7:06 unrise Tuesday . 5:44 • WEATHER SUMMARY disturbance of moderate in snsity was central over western 'exes Monday morning, with a rough-like depression extending lortheastward to the Great Lakes, rhlle pressure was relatively high ver the southeastern states and noderstely high through the great lorthwest at the same time. Light moderate rains were fairly gen rml in the northern half of the ountry during the last 24 hou ‘emperatures were rather low for he season over most of the great northwest Monday morning. Brownsville 7 a. m. (CST) evel pressure 29.82 inches. BULLETIN (First figures, lowest tempers turt lsst it; second, highest yesterday; third, velocity st 8 s. m.; fourth, prec lusion in lsst M hours). tne . 68 88 larlllo . 60 Ltlanta . 66 82 88 16 .00 .02 .00 UUtin . 70 86 10 .00 44 68 jOO 17 .00 .98 .00 10 .00 94 14 .00 10 .24 .02 ton IROWNSVILLE ... 76 86 14 .00 r’vllle-Airport. 76 89 lcago . 54 68 iveland . 52 64 12 .22 aus Christ!. 76 84 14 lilts. 70 82 Si Rio. . 74 snver . 42 54 je City. 48 76 18 Paso . 56 82 .. art Smith . 68 90 .. [ouston . 70 86 .. Jacksonville. 64 00 .. City. 60 90 .. Angeles. 54 60 .. Ui . 66 86 .. Itmphls. 74 88 .. 74 86 .. [lnneapolls. 44 56 14 tew Orleans. 72 86 .00 .00 .00 .00 .62 .00 .04 .00 .00 01 1.10 north Platte. 42 56 12 .44 lltlthoma City. 68 86 12 .00 la . 68 86 ala. 72 80 .. Iioenlx . 62 88 .. Louis. 66 78 .. jit Lake City. 40 52 .. Antonio. 70 88 12 lan . 28 48 .. 70 86 .. 68 88 .. 70 88 .. an. 54 78 .. .00 .00 .00 .24 .48 DO .10 .00 •If .00 M uoM THEATRE LA FERIA it Borne Owned Theatre "Lives of a Bengal Lancer” Theatre Passes Are Offered as Prizes In Contest Series Here# the contest you're been waiting fw! Different, interesting and depend ing only on your wits. You've been hearing a lot about the O Men late ly, the government super-sleuths who have been crashing down on the nation’s underworld. These men go through a training which Is com parable only to Scotland Yard's. As a result they are acutely aware of the most minute circumstances surrounding a case. Records show that these fragments of information sometimes hardly understandable, develop definite clues in the solu tion of a crime or the apprehension of criminals. The arrival of First National's film “G-Men" featuring James Cag ney, Mar firet Lindsay and Ann Dvorak has inspired a contest bas ed on tests and experiences familiar to these special agents. They Include five exciting eases which have no similarity to each other. So you can expect a differ room, which recorded ail the con versation that took place. After the meeting. X3S removed the dictaphone and listened to what he thought would be sufficient proof of their guilt. But the important conversation was spoken in the slang common to the Chicago underworld, and X3S was stumped for a moment —not sure that whit he had beard was enough to send the men to jail. He quickly took the dictaphone and record down to the police de partment, played it for the veterans there, who immediately picked one if the spc-cos out. which was suf ficient to convict th» guilty bank robbers Can you translate it? Listen, youse guys, here's how I snatched the coin. I put on my bennie and left the house and went over to Joe's hash house, because a couple of fellows there were In the know about the bank. So I picked up my dame and five muscle nift;. and hopped into my buawagon and drove over to the bank. A couple ent brain twister each day. And they're not of a technical nature. You wont have to spend any time in research. The cases presented will afford every man and woman an equal chance of winning one of the following prizes: 1st. — 4 passes. 2nd — 2 passes. 14 prizes of one pass each.. How do you like ’em? Passes to the Capit<« Theatre where “G-Men” —starring James Cagney in the role of a Federal agent, is scheduled to play next Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18. So keep that old weather eye peel ed and enter this five-day contest that's going to make this town re semble a training school for detec tives. Let's go—start today. 1st Case Introducing case number ons of the G-Men contest. Know the “slanguage'* of the un derworld? If you do. youll have an easy time solving this case. Here's Che story as we got it: (Case No. 1) After a bold bank robbery the un dercover men were told that the Kngsters responsible for this crime d to b? captured. For mai^r weeks the agents track ed down all possible clues, until they came to the conclusion that one gang was responsible for the daring theft. However, since they had no tangible evidence with which to arrest them, they assigned one of their most capable men to get the necessary evidence. We shall call him X33. X33 trailed this gang for many weeks, and finally, learning that they would meet In a rooming house In the suburbs of Chicago, he plant ed a dictaphone in the meeting of flat feet were standing around but they didn’t get their gllr #. on us. The stick-up was a cinch, and we blew out of the place with a couple of sacks of dough and the bulls on our trail. A couple of cops were there, too. and they Joined in the chase, but we ditched ’em and went to a hu/iway. We divvied the bills * :d lound too many iron men and Jitneys in the sack, so we threw 'em away. We went out to tear a herring and now I’m here to split the swag. There are four more days to go. When you solve them all you're on the road to winning one of the prizes listed above. Contest closes on Friday night, 17th, when that dynamic movie of the Depart met of Justice under cover at /.ts, “G-Men," starring Jimmie Cagney arrives at the Capi tol Theatre. Ready for Tuesday’s case? YESTERDArS STARS i By Tne *»-.<. . j . Lon Warneke, Cubs—Helped win own game against Braves by mak ing four straight hits and driving in two runs. Ray Pepper, Browns— Rapped Boston pitching for three hits. Roy Parmelee. Giants— Limited Pirates to four hits and contributed double to victory. Pepper Martin. Cardinals— Hit two doubles and single in slug-fest with Phillies, scoring twice. 1 Ham Leslie, Dodgers— Pounded Cinclr^nati pitchers for triple, dou ble and two singles, driving in five runs. Emergency conservation workers sre constructing recreational dams in Pennsylvania state forests. Four dams have already been completed, nine are under construction, and seven others are planned. Adkins Defeats Hassell For Rex Beach Golf Title Fred Adkins, long-hitting golfer sho shot, a steady game from 74 to 76 all through the tournament. Sun lay won the ‘Twentieth Anniver sary Rpx Beach cup golf tournament ay defeating A. M Hassell 5 and 4. The victory of Adkins marks the First time In the history of the cup Lhat it has been won by a low land; cap golfer. With a handicap of 3 Adkins ;ave Hassell 13 strokes In the finals. Hassell's par 4 won the first hole. :ut he lost the next two. and from hen on was never up on Adkins. However, the matcn was does luring the first nine, being level •cveral times, Adkins coming to the urn one up. On the back nine Adkins staged i spree of sub-par golf that made i route of the match. He was one MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS National League Batting—Vaughan. Pirates, .418; I. Moore. Phillies. .361. Runs—Medwick. Cardinals, 21; i'rey, Dodgers. 19. Rune batted in—Camllll. Phillies, 3; Ott, Giants. 21. Hits—Vaughan. Pirates, 36; Terry, Hants, and L. Waner, Pirates, 29. Doubles—Martin. Cardinals, 8; lerman. Pirates. 7. Triples—Collins. Cardinals, and ;avaretta. Cubs. 3. Home runs—Ott, Giants, g; J. doore. Phillies, 7. Stolen bases—Myers, Reds, 4; 11 led with 2. Pitching— Parmelee, Giants, 4-0, lubbell. Giants. Blanton, Pirates, md Wameke, Cubs. 4-1. Batting—Foxx. Athletics, .408; Ohnson. Athletics, .397. Runs—Bonura. White Sox. 22; tadcliffe. White Sox. 20. Runs batted in—Foxx and John on. Athletics. 23. Hit*—Hayes, White Sox, 33; John on. Athletics. 31. Doubles—Washington, White Sox. ’osmik and Hughes, Indians, and lemaley. Browns 7. Triples—Cronin. Red Sox. 4: Foxx. thletics. Radcllffe, White Sox. and tone. Senators. 3. Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, 8; ohnson. Athletics. 7. Stolen bases—Hale. Indians. 6; lmada. Red Sox. and White, Tigers. Pitching—Whitehead, White Sox. . -0; Hudlln, Indians, 1-0. ■ under per for the first four hole*, o? the back nine, and won all four of them, standing five up and flv* i to go as they came to th* abort1 14 th. There he closed out the match with a half, winning five and four. Hassell had a handicap of 16. The tournament this year at-1 tx acted more attention than In re- i tent years largely because of the! fact that It was the twentieth an-, Riversary of the event, and because of the large number o! entrlee. Another feature of the tourna ment was the attempt of D. K Clint, who won the cup 17 years Rgo. to repeat, but he waa stopped in the semi-finals by Adkins. * Uttmam Today Initial Showing JACK HULBERT England's Greatest Comedy Star In : “JACK AHOY” !| CARTOON — MUSICAL Admission 10c — 15c Fred McMURRAY In the Police Thriller "CAR 99” with a Big Supporting Cast • TUESDAY (Matinee) — Wednesday Ail Day James CAGNEY Pat O’BRIEN in “Devil Dogs of The Air” t BUCCANEERS LEAD LEAGUE BMumont Drops 2 Battles As Galveston Wins Single Game (By The Associated Preu) The Galveston Buccaneers Mon day held the lead in the Texas Lea gue pennant race. An 8 to A victory over Fort Worth Sunday while Beaumont was losing two games to Tulsa gave the Bucs the lead. Oklahoma City, Houston and Tulsa went into a deadlock for third place during week-end play. Backed with stiff hitting by his mates, which included circuit clouts by Prerost and English in the open ing inning, Tern Davis encountered little trouble in hurling the Bucs to their win over the Cats. Fred Johnson went the route for the Cats, although he was touched for a dozen hits. Three fielding er rors by Binder at short hurt the Cats. Tulsa's winning streak was ex tended to six games by the two vic tories—4 to 3 and 10 to 3—over Beaumont. The first game was a pitchers’ battle in which A1 Shealy outlasted Cook and McLaughlin of Beaumont. Harry Matuzak had to go te Shealy s relief in the ninth, however, after Mallet and Bates had cracked out homers with none on. The San Antonio Missions went on a spree and grabbed a twin-bill from Oklahoma City. The Missions won the opener, 7 to 3, and the nightcap, 8 to 1. each an impressive victory and on the In diana home lot. Dallas lost the club’s 36th game In 30 starts as Houston grabbed the second contest of a series, 7 to 5, in the Steer Stadium. As has been characteristic of the htpless Steers all season, they lost the game ir. the final innings. A five-run rally in the third gave the Herd a lead that was held until the final. The count stood at A to 4 at the start of the last, in which the Buffs put across 3 runs to sack the game. The Sttera were without an offi cial skipper during the game. Bryne James, who came to the Dallas club this year, resigned Sunday “for the best Interests of all concerned,” and Harry Faulkner, business manager of the Longview West Dixie club, a Dallas farm unit, was put tempor arily in charge. » James Resigns As Steer Boss DALLAS. May 13 —The Del las Steers, losers of 26 Texas league games out of 30 starts In the five week-old season, were without an official skipper Monday. Byrne James, who came to the club at the opening of this season, resigned Sunday. Club owners said they were look ing for a manager, which they In dicated would come from outside the present club. Harry Faulkner, business manager of the Longview West Dixie team, a Dallas farm club, was placed temporarily in charge of the Steers. Despite the losing tendencies of the club. President Sol Drey fuse and Business Manager Bob Tarleton said James’ action was unexpected. James said his resignation “was all my own idea in which nothing prompted me but the record the club has made.” He said he would remain hare a few days and then go back to his ranch near San Antonia He said he was going on the voluntarily re tired list the remainder of the sea son. remaining the property of the Dallas club with the view of possibly returning as a player next year. Frame straightening, front sys tem aligning. Patteson Motor Co — Adv. Parmelee’s Hurling Big Aid to New York Giants (By Tht Associated Prwi) If the New York Giants are wil ing along at the top of the Naticna] League standing at an even better clip than they hit early last sea eon, Roy (Bud) Parmelee can fur nish the exnlanation. The right-handed fireball throw er fiom Lamebertvllle, Mich, couldn’t keep pace with the rest ol U. S. And Mexico Davis Play Set MEXICO, D. F* May II. (g*) After a dean sweep of five matcher with China, America’s young Davli Cup tennis stars looked ahead Mon day to the Amerlcan-aone finals against Mexico here on Friday, Sat urday end Sunday. The same three newcomers to cup oompetlion—Bryan Grant of Atlan ta, Donald Budge and Gene M*kn oj California—who eliminated Chine will face the Mexicans. Grant and Budge wound up the aeries with China Sunday by scor ing straight set victorias in single! over Sin Kle Kho and Guy Cheng, respectively. Grant won by 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 aeons while Budge scored over Cheng at 6-4. 6-3. 6-1. After the American sane finale, Orant’s tour of duty with the American team apparently will end. Walter )L Pate, non-pi tying cap tain, said Mako and Budge would go abroad lor the Wlhbledon singles and do i bias championship end might pUy Davis Cup doubles also, fie added that presentp Ians did not call for taking Grant to Europe. Beside; Budge and Mako, the Unit ed States team which will play in the in ter-aone finals, g victory over Mexico, will Include Wil mer AllLion. Sidney Wood and John ran Ryn. th» ”bl* four'’ last year, winning onij 10 games and 1 cxlng six and hurUnj only seven complete games out o 23. This year he has made a grea start to rise to the top of the nev “big five,** which Includes younj Clydell C&stleman. Alter (ailing to finish hie fire alignment, which ended in a tli Parmelee has racked up (cur straighi victorias to move to the head of thi National League pitching corps. Ii those (our games he allowed onl: six runs and 17 hits, turning in twt three-hit games and one four-hit ter. Only a streak of wildness marm Sunday * performance in which Ro; set down the Pirates with four blow! to win 2 to 1. He tossed seven shut out Innings with only two hits, the? forced in the only Pittsburgh rur by passing pinch hitter Red Luca after hits by the two Waners and i walk had crammed the corners. Despite the victory, the Olant couldnt shake off the Brooklyn Dodges, who clung to their place i game and a hall behind by trim mlng the Rede 9 to 1 ee Van Mun go chalked up his fifth mound vic tory. Bern Leslie provided some able backing for Mungo by smacking foui straight hits which knocked in liv runs. The third place Cubs benefit ted bj some good elbowing to whip Bos tor 4 to 1 Lon Wameke limited ttu Braves to seven hits, fanning six, anc smacking four singles for a perfect day at the plate. The Cardinals completed thi triumph of the first division ovei the second by belting out a 10-1 de clslon over the Phllliee. The teamj divided 32 hits. The St. Louis Browns climbed out of the American league oellar bj defeating the Red Sox 3 to 2 whll< rain kept the other American lea gue dubs idle. One birth in every 93 bringj twins in this country. Open Candidates To Play Monday NEW YORK. May IS annual nation-wide golf parade— -OF— The the motional qualifying rounds far the national open championship— finds 051 shoemakers seeking 106 places on M courses Monday. Next Monday 114 more golfers, entered In the Chicago district, will fight It out for 14 more places in the championship proper to be played at the Oakmont club, near Pittsburgh. June 6-7-1. The Chicago district tast, like the others, was to have been held Mon-1 day but torrential rains Sunday made the Medlnah Country club courses unplayable, and a week's l-oatponement was granted by thej United States Oolf association. Although OUn Dutrrn. 1054 cham pion. and many other leading fig ures of the game are exempt from the 56-hole medal play qualifying test because they finished among the low SO and ties at Merlon a year ago. a score or more of outstanding stars take their chances with the rest Monday. Three former holders of the title.. Cyril Welker. Willie MacP&rlane and Johnny Farrell, as well ss Craig Wood. Joe Esar, Clarence Clark. Vic Ohessl, Bill Mehlhom and tha pirateurs. Rudy Knepper and Oena Horn as, seek the 13 places open In the New York district. Another ex-open king, Walter Hagen, bids for a berth In the De troit district along with A1 Watrous and Chuck Kocals, while Johnny Goodman. 1953 winner, leads the field at Omaha, his horns town. A Up on the market—buy Ford V-8 for 1955—Adr. Stomach Gas _ t ADUmWA Qrtcklr r» .... kj •at »n4 Bl««P sood. Quiok. thorough action. yet an Ural y gmUm and mt». ADLERIK A Eagle Pharmacy, Inc., neros Drug Store. and Ols 26 Mackerel Caught Twenty-six mackerel, as pom pano and ala speckled trap! wsee caught off the north Jetties al Braaot Santiago Paaa over tha week-end by Mr. and Mm. A. J. Monette and Mr. and Mm Happy Hattabaugh, Brownsville. Indication! are that mackerel era atlll spawning, member* of tha party state, and this Is believed to be the reason why they are not be lng caught In abundant*. HARDEN VICTOR EL PASO. May IS. (AV-Jack Har den of El Paeo Monday held the title of champion of the Southwestern Golf association, replacing Verna Spec) Stewart of Albuquerque. H. M. Harden wan the crown Sunday in a SI-hole battle with <f. H. Buch ans. also of El Paso, four-time run ner-up In the aaeoclatlon's tourneys. SLUGGISH CONDITION Ends Promptly, Easily Let Cs Make As Oder OLD*GOLD Tea’ll Find We Pay Men We Operate Under U. S. Gov. License No. N. a 14-SW DORFMAN’S Jewelry Store, Inc. The Valley’s Finest tfa lb /waui ivai wionjh When he said EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER BUT NOBODY DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT! // • Now principal western train* are lir-condMoond. Yon travel in perfect comfort — enjoying ideu weather — no miner how hot or cold. Horsi7 or dry It may be outside. Your perfect weather begins when yon board the train at ybur home town. * You pay not one penny more for this new air-conditioned service—although the Western Railroads have paid out millions of dollars for materials and employment of thousands of parsons to make their travel service the finest in the world at lowest cost. C—i, Cl— mmdQmUt In these sir-conditioned western trains the sir Is cool without being drafty. So dean men can wear whim linens; women can wear their daintiest summer dresses. So well sound-proofed you can’t hear outside noises, such as passing trains. Your train could pass through a dust norm without your noticing it. The chef could fry onions in the kitchen without your detecting it lo the dining car The air outside could be sultry with heat and humidity while inside the air-conditioned train you would enioy the ideal degrees of temperature and air moisture. , f Nmwi m Wsitem Tnrfiu Travel in the Wees this eeaemer -—anywhere between Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis on Amazing Low Fares • ImpnwIbU m It nans* the luxury of atr-cooditioiMdtn? dlinovmllabieat lowered farm, with * no aleeping car aor charge on Western Railroads Reed these •ample Rommd Trip FwoJRntClMidood in standard sleeping care, to points named and return. VmOM BROWNSVILLE Chicago, I1L ..... $ 59.lt Dallas, Tex. . 22.95 Denver, Colo. .... • 45.10 Lob Angeles, Calif. • SI JO Minneapolis- St. Paul. Minn. ... • 5145 New Orleans, La. . SS.OS New York, N. Y.... tt.10 North Pacific Coast • 101.05 San Francisco, Calif. • UM SL Lonla Mo.. 4745 • Eff settee Map 15. ”»w yriwH ina mi ricmc wui, irom um Crndtto boundary to Mexico City—and you will hod all principal trains air •conditioned. See places you have nos risked before. It coets an little now to traeel in comfort and safety by train. Basic fores on western lines hare been reduced so as low as 2cper mile round trip for sleeping car traeel and corresponding low rates in coaches and chair cars. Y»mr del Ur gnts fmrtbtrm WtsUtrm RsUnmdt. Sere raced on money with low coes summer ex cursion tickets on sale daily commencing May 19 with ample final return limit. Mmvm TIk-Ii life You sare rime, too, traeeling by tr tin. No delay on account of bed weather, detours or fog. You can depend upon a train schedule. You rest as you ride. You hare nothing to do but enjoy the trip. No traffic to worry about. When you feel hungry — the immaculate dining cars offer fine meals at low cost. When you feel sleepy, relax as you would in your own bed at home. Train trarel is also the safest form of trarel according to all insurance statistics. Im Nmmrmgt IsWresd Tkfcrt A#*teC No matter where you want to go—or when— the Western Railroads are ready to serve you fox both business and pleasure trarel. For more de tails on special places of interest, routes, rates, or literature, see any railroad representatire. Phone, write or call on him. He will gladly advise you. Cool American Rockies, the Picturesque South* west. Old Mexico, California, San Diego Exposi tion, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Texas Gulf Coast, Ozarks, Northwest Woods and Lakes, Dude Ranches, the National Parks, sod Resorts of ■very Character. Western Railroads have fixed the Weather! All Principal Trains -/hi - ConclilicMC fl % Fresh as the Breath .of Spring .... WESTERN RAILROADS COOL • CLEAN • DEPENDABLE • QUIET • SAFE