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rofto Wednesday Oct 50 1940 With All Their Might PASO HERALD-POST TOURIXG WITH PYLE Hearts-A-Bustin'-With-Love In Hills Are Wahoo On Flat Peddler Of Gratuitous Cheer Takes Trip To Great Smokies From California Mystery Cloaks How Architect Will Spend Fee County Judge McGill and Commissioner Hawkins had different ideas about what Percy McGhee architect would do with the $6150 the Commissioners Court voted to pay him for supervising the painting of the red brick buildings and fence at the City-County Hospital Mr McGhee asked 5 per cent of the $1230 bid of McGurt Mr McGurt was awardede the painting contract And Mr McGhee got the supervision fee just about enough for McGhee to pay his golf said Judge McGill who plays golf with Mr McGhee he's going to pay his milk bill with said Mr Hawkins who sells milk don't owe any milk said Mr McGhee then you can have him said Mr Hawkins rBny 1 5 Confesses Killing Aged Pair To Inherit Money Faces Life Term In Prison For Slaying Of Grandparents By United Press FAYETTEVILLE Ark Oct A 15-year-old boy today faced life imprisonment for killing his grand-father and his grandmother Gerald Stewart confessed that he rode his bicycle to the farm home of Mr and Mrs Sam Stewart shot them to death put the body in the garden and the in a well and then joined neighbors in a search for the couple He acted he said because he wished to inherit the grandparents' property Admiral And Ex-G-Man To Speak In El Paso a Admiral Yarnell of the Navy who recently returned from commanding the Navy in Far East waters will speak in El Paso on Feb 13 under sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce Leon Turron Fifth Column expert and formerly with the Federal Bureau of Investigation will speak on March 6 Both lectures will be in Liberty Hall Plane Attacks Give People Greater Will To Battle El Paso Woman Gets Letter From Uncle In War-Torn Land remember we are determined to fight clean and straight but with all our might There will be no scuttling of ships We have given that pledge to you and intend to keep it and with the help of the Almighty Architect of the Universe our own faith in all that is good and true we shall triumph in the The foregoing is a paragraph from a letter in the possession of Hal Webb El Paso insurance man from Mrs Webb's uncle George Watson of Leeds England It was addressed to Mr and Mrs Harry Hoffman of Denver Parents of Mrs Webb The letter gives an intimate picture of conditions in war-time England About half way through the letter the writer was interrupted by an air raid warning Are They Downhearted? No Excerpts from Mr Watson's letter: we downhearted? No twice no need not worry as far as food is concerned for we have plenty and do not go short at all We are allowed eight ounces of sugar each per week four ounces of butter or margarine four ounces of bacon or ham two ounces of tea 110 worth of meat either beef or mutton All other foods canned or otherwise are free from rations We are assured that there is more food in the country at present than we have ever had during its history and there is no likelihood whatever of there being a shortage of essential foods the air raid sirens sound we go down when at home into our basement where we have water a pick shovels etc in case anything happens We have five deck chairs there and each one takes a cushion or rug as we go down to make ourselves comfortable and there we are supposed to stop until the all clear sounds I do assure you that these raids instead of intimidating us only make us more and more determined to fight to the very end whatever the cost Shelters in Garden will no doubt have heard about the Anderson steel shelters which were supplied to thousands of people free and which are sunk into the ground Nuriel has one of these at the bottom of her garden Her son thinks it great fun when he is carried there during the night and hopes they will come again and Regarding the offer of Mr and Mrs Webb to take care of the child Mr Watson wrote that they were loath to allow him to take a long journey in view of the fact that the Germans already have torpedoed one vessel carrying children regard to Mr Watson's letter continues I am allowed 10 gallons every month and 19 gallons a month for my bus-1 fness which with great care and sending a lot of goods by hand I can just nicely manage but have none left for private use The air raid sirens are now shrieking so 1 must take shelter and continue this letter tomorrow Planes From America Mr Watson reported that the Jerries did not drop bombs in Leeds are particularly proud of our air force who are doing such splendid work They are well worthy of the splendid machines which we and I am glad to say Uncle Sam' are providing for them the combi-! nation of which is striking terror into the hearts of the Hitlerites had an air raid last Saturday night when our cinema the Pavilion was struck by an incendiary bomb (Mr Watson owns a chain of movie houses) Continuing: must now conclude this very rambling letter again as-you that we are all quite suring A drink has to be good to be enjoyed millions of times a day by people in every walk of life the world over The experience of four generations has pronounced ice-cold Coca-Cola to be and You welcome its tingling good taste and its after-sense of complete refreshment HAT REFRESHES Demand Genuine Texo Stucco AdV HERE'S A TIP Enjoy Fall travel to the fullest in the smooth-riding romfort of a Greyhound Super-Coach free from driving cares Frequent service everywhere Fares are now the low est ever BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA CO BY MAGNOLIA COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Yandell Blvd at Birch El Paso Texas Coca-Cola Building Use Herald-Post Want Ads Elks Give Dance The Elks Club will hold a Halloween masquerade and dance at the Elks Lodges in East San Antonio street beginning at 9:30 tomorrow The Halloween party is open to Elks and their friends The mas' querade is optional Walter Coffey is in charge as chairman of the entertainment committee Declare Poppy Days Nov 9 10 and 11 dared Poppy Days Mayor Anderson American Legion members will be in charge of sales which will raise funds for welfare relief for ex-service men and their families have been de-El Paso by Child's Colds To Relieve Misery Rub on Time-Proved Vicks VapoRub Lucky Woman Finds Relief fromTorture of Neuritis Pain Thousands who suffered from the torturing pnins of rheumit 15m acuities lumbago rwu-ratgia and nre certainly happy over their discovery of KUK1TO Now they have found a quick-acting formula ahtch speedily relieves thoe exhausting muscular aches and pains NI R1TO is trustworthy and dependable contains no opiates If you want to feel again the joy of relief from pain so you can work in Krare ami alrep in lie wive and try lKITO imrif 'kit ironclad guarantee Jf the very hrt three dow-s clo not relieve that crurl pam to your satislaclion your money will he retunderi I ton sutler Ask your druggist today for NLKITO on this guarantee Adv JUST These suites were ordered them to you at big savings how much you ran save by FEW BEAUTIFUL AND WILL BE SOLD AT BIG SAVINGS THE LAST ARRIVED By ERNIE PYLE Seripps-Hsward Kevins Beparter GATLINBURG In a desperate effort I presume to make up for his outrageous misjudg-ment of my walking prowess Assistant Chief Ranger Harold Edward devoted his weekly day of rest to showing me some of the interior of the Great Smoky Mount ains National Park We drove over to Cove in the far western end of the park several thousand farm land set right Cove acres of flat down in the middle of the Smoky Mountain chain Its floor is at 1800 feet elevation and mountains ring it on every side In the old days the people of Cade's Cove lived in a Shangri La almost as isolated as a Tibetan monastery They sent almost nothing to market They made their own clothes ground their own meal butchered their own meat Only one road ran into Cade's Cove and it was a pretty bad road until the park and the CCC got hold of it Even today it winds and twists down over the pass to the tune of 200 hairpin turns It isn't a scary road at all just a crooked one Some families left the Cove when the Government took over but 19 families remain They have cars and trucks and tractors and a school and a store and even a post office with an carrier They are still pretty much their own world IT SEEMS TO DEPEND WHERE YOU COME FROM PERSONALLY I was not so nuts about Cade's Cove because to me it was just another batch of flat farm land and Indiana is full of flat farm land But Mr Edwards comes from the Montana mountains and he is nuts about flat land You know those little two-prong-ed stickers that come off onto your clothes by the hundred when you walk through the weeds in the fall In Indiana we always called them Spanish needles Here in the mountains they call them Around 10 years ago there was a husky man who stood on a corner every morning in Washington waving a stick and shouting a happy "Good to every- WHAT TH00SA1DS Dm TI1IUIK DIE ID HELP BELIEVE DEI DELI PIMPLES EXTERNALLY CAUSED Culicura Ointment help heal and clear spun-' sightly facial blemishes due to external causes Cuticura Soap lathers away surface impurities helps keep the skin soft snd smooth Use this mildly medicated Cuticura Soap and regularly Buy BOTH at your druggist's For FREE sample write Cuticura Dept 32 Malden Mass CUTICURA SOAfcrOINTMENT Sta te State aa a aaaaaaaaaaaaaai State State State aaaaaa aaaaaaaat or Briny or Mail to The remittance Order Early! body who passed on the way to work He looked like a combination of God and Hercules As I remember him his hair was long and he looked healthy and ruddy People who saw him every day got so they spoke back to him but strangers who came within the realm of his wildly waving stick thought they were being attacked The gentleman's sole motive we later learned was simply to add a little to the happiness by being cheerful and saying good morning GRATUITOUS GOOD WILL PEDDLER VISITS SMOKIES peddled his gratuitous good will in Washington for many years And then a year or so after we started this roving job we were walking down the main street of Carmel Cal one day and we saw a familiar head and a familiar waving stick and heard a familiar Yes it was our old friend And all this summer to bring the gentleman up to date he has been in the Great Smoky Mountains A good part of the time he has lived alone in cabins or on the ground out in the mountains He now has a dog that follows him constantly He walks terrific distances and occasionally some of the local people go with him The mountain people like him His name is Emiel Larsen They say he has a small pension Just a few days ago he set out for the West Coast again hitchhiking It was getting too cold for him in the high Smokies OUGHT TO STOP YOU ISS LAURA THORNBURGH lives in Gatlinburg and loves the Smokies so much she's written a book about them One evening she! sent us over a beautiful bouquet of Hearts-a-Bustin'-with-Love I'll bet that one stops you It is a local shrub or hedge or flower or tree I don't know what you call it Anyway it looks like Christmas holly at first glance But when you get up close you see it has been a round pod and then it has broken open and out have come four red berries just like lights on a chandelier It is lovely The real name of it is Wahoo but around here it is always called On the day that America registered for conscription the Park Service set up its counter and registered all travelers and wayfarers and residents of the Park One Ranger had to hike five miles back into the mountain wilderness to register a boy who had been crippled since childhood with infantile paralysis There is no road back there only a foot trail I have a sneaking feeling that if this young man had never been registered at all nobody would have gone to the penitentiary over it Refuses Rehearing In Chain Tax Case By United Press AUSTIN Oct The Slate Supreme Court today refused to re hear the case in which it recently sustained a state claim for chain store tax against a group of filling stations in West Texas operated by Standard Oil Co of Texas or under agreements with it The court was asked to say if I companies can advertise their products as sold at stations without 'making the stations part of a chain Tt was asked also to rule if having stations painted uniformly so pa-jtrons may know what class of products is sold makes them a chain A plea was made that the court "mark a boundary between permissible and forbidden activities of non-chain operation Filling stations that handle petroleum products only are exempt from chain store tax but it has been held that if they handle accessories they are subject to the chain tax TEXAS SAVINGS RISE By United Press AUSTIN Oct Texans are putting money in the old sock for ja rainy day a report of the Bureau I of Business Research of the Uni-jversity of Texas indicated today During September investment in i savings bonds gained 194 per cent 'over September 1939 with a total jin 33 reporting cities of $685653 Pour GLENMOHE YOU GETMP11E Glenmore BOTTLED IN BOND KENTUCKY Straight Bourbon More for your money Glenmore is the smoothest flavored BohdoutbfKen tuclcy GLENMORE DISTILLERIES CO (scsrpsrsftrf LOUISVILLE OWENSBORO KENTUCKY DAYS OF OUR 25th ANNIVERSARY SALE! SOLID CARLOAD For Results PIECES! Values: 49 El Paso Herald Post Southwestern Progress and- Resource Edition Will Be Published Monday Nov 1 1th This special edition will present in news and pictures the wonderful attractions of this great Southwestern country Its cities resources Industries points of interest as well as its history and future opportunities will be portrayed in detail Send it to your friends relatives and business connections and let them see for themselves what the Southwest really is! Price 15c Per Copy Postpaid Anywhere Use This Order Form Print Plainly STYLISH SUITES! TWO TO FIVE for our Anniversary Sale but they failed to arrive until today so we are offering TVe have listed only a few: shop our store and see these many suites and learn buying now well that we have plenty of good wholesome food that if we happen to be short of one kind there are I plenty of others to supply its place I that we are not downhearted and that we are determined that Hitler will rue the day when he pulled the Lion's tail "Good old Uncle Sam We have just heard about the destroyers Blood is thicker than Honor New Officers Of Trinity Methodist Church Officers of the Trinity Methodist Church will be guests of honor at a dinner at the church today at 6:30 Rev John Crow will preside The officers: Stacy chairman: Dr Stewart vice chairman Jack Miller treasurer Dale Resler secretary A Toe finance chairman Stone associate finance chariman Burns Down House In Election Row By United Press OAKLAND Cal Oct 30 James Clark a laborer is supporting President Roosevelt His father-in-law Remo Maffez is for Wendell Will-kie They got into an argument over their candidates and Clark confessed Maffez made hi i so mad that he set fire to his fathcr-in- two-story flat Clark was treated in a hospital for serious I burns Records LAS CRI CKS MARRIAGE LICENSE Manuel Medina and Elvira Porran Cham-berino Bundy Jr and Lodenta Wilson Paso Manuel Ramos and Hlginla Lopes Chambering Harold Whilener and Thelma De Ar-mand PH Pirn Harold A Payne and Sallie Price Payne El Paso Valentin Talamanlea and Elvira No-varez Laa Cruces Ik Here Are A Few Examples 5 Pc LIVING ROOM SUITE Of These Wonderful 2 Pc MODERN To i Street City i To Street i City TO a a aa ai aa Street City To Street City To Street City Give to your Carrier Boy Circulation Dept with your GROUP 5 This modern group is upholstered in high grade velour and comes in your choice of brown green turquoise or Burgundy This is a real value at only ODD CHAIRS Now is your opportunity to purchase occasional and lounge chairs at savings that you cannot afford to See these chairs in our window today 89 50 Beautiful modern design upholstered in genuine mohair carved wood frame This suite is composed of large davenport club chair matching ottoman and two matching sofa pillows see this suite and you will say it is a bargain at only SHERATON SOFAS These beautiful sofas are upholstered in striped burgundy till mahogany frame -These sofas will dress lip any living room and are specially priced at 69 50.