El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 1

1 Psiso lerald lPQ)Sf Home Edition The Newspaper That Serves Us' Readers PRICE FIVE CENTS' VOL LXIV NO 280 EL PASO TEXAS MONDAY NOVEMBER 2 1 1 949 MUVEMD CAIUlm WEEK Metric Company Gives Rebate Of (50000 Police Proposes 10 Per Cent December Discount Tie Plus Upsets Again Send Football Contestants to Bench Early DatG-For Tennessee and Baylor Victories Unexpected 0 The El Paso Electric Co wil I give Its customers a rebate of 1150000 Electric company officials I met with Mayor Duke and I aldermen today to offer the re-bate which will be pieced before the City Council Wednesday The company earned 614 per cent I this yeer A city ordinance llmlta earnings to 8 per cent The cxce earnings amount to I approximately 1W By living the I rebate in December the company lean Hue on income tax to the amount of about 112000 thus up-I ping the rebate to $50000 Thi refund will amount to per cent on December bills In figurinK the rebate December I Income la estimated ring Vice Chairman Wants To Settle Charges SADIE HAWKINS DAY Here are winners of the Sadie Hawkins Day race at Texas West- Keynolds and Betty Manning John Mahan and Patty Mitchum Bill Thompson and Betty Jean Cass the contest was sponsored by The Herald-Post Parents Saak Justice 11 District Attorney's Office Displays Little Interest in Case of Molested Child er SnwfeM- SANTA FE Nov A hearing on whether a diatriet attorney in New Mexico can grant immunity to wltneises today waa taken under advieement by the Supreme Court The hearing on a writ of habeaa corpui granted three witneiiea celled In the moral trial of cor- not want any complaint! filed and warrant! if they feel 1 did not think there wai aufficlent evidence with which to file Jackaon when aiked about the caae uid Judge Hill had called him and mid he did not think the race merited a- complaint In cases of felony ly call on us for ance Not Yet Decided w- wammta'ean'hL youths! Seven days after the parent! of a seven-year-old Yileta boy report ed the child had been molested for two Yaleta you the Diatriet Attorney Hoy Jackaon failed to file any charfea or bring about any aneata In tha case Tha parents charged they have Say They Denied Charge not been able to get a warrant U- it is necessary they usual-1 poration Commission Chairman Dan technical assist-1 Sedillo wan the first case in the November term of the high court Attorneys Harry Bigby and A I Zinn of Santa It held that there imefl- nJlT 11 New Mexico giving The earfoJwJdnM th dWrict ttornlr to My 0n that testimony by a witness will not be used against him later JLWI Whatley Lss Cruces at-1 ne I torney argued the district attorney no evidence to Cln pant such immunity Dii- trict Attorney Thomae Campbell Campbell reported that dM Sedillo'e trial two deputiM were dispatched to The witnesses Rufus Sedillo no Ysieta Saturday to investigate the station to the Corporation Com-to I mission Chairman lira Aurelia Mc-a thing Both youtha denied Tarland and A Apodaca former accuiations he aaid Dona Ana County sheriff refused -We are going to leave every- to answer some questions at the Las thing up to the diatriet attorney Cruca trial on ground they would until after tha hearing I be self incriminating he continued department will Dlslrict Judge Boy Anderson then take whatever action is neces- held them in contempt of court A MISS REEVES COUNTY Mist Wilma Langham senior at Pacos nigh ichool( is Reaves County princess to the Southwestern Sun Carnival Miss Langhanj Is a high school cheer leader She was named tha cantaloupe queen at Pecoi thii fall heard that tha boy had trespassed very often on other property" ho mid 1 did not think an arrest was warranted" He then said hearing had been set for 2 Wednesday In Justice of tha Peace Hill'a Court In Yileta Clayton Saturday Mid ha had visited tha two assailant Friday and that both vigorously denied molesting tha child When asked if Justices of the peace 'had authority to issue war- rants In cues like tha present one Clayton replied "Judge can issue aued for tha arreit of the youtha aince Nov 7 the day after their eon revealed he had been tha victim of act of sexual perversion On the evening of Nov the frightened child broke down and told hia parenta of having been moleated in tha Yileta railroad depot on Nov Child Waa Threatened 1 He told hia parenta tha two youtha had tried to arrange another meeting with him that day in tha depot He aaid ha bad threatened with bodily harm- if ha aid hia parenta about it Hia parenta noticed that he had remained Inalde the yard all day Nov 6 aa though ha were afraid The combination of a tie plus upsets served once again to send potential winners of The Herald-Post $250 football contest to the benches Even so total of 489 of the 8000 contestants picked tha lnne tie between Ohio State and Michigan Wllliamsen A Help Probable reason for the targe number of correct tie-pickeri wu Herald-Post sport forecaster Paul Williamson's reversal of hie mathematics favoring Michigan He predicted Ohio State to win in spile of the figures so that many entrants guessed rightly that the game was pretty much of an even Stephen deal The upset of Tennessee belling Kentucky threw out most of the tie-pickeri Most of the reat went out on the ups of Baylor beatlwg SMU Tennessee Pickers Named Correct pickers of Tennessee who flopped on Baylor included: Mrs Benedict of Box Ml El Paso Percy Corprew of Ml Dallas street Willey of 3700 Idalia avenue VoUbracht of 1814 North Mesa avenue Sam Jenkins of Whites City Harold McCoard of Box Ml El Paso Kelso Mendoza of 1317 East Second street Lieut Donald Payton of Ft Bliss Mrs Jordan of Ruldoso Mar tha Fuenles of 2401 Bast Ysndrll boulevard Richard Gerardo of 001 Chihuahua street George Aiesan-der of BOO West Las Cruces Metzger of Yileta Mrs Jean Moyers of 3831 Frankfort street Claudio Mirabel of Mesilla Park Charlie Gonzales of 1107M East San Antonio street Victor Robles of 1831 Rampart street Smith of 1821 Montana street Leon Mo-Lane of 182 South Glenwood drive Johnnie Ward of 214 West Rio Grande street Pete Gonzales of 3820 Tularosa street Mrs Velva Miller of Ias Cruces Sgt Walter Johnson of William Beaumont General Hospital Darrell Evans of 2021 Montana street Mario Segura of 283 Verde avenue Antnnio Lopes of 1211 East Fifth street Hector Fatuch of 801-2 Caplea Building Ginger Kirch KIrchoff of 3410 Al-tura boulevard Oliver Cromwell of 1123 North El Paso atreel Adam Simona of 2827 Louisiana avenue Sgt James Philips of Ft Bliss Sgt George Kessler of 3619 Per street Mike Alvldrez or 703 Upson avenue MSgt Desteb Destefsn of Ft Bliss Celia Monoya of 414 Tiyi street Tom Bradshaw of 3830 Montana street Mr a A Blisa Pride of 30 I Clifton street Bonds of 2013 Magoffin avenue Consuelo Castaneda of 712 South Kansas street George Kiirlta of 3328 Van Buren avenue Efrsin Montes of 818 South Ochoa street Marvin JIudgeon Jr of Box 110 Roberto Fernandez of 812 South Kamaz Floyd of 3019 Lebanon slrecl Billy King of 2511 North Blanton street Lou McLurr of Sierra Blanca and Ofelia Marquez of 1006 Olive ztreet Odd Enrfossrrs Notes and odd enclosures failed exercise their Intended magic (Continued an Page Col g) It scry to handle the writ of habeas corpui was granted and led to todays hearing Sedlllo's trial on charges of sessiag a female minor for immoral purposes and giving her liquor waa held up pending outcome of the Supreme Court decision Asks Russian Aid To Obtain Consul's Release Moot significant aspect of tha ac- lllflt tion was the appeal to Russia If 'wvvi Russia should decide to help her intervention certainly would have Cham I Arc the greatest weight with the Chi- I MIICI3 new Communists A State Department spokesman even has hinted that Ward may have been' imprisoned because of the wishes of the iCircuiate Here El Pasoan are again receiving loH had reat anonymous chain letters influence in llVUMA1 WASHINGTON Nov 21 The United States haa aiked Rueeia and 20 other nations for action" to obtain tha releaM of 8 Consul Angus Ward who -haa been Jailed by Chinees Communiata in Manchuria Secretary of State Acheson asked the 30 nations a matter of to inform the Chinese Communist government of the concern their government! feel over the Jailing of the American consul general and four of hia staff Acheson's appeal went out Friday night and waa made publie today "The treatment accorded to Mr Ward and to the American consular staff in Mukden is in direct violation of the basic concepts of international relatione which have been developed throughout the centuries" Acheson said in a message to the 30 countries By CUFF SHERRILL The Civil Service Commls Ion tonight will set the hear ing of charges against fou police officials for the earlles possible date "perhaps withli a week and almost certainly withli 10 John Jsgoe vice chairman the commission sold today that hi and other members of tha commls slon art determined to "hear th charges and get tha matter cut the way as rapidly as possible" He uid tha commission probably will set the bearing dale to colncid with tha return of Chairman Waltei Ponsford who 1a exported back in El Paso next weekend Mr Pons ford went to Virginia because illness in hia family Will Act on Motion Mr Jagoe uid tha commtasior also will act tonight on the motion that has been filed to quash th rhirges against Police Chief Woolverton Assistant Chief Bernhardt Detective Chief Stowe and Detective idler The charges alleging misconduct in connection with gambling operations in El Paso were filed by Aldermen Jules Carlin Archil A Gill and Xayaer Jr The hearing wo postponed abruptly before it started when el! principals and 107 wltnessea ap pei red at 7:30 pm Nov 1L The commission announced the postponement on the grounds that ths matters involved were before thr Grand Jury and that tha eomrnfa-alon would await the Grand report Will Overrule Motion Word came from the Grand Jury quickly that theoa metiers were not before it and that tha commission was at liberty to proceed with Ua hearing at any time It la generally conceded that tha commission will overrule tha motion to quash the charges This motion ta based upon virtually the same grounds as the earlier motino to dismiss the charges which waa overruled by ths commission There was no prediction by any member of the commission as to action on the recommendation of attorneys for the four accused police officers that a conference ba held among all Interested attorneys and tha commission in advance of a new hearing date Opposed ta "Fishing Such a conference was recommended to permit among other things the elimination of all witnesses who ara not needed for the specific charges against ths accused men The attorneys for the four officers Mid they desired to prevent any "fishing expedition" at the hearing to rinformotion based upon rumor and hearsay Fryer attorney for the three accusing aldermen has been away since last Wednesday on trip to Los Angeles Ha had not returned today and hi office Mid he probably will not be bark until Wednriday Cameron attorney for the Civil Service Commtasion has made known that ha will urge the commission tonight to set the hear-inf for the earliest poMlble date -Meet at City Hill He mid Information that the mafic before the commission are not before the Grand Jury removed all reason for delay and that tha heats ing should be pushed to an early conclusion He also recommended lhat the mntin to quash the charges be overruled which make suck action virtually certain tonight Mr Jsgue raid he dor not know what other matter will be before the commission tonight but that he thinks there ta nothing coming up besides routine subjects The com mission will meet at 7:30 pm in City Council chambers in City Hall Plan Te Override Vete The three aldermen who filed the charge against the four police ok (total prepared today to override Mayor Duke'i veto of their reaolu-linn removing Asatatant Chief Bernhardt from that position and automatically demoting him aa police captain They adopted the resolution by 2 to 1 vote Alderman Carroll Smithy Jr opposing it at laat Thursday's meeting Mayor Duke vetoed the resolution Saturday saying alt-member of City Council approved the appointment orally when It waa made in July and that written or formal approval ta not required Overriding of tha veto by the-same 2 to 1 vote admittedly will routine action at Thursday's Coun-ell aesaion Mayor Duke ta giving no conaidw oration to a poMlble successor Mr Bernhardt aa assistant chief of police end will not until position ta vacant A court battle-ta a probability before that he considers- Manchuria The 30 countries to which Acheson appealed have diplomatic of I cak about consular representatives in China -Th He reviewed the Ward situation dating from refusal of the Chinese Communists a year ago to permit Ward and his staff to leave Mukden Ward and his staff were Jailed Oct 24 on charges of beating a Chinese- ment SSS diIe Postmaster Burleson uid today that he receives numerous them Post Office Department tries to suppress these letters" uid As far aa I know no one his been prosecuted by wishing others good luck of the letters going around now hive no monetary iw Thy child told tha following story about hia encounter with tha two youtha on Nov 3: Tha youtha had gotten him go down to tha Yileta depot One of them boosted him over a wall into tha room and climbed in after him Tha youth stripped tha child and then himself Ha then moleated tha child Dsya of Effort Tha chUd'a parents then epent 11 days trying to get a warrant issued by three Justices of the peace in tha upper and Lower Valley a They first visited Justice of the Peace Hill at Yaleta on Nov Thera they filled out two forms one for each of the alleged assail ante they laid Judge Hill left tha office and returned two hours later aylng ha would have to refer the case to the district attorney they said Judge Hill said ha believed the ease was one for the district attorney so he spoke to Assistant District Attorney William Jennings about it on Nov He arranged a meeting between Jennings and tha parents that day Nohlng Happened After receiving a statement from child Jennings Informed the hiranta that ha would let Judge Hill Enow in two days what action the District Office would takn tha parents said Nothing happened so they called the District Attorney again Both Jennings and William Clayton a Mutant district attorneys were absent because of illness They called Sheriff's Deputy Mike Sullivan who also informed them that it waa a case lor tha District Attorney's Office They met Sheriff Campbell last Thursday and were told to Judge Wilson at Ascarate Wilson called tha district attorney and was up- YSLETA SUN Miss Mary Louisa Jack daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack of North Loop road is Yslela Sun Princess to the Southwestern Sun Carnival She will return to Gove City College in January On letter received by an El Paso womsn last week was headed Western Airline Treasure" It reads: luck of the cards hsv been sent to you It has gone around the -world four times The one who breaks th chain will have bad luck Pleau copy and see what happens four days after receiving It "Send this copy and four others to whom you wish good luck Do not send money and do not keep In four yean our prestige with this copy It must leave 24 houra the Asiatic people has gone from ft(r moving Solon Hits Handling Of Jailed Consul's Case Police Disperse Accident Scene Crowd With Tear Gas Stronger Defense Possible in China Police Saturday night used tear of 4119 Madra street head injuries ga to clear a milling crowM of 600' Dvii Florea end Ignacio Flores are to receive good luck four day ft-r receiving it It's no Joke You will receive it by mall Good President's Special Couisel Will Resign were driver of cars which collided Ignacio Flores' car bounced 78 feet after the impact hitting a street in which five persons were parked car injured Police Harris arid the injured had been taken away bulancea before the bomb wee dropped -t people would commends to On the surface there appears to be a final break between the acting president ef china and Generalise! inn Chlank Kal-Khek and yet tha apparent rift ronld lead to a new understanding whlrh wunlri bring atronger Nationalist resistance ta tha Cam-munlsta This ta the opinion of Clydo Farnsworth Hcrlppa-llaw-rd staff writer expressed In on article from Hong Kong whrlh appear on Pago ll of Uerald-Posl fk told there was insufficient evidence Vfor Issuing a warrant tha parents the accident ft Prmmm WASHINGTON Nov 21-White House sources uid today that Clark I move Clifford special counsel to Pres- scene ident Truman sine 1048 will resign t'rswd Clean Away early next year He laid that the not obey away from By OLAND BUSSELL lMlSM-Htrra sun Writer WASHINGTON Nov State Department policy on Communist China and its handling of the Angus Ward case put Uncle Sam not only in tha posittqp of being fooled but ignomlniously bluffed uvs Representative Walter Judd Minnesota Republican "Tha American flag is being trampled upon in Mukden where our official diplomatic representative la held a prisoner by the Com munlsta and the American people are being with impunity" said Representative Judd The Minnesota congressman member of the House Foreign Affaire Committee ii a foremost authority on the Far But and an outspoken advocate of baffling Communism in Asia by aiding Nationalist China Prestige Drape too bad that the competent and inoffensive Angus Ward personally now haa to pay for the grave and Inexcusable mistakes of our State uid Representative Judd 'Ever sines the war coddled the Communist! along in China and now they're rubbing our noses in It We've helped them an all-time high to gn all-time low -culminating now In the flagrant humiliating case of Angus Ward That is a most disheartening fact and you can thank the State Department for it Particulatly those in the department who appear to control our Far Eastern Representative Judd believe a strong action should be and but he did not agree with the suggestion of the American Legion that troopi should be unt against the Chinese Communist! if they did not heed an ultimatum to free Mr Ward He be-Uevcs armed force used at this time would play directly into the hands of the Communist strategy Favors Blockade But the Minnesotan would favor a naval blockade such as has been urged by former Ambassador William Bullitt 'Mr he said ie a competent authority and hie about the best record of anyone in being right on the Communists agree with him that a Navy blockade of North China and Manchurian ports might be the most Immediately effective muni showing the Communiata that mean business They understand of Inside Your Herald-Post A Texas Norther brought cold wind to El Paso today Low tern' Denture tonight will he 36 compared to 43 last night Valley temperature will fall to 38 four below freeaing Temperatures in ths Panhandle were expected to hit a low or 24 degrees tonight The Weather Bureau said one cold front moved Into th Finite ndla Saturday night Another front wai pushing Into Ttxss today 'eaid Caaa for Diatriet Attorney The parenta demanded that tha two youths be arrested Wilson If the incident had happened at 2 a would ha have to waka up tha district attorney be fore he could act?" tha fother said Tha parents went to the County Office Friday and wars told it was a case for tha district attorney They then phoned Clayton Clayton told them that in hia opinisn tha best thing for them to do wai to move out of the fighborhood ayton said advlaa you to have put the fear of God In the two boys and will keep them under they -neighbor IJClaytoi Wove 1 Forecast: (Details "We told them we had a bomb in tha car end were going to drop it unless they all got away from he aaid "They were all out in the middle of tha street They cleared away from there in a minute after we dropped the tear gee bomb in tha No violence wai reported Five policemen one special offi eer and a City Lines bus driver were at the scene of the accident but were unable to disperse the crowd Barrie uid Five Were Hurt 8 Weather Fair and colder on Page 18) Clifford will resume private law practice which he left in 1044 to enter the Navy Neither Clifford nr the White House would discuss the resignation on an official Press Secretary Charles Ross aid "any announcement regarding Mr Cliffords plans must await the pleasure of the President" White House sources were careful to point out that Clifford la leaving for financial reasons and not be-eouM of any disagreement between him tfd the President Mr Truman has understood for sometime that Clifford eventually would leav Jimmy Wants Dog Back Jimmy Saslman 2 of 2415 flaw-ley way wants hie collie dog back All five injured in the accident Th? VT WmuHt language of torce-the gesture Fags Ann Carroll 11 Com In 27 Crossword Puxxle 27 lr It I Conner II Editorials 11 Eleanor Roosevelt It Foreign Heeno 1 Markets 20 Othmon 19 Pegler 16 Radio Programs 12 Raork 17 Side-Bar Remarks 18 Sparta 32-21 Stokes 16 News 13-13 land beautiful disappeared from home yesterday Any person who saw the dog is asked to telephone Jimmy's father Captain Saslman at 8-0805 power and now they have us over the barrelhead The mild protests of our State Department are doing no good of strong retaliation "At least we could start with a blockade and see what happens We wouldn't necessarily be tying our The weary couple met Sheriff Campbell again and were referred to Justice of tha Peace Daugherty at Smeltertown Daugherty called tha district attorney and raved tha same reply that there i Insufficient evidence udge Daugherty on Saturday "When 1 found out that two were reported serious condition at El Paso General Hospital David riores 19 oft 2816 Wyoming street received heed Injuries and a possible jaw fracture Juan Navarette 30 of 611 Stewart place head Injuries Arturo Gonzalez 33 of 3020 Manzana street fractured right shoulder Estelle Navarette IX of 612 Stewart place fractured shoulder and Ignacio Fiona 2X POLIO VICTIM DIES AlwliM Wrest TUCUMCARI Nov 21 county's second polio fatality of the year wee recorded today James Willard Frazier 4 ion' of Mr and Mn Frazier of McAlister died Saturday in Memorial Hoepital at Lubbock whole situation ta having! hands Without committing troops devastating effect on our stand-) we could in a short time cripple the only with ths Chinese butj seonomy of the punpet government thrw had already passed) with tha rest of the people of Asia in Manchuria And certainly it to handle who ere quick to sense a yielding be showing the Communists that Dulrict Attorney Jackson did 'or retreat (Contlnard so Page Cel 1) ILLEGAL ENTRY CHARGED Seven persona were arraigned before Commissioner llenry Clifton on chirgei of entering Uiii country illegally I op.