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4 Wednesday, September II, 1929. EL PASO HERALD EL PASO HERALD HEBALO-TIMES COUPOHATION. nee Roderick, Publisher. Dedicated to the Service of the People That No Cood Cause Shall Lack a Champion and That Evil Shall Not Thrive Unopposed. fifSi AT ED PBKSS -AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCU1.ATION AN L) NORTB AMERICAN NKWSPAPKB AIJJ- ANCE.

AN INOfc2PKNDENT DAILY NKWSPAPKK The E) Paso Herald was established 1881. The El Herald Includes aisn t)j absorption and succession, Dailj The leie- The The Tribune, The Graphic. The Bun. The Advertiser, The Independent The JoamaJ The Republican Tbt Bulletin. ADVERTISING REPRESEN TATI Natiouaj JohD Budd Onmpanv, New York.

Chicago, St. Atlanta, gap Angeles, Portland. THE ASSOCIATED PBESS la exclusively eutitied to the use (or publication of all newt dis patches credited to 11 if not otherwise eredittn in this paper and the local published here in. foRTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBIJt ATION. No.

Bantered at the postoffice in El Paso, Texas, as class matter AN ASSASSINATION Seldom sincc the days of Indian warfare has the border experienced a killing so wantonly cruel as that of Miles J. Scanneli, assistant chief of the border patrol Marfa, who was brutally murdered on the Hio Grande front 15 miles below Presidio Monday. Apparently he had stopped a 1 dy of aliens attempting illegal entry when he was attacked by them. He made the best defense possible, but was knocked down, probably with a club. His skull was crushed and his ncck broken.

Then, possibly with his own gun he was shot five times. Someone followed with a knife, stabbing him 15 times. To finish it off, his throat was cut. These last were demonstrations of savage anger and blood lust. The slayers abandoned their cotton pick- sacks and parcels of food and fled.

Presumably they returned to the Mexican side of the river. It is announced by I'. S. immigration service officials that every resource of the service is being employed in the hope of catching the murderers. If they are on the south side of the river they will not be caught without the active and sincere cooperation of the garrison commander in Ojinaga and the Fiscales of the Mexican patrol.

It is to be hoped that such assistance will be given promptly. It is to the interest nf the Mexicans that the crime be not allowed to go unpunished. Back of the atrocious murder of Mr. Scanneli lies an explanation that may account for its savagery. The Big Bend is, much of it, wild country and some of the natives arc as wild as the rugged mountains and canyons themselves.

From Polvo to Tcrlingua is a long extent of river front where, for years, every man was a law unto himself. Of late, border natrols of the immigration and customs services, supplementing the more or less effective uf county peace of- 1 icers and the state rangers, have somewhat changed this condition. Border running has long been practiced along the river front of the Big Bend. Gun running during the revolutions, liquor smuggling, and cotton smuggling have been carried on from time to time. Crossing of Mexicans without immigration papers has been constant.

A little more than a year ago, the immigration service, pursuant to orders for inauguration of a more orous policy of inspection, began intensive work all along the border. Aliens were checked upon in towns, at railroad stations, on highways and even in fhe fields. When unable to show evidences of compliance with the law in the form of proper immigration papers, they were deported. Much of that work has been carried on in the El Paso and Mesilla valleys. In the Big Bend it caused much upset.

The proportion of illegal entrants to the total number of workmen was large. Here and there, everywhere along the Big Bend border, and back in the interior, in the mines, in fields, Mexicans were caught and sent back to Mexico. At about this time a year ago the Shafter mine of the American Metals of Texas, the largest and oldest silver mine in this state, reported itself short 100 miners on account of the deportation of about that number of its workmen. Among the iguorant and half-wild laborers of the Concho region tributary to the Big Bend but on the Mexican side of the line, there has been much resentment at being tliU' expelled from American territory when once they had entered and found employment. With no respect Center Shots By ROBERT QUILLEN.

ANNING the hide promotes health, and in the old days it also served to develop moral fiber. The radio Is like onions. It make anybody suffer if all addicts would indulge at the same time. no other game just like ping pong except that of sending a poor patient from specialist to specialist. It's all right to pick up a stranger on the highway if, like the Good Samaritan, you pick one too far gone to knock you in the head.

On the darkest dov one can find some consolation in the thought that spinach isn't compulsory. That sociologist who enumerates the effects or results of the short skirt should include the rumble seat. Inmates of Sing Sing now have fewer movie shows, but we aren't fold whether the change is punishment or prison reform. Too often a man thinks good to his old means taking her side against his wife. Maybe the fruit and vegetable men are merging because that is the only wav to decide who should handle the cantaloupe.

Correct this sentence: said the gossip, she will take a few drinks; but she (Copyright, 1928, Publishers Around Here forcement of the law without fear, favor or discrimination, and gradually to drive into the minds of Mexicans desiring to enter this country that they will save themselves time, trouble and inconvenience by being immigrated in the proper manner. BIBLE AND HONESTY Every little while some scientist dives into a mystery and comes up with an astonishing catch. The latest is a report made at the ninth Congress of Psychology in session at Yale university that children who know their Bible are less honest than those who do not. The tests upon which the report was based were made by Prof. P.

R. Hightower, of Butler University, Indianapolis. He examined 3,316 children, pupils in public and delinquency schools. Professor Hightower, in conducting his test, set 110 as the maximum rating for knowledge of the Bible. He found a boy, a pupil in a delinquency school who rated 2 for he Bible.

The rating for refusal to lie or cheat was perfect. In the same institution, he reported, a girl rated 110 for biblical knowledge, but her conduct did not harmonize with her knowledge. The trouble with an isolated test is that almost anything can be proven. The argument is not logical. There are men who know the Bible well, yet belong in state prison, and men who do not know it who are of high character, but this docs not prove that Biblical knowledge is responsible in either case.

As a matter of fact it would be better for all, young and old, if they knew the Bible better. Aside from its religious significance it is the finest literature in the English language. There are many influences in modern life which tempt toward dishonesty. But the Indianapolis pro fesso.c is the first to class Bible study among them. He is too apprehensive.

Knowledge of the Bible never ruined anv one. CJ Our county commissioners who held that wild life has disappeared from El Paso county evidently did not see El Paso and San Antonio streets last Saturday night about 12:30 oclock. FLAPPER PRINCIPAL In Knoxville, parents are trying to bring about the removal from principalship of a school a young woman to whom they object. They see in her a product of young, reckless, thoughtless, care flapper age, thinking of everything but the serious side of In reply to the accusations by members of the the principal retorted that the mention of the was a general indictment of the younger which is incorrect. They are not all like fortunately There are two sides to the matter.

The must be in- for law in the first and no telligent and more or less educated, understanding of the reasons for i else she would not be chosen for a mere rigid enforcement ot our im I position. So far as men- migration regulations, they corne to look upon our officials as persecutors and enemies. Begard for human life is not among their virtues. Consequently we may suppose that when a group of them had crossed the river into United States territory without detection and fancied them- tal equipment is concerned, she probably is qualified for her position. But if the association members of her school have formed an unfavorable opinion of her dress, manners and general deportment, and think she is not the type to set before their children as selves well on the wav to jobs, example, their wishes are entitled tiful food and spending money, and then were suddenly stopped not far from Polvo by a lone officer, all the hatred that had been brewing in their barbarous minds against the federales-gringos was given a sud- to considerati The scl ool board would be justified in transferring her to another school, and might feel inclined at the same time to suggest that a teacher should conform, as nearly as possible, to the den and venomous outlet.

Poor i best ideals of womanhood, outward- Scanncll just happened to be there ly as well as inwardly, not to a to become the victim of it. At any cheap fad of the moment, rate he died like a gentleman and border patrolman. He went down CJ With two divorce actions coming fighting. up, there do not seem to be many There is no moral to any of this, peaceful Sundays in the Sunday except to go right along in the en- family. PICTURE PROVES GOOD FISHING IN THE RIO GRANDE FORMER EL PASOAN TELLS OF BARELY MISSING RICHES By H.

S. HUNTER Out of the Past Bits Of El Paso History it with is a good way to tell a fish story, the way we figure it. Hence the picture to the right, showing beautiful catch of channel catfish. They were taken from the so-called silvery Rio Grande near Indian Hot Springs which is approximately south of Sierra Blanca. The channel cat is a sporty fish, built like a prizefighter.

No wonder the Izaak Waltons in the picture are looking proud. It is a good catch. This was their wav of celebrating Day. The figures showing the weight of each fish did not come out in this picture as well as might have been wished. They should read as follows, left to right: 5, 8, 33, 10, 45, 40, 41, 7, 6 and 5.

The dope sent in with this picture said 214 pounds, but 200 is all we can add up from the figures. Either a fish or two not showing or else somebody exaggerated a trifle. Or maybe we add. WIRE FENCE CIVILIZING The civilizing influence of barbed wire fence is the subject of an article in the current issue of The Texas Monthly. It tells how wire fences discouraged on the range, how it tended to fix stockmen in settled places instead of allowing them to roam more or less as in the days of the open range, and how it aided range conservation A NICE CATCH OF CATFISH EFT to right, James Walker, Gordon Green and J.

O. Walker, the Points Fishing and. above, their Labor day catch of 214 pounds of channel catfish from the Rio Grande near Indian Hot Springs. known pioneer ranchman of the Panhandle, and is as follows: Sfa after the Christian colony had been established in 1879 I happened along near this colony. I heard they were in the country, but I had never visited them.

I decided to ride them by and look them over. I got in sight of the colony I saw they were all excited over something. I rode (Continued on Page 13, Col. 6.) and the development of stock- farming. if.

if. if. A barbed wire story which, however, has nothing to do with its civilizing influence, is borrowed from H. T. History of the J.

A. written for his master of arts thesis at the University of Texas. The story is related by Col. Charles Goodnight, that well BIG TOWN STUFF By O. O.

McINTYRE. Many Cases Of Stark Tragedy Slink Along Broadway VTEW YOBK, Sept. 11 tropolis has many -The me- human symbols of stark tragedy who only appear in public veiled, walk deserted side streets after nightfall or remain in total seclusion. They have been graphically described as The Army of Living Dead. Many were once prominent.

There is a financier, drenched in the backwash of a scandal in red headlines a dozen years ago, who is never seen on the streets in daylight. But in hours shortly before dawn is frequently seen by nightwatchmen slowly walking past the building where he was once enthroned. A late comer to the theater now and then is a veiled lady of commanding figure who patronizes only playhouses with curtained boxes. She purchases the entire box for herself and nurse. Her face is ghastly with splotches of purplish green lumps, the result of a bungled beauty operation.

There is also a lady of culture and rare beauty who often goes to symphonies and other musical events in a closed cab. She has a nervous and disfiguring twitching of her face. Many years ago she was looking out the window of her home for her brother and saw him assassinated. Another feminine figure often seen in Central Park after dusk has prematurely white hair, a vouLliful face and dresses severely in plain black. She seems eternally lost in reverie.

On the nighc of her wedding she was accompanying her husband to a pier to sail to Europe. Near 14th street he excused himself on the plea of going to a drug to attend a neglected telephone call. She never saw him alive again. He went into an and slit his throat It developed officers awaited him at the dock to arrest him for a gigantic theft. In many of the Bowery upstairs lodging houses and in some of the Mills hotels are patrons who never go out until New York is in the throes of dead sleep.

Some are erstwhile figures cf affluence dodging old acquaintances and others are those just released from prison. For those retaining their pride in adversity New York is a dismal spot in which to loaf. The active bustle of the city is a constant reproach. Even the well dressed resting on park benches of conscious of suspicious glances of passersbv. The chronic jobless have learned to stimulate a spurious importance.

V- On the other hand, there are few cities where one may live so long successfully without work. Perpetual drifters know this. There arc records of moochers going for ten years, fairly well clothed and fed without doing a stroke of labor. Innumerable sons of rich men have valets w-ho do all their telephoning, clothes selecting, errands and in many instances much of the thinking, if any. The most expert valets are said to be Koreans trained under the rigid discipline of army officers in the Philippines.

They are paid from S150 to $200 a month with hoard and, of course, the castoff garments. The best of the recent valet stories concerns the young blade whose dad grew rich all of a sudden. He acquired a valet who was a whiz. The youth did absolutely nothing for years. The other day while the valet was absent, a door in his apartment blew open.

The youth up and closed it exclaiming: like old v- Valets prefer to be known by last names. And one who knows tells me there is nothing valets resent like easy familiarity. Not because of the familiarity itself but because they know it breeds the inevitable contempt that will soon cause them to be hunting a job. My awe of valets is profound. Their superiority and ishness are too much for a simpleton who used to sit in the lap of Jake, the hired man, for the Saturday drive to town.

1 can think of nothing requiring such courage as to snap fingers at one and cry sharply: my hat and if. if. Nor do I is done anywhere of the society drama and Mayfair novels. Just a mulish old skeptic. (Copyright, 1929, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) SCHOOL DAYSBy Dwlg ES RUFF ViOie- OR PCRHtf5 KNOWS Go in 7 coMfeReN ce FfciENDd TOSSII- fcuFP sett Ort m.

"TftttK. In we ft htsJAKe- fBcmpJ vy'M op "'A? --Vv Siu. -StaWj I To MfOvrr NVwwaper Syndicate mm 1 Twen ty Yea rsAgo (From The Herald of Sept. 10, 1909). Driving of the first spike in the San Diego and Arizona railroad which took place Wednesday at San Diego, is taken by El Paso railroad men to mean that this city is to have a second transcontinental route.

Headquarters of the immigration service for this section of the country which were formerly at San Antonio, were moved to this city today and deputy Chief Inspector Stewart and two others of the staff are here. H. W. Broaddus and W. I).

Lans den took a party of men down the valley Wednesday afternoon and got in a mud hole. They would doubtless bo there yet but for the timely assistance of Walter Coles, who came by on a horse and with a rope rcscu ed them. More wires arc being placed in the list district court in order to im prove the accoustic properties of the court room. Holes are also being bored in the floor for the purpose of running the steam pipes to this room. Doming, N.

telephone line to the Elephant Butte dam was com plcted today. This connects up the following towns: Las Cruces, El Paso, Deming, Silver City, Mogollon and the Gila farms. John M. Wyatt received a communication this morning from Maj Gen. George Morgan stating that the Texas department has already received orders regarding the disposition of troops on October 16 at the Taft-Diaz meeting.

if. if. A large number of Mexican laborers passed the immigration station this morning and the scouts for the local employment agencies were making more noise than a pack of i coyotes, trying to secure theih for their respective employers. The men are not allowed to approach the bridge, but stand off for some distance and try to secure their attention, some of them using megaphones for the purpose. if.

if. The proposition of building a new hotel in this city will be discussed at the meeting of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce, where they meet tonight, tf, if. The Mesa school is being remodeled to make more room for the man- ut I training department and to provide offices for the superintendent, F. M. Martin, Manual Training Director E.

A. Ross, and Miss Elisha Swa nn. if. if. Forty Years Ago (From The Herald of Sept.

10, 1889). There was a full board present last evening when the council was called to order, except Alderman Johnson, and when he learns what he missed he will regret his absence to the day of his death. Oh. mama, but what a swarth he would have cut! if. The chief of police urged the i council to order the removal of tents located on San Antonio street, as they were, through liability to fire, dangerous to surrounding property.

if. if. if. Under the head of communications was read a note from Lowe, of the Tribune, withdrawing his bid for city printing. He intimated that he was an old man and could not wait more than ten or twelve years to have the bid awarded.

Hart, of the Times, thought that as the Tribune had withdrawn, his hid should be accepted, that although The bid was lower than his. Tlx? Herald was only fooling. He thought the man of that paper had drawn up the hid and given it to the council as a conundrum. if. if.

if. The new quarters are being rapidly built in Juarez where 300 men will be permanently quartered. They will then have a military band. if. Thomas Stanley has reached the sand and commenced to lay the concrete this forenoon for the Federal building.

CHATTY- GODDESS QAB Beatrice COPVRtGHT oes, CENTRAL PRESS ASSH CLEVELAND, OHtQ. HEAD THIS FIRST: Chralotte Chatterton, nicknamed is a born gossip and trouble maker. She goes to work at Mr. Van Nuy'i bond office and falls In love with Dave Jordan, a bond salesman. Billie Langenau, one of the girls at the office moves into the flat across from Chatty ana Chatty finds out she is married and separated from her husband.

She goes around with George Mayhew, another bond salesman, and Chatty vows to self 6he will never tell anyone. Chatty is Jealous of Agnes Hereford, Mr. Van secretary, because Dave takes her to lunch sometimes. Chatty tells Agnes that Billie said she and Dave Jordan were in deliberate lie. She sees Dave give Agnes a note, and after work she steals keys and goes through her desk to get the note.

(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.) CHAPTER XIII A'n thing told her that between its gold- lettered covers Agnes had written the story of her heart. take it she dccided, getting up from the floor. use sticking around here any longer. Anyone might pop in at any minute and find me. And never be able to explain why I was going through this She put everything but the diary carefully back into the drawer, locked the desk, turned out the light in the office, and walked calmly out of it with the diary under her rm.

She had not reached the middle of the big room outside when the GNES HbRFORDS desk as hall door opened and Dave Jordan eat and clean as Agnes, herself, was. There were six drawers in it. And they were in such apple pie order that it took Chatty only a minute or two to go through the first five of them paper, envelopes, carbons, all in neat piles. The last drawer she opened was the bottom one on the lefthand side. It was a big drawer, and it was filled with personal belongings.

One by one Chatty took them out. came in. He looked at her in surprise. he said. know you worked Chatty smiled up at him.

A sweet, meek little smile that made her face look like a very good little of the face of a young woman who is holding stolen property in her hands. are a lot of things that you know about me, Dave she told him, and her voice was as smooth as satin. are a lot of things that 4The silly in love with Mr. Van probably keep anything I know about you, she went dog and a bulldog belonging to an officer made things lively on FI Paso and San Antonio streets last evening. The animals chcwed each other for half hour before they could be separated.

No a rrests. r. HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN "1 ligured Sallie marry again after John died, but 1 see spent part the insurance money for a sport model Copyright, l-ubllstn-rs that she want to have seen She would not have wanted to see herself at that moment, in all likc- iilvood. For she was anything but beautiful as she pawed over things with her quick little fingers. Her eyes were narrowed until they were just brilliant grav-green slits between their thick, black lashes and her face looked as hard as if it were a mirror for the hard thoughts that raced through her brain.

just wish I could find out something about her that she want anyone to know she said to herself, tossing the things in the drawer out upon the floor beside her in frantic haste. Box of powder, a puff rolled up in a piece of clean white tissue paper. A pair of rubbers in another piece of paper. Two clean handkerchiefs. A metal soap box.

Two clean face towels. That was all. face went blank with dis- 1 appointment as she came to the piece of shiny white paper that covered the bottom of the drawer. Just what she had hoped to find she did i not know, for sure. A letter from Mr.

Van Nuys, perhaps? Another note from Dave Jordan? there anything here, thought Chatty, and began to pick up the things she had thrown I on the floor. She was putting the towels back into the drawer when she saw that there was something flat and oblong lying hidden under the white paper that lined it. It looked as if it might be a book. In a twinkling Chatty had it ou from under the paper, and In her two small hands. It WAS a book! diary It was covered with black leather, and on its cover was the itle in large, gold letiers: PAGE-A-DAY YEAB BOOK Chatty did not know that she said the words aloud.

have we Dropping back on her heels, she opened the diary at the first the marked January First. is New Agnes had written, in her clear, straight hand. the beginning of the fourth year since I started to work for Chatty eyes opened wide, until they were as round as grav-green saucers. writing about Mr. she said to herself.

is going to be Chatty had a nose for news and it told her now that there going to be news, and plenty of it, in the small, black-covered book. Soine- on. "Things that dying to know. are you dying to Chatty shook her head, shining like a cap of cloth-of-gold against the dark walls of the big, brightly- lighted office. This was no time to ask him about the girl he had bought flowers for on Eastern Saturday! This was no time to ask him how he could possibly find Agnes so fascinating that he took her to lunch every now and then! The only thing to do now was to get away from his as soon as she get out of the officp without him seeing the get away before Agnes, bv chance, should come back for her keys tell you go out and have a spot of dinner together, eh asked Jordan, studying her with his brown eyes.

tell each other all about What do you think of that For a moment Chatty was fearfully tempted. It sounded so have dinner with Dave Jordan, and then perhaps 'o go tc a movie with him, or for a long drive in The Pride of America. To he with just hours and Her voice was a small, unhappy wail. me for tomorrow night, will you. instead? I can go then.

Tonight going to he busy at Tn her own room she tried to fit the diary into her handbag. But it was too large to be hidden in it. have kept him from seeing it if 1 had gone out to dinner with she thought. if he had looked at She actually shuddered at the It was Agnes' thought of Dave Jordan finding out that she was a thief! Stealthily as a thief, she crept into the cloak room and put on her hat and coat. She slunk through the empty office just as the scrub women came down the hall to start cleaning it.

Not until she was out of the great, silent building, and into the lamplit darkness of the street, did she feel like a free person again. She stood still for a moment, outside the big gray granite building, and looked around here People going home People waiting for street cars People idling along past the big show windows filled with glittering colored wares. many people in the she thought. so many up in the office, too, when you stop to think about it Agnes will never be able to figure out who took her diary. probably think one of (Continued on 13, Col.

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