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THE EI. PASO TIM KS- El Paso's HOME Newsnaner TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933 Cotton Options Wife Tells Judge El Paso Charter Program Interests Relief Board Authorizes Assistant For Henderson Relate Plans They Heard To Sell Jobs $100,000 Park Project Plan Is Submitted She Walked From Santa Barbara Mrs. Blanche Toms, who said Other Texas Cities Few helpful suggestions which from C.CC officials, advising the board it Is not practical for that Relief Administratot Will At 6c Per Pound Are Authorized County agents will be authorized this week to release 6 cents a pound cotton options to farmers In this section who hold this option on lbout 2,100,000 bales of government held cotton, according to the Associated Press. It is estimated by the igiieulure department that she walked here from Santa Bar might aid in the drafting of the El Paso home rule charter were organization to handle the canyon bara, Calif, was rewarded yesterday by Judge W. D.

Howe, 34th dl flood control work. Concensus oi offered at the recent University of Be Enabled To Supervise Wor Projects. opinion of board members was that Food Shipped To El Paso CarlotsOf Butter, Beans Will Be Distributed Among Needy Here. Additional surplus food supplies are expected "to arrive in El Paso today for free distribution to persons on relief rolls and workers on CWA projects. Yesterday additional thousands of dollars were put into local trade channels by the relief organization in the purchase of supplies for rlcief projects.

Texas conference on problems of Texas Legislative Committee Opens Investigation At I-aredo. this work can lie done by alien labor metropolitan districts, according to trict court, with an order for 17.50 a week alimony during the pendency of the divorce suit of her husband, M. H. Toms, Fort Bliss soldier. The hearing on her ap ind not conflict with CWA work In my manner.

Henderson suggested the appoint Joseph G. Bcnnis. chairman of the commission. Bennis, Mayor I. E.

000 will lie distributed to 600,000 cot ment of a purchasing committee, to plication for $150 attorneys' fees is supervise all purchases for the re to be held later. lief and CWA organizations. The Sherman, County Judge Joseph Mc-Gill, W. It Blair, president of the chamber of commerce, and Wallace Perry, editor of the Herald-fast, had to leave Austin Sunday morn- An assistant relief administrator, lo take much of the detail work of the organization off the hands of the administrator, J. Paul Henderson; plans for a county-wide benuti-flcation program, and how best to provide relief work for the 2500 male aliens now on direct relief, Toms recently obtained an an board decided Its finance committee could take over this supervision This action was in no sense a criti- ng to catch a train at San Antonio nulment of his marriage to a second wife.

At the time of his marriage he thought his first wife had divorced him. Mrs. Toms said she aided him in that proceeding. She ton farmers. Producers can do two tilings when they receive their options.

They ran call the option, and receive the difference betwen 6 cents and the market price, or they may execute an "exercise of cotton option and pool and, through arrangements niade by the farm administration with the commodity credit corporation, receive an initial payment of 4 cents a pound, or 20 a bale, on their options. back to El Paso anil so did not Stanley Callsch, purchasing agent for the relief organisation, pur isin of the work being rendered by Stanley Calisch, purchasing agent, it was explained. Henderson told the board the state administration board has consented to allow $5000 worth of material Intensive Work Includes Memorial, Washington, Cleveland Square. A $100,000 park development plan, which Include a natural amphitliea. ter for school pageants northeast of Memorial park swimming pool, will be presented this week to Clarence Wiggs, CWA projects engineer by Hugo Meyer, city park commissioner, Meyer said If the program is approved, there will be employment fof 400 men for three months.

Projects included are five additional tennis courts in Memorial park, expansion of Houston school athletic grounds, toilet facilities In Cleveland square, preparation of park grounds for planting, cement und cobblestone drainage system to divert flood waters through Memorial park, pavf'd roads for Memorial park, two Memorial park shelters, improvement of San Marcial street from Copper street to Grant avenue were the principal matters before the relief board at Its meeting yes stated he promised to return to her, but did not. terday. chased $1150 worth of sand, gravel, asphalt and cement, for use on the relief project at William Beaumont rospital. Capt. E.

H. Simons, board member. Meyer's plan calls for a part of the nurchases for the Fattens soil ero proposed the creation of the post of assistant administrator, declaring swimming pool to be transformed Callsh daily Is expecting arrival sion proicct. which Is approximately one-third of the estimated material Henderson now has too much on his Sei to attend nil of the conference. "El Paso was in the limelight as being the first Texas city to start the functioning of a home rule charter commission," Bcnnis said, "Many wanted to know just how wc were progressing and how we were working out the charter provisions.

Other Texas cities are circulating petitions for thr precinct conventions to elect delegates to a county convention, but it seems El Paso was the first city in be state to really initiate a charter commission," Laredo, Tex, Doc. 18 (AP). Two of the 15 witnesses who testified here today before a legislative committee investigating "job selling" said they had heard of attempts having been made to obtain money payments for jobs. One of these witnesses, J. H.

Breeding of Enclnal, testified that he had knowledge of atempt to get money In payment for jobs. The other witness, County Judge lusto S. Penn, testified that "Bed" Downs, a former livestock sanitary commission inspector, hud told him he (Downs) had been asked to pay $75, but as he couldn't pay or borrow the money, "he would lose his job." WUnesses were asked if they knew anything about John Callan, brother of Leo Callan, head of the livestock sanitary commission, trying to sell inspectors life insurance policies, Only one witness said lie knew of this. He was Boe Oliver, supervisor of the livestock sanitary commission force in Webb county. Oliver said a policy for Louis Lcycn-decker was mailed to his office.

into a sunken garden. Meyer slad if the city had to put up the money cost. of a carload of wheelbarrows, 300 of which the relief organization will purchase through a local wholesale "or the planned improvements for hands to enable him to acquuint himself fully with the progress of work on the various CWA projects, and at the same time capably man- A new plan of appointing the foreman of each project timekeeper. This removes the necessity of timekeepers agency. He also will buy a quan the Washington park swimming pool, the sum would be approximately 40,000.

tity of rakei Calisch says there igc the organization. are none of these tools in El Paso going out from relief headquarters to the various protects. It is probable the board will set The monkeys at the park arc to The board authorized the office, Army Trucks Aid In Handling Holiday Mail Five army trucks will be used today helping postoffico workers deliver Christmas packages, Acting Postmaster M. Burleson said yesterday. Twenty-five extra men have been added to the postal staff during the Christmas rush.

Burleson said Christmas business this year will probably show an increase over that of last year. stores now. and left it with Henderson to make have a new home on the island in the duck pond. Two cars of tin cans, each con definite meeting dates, probably his own selection of an assistant, and installation of a retaining wall, once a wrck, at its next meeting. preferably an engineer, but particularly a capable detail man.

The matter of appointing a publicity taining 60,000 containers, arrived yesterday and another carload is due Dec. 20. These are for use in the canning plant. City Asks $60,000 man, to gather and furnish to the Aliens Are Problems. Attention of the board was called press daily the developments of the terraces on the east side of Memorial park, grading of Russell street, Four hundred men are now leveling the area south of Washington park, which Is embraced In the park Another carload of butter and a organization, also will be given at Construction Loan Applications for two city self- car of frijole beans are en route tcntion at the next meeting, it was to El Paso, it was said.

The bean said. liquidating loans, totaling $60,000, shipment consists of 38,000 pounds, to the fact that there are at present 3006 aliens on relief rolls, of whom 2500 are males, capahle of earning the grocery allotments granted them on their budgetary needs. Ways of utilizing their labor so as to conflict with CWA projects was are being prepared by Walter Stock- and will be distributed in nine extension plan. Two bridges, which Meyer values at each, are to be built across the canal. A two-story stone building Is to take the well, assistant city engineer.

Suspect Held In Juarez Threatening Letter Probe Mother Praxedes' Body Sent To Ky. The body of Bcv. Mother Praxedes Dirty, 81, retired superior general of the Order of I.oretto, was sent last night by train to Loretto, for burial. She died Saturday night. High ranking sisters of the order accompanied the body, including Mother Olivette, Mother Gcnoveva, and Mother Assumpta.

Bight Bev. A. Srhuler, bishop of El Paso, said a requiem mass at I.oretto college at 9 a. m. yesterday.

Tlie body lay in state until p. lull mid reds attended the services. counties, exclusive of El Paso, as follows The proposed $10,000 PWA loan Determining the freshness of fish by electricity Is the latest achievement of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. place of the present bathhouse. for an administration building at Brewster, 172 pounds; Jeff Davis, Crushed Foot Results In Death Of Transient Merrion E.

Pierce, 35, pacific Grove, who was taken to city-county hospital last week for treatment for a mashed foot, sustained while attempting to catch a freight train, died at thr hospital early yesterday of tetanus. Funeral arrangements are pending with Bomulo Gomez, 25, Juarez, was held in Juarez jail yesterday after 1168 pounds; Hudspeth, 24 pounds; There already are two projects the municipal airport will be Increased to $20,000 to provide for a authorized, providing employment his arrest by Chihuahua state po Culberson, 80 pounds; Presidio, 2296 pounds; Beeves, 2392 pounds; concrete landing apron, 600 feet by lice for investigation in connection with threats mado against Santiago 100. Money from rents and con Pecos, 412 pounds; Terrell, 53!) pounds; Ward, 92 pounds, and El Paso, 28,828 pounds. cessions will be used to repay the loan. for 600 of these aliens, and It Is proposed to work the remainder on gardening and clean-up work along the drainage canals In the city, the river banks, and in the canyon flood control work.

Traverso, resident of Scnccu, Juarez suburb. Traverso said that he had MAIN 3500 rou HlKhrlnM Cnnrteou. TAXI SERVICE niKCKKn from HOMK TO DESTINATION YELLOW CAB CO. Forty thousand will be sought to A third car, containing 60,000 received notes threatening his life build a two-story addition to the pounds of pork, is daily expected and that he had been fired on as Mrs. Albion Jones, president of EI Paso public library.

There will Author To Pass Through El Paso On Train Today he worked around his home. to arrive here for distribution to the needy, be three floors of steel stacks, the El Paso Garden club, proposed GOBYfEA I a project which met with unanimous which will give additional room in Mary Roberts Bhlnehart, well- AGED CITIZEN DIES. approval of the hoard. It is a county the basement for public documents known author, will be a passenger 3 El Pasoans Attend wide beaut mention program, con and collections of periodicals. aboard lie Sunset Limited tonight Andres Bios, 82, 118 East Seventh street, died at a local hospital late Sunday.

He had been a resident of sisting of pruning and spraying University Of Illinois occupying compartment car 30 She Is en route to Palm Springs, $7500 Damages Asked Three studenta from El Paso arc Frank Norman Lucas, 57, Dies At Home Here Funeral services for Frank Norman Lucas, 57, a resident of El Paso since 1890, were pending last night with Kastcr and Maxon. He died early Monday at hi home, .1015 Pershing drive. Mr. Lucas formerly was a machinist for the Southern Pacific railway. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Arab Belie Lucas: a son, Hohart Calif, and will not slop over in El In 1 Paso Accident trees and shrubbery in city and county parks and along highways; relentless warfare against the red spiders, which are causing heavy damage to plants and shrubbery in Paso. The train is scheduled here El Paso for 20 years. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. today at Sacred Heart church.

Burial will be in Concordia. He Is survived by a grandson, Francisco. registered at the University of Illinois, registrar's figures show. They are Margaret S. Akeroyd, 1301 North Appearing as next friend for his at 11 p.

m. Virginia street; Annie Lyles, 9U daughter, Gloria Serna, Marcclino Serna yesterday filed a $7500 dam TRY S25.000 SUIT. Arizona street; and Leo P. Morgan, Tlii 'ir000 riumnle suit of Jose age suit in the 63th district court 715 North Campbell street. against E.

E. Schmidt, doing bus! hit mm Kmrmmmif a) Low mtce from El Paao Inrlndi rail to tialvrston, thence team 11 lo mfnls and berth at flea, with return by rail or earner. de Lal.uz and his wife against the EI Paso Electric comnanv for the Put Mentliolnlum in notilrlU to open I hem, rub on chest to reduce congestion. the county, planting of flowers and shrubbery along the highways and in parks, and general beautification work. It is probable this suggestion will result In formation of a project, probably to be carried through with alien labor on direct relief.

ness under the firm name of the MRS. CASHMAN RETURNS. death of their son, Jose Olivas, was Five Points Produce company. PNEUMONIA CAUSES DEATH. Death of Thomas O'Mcara, 38.

110V4 South Oregon street, was due to pneumonia, according to a coroner's verdict given yesterday by Justice of the Peace J. M. Goggln. Mr. O'Mcara was found dead In his Mrs.

H. C. Cashman and son, on trial yesterday in the l.ili "s- Serna alleged that his daughter C. Norinand, and a daughter, Arab leane Lucas, El Paso; and three brothers, James and Freeman Canton, 0, and George of Cleveland, O. LYDE-MALL0RY LINES "Junior," 4420 La Lux street, have returned to El Paso from a visit to trict court for the fourth time.

The vouth was killed In 1929 when he was injured Nov. 10 when run over by a truck driven by an employe of Mrs. Cashman's father in McAlcster, Suggests Purchasing Agency, Dean Huston, C. A 8(SS Klrnl Natl. Bank Fl Puo.

Tex Main 921 came In contact with a live wire statementroom early Sunday. Okla. The board received a the defendant. C5S53E53BB5BBB U3BBTTTM'' i 3 BBMM1 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS IN EL PASO AND THIS IS Store Closed Tuesday to Prepare Sale fog. MM Store Closed Tuesday to Prepare Sale BOOKS OF ALL KINDS OFFICE SUPPLIES TRUNKS-SUIT CASES Fountain Pens, Violins Guitars STATIONERY Artists' Supplies Instead of giving you a hard luck story why we are compelled to hold this, our first contained In this ad, every single Item In our store Is cut to the quick.

Without an sale, we will let our prices speak for themselves. When you read our marked down exception, everything must go. prices you can readily see why we give such drastic reductions. Besides Items Sale tarts Wednesday, Pec. 20th, at 9 m.

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