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Complete Wire Reports of UNITED PRESS, the Greatest World-Wide News Service El Paso Evening Post Home Edition Forecast, El Paso and vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. VOL. VI. NO. 233 EL PASO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 22 PAGES, TWO SECTIONS Ceo in Kl Paso 5 Cents Outside El Faso ELKS ASK THAT PROHI AGENTS BE UNIFORMED Dies In Exile DEATH ENDS EXILE Of Fled U.

S. After Getting 20 ears for Obstructing War FOUNDER OF I. W. W. Later Was Executive Of Soviet In Moscow By EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent Haywood, 66.

former king of the I.W.W.,” in the United States, died in self-imposed exile here today in his 66th year. condition had been critical for several weeks, after a long Tight against diabetes. Haywood had been a fugitive from American justice since 1921 when lie came to Russia to escape serving a 20-year prison sentence for obstructing the war. The sentence was imposed on by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in Chicago in 1918. Ninety two others were sent to Leavenworth at the same time but later were re- leased on bail pending a review by! the United States supreme court.

By the time the court upheld the 1 sentences Haywood was gone. Here in Russia he was received readily by; i the Communists whose doctrines he bends IN ote Leaders HAVE SPLIT IN BAPTIST CHURCH HERE Many Members Withdraw Proni Immanuel Congregation TO FORM NEW CHURCH Dispute Over Pastor Is Cause of Latest Break Why, Good Morning, Princess! PASO PIONEER Candidate WOMAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT Struck By Street Car While On Way To Grocery DIES IN AMB UL AN 2 Old Fash ioned Bonnet Obstructed Her View HAYWOOD JAPANWARNS CHINA ARMIES ON MANCHURIA had championed so successfully in the United States. Haywood never succeeded in making the name for himself here that! lie had enjoyed in America. In Russia he was not considered unusual as his political and economic doc- trines were the same as the doc- rines of the masses. As the years passed he grew fat Barring War in that Area By MILES W.

VAUGHN United Press Staff Correspondent Between 40 and 60 members of Immanuel Baptist churcli, includ- i ing some of the deacons and the Sunday school superintendent, have 1 withdrawn their memberships as a result cf a split in the church. Some of them plan to establish a new church at Five Points. F. W. Ross said today.

Ross is one of those who asked for their letters of membership. Trouble in the church dates back to a dispute between Rev. L. O. Vermillion and some of the deacons i as to whether he had the right to conduct revival meetings elsewhere at his own discretion.

Part of the congregation upheld the deacons and part supported Rev. Vermillion. Declines to Talk Arthur Millicatt today declined to i discuss the situation when asked if those who withdrew did so because I others of the congregation voted to retain Rev. Vermillion. Millican, who is still a member, announced Thursday tliat Rev.

Vermillion was asked to fill the pulpit until the regular church conference June 6. Rev. J. E. Davis, manager of the Baptist Publishing House, and superintendent of the Immanuel Baptist Sunday school, was one of those who withdrew their letters of mem- bership, Here is little Princess Ilona of Austria, daughter of Archduke Joseph Franz, in one of her unconventional moments.

The baby won first prize in a baby contest held recently at Budapest. ADD $50.000 TO PURCHASE BLDG. SITE 99 YEARS FOR BANK ROBBER Mrs. Lena Young, 1314 Arizona, was fatally injured about 6 a. today, by a Highland Park street car.

The accident occurred on E. Yandell at Noble. I Mrs. Young died a few minutes later enroute to a hospital. Both her legs were crushed.

Mrs. Young's husband runs a grocery store at Sanderson. Tex. He I owns a large amount of other prop- Jailed Here, Pleads Guilty fty there, friends say. The Young family is one of the pioneers of El in Dallas Paso.

Going to Grocery Mrs. Young was 67 years old. old. She had left home to go to the Garden Grocery, Yandell boulevard SHOOTING Of NIAGARA ELK Ask That Congress Award Life Pension To Wounded Man DENOUNCE SPY SYSTEM ir Speeches Against Methods of Federal Officers CHAS. A.

MANGOLD Chas. A. (Uncle Charlie) Mangold, of Dallas, is slated for election as president of the Texas State Elks Assn. United Press Leased T1 ire one of the quickest criminal trials in the liistory of uaiuc Increase Fund For New El Paso Federal Office Bldg. of was taring an old fashioned sun-bonnet which obstructed her a view from either Lt.

j. H. AVCnU0 Fire Co. No. 5, said.

Smith jr1 i was riding on the street car when min, le of the trial was Young was struck, and pulled SI her body from beneath the The robbery occurred last Nov. -she was crossing the street at or $50,000 for acquisition of site for the construction Of a new health, CUS- out? crussuig um surety at toms and immigration offict build- TJvo entered the bank, fore- an tjiat was to; Plan ed employes and customers into the 4 ELKSDISCtISS SANATORIUM 1ERE TODAY TOKIO- determination to prevent the extension of the Chift- and lived two rooms given him ese civil war to Manchuria was an- by the Soviet government in a Mos- nounced officially today. sow hotel. At first he held several The government instructed Soviet executive positions but minister at Pekin and its consul gen- lion tell liow tlxey a.cted ings at El Paso, is included in the second deficiency bill reported to the house today. This is part of authorized earlier in the session.

According to the appropriation committee hearings, this contem- who got letters dirt because the way they were stone-trimmed, and fireprooi vault and escaped with $2000 Long was arrested at El Paso, After a spirited fight between Dal- I las and Springfield. officers for his custody, he was returned here.1 He also is wanted for a bank robbery in Springfield. the car. The conductor stopped as quickly as he could. I have ridden with him for several years, and he is as careful as anyone could be.

be going i Iof era! ears, with discouragement from to Build National T. B. Hospital Is Told Delegates Haywood would tell his few American visitors. sure and give my regards to Judge Advanced age brought pangs of homesickness. buildinS adjoining Santa Fe street! Perry oi street car.

She fainted, and was tak- lip sakf Rev Vermil- international bridgehead. Only robbery in Dallas today was arrest- en to the grocery store on the COr- a lts 000 is estimated for land. ea fere two weeks-ago by police and ner. Several men on the car went Remodeling of the custom house customs agents, who caught him at awav without looking at the the Santa Fe street bridge as he was used to walk south on Noble returning from Juarez. every morning Emmett Bled- He was captured after being soet nianager of the grocery said, knocked unconscious with a brick.

angle across the side. I am in- START LEASE PROBE a memorandum that Japan May Form Church bly may be construed to take appro- of the most prominent i priate and effective steps to main- members have withdrawn. tain peace and order in may put their letters in The announcement is regarded as some other church or they may senate Haywood was bom in Salt Lake foreshadowing full Japanese inter- establish a mission or iiC lands committee started its in- City, the son of a poor miner. in the civil war in the exr J. R.

Dodd, one of the deacons 1 of oil leases in the tent Nationalists take Tient- who withdrew, said that creek field today, turning first to Pekin, the Northern capitali oped the spirit of unrest, that marked the mining and lumber camps of the west in the late His first public appearance as a labor leader in 1899 when he founded the Industrial Workers of the World. TRACY: HE mind, whether animat or human, is the hardest riddle ever tackled by man. BY M. E. TRACY A LONDON professor claims to have trained a flea to answer questions by tapping on its head with its tap for and taps for Such an achievement proves the ability rather than the flea's.

Georgia Stickland Gates, professor of psychology at Barnard college, after making a thoro study of and try to purine Chang Tso-Liirs troops northward toward Manchuria. Chinese Nationalist troops moved oil Pekin today, bent on capture of the seat of the central government, as Japan made preparations to protect its nationals in Tientsin. All foreigners in Pekin probably will be billetted within the legation quarters and Japan is understood to have requested a clear zone 20 miles around the quarters. Only meager reports are coming from Pekin as to the advance of the Southern arm- I ies. It W'as conceded in some quarters I that the troops of Chang Tso-Lin are capable of putting up quite a fight should they meet the South- ern troops.

They went so far as to say the fight might result in temporary defeat for the Nationalists. were such that about 54 members granted the Midwest Refining decided, to withdraw bccause txiej company, desire a more spiritual church." REIGH COUNT STILL STRONG w'alk a few feet to come direct to the front dpor. She could not hear very well. I guess that was partly the cause of the accident. At this early hour in the morning the street cars come very fast.

Dragged 20 Feet car was coming west on Yandell. It knocked her down and Dodd declared that Rev. Vermillion's right to conduct revivals elsewhere wras not the underlying cause of the withdrawal. always respected Rev. he said.

Change Decision E. F. Finney, assistant secretary Contmugs as Favorite Tho i dragged her some 20 or 25 feet. Both lntprmr first snhmittpri i -n Track Muddy tubercular sanatorium to be located here, was told to the Texas Elks State Assn. convention today i by W.

W. Bridgers, El Paso. General plans for the establish; ment of a sanatorium here were referred to a committee for consideration at session. Bridgers i reported adversely to the! Grand lodge on the tubercular sail- atorium. and the lodge would not grant permission for the El Paso; lodge to communicate with other! lodges regarding the However, persistent efforts car -1 of interior, first witness, submitted documents and described circum- stances surrounding the leasing of oil lands in the rich Wyoming field.

The first leases were granted in August, 1920, six months after pass- i age of the act, but controversial legs wrere crushed. She was still! on local Elks and those of Chas. R. Poole said that one of ciaims were held over until 1921. the causes of the split w-as that a gerL Walsh, Democrat, Montana, group of members got together at veteran oil investigator, laid the the meeting on Wednesday of last ground work for the inquiry by trac- week, voted to retain Rev.

Vermil- ing jn detail the history of the Salt lion and set aside previous action. Creek field and of oil land legisla- know' much about the tion. situation because I was not involv- 1 he said. I withdrew' my letter and know those w'ho did like- DEATH FOR AMERICANS wise are looking for a place to hold services. sent a representative to the church Wednesday night to ask for their letters in a Those who withdrew' are planning to call their church the Five Points United Prexs Leaned ire PUERTO CABEZAS, A declaration that because the Uni- ted States has refused to withdraw I cats, says they can learn, but can-lits forces from Nicaragua all Amer-, not reason.

I icans captured by the revolutionists Herr Samuel Kreiger, a genius have reached their end, was from overseas astonished the mathe- i contalned 111 a al.ing y-w a ureacnuj matical high lights of Columbia uni- Oregon Votes United Press Leased Wire PORTLAND. Oregon voters went to the polls today. It seemed certain that Gov. A1 Smith will claim the Democratic delegation of 10 members. Herbert Hoover stands unopposed in the Republican column and will United Leased Wire CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUIS- VILLE, lovers of the na- tion gathered here today for Sat- 54th renewal of the national race, the Kentucky derby.

Standing room at the track will be at a premium. Reigh Count, having shown his ability to run in the mud as well as on a fast track, was entrenched i firmly in his position as favorite, which he has held since early winter i against all comers. Chances of a fast track are slim. Rain wras still falling today. E.

B. Toro and the ley farm-Salubria stable entry of! Bobashela and Strolling Player are closest runners-up to Reigh Count i for favoritism. Reigh Count did a mile and an breathing wiien we finally got an ambulance, after the longest Iln W. T. Roberson, 2320 Pittsburgh, was the motorman of the street car that hit the woman.

Police investigated. Police Sgt. Woolverton said that the street car motorman was ringing the bell on his car at the crossing. He said witnesses reported hearing the bell. The motorman and other lodges have finally resulted getting recognition from the I Grand lodge, which has agreed to allot part of the fund to be arranged at the Miami Grand lodge meeting to tubercular relief, he no need for a pretentious structure to start Bridgers said.

wre need is a small unit1 to which we can add later. The other witnesses, police were inform- idea is to give Elks the ben- ed, said it looked like that Mrs. our climate the Young was to stop. She did pei and treatmwit, when not they can afford the higher-priced sanatoriums. must First Fatal Accident Her death is the first fatal acci- must be saved from work dent of the year in the street railway worry which make it impossible system here.

Mrs. Young is survived by her husband, three daughters. Mrs. W. W.

McMahon and Miss Ethel Young of El Paso, and Mrs. H. D. Lusby of Fall Brooks. three sons, Her- Will Rogers Wires: versity not only by multiplying and Sandino, rebel leader, found at the dividing stupendous sums, but Luz nl ry- finding logs and anti-logs in a mat- i author of the note siiid.he ter of seconds.

become convinced that all North He says he does it by a fonnula i Amerirans are in fjfeordI, the which he has come here to sell for United States governments a ica $1.000,000. policy. His proposition would be more in- teresting from a commercial stand- point if another wizard had not invented a mechanical device which I performs similar stunts. Mind Is Hardest Riddle of All HE mind, whether animal or human, is the hardest riddio yet tackled by man. Tho responsible for science, it defies science, and tho able to define and classify other things it is still unable to define and classify itself.

There is an obvious difference between instinct and reason, but where does one end and the other begin? 7u the same way there is an obvi- Baptist church. 'the PubUstoS'f Kansas City with the RePub- Tjnnpn onn i rt lican delegation of 13. Thursday geieb, and H. F. of ---------------------------I Petee Wrack also worked a fast1 TAina mile in the mud and wil1 be a hxplorer Wounded tender.

The Wheatley Dis- is' ic Ki, I Une Ernst, and a brother, William Ernst, all of San Antonio. Funeral arrangements are pend- House, 800 Myrtle. Rev. J. B.

Cole will preach. There will be Sunday school at 9:45 a. preaching at 11 a. B. m.

and preaching at 8 p. m. SILVER HIGHER THAN SINCE FIRST OF YEAR Use of Silver in Foreign Reason for Hike Coins I United Leased Wire LONDON. Roy Chapman American explorer on a 1 search for the cradle of civilization in Mongolia, wras wounded acci- dentally wiien he drew a pistol to shoot an antelope, a dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Pekin said to- day. traction is expected by his handlers, if the track is slow, to showr an amazing improvement.

to recover from the is need for such a hospital sfnewhere in the Claude Smith, secretary of the Arizona Elks said in support of Bridgers. don't care in what part of the southwest the hospital is located. We ould be glad to see such a hospital established in El Paso or anywhere else, just as long as members of his organization are no longer The Texas State Elks at rt 3 convention here today passed resolutions asking congress to put prohibition officers in uniform. Elks also asked that congress vote a life pension to Jacob D. Hanson, Ft.

Niagara, N. who recently shot by prohibition agents. the resolution condemning the prohibition agents introduced by W. B. (Pitchfork) Smith, Dallas, reads, murder-, ously attacked on a lonely country road by two prohibition officers.

He received two bullet wTounds, one of w7hich has afflicted him with total blindness for SmiUi characterized the shooting as of the foulest criminal attacks ever perpetrated in the history of America. We condemn this act of and outlawry perpetrated by the Prohibition ment he added. Take Notice, E. S. Bache, secretary of the 251 Paso lodge, made the motion congress be petitioned to put all hibition officers in uniform.

heartily support that Smith said, if conn gress does not heed it, then I suggest that we rub off, God We from our coins, and substitute Hanson was returning home along a lonely country road when he was accosted by two men, not in uniform, and without badges, wiio looked and acted like bandits. sped by, thinking them bandits, and his automobile was riddled with bullets. They found no articles or beverage of a contraband nature in his car. Bullet in Head of the bullets shot out hia right eye. That bullet still lodges in back of his head.

He is still unconscious. I am told there is little hops for his recovery. affects me deeply because I come from a race of men who would take kings under oak trees and tell them there to sign their damned names that might enjoy personal liberty. resent any attempt to curtail our civil liberties, whether it come from the government or in any other hypocritical guise. We are too prone to even bat an eye When our civil liberties are On suggestion from the floor, it was decided to mail a copy of the resolution to i every lodge in Texas, and ask each lodge to bring the matter before the government authorities.

It wras also voted to send a copy of the resolution tc all Texas members of congress and the senate. TELLS ELKS WATCH NIGHT BRIDGE PASS Permits Needed To Cross After 9 p. m. Says Hagedcm ing with Peak-Hagedon. CRUCES PIONEER DIES BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif.

An ex-governor and slato leader had fist fight in South Carolina. One called the other a Re- UnitPrritg Tensed, Wire DENVER-The price of silver jumped to today, a new high record since the fall of 1926. Increase in demand from foreign countries using the silver standard of money is responsible for the AIRSHIP AT BASE United Press Leased Wire kings a Spitzbergen The dirigible Italia arrived here at the home of her son, Hombolt Casad, 10 a today after a flight over Arctic seas LAS CRUCES Mrs. Sarah B. Casad.

92, resident of Mesilla and pioneer of the died at publican. Had the a sed 1 steady rise of the metal since Jan. 1, killed him for mining men here said. JV4AJ. HOOPLE still is the star boarder in Boar dins: a 11 ing him that it would have been hard to convict him i a court where justice is really dealt out.

If there is ous difference between mechanical fighting in the primaries, what will and imaginative processes, but who it be in the election? METAL MARKET settlement prices: Silver, up 7s Lead. 6.10. Copper, 14.025. Zinc, 5.917. Fail Find Boy can say wrhich is which? An adding machine is not a bookkeeper, tho it can be made to compute a column of figures with equal accuracy; neither does a trained flea bear much intellectual resemblance to the man trained it, tho it can jump farther in proportion to its size.

Adding machines and trained fleas and wonderful only because they prove what men can do, and because can be translated inta United Press Leafed Wire You stock buyers better be buying Search for the body Du powder and Winchester of 8-year-old John Pyrek, missing arms. since Monday, turned to the Chicago I Say, Oklahoma just pulled a good river today after scores of volunteer stunt to advance fields and aviation liad moved a 10,000 ton sand r. interest. They rounded up all the pile and found no trace of the boy. planes in their state and toured the ---------------------------whole state.

Hoover went fishing in Pennsyl- 1 LlurLIVA I vanla and caught 28 delegates in i UZ 15 New Jersey. Denver .60 4 Phoenix .88 60 Borne Yours Pas9. 83 eiiRosweii 56 City 78 6 Santone 66 I the popular i of that name. the major is welcoming back his old-time ham-and fighter who kept him in small change before a second rate pug knocked him for a good night's lumber, I But the thinking of attending Republican and Dem- ocratic national conventions. this morning, Mrs.

Casad is survived by eight children. She was a native of Springfield, 111. and moved to Kansas immediately after the Civil war, later traveling to California by way of the Nicaragua route. Her husband built the first house in Santa Ana. Returning overland in 1874, she settled at Mesilla.

STEAL AUTOS IN PARK Two automobiles were stolen from Washington park. Thursday night. I A Chevrolet coach, owmed by W. Gold, 3406 Rosa, was taken about 10 p. m.

A Ford truck, owned by J. Maru- sith, 2017 San Jose, stolen about The Italia landed in calm 111 recovered early town th the sun shining i day at Luna and Pera- stripped. All BIks attending the barbecue in Juarez Saturday night, and planning to remain across the border after 9 p. regular bridge closing hour, have been warned by Barry Hagedon to hold on to their bridge passes. The passes will be taken up by federal officers at the bridge.

It will be necessary to show a pass to cross the bridge after 9 p. Hagedon said. Passes are good until 12 midnight. Gen. Nobile announced that he made no discoveries north of Nova Zembla or in the vicinity of Franz Josef land.

Nobile said he might start for the north pole Sunday. II. S. 1001 E. Nevada, reported the theft of his Chevrolet coupe from Santa Fe and Franklin about 6 p.

Thursday. ks Antlers TEX. FAMILY ATTACKED United Press Leased ire LUFKIN. Tex. John Laling, Houston pa peril anger, is dead, his! wife is believed to be dying and their two children, aged 8 and 5, ave in a serious condition as the result of an unexplained attack by an unknown assailant early today in a vacant house here where they were, spending the night.

The family camped in the house Slay Gang Leader United Press T.eased Wire BROOKLYN. water- CYCLIST TAKE TRIP At least 11 motorcycle riders will make a trip to Carlsbad Caverns Saturday, returning Sunday, P. to Breckenridge." a big sign which is part of the Breckenridge propaganda to get the 1929 Elks State meeting, is hung across the back of the Hotel Hussmann desk. front gangsters are without a ruler i said today again today and Edw. McGuire, dock loader, who aspired to and probably won the leadership for a brief time, is dead.

He was found on a pier, shot thru the back, head and chest. Four suspects are under arrest. Police believe that McGuire and other gangsters decided to You. w7ant to miss his upon their arrival here last night by roll dice on the pier for the leader- highly intellectual discussions about things and matters thru the summer months. So.

you'd better take him with you on your a acat ion. Post, by mail, is 50 cents a month. automobile. ship of the waterfgront gang, to succeed the late "Wild Bill This is the first of several weekend trips planned by motorcyclists, Michero said. Among those going Saturday are: Edwin Braem.

Shatter Wheeler, H. Hickman, P. Michero. Bill Bradshaw, Cris Aranda. W.

Michero. L. Ramirez, Chas. Ward. H.

L. McCune and Hugh McCaliick. COTTON DOWN 1Lon Ang, 55 1 Seattle $0 i WEDS DODGE Unit'd Press Leaned Wire Dodge of Detroit, was married at the Bayswater Presbyterian church. Thursday to Muriel Dorothy Sissman. Stresemann Improves ni '1 I.eau* ire BERLIN Foreign i ister Stresemann has successfully passed the crisis of his illness.

United I'm east H' re VOR Cotton dosed off 17 to 25. spots 2 1.70. Open Ilijt-vlt Low 'I Os ft May .21.50 21,56 IT 21.17 fa 2o -V .21.2:2 1 2 2 20. it 2'ay 5 Oct. 21.25 21.37 20.95 20.99 1 .21.10 20.76 20.7 6 'xi' 78 Ian.

.21.01 21.1 JO. 20.76 21.13 20.75 ,20.75 0 Delegates waited for half an liom today for the convention to oper while visiting bands paraded thru El Paso streets. Many of the delegates arrived late, jauntily carrying canes bought in Juarez. The San Antonio drill patrol, attired in Zouave uniforms of and white, and carrying rifles with purple stocks, is among the most colorful organizations at the convention. Mayor R.

E. Thomason, who welcomed the delegates at the convention, Is a former exalted ruler cf th? Gainesville, lodge. A1 Smith may be nominated (Continued on page 5).

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