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Compiete Wire eports of the UNITED PRESS, Greatest World-Wide News Service El Paso Evening Post Home Edition Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday: somewhat colder tonight VOL- IX. NO. 50 EL PASO. TEXAS. FRIDAY.

OCTOBER 17. 1930 3 Ceots In Paso I 5 Cents OuUide THIEF RAIDS E. P. HOSPITAL NARCOTICROOM Believe Stolen Drugs Same Offered to School Pupil El Payroll Builders Troy Steam Laundry Has Customer Living In Nashville, Tenn. NO.

33 OF A SERIES TEXAN BLINDS SELF TRYING TO BEAT CHAIR When Love Conquered Jailers Even a customer in Nashville, i I constitutes a boast of the! i Troy Steam 1425 to 1431 Texas. Gouges Out Eyes With Sharpened Steak Bone SEARCH FOR SUSPECT: BEFORE DEATH ing business necessitated the move Description of Ex-Employe S'aver of Policeman Fails ing was erected in the rear of the present plant. Forty-seven are employed. The annual payroll is $35,000. The laundry has railtray trackage Checks With That Of Detectives Friday were attempt- To Stop Execution by Feigning Insanity Prefix T.cm^id ire HUNTSVILLE.

Tex. The last ing to connect theft of more than its back door, so that all supplies; Last Mile," a almost into the (jj-ama of death row in a building iteelf. penitentiary with men condemned Also, the laundry has Its own' characters, was rung wa er by a well, life here Friday, attempt of a drug peddler to dis- drilled in 1916. With the unlimited Shepard, maddened mur- pose of dope to students on the supply the thorough ashing of frenzied cries of "Jones, 99 grains of morphine from the Hotel Dieii pharmacy room with what is believed to have been an Bailey school grounds. The pharmacy room is on the ground floor of the hospital.

It was entered by some one who had tides is augmented by six or seven were echoed in the plav rinses, The claim is made that the water is softer than the city water. To keep up with the growing busi- TRIES TO SWALLOW $20 ROLL OF BILLS that thrilled New York audiences. was executed at the Texas state penitentiarv at 12:11 a. m. for the ne.ss.

five Fargo deUveo' tracks were purchased this year Oil burn- 3 pronounced dead six mg equipment was insuiled minutes later. A number of customers who have! Gouges Out Eyes moved to other places, continue to- FAVILA, 28. and J. Guiterrez. both of 1216 S.

El Paso, were Shepard, cell mate of Robt. Blake, send in their laundry. Bundles also. execution for from the Pecos valley penned a Lath cell piece be arraigned Friday atternoon weekly postal service brings in wash-: fore the U. S.

commissioner, on i of having sold $20 worth of narcotics i from 5 in Arizona and New to his death blinded Mexico. to federal officers. Dave Haynes and Bennett Wilson, city detectives, and narcotic agents arrested the women after a struggle during which one of them attempted to swallow a roll of bills with which of the narcotic agents said he had made the a few minutes previously. a key, or some time when the door was left open by an attache. Officers were searching for a former hospital employe description checks Ttith that of a man who usked Manuel Molino.

12. Bailey school student, to swallow two tablets Thursday. BABY DEATHS S. EL PASO HIGH Two weeks ago, in a fit of i age, i he gouged out his otivn eyes vnth a steak bone, whetted to razor-like' sharpness. Joyce once had gained respite from death in the electric chair, by feigning insanity.

He was tak- COOL WEATHER PREDICTED FOR P. DISTRICT Mummified Rats Temperature Slightly Under 50 Degrees Forecast OF STORM HERE Winter's First Blast Hits Chicago and Lakes; Snow in North RUM RUNNING TO OIL FIELDS HIT HARD BLOW Officers Seize Six Men, Four Autos and Whisky LIQUOR VALUE $3500 Agents Say Supply Intended For San Angelo and Sections Somewhat colder weather for Friday night, with slightly under 50 degrees, was pre- I dieted for El Paso and vicinity Fri; day by R. M. Shaver, meteorologist. Shaver said the chilly weather of Thursday night and Friday morning was the result of the snow storm reported in the Rocky mountains Thursday.

tail end of the storm, together with an east wind, caused the slight drop," Shaver said. expect a northeast wind Friday night, which 'will hold temperatures Partly cloudy conditions Friday and Saturday will have a tendency to keep temperatures lower during the day. Friday morning's minimum temperature was 52 degrees, second lowest of the season. The coldest to date, since last spring, was 50 degrees last Sunday. KANGAROO RAT (MUMMIFICO) TcC A ntelope skull MOPN) Survey Shows 80 Per Cent Die In That Section Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Femekes, photographed Just after tliey were Freezing Weather Near en from death row and declared in- married by the Rev. Karl H. M. Gardner in Los Angeles, after a court Storm HitS ChicagO sane after he had shrieked the order had banned the rites.

Fernekes. who was arrested in El Paso, has senseless. oh, contin- been sent to San Quentin for one to 14 years as a forger. He leaped from CHICAGO Swirling souiheast- ually and stripped Ills clothes from a train near Phoenix while being returned to Los Angeles, and was ward at a rapid rate after laying recaptured in New Orleans. W.

M. Strong holding bones found in an Organ mountain cave north of El Paso. Tlie safest place to be born is in 4 A FI the territory bounded bv Fiedras. Fort Dyer and Pershing Drive. a map prepared Friday by Alex when Miss Sally Blake, a teacher, attempted to catch him.

Mrs. A. H. statistician, shows. Morse, principal, then called police.

his body in the dead of winter. Ate Ice Cream Confined to a sanitarium, he apparently became normal again. He was returned to his death cell. Again he feigned madness. The of Texas forbid a second sanity trial, but he maintained his role of a mad man and it was in 1 This is generally in the Some of the drugs stolen from the section known as Manhattan Heights I vain hope of a reprieve that he hospital were in like that in 3 Altura Park additions, among dug out his eves, wnich the Bailey suspect was re.irf.nti.i th.

ti carrying his The stolen narcotics were listed Powel! made a map showing loca- Morphme, 44 grains; codlne SIEBKE WINS COURT FIGHT Break Neck Pulling Him From Well a heavy blanket of snow over Central Canada and much of the Rocky mountain region, winter's first blasts swept into Chicago Friday. the temperature rapidly down to- the freezing point. The Rocky mountain region reported clearing skies with heavy frosts. Heavy fell In North Dakota, along the Canadian border. It was part of the general heavy snowfall that covered Central Can- M' I the better residential sections of the Three days ago he became calm Judge Grants PermlSSion tO Prem Lmged wire city.

and accepted hLs fate. During his Bulld Apartment LEVELLAND, a full ada, drifting so deep in many places fUMMIFIED kangaroo rata have been found in the sa.me cave in the Organ mountains, north of El Pa.so. in which prehistoric antelope skulls of a strange type, perhap)s 20,000 years old. have been unearthed. This became known rxiuay.

Skeletons of the rats are complete. down to the last toe. Scientists aay tl ey died within a modern lifetime. Border patrolmen and customs officers near Marfa dealt the South- w'est Texas oil field industry three heavy blows in one day when they arrested six men, seized four cars and confiscated nearly 2000 pints of various liquors worth $3500 at oil field rates, according to reports received at El Paso headquarters Friday. The liquor was intended for distribution in the oil fields around McCamey and San Angelo, officers said.

Two automobiles and four men were captured by border patrolmen a short distance south of Marfa when a rum running car crashed into a team and wagon on the highway. Officers arrested Cruz Ramos. Jesse Carrasco. Frcderico Alvarez and Mariano Mendias. Men who gave the names of Tommy Hughes and E.

L. Dodd were arrested when customs officers halted two heavy laden Cadillac sedans near Candelaria. One machine carried 34 five-gallon cans of alcohol, 23 one-gallon cans of alcohol and 133 pints of Juarez whisky. The second machine contained five- gallon cans of alcohol 36 pints of Juarez w'hisky and 650 pints of Juarez beer. STATE OFFICIAL SIGNS HOOCH CASE PETITION Lieutenant Governor's Name on Paper for K.

L. as: last hour of life Tliursday night, he joked with prison guards, ate day of rescue efforts, the body of that traffic was stopped. Royse Alvin Mauldin. 2. was recov- grains, panterpone, 20 1-3 dishes of ice cream and I W.

C. Siebke won his fight Fiiday Thursday from a wevw into i Civp Dip Whpn Aiitn smoked sevcral clears. i for the right to build an apartment which the child had fallen at the morphine and codine, 26 grams. show's that 80 per cent! He explained his action in goug- nme nf his nftrents near here StSllS IH SHOW Drift ome of his parents near here i. house at 3015 Altura.

of the deaths were the tracks, i mg out his eyes by quoting scrip- The child fell into the well. 14 I Judge P. R. Pnce issued a man- inches in diameter Wednesday night, thee, cLamus ordering the city building iii- I counting both south and east El i ture: I I nited Prt HA narti REGINA, Sask. Trapped in a while they apparently were trying in vain to reach this TEMPERATURES Police Captain Hunts For Drug Peddler 50 I thine eye offendeth thee, oraenng me cuy ouiiamg in- Mauldin, seeing the accident.

Police Capt. Mike Snider made a were three deaths In High- i pluck it i specior to issue a permit for con- rushed to the well She could touch round of elementary schools in plain Park and one in Kern Place, fellow in my fix has to try struction. baby's fingers, but before being Thursday Vo hLe tirished clothes afternoon and of the other baby deaths were almost everything he can to help judee Price held that the cltv did a We to grasp the child's hand Friday morning in seach of a drug i territory three or four blocks he said. a valid zoning ordinance enough to pull him out, he fell deep- peddler suspect who is believed to of the tracks in central and Kisses Cnicifir Xn Siebke applied Iot a hole have attempted to induce a BaUey I east El Paso. Seated in the electric chair and 8 to swallow dope! The map showing the section i with the straps adjusted, Shepard i ir lufn wurR.ru lu 44 24 Thur.sday.

south of the business district is said to the dozen guards and news-' rryer ana K- L. liberate the child, as pitful screai Capt. Snider said shortly after heavily marked with red spots, each papermen who witnessed his came up through the narrow hole Bowie school was he ar- denoting a baby death. fhl with hooks were dropped rested a voung man near the school! It iti this section that the city to thank all of you for down. Then as the men pulled on grounds and found a quantity of: now is concentrating the work of; the way you have treated me.

God; rlaL along about midnight, the narcotics in his Dosses.sion Snider I health inspectors in a clean up cam- be with As his last act, he' out juage rrice maae no said students identified man as Paisn. kissed a cmcifix held to his a peddler who had given several of i course there are fewer babies by Father Hugh Finnegan, prison if their number little white pills to in the Manhattan section of the chaplain. appeals swallow. I city than in heavily congested cen- The current was applied. He decision on per- HE prize of the finds is a portion of an antelope skull that has a double horn on each side instead of the usual single prong.

The horn cores rise in a V-shape from the skull, which is excellently preserved, due to the dryness of the cave where they were Mrs. Mauldin summoned help Cnicaifo and all night long men worked to D-iiver liberate the child, as pitful el paso S2 Kansas .50 36 Lo.s Angeles ..74 58 New Orleans 86 70 New York 74 Phoenjx 86 Roswell 68 44 San Ar.tor.io 88 66 Seattle 44 One set of horns had been broken off and had apparently strayed, perhaps centuries later, into the campfire of some prehistoric visitor to the cave, for it is blackened by fire, but still matches the rest of the skull. K. L. of El Faso was sentenced to 18 months at Leavenworth penitentiary on a plea of guilty to liquor law violatttm by Judge Charles A.

U. S. district court fYiday. Counsel for Arthofer presented a petition to Judge signed by Lt. Gov.

Bany Miller and severaJ other Dallas county citizens in Ylaiio Garcia and Jose Ortiz were freed on an instructed jury verdict connection with the seizure oi more than 60 gallons of Juarez whisky near the Tres Jacales crossing of the Rio Grande Sept. 19. cries of the child suddenly stopped. Fearful that he had been injured, this method of rescue was stopped. A sliaft was sunk alongside the well and when rescuers reached In 1924 Capt.

Snider said he ar- 1 Powell said in pointing out pronounced dead within six min- rested a student, with 25 grains of the section free from baby utes. monihine in his possession. He was reason Shepard's body was taken to a Denies Writing Cooksey Letters; Resents Charge sent to prison. the decision. Property owners in the 3000 Examination dLscIosed his arm and neck had been broken, appar- "If she had anrthing sue her there were no deaths there.

The city where he un-: entiv bv the ropes with which rescue fnr map that in the sections claimed as lie had neither friends Prate.sted agaimst slander. Ethel Pcter.san qpHE cave was discovered by Roscoe P. Conkiing. El Paso mining engineer, who had made other important archaeological discoveries in this vicinity. The field crew of the Los Angeles, Museum has been working in the cave.

W. M. Strong, museum field chief, was in the exploration party. TROOPS MOVE TO BAHIA FOR FIGHT Expect Brazil Clash at City of San Salvador Wn Roal nannor where parents live who are able: nor relatives. PouMj babies the proper care, i Arizona.

10 bcnool Children i there are very few Allen Hughey, superintendent 1 ----------------------------of schools, said Friday he does not i WOMAN OFFERS REWARD believe El Paso school students are! in danger of being approached on He formerly lived in school grounds by dope peddlers be cause of a strict vigilance kept on the grounds by teacher supervisors. Des Moines Wife Wants Information About Her Husband Reward of $100 has been offered POLICE HUNT FOR BANDITS erection of an apartment house, contending it would depreciate the value of their homes. attempted. SIXTH TYPHOID VICTIM Maybeth Janis Latest Victim of Disease in El Paso Another typhoid death, the sixth STUDENTS ASK ABOUT POWERS i Southworth Alden. Dcs Holdup Men Take Jewels and 5 year.Vai the city replied Friday to charges made against her in Judge Ballard Cold- w'ell's court by Mrs.

Christina Cooksey during the Cooksey divorce trial Thursday. anything about me and I certainly make her prove what she Mr.s. Peterson continued. never wrote letters to Mr. Cooksey, as she said, "I wasn't a spectator.

I was DEAD WOMAN NAMED HEIR Cash Worth $1500 for men, who blocked a bridge on the highway near Finley with an automobile and robbed Mr. and Mrs. health department Friday. Latest victim is Maybeth Jarvis, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

B. C. Jarvis, 4329 Clifton. proach children on the playgrounds: Moines, for return of her hus- without being detected almost im-: 1 3 news from him. according by the he a letter received Friday by Juarez 3 police and highway ea.se at Bailey school TTiurs- disappeared from Juarez Friday day showed the alertness of the lajt and his wife believes' teachers.

Muss Blake chased the niet with foul play. iHHeii from tiip of sl fotmd he had a chnace to do anv near Juarez tallies closelv with that 1 touri.sts from St. Louis, i council Friday to grade Savannah of her husLnd she Marciai to Copia. He said OUng FriOndS TelOphOriG to called there by an attorney to testify about a check Caroline Justice Houston Gets $2180 Share Mrs. Caroline Justice Houston, who died here Oct.

28. 1928. inherits Vnitf '4 PrrMg T.rnAfd PORTO ALEGRE, forces advanced southward Frida on Sao Salvador, coastal capital of the state of Bahia, where federal troops were entrenched to meet them. While rebels continued to concentrate troops in the south for the march on Sao Paulo and Rio De Janiero, insurgent headquarters announced important advances by northern rebel troops under Gen. Juarez Tavora.

who captured fhe coastal city of Aracaju. The city is some 180 miles north of Sao Salvador STREET GRADING ASKED W. Cooley petitioned the city To his knowledge, Hughey said. there have been no ca.ses of dope having been sold to school children. at $1500.

that houses will be con- Detectives they were certain i structed on the street if it is opened. of the former American conusul in The real danger lie.s in peddlers, juarez, will for Ghent, Bel- who often try to marihuana gium from New York, Nov. 7, to re- TO REJOIN HUSBAND Mrs. W. M.

Parker Mitchell, wife over their faces, were El Pasoans. One of the holdup men blocked a APARTMENT LOOTED Myra Robin.son, of 314 E. Missouri, i bridge. will my husband think Numerous friends and acquain- Uiis publicity? He is a rail- tanccs call Hotel Dieu every hour Carrizozo and $2180 from the estate of her niece, with inquiries as to tlie condition Yf to go up therjo explain Maibelle Heikes Justice. New York, of Tom 67.

veteran El Just March 11. 1926. Pasoan, who is fighting against i court hunting up; portion of the estate, valued at' death from a bullet wound in hLs scandal. $19.625. is made up of $7500.

part left lung. i became the center the mixed Many of the collers are boy claims commis.sions between girl students of El Paso States and Germany for the that he befriended while acting Cooksey asived Judge Coldwell; Anne C. Shvmer. who lost school officer on the Santa Fe St. wa7 smSg Lusitania was tor- U.

s. Cruiser to Take Americans From Brazil I 1 easrd Wirr WASHINGTON The cruiser Pemsacola was ordered Friday to proceed southward from Trinidad to the Brazilian coast to evacuate any Americans who desire to leave the revolution-torn Country, it was learned at the state department. narrow bridge with a sedan! told detectives Friday her apart- cigarettes to children in S. El Paso, hu.sband, who I a purse and revolver and halted the Fisher car. jewelry.

he said. at Ghent. Mrs. Parker Mitchell has Teachers of grade schools have been visiting her mother-in-law at been warned to caution their stu- i Richmond, Va. HLs condition was reported Friday oL to be the same" Physicians Peterson left can te plentv atout her Mrs Germans.

Mtiy 7, 1915. Mrs. Shymer was Miss The latter's estate wa.s filed for say lie may recover. dents against buying from peddlers, either candy or food, and to warn them against talking vlth strangers on school grounds, the superintendent $500 PLEDGED FOR EL PASO MUSEUM WANTS TRASH CAN PERMIT The El Paso Sign Co. asked the city council Friday for a permit to place trash cans on street corners in the busine.ss di.sirict.

'The cans would display advertising. The council deferred action until Monday. New Pastor Reads Thrillers, Plays Golf, Says Prohi Law Not Success the court room. and I can tell plenty about, Mr.s. Peterson replied as she left the room.

WAGON LOOKING FOR JOB Mrs. HoiLston died without leaving a will. Atty. M. Winningham was ham her of Commerce Women to Widen Campaign for Funds F.

M. FREEMAN, new pastor of Trinity Methodist church, plays golf and likes detective stories. Dr. Freeman arrived in El Paso i from Texarkana late Thursday. He i TROOPS TO MANEUVERS Seventh and Eighth Ft.

made the trip by auto with his wife. Bliss, comprising the Second Cav- Dr. and Mrs. Freeman are stopping With $500 already pledged, and! brigade, vill leave the at Hotel del Norte, more expected, according to Mrs. S.

i Monday for five days of maneuvers The pastor is tall and youth- H. Southerland, the divi- and a sham battle under the direc- ful appearing. He has been preach-1 sion of the Chamber of Commerce; tion of Gen. Walter C. Short.

will intensify its drive for what is ---------------------------to be known as the Internationa! C.4RELESSNESS CH.4RGED museum to be built here, it was an- Orders of formal imprisonment! where he was stationed five years, nounced at a breakfast at Hotel were issued in Juarez penal court i the church paid for a $75,000 an- ing for 20 years. He has the reputation of being a church builder. In Texarkana, Paso del Norte. against Silvestre accused of nex, built a $20,000 parsonage and Pleas for planting of trees and criminal carele.s.'sness in comiection redecorated and repaired the church beautification of highways were with injuries to Angel Duran, who building while he was pastor. made by Albion Jones and I was run down by a car driven by A new church building for Trln- Henry E.

Ansley. Other speakers Rios. ity is planned during his pastorate. included Po.stmaster H. C.

Kramp. He refused to discuss plans, stating E. W. Kay.ser. president of the; THREE ASK DIVORCES that he does not know conditions Cliamber of Commerce, and C.

M. Divorce suits filed; Lottie W. here. Xewman, Mr. O.scar Gutsch and Wilsford vs.

T. F. Wilsford, J. A. Dr.

Freeman was much In Herman Rosch gave a musi- Barger vs. Armanell Barker and mand in Texarkana a.s a luncheon eal program. Visitors included Inaura J. Richards vs. Henry T.

i club He was a member of Andres Ortiz. Gustavo Serrano, and Richards. the Lions club. He is a member of William P. Blocker.

EMBEZZLEMENT HARGED MOOLVERTON RETURNS Dcteciive Capt. W. C. Woelver- mbezzling S25 from John Lynes, it is a step in the right direction. a local que.stion about which I am not he said.

exprcs.s my opinion before I know the situation." Mrs Peterson charged Mrs. Cook- administrator of her es- sey took dishes from her and Mrs. I Cooksey retaliated by saying Mrs. share is Miss Dersie Fay Hons- Peterson wrote letters to Cooksey, I ni! a-king him to pay for the dishes. Hayes Fulfills Election Bet by Buying Stinson.

Beer States Telephone Telegraph a daughter. Tlie late Schuyler C. Houston, captain of police, was a Mrs. S. S.

Remer and Mrs. J. A Jury lu 4Ut (U.Mnct court was 5 3 3 Medicine Park. arc JI KY FAILS TO TV V- a to agree in the $2830 dam- daukhters. Dr.

Freeman said he is especially age suit brought by W. D. Dykes interested in getting young people into the church. "The future of the church depends on getting young folk.s interested in church work." he said. like Sunday school work and be- lleve in promoting a certain amount of athletics to interest young people in coming to church." Dr.

PTeeman said his favorite diversions are golf and fi.shing. He dwsn't play miniature golf, however. He likes to read detective stories and good fiction to rest his mind after reading theology and "heavy" matter, he said. have to do so much heavv against C. L.

Forsythe and was dismissed. kes asked the amount for injuries received when a bus owned by turned over. Dykes was a passenger. REVOLT IN CHIAPAS ASK $7480 DAMAGES Federico Parra and Donaciano Lozano filed suit Friday in 4lst district court for $7480 agalnsi the El Paso Macaroni alleging a con- tiact to furnish them with the entire output of the macaroni factory ha.s not kept. Revolution Aimed Only at Mexico State Heads TAKE HANDBAG Mr.s.

Henry McDonnell. 3124 reading that I find it diverting to rniwted her home was REV. F. M. niEEMAN Masonic orders.

Dr. Freeman said he think she will solve this Dr. teaching. Jos. E.

Collins was charged with prohibition Is a succes.s. but believes man said. He refu.sed to sav what hi.s attl- pick up a gtKKl detective story," Mrs. Freeman takts an active parr in church work. She interests herself In mlssion.s and Sunday school eno'red and a handbag and valuable Pm A I.i'a»*' MEXICO rebel movement against officials of the state of Chiapas whs reported Friday from San Cristobal, Chiapa.s.

in dispatches received by La Picnsa here. Reports said the movement started in Com it an. near the Guatema- Ian frontier, aimed at the adminis- tration of Gov. Ray Mundo Enri- qiiez. Local authonties were said to have Lloyd Hayes and Hubert C.

Stinson, the two farmer boys from Sanger, who gained a name as the wagon had finally settled their bet on the last primary election. Friday. Meeting at the Lobby Na 2 cafe in Juarez, Hayes bought Stinson a giant McGinty, the last act in the fulfillment of his bet which had obligated him to pull Stinson to El Paso in a toy wagon, when he unwisely chose Ferguson as winner of the election. The boys are looking for a job. They are at room 301, Hotel Hiiss- mann.

The Post Today stolen from the been deposed, but no attempts had been made against federal officers. FR TO VISIT JUAREZ Robert ETazer, new American Dr. and Mrs. Freemen have a son consul general in Mexico City, will. vice consul in Juarez and Chihua- in Heiidrick.s Conway, visit the consulate the' hua City, who at VK OUNSUL Wm.

B. IJouglas, former American Brings to you the food advertising of El Paso merchants and nationally known products. For selection turn to pages 2, 8. 11, 12, 13, i 14, 15 and 20. Post ton rcti'incd to duty iol- in a coinpjaiiv filed in county alway.s has Ix'cn able to turu will be on the of clos- and another son in near future, ac-ordint: to mxoniia- Malaga.

Spain, been transferred lowing a busine.ss trip to at-law Friday. solve, her problems and I beliew ing hum of the international bridge, at Ft. Worth tion received Juarez. lo Sevilla, Spain, Food Pages I I.

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