El Paso Evening Post from El Paso, Texas • Page 16

PAGE EL PASO EVENING POST MAY 7. 1930 As Moon Blackened Eye MOTHER KILLS Vanguard of Byrd Expedition Reached N. Y. LIBRARY GIVEN FROST LOOKS LIKE VILLAGE TORN BY WAR Jexas Town Laid in Ruins By Storm; Damage Two Millions By RICHARD L. HARKXESS Cnltrd Press Staff Corrrspondent FROST, once thriving town resembled a war-tom village Wednesday after nature had rushed against it with its worst Wijid.

Relief workers plodded through its ruins, seeking victims of a tornado which had leveled every business building In the town of 1200 persons. Twenty-three dead have been identified and it was believed others lay crushed in the debris of 38 demolished business structures and 50 homes. Damase Old Sol. fiery bachelor of the sky. looked like an unlucky pujilist with The damage here was estimated a discolored eye when the mwn swept across its path carsmg a partial away from the window and at $2 000 000 eclipse, visible throughout the United States, and a total eclipse, seen Members of reUef agencies worked over a narrow strip of the northwest.

Students are above at aU night in the glare of camp fires: Columbia university observing the eclipse as it was reflected on a card- which illuminated a scene of stark i board through the lens of a huge telescope. A photograph of the eclipse 7CHIL0REN (Continued from Paire 1) always do what is right. Listen to older advice. It will always be for your good whatever is told you. am so tired.

I go on, and no one to care for the rest is why I take them. I want you to go to church. Do as you are taught, and try to live this down." Ten of the children were at home when she finished. Mildred Geller, 17, daughter by her first marriage, she sent to a grocery. Vernon, 12, was sent to mind the newt, stand.

The others prepared for bed. Daughter Screams What followed is not quite clear. It appeared that she shot the younger children they were asleep, and then called the others, one by one, to an upstairs bedroom, and shot them in the heart with a caliber rifle, a towel held over the muzzle to muffle the sound. Elaine, 9, seeing her brothers and sisters lying dead as she entered the room, had time to run to a window. help, mother is killing us she screamed- A outside paid no attention.

Elaine was Eight members of the Byrd expedition, the vanguard of the main party now on its way home from Antarctica. are pictured above as they reached New York on the ice-battered whaler C. A. Larsen. Left to right are: Arthur T.

Walden, chief dog driver; Dr, Vacio Votisch, geologist; Martin Honne, seaman; Norman D. Vaughan, dog driver; Walter Leuthner, seam an; Clare D. Alexander, supply officer; and Edward Goodale, dug driver. In the foreground are one of the dog sleds and a canine member of the e.xpedition. desolation.

The touTi of Frost went about its business as usual Tuesday, never dreaming what the fates had in store for it. Late In the afternoon a dark cloud appeared from the south and another from the west and converged upon the helpless community such suddenness that most of the victims were trapped in their homes with no knowledge of the impending disaster. Fire Breaks Out Immediately after the storm fire broke out in the ruins of the business section. A lightning bolt was believed responsible for the conflagration. A heavy Quenched the flames but soon after another fire broke out in the residential district, adding to the horrors of the catastrophe.

Volunteer iire fighters succeeded in extinguishing the flames and began the task of providing relief. Children Escape More than a score of persons, mostly children, were believed have been injured. as seen from New York is shown in the inset. El Paso. It looked the same way in en or they sustained internal injuries, caused by timbers crashing: on them.

National guardsmen from Corsi-' cana, 20 miles distant, patrolled tlie street during the night and Salva-; tion Army camps were set up. where the relief workers were served sandwiches and coffee. 65 KILLED BY TEXAS TORNADO Tried to Kill Self The other children the mother killed were: Earven Geller, 15; Eleanor, Wayne, 6, and the twins, Alice and Allen, 3. Mrs. next act was to undress the children, dress them in clean night clothes, and lay them in bed.

Then she attempted to kill herself. Fruessage in Bottle Tells Of Tragedy on High Seas ELECT REPRESENTATIVE Je.sus Benavides Named from Third District By Socialist Party (Continued from Page 1) with the greatest violence by the i'nitcfi ti Witr 1928. The crew was a mixture of Jesus F. Benavides was elected NEW story of hatred, FUipincs, Rumanians and Japanese, representative of the third district sudden fighting and death on the; which got on none too well Chihuahua Socialist party in high seas on board a freighter i When the ship was 1400 miles off at installation ceremonies bound from New Orleans to Brazil i the coast of Brazil, a Rumanian; home. 117 Mejia.

Jose carried in a bottle from the; fireman attacked the chief engineer Gutierrez, vice mayor of Juarez, Carribean Sea to with a red hot burner and the chief Vernon was still at the news stand. where it was picked up by defended himself with a monkey He other newsboys shouting i Douglas H. Shepherd, keeper of the; wrench. He killed the fireman, but had earlier papers to wood End lighthoase there, and died from burns. Feeling ran high.

VALUED FILES Major Burges Donates Copies Of Newspaper Maj. Richard Burges. E3 Paso attorney, has donated his 1877-1917 files of the Galveston Dallas News to the El Paso public library. Mrs, Maud D. Sullivan, librarian, announced Wednesday.

There are 230 bound volumes in the file. A special fireproof room will be built under the north porch of the building to house the collection. This will be completed about June 5. can scarcely be doubted that the Galveston-Dallas News is, over the more than half century period covered, the mast important daily nevi-spaper tliat has been issued in Texas," said Major Burges. is not probable that there are half a dozen equally complete newspaper files in the Major Burges purchased the early years of the file from J.

A. Neill, pioneer Seguin blacksmith and Justice of the peace, and one of Major boyhood friends. purchase was made in 1902. Smce then Major Burges has maintained the file himself at his Ei Paso law office. Directors of the library and Mrs.

Sullivan regard the gift as one of the most important donations to the librarj' in recent years. and general representative of the party, was in charge of the cere- Gains Freedom From Handcuffs Two hundred and fifty children storm, which was driving humanity attending school escaped injury. i shelter over almost half The tornado ripped the roof off "tate. the school building but not a single i Tells of Storm child was hurt. Tw-enty-one persons were saved i from almost certain death when, wind had gathered momentum they shut themselves into vaults of throughout the afternoon.

dispose of and paid no attention. Then one of the newsboys recognized him and called the attention I of a newspaper reporter to him, and he was taken home. Dry-eyed and stunned, he watched the bodies of his seven brothers and sisters placed in hearses. forwarded to the Church Institute in New York. Here.

18 months later, the man who threw the bottle into the when he feared he would never PILGELMS IN TUNIS I'nltnl mxrd II French liner Roch- He wTote a message giving his! nnr .10 tho t-iiirrto nf tha to the 30th mtcmational Eu- the food was confiscated, and Kim- moas felt he might not see port again. Federal officials Wednesday were searching for a man with hands so small handcuffs won't hold them. LuLs Ramirez, charged with poe- session of liquor, quietly slipped the handcuffs from his hands as he wajs being marched to jail with 13 other the two banks. WEBB IN WASHINGTON Grover C. Webb, chief mounted too rapid for fear and too vast for 1 customs inspector, was in Washing-: but unconnected accounts to ton conferring with departmental For the most heads about customs patrol work, part their legs and arms were brok- according to dispatches to the Post.

Persons jcked about mild Then, about nightfall, fear to creep in as limbs parted frcm trees and a preternatural darkness descended. The real destruction, however, was! Would Kill All Persons Earning Seaman Larry Kimmons, 28, ped it overboard. when ped as oiler on the freighter when he called at the institute, he found it left New Orleans in September, the message. from Italy, The arrival of the Deputy U. S.

marshals said this is the firsi they have known a of pilgrims fiom all prisoner here to escape by just pull- of the world. dav. Edgar Bowman of Frost, tells the Lennf Bernard clouds cure for poverty would be to kill everyone earning less than S3000 a and INCE Ben Franklin said and many level-headed persons have opened Savings Accounts. And many have blessed the adage that showed them the way to financial solidity. We invite you to ''Save and with us eL PASo NATIONAL BANK TEXAS and STANTON Your It! story: were two large which moved toward Frost.

I was! year or wanting more, G. Sylvester watching frcm the The i Viereck quoted the dramatist as clouds seemed to come together and saying, in his new book, "Glimpses it became black outside. I saw noth-; of the Giant Chorus to Sing July 4 at Teacher Meeting after that but I heard a noise like an explosion. flew through the air. houses, limbs, people, I suppose.

It was over quickly and quieter. I could hear people shouting. The rain came down in one continuous sheet. It was difficult to walk, because the town was strewn about at one's 100 AbUene Gale The gale raced 100 miles an hour through Abilene. and was with biting sand.

Damage to McMurry college there alone was expected to reach $10.000. lilt- I'rt fi COLUMBUS. Hoover, or General John J. Pershing, 10.000 school children and a chorus of 2000 voices will glorifv this vears DANCE BY CANDLE LIGHT Fourth of July for the thou.sands of teachers and who will at' tend the annual convention of the i National Education here i from June 28 to July 4. Plans for the holiday, which Columbus will dedicate to the national Ad Club in Is Dark Affair at llassmann Although it was a in Paris" without an Apache dance, there was plenty of atmosphere to the party of i organization, are being prepared by the El Paso Advertising club in the; committee.

4 Kittens Joined Together at Birth Prt 9 it'fi-' rr EAVER DAM. kittens, joined by abdominal attachments, are on display the farm of Geo. Kukok near here. The kitten.s are other visitors to the farm say. and seem to be as playful as ordinary kittens.

No two have the same color markings. GOLD TEETH SAVE MAN FROM CHARGE WIFE WINS DIVORCE A decree divorcing Dixie B. Ose- ing his hands out of the iiandcuffs. MEMBERS TO BE GUESTS New Asbury Methodist church land from Chas. Harold Oseland was; members will be guests at an organ recorded in 34th district court Wed- recital by Mrs.

Nellie Jarvis. Re- nesday. Mrs. Oseland was awarded! freshments will be served at a so- custody of a minor child. Maudie.

hour following th erecital. ballroom of the Hotel Hussmann: Tuesday night. On rough-hewn tables were bottles which held candles, and in this Lesser to property was shadowy, flickering light couples at Childress, Kirkland and: until midnight, when lunch Austin. Ft. Mineral Howard Ray, commer- Wells, Ennis and Bowie.

I director of KTSM, and Russ Through rich pasture lands of the program director of i state another toll was taken. Hun- DAH, supplied the vaudeville dreds of head of livestock lay dead in fields where bits of houses and The celebration will be presented in the mammoth Ohio University stadium capable of seating more than 85.000 persons. Borger Police Say Suspect Not Held in EI Paso i ii I due to Acid I mo sti I I When a Child is everish ross pset A mouth full of gold saved Baxter Tuesday from being returned to Borger. Te.x.. to answer charges of forgery of $6500 worth of checks.

trees were strewn in grotesque disorder. SET WEDDING DATE -i L-rtf HOLLYWOOD. Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon Wednesday were making preparations for their wedding. which is scheduled to be per- Sgt. Chas.

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She plans to proceed to Aleppo Thursday. formed at the home of the mother, Mrs. Phyllis Daniels, on June 14, WATERLOO GAINS THE CASTLE Always Leads with Jaan ftOd Joan and Anita JUAN and ANITA LUCAY The Aristocrats of Class Dance Teams KNOWN ON TWO CONTINENTS for Their SENSATIONAL, THRILLING DANCING! Appearing NIGHTLY With Castle tiring from all executive capacities' in his companies. of the City of Waterloo gamed 9739, To encourage the use of tractors 27 per cent, during the decade farms the Polish government is; since 1920. Don P.

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HOLD TORRES FOR JFRY Jesus Toires was held for the grand on a SIOOO bond when arraigned before Peace Justice A. J. Vvilson on a charge of stealing clothing valued at more than S50 from an automobile owned by R. J. Owen, a tourist.

request to pick up Norman Smith, a gambler. Later at i)olice headquarters Baxter wa.N found to have a set gold teeth. He said he was Norman Smith's brother. Borger authorities said Norman Smith had no gold teeth. Detectives decided to hold Smith for inve.stigation of a $100 check he had in his pockei.

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