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El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 5

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Page Monday March 18 1940 EL PASO HERALD-POST HOLD EVERYTHING TOURING WITH PYLE- Woman Stabs Mate to Death SUPPER OPENS A DRIVE Workers Will Meet Tonight At 6:15 to Start Roundup I Airline Pioneer Lost Eye Fighting Honduran Rebels Lowell Ye rex Who Started TACA With $25 and One Airplane Hates Publicity and Was Shot Down by Germans in World War MAYOR BELIEVES RAIL RE-ROUTING SUIT NECESSARY Says For Project Is Issue To Be Decided By United Preit HOUSTON March Mrs Mary Treacy Nunnelee 24 was free under $2000 bond today on a charge of stabbing to death her husband Eugene 24 with his hunting knife According to Police Capt George Peyton Mrs Nunnelee admitted stabbing her husband a welder in their room last night during a quarrel The couple had been married 18 months 1 Mrs Nunnelee said in a statement to Captain Peyton that Nunnelee had been away from home all day and that she finally found him in a tavern near their home The annual roundup of members will start at 6:15 pm today with a chuck wagon supper at the Central Sheriff Fox will be the speaker Armed with the slogan "Brand a 100 workers will set out to get 600 members for the organization All report meetings will be based on western theme They will be held Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday By ERNIE PYLE Its high spot In '33 Yerex put in Krrippt-Howsrd Spying Reporter a inn to Salvador In '34 he bought TEGUCIGALPA Honduras I out the national line in Nicaragua have written about TACA Airlines I in 35 he bought the Guatemalan without ever having laid eyes on lines In 36 he went into British Lowell Yerex the founder presi- Honduras dent general manager and one and In he made his important only man respon- contract with Wrigley to move nil si hie for the the chicle (base for chewing' gum) whole thing out of the Peten jungles In Our paths have he contracted with Nicaraguan crossed and re- mines to move 4000000 pounds of crossed but we freight each year for five years never got togeth- er He is as hard FLEW TO NIAGARA FALLS to put your finger ON HONEYMOON on as a Central jN he bought up the three ex- American flea 1 jsting air lines in Costa Rica But I do know his story He is 45 And 11118 year he oes into Panama years old He was with a fast daily international ser-born in Welling-1 vice from one end of Central Amer-ton New Zealand I ica tQ he other and ran away from home at 15 He came to America and went to Val- Yerex maintop his headquarters paraiso University in Indiana vast mechanical shops here in He taught school in North Dakota I Tegucigalpa He has a lovely nev He learned to fly with the Royal 1116 on the hillside outside of 'town looking down on the airport Flying Corps in Canada fought in I MYSTERY STABBING John Gomez 23 stabbed in the I abdomen by one of three unidentified assailants was reported in fair I condition today by City-County Hospital officials Mr Gomez who lives at 502 East Ninth street was questioned by officers at the hospital but he was I unable to throw much light on the stabbing He said he did not know who the three men were who ac- costed him CV-tf-' Mrs Baker I see why the woman 1 love can't come out and SLAYER IS ELECTROCUTED i CITY SLATES FOR APRIL NAMED Preparations Made for Vote In Municipalities A test suit may be necessary to determine El rights in asking railway companies to re-route their freight trains through Soull El Paso it developed today The possibility of a legal encounter between the City and the railroad companies arose as Mayor Anderson announced engineers have -nearly completed rough estimates on the cost of the proposed re-routing of the trains The proposal considered off and on for a number of years as a means of eliminating traffic congestion in the downtown district if carried through will result in the laying of a track from a point west of the railroad depot east along Sixth street to Cotton where it will again join the present tracks Reasonable Necessity Mayor Anderson said there was some question as to whether a municipality had the right to order a rah way company to spend or more dollars' re-routing its tracks because of a traffic situation The law -I believe says that if there is a for the re-routing railroads can be made to pay for the the Mayor explained someone will have to decide what constitutes a he added The Mayor agreed that a test suit brought by the City against the railroads to determine the rights of both parties might be the ultimate solution Mlist Get Cost we have the estimate of what the re-routing will cost the City won't be in a position to tell the railroads what it the Mayor explained expect within a few days to have the rough estimates of what the re-routing would cost if done the way the City proposes to have it The Mayor said a similar survey was made years ago and that at that time the estimated cost of the re-routing was or four mil-ion He said he had no idea what this estimate would be but added he expected it would "run higher than million Texas Youth Goes to Death In Penitent Mood Narrator Herel For Passion Play Mark Haight narrator of the Oberammergau Passion Play film was in El Paso today to appear with the picture today at 8 at Liberty Hall The film is being presented by the Pilot Club It will give El Pasoans an opportunity to see the Bavarian players in action as they appear in the original annual play which thousands go hundreds of miles to see France was shot down and captured 1 he loPed with a Honduran by the Germans came After the war he barnstormed in 11Ley 6lear to Ni California and made money sold Ta118 for their honeymoon autos in Santa Fe and lost i mawJa Irus irom xiis New Mexico dsys it worked xor in sir lino in Mexico I ttj vi At lAV)A A to? I Hls mother is here with him now In 1931 three youn xellovs with I i a on a visit from New Zealand but co hired him to fy them to to conditions rriYed there Yerex is tall a handsome man they saw they could make money Hia bad not noticeable He i0r Ihas a sort of stammer in his speech He is shy with strangers if AFTER distrust ol publicity and only recently permit- THEY did make money and they ted TACA to have a publicity man spent it so fast they forgot to And so disciplined was this man pay tneir pilot He finally took part that he wrote a long article about ownership in the plane for his back TACA for an aviation magazine pay That was the beginning of I without mentioning Yerex once TACA In 1931 Lowell Yerex had $25 Today he is a millionaire with-1 COVERS CENTRAL A3IERICA By United Pret HUNTSVILLE March Rickman 22 Collin County youth who killed Motorcycle Patrolman Marion Taylor at McKinney two years ago died in the Texas electric chair today His last words were of penitence am sorry for all the trouble I have the diminutive slayer said as prison guards Strapped him in the death chair A few minutes later he was dead Rickman killed Uatrolman Taylor on March 2 1938 after the officer had ordered him to get out of a the youth had commandeered at gunpoint in Dallas LIKE OFFICE FLOOR out benefit of tricks or manipula- RUGS need CLEANING too! By ASSOCIATED PRESS More slates of candidates were being put in the field as New Mexico prepared today for its April municipal elections Santa Rosa Alamogordo and Vaughn were the scenes of the most recent announcements In Alamogordo these two tickets were named at mass meetings: People's Ticket Hugh Shields for mayor Pruitt Osborne Robert Ostic and Herman Howerton for councilmen Loggains for mayor John Rollahd Robert Searcy Garrett all incumbents and James Telles for councilmen In Santa Rosa Democrats met Sunday night and made the following nominations: For mayor Lewis A Thurston for clerk Isauro Padilla for councilman Joe Campos Harvey McMullen Frank Encinias and Manuel Medley The Santa Rosa Democrats unloosed a blast at a ticket previously announced by Republicans as follows: For mayor Alton Harden for clerk John Coury for councilmen A Chavez Hutchins A Sierra and George A Smith Jr In Vaughn reports were heard that a fusion ticket might be named to contest against this Democratic slate: For mayor Kranna- witter for councilmen A 'B Straughan Fred Widman Charles Panebouef and David Crespin for treasurer Mrs Mae Miller PLAY ANNOUNCED rEREX has his own single-motored Bellanca plane and he I covers the seven Central American countries as you or I would cover Soon he had to buy a couple more fl0or of an office Frequently planes hire some pilots He had tolars Yerex goes with him if she form a company Transposes she hasn't the remotest A Centro Americanos or I idea where he is at any given time TACA He despises his office work but In 1938 he was called in by both I does manage to get it done be-the incoming and outgoing presi- tween trips He often takes the dents of Honduras to help put down American and British ministers to an attempt to grab the government lhese countries on duck-hunting trips down to the coast He went out in his plane to scout Desplte the fact that TACA today and bomb While he was flying low has 500 employes with operations a rifle bullet came through the cabmanagers and division managers in floor and ripped across his fore- and big lawyers and everything it head I is still wholly a one-man line No Yerex fell unconscious across the TACA executive makes a majo stick but revived in time to land decision on his own Everything the plane The hemorrhage de- waits for Yerex Ftroyed his right eye Some weeks TACA is ambitious It is taking later he went to the States and got I better than a million dollars a a glass eye He still flies as much year and wants to take in more and as well as he ever did Yerex would like to extend across TACA continued to grow Every lh New Cleans enter- vear from that day to this has had tne Any such move would bring bit ter opposition from Pan American Airways I hope the two concerns never really tangle Both of them are great companies doing a necessary and magnificent job and any I brawl between them would inevit- ably wind up with somebody seri- This tourist calendar published ously wounded Try letting your hair go without washing as long as you let your rugs go without cleaning and when you run the comb through it and see how dirty it is remember your hair have to take the punishment of muddy shoes and greasy articles dropped on it However you need to have your rugs cleaned as often as you wash your hair Just semi rugs or carpets to Du Sang One thorough cleaning by their modern methods lasts a long time and it's really inexpensive Call Main 3999 today Upholstering Furniture Refinishing Other Wise will be presented by the young people of he Trinity Methodist Church at 8 Wednesday in the church auditorium Miss Charlotte Dell has arranged the production of the religious drama The cast is composed of Nell Zink Barnwell Beverly Quick Margaret Hammond Virginia Smith Grover Stewart Ted Cone Bob Stewart Bruce Crowell Tommy Fisehart Gilbert Amis Edgar Head Charles Antene Eugene Bourland and Gordon Black arigs Upholstery Cleaning HEADS SCHOOL BOARD Mrs II Nesbitt of Anthony has been re-elected president of the i board of trustees for the Anthony Union High School I MAIN 3999 USE HERALD-POST WANT ADS FOR RESULTS Cbmf vm yy each Monday in The Herald-Post will give you an idea where to go if you want to follow the crowd during the following two weeks You will want to keep up with it from week to week especially when the -vacation season begins March 2-23 Ski championship events at Aspen 'March National Orange Show at San Bernardino Cal March 15-May CALIFORNIA Spring garden tours every Friday of private estates at Santa Barbara and Montecito March 15 to Slay CALIFORNIA Horse racing at Tanforan March ALIFORNI A Junior championships at Yosemite March Ritual dancing of Yaqui Indians at Phoenix March 18-19 TEXAS Howard County 4-H Club Show at i Spring March 20 TEXAS Ward County Fat Stock Show at Monahans March 21-23 TEXAS A a 1 Hereford Show at Odessa March West Texas County Judges and Commissioners convention at San Angelo March 22-23 EL PASO Engineering Convention at the College of Mines March 24 EL PASO Easter Sunrise Services at El Paso High School Stadium March Mardi Gras in Old Mexico Nogales March 25 27 TEXAS South Plains Junior Fat Stock Show at Lubbock March CALIFORNIA California Desert Calvalcade Rodeo and Fiesto at Calexico March 28 TEXAS Nolan County Fat Stock Show at Sweetwater March 28-31 ARZONA Fiesta del Sol and Horse Show at Phoenix March 29 30 and 31 EL PASO Southwestern Championship Rodeo March 29 30 31 April EL PASO Southwestern Livestock Show March 30 CALIFORNIA Ehr-man Giant Slalom Trophy Ski Race at Yosemite March TEXAS Twenty-first District American Legion convention at Del Rio Chesterfield is Definitely Milder Cooler-Smoking Better-Tasting Cigarette Flying East or West North or South always find Chesterfields a favorite of the airways never want to try another cigarette when you get to know right combination of the best tobaccos You buy a better cigarette NEW FRATERNITY The College of Mines has a chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon na- tional honorary geology fraternity following installation ceremonies at I the college Saturday night Dr Fred Bullard of the University of Tex-1 as was in charge of installation Julius Carrera Enrique Escue- dro John Hesler Bernard Kerly Charles King Daniel del Sobral Salvador Trevino and Howard Wiley are charter members of the Mines chapter More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here is pleasant way to overcome I loose plate discomfort FASTEETH an improved powder sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so (hat they feel more comfortable No gummy gooey pasty taste or feeling alkaline (non-acid) Does not sour Checks (denture breath) Get FASTEETH today at any drug store I Adv v- COOLER-SMOKING BETTER-TASTING DEFINITELY MILDER CIGARETTE Copyright 1940 Liwett St Myfbs Tobacco Co.

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