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jl vr Home Edition THREE CENTS IN EL PASO FIVE CENTS OUTSIDE EL PASO TWENTY PAGES i Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and4 tomorrow EL PASO TEXAS FRIDAY NOV 1 1935 Jidow Is Bride at 70 PROPERTY Liquor Bottle Evidence in Fatal Crash Hearing 4 MINIMUM AGE SET FOR CAR OPERATOR EASTERN IS SHAKEN BY LIGHTQUAKE No Damage Reported After Thousands Flee Homes Broken Glass From Headlight of Auto Also Offered in Preliminary Trial On Hit-Skip Charge BRITISH IN ROME WRECKED BY STUDENT MOBS Windows Broken Signs Smashed When Young Fascists Storm Stores and Tea Rooms In League Sanctions Hitback KING GIVES ENDORSEMENT TO DUCE'S WAR Monarch in Speech Refutes Rumor He Has Split With Dictator Over Armed Campaign To Conquer Ethiopians BULLETIN United Press GENEVA Nov 1 The sanctions program of the League or Nations against Italy struck a snag today when the Committee of 18 became deadlocked on the problem of how to apply economic sanctions without imperilling the of League members in Italy totalling $32950000 By Untied Prem ROME Nov 1 Anti-English demonstrations by students broke out in various parts of Rome today with attacks on stores hotels and tea rooms In some cases windows were broken and signs damaged For the most part the students merely warned the owners against using Fngiirfi or foreign names or English instead of Italian menus The British embassy was heavily guarded by 100 detectives and carabineers Thj Hotel Eden because Its name brings to mind Capt Anthony Eden the British nego- night before the accident He left Buschardt In Juarez about 1 :30 a "The liquor bottle was in the automobile parked on the El Paso side of the Santa Fe St bridge the night before the Richards testified brought the car to the station Sunday afternoon and said something about maybe he hit a safety zone It was there only a few minutes before the police Sgt Fitzgerald testfied that he saw the two boys pulling their little yellow wagon down the street a few minutes before they were killed Dudley Penry 3407 Hamilton St testified that he saw the yellow wagon fall off the fleeing hit-and-run automobile as it turned the corner off Texas St at St Vrain St He said the car he saw looked like the (Continued on Page 2) A lifelong friendship culminated In the marriage of Mrs Mina Miller Edison 70 widow of Thomas A Edison electrical wizard and Edward A Hughes 73 retired steel manufacturer of Franklin Pa shown above in the bride's Chautauqua home after the ceremony They will spend their honeymoon in Florida where the families often were together during the lifetime of Edison and the first Mrs Hughes both of whom died In 1931 War Summary FOUR DEAD IN FIRST BLIZZARD Snow and Severe Cold Grip North Half Of Nation By Associated Press' KANSAS CITY Nov The frigid breath of the Arctic reached the Gulf of Mexico leaving In its wake across the western United States four known dead frost-dam-aged crops and residents shivering in the coldest weather' Temperatures ranged from the in Oklahoma and Texas to below freezing in the Rocky Mountain sector and the northern tier of Mld-dlewestera States Ducks tardy in flying southward plummeted to death in Winnipeg streets their wings matted with ice in a sudden swirl of snow and sleet Fruit and vegetables in the fertile valleys of the Pacific Coast from the Southern California to Canada were damaged by- cold and snow Stockmen strove to bring livestock from the higher ranges of the Rocky Mountains Thirty inches of snow hampered efforts to save cattle near Grangevllle Idaho where the zero temperature was the coldest for October In 20 years Amarillo Texas had a temperature of 30 degrees West Texas was warm as the cold wave veered eastward THE WEATHER TEMPERATURES WINDOWS RATTLED Pictures Shaken From Walls As Surface Shocks Hit Large Area By United Preta NEW YORK Nov The earth shook beneath 17 states and all' of Eastern Canada early today routing thousands from their beds in panic but causing little damage All cities of Eastern America where upward' or 20000000 human beings live in close New York Chicago Boston Toronto Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington felt three or four distinct shocks that caused their great buildings to sway and windows to rattle Complete1 reports showed that In all the vast area extending south from the Canadian provinces of Quebec Ontario and New Brunswick to Washington and eastward from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago and Detroit an ana with a population of approximately 40000-000 not a life had been lost nor had there been more than the most minor damage Run Into Streets In scores of cities and towns householders ran into the streets In night clothing Window pones rattled and some collapsed furniture slid across floors pictures fell from walls Rev Joseph Lynch head of the Physics Department of Fordhara University said the temblors were "surface which never did great damage Metropolitan Boston was rocked and the temblors seemed most severe along the waterfront Guests in the Statler Hotel were aweklned and swamped the desk clerks with Inquiries The night clerk In the Fine gate Hotel was thrown out of his chair At Boston City Hospital prtlents became panic-stricken and two nurses fainted In Buffalo Rochester Syracuse Albany and other up-state cities of New York hundreds of telephone calls to police and newspapers bespoke the fright of the people In Bath several chimneys fell Brooklyn police evacuated the occupants of several tenement houses and did not permit residents of three to return until the walls had been shored Throughout the crowded borough men and women ran Into the streets In night clothing One girl occupant of a 14th floor apartment house said she was thrown out of bed and just as she got to her feet a bookcase toppled onto her Men Made IU Buildings In the Brooklyn Navy Yard were shaken Men working in the public service terminal building In Newark said the structure shook so violently that they felt 111 At police headquarters (Continued on Page 2) BRIDEGROOM ASKS COURT FOR FREEDOM Ilabeas Corpus Application Filed Hearing Delayed For Witness William Underwood ordered extradited to Riverside County Cal to face child stealing charges as a result of his marriage to 18-ycar-old Juanita Underwood asked release from County Jail today In a Thirty-fourth District Court habeas corpus application Hearing was postponed until Monday to give California officers time to obtain a witness from Riverside Attorney Fryer said he win attempt to obtain a statement from Mrs Underwood returned to California that she accompanied Underwood voluntarily OKLAUOMA TEAM HERE The Oklahoma City University team was in El Paso today en route to Tucson for a game with Arizona University tomorrow The team will be In El Paso Sunday at 1:50 en route home Act Is Same as Was Agreed Upon Last Regular Meet 25 CENTS CHARGE Permits Would Be Forfeited On Drunk Conviction Or Three Infractions By United Press AUSTIN Nov An automobile license bill was finally passed by the Texas Senate today by vote of 23 ayes to 5 noes and sent to the House The bill was accepted by the Senate from committee without amendment Its terms are the same as those agreed upon by House and Senate conferees at the regular session of the Legislature The Senate then adjourned until Monday Under it minimum driving age is 14-unless a County Judge Issues a special permit Children under 18 must have parental consent to get HCCD56S 9 Cost is 25 cents for a three-year permit Present drivers can operate 90 days without license Once licensed a driver can lose the license for- driving while drunk or causing major accident Three minor traffic convictions also' 'forfeit the license Reinstatement can be had after notice and a hearing before his County Judge Twrudng arid forfeiting is left to the safety department operating through its motor patrol If other license sources are not available a car owner may get a license through the County Tax Collector Summary Of Raise in Taxes By United Press AUSTIN Nov The Senate today had before it a House passed omnibus tax bill to raise $18000000 a year to pay old age pensions and help pull the State Treasury out of a $8929822 deficit With the bill there were transferred from House to Senate galleries a host of representatives anxious to know final action on the taxes Taxes levied in the House bill are: One per cent on gross receipts of hotels and tourist camps charging 12 or more a day for rooms one-fourth of one per cent gross receipts tax on transportation companies other than railroads one per cent tax on gross intrastate business of radio stations erne per cent gross receipts of pipe lines 25 cents per pound tax on yeast and malt except that sold to bakers 10 per cent tax on musement tickets costing more than 50 cents 5 per cent tax on retail sales of cigars Registration fees on mortgages held by finance companies for automobiles radios and electric refrigerators were another new levy Taxes range from 10 cents on $100 to 60 cents on $500 notes Liquor and wines were taxed! Liquor 80 cent sper gallon liquor of less than 24 per cent alcohol 25 cents a gallon still wines of more (Continued on Page 2) MAY PRAY IN CEMETERY Devout Juarez Catholics Are Per mltted Special Observance Devout Juarez Catholics may pray in the cemeteries during observance of All Day tomorrow but will not be permitted to conduct formal religious services or hold parades Mayor Ricardo Espinosa Ramirez of Juarez said today The Juarez market area was a mass of flowers today as residents bought decorations for graves Candles also were sold KIDNAP SUSPECT INNOCENT By United Press MARTINEZ Cal Nov A Department of Justice Agent wha questioned Clarence Silva 29 former San Quentin convict was convinced today the prisoner knew nothing of the $200000 Weyerhaeuser kidnaping or of William Maham fugitive i nthe case Book Reviews By Joseph Bennis Dr Sonnlchsen Dr John Waller Miss Thelma Campbell Lola Scott Meyers will be found today on Page 8 The Book Shelf Prosecuting attorneys today put a partially empty liquor bottle on the counsel table In Peace Justice court when they called 21 witnesses for the preliminary trial of Buschardt charged -with failure to stop and render aid to Daniel and Oscar Rasor The youths were killed in a hit-and-run accident at Texas and Ange Sts early Sunday morning The liquor bottle broken pieces of headlight glass picked up at the accident scene and pasted to piece of cardboard and an unbroken headlight lens taken from automobile were among the exhibits introduced by Dlst Atty Roy Jack-son and his assistant Abner Lipscomb MJ Richards at whose service station at 1401 Texas 8t the automobile was found testified that he went to Juarez with Buschardt the DENTISTS WANT HEALTH LEAGUE Say Salt and Water Are Better For Teeth Than Paste Dr Don Aubertine San Francisco today urged formation of a public health league In El Paso to encourage good public health legislation and to fight 'cults and quasi-medical practitioners He spoke at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Dental Society at Hotel Paso del Norte Dr Aubertlnc predicted that state health Insurance laws will be generally' adopted throughout the country within the next five years Favor Health Insurance and dentists favor health insurance legislation provided that standards are maintained and the personal relationship between patient and doctor Is he said "California is the worst state In the union for said Dr Aubertine "In some sections they have gained control of the public health He urged adoption of bade science examination laws to curb the number of cultlsts Meeting Ends Today "No osteopath or chiropractor has been licensed In the District of Columbia after examination since the basic science law went Into effect In 1929 he said Dr Nye Goodman Los Angeles said that there is no particular merit in any tooth paste depends on how theyYe he added "Brushing the teeth properly is the main thing and salt and soda Is just as good as any tooth cleaning The meeting will end this afternoon with election of officers THEATER EMPLOYES GET 10 PCT RAISE New Contract By Union Workers Local 153 Theatrical Stage Employes and Motion Picture Operators union has signed a two year contract with El Paso theater owners providing for an average Increase In wages of about 10 per cent Sam Cohen union business manager said 17 operators and stage mechanics are affected The scale is $150 an hour Negotiations were conducted by Mr Cohen Campbell president of the union Homer Bowingtou secretary and Fred Erhard committee member "We are in perfect harmony with all local show said Mr Co-ben "John Paxton of the Texas Consolidated Theaters has been fair In every South Side theaters also have signed a contract with the union NEGRO SUSPECT SLAIN GRETNA La Nov 1-Two Negroes held on charges of assaulting two white women were shot and killed in their jail cells here today when they tried to escape with the aid of a gun smuggled to them colored lights for the Show while carpenters and others were providing tables and seating arrangements Tents also are being erected for various shows and a full program of entertainment will be provided There will be a stage coach ride for kiddles at 2 pi and marionette shows at 3:30 3 and 5 The Ft Bliss band will play from 4 until 6 and at 6:30 the Tipica Orchestra will provide a program Throughout the afternoon and evening wandering players will be among the crowd ft F- ROME One hundred guards stationed around British embassy after anti-English disorders Catholic organ close to pope urges Italy be given mandate over Ethiopia Italian capture of Ma-kale key to Addis Ababa believed imminent Exchange Telegraph reports it has already fallen Britain and France agree Italy must accept League terms closing door to private settlement ADDIS Ethiopian claim to have made two attacks on Italians in Danakil- region' killing 15 men SI 2929 COLLECTED WITHIN TWO MONTHS New Delinquent Tax Office Reports on Work James Webb head of the Delinquent Tax Collection Department today reported to Mayor Sherman that his office has collected $1292902 in its first two months A total of 103 persons called during October to make first payments or to arrange for payments Taxes collected in September amounted to $549897 October $753005 Penalties and Interest on September taxes were $55389 October $768 Mr Gibb said that 25 per cent of the delinquent tax cases have been card indexed by his office and his office has been unable to locate the owners of 20 per cent of the property listed Suits may be filed in special cases he said Roybal is associated with Mr Gibb in the work LAY-OFFS STARTED ON RIVER JOB 75 Men Forced Out of Work By Fund Shortage The American section of the International Boundary Commission today began the enforced dismissal of about 75 office and field workers Lack of sufficient funds to continue the $6000000 Rio Grande flood control and rectification project at its previous pace caused the lay-offs Three of the eight drag line excavators in use on the river were taken out of 'commission The commission will retain about 250 employes Lawson American commissioner said that no information hag been received from Washington about replacement of $1500000 transferred from the Boundary Commission's flood control fund to the Bureau of Reclamation for construction of Caballo Dam tiator at Geneva was especially attacked All the English signs in the well-known bar and tea rooms much frequented by Britons and Americans were defaced Another group forced the manager of the Hotel England to put a large Fascist flag over the word on the street sign Many stores were warned to change their British names if they wished to remain unmolested The guard at the British embassy increased its vigilance as darkness approached Italian King Backs War Copyright 2935 by United Prett Rome Nov 1 King Victor Emannuel broke a long silence today to assert the justice and necessity of war-on "Ethiopia Thus he refuted reports that he disagreed with Premier Benito Mussolini on war policy In a speech at the new University of Rome where he received an honorary doctorate in literature the king said: "It Is not without significance that this fortress of thought opens its halls for noble and severe studies while my country is engaged In an action which the supreme exigencies of its life its security and its future impose upon it "In each hour of its glorious history Rome has carried out the mission of civilization Today Italy continues on the same road more united than ever in the superb force (Continued on Page 2) 219 TO GET JOBS ON WPA PROJECTS Nine More Allotments Made In District Two hundred and nineteen men in El Paso County will go to work at an early date on WPA projects the Fabens -Guadalupe Highway and the Ysleta-Carlsbad cut-off it was announced at WPA office today The total allotment for the Fabens project is $34144 and for the Ysleta-Carlsbad project $2355730 Advice of allotment on nine projects was received today WPA officials said Stagg supervisor of projects and planning will contact sponsors at once to get work underway in Hudspeth Ward Presidio Culberson and Hudspeth Counties The total allotments for the seven additional projects is approximately $125373 The' total number of men who will go to work is 480 Advice of allotments are being received dally local officials said indicating the Government is making good its promise to speed up WPA projects to end relief by Dec 1 In a United Press dispatch today stating projects in nine States totaling $27746826 could start New Mexico received a $13080 allotment Something About a Collie A Yes sir a collie aorta gets you! There may be brainer dogs and more beautiful dogs but something about maybe their soft fluffy hair maybe their soulful eyes or their faithful anyhow whatever it is it sorta gets you Someon- felt the same way too vien they saw this want ad In The Herald-Post WANTED home for male Collie Slack white Call after 4:30 Oreen 40033 for right away the collie found himself In his new home another example I the result-getting ability of Herald-Post Economy Want Ads Tky Main 6600 4 "Economy Want Ad 8 TRAFFIC DRIVE RINGS RESULTS Capt Stowe Says Motorists Obey Laws And Cut Speed El Paso motorists were commend-edtoday far their response to the police campaign to reduce accidents Police said today that motorists have reduced their speed to below 30 miles per hour and are obeying the through street regulation religiously Capt EL Stowe city traffic chief "said only one motorist was arrested by him In a five-hour cruise through city streets last night Capt Stowe Police Chief I Robey and Sheriff Chris Fox today approved the driver license bill now before the Texas Legislature The bill was requested by Gov James Allred "One provision that may not work out well Is the 14-year age limit1 said Chief Robey "But this can be corrected In the future If it is found to be a detriment Capt Stowe said he hopes Legislators place in the bill a provision making the parents of young driven responsible for any traffic offenses they may commit or accidents they may cause "We cant fine a Juvenile but we can fine the parents If such a provision is he said A crowded docket faced Judge Langford In Corporation Court today when more than 25 motorists will be tried under a new stiff er schedule of bonds announced Tuesday Three Pedestrians Hurt In Traffic Accidents Three pedestrians were injured one seriously when they were struck by automobiles Paso yesterday and this morning police reported today Gonsuela Silva 19 1014 Kansas St received compound fractures of both feet and severe lacerations on the legs when she was struck down by an automobile at Alameda Ave and Second St late yesterday by an automobile driven by Edward Jones 15 North Loop resident Young Jones according to police became confused when another car tried to pass him and swerved the automobile to the right on the highway Miss Silva who was crossing the intersection began to run witnesses said when she satf the car bearing down on her but failed to reach safety Mr and Mrs Herb Hass 1007 Montana St were badly bruised early today when they were struck In front of their home by an automobile dirven by Mrs Block 917 Wyoming St ONE SLAIN IN nOLDUP Sir United Preae HOUSTON Nov 1 A truck driver was shot to death here today by motorcycleman and a man believed to have slugged and robbed Harry Walters paymaster for the Stern berg Dredging Co of $3000' was captured' Roy McWhorter 23 father of Ythree children was slain The man arrested said his name was A Cargill Pasadena Tex At 7:45 Boy Scouts will give a song program and at the same time the Aztec Indians will begin their program of street dances Pretty girls dressed' in Spanish costumes will sell flowers in the crowds throughout the day Food booths Spanish restaurants and hamburger stands will provide noon-day meals and meals in the evening Those who attend the show or who will be down town during the day are asked to take their meals at the show grounds IGKES HOPKINS BLAST JOHNSON Interior Head Says General Bucked From NRA And Has Saddle Sores By United Preta WASHINGTON Nov The Ne struck back today at critics of Its $4000000000 work-relief program with two of its sharpest-fangued officials leading the attacks Neither party nor geographic lilies were spared as Public Works 'Administrator Harold Eckes and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins blasted away at General Hugh 8 Johnson Gov Alf Landoll of Kansas and Gov Eugene Talxnadgc of Georgia Saddle Sores Johnson former chieftain of the National Recovery Administration has been stumping the country attacking the New Deal but defending President Roosevelt Recently he wrote that honesty was the only achievement PWA could boast "Since the good general was bucked out as head of Mr Ickes retorted "he has been suffering from mental saddle sores As far as I can see his chief objection to PWA is that the whole setup was not turned over to a certain ex-cavalry officer named a Then Mr Hopkins lashed out at Gov Landon a possible Republican Presidential candidate He charged the Kansas governor "had balanced his budget by taking the money out of the hides of the Says Needy Neglected Gov Talmadge outspoken New Deal critic also had a prominent part in the Ickes-Hop-kins field day Discussing the necessity for states to care for their own when the drive to end direct relief becomes fully effective Mr Hopkins said: "We made a survey of 100 cases down in Georgia and found out the State caring for them although we cut off federal money several months ago And Gov Talmadge doing a thing about it the man who believes in the whipping DENIES DISH THROWING Sirs Sadie Sawyer Files Cross-Action To Husband's Suit Mrs Sadie Sawyer 2616 Copper St today filed a cross action in Sixty-fifth District Court to the divorce petition of A Sawyer blacksmith Mrs Sawyer denied her charges that she threw dishes at htni and forced him to sleep in the garage She charged that her husband boasted of affairs with other women and asked her to leave their home "so that he could have a Mrs Sawyer asked one-half of her $90 monthly earnings as alimony pending trial of the suit and a $75 attorney fee Judge Ballard Coldwell set a hearing for Monday Llano on Aug 4 1873 the next to the last Indian fight in Texas sir I took two Indian scalps in that fight and could have got some more but too many of our boys were he said "We scalped the Indians when we could to keep the lives ones from coming they always came back for the dead unless we scalped them "You see there seemed to be a belief that a scalped Indian was barred from the happy hunting Mr Harrington was born npar Llano April 5 1855 When he was 15 he was in his (Continued on Page 2) El Psh ml Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow New Mexico and Arizona fair tonight and tomorrow not much change in temperature West Texas (west of 100th merldlau) partly cloudy tonight cblder southeast and east central pontons freezing north portions partly cloudy tomorrow slightly warmer north portions PHOENIX COUPLE DEAD IN PACT 15-Year-0Id Son Also Victim Of Gas Fumes 1 By Associated Press CLEVELAND Nov Three persons were found dead of poison gas in an automobile here today circumstances which police said Indicated they were victims of a suicide pact From papers found in the car the police tentatively ldentlifed the victims as Tremaine Davis Sr Phoenix Arlz and his wife Mrs Grace Loomis Davis and their son Tremaine Jr 15 The death-dealing gas had reached the interior of the car through a long line of garden hose one end of which extended through a recently-cut hole in the floor while the other end was attached to the exhaust pipe The motor of the car was running TO DECIDE CHILD CUSTODY Judge Ballard Coldwell tomorrow will rule on the temporary custody of Arthur Lee Martin 3 object of a Sixty-fifth District Court fight between his mother Mrs Betty Marti and Mr: and Mrs MCMa-hail 328 Missouri St who seek custody JUABEZ LIONS MEET Attorney Salvador Franco Urias was elected president of the Juarez Lions Club at its meeting last night Other officers elected: Roberto Ur-rea vice president Carlos Escudero vice president and Enrique Briseno secretary Old-Time Fighter Tells How He Scalped Indians Ft Bliss Band Principal Attraction For Girl Scout Curb Show Tomorrow An octagenarian who scalped In dians to keep them from going to the "happy hunting visited his cousin Judge Dearer in El Paso today The old trailer for the home guards of Blanco County Texas in the days of the is Elisha Deaver Harrington At 80 he rides herd on his ranch at Pant a no Ariz an expert horseman and still boasts that he is one of the best ropers in the Southwest His watery blue eyes twinkle when he tells of his early day Indian fights in Texas He Is the last survivor of the Mountain scrap with marauding Indians near1 Two hours playing by the Ft Bliss bend tomorrow afternoon will be one of the principal features of the El Paso-Ft Bliss Girl J3cout Art Curb show The band will play or San Jacinto Plaza from 4 to 6 under the direction of Louis A Denicoly The show starts at 11 a tomorrow with more than 200 pieces of art scheduled for display along the entire north walk of the Plaza Workmen were busy today stringing wires for hundreds of multi.