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Home Edition i 4 THREE CENTS IN EL PASO FIVE CENTS OUTSIDE EL PASO J8 TWO SECTIONS Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and tomorrow somewhat warmer tomorrow VOL LV NO 280 EL PASO TEXAS FRIDAY NOV 22 1935 Electric Union Men Promotion Is Barred TOWN MENACED BY LAVA FLOW FROM VOLCANO Fiery Cascade Rushes Toward Hilo Upon Hawaii Island NTY Stricken Through Government Counsel Asserts Admission Proof That Utility Firm Interfered With Right to Bargain Will superintendent of the light and power department of the El Paso Electric Co testified at the National Labor Reis ti oils Beard hearing today that he warned members of Local 585 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers that they1 could not hope for promotions to executive positions Union representatives and Gov- necessary" were MT Will added that the same penalty of non-promotion would be applied to Plan members If they had some offense against the such as a strike or disloyalty our business there is no need for a trade said Mr Will Not Worthy Hedges representative of the A of Uhlan brought out that the company enters Into contracts with Its customers and asked whether a worker should not have the same right to sign a contract as as an employer only thing an employe has to seU is his said Mr Hedges Mr Will said that he considered a member of a union that has attempted to against the company by strike or not worthy of trust in an of if clal position Attorney Volney Brown said (Continued on Page 2) ASK SUSPENDED TERM IN AUTO DEATH CASE Character Witnesses Testify in Favor Of Buschardt DEFENSE IS ENDED Verdict in Hit-and-Run Crash Trial Is Expected Late Today Attorneys for Ernest Buschardt El Faso Electric Co employe today filed an application for a suspended sentence at Thirty-fourth District Court trial on charges of failure to stop and render aid to Daniel Rasor Daniel and his brother Oscar Rasor were fatally injured by a hit-and-run driver at -Texas and Ange StsOct 27 Evidence in the case ended at 11 a today with the testimony of father A Bus-chart who said his son is good and character witnesses for the defense who testified that reputation Is good -Faint Theory Hit Judge Howe was to read his charge to the Jury at 2 A verdict was expected late today A Owens the first defense witness called after Judge Howe overruled a motion for an instructed verdict testified that yellow paint which he found on the front axle brake rods exhaust pipe and differential housing of automobile is the same kind as that used by the City to paint safety zone and other traffic markers In answer to DIst Roy Jackson Mr Owens said that the paint also Is similar to that used In the little yel-loy wagon in which Oscar was riding when he was killed Sold Drinks Manuel Medrano Lobby Cafe waiter Juarez testified that he served drinks and dinner to Bus-chardt and members of his party Buschardt crossed the Santa Fe St bridge at 2:10 a m- Oct 27 shortly before Daniel and his brother Oscar Rasor were killed Vaughan Frazier bridge toll collector testified Officers testified to finding smears of yellow paint similar to that on the wagon which Daniel was pushing when they examined automobile Wagon In Court The crumpled little wagon and the carefully matched pieces of headlight glass picked up at the scene of the accident were the State chief exhibits against Buschardt -Character witnesses called by the defense Included Fred Taylor electric company production department manager Mr and Mrs Carter Glenwood Drive Rogers Sambrano Addition and Kilcrease druggist Vi II1 I Poisoned Soda It TH-nyiliiiiiirfi questioned the mother her husband Miss step-father who Is an artist and Carl Stottlenyer He Indicated M59 Swope would be questioned again later today Dorsey said he was giving close attention to two theories 'Jealous Rival Suspected One is that Smith was killed by a man jealous because of the attention he had paid Miss Swope In the last few months The other is that Ills repeated boasting of being Involved In a scheme had something to do with his death Dorsey would not say what Miss Swope a cultured brunette had told him beyond her saying she had dined with Smith Saturday and knew him well Miss Swope he said was attending a school in Cincinnati when she met Philpot They eloped Feb 19 to Covington Ky where they were married Tliree days later he said Mrs Solomon went to Cincinnati and returned with her daughter to the' family town house In New York City Mr Dorsey said he understood annulment proceedings (Continued on Page 15) ernment counsel asserted the admission is proof that the electric company coerced its A of employes and Interfered with their right to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining Examiner Phillips ordered a night trial for tonight to speed the hearing you to soy that a man never can hope to reach the top If he belongs to a union?" asked Karl Mueller NLRB counsel said Mr Will Against Union The Government attempted to bring out that Mr Will had not given a similar warning to the Em- Representative Plan so-called company union Mr Will testified he personally did not favor establishment of the Plan or any other organization of employes in the utility because they HANKAMER HIT LIQUOR MEASURE Solon Condemns Pensions And Rum Action In Legislature Texas needs a new Legislature Rep Harold Hankamer today in commenting on the acts of the second called session liquor control bill as he said like It must' have been sponsored by the bootleggers There certainly was something the die-hard drys just whipped our ears -Air Hankamer revealed that by-the-drink advocates had a six-vote majority the first day session and lostlt the first night votes flopped like a pancake to the drys and we never did get back in the Mr Hankamer said even had to hide out twice to keep from voting a shame and disgrace to Texas when her representatives attempting to abide by the will of the people are forced to hide to keep others from passing laws contrary to a majority of the Mr Hankamer said the old-age pension bill is so poorly drawn that a bunch of bums will be entitled to any benefits" then the Legislature lacked the fortitude to provide revenues for the bills it did pass" WILL CONTINUE CHEST FUND DRIVE Total Is $3000 Ahead of Last Year The Community Chest campaign will continue until Dec 2 directors said today -Workers today reported contributions of (229095 at the report luncheon In Hotel Paso del Norte The grand total now stands at $9282355 Workers pointed out that the Chest this year is about $2000 ahead of the grand total for last year and $3000 ahead of this time last year PRESIDENT RESIGNS By United Preti -PRAGUE Czechoslovakia Nov 22 Thomas Masaryk 85-year-old head of the post-war Czechoslovakian Republic decided today to resign immediately DIPLOMAT ATTACKED By United Preti SHANGHAI Nov The train on which Akira Ariyoshi Japanese ambassador to China arrived today from Nanking was stoned by a mob near Chinking Station the Japanese diplomat said 25 DIE IN STORM By United Press ROME Nv Twenty-five persons were killed today in a violent storm which devastated large areas in the province of Catanzaro according to reports reaching Rome Whole Family J- POISON TRAIL FOLLOWED EAST Barrel Found to Have Been Filled With Deadly Sodium Fluoride By United Prete SAN FRANCISCO NOV A trail of death In two-pound package of bicarbonate of soda today expanded Into a nation-wide hunt by police and health seeking to determine whether a San Francisco man and two women died by accident or design Stalemated in Sari Francisco officers turned their attention to leads in New York and Chicago In either of the two cities they believed they might stumble upon a -due which would explain how deadly arsenic became mixed in lethal quantities into bulk baking soda sold to an estimated 800 San Francisco families at a department store Three Have Died Three persons died after using the baking soda Twenty-one others were stricken with arsenic or fluoride poisoning in varying degrees While medical authorities checked the causes of 20 earlier deaths George Puraaras 45 entered a San Francisco restaurant ordered a meal and died In convulsions A package of baking soda was found on his table investigators said While a pathological examination was ordered the office expressed doubt that Mr Puraaras was a victim of the mysteriously poinoned soda Instead they believed he succumbed to heart disease or another chronic ailment aggravated by injudicious 'use of the bicarbonate bf soda -Find Deadly Barrel The outstanding discovery to date developed last night when chemists reported a short 100-pound barrel previously believed to have contained baking soda had contained pure sodium fluoride' Through efforts of the department store proprietor It was learned that contents of -this barrel had been used to refill other barrels of soda being retailed on the sales floor of the department store as their levels receded TO INCREASE NAVY FORCES Will Provide for 4000 More Men in Sea Service By United Press WARM BPtUNGS Ga Nov President Roosevelt will make provision In the 1936-37 budget far an Increase of 4000 men -in the Navy he revealed to reporters gathered about his automobile In an press conference Mr Roosevelt sold the Naval force would be brought up to 100000 men or a yearly average of 96000 CUPPER READY TO GO Giant Hying Boat Will Make First Pacific Mail Flight ALAMEDA CAL Nov22 greatest 'commercial seaplane Pan American China Clipper Idled in Its hanger today awaiting a takeoff at 3:25 pi- (Pst) on first scheduled tran-Pacific airmail flight Capt Edwin Musick and a crew of eight were to climb aboard the four-motored sky-liner and send it out across the Golden Gate bound for Honolulu Midway Islands Wake Islands Guam and the Philippines carrying more than a ton of mail Jobs for 1036 Men Will Be Provided By Money OKAY ROAD PROGRAM County Poor Farm Building Construction Also Approved Jobs for 1036 men on County projects to cost $385332 were authorized by WFA officials In San Antonio today and the funds released far the work The authorizations virtually completed approvals of the County's half million dollar road Improvement program Included In the allotments was $137350 for the general road program In all four precincts the project on which the Court is depending to maintain and improve the preesnt system of farm-to-market roads star mail and bus routes Okay Buildings Also Included in allotments was $107812 for construction of 12 buildings at the County Poor Farm to provide facilities for the care of direct relief cases after State and Federal support is withdrawn Jan The construction program as started by tbe Transient Bureau will be completed under the WFA setup Lateral road projects to cost $60-000 and $80000 were authorized County Engineer Carter said he Is ready to go to work on the general precinct project as soon as men can be requisitioned from the NILS he said enable us to fill holes In the present roads grade cut undergrowth fill bar pits and do general maintenance work The project Is set up for one Saves Fund County officials explained that approval of the precinct work will save the road and bridge fund from The County has pledged all its available revenues for WPA projects and depended on tbe general project to take care of maintenance which normally uses the majority of road and bridge funds Maintenance curtailed In recent months because of the road condition will be resumed under the project $500000 Requested For River Work Simon manager of the Chamber bf Commerce and Atty' Paul Thomas are in Washington today to ask a $500000 loan and grant from the PWA to continue river rectification work here until next July Unless the money Is obtained between 200 and 300 men may be laid off Lawson chairman of the American section of the International Boundary Commission said today Mr Simons and Mr Thomas were to meet with State Department and PWA officials today! The money would protect the work that has been done from spring floods as well as keep the project going The man power already has been reduced 25 per cent Mr Lawson said The rectification work is 26 per cent complete The State Department has applied for $500000 The new funds were made necessary because of the diversion of $1500000 from the State Department funds to the Reclamation Bureau to supplement high dam work at Caballo $150000 Asked For Exposition Building Simons manager of the Chamber of Commerce today was in Washington seeking a $150000 PWA loan and grant for the proposed exposition building at Washington Park Mr Simons also Is seeking funds for other county projects Dam Construction Date Indefinite A board of engineers was In session at the International Boundary Commission offices today to study engineering data on the Upper Valley canalization project The board will be In session foe about three days Lawson boundary commissioner said It Flock Elephant Butte project superintendent of the Reclamation Service said today he does (Continued on Page 15) Cash Is lying all around your house In the attic basement garage There arc lots of things you no longer wont but which some one would be glad to pay you good money for Look around sec what you've got then put an Economy Want VS in The the RESULTS -Ad-paper Main 6600 Want Ad Headquarter" Above tbe family of Mr and Mrs Ernest St Louis of San Francisco enjoyed its breakfast pancakes very then everybody became seriously ill for a while Official investigation proved that one of the pancake ingredients was some of the poisoned baking soda sold at a San Francisco store which caused three deaths and sickened many The members of this family recovered Below Dr Geiger San' Francisco City Ilealth Director who traced the epidemic of poisonings to baking soda mixed with arsenic and sold in bulk He is shown testing the lethal ponder SHIPPING DAMAGED Violent Earth Shocks Spill Heavy Waves on Coast After Outbreak By United Prett HILO Nov Moving at unusual speed two streams of fiery lava from Mokuweoweo second largest active volcano In the world advanced steadily on Hilo and the Kona coast today All available deputies of the Forestry Service were mobilized for the emergency The Kono flow appeared certain to cut off the government road on that side of historic Mauna Loa within 36 hours The lava which had a spread of five miles In width before it split into two streams was working its way through forest areas Not since 1899 when an eruption of the -crater washed a lava river to within three miles of Hilo has the danger to the city been so great In the path' was the Wailuku River source of water supply Lava Flow Splits The flaming red mass could be seen 60 miles thrpugh the tropic darkness as It coursed down the side of the picturesque volcanic peak along the path taken by the 1899 lava eruption which halted only three miles short of the city of Hilo The first report that lava was surging from the pit came from a rancher Ronald Vonholt Vonholt said- a fissure had appeared five miles below the summit and lava was pouring down the north Mauna Loa slope at an unusually rapid speeds He said it was the most voluminous flow he ever had seen His prediction that the flow might split with part of it continuing toward Hilo and the remainder flowing toward the Kona coast was borne out shortly thereafter in a report fro mEd Wingate superintendent of Hawaii National Park Shipping Damage At its source Mr Wingate said the lava stream was five miles wide Then it billowed off Into two fiery streams one descending on Hilo and Jhe other toward the Kona coast The 10-mlle crater a vast ulcer in the bleak crest of Mauna Loa was throwing up columns of yellow smoke whichstretched away more than 100 miles in a widening arc over the Pacific BLAMES SOLONS FOR AIR DEATHS Doctor Says Congressmen Know How Fliers Should Be Protected Congressmen can be blamed indirectly far the deaths of many aviators Dr Isaac Jones Los Angeles charged at a general assembly of the Southwestern Mediqal Assn at Hotel Cortez today The failure of congressmen to become well Informed on aviation and aviation medicine the need for teaching blind flying and the of the flight surgeon by the Government was deplored by Dr Jones He predicted the return of the army flight surgeon to flying status some antagonism the life of the army aviation the flight surgeon has been taken off flying status his pay he said puts four billion dollars out for this and that and economizes In this vital phase of Thousands of aviators would be alive today if they had understood blind flying Dr Jones said El Paso Is Permanent Doctor Meeting Place El Paso will be the permanent convention city for the Southwestern Medical Assn it was decided yesterday in the first business session of the group in the Crystal ballroom of Hotel Cortez The name of the association was changed from the Medical and Surgical Assn of the Southwest to the Southwestern Medical Assn More than 175 physicians arid surgeons from Arizona New Mexico California Mexico and Texas registered yesterday Scientific exhibits including Stray pictures depicting various stages of different types of disease and the latest X-ray machines are shown on the mezzanine floor of Hotel Cortez convention headquarters A new X-ray machine recently developed in the General House of Magic which eliminates all danger of X-ray burns is in the exhibit It is said the machine can be used on persons for any length of time without disastrous results SET ROAD BID DATE The State Highway Commission In Austin today set Dec 3 as the date to open bids for paving of 32 of a mile of the Mesa Highway from the city limits west The present paving will be tom out and replaced Drainage structures will be widened The tofu estimated tq cost $25000 Heiress Unwanted Husband Quizzed in Playboy Death i Victim Who Had Talked of Being Threatened With Shotgun Wedding Found Slain Near Mansion in New York BRITISH STRIKE RACK AT ITALY Ethiopian Emperor Predicts Troops Will Overcome Invading Armies War Summary ADDIS Haile Selassie declares in interview that Ethiopians can defeat Italians Ethiopians claim 300 Italians killed In battle on Nov 12 Italians issue veiled threat to any Europeans captured with Ethiopian forces JUIGA Ethiopians claim capture of four Italian tanks and many prisoners Italian cities darkened to conserve fuel Mussolini donates two tons of metal busts and other objects to war chest Britain and France discuss possible future terms of settlement without prospects of immediate peace By United Pretu LONDON Nor Foreign exchange dealers refused to make quotations for the Italian lire today as the result of action in holding British owned deposits The refusal caused a sensation in the market Emperor Encouraged By Flight to Front XD1 NOTE: In a Interview with Edward Beattie United Pretu Staff Corretpondent Emperor Haile Se-lateie said today after a lilt to the front that he knows hit men are going to defeat the Italians He revealed that he narrowly escaped contact with an Italian aerial patrol on hit flight By EDWARD BEATTIE Unltci Prm Staff Ctmifntat (Copyright 1135 by United Prut) ADDIS ABABA Nov to date on the southern front have demonstrated that my armies are capable not only of resisting modernized troops but even of defeating Emperor Halle Selassie told the United Press today He made his statement In a self-written- Interview in response to (Continued on Page 15) TEXAS HOUSE VOTES CENSURE Drops Impeachment Charges Against Official A By United Press -AUSTIN Nov 22 A reprimand for Agricultural Commissioner McDonald was ordered by the Texas House of Representatives today rather than preferring impeachment charges Vote for the reprimanding resolution was 73 ayes to 59 noes asked school and organizations where memorial collections are being fan to get their contributions in before Thanksgiving Day Old Kentucky" is probably greatest picture It is a glorious romance of hearts linwtpjt humor In It Will Rogers again reveals the lovable unassuming ture which endeared him to knmians Many contributions to the fund are coming in daily If you want to add your donation to the growing fund you will find a coupon on Fage 8 By United Press NEW YORK Nov The unwanted husband of a 17-year-old heiress was questioned by authorities today concerning the slaying of a 23-year-old youth who had told friends he did not Intend to be made the victim of a wedding The husband was Luther FhUpot 23 a PWA worker who eloped with Miss Mary Swope 17 member of an old wealthy family last February Authorities were told that the mother Mrs Nicholas Solomon had taken the bride from her husband and instituted annulment proceedings He was questioned concerning the death of Leroy Smith a small town whose body was found by the roadside one mile from New City Courthouse yesterday -Thought Slain Saturday Miss Swope questioned by authorities left the courthouse early today ard was believed to have gone to the 16-room family mansion that was built In Revolutionary times She admitted she dined with Smith Saturday Authorities believed -from the condition of his body that he was slain Saturday night Dist Atty Vihcent Dorsey also PLANS' FOR STRIKE RECEIVE APPROVAL Mexico Faces General Walkout If Fascists Remain By United Press MEXICO CITY Nov 22 A general strike Involving several hundred thousand workers will start In Mexico Sunday unless the government has before then ordered dissolution of the anti-Semitic anti-labor Golden Shirts A resolution ordering the strike was voted by the National Committee for Proletarian Defense as a sequel to the clash Wednesday between its members and the Golden Shirts Several persons were killed and scores wounded In street fighting BLOND ART STUDENT DENIES SLAYING Vera Stretx Pleads Not Guilty to KUing Sweetheart NEW YORK Nov 22 Vera Stretz blond art student pleaded not guilty In General Sessions Court today to an indictment charging her with the first degree murder of her married sweetheart Dr Fritz Geb-hardt German scientist and financier Pale but maintaining the almost inhuman composure that her attorney said had frightened him Miss Stretz did not speak during the proceeding She was taken to court in a prison van with five negro women most of them charged with vice offenses WINS TAX JUDGMENT The city today was granted a $278 tax Judgment in a Sixty-fifth District Court suit against Elsie Williams and others THE WEATHER TEMPERATURES Mulnight 46 2 Us 44 3 fit IB 43 3 As SQa 36 a- 6 ft- SB a a 7 a 39 8 ft 39 9 ft xu 48 80 ft xu 94 11 SO 13 noon 90 1pm 63 -AUants JJ0 3S Chicago 34 IS Denver 54 30 tt PASO 08 38 Kansas City 40 38 Xu Angeles 80 98 New Orleans V0 S3 New York 94 46 Phoenix 13 43 Hoswell 64 30 Ban Antonio 76 63 Beattie 94 0 and VlelnYtyt Fair tonight and tomorrow somewhat warmer tomorrow hew Mexico fair tonight and tomorrow Arizona genertlly fair tonight and tot morrow slightly warmer north central northeast portions tonight West Texas (west of 100th meridian) fair to-Sjjjht 'slightly warmer north and east! ntrsl portions fair and warmer to-A morrow ROGERS MEMORIAL BOX IN LOBBY OF ELLANAY Expect Picture Now at El Paso Theater Will Swell National Contribution Fund COURT RULING CITED IN SUPPORT OF TAX Attorney Asserts Texas Supreme Tribunal Has Upheld Validity Of Levies to Pay for Advertising The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the valadity of advertising taxes sUch as that submitted for El Paso County in the Nov 30 election Atty Thornton Hardie said today Mr Hardie is president of the Committee of One Hundred and a member of the committee that drafted the advertising tax bill passed by the Legislature Miller 2706 Wheeling Bt yesterday said the proposed ta violates Will last picture Old Kentucky" will remind many El Pasoans that they want to contribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Fund The picture Is showing at the EI-lanay John Paxton manager of the Texas Consolidated Theaters announced that a contribution box will be placed In the lobby of the EUanay for the convenience of theater patrons wishing to donate to the fund Mrs A Qulsenberry chairman of the committee today purpose' and therefore said Mr Hardie Supreme Court has ruled directly on that question holding that an advertising tax is for a public Atty Louis Scott also a member of the committee that drafted the tax bill said that the tax may be set as a special levy and not included In the overdrawn general fund tax' Is authorized by the Legislature on a vote of the resident property owners of El Paso County and does sot exceed the generuu (Continued on Iage 15 FIXED FOR SPEEDING Robert Holden 34 was fined $35 in City Corporation Court out a charge 'of speeding 'tends-that the tax is not a public the State and National Constitutions I take it that Mr Miller con- 9 4 4.