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qi 51 Home Edition I BferaM 'i THREE CENTS IN EL PASO FIVE CENTS ELSEWHERE Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow (Complete details on Page 8) VOL LV11I NO 1 45 EL PASO TEXAS FRIDAY JUNE 17 1938 DFUVERED IN EL PASO 15c A WEEK PASOAN FOREST FIRE IN DA CONTROL IN HEALTH BOARD DEMANDS $2500 FOR SYPHILIS When Father Was a Boy Both Have Their Chins Out Actress June Martel Gets Juarez Divorce Wild Game Flees Flames Whipped by Gales In Gila Preserve CCC FORCES CALLED Liquor SJore Operator Kills Robber With Shotgun SEEK IDENTIFICATION Drivers License Issued in Found on Dead Bandit Take Fingerprints Love of East Blamed for Ending Married Life Workers Collapse From Heat Residents of Kingston Ready to Flee City and County Asked To Provide Doctor Drug Funds Gone The City-County Board of Health last night voted to request County Commissioners and City Council to aDprODri-ate $2500 a year for employment of an additional physician to handle venereal disease clinic work at the City-County Health Unit Dr Paul Gallagher moved that the appropriation be asked to handle work at the venereal disease clinic and baby clinic when schools open in September The motion was seconded by Dr Waite An allowance for operation of the physician's automobile was included venereal disease clinic is almost without funds and the supply of drugs nearly Dr Tappan City-County Health Unit director told the board Revenues Low Commissioners and City Council must appropriate more money if the work is to Dr Tappan pointed out that $207 was received last month at the venereal clinic Expenses were $400 One physician and one nurse are employed at the clinic three doctors are employed at the health unit besides Dr Tappan said school opens it will be necessary to have another physician who can devote his time to the baby clinic and venereal disease Assistance Needed Dr Tappan wrote County Judge McGill that service at the Socorro Health Center is Milton Littell must attend five clinics a Dr Tappan wrote is Mildred Krauss Socorro health center director informed Dr Tap-pan that a doctor is not always available when valley patients arrive after for miles in the sun carrying Ask Formal Request Mayor Harlan declined to comment on the application for the additional $2500 a year until a request" is made by the health board certain the money is not said Alderman Schuller board member A survey completed at the request of Mayor Harlan showed today that deaths from syphillis in El Paso have increased from eight in 1928 to 23 in 1937 Laboratory blood tests made in January at the City-County Health Unit showed 50 out of 250 patients were suffering from syphillis In February 52 out of 280 examined showed positive and 23 out of 305 in March showed positive The survey recommended a five-year program The plump boy above also has his chin out But there are so many chins you tell which one Calm as a May morning he enjoys the surroundings That manly chest is bared for battle That toe indicates contented and unworried This chappie is District Attorney Roy Jackson when he was three months and one day old And it will be up to the voters next month to decide who will be district attorney for the new term the man the plump baby grew up to be or the man the boy in the petticoats grew up to be The fellow above with all the clothes on has his chin out looking for trouble two that eat he challenges the photographer He still has his chin out He long ago discarded embroidered dresses and petticoats And w'hen he got ready to put on pants mama put the knickerbockers away with a sigh still sticking his chin out right in the middle of politics The boy with the petticoat is Peace Justice Clarence Wilchar at the age of one year Crowd Cheers Arriving For Wedding President Greets Son And Fiancee At Salem Prior To Marriage A force of 400 men today battled a raging forest fire in the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico After an all-night battle against the flames in the Black Range east of Silver City Forest Supervisor Lessel reported the blaze out of control and eating through stands of big timber on a front three miles wide A call was mode on the CCC camp at Caballo Dam for another 100 men to join the fire lines and livestock was moved to safety Deer and other game were fleeing in great numbers before the fire Hope was held that fighting forces might bring the blaze under control High winds and lightning from rainless clouds added to difficulties in fighting fires in the forest Whipped by Winds Since the start Wednesday the fire has worked from Iron Creek across the Black Range divide and down the east side of the mountains toward Kingston the town a ghost camp add summer resort The fire was five miles from the town today Residents were preparing to evacuate the town Whipped to fury by winds of gale proportions the blaze broke out of control late yesterday A force of 260 men met its onrush and additional fighters were called Several workers collapsed from heat and exhaustion Six Forest Service representatives were rushed from Albuquerque to bolster the tired executive group headed by Lessel Lessel ordered the recruiting of additional workers to be held in reserve and rushed to- the lines as crews on duty became exhausted 2006 Acres Burned The fire had spread over 2000 acres of the Black Range A spectacular sky lighted brilliantly by the flames can be seen from the summit of the Black Range Highway Don Lusk editor of The Silver City Press told The Herald-Post Mr Lusk drove over the Black Range Highway last night scene is thrilling and Mr Lusk said aroma of burning timber is carried for miles It probably will bum for a week unless rains Mr Lusk said the fire is visible at Silver City 50 miles away Hope to Control Spread Assistant Forest Supervisor Wall of Silver City said conditions for bringing the fire under control appear little more Volunteers from Kingston Hillsboro Mimbres Valley Silver City and Gila were on the fire line CCC enrolles fighting the blaze are from Beaverhead Mimbres Mangas Whitewater Deming and Las Cruces Mr Wall said Forest Service officials from Sil- ver City Albuquerque and Alamogordo at fire: Assistant Supervisor I Boone of Silver City Putsch of Albuquerque Robert Monroe of Albuquerque regional fire inspector Cotton McKenzie both of Albuquerque and Lee Beall assistant supervisor at Alamogordo Regional forest service officials at Albuquerque said that $5000 above the cost of CCC enrollees and other Government agencies had been expended in fighting fires in Gila National Forest of the past two weeks June Martel STOLEN GAR DRIVER HELD AFTER CHASE Van Horn Officers Shoot Gut Tires of Fleeing Auto Taken in James Craft 22 El Paso truck driver was arrested in Culberson County early today after an 18-mile chase that State Highway Patrolman Roddy ended by shooting three tires from a stolen automobile Craft was driving Deputy Sheriffs Pearce and Griffin left for Van Horn to return Craft Sheriff Fox said the automobile was stolen from Armstrong of 3116 Lebanon street Wait For Car Deputy Sheriff Earl Eads of Hudspeth County attempted to stop Craft in Sierra Blanca Craft sped past him and headed for Van Horn Sheriff Anderson of Culberson County and Roddy were waiting on the west side of Van Horn when Craft passed them at a high rate of speed Sheriff Anderson and Roddy followed him The chase lasted for 18 miles At times Craft was driving more than 75 miles an hour Sheriff Anderson said Hit Tires Robby fired one shot through the back window of the stolen car that missed Craft's ksad by less than three inches He shot three other times and blew out both tires on the back wheels of the car and the left front tire as Craft slowed down Sheriff Anderson asked Craft why he stop when he heard the siren of the police car have stopped either if bullets had whizzed past your head like they did Craft told Anderson was in a hurry after Craft has lived in El Paso for about six months He came here from San Angelo and went to work for a building contractor POSSEMEN ATTEND BARBECUE Forty members of the Sheriffs Posse will have a barbecue and beer party about 10 miles from El Paso off the Carlsbad Highway at 7 today The possemen will ride to the spot on their horses A man carrying a license issued to William Thomas 31 El Paso was dead today in Dallas the victim of a gunshot blast fired by a liquor store proprietor who resisted a holdup Fingerprints of the dead man were sent to El Paso police today for identification Officers also attempted to trace the El Paso driver's license Cash the Dallas liquor dealer was of $73 by a man who entered the store at midnight made a purchase then produced a pstol and demanded the money in the cash register After taking the money the holdup man forced Cash and his wife to go into a back room The robber followed them then left by a rear door As he left the building Cash grabbed a shotgun rah to the door and fired The man fell As he dropped to the ground he fired three shots from his pistol none of them taking effeot Cash answered with four more shots from his shotgun then called police The bandit died while in an ambulance on the way to a hospital Police were unable to identify the dead man definitely They said the license has was carrying might have been stolen FISHBEIN REBUKED FOR PRESS HANDLING Sjr Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO June An American Medical Assn rebuke to its spokesmen for lack of toward the press was hailed by progressive elements today as a victory over Dr Morris Fishbein the generaUy recognized voice of the profession The association's House of Delegates voted to impress upon its Board of Trustees the necessity for certain deficiencies of gentleness in in its agencies of public information It refused to consider hiring press agents to help it oppose before the public many demands for of medicine or to employ legislative counsel to voice its attitude on government policies and measures pending before Congress THREE MEN ARRESTED IN JUAREZ SLAYING Miguel Martinez was held in the Juarez jail today charged with the murder of Jose Maria Blancas Juarez valley farmer last December Martinez told Juarez officers he beat Blancas over the head to make him reveal the hiding place of his money Francisco Tinoco and Pedro Romero were arrested when confession implicated' them in the robbey Charges will be formally filed against the three men tomorrow WOMAN SENTENCED IN KIDNAPINGOF CHILD international News Service BUFFALO June Sentenced to a term of two to five years for the kidnaping of four-year-old Betty Jane Hobbs Mrs Anna Legare 41 today faced a possible civil action for $10000 damages by Ellsworth Hobbs father of the child Mrs Legare pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second degree assault in Niagara County Court after District Attorney Raymond Knowles said he believed she was suffering from a CALLS TOWNSEND CLUB ORGANIZATION MEETING A meeting of Townsend Club members and A members to discuss reorganization of a Townsend Club in El Paso was called today by -R Hendershot chairman of a committee The meeting will be held at Central A at Oregon and Missouri streets at 8 tomorrow COUNTY GRAND JURY DISMISSED FOR TERM Judge Howe today dismissed the County Grand Jury for the April term of Thirty-fourth District Court No action was taken by the jury before it was dismissed today The next Gran Jury will convene July 5 BLOCKER WILL TAKE JUAREZ POST IN JULY William Blocker newly appointed consul at Juarez will take Charge of the Consulate next month John Melby vice consul in charge said today Blocker will pass through Juarez next week en route to the west coast for a vacation Actress June Martel was en route back to Hollywood today after a quick Juarez divorce from Walter Klavun Yale graduate and New York socialite Miss Martel who real name is Martha Moir Klavun was granted her final decree in Juarez yesterday She stayed at Hotel Hilton while in El Paso and praised the suddenness of Juarez divorces only takes 10 minutes" she was quoted as saying Miss Martel and Mr Klavun were married five years ago but separated after two years The actress blamed incompatibility explaining prefer Hollywood and the screen while Walter Is happy only in the Miss Martel turned down the first four screen bids she received because she didn't feel she was ready for featured roles She accepted the fifth contract offered CONGRESS OFF FOR CAMPAIGNS WITH WARNING Special Session Likely If Emergency Deepens Billions to Spend By United Press WASHINGTON June 17 The 75th Congress swept to office with the 1936 Roosevelt whirlwind dispersed to the campaign wars today after appropriating $21000000000 during time out from battles which split the New Deal-Democratic Party wide open Congress adjourned last night sine die amid scattering warning that a national emergency might require a special session in the autumn Final business of Congress was to appropriate $3752000000 to spend against depression and vote a $290-000000 deficiency bill part of which will start the nation's emergency naval construction Continue to Wrangle Until the gavels whacked out adjournment last night Congress wrangled over Roosevelt proposals just as they had done ever since the court re-organization bill was submitted 16 months ago In a final show of independence filibustering Senators shelved a proposal to furnish $12500 to the Senate Lobby committee Senator Burke of Nebraska contended the money would be used to abridge freedom of the press The lobby argument kept the Senate in session until 8:22 while members grew noisy The House always hilarious just before adjournment listened to round-robins of praise for majority and minority members alike It was 9:08 before Speaker Bankhead could stop the oratory Praise From President Toward the -end both chambers paused to hear weary clerks read some kind words from President Roosevelt The Chief Executive (Continued on Page 8) RULES BY DECREE By Associated Press PARIS June The French government today adjourned parliament until November gaining a free hand to rule the republic until then by decree without interference from the chambers Bob Perry dancer will appear on the Bowl of Rice program at Liberty Hall He Is a nephew of Captain and Mrs LeGrosa 1411 North El Paso street Prior to coming to El Faso he played in vaudeville on the Keith Orpheum circuit in California Ji By United Press SALEM Mass June 17 President Roosevelt received a tumultuous welcome' on his arrival from Washington today to attend the wedding of his youngest son John and Miss Anne Lindsay Clark tomorrow Thousands lining the streets through which he passed en route from his special train to the presidential yacht Potomac Cheered and applauded the Chief Executive At the wharf the President greeted John and smiling broadly they posed for 50 photographers Then Mr Roosevelt and his son boarded the Potomac with Miss Clark her sister Sally and Charles McVay First Lady On Way Harry Hooker of New York the President's former law partner and Frederic Delano the uncle joined the group Mrs Roosevelt and her son and daughter-in-law Mr and Mrs Elliott Roosevelt had come from Washington to Massachusetts by regular train After breakfasting at the Framingham home of the son-secretary James Mrs Roosevelt left for Nahant via Boston 800 Invited Elliott and James and their wives and Mr and Mrs John Boettiger of Seattle Wash the latter a daughter of the President also were motoring to Nahant Franklin Roosevelt Jr and his wife the former Ethel Du Pont were at Manchester-by-the-Sea a few miles north of here There will be 800 guests at the wedding Police Chief Thomas Larkin said that he expected more than 200000 persons to come to this peninsula town for the wedding FAMILY STRANDED INE ASKS AID A family of four en route from California to their home at Bonham was stranded and hungry in El Paso today Taylor father of two daughters one and three years old said he earned enough in California picking fruit to take his family home but his car broke down He appealed to El Pasoans for food or work The family is camped in the 2100 block on Mills street off Texas street 700000 LOSE HOMES IN FLOOD 3500 Chinese Villages Under Waters of Yellow River Refugees Eat Bark By United Press SHANGHAI June 17 Japanese military engineers admitted tonight they had lost their fight to control the great Yellow River flood pour ing across central China As the end of a 48-hour crisis neared the river had spread over more than 1500 square miles Thousands of persons were drowned 3500 or more villages were under water and more than 700000 were homeless The river threatened to break a new outlet to the sea some 300 miles south of its present mouth Japanese military reports said that 200000 refugees were being cared for in military camps while 500000 were marooned Many refugees were desperate In manay areas they were forced to eat bark The Japanese said that in many sectors their own garrisons were in danger Japanese planes flew along the (Continued on Page 8) PLEDGES AID IN FREIGHT FIGHT West Texas of Manager Promises Assistance A Bandeen general manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce promised full co-operation with El Paso in its freight rate fight Simons manager of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce who returned from the formal opening of the dew home of the West Texas of in Abilene said today Mr Simons and Tanner manager of the El Paso freight bureau asked the aid of the West Texas Chamber and of all West Texas cities in the freight fight while in Abilene Mr Bandeen will recommend to his board of directors that they make an appropriation to help El Mr Simons said HELD FOR TRIAL Josefina Villegas 24 who was arrested by agents of the Alcohol Tax Unit in a raid on her home on South Tays street yesterday was held for the Federal Grand Jury under $500 bond after arraignment before Commissioner Schmid A crowd gathered at the scene of the accident Someone lighted a cigaret and dropped a burning match into a gutter Gasoline that was leaking from car was ignited and the car eaught fire It was destroyed before the Fire Department arrived Ballinger said Cantrill and Webb stopped suddenly at the intersection and his car crashed into the truck DEMANDS GERMANY PAY Holds Reich Responsbile For Austrian Obligations To Government By Associated Press WASHINGTON June 17 The United States demanded emphatically today for the second time that Germany assume Austria's debts to this government and American citizens Hugh Wilson the American ambassador in Berlin delivered a formal note to the German government on instructions from Secretary Hull The United States declared its 'dissent from the indicated position of the German government as to its legal (Germany through Finance Minister Walther Funk has stated it was not liable for Austria's obligations) The note declared that under international law the state taking over another country the debts and obligation of the absorbed state and takes the burdens with the The Austrian public debt to the United States amounts to $25055-078 There are private debts of approximately the same amount The protest followed a note lodged with Germany April 6 in Which the United States notified Die Reich that it look to the German government for the discharge of the relief indebtedness of the government of Austria to the government of the United REBEL AIR RAID TAKES 15 LIVES 35 Hurt in Alicante Bombing Valencia Also Attacked Bjr Associated Press MADRID June 17 Fifteen persons were killed and 35 injured today in a pre-dawn insurgent air raid on Alicante Valencia also was raided in late afternoon and reported several casualties BURGLARS TAKE CASH CLOTHES FROM STORE Burglars entered the Eastern Silk Mill store at 231 East San Antonio street last night and took clothing valued at $200 and $25 in cash Bob Zemel manager said 88 shirts some ties and polo shirts were taken The burglars climbed a fire escape and entered the store through a transom City detectives obtained fingerprints believed to have been left by the burglars HARLAN COUNTY CASE DEFENDANT FREED international News Service LONDON Ky June The defense warmed up today for its inning at the Harlan County coal conspiracy trial following completion of the four-week case The list of defendants was reduced by one when charges were dropped against Armstrong Matthews an official of the Clover Splint Coal Co Marries Third After Divorcing wo in One Day By United Press CARSON Nev June 17 James McDonald III 24-year-old millionaire took his third wife in 24 hours today when he married June Kerns of Cassell Cal Miss mother and a California lawyer looked on while Judge Clark Guild made her No 3 on list of wives The marriage climaxed the round of courtroom activity that McDonald started yesterday at Reno where he divorced his first wife married a second divorced her and then hurried here to see Miss Kern and prepare for the third wedding The reason for it all he said was that a year and four months ago wife No 2 had borne him a son out of wedlock they were unable to marry at the time because he was still married to wife No 1 Subsequently his love for wife No 2 waned before he had opportunity to marry her but he went through the ceremony anyhow to give the child a name By the time he had divorced wife No 1 he was ready for wife No 3 HELD IN ASSAULT A 60-year-old man was held at Las Cruces today for questioning in connection with an attempted assault on an 11-year-old girl rice and donating part of the food rice will be served in Chinese bowls which maybe bought for Mrs Chew said The El Paso Chinese are making every effort to co-operate with the local of committee Mrs Chew said The local committee is headed by Mrs Shows and Westbrook appointed by the eastern committee of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China headed by Theodore Roosevelt Jr Chinese Ambassador Chenting Wang asked the El Paso Chinese to co-operate Antonio Yee Chew received a letter from Mayor Tseng Yang Fu of Canton asking the increased efforts of the overseas Chinese to raise funds for the destitute in China are hundreds of orphans who were lost in the mayor wrote families of the wounded and dead are The party will begin today at 8 There will be Chinese and American entertainment Special Rice Prepared For Festival To Aid Chinese Destitute In War Zone GETS THREE YEARS IN INSURANCE FRAUD By United Press SHREVEPORT La June Wharton Bloomberg Tex was sentenced to three years imprisonment today by Federal Judge Ben Dawkins in connection with the operation of the National Union Indemnity Co He was convicted on 10 counts of operating labor unions as assessment insurance companies in Kosciusko Miss and Shreveport and using the mails to defraud RESERVE OFFICERS ENTERTAIN REGULARS Officers of the Organized Reserve Club as Ft Bliss last night honored the regular officers of the 82nd Field Atrillery and Seventh Cavalry with a dinner at the Reserve Camp The dinner marked the end of a two-weeks training period for reserve officers at Ft Bliss Training was given 142 officers during the period HARLINGEN GETS FIREMAN CONVENTION Auto Burns After Crash As Bystander Drops Match A special kind of bowl of rice will be served tonight at the of party in Liberty Hall for destitute Chinese of the war area of the Orient The rice according to Mrs Antonio Yee Chew who is assisting Mrs Shows chairman is chow fan fan Is fried rice cooked with bits of tender chicken meat mushrooms and said Mrs Chew has a soy bean sauce poured on it at the right Chow fan is popular with the wealthier classes of Chinese The people of South China eat it at tea-time with little cakes with a meat or chicken filling It is a luxury It is cooked in many different ways according to the number of ingredients the cook wants to add" The Chinese stores of El Paso are donating the rice and ingredients for the chow fan at the of party tonight The Chinese restaurant owners are cooking the Two automobiles were damaged badly and another was burned in an unusual accident at Stanton and Missouri streets at 6:20 a today No one was injured Customs Patrolman Ernie Ballinger narrowly escaped injury when his car collided with an Acme Laundry truck driven by Stephen Cantrill xf 1808 East Nevada street and turned over truck was knocked into a sedan driven by Webb of the Casner Motor Co Webb's car was knocked into a curbing El Paso failed to get the 1939 convention of the Texas Assn of Firemen and Fire Marshals Chief Sullivan was notified today The convention will go to Harlingen Captains Dykes CL Grogan and Joe Boonei delegates to the convention that met Tuesday and Wednesday in Amarillo were expected back today.

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