El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - February 1, 1933, El Paso, Texas SO Weather Forecast Fair tonight and much change in temperature VOL LIII NO 27 EL PASO TEXAS WEDNESDAY FEB 1 1933 Home Edition Three Cents in El Paso Five Cents Outside El Paso TWELVE PAGES SIGNED HOUSE PASSES AUTO LICENSE EXTENSION lyie a s u r e Goes to Senate For Vote Today PRESENT TAX RELIEF Solons Get Measure Proposing Elimination of State Levy Penalty By GORDON K SHEARER United Press Staff Correspondent AUSTIN Feb of the time for legally operating biles on 1932 license plateo until March 1 was voted by the house of representatives today and may reach the senate before nightfall Without such an extension it was declared more than 100000 cars will have to remain in garages for lack of 1933 license plates The vote was overwhelming There were but three opposition votes and 126 for the measure Fiftyfive voted io extend the time to May 1 as originally proposed Sen Albert Stone has prepared for the senate today but was undecided whether he will introduce ito call for action on the house J The only difference is on the time limit He wants to extend payment at least 60 days Other relief for cit was proposed in new bills plac ed before the legislature today One would relinquish penalties and interest that have become due the state for nonpayment of property taxes Two bills to prevent forced sales of homes for two years were intro another to give aright of redemption for two years after a forced sale A resolution proposed that the constitution be amended to extend to July i Abolition of the fee system of pay in another constitutional amendment proposed by resolution Collector Dates Auto Receipts Back One Day Receipts for automobile license fees paid today are being dated deputies in Tax Collector Herman Rosens office No penalties for late payers have been assessed Mr Bosch said receipts are dated back one day to play fair with the public I have asked the state highway department lor a ruling If they advise me that penalties should be assessed today I will have to pay the difference out of nay own pocket At the average cost receipts today will amount to The penalties would be The 20 cent penalty tive after the payment period closes if an automobile has been used since Jan 1 A license may be obtained on an basis if the auto mobile has used during January An affidavit to this effect costs 50 cents Penalty for a false af is Life Prison Term L Horra II In Barber of a R was found guilty of murdering Edward McMillan Five Points barber in district court today and sentenced to life imprisonment W H Fryer attorney for Horrall said he the verdict Mr McMillan was slain following an attempted Nov 19 The proposed appeal is expected to be based on Judge W D Howes de overruling Mr Fryers motion to strike out testimony of officers on the ground that Horrall was il legally arrestad Mr Fryer contended that Mr Horrall was not suspected of any crime at the time of his arrest The officers actions violated the con he said Judge Howe also overruled Mr Fryers motion to instruct the jury to return a not guilty verdict on the JAPAN PRINSE Nation All Ready to Resign From League of Nations By United Press TOKIO Feb 1 Japans with from the league of nations appeared inevitable today after a conference between Foreign Minister Uchida and Prince Kim mochi Saionji advisor to the emper or and last of Japans elder states men newspapers said the prince agreed with the foreign minister that Japan must withdraw if the league approves a report condemn ing Japanese activities in Man A government spokesman gave his personal opinion thai withdrawal was inevitable Minister of War Araki one of the most powerful men in Japanese pol said would constitute a There is nothing the matter with Japan Araki said It is the others are all wrong Hew instructions were sent to Matsuoka Japanese chief delegate to Geneva It was under stood he was instructed to make final demands that the leagues pro posed solution of the Manchurian crisis refrain from repudiating the existence of the state of Manchou kuo established in Manchuria ty the Japanese Also it was understood Japan i would accept creation of a concilia commission provided powers of commission be aiding direct negotiations between China and Japan with due consideration of conditions existing in If the league accepts these Jap anese suggestions Japan is prepared to make minor concessions But if the suggestions are rejected Japan will ignore attempt to apply paragraph 4 of article XV of the covenant tothe dispute and with from the league will depend upon the nature of the league as report i U S BUILDING SITE SURVEY REQUESTED Plans and Specifications Will Be Based on Ground Study supervising architect of the department in Washington has requested Postmaster H C Kramp to consult with the city and county engineers relative to a ground survey of the new federal building site in the block east of the city hall From the survey plans and willbe made Al eruptions Philippine starts tion to pay Cerman that accomplice testimony was not corroborated R E 21 circus glass eater testified that he and Horrall planned two previous holdups of Mc Millan fired the fatal shot at the third attempted holdup he said Mr Fryer attacked tes timony He said is trying to shift the guilt to another man If you can convict Horrall on testimony he should be given the death penalty Mr Fryer told the jury If you have a reasonable doubt of tes timony Horrall should be freed and Horrall are jointly charged with the slaying will be tried later The case went to the jury at noon with the state seeking the death penalty for Horrall Elevator Falls Three Floors At Courthouse The court houss elevator operated by Nico Gonzales today fell from the third floor to the basement when the brakes failed Miss Gonzales and one passenger were unhurt The elevator fall was broken by an emergency spring in the basement It sounded like the court house was falling down Miss Gonzales said I was scared but it didnt hurt me 15000 Chinese On N Looting Expedition By Associated Press HANKOW China Feb thousand Chinese communists are sweeping from Shensi intc Szechuan looting as they go and driving out established authorities Japs See Battle Ahead Blame Chinese Troops By United Press CHANGCHUN Manchuria Feb 1 Early outbreak of fighting between Japanese and Chinese troops massed in JehoL province is inevitable Japanese pre today A Japanese spokesman said the continued massing of Chinese troops in province which Ja pan claims is a part of Manchuria has caused the situation there to become worse Troop Trains Carry Japs to Manchuria By United Press SEOUL Korea Feb 1 Five trains all loaded to capacity passed through to day en oute to Manchuria to align ment Japanese forces already sta there German Reichstag Dissolved By New Cabinet By Associated Press BERLIN Feb German reichstag was dissolved today by Adolf Hitlers cabinet under au of a decree issued by Pres Von Hindenburg This means a new election the sixth in 11 months The new chan cellor is confident of victory In reaching his decision to go to Hitler forgot his differ ences with his former political op and joined forces with Al fred Hugenberg the nationalist leader Franz von Papen the for mer chancellor both of whom are members of and with tre president himself A new election was set for March 5 KILL Slain in Clash VVith Federal Troops in Chihuahua A sharp battle between federal troops of the Eighth regiment and bandits in south Chihuahua result ed in the death of three bandits Juarez officials were informed to day Troops pursued the bandits after a series of robberies and raids in the Zaragoza valley between Parral and on the National Rail ways of Mexico Miguel Saucedo leader was one of the slain SFM Detective Captain Says Little Stolen Goods Are Recovered HEAVY YEARLY LOSS Require Second Hand Dealers To Restore Articles To Owners By JAMES SHEPPARD Approximately worth of property stolen yearly in El Paso is bought by fences in El Paso and Juarez Detective Capt W C Wool verton estimates Only a few thousand dollars worth of that amount of loot is re covered by detectives and owners of the property Capt Woolverton said A fence as known to police is a dealer or shop operator who buys or accepts in pawn goods that he knows or believes was stolen Any intelligent dealer can look at 99 per cent of such goods and whether it is stolen or legitimate property of the person offering it for pawn or sale Capt Woolverton said El Paso dealers can detect stolen property even more easily by the type of person who offers it for sale Most thieves and burglars in El Paso are persons whom a dealer knows have no business with the articles they offer for sale Capt Woolverton said thousands of dollars are lost every year by El who dont know thelaw regarding recovery of their property that has been sold by a thief Anyone finding his property in the hands of a second hand dealer j or pawnshop operator can recover it he said by merely establishing ownership If the dealer wont give it iip the matter can be taken to court where the court sees fit to make give up the property The police dealers to hold property under question until the matter is settled Many El lose money through ignorance of the law when unscrupulous dealers and fences de mand to be reimbursed for the money they paid a thief or burglar for property Many persons pay fences something Often it is really more than the fence actually paid for such dealers pay burglars and thieves Tried in Boy Friend Killing DUKE GITY HOSPITAL WORK TO START SOON El Paso Contractor Gets Award For Indian Building TEN SOLDIERS FINED Jen soldiers who celebrated Ft BlSs pay day were fined and costs each by Peace Justices M V Ward and James Goggin on charges cf being intoxicated and disturbing the peace LIEUTENANT WEDS SWIMMER La en Wainwright former Olympic swimming champion arrived today to ved Lt H C Stelling of Brooks Field Texas aviator and former Georgia football star Atlanta BS PASO 60 4 8 30 56 City 60 Eos Angeles 53 Orleans b NewYork Phoenix 53 53 Seattle 42 HELEN KANE WEDS By United Press WASHINGTON Feb 1 Helen Kans the singer was to Max Hof mari actor Miss Kane gave her age at 23 and Hoffman as 31 WEATHER FORECAST It fajo awl Vicinity Pair tonight tomorrow change iJi ture Mexico fair and tp tomor row colder portion tonight front central and southeast portion Weal partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow FOOT MANGLED BY Homer McMillan 19 Hot Ark was taken pital bj police today when his right in on a Texas Pacific train Work on the Albuquerque N M Indian hospital will begin in about two weeks assistants of R E Mc Kee El Paso contractor said to day Mr McKee was awarded the con tract for the structure Plans call for a sanatorium build ing two physicians cottages and a nurses home Would Give Disputed Port Into Brazils Custody LIMA Peru Feb offered today to turn over the Amazonian port of Leticia to Brazil until Peru and Colombia settle their dispute over the town threatens to cause war between the two nations The Peruvian offer was made in notes to Brazil the United States and the league of nations Report 929 Bodies Chaco Field By Associated Press ASUNCION Paraguay Feb 1 A Paraguayan communique today said that the bodies of 929 Bolivians soldiers had been found yesterday on the Gran Chaco battlefields in the vicinity of Forts Herrera Cor rales and Nanawa It was believed however that the figure might be exaggerated BEATING JAN 22 FATAL TO CHINESE Juarez Farmer Dies from Wounds Administered Attack Rafael Luis 51 Juarez Chinese farmer died today in Liberty hos pital Juarez of wounds received Jan 22 Police said the Chinese was beaten over the head with an iron bar or hammer after a struggle with un identified assailants The Juarez state district attorney is He was not taken to the hospital until yesterday Charged with stepdaughters boy Iriend for keeping her cut all night on New Years Eve Carlo below right be tried in Los Angeles Evelyn Crazier 17 the stepdaughter is shown above Below left is Fontana mother The vic tim of the alleged murder was 20 Thomason Tells Towns Will Be Wiped Out By WASHINGTON Feb pre diction thatwhole towns along the Mexican border in Texas wouldbe wiped out by bandits as a result of the removal of troops from Fort D A Russell the house today by Rep R E Thomason of Texas RANCH ARMS ORDER BY EXEL PASO AN Casner Tells Border Residents to Guard Raids Special to Casner former manager of the largest plantation on the Rio Grande inthis area has ordered employes themselves against by Mexican bandits Mr Casners action was taken after three raids last week In one of the attacks his store was robbed of and a dwelling was des by fire The bandits escaped back to Mexico Since of Pt D A the sec ond Texas is protected by the sheriff anda deputy four rangers in charge Jeff Vauhan and immigration bor der patrolmen v Finds Nation Now in Period Of Recovery Copyright Press Feb depression is over we are in a pe riod of recovery Henry Ford told the Press in an exclusive interview today The period from to 1929 was the real depression Mr Ford stated for then that quality and de sign things came to a went up and values dropped Five years the socalled would have ruined this as a whim of the timesa moving pic ture by college Machinery wiil never man methods and ease it has produced Everybody I talk tp these days wants meto discuss technocracy or prophesy the return of old It simply shows how tle thinking being doneL these days V If people would stop think they see could be worse return of what we had previous to 1929 We recovering from that U S AND MEXICO AGREE ON PLAN TO CURB FLOODS Proposal Provides for Straightening Rio Grande and Construction of Dam at Caballo NM THOMASON TO ASK FOR FUNDS A new boundary treats between the United arid Mex ico providing river rectification and flood control in theEl valley was signed at foreign office in Mexico City today by Ambassador Reuben S Clark and Foreign Minister Manuel Puig The treaty covers the entire river straightening program between El Paso and Quitman canyon and provides for of a retention reservoir at Caballo N M 22 miles below Elephant Butte dam The treaty does not settle the Chamizal zone dispute ac cording to advices from Washington Rep R E Thomason said that as soon as the treaty is approved the senate he will ask an appropriation to carry out the work No opposition is expected to ratification of the treaty I expect to introduce a asking for an appropriation of so that this work may start as as possible said Mr Jt will give jobs to hundreds of men L M Lawson American boundary commissioner and Armando San ta cruz Jr Mexican commissioner are in Mexico City Rep Thomason said he expects Mr Lawson and Ambassador Clark in Washington within a few days Under the Rio Grande tion plan as worked out by the In Boundary commission the river between El Paso and Ft Quitman willbe shortened from 155 miles to 88 miles in length and con fined between levees Plans call for a total expenditure of and completion of the project in four or five years In addition to straightening the the plan includes con struction of dam at NM site 22 miles Butte darn a reservoir storage of 100000 acre feet of water U S Pays Most Of the total estimated as necessary to complete the project would on a basis of 12 per cent for 88 per cent for the United States Mexicos share the cost of the table items would be and that ofthe Unted States be v Straightening of the river would throw parts of present United States territory into Mexico and parts of Mexico into the United States c It is planned to have the govern ments acquire titles to these areas later exchange them fixing the middle of the river channel as the international boundary Exchange Even SCRIP BOOKS ON SALE E P DRUGGIST FINED IN INCOME Guilty Federal Charges Of T Evafiinff Place Limit of Year On Transportation Paper Interchangeable scrip i a transportation value of are offered formal by railroads Santa Fe officials today The be honored by lines of and Louis and A book The books carry a limit of one year Cam B Hill president of ton Drug Co was given a suspended sen tence when he before Federal Judge Aus tin to charges of income tax eva sions Mr Hill was indicted on a charge of failing to inform the internal revenue bureau of a commis sion that lie received from a firm Awhile he was clerk of Hidalgo county i The total irrigated area on the of the valley is 70 000 acres while 35000 acres ori the Mexican side are in cultivation though irrigation is described as largely insufficient in Mexico The changed channel would seg regate 3460 from the United States same amount from Mexico so that the two countries would come out even in exchange of territory Because the Rio Grande is a sedi ment it is constant ly building up its bed and changing its channel and at present it is a flood menace to the El valley the re ported Boost Property Values Removal of the flood menace will increase property values along the river Customs officials and border pa say a straight channel held in by levees will facilitate the work Health say the ening of the channel will remove marshes and low lands and result in better sanitary Hundreds of men given em ployment when the actual tion starts ATTACK ON DOCTOR WITH KNIFE CHARGED SENATE KILLS AIR MAIL FUND Demand Night Sessions For Speeding Relief Bills By Associated WASHINGTON Feb i senate today adopted a by Democratic Leader striking fond for air mail from the office The 39 to 35 The vote was ot Sen Robinson to permit the new ad ministration to surrey the air mail contract situation and pro pose changes By Associated Press WASHINGTON sen ate voted today to reduce tion for the air mail subsidies from to alter re a proposal to cut the funda in half Demands for overtime to conquer the muddle which is delaying legis lation rang out in the Sen La Follette Rep Wis calling the present condition as the worsS in recent history said he would propose that the senate hold day and sessions with definite limits on debate to get through both the appropriation bills and relief and prohibition measures Bankruptcy legislation already by the house was by criticism laid before a senate committee by an interstate commission legislative committee Though he said speed was demanded Sen Hastings Rep Dem in charge of the was doubtful he could of house and senate together in time for enactment Before separate committees Continued Page EL PASO GROUNDHOG NOT TO SEE SHADOW Scientists Say Hell Be When San KAISERS FOR WORLD WAR EDITORS KOTE Former Kaiser Wil intimate reactions to events just before the outbreak of the World war in are revealed in the dis patch based on records made available to the United Press at Doom Holland where the former kaiser lives in exile D Copyright in all countries 1933 by United Press CORK Holland Feb by former Kaiser Wilhelm II of helms master of the rolls pn July 30 1914 Wilhelm wrote the Grand Duchess Luise von Baden his aunt expressing alarm at Euro pean events and declaring that England held the answer to peace By remaining silent or neutral she encourages France to break loose with Russia against us through a clear honorable word she will save Germany made on the eve of the Europe from a world conflagration outbreak of war that reI the exkaiser wrote Will she have for the conflict rested the moral strength to utter this with and that the czar of Russia started military activity three days before he asked Wilhelm to act word The exkaiser is personally inter ested in publication of the as mediator are contained in private ments and has devoted much time documents of the in aiding Jagow in preparing them archives never before made for publication public which the United PretiIs now privileged to publish These historically important docu ments are to in a book In the letter to his aunt Wilhehn revealed complete surprise at learning that the czar had ordered mobilization He wrote j called Germany Acquitted the The very serious Fol I Drama of Thirteen Days in j lorang the czars appeal to my Judgment By Dr Kurt Jagow Wtl f and at his to as sist him as mediator to save the European peace I have at once agreed accepting the role and start ed Alas tp my complete sur prise informed me early this morning that ago he ord ered military measures which now are going into f is to say bafore his appeal to me as mediator At the same time his government informed us that against Austria had started The If it says really wishes to prevent war and will see that peace is maintained state now quite that France in such war cannot rely on Englands help and must remain quiet The Batne thing said la St Petersburg and will not cry for war even notwithstanding The documents show how Wil helm received the first telegrams telling of of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Austria at Sarajevo while Wilhelm was at tending the regatta at Kiel June 28 1914 Fearing complications in the Eu ropean political situation the ex Kaiser wanted to return to Berlin at once but he was persuaded to continue his trip to northern Eu rope Before starting on this helm asis known called a con ference of his military leaders to discuss the memoranda issued bythe Austrian government 1 This conference has been called the crown council of Potsdam Dr Jagow in his book denies the conference had warlike significance pointing 26 when Europe took more serious turn Wilhelm did not show undue anxiety such as he would have felt had he believed in less than a week Europes armies would march on each other The sun will shine 13 Paso and the temperature wJU be moderate but the groundhog will not see his shadow tradition not withstanding Scientists of the US biological survey say that Mr Groundhog will be snugly asleep in his no notion of at least another month Tradition has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow on Kays JLOS Angeies Man get scared and go back Tried to Use Weapon j in his hole for six weeks more win ter weather J B Scott Los Angeles Calif is ill city jail today for questioning in connection with investigation of burglary charges and an asserted knife attack on Dr J M Diaz 312 S Stanton St Dr Diaz told policemen that Scott tried to stab him with a pocket knife when he attempted to detain him for police Dr Diaz said Scott tried to sell him a blood pressure meter that was identified by Dr WE McLain as one stolen from his office Scott said a man whose name he didnt know told go to Dr Diaz office and collect for the meter He denied trying to sell it yesterday INJURED BT MILK David 301 Angeles St employe of Prices dairy is recovering at Hotel Dieu from injuries he received last night when a milk wagon ran over his right foot Scientists say that the groundhog or woodchuck until late i Febuary or early March The highest temperature tomor row will be 56 degrees arid the min tonight will be 35 Weather man R M Shaver said Sun Shines On California Snow By Associated Press SAN Feb blanketed in many parts with snow California today enjoyed its first re spite from more than two weeks ot King Winters fury thaa caused im property damage and took 11 lives The Pacific Northwest in the grip of scattered storma SLAYING THIAL FEB U Bist Atty Roy Jackson today said trial of J K farmer charged with slaying James Soaker El Paso cotton man will be set ior Feb 13 in district court t Nunn makes a bond this
