El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - February 1, 1938, El Paso, Texas El Paso Weather Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow Complete details on Page 7 VOL NO 27 EL PASO TEXAS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1 1938 DELIVERED IN EL PASO A WEEK Home Edition THREE CENTS IN EL PASO FIVE CENTS ELSEWHERE ass Two Billions Housing FLAME SLAYER CHARGES WIFE CHEATED WITH PAL Wright Near Collapse Telling of Killing Two in Home SAYS HE WAS NERVOUS Blames Gassing in War For Condition Before And During Marriage BJ United Press LOS ANGELES Feb A Wright testifying in his own defense of the slaying of his wife Evelyn and his best friend John Kimmel told told how his wife once became intoxicated in a Hol lywood night club and later dis appeared from home taking their baby with her By United Press LOS ANGELES Feb Paul A Wright aviation executive today told a jury of nine men and three women how he went into a white flame of rage and shot his wife Evelyn 28 and his best friend John Kimmel 35 when he found them in a compromising situation in the Wright home last Nov 9 Five hundred persons jammed the courtroom of Judge Ingall Bull and milled about the corridors as the slight darkhaired former president of the citys largest airport testified Wright appeared haggard as De fense Attorney Jerry Giesler began questioning him Wright almost collapsed on the witness stand he mentioned the name of his wife first questions dealt with Wrights service as an artillery ser geant in the World War Wright said he was gassed and his expe during three months at the front caused him to be highly nerv and emotionally upset when he returned from France I would talk in my sleep and I always thought that the nervousness was a weakness to be covered up Tears Fill Wrights Eyes He said that he frequently woke up at night screaming and talking and that during this period in 1919 his weight dropped from a normal 160 to 110 pounds Referring to his night terrors Defense Counsel Jerry Giesler ask ed Wright how long this condition persisted Wright answered in this manner Continued on Page 7 The Railroads Move AN EDITORIAL take this occasion when a number of high ranking railroad men are in the city for the directors meeting of the Union Depot Company to remind them that the roads are not treating El Paso fairly nor in a friendly manner The freight rate differential is the unfriendly and un fair fact to which we have reference Railroad officials are in practical unanimous agreement that the differentials are discriminatory against El Paso and other cities in this section Whenever they are asked the question they pass the buck by saying the Interstate Commerce Commission put the differentials in the rates True but at the railroads request And it is also true that the I C C set the present freight rates but that has not kept the roads from asking for a 15 per cent increase They could just as easily ask for the abolition of the differentials There is nothing holy about a differential It can be changed as well as a freight rate El Paso has been good to the railroads They had to come here to find the best route to the coast to tap the Southwestern trade to reach the best gateway to Mexico There was a trading town here before the steam engine was invented There will be a trading town here when and if the railroads disappear in the carbon monoxide of the trucks exhaust But El Paso does not want the railroads to disappear It wants them to get their rate increase to grow and prosper It wants to grow and prosper with them So we appeal to the high officials of the railroads to join El Paso in seeking the abolition of the differentials It will help the roads and the section It will promote friendship make jobs increase railroad revenue and El Paso trade and be to the best interest of all concerned Hopes to Fast For 40 Days To Purify Flesh International News Service AMARILLO Feb to purify his flesh which he says will be accomplished when he lives 40 days without food John H Runyon middleaged furni ture dealer continued his eight month popcorn diet here today A week at a time without any food is not uncommon for him he says We read in the Bible how the prophets of old fasted as long as 40 days and 40 nights to purify the body he declared They had found the secret of life Many people have tried to purify the body by fasting in modern times They failed because they had a mistaken idea about fasting The Rev Israel Harding Noe of Memphis had the right idea but about it wrong he asserted 15 PLANES WILL FLY IN FORMATION HERE Fifteen planes comprising the Pursuit Squadron today began a flight which will cover 16 states in a week They will stop at Ft Bliss They will fly the entire route in defensive formation facing kinds of weather conditions all Waiter OKeefe By WALTER OKEEFE Feb finally JTl feel like a native Los resident The other night I had my first automobile accident Out here hundreds of people handle their cars as though they were on fur lough from psychopathic ward My mistake was that I was on the right side of the road Some college boys hit us They had just come from a filling sta tion and I dont mean gasoline The college spirit out here is remark able They win a basketball game get into their cars and then race out to tear down the Our lampposts were going so fast we hit that the girl was knocked right off the drivers lap The car folded up into able pleats As a matter of fict Phil Baker played Bei Mir Du Schoen 021 it on his Sunday radio program BRITISH HUNT PIRATE SUB Warships Seek Marauder After Sinking of Vessel That Cost 11 Lives By United Press PARIS Feb Ca mille Chautemps announced to day that the Spanish government had agreed to halt air bombings if the Insurgents will reciprocate By Associated Press LONDON Feb Admiralty rushed four destroyers armed with depth charges today in search for the mysterious marauding sub marine which sank the British mer chantman Endymion off the south eastern Spanish coast with loss of 11 lives The destroyers each of 1375 tons were under orders without hesita tion to drop depth charges if the at tacking submarine were sighted and attempted to resist capture British Angered The destroyer flotilla centered its patrol about the Sape Tinoso area where the Endymion sank following the submarine attack which possi bly signalled a general recurrence of such socalled piratical attacks which disrupted Mediterranean merchant shipping in the summer of 1937 An informed source said the Brit ish government takes a very se rious view of the sinking and are considering what steps are required to deal with the situation It was emphasized that Britain does not recognize the right of Spanish insurgents to blockade the coasts of Spain Three of the dead aboard the En were British and one was a Swede Charles M Larsson official of the European NonIntervention Committee Blame Rebel Sub A Spanish government communi que attributed the torpedoing of tike ship to Insurgents The Endymion sunk Sunday was car a cargo of coal for Cartagena and left Gibraltar Saturday The searching destroyers were the Fortune Fire Drake Fury and Forester They are among the most modern of the entire British Medi terranean patrol Wanted Escorts For Visiting Girls Wanted 250 escorts Three hundred girls from Stevens College Columbia Mo will be in El Paso for a half day on March 6 L P Bloodworth assistant man ager of the Chamber of Commerce was planning entertainment today He said e needed 250 escorts Ill accept the other 50 myself he said LEAPS TO DEATH By Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS Cal Feb Mrs June Ogilvie 32 wife of the manager of the Hotel plunged six floors to her death early today police reported CANTON BOMBED Train Due in Hong Kong Fails To Arrive and Telephone Lines Are Cut BT UNITED PRESS Telephonic communications b e tween Hong Kong and Canton and Canton and Hankow in China was disrupted today after reports of a severe Japanese airplane bombard ment in the Canton area A refugee train from Hankow due yesterday has not arrived at Hong Kong Canton advices said that 13 Jap anese planes bombed Fatshan west of Canton with bombs reported to weigh as much as 500 pounds It was said that many were killed Earlier forts near Canton were Continued on Page 7 SENATE OKAYS LEGISLATION FOR BUILDING Vote Ending Congress Action on Mensure Is 42 to 20 By United Press WASHINGTON Feb Senate today completed con gressional action on the Ad ministrations housing de signed to stimulate the in vestment of private capital in a home construction pro gram The vote was 42 to 40 The measure previously approved by the House now goes to the White House for the signature of President Roosevelt Introduced by Senator Robert F Wagner of New York the was on the list of must legislation placed before Congress at the special session last November Final approval of the measure came after a bitter controversy over of a prevailing wage amendment offered by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr of Massa by Senate and House conferees Quins Have Cold But Nurse Cant Keep em in Bed By United Press CALLANDER Ont Feb Under orders to keep the Dionne quintuplets in bed and quiet nurses at the Dafoe Hospital rack ed their brains today for a formu la that would enable them to obey orders The girls were suffering from common colds and will have to remain in bed at least until the end of this week under orders of Dr Alan Brown chief of the hospital for sick chil dren Toronto and Dr Allan Da foe Dr Brown was called to examine the children by Dr Da foe they were in excel lent health and better able to withstand disease than most chil dren The quins dont like staying In bed and thats putting it mild ly Dr Dafoe said I pity the poor nurses They stand on their heads jump up and down figure out new and noisier games argue with us about doing their lessons and generally raise the dickens GOLD PRICE HIKED Special NEW YORK Feb price of gold today advanced to its best price in nearly three months to an ounce or two cents above the official Treasury price This was an increase from an ounce yesterday El Against Seven of Nine Questioned Cannot Believe It Is Right To Take a Life Regardless of The Suffering of a Patient Seven of nine El Paso physicians and civic leaders are against mercy killings a survey revealed today They cannot believe that it is right to take a life regardless of the suffering of the patient they said Two of the nine agree that it is the humane thing to do provided that the family the patient and more than one CRANIUM CRACKERS THE homes of Jason and Jerome Washburn brothers were built exactly alike The roofs of the buildings met in the middle of the driveway which gave the auto lane a canopy that extended forward from the garage to the front line of the houses The Jerome Washburns returned from a movie one evening to find that their bedroom had been ran sacked and Mrs Washburns heavily insured necklace was miss ing Police Sergt Morton was assigned to the case He obtained a description of the necklace that night and returned the next morn ing to question the Washburns in more detail He found Mrs Wash burn planting tulip bulbs beside the driveway at the side of her home Im afraid Ill never see my neck lace again she told Dutton But you will Dutton retorted You lifted that necklace yourself and hid it in that flower bed You win was answer physician advises thait the oase is hopeless They answered the question Do you favor mercy deaths under gov supervision to end intense suffering of incurable invalids The survey was the result of the organization of the Society for Legalization of Euthanasia founded in New York with Dr Charles Francis Potter noted author as sponsor The society would bring death painless to persons suffering in the last stages of an incurable disease Opinions here DR GEORGE TURNER WHAT MADE THINK THE NECKLACE HAD BEEN BURIED IN THE FLOWER BED Solution on Page 3 MEXICAN REBELS BURN BRIDGES NEAR BORDER WE MUST BEAT OUR WIVES MORE w So Says English Writer in El Paso Who Finds Women Coddled dent of the El Paso County Medi cal Society No The hitch is you cant tell when the disease is in curable MISS A LOUISE DIETRICH secretary of the Texas Graduate Nurses Assn and president of the League of Women Voters No Ive thought about it for years No doctor has a right to make himself God I do not believe any human Continued on Page 7 ARABS SLAY TWO BRITISH SOLDIERS By United Press JERUSALEM Feb Brit ish soldiers were slain and many Arab terrorists were killed and wounded today in a battle in the Jenin district of the Holy Land By BETTY LUTHER A MERICAN men dont beat their wives enough said Miss Phyllis Betts of London in El Paso today Shes a short story writer Shes traveling across the continent by bus and having a wonderful time stopping here and there soaking up impressions catching scraps of conversations on the street as she passes people And thats the impression she got about American men and their wives She emphasizes its merely an impression and that she isnt one of these English writers who speaks on America like the Delphian Oracle American men work hard she said They work long hours to make money for their wives And they coodle their wives too much They ought to be spoiled more at home They are dragged out places they dont want to go Everything is deferred to what the wife wants to do They ought to have their favorite chairs and their piggy they can re lax in at home And if they dont want to go some place or do something after a hard day at work they ought to say NO and make it stick She said she is speaking of the great middle class of husbands and wives Theres more fear of war in the United States than in Eng land Miss Betts said I mean actual fear not an she said In Eng land the attitude is dont want it but if it comes well make the best of it Miss Betts is the guest of Mr and Mrs Grover J Casselberry at Hotel Cortez They met in London in 1933 when Mr Cassel berry attended the International Building and Loan Assn conven tion Miss Betts father is con with the London Building Society After Gold Shirts In Tamaulipas EXCHANGE RIFLE FIRE Customs Officers Stationed On Boundary to Halt Smuggled Arms SECRETARY OF BIDDER ON OIL MET Pretty Brunet Says McDonald Often Visited Office Of Lease Seekers By United Press AUSTIN Feb Frances Mayfield Paulk of Alice Tex pretty darkhaired University of Texas law graduate and stenographer testi fied at the State Senate land in today that Land Com missioner William H McDonald was a frequent and intimate visitor at an Austin office used by oil lease bidders Mrs Paulk a practicing attor ney at Alice under her maiden name was married Friday Do I have to testify she asked as she was called before the com Instructed to do so she said she was employed by William M Harris He didnt ask much about my qualifications she said He asked me if I could keep my mouth shut I didnt write many letters The main thing he wanted was a and he said I must keep my mouth shut about his business The first time she was called to tlie office she said Harris phoned that he wanted her to meet the gang The office was full of people Mrs Paulk said Among those present she named Commis Continued on Pace 10 SOUTH E P STREET IMPROVEMENT ASKED Cleofas Calleros of the National Catholic Welfare Conference today requested the City to improve Find ley Latta and Cypress streets at St Francis Xavier church and to install a street light at Cypress and Latta Pools of water collect in the streets near the church he said MINES REGISTRATION 910 Registration at the College of Mines today noon was 910 Total registration for last year at midterm was 824 Registration will continue through Feb 12 BEAUTY ASKS DIVORCE International News Service HOLLYWOOD Feb mental cruelty Mrs Walton Wan ger the former Justine Johnson of Ziegfeld Follies fame today had filed suit for divorce from the noted film producer Little Fellows Gas Rate Highest In E P Big User Does Better Customers Choose Between Two Rates One Lower At 1000 and 2000 Feet Same at 3000 Then Low Rate Climbs Above the Other By DICK VAUGHAN Austin Correspondent AUSTIN Feb Paso has a higher gas for small consumers than any other city in Texas But large consum ers pay less then in some other cities For 1000 feet for 2000 feet or for 3000 feet Juan Smith of El Paso wins the prize for highest rates the prize being the privilege of paying more for gas than Is paid by residents of DRUNK CHARGE IN DEATH CRASH Charge Driver of Auto In Accident That Killed Four Was Intoxicated Salvador Ruelas driver of an au involved in an Upper Val ley accident Sunday night in which four persons were killed and five injured today was charged with driving while intoxicated in a com plaint filed by Assistant District Attorney Long Ruelas who was injured in the accident is a patient at ty Indians Hunt Boy Carried Off by Lion By United Press COVELO Cal Feb trackers and dogs were employed today in the search for Teddy Thompson who strayed from home into the mountains Satur day leaving a trail of bare foot prints that ceased where they crossed those of a large mountain lion There were 200 men in the search Deputy Sheriff C M Lovell still had hope for Teddy Cougars rarely attack a human he said father Charles Thomp son works for the Forestry Serv ice other cities in Texas For 6000 feet Juan pays more than the customers of cities of El Pasos size or larger although one of the two rates offered him is lower for 6000 feet than the rate charged a Galveston which is about half the size of El Paso El Paso customers have the lege of choosing between two gas rates One is lower than the other at 1000 and 2000 feet They are the same at 3000 feet Thereafter the rate that started low climbs above the other For instance rate A is for 1000 feet compared to for rate B At 2000 feet rate A is and rate B is At 3000 feet both are the same At 6000 feet rate A is and rate B is having climbed above rate A At 10000 feet rate A is and rate B is the highest rate for that volume of any city in Texas above 30000 population These figures were furnished The by the Gas Utilities Continued on Page 7 In Your Neighborhood 3200 Block On Street Between Estrella Street And Cebada Street By GEORGE DENNIS MEMBERS of the Good Neighbors Bridge Club in the Tularosa street vicinity play cards for money But the money goes to orphans and charity Sixteen members meet at the home of Mrs F L Brewer of 3300 Tularosa street every Thursday Over the bridge table the club raises funds to give three parties a year for 30 orphans at St Margarets Orphanage Lower Valley They donated to the March of Dimes drive in President Roose velts campaign against infantile paralysis Last year they donated to El Pasos Iron Lung and to suf in areas All of the money is raised over he bridge table In spare moments Mrs Brewer sketches desert scenes and paints But she wants to paint the smile on an orphan boys face when the Good Neighbors give him a party Planting chili pepper plants is the hobby of Mrs L A Tinoco of 3221 Tularosa street Her sun porch is filled with chili plants and rose bushes Fragrant verbenas fill one end of the room Mr Tinoco is a camera fiend but his wife sticks to the chili peppers The red peppers are as pretty as rase she said Mrs Mildred Eddleman of 3222 Tularosa street has been ill in bed for three days Attendants said her condition is better Mrs B D Hendricks front yard at 3211 Tularosa street will be bright with flowers this summer when she completes her planting Sweet alys sums nasturtiums verbenas and larkspur will blossom when Mrs Hendricks finishes her spading NO REMODELING OF UNION DEPOT McDonald Named President Of Company No further remodeling on the Union Depot is contemplated L B McDonald of Houston general man ager of the Southern Pacific rail road in Texas and Louisiana said today following his election as pres ident of the Union Depot Co He succeeded H S Fairbank J Somerville of Dallas was electee vice president He is of the Texas and Pacific railroad We spent several thousand dol lars last year on the El Paso depot installing airconditioning and do ing repair work McDonald said No further remodeling is planned other than the high standard of Southern Pacific maintenance He declined to comment upon El Paso freight rates Six directors of the Depot Co were reelected They are J A Gillies Fairbank McDonald Somer ville Harris Walthall C N Bassett and W W Turney Dutch Princess Named Beatrice International News Service SOESTDIJK The Netherlands Feb Princess may some day be queen of The Nether was Beatrice Wilhelmina STRIKE NOT SETTLED YET A strike of Agricola Power Co employes at the Boquilla Chihua lua hydroelectric plant entered its seventh day today with a large sec ioi of Chihuahua still without light and power By United Press R E Y N O S A Tamaulipas Mexico Feb sources reported today that pillaging bands of Los Dora Gold operating east and west of this city and had destroyed three railroad bridges in the past 24 The sources said that two of the International line govern ment operated railroad were burned east of here forcing a train bound for Matamores late yester day to return here Federal troops boarded a train to investigate the reported burn ing of a bridge four miles to the westward on the nosa line The train was said to have encountered a band of reb els at the bridge exchanging rifle fire with the band The train re turned last night but Mexican army officers refused to comment on their findings Seek Smuggled Ansn Mexican customs officers refused to answer questions confirming or denying the reports They declined to let American newspaper men cross the border It was learned from semiofficial American sources that the Mexican customs officers were placed on it hour shUts yesterday to patrol the border and stop smuggling of and ammunition American customs patrol officers it was learned likewise have in creased their vigilance The entire patrol except those on duty at ports of entry the river Soldiers Held Keady Soldiers at the federal garrison here were held in readiness for immediate action against the rebel bands which appeared to be work ing westward through Tamaulipas State after several encounters with federal troops in the vicinity of Matamoros yesterday American observers speculated on the reports of Some believed that it might presage a direct attack on Reynosa The population of Reynosa ia ap proximately 5000 The garrison here been increased in recent months is said to nun her 500 federal troops At where Governor Marte R Gomez announced that fighting which started yesterday had been quelled all was quiet The governor said only four were lost Travelers from the Mexi can border state reported at Brownsville however that 20 or more were killed yesterday in two towns Matamoros and Ramirez 99 miles south Governor Gomez said some ar rests had been made but declined to give details Charges Publicity Stoat The rioters wore the Gen Nicholas Rodriguez exiled Mexican Fascist leader who been frequenting El Paso and other towns on the American side of border for several months claim ing to have an army of 300000 men ready for a conquest of Mexico Gomez admitted that Los Rodriguez Gold Shirts were In He said it was a pub stunt to make American think there is discontent Firing could be heard on American side of the border yes when police clashed with revolutionaries who rode through Matamoros in a truck Gomez said that only one policeman had been killed in the fight here and one policeman wounded Police aided by federal soldiers were reported to have captured the truck along with a quantity of arms and 3500 rounds of ammunition Gomez list ed the other three dead as Two Continued on Page 7 Henry McLemore Visits El Paso HENRY United Press sports humorist ii an El Paso visitor His sports column carried by newspapers served by the United Press today has an El Paso dateline A few days ago he wrote that Jim Braddock former heavyweight boxing champion should retire Boxing fani in a flood of letters disagreed But McLemore was right the time Braddock quit the ring Sunday thus vindicating Henry You will want to read Mc Lemores comments on Brad docks retirement on sporta page today Hit column is On Page 8
