El Paso Herald Post (Newspaper) - April 18, 1938, El Paso, Texas Paso Herald Partly cloudy tonight and not much change in details on Page 7.)__ CENTS IN EL PASO FIVE CENTS NO. 93 APRIL 18, 1938 IK EL PASO 15o A R. PARDONS TOWNSEND AS PENSION HEAD STARTS TO SERVE TIME IN Leader Believes Clemency Vindicates on Blames For Contempt Shown Associated April 18. President Roosevelt today pardoned Dr. Francis E. old age pension as he was to local jail to serve a 30-day sentence for contempt of a House Townsend had reported to the district office and announced he was ready to begin service of the jail sentence when the pardon was was in the office of U. S. Marshal John B. awaiting removal to the pardon was delivered to emerged grinning broadly with the pardon in his am very he is complete vindication and F. E. of contrition on the part of said he would fly back to the West Coast a 71-year-old pension advocate was convicted Feb. 1937, for walking out on a special committee which was investigating his play to pay a a month federal pension to all persons over 60 years of White House announcement of the pardon cited a telegram sent to the President April 15 by Chairman Bell of the House Committee Townsend is an aged man and I am firmly convinced that at the time the so-called walkout was planned prior to his having been called as a witness and later at the time he actually did leave the witness he was under the influence of men of stronger will and intelligence than his own and that they were far more responsible for his offense that the doctor telegram said former member the Townsend board of directors had stated that the board met in Baltimore prior to the time Townsend was called to testify and that if and when the doctor was subpoenaed and called to the stand he would Wlk off the stand at the time when was deemed that he would get the best publicity and that later on when he did actually appear he left the stand in defiance of the pursuant to the plan adopted at the former meeting in view of these circumstances and in view of the on Page 7) so long ago Freddie the child was haled into court when his English parents complained he had cut them off without a and now Jackie the kid of the great old Chaplin complains that his mother opened his baby bank and took out the Jackie it was the principle of the Jackie was brought up in the American tradition and he feels that the money should be taken away only by his Uncle Jackie was great as a but he see why he should have to wear shabby clothes got all the children in Hollywood Last Sunday my own three-year-old son refused to do any of his cute tricks until I signed a legal paper forfeiting any interest in his Body Found in hours after the beaten and battered body of little Jenny 7, of a Los Angeles was found by neighbors in a vacant lot near her Charles 55, painter and a admitted to authorities he had mistreated the little then battered her head in with a McLachlen formerly lived in El GROSS EBRD to Within Six Miles Of Besieged Trapping United April 18.Nationalist forces crossed the Ebro River at its Delta today and advanced up both banks to within six miles of the desperately defended city of where international brigades were in a Francisco troops extended the breach between northern and southern Spain more than 43 miles along the Mediterranean Sea from the mouth of the Ebro River south to beyond the port of Columns in up the coast from the Nationalists today occupied railroad station on the south bank of the and then crossed over and took the town of From there they started up the river valley on column occupied Santa inland to the west and approximately six miles south of Tortosa on the south bank of the Thus two columns were driving up on Tortosa from the south while Italian Black Arrow troops battered at its gates on the landed a big force of troops at Vinaroz to aid in conquering the entire Ebro delta He expected to bring about the fall of Tortosa within a few at troops were sent from the Balearic Islands under convoy of A Nationalist communique from Salamanca said that the on Page 7) HITS POLE ON ALAMEDA persons received injuries in traffic accidents in El Paso over the L. Ware of the Lower Valley was cut and bruised last night when a car he was driving crashed into a service pole in the 4700 block on Alameda He was treated at the 4, of 3014 Magoffin was cut and bruised when he was struck near his home by a car driven by Juan 29, of 3712 East San Antonio street CONFERS ON GAS Attorney at Austin To Talk to Commission Attorney Guinn today was en route to where he will confer with Railroad Commission Chairman Thompson on El gas rate also will attend the hearing in district court at Austin set for tomorrow on the Texas Cities Gas suit for an injunction to keep the engineers from making a rate survey in El suit was sent to Austin after the Court of Civil Appeals at Dallas threw out a temporary injunction granted in Dallas district The injunction was dismissed on 14ie grounds that jurisdiction in the dispute is in the Austin court City is awaiting outcome of the Austin court fight to obtain services of the engineers to extend the El Paso gas rate first attempt to obtain information from the books was blocked by the Dallas and the City's rate ordinance has been enjoined by Federal Judge Healing Halt Aids News Service April 18. Billy 13-year-old son of an Assembly of God was reported in condition today at a hospital where he was taken after a struggle between 20 policemen and members of the The Rev. Mr. Hart and his congregation believe medical aid is useless and prayer alone would have to heal the fractured skull and suffered when his bicycle hit an TVA News April 18.Major utilities operating in the Tennessee Valley region today appealed to the Supreme Court in an effort to halt the TVA electric expansion 1938 R. Tosses One Century of Diamond Game United April 18.The major league season opened President Roosevelt tossed in the first ball in one The mighty New York representing a will open their campaign for a third in Roosevelt threw out ball behind the first base line in The crowd roared as he wound up Scores In The the find the answer every day in The Baseball special wire will you the latest news about your favorite teams and you will get your baseball scores first in The Baseball then roared again as he made a throw that barely the Jimmy Washington catcher nearest the caught the the 100th season of organized baseball officially was serie sof light showers had cut down Only about 25,-000 were in the stands which seat 32,000. all 16 teams will go into Today the Philadelphia Athletics play the Washington Senators at Washington and the New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox at 250,000 fans will see the 11 games today and tomorrow ( the Yanks and Red Sox play a holiday double-header addition to the usual first day opening has the historical significance of marking 100 years of Back in 1839 at N. Gen. Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball Today the game is national pastime and a billion-dollar interest soared to almost unprecedented heights on a last minute St. Louis Cubs deal which may upset the balance of power in the National of Dizzy one of the greatest pitchers in diamond has projected the Cubs into the a potential 20-game heading pitching on Page 8) Pictures Given A By First News April 18.At her press conference one of the newspaper women asked Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt what she thought of a series of pictures in a Life magazine showing the birth of a replied that she never thought things were as bad as suggestive Then she told an amusing A conscientious she who did not believe in the methods of imparting the facts of life to showed his son the pictures of looked bored to she and didn't have near as hard a time as the ostrich at our SMELTER LABOR ROW HUNT BEGUN FOR TORTURE Paso officials of the American Smelting Co. said that labor troubles which resulted in a strike at the Chihuahua City smelter have been which employs 1500 and the refinery at are in full operation they officials said they do not know terms of the labor Overlook Faults Of The Other For Says Concert is a lolf like being said Creighton Pasmore and Victor Trerice of Los the piano team members who will play tonight in Liberty Hall with the El Paso Symphony have to overlook all the little faults of the Pasmore have to merge your personalities and be individual at the same and Trerice have together for three They practice four days a three hours a That means facing each other across the keyboards of two grand When they are working on a new they practice separately until they are ready to produce music from two pianos as as demands Trerice you lead and in the next second you are subservient to the never get along as the 30 - year - old musician always fall he and Trerice are They live across town from each They teach in Madame Olga School of on Page 7) Good took one to their parents took the Jimmy and Johnny Woods still enjoy each The photo above shows the twins who gained nationwide fame when they were made the subjects of a living experiment in child as they looked on reaching their double sixth was given an ordinary rearing by his father and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis abashed by his lack of by Columbia University OUSTING SCHOOL Pupils Sign Threaten to Board petition protesting the removal of L. W. principal of N. Union High was signed today by 146 of 150 students at the petition charged that the School Board has voted to replace Clark by Professor A. E. now teaching at N. and formerly principal of Las Cruces High of the petition was presented to The by a delegation of Anthony students headed by Bob Crossett and Vernon the school board rescinds its action we will said parents already have signed a petition authorizing the petition of the students praises the record made by Clark in the El Paso Livestock the progress of the school and general of the school under feel perfectly the petition asking the present school board to resign and stop hindering and retarding the progress of this as the only thing they seem to have in mind is to perpetuate an old faction that Professor nor any of the present pupils are responsible petition solicits the support of the County Board to keep Clark KILLER SI ILL AT Find Slayer of BACK MINE El Held Chihuahua Pen Has Been Man of Fair to April 18.W. N. vice president of the Mining Co. today in an interview in the Chihuahua State Penitentiary denied charges filed against him in connection with the bomb slaying of Mayor Jose Borunda of wish to state that I am absolutely innocent in every respect of this Fink can not conceive how anyone could be so cruel as to ship the death machine that ended the life in such a shaven and neatly Fink is described by prominent Mexican who have known him over 20 as an cultured and refined particularly honest in his business have been treated with all courtesies and considerations Fink is being held in the room occupied by the chief prison He has not been placed behind denied he knew the late and added that neither he nor the company he has represented for years had any dealings with Mayor Carlos G. and Jose de said they were certain of their and added they expected to on 7) United April 18.State police today reported no trace found of Howard 23-year-old insane slayer who escaped Friday night from the Austin state his escape he displayed the same cunning that almost enabled him to avoid suspicion as the slayer of his mother and the late Justice William Pierson of the State Supreme three years for Pierson centered on North They believe he might have thumbed a ride as many college boys were doing for Easter holiday trips to their Offers Reward for United April 18.Governor Allred today offered reward for information that will lead to the apprehension of Howard 23-year-old insane who escaped Friday night from the Austin State said the escape emphasized the need of a state institution for criminally He wondered what the for Governor will do about such a KILLS United April 18. Mrs. Olga 43, was held in the county jail today pending investigation of the fatal shooting of her Claude 57, Oklahoma City Nowlin said she shot her husband as a result of a family quarrel over his He died three hours after the shooting last Her Nose In Fall Dancing The A 17, of 507 South Campbell today was nursing a broken nose she received last night while practicing the Big slipped and fell on her took her to the Hospital for emergency WITH BIG WARN U S. NOW CAN BE See Danger Of Invasion and Attack Already United April 18. The Senate naval affairs committee today reported President naval expansion program to the floor and urged its prompt passage with the warning that the United States with her present armaments be defeated and conquered without a military persons are of the opinion that our program should be based upon the assumption that we be prepared only against invasion or military conquest Continental United report do not seem to realize that the United States is not self-contained and that our industries and high standards of living depend upon the importation of essential raw a Navy capable of controlling the sea areas against an an effective blockade against our foreign commerce can be established and maintained at points thousands miles from our coasts and well beyond aircraft outlying possessions will be captured and used against us as ad vance will be nothing to pre vent the establishment of by force if in this from as well as from aircraft repeated bombing raids can be dispatched against our highly industrialized 5-5-3 committee urged that the nation adopt an expansion program which would bring our Navy into the 5-5-3 ratio between the United Great Britain and authorized by the Washington treaty in 1922. an expansion it was would give the nation Sought by Fox For Questioning In THROUGH E. Again n Investigation of Desert 220 MILLION FOR ARMY Control Included In Appropriations Reported to United April 18. House Appropriations Committee today favorably reported a appropriation for civil including 000 for flood control requested by President Roosevelt as part of his new recovery Roosevelt recommended the heavy appropriation for flood control as one phase of his new drive against recession and represented a increase over the appropriation for W ar Department civil works in the 1938 fiscal year which ends July 1. new is over the 1939 It included of total of was provided for rivers and harbors compared with appropriated on Page 10) Visitors Into Ages Of Beauty of of Illustrates Ponderous Patience in Subterranean Soul Creep in Mental ERNIE Roving N. 2:30 in the afternoon you are getting close to the end of your pilgrimage through the Carlsbad hours you have wandered in a world of amidst millions of shadowed You have lost all feeling of You have stepped away from you have become a part of sense of appreciation and your body feels a cool You wonder what the world outside can be if there is a world trail rounds a big of you lies a white roofed far overhead by solid rock which makes a dark The light is like thr Northern moonlight on dark world widens as you the and finally you reach a and stop there with your fellow travelers to rest on the dusty white large man in green uniform steps forward and stands at the foot of an immense stone He is Col. Thomas superintendent of the All day he has kept in the one of the But now he takes asks for and complete He gets even from the Boles makes a little informal He tells us the number in our which has been computed on the surface and phoned on Page 5) Fox today started a search for Leo and his woman companion as the slayers of Mrs. Hazel Frome and her of asked Sheriff E. W. Biscailuz of Los to question two prisoners held in jail there as to where Wahler and his woman companion may be prisoners are Groves snd Johnny who were arrested April 4 in Kansas Mo. They are charged jointly with Wahler with the slaying of a Los Angeles tavern owner who was shot down in March during an attempted left Los Angeles March 22 with Rodriguez and his according to police The four were traveling in a Pontiac coupe and a dark Plymouth The Pontiac was a stolen and Wahler became uneasy about it and parted with Groves and Rodriguez at on March 23. Shea of the Sheriffs Department learned several days ago that Groves and Rodriguez took the Pontiac and continued on to Kansas City where they were arrested April 4. They still had the car in their and his woman kept the Plymouth and left Phoenix the night of March 24 for El Shea pointed out that Wahler may have Mrs. Frome and Nancy in The women spent the night of the 24th at the Sea Breeze Auto Camp has asked Phoenix police to check movements while he was who saw a man and a woman trailing the Frome Packard in a dark Plymouth coach March 30, the day of the described the man as being and chunky with a round face and big said that description fits The woman seen with the slayer between El Paso and fits the description of the woman who left Los Angeles with Dangerous Man is a narcotic addict and is described by Los Angeles police as a criminal who will to He was heavily armed when he left Los murders were the brutal type that would have been done by a narcotic addict and a natural Fox pointed had just completed serving a sentence for murder when he became involved in the shooting of a tavern operator in Los received information that substantiates a theory that the women were afraid of someone when they left El is searching for a Montana street filling station operator whom Mrs. Frome and Nancy asked if there was a route other than Highway 80 on Page 7) RIVERS RISE AFTER HEAVY Goes Out of Banks In Two UNITED rose p i d 1 y throughout East and South Texas today after heavy Easter rains that approached cloudburst proportions in some Showers were reported elsewhere in the Trinity already swollen by went out of its banks at Long Lake and at Brazos rose swiftly at Waco after rainfall of more than an reported the heaviest rainfall in the with 3.74 inches in the past 24 precipitation was accompanied by dropping temperatures which fell as low as 40 degrees at PASO TO cloudy weather will seep to El Paso tonight and the Weather Bureau predicted as heavy rains drenched Easter high temperature 82 The mercury today sank to only 53. WOMAN KILLED WHEN WIND HITS HOUSE By United Press EAGLE April 18.Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Ramon 34, who was killed Saturday night when her house was lifted from its foundation during a severe wind and hail of Mrs. children who were injured were not expected to The house was carried 300 feet from its
