El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - September 26, 1938, El Paso, Texas El Paso Post VOL LVIII NO 231 Weather Forecast not much Complete on Page EL PASO TEXAS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26 1938 DELIVERED IN EL A WEKK Home Edition THREE CENTS INEL PASO FIVE CENTS ELSEWHERE GIVE UP SUDETENLAND PEACEFULLY OR WELL TAKE HITLER WARNS Allies Hail ce PI MEXICO II S NEAR ACCORD ON SEIZURES Hint Settlement Of Expropriation Differences WASHINGTON Sept 26 Mexico and the United States may be able to iron out differ ences over expropriation of American owned agrarian lands before sunset today accord ing to slate department sources Mexican Ambassador Francisco Majera was scheduled to iee Secretary of State Hull this Upon the answer which the Ambassador will bring by this to questions propound ed by Hull at their last meeting depend the future course of negotiations it was learned A high State Department official that indications are such as to arouse hopes that the Mexican amt will bring answers to an adjustment 65 GEOLOGISTS TO TAKE TRIP Delegates Arriving Forj Convention of Oil Seekers A Couple of Early Pioneers gathered sn El Paso to day ior a field trip New Mexi highlight of the Amer ican Assn of Petroleum Geologists Conception to be held through Fn cay Trp general sessions of the meet na will be held Thursday and Fri day at Hotel Five hundred delegates expected Sixtyfive had signed up tor the trip tomor row The field trip tomorrow will taice the geologists northward irto New Mexico studying section of Jarilla and to Mountains They will visit the sands of White Sands Ia Monument and arrive at Ala tomorrow night L A j Kelson of the College of Minles ulty will guide this group Phase I C E of the New Mexico School of Mines at Socorro and John Emery Adams geologist for the Oil Co of Texas CZECH RULER SEES HOPE OF AVOIDING WAR Britain France Thank President for Note Urging Amity El frta WASHINGTON British Urge Hitler FUEHRER STANDS Tacit Rejection of German Demands Sent By Chamberlain in Effort to Break Deadlock Threatening Europe y Sept high commissioners of Canada Australia South Africa and Eire conferred with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Malcolm MacDonald acting dominions secretary Sept President Benes of kia told President to day he believed that the s t 26Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain carman dispute could be settled personal message to Adolf Hitler by airplane today without resort to force the approval of Premier Edouard Daladier of Prance in He added however the Czecho Slovak nation would defend itself he Parliament to meet Wednesday in its most momentous session since the World War It was reported that Chamberlains message to Hitler sent only a few hours before the German fuehrer made a umj a it attacked Benes statement was in reply to a dramatic plea from Presi Photo by Z Co for honors with the Texas Mines football team and 70piece marching band Saturday afternoon on Kidd Field will be the 12piece 0rum and Bugle Corps Members of the corps six boys and six girls will be dressed ui uniforms typical of the early pioneers who settled this section of the United States The uniforms are orange and white Shown here left to right are Miss Geraldine Beltz and Miss Marjorie Thurston members of the corps They will blow which are shown strapped around their necks The Miners open their football season Saturday afternoon against New Mexico Military Institute SEVEN MEETING CONNALLY SEES ON BOND ISSUES TREATY COTTON Oil Co of Texas j guide the second phase of the tnp R j f g Heap Product Will Be Put In which leaves day morning and will traverse the j Basin cross the San Andres j Mountains via Rhodes Canyon cross the del Muerto to I Butte Dam I The Marathon Basin trip out of Alpine will be led by Phillip B King John V Skinner and V C Maley of Midland with the Humble Oi and Refining Co j The Alamogordo trip will be the u because the section ex Merits of WPA And PWA Projects Merits of the proposed 3nd issue to be submitted 3f will be discussed at neighbor Dod meetings in seven El Paso schools today at S p m e r i n g as by womens organizations in Pact Predicts Survey Of Freight Rates Cotton as a preferred commodity will be put into the pending cal trade treaty with Great Britain U S Senator Connally of Texas said in El Paso today Senator Connally said he believes cotton already is in the proposed here i o j c Midland Mr Vorbe is rf I arc hotel arrangements for the windberg Crockett H P ft trips Horse and Others here include James Jr of Midland Fred H Wil Talley Alta Vista Jimmie Goggin Coldwell R M Sellers Community Centor Louis Stein and Houston speaker not selected cox Dr Robert T Hill of Dallas known as the ot Texas geolo will arrive in El Paso day night for the convention Dr Hill will cover the convention for thc Dallas New Ke has been a Texas geologist for 50 years and cov ered the oil fields by horse and buggy IN COUNTERFEIT RAID Three Juarez counterfeiters today I Oct I J R Skillen super were held in the Juarez jail of the Santa Fe system di 1 hf 1 FE NEW DIVISION HEAD J R Skillen Superintendent Succeeding McKee Bj Press LAS VEGAS K M Sept The El Farm Bu reau last week wired Secretary of State Hull a protest against the treaty unless it stipulates that Great Britain buy American cotton Mr is en route to Gal from Los Angeles where he attended the American Legion con vention He was the guest of Ed while in El Paso and prin cipal speaker and guest at a eon at Hotel Hilton at noon Mr Connally discussed briefly the Continued on Page 10 ing indictment in the Juarez Fed eral District Court after a raid Sat night in Juarez that resulted vision at Slaton Tex will be in charge of the New Mexico division Junta Colo to El was uray n n a an thc seizure of counterfeiting announced here today equipment i H R McKee who has been super Juarez officers Juan Baca and Antonio Salas U S Secret Service of this division for nine years will be transferred to the Sla cw ct ivc j JL Brownlow and William division Bradshaw ard City Detective Bob The transfers were maoe at the seized the equipment of whose The raid surprised feiters at work They were making bogus GO cent Its one of the most beautiful counterfeiting outfits Ive seen in a long time Mr Brownlow said necessitated his moving to a lower altitude REVIVAL CANCELLED Thc revival meeting announced for this week at the Full Gospel Church has boon cancelled Rev Hodges announced There will be TEXAS WPA DOUBLED IN LESS THAN YEAR WASHINGTON Sept h e fiery of how WPA employment in has more than doubled in less than is told in figures made available here by the Works the result I dent that the German and Czechoslovakia nations set tle their differences peacefully Czechoslovakia Benes said is profoundly convinced with you that in the end war solves no problem and that it is a case in which reason a sense of human ity and the principle of justice should triumph i Benes was the third favorable reply received at the White House the others from Britain and France PRESS President Roosevelt appeal ed to today in the hope that the United States prestige might prevent outbreak of war and imme diate results of the plea for peace were 1 Anger in German quarters against United States interfer ence in European affairs 2 An expression of gratitude from France 3 Elation in London quarters 4 Prime Minister Chamberlain cabled President Roosevelt thanks for his message Later the President summoned the Cabinet to meet with him at 2 p m tomorrow the White House announced explaining that the ses sion was ordered because of the existence of a situation Roosevelt Personally Appeals for Peace By United Press WASHINGTON Sept dent today appealed per sonally to Chancellor Adolf Hitler and President Eduard Benes to maintain peace thrusting the weight and influence of the United States against the tide sweeping Europe toward war Reply from either now might in vite the United States to take a di rect hand in European affairs Kis plea first word from the President in this east ward as the British cabinet met and Hitler prepared again to address his Nazi legions It was timed to reach leaders on both sides before they could make public any incontrovertible commit ments which might bring war The prime ministers of Great Britain and France received copies through Secretary of State Hull Now possible is a reply from any of the four governments approached which might invite the United States to join directly in the fight for peace But in his message Mr Roosevelt warned The United States has no political entanglements The President said no nation could escape the consequences of general war He urged that negotia tions for peace be continued In support of his peace plea Mr sen speech proclaiming to the world his immediate intentions was a tacit rejection of the demand which Hitler made for surrender of Sudeten area of kia by next Saturday Upholds British Flan Usually reliable quarters said that it was an effort to break the ex isting deadlock by accelerating the procedure for ceding the Sudeten area as originally proposed by Brit ain and that Chamber lain insisted that the plan not Hitlers must be the basis to Hitler was taken Horace indus trial adviser to the government Announcement of the message came as the cabinet met for the third time in 24 hours and just after a conference between British and French leaders with Gen Marie Gustave Gamelin chief of staff of the French fighting forces attend ing Czechs Sit It was believed that Chamberlain appealed to Hitler not to insist on his ultimatum giving kia until next Saturday to surren der the Sudeten area to Germany and making it plain that neither Great Britain nor France was will ing to ask Czechoslovakia to accept General Gamelin arrived by air plane from Paris to join in British French consultation on immediate war preparations He conferred first with the Brit Continued on Pagre 7 Nazi Arrested Ernst chief aide of Kon rad Henlein fugitive leader of the Czech Sudeten Germans was ar rested today on orders of the Prague government Kundt played a prominent part in the formation I of the Sudeten Free Corps Continued on Czechs Reject Nazis Demand for Surrender By REYNOLD PACKARD United PrcM SUM Correspondent PRAGUE Sept today informed Great Britain that Adolf Hitlers demands for surrender of the Sudetenland by Oct 1 were unacceptable and should be sub ject to further discussions The governments decision made after a night of study as the nation prepared for war was understood to have been communicated to British Basil The Czechs refusal to accede to the German demands had been made known earlier in London The government listed its objec tion to the Hitler demands em economic ethnographic and national defense reasons for refusing to accept The objections were rushed to completion so that they could be m the hands of before his ad dress to the German nation this the nation calmly evening Meanwhile prepared for the fateful decision ot Continued on Page 5 VOTE TO STRIKE By Associated Prat CHICAGO Sept A F Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen today in formed H A Enochs chairman of the Railroad Management Confer ence Committee and William M Leiserson chairman of the Nation al Mediation Board that the Brotherhood had voted to strike at a m Saturday Oct 1 More About Vote ON PAGE 3 BEWARE WAR PROPAGANDA By razes u Brutality these phrases They arc war propaganda The Germany hear them about the Bolsheviks or ihe Czechs The people of England hear them about the 0er ie Berto radio you can hear of the of Arabs n Palestine Over thc London airwaves you hear about mistreat nth I such Some of it will be true some wUI be false All wUl be in the to produce tbe effect cw spare you from great masses of such r tons of it will go into their capacious waste baskets More will find publication in partisan paper m W in new magazines started for this very purpose over the ur of this and most effective of all the instruments of war is a knowledge rf U the propagandist works Psychology have studied this art They know how to use propagando They also put you on your guard against it Propaganda is an assault against intelligence To succumb to it is to dethrone reason and set blinded emotion m its place For successful propaganda never appeals to the mind It rouses the emotions It takes advantage of all and loves that are already in roans heart And t directs these forces against the individuals thc nations the parties or the pol which tbe undertaking to destroy Watch for these earmarks of propaganda 1 Propaganda appeals to the not to the intelligence 2 Propaganda offers highsounding phrases Deutech uber aUes Make the world safe for democracy Defend these creatures Make the seas safe Keep the home tires burn Ing uns Stop the march of the dictators Crush thc 3rogano conceals its source Printed matter with out vague group names or leagues without without their source other than loose everybody says or it is well these betray propagandist 4 Propaganda urges baste for delay permits the reason to act 5 Propaganda uses indirection innuendo insinuation and Direct statements that on be disproved are voided 6 Propaganda lakes advantage of the strong al ready in mens hearts Propaganda would make it appear that church government freedom honor and family are being attacked and can only be defended by the course being urged Say Territorial Aim on Europe But One On Which Reich Insists 26Adolf Hitler declared tonight that I have decided that we shall place the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia under German and added that if President Benes does not want peace we will have to take matters into our own hands L British Foreign Office pounced tonight that France Great Britain and RussU will fight if Germany invades Czechoslovakia Fuehrer Adolf Hitler told the world tonight that the annexation of the Sudetenland is to i last territorial demand I have to make m it is a point on which I will not yield Hitler declared that Germany has an army that the world will respect and that it stood ready to assure the existence of the German people within their racial frontiers I with the Hungarians thc Poles and the Ruthenians but I speak only of the fate of my own countrymen the Germans Hitler glared in that he was not actively fighting the battles of other Czech minorities Poland and Hungary bra de manded that Prague return their minorities coincident with surrender of Sudetenland In a speech awaited toy the world as pointing the way toward war or peace he declared that he a united and de termined nation in reference to his demands on to surrender the Sude Czech Crisis Bulletins Oil Associated Preti PARIS Sept The Ministry of Public Works because of cir today called upon persons who were ready to do so to evacuate Paris by rail A communique said Because of circumstances the Ministry of Public Works invites all persons who desire to leave Paris to use the railway facilities which are now guaranteed to them By United Presi WARSAW Poland Sept Poland probably will reject a for mal of fer by Czechoslovakia to negotiate claim to the to frontier district and will insist upon immediate pation of the area informed quar ters said today Associated Presi MOSCOW Sept President peace appeal to Ger many and Czechoslovakia was welcomed in Soviet circles today as further encouragement to Czechoslovaks to stand sap their rights for By BRUSSELS Belgium Sept 26 The cabinet summoned hurriedly decided today to recall from leave all officers and men of certain army units including the Arden nes motorized cavalry and fortress garrisons By Prat WASHINGTON Sept Con gressional leaders quick en today to President plea that Germany and Czechoslovakia settle their dif ferences peacefully Sheppard of the Sen ate Military Affairs Committee said he was thoroughly in thcy with the President in the matter Chairman Dies of the House committee investigating ican activities remarked that the President had been very careful to express a feeling of strict ncu an attitude Dies said thin country should assume International News Service LONDON Sept 2C The regu lar army of Eire all reservists and members of volunteer forces were called to the colors toUy the Press reported from Dublin Authorities claimed tbe order was merely for annual train ing purposes By United Press CHICAGO Sept 2G Senator James Hamilton Lewis a member of the Foreign Relations Committee proposed today that President Roosevelt summon the to the treaty for a revision of the World War peace terms tenland by Oct 1 The that occupies us is not so much Czechoslovakia ax it is Mr he shouted It was the chancellors first reference to Czechoslovak president Eduard Benes foreign policy is in contradistinction to that of democratic states he said We have no desire to suppress others Our goal is strictly limited by our racial frontiers But the Nazi leader declared Germany had raised herself from the disaster of World War defeat and was now an armed and power ful nation Flays World War Treaties Peace offers he said cannot be unilateral Thc only party can not go ahead and say Til wage war whenever it seems necessary again We all hope that in England those people will prevail who share this view Hitler said that Uie lie that there was such a tiling ss a vak nation was an invention made at Versailles the World War treaties were drafted Sees Opposing Races Nobody he added took the trouble to check up on this claim There are Czechs and there arc Slovaks and they cant stand each other In reference to his determination lo end what he called the Benes problem Hitler recalled that prior to the annexation of Austria one statesman did not understand me He was removed Kis reference was to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria who is now in a Nazi prison awaiting trial The fuehrer said that tlie father Continued on Pace 1 In Europe Today BERLIN envoy brings Chamberlains mes to Hitler German troops stream toward Czechoslovak frontier Roose velt appeals to Hitler to safe Europes peace receives replies from France and England Berlin angered ministers leave reaching diplomatic accord with British pir recalled p A RI warned to France nation of about 2000000 already under for evacu ation German to cede by Oct completes military remains virtually France Britain to to her drop bomb into place to Gibraltar fortress
