El Paso Herald-Post (Newspaper) - October 20, 1947, El Paso, Texas Paso VOL NO 251 Post U S Weather Forecast Fair Details on Page 2 EL PASO OCTOBER 20 1947 BY CARRIER PER WEEK f Home Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS FIRST RESCUE caps on the Atlantic lash the Queen after the craft ran out of gasoline and made a forced landing Boat from Coast Guard cutter is get to the plane to rescue the 69 survivors GUARDSMAN on tha Bibb took this pic ture of the flying boat Ber muda Sky Queen a few seconds sark after it had been hit by a shell from the Bibb Man Shot in Leg Officer Arrested South Florence street was shot in the left leg early today in the 400 block of street W 26 ET S Custom a 1 Shot Ended ManueT of 1307 North Virginia steel said he saw a man f and a fighting in the street The he said and the man Delgado who was sitting curb and pushed him He up and a fight followed He said a shot ended the fight and Delgado limped away Muela M Wilcox 26 of 504 South Stanton street said he had been with McGee all day yesterday Last night they quarreled she said and she left hi car on South Florence street She said soon that she heard a shot She was arrested soon after the shooting Gun Was Borrowed McGee borrowed a 15 caliber from Dispatcher Frost last night Frost said He said McGee nold him he wanted to go hunting Frost said someone telephoned the police station and said someone had been shot on Florence street and police were investigating the shooting McGee telephoned and said someone had shot at him on street 1 thought of the man that had been shot and asked McGee if he had done any shooting Frost said said he had not shot anyone He told me he was calling from his well most room at tha Emerson Hotel I told to realize the him to come to the police station and bring the gun so we get things straightened out He caae to the station ana I 1 Basked to we the gun He said he had left it in his loom By united Press BOSTON Oct rescued illfated flying boat Queen charged today that the plane forced down the largest flight in overcrowded Civil Aeronautics Boards mem bers after the charter airline crew an that a public hearing would York start T determine whythe craft ran out of gaso line less than across the Atlantic on its flight from Foynes Eire Ire 69 the dramatic ocean landing arld rescue arrived Aboard the Coast Guard cutter Bibb The unanimous in praise of the heroic crew of the Bibb who risked their lives in the raging cold waters Of the Atlantic 840 miles off to every to safety The lauded the landing of the plne among waves by Capt Martin 33 Officer Issues Statement not swallow I thought iwas thirsty We went to the hotel after his but it was fear gun and just before entering the gun ana We had put ln nor a j it to him said he had taken 1 expected to take them out and placed them in a off a wing or a pontoon I had the dresser drawer We could not find feeling of being Capped I would thp shells rather wing In jail today McGee said his car even than inside the plane had stalled and he was pushing the He said he had the gun held be SURVIVORS of Bermuda Sky Queen near rescue cutter Bibb in a rubber life Rescued Passengers Charge Overcrowding on Airliner of Miami Fla as a major achieve ment Some 10000 persons lined the docks of Boston harbor as the Bibb steamed to her berth a battered flying from the the seamens sign of alls well all hands safe Charges of overcrowding lack of safety and sleeping arrange aboard the Bermuda Sky Queen were made by most ors A statement signed by 37 sUr i In the opinion of the undersigned passengers on the Bermuda Sky the plane was grossly over crowded Furthermore it is believed that the reason why the aircraft of the type used took thc air on a North Atlantic route at this time ofthe year calls for an investigation The plane an old boat of the that pioneered transoceanic commercial f ly i hg was owned by American Interna tional Airways of New York and had to a British firm for the flight The Babies Wailed Terror Rides Airliner Cabin During Rescue on Stormy Sea EDITORS Follower eyewitness account Oj the forced land Sky Queen tid s or N B nne of the 69 Written for the Combined By MES KITCHIE Di united Trt si BOSTON Oct announce ment of the was timed so us time In my mind I Vas practically out of the pontoon pushing up the how awful it was going to be tongue stuck to the roof of Uj mouth I could I though we can never get out the doors we art dje There seemed to be no escape from the jumping out He said he had the gun held bej j was not ready lo die j tween his trousers and belt He t the planes hit him and Ire turned the drowning my and swung and was trying to drowning the gun from falling to the ground when it went off my hands were had been drinking all day he caid And Why Not Peace Justice Charles Windberg Jr had an answer toan old ques tion today Why did you get drunk ne asked the defendant Because the beer was free was the answer Mr Windberg suspended sentence Remembers Wally Hews Service BALTIMORE Md Oct Duches of Windsor was left a of by her uncle Gen Henry M Warfield of Sid under terms of his will filed v today at lowson Md The who died left an estate valued at 10 uub into the sea wW a to swim for our lives What Chance we The cutters Biba had fallen Davits the sea when they were itl This got to us hat the cutter boat had What chance haq we jf a strong life boat couldnt thE sea What other way could there be So we sat Tre just slept and vomited arld cried for waler and slept again our boy Gordon he on screaming over and over set us off but a babys just lore every mothers heart to pieces Every woman would say there there and that was about all that ever was said all day We ust sat oo full of despair to move Some nen kept walking up and down cloths under our chins and changing the cardboard boxes we vomited In The liave smelled hor was vomit everywhere notice it We must not show our fear to the children Ten hours of it Noth ing was no hope on Page 2 Col 4 Blasts Ba United Prest HAMILTON Bermuda Oct hit Bermuda today with the Weather Bureau reporting steady winds of 75 miles an hour and gusts up to 100 miles an hour No major damage of casualties were reported in the first phase of the blow which reached an appar ent peak at 9 a m The Weather Bureau said ths storm was centered 35 miles west northwest of Bermuda at 9 a m Part of an Army field was flooded a majority of telephones on the is land were out Considerable debris was in thc streets The sea off the south shore was a mass of white spume Some small boats were sunk i ui vu his fathers just watching the waves slapping piane pnd saying a word One little boy jn kept wakening with scream crying get me off lht plane Then his mother would soothe him He would sleep only to wake A Juarez beggar insulted be cause a passerby gave him a Jive centavo coin was under arrest in Juarez today Police said thc beggar threatened donor and created a public scandal Another beggar was arrested on a similar charge last week Police say jokingly that the beggars union will not permit them to ac cept a mere piece Coyotes Threaten Rural Section County Judge Gilbert moved today to Invoke a recent act of toe Legislature establish ing a bounty of a head on animals infected with rabies Ive been smothered with com plaints about coyotes and wild dogs in the Sunrise Acres area the judge told State Game Warden N L Chamberlain and Dr L T Cox health officer from the hills about dusk raid poultry yards at tack calves and frighten children Quarantine Proposed Dr Cox said the coyotes probably are rabid Coyotes form a pool of rabies from which city and county dogs keep the disease alive Dr Cox said Judge Gilbert that he will write immediately a quarantine be estab in Sunrise Acres lift Chamberlain and Dr Cox said they too had received com plaints about coyotes and packs of dogs in Sunrise Acres There is no record of a coyote a child Mr Cham berlain said but domestic dogs gone wild certainly constitute a danger Coyotes Are Hungry j The game warden said Sunrise Acres is not the only populated area averted Ive seen coyotes cross North loop road he said country behind Ft Bliss is Blaming lack of rain for the coyote raids Mr de scribed some he had shot recently as skin Theyre hungry he said The warden suggested be sides a bounty a drive might be successful The Army might be willing to cooperate he said Paris Reds Call Off Transport Strike By United Pres Oct led Paris agreed to sweeping victory on an antiCommunist ticket in French to call off their v Paris transport strike Bv Prvt PARIS Oct 20 French troop rushed to Paris tonight as labor unions renewed their threat of a general strike following Gan Charles De Gaulles sweeping vic tory ji nationwide municipal elec tions Some troops it was learned ar rived in morning Organized Against Communists With the in the elec tion still untabulated this evening it was evident they De Gaulle somewhere around 40 per cent of the total nationwide vote and 56 percent of in Paris De Gaulles party the Rally of the French People received 415 per cent of the 4000000 votes counted The party was organized six months ago to fight the Communists who received 29 7 per cent of the votes in yesterdays elections Premier Paul Socialists received 20 6 per cent and the Popular Re publican Movement once the strongest party in France received 82 per cent Minimize Victory Troop reinforcements already in Paris were concentrated at Se curity points throughout the city In event of trouble they were ex to bolster city police and The first official Communist re action to De Gaulles victory was an effort to minimize it Communists contended they had consolidated their position while Pe Gaulle merely had lined up the reac elements in France U S Rejects Russian Proposal on Korea BV Preh WASHINGTON Oct 20 United States has formally rejected Russias proposal that Soviet and American occupation troops with draw simultaneously from Korea The State Department today made public a message from Under Sec Robert Lovelt to Russian Foreign Minister Molotov last Sat saying this question must be considered an integral part of the solution submitted by the United States to the United Nations As sembly on Friday The U S requested the establish ment ol a U N commission to supervise elections in Korea which would decide the form of the future Korean government Priest Denounces Sale Of Liquor to Minors CATHOLIC women were among leaders at the regional conference today Miss Clara Berchtold of Denver national board member Mrs Terrell Bartiett dent of theSan Antonio archdiocesan council Mrs A H Bender president of the Los Angeles archdiocesan council Mrs M B president of the Tulsa council Mrs Thomas Morrissey of Denver national chairman of the committee on Catholic PT As Mrs C T Weir president of the Corpus Christ council Mrs J W McCollum of Gainesville Fla past president Mrs J J McNamara president of the Santa Fe archdiocesan council and MrsT A Cosgriff of Denver a national director Movie Maker Says Pictures Are Free Of Red Doctrines Bv United press WASHINGTON Oct Producer Jack L Warner said to day he had fired six writers for trying to inject lean ings into scripts for his studio But the vice president of Warner told the i Activities Committee he had never seen a Communist and wouldnt know one if he did see cum that he managed to cut out all ideas from Warner scrips and that he had never seen any American mo containing the Com munist doctrine of forcible cver First Witness Warner was witness as the committee began public hear ings here to find out ex tent Communists have infiltrated Hollywood Warner speaking clearly and con testified that 1 the White House the Roosevelt pres sure to induce his studio to produce films were fantasy 2 favor legislation making the Communist Party an organization if such a law did not contravene the of Rights Movies Must Be Free movies as well as the press must be free Warner told the committee that if his Mission to Mos cow was a subversive activity The American Liberty ships which carried food and guns to Rus sian allies and the American naval vessels which convoyed them were likewise engaged in subversive ac Mission to Moscow based on a aook of the same name by Joseph E Davies former U S ambassador to Russia has been denounced by he committee as too t was produced during the war Texas Cool and New Mexico Cold Crisp clear weather greeted most of Texas today with several points reported the mercury dropping be low the mark El Paso had 56 Warm weather will con here Scattered showers were reported rom the Gulf Coast area late yes erday with Brownsville having the inches Victoria reported 04 inch Corpus Christi 03 and Galveston 01 Lowest early morning tempera ture reported to theU S Weather Bureau today was 45 degrees at Lubbock while Junction reported 46 and Dallas and Harpersville 49 Aside from a high of 92 degrees at Brownsville Laredo and Del along the Rio Grande yester days maximums generally were in the 80s with the lowest readin coming from Guadalupe Pass where it rose only to 70 Clear and cool weather prevailed over New Mexico with a subfreez ing 31 degrees recorded at Raton today Otto with 33 Las Vegas with 35 and El Morro with 36 were other spots while the mini Car Accident Injuries Fatal to Hatch Man The body of Fank Montenegro of Hatch N M who died in an El Paso hospital yesterday as a re sult of injuries received in an auto mobile cr 85 west of Hatch on Saturday was sent to Hatch for burial Hagedon Harding Survivors include thc widow two daughters and two sons all of Hatch BISHOP Rev Daniel J Gercke of Tucson was honorary chairman at this mornings session of the re conference He is shown here with Miss Clara Berchtold of Santa Fe a national board member left and Mrs L A Higgins of Denver the conference session chairman Council Will Open Bids oh Track Project Sewer Bonds Bids for the 300000 Franklin street storm sewer signed to divert flood waters from the track depression be received by City Council at its regular meeting Thursday Also onthe program is opening of bids for construction of a fill Scenic Drive near the aban Dudley quarry and issuance of oneyear taxi franchises The storm sewer will extend along Franklin street from Ca bell to a point near the Union Depot There it will tie in with an exist Program A paving program at Mu Airport will be started with in the next six weeks W K Brad shaw public works t engineer an today The program to be financed joint ly by the City and the Aero nautics Authority calls for paving of 1 A foot parking area tor light aircraft between the T langar and tne administration building Parking Area Paving 2 Aprons joining the T hangar with the taxiway 3 An area connecting debarkation joints east of the terminal with ex sting aprons 4 A strip between the tion area and the baggage room on the west side of the terminal 5 A parking area and two roads n front of the administration build ing The CAAs share of the necessary funds were awarded several weeks ago Money Available The City will use money from a Airport paving issue and cash budgeted for Airport use Plans for the program are subject lo fina approval oy CAA officials in Washington and City Council Mr Bradshaw said that if it is found that will not cover the total cost paving of the park ing arsa in front of the ion will be eliminated from the mums ranged up to 56 at Pianist Will Give Concert To Aid Catholic Project Alexander Vilalla concert pianist for many years will present a con cert in Liberty Hall Wednesday at p m Proceeds will so toward improv ing thc road on Sierra de Cristo Rey to thc statue of Christ the King Rev F Costa is spon soring thc concert The concert of fice is at the Lamsa Airline office in Hotel Paso del Vilalla has traveled in most countries of Europe and South America on concert tours He main tains a studio in New York Cily His playing has won praise from critics of many cities of the world ing line leading Into the Rio Grande City officials indicated that sev eral bids probably will received since construction firms in states were informed about the project The contract is expected to be let within two weeks Building of the line probably will get under way before Jan 1 Plans Prepared plans for the project were pre pared by Consulting Engineer Ash ley Classen The fill will replace the wood en bridge near the quarry An as top will be used until it set tles after which a concrete link will be inserted The cost between officials esti mate The bridge was built in allow railroad cars from the quar ry to pass below the drive sur face Action Postponed Action on the taxi franchise plan was postponed by the Council last week because the action had not been advertised for an adequate period of time Cab which show they have complied with provisions set forth by the Council will be award ed franchises There are 10 appli cants Railroads Prepare to Move Project Buildings A group of engineers today were making a survey of the problems involved in removing buildings owned by railroads from the track depression Included in the group were Har lan Hugg project engineer for Co W K Brad Shaw public works engineer for the City railroad officials and rep of El Paso construction firms A report on the survey will be prepared Mr Hugg said M Road Pact Cancellation Set By Press AUSTIN Oct answer has been received from New Mexico on Texas cancellation of the two state commercial reci agreement arid it will be cancelled on Nov 1 State Highway Engineer Dewitt C said to New Mexico vehicles entering Texas after that date will be re quired to pay a road mileage tax Greer said Ife said New Mexico made thc agreement signed in a one sided deal by requiring Texas ve to paj thc tax while permitted New Mexico vehicles lo free The agreement covered commer cial vehicles carrying lum ber and farm products Conference Told Cause A plainspoken New Mexico priest today urged Catholic to demand enforce ment of laws forbidding sale of liquor to minors The priest Rev Glynn P Smith of Cristo Hey parish in Santa Fe denounced in both English and Spanish bar owners and crooked politicians who allow liquor to contribute to juvenile delinquency He spoke at the morning session of the Southwest Regional Con ference of the National Council of Catholic Women Cortez Blame on Parents The conference began yesterday with nearly 600 delegates in at tendance and will end Wednesday Father Smith placed the blame for juvenile delinquency squarely on the shoulders of parents and grownups There is no such thing as ju venile delinquency he said Its adult delinquency The sooner we fact the better off well be Father Smith told of an attack by six boys on a girl in Santa Fe Because the boys were from his parish he made a three weeks investigation Girl Provided Money The girl he found was from a broken home The mother through neglect allowed her to get drunk and stay out late at a dance halL It was the girl he discovered who provided part of the money with which the boys bought the liquor that prompted them to The who sold the li violated the law prohibiting sale of minors We sent Smith related When he got cut he opened a bigger cafe Hed got a lot of free advertising Plastered Parents i Father Smith asked Do you allow your children to come drunk to stay out all hours of the night Do you some home plas tered Why blame kids for doing learned from their parents your children come home drunk do you puT them to bed with a water bottle and tell them next morning that they shouldnt behave that way Or do you let em have it where it belongs Smith said that with strict enforcement of the liquor laws par ents would have 60 or 70 per cent of the battle against juvenile de won Marriage As a Career Mrs of Calif described forums in Cali fornia particularly V at At these weekly forums Mrs Uniacke said priests doctors law yers and others discuss various of marriage Including such husband and wife rela tion ship operations venereal dis ease Christian love and the gen eral development of a happy Cath home Sister M Patrick Shean of Santa Fe gave a detailed report of a Sania Fe medical mission in a dis Catholic maternity in There with a staff of vides obstetrical care for a total Continued on Page 18 Col 3 Laborer Says He Was Hit With Gun Daniel Chavez Mexican vice con sul was an observer today at Las Cruces at the preliminary hearing for L F Fletcher 25 farmer on a charge of assaulting a Mexican farm worker with a gun Miguel Lopez Pulido of employed under the alien labor pact to pick cotton at a hundred pounds said on Oct 14 he and other workers decided to ask far a raise in the wage rate because the cotton field had been well picked and earnings had dropped He said that Fletcher drove Up In a truck and asked Who is it that wants a raise in Pulido said he spoke up and Flecher hit him on the head with his pistol knocking him to his knees The hearing was fo continue ate this afternoon It is held be fore Justice of the Peace B G Chavez District Attorney W T Scoggins is prosecutor Attorney Wayne represents Many farmers attended the hear in B Inside Your Or H I L Erf I Ratlin Clock
