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Show THE DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY THURSDAT AUGUST 29 1929 Massacre of Jews By Moslems is Described By Refugees at Cairo Arabu Butchered Chil- dren, Report; 15 American Students Killed In Horrifying Attack. CAIRO, Aug. 21 (AP) Graph at ie accounts of tho massacrs Habron Saturday in which three score Jews, including fifteen American students, were killed in the sudden and overpowering attack by maddened Arab mobs, was given today by travellers arriving here from Palestine. Their narratives described horrinafying scenes when the horde of viltives, mostly from outlying the descended town, upon lages, broke into houses, slaughtered all' the inhabitants and mutilated the bodies. Hot even children escaped the fury of the assault. Before the authorities succeeded In' restoring quiet, the attacking bands of Arabs had grown to about 5.000 and had run Its deadly pillaging way throughout a large part of the Jewish section. It la One Bouse. " It was not until Sunday morning that representative measures were sufficiently successful to admit a survey of the situation and to begin the gruesome task of collecting the dead. In one house alone In nineteen bodies were found. some cases bodies wera hanging from windows; In others they had been mercilessly thrown Into the streets. Instance In practically every death was caused by ewords or knives, sven young children of two and three years, many of them girls, did not escape the savagery of the attack. Troops Arrivo The police are credited with veoraan work, in collecting Jews and from the exposed sections conveying them to safer quarters, thus preventing even more deadly work by the infuriated Mosiema Several hundred Jews were taken from Hebron on the day of the outbreak. On Monday three hun dred more were evacuated and on large-Jewis- 3-DA- Sonnysayings By rim T. COST Confederate Vet Of 85 Is Stabbed During Quarrel NEW ORLEANS, Aug. J (API Major John Crowley, old Confederate veteran, and secret dispatch bearer for President Jefferson Davis, lingered between life and death in Charity last night from stab hospital wounds Inflicted by a noisy demonstrator la front of his home. Police arrested Walter Elms. 45 of Pritchard. La., who they said, was intoxiuted and thrust a knife blade into tho veterans neck during a quarrel on the street. Eim was charged with being drank and with cutting and dangerously wounding. ar Tuesday ths remainder of the Jewish population was removed to Jerusalem. Tuesday afternoon a platoon of British troops from ths South Wales borderers regiment, from Cairo, were garrisoned in the town thereby enabling the police to push out into surrounding regions and deal with the wandering bands. While ths death toll in Hebron Is estimated at nearly 60, only ten Moslems were killed by the Jewish defense. The American Jewish casualties in the town were in the Rabbinical the college where youths were pursuing their religstuious studies. Twenty of the dents survived the attack. Valiant work in removing the wounded Jews from Hebron to Jerusalem was done by the Zionist executive committee in Jerusalem which dispatched motor buses escorted by armored carp for tbis purpose. Enmity Not GeenrmL Ths Arab attitude toward ths Jews is Hebron Is by no meant unanimously hostile, travelers import. There were cases at Hebron and elsewhere, they say, where Arab neighbors saved Jews from ths fury of ths fnobs. Seven Jews thus were protect4 In a village between Hebron and Jerusalem, and subsequently they were evacIn anothei uated to Jerusalem. ease two fellow workers saved a Jewish driver of a steam rolies, Thera was a singular spectacle witnessed of Arab road workers continuing their tasks while trouble eras on all around them. There was no direct hostility to British officials performing their duties, travelers declared. i og Held on Charge of Impersonating Police Charged with impersonating an officer, Robert K. Volght was arrested Wednesday on a complaint filed with U. 8. Commissioner W. H- - Wilkins. He Is alleged to have represented himself to Alvin Borg-quiand others in Murray as a narcotic agent on June It. st if i uUs ife ' - 1 Aj rT-i- O !. Whisky Runners Escape Dry Agents Under Gun Fire in WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. I.J By I dont belleb baby join t 'caed ths Canadian Press) Smuggler ktdnapin' Tommy's baby but In charge of five luggers and 1.440 be the one to break arent join t sc to her. ( I Long Lost Body of Trapper Found as Flames Fire Gun GREAT FALLS. Mont. Aug. It. (AP) The skeleton cf a trapper that had lain unisturbsd for ! years perhaps for i century, was uncovered by a forest firs in ths Lewis and Clark forest, when the bullets In tbs dead mans gun exploded from ths heat of the flames. Fire fighting crews heard the explosion, but were unable et the time to investigate because of the intense heat. Yesterday the f re wee placed under control and the curidus men returned to the spot where they heard the explosion. They found the skeleton of the man who apparently had been killed by an animal, lying in the spot where he had made hi ramp. Beside him was a rifle, with the date 1571 on it, and an old heavy iron skillet, a type long since off the market. A salt shaker, rusted almost away, and two" bottles of poison, of a type used by trappers, were the only ether things found. cases of beer and abisky escaped under fire todey from United Stare coast guard cutters which Intercepted tnem at tbe confluence of Lake Erie end tbe Huron river. Nearly a dozen, rum runners fled in two speedooats. chased cn tbeir way by volleys of revolver shots from the preventive police Six empty craft wera seized In addition to tbe lr.ers and tbs liquor. Chile x-- , , Returns Tacna to Peru TACNA; Pru, Aug. Jf. (AP) TbU pro vine, lost to Peru sines tho war of 187. with Chilo, was returned to Peruvian sovereignty. 30 days after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty settling the dispute. The transfer was made without ceremony. AP UMA. Peru, Aut The 5 turn of the lost province' of Tacna waa celebrated with rreat popular fervor. President Leguia reviewed a large military parade boomed and church and guns bells pealed in celebration. Driven bv a rotary steam engine uslrg fuel oil or kerosene, a new motor bus is claimed to lack the fumes and vibration of gasoline motored vehiclea Here Is The 4 8- ! NEW Y AMO CLEAN SWEEP SALE AND PHONOGRAPH Mighty MomareSi Thursday, Friday, Saturday 427 SUITS FROM Hart Schaffner & Marx o2 ttlie Air IT JS THE CHOICE OF DISCRIMINATING RADIO BUYERS BECAUSE OF ITS UNERRING PERFECTION OF TONE, FORMANCE AND CONSTRUCTION EVERYONE WHO OWNS A MAJESTIC IS PROUD OF HIS RADIO. 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