The Gallup Independent from Gallup, New Mexico • Page 1

WEATHER rtxUagt it Guiitreo for houn tndlnt it 8 m. today high 51, low 31. Precip. .03. FoncisU: New Mexico tni Arizona, partly cloudy tonight tomorrow.

The Gallup Independent THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NEW MEXICO GALLUP THE INDIAN CAPITAL i of UM WORLD elevation J518J8J (t! VOLUME 49 GALLUP, N. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938 NUMBER 98 WEN DEAD, 11 INJURED IN MINE BLAST Pioneer Resident Is Dead Mrs. John Kozeliski Dies Today At Rehoboth Mrs. Anton.a Kozeliskt, 53, resident here for the past 32 years, died tUi morning Hehoboth hospHftI, of ft cerebral hemorrhage. She was the wife of John Koze- Black Diamond Canyon.

Bom in Fuzina, Yugo-slovia, where she and Mr. Kozeliski met and were married, Mrs. KozeliskJ Uved In GaUup all of the time since the family left their native land. Mr. Kozelhkt became associated with coal mining activities here soon after his arrival, and during Ihe latter part of their residence here, operated small mines in Black Diamond canyon.

Society Member Interested always in fraternal affairs, Mrs. Kozeliski was a member of the Croatian Fraternal Union No. 60, and the S. N. P.

No, 120, a Slovene National Benefit Society, She was a devout member of the Sacred Heart Catholic parish. Aside from her husband, survivors include 1 two sons, Julian and John, both of Gallup, and seven daughters, Mrs. Mary Ycrhich, Mrs. Jennie Iroboden, Mrs. Angela Marble, Mrs.

Agatia Roberts, Katie p-iitl Emma Kozeliski, all of Gallup, and Mrs. Anna Stanich, Eureka, California. Other include; brothers, George and Bias Bubany of GftUup; Gabriel and her father; Anton Bubany, now 84 years of age, all of Jugo- slavia; and Anton. Bubany of Chicago and Frank. Kozeliski, Gallup, cousins.

Funeral arrangements are pending word from relatives, Ritchey Funeral Home in charge. Girl Held for Brothers' Death Suspects Stick to Stories Chief House Enroute To Hobbs to Take Part In Quiz RELATIVES OF DEFOE COMING Mother, Brother Due Here Later Today The mother and brother of Joe Albert Defoe, held In the axe-slaying of his wile, Elva, here last Sunday night, were expected to arrive here today from their home in Alabama. The alleged slayer wired his mother after his arrest. Meanwhile, the slight figured man remained in jail today, after Indlcaling to Sheriff D. W.

Roberts that he would await arrival of District Judge Dovld Chavez, before answering a formal murder charge filed with Justice of the Peace W. M. Dickel yesterday afternoon. Judge Chavez will be here Saturday afternoon lo arrange for the opening of the regular court term Monday, officials said. Funeral arrangements for Mrs.

Defoe, whose body was found south of here by a cily truck crew early Monday, are pending arrival of the husband's relatives, Rollic Mortuary said. Defoe has made no other statements In the case, other inan the purported admission of his guilt the crime, to Chief of Police Presley and Sheriff Roberts. Former inmate of a mental institution, Elizabeth Wdgner, 22-year-uId Astoria, N. girl, is being held on a charge of homicide In connection wilh the deaths-by-poisoning of her two brothers, Henry, 21, and Charles, 14. Police say she admitted dropping successive doses of poisun in ihe boys' food.

Accord ng to police, (he Wanner girl said Henry had beaten her, knocking out a tooth ar.d luosiming several oihtu on one occasion. She was reported, however, been fond of the younger boy, and to be unable to explain" why she poisoned him. too. STATE HAD OIL CONTROL SINCE FIRST WELL, SCIENTISTS TOLD ALBUQUERQUE New Mexico has had oil regulation since it first had an oil well, and now its petroleum control codo "has come without any of the "stampedes" which characterised some other states, and state-approved cooperative agreements established an ef- to be looked upon as a model for proration. Still, further reg- othcr states to follow," Lieutenant ulution WBS needed.

Governor Hiram Dow said here today. Addressing a physical sciences section of the Association for the Advancement ol Science, southwestern division, Dow said that, despite strict regulation "ihe oil industry has largely written its own ticket hi Adopt Model Law This was accomplished in 1935 by the legislature which adopted the "model' 1 control law, Dow said. Its first provision was for a state conservation commission, composed of the governor, the commissioner of lands and the stale geologist. New Mexico." jih power to establish proration "And to me, the most noteworthy evcn down to "an area which can and amazing thing is that efficiently and economically out the entire period, dating from eu one well." This unit was I toe first production of oil In fixc ot acres Mexico, to and including the The statute also provided stringent day, there has been no litiga-'gent regulation of the drilling of 'tion whatever challenging pr oration, 'wells in factors of safety, protection 'or any order of the corsevration of water supplies and conservation commission or nny provision of die of underground valuable for its New Mexico conservation statuU." aid in lifting oil to the surface, Name President The 1935 legislature also provtd- Dr. E.

F. Carpenter of Arizona. ed for representatives on an Inter- University was elected president of i slate oil compact commission. New the southwest division of the A. was the first state to take A.

S. yesterday and Alpine, this action. jwas selected for the 3939 convention Under this regulation, New Mex- piace. i ico has produced, to January 1, Sectional meetings largely occu- 1538, some 158,759,617 barrels of oil. pied the scientists today.

Its 1037 production was 38,362,682 New Mexico's first oil well, Dow, barrels, on increase of nearly one the scientists, was brought in third over that of the preceding HOBBS Three hours of grilling by Texas special state officers and police failed today jlo crackle stories told by a mysterious 'Couple held In county jail at Lovingtqrtj since Sunday. E. J. House, State Police chief, ts expected from Santa Fe later today to question the pair. The dark man and a 20-year-old girl, were first held on suspicion hi the Fiome slaying, but later wete tentatively linked by authorities with the three-year-old Lorius case.

They stuck to IheJr although these conflicted at several points. Deny Acquaintance The i Wtt deny knowing each other, were taken Into custody at separate hotels here Saturday night on suspicion in connection with the slaying of Mrs. 'Weston G. Frome and her daughter in Texas three weeks ago. Sheriff W.

Kerley, who lodged the in the county jail at Lovington, indicated however, he did not believe they had any connection with the Frame case. 1 It was on the strength of the mail's accounts his activities in 1935 which led officers co invesU- gaie possible connections with the disappearance in May of that year of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Lotiua East St.

Ijouis. 211., and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hobcrer t.f Luquoin, Man's Vague The sheriff said ihe man declared he had lived in El Paso for ihe 12 years with the exception of when he went to Oklahoma. His coiifidling stories concerning that year, (he sheriff intimated, constituted the principal cause for suspicion in ihe Lorius case one of the greatest criminal I mysteries.

The two Illinois couples dropped from bight in eastern New Mexico in May of 3935, ond no trace has i been found of (hem, since save sonic cards and personal effects identified as theirs near fhc- ashes of a fire. Their car recovered in Dallas, Texas. I In Bleak No Man's Land of Chinese War No Mans Land of Sino-Japanese War right now is stretch along ihe Yellow river where, with each do holding one bank, some of the fiercest fighting of ih entire conflict is progress. Symbolic of the new usnoct the invaders have gained for the surprising Chinese warriors is Ihe altitude of watchful wailing shown by the Japanese soldiers pictured above at nn outpost high obove (he river in Shansi province, with mountains forming a gloomy backdrop for tho bluody drama. For centuries (lie Yellow river has been the scourge of China, killir.s countless natives in its floods.

Four Die When Plane Wrecked on Mountain Many Enter Poppy Poster Contest In Annual A.L.A. Event thers Trapped In Shaft Twenty-Eight Men In Affected Level POTTSVILLE, Pa. An explosion and fire killed seven coal miners and injured 11, officials announced this afternoon. POTTSVILLE, Pa. explosion and fire killed at least three coal minors today and raised feart that others were trapped far underground.

Rescre workerj struggling at the St. Clair Coal company's mine, sent up word they are hampered by "Black Damp." Four hours after the blast six of 23 miners in the affected level were brought out alive, five of thorn burned critically. The blast occurred shortly after the men entered to begin the day's work. The cause is undetermined, so far. Doctors to Give Dyptheria Shots In Health Week I Gallup and McKInley county parents are urged lo takr their children to family physicians for antl- dyplherla injections, during National Child Health Week, opening Sunday, Charity will be extended lo those needing it.

Miss Kate Memorial for near Dayton, Eddy county, in 1909,1 year. Allhovgh its production was not 1 SILVER CITY A acre recreational area in tlie G'la national forest north of here was advocated by the Silver City Veterans of Foreign Wars today as a nr-morial to the late Senator 'Bronson Cutting. Ar the Roswell slate VFW en; campmtnt in May, the loc al post will seek approval of its adopted resolution in tribute to the seua- ior, killed in nn airplane crash, in three years ago next month. She said that an estimated 650 children ol susceptible ago live In Gallup. Due to recent reports cf an near-epidemic of dyptheria on ihe reservation, Miss Fullbriglil and Miss Genevleve Soneglia, county nurse, urged parents to accept this opportunity to safe-guard children.

county heatlh office, it was staled. Alt immunization work will be done by individual loco! physiclons. Visalia, California Residents Lost In Storm VISALIA, Calif, Joseph E. El Ho It, superintendent of the Sequoia National forest, said today a ground crew has reached the wreckage of an airplane uMch vanished Monday. AH four passengers Visalia residents arc dead.

The crew was led to the site the slope of 8100 -foot Sunday Peak by forest rangers who sight- cd the wreckage of the private piano 40 miles north of Dnkcrsficld. The plane, piloted by Dr. O. N. was cnroute from Death Valley (o Visnlia when it disappeared in a storm.

Also aboard were: the doctor's wife, Mrs. Carolyn Lambert, Hie lat- ter's mother, Sirs- Frank Dlain ond Hiss Dorolhy Davis, Lambert's office nurse. Soveral city and county school students arc entered in the annual American Legion auxiliary "Poppy contest, in which two cosh prizes arc to be awarded. Tills contest closes May 10, and judging thrue will select the outstanding posters on art work, originality, ond ihe phrase used in description. Any sludent is qualified to enter the contest, YVOJ said.

FDR HAS HOMEY LUNCHEOiN FOR Kiwanians, 20 30 Members Combine lH JOlIlt Cooperation Pledge Precedes Meet lft i yp) B. E. Lybcck aboul his ole from hU home re more lhan 15 barrels a day, it prompted the terriiorial legislature of that year (o write New Mexico's', first oil conlrol law. I Legal Revisions Each new discovery brought legal I tl revisions in the following years to he bk awa wilh a meet changing conditions. The com-' shotgun he sur a men ins of sUitehood brought the prob-j to(la ylem of leasing state land a prob-' He found later the trespasser, lem which was not settled satlsJac- t0 au Buraski, was torily until adoption of a liberal wcarin garment, Ly- leasing law in 1329.

(bock had shot his own trousers Meanwhile, big new discoveries in holes and wounded th- Lea and Eddy counties assured the'wearer. Police Sgt. Herbert Bake- of a position as a major oil said Buroski admitted burglar- producer. Growth had been steady, "lung homes of Lybcck and others. Courthouse Vault Project Approved County commissioners today had a WPA allotment of $2,842 for con- of a courthouse vault! they may have (o refuse, It was iatd today.

J. J. Dempsey informed Ihe Associated Press that President had approved the allot-1 ALB W) The wll- rnent on a prior project for the vault. gion of fte pueb)o ndian building. I of sclcnlists was told today, has been In view of possible approval i ilUc es! ty enturiM of under expected PWA expansion in Christian influence.

future of an entirely newj 0 Reginald G. Fisher of the Mu- courthouse building and county scum of New Mexico told the social officials stld that they would forego science section of the American As- of the smaller allotment socialion for the Advancement of pending action on the larger project. Science, southwest division: I.iltle "Impression" IN HIS BLOOD! I "While the Pueblo IncHjau have WASHINGTON WP) Represen-' for several generations beeniifubject Americanism Day Held In Nation Nalionat Americanism Day is being observed today throughout the United States, it was said here, as details to. an "Americanism" program set for next Friday night were nearing completion. This local program is sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, and ladies auxiliary ol each organization.

The general pubic Is Invited. A varied program is planned, which will begin at 7:30 p. m-, in the junior high school gym. Indians Not With Christianity tittve Rich (R Pa.) blamed ad- tftfoktrmtkm policies today a tn hli circulatory sys- fcra. fe a rtecnt he declar- to influence from the ChrisUui Christianity hai made no great their which still ii almost ly- ipcndlng procram "makes my plcally animistic In character." Wood nin coW," ukilng tn the next I The Pueblo Indian, Dr.

FUher ti nukM KT Wood bc4T (uld, djvtdw tht into three divisions as A basis of the olherwise unknowable: above the belovr, and the plain of the earth's surface. The earth, in (he Pueblo cosmography, wilh Il3 lour Interior underworlds beneath the surface, liw like a vast Uland In the midst of the great waters which fill "the below." Important "BeJnft" The earth mother, the sun father, the hero twins, the cloud beings, the corn maidens, the and the plumsd-serpents are the more Important supernatural deftn- by Pueblo theology. And there are leuer such spider woman, spider man, wbd nun, wind man, MU wocxan, coyota, badger, bear, deer and eagle, mentioned 1 in the folktales. In helping satisfy human desires and Pueblo religion employs all the methods and techniques known to civiJlzzrd or primitive man magic, fetishism, purification, abstinence, sacrifice, incnntt- (ion, offering, dancing, and prayer. Klvi Groups Direct Several autonomous orgiinizalions, Dr.

Fisher said, carry the Pueblo religion Into effect. Some of these in many cases with their memberships overlapping are the klva 1 organizations, (he naturUtk religious societies, the rain orders, sacred, fertility clown societies protective fraternities for war- 'riwi and UM bunUrs, N. M. Legislators May Be Summoned SANTA FE. (A 1 Gov.

Clyito Tinglcy suggested today the possibility of specin! state lure session to nJImv far participation in the new public works program to provl-Je urgently uced- ed housing facilities ni tho iiwano j.isylum iind stale penitentiary. The governor said both institu- ans ore In dire need of addillon- Duildlngs and survey will male to other stale Institutions. 1 If legislation Is necessary for slate particlpMinn in cxpocled Ptt'A funds, ho said, a special Serbian will bo summoned. NOT A NICKEL? WASHINGTON (fit Dean Acheson, lawyer, had difficulty floating a five-cent Joan from ihe house of Morgan today. During a recess ul a Securities commission hearing, ihe lawyer for Ihe stock exchange asked Thomas W.

Lamont and Arthur Anderson, Morgan par(- nerBi for a nickel to make a phone call. Neither had a nickel. Approximately 70 men gathered ol Holcl el Rnncho last night for a jnint meeting of "Gallup Kiwniifc nnd 20-30 clubs. The Klwanlam "visitors' 1 at the meeting. i Uev.

H. H. Hoard, Kiwonia member, was principal speaker, discussing the fellowship felt between (be Unhctl Slates and Canada. His address was based on Kiwunis International day observance which that organization WAS celebrating. Dr.

W. B. Klwanis president directed the first part of the meeting. Allen Rollie, 20-30 presl- tlie session. Each club sang "theme" songs for die benefit of the other group, and live Indian trading store operators "rrr.dored' 1 (he Old Gray Mare In the Xavnjo tongue, for Ihe edification of all.

On the 20-30 part of the? program, Ed Von union, Ed Reed, Allen 1 and Mrs. Vlrpinia White presented brief skit which "rolled 'em in the nisles." I Mrs. White Is pianist for tho 20-30 club, Mrs. Pearl Booth, Kiwanis pianist, also attended. Several other picsts of members of both clubi, were present.

Following ihe dinner, E. W. Turner, hotel manager and KlvanU member, presented cigars to the 1 Ruust'telt brought Henry Ford to homey luncheon conference today in sinnlt White House dining room. I A drntnat'c prelude to the fereiito was a pledge of Id ranking industrialists and financiers tu cooperate in admlnlslraticn efforts to aid business. I There was a prospect Honsovt'U inviie Uie signers, Owen D.

Young, General Elotlric chairman and Aldricli, chairman of the Chase Natitiiinl bank, to confer nl an t'arly date. AiiotiiL-r Messnge Fliuincd I Prior lo the luncheon, tho presi- 'dfiit conferred with Solicitor i crul Ruliort H. Jackson in connection wiih a incssoje tu te sent to ioon on monopolies. Of- fk-irtls s-'tiJ ttic president would de- vntc the of the wevk to this and conferences with I'uiigresbional leaders, njni admin- 'islrotion assistants an the new re- 1 covery program. Mr.

Ford arrive this but rcfusej to make any stato- 'mcnl concerning the luncheon, Also fit the luncheon wns: Edsel Ford, son and Ford company prtsi- idcnt; Alariiicr S. Eccles. FeJeral Reserve Board chairmnn and W. Camtron, Ford Public counsel. Remembers U.

NEW YORK. Reuel Smith rcmembcreil ibo United Stales of America in his will to thy extent of $97,855. Ke directed that tils' money bo applied toward the redemption of liberty Issued In llUS. Promising "plenty of fireworks before this thing over," Sandra Martin, above, nngrily denied In a Los Angeles Jail that she had confessed lo the thcfl of $16,000 from movie actress Simonc Simon, who employed Mnrtin as her secretary. District attorney's Investigators announced tho 32-year-old secretary admitted taking tho raonty to buy clothes and BUCK DEER LOSES TANGLE' WITH A BARBED WIRE FENCE AMAHfLLO, W) Tex Parker of Amarillo described today the of a fight lo the finish between a big buck and a wire fence, mute evidence of which recently was found in hleached horn and bones on the slopes of Turkey mountain In Now Mexico.

It was a 10-point pair of nntlcrj pan of Ihe ikull, the- belnu entwined with yards of the barbed wire that had brought defeat and doth to the big animal. uld bonei of the skeleton looked like thoie of buck wtlghlnf 250 WM ibout yMn old. The wire tangled antlers wete found in drift fence on a large ranch. Staples Imd been pulltxl loose from several posts ar.d tho wire broken in many places. Parker said the buck apparently run into the fence and became entangled.

The wire on Ihe antlers showed thai each move the deer roado to free luelf tightened the wire. The fence was still up when Parker found the bonei. Ke cut the wire und released Ihe skull and antlers. About 10 pounds of wu twisted wound the tnt- Diplomats Study Nazi Clamoring Jij ihf Associated Prtsa Briiish and French gov- crr.nienU will do tu curb a surge in Central Europo ix tho prime In diplomat's minds us iht-y tinned tion from the fighting in Cpain ond China. A i Nazi clamcr in CzcchuslavaVin made ihe issue paurr.our.t as French Premier Dalailier and Foreign Georges Bonnet Kft by plune for London iwo-day conferences with British cx- pecieJ to mjikc or break the democratic oiiynnienl in Europe.

Ch war continued in the in- dvciMvc although Japanese trucps are rearing the Lunfihai railway, an objective cf the Central China campaffcfn. Finn covcrotr.ent resistance heavy sUllcd MI olfi-njive along lha caitt'rn Spanish war front, frcm Tetufel to iho.