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vented dismissed of of against by Earl a Kau. districts will be basis for day services or Friday will be and buria. will in be Thurs- ady Ned or postman, isn't kinds of Weather Forecast ew Mexico: Generally fair LAS dnesday and Thursday; little DA ange in temperature. rizona: Generally fair Wedque day and Thursday; little nge in temperature. ALBUQUERQUE: NEW LEADING NEWSPAPER MEXICO'S JOURNAL last Business does GOOD year; it profits seem country MORNING is showed happier? richer; gain Volume 232 57th Year Number 55 Wednesday Morning, FINDING WOMAN'S TORSO SPURS HUNT FOR FIEND Gale Driven Flames Raze Suburb of Juneau Alaska Two Fire Departments and Coast Guard Crew Battle Vainly to Stem Blaze JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb.

23 (AP) Gale-driven: flames virtually wiped out the nearby town of Douglas Tuesday despite the efforts of the Douglas and Juneau fire departments, the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa and hundreds of citizens. Stimulated by a southeast gale, the fire did its destructive at out high 5:30 speed. The blaze broke, about a. m. and four later almost the whole town was in ashes, Only one business house remained standing.

It was time this suburb of Juneau had been swept by fire in 25 years. I RAIL MEN ASK HUGE PAY RAISE 360 Million Annual Hike Demanded CHICAGO, Feb, 23 (AP)-The nation's 1,100,000 organized railroad workers were united Tuesday night in demanding an annual wage increase of approximately 000.000. Spokesmen for the 800,000 bers of the 16 "non-operating railway brotherhoods voted Tuesday to seek a 20-per cent hike in their pay. Representatives of the 300,000 men in the five "operating' brotherhoods recently initiated a move to obtain a raise of the same size. Estimating about $360.000,000 in yearly income would be at stake when negotiators for the brotherhoods and for the management of the carriers demands, sit down George to M.

a parley Harrison, on chairman of the current meeting, declared: "These are the largest negotiations ever undertaken by organized railroad workers." The delegates planned to serve formal notice on the railroads within 30 days. They drew up this list of demands: 1. A general wage increase of 20 cents an hour, applied to hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or piece rates, so as to produce the same rate of increase for all employes. Harrison said this amounted to an average raise of approximately 20 per cent. 2.

A guarantee of full time employment for all regularly assigned employes. 3. A guarantee of two-thirds of full time employment for all "stand-by" employes. Under the railway labor act, each road would have 30 days to file an answer. Leo Bonaguidi Buys Six Lots on North First Leo Bonaguidi Tuesday purchased from Louis Ilfeld six lots on east side of North Street between New York and Fruit Avenue, on which the Liberty Coal Company is located, and an additional 150 feet east of this property and fronting the Santa Fe railway tracks.

The purchase price was approximately $17,000. With the new purchase, Bonaguidi owns the entire block from New York to Fruit. Bonaguidi operates the coal company and Pucci and Bonaguidi also operate a wholesale beer business on the same property. Bonaguidi said he has not determined whether he will erect new buildings on the lots. POPE'S CONDITION SAME VATICAN CITY, Feb.

23 (AP) Intermittent pain disturbed Pope Pius Tuesday night, although his condition was reported fundamentally unchanged. The tight bindings on his legs added to his discomfiture, it was understood. February 24, 1937 Starting in an oil burner in a grocery, the flames destroyed the fire station, school, the Douglas Inn, the Odd Fellows and Eagles halls, 10 stores, a new apartment house and frame dwellings, with most of their contents. A drugstore at a wharf approach escaped. High winds carried embers three blocks ahead of the main fire, 1g- niting one building after another.

The flames were halted just before noon, but not until dynamiting was resorted to. No serious casualties were reported. Authorities immediately I started to estimate the total loss. PEACE-MAKER LOSES LIFE Aged Chilili Man Beaten Fatally in Fight Fatally beaten when he attempted to act as peace-make: in A fight in Chilill Monday night, Nicolas Moya, 65, died Tuesday afternoon at the home of His brother, Cruz Moya, in the mountain village 25 miles east of Albuquerque. Dennis Pohl, who, officers said admitted hitting the ged Felix Trujillo and Fernandez Rudolfo were arrested held 14 the county jail pending an investigation by the district attorney's office.

All are young men, from 19 to 22 years of age. Santos Garcia, field man for the district attorney's office, who went to the scene with Deputy Sheriffs Frank Mann and Polo Arias, said he learned from onlookers at the fight that Pohl, Trujillo Rudolfo intoxicated and all three were attempting to "beat up" Paul Elwell, a youth who resides in the neighborhood. Tried Fight Nicolas Moya came up, according to the story, and tried to stop the fight. "Stop fighting. Don't beat Paul," Moya shouted.

Then, Garcia said he was told, Pohl struck Moya with his fist, knocking him down, and kicked him. After completing the job of beating Elwell, whose face was badly bruised, the three young men went away, leaving Moya lying in a mud puddle, the investigator learned. Passersby, the old man was drunk, lifted him out of the mud. Later in the night, he was taken to the home of his brother, Cruz Moya, in Chilili, where he lay insensible until he died Tuesday afternoon. Neck Found Broken Dr.

E. M. Clayton, county physician, examined the body. He said Moya had died of a broken neck, probably caused by a blow from a man's fist. Moya had lived in the Chillli vicinity for several years.

He was a small farmer and rancher. He 18 survived by his widow in Chilili, and a son, who resides in Albuquerque. The body was prepared for burial in Chilili. Lindberghs Unreported In Flight Over India BOMBAY. Feb, 23 (P) -Col.

and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, unrepor -d since early Monday on a flight from Jodphur, still were "lost" Tuesday night somehere over India's vast dist Fears to: their safety, however, had not become serious. It was believed airport officials probably had co-operated 10 help keep their arrivals and partures secret. Entered as second class matter, post office under act of Congress, DOUGLAS PLANE PLANT CLOSED BY SIT DOWN Strike Launched by Football Demonstration as Power Switch Is Pulled WORKERS SENT HOME Union Leaders Urge Men to Remain in Factory Until Demands Are Met LOS ANGELES, Feb.

23 (AP) -e- The great Douglas Aircraft plant at Santa Monica closed down production operations Tuesday afternoon after about 500 of its 5600 employes launched a sit-down strike with a demonstration like that of college football fans between halves of a game. "Douglas Corp. executiv39 ordered "loyal" employes, Including women office workers, to cease work and go home shortly before noon. The demonstration started when someone pulled the main power swith, stopping machinery. Several hundred cheering men began to march about the plant, exhorting other workers to join in a strike and get more pay.

As the demonstration proceeded, executives ordered various units of employees remaining at their posts to suspend work. Then came the shut-down order. Strike leaders said the sit-down had been ordered by the aircraft division of the United Automobile Workers of America, C. I. O.

affillate. The Douglas plant local of that organization Monday petitoned the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board to call an election to determine whether the union or the Douglas Employees' Association should be recognized as collective bargaining agent for all employees. Strikers Urged to Stay the strike leaders, Wil- One of liam Busick, organizer of Ladies Garment Workers' Union, told the strikers to remain in plant until their demands are met. Busick said the Douglas Corp. 1s "well to pay wages comparable to thos in the automobile industry.

The strike demands are for to 25 cents an hour increase wages that now average from to $36 a week, recognition of union, straight seniority, and reinstatement of two employes union contends were dismissed cause of union activities. Secretary T. C. McMahon Douglas Corp. said the strike came 85 a "complete surprise" to management, no demands having been made.

Strikers Derided He said the strike was started by "a bunch of punk kids who not represent the real working men of the organization." There were a few older men, he said, "but most were kids." He asserted the men receive from 40 cents to $1.10 an hour and he had understood this pay was satisfactory. The strike will be directed, was said, from headquarters the United Automobile Workers, established in Los Angeles. Strikes Slow Industry New "sit down" strikes braked Industrial production Tuesday widely separated points. In Boston call fo a strike was directed Tuesday night against three score New England shoe factories, and within a few hours firms reported they would meet demands of the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. The walkout was called in face of a compromise offered by a majority manufacturers for 8.

10 per cent Increase Immediately and another raise of at least five per cent July 1. Approximately 600 pressmen, ex- Continued On Page Five Gentle Spring (Tra-La) Arrives in Town As Seed Salesmen Rejoice With Merchants An epidemic of city- wide portions has Albuquerque in its grip as spring fever struck suddenly and certainly Tuesday, Downtown stores and eating places opened their doors to the afternoon sun. Shoppers carried their coats on their arms. And a general unbusinesslike attitude prevailed among store keepers and shoppers alike as they chatted about garden planting, trips Into the country and vacations. Policeman Bart Norfleet, walking along his beat, wished it led through a park, into the country.

"Isn't it gorgeous out today?" he asked the spring-feverish re- "They're eating more salads and less heavy foods," Betty Nechera, waitress in a cafe, remarked on her observance of systems of the maiof spring fever. Doubts Spring's Here Elder, conI vinced spring has quite arrived. Albuquerque 1879 Published Every Morning SUN DRUG CO. JEWELRY LOOT IS RECOVERED Dugan Finds Pieces Buried in Canyon Three Miles Above Martinez Town CASE TERMED CLINCHED Burglary Tools Are Also Located; Three in Jail Here, One in Oklahoma Recovery, late Tuesday afternoon, of most of the jewelry stolen from the Sun Drug Company's safe, sometime during the night of Feb. 7-8, "clinched the case," according to Chief of Police Pat O'Grady, against suspects now under arrest here and in Oklahoma, The jewelry valued at about $200, found by Pat Dugan, assistant chief of police, was buried beneath about a foot of earth in a canyon hide-away three miles back of the cemetery in Martinez Town.

Found also were the jimmycold chisel and sledgehammer used bry the burglars when they entered the lavatory of the Sun Drug Store and knocked the knob from the company's safe. Three in Jail Here Held in jail here is Marc Smith, Oklahoma City, whose arrest by Detective Serg. Salazar, soon after the burglary, was the first "break" in the case, Salazar, from photographs furnished the local police department by the Oklahoma City police, picked up Smith on West Gold Avenue. Smith's arrest lead to the questioning of a woman who was found in Smith's apartment on South Third Street, and her arrest, together with a search of the apartment, lead later to the arrest of another woman here and the arrest in Oklahoma City of a man who gave his name as Gene Fowler. Fugitive warrants for Fowler and also for Harold Horton, wanted here for questioning in the investigation, were issued by the district attorney's office here when Oklahoma police said Fowler was under arrest and that Horton was "sick in bed at his mother's home." One Slips Away Apparently however, Horton slipped out, for the police here learned Tuesday night that Horton had left Oklahoma City.

Sheriff Ross Salazar and Deputy Sheriff Urbano Page left Tuesday for Oklahoma City to bring Fowler back to Albuquerque for questioning. Fowler agreed to waive extradition following his arrest at Springer, last week. WOMAN DRIVES NAIL THROUGH HER HEAD IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT BERKELEY, Feb. 23 (P)- Physicians Tuesday night prepared to perform an operation in an effort to save the life of Miss Dema Dunlap, 22, who drove a nail four inches into her head and left it there overnight before complaining of pain. Hospital attendants said the girls condition was critical.

Dr. Eric Kosterlitz, who removed the nail, said he removed a portion of the girl's skull several years ago, leaving two holes in the bone structure, He said the nail had ceen driven into one of the holes and was protruding from the right side of the skull above the ear. Police Inspector C. T. Nezin, listing the case as attempted suicide, said Miss Dunlap the nail Sunday and apparently slept well that night.

Dr. Kosterlitz said the girl experienced pain Monday and told her mother, Mrs. G. Solstad. The mother drove Miss Dunlap from her home in nearby Pinole to Berkeley.

Copper Producers Lift U. S. Price to 15 Cents NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (P) Phelps Dodge a leading producer, announced late Tuesday It had raised its price for domestic copper to 15 cents a nound. The change marked first acceptance by a producer of the 15-cent level established at the end of last week by customs smelters.

The previous price was 14 cents. Anaconda Copper Mining announced it had also lifted quotations to the 15-cent level and other producers thereafter swung quickly into line. ADMIRAL MAYO DEAD PORTSMOUTH, N. Feb. 23 (P)-Rear-Admiral Henry Thomis Maye, 80, U.

S. retired, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet during the World War, died Tuesday of heart disease the home of a son, Capt. Chester G. Mayo, U. S.

N. Private funeral Burlington, his birthplace 3 CENTS IN Five ALBUQUERQUE Elsewhere 50,000 BONDS UNIVERSITY ET SENATE OK entures for Buildings; 0-Day Divorce Sought; fraternal Tax Adopted GE TOWNSEND PLAN blution Asks Indorsing Pensions; State Police ct Passes in Senate NTA FE, Feb. 23 (P)--The Senate heard the plea of State ersity officials in committee of whole Tuesday that "Santa will not be with us forever" later passed SB 103 $250,000 University bond isconstruct two 111 auditorium. was one of the outstanding of a long afternoon Senate on which witnessed also the Ruction of a 90-day divorce bill passage of a measure taxing rnal 1 benefit societies two per of their gross receipt: proposal to indorse the Townpension plan highlighted the le's session in which 13 new and three resolutions were inced, five bills and three resops adopted, 15 New Bills Offered teen new bills were introin the Senate, including six enator J. Q.

Thaxton at the st of the New Mexico MuniciLeague, and four by Senator S. ones of Clovis, designed, Jones to fill a need existing under Clovis commission form of Inment. other new Senate bills ind one making use of force, or intimidation unlawful curing signatures for referenrecall, or petitions for elecon bond issues or consolidaof school district; one auzing the revenue commission stall measuring devices on gas oil transportation pipe lines deemed necessary; one a.uzing inspection and mainice of boilers and of elevators, I Police Bill Passed ter receiving the new State bill from the House, the te quickly suspended the rules passed the measure, 24 to 0. ewise received and passed imlately two House joint resoluproposing constitutional adments to remove the restricon number of terms county state officials may serve. McDonald Is Attacked fore passing the fraternal fit society tax law, the senate Sen.

Floyd T. Kennedy (De -Roosevelt) score G. E. Meild, state manager of the imen of the World, as "one of most vicious lobbyists ever to town." Innedy told the senate McDonad threatened him that "it you this bill, you can have any ion you want in New Mexico; If you help get it through, done politically," ferring to McDonald as "this nguished lobbyist," Kennedy ed such lobbying tactics "unand disgraceful." He voted for age of the bill, but seven others against it. They were J.

H. is, Roswell; A. C. Pacheco, voseco: A. I.

Steyskal, Silver M. H. Tate, Belen; J. Q. ThaxRaton; A.

C. Torres, Socorro, John M. West, Des Moines. Pponents of the bill claimed it likely to work aL hardship on tin labor and religious organi- ens. Hear Bonds Discussed ortly after launching their seswhich lasted until just before dinner hour, the senators went Continued on Page Three line Judge to Get Her Divorce in Reno OS ANGELES, Feb.

23 Indoning her suit here. Arline re, film actress, said through lawyers Tuesday she go Reno, to divorce Wesley gles, director, so ag to obtain Immediately effective decree ind of one not final for a year. aperior Judge Fletcher Bowron oved her from the court ndar when did not appear case. a hearing scheduled for Tues- ttorney Isaac Pacht said he will ent for approval of the Reno Its a property settlement the ole has reached. It provides Ruggles will pay $1000 a th for support of the couple's ar-old son.

oman Gets 12 Months Suspended Sentences Ruth Malone pleaded ty in District Court Tuesday harges selling liquor without cense and operating a house of stitution. She was given a six the sentence on each count. tences were suspended during check, charge forging the court on its I motion. LAND OWNERS OPPOSE PERMIT FOR MORTUARY Strong Thorne Application Protested at Council A petition Tuesday night requested the City Commission refuse a building permit to the Strong Thorne Mortuary to erect funeral at the Park enue property between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets. The petition signed by a number of property owners inwas, cluding John Simms and R.

L. Harrison, who also spoke against the Speaking permit. on behalf of the petitioners, Simms hinted a possible court battle might follow city granted the permit to the Strong-Thorne Company. In rebuttal, H. 0.

Strong said that the area was not restricted and that the company had legal advice that if a court battle were instituted the funeral home organization would "have to meet it." The commission voted to hold up granting of any request for a building permit until a thorough investigation had been made. BOY, 16, IS SHOT BY POLICEMAN Officer Fires When Youth Runs at Halt Order A 16-year-old boy was in St. Joseph's Hospital Tuesday night with a bullet wound in his leg after he had been shot near 1201 South Edith by Patrolman George Fogle, assigned to the neighborhood to watch for gasoline thieves. Fogle said the youth, Kenneth Antoine, of 1116 South ran when he was commanded to halt. The boy, he said, was carrying a small tin can.

At the hospital, Antoine told police he was frightened at the command and ran for that reason. He aid he was on his way to a nearby filling station to buy gasoline for use in he family car. WILL ENLARGE BREWERY HERE Frisco Man Buys Plant, Plans Extensions The District Court Tuesday accepted the bid of $7000 by Paul V. Von Gontard of San Francisco, for the plant and other assets of the New Mexico Brewing Company. Von Gontard inormed the court that he intends to spend approximately $125,000 in remodeling and expanding the brewery, which he expects to make one of the largest in the Southwest.

Von Gontard for several years was interested in the General Brewing Company of San Francisco, the largest brewery in California. Von Gontard told the court he considers Albuquerque a logical distributing point and a brewery here can soon develop business over a wide territory. The sale depended upon Von Gontard's being able to procure a long-time lease on the property occupied by the plant at Second and Marquette, owned by the Western Ice and Utility Company of Dallas. D. A.

Macpherson. attorney for the receiver, said. Joseph Land, receiver, said unpreferred claimants will receive only about five per cent. "I wanted to hold out for more," he said, "but we had only one bid." The company listed liabilities at around $36,000, and claimed assets exceeded liabilities. The brewery was equipped last year and began operation: late in the summer.

Stork Derby Prize Held Valid by Canada Court TORONTO, Feb. 23 (AP)-All but one of oronto's "stork derby" 100- thers rejoiced Tuesday night over A court decision validating eccentric Charles Vance Millar's 000 bequest to the city's most prolific mother. The sole exceptior was Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, whose claims to victory received a possible setback when the Ontario Court of Appeals, upholding the prize, also declared illegitimate children would not be counted in the contest that ended Oct. 31, 1936, ten years after Millar's death.

GRAZING CONFERENCE Service New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah will be here Wednesday and Thursday for a grazing conference. Comparison of methods and results in the various Officials of the Soil Conservation from as used a carrying out the 1937 program, was announced. Jail Prexy's Daughter Mrs. Helen LeBreton, daugler of the president of Kent State University at Kent, 0., was charged with forgery and jailed In Cleveland after police had accused her of signing a $50 check to defraud. She was quoted 8.8 saying that she had signed her mother's name to the check in order to obtain money to send her husband, a graduate chemist, to Chicago to accept a position.

SENATE NEARS TARIFF VOTE GOP's Challenge Reciprocal Pacts as Invalid WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (AP) Republican spokesmen in the Senate launched an attack on the ciprocal trade program Tuesday, urging that it be either abandoned or its major provisions amended. Senator Vandenberg Mich.) and Senator Capper Kas.) led the fight, charging that the reelprocity law has stimulated 1m- ports much faster than exports, has operated to the detriment of domestic producers, and is an unconstitutional Invasion of Congressional powers. Chairman Harrison Miss.) defended the program 8.8 "the best way to build up trade" because it la "almost impossible" to get a fair and equitable tariff bill' through Congress. (Tht reciprocal trade act vides that the President, without the consent of the Senate, may make agreements with foreign nations to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers.) The Senate failed to reach A vote on the proposal to extend the program three years after June 12, but leaders predicted action Wednesday.

The House already has passed it. Vandenberg, Capper and others offered amendments, but administration leaders sald they would be rejected. Charges Stock Losses Capper centered his attack on the "most-favored nation" clause which has been Incorporated In all reciprocal agreements and charged the Canadian agreement, lowering duty on heavy cattle under a quota restriction, had adversely affected the American market. Tucson Gas Explosion Injures Five Persons TUCSON, Feb. 23 (AP) -A gas explosion injured five persons, three seriously, and tore out the side of a new home Tuesday night when a candle ignited fumes from a leaking pipe in the basement.

The Infured: Hubert Bynum Hinds, associate professor pouttry husbandry at the University of Arizona; Miss Hinds, his sister; Miss Nan principal of Stoore, Mission View School: Miss Mildred Lee Crouch, niece of Miss Moore; Miss Alice Borden. The Hinds were showing their new home to the three women. Burglar Interrupts Work To Succor Injured Cop CHEHALIS, Feb. 23 (AP) -Sheriff J. A.

Blankenship said Walter Bolec, 23, transient, told officers Tuesday he had taken time out from a cafe burglary to investigate a motor accident in which State Patrolman William Reynolds was injured, that he pulled the unconscious patrolman off the street; summoned police, helped place the injured man in an ambulance, then returned to the cafe, finished the Job and left town on a stage. It happened Wednesday. Bolee was arrested lat Ridgefield Monday. LAKE YIELDS HEADLESS BODY AT CLEVELAND Discovery of Eighth Victim Renews Police Search for Sex Crazed Maniac SHORT TIME IN WATER Limbs and Head Severed Cleanly From Trunk in Latest Crime of Series CLEVELAND, Feb. 23 (AP) discovery of a woman torso-slaying victim--Cleveland's eighth since September, 1934-sent police Tuesday night in search of a crazed, surgically skilled mainiao they believe responsible, A fireman came upon the torso, cleverly severed from the arms, head and legs, on the shore of Lake Erie in Cleveland's east side.

At almost the same spot, one previous victim was found. Five others' bodies were left in the Kingsbury Run secmutilated, tion, a few tulles away. The body found Tuesday, Police Lieut. William Sargent said, apparently had not been in the water more than a day or two. Dissection Clean The dissection had been cleanly made, he pointed out in support of the police theory that the same person was responsible for all the eight slayings that have shocked Greater Cleveland's 1,000,000 restdents, The city's police department, headed by Eliot Ness, swung afresh into a hunt that has not been relaxed since the headless body of the first victim in the series of slayings was found in the same vicinity--near East 156th Streettwo and one-half years ago.

Hundreds of suspects have been toned--always without a definite clue, police declared. Authorities estimated Tuesday's victim was less than 40 years old and weighed approximately 120 pounds. Robert Smith, 55, who had gone to the shore to gather driftwood, found the body. Psychiatrists Called Following the discovery of the last torso In the Kingsbury Run District, Dr. A.

Pearse, former coroner, called a meeting of police officials, crime experts, trists and chemists in an attempt to reach some agreement on the sort of killer the police department was geeking. After nearly three hour- of debate and conjecture, Detective Sergt. James Hogan, chief of the homicide squad, said: "We're right where we were the day the first body was found." Dr. Guy H. Williams, superintendent of the Cleveland Stat- Hospital for the Insane, said he could not fit the activities of the slayer Into a recognized pattern of insanity, He could not conceive of a typical mental case carrying trough the dismemberments in the way in which they were done, said.

COTTON WOOD TREES' PRUNING, SPRAYING MADE COMPULSORY An ordinance designed to force property owners to prune and spray cottonwood trees and also declaring the trees a nuisance, was passed on its first reading Tuesday at the City Commission meeting. It provides that the city may, on failure of the property owner to do 80, spray the trees or take other methods to prevent the cotton-like seeds from becoming a fire hazard, and charge the bill of not more than $5 to the property owner. Penalty for failing to obey the ordinance was placed at not less than one dollar nor more than $200 or imprisonment for not less than one day nor more than 60 days, FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. STOVER AT 4 P.M. TODAY "I've had to get up just a little before 5 a.

m. the last couple of mornings, so I know." Because he has just filed his income tax returns, Horace Keenan. director of the New Mexico State Employment Service, is certain spring is here. "Hope it doesn't snow before Easter," Walter Kavanaugh, manager of a shoe store, commented as he surveyed his display windows filled with dainty slippers in all the Easter eggs colors. Summer Silks Rush On J.

H. Hendron, owner of a shop where women's dress materials are sold, said spring has been in his for three weeks and that sumshop mer silks are now on their way. "Spring house cleaning time is here, anyhow," Donald Groves, employed in a paint shop said. "We're paint." selling all "It's easy to get prospective buyers into an automobile these days." Ivan Blakshire, automobile man, said Tuesday. "I guess the air in the country lures them Into my cars." Myndert E.

Gilbert, employed in a clothing store and a bachelor, wouldn't commit himself on poetry writing, but he grinned 8.5 though it would strike him any minute. Hats vs. Flannels Mrs. W. A.

Keleher, wife of an attorney and a leading society matron, was caught shopping downtown without a hat. "It seemed too nice to cover up." she remarked. Mrs. Paul Butt, wife of a leading druggist, who stopped to chat a moment admitted that it wasn't spring-like enough for her and that she hadn't discarded her red flannels. After this survey the reporter forced his feet to lead him back to the office, wrote this silly story and it passed the usually grim city ediItor.

So its spring! Funeral gervices for Mrs. Ruby Hanna Stover, wife of Henry Stover, owner of the Alvarado Garage, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the StrongThorne-Chapel, with Rev. R. A. Crawford, Ysleta, officiating.

Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery. Mrs. Stover died early Tuesday of pneumonia. Besides her band, she is survived by a son aged 7 months; two sisters, Mrs. A.

R. Piper, Albuquerque, and Mrs. F. A. Baird, Dodge City, and four brothers, Ray, Walter, Frank and Henry Hanna, Albuquerque.

Rancher Is Recovering From Officer's Bullet porter. DEMING. Feb. 23 (P)--Tom Bowlers, rancher of Cloverdale, was recovering, under guard, Tuesday from bullet wounds inflicted at Hachita, Saturday night, by Deputy Sheriff John Hall. The officer said he fired in defense.

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