Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 1

Weather Forecast New Mexico: Unsettled Saturday and Sunday; somewhat colder Saturday. Arizona: Unsettled Saturday and Sunday; colder Saturday north-central portion. GOOD MORNING Twenty Years Ago, Who Would Have Thought That Austria Would Ever Have to Be Afraid of Germany? 58th Year Number 71 Published Every Morning Saturday Morning, March 12, 1938 Entered lecond clan matter, Albuquerque N. ponofflce under act ol Conjreaa. 1879 CENTS IN ALBUQUERQUE 1r Ceati (lievher LEE WINS AUSTRIA IN JLaJLi 3 BLOOD REVOLUTION uu RELIEF SPLIT WITH PRESIDENT MEXICAN CLAIMS BILL INDORSED RIO GRANDE WATER PACT German Troops Move In; Nazi Government Formed DRAWN WEBSTER HELD TO TRIAL FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Auditor Chief Witness Against Former Chief Deputy County Treasurer 300 RECEIPTS GONE YIELDS TO HITLER 'Fortunate Return' To Fatherland Predicted -M MORGAN DEFIES PRESIDENT AT TVA HEARING Declares Session Not Fact Finding One; Asks for Congressional Probe QUESTIONS IGNORED Roosevelt Is Rebuffed in Inquiry Into Bitter Row of Board Members WASHINGTON, March 11 Dr.

Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of TVA, bluntly defied President Roosevelt Friday and declared himself not a participant in a hearing called by the chief executive to determine "the facts" behind TVA's bitter internal row. Face to face with the President and in the presence of his opponents on the TVA board Vice Chairman Harcourt A. Morgan and Director David E. Lilienthal the chairman criticized the inquiry as "an alleged process of fact finding" and repeated his plea for an "imperial, comprehensive and complete" investigation by Congress.

He accused the President of withholding full co-operation in correcting what he considered grave conditions within TVA, asserted the other directors were given adequate advance information of what Friday's hearing would involve, while he was not, nd once he asked the President to stop interrupting him. Declines to Answer Emphatically, he declined to answer Mr. Roosevelt's questions as to what factual basis he might have for the charges of bad faith and malfeasance he has hurled at Harcourt A. Morgan and Lilienthal. He referred the chief executive to a brief prepared statement asking for a congressional inquiry.

On the other hand, Harcourt Morgan and Lilienthal were ready with a long series of documentary exhibits and oral testimony which they contended exonerated them U. S. Citizens May Get 5 Million, Dempsey Says WASHINGTON. March 11 Rep. Dempsey (D.

N. said Friday the special Mexican claims commission had endorsed his bill providing immediate full payment of claims against the Mexican government adjudicated by the commission. The claims arose out of damages suffered by American citizens in past Mexican revolutions. Created by Congress to settle the suits with the Mexican government, the commission reached an agreement under which the southern republic would pay a total of $5,000,000. Dempsey said payments under the present arrangement would be made by Mexico in installments over the next seven years.

As a convenience to American claimants, his bill would authorize the United States Treasury to pay them immediately, and let the Treasury keep the interest as well as principal on future payments from Mexico. M00IY FOE TO BE HEARD California Assembly Rejects Pardon Measure SACRAMENTO, March 11 OP) Lawmakers sympathetic toward Tom Mooney encountered new signs of opposition Friday as they renewed their dramatic effort to give him a "legislative pardon." Police Captain Charles Goff, veteran officer, who rounded up the evidence to convict Mooney of the San Francisco Preparedness Day dynamiting 22 years ago, asked and received permission to address the state assembly, before which the pardon move was still pending. A pardon measure failed of passage by only two votes in the assembly early Friday morning after Mooney had appeared personally at the unprecedented hearing and again protested his innocence. The veteran police officer, who never has wavered from belief in Mooney's guilt, was described in Mooncy's assembly address as "the generalissimo of the frame-up." Supporters of the pardon measure, confronted with the possibility of challenges as to its competency even if passed, took the position that Ibe matter of legality and effectiveness could be determined at law after enactment. 11 MAROONED ON SNOW-BOUND TRAIN REACH RIDGWAY RIDGWAY, March 11 UP) Eleven men marooned with two locomotives and two passenger coaches for two days and nights on mountainous Lizard Head Pass sector of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad returned to Ridgway Friday.

Their rescue train became stalled by snowshdes on the north side of the pass Tuesday night when it attempted to reach another train, carrying 15 men, which was stuck in snowdrifts on the south side of the pass. The 15 men were rescued Wednesday when a large rotary plow ate its way through the drifts, allowing the men to be taken to Rico, Colo. Then the rotary started for the rescue train, freeing it Thursday night. Lindberghs Leave Secretly for Europe NEW YORK, March 12 (Saturday) Pi Col. and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh sailed secret at 12:30 a. m. EST Saturday on the liner Bremer for England to rejoin their two sons. Their departure to resume seclusion they had found in England for more than two years was blanketed with secrecy and it was not until the big ship had eased from her pier into the North River and headed for the sea th3t the information was made public by the North-German Lloyd line.

EDITOR SENTENCED HONOLULU, March 11 UP) Judge Louis Lebaron sentenced Leo Crowley, newspaper editor convicted last week on criminal libel charges, to 90 days in jail and fined The Weekly Hawaii Sentinel S250. Crowley, former San Francisco newspaperman, was charged with criminally li beling Major General Briant H. Wells, U. S. retired, an executive of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association.

Welfare Organizations Ask Change in Policy WASHINGTON, March 11 UP) A split on the question of relief developed Friday between President Roosevelt and national loaders of private welfare organizations. Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, chairman if the 1938 Community Mobilization for Human Needs, called for a "united front" to alter the Rooseveltian policies; the President made plain he would stick to them. In general, the Government administers work relief for leaving direct relief to be handled by states or communities. Taft and other welfare lead ers visited Mr.

Roosevelt to urge I locally-administered relief for all persons, the Federal Government to give aid and supervision. Later, Mr. Roosevelt told the mobilization conference: "The Federal Government has chosen to confine itself to the normal victims of the maladjusted economy; to create work for the employable unemployed." The leaders of the 400 community chest and welfare workers from 150 cities considered this a refusal of their demands. DEFENSE GETS POTASH DATA Contempt Charge Against SEC Lawyer Dropped Defense attorneys in the potash mail fraud cases late Friday began examining exhibits previously held by the prosecution, on authority of an order of Federal Judge Colin Neblett. The exhibits, numbering 401, were turned over to the custody of Paul Corrigan, deputy U.

S. clerk here, on petition of defense attorneys, and after Judge Neblett had dismissed contempt proceedings brought late Thursday against Richard E. Mather, attorney for the Securities Exchange Commission. Says Misunderstanding The contempt citation was de clared by Judge Neblett, at a hearing in Santa Fe, as a result of a misunderstanding. Defense attorneys, Caswell Neal, George R.

Craig, J. S. Vaught, and Hugh B. Woodward, had charged that Mather ignored a court order of Wednesday giving the defense access to the exhibits. The first of the two cases is set for trial Monday in Federal Court here.

All of the fourteen defendants are involved in one or both of the cases. Worked on Schedule Mather told the court a stenographer had been put to work to copy the schedule of exhibits and had worked until late Thursday night but had been able up to that time to list less than 100. The original schedule, he explained, bore confidential annotation. Mather contended he did not have possession of the exhibits, which he said were held by William J. Barker, special assistant to the attorney general, as a representative of the Department of Justice.

"I have never refused to deliver anything except confidential records." said Mather, "and I don't think I have authority to deliver them." German-American Held in Soy Probe NEW YORK, March 11 W) Otto Herman Voss, an American citizen of German birth accused of transmitting military information to agents of an unspicified foreign government, was held in default of $10,000 bail late Friday after arraignment on a charge of espionage. Voss was arrested Thursday at the Seversky Aircraft Corporation plant at Farmingdale, Long Island. He said nothing when arraigned merely nodding in answer to the question whether he waived examination. Federal authorities said it had been decided not to disclose details of the case for the time being. Cottonwood Gin Sets Pecos Valley Record ARTESIA, March 11 UP) The Cottonwood gin near Artesia set a Pecos Valley record for cotton ginned during the 1937 harvesting, unofficial figures showed Friday.

The gin processed 5557 bales, compared with more than 5300 handled by the Roswell Co-operative gin. The total 1937 cotton harvest for this section also set an all-time high of 20,481 bales. Distribution Between 3 States Will Remain Practically the Same TEXAS GIVES IN Engineers Revise Report; Lawyers Frame Pact That Must Be Ratified SANTA FE, March 11 An engineers' report laying the factual foundation for a renewal of the tri-state Rio Grande compact won general approval Friday of commissioners of Colorado, Texas and New Mexico and legal advisors took over the session's reins to draft a new treaty allocating the waters of the river. S. O.

Harper, chairman and Federal representative on the commission, announced the commissioners, Thomas M. McClure, New Mexico; M. C. Hinderlider, Colorado, and Frank B. Clayton, Texas, had recessed their meeting until possibly Monday to allow attorneys to set up a tentative pact to present for consideration.

Climaxing eight days of negotiations behind closed doors, the representatives of the three states Friday reached common ground on a schedule of division of the flow of the Rio Grande between their states which was completed by engineering consultants. Texas Claim Revoked The report eliminated provisions, mostly affecting delivery of water to Texas from Elephant Butte Reservoir, which were unsatisfactory to New Mexico and which drew vigorous protest from McClure in the opening session March 3. Harper said the commissioners gave "general approval to the report as a basis for the factual portion of the proposed compact" in the session Friday. It provides in the main that Texas shall receive an average Continued on Tate Mm TWO NEW MILL TRIES LOOM Breece, Whitmer Workers Plan to Quit Workers in two Albuquerque planing mills probably will go on strike' Saturday morning, union leaders said Friday night. Officials of the Whitmer Mills and the Georee E.

Breece Lumber Company have refused to grant wage increases, they said. The announcement of a probable strike was made after a meeting of Albuquerque Lumbar and Sawmill local of Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Friday night. Workers will report for work Saturday morning, but are expected to walk out during the morning. The strikes will bring to three the number of strike-bound mills in Bernalillo ant! Sandoval Counties. Union members at the Ber' nalillo mill of the New Mexico Lumber and Timber Company have been on strike since March 2.

Indications of a strike at the two Albuquerque mills have been numerous since it was learned recently that workers were demanding written union recognition and a 10 cent-an-liour increase in wages. The demands are the same as those in the Bernalillo strike. The Breece closed for several months, was reopened several days ago and is now employing 60 workers, union leaders reported. Peaceful at Bernalillo Peaceful picketing continued Friday at the Bernalillo mill. John Murray, representative of the national Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, said that mill operations had practically ceased.

"There were only 18 or 20 Continued On Pile Foot Skeleton Is Found; Murder Is Charged POCAHONTAS, Ark, March 11 (PiCircuit Judge John L. Bledsoe Friday issued a bench warrant charging Mrs. Cora Treuba Hebner with murder, following the discovery cf a skeleton in an abandoned i.lorm cellar on a farm formerly occupied by her. The warrant did not identify the victim. Sheriff John T.

Thompson said he was endeavoring to locate Will Hebner, invalid husband of Mrs. Hebner, who disappeared from the farm several weeks ago. Britain, France Are Helpless; Send Protest By the Associated Tress LONDON, March 11 Germany Friday night crushed Austria's fight against nazification with an ultimatum backed by the force of her reborn military might. Germany's action, scorning protests by Great Britain and France, created Europe's most ominous situation since Hitler defiantly occupied the Rhineland on March 7, 1936. Italy, once Austria's protector, stood by to give the Austrian-born German leader a free hand in a convincing demonstration of the strength of the Rome-Berlin axis.

Joint Protest Diplomatic sources in London agreed that Britain and cabinet-less France would do nothing about Hitler's bloodless conquest beyond a joint protest they indicated had been sent to reinforce separate warnings to Germany of the "possible consequences" of Hitler's course. The two nations instructed their ambassadors in Berlin to protest in "the strongest possible terms" aga'nst "such use of coercion backed by force." Both Sir Neville Henderson, British ambassador, and Andre Francois-Poncet, French ambassador, informed the German government its action was "bound to produce the gravest reactions, of which it was impossible to foretell the issue." Joachim von Ribbentrop, former ambassador to London and new German foreign minister, unexpectedly postponed his return to Berlin from a farewell visit to London. Official circles said Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had emphasized to him the possible repercussions of German action against Austria on Anglo-German relations. Move Is "Realistic" Hitler's bold move particularly was a bitter one if not a fatal one for Chamberlain's new foreign policy of "realistic" dealings with dictators which resulted in the resignation Feb. 20 of Anthony Eden as foreign secretary.

The Austrian-born chancellor of Germany gave Chamberlain a piece of realism which was a severe blow to negotiations for an Anglo-German agreement. Foreign circles saw Italy on the horns of a dilemma and herself in a precarious diplomatic position because of the Austrian situation. Until ties between Italian and German foreign policy grew close, the preservation of Austria's now-imperilled independence had been a major point of Italian diplomacy. But since the development of the Rome-Berlin axis, diplomatic sources pointed out, any appearance of Italian intervention on behalf of Austria would antagonize Hitler; Premier Benito Mussolini would be forced to abandon cither Austria or Germany. Islatinn Peril Italy, not having concluded her peace-making negotiations with Great Britain and having few-other European ties, therefore would face the peril of isolation should the axis break now, tlmse quarters said.

Italian protection of Austria in 1934 impelled her to rush troops to the Brenner Pass as a warning against any Nazi coup after the assassination of Austria's Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss. Massing of Italian troops at the frontier now, however, was considered "most improbable." (In Paris. Italy was said to have rejected a French suggestion of joint action.) The Czechoslovakian Cabinet met in special session Friday night to consider the general situation in connection with events in Austria. President Eduard Benes presided. The Cabinet was represented as viewing the situation calmly.

The impression prevailed in some quarters that the Nazification of Austria was not the private concern of that neighboring state, but a matter affecting all western powers. In other words, a European affair. Reports from Bratislava, on the Austrian-Czechoslovakia border about 40 miles from Vienna, said trains and automobiles arriving CentiMe rfe Ma About $21,000 Missing; Bond Remains $10,000 After Formal Hearing On a charge of embezzlement, in connection with an alleged shortage in the county treasurer's office, Virgil G. Webster, former chief deputy treasurer, was held for trial in district court, after a hearing Friday afternoon before Justice L. M.

Tar-taglia. The court denied Webster's plea for reduction in bond from 10,000 to $5000, and the former deputy treasurer was remanded to jail. Blue Receipts Gone Chief witness against Webster was Clay R. Scott, auditor, who testified that "blue slip" tax collection receipts totaling between 300 and 400 apparently have disappeared from the office. Scott said absence of the slips, aggregating slightly more than $21,000, was discovered in a check with triplicate receipts which remained intact in the receipt book.

The original white receipts, he said, had been issued to the taxpayers. None After Resignation The auditor said the shortages were found for the period Webster was employed. None were found, he stated, for the period after Webster's resignation, last Dec. 15. The auditor was employed by the district attorney's office on request of the county commissioners, several weeks before the shortage was announced.

Andres Romero, Mrs. Julia Continued On Fate Eleven RAILROADS PLAN WAGE REDUCTION AFFECTING 1,000,000 WASHINGTON, March 11 V-Pay cuts affecting about railroad operating and non-operating workers will be recommended by the Association of American Railroads at a meeting in Chicago next directors of the association announced Friday the meeting of executives of its 142 member roads would be held March 18 "to consider decreases in wage rates and such other action as may be required. The statement of the board, authorized by J. J. Pellcy, president of the A.

A. R. said last Tuesday's Interstate Commerce decision granting a freight rate increase "is depressing not only to railroads but to industry as a whole and to general employment," Declaring that the increase granted "approximates five per cent," the association said this "is entirely inadequate to meet the critical situation which faces the railroads." The roads have been pinched between falling income from freight carloadings and rising operating costs, rail men said. They added the downturn in loadings has been "serious" for more than three months. Mountain Lion Killed By Pupil With Knife COLUSA, March 11 UP) Herbert Calcatcrra, 18, of Stony-ford, killed a mountain lion with a pocket knife Friday after the animal had been stunned in an attack on the Maxwell High School bus which carried eight students.

The lion leaped on the bus Friday near Lodoga, but fell off and attacked a tire. The animal's teeth stuck in the tire and the beast was thrown to the road. While the lion lay stunned, Calcatcrra, a high school senior, leaped from the bus and fatally stabbed the animal with his pocket knife. Franco Makes Large Gains in Big Drive ZARAGOZA. Spain, March 11 UP) Generalissimo Francisco Franco's insurgent forces, having captured nearly 800 square miles of government territory in three days, drove forward again Friday in their big offensive along the 70-mile Aragon front.

The chief gains were at the northern end of the front, between Belchite, which was captured Thursday, and Fuentes De Ebro. By the Associated Press VIENNA March 12 (Saturday) German troops moved toward Vienna in the early morning hours Saturday to back up Nazification of the Austrian state, accomplished in bloodless revolution by Chancellor Schuschnlgg's capitulation to Germany's Fuehrer Hitler. The troops, numbering about 1000 men in trucks, expected to reach the capital at noon (6 a. m. E.

S. They carried several pieces of light artillery. Meet No Resistance They met no resistance, and were heading first for Linz where Nazis prepared an enthusiastic welcome. From there they were to proceed quickly to Vienna. The bloodless revolution came after two days of violence throughout Austria.

It was accomplished in eight hours. Swept out of office by Germany's demands was Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, who had fought to preserve Austrian independence in the old course of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who was assassinated in a Nazi putsch July 25, 1934. Hitler's Frlfnd Succeeding him as chancellor and Austria's man of the hour was Austria's Nazi leader, Arthur Seysz-Inquart, political friend of Hitler. Seysz-Inquart immediate ly formed a new cabinet, all but two of whom were Nazis. They included: Wilhelm Wolff, foreign affairs, Franz Hueber, justice.

Hueber is a brother-in-law of Germany's number two Nazi, Field Marshal General Hermann Wilhelm Goer-ing; Oswald Menghin, education, Dr. Hugo Neumayer, finance; Anton Rhinethaler, agriculture; Hans Fitschboeck, commerce; Michael Skubl, secretary of state; Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Skubl's assistant Hubert Klausner, Nazis' political representative. Apparently Wilhelm Miklas still was president. Also swept out of office was another leader of the old regime Mayor Richard Schmitz of Vienna. Big Demonstration His city staged a demonstration that was probably without precedent.

Crowds who heard radio announcements that German troops were on their way into Austria stampeded through the streets. Swastikas appeared by the thousands. All Vienna seemed to be shouting: "Heil Hitler!" Major Clausner, leader of Nazi S. A. troops in Vienna, broadcast an announcement that: "Austria has become free Austria has oecome National Socialist a now government has been formed." Asks for Troops Earlier Seysz-Inquart had sent a telegram to Hitler, saying that the "provisional Austrian government" requested Germany to send troops as scon as possible to assist it in "preventing the shedding of blood." Seven torchlight parades marched into Vienna Jewish quarters.

Two Jews were injured. Nazi crowds stormed the Fatherland Front building. Windows were smashed. Dozens of Nazis hurled torches and tossed them inside. Firemen sprayed the building.

German troops first moved across the border at 10 p. m. (4 p. m. E.

S. Friday. At Salzburg, Kuffstein and Mit-tenwald they marched into Austrian territory. Telegram to Hitler In his telegram to Hitler be-fore his appointment a3 chancellor was announced, Seysz-Inquart said: "The provisional Austrian government, which, after the resignation of the Schuschnigg cabinet, considers its task to be that of re-establishing order and quiet in Austria, addresses the urgent request to the German govern- Fassfj aft rnf irtiliffortiin-M. Resignation of Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian chancellor, was rapidly followed Friday by the appointment of Nazi Leader Arthur Seysz-Inquart as chancellor by Austria's president, Wilhelm Miklas.

Seysz-Inquart's first act was to request Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler to send German troops to Austria to "prevent the shedding of blood." U. S. STUDIES HITLER MOVE 'Hands-Off Policy Taken by Officials WASHINGTON, March 11 Officials anxiously studied developments in Austria and Central Europe Friday night but maintained a "hands off" attitude. Taking their lead from Sec. of State Hull, they refrained from placing the United States in the position of taking sides.

The secretary said he had conferred with the President in the last two days -on the situation in Central Europe, buot without formulating a special policy. He denied emphatically a rumor that the United States had urged Germany in a friendly way to be moderate in her treatment of Austria. Officials doubted that any question regarding American recognition of the new Austrian government would arise. They believed it would be an internal change that would not call for a specific recognition. Such was the case when Kurt Schuschnigg, the anti-Nazi Austrian chancellor who has just resigned, took over the after the assassination of his predecessor, Dollfuss.

Rep. Brewster (R.f Me.) expressed belief the developments in Austria were not at all likely to lead to a general European war. Even if they did, he declared, "there is absolutely no reason why the United States should be involved." AMERICAN REPORTED KILLED IN SPAIN; SEVERAL CAPTURED BELCHITE, Spain, March 11 An Anvikan listed as Law Norman of Indianapolis, a member of the Lincoln Brigade fighting with the Spanish government forces, was among the dead reported found here Friday. A number of Americans were said to have been captured in the Belchite sector, which fell to the insurgents Thursday. They were taken to rearguard camps.

American literature picked up in Belchite included a pamphlet captioned "by-laws of the New York State Young Communist League adopted at the 1937 Empire State Convention," and a magazine beating a January date. Father Given 90 Days For Beating Daughter LOS ANGELES, March 11 UP) A sentence of 90 days in the county jail was imposed in El Monte Justice Court Friday upon Henry Goates, laborer, for lashing his 16-year-old daughter, Gloria, with a seven-foot whip because she did not attend school Tuesday. Goates pleaded guilty to a charge of inflicting unreasonable punishment upon a child. He was arrested after a school nurse at El Monte Junior High School discovered livid scars on Gloria's back. Goates' sentence was for 130 days in jail, but half this term was suspended and two years' probation substituted.

Coutltmrd en Pace Te BOTULISM VICTIMS TREATED HERE SHOW RAPID IMPROVEMENT Stricken near Cubero with food poisoning while motoring east, six Hollywood, tourists were reported recovering rapidly at St. Joseph's Hospital Friday night. Four of the victims are children. The physician who attended the patients, said botulism serum had been ordered by plane from Kansas City earlier "just in case," but that there was no present indication their illness was other than simple food poisoning. Under treatment are Mrs.

Ly-dia Elmquist and her 10-year-old ton, Frank; and Mrs. Nellie Merk her three children, Marilyn, Elaine, 7, and Royce, 12. Botulism poisoning a form food poisoning customarily fatal recently claimed a dozen lives in an outbreak at Tucumcari. FARMERS CONTINUE HUNT FOR LOCATION FOR PUBLIC MARKET i The farmers' committee seek- ing establishment of a public mar-Vet here spent Friday looking at proposed locations, J. S.

Bowers, chairman said. The city has offered the farmers a site at the corner of Broad-wuy and Mountain Road, near the water wells. Some of the said they favor this site because of its size. Bowers said the project, backed by both producers and buyers, is practically assured of success. Pershing Interested In Foreign Affairs TUCSON, March 11 UP) Gen.

John J. Pershing, convalescing from a grave illness, asked a visiting friend Friday what caused the downfall of former Premier Camille Chautemps of France and discussed troubled world affairs. Dr. Roland Davison said Gen. Pershing's heart, which caused some concern Thursday night, was "satisfactory," that he was sleeping much of the time, and was eating well.

PLYING TO ENGLAND MALTA. March 12 (Saturday) UP) Lieut. Gen. Sir Charles Bon-ham-Carter, governor of British-governed Malta, was reported flying to London early Saturday for a hurried conference with William G. A.

Ormsby-Gore, Britain's secretary of state for colonies. (Malta is one of three Britished-gove-med islands in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and.