Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 1

eather Forecast Mexico: Unsettled Tues- and Wednesday, probably' flurries east and north-ral portions; little change in icrature. izona: Generally fair. GOOD MORNING If you owe $30 now, you can probably get a discount to $19.75, from folks afraid of the fake $20 bills. 57th Year Volume 235 Number 82 Tuesday Morning, December 21, 1937 3 CENTS IN ALBUQUERQUE lira Centi Eluwhtr Published Every Morning Entered necond cl miller, H. poitolflc under let of CongreM, FA FE DIES OF HEART ATTACK HER 1AY0R OF SAN AS JAPS SWEPT ON TO VICTORY FRANK ANDREWS AIN BANDITS AKRON TIRE MAN IS PESSIMISTIC JAPS REVERSE PANAY STAND; REPORTS DIFFER FARMERS SEEK CONSERVANCY BOARD OUSTER SAYS JAP SPIES OVERRUN V.

S. Soviet Chief Charges Wide-Spread Activity MOSCOW, Dec. 20 1Pi-The assistant chief of the Soviet's secret political police Monday mentioned the United States and Japan in a statement that capitalistic countries are sending agents to other countries for espionage, sabotage and spreading subversive propaganda. M. P.

Frinovsky, vice-commissar of internal affairs, said: "America, particularly the Pacific Coast and the Panama Canal, is overrun with Japanese spies, and Japan in its turn appears to be an arena for American intelligence services." His statement appeared In an article in Pravda, official Communist newspaper, in which he discussed the execution of eight once high-ranking Communists. Leo M. Karakhan, former vice-commissar of foreign affairs, and seven others were shot for crimes ranging from espionage to formation of rebel cells in Joseph Stalin's native Georgia, which has been "purged" intensively for several months, Frinovsky said Karakhan "for many years had betrayed his country by selling to Fascist intelligence services secrets of special Advance landing party Japanese occupation of the vast territory in central China they now hold was made directly possible when attack units landed on the south bank of the Yangtze river, above, 45 miles from Shanghai and turned the flank of the Chinese defense position, resulting in the fall of Soochow, FID TO TRIAL WITHOUT BAIL r-Faced, Frightened, Brooklyn Cowboys' ear Testimony Given Inksgiving HOLDUP lit Robbery motive; oth Enter Denials of hooting S. P. Trainman CRUCES, N.

Dec. 20 UP) longer the swaggering self-iiied prototypes of western men." Harrv Dwyer, 27, and Lorenz, 22, were bound without bail Monday tor next month in district court iiarges of murder and train TV. and frightened, heard witnesses at a prelim-hearine describe their ksgiving Day attempt to a holdup of the "Apache, Southern Pacific flier, as it led, the desert stretches of prn New Mexico. th charges are punishable by Murder Count murder count was entered he shooting of W. L.

Smith, lroad employe. Ihey were with train robbery under Id territorial statute designed scourage the high-handed of such old-time fire-s as Billy the Kid and his ilk. th boys readily admitted to ding the train at El Paso, is with the intent of robbing ngers. Neither, however, Id admit to shooting Smith. heard guns go off as I was ng Inoney from people then 'thing hit me, and that's all I related Lorenz, whose is Monitowoc, and who ks with a marked German at.

"Something" Hit ie "something" which hit him, imen said, were enraged pas-ers, who took advantage of momentary distraction to power the "Brooklyn cow-" and beat them into insen- ity. ither youth had counsel at hearing, and Lorenz told a what incoherent story but ied determined to exonerate er of taking money from ongcrs. Velser, brakeman on the CoDtlnurd On Fie flu ND BRINGS CHILL RE; SNOW FLURRIES SOUTHERN POINTS Ibuquerqueans shivered Mon- as a cold wind blew from the heast most of the day. The 1 reached a velocity of 25 an hour. ie maximum temperature, degrees, was reached at 2:15 ck.

The mercury was ex-ed to drop to 22 degrees Mon- night. nsettled and cloudy weather ailed over the state with flurries reported at several es. Socorro, Roswell and El each reported a trace now. lesday's forecast for Albu-rque and vicinity is for unset-weather. Snow flurries are iicted for the east and north ral portions.

Lower tempera-s are expected to prevail in northeast portion. well Man Held In Shooting Fray OSWELL, Dec. 20 Juan itoya, 21, was in a serious con- in a hospital here Monday a bullet wound, and his Manuel Montoya, 32, was 1 in county jail, heriff Perry Bean said Manuel ked into his office this morn-and confessed he shot his I charges were filed Manuel. KELLOGG IMPROVES T. PAUL.

Dec. 20 UP Frank Kellogg, former secretary of and co-author of the peace pact, was said his physician to have rallied i an attack of pneumonia with he was critically ill over week-end. The statesman will 81 years old Wednesday. STRICKEN ON VISIT TO CITY Passes Away in Hotel, After Becoming III in a Downtown Store WIFE IS WITH HIM Retired Business Man, Prominent in Affairs of Capitol City Many Years Stricken while on a brief trip to Albuquerque Monday afternoon, Frank Andrews, mayor and lifelong resident of Santa Fe, died of a heart attack in his room at El Fidel hotel. With Mr.

Andrews, who was 68 years of age, was his wife, who took him to "the hotel when he became ill in a downtown store, He was able to get to the rooni with Mrs. Andrews' assistance, but collapsed on the bed. Wife Calls Help Mrs. Andrews called for heln. Two physicians and the lnhalator crew oi tne lire department wera called, The physicians, Drs.

J. W. Hannett and Richard Riley, pronounced Mr. Andrews dead before the inhalator crew arrived. The mayor and his wife, with Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore N. Esp of Santa Fe, came to Albuquerque in the Espe car, expecting to spend the afternoon and early evening here. Espe said the mayor was "feeling well and in happy spirits" when he last saw him about 3 o'clock. Mr, Andrews died at 5 clock.

Firemen first resnonded tn th call with fire equipment and had 10 return to central station for the inhalator. Doctors said, however, that the inhalator would have been of no avail, as Mr, Andrews was beyond hope. Santa Fe Mourns The sudden death of Ma vnr An. drews, who rose from a grocery clerk to wealth and nffin sent Santa Fe into mourning Mon- uay mgni. Ihe son of a ninneer rfpntkt Dr.

EnOS Andrews whn namn Santa Fa in 1859, Mayor Andrews was Dorn Feb. 28, 1869. After receiving his edurnt Inn in Santa Fe schools, he went to San Antomo, N. a thriving coal mining town, as a grocery clerk before the turn of the century. Returnina to Santa tu, years later he opened a grocery store.

His business prospered find later years he operated a ga- Ctinllnufd od f( I0 SCS PLANTING TREES FOR GAME REFUGES IN CLO VIS DISTRICT A program of tree planting for windbreaks and refuges for gam birds Is being launched on the Soil Conservation Service project near Clovis, according to J. A. Jackson, project manager. The work is under the supervision of Myron T. Bunger, a forester of fie Soil Conservation Service.

Farmers are now building narrow water-retaining terraces and diversion structures so extra water will be available to aid growth of trees to be planted by the Service. Several hundred trees and shrubs will be planted in the project area this winter, Jackson reports. The trees are expected to provide windbreak protection for farms, borders of fields and critical erosion areau and to furnish food and cover for insect-eating birds. Egypt's King in Crisis, Inaugurates Duck Shoot CAIRO, Dec. 20 UP) The British ambassador conferred with youthful King Farouk Monday on the Egyptian cabinet crisis.

Later he watched the king shoot ducks, Farouk bagged 207 in three hours to inaugurate the season. Results of the diplomatic conversations were not known. The government crisis revolved about the king's demand that his premier, Mustapha Nahas Pasha, dissolve his blue-shirted political army, offshoot of the premier's Nationalist (WAFD) party. Naha thus far has refused. Plenty of Cash Flanks This Christmas Tree NEW YORK, Dec.

20 UP) Wall Street's Christmas tree, a 55-foot forest giant decorated with silver and gold tinsel and ornaments, was lighted Morday. The tree stands in its traditional spot in the middle of Broad Street, flanked by the New York Stock Exchange and the private banking house of J. Morgan it Co Firestone Urges Repeal Of Profits Tax MIAMI BEACH, Dec. 20 (P) Harvey S. Firestone, the Akron tire manufacturer, asserted in an interview Monday if "we want to regain prosperity, we must do a right-about face" on Government regulation of industry.

Mon-diy was his 69th birthday. "I don't want to be pessimistic about business," he said, "yet I must admit conditions are not as good as they were a year ago. Retarding of our advance back to prosperity must be attributed in large degree to Government regulation of industry. "Prosperity still depends on two fundamentals work and production, and these in turn are dependent on the release of capital," he added. "The first incentive toward its release would be the repeal of the undistributed profits tax and the repeal of the capital gains tax.

wpaIndfair readyto go Meeting Wednesday Will Show Funds Available New Mexico State Fair Commissioners and officials of the WPA will meet here Wednesday to consider a program for completion of the fair plant, Frank Shufflebarger, president of the commission, said Monday night. The meeting is expected to disclose that funds are available. Shufflebarger said if the WPA" is ready at that time to announce that $20,000 is available, Albuquerque will be ready to put up an equal amount for the purchase of materials. He stated he had not been informed officially that WPA funds are ready, as was announced in Hobbs Monday by James M. Murray, member of the fair board, but believes that to be a fact.

Murray said he has conferred with Fred Healy, state WPA administrator, and was assured funds were available. In addition to assistance with purchases of materials, the WPA puts up the money for labor. SPANISHKEY CITY EXPECTED TO FALL TO LOYAL TROOPS II A Franco-Spanish Frontier, Dec. 20 UP) Three government columns reported Monday to have eaptured the center of besieged Teruel, driving out the insurgent defenders of the key city on the eastern front at bayonets' point. A violent house-to-house battle was reported raging within Teruel, from which the civilian population was fleeing in terror.

Government advices said the city, completely cut off from the rest of Insurgent Spain, was expected to fall in a few hours. A column of Insurgent Moors and legionnaires was reported destroyed by government planes when it tried to raise the siege. Government dispatches said the first assault column of 2000 men entered Teruel through a cemetery after a 45-minute preparatory artillery fire. The second column fought its way to the arsenal and the third quickly reached the railroad station. The storming of the city began Sunday night in bitter subzero cold after all the heights surrounding the cemetery fell into government hands.

Mined Coal Valued For Severance Tax SANTA FE, Dec. 20 Wi For determining severance tax payments, mouth-of-the-mine coal in eight New Mexico counties will be valued at $3 a ton, according to a statement from the State Bureau of Revenue. Values over the remainder of the state will vary from $2.80 to S3. 25. The $3-a-ton counties are Grant, Lincoln, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, Saa Miguel and Santa Fe.

HOPKINS IMPROVES ROCHESTER, Dec. 20 UP) Harry L. Hopkins, national relief administrator, was in "very good condition" at St. Mary's Hospital this afternoon, his physicians said, seven hours after he underwent a major abdominal operation. PIBI.ISHER DIES NEW YORK, Dec.

20 (Albert P. Houghton, 87, director and former vice president of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers, of Boston and New York. Sunday of heart complications after an operation. Circulate Petitions Charging Injustices, Politics, And Misrepresentation CITE NEGOTIATIONS Say Landowners Must Have Confidence in a Of New Program Charging the landowners are being misrepresented in negotiations now pending for easing the burdens of tt.e Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, the Middle Rio Grande Farmers Association is circulating petitions for removal of the conservancy board, it was learned Monday afternoon. Leaders in the farmers association said it is planned to conduct the campaign for signatures in every precinct in the conservancy district in four counties.

Petitions were in circulation in this vicinity Sunday and Monday, it was stated, and many signatures were obtained. Claim Misrepresentation The petitions, directed to Judge Thomas J. Mabry of the District Court ask "relief from, the injustices perpetrated against us by the conservancy district board," and ask the court to request the board's resignation "before it will be possible for them to further misrepresent the landowners in negotiations now pending with the bondholders." The petitions charge that the board has blocked all attempts at legislation aimed at amending the conservancy law for the purpose of saving the land for its owners and lightening their burden. Charges Politics Another charge is that "The board has turned the conservancy district into a purely political organization and has absolutely disregarded the welfare and needs of the landowners and farmers." "Their only solution for this disastrous predicament into which they have helped cast the land- ConUimcd On Tour in- i in Courtesy Cabs Banned When Driver Is Shot COLUMBUS, Dec. 20 UP) The shooting of a driver and a ban on all "free" taxicabs marked separate strikes here Monday at the Hills Cab Company and the Miller Coal Company.

Mayor Myron Gessman ordered all so-called courtesy cars operated by the taxi drivers' union off the streets on the ground that the "safety of the public is endangered" because they were insufficiently insured. The shooting occurred when idle cab drivers went to the aid of striking truck drivers picketing the Miller company. During an altercation E. J. McCarthy, 24, a cab driver, was shot through the chest and a hospital reported his condition as serious.

Independent Union Wins Election Over CIO Group SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 An independent union, in one of the first elections ever held by the National Labor Relations Board for employes of a power utility, won over the CIO Monday in a vote to determine the collective bargaining representative of the physical forces of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Mrs. Alice M. Rosseter, regional director of the labor relations board, announced the following results: California Gas and Electric Employes Union, 3550; CIO United Electrical and Radio Workers, 2254.

Snell Says Eat Lamb For a Merry Christmas Tom Snell, secretary of the New Mexico Sheep Sanitary Board, said Monday, "The right way to celebrate Christmas in New Mexico is to eat lamb, a New Mexico product." "Eat turkey on Christmas," said Snell, "why, the very idea!" CAR REPORTED STOLEN I G. N. Guynes, 820 East Massa-i chusetts Avenue, reported to po-! lice Monday evening that his I 1932 Ford coach had been stolen. He said the car was taken from the 400 block on North Second Street about 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. FAILURES DECREASE NEW YrORK, Dec.

20 'Pi Business failures in the United States for the week ended December 18 dropped to 200 from 234 in the preceding week. Dun Bradstreet Army Version Contradicts Foreign Office; Parley At Throne Is Postponed CANCELL PRESS TALK Reply to U. S. Demands Still Lacking; Hull to Keep Boats in China SHANGHAI, Dec. 20 P-The Japanese army Monday denied it had attacked the United States gunboat Panay, flatly contradicting official American reports Japanese troops had machine-gunned the sinking warship after it had been bombed by naval planes.

At almost the same time Maj. Gen. Kumakichi Harada issued the army statement in Shanghai, a foreign office spokesman in Tokyo reversed the government's previous stand and admitted Jap anese army craft on the Yangtze River had fired on the Panay. Harada's Report The report of (Jen. Harada, Japanese military attache, denied virtually every statement previously made by American Naval officers and British, American and Italian civilian survivors of the attack Dec.

12. The army version not only was at variance with that of the survivors and the Tokyo office but contradicted itself. Harada's report of his investigation contradicted the eye-witnesses version on these principle points: Four Points 1, Japanese army boats did not fire on the Panay; 2, The Panay was moving at the time when it officially had been reported anchored more than two hours; 3, The Panay attacked Japanese troops on shore with three ConOntifd en Pt tt Slain Girl's Handbag Makes 'Bluebeard' try France. Dec. 20 W1 The stolid Eugene Weidmonn Mnminv whpn he saw the handbag of pretty 22-year-old Jean de Koven, Brooklyn dancer wnom he confessed he had strangled, robbed anri punea oeneaiu me porch of his suburban Paris villa last July.

The handbag, found when police dug up Miss de Koven's body eleven days ago, was piucuu ue-fore Weidmann in renewed questioning. Miss de Koven's body was taken to Cherbourg to be sent home aboard the Berengaria sailing Tuesday. Georges Berry, investigating magistrate, announced he would bring Weidmann and Roger Million face to face Tuesday in an effort to wring from them the full story of the mass slayings. Land May Succeed Kennedy in Maritime Job WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 UP-Insiders expressed belief Monday night Rear Admiral Emory S.

Land, retired chief of the Navy's bureau of construction and repair, might succeed Joseph P. Kennedy as chairman of the maritime commission. Kennedy is expected soon to be appointed ambassador to Great Britain, succeeding the late Robert W. Bingham. 48 Nippon Children Die in Movie Fire TOKYO, Dec 21 (Tuesday)) UP) Forty-eight children were dead or missing Monday after a Chinese war film caught fire and destroyed the village school at To-mita, Wakayama prefecture.

Twenty others were injured. The 300 children and 150 adults in the school auditorium were thrown into great confusion by the fire. SPEED RECORD NEW YORK, Dec. 20 O'Pi-A new speed record W8S in the making Monday. The city launched a million-dollar streamlined ferry boat which, with its 18-knot speed, is expected to cut down the trin between Manhattan and Staten Island from 21 minutes to 1 38 minutes.

OLD I.N FLORIDA LAKELAND, Dec. 20 'Pi-Uncle Sam's frost wafViing bureau hf-re said freezing weather probably would visit North Florida by morning but citrus crops would not be damaged. A4 STREET LIGHTS OUT IN LARGE SECTION EAST OF RAILROAD Streetlights in a large section east of the railroad tracks were out Monday night. Several crews of workmen began looking for the trouble early in the evening, but had been unable to find it at a late hour. A grounded wire was believed to have been the cause of the trouble, E.

M. Conwell, of the Albuquerque Gas and Electric-Company, said. The area affected was between Tijeras and Coal Avenues, east of the railroad tracks. The Tijeras underpass was without lights. Only overhead lights were out in this section, the lights along the sidewalk, as on Central Avenue, were not affected.

Street lights were out in some other sections for a shorter time. TWO SCHOOL HOUSES IN COUNTY SYSTEM LOSE THEIR PUPILS The county has two school 'houses on hand that it has no 'use for, County Superintendent Tom Wiley said Monday. The South Second Street School and the Barelas School, both on South Second Street, have been vacated by the erection of the new West San Jose School, in the same part of the suburbs. Each building is a three-room structure, considerably out of date. What the county may eventually do with them cannot be predicted, Wiley said.

The new San Jose School, which has 12 rooms, is one of the most modern schools in this part of the state. Belgian Airport Manager Held in Royalty Deaths BRUGES, Belgium, Dec. 20 UP) The director of the Ostend airport Monday was charged with manslaughter after an examining magistrate heard testimony regarding the crash of a Belgian airliner Nov. 16 in which five members of the grand ducal family of Hesse were killed. Authorities were seeking to fix the responsibility for any delay in transmitting radio instructions warning the pilot not to land if visibility was bad.

(Eleven died in the crash, including the Grand Duke and Duchess, their two sons, his mother, and the crew of three.) England Announces First Test Tube' Calf LONDON, Dec. 20 UP) A Cambridge research institute reported England's first successful "test-tube" calf of international parentage. The animal nutrition research institute said the scientific calf, now five weeks old, normal and healthy, was a unique achievement of cattle breeding. An ice-packed vacuum flask was from Amsterdam to arcomplish in 23 hours the artificial insemination of a pedigreed cow on one of Lord Rayleigh's Essex farms. Governor and Vife To Play Santa Claus SANTA IE, Dec.

20 UPi Santa Claus in person of Gov. and Mrs. Tingley is to pay a personal visit to the Crippled Children's Hospital at Hot Springs. The chief executive and his wife will depart for Hot Springs Friday night after the governor's Christmas party for children of 1 Bernalillo coui 9 DESTROYERS SAIL IN SECRET Mystery Shrouds Orders To Squadron SAN PEDRO, Cal Dec. 20 UP) Nine destroyers steamed from port here Monday night for San Diego, under forced draft and mysterious orders which local naval officials said they were unable to comment upon.

Crews of the vessel were, in the large part, on holiday leave and the members were ordered back to ship late Monday afternoon. Shore patrol officers made announcements in theaters and other amusement places, directing naval personnel of the ships to return. Many were left behind. High officers in the second destroyer flotilla said the orders were a "surprise" here and that they did not know why the ships were ordered out. Both squadrons involved in the order were scheduled for cruises to foreign ports early next year.

Unofficial naval sources said at 7 p. m. that five aircraft scouting force squadrons, including three squadrons of heavy patrol planes, had been ordered to report to North Island here, prepared for flight to an unnamed destination. A i a officials ashore answered all questions with the brief comment "no information." Navy men said they believed the orders might constitute a "monkey drill," in which superior officers test the speed of the Navy's mobilization under holiday conditions. Navy Department officials in Washington had no comment Monday night on the orders under which nine destroyers sailed from San Pedro, Cal.

They said fleet movements on the West coast were under control of the fleet commander there, Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn who had authority to act independently of the department here. Waco Man Held for Two Roswell Deaths ROSWELL, Dec. 20 Milton D. Adams of Waco, Texas, was held in county jail Monday night in lieu of $5000 bond pending arraignment on charges of negligent driving and manslaughter.

Adams is charged in a complaint filed by State Policeman H. J. Durett with striking and killing D. E. McKinney, 71, and his daughter Lois, 32, for whom funeral services were held Monday.

Adams was reported to have been intoxicated by a police doctor who examined him after the accident, which occurred late Saturday. Automobile In Ditch Driver Not Located Police early Tuesday morning were searching for the driver of a 1935 green Ford sedan wrecked at about 12:30 on Tingley Drive. The automobile was lying half in and half out the drainage ditch, but the victim could not be found by police investigating the accident. HIXTZ IS NAMED SANTA FE, Dec. 20 UP) Gov.

Clyde Tingley Monday named Murray Hintz of Colfax County and Santa Fe as a member of the Disabled Soldiers' Relief Com- mission succeeding Hinds O. Welch of Cliff, N. M-, whose term has expired. Hintz is director of i finance for the Department of government importance," He indicated that the purge was not ended when he asserted the Soviet police would "continue to destroy spies, terrorists, wreckers, plotters and counter-revolution aries of all shades." G-MEN HUNT DESPERADOES Alcatraz Felons "Alive Until Dead" roven SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 20 UP) Two desperadoes who disappeared last Thursday from the fortress-like Federal prison on Alcatraz Island, had vanished without a trace Monday, but Government agents said if they were still alive they must be caught.

Alcatraz, around which strong tides sweep, was shrouded in dense fog when Theodore Cole, 25, and Ralph Roe, 29, broke for freedom. Monday Warden James A. Johnston reiterated his belief the two perished in a swift outgoing tide. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation, determined to satisfy itself whether the convicts eventually reached shore or drowned, declared it was checking "every single rumor and lead." In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau, ordered that if the two men were still alive they must be captured.

Federal agents will consider the men alive until they are proven dead, Two Killed Hunting Coyotes By Airplane HAY SPRINGS, Dec. 20 'PlOtto Hagedorn, 40, and his brother, Albert, 45, were killed 14 miles southwest of here Monday while hunting coyotes from en airplane. Their low wing open cockpit "pusher type" monoplane crashed to the ground from a height of approximately 350 feet. Another brother, Ray, and two hunting companions, were a quarter of a mile from where the crash occurred. Albert was the pilot of the plane.

Members of the family here said he cracked up while hunting coyotes about three months ago, but was unhurt. Truck License Plates Sale Under Last Year SANTA FE, Dec. 20 PRe-ceipts from sale of automobile and truck license plates since December 1. totaled $128,477.91, Diego Salazar, commissioner of the motor Vehicle Department announced Monday. The sales were $23.00 less than those for the same number of days last year, Salazar said, but he expects receipts to top last year's totals next week.

WHITE IS BETTER ROCHESTER, Dec. 20 UP) Physicians attending William Allen White, Emporia, editor, said Monday he was "in first class condition" and was expected to be able to leave the hospital Tuesday or Wednesday. White underwent an operation by Mayo Clinic surgeons Friday. EIGHTH CARLSBAD ROBBER! CARLSBAD, Dec. 20 Police Monday night were investigating the eighth of a five-day series of burglaries here.

The Cavern Cafe was entered Sunday night, and $376 in cash and checks was taken from the safe. i TO I Publ.c Welfare. repoi ted Monday..