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Arrest Halts March Of Strikers On Pea Deal Lucerne Office Picking 1 Continuing at Hull Farm, Strikers Demand 'Holdback' Harris Funeral at Eaton Funeral service for Judge W. L. Harris will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Armstrong Mortuary clinpel in Eaton. Rev. W.

L. Cline bt IJenver is to oftlciate. Interment will be at Linn Grove. Garden City John Lopez, 27-year-old resident ot the Greeley Spanish colony was arrested by sheriff's office Thursday morning in connection with the Lucerne district pea field strike and held at the county jail. Sheriff Gilo G.

Anderson who with Deputies Guy McGimiPsa and Guy Bal- 12 linger made the arrest, said he was LJC undetermined as to what charges would be filed. Says Lope: Led March Sheriff, Anderson said Lopez was held because he led a "march" on the office of Glen Hubbell, operator of a fresh pea deal, at Lucerne, in Which Lopez and other strikers demanded that Hubboll pay them a five cent per basket bonus or Attempt to revive Garden. Cl y. Hubbell refused the payment, de- muor as, recently declared invald Norton and Adherents File Petition In County Court THE GREELEY REPUBLICAN VOLUME XXX--NUMBER 289 AFTERNOON EDITION GREELEY, COLORADO, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1938 WEEKLY TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1870 Passenger Killed, 7 Hurt In Airplane Crash A' A I al Lucernc S'i'C en pea shipping capital of Weld county, this string i JliaCie I I i a fpickers is the Upoff that another strike is on. Women and children and some men loll around the cars, but most men gather in groups where they are harangued by leaders or those with special grieves such as the two row bosses discharged Friday.

This Friday morning snapshot was taken when all was peaceful, later a group led by John Lopez marched on the nearby office of Glen Hubbell, demanding the 5-ccnt. holdback pay, retained until crop is harvested. -Lopez was arrested by Sheriff Gus Anderson, whose orders soon dispersed the string of cars shown here. Observers expected most of the workers back in the fields by afternoon, picking by reduced crews continuing all day. Ihe Tribune has prepared a'six-column pictorial layout of the green pea deal, from vine to iced car, to be printed photo and engraving.

Crowd Dispersed of all the area a was included in At i HP arrpstPd the detuncl tts WC 11 as three ad- Sheriff Anderson said he. ordered a ditlonal acres on llle northeast corner, pea workers hanging, around the Hub-, mald a tolal of 13 ams lifll office in- Lucerne to do one 1 inc-urporation was thrpp thinotR- BO bark to work, ffo biKn a ns declared or BO to jail Anderson suicl. iu residents of the that whnn IIP left the SC-FIIP the re ers wnrp dispersing Jud r. Strung appointed "I waR- railed by Mr. Hnliliell i i i i as I i a i to rail an I morning." said Anderson, when- he elecllun ami acl as u( ig e3 of it.

Attor- 1 said a Lopez 'tried to lead the Bt im A. Woodcock for Nor-I striking group into his office demand- tmi sa a electlon wln probably be ing the bonus. -called for three weeks from Thursday, Discharged Row Bosses Paid Off i i a Ju i 09 "HubbPll closed the door and, oallpd' i. umm i ssil) MS named by Strong this officp. When wp arrived a arl Albert.

Carl Schlmek, crowd was- milling around. A group WaU arner, Virgil Phelps and L. P. crowded around our car when we Norton arrived. We talked to Hubbell Tnir qua a residents are re- then paid off Arthur Lopez and Ed-1 wiii Madred, the two discharged row bosses over whom the strike started this morning.

"I then asked the two former row bosses if they wanted to return, to work," continued Anderson. "Both said they didn't and I ordered them to go home quit their agitating. "I then informed the entire group that they had, three choices of what to do. One was to go back to work, the second was to go home and the third was to go to jail. "Hubbell told me," continued Anderson, "that John Lopez had come into his office and had tried to get his bonus by force.

He said he was the leader of the group." Lopez Denied, Attempting Force to sign the petition for incorporation. At the election the question.of whether the area will be again incorporated into the town of. Garden City will be voted upon. Proposed limits of the town include the property of Mr. and Mrs.

A. F. Ray and Harry Rudbeck who broke the first incorporation by taking it into court on quo warranto proceedings. If the election is held in three weeks, it was pointed out, the Rays and their supporters will not have time to bring in additional voters and qualify them as residents. A month is necessary.

Whether the Ray taction will attempt to block the incorporation move was not immediately ascer- I tained. Questioned- af'the county jail John Territory to be included is describ- Lopez denied that he -had attempted, gj as all of lots four and five Ar- flnv force He said he 1 merely "asked" I iinirtnn fjnrripni imi mvf nf inf tiv 6 TM which he still claims is due him. Lopez said He is not a rela- as Sen. Bulkley Is Praised by The President (Associated Press) Marietta, July Roosevelt stepped into Ohio democratic primary today with a word of praise for Senator Robert. J.

Bulkley. Bulkley, candidate for renomination, was the only individual mentioned by tive of Arthur Lopez, one of the discharged row bosses. Sheriff Anderson, in arresting Lopez, carried out his previously announced policy of arresting anyone who attempts to prevent agrarian workers from working when and where tliey wish and to prevent interference with legitimate business and agricultural enterprises in this county. Sheriff Ande.rs.on further said that 60 days in the.county jail 'for. carrying concealed weapons by Justice Ben, H.

Florence on Dec. 9, 1933. At that time he used the Spanish spelling of a rcently a i 0 0 piesideut in His first Addition to Garden City 1 after Norton purchased it and subdivided it. trans-continent introduction. tour--except in his Petition'for incorporation declares! Introduced by Former Governor George White, Bulkley opponent to a crowd celebrating the 150th aunt that there are 60 residents in the area.

Signers Bert Ethel Phelps, John T. Mean, Allene Warner, Walter E. Warner, Kenneth Warner, Carl L. Albert, L. P.

Norton, Mary E. Norton, Blake Glidden, Carl A. Schimek, Leva Mitchell, Bernice Mean, Gladys Albert, Lizzie D. Albert, Herbert L. Halllday, John Lopez was sentenced to serve Elva Halllday, Rose Lynn, Edith Goddard, D.

R. "Joe" Goddard, Arvice Goddard, Reba M. Albert, Harley Albert, Kenneth L. Albert, G. G.

Albert, O. E. Goddard, Arthur D. Baxter, Edna versary of the settling of the Northwest Territory, the chief, executive said: "Governor Davey, Senator Bulkley, Chairman White---" Later, in the body of his speech, the president said: "The cavalry captain who protected the log, cabins of the northwest is now supplanted by legislators like Senator Bulkley, toiling over the drafting of statues and the efficiency of gov- UUIG 410 uocu H-IG uj-ruf--o ijuiiUtUu, Annul xSuxcci, Jijctno, first name, signing as "Juan Lo-1 Albert, Nelda M. Baxter, Claude eminent machinery to administer pez." Lopez had been arrested at that i irgil Phelps and Enid, Warner, them so that protection of he time the investigation a holdup.

Another strike, resulting when two Spanish row bosses were removed from their '40 cents an hour positions, took approximately 130 pea pickers 1 out of the fields in. the Lucerne district Friday morning, leaving about the same number at the Gleu Hubbell- pea deal. Hubbell said he expected to have little trouble' in replacing, the strife ing pickers if they quit them would return to the fields before night. Discharge Arthur Lopez and Edwin Madred, the'row bosses who live at the Greeley Spanish colony, was the cause of the dSppute. When Lopez and Madred' left the Held they called on all 'Spanish workers to leave with them.

Most of them did, from 12 to 20 remaining with non- Spanish picknrs at the farm H. T. Hull, two and one quarter miles south W. H. Palmer Dies Thursday William H.

Palmer, 73, well known resident here since 1880, died at his home, 1215 Tenth avenue, Thursday evening. Mr. Palmer was. retired several of government can be. extended, to the full." The president thus exercised at the outset of his journey across liie nation to California his previously declared right to intervene in primaries.

1 Bulkley favored Mr. Roosevelt's court reorganization plan and voted tor final passage of the president's executive reorganization measure. People four and five deep pressed against the ropes which blocked off the speaker's stand in a. park as the chief executive served notice he was Inspiration Point Site Of Early Sunday Worship Inspiration Point, the site tlie- observation tower on the hill in the south side of the city, is the location of a service of worship each Sunday morning at 7 o'clock during the summer. This week the trumpets the tower will be by Charles Kellow, the violin cruar.tet by Miss Alice Hill and the Antiphonal Readers by Mrs.

Violet Ferguson. Rev. Ervine Inglis will read several selections on "Worship of God in Nature." This service is without sermon. Its purpose is for quiet worship amid surroundings. The public is invited and all are reminded to bring blanket or newspapers since the grass may be da'mp.

Five Are Killed Missoula, July P. Van Pelt, rear brakeman, said early Friday the locomotive of a Northern Pacific River Explorers Arrive at Lee's Ferry Safely (Associated Progs) Lee's Ferry, July Nevills expedition arrived here today after a. thrilling 18-day ride down the Colorado river. Lee's Ferry, July of dangerous water, the overdue Nevills expedition was reported 20 miles up Colorado river from here Friday their first contact with civilization in IS dramatic days. Fears for the six-member scientific expedition ended Thursday night, when two coast guard flyers reported sighting the group, apparently making camp along the flood-tide The flyers, R.

W. Fendlay and J. L. Rlggs, reporting to their commanding officer in El Paso, Texas, said they dropped to the party and the six adventurers signaled that they needed no lieln. The flyers said they dropped three notes.

Denver Hiker May Have Seen i 1 1 issing Child Associated Press) Rocky Mountain National Park, July park officials investigated today a Denver man's story of seeing a little child resembling a missing four-year-old boy high on a mountain side west bt David H. Ganfield, Park superintendent, said he would question William J. Bells, Denver radio appliance Craft Plunges Into Canon at End of Runway Survivor Describes Sensations in Falling Liner (Associated Press) Billings, July passenger was killed and. seven injured early Thursday when a Northwest Airlines transport plane carrying eight I passengers and a crew of two crashed while attempting, to take off from, the airport here. Mrs.

N. S. Maekay of Evanston, 111,, died at St. Vincent's hospital in Billings shortly after the crash, the hospital announced. Her husband, N.

S. Maekay, also was taken to the hospital but the extent of his Injuries nas unknown. Mrs. W. J.

Tindale, Soutli Slocum, also was being treated, at the hospital, but attendants said they did not know whether she was seriously hurt. The other five passengers were released after treatment for minor cuts and bruises. Other passengprs as aumiuni-ed by air lines officials were: V. Gary, Chicago. Ensign W.

C. Billenger, United States navy, Bremerton navy yard, Washington. A. D. Neimeyer, Seattle, inspector for the department of air commerce.

P. S. Brislawn, Wallace, Idaho. G. C.

Tesri-m. Billings, Mont. Pilot Walter Bullock of Minneapolis was at the controls when the crash occurred. His copilot was L. S.

Doau of Chicago. (The following account of the crash of a Northwest, Airlines plane at Billings, Friday was written by a survivor, G. C. Tessum of Billings, superintendent of the Montana division of the Consolidated Freight Lines, especially for the Associated Press. (By G.

C. Tessum) Billings, July 8. I. don't know ho'w we escaped with our lives from the airplane crash here this 1 morning. We were in the air only a few seconds when the plane began to "wbb- ble" and tilt.

eady to surge into Lee's Ferry and company employe, who told of hav-1 Ble and tilt. ng een the child high on the slopes; Clashed only about i.uuu teet of Mount six miles west from the end of the field. the spot where little The Plane wae mmutes he- disappeared last Sunday. Bells was hind schedule. As soon as it left the last ouuuuy.

nroute here- from Denver where he ground I felt it vibrate I sensed old newspaper reporters, that he some hmg was wrong and I guess told newspapei and his wife saw a child on the mountain early last Sunday afternoon. The Beilhartz child was last seen at 8 a. m. Sunday. Eells said he and his wife far up- the Old Fall River road until they became tired.

He said they stopped; to rest and then looking far up the mountain side saw a boy sitting on a rock. fast freight train "blew up like a entitle expedition from the University giant firecracker" near Willis, of Michigan, all persons lie down." The first read: "If you are the sci-. climbed to the t-: i-lin i i i i I iit.u mw 1 point near the rock Eells said the a u. t-injj viuii, i.nw«»^».i.. nuu.

ot ti BUT Veil Jiiucit-iu ti but declared most of 3 ears ago from his work as book- pressing on with his program and ex- "I believe," the president "that the American people, not afraid of their own capacity to choose forward- looking representatives to 'run. their government want the same: cooperative security and have same courage to achieve it in 1938 as- in keeper at the Home Gas and Electric company, with whom he was associated for many years. Mr, Palmer was born in New Haven; 'in 1865, and came to Greeley in 1800. Nine years later he was married to Adda Carleton. In Greeley, was a member of the Elks lodge and Knights Pythias.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Adda I'almer, two Mrs. A I Sarah Briggs of Gre ley and Mrs. Lucerne where the affair Esther. McConnell of: Bloomfieid, N.

cm-red. A few non-Spanish pickers leftVv alld grandchildren, Palmer and with the strikers. The group went to the Hubbell office and loading warehouse at Lucerne where they demanded payment'' the "holdback" or bonus of five ceuts held back on each 30 basket of peas picked hitherto. Hubbell refused to pay the bonus, announcing that it was held back specifically for the purpose of. insuring that pickers will finish the job.

He ottered opportunity to return to work Frjday and- said the bonus would be paid when the pea picking is if they do return to work. At first Madred and Lopez and their following refused. The strike affected' both The second crew had finished one field and was moving into Lucerne for the next assignment on the, Tunnell farm when the strikers from the Hill farm arrived. About GO of the second crew quit, leaving a half crew at each place. Claims of Lopez and Madred Claims of Lopez and Madred follow: 1.

That -when Field Boss R. D. Lough called the crews to start on the Hull field Friday' morning ho singled out non-Mexican pickers for the best parts of the field, 2. That all pickers aro entitled to. (Continued on-Page 7) Judith Aim Briggs of Greeley.

Funeral will be announced lator by Macys Mortuary. Woman Trying- Suicide Saved by Firemen's Net New York, July a leather- lunged fire lieutenant shouting instructions, blond Muriel Strong, 24, 1788. "I am sure they know that we will always have a frontier--of social problems and. that we must always move in to bring law and order to it. "In that confidence I aril pushing "I am sure you will push on with m.e." Ohio democrats marshalled their "blue chip'" leaders to greet the president, but Governor Martin L.

Davey failed to reach the special train be-fore the chief executive left for the The governor's car was biocked at a railroad, crossing by the presidential fell from a sixth floor hotel window I special his patrol detail was un into a lite net early Friday, Her left leg was broken 1 as she crashed into an open French window in her plunge, but her condition, was reported not serious. Detective Charles McGowan said she had exonerated Smith, 37, of Los Angeles, from whose room she plunged. Weather Local for 24 hours ending a. m. Friday: high S3, low 50.

WEATHER Colorado: Fair Friday night and Saturday; warmer In west Friday Wyoming: Fair Friday night and Saturday; warmer Friday "night; able lo'get into the procession. Davey finally joined' the party on the speaker's platform and stood beside the president before he began speaking. Charles Sawyer of -Cincinnati, Davey's: opponent in the Aug. 9 primary for the democratic gubernatorial nomination shook hands with the president as the executive came down an incline from the end of "his train. If the Davey and Sawyer camps expected the president to give, any Indication of his 1 preference In the gubernatorial contest tliey were disappointed except that Sawyer was given -the opportunity to accompany-the president southward while the governor killing three of the crow and two transients.

Carl H. Syria, S. forest ranger at Bouita, east of Missoula, said Van Pelt told him five were known dead "and there might be more." Van Pelt, told the ranger the dead rere: Ernest M. Westin, engineer. E.

T. Dunlap, fireman. Ernest Bedillon, head brakeman, all of Missoula. Elwin C. Nissen, Missoula transient.

A 15-year-old transient known, only as Raymond, believed to be from Norfolk, Nebr. Syria quoted, the brakeman as say- surrounding country and the fast ing the fast freight No. 602 left Mis-1 now of the stream, no attempts were was one The four men and two women lay prone. The second: "It everybody okay, raise your arms to a horizontal position." The six persons raised their arms. The last: "If you need food, everybody down." All members of the party remained standing.

Two government employes who have kept 24-hour vigil for the party since Sunday, made preparations for the expected during the day. Because of the rugged nature of child had disappeared. He expressed belief no child could have reached the spot without assistance. Canfield said he would talk with Eells before beginning any search the vicinity Mount Chapin. Meanwhile, the parents of the Beilhartz boy, inclined to belief their son js kidnaped, but Canfield said he considered, the kidnap theory was born largely of their hope: the child was still alive.

Denver, July Bureau of investigation officer began laboratory everybody else did, too, because they all looked frightened. The pilot struggled with the controls but it seemed as tho the ship wouldn't react. A fellow across from me said: "I guess we're goners." It was only seconds after that the ship crashed with a terrible noise. It happened so fast I didn't have time to think much about it or I would have been more frightened. We landed on the edge of a canon, which was pretty lucky because if we- went down into it sparks might have ignited the gasoline supply.

I didn't see it in the darkness, but a fellow told me the motor rolled 500 feet after we struck. We climbed, out of the wreckage, two or three other men and I. We pulled the others out. Mrs. Maekay was in pretty bad shape.

She was pinned in the wreckage and we got her-out after some difficulty. The only other woman, Mrs. Tindale, was caught under a steel bar. tests today to determine whether a. She didn't seem so badly injured, bandage found in an abandoned cabin Both of them were taken, to the in Rocky Mountain National Park hospital at Billings by ail ambulance was one worn by Alfred Beilhartz, 4 that seemed to have come out of no- soula about 10 p.m., heading east.

Ho made to reach the expedition after told the ranger the explosion came reports reached here that the group, without warning near Willis, twenty- nine mllos east of Missoula, In western Montana, at about 11 p.m. Bethel Baptists Will Hold Vacation School unreported since it left Green river, June 20, was safe. The government men--A. J. Hanson and F.

S. Anderson--said, the party was now in. practically calm water and that they should have no trouble ceaching Lee's Ferry. At this halfway point in their 660-milo voyage to Lake year old Denver child missing for the st six days. where.

I had a cut on my leg and a head Discovery of the bandage was dis- bump, but I didn't notice either at 1 tain whether the piece ot soiled adhesive -bandage found to get out. to use air to travel. Accidents happen in any line of transportation. Daily Vacation Bible school at the 1 1 -n 11 Llle. ft 111 1COI.W.JIV tuuu Bethel Baptist church, Eighth avenue, betoro contiluun their trip, and on Behind the scientists, studying bo- lan oal ec i menSi ii e3 the most dangerous stretch of, the treacherous riv- Cataract a Mead, behind Hoover dam, Nevada, in the cabin coincided under miscro- they will restock, food supplies and fcopte 1 -J 1 8 Monday, July 11, and continue thru July 24.

Classes in music, Bible study, mem- ory work, object lessons, games, and! 1 recreation will be held between 9 fa 1 nr nnnll INCWb Ul terial in possession ot the boy's mother, Mrs. William H. Beilhartz. The mother told officers the missing child had a blister, on his foot when the family started on a camp- Former Farm Hand Admits He Killed 3 Near St. Paul South, St.

Paul, July 8--Robert Me- Leod, former farm hand at the Kenneth Oswald farm at Osseo was cap- and 11:15 o'clock each All children in the friends are invited to i persons for heat prostration and minor accidents. Boston, July he was 'convinced the renomination of tho 1 MI I 11ULU' of the Colorado." lug trip in the national park last Sun- ture(J by Patl olmen Ernest Whaley ot. Safety Reduces Fear day. I the South St. Paul police force today The expedition includes two Michi-, She said she had bandaged the foot anfl admitted to Whaley and Chief with a piece of adhesive before the McA i piue the 3 i ay i ng Thursday of boy donned a new pair of rubber soled Ma and MrSi Oswald and a gan women attempting to be the- first 'of their sex to triumph over the Colorado--Elzada Clover, 40, University of Michigan botanist, and her asslst- ant, Lola Jotter, 25.

Other members are Expedition Leader Norman Nevills, Utah fiver- man; Eugene Atkinson, University ot shoes purchased in Eieuver. Michigan's Record of No Executions Is Shattered present governor means defeat" for Michigan Don Harris of tho democratic- party In Massachus- the U. geological survey, and W. etts, former Governor James M. Gibson, San Francisco artlst-pho- ley today formally announced his tographer.

candidacy for the democratic guber- News that the expedition was safe- remained here. Secret service officers estimated 00,000 to 80,000 persons were in the park for the president's address. A Red Cross unit treated more -than JO natorlal nomination. Governor Charles F. Hurley is a candidate for renomination.

In a statement Curley asserted Hurley had displayed a "mocking hostility to President Roosevelt and his program on social betterment and economic security" during his term of office. He described the governor as a "betrayer" 61 the president leased tension that had been mounting hero daily since the group failed to arrive at Lee's Ferry on its announced date--July 4. lAasocIatpd Press) July Che- hand. John Qukawa at their home. The officials said McLeod gave no motive for the slaying.

McLeod was- spotted by employes of the farmers union livestock commission company where he sold on Thurs-' day two cars he took from the Oswald farm. They notified Whaley, whose. batorls was hanged by the federal g(1 uad car was nearby. government' it 5:08 a. m.

Friday and i ter a hase of more than a mile, became the first victiin of capital Uyhaley forced McLeod's car to tha punishment to die in Michigan years. Governor Frank Murphy, who had appealed to President Roosevelt to Hanson and Anderson had deferrf stop tho federal government from nsking aid In searching for the party. The El Paso flyers located the ex pedition soon nftcr arriving hero. They left El Paso Thursday after- breaking a century-old Michigan tradition, said the execution was a "blot" on the state's "civilized record." The hanging took place at the federal detention farm here at sunrise. curb and seized the suspect.

To Address G. P. Frank L. Felezef ot Denver will 'ha the principal speaker at the Weld County Republican central cphimlUeo meeting to be held here Monday noon nt the Methodist church, It vMs an nouhced by Secretary Henry Lu- tlier..