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Clovis News-Journal from Clovis, New Mexico • Page 6

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SiL 1 1 i CMJVM.fSr, Bob Eubonh's Pother Died Sunday Night Si Safeftftk ot Ploydatfo, Bob Eubank of Clbvls, ftljtnt Iti ft hospital 1ft tggbeisk, he hat! been for wlfttl. it TTiOhtn, -The Barman fanetal Itotne of floJrtWrite Wfll Mvts charge rtf the ttfhcffcl setylws which will be tslefl Tuesday afternoon. Eufcank Is survived by his MOVTJAf, JOLf 19, fftife Soti Eteme and Auto Stintttybf Ctovts will be closed all Ccih'ngs Set on (frain Sorqhum Crop LAS CRUCES, July 16. A. E.

extension economist at New Mexico A. it M. College, reported today that OPA has fixed the maximum ceiling price for this year's sorghums crop nt $2.16 per hundredweight In the state's five largest producing CUrry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt anrt Bunion. Prices range up to $2.36 per huuflredweight In other counties. They apply to grain sorghums grading No.

2 or better, with a 2-eeht reduction for No. 3 nnd another 2 cents off for No. 4. 13 Arc Killed When KHfand B-29 Crashes ALBUQUERQUE, July 16 (AP) one of the 14 crewmen board, a B-29 bomber escaped death when the ship crashed six mites south of here Saturday. Authorities at Klrtland Field, where ihc, plane was based, said they hoped to obtain details of the crash from the survivor, 1st Lt.

John P. Shnw, 27, of Albuquerqife. He suffered Injuries which were not believed serious. Spectators who went, to the scene reported wreckage of the Super- fortress was scattered 1,700 feet. These dead were identified by Col.

Frank Kurtz, Kirtland Field commander: First Lts. Myron Seeder, 27, Easton, and Gordon E. Cleland, 26, San Antonio, 2nd Lls. Earl N. Pelton, 26, Albuquerque, Wayne McKlnncy, 22, Newton, Richard Serensky, 20, San Francisco, Alfred J.

Johnson, 27, SausaMo, and F. O'Brien, 20, Providence, R. F-O Jess Flower, 21, Albuquerque; T-Sgt. Loren R. Kargel, 23, Chrystal, N.

and Cpls. Robert. J. Wisneckl, 20, Charlerol, Herbert H. Borger, 20, Wynnewood, Martin S.

Kaye, 21, Bronx, N. and Roy S. Dupree, 19, Shreveport, La. enough to shoot it out with The toughest killer in the West! Inte GARY COOPER WP'-ip. Pictures presents LORETIA YOUNG It's the West at Us best with rootin', tootln', Cooper in the saddle again and looking for trouble! Afottq WILLIAM DEMAREST' FRANK SULLY Came DAN DURYEA Plus: Air Mail News Color Cartoon TONITE AGAIN TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY Tie Calf Are The In TUe Year's Joy Sbow! JUST FOR ee DENNIS O'KEEFE CONSTANCE MOORE in EARL CARROLL VANITIES EVE AMEN OTTO UAN MOWIMV STEPHANIE liCHElM rim ill Minimi! uiiitiiiii IIIIIUIKI tutu i WOODY HERMAN City Police Kept Busy The city police, they had a busy weekend.

Their activities Included the following: A Spanish-American, arrested for drunkenness nnd fighting, was released on a $15 appearance bond. An Angfo man, 51, arrested for drunkenness, wns released on a $10 bond. An Anglo man, 56, also drunk, was released on a $10 bond. A Spanish American man, 28, was released on a $15 bond after being charged with drinking In public. Another Spanish American, 21, charged with doing his drinking in public, was released on a $15 bond.

An Anglo man, 20, of Newport, was picked up for investigation. An Anglo man, 43, of Clovis, was released on a $50 bond after being arrested for drunkenness. A negro, 42, wns picked up for Investigation. TONITE and TUESDAY BREATH-TAKING ENTERTAINMENT The More Astounding Because It's True! The story of courageous men, their wives and sweethearts. Never a film to top it for excitement, romance and eye-filling bigness! Hli MUMBER TWO ROMANCE, MYSTERY and MURDER! TODAY and again TUESDAY MARKETS Police Arrest Two Drunken Drivers WALL STREET NEW YORK.

July 16. Jp with scattered suffered blue Monday sell-off In today's mnrket although offerings were relatively.light Id most departments, blvltlemls, Idle rush remained ns mildly bullish arguments but pessimism sfomed hit more pronounced. Committments wove reduced In numerous rnsos because of the thought that temporary" economic disturbances would accompany a sudden collapse of Japan which Is now being hit nard hy American forces. Some customers stood aside to awnll developments at the "Big Three" Potsdnm conference. Ta.x doubts, labor disputes and the that corporate profits soon will begin to taper provided cautionary Inspiration.

Prices hCKnn lo slip after fairly steady opening. Declines. i-imglng from fractions to around two were shaded hero nnd theer near the close Dut minus signs weev widespread. Dealings slowed after rnther act'ive forenoon. Transfers aggregated about 800.000 shares.

Con.inlclntis on the downside were U. S. Sler-l, Chrysler. aSnta Fe. Southern Pacific.

Baltimore '4 Ohio. t). S. Rubber. Consolidated Edison, Texas Montgomery Ward.

Douglas Ali- ewft. Eastman Kgdak nnd Wcsllnn- housr. LIVESTOCK To Extradite Man Wanted Here en Check Charge The Sheriff's office today received wire from Denver, police stating that L. C. McPhcr- on here on a cold check charge, refused to waive extradition.

Sheriff Boh Whitley said steps Would now be Inken to ox- tradlto McPheron. J. D. Hardgrove, of Clovis, sinned complaint, against McPheron, charging him with issuing a worthless check, drawn on the First National Bank at Grecley, for the amount of $593. KANSAS CITY MVKHTOCK KANSAS CITY, July 16.

Cattln salable 9.500 tntnl Jl.OOJ; calves salahlc 1.800 tbtal 1.900: largely steady on all slaughter classes; jjcn- cral trade rather slow; stackers and feeders active; fully steady In most good and choice grain fed steers 15.50-17.00; few loads 17.23-50; few loads medium nnd good shotr fed 1I.5O-15.25; small linrl nf run grass supply sold; few loads 12.50-1-1.50 to Two Clovis. persons were arrest- 1G.GO; hclfei-s at outside price; several loads grass fat cows offered hiVso unsolt! early: smnll lots 12.00-50: most commun and medium 9.25-1,25; Kood and choice vealers and nu'dium weight calves 14.25-15.03; medium and ed over the weekend on charges of drunken driving. Virgil Thompson, 24, was fined $150 in Judge J. Simpson Morgan's police court, this morning. He was arrested Sunday night, at 912 Prince.

Mrs. O. T. Cassidy was brrested early Sunday morning, in the 500 block on Gidding, charged with driving while under the influence Df intoxtcatirtg liquors. She was released on bond and was to appear before Judge Morgan this afternoon.

Both drivers, city police said, were involved in or the cause of minor, wrecks before they were arrested. barelv good mixed bieed feeder steers 900-1 11). 13.0O75; top good and choice white face yearlings nnrt 2 year olds M.9O-15.25; gontl and choice fleshy feeding heifers Rood nnd choice steer calves 14.50-15.00 In load lots. Hogs salable 1.800 total 1.950; active, fully steady; good and choice 140 Hi. up sows 13.75.

Sheep salable 6,000 total 7,003: kill- Ing classes stendv to 15 higher: and choice truck In native spring Inmlis i 15.75-16.(IO: good and cholco slaunh- 1 I'tfr ewes with No. 1 and 2 skins 7.75- 8.00. 1 Blast Occurs At Alamogordo Army Air Base ALAMOGOUDO, N. July 16. O.

Eareekson, commanding officer of the Alamogordo army air base made the following statement today: "Several inquiires have been received concerning heavy explosion which occurred on the Alamogordo air base reservation this morning. "A remotely located ammunition magazine containing a considerable amount of high explosive and pyrotechnics exploded. "Therew as no loss of lite or injury to anyone, and the property damage outside of the explosives magazine itself was negligible. "Weather conditions affecting the content of gns shells exploded by the balst may make it desirable for the army to evacuate temporarily a few icvilians from their homes." Santa Fe Plans To Acquire Line Into St. Louis ST.

LOUIS, 16 The plan of the Atcliison, Topekn Santn Fo Rnllwny to ncqulro line Into St. Louis wns indorsed hy city officials civic lenders nt conferences over the weekend with Fred G. Gurlry, president, of the road, nnrt H. C. Murphy, vice president, of the ChicnKo.

Burlliifi- ton Qulncy Railroad, which would cooperate In thp plnn. President Milton M. Kinsoy of the Board of Public Service' said entrance of the Sntitn Fe would trmke SI. Louis the focal point for rail traffic lo the Pacific Coast. The key lo the plan is (he ne- (inisition by the Sanla Fe of a 162-fill IP line from Kansas City to Mexico, now part of the Alton system.

Tho western lev- minus this line would connect with the Santa Fe's main line and tho eastern terminus with the Burlington short line to St. I-ouis. Young People Of Baptist Home Attend Camti i Mrs. W. O.

Hubtiarrl acootnpaii- iptl uroup of youriK people from Iho Hnpllsl homo to the Inlow Youth Cnmp where limy will spend several tlnys. Mrs. llulibnrd if a inombor of tho stuff at (ho camp, which will 1)0 open for Ihrrp weeks, one wnok cacti for the young penplp, Iho in- termt'dintos mid Iho Mrs. Kuslia Sniilh from Porlnlos Is tlic hrart nurse of the camp. Miss Attends Tailoring School Miss Winnie I'ool, extrusion home Knosi'vc-lt county, is in Koswpll itltciirliiiK Iniloriiu: school conrlttclori by Miss Pearl Chapman, clolhitiK sppoiailst of the Now Mexico extension department.

Miss Pool will H'IVP instructions received ni the school to nienihcrs of the Homeniakerx cluhs of the long their roads. Their roads frankly weren't built for vehicles, General Hunt agreed. "Engineering Is our greatest problem here. There appears lo be very little cornl for surfacing roads." tn Indian stylo Mothers coming down from tho hills carried their bnblos on their hncks in American-Indian style. Old men carried Injured women on rude litters.

There was only a sprinkling of men and women of military iiRe among tho civilians. Almost, every hut contained silkworms, and villages had little warehouses for slorinK raw silk. There were nlso small fish-packing and tile-making plants. The Tokyo radio had announced tho American invasion promptly and said two battleships were sunk. They weren't.

There wasn't any opposition. I- NO. solves. Tho Santa Fe board of directors county in will consider the plan at meel- inR in Chicago July 26. GRAIN Legality.

Sought For Seizure of Gaming Devices An I SANTA FE, July 16 attempt is being made to selUu 'legal uncertainty regarding ure.s of gambling equipment ami 'money, Harry Bigbee, attorney general, reports, in a civil action Jon file at Hot Springs. He said the suK, brought for i Frank Young, state police chief, in i the name ot the slate, asked thority to destroy equipment i seized at four Hot Springs estab- i lishments and to divert approxi- imattly $1,700 into ihc Sierra i County court Defendants from whom the i equipment ami cash were alleged 1 by the complaint lo liave been i seized wore named as: Arizona (Bar, Ray Stanley, operator; V'ic- torv Club, H. Kelso, operator: land" Jack C'oleman, owner; Now Zealand Bar, C. M. Wilson, owner, and Curtis Chambers, operator; Arnold's Bar, A.

A. Arnold, owner, and Dan Xehna, operator. CHICAUO CHAIN CHICAGO. July 16. pressure In wheiit futures was Inlrn- sifled today follmvlnK heavier receipts In southwestern terminals and prices dropped as much as a ccnl bushel at limes.

Rye futures also dropped and tIrnos were off mure than 2 cents a bushel. There was not much buying supporl and pi-Ires fell on moderate offprints. Weakness -it Winnipeg also was a ratoor. Oats were off fractionally most of the session. Some fairly snort demand wheat declines from reaching larger proportions.

Wheat colsed cent than the previous finish. corn was unchanged at SI.IS': ccltincs. oats were down to 7 rye was ih 2 1 cents lower. July SI.5-1 F-OKT WIIKTII I1IIAIX FORT WORTH July 1C. Wheat No.

1 bard 1.60-S3. Oats No. 2 red 78'i-80'i. PRODUCE SYMINGTON OVKlt SL'RPIA'S PROPERTY JOB WASHINGTON, July Hi. William Stuart Symington of St.

Ixmis today was sworn into office as chairman of the surplus property board. The oath was administered by Associate Justice David A. i'ine of the U. S. district court, in Symington's office.

riiifAt.it CHICAGO. Hi. firm: receipts l.Qj!l.r>fi1: score AA score A 11; li Hli H8 cnoklnK Cars. K) i 88 cooking S.KKf, receipts 11.015: firm: 1 S. extras to U.

S. stanrlanls to current receipts XI.5; dirties 32.5; checks 32.n. poullrv, firm: receipts trucks I fowl. Ii-Khnrn fowl. 2S.6-'J1.1.

roasters. 30.2-31.7; fry- IcKhnnr fryers, old roosters. and ilucKs. Makes Getaway In Williams 1 Car City police, hot on the trail of a man who is wnntccl by Tucumcari officers, were chasing him on foot Friday night. They lost track of Ihe runaway over on Pile street.

That's when the man helped himself to Allen Williams' car. The car was found, Saturday, abandoned at Muleshoe. Officers throughout this area arc on the lookout for the man, wanted on rohbery charges in Tucumcari. Williams happy to have his car hack. Fly Spray Gets I iFire Wagon Out Fly spray, wafting about inside the drtiR store, Sunday night, looked like smoke to Ihe person who turned in the fire alarm.

Wlvii the fire boys arrived, they found thai Ihe "smoke" was nothing but fly spray, which poured into I In- and to do its work while the store closed during the Returnee Pilot Is Suspended ALBUQUERQUE, July 1C. (AP) authorities announced today that Maj. Gen. Robert B. Williams, Second Air Force commander, has approved the indefinite suspension from lying status of First I.t.

Dnyne Kahle, 25, rcluriiee fighter pilot tsatloned at the Ft. Suinner Army Air Field. A Second Air Force general court-martial found Kahle guilty nf low flying last April 12 near Santa Rosa and Cuervo and sentenced him to forfeit $100 a month for 12 months, the announcement said. Testimony was offered thai his plane hit an obstruction at Cuervo, with the result that a fragment injured a civilian vards distant. meetings when JAPS KEI'OHT SHELLING SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 radio said today an "en- erny" submarine shelled Shir-iya.

at the northern lip of Honshu land yesterday afternoon. was left, was i-rs, COTTON XMV YOU NKNV'VOItK. July Hi. -C'ol futures closed cents bale lower Middling spo CLOVIS CI.U\ MARKETS EXCITING! mill kcl Wheat. Mill'.

I''A I Kiiffii. IKits "I dally sidi.teel IHI. I-' S' WK; MAKKKT l.lKht hens Ilt-iivy Hens Sprint C'hlekens Hobbs Hospital Is Reopened HOBBS, 1C, N. Maddox, member of the hoard of directors of newly renpeiied Hobbs (ieiu'ral Hospital announced that Mrs. A A.

would be ac 1 superintendent until further notice. Mrs. beads Americaii lied Cross activities in Hobbs. The hospital WH-- purchased bv M. Murray, former Lieutenant governor, after the fonnt owner and operator closed the institution last Tue--day.

The hospital was reopened lo the public this MOYIK I-'ANS "00011" OVKK s( AIU i oons 1 can reniembei when bad to do to make once "ooooh" and show a nici or Marlene Dietii ClIH' "God's I Chosen an Toj)ic jFor Bible Study i Mi---. Lewis was hd'-l- I ess lo ihe Woman's Depurtrncnt of the Central Church of Christ 'on Thursrijiy afternoon when the met in the basement of the for their meetiiiK. Mrs. J. Dennis presided dur- i ins, the business session, which jcpened with the hymn, "Draw Mi' Nearer," sung by the group.

This was followfd hy LJessii Israel. I 'Ihe Bible study, in chaiK 1 of Ml--. opetievl with hymn, "Staivhni; on the 1'roni- uhi'-h vv. fiilloweil with a piayer by .1. S.

Kwmg usnl a-, her for study "dod's spoke nn -Thi' (lisciish'e'l "A Symbtil ot Promise" aii'l Mr--. L.C Huhhy on "A 1'romiM' In Mrs. Sam Stone for her topic, Voice-, the Pruni- ise." and Mi- Israi'l "The Keatilii.le-." man lot her of Ills anil priwam closed with "Lord. Thou Iti'inainelh." Tilt meet iiiK as I iicu prayer by Mrs, I)enin wa- fdllowefl timtr ice she returns lo her duties. Mrs.

Hostess to Tin? Oomoslic Dtmies T. was hostess to I lie I )iinifslif Dames in her home at 21 L' Axlell on Thursday afternoon. i The short was' conducted by the president, Mrs. i T. K.

Willmon, following which the afiprnooii wns spent eintiroid- erlni; dish towels for the hostess. At the (lose of the mooting punch, fruit salad and cakn were; served to the seven members and i one gin-si, Mrs. Percy Thompson, Friendship Cluli Meets Mrs. Reynolds i The Friendship Club mol in the home of Mrs. Mnuvine Hcynoliis, Sheldon, on Friday aftcrnocin i with cijjlil nieinhei piescnt Mrs 1 A.

L. Sleeker, iiri'sidenl, conducted a shin I business scs- The aftcrnoiia was then spent doing nee-die v.ork and in MH ial '1 satirlu iches, pie. and iced tea woro si-rvod ihf husies.s. LKAUF.RS TO IN CVVSTM; The meeting place (if Hie Big Three was around a red-lopped table in a room of the historic castle of Kaiser Wi'helm Potsdam, in I he western suburbs of blasted Berlin. Prosidciil Truman, tanned and rested after an eight-day Atlantic, crossing on (he cruiser Aumisln, was ready to talk business at once, with Stalin and Churchill.

Tho president reached Potsdam yesterday by plane after landing at Antwerp, Belgium. Churchill came by air from Bordeaux, Prance. A large group of advisers was accompanying from Moscow. It was President Truman's first, meeting with Stalin. NO.

tiav hut 11 thi- one commit -1 fill. Clarence M.ini'.nu, Cnln, iiv- pronounced II tn'ik that lonn tin A loo-beoutlful woman, a too-core- man and an ning of gay flirtation ihlftlng madly into a panic of guilt and and crimion MURDER EOWARO ROBINSON JOAN BENNETT Engine Slipped Off Rails Near Roswell Sunday The Sanla olficrs today I bat a slipped off the Sunrlay aflernooii, iiorlh of KoMuell. The Sanla Ke wrecker was called put tin- engine buck RAIMONO UASSIY WARNING Sn that all ma) rnjoy its Icr- rific surprise climax NO (INK VMl.t. BJ-: HI THf: LAST 1 MINI TK.S Of THIS I'll- 1'1'KK! PIEASE 00 HCJ OlSClOSf THE 10 YOUR FRIENDS. THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY all you a movie audi- aaaah" was to romantic It's or a baby.

But bn--e a I 1 or tuckmi; away a ei li'ied chicken. seream- iSnatra than Mime nut- keep watchiiiK I hi i e- la ran in I he hopf a ln-auty -( unto a or chop. Mie 01 chop A ten- i he MX muvii. 1 like "Tin ha om ht'ie to the tracks. Whitmer Strike Is Olll'-l ll'sUIllpt ul 1 houi ly pay ol Si.i incii we; ted rl nn damage.

'4 Marines Killed Accidents cost tin 1 lives nf Marine-, and injured 12. A of natives wen- wounded by pro-invasion and en died. Approximately others ed white and surrendered immediately. No suicide. Hv ii'ton -lime nl imenial I'limmor lie island stTiire.

to place. Shortly longboat apprdarhmK fiiini the adjuiiiiii): islatitl. It adorned v. ith a while flar, and the sj.x it contained said they watili'd alniu. 1 uil'h l.M) comrades they had left bchmd hem.

Natives Surprised The lima nativ' 1 a pililul ham I men. and ehildreit, di i rnb ill ncled they the broad- uldefed rcll tip in only Okinawan had 11 onble Aim-i i- Illtel (ucters tllidel that a-, tin 1 fn I niic any sor li rie had int IM NO. Cross. According to available informal ion the ship sailed from Manila, P. on Oct.

11, 1944, with 1775 prisoners of war aboard. On Oct. 24, the vessel was sunk by submarine action in the South China Sea over 200 miles from the Chinese coast, which was tlu; nearest land. Five of the prisoners escaped in a small boat and reached the coast. Four others have been reporter! to have been picked up by the Japanese, by whom all others aboard are reported lost.

Absence of detailed information and the known circumstances of the incident lead to a conclusion that all other prisoners listed by the ani'se as aboard the vessel per- illed. survived by his wife, one son, Jerry Ronald, I wo slep-dauKhli-rs, Betty and Phorrol Robertson, his father, M. O. Reynolds, and three brothers, Floyd, C. nnd Charlie Pu-yn- oltts, all of Hocorro, N.

and his nmtliei-, Mrs. II. D. Lyne, California. 7 Allan' I JONES kAHEAD U- ft 1 Civilians to Get More Beef, Lamb i tin- dollar or so you spend to this prescription tilled, you lui.v niillion.s ol dollars of research and tlie time and work of many men.

Your pharmacist skillfully combines ingredients a new germicide, a driin from across the sea and a water soluble base. U'ilh the art that is his, be prepares an oiatinmt following the prescription written hy your physician. In the finished prescription you purchase a priceless gift of science the science ol pharmacy, chemistry and medicine that went into the research, desclopment and production of its ingredients. This Is Clovis' Only Professional Pharmacy Where Prescriptions Receive Exclusive Attention WHtRE PHMWACY 5O2 MAIN ST. 15 A PROFESSIOM 1-Day Service On Mail Orders ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft PHONE 1150.

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