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rit irn Mrrn FLIERS NEED Air Corps Chief Expects Further Dire Experiences Must Be Organized For An Emergency: o'f 24 Hours 'Notice L1NDBERGREFUSES His Statement That 'He Cannot WASHINGTON, March 15 In lino With Preiident Roosevelt's request for $10,000,000 to improve the army air service, the war, ment issued a statement today saying the aritiy should; be "orf equipped and trained to meet any na tional emergency on 24 hours' no. tice." The statement, signed by Major General Benjamin Foulois; air corps chief, followed new "of forts by i Secretary Bern to 'get Charles Lindbergh to servo on the special commission to study methpds.pf im proving the army air service, More Fatalities Frankly admitting the army air corps expected and' expects more fatal accidents in its airmail carry- NEW YORK, March 18 Charles A. in a telegram to Secretary of War'George H. Dcrn today, reiterated refusal to take part, "directly or indirectly," in the secretary's investigation into army aviation. "I want to 1 thank you for your telegram and to assure you that I deeply appreciate the honor of being asked to serve on the committee," Col.

telegram read. "I do not feel that I can take part directly or indirectly in the tion by the military of Amer ican business and commerce." ing, Poiilois asserted the corps, nev- ertheless, welcomed the 'opportunity (Continued on Pane Six.) Much of City In Ruins From Fire 150, Die In Blast At -Dock when Dynamite Cargo i'fa SALVApbR, El March 15 Much of the city of La Libertud -of smoking ruins -today leveled by fire 'which spread after a port. explosion in which about 150 persons Were killed, The blast, Which could be heard here in the capital about 30 miles away, occurred when dynamite exploded as it was being unloaded from a ship at the, docks. Flamdi Spread Quickly Fire brok6 'out. Flames sprea'd quickly to buildings and swept over many blocks.

The city hall and a chul'ch were among the important building's consumed. of firemen were ruqhcd from San Salvador along with scores of relief workers whose automobiles dashed in ahd out of the danger zone, carrying ttyt) injured to hospitals here. In Work Today, national guardsmen and Red Cross workers were joined by, officials in "directing remaining res- i'ue" In air, it said about 250 cases of dynamite wet up in the explosion, officials said they believed sparks from a locomotive set off the blast. It was said that not one man of those handling; the explosives escaped death. Four ctfstoms agents and a 'telegraph operator died also.

It was feared pthier deaths might follow amorig.the Injured. La Libertad haa a population of approximately 5,000, It is a vacation resort and many visitors were there, although it; was' reported -of them were out on the beaches. ByrJs Plane In Crash in Flight MTTLE Via Mackay Radio, March 34 IDs Jay wjiraj Richard i), -Byvd's monoplane, carrying feaac S. Navy, three passen- gera, crftsliied 42 today, No one. wte', lieriowdy injured.

cwckedrup GOO yards south of the expedition camp In the pjane 'besides Lt. Com. S.ehlp.ssibwch weveiArtJiur 'A, Zuhn, Mpunt -pJeajSant, Revere, jWjdl Harry Young, New Zealand, A1J suffered cuts were. peverely £ha ke.n HP. NAMED (PARTY TREASURER FOR DUTY MEXICO ING VOLUME 5.

NUMBER 298 CLOVIS. NEW MEXICO. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS March 16. Walter Qwiflnitnfs. Chicago banker and nianuffkptuvetf, Fvan.k Walker QS treasure 04 the party, We experts tP jjtart week tVve task of redwing $600,000 deficit.

SUSPECTS IN OF KANSAS OFF KIDNAPERS' DEATH THREAT CARRIED OUT IN NEW YORK Tribute To Ship Crew That Saved U. S. Men (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) HONG KONG, China, March A gallant tribute to British tars who save.d '187 American sailors from fieiv death on the flaming gunboat Pulton came today from the Pulton's skipper, Commander Hai-ry McHenry, U. S. N.

While the Fulton, a U. S. navy craft, 'Still 'burned on pirate waters north of Hong Kong, Commander Mc- Heriry and his in harboi; 4 their harrowing experiences. They were brought in early today by the'British destroyer S. saved the steamer a commercial vessel.

All were.taken off-by 10 o'clock last night. The fire, which broke out in Fulton's room about 6:30 o'clock yesterday was' ex-. pected 'roar for hours as tugs be- gan'towing her toward Hong Kong today. As he told the story of thrilling escape to the Associated; Press, Commander McHenry plainly' showed the effects, of the ordeal. His face was haggard, lined by worry and fatigue.

bad time 'iHaS first' for Eight oir were injured. 1 HE PRACTICES AT HOME FOR HIS DUTIES CHICAGO, Mrch 15 It would be entirely incorrect to assume that when Policeman'Jacob Cramer allegedly hit, choked, and kicked his wife, Edna, snapped, a pair of handcuffs on her and then locked her up in a cell, that angry. "It was just way of practicing' to be a sleuth," she explained in a suit for separate maintenance. "He me for his- laboratory work. funny, though, he never made an arrest in real life;" Scouts Join Cops As Traffic Squad Will Have Power to Sum- Violators Into Court mon Fair tonight and Fn- in temperature.

tonifirht and Fri- portion. fair, warm- in siltfteast tonight; Friday generally fa, poidev In novth er The police department is to have iclp of Clovis Boy Scouts in'their ilrive against traffic law violators the city. A group of Scouts, to be known as ''Special Boy Scout Police' of the City of Clovis Juvenile Police' Department Force," was commission- id the city yesterday to arrest traffic violators and them into police court. Canipe Is Leader Cunipo was named chief of the new force, Other scout-offi- "cer's, all of whom''bave been given bright, shiny bearing the words "special police," are as follows: Eugene Field A. Harrison, Dan Neff, Dale Johnson, Thomas Tipton; La Casita Schools-Jack Marran, Ralph Ross, Jack Feagan and Darrell Lassater; Junior high school Reiqhart, Cecil Elder, Whitney Bridges, M.

L. Cope and Curtis Dickenson. A Radio Squad In addition to the "fJatfeef. is a special division which the boys hayo named "radio detective agency." Its officers include J. Canipe, Bruce Cox, Duffy Sasspr, Clyde McKee, J.

Wicks and Harvey Fprbes. T.B. Cattle Tests In Curry Okayed A tuberculosis test county's dairy and range cattle has been approved by the U. Department of miH veterinHrians of the animal husbandry department wilt start work in the oounty in about three weeks, County Agent H. Hildwein was notified today.

The work js to be started as soon as finish their worjc Roosevelt county, Approxinmtely 8,500 hea4 of cattle havo been gigned up fpv the tests, Mr. Hilcjwein said, There are about 15,000 head in coynty, -f 8 Break In Waige-Hour Case Auto Industry Says Board Has No Jurisdiction Disputes WASHINGTON, March 15 Flat refusal to recognize labor unions was Jjoicea before the national labor' bgfti'd by automobile snokesnrett smoi'tly William Green, president of the Federatioji of had asserted olelewltetp''that 'the 7notor car indus- ivy, of one of the the the Gleen his statement to a senBJ4, 'Copimittee considering the Wajfjler to outlaw company unions 'and, permanent the labor booytl" court for industrial labor Seek Decision 11 At th'd'samettime, representatives of labbr and the management a decision on their pay- cufc dilpUte. The employers want to cut tKCi basic Jiay 15 percent instead o'f the JJreaenlj temporary 10 percent slash, i No Jurisdiction tne automohile industry told- thetboaid they also declined to admit had any jurisdiction over With their Surrenders For Kidnap Charges ST. LOUIS, Mar. IS.

Nellie Muench, sought since her indictment two days in the kidnaping of Dr. 1. P. surretntlered Circuit Judge Robert iMcElhinney's court at The St Louis physician's -attired in mink coat and black hat covered by a heavy held. a.

newspaper, ovor her face ''as' she entered the court house, with her attorneys. McElhinney sent 'lier to the sheriff's office, where she booked and photographed, and then bi'oijght back to the court ropm to for fveedpm on bail, LINDBERGH EMISSARY TO REMAIN IN TOMBS YORK, March 15 ing 'Bita, intermediary in the L'ind- bergh kidnaping case, will 'remain in Tombs prison tmtil he is sentenced March $3 for Bit-z, who was awftitjng on a clmrge last year when he jumped ft $25,000 bond, was cop Victed last A general sessions judge refused to continue a bail on the bttjl-juniping charge, 1 ,11 I Forester Fred Merrill pf more than million aoyes or land in that state have been evasion resulting from and Family Did Not Seriously Take Demands For" Ransom NEW Mar. IS. Kidnapers of Max Kaaoff called members' of -his family Jast week demanding ransom "or, we'll send him home in 1 (ear 4 Altogether there were four phone calls. The one Sunday Bight "So you notified the police, eh? Ok.

We Identify Today of the.f amity went to Rookyille Center, Lbrtg sland, to He had ibeen iblindfokled, shoi'' in 4) the head and "and there was where he -had been sfcrulk, as length of sleJe, Long It frozen and partly covered Kasoff's name in the lafeels of clothing. Dead The medical examiner fixed the hour death? early few hoars after the telephone call in which the kidnap- evs amiounced: "We fix." who was 37 years old and in the automobile rental business, disappeared, from home last Thursday niglit. His family did not jseriously the first demand for ransom because of reputation as a practical joikeiv A Second Demand The i-eceipt of a 'lejtter calling or payment of $5,000, the phone calls with threats of murder convinced the family, however, 'that this was no hoax. They reported Kasoff missing, but did not tell police of kidnap threats. SAVED THE CAT HONG KONG, China, March 15.

ship's cat 'of the U. S. gun- ibpat Pulton was saved with the "rest of the crew" when'the vessel burned north of here. Youngest Girl Pilot Bell, 16, the'coun- try's youngest when she'received i cense at A Press 'Halts la Haiti PORT-A U-P I Haiti March 15 Franklin D. Roosevelt and her party arrived aboard the airliner Caribbean Clipper at 12:50 p.

today, on a flight from San Juan, P. and will remain here overnight before continuing to Miami, Fla. FT. WORTH SHOW CALF BRING GOOD PRICE FORT WORTH, Texas, March 15 Type," grand cham-, pion steer and champion club calf of the 1934 Southwestein and Fat Stock show, brought ifl.2P a pound on the auction block today. It was sold by Sammie Hoerster, Mason county 4-H club boy, to 0.

Sellers, piesident of th'e Romid-ujj Club of the stock show. The loins and nbs will be sent to President Roosevelt. The steer was estimated to weight 940 pounds, which should bring young Hoerster about $1,180. BOVINA ELEVATOR BURNED; BIG LOSS Picked Up Here As They Approach Bullet-Marked Car; Officers Find Guns; Acetylene Torph Was Hidden POLICE SEEK CONNECTION WITH SLAYING IN CLEARWATER, KANSAS, WHERE MARSHAL 1 KILLED BY BANDJTS Suspocted of killing a deputy city marshal at Clearwater, early Wednesday morning when the officer surprised bandits attempted bank robbery, four mon, all are believed to have prison? records, are being held under close guard' by Olovis police today. The men were; arrested about 1:30 yesterday afternoon on Olo- vis' main street.

L. R. Giles, 30, of'Breckenridge, Texas, on prison fur-- lough. R. G.

Yarborough, 24, of-Brockenridge, Texas, i J. A. Dunwoody, 37, who is said to have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the killing of a efepity sheriff ab Clarendon, Tfxas, in 1928. Paroled last year. H.

G. Green, paroleci convict from the federal at safe-crackiflg- job. Caught by complete sm piise they came back towaid their car af-( tei eating lunch, none of the men of-' fered resistonee. They weie caught away bullet-maiket automobile and were unarmed. Picked Up Quickly Chief of Police John W.

Manning caught Giles and Dunwoody just as they stepped up to the car and stait- ed to get into it. He searched them quickly and then, with both men in front of him, walked them to police headqu.ii tors. A shoit time after the chief had anested Giles and Dunwoody, Yru- brough and Gieen sauntered aiound a corner and into the hands of Po- The police department was notified this afternoon by 1 M. W. Thompson, head of the Texas prison system, that L.

R. is now on furlough from the Texas penitentiary Huntsville and that J. A. Dunwoody was paroled from the same in- ititution last year. Dunwoody is not wanted, the Texas official said.

He did not say whether Giles is The Texas penitentiary hao no rec- prd of Yarborough or Green, the telegram said. TO BACKUP HIS VIEWS OKLAHOMA CITY, Wfarch 15 C. Jones, Oklahoma collector of internal proudly related today the story pf a farmer who paid an income this year and wrote across his return: "I'll cii't the of anyone who says anything against President Roosevelt." Insull Believed On Way to Paris Mar. 15, Insiill, wanted in Chicago 'on charges of grand larceny, fled from his apartment home early today and it was believed he'was on his way He to have dvesse-4 as a woman. After hours of officm dozens of conflicting iinofficial rumors, the government, through tho department of alien''Control, admitted oif-ficially that the 74-yesir-old former utilities czar had Insull apparently Jus escape a.police cordon that surrounded his home where he has been in refuge from Americftn authorities move (By Ncws-Jounml's Service) BOVINA, March of undetermined.origin early today completely destroyed the Ridling grftin elevator here at a ed'at approximately $12,000.

The blaze was dissevered about after it luul.i'aged^thrpiigh the building for two or more. was no chance tg' save it, The roof and in fibout 10 minutes after" it was first discovered, Mr. Ridling, said the elevator had not been' running for'several days and he was at a loss to explain the origjn. He said the loss is only tinlly covered by insurance. It was estimated that $4,000 wovth of grain was stored in the building.

The property loss was'estimated at In addition to the elevator ftflrt grain- loss, the Santa Fe a boxw' and about 00 grain-doors. Mvi Ridling 1 had been in the business in Boyina years. He is the only independent grain dealer hero, HAY jPEStROYED IN AT FEEDPENS licemen Jack Nichols and Jimmy Both were searched and taken to the city jail. Find Their Arms Officers then returned to the automobile, wher they found a new Savage rifle, fully a ,44 calibre double action Colt revolver," also loaded.all around. A hole through tlie right door "of the 193-1 model Ford V-8 bearing Texas license believed by the police to have been ma.de...by ii'b'uHet.

besides the guns and two handbags were found in the. auto- Tnobile, but this morning, a searching party of policemen found an acetylene torch, hose and three burglars' in w.eeds at the edge of a.sideroad several miles east of the cjty. They were searching further today in an effort to find othor to have' been carried by the Killing Jn Kansas About 20 bales' of liuy were destroyed by a ire, whicji broke out in the Avmstrong Armstrong fee'd pens in Southwest Qlovis shortly after seven o'clock last njght. The of iiodeteVfnlned origin, was, extinguished without the necessity of the fire department stringing hose. Both fire trucks were called out by the department as a precaution against spreading of the The body of Acting Night Marshal' bert J.

Hammers of Clearwater, who was killed as he sivrprised two or more men attempt to hold up Cleprwater bank about 2 ni, Wednesday, was riddled by bullets believed to have been fired from a Govman Lug-er pistol with art extra magazine, carrying many as bullets. May Be Connection Officers believe that there is a ler counlv sheriff's at Amatillo last All of them ate Well known to officers of that section, the shenff said, aild ai'e recognized dangerous mdh. Using Precaution Police have exercised every pre 1 cautibn" in handhnj, the men. An hour or so alter then arrest yesteiday af- teinoon, the iq.ur taken out of the jail one at a tMe, photographed and frngprpunted. night, while four officeis stood'guard outside the jail door, then guns in readiness, Mr Manning took- pll foiu' out of the "run around" the city jail and locked them a cejl themselves.

They weie beius kept in the cell today and the jail was closely watchfed. Officers going to and fiom the jail today went in pajis as a precaution against any, attempt ot any of the pusoneis in the ci'owded jail to overpowei ono of thorn. Keeping Silence All four of the suspects have maintained absolute silence, except for short statements immediately after then arrest, in which they said they had coYne straight to'Clovjs yesterday from Hobbs. They said that they had gone to Hobbs frbm.Borger, Texas. None had any thing-to say when their photoginphs were taken just outside'the juil yesterday afternoon or when their fingerprints were being taken, except to give Officer Clark their.names, ages and sivch other inl'ormn'tion required oh information cards which were iovwarded to the United States Department of Justice last night.

AH Large Men All are large men, tlie 5 f.eet, -eight, in height, Dunwoody, who stands five feet'eleven inches, is the lightest of VWhait was apparently a bullet hole in a 'car door, and the trained eye of tan officer said 'today to have'been the lead which caused the arrest of the four 'men. the four. He weighs only 150 pounds, Yarborough, who is six feet, one inch weighs 200 pounds; Green, also six feot, one inch in height, weighs 175 pounds. Giles weighs 155 pounds. Yarborough is fair complexioned, heavily, built and Inis light hair and blue eyes, triles, already called "Putty Giles" by policeman, and hus a red complexion and light blue-grey ayes.

Both Gretm-and Dunwoody dark men, both having al-blftpV hair and Gilss claims to bo mechanic, Green an' oil field worker. Dunwoqdy Kansas ia the gun will be fpum( in tho vicinity of near the place where the possibility, if these men killed thejalid Yarborough did not give their occu a (j Were Fingerprinted None- of the men paid particular attention to anyone in the police heiuiquai-tory as they weva'being fingerprinted. None appeared, worried about their Giles seenied to- tuko thing's easy. When given. SOWQ containing alcohol, to ink off his hands, ho jokingly poliad: if he could yesterday.

have a th'inkK'of 'it. The police department learned "That, stuff smulls good," he re- identity of the thVQUg'U the' Pgt- torch burglar tools were cached. Chief of Police Manning divulged lap tlmt his depavtmont is hunting for a fifth man who is known to have engaged in earnest conversation with members of the suspect band tiliie ftfter their arrival hero about.