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A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment for Every Member the Family HOME OF COLORADO STATE COLLEGE ne ESTABLISHED 1873 FORT COLLINS COLORADO TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 12 1937 FIVE CENTS rn uvi 'Tn 0 GOVERNOR AMMONS 40 New Governor President Spurs Kidnap Hunl 1 1 FlianccASeeks1 Vast Accord IS NATIVE COLORADOAN Noted Explorers Passengers in Plane FDR Submits Plan for New Cabinet Posts Offer $10000 For Arrest of Brutal Killer WithGer rmany Tension in Europe Suddenly Lifts as Diplomats Confer Perl Ufo In udden breaking of the acute tension which ha bound Europe ine before the Chrtetma holiday France and Germany were reported to be negotiating a vaat accord in nd lasting settlement" of their difficulties Ambaaaador of both countries returned to their capital bearing dispatches which diplomatic circle aid signaled overture for a broad economic and political agreement Hitler Given Amurancea The first break cme In Berlin where Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler and French Embassador Andre Francoia-Poncet exchanged mutual assurance of territorial integrity for Spam and her territories Including Spanish Morocco Tha German minister of economic affair Dr Hjalmar Schacht waa understood to have made arrangement to come to Paris before the end of the month Ostensibly a representative of the Would Regroup 105 Federal Agencies In 12 Departments Washington C' Presi dent Roosevelt recommended to congress Tuesday a sweeping reorganisation of the government's administrative machinery that would create two new cabinet posts social welfare and public works and eventually bunch 105 federal agencies in 12 departments A major recommendation was the return of complete government fl- nanclal responsibility to the pres- Ident For a decade the comptrol-1 ler general has made pre-audita of government expenditures Transmitting a report of a special committee which has studied the question for months he also proposed Extend axil Service 1 Extension of the civil service 1 I Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson noted explorers who were passenger In a plane the wreckage of which sens found Tuesday afternoon In California are shown above standing la front of a camouflaged plane which they used ta aa invasion ef Borneo recently In belt Lake ity Monday Johnson remarked Jungles are really safe when you know bow to get along ta them America probably because It Is the most ctvlttaed place In the world ta the moat daa-gernna Why 1 almost got killed by a taxi this morning' (AP Phots) WRECKAGE OF PLANE FOUND 13 ABOARD Clothing of Charles Mattson Found in Abandoned Car Tacoma Wash Iflt Under direct orders from the president ef the United Statee to continue until their quarry la found federal bureau of Investigation agents savagely pushed the hunt for Charles Mattson's kidnaps layer Tuesday To aid their search the United States department of Just ice of-feied a reward of $10000 for arrest of the brutal killer and two Washington authorities stepped aside to allow the agents free rein Roosevelt Issues Orders President Roosevelt Issued bis orders to the corps of agents In an official statement asserting: murder of the little Mattson boy baa shocked the nation Every meana at our command must be enlisted to capture and punish the perpetrator of the ghastly crime crime of this kind is renewed evidence of the need of sustained law enforcement in dealing with the criminal Autopsy Results Undisclosed With the undisclosed results of an autopsy known only to them the corps of federal agents here meanwhile moved silently against the nation's public enemy number one Harold Nathan assistant chief of the bureau did not disclose whether the autopsy had revealed the exact cause or time or death OThe Seattle Times Tuesday quoted an unnamed authority as slat-clothing ef Charles Mattson been found 111 an automobile abandoned at an Everett service station Say Clothing Impounded The newspaper stated federal bureau of investigation agenta Impounded the automobile and the clothing At Everett Sheriff Walter Faulkner denied any knowledge of the reported find The account here stated the driver of the ear left suddenly after asking the service station attendant to fill the gasoline tank The attendant saw the clothing not bloodstained the Informant said and called government men Slain last Friday Coroner's reports 1 I Charles was slain about last Friday bis body allowed to free is In some exposed spot then carried to the elump of brush and dumped thera soma 13 or 18 hours befort It was discovered Watch for Sedan Seattle police broadcast an order to officers to watch for a 1838 model blue sedan (Nash) which they said was to be Investigated in connection with the Mattson case Officers wars warned to use extrema eautloa in stopping tha machine as tha driver waa believed to be armed N'athas hi turn Monday night said the 878000 ransom demanded for Charles' release had never been paid though Dr Mattson had mads repeated attempts to do so Petrie 68 Dies At His Home Here government at the inauguration of to all non-poUry-detrrmining poet- exposition he tiong including all postmaster and I LT departmental nb except the high- nird wh est executive: increase cabinet al-ariea from $15 000 to $20000 aub-siitutin a civil service administrator and an unpaid citizens board for the civil service commiasion 2 Giving the president six Executive assistants' to relieve him of tremendous detail work 3 Substitution of an Independent auditor general for the vacant post of comptroller general with the attorney general paaeing on the legality of government expenditures Strengthening and expanding of the budget bureau and the planning and personnel services to make them Effective managerial arma for tha president A Changing the name of the dope rtment of the interior to department of conservation Altho the committee predicted some saving In monev time and effort ft aaid the proposed reorganization had but wone grand purpose namely to make democracy work today in our national government' Removes Overlapping By removing overlapping functions the president aaid he hoped to save about one percent of the remaining $3000000000 or the sum of $30000000 He expressed the hop congress would pass the suggested reorganization this session Specific consolidations were left for future determination Eliminating Evils of patronage and opening up the government aa a Eound career service would result the report aaid from extension of the merit system More then 250 000 positions would be brought under civil service within a year by executive order Fined $3 as Result of Car-Truck Accident of an economic ambassador to resume let summer's conversations Th foreign office kept a watchful on the Morocco situation however dsplt th Hitler assurance which was considered proof France and England through close cooperation could prevent nazi coups Maw Execution (Mas executions both on sea and land kept th basqu coaat of Spain panicky More than 3W rightist hostages were blasted or hacked to death at Bilbao by a mob enraged at a fascist serial bombing Two officers of an Insurgent ship were executed foe th killings of tho crew and passenger! of a Spanish government merchantman) Parliament met to add to the seeing of tension by passage of a bill prohibiting French volunteers from Joining either side ta Spain's "little world war" Would Expand State Patrol Measure is Proposal Of Senator Miller Of Fort Collins Fx pension of tha Stata Highway Courtesy Patrol to 85 or 100 members will be proposed ta a bill by State Senator James Miller of Fort Collins Associated Press reports on ths stats legislature said Tuesday The patrol Is now Takes Oath at Noon Tuesday Intends to Revamp State Government Amend Code Bill Complete text of Governor Ammons' address will be found on Page 10 Denver Teller Ammons 40 year old son of a former Colorado governor became the state 241 chief executive Tuesday The new governor sworn In at noon entered office with a plea to the state's 31st general assembly for "unity of and to "aerv our state without permitting aeo-tional partisan or personal Interest to swerve from the full per formance of our duties" Legislators present and former gtate officer and other spectator Jammed the bouse of representatives chamber In the Colorado ftatehouae to listen attentively as Ammons announced his intention to revamp the atata government through amendment of the code bill Mill Enforce Bodge Law Applause rolled forth aa Ammons deliberately affirmed bis Intention "to enforce tbe budget law of tha stata and set up the necessary controls to see it enforced" Bands of tha Denver American and Veterans of Foreign Wars poet played and th crowded chamber rang with applause aa Ammons accompanied by tb man sue-ceeded as chief executive former Gov Ray Talbot of Pueblo entered and moved to th speaker's platform through narrow stales Campbell Administer Oath Exactly at noon the veteran retiring chief Justice of th state supreme court John Campbell administered the oath of office to the new governor At th same moment uniformed officer of th National Guard stationed on ths capital roof wig-wagged with flag! the message that a new hand steered ths state It waa th signal for the salute the firing ef 19 guns hv company of the National Guard's 188th field ertlilery commanded bv Cept Joseph Ryan former Fort Collina officer Adams Motley Present Behind Ammons as ha delivered bis address were ranked the supreme court Justicee new state officials who were to take their os tha of offtc after be had finished retiring official and four men who had played ths ssms role la former year Former Governors William Adams William fiwset Ray Talbot and Clarence il or ley Directly ta front of th speak 1 r' -tand almost hidden 1a th cromd two women watched the cercmocu quiUy and proud iv Ther wre th nw governor a mother th widow of th let former governor Elia M- Am mom and the new executive wife When add res sea completed Senator Head! presented other new state officials to whom th retiring chief Justice administered tb oeths First was George Saunders ecertary of Fate followed In ord-r by Thomas Annear tb new audt- tor Homer Bedford tre surer Byron Rogers attorney general and Mr nfijohfiwD i ertntendrnt of public teFmctton Finish 82-year Career In turn cam two new regents of th state imivereitv Eugene Bond of Leadvilie and Car! Mo Kintey of Greeley Lieut Gov Frank Hava was th last among th new state exs i euMv to take the o'h of office Then Chief Justice Campbell pee formed the last duties of his 83- year career on ths ststa highest court swearing ta two men ta tlcee-Wtlltam Lee Knous of Mont- (rose and Norris Bskks former deputy attorney general of Ster- to succeed himself and tha oher retiring Justice Charles Butler Fort Collins People Witness Inauguration thY in Among ths Fort Ooflins peopis who went to Denver Tueedav to witness the inauguration serric for Teller Ammons new governor ley Mr Ed Hoffman Klem-medson Arthur Anderson and Mrs James Miller and sons James nd Mason A Hoeers Given Clood Transfusion lim- proven Itself I In plants of th General Motors cor- jir" re' IromT Ur valuable adjunct to th state gov- director of he 1 Brook Mr Coop'r Senator Miller sstd nd Homer Msrtln pres- "With Increased tourist and com- Mint A A traveled AflCC Moy RinV mere travel on our highways wh(ngton to confer with John iU1SS 1laJ 1JJU It will be neeegaary to enlarge Its UwU m4 of cope along tha lines In which It for taraw -a jn wh1nyton Martin Hid th riou in connection with th General Mol ora nk were ha proven so effective' Miller said hi bill provides for th patrol supervisor to Ault then speaker of the house and Ray Talbot lieutenant governor Ammons basing his campaign chiefly upon a "support program and a need for state water conservation was elected In November over Charles Armstrong Republican nominee and state treasurer Ammons' father the late Elias Ammons served as governor of the state from 1911 to 1115 dm- Scottsbluff Nebr The Nebraska Cooperative Best Growers' association In convention here asked an Investigation Into ths use of child labor tn sugar beet fields Charles Kearney president cf the national association asserted the administration through th AAA "is going about as far aa it can go for sugar growers" and warned grower they' roust respect administration wishes about child labor if they expect to continue to receive government aid Tb growers decided to support A-govsrastsrt-grows- draw crop contract rejected by six processor Thta contract on the basis of a (4 SO net selling pries and a 18 percent sugar beet would give ths grower $7 18 per ton plus 87 cents per ton for the soil conservation administration County Officers Are Sworn in County officers gathered Tuee-day ta the district court room and were sworn in for their ensuing terms by Miss Mary Ault notary public erbo administered th oetb In th group who wer sworn ta together wer County Commission' ers Henri McClelland and William Qulgg county Assessor K- Mil Ion Bhenff Carl Gooch Superintendent of Shool Fiorcnc I nr in County Trtaurer Ick Cbunty Clerk Hervey Hubbell County Judge Albert Ftiwhr County Coroner Willi Brook County Surveyor Sidney Cooper untie Edwmrd McCarry nd Con Stahl NeuschuHs Th new member of th group Dies in Denver Miss May Barry 61 a sister of Mrs Georg Wolfer of Fort Cob Denver UP Tha Inauguration Tuesday of Teller Ammons son of a former governor brought a 40-year-old native Coloradan to the state's chief executive poet i When he took the oath of office! he became the twenty-fourth man to gain the distinction since the centennial state waa admitted aa a full-fledged member of the union score of years before hi birth Ammons spent his boyhood on a ranch in Douglas county gained his education at the University of Colorado Denver university and Wvotninxter Law school and prac- ttced law In Denver Served la France His education was Interrupted when he Joined the United State army during th World war serving in France with the A EL Upon his return to Colorado he obtained a minor city clerkship In Denver and completed his legal education at night -atlon at nignt Although he had previously been active In Democratic party circles his entry Into politics as a candidate did not come until six years ago At that time he ran for state senator from Denver and waa elected He waa re-elected four year later but resigned after serving only a short tims to accept the poet of Denver city attorney Nominated In 8-Wsy Race He held the latter position when he was nominated for governor by the Democratic party after a three-way race with Moses Smith of onstration of what Mr Sloan means by collective bargaining Alfred Floan Jr is pres ident of th General Motors cor pore Hon) Flint police used riot guns and tear and nauseattng gas in their futil attempt to drive a crowd from the Fischer plant snd to dislodge several hundred Eit down striker Inside Th strikers do fends themselves with bottles stones ruts bolts snd other ot Jeers assets FISH AND GAME DEPART- MENT Outlined work accom- 'pltshed adding' "I suegrst yon set up plana to devslop for the 'future thta Immense resource of our state" "We must con- struct first a primary system of roads baaed on traffic and eco- i nomte needs which will reach all sections ef th state and Mrs Martin Johnson explorer and big game hunter internationally known for their exploits and films of South African life The last report of tha airliner wax from a position within a few mils of the spot where a San Francisco to Los Angeles airliner crashed on the night of December 27 killing twelve persona John Wood rancher living four miles east of Newhall drova into the sheriffs substation at New-hall shortly before noon to report that he beard an "alrplana engine sputter and finally die' near hi ranch at 1115 o'clock this morning The list of passengers announced by Western Air official: Mr and Mrs Johnson Spencer Hulea Tilllnghast Braben Robinson A Loomis Miaa James Anderson GOVERNOR TELLER AMMONS Warn Against Child Labor Nebraska Beet Growers to Ask $718 Per Ton Contract 1 I ms died tn Denver at 5 0 o'clock 1 Monday afternoon following a ling 1 ering illness 1 Funeral arrangements hsv not been completed but the borfy vas brought to Fort Collins Turedsy Interment Is to be made ta Grand- view cemetery May Barry was horn ta Fort I ColStna May 1875 the daughter 1 of ths late Alexander Berry otts of Fort Collins' earliest pioneers Miss Berry was reared her and educated in ths schools hers Gov Ammons plcyment as sell aa ths slexation of ths economic standards of all our people ere a vital concern of ths state government Mutual Labor-capital) understanding should be encour- aged and strengthened and ths principle of collect i vs bargaining should be encouraged PUBLIC WORKS "If ws fall to otllixs tbs (federal) cooperation afforded us at this time for public work ws may well expect to spend a large portion of their cost 1a 1 1 ths tnescspsbls problem of unemployment and destitution I Ice lAn Wreckage of a Western Air Express air transport missing with ten passengers nd a crew of three waa reported found Tuesday three miles in the hill above Olive View sanitarium which ta 5 miles from tan Fernando "The plane has been located three miiee up in the hills" aaid tha telephone operator of the sanitarium "Men have gone up there but we do not know whether anyone la alive in tt or not" 18 Miles From Terminal The point of the disaster waa about ten mile from tha air terminal and half way between there and Newhall where tha plane made Us last radio report and the terminal Arthur Will sanitarium official said: "All I know is that not all are dead" The crash occurred tn inaccessible country he amid and It might require several hours for searcher to come back to the sanitarium with defmlta word Among the passengers were Mr The Weather IjOCAL Minimum Tuesday -3 3 unofficial Jans Returns From Farm Tenancy Discussions Fred Jana of tha extension service at Colorado State college has returned from Lincoln Nebr where he attended a meeting of representatives of various states to discuss farm tenancy problems Ths meeting was called by President Roosevelt and was attended temperature at 28 mu- by five members of the land tmum Monday 38 mesa 18 4 nor- ncy commission from Washington designated as Ehir under whom will fiv captains on to be entitled deputy Fifteen sergeant would be chosen from among patrolmen who posses at least on years emce No salary increase would be authorised Miller uid Already introduced was a bill by several Denver senator to abolish th auto theft division of the state motor vehicle department and place its functions under th courtesy patrol mal mean 32 COLORADO Fair tonight and warmer east portion tonight John George Petrie 8 a rest dent of Fort Collins sine 1908 died at his home on Second street In Buckingham place at 8 clock Tuesday morning Mr Petrie bed been In poor health for seven years hut hi The agricultural needs of Uhe occurred various areas represented were discussed Mr Jans said he assumed the discussion wes for the Information of the president's commission that were carried out west on Mountain Post No Salient Points in Message of PROBLEM Glen Mason was fined 85 on charges of reckless driving and similar charges against Arthur Glynn were dismissed in municipal court Monday afternoon tn connection with an automobile accident at th Intersection of College and Mountain avenues earlier in the afternoon An automobile driven by Mason was damaged to the extent of 110 police estimated In the collision with a truck driven by Glynn th auto traveling South on College avenue and th truck traveling avenue when the Bills! Remember "the eld When a women hut something she would writs some notices of ths fact on her beet lavender stationery and tack them here and there on few tree And they were usually reduced to Illegible blurs before snvons ever read them' How times have changed: When Helen Mlchl of Rout 1 lost on of hr gloves she start out on sny "sign tacking" tour but merely Ineerted sd In ths Lost and Found columns of the Express Courier Her ad read Black chamol-eette glove for left hand Phone 0739-RL There Is do quicker or eaxler way of getting result for th glove was returned within day When TOIT fore ny thing Jnet call 10 snd sk for an sd-teker I WYOMING last serious Illness began the first ylr tonight nd Wednesday ef the year CVimpltrxf ions and old warmer east portion tonight wars fir as ths cu of Bestdaa his widow lira Mary 1 POUND TIGHTLY SECURE TO Petris and his brother Henry Petrie who lived ta hi Bucking-hem home Georg Petri is survived by eight daughters: Mrs Alexander Heckmen of near Wellington Colo: Mr Adam Bchaelder Mrs Peter Schneider Mr Rudolph Dalke Mrs Henry Becker Mr Henry Bruns Mrs 0to Feieke end Mr Conrad Klss-ler tn of Fort Colima MEET THE CITY DOG Fort ColHns ia fully equipped to meet th doc problem Down on North College avenue almost direct ly across from the municipal light plant ta the Fort Collina dog pound Really It Is a clone" for the ia se- because ths plans formulated will not be until later This office has been each police officer Dog licensee due month of January may dog pound Into th aid to police ta Denver Important reeoro-' CHARITABLE AND PENAL mendations and suggest ton In the "Tou should inaugural addrsss of Gov Teller visit these Institutions snd confer Ammons to the Colorado leg isle- with responsible authorities' tura Tuesday STATE ADVERTISING The WATER CONSERVATION 'state snould have a department action la necessary tor to Inform the world of Colorado's A son died In Infancy before th family moved to America Mr Petri had 31 grandchildren 39 if ahom are living Chief Kelley said that not fmlr with the pro- ewlur wh(ch wout kn dprtm on th mtter delegated to during the bring th spotlight aa curbing license laxitv on the part of dog has bn th present to pur-thus Is Now on Decline 0 effect the most beneficial use of state water resources Recommends creation of water conservation board extension of surveys eo couragement of private capital for Irrigation "An ideal system would tncluds a "reasonable por lion" from property a net Income tax a tax on business and profits and an Inheritance terrv "Absolute ne- resell must be the controlling factor" Appropriations "must be kept within ths ability ef the stats to pay them" Ths legislature must pass "necessary revenue measure to balance th budget top purely roofed over th front beck nd west de are nailed tight only doorwsy snd brief opening on ths east side let In the present tlm the pound been unoccupied a statement from Oilef Orvlll Kelley revealed Tueaday Chief Kelley said that up tn th present time dog dtfficulMe have been taken care of independent of he of the pound Georgs Petris was born at Mer-lllght and air Dictionary refer-kel Russia April 12 1M88 the aon ence shows that a true "pound ef John George Petris Sr and close" Is ope which Is closed to the Csthrme Hsuff Petrie He was owner's attentions to his pets confirmed st the sge of 15 years As Tet I nocciplrd nd married Msry Ehssbeth Mey-j rtalfCBon RcIjc pju giejfe ta 195 Ths family cams dog lirnsf Nothing don this year up to tim to force dog owner licfnws without creating values to our state FEDERAL to'h(ch th Fort Collln pd will Port Collins in 1906 and ha since lived hr fall is yet to cited fur up to has! A Rogers underwent a blood transfusion st th lx rimer county hospital Monday night and was reported Tuesday to be gaining after a serious llinsss with erysipelas last week Until Monday hs hd been at his boms 437 Gordon street A Rogers Jr who la a Jn th medical school of th University af Denver came to give blood to bis father for tbe transfusion Another son Dr Wilbur Rogers cf Loo Angeles CVif ram last we-k bringing with turn bis daughter Joan os any permanent and its people" COOPERATION I FI'LCATIONAL APPROPRIA- la ta effect they hsv experienced must pass laws to from jiTIONfl ssmesily urgs coo- frequent amendments to accom- this state unsound promotion (structlv action consistent with the pluh desired changes end broad- schemes of 11 kinds" resource of our state" on th state ened the scope nf Its services "It Is excsdirgty planning commission suggestion of LIVING CONDITIONS Ths important lass he enacted ta p-j a "smsll mill Isre tax over a 10- elimlnstlon nf child labor of sweat and reguUtt mutual beno- i jreer period fag how buildings shop sad of rtarvatton-fevol om-1 fit oocitie MINING AND OIL "Prospec- tora should be given every Induce- tnent to re-enter th field" includ- Ing extensive geological surveys SOCIAL "In other countries where such legislation LAW'S Colorado should cooperate with ell fed- eral agencies so Colorado may 1 take advantage of federal services for which we pay large amounts I of taxes Mr Petri was a member of th Bethlehem Lutheran church In Fort Cblllna Funeral services will held at Thuradsy af-trnoon In the chun-h wlifc the Rev Rrkr nffb iafing in termer will made In Grand view eemeierv That th siege of Influent Is definitely losing Its hold on this community was th opinion expressed Tuesday by several Fort (Yl II ns phyafcUns Id aerlOu't eases aftd fewer aae led to th belle that th Col ins ha dog catcher 1 pew ia past th peak hri.

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