Clovis News-Journal from Clovis, New Mexico • Page 1

NEW MEXICO- tonight and Tuesday; probably mow east and, north- central portions, colder tonight. ctovii m-r mw MEXICO VENING NEWS-JOURNAL VOLUME 7, NEW MEXICO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1936 SIX PAGES WEATHER WEST TEXAS Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; livestock warnings north and east portion. PRICE FIVE CENTS Drunken Driving Charges Entered In Clovk Court D. Curry pies Instantly From Injuries; "Jake" CroW Htirt As traces of ft the eastern edge of removed by man lay still In one of here with aecMent on dty were one young bat not serious are charted with drunken driving and accompanying drunken J.

D. Curry, 26-year-old son and Mrs. A. S. Curry, farm family living near Friona, was killed almost Instantly ivhen the light pickup truck in which he and two friends were riding hit the back end of a WPA caliche truck a little over 100 yards east of the traffic light at First and Prince streets, on U.

S. Highway 60 about 10:30 o'clock Saturday night- One Painfully Injured Alva (Fat) Polk, also 26, was painfully injured by, huge, splinters of wood which were driven into his left arm. He and J. B. (Jake) Crow, the driver, were also from Friona.

Crow was According to Crows own statement, he was driving about 50 miles per hour when the accident occurred. A quart bottle about two-thirds full of wine was found in the. 1938. Ford V-8 pickup truck, which belonged to Crow's father. Driver Released On Crow was released yesterday af ternoon, after the Inquest, on bond.

He will appear tomorrow afternoon at, 1:30 o'clock at the city hall for on drunk driv- PUN IS HEID CONSTITUTIONAL MAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED IN CRASH IFOR PAYMENT OF New Cold Wave Romps Across Country Today ing charges, Polk, is under technical MwtlMttau" which was struck by pickup. He 1 said that he was slowfig down: for the traffic light and was going only 10 or 15 miles per hour when the lighter truck plowed into his machine from the rear. He stopped, and as he got out'he saw the pickup truck on the edge of the borrow pit. Officers who inspected the truck yesterday found the tail light working and that the truck at the time of the crash had two red reflectors on the rear. A dump body had been built on the truck so that it could be used on WPA work here, and the whole left side of the bed was torn off.

Three of the four-by-fours on which the bed was built were snapped Off by the terrific; force of the collision. At inquest, held yesterday by Justice of the Peace W. C. Tharp, no attempt was made to place the blame for the accident. The coroner's jury, composed of T.

L. McLeod, J. D. Hockenhull, P. V.

Martin, W. R. Crook, B. House and Jack Bryant, found that Curry died as the result of an automobile accident. The Friona men were coming to Clovis to attend the second show Saturday night.

They, had stopped in Farwell to see the finals of the county basketball, tournament there. Attendants at the Baptist hospital said today that Pope would be confined to the hospital several days, but thai no bones were broken. at but CHICAGO, Feb. IT. A new cold wave sped across the country from the northeast today on the heels of Mi almost nationwide snowfall.

(Severe cold was forecast for at least two more days records for continued sttb-sero weather were shattered In northwestern states. The new snow drifted over opened paths and hampered rescue parties In their efforts to reach marooned cities. The coldest spot recorded was below at Havre, Mont. The cold wave failed to reach as far east as New York and mild temperatures aided an army of 38,385 men in clearing Ice and snow from streets. The cold blanketed the country except for parts of the Pacific states and near southwest and the Atlantic slope.

Zero temperatures reached southward to the Kansas-Oklahoma boundary and thence northeast through northern Illinois to the Mackinac Straits in Michigan. The numbers of deaths rose as the temperature fell. Traffic accidents took than a half hundred lives. A small girl fell through the ice and drowned at Little Falls, N. J.

Four died of the cold in Michigan, at Sycamore, the 4 cold was Indirectly blamed; for the asphyxiation of four persons. A 79 year old man froze near Grand Forks, N. D. A hard wind drifted snow back into the freshly, opened roads leading to six Officer Payton said that when -he Imarooned communities hV South- Da- wpn't be able to appear in court tomorrow. Funeral services for the dead youth were to be Held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at Friona, where C.

V. Steed, local undertaker, took the body yesterday. Besides his parents, Curry is survived by five sisters. Coming Into Town Crow said that he was coming into town from the east at, rather high speed and did not see the truck until he was right on it. He swerved to the left to avoid hitting it, but the left sideboard of the truck came back through the windshield.

plank sheared the whole right side of Curry's face off and also pierced his neck. He bled freely and was apparently almost instantly. Some of those who arrived on the scene of the accident right after it happened, however, thought they detected signs of life in the dying youth. Stayed On Its It was 25 long steps from where the pickup hit the truck to where It stopped, still upright, on the south side of the road only a few yards from where Monroe Moore was killed in a motorcycle accident last year. Curry was Clovls' first traffic victim of the year.

City Officer A. D. Payton said that when he arrived on the scene Pope was "out in the middle of the road acting like a crazy man," and while he went to call an ambulance the injured man disappeared. Walked Half Mile A few minutes later Pope, stunned and walked into, the Sanders a mile from the scene of the accident, and told an acquaintance of his, Earl Beasley, that p. has been killed." Other than that, he would say nothing, and Beasley took him to the hospital.

Payton and Homer (Jack) Compton, city employe who holds an officer's commission but is not on the regular police force, were the first officers to arrive oh the scene. Witnessed Uraah The wreck was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

Galloway and Mrs. L. R. Robinson, who were standing on the corner a block west waiting for a They said that driver of the pickup apparently thought the truck was going faster than it was and just didn't turn out In time, Crow said that he was blinded by the lights of a car was meeting. Truck Slowing Down L.

L. Ethrldge, 205 Wallace street, was driving the Chevrolet truck ly- arrived the scene Deemed conditions were reported to be pretty well liquored up" but to be approaching the critical point. tVtmt kA "sMMlMn'f tllMt PnnA that he "couldn't swear'! that Pope was Hospital attaches said they could smell no liquor on his breath. DIES AT BELLV1EW Harry B. Graham, 69, Bellvlew farmer, passed away yesterday after- CLEAR OVER STATE (By The Associated Press) Clear weather, greeted most of New Mexico today following scattered snow and rainfall over the week end.

Most of the snow and rain Saturday night and Sunday centered in the north central section but the United noon at the home of his son-in-law States weather bureau said the pre- near Bellvlew. Funeral services were cipitation, except in some mountain scheduled for 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Nazarene church 'at Broadview, and burial will be in the Grady cemetery under the direction of C. V. Steed. SIX TO PENITENTIARY Deputy Sheriff Collins, Bob Fryer, D.

D. Dodson and Pete Hous- regions was exceptionally light. snow was reported In the western sectUih of the state today and an unsettled forecast, with probable snow, Santa Roswell, Clovis and Las Vegas, reported clear weather. The same prevailed in Albuquerque. The weather bureau reported a 20 mile wind in the east section of ton from Santa the 8tatea nd added it probably would Fe, where they went.

Saturday to -take six prisoners to the penitentiary to start serving their tarms. is IMPROVING" increase in velocity until night fall. TIRTON John Perry who died WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. here Friday following a lengthy Hither improvement in the condition of I ness, was buried in Clovis cemetery Secretary Swanson, 111 of pleurisy and this afternoon following funeral ser- vices at the Johnson Bros, chapel in a fractured rib, was.

reported today by Captain George C. Thomas, commandant at Naval hospital. Two Escapes From Industrial School ft i Face Kidnap Case Abducted Two Karisans On Ride; Halted Police Officers charge of pastor of church. the Rev. Clyde Barton, the First Presbyterian Make it Your World with a Good Used Auto Go where you want when you Want to.

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runaway inmates of dustrlal school today fi which state police said highway robbery while imping, car theft and; without ') Two state in- charges Include kid- obtaining They are Robert ScoH, 19, Belen, and Harold tf, Lovington, quickly apprehended bj state police Sunday after they rJrced Walter Perkins and Roy Connor, both of RoJla, into at pistol point In Perkins' car.t After escaping front'the institution, police said, the boys slept in Perkins' car at Springer. Sunday morning they forced the two Kansans into the car and began to drive south. About 20 miles out Connor was released and immediately notified state police; At Romeroville the youths bought gasoline and at Pecoa obtained more and drove away without paying. Notl fled at Terrero, Capt. Roy Vermillion and Operator H.

C. Martin started out behind tne youths. Chief E. J. House, Lieut.

W. R. Anderson and Officer Jimmy Elliott stopped the youth's about 12 miles from Santa Fe. Scott was in the back seat, pistol in hand. Pallbearers were John Paul Neff, Sidney Pipkin, Kern Smith, Ernest Hedrlc, John Glover and Laurence McCormack.

Tlptori was the son of Mr, and Mrs. J. Tipton. BLUMENFELD TRIAL MINNEAPOLIS, FebT 17. Both sides rested today in the trial of Isiidore (Kldd Cann) Blumenfeld, charged with first degree murder in the -machine gun Claying of Walter Liggett, newspaper publisher, after the state called witnesses in an effort Lo show the defendant was familiar with firearms.

DIED TODAY IN FRIONA Lovl Schick, 00, pioneer of Plainview, Texas, died in Friona this morning where he has been on a visit with his niece, Mrs. J. D. Buchanan. Mr.

Schick had lived in Plainview 50 Funeral services will be held In Plamvlew tomorrow after- Modesto Trujillo Gets A Life Term Slayer Of Carl Taylor In plea Of Guilt Upon Arraignrtient N. Feb. IT. (On Modesto Trujillo, confessed slayer of Carl N. Taylor, magazina writer, entered plea of guilty to second degree murder here today and was sentenced by Judge Fred E.

Wilson to from 99 to 100 years In the state penitentiary. Trial of the 16-year-old houseboy of the writer, who confessed he shot Taylor in a lonely. Sandia mountain cabin 25 miles from here on the night of Feb. 5, for his money, lasted only a few tnmutes. Attorneys for the Spanish-American SOn of a sheephefder waived preliminary -hearing and then entered the plea' of guilty of second degree murder and asked Judge Wilson said that while because of Trujillo's youth he ordinarily would be Inclined to leniency, definite example should- be made in this case and that the boy should, in his 1 "be permanently removed from society." Italians Claim Great Victory Forces Nearing Fatal Scene Of Rout In Of 1896 (By The Associated Pros) Claims of a great Italian victory in Northern Ethiopia were put in Rome today as the' Italian government announced the most sweeping.

advance of troops in the north since' the'early days of the war with Ethiopia. The Italians said they had captured 300 square miles 'of mew territory in a six-day battle which brought death to wounds to more. The total alleged Ethiopian casualties, 20,000, were exactly the same figure as was advanced by Ethiopian sources last week concerning the Italians. The Italian casualties in the battle were.said by the Italian government to have been 1,500, of which less than 500 were killed. The Italians said their front lines in the north now were within 20 miles of Amba Alaji, the famous ridge that their punitive expedition reached in the Ethiopians cut the army to pieces in one 'of the greatest defeats Italy, ever suffered; Former Secretary Of Commerce Dead Today DETROIT, Feb.

17. Roy Chapin, who left college in 1902 to turn his youthful hobby of photography to profit in an automobile company, lay dead here today, a pioneer of the industry. The former secretary of commerce ill less than a week with pneumonia died late Sunday in a hospital. He was 55 years old. Since 1910 Chapin had been president of the Hudson Motor Car company.

He was named secretary pi commerce by President Hoover in 1932 to succeed Robert P. Lamont. President Grandfather Six Times Over Today NEW YORK, Feb. 17. Roosevelt was a grandfather six Bill Now Goes To House To Clear Up Action On Amendment WASHINGTON, Feb.

17. The senate today paused an appropriation bill carrying $2,609,781,908 Including $1,780,000,000 to pay the bonus and 9879,701,909 to run the Independent office of, the government of the next fiscal year. The measure, which now goes back to the house for.action on the bonus amendment, carried one of the largest of peace-time appropriations for the combined regular and emergency expenditures of government departments. The $3,300,000,000 original public works appropriation included in a deficiency bill three years ago was the record. The largest emergency' peace-time appropriation now in a regular supply measure was last session's $4,880,000,000 fund for Work and direct relief, while the allotment for a government was $10,225,000,000 for the army.

in 1918-1919. Clarence Whiting Rites Held Today Popular Young Man Victim Of Pneumonia; Died Saturday Clarence Raymond Whiting, 34, a resident of Clovls since 1909, passed away at 7:20 o'clock Saturday night bllbwing a brief illness. He was jTlcken with pneumonm. last Tues' 'U. Born The American-born Infanta Beatrix of Spain, (above) daughter of a New York steel, manufacturer, became the mother of a girl, first grandchild of ex-King at Rome.

Her husband, Prince Alessandro, and ex-Queen Victoria at the hosoltal. (Associated Photo) noon. MANY DIB IN MQVHS FIRK Feb. 17. Between 17 and 30 persons were burned to death early today by a fire which started among movie films in the Ualo-Chileun Cinema company building.

Firemen recovered 17 bodies, mainly of women, and said they feared 13 other persons had perished. THREE ENOINEMKN KILLED JORDAN, Feb. 17. Three engine crew members were killed and one injured when a freignt train on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad crashed Colfax county officers late Sunday into the rear of a stalled freight arrived here to take the youths back to stand trial.

HUNT MISSING PLANE BERLIN, Feb. 17. Rescue planes searched the African coast line an dthe south Atlantic today for a ten-ton Lufthansa mail plane which has been missing since Saturday. early today. ALEXANDER PANTAGES DEAD LOS ANGELES, Feb.

17- Alexander Puntages, wealthy theater owner, horseman aud voterun of tide Klondike gold days, uus found dead In bed at lUs home hero today. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. r.

Whiting, Clovls pioneers, and his 'ather is manager of the New Mexico Utilities company. Funeral services were scheduled for 3:30 o'clock this afternoon at the fohnson Bros, chapel, with the Rev. Claude A. Lorts, pastor of the First Christian church, delivering the funeral sermon. Burial will be in cemetery.

Mr. Whiting, who was manager of the Phillips service station at Seventh and Mitchell streets, leaves his, widow, his parents, and one sister, Mrs. Ora Kennedy, of Amarillo. Born May 19, 1901, in Kansas, Clarence Whiting' moved here with parents in 1909. He was married in 1921 to Wilma Bailey.

He graduate of the Clovis schools. Pallbearers were: Glen Hauenstein, Leon Slaton, Bob Smith, Roy Williams, Bill McLendon and Wallace' Carmack. over today. An eight-pound daughter was born to Mrs. James Roosevelt, wife of the president's eldest son yesterday.

The former Betty Cushing marriei James Roosevelt in 1930. The president's four other grand children are Anna Eleanor and Curtis Roosevelt Dall, children of Mrs. Johl Boettiger, and William Donner Rooae veil and Ruth Chandler Roosevelt children of Elliott Roosevelt. BONUS OFFICE TO REMAIN OPEN ONE WEEK MORE ONLY Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion officials have decided to keep full time bonus office open all this week- There are approximately 700 veterans in Curry county who will draw the bonus, only' about 275 to date have made application. Veteran oificials urge all veterans who have not filed for their bonus to do so this week.

This is positively the last week the office will be open. This office is located at the chamber of commerce office, 204 Main St. REJECT LONDON, Feb. 17. A foreign office announcement today showed that Great Britain and several other nations have rejected Italy's protest against the "Mediterranean mutual assistance agreement." Oddities ID News Of The Day (By The' Associated Press) Father Again At 96 NEW BERN, N.

For the second time in 14 months, 96-year-old George Hughes is expecting to become a father. Hughes announced his expectations to J. Gaskill McDaniell, associate editor of the Kingston Morning Herald, saying the event is due in May. After the birth of the other child, 14 months ago, Hughes' case was authenticated by medical records and an account was published in the American Medical Journal. The child was' named Franklin Roosevelt Hughes.

The father is a confederate army veteran and lives off a small pension he receives from the government. Be Ostriches OKLAHOMA Zoo Keeper Leo Blondln went down to San Antonio, for two ostrtahes. He etune back with one and this story 'about an ostrich that hid his head: "There wasn't any sand In the truck. "One of them managed to squeeze her head Uirough a hole In the floor. I heard twitter which mounted to a squawk.

"By the time I around to the bank of the -there WHS only one ostrich." DnJsiTRciieursal SAN JOSE, That gag about bathing beauties who won't go near the water took a new twist here, The water came to them. Several models in beach togs were in the basement of a department store rehearsing for a style show. Fire in another part of the store set off the overhead sprinkler system and gave them a drenching. Too Convincing Wiwh. Charles L.

Re-Sentencing Of Hauptmann Held Await. Next Move of -Chief Executive; Leibpwitz Confers Again TRENTON, N. Feb. 17. state delayed seeking the fixing' of a new death date for Bruno- Richard Hauptmann today to give' Governor Harold G.

Hoffman time to make any possible moves he may be considering. Assistant Attorney General Joseph Lanigan said he would not ask Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard before tomorrow, at the earliest, to fix a new death date for the man convicted of the Lindbergh baby killing. Confers With Attorney The governor, who left Mercer hos- 'pltal 'after a week's recuperation from a nasal operation, was expected; back at his office today. conferred yesterday at his South Amboy'home with S.

Leibowitz, New York criminal lawyer, and said later Leibowitz had subjected Hauptman to "perhaps the hardest questioning" he has faced so Lanigan said he did not plan to confer with the governor but would give him time to act "Making Progress" "We are making progress," Leibowitz said as he left the Hauptmahn's death cell in the New Jersey state prison. Leibowitz refused to explain what he meant by "progress," but it was learned afterward that Hauptmann had not changed his story. The governor reiterated that he would not grant the condemned man another reprieve unless Attorney General David -T. Wilentz agreed one was necessary. Hard Grilling In his statement, issued through a press aide, the governor said: "In my first talk with Mr.

Leibo vvitz, I was impressed with the faci that in his two conferences! with Bruno Richdrd. last ing an hour and the two and a half placed. the prisoner under perhaps the 'hardest questioning he had been subjected to at any time in his efforts to' determine whether he was a participant in the crime." Revolution CalU For Probe of Pension Moves Government Has Right To Dispose Of Plant Surplus Decision Did Not Touch On All Phases Of TVA Program f-in a decision which did not reach to the coiutftuttoniiitijr of the TVA ai a twhole, Hie rapreme court today upheld the right of government to diapoje of rarplas power from dams coMtorocted for purpose of navigation control or as a national defeue measure. In an 8 to decision, McReynolds by Chief Justice Hughes it was held that the construction of Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals was constitutional and that the government purchase of transmission lines from the Alabama- Power company to distribute the energy was also 'A minority that 1 the court should have dismissed the case. Big Crowd At Meeting A record breaking crowd which included many notables listened Intently as Hughes read the hour long, history-making decision.

The chief ustice leaned forward and spoke 'in a clear forceful' voice. After ruling that the construction of the Wilson dam as an- act of national defense and for the improvement of navigation was legal, the court held that there was no constitutional prohibition against the manner in which the Tennessee Valley Authority was disposing of the electricity generated there. "Surplus jower" is power produced in excess of purely governmental needs. Can Make Disposal Hughes asserted authority to dispose of property constitutionally acquired was specifically provided In i. glancing through his wife's diary, found the niune of a strange mail.

Then another, ana another. When he got through the book he had an imposing list of 10 strangers. IIU wife, Marthu, said the names fictitious. She wanted to break her liusbanil of jealousy, and "burn him up." He sued Cor divorce, the constitution -f "The constitutional, provision," be ruled, "is silent as the'method of disposing of property belonging to the United States. "That method, of course, must "be an appropriate means of disposition according to the nature of the property.

"It must be one adopted in the public interest as distinguished from private or personal we may assume that it must be- consistent with the foundation principles of our dual system of, government and must not be contrived to govern the concerns reserved to the states. Could Fix Terms to the mere sale of surplus energy, nothing need to be what we have said as to the constitutional authority to dispose. The government could lease or sell and fix the terms." In an opinion by Justice Brandeis, joined by Cardozo, Roberts and Stone, it was contended that the should have been dismissed because of lack of jurisdiction. Dissenting Opinion Thereupon Justice McReyholds read a dissenting opinion. No Indication had previously been given that the ruling was not unanimous.

He delivered the dissenting''opinion in the famous "gold clause" cases last term. McReynolds said he. objected to the extent of the "I think," he said; fthe trial court reached the correct Conclusion and that its decree should be approved. If under the thin mask of disposing of property the United States can enter the business of genera ting, transmitting and selling "power as, when and wherever some board may specify, with. the definite design to accomplish ends wholly beyond the sphere marked out for by the constitution, an easy way has been found for breaking down thp limitations heretofore supposed -to; guarantee protection against aggression.

No Justifiable The general purposes of TVA, it was held by the eight justices, present no 'justifiable question." Otero Will Accept X3UXP. Offered SANTA FE, Judge M. A. Otero, signified in an interview today his willingness to accept the republican nomination for United States senator to fill the un- expired term of Senator Cutting in the event his selection is the party's choice, "If the republican party should feel that I am the proper man to be nominated for the United States senator- ship," Otero told reporters, "I shall accept that nomination, providing the principles enunciated by the party are such that I can heartily subscribe to them, a condition which I believe at this time will exist." LINCOLN ELLSWORTII AND KENYON REACH AUSTRALIA lilt auituiu, Jiuiit.ivv.1 IUVIIAJ action with indications the mea- MELBOURNE. Australia, Feb.

17. Ellsworth and Herbert Holliek-Kenyon from Antarctica after two months on the Ice, returned to civilization and a rousing welcome WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. A resolution for a congressional investigation of the Townsend and other old age pension movements was approved today by the house rules committee. The committee reported favorable the resolution by Representative Bell calling for appointment by Speaker Byrns of an eight-man investigating committee composed of four democrats and four republicans.

House May Vote On New Farm Bill By Wednesday WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. The administration's farm bill, safely through the senate, headed today for sure will be up Wednesday under a Ihriited debate. The bill, drafted to replace the invalidated AAA, passed the senate Saturday, 56 to 20, after 11 days' debate. The house rules committee plans to vote on a rule for quick consideration, with debate probably cut to eight hours.

today. Airplanes roared overhead and crowds lining the cheered as the Discovery came into port carrying the two explorers..