Clovis New Mexico Evening News-Journal (Newspaper) - January 2, 1936, Clovis, New Mexico Mexico Fair tonight mid Friday warmer and north portion mr NEW w MEXICO VENING WEATHER West Texas Fair tonight Friday fair except In extreme west VOLUME MEXICO JANUARY EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTO HAVE HEAVY BLANKET OF SNOW MAS BANDITS RAID Bound And Gagged 2 A Escaped til Officers One Was Jack Who Shot Harry LOOT RAN The Wide Search Direction Of on A pair of young ban one of whom two by officers of Mex ico today as the result of ew ly morning foray th they robbed two ope here and the other ai and stole a car and a The truck ami Mre found Wut the trp fled in another t From meager descriptions by the theorized that 5 ot mny have Harry Grubbs in a tilting robbery at last Week in which Zack cem was wounded by In two morning totalled approximately of which Iff and the rest During their deprecations the rob bers bound and gagged a woman and two one of them About this morning the pair appeared at the Cozy Corner Tilting station in Portales and robbed the night attendant of They left him bound and gagged and came on north toward Clovis vin a Chevrolet coach stolen from Ed Neer of Por Wiggled To Phone The filling station who was securely bound with binders to kick the at the station off n desk onto the and he yelled to the operator what had The operator notified Roosevelt county who immediately gave Ironically they visited the Hurry Martin station here while Cecil the was being tied up by the bandits behind the who is 23 years was alone in the station Rt 4 oclock when the bandits although Gracic 1014 Reid daughter of and Nelse was next door in Martins where she worked the Bound And Gagged Glidewell had locked up the place for a minute while he to the rear of the and as he started back to the station the two masked suddenly appeared out of the nnd pressed guns to his They Into a small outbuilding and hogtied him with binders twine and stuffed a hand kerchief into his Freed of Glidewell got his foot loose ing off ono and he went to the back of tho cafe and called to Grade She cut his and he walked on through the cafe and out into tho filling station Thinking the bandits had had time lo get Glidewell looked in nt one of the windows in the filling The men were still and they him look They rushed out and grabbed him This time they took him into PORTALES PLACES DRAWS POLITICAL HRE WELCOME MUSTANGS TO CALIFORNIA A crowd ot approximately At ths Olympic auditorium Los to wel come the Southern Methodist testm after its arrival fcr ths Rose Bowl game with Stanford New Years cracked as Matty Beil lecl In his 31 Leo li on the platform in a white cowboy Associated Press Photo Ethiopians Get Heavy Setback NOBLE DIED IN CALIFORNIA TODAY Blacks Failure Will From Reprisals By The Associated Press her first of reported served notice on tho League of Unit will noise property of unless Italy abandons alleged outlawed war The African empire promised to refrain from entailing In treatment of Italian sol In where Premier Mussolinis government already has accused the Ethiopians of decapitating aviators and has cited that as a reason for a bombardment in which a Swedish hospital unit was observers speculated on a possible campaign of Reliable sources in Rome said Italy had vast quantities of scientific wea pons which it is reluctant to unless Ethiopian war practices arouse a national demand to fight fire with Some Fascists thought a merciless aerial drive might be Italys course to punish the hostile armies for the alleged Tn Addis authoritative sourc es admitted empires first major offensive on the northern front was encountering serious BOLD ROBBERY IN EAST received this morning of the death of form er resident of in her home at Offensive Is Noble has been is for weeks Na man held up a woman in front of a bank in Camdens main business street today and fled with All but was in He snatched two bags from Samue Shane wife owner of an automobile license agency and jumped into an automobile carrying three Shane was entering the bank to deposit the FIVE KILLED IN GAS BLAST the and tied both him and Gracic persons were dead and five others Bryant with their nandy binders twine and gagged Took Their Time The bandits hen put out the lights in the station and cafe and began a leisurely looting of both One qf the bandits Knotted in the cafe with tM barte p Hut They were there between 15 and 20 When they the robbers the stolen pickup left at the bide of the filling filled it with gasoline UIM Grade who not as securely man aged to raise up enough to see which wny they Culled For Help A few minutes Dou night officer drove up to the filling Ha noticed all was dark and was pondering what it all recant when Grade who had managed to spit out her called to He released her and Glide well and roused the other officers here to the The bandits left here in a Ford V8 pickup truck belonging to Harve Pepper who had parked it in the driveway of home at 612 where he This Continued on in hospitals today as the result of a gas explosion which ripped to pieces a three story tenement in the Italian quarter New Years Authorities agreed the blast was duo to escaping gas in the nan was with her at time of her Another Woods Col and a both of this will be in Berkeley for the funeral Colvin left last and Noble left this morn Funeral plans are as yet New Figure Into Hauptmann Case Defense Lawyers Find Man Who Might Be In On The Crime Bruno Hauptmanns lawyers injected an unidentified man into the Lind bergh kidnapkilling disclosing were checking a story that the man and the late Isidor Fisch were associated in the The latest move in efforts to keep Hauptmann from the electric chair the week of 13 developed on the first anniversary of the opening of hisS We are investigating a said Attorney Frederick The counsel for the convicted slay er of Charles de to disclose the identity or whereabouts of the new Un til the lead was fully he indicated details would not be made said the defense wouldnt go so far as to say that pictures of the man and his name would be pro the New of pardons when Hauptmanns plea for clemency Is At his Hauptmann testified he received the Lindbergh ransom bills from Fisch died in Germany before the NKW LOW AT GALLUP mercury dipped to a new season low in the Indian country at dawn today registering seven degrees above the government weather station re The highest yesterday was 35 degrees Champion Liar Of 1936 Has Been Challenged As A Pro unm of Jim tho clubs champion liar of tho WON today UK for the crown pointed fur the Itm Jordan of was chosen yesterday by club officers und awarded the diamond studded The complaints started coming in ol them objected because they said wait a pro entertainer under the Paine Fibber But Club President Youre another Hulett laughed them There is no such tiling us a pro he Lying is labor of love any money a liar may not from it is purely js foreign from lying It IK from a peanut up Pikes Peak with your Jordans winning whopper told how ha rat by putting piece of cheese under n thermometer during a cold The mercury went down so fusi and so far that the rat was pinned to the he Jordan almost took the medal off and handed H to secre Urp of the when he heard conversation Do you lie a bystander asked ButI into the club by saying I Fined In Per jury Count Grocer George who in tfr oppose Sen ator George Norris in his cam for reelection today was sen to three months in jail and fined for perjury in connection with his testimony a sen ate investigating The 36 year old merchant who now lives in Was convicted by a district court Decem ber 12 of testifying falsely before the committee which investigated his at tempt to become a candidate for the republican senatorial nomination in opposition to senior sen The grocer was convicted on two counts an indictment committed perjury when he told the committee he for agreeing to file in the campaign and that he received no assurance of financial The jury deliberated six half Predicting Work Relief For 1936 of the existing Work relief program throughout 1936 was pre by authoritative sources to day as friends awaited to see what President Roosevelt would propose in his annual message to Just how if additional funds ask for the Works Progress the mainstay of the program inaugurated to pro vide jobs for ablebodied remained a It was known relief ap propriation asked would be much smaller than the re quested and Some of this money is expected to be left over when the present fiscal year ends next June the leftover vary from to Thus there will bo some funds with which to continue work Oddities In News Of Today residents of Tryon started the Now Year by paying up their back water bills and They answered a call from city officials to help remove snow from the streets and their labor was ap plied on delinquent water and tax Merlo Faust welcomed the new year by pulling the trigger on a once owned by Ills Tho old muzzle loader exploded nnd a piece of steel pierced the youths Doctors lined to remove the DODGE They didnt play that new years day dust bowl football ac count of which wheat farmers agreed would benefit the needy more than the proceeds of the game to have been played for Plan To Hear Presidents Message At Night Hit By Fletcher t New Deals surprise wove start off with a night broad cast by President Roosevelt became an explosive political with tho republican demanding quick to the same audience for Republican Chairman Henry Fletcher declared that the plans for the delivery of the message on The state of the union ue a Joint session at 7 oclock Mountain tomor row night brought this presidential duty down to the level of a political Notifies Radio Firms He served notice on two major radio National Broadcasting company and Columbia Broadcasting system that the expects an equal opportunity to place pur case before the people with the same facil the same stations potenti the same Omen Of Bitterness The incident was taken by political observers here as another omen that the coming campaign will be with both sides struggling for maximum use of the broadcast waves and all channels ot Fletchers letter said it is appar ent that president considers the of the senate and house as only Incidentally his audience and that he will be addressing himself to Better Days For The Tribe Cooper new mekko choba big chief of the Alabama Indian said today the now fewer than is he explained I got five Tribe increasing He added hunting wasnt so good these plenty lucky kill two or three or My people not hungry Me tellum when plant and other foolishness of long ago and Mekko Choba his In dian name was chosen in New Years Day Hunt For Quiet Home May Live In Surrey Or In London If Right Spot Is Located r Associated Press Foreign Staff onel scouted England today for a home to bring fulfillment of his de sire for quiet and rest in this coun Because of the secrecy imposed on the movements of the flying Anno and ru mors arose as to their One report had it that their had gone the electorate as a part of his London to seek a house in Surrey or with the I awaiting return deciding plais rumors insisted the family intended to go to Wales home of Llewellyn father of Aubrey Niel law The still re mained in seclusion in their hotel for The republican said that unless the opposition party be ed the dominant party can control instrumentalities of communication in an itself in Fletcher recalled that only once has a president spoken at a special night Wil sons war Congress will meet noon tomor row to to preliminaries and arrange the night Next week it will get down to with two major the bonus and neutral apparently slated for quick con Two Snow Storms Play Tag Across Continent snow storms started a crosscountry game whitening the promising the east nasty The chase began when a rain squall moved from the southwest and turned to snow on the It covered Mich Mis souri and The weather man it would swirl eastward to ket the coast and New Right behind due to hit the mid west another storm from the Cana dian AMERICAN WRITER IS SUICIDE IN Donald Day Am erican who was taken to a Bayonne hospital last night a pistol shot in his died from his the hospital announced to V if Officials said Dewart left a note de claring he was unworthy of his the former James Cornick of Fort was notified of his Two children Pleased With Consideration who said in a short statement issued by Gregory I am very pleased at the consideration shown myself and fam ily and I am looking forward to quiet and rest in this found his wishes already fulfilled in The three remained un disturbed in their part of the which all other other hotel Small crowds gathered and then before the but contented themselves with simply British Press Quiet The British press paid scant atten tion now to the presence of the famous flier and his and the public appeared willing to let them do as they pleased passing the Adelphi hotel today obtained their first glimpse of the They saw little Jon press his nose to the window and look out at the heavy fog blanketing the The slept They liave not left their suite since they entered the hotel Tuesday and no no knocks at the door are Hotel servants who enter the suite carry keys and unlock the outside BURNED TO DEATH IN CHICAGO FIRE TODAY a federal reserve bank guard and he tried to save were burned to death early to day when fire swept their suburban Firemen said the blaze resulted when Miller apparently used kerosene to start a stove He carried his wife and small son Dennis to and then returned for his 6 and His body was found near their DEALER FINED Will inspector 2 of the state board of liquor con was in Clovis today dealing a few private blows to new year He charged eight liquor dealers in Clovis and Texico with failing to mutilate the state revenue stamps on bottled liquor when sold or opened for dispensing by the The dealers thus Robinson were glad to pay nominal Alines of from to I didnt get more because I didnt have Robinson But Ill be back soon to finish the he FIRST NKW YEARS COUPLE The New Year the first couple to receive a marriage license here in was Ralph See berger and Lena Mae both of Cash Payment Of Bonus Predicted ator the democratic today predicted passage of a cash bonus which will receive execu tive In his first presession press con Robinson indicated such a bonus probably would be drafted along the lines of the proposal advanced last session under which the adjusted service certificates would mature in 1038 instead of 1945 as provided at It was designed so that payment of their face value this month would vet erans about 97 per cent of their ulti mate maturity SENTENCE OF LOUIS UPHELD United States circuit court of appeals today upheld the conviction of Attorney Fiquett on a charge of harbor ing Homer Van late member of the Dillinger Convicted by a was sentenced by Federal Judge Philip Sullivan to two years in the pen and pay a LAVA FLOW IS SUBSIDING flow from Mauna Loa volcano had subsided today but observers watched the mountain closely for signs of fur ther Molten rock still seeped from vents in the mountainside but the volume was insufficient to affect the great river of lava were within three miles of Kilos water Six To 8 Inches Lies On Ground In North Curry Fall Came Tuesday Night In Wintry Norther Lesser Precipitation Here BIG BOON TO SECTION Farmers Compare Condition With That Of A Bumper Year With the major Notion of the countys vast acreage jet under a snow blanket far mers are back to a bumper crop at the near est to conditions they now prevail through this Snow which measured close to two inches in the region of Olo piled up to a 8 inches in the northern part of the it was reported to The fall pf two inches extended north of Clovis to a distance of twelve From that point to and including the regions around Grady and Bellview farmers say they have the biggest moisture since when a bumper wheat crop was rais The fall around Grady and Bell view is estimated Clearing All main roads of county were clear and open today but some lateral where A wind were clogged in some sections with that going for motor were at places clearing the side roads sot that traffic could pas in the northern part of the i Foot According to here 43 T northwest Of received the The white blanket was reported tot have reached a of almost a foot in Scattered reports in from the rural regions indicated that no section was said the snow six inches deep and brought in a similar report from On the line east and west from it was reported that Texico got approximate ly the same as Clovis but that Melrose got somewhat New Low Last Night The moisture was followed by a cold snap last night which sent the mercury tumbling to 19 degrees here for a new seasons The tempera ture extremes were 35 and 19 degrees for the period 7 oclock this according to the Barry Hardware weather bureau the coldest temperature recorded here this season was 21 Although awoke to find ground covered with speedily melted and the heaviest fall came shortly before It wan moist snow that will do wheat plenty of County Agent Who was very much cheered over the prospects a good crop in The farmers hoped that old adage that the first days of January indicate tha weather for the first three months Would be worthy in this snow on New Day augurs well the new The Panhandle of covered with in depth L from two to six inches in most Only snow and a light sprinkle were reported from tal The heaviest was bev t ween Amarillo and Although the weather chilled day it was the best possible Years greeting to this Five Wheat bowl football games be tween youngsters of five grades at La Casita school had to be called al though the boys wanted to don their boots and heavy and go Tommy Touhy Captured long sought as tM leader of the Terrible Touhy seiz ed today in a West Side Thomas Kelly of the states attorneys police Touhy is wanted for questioning about a long list of 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