Clovis New Mexico Evening News-Journal (Newspaper) - March 16, 1936, Clovis, New Mexico NEW MEXICO Pair night and Tuesday little change in mt Jf VENING WEST TEXAS cool except In the Panhandle tonight Tuesday NEW MEXICO MARCH SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENT ACCEDE TO HITLERS DEMAND FOR EQUALITY Extortion Flat Against Woolworth Heir Brings An Arrest Match Alfred was jailed today oh a charge of at tempting to extort f from Countess Barbara Haugwitz Reventlow by to a plot to kidnap her Police said that MM ad mitted writing a mo ments of o close the He in custody foi a to dls anded custody rot a The prisoner was trapped by police when he went to km a rendezvous with a messenger from the He told the police that no kidnap Molyneux was arrested last Satur The letter went into details as to how contact between Molyneux and an agent from the countess should be made in It ordered Let your messenger be outside the long bar at the Gaumont picture theater Match 14 at 7 and let him have a red silk chief In his left He will be Dally and must If you intend to heed put an answer in the personal column of the Evening Chronicle March Detective Inspector Forster police court that the countess gave the letter to her lawyer who Informed the whereupon the requested advertisement Was inserted in the On the inspector a detective carrying a dummy package stood outside while other detectives Molyneux was ar rested when he appeared at the stat ed time and received the package from the The inspector said Molyneux told the police I admit I wrote the letter knowing perfectly well that I know of no such plot or any persons who intended to kidnap the I sincerely regret my action and hope I have not caused the count and countess any worry or Forster testified the letter read in part Dear countess I have read of your hayinga charming little Now dont get You should know that two men have left Manchester to kidnap this son and youd be surprised to hear what elaborate plans have made for his confinement while they wail for the ransom they intend to demand from If you would learn of these please send some one to meet me in Manchester at once and I Will let you know what I Prince Serge Mdivani Killed In Polo Match at Palm Beach Payment Contract A payment will be 1936 wheat allotment ty Agent been Informed by of the division of and letters appraising them of this were mailed out today to all co operating farmers In Curry The letter informed them that a payment which is just and fair will be made for the 1936 wheat crop to all applicants for the 193030 wheat con The letter continued In order to qualify ment an inspection all farms on which been filed and this inspection must sst 54 per cent of and not to Weed show That at least 54 the base acreage 95 per cent of the base been That the contracted out of production at the time tion is It is likely that inspect made In Under it would not be any or PARSON OF PASADENA DEPARTED TODAY FOR POINTS EAST PALM March Ifc In polo game gave final dramatic touch today to the colorful life story of Prince Merge of the marrying Mdivani While his bride or less than six the former Louis Astor Van Allen of collapsed at his side from the shock of Prince Serge died late yesterday a few minutes after he was kicked on the head by his horse from which he had The recalling the death of his Prince in an automobile accident in Spain a few months occurred at the Delray Beach polo field about 20 miles south of Prince Serges socially prominent bride was the divorced wife of Prince In a match between his Georgians and the led by Cecil Serge attempted a daring He cut his pony across the line of play for a difficult His mount collided with Smiths and r Prince Serge struggled to his was kicked In the Ten minutes later he died of a cerebral hemor be destroyed I Regarding the part of the 4935 we by advice by from Washington that It is to complete alt such payments April Hats For Advertising Typical of this country in a by gone day that will be celebrated in pioneer Days here June 2 and big hats will be beginning at the Penney com pany The lightcolored the first of which was purchased by general chairman of the cele are to be sold tor The Penney through an agreement with Manager Bo will turn over all profit on the hats to the celebration committee to help pay the costs of the Dobbs hopes that in the next day or so 200 men will be wearing the hats to help advertise the cele A good many local men are also planning to wear cowboy boots for the same Original plans were for the men to turn their out from April 15 until the dates of the cele but due to popular demand April 1 has been set as the date for 1 discarding General Chairman who Is the paid director qf the big went on the job full time beginning when he officially went on the From now on Im per willing to work night and day if need be to put this thing he Wants Condon Counsel for mann looked return of Lindbergh from a tropical petus to an eleventh to save Hauptmann from who has been in for two U due in New Lloyd ly to save the Bronx carpenter said he Condon be examined as v Hauptmann himself was ed at his trial for kidnaping and slay Ing Charles convicts Wynne state prison farm faced pun ishment today for starting a mess hall riot in Which a negro not taking part in the was killed by guards glancing Incident was believed to have resulted from a plot to slay three building tenders who enforced quiet at meal Extra Appropriation For Courthouse la Approved An extra appropriation of for certain equipment for Curry countys new now under construc has been approved by the PWA in according to Senator Carl Hatch In a telegram to the Chamber of Commerce Oddities In News Of The Day By The Associated Press Machine Afe Protect Me mute ran out of his galloped up to Henry nourished his Result the automobile was wreck ed and magistrates court awarded LeMaster Blinding Duster Spends Its Force Makes Its Exit At El Paso After Hard Blow Thru The Night I Hy The A blinding described at Clayton and Clovis as the worst since the black terror of April apparently had spent Its force today after a night of heavy blowing through eastern and south ern New Strategic points along the dust front from Clayton south to El Paso reported this morning either weather or conditions greatly improved over the choking storm of last probably the hardest surveyed silt covered streets and houses and reported visibility still re by hanging At Clo where visibility was cut to zeio last it was clear this morning and Roswell and Carls all struck with considerable Shatters Traditions Bowe Davis Hewitt pretty senior at RIM Insti shattered two traditions when fellow students elected her to of Insti tute She was the first mar woman given this honor at the school and first nonliterary society girl Associated Press Photo WEST TEXAS STATE LOSES TO ARKANSAS 46 TO 32 and Teachers and the University Refuses Audience On Peace Program Representative Of Germany Can Sit In Council But Proposals To Wait Lea gue of Nations in secret agreed today to fuehrer Hitters demands for equality but flatly rejected his condition that the council mot discuss his peace Hitler to send a representative to the councils deliberation on Germans remili of the only on a basis of full equality to the conference and with the under that his recent offer of new pacts would be con r Six nations headed by France op posed Hitlers insistence on bringing his peace proposals up simultaneously with the discussion of the Rhineland The other nations with France were and Accept First Proposal The council then unanimously suthern won their Ear ier in council sought to clarify Hitlers re today in the National S the Former severity last reported clear feating West Texas Teachers 46 tO but the of the storm the Nebraska tion U Nebraska still shrouded El Paso with moder and the latter downing Nebraska 43 to Arkansas led from the start in the what by mm After a weekend of rest Arden Hoof in Parson of above left this morning on his journey across the continent to attend a meeting of the class of 96 at Amherst Rockwood never travels on Sun He spent his day here yesterday quietly resting at a local Local Winds Still Whipped Up some new dust notably in the vicm ity of Las Vegas where clouds were reported to the north and but States Weather Bureau at said the duster contained in the telegram Joseph J chances close in from L Butler went out on fouls In the nt U the al from Hitler tHo the lexans i On Translation The German embassy in while the British cabinet wag consider ing the informed the foreign office that the correct Dust still blew at 17 visibility this morning was reported witn 17 to be two h There were no immediate estimates of it was believed Brain crops have Flood Of East Are Receding Steadily By The Associated PreM Will Consider Amendment Carrying Fund For Dam March The senate today agreed to consider the Fletcher amendment to add tothe army supply for work on the Conchas dam Flood swirled and three other projects started with over river banks and bridges for four WPA The amendment itself Missing Colorado Child Is Located Homespun Hope Uhest Pro bate Judge Julian per formed a sunrise wedding ceremony at his the nervous bridegroom gave him as his fee an old which contained one forty and 290 A Nod For Brunettes film colony has some blondes it would like to swap for The production Garden of Allah calls for 300 who look and act like Arabs and can speak but the casting blonde could find only 80 genuine Arabs on its list of Project In Curry Chamber of here today announced they are ready to submit at least one to the wll conservation administration In Ama Work in various under the soil program will be divid ed into districts which will be scien handled by experts of thj it was ing in those districts will be fortunate in securing this flood Bad Break OKLAHOMA CITY Because Footes feet were too a limb hurt his When a passerby Carl Foote oblig ingly paused to help workmen saw Ing a branch off a the limb fell on He went to a hospital with leg and hip Ended Alive waited 12 Then she filed suit for divorce on a desertion charge against Roy She alleged lie left the day after their wedding on March TWO March year oU Steve Benson walked Into a farm house alive to day after spending the night lost In one of the worst black bunard dust storms ever to strike this More than BOO persons were searching for the expecting to find smothered or froien to when he reached the farm home of Dewey nix miles from where he at I slept he Saw the Almost Immediately he fell asleep Doctors examined him and said Ms condition exception ally good considering that he hod been In the open for hours in a dust storm that reduced visibility to He wasK rushed to a hospital at Veteran residents of the south eastern Colorado dust were that tho child lived through the The temperature dropped to below freezing and the boy was clad only in He had lost his shoes and sand burrs stuck in his MASONS IN SESSIONS IN PUKE CITY TODAY March Two hundred and one delegates from I 55 Blue Lodges in the state registered SOME RUNOFFS IN LEA COUNTY PRIMARY March returns compiled today j in the democratic primary election of days in New the Middle At States and Canada taking a toll of 28 steadily receded George chief engineer of the Massachusetts department of public estimated the damage to Lea county showed four nominated mated an lce jam blocking the without opposition and comparatively Mot river weighed it close races in the other Only broke engineers it a few scattered nonresident votes re might sweep away the Bangor dam mained to be counted and they were and the not expected to materially affect the f Those unopposed were James district judge George state senator Grace Beau county clerk and Maude Hop was still in danger of River engineers ADMIRAL BEATTYS BODY TO FINAL RESTING PLACE per probate Other results were District attorney 2241 George Representative 1984 George 1905 Sheriff 2136 Vernon Roberts 1100 elder Assessor John 2229 Charles Treasurer 2217 County superintendent Ilene 2032 Eliza County District 1 Alex and Evans I were renominated in 2 and Malcolm was ted in District In case of lack of a run off election will be held for those offices BOY HELD IN ROBBERY March UP Earl world war navy hero and former first sea lord of the admiralty remained to be acted CLOVIS ATTORNEYS CAR IS STOLEN AND STRIPPED Two new front tires were stolen from Richard Mansons and it was stripped of tools by thieves who took the lawyers car from its park ing place at the rear of the New Mex ico Utilities company building on West Grand avenue between 9 and 11 oclock Saturday City officers found the minus the tires and the Long Bell Lumber company yard Sunday It is a 1930 Buick Manson said he left the keys in the A Model A Ford also re of as secre officially translated Hitlers reply originally was to mean that he demanded the negotiation of his peace proposals simultaneously with the discussion of his denunciation of the The new translation might mean that consideration of hie proposals could come at a later date which might be acceptable to the French Last night the French denounced Hitlers reply as Situation More Hopeful French sources indicated that this change made the situation more hope although Foreign Minister Flan din and Joseph his minister of refused to comment Paris learned Foreign Minister had been or dered to place the mu tual assistance pact before the Hague international tribunal as soon as the league council has acknowledged Ger manys violation of Position Justified Hitler has insisted he was warranted In reentering the Rhineland on the ground that the pact was aimed at The problem facing Britain was was not to prevent departure of l who died last was taken today his last resting place at Pauls to lie among other famous figures of British found south city by the sheriffs Laughter Victim Clovis was sonic convention here Reuben grand opened the three day session after which Mayor Charles Lembke extended the welcome of the Local Masonic greetings were extend ed Sherwood Charles theft of from the cash register Wd Richard ters local All of the New yesterday The who at first later admitted it and told city officers where they could find most They located all but le said he wired to to pay off some bad Mexico His father made up this and grand lodge except William stewart recovered all his senior grand The boy was arrested late yester and Louis Santa He allegedly gained en of sub urban waving flash stopped a train an automobile parked on the The train halted with Its cowcatcher touching the The pushed tho oft the They looked inside and on the seat found man who uld he ww Carl st Carl calmly went back to He also went to charged witb lor grand were Ill ness kept them from trance by unhooking a screen door with a wire and unlocking the door Seven past grand masters were witn a skeleton Since he is a were John Milne he will be taken before Dis and Albuquerque Thomas Roswell Carlsbad Clovis and Nathan Las Grand lodge officers will be elected dynamite blasts let off in a charivari for a newly wedded couple shattered several windows in Part Judge Harry Patton in juve nile NEW YORK STRIKE NEW March ing service employes returned to their Hawkins old broke out Into laughter during s serious mo tion picture show was tP stop her mirthless laughs despite efforts of Associated Press ALARM DURING HIGH WIND A A fire alarm which was turned at 11 JO oclock last night while a severe dust storm was still raging scared him and the other firemen out of several years according to Fire Chief George but the TRIAL OF HOLLIS MARTIN TUESDAY March will be tried by a Lincoln coun ty jury at Carrizozo tomorrow on a of murdering his uncle and and Shatter and their al France from the council but also to thwart a which might lead Germany to Withdraw into threatened Trumpet calls summoned Berlin to the celebration of the first anniversary of Hitlers creation of a new army defiance of the Versailles Cant Be Conquered Hitler declared armies can never be conquered as he con ferred new regimental flags on his In their ranch home near NM on the evening of he wag only nln all The of German troops trM wiil be hem before District Judge Numa CAMERA CLUB MEETS TONIGHT The Clovis Camera Club will meet tonight at 7 oclock at the News Journal office to submit all pictures to be entered in the clubs March Ex TO FREEZING LAST NIGHT Last nights duster was accom by a drop in temperature that took the mercury down to the freez ing 32 in the Barry Hardware official ther Yesterdays maximum was 83 DIVORCE GRANTED TO JOHNSON Lillie Johnson was granted a divorce from Will Johnson by District Judge Harry Saturday af Incompatibility and abusive language were among the The defendant was awarded custody of twp minor CORRECTION deference to the international The fate of the league figured also in discussions incident tothe ing of the conference scheduled to start in Rome Italys coolness toward the and the possibility of her leaving Geneva if imposed on her as penalties for invasion on are have aroused nervous ness in Italian authorities old posts today after two weeks on blaie turned out to be a minor the picket line to the accompaniment of charges by the union that at least 400 men had been refused reinstate A lamp cord draped oven a curtain rod in the home of 606 Connelly shorted out and set the curtain Damage was Oklahoma delegation May Be Given Landon OKLAHOMA March together by a common in Alt Landon of Kan sas for licans met here today to select six Landon instructed to the Cleveland national Influential led by Lew Wentz of Ponca said they will ask that the state delegation of 21 votes be instructed for Although there was party squabble over the selection of a City officers stated today that the there was no police not the sheriffs i tlon to V department as was reported Satur should get the credit for locating i Roy land boy who had been missing two i Improved conditions in German j agriculture have increased sales AT THK March yon today and said rte would farm j I am here to rest and desire no I she
