Clovis New Mexico Evening News-Journal (Newspaper) - August 14, 1936, Clovis, New Mexico WEATHER New Generally fair south portion unsettled north probably thundershowers E CLOVIS NEW VENING NEWS 117 AUGUST MEXICO URNAL West fair tonight and New Mexicos Greatest Newspaper EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS VENGEANCE IN SPAIN THREE ARMY FLIERS KILLED IN CRASH BURNING PLANE NORM FARM One Escapes With Para chute And Alights Near The Wreckage NEW KENT army catching firo In crushed on a farm near here last three of crew of The fourth 2t jumped to safety with a Langley Field officers said the hree killed Lieutenant Willis S Private John of and James H Roa Va They said the a was on a practice flight from Langley a resident near said he saw the plane He said It a huge with a all of The bodies were beyond Ohe of the victims was thrown clear of the the body being found about 20 feet from the The cause of the fire and crash could not be learned was shaky after his narrow escape and was not able to give many Officers said he landed with his parachute about 300 yards from the spot where the plane and dashed to the burning He said the heat was so that he not reach the said the pilot ordered the crew to bail but that he alone was able to get out of the He said he had difficult In opening the door and that the plane was com close to the ground before he could 7 WELLS ADDED TO LEALS FIELD Teh Wells Staked Out For Drilling Monument Active 14 Seven wells were added to the pro duction and ten newt wells were staked out in the principal Lea county oil fields during the last reports Monument the most active In southeastern New during the regis tered greater of activity with the Jal district and Eunice also reporting developments of Well Eunice One of the biggest producers of In by the Gulf Production the Eunice when its Campbell 721 which to 3935 feet an Initial test of 568 of flowing natural through a tubing with The Gulf finished a smaller weH In the Its Houston for 185 barrels In three hours flowing from a depth 3920 feet With feet of Humble Oil Refining Drought in Its Ferrell 1 In the Jal sand reporting barrels pumped in at a depths of There Was much water In In the Eunice the Oil completed Heasley 5 at 361 for an pro duction of 12 barrels flowing through a choke Monument Active At the 3 3219 37 3900 feet for an Initial pro duction of 575 barrels flowing through a choHe Another producer at Monument was the State 2 qf the Oil made 21 barrels flowing through choke tubing with of i The Skelly Humbles 1 In the field made 491 barrels In six hours through two and one Inch from 3887 feet with feet of flowing nat r This jn the nal August e and 7 FRYERS live 413 It sold 50 fryers and yesterday calls were coming Jn for Another Illustration of the effectiveness of nal Want When you want to trade or call MORE THAN EVER BEFORE ITS THE WANT ADS FOR BIG FILL AT ALAMO DAM TAKING SHAPE RAPIDLY Photo and The giant is the bulwark of the Alamogordo dam at is fast taking form as shown in the above The fill now rises to a height of 25 with a base 300 feet The final height of the fill will be 145 rock faced seven the floodwaters of the Pecos The flume is to carry surplus the will be completed about October POINTS TO CONVENTION Delegates Today i Opens By The Associated Preparing for the final rush be fore the state nominating convention which opens in Albuquerque Republicans for four counties meet today to select delegates and express their Santa San and Guadalupe will adding their delegates to the lists of thirteen other counties that have spoken their Meet Tomorrow Tori other county group meet tor morrow and one Sunday to up the While most of the county delegates named to date have been a strong Jaffa preference has been expressed in counties where the 1934 candidate from Roswell either was endorsed or delegates were Strong Townsend plan forces in the party has been indicated with three Torrance and endorsing the age pension plan and others showed sen in that arid elected a number of delegates known to favor Because of the late untangling of the Republican senatorial With M and former Judge Edwin Mechem actively con this little open Indi cation in this lias been Caswell Neal was endorsed for sen ator his and John who seeks the long term place on the in Union Has Only One On With all but one of the men on his wanted list behind Slier Iff Thomas said today he felt like The Last The one who Is still at large is escaped Colorado convict who is also wanted for allegedly steal ing a car at Clovis Is Rob bins and he was sighted here by Sheriff Thomas escaped in downtown traf fic when Thomas gave We have a good lead as to his and we hope to pick him up the sheriff sent Deputy Sheriff Val Baumgart of to Brown today to return Alfred who escaped here July 22 while under a charge of and Deputy Sheriff Collins left last night for to return Frank wanted here on a charge of obtaining from Young Clovis livestock un der false who is also wanted on a cold check charge has signed an extradition Sheriff Thomas Work At Alamo Dam Is Progressing Rapidly Approximately On Schedule O D S in the NEWS The Associated A softball the teams of two industrial plants ended in a City Judge A Mynatt imposed suspended fines on three of the 20 girls brought before and then delivered opinion on baseball for women Vr Its a sharne for young ladies like you to Youve got You bought to home after The men who ac quiesce iri it are the ones who ought to be CORRECTION THREE Arnold a on the Joseph wrote a headline Two over come by Five minutes later he overcome by WHATS THE RUSH After many fruitless telephone unofficial calculators of the primary election the wife of a precinct judge in southeastern The returns she was sorry she didnt have She didnt think had counted the votes Hes put plowing and has the bal lots in his overalls she ex Henry was in a field 30 miles from a HERO WORSHIPPER OKLAHOMA motorcycle was riding along minding his business when he saw a small boy signalling wildly to from an Gibson to what he supposed was a Give me your will Mister the boy and Gibson sped away giving his chew of tobacco SHOOT SUNDAY Clovis Skeet Club today an a shoot will be held Sunday at the with participants ex from Lubbock and The shoot is expected to be one of the most interesting and hotly contested of the Diversion Its In Scheme By 15 Work on Alamogordo project of the United States Bureau is entering the seventh steady activity and is approximately on ac cording to engineer of the Hallett Construction which is in charge of the project The dam site is about fifteen miles north of The diversion tunnel which will car ry the waters of the Pecos river around the while construction is in will be about the middle of October will be putin actual as The which ten feet has been bored through four hundred feet of rock on the west bank of the river The housing most three hundred men employed on pro has become a small village com posed of almost a which house homes for the fifteen families living in the bunks for the and buildings sheltering equip Every convenience is provided for the occupants of the camp including daily delivery of the SO Children in Camp There are about thirty children from the village to be transported by bus to the Sumner Work the dam proper has been started several weeks and the dirt of which the body of the dam is has a height of about twentyfive and is about feet When finished this dirt body will be almost SEE PAGE 5 LANDON CHANGES HIS SPEAKING ITINERARY ESTES Governor Alf Landon changed his first presidential campaign itinerary today to make La and not the starting point The itinerary provides for 30 rear platform appearances in six Landon examined a tentative sched ule for the return trip from where he will make the last of three eastern speeches August Aides said announcement of this rary was withheld pending a check of War Drums Of Mighty Sioux Tribe To Appeal For Rains FORT drums of the once mighty Sioux brought out today for a ritualistic appeal for rain to end the devastating They will be beaten on ii at Little Eagle when Indians of four states gather to revive the an cient tribal sun Called by Chief One Grand Reservation nephew of Sitting Bull and once a great war final plans were made cil of medicine men from reserva tions in the Montana and The chant and drums of the sun dance have not been heard in the Da kotas since said Frank in and Because of the religious ture and often Indian agents have banned the rites since the time redmen were rele gated to This year per mission was given on the promise that the objectionable features would be HUNDREDS HELD AS GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE TODAY Dire Reprisal Threatened If Rebels Shell San Sebastian By The Associated Hundreds of faced pos sible death before firing squads today in reprisal fbr rebel bom of government held towns on the Spanish northern augmenting some 700 rightist hostages incarcerated in San were by government in reply to a rebel threat to San Sebastian and its neighboring of A rebel warship lay off shore in the Bay of Biscay really to open San Sebastian armed against a repetition of yesterdays rebel bombardment in which eight persons were reported Both men and women were arrest ed by the ment Dire Reprisal One government sympathizer an We will kill two hostages for each citizen wounded by rebel air attacks and seven for each one kill San bullet and shell riddled by almost four weeks of war fare between rebel fascists seeking to overthrow Madrids socialist gov and troops loyal to the re gime which is supported by com hard pressed for both food and See Throne In Move Accusations that the Spanish revolt had monarchial as well as fascist and that house of to by were made in the Madrid A rebel radio broadcast announced confirmation of the sinking of the government warship Jaime I by rebel but this was disputed in Mad Ask Demands Be Met The French government under stood in diplomatic circles have urged Madrid to German De mands for satisfaction in the slaying of German nationals i Barce lona and confiscation of reich air Adherence of the Hitler govern ment to Frances proposed general European neutrality pact apparently hinged on the settlement of an Inci dent at in far eastern Spain in which a German airplane was seiz The French ambassador to Rome was instructed to press for Italian approval of the proposed RODEO AT SUHNER Saturday And Sunday To See Big Doings In River Town Top cowhands of this region were converging on Sumner today for the opening tomorrow of the Stam pede a rodeo that will draw big crowds to the rivet The program for the two days fea tures the but the In rodeo There will be milking in the highest order of the and a sui cide ride that will be the hit of the ft Tonight there will be a tion dance which attract a large number of those arriving early for the There will be another dance Saturday Regular old fashioned music will be featured dur ing the dances with an old fiddlers contest thrown in for good or good Omaha Ball Park Victim Of Blaze The Omaha Western league baseball park was a dozen dwelling were burned and at least persons were injured in a fire broke out at the park early John owner of the ball and Larry operator of the Omaha Western league damage to the park property and equipment at Estimated damaged to other property was Fire Captain Joseph Fous suffered probable internal injuries when a ladder broke and he fell 30 Sev en other firemen and six civilian vol ere treated for injuries at the Cause of the blaze was not Plan To Reopen Case Insincerity Is Charged Favorable Fire Fighters In Forests 14 stubborn host Of fire fighters took swift ad Vantage of a favorable change in the weather today to bring major forest fires under three principal grations were checked for time being at least as winds subsided and humidity A wireless dispatch to the Duluth National Guard from 50 miles west of the tional said the flames had burned out on a peninsula after blackening ROYK FREED IN DEATH On Clothing Not From Chemist Reports Frank Austrian who was held for investigation in con with the of Wil liam hermit farmer of Roose velt was released from cus today this morning after a chemist re ported blood found on his clothing was not from a human Royk was picked up near Tatum ten days ago when bloodstains of his Clothing aroused suspicion that he might have been connected with the We working on two said District Attorney Compton but we are now convinced Royk had nothing to do with the slaying of Gabriels body was found his hermit farm home near on July six deep gashes In his Three FullTime Firemen On Duty Department Brought Up To Strength Of Other Towns Jay Marks was added to the city payroll today as a paid bringing the Clovis fire up to standard for cities this City Manager John Luikart an The fire department now has three paid the Others be ing Fire Chief Fred Long and his Claude has never before had more than two full time all others being paid for each fire call new arrangement will allow one paid firemen to be on duty at all Luikart also appointed Me Ewan city plumbing inspector today and named Gerald Faxton elec Gilliland and Joe Condon selected as a board of examiners to issue plumbing Luikart announced also that three original employes of the present city administration have been Turner has been put back on as garbare truck driver in place of Homer Timmons has been reinstated as city hall jan to replace and Claude Morgan was put back on the garbage crew in the place of Timmons and Morgan hired when the present admin took office but were sub sequently discharged by the city ad ministration faction now out of Dennis Walker has been put on the garbage crew In place of and Crook placed Ned Louder in the street de Luikart Thermometer To 105 Yesterday Fifth Consecutive Day Of Temperature Above As row crops began to suffer from the blistering heat which has grip ped this region this the mer cury soared to a new seasons high of 105 degrees according to the official government many other thermometers showed 108 to 110 It was the fifth consecutive day in which the maximum temperature was 102 degrees or a record that establishes the current hot spell as the worst since the record was established in Reminds Of 1981 For 14 consecutive days In the mercury rose to 100 degrees or and the high tem mark was established July when a reading was recorded by the Barry Hard ware official weather bu 6 Attorney Angered By Talk Of Counsel For The Actress LOS Pl Counsel for Franklin Thorpe planned to reopen today for a complete and thorough hearing the court contest which resulted in an order giving Thorpe and his ex Mary alternate custody of their Several hours after Superior Judge Goodwin Knight approved a settle ment under which Mary lyn Thorpe will live with her film actress mother nine months of the year and with the Hollywood phy the remaining Joseph attorney for announced his Intention to reopen the Angered By Statement Angered by a statement Roland Rich Miss Astors issued after Judge Knight approved of the custody Anderson declar ed I will petition to reopen the case because in the of my client I feel that the signature which he Woolley and which I thought was in good to the was apparently and if in order to protect the rights of niy I feel that the case should be immediately reopened for a complete and thorough Made Concessions Anderson was gracious fortified as he was with an abundance Of to yield custody rather thanin the evidence which might materially harm the mother thereby indirectly cause a reflection upon the asked if he would try to have famous purple inked diary into the plied We had been act ing in good with this statement prepared in advance by we dont feel fit all If he did act in we may as air the entire facts in to let the world know what and what we were willing to do to save the reputation all parties mentioned in the Wooleys Statement Woolleys statement in part We were start this In order to liberate Miss Astor and her daughter from this complete bondage and from being at the mercy of this fight was We also demanded that Miss As tors the contents of which have been so maliciously and so scandalous ly used outside of the and which had been wrongfully taken from her and without knowledge and be turned over to the court and impounded and demand was finally acceded Thomas In Semi Finals Of State Net Meet Ida Ethel Thomas of Clovis advanced to the semifinal round of the womens of the state tennis tournament at Roswell today after two other Clovis Miss Denzil Davis and Bob had been defeated in their first matches in womens singles and mens Thomas is paired in the top bracket against Aurielia Phillips of El the defending while in the lower bracket Mary Elizabeth Schreffler of El Paso and SEE 6 Todays Results By The Associated NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E Boston 000 110 2 10 1 Brooklyn 000 003 491 Smith and Lopez Frankhouse and Philadelphia 000 000 091 New York 000 101 381 Johnson and Atwood Castle man and Chicago Cincinnati 001 French and Odea Derringer and Louis at Pittsburgh will be play ed at a later AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland Louis and Becker Hogsett and New York 001 201 5 10 2 030 133 17 1 Wicker and Fink and Washington 4 2 Boston 420 210 14 0 Apple Weaver Millies Grove and Detroit at Chicago wet j
