Clovis New Mexico Evening News-Journal (Newspaper) - September 19, 1936, Clovis, New Mexico New cloudy tonight nnd Sunday little change In mT NEW W VENING WEATHER West cloudy nnd 148 SEPTEMBER 1936 New Mexicos Greatest Newspaper TWELVE PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS HURRICANE SWINGS SEAWARD 8 KNOWN DEAD BUST TOLL AT ALCAZAR ESTIMATED AT ZOOS NEW BABY GETS GLIMPSE OF WORLD Photo and Monarch nnd city zoo stood by menacingly yesterday while Zookeeper Schleuter gave their cub the outside The youngster made only a mild protest as Schleu ter above posed him for his first f Dairy Corkers Add To French Strikes Hold Out For Better Wages As Government Seeks Conciliation Sept work ers In Mimic department declar ed a strike for higher wages today to heighten the French govern ments labor Officials in dis patched a of conciliators to the regions in an fort to halt spread of At where textile workers won a 6 percent wage the victorious employes celebrated with a parade find burned In effigy a fig ure representing the leader of At In the Vosges depart textile workers contin ued their folded arms A general meeting of the French Confederation of Labor was called for 25 the situation and Study proper measures to safeguard the respect to collective bargaining contracts and to assure the economic recovery of the rpi I Rulings Un Election Methods Law No Provisions For Counting Clerks At Polls TI SANTA 19 of county commissioners appoint three judges of election for each Attorney General Frank Patton today advised Secretary of State Elizabeth raised three questions about The election judge appointments shall be made on the third Monday next preceding any Patton Only In precincts where more than 200 wore cast for governor at the last shall there be counting he and then only is no statutory provision for counting Patton The 1935 law refers to counting he but the no pro vision for Intended In the absence of provision for of such counting Patton it would be the duty of the poll clerks to assist in counting nnd tallying the ballots to the extent It would not interfere with their other County boards name two poll for each precinct on the third Monday preceding the elec the luw Small Nations Oppose League Ethiopian Plan and small countries in the League of Na tions threatened to split today over the question of admitting delegates to a League assembly ses sion The League which preliminary discussion ten approved a proposal to wel come Italian diplomats but to shut the door in the face of Emperor Haile But representatives of the smaller apparently preparing to ob ject the assembly convenes next professed to see in fate an example of what might hap pen to 500 Rail Workers On Strike Today Louisiana Hit By Walkout On Two Southern Lines sept 19 Five hundred railroad workers on the Arkansas and Texas and the the Louisiana and Arkansas rail ways went on strike Appar ently 500 con brakemen and switchmen quit Chief among several pending un settled disputes leading big four brotherhood members to strike was a complaint the carrier failed to rein state agreements in effect the and brakemen and yardmen which recognized standard rates of rules and working railway abrogated the agreement in The Arkansas and Texas branch of the railway operates from to New Orleans and the Louisiana and Arkansas from New Orleans to CCC Witt BE ASSIGNED TO BOTTOMLESS ROSWELL OKLAHOMA Development work at Bottomless Lakes State near will be resumed 1 by the National Park Herbert regional announced One of six CCC companies the Forest Service is turning over to the Park Service In the Eight Corps Army area will reoccupy the Bottomless Lakes which was closed last Initial work will be on drain assure protection of and to provide for storage of flood DAWSON BEAfS RATON 380 High schools football team defeated Raton 33 to 0 here last night on a slippery It was the first game to be played here under and the opening game of the season in the northeast section of the Will Sneak Preview Of Picture In Clouds tops In preview secrecy ty about place in the It known today that the first showing of the will on an airplane Officials of the stu dio admitted have chartered m huge transport rig ged up a screen with portable pro mul tested the sound tlie First previews are always sneaU custom to take the new picture to some Isolated city where It can be seen by com pany Heads without danger of spies from it preview feet above the ground is something new under the Cloudy In Most Parts Of New Mexico Today Cloudy conditions were reported in most parts of New Mexico today but no general rainfall was forecast by the weather bureau Albuquerque apparently the center of heaviest precipitation in the last It had of an TWA was held here from to 5 bad weather but all planes were in the air fear Zeppelin May Run Into Hurricanes Path HALIFAX Cana dian was feared would run into the area which cane up the eastern The Coast Radio Signal Ser was guiding asL it approached the Newfoundland of gale the Nova Scotia signals were displayed for The Norwegian freighter Sharp was aground at the mouth of the Richl New and her captain Called for assistance have by high tide in view of the ODDITIES in the NEWS I By The Associated Press AN HONEST MAN Elmer Mains wanted to sell his But he had no desire to misrepresent He advertised like this For Jersey seven years I know what is the matter with this Some days she will gallons days a a beauty to look at and gentle a kitten and would make a good family your family is real I ADD GOLF STORIES Edmund high school drove a golf ball from the 8 tee ut the Shopard Hills country club A vicious slice sent the pellet curving across Just about that Miss Peggy qf Say cut loose with an approach shot from 9 The Balls collided in SCHOOL OUT For black wi dow spiders were at least to the pupils of a grade school A of the dangerous little creatures the Au ordered a holiday so it could be closed and PIOUS PUP the shepherd dog that went to church every Is His Spencer said Buster had a regular churchgoer for fol lowing the choir into place and sleep Ing peacefully until the closing The dog was killed chasing a rock In of an WASTING NO TIME The firemen did not his but whoever he he didnt choose to spend any time on n He sprint U blocks to the station house to report The firemen ar rived time to put it HORSES ANP HUSBANDS Seeking a divorce Victoria Ryan testified her told her before marriage he was making a was 39 years and had never fcen she he was making was considerably older and had been divorced Granting a de District Judge Herbert Thoades salt often are more careful In checking up on race horses they bet on than on men they Federal Troops Storming Ruins Fascists To Positions Fires Add To Horrors by The Press a choking pall of Spanish gov forces worked their way Inch by Inch into the ruins of the Citadel of and With the defenders esti mated executed by yesterdays tre mendous explosion of two government In daylong drove the insurgents far ther back into the Today found the surviving fascists still manning their machine guns from the shelter of shattered raking the wreckage of the Alcazar despite the suffocating Assault guards and militiamen snip ed bitterly at the machine gun awaiting opportunities the Government squads edged forward behind pillars smoke from gasoline amid the roar of exploding bombs and the ceaseless crackle of rifle and machine Fire Adds to Horror They hurled tins of blazing gaso line into the ruins as the col of choking smoke were borne by a north wind into the crumbling the surviving insurgents re treated to far corners of the buildings Late this afternoon the entire struc ture was wreathed in smoke and it seemed as though the fascists could out much Four government cannons rained steel into the battered fortress throughout the morn ing as militia awaited arrival of In as sault over the heaps of ma Toll Runs High Militiamen who charged into the gaping wreck which once was a royal palace declared of the women and who voluntarily imprisoned themselves inside the died yesterday when two mines were touched We of course have no exact fig Jorge one of the assaulting and the figure may seem high but a truly ghastly sight faced us when we went over the t Through stumps of masonry and wrecked spattered with blood we had to trample torn limbs and hideously broken human Federal Losses Light Fascist bullets claimed more than 70 casualties among the socialist troops as the slugs mowed down the advancing which quick ly followed the explosions Most of suffered leg wounds from the fascist streams of White beams from government spotlights illuminated the scene of devastation during the night long barrage but government officers wait ed In vain for the appearance of an insurgent white flag to signal sur All survivors except the defending machine among the prisoned fascists have fled to the underground Some Hope Now For Flier Injured In Bendix Race CROWN 19 fP on the condition of Benny air race came from his in the Navajo Indian service hospital here On the fifteenth day since his badly broken body was taken from his speed plane 30 miles doctors said he had shaken off semiconscious ness again after a relapse three days and that he apparently had rest ed better last Howard suffered compound fracture of both a broken head and Internal Since he was brought to the hospital one was and one badly torn in the has May Use Great Salt Lake As Target For Airplanes SALT LAKE Great Salt soon may become the inland target of the armys aerial Captain of the Salt Lake City detachment of the army air said plans called for an expedition of nine bomb laden planes to take off from March fly inland over a 700 mile route and dump their death dealing charges in the The maneuver is part of a program to test the effectiveness of long range GOVERNOR IN CLAYTON SANTA Clyde Tingley was in Clayton attending a Democratic rally BOY WHO SAID WATERMELONS Photo and Three huge weighing and 56 were on exhibition here yesterday by who raised the on his firm 3 miles southeast of The prizewinning melons are shown slice in the hands of a lad who really knows how to enjoy City Case Bobs Up Again Hearing Is Set Hollywood Stars Race To Change Names Lombard the movies has joined the ing parade of Hollywood She has instructed her to file petition to adopt her screen The real one is June Peters Others who have had professional legalized include Kay cis Dix Ernest Carlson md Jean Harlow Hits Coleman Region Fertile Farms Of Colorado River Region In Path 19 rescue of a family marooned by high waters of the Colorado river was re ported today as the spreading widely over the fertile agricultural region south of dreds from their The muddy water raging through San Angelo caused was dumping into the Colo rado at its confluence with the Concho at causing the highest rise in many Nearly eleven inches of rain this week in the Coleman area contributed to the flood pouring into the swollen Sam Cooper secretary of the Cole man chamber of estimated acres of rich Colorado river valley land was inundated by the but an accurate check on property and livestock losses was Many little towns strung along the river were cut off from contact with the outside and their telephone com were l Angelo Damage May Reach Five Millions SAN Houston publisher San Angelo said today he estimated damage caused by the Con cho river flood in the would reach Other estimates had fixed the loss at or as re habilitation got under way with 500 WPA workers clearing the streets of it was impossible to ascertain exactly how much destruction had been The WPA authorized the for rehabilitation work and San Angelo citizens subscribed for health Joan Blondell And Dick Powell Will Wed Today to Blondell was scheduled become Dick Powell Four hours before the Grace Santa sails from Los Angeles harbor for New the movie pair were to go aboard for their Jong expected The the First Calvary Pres of will JAKE McCLURE SETS NEW ROPING McClure of claim to day to the worlds calf roping The southeastern New Mexico cow boy roped and lied a calf in the rodeo of the Lea county fair here yesterday in 12 seconds from the 30 foot Question Is Of City Election On Change Of Government That mandamus in the state su to force the Clovis city commission to call an election to de termine whether the form of mu be changed bobbed up again today with receipt of notice that the case had been set for oral arguments at 1 next On motion of Richard attorney for the case was moved up on the su court Rowley is seek to the attorneys for the city commissioners to agree to oral arguments and let the case be decided onthe briefs This would save considerable he Has Peculiar Twists The case has several peculiar interesting of that over whose mandamus action was isT now city hall janitor and may be interested in changing the form of the citys government from the city ager system to City Commissioners McGrath and James Hamilton were back of movement at start for they were then in and sought to oust the majority faction from Now Hamilton and McGrath hold the reins of the city and prefer to have Wonts To On But Rowley wants to see the There is a point involved in the case that be ruled Im in favor of changing to the form of government because the city manager plan has not worked here successfully and cannot unless the statute is changed to give the city manager more power instead of making him to the whims of the said If he sees how he must do it at his own ex Only was raised for at by those interested in the and of this was con by various leaving for Rowley and who assisted in the first trial of the to Got Big Fee By former City Attorney James Hall and Ott Ros well got for their part in the Wesley now city and Askren are now handl ing the Judge Fred Wilson of who conducted the first hearing on the ordered the elec tion but the city appealed to the supreme The defense con tended that a prima facie case had not been established that that the au of the petition for the elec tion had not been and that were insufficient signatures to the which the defense claim ed should have been signed by 50 percent of the qualified electors who voted in the last city Rowley claims that the statute clearly means that the petition must be signed by just 50 percent of the who voted for the winning candidate for commissioner in the district having the total PAYNES FATHER DIED TODAY AT 19 Hurt retired Santa Fe railroad died early today at his home in Helen He was His five Stadard and Miss all of Miss Helen New and Blast Described As One Of Worst In Coast Record 15 Yet And Three Vessels Unreported In Storm Path by The Associated NEW known fifteen reported missing and three vessels reported were the casualties to day of one of the most hurricanes that ever Hurled itself against the Atlantic The wind and after riot ing through eight describ ed a large arc seaward to lose itself over the The storm left in its wake brighten ing skies and the lowest casual ties and property damage ever paid out to similar The weather which for ten days publicized the approaching was responsible for tions that held casualties to a mini Three Ships Unreported The Norwegian tramp steamer Ni dareid and two fishing Dl I and the Hampton boat owned by Guy Cobb of Cliff Island bound for were un Only one dead was counted in Vir He was Udell who was Y A death toll estimated drastically revised shortly after dawn when 34 men feared lost Long in Bay were a coal barge miles off Four men of the Long Island crew Scattered One killed Mary three died in and three were killed in Disrupted communications ed an accurate estimate of property although preliminary reports indicated millions AS the accom winds of as high as 100 miles an circled northeast Connecticut apparently escaped The winds rains which swept that state throughput the night abated with New England Coast Hit Elsewhere in New the coast was whipped by heavy rains and but damage was reported A high pressure out to sea frum its point of origin over the Great was shoving the hurri cane to the of England did not even receive Ships caught along the New Eng land clung to the shelter of the New York City was heavy rains throughout the but the dawn broke in Three Pennsylvania A were limited to the Philadelphia Phillip Was electrocuted as he picked up a wire in a suburban Romola was killed by a car which skidded on An unidentified man about 50 years of age died of injuries suffered SEE 3 Todays Results By NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 001 052 9 10 2 Brooklyn 010 000 1 4 Hubbell and Mungo arid I Philadelphia 000 000 4 2 Boston 5 11 1 Kaleher and Wilson Weir and Louis 000 9 16 0 Chicago 021 Oil 6 13 1 Heusser and Davis and Cincinnati 000 000 132 9 4 Pittsburgh 110 004 000 14 2 Hallahan and Lom bard Swift and AMERICAN LEAGUE 301 11 3 New York 200 000 U 0 Cohen and Hogan Murphy and Boston 020 001 5 81 Philadelphia 000 010 1 11 5 Ferrell and Ferrell Ross and Cleveland Detroit 202 201 OT Harder and Sullivan Rowe and Teb Chicago at in which Sam Houston died in has restored to its original form is a showplace at
