Las Cruces Sun-News (Newspaper) - May 10, 1940, Las Cruces, New Mexico OUR HOME TOWN Two hundred and twelve dents are 16 be graduated from high school and college here this spring following exceptional ords in performance and tition through the year Las Cr AND RIO GRANfiE FARMER JHt MILY fiND SUNDAY SERVING SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO News THE WEATHER fair tonight and with colder weather in the northeast Saturday Maximum temperature 71 60 mean 60.5 Trace of rain LAS CRUCES NEW MEXICO FRIDAY AFTERNOON MAY 10 1940 PRICE THREE CENT GERMANS CARRY BLITZKRIEG TO NEUTRALS Poor Richard's sayings Go heals and the doctor takes the fee By JOHN E BAKER Associated SANTA FR 10 who keep track df all the angle are Intrigued by the fact there is no Judicial appeal from suits of the hew direct The primary act specifying tha aggrieved candidates may ask a recount in any particular precinct but may not contest the resul as a whole makes lion to cap the procedure It is further says the act that the provisions here in made are exclusive of all other remedies and the courts of this state shall have no jurisdiction to overturn modify such decision by the canvassing the subject matter of being declared by the ture a political question and not a judicial one Now justice may be blind but keep its eyes open and some of the strategists see for interesting ments The recount procedure outlined in act is Any candidate feeling error or fraud has been committed precinct may petition the board of county sitting as a canvassing board to recount must be companied by ten good American dollars for to challenge The commissioners thereupon make f the requested but their then shall be al Each county canvassing board J reports the result to the state canvassing board which shall be bound Tn brief the various county commissioners will be vested with full power The vital reason why no cial contest of a primary vote can be allowed is simple er If one were filed the date for the general election less than two months later would be past be- fore even preliminary legal steps could be taken The direct primary sacrosanct last session at the insistence of Gov Miles may come in for a workout in 1941 whether Britain's Premier Churchill Moves Into Post Quit By Chamberlain LONDON May 10 ton Churchill belligerent first lord of the admiralty became Britain's man of destiny today succeeding Neville Chamberlain as prime ister as war raged over Europe Chamberlain resigned his post shortly after first word of invasion of Holland and Belgium was received Churchill Moves In Immediately afterward the The right honorable Winston Churchill has accepted hia majesty's invitation to fill the position Chamberlain held office since May 28 1937 Churchill whose mother was American was first lord of the alty since the outbreak of the war Germans Driven Buck In Rotterdam Associated man Max Harrelson reported plane and parachute troops attempting to fight their way thru the city but being driven back nto dangerous position by at- tacks of Dutch troops and ng Dutch artillery Strong detachments of Dutch marines made repeated rushes nto enemy positions on river Mass fighting fiercely Fire in German Lines Dutch incendiary shells were ired at the large Maas hotels rom which Germans are the Amsterdam Fire spread rapidly threatening jerman lines ONE RULER FUGITIVE COUNTRIES OF TWO OTHERS INVADED pold of Belgium and Queen Wilhelmina of The Kon fleeing during a bombing mid is one of the most MCI aThi ha ei News Photo cameraman who risked his life to Netherland been invaded by the Ger minis today Mng un or no after its first trial this year Already there is displeasure a- a number of In- some who favor the mary in principle over the fact the act allows less than two months between primary and eral election This doesn't give enough time some say to allow the healing of wounds opened by mary feuding Although fusions are banned by a against a defeated running in the general ider another label led won't be a help to any party's harmony If primary act does get to the 1941 legislative for the purpose of correcting faults there's pretty certain to be a struggle to keep it intact Many who opposed it in 1938 don't like it any better now There's a good chance that a Rainbow trout caught anywhere in the western states might have direct ancestors swimming around In Eagle Nest lake That body of water by some appy combination of ture altitude and natural fish feed is one of the beat trout breeding grounds in the country as well as one of the best angling spots Each year some bow eggs arc stripped from Eagle Nest trout and hatched tn the federal fish hatchery nearby Most S-Y Boy Wins Superior Clarinet Rating Bernard Gottlieb son of Mr an Mrs AI Gottlieb won a rating in the regional music mee at Waco Texas as clarinet solo ist yesterday This is the second year fo Bernard to place his name on th winning list when musicians from five states have contested He won the same rating last yea when the regional contest was held in Abilene Tex His ability according to Prof Carl Jacobs head of the music department at State College is Ittle less than marvelous Bernard is now only 15 years old He is a sophomore in the La Cruces high school He has spent all of his holidays including the short periods at Christmas time studying under excellent teachers in Los Angeles The young musician will return to Los Angeles for the summer when school is out here on May 23 Hotel Sold to Hot Springs Man La Posada Radium Springs tel owned and operated by Mr and Mrs Carl Price bee purchased by Mrs Maria Ode and her sons Roy and Guy Ode of Hot Springs Mrs Price is giving immediat possession The consideration is no announced Mrs Odell and her wh have had many years experience in conducting health resort hotels will begin many improvements at La Posada at once One of these Mrs Odell said will be a large swimming pool The women's bath house which las been undergoing remodelling and repairs will be opened within a few days It will have all rn equipment and trained Sees Roosevelt By Acclamation WASHINGTON May 10 President Franklin D Roosevelt will be compelled to accept for a third term Rep Kent Keller D of the fry are distributed Keller recognized leader In tho out tho west including other New house liberal bloc said Saturday House Approves Parity Payments WASHINGTON May 10 The house approved the senate's appropriation for farm parity payments voting 207 to 176 last night Considered a victory for wheat and corn farmers the house proved a new distribution of ity payments providing 100 per cent parity price payment on ton wheat corn tobacco and rice Mexico waters but about 20 cent are reared to near catching size and put hack into the lake INSPECTS NYA PROJECTS Max R SalnzAr NYA assistant n the division of operation has returned to after looking over NYA projects with Mrs Robert Dona Ana county supervisor j r strategy adopted by leaders calls for nomination of Mr Roosevelt by acclamation at the Chicago convention CONFESSES MURDER TULSA May 10 A aged man told officers of a murder In Gallup though officers declared the man John Taylor Ward is insane rs will be in charge Built In 1931 The big Radium Springs hotel vas built in 1931 by Joe Cuples f El Paso Mr and Mrs Price lought the property from him ater Mr and Mrs O J owned and operated the resort In 1938 Mr and Mrs H B Bennett of Las Cruces took over Uie property Mr Bennett much of the downstairs tion of the building and ed many improvements On March 1 this year Mrs Price again took charge Discovered by The history of these old hot springs dates back into antiquity when the Indiana made yearly pilgrimages to bathe in the hot streams Juan de Onate New Mexico's first colonizer discovered its wa- ters nn his long trek to the eblo lands of the north and ever after this place called for the rocky peak to Uie southwest was a stopping place for weary travelers making their way back and forth from Mexico to Santa Fc The soldiers stationed at Fort Seldon in the and ed ways of ditching its hot wa- ters to the fort whore they in- in the luxury of a hot bath Heat Always a spot for rest and re- in lato yearn the inal value of the springs has stressed and people como from all over the United States find relief from many diseases In its hot water The hip hotel is heated In vinter entirely by tho hot wa- Wilhelmina Queen of the m King of Belgium Queen of the Netherlands Demands Dutch eDo Duty THE HAGUE May 10 Vilhelmina of the Netherlands to ay addressed a proclamation I he nation over the official for calm and de votion in Holland's crisis I and my government will di our she said German armed forces withou the slightest warning made a den attack upon our territory last night despite a solemn promisi that our neutrality would be re peeled I hereby address a burning protest against this unexampled breach of good faith and disregard of decency between civilized tions I appeal to you everywhere and crs piped through a Mexicans Talk S C Exchange L Universal one of the papers of Mexico City printed a Centura story this week of the exchange of relationships and study between students of Slate College and those of the cal Institute of Juarez The story describes the visit of Prof Augilar and five students from the arez school ta a mooting of tho Spanish club nt and of the proposed return visit of the New students EXTENSION CASH The has concurred In tho of Col lego's extension service J J Dempsey wired the in all that each of you wherever stationed will with utmost calm ami tion do your duty to the stale Army IK A communique by the high command German crossed the Dutch frontier beginning at a m today Aerial attacks have been at- tempted at airdromes The Dutch army and craft artillery are ready have been carried out according to plan At least six German airplanes have already been brought down Holland's determination In re- sist the Nazi invasion was an- in an official broadcast the Dutch radio Holland has always complied German demands for pre- servance of her the an- Now we have been Invaded and we shall fight to the last drop if our blood No Chance of US Entering the War WASHINGTON May 10 President Franklin D Roosevelt said today that he sees no change with respect to the possibility of keeping the United States out of the European war He told reporters he could not say much about the situation a- brond now that it spoke for I think I can say personally I am in full sympathy with the very excellent statement given out by the Queen of the lands the president said Quen delivered a flaming protest against the German in- vasion The president earlier had ed an order freezing all Dutch j and Belgian credits in the United j States in accordance with j laws Seek Fast Route to Allies By ASSOCIATED PRESS Adolf Hitler proclaiming the beginning of a fight which de- the fate of the German nation for the next hurled forces into the Netherlands Belgium and There was also over Switzerland The Netherlands and Belgium mustered full strength against the invaders calling for help from the Allies who said it is be- ing sent with greatest speed Luxembourg's government fled Belgian Lines Hold Holland Opens Dikes The Germans apparently arc aiming for a closer base attack on British Isles Britain and France were raided by German in ng forays Belgium announced the invaders were stopped cold a few undred yards Inside the frontier Holland opened flood gates and dikes blew up bridges hrew its army into action holding the Germans near Nazi bombers blasted Antwerp Brussels and the French ilies of Nancy Lille Calais and Chilham England was In Pans a military spokesman said the greatest battle of all time appeared imminent Nazis Say Resistance Broken In Berlin the German high command claimed broken re- sistance in all sectors of triple assault on Holland Belgium and Luxembourg contrasting with a report by Belgian Defense Minister Henri Denis that the Germans were hatted everywhere on defense lines with reports of heavy losses Denis said he ia convinced the Germans failed in their ob- failed to gain the initial success they expected Berlin Claims Capture of Hague A Berlin radio claimed the Nazis occupy the Haggle lands capital Dispatches from nearby Amsterdam four hours later did not mention its fall Holland announced defense forces had downed 70 German planes In London the security minister warned oil England to be for a land invasion of the British Isles by Germans The Allied army was reported to be rapidly moving across the frontier to meet the invaders Report Children Civilians Bombed German planes in raiding Brussels were reported to have tilled two children and wounded at least 50 civilians Germany caught Britain in the midst of a cabinet crisis over he failure of the Norwegian campaign Chamberlain to see the King conferred twice with war cabinet and staff chiefs Britain announced protective occupation of Iceland to pre- vent German seizure Switzerland ordered complete mobilization as German planes dropped bombs on Basle Germans closed the German-Hungarian border Italy regarded the Germans actions as another m which the Allies were beaten once again in swiftness Germany accused the lowland countries of conspiring with the Allies against Germany the charge was stoutly denied Hour Is Here Hitler Says To Decide German Destiny News Many Pay Fines In Traffic Cases City Magistrate Albino old today 12 parking have been and one-hundred percent of tho violators paid fines for nml ble parking during tho month of Mny Accuse Neutrals Of Aiding Allies BERLIN May normal high command issued a document today supporting the Reich memorandum which Belgium and Holland of activity favoring the Anglo-French Allies The document wan signed Gen Keitel chief staff of tho German army The command statement that Belgium violated her neutrality by widely with the Britten and French general staffs by hind sea and air and by massing the hulk of the Belgian army along Belgium's frontier while leaving the western and southern borders unprotected BERLIN May 10 In a to his troops on the front today Ado Hitler declared the hour ha come for the most decisive of the German people His proclamation Hour I hut Struck The hour for the most struggle for Uie future of the Gcr man nation has come For 300 years the rulers England and France have tried to frustrate consolidation o Europe and above all to keep Ger many weak and powerless To this end France alone ha declared war on Germany on occasions within two centuries url Unity But for decades it lias als the aim of rulers to prevent German unity under nil and deny such vital goods as are lion people England and carried nit this policy without regard to he regime prevailing in Germany They always wanted to hit the nan people and their responsible today admit this Their ilm is tint I Germany shall be and dissolved Into small tales Thereby the Reich would los Germans Deliver On Mexican Deal MEXICO CITY May 10 aid for Ity shipments of oil ore the war broke out Germany political and consequent has delivered to Mexico complete sections of a bridge long tn span the river all the machinery for a hydroelectric plant nnd 70 head of Swiss cattle for breeding purposes The bridge will bo tho in republic TALK LIQUOR A attendance was Hrst offense usually brings a Jl ed nt the liquor dealers fine Mr explained but last night 15 out of 17 dealers a penalty of Is possible un- present discussed he ly the possibility of the vital rights of the German na Hitler to flin Front Hitler personally directed the operations as a million crack man troops went Into action on Western Front today to take over protection of land and the Grand Duchy of An announcement re- thr fuehrer's departure for the front ft short time after tho stall an Allied attack on the man Ruhr Valley with the con- of these countries CIVILIANS SLAIN LONDON May 10 Heavy civilian in German bombing on French towns and cities were reported in ad- vices received from the British Embassy In Paris today They were particularly heavy at Nancy where 16 were killed and injured mostly civilians S1 MORE ASSETS WASHINGTON May 10 ident F D Roosevelt ordered nil Belgium Dutch and Luxembourg credits and cash balances In this country before the ing of markets this morning PLANES SWISS Switzerland May Jerman and French airplanes anti-aircraft guns fought a severe battle near Basic today German craft dropped 17 on a Swiss railroad line SEND FORCE TO ICELAND LONDON May 10 British landed In Iceland this ng to preclude tho possibility of sudden German seizure tho for- Ign office said today local liquor regulations with was launched to CLOSED GIBRALTAR May naval authorities de- nied today that the Straits of Gibraltar had been closed SPAIN CALLS NAVY MEN GIBRALTAR May 10 Tho Spanish government today called up six navy of ing from to 30 NAZIS MINE POUTS HEULIN May 10 Tho man admiralty announced today mines have laid In alt and Dutch ports
