Roswell Daily Record (Newspaper) - February 3, 1930, Roswell, New Mexico 1YK GENERALLY FAIK TONIGHT AND TUESDAY 30 to THE DAILY RECORD COMPLETE EIGHT HOUR REPORT ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY RECORD AND EVENING NEWS COMBINED ASSOCIATED LEASED WIRE CHAVES MEXICO FEBRUARY 1980 288 Taft A f 1 O I falAT ns unier justice CHIEF JUSTICE COURT SUBMITS RESIGNATION TODAY TO PRESIDENT CAUSE ILLNESS Howard broken in health by years of labor for the has re signed the exalted post of Chief Justice of the United Through his Robert he submitted his resignation today to President Hoover while he himself i prepared to return to Washington from where he went several weks ago to 1roni a near Although the resignation came sud so far as the public at large was those in the inner j circle of the supreme court had been expecting for several days that the j former President could be compelled j to give up his exacting duties on the He had seemed worn and worried for weeks and it appeared to be only a matter of time when a successor should be Who that suc cessor will be remains to be President Hoover had not yet j the Republican but lost in the accepted Tafts election to Woodrow The resignation of the Chief Jus Hughes is now in New York tice unquestionably will be accepted by the President and it will become effective immediately upon such ac Taft then would automatically bo placed on the judicial i retired since lie has the requisite number of first as a circuit judge and then as Chief Jus tice of the United upon announcement of the Chief Justices resignation names begin to crop up in profusion as to a Besides those already on the high est including Justice there came into the picture Calvin WAS COLD WITH Hughes To Be Chief Justice Succeed Taft 3 President Hoover today nominated Charles Evans Hushes as Chief Justice of the United suc William Howard whose resignation was The nomination was made a few hours after the resignation of Taft was received by the Hughes resigned as a justice of the supreme court in 1916 to be come the presidential nominee of 188 DEGREES COLDER THAN USUAL DURING JANUARY HERE CHAVES COUNTY APPRAISERS TO START BIG JOB HERE TUESDAY WORK OF REVALUATION OF ALL TAXABLE COrSTY PROPERTY STARTS AT LAKE ARTHUR Tlie Chaves county board of will start tomorrow the and a gigantic one of all taxable property iu This composed of Chaves county tax assess or appointed by the state tax commission and John appointed by the Chaves county board of will start work tomorrow morning in Lake it was announced to another former and Charles Evans who once served on that august Those familiar with Presidential and supreme court how expected that President Hoover THE NORMAL RECORDED HEKE Members of the Chaves county i It was 1SS degrees colder during bureau Tbe average daily deficiency dur ing the month of as com pared with the normal was 6 degrees and a tiny fraction making the accumulated deficiency during the month of 1SS de The highest temperature recorded was 69 degrees on j thi Cth and the lowest was 2 degrees below zero on the normal Tor the month was The abso hitp maximum for January here for than the according would consider for some time before to the records of the United States making a Chief Justice Taft was a sick man j recently when he went to Cincinnati j to attend the funeral of his j Charles the j his return to Washington it was apparent both to his friends and to j his physicians that he must have a j period complete relaxation and he persuaded to go to Asheville for J a He seemed to recuperate j but his sudden decision to turn to Washington was a signal to those who knew him that he had j made an important j Tne importance of the resignation lies in the probable reorganization of the At present always five and often six of its nine members are called Justice Stone j has been aligned with Justices j Holmes and Brandies in many their dissenting opinions and would j be expected by who are familj iar with his trend of mind and views to be what is known In court circles j as There is a possibility that during the administration of President Hoo on board returned yesterday from Santa Fo where they met with the state tax for final instructions and as to Follow ing the meeting with the state tax the assessors and the various counties in the state held a After the work of reassessing Arthur is the board wIJl turn its attention to Roswell and will complete this work before it goes outside of the The board has 74 days in which to complete this the province of the board being to revalue all tax able property in Chaves in real and personal Tho board in entering this work realizes that it has a big lKl is going into the job determined to do its RESIDENCE AT TAX APPRAISAL MILL CONDUCT BOARDS FAIL TO FIX PERCENTAGE EXPRESSIONS INDICATE ITS MAT TER OF AC CORDING TO LAW Santa The board of tax appraisers from the var ious counties ot New Mexico have quit Santa Fe to go back home and place the new tax valuation and as system into effect to the best of their The tax conference here Saturday to discuss the new assessment law developed much in the opinion of many of the appraisal board very little upon which they can definitely The result of the conference was essentially that the boards shall re turn to the respective county seats and decide what they are going to Most of the board members were opposed to any attempt to fix a per centage for valuation purposes in order to equalize taxes throughout but the meeting likewise voted to table a motion by Bunton of Catron county to assess all taxable property at actual which is the way the law requires Its just a matter of common sense and an honest desire to do whats Mitchell of Al bert giving his view of what the assessment boards should Thats good but the tax commission and legislature given the assessors rules telling them what to but no standard of instructions telling them how to do replied John Clark of San Miguel They dont know and we dont know was the reply of Morrell of McKinley which brought This is a new Mitchell it imposes a duty upon us and my conception of that duty is that we should fulfill it irrespective of what has been done in the We are called upon to do something new and we should do The rejection of the Bunton mo interpreted from ex i pressions generally is no cause for RADIO TEST FROM DEPTHS PARTY LEFT SEW YORK TODAY BY PLANE FOR EXPLORATION OF CAVERNS e deuce of president of i the Xew Mexico Federation of for of the appraisers indicated that their intention is to follow actual values ana put property on the tax rolls at tbc level prescribed by Bunton spoke in support of his bombers attached to bind all county boards to wires to Hughes on Sunday night was reported to the police The wouldbe ed on rae Five I which was in the run ning the wires to a bomb placed un der the back Why is it necessary for us to make a motion that we abide by the law asked Mason Chase of Colfax Eric IS year old radio of is to o the broadcasting in the depths the Cavern for Frank Nicholson and party who are to make a complete ex cf the Cavern within li next few Thn apparatus which Palmer plans to use to send messages from the of the Cavern is now being It is to be Palmers to send shortwave messages ron a spot farther inside the earth than has ever been done be Tho Nicholson expedition was scheduled to start from New York City in two planes today and will several weeks making explora tions of the There are in the it was in a a a a a photograph rv i radio operator besides Palmer and Palmer and Nicholson has secured from the Department of Commerce the allotment of a special short wave designated as Frank Nicholson is a famed adventurer and Re he accompanied the Zep pelin in its trip around the world and daily gave a complete radio report of j the progress of the COUNTERS TO FRENCH AT NAVAL MEETIN VOTE THIS WEEK ON ENFORCEMENT LOWER HOUSE Today BY ARTHUR BRISBANE The This column does not first of President Hoovers reflect the editorial views of tiU for improving prohibition j It is printed of enforcement is to be brought to a j our desire to have all phases ot con vote in the house this with all signs pointing to overwhelming ap This is the proposal to consolidate the unit now in the the prosecuting questions treasury with agencies of the justice department under the direction of the attorney It probably will be taken To Death A Dwarf Can Safe An Old Mans up on Thursday with four hours set by King airle for debate Conscious of their voting Los Angeles Calif Jan 30 In the drys are directing their efforts j Orleans Augustine toward a vote in both branches of 97 years old who killed her mother congress ou measures to repeal the to get the mothers waa eighteenth In the to In accordance to in the the judiciary committee humiliate and punish more severely ate this may come within a with th Continued en Page I those that murder their Augustine will walk barefoot to I TURNING OUT CARS DAILY New Ford j Motor Company to have increased production from to is reported to have present working schedule calling for full time employment five days a week for HAD INCOMES OVER MILLION Interesting historical tween her death and that of Joan of the Maid of One walks to the for murdering her The other walked barefoot to the burned alive for saving her in Now a dwarf only four feet Peter is sentenced to death for The modern automatic pistol makes it easy for Peter to In ancient days when men fought with maces and he would only have been a too small to thru the American delegation feels a minuter proposal to the French so culled transactional tonnage plan may ultimately be laid before the naval were given by Hugh at a press conference who is Similarity a small as small as or in these days of flying machines poison might be the most efficient international killer in the murderous j game of Conditions A baby taken up in an airplane might release a poison gas bomb that would kill in a big assistant secretary ot incomes exceed one million department of commerce in there were 496 in this ox nces that passenger airships must The year 1929 saw 206 additions to the group of those whose individual elusive class and of 24 had in comes running past the five million dollar the had a total income of of American the government collected I carry twoway radio facilities to re weather information and Bend emergency Ambassador to Income that no counter proposal These figures were compiled by Presently more powerful bigger better understanding of will eliminate the im IN CITY OVER Five Roswell business houses were broken into Saturday night and last according to reports to police PRESIDENT TO GET SHORT FISHING TRIP Officers who made the several in this morning said that in each instance money seemed to be the as ether articles value in so far as could of be at the white house today that President hopes to get four or five days on a fish ing trip at Long some time If the President is able to arrange the trip ha will go directly from Washington to Long Key without any stops en probably spend the entire time on the He will make no speeches or ap on his way south or on the not No money was taken from any of the five places officers Tlie Hicks Rubber 102 East Second street was entered Saturday night after the glass in a rear window was broken The Pior Rubber company 110112 was East Second street was also entered Saturday when a rear door was Nothing of value was The Wilson Barber Shop on East Second street was also broken into Saturday night when a rear door was No articles of value were it was Last night the Radford Grocery company on East Third street was entered through a Officials He will board a the and return Hoover company probably will ac MBLE GUSHER BEEN TUBED AND IS NOW READY MAKE HISTORY ct the company were still checking this morning to determine if was The Safeway Grocery was also entered last night means of the skylight and a few cigarettes were The plot was frustrated when j Hughes accidentally ran into the Duckworth of Clovis then late last j moved to table the Bunton A note printed in pencil said j This is just a little We are oing to wreck the federation and you with We will make you er like you did the Hughes said Monday he had j uo enemies as far as he knew and the j reason for the bomb was uni known to Police today are making a thor ough of the premises at the Hughes home for footprints and any other evidence which might give a clew to the guilty j and Hughes have lived in Albuquerque since but j although active in labor cir has been president of the fed only since the last state con vention about six months Many of the words on the penciled note were Hughes said he did not know why the note should be signed and could give no reason for the reference to The Preacher in the MacDon son of the British Prime Minis who is studying film studio arch thinks many motion pictures are n Cotton Seed Oil crude cotton seed oil 7 1Sc to 7 thus farhad been circulated and that treasury in reporting on income tax of weather certainly a great deal of formation of would have to be exchanged ou the French plan before any such pro posal could be and were is sued for publication A decrease of the number of returns as compared pre any rate he no year was but jhe total or proposal to the f taxes collected showed ail which is a compromise between the i crease of global and categorical system of j In million dollar 841 per naval could be ex sons had a revenue of from tomorrow when the naval con 000 to 105 of from will resume discussion of the 000 had rench Meanwhile the not Continued on Page Cotton cotton cloed 45 Sales 67G Middling The job tuning the Humble Oil Refining companys Bowers section has been completed and the well is now shut in awaiting it was announced The Bowers was completed at a depth of 410S feet and tubing has been run in this well to within 7S feet of the or down to 4028 clean ed but no record of the oil was This well is recognized as New Mexicos first real gusher and is conservatively estimated to be good for barrels ac cording to oil men The Penn Oil companys State section 211736 is now drilling Telow 50SO The Oi companys Bronson section is drilling at 4575 after making a new The Midwest Oil Anna Lee Wright sec tion is drilling in hard lime at 4338 after recovering a string of lost tools at 4332 0 I from two to three millions 20 of from three to four millions and 17 had incomes of four to five The 21 whose incomes exceeded 000 had a total income of or an average income of more than ten million dollars RECEIVERS FOR MORNING PAPER AT Two re have been appointed for the Gallup Morning Times in fulfillment of suits filed to clear up the records of the newspaper and obtain a legal title to the plant and The receivers appointed by District Judge Keed are Charles Davis for one group and Henry for a second The paper will continue publication at Transport Service and carrying mail FLIER KILLED WHEN PLANE DROPS IN Pilot Carey flying a plane for the Colonial Air least for the present and Judge Hollo man will conduct a hearing day Charles publisher to day I believe the suits will up many details entirely satis to the present from to this was drowned here early today when his plane struck a small building at Brainard near the edge of the Connecticut The plane turned over and dropped into the The machine was pulled from the water and the pilots body Officials at the field said the plane came in too low and the pilot evi a alliance at the naval Its so chilly that the French are taking dently misjudged the distance in at wee draps at times instead of tempting to REVIVAL WEEK OF SUCCESS If Roswell is a good enough place to live make send your children to school and regain your then you should Join one of these splendid churches and help the pastors pull this town to Burke Culpepper told a capacity house at Junior High auditorium last Culpepper began the sec ond week of the revival auspices of the Alliance of It first time the sign had been hung out in the spacious Tbe first proposition was made by the evangelist to the large audience and scores of hands were In their desire for Hill led the opening and tt rep resenting the finance stated that the committee was de sirous of raising a sufficient amount to take off the incidental expense of the la response to his call a large number made contribu LeRoy general stated that the first week of the meeting had been highly snc Continued OB
