Roswell Daily Record (Newspaper) - December 20, 1930, Roswell, New Mexico WEATHER FAIR AD FRIDAY 19 to DAILY RECORD AND EVENING NEWS COMBINED THE DAILY RECEIVES EIGHT HOUR REPORT ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRK CHAYES HEW MEXICO 1930 VOL 2Sv PUBLIC WORKS f UP TO PRESIDENT PASSES CONGRESS 10XAL ACTION 20 today passed the emergency public works completes congressional act ion on the which be Comes available immediately upon signature of the by the administration intends to put funds into operation at once on public improvements program extending through the ot the said it would give employment to measure got through the sen ate finally today after Senators La and as sailed it as a Drop in the Mid demanded additional appropria tions to be expended for direct re lief of the was made pos sible when the senate receded from three amendments in dispute with the It abandoned the amend without record votes when it became an issue of making the money available before the Christmas re the would be spent road Inland improvements and public buildings construction will get the Hoover is given authority under the allocate the money any It is contemplated that of the money will be spent be first fiscal has now passed two emergency relief authorizing for drought relief won final approval last Both measures were on their to the white house Tl PRISONERS FROM NEW MEXICO Louisiana was aroused today by the daring of two prisoners who hand cuffed and tied to a tree a his deputy and a third and in the officers auto The prisoners in the custody of the en route to La from as Edwards and Jim they been arraigned for the recent Jobbery of a Farmersville They had been brought from Silver New of the captives pulled a pistol his sock and held up Sheriff Pat and Deputy Sheriff Mien seizing the officers guns and the two men transferred their handcuffs to the wrists of the Qf another sus who refused to break for lib also was tied finally himself and unlocked the sheriffs handcuffs with extra key officers later received word the men had abandoned the first motor car because of mechanical dif and had an other A search was started I SESSION OF CONGRESS FOR WORLD COURT dent Hoover was said at white today to have no intention of an extra session of tbe sen fo consider the world only thing that would cause to an extra session ot con v would te the of sonie of the important ap hills to he GARDNER NOW ACTING MAYOR CITY ROSWELL MAYOR BRADLEY LEAVES CITY FOR TEX DAYS CHRISTMAS VISIT IS ARIZONA Meet acting Mayor Robert Lee Bradley left the city and the state this morning and in the meantime the burdens of especially heavy and delicate at this particular are falling upon the shoulders of president of the city who will be head of the city until the mayor Acting Mayor Gardner this morning denied that there was any plans for a special meeting of the city council to be held early next week to take up pressing matters of state for pon The acting did say that in the event pressing matters should arise which might demand attention before the return of Mayor Bradley a special meeting of the council would be called to take up those particular Mayor Bradley left this for with Bradley and his daughter to be gone over the holiday season visiting his Everything seemed to be operating smoothly in police circles this morn Mayor Bradley did not have any additional statement to make on the local police situation before his departure to Arizona today and no additions to the department were made The police situation was today still the chief subject of conversation on the streets of the with a wide of views presented from var ious LAWS ARE TO BE ENFORCED The city traffic laws will be en forced to the letter and every avail able police officer is going to spend much of his time for the next few days seeing to it that the traffic vio lations This announcement was made this afternoon by Chief of police House who said that no section of the city traffic ordinance was go ing to be overlooked in the en forcement Police officers and those who have been in touch the situa tion here declare that violations of the ordinance have reached such ii point that drastic measures must be put in IS STRIPPED OF FURNITURE TRUCKS BACKED UP TO FRONT DOOR AND BELONGINGS ARE LOADED AND CARRIED AWAY Furniture and various articles rained at approximately was stolen from a home at 10 owned by Wll liuni Hodges sometime during tlits according to a report to police The robbery is supposed i to have been consummated Thursday Members of the Pope Realty company went to the Hodges house yesterday to show it to a client to rept discovered that it had been cally One complete dining room set with table and sideboard together with living room Two pillows and together with a complete bed suite on a rear 1 was The approximate value of the ar ticles taken was placed at this morning apd police officers to the robbery was reported said that they had no From the physical facts the case a truck was evidently backed up to the house in the time and the front door was Reports cf larceny is common over tbe ranging from the loss of milk to larceny of chairs and other MERCURY HIT LOW MARK 19 LAST NIGHT WAS COLDEST OF WINTER TO DATE ACCORDING TO RECORDS Lust was the coldest of tlic winter to according to the official records of States weather bureau The mercury on top of the federal building hit 19 during the with rural temperatures as low as reported this Other unofficial temperatures within the city were reported as low as dur the The highest yester day was It was 10 above at Fe lasi 6 at 6 at 22 at Amarillo nad 20 at El The total precipitation for tha month to date is of an inch as compared to a normal of of an inch and the total for the year to date is as compared to STATE INTENDS PROTECT RIGHT TO OIL LANDS DECLARES CRILE Santa New Mexico has Found it necessary to take a bold and defiant attitude to bureaucrats in the general land office in Washington in order to protect her Austin land said today in replying to a statement by John assistant secretary of the that New Mexico has assum ed such an have notified the department 45 187 REVOLT of New Mexico will Crile That hold title to the acres of state land in the Getty pool until a competent tribunal of judges instead of department bureau crats decides the The land iii question includes three sections of the Getty oil pool and all six sections involved are state The state has executed oil and gas leases on the Getty but has not any royalties from as said the department of interior has been trying to take the aud away from tbe state for years on the ground that an order been issued withdrawing the acreage for stock The withdrawal order came after the sec tions had been surveyed but before JACK ARMOLD IN SAN MIGUEL Deputy Sheriff Pablo Martinez of San Miguel county yesterday evening shot and killed Esidor Lower Col onias here when themen quarreled at a was reported to have made a move as if to draw a revolver and Martinez quickly pulled gun and shot him just above the He was killed an autopsy by Dr Patterson of Pecos and Fleming of Las revealed last Martinez was taken to Las Vegas to jail and friends of a truck in Pecos and took the body to Lower is survived by his widow and four HOOVER BOTH Presi dent Hoover today signed both einer bills one for public and the other authorizing for drought Unemployment doles for persons are costing Britain Great COLLEGE BASKETBALL West Point Army A ACCIDENT HERE Jack six year old son of and of 402 East Fifth was seriously in jured yesterday afternoon at oclock when he was struck by a car driven by ap employee of the Dickey Clay and Manufactur ing L The lad sustained a broken left leg and a slight fracture of the aside from being painfully According to those who witnessed ths accident the Armold boy was playing with other boys and dashed in to the street to get the ball direct ly in front of the car which was go ing east at the Parents of the lad today said that they did not hold Peal responsible for the The lad who was dragged by the car approximately 50 feet after be knocked was Still in a semiconscious condition today at Marys but was said be considerably VALUE OF CROPS RAISED CARLSBAD PROJECT 1 a normal for the year to date of MAN IN RIO ARRIBA Santa Attorney Jack Kenney was notified surveys had been approved by the today that a man named Bob Murphy general land Charles had been shot four probably office attorney at in Rio Arriba j hQ county last by a man named first name not The district attorney was told that Coykendall also had been ar tire quarrel which resulted in the shooting were not learned Kenney left this morning for NORMAL LAID AT PORTALES gov dominant revolt and general strikes of the past few is taking every means to assure an early return to absolute normal con ditions in the hope of bettering the position of the Spanish Despatches from the provinces all indicate success of its efforts and a the and auti feeling which was so evi dent live or six days The gen eral strikes have been suppressed to point where they are no longer of any The government announced 45 persons were killed and 1ST 20 of them in the out breaks of the past few CARS CRASH AT ALAMEDA AND MAIN STREETS Bf ARTHUR BRISBANE Thli column doei not reflect the editorial qt tali It li printed ot oar desire to have all ot question Prohibition I John to Henry Is Ablek Einsteins Threat by King at New Mexico taken the position that the withdrawal order was in valid and failed to conform either to the facts of the Crile said that had he been reelected it was his a bold and de attitude in a great many cases to find large tracts granted the state really belonged to it or to the federal government on the theory that had been at to the Both Crile and attorney Barker said they knew nothing of the 80 acres of land near Santa Fe mention ed by Edwards last Crile said there have been other cases that New Mexico has won in the courts whereas it would have lost had it accepted the general land of fice The cornerstone of the Eastern ew Mexico Normal was laid New day at Portales with Mexico was taken to task in a decis and with a large crowd ion on a appeal made pub attendance lie today by Assistant Interior Secre The Masons were im charge of John ot i Announcing his he de circles of Santa Fe and Taos died at ier home here last night following in illness of three LEAGUE MEETS being master of ceremonies in the Grand Master Via tor of who was prevented by illness being pres chief address was delivered by clared that In view of the states bold and defiant the de would sustain the commis of the general land office and affirm his New through her land com Andy I notified the govern The entire board of regents of the ment the state would hold title to the disputed laud until a Competent including Robert oi judges had found that she hill of this city was AP Crops fiom the for th vear were valued at 378 an acre for 695 acres oj 434 faims to tlie report of ot project Following is a summary of lhe crops and Cotton five hundred pound 343 pounds per cre maximum minimum per pound total value or per yield value toil total or 75 an acre Alfalfa total pounds from 376 maximum value or 80 per Cotton tons at total or 75 per Other wheat Sudan grass garden products and a last night shot and killed Iris because he believed that she had deliberately wrecked their a year ago in an attempt to kill Moses was badly crippled inthe The couple were divorced on December Moses is being in the Mora county jail and assistant district at torney Hilario Rubio is investigating the shooting POLICE TO SEIZE BOARDS Judge Reed Holloman today ordered the Santa Pe police to seize all punch board and are on the counters of scores jn Fe The order was given after Judge Hollo man had sentenced two boys to the reform school lor breaking into a store and stealing punch board prizes from Among the articles stolen were two revolvers and several pairs of The boys were arrest ed in I held no The state claimed a public domain acreage tire government aside as a stock and also lost an appeal from Commission cr Moores cancellation of claims to nearly 800 acres near Santa Fe and LasCruces which the state claimed as school A CANDIDATE FOR CONSTABLE 0 Cotton Dec ton closed 10 up Sales 531 Quotations 1516 staple f Perry a member of pioneer ed yesterday his candidacy for con stable of the consolidated 1 acid In the event of my election on January this I will give all my time to duties of my office and will spend at least 14 hoars each day on the streets seeing to it that the laws generally are obeyed This is my promise to the declared Mr Bean when asked for a statement Perry Beain has been A member of city police since in having re signed at the last council meeting and having refused a reappointment Bean been fci Roswell for nearly years and in the event of can he no doubt But that he will to the voters faithful Failure to observe a stop sign Main street at Alameda was th cause of another wreck late according to police officers to day who made a complete investiga tion The country discusses the decision of Federal Judge William who says that prohibition isnt because the people didnt Judge Clark is interesting to mil lions of men and altho they may not know for he is of the famous Clark thread Judge Clarks decision that isnt legal will be reversed by the supreme That highest court will render a decision and making illegal all that thaa been past 10 years in the crusade created the the racketeering the other features of the Officers who investigated this case said that of Hager had failed to observe the stop us he entered street ad crushed into a car driven north on Main by of North The Tingwall ably damaged in the it was said DIES Santa The supreme yrin condemn everything that the nation al government has done in of prohibition at this late date Judge declaring the people never bad a on the prohibition said THE PEOPLE CANT RESPECT LAWS THEY DONT V Henry Ford believes even the weather on his way to bis car It might Agnes well know in it took his car the Ford got another Shd continued on to Approx mately fifty representatives of the Municipal League met lore today to discuss the various acts to be submitted by cities in the state to the next Ford James will e the main and the visitors entertained at noon by the lovis business men and were wel comed by Mayor Q Perhaps you would like to connection with that an dote concerning business at present see point in the At a time when Rockefeller had never an lmV man from the Ford factory used to play golf occasionally The interested in great organ COMPTROLLER ON THE AUDITS Henry each time saw this message Tell Ford to keen strong irt STRONG IN Ford did keep and when finance that keeps track of thought it was Continued on Pace Santa State Comptroller Rupert Asplund today said that in the compilation of bud sets for the municipalities and other political that auditing costs should be provided for each said that statements ot accounts have been sent to the various political subdivisions in which audits have been made and for which could be set up under the The auditors who examined the af fairs of the auditing bureau of the state comptrollers office reported that There is no evidence to indi cate that statements of accounts have rendered to the debtors or that any systematic attempt has been made by the comptroller to collect these It must be pointed As said that which have had audits made for them by employees of the state comptrollers office have sent all the money to the state treasury which has accrued to the auditing fund of the This applies to counties for which the audit has been mads of tbe comptrollers office Of where independent audits have been made under the supervision of the state comptrollers tbe money in the county auditing fond has been retained nd paid to the independent auditors and accounting Jascha a noted worldwide will broadcast for 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