Wirt names six ‘satellites’ in alleged plot to overturn order
Dr. William A. Wirt told the House Investigation Committee that he traced a dinner gathering of administration associates and Soviet News Agency rep Lawrence Todd to a supposed plot to overthrow the social order. He cited quotes from Rexford Tugwell and others about plans to nationalize industries and alter statutes, with further summons suggested for Lewis Douglas and W. S. Westervelt.
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Washington
William A. Wirt
Rexford Guy Tugwell
House Investigation Committee
Tass
Lawrence Todd
Roosevelt
Indiana
Lewis W. Douglas
W. S. Westervelt
Chicago
Farm Administration
Wirt
Rainey
Westervelt
Congress
Robert Bruere
Textile Code Advisory Committee
David C.coyle
Public Works Administration
Hildegrade Kneeland
Mary Taylor
Department of Agriculture
Alice Barrows
Educational Bureau
Interior Department
Barrows
Virginia
Miss Kneeland
Tugwell
Grain and Stock Exchange
Barrow and Parker Reported Seen in Portales Dinner Stop
Portales New Mexico April 10 Officers watch highways for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker believed to have dined last night at Jeff Cutler's Cafe. The couple rode a Pontiac coupe with Colorado license. The man about 25 the woman 28 or 29 with red hair left town on Roswell or Lovington road.
Traitors or a peeping Tom in New Mexico House
Rep. Palemon Martinez of Taos denounced an Associated Press dispatch as inaccurate and labeled reporters traitors and a newspaperman a peeping Tom and eavesdropper. He claimed he overheard nothing inside the Democratic caucus and demanded an explanation of how his remarks were obtained.
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Santa Fe
Palemon Martinez
Taos
Martinez
Associated Press
House Beats Bill Roosevelts Move On Home Loan Bill
Washington April 10 AP The House Democratic majority defeated a Republican push to adopt the Norris amendment barring political appointments from the Home Owners Loan Corporation The vote stood 231 to 115 The House then rejected all Senate amendments to guarantee 2 000 000 000 in home loan bonds and sent the bill to conference The Senate had approved the amendment backed personally by President Roosevelt.
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Washington
House
Home Loan Owners Corporation
Senate
Roosevelt
Mrs Knight Found Dead in Roswell Home
Mrs. R. L. Knight, widow, was found shot in the heart area at 12 20 this afternoon in the basement of her residence 200 South Pennsylvania Avenue Roswell. Her children Beva 15 and Ailon 13 discovered the body after returning from school. A .32 caliber pistol lay on the bed near the head, one cartridge fired, and a bruise over her left eye suggested a fall from the bed. Dr W W Phillips estimated death occurred about two hours before discovery. Coroner’s jury to meet tomorrow morning at 10.
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R. L. Knight
Pennsylvania Avenue
Beva
Ailon
Pat O’neill
Mrs. Knight
W. W. Phillips
Carl Johnson
Knight
Joe Reeves
Joe Reeves Jr
Potter
White
Roswell
South
Pennsylvania
Tax Bills Move In New Mexico Assembly
The New Mexico House opened with seven bills introduced including a tax moratorium, a Century of Progress exhibit, a liquor control law and construction financing for a Supreme Court building. The Senate passed the tax moratorium bill and adjourned to 1 30 pm.
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Board of Control
Santa Fe
A. W. Hockenhull
Century of Progress
Supreme Court
New Line Up in the NRA Operation
Washington April 10 AP The NRA has adopted a department store plan with three men handling distinct tasks and about 400 codes and 3000 Washington staff. Hugh S Johnson relinquishes routine duties to focus on major clients, while traveling for a vacation with President Roosevelt as the new structure takes effect.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Florida
Roosevelt
Shell Co Plane To Return Tomorrow
R B High manager of Shell Petroleum plans to fly back to St Louis tomorrow morning if his son W Y High at New Mexico Military Institute improves from pneumonia. The trip involves speed flier James Haizlip and wife May who piloted the plane.
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R. B. High
Shell Petroleum Company
St. Louis
W. Y. High
New Mexico Military Institute
Mr. High
Roswell
Betty
Mrs. High
Roscoe Turner
Charles S. Wood Jr
Aviation Department
Shell Company
State ranges improved in month March
Las Cruces New Mexico April 10 ranges during March showed improvement, mainly in the southeast where rains came early and late. Soil moisture is deep enough to sustain early grass, while other areas report dry soil and short grass. Range condition on April 1 stood at 80 percent of normal vs 79 percent on March 1.
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Las Cruces
N. M
Emergency Jury Venire 15 Drawn for Chaves County Court
Sheriff Peck reports 24 jurors on regular panel and 12 on emergency panel for April term in Chaves county district court. Ten names complete regular panel. 15 drawn for emergency venire to speed trials and cut costs. Jurors report Thursday at nine. venue list includes Farnsworth, Page, Crane, Jordan, and others.
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John CC. Peck
District Court
Chaves County
McGhee
A. L. Farnsworth
Ralph Page
H. R. Crane
C. E. Jordan
Hial K. Cobenem
T. L. Gardner
Walter Gill
Harry Burkstaller
Logan Hunter
H. D. Burdette
J. H. Gifford
Ralph Herring
J. C. Martens
James Grant
Frank McCutchen
J. B. Headley
Stig Santheson
Winston Damiel
O. K. Stevens
Oscar Goodsell
M. C. Cunningham, Jr
J. C. Antram
Roland Oliver
O. B. Rowdon
Mames
Robert Adams
Victor Wyly
James Cowan
Claude Bell
A. F. Madison
Norman Fee
Charles Lawey
Wendell N. Doty
W. D. Young
E. I. Scarritt
Newton Baker to Head Probe Army Air Corps
Newton D Baker wartime Secretary of War accepts appointment as chairman of the Army Air Corps investigative committee. The panel includes Karl Compton and George W. Lewis, with Lindbergh declining to serve. The Drum Board members and others will study air corps needs as United States eyes aviation safety and mail routes.
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Newton Baker
PROBE
Army Air Corps
Washingon
Newton Dpd. Baker
Army
Air Corps
Charles A. Lindberg
Dern
War Department
Secretary of War
Baker
Karl Taylor Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
George W. Lewis
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Clarence D. Chamberlin
James H
Jimmie”) Doolittle
Edgar S. Gorrell
Stutz Motor Car Company
Roosevelt
Wright
Great Southwestern Music Festival Planned in Roswell
The first annual Great Southwestern Music Festival will bring high school students from Texas Oklahoma Kansas Colorado Arizona and New Mexico to Roswell for two days of programs with a third day visit to Carlsbad Caverns not included in the program. Joseph E Maddy of Michigan University will conduct the All Southwestern High School Orchestra and band and T P Giddings will conduct the All Southwestern High School Chorus. A committee will send a communique to the National Music Supervisors Conference in Chicago to arrange further plans under the Great Southwestern Music Festival Association.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Roswell
Beest
Carlsbad Caverns
Joseph E. Maddy
Michigan University
Parcnsl High School
T. P. Giddings
All Southwestern High Schol
National Music Supervisors’ Conference
Chicago
Maddy
Van Welch Jr Brings In New Oil Well Near Artesia
The Record reports Van Welch Jr brought in a new oil well 18 miles east of Artesia and 2 miles from the nearest production. Shot yesterday, it is producing about 150 barrels per day. Location is section 22 17 18. Welch previously brought in another well last December yielding 100 barrels daily.
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Artesia
van Welch Jr
Roswell Merchants Meet at Nickson Coffee Shop Tonight
The Roswell Merchants Association holds its regular monthly meeting at 6 30 this evening at Nickson Coffee Shop. Floyd Childress discusses the uniform schedule of bank charges effective April 1 and brief talks cover the Renovize Campaign and other topics. Dinner tickets cost 65 cents.
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Roswell Merchants’ Association
Nickson
Floyd Childress
Fitzgerald Receives World War II Division Medal
Percy C. Fitzgerald of Roswell New Mexico a corporal in Battery F 12th Field Artillery and a veteran of the famous Second Division has been awarded the Second Division Medal an honor shared by about sixty thousand veterans who are eligible.
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Percy C. Fitzgerald
Roswell
New Mexico
12Th Field Artillery
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Maxfield
Hudgins
Carroll
Hogrefe
Howard
Henry Tucker Toll
American Legislative Association
Levi Hughes
State Welfare Bureau
Will Rogers
Santa Monica
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Dillinger
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WeNaught Syndcate, Inc
Newton C. Marshall
Milwaukee
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Venire
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P. C. Fitzgerald
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