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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1933
Page
7
The Roswell Daily Record 1963 issue front matter lists the paper as Roswell Daily Record Roswell Daily Record published every evening with Sunday edition by Berocord Publishing Company Roswell New Mexico office details editor and advertising notes are shown along with copyright and Associated Press policy statements.
In a sweeping pattern across states the small minority vote shapes the liquor issue. Texas saw fewer than 600,000 voters, Missouri cast over 1.6 million, with 660,602 total votes for changing the Constitution by the wet or dry result. The nation shows limited interest in liquor as an electorate factor.
Three New Mexico State Highway Commission members travel to El Paso at a Texas invitation to discuss road priorities. The Las Cruces officials spar with broader aims of routing through travel toward Texas, sparking concern that New Mexico roads may be shaped by Texas interests and border-area tourism. The piece argues this policy shifts New Mexico toward the South, reducing general statewide coverage and prioritizing the El Paso corridor and border routes.
The Battery A motor unit returned from the New Mexico National Guard training camp at Las Vegas after two weeks. Forty one enlisted men and three officers rode the trucks, with 22 more aboard the train. They faced a muddy return amid rain between Vaughn and Roswell, but reached their base without serious trouble. Ed Shaffer and Sam Newsome were reported improving after surgery. Shaffer had been in critical condition, but was out of danger.
Four gunmen in an automobile fired a submachine gun into a crowded South Side street in Chicago in broad daylight. John Scalzetti, 37, an alcohol peddler, was wounded with six bullet wounds. the car sped off as a traffic officer attempted to stop it.
Judge B. McGhee traveled to Carlsbad yesterday and will be away for several days. Attorney H. M. Low went to Carlsbad this morning and expects to return tonight.
On a sea crossing from New York to Havana, Gold Franklyn hides Gip’s threats while Pierce manipulates events to protect a half sister. Doctor Elverton arrives for a leave, and Dorrance flirts with Gold as Pierce contends with risk, loyalty, and a coming arrest by stowaway Gip.
In Roswell spirit the Giants chase the Clovis baseball title as finals unfold. A separate note mentions Helen Moody feeling faint during the women's national tennis finals and local readers sending jokes from Martha Harsell of Green Mountain Falls. Dorothy Canfield Fisher sails for two months in the Austrian Tyrol with family. her book Bonfire is announced for fall.
Janet Beith wins A Strain On The Family Tie for her novel No Second Spring. The book will publish simultaneously in England and America in early fall. Beith, an English girl from Derbyshire, is Ian Hay Beith’s niece and had previously destroyed several manuscripts before achieving her standard.
John Massfield has found time for two books this year despite lecturing and serving as poet laureate and will publish a third, a poetic drama on the execution of Mary Stuart titled End And Beginning. The Soft Spot, A S M Hutchinson's new novel, features an Englishman Stephen Wain, a complex figure akin to Mark Sabre, with a subtler, less obvious softness than his past Big Business.
Ferris Greenlet of Houghton Mifflin lauds Night Over Fitch’s Pond as an exceptionally strong first novel. Ursula Pratt works on The Tumut and the Shoutin set in Boston across three generations. The Book of the Month Club selects Dark Hazard by W. R. Parnett for September. Mago de la Roche continues the Jalna saga with The Master of Jalna, featuring Renn y Whiteoak at age 46 as clan head.
The production Gold Diggers of 1933 at the Yucca Theatre tonight offers a musical show with good songs and lively dance scenes. It features bright comedy and strong performances, with beautiful dance numbers and ample laughs.
Juan Tafoya was fined ten dollars and court costs in justice court yesterday after a charge of assaulting Jose Gonzales.
Attorneys C. R. Brice and J. M. Hervey are in Santa Fe on legal business, lingering to meet clients and discuss cases. The brief visit underscores ongoing municipal or court matters requiring their counsel.
Yao-Tseng Mao, chief of Shanghai's police, travels from California to London for a Scotland Yard course for police officials, hoping to learn from the famed force.
John Rathbone Oliver's Priest of Pagan presents a modern epic tracing the life of its central figure as a battle between good and evil. H M Tomlinson's Snows of Hellcon features a young English architect and the clash of beauty with power.
Macmillan forecasts strong sales for Mandoo TM by Winifred Holtby following the pattern of Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley and As The Earth Turns by Gladys Carroll. The collection includes 18 Cape Cod life and folk stories drawn from Joseph C. Lincoln's Back Numbers.
The novel Haven's End by John P. Marquand portrays Newburyport through generations of a sea faring family, recreating West Indies trading days and pirate privateer eras. A $20,000 prize is offered jointly by Frederick A Stokes Co of New York and a London publisher for the best world contest novel.
Gladys Huntington Bevans reviews four children's books ideal for rainy days and read aloud sessions. From myths and fairy tales to adventure and historical fiction, the selections include How It Happened Myths and Folk Tales Retold, Magyar Fairy Tales, Bran the Bronze Smith, Mountains Are Free, with notes on content, length, and appeal for young readers.
At Fleishhacker Zoo in Australia, a mother wallaby carries infant Wally im a Peuch until his legs strengthen for independent hopping, a tradition noted in the era. The record-keeping market section follows with Want-Ads results.
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