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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1933
Page
1
Governor Arthur Seligman warned New Mexico’s 11th Legislature against special property taxes and urged strict economies across the public sector. He stressed the need to reform state taxation and income collection as fiscal conditions grow more serious than two years ago.
A brush fire in the Calabasas mountains burned over 300 acres as one of the strongest winds in years raged in Southern California. About 300 men were rushed to the scene with progress unclear, while Los Angeles and San Pedro reported windy conditions, a high sea, blown wires, shattered windows, and sand on cars. all wires between Los Angeles and San Diego were downed.
Washington January 11 AP reports a pending motion to strike the enacting clause to kill the emergency farm bill. It lists seven commodities wheat cotton tobacco hogs rice dairy and peanuts with moves to drop hogs or peanuts. Leaders seek a final ballot before adjournment to fund a parity based minimum price via a processing tax.
Death notices report Joseph W. Blabon 74 former Great Northern VP in New York. Dr Edward Nathaniel Brush 80 dean of North American Psychiatry in Baltimore. George Washington Dukelan 89 longtime minstrel performer in New York. Thomas Jackson Arnold Sr. 87 nephew of General Stonewall Jackson in Elkins West Virginia.
About fifty Roswell merchants and professionals attended the first Roswell Merchants Association meeting of 1933. Members, also stockholders in the Eastern New Mexico State Fair Association, elected Myron Prager C M Farnsworth and H L Gifford as directors for two years. The nominating committee report, and the choice of four holdovers, were approved, while G H Heckenson and J E Johns declined reelection requests.
Ralph H. Chapman, 67, and his 84-year-old aunt Ettie L. Alford were ambushed in the driveway of Chapman's Altadena home. Miss Alford was wounded in the body and face. Chapman was shot in the face but not in critical condition. The attacker hid in shrubbery as they drove in. Chapman refused to aid police, deepening the mystery.
Libby Holman Reynolds delivered a healthy son named Smith Reynolds at 6 48 PM in Pennsylvania Hospital. The baby heir to a tobacco fortune arrived as expected earlier than public announcements suggested and both mother and child are reported satisfactory.
Chaves County commissioners at today’s meeting voluntarily reduced travel pay from 12 1 2 cents to 8 cents per mile for official business, against a legal max of 12 1 2 cents. They made 1933 appointments for health and court staff and issued a bid call for courthouse laundry. No resident definition action on federal relief funds. district attorney George Reese offered an opinion. Meeting adjourned at 2 o'clock.
Santa Fe federal court heard a bankruptcy petition filed today by Claude Yates of Hobbs. Reported debts total 11903 dollars with assets of 100 dollars.
President Hoover seeks authority to embargo arms to nations at war or threatening war. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee favorably reported the measure, preferring action over awaiting Geneva Convention ratification. Chairman Borah noted opposition to the convention remains.
The Continental Oil Company filling station at Fifth and Main, now operated by W. E. King, is to be torn down and replaced with a new station. A company representative conducted preliminary surveying today and declined to specify the exact type of structure planned.
A Kansas City bus held up by two men was thwarted when David Taylor of Denver, a first time pistol user, shot and killed one robber, as his wife and three children rode aboard. The other assailant fled on foot after the escape. The slain robber was Herman Lee Fuller of Heavener Oklahoma.
The preliminary hearing for John J. Halloran Phoenix laborer charged as an accessory to murder in the Winnie Ruth Judd case was postponed to Friday due to Nat T. McKee illness. Plans to bring Agnes Anne Leroy from Florence state penitentiary to Phoenix for testimony were delayed. Renzt L. Jennings the county attorney, had prepared for Mrs Judd to testify at today’s session.
Texas AG James V. Allred says with Ballard Caldwell judge the Mexican government commuted American W. J. Meers from a death sentence to seven years in prison. Governor Sterling and others aided, Meers from El Paso shot a man in Juarez who he thought was his father’s killer. later identity mistake surfaced.
In Moscow on January 11, four men were sentenced to death and three others to ten years in prison for stealing jam from a government warehouse.
In Santa Fe on January 11, the ith NM legislature adjourned after Gov. Arthur Seligman’s address and prepared to tackle lawmaking. A Democrat caucus planned to compile employe lists, while the Senate aimed to be fully organized for sessions. Both houses will adjourn tomorrow afternoon for Col. Norman H. King’s funeral. The House passed a rule barring married officials’ spouses from employment and prohibiting hiring relatives of public office holders. The joint session drew crowded galleries as the governor urged tax reform.
A 32 year old man claiming the name Paul McIntyre is jailed in Chaves County for last night s car theft in Roswell. A 1930 Chevrolet coupe belonging to J E Whitmore of Albuquerque was recovered abandoned near Riverside Camp about 35 miles west of Roswell. The suspect admitted hitchhiking from Alamogordo to Roswell as deputy Sam McCue and others pursued the lead.
New York report says a dog’s barking provided the only clue in the killing of 4 month old Frank Michezel Cammara. Detectives have questioned 50 people since Monday night’s stabbing but found no solid lead. Neighbor Mrs Hannigan reported her collie Buddy barking frantically but saw no one in the yard.
The forecast calls for fair and colder tonight with Thursday remaining fair. In New Mexico extreme east portion will be colder tonight, while West Texas Panhandle stays partly cloudy and cooler, with a brief warmup expected in the Panhandle on Thursday. Temperature readings include Amarillo 55-28, El Paso 66-34, Oklahoma City 62-70-40, and Los Angeles 66-52.
Antonio Mirabal and Antonio Lujan from Tao New Mexico visited President-elect Roosevelt at his New York home to press for a friendly Indian commissioner. Senator Bronson Cutting arranged the meeting and the pair wore Pueblo dress while presenting their case. Prof. J B Nash accompanied them to the Roosevelt mansion.
Washington January 11 AP Speaker Garner said if President Hoover vetoes the Philippine independence bill he would favor an immediate House vote on overriding the veto. He spoke to journalists today outlining the procedural move and timing expectations for Congress.
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and four companions arrived in New Plymouth at 7 p m after a 1200 mile flight from Sydney. A large crowd and about a dozen planes greeted the aviator as his famous aircraft Southern Cross touched down.
Military measures were invoked today in four of six countries rocked by riot or open revolt. In another, the Irish Free State, military action was threatened to quell political fighting.
Western reclamation settlers win backing for a further moratorium on projects. A joint senate and house hearing names subcommittees to draft enabling legislation and consider government advances to sustain maintenance and construction until settlers resume payments. Senate panel named. house panel to be chosen. Local farmers push for a 50 percent cut in farm real estate valuations, arguing values dropped and farms worth less than half. County commissioners doubt state tax commission would permit such a cut.
Geneva report on unemployment cites 30 million jobless worldwide. Leon Jouhaux, general secretary of the French Confederation of Labor, warns that reducing hours without wage cuts is essential. He notes technological unemployment will persist even with industry revival, risking civilization without relief.
Chinese dispatches report 10,003 Japanese troops advancing into Jehol toward Lingyuan with artillery and cavalry from Suichung north of Shan haikwan. The reports, unconfirmed, also mention a possible landing force.
Washington January 11 AP The charge that poor securities were substituted as collateral on Kreuger and Toll securities sold in the United States was made by Chairman Norbeck at the reopening of the senate stock market investigation. Norbeck said bonds were issued on collateral with a written substitution agreement. Durant, partner at Lee Higginson and Co Investment Bankers, testified as the first witness.
California hunger marchers from the state hunger march committee reported to the legislature their unemployment relief demands and left with 255 dollars raised by legislators and spectators at a joint Senate and Assembly meeting. Walter J. Little, speaker of the Assembly, indicated relief proposals may be introduced later in the session.
Amos Alonzo Stagg, veteran football coach, has recovered from a serious attack of bronchial pneumonia and is to leave Medical Arts Sanitarium today for his Chicago home. He was admitted December 30 in serious condition at 71 and has shown a rapid recovery.
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