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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
1
House Democratic leaders prepare to push legislation backed by Gold proponents. The measure aims to advance monetary policy or financial reform, with ongoing debate and priority in the legislative agenda.
Rotary program covers Warm Springs Foundation fundraiser at Cahoon Armory Roswell with music by Gus Lemp Tommy Adams and tickets by Tom Hall plus a radio broadcast of Roosevelt speech. Speakers include Col Pearson Arthur Farnsworth Monroe Doctrine analyst Ross Malone Jr. endorsing Roosevelt policy shift away from Caribbean interventions.
New York reports three women survivors of the yacht Alamyth were hurled to safety by sailors in a life boat after the vessel sank off Barnegat. The Gulfland stood by and transferred survivors to the cutter Thetis amid raging seas, while the rest of the crew rode out the disaster. The tale ends with the Alamyth abandoned, engines drowned, and rescue underway.
Albuquerque Jan 18 AP The proposed business tax from the State Federation of Taxpayers Associations follows UNM professors study. It seeks to broaden the tax base to property persons and business and to spread the burden rather than raise new revenue. The plan labels the tax a levy on the privilege of doing business in the state. Out of state branches would pay in proportion to business done. It proposes repealing several existing business taxes including occupation oil severance and lubricating oil taxes while keeping gasoline and inheritance taxes. The report notes the ad valorem tax would remain.
The town rants about the 60 cent dollar, greeting a familiar debate with fresh passion. The writer teases readers, hints at Greta Garbo seen in the Arizona desert under alias Jones, with a mysterious companion named Brown, before promising to switch to other news.
C J Wright of Sunnyside Grocery Roswell completed a 30 day fast from December 2, 1933 to January 2, 1934 to treat catarrhal condition and improve health. He weighed 169.5 pounds at start and 134 pounds at finish, later regaining 10 pounds in 16 days. Wright says fasting clears poisons and cites prior fasts with Professor K Feige as precedent.
Silver City New Mexico January 19 AP The fourth annual conference of unit presidents and secretaries of the New Mexico Department of the American Legion Auxiliary closed without any resolution or statement on the chapter dispute involving the Legion. The group decided not to set a date or place for this year's convention to avoid the controversy. The Charter suspension does not affect Auxiliary operations in the state as advised by National Legion Judge Advocate Remster Bingham. The state Auxiliary has 428 members as the conference closed with committee reports and program ideas.
Havana date shows Carlos Mendieta a 60 year old physician statesman and revolutionary chosen by acclamation to lead Cuba after a rapid succession of short tenure presidents. Hevia resigned after only 40 hours leaving the office vacant overnight. Mendieta’s accession ends a brief interregnum and begins a new Cuban presidency amid upheaval.
Salt Lake City January 18 AP Discussion of federal control of public range lands in the western states continued at the National Wool Growers Association meeting. Leaders urged a unified stand on the Taylor bill and featured talks on range rehabilitation, grazing regulation, and federal credit programs for sheepmen.
A Roswell Lions Club effort, aided by city firemen and volunteers, distributed hundreds of repaired toys to poor children on Christmas morning. The photo shows firefighters finishing repairs before loading the toys for tagging and delivery. Names of helpers include P. D. Taylor, Glenn Horton of Horton Transfer Company, John Mayhew, and John Minton.
Secretary Wallace told a Senate Agriculture Committee that eight months of the farm adjustment act's operation prove it can work. He noted near unanimous compliance by contracted farmers and cited wheat, cotton, and tobacco with cooperative production control, while admitting milk marketing plans were not fully carried out. He also foresaw longer term plans offering more farm flexibility.
General H A Ingalls, president of the Sth Corps Area Reserve Officers Association, and his son H A Ingalls Jr left this morning for Dallas Texas to attend a reserve officers conference. They expect to return Saturday night.
Shanghai reports the steamship Pooan looted by pirates near Tsingtao last Saturday arrived with ten passengers aboard. one dead, nine kidnapped. Pirates, incensed by a hoax involving funeral banknotes, seized the vessel after producing revolvers.
Fair conditions across New Mexico Colorado Wyoming Nebraska Kansas and West Texas with colder pockets in the north and east. Temperatures in Amarillo 58 to 32 Denver 51 to 32 El Paso 54 to 30 Kansas City 56 to 38 and Phoenix 72 to 38, other cities show similar mild to cool changes.
Senator Hatch was advised by relief administrator Hopkins that rotation and staggering of employment will be permitted on relief projects in rural counties and towns under 2 500 residents in New Mexico. Workers must log a minimum of 15 hours weekly, enabling double the number of people to benefit without extra funds.
St Paul Jan 18 AP police announce kidnappers abducted Edward G Bremer son of Adolph Bremer wealthy St Paul brewer and banker executive after he returned from Chicago. Kidnappers seized him with his car while escorting his eight year old daughter to Summit grade school and demanded $200000 ransom.
Nine sailors’ bodies washed ashore at Vlinhorst confirming the fate of the Oakford crew after the British steamer ran aground near Texel. The ship had ten crew. the tenth is feared dead. Dutch lifeboat found the deserted vessel, suggesting the men attempted a small-boat reach to shore.
Two fires in Knoxville and Chicago caused severe damage on January 18. Morrill Hall at the University of Tennessee, one of its oldest buildings, was razed with damage estimated around 300 thousand dollars. In Chicago, Casa Granada a South Side night life venue, was largely destroyed with losses near 234 thousand dollars.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his Antarctic expedition arrived at Little America today aboard the flagship via MacKay Radio. Communication was hampered by static and a blizzard forced slower travel last night. today the Ross Sea region's weather improved as the crew prepared to assess the site Byrd established four years earlier.
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