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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1939
Page
5
A strike riot at Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee injures more than a dozen as deputy sheriffs deploy gas bombs after workers attempt to push a street car through the crowd. Pickets answer with stones and window damage. the walkout began days earlier when CIO and AU W called a work holiday to pressure a new contract.
State comptroller C R Sebastiani said he meant it when he told state institutions and departments to take a 10 percent cut with their next budgets. He noted prompt returns failing to show reductions, citing Eastern New Mexico Junior College, state fair commission and Carrie Tingley hospital. The junior college has promised to comply. elective-official salaries would be deducted first from appropriations before cutting the remainder, though salaries set by the constitution cannot be reduced.
Helen Dettweiler of Washington DC won the women's Western Open in St. Louis with a 4 and 3 victory over defending champion Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis. Marriage licenses issued to Harvey Emerson and Winona Belmstetler of Roswell along with Robert P. Kirk of Hot Springs and Frances Newberry McClure of Roswell.
Vice President Garner plans to return to his Uvalde Texas home in July as debate over neutrality legislation stretches the congressional session. Friends say he will vacation in Texas and fish streams, avoiding active efforts to rally delegates for 1940. If he leaves sessions early, he may be on call to return. Senator Pittman would preside in his absence.
Santa Fe New Mexico June 17. Women in hotels and restaurants are not domestics in law says state labor commissioner Vincent Jaeger after a tour of the east side. He will enforce the new hour law for women and include hotel maids and restaurant waitresses. Employers resisting will face court. His next trip will cover southwestern New Mexico.
Wilbur Coen Jr, who toppled second seed Wayne Sabin of Portland in the quarterfinals, meets Frankie Parker of Pasadena in the Triple A tennis semi finals at St. Louis. Gene Mako and Johnny Doeg contest the other semi after Doeg beat Douglas Imhoff 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-2.
Santa Fe June 17 The state finance board and Governor Miles prepared mid month paychecks for state employees to meet a $328 000 estimated deficit in the general fund. Actions included proposing $200 000 in casual indebtedness certificates and counting on $128 000 in delinquent taxes. The plan sparked questions about constitutional limits on casual borrowing. The board also restored an $11 000 UNM budget cut, ordered a 10 percent budget safeguard at the health department, transferred 14 800 from the motor vehicle fund to the state police fund, and authorized Springer school to issue bonds for WPA project participation.
Forest officials from the Soil Conservation Service CCC and regional foresters warned that most fires were man caused and urged strict care with cigarettes in woods. Falls Creek fire near Las Vegas, New Mexico, was controlled after about 500 fighters battled lines. other fires across Colorado and New Mexico threatened large areas, with hundreds more CCC enrollees and volunteers drafted to contain the blazes amid high winds and dry conditions.
A blaze erupted at the John C. Oldham ranch with flames leaping to nearby timber as strong winds carried embers up to half a mile. Fire lines failed and new fires started, forcing crews to fight the blaze from the sides rather than the front due to rapid spread.
New York June 17 commander Edward Ellsberg, noted diver, dismissed sabotage theories behind the Squalus Thetis and Phenix sinkings as unlikely. He argued crews are small, access limited, and foreign agents improbable, attributing the disasters to coincidence. He also notes the salvage work on S-51 and his naval academy background. In Baltimore, June 17, a separate case sees the school board pressing a probe into branding a Jewish student. Melvin Bridge, 14, says he was marked with an H by classmates. The grand jury dismissed related assault charges against Morton Rosen, 19, amid tensions and retaliatory accusations.
George W. Armijo, speaker of the New Mexico House in the 14th legislature, says he will not seek appointment to the capitol building commission. He cites inability to guarantee jobs for Santa Fe unemployed and adherence to constitutional spirit in withdrawing.
Washington Huskies capture the two mile freshman race opening the Hudson regatta with a time of 9 minutes 31 seconds. They edged Columbia by about a third of a length, while Cornell, Syracuse, California, and Wisconsin followed. Columbia 9 32 5, Cornell 9 38 4 5.
The New Mexico Portland Cement Company protests possible abandonment of Santa Fe San Juan and northern trackage from San Ysidro to La Ventana. The State Corporation Commission has it under advisement. A district court ruled rails and ties of the bankrupt line belonged to the Santa Fe railroad, while the cement firm argues tearing up the track would harm its potential regional properties.
In a community event, Mrs Rolla Hinkle received a bouquet of daisies for her outdoor living room display as part of the city beautification contest. The judges praised thoughtful arrangement and integration with garden spaces highlighting local effort.
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