New Mooney Murder Trial Ordered by Sheriff Ward
A new trial for Thomas J Mooney was ordered by Judge Louis H Ward on grounds defense lawyers sought another chance to acquit him of the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco The case will be tried on a different indictment with the same underlying charge Mooney was previously convicted and sentenced to death but commuted to life by President Wilson The April 26 date was set with the state attorney general to prosecute and Colonel Wood withdrawing from the defense Mooney supporters hope acquittal could lead to a governor pardon The long fight to free Mooney has drawn international attention and spanned years
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San Francisco
Thomas J
Operow
Louis H. Ward
Matthew A. Brady
Ward
State Attorneyeneral
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Mooney
Wood
Mooney Defense Committee
California
James Rolph, Jr
C. C. Young
Music Festival Artsia March 3 and April 1
Eastern New Mexico Music Teachers Association holds a two day festival in Artesia with high school and junior high orchestras from Raton Corona Tularosa Carlsbad Hobbs Lovington Roswell Portales Hagerman Lake Arthur and more rehearsing Wed night through Sat. Junior high and senior high orchestras perform Friday and Saturday evenings with a Reed Choir and All State Orchestra featured. Non profit event, no pay for organizers.
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Eastern New Mexico Music Teachers Association
Artesia
New Mexico
Raton
Corona
Tularosa
Carlsbad
Hobbs
Lovington
Roswell
Portales
Hagerman
Lake Arthur
Eaton
Center
Merl Foster Cramer
Elaine Frazier
J. Oren Wewman
Merl F. Cramer
Robert Campbell
US may not talk war debt with France yet
Secretary Hull said the United States could not declare future discussions with defaulting governments on intergovernmental debts. The remark followed news Paris would start talks with France on war debts on April 12. Also noted were Belgium Estonia Hungary and Poland missing December 15 payments, with Great Britain already in preliminary talks. The State Department aims to back the upcoming world economic conference agenda including gold standard silver foreign exchange rules tariffs and agricultural trade.
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Washington
Hull
United States
Paris
Frangez
France
Belgium
Estonia
Hungary
Poland
Great Britain
Lindsay
State Department
Eastern Star officers elected in New Mexico
Mrs Iona Jones of Clovis was chosen Worthy Grand Matron and Harvey O Garst of Las Cruces Worthy Grand Patron yesterday afternoon. Other officers named include Edith Turner Silver City Associate Grand Matron Ernest M Brickley Carrizzo Associate Grand Patron Jessie M Morgan Artesia Grand Secretary Bertha D Ralph Rincon Grand Treasurer Zoe B Lusk Roswell Grand Conductress Maude C Mulkey Albuquerque Associate Grand Conductress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iona Jones
Clovis
New Mexico
Order of the Eastern Star
Harvey O. Garst
Las Cruces
Edith Turner
Silver City
Ernest M. Brickley
Carrizozo
Jessie M. Morgan
Artesia
Bertha D. Ralph
Rincon
Zoe B. Lusk
Roswell
Maude C. Mulkey
Albuquerque
Jones
Order of Rainbow
Laura Z. Becker
Belen
Eastern Star
Mary Helena Coats
Roswell Assembly
Mary Catherine Waller
Jane Crosby
Louise Lyda
Marjorie White
Frances Long
Edna Malone
Lorraine Lechler
Mary Louise Miller
Lois Perrine
Catherine Puckett
Ethel Coffey
Clara Lambeth
Marguerite Lemp
Sarah Louise Whatley
Mabel Sands
Merle Haynes
Mildred St. John
Caroline Moreland
CL. Bynum
Meteor Thought Fell Along Pecos River in New Mexico
Clovis, March 25 AP report that H N Niniger, curator at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, searches for the giant meteor that flashed across the southwestern sky yesterday. Sightings spanned Texline and Adrian, Texas, with a train crew near Vaughn noting a sudden disappearance northeast of them. Local belief points to a fall near the San Pecos river.
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Clovis
N. M
H. N.niniger
Colorado Museum of Natural History
Niniger
Santa Rosa
Texline
Adrian
Texas
Vaughn
San Pecos River
Roosevelt to decide changes to post office building plans
Washington reports President Roosevelt will determine any changes to public building plans across the United States. Officials call alterations to already authorized post offices guesswork while noting $100 million remains for relief and $30 million planned for next year. treasury funds may be redirected to reforestation without halting the regular building program.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Aleady
Treasury
Baby Drowns in Canal Near Hagerman
Aline Marrs aged two years nine months, daughter of Mrs. Helen Marrs of Hagerman, fell into the Northern Canal while playing near her home about a mile and a half west of Hagerman. A search party recovered the body four and a half hours later five miles downstream. Coroner's inquest ruled accidental drowning with no signs of violence. Funeral services were held at Hagerman cemetery with Rev. Harold Dye officiating.
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Aline Marrs
Helen Marrs
Hagerman
Melrose man sells meteorite for 50 dollars
Charles Groves of Melrose sold a 62 pound meteorite to H. H. Niniger of the Colorado Museum of Natural History for 50 dollars. Niniger traveled to Clovis to inspect area fragments believed to have fallen near Melrose about 200 years ago.
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Melrose
Clovis
N. M
New Mexico
Charles Groves
Groves
H. H. Niniger
Colorado Museum of Natural History
Denver
Niniger
Santa Rosa
Scouts Fire Contests Set for Spring Frolic
Boy Scouts will stage fire by friction and First Aid contests at the Spring Frolic on April 1. About thirty Scouts are expected to participate.
Mills Released From County Jail After Court Order
Anthony J Mills was sentenced to 40 days in Chaves county jail about ten days ago for contempt of court. He was released yesterday by court order and sent to Oklahoma City.
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Anthony J. Mills
Chaves County
Oklahoma City
Eminent Scholar to Speak Here Monday
Professor Clyde Kluckhohn, a noted anthropology scholar and Navajo authority, lectures at the Chaves County Historical and Archaeological Society in the public library at 7 30 Monday night. His talk, Ruins Mules and Canyons in Southern Utah, draws on fieldwork 175 miles south with pack trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Kluckhohn
Chaves Count Historical and Archaeological Society
School of American Research and Museum of New Mexico
University of New Mexico
Rhoads
Oxford
University of Vienna
Utah
Kluckhohn
Curry County to Lose Ten Teachers Next Year
Curry county schools will eliminate 10 teaching positions to meet salary obligations and keep schools open for nine months. Superintendent K C Lea announced the decision made at a joint meeting of the county board and sixteen district boards. 1933-34 budgets were drafted then.
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Clovis
N. M
Curry County
K. C. Lea
County Board of Education
Roswell Ball Club Feasibility Talk With Texas League Contact
A. F. Madison departed for Fort Worth to consult Jack Atz the umpire-in-chief and promotion contact for the Texas League about a proposed Roswell club in the West Texas New Mexico Class D League. Madison will seek Atz's feasibility verdict and organizational guidance and will wire George Foreman chairman of the temporary group with any findings for the Tuesday mass meeting at the Chamber of Commerce.
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A. F. Madison
Ft. Worth
Jack Atz
RosWell
George Foreman
Atz
Chamber of Commerce
Senate panel backs revised reforestation bill
Washington March 235 AP The Senate labor committee agrees to a revised draft of President Roosevelt's bill to provide reforestation work for 250000 unemployed men.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Roosevelt
Farmer Convicted in Slaying of Sheriff Spoul Near Fort Davis
A district court jury in Fort Stockton Texas convicted James Thomas Farmer for the slaying of Jeff Davis County Sheriff Lee Sproul in the mountains near Fort Davis last month. He received seven years in prison.
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Fort Stockton
Texas
James Thomas Farmer
Lée Sproul
Jeff Davis
Fort Davis
Democrats Relieve the Unemployed in Farm Bill Parody
Beverly Hills editorial mocks Congress for rapid relief measures, joking that the farm relief bill created 5,000,000 Democratic detectives and noting two words not heard in three weeks Republican and technocrat. It satirizes lawmakers rushing unemployment relief and farm policy.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Congress
Dry forces organized to fight repeal in state
The Clovis Pastors Association, led by Dr. George M. Hammond of Albuquerque, organized county and precinct dry forces to oppose repeal of state and national prohibition laws. Hammond urged ministers to structure county groups like political parties and to conduct prohibition rallies and name delegates to the state repeal.
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Clovis, N. M
Clovis Pastors Association
George M. Hammond
Albuquerque
Anti-Saloon League
Hammond
Knights Templar officers installed in New Mexico
The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of New Mexico held its annual meeting and installed elective officers W. L. Elser Las Cruces as Grand Commander Lloyd Johnson Baron Deputy Grand Commander Roy G. Robinson Deming Grand Captain General John W. Turner Silver City Grand Generalissimo Harry G. Shelton Albuquerque Grand Senior Warden Thomas J. Hall Roswell Grand Junior Warden Edward R. Paul Santa Fe Grand Treasurer Alpheus A. Keen Albuquerque Grand Secretary. appointive officers L C Rockett Santa Fe Grand Standard Bearer Samuel A. Wood Gallup Grand Sword Bearer Erick R. Kintsel Raton Grand Warden Arthur C. Culver Albuquerque Grand Sentinel. J Temple Rice El Paso installing officer. Peter Cameron Albuquerque past Grand Commander marshal. past commander jewel presented to John W Hanners Albuquerque. representatives from 13 of 16 commanderies attended.
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Knights Templar of
New Mexico
W. L. Elser
Las Cruces
Lloyd Johnson
Baron
Roy G. Robinson
Deming
John W. Turner
Silver City
Harry G. Shelton
Albuquerque
Thomas J. Hall
Roswell
Edward R. Paul
Santa Fe
Alpheus A. Keen
L. C. Rockett
Samuel A. Wood
Gallup
Erick R. Kintsel
Raton
Arthur C. Culver
Grand Sentinel
J. Temple Rice
el Paso
United States
Peter Cameron
Wool merchants inspect Roswell for upcoming season
Arthur H Boutin and Henry W Maginot of Sheldon & Company Wool Merchants Boston are in Roswell on an inspection tour ahead of the wool season. The late Charles G Salter had long represented the firm here, Boutin plans to return soon while Maginot stays as resident buyer at the Nickson Hotel.
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Arthur H. Boutin
Sheldon & Company Wool Merchants
Boston
Massachusetts
Henry W. Maginot
Roswell
Charles G. Salter
Boutin
Mr. Maginot
Nickson Hotel
Simpson Appointed to Scout Executive Board
Claude Simpson has been appointed a member of the Eastern New Mexico Area Council Boy Scouts of America. He fills a vacancy created when Rev. J E Fuller of Alamogordo moved out of the area.
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Claude Simpson
Eastern New Mexico
Boy Scouts of America
J. E. Fuller
Alamogordo
First beer license application filed in Union County
The internal revenue department in Albuquerque received its first beer license application from Farley in Union County. Assistant collector L. B. Thompson said licenses likely won’t be issued soon and refused to divulge the applicant’s name. The office is ready to collect beer tax once New Mexico legalizes beer.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Internal Revenue Department
Farley
Union County
L. B. Thompson
New Mexico
No successor named for McNabb in Santa Fe
Santa Fe March 25 AP Although there is a temporary arrangement there has been no successor named to succeed J A McNabb former chief assistant state comptroller who resigned some time ago Comptroller Juan Vigil said C R Sebastian was acting in Mc Nabb s place but there had been no appointment Several applications have been made for the place but Vigil said he had not gone over them yet.
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B. O. Beall
Beale
State Tax Commission
Santa Fe
Hamed
J. A. McNabb
Juan Vigil
C. R. Sebastian
McNabb
Vigil
Winnie Ruth Judd fate may be decided next week
Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted trunk murderess, may learn next week whether she faces the gallows for the murder of Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Roi or receives clemency. The Arizona board of pardons and paroles weighs her plea to avoid the April 14 execution, with a decision likely arriving soon.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Trunk
Agnes Anne le Roi
Arizona State Board of Pardons and Paroles
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