New Mexico Faces Debentures to Tap Federal Aid
Frank Butt, head of the state highway commission, said New Mexico may have to issue highway debentures to cover a potential 5 400 900 allotment in the federal public works bill unless the federal policy changes. He noted preliminary surveys are required for federal aid and may cost 250 000 to 500 000. the state lacks funds and would need debenture sales. Oil surfacing 300 miles could use funds immediately, but may be limited by employment and federal preferences for dirt roads.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Frank Butt
State Highway Commission
Butt
Commission
Santa Fe
Two prodigies in one family in Chicago
The Xenos family from Chicago features nine year old Joanna who finished grammar school in three years and is now a high school freshman, with four year old Georgia already reading and writing at a high level. Their parents, a Greek father and Austrian mother, lack formal education.
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Chicago
Joanna
Georgia
Baseball Scores Today with Multiple League Results
American League games saw Cleveland beat New York 6 to 1 after nine innings. Detroit defeated Washington 2 to 1. St. Louis topped Philadelphia 6 to 5 with 12 hits. Chicago crushed Boston 27 to 3 in a high scoring game. Batteries listed include Ferrell Spencer Gomez Dickey Rowe Hayworth Whitehill Sewell Blueholder Wells Shea Freitas Grove Cochrane Durham Heaving Grube Pipgras Ferrell.
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Cleveland
New York
Ferrell and Spencer
Gomez
Dickey
RH & St. Louis
Philadelphia
Blueholder, Wells and Shea
Freitas, Closet, Grove and Cochrane
R-H ZB
Chicago
Boston
Durham, Heaving and Grube
Pipgras and
Ferrell
New Taxes To Pay Gusts Of Public Works
Washington May 22 AP The house Ways and means committee approved a program raising income and gasoline taxes to fund a 3 300 06 public works employment bond issue It would raise rates on incomes under 4000 and above 4000 and add a gasoline levy to total 221 million The panel rejected a general manufacturers tax and other proposals Speaker Roosevelt was urged to action on codes for industry and wages
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Lewis W. Douglas
Roosevelt
Coughton
North Carolina Democrat
Treasury
Speeding car injures Artesia man in freak crash
Roy Angley of Artesia was knocked about 50 feet by a speeding automobile over the weekend. He survived with a bruised head and hip after emergency treatment and walked home in little worse than before. The incident stunned witnesses who feared a fatal outcome.
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Artesia
N. M
Roy Angley
Angley
Five Men Die in Drainage Vat at Tannery Site
Newark Newton May 22 AP Five men perished in a drainage vat at Hess and Drucker Tannery. Four workers and a would be rescuer fell into sludge on scaffold. Names include Paul Bosak 25 Stephen Bosak 21 Stephen Remios 28 John Pasmick 33 Leonard Nedelak 28. Medical examiner cites death by suffocation from ir resisting gases.
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Newark
N. J
Hess and Drucker
Paul Bosak
Stephen Bosak
Stephen Remios
John Pasmick
Leonard Nedelak
Bosak
Harrison S. Martland
Roosevelts plan to cut federal jobs and budgets
Washington May 22 AP President Roosevelts plan to reorganize the federal bureaus aims to slash over 300 million dollars from the federal bill this year. The rollback targets include the post office 150 million, commerce 10 million, labor 3 million, with substantial army and navy cuts and possible realignment of functions including a unified transportation bureau.
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Post Office
Department of Commerce
Labor Department
Army
Avy
Bureau of Transportation
Davy to Speak in Roswell on Eight Hour Law May 30
Roswell chamber calls a mass meeting for May 30 at 7 30 pm in the Chaves county court room to discuss the eight hour law. State labor commissioner Ralph E Davy will attend to clarify provisions for proprietors and emergencies.
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Claude Simpson
Roswell
Chamber of Commerce
Davy
Roswell and Dexter Boys to Annapolis
Herbert Lyda of Roswell and Donald L Mehlhop of Dexter have passed entrance examinations for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Lyda graduated Roswell High School and attended New Mexico Military Institute this year. Mehlhop graduated Dexter High School and was valedictorian. They are to report June 15 at Annapolis, with Lyda stopping briefly in Kirksville Missouri en route.
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Herbert Lyda
E. L. Lyda
Roswell
Donald L. Mehlhop
F. L. Mehlhop
Dexter
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Washington
Roswell High School
New Mexico Military Institute
Donald Mehihop
Dexter High School
Kirksville
Missouri
Violin Recital by Pecos Valley Orchestra Thursday Night
The Pecos Valley Orchestra and Band School of Music will present a violin recital at First Methodist Church Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Doriseter Welborne's pupils will perform, including Lou Ella McDowell, Billy Jones, Lewis Weller, William Friend, Elsie Jernigan, William Morosi, Helen Morosi, Jack Deason, Bert Muncy, Dorothy Deason, Elaing Frazier, Edgar Bishop, Cecil Gimnani, Lee Stevenson, Virginia Stevenson, Mary B. Hardin, Wanda Marie Cook, Elnora Gage, Dixon Dan Goode, Jeraldine Smith, and Jose-
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Pecos Valley
Musiic
First Methodist Church
Doriseter Welborne
Lou Ella McDowell
Billy Jones
Lewis Weller
Willam Friend
Elsie Jernigan
William Morosi
Helen Morosi
Jack Deason
Bert Muncy
Dorothy Deason
Elaing Frazier
Edgar Bishop
Cecil Gimnani
Lee Stevenson
1932 Cotton Crop Production Size Report
Washington May 22 AP revised estimates from the department of agriculture put the 1932 cotton crop at 13,002,000 equivalent 500 pound bales in production and 13,001,508 bales ginned with a yield of 173.3 pounds per acre picked.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Indians Headed to Chicago World Fair from New Mexico
Two groups of New Mexico and Arizona Indians travel to Chicago for the World Fair exhibit under Wick Miller of San Ysidro. A Hopi party of 24 adults and 11 children rides in a Santa Fe train car at Winslow, while 30 Navajos including 18 adults join another car at Bernalillo. Burros, hogans, and other items accompany the display train.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Wick Miller
San Ysidro
Winslow
Arizona
Bernalillo
N.S MM
Two Drowned in Colorado River Near Cisco Utah
In Grand Junction Colorado on May 22 AP reports Ethel Landers aged 14 and Thomas Keith aged 23, residents of Mack Colorado, drowned when the boat they were crossing the Colorado River in overturned near Cisco Utah. Searchers from Cisco and Mack scoured the riverbanks Sunday and Monday but recovered no bodies by late afternoon.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Ethel Landers
Thomas Keith
Colorado River
Mack, Colo
Cisco
Utah
Mack
Emerson Watts Sentenced To Serve In Penitentiary
Judge James P. McGhee sentenced Emerson Watts to not less than 15 months nor more than two years in the state penitentiary for embezzlement tied to his former Roswell brokerage firm. Watts, who sought clemency for his family, entered a no contest plea, had recently been released from a veterans hospital, and had a history of eluding authorities after suspicions of funds misappropriation.
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Emerson Watts
James P. McGhee
State Penitentiary
Watts
Harriman May Face Jail Or Bond For Bank Falsification
Joseph W. Harriman, founder of the Harriman National Bank, may have to raise new bail or go to jail while awaiting trial on charges of falsifying his bank's books. Bonding agents plan to seize him after a self inflicted stab wound, as he recovers in a hospital, to invalidate his $25,000 bail under an old ruling. The case was set for trial but delayed for a week with government alleging over ten million in falsifications.
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Watts
Nola E Contendre
McGhee
United States Veterans’ Hospital
Albuquerque
Veterans’ Hospital
Mineola
N. Y
Joseph W. Harriman
Harriman National Bank and Trust Company
Manhattan
Harriman
Roslyn
N.4
Harold R. King
Nassau County
New York
Japanese warn Chinese leaders over Peiping Tientsin plan
Changchun May 22 AP Lieut Gen Kuniaki Koiso chief of staff of Japanese continental armies warned that peace in North China may come soon but if Chinese leaders challenge an invasion of Peiping and Tientsin the Japanese are ready He said Japan will retire if Chinese cease menacing lines but will not occupy Peiping Tientsin or other Chinese territory and that the aim south of the great wall is to destroy Chinese bases of attack reducing threat to Manchukuo border.
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Normal H. Davis
United States
Washington
League of Nations
America
Mr. Davis
Ramsay Na Donald
Versailles
Davis
Roosevelt
Changchun
Manchuria
North China War Zone
Kuniaki Koiso
Peiping
Tientsin
Great Wall
Manchukuo
Supreme Court Test Sift On 3.2 Beer In U S History
Oberlin May 22 AP A four point campaign by the anti saloon league marks its 40th anniversary with a Supreme Court challenge to the legality of 3.2 per cent beer. Howard Russell says three judges already view 3.2 as intoxicating two in lower courts and one in a West Virginia case. The plan includes opposing repeal of the 18th Amendment and electing a dry Congress in 1934.
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Oberlin
United States Supreme Court
Howard Russell
Anti-Saloon League
League
Russell
Columbus
Greeley
Colo
West Virginia
Baseball Box Score Fragments From League Games
Partial box score lines show teams New York Cincinnati Brooklyn Pittsburgh Boston St Louis Philadelphia Chicago with varied inning scores and battery pairs, indicating a compiled ledger of multiple games with pitchers and catchers listed, though many entries are incomplete or misaligned. The fragmentary data includes runs by inning and player pairings such as Schumacher Man cuso Johnson Stout Hemsley Clark Lopez French Chagnon Padden Brandt Hogan Walker Wilson Liska Pearce Collins Davis Grimes Nelson Hartnett Taylor.
Platte Flood Worsens as River Rises Rapidly
The Platte River swelled by flood waters from mountain tributaries and rose over two feet in areas of South Denver. Flood warnings were issued at several points as highway crews reinforced banks to contain the rising water.
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Denver
Platte River
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U.S
Butts
Joanna Xenos
Detroit
Fischer, Rowe and Hayworth
Whitehill and
Sewell
U. S
Geneva
Congress
Wagner
Senate Finance Committee
Switzerland
Americas
Roosevel
N. M. Indians
Chicago Fair
Colorado
Magnolia Station
Rosweil
San Francisco
John C. Peck
Watts- Harrison
British Columbia
Leland Fellows
U. S. Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Schumacher and
Mancuso
Johnson, Stout and Hemsley
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Clark and Lopez
Padden
St. Louis
Brandt and Hogan
Walker and Wilson
Liska
Pearce
Collins
Grimes
Nelson
Hartnett
Taylor
Cooke
Campbell
Platte
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