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Roswell Daily Record

Location

Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1935

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New Deal Eyes Federal Power After NRA Fallout

Washington May 29 AP An effort to pass a constitutional amendment giving the federal government power to regulate working conditions in industry regardless of state lines was seriously discussed in high New Deal circles after the Supreme Court struck down the NRA. Officials considered a long range program to set up a voluntary code structure to replace NRA. President Roosevelt's stance awaited as advisors weigh public announcements. The White House eyes options as the United Mine Workers plan a June 17 nationwide strike affecting 450,000 workers. Negotiations for a new wage contract had collapsed. Business leaders urged voluntary maintenance of NRA wages and practices. Liquor control and AAA amendments loom amid court concerns over federal control. Green and Lewis expressed cautious optimism about a constitutional path, while unions reportedly weighed backing the amendment campaign.

Washington Supreme Court NRA Roosevelt United Mine Workers White House New York Boston Harperey Chamber Commerce of United States Senate Farm Agency High Tribunal Treasury Federal Alcohol Control Administration William Green American Federation of Aacor John L. Lewis Green

Supreme Court ruling shifts glare from Jesse Owens to Humphrey

In Hollywood California the Supreme Court rejected a mortgage relief bill as flawed for farmers. The Frazier Lempke proposal was ruled wrong, and the NRA maneuvered to make it a Republican holiday. Mr. Humphrey, formerly with the FTC, was kept in a key post despite party ties, widening the court’s attention away from Jesse Owens.

Holywood Cal Supreme Court Frazier-Lempke Frazier Lempke NRA Humphrey Federal Trade Commission The Jesse Owens

Memorial Day Service Here

Memorial Day service set for tomorrow at ten o clock in South Park under the joint auspices of United Spanish War Veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars American Legion and Disabled American Veterans The program includes invocation by Rev UWhald Gettysburg Address by Claude J Neis solo There Is No Death sung by Harriet Poorbaugh address by Dr A D Crile song Tenting Tonight Benediction by Rev Benjamin F Eitelgeorge taps by Dick Gardner and graves decorated by the American Legion Auxiliary

South Park United Spanish War Veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars The American Legion Disabled American Veterans America H. H. Lewis Uwhald Lincoln Claude J. Neis Benjamin F. Eitelgeorge Taps Dick Gardner American Legion Auxiliary

Clean-Up Week Proclamation Issued by Roswell Mayor

Mayor Jack E. Moore proclaims May 30 to June 6 as Clean-Up Week in Roswell. The notice urges residents to cooperate in cleaning and beautifying premises, highlighting seasonal rain aiding plant growth and city pride in cleanliness.

Roswell Jack E. Moore City of

Army to Probe Fatal Crash in Sequoia Park

An official army inspection was ordered for Friday to investigate the bomber crash near Giant Forest Sequoia National Park California. The bomber from Hamilton Field attached to the 31st Bombardment Squadron with two aviators and two motion picture newsreel men killed. Names given: Lieut Edgar W Root Private Guy F Porter Allyn P Alexander Lewis S Tappan.

Sequoia National Park Calif Hamilton Field C.C.C Edgar W. Root Birmingham Ala Guy F. Porter Kansas City Allyn P. Alexander San Francisco Fox News Lewis S. Tappan

Roswell School Orchestra Holds First Summer Practice

Sixty pupils attended the first summer practice of the Roswell school orchestra at the junior high school under the direction of Mrs. Helen Noah.

Roswell School Helen Noah

Prospects for water at Carlsbad improve

Carlsbad New Mexico May 29 L E Foster superintendent of the Carlsbad reclamation project said there is 19000 acre feet of water in Lake McMillan and Lake Avalon reservoirs for the irrigation district. This amount is 7000 acre feet more than measured in storage at this time last year. He described prospects for irrigation in the district as good.

Carlsbad N. M L. E. Foster Lake McMillan Lake Avalon Foster

State narcotics law loosely drawn in Santa Fe ruling

Assistant Attorney General Edward P. Chase said in Santa Fe that the narcotics law, though loosely drawn, could be used to prosecute marijuana cases. He urged the health department to propose amendments at the next legislative session to fix the fault, as conveyed to Dr. J. Rosslyn Earp, state health director.

Santa Fe Edward P. Chase J. Rosslyn Earp Chase Health Department

Johnson Returns to White House Advising on Codes of Fair Practice

Hugh S. Johnson, first NRA administrator, rejoined Presidential advisory circle and began drafting a tentative plan to regulate industry under fair practice codes. The move follows Supreme Court rulings. proposal would empower FTC to suspend antitrust provisions and permit voluntary industry labor codes with a Blue Eagle insignia.

New York Hugh S. Johnson NRA

San Diego Opens Its Exposition

San Diego California May 29 AP The southwestern city opened the California Pacific Exposition at Balboa Park after half a year of planning and a $15,000,000 effort. Gates were to swing wide shortly before noon as the world was invited to witness a story of progress spanning four centuries and reaching into the future.

San Diego Calif Balboa Park

Baseball Scores from Today's American League Games

New York 12 1 Washington 0 0 Batteries Ruffing and Dickey Burke Bean and Boton. RHE Philadelphia 10 0 0 4 1 9 13 4 Boston 0 0 1 0 0 8 ix?10 103 Batteries Dietrich Cascarella Caster Mahaffey Berry Rhodes Pipgras Walberg Welch Berg.

New York Washington Ruffing Dickey Burke Bean Boton Philadelphia Boston Dietrich Cascarella Caster Mahaffey Berry Rhodes Pipgras Walberg Welch Berg

Baseball doubleheader results with mixed scores

Boston delivered three quick runs in the first, then 100 and 6 in later frames to lose 8 1. Philadelphia struggled with 661 while Cincinnati and St Louis battled with 1 4 1 and 1 0 0. Batteries featured Brandt Smith Hogan Spohrer Jorgens E Moore Johnson Wilson for Boston and Schott Lombardi Walker Davis for Cincinnati St Louis.

RHE Boston Philadelphia Brandt Smith Hogan Spohrer Jorgens E. Moore Johnson and Wilson St. Louis Schott and Lombardi Walker and Davis

Home Run Leaders Today From Major Leagues

Dahlgren of Boston American. Berger of Boston National. Wilson of Philadelphia National. Ruffing of New York American. Gehrig of New York American. Amn and Natl league players highlighted as home run leaders in today’s standings.

Dahlgren Bos Amn Berger Bos Natl Wilson Pha Natl Ruffing NY Amn Gehrig

Governor pardons Santa Fe man in April conviction

Santa Fe May 29 AP governor pardons T. J. Fogel who was sentenced in April in Albuquerque to four months in jail and a $300 fine with the jail term suspended on payment of the fine. The pardon was signed today by the governor.

Santa Fe T. J. Fogel Albuquerque

Albuquerque plumbers vote to continue NRA code

Albuquerque contractors in a meeting led by John Strumquist agreed to continue operating under the NRA code. The May 29 gathering reaffirmed adherence to the code provisions for the plumbing and heating trades in the city.

Albuquerque N. M Plumbing Contractors of John Strumquist State Plumbing and Heating Code Authority

Steinmetz Guilty Of Manslaughter In Hotel Slaying

Joseph L. Steinmetz, 22, a Divinity student from New York, was convicted of first degree manslaughter for killing his 17 year old bride in a hotel room. He faces up to 25 years in prison, with a mercy recommendation from the duty judge.

New York Joseph L. Steinmetz Hollywood Calif

PLAN RELIEF WORK FOR WHITE COLLAR WORKERS

Washington May 29 AP Un employed professional and clerical workers would be put to work examining income tax returns and idle building tradesmen would be given construction jobs at army posts in 23 states under work relief proposals made public today Formal requests for funds to carry out these projects were included in $65,956,816 of work relief applications announced by the applications division of the emergency council While still more applications poured in from federal departments municipalities and the states the government sought to move nearer an actual start of its program of substituting jobs for the dole.

Washington Emergency Council

Rotary Party At The Country Club

The Roswell Rotary Club will hold a ladies night on Thursday June 6 at the Country Club replacing the club meeting next week. The regular noon meeting is canceled due to Memorial Day observance tomorrow.

Roswell

Two Sentenced In District Court For Burglary And Theft

Judge James B. McGhee ordered Ramon Pino to 1 to 2 years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to burglary at Mak in's Dry Goods Store with a broken front door entry. Ethel Bogart received 1 to 2 years for theft from the Herbert Joyce home, with the sentence suspended until further order.

James B. McGhee Ramon Pino Makin McGhee Ethel Bogart Herbert Joyce

Scout Commissioners Meet Here Tomorrow

Boy Scout commissioners will hold an all day meeting here tomorrow. Commissioners are expected from Grady Clovis Roswell Hobbs Carlsbad and Cottonwood. Yesterday the Boy Scout area executive board met here and authorized holding Boy Scout circuses early next fall in each district center.

Boy Scout Grady Clovis Rosswell Hobbs Carlsbad Cottonwood Boy Scout Area Executive Board

Boy Scout Rally at Haynes Park Saturday Afternoon

A Boy Scout rally will be held at Haynes Park this Saturday afternoon starting at three o'clock. Over 100 Roswell Scouts are expected to participate with some from Dexter and Hagerman. Events include tent pitching, matching, potato race, fire by friction, compass relay, fire by flint and steel, first aid, knot tying and patrol yells. Awards will be given for first to third places.

Haynes Park Roswell Dexter and Hagerman

City Trucks Delay Trash Haul Until Friday

Memorial Day forces a Friday start for general cleanup as city crews accelerate removal of alley debris. Clyde Fulton reports strong public compliance and city officials’ approval. Chamber of Commerce beautification urges cleaning vacant lots to improve blocks.

Clyde Fulton Chamber of Commerce

McConvery's Side Era Case Is Presented

Santa Fe May 29 AP Fur ther action by Attorney General Frank H Patton in the controversy between the New Mexican Publishing Corp and the state relief administration regarding printing contracts was taken under advisement after a hearing today J C McConvery manager of the printing company presented his case It was stipulated he was not a stockholder or officer of the corporation but merely an employee whose salary was not affected by the contracts and that he received no salary for acting as treasurer of the Child Welfare Bureau or the relief administration He produced exhibits showing work his company had done on purchase orders issued by the relief administration and bids for about 75 percent of all work done by his company

Santa Fe Frank H. Patton New Mexican Publishing Corp State Relief Administration Patton J. C. McConvery Printing Company McConvery The Relief Administration

Russell Speaks To The Ad Club In Kansas City

James L. Russell quảng advertising counselor spoke at the Advertising Club on a fine talk promoting well balanced campaigns. He urged merchants to explain goods’ quality and hidden values and called newspapers the best advertising medium. A Sunday day party at the Country Club was announced with golf, supper, and entertainment.

James L. Russell Kansas City Advertising Club Merchants’ Association Russell Hinton Wilmot Judson Goodart B. B. Wilson George Owens Claude Simpson Roswell

Roswell Merchants Plan June Good Will Tour to Lea County

Roswell businessmen and their ladies will embark June 18 on a good will tour visiting Tatum Lovington and Hobbs. The trip includes the Roswell high school band, scheduled to perform in each city, with about twenty five cars required and a truck for instruments. James L Russell of Kansas City spoke on merchandising and advertising urging simple copy and a five percent advertising budget, mostly for newspapers. 53 merchants attended the Cham ber of Commerce meeting at Nickson Coffee Shop.

Roswell Tatum Lovingston and Hobbs Merchants’ Association Nickson Coffee Shop Merchants Committee Chamber of Commerce Dick Davis Claude Simpson Will Purdy Wesley Foster Ed Williams Lovington Lea County Russell James L. Russell Kansas City Paul Wilmot Merchants’ Committee The A. F. Madison

No Word Today Of Walker Escaped Convict

Santa Fe officials said they still had no word on the whereabouts of Jack Walker the penitentiary water boy who used a plumbing ruse to escape Monday night. Walker a life term for bank robbery vanished after shutting off a fire hydrant valve while a guard watched nearby.

Santa Fe Jack Walker Walker

Our Little Girl Contest Announced at Yucca Theatre

A Roswell Daily Record notice invites mothers to write a letter about their little girl for the Our Little Girl contest. Letters must be under 200 words and submitted to the contest manager at Yucca Theatre for a chance to win two Shirley Temple tickets. The contest closes Tuesday afternoon with daily published letters.

Yucca Theatre Management Shirley Temple Yucca Theatre Roswell Daily Record

Richardson Services To Be Held Thursday

Funeral services for Mrs. J. R. Richardson who died yesterday afternoon in Roswell will be held Thursday at four o clock at Ballard Chapel. Julian Atwood will lead with music by the First Baptist Choir and Mrs. Walter Harrison singing In The Garden. Casket bearers are J. B. Savage A. A. Anderson Jack Havens and W. C. Thomas. Interment will be at South Park under Ballard Funeral Home. She was 53, born Hattie Alice Emert August 3 1881 in Severnsville Tennessee. She married J. R. Richardson thirty eight years ago and four children were born two of whom survive: Mrs. Paul Godsell and Jack Richardson both of Roswell. Her husband also survives. She had lived in Roswell since 1919 and leaves many friends.

J. R. Richardson Roswell Ballard Chapel Julian Atwood First Baptist Church Walter Harrison J. B. Savage A. A. Anderson Jack Havens W. C. Thomas South Park Ballard Funeral Home Richardson Severnsville Tennessee Hattie Alice Emert Paul Goodsell Jack Richardson

Weyerhaeuser ransom deadline looms in Tacoma

In Tacoma on May 29 1935 two wealthy Weyerhaeuser uncles from Minnesota arrived amid tense activity as the family seeks to raise 200000 dollars for nine year old George Weyerhaeuer abducted last Friday. Police and family members moved quickly with notes and letters while media attention mounted awaiting tonight's deadline.

Tacoma Weyerhaeuser Minnesota George Weyerhaeuser Frederick Rudolph Weyerhaeuser J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr Weyerhaeuser Timber Seattle Percy Minnie Mrs. Weyerhaeuser Associated Press Wash John Philip Weyerhaeuser J. Rodman Titcomb Titcomb

Mrs. Kessell Is Home from Birmingham Visit

Mrs. Kessell and her daughter Thelma Janis returned home after several weeks in Birmingham Alabama visiting her sister and mother from New York. On the return trip they spent two days with Mr and Mrs Cleo Dawson formerly of Roswell now residing in Shreveport Louisiana.

Mrs. Norton Kessell Thelma Janis Birmingham Alabama Mrs. Kessell New York

They Liked the Town and They Stayed in Roswell

J. W. Owens and his wife moved to Roswell after visiting two weeks earlier. Owens, once a Wichita Falls resident, was so impressed with the town that they decided to settle there permanently.

J. W. Owens Wichita Falls Texas Roswell

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