The Coolidge examiner., 1930-12-12
SOUTHWEST NEWS
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son Will be pastor. A ScnOOl Is
planned in connection with the church.
Both will be ready Jan. l.
Zane Grey, novelist. responding to
an invitation by Gov D. c. Dillon, has
written 20 the executive that he will
leave Arizona and come to New Mex
leo TO seek material for another book
after he has written for another book
he assembled the material in New
Mexico a short time ago
MandamuS action in which the Ari-
zOna Industrial Commission sought to
compel Gov. j. c. Phillips and Charles
R. Price, Arizona treasurer, to ap-
prove certain wage increases granted
commission employees, was dismissed
by the Arizona Supreme Court in
Phoenix
The Southern Pacific railroad has
announced that the Arizona corpora
tion commission has accepted an ap-
pliCation to lower the rate on news
paper shipped as baggage from Phoe-
nix, Globe and Tucson to all points
will be cut from 81 to 80 cents.
A new type of grain sorghum
Beaver MIlo-produced largely in
eastern New Mexico, parts of Texas
and Oklahoma, is in the first seed
list just completed by the New Mex.
leo Crop Improvement Association, ao
cording to George r. Quesenberry,
agronomist at the New Mexico A. and
NJ. College in Las Crucis.
A novelty exhibition, prehistoric
tracks of ancient elk and camel, are
now being displayed at the Arizona
state museum at Tucson. These tracks,
imprinted in limestone. were taken
from the MOenkopi wash near Tuba
City in the northern part of Arizona
and were uncovered by a university
class studying archaeology
Completing the last link of an ocean.
to-ocean all-year highway from Nor.
folk. Va, to Los Angeles, Z. S. High
way so from Amarillo, Texas, across
Arizona by way of Springerville,
Globe, Phoenix. Wickenburg to Blythe.
has been designated as part of the
route. H. b. Watkins, general man
ager of the Phoenix Chamber of Com
merce has been advised.
The Valley Bank & Trust Company
of Phoenix has purchased 5000, 900
worth of bonds from the Pima county,
Ariz., board of supervisors, for oiling
forty-three miles of highway and
building seven bridges. The Valley
Bank and Trust Company submitted
its bid jointly with the Harris Trust
& Savings Bank of Chicago. The
bonds will bear Az per cent.
Probably the first conviction to be
secured against an individual under
the Arizona libel laws resulted when
a jury in Superior Court in st. Johns,
Ariz., returned verdict of guilty
against William Wahl, who was SEN
fenced by Judge Dudley Windes to
pay fine of $3.50 or to serve $50 days
in the county Jail if the fine remains
unpaid.
H. Charles Roehl, former New Mex
leo motor vehicle commissioner, was
found not guilty of perjury before
the Bernalillo county grand jury that
investigated the robbery of the Motor
Vehicle License Bureau in the Ber.
nalillo county courthouse last Decem-
Der. The jurys verdict was returned
by a Lordsburg. N. NJ, jury after it
had deliberated for two hours and fif-
teen minutes.
A battle with clubs which brought
death to one Apache Indian on the
White River Reservation came to
light in a hearing before United States
Commissioner J. F. Hechtman in Mi
ANA. Lynn Jennay, White river
Apache quoted by investigators as
having admitted beating to death
John Bone, is in the ella county jail
at Globe. He has been held by Com
missioner Hechtman for Federal
Court.
The decision of the New Mexico
Supreme Court recently to reopen the
case of Woo Oak San for another
hearing has given the condemned Chi
nese at least a five-months new lease
on life AT least that much time will
be required before the briefs will all
be presented to the court Woo Oak
San was to have been electrocuted
in the New Mexico state penitentiary
on Nov IA for the killing of a Chi
nese groceryman in Silver City.
Holmer Dilbeck, mechanic, was ex-
| onerated by a coroner's jury in AL
buQuerque of blame for the death of
Justo Garcia near Albuquerque in an
auto collision. Dilbeck's car struck
the rear end of a truck from which
Garcia was dismounting Dilbeck's
release was ordered by the district
attorney after evidence before the
coroners jury developed that Dilbeck
was not intoxicated or driving reck-
lessly as had been alleged and that
the truck was being driven after dark
without lights being displayed