The Coolidge examiner., 1931-03-13
Southwest News Items

January, 1881, motor vehicle license
fee collections amounting to $780,
223.63 was distributed recently among
the countie of the state of New Mexico.
The Trinity Presbyterian Church at
Tucson expects to break ground in the
| near future for the erection of $780,
600 edifice.
Plans may be developed for the con-
struction of new hangar and gasoline
system, costing approximately $4,000
at the Tucson airfield.
New Mexico Normal University and
State Teachers College were both
given the highest classification In the
American Association of Teachers
Colleges in the convention at Detroit,
Mich.
Jesus Macias, who was found guilty
of murder in the first degree in Mi
ami, Ariz., by superior court jury,
which recommended life imprison-
ment, has asked for retrial. Macias
was tried for the murder of Enrique
Hernandez on the night of Nov. 5, last
year.
A superior court jury in Globe aG-
quilted John H. Welch, Miami officer,
of a charge of numbering Martin Lo-
pez last July 4. Following Lopez
death Welch was exonerated by cor
oner's jury but the case was reopened
at the request of the Mexican govern.
ment of which Lopez was a citizen.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the New Mexico Cattle Growers
Association is to be held on March 3
and 4. An attractive program is being
prepared covering all the important
phases of the many vital problems
which affect the cattle industry at this
| time.
Comparing favorably with the rec
ords of the last several years, more
than 20 million dollars will be ex-
pended in new construction and de-
velopment projects in Arizona in 1881,
according to figures assembled by the
Arizona Industrial Congress in Phoe-
nix.
Charles R. Foster, youthful hitch
hiker of Clayville, Pa, who was SEN
fenced to be hanged in the penitenti-
ary at Florence, Ariz., was saved from
death by Pinal county, Ariz., Su-
perior Court jury which found him in
sane. Foster was convicted at Tomb
stone, Ariz., in 1929 for killing Martin
Parko of Los Angeles, Calf, near
Benson, Ariz.
Arizona laid before the United
States Supreme Court in Washington
its contentious that the court should
decide on it's merits the states suit
to prevent construction of Hoover dam
on the Colorado river. The volumin-
Gus brief filed by K. Berry Peterson,
attorney general, opposed motions to
dismiss the proceedings presented by
California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexi-
CO, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary
Wilbur.
The Tigers Claw, of the Ration High
School, has undertaken a large task
in the forming of New Mexico Schol
astic Pres Association for school pa
pers of New Mexico. A convention
has been called for the 10th and 18th
of April to be held in Ration, at which
time delegates from the different
schools will meet and discuss matters
relative to school papers. There will
| : 2 two divisions in the association, the
high school division and the college
| paper.
Dead E. D. Ball, head of the college
of agriculture of the University of Ari-
zona, in addition to administrative
duties, still finds time to continue his
| important studies in entomology. DR..
Ball has the largest collection of leaf
| hopperS in the United States and his
extensive research work with this
group led to the discovery that plant
diseases are transmitted by insects.
| At the present time Dr. Ball is prepar-
ing some new publications on the Ari
zona leafhopper.
| Arizona births during 1880 exceeded
deaths by more than 35 per cent, ac
cording to the vital statistics report re-
leased by the state superintendent of
public health in Phoenix. Births
totaled 1928 over the twelve-month
period and deaths numbered GALS.
White children numbered 5,146, 1883
were Mexican, TAI Indian, 200 were
other races, including negro, and 236
were of mixed parentage. The report
shows 181 persons were killed in auto
mobile accidents in Arizona last year.
Without uttering a sound and with
faint, wistful smile on her lips, Irene
Schroeder, 22-year-old "gun girl'' and
thrill slayer" died in the electric
chair in Bellefonte, Pa. She was fol
lowed to the chair by Glenn Dague, her
sweetheart and partner in crime. In
January Deputy Sheriff Joe Chapman
at Florence, Ariz., was Kidnapped by
the woman and two men Arizona Of