The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-14
Southwest News Items

providing the State Pardon Board
does not grant clemency.
The Arizona Association of County
Supervisors, meeting in annual con-
ference in Douglas, Ariz., adopted
resolution calling upon the Eleventh
Arizona Legislature to adopt laws tax
ing incomes and intangible property.
Three northern Arizona towns re-
ceived a slight earthquake recently.
No damage was done. The quake
shook Flagstaff, Williams and Maine
The disturbance was recorded on the
seismograph at the geodetic survey in
Tucson.
Vice President F. A. Nathan of the
Arizona-Texas League, raised his voice
in support of President Allan Stew
arts recent dictum the fourteen-play-
er rule would be enforced strictly.
Clubs violating the technicalities of
the rule, Nathan said, will be fined.
Self-defense is claimed by Harry
Tinsley, service station owner at Fort
Thomas, who is in the Graham coun-
ty Jail at Stafford, charged with first
degree murder of Belva G. West. A
fatal shooting occurred at Tinsley's
service station, twenty-seven miles
west of Stafford.
New Mexico employers who do not
intend to operate under the work
mems compensation act, must in the
contracts with their employees. in
writing, indicate that the provisions
of the act are not intended to apply,
Assistant Attorney Frank H Patton
has informed State Labor Commits
sioner Ralph E. Davy.
Three voluntary petitions in bank
ruptcy were filed in Federal Court in
Santa Fe recently. Frank Oldfield,
clerk and former merchant of Clay
ton, listed debts of S4,671.76 and as
sets of $2,426.48. William Albert
Welty, Albuquerque realtor, listed
debts of $9,216 and assets of $3.50.
Mrs. Annie B. Welty, his wife, listed
the same debts and assets.
Petitions of citizens from Williams
for mercy for their mayor, Bob Thurs
ton, sentenced TO serve six months in
Jail and pay a fine of $500 for viola,
ton Of the national prohibition laws,
failed to move Federal District Judge
Fred c. Jacobs of Prescott. 1T would
have been better" the court said, eff
the petitioner had not spent his time
and money trying to influence the
court"
Arizona life insurance policyholders
and beneficiaries received $3,200,000
from life insurance companies in
1880, a decrease of $670,000 or 211
per cent, from the amount paid in
1929, says THE National Underwater
Insurance Press" New Mexico policy
holders and beneficiaries received SO.
100000 from life insurance companies
in 1880, an increase of $270,000 or Sc
per cent over the amount paid in 1929.
The G. o. S. ranch, most famous of
southwestern cattle properties. which
came into existence in 1885 as the re-
suit of an experiment by G. o. Smith
and Vic Culberson with 121 head of
wise the two c ranch gains a nev
boss. Both properties were relin-
quished by the SapelIo Holding Com
pany in deals closed in Silver City,
N. NJ, recently.
The Zia sun symbol, which for
years has given New Mexico the most
distinctive automobile license plate
among the forty-eight states, is to be
dropped off the 1882 auto plates
State Comptroller ]. NJ. Lujan an
nounced in Santa Fe that the 1882
The sun symbol, familiar to all New
MeXicans, but constant source of
curiosity to all outsiders, will be
dropped off, and in it's place the words
Sunshine State" will be printed.
The Miami Evening Bulletin and
the Daily Miami Silver Belt have been
changed from daily publications to
the weekly field, and the Arizona Rec
ord of Globe has taken similar steps.
The latter will be Il semi-weekly.
This leaves the GlobeMiami district
without daily publication for the
first time in forty years. Curtailment
of production by the three big copper
companies here, and the low price of
the red metal were given as the rea-
sons for the changes.
Possibility that an Indian was not
responsible for the murder of Henri
eta Schmerler, Columbia Universit
coed, was gathering momentum as
federal authorities investigating the
mysterious Staying admitted them
selves without clues. Intensive inves-
LEGATIONS have been carried on since
the anthropology students body was