The Coolidge examiner., 1931-11-27
Southwest News Items

creamery or condensing plant in Ar
tesla.
w. p Hardaway, former manager
of the Phoenix U. S. Veterans bureau,
is returning to Phoenix from Wash
ington, d. c., succeeding E. r. Bencke.
Hardaway was transferred to Wash
ington eighteen months ago, being
succeeded by Bencke.
William Bowmaster, patient at the
Veterans Administration hosital,
Fort Bayard, n. NJ, was burned to
death at his home on the La Mesa
ranch north of Silver City. Bowmaster
was on furlough. He was from
Palestine, Texas.
During the first twenty-eight days
of October 3,057 persons passed
through the Carlsbad Caverns, Thos.
Boles, superintendent of the Carlsbad
| Caverns National Park stated in
Carlsbad Last year during the same
period 3,20S persons visited the cav
! erns.
Mac (Golney) Seymour, 22-year-old
Apache Indian, arrested on the White
| River Indian reservation for the slay-
ing of Miss Henrietta Schmerler, Co.
/ lumbia University student, is in the
Pima county Jail in Tucson, Ariz.
having been removed from Globe,
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd, reputed killer of
/ two women friends, is being held in
/ Phoenix to answer to two charges of
murder Her preliminary hearing in
Phoenix resulted in her being formally
charged with the killing of Hedvig
| Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Anne
/ Leroi.
| Superior Judge Richard Lamson an
ment for the city of Prescott in two
actions brought to test validity of the
| 100000 water bond issue voted last
! August One of the suits was friend
| ly one, the other was filed by an op-
ponent of the issue.
| New Mexico gasoline tax collections
slid off to $227,7S4.32 during October,
| Adolph p. Hill, state collector, re-
| ported in Santa Fe. In October, 1880,
they were $258,749.91. Most of the
! decrease was attributed to Stacking
! tourist business and very little high
way construction now under way
The Century Pacific Lines filed ap-
| plication with the State Corporation
| Commission in Phoenix recently, for
extension of it's air service from Los
! Angeles to Tucson via Phoenix. Hear
! ing on the application was set tenta-
| lively for Dec. 9. The line now op-
! crates two passenger planes between
Los Angeles and Phoenix.
Authority for the payment of 5 per
! cent dividend to depositors of the
| defunct Prescott State Bank was
/ given by Judge Richard Lamson in
! Superior Court in Prescott to James
| B. Button, deputy state bank super
/ intendent. 1t is the seventh dividend
since the bank closed and brings the
/ total paid depositors to 55 per cent.
/ The Arizona Supreme Court has
issued an order disbarring George w.
Shute, former Gila county superior
! Judge, from further practice of law
in the state Action in the matter
receipt of notice from Federal Court
| that Shute had been convicted of con-
cealing assets belonging to a bank
rupt concern.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
! Fe has filed a petition with the State
! Corporation Commission, seeking to
! abandon two of it's lines in Arizona.
! The railroad seeks to drop service be-
tween Chloride and the main line and
tear up the trackage. Chloride is in
! Mohave county, Ariz. The main line
! between Cordes and Middleton in
Yavapai county also would be discon-
tinued
The twenty-eighth annual conven-
tion of the Arizona State Bankers AS
sociation closed in Nogales, following
! the election of officers to serve dur
ing the ensuing year. w. c. Weiss of
| the Phoenix National bank was unani-
mously elected president, succeeding
c. b. Y. Hind of the old Dominion
bank of Globe. Weiss was elevated
from the vice presidency to the exec
utive chair.
Richard Jenkins, Gila Bend service
station attendant, was acquitted by a
Superior Court jury in Phoenix on a
charge of Staying F. ]. Tanning of
Los Angeles. Jenkins told investiga-
tors he shot at an automobile driven
by Tanning and also occupied by J. E.
Jones of Oklahoma City when they
| fled from his station without paying
for gasoline. Earnings body was
found on the desert some time later.
More than $4,000 a year is spent
on higher education by Gallup and
Mckinley county, New Mexico, par
ents. According to survey recently
completed, the county sends between
sixty-five and seventy students to col
leges of higher learning throughout