The Coolidge examiner., 1932-02-26
Southwest News Items


Albuquerque, N. M. filling the va
cancy caused by withdrawal of Globe
Cotton pickers and other field
workers are urged not to come to
Arizona at this time unless prepared
to sustain themselves for a period of
sixty days or more as there is no
work for them here at present.
Alvin Self, who escaped from the
Arizona penitentiary at Florence by
riding out of the gates in an oil tank,
was shot and killed at Ell Centro, Cal,
when Melvin Perkins, Negro jani-
tor, surprised Self as he attempted to
loot the Ell Centro postoffice.
Arizona is one Of nine states which
has not had lynching in the past ten
years. This information is from a re-
port compiled by the, Commission on
Race Relations, Federal Council of
the Church of Christ in America New
Mexico has not had a lynching in the
past two years.
An Apache Indian was killed and
two of his companions were injured
seriously when their automobile left
the highway at Cutter, Ariz., recently.
George Modes, 40 years old died in
stantly when he was crushed after a
wheel of the machines collapsed and
sent it swerving off the road.
Dick Wick Halls Salome Frog that
couldn't swim came to the notice Of
Arizonans again recently when articles
of incorporation were filed in Phoenix
Cor the Salome Frog Mining Company,
Phoenix, capitalized at $1,0O0,O00 by
L. J. Soper and C. K. Tibbets. Phoe-
nix, directors of the organization.
Winnie Ruth Judd, 27-year-old min
ister's daughter, must die on Arizona's
gallows for the killing of her one
time friend, Agnes Anne Leroi. This
decision was reached when a Phoneix
jury that considered evidence in her
case and found she was guilty of first
degree murder and fixed the penalty
at death.
Following a coroner's jury verdict
that death resulted from "gunshot
wounds inflicted by person or per-
sons unknown to u.s." peace officers of
Flagstaff, Ariz., launched an investiga-
ton into the death of John o. Par
sons, former Coconino county sheriff.
Parsons was found, shot thru the
head, in his automobile.
Approximately three hundred per-
sons will be employed at the United
States Veterans Bureau Hospital and
Veterans bureau office upon COM
pletion of the hospital in Albuquerque.
The hospital is expected to be COM
pleted by May II but bureou officials
do not believe it will be ready for oc-
cupancy before July 1.
To be prepared to meet emergencies
in the event of Lower Rio Grande
floods this spring resulting from heavy
SHOWS, Adjutant General Osborne c.
Wood has ordered tents, cots, blan-
kets and other New Mexico National
Guard supplies to be moved from the
Las Vegas armory to storage in the
armory at Socorro, N. M.
One week after he had finished
serving a six month sentence in the
county Jail in Albuquerque for theft
of an automobile from car renting
company, J. M. Cash, alias James Nc
Intyre, found himself arrested again
ana charged with the theft of another
car from the same company. He was
arrested at Bernalillo.
Representatives of one hundred and
fifty Rodeos, Roundups and Stam-
pedes of the United States and Can
ada meet at Tucson, Arizona, Feb.
1878 to discuss proposed changes in
the rules determining the worlds
championship cowboy and the cham
pion in each of the seven events that
constitute rodeo.
Fred G. Cox, sixty-one-year-old Pres
colt man, was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. but the
sentence was suspended providing he
refrains hereafter from hunting or
using firearms. Cox last November
shot and killed Jasper ]. DeForrest,
his hunting companion, thinking he
was a deer or a coyote.
Sheriff's deputies shot it out with
three men and a woman and rescued
Gordon E. Sawyer, prominent Tucson
banker kidnapped and held for 100000
ransom. The kidnapers fled from an
abandoned house after an exchange
of shots with deputies and Sawyer
was found at the bottom of deep dry
we'll where he had been held prisoner.
Hemmed in by five feet of snow in
blizzard ridden valleys surrounded by
peaks of the Canjilon and Nutrias
mountains, three hundred and twenty
five destitute and starving Spanish
American people, too proud to beg,
were given food relief for which their
men-folk will repay the state in labor
on state highways. They did not seek
charity from the state.
The U. S. Department of Justice in
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