The Coolidge examiner., 1932-01-22
Southwest News Items

College fraternities and sororities at
Las Cruces, N. NJ, will be required to
operate under a new set of rules.
Three miners were killed in an ex-
plosion on the 3,1OO-foot level of the
Magma Copper Company's No. shaft
at Superior, Ariz. The dead are:
Mike Swepich, Joe Raihi and Charles
Tomilla.
Rita Scott, 6-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Scott of Bellview,
N. M, died in a Santa Fe hospital
from burns received when she acci-
dentally overturned a kettle of boil
ing water.
In an attempt TO force her to give
them money which they believed she
had hidden in the house, two men
beat Mrs. Marie Bandy, a widow. with
gun and their fists in her home at
Pajarito, near Albuquerque
Farm crops produced in New Mex
leo during 1881 are valued at $780,
$4,000 or decrease of $S24,OO from
the total value in 1880. Basing its
figures on the December 1st farm
prices, the Fred Daniels, federal agri-
cultural statistician, estimates the
1881 value to be about 48 per cent or
$19,111 900 less than the total value
of the 1929 crop.
Charged with kidnapping in connec-
tion with the disappearance of her
niece, Alice L. Evans, 12-year-old
heiress to an estate, Mrs. Sadie John
son of Gallup was arrested in Gallup,
N. M, recently. The child is alleged
to have disappeared Dec. Z, 1881, the
day on which the New Mexico State
Supreme Court awarded custody Of
the girl to her uncle, George C. Evans,
who Is administrator of her fathers
estate in Missouri.
Conservation of the water supply
in Elephant Butte lake, near Las
Cruces, N NJ, is being urged by Su-
perintendent l.. r. Flock, who reports
that the supply is at the lowest 1t
has been since 1918. The present
supply, Mr.. Flock said, measures $780,
900 acre feet as compared with the
normal storage Of 100000 acre feet.
New Mexico state banks have no
funds invested in foreign bonds, an
investigation conducted by State Bank
Examiner John Bingham, has deter
mined. A survey was made by the
! State Department, he said, in view of
the proposed congressional investiga-
tion with regard to investment of
American capital in foreign secur-
tiles.
That Camp Verde (Ariz.) will at
last have telephone communication
with the outside world, was definite
ly decided recently, when group Of
Bell Telephone Company surveyors
arrived in Camp Verde and started
survey on the line. The line will be
connected at Clarkdale and a cen
trail office for Camp Verde will be
constructed
Joseph F. Pomeroy, former state
adjutant general, stands exonerated
of presenting a false claim of $533.23
to the state auditor. A Superior
Court jury in Phoenix, after four
hours Of deliberation, brought in
verdict Of acquittal. Charles W. Har
ris for seventeen years state adju-
tant general, who was jointly charged
with Pomeroy, was convicted.
C. W. Davis, stock grower of Mo-
have county, Ariz., has been appointed
receiver for the Aubrey Land and
Livestock Company on a petition
filed before Judge Richard Lamson
of the Superior Court in Prescott, by
the Security First National bank of
Los Angeles, which seeks the fore
closure and sale of the company's
property. Mr.. Davis posted a bond
for $1,000.
Adjustment of workmen's compen-
sation and wage claims, totaling $8,-
591 and rapid progress in a program
to standardize minimum wage scales
and make universally operative the
eight-hour day in New Mexico, was
reported to Governor Arthur Seiig-
| uudu NY oldlO 1<dUDI
Ralph Davy. Mr.. Davy is the states
first labor commissioner and lis re-
port covers the first five months of
operation.
Forced to land when snow made
visibility impossible, an airplane,
carrying deputy United States mar
shall, four federal prisoners and Pilot
Robert Edgar, made a successful
landing near Chama, N. M. United
States Deputy Marshal James B.
Shaffer of Durango, Colo, and his
four prisoners, Fred P. Greathouse,
Harry West, Ed Widick. and John
Chester, all of Durango, Colo, COM
pleted their journey to Pueblo by
train.
The right of Arizona to collect an
| inspection fee on meat approved and
stamped by the government Is ques-
toned in suit on file in Superior
Court in Phoenix. The action was