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

bank at Flagstaff was announced re-
Gently by Manager c. ]. Walters.
Ernest T. w. Coulter, junior officer,
succeeds Isham.
Fugitive cOnvicts who escaped from
Arizona state prison, financed their
getaways with funds obtained from
official prison checks which were
stolen from the warden's office, it was
disclosed in Phoenix.
Governor Arthur Seligman of New
Mexico has named thirty-two dele
gates to represent New Mexico at the
annual convention OF the American
Road Builders Association at De-
troit. beginning January II.
Plans for collecting an employment
relief fund in Arizona from state en-
ployees was completed by Governor
George w. P. Hunt, with naming of
an advisory committee to cooperate
with Dave w. Fountain, director of
unemployment relief.
The Presbyterian Navajo Mission
at Ganado, Ariz., continued to burn
wood in its furnaces while incoming
coal from Gallup, N. NJ, was laid
away in order to accumulate large
supply in case another storm should
sweep over the little settlement.
American Airways recently inaug-
urated a six-plane daily service be-
tween Phoenix and Tucson, with the
first ship leaving Phoenix at 1885 a.
m. Arriving at Tucson at $40, this
ship will leave again at $50. 1t will
make three round trips between the
two largest cities in Arizona each
day.
Human effort conquered the ele-
ment recently and probably saved the
life of John Nelson, banker and
rancher of Mesa, Ariz., who was
brought to Heber, Ariz., in a serious
| condition after being rescued from
his snowbound summer home north
of the Mogollon in Navajo county,
Ariz.
Elias Tidwell of Thatcher and
Ralph Murphy, Peoria, former ath-
letes at Northern Arizona State
Teachers College, were released from
the Flagstaff Jail after paying fines
of SIS each for the theft of clothing
from college students. They were ar
rested on felony charges filed by
classmates.
Warrant to seize nineteen cases of
canned cherries held by the Ilfeld
! Company, Ration, was issued by Fed
| eral Court in Santa Fe, on complaint
of the U. S. district attorney. The
| cherries, shipped by Ray A. Ricketts,
Packing Company, Canon City, Colo,
are illegally labeled and violate pure
food laws, the complaint stated.
A receiver was appointed in Fed
eral Court in Phoenix recently, for
/ the J. d. Halsted Lumber Company,
which has branches on the Pacific
| coast and in the middle west. AL
bert A. Hays, yard superintendent of
| the concern was named receiver after
/ the court had heard a complaint filed
! by Dant and Russell, Inc, of Oregon.
An automobile, driven by DR.. Theo-
| dore ]. Tarasoff of Phoenix, rolled on
a grade crossing, directly in front Of
! Il Southern Pacific passenger train at
! Coldwater, seventeen miles west of
! Phoenix. DR.. Tarasoff, his wife and
! Alexander, his 17-year-old son, and
| two companions, Herbert A. Dague
and Carlyle Mullett, were instantly
killed.
John H. Udall, federal prohibition
administrator for Arizona, received
word in Phoenix from Carl Jackson,
temporary tenth district administra-
| tor, instructing him to disregard the
orders to relinQuish his post to Lon
c. Davis, and prepare for transfer.
Dispatches from Cheyenne said in
structions transferring Davis to Phoe-
nix had been rescinded by Jackson.
which was scheduled to start Dec. Is,
which fas scheduled to start Dec. Is,
in Phoenix, was postponed until Jan.
19 by Superior Judge Howard c..
Speakman. The jurist granted the
delay when Herman Lewkowitz, de-
fense attorney, petitioned for it on
! the grounds that dispositions from the
east could not be obtained and that
such dispositions would form an i'm
portant part Of the defense case.
The California Rhodes selection
committee for Rhodes scholars an
nounced selection of four students.
two from California, one student from
| Arizona and one from New Mexico
! for participation in the scholarships
to Oxford University in England. The
selections, announced by Vincent K.
Butler, secretary of the committee,
were: Charles ]. Hitch, University
of Arizona and Critchfield Parsons,
University of New Mexico.
The city of Prescott may proceed
with the proposed 100000 improve
ment of its domestic water system, the