The Coolidge examiner., 1933-11-17
Southwestern Briefs

by Pierce Williams, western repre-
sentative of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration.
Another move in Arizona's fight to
obtain what it claims to be an eQui-
table share of Colorado river water
will be made by Attorney General
Laprade during visit to Mexico City.
soon.
Two hundred and fifty civilian con-
servation corps men from Texas and
New Mexico are to be distributed to
winter camps in the Silver City re-
gion. Construction Of new camps and
winter quarters in old camps is about
half finished.
Hanging as Arizonas method of put
ting condemned criminals to death
has been abolished. Gov. B. B. Moeur
issued an executive proclamation
formally placing in effect the new
state constitutional amendment sub
stituting lethal gas for the gallows
as the means of execution of death
sentence.
Two National Miners union strikers
in Gallup who were engaging in a
house-to-house picketing campaign
were shot recently by non-union coal
mine worker. Military authorities
started an immediate investigation to
determine who fired the shot at the
two men. A shotgun loaded with
buckshot used, they said. The strike
is now in its third month.
Delegates to the annual convention
of the American National Livestock
Association to be held in Albuquerque
on Jan. 10, IL and II, 1884, will have
before them some of the most import
ant problems in the history of the as
sociation. Coming at the time when
Congress will be in session, action
taken by the convention may have an
important effect on pending legisla-
ton.
Hope for the settlement of the stub
born coal strike in the area around
Gallup. N. M, Is seen N the establish
ment of a Rocky Mountain regional
labor board which will be set up. The
board will operate under supervision
of the National Labor Board and will
cooperate with other agencies such
as the Department of Labor and, in
certain fields, with the NRA COM
pliance boards.
The New Mexico Midland Railway
Company is seeking permission of the
! Int fofo
! Washington to abandon ten miles of
its railway running from San Antonio,
N. NJ, to Carthage, ~ M, in Socorro,
county. The petition declared the line
has no value except as junk inasmuch
as from 1926 to 1881 it was operated
at continuous loss. Since 1891 the
line has not been operated.
Distribution of 10000 pounds of pork
donated by the federal government
for needy families in seven New Mex
leo counties has been started in Al
buquerque. The supply is being
divided as follows: Bernalillo county,
10000 pounds Santa Fe and Sandoval
counties, 4,SO0 pounds each; Mckinley
county, 5000 pounds; Valencia and
San Juan counties, $500 pounds each
and Torrance county, 1900 pounds.
With concerted action in Washing
ton, New Mexicos road program has
indications of proceeding, according to
Gov. A. w. Hockenhull. He has re-
ceived kilograms from the capital say
ing the program has been discussed
and action had been promised, partic-
ularly in Taos, Rio Arriba and other
northwest counties. Sen. Carl Hatch
wired the federal road bureau in
Washington is awaiting applications
from New Mexico.
After a thirty-day holiday" approx
imately 300 miners who walked out
of the Phelps-Dodge corporation coal
mine Oct 2 returned to work Nov. l,
having agreed to waive demand that
with the workers. G. C. Davis, Phelps
Dodge manager, said the workers re-
turned to work with the definite
understanding that the company will
not sign a union contract now or at
any time with any union.
Swinging into line with the rest of
America in the great Nov Is the
Time to Buy" movement, Winslow,
Ariz has already developed mill
tant organization and is ready to go
ahead with the drive just as rapidly
as preliminary details can be worked
out In a statement by R. c. Kauf-
man, chairman of the local committee,
it was made clear that everything pos
sible will be done by this group to
speed up business in accordance with
the plans outlined by the n R A in
Washington.
With one eye On the daily price Of
! gold set by President Roosevelt's re-
construction corporation, miners in
the Hot Springs vicinity are buster
than they have been for thirty-five
years filing new claims and expanding
present properties. Enthusiastically
approving the description of the presi-
dents gold purchasing act given by