The Coolidge examiner., 1933-12-15
Southwestern Briefs

Three hundred fifty-nine men will
be put to work in Mckinley county,
n. NJ, under the new civil works ad-
ministration.
Gov. A. w. Hockenhull of New Mex
leo ordered the release of nine al
legged leaders of the Gallup mine
strike, settled recently
Congressman Dennis Chavez has
been elected Democratic national
committeeman for New Mexico, to sue
ceed the late Gov. Arthur Seligman.
Miss Margaret Daniels, social work
er in Westchester county, N. Y, took
over direction of the Mckinley Coun-
ty, New Mexico Welfare Association
Nov 27.
Residents of Mohave county, Ariz.,
and Clark county, Nevada, met at Viii
lows Beach Dec. to celebrate the
starting of work on the Kingman-
Boulder Dam highway.
Floyd E. Montgomery, 20, accident
ally shot and killed himself while
cleaning a shotgun at his home near
Phoenix. The charge tore through his
heart and he died instantly.
A 100000 loan for construction of a
two-story building at the Arizona
school for blind and deaf will be asked
of the public works administration by
the institutions directors.
Willie Chavez and Samuel Mar
tinez, charged with killing elk out of
season, were sentenced to ninety days
in Jail by District Judge Luis Armijo
at Las Vegas, N. NJ, Game Warden
Elliott Barker announced.
Jose and Guillermo Armijo, 16 and
IS years old, were killed when a two
and a half ton truck, hauling a trailer
loaded with pipes, hit small touring
car, occupied by nine cotton pickers,
quarter of a mile south of Roswell,
n. NJ.
Notice of appointment of ]. E. Hen
nes, Jr., as steward of the Arizona
state hospital for the insane was filed
recently in the office of the secretary
of state. Hennes succeeds w. G. Hill.
He has been employed at the hospital
since early this year.
United States reclamation service
officials said engineers and surveyors
for the Verde river irrigation and pow
er district project in Arizona will be
employed within the next few days,
but that actual construction work
probably will not begin until about
March Is.
Work is scheduled to start at once
on rebuilding the PinedaleGallup tele-
phone line, according to announce
ment from Crown Point. Hugh Stock
ton, with a crew of Navajo Indians,
will start at once and completely re-
build the line. which will then be
placed on toll.
The special legislative investigat-
ing committee in Arizona recessed un-
til Dec. Is, the date on which Attor-
pected to advise the committee what
action, If any, is contemplated on re-
ports submitted by the committee to
himself and to Governor Moeur
The Gallup Antlers Lodge No. 1440
of the B. P. o. r. are making plans
TO reorganize their lodge. according
TO an announcement by Patton Shryer.
exalted antler. The Antlers have been
operating under several minor diff
culties which have been recently cor
rected, and with the aid of the local
Elks, the Antlers should have one of
the largest clubs in the southwest.
The regional forest office announced
there had been 961 forest fires in New
Mexico and Arizona national forests
during the past fire season. OF this
number, 272 were man-caused. Forty
seven arrests were made. The total
area burned was only 4,646 acres, or
far below the average for recent years.
The number of man-caused fires, how
ever, was slightly higher than usual.
Smokers were the chief offenders.
The coal strike in the Gallup, N.
NJ, area was ended a few days ago,
when strikers accepted, by vote of
$50 to 16, the proposals of Maj. John
D. Moore, special investigator for the
National Labor Board and mediator in
the strike. The strike, fraught with
violence, rioting and disorder, had
continued for about two months, dur
ing which time martial law was de-
clared in the area. Many were in
jured in riots during the course of the
labor dispute.
Motions to dismiss tax injunction
suits brought by four banks and a
mining company were filed in Federal
Court at Tucson, Ariz., recently, by
Attorney General Arthur T. LaPrade
and Charles L. Strouss, assistant at
torney general. The suits involved
are those seeking restraining orders
against collection of current taxes
from the Bank of Douglas and the
First National Bank, both of Douglas;
the Bank of Bisbee and the Miners