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Precipitation amounted to 81 of
an inch on the list and % of an
inch on the End.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Jones Confers
With Legislators

At conference with members o1
the Pima and Santa Cruz county
delegations to the state legislature
at Tucson Thursday, Governor
elect Robert T. Jones indicated ne
plans no general shakeup in the
personnel of departments under his
control when he takes office.
The governor-elect also indicated
that his administration will work
vigorously. for institutional reform
and will present budget proposal
in a, form most likely to provide
the legislators with all necessary
information and explanations for
each item. Legislators were advised
to get about and see for themselves
what the various institutions need.
He said he would not object to
good" civil service bill if it is
introduced.
Senator elect Harold Roesner and
Representative-elect George Mac
donald were present at the meeting
from Santa Cruz county.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
6,7S9 Needy
Fanlilies Aided
In Arizona

According to A. S. Spear, State
Director 1or the National Emer-
gency Council for Arizona, the
Farm Security Administration
through it's Rural Rehabilitation
Division has aided 6,789 needy
families in Arizona.
OF this total 5,189 farm families
received subsistence grants only
and 1000 received facility loans.
Under the active loan program
l,412 farm families are receiving
supervised loans contingent upon
adoption by the borrower for an
agreed period-usually ] year-of
an approved Farm and Home Plan
as prescribed by the F.S.A. In ad-
dition 1873 loan cases have been
completed.
Under the construction Program
of the Farm Security Administers
-tion total new family dwellings
constructed numbered 1913, and
miscellaneous structures totalled
125. Included as miscellaneous build
ings were 119 garages and 4 com
mercial buildings. There were also
4 projects started by prior agencies
and transferred to Farm Security
Administration. These projects
house 327 families and cover 1885,
acres. Additions, repairs and bet
terments by the Construction Di-
vision on these transferred projects
numbered rs, of which Is were
family units and the remainder
barns, garages, poultry houses
pump houses, and other miscellane
GUS buildings.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Elks Sponsor
City Cemetery
Project

The Nogales cemetery is to be
revamped, remodeled and recondi-
toned.
Members of the Elks Lodge at
their meeting Tuesday night voted
to act as sponsors of the rehabilita-
ton project which is PWA prof.
ect and for each 81 900 raised by the
ElkS the PWA will put up SIS 900.
Retaining walls and a new ARCH
way will be constructed, terraces
arranged, the main road will be
surfaced, a new fence erected, and
grass planted.
While the Elks are sponsors, it
is a community project and CO.
operation of the public general will
be necessary to make it a success.
The Elks committee in charge
of the project is made up of James
L. McCraw, chairman; C. C. Chesh-
ire and william P. zacrar;as.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Road Meeting
Set For Dec. 5-8

Arizona will be represented at the
oath annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Association of State Highway
Officials in Dallas, Texas, by Shell
ton; G.. Dowell, chairman of the
highway commission; Howard 81
Reed, state highway engineer; Earl
v. Miller, plans engineer; and Ju-
liam w. Powers, materials engi-
neer. The. meeting will be held at
Dallas December S, g., z and 8.
Each member of the Arizona dele
cation will participate in import
ant committee affairs of the meet
ing. Commissioner Dowell is to be
a member of the committee on ad
ministration, Mr. Reed has been
named to the committee on con
Struction and international high
ways, Mr.. Miller will be a member
of the committee on plans and MI
Powers is a member of the com
mittee on materials.
This meeting is described as the
most important national highway
meeting of the year.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03

Frank Conner will know today
on what date he is to die in the
gas chamber of the state peniten-
tiary at Florence for numbering
City Clerk Tracy Bird.
The 22-year-old Fort Huachuca
soldien will be sentenced at 3 o'clock
this afternoon in the superior court
by Judge M. T. Phelps of Mari
copa county who presided at his
trial which closed on November
18th.
Immediately after sentence is
passed the slayer will be taken to
Florence by Sheriff Harold ].
Brown and Deputy Sheriff Harry
Drewien and upon arriving at the
prison he will be placed in the
death cell which adjoins the exc
cution chamber. There a death
watch will be established.
A jury in the Conner case re-
turned verdict of guilty of muir
der in the first degree" and fixed
punishment at death.
A few days ago Conner is said tc
have written his mother in Pres
colt to the effect 'tthat my hands
are tied here but when get to
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
MONDAY DECEMBER 18TH SET
AS DATE FOR ILLUMINATING
OUTDOOR CHRISTMAS TREES
Committee Of Three Named By Lions AS Judges
For Decorating Project; Judging To Take
Place On December p

at their meeting Tuesday that the
trees will be judged by commit
tee of three on the night of Thurs
day December 22nd and prize win
ners announced on Christmas eve,
Saturday December oath.
The Judges
The judges are Lester Mershon,
Charles L. Brown, and DR.. zenas
Noon, president of the Lions Club
and who is slated to be the next
president of the Chamber of Com
merce.
Three prizes will be awarded for
the best decorated trees. First
prize will be a. silver trophy cup,
second a SIS cash award and third
$3.50 in cash.
To compete for the prizes the
names of all entries must be phoned
to the office of Dr.. Noon, so the
judges will know what yards they
are to view on the night of the
oath.
There is every indication that be-
cause of the Lions backing the
Christmas tree project the number
of outdoor trees this year will be
several times larger than ever be-
fore in this city.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Nogales Fights
Proposed
24Hour Law

Alarmed at the prospect of en-
forcement of a United States law
providing that visitors to Mexico
must remain in that country "a
hours before being allowed to bring
back to this Country, duty free,
curios, ETC., valued up to $100, busi-
ness men met at the Chamber Of
Commerce Wednesday and Thurs
day.
A hearing on the proposed regula-
ton has been set for December 9th
in Washington and the local cham
ber of commerce will be represent
ed by the secretary of the Ell Paso
Chamber of Commerce. Chambers
of Commerce all along the Ameri-
can-Mexican border will be repre-
sented at the meeting.
Following a report that if the
American government puts the pro-
posed law into effect the Mexican
government would reciprocate 10
the extent of compelling visitors to
the American side Of the line to
remain in this country "a hours be-
fore being allowed to return to
Mexico, Nogales, Sonora. business
men also met this week.
The Sonorans, In less than an
hour, raised fund of 1900 pesos
to send a. representative to Mexi-
co City to protest against the rata
latory measure proposed by Mex
leo. A. c. Villasenaor, named as the
Sonora representative. left Thurs
day for Mexico City.
Along with the battle to prevent
such measures being put into effect
here, local business men on both
sides of the borden will try to have
Mexico adopt a law allowing Mex
ican shoppers to American border
points to take back into Mexico 200
pesos worth of articles duty free.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Garvey Named
Moore Assistant

TUCSON, Dec. - Harry M
Moore, state treasurer and secre,
tary of state-elect, has chosen Dar
E. Garvey, former county treasurer
and now city treasurer, as his as
sistant secretary of state.
Garvey, when questioned con-
cerning reports of the appoint
ment, asserted he had consented tc
accept the offer and that he and
his family will give up their Tue
son residence to establish a home
in the state capital.
The change is to be effective the
first Monday in January.
Moore's new assistant served
about 31z years as treasurer of
Pima county, .nesigning to become
city treasurer when, that office was
recreated several months ago..
He was employed by the South
ern Pacific of Mexico before enter
ing local politics.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Death Takes
Sid Simpson

TUCSON, Dec. 2-Sid Simpson,
59-year-old soldier packer, cowman
and officer, died Monday night in
st. Mary's hospital after an ill
ness of about a year.
A Texan by birth, Sid Simpson
came to Arizona at the close of the
Spanish-American war. He was
transferred from San Francisco,
where he had been serving as a
packer, to Fort Huachuca. There
he served in q similar capacity un-
til he left the army to go into the
cattle business.
AS a cowman, he ran cattle on the
old ca range on what is now the
Babocomari grant; he was en-
ployed by the Cananea Cattle COM
pany for about eight years; was
held for ransom in Mexico during
the revolutionary period while he
was below the border after cattle
belonging to Writ Bowman; was
superintendent of the Louis Sands
ranch in Elgin, and his latest job,
prior to his death, was as an in
spector for the livestock sanitary
board, stationed at Sonoita.
AS an officer, Simpson served
both on the Tucson police depart
ment and as a deputy sheriff under
Sheriff Rye Miles. He was widely
known throughout the Arizona and
Mexico area.
Mr.. Simpson leaves his wife, a
daughter, Ethel, and his son, Ted,
an inspector in the U. 8. Customs
service.
Funeral services were held in
Tucson today.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2-Ari-
zona's new Sc 849,947 Federal Pub
lie Works Administration program
is about 80 percent under construc-
ton already, according to j. w.
Bournier, Acting Regional Director.
This is said to be an unprecedented
record. The deadline for starting
WPA projects is January l.. 1899.
which means Arizona is about a
month ahead Of schedule on the
bulk of its current public works.
This extensive building program
has been made possible by WPA
grants totalling So ,081 ,020 and loans
Of STATE Public Works Admin
istrator Harold L. Ickes, with pres
idential approval, made PWA money
available for a total of SIS Arizona
projects.
More than one-third of this
money will be invested in improv-
ing the public school system of 81
different districts. PWA granted a
total of 81, 1875 1926 for this one pur-
pose. thus cleaning the way for re-
leasing a total of $2,650, ,847 worth
of school construction.
Notable among the PWA grants
for school expansion are those of
1866, ,545 for new high school build
ings and $276,136 for Junior Col
lege buildings, all in Phoenix
Meanwhile, as result of securing
a $44, 1872 PWA grant, Williams will
have a new $98, 1872 school, and,
Glendale, with grant of $40, 900,
will gain school improvements to
cost total Of $109,O9O
Second in value will be street i'm
pnovements made possible by PWA
grants aggrevating $1,226,747 and
which have cleared the way for
such work to cost total of So, $751;
700. Most of this money has been
allocated to Phoenix and Tucson.
The latter city was granted $567,-
894 for a 81, ,261 300 street improve
ment program while Phoenix re-
ceived $515, ,058 for a $1,144, 500 pro-
gram. -' = 49, ',.-
Administrator Ickes made grants
amounting to 1897 500 and loans of
$62, 500 for Arizona irrigation prof.
ects. The Largest grant is one of
$27o,000 for irrigation improvements
in the Maricopa County Municipal
Water District. This work will cost
a total of $600,0 900.
PWA granted 1888 1925 and loan
ed $4,000 for waterworks improve
ments. Tucson received the most of
this money, grant of $226,6 for
$503,6 expansion enterprise.
A grant of $4,000 and loan of
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Senior j Class To
Present Play

THE Love Expert" a 3act COM
edy play, by Elnora Olmstead, will
be presented by the Senior Glass
Friday December 9, at the high
school gymnasium. Proceeds VIII
benefit the. senior yearly fund for
their activities. The play is being
sponsored by the graduating class
OF 1899.
The play is a mixture of romance,
mystery, and comedy, dealing with
the attempt of an American play
ing the role of a Frenchman, (play-
ed by Enrique Soto) to recover some
stolen bonds, which his father has
feen accused Of stealing, so that he
may return back to America.
There will be three performances,
one in the morning for the high
school, afternoon for grades, and
night performance for adults.
Rehearsals started in early Oc-
tober under. the direction of Miss
Margaret Handley, dramatic club
sponsor.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Local Couple
Wed In
Lordsburg

Coming as a big surprise to many
of their friends in Nogales was the
marriage of Mrs. Mildred Sorrells
Summers and Vivian D. Brown,
which took place in Lordsburg, New
Mexico, Saturday afternoon.
Attendants at the wedding were
Mrs. Browns brother, Fred Sor-
rells, and wife, of Douglas.
The bride, who is employed in the
office of the county assessor, is a
daughter of Mrs. Maude Peterson
and member of prominent pio-
neer family of Santa Cruz county.
Mn Brown is cattleman and
has been a resident of Nogales foI
the past five years.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Fire, Sanitary
Hazards.To
Be Checked

Commencing Monday Nogales
will undergo a thirty day cleanup
period, under the direction of the
city fire and health departments.
Fire Captain Clyde Baldwin and
Sanitary Inspector Walter Moon
will personally visit each home IN
town and check up fire. and sarli-
tary hazards and ask, the public
to cooperate. 1t is. something that
has never been done before here,
Baldwin and Noon said yesterday.
The program includes the clean
ing up of all vacant lots and check
ing of plumbing in all homes and
the business district.
When Mr.. Baldwin and Mr.. Noon
call at your home, give them a
helping hand and cooperate IN
every way to make the cleanup
drive a big success.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Santa Claus
Parade Viewed
By Nogalians

Reporting they saw the annual
Santa Claus parade on Hollywood
boulevard, Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Alb
bott and Mr.. and Mrs. John Jund
returned Monday night from Los
Angeles where they spent the
Thanksgiving holidays.
They were accompanied on the
return trip by Mrs. Jund's mother,
Mrs. Ina Cross, who had been va
cationing in California thre e
months. ),
The Santa Claus parade. Mrs.
Abbott said, was four miles long
and officially opened the holiday
buying season in Los Angeles. TT
looked like fairyland, Mrs. Alb
bott said, and added that every
lamp post along the boulevard has
a Christmas tree. HI
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Burglars Enter
Zacharias Home

Battering a rear door open, bur-
glars broke into the home of VIII
liam P. zacharias, 238 Court street,
about 8 O'Clock Thursday night and
got considerable quantity Of cloth
ing and 80 Remington automatic
revolver.
Mrs. Zacharias and son Billy and
Mrs. William Manning are believed
to have frightened the intruders
away as they returned home short
ly after from attending a show
at the Nogalas Theater-
Finding that her bedroom had
been ransacked Mrs. zacharias
phoned the police and Chief j. j.
Lowe and other officers were soon
on the job. Mr.. Lowe, and Cy Mar
steller, who lives on Court street,
found a few of the stolen items had
been dropped by the burglars on a
trail back of the ZachariaS house.
Among the missing articles are a
pair of pants, vest, and hat, belong
ing to Mr.. ZachariaS, and Mrs.
Zacharias' brown overcoat.
Burned Mexican matches were
found in various rooms of the
house.
It was the second burglary in two
consecutive nights, the home of
Frank Huerta in Camp Little hay
ing been robbed of a.radio and 9TH
er articles Wednesday night. The
radio was found Thursday and the
robber of the Huerta home is now
in Jail in Nogales, Sonora.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Quality And
Pack OF
Tomatoes Good

Twelve carloads Of tomatoes and
one car of, peppers passed through
here Tuesday enroute from the west
coast of Mexico to American mar
ketS. s~ -, ,->~ -. 49,"
From best informed circles it is
learned that the quality and pack
of Mexican tomatoes this season
is much better than prefious ship
ments. .,' t*
Shipments are expected to in
crease gradually but will not be
heavy at any time this season, it
Is said.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
EIks Memorial
Service Sunday

Annual memorial services of the
Elks Lodge will be held in the lodge
hall at 8 O'Clock tomorrow night.
The Baptist minister will be the
main speaker and there will be a
special musical program. The COM
mittee in charge of arrangements
is made up of j. w. Faubian and
George Januel.
The public is cordially invited to
this service which is annually one
of the main events in Elkdom each
year.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Masons On
Trip To Tucson

A large number of members of
the Scottish Rite Club journeyed on
Tuesday night to Tucson where
they put on the 29th degree.
Among those making the trip
were Charles Wheeler, Lester Mer-
Shon, w. H. Walker, A. j. Milli-
ken, Ross Dayton, Harry Brann,
Fred Kemmeries, Richard Garrod,
Ferald W. Parks, Theron Richard
son, A.. j. McGimpsey, Karl Pc
terson, William Simonton, H. M.
Clagett, j. A. Jackson, G. E. Bell
is, A. A. Litchenwalter, Nogales; Bob
Bergier, R. G. Blabon, Bert Blabon,
Woodie Gatlin, Patagonia.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Paved Highway
Canada To Mexico
Soon A Reality

A modern hard-surface highway
from Canada to Mexico, the prof.
ect of the Great International High
way Association, will become real
ity by midsummer. The Arizona
State Highway Department and
the u. S. Bureau of Public Roads
are cooperating to finish recon
struction and surfacing on the only
unpaved link.
This section, distance of ap-
proximately thirty miles between
Fredonia and Jacob Lake, Is rapid
ly being brought up to the high
standard of the rest of the North
South road.
The Federal Governments por-
ton within the boundaries OF
Kaibab National Forest is under
construction now. Officials Of the
Bureau of Public Roads in Phoe-
nix expect to award a contract for
oil surfacing the reconstructed
highway on December 10.
The Arizona State Highway De-
partment has announced it will Is
sue a call for bids for improve
ments, reconstruction and realign-'
ment, of approximately fifteen miles
between the ncrth boundary Of the
forest and Fredonia early in JAM
uary.
When this work is completed, p.
r. Helm, Executive Vice President
of the international Highway AS
sociation, pointed out, Arizona will
be on the direct route of the only
North South highway between the
Mississippi Valley and the Pacific
Coast.
Increase of traffic on the COM
pleted highway is expected to
bring many new visitors into the
Sun Lands Of Arizona.
Sponsors of the project point to
the tremendous increase in visitors
to Western national parks during
the past season as definite proof
of the drawing power of the scenic
Attractions along the international
Highway.
In speaking of plans of the
Highway Association, Mr.. Helm
said. Through the cooperation OF
our members in Montana Idaho,
Utah, and Arizona, we expect to
be able to divert considerable
Worlds Fair traffic over at least
a portion of the International
Highway.
Every transcontinental high
way" he continued, lis intersect-
ed by the intermountain road. Judg-
ing by the number Of inquiries that
come in to the Associations officer,
here, East West travellers to both
the Worlds Fairs are anxious to
vary their itineraries in the West
and intend to visit some of the ten
national parks and twenty-three
national n'onuments along the IN
ternational Highway on the way to
or from the Fairs" t
Connecting with the Pan-Ameri-
cen West Coast highway at Nogales,
the international Highway is ex-
pected to ultimately become the
United States link of the projected
Alaska-to -Buenos Aines highway.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Arizona S New $6,N9, ,947 Federal
Public Works Program About
8O% Uuder Construction
Deadline For Starting, PWA Projects Is January l
1899, Which Means Arizona Is About Month
Ahead Of Schedule

$4,000 makes possible $61 600 i'm
provement in gas plants and the
gas-distributing system in Cochise
county.
A grant Of $685. $50 gives Tucson a
SIS, 900 addition to its public IL
brary.
A grant of $29, $50 makes pos
sible $65, 1000 sewerage disposal
plant in Tempe.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
Ex-Governor
To Speak Here

Governor Lawrence M. Judd
of Hawaii will speak at the high
school auditorium December 18th
on Hawaii, Pivot Of The Pacific. ;"
Judd was appointed governor of
Hawaii by Former President Hoover
and served from 1929 to 1884.
He is on a speaking tour of all
principal cities in the western
states.
Nogales international., 1938-12-03

Monday December 18th was set
by the Lions Club, Tuesday, as the
day on which outdoor Christmas
trees are to be Illuminated for the
holiday season.
The Lions, sponsors of the Christ
mas tree project, also announced
Nogales international., 1938-12-03
EXECUTION DATE FOR SLAYER
OF CITY CLERK TRACY BIRD
TO BE SET THIS AFTERNOON
Frank Conner To Soon Know Day On Which He Is
To Die In Gas Chember; VIII BE Iaken
To Florence This Afternoon

Florence will fight to escape the
death penalty"
City Clerk Bird was murdered
during a holdup on. the morning OF
October 10th as he returned to his
home in the Bird apartments. A
few hours later his slayer was in
custody.
The Washington times., 1938-02-25

looks as II he were pried loose
from one of the Roman art
galleries, put up a creditable ex-
hibition of acrobatics.
James is the light-heavyweight
champion of the world but his
title was not exposed to the
rowdy element. For 4012 min
uteS the boys did handSpringS,
back flips and SomerSaults with
the ease of professionals, then
Jesse won the award with a
backdrop when he sat on Gino'S
classic profile. Referee AL Baksh
decided the boys had exercised
long enough so he ended hos
tilitieS.
Prior to the finish, both
James and Martinelli were TAX
ing turns in Slamming each
other to the canvas. James had
a record of six straight but the
italian didn't do so badly. Gino's
slams didn't have enough glue
and Jesse's back just wouldn't
stick to the deck.
In the other bouts, Tony Siano
pinned Carlos Montanez after
1874 with a flying tackle and
Pancho Valdez disposed Of Nick
PackoS in 16 minutes with a
body press.
The Washington times., 1938-02-25
Boycott
RUn1Or Japan May
GiUe Up Games

LONDON, Feb. 25.-The grow
ing boycott of the 1910 olympics,
scheduled for Tokyo. has given
rise to a rumor that Japan will
voluntarily give up the games and
ask they be held in Rome.
The report gained foundation
with the revelation the British
olympic committee will join the
British Amateur Athletic AsSocia-
ton. in asking the international
group to boycott the Japanese
games.
A definite stand on the situation
is expected to be taken by the
British when the international
Olympic Committee meets at
Cairo March 11-12. 1t is believed
Great Britain will ask to hold the
1889 I. o. C. meeting in London
at which time it will make a bid
for the 1914 games. However,
those close to the situation doubt
Japan plans any such move or
that the British will openly sane
ton a boycott.
The Washington times., 1938-02-25
FBI and Royals
Begin PlayOffs

Bureau Of investigation, first
half winner, and Regal Clothiers,
second half winners, will clash to-
night in the first of q two-out-of-
three series to determine the cham
pion of the Heurich Cup Basket
ball League at the Heurich gym,
Twenty-sixth and D Streets North
west.
The game is scheduled for 9
O'Clock.
It will be preceded by a battle
at 8 o'clock between Lubeseal and
Senate.
A !eam Uttered with former
Eastern college stars will represent
the Snellenburg basketball team,
Philadelphia Industrial League
champion, in the game against
the aeurich Brewers professional
cagers, in the game against the
Heurich Brewers professional
cagers Sunday afternoon at the
Heurich gym, Twenty-sixth and .
Streets Northwest.