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GtaEy Hew Medico HeKpqcr Comtek Rqmrb Mh ASSOCIATE PEESS mi OOTED PRESS Morning Edition GOOD MORNING State taxpayer association advisei food roads many as we ran afford ta pay for. ALBUQUE ENAL 49th Year Number 88 Albuquerque, New Mexico, Friday, March 29, 1929. PRICE riVB CENTS ROAD BILL DANGERS POINTED OUT jlt NEER JiS REBEL PUB TEDDY ROOSEVELT, LIKE HIS DAD, BUT COMPARISON HURTS HIM CU1 HAY DEBENTURES TAKES GUN FROM BANDIT; GETS 30 DAYS IN PRISON 2 FLYERS RURT III PLANE FALE Al FIELD HERE IS 0 GOVERNOR EONS. UNDER CHARGES, RIFS BACK AF HIS ACCUSERS I TAXPAYERS ftSSOCIOTIDII Mortgaging of Future Income to Extent of $5,600,000 Is Unwarranted, Statement Declares; Spending of Four Million on Oiled Roads Is Also Attacked; New Program Two Machines Reported to Have Done Considerable Damage In Chihuahua Town, Calles Camp REVOLUTIONISTS ARE RETREATING, CLAIMED Mexican Government Says They Are Retiring on the Northern and Coastal HQ Pooh, Pooh iNq Yflif "uSSS I MOW jT YOUR fAtfiEtM WOULD HAVE 1 AAV PONE UNDER) (C I SANTA FE, March 28 (AP) Reduction of the state highway department debenture bill from $5,600,000 to $2,500,000 for the next two years, by the special session of the ninth legislature, was recommended by the New Mexico Taxpayers' association in a bulletin made public Thursday. The plan offered in the bulletin as a substitute for the $5,600,000 program, which passed the legislature without an enacting clause would complete the retirement of debentures by 1937 instead of 1941 which, the bulletin said, would involve, total expenditures of $5,547,000 for principal and interest instead $10,007,500 as contemplated in the original bill, and an interest charge of $762,500 for the new issues instead of $2,135,000.

a fn- h. I ennot properly he dona on any. COMPARING HIM VMiffi COMMENDS hi but completed hard ur- faced highway, or gravel or untU the material In each Instance are thoroughly tested. At a cost of 12.000 a mil the expenditure of 1750,000 a year would mean the surfacing of 75 mil a year to' the next two year. Method of Snlo Attacked "We submit that this 1 aa much can properly be handled in the r.ext blennluin irrespective of th money end of It." The Taxpayer' Association Bulletin also attack the method provided for al of debenture in tha proposed 5,00,000 bill.

"The act passed by the last legislature provides that the debenture shall old hy the highway commission." the Dulletln aald, "whereas the 1S2T debenture act provided for their sals by the atat hoard of finance- can see no legitimate reason for euch a change. This method of permitting Institution or department to pledge, by the Issuance of their own bonds or debenture any part of the revenues accruing; to th state would seem to be unwise. If not a dangerous precedent to establish. It would seem that In th case of the highway department, that the state finance board which 1 charged under law with general supervision of the fiscal affair of the state, would th CnntlnneA fin Vf 1 IK MAY BE I SUIT FILES Attorney Who Sued for State Money In Several Failed Banks, Suggests Clue to Missing Papers Oeorge C. Taylor Thursday night was unable to spread any light on the missing depository bond securing the state's deposits In the funct Bunk of Roy and the defunct Las "Vegas State bank, for which a search Is now being made by officials at Santa Fe.

Mr. Taylor wa employed by th state finance board as special attorney to former Attorney General Mlltcn Ilelrnlck for a time during the period of bank failures In New Mexico which resulted in atate funds being caught in the eerie of crashes. The local attorney said Thursday night that he had filed aultg on some of tho depository bond at the request of the finance board. He said, however, he did not file the suite either on the bonds securing funds in the Roy or Las Vega banks. Ita offered the suggestion that the bond might have been filed with tho suit In the counties In which they were brought and ba among court files.

He said that in some suits he hnd filed In behalf of the state he had usually flted certified copies of the bonds with the oourt papers and that there was a possibility in a few cases that the bonds themselves might have been filed with the court papers. Judge Milton Helmlck, former attorney general, Thursday night wanted to know why his nam should be mentioned with the matter at all, He said that suits were brought In all caaes where state monies were involved and Judgments should have been made before thin. He said that if the bonds were In the hands of the state auditor at the time of the audit in 1927, he did not see why his nam hould brought int th matUf, 1 Oliver Deardorff, Seen Showing Weapon and Bragging, Sent Up From New York City Br the United tnm NEW TORK, March 28. Oliver Deardorff, th Brooklyn taxi driver who proved too tough for a bandit and took hi gun away from him after swatting him with a tire tool, wag sentenced to 80 days In the workhouse Thursday for possession of the weapon. Deardorff waa arrested by a "rookie" patrolman who saw him exhibiting the unloaded weapon to other taxi driven and regaling them with an account of his exploit.

Protests by private cltlren over the arrest of a "hero" led police to investigate the taxlman's private life after he had been sup-piled with $500 ball by a Park avenue banker. They found that he was living with a woman not his wife and supporting her and two children born to them. Deardorff also admitted serving nine months in an army prison at ParU Island, S. desertion. IN DEATH CASE Sheriff at Carlsbad Testifies to Taking Gun and Knives From Three Accused of Ballou Murder CARLSBAD, N.

March 28W) Gus Cavender went to the witness stand to testify in his own defense Thursday afternoon as the opening witness for defense attorneys. He denied that he participated In the fight in which Jim Ballou was killed, and which resulted in his trial Jointly with retry Cavender and R. H. Cavender on a charge of first degree murder. The state rested its case late in the afternoon, Cavender was still being examined when court recessed until Friday morning.

He maintained a defiant attitude toward some of the questioning and made repeated denials of testimony given by witnesses for the state who asserted that the three Caven-dars had attacked Ballou and that young R. Cavender shot him to death. Gus Cavender stated that the t.avendar's did not come to Artesia together on the day Ballou was killed. He said he came to town to get his automobile fixed and did not know that Perry Cavender and his son were In town until he met them In a grocery store. He denied that the three men had premeditated the killing of Iiallou and said they did not know Ballou was In Artesia until they met him on the street "and he (Ballou) started a fight." Cavender did not mention the cause of any differences between the Ballou and Cavender families, and steadfastly denied that he had participated In any fight.

March 28 OP) Presentation of witnesses by the state in an attempt to prove that Perry, Gus and It. H. Cavender were all armed and started a street fight with Jim Ballou, who was shot to death by R. II. Cavender.

was resumed Thursday In the trial of the three Cavenders for first degree murder. J. M. Jackson; deputy sheriff, who arrested the three Cavenders Immediately after the shooting, Identified the revolver which he took from R. II.

Cavender, and three knives which he said he took from Gus and Perry Cavender. The knlfo which he said he found In Perry Cavender's pocket was covered with blood. Lewis Howell, Joe Richards, O. E. Neal of Artesia, who was on the street at the time of the shooting; D.

Burdette and Jess Funk were other witnesses for the state Thursday. Funk was on the witness stand when court was recess ed at noon. The state's attorneys emphasized that Ballou was not armed. FINED $30 FOR BEING DRUNK AND CREATING ROW IN NEIGHBORHOOD E. Pena of 405 North Fifteenth street was fined $30 Thursday aft- ernoon In the police court of Judge C.

L. Rltt. The charge was arinic-ing and disturbing the peace. Sergeant Charlton and Patrolmen Zumwalt and Frisk arrested Pena one night recently, after neighbors complained that somebody at his address was "raising a racket." Several loiterers were surprised when the officers called The police say they confiscated a small quantity of liquor. CI ARMED ILEGE1 Tl Oliver Harper, Student Aviator, Suffers Broken Ankle and Ribs; Probably Recover JOSEPH LEFERINK, PILOT IS NOT SERIOUSLY HURT Machine Drops From 150 Feet Altitude While in a Tailspin; Accident Occurs as T.

T. Plane Arrives Their airplane going into a tail-spin when they were 150 feet from the ground, Josenh Leferink, 21, aviation in. structor for the Wyoming Airways, and Oliver C. Har. per, 25, lieutenant of the Headquarters troop of the New Mexico national guard, student pilot, were seriously injured in an airplane crash at the Albuquerque airport at 6:30 o'clock Thursday night.

Harper, who Is an employe of the Albuquerque Cerrlllos Coal company, the most seriously in jured, is suffering from a broken left ankle, two fractured ribs, lacerations and bruises. Leforlnk, formerly of Grand Rapids, Is suffering from contusions of the left leg, contusions of the chest, lacerations of the Hp and general bruises. Attending physicians called to attend the men, Harper at the Preshyterlan hospital and Leferink at St. Joseph's hospital, were of the opinion that neither flyer had any Internal Injuries and barring complications, say the men will recover. The accident happened Just after the plane had twice circled the field.

In aviation parlance, the accident was the result of the "ship stalling." Either the elope was too steep, or the speed too great In circling for altitude, nnd the plane pitched sideways and whirled downward. The fall wrecked the plane badly. The fuselage crumpled, but the wings still remained. Attendants hauled the wreck to the hangar to salvage the motor. The pilot's foot had become fast under the gas tank.

Barney Holmes, chief mechanic ind relief pilot at the airport, was the first to reach him, and he worked BO minutes, cutting away the struts to free him. The plane felt a few hundred yards from the hangar, along the highway leading to Albuquerque. The ship, and Eaglerock biplane, slipped backward and started spin ning, and according to close eye witnesses, made three complete turns before the crash. Leferink became fastended in the ship when It fell and was extricated with seme difficulty. Harper was the first man to be reach ed and was placed In a private machine by Herman C.

Schemmer, A. F. Marth and David Herrlott and started for Albuquerque, being met on the road by an ambulance, which then hurried the Injured flyer, accompanied by his companions, to the Presbyterian hospital. Hugh Munn was among the first to reach the wrecked plane. After he assisted In freeing Leferink from the ship, he accompanied the flying instructor to Bt.

Joseph's hospital In the second of two ambulances the Strong Mortuary had sent to the field. The accident happened shortly after the big T. A. T. office which arrived from the Grand Canyon, had rnndn a landing.

The men had taken up merely with the Intention of making a short flight about the field. Due to the reason that the accident happened within such a few miniites after the arrival of the T. A. T. ship, false rumors reached the city that the office plane had been wrecked.

Although there were, not many people at the field at the time of the crash reports of the accident spread rapidly and It was but a short time until autolsts raced to the field In droves. Harper, according to his friends, has not been flying long. Leferink is said to be a licensed transcontinental pilot. Harper was In control and was receiving instructions in operating the plane when It went Into the spin. According to one witness the plane was almost In a flat position when It landed.

OFFICIAL DIES QUEBEC, March 28 (UP) Sir Lomer Oouln, newly-appointed lieutenant-governor of the province of Quebec, was seized with a heart-attack while on his way to prorogue the Quebec legislature Thursday afternon. Tbre Louisiana Executive, Facing Impeachment on Charge of Plotting Murder, Cites Oil Tax Defeat SAYS IT WASlUE TO LEGISLATIVE CROOKS Senate Demands That He Show His Proofs, and, at Close of Day, He Has railed to Comply BATON "llOUGE. La- March 28 (AP) Governor Huey P. Lonf? struck back Thursday at those who are seeking his' impeachment, and added bribery to the charges which have come into the floodlight through I activities of the Louisiana legislature. While the house was arranging details for the start of hearings on the im peachment Monday niht, the 36-year-old governor Thursday mar'e the charge that legislators had been bribed by the Standard Oil companv to opnose his pro posed oil tax, which was defeated.

These fresh charge staggered thla picturesque and ancient capi tal, already agog with aensation over the charges against their governor, who Is accused In ihe cold terms of the Impeachment resolution of plotting murder nd of eighteen official irregularities, large and small. By unanimous vote the itnte senate adopted a resolution demanding that the governor name the legislators wqnm he said ao cepted bribe and name the oil company financial agents charged with paying the bribes. A circular issued by the state highway department, entitled "Cross of Gold: Standard Oil Company vs. Huey P. Long" was presented to the senate and It Immediately adopted the resolution.

Late Thursday the governor had not furnished the names. While Mayor Denies It, Two Police Officers and Eight Others Are Held for Smuggling Munitions DOUGLAS, March 28 OP While government agent Thursday continued their investigation of the alleged smuggling of munitions and machine guns across the border to Mexican revolutionary forces, no further arrests were made. Ten persons, Including Chief of Tollce Leslie Gatllff and Police Captain Walter Morris, were arrested Wednesday. The police officers were released on ball and perml'ted to return to duty pending trial. Of the others, who are being held, only the nRmes of Adrian Raul H.

Leon and Oonwilcs Fiona were made public. Mayor Millard TTaymore Thtlra-day Indlirnantly denied the allegations of special government agents that 37,000 rounds of ammunition and two machine guns belonging to the city had been sold to the rebels at Agua Prleta, Ponora. He also announced that his accused police sides would not be removed from office until they hnd been proved guilty of wrong doing. The police officers maintained that the guns and ammunition were sold for $500 on authority of the city council shout March 1 to a "strange American." The special government agents, however, hold an Affidavit from A. J.

Dusrte, who claims to have negotiated the sale to the rebels for 12,000. The city records show that only 1500 was received. The city officials Thursday had no explanation to offer of this apparent discrepancy. PREMIER IS PEAT) BOGOTA, Colombia, March IS OP) Premier Enrique J. Arranolo died Thursday night after an 111-n of a week.

CLAIM DOUGLAS HUMS FO REBELS AGENTS Fronts Before Regulars JUAREZ. March it (4) Mexican rb' staged their first bombing raid Thursday, attacking Ber-tnejlllo, -Chihuahua, where ex-Presldent Calles la thought to have established headquarters for advancing federal army. Having concealed their strength for some time, rebel leaders dispatched two rebel bombers, escorted by several pursuit planes. The flight left Jlmenei arly in the afternoon, returning about two hours later. They reported that their bombs had done considerable damage and caused consternation among the federals.

JUAREZ, Mexico, March 28 OP) Official report received In Juarez Thursday night said two federal aviators have been shot down and killed by rebel forces. A Captain Farrell was shot down at Jimenez when he attempted an air raid on Jimenez, and Capt. Alfredo Ce-ballos waa shot down near Guadalajara on March 24, the report said. "Those two deaths have beon confirmed by the enemy," the report ended. REBEL ayiatiox SQUADRON HEADY EL TASO, March 28 OP) Gen.

Jose Gonzalo Escobar, commander In chief of the Mexican revolutionists, Thursday night sent the following telegTam to the Associated Press: "The aerial esradrille of the revolutionary army Is ready and well quipped to combat the 'Calles army." (Signed) Gen. Jose Gon-aalo Escobar. REBELS SEIZE AI TOS I NOGALES, SONORA NOG ALES, Eonora, March 28 OP) Virtually every motor vehicle on the streets of this city, at least one of them owned by an Arizona firm, were commandeered late Thursday and taken to rebel CnntlnnM on Te Three T. lIltE ME ARRIVES I EAST II The "Office" Ford Is In Charge of Chief Pilot Col-lings; Several Passengers Are Carried J. C.

Cowden of New Tork, vice president of the T. A. landed at the Albuquerque airport late Thursday afternoon In a T. A. T.

trl-motored Ford "office" plane, which was returning home after a flight to the Pacific coast. John P. Collings, T. A. T.

chief pilot, was at the controls. C. M. Bradley was hla mechanic. William C.

Tufts, manager Rand-McNally's Washington of of- He floe, also was returning home had been checking a map of the. airline. O. Demaray, also of Washington, was another assistant director. He Is of the national park service, lie had been linking, closer, planes and parks.

Walter V. Stevenson c.f New Tork, was aboard. He Is president of the Stevenson Cold Storage company. He had been to the coast to expedite the shipment of California fruit. The Misses Marston and Srhlcke, also of New Tork, were passen THE WEATHER FORECAST DENVER.

March 28 W) New Mexico: Generally fair Friday and Saturday, warmer Friday south and extreme east portion. Arirons: Generally fair Friday and Saturday, except unsettled north and east portions; little ehange. In temperature. WIS FATHER, Roosevelt, Jr. to be aure; but in the long run, that may only prove to have handicapped him, Probably Teddy, senior made a few mistakes hla youth, too.

If so, they did not count heavily against him, because he was young. By the time he had achieved greatness, they were forgotten. Teddy, junior, haa had no allowances made for him. From the very outset he haa had to stand the contrast between himself and hjs father-r-in the latter'a prime. They may say Vhat they please, but young Teddy was a middling good assistant secretary of the navy.

True, he fell for the transfer of Elk IUUs and Teapot Dome from the navy to the department of the Interior, but It was his superlor'a policy; not his. He could only havo protested, at most; and he failed to sre the Ethiopian In the woodpile. So did a great many other supposedly capable officials. Indeed, numerous competent naval author ities still insist that, at least in principle. It was a good thing.

The colonel was an assistant natal secretary of considerable decisiveness of character and not all his decisions were wrong. He bated red tape. Ho hnd nerve. Quite likely Teddy II would be anwthing but a conciliatory gover nor general of the Philippines. Teddy before him, was not a conciliatory personality.

One complaint of Teddy II ta that he tries to Imitate his father. Perhaps he does. After all. It Is no bad quality In a son to consider that his father was a great man ar.d, feeling thus, to endeavor to follow closely In his footsteps as knows how. OIL STANDING IN NEW WELL IN LEA COUNTY Lynch No.

1 of Texas Production Company Opens Area Previously Unex plored: New Pool Likely LOVINGTON. March 28 OP)- The Texas Production company No. 1 of La county wai standing full of oil Thursday at a depth of 3,731 feet. This well is located southwest of Lovlngton and northeast of Carlsbad In an area heretofore unexplored. With the top of the pay Just scratched the well Immediately began to fill with oil and It reached the sur face In eight hours, according to the reports of scouts.

Operators believe that this well means the discovery of a new pool In Lea county which would carry production closer to Koa well and other Pecos valley points. Drilling was suspended, pending erection of storage facilities. SCHOOL PAHT1 HERE A party of Los Alamos school students at Otawl, near Santa Fe, arrived In Albuquerque Thurs. day en tour. There were eight boys in the party and they are: L.

Hughes, H. I. Lord, C. 8. Hughes, L.

G. Carpenter, Jr. G. H. Marston, S.

H. Bloffer, W. II Tale, Mr. and E. 8.

Marston, Jr. They all registered at the Alvarado. Frank Spencer Church waa in charge of the party. ouiaianaing ana proposes new issue would be $1,047,500 Instead of $2,420,000, the Bulletin said. Crowding and Confusion The omission of th enacting clause, constitutionally mandatory In th debenture bill, and "also varlou other failure and omissions," the bulletin said was due "In yart at least to th crowding and confusion during the laat day of the session." Th Bulletin observed that "It If quite apparent from th trend of publlo opinion a expressed in the newspaper that the question of highway debenture la to reopened at the peclal session, and It la certainly to be hoped that the discussion will be a reasonable and sound basis.

The only cut In the proposed suggested highway budget as contrasted with the budget submitted ly the highway commission are In administrative cost from to $200,000 a year; maintenance from 91,800,000 to fl, 000,000 a year and In state old Items a reduction of $500,000 to $350,000. However, these proposal of ours, the Bulletin sarld, show a cash balanc of $208,600 at the end of the next fiscal year and of on July 1. 1931. trnwnrrnntel Expenditure "We havu been all along and it 111 re of th opinion that to hypothecate the potential liquid resource! of New Mexico, even for roadi to any such extent as 1 contemplated In the original bill and to crowd In tho expenditure of $4,000,000 or even $3,360,000 on oiling the road In two year I quite unwarranted, particularly In view of the fact that the highway commission' budget contemplates spending an additional amount of approximately $3,000,000 a year for the next two years In ordinary expenditure. "However alnce criticism of proposed program are not very useful without alternative constructive proposals, we have carefully worked out a suggested amended program Involving a very considerable lesser bond Issue." "This program which we submit Involves an expenditure of a year for oiling In lieu of $2,000,000 and $1,350,000, respectively, for the next two years.

Itlg Interest Charge Hits "The startling feature of this quite careful analysis I thisthat If the $5,600,000 debenture are Issued as contemplated by the recent bill. It will Involve an expenditure of $10,007,500 In the next eleven years beginning July 1, 1929, to pay the principal and Interest on highway bonds. Including those now outstanding and of this will be for Interest alone, This In our opinion 1 entirely too much. We simply cannot afford It. So much money as that ought not be spent for In.

terest charges. "It will be contended perhaps that the state must have at least $3,350,000 for oiling purposes In two year. With that contention are In definite disagreement. Ihe oiling experiment has, as ye, been nowhere nearly so clearly proven to be a success as to warrant so extensive an outlay In so briefly a period. The oiled ur-faces so far laid on finished roads srem satisfactory but enough time has not elapsed to prove either their durability or that the best mixtures or methods hav beon determined.

"At first it was stated that $1,600 a mile would be the average cost then the figure was raised to $2,000. In fact, it cost around $3,000 a mile in some Instances. Whatever the cost, undue haste Is certain to involve poor results, If not failure. That ha already to some extent been demonstrated. The work cannot properly be carried oa In cold WMithw.

Colunel Theodore By CHAKI.ES r. STEWART Exclusive DUputrb to Alhuiiurrqaf Journal WASHINGTON. March 28. To pooh-pooh Col. Teddy Koosevelt, is quite the fashion.

The chorus of pooh-pooha rose to a climax recently, when young Teddy was suggested for the governor generalship of the Philippines. Naturally- A lot of politicians want that Job. If Teddy can be pooh-pooh'd out of It leave it to them. With no wish to push him for that or any post, suppose we give the colonel the once over, to see whether we can arrive at gome sort ofa conclusion concerning the calibre of a citizen he la. It is Teddy Junior's hard luck that people persist in comparing him with his father.

Robert for instance, never would permit himself to be compared with his sire. He made a hermit himself to avoid It. Throughout most of his career he dodged publlo life, for that especial reason. The secom. and third generations of Grants have done the same thing, without carrying It to qulto such extremes.

They always have been satisfied to be simply a great man's descendants each, on his own account, merely a good average. Toung Teddy happens to have much the same tastes and ambitions as Theodore I. He has gone In for politics. And why not -It he chooses? as well as anybody? However, it makes him conspicuous necessarily. And Instead of estimating him on the basis of his Intrinsic worth as an Individual, the public Insists on estimating him as his father's son.

This has been pretty severe on him. It gave him an early, easy start, Three Victims Are Federal Soldiers, While German Bomb Maker and His Daughter Also Perish CALEXICO, March 28 W) Three Mexican soldiers, a German bomb maker and the latter'a daughter, were killed late Thursday by the explosion of nine kegs of explosives and thirty aerial bombs stored In a brick ammunition building at the Mexican federal garrison at Mexican, across the border line. The soldiers killed were Mexican guards posted at the ammunition building, which was located on the Packard ranch of the Colorado Itlver and Land company, five n.iles east of Mexlcall proper. The Mexican federal government several days ago obtained permission to use the building for storage of war materials. Francisco Kenneth was tho bomb maker killed In the explosion.

rom cent tat DENVER, March 28 OP) The senate state affairs committee has agreed unanimously on a revision of the B-ce-nt gasoline tax bill passed by the house of representatives, wherehy the tax would be cut to 4 cents a gallon, It was dlclosed tonight following three days of open hearlnsa. FIVE Hill IN EXPLOSION AT IEXICAEI, IEX.