University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Kenna Record, 1910-1921 New Mexico Historical Newspapers 4-8-1921 Kenna Record, 04-08-1921 Mr. and Mrs. A. C. White Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/kenna_news Recommended Citation Mr. and Mrs. A. C. White. "Kenna Record, 04-08-1921." (1921). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/kenna_news/370 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kenna Record, 1910-1921 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 7 0"TTT U j) $.M f--- nj t tiiimi s r VOL. 16 KENNA, ROOSEVELT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, APRIL 7 1921 NO. 3 LIEUT. W. D. CONEY IS DEAD WEEKS NAMES. SIX ARE KILLED Tires and Tubes Accessories DEATH COMES AFTER FALL Boots and Patching and Supplies NEW ARMY STAFF FROM AIRPLANE ' EXPLOSION Phone 42 Was Attempting to Mjffce Another NO ONE NAMED MAJOR FOR Transcontinental Flight When His BOOTLEG MANUFACTURE OF GENERALS PLACE BUT Plane Was Wrecked. FIRECRACKERS AND EX- P. & R. GARAGE WILL BE SOON PLOSIVES CAUSE. Natchez, Miss. Lieut. W. D. Coney, who was injured recently while at- Elida, New Mexico ALMOST LIST IS SECJAXER'S tempting to make a transcontinental MANUFACTURERS ARE HELD Acetylene Welding W. E. LUCAS One Lest Name Appears On List To Many Are Homeless and More Than Expert Mechanics PROPRIETOR Be Sanctioned fay President Hard- 100 Are Injured as the Results of the ing Which I That of Brig. Blast Which Caused Many Small Gen. C. R. Edwards. (1 Buildings to Collapse. , Washington. Secretary Weeks an- nounced that President Harding would Chicago. Manufacture and storage appoint the following chiefs of serv- of fireworks in a manner prohibited by' ED. J. NEER. ice. 11 of the officers failed of con-me- n city ordinances was blamed by city Undertaker and Embalms I .v:; ..,,...! .., , I and police officials an explosion In' t: for LICENSED BY ' ' major generals: C. S. Farna-worth- , the heart of the west side tenement; 8TATE BOARD To be ' chief of Infantry; Charles T. district which killed at least eight per- CaTTi answered day or night Office phone 67 two riam iMenoher, air service; W. Snow, sons, injured 100 or more, rendered Residence, J. 67 three rings. Agent for Roswell and AxaarUio field artillery; W. A. Holbrook, caval- .n dozens temporarily homeless and dam- (nnousa PorUles, New Mexico. ry; George O. Squire, chief 'signal o'-flc- aged buildings blocks away. Complete John L. Chamberlain, Inspector Two men were held In Jail In con- Line of Caaketa and Robes general. nection with the disaster and two oth- i To be brigadier generals: Herbert ers, possibly killed in the explosion, M. Lord, chief of finance; Amos A. were sought by the police. serv- Fries, chief of chemical warfare The explosion wrecked the ware- ice. All o f the officers failed of con- houses of Weil and company, paper firmation during tbe lust session of dealers, Tha Old Time Preparations congress. where a dozen' men were Are Good , working. All were believed to have Secretary .Weeks indicated that a been killed. nd you will find new chief of staff of the army to suc- them all here from Dobell'a eolation to ceed Major General Peyton C. March," Next door was the firm of Singer the end of the chapter. All correct compounded and bearing and Shaffer, dealers in novelty mer- would be selected before the . special the guaranteeing label of session of congress convenes April 11. chandise. Chief of Police Charles He refused to discuss the matter be- Fitzmorris and Fire Attorney Shirley yond saying that the "name of the High, after completing investigations new chief of staff will probably be an- declared that the Singer and Shaffer firm had manufactured fireworks In nounced before congress meets." -- Compilation of of nomina- and around the warehouse in violation 1 D the PQCJCPIPtQN QMAl jffiSt the list Lieut. W. D. Coney tions for general officers is expected of city ordinances and that compila- to be completed soon by tbe secretary. flight from Jacksonville, Florida, to tion of these fireworks was to blame ROSWELL, N. M. San Diego, California. - for the disaster. They, declared the firm frequently had been warned to 2S2ffiSSrfss TJie death of the lieutenant, whose In discontinue the manufacture and had I back was broken the fall, resulting in complete paralysis body been repeatedly warned that fireworks a of his not city from the chest down, was not unex- could be stored within the limits. GO TO pected, and his physicians had an- nounced earlier that he could live. Men Admit Charge. According to Mr. High and Chief Mrs. E. F. Coney, mother of the Fitzmorris, the two men held in jail KEMP LUMBER lieutenant, of Brunswick, Georgia, both admitted that the firm manufac- CO. Mrs. W. H. Devoe, an aunt of Jack- tured fireworks and that It had con- ELIDA, N. M. sonville, Florida, and E. F. Coney, a ducted an illicit trade in this product. brother, of Brunswick, Georgia, were Dozens of salesmen toured the central with the filer at the time of his death. west taking orders, they were Quoted For Wire, Posts, Cement, Lumber and Building Lieutenant Coney is a son of the as saying. Material iaahpoori and Hardwire. l late Edgar F. TJoriey, a lumberman of More than a ton of T. N. T., dyna- Brunswick. mite and other explosives is believed At the outbreak of the Mexican to have been consumed in the' ex- trouble in 1916 he enlisted with the plosion. Scores of fireworks labels, a G. BRIDGES, Manager. Brunswick rifles, an Infantry organiza- pieces of firecrackers and torpedoes tion; find saw service on the border. were found near the wreckage. In a Returning to Brunswick in 1917 about nearby building were 7,000 pounds of the time the United States entered torpedoes, according to the police, and the European war, he entered the of- evidence indicating that hundreds of ficers training camp at Fort Ogle- pounds of gunpowder and dynamite thorpe, Georgia, ntsre he was com- recently had been shipped to the firm, missioned a second lieutenant of in- was said by the police to have been fantry. Later he was transferred to found. KENNA BANK & TRUST COMPANY. the air service. Four Are Identified. Wat Flying Instructor. Only four of the eight persons MaJ. Gen. Chat. T. Menoher He was assigned as flying Instruc- known to be dead had been identified. The list, it is understood;, will be man- tor during war oppor- The other bodies were so badly Kcnno, Now Mexico. a duplicate to con- the and had no almost of that sent to gled as to be unrecognizable. gress by former Secretary Baker, tunity see service at the front.' On the day Jie was injured the announce- Many persons whose homes had which failed of confirmation. One im- damaged by ex- ment was made at San Diego, Cali- been so badly the portant exception, however, may be given fornia, of his promotion to a first plosion as to be untenable were the inclusion of the name of Brigadier temporary quarters in the Garfield Clarence R. Edwards, former com- school bouse where 1,500 children mander of the 26th (New England) na- were attending school at the time. The tional guard division overseas, to head TO REDUCE INCOME TAX roof of the building was damaged but the list of major generals. His name the children escaped unhurt. did not appear In Baker the Senator Penrose Outlines Program for Revenue Legislation. JOHN BURROUGHS IS DEAD RENE VIVIAN! IS IN THE U. S. Washington. A general scaling Was On His Way Home From Call, o o o o o down of all Income taxes, oo Came To Visit Pres. Harding, But with reduc- fornia When Death Came Will Not Say Why. tions in the levy of small incomes as well as the heavy surtaxes on large New York. Rene Vivian!, former earnings was prestaged by Senator Utiac, N. Y. John Burroughs, natur- premier of France and now envoy ex- Ponrose of Pennsylvania, chairman of alist, died on a New York Central train traordinary of the French government the senate finance committee. Senator near Klngsville, Ohio, on his way to this country, arrived on the steam- Penrose outlined the plans for revenue home from California. He had been ship Lorraine. He will confer with and tariff legislation on which con- very ill for six weeks with an abscess President Harding to see whom he gress will be called to act at the spe- on the chest and heart and with kid- came "on a mission of courtesy." cial session beginning April 11. ney complications. He was so eager to get A small reception committee, com- The senator declared hoped home tht that he the long Journey was undertaken, posed of city and state department that the finance committee be would with hope he could survive. officials went down the bay to meet able to begin the preparation of the the that official and brought him back to new tax The end came suddenly, a few min- the bills within the next week. utes Battery Park, where thousands had The plan, said, to after he had asked: "How near he is draft these home are we?" assembled. Although the exact time measures while house ways and the His physician, Dr. Clara Barrus, of his arrival had not been announced, means' committee is working on hlSj the granddaughter, Ursula Burroughs, and the crowds waited patiently.