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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1929
Page
1
The German airship Graf Zeppelin landed safely at Lakehurst Naval Air Station New Jersey after its third Atlantic crossing. It carried 18 passengers and a covert stowaway handed to immigration. Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins rode aboard as winds slowed its arrival.
Detroit August 5 AP A customs border patrolman missing since he left a government boat Friday night to board a seized rum craft is the focus of an intensive search. Walter S. Petty acting customs chief confirmed the report after an unidentified caller to the Detroit Free Press suggested the agent was knocked off and his body might be found in a boat well on the east side. Petty rejected the killing theory.
Bishop James Cannon Jr. releases a 15,000 word statement denying profiteering in flour during the war and political influence charges. He defends stock trades and insists he acted without church political control in Virginia while opposing Alfred E. Smith and disavowing Raskobism.
Transcontinental railroad traffic resumed today on two principal routes after last night's heavy rains flooded mountain canyons. A bridge washout near Wister, California, closed the Southern Pacific line between India and Niland, routing trains via the Santa Fe to Phoenix. Torrents from Providence and Kelso mountains damaged approaches and threatened others between Barstow and Las Vegas, Nevada, in the Mojave Desert.
Chicago police rushed to quell tension after a Hip Sing tongman Yee Sun was shot and killed in Chinatown. Legate Whem Kar Leon Wong was wounded and believed allied with On Leong. Police arrested Joe Tuck after a Hip Sing witness Ding Wing identified him, as city readers awaited Page Eight continuation.
Albert Buhskow an 18 year old stowaway on the Graf Zeppelin hid in a box like room near the tail high above the deck during the Atlantic crossing from Friedrichshafen. He carried a pocket camera and 1 mark 50 pfennigs and saw little of the voyage as onlookers reported his desperate bid for world travel.
LANGLEY FIELD Va Aug 5 AP Nine bombing planes of the second bombardment group take off for a test flight to San Diego Calif led by Major Hugh J Kneer with about two score pilots observers and non combatants aboard They plan two brief landings at Scott Field Ill and Albuquerque New Mexico en route covering about 3000 miles in 36 to 48 hours The flight aims to prove quick cross country transport for a group in an emergency and may pass over Winslow following the T A T route from Albuquerque
An army of nearly 1000 men battled spread of fires in northern Idaho as drought and wind hampered efforts. Pend Oreille Timber Protective Association and 250 crews fought Sand Creek near Sand Point and 250 more on Pack Creek, with Baldy Mountain and Glover Creek fires threatening towns. Rain later eased Manitoba fires across the province.
In Los Angeles a midnight riot at the Spada state narcotic hospital let thirteen inmates escape. Deputies with shotguns halted the uprising after rioters used improvised rams to break doors. Three ringleaders Charles Rivers William Graham Bobby Hall were arrested. No injuries reported.
In Nogales Arizona a Pickwick Latin American lines plane carrying eight passengers and two pilots was struck by lightning while flying over the airport. No damage occurred and the passengers were unaware until landing. Pilots observed sparks from the nose and engine. A later inspection found no damage. Ground observers witnessed the strike.
General rains across Arizona raise inflows at Coolidge and Roosevelt reservoirs. Phoenix reports 1.01 inches the year's heaviest, flooding easements in downtown stores. Yuma endures substantial damage from the downpour while Casa Grande highway floods persist, and state crews use trucks to keep routes open.
Three oil storage tanks belonging to McMillan Petroleum were burning on Signal Hill in Long Beach California. Firefighters from Long Beach and Signal Hill battled for over an hour, gaining control and extinguishing the blaze at two wells that caught fire at 5 a.m. The incident involved eight fire companies and ended with the tanks under control.
In Paris the International Waiters Convention urged a salary system with tips forbidden, arguing tips inflate wages and should come from employers. The group also condemned hotel and restaurant practices of splitting tips among staff.
The state bank of Orlando and Trust company, capitalized at 100000 dollars and described as the oldest financial institution in Orange County, failed to reopen its doors today in Orlando Florida.
Phoenix police investigate the death of Mrs. Trinidad Miller 80 after an iron bar blood traces a bloody shirt and missing leather key ring are produced at the inquest. Neighbors reported her missing Thursday and an entry forced by detectives found her dead Saturday.
Charles Foster, sentenced to death for the February murder of Martin Parke near Benson, gained a stay of execution today by filing an appeal from the Cochisel county verdict to the state supreme court. Foster was convicted of first degree murder and the jury recommended the death penalty. Superior Judge Albert M. Sames set the hanging for August 23.
In Kansas City early today three firemen died when walls of a burning drug store collapsed during a fire drill to vent a hose. Ten others were injured as an explosion occurred amid possible oil-saturated floors. Fire Captain Emmett Fitzgerald was rescued. the building was destroyed.
Formal announcement at the White House confirms Baltimore banker John W. Garrett as ambassador to Italy, succeeding Henry P. Fletcher who is returning home. Garrett will represent United States interests in Rome while Fletcher departs for home.
William Brock and partners, famed from a round world flight ending in Tokio, arrived in Winslow with Mrs. Brock and associates. They flew a new plane from Los Angeles to Detroit after dawn departure. Amelia Earhart, preparing for the women's transcontinental air derby, is due in Winslow this afternoon en route from Clovis.
Fear of a broader strike that would halt all funerals spreads through New York as grave diggers in Calvary cemetery strike and funeral drivers refuse to transport corteges beyond cemetery gates. A negotiating conference is set with Calvary cemetery officials while hundreds of bodies await graves in vaults.
Paris courts grant Mrs. William Averell Harriman a divorce from her husband, financier and sportsman William Averell Harriman, on grounds of abandonment.
New York reports Al Singer boxer known as Bro Mo will meet Kid Ch, a Cuban bantam, in a 12 round bout at the Polo Grounds on August 28. Both fighters weighed to be under 128 3 4 pounds.
Mrs. Dorothy C. Shepherd Barron defeated Miss Marjorie Gladman in straight sets 6 2 7 5 to take the final of the dual Maidstone Club invitation tournament. The match featured Shepherd Barron as a member of Britain's Wightman cup team smashing through Gladman's defenses in Easthampton New York.
In Columbus on August 5 the defense targeted Dr James H Snook's June confession that he killed 24 year old Theora Hix, an Ohio State co ed, during the murder trial.
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