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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1929
Page
1
In Kasumigaura Japan the Graf Zeppelin's planned trans Pacific flight to America was postponed shortly before midnight due to unfavorable winds. Officials said a possible early morning departure remained, while a large crowd waited to witness the historic Orient to America airship voyage.
A Tokyo youth, Mitsukichi Harakawa, 18, stole 300 yen to see the world from the air and was found at Kasumigaura air field. He was returned to his father as mechanics prepared the dirigible for its Pacific departure.
Pravda warns that any nonstop Berlin to Tokyo air route must account for Soviet Russia. Graf Zeppelin flight path north of Moscow cited as not insulting but signaling Moscow halts may be required. Article notes Graf Zeppelin armed and that Moscow’s stance could shape future flight plans.
New York AP report notes Margaret Moser a jewel importer wife collects speeding tickets as stamps. She paid 25 dollars in traffic court for a ticket in her car and aims to retain it as a memento from Spain Switzerland France Germany Austria and Italy.
Spot cotton in New Orleans finished steady with a gain of 12 points. The market showed styles trading at 1,859 with minding 18.51, reflecting a small advance in the session.
Traffic to Walpi on the Hopi reservation intensifies as the famous snake dance is scheduled for tomorrow ending a week of August ceremonies. Tourists from across the United States have arrived to witness the rites while about 800 visitors saw the opening snake dance Monday and many auto parties have since proceeded to Walpi. The Winslow Polacca route covers 75 miles and a three to three and a half hour drive.
West Frankfort Illinois August 22 police chief Leroy Fisk and Patrolman George Nipper stopped a motor car to search for liquor. Earl Kreicher and Albert McDonald fired first and were shot by Fisk with a sawed off shotgun. Both men died instantly and an inquest was set for today. Fisk held in jail at Benton after technical arrest. Kreicher and McDonald about 35 years old.
Alexander Pantages the 54 year old theater magnate was to appear in superior court to plead to two assault charges for an August 9 incident involving Eunice Pringle a 17 year old dancer. Defense plans a not guilty plea and asks for time to prepare. The district attorney aims to set trial for September 17.
Columba Falls Mont August 22 AP Every available man of the Great Northern Railway and the United States forestry service fought to save the town of Belton twenty miles northeast of here on the Glacier National Park border as a forest fire threatened the area.
In San Francisco the leading man Robert Chapman 28 dies after a fall from a sixth floor window at fellow writer Allen Hoffmans apartment. Police probe possible jump fall or foul play amid linked underworld ties and cast entanglements including Naana Wortova Elaine Worth and Frank Crupico.
A Nanking dispatch to Kuomin says the foreign office remitted $110,000 in gold to the Sino delegation secretary at the League of Nations for half year China’s membership. Dispatches also said China would use installments for back dues to the league, estimated at over $1.5 million.
The senate patronage investigating committee, called by Chairman Brookhart, will reconvene Monday to consider additional evidence on conditions in the Southern states.
Call money in New York on Aug 22 shows easy 7 percent in early trading with high 7 and prevailing rate 7. Close at 4.
Hopkinsville Kentucky police uncover a case where 13 year old Louise Gibbs was married to Ed Green after a forged parental consent. Green, 43, sought the girl and holds that Gibbs defrauded him by selling the mules and wagon for 525 dollars. Gibbs is jailed on forgery charges and the girl is staying with relatives as authorities prepare a grand jury review.
AP dispatches from Tokyo and Peiping claim Soviet mobilization on the Manchurian frontier and a forthcoming punitive march on Harbin to pressure China over the Chinese Eastern railway. Japanese guards on the South Manchurian line brace for reinforcements as uncertainty over the attack remains.
A bomb ripped the front of the Warshawsky and Company automobile supply store at 19th and State streets in Chicago early today. Watchman Theodore Fisher was injured by flying glass. Israel Warshawsky said he knew of no reason for the attack, marking the 78th bombing in the city this year.
The senate extended its recess today adjourning until Monday after a two minute session in which no business was transacted.
E. H. Mitchell, 54, died from acute blood poisoning after hornets attacked his face and neck in Victoria British Columbia. He had taken a friend to view flowers when the attack occurred.
Reports from Harbin quote Chinese nationalist authorities estimating 30,000 Russian troops on the Manchurian border under General Budenny. Among these units are 7,000 infantry at Tawali and Manchuli, 1,200 Mongolian cavalry near Lake Baikal, and 1,700 at Blagovestchinsk with field guns and 25 armored trains.
Tachung dispatches from Manchuria indicate continued Chinese nationalist government activity with authorities signaling extensive military preparations in expectation of renewed Russian actions along the border.
In Pecos Mrs Florence Barnes lands down wind and crashes into an automobile but escapes injury causing doubt she can continue the race. In Midland Ruth Nichols leads entrants into town followed by Phoebe Omlie Amelia Earhart and Gladys O con n ell with a sequence of landings and a Rotary luncheon stop before a 2 p m departure.
Ruth Nichols became the first National Women's Aerial derby flyer to arrive at Pecos Texas as a refueling point. She touched down at 7 38 a m mountain time traveling from El Paso.
The Senate will enter tariff debate on September 4 and spend most of the next two weeks studying the House measure as revised by the Senate Finance Committee. Republicans push to finish rewriting the bill with only minor admin provisions. final action is unlikely before the special session ends, likely pushing deliberations into the December regular session. The rate sections have been shared with Democratic members, while administrative sections await tomorrow's planning meeting for the campaign ahead two weeks from now.
The New York American quotes Mrs. Tex Rickard saying she is penniless despite rumoured 31 million fortune. She has received under 5 thousand from the estate and foresees little further. The paper notes a 500 thousand trust for their two year old daughter Maxine as a dream with nothing left for her.
Annapolis Md Aug 23 AP Lieutenant Alford Williams nearly died in a third attempt to fly his Mercury racer at nearly 100 miles an hour. He collapsed unconscious for five minutes after dizziness forced him to cut the motor switches and the plane halted in the cockpit.
Crews scoured the North Atlantic for Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher after their westward trans Atlantic flight attempt. Admiral Hughes ordered naval vessels and merchant ships to watch for the two young aviators as a faint hope lingers. The Farman monoplane lacking pontoons carried 500 gallons of fuel from Lisbon to New York and could not stay afloat if ditched.
New York August 22 AP The German steamer Quimistan on fire in mid ocean prompted rescue of 26 crew by the Dollar liner President Harrison after yards of Yalta reported the burning vessel. Coast guard cutters and a destroyer were sent to the scene. The Quimistan, a former Honduran banana trader, was reported to be low in the water before it vanished.
Helen Jacobs, the stocky Berkeley star, dominated Mary Greer of Kansas City 6 2 6 2 to reach the national women's tennis championships semi finals. An arbitration court in Manchester found wage cuts of 12 1 2 percent justified for Lancashire cotton mills, affecting 500 000 workers from September 14 pay week forward.
A morning fire in Verdi Nevada disrupted main trunk telegraph and telephone lines between San Francisco and eastern points for hours. The blaze halted traffic on the central highway through the town and delayed Southern Pacific Ogden route tracks ten miles west of Reno.
Nat F. Peterson aged 20 from Little Falls Minnesota died at Fort D. A. Russell hospital after the Monday stampede of artillery horses at Pole Mountain maneuver and target reservation, 30 miles northwest of Cheyenne.
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