SINKING OF SAN JUAN IN FOG LEAVES 65 MISSING
In dense fog off Pigeon Point California the coastwise steamer San Juan sank after a collision with the Standard Owl tanker. About 100 aboard, 74 unaccounted for, 65 feared dead. Rescue vessels Dodd and Munami saved survivors, Captain Adolph A splund believed to go down with his ship.
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San Francisco
San Juan
Pigeon Point
Here
S.C.T
Pigeon
Cal
Ailtough
Los Angeles
Dodd
Adolph F.asplund
Minami
Captain recounts night rescue after San Juan collision
Captain Gus Hig of the Manami narrates a night rescue off Pigeon Point California after the San Juan sank following a collision with the S C T Dodd. Ten survivors were pulled aboard as the crew battled fog and oil slicks while life boats operated amid wreckage and cries for help.
Chief of Indian Bureau to Confer With Three Boards Sept 9
The Navajo Coconino and Apache county boards plan a joint meeting at Holbrook on September 9 with Commissioner Charles J. Rhoades to discuss Navajo reservation extensions and tax revenue concerns. Hopi leaders may attend, and Winslow may host a follow up conference. A Holbrook session previously adopted a resolution protesting further Navajo land expansion and sent copies to Senate Indian Affairs Committee and Arizona lawmakers.
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Indian Bureau
Boards of Supervisors
Navajo
Coconino
Apache
Holprock
Charles J. Rhoades
Anal
W. Hookway
Ice County
Rhoads
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Hookway
Holbrook
Hayden
Carl Hayden
Walton
Ed Sawyer
Winslow Chamber of Commerce
Winslow
Senate Committee of Indian Affairs
Arizona
Permit Denied for Arizona Air Taxi Plan
Robert W. Henderson was denied a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate an aircraft common carrier general air taxi service in Arizona. The commission said the application was denied without prejudice and proposed headquarters in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Robert W. Henderson
Corporation Commission
Henderson
Tragic Double Deaths Linked by Strangled Woman
In Kansas City two bodies were found near Clift Drive. Ruth Laughlin of Kansas City, 21, was strangled. Paul Leslie Odell, 20, a railway clerk, was shot in the head. A torn letter, mailed August 28 from Oklahoma, mentions love and money. Discarded revolver parts and shells were found nearby.
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Kansas City
Paul Leslie
Odell
Ruth Laughlin
Paul Leslie Odell
Clift Drive
Modell
Oklahoma
Arizona Youths Will Shoot For National Title
Six Arizona youths selected from nearly four thousand Citizens Military Training campers travel to Camp Perry Ohio to represent the eighth corps area at the National rifle and pistol matches. They receive marksmanship instruction as they prepare to fire next Monday in the premier meet. Participants include Franklin L. Bennett and Don C. Lucas of Yuma Sloan Al Amos Phillip R. Merritt Oscar R. Temple both of Phoenix and David E. Coughanour of Nogales.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
Arizona
Citizens
Eighth Corps
America
Franklin L. Bennett
Yuma
Don C. Lucas
Sloan al Amos
Phoenix
Phillip R. Merritt
Oscar R. Temple
David E. Coughanour
Nogiles
Skeleton of fifty year old trapper found after forest blaze
In the Lewis and Clark forest near Great Falls Montana a forest fire exposed the skeleton of a longtime trapper believed dead decades ago. A rifle dated 1873 and an old iron skillet lay beside the remains along with a rusted salt shaker and two bottles of poison used by trappers. The heat caused the bullets in the gun to explode revealing the relics of the lone trapper.
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Great Falls
Mont
Lewis and Clark Forest
Coast Guard Receives Ten Survivors from San Juan Sinking
The Shawnee cutter relayed that ten survivors from the sunken steamer San Juan are en route to the port. Three are said to be severely injured and require urgent hospital care upon arrival about 11 o clock.
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San Francisco
United States Coast Guard
San Juan
Coast Guard
Grand Canyon Highway Bids Due Next Week
Phoenix August 30 bids for regrading and resurfacing the Williams Grand Canyon highway will be opened September 2 in the U S Bureau of Public Roads office bids for the 18 mile scenic rim drive from Grand View to Desert View to be built with federal funds will be opened September 7.
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Phoenix
Williams-Grand Canyon
United States Bureau of Public Roads Office
Grand Canyon
Grand View
Desert View
Endurance Fliers Near First Week End
CHICAGO August 30 The endurance plane Chicago We Will and the St Louis Robin press toward a 421 hour refueling record with both aircraft aloft over Sky Harbor Airport. At 10:31 a.m. pilots Russell Mossman and C J Steele had logged 167 hours in the air, seven hours short of a week’s mark.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Sky Harbor
Russell Mossman
C. J. Steele
Apache Airlines Incorporation Filed in Globe Arizona
Apache Airlines Inc of Globe filed articles of incorporation with the corporation commission. Authorized capital stock totals 50 500 shares with 50 000 common and 500 preferred shares, all without nominal par value.
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Phoenix. Ariz
Apache Airlines, Inc
Globe
Corporation Commission
Palestine in Holy Land Turmoil Eases under British Force
Aug 30 Jerusalem reports gradual calm as British troops enforce peace after five days of sectarian violence. Looting continues, Bedouin raiding threats persist, courts order death for looters. Arab peasants bring children to a Jewish settlement, amid mosque gatherings and ongoing clashes. Two Arabs killed at Kalanbia, Jewish casualties on the Ladd Tel Aviv road, and a doctor wounded while tending patients.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Transjordania
Kiryath Anavian
Holy Land
Omar
Kalanbia
Ladd
Tel Aviv
Old City
Korxidi
Misgab L’dach
Submarine C-2 Sinks Fishing Vessel Gerado Abascal
The Spanish submarine C-2, patrolling the Plymouth Santander regatta route, collided with the fishing bark Gerado Abascal near Santander. It rescued two of the bark's three crew. one crewman drowned.
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Santander
Spain
Plymouth-Santander
Gerado Abascal
Veterans of Foreign Wars Back National Vote on Prohibition
In St Paul Aug 30 the Veterans of Foreign Wars endorsed a national referendum on the eighteenth amendment after tabling a resolution for outright repeal of the dry constitutional ban. The fiery session capped the 30th annual encampment as veterans urged a clear public vote.
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ST. Paul
Veterans of Foreign Wars Today
Judge Frank D. Comerford Dies Suddenly in Chicago
Judge Frank D. Comerford of Cook County Superior Court, once dubbed the boy orator of the legislature, died suddenly last night. He was 64 years old.
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Chicago
Frank D. Comerford
Cook County
Rhineland Evacuation Ordered by British War Office
The British war office ordered troops to withdraw from the Rhine land starting September 14. Evacuation will take three months, aiming for completion by Christmas or New Year. The Hague reports signed accords among France Great Britain Italy Belgium and Germany on Rhine land evacuation and related reparations funding. The Hague conference adjourns tomorrow with Briand returning to Paris. Geneva notes the fifty sixth League council meets privately led by Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi.
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London
British War Office
Rhineland
The
Hague
France
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Aristide Briand
Paris
Geneva
Council of the
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
Ali Peroughi
Persia
New Oiling Bids Called For Today
M. Hankins, secretary of the state highway commission, told The Daily Mail by telephone from Phoenix that a new call for bids on oil surfacing 35 miles of road west from Winslow on the Flagstaff highway would be issued this afternoon. He did not know when proposals would be opened. The contract allows finish by next spring if fall weather delays completion.
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M. ©. Hankins
State Highway Commission
Daily Mail
Phoenix
Winslow
Flagstaff
Hawkins
Pola Negri Missing From T A T Plane Arriving In Winslow
Disappointment spread as west bound T A T plane landed in Winslow without Pola Negri aboard. Officials could not confirm her departure from New York August 25 nor explain why she did not ride the ship to Los Angeles. Possibilities include a late departure from Columbus Ohio or switching to rail at Clovis New Mexico.
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Winslow
Pola Negri
New York
Los Angeles
Columbus
Ohio
Clovis
New Mexico
Argentine Senate Adopts Eight-Hour Day Act
The Argentine senate passed a labor law establishing an eight hour day and seven hours as a maximum for night workers. The act awaits the president's signature.
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Buenos Aires
Gang of Kids Foils Grocery Hold-Up in Evanston
A 12 year old boy and eight companions interrupted a grocery robbery in Evanston NL. They rushed the robber, knocked $140 from his hands, and chased him to a waiting car. the thief fled, and a license number was obtained.
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Evanston
Lady Mary Heath Recovers After Plane Crash
Irish aviatrix Lady Mary Heath regained consciousness after surgery for a fractured skull and other injuries from a crash that sent her plane through a factory roof in Cleveland. Surgeon E C Cutler and specialist N B Wright led the operation, with infection risk noted. Her pilot, Erwin Kirk, lost a finger. the race event was halted.
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Cleveland
Lady Mary Heath
E. C. Cutler
Western Reserve University
N. B. Wright
Lady Mary
Erwin Kirk
Mills Company
Kirk
Delinquent Realty Sales Start Soon
County treasurer will begin selling real estate on Tuesday September 3 to recover unpaid 1928 or earlier taxes. Assessor Joseph L. Peterson, in Winslow, says plans aim to clear all delinquent properties quickly.
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Joseph L. Peterson
Winslow
Peterson
Bank employees held in Genoa bank theft case
Three employees of Banca America d Italia in Genoa were arrested on August 30 charged with diverting funds sent to the bank by Italian emigrants in America.
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Genoa
Italy
Banca America D'Italia
America
Robber Holds Santa Fe Station Up In Flagstaff
A masked bandit robbed the Santa Fe railway station in Flagstaff at about 9 pm, taking twelve dollars for the express company and forty dollars in Santa Fe cash. He fled south through the waiting room and into darkness. Sheriff Kester and local officers pursued a possible eastbound Studebaker vehicle.
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Flagstaff
Santa Fe
H. R. Greer
Express Company
The
Greer
Jack Kester
R. L. Neill
Winslow
Kester
Studebakers
Dedication Exercises Set for Winslow High School Building
The opening dedication of Winslow's new Junior-Senior high school building begins at 8 pm in the auditorium. Dr Grady Gammage, president of the Arizona State Teachers College of Flagstaff, will speak. the evening includes music by Ambrose Baca and a saxophone solo, with a flag ceremony and a guided tour of the new facilities followed by a dance.
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Grady Gammage
Arizona State Teachers” College of Flagstaff
America
Charles McCauley
Winslow Scottish Rite Masons
Bill O’hara
Chris Totten
Ambrose Baca
Gammage
Winslow
Police raid Mexico City printing plant halts El Machete
Police raided the Communist Party printing plant in Mexico City and forced the suspension of El Machete. Four communists were arrested, including editor Gonzales Lorenzo, in the late night action.
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Mexico City
Communist Party
el Machete
Gonzales Lorenzo
Oakland chosen as next NAM convention city
Aus 30 AP Oakland California was selected for the National Association of Letter Carriers convention city for the next year. E J Gainor of Muncie Indiana was renamed president at the closing today.
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Oakland
Minneapolis
Aus
Cal
National Association of Letter Carriers
E. J. Gainor
Muncie
Ind
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