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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1931
Page
1
Union leaders meet in Chicago as railroads propose a voluntary ten percent wage cut for one year to avert economic ruin. Delegates discuss whether workers will accept the reduction while employers warn of forced cuts if not agreed. Labor chiefs urge protecting working families over stockholders’ dividends.
The article reports renewed protests in India after the London table conference, with Gandhi urging passive resistance and boycott. Bengal urged a boycott of British goods, banks, insurance, and shipping. The All-India Muslim League voiced dissatisfaction over Moslem rights safeguards, and Lucknow sub committees were authorized to start a no rent campaign.
John N. Garner of Texas was elected speaker with a 218 to 207 vote amid a party split. Democrats gain control of the House for the first time in 12 years with 219 seats to 214 for Republicans and one Farmer-Labor, with one vacancy from New Hampshire.
Tokyo reports Japan ready to accept a League of Nations reservation on Chin chow neutral zone but with no counter reservations. Nanking says China will resist any Japanese attack after refusing evacuation of Chin chow and notes Chinese foreign minister Wellington Koo withdrew resignation amid officials’ appeal.
The Southern Pacific announced a ten percent wage reduction for all employees not protected by union agreements or federal rules. A Chicago meeting of the brotherhoods was set to decide if additional workers would join the cut, including top executives down to the company president Paul Shoup.
The market reports New York on December 7 showing bar silver steady and one cent gains to 80 cents, reflecting a modest upswing in bullion pricing.
Weekend forecast shows Saturday and Sunday with varying temperatures. Saturday highs and lows not yet specified. Sunday high and low values unavailable in readable text.
The Treasury plans to borrow 1.3 billion dollars in securities to be offered Dec 15. About 1.09 billion will repay debts and the rest covers current expenses. Issuances include 600 million of one year 3 1 4 percent notes, 300 million of six month certificates, and 400 million of nine month certificates. The prior year deficit was 903 million and five months into the current year it stands at 856,367,587.
More than 1,000 witnesses were called in Chicago for the opening of a $5,000,000 conspiracy trial involving nine former trustees and employees of the sanitary district. The state charges allege misspent tax money, padded payrolls, noncompetitive bids, and a million dollar bridge path beyond their duties.
Missionary aviators Brothers George Feltes and Martial Lapeyre guided by a dog team started a trek from Tacoma to Crater Peak. They aim to reach their plane, which was forced down two weeks earlier by motor trouble, in a 30 mile march over difficult terrain.
Tulane University football captain and all American end Jerry Dalyrmple was hospitalized in New Orleans with a kidney ailment. Teammates fear the condition could sideline him from the Rose Bowl against Southern California in Pasadena on New Year’s Day after he was stricken driving in McComb, Mississippi.
Mahatma Gandhi rested through another day of silence in Montreux Switzerland at the home of his friend and biographer French writer Romain Rolland.
Harry F Powers faces a jury in Moore’s Opera House as WV readers hear again his alleged crimes. Twelve hundred people from the mining region fill the venue while state troops stand by, though no protest erupts.
CHICAGO bulletin says leaders of the leading railway union planned shorter working hours today after setting aside wage issues. In Phoenix, Superior Court Judge Martin T. Phelps denied a new trial and sentenced J. Thomas, 60, to life in prison for stabbing Walter Hodges at a Mesa ranch on Oct. 3.
Washington December 7 The Interstate Commerce Commission withdrew its plan to pool revenue from increases in railroad freight rates that it had suggested in its decision on the 15 percent rate increase case.
A jury was completed in Clarksburg West Virginia to try Harry F Powers for the murder of Dorothy Pressler Lemke a divorced woman from Northboro Massachusetts. The process concluded at 2 39 p m today.
San Bernardino dated report says W Merriam 54 a Los Angeles mining engineer ended his life at the Trona mining site yesterday.
In Washington 1500 unemployed protesters attempted to enter the Senate floor after two repulsals by police. A large delegation and a smaller group then moved toward the White House to press for unemployment insurance, while the Senate remained inaccessible to non-senators.
About 1500 unemployed men and women woke in warm bunks and prepared to press unemployment insurance demands at the opening day of Congress. After a capitol demonstration they planned to march on the White House and the AFL building.
Strong winds drove Minnesota readings to 22 degrees below zero at Thief River Falls, the coldest of the season. Subzero temperatures were widespread across the state, with East Central North Dakota reporting 14 degrees below zero.
Giovanni Giuriati resigned as secretary of the Fascist party in Rome and was replaced by his assistant Achille Starace. Starace led the Venice and Trento sections of the 1922 Fascist march on Rome and has served as vice secretary since 1921.
Candidates of the national revolutionary party were generally successful in municipal elections held yesterday in several Mexican states. No disturbances were reported.
Je sus Baca travels from Gallup to aid Concho communities in the search for nine relatives missing for three weeks after a snowbound storm in western New Mexico. The missing are Ben Chavez and family, Tom Chavez and family, and Carlos Armijo last seen at Atarque near Zuni. Several Indians reportedly died in the blizzard as relief efforts lead by Zuni Indian agent G A Trotter expand.
London Lee aged 16 was killed instantly in Prescott Arizona when a rifle discharged accidentally while he climbed in the back of a truck to retrieve an apple. He and two companions rode in the truck when the rifle fired wounding him in the abdomen.
Washington dispatch reports renewed movement for two Democratic presidential possibilities. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and New ton D. Baker of Ohio emerge as potential front runners as Congress convenes. Farley predicts Roosevelt on first ballot after talks with leaders. Baker drafts announced by Martin L. Davey meet Baker’s refusal to run actively.
In Williams Arizona American Legion and Odd Fellows hunters bagged 600 jackrabbits and cottontails in a shotgun foray. The game will be served at Legionnaires banquets tonight and Odd Fellows Thursday night as feature dishes of their annual events.
Mrs. Hazel Bullard 31 mother of two confessed that she fed three men during the $2,061 Bettsville Bank ing company robbery on Saturday and named the hiding place of the money, Prosecutor Paul Flynn announced.
Farmers from forty states gathered in Chicago under the American Farm Bureau to seek agricultural relief. They planned to devise ways to make farm boards more effective, eliminate surpluses, raise market prices, and reduce taxes as Congress convened.
Albert Eugene Brooks aged 56 a farmer near Boise Idaho was accidentally shot and killed early today while crawling through a fence with a shotgun he planned to use against a howling dog that had woken the family.
The state highway department opened bids for 22 miles of work on the Florence to Tucson highway starting at the Pima Pinal county line and running northwest to the Picacho overpass. Work includes grading draining plac ing subgrade stabilizer and oil processing.
In Detroit on December 7 a group of newsboys from the Floyd Club plotted vengeance against 15 year old Joe Przystas accused of picking on younger kids. Hours later Joe was killed by a rifle shot. Stanley Orlenowski, 14, admitted firing the shot, claiming the intent was to frighten not kill.
Captain Bert Hinkler arrived from Paris after a South America to Africa flight. The Marquis of Londonderry and other British aviation leaders met him at the Hanworth air port as he landed this afternoon in England.
In Washington on December 7 the new Congress opened with Democrats winning the House for the first time in twelve years while Republicans kept the Senate. John Garner was chosen speaker by a narrow margin over Bertrand Snell as the chamber prepared for its first session. The scene included prominent families in galleries and formal attire as senators and representatives arrived early for the historic split of leadership.
A four year old boy Lane ONeil Rollins died after being struck along a side road to Poole Ranch near Buckeye. E C Nebe of Williams died when his car overturned near Hackberry Mohave county. Barney Early a San Diego paving contractor died after a fall from a truck near Seligman. Arizona motor deaths totaled 141 for 1921, compared with 177 at the same point last year.
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