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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1929
Page
1
Gus Snyder a 48 year old miner was trapped in a sub chamber 367 feet underground after ore fell and timber failed. Rescue teams, aided by a crack through the timber, supplied him with food tobacco and a stimulant while workers cautious of further collapse worked to reach him.
Washington reports President Hoover faces a tough pick for two Democrat slots on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Boston's Joseph B. Eastman is favored for reappointment but opposed by railroad interests and some Republicans. Southern Democrats compete for Richard V. Taylor’s seat as tension grows across the party.
State police rescued Warden Edgar S. Jennings and seven guards after a riot at Auburn prison. Three hundred armed inmates patrolled the corridors as eight convicts and Principal Keeper George A. Durnford were killed. Several inmates received long sentences including Perry Johnson and Alex Tucholka.
Col Charles Goodnight famed as father of the Texas Panhandle died in Tucson at his winter home after a influenza illness. His widow Corinne and family were present. He helped domestic buffalo from his Goodnight ranch later renamed The Valodura, attracting national attention.
Representative from New York proposes a conciliatory five captain commission to settle the Army Navy football dispute. He named Harvard Yale Princeton Pennsylvania and Georgetown in the panel to present to President Hoover at the White House.
In Chicago on December 12 reporters describe confiscated liquor that explodes with a dangerous kick. Government men destroying the liquor must wear armored chest plates and masks. Deputy U.S. marshals have already suffered injury from exploding bottles.
Local option elections in Scotland restored liquor sales in several areas. In Glasgow Pollokshaws ward liquor supporters won by 44 in a 7 358 vote with 14 licenses potentially re issued. Clyde side wards also voted for sale while the village of Culle northern Scotland backed continuation of no license.
The annual conference of the Arizona County Assessors Association closed with reelection of W. Augele of Wingman as president and Ed Oglesby of Phoenix as secretary. The concluding day focused on automobile license plate issuance.
A Tehuacan Puebla report says 25 inmates escaped after wounding the warden and two guards. They broke jail doors and attacked the warden's office before fleeing the scene.
The interstate commerce commission considers whether chewing gum is a food a drink or merchandise. Foods get second class freight rates while other merchandise pays first class rates. The national association of chewing gum manufacturers challenged the current first class classification.
Two Pathe Studio executives, John C. Flinn and Henry I. Lalley, were jailed on manslaughter charges after a Manhattan fire. Police seized 160 film containers as evidence amid alleged violations of a city ordinance restricting film storage to five reels in certain buildings. Bail set at $5,000 each.
B S Harvey head of the Harvey hotel chain arrives by motor to inspect the near finished half million dollar Harvey building here. His son Diggett and brother Stewart join the party with J C Childs and Miss M J J Cilter to oversee details before continuing to Chicago after visiting Navajo dances north of Gallup, N M.
Commander Richard E. Byrd and Charles M. Manly received the Langley medal from the Smithsonian Institution board of regents for aeronautical achievement during the year 1920. The award was announced in Washington on December 12.
Thomas Tiritilli, father-in-law of convicted kidnapper Angelo Pettiti, was shot to death near his home after two men intercepted him. Police say he opposed Pettiti’s extortion activities and refused to contribute to his defense fund, a possible motive. The slaying follows a related murder of Ole Scully tied to the Pettiti case.
Rome dispatch reports Pope Pius XII will issue an encyclical on January 1. It would be the first since the Lateran treaty that established peace between the Holy See and Italy. The text is described as a document of benevolence and heartfelt thanksgiving.
A Wichita Falls fire at the Antlers Hotel left three dead including Smiley Turner assistant chief of the city fire department and two others G T Anderson fireman and Kenneth Brice a taxi driver. Four others were critically injured as a wall and then the roof collapsed during frantic rescue efforts. The origin of the fire was not determined.
William R. Diettel alerted police after spotting three men placing dynamite on streetcar tracks. The trio fled in a large green car, taking the dynamite with them, leaving a license plate hidden by a white rag. An officer said the incident halted a planned midnight blast.
Fragmentary OCR text notes a religious feast or ceremony referencing the Virgin. Details are unclear but indicate a local observance with possible community participation and dated phrasing. Further readable context is needed for precise identification.
Dressed in ceremonial robes and grotesque masks, Tortugas village hosts a sunrise festival blending Spanish Catholic and Aztec rites. Tom-toms guide a procession as Indigenous participants bear a Virgin figure, with historic objects from the conquest era amid ongoing dances and a cross lighting the night.
The Senate approved an increase in the wool tariff without a recorded vote though the House bill set a different cents per pound rate. The action raises duties on top wool waste and involves a dispute over cents per pound figures.
In Chicago on December 12, experts from the Civic opera and Shakespearean Repertoire company debated Othello a Moor’s skin tone. Charles Marshall envisions a coal black Moor. Tyrone Power performs with a coffee tan. Cesari Formichi and Fritz Leiber offered opinions to unresolved questions.
The El Dorado Kansas jury resumed deliberations on Owen Oberst 17 charged with first degree murder of his father and accused of killing his mother and five siblings on April 20 1928. Oberst's fate was placed in the jury's hands shortly before 5 p m yesterday with deliberations continuing this morning.
Five killed and 30 injured when a motorbus collided with a street car at Senfield Middlesex. Four of the dead were women and all victims were bus passengers. The street car overturned trapping passengers amid debris as the bus swung out to avoid a cyclist.
Col W H Easterwood Jr of Texas City announced a $25 000 prize for the first aviator to fly from Hong Kong to Dallas with possible additional $25 000 by James Dole. The effort is framed as an endurance test with planned stops at Tokyo Hawaii and the Pacific coast and no limits on aircraft or pilots.
Joseph R. Grundy, a Republican known as the high priest of tariff protection, is seated as Pennsylvania's second senator amid cautious opposition from Senator Nye over 1926 Pennsylvania primary issues. The action fills Pennsylvania’s Senate slate for the first time since 1927.
Brigadier General Dwight E. Aultman of Allegheny Pennsylvania, the Army’s ranking general, died at Walter Reed Hospital after a five month illness.
Rev. M. M. Tomlin, a 63 year old Negro minister and former preacher at the Negro Baptist church in Taylor Town, died at his home yesterday afternoon after a week of illness from acute peritonitis following appendicitis. He had lived in Winslow two years, previously from Vaneta Oklahoma, and was employed at the local hotel and on the Western Roads pay roll. Born in Mississippi, he leaves a wife and three children in Vaneta. The body will be shipped to Vaneta for burial.
Fire swept through the municipal airport hangar in Tampa early today destroying three airplanes. Explosions awakened residents as the building burned. One plane belonged to Handal Norval of St Louis, owner of two planes used in an endurance attempt that crashed here Sunday killing two pilots.
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