Arizona Winslow-Long Valley Road Work Start Soon
Senator Hayden telegraphed that President Hoover signed an emergency public works bill allocating 80 million dollars with 1.7 million to Arizona for the Winslow-Long Valley forest highway. Arizona gains include 3 million under the Oddie-Colton act and roughly 418 thousand to Arizona, plus about 240 thousand for forests and trails. The act funds hard surfacing for most of the Grand Canyon area access and a potential road from Adamana through the Petrified Forest.
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Winslow-Long Valley Forest
Carl Hayden
Daily Mail
Hoover
Arizona
Hayden
United States
National Park Service
Grand Canyon Park
Adamana
Petrified Forest
Daily Mail Adopts New Type Face
The Winslow Daily Mail appears in a larger Intertype Ideal News face designed for easier reading. After over a year of experiments with various typefaces, samples were tested by opticians and oculists, with consensus favoring the new ideal face for readers.
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Winslow Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Pitfalls Seen for 6.0 Plane Stand
Washington dispatch notes the administration’s emergency relief bill now law while Congress heads into two weeks of Christmas recess. Despite gains, lawmakers fear hidden obstacles to final adjournment and potential extra sessions as Senate barbs loom over House support for administration aims.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
Senate
House
Executive
City National Bank of Miami Closes Amid Withdrawals
The City National Bank of Miami, the second largest in the city, announced its closing today after heavy withdrawals prompted by rumors about its condition. The bank’s Miami Beach unit and affiliated City Trust and Guardian Trust subsidiaries will remain open.
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Miami
Fla
City National Bank
City National Bank of
Miami Beach
The
City Trust Company
Guardian Trust Company
City National Bank In
Communist Forces Defeated In China
Reports from Canton state provincial forces defeated Communists threatening an invasion of northern Kwangtung. The outlaws were driven northeast into Fukien province after Siuchow in northern Kwangtung was besieged for days, with communications reestablished.
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Canton
China
Kwangtung
Fukien
Siuchow
Poincare Condition Remains Unchanged
Paris dispatch reports Raymond Poincare's health status as unchanged with doctors underscoring the need for absolute rest. A vascular spasm last week prompted added caution, though officials say no deterioration is implied.
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Paris
Raymond Poincare
Weather update for Arizona with frost in portions
Arizona forecast shows fair tonight and Tuesday with colder air in central and southeast areas. Frost expected in south central. Winslow reports Saturday high near 40 and low near 6. Sunday highs around 30s and lows near 36.
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Arizona
Winslow
Soviet official Rykoff loses top Soviet posts
Alexei Rykoff, once a powerful figure close to Lenin, was stripped Friday of his presidency of the Sov narkum union council of people's commissars. By Sunday the central committee and central control commission removed him from the Politburo as well, signaling a purge by Stalin's faction though he may still be kept as a nominal ally.
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Moscow
Alexis Rykoff
Communist Party
Nicolai Lenin
Sovnarkum
Union Council of People’s Commissars
Three Killed Five Hurt In Auto Crash Near Abingdon
A Baltimore group of three were killed and five injured when the car they rode collided with a parked truck on the Philadelphia road near Abingdon Maryland early today. All victims resided in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Philadelphia
Abingdon
Moths Attack Buffalo Head In Wilbur Office
A buffalo head in Secretary of the Interior Wilbur’s office was attacked by moths. Officials ordered a spray gun and strong insecticide to protect the shaggy ornament from further damage.
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Wilbur
Washington
Moody Grants 53 Christmas Clemencies to Texas Inmates
Governor Dan Moody issued fifty three Christmas clemencies giving furloughs to inmates of the Texas penitentiary to spend the holidays at home.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Penitentiary
Dan Moody
Four saved as mail plane crashes near Alhambra
A Western Air Express mail plane crashed into a residence near the Alhambra terminal shortly after 2 am. Pilot Bart Cox, co-pilot George Sherwood, and passenger A Ousterhout survived with four aboard. Part of the 1500 pound mail cargo burned as the tri motor Fokker felled by wires and trees burst into flames.
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Alhambra
Los Angeles
Western Air Express, Inc
Bart Cox
Salt Lake City
Utah
Cox
George Sherwood
A. Ousterhout
Wyoming
Fokker
Snow Blanket Covers Panhandle Texas
Snow covered much of northern Texas and general precipitation spread across the state. In the Panhandle seven inches of snow were reported at Tulsa as cold air moved south with Oklahoma City posting its lowest temperature of the season at 24 degrees.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Tulsa
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Convict Kidnaps Warden of Prison Near Chandler
Raymond Stickler, 23, a Pima county convict, abducted Warden Lorenzo Wright of the Arizona state prison and the warden’s four month old son from the warden’s automobile at Chandler Heights, about 50 miles from the prison, forcing them from the vehicle and escaping.
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Chandler, Ariz
Raymond
Stickler
Pima County
Lorenzo Wright
Arizona State Prison
Chandler Heights
Grain Surplus Will Be Absorbed Says Corporation Officer
George S Milner president of the Grain Stabilization Corporation says domestic wheat conditions do not justify lower prices and the agency will continue to absorb surplus market offerings to maintain current or higher price levels.
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Chicago
Grain Stabilization Corporation
George S. Milner
Arizona has no work for transient jobless
Washington Dec 22 Unemployed men warned by Colonel Arthur Woods, head of the president's emergency committee, to stay in home communities. He notes Arizona California and Florida are flooded with jobless movers and families and that officials nationwide cannot aid transient unemployed. John W Flynn Arizona official says state can handle its own unemployed but not transients. He requests national publicity warning transients not to come to Arizona. Similar notices from California and Florida.
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Washington
Arthur Woods
Arizona
California
Florida
John W. Flynn
Colonel Woods
Oberon shipwreck claims forty one lives in Baltic collision
Copenhagen dispatch reports 41 dead in the Oberon sinking after colliding with its sister ship Arcturus off the Cattegat. Rescue ships saved 40 passengers and crew. a Swedish woman’s body washed ashore near Nidingen Lighthouse bearing gold jewelry.
Fatal misfortune haunts Fahy family in air death
In Los Angeles the aviation hearse carrying Mrs. Fahy from Tonopah Nev. was forced down by engine trouble on the desert about 80 miles west of the crash site delaying her burial. Lt. Fahy was killed in a Michigan plane crash a year earlier. Mrs. Fahy was buried in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Herbert J. Fahy
Aviatrix
Fahy
Michigan
Famous Actress Flo Irwin Dies On Coast
FLO IRWIN a 71 year old actress died of a heart attack in Los Angeles amid excitement over her sister May joining a vaudeville reunion. She had retired quietly after a long stage career with her sister in a trio known since the 1880s. Authorities cite heart failure triggered by emotional excitement from the anticipated visit.
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Los Angeles
Flo Irwin
Miss Irwin
May
Three Nations
Wrigley Seeks to Obtain Arizona Biltmore Hotel
William Wrigley Jr. filed in federal court a foreclosure action to obtain title to the Arizona Biltmore hotel near Phoenix. The investment in the $3,500,000 development totals about $2,000,000 over the past two years. The hotel opened in early 1929.
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Phoenix
Ariz
William Wrigley, Jr
Chicago
Arizona Biltmore
Shipwreck Toll Reported From Nordic Liner Collision
A wartime style report states 44 lives lost when the Finnish liner Oberton sank after colliding with its sister ship Arcturus in the Cattegat. The Oberton was en route to Hull from Baltic ports as officers and crew faced the disaster amid rough seas.
Slipher to address 5000 at Cleveland science meeting
Dr. W. M. Slipher, director of Lowell Observatory, will review the discovery of Pluto at a 5000-member scientific gathering in Cleveland. The Arizona astronomer will discuss the ninth planet in the solar system and its significance, presenting the outstanding news event of 1930.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Pluto
Solar System
W. M. Slipher
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
Arizona
Merapi Volcano Death Toll Rises to 300 to 400
A Rotterdam dispatch reported by the Daily Mail says the Merapi eruption in Central Java last week killed between 300 and 400 people. Most victims were field workers near the mountain and were overtaken by a sudden lava avalanche after Merapi had been inactive for 80 years.
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London
Merapi
Java
Rotterdam
Daily Mail
Negro Held for Safety After Mob Fear Drives Transfer
Raymond Gunn, a black trapper accused of killing Velma Colter, 19, was moved from Buchanan County jail to Kansas City for safety after a mob attempted to seize him. State and local officers escorted Gunn to Jackson County Jail amidst rising tensions.
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Kansas City
Raymond Gunn
Velma Colter
Buchanan
Gunn
Buchanan County
Maryville
St. Joseph
Jackson County
Urban and Rural Census Announces Shift to City Living
Washington reports the 1930 census shows 68,955,521 people or 56.2 percent living in urban areas, up from 54.4 percent in 1920, reflecting continued migration from farms to cities though at a slower pace.
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Washington
Maitland pleads guilty to being drunk at Fort Sam hospital
First Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, famed for 1927 Pacific flights, pled guilty before a general court martial to being drunk while confined as a patient at Fort Sam Houston base hospital on August 17. He faces charges under the 96th article of war.
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San Antonio
Tex
Lester J. Maitland
Pacific
Fort Sam Houston
Maitland
Pase Hospital
Oklahoma Oil Fire Put Out By Blast
In Wewoka Oklahoma on December 22 AP reports the No 2 A B Douglas gas well fire was extinguished by a 45 pound nitro gelatin shot after an air voyage to Tulsa for the explosive The Kinley brothers fire eaters of the Mid Continent oil fields carried out the operation creeping to the gasser edge under water spray and placing the charge on a shelf before detonation The oil and gas flow remains menacing despite the blaze being tamed
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Wewoka
Okla
Mid-Continent
Tulsa
M. M. Kinley
Harry Kinley
Fog Causes Major Shipping Accidents in European Waters
Dense fog disrupts vessels across the North and Baltic Seas and beyond. The US liner George Washington was rammed near Hamburg, suffering a stern breach but no serious casualties, while the Danish motorship Malaya bore heavy damage after a collision. The Hopatcong and Rio Azul also faced damage awaiting fog clearance.
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Hamburg
United States
George Washington
Elbe
Malaya
George Waashington
United States Shipping Board
Istanbul
Enforcement Body Declines to Review 1916 Bombing Convicts
The law enforcement commission said it will not reopen or investigate Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, each serving life terms in California for the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade bombing. Chairman Wickersham stated the panel cannot examine witnesses or alter facts, noting lack of power and jurisdiction to advise state court dispositions.
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Washington
Law Enforcement Commission
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren K. Billings
California
San Frisco
Wickersham
Ten hurt as express train derails near Belgrade
Ten passengers were injured and a switchman was killed when the Belgrade Sarajevo express derailed near Lajkevatz station in Jugoslavia.
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Ten Hurt
Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Belgrade Sarajevo
Lajkevatz
Dartmouth President Opposes Eighteenth Amendment
Dr. Ernest Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, declares his opposition to the 18th amendment in a public letter to the National Temperance Council. He criticizes the amendment’s theory and practice and says he would support it only if evidence showed it could work.
Jury Brought In Verdict After Three Days Of Deliberations
Major Charles A. Shepard was convicted in Kansas City on a charge of fatally poisoning his second wife. The verdict sentenced him to life imprisonment with no capital punishment. The jury reached the decision after deliberating since Saturday, with defense and prosecution attorneys present in court as the verdict read.
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Kansas City
Kas
Charles. A. Shepard
Grace
Water disputes loom as states seek Supreme Court ruling
Eleven legal controversies involve states and the United States over water rights. Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire are named in the pending cases. The central issue in each suit is a river or water resource.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Arizona
Wyoming
Colorado
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Utah
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
When Good Business Makes An About Face
Chicago police said two highwaymen who stole a laundry truck and contents turned to their trade again after being caught delivering bundles to households. They had been collecting payments from housewives when intercepted by a police squad.
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Chicago
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