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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1928
Page
2
A brief notice states an individual tied to the United Press has been recorded in Winslow Arizona as a second class mail master at the local post office. The item records postal duties and titular status within the press network.
President-elect Hoover plans a quiet retreat at sea to dodge election pressures while shaping his future cabinet. Reporters and the public speculate on Mellon staying on, Borah possibly becoming secretary of state, and Hoover promising to continue Coolidge foreign policy.
A large number of Americans have learned that when one person profits from stock speculation another loses an equal amount. The piece notes the learning taking place in the broadest class ever formed by the University of Hard Knocks and asserts a lesson will be learned.
In Albuquerque on December 25, officials explained that the McSweeney McNary law funding will push a comprehensive forest program. The Southwest Forest Experiment Station at Flagstaff leads regional studies on growth capacity and silvicultural practices, aiming to improve timber production and range management across the Southwest and beyond.
Grand Canyon, Ariz. December 25. Footprints of a man were found on the river shore near Ruby Canyon and Bass Rapids as searchers persist in the Christmas day hunt for Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hyde lost while attempting to traverse the Colorado river in an open scow. The Hydes, two weeks overdue at Needles, Calif., were last sighted below Diamond Creek by airplane.
In Santiago Chile on December 25 crowds filled churches for Christmas services and filled the streets for promenades into the afternoon marking a gay Christmas celebration in the city.
Louis Wirth predicts in The Ghetto that Maxwell Street and Chicago ghettos will fade as immigrants blend with the outside world. The study argues urban ghettos carry seeds of self destruction and is funded by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial fund.
Berlin reports Queen Soraya and her mother and Afghanistan’s foreign minister fled Kabul by plane amid rebel threats. Amanullah stays in the capital and the queen plans to reach Kandahar for safety until order returns. Calcutta dispatch notes a British flight delivering eleven French and German women and four children from Kabul to Peshawar. husbands remain in Kabul.
Irving Berlin's 24 day old son died of heart trouble. The child was to be named Irving Jr. The report notes Berlin's wife’s father Clarence H. MacKay, once opposed to the marriage, had recently reconciled with the couple.
Lieut. Jorge Mendez Calvo, a Colombian aviator now trained as a naval and military pilot in Argentina, plans a non stop flight from Buenos Aires to Bogota covering about 3598 miles. He aims to start in March and will route over Tucuman Argentina Africa Chile Guayaquil Ecuador and Calama utand Buena Ventura Colombia.
Sir James Barrie recovered from a chill and presented his Peter Pan cup to J Heath, the winner of the Serpentine Swimming Club's 65th annual 100 yard Christmas handicap. Heath swam in Hyde Park lake near Buckingham Palace in icy water, finishing in 58 seconds with 39 starters.
New York December 25 Robber Robert Nabi aged 23 attempting a dash for freedom from Sing Sing prison was shot three times by guards as he fled toward the Hudson River. He was taken to the prison hospital and may recover.
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In Seattle on December 25, word reached William Cuvier t hat the tug Rooosevelt was towed and abandoned. About 14 crewmen were rescued by the Alaska Steamship Company's steamer Northwestern after the tug went adrift. The vessel had been towing another craft when trouble forced abandonment.
In a gale off the Alaska coast the Starr and Roosevelt were disabled. The Starr was abandoned after towing cables parted. The Roosevelt proceeded to Seattle but was later disabled and its crew abandoned.
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