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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1929
Page
1
Twenty four Mullan residents including the mayor, board of trustees and police chief were found guilty by a federal jury after an 11 day trial. They faced fines and jail for participating in a conspiracy to violate the Volstead act through licenses and nullification.
In Lahore India on December 30 the 44th National Congress opened with approval from the executives of the all-India National Congress Party for a Gandhi backed move toward complete independence. The executive voted 134 to 77 for a gradual path and non-cooperation as a first step. Over 30,000 Indians attended the opening session.
Secretary Wilbur would be notified that Arizona is willing to meet California and Nevada in a January conference in Phoenix to discuss Colorado River issues. The commission accepted the proposal to take up topics ignored by the Interior Department and to set the date around January 20 pending Ward's return from Mexico.
The body of a man believed to be Dr. Jonathan W. S. Carver, British archaeologist, was found after an automobile crash near Columbus, Texas, injuring eight others. H. R. Miller of Roanoke identifies the deceased as a wandering scientist who joined the Tutankhamun expedition and warned of a dangerous death that haunted colleagues.
Plans announced in Mexico City call for a highway from Mexico City to Nogales via Guadalajara Mazatlan and Guaymas to be completed in 1931. Construction from Mexico City to Guadalajara has begun and aims for year end 1930 completion while the Guaymas to Nogales segment via Hermosillo will resume next month after being halted by the March rebellion.
A southwest gale killed at least seven people and wounded many across England, western France, and surrounding seas with winds up to 80 mph at Scilly Isles. Port damage was heavy as vessels fled the onslaught. A separate German hurricane left wreckage along northwestern Germany including a collapsed church at Dortmund.
Prince of Wales concludes last England hunt before Friday departure to resume South African hunting trip halted by King George illness. Melon Mowbray reports from Enc. Dec 30.
Three Negro boys died and a fourth was critically hurt when an airphone plowed into a crowd at Hearne flying field. Stunt flyer Dorothy Stocker of Houston, 17, reportedly flying solo with a private license, was in the plane when it nosedived.
In southern New England coastal waters over the weekend three liquor smugglers were killed and a coast guard chase ended with the seizure of three boats and 5 000 cages of contraband liquor. The Newport Rhode Island speedboat Black Duck was fired upon by machine gun fire as it tried to flee CG-290 in fog at Narragansett Bay entrance.
In Mecklenburg County Virginia a liquor still raid ended with two deputies shot from ambush. Deputy Bernard Puryear and Clarksville officer Mack Bruet were wounded in the head and face. authorities sought the armed assailant with little hope for recovery.
John South and his wife were jailed on open charges after federal agent Robert D. Freeman was shot during a liquor raid at the South Ranch near Yountville. Freeman, wounded in the shoulder and lung, remained in critical condition as authorities pursue destruction of evidence.
US officials say American courts in China will continue under extraterritorial privileges despite Nanking order ending those rights. About 11,000 Americans in China rely on the courts for civil and criminal disputes, with the US prepared to act if rights are infringed.
Problems confronting water and land conservation engineers in the United States are discussed at a two day meeting of the land reclamation division of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in Kansas City.
In Vernon Texas on December 30 authorities recovered the bodies of J H Haggard aged 56 and his five children from a bleak farm home. A note found on the door hinted at a final act by the grieving father who may have ended his own life as well as that of his children. An inquest returned no verdict yet but suggested death by self inflicted gunshots and related wounds. The family had no father or Christmas toys and the mother had died years earlier.
Customs officials in Nogales seize 24 cattle and report four men arrested. Ring operated two years stealing Mexican cattle, moving them into the United States with forged bills, then selling here and back in Mexico.
Chicago records a Christmas card mailed December 20 1912 reaching Miss Loretta Barthen on December 24 1929. The aunt had married to Mrs Frank Barthen and moved to Berkeley California, while the infant Frankie turned seventeen on December 24 1929.
Santa Fe announces expenditures for 1930 totaling 280 480 million with additions betterments 22 000 000 new rolling stock 21 705 560 lines being built 5 025 000 lines contemplated 5 000 000 property maintenance 5 000 000 property operation 82 000 000 taxes 21 000 000 interest 12 589 000 dividends 20 571 4570 total 280 480 000. Application filed with ICC to build 280 miles of new lines in Colorado Oklahoma Texas New Mexico costing 11 500 000 with construction to start early next year.
Three people died during a cold night in Mexico City bringing monthly cold related deaths to a higher total. Two victims were beggars and one an intoxicated man. all slept in the streets and died as temperatures dropped to near freezing. Ten more deaths followed similarly in the same period.
Timely intervention by Mrs. Bob Mitchell averted possible tragedy when children near the Elks home found a bottle of candy containing poison. Sheriff J C Kester said the bottle held enough poison to kill all the people in Flagstaff and investigates how it came to the yard.
Two prisoners were wounded by gunfire during a Sunday night riot in Maricopa county jail tank A. Dewey Johnson and H. L. Martin were hospitalized with superficial injuries. eight inmates rioted, glass was shattered, and jailer M R Crumley fired twice. The disturbance ended with six inmates placed in solitary.
Hazy skies and record cold hinder search for missing fliers Carl Ben Esielson and Earl Jorland seven weeks after they departed the Alaskan coast for the Nanuk on the Siberian Arctic coast. Pilots Frank Dorbiundr Ed Young and Joe Crosson Harold Gillam could not take off due to conditions.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A Lindbergh touched down in Columbus from Detroit aboard Lindberghs Plane during the first leg of a Transcontinental Air Transport inspection. The flight covered about an hour and forty five minutes.
Two cars traveling at high speed crashed 25 miles north of Nogales Arizona late last night. Three occupants were injured, one seriously. Eye witnesses said an Oklahoma car tried the curve at 59 mph and sideswiped Walter Miller of Tucson. The impact sent the car into CG Lambright of Iowa Falls Iowa.
Pascual Ortiz Rubio president elect of Mexico arrived in Niagara Falls with his wife and three children for a sightseeing tour. City officials and chamber of commerce officers met the party and offered plans to visit scenic points and inspect power plants and electrochemical industries.
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