Trial Of Butler Is Cancelled
Major General Smedley D. Butler will not face court martial as Secretary Adams issues a sharp reprimand after Butler's remarks about Mussolini. The Navy Department, at the urging of State Department officials, sent Italy a copy of the correspondence. Butler expressed regret in a letter and his legal team coordinated with the Navy before the action.
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Washington
State Department
Navy Department
de Martino
Italy
Adams
Smedley Butler
Smedley D. Butler
Marine Corps
Mussolini
Butler
County Roads Funding Rolls Out Across Navajo County
A seven month roads construction program totaling over 6 million dollars was launched by the Arizona state highway department. Navajo county will receive 276 121 dollars to improve 5.6 miles east of Holbrook and extend paving on the Holbrook Winslow route including 15 miles of oil surface and 18.4 miles of improvements, with about 132 646 dollars from the supplemental budget for these projects and 2 million dollars slated for wages.
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William Turnbow
United Press
Phoenix
Ariz
State Highway Department
W. W. Lane
Navajo County
Holbrook
Winslow
Holbrook-Winslow
Administration Bill Lacks Six Votes Of Necessary Majority
Three men and eighty horses burned to death in a fire at the Oakland Horse Show. At least three men died and over 80 prized horses were destroyed as the blaze swept through temporary show structures in Oakland. Some horses escaped but were shot by officers to end their suffering. Firefighters and grooms battled the flames as the building collapsed, with investigators unsure of further fatalities.
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Oakland
Cal
Earl of Bessborough Named Canada Governor General
London dispatch reports Vere Brabazon Ponsonby ninth Earl of Bessborough appointed governor general of the Dominion of Canada succeeding Lord Willingdon who becomes Viceroy of India. He chairs De Beers Mines and Sao Paulo Railways and served in Gallipoli and on the general staff in France during World War I.
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London
Earl of Bessborough
Dominion of
Canada
Lord Willingdon
India
Vere Brabazon Ponsonby
Ponsonby
Duncannon
de Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd
Sao Paulo Railways, Ltd
House of Commons
Dover
Cambridge
Gallipoli
France
Rogers bill authorization for veterans hospital funds
The House veterans hospital subcommittee approved the Rogers bill to authorize twelve million dollars for hospital construction. The action was reported from Washington on February 9.
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Washington
House Veterans Hospital
Roger W Kahn Weds Showgirl in Secret Ceremony
Wealthy musician Roger Wolfe Kahn and showgirl Hanna Williams married January 26 at the Kahn family estate in Cold Spring Harbor New York. Otto H Kahn financier and Met Opera chairman announced the nuptials and said witnesses included Addie W Kahn mother of the bride.
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New York
Roger Wolfe Kahn
Hanna Williams
Otto H. Kahn
Metropolitan Opera Company
Cold Spring Harbor
N. Y
Addie W. Kahn
New Mexico Moves to Manufacture Liquor
State lawmakers introduce companion measures in the House and Senate to create a New Mexico State dispensary for liquor manufacture with restricted sale to permit holders. Proponents argue the 18th Amendment Volstead Act and New Mexico Constitution do not prohibit state liquor production for other than beverage purposes.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Hoover Promises Sympathetic Drought Loan Fund Use
President Hoover assured Senator Robinson the $20,000,000 drought relief loan fund will be administered sympathetically. The pledge comes as the compromise on relief is set to be taken up in the Senate. Hyde’s interpretation of terms raises concern about agricultural rehabilitation duties.
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Hoover
Robinson
Washington
Capitol
Senate
White House
Hyde
Wood
House Appropriations Committee
California and Arizona Governors Meet on Arizona Soil
California Governor James Rolph Jr and Arizona Governor George W. P. Hunt met on Arizona soil for the first time in state history. Rolph said he wants friendly ties and invited Hunt to visit California as they discussed mutual problems without addressing the Boulder Dam dispute.
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Phoenix
Ariz
California
Arizona
James Rolph, Jr
George W. P. Hunt
Rolph
el Centro
Cal
Boulder Dam
Hunt
Fleets Prepare For Annual War Game Maneuvers
U S Navy forces from the Pacific and Atlantic fleets begin the annual war games. Battleships cruisers and smaller vessels move through the Panama Canal with the Arkansas leading the scouting fleet. The passage from Atlantic to Pacific takes about four days.
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U. S. Navy
U. S
Los Angeles
Panama Bay
Canal
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
California
Arkansas
Two Chicago Robbers Shot By Detectives
In Chicago two unidentified burglars were killed early today by detectives Francis O'Malley and James Kehoe as they left a United Cigar store they had robbed on the west side. A third man, Edward Wolf, 38, an ex convict, was captured after the others fell. The trio had broken into a dentist office on the building’s second floor, cut a hole in the floor, and dropped into the cigar shop before the shooting.
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Chicago
United
Wedward Wolf
Francis O'Malley
James Kehoe
Senate Delays Bread Law Repeal In Arizona
Phoenix Arizona February 9 The Senate indefinitely postponed Representative Reddingtons bill to repeal the state law setting a minimum weight for bread loaves. Senator Haldiman notes Pima county superior court ruled the law unconstitutional and the case is before the state supreme court on appeal.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Senate
Reddington
Haldiman
Maricopa
Superior Court
Pima County
Supreme Court
Rain Relieves Drought Danger Across Dry States
A Sabbath rainfall revived hope for crops in drought areas of the south. Western Arkansas saw over three inches with Little Rock and Jonesboro reporting showers. Arkansas hosts Red Cross relief for over half a million sufferers. The belt stretched from southeastern Illinois to southern Louisiana with lighter rain in Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee.
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Little Rock
Ark
South
Mississippi
Kentucky
North Carolina
Illinois
Virginia
Arkansas
Red Cross
Fort Smith
Jonesboro
Louisiana
Alabama
Tennessee
Arakasas
North
Snow Brings Jobs For New Yorkers
Snow and drizzle in New York created work for 15 000 to 20 000 unemployed who cleared streets yesterday and today. Extra helpers earned about 100 000 dollars daily as recruiters swept employment bureaus for labor. Radio broadcasts announced available jobs while melting snow and rain replenished upstate reservoirs reducing water shortage.
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New York
Exta
Maj. Gen. Edwards Faces Declining Health
Major General Clarence R. Edwards was described as extremely weak by Phillips House attendants. He has not taken nourishment for several days after an intestinal operation on January 15 and remains a patient at the Phillips House.
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Boston
Clarence R. Edwards
Phillips House
Monies For National Guard Armories Asked
A measure introduced in Phoenix aimed to appropriate 18000 dollars to cover outstanding obligations in the construction of national guard armories at Nogales Saf Ford and Douglas. The proposal was filed in the legislature jointly by Representatives Bohlinger Santa Cruz Hinton Cochise and Udall Graham.
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Phoenix
Ariz
National Guard
Nogales
Safford
Douglas
Bohlinger
Santa Cruz
Hinton
Cochise
Udall
Graham
Fifty Five Drown In Ship Collision
Tokyo reports fifty five feared drowned when a ferryboat near Kobe Harbor was rammed by the steamer Porthos. The ferry carried eighty passengers and only twenty five were rescued before sinking.
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Tokyo
Kobe Harbor
Last Of Fishermen Rescued From Ice
Seven Coast Guardsmen and three fishermen rescued from a drifting ice floe in Lake Erie reached shore and walked across the ice to land. The fishermen were the final trio of twenty cast adrift after their fishing ice broke away from the main floe Saturday morning.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Coast
India's credit considered good as loan subscriptions flood
Investors showed strong confidence in India by subscribing to 12 000 000 pounds of a five and a half percent loan in two hours prompting closure of the list. The final five million pounds of the 17 000 000 pounds offering remain for conversion purposes.
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London
India
Red Cross drought relief fund tops seven million
Red Cross campaign for a ten million dollar drought relief fund reached seven million fifty two thousand nine hundred seventy seven dollars in Washington on February 9. The update shows continued strong contributions as efforts proceed.
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Washington
Red Cross
Phoenix Show House Robbed By Two Men In Daylight Raid
Two young strangers forced Orpheum Theatre manager J E Scholer to open the safe and stole 3800 dollars in Saturday and Sunday receipts. They bound the porter and manager then fled. both were later freed and police found no immediate clues.
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Orpheum
J. E. Scholer
Phoenix
Ariz
Kent
Scholer
Postmaster General Wants To Testify Before Senate Panel
Former Postmaster General Harry S. New requests permission to appear voluntarily before the Senate committee probing post office leases. He says he should be heard after his name was brought up in testimony regarding the contested St. Paul Minnesota lease.
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Washington
Senate
Harry S. New
New
Blaine
St. Paul
Minn
Senate To Express Sorrow On Death Of Mrs Kinney
President Sutter of the Senate named a committee to draft a condolence resolution for Mrs. Alfred Kinney wife of the senior senator from Gila county. The panel includes E. H. McEachren Harry Hill and W. B. Graham. Mrs Kinney died Friday after a long illness at her Globe home.
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Senate
Alfred Kinney
Phoenix. Ariz
Sutter
Gila County
E. H. McEachren
Gila
Harry Hill
Greenlee
W. B. Kelly
Graham
American Consul Barred From Examining Passport in Mussolini Plot
Rome reports police informed the American consulate that Marcel Schirra, arrested in a plot against Premier Mussolini, possessed an American passport issued in New York. The consul was not permitted to examine it as Schirra had traveled on a Latin American issued passport.
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Rome
Marcel Schirra
Mussolini
New York
Schirra
United States
Latin America
Arizona Press Club Plans March 1 Banquet and Conclave
The Arizona Press club schedules its annual banquet and convention for March 1 in Phoenix. Secretary E O Whitman announced preparations for an elaborate program including a mock session of the state legislature staged by capitol correspondents under Talbot T Smith of the Tucson Star.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona Press Club
E. O. Whitman
Arizona
Talbot T. Smith
The
Tucson Star
Capitol
New York Bar Silver Bid Hits 26 1 8
In New York on February 9 the bar silver market shows a figure of 26 1 8 with a fractional bid noted.
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New York
Governor Hunt reacts to defeat of highway force account bill
Phoenix Arizona governor George W P Hunt commented after the House defeated his highway force account bill urged to relieve unemployment. He expressed disappointment that the Legislature did not cooperate with him in his efforts to ease the unemployment situation.
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Phoenix
Ariz
George W. P.hunt
House
Arizona
Arizona Governor Hunt highway bill defeated by six votes
The highway account measure sponsored by Representative J. F Jennings of Vere Copa failed today in the Arizona Legislature. It needed a two thirds emergency majority and went 36 for to 26 against with John Bean of Yuma absent. This was the most decisive vote yet on the proposal. Previously it had fallen by one vote and then received 38 votes on a reconsideration motion to return it to the calendar.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Hunt
J. F.jennings
Vere Copa
John Bean
Yuma
Cabaret Hostess Shoots Lover and Rival in Jealous Rage
In Mexico City a cabaret hostess wearing gigolo attire lured a rival into a dance and shot her lover and the rival. The accused woman Maximin Aceval was imprisoned after the dual homicide.
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Mexico City
Maximino Aceval
Crenshaw Aims to Guard Nogales From Floods
Senator C C Crenshaw introduced in the Arizona Legislature a joint memorial urging Congress to authorize treaty talks with Mexico to eliminate flood danger to Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora.
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Phoenix
Ariz
C. C. Crenshaw
Nogales
Arizona
Congress
Mexico
Sonora
Red Cross Drive In Winslow Raises Over 1000 for Relief
Winslow and Apache- Navajo chapter records show more than 1000 raised for drought relief. The chapter quota of 500 was met early Saturday. remaining funds of about 400 plus small later additions stay for local relief. Local letter thanks Winslow citizens for support.
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Red Cross Drive
Winslow
Red Cross
Charles F. Care
San Francisco
Care
Carey
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