17 Feb 1929
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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1929
Page
1
A city report outlines plans to restore the Winslow telephone building with an estimated cost of 40 000 dollars. Funding sources and timelines are under review as work resumes after an outage.
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company plans a 1929 program in Arizona including a new Winslow office building at Kinsley avenue and Third street, underground conduit work, cable extensions, a new switchboard, and 3364 added phones. Budget calls for over $1.3 million in state improvements, rural relief, and long distance upgrades.
California Nevada and Arizona representatives failed to agree on a tri state compact to share Colorado river waters. Arizona and California remained at odds over allocations and surplus water rights as observers warned ratification prospects dimmed.
Reports of thefts of food and clothing in the Lost Horse mine district north of Banning renew hope that 11 year old Richard Grant, kidnapped by Harry Palmer, will be found. Footprints matching Palmer show a distinctive deformity in one foot. W G Grant, father of the missing boy, helps officers as they search the area between Banning Barstow and Victorville.
A burned hammer with a partly burned handle was found near a heap of bones believed to be Doris Hughes or Joyce of San Pedro California. Police suspect a man was clubbed to death and then burned at the Hu deier ranch. The bones were identified as those of a young girl by Dr. Harry Reese. Yuma police warn authorities to locate Jack Kelley and E King who arrived with a party before the ashes were found and disappeared the next day.
Alfred E. Smith former New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential candidate attended the Havana races this afternoon after luncheon with Dayton Hedges.
The United States House passed an undesirable alien deportation bill aimed at removing foreign gunmen bootleggers racketeers dope peddlers and other criminals from the country late today in Washington February 16.
Los Angeles February 16 Indictments in the frameup arrest of Councilman Carl I Jacobson on morals charges are expected when the county grand jury report is issued Monday Discharge of the jury was continued to allow more consideration of the case in its weeks long official probe Detective Lieutenants Harry Raymond and Richard Lucas were dismissed previously for their roles in the matter Jacobson claimed underworld figures and police conspired to arrest him at Mrs Callie Grimes home Grimes confessed her part in the plot Jacobson had faced a prior charge of resorting which was dismissed after a hung jury
The Chicago Daily News reports the St Valentine massacre linked to a million dollar war between Canadian distilleries. Police crackdown on speakeasies and dives follows, as Chicago bars close or conceal operations to avoid raids. The episode marks a harsh practical impact of prohibition a decade after its start.
United States liner President Harding moved to assist the disabled freighter Padasay about 300 miles southeast of Cape Race after a distress SOS. The Padasay, built in 1920 in Tacoma, is 4 558 gross tons with a crew of 44 and was en route from New York to the west coast of Africa when the rudder failed.
German heavyweight contender Max Schmeling sails from New York on the S. S. Deutschland for a two month return trip to Germany.伴 He is accompanied by Joseph Jacobs part owner of Schmeling's contract and plans to visit his mother during the journey.
A severe earthquake struck Townsend Montana today causing alarm but no damage reported. The temblor began around a.m. and lasted several seconds, rattling the town and prompting residents to check their homes and utilities.
In El Centro California Martin Ray Kilgore a 22 year old Stanford graduate faces trial for the December 23 murder of Frank A Bartley Imperial rancher sought to justify acts as unwritten law and to argue mental derangement after learning of his mother's love affair The defense resumes Monday with jury of nine men and three women to hear how May Kilgore alleged illicit meetings and a torn letter preceded the slaying Kilgore surrendered to the sheriff after Bartley was shot near the Imperial ranch
The former Shipping Board craft Alloway was found wrecked on Ugamak Island Alaska after a 36 hour search by the coast guard cutter Chelan. Fog lifted to reveal decks awash and deck cargo breaking up with salvage deemed impossible. The ship had been abandoned after two tow attempts in a gale.
A fragmented report from Washington notes a heated prohibition debate with mentions of enforcement planks and proposed measures. It references remarks by Reed and hints at party positions and upcoming votes, with continuation promised on page seven.
A special legislative committee in California plans to report findings on whether Judge Carlod Hardy should be impeached over the Love Offering tied to Aimee Semple McPherson. The panel may say Hardy accepted the gift while loyal to Angelus Temple but finds insufficient testimony for impeachment. The report goes to the legislature February 18, as Mrs. McPherson faces further questioning after revival meetings in the Pacific Northwest.
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