Ashurst Seeks Senate Action on Veterans Loan Bill
Senate debate opens as Senator Ashurst seeks discharge of the finance committee to bring the veterans' loan relief bill to a floor vote. The House passed the measure by a large margin, with a race to push it to President Hoover before the session's end amid strong Senate support.
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Washington
Senate
Ashurst
Arizona
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance Committee
Hoover
Congress
Smoot
Committee
Wright Patman
Texas
Nelson Proposes License Plate Revenue For County Highways
Phoenix February 17 The Navajo Senator Nelson introduced a bill enabling county boards of supervisors to use automobile license plate sale revenue for county highways. Previously the money sat with county assessors. Also Senators McEachren Valentine Donnelly and Rent Jennings appear in related actions across state measures.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Nelson
Navajo
County Boards of Supervisors
Congress
McEachren
Gila
House
Senate
Valentine
Arizona
Donnelly
Tucson
Rent Jennings
Three Perish In Tenement Fire
A six story tenement fire in New York’s lower east side killed two women and a man. The women Ms Mass, 60, and Rachel Rosen, 38, were found in a fifth floor flat. the man’s identity was not learned. Other tenants, in nightgowns, were rescued by police, firemen, and neighbors using fire escapes and aerial ladders.
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New York
Lower East Side
Mrs. Mass
Rachel Rosen
Mrs Benjamin Harrison Champions Youth in Chicago Stop
Mrs Benjamin Harrison widow of the 23rd president travels from New York to Tucson and declares she is interested in young people and believes they are not as blamed as often suspected.
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Chicago
Benjamin Harrison
United States
New York
Tucson
Chamber of Deputies Approves 12 Million for Storm Relief
Paris reports the Chamber of Deputies approved a 12 million dollar credit for storm and flood relief, aiming to aid affected areas and communities.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Weather Outlook for Winslow Arizona Tonight and Monday
Arizona weather shows little temperature change with a fair sky tonight and into Wednesday. In Winslow expect a Monday high and Monday low reported from local forecasts.
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Arizona
Winslow
Gandhi upbeat after talks with Irwin in New Delhi
Mahatma Gandhi emerges from a four hour conference with Viceroy Lord Irwin and calls the progress cheerful and hopeful. He says he is satisfied and will resume talks with the viceroy tomorrow, indicating cautious optimism for India’s path to agreement.
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James A. Mills
New Delhi
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Lord Irwin
McKelvie Plans Return to Nebraska Paper Work Ranch Life
Former Nebraska governor Sam R. McKelvie says after retiring from the Farm Board grain membership on June 15 he will edit The Nebraska Farmer and tend his ranch. He vows to return to grassroots activity and lead his paper project.
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Washington
Sam R. McKelvie
Farm Board
Nebraska
Nebraska Farmer
Dressmakers Strike in New York Mills
Police halted a Communist dress workers strike as Lillian Russo and Pearl Kleinman were arrested while distributing circulars and urging workers to quit. The strike by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union demands a forty hour five day week with 8,000 to 10,000 members reported obeying the call.
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New York
Lillian Russo
Pearl Kleinman
Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union
Arizona House Passes Silver Stabilization Memorial
The Arizona House, under rules suspension, passed a memorial by E F Bohlinger and John H Rapp urging Hoover and the Senate to push silver stabilization. The measure advances to the Senate with 55 ayes and seven excused. A second bill, to publish University of Arizona regents minutes, also passed 36 to 21.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona House of Representatives
E. F. Bohlinger
Santa Cruz
John H. Rapp
Pima
Hoover
United States ‘Senate
Senate
House
Wieden
University of Arizona Board ‘of ‘Regents
Peck
Maricopa
Tally Named President Of Mining Engineers Group
Robert E. Tally of Jerome Arizona general manager of United Verde Copper Company was elected president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He succeeds William H Bassett and is a Virginia City Nevada native and University of Nevada graduate who began as a timberman in 1907. Officers-elect will be inducted tomorrow.
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New York
Robert E. Tally
Jerome
Arizona
United Verde Copper Company
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Tally
William H. Bassett
Virginia City
Nev
University of Nevada
Nogales To Decide On Baseball Club
Nogales officials planned a Wednesday conference with Fred Edwards and Governor Francisco Elias to decide if the Nogales Internationals will join the Arizona State League this season to replace the Miami team. President Wilford Sullinger leads the state circuit in the talks.
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Tucson
Ariz
Nogales Internationales
Miami
Nogales
Wilford Sullinger
Fred C. Edwards
Border City Club
Francisco Elias
Sonora
Mexico
Two Gun Train Bandit Robs Crescent Passengers
A lone two gun bandit halted a southbound Crescent limited between Newnan and Moreland Georgia at 7:20 p.m. He robbed seven passengers of about 300 dollars while shots were exchanged with a flagman. Pullman porter M. Pierce aided by keeping the robber from the dining car and locking the observation car door. The bandit then fled after forcing a Black passenger, C. H. Thornton, to collect the money and pulling the emergency stop cord.
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Montgomery
Ala
Georgia
Newnan
Moreland
M. Pierce
Pierce
C. H. Thornton
Massacred Peasants Reported Along Yangtse Border
Vernacular papers claim bandits and Communists killed more than 3,000 peasants along the border south of the Yangtse between Rupeh and Kiangsi. The reports are considered likely exaggerated by officials in Shanghai.
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Shanghai
Yangtse River
Rupeh
Kiangsi
Navy secretary backs Swing bill for new San Diego barracks
Secretary Charles Francis Adams urged the Swing bill to authorize new barracks at the San Diego naval base in a letter to the House Naval Committee dated February 17.
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Washington
Charles Francis Adams
The
Navy Today
San Diego Naval Base
House Naval Committee
Reformist Leader Declines King’s Premiership Offer
Melquiades Alvarez, chief of the Reformist party and a key advocate for a new Spanish constitution, declined King Alfonso XIII’s offer to form a new government today in Madrid.
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Madrid
London
Alfonso
Leopoldo Saro
Melquiades Alvarez
Reformist
Spain
Spain faces new political crisis as Sanchez Guerra fails
Madrid February 17. The attempt to form a liberal constitutional government collapses as Jose Antonio Sanchez Guerra fails to assemble a base for a new administration amid the growing crisis amid a looming military dictatorship.
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Clarence Dubose
Madrid
Spain
Jose Antonio Sanchez Guerra
Sanchez Guerra
Appropriation Bill Advances in Senate Amid Feb Push
In Washington on February 17 the Senate defeated a bid to block the $1.05 billion independent offices supply bill. A 54 to 18 vote moved the conference report forward to reconcile Senate and House differences before the March 4 adjournment. Senator Black of Alabama had threatened a filibuster to trigger an extra session over Muscle Shoals.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senator Black
Alabama
Arizona Playmakers Stage The Rivals in Flagstaff
The Arizona Playmakers college dramatic club will present The Rivals by Richard E. Sheridan tomorrow at 8 o clock in the Ashurst Auditorium Flagstaff. Directed by Miss Klonda Lynn this winter quarter production showcases campus theater at its best.
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Daily Mail
Flagstaff
Arizona Playmakers
Richard E. Sheridan
Ashurst Auditorium
College Dramatic Club
Klonda Lynn
Under-Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton Hospitalized
Baltimore February 17 report says Joseph P. Cotton under-secretary of state remains critically ill at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His condition worsened yesterday with a rising temperature after the removal of his infected right eye.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Chas Farrell and Virginia Valli Wed in Yonkers Ceremony
Screen stars Charles Farrell and Virginia Valli secretly married in Yonkers New York shortly after midnight Saturday to avoid the superstition of Friday the thirteenth. They sailed with a party to Europe for a honeymoon aboard the liner Augustus after the ceremony conducted by Rev Ralph Houston.
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New York
Charles Farrell
Virginia Valli
Augustus
Yonkers
N. Y
Miss Valli
Ralph Houston
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Golden Gate Bridge Bill Sent To White House
The bill authorizing the construction of the bridge across San Francisco Bay moves to the White House after Senate approval of minor House changes completing congressional action.
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Washington
San Francisco Bay
White House
Senate
Bar Silver Decline in New York Trade
In New York on February 17 bar silver traded at 26.
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New York
Einstein Upends Quantum Theory Says Measurement Limits Lie
Walter B. Clausen reports from Pasadena on Albert Einstein challenging a key quantum premise. He notes that quantum mechanics cannot determine both time and energy, equating time with position and energy with momentum. The piece likens electrons’ dance to perpetual motion across matter.
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Pasadena
Cal
Sir Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Mother of Labor Secretary Doak Dies in Virginia
Mrs. Elizabeth Doak, 86, mother of Secretary of Labor William N. Doak, died of pneumonia in Bristol Virginia. A member of the Dutton family, she helped found a 1740 Southwest Virginia lineage. Her husband, Sergeant C. D. Doak, served with the Army of Northern Virginia and shared Virginia pioneer roots.
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Bristol
Elizabeth Doak
William N. Doak
Southwest Virginia
Doak
Dutton
C. D. Doak
Army of Northern
Governor General Proposes 10 Percent Salary Cut
Wellington New Zealand Feb 17 Lord Blebisloe governor general asks to reduce official salary by 10 percent for public interest Premier Forbes accepts The total salary is £5 000 plus £2 500 allowances about 27 500 dollars annually with about 25 000 dollars base pay.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Lord Blebisloe
Forbes
Winslow municipal gas plant sale bid approved
City council decided to sell the Winslow gas plant for 15000 to private firm Chas F Stearns Co of Los Angeles after bid by H G Laub. Ten percent paid now, balance on title transfer. Council split on financing options with one vote against sale and franchise ratification seen as the vote to approve. Public vote on the franchise to follow.
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Winslow’s. Municipal
H. G. Laub
Chas.f. Stearns, Co
Los Angeles
Winslow
French
Hahn
Milam
Stanley
Od Council
Mardi Gras Rules In New Orleans Riotous Carnival Day
Mardi Gras in New Orleans marks the farewell to flesh before Lent with King Rex and King Zulu as corulers of masked revelry. The Latin origins of Fat Tuesday end at midnight, ushering in Ash Wednesday tomorrow. Rex and Zulu lead parades along Canal Street in a blaze of torches and spectacle.
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New Orleans
Crescent City
King Rex
Zulu
Rex
Mississippi
Canal Street
Miles of
Flambeau
Alleged Wife Slayer Sought in San Diego Child Case
Los Angeles officers seek Everett Frank Lindsay in connection with the disappearance of Virginia Brooks a 10 year old San Diego student. J B Tracy identified a light haired man in a battered sedan seen with the girl. Lindsay is wanted in Seattle on a murder charge in his wife’s slaying.
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Los Angeles
Virginia Brooks
San Diego
J. B. Tracy
Tracy
Everett Frank Lindsay
Seattle
Melba Shows Slight Improvement Amid Serious Illness
In Sydney Dame Nellie Melba remains seriously ill as doctors report a slight improvement. A skin infection appears to have spread into her blood affecting her condition tonight.
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Sydney
Tonight
Medical Bulletin
Nellie Melba
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