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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1932
Page
6
As floodwaters breach a 12 foot levee near Yuma Arizona and form a basin, irrigation officials warn it will take about 12 hours to fill. The overflow endangers fertile farmland while crews rush to patch the hole. Losses hinge on containment of rising waters.
The draft economy bill, sized at 22 million, would make the measure permanent and grants the president extended authority. It allows executive order reshaping agencies, consolidating public health work, and transferring duties between departments with limited Congress oversight. The House version required recommendations to Congress.
The Senate approved a sweeping tax bill by wide margins 72 to 11 after adding gasoline and electricity taxes and higher income rates, with a plan for conference with the House. It is described as the largest peace time revenue raise, including four new tariffs and broad excise taxes. The bill faces House revisions and a potential signature by the president mid next week.
Charles Rogers Graham County district attorney said a complaint was being prepared regarding the bank shortage at the Bank of Safford. The assistant cashier, linked to the Safford Lions Club and a former Lions district governor candidate, had worked as a teller for years until last January. He is the son of cattleman Marion McEuen.
Dr. Heinrich Bruening as chancellor gains support from Nazi advisers who favor neutrality toward a Von Papen cabinet. They expect general elections after harvest when farmers have time for political speeches.
Mayors from about thirty major cities gather in Detroit at Mayor Murphy’s invitation for a clinic on municipal headaches. The session includes 14 speeches with leaders from New York Boston and Milwaukee and focuses on federal government aid and relief programs.
On June 1 CPE Frederick Daniel Gowdy aged 28 killed his father in law William Butcher and brother in law Bertram Butcher with a shotgun and then killed himself. Gowdy had been separated from his wife and a divorce action was pending.
Jesse Luther Pilot Cox known as Wyoming Pete filed notice of intent to wed Harriet E. Marcoot a 52 year old nurse and film extra in Los Angeles. Cox 58 a veteran range rider appeared in early westerns and said the marriage would take place next week.
Delegates to the 74th general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America return home to urge synods and presbyteries toward unity. The program calls for renewed loyalty to Christ, church reconsecration, Bible study and prayer revival, faith in the home, soul winning, missionary work, and devotion to Christian ideals and national principles.
A bill introduced by Senator Shortridge seeks to establish a national cemetery at Fort Rosecrans California to be named The Arlington National Cemetery on the Pacific. The proposal advances as a formal legislative measure from Washington DC.
In Peoria Illinois on June 1 eight of eleven defendants were convicted by a circuit court jury for kidnapping Dr James W Parker to obtain a $56000 ransom. Sentences range from five to twenty five years for defendants including James W Betson Cecil Minninger Ahud Evans Arlo Stoops Raymond Stoops Dwight Bartlett Joseph H Pursifall Homer Massey Jessie Stoops Dean Stoops and Edward Woodford acquitted were Jessie Stoops Dean Stoops and Edward Woodford.
Alexander Kile, 93, a Civil War veteran, visited a Grants Pass physician for a nose treatment and the doctor removed several shrapnel fragments.
An aged man recalls a shrapnel wound to his nose suffered at Antietam during the Civil War. The incident highlights his service and the enduring scars from the 1862 battle.
Paris June 1 The new Chamber of Deputies met for preliminaries as members focus on potential effects of Germanys new cabinet on Franco German relations There will be formalities of organization and a memorial oration by M Groussau on President Doumers assassination Tomorrow President Lebrun will likely ask Edouard Herriot to form a cabinet
Democrats faced rushed debate as Curtis used railroading to push proposed amendments to a vote. The chamber mood matched the surge of action with crowded galleries as members clung to the outcome. President Hoover stayed late, then retired for the night believing the task done.
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