Colorado Flood Threat Pushes Rimrock Action
Ranchers along the Imperial Valley strive to guard miles of below sea level farmland as the Colorado River flood advances from Blythe. Rock trains are bolstering levees while SP railroad trackage is reinforced to hold back the surge toward the border regions Friday or Saturday.
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Yuma
Ariz
Imperial Valley
Colorado
Blythe
Southern Pacific
Imperial Irrigation District
Mexico
Radio Singer Sued For Manager's Fee
Edward Small of Hollywood claims Bing Crosby owes 20000 dollars for management and adviser services from June 26 1930 and seeks payment in New York Supreme Court. The suit was filed June 2. The case centers on unpaid manager fees and representation.
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New York
Bing’ Crosby
Supreme Court Today
Edward Small
Hollywood
Cal
Py Small
Crosby
Hira
Witnesses Guarded In Murder Hearing
Riflemen guarded witnesses in the Henry Marshall murder case at Lowell Michigan as vigilantes planned armed patrols to thwart gangsters. Ten armed men patrolled streets while others protected Paul Kellogg and Deputy Sheriff Knapp’s shooting incident along Main Street during a bank holdup pursuit.
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Lowell, Mich
Henry Marshall
Paul Kellogg
Pat Bowes
William Boyton
Edward Devries
Marshall
Charles Knapp
Grand Rapids
Coast Couple Reunites After Quiet Reno Remarriage
In San Francisco on June 2, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Duncan, noted social figures, quietly remarried in Carmela after divorcing in Reno on November 24, 1931. Their first wedding occurred during the 1923 social season.
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San Francisco
Robert F. Duncan
Carmela
Reno
Weather forecast for Arizona fair to night and Friday
General Arizona forecast shows fair weather tonight with warmth. In the northeast portion temperatures rise tonight while Wednesday reaches a high and Thursday a low.
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Arizona
Prescott Men Fined For Dynamiting Fish
Prescott fire chief Fred Rief Jr and engineer G E Fitzgerald were fined 200 dollars each after pleading guilty to dynamiting fish in Clear Creek on May 29. Deputy game warden J B Edwards said thousands of fish were killed.
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Flagstaff
Prescott
Fred Rief, Jr
G. E. Fitzgerald
Clear Creek
Edwards
State Jobless to Receive Aid in Arizona Contracts
Arizona Highway Commission secretary Clay Hawkins announced new road contracts will hire labor from counties where work is underway. Unemployed men will be paid 50 cents per hour for two weeks on, then two weeks off, with rotation of skilled labor as directed by the engineer.
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Phoenix
Clay Hawkins
Arizona Highway Commission
French Flier Sets New Speed Record
ETAMPES France June 2 Massotte French airplane pilot flying a scouting plane set a new world record for 500 kilometers at a rate of 308.7779 kilometers per hour. The previous record held by noted French speed flier Sadi Lecointe was 306.696 kilometers, made in June 1924.
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Etampes
France
M.massotte
Sadi Lecointe
Cosmic Ray Work To Be Continued At Mt McKinley
The University of Chicago announced Dr. Ralph D Bennet of MIT will take over the cosmic ray expedition work on Mt McKinley from the late Allen Carpe who died in a crevasse fall.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Ralph D Bennett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mt. McKinley
Allen Carpe
Senator Huey Long Asked To Return To Washington
In Baton Rouge on June 27 a House resolution urged Senator Huey P. Long to go back to Washington and stop lobbying in Louisiana politics. A second resolution called for his swift return so Louisiana would be fully represented. Long had arrived to oversee Governor Allen's tax program through committee hearings.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Washington
Louisiana
House of Representatives
Long
O. K. Allen
Leaders Gather To Protest High Taxes In Chicago
In Chicago on June 2, leaders from commerce finance and agriculture across 21 states gathered to unite against rising local state and federal taxes. The assembly urged Congress and delegates to address the tax burden ahead of the national party conventions while noting government costs rising from 2 billion to 12 billion dollars between 1912 and 1931.
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Chicago
Congress
Chicago Association of Commerce
Removal Of Walker To Be Asked
New York June 2. Speedy preparation of removal charges against Mayor James J Walker was in prospect. Samuel Seabury's 14 month inquiry reached a climax in a verbal duel with the mayor. Newspapers predicted ouster charges would be laid before Governor Franklin D Roosevelt soon. Dr William H Walker testified to bank deposits of 431 258 in four years and denied graft.
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New York
James J. Walker
Samuel Seabury
Seabury
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tammany Hall
Walker
Wilim H. Walker
Ledbury
Search Starts For Missing Aviators
Boston June 2 Charlie Hubbard former Harvard football captain took off from East Boston airport with two pilots at dawn to begin an air search in St Anthony Bay Newfoundland for Arthur Sullivan of St John s N F flier and Dr K Karl Kuehnert Grenfell mission member missing since Monday. The trio headed for Newfoundland in a monoplane with floats.
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Boston
Charlie Hubbard
Harvard
St. Anthony Bay
Newfoundland
Arthur Sullivan
St. John’s
N. F
Flier
K. Karl Kuehnert
Grenfell Mission
Doolittle Plans First Postal Route Flight Commemoration
Major James H. Doolittle will fly dawn to dusk along Washingtons postal route next month to mark the founding of the U S postal system. The flight, by the National Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, will cover about 3000 miles in one day, illustrating transportation advances since Washingtons era.
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Washington
George Washington
James H. Doolittle
United States Postal System
National Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
Postal Service
Doolittle
Smoot Predicts Tax Bill Accord By Tonight In Conference
Chairman Smoot predicted a final agreement on the revenue bill between House and Senate conferees as the conference reconvened. He spoke late today that negotiators would reach consensus by nightfall.
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Smoot
Washington
House
Senate
Mine shutdown asked as silver prices fall in Chihuahua
Reports from Chihuahua state say the superintendent of the Santa Eulalia silver mine requested government permission to close the mine due to low silver prices and the current ore producing a low grade.
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Mexico City
Chihuahua
Santa Eulalia
Pima County Board Sets 1932 Tax Valuations
The Pima county board of supervisors in session today indicated 1932 valuation for taxation purposes will likely fall from 7 000 000 to 8 000 000 compared with last year. They estimate a 2 500 000 cut in city valuation.
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Tucson
Board, of Supervisors
Pima County
Veterans Suffer Craze For Bonus Parades
Associated Press reports a fever for a Washington bonus parade spreads from Oregon to the East and South. About 1,500 veterans are in Washington with hundreds more en route, raising feeding and logistics concerns. Veterans mobilize from Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, Ohio, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina and other states.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oregon
East
Dallas
Texas
Chicago
Detroit
Toledo
Louisiana
Florida
Johnson City
Tenn
South Carolina
Mexican governor pledges land for repatriates and unemployed
Reports from the capital state governors indicate pledges ranging from 10 000 to 100 000 acres of land for repatriates and unemployed. The announcements came as part of a coordinated effort to provide work and housing opportunities.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Prescott to Close Santa Fe Dispatch Office in Prescott
The Evening Courier reports the Santa Fe dispatcher's office in Prescott will close after new equipment is installed. The three dispatchers will be transferred to Winslow, while two telegraph operators here may remain. Superintendent B. E. McCarty was in Prescott and unavailable for comment.
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Prescott
Ariz
Evening Courier
Santa’ Fe Railroad
Winslow
Income Tax Probes William Walker Brother Receipts
Federal tax agents opened an inquiry into Dr William H Walker mayoral brother income taxes. Evidence from a legislative hearing showed Walker banker deposited 431258 over four years as part of a broad probe into large earnings.
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Walker
Modest Philanthropist Feeds Hungry Children
CHICAGO June 2 A 78 year old bachelor William E. Turner denies luxuries while funding 97 411 meals for hundreds of Chicago school children. He says he is not doing anything and that C Edgar Johnson handles the effort as long as needed. Johnson, assistant cashier at First Union Trust, confirms Turner began feeding pupils in eight north side elementary schools last winter and will continue if necessary.
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Chicago
LPH
William E. Turner
Foley
Ala
C. Edgar Johnson
Johnson
First Union Trust and Savings Bank
Turner
North Side
Outlaw Bank Robbery Spurs Chase Toward Mexican Border
In June a bandit robbed Hatch First National Bank of $2,000 in Las Cruces New Mexico. Sheriff Dick Triviz ordered three posses into the pinon hills of the Las Gallinas mountains to pursue the ghostly rider up toward the Mexican border.
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Johnson
Las Cruces-Deming Highway
Las Gallinas
Dick Triviz
Las Cruces
Kidnaping Hearing Runs Out Of Leads
In New York on June 2 the Bronx county grand jury in the Lindbergh baby case heard witnesses as it moved to probe the $50,000 ransom payment by Dr John F. Condon to a supposed kidnapper representative. The panel planned to adjourn subject to call.
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New York
Bronx County Grand Jury
John F. Condon
Pilot Escapes As Mail Plane Burns Near Fresno
A United Air Lines mail plane bound for San Francisco from Los Angeles crashed three miles south of Fresno after catching fire in flight. The pilot FE L Remelin of San Diego escaped unharmed as the engine backfired while switching gasoline tanks, starting the blaze that destroyed most of the mail cargo.
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Fresno
Calif
Here
United Air Lines
San Francisco
Los Angeles
FE. L. Remelin
San Diego
New German Cabinet To Take Office In Berlin
President Hindenburg summoned the new German cabinet headed by Count Franz von Papen to the presidential palace to take the oath of office. The swearing in will be followed by its first session in the chancellery as Bar on Constantin von Neurath becomes foreign minister and Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk is named finance minister. Franz Guertner will be minister of justice. Dr. Karl Goerdeler declined to serve. Labor ministry goes to Dr. Herman Warmbold who will head both economics and labor.
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Berlin
Paul von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen
Baron Constantin von Neurath
London
Lutz Schwerin
von Krosigk
Franz Guertner
Karl Goerdeler
Labor
Herman’ Warmbold
Economics
Warmbold
Skousen Lowest Bidder for Petrified Forest Road Project
Erastus Skousen of Alpine was named the lowest bidder by the U S Bureau of Public Roads for a three mile highway linking the Rio Puerco bridge to the Petrified Forest west boundary near Adamana. Construction will start soon.
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Phoenix
Erastus Skousen
Alpine
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Rio Puerco ‘Bridge
Petrified Forest
Adamana
Parents See Three Sons Burn To Death
Mr and Mrs John Franklin told officers in Kennewick Washington that their three sons Donald 23 Leroy 14 and LaGrande 11 perished in a fire at the family ranch home in the isolated horse heaven district. The couple said the survivors slept downstairs and escaped when they heard the upper story collapse as the blaze consumed the upstairs where the boys slept.
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Kennewick
Wash
Donald
Leroy
LaGrande
Horse Heaven
John Franklin
Government Aid Requested by Mayors
Detroit June 2 A program seeking three forms of federal aid gained the backing of about thirty mayors from major cities. They urged Congress and President Hoover to amend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to help municipalities. They also supported direct federal unemployment relief and a $5 billion public works bond issue to create jobs.
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Detroit
Congress
Hoover
Frank Murphy
Rhoads And Hayden Plan For Next School Year
Leupp Navajo Indian boarding school will be reoccupied by the Bureau of Indian Affairs after a study of alternatives. The Winslow school board could not include Leupp children in the city system, so Madden was notified that the bureau will care for the students in its own schools. Senator Heyden announced the Leupp school will be occupied for another year, rejecting a proposal to enroll Navajo children in Winslow public schools with government funding. The matter was discussed by the school board before Madden’s notification outlining conditions for the plan.
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J. Morris
Richards Leupp
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Winslow School Board
Leupp
Winslow
Indian Bureau
G. H. Madden
Bureau
Carl Heyden
Arizona
Wm. H. Thompson
Madden
Boston and Brooklyn Split Low-Scoring Openers
First game ends Boston 0 Brooklyn 6 with Seibold Spohrer Vance Quinn and Picinich for Chicago facing Pittsburgh. Root Hemsley Spencer Chagnon rame Grate Pad den note. Second game Boston wins 5 to 0 over Brooklyn ending in the seventh inning.
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Boston
Brooklyn
Seibold
Spohrer
Vance
Quinn
Picinich
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Root
Hemsley
Spencer
Baseball scores and pitcher lines from a doubleheader
In the first game Washington beat Boston 6 to 4 after a late rally as Weaver Marberry and Berg pitched. St Louis ousted Chicago 4 to 2. In the nightcap Washington won 8 to 1 over Boston and New York defeated Philadelphia 5 to 1 after eight innings.
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Washington
Boston
Weaver
Marberry
Berg
Spence
Macfayden
Tate
Western mining states urge silver in price conference
A delegation led by Representative Cohen of Utah and including Arentz Nevada Eaton Colo Taylor Colo Douglas Ariz and Somers N Y asked President Hoover to designate silver for inclusion in a British planned international conference on commodity prices.
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Washington
Hoover
Great Britain
Cohen
Utah
Arentz
Nev
Eaton
Colo
Taylor
Douglas
Ariz
Somers
Amelia Earhart to Meet Husband in France Tonight
Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam the American trans Atlantic flier will cross the channel to France tonight aboard a private motor yacht to meet her husband George Palmer Putnam who is on his way from New York
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London
Amelia Earhart Putnam
France
George Palmer Putnam
New York
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Roosevelt
Herbert ‘Hoover
Secret Service
NEA Service, Inc
Sautere
EB. McCarty
Daily Mail
Dispatchers
McCarthy
Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue
William H. Walker
Legislative City Investigating Committee
Hatch
N-M
Bank
Reichstag
Skousen
Rhoads and
Hayden
Tell Madden
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Silver
Amelia
Husband
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