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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1927
Page
2
The Farm and Fireside editor protests a 431.54 million government appropriation under the Purnel Act, urging funds be used for investigations into distribution and marketing of crops rather than production. He argues research should turn surplus into cash by expanding industrial uses and harnessing wasted farm byproducts.
An advisory committee to the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation opens in Washington to advise Ways and Means and Finance on simplifying tax regulations and administrative features. Yale professors and doctors from institutes join the effort pushing for more equitable taxation sought since colonial times.
Twenty four members of the class of 1527 at Flagstaff High were graduated in the school auditorium. Salutatorian Florence Cooper and valedictorian Weldon Brinton led the class. The Rev. P B Ellsworth delivered the invocation and musical numbers featured performances by several students. A separate afternoon session awarded eighth grade diplomas.
Aimee Semple McPherson of Angelus Temple left for Chicago to lead a three week evangelistic campaign aimed at driving the devil from the city. She travels with two children, a branch pastor, a stenographer, a secretary, and Angelus Temple quartet members. This marks her second Chicago visit in recent months.
The Williams High School class of 1927 held their class-day exercises unveiling a 100 by 12 foot W emblem on the Three Sisters peak. Edward Hoffmeyer spoke, Blanche Campbell wrote the poem, Dermont Melick led the history, and Otto Lebsch delivered the class will.
The Phoenix Santa Fe Railroad advances construction of a new track along its Ash Fork Prescott and Phoenix branch line into Ash Fork. The project expands rail access and improves service on the route through northern Arizona.
Dismissal of conspiracy charges against the evangelist follows her account of being kidnapped and escaping in Mexico last year. The ruling ends the case without a trial and clears the defendant of related allegations.
President Coolidge will present Lindbergh with the first distinguished flying cross for his New York to Paris flight. A navy convoy will escort the Memphis to Washington with two dozen aviators in planes leading the parade up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Washington Monument.
Stress from campaigning and uncertainty over Sonora's gubernatorial election have contributed to General Fausto Topete's declining health. He plans to travel to New York this week for consultations with leading specialists after Sonora's legislature affirmed his election as governor.
Harold B. Franklin, president of West Coast Theatres Inc, announced six new theatres to be built in California, Washington and Arizona. A seventh theatre now underway in Oakland will seat 3,500. Proposed Phoenix site options include San Bernardino and another in the city. Spokane theatre will seat 3,000 at Sprague Avenue and Monroe Street.
A large party of Yaqui Indians appeared near Guaymas Sonora Mexico yesterday according to a Herald report. The Indian band is said to number at least sixty with witnesses bringing word into Guaymas. The countryside is preparing to evacuate farms and ranches.
Reports from Hermosillo describe eight Mexican prospectors uncovering a cavern in the Sahuaripa Alamos district of southeastern Sonora. They reportedly found nearly solid silver bars valued at about two million pesos, with law requiring half to the state and national governments.
Major Sarmento Beires departed for Portugal on a flight that will pass through Newfoundland the United States and the Azores as the first leg of his return journey.
The Right Rev Nathaniel Seymour Thomas resigns as missionary bishop of Wy enthe and presents the action to the Episcopal House of Bishops during a two day convention in New York The move follows prior agenda items including Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts and a successor to Bishop Thurston of Oklahoma.
In Nogales Arizona June 2 AP reports multiple large haciendas in northern Jalisco Mexico were seized by the Federal government from owners accused of rebel sympathy The confiscation order was signed by Governor Interim Margarito Ramirez of Jalisco Fueral action noted as a government takeover in the border region.
The second British air squadron of 30 officers and 200 men with eighteen Bristol fighting machines arrived in Shanghai from Hong Kong yesterday.
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