Arizona Urges Stand Against California Dam Plan
The Arizona Colorado River Commission warns of an emergency as Congress considers a $10,660,000 Boulder Dam preliminary funding. Arizona pledges suit to test Swing-Johnson and defend state rights, with Rudy Vallee noted concerning militia reviews as a side remark.
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Mitchell
Wilbur
United States
Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power
Southern California Edison Company
House
Boulder Dam
Arizona
California
Interior Department
Colorado River Commission
Charles B. Ward
Colorado River
Mr. Ward
Commission
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Union
Supreme Court of the United States
Colorado
No, Eskimos unlikely to adopt candle gun tests
Report notes that ordinary tallow candles have been fired from guns in army tests and jokingly suggests Eskimos might try similar experiments, implying novelty rather than practical use follows.
Moscow Letter Describes Growing American Colony in Soviet Union
United Press reports a surge of American engineers and technicians settling in Moscow and across Russia. The piece notes 2000 Americans in the capital with contracts ranging six months to three years, plus transient groups nationwide. It mentions government housing for long-term workers and a decree nationalizing commercial vessels over set tonnage, with private ownership allowed for pleasure craft.
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United Press
Moscow
New York
Des Moines
Soviet Union
Central Executive Committee
Commissariat of Ways and Communications
Sheep All Taken North For Summer
Prescott Arizona June 10 Nearly all sheep bound for summer ranges in the north have been moved from winter quarters on the desert. U S Forestry officials report only about six bands remain to trek north over the Tonta driveway Guards on the Mudd Tanks and Grief Hill driveways have been taken off and others to be released soon By spring this year 28 352 head of sheep and 30 825 lambs have gone over the Beaverhead
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Prescott National Forest
U. S&s. Forestry
Tonta
Grief Hill
Bear Springs
Tonto
Yavapai County to Receive University Farm Land
The University of Arizona Board of Regents approved transferring an 80 acre abandoned farm tract to the Yavapai Chamber of Commerce. The county plans to convert the land into a home for unfortunate children. The parcel was formerly part of the state university's experimental farm and is located near Prescott Arizona.
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Prescott, Ariz
Yavapai County Board of Supervisors
Board of Regents
University of Arizona
University Experimental Farm
Yavapai Chamber of Commerce
Explanations on rubbing alcohol claim fail in Ohio case
Crestline Ohio UP report says George Vukovich admitted using two barrels of mash and a still to make rubbing alcohol to ease his wife's pains but Judge J Walter Wright did not accept the defense. He was fined 400 dollars.
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Crestline, O
George Vukovich
J. Walter Wright
Old Papers Unearthed in Lowick Hotel Cupboards
In Lowick England a cache behind wallpaper in a hotel revealed items from 1772 including newspapers clothing from the early eighteenth century a Napoleonic hat an 1812 receipt and a bill for eight barrels of ale and porter totaling nine pence.
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Lowick
Eng
Living night as Boulder student reports theft and recovery
Boulder Prep student Michael DeLuca reported a stolen tire cover from his car by phone then later said the car was stolen. The vehicle was recovered the next day. Separately Radium-1,400 head cattle were shipped by Q Land and Cattle Company.
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Boulder, Colo
Michael DeLuca
Boulder Prep
Q Land and Cattle Company
Fragmentary note on university project abandonment
A fragment notes that the university started a project about 20 years ago and abandoned it at an experimental farm two years later due to failure to secure enough adjacent land for livestock.
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Giragi Brothers
Morris Richards
Ame
Navajo County
North
Winslow
Orm
Associated Press
THE
United Press Association
the Newspaper Enterprise Association
Rudy Vallee
National Guard
Reley
Yavapai C. of
State University
Uni
Walter Booth
UMMER
Colfax
Packard
Phoenix
N. Central Avenue
S. H. Bowyer
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