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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
1
The article notes Hoover’s nomination seems assured with Dawes discussed as a potential second place candidate. It outlines the political maneuvering and possible names circling the fallback position amid party strategy.
Holbrook Arizona June 12. Board of Supervisors confronts refusal to pay dry law operation costs as Sheriff Diverbess blames budget exhaustion. He requested release of a prisoner in Albuquerque tied to embezzlement while plans to sue over unpaid expenses proceed.
General Pershing, Dawes and other politicians were named as possible vice presidential choices as Hoover neared nomination. Hoovers aides promised a farm relief plank, aimed at the farm belt, while emphasizing Hoover as the authentic Republican choice. The campaign predicted a first ballot nomination and warned the opposition’s collapse proved insincerity.
The body of E A Kesinger, Lamar Colorado First National Bank teller who was kidnapped during the bank robbery, was found in an abandoned hut near Liberal Kansas. Coroner Sam Miller said Kesinger’s ring watch wallet and bill fold bore his name, matching the suspect description from the robbery. The Liberal find comes after the raid in which two bank officials were killed and the bandits possibly fled toward Oklahoma.
The piece reports Dr. Edward Francis warning hunters at the American Medical Association convention to avoid shooting sitting rabbits due to tularemia or rabbit fever. He advises selecting running rabbits, wearing rubber gloves when cleaning them, cooking meat thoroughly, and notes the disease’s spread and fatalities.
Washington reports continued improvement in Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. A last minute postponement of the president's trip to Cedar Lodge, Wisconsin, was made as doctors said her condition did not warrant the long journey. Officials noted only slight improvement and that Commander Boone and Colonel Coupal remained at her bedside. The president spent most of the day with Mrs. Coolidge.
BISBEE Ariz June 12 More than a thousand acres of timber land burned and thousands more of forest and grazing land threatened by fires in the Ajo mountains and the Sierra Azul in northern Sonora Mexico Heavy winds fan the blaze along a three mile front 20 miles south of Cana nea Cattlemen move stock from danger zone and help fight the flames
Publishing firm Doubleday Doerr and Company announced a new magazine named American Home to debut September 15. Editor will be Mrs Ellen Wangner and the publication targets owners of small homes.
In Shanghai on June 12 three thousand U S Marines and one thousand infantry under Brigadier General Smedley Butler faced a volatile situation in Tientsin. Nationalists controlled parts of the city as looting and clashes surged, with Japanese and French concessions securing key interests while foreign troops prepared for possible escalation.
The Arizona Industrial Congress reported favorable business conditions in May with improvements in agriculture and livestock and unchanged mining. Construction activity and tourist travel rose, suggesting a strong summer outlook.
General Umberto Nobile and nine Italia crew members cling to a silk-lined ice shelter aboard the Hobby as pack ice blocks their escape. Rescue ships Braganza and Hobby are trapped. Nobile’s party faces cold, hunger, and ongoing Arctic storms while a Norwegian aviator delivers supplies and prepares to resume air searches.
A 16 member sub committee of the platform committee began an all night session after 10 o clock to draft a platform for the Republican convention. Senator Smoot of Utah chairs and aims to have the platform ready by 10 a.m. for report to the full committee before submission to the convention. The credentials committee named Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt as chairman. Contests before the credentials panel include Mississippi 12 Tennessee 1 Texas 26 and Wisconsin 1 with Wisconsin's case by B L Marcus against E L Huber.
Captain Emilio Carranza completed a goodwill flight from Mexico City to Washington landing at Bolling Field at 5 15 p m in a Ryan monoplane similar to Lindberghs Spirit of St Louis Diplomats and officials welcomed him Olds praised his decision to land en route to avoid disaster The Mexican embassy plans a reception and Kellogg will host a dinner Coolidge sent a congratulatory message to President Calles
Berlin reporters say President Hindenburg named Hermann Mueller socialist party leader to form a new cabinet after Chancellor Wilhelm Marx resigned. Mueller, newly victorious in general elections, began consultations with party leaders to present a cabinet list this week, signaling cooperation with the bourgeois republic.
A tornado that struck McCook Nebraska Friday night left about five hundred people homeless as neighbors provided aid and reconstruction began. Insurance estimates put the damage at 1,000,900 dollars.
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