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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1932
Page
6
Commissioners defend keeping the state fair and reject abolishment proposals. They cite contracts, past deficits due to weather, planned savings, and lower admission prices to boost attendance and revenue. They argue the fair advertises the state and supports agriculture and tourism with no state money needed for repairs.
The Pittsburgh Presbytery voted to investigate the retirement request of Rev. Victor A. Rule after Edgewood Church accepted his resignation as pastor. The judiciary committee urged delaying action until reasons for retirement are stated. Rule, once Phoenix’s prominent pastor, had led Edgewood since January after moving from First Presbyterian in Phoenix.
Iowa Senator Dickinson, delivering the keynote, praised Hoover’s response to the crisis and credited actions like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and federal reserve aid with averting a full panic. He criticized Democrats for undermining Hoover with a subsidized press and said their House bill wrecked the economy proposal.
The captain recalls spotting what looked like a buoy but proved to be an airplane with its tail up in a rough sea. His crew rescued the exhausted aviator before a fog and hazy weather closed in, providing water and food and reporting only minor external injuries. The airman progresses well, though unable to discuss his ordeal.
A slight earthquake was felt in San Francisco at 1:44 a m and in San Jose where the tremor was reported quite pronounced.
Governor George W. Hunt was notified that the Yavapai County boards of supervisors will not budget the $1,600 allowed in previous years for the Northern Arizona fair. The decision flags funding changes impacting the annual event and regional agricultural display.
Curtis is favored as vice presidential candidate for Herbert Hoover in Chicago discussions. Dawes reportedly asked friends not to back him for a second spot, while Mills and Hoover aides push for renomination of the current vice president.
Bar silver remained unchanged at 27 3 4 in New York trading as a market close approached. The quiet session left prices flat with little new data to drive movement.
Parole indictments accuse Means of embezzling the ransom money in the kidnapping case. He was remanded to jail after a plea for bond continuance of 50 000. Arrest followed May 5. The alleged ransom scheme moved from Aiken South Carolina to El Paso Texas with 100 000 in cash plus 4 000 for expenses.
ISTANBUL June 14. A shepherd and several hundred sheep perished on Mount Olympus near Bursa during a severe snowstorm that followed a heat wave in western Turkey. Two feet of snow and extreme cold accompanied the weather event.
London reports the British consul general in New York will submit a Foreign Office report on Violet Sharpe an English servant who died by suicide last week at the Morrow home in Englewood New Jersey. The case involves an unknown man on a highway near Alexandria Virginia who allegedly handed a password claiming to prove he was Mrs McLean's agent.
Evanston headline reports magistrate Harry Porter imposing a $10 speeding fine on Charles Wack. Wack, who says he has the money, empties a sack of one thousand pennies to pay the penalty, explaining he is a collector for a vending machine firm.
Oakland police report Deputy County Assessor Henry A. Nelson found in his bed this morning with a crushed head. He was rushed to a hospital. Although about a hundred dollars lay in his clothes, authorities say there was no robbery.
Paris June 14 Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam and her husband G P Putnam left Paris for Havre today en route to the United States. They were accompanied to the station by several members of the American embassy staff.
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania a 17 year old boy revived after losing consciousness from carbon monoxide gas when a car horn button was pressed by accident. Neighbors heard the horn blast and alerted State Senator C W Parkinson’s family. The boy regained consciousness after rescue.
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