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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1928
Page
4
A fragment from the United Press notes Winslow Arizona mailing details with mentions of second class mail matter and a $6.00 rate. It reflects archival postal notation and small-town press context without a clear event or person.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona drew wide praise for leading a dramatic filibuster against the Boulder dam bill during the sixty ninth congress. The record mentions supportive figures like Shortridge Reed Pittman and Norris Shipstead McNary, while noting his fiery oratory and incisive replies to Senator Johnson and Senator Johnson's colleagues.
West Branch Iowa held a village celebration for Herbert Hoover known as Bertie or Hub by locals. About 100 residents marked the occasion with bells, fireworks, speeches, and street tributes to the national figure, who rose from the town’s blacksmith origins to become Republican nominee and secretary of commerce.
Albany New York June 15 Governor Fred E Smith ordered state police protection for United States Senator Thomas J Heflin of Alabama as he speaks at a Protestant rally in Albany. Major Win A Warner, state police superintendent, was told to ensure Heflin can address listeners without interference and to invite New Yorkers to cooperate in offering a sister state full opportunity to express views without discourtesy.
A forest fire named Horse Thief Basin in the Crown King District near Spruce Mountain and Mount Union, Arizona, was reported today. Rangers began fire suppression efforts as crews assess the fire’s extent, which could not yet be determined.
Nogales state senator Andrew Bettwy announced efforts to nominate Governor George W. Hunt of Arizona for vice president at the Democratic convention in Houston. He predicted the nomination of Governor Al Smith as the presidential candidate and called Hunt the west’s Al Smith. Bettwy, a Nogales resident, said Hunt is a thirty second degree Mason with labor support and will travel to Houston Monday.
A delegation from Tucson Yulia and Globe will protest the tentative 1928 29 budget for the state highway commission at a public hearing next Monday. M C Hankins secretary of the highway commission announced today that protests had been received from the three delegations.
San Salvador dispatch reports a prehistoric looking reptile found on the Gulf of Fonseca shore near Port Union. The creature measured about ninety feet, with black and white markings, a horn, and one and a half inch fangs. It appears to have been killed by lightning and fed on pigs and sheep in coastal caverns.
The Republican national committee postponed selecting a new chairman and other officers and deferred contests in Georgia and Wisconsin. A 26 member committee was empowered to handle the election and contest decisions at a special Washington meeting set for next Thursday.
Special prosecutor Frank J. Loesch reported that four of his principal witnesses in the violence and frauds investigation of the April 10 primary election have disappeared.
In Prescott Arizona on June 15 Hal Heilirix and Lee Elliott patients from the Whipple Veterans Hospital were injured when their car skidded in sand and overturned four times. One man suffered a broken arm a fractured collar bone and a crushed chest while another endured severe knee lacerations and is paralyzed from the waist down.
In New York on June 15 the Hoover nomination caused only a tepid market reaction. Prices moved irregularly and fell as investors liquidated ahead of the weekend amid expectations of tighter money next week. Brokerage loans for the week ending June 13 dropped 135 million, and the Dow-Jones posted a sharp decline in the industrial average.
Cattle receipts total 500 with 200 calves at Kansas City market. Beet cows fetch 8.00 to 9.25, low cutters 5.50 to 7.25, vealers 9.50 to 12.50, heavy calves 9.00 to 12.00, bulk stockers soft. Sheep receipts 4,000 with market steady. fat lambs up to 14.60, bulk lambs 14.50, last lone lambs 9.00 to 10.00.
June reports from Segoston indicate steadier prices in the freed wool markets while country point offerings increase. Dealers note conditions appear slightly easier though no major shifts in demand are seen.
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