Plans for Arizona unemployment relief roads program
The federal bureau of roads outlines a work program in Arizona to employ the unemployed. Contracts for highway construction in Coronado National Forest, Cochise County, will be awarded soon. Seal coating near Grand Canyon, a new steel bridge over Rio Puerco to be dedicated July 3, and grading from the bridge to Adamana are planned.
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Bureau of Roads
Arizona
Phoenix
Ariz
Federal Bureau of Roads
Coronado National Forest
Cochise County
Grand Canyon
Bureau
Clear Creek
Verde River
Camp Verde
Oak Creek Canyon
National Forest
Williams and
Mingstaff
Pine- Winston
Rio Puerco
Adamana
Price of Gasoline to Rise One Cent Tomorrow
Gasoline will advance one cent per gallon at all city stations tomorrow with the new federal tax schedules taking effect June 21. Local dealers said a four cent per gallon oil tax also becomes effective.
Pioneer Monument Approved In Papago Park
Governor George W. Hunt approved a proposal to set aside Papago Park for a pioneer Arizona monument. He also suggested reserving a future site for a World War and other conflicts memorial honoring Arizona veterans.
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Phoenix
Ariz
George W. PR. Hunt
W. C. Joyner
Papago Park
Arizona
Joyner
Weather Outlook Arizona Fair Tonight and Tuesday
Fair conditions prevail in Arizona with little temperature change. The forecast calls for clear skies tonight and Tuesday with comfortable, mild temperatures across the state.
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Arizona
Vets Take Stand Against Hoover
Washington dispatch reports that after defeat of the bonus payment bill the veterans army plans election day action. The group targets Democratic potential candidates, weighs views on veterans issues, and informs posts to push a anti Hoover and anti Republican platform plank.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Legislative Committee of the Army
Hoover
Republican Party
Forest Fires Rampage in Chicoutimi and Lake St. John
Fires continued to burn across the Chicoutimi and Lake St. John counties with several new blazes reported and no rain. About fifty men were flown in by airplane to assist at the Mistassini river fire, a 16 mile stretch burning through brush and timber 150 miles from the village.
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Chicoutimi
Lake St. John
Mistassini
Receipt Method To Dodge Tax On Checks
A Kokomo bank issues receipts to replace counter checks and avoid new bank check taxes. The Treasury legal division says if the paper is only a receipt it is not taxable, potentially reducing tax revenue nationwide. The development follows a June report from Washington.
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Washington
Kokomo
the Treasury
Charred Bodies Of Spinsters Found In Lonely Farm House
In Knoxville Iowa neighbors found Leitia and Jennie Keefer elderly spinisters dead in their dining room after a fire. Four empty rifle shells suggest they were shot before the home was burned. The women aged 60 to 70 lived alone on the farm and were rumored to keep money on the premises, hinting at robbery as the motive.
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Knoxville
Iowa
Leitia
Jennie Keefer
New Tax Rates Take Effect Tomorrow Morning
Washington reports the emergency tax law raises prices on many items from tomorow, ending tax free days for matches autos candy radios face powder yachts and other goods. Purchases tonight may avoid higher costs while movies telegrams phone calls and bank checks rise next day as stamps stay at three cents until next month.
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Washington
Cardinal Lauri to Lead Ireland Eucharistic Congress
Dublin crowds greet Cardinal Lauri the Pope's representative as he lands at Kingstown Quay. Archbishop Byrne and President De Valera welcome him. A million are expected next Sunday for Pontifical High Mass as Irish and international visitors fill the capital for the religious festival.
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Dublin
Ireland
Cardinal Lauri
Kingstown Quay
Byrne
de Valera
Erin
Dun Laoghaire
McAdoo Enters U S Senate Race in Democratic Primary
Los Angeles June 20 William Gibbs McAdoo former secretary of the treasury under Wilson was placed in nomination today as a candidate for United States Senator in the Democratic primary. He will head the delegation to the Democratic national convention and consented to run yesterday at a conference of representative Democrats.
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Los Angeles
William Gibbs McAdoo
Brooding Man Kills Family And Himself
Canton Georgia police report that 30 year old farmer Paul Hardin shot his wife and four children to death then killed himself. The elder Hardin believed the son’s recent federal liquor charge arrest drove the tragedy.
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Canton
Paul Hardin
Here
Hardin
Chinese Rebels Kill Japanese Soldiers at Manchuria Hospital
In Mukden Manchuria on June 20 Chinese rebels raided a hospital at Tangkangtze Hot Springs south of the city. Three Japanese soldiers who were patients were killed and one wounded. Japanese troops from Anshan routed and pursued the attackers.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Tangkangtze Hot Springs
Here
Anshan
Amelia Earhart Putnam Returns Home to Welcoming Crowd
Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, lands in New York to cheers from about five thousand spectators in Battery Park. She and husband Geo Palmer Putnam arrived from the liner De France after quarantine in New York. One month earlier she began her solo flight ending in Ireland where a mishap forced a landing in a pasture.
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New York
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Battery Park
Riverside
Geo. Palmer Putnam
Fie de France
Mrs. Putnam
Ireland
Hopes To Adjourn Saturday as Big Fight for Jobless Aid Looms
Congress moved to resolve two remaining issues before adjourning next Saturday. Lawmakers debated cutting federal expenditures and providing unemployment relief amid the government’s stress. The National Economy Bill faced final settlement after repeated rewrites as a vote on salary reductions vs furlough plans loomed.
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Washington
Congress
House
Hoover
Senator Borah Refuses to Back Hoover Amid Al Fonso Fund Confiscation
In Madrid three million dollars of former King Alfonso's estate was seized by the state, cash and securities totaling about 2.5 million, with art worth 500 thousand taken for the public treasury. Senator Borah, longtime Hoover ally, declares he will not support the President for re election under the Chicago platform.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Washington
Borah
Hoover
Senate
Chicago
Lewis
Idaho
Judge Adds First Coconino Jury Term Since 2024
Judge Frank Harrison announced a jury session of the Coconino County Superior Court to begin July 15 the first jury term in more than two years. Only a few minor civil and criminal cases are docketed.
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Flagstaff
Frank Harrison
Coconino County
Drowning Near Coolidge Dam Claims Local Fisherman
Bernardo Navarette, 18, of Superior, drowned in San Carlos Lake behind Coolidge Dam when a fishing boat capsized yesterday. Three companions reached shore. Navarette’s parents live in Douglas.
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Globe
Bernardo Navarette
Superior
San Carlos Lake
Coolidge Dam
Nvarette
Douglas
Petition drive seeks smaller Arizona legislature
The League for Legislative Reform and Economy announced circulation of petitions to cut legislator salaries from 15 to 8 dollars per day and shrink the House from 63 to 39 members. It seeks a referendum on a constitutional amendment to create 14 Maricopa seats and distribution across counties to fit the new size.
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Phoenix
League For Legislative Reform and Economy
Gila
Graham
Mohave
Navajo
Pima
Pinal
Santa Cruz
Yavapai
Yuma
California Veterans Move Into Texas on Route to Washington
Dallas report notes ten advance California representatives and about 2,000 more expected to move through Dallas en route to Washington. The first group of roughly 150 California marchers should arrive midweek, traveling by freight between El Paso and Big Spring. A larger group exceeding 1,800 is said to be driving and could reach Dallas Friday or Saturday.
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Dallas
Tex
California
Washington
Veterans’ Relief Association
el Paso
Big Spring
Six Die Accidentally In Rocky Mountains
Six accidental deaths were recorded in the Rocky Mountain region over the weekend. Drownings killed two. a camp store explosion claimed three women. a automobile accident took three lives.
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Rocky Mountains
Denver
Rocky Mountain
Lindy Go Between Sought In Higgins Murder Inquiry
New York police hunt three men in connection with the Higgins murder. Vannie Higgins, a gang figure once powerful in crime circles, was fatally shot four times after naming suspects. One suspect, Salvy Spitale, is noted as an intermediary in another high profile case.
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Lindy
Higgins
New York
Vannie Higgins
Salvy Spitale
Col
Charles ‘A. Lindbergh
Roosevelt friend to nominate Roosevelt at convention
John E. Mack, longtime political godfather of Governor Roosevelt, will nominate him for the presidency at the Democratic national convention in Chicago next week. The announcement follows weeks of speculation and names Mack as the man chosen to place Roosevelt's name before the delegates.
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Albany
N.t
Roosevelt
Chicago
John E. Mack
Roosevelts
Divers Resume Search for Cymbeline Victims
Divers resumed efforts to recover the bodies of three men missing since the Cymbeline oil tanker explosion in Montreal. The death toll reached 27 with 35 people hospitalized, including the three missing.
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Montreal
Quc
Cymbeline
Tax receipts on June 17 show 1931 fall compared with last year
Income tax receipts on June 17 totaled 28,438,232.76 for the second quarter of 1931, versus 89,910,855.05 on the same date last year. The treasury noted the dates are not entirely comparable due to a change in the department accounting system.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Committee Favours Bill To Give Cloth To Jobless Families
The House Labor committee approved the Johnson bill for free distribution of surplus government cloth and wearing apparel to unemployed persons and his families. It directs the chief coordinator to identify surplus stocks from government departments and supply cloth shoes hats and materials for making clothing for winter 1932 33.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Ten Counties Oppose Globe-Showlow Route At Hearing
Chicago report notes ten counties opposing a Globe to Show Low highway alignment at a formal hearing. Albert Capone questioned in Cicero over an attempted bombing of Mayor Cerny home, a blast injuring the sidewalk but not the mayor or his wife.
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Globe - Showlow
Chicago
Capone
Albert Capone
Ralph
Albert
Cicero
Joseph G. Cerny
Meayor
Cerny
South Haven
Mich
Bank Deposit Bills Dead In Congress This Session
The Senate Banking Committee sent all bank deposit guarantee bills to a five member sub committee. The move blocks action this session with the Seagall bill and a Fletcher measure pending. Leaders say further action is unlikely given few days left in session.
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Congress
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Steagall
House
Fletcher
Fla
Mexican Governors Pledge Cooperation With President
Governors of a dozen states notified President Ortiz Rubio they would back his call to block radical or unconstitutional bills. Several denounced the Veracruz expropriation law that prompted his appeal.
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Mexico City
Ortiz Rubio
Vera Cruz
Rotarians Reach Seattle For Annual Convention
Delegates from around the world gather in Seattle for the 23rd Rotary International meet with more than five thousand attendees. The Malolo liner carries 155 Rotarians from the Orient New Zealand and Australia while a special train brings 75 from Cuba and the southeast. A second train arrives with 125 from New York and eastern Pennsylvania. Official opening scheduled for 8 p.m. Pacific time.
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Seattle
Honolulu
Malolo
Orient
New Zealand
Australia
Cuba
United States
New York
Highway budget hearing tops Arizona session
The Arizona state highway commission heard ten counties past and present favoring and opposing the Globe Showlow segment of U S Highway 60. A. A. Johns presided with over 300 attendees in the capitol House chambers. Delegations from Maricopa Gila and Apache continued arguments against altering the 500000 expenditure while others urged support.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Maricopa
Gila
State Highway Commission
Apache
Maracopa
House
Capitol
A. A. Johns
Prescott
Maricopa County
Board of ‘Supervisors
del Potter
Greenlee County
Sullivan
Gila County
Arizona
Federal workers face compulsory furloughs after pay-cut rejection
In Washington on June 20, the House approved one month furloughs for all federal employees earning over 1,000 dollars a year, rejecting flat pay cuts. In Cahnut(e) Field Captain James Dickson aimed to set an east-west transcontinental record with three passengers. In Phoenix Dr Dre Wilkinson, Laymen's Civic League president, was arrested on a federal narcotics indictment and bench warrant issued by Judge Fred C Jacobs.
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Washington
House
Rantoul, Fils
James Dickson
Cahnute Field
Phoenix, Ariz
Will Wilkinson
Phoenix
Laymen’s Civic League
Fred C. Jacobs
Baseball scores from NL and scattered results
In National League action Cincinnati lost 2 to 3 at Boston as Lucas and Lombardi and other pitchers worked. Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn 6 to 0 with Mungo Lopez Sukeforth contributing. Chicago defeated Philadelphia 7 to 2 behind Root Smith Tinning and Hemsley as Holley and Collins held.
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National League
Chicago
Philadelphia
Root
Smith
Tinning
Hemsley
Holley
Collins
V. Davis
Washington Cleveland Game Summary
Crowder and Berg face Ferrell and Se well in a tense basketball contest noting Cleveland at the Washington venue. Final scoring details are not provided.
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Washington
Cleveland
Crowder
Berg
Ferrell and Sewell
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Winslow
McAdoo
U. S
Amelia Putnam
Senator Borah
Texas
John L. Sullivan
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Merrill
Andy Wright
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Brooklyn
Harris
Grace
Mungo
Lopez
Sukeforth
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