Fierro Aims Nonstop Flight From New York To Mexico City
Colonel Roberto Fierro and mechanic Arnulfo Cortes launched at 1 30 a m on a nonstop attempt to reach Mexico City 2200 miles away. The mission mirrors Lindbergh’s 1929 trek but faces Sierra de Pachuca terrain and a daylight climb.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Mexico City
Roberto Fierro
Mexico
Arnulfo Cortes
New York
Fierro
Charles A. Lindbergh
Washington
Lindbergh
Sierra de Pachuca
Tampico
Pioneer resident offers land for Winslow pool
Mrs N S Bly, a Winslow pioneer, donates a tract at Kinsley avenue and Bly street for a municipal swimming pool. She offers clear deed and free city access for children if funds are raised, hoping to spare families future sorrow. The item also notes Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd receiving a National Geographic Society medal from President Hoover for his polar flight.
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Winslow
N.S. Bly
Kinsley Avenue
Bly Street
Bly Addition
MBS
Bly
Stock Market Slumps as Tulips Tip Back Again
New York traders faced a sharp downturn as selling pressure pushed the Market down through the third straight week of declines. The Stock Exchange shed about two points to near year lows while Chicago July wheat sank and cotton prices fell, with London silver dropping to new lows. Limited volume and broad lack of support contrasted by late covering buys.
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New York
Immarket
Exchange
Chicago
London
Stock Exchange
Mexico Seeks New Markets for Mexican Exports
Mexico City June 21 AP The consular department of the foreign office urged Mexican producers mainly growers of vegetables and cattle breeders to seek new export fields. It warned that U S tariff laws may close that market and recommended Canada Cuba and Central Africa as alternative markets and promote icing and packing industries to raise domestic consumption of Mexican products.
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Mexico City
Consular Department
The
Foreign Office Today
United States
Canada
Cuba
Central Africa
Mexico
Bar Silver Holds Midday Level In New York
In New York on June 21 the bar silver price stands at 33 1 4, showing little change from earlier levels. Investors monitor supply data and market cues as trading remains largely steady.
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Neew York
T. A. T. Maddux Air Line Rate Increase Takes Effect
ST. LOUIS June 21 AP A seven cent per mile air travel rate is now in effect by T. A. T. airlines, up two cents from winter rates set January 1. The company says the lower winter rate failed to attract travelers and the higher rate will curb fear.
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ST. Louis
T. A.T. Airines
Union Oil Company President Dies in Los Angeles
W L Stewart age 62 president of Union Oil Company died at his suburban home after a year long heart illness. Company officials announced the veteran oil leader passed away in California. He had led the firm through decades of growth and expansion.
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Los Angeles
W. L. Stewart
Union Oi Company
Man Hurled 75 Feet Is Unhurt
Florence Arizona June 21 Fred Nussbaumer Florence businessman was hurled 75 feet into a mine shaft bottom and fell into 47 feet of water but escaped injury. A ladder he lowered into the shaft dragged him down and a bridge gang pulled him to safety.
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Florence, Ariz
Fred Nussbaumer
Florence
Here
Gun Used In Alfred Lingle Murder Identified
Police traced the pistol to Frank Foster, the original owner, after efforts to destroy its serial number failed. Foster has disappeared, and investigators suspect the Aiello Moran gang used the weapon to target Foster and Lingle, linking the gun to the June 9 shooting.
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Alfred Lingle
Frank Foster
Foster
Lingle
Aiello-Moran
Capone
Two Hundred Hurt In Nationalist Riot
In Bombay on June 21 a nationalist demonstration at Maidan Esplanade ended in violence as police dispersed the crowd with bamboo clubs. About 300 people were treated for minor injuries and 200 were hospitalized among 400 foot and 50 mounted police plus 30 officers enforcing the two week assembly ban.
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Bombay
Maidan Esplanade
Bison Society Backs Fish and Game on Reserve Expansion
The American Bison Society will support the Arizona Fish and Game Commission in enlarging the Houserock Valley buffalo reserve. The commission seeks 100,000 additional acres for the site, a move opposed by cattlemen.
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Bison Society
Fish and Game Commission
Flagstaff
Ariz
Arizona Fish and Game Commission
American Bison Society
Houserock Valley
Rotary International Convention Opens in Chicago
Thousands of Rotarians from around the world converge on Chicago for the tenth international convention which runs June 22 to June 27 and marks 25 years since Chicago hosted the first Rotary club. International president M Eugene Newsom expects 18 000 to 20 000 Rotarians and wives to attend with delegates from 62 countries.
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Chicago
Rotary Club
M. Eugene Newsom
Durham
N. C
Rotary Anns
Rotary
Newsom
Egypt To Be Under Dictator For Five Month Period
Cairo reports that Egypt will lack a parliamentary government for five months under Ismail Sidky Pasha. King Fuad selects Sidky to form a new cabinet and drafts a royal decree suspending legislature until November amid bitterness and threats to the king.
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Cairo
Egypt
Ismail Sidky Pasha
Fuad
American Library Association Meets Today at Grand Canyon
The American Library Association gathers in Grand Canyon Arizona for a special conference at Community Hall at 8:30 p.m. Librarians from across the nation attend ahead of the fifty second annual conference in Los Angeles June 23 to 28. Governor John C Phillips delivers the welcome and LeRoy Shantz of the University of Arizona presents a message.
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Andrew Keogh
American Library Association
Grand Canyon
Effie L. “Power
Cleveland Public Library
John C. Phillips
Arizona
Phoenix
Ariz
Association
Los Angeles
Flomer LeRoy Shantz
University of Arizona
Bids Set for Holbrook Winslow Road Construction
Phoenix reports bids to build about four miles on the Holbrook Winslow highway near Winslow will be opened Monday. The project runs four miles east of Winslow to within three quarters of a mile of the city limits with a completion target of October 15, 1939. DETROIT police verify petition signatures for Bowles recall with 60 percent fictitious names. Boulder Dam project funding remains in House deficiency bill after Senate subcommittee hearing.
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Phoenix
Ariz
M. C. Hawkins
State Highway Association
Holbrook- Winslow
Winslow
Thomas €. Wilcox
Petsions
Charles Bowles
Washington
House
Senate Appropriate
Much Married Girl Seeks Annulment
Preliminary steps for an annulment suit were arranged in Reno Nevada for Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt daughter of Representative William B Bankhead. Wilfred Lawson Butt husband and former spouse Morton M Hoyt consent to appearance and waiver prepared for filing in superior court.
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Reno
Eugenia Bankhead
Hoyt Butt
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
Wilfred Lawson Butt
Soda Tenintain
Morton M. Hoyt
Thirty-One Men Return to Work for the Santa Fe
Thirty-one men returned to work in the Santa Fe shops replacing layoffs. Eleven laborers and nineteen mechanics joined the reefer cleaning department, boosting payrolls due to higher through freight tonnage and the upcoming cantaloupe rush from the Salt River Valley.
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The
Santa Fe
Salt River Valley
Petition Urges Creation of Fourth Court Division
In Phoenix on June 21 the Maricopa county board of supervisors considered a petition urging Governor Phillips to create a fourth division of the county superior court. The petition bears fifty attorney signatures.
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Phoenix. Ariz
APD
Maricopa County
Ernor J. C. Phillips
County Superior Court
Randolph Flying Field Becomes Army Centerpiece
War Department accepts Randolph flying field in San Antonio as one of the world’s largest army air fields. General James E Fechet states all training will be centralized there with buildings arranged at the tract’s center on the 2368 acre site. Attendees include 20,000 officers and Cuban and Mexican officials.
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San Antonio
Tex
Randolph Flying Field
War Department
Army Air Corps
James E. Fechet
Air Corps
Army
Man Kills Wife and Four Children Then Jumps to Death
Ray C. Spang of Ansonia, mentally unbalanced, killed his wife and four children by throwing them from West Rock in New Haven's park system, then leaped to his own death after spending over an hour on a ledge. He was 35, a war veteran, recently returned from Brooklyn naval hospital, and worked in Seymour.
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New Haven
Conn
Ray C. Spang
Ansonia
West Rock
Spang
Brooklyn Naval Hospital
2 I
Seymour
Charles I of
England
Letter Writing Maniac Claims Blame for Killings
A maniacal letter writer, linked to two recent killings and threatening thirteen more, sent his farewell note claiming mission accomplished and regret for staining the country with blood. He described himself as a member of a worldwide secret order called the Red Diamond of Russia, unrelated to the Soviets.
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New York
Maniac
Red Diamond of
Russia
Portuguese Official in Africa Resigns
LISBON June 21 AP Coronel Bento Roma governor general of Portuguese West Africa resigned. The region has been troubled recently with Loanda capital mutiny where Lieutenant Moraleg Sarmento deputy high commissioner was shot. Critics of the colonial administration intensified.
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Lisbon
Coronel Bento Roma
Portuguese West Africa
Loanda
Moraleg Sarmento
Air Mail Flyer Safe After Week Of Thrills
French air mail aviator Henri Guillaumet survived a week missing after a plane crash in the Andes. He was found near Pareditas by a provincial police official and transported to Mendoza with injuries from a 400 foot fall and glacier ordeal.
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Mendoza
Argentina
Henri Guillaumet
Pareditas
Plane
Andes
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National Geographic Society
Hoover i
South Pole
Coolidge
North Pole
Iloover
Admiral Byrd
Maddux
Union Oil Company
Enicaco
Jake Lingle
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Detroit
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Santiago de Chile
Guillaumet
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