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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1931
Page
6
The Winslow Golf Club dance at Arcadia Ballroom attracted about 200 couples from Holbrook Joseph City Flagstaff and surrounding areas. Tom Walsh won best whiskers prize as the event surpassed hopes despite very warm weather and revived memories of old time dances.
Heat and storms caused multiple deaths and extensive damage across Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania and neighboring states. Severe heat in Chicago and Canton set records while farmers worked at night as horses collapsed. Northeast Ohio faced destructive storms with 2 million dollars in damage 16 injuries and seven deaths. Waterspouts touched Lake Erie as residents cleaned up after floods.
Three Monroe churches operate a two week summer school with morning classes for 250 enrollments.
Pueblo Mineral Palace manages a swap with the parks and highway commissioner exchanging two deer from the Pueblo zoo for a set of five monkeys purchased from a Philadelphia zoological firm. The deal was part of a zoological exchange reported today in Pueblo Colorado.
Spain braces for a pivotal referendum on monarchy versus republic as about 20 political parties contest the balloting. The provisional government vows order with martial law possible while troops patrol city streets amid threats from radical and labor groups. President Alcala Zamora leads a broad cabinet tour of the provinces as the Right Republican party leads in predicted seats, with Socialists close behind. Monarchist church candidates and independents also compete.
Provisional President Zamora and Interior Minister Maura denied an armed uprising at Tablada airdrome after a talk with General Sanjurjo in Seville. They said measures were taken to ensure peace and described the situation as completely tranquil. Major Ramon Franco was dismissed yesterday as chief of Spain's air force for disobeying orders on political activity.
A slight earthquake was felt in Balboa Canal Zone at 5:05 this morning awakening sleepers but causing no damage. No injuries or property harm reported.
An overview lists sectors targeted in the plan including oil refineries steam and hydro plants coal peat iron and other mines chemical and steel plants metal industries textiles leather building materials paper mills grain elevators fish canning sugar refineries food industries and collective farms.
President Hoover and French officials pressed for an inter government debt holiday as they met in Washington and Paris. Key dispute centered on including all intergovernmental payments versus preserving Germany's reparations installments.
In Colorado Springs on June 27 a thief entered the Rock Island Hotel dining room while the night watchman slept nearby and carried off the cash register containing about 16 dollars. A search followed with the hotel and local authorities investigating the daring daytime theft.
In Dalton Georgia on June 27 aspirant John Black presented a curious egg with a normal yolk and white and a second egg inside. The outer shell measures roughly the size of a man's fist.
A jury in the Guess case has not reached a verdict while details reveal a shooting where Gomez was killed after a car stop on June 7. The defense predicted acquittal as minutes ticked by, with arrest reports noting prior warnings of a possible release.
Federal agents raided a station on Coopertown road and charged an individual with possession and sale of bootleg liquor. A hearing before a U S Commissioner was planned for today with probable bound over to federal court. The same officers investigated the premises of Mrs Georgia Hall at 322
Winnie Mae lands near Irkutsk after crossing the Siberian stretch toward the Gulf of Tartary and Okhotsk. Post and Gatty report strong physical condition despite strain and say they hope to press on, having completed eight hours sleep in three days and twenty hours of travel since New York. They began with a ten day plan and have covered about 8,050 miles of a 15,000 mile route.
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