Supervisors May Act Against Assessments Of Tax Survey Board
The Flagstaff report notes the county assessor's office closed assessment books as staff work on tax rolls. Mr Dickinson used office valuations despite state tax commission orders to adjust them. The discrepancy between county and state figures is about 175000 to 200000 dollars. The commission planned to visit Flagstaff but did not arrive before rolls closed.
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Tax Survey
Daily Mail
Flagstaff
Young Plan Agreement Signed by Major Powers in Paris
Paris May AP reports a protocol putting the Young plan into effect was signed at 5 45 pm at the French foreign office by Premier Briand and the foreign ministers of Britain Italy and Belgium. Britain and Italy sent late documents but the signing proceeded with complete accord announced after a luncheon hosted by Briand. The plan shifts reparations talks from diplomacy to economics and reduces Germanys reparations from 106 billion to a little under 9 billion over 59 years.
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Paris
Briand
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
Arthur Henderson
Dawes
Hague
Germany
Hiram Convention Opens At Superior Arizona
The Hiram International seventh annual convention opens at Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum in Superior with more than 300 members and wives registered. Delegates from four states attend with Master Builder W. L. Greenslit of Lincoln Nebraska among expected speakers from that state. Additional delegates hail from El Paso Texas and New Mexico clubs.
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Superior
Ariz
Boyce Thompson Southwestern
Hiram International
Hirams
W. L. Greenslit
Lincoln
Neb
el Paso
Tex
New Mexico
Eucharistic Meet Sees 100 Masses On Fourteen Deck Altars
In Carthage May 9 AP American participation at the thirtieth International Eucharistic Congress featured a brutalic display of devotion with 100 Masses said on decks of the steamships Rochambeau and Uraguaya and more than 20 additional Masses in shore churches by American priests.
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Carthage
Tunisia
America
New World
Mecca
Uraguaya
Yavapai County Census Figures Released
PRESCOTT Ariz May 9 Aaron L Thomas census supervisor for northern Arizona released figures for Yavapai county Crown King 76 Walker 198 Mayer 779 with 60 farms Mayer township 300 and Poland Junction 49 indicating counts across several precincts and a township.
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Prescott, Ariz
Aaron L. Thomas
Arizona
Yavapai County
Crown King Justice
Walker Justice
Mayer Justice
Mayer Township
Poland Junction
Bandits Mass Casualty Event Reported in China
An unreliably sourced AP dispatch from Shanghai on May 9 claims 15 000 Chinese in Yungyang He nan province were fatally hurt in an April 28 incident. The reports say looting burning and a four day siege with 500 townspeople kidnapped for ransom leaving the town in ruins.
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Shanghai
China
Yungyang
Henan
Seven Yale Students Fined In New Haven Clash With Police
Seven Yale students received $25 fines for breach of the peace after clashes with New Haven police during the freshman celebration. Four arrestees wore bandages, while three who proved no rioting were discharged, and one arrest delayed pending hospital release.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
British Army in India Size Reported as 59 700 Troops
London reports 59 700 British troops in India and about 167 000 in Indian artillery with native personnel and British officers. The Indian empire covers 1 805 000 square miles and a population of 319 ac6 000, with 7 percent in British provinces.
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London
Great Britain
India
Europe
Russia
Precautions Tightened After Prison Mutiny and Killings
In Columbus Ohio extra precautions were taken after two convicts were killed yesterday following a mutiny where convicts burned tents in a barbed wire stockade inside the Ohio penitentiary yard. Inmates still housed in the stockade lack shelter as repairs to damaged cell blocks continue and officials refuse to replace destroyed tents.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Roberts Chosen by Hoover for Supreme Court Vacancy
President Hoover selects Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia as the new Supreme Court nominee. Roberts, a Republican who has served as oil counsel and special government counsel, would fill the vacancy left by Justice Sanford, shifting a court seat from the South to the North if confirmed. The Senate had rejected John J. Parker earlier and now faces Roberts in confirmation proceedings.
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Washington
Owen J. Roberts
Philadelphia
Teapot Dome
Hoover
Supreme Court
Roberts
Senate
Justice Sanford
Tennessee
Sanford
Parker
Gas Blamed For Armour Plant Disaster In St Joseph
Gas explosion at Armour packing plant in St Joseph MO leveled a six story building. Officials expect 17 deaths with 8 workers missing among the victims. W E Renfro and foreman Walter Kline cited gas as the cause. fire crews and volunteers search debris for bodies.
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Armour
St. Joseph
Armour Packing Plant
Orville Wise
W. E. Renfro
Walter Kline
Kline
Goldsborough Leaves El Paso for Dallas Flight Record
Frank Goldsborough a 19 year old aviator left El Paso at 8 10 this morning MST from the municipal airport aiming to set a new junior cross continental flight record toward Dallas Texas The departure marked the start of a planned long distance journey by air reaching toward a record flight across the continent.
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Kel Paso
Frank Goldsborough
Dallas
Tex
Bass Slashes Wrist in Suspected Suicide Attempt
Bentonville Arkansas May 9 AP Dr Andrew J Bass retired dentist of Columbia Missouri held on murder charge in Pearman death tied to $200000 life insurance plotted to collect. Bass slashed wrist an act sheriff said aimed at suicide.
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Bentonville
Ark
Andrew J. Bass
Columbia
William R. Pearman
Red Cross Approves Emergency System and 50th Anniversary
The American Red Cross approved a system of emergency first aid along major U S highways for automobile accidents. The resolution also set May 31, 1931, as the nationwide celebration date for the organization's fiftieth anniversary.
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Washington
United States
American Red Cross
Chicago Population Reaches 3,350,000
The Chicago Herald and Examiner reports after reviewing nearly complete census returns that the 1950 census will show Chicago's population over 3,350,000. This exceeds the Commerce Association’s pre census estimate by about 100,000.
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Chicago
The
Herald and Examiner
Association of Commerce
Jury completes selection in Brady murder trial in Dallas
Former Civil Appeals Court judge John W. Brady, 59, faces a jury for a second time on first degree murder charges in the stabbing death of Leslie Highsmith, 26, after three and a half days of jury selection. The defense again seeks insanity due to chronic alcoholism.
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Dallas
Tex
Civil Appeals Court
John W. Brady
Leslie Highsmith
Fulton Suicide After Primary Loss in Lake County
William J. Fulton, defeated for renomination as Lake County commissioner in the Tuesday primary, shot himself at his Gary home. Authorities report the suicide followed the election defeat and an apparent personal crisis.
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Gary
Ind
Wiliam J. Fulton
Lake County
California Delegation Seeks Boulder Dam Funding Update
Three officers of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District travel to Washington to follow progress on the Boulder Dam appropriation urged by President Hoover. W. P. Whitsett, W. B. Mathews and F. E. Weymouth expect Arizona opposition and potential filibuster while the House committee reviews funding from government sources.
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Los Angeles
W. P. Whitsett
Board of
W. B. Mathews
F. E. Weymouth
Mathews
Colorado River Commission
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Boulder Dam
California
Chicago Receives Real Money for Taxes in May
Chicago and Cook County treasurer George F. Harding distributed 2 million dollars to tax spending bodies from 1928 tax payments. Personal tax bills were mailed for the first time in three years. The funds must retire 1928 tax anticipation warrants.
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Chicago
Treasuries
Cook
George F. Harding
Lynching attempt at Grayson County Courthouse in Texas
A mob renewed its assault on the Grayson county courthouse in Sherman Texas aiming to lynch George Hughes a black man charged with attacking a white woman. Rangers and county officers used tear gas to disperse the mob after the hour and a half assault.
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Sherman
Tex
George Hughes
Grayson County
Texas Rangers
Arizona set to receive 2000 acres of Papago Sahuaro land
L. B. S McLain, former custodian of Papago Sahuaro national monument, announced today that 2000 acres of the monument would be granted to Arizona by the federal government at no cost. Most land will go to the state game department.
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Phoenix
Ariz
L. BS McLain
Papago Sahuaro National Monument
State of Arizona
State Game Department
Conference Targets Stock Swindling With Two Day Session
Washington May 9 AP The first national movement to curb stock swindling begins with a two day session at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States on May 22 and 23.
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Washington
National Conference On
Chamber of Commerce of
12 000 Licensed Air Pilots in United States
A late count shows about 12,000 licensed pilots in the United States with 200 women. California has the most pilots at 2,244, followed by New York with 1,153. The aviation licensing department reports 5,600 airmen, 8,500 licensed mechanics.
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United States
Washington
Ecommerce Department
California
New York
Landslides Hit German Potash Mines Near Brunswick
Great landslides today struck the potash mines of Vienenburg near Brunswick. Many mines collapsed and huge ground craters formed, some up to about 120 feet in diameter.
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Berlin
Vienenburg
Brunswick
Anti-Semitic Riots Reported In Europe
Reports from Bucharest and Borsa indicate anti semitic rioting in Romania with Jews mal treated. Authorities investigated scattered incidents as violence flared in European cities.
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Europe
Bucharest
Romania
Borsa
Transylvania
Persian Quake Toll Estimated 2000 Dead
Teheran reports a deadly earthquake in Salmas with most buildings collapsing after a second shock. While exact casualties are unavailable, Iran quotes other papers estimating about two thousand dead. Local reports emphasize the scale of destruction and ongoing rescue efforts.
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Teheran
Persia
Iran
Salmasg
Massive Flood Displaces 10000 in Colombo Northern District
Unprecedented floods sweep through Colombo and nearby areas on May 9 with 10 thousand people left homeless as water inundates a large northern stretch. Authorities warn of continuing danger and appeal for aid.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Colomby
Udall to Enter Arizona Governorship Campaign
John H. Udall, federal prohibition administrator for Arizona, will announce soon his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona. His decision has been in progress for several months according to the Phoenix Evening Gazette.
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Phoenix
Ariz
The
Phoenix Evening Gazette
John H. Udall
Arizona
Udall
New Glider Loop Record Claimed
Lyman Voespel set a new world record of 12 consecutive loops in a two passenger biplane glider at Curtiss airport under a commerce department permit. Soon after, Jimmy Van Cise claimed the first parachute jump from a glider.
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Chicago
Lyman Voespel
Curtiss
Department of Commerce
Voespel
Jimmy van Cise
Son of Author Hurt in Crash
James Oliver Curwood Jr., 19, son of the late novelist, was in Memorial Hospital in Owosso Michigan after an airplane crash during a landing attempt. He suffered a broken neck and a fractured skull and physicians expected his death momentarily.
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Owosso. Mich
James Oliver Curwood, Jr
Memorial Hospital
Young Curwood
Unreasonable Changes in Navajo County Property Valuations
Navajo county officials including Holbrook and Winslow fear state raises on property values under House Bill 127 are unfair. They say many assessments look 100 to 300 percent higher than 1929 levels, with lumped values on Winslow and Holbrook lists and little surveying by the tax equalization board. Action threatens nullifying these raises when the roll goes to the county supervisors.
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Holbrook
Tinet
Navajo County
State Tax Survey Board
Navajo County Board of. ‘Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Winslow and
Winslow
Tax Equalization Board
Masefield Named Poet Laureate in London
John Masefield named poet laureate at age 35, known as the Hobo Poet. Former porter in a New York section, he rose to fame after a long struggle with writing and travel in the world of letters. He and his wife have two children.
Coal Mine Safety Prizes Award
The American Mining Congress awarded trophies for shaft mine safety records. The Bituminous Coal mine trophy went to Hull mine number 33 of the De Bardeleban Coal Corporation in Birmingham Alabama. The Anthracite trophy went to Highland Mine number 6 of the Jeddo Coal Company in Hazleton Pennsylvania.
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Hull
de Bardeleban Coal Corporation
Birmingham
Ala
United” “Sargy Bureau of Mines
Highland
Jeddo Coal Company
Hazleton
Pennsylvania
Heat Kills Three in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Three deaths in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia were attributed to heat prostration as temperatures peaked. The weather bureau reported 83 degrees locally and 98 degrees at Morgantown, West Virginia.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Morgantown
W. V
Embargo on Silver Proposed by Rep Arentz
A bill introduced by Rep. Arentz Republican Nevada proposes an embargo on silver. The embargo would allow imported silver only for processing and mining purposes.
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Washington
Arentz
Republican
Nevada
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