Arizona Rebuts Wilbur on Colorado River Rights
Governor John C. Phillips replies to Interior Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, defending Arizona's stance in the Colorado River dispute. Phillips accuses Wilbur of haste in Boulder dam power and water contracts and calls for a tri state compact with California and Nevada.
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Arizona
California
Phoenix
Ariz
Colorado River
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Secretary of the Interior
John C. Phillips
Arizona Colorado River Commission
Phillips
Arizona Colorado Miners Commission
Wilbur
Boulder Dam
Nevada
Power Franchise Question On Ballot In Winslow
Winslow voters will decide on a 25 year power franchise for the Arizona Electric Power Company at the city election. Petitions filed include five incumbents with Mayor J H Black and Councilman E Burbage not seeking re election. Ballots and supplies will be prepared after the 5 pm petition deadline for the May 26 vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winslow
J. H. Black
Arizona Electric Power Company
Governor Kohler Exonerated in 1928 Campaign Vote
Sheboygan, Wis. governor Walter J. Kohler was exonerated by a jury on excessive campaign expenditures, declaring vindication as the ouster suit nears a verdict. The jury found him not guilty of bid corruption and a bargain with the Kohler Corporation for spending over 100000 in his 1928 bid.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Walter J. Kohler
Gustave Gelioz
Kohler
Kohler Corporation
Amy Johnson Resumes Flight From Rangoon to Australia
Miss Amy Johnson, British aviator, resumed her trip from Rangoon at 10:50 am in heavy rain. She continues the England to Australia flight begun at Croydon. About 3,000 miles remain of the journey.
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Tangoon
Burma
Amy Johnson
Croydon
England
Australia
Mexican Hanged at San Quentin for Garcia Family Killings
Armando Baltares, a young Mexican prisoner, was executed on the San Quentin gallows for the killing of five members of the Alvarez Garcia family with whom he shared a home in San Fernando California.
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San Quentin Prison
Cal
Armando Baltares
Alvarez-Garcia
San Fernando
San Quentin Gallows
Bishop Cannon Expounds On Eighteenth Amendment Stance
Bishop James Cannon Jr presided over the Methodist Episcopal Church South quadrennial conference in Dallas while facing a possible church trial over stock market speculations. He attacked Dwight W. Morrow’s repeal plan of the Eighteenth Amendment as he sought the Republican Senate nomination in New Jersey.
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James Cannon, Jrs
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Dallas
Tex
James Cannon, Jr
Cannon
Dwight W. Morrow
Morrow
New Jersey
Franklin W. Fort
Republican National Committee
United States
Joseph %. Frelinghuysen
Newark
Mexico
United States Senate
Krueger
Con
Citizens plan order force for Sherman after martial law
Sherman residents organize a civilian force to protect lives and property after martial law ends. Col Lawrence E. McGee and a court of inquiry oversee suspects and witnesses. he could not say when military rule will end but indicated it would be soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Texas
Lawrence E. McGee
Gold Star Mothers Arrive in France in Cherbourg
In Cherbourg France 231 Gold Star Mothers arrived on the steamship America at 2 45 p m escorted by two French planes. The party received an enthusiastic welcome and reported all in fine health and spirits despite being deeply moved by the reception.
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France
Cherbourg
United States
America
Spring Roads Convention to Discuss Highway Financing Plan
Arizona Good Roads Association opens its spring meeting in Douglas with talks on funding a state bond issue for road work. Debates center on a proposed four to one dollar gas tax distribution with cities seeking a larger share and a central highway enhancement plan including a free bridge at Ehrenberg Blythe.
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Douglas. Ariz
Arizona
Arizona Good Roads Association
Gila County
Globo
Miami
Ehrenberg
Blythe
Colorado River
J. Jamison
Phoenix
Ness
Highway Fund
Police Arrest Woman In India
In Bombay on May 16 AP reports Mrs Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya sister-in-law of Mrs Naidu Sarojini Hindu poetess and Nationalist leader was arrested for Civil Disobedience activity under the wide act and penal code She was the second woman arrested after Mrs Rukmani Lakshmi and follows Mrs Naidu Sarojini's release earlier
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Bombay
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Rukmani Lakshmi
Madras
Tax Commissioners Attend Tucson Meet
Tax Commissioner E A Hughes and Frank Luke left Phoenix for Tucson for a hearing granted to the Pima County Taxpayers Association to settle taxation difficulties and avert possible legal entanglements. Commissioner M A Murphy will join them in Tucson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix, Ariz
E. A. Hughes
Frank Luke
Tucson
Wheer
Pima County Taxpayers Association
M. A. Murphy
Arizona
William J Locke Dies at 78 A British Novelist
The body of William J Locke novelist was found dead in his flat. He will be cremated at Pere-Lachaise Cemetery and his ashes taken to England for funeral services at Saint Martin in the Fields in London Tuesday.
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Pares
William 2. Locke
Perelacheise
England
Saint Martin’s In the Field Church
London
Van Lear Black Continues World Flight Leg To Dayton
Van Lear Black, Baltimore publisher, soared from Kansas City at 9 40 a m in a tri motored Fokker monoplane continuing his world flight to Dayton Ohio.
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Kansas. City
van Lear Black
Baltimore
Dayton
Ohio
Tucson Census Shows Big Gain In Population
Tucson and satellite areas report a combined metro population of 42 259, up 80 percent from ten years ago. Delayed Globe figures show 7 143 residents, Miami reports 7 679, vs 7 044 and 6 689 ten years back, respectively.
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Tucson
Ariz
C. W. Parsons
Southern District
Arizona
Globe
Miami
Bar Silver 41 1-8 May 16
The report notes a bar silver price at 41 1-8 on May 16 in New York.
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New York
Engineer foil s hold up by racing train over burning trestle
An engineer sped a Southern Pacific train through a blazing trestle between Miami and Bowie,Arizona, foiling a supposed hold up by three armed men. Deputies from Gila and Graham counties hunted the Rice Indian reservation area for the trio as flames continued to burn the structure.
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Miami
Ariz
Southern Pacific
Bowie
Globe
Sherrif
Gila
Graham
Rice Indian Reservation
lobe-Miami
Testimony Ends in Brady Trial as Jury Nears Verdict
Dallas May 16 AP. Final testimony concluded in the second murder trial of John W. Brady former appeals court judge. Arguments to follow before the jury. Brady 60 charged with fatally stabbing Lehlia Highsmith 26 in jealousy.
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Dallas
Tex
John W. Brady
Appeals Court
Charger
Lehlia Highsmith
Fort Apache Established In White Mountains Arizona
May 16 1870 marked the founding of Camp Apache by Major John Green in the White Mountains Arizona territory. The post at six thousand feet aimed to guard settlers from Apache tribes and malaria risk, replacing Camp Goodwin with rugged rogs huts and minimal facilities amid remote trails and weekly mail.
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Fort Apache
White Mountains
Arizona
Major Green
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
John Green
Camp Apache
Arizona Territory
Camp Goodwin
First Cavalry
21St Infantry
Tucson
Prescott
Udall to Announce Intentions Soon
Udall says in Thatcher that within the next few days he will definitively announce his intentions regarding the Republican governor nomination. The Gila College alumnus spoke at the association banquet and left for Cochise County on official business.
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Safford
Ariz
John H. Udall
Associated Press
Salt Lake
Arizona
Udall
Gila College
Thatcher
Association
Cochise County
Pershing And Edge Plan Battlefield Memorial Tour
Paris May 16 AP reports Ambassador Walter I Edge and General John J. Pershing will visit French battlefields on Monday and Tuesday to inspect memorials erected or in progress by the Battle Monuments Commission.
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Paris
Walter I. Edge
Pershing
Battle Monuments Commission
Canadians Pass Tariff Duty Bill
Ottawa voters approved the budget passed by the Canadian House of Commons with a 114 to 186 vote. The measure includes a countervailing tariff duty to offset higher U S tariffs on Canadian goods.
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Ottawa
Ont
United States
House of Commons
New Service Station Rising at Warren and Second
Ground broken this week for a new 7000 dollar super service station by the Texas Vil com pany at Warren avenue and Second street. Construction aims for eight weeks with an Indian influenced California white stucco exterior and masonry brick or tile interior. The building will include a tire and battery shop and modern rest rooms. Local firms will handle plumbing plastering and masonry.
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Warren Avenue
Second Street
Texas Vil Company
California
Leslie Patch
Los Angeles
W. J. O’hara
Chinese Engage In Major Battle Near NanKing
In Peiping on May 16 AP reports a great battle between the Nanking government forces and the Northern Alliance entering its major phase. Clashes among advance units have caused severe casualties. Nanking says it will bomb Chengchow by air and warns foreign interests to depart.
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Peiping
China
Nanking
Northern Alliance
Chengchow
Detroit Flyer Sets Transcontinental Speed Record Bid
Detroit pilot William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee will attempt a Jacksonville to San Diego to Jacksonville flight within 24 hours to break cross country speed records. Their radio equipped plane will broadcast progress nationwide via an independent station.
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Detroit
Mich
Jacksonville
Fla
San Diego
Cal
William S. Brock
Brock
Edward F. Schlee
Tokyo
Dawes To Return For Talks On London Naval Pact
Ambassador Dawes will come back to the United States for conferences with President Hoover on the London Naval agreement. The White House said the trip is not leave but for the purpose of discussing the pact with the president.
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Washington
Dawes
United States
Hoover
White House
Briand Proposes European Federal Union Plan
Paris May 16 AP Briand French foreign minister outlines a 6600 word questionnaire and outline on a European Federal Union economic federation. It would ease commerce among 26 League of Nations members and later share with rest of world, with a goal to remove tariff barriers and unite Europe despite language race and gauge differences.
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Paris
Aristide Briand
League of Nations
Russia
M. Briand
Europe
United States of Europe
Atlantic
Court awards damages in bus crash death case
A superior court jury awarded Mrs. Ida L. Tomrell forty thousand dollars for the death of her husband after an express truck passing a stage tore off his arm. The accident occurred July 1, 1929, as Tomrell rode the Pickwick Stager system bus from Los Angeles to Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Ida L. Tomrell
Pickwick Stager
Clyde Trevitt
Tomrell
Los Angeles
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Earl B. Miller
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B. E. Fulton
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Edge
Winslow Business
Detroit Flyer
Briand
European Union
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