Busses Inaugurate New Route From Winslow to Petrified Forest
Fifteen busses and touring cars of the Fred Harvey Transportation Company begin regular trips from Winslow to Petrified Forest and Meteor Crater on Monday. O H Good, superintendent, will direct operations in Winslow. The fleet includes 12 passenger parlor coaches and seven passenger Cadillacs designed for comfort and scenic viewing.
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Fred Harvey Transportation Company
Winslow
Petrified Forest
Meteor Crater
O. H. Good
Harvey
County Tax Hearings Begin in Navajo County
Holbrook and Winslow property owners prepare for a ten day board of equalization session to contest state survey raised valuations. County Supervisors meet Monday to begin hearings after assurances from State Tax Commission chair and County Assessor that residents may demand adjustments.
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Daily Mail
Holbrook
Navajo County
Board of Supervisors
Board of Equalization
State Tax Survey Board
Winslow
Tax Survey Board
E .A. Hughes
State Tax Commission
J. L. Peterson
County Board of Equalization
Bobby Jones Captures British Amateur Championship
Bobby Jones defeated Roger Wethered seven and six in the 386 hole final to win the British amateur championship at St. Andrews. Jones played to par while his opponent sought Jones’s score, finishing the day two under par. He totaled 22 fours, three birdies, five threes, and minimal holes over par, earning the historic trophy for a third time returning to the United States.
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Scotland
Bobby Jones
Roger Wethered
Jones
United States
W. J. Travis
Atlantic
Jess W. Sweetser
Two Injured in Winslow Area Auto Crashes
Eight people were injured in two crashes near Winslow with two cases serious. James Schaar suffered severe facial and neck lacerations when a truck carrying Glenn Christensen collided head on with a car driven by Bobbie Brayman near Thrill Hill west of the city by Winslow cemetery. Christensen and two girls had minor bruises. Schaar required many stitches.
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Winslow
James Schaar
Glenn Christensen
Bobbie Brayman
Louisc. Smonjeski
Thrill Hill
Winslow Cemetery
Chrystensen
Schaar
Aviators Die in Chandler Plane Crash
At Chandler airport in Arizona on May 31, James C. Robson 34 of Pasadena California and Clayton Morgar eidge 20 of Chandler died when their plane went into a tailspin from 1000 feet. Instantaneous deaths reported. Robson's wife Billy Brown, noted for a coast parachute record, witnessed the accident. Margar Ridge, a student flier, was recovering after the flight.
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Chandler, Ariz
James C. Robson
Pasadena
Calif
Clayton Morgareidge
Chandler
Robson
Billy” Brown
Pacific Coast
Margar Ridge
Safe wrecking tools found in bank vault
Safe wrecking tools discovered in the Grand National Bank basement after a robbery looted over 1 million dollars. Police say inside job theory gains weight as three men are held on 50000 bond each, including two former bank officials.
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ST. Louis
Grand National Bank
Kaiser
Women Gain Representation in Presbyterian Church Ruling Bodies
Cincinnati May 31 AP The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced that women will have representation on local church and presbytery ruling bodies this year. An overture allowing election and ordination of women as ruling elders was ratified 167 to 115 by the last general assembly.
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Cincinnati
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Pope Pius XI Celebrates 73rd Birthday in Vatican City
Pope Pius XI marks his seventy third birthday with greetings from around the world and a day of prayer. The Pontifical banner flies over Vatican buildings while Swiss guards and Palatine guards parade in full dress at key posts and formations.
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Vatican City
Pius
Gang Killer Slain In Chicago Battle
Chicago on May 31 AP reports Philip Gnolfo known as professional Chicago killer was slain in a west side gang attack. Two companions William Carnedo Toledo Ohio and Joseph Fiannen Rochester New York were wounded. A machine gun shotgun and revolvers were used.
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Chicago
Philip Gnolfo
West Side
Gnolfo
William Carnedo
Toledo
Ohio
Joseph Fiannen
Rochester
N. Y
Deny That Chinese General Is Injured
The nationalist government in Nanking denies reports that President Chiang Kai-Shek was wounded by shell or bomb fragments near Nwei teh in Honan. Chiang continues to direct operations against northern alliance forces in eastern Honan.
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Nanking
Chaing Kai-Shek
Nweiteh
Honan
Chiang
Northern Alliance
Flyer Plans Trip Across Atlantic
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith landed at Croydon at 12 40 p m today after arriving from Amsterdam on his way to Ireland. He plans to attempt a trans Atlantic flight at night from there in the near future.
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Croydon
Eng
Charles Kingsford Smith
Amsterdam
Ireland
Baptists Choose Church President
Dr. Albert W. Beaven, president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, N Y, was elected president of the Northern Baptist Church to succeed Dr. Alton L. Miller of Boston.
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Cleveland
Albert W. Beaven
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Rochester N. Y
Northern Baptist Church
Alton L. Miller
Boston
Fire destroys coal chutes at Grants in NM
The Santa Fe railway coal chutes at Grants New Mexico were destroyed last night by a fire started during an electrical storm. No other property burned. The loss is put at about 50 000 dollars according to Santa Fe Railway officials.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Santa Fe Railway
Grants, N. M
Korean Communists Bomb Consulates in Manchuria
A dispatch to Rengo News Agency says about 100 Korean communists bombed and set fire to Korean association buildings and schools as well as Japanese consulates in the Chienino district of Kirin province Manchuria.
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Tokyo
Ikkorea
Rengo
Korean Association
Chienino
Kirin Province
Manchuria
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes Dies at 79 Noted Ethnologist of Indians
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, 79, renowned for studies of Waspi and Hopi life and the use of phonographs to record Indian music, died at his Eastern home after a short illness. He directed the Homeaway Southwestern Archaeological expedition in Arizona in the 1890s and led a vast collection of southwest Indian pottery. He served as chief of the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology from 1895 to 1918 and helped turn Mesa Verde into a major pilgrimage site.
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F. W. Fewkes
Arizona
Eastern Home
Forest Glenn
J. Walter Fewkes
National Park
Homeaway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition
Southwest
Fewkes
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Ameco fishing boat sinks off Santa Monica with 70 aboard
Federal officials, the county coroner, and police opened a triple probe into the Ameco disaster. Eighteen persons were listed as victims after two bodies were recovered and ten were still missing. Police counted 52 survivors, joining the known or believed dead to total about 70 on board, eight over the legal limit.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Couny
Ameco
Navajo County Reports No Outstanding Warrants
Navajo County has no warrants outstanding for school, salary, expense, or general county items for the first time in years. Treasurer Fred Brown issued a $17 500 call to retire remaining warrants as back tax payments and current tax collections boost the county cash balance to over $160 000.
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Daily Mail
Holbrook
Navajo County
Fred Brown
Amerman Draws $175 Sentence
Holbrook May 3 Judge Crosby fined E. I. Amerman 150 dollars or seven days in jail for drunken driving. The court then imposed a sentence of one to three years in the Florence state penitentiary starting May 31. Harry Winslow's new trial motion was denied and the jury was dismissed as the term closed.
Ban on Liquor Exports From Canada to the United States
Ottawa reports the government passed a bill prohibiting liquor exports to the United States effective after prohibition. Premier Mackenzie King’s administration sought to restrict clearances for liquor bearing craft and gained royal assent as the 16th Parliament was prorogued.
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Ottawa
United States
MacKenzie King
La Posada Supplement Issued With Winslow Daily Mail
A new La Posada edition will appear Monday June 2 as a supplement to Winslow Daily Mail coinciding with Fred Harvey Transportation tours and the opening of La Posada Harvey Hotel. The magazine style piece features Indian Spanish and local scenic images, front and back covers with La Posada imagery, and a center spread greeting from 28 local businesses praising the project. It will be distributed through Harvey newsstands and the Daily Mail office as a lasting information source for residents and visitors.
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la Posada
Arizona
Winslow Daily Mail
Fred Harvey Transportation Tours
Harvey
Fred Harvey
Santa Fe
Daily Mail
Harvey Newstiainds
Mounted Troops Break Up Salt Pan Raid in Bombay
British mounted troops and police clashed with 156 volunteers attempting to raid salt pans in Dharasana Bombay on May 31. Police used sticks to disperse the crowd after multiple warnings. cavalry charged the group and injured 106 volunteers, most of whom were hospitalized.
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Dharasana
Bombay
India
Rail unions push thirty hour week for shop and maintenance staff
Chicago May 31 AP executives of Western railroads received official notice that future contracts with the railway employee department of the American Federation of Labor will specify a thirty hour working week. Nine presidents of international unions affiliated with the federation joined in notifying company heads that a six hour day and five day week will be the policy for shop men and maintenance of way workers numbering nearly one million.
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Chicago
Western Railroads
American Federation of Labor
Hundred Jailed In Texas Raids
More than 100 people were arrested in surprise raids by at least 50 federal prohibition agents. They were rounded up last night in private residences and liquor-selling places then moved to the county jail.
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Dallas
Tex
Presbyterian merger endorsed by Des Moines assembly
The United Presbyterian Church of North America voted to merge with five other Presbyterian denominations at the 72nd annual assembly in Des Moines. The decision advances a unification effort among major Presbyterian bodies.
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Des Moines
United Presbyterian Church of North America
Mob violence seizes man in Oklahoma lynching attempt
Reports recount Henry Argo, a Black man, wounded by a Chickasha mob seeking to lynch him after an alleged assault. He was moved between jail, ambulances, and hospital as authorities arrested three mob members and released George Skinner and his wife.
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Elesha
Okla
Henry Argo
Oklahoma City
George Skinner
Argo
Skinner
Skinners
Zeppelin Arrives At Lakehurst Base
Graf Zeppelin lands at Lakehurst naval air station New Jersey after a roughly six am arrival. Escorting aircraft and naval airship Los Angeles accompany the giant airship as it completes the penultimate leg of its four continent flight.
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Zeppelin
Lakehurst
N. J
Ato
Naval Air Station
Los Angeles
Abandonment of Non-Stop Refueling Flight at Roosevelt Field
The planned non-stop refueling flight of the airplane "K of New Haven" begun in New Haven yesterday was abandoned after six hours at Roosevelt Field N Y. Lieut Commander George W Pond, the pilot, landed the craft here due to mechanical difficulty and backers announced the project is definitively abandoned.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
New Haven
Connecticut City
George W. Pond
Power Line To Be Done In July
Mas A. Pooler of the Tucson Gas Light and Power says the Tucson to Nogales power line will be completed by the latter part of July. The line will supply Nogales and Nogales Sonora with electricity generated in Tucson.
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Tucson Ariz
Mas A. Pooler
Tucson Gas, Electric Light v and Power Company
Tucson
Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
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Texas
Henry Argonegro
University of Oklahoma ‘Hospital
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