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Died. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur, 67, onetime (1933-37) Governor of Arizona; at Tempe, Ariz...
Arizona Democrats renominated eloquent Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst because of his long and loyal services, Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur in spite of his State tax program, Congresswoman-at-large Isabella Greenway because of her personal popularity and close connection with the White House...
...Press in Tokyo cried: "Arizona has supplanted Manchuria as Japan's principal trouble zone." A consul of His Britannic Majesty called officially upon the 64-year-old country doctor. From distant Washington, Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, prodded in the rear by Japanese diplomats, frantically telephoned Dr. Moeur. The whole trouble was started by Dr. Moeur's old patients down in Salt River Valley...
...Governor Moeur and State's Attorney General LaPrade went into action. They let Salt Valley's farmers know that the Law would be enforced without fear or favor, both the alien land law and the law against violence. Warrants and temporary restraining orders were issued against a score of people, some Japanese, others U. S. whites accused of leasing land to Orientals (penalty: two years in jail, $5,000 fine). Complaints poured in and more action was promised. Meantime 800 angry Aryan farmers met and voted against violence if the land laws were enforced...
Then Governor Moeur turned reassuringly to the Empire of the Rising Sun and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets to declare: "I want to enforce the law not with an iron hand but gently, as I feel there is an equitable way of adjusting this situation without trouble...