Balchen Plans World Flight in June
Lt. Balchen, famed navigator who flew with Byrd to the Pole, announced a proposed 17 day circuit of the globe starting in June from New York. The trip covers about 21000 miles and 215 flying hours aboard a Fokker Universal with a Wasp motor, plus pontoons for Atlantic and Pacific legs and wheels for faster landings.
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International News Service
Cleveland
Bernt Balchen
Richard Byrd
North Pole
France
Balchen
Winnipeg
Globe
New York
Atlantic
Pacific
York
Newfoundland
Irelan Holland
Germany
Moscow
Russia
Siberia
Harbin
Manchuria
Korea
Japan
Tokyo
Alutian Islands
Alaskan
Seattle
Leutenant Balchen
South Pole
Byrd
John Henry Mears
Father and four children die in cottage fire
Leon Wiley and four children, ages 6 to 12, were burned to death when their Lake Minnetonka cottage burned last night. Wiley's wife and a fifth child escaped after she leaped from a window with the infant. she is in critical condition. The fire's cause is undetermined.
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Minneapolis
Leon Wiley
Lake Minnetonka
Wiley
Reed of Missouri Widens Lead as Democratic Hope
Kansas City gossip ties James E. Reed to a possible presidential bid. The former Jackson county prosecutor, famed for 285 convictions in 287 cases, has long drawn national attention as a U.S. senator since 1911. His Kansas City home on Cherry Street features a broad veranda and a downsized hotel residence, with a library and workshop in the basement.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Missouri
James E. Reed
Jackson County
Reed
United States Senate
Cherry Street
Couple Rewed in Chicago After 23 Years apart
Alex P. Baker and Elizabeth M. Young, once married in 1880 and separated after 23 years, renewed their vows yesterday in Chicago and began a honeymoon their first since the original marriage.
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United Press
Chicago
Alex P. Baker
Elizabeth M. Young
Reed's rise from Ohio to Missouri Senate in 1911
Born November 9, 1861 on an Ohio farm, Reed moved as a boy to Iowa and later Kansas City. He practiced law, served as county prosecutor, was two terms mayor, and in 1911 began a 17 year term in the U S Senate, with a lineage tied to Ohio and seven presidents.
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Ohio
White House
Reed
Missouri
Senate
Mansfield
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Lura M. Olmsted
Kansas City
Rebels in Nicaragua Sufferanic Casualties Report
Fresh graves mark recent clashes in northern Nicaragua as a U S marine patrol of 80 men led by Captain Roger W Peard reports seven rebels killed and four wounded across five engagements. Rebels carried off the wounded, making exact totals unclear.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Roger W. Peard
San Albino
Augustino Sandino
Buena Vista
Marine
Priest and 45 Rebels Die in Mexico Clash
In Jalisco near Cotija General Anselmo Garcia said a Catholic priest Crescencio Esparza and 45 rebels died after a three hour battle with federal soldiers. Morfin among the wounded and captured, 102 horses and guns seized.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Guadalajara
Anselmo Garcia
Crescencio Esparza
Cotija
Jalisco
Esparza
Luis Gulzar Morfin
Morfin
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