Robot piloted transcontinental flight eyed for speed record
Angeles June 1 The robot controlled airplane The Sky Chief a low wing monoplane aims for 260 mph speed record flight from Municipal Airport to Floyd Bennett Airfield piloted by Lt Cmdr Hawks acting as gator Debesson inventor of the device will serve as guardian The trip seeks altitude around 18000 feet following a great circle route south of Colorado and over Pitts into Brooklyn The robot is claimed to fly as well as in tests versatile for commercial planes in near future.
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Floyd Bennett Airport
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Indianapolis
Pitts
Brooklyn
Texas Relief Aides Hold First Meeting
The Texas Relief Commission will convene its first meeting in Austin to plan administration of federal relief funds. Members include L A Schreiner Kerrville Edm Houston W A Brooks, B E Giesecke Austin T A ks Brenham William Cameron and Harry Tom King Abi-Me.
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Texas Relief Commission
L. A. Schreiner
Kerrville
Edm
Houston
W. A. Brooks
Tlas
B. E. Giesecke
Austin
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Brenham
William Cameron
Harry Tom King
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Woman Seeks New Trial in Farm Murder Appeal
Mrs. Ry Dech a 36 year old Schulen farm woman today appealed her death sentence claiming trial errors. District Judge M C Jeffrey denied a defense motion for a new trial as attorneys prepared the filing in Grange. She was convicted of murdering Henry Stoever whom she said assaulted her three children.
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Grange
Ry Dech
M. C. Jeffrey
Rescue of Red Mallicoe From Six Foot Water Well
A 22-year-old man from Rogers Texas is rescued after five hours trapped six feet underground in a 16-foot water well in Temple. An air pipe supplied air and even water and cigars, preventing suffocation and possible drowning.
New Mexico Land Controversy Ends With Relief Grant
President Roosevelt signed the Pueblo Relief bill ending a decade long land dispute between Pueblo Indians and white settlers in New Mexico. The measure provides 761000 for Pueblo claims and 522000 for settlers to compensate loss of land dating to Spanish rule, affecting about 126000 acres and some 7000 claims across 15 Pueblos.
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New Mexico
Roosevelt
Records of Men Who Fled Kansas Prison Are Given
Criminal records of participants in the Kansas State Penitentiary escape are listed. Wilbur Underhill, a two time murderer with a third murder charge, killed in Oklahoma and Kansas offenses, captured after extradition. Others include Robert Brady theft and bank robbery suspects, Frank Sawyer and James Clark with life terms, Harvey Bailey linked to a Lincoln bank job and St Valentine era notoriety. Clifford Dopson Billy Woods Lewis Bechtell have comparatively minor records.
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Wilbur Underhill
George Fee
Okmulgee
Okla
Earl O'Neal
Picher
Fee
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Merle Colyer
Wichita
Kan
Smegma
Ie Howr
Kansas
Harvey Bailey
Citizens National Bank
Fort Scott
Fred Burke
Michigan State Prison
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago
Dach Trial Motion Quashed By Judge
In Lagrange on June 1 the defense motion for a new trial for Mrs. Maria Dach was overruled. Dach, sentenced to death for the slaying of Henry Stoever on her farm, said through an interpreter she would appeal and was granted 60 days to file.
Walker's missing witness returns to Nyack, New York
Russell T. Sherwood, a key figure in the James J. Walker scandal, is found alive in Nyack, New York. He had been cited by Samuel Seabury in his push to remove Walker as mayor, facing a $50,000 contempt order and a $49,000 back income assessment tied to brokerages Seabury linked to Walker.
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U.P
Russell T. Sherwood
James J. Walker
Samuel Seabury
Walker
Nyack
N. Y
Sherwood
Seabury
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