Tragic Deaths Reported From Separate Accidents
Three killed and two seriously injured when a car stalled at Cook station was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train near Washington Courthouse Ohio. Names: Robert Kennel Dean Kennel Ray Hiestand. Also two high school students Cecil Wehrman Irving Stamnes died in a Culver City plane crash. Pilot Harry J. Carley injured. Two fishermen F H Jordan and Richard W Seaman drowned near Maple Hill Kansas.
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Associated Press
Washington Courthouse
Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Pasenger
Cook Station
Here
Robert Kennel
Dean Kennel
Ray Hiestand
Los Angeles
Culver City
Cecil Wehrman
Irving Stamnes
Harry J. Carley
Topeka
Kan
F. H. Jordan
Richard W. Seaman
Mill Creek
Maple Hill
Massillon Teen Shot Dead After School Party Walk Home
Police investigate the shooting death of Lester Boyd 17 a Massillon area youth found along a sidewalk near Ellen Fighter 17 after he left a school party. Authorities consider jealousy theories but have no motive or suspects yet. In Niagara Falls Pierre Bovard 22 of Villette Vaud Switzerland shot himself on the Canadian side near Horseshoe Falls and fell 160 feet to the river. no reason given for the suicide.
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Associated Press
Massillon
Ohio
Lester Boyd
West Brookfield
Ellen Fighter
Miss Fighter
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Horseshoe Falls
Pierre L. Bovard
Villette Vaud
Switzerland
City to begin work on new airport in Butte
John D. Ryan provided equipment and John C. Ryan pledged 15000 to buy land and gear for a city owned field south of the present airport. The city will level three runways and build a drainage ditch to protect Nine Mile flood waters and Gilman addition.
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John D. Ryan
Anaconda Company
James W. Rowe
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Butte
Northwest
John C. Ryan
Montana Power Company
Nast
Gilman Addition
Englishman Seeks Disguise For Chicago Visit
A nervous man enters a costume shop asking to look like a German or Spaniard or even a Hot tentot and clarifies he is English and has business in Chicago. The shopkeeper questions the purpose, while the man insists he needs a disguise.
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Chicago
Delegates Credentials Fight Open As Florida Hearings Start
Women on deck for the hearing of delegate contests begin tomorrow as the national committee weighs which faction gains credentials in more than a half dozen southern states. The nine Florida contests loom, hearings start at 10 a m CST, with Bean and Skipper factions front and center. Leaders and lawyers accompany the factions and town residents wait as convention preparations unfold in Kansas City.
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Florida
National Committee
Kansas City
Associated Preas
Republican National Committee
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Porto Rico
Emile Kuntz
Hoover
Walter L. Cohen
New Orleans
Perry W. Howard
Sheldon
Nebraska
Charles A. Gordon
Chicago
Hoover Camp
R. B. Creager
Southern Cross heads for Suva on Pacific flight
The tri motor Southern Cross, captained by Kingsford Smith with Ulm Lyons and Warner aboard, left Kauai at 5 20 this morning bound for Suva Fiji. The crew reported good speed about 80 mph and radio contact as they crossed 3 138 miles of open ocean toward Australia.
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Honolulu
Southern Cross
Pacific Ocean
Suva
California
Australia
Kingsford-Smith
Barking Sands Beach
Isle of Kauai
Fiji Islands
Canton Island
Phoenix
Warner
Faye
Kauai
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Fanning Island
Fanning
Associated Press
Fiji
United States
Fort Shafter
O. K
Oakland
Wheeler Field
South Pacific
Sydney
Charles Ulm
Charles. Kingsford- Smith
Harry W. Lyons
James Warner
San Francisco
Apia
Samoa
Barking Sands
Veto and tariff debate spark farmer anger in Missouri
President John F. Case of the Missouri state board of agriculture criticizes President Coolidge’s veto of the McNary Haugen bill. He condemns the veto message as bitter and temperate, but defends the tariff’s aim to protect American industry and questions opponents’ motives.
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Associated Press
Wright City
John F. Case
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
Coolidge
Case
Yielding Gracefully as Good Manners and Character
The piece argues yielding points gracefully signals good manners and strength. It suggests yielding to others to appear agreeable, not as a sign of weakness, and to avoid appearing whiny while maintaining self respect.
Fliers Track Southern Cross Across Pacific
Reports from radio stations in San Francisco Honolulu and Honolulu indicate the Southern Cross monoplane maintains progress from Kauai toward Suva with speeds from 72 to 88 knots. One generator issue noted and motors intermittently fluttering as the craft flies at around 400 to 600 feet with hazy visibility and multiple rainstorms.
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Smith
Southern Cross
Honolulu
Pacific Coast
Associated Press
San Francisco
Kauai
Naval Radio Station
O. K
Oakland
Cal
Hawaii
Ulm
Southern Cross Broadcast Noon Position Report
The Southern Cross crew reported at noon their position with latitude by observation 12:47 and by dead reckoning 12:58, longitude 163.13, after a seven hour run of 630 nautical miles at an average speed of 90 knots. The sea was smooth with partly cloudy skies and occasional squalls, winds about 15 miles east by north, and the ship and motors were described as behaving well.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Southern Cross
Radio Corporation of America
Suva
Naval Radio Station
Kauai
Honolulu
Sailing message from Southern Cross reported by naval radio
Central Press Dispatch notes a late evening message from the Southern Cross at 8 50 p m stating little more spitting left motor now but we are plowing right along in their progress report.
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Central Press Dispatch
San Francisco
Naval Radio Station
Southern Cross
Radar log notes rising altitude amid storm clouds
At 8 54 p m a message from the Southern Cross warned of dark clouds ahead and at 9 p m another report stated the aircraft was gaining altitude and climbing to about two thousand feet as it moved forward.
Plane dodges storm clouds over Pacific near California
A Southern Cross radiogram from San Francisco reports the plane dodging heavy storm clouds at about 9:30 p.m. altitude 4,600 feet while still climbing. A follow up message notes the sight of different cloud formations as the storm looms ahead.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
Southern Cross
Naval Radio Station
Winter links science and faith at federation convention
Mrs. Alice Ames Winter of Minneapolis argues science and religion are reconciled in a speech before the 19th biennial General Federation of Women’s Clubs in San Antonio Texas. She says civilization is a moving path toward a deeper understanding of God and notes the evolution from mythic deities to modern electrical tools.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Alice Ames Winter
Minneapolis
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
God
Campaign probes scrutinize minister’s campaign spend claim
The minister read a prepared statement on potential political expenses for Smith while committee member Van Namee challenged the data. Miller was urged to cite facts or sources. Van Namee apologized for interrupting, but Steiner declined. He described Miller as an unscrupulous assassin of public figures.
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Smith
van Namee
Miller
Steiner
O. R. Miller
Tractors From America Dominate Czecho Slovakia Imports
Of 1654 tractors received in Czecho Slovakia last year 1179 were from America indicating strong US agricultural equipment influence in the region.
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Czecho- Slovakia
Amerie
Burr Skein Fokker Plane Lands at Halifax After Boston Flight
The trimotor Fokker named Friendship landed at Halifax N S after a flight from Boston piloted by Wilmer Stultz. Amelia Earhart aboard as co pilot, aboard with Lew Gordon, George Palmar Putnam notes the craft bound for London via Trepassy. The sale by Commander Byrd to Mechanical Science Corp was kept secret.
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Associated Press
Halifax
N. S
Richard E. Byrd
Wilmer Stultz
Boston
Dartmouth
W. S. Stultz
A. M. Earhart
Tom Gordon
Miss Earhart
London
New York
George Palmer Putnam
Fokker
Trepassy
Mr. Putnam
Explorer
Mechanical Science Corporation
Putman
Amelia Earhart
Denison House
Lew Gordon
Byrd
Renfro Wins Sheridan Cup With 24 In Shootoff
Ted Renfro of Dell, international flyer champion, led a Sheridan registered shoot with 148 of 150 birds. Otto Schulz won the Confarr medal in a shoot-off with Snyder of Sheridan after both tied at 24. Tolson led handicap at 50 birds with 49 while Elliott and Pease each shot 48.
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Ted Renfro
Dell
Butte
Anaconda
Renfro
Otto Schultz
Sheridan
Joe Lattimer
W. R. Wilcoxson
Great Falls
Tolson
Bert Poore
Otto Schulz
Fourth Oklahoma family member shot to death
The fourth member of an Oklahoma family was found shot to death in a corn field near the scene where the 10-year-old daughter Abbie was found earlier. A 16-year-old bride and 15-year-old son Orville were later found in a path to the field. Sheriff Will Anderson and County Attorney W. E. Gotcher pursue the case amid whiskey fabrication and livestock larceny charges against Jackson.
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Abbie
Tuskahoma
Orville
Will Anderson
Pittsburg
W. E. Gotcher
Jackson
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IZE
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Mt. Washington
Wickes
Basin
Mont
Steele Street
Park Street
Dolman Addition
West Park Street
McKinley School
Quathean Grods
Call of Hawaii
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Harry W. Lyon
Hawaiis
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Enderbury
Phoenix Group
Fiji Island
Associated Presse
T. H
Khab
Pennant Hills
Amalgamated Wireless
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America
Oklahoma
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