U S Aviators Complete Last Perilous Atlantic Gap Flight
American army flyers Lieut Lowell H Smith and Lieut Erik Nelson completed the first continuous aerial circumnavigation excluding North America. From Ivigtut they crossed to Lee Tickle Greenland to Labrador, sealing a perilous North Atlantic leg with help from mechanicians Lieut John Harding Jr. and Lieut Leslie P Arnold as Navy ships guarded the route.
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Greenland
Labrador
Earth
North American
North America
Ivigtut
Lone Tickle
North Atlantic
Iceland-Greenland
Atlantic Ocean
Nine men linked to klan jailed after Herrin clashes
In Herrin Illinois nine men alleged to be Ku Klux Klan members were moved to Saline county jail in Harrisburg. Crowds gathered and deputies protected the prisoners as National Guardsmen escorted them from Herrin where disturbances left six dead and another critically wounded. Sheriff John Small mobilized deputies to deter clan violence while authorities warned of possible retaliation.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Saline County
Herrin
John Small
Hos A
National
Peace Assembly Opens With World War Fear Easing
In Geneva the fifth League of Nations assembly opens amid unprecedented public interest. Delegates and citizens from scores of nations, including the United States, bring messages urging real progress toward binding accords to avert future wars.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Versailles
League of Nations
United States
Northwestern wheat to rise as 1924 crop predicted
Eugene Meyer Jr of the War Finance Corporation says the Northwest will end the year with improved farm conditions due to forecasted wheat increases in North Dakota South Dakota and Montana. He notes higher prices and yields per acre lowering cost per bushel with broader markets and possible cattle buying revival.
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Associated Press
Washington
Eugene Meyer Jr
War Finance Corporation
South
Cmp
Roorthwest
Meyer
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Northwest
Transfer officer attacked by vets at Oregon hospital
Dr C M Ney receiving officer at the United States Veterans Hospital was accused by the American Legion of hostility to disabled men. He said orders to transfer him to Fort Bayard New Mexico came on his own motion.
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Associated Press
Maees Ore
C. M. Ney
United States Veterans’ Hospital
American Legion
Fort Bayard
N. M
Tinney
Davis Turns to the West as First Major Battle Ground
John W. Davis begins a three week campaign tour turning west as the first major battle ground. He stops in Wheeling West Virginia and Omaha Nebraska with addresses planned in Denver and Lincoln before returning to New York. He travels by special train with an amplifier on his car and meets labor leaders in Wheeling.
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Associated Press
New York
John W. Davis
Wheeing
W. Va
Denver
Colo
Democratic Standard
Grafton
Wheeling
Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
Ohio
Indiana
Chicago
Far West
Omaha
Neb
Mr. Davis
Charles W. Bryan
Lincoln
Klan Issue Creates Strain for Both Parties in 1924 Politics
Washington observers say Davis and Dawes may have shifted the Ku Klux Klan from public campaign obscurity to a debated issue. While Davis allies hope the topic fades into the background, critics warn the timing and local pressure could taint his reputation as a decisive debater and expose him to factional demands.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Davis
Dawes
Davia
Davis says Bryan stance on defense day not to affect campaign
On the Davis special train to Wheeling John W. Davis declines to comment on a letter from Mrs Clem L Shaver wife of the Democratic chairman urging Charles W Bryan to back the party line on National Defense Day. Davis endorses the running mate stance and calls for national focus on economic restoration.
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Davis
Philadelphia
Wheeling
W. VA
John W. Davis
Clem L. Shaver
Charles W. Bryan
Nations
Bryan
Young Seeks 20 Million Gold Marks Payment from Germany
Paris report states Owen D. Young, agent-general for reparations, will receive 20,000,000 gold marks on Tuesday as part of the September 83,000,000 mark allocation. Berlin opening tomorrow, with subsequent payments by Germany and allied governments to cover Ruhr proceeds and hoped totals.
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Associated Press
Paris
Owen D. Young
New York
London
Young
Berlin
Mr. Young
Ruhr
Germany
Germany hinges reparations on American capital flow
Dr Edmund Stinnes told the Associated Press that Germany’s Dawes plan creditability depends on American capital invested in German firms. He warned lack of capital limits German industry to under 60 percent of normal capacity and said exports must feed 20,009,000 workers while paying interest and amortization on foreign loans.
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Berlin
Germany
Associated Press
Edmund Stinnes
Hugo Stinnes
Stinnes
Danish Scientist to Study Eskimos in Alaska
Knud Rasmussen, the Danish scientist and explorer, arrived in Nome with two Greenland Eskimos and plans to charter four small schooners to journey to Basel Cape across Bering Strait from Cape Prince of Wales. He aims to study Baltimos in that region and expects to return to Nome by fall to catch the last steamship to Beattie. After a US tour he will go to Denmark.
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Associated Press
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Alaska
Knud Rasmussen
Basel Cape
Aecross Bering Strait
Cape Prince of Wales
Neme Tbhia
Beattie
United States
Denmark
Rasmussen
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Bering Sea
Arctic
No Armistice Sought Then. Navies Maneuver Toward Shanghai
Washington dispatches report Admiral Thomas Washington ordered three destroyers Tracy Borie and Smith Thompson and gunboat Sacramento to Amoy and Shanghai as a precaution amid war threats between Chi Yuan and La Yung. The move follows requests from American officials in Peking and may prompt wider naval actions at Shanghai and nearby ports.
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Associated Press
Washington
Shanghai
Sacramento
Amoy
China
Thomas Washington
Atlantic Fleet
Navy Department
Tracy, Borie
Smith Thompson
Chi Yuan
la Yung
Peking
Armistice talks fail as Shanghai tensions rise
Troop concentrations increase in Quingan and Soochow districts while refugees flood into Shanghai. Foreign naval forces under Admiral Anderson assume control of all foreign warships in Shanghai harbor, including American, British, Japanese units. Rear Admiral McVay states no more ships will be sent, deeming the flotilla sufficient.
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Soochow
David Murray Anderson
Woosung
Yan River
Yungchien
Kienkang
Liuho
Nanking
Kien
Kiangeu
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Iiuho
Pingwan
Yithein
Cheklang
Tiuho
Hwangtu
Teingpuhsein
Taihu Lake
Charles B. McVay Jr
Hawaiian Girl Bride of Naval Officer
Lieut Charlies Butler McVay II U S N married Kinau Wilder in Honolulu. McVay is son of Rear Admiral C B McVay Jr and head of the U S naval patrol on the Yangtze. Kinau Wilder comes from the prominent Wilder family of Hawaii dating to 1860s.
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Charlies Butler McVay II
U. 8 N
Kinau Wilder
Hawaii
McVay
C. B. McVay
United States Naval Patrol
Yan River
China
James Austin Wilder
Honolulu
G. G. Wilder
Kalakaua
Stabbed man improves after quarrel over former wife
In Carper Wyoming on September 1 Doyle Holt 27 stabbed 74 year old T C Mitchell following a quarrel about remarks Mitchell made concerning his divorced wife. Mitchell's condition was described as much improved at a local hospital though not yet out of danger.
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Carper
Wyo
T.C. Mitchell
Doyle Holt
Mitchell
Montana Girl Dies in Gas Filled Room
Ruth V. Steadman of Livingston Montana, a UC Berkeley senior, was found dead in a gas filled room at a boarding house in Berkeley. Police and doctors have not determined if suicide or accident. An unfinished letter to her mother describing trouble sleeping was found.
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Berkelely
Cal
Ruth V. Steadman
Livingston
Mont
University of California
A.L. Breadhman
Feat of Aviators Parallels Magellan World Trip
The United States army air service round the world flyers arrived on the Atlantic coast of North America marking a historic flight that completes a near circumnavigation in heavier than air craft. Major General praised the feat as paralleling Magellan's 1569 global voyage.
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United States Army Air Service
Globe
Army Air Service
Magellan
Ice-Bound Vessel May Break Loose In Arctic Drift
The Hudson's Bay schooner Lady Kindersley, stuck in a drifting ice pack off Alaska, has moved 80 feet through ice and has 700 feet of solid ice to cut. The U S Boxer, escorting from the U S 8, has made progress and is within five miles of the Kindersley, giving a fair chance the vessel will escape the ice pack.
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Associated Prews
U. S
Arctic
Alaska
Hudson's Bay Company
Lady Kindersley
Ince
Boxer
Tee
Great Flood Tide of Revival Urged by Presbyterian Leader
Denver Aug 41 Rev Clarence B E Macartney of Philadelphia urged a revival of the facts of the gospel at a joint Denver Presbyterian service. He warned secular influences threaten to turn churches into clubs, urging belief in the virgin birth, atonement, resurrection and second coming as the core of Christian faith. He called for a floodtide of revival and bold proclamation of gospel facts to redeem a lost world.
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Denver
Col
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Philadelphia
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United States of America
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