World Trip of Magellan Parallels Airmen’s Ocean Crossing
A historical overview recalls the first around the world flight by U S Army Air Service aviators. Major Fred L Martin and crew endure Arctic storms, tropical rains, crashes, and engine failures from Santa Monica to Tokyo. Lieut Smith later leads the remaining planes via Asia to Europe and beyond, completing the oceanside milestone despite delays and hazards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Pacific
Far East
Alaskan
North American
Pacific
India
Komandorski
Russia
Pacoast
Martin
Paris
Patrick
A. Stuart MacLaren
Southampton
United States
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Washington
War Weeks
Congress
Russell L. Maughan
Weeks
Cloverfield
Santa Monica
Cal
Seattle
Fred L. Martin
Alva Harvey
Chicago
Lowell H. Smith
Leslie P. Arno
Boston
Leigh Wade
Henry H. Ogden
New Orleans
Erik H. Nelson
John Harding Jr
Sacramento
Eugene
Ore
Vancouver
Wash
Prince Rupert
B. C
Alaska
Sitka
Seward
Chignik
Cape Igvak
Smith
Wade
Nelson
Dutch Harbor
Atka Island
Attu Island
Kashiwabara Bay
Paramashiro Island
Japan
Paramashiro
Yotorofu
Minato
Kasumigaura
Tokio
Kashimoto
Kagoshima
Nippon
United States Army
China Sea
Shanghai
Amoy
Hongkong
Haipong
Tourane
Equator
Saigon
Bangkok
Siam
Rangoon
Burma
Akyab
Calcutta
Politicians Face Pressure Over Klan Mention in Campaign
The piece examines how both major parties grapple with whether to name the Ku Klux Klan in public, noting Democratic leaders push for clear stance while Coolidge and Dawes offer varying approaches. It discusses fears the klan issue could dominate the campaign and shift attention from other issues.
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Burchard
Dr. Burchard
James G. Blaine
New York
New Jersey
East
Davis
Bryan
Ku Klux Klan
Coolidge
Dawes
Republican Party
New York Herald Tribune News Service
Herrin Violence Flares as Ku Klux Clash Spreads
Herrin Illinois reports a grave, unsettled night amid Ku Klux Klan and anti Klan clashes. Nine men were imprisoned including Thomas Thornton Sam Childers Clarence Wyatt John White Gordon Smith and Carl Neilson while Glenn Young and a Herrin garage owner were held. Six people are dead and fear of further violence grows as Adjt. Gen. Black arrives to plan troop withdrawal.
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Herrin
Thomas Thornton
Sam Childers
Clarence Wyatt
John White
Glenn Young
Marion
Gordon Smith
Carl Neilson
Herrin Ku Klux Klan
John Crompton
Galligan
Childers
Harrisburg
Williamson County
Hurst
Here
Harry Walker
John Ford
Nurober
Adjt
Carlos Black
Springfield
Maj
R. W. Davis
Herrin Toll as Violence Ends with Six Die War Report
After a noon street battle in Herrin six men were killed and a seventh critically wounded. National Guards were rushed from Carbondale to prevent further clashes between Ku Klux Klan and anti Klan factions. Deputy Sheriff J P Allison and two Klansmen Dewey Newbolt Green Dunning Charles Willard among the dead. Carl Shelton and Earl Shelton wounded. two arrests made J T Black and Claude Craig.
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Herrin
Carbondale
Dewey Newbolt
Green Dunning
Charles Willard
Otto Roland
J. P
Bud” Allison
Herman Phemister
Chester Reid
Carl Shelton
Earl
Caesar Cagle
Ora Thomas
J. T. Black
Claude Craig
Black
Reid
Craig
Blood and arrests in Herrin Marion clashes erupt over warrants
Sheriff's account describes a gun battle at J H Smith garage that left six men dead and prompted murder charges against the Shelton brothers to be dismissed. Troops stationed in Herrin and Marion faced warnings to return home as both sides arm for further violence amid a tense post clash atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maj
R. W. Davis
Carlos T. Black
Black
Davis
Herrin
Marion
Salem
O. J. MacMackin
George Galligan
J. H. Smith
Delos
S. Glenn Young
Okanville, Ill
Galligan
Dewey Newhbolt
Shelton Brothers
Carl
Earl
Caesar Cagle
Michigan to test new telescope then ship to South Africa
After 13 years UM holds a 27 inch refracting telescope now assembled for use late this year. The instrument will be dismantled and shipped to South Africa for 8 to 10 years of southern sky study by university astronomers. Only three US refractors exceed 27 inches in diameter. delays arose from difficulty obtaining large lens glass. The main piece arrived from Germany. McDowell shop in Pittsburg polished it until his death in 1923.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
South Africa
United States
Germany
Robert R. McDowell
Pittsburg
McDowell
Beauty Against Crime Latest Idea London
Scotland Yard expects more criminals caught as a new women police force opens recruitment. The CID hopes bobbed-haired, stylish detectives will outwit jewel thieves and dope traffickers who have evaded male detectives. Attendance at last year’s world series ball games was 303 430.
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London
Wowan
Scotland Yard
Criminal Investigation Department
Aviators Reach American Shores
Aviators have arrived off American shores after a North Atlantic flight from the convoy routes near Ice Tickle and White Cockade island. The Lawrence guard ship assisted the planes as they prepared to refuel and head 40 miles south to Cartwright bay for the next takeoff with brief stops planned at Hawk bay and Pictou Harbor.
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India
Allahabad
Umbella
Multan
Karachi
Charbar
Persia
Bender Abbas
Bushire
Bagdad
Aleppo
Syria
Constantinople
Vienna
Bucharest
Budapest
Paris
London
Atlantic
North American
Hull
England
Kirkwall
Orkney Islands
Thorshavn
Faroe Islands
Hornafjord
Iceland
Reykjavik
Angmagsalik
Greenland
Ivietut
Indian Harbor
Labrador
Cartwright Harbor
Hawkes Bay
Newfoundland
Pictou Harbor
Nova Scotia
United States
Maine
Boston
Mitchelfield
Washington
Air Service
Cloverfield
Cal
Moundsville
W. Va
Dayton
Ohio
Sacramento
Walsh
Lawrence
Rodney Mundy Hills
White Cockade Island
North Atlantic
Milwaukee
Coghlan
Charles Ausburn
Cartwright Bay
Hawk Bay
World flight heroes reach Ice Tickles Labrador in triumph
President Coolidge and Dwight F. Davis credit the circumnavigation for national pride and military honor. Messages praise the aviators courage and skill as they head toward Boston and eventually Seattle, with official records to include these communications.
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Washington
Coolidge
Ice Tickle
Labrador
United States
Dwight F. Davis
Smith
War Department
Air Service
World Flight
Davis
Army
Boston
Seattle
Wash
North American
Prince of Wales Enjoys Active Long Island Holiday
The Prince of Wales spent his first vacation day on Long Island as an English gentleman with an active schedule. He rode polo for about two hours with eight ponies and then undertook a lengthy motor tour of the area around Syosset and nearby towns.
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Syosset
N. Y
Prince of Wales
Long Island
Wheeler to plead by counsel tomorrow in Montana case
Senator B. K. Wheeler of Montana will plead not guilty through counsel before United States District Judge George M. Bourquin in Great Falls to an April indictment. Counsel S. C. Ford said the hearing would be routine and likely set for the September calendar. Gordon Campbell, an Montana oil operator named in the same indictment, will appear with Wheeler tomorrow.
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Great Falls
B. K. Wheeler
Montana
United States District
George M. Bourquin
Neat Falls
S. C. Ford
Helena
Wheeler
Senate
Ford
Gordon Campbell
Bourquin
Coal boxes deliver small fuel supply in stores
London physicians use phonograph records of voices to detect certain nervous diseases.
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London
American Cement Reaches Venezuelan Harbor By The Thousand
The roads of Venezuela are being paved with American cement and nearly every incoming vessel to the La Guiara harbor carries about 1,000 barrels of it.
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Venezuela
la Guiara
Funeral for John J. McHale Held at Sacred Heart
The funeral for John J. McHale aged 42 will be held at Gosselin and Harkins funeral parlors Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart church at 9 30. Interment follows in Holy Cross cemetery.
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Corgiat
Peter Corgiat
Harry J. Anderson
South Dakota Street
St. Ann's Church
Holy Cross Cemeery
Faroni
Matte Street
Meaderville
St. Helena’s Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
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Alaska Peninsula
Othing
Army Air
Unalaska Island
Harvey
Kanatak
Port Moller Bay
Major Martin
Cochin
China
Delhi
Nlan
Trouble
Harri Ann Arbor
Beauty Against Crime
U. S. Army
Leon Friedman
Leon
Case
Senator
Undertakers
Daly-Shea Company
Park Street
Gosselin & Harkins
Cassidy & Gorertia
Eer
Embaimerie
Sam R. White
Embalmere 120
Se Street
Zietzke
Florence Henretta Zietzke
Emiel Zietzke
Piedmont
Richards
Joseph Richards, Inc
Richards & Wade
Montana Street
Sherman & Reed Service
Shermas 4&4 Reed Organization
Broadway
Arizona
M. J. Walsh CO
Puneral
Embalmers
West Park Street
Larry Duggan
North Main Street
Phene
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