Trans-Atlantic flight attempt ends with rescue at sea
Polish aviators Captain Frank T. Courtney and three companions were rescued by the liner Minnewaska after a forced down en route from the Azores to Newfoundland. The four men rode out 12 hours at sea before rescue and are aboard bound for New York, docking Monday.
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New York
U.P
Frank T. Courtney
Atlantic Transport Line
Minnewaska
Azores
Newfoundland
Courtney
Horta
Radio Marine Corporation
Commander de Pinedo
Santa Maria II
United States
Corunna
Spain
Plane crash survivor Courtney rescued at sea in flames
Captain Frank T. Courtney, trans Atlantic flyer, recounts to the Star that his plane caught fire at midnight at 1,500 feet and burned on a rough sea before being rescued by the U S Minnewaska. The Cedric's commander told the Evening News the plane was abandoned as crew boarded the rescue ship.
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London
U.R
Frank T. Courtney
U. S. Minewaska
Star
Evening News
White Star
Cedric
Courtney
Sudden Landing of Dornier-Napier Craft
Courtney and three crew members aboard the Dornier-Napier machine were rescued after an in-flight emergency. British papers reported the plane caught fire at about 1,500 feet and was driven into the sea in flames. all four men are reported well. A Radio Marine message from the Minnewaska’s commander confirmed the rescue of Courtney and his crew.
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Courtney
E. H. Hosmer
Fred Pierce
E. W. Gilmour
Radio Marine Corporation
Minnewaska
Protests Grow Over Pennsy Plan to Cut Two Trains
More protests reached the utilities commission against the Pennsylvania railroad plan to remove two trains from service between Lancaster and Cincinnati. The latest complaints came from hundreds of Clinton County residents.
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Columbus
U.2
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lancaster
Cincinnati
The
Utilities Commission
Clinton County
Smith Rejects McNary Haugen Relief Plan
New York August 3 Gov Alfred E Smith said the McNary Haugen bill is not acceptable as relief. He supports farm relief that taxes marketing surpluses, aligning with the bill's equalization idea, but opposes tying relief to McNary Haugen. He argues the measure clashes with the Democratic platform and will pursue a separate relief plan.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Houston
Police Probe Death of Detective Walter Abell
Cleveland police investigate the death of Nickle Plate railroad detective Walter M. Abell whose body was found along the right of way. A taxi driver said two men fled the scene and detectives think he may have been hurled into a passing train.
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Cleveland
U.P
Walter M. Abel
Nickle Plate Railroad
Nickle Plate
Abell
Merritt Family Welcomes First Girl After 300 Years
Norma Jean Merritt, born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Merritt of Toledo, ends a 300 year male line in the Merritt family. The baby weighs nine pounds with a full head of hair. Her great grandmother, Anna Merritt of Pandora, holds the family Bible entry noting no Merritt girl birth since the Americas settlement and vows to record this historic birth. Norma Jean is Irish on her mother’s side and French on her father’s. A Labor Day reunion in Findlay, Ohio, will honor the newborn.
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Merritt
NEA Service
Toledo
Norma Jean Merritt
Norma Jean
Merritts
Paris
America
Anna Merritt
Pandora, .O
Findlay, O
Glass shatters in Chauncey home injuring youth
Chauncey Aug 3. Glass from a broken goldfish bowl cut Raymond Six 19 as a shot pierced the living room window and blind. Sheriff Williams reports family troubles suspected. Raymond was nearby when the shot entered. Mrs Six has been separated from her husband.
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Chauncey
Lucy Six
Upper
Raymond Six
William Williams
Six
Cleveland
Williams
Senator-elect Williams Ware Improves Condition
A bulletin reported that Senator-elect Williams Ware showed improved health today in Atlantic City New Jersey as of August 3.
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Atlantic City
N. J
U.P
Williams
Ware
Heeney Weds Marion Dunn in Port Washington Ceremony
New Zealand boxer Tom Heeney, who challenged Gene Tunney for the heavyweight title last week, married Miss Marion Dunn of Port Washington Long Island late last night in HeeneY Marries Ladentown N Y brief.
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Heeney
Ladentown
N. Y
Tom Heeney
New Zealand
Gene Tunner
Marion Dunn
Port Washington
Long Island
Lightning strikes corner church near Amesville
Lightning hit a corner of the Federal Valley church two miles west of Amesville on Trimble road during a heavy storm. No one was nearby. Herman Carpenter saw smoke and alerted railroad section men who used creek water to extinguish a smoldering blaze with minimal damage.
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Amesville
Federal Valley
Here
Trimble Road
Herman Carpenter
Carpenter
Polish fliers start audacious nonstop Paris to New York attempt
Louis Idzikowski and Casimir Kubala, two veteran Polish airmen, began a dawn launch from Le Bourget in an Amiot biplane named the Marshal Pilsudski aiming for a nonstop flight to New York. They carried 40 litres of provisions and letters, with no radio, guided only by ships expected to sight them.
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LE Bourget Field
Paris
Atlantic
Louis Idzikowski
Casimir Kubala
Amiot
le Bourget
New York
Marshal Pilsudski
L’orient
Azores
United States
Idzikowski
Kubala
Doctor Louis Leroy Abandons Mississippi Run After Log Collision
Dr Louis Leroy driving his speed boat Bogie on the Mississippi from New Orleans toward St Louis struck a log 30 miles below Chester Illinois and was forced to abandon his attempt to beat the Robert E Lee record.
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Chester
Ill
Louis Leroy
Mississippi River
New Orleans
St. Louis
Robert E. Lee
Highest Hocking River flood in Chauncey history
Forty three years ago on August 3 1885 the Hocking River reached its record high level in Chauncey according to George Harvey Nye. The flood flooded the town’s lower end up to the Luckoff store site, marking the highest flood known at that time.
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Chauncey
Hocking
George Harvey Nye
Moore to be held responsible for endorsing Cooper ballots
Columbus Aug 3 U P Dr E J Moore superintendent of the Anti Saloon league will be held personally responsible for sending out sample ballots endorsing Myers Cooper of Cincinnati for the Republican gubernatorial nomination C L Dickey league treasurer said Moore and Freeman L Dustman editor of the American Issue were openly supporting Cooper contrary to the policy committee ruling that Begg of Sandusky and Cooper receive equal endorsement Edward C Turner was rejected by the league as a wet
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Columbus
U.P
E. J. Moore
Anti-Saloon League
Myers Y. Cooper
Cincinnati
C. L. Dickey
League
Dickey
Moore J
Freeman L. Dustman
Cooper
James T. Begg
Sandusky
E. R. Root
Medina
Moore
Dustman
Begg
Wayne B. Wheeler
Congress
Brack
Edward C. Turner
Ohio urged to buy and burn Ohio coal campaign
The Ohio coal bureau based in Cleveland asked mayors across Ohio to promote buying and burning Ohio coal. The move follows failed wage talks between miners and operators and urges residents to support the industry to reduce idle miners and help the state meet demand.
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Ohio
Columbus
U.R
Ohio Coal Bureau
Cleveland
J. L. Good
Ohio coal conference ends without wage deal
A joint conference of miners and operators in Ohio adjourned without a mutually satisfactory wage scale after sixteen months of idleness. Leaders warned little chance of future talks, while Illinois officials anticipated no similar disruption as unions consider further actions.
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Columbus
Ohio
William Haskins
Coshocton
Central Ohio Operators’ Association
Ohio Operators’ Association
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio Union
Lee Hall
Ohio Mine Workers Union
Mr. Haskins
Little Hope Fort l
Chicago
Harry Fishwick
United Mine Workers of Illinois
Nails scattered along roads to Sunday Creek mines
Deputy Sheriff reports nails spread on roads to Mine No. 10 and Mine No. 281 causing tire punctures for workmen. Seventeen cars outside Mine No. 10 were sidelined, some with multiple punctures. Investigators pursue leads, including a claim that local girls spread the tacks. railroad detectives monitor a daily labor train route amid dynamite rumors.
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Sunday Creek Coal Company
Pete McKinley
William Williams
Ohio Collieries Company
McKinley
New York Central Railroad Company
Glouster
Sunday Creek Valley
Two Hours to Await Execution for Clifford Thompson
Clifford Thompson was granted a two hour reprieve after his wife confessed she and her lover planned the murder. If not extended, the condemned man faces the electric chair at 2 p.m. Jim Moss, an accomplice, received the same delay.
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Atlanta
U.P
Clifford Thompson
Hardman
Thompson
Jim Moss
Ohio Shorthand Reporters Hold Two Day Joint Convention
Registration and business session opened a two day joint convention of the Ohio and West Virginia shorthand reporters associations in Columbus. Elsie M. Canby of Xenia Ohio served as president and addressed the morning session.
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Columbus
UPR
Ohio Shorthand Reporters Association
Ohio
West Virginia
Elsie M. Canby
Xenia
Doctor Freese Performs Emergency Appendectomy in Athens
Dr E M Freese of Grant hospital Columbus rushed to Sheltering Arms hospital Athens after an emergency call. He operated successfully to remove Emmett Scott’s appendix at Sheltering Arms. plane from Norton Field piloted by Fred Davis landed amid a storm near Athens waterworks before flying back to Columbus. Scott’s condition reported as good.
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Annswer
E. M. Freese
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Athens
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Emmett Scott
Pomeroy
Freese
J.S. McCullough
Norton Field
Fred Davis
Colum
Ino Scott
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Glass
Dawn
Ralph Heinzen
United Press
Les. Bourget
Chartres
Hocking River
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Haskins
W. C. Hudson
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