Berlin honors Levine and Chamberlin at American club event
Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine were guests of honor at a Berlin party hosted by the American club at the Adlon hotel. They toured Ro h(rb)ach and Siemens-Halske plants and Albatros works, where Chamberlin noted Germany's aviation progress despite treaty limits. Levine said he could invest 2 million dollars to develop regular trans Atlantic service within a year with Paris or London as westbound terminals.
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Berlin
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charlies A. Levine
Hotel
Adlon
Germany
Europe
Stressmann
Geneva
Monady
Council of
League of Nations
Jacob G Schurman
Berlin Rathaus
Rohrbach
Siemens-Haleke
Albatros
Chamberlin
Lucly
Columbia
Plante
Schurman
Rathaus
Boetts
Tempelhofer Air Field
Columbiastrasse
Ambassador Schurman
Charles A. Levine
Thea Rasche
Herlin
Fraulein Rasch
Munich
Essen
Ekilly
Speel
Lindbergh Welcomed Home On Transatlantic Flight
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh arrives at Virginia Capes aboard the Memphis after a 3,337 mile record run from Cherbourg in about six days and five hours. He heads to Washington for a formal reception and the Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross from President Coolidge.
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Memphis
Lindbergh
Virginia Capes
Europe
Uncle Sam
Cherbourg
Capes
Washington
Benjamin Mahoney
Admiral Burrage
Government Air Mail Service
U S Loses Tax On Sage Estate
New York June 10 The government lost 31 500 000 in income taxes on the estate of Mrs Margaret Olivia Sage widow of Russell Sage and 35 charitable religious and educational institutions benefited under a circuit court of appeals decision The estate valued at 48 939 045 left to institutions but settlement of debts delayed distribution and executors paid the tax under protest seeking recovery that beneficiaries were tax exempt institutions.
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New York
Margaret Olivia Sage
Russell Sage
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Code Of Morals For Bathers Drawn Up In Genoa
A Diocesan morality committee in Genoa drafts a bathing code guiding Italian resorts for the season. It forbids bathing without clothing in secluded spots and bans flirting, skimpy suits, profane language, and leaving beaches in a bathing suit or wrap.
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Rome
Genoa
Kentucky Flood Sufferers Busy in Eastern Mountains
Fleming Kentucky June 10 Residents of Letcher county burying dead after a cloudburst flood. Losses include 21 confirmed deaths, 100 homes destroyed, 700 homeless. aid workers rush to shield against typhoid as coal mines resume. Clothing bedding and food shipments flow to Hazard Lothair Jeff and others.
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Fleming
Letcher County
Kentucky
Ed Cross
Hazard
Lothair
Jeff
Ohio Miners Urged to Form Separate Union Over Wage Scale
S H Robbins president of the Ohio Coal Operators association urged Ohio miners to secede from the United Mine Workers if their leaders refuse a competitive wage scale. He said reopening Ohio mines requires a $5.00 maximum inside day wage, criticizing the Jacksonville scale of $7.50 and noting most Ohio pits are shut since the agreement expired last April.
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Toledo
Ohio
S. H. Robbins
Ohio Coal Operators’ Association
United Mine Workers of America
Robbins
Interna National
United Mine Workers
Jacksonville
Reports Ferdinand Illness Denied by Bucharest Officials
June 10. Reports that King Ferdinand is seriously ill were denied as unfounded. The Associated Press says the sovereign receives guests at lunch daily and takes garden strolls. Former King George of Greece and Queen Elizabeth, Ferdinand’s daughter, left for Rome for a week’s absence.
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Bucharest
Ferdinand
Associated Press
George
Greece
Elizabeth
Rome
Los Angeles Dirigible Delayed by Winds at Hangar
LA ready to greet Colonel Lindbergh is delayed as the giant airship Los Angeles remains in its hangar near Lakehurst New Jersey. Winds up to twenty miles per hour hinder ground crew and push back the flight planned for tonight.
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Los Angeles
Lakehurst
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Great Shed
Naval Air Station
Marinee
China
Mother to greet flier at White House visit
Mrs Evan geline Lindbergh arrived in Washington to give a motherly greeting to the celebrated young flier. She traveled from Detroit and reached Dupont Circle to meet the president and Mrs Coolidge. Her son is due to arrive in Washington tomorrow, as crowds gather elsewhere.
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Washington
Evangeline L. Lindbergh
Detroit
Baltimore
White House
Dupont Circle
Coolidge
Mazer Receives Reward for Testifying in Canton Murder Case
Canton Ohio June 10 Louis Mazer the first man indicted for the murder of Don R Mellett Canton editor last July today pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a five to twenty year sentence for turning state's evidence in Floyd Streitenberger trial. He avoided life imprisonment faced by Streitenberger Patrick McDermott and Ben Rudner. Next Monday eightysix year old former Canton police chief H A Lengel will enter a first degree murder plea in the Mellett case with trial likely starting July 11.
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Canton
Ohio
Louis Mazer
Don R. Mellett
Today
Floyd E. Streitenberger
Mazer
Streitenberger
Patrick McDermott
Ben Rudner
Hughes Named Naval Operations Chief in U S Navy
Washington June 10 Admiral Charles F Hughes commander in chief of the United States fleet was appointed chief of naval operations effective November 14 succeeding Admiral K W Koerle. Secretary Wilbur announced other high command changes including Admiral Eberle as chairman of the navy general board and Rear Admiral Hilary P Jones retiring November 14.
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Washington
Charles F. Hughes
United States Fleet
Naval Operations
K. W. Koerle
Wilbur
Eberle
Navy General Board
Hilary P. Jones
Armed Bank Robbery Near Leslie Arkansas
Four armed men robbed the American Exchange Bank at Leslie Arkansas and fled into a nearby wood about two miles from Leslie. Authorities reported the suspects were believed surrounded that night. The loot was estimated between 4000 and 6000 dollars.
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Bank Marshall
Ark
American Exchange Bank Bank
Leslie
Coolidge warns against rising government expenditures
President Coolidge told cabinet officials at a budget meeting in Washington that the 1929 surplus, projected at 599 million dollars, cannot be fully turned into tax cuts. He urged holding expenditures near present levels, noted temporary revenue items, and stressed long term revenue from permanent sources.
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Coolidge
Washington
Treasury
Wemorial Centennial Hall
Congress
Coal Company Delays Miner Evictions in Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation will pause eviction actions against union miners occupying company houses while courts hear appeals from earlier cases. The decision was reached by company counsel and the United Mine Workers as the dispute continues.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation
United Mine Workers
Explorers On Way Home From Arctic Expedition
Fairbanks Alaska June 10 George H Wilkinson explorer and the entire Detroit News Arctic expeditions personnel left here today for the States
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Fairbanks
Alaska
George H. Wilkinson
Detroit News
States
Lindbergh Shy at Welcome Aboard Memphis Visit
Fifty newspapermen and photographers aboard the destroyer Goff greet Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh 35 miles off Henry as he visits the Memphis. Lindbergh waves from the bridge hatless, with unruly hair, and casts a wary, boyish grin at the cheering crowd while seeming eager to slip away.
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Norfolk
Goff
Charles A. Lindbergh
Memphis
Henry
Lindbergh
Brothers Taken Back for Trial in Oregon Murder Case
Ray and Roy DeAutremont, 27 year old twins, were arraigned on mail robbery charges in Steubenville Ohio and held on 50000 dollar bonds each. They will be transported to Columbus and then turned over to Oregon authorities for murder charges tied to a 1923 mail car bombing that killed four near Siskiyou Oregon. Their younger brother Hugh faces trial for murder in Jacksonville Oregon as the family story unfolds with a farewell between Ray and his wife Hazel in court.
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Oregon
Southern Pacific
Siskiyou
Ore
Hugh
Jacksonville
Ray de Autremont
Elmer Goodwin
Hazel
Ray
Steubenville
Hanging Rock
Ohio
Kentucky
Clarence
Lawrence County
Hazel Sprouse
Pine Grove
Roy
Convicted Mem Dies in Electric Chair in Ohio
John Hickman and George Vargo were electrocuted at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus. Hickman died at 9 07 p m and Vargo at 9 17 p m Neither showed emotion. Hickman had killed Daniel Garrett a Chillicothe policeman and Vargo killed his landlady Mrs Katherine Sabo over boarding house fare. Last minute clemency appeals failed.
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Columbus. C
John Hickman
George Vargo
Ohio
Hickman
Vargo
Daniel Garrett
Chillicothe. O
Clemency Board
French Troops Withdrawn From Saar Region
In Sarrebruck on June 10 French forces stationed in the Saar valley under Versailles arrangements were withdrawn. Per League of Nations action announced March 12, they will be replaced by an international protection force including British and Belgian soldiers.
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Sarrebruck
Sarre Valley
Council of the
League of Nations
Lawmakers oppose tax rise for West Virginia railroads
McDowell County officers report a mail bandit may have visited in January or February. Telegraphed inquiries to Steubenville shed light on whereabouts, but the reports are largely discredited. The piece notes lawmakers oppose a railroad tax increase in West Virginia.
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de Autremont
Kimball
McDowell County
Steubenville
Execution of 20 counter-revolutionaries shocks Russian nobility
Moscow reports detail the execution of 20 persons accused of counter revolutionary activity. The event alarmed former nobles and ex officers, with police wagons guarding key institutions and guards present. A British inquiry notes George Riley not among the executed. Officials claim the sentences aim to terrorize and deter outside threats, while Britain denounces Soviet claims.
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Moscow
Russia
Soviet Union
Union
United States
George Sidney Riley
Royal Flying Crops
Riley
Pierre Volkoff
Warsaw
Leningrad
Minsk
M. Evreinoff
Soviet State Bank
Robert M. Hodson
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
All But One Gore Appointments Approved by West Virginia Senate
The West Virginia Senate confirmed most of Governor Gore’s appointments after a closed session, with Dr. M. D. Cure rejected as Weston State Hospital head. Others named included C. L. Heatherlin for state compensation and Dr. L. M. Robinson as penitentiary warden, plus reappointments to Road Commission and university boards. Capitol financing proposals dominated debate, proposing a five cent direct levy or increased public utility taxes to fund construction, but faced opposition and were carried over for further action.
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Charleston
W. Va
Gore
State Senate
Eenate
M. D. Cure
Weston State Hospital
Senate
House
C. L. Heatherlin
Beckley
State Compensation Commission
L. M. Robinson
C. P. Fortney
Road Commission
W. T. Henshaw
James&. Lakin
State Board of Control
West Virginia University
Arsa
Harvey Mareh
Parkersburg
S Wade Coffman
Public Service Commission
Capitol
House of Delegates
Finance Committee
Hall
Mingo
Gay
Logan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Heaberlin
Robinson
Committee
Aaa
Barker Reappointed To Lead Alderson Board Of Advisers
President Coolidge reappoints Dr Lewellyn F Barker to head the board of advisers of Federal Industrial Institutions of Women at Alderson West Virginia in a June 10 statement. The move reinforces management of the women’s reform facility and its programs.
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Alderson Board
Washington
Coolidge
Lewellyn F. Barker
Board of Advisers
Federal Industrial Institutions of Women
Alderson
W. Ve
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Wolf
Charlies A. Lindbergh
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Chesapeake
Mother
Washington Navy Yard
Charlee A. l Andbergh
Bollingfield
Army’ Air Station
St. Louis
Governor’s Island
Newark
Anacostia
Hughes
Otto
Coal Company
Mem Die
Saar
London
Kremlin
Drggn
Weston Hospital
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