Spanish Aviators Lead Flight Over Atlantic Toward Azores
Four Spanish aviators led by Maj. Ramon Franco travel in a Dornier monoplane with two 600 horsepower Hispano Suiza engines. Departing from Alcázars near Cartagena, they report progress en route to the Azores and then New York as part of a roundabout plan to return to Spain within eight days.
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Cartagena
Spain
Azores
America
Ramon Franco
South Atlantic
Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza
Julio Ruiz de Alda
Pedro Madariaga
Alcazards Air Field
Fayal
Franco
New York
Halifax
N. S
Washington
Infante
Alfonso
Jiminez
Iglesias
Latin America
United States
Darshiel
Cape San Vincent
Portugal
Bridgeport
Snook 15 Held Without Bond In Murder Case
Columbus Ohio June 21 Dr James H Snook a 15 year old? No held without bond on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of Theora E Hix 24 year old Ohio State coed He confessed to hammering her unconscious and cutting her throat with a pen knife to relieve suffering The grand jury heard the full history of Snooks relation to Hix from her arrival at the veterinary clinic to the murder date His arraignment and trial date were expected later in the summer with a possible temporary insanity defense discussed by his lawyers
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Columbus
Ohio
Theora E. Hix
Ohio State
James H. Snook
John J. Chester
Svery
Dr. Snook
Mies Hix
Grand Jury
City
Snook
Six WV boys advance in Edison scholarship contest
Elimination exams reduced entrants from thirty four to six for the West Virginia Thomas A. Edison scholarship contest. Remaining competitors are Louis Cometti Beaver Bluefield Edward Morris Warwood Wheeling Harry Jackson St Albans Nelson Yeardley Parkersburg James Babb Philippi and Rowland Hansford Elking. They will have oral exams tomorrow to select the representative for the national contest.
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Charleston
W. V
West Virginia
Thomas A. Edison
Louis Cometti
Beaver High
Bluefield
Edward Morris
Warwood High
Wheeling
Harry Jackson
St. Albans High
Nelson Yeardley
Parkersburg High
James Babb
Philippi High
Rowland Hansford
Elking High
Charleston High School
F. J. Kaufman
Westwaco Chemical Company
T. C. McKinley
Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company
Frank Gilbert
Marshall College
R. Emerson Langfitt
Trans continental flight record challenge opens with Schoenhair Hawkes
Los Angeles hosts a race for the world long distance record as Lee Schoenhair and Captain Frank Hawkes prepare to fly from Los Angeles to New York and back. Each pilots Lockheed Vega monoplanes loaded for speed with high fuel and oil, with Schoenhair aiming for sub 18 hour 21 minute marks and Hawkes planning to beat his own west to east record next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Lee Schoenhair
Frank Hawkes
Schoenhair
Hawks
New York
Wright
Three Children Die In Ruffsdale Fire Tragedy
Mt. Pleasant Pa June 21 three children Helen 11 Willard 9 and Evelyn Wilkinson 9 months died after a kerosene stove fire caused by a child lighting it. The mother and two other children were burned and treated at a hospital then discharged. The blaze destroyed the Wilkinson home at Ruffsdale.
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Mt. Pleasant
Harry Wilkinson
Ruffadale
Helen
Willard
Evelyn Wilkinson
Mre. Wilkinson
Sewer Trench Cave-In Kills Three Boys in Anderson
Three boys aged 7 to 11 were buried alive by a cave-in in an open sewer trench in Anderson Indiana. The fatalities are Eugene Snyder 11 Frederick Walter Haney 7 and Charles William Jones 8. Acting coroner Harold Roselle said Haney likely died from crushing while the others suffocated.
Hays Granted Divorce Custody Of Son In Sullivan Circuit
Will H. Hays, a longtime figure in the motion picture industry and former postmaster general, has been granted a divorce from Helen Thomas Hays by Judge Arthur in the Sullivan circuit court. The petition filed last April cited incompatibility and separation. the wife did not appear. The couple, married in 1902, also shared a 14yearold son, William Harrison Hays Jr., who will be under his father’s custody.
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Sullivan Ind
Will H. Hays
Helen Thomas Hays
William Harrison Hays, Jr
Arthur Up
Sullivan Circuit Court
Hays
Harding
Motion Picture Producers’ and Distributorspierin
Mexican Church Trouble Ends in Mexico City
President Portes Gil announced a settlement ending the church dispute. The plan lets the Catholic hierarchy designate priests for registration, allows church based religious instruction, preserves church spiritual functions, and permits amendments to laws by church residents. Archbishop Ruiz issued a brief papal delegate statement.
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Portes Gil
Mexico City
Mexico
Roman Catholic Heirarchy
Ruiz
Ontario Probes Attack on Boat on Detroit River
Ontario officials investigate a suspected U S customs boat attack on a Canadian pleasure craft on the Detroit river with plans to protest to Ottawa. Deputy Commissioner Alfred E. Cuddy is to probe reports and potential prosecutions for rum running and cross border firing.
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Windsor
Ont
United States Customs Guard
Detroit River
Ontario
Alfred E. Cuddy
W. H. Price
Ottawa
United States
Cuddy
Customs Patrol
Canadian
Walter
Petty
Detroit
Canada
Dominion
Brookville
Ogdensburg
Prohibition Tensions Rise Over Falls Shooting
International Falls, Minn June 21 appeals to President Hoover for relief from prohibition enforcement fallout after border patrol agent killed Henry Virkkula a confectioner in Big Falls. The White House replies no law transgression intended the matter referred to the department. Senator Schall calls shooting terrible and urges measures to prevent repetition.
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International Falls
Minn
Hoover
White House
Henry Virkkula
Big Fall
Border Patrol
Thomas D. Schall
Schall
Virkkula
Subpoena Orders Testimony in Plattsburgh Shooting Case
John C. Tulloch the collector of customs was served with a subpoena to appear at a Plattsburgh hearing on the death of Arthur Gordon a 22 year old ace runner shot by a patrol in the border area Weldon J. Cheatham and F L Coveney border patrolmen are named as witnesses whose accounts are being sought in connection with the shooting
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Odensburg
John C. Tulloch
Plattsburgh
Arthur Gordon
Tuleloch
Herbert Shaver
Weldon J. Cheatham
F. L Coveney
Des Moines Graduates Face Diploma Exchange Option
Des Moines Iowa June 21 1929 graduates may keep the injunction diplomas issued June 3 or exchange them for proper legal certificates or diplomas via the board of trustees. The board nullified credits and diplomas issued by Dr H C Wayman and faculty who ran the school after May 11 riots. Judge F B Shankland said the board action means nothing unofficially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Des Moines University
Board of Trustees
H. C. Wayman
F. 8. Shankland
Edith Redman
Woodyard of Spencer Dies Suddenly at 61
Harry C. Woodyard a Spencer West Virginia newspaper publisher and former congressman died suddenly at his home from a heart attack. He had been in good health until yesterday when heat left him slightly ill but he recovered.
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Spencer
W. Va
Harry C. Woodyard
Endurance Mark Attempt Fails at Roosevelt Field
Viola Gentry and Charles W. Parkhurst landed their plane at Roosevelt Field New York after nine hours 37 minutes 4 seconds in the air failing to break the endurance refueling record. Haziness blocked refueling contact and made the maneuver dangerous. Gentry known as the Flying Cashier said she will train in refueling drills and attempt another flight soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt Field
New York
Viola Gentry
Charles W. Parkhurst
Emil Bergin
Gentry
Hatfield to push small crude oil tariff in Senate
Huntington W V June 21 Senator Henry Hatfield announced at his home he will appear before the senate finance committee this summer to propose removing crude oil from the tariff free list and to set a small tariff. He said WV industry would benefit and coal demand could rise, aiding miners and related industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Henry S Matefield
Senate Finance Committee
Hatfield
West Virginia
Search Continues for Remaining Convicts After Escape
Brazoria Texas June 21 with one of forty three convicts dead and four wounded search continues tonight for fifteen men still at large authorities say twenty eight have been accounted for and punishment will be heavy. Armed guards search a woodland near Sweeney where fugitives may hide. A body identified as B W Martin from El Paso for forgery was found in a river near the farm. Two trusties are held in confinement blamed for the break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazoria
Tex
Clemens State
Uison
Sweeney
W. Martin
el Paso
Nebraskan Col J C Roop Named Budget Director
President Hoover announces Col J C Roop of Nebraska as director of the budget succeeding Herbert M Lord. Roop arrives from Santo Domingo where he restructured finances with the waves commission. A veteran of World War I, Roop is a Penn graduate and former assistant director of the budget bureau.
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Hoover
Col
J. C. Roop
Herbert M. Lord
Washington
Nebraska
Roop
Santo Domingo
Waves Commission
Budget Bureau
The
University of Pennsyl
Woman 24 in Starkville Kills Guest After Attack
Grace Noblin, 24, facing a tomorrow hearing in Starkville, admits she shot an unwelcome guest who attacked her father at Maven. Bush, 45, was invited for an ice cream supper but refused to leave. after alleged assault, Noblin shot him twice. Bush died on the street without giving a statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starkville
Miss
Grace Noblin
Maven
Bush
J. F. Noblin
Mr. Bush
Hoover Postpones Fishing Trip Amid Heat
President Hoover postponed his planned fishing trip to a preserve near Madison Virginia due to heat. He will remain at his desk tomorrow morning to handle mail before departing with Mrs Hoover, Secretary Hyde, Lawrence Richey, and Lt. Cmdr. Joel Boone, his physician.
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Washington
Hoover
Madison
Mra Hoover
Hyde
Lawrence Richey
Joel T. Boone
Skeleton in Mine Identified as George J. Markier
The skeleton found in a mine in Mifflin township was identified as George J. Markier, 32, of East McKeesport. A bullet wound suggested murder. Identification was made by Ida Marlier, Markier’s sister, using a wrist watch and a comb found near the remains. Marlier had disappeared last November with another man who remains missing.
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Pittsburgh
Miff_iin township
George J. Markier
East McKeesport
Ida Marlier
Marlier
HUTTON WAIVES PRELIMINARY HEARING IN Welch
Welch West Virginia June 21 suspended chief of police Hutton waived a preliminary hearing on murder charges in the slaying of J Henderson Mitchell. Mitchell was shot after an argument. bond set at 10000 awaiting grand jury action. Howard Sly named temporary chief and Harry Hager named night officer by city council.
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Howard Sly
Welch
W. Va
Ic C. Hutton
Henderson Mitchell
Mitchell
Hutton
Welch Police Department
Charles C. Hutton
J. Henderson Mitchell
Sly
Harry Hager
Hager
Killer Flee in Car After Drug Store Murder
Pittsburgh June 21 Edward J. Kretz 65, druggist, was shot and killed in his shop by a Negro who fled in a car with two other men. The assailants entered, asked for cigarettes, then fired as the druggist went to fill the order. Police think the trio planned a robbery. the shooter likely panicked and fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Edward J. Kretz
Lutheran Official Denounces Shootings
Dr. W. C. Kohn president of Concordia College denounces prohibition officers shooting down citizens and criticizes Volstead law principles while attending the Evangelical Lutheran Synod conference. He argues the Bible allows moderate beer and wine and questions government policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Synod of the
Lutheran Church
Dr. Kohn
Gibson Dawes to Confer on Naval Disarmament
Washington reports President Hoover authorizes Ambassador Gibson to travel to London to discuss naval disarmament with Ambassador Dawes. The talks aim to refine the formula for evaluating fleet strength and review Geneva outcomes as a basis for future U S Britain discussions with Premier MacDonald.
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Washington
Hugh
Gibson
Belgium
League of Nations
Court of St. James
Dawes
MacDonald
United States
Hoover
Great Britain
Businessman to Join Farm Board Public Administration
At the White House it was indicated that an outstanding business man or banker will be appointed to the eight member federal farm board established to administer the new farm relief law and its $500 million revolving fund.
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Washington
White House
Federal Farm Board
Raid on Erie VFW post nets arrests and seized liquor
Federal agents raided Billy Simpson Post No 70 Veterans of Foreign Wars in Erie on June 21 arresting seven men. They seized 144 bottles of ale eight half barrels of beer one and a half quarts of whiskey eight slot machines valued about seven thousand dollars and a roulette wheel. A warrant was issued for post commander S Warren Richard. The post hosts the state VFW convention with about 3000 attendees.
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Erie
Billy Simpson
Veterans of Foreign Wars
S. Warren Reichard
Hilly Simpson
VFW
Robert Young
Federal
Court Docket Lighter as Jury Trials Begin
United States district court clears much of a heavy docket with juries to hear cases, including the Meadows prohibition case. Judge McClintic sentences amount to 44 years 4 months 2 days in prison and $1,850 in fines with several probation orders amid naturalization day proceedings for eleven applicants.
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United States District Court
United States
John Davis Meadows
Bluefield
Meadows
McClintle
Graydon B. Godfrey
Princeton
Annie Laura Reeves
Danvill
Boone County
Alderson
Steve Hatgelis
Charlee Veto Rondeneli
Nick Buzzo
Filamena Ratterlino
Nicola Desibbio
Eva Raden Slifkin
Alfred Micallis
Isadore Jacob Blank
Vincinzo Giordano
Sassie Helen Soda
Marko Soda
Dock Hatfield
James B. Allen
Fayette County
F.C. Armstrong
Campaign Gifts Under Review By Senate Panel
Washington June 21 The Senate patronage committee chaired by Brookhart considers a bill to bar federal officeholders from contributing to political funds amid probes into Southern appointments. Rep Robsion of Kentucky faces accusations from R B Waddle Somerset postmaster who alleges funds for campaigns but later filed a no expenditure statement. A second letter from Sydney F Bailey Madisonville accuses a Ky postmaster of being often drunk on duty.
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Washington
Robsion
Kentucky
Brookhart
Senate Patronage Committee
Texas
Robsson
R. B. Waddle
Somerset
Waddle
Sydney F. Bailey
Madisonville
Women Freed From Las Tres Marias Prison Colony
All women detained on Las Tres Marias islands for violations of religious laws were ordered released by the interior department. The mother superior Concepcion, serving twenty years as intellectual author of General Obregon’s assassination, and other convicted individuals remain. About 160 inmates would benefit from the order.
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Mexico City
Las Tres Marias
Department of the Interior
Concepcion
General Obregon
Violet
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Atlantic
Louis Commetti
Edison
Glenn Workman
Raymond Steadman
Simeon Bryand
Bramwell
George Henry Clark
Buckhannon
Charles C. Costilow
Clarksburg
Lloyd Brown
Grafton
Clarence J. Meisel
Daniel Richardson
Masontown
Edwin Brooks Warner
St. Albans
Arthur Warner
Pennsboro
Earl B. Wolford
Alaska
Waldeck Bohensky
Paul Boswell
Wayne
Thomas 8. Moore
Stanley Hormick
Annmore
Harold E. Parsons
Morgantown
Monroe Kindelberger
Paul Koenemund
Moundsville
James Wilson
Middlebourne
Herbert Romine
West Milford
James E. Barrah
Fairmont
Simeon Bryant
Early Hingman
Fesse Warner
Franklin
Daniel L. Evans
Petersburg
Frank J. Mangus
Kistler
Law Hoover
Solon
Harry Woodyard
Spenser
Atherine M. Moran
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Nebraskan
Gibson, Dawes
Erie, Pa
V. F. W. Post
M’clintic
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