Secretaries Rebuff Critics On Shenandoah Flight
Secretary Wilbur declares no political motive in Shenandoah flight and notes Lansdowne and Rodgers chose the times. Congressional inquiry will probe the Shenandoah disaster and Mitchells air service attack, with testimony from Heien and Lansdowne’s widow amid disputed statements.
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Washington
Wilbur
Shenandoah
Zachary Lansdowne
John Rodgers
G. W. Steele
Lakehurst Naval Station
W. A. Moffett
Naval Bureau of Aeronautics
William Mitchell
Army
Navy Air Service
Lansdowne
Butler
House Naval Affairs Committee
Wiliam Mitchell
Air Services
Mitchell
Anton Heien
Langdowne
Navy Department
Lambert
Special House Aircraft Committee
Hoyle
Congress
Admiral Moffett
Hawaii
San Antonio
Texas
George A. Nun
Coast Artillery
Inspector General’s Department
Golan Today
Navy
Col Nunes
Chicago Daily News Seeks Most Beautiful Action Prize
The Chicago Daily News announces a $1000 award for the person judged to have performed the most beautiful action for humanity in the Greater Chicago area during the coming year. The prize marks the paper's seventy fifth anniversary and runs through September 9.
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Chicago
Chicago Daily News
Greater
Woon
The
Daily News
Coats Found on Hawaii Beach Linked to PN-9 Search
Two kapok lined life jackets were found on Lelei hill beach near Hilo amid efforts to identify missing PN-9 No. 1 crew. Pearl Harbor authorities will deliver the jackets to a battleship for possible identification as part of a four to six day search plan.
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Honolulu
Advertiser
Hilo
United States Navy
Leleich Point
Pearl Harbor
Keaukahakeaa Beach
Island of Hawaii
Ulu
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor Air Station
Hawaiian Islands
Lone
International dispute over burial of unidentified death by own action
At Niagara Falls on September 9 an unidentified man who died by his own action was found near the Canadian gorge. The question of whether the body should be buried in American or Canadian soil sparked an international incident as authorities debated jurisdiction and burial permits.
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Niagara Falls
N Y
Queen Victoria Park
William Hill
Queenstown
Lewiston
Hill
W. M. Blakeslee
Blakeslee
Ger
Harry R. Emes
Emes
Ontario
President Coolidge Ends Summer Retreat for Washington
President and Mrs Coolidge left Swanmscott Mass after an eleven week stay at White Court. They met with Massachusetts chiefs, received church leaders, and attended a farewell dinner before boarding the Mayflower yacht for Washington. The trip marks a busy, healthful end to the vacation with cabinet conferences amid planning for December's congressional session.
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Salem
Mass
Washington
White Court
James F. Voupal
Senator Butler
Marblehead Harbor
End of Channel swimming season near Cape Gris Nez
Cape Gris Nez France September 9 cross channel swimming season for 1926 will end with the sailing of Gertrude Ederle and party on the Mauretania September 12 except for Ishak Helmy the Evotian who will stay until September 15 Arctic weather forced wetsuit camp to close.
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Cape Gris Nez
France
Strude Ederle
Mauretania
Ishak Helmy
Wets Enders
Captain Tourtillot Wins Marine Cup Match at Camp Perry
Captain R Tourtillot of Morgantown West Virginia won the Marine Corps cup match in the national rifle association program at Camp Perry Ohio. He scored 197 of 200 points in the event announced tonight.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
R. Tourtillot
United States Infantry
Morgantown
W. Va
National Rifle Association
Mrs C B Cook Shot Dead In Iowa Plea For Law Enforcement
Mrs C B Cook Benton county W C T U president was preparing an unfinished address criticizing prohibition and law enforcement when she was shot dead in her home Monday night by an unidentified assailant. Authorities search for clues as coroner probes, reward offered, and rumors of official action are investigated.
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C. B. Cook
Vinton
Iowa
Benton County
Short Hauls Cut Rail Profits As Buses Gain Ground
Chicago report at a Western roads freight rate hearing shows 1919 to 1924 Northern Pacific passenger traffic fell from 9,336,000 to 607,000 with revenue dropping from 20 million to 13 million. C B Aitchison chaired the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing as 260 shippers attended.
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Chicago
C. B. Aitchison
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles Donnelly
Northern Pacific Railroad
Western Roads
Northern Pacific
R. H. Rishton
American Railway Association
W. H. Bremner
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad
The One Who Forgot exclusive NEA serial begins Friday
Ruby M. Ayres writes a new NEA serial for the Daily Telegraph titled The One Who Forgot. The installments start on Friday and will appear daily.
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Ruby M. Ayres
NEA
Daily Telegraph
Bodies of American dead to be moved from Mexican battlefields
Army officials at Fort Bliss plan an expedition to Chihuahua Mexico to recover six soldiers bodies from the Pershing expedition of 1916 while two others will remain buried on Parra battlefield. Names of those to be returned include Corporal Emil Troise Private Oliver Boushee Scout F C Holly Saddler George Hudwell Private Herman Kirby Saddler Ralph Ray. The bodies to stay in Mexico are Private Hubert Ledford and Sergeant Jay Richley.
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Washington, T. 9
Fort Bliss
Texas
War Department
State Department
Chihuahua
Mexico
Parra
Teenth Cavalry
Parral
Jay Richley
Thirteenth Cavalry
TWO NUNS RESCUE THREE GIRLS FROM THE HUDSON
Nyack New York September 9 two Catholic nuns in their order garments leaped into the Hudson and rescued two of three drowning girls from a Vacation party from the Lower East Side of New York. Sisters Mary Sumpta and Mary Immaculate swam to the struggling girls Angelia Magro 11 and Alice Vernon 13 and saved them. Maryella Pieter 11 drowned and her body was recovered half an hour later.
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Nyack
N. Y
Hudson River
Lower East Side
New York
Mary Sumpta
Mary Immaculate
Angelia Magro
Alice Vernon
Maryella Pieter
Film Actor Dragged by Galloping Horse
Los Angeles is the scene of an on set accident as film star Rudolph Valentino was scratched and bruised after being dragged by a galloping horse. He attempted to halt the running animal by grabbing its bridle, but the horse bolted, propelling him along the road during a screen scene.
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Los Angeles
Rudolph Valentino
Lankershim
Valentino
Forest fires in Laurel Fork under control
Forest fires on Pittsburg Lumber Company land in Laurel Fork are under control after burning several hundred acres. A separate blaze around Shell Creek and Roan Mountain continues to burn timberlands, and a third fire near Erwin, Tennessee is dying out after scorching about 3000 acres.
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Bristol
Tenn
Pittsburg Lumber Company
Laurel Fork
Shell Creek
Roan Mountain
Erwin, Tenn
Sanity fight looms in Noel murder case
Harrison Noel, confessed killer of Mary Daly and Raymond Pierce, is indicted in Essex and Passaic counties for murder and kidnapping. Police bar interview with defense counsel James D. Carpenter as Essex seeks to prove Noel sane. Authorities foresee no immediate trial in Passaic if Essex actions conclude first.
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Newark
N. J
Harrison Noel
Mary Daly
Raymond Pierce
Pierce
Noel
Passaic County
James D. Carpenter
Jersey City
Dix W. Noel
New York
Chicago
John Sandin
Essex County
Essex County Utor D'Aloia
Amundsen Plans Next North Pole Flight Next Year
Lieutenant Riiser Larsen disclosed Amundsen intends to renew the pole attempt in an Italian dirigible next year. The group would include Ellsworth Nobile and Gustav Amundsen. the N-1 airship cost 15 000 pounds and an Italian crew would operate.
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Oslo
Norway
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Amundsen
Pole
Hjalmer Riiser-Larsen
Norwe Aero Club
Ptain Amundsen
Lincoln Ellsworth
United States
Nobile
Gustav
Rome
Governor Gore Addresses Judson Baptists at 77th Convention
Governor Howard M. Gore spoke at the Judson Baptist Association in Bridgeport West Virginia urging faith in the Bible and praising mother love. Five hundred delegates heard the address as thirty three churches were represented and a missionary pageant by Monongah women was featured.
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Bridgeport
W. Va
Judson Baptist Association of West Virginia
Howard M. Gore
R B. Ash
Mannington
C. E. Stump
Hepzibah
Gore
Marietta Gore
Clarksburg
Norton Specialist Is Found Dead in Bed
Norton Virginia September 9 Dr J M Miles eye ear nose and throat specialist and leading member of the see fraternity of Southwest was found dead in bed by Mrs Miles at about 2 o clock Wednesday morning. Death probably due to apoplexy.
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Norton
J. M. Miles
See Fraternity of Southwest
Msrs
Miles
New British Earl Remains on Ranch in Wyoming
Oliver Henry Wallop Sr., recently named Earl of Portsmouth, plans to keep his U.S. citizenship but may have to renounce the title to remain a citizen. Federal officials say the 1904 naturalization law could force a choice, while Wallop stays at his 3,000 acre Sheridan area ranch directing workers. England will formally invest him likely in November before he returns to Wyoming.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Barl
Portsmouth
Oliver Henry Wallop
Wallop
Ano
Hig Ranch
England
Wyoming Ranch
Two Beauty Contestants Withdraw In Pageant Row
Atlantic City Sept 9 Mildred Walker Mina Pittsburg and Mary Anne Guth Miss Prie withdrew from the national pageant Publicity agent M D Crandall of Pittsburg said Dorothy Knapp Miss Manhattan is now employed by a film company and is a professional He noted Audrey Jean Austin once sponsored as Miss Manhattan was withdrawn and Knapp substituted Crandall warned the Pennsylvania delegation may also withdraw
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Atlantic City
N. J
Mildred Walker
Mina Pittsburg
Mary Anne Guth
Prie
M. D. Crandall
Pittsburg
Crandall
Dorothy Knapp
Manhattan
Yp! Picture Corporation
Audrey Jean Austin
New York City
Miss Knapp
Pennsylvania
Trusted employes defaulting daily in United States
Richmond Sept 9 Trusted employees defaulting at about a dozen daily in the United States, says F I Pride of Moston president of the American Society of Certified Accountants. He urges business owners to audit books to guard against losses when employees do not expect it. Pride notes few are truly dishonest most are tempted to borrow when they gain control of large sums sometimes driven by the stock market.
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Richmond
United States
F. l. Pride
Moston
American Society of Certified Accouotants
Mr. Pride
Guns Flash Pittsburg Aldermanic Campaign
Guns flashed in the Pittsburg Second Ward aldermanic fight as two campaign supporters were wounded and hospitalized. An unidentified shooter fled, ending a flare of disorder that began on registration day.
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Pittsburg
Fire Rages At Tampa Ship Yard Causing Half Million Dollar Loss
A blaze broke out at the Tampa Ship Building and Engineering Company terminals at 9 o'clock tonight and continued two hours later with damage estimated at about $500,000. Owner Ernest Kreher described the scene as extensive as flames engulfed the facility.
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Tampa
Sept
Tampa Ship Building and Engineering Company
Ater
Ernest Kreher
September Forecast Sees Crop Yields Well Below Recent Averages
The Department of Agriculture reports a general drop in yields for the year with corn at 2.885 billion bushels, spring and winter wheat totals about 700 million, Irish potatoes at 344 million, oats at 1.462 billion, tobacco up in the East but diminished by drought, peanuts down, and fruit prospects staying below average. Final-season shifts could still alter the outlook.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
Department of Agriculture Being Board
Kentucky
Tennessee
Water outbreak blamed on fly borne infection in McComas
State health officials warn tourists and residents of West Virginia to scrutinize drinking water after a McComas Mercer county typhoid outbreak tied to a fly borne infection. No deaths reported though cases numbered but not yet determined.
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West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
McComas
Mercer County
David Littlejohn
Division of Preventable Diseases
State Department of Health
Henshaw
Littlejohn
Bluefield
Mercer
Jor
Phns
State Health Department
E. S. Tisdale
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Pocket-sized accumulator promises vast energy breakthrough
A. F. Joffe of the Academy of Science in Leningrad claims a laboratory experiment yields a concentrated energy unit small enough for a waistcoat pocket. The device reportedly holds enough energy to power the strongest motor car for ten days, signaling a potential industrial revolution. The same date reports the US fleet sighting near Honolulu en route from Australia for a two week stay.
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Leningrad
Russia
A. F. Joffe
Academy of Science
Joffe
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