Giant Langley plane crash kills two airmen in mud
A giant three engine biplane from Langley Field crashed during a cross country load test on a misty morning. Commander Davis and Lieutenant Wooster drowned after the craft veered into a mud marsh and capsized. An investigation is underway as witnesses describe a nose dive into the quagmire.
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Wooster
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Messick
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Army
Back River
Chesapeake Bay
American Legion
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
Death toll rises as flood waters advance
Memphis reports the Mississippi River and its tributaries sweeping ashore, inundating Mississippi Arkansas and Louisiana. Thousands homeless and hundreds feared dead as relief forces rush supplies and establish refugee camps. Evacuations spread through Arkansas and Louisiana while levee repair and warnings continue toward New Orleans.
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Mississippi River Commission
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St. Be
Second tragedy shadows flight from New York to Paris
The death of Commander Noel Davis in Virginia marks the second setback in the planned New York to Paris non stop flight after Captain Rene Fonck's doomed Roosevelt Field takeoff last fall. Davis, a Utah born naval aviator, rose through Annapolis, served as aide to Admirals Sims and Strauss, and helped lay mines in World War I before earning fame as an aerodynamics author and naval reserve leader.
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Noel Davis
Virginia
Paris
Rene Fonck
Roosevelt Field
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Jacob Islamoff
Davis
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Naval Academy
Anapolis
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Strauss
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Germany
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Naval Reserve Field
Squantum
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Naval Reserve
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Raymond Orteig
Coolidge outlines foreign policy to protect citizens
President Coolidge spoke at a The United Press Associations dinner outlining a policy to safeguard American lives and property abroad. He rejected Senate arbitration with Mexico, urged amicable settlement, and criticized imperialist aims while stressing government protection in Nicaragua and China amid tensions with Mexico over property seizures.
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United Press Associations
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Nicaragua
China
Senate
Tellez
Mexico City
America
Asia
Eugene Chen
Nanking
Paralyzed Boy Holds On Amid Grief and Hope
Walter Boothe, an 18 year old farmer from Roanoke, remains held in a life sustaining struggle after a battle with a sudden paralysis that affects his arms legs torso and lungs. Doctors say he is holding his own with artificial respiration after 114 hours, his family clinging to faith as his condition defies prognosis. A May 1926 car crash linked to his injuries and a recent operation preceded the crisis.
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Flood Relief Drive Receives Strong Fund Support
Memorial Day closures did not halt flood relief efforts as local Red Cross leaders reported growing contributions for the Mississippi flood victims. Citizens deposited gifts at Bradenton banks and Red Cross offices while outreach to join the Twenty Five Dollar Club continued with seven members already contributing.
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Palmetto
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Coolidge
Mississippi
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American National Bank
Herald
Florida House Debates Flood Relief and Local Bills
Florida lawmakers opened with a $50,000 flood relief appropriation for Mississippi Valley sufferers, referred to five judiciary committees for indefinite action after debate. Other measures included auto taxation shifts, cemetery control, a Seabreeze city recreation bill, and a workmen’s compensation act, with Memorial Day remarks closing the session.
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Milton
Senate schedules two key bills amid busy Florida lawmakers
In Tallahassee on April 24 the Florida Senate and House move toward action on a search and seizure bill and an anti-evolution measure. Other items include an amended deficiency decree, primary election expenditures, loan regulation, and education survey plans as a governor's reception looms.
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Soldiers drown as Yangtze boats sink at Nanking
Two thousand northern Chinese soldiers are said to have drowned after boats were sunk by shells from Cantonese batteries at Nanking on the Yangtse river. The report notes heavy Chinese forces and rough seas as the cause of the disaster.
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