Soldiers Home Candidacy Faces Veteran Balance of Power
The Soldiers Home selection due Monday hinges on a veteran balance of power with Gov Trumbull and state chair unnamed, aiming for a superintendent chosen on personal merit over politics. Candidates include Major Arthur C Bennett and Colonel Gilbert L Fitch, with support from various veteran groups and Stamford figures. commission to decide while seeking capable leadership and September start.
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Hartford
Leete
Veteran's Home Commission
Grand Army
Tr.s
Commission
Arthur C. Bennett
N. W. Bishop
Women's Relief Corps
Ie Grand Army
East
Herman 4. Tyler
New London
Fitch
Gilbert L. Fitch
Stamford
Daniel F. B. Hickey
Max Spelke
Justus Fennel
John F. Fay
Hartford Hospital
New Britain Hospital
Olonel Serley
Bennett
James Hegeerty
New Haven
James F. Beck
C Elonel Edward Lockhart
New
John F. Gilson
Harford
Crampton
Rand Army
Veterans’ Home Commission
Old Soldiers Hospital Board
Raymond F. Gates
The
Home Commission
Planes and ships search ocean for missing flyers
Search across the Pacific continues with planes from Langley and coast guards aiding from San Francisco to Honolulu. Navy and Army planes, commercial vessels, and submarines join the hunt with radio coordinated watch and a total reward pool reaching 230000 for the occupants of the missing Dole flyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jmparrow
Texas World Warnace
Hongkong
Honolulu
Hawai. Co
W. Parkhurst
Naval
Lorittle
Crisay Field
San Francisc
Pacific Air Transport Company
San Francisco
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Wheeler Field
Hawaii
Great Circle
James C. Dole
National Aeronautic Association 19 Afifer
Instala
William F. Matloska
Flint
Mich
Miss Daran
Dols
Two Men Held After Knife Fight at Barbershop
Police arrest two men, John Santos and Frederick Gomez, after a knife fight behind a barbershop on Worth Washington avenue. Both were bloodied and treated at Emergency hospital before being jailed on assault and breach of the peace charges with bonds set at $150 each.
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Alexander Coughlin
Worth Washington Avenue
John Santos
North
Washington Avenue
Frederick Gomez
Housatonic Avenue
Kiwanis Hold Indoor Event Defying Stormy Weather
About 250 Kiwanis members and guests attended a dinner dance and indoor program at Champ's Parm despite heavy weather. An evening of games followed including yard dashes, hopping, potato, wheelbarrow, sack races, and eating contests with many winners named across children, teens, and adults.
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Jupiter Pluvius
Champ's Parm
Nox
Lawreace
Gene Quinn
Virginia
Walter Chump
Betty Quinn
Doris Meyers
Walter Bonnell
David Simpson
Shurtey Smith
Shirley Smith
Mildred Blythe
Francis Brennan
Robert Stearns
Doris Bancroft
Jack Quinn
John Simpson
Jane Pardy
Gh Simpson
F. J. Dixon
Charles Simpson
Willis Ives
Austin Lucas
Frank Brennan
Bert Crump
John Jenson
E. W. Morey
Hazel Cummings
Edward McCuthcheon
Farse
Hazel
Cummings
Totty Quinn
Francis Brennan, Jr
Dor ; Meyers
T. J. Brensen
John Jensen
George Stearns
Hot Springs Girls Greet John Coolidge at Club
Five young women from Hot Springs surrounded John Coolidge on the porch of the Hot Springs country club. They urged him to visit for a canoe night and he expressed interest in golf on the course. He has been playing in the east with Russell Wood of the Secret Service.
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Hot Springs
Associated Press
Tommat
John Coolidge
John
Hot Springs Country Club
Russell Wood
Secret Service
Forest Music
Ruth Barker
Helen Eastman
Ells Phillips
Dora Bruce
Barker
Dorothy Me
South Dakota
President Coolidge
Newfoundland Budget Shows 1.75 Million Deficit
Fragmentary note reports a Newfoundland budget deficit of 1 750 000 with scattered figures including 61,769 090, unclear in context but indicating a financial shortfall for the period. The readable items point to fiscal shortfall measures and budget lines amid rough OCR.
Nonunion miners driven from Ohio coal mines amid unrest
In Steubenville and Cadiz areas Ohio non-union miners were driven from two strip mines. A large force marched on the Tafa mine near Cadiz and compelled 110 workers to quit. near Winston Dear a roadblock halted 40 workers. About 10 men disappeared at Harmon Creek, Pennsylvania-licensed vans observed, officials suspect union sympathy. National Guard watched, a federal injunction had barred interference at several non-union mines. In partisan politics, the Twelfth District Democratic club rejected peace proposals from the O'Loughlin faction and prepared for primary campaigns following the death of Police Commissioner Frank D. Anderson.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Associated Press
Here
Cadiz
Tafa
Winston Dea
Harmon Creek
T. O. Turner
Turner
Strip Mines National Guard
Columbus
Winston Dear
Cadia
Pennsylvania
Twelfth District Democratic Club, Inc
Frank D. Anderson — Association
O'Loughlin
Party For Peace
Edith Bush
Thomas Callahan
John Fontaine
Herman Winkler
Callahan
William Kiernan
Frank D. Anderson
Callaton
Bush
Anderson
Mr. Callahan
Winkler
Leo O'Loughlin
James Hennegan
William B. Flanagan
Myr. Callahan
Callghan
Lindbergh Flies Into Wichita With Spirit of St Louis
Kansas crowds greet Colonel Charles A Lindbergh as he arrives in Wichita in the Spirit of St Louis monoplane. Governor Ben Paulen leads the escort, and 100 plus supporters cheer at the airport and Riverside Park before he departs for St Joseph Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Associated Press
Kansas
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hoaul
Tundberrn
Nen
Jie
Joseph
Dayenvort
Iowa
Trumbull Seeks Lower Gas Prices and Fair Tax Policy
Governor Trumbull urged aligning baseline gasoline prices with neighboring states and opposing discriminatory tax treatment. He argued supply-and-demand will stabilize prices and defended the two cent gas tax as funding roads that motorists benefit from.
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Connecticut
New York
Massachusetts
Trumbull
Ship's Fuel Scarce at Start in Golden Eagle Controversy
Hearst publisher George Hearst and A M Rochlen flight manager faced charges connected to the Golden Eagle venture. W K Jay of the Eagle staff and others were named in the case as the fuel shortage dispute unfolds.
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E. M. Laggen
George Hearst
San Francisco Examiner
Golden Eagle
A. M. Rochlen
W. K. Jay
Day Officers Slavers Named in West Virginia Shootings
In Southern Logan County Sheriff Tennis Hatfield led a new posse to hunt three men named by Millard Porter in a confession as slayers of Ed Hensley, a state prohibition officer, and two others in an ambush at Chauncey hollow last Tuesday. Porter said the Nelson brothers and Curry planned to flee toward Virginia or Kentucky, while another posse sought the fugitives.
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Logan
West Va
Tennis Hatfield
Logan County
Millard Porter
Ed Hensley
Prohibition
Chauncey Hollow
Porter
Hensely
Don
Ernest Marcum
Mit
Bird Nelson
Seem Curry
Nelson Brothers
Curry
Virginia
Kentuck
Hensley
Mit Nelson
Nyuor
Sangers
40000 Made Homeless by Floods in Siberia
Vladivostok Aug 18 The Associated Press reports floods in the maritime province have inundated more than one hundred villages, leaving about 40 000 peasants homeless and over 100 dead. Waters rise rapidly with three villages washed out and 4000 peasant survivors crowding atop an elevation near the Usuri river bridge.
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Vladivostok
Siberia
Associated Press
Usuri
Missing Plane Search Expands Across Pacific
Reports say the missing Miss Doran was sighted near Kaenee Mout Island five miles off. Navy ships patrol a zigzag line from California to Hawaii, with Langley and Aroostook ready to deploy aircraft, while Crissy Field and Farallon search efforts extend the coast. All crews focus on locating the missing planes and ensuring safe recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paia
Maui
Havwali
Associated Press
Doran
Kaenee
Mout Island
Enkodtc
Jensen's Career Began in Garage in Sioux City
Sioux City, Iowa, Aug 18. Martin Jensen, runner up in the trans Pacific Dole air derby, started as a garage mechanic a decade ago in Sioux City. Orphaned, he was helped by his brother from South Sioux City Nebraska to learn engine work and earned the nickname Dirty Pace for grease. He later served in the navy, trained at San Diego, opened an air school, and met a parachute jumper wife. His last visit here was in 1923 en route on an airplane honeymoon from the Pacific coast to Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
Associated Press
Martin Jensen
South Sioux City
Nel
Nicke
Jensen
Navy
Naval Air Training School
San Diego
Cal
Pacific Coast
Tennessee
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John Cruggey
Mildred Doran
Wiles ¥. Knope
Aya Uf Quize
Eramel
Conlik Severed Inc
Conlin Een
Wsparer Hiune
Newfoundland
Todey
Kiernan
Flanagan
Lindy
Governor
Boston
Sacco- Vanzetti
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Jack Frost
Gordon Scott
Pacific
California
Hawaiian Islands
Imavy
Islanda
Coniems
Langley
Aroostook
mid-Pacific
Army
Crissy Field
Farallones
Golden Gate
Jamna Soren
Arthur Goebel
Woolaroc
Martin
Alpha
Sear Place
Goebel
W. V. Davis
Davis
Jenset
Ehluter
Honora
Istana
Mtojoka
Epintia Wis
Vizil
Navy Air Graduate
Cutiura
Margaret Dulude
South St
Chicopee
Mass
Malden
Masa
Bridgeport
Lambert Pharmacal Co
Dept
G-6
Locust St
St. Louis
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