Plane crash near Parkersburg claims life of Rich Chinn
Rich Chinn, 21, died after a passenger airplane crashed near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Pilot O G Seevers, 28, of Parkersburg, was slightly injured in the crash.
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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1929
Page
11
Rich Chinn, 21, died after a passenger airplane crashed near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Pilot O G Seevers, 28, of Parkersburg, was slightly injured in the crash.
By Ahern held that Ohio law requires a will to be written at least a year before the death for it to be valid when religious organizations are beneficiaries. The estate now valued at 175000 dollars will go to the immediate heirs of the Bentley family.
Capital supporters and opponents of Volsteadism sharpen campaigns as Congress prepares hearings on transferring prohibition powers from the treasury to the justice department. Wet advocates plan opposition while drys push the five year transfer agenda as debate resumes in committee and on the floor.
The Mouette anchored in Cape Porpoise Harbor with Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh aboard. They were en route from Englewood, N J, toward the Morrow estate in North Haven Maine. Lindbergh appeared on deck at York Harbor to greet about 100 villagers, Anne Morrow remaining below deck.
Washington June 7. President Hoover has moved the White House portrait of Abraham Lincoln from a shadowed corridor to the dining room. Lincoln's figure now stands where Calvin Coolidge’s portrait was placed, while Coolidge moves to the corridor. At the dining room entrance hangs Woodrow Wilson’s official portrait, reflecting Hoover’s admiration for Lincoln and Wilson and his wartime ties to Wilson.
Dayton inventor and Ohio State alumnus Charles Franklin Kettering will be honored at a series of events at Ohio State starting Saturday. He will receive the Joseph Sullivant medal for engineering contributions and two honorary degrees will be awarded next Tuesday. Dr. William Oxley Thompson will also be honored, and Ohio State alumni activities include a sunset alum sunrise and commencement remarks by Kettering.
Local council, after consulting 14 organizations, plans to seek national approval to keep Alliance as a second class Boy Scout Council. It asks for a $1,200 annual budget to hire a part time scout executive and would continue the current council plan.
Shriners conclude their annual session in the coliseum with a dazzling lighted pageant. Imperial Potentate Leo V. Youngworth leads 600 Shriners and families departing for home and an official visit to Aloha Temple in Honolulu. Toronto and New Orleans bid for 1930 convention. choice postponed.
J Chat Redick a Wayneen farmer of Wooster and Miss Beryl A Weiler of Shreve were married yesterday morning in the Church of Christ parsonage at Shreve by Rev J C Richards. The bride formerly worked as a surgical nurse at Wooster City Hospital. The couple left for a wedding trip to Washington.
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