Hughes Plans World Flight in Giant Air Laboratory
Howard Hughes designs a four hop around the world flight in his Douglas transport. Proposed legs include New York to Moscow and Siberia to northern Canada and back to New York. He denies a full 20 000 mile trip but the aircraft is outfitted with extra fuel, two 1000 horsepower motors, and a world radio system.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Giant Air Laboratory
United Press
New York
Moscow
Siberia
Canada
Hughes
United States
Federal Radio Commission
Townsend Club In Florida Disbands In Protest Move
The Kis simmee Park Townsend club with 62 members unanimously renounced the national old age pension movement and disbanded. Members called the movement dictatorial undemocratic and autocratic. The action followed the resignation of Nathan J. Roberts as national director of Old Age Revolving Pensions Ltd and came after Townsend supporters faced political losses in Florida.
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Kissimmee
Kissimmee Park
Townsend Club
Francis E. Townsend
Florida
Nathan J. Roberts
Jacksonville
Friday
Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd
Predicts 500000 Republican Votes In Texas
Dallas report quotes Republican National Committeeman R B Creager predicting the GOP will win about 500000 votes in Texas. He cites 200000 Republicans plus 200000 to 300000 constitutional Democrats as added support. Creager meets with John W. Philp and party leaders and will stay through Hamilton speech.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
R. B. Creager
Creager
John W. Philp
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
New York Labor Leader Koenig Shot Dead in Rochester
Harry Koenig a major New York labor figure and head of a large waiters union died from three bullet wounds to head and back after being shot outside a Rochester restaurant. Police hunt intensified. motive linked to a labor dispute. An automobile tied to the killers was found nearby.
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Rochester
N. Y
INS
Harry Koenig
New York
Koenig
Tractor Sparks Prairie Fire Causes Big Nebraska Damage
A prairie fire near O neill Nebraska traced to a tractor driver Ethan Allen caused over 15000 in damage. The blaze burned 125 hay stacks across a one mile stretch at 2 pm under 107 degree heat and strong wind, drawing 2000 spectators and volunteer firefighters before being put out an hour later.
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O’neill
Neb
Joe Noble
Saukup
Ethan Allen
Lindbergh Returns to Silent Aviator Role in England
London report says Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh landed unheralded at Lymne airfield returning to his elusive aviator persona after public appearances in Copenhagen as a scientist. He declared it mattered little where he travels.
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London
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
Copenhagen
England
Two Anne Adams Patterns Highlight Smart Frocks
Advertisement for pattern 4153 a sports lo v er two piece frock and pattern 2660 a soft crepe or sheer wool two piecer. Details list sizes 14 through 42 for pattern 4153 and 16 through 42 for pattern 2660 with yardage and 15 cent prices. Orders to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department New York.
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Jersey
Anne Adams
Pattern
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Department
West 17Th Street
New York
N.Y
Actresses retract charges in WPA theater case Boston hearings continue
In Boston the actresses who claimed they were released from a WPA theater project for refusing to entertain officials recanted their accusations. An impartial board of inquiry will be formed to assess possible discrimination, while a hearing disclosed the hotel room invitation and related details.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
Boston
Aubrey Williams
Williams
Paul Edwards
Massachusetts
Edwards
Miss Colby
Leonard L. Gallagher
Theater
Carl Rogers
Fee
Lewin
Women’s Longevity Tied to Quieter, Safer Lifestyles
A study notes women generally outlive men, attributing longer lives to quieter behaviors and fewer risky activities. Researchers highlight lifestyle patterns as key factors in health and mortality differences between genders.
Woman fleeced of mate's bonus cash by swindler
Omaha report says a Negro swindler took $175 from Florence Nelson, wife of a disabled veteran, after signaling a wallet found on a sidewalk and promising $500 later. He vanished after claiming bonds were valuable and asking patience. Police search continues.
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Omaha (Ap
Southside
Florence Nelson
Omaha
Boy Confesses Waterfront Murder After Bicycle Ride to Station
In San Francisco a 19 year old youth named David Haynes confessed to killing a man known only as Jack in a waterfront quarrel over 1.50 dollars. He rode his bike to central station to tell police his conscience would not let him sleep and described striking Jack with a heavy object on a pier, then dumping the body with rocks in its pockets into the water.
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San Francisco
David Haynes
Jack
Young Haynes
Central Station
Haynes
Maybauer Kraft Wedding Set For August 29th
Mount Vernon reports the wedding date for Miss Ruth Maybauer and Lowell Kraft of Bloomington Illinois as August 29 at 3 30 PM at the bride’s parents home Mr and Mrs Charles Maybauer. Local social events include showers, dinners and bridge parties with many residents attending from Mount Vernon and Cedar Rapids and numerous guests from nearby towns.
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Keith Lemon
R. P. Ink
Dana Wilcox
Bernadine Burge
Dorothy Smedley
E. C. Bergmann
Franklin O’neel
Ruth Yates
William
George Schroeder
Cornell
Don Pringle
Pringle
Harvey Ellison
The
Family Association
Alice Chamberlain
Thomas Park
Johnston
Butler Park
Springville
Marian Ratliff
Fayetteville
Ark
Ruby Wade
Chicago
E. C. Pratt
E. F. Reihman
New York
W. S. Ebersole
H. E. Wilcox
Tacoma
Wash
James Bovey
J. F. Barrett
C. H. Scobey
Ralph Klinefelter
Clifford Burr
Lucy Boyd
Geraldine Hughes
Mount Vernon-Lisbon
Niagara Falls
Leila Huebsch
Ames
Colorado
Blanchards Lodge
Boulder
LeMars
Alice R. Betts
Mary Little
Estes Park
Harry Hartung
Yellowstone Park
Leoral Evans
Walter Kohl
James Kohl
Ozarks
C. L. Rich
Clear Lake
Madeline Maybauer
Minneapolis
M. B. Waln
Maurice Kurtz
Martha Keyes
George Kye
Betty
Cedar Rapids
Williams Girl May Be Released From Hospital In Week
Alice Williams a 17 year old from Cedar Rapids Iowa is much improved at the University of Kansas hospital and likely to be released after another week doctors said Saturday her skull was fractured by an unidentified motorist and she was found unconscious beside a road near Lawrence Kansas on July 14
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Kansas City
Kan
Alice Williams
Cedar Rapids
University of Kansas Hospital
Miss Williams
Lawrence
Knox Changes Plans For Speech In New England Tour
Col. Frank Knox republican vice presidential nominee will speak at Pittsfield Massachusetts on the night of September 2. The schedule shift announced by Knox headquarters moves the Sept. 2 meeting from Springfield to Pittsfield and Knox will deliver several short talks from his train platform en route from Providence. He will also visit Allentown Pennsylvania on Sept. 5 before opening the Pennsylvania state campaign at Fogelsville that afternoon.
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Chicago
Frank Knox
Pittsfield
Mass
Knox
Springfield
Providence
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Fogelsville
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Lindy
Maybauer-Kraft
American Legion Auxiliary
Davenport
Elizabeth Kimball
Charles Beach
Lloyd Snyder
Mae Mitchell
Maxine Turner
Col. Knox
Bailey
Boot Shop
Bailey Boot Shop
Brown Suede
Brown
Rede
Pincus and Tobias
DR. Locke
Oxford
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