Question Mark Sets New Endurance Flight Record
The army monoplane Question Mark, with five pilots aboard, shattered the Dixmude record by flying 1118 hours and surpassing prior longer flights. From Metropolitan Airport in Los Angeles, the crew refueled mid air, battled fog and spark-plug issues, and pressed into a seventh day of endurance flying in the San Fernando Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fokker
San Fernando Valley
Carl Spatz
riWes
Spatz
San Diego
Maj
Ira C. Isaker
Harry A. Halverson
Elwood R. Quesada
Roy W. Hope
Aviation
New York Police See Quiet Day In Whalen Drive
New York on January 6 reports 55 arrests from midnight to late today a dull day for Commissioner Whalen amid raids on speakeasies and disorderly bars. The crackdown shows no price surge for bootleg liquor with rye and scotch still selling at about 50 cents a shot and bottles at regular prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whalen
New York World’s News Service
New York
Let's Trim Elijah War Dept Official Quips on Elijah
War Department official H J Adamson writes to Trubee Davison praising Elijah and the Question Mark, then Davison replies Good let's trim Elijah. The exchange mirrors a biblical Elijah ascent reference and hints at aviation progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAR Department
Elijah
Blymyer to Stand Trial in Witchcraft Murder Case
John Blymyer faces trial in York for killing Nelson D. Rehmeyer, aiding by farm boys John Curry and Wilbur Hess, to obtain a buried witch knot said to break hexes. The case ties to local beliefs about witchcraft and hexen as two youths await separate trials.
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York, Pa
John Blymyer
Ywitch
York County
Blymyer
Sae suaiNn
John Curry
Wilbur Hess
Killer
Nelson D. Rehmeyer
Hess
Wilbur
Rehmeyer
Curry
RB Reéehméyer
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia Dies on Rivierian Villa
Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to the Russian throne in royalist eyes, died at a villa in Antibes France after a long illness with pneumonia. He was 72 and had sought a milder winter, surrounded by family, retainers, and loyal supporters in exile. Burial is planned in Italy at Bordighera.
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Nicholas
Russia
Riviera
Czar
Antibes
France
French Riviera
Prince Andrew
Princess Battenberg
Peter
Duke of Leuchtenberg
Paris
Italy
Bordighera
Nicholas II
Grand Duke
Galicia
Supreme Council
Essen
Mail Airmail Plane Crashes At Ft. Crook
Norman Cotter an airmail pilot crashed a mail plane at Ft. Crook Field after striking a tree during landing. He suffered a forehead cut but left the hospital after first aid. The mail cargo was destroyed in the fire.
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Omaha
Neb
Norman Cotter
Salt Lake City
Ft. Crook Field
Cotter
Ft. Crook Hospita
Four-men Belfast crew rescued near Frying Pan Shoals
Norfolk dispatch reports Coast Guard cutter Modac rescued four men from the barge Belfast after it foundered off Frying Pan Shoals. The Modac also assists two other four man barges in a stiff southwest gale and remains on scene.
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Norfolk
Belfast
Frying Pan Shoals
Coast Guard
Modac
Church Leaders Split Over Prohibition Advocation
The Rev. Louis G. Hoeck argues churches erred in backing prohibition, saying faith groups should not become reform clubs. He warns reforms depend on spirit, not force, and church unity is threatened by heated political debate and rancor.
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Louis G. Hoeck
Church of the New Jerusalem
Mr. Hoeck
Reform
Eco
Hoover Begins Washington Stop After Latin American Tour
President elect Hoover returns to Washington aboard the Utah at Old Point Comfort to face Cabinet appointment talks, an extra session, farm relief and tariff debates. He plans temporary Mayflower Hotel headquarters and will confer with Republican leaders and report to President Coolidge on his Latin American trip.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Old Point Comfort
Utah
Rio de Janeiro
South America
Mayflower Hotel
Senator Burton
Ohio
Coolidge
Gum Man Chases Wolf From Door In Washington Story
Washington January 6 Mrs Constance Elsie Schack Gracie, a society widow tied to Titanic survivor Archibald Grace, has avoided destitution as chewing gum manufacturer John Dunbar Adams agrees to pay her 75 dollars weekly. The case involves a disputed will and past family misfortunes.
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Washington
Constance Elsie Schack Gracie
John Dunbar Adams
Gracie
Dunbar B. Adams
Col
Archibald Grace
Adams
Auto Fatalities Rise in Hamilton County Hit-Run Tragedy
A Hamilton County stretch records another auto fatality raising the year's toll to six with Miss Laura O Hara 36 a Walnut Hills High School teacher killed when her auto crashed head on with a Norwood street car at Gilbert avenue and Victory boulevard. Charles Callahan 40 is wounded and under police detention. Etta O Hara 35 sister and also a Walnut Hills teacher, suffers injuries. Nephew John Sullivan 3 escaped facial injuries. The crash blamed on steering failure. Neighbors assist in a grim sequence where Fischer, a baker, dies heroically pushing his wife to safety as an oncoming car kills him on the dark road. The driver fled. Castleton and Chemko lines list riders and survivors with Sack.
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Hamilton County
Laura O’hara
Ashland Avenue
Walnut Hills High School
Charles
Callahan
Ingleside
Norwood
Gilbert Avenue
Victory Boulevard
Etta O’hara
Laura
John Sullivan
Copeland Street
General Hospital
Edward Hesse
Holloway Street
Nelson Craft
Woodburn Avenue
John Fischer
Baker
North Bend
Pleasant Ridge Roads
Cheviot
George Johnson
Forrer Street
Lockland
Helena Fischer
Helen
Doll
Fischer
Schneider Bakery
Walnut Street
Fischer’s
Colerain Avenue
William
Curl Fischer
Carl Fischer
Massachusetts Avenue
Erhart
Fred
Edward Fischer
Gus Holtzmueller
Savannah Avenue
Kathryn Hermann
Charlotte Hermann
Campbell County
James Lucey Heads to Washington to See President
James Lucey, seventy three, left Northampton with a son to travel to Washington to meet President Coolidge. The shoemaker plans to drop in on his longtime friend and advisor, whose White House tenure he helped inspire. Lucey will be greeted in D.C. by James Lucey Jr., an employee of the Shipping Board.
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Northampton
Mass
James Lucey
Washington
President Coolidge
Lucey
Springfield
James Lucey, Jr
United States Shipping Board
Tex Rickard Summoned by Death in Florida Memorial
Boxing loses a towering figure with Tex Rickard’s passing. The famed showman, once called a second Barnum, sought rest in Florida and enjoyed golf, fishing, yachting, and piano playing while a monument to genius was lowered.
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Tex Rickard
Barnum
Showman
Florida
Tex Rickard Died After Secret Dread Of Knife
James S. Collins reports the New York World News Service on January 6 that promoter Tex Rickard hid a fear of surgery behind a bold gambler’s image. A diseased appendix, recurring pain, and a past attack in Jersey City set his course toward death despite urging operations. Rickard avoided a knife to finish the Dempsey Carpentier promotion and later pursued Florida ventures before dying in Miami.
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James S. Collins
New York World News Service
New York
Tex Rickard
Miami
Jersey City
Rickard
Richard Re Denis
Florida
Jack Sharke
Miami Beach
Fla
George L
Tex) Rickard
Jack Dempsey
Walter Field
E. H. Adkins
Richard
Madison Square Garden Corporation
Young Stribling
Jack Sharkey
Jack
Adkins
Soubert
Dempsey
Fields
Dr. Adkins
Tex
Stribling
Sharkey
Ohio vote fraud case nears end in first trial
Cleveland January 6 The state closes its case in the first trial from the Cuyahoga County election fraud probe. John A. Elden will testify as defense motions to dismiss indictments against Kahoun Neville and Morane are heard. Turner argues indictments cover primaries.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
John A. Elden
Edward C. Turner
Irving Carpenter
W. E. Minchell
Charles F. Kahoun
James E. Neville
Frank Morane
Minchell
Turner
Kahoun
Double slaying rattles Ohio farm near Canal Fulton
John Oser dairyman 30 and his wife Bertha were found slain at their Canal Fulton area farm late last night. A farm hand Edward, about 22, missing after the attack, is being sought as authorities inspect the scene and question neighbors.
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Canal Fulton
John Oser
Bertha Oser
Stark County
Osers
George
Oser
Edward
T. C. McQuate
Edward Gibson
Canton
Federal Raids Clean Chicago Heights of Police and Bootleggers
Federal and state raiders swept Chicago Heights at daybreak arresting city officials and police. About twenty seven prisoners were jailed for questioning on sixty two murders tied to the liquor and slot machine syndicates. Officers found 423 slot machines in a garage and recovered weapons and canceled checks totaling $400000 in fourte en months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Heights
United States
South Side
George E. Northrup
United States District Attorney
John Stege
Leroy Gilbert
Joe Martino
Frank Basile
Prohibition Office
Oliver J. Ellis
Ellis
John A. Swanson
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New York
Stege
Jo Costabele
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Los Angeles
N. Y
Dudley Nichols
Ss. O. S
Brotherhood of Man
Church
Burton
James L. West
Associated Press
Gum Man
White House
Willard-Dempsey
Klondike Bush
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