Southern Cross to Roosevelt Field Flight From Newfoundland
The Southern Cross and its four crew members led by Captain Charles Kingsford Smith landed in Harbor Grace Newfoundland after a foggy Atlantic crossing. Fuel depleted, the team refueled and prepared to resume toward Roosevelt Field New York, aiming for a flight time of twelve to fourteen hours.
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Harbor Grace
N. F
Roosevelt Field
No 4
Newfoundland
Charles Kingsford - Smith
Southern Cross
Atlantic
Kingsford-Smith
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
North Atlantic
Pacific
Grand Banks
Ireland
Abenaduee
San Francisco
Port Marnock
Irish Free State
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Evert van Dyke
J. Patrick Saul
John W. Stannage
Greenly Island
St. Lawrence Bay
House Accepts Senate Change In Pension Bill
The house backs a senate amended pension bill with Republican pledges to sustain. Longworth will recognize the proponent of the new act. Substitute legislation to provide relief for World War veterans will be rushed through this session.
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HOUSE
Senate
Woman to collect life insurance after shooting husband
Mary Belle Maley, who shot Urban Maley in Price Hill on July 15 1926, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served in Marysville. Paroled 1929 she sought the life insurance paid to the husband’s estate and a Common Pleas Court verdict awarded her 850 dollars remaining after debts, despite arguments she profited from the crime. Judge Fred L. Hoffman ruled a widow may receive her husband’s estate regardless of death cause.
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Mary Belle Maley
Maley
Urban Maley
Price Hill
Women’s Reformatory
Marysville
George Maley
Fred L. Hoffman
Common Pleas Court
Park Sleeper Loses Clothing to Thugs
Clarence Corp slept in a Kansas City park and was attacked by two men who struck him with a club, stole $4 and his clothing including trousers shirt and underwear as he awoke and fled through dark alleys to his room. He spoke to police later.
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Kansas City
Clarence Corp
Clarence
Newport barber linked to gunpoint river crossing in fatal case
Joseph Franzen 50, a Newport barber, told Police Chief Leo Livingston and detectives he was forced at gunpoint to row a man across the Ohio River near the Newport Boat Club minutes after Schoo's murder. He described a heavyset dark complexioned man who fled at Cincinnati foot Lawrence Street.
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Joseph Franzen
Barber
Second
Saravoga
Newport
Ohio River
Gus Szhovo
Leo Livingston
Phistner
Mahoney
Franzen
Newport Boat Club
Schoo
Lawrence Street
Cincinnati
Livingston
Heat kills man as cooling spell nears Cincinnati
A heat wave ends with a forecast of showers and cooler air for Cincinnati. John Perreno, 34, Italian laborer, died of heat exhaustion at General Hospital after collapsing on a Wyoming dredge work site. relatives reside in Italy.
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Cincinnati
W. C. Devereaux
United States
John Perreno
General Hospital
Perreno
Wyoming
Italy
Cincinnatiang
Naval treaty foes prepare reservations in Senate debate
Washington, June 25. Reservations to the London naval treaty are being drafted for the Senate debate. Opponents contest the eight inch versus six inch cruiser division, arguing it does not revive the right to build cruisers suited to American needs. The Navy General Board urged against the provision, complicating ratification prospects. Long contest expected as reservations are prepared.
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Washington
N Navy General Board
Senate
Navy
Great Britain
Congress to Act on Hoover Veto Johnson Veterans Bill
Congress readies to override President Hoover on the Johnson veterans relief measure and to pass a substitute aimed at World War service men. The House plans swift action after a veto sustain vote and suspension of rules for the substitute. Senate consideration could come by Friday or Saturday with pension rates under discussion.
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Cecil B. Dickson
Washington
Congress
Hoover
House
Longworth
Johnson
Senate
Rain Fails to Save Ky Farmer Sparks tragedy
Howard Smith a 35 year old farmer near Alexandria Kentucky faced ruined crops and bleak prospects. He walked to town pondering drought and failed rain then returned home and took his own life. Neighbors report a quiet man of hope now gone.
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Alexandria
Everett Smith
Howard Smith
Capital of Chihuahua Seized by Politicos Coup Forces Gov Flees
El Paso dispatches report a political coup in Chihuahua State leaving two capitals in turmoil. Gov Francisco Almada fled by plane to Juarez after Prieto faction seized Chihuahua City and deputy killings were reported. Federal officials arrested in Chihuahua City amid claims of misdeeds by Almada.
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Chihuahua
EL. Paso
Tex
Republic of Mexico
Francisco Almada
Juarez
Manuel Prieto
Manuel Jesus Estrada
Prieto
Chihuahua City
el Paso Times
Gabriel Jiminez
Luis Estrada
Walter M. Seii
Almada
Ignacio Chavez Franco
Eulogio Ortiz
Fifth
May Save Condemned Man for Experiments
May 25. Woo Dak San, a Chinese prisoner sentenced to death for murder in New Mexico, could seek commutation in exchange for agreeing to be part of a scientific trial. Dr. Polk Richards and Dr. S. I. Proctor discussed with Attorney General M. A. Otero the plan, pending Governor Dillon’s decision. They noted the eye disease trachoma and that inoculation experiments on a human could provide proof, though the disease is not fatal unless untreated. Trachoma is common among Southwest Indian tribes.
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Santa FE
N. M
Woo Dak San
Polk Richards
United States Indian Health Service
Albuquerque
S. I. Proctor
Boston
M. A. Otero
R. C. Dillon
Richards
Southwest
Sea experimental tube of Claude sinks off Havana coast
A giant steel tube built by Prof Georges Claude to harness the gulf stream collapsed while being lowered into the sea opposite Matemnas Havana. Two high tension cables parted causing the tube to drift and sink in 700 meters of water. The project valued over 1 million dollars and aimed to condense steam by treating warmer sea water.
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Havana
Georges Claude
Matemnas
Claude
Enrique Daime
Paris
Special Account Book Found In Cosmopolitan Bank Probe
Prosecutor Nelson Schwab summoned ten witnesses before the Hamilton County Grand Jury in the Cosmopolitan Bank failure case. Names include Clara Cook and Jacob Landley among others. the purpose is to elicit documentary evidence and continue the inquiry into the bank collapse. The new inquisitorial body will begin duties at the July term on July 7.
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Cosmopolitan
Nelson Schwab
Hamilton County Grand Jury
Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust Company
Federal Finance Company
Dorger & Dorger
Finance Company
Clara C. Cook
Hyde Park Avenue
Jacob Landley
Main Avenue
Norwood
Sam Levine
East Second Street
Stanley Trosser
Catherine Avenue
John T. Wellburn
Plain
Schwab
Dudley Miller
Louis Schneider
Cosmopolitan Bank
Vardaman dies at 68 former Mississippi governor and senator
James Kimball Vardaman died in Birmingham after a long illness. He was 68 and had been a lawyer editor and political figure in Mississippi. He served as governor from 1904 to 1908 and as U S Senator from 1913 to 1919, and his funeral will be held in Jackson.
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Birmingham
Ala
James Kimball Vardaman
United States
Mississippi
Vardaman
Winona
Miss
Winona Advance
Greenwood Enterprise
Jackson
Mississippi House of Representatives
Senate
Washington
Pythias
A. L. Fairley
W. T. Rattliff
James K. Vardaman, Jr
St. Louis
Jackson, Miss
City budgets fund gas rate expert contract and zoning hearings
The City Council appropriated 25000 for a NY expert A S B Little to study data for a new natural gas franchise with Union Gas and Electric Co. Two August 6 zoning hearings set for Wilmer street area and Observatory road. Council referred street vacations near Third and Smith for C and O Railroad. Communist meeting request sent to City Manager.
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A. S. B. Little
New York
General Hospital
Wilmer Street
Beechmont Avenue
Observatory Road
Menlo
Stettinius
Salem and
Ritchie Avenues
City Planning Commission
Third
Smith Street
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
West End
Communist Party
Charles O. Rose
Finance Committee
Central Parkway
Canton graft chiefs in net amid federal indictments
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports a former Canton city official and a former Canton police sergeant were among six people named in secret federal indictments for a million dollar liquor graft and vice ring. U S Attorney Wilfred Mahon led the three month probe. names to be released when arrests are made.
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Cleveland
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Federal
Canton
Plain Dealer
United States
Wilfred J. Mahon
Sik
Pants Nibble Bait Cops Hunt Fisher
Police pursue a fishing burglars tale involving Bratos missing $45 after thieves snatched his trousers from a second floor window at 702 Centr avenue. The incident occurred during the closed fishing season as two fishermen fled, leaving the pants with a nibbled pocket.
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Steve Bratos
Centr. Avenue
Bratos
Henderson Freed After New Trial Granted in Robbery Case
Cecil Henderson 24 of 315 West Seventh street, freed after Judge Fred L. Hoffman granted a new trial following new evidence. Henderson and Edward Harding 21 of 1616 Race street were convicted of holdupping Theodore Schmidt's drug store on Wheeler and Warner streets last November. Witnesses split on identification. prosecutors recommended nol pressed on the indictments. Harding and Henderson had been serving sentences when the new information emerged.
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Cecil Henderson
West Seventh Street
Judes Fred L. Hoffman
Nelson Schwab
Carson Hoy
Henderson
Nolse
Edward Harding
Race Street
Theodore Schmidt
Wheeler and
Warner Streets
Charles Hanovich
Cleveland
Hanovich
William Shields
Separate Record of Transactions Allegedly Made by Official
Investigators report a separate record of transactions apparently made by an official. The document notes potential irregularities and gaps in the official’s ledgers, with authorities examining dates, amounts, and recipients for possible improper payments.
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Investi
State Bank Examiner to Make Statement Soon
State authorities say the bank investigation is being hampered by dual accounting practices at Cosmopolitan Bank. A “special” book and several second books are under review as investigators pursue civil or criminal liability, with several accounts including the Erhardt Special and M. J. and M. accounts tied to complex asset appraisals.
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State Bank Examiner
Cosmopolitan Bank
M. J
W. G. Boring
Charlies B. Erherdt
Erhardt
Lingle Russell $100000 Stock Pool Revealed
Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred J. Lingle who was slain on June 9 carried a joint stock market account with former Police Commissioner William Russell. The State's Attorney's office disclosed a $100,000 pool once represented by the pair who denied any improper dealings and said they were only friends playing the market together.
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Chicago
Alfred J. Lingle
Chicago Tribune
William Russell
Russell
Lingle
Patrick Roche
Charles F. Rathbun
Tribune Law Firm
Jas Company Withdraws Suit To Halt Low Rate Ordinance
The Jas Company withdrew a bid to block a new low gas rate ordinance after judges held that no temporary injunction would be granted. Judge Nevin dismissed the case without prejudice, allowing a future suit if desired, while ruling against continuing the old rate pending resolution.
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Jas Company
Union’Gas and Electric Company
John D. Ellis
Robert Nevin
United States District Court
Nevin
Lawrence K
Gdon
Lang
Don
Temperatures and Weather Plot Across States
Weather map notes show Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia with thundershowers possible Thursday and Friday. Some areas will be cooler at night with fair conditions by Friday. Eastport reports current and 24 hour precipitation and a June 25 1930 record comparison for Boston Nashville Cleveland and others.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Mair
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Eastport
Boston
Oleee
Nashville
Cleveland
Sever
S.W
Coeeeven Enon
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Stephen G. Porter
Allegheny General Hospital
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Lingle-Russell
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