First Leg of World Flight Completed by Army Airmen
Three Army airplanes completed the first leg from Clover Field to Mather Field Sacramento landing at 2 05 pm Lt Lowell Smith first to land A second group of six planes arrived at 2 02 pm The flight begins a 30000 mile voyage to map the world airway facing weather and mountain cloud barriers with stops planned through Seattle Calcutta to London and back to Clover Field
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Mather Field
Sacramen
Cal
Clover Field
Lowell Smith
Associated Press
Santa Monica
United States Army
Frederick L. Martin
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Ill
Lowell H. Smith
Los Angeles
Leigh Wade
Cosmopolis
Mich
San Diego
Erik H. Nelson
Portland
Seattle
America
Sacramento
Vancouver Barracks
Washington
Ore
Calcutta
India
Tehachapi
San Joaquin
Japan
Kagoshima
Nagasaki
San Stefan
Turkey
Balkans
Vienna
France
London
England
Iceland
Greenland
Canadian
United States
Police Round Up Four Robbery Suspects After West End Holdups
Police nabbed four African American men identified as involved in four muggings and confessing to about twenty robberies since their spree began weeks ago. The arrest followed a raid on 952 West Sixth Street after a tip from a civilian. One suspect was shot in the leg but not seriously hurt. others were captured and connected to multiple holdups including a grocery and a drug store robbery. Victims are urged to report further robberies to headquarters as investigators compile charges and pursue additional links.
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Fred Naberhaus
Kenyon
Baymiller Street
Grocer
William Krumpe
West Sixth Street
William Bones
William Brown
Krumpe
Hoffman
Hoffmann
General Hospital
Luther Stratton
Freeman Avenue
Stratton
James Houston
Houston
Westerman
Sixth
Carr Streets
Bones
Watkins
Mr. Naberhaus
John Detzel
West McMicken Avenue
Seventh and Freeman Avenue
Barnes
West End
Barr Street
Carl Richmond
Richmond
Emmet Kirgan
Swift & Co Wins Over $1 Million in Government Suit
Washington March 17 Swift Co was awarded 1077386 by the Court of Claims in its action against the government over bacon contracts that were rejected after the armistice The total suits in the packers cases seek about 7 million for alleged wartime contract overcharges by the Big Five packers
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Washington
Swift & Co
Court of Claims
Swift
Bank Examiner Reports $223000 Shortage at Hayward Bank
Federal Examiner I. D. Wright announced in Minneapolis that the investigation into the closed First National Bank of Hayward Wisconsin has uncovered a shortage of 223000 dollars as of today.
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Minneapolis
Minn
First National Bank of
Hayward
Wis
I. D. Wright
Federal Examiner
President Defends Coolidge Action Over Oberammergau Visit
President Coolidge faced Senate criticism for halting Saturday addresses to the Oberammergau Passion Players. In a letter to Anton Lang Coolidge said the move reflected rules on receiving foreign delegations. Senators Dill Pepper and Fess weighed in, defending or questioning the handling as appropriate to the situation.
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Senator
Coolidge
Act
Lang
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Dill
Dem
Wash
America
Ludwig Nissen
White House
Tech
Pepper
Rep
Fess
Louisiana Negro Confirmed by Senate for New Orleans Customs Post
The Senate, reversing two previous votes, confirmed Walter L. Cohen a Louisiana Republican leader, to be Controller of Customs for the New Orleans District. After a 16 month battle, 39 senators voted yes and 38 no. Cohen will receive back pay dating to May 12, 1923.
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Senate
New Orleans
Washington
Walter L. Cohen
Louisiana
Shipstead
F.L
Minn
Randell
Dem
Harmo
Cohen
Moses
New Hampshire
Jones
Harding
President Coolidge
Coolidge
Two Army Flyers Die in Plane Collision Over Florida Coast
Lieutenants Olin R. Miner and Charles D. Porter were killed when their airplane collided with another aircraft near Corry Landing Field north of Pensacola. The other plane's crew escaped serious injury.
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Pensacola
Fla
Olin R. Miner
Charles D. Porter
Corry Landing Field
Here
Three Miners Die in Drift Mine Blast Near Ford City
Three miners were killed in an explosion at a small drift mine near Ford City Pennsylvania operated by Equitable Gas Company. A rescue crew from the Pittsburgh station of the United States Bureau of Mines recovered the bodies. the three men were the only workers in the mine at the time.
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Associated Press
Ford City
Equitable Gas Company
Here
Pittsburgh
United States Bureau of Mines
Bergdoll to Return to Serve War Sentence
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll agrees to come back to the United States to serve his draft evasion sentence in a federal prison. The offer comes from the American Legion which cites law and order and invites Bergdoll to return voluntarily, with race to reveal those who aided his escape.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
America
Norman Hapgood
Hearst
International Magazine
American Legion
John Quinn
Legion
Leighton H. Blood
Germany
Garland W. Powell
Americanism Commission
Lemuel Bolles
Blood
Mr. Blood
United States
National American Commission
Daugherty links with fight film deal in Stinson case
Attorney General Daugherty claims Roxie Stinson offered documentary evidence for 150000 with silence to the Attorney General and that talks occurred in Cleveland on February 21 1924 with A L Fink acting as her agent. Fink later reduced the price to 50000 and planned to flee, while witnesses were urged to testify.
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Daugherty
Deal
Roxie Stinson
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Cleveland
A. L. Fink
Buffalo
Brookhart
James W. Holcomb
Euclid Avenue
Samuel Ungerleider
Leader News Building
Henry T. Ellis
M. S. Daugherty
Washington D. H
Jess W. Smith
N. Y
Hollenden Hotel
A. L. French and Wife
Statler
Goétne
Statler Hotel
H. M. Daugherty
Department of Justice
Fink
New York
Hollenden
A. L. French
Tae Lue
Mr. Fink
Holcomb
Paul Howland
George EB. Chamberlain
Two Receivers Named in Suit in Elk Hills Oil Case
In Los Angeles on March 17 the first day of the U S government vs Doheny interests over Elk Hills Naval Reserve leases ended with two receivers appointed to preserve the status quo. Rear Admiral Harry H Rosseau and J E Anderson were named at counsel and court suggestions. The court deferred depositing funds for a few days. The case charges fraud and irregular procedures in lease grants and offset well contracts.
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Doheny
Rosseau
J. E. Anderson
California
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Harry H. Rosseau
Atlee Pomerene
Pan-American Petroleum Company
Frederick R. Kellogg
Oil Company
Pomerene
Mr. Anderson
Washington
Elk Hills
Naval Reserve
Hawaii
Pomeérene
Navy
Roosevelt
Kellogg
Owen J. Roberts
Washington, D. C
Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company
Albert B. Fall
United States
Fall
Testimony Ties Daugherty to Prize Fight Film Plot
Senate hearing reveals G O Holdridge testimony claiming Attorney General Daugherty sought a 50 percent cut in profits from prize fight film depicting Carpentier Dempsey. Evidence centers on Muma and Burns with Orr, Rickard, Means, Quimby cited. immunity talks loom for Muma.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daugherty
Senate
G. O.holdridge
Department of Justice
Jap Muma
Holdridge
Muma
Jess W. Smith
Smith
Gaston B. Means
Fred C. Quimby
Edward B. McLean
Cincinnati Enquirer
New York
William J. Burns
Bureau of Investigation
Burns
Mr. Daugherty
Alfred R. Urion
Wheeler
Urston
Quimby
Jap Mumf&é
Will Orr
United States
Orr
Brookhart
Spellacy
Means
Presi
Pope Falls Ill As Urgent Health Alarm Spreads
Rome report says Pope suffers arteriosclerosis and heart strain after a recent heart attack. Dr Rossi from Milan arrives to assess his condition as Vatican secrecy grows around the Pontiff. Latest notes show interest in the coming consistory and radio concerts.
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Associated Press
London
Rome
Daily Express
Rossi
Milan
Vatican
25000 Klan Members to Protest in Herrin Count
Gathering of the Ku Klux Klan in Herrin Illinois is announced to protest verdicts of a special grand jury. They accuse S Glenn Young and others of corruption and aim to bring twenty five thousand people to Herrin for the demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herrin
Ill
Ku Klux Klan
S. Glenn Young
Illinois
Munsey Sells New York Herald To Ogden Reid
New York Herald sold to Ogden Reid of The Tribune and will merge with The New York Tribune to form The New York Herald Tribune. The combined paper will publish from 25 West Forty street, with The Herald name retained as a basic condition of the sale.
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Munsey
New York Herald
Ogden Reid
The
Tribune
New York
Frank A. Munsey
New York Tribune
Reid
Herald
Paris
New York Herald-Tribune
West
Fortieth Street
Miisey
Sun
the Telegram
the Herald
Morning Field
the American
William Randolph Hearst
the World
Ralph Pulitzer
the Times
Adolph Ochs
Illustrated Daily News
Telegram and Evening Mail
News
Press
the Sun
Evening Sun
Bennett
Evening Telegram
Morning Sun
Globe
Mr. Munsey
Mail
Telegram
Evening Field
Evening Post
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Pulitzer
Evening World
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Mexican hired to kill wife confessed to Ogden trunk murder
Fred Janssen confessed to Pueblo police that he hired a Mexican to kill his wife Bella Janssen whose body was found stuffed in a trunk in Ogden Utah. He was arrested in Eden Colorado after riding in a taxi from Colorado Springs. He claimed he stayed in another room while the murder occurred and hinted at a past gift of candy from a Pittsburgh man.
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Janssen
Ogden
Utah
Associated Press
Pueblo
Col
Bella Janssen
Fred Janssen
Eden
Here
Colorado Springs
Tom
Pittsburgh
Union Pacific Railway
Denver
Weed
Cal
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West End Grocery
Swipt
ARMY
Florida
F. L. Martin
Jay Berguull Abaela
Gie
Counsel
Union
Thomas G. Spellacy
St. Louis
William A. Orr
Whitman
Tex Rickard
Rickard
Gaston Means
Pope
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