Pilot and Two Passengers Injured In Coney Island Plane Crash
A Beechmont field owner pilot Robert Rorick 34 and two passengers Joe Martin 23 and Lyle Waltz 34 were hurt when their American Eagle biplane crashed into a sapling after a tail spin at 1500 feet near Coney Island hillside. The trio had flown about ten minutes after leaving Lunken Airport where council members rode along.
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Coney Island
General Hospital
Robert Rorick
Pape Avenue
Hyde Park
Beech
Lunken
Polo Grounds
Rorick
Embry Riddle Company
Beechmont Avenue Levee
Eastern Avenue
Martin
Waltz
Observatory Road
Esther Ellison
Avondale
City Councilmen Take Flight Over Lunken Site
City officials flew 1500 feet in Col. C. O. Sherrill's airport tour, piloted by John P. Riddle of Embry-Riddle in a Ryan monoplane. The trip aimed to gauge the Lunken Airport adjacent site as the council backs a municipal airport despite the flight’s light technical talk.
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Lunken
Col
C. O. Sherrill
John P. Riddle
Embry- Riddle Company
Col. Lindbergh
Commercial Tribune
C. C. Rose
City Treasury
Ques
Daniels declines third party bid for VP on Reed Borah ticket
Wilbur Legette asked Josephus Daniels to run for vice president on a Reed or Borah headed ticket if Al Smith is nominated at Houston. Daniels replied that he supports the Democratic ticket, opposes third parties, and will not accept a vice presidential nomination on any third party ticket. He cited enforcing prohibition and defeating privilege and corruption as the path to victory.
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Borah
Reed
Smith
Daniels
Los Angeles
Wilbur Legette
James A. Reed
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Wilson
Senator Borah
al Smith
New York
Houston
News and Observer
Raleigh
N. C
California
Democratic Party
Idaho
Tammany Hall
Mr. Daniels
America
Mellon
Harding
Coolidge
Congress
Threc
Eeechan Tae James A. Reed
Sinclair ends testimony in oil inquiry amid bond profits questions
In Washington on May 2 the Senate Teapot Dome Committee concluded Harry F. Sinclair's testimony after a day and a half. He was ordered to provide a letter transmitting 757000 dollars in profits from Continental Trading Company of Canada and related receipts and book entries. Nye warned of further witnesses and possible Salt Creek Field leases inquiry.
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Washington
Continental Trading Company of Canada
Harry F. Sinclair
Senate
Sinclair
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Teapot Dome
Nye
Salt Creek
Continental
H. M. Blackmer
A. E. Humphreys
Denver
Sinclair Crude
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Blackmer
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
James E. O’neil
Prairie Oil and Gas
Standard Oil
Rain and Wind Sweep Iowa and Nebraska
Severe winds and heavy rain struck Western Nebraska and Eastern Iowa injuring one person. Lines were prostrated near Cherokee Iowa with damage reported in Moville and Bancroft Nebraska. An airplane may survey damage at daybreak if wires remain out. The storm began near West Point Nebraska with a cloudburst near Thurston Nebraska.
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Sioux City
Nebraska
Iowa
Cherokee
Moville
West Point
Neb
Bancroft
Thurston
Southern coal rate fight escalates over differential change
Southern coal mine operators meet in secret to resist altering the 26 cent per ton differential between shipments from Kentucky Tennessee West Virginia Virginia fields and those from Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Northern lines led by the Pennsylvania New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio carry coal at 1.45 a ton while Southern routes Chesapeake & Ohio Norfolk & Western and Louisville & Nashville charge 1.71 a ton. A truce meeting today near Gibson aims to ease a four year dispute teased by possible 20 cent cuts from Wheeling & Lake Er ie and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. The Interstate Commerce Commission recently reduced Northern rates by 20 cents, prompting Southern protests and a court injunction. the dispute now heads to the Supreme Court.
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Southern Coal
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Southern
Chesapeake & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Louisville & Nashville
Northern Railroad Group
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Gibson
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charleston
W. Va
Federal Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Northern
Arlen Wedding in Cannes Amid Medieval Orthodox Rite
British novelist Michael Arlen wed Countess Mercate in a Greek Orthodox ceremony in Cannes. The church overflowed with Riviera society and locals as the couple exchanged vows, candles, and bread and water amid a Russian chant and ceremonial crowns.
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Cannes
France
Michael Arlen
Countess Mercate
Riviera
Arlen
Count Mercate
Bridge
Marius Kouyoumdjoin
Dirge on gallows echoes as Chicago crime tale unfolds
Nick Viana sang Ave Maria before his execution for murder eight years earlier in Cook County. He killed a man during a hold up and pocketed eight dollars. His last words urged his death to teach his younger brother. Today Paul Viana, now 18, received a sentence of one year to life for robbery with a gun after a jury found he robbed a motorman of 8.22 dollars.
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Chicago
Nick Viana
Ave Maria
Cook County
Paul Viana
New York Jumps Quband S Fares To Seven Cents
A federal court allowed the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to raise subway and elevated fares to 7 cents "at once" while granting options for appeal. Mayor Walker announced a bid for a second term on a 5 cent fare platform, citing poor service. The decision requires a bond to protect riders if the nickel fare is later upheld by higher courts.
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New York
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Walker
United States Supreme Court
Durant flyer tries to break sustained flight record
Royal V. Thomas of Durant Oklahoma, a former army flyer, circled a ten mile route over Roosevelt Field and Mitchel Field Long Island aiming to surpass the endurance record. With 500 gallons of fuel and a radio, he sought one hour more than the 54 hour 36 minute 41 second mark set by Haldeman and Stinson.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Royal V. Thomas
Durant
Okla
Long Island Air Field
Mitchel Field
Thomas
George Haldem
Eddie Stinson
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Plane Crash Kills 16 Year Old at Sturgis Airport
In Sturgis Michigan on May 2 a plane piloted by Lieut Gerald Smead crashed at a local airport. Passenger Fred H Newman 16 was killed. Dewey A Gross 27 and Lieut Smead were seriously injured.
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Sturgis
Mich
Fred H. Newman
Gerald Smead
Kelly Field
Tex
Dewey A. Gross
Smead
Churchill Slips Into Illness During Budget Debate
In London on May 2 during a parliamentary budget debate Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, suddenly fell ill. He is reported to have influenza with a high fever, leaving proceedings briefly interrupted.
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Winston Churchill
London
Bre men Flyers Receive Honor at White House and Capitol
The Bremen crew including Coolidge pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross on three members after a Capitol reception and White House meeting with President and Mrs. Coolidge. They visited Arlington Cemetery, were saluted by Congress, and greeted by cheering crowds at Bolling Field. Capt. Koehl led the group into a celebratory day in Washington.
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Washington
Bremen
Capitol
New York
Feld
Atlantic
Herman Koehl
United States
James Fitzmaurice
Greenly Island
Bolling Field
Kellogg
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Coolidge
White House
Atta
Fitz
Baron
Cap
Capt. Koehl
Methodist Conference Rejects Fundamentalist Push on Modernism
Kansas City May 2 The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church votes 10 to 1 to block a resolution to form a 15 member committee investigating modernistic theories. Bishop Anton Bast faces a church court over a 1926 funds case, with prosecutor Fred S Stone seeking settlement or resignation. Rumors of another trial surface as Francis J McConnell hints at further action.
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Kansas City
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harold Paul Sloan
Haddonfield
N. J
Sloan Speedily
Anton Bast
Copenhagen
Bastense
Fred S. Stone
Chicago
Bast
Francis J. McConnell
Pittsburgh
Italia Flying Toward Spitzbergen
General Umberto Nobile began the Italia’s second attempt to fly across the North Pole from STOLP Germany at 3 20 this morning. With 200 cavalrymen the dirigible was dragged from its hangar toward Spitzbergen on the first leg of the Arctic flight as searchlights bathed its silver hull before dawn.
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Citta di Milano
Spitzbergen
Auto Victim Bruce Jones Injured in Hyde Park Crash
Bruce Jones a 25 year old Hyde Park resident and sandwich man at the New Era Cafe was critically injured when the car he was driving crashed into a loading platform at Gilbert and Florence avenues. His chest was crushed in the early crash.
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Maw
Bruce Jones
Marburg Avenue
Hyde Park
New Era
Gilbert and
Florence Avenues
American envoy missing in China
Walter B. Wilson Jr., a U S Vice Consul in Shanghai for eight years, vanished after leaving a Shanghai hotel at 6 am Tuesday. He wrote five letters at the Golf Club in Chinese territory. one letter reached the Consulate and another The China Press. Friends fear he is dead. searchers found no trace. Wilson, from Greenville North Carolina, was prominent in the United States with several brothers West Point graduates.
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Shanghai
Walter B. Wilson
Greenville
N. C
Wilson
United States
Golf Club
China Press
West Point
Ohio Jaywalker Dies in Workhouse Over Fine Refusal
James Ferguson age 28 died of pneumonia in Cleveland workhouse after choosing to serve a 25 dollar jaywalking fine rather than pay it. He refused to reveal his address at arrest on April 11, hindering kin discovery. authorities seek his friends or relatives. An unnamed man arranged for funeral costs and claimed the body from City Hospital morgue.
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Ohio
Jaywalker
Cleveland
James Ferguson
City Hospital
House Rejects Equalization Fee in McNary-Haugen Bill
Washington, May 2. The House voted 141 to 120 to disapprove the equalization fee provisions of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. The session featured a heated parliamentary dispute over what the chamber had actually voted on as representatives argued whether the substitute measure by Aswell killed the fee. The result marked the first defeat for the McNary-Haugen bloc in two years and intensified debate over farm relief strategy and constitutional questions surrounding the fee principle.
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Washington
House
Representative Aswell
Louisiana
House Agriculture Committee
Aswell
Cannon
Dem
Champ Clark
Mapes
Rep
Mich
Tom Bgrew
McNary-Haugen
Congress
Coolidge
Sargent
Quarantine Placed On County Jail After Smallpox Case
Hamilton County Jail placed under quarantine after a mild smallpox case was found among prisoners. Edward Williams, 18, confessed to malicious destruction of property, hospitalized. guards and 217 inmates to be vaccinated. Quarantine suspends Criminal Court visits and new prisoner intake for weeks.
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Hamilton County
Eugene Sheridan
W. T. Lindsay
Edward Williams
Williams
General Hospital
Lindsay
William Kautz
Cincinnati Community Chest Surpasses Goal at Victory Dinner
The Cincinnati Community Chest raised 2 022 539 in pledges during a two week campaign begun April 17. 6 000 solicitors contributed with divisions led by Clifton Wright and John Cronin. An overflow banquet seating 1200 heard Mayor Seasongood and Col. William Procter praise the effort as the largest per capita gift in the United States.
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Gibson
Clifford Wright
John M. Cronin
Charles A. Hinsch
Mayor Seasongood
John Cronin
C. M. Bookman
Seasongood
Community Chest
United States
A. E. Anderson
Robert Williams
Mabley & Carew
Third Union Trust
Procter & Gamble
Union Gas and Electric Company
Thomas Thompson
District I-2
Walter Ibold
Price Hill
Archbishop McNicholas
Charles Hinsch
William Cooper Procter
Cincinnati
Chest
Croki
Wright
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Rickenbacker
Sloan
New Jersey
Board of Bishops
Conference
Italia
Dirigible
North Pole
China
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