24 May 1928
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1928
Page
1
Observers report Italia Ghulat Ver spent an hour at the pole making observations. Officials note the activity appears exploratory with no immediate scientific mission announced.
Gen Umberto Nobile in the dirigible Italia sailed toward the North Pole from Kings Bay Spitzbergen reaching it briefly around 1 o clock and circling near the pole until 2 before turning back toward Spitzbergen. The voyage covered about 750 miles at an estimated 40 to 50 mph with plans for magnetic observations at the pole and a crossing back planned for Thursday night.
Robert Dawson 89 Civil War veteran of 344 Kilgour Street sought a divorce from Eliza Dewitt Dawson 60 of Pittsburgh whom he married in 1906. They separated in 1924 after he claimed desertion. Judge Charles W. Hoffman dismissed the suit saying no purpose would be served by granting a divorce.
Four bandits raided the First National Bank of Samar, killing cashier John Parrish and his father A N Parrish after a gun battle. A teller was kidnapped, and the robbers escaped with about $7000 in currency and Liberty bonds as a posse pursued them toward Kansas.
News from London reports Northern forces retook Hokien in Eastern Chihai after a strong sweep against Feng Yu-Hsiang’s Southerners. Paotingfu remains contested with a border air strike alarming the railroad hub eighty miles south of Peking. Brig. Gen. Butler weighs evacuation plans for Americans as foreign diplomats weigh United States response.
Claudius H. Huston testified before the Senate Campaign Funds Committee that expenditures for Hoover reached 312745, with 52500 raised and 32296 spent to back Herbert Hoover’s Republican nomination effort. Huston, a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, defended his role as he presented figures amid probe into Politics, a weekly opposing Hoover. Frank Hale claimed 8500 losses for Politics since January, saying no outside aid and that he had no bank account while promoting efforts in Mexico.
In Danville Indiana a youth fitting Samuel Baxter’s description was arrested after checking into a hotel. He claimed to be McKenzie Ward of Midlothian Illinois and said he had been "bumming" through the South since the month’s start. John Burns, once Baxter’s prisoner during the February jail guard slayings, was arrested near Lafayette Indiana this week.
Margaret Reppa a 23 year old girl fought off a bandit during an attempted bank robbery at her father's East Chicago Indiana bank. He fled after the struggle and a chase ensued through the streets as police joined the pursuit.
More than 400 railroad officials city leaders and Cincinnati businessmen toured Greater Cincinnati terminals traveling over 100 miles from Sharonville to DeCursey Kentucky in a 12 car sightseers train. They reviewed current facilities and future potential focusing on a new passenger terminal near Lincoln Park and the Chesapeake & Ohio line around Covington.
Senate and House conferees reach a new agreement on the Muscle Shoals bill retaining the Cove Creek Dam provision but removing sections that would have allowed mixed fertilizer production. The government corporation would limit itself to fertilizer experimentation. Senate objections to the dam remain likely, and passage before adjournment is uncertain.
A double bombing at the Italian Consulate in Buenos Aires kills seven and injures about fifty. A second device was found and defused at a pharmacy, with authorities blaming anti-Fascists. The attack targets the Italian Consulate during a planned dedication ceremony.
In Sandusky Ohio Benjamin Buser 18 injured in crash as Walter Anderson 32 of Richmond Indiana dies at the scene. Buser, on his third navigation lesson, was burned and rescued by L H Parker of Parker Bros. The plane was to serve a Sandusky Cleveland and Sandusky Toledo route. Anderson reportedly tried to right the craft after a tail spin. A separate Far man flight from Paris to Berlin crash near Cologne killed three aboard.
New York World News Service reports farm relief legislation tied to McNary-Haugen principles has gained Congressional strength over four years. Previous House defeats are noted, with the latest Senate passage on April 12 and House approval on May 3. President Coolidge vetoed the bill amid ongoing debates.
Lincoln C. Andrews formerly in charge of the Prohibition Bureau is named Director-General of the Rubber Institute formed by major American producers. The group aims to normalize pricing, ethics, and cooperative merchandising with a June 1 Plaza meeting and FTC and Commerce Department attendance sought. Members include Ajax Rubber, Dunlop, Firestone, Fisk, B F Goodrich, Goodyear, Kelly-Springfield, Manhattan Rubber, Miller’s, Seiberling, and United States Rubber.
The quadrennial Methodist Episcopal Church conference in Kansas City elected Rev. Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago as Bishop on the second ballot with 567 votes. Rev. Dr. James C. Baker of Urbana was chosen Bishop on the sixth ballot with 591 votes. Rev. John M. Arter of Portland was named Secretary to fill Wade’s post as the conference adjourned until the next morning.
H C Blackwell, president of the Cincinnati Newport and Covington Railway, asks Kentucky officials at a Queen City Club meeting to raise northern Kentucky car fares from 5 to 10 cents cash and 813 cents ticket. He links higher fares to expanded service and lower electric rates, cites a long-running deficit in gas, electric, water and street railway utilities, and notes proposed new franchises to replace current perpetual ones.
Senate debates the Presidents veto of the McNary-Haugen bill and its possible impact on Herbert Hoover’s nomination chances. Observers see thirteen vetoes in days as signaling Coolidge stay out of the race while farm distaste may aid or hinder other contenders. Dramatic Simmons speech attacks Smith and Tammany while urging North Carolina primaries to decide the GOP future.
Philadelphia May 23 Autograph collector David M Newbold seeks to recover the 1906 marriage license of Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt sold at auction with other papers. The license and a thank you letter were bought by F G Sweet of Battle Creek for 21 dollars. Newbold aims to return the document to the Speaker and Mrs Longworth.
Texas governor changes party stance during a convention opposition to Tammany leadership. The move signals alignment with reformers and signals potential shifts in state politics.
In Beaumont Texas on May 23 60 delegates were chosen to attend the national convention on a dry platform. Gov Dan Moody secured the chair and pushed for a committee selected delegation to ensure dry delegates and to oppose Gov Smith of New York. Moody justified the move as enforcing local self government despite past stance favoring district control.
President Coolidge vetoed the Mec-Nary-Haugen farm relief bill, calling its equalization fee a tax and price fixing that would foster overhead bureaucracy and overproduction. He urged a farm bill aligned with private initiative and warned of broader subsidy demands if enacted. McNary and others urged action while sentiment for and against overriding the veto remained divided.
Radio reports say the cannery ship Star of Falkland struck rocks off Akun Head in the Bering Sea and sank while almost 400 crew and cannery employees were rescued by the lighthouse tender Cedar the Arctic and the Coast Guard cutter Unalga. Seven Chinese reportedly died by their own actions in the chaos.
The notice directs readers to page seven for the full text of the President's veto message. It indicates the location of the document within the issue and implies additional details follow the reference.
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