Eckener Seeks 14 Million for Trans-Sea Airship Line
Dr. Hugo Eckener aims to raise 14 million dollars to fund four airships for a regular trans ocean service with European and American terminals. Each dirigible would cost about 2 million, with 6 million for two large hangars, and the plan includes a fifty hour schedule and revenue from letters. He may visit Ford to discuss American capital and potential mooring at Dearborn.
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New York
Hugo Eckener
Friedrichshafen
Lakehurst
Switzerland
Washington
Baltimore
Eckener
Dearborn
Fords
Germany
Albert Bode Deo dies after long illness in Cincinnati
Albert Bode a key Cincinnati Republican ward leader and ally of Cox and Herrmann died at Good Samaritan Hospital at 59 after a five year illness. Raised by a German immigrant blacksmith he built ward power, paid rents for jobless families and governed local politics with charity. He headed the Fourteenth Ward for over twenty years and his influence was said to reach 15,000 votes. He helped Laughery Club leaders and was a prominent figure in civic life.
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Albert Bode
Cincinnati
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr. Bode
South America
Bode
Rio de Janeiro
Overlook Avenue
Price Hill
George B. Cox
Garry” Herrmann
R. K. Hynicka
Moerlein
Laughery Club
Ohio River
Herrmann, Cox
Briton Flies Solo Atlantic Run From Newfoundland
Flight Commander H. O. Macdonald, retired, took off from Harbor Grace in a Gypsy Moth De Havilland to attempt a non stop solo transatlantic flight to England. The 28 year old former naval officer loaded with fuel and equipment for an ocean hop, with favorable winds noted though weather had been poor prior.
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ST. Johns
N. F
H. O. Macdonald
Harbor Grace
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
England
Macdonald
Newfoundland
Ocean
Fireman's songs credited with saving Trojan Star crew
Fireman William James of Hull with jokes and sea songs led crew members to stay calm in the bilges as a fire raged aboard the Trojan Star off the California coast. Seven crew burned, one man William Tennison died at sea. flames trapped engine room workers for hours until a steam pipe smothered the fire.
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Vancouver
B. C
William James
Hull
England
Trojan-Star
California
Trojan Star
William P. Tennison
James
Sydney P. Houston
MURDER THREAT SEEN AD CLIMAX TO TAXICAB WAR
John O Hertz president of Yellow Cab and racing stable owner faced kidnapping threats forcing a grandchild to leave the state. Attorneys Strawn and Butler sought protection from Acting State's Attorney Gorman as subpoenas issued for Checker Taxi officials. Fire and violence tied to the taxi war prompted investigations, guards, and a City Council committee.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
John O. Hertz
Yellow Cab Company
George E. Gorman
Gorman
Robert McLaughlin
Checker Taxicab Company
Arthur Albert
Edgar Cook
Strawn
Butler
John J. Sullivan
Criminal Court
Sullivan
Illinois Association For Criminal Justice
McHenry County
Hertz
Leona
Carey
Ill
Eugene Thivurage
Checker
Reigh
Anita Peabody
Crowe
Checker Taxica
Checker Company
Comerford
Graf Zeppelin Delivers Letters to Cincinnati Residents
The Graf Zeppelin served as a postman to Cincinnati, delivering two letters and two postcards including to Dr. L P Hottendorf at 810 Richmond, his wife, and daughter Elizabeth Hottendorf a Washburn School teacher. Letters for Charles Hinsch and N Henry Beckman also carried from Bremen and Fuerth, mailed October 7.
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L. P. Hottendorf
Cincinnati Academy of Medicine
Graf Zeppelin
Hottendorf
Richmond Street
Elizabeth Hottendorf
Washburn School
Otto H. Bernhard
Bremen
Siam
Voters Urged to Register for November Presidential Election
In Cincinnati Norwood and St Bernard residents, two days remain to register for the November 6 election. Registration sites open 8 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 9 pm at regular polling places.
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United States
Cincinnati
Norwood
St. Bernard
Seventy Drown After Collision Of Steamers Near Taku
Reports from Tientsin say seventy people drowned when two China Merchant steamers collided near Taku. The Yung Hsing sank with 300 aboard, sixty passengers and ten crew missing. the other vessel was the Haintai.
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Shanghai
China
Tientsin
China Merchant Steam Navigation Company
Taku
Yung Hsing
Haintai
New York Contractor Connolly Jailed in Sewer Scandal
Maurice E Connolly long time Queens Democratic leader and former borough president was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 500 for conspiracy to defraud the city in the $29 million Queens sewer system. His former design engineer Frederick was convicted on the same charge with sent.
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New York
Maurice E. Connolly
Queens
Supreme Court
Fredericker
Fastine Tompkins
Secretary West halts government oil sale to Sinclair
Secretary West ordered the stopping of delivery of government royalty oil to the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company from the Salt Creek field in Wyoming. An Attorney General ruling found the 1922 and 192? contracts invalid, pending a public sale to the highest bidder after readvertising.
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Sinclair Purchasing Company
West
Washington
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Sargent
Albert B. Fall
Hubert Work
George Otis Smith
Geological Survey
Tulsa
Okla
Sinclair Company
Dr. Smith
Interior Department
Marines Reinforce Nicaraguan Town Amid Attack Rumor
Ten Marines and four Nicaraguan National Guard men were rushed to San Juan Del Norte in BLUEFIELDS Nicaragua to reinforce police after a rumor that eighty Costa Rican fighters led by Gen. Fer aoa Larios planned an assault on the city.
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Bluefields
Nicaragua
National Guard
San Juan del Norte
Feraoa Larios
Queen Marie Stricken With Influenza at Balcik
Queen Marie of Romania is ill with influenza and confined to her Balcik residence. The Oct. 17 dispatch reports she has taken ill while at the coastal fortress and is under medical care.
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Queen Marie
Bucharest
Romania
Balcik
Death of Dr Benedict Casts Pall Over Cincinnati Botany Class
Auto skids on a rain slick street and a trolley crash fatally injures Dr Harris Benedict 55 and his daughter Jean 18 while another daughter Anne 17 remains in serious condition and son Harris 21 is injured. The incident raises Hamilton County auto fatalities for the year.
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Dr. Benedict
University of Cincinnati
Harris M. Benedict
Belmont Avenue
College Hill
Hester Stevenson
Miss Stevenson
Clifton-Ludlow
Ludlow
Lafayette Avenues
Benedict
Jean
University
Anne
Hughes High School
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hamilton
Clifton
Ludlow Avenue
Lafayette Avenue
Slain Club Hostess Core of Kansas City Bank Robbery Probe
Police traced the murder of Mrs. Artie Bonello, a 24 year old night club hostess, to a possible Kansas City bank robbery link. The body was found in Sunnyside Queens with a hammer blow and head injuries after investigators searched for gang members tied to the Home Trust Co. raid during the Republican National Convention.
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New York
Kansas City
Artie Bonello
Sunnyside
Queens
Alta Welch
Lido Gordon
Anthony Bonello
Home Trust Company
Bonello
Bolce
John Morrisey
State arrests own witness in Patterson Schoenleber bribery case
Philadelphia report on the bribery and extortion trial of Matthew Patterson and Charles W. Schoenleber being delayed after Commonwealth witness Francis J. McKeown a saloon keeper was arrested on perjury charges. He testified saloonkeepers paid 55 two weekly to a protector assoc with Schoenleber taking 7740 of 12129 collected.
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Philadelphia
Matthew Patterson
Charles W. Schoenleber
Commonwealth
Francis J. McKeown
James Ray Gordon, Jr
Schofield
Cancer considered hereditary by Mayo at health meeting
Dr. Charles H. Mayo of the Mayo Clinic told 3,000 physicians at the American Public Health Association convention that cancer is hereditary. He endorsed Maud Slye's work linking heredity to cancer and noted ongoing debate over whether cancer is a germ disease. He cited rising death rates and highlighted treatment discussions at the gathering.
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Charles H. Mayo
New York World News Service
Chicago
Mayo Clinic
American Public Health Association
Maud Slye
University of Chicago
Slye
Brech
College of Physical Therapy
Mayo
Bank of Italy Heist Involving Off Duty Officer
A robber used a special police officer as a reluctant accomplice to rob a downtown Bank of Italy in Los Angeles of 7000 dollars. Kaduck, the officer, was forced at gunpoint with a bomb to accompany the bandit to the teller. He whispered to the teller to hand over currency.
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Los Angeles
Bank of Italy
A. F. Kaduck
Kaduck
Bank Robbers Escape With 23300 In Vault Heist
In McGehee Arkansas two men wearing smoked glasses forced five Citizens Bank employees into the vault and escaped with 23300. The pair, seen in town days earlier, entered through a rear door and held the staff for about ten minutes before fleeing. Posses launched a search for the suspects.
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Mcgehee
Ark
Citizens Bank
C. S. Siscoe
Farmers Union leader targeted with fruit hurled at campaign speech
Oklahoma City Oct 17 A barrage of overripe fruit was hurled at John A Simpson president of the Oklahoma Farmers Union during his speech for Gov Alfred E Smith. C T Stover of the Partners Union sales dept attended and said he believed youths threw the missiles. Simpson was in Dallas today and the crowd shouted hurrah for Hoover periodically.
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Oklahoma City
John A. Simpson
Oklahoma Farmers’ Union
Alfred E. Smith
Bethany
C. T. Stover
Partners’ Union
Simpson
Dallas
Repaving Vine Street Voted At Present Width
The city council passed an ordinance to repave Vine Street between Third and Fourth streets at its present width by a 7 to 2 vote. Mayor Seasongood and C. O. Rose opposed. A lengthy minority report from the mayor accompanied the measure.
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Seasongood
Rose
Vine Street
Council Chamber
C. O. Rose
Louis B. Blakemore
Registrations in London 1908 to 1918 Reveal Nominee
Registrations in London cover the decade 1908 through 1918, showing nominee filings and candidate activity. The report notes shifts in registration patterns and highlights a candidate working from a New York address.
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London
Plans To Broadcast On Eve As Hoover Citizenship Attacked
Curtis Carries Campaign Into West Virginia and Delaware amid accusations of a forged whispering campaign about Herbert Hoover's citizenship. The State Department rejected claims he ever became British, noting Hoover registered in London in 1908 and held U.S. citizenship throughout his travels and passports.
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Hoover
State Department
U. S
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Work
Republican National Committee Today
Mr. Hoover
England
Great Britain
W. R. Castle, Jr
United States
Castle
London
Act of Congress
Department of State
Roosevelt
Consu
Russia
Turkey
Freed by jurors in cruelty trial in Greenville
Henderson Albright and his wife Myrtle, of the Darke County Children's Home, were found not guilty of cruelty for detaining two boys in a small room August 25. Special Judge Frank M. Clevenger ruled evidence did not prove criminal liability. no crime unless punishment is beyond reason. Boys named Herbert Cline 13 and George House 10. Trial began yesterday afternoon.
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Greenville, CO
Henderson Albright
Myrtle
Darke County Children’s Home
Frank M. Clevenger
Wilmington
Common Pleas Court
Albrights
Herbert Cline
Greenville
George House
Federal Finance Criticism Sparks White House Reply in Missouri
Gov. Smith Democratic nominee faced swift attack from administration officials after accusing federal finance methods in Sedalia. Secretary Mellon disputed the speech as superficial and inaccurate while Chairman Work asserted tax reductions have cut payments to the Treasury since 1921.
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Washington
Gov. Smith
Sedalia
Mellon
Treasury Department
Smith
Republican National Committee
United States
Treasury
Bureau of the Budget
the Treasury
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14Th Ward
Hynicka
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Bagdad
W. L. Hope
G. de Havilland
John D. Hertz
Yellow Cab Co
N.Y
Defense
A. Benedigt
Burbank
Mattoo
Hammer
Farm Union
Stover
Amer
Ican
Curtis
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Children’s Home
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