British Seaplane Wins Schneider Trophy at 328.63 MPH
Flying Officer H R D Waghorn, bridegroom pilot for Britain, set a new Schneider Trophy speed record of 328.63 mph over the 218 mile Solent course. Teammate Atcherley briefly topped 332 mph before disqualification. Italian Dai Molin finished second with 284.2 mph as crowds and royal spectators cheered the high speed display.
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H. R. D. Waghorn
Royal Air Force
Solent
England
Isle of Wight
R. L. R. Atcherley
H.R. D. Waghorn
Waghorn
Great Britain
Atcherley
Dan Molin
D. D’arcy
Greig
Dai Molin
Mario de Bernardi
Prince of Wales
Senator Smoot Leads Calm Tariff Defense In Senate
Reed Smoot, Utah senator and Finance Committee chair, plans to present the tariff bill with cold facts and figures, avoiding political argument. He says the evidence in support will be in black and white and expects a departure from usual political tactics in the debate.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
Reed Smoot
Utah
Smooth
Ouhora Pleads Loyalty At G O P Outing
Edward D. Schorr speaker at Hamilton County Republican club gathering at Coney Island stresses party loyalty and responsible government. He dismisses Col Sherrill as an issue and predicts a GOP victory in November.
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Republican Party
Ldward D. Schorr
Department of Commerce
State of
Ohio
Hamilton County
Coney Island
Schoor
Col. Sherrils
Col. Sherrill
Bentley
Schorr
Cincinnati
Central Committee
Crash Victim Identified in City of San Francisco Wreck
W. H. Livermore of Boston is named as a passenger alongside other travelers in the City of San Francisco airliner wreck found in New Mexico.
Charred Ruins Seen On Mountainside Abandon Hope
Searchers race toward Mt Taylor after TAT plane wreck on the southern slope of the peak. Eight aboard the San Francisco liner are presumed killed as wreckage shows fire and lightning impact. Rescue teams face a long trek through roughWestern New Mexico terrain.
Verse That Kills in Cicero Saloon Bloodbath
A sobbing Barroom poem allegedly triggered a murder spree in Madigan's saloon Cicero last spring. Saloon hanger-on Frank Vercove taunted with the line You coward causing Billy Clifford to shoot him. Clifford, Clifford’s ally Riley, and McElligott were later found dead in a Cicero auto. Police link the verse to the killings and note an underworld friend of Vercove favored the scheme.
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Chicago
Frank Vercove
Clifford Riley
Billy Clifford
Thomas Mce Eligott
Cy Cawley
Edward Westcott
Madigan
Cicero
Vercove
Vercové
Clifford
Riley
Thomas McElligott
Cincinnati Commons Club Injunction Over Eviction Fight
The Cincinnati Commons Club seeks to block eviction from its 3465 Cornell Place house after a zoning change moved it to Residence A. Judge Dennis J. Ryan granted a temporary restraining order, noting the lease from H. H. Meyer estate and adjacent residence ties. Attorneys Cordes, Romaine, and Slates argued parity with nearby groups allowed to remain.
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Cincinnati Commons Club
National College
Dennis J. Ryan
Common Pleas Court
City of Cincinnati
Clifford Stegner
Cornell Place
H. H. Meyer
Stegner
Fraternity
Clifford F. Cordés
Miriam Romaine
M. C. Slates
Keys Found After 45 Years Reunite Ducker Heir
Forty four years after a picnic on the Shaw farm near Ft. Thomas John S Ducker lost a set of keys. They were returned to his son Stuart Ducker yesterday. The keys were found on a locust tree limb at W H Adkisson’s Ft. Thomas home. A name plate identified the owner.
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Shaw Farm
Alexandria Pike
Ft. Thomas
John
Ducker
Newport
Stuart Ducker
Mayfield Place
Thomas
Workman Lifted From Well After 42 Hours Prayers for Recovery
Wilkins Priest, 55, rescued from a thirty foot well in Ottumwa after more than 42 hours trapped by a cave in. He faced cold, hunger, thirst, and numbness but showed hope of recovery barring pneumonia. Rescue teams extended tunnels and pumped air to him as workers pressed to reach him.
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Ottumwa
Wilkins Priest
Priest
Missing Banker Faces $500,000 Fraud Case Across Canada
Detectives hired by the American Bankers Association pursue Charles Delos Waggoner, president of the Bank of Telluride, who allegedly obtained $500,000 from six New York institutions via fraudulent telegraphic transfer orders drawn on Denver banks. Tips pointed to a Kansas home, then Canada, as searches focus in Western Kansas, Nebraska, and Ontario. U.S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle says a Federal Grand Jury will probe the manipulation behind the credit.
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Canada
Federal Grand Jury
New York
American Bankers’ Association
Charles Delos Waggoner
Bank of Telluride
Col
Denver
Waggoner
T E. Todd
Olathe
Kan
Bankers
West
United States
Charles H. Tuttle
Boy in Jail 21 Days Over Mistaken Identity
Edwin Zastro, 17, spent 21 days jailed after a clerk misrecorded a car number, linking him to a drunken driving arrest. Judge Max Luster heard the case as officials apologized for the error and confusion over the true suspect’s identity.
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Chicago
Illinois
Cook
Edwin Zastro
Zastro
Bruno Bodna
Max Luster
Lust
Bachelor Club Sunk In Sea of Matrimony
In Evanston a 12 year old Wow Club for bachelors dissolves after two survivors reveal that the other eighteen members married. The last two founders say they too plan to wed, ending the abstinence pact.
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Bachelor Club
Bdvanston
Ill
Wow Club
PEEPING TOM'S EXCUSE LEADS TO FINE IN GAK PARK
Henry Soelner explained he looked into an apartment window with field glasses to find a baseball he lost that afternoon. The judge accepted the tale and fined him 20 dollars plus costs.
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Gak Park
Ill
Henry Soelner
Soellner
Receiver Named for Des Moines Baptist School in Des Moines
Beset by administration difficulties riots and court injunctions Des Moines University Baptist Fundamentalist School was placed in receivership. The school reverted to Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis by foreclosure on a $203000 mortgage and was handed to John Blanchard as receiver. The university and the bank have one year to redeem the property or it will be offered for sale.
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Des Moines
Des Moines University Baptist Fundamentalist School
Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis
John Blanchard
University
Des Moines National Bank
Eighty Lives Lost As Finnish Steamer Sinks in North Sea
Helsinki Finland September 7 At least eighty people die when the Finnish steamer Kuru sinks in a violent storm off Tammerfors after departing that afternoon. About 200 passengers were aboard many trapped below decks as the bow plunged. Rescue efforts by the steamer Jarganne saved others while some survivors reached shore in life belts. The vessel overturned and foundered with the captain among the saved.M
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Helsingspors
Finland
Jarganne
Tammerfors
Woman Admits Poison Plan In Spinach To Harm Man Friend
Mrs. Margaret Johnson 31 of 315 Mulberry Street confessed to police that she poisoned spinach she cooked for a man friend on a Friday to kill or injure him. She claimed the Italian acquaintance Tony Inglesh 34 pressured her and she decided to end the relationship. Johnson said she confessed at headquarters after a lingering conscience.
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Margaret Johnson
Mulberry Jstreet
Herbert DeCamp
Johns
Democrats Debt Drop Cited In 1928 Hangover Report
The National Democratic Committee reported unpaid obligations August 31 at 416,937 compared with 887,775 May 31. It lists loans from Bankers Trust NY 375,000 and John J. Raskob 40,000 plus interest due 1,937. Cash balance 41,535. unpaid bills 13,321. Major gifts include Ryan estate 50,000 and Meenan 15,000.
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Washington
National Democratic Committee
House
J. R. Nutt
Republican National Committee
Democratic Committee
Bankers Trust Company of New York
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
National Committee
Thomas F. Ryan
New York
Ciity
Daniel J. Meenan
New York City
John J. Curtin
Edward F. Barrett
Bronxclas Democratic Committee
al Smith Club
Greenville
S. C
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Monoplane Crash Kills Eight on Mt Taylor Side
City of San Francisco wreckage found on a 10,000 foot peak in central New Mexico after Tuesday crash. One woman and seven men died in the fire as the storm-raced monoplane plummeted into the mountainside.
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Mt. Taylor
Bill Cutter
Rocky Mountainee
Associated Press
Aisadeeran
Walter B. Clausen
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New Mexico
500 Feet Margin Between Life and Death in Mountain Crash
Lieutenant George K. Rice reports that a T. A. T. air liner crashed on Mt Taylor after storms and wind drove the plane off course. He describes wreckage scattered across the slope, the burned cabin with T A T initials, and the likelihood that all aboard were killed and cremated. Rescue will be difficult, requiring foot or horseback ascent above timberline.
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George K. Rice
Western Air Express
Albuquerque
N. M
Petrified Forest
Los Angeles
Holbrook
Ariz
Mt. Taylor
lyoNiees
Eas
Western AI Express
Paul Scott
Laguna
Grants
Senate and Justice Probe Shearer Naval Lobbying
The Department of Justice opened an inquiry ordered by President Hoover into American shipbuilding companies and their activities for naval disarmament talks. Senate Naval Committee to meet Tuesday to consider an inquiry into William B. Shearer and the corporations he has sued for over 300000 dollars. Senator Borah proposed summoning Shearer and the three company directors to testify amid ongoing speculation on possible actions.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Hoover
Senate Naval Committee
William B. Shearer
Geneva
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Foreign Relations Committee
Shearer
Hale
Lindy Makes Deadstick Landing at Winslow Arizona
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh flying Capt. Frank Hawks’s mono plane from New York City landed dead stick at Winslow Arizona at 3 50 p m local time with his wife aboard. The motor failed from lack of gasoline and the plane was trunched from the runway. Lindbergh conferred with T A TV officials and announced plans to depart for the wrecked transport City of San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Plane Kills 2 Bathers at New York Beach
A seaplane forced down in the lower bay near Coney Island overturned on the beach killing Frank Kessler 10 of Brooklyn and an unidentified bathers and injuring four others. Pilot William Alexander was arrested for traveling fifty five miles an hour at landing as the craft was driven by breakers onto a crowded beach during a heat relief day.
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New York
Coney Island
Frank Kessler
Brooklyn
William Alexander
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Dan Cupid
Keith R. Monroe
Mae M. Roth
Muncie
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August Siemon
William Bolan
Arthur H. Fix
Fix
Sheet Metal Workers’ Union
Monroe
Sierhan
United States District Attorney
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G.O.P
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W. H. Livermore
Boston
City of
San Fernandez Ranch
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