Planes Await Starting Gun in Spokane Derby
A large gathering of airplanes prepares for three cross country races from Roosevelt Field to Spokane Felts Field. Class B starts at 6 30 a m with 5 000 first prize and 18 250 total for five prizes in Class A 2 275 mile course. Accidents cut one entrant and Stinson arrives with his own plane. Plans for coast to coast flight from Spokane to New York announced by Lieut Unger backing by New York businessmen.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Felts Field
Spokane
Wash
National Air Races
Mitchel Field
S. Darius
Chicago
M. H. McMechan
Yakima
Pikes B
L. T. Royal
Flint
Mich
Maj
Howard C. Davidson
W. Gephart
Olympia
Pennsylvania
Maj. Davidson
Glendive
Mont
Bellefonte
Cleveland
Bryan, O
St. Paul
Eddie Stinson
Detroit
Stinson
New York
New York City
Kenneth R. Unger
German Chief Strangled by Watch Chain in Auto Accident
Burgomaster Ellendt of Ratibor dies after his car crashes while returning from a political meeting. A long gold watch chain twists around his neck and chokes him as a fly in the chauffeur’s eye caused the driver to lose control. the chauffeur is only lightly hurt.
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Duncan
Beuthen
Germany
Isadora Duncan
Ellendt
Ratibor
Neustadt
Feur
Burgomaster
Longtime Cincinnati Democrat Leader Lewis Bernard Dies
Lewis Bernard 82 known as the Little Boss died yesterday at 3 30 am at his son Edward Bernard’s home in Cincinnati after a four week illness. Born in New York City October 4, 1846 he arrived in Cincinnati in 1865 and built a hardware business while shaping Democratic politics. He served as Hamilton County Clerk and was Democratic Executive Committeeman from 1883 until retirement, influencing state and national conventions for decades. He leaves three sons Gus Edward and Frank and one sister in Savannah. Funeral Tuesday at 11 30 am at the residence with Rabbi David Philipson officiating and burial in United Jewish Cemetery.
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Lewis G. Bernard
Cincinnati
Democrats
Edward Bernard
Dexter Avenue
Mr. Bernard
New York City
State Normal School
Albany
Albany Law School
Ira Harris
New York
Board of Public Improvements
Hamilton County
Bernard
George B. Cox
Rudolph Hynicka
George Pendleton
James E. Campbell
Julia Furst
Gus W
Edward
Frank
Jennie Kayton
Savannah
David Philipson
Rockdale Temple
United Jewish Cemetery
Alfred M. Cohen
William F. Wiley
Samuel Meyer
Anderson Varley
Julian Hermann
Franklin Alter, Jr
Turner Faces Inconsistency Claims Over Marshall Law
Anti-Saloon League accuses Attorney-General Turner of inconsistent views after he called the Marshall law unconstitutional while official opinions cited show no direct conflict. League cites Bucyrus speech and multiple formal opinions questioning consistency with Tumey ruling and future fish and game cases.
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Columbus
Turner
Anti-Saloon League
League
Bucyrus
Charles M. Earhart
United States Supreme Court
Justice of the Peace Oeset
Supreme Court
Department of Agriculture
Division of
Game
Wether
Justice of the Peace
Tumey
E. A. Brown
Circleville
Harry K. Forsythe
Sidney
G. C. Sheffler
Sandusky
British steamer Panama missing after west coast storm
Dispatches from Mazatlan report the British steamship Panama overdue and feared lost since the recent west coast storm. The vessel was en route from Salina Cruz to Mazatlan when the storm broke. A Lloyd's dispatch from Almeria confirms an explosion aboard the Italian steamer Hermada with one dead and ten injured.
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Mexico City
Mazatlan
Panama
Salina Cruz
London
Lloyd’s
Almeria
Spain
Genoa
Real estate man shot three times at drinking party
H. C. Mitchell a real estate man from Inglewood was in critical condition with three chest wounds after a shooting at an early morning drinking party in Los Angeles. Police detained two men for questioning as part of the investigation.
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Los Angeles
H. C. Mitchell
Inglewood
Herdsman Gored to Death by Maddened Bull
William Frazier aged 65 a farm herdsman near Dodson Missouri near Kansas City was pawed and gored to death by a maddened bull today.
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Kansas City
William Frazier
Dodson
Here
Dempsey Challenges Tunney Over Sesqui Fight Truth
Chicago Herald Examiner publishes Dempsey signed open letter asking Tunney to reveal the full truth behind the Philadelphia Sesqui battle. Tunney replies via telegram that he dismisses the letter as trash and asks if Dempsey believes such appeals are sportsmanlike.
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Dempsey
Tunney
Chicago
Chicago Herald-Examiner
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Philadelphia
Max
Boo Boo) Hoff
Hoff
Billy Gibson
Fourth Victim Added In Drowning Series Near Silver Grove
The fourth fatality in a series near Ross and Silver Grove Kentucky was reported as Coroner Hughes investigated yesterday The victim Jasper Simon 50 of 101 Sixteenth Street Clifton Kentucky drowned while on nightwatch duty on a sand digger for T J Hall Sand and Gravel Company of Cincinnati near Silver Grove The earlier victims were Daniel Sierron William Ross and Guy Rollins The coroner has issued accidental death verdicts for the first three with Simon awaiting verdict Funeral services for Simon will be held tomorrow at 10 AM from Charles A Smith funeral chapel with burial in Alexandria Kentucky.
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Ross
Silver Grove
Hughes
Jasper Simon
Sixteenth Street
Clifton
T. J. Hall Sand and Gravel Company
Cincinnati
Simon
Daniel Sierron
Eastern Avenue
William Ross
Guy Rollins
Rising Sun
Ind
U. S. S. Scioto
Dam 36
Herron
Rollins
John Simon
Charles A. Smith
Fourth
Monmouth
Alexandria
Four of five survivors in New Jersey plane crash die
New Brunswick reports say four of the five injured from yesterday’s Hadley Field crash near New Brunswick are unlikely to recover. Prosecutor Toolan calls the crash an accident, awaiting report from federal inspector Lockwood.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Hadley Field
Muhlenberg Hospital
John Toolan
Middlesex County
R. G. Lockwood
Department of Commerce
Bessie Heater
Lorraine Dunavan
Louis Pellis
Matthew Luis
Reynolds Airways, Inc
Airways Company
Toolan
Michigan Train Crash Kills One, Injures Seven Near Lapeer
A Michigan Central passenger train collided head on with a freight train at Carpenter injuring seven and killing baggageman Robert Steel of Detroit. The crash occurred after a misinterpreted switch signal. a brakeman was detained for investigation.
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Lapeer
Mich
Michigan Central
Carpenter
Here
Robert Steel
Detroit
Woman Fatally Shoots Infant Then Takes Own Life
In Washington Pennsylvania Mary Buskardish, 39, shot her five month old daughter Anna at their Bentleyville area home and later killed herself. The child died at a hospital hours later while Mrs Buskardish died from abdominal and throat injuries in the afternoon. Police have found no motive for the shooting.
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Washington
Mary Buskardish
Anna
Bentleyville
Buskardish
Negro Arrest Follows Tearful 8-Year-Old’s Assault Tale
Police report a wave of assaults on white girls by men of mixed races, with Lena Collins 8 naming Cornelius Bann as her attacker at 537 West Sixth Street. Separately Elmer Bill 36 was seized after allegedly attempting to assault four and a half year old Charlotte Greeley near West Liberty Street.
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Lins
West Sixth Street
Lena
Cornelius Bann
John Street
Collins
Elmer Bill
West Liberty Street
West End
Charlotte Greeley
Two boys rescued after raft breaks apart on Lake Erie
Richard Gardner, a Coast Guardsman, saved two young brothers aged about 10 and 12 who clung to a breakwater after their raft fell apart off the Lake Erie shore. They declined to give names fearing punishment and ran home after the rescue.
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Cleveland
Coast
Pop
Gardner
Mickey
Tom
Woman Held as Material Witness in Lilliendahl Slaying
Hammonton New Jersey September 18 A motion to hold Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl as a material witness in the shooting death of her husband Dr. A William Lilliendahl has been announced Prosecutor Louis Repetto said bail will be set by a judge in Mays Landing or Atlantic City The couple was attacked on a road near Atston as two Black men robbed Mrs Lilliendahl after the shooting a note found near the cottage refers to a 990 debt and there is ongoing surveillance involving police officials
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A. William Lilliendahl
Louis Repetto
Atlantic County
Mays Landing
Atlantic City
Lilliendahl
Herusband
Despondent man ends life in East Liverpool home
Joseph L. Stone, 38, an automobile salesman and former assistant paymaster at Crucible Steel Company Midland Pa, hanged himself with a trousers belt in his bedroom after a recent embezzlement conviction. He faced a suspended sentence in Beaver County Court and leaves a widow and three children.
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East Liverpool
Joseph L. Stone
Crucible Steel Company
Midland
Stone
Steel
Beaver County
Fifty Policemen Raid Chicago Den In Evening Bombardment
Fifty detectives armed with machine guns raided a criminal rendezvous on the edge of the night cabaret belt in Chicago early today. They captured two men wanted for murder and detained twenty others described as dangerous. Tomas J. Smith, wanted for the killing of Mrs. Barrett and her sister, and Joseph Davenport, sought on a Minneapolis murder charge, are held as the strongest cases against them. William Kanner, linked to a string of bank and post office robberies in Michigan and Wisconsin, is also in custody.
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Chicago
Tomas J. Smith
St. Pat
James Barrett
Lillian Kooser
Joseph Davenport
Minneapolis
William “Dutch” Kanner
Michigan
Wisconsin
Five Middlesex prisoners escape jail after beating guards
Five inmates at Middlesex County Jail escaped tonight after overpowering two guards and seizing their keys. The incident occurred in London Ontario and authorities began a manhunt to recapture the fugitives.
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London
Ont
Middlesex County Jail
And How Is Dundee Pope Queries Paris Mayor Walker
Pope Pius questioned Mayor Walker asking about Johnny Dundee during their interview in Paris. The Mayor said Dundee is still good but getting on in years and a bit slow in the ring, then the discussion moved to boxing matters.
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New York World News Service
Paris
Pope Pius
Walker
Johnny Dundee
Downing
Dancer Montanya Sues Wallace Beery for One Million
Juanita Montanya, nineteen year old Spanish dancer and film actress, sues Wallace Beery for 1,000,000 dollars charging he attacked her at his Hollywood home and later in her drive home. She seeks 500,000 actual and 500,000 exemplary damages as Beery is away on a fishing trip.
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Los Angeles
The
Examiner Today
Juanita Montanya
Wallace Beery
Beery
Rita Beery
Hollywood
High Sierras
Miss Montanya
New York
Minnie Barton
Oust Policemen Who Fake Calls In Norfolk
Seven Norfolk policemen were dismissed by City Manager Truxton after it was found they manipulated call boxes to fake reports. The men disabled patrols and misused the system, using a U shaped copper wire to tick off numbers from the ticker, enabling one officer to log multiple reports.
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New York World News Service
Norfolk
Truxtom
C. J. Carroll
D. W. Davis
A. B. Elliott
J. B. Francis
R. N. Light
E. B. Pugh
Cc. P. Williamson
Guy Ink
Frange Extends Fraternal Hand To Legion Hosts
The American Legion arrives in Paris for a peace mobilization of 26,000 veterans. Pershing and Savage meet Premier Painleve and officials as services, parades, and decorations mark a grand Legion welcome. Cardinal Dubois presides at Notre Dame with Marshal Foch and Mayor Walker among attendees.
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Paris
American Legion
Pershing
Mufti
Howard P. Savage
Legion
Poincaire
Painléve
Senate
Chamber
Legionnaires
Legion Convention
Notre Dame Cathedral
Cardinal Dubois
France
Marshal Foch
Gen. Pershing
Savage
Walker
New York
Father Wolfe
Cham Elysees
Cherbourg
Havre
Antwerp
Notre Dame
M. Painleve
Eiffel Tower
Europe
America
Gouraud
J. J. Jusserand
Washington
Quai D’ Orsay
United States
Legionna
Youth Drowns in East River While Saving Straw Hat
In New York on September 18 a 22 year old clerk named Charles Wills perished after his straw hat blew into the East River. He waded into the water to retrieve it and drowned, despite attempts to help from a friend on shore.
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New York
Charles Wills
Willis
East River
Detroit Inmate Linked to Liquor Concession Shootout
Detroit investigators say Morris Greeson an Eloise Hospital inmate led a plan to run a blind pig liquor racket for inmates. Greeson held on an assault charge after a gunfire incident that wounded George Stanley, 70, at Eloise Hospital.
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Detroit
New York World News Service
Mich
Eloise Hospital
Morris Greeson
Michigan
Greeson
Eloise
Watts
Stanley
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Trelittle Bloo
Constantory League
Marshall Bill
Indi
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Gibson
New Jersey
Uaugh
Robert
Benning
Louis
Russell
Fred
Brooks
Norma
Bay City
Bell
E. L
Person
Purdy
Alva. L
Updike
Joseph A. Byrnes
Glenwood Avenue
Avondale
James Col
Lake
Dundee
Pope
Cop
Frange
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