Fog Delays Start of Ventura Derby Flight in Texas
Fragments from the El Paso to Ft Worth air derby report fog delaying the Class A and Class B starts. Los Angeles to Cincinnati racers progress with arrivals at El Paso and ongoing control points, including pilots Holman Ballough Dickinson Iseman and Collyer amid heavy fog and darkness over Sabinas Chihuahua.
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EL Pso
Tex
Charles
Holman
Minneapolis
Laird
Cincinnati
el Paso
Ebe
Ballough
St. Paul
Lieut
Farnham
Los Angeles
Ft. Worth
Rober Dake
Pitburgh
America
Ae “P.m
Theodore Kenyon
Boston
Challenger
George ‘Hopkins
Detroit
Stinson- Detroiter‘Junior
S. J. Whuttman
Fond du Lac
Wis
Pheasant
A. H. Kreider
Hagerstown
Elmira
WN. Y
Waco
Guadalupe Mountains
Pecos
Samuel H. Turner
Turner
Jack Iseman
U.S. N
Bellanca
Columbia
E. E. Borough
Charles W. Dickinson
Chicago
Erritt
Ryan
C. W
Speed
Charles Z. D. Collyer
New
Negroes Strike Over School Integration at Fenger High
Six hundred students at Fenger High School in Chicago went on strike after twenty five black pupils were transferred from Morgan Park High to Fenger to take household arts courses. Police were called but no violence occurred as about 400 teachers stayed away while 200 returned.
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New York World News Service
Fenger High School
Wallace Streets
Morgan Park High School
Fenger School
F. J. Zipf
Fenger
Season Good Asks City to Decorate for Aerial Races
Cincinnati hosts today and tomorrow the Cincinnati Airace event drawing pilots and visitors. Mayor Season Good urges residents to display flags on two days to give the city a gala aviation capital appearance and adorn sidewalks and building masts.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Airace
Mateo Return From Garber Awaited Years
The Domestic Relations Court heard the divorce case of Anna Kulesza and Joe Kulesza. They married in 1925 and traveled to a farm near Dolphin, Missouri, then Chicago. Joe left at a railroad station for a shave and vanished. A city-wide search failed to locate him, leading to a wilful absence divorce after three years.
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Chicago
Charles W. Hoffman
Anna Kulesza
Vine Street
Joe Kulesza
Gibson
Kulesza
Dolphin
Cincinnati
Michigan City
Ind
Hoffman
Famous Balloon Ace to Head Cincinnati Air Race Scene
Capt. Weir Cook of Indianapolis, era WWI balloon ace and Indiana National Guard aviation commander, will lead a visiting squadron at Lunken Field for the Cincinnati Airace finish. Nine Keystone bombers under Maj. Hugh Knorr plus nonstop racers from Los Angeles will arrive as crowds gather to watch broadcasts by WLW and loudspeakers.
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Weir Cook
Indianapolis
Cincinnati Airace
Cook
Indiana National Guard
Lunken Airport
National Guard
Cleveland
Columbus
Keystone Army
Hugh Knorr
Lunken Field
Los Angeles
Langley Field
Wilbur Wright Field
Army Field
Dayton
Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company
Embry-Riddle Company
WLW
Cincinnati
C. B. D. Collyer
Collyer
Fairchild
B. L. Kilgour
Clarence I. Paulson
Nick Mamer
Portland
Paulson
Embry-Riddle Flying School
F. G. Manson
Wright Field
T. Higbee Embry
Decapitation as Remedy in Prohibition Bribery Contest
New York World News Service reports Durant’s prize contest drew over 5000 responses for improving prohibition enforcement. Some proposals advocate harsh measures including deportation, confiscation of property, and decapitation of bribery officers, with others proposing long prison terms for liquor makers.
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New York World News Service
New York
Ww. C
United States
Payroll Robbers Kill Wealthy New York Contractor
David Angus a 54 year old stone contractor and his son David Angus Jr were ambushed as they left their apartment. Three bandits shot Angus mortally wounding him while attempting to steal a payroll of about $6,000 intended for Riverside Church workers. They escaped with around $700 in pay envelopes.
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New York World News Service
New York
David Angus
David, Jr
Angus
Riverside Church
122D Street
Riverside Drive
Fire destroys McComb Wholesale Grocery. three volunteers die
A McComb Mississippi blaze at the Wholesale Grocery Company leveled the building and caused over 100000 dollars in damage. Three volunteer firemen, Robert Lee, Charles Bedgood Jr, and Joseph Battaglio, were killed. Seven other men were injured but not seriously as the structure collapsed.
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McComi
McComb Wholesale Grocery Company
Robert Lee
Charles Bedgood, Jr
Joseph Battaglio
Hoover Declines to Comment on Smith Speech
Hoover, amid campaign duties in Washington, avoids discussing Gov. Smiths Oklahoma City sermon on religious intolerance. He meets Red Cross officials and publicizes a call for Red Cross donations while Horace Minn denies directing inquiries to anti Catholic literature.
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Washington
Gov. Smith
Herbert Hoover
Elizabethton
Massachusetts Avenue
Red Cross
Porto Rico
Florida
Red Cross Fund
Hoover
Oklahoma City
Horace A. Minn
Republican Party
Republican National Committee
Woman nominee for Congress dies in hospital
Agnes Hart Wilson, Democratic nominee for Congress from Pennsylvania’s Sixteenth District, died in a Blosburg hospital with her father William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, at her bedside. She had been in critical condition since an operation Monday night for stomach trouble.
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Blossburg
William B. Wilson
President Wilson
Agnes Hart Wilson
Congress
Pennsylvania
Riverside confirms Northcott killing plan on farm
Fifteen year old Sanford Clark told Riverside officers and reporters how his grandmother Louisa Northcott and her son Gordon Stuart Northcott dictated the murder of nine year old Walter Collins at the “murder farm.” Clark said Northcott struck the boy with an ax after the grandmother led him to the hen house where he slept.
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Riverside
Cal
Sanford Clark
Walter Collins
Los Angeles
Clark
Louisa Northcott
Northcott
Gordon Stuart
Collins
Fire destroys Levine Bros Rag and Junk Co building
A four story brick building at 424 26 East Second Street burned late yesterday afternoon, destroying Levine Bros Rag and Junk Co stock. Fire Marshal Franks estimated damage at 25000 dollars as 100 firefighters from sixteen companies battled the blaze aided by police and city officials. Fire origin believed spontaneous combustion. flames fed by winds from the river and a stock of inflammable rags and paper. Royal fire crews used ladders and roof access while detectives and citizens alerted authorities.
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Levine Bros.’ Rag and Junk Company
East Second Street
Franks
Barney Houston
Grover Smith
Hilsinger
Cunningham
Hall
William Copelaw
Eugene T. Weatherly
Charles Wolsefer
Robert Thiering
Second Street
Broadway
Gernhardt
Loewenstine
Daniel Dailey
Samuel Levine
Levine
Marshal Franks
Res Prrate
Slayers Promise to Reveal Identities Next Tuesday
A Star-Bulletin letter from the alleged kidnappers and slayers of 10 year old Gill Jamieson claims the murderers will identify themselves next Tuesday. The boy’s body was found after a three day search. his father Frederick W. Jamieson is vice president of Hawaiian Trust Company. The abductors had demanded 10000 dollars in ransom and killed the boy after receiving 4000 dollars.
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Honolulu
Star-Bulletin
Gill Jamieson
Frederick W. Jamieson
Hawaiian Trust Company
Fire dog longs for heroic role despite rescue
An Airedale named Bob resisted rescue at a rag and junk plant fire on East Second Street. Firefighter work and a neighbor, Patrick Quigley, saved the dog but Bob barked from the curb, wishing for a chance to be a hero.
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BLAZE
Samuel Levine
East Second Street
Bob
Patrick Quigley
Quigley
California Forest Fires Threaten Magalia And Towns
Dry conditions fueled at least twelve fires across California burning 100000 acres. Three fires menaced Magalia with the Forest Ranger station and homes burned while Butte Meadows faced danger. Five motorists were severely burned in the Clearland National Forest blaze.
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San Francisco
California
Magalia
Forest Ranger Station
Southern Pacific
Philbrook Valley
Lassen Forest
Butte Meadows
Clearland National Forest
Murder charge in Kentucky linked to Lulu Kirchner case
Charges of murder were filed yesterday at Munfordville Kentucky against Garland Martin and his wife Mildred for aiding in the death of Lulu Kirchner of Cincinnati. Kirchner’s nude body was found in a vacant house cellar near the Martins’ Mammoth Cave Road home after she had left Cincinnati with William Ferris. A bloody shirt and bloodstained buggy were found, and the investigation continues with inquests resuming and letters to Kirchner’s sister under scrutiny.
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Munfordville
Garland Martin
Mildred Martin
Mammoth Cave Road
Rociletts
C. B. Larimore
Hart County
Lulu Kirchney
Mulberry Street
Cincinnati
Martins
Miss Kirchner
Larimore
Martin
William Ferris
Peete Street
Ferris
Rowletts
Clara Kirchner
Lula Kirchner
Hamilton, O
Nashville, Tenn
Arthur
Shaw
Lula
Florida
Brutality Charges Face Civil Service Review In City
Civil Service Commission members Gamble Crane and Viner discuss possible investigation into police brutality amid reports of rough conduct by officers. Chief Copelaw and City Manager Sherrill push for fair discipline only with reliable evidence as detectives McArthur and Schoedinger face suspension.
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Civil Service Trio
Sherrill
Cecil Gamble
Civil Service Commission
Richard Crane
Gamble
Crane
Joseph W. Viner
Viner
Court Street
Col. Sherrill
Copelaw
Walter McArthur
Donald Schoedinger
Col
Klinckhamer
Thirteenth and
Race Streets
Devastated Okeechobee Ends and Epidemic Hit
In Okeechobee City Florida 544 bodies were recovered along a twenty five mile stretch of Lake Okeechobee as rescue crews search for victims of the hurricane Captain G G South said the final death toll may reach at least 1500 in the area Influenza cases have broken out among storm refugees in Clewiston and Ft Myers with a doctor two nurses and three truckloads of relief supplies dispatched to the scene to curb the outbreak
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Florida Lake
Guardsman
Red Cross
West Palm Beach
Fla
Lake Okeechobee
American Red Cross
Washington
Porto Rico
Florida
Virgin Islands
John W. Martin
Okeechobee
Park Trammell
President Coolidge
Miami
Furder
Okeechobee City
Canal Point
Miami Locks
G. G South
National Guard
FT. Myers
Clewiston
C. G. Enos
Enos
Officials Blamed in Florida Disaster
Framing families in the Everglades area blame state laxness for flooding from the West India hurricane. Five to ten feet of water cover muck lands around Canal Point Belle Glade and Pakokee after the lake’s dike breach, recalling the 1926 Mer rhaven disaster and its deadly arm bands.
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New York World News Service
Miami
Everglades
Lake Okeechobee
Canal Point
Belle Glade
Pakokee
United State Territory
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