1,100-Mile Hop To Iowa Impractical
Navy court records reveal disputes over the Shenandoah airship voyage to state fairs in Columbus Des Moines Milwaukee Detroit with Commander Lansdowne’s plan for September. Captain Steele testified weather offered no warning and that blame aims to fix responsibility for the ship’s loss while noting policy and operational differences between the Bureau of Operations and Lansdowne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakehurst
N. J
Zachary Lansdowne
Navy Department
Columbus
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Detroit
Naval Court of Inquiry
George Steele, Jr
Lakehurst Naval Air Station
Lansdowne
Shenandoah
Scott Field
Paul Foley
Department
Cour
Steele
West
Zepelin
Bureau of Operations
E. W. Eberle
Chief of Naval Operations
Hamilton Council Split Over Gas Main Contract Clash
Hamilton Ohio city council voted 5 to 4 to grant a ten year gas mains lease to the Columbia Gas company of Cincinnati. The meeting featured a scuffle between Mayor Kelly and O E Sippel of the North End Improvement Association as bystanders intervened. Detectives escorted Sippel from the building after a locked office confrontation. he later issued a sworn statement clarifying his use of crookedness to mean broken faith with petitioners. The Columbia offer totals 275000 dollars for ten years with gas priced from 75 to 50 cents per thousand cubic feet as usage grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Kelly
O. E. Sippel
North End Improvement Association
Columbia Gas Avy. Company of Cincinnati
Columbia Company
Hamilton Furnace Company
Sippel
Hamilton Company
Morton
Riley
Nugent
Mr. Sippel
Prohibition Agents Raid Broadway Bootleg Ring
Federal agents and police raided Times Square offices arresting ten men linked to a major New York bootleg gang. Fourteen warrants are pending as investigation stems from an April liquor cargo landing at Astoria Long Island. Max Greenberg named as the ring’s brains. John A. Foster led the operation with agents from several agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Times Square
Prohibition
Knickerbocker
Longacre
Advocates A Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
The air board heard from Postmaster General New and Secretary Hoover on commercial aviation and air mail, recessing to Monday. Hoover urged a federal aviation bureau and self supporting air service with expanded mail routes and local ports while New opposed unification of air services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Inquiry
Washington
President's Air Board
New
Hoover
War and Navy Departments
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
Army
Navy
Davis
Wilbur
Aeronautics Bureau
Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
United States
Department of Commerce
Europe
Diamonds stolen from salesmen at Roosevelt Hotel raid
Two jewelry salesmen Otto Hinrich and Victor H Gilbert were robbed of diamonds valued at 50000 in a room at the Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans. The assailants bound the men with cord stuffed their mouths with handkerchiefs and tied towels over their heads before fleeing with thirty six packages of loose diamonds headed by a one carat stone. Hinrich represents a New York jewelry firm and Gilbert works for a New York time watch company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Orleans
Otto Hinrich
Milwaukee Street
Denver
Victor H. Gilbert
West 147Th Street
New York
Roosevelt
Hinrich
Gilbert
Time Watch
Night operator slain former sweetheart held
Mrs. Mary McKee a night telephone operator was found dead in Fulton Illinois authorities believe she was slain by strangulation. John Cominsky a 38 year old farmer and former fiancé is in custody and had previously bond conditions after an alleged attempt to enter the telephone office two months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Ill
Mary McKee
John Cominsky
Medieval Splendor As Mafalda Marries Philip of Hesse
In Racconigi Italy Princess Mafalda daughter of the King and Queen of Italy married Prince Philip of the German House of Hesse. The ceremony drew about two hundred nobles from Europe and united Catholic and Protestant lineages with papal dispensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip of Hesse
Matalda
Racconigi
Italy
Mafalda
Prince Philip
Hesse
Philip
Kaiser
Germany
George V
England
Piedmontese
Alps
Denmark
Greece
Romania
Jugo- Slavia
Belgium
Austria
Montenegro
Spain
Europe
Martin Luther
St. Maurice
St. Lazarus
Savoy
Monsignor Beccaria
Turin
Palestrina
Victor Emmanuel
Brewers head Donahey curbs resigns and raids on homes
Newark begged Feigenspan resigns as U S Brewers president over Volstead compromise talks with the Anti Saloon League. Ohio Gov Donahey imposes stricter raid rules after Bender raid and notes 3000 convictions from private home raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donahey Curbs
Wheeler Denies League Agreed on Light Wine Sale
Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti-Saloon League general counsel, said there is no plan or acceptance of modifying the Volstead act to permit selling light wines and beer. He noted no plan has been presented by brewers and any proposal would first go to the Legislative Committee and then the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. He said brewers have suggested schemes but have not appealed to the League or its constituency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Christian W. Feigenspan
Christian Felgenspan Brewery
United States Brewers’ Association
Anti- Saloon League
Association
New York
Feigenspan
Anti-Saloon League
United States Brewers’ Aesociation
Hugh F. Fox
Fox
Wayne B. Wheeler
Wheeler
United States
Brewers’ Association
Columbus
State Prohibition Department
Donahey
George H. Bender
Cleveland
McDonald
Ohio
Associated Press
Washington
Brewers
League
George H. Moses
New Hampshire
General Wood
Colonel Procter
Moses
Procter
Leonard Wood
Spraue
Wood
Sprague
Chicis
Virginia
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Slick
Leonard Wood National Campaign Committee
King Etna
Leonard Wood League
Senator Moses
National Campaign Committee
Carolinas
Maryland
Chicago
Flyers Rescued Off Ambrose Light by Freighter Eastern Victor
An airplane numbered A-1152 and two men were rescued about 200 miles off Ambrose Light by the Eastern Victor, an American Diamond Line freighter sailing from New York to Rotterdam. Mitchel Field officials say the designation does not match any army aircraft and no further details were provided in the ship’s message.
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Associated Press
New York
Ambrose Light
Diamond Line
Eastern Victor
Rotterdam
Mitchel Field
League to investigate Persian opium production authorized
A League of Nations inquiry into opium growing in Persia was approved after Lord Robert Cecil dropped opposition. The three member commission, likely led by an American, will study crop extent, destinations, finances, and crop substitution, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation at about $40,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
League of Nations
Persia
Porter
America
Robert Cecil
Great Britain
Cecil
Afra Ad Dowleh
Mosul
Tewfik Bey
Council
Y. World News Service
N. Y
World Press Pub. Co
Caillaux Arrives in New York for War Debt Talks
Joseph Caillaux, famed French financier and former minister, lands in New York with a delegation of French business leaders to negotiate the war debt settlement with the United States. He declines to discuss terms beyond stating France seeks an equitable agreement and emphasizes goodwill. The delegation, greeted by officials and press, plans to meet the War Debt Foreign Commission to reach a practical settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
New York
Joseph Caillaux
France
Aristide Briand
Senate
Mr. Caillaux
Germany
United States
M. Caillaux
Paris
Damascus
Foreign Commission
Mellon
Monsieur Caillaux
Turkish Troops to Iraq Frontier Mobilize Amid Mosul Tensions
London reports four Turkish divisions mobilizing for the Irak frontier. The Second, Twelfth, Seventeenth and Forty first Reserve push toward Mosul as Britain counts 2,500 British troops, 8,000 Mesopotamians, and 6,000 Christian Syrians in Iraq. The move follows renewed League of Nations tensions over the Mosul boundary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Irak
Cabinet and War Office
India
War Office
Mosul
League of Nations Council
Turkey
Mesopotamia
Britain
Informer Kills a Ram Runner in Cleveland Shootout
In Cleveland on September 23, an informer in the back seat shot two men, Peter Lopiccio aged 30 and Antonio Lazzarr aged 29, during a planned delivery of liquor to federal dry agents. Lopiccio died. Lazzarr was seriously wounded as the informer signaled dry agents and found two five gallon liquor cans in the car.
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Cleveland, O
Peter Lopicclo
Antonio Lazzarr
Prohibition
Popiccio
Lazzarr
Miracle impresario Reinhardt seeks divorce in Pressburg
The hearing on Max Reinhardt's divorce suit from Frau Reinhardt concluded in Pressburg Czecho Slovakia. Judgment is set for October 7. Read letters and telegrams cited as proof of a conspiracy while Reinhardt claims his wife hindered his art and he offered support and a $10,000 payment plus further alimony for a divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pressburg
Czecho-Slovakia
Max Reinhardt
Reinhardt
Frau Reinhardt
Girl dies after bear attack in Otisville yard
Dorothy Craig aged 9 dies from wounds after a supposedly tame bear breaks its collar and mauls her while at play in the yard of James Craig. The bear and its mate are shot, the bears had been kept chained for exhibition near Otisville for three years. neighbors aided the victim as the attack unfolds.
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Otisville
N. Y
Dorothy Craig
Dorothy
James Craig
Leo Shovel
Blake Newkirk
Mr. Craig
Here
Craig
Hyman Will Disposes Estate At $300000 Value
The will of David M. Hyman of Cincinnati filed in Surrogate Court allocates an estate of about $300000 He died at Saratoga Springs N Y on September 16 Specific bequests of 10000 each go to his widow Bertha S Hyman and to his daughters Gertrude Friedlander and Louise H Pollak all of Cincinnati and to six Cincinnati grandchildren baring further details.
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D. M. Hyman
Associated Press
New York
David M. Hyman
Cincinnati
Hyman
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Bertha
Gertrude Friedlander
Louise H. Pollak
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Glaghes Mark Council
Aook
C. E. Sippel
Howard Kelly
Heart of
Alps Castle
Bender
League of Nations Commission
Caillaux
William Cooper Procter
Sprague Defenders
Cincinnatian
A. A. Sprague
Colonel Sprague
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