Earhart First Woman to Land in El Paso Air Derby
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly, lands at El Paso Municipal Airport in the national women’s air derby from Douglas, Arizona. Blanche Noyes and eleven others follow within a half hour. Florence Barnes retires with a leaky tank, while German aviatrix Thea Rasche continues toward El Paso but is forcefully diverted at Holtville, California. Louise McPherridge leads heavy division with unofficial 6 38 11 elapsed time. Omlie tops light division with 8 25 24 elapsed time, both unofficial. Sixteen entrants remain in the Santa Monica to Cleveland route.
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EL Paso
Tex
Amelia Earhart
Florence Barnes
San Mario
Cal
Thea Rasehe
Phoenix
Holtville
Calif
Flight Across Continent From Grand Central to New York
Captain Roscoe Turner and three passengers began a daylight transcontinental flight from Grand Central Airport Glens dale California aiming for New York. The trip planned with five to seven minute stops at Albuquerque Tulsa and Cincinnati to reach New York in under 17 hours 28 minutes and beat the west to east non stop record.
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Grand Central Airport
Glensdale
Cal
Roscoe Turner
New York
Turner
Albuquerque
Tulsa
Oklo
Cincinnati
Frank Hawks
Mred G. Trosper
Russell Peet
Los Angeles
D. Ri Lane
Berkeley
H. C. Gatty
National tribute planned for aviatrix Miss Marvel Cros son
Cleveland August 21 National tribute will be paid to the memory of Miss Marvel Cros son aviatrix who died in the women s air derby. The National Exchange club sponsor of the race will hold memorial services at about 800 clubs with an 80 second period of silence after opening ceremonies for their races at the Cleveland airport Saturday. Two vacant seats will be marked for her at the banquet where the women will be honored at the close.
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Cleveland
Marvel Crosson
National Exchange Club
Death Casts Shadow Over Air Derby Flight Line
In Douglas Arizona on August 21 1935 16 women pilots ready for a fourth lap of the Santa Monica to Cleveland air derby stood by as the 17th contestant planned to join from Phoenix. Mar Vel Crosson 25 died Monday on a Mesquite covered Arizona hillside during takeoff. A coroner jury ruled accidental death. Suspicions of sabotage arose after Fahy was forced out at Calexico and wires were found severed. Ruth Rider and Thea Rasche reported tampering or fuel issues but officials discounted much of the sabotage claim. An investigation was ordered by the San Bernardino county district attorney into plane handling.
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Douglas
Ariz
Phoenix
New Mexico
Texas
Mar- Vel Crosson
Arizona
Iogo
Cal
San Diego
Fahy
Los Angeles
Calexico
Ruth Rider
Thea Rasehe
Aviar
Holtville
Ruth Elder
San Bernardino
Miss Crosson
District Attorney's
San Bernardino County
Britain Receives New Offer From Allied Conferees
At The Hague on August 21 Britain France Italy Belgium and Japan proposed a fresh guarantee of 9 percent of Britain's claims to win a larger German payment share. The experts split on value, with Britain arguing 20 to 30 percent and the other four allies claiming 50 to 60 percent.
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Hague
Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Great Britain
Phillip Snowden
Spokane Plane Reaches Home After Transcontinental Flight
Nick Mamer and Art Walker landed the Sun God at Felts Field Spokane at 5:59 p.m. after a five day nonstop refueling flight across the continent. The plane departed toward San Francisco as the first refueling point and completed the west to east journey back to home base.
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Spokane
Wash
Nick Mamer
Art Walker
Felts Field
C. S.T
San Francisco
Sun God
Associated Presa
Sun
N. B. Namer
Navy planes fly east toward national air races
Twenty navy planes enroute from the Pacific coast to Cleveland for the national air races flew from Dallas to Kansas City after spending one night there. The unit included 45 enlisted men and officers. One ship returned to Love Field due to low oil pressure, two more landed crippled. A plane that rested in Abilene refueled and proceeded hoping to rejoin the squadron before Kansas City.
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Dallas
Tex
Pacific Coast
Cleveland
Kansas City
Love Field
Abilene
Of Roadhouses Decried By U S Children's Bureau Official
Washington August 21 Roadhouses outside city limits and parental failure to keep youngsters from public dance halls were cited by the United States Childrens Bureau as major difficulties in the problem presented by the dance hall. The study based on cities in 25 states shows variance in laws for control of such halls. Ella Gardner bureau recreation specialist authored the report noting there was no aim to highlight dance hall evils but to make public halls a real recreational opportunity rather than a brighter form of boredom for adolescents. Investigations did not reveal formally bad conditions.
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Washington
United States
Childrens’ Bureau
Children’s Bureau Officiala
Tasu
Ella Gardher
Bureau Recreation
Tention
Free Eye Clinic Opens at West Main Street
Dr Grenn optometrist with offices above Friedman's Clothing Store in the Whitescarver building announces a free eye examination clinic for men women and children. It focuses on school children and runs Monday August 26 through Saturday August 31 with daily hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors will receive courteous treatment.
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Or. FM
Grenn
Whitescarver
Friedman
West Main Street
Wanted to Buy Fresh Sanitary Milky
Wanted to buy fresh sanitary milky for sale. Interested sellers should phone 1960 Fairmont, West Virginia, and a truck from R. E. Eddy will collect each morning from the farm.
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Fairmont
W. Va
R. E. Eddy
Combat near Manchuria as Soviet forces clash with Chinese
Reports from Manchuria indicate heavy fighting east of a frontier town as Soviet armored units approach within 500 yards. Chinese forces repelled the attack with artillery, suffering about 30 casualties, while Russians reportedly captured several guns. martial law was declared in the Chinese Eastern Railway zone amid heightened tensions. A Russian gunboat fired on a Chinese postal barge on the Sungari river, taking five postal employees.
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Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Asihi Shimbun
Manchuri
Manchurian
Chines
Manchulia
Manchura
Shanghai
Harbin
Manchuria
Sungari
Fuchinghsien
Texas Woman Disappears Then Found After Taxicab Ride
New York reports Mrs W Edwards a Texas songwriter from Beaumont registered under Lois Kelly at Hotel Pennsylvania after vanishing last Saturday leaving a note implying self harm. Police traced her body to the East River based on the note and relatives’ appeals. She said she rode miles in a taxicab before found.
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New York
W. ©. Edwards
Heaumont
Texas
East
Areh
Edwards
Lola Enloe
Pennsylvania
Lois Kelly
Curtis
French Flier to Race Graf to Lakehurst Route
Dieudonne Costes, French air ace, plans a 5 am takeoff to chase the Graf Zeppelin toward Lakehurst and New York. He aims to break the world non stop distance record in the first leg from Le Bourget to Vladivostok, refuel, then continue to Tokyo.
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Lebourget
France
Dieudonne Costes
Lakehurst
New York
South Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
le Bourget
Vladivostok
Siberia
Tokyo
Activity grows in political circles in Washington
Washington August 21 AP reports year round political activity as the new Democratic group in the capital operates and the Republicans mobilize Claude Huston of Tennessee is slated as new chairman of the Republican National Committee with A J Dawson to be executive secretary A publicity drive will run alongside tariff bill debates led by Charles Michelson to counter Democratic campaigns Hoover expresses satisfaction with the reorganized Republicans continued on page four
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Washington
Republicaans
Claudius Huston
Tennes
Republican National Committee
Republican
A. J. Dawson
Senate
Charles Michelson
Hoover
Committees Named For West Virginia Methodist Conference
Local and state leaders announced committees for the West Virginia Conference to meet September 24 in Grafton. The event expects 300 delegates with Gov. William G. Conley among speakers, plus educators and others yet to be named. General Chairman A B Barlow heads the planning, with H G Compton Andrews and others listed.
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Methodist
West Virginia
Ah Methodist Church
Grafton
A. M. Barlow
Teladl
William G. Conley
A. B. Barlow
H. G. Comptoin
Andrews
Point Pleasant Man Dies In Cincinnati
Point Pleasant resident Winter A. Windsor 43 died in a Cincinnati hospital after surgery. He was president of Citizens National Bank and Marietta Manufacturing, builders of steamboats and seagoing vessels, and served as a trustee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Association.
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Point Pleasant
Winlter A. Windsor
Cincinnati
Windsor
Citizens National Bank
Marietta Manufacturing Company
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Association
Cain Injured Brakeman Reported Improved
D. C. Cain, an injured brakeman, was reported improved after an accident yesterday afternoon near Rowlesburg. He was taken to City Hospital with his left arm amputated after a brake failure caused a freight car to derail and throw him beneath the wheels.
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D. C. Cain
Rowlesburg
Cash
Faintest Hope Held For Swiss Airmen
New York August 21 reports say Swiss fliers Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Inescher vanished on their attempt to cross the Atlantic from Europe to America. With beacons fading and Roosevelt Field watchers gone, rescuers fear the worst after a voyage from the Azores toward the U.S. coast ended without word or sight of the two aviators.
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New York
North Atlantic
Europe
America
Roosevelt Field
Oscar Kaesar
Kurt Inescher
Kurt Luescher
Burning steamer reported danger to navigation
The freighter Yalta sent word that the steamer Quimistan was on fire and deserted about 1,100 miles east of Norfolk Virginia. The Quimistan, a former Honduran vessel sold to German interests for scrapping, was bound for Genoa from Norfolk, sinking in the water and posing a hazard to navigation. The Yalta, an American freighter from Baltimore, relayed the wireless message.
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New York
Radio Marine Corporation Today
Norfolk
Genoa
Italy
Baltimore
Graf Zeppelin Ready for Los Angeles Flight
Tokyo reports preparations nearly complete for the Graf Zeppelin trans Pacific journey to Los Angeles. Refueling is finished and minor repairs are wrapped up as Dr. Hugo Eckener urges passengers to be aboard by 2 a.m. local time. The voyage follows the Northern Route with takeoff slated for 4 a.m. JST.
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Tokyo
Los Angeles
Hugo Eckener
Boats Race for Mark Speed Record in Mississippi River
New Orleans, Aug. 21. The Baby Lee, a Missouri outboard motorboat, led by the Mississippi toward St. Louis in an attempt to set an outboard motorboat speed record from New Orleans to St. Louis. The Vivian G., a Louisiana outboard, resumed its race after a pause, aiming to also set a record.
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New Orleans
Baby Lee
Missouri
Mississippi Today
St. Louis
Vivian G
Louisiana
Reed proposal eyed for ad valorem tariff shift
Washington August 21 Senate finance committee Republicans tentatively approved a plan by Senator Reed to change from foreign to United States value as the basis for assessing ad valorem tariffs. Under the proposal duties would be reduced to reflect the higher U S value but would not be converted immediately. the tariff commission would translate and submit to Congress for approval, keeping revenue levels. Continued on page four.
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Washington
Seri*ate Finance Committee
Reed
Pennsylvania
United States
Prn
Tariff Commission
Congress
General Educational Program Outlined At State Institute
Miss Myra M Nefflin presented a plan for a statewide educational program aiming to guide elementary schooling and teacher training. The talks detailed budget principles, financing of the training, and the involvement of about 400000 children across 7116 school buildings under the State Department of Education.
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William
Cook
Myra M. Nefflin
Taylor County
Boards of Education
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Conn
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