Lindbergh Parade Opens Homecoming Amid City Festivities
Charles A. Lindbergh, known as Slim to pals, arrives in Louis for a two day homecoming. He rides in a grand parade from Union Boulevard to Sportsman Park, attends a luncheon at the Coronado, and participates in flag ceremonies and a cardinals game events with Mayor Miller and Gov. Baker’s party.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
H. Knight
Paris
Congress Hotel
H. F. Davis
Sam A. Baker
Victor Miller
Gerk
Auadron
Union Boulevard
Lindell
Colonel Lindbergh
Mayor Miller
Evangel Fme L. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Sportsman Park
Baker
Miller
Kenesaw Mount Landis
John A. J
National League
Sam Breadon
Nals
Rogers Hornsby
O'Farrell
Cardinals
John J. Me Ean
Lea Fagers
Giant
Agaist Hornsby
O'Farrel
Grafton Sentinel Readers Invited to Evening Payments
The Grafton Sentinel notes its office will open for the convenience of those wishing to pay inscriptions and other accounts who cannot visit during the day. The Grafton Printing Co. encourages patrons to use the extended hours for settlements.
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Grafton Sentinel
Grafton Printing
Faded photo unites mother and long lost son
Louis Meyers a Sioux City railroad worker reunited with his mother after 25 years. A faded photograph of his parents carried by him all along led to identification when a friend recognized the mother, Mrs Jessie Thorpe, in Missouri Valley. The two had unknowingly lived within a short distance of each other before the reunion.
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Sioux City
Louis Meyers
Meyers
Holdreze
Ned
Princeton
Kan
Missouri Valley
Louis
Jessie Thorpe
Byrd’s trans Atlantic flight. fourth crew member debated
The race to Paris by Commander Richard E. Byrd and the America shifted as unfavorable north Atlantic weather postponed the take-off to tomorrow night. Byrd noted many applications for the flight were from women but said the fourth crew member would be a man if there is one.
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New York
Richard E. Byrd
America
North Atlantic
Byrd
Paris
Bert Acosta
George O. Neville
le Bourget Field
U S Position at Parley Is Made Public
June 18 report describes Admiral Kobayashi and Japan's delegates at the naval conference opening. American delegate Hugh S. Gibson signals no startling proposals and aims for a warship limitation plan within the Washington treaty. The Japanese emphasize limiting efforts to ships not covered by the treaty as the parley continues.
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Panama Canal
Hawaii
Gibson
United States
Kobayashi
Washington
Former Mrs Bennett to Marry Englishman
Ad rienne Morrison former wife of Richard Bennett will wed Bic Seabrooke Pinker in London. The couple bought a house and plan a European honeymoon aboard immediately after the ceremony. Morrison is mother of Barbara Bennett and Constance Bennett, with a divorce settlement of fifty thousand dollars in yearly installments.
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New York
The
Daily News Today
Adrienne Morrison
Richard Bennett
Bic Seabrooke
Aged Man to Wed Chicago Bride at 94
William M. Chackman, 94, plans to wed Mrs. Kate Trulich, 35, in Chicago. He recalls duck hunting sixty years ago where today’s skyscrapers stand.
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Chicago
William M. Chackman
Han
Heenan
Katle Trulich
German Pilot to Make Trip Across Ocean
Berlin reports Otto Koennecke a 35 year old German pilot plans a non stop Berlin to San Francisco flight with a three motor plane carrying fuel for 70 hours. He aims to depart July 25 reach San Francisco July 28 stay four days and return with a relief pilot and two passengers involved.
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Berlin
Otto Koennecke
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Infthansa
German Air League
Children Perish In Ice Box Hide And Seek Tragedy
In Henderson Texas two children died and a four year old boy was seriously hurt after hiding in an ice box during a game of hide and seek at the farm home of Tom Mason. Josie Bell Mahon aged 10 and Leta Mason aged 5 died, the third child was barely alive, and the chest was found after nearly an hour. Separately, Oscar Bane Keeler, a prominent golf writer from Atlanta, married Eleanor McIntosh McAuliff of Atlanta, both aged 45.
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Henderson
Texas
Tom Mason
Josie Bell Mahon
Leta Mason
New York
Oscar Bane Keeler
Atlanta
Eleanor McIntosh McAuliff
Northern Golfer
Train Kills Man At Philippi
Reathal Mayle of Chestnut Ridge was killed at about 11 40 am when he tried to board a freight train in Philippi yard bound for Grafton. Engine 2902 led by Engineer PF P Lambert and Conductor B X Ginger did not see him. The body was found severed at the abdomen and is in a Philippi undertaking establishment.
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Chestnut Ridge
Philippi
Mayle
Grafton
PF. P. Lambert
B. X. Ginger
Philippi Undertaking
Evansville Cave-In Threatens Waterfront Buildings
A sewer cave-in near Evansville's riverfront expanded to nearly 100 feet wide and 50 feet deep, prompting shutdown of the Southern Indiana Gas and Power plant. Power loss halted factories and businesses, with repairs estimated at two days. Heavy rains and river erosion blamed for the collapse.
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Vansville
Ind
Ohio River
Evansville
Southern Indiana Gas and Power Plant
Indiana
Chamberlin and Rasche Fly Trans Atlantic Plane Over Berlin
Clarence D Chamberlin and Fraulein Thea Rasche flew the Bellanca Columbia over Tempelhof field with the motor in good condition Rasche became the first licensed woman to pilot the trans Atlantic plane Chamberlin with Levine and wives plan to tour European cities before flying to Munich next.
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Berlin
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Europe
Columbia
Tempel~hofer Field
Fraulein Thea Rasche
Germany
Charles A. Levine
Chamberlin
Fraulein Rasche
Magdeburg
Munich
Reed Warns of Centralization and Corruption in Government
Senator Reed of Missouri denounces federal centralization in a Tennessee Bar Association speech. He accuses government officials of sweeping surveillance over daily life, blasts child labor amendments as socialist, and attacks political contributions benefiting favored manufacturers as corrupt. He urges a return to fundamental governance.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Reed
Missouri
Tennessee Bar Association
Senate
Lenine
Trotsky
Washington
Jefferson
Merger Talks Would Expand Brotherhood Banking Scope
Negotiations for a merger of almost all Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers banks with Mitten Management Inc of Philadelphia are under way. The plan, presented to the Brotherhood convention, would add more than 89 million dollars in resources and direct expansion into new regions, with Birmingham Alabama’s Brotherhood Bank and Trust Company possibly the lone exception.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Mitten Management, Inc
Philadelphia
Brotherhood
Mitten Company
Thomas B. Mitten
William B. Prenter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Banking and Trust Company
Birmingham
Ala
Injured Bear Mountain Miner Dies at City Hospital
Grover Small, 41, died at 2:50 PM in City Hospital from skull injuries after a coal fall at a Bear Mountain mine. He lay unconscious with his wife at his bedside. an earlier operation to relieve brain pressure showed only brief moments of consciousness and little chance of recovery.
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Grover Small
City Hospital
City
Bear Mountain
Arthur Hill Elected to AAA Executive Committee
Arthur Hill of Charleston West Virginia wins a seat on the executive committee of the American Automobile Association at its annual convention in Philadelphia on June 18. The election adds a new member to the leadership of the national auto group.
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Philadelphia
Arthur Hill
Charleston
W. Va
American Automobile Association
Coal bids sought by Grafton district for six buildings
The Grafton Independent School District invites sealed coal bids for six buildings after using about 550 tons last year. Quantities range from 50 to 200 tons per building, with all bins to be filled this summer. Bids due by noon June 23 and mailed to H. A. Rice, Box 8, Grafton, W. Va.
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Grafton Independent
First Ward
Central
East Grafton
South Grafton
West Grafton
H. A. Rice
Grafton
W. Va
Retired Naval Officers to Receive Retired Pay on Leave
Washington reports Comptroller General McCarl ruled that retired officers on active duty on leave receive only retired pay. The decision affects Richard Byrd who, though retired, was preparing for a trans Atlantic flight, and overturns a prior finding that active duty officers on leave earned the same benefits.
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Washington
McCarl
Richard B. Byrd
North Pole
State Police Officers Found Guilty in Manslaughter Verdict
Flemington N J June 18 Lieutenant Daniel F Rogers and Alfred Larsen of the state police were found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Beatrice Meaney fatally wounded during a raid on the Meaney farm at Jutland on December 1. Twelve other officers and two SPCA agents were acquitted on similar charges.
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Flemington
Daniel F. Rogers
Alfred Larsen
Beatrice Meaney
Jutland
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Laréen
Rogers
Miss Meaney
Meaneys
Timothy Meaney
Meaney Brothers
Mackaye Trial Recesses Until Monday Morning
A weekend recess paused the Dorothy Mackaye murder case in Los Angeles as the court adjourned amid testimony about alleged drinking parties connected to the Raymond tragedy. Actress Mackaye faces charges over concealing facts surrounding the death of her husband Ray Raymond after a fist fight with her lover, Paul Kelly. Witness Max Wagner testified about memory gaps and said he received $400 from Kelly and passed it to Miss Mackaye after Raymond's death.
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Los Angeles
Dorothy Mackaye
Ray Raymond
Miss Mackaye
Paul Kelly
Max Wagner
Kelly
Jon
Raymond
Stars to marry in Los Angeles on Sunday
Los Angeles reports that Wilmy Banky and Rod La Roque have secured a marriage license and will wed in the city this coming Sunday.
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Los Angeles
Wilmy Banky
Rod la Roque
Weather forecast for West Virginia showers
Weather-eet West Virginia expects showers tonight and Sunday morning with little temperature change. The forecast notes a low chance of significant warm or cold spells and a gradual cooling trend into the weekend.
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West
Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio Plans New Stock Offer
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad laid its new stock offer before the Interstate Commerce Commission. It would give two present stockholders the right to buy 682,425 shares at $107,560 per share while current stock trades around $118. Underwriters Kuhn, Loeb and Speyer would be paid a total commission of 1,422,956 dollars. The issue nets 66,562,731 dollars, to retire debt and boost the betterment fund.
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Washington
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Kuhn, Loeb, and Company
Speyer and Company of
New York
JG Cockrell Passes Away in Rome City Indiana
John G Cockrell aged about fifty died in Rome City Indiana hospital from pneumonia after months of illness. A former telegraph operator in Wheeling and Newburg area he married Bess Garner and lived at several points in nearby states. Survived by wife son Walter and siblings Frank W M and Reymond in Grafton and Walter in Wheeling funeral arrangements pending.
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John G. Cockrell
Rome City
Indiana
Neburg
Oe Young
Bess Garner
Indiana City
Wheeling
Grafton
W. M
Reymond Cockrell
Frank
Newburg
Walter L
Marguerite Cockrell
Harpera Ferry
Boy Scout Orchestra Opens First Practice at West Main Street Church
The Boy Scout Orchestra held its first practice last evening at West Main Street Church. About 25 boys attended with instruments and ample music. Scoutmaster Gillispie called it a real success and another session is planned next Friday with expectations of 50 players enrolled. A separate item notes Carl Bachmann helped secure a $20 monthly pension for veteran Clarence L. Prentice of Wheeling in Washington.
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Boy Scout Orchestra
West Main Street
Washington
Carl @. Bachmann
First
West Virginia
Clarence L
Prentice
Wheeling
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