Pilot to Reattempt Nonstop Flight From Oakland
Ernest L. Smith and Charles J. Car attempted a non stop flight in a towed monoplane from Oakland Port Municipal Airport to Honolulu. The wind shield failure forced a return after takeoff. Smith planned to borrow a shield and resume the flight later after adding fuel. Lieutenant Valentine Gephart commended the attempted feat and the plane’s safe return.
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Micipal
Oakland
Cal
Ernest L. Smith
Charles J
Honolulu
Smith
Earth
Hawaii
Valentine Gephart
National Aeroal Association
Ryd
Gypr-Th
Municipal Airport
Gal
Emrnest L. Smith
Kingwood Crash Victims Named In Davis Hospital Fight
Kingwood June 28 Wiltam McVicker 30 of Rowlesburg and John O Whetsell 11 of Kingwood are in critical condition after a two car collision on the Thomas wv highway near the Red House. McVicker is dead and Whetsell is severely injured with a fractured skull. A bone fragment was removed from Whetsell's head. his condition remains precarious. Whetsell is the son of Mrs Irusilla Whetsell who with his sisters Mrs George Whetsell and Miss Grace Whetsell went to the bedside. Kea was married and is survived by his widow and three children.
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Kingwood
Willam McVicker
Rowlesbur End
John O. Whetsell
Davis
Thomaswis Highway
Red House
R. P. Malon
Oakland
Perce
Whetsell
Irusilla Whetsell
George Whetsell
Grace Whetsell
Kea
Deaths: Major Moses First Military Superintendent of Yellowstone
Ae N Y Major Moses, early superintendent of Yellowstone, died. He received a congressional honor for bravery in the Shenandoah Valley. Details are fragmentary but indicate his impact on early federal presence in the park.
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Ae N. Y
Moses
Yellowstone National
Shenandoah Valley
Sipe Chem
Weather forecast in Virginia fair with waves tonight
The text indicates fair weather in Virginia with wave conditions tonight and continuing into Wednesday. No additional details on temperatures or regions are provided.
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Virginia
Notice of Telephony Error in Editorial Department
A garbled notice from the newspaper warns of a telephony error in the editorial department. It directs readers to contact the correct number to reach the news department and mentions the number 680. The source text is unclear but indicates a misprint fixed by advising use of the specified line.
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Inet
ASO
Man Who Tried To Kill Soviet Leader Identified
Moscow June 28 The man who fired on M Orlov chairman of the Moscow department of the military tribunal has been identified as Benkendorf a former war department employee Tass says Benkendorf held Orlov responsible for a thirty month imprisonment he recently served and is said to be insane Orlov was wounded but not seriously hurt
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Moscow
M. Orlov
Military Tribunal
War Department
Benkendorf
Tass
Benkender
Orlov
Work Starts on Pike Near Evansville
Work began yesterday on the Thornton stretch of the Northwestern Turnpike near Evansville. Hagedorn Construction Co. of Greenville NC employs over fifty men laying drainage pipes and preparing base for surfacing. By week’s end a 200-man force will be on site, aiming to surface one mile weekly and finish the eight and a half mile stretch by Septem ber first. The final Bragg farm section will follow after Thornton segments.
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Thornton
Grafton
Hagedorn Construction Co
Greenville
N.C
Evansville
Fellowsville
West Virginia
Maryland
Gormania
Railroad Officials To Hold Clarksburg Meet
Superintendent T K Faherty Chief Clerk C L Ford Master Mechanic Ralph Cline and others will go to Clarksburg this evening to attend a cooperative meeting for railroad employees. The meetings rotate among Grafton Clarksburg and Fairmont on the Monongah division to discuss problems of interest to railroad operation and maintenance. Mr Faherty will be in charge of the meeting tonight.
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T. K. Faherty
C. L. Ford
Ralph Cline
Clarksburg
Grafton
Fairmont
Monongah
Mr. Faherty
Julian Stock Bubble Sparks Big Sensation In LA
Los Angeles June 28 The Julian Petroleum Corpora tion case heats up as ten more names are expected to join the existing list of 45 indicted in a financial bubble scandal. Indictments yesterday total 26, many from Southwest Trust and Savings Bank. Charges include embezzlement banking violations and usury as bank directors resign. See Rin Tin Tin at the Opera House this week.
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Los Angeles
Julian Petroleum Corporation
Southwest Trust and Savings Bank
Ita
T A
Missing Pittsburgh crusader sparks cross‑agency search
W L King, vice crusader of Allegheny County Citizens League, has been missing since yesterday. League investigators branded forged letters claiming his resignation. Authorities fear foul play as search teams, aided by state police, pursue leads from his hotel departure. King notably fought bootleggers and alleged police protection for vice resorts.
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Pittsburgh
W. L.king
Allegheny County Citizen's League
League
W. L. King
King
Sol. Rosenberg
Byrd Flight Delayed As Atlantic Route Hints Emerge
New York reports that experts see Bermuda and the Azores as likely trans Atlantic routes for Byrd and the plane America due to three weeks of storms. Weather forecasts warn of lingering gales while Byrd plans a possible dawn departure tomorrow amid shifting storm conditions and uncertain conditions.
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New York
Bermuda
Azores
North Atlantic
Richard E. Byrd
America
Byrd
Atlantic
James H. Kimball
U. S. Weather Bureau
Northern Great Circle
Kimball
Louisville
Donie Bush
Joe Dawson
Fokker
Joe
McCarthy
Cubs
Paris
Sentinel employee in hospital after appendectomy
Dreakall, a circulation department worker at the Sentinel, underwent an appendectomy at Grafton Hospital this afternoon. Hospital reports indicate he is recovering well and friends express hopes for his speedy recovery.
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Dreakall
the Sentinel
Grafton
Gray Ie
Church Split Over Snoopers at Calvary Baptist
Washington reports a split at Calvary Baptist Church amid controversy over a Citizens Service Association effort to expose suspected bootleggers in city blocks. Attorney Elgin H. Blalock resigns, opposing spying and snitching while Pastor W S Abernethy defends the anti bootlegger drive. Liberty Boys of 1927 rally members including ex representative John Phillip Hill as snoopers plan moves with the motto hold your breath snoopers are near.
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Washington
Calvary Baptist Church
Liberty Boys
Friends of Prohibition
Elgin H. Blalock
W. S. Abernethy
Citizens Service Association
New Enforcement Society
Pasitor
Blalock
Abernethy
Harding
John Phillip Hill
Maryland
German Foreign Minister Arrives in Oslo for Nobel Prize
Oslo June 27 1926 German Foreign Minister Stressemann arrived from Berlin to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 1926 shared with French Foreign Minister Briand The German official and Nobel committee members met officials at Oslo The minister expressed pleasure at Germanys foreign policy and the prize recognition
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Oslo
Norway
Forlegn
Stressemann
Germany
Berlin
Foregn
Briand
France
Nobel Committee
Widow kills five babies and herself in Whitestone home
Mrs Mary Freeman widow of two months turned on seven gas jets in her Whitestone L I home. Neighbors smelled gas and police found six bodies in two beds. Freeman had just returned from Chicago where she visited her husband’s parents who urged placing the children in an orphan asylum.
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New York
Mary Freeman
Whitestone
L. 1
Freeman
Col Lindbergh Welcomes Herrick at City Hall
Col Charles A. Lindbergh entered the New York City welcome for Ambassador Myron T. Herrick at City Hall the day after Herrick arrived aboard the French liner New De France. Herrick carried a memorandum from the French government on a security pact with the United States.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
City Hall
Myron T. Herrick
New de France
Ambassador Herrick
Paris
Herrick
United States
Coolidge Favours Insular Bureau Transfer Under Interior
President Coolidge backs creating a central bureau to administer insular possessions under a civil department rather than the army navy. After discussing with Governor General Leonard Wood at the Black Hills residence he suggests the interior department may take over these duties, while noting no criticism of current administration. Charles Van Guilder of Fairmont visited Grafton over the weekend as guest of Dr and Mrs Smith.
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Rapid City
8. D
Insular
Army
Navy
Coolidge
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Black Hills
Department of the Interior
State Department
Interior Department
Charles van Guilder
Fairmont
Grafton
F. S. Smith
Maple Avenue
English Baronet Gets Jail on Girl's Charge
Maidstone England June 28 Sir Gerard Arthur Maxwell Wiltshire 34 third baronet pleaded guilty on charge of assaulting Miss Jean Olds an employee of a London hair dressing establishment He was sentenced to six months imprisonment without hard labor Miss Olds said after an automobile ride on May 11 the baronet drove to a lonely wood tied her to a tree and stripped her of clothing
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Maidstone
England
Gerard Arthur Maxwell Wiltshire
Mise Jean Olds
London
Henry Davis Elkins Weds Society Girl Grace Vanderbilt
Henry Gassaway Davis and Grace Vanderbilt marry in New York at the municipal marriage bureau chapel. The Vanderbilt heiress, born in 1890, had been linked to several suitors since 1918, while Davis, a mining engineer, is a grandson of the late Henry Gassaway Davis, once a Democratic vice presidential candidate.
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New York
Grace Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Grace Wilson Vanderbilt
Henry Gassaway Davis
Miss Vanderbilt
Davis
Antone
Prince George
England
Ivor Spencer Churchill
Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Marquis of
Congeal
Marriage Bureau
Harry H. Armatead
Engineers Club
Bureau
Armstead
Elkins
W. Va
John T
Bessie Armstead Davis
Vanderbilt
Washington
Familly
West Virginia
United States
Alston B. Parker
Royal Arch Masons To Give Work At Philippi
Copestone Chapter No. 12 of Royal Arch Masons will assist Ty gart Valley Chapter No. 39 in a special degree conferring ceremony in Philippi tomorrow evening. About twenty five Masons led by Ed Hart and Oral J. Jones will travel by motor, with a banquet at six o clock for Grafton lodge men and new initiates. Copestone Chapter will supervise degree work and other evening activities.
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Copestone
Royal Arch Masons
Tygart Valley
Philippi
Ed. Hart
Oral J. Jones
Barbour County
Grafton Lodge
Marriage Parson Deposed By Taxi Drivers In Elkton
Elkton Maryland June 28 The crown of marrying parson has been removed from Rev Richard T Westren by jitney drivers and placed on Rev Hiram McVey a 70 year old retired Methodist minister from Greenwood Delaware Westren performed about 500 marriages since January and a ruling from Bishop McDowell says he is not in standing as a minister The matter is being discussed by state officials and warrants further action if needed
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Elkton
Gretna Green
Richard T. Westren
Hiram Mc-Vey
Greenwood
Del
McVey
Westren
J. W. Colona
Wilmington
M. E. Church
William S. McDowell
Washington
H. L. Constable
Thomas H. Robinson
Pam
Army fliers take off on long Honolulu flight
Thousands gather at Oakland and San Francisco as Army air service Fokker and battle-tested pilots depart for Honolulu on the longest all water flight yet. Maitland and Hagenberger lead the mission with Ernest L. Smith awaiting his solo start and cheers rise from spectators.
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Oak Hand Municpal
Army Fokker
Lester J. Maitland
Albert Hegenberger
Golden’ Gate
Pacific
Honolulu
Mason. M. Patrick
Army Air Service
California
Land's End
San Francisco Coast Line
Matsonia
Patrick
Maitland
Hegenbarger Pond
Smith
T Fokker
Fokker
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate
Lieut. Maitland
J. W. Maitland
Burlingame
Cal
Bradl Navigation
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