Bennett Balchen relief flight postponed to Friday
Ras hee ad ae acca ae a pen Balchen And Bennett Plan Relief Trip TRANS-ATLANTIC PAIR TO LEAVE DETROIT ON RESCUE FLIGHT NORTH DETROIT April 19 The Bennett Balchen flight to Bremen was postponed to tomorrow due to an unready relief plane weather delays and Bennett’s severe cold. They plan to depart Ford airport at 6 30 am Friday heading to Murray Bay Que before continuing.
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Detroit
Bennett-Balchen
Bremen
Greenly Island
Bernt Balchen
Floyd Bennett
Balchen
Ford
Murray Bay
Que
Bennett
New York
James Fitzmaurice
Montreal
Clarke City
Fitzmaurice
Waler
Confession Of Murder Is Doubted
In Somerville New Jersey authorities weigh a prisoner Elwin F Allen's confession to killing Rev Edward Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills near here in 1922 He named a New Jersey dentist as paying the money and implicated a common law wife The prosecutor and others doubt the confession and will investigate noting discrepancies with the known 1922 murder date
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Francis J. Bergen
Frances Hall
Allens
Bregen
Oklahoma
Allen
Robert H. McCarter
C. E. Base
Sinclair Case Rested For Both Sides In Teapot Dome Trial
Washington April 19 defense and government rested in the Harry J Sinclair and Albert B Fall Teapot Dome trial. Defense called witnesses to challenge corruption charges while declining Fall deposition. Proceedings included testimony on a $25 000 loan and Liberty bonds claimed as payment for Fall’s New Mexico ranch stake.
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Washington
Harry JF. Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Teapot Dome
Fall
el Paso
Sinclair
Justice Bailey
G. T. Sandford
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company
Russia
Sandford
C. C. Chase
New Mexico
M. T. Everhart
Harry F. Sinclair
Senator LaFollette
Wisconsin
Harding
A. C. Veatch
Sinclair Exploration Co
Liberty
Daniel Thew Wright
Senate Oil Committee
Zevely
Everhart
Finney
E. C. Finney
Interior
Capital Of Institution Is Wiped Out
STATESVILLE April 19. A $234000 cash shortfall found in cashier D M Ausley’s accounts led to the Commercial National bank’s closure and his suicide. President W D Turner said capital and surplus were wiped out. Ausley organized the bank twenty years ago and died yesterday after examiners began auditing. Funeral services were held for Ausley and Mrs Nola Carpenter, tied to the bank era, today.
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Statesville
D. M. Ausley
Commercial National Bank
W. D. Turner
Ausley
National Bank
Turner
Nola Carpenter
Tar Heelia Loan and Investment Company
Carpenter
Birger Hanged After Prolonged Battle With Justice
Reports from Benton Illinois describe the hanging of Charley Birger, a Southern Illinois gang leader, at 9 52 a m for the murder of West City Mayor Joe Adams. Spectators filled the stockade as Birger spoke with reporters and reflected on his life before the noose.
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Benton, Ils
Charles Birger
Joe Adams
West City
Portland
Ore
Nathan Birger
St. Louis
Ray Shamsky
Birger
James Pritchard
J. R. Mazur
East St. Louis
Phil Hanna
Hanna
Adams
Benton, U1
Benton
Charley Birger
Ill
Franklin County
Rabbi Mazur
Relief flight to Bremen delayed for minor repairs
Berni Balchen and Floyd Bennett plan a three hop relief flight from Ford airport to Greenly Island to aid the damaged Bremen with stops at Montreal and Murray Bay. The New York World and North American Newspaper Alliance sponsor the relief expedition carrying repairs and a mechanic to the island.
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Detroit
Berni Balchen
Floyd Bennett
Bremen
Greenly Land
Ford Airport
Greenly Island
Montreal
Murray Bay
New York
New York World
Alliance
Bennett and
Balchen
Thomas Murray
Charles J. W. Murray
Bellanca
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
Ford
Convention Hall
Norris seeks probe of leases in Wyoming oil fields
Senator Norris of Nebraska introduced a resolution asking the senate lands committee to investigate leases in the Sale Creek oil fields in Wyoming made by the last Democratic administration. He urges immediate consideration but the measure must first go to the committee on audit and control.
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Washington
Sale Creek
Wyoming
Norris
Nebraska
Norrris
Senate Lands Committee
Teapot Dome
Elk Hills
Fall
Interior Department
Committee On Audit and Control
Mob Violence Fears Rise Over West Virginia Assault Case
Beckley West Virginia April 19 A company of West Virginia national guardsmen stood ready to aid troopers and local officers in guarding against mob violence after Henry Grogan 18 was charged with assaulting a young white woman. Grogan was not in the local jail and patrols surrounded the jail area as a crowd gathered last night.
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Beckley
W. Va
West Virginia National Guardsmen
Henry Grogan
Dinners Postponed When Speaker Wires Raleigh
The Raleigh chamber of commerce postponed its annual meeting dinner from tonight to tomorrow night because Dr. Glenn Frank president of the University of Wisconsin could not reach Raleigh tonight due to a missed Louisville train connection. About eight hundred people were expected including 20 college presidents.
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Raleigh
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Louisville
Frank
Mellon presides Fed meeting on rediscount rates
Secretary Mellon said the federal reserve board discussed rediscount rates at yesterday’s meeting. He declined to give further information and noted Governor Young was absent in Florida.
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Washington
Mellon
Federal Reserve Board
Young
Florida
City Manager Pilcher to Offer Council Resignation Tonight
City Manager P. P. Pilcher of High Point will resign effective June 1 at the end of the fiscal year. He will move to Salisbury to become city manager there after receiving a prior invitation from Salisbury officials. Pilcher stressed his good terms with High Point and his desire to pursue the offered proposition.
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Pilcher
P. P. Pilcher
High Point
Kissimmee
Fla
Citmanager
Salisbury
Mr. Pilcher
Governor Smith Visits Biltmore Dairies in Asheville
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York and his party toured the Biltmore dairies in Asheville, observing milking by machinery and butter-making. The governor, amid political rumors and booster activity, stayed nonpolitical and greeted visitors while golf was on the afternoon schedule.
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Asheville
Alfred E. Smith
New York
New Yorker
Biltmore
John Francis Amherst Cecil
Cornelia Vanderbilt
Biltmore Forest County Club
Smith
Dixie
al” Smith
Tennis Meeting Chooses State Intercollegiate Winners
In Chapel Hill on April 19 teams from four of the big five North Carolina colleges met to decide the annual state inter-collegiate tournament winners.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Police Chief on Trial For Murder in Miami
Trial of Miami police chief H. Leslie Quigg and three subordinates for the murder of a Black prisoner opened in Florida. The central issue is whether Florida law recognizes indirect murder and whether a homicide during an unlawful act qualifies as first degree murder. The defense objected to a juror question about convicting under a court instruction linking murder to an unlawful act.
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Peking
Shantung
Yenchowfu
Tientsin-Pukow
Tsinan
Yenchonfu
Nanking
Shanghai
China
Feng Yu- Hsiang
Sunchuan-Fang
Lunghai
Kweiteh
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sun
Tsining
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Chiang Kaishek
Sincheno
Miami
Fla
H. Leslie Quigg
Florida
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Race Called Off In 24 Hour Hispano-Suiza Stutz Test
In Indianapolis on April 19 a 24 hour race between a Hispano-Suiza and a Stutz blackhawk was halted after 17 hours 21 minutes due to a broken connecting rod. The Hispano-Suiza had covered 1.357 miles at an average 70.14 mph when the Stutz retired, more than six hundred miles behind after extensive pit stops for mechanical troubles.
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Indianapolis
Ind
DAR Ottoman Officers Elected Amid Defense Debate
Washington April 19 The Daughters of the American Revolution held its 37th continental congress electing vice presidents general with results to be released tomorrow and postponing president general selection until next year The day's program focused on the Coolidge administration national defense plan and backing by society officers.
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Congress
Coolidge
Norwood Fire Threatens Towns Main Business District
A morning fire in Norwood destroyed Ross Barbershop Teal's Cafe Phillips Drug Co and offices above the drug store. Firemen from Albemarle aided the local department for about two hours before bringing the blaze under control. The barber shop was the origin of the fire.
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Norwood
Ross
Teal’s Cafe
Phillips Drug Company
John H. Norwood
J. I. Campbell
Dr. Roupe
Albemarle
One Killed and One Hurt in Sanford Truck Turnover
In Sanford, April 19, Worth Elkins of Goldsboro died when a motor truck overturned after the driver, Arthur Gaines, turned aside to let another pass. Gaines suffered several broken ribs and said the vehicle went into a ditch to allow the other vehicle to pass.
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Sanford
Here
Worth Elkins
Goldsboro
Arthur Gaines
Gaines
Teapot Inquiry Halts For A Day In Senate Probe
The Teapot Dome inquiry paused as the Senate committee exhausted witnesses. Clarence C. Chase, son‑in‑law of Albert B. Fall, testified about Fall’s desire to halt the investigation and discussed a memo concerning a lack of payments from Harry F. Sinclair for land expansions.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Senate
Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
New Mexico
Nye
Chase
Sinclair
Edward L. Doheny
Elk Hills Reserve
California
French pact supplement sent to ambassadors after ministers approve
The French project supplementing Kellogg's anti aggression pact was approved by the French council of ministers and cabled to ambassadors in Washington Tokyo London Rome and Berlin. It is expected to be delivered to the governments tomorrow morning.
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Paris
Kellogg
Washington
Tokyo
London
Rome
Berlin
Council of Ministers
Father of Bobby Franks Dies in Chicago
Py Jacob Franks, father of Bobby Franks who was kidnapped and killed in 1924 by Leopold and Loeb, died at the Drake hotel Chicago after a prolonged illness attributed in part to grief over his son's death.
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Chicago
Jacob Franks
Bobby Franks
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
Drake Hotel
Franks
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