Hawks Forced Down in France on Paris London Flight
Captain Frank Hawks, famed American flyer, was forced to land at Pilly Les Gien, France, after fuel ran out on the return leg from Rome to Paris. He had flown 930 miles from Rome to Paris at an average 174 mph, facing Alps and weather, before continuing toward London. His plane, a Travelair monoplane with a 1440 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine, aimed to showcase American aviation to European fliers.
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Frank Hawks
Pilly- Les Gien
Department of Loire
London
Rome
Here
Centocelle
England
Alps
Heston
City
American
Hawks
London Aero Club
Nello Rengareschi
New York
Frank M. Hawks
United States
Postpone Vote On Machinery Bill Set For Tomorrow
In Raleigh on April 22 the senate postponed final action on the Moss Cherry machinery bill and carried it over due to changes. Senator Johnson moved the act be carried over over concerns about corporate excess tax revenue. The measure would license autos at 60 cents per hundredweight and end quarterly revaluations while letting local bodies adjust valuations anytime.
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Raleigh
Senate
Ahabit
Pune
House
Johnson
Duplin
Federal Judge presses for tougher sentence in prohibition case
Judge Johnson J. Hays urges firmness from the bench over a prominent man who violated prohibition laws. He sentences Thomas Baird, a Stanly County farmer, to six months in jail and a $1000 fine after conviction for bootlegging whiskey.
North Carolina Senate Defeats Luxury Tax Push in Revenue Bill
In Raleigh on April 22 the North Carolina Senate refused to instruct conferees to advocate the Hinsdale luxury tax. The Johnson resolution failed 26 to 24 as debate split along sales tax lines with Hendren urging broader conferee representation. The body adjourned to 11 tomorrow without a vote on the motion.
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Senate
Assembly
Johnson
Duplin
R. T. Fountain
Hendren
Forsyth
House
Dunlap
Anson
Folger
Surry
Hansdale
Wake
Clark
Edgecombe
Bagget
Blount
Clarkson
Dortch
Gower
Hardy
Harmon
Hatchett
Haywood
Hinsdale
Lindsay
Lynch
McKee
Peel
Powell
Price
Pritchett
Rodwell
Uzzell
Ward
Beaufort
Craven
Zollicoffer
Bennett
Bernard
Burrus
Burt
Campbell
Clement
Grant
Gravely
Grier
Gwyn
Hicks
Horton
Moore
Jones
Lawrence
Lovill
McLeap
McSwain
Nixon
Rankin
Umstead
Whedbee
Williams
Impeachment Demand of Crump Reiterated in Tennessee
Memphis congressman E. H. Crump repeated calls for Governor Horton impeachment. He praised a legislative committee for exposing extravagance and said testimony showed contractors tried to raise a slush fund to defend Horton and push Tennessee deeper into debt by 30 to 79 million dollars.
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Memphis
Tenn
E. H. Crump
Henry Horton
Legislative
Tennessee
Horton
Tennesee
Air Force to Survey for Oil in Australia
The Royal Australian Air Force will conduct an aerial photographic survey of likely oil bearing country as part of the search for commercial oil in Australia. Dr Woolnough, geological adviser to the federal government, says petroleum discovery is imminent and would ease economic difficulties.
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Canberra
Australia
Royal Australian Air Force
Woolnough
Brewton Sues American Mercury Over Copyright
William M. Brewton of Atlanta filed a federal suit against American Mercury editor H. L. Mencken. He seeks an injunction and profits accounting alleging the November 1929 article Jefferson: New Style copied from his book The Life of Thomas E. Watson.
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New York
William M. Brewton
Atlanta
American Mercury
H. L. Mencken
Brewton
Jefferson
Thomas FE. Watson
Keller Enjoys First Airplane Ride to White House
Helen Keller, famed for overcoming blindness, took her first aircraft flight from Newark to Washington for a White House luncheon. She said the experience made her feel free and unafraid and that she was perfectly at home in the clouds.
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Washington
Helen Keller
Miss Keller
Newark
White House
Dr Diehl May Be Tried For Heresy
Nashville presbytery of the Southern Presbyterian church adopts a resolution to form an investigating committee to advise if Dr Charles E Diehl president of Southwestern Denominational College in Memphis should face heresy charges. Committee consists of three ministers and two elders appointed by the moderator with a report due at the fall meeting September 29.
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Nashville
Tenn
Democratic leaders confer on party deficit and prohibition
Al Smith Jouett Shouse and John J Raskob met in New York to discuss the Democratic deficit and the party platform. Raskob denied calls for resignation and urged a constitutional amendment allowing a public vote on prohibition with three key issues expected in the next presidential campaign.
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Democratic National Committee
al Smith
Jouett Shouse
New York
Democratic Party
John J. Raskob
Alfred Kk. Smith
Raskob
Shouse
National Committee
Congress
Dentist G Karl Weeks Dies In Tarboro
Tarboro reports the death of Dr. G Karl Weeks a longtime local dentist who served the community for 25 years. He passed away this morning at his Tarboro home.
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Tarboro
G. Karl Weeks
J Clint Newton County Solicitor Dies After Illness
Shelby North Carolina April 22 AP J Clint Newton 387 county solicitor died today after a brief illness He was a Wake Forest college graduate and former superintendent of Cleveland county schools His widow and three children survive Funeral services will be held here Thursday.
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Solution
Shelby
N. C
J. Clint Newton
Wake Forest College
Cleveland County
Nimocks Wins Mayoral Primary Over Harrison in Fayetteville
Mayoral candidate K. Nimocks Jr. defeated incumbent J. R. Harrison by about 900 votes in Fayetteville North Carolina. The primary also saw changes on the aldermen slate as five of eight seats are to be filled.
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Fayetteville, N. C
K. Nimocks, Jr
J. R. Harrison
Board of Aldermen
Replac
Alfonso Leaves London Amid Crowd Outside Claridge Hotel
Outside the Claridge Hotel crowds gathered at dawn hoping to glimpse Alfonso deposed as Spain’s king. He reportedly breakfasted in his room with the Duke of Miranda and later departed with him and Lord Londonderry’s loaned car.
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Hotel
Claridge
Alfonso
Duke of Miranda
Spain
London Daily Mail
Duke of Mirandol
Lord Londonderry
Insurgent threat prompts extra safety measures at Puerto Cabezas
In Puerto Cabezas Nicaragua April 22 persistent rumors of an impending insurgent attack trigger heightened safety precautions for the banana plantation area and foreign residents. Guardia patrols reinforced by Managua detachments with machine guns comb jungle while work resumes in fields. General Augusto Sandino reportedly with many men near Altamirano on the Yoro river boundary. The USS Asheville sails with refugees aboard and Langley is ready to replace it, while the USS Rochester under Admiral Arthur Smith arrives from Bluefields.
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Puerto Cabezas
Nicaragua
Guardia
Managua
Augusto Sandino
Altamirano
Queen of the Anatomical Revue at Missouri Medical School
Clara Louise Ewing of McGehee Arkansas, a Christian college senior, was chosen queen of the University of Missouri School of Medicine Anatomical Revue, staged before students and audiences.
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Clara Louise Ewing
McGehee
Ark
School of Medicine
University of Missouri
Christian College
British Vets Place Wreath on Tomb of Unknown Soldier
Two blind British war veterans laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington in memory of 2500 comrades blinded in the world war. Captain Iain Fraser, five years in the English parliament, and Clutha MacKenzie, ex New Zealand parliament member, spoke amid 110 delegates from seven nations at a world conference on work for the blind.
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Washington
Iain Fraser
Clutha MacKenzie
New Zealand
American women evacuated from war zone in Honduras
In Tegucigalpa on April 22 fear of rebel attacks near La Lima prompted evacuation of American women and children to Tela. Government troops moved toward San Pedro Sula where naval attache Captain Peter C. C. Geyer seeks a neutrality zone. Clashes near Tela and troop movements mark a tense regional situation.
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Honduras
la Lima
Banana
Cortez
Tela
San Pedro Sula
Peter CC. Geyer
Legation
U.S
Trenton
Puerto Castilla
U. S
Marblehead
Puerto Cortez
Autogiro Lands at White House in 1939 Ceremony
President Hoover presided as James G. Ray, chief test pilot for Pitcairn Cierva, landed an autogiro on the White House south lawn. The event accompanied a Collier Trophy presentation to Harold Pitcairn for American aviation progress. The landing echoed Taft era feats by Harry Atwood amid a southeast breeze.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
James G. Ray
Harold Pitcairn
Philadelphia and Associates
Taft
Harry Atwood
Ray
Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Company
Hires Ambulance To Vote From Hospital Cot
Fred Williams, injured in an automobile crash and hospitalised in Centralia Illinois, hired an ambulance to take him to the polls. He cast his ballot from the cot in the ambulance and returned to the hospital afterward.
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Centralia
Ill
Fred Williams
Girl Stowaway Found On Plane From Kansas City
Betty Roth 18, a Kansas City nightclub entertainer, stowed away in a national air transport plane. She hid in the baggage room and was discovered when she sat on the radio receiving set after the aircraft left Moline. She said she traveled to Chicago for a promised job and had no money.
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Chicago
National Air Transport
Kansas City
Betty Roth
Moline
Robert Dawson
Betty
Charlotte Business Man Takes Own Life
Charlotte on April 22 reports Bascombe Heath 58 a local business man shot and killed himself at his home. County coroner Frank Hovis called it a plain case of death by own action and no inquest was needed. Heath had been in ill health for some time.
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Bascombe Heath
Charlott
Hiself
Frank Hovis
Heath
Lisbon Government Plans Attack on Madeira Rebels
Lisbon announced military operations against the rebel garrison at Funchal Madeira after General Sousa Dias refused a ceasefire ultimatum. A radio from Sousa Dias warned President Carmona and the government of responsibility for any loss of life. The Azores blockade was lifted amid similar revolt suppression.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Funchal
Madeira
War Department
Sousa Dias
Carmona
Foreign Office Today
Azores
New York Editor Forced to Land in Winston-Salem
Bolton MacComb editor of Life magazine, en route to Florida to reach his ill father, was compelled to land at Reynolds airport Winston-Salem due to heavy rains and clouds.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Florida
Bolton MacComb
New York
Life
Reynolds Airport
Convicts Escape From Chaingang Near Charlotte
Accompanied by a commandeered truck and the rattle of buckshot S A Sprague and David Jones convicts escaped from a chaingang crew on a highway near Charlotte today One drove the truck while the other clung to the side away from a guard whose shots missed They fled toward South Carolina as officers spread the alert over a wide area.
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Charlotte
S. A. Sprague
David Jones
Here
South Carolina
Man Sentenced To Death Nine Times In German Trial
Peter Kuerten was sentenced to death nine times for as many murders in the Duisburg region, plus a 15 year penitentiary term and loss of civic rights. He confessed to nearly a hundred murders and several girl victims identified and testified. Physicians testified he was sane at the time.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Peter Kuerten
Kuerten
Customs sweep on ship for contraband liquor and narcotics
About 125 customs men searched the steamship Ile de France after a tip of a 1000 cases of liquor and narcotics aboard. Deputy Surveyor McGill led the effort as the vessel, due to sail Saturday, faced inspection through Friday, with further checks planned on other French line ships if nothing is found.
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New York
Tre de France
McGill
He de France
New War Planes To Test Powers In Mimic Combat
In San Diego the air service prepares mimic war games in the east this spring using new Boeing fighters. Aircraft carry fifty and thirty caliber machine guns and bombs under the fuselage. The planes have achieved 350 mph power dives and 29 000 foot formations with climbs of 2000 feet per minute and speeds near 190 mph.
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San. Diego
Cal
Boeing
Tunney and Wife Tour Bavaria in Munich Visit
Former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney and his wife visited Munich Bavaria on April 22. He offered views on Max Schmeling and said Schmeling is not yet ready to challenge seasoned fighters Sharkey and Stribling. He predicted Stribling would win the July 3 Cleveland match. He cast doubt on Prime Carvers chances to claim the world title.
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Bavaria
James Joseph
Gene) Tunney
Tunney
Max Schmeling
Sharkey
Stribling
Cleveland
Prime Carvers
Igitle
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