Graf Zeppelin May Have Home Base On This Side At Richmond
The Graf Zeppelin may base on this side of the Atlantic from Richmond. A German air official said Richmond offers a fog free, practical terminus linking to major cities with future Zeppelins four times the size planned for regular trans Atlantic service starting in 1931.
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Graf Zeppelin
Richmond
New York
The
Evening Post
New York City
F. W. von Messter
L Luftschiffbaum Zeppelin
Maybach Motor Company
Richmiond
Forest fires rage in Northern Idaho as 1000 troops fight flames
An army of about 1000 men battled wildfires across Northern Idaho amid drought and high winds. Pend Oreille Timber Protective Association crews fought Sand Creek near Sand Point and Pack Creek fire, while Lewiston mobilized to combat Baldy Mountain and Glover Creek blazes. Other fires in Selway and Clearwater forests pressure the region. Meadow Creek blaze near control after burning hundreds of acres.
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Sand Creek
Sand Point
Idaho
Pend Oreille
Lewiston
Baldy Mountain
Glover Creek
Meadow Creek
Selway National Forest
Selway
Clearwater
Hoover Returns From Weekend in His Camp
President Hoover flew into the White House at 10 45 am from his Virginia Fishing Lodge where he spent the weekend. Mrs Hoover Allan and Mr and Mrs Herbert Hoover Jr stayed at the camp with no date given for return. Other returning officials included Postmaster General Brown Attorney General Mitchell and Senator Smoot of Utah who joined the party at the camp. The President rested and guests enjoyed horseback riding and horseshoes a sport recently introduced at the lodge.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Virginia
The
Veterans Bureau
Hines
Smoot
Utah
Desperado Doppelganger’s Jail Alibi Baffles Wife
Herbert Taylor of Elmhurst jokes about matching the escaped gunman Willie Doody and asks Hinsdale Police Chief Ellsworth J. Mitchell to script an alibi note for his wife. The chief complied, writing a memo explaining Taylor’s mistaken resemblance and alleged jail nights.
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Chicago
Herbert Taylor
Elmhurst
Willie Doody
Ellsworth J. Mitchell
Hinsdale
Drowning probe continues in South Carolina boy death
In Honea Path, South Carolina, investigators probe the death of 15 year old Maxie Thomas who allegedly drowned while fishing with his father S R Thomas. Authorities question life insurance totaling about 33000 while Clemson chemists test stomach and lung samples. Coroner Mike Clark and Solicitor L W Harris expect a verdict by Wednesday.
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Anderson, S. C
Maxie Thomas
L. W. Harris
Anderson County
S. R. Thomas
Honea Path
S. C
Thmas
Sheriff's Office
Harris
Mike Clark
Thomas
Clemson College
Chigquola
Americans Scale Mount Giulischi in Italian Alps
A group led by Albert Rand Herron reached Mount Giulischi’s summit in the Italian Alps at about 14,700 feet on July 25 after leaving Milan June 28 to explore the peak. They planned to attempt Mount Eldruz in the Caucasus next, Europe’s highest at 18,570 feet.
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Italy
Albert Rand Herron
Mount
Giulischi
Wheelh Towers
Italian Alps
Eldruz
Caucasus
Europe
Woman Drives Bandit Car In Bold HoldUp
In Topeka Kansas a bandit car with a female driver held up Clyde Knowlton an accountant near city hall and robbed him of 9200 the payroll. Knowlton had just withdrawn the funds from a bank on his way to the city treasurer. The robbers fled in a motor car bearing a Lawrence Kansas tag.
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Peka
Kansas
Clyde Knowlton
Knowlton
Lawrence
Ten Miners Die in Hokkaido Coal Mine Blast
A gas explosion at the Sumitomo Bantan coal mine in central Hokkaido killed ten miners and trapped sixty nine others with little hope of rescue. The incident occurred today as rescue efforts began.
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Tokyo
Sumitomo Bantan
Hokkaido
Yezo
Paroled convict loses nerve and dies in Chicago
William Barry, paroled from Joliet in January 1928 after robbery, rode in a stolen car with detectives approaching. He panicked, leaped from a fifth floor window, landed on a passing elevated train, and fell 40 feet to his death. Police linked him to the murder of Detective Joseph Sullivan.
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Chicago
William Barry
Barry
Joliet State Penitentiary
Red” Bolton
West Side
Joseph Sullivan
Bureau of Identification
Memphis Woman Aims at Self to Suspect in Hotel Plot
Miss Alma Bond of Memphis attempted suicide by poison and leapt at a hotel window in Charlotte. a note implicated John B. Madden, a highway restaurant operator near Memphis, who was arrested after discovery of Bond’s note accusing him of bonds theft and automobile theft.
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Alma Bond
Charlotte
Memphis
Tenn
John B. Madden
Madden
Forest City
Miss Bond
Garrett Named Ambassador to Italy Succeeds Fletcher
John W. Garrett Baltimore banker is announced as ambassador to Italy at the White House succeeding Henry P. Fletcher who will retire. Garrett brings 20 years in the diplomatic service having served as minister to Venezuela Argentina and the Netherlands. He will come to Washington for conferences with Hoover and Stimson before assuming duties.
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Washington
White House
John W. Garrett
Baltimore
Italy
Henry P.fletcher
Fletcher
State Department
Garrett
Venezuela
Argentina
Netherlands
Hoover
Stimson
Border patrolman missing since Friday sought in Detroit
Detroit reports an intensive search for a customs border patrolman missing after he left a government boat to board a seized rum craft Friday night. Walter S. Petty confirmed the missing man after an anonymous call to the Detroit Free Press suggested a body might be found in a boat on the East Side.
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Detroit
Walter S. Petty
Detroit Free Press
Riots at Narcotic Hospital Send 13 Inmates Flee
In Los Angeles on August 5 a riot at the Spadre State Narcotic hospital freed 13 inmates. Leaders named were Charles E. Rivers 42 William Graham 60 and Bobby Hall 39. Deputies with shotguns forced surrender tear gas used no injuries reported.
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Los Angeles
Spadre State Narcotic Hospital
Here
Charles E. Rivers
William Graham
Bobby Hall
Full Investigation of Robertson Slayings Sought by Solicitor
Spartanburg South Carolina August 5 solicitor I C Blackwood urged Sheriff N L Bennett to thoroughly probe the slayings last Thursday by T Earl Robertson shipping clerk of J W Bell Milling Co. The victims were J L Bussey R H Day M B Davis and Thad Sherbert. Robertson is held at the state hospital for the insane in Columbia after an axe rampage. Reported irregularities in his business conduct at the firm and a pending separation last Saturday were cited but denied by J W Bell the company head.
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Tong
United States
Yee Sun
Kar Leong Wong
Wong
On Leong Tong
Sun
Chinatown
Joe Tuck
Ding Wing
Sup
Hip Sings
Spartanburg
S. C
I. C. Blackwood
N. L. Bennett
T. Earl Robertson
J. L. Bussey
R. H. Day
M. B. Davis
Thad Sherbert
Robertson
State Hospital For the Insane
Columbia
J. W. Bell Milling Company
J. W. Bell
Stowaway Albert Bubskow Survives Graf Zeppelin Crossing
An 18 year old German baker and confectioner hid aboard the Graf Zeppelin during its Atlantic crossing. He rode a rope from Friedrichshafen hangar to a high tail box room, then jumped to an airshaft and was recovered by crew before remaining in a confined space for the voyage. His nervy stunt ended without fatal consequence for him though a companion reportedly faltered.
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Albert Buhskow
Albert Bubskow
Friedrichshafen
Buhskow
Dortmund
Germany
Au- Saa
Hamburg American to Build Airships for Transatlantic Service
Dr Leisler Kiep manager of the Hamburg American line says the company will back the airship project after the Graf Zeppelin demonstrated stronger engines could enable regular fast transatlantic trips. He told reporters aboard the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst New Jersey on August 5.
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Friedrichshafen
Hugh Eckener
New York
Customs and Immigration
Los Angeles
Fried
Tokyo
United States
Lakehurst
Globe
Atlantic
Jersey Coast Line
Graf
Hamburg-American Line
Transatlantic
N. J
Leisler Kiep
Hamburg American Line
Graf Zeppelin
Airplane Explodes in Mojave Crash Near San Bernardino
Virgil Cline of San Jose piloted a plane to Chicago from Los Angeles when a lightning strike likely hit the gasoline tank, tearing the craft and flier to pieces 4,900 feet above the Mojave desert during a rare thunderstorm.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Virgil Cline
San Jose
Mojave Desert
Here
Chicago
Los Angeles
Grand Council to Meet in August for Mussolini Decisions
Rome Aug 5 The grand council of the Fascist party and state will meet in a called session on August 39 to consider major moves by Premier Mussolini. The session may order a drastic house cleaning and expulsion of undesirable elements to present a united front on October 28 the anniversary of the March on Rome.
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Rome
Fascist Party
Mussolini
Shaw Defends Political Window Dressing to Independent Labourites
George Bernard Shaw addressed the Independent Labour party school at Welwyn defending the idea as a political display. He argued the Conservative loss stemmed from poor advertising of a solid program and criticized other parties as out of touch. He noted the Liberal decline and that Labour was not popular though the lesser evil option for voters.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Europe
Independent Labor Party
Welwyn
Shaw
Liberal Party
Labor Party
Labor
Assolant and Parker Romance Reported Strained
Paris reports a brief marriage between Pauline Parker, New York show girl, and Jean Assolant, French pilot of the Yellow Bird. They wed June 10 in Portland, Maine, three days before the trans Atlantic flight. Communication gap and short acquaintance cited as strains.
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Pauline Parker
New York
Jean Assolant
Assolant
Miss Parker
Portland
Old Orchard
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