Airmen Killed In Plane Collision Near Buenos Aires
Captain Clinton F. Woolsey from Michigan and Lieutenant John W. Benton of California died when the Detroit and the New York clipped wings and crashed during a South American tour. Major Herbert A. Vargue and Lt Ennis C. Whitehead aboard the New York survived. The fleet was on a 20 000 mile Pan American flight from San Antonio, Texas, toward Asuncion, Paraguay, with Buenos Aires stopovers.
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Buenos Aires
Clinton F. Woolsey
Michigan
United States Army
Detroit
John W. Benton
California
New York
Herbert A. Vargue
Ennis C. Whitehead
Palo Mar Army Air Field
San Antonio
South America
Herbert A. Dargue
Palo Mar
Mar del Plata
Asuncion
Paraguay
Boulder Canyon Dam Bill Blocked in Senate Debate
The U S Senate refused to end debate on the Boulder Canyon dam and officers retirement bills blocking passage. Cloture failed 32 to 59 on Boulder Canyon after a White House appeal, while officers bill cloture failed 51 to 36. Adjournment looms next Friday.
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Senate
Washington
Boulder Canyon Dam
Colorado
Boulder Canyon
Coolidge
White House
Johson
California
Tyson
Tennessee
South Reclamation Plan Urged for Six Southern States
A congressional report by advisers from Howard Elliott Daniel Roper and George Soule supports reclaiming arid swamp and cut over lands in six southern states. It details suitability for colonization, cites Pembroke North Carolina Mount Holly South Carolina sites and notes private and public funding possibilities.
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Special Board of Advisers
Washington
Congress
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Howard Elliott
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Daniel Co. Roper
Internal Revenue
George Soule
National Economic Research Bureau
Australia
Denmark
Germany
California
Wisconsin
Calina
Pembroke
N. C
Mount Holly
S. C
Albany
Southeast
South
Charleston
America must drop isolation and join world in League effort
Atlanta and Raleigh dispatches report Bishop Wilbur Patterson Thirkield urging the United States to abandon selfish Monroe doctrine policy and embrace Pan American unity through the world league. He condemns entangling alliances and calls America for the world rather than America first.
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Atlanta
United States
South America
Mexico
Wilbur Patterson Thirkield
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Southern Student Conference On International Relations
America
League of Nations
Thirkield
Panama
Peru
Latin America
North Carolina Reports Rich Cyanite Deposits Found
The Enterprise Bureau notes large cyanite reserves discovered in North Carolina. State Geologist H. J. Bryson cites increasing use of cyanite in refractory work and with diaspore in clay bodies. A Virginia plant for concentration may boost NC production. previously cyanite occurred only in small pockets east of the United States.
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The
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
North Carolina
Department of Conservation and Development
H. J. Bryson
American Ceramic Society
Detroit
Virginia
United States
Collision in air turns fatal at Paramar flying field
A crash during landing in a close formation at Paramar field killed four airmen. Detroit crew Commander Woolsey and Lt Whitehead perished after leaping. Detroit burned while New York aircraft wrecked. Lt Benton burned in the debris. Dargue and Lt Whitehead survived.
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Buenos Aires
New York
Detroit
Paramar
Benton
Dargue
Whitehead
Woolsey
Great Smoky Mountains Host First Southern Botany Study
Professor D C Childs of Duke announces an unprecedented southern botany project in the Great Smoky Mountains. University botanists will trek Lake Junaluska to Mount Guyot on a 20 mile ascent mapping floral zones and wildlife while a state law provides two million dollars to acquire lands for a national park. Dr H L Blomquist leads the field study noting 127 tree species and 174 shrubs amid abundant wildlife and trout as they document the diverse Unknown World flora.
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Durham
Great Smoky Mountains
North Carolina
D. C. Childs
Duke University
H. L. Blomquist
Lake Junaluska
Land of the Sky
Clingman
Balsam Range
Mount Guyot
Land of the Sky National Park
Condition of Banks in New York Week Ending
The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows an excess reserve of 3,597,820 dollars, an increase of 41,185,440 from the prior week deficit of 7,577,620 dollars.
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New York
County Attorney Authorized to Sue Bonding Company
Asheboro Feb 26 county commissioners authorize the county attorney to sue a bonding company that vouched for J F Crawford resigned sheriff after audits found a shortage of more than 20000 dollars part of which he repaid J A Brady was appointed sheriff after Crawford’s resignation and an investigation was started into the books
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Asheboro
J. F. Crawford
Crawford
J. A. Brady
Negro driver found guilty by Buncombe jurors
Will Barton, a taxi driver identified as a negro, was convicted in Buncombe Superior court of manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Thomas J Shaw to 10 to 15 years at hard labor in the state prison. The jury deliberated for less than an hour after the Christmas morning accident that killed hospital dietician Miss Mary Maguire.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Johnson
Duplin County
Haywood
Montgomery
National Organization of the
Ku Klux Klan
Assembly
Henry A. Grady
Clinton
North Carolina
Grady
Evans
H. {. Goodwin
Dunn
National Organization
McLean
Graham
Folger
Lurry
Moss
Nash County
State College Representatives
Frank Dunlap
Senator Maguire
Maguire
Asheville
Will Barton
Buncombe Superior Court
Thomas J Shaw
Mary Maguire
Barton
New Post Office Building Hinted for High Point
High Point’s postmaster reports talks with federal postal heads and local civic leaders point to a larger post office in coming months. A Washington petition seeks inclusion for a new building with funding possibly next year. Authorities anticipate a favorable report and site survey plans.
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O. R. York
York
Washington
High Point
Congress
Postal Authority
David H. Blair
Internal Revenue
Blair
John H. Bartlett
Insull regrets he cannot name campaign donors
Samuel Insull told the senate campaign funds committee he will not disclose the four men who lent 40000 for the Illinois primary. He faces possible contempt proceedings. witnesses include Daniel J. Schuyler and Thomas W. Cunningham. He said 125000 borrowed from Commonwealth Edison was repaid with a 190000 personal check dated 1926.
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Washington
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Illinois
Senate
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Goff
West Virginia
Daniel J. Schuyler
Insull
Thomas W. Cunningham
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Republican State Committee
Frank L. Smith
Commonwealth Edison Company
Illinois Commerce Commission
Smith
theMllinois Merchants’ Trust Bank
Campaign Funds Committee
Reed
Congress
Colonize Waste Lands Feasibility Urged by Advisory Board
A congress created advisory board reporting to the speaker recommends establishing experimental or demonstration colonies in arid semi arid swamp and cut over timber lands in the south to pursue reclamation and ionization efforts.
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Washington
Congress
House
Fayetteville Prohibition Officials Bust 20 Bootleggers
Fayetteville authorities announced a huge Cumberland county liquor raid with 20 bootleggers arrested. Agents said only small quantities were seized and several calls kept inns closed. Rome Pate, recently acquitted of murder, was among those arrested.
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Fayetteville
A. G. McDuffie
Cumberland County
Rome Pate
Caine to Speak on Livestock Development at State College
John T. Caine III, head of the packers and stockyards administration, will address the fifth lecture on the winter program at State College in Polk Hall at 7 30 Monday evening March 7. He will discuss the western eastern and southern links in building a national livestock industry and has a long record in livestock education and administration.
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United States Department of Agriculture
R. S. Curt
Caine
United States
Iowa State College
Utah
West
Stockyards and Packers Administration
Curtis
Layden Free on Bond in Kidnapping Case
Edward Layden, 18, is at liberty on $3,000 bond after a Hertford County hearing before Justice Darden. He faces kidnapping charges for allegedly decoying 15 year old Margaret Campbell from her home on February 13, with the court ruling the evidence shows she was lured away by deception.
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Layder
Elizabeth City
Edward Layden
Liberty
Darden
Hertford
Margaret Campbell
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Abraham Kulp
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Osborne
Dicker
Doris
Mrs. Reiker
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Ally
Nsull
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