Hughes's Trip Follows Optimist View Of Flight Feats
The report recounts Hughes flying from New York to Paris in 16% hours, beating Lindbergh's time by more than half. Delays due to radio repairs slowed the Paris stop, then Hughes continued to Mos to greet Mik hail Gromoff. He refueled and pressed on to Omsk, Siberia in 7% hours as aviation headlines highlighted the venture.
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Record of global aviation feats and world affairs notes
The item recaps aviation speed records and perilous journeys toward the Bering Strait, plus updates on civil aviation law, exploration plans, and airship developments. It also covers Spanish Civil War milestones, Palestine strife, Kiukiang and Hankow clashes, Ireland’s unrest, and European rearmament trends.
Crop Outlook and Cotton Production Projections
The August report may lead to marketing quotas if the outlook holds. Cotton acreage is down to its lowest since 1900, with production expected about 8 million bales below last year’s 18.945 million. Other notes reference tax cases involving Du Pont and Liberty League, Venus observations, freight-rate debates, and a Wagner anti-lynching bill forecast.
Abbreviated 1940 Plans and Elections Across Nations
In Short Abandoned: 1940 Olympic plans, Japan withdraws. Venezuela exits the League of Nations. Dr Edward James Mc Cormick of Toledo elected grand exalted ruler of Elks. John Seadlund executed in Chicago for kidnapping Charles S Ross. King George VI advised to rest, suspect gastric influenza. Mexico Peru and Dominican Republic offer asylum to European refugees at a France conference. Albanian Princess Musejen to wed Egyptian Prince Abdul Monneim. John F Bathelt of New York sentenced to life for Massachusetts race track crime. Noted deaths include Emil Kirdorf Marielle Horlick Arthur Barclay Rugeley Dean Eliza Kilgore Steen Ynez Mexia Nathaniel Thayer Kidder.
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Charles S. Ross
George VI
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France
Musejen
Ke Eliza Kilgore Steen
Ynez Mexia
Nathaniel Thayer Kidder
Danish nobles reach quiet end to dispute at Bow Street
Count Court Haug witz Reventlow faced charges for threatening his wife Barbara Hutton but the countess withdrew the case after agreeing to home security and no contact. The judge called it a desirable ending though further Danish legal questions may follow. A Belgian beheading tale and other notes adjourn the report.
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Barbara Hutton
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Farmhand Denies Kidnapping Boy in 1936 Case
A 32 year old farmhand claimed he abducted Charles Mattson but a state hospital superintendent said the man was an asylum inmate when the crime occurred. Gmen have questioned over 16,000 suspects in the long unsolved case. The boy was found nude and beaten fifteen days after the abduction near Tacoma Washington.
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July 18 19 20 21 23 194? Conference and primary events
The notice lists a health and public instruction conference in Geneva on Monday July 18, Montana primary on Tuesday July 19, and railroad wage talks beginning in Chicago on Wednesday July 20. Belgian independence day on Thursday July 21 and Texas primary on Saturday July 23.
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Seiten Kinbend Oe
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Labor clashes, NLRB battles unfold at steel plant hearings
From Steubenville to New York and Westwood to Dallas Oregon, labor struggles surface. Weirton Steel faces Wagner act charges as E Grandison Smith and Clyde Armstrong clash. Rand restores workers while NLRB reviews. 2000 purge at Westwood follows wage-cut protests. Portland AFL official convicted in labor-terror drive.
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Little Steel
CIO
E. Grandison Smith
Labor Board
Clyde Armstrong
Smith
Armstrong
Weirton
Ohio River
West Virginia
NLRB
Federal
Grandstand Smith
New York
James H. Rand, Jr
Remington Rand, Inc
Portland Afl
PWA Shows Reopened Power Division Funds Colorado River Project
Interior Secretary Ickes resumed control of the Washington PWA power division led by Dr. Clark os young in economist and began allotting 7 350 000 dollars for a Colorado River project near Austin Texas. Additional allotments followed as funds for public power systems to rival private plants are granted only when municipalities cannot buy private properties on reasonable terms.
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Colorado River
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Riverside
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Roosevelt Trip Signals Democratic Rally and Budget Talk
President Roosevelt travels across the nation delivering remarks on New Deal progress and Democratic senatorial renomination hopes. He reviews budget revisions showing a $5.0 billion intake and $8.985 billion outlay for the coming year while forecasting a rise in public debt.
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