Infirmities Of Flesh Not Expected To End Flight
The St Louis Robin piloted by Dale Red Jackson and Forest O Brine remained aloft at Lambert field for 17th day on July 29, nearing a 400 hour mark. Crowds estimated at 60 000 watched as officials noted no physical troubles among the crew and described extended flight and fueling events.
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ST. Louis
William B. Robertson
Curtiss-Robertson Company
Cleveland
Art Goebel
California
Hawaii
Motion For Change Of Venue Likely To Be Denied
Gastonia July 29 The special grand jury returned true bills against 23 National Textile Workers union members and officials tied to the Loray mills tent colony shooting. Sixteen face murder charges, seven assault to kill. Court adjourned for lunch as arraignments began. venue change motion likely to be overruled delaying trial to tomorrow or Wednesday. The indictees include Beal Buch Melvin Schechter Harrison and several union members.
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Gastonia
National Textile Workers Union
Loray Mills Tent Colony
M. W. Barnhill
Barnhill
Fred Erwin Beal
Vera Buch
Sophie Melvin
Young Pioneers of America
Amy Schechter
Workers International Relief Worker
Joseph Harrison
Louis McLaughlin
K. O. Byers
Wm. McGinnis
J. C. Hefner
Robert Allen
Russell Knight
N. F. Gibson
K. Y. Hendricks
Delmar Hampton
Clarence Miller
Revolting Convicts Seize Auburn Prison in 1700 Mutiny
At Auburn state prison in New York on July 29 inmates overwhelmed guards and seized the arsenal containing about 50 rifles and four machine guns. The riot left four guards shot, one seriously, and caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. Four convicts escaped. two mutineers were killed and another wounded.
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Auburn
N. Y
Auburn State Prison
Clinton
Dannemore
Briand to retain cabinet intact in France
Paris July 29 Aristide Briand will keep the cabinet of Ramond Poincare intact with himself as premier and foreign minister. Poincare will be excluded. Briand told President Doumergue at the Elysee and called a 5 pm cabinet meeting. He sought broader support but radical socialists were rejected.
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Paris
Aristide Briand
France
Ramond Poincare
M. Poincare
M. Briand
Poincare
Elysee Palace
Doumergue
Briand
Germany
League of Nations
King George Makes Good Progress After Operation
Buckingham Palace reports King George continues to make satisfactory progress. Yesterday the king took a short walk at the palace for the first time since his operation two weeks ago.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Drowning Toll Mounts From Weekend Heat Wave Reach
Twenty people died by drowning in Michigan and nearby Ontario as they sought relief from the heat at lakes and rivers over the weekend.
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Detroit
Michigan
Ontario
Graf Zeppelin Pilot to Start Second U S Flight Soon
Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Graf Zeppelin, expects to take off from Friedrichshafen, Germany, Thursday or Friday on his second trip to America. A test flight over south Germany and the Rhineland showed the dirigible’s new motors functioning satisfactorily.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Here
America
South Germany
Rhineland
Tragedy on Rails as Man Stumbles Crossing Tracks
In Rockingham on July 28 the Seaboard Airline freight Red Ball struck and killed Leo Goodwin, 22, of Rockingham as he stumbled while crossing with a group of young men three miles west of the town. The body was mangled, and the incident occurred hours after a prior cross track stumble.
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Rockingham
Seaboard
Red_ Ball
Leo Goodwin
Here
Goodwin
Poincare Bright and Happy for Operation
Former premier Poincare, free from government duties, appeared bright and cheerful awaiting a contemplated operation. A medical consult was set for tomorrow with doctors reporting he is in excellent condition for the procedure.
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Poincare Bright and Happy For Operation
Paris
Poincare
Publisher Faces Suit Over Editorial Libel
Miami publisher Frank B. Shutts of the Miami Herald had a preliminary hearing on criminal libel charges adjourned to August 13 after defense counsel motion. The case stems from an editorial criticizing Miami city commissioner B. R. Gautier.
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Miami
Fla
Frank B. Shutts
The
Miami Herald
B. R. Gautier
Ntil
Endurance plane The Minnesota crashes at Wold Chamberlain Field
In Minneapolis on July 29 Captain P. J. Crichton was killed and pilot Owen Haughland seriously injured when the endurance plane The Minnesota crashed during a refueling approach near the old concrete race track at the field. The aircraft had been aloft 154 hours 40 minutes. Cause of the crash remains undetermined.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wold Chamberlain Field
P. J. Crichton
Owen Haughland
Crichton
Haughland
Ace High
Mussolini's Forty Sixth Birthday Quietly Observed
Rome reporters noted Premier Mussolini turned forty six today but few details of his plans emerged. Some suspected he remained near Rimini and a villa at Forli with family, while the premier asked that no special observance be held. He said the day mattered little, not due to age but because there are already enough holidays in the Roman calendar.
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Rome
Mussolini
Rimini
Adriatic
Forli
Foreign Office
Foster Flays South Textile Labor Injustices
William Z. Foster urged southern textile workers to form a militant organization to demand an eight hour law and end the stretch-out system. Delegates from 55 mills in 29 towns planned a second conference in Charlotte for late September to organize southern mills.
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Bessemer City
N. C
National Textile Workers’ Union
William Z. Foster
Trade Union Educational League
India
China
Foster
United States
Charlotte
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Gastonia
O. F. Aderholt
Wall Street
Soviet Russia
Pilot Uninjured In Plane Crash In City
Local aviator C. M. Lohr narrowly escaped death when his J-4 army type plane struck a tree top and crashed near a flying field on South Main Street at the city limits. The aircraft was demolished but Lohr emerged unhurt. he planned to buy a new ship in Danville and had intended to bring back the wrecked plane.
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C. M. Lohr
Grace Street
Lonr Nada
Lohr
Danville
Pitcairn Company
Guilford County
Heat Wave Grips Country Across Cities And Farms
A nationwide heat wave pushed temperatures toward the century mark with 98 degrees reported in Albany Baltimore Phoenix St. Louis and Washington. New York City hit 92 as beaches filled and thousands fled urban heat. Drought worsened for a month threatening crops and sparking forest-fire concerns in Canada. Northport Long Island apple crops failed while New Jersey towns urged water conservation and limited supply hours.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
Baltimore
Phoenix
Ariz
St. Louis
Washington
Mercury
Montreal
Boston
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Detroit
Philadelphia
Portland
Ore
San Antonio
Tex
Canada
Dominion
Atlantic Seaboard States
Northport
Long Island
Mountain Lakes
N. J
New Jersey
Peru Honors Hoover on Independence Anniversary
The Peruvian government awarded the grand Cross with diamonds of the Order of the Sun to President Hoover on the 108th anniversary of Peruvian independence. Secretary of State Stimson also received the grand cross.
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Peru
Hoover
Lima
Order of the Sun
Stimson
North Carolina Textile Unions Ready to Strike More
Alfred L. Hoffman Southen organizer said United Textile Workers will call further strikes in North Carolina if mill conditions do not improve. He hailed Marion Manufacturing Company strike as a continued success and warned Clinchfield mills near Marion could strike within a week or two if conditions do not change.
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Raleigh
N. C
Alfred L. Hoffman
Piedmont Organizing Council
United Textile Workers Union
North Carolina
Marion Manufacturing Company
Marion
Clinchfield Mills
Lancashire Mill Strike Halts 1500 Factories in England
About 1,500 cotton mills in Lancashire closed as half a million workers walked out after employers refused a 12.5 percent wage cut. The automatic strike, decided Saturday, disrupted nearly all towns in Lancashire and threatens around 1 million pounds in weekly wages. Some plants not in the Masters federation stayed open briefly, paying old wages to only a few thousand workers.
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Manchester
Eng
Lancashire
Employers Federation
Masters’ Federation
South Carolina Tobacco Markets Open Tomorrow
South Carolina tobacco growers anticipate higher prices with open markets tomorrow as Florence Darlington Timmonsville and Lamar report ample supplies and better leaf quality despite rain. North Carolina markets in the belt, including Fairmont, note high quality grain and color and a new warehouse addition.
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Sumter
S. C
Georgia
South Carolina
Florence
Darlington
Timmonsville
Lamar
North Carolina
Fairmont
Cobb Defends Right to Agitate Repeal of Prohibition
Irvin S. Cobb as chairman of the authors and artists committee declares prohibition a noble experiment compares it to disasters and asserts the right to advocate repeal or reinterpretation. He cites widespread violations and by products as justification for opposing enforcement.
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Irvin S. Cobb
Prohibition
Washington
Authors’ and
Association Against the Prohibition
San Francisco
Galveston
Mongol Invasion Rumors Stir Skirmish Talks in London
Tokyo rumors of a Mongol invasion to China linked to China’s seizure of the Chinese eastern railway in Manchuria unsettled London observers. Mongolia’s ties with Nanking’s government remained strained, while reports from Manchuk described armies within twelve miles of each other and a no man’s land between. Moscow offered no comment amid claims of Soviet atrocities in Manchuria and mutinies near Harbin.
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London
Tokyo
China
Manchuria
Russia
Mongolia
Nanking
Siberia
Manchuk
Moscow
Harbin
England's drought ends with real rain
London reports the long drought broken by unexpected rain. Thousands of farmers and water authorities welcomed relief after weeks of anxiety as cities cut water supplies and arranged emergency reserves.
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England
London
Great Britain
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