Southern Cross Monoplane Makes Long Pacific Flight
The Southern Cross, four crew aboard led by Captain Kingsford-Smith, pursued a 7,788 mile leg toward Sydney from Honolulu en route to Suva Fiji. Reported radio positions showed steady progress around 90 nautical miles per hour with intermittent motor sputtering as it crossed the South Pacific toward its goal.
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Honolulu
Equator
Barking Sands
Hawaiian Islands
Suva
Fiji Island
South Pacific
Sydney
Australia
Pacific Coast
Oakland
Calif
Kingsford-Smith
Kauai
Phoenix Group
Southern Cross
Fiji Islands
South Seas
California
Wheeler Field
Phoenix Island
Ulm
Charles Ulm
Harry
Harry W. Lyon
Bishop Guerry Shot. Assailant Dead After Dramatic Attack
The Right Rev. William A. Guerry, bishop of the South Carolina Episcopal diocese, was shot in his Charleston office by the retired minister Rev. J. H. Woodward who then killed himself. Guerry, 66, was in critical condition. Woodward, aged 66 from Brunswick, Georgia, died at a hospital. The incident followed a dispute over finances and retirement, with a check found near Woodward.
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Charleston
Roper Hospital
R. S. Cathcart
Guerry
South Carolina
Clarendon County
Florence, Marion
Darlington
S. Co
University of the South
Sewanee, Tenn
Anne McBee
Lincolnton
Provincial Board of Social Service
Protestant Episcopal Church
Hoover campaign expenses revised for West Virginia
A revised accounting in West Virginia shows $22 532 in contributions and $18 586 in expenditures for the Hoover presidential campaign, with $1 000 more anticipated to cover unpaid bills. Harry C Woodyard, Hoover manager in the state, cited contributions from Frothinghams and John A Bartlett via James Good, and noted broader paid advertising. He defended spending against Senator Reed and described state organization activity as substantial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
West Virginia
Senate
Harry C. Woodyard
Hoover
Woodyard
James Good
Hoover National Organization
Goff
Hoover Paid
Bratton
Calder
New York
Clyde B. Johnson
Charleston
W. Va
Reed
Missouri
Johnson
Everybody Is In Market On Gamble
The stock market has become a global speculative playground with wide participation from diverse workers. Brokers report strong margins on speculative accounts while investment buying grows. women increasingly frequent brokerages. Trading reaches world wide scope as rumors and tip services expand, despite Federal Reserve actions and gold exports.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
Mutual Savings
New York City
Federal Reserve
Bomb Attack Wounds Chang Tso Lin Near Peking
Dispatches report Chang Tso Lin seriously injured in a bombing on his train en route to Mukden from Peking. Wu Chun-Sheing, governor of Beilung Kiang, died from injuries in the same incident. The attack occurred as the train neared Mukden, and authorities kept the death secret to maintain troop morale. A separate note says League of Nations members may privately discuss protests by Chinese merchants against Japan’s occupation of Shantung.
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Tokyo
Mukden
Manchuria
Chang Tso-Lin
North China
Peking
Tongo
Wu Chun-Sheing
Beilung- Kiang
Wu Chun-Sheng
Geneva
Shantung
Council of the
League of Nations
Aguero Y Bethancourt
Associated Press
Speed Held Responsible for Tragedy on Highway
On the Monroe road near Charlotte Mrs. Clarence C. Henderson 80 of Laurel Hill died en route to the hospital after a high speed crash and her husband was seriously hurt. He said they were traveling about 70 miles an hour before losing control.
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Charlotte
Clarence C. Henderson
Laurel Hill
Monroe Road
Mrs Guerry Aunt of Mrs Co M Waynick and Relatives
Mrs Guerry is an aunt of Mrs Co M Waynick of High Point and has many other relatives in the area. The fragment notes familial connections and local ties without additional context.
Lawrence Not Yet Put on Bail in Grievous Murder Case
Durham June 4 W Herbert Lawrence a local contractor remains jailed as the supreme court weighs a Chatham superior court verdict of second degree murder for the March 24 slaying of Mrs Annie Terry a Durham dress maker Defense lawyers consider habeas corpus but have not yet decided on timing or method Lawrence stays in Watts hospital after slashing his throat in his Pittsboro cell early in the trial.
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Durham
W. Herbert Lawrence
Supreme Court
Chatham Superior Court
Annie Terry
Lawrence
Watts Hospital
Pittsboro
Governor Praises North Carolina College for Women Investment
Greensboro, June 4. Governor McLean lauds nearly 7 million dollars in permanent improvements at North Carolina College for Women as one of the state’s best investments. He says education empowers women for wifehood motherhood and citizenship. Senator George of Georgia is the featured speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
North Carolina College For Women
McLean
George
Georgia
Child Dies of Rabies In Plymouth Home
Isabel Leone Harrison eight, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harrison of Plymouth, died today from hydrophobia. The parents said they could not recall the child having been bitten by any rabid animal.
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Plymouth
N. C
Isabel Leone Harrison
Woman Aboard Transatlantic Flight From Trepassy
The monoplane Friendship departed Trepassy Newfoundland for the next leg across the Atlantic to England. A flawless takeoff occurred at 8:36 am eastern daylight time from Halifax harbor. The craft will be refueled at Trepassey with one hundred gallons of gasoline added prior to departure.
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Halifax N. S
Trepassy
N. F
Atlantic
England
Pasage
Halifax Harbor
Flower Show Opens in Asheville Rhododendron Festival
Hundreds of tourists gathered in Asheville for the citys first annual Rhododendron festival. A noon floral parade launched a week of events including coronation of festival royalty, a 1000-member pageant, a square dance festival, and a states ball featuring sponsors from 15 states, with Miss Julia Webb and Miss Cora Arch among organizers.
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Asheville
Mountain City
Bingham McKee
Rose Corrigan
Weaverville
Burnsville
Lenoir
Franklin
Brevard
Municipal Stadium
Kenilworth Inn
North Carolina
Julia Webb
Cora Arch
N. C
South Carolina
Mary Gildersleeve Wylie
Lancaster
Maryland
Emma Warfield
Cumberland
Virginia
Gartrell Grubbs
Richmond
West Virginia
Opal Claypoole
Logan
Kentucky
Nancy Jones
Lexington
Tennessee
Annie Bruce Boyd
Knoxville
Arkansas
Dorothy Holland
Hot Springs
Oklahoma
Helen Andrews
McAlester
Mississippi
Charla Vesta Culpepper
Wiggins
Alabama
Louise Hinton
Tuscaloosa
Georgia
Frances Morgan Phillips
Louiseville
Florida
Laura Emerson
Clearwater
Ward Found Dead in Gastonia Hotel Room
Fred P. Ward aged 39 was found dead from heart trouble in his hotel room in Gastonia early today after retiring at 10 PM. Hotel physicians ruled heart failure. Funeral and burial planned for Spartaburg, his former home, tomorrow.
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F. P. Ward
Gastonia
Fred P. Ward
Spartaburg
Trans Atlantic Flight Planned With Earhart as Co pilot
A Boston social worker Miss Amelia Earhart will co pilot a secret trans Atlantic flight from Boston to Trepassy and then across to London. Pilot Wilmer Stultz and flight mechanic Louis Gordon accompany Earhart aboard the tri motor Fokker Friendship funded by George Palmer Putnam.
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Halifax
N. C
Boston
Lindbergh
Trepassy
N. F
Wilmer Agultz
Francis Wilson Grayson
Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
Denison House
Louis Gordon
San Antonio
Texas
Richard E. Byrd
Mechanical Science Corporation
New York
Explorer
George Palmer Putnam
Boston Harbor
Stultz
London
Europe
Mabel Boli
Queen of Diamonds
Wilmer Stultz
Charles Levine
Columbia
Langston Leads In Statewide Lieutenant Governor Count
Langston tallies 49,935 votes with Fountain at 60,763 and Burgwyn 46,476 across 1, 063 of 1, 754 precincts. For commissioner of labor and printing 1, 004 precincts report Grist 76,508 Shipman 45,614 Peterson 19,102.
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Langston
Charlotte
N. C
Jine
Fountain
Burgwyn
Commissioner of Labor and Printing
Grist
Shipman
Peterson
Funeral Tomorrow for Walter B. Wilson Jr in Greenville
Funeral services for Walter B. Wilson Jr. United States consul at Shanghai who was drowned there May 1 will be held in Greenville tomorrow. The body is expected to arrive tomorrow morning.
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Greenville
N. C
Walter B. Wilson, Jr
United States
Shanghai
Former Countess Ill With Double Pneumonia
Mrs. H H Rogers learns her daughter Millicent Peralta Ramos is suffering from double pneumonia in New York. Millicent’s husband Arturo Peralta Ramos is named, and Mrs Rogers plans to sail aboard the Leviathan to be at her daughter's side.
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Paris
H. H. Rogers
Millicent
Arturo Peralta Ramos
New York
Robert
Italia To Be Hunted By Russia
Moscow reports the Nobile Relief Commission plans an expedition to Franz Josef land east of Spitzbergen in hopes of locating the missing dirigible. The effort reflects belief the airship may have crashed in that remote Arctic region.
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Italia
Russia
Moscow
Franz Josef Land
Spitzbergen
Russian Nobile Relief Commission
Noble Rescue Commission
Venesensk
Dvinsk
Archangel
Search for Italia dirigible resumes in Arctic cold
In Spitzbergen searches for the Italia dirigible continue after a week of prep. Italian alpinists sail with ice cutter Braganza to probe Cape Verdelen Hoek and Hinlopen Straits as Lieut. Luetzow Holm surveys by air from Hobby. A Soviet probe toward Franz Josef Land grows, amid garbled SOS chatter linked to Italia Nobile signals.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Hobby’s
King’s Bay
Luetzow Holm
Polar Sea
Holm
Braganza
Reindeer Land
Cape Verdelen Hoek
Moffen Island
Straits of Hinlopen
Franz Josef Land: Archipelago with glaciers and limited wildlife
Franz Josef Land lies east of Spitzbergen and north of Novaya Zemlya between 80 82 and 42 74 degrees. The high glacier covered land reaches about 2400 feet in elevation. Volcanic islands host scarce land animals, with bears and foxes and rare insects. Shoreline plants exist, interior contains glaciers with a perpendicular ice wall.
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Franz Josef Land
Spitzbergen
Novoe Zemblya
Fountain Leads In North Carolina Primary Returns
Charlotte June 4. Early county canvasses show R T Fountain Rocky Mount and Col John D Langston Goldsboro likely to force a second primary for Lieutenant Governor. Reported precincts show Fountain 63 281 Burgwyn 47 684 Langston 51 965 with late counts and other candidates Grist Shipman Peterson also listed.
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Charlotte
R.T. Fountain
Rocky Mount
John D. Langston
Goldsboro
Democratic lieutenant governor primary vote count under review
Returns from eastern counties show R. T. Fountain leading with 59,038 votes, John D. Langston and W. H. S. Burgwyn close behind, none with a majority. A possible second Democratic primary hangs on whether Langston or Burgwyn yields. Burgwyn backs Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Langston opposes him, while Fountain opposes Smith.
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Fountain
John D. Langston
Goldsboro
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Northampton
Langston
Burgwyn
Smith
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Hawaiian Sands
9. C
Representative Frothingham
Massachusetts
Mary A. Frothingham
Col. Stewart
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Stewart
Frank J. Hogan
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
PI Balia Afprialial Lin
Ghang
Northern Force
Speed
Fine Investment
North Atlantic
The
Frank D. Grist
M. L. Shipman
QO. J. Peterson
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