Moors Suffer as French Lift Siege of Ait Yakoub
From Tangier and Rabat reports on June 14 say French reinforcements saved Ait Yakoub when rebels attacked the French post. French planes bombed the rebels as losses mounted on both sides. In a separate action near Tounfit Moroccan villages fell to French forces with 35 tribesmen killed and 6 prisoners taken.
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Tangier
Morocco
Ait Yakoub
la Nacion
Buenos Aires
Rabat
Tounfit
Great Atlas Range
French Forces Pressed by Moors Near Ait Yakoub
Reports say eight battalions of the French foreign legion under General Freydenberg moved toward Ait Yakoub to begin retributive actions. Moors led by a dissident faction attacked the French at El Bordj on June 9 and pursued them to Ait Yakoub. eighty three French soldiers were killed or missing.
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Ments
French Foreign Legion
Freydenberg
Ait Yakoub
E! Bordj
courtroom crowd fills Gastonia hearings for textile strike prisoners
A Gastonia superior court session drew a packed crowd of strikers and residents as prisoners accused of murder and assault faced Judge W. F. Harding. Defendants include Vera Bush and other National Textile Workers Union members with counsel arguing to continue hearings.
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Tom P. Jimisc
Gastonia
Mecklenburg Superior Court
W. F. Harding
Russell Knight
Tom Self
J. R. Pittman
R.S. Lloyd
Clarence Miller
Amy Schechter
John G. Carpenter
Harding
Gastonia Recorder’s Court
Tom P. Jimison
Marie Whitton
Dawes Arrives in England for Blazing Ambassadorship Entry
General Charles G. Dawes sails into Southampton to join the fight for Anglo American ties. He plans a rapid schedule including audience with King George within 24 hours, a 690 mile ride to Forres for talks with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and a dinner confrontation at the Pilgrims' dinner that has British officials astonished by the speed and informality of his actions.
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Southampton
France
London
Scotland
Charles G. Dawes
Ramsay MacDonald
Dawes
England
King George
Forres
Mr. MacDonald
Foreign Office
Arthur Henderson
General Dawes
Olympic
United States
George
Welcome Fire At Planned Paris Welcome For Yellow Bird Trio
Paris plans a boisterous welcome for the three French aviators Jean Assolant Rene Le Fevre and Armeno Lotti upon their trans Atlantic crossing arrival. Authorities expected a crowd similar to Lindbergh’s 1927 reception with enhanced lighting at Le Bourget and favorable winds aiding a potential speed record.
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Paris
France
Lindbergh
Jean Assolant
Rene le Fevre
Armeno Lotti
le Bourget
Portugal
Bermuda
Oak Evaporation Estimate Draws Attention to Water Loss
A single white oak was estimated to evaporate about 150 gallons of water in a day highlighting the tree’s moisture loss and potential drought impact.
State Merchants Protest Stores Operated by State
The North Carolina State Merchants association prepared to present a protest to Governor Gardner upon his return from Elizabeth City. At Hickory they adopted resolutions opposing state run stores, citing a Chapel Hill store and a smaller State College outlet as unfair competition to merchants in Durham Raleigh and the university town. One store reportedly did 96900 in business last year.
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Raleigh
State Merchants Association
Gardner
North Carolina Press Association
Elizabeth City
Hickory
University
Chapel Hill
University Town
Durham
State College
Wilmington Man Elected to National Boys Club Board
Thomas H. Wright, local businessman and Kiwanis member, elected director of the Boys' Club Federation of America at the federation meeting in Boston. He is the sole Southern member on the board.
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Wilmington
Thomas H. Wright
Kiwanis Club
Boys’ Club Federation of America
Boston
Vessels Sail Over Eleven Million Miles in 1928
Vessels of the United States Shipping Board covered more than 11 202 800 miles during 1928 as part of the board's national transport program.
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United Staes Shipping Board
General George Taylor Dies in Havana Plane Crash
General George Taylor, 64, operations manager of Pan American Airways at Port au Prince, Haiti, died of injuries from a Havana crash. The Pan American passenger mail plane struck power wires on takeoff, killing radio operator E. E. Griffith and injuring four others. Mrs. Taylor was also hurt. The death occurred at Santiago de Cuba hospital.
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George Taylor
Havana
Pan-American Airways, Inc
Port Au Prince
Haiti
United States Army
Los Angeles
Santiago de Cuba
Pan-American Airways
Loyola Bursar Vanishes After Short Accounts
Loyola University bursar Frenry J. Meyer disappeared from New Orleans leaving university accounts short by more than ten thousand dollars. Rev Father Fr J Sullivan, the president, disclosed the loss today.
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New Orleans
Frenry J. Meyer
Loyola University
Fr. J. Sullivan
Banana King Cooper Keith Dies at 81 in Babylon
Cooper Keith, founder of the United Fruit Company and known as the Banana King, died at his home in Babylon, New York, aged 81. He built a vast fruit empire and shaped modern banana trade.
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Banana King
Babylon
N. Y
iMnor Cooper Keith
United Fruit Company
Yellow Bird Monoplane Mystery Near Atlantic Ocean
Reports say the Yellow Bird monoplane, with a 600 mile radio range, was somewhere in the eastern half of the Atlantic northeast of the Azores. A lighthouse keeper near Matinicus Rock first heard its progress, then Captain Sulver of the Wytheville relayed a radiogram noting the plane passed the Wytheville at 5 45 BE. & T near latitude 1.09 south, longitude 9 40 west. The Wytheville had departed Norfolk for Rotterdam and radio speed was reduced as the generator operated offshore.
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Azores
Laconia
Ocean
Portugal
Matinicus Tock
Maine
Associated Press
Sulver
Wytheville
O. K
Norfolk Va
Rotterdam
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Black Hawk
Black Hawk Ham
R. B. Silman
Lotti
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Roosevelt Field
Old Orchard
Charles A. Lindbergh
Long Island
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New York
Orpheum
Cutie’s
Carton
Rexall Stores
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Hinds Honey
Fletcher
Castoria
Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin
Dethol
Alophen
Lydia E. Pinkhams
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Eastman Kodaks
Tse Dextin
Electro-Dynamic
High Point Hardware Company
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