Seven Killed When Plane Falls Into English Channel
Rescue efforts near the Columbia River report 24 crew rescued from the lumber steamer Laurel after a mid sea gale broke the ship in two. One man drowned. eight others aboard the stern are missing. The Multnomah and two fishermen are also mentioned in storm losses along the Pacific coast.
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English Channel
West Coast
Portland
Ore
Laurel
Columbia River
Oregon- California
New York
Philadelphia
Multinomah
McCormick Steamship Company
Multnomah
P. and
H. Anderson
Sausalito
Cal
Shelter Cove
Fort Bragg
Paris honors transatlantic fliers as trio lands in France
Paris crowds greet Jean Assolant Rene Lefevre and Armeno Lotti after their transatlantic flight ending at Old Orchard Maine. The air ministry bans flights but officials praise the achievement while a stowaway Arthur Schreiber draws public fascination and a cautious reception.
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Paris
America
Jean Assolant
Rene Lefevre
Armeno Lotti
Gardner Reappoints six Judges
Six existing emergency superior court judges were reappointed by Gov Gardner for two year terms. The appointees include G Vernon Cowper Kinston John H Harwood Bryson City Thomas L Johnson Lumberton Cameron F McRae Asheville Clayton Moore Williamston and H Hoyle Sink Lexington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Special Emergency Superior Court
A. W. McLean
O. Max Gardner
Gardner
G. Vernon Cowper
Kinston
John H. Harwood
Bryson City
Thomas L. Johnson
Lumberton
Cameron F. McRae
Asheville
Clayton Moore
Wiliamston
H. Hoyle Sink
Lexington
Cowper
Johnson
McLean
N. A. Townsend
General Assembly
Link, Moore
T. C
House Approves Large Farm Relief Fund Allocation
The House passed a bill to allocate 151.5 million dollars of the 500 million authorized for federal farm relief. The action followed Hoover’s recommendation to fund immediate outlay from the new act and was approved under suspension of the rules to limit debate and amendments. Expenditures would be by the federal farm board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Washington
House
Farm Relief Act
White House
Capitol
Budget Bureau
Congress
Seven Die As Imperial Airways Liner Crashes Off England
The City of Ottawa air liner crashed near Dungeness, England, after engine trouble. Seven people were killed including possibly an American, five others missing, and several survivors were treated for shock as a Belgian trawler aided in rescue efforts.
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London
Imperial Airways
Dungeness
England
Ickerson
Fleming
Maester
Malcolm
Smith
Lancaster
Ontario
Mme. Bossiger
Roberts
Karaki
M. Smith
Homer W. Thatham
Brailli
Mechanic Barnett
Tatham
City of
Ottawa
Croydon
English Channel
Tariff Revision Debates Opened In Senate
Senate opens debate on limiting tariff revision to agricultural products with Senator Borah asserting the move is part of farm relief and asking if revision should be a primary aim or incidental to broader reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borah
Norris
Washington
Senate
Idaho
House
Senate Debenture Plan Added to Tariff Bill Amendment
Senator Norris Nebraska introduced an export debenture plan in the senate as an amendment to the tariff bill. The move aligns with the debenture group's goal to have the proposition included if it was removed from the farm measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Norris
Nebraska
Owen D Young Awarded Honorary Doctorate at Hamilton
Owen D. Young, chairman of the reparations commission, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Hamilton College's 117th annual commencement in Clinton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Marie Christensen
Cleveland
Owen D. Young
Washington
Aquitania
New York
Clinton
N. Y
of Laws
Hamilton College
Rhododendron Festival Opens in Asheville
Asheville welcomes the annual Rhododendron festival with streets decked in green white and pink. About 10 000 visitors are expected by train and car and over 4 000 people will take part in events including tours to mountain beds an arts craft exhibit at Grove Arcade and open house at the Woman's club. The opening procession from Grove Arcade at 3 pm features festival queen Daphne Brown king Julian A Woodcock Jr and 12 southern beauties representing 12 southern states.
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North Carolina
Grove Arcade
Asheville
Snow Delights Arizona and Lake Tahoe Regions
Snow four inches deep covered Truckee and Lake Tahoe areas as of last night with temperatures near 34 degrees. Snow fell through yesterday, blanketing landscape and roads in the mountainous region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Truckee
Ariz
Lake Tahoe
Japanese Volcano Breaks Quiescent At Otaru
Komagatake volcano north of Hakodate erupted after a decade of quiet. Lava flow ignited forested slopes and ashes blanketed nearby villages up to five inches deep. Tremors rattled the area as inhabitants fled home. no casualties reported but damage feared significant.
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Otaru
Japan
Komagatake
Hakodate
Accidental Slaying of Bootlegger Near Canadian Border
Plattsburgh New York June 17 Gordon 22 was shot while fleeing with 27 cases of beer from Canada. County officials face conflicting accounts as border patrolmen claim an accidental shooting after Gordon wrecked his car and ran.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
Gordon
Canada
John C. Tulloch
Ogdenburg
B. Loyal O'Connell
Cheatham
Border Patrol
Attor
Neys
Tulloch
Coveney
United States Customs
Funeral Set For Salvation Army General Bramwell Booth
General Bramwell Booth aged 72 died last night after a long illness. Funeral planned for June 24 with full Salvation Army honors in London. Body lies in Hadley Wood as family gathers and Army officials coordinate arrangements. Booth, deposed as leader recently, is said to be buried beside Salvation Army founder in Abney Park cemetery.
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London
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Hadley Wood
England
William Bramwell Booth
International Headquarters
Queen Victoria Street
Booth
Salvationists
Abney Park
North
Rhodes Scholars Sail Tonight for Reunion
A party of 100 former Rhodes scholars leaves New York for Quebec and then England aboard the Empress for the first Rhodes reunion at Oxford University. Three college presidents Frank Aydelotte Frank P Day and O C Carmichael join, along with Helen Taft Manning dean of Bryn Mawr.
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New York
Rhodes
Quebec
England
Empress
Oxford University of Rhodes Scholare
Frank Aydelotte
Swarthmore
Frank P. Day
Union College
O. C. Carmichael
Alabama College
Helen Taft Manning
Bryn Mawr College
Harkins declines post as Willebrandt successor
Asheville June 17. Thomas J. Harkins U S District Attorney for the western district of North Carolina declines to accept appointment as special assistant to the United States Attorney General. He was offered the post several weeks ago to succeed Mrs Mabel Willebrant.
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Asheville
Thomas J. Harkins
U. S
Western District of
North Carolina
Mabel Willebrant
Prohibition Agents Reported Operating on Canadian Side
Windsor Ont June 17 Police at La Salle report that U S prohibition officers are active across the Detroit River in the Canadian area The La Salle chief notes Canadian customs men brought in a man found prowling private property armed with a sply glass
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Windsor
Ont
la Salle
United States Prohibition
Detroit River
Detroit
Henry Sang
Industrial Commission Seeks More Funding for Workmen’s Act
Raleigh June 17. Members of the state industrial commission appeared before the state advisory budget commission to argue that at least 106,900 dollars are needed to carry out the workmen's compensation act, instead of the 42,500 dollars appropriated, with the act set to take effect July 1.
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Raleigh
State Industrial Commission
State Advisory Budget Commission
Four drownings reported in North Carolina over weekend
Charlotte resident Herschel Williams twenty one drowned in the Catawba river. Violet Overcash eight fell from a bridge into the South Fork river. Mrs Henry K Walters of Fairmont drowned in a mill pond when her husband’s auto plunged from a bridge. Russell Crawford sixteen slipped from a boat into a small lake near Asheville.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Herschel Wiliams
Catawba
Violet Overcash
Cramerton
South Fork River
Henry K. Walters
Fairmont
Walters
Russell Crawford
Asheville
Starnes Cove
Disarmament Effort Spurred by Dawes and MacDonald
In Forres Scotland General Dawes and Prime Minister MacDonald announced a new move toward broad naval disarmament. They stated the agreement marks the basis for negotiations with other naval powers and will be elaborated in speeches Tuesday night.
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London
America
Charles G. Dawes
Great Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
Forres
Scotland
General Dawes
Mr. MacDonald
United States
MacDon
Prime Minister Notes Informal Disarmament Talks
The prime minister with his own hand drafted a summary of talks with the new U.S. ambassador on the disarmament question between the United States and Great Britain. The note says the conversation was informal and satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Dowes
Blease Denounces Negress At Party With Hoover
Senator Blease introduced a resolution condemning Mrs Hoover’s White House entertaining of the wife of Rep De Priest. The measure drew strong opposition from Senators Edge and Bingham and was withdrawn amid controversy. Florida House meanwhile passed a resolution condemning White House social policies toward African Americans, voting 71 to 13.
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Washington
Blease
South Carolina
White House
de Priest
Illinois
Edge
New Jersey
Bingham
Connecticut
Hoover
Virginia
Texas
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
District of Columbia Committee
Herbert Hoover
Dollar shows rising value as wholesale prices dip in May
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a continued dollar strength with wholesale prices down one percent from April. The May index is 95.8, with May 1928 at 98.6, purchasing power at 104.4. Farm products such as grains, meat, cotton, hay and wool lead declines. among 550 commodities, 82 rose, 178 fell, 290 unchanged.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Peaches Moved Northward as Fruit Fly Hopes Rise
In Raleigh New Jersey on June 17 authorities report thousands of ears of sand hill peaches moved to northern markets. State entomologist Dr. R W Leiby hopes the Mediterranean fruit fly is past in the state after four mature specimens were found on fruit in a store June 1, with no further genuine cases discovered.
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Raleigh
N. J
Sand Hill
R. W. Leiby
Leiby
Mrs Coolidge Is Honored At Smith College Commencement
Grace Goodhue Coolidge wife of former President Calvin Coolidge received the doctor of laws degree at Smith College 51st commencement in Northampton Massachusetts. President William Allan Neilson lauded her graciousness and dignity while Dr Raymond Fosdick urged a life of nonconformity and adventurous pursuit citing Middletown as a warning against dullness.
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Northampton
Mass
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Smith College
Middletown
United States
Assolants Bride to Join Him in Paris Soon
Mme Jean Assolant, widow of the French pilot of the Yellow Bird, begins passport plans after learning her husband’s coast to coast flight crossed the ocean. A three minute trans Atlantic call from Old Orchard, Me. connected the newlyweds, who chatted while he landed at Le Bourget. She waited three hours at a hotel phone for him to finish with admirers.
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New York
Mme
Jean Assolant
Yellow Bird
Old Orchard
Assolant
le Bourget Field
America
Youth starts fight to escape electric chair in Georgia
Macon Georgia June 17 Earl Manchester prepared to seek the death penalty after confessing to killing his roommate James Parks in what authorities call an insurance murder plot. Manchester faces a request for capital punishment based on the confession and the $14 000 life insurance. The 21 year old woman charged as an accessory before and after the fact was postponed from an early week trial.
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Macon
Earl Manchester
James Parks
Charles Garrett
Manchester
J. C. Powers
Parks
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Owen Young
Rascal
Aero-club of France
Air Ministry
Assalant Lefevre
Lotti
M. Lorent-Egnac
Air
le Bourget
Commandant Weiss
Spain
Schreiber
France
le Polisson
Arthur Schreiber
Harwood
McRae
Moore
Sink
Gen. Booth
International Organization
Harkins
U.S. Prohi
Dawes
Ald
Lossiemouth
MacDonald
Florida Solons
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