North Carolina Democrats Begin Houston Trip Led by Daniels
North Carolina Democrats depart Raleigh for Houston to caucus en route with six Carolina cars joined by South Carolina and Georgia delegates. Daniel's statement claims 1912 votes from the state convention align with Cor dell Hull forces to back national ticket principles and enforce prohibition. Senator Simmons misses trip due to medical advice, and J R Weatherspoon coordinates arrangements with sixty reservations.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Houston
Furnifold M. Simmons
Washington
Texas City
Josephus Daniels
Cordell Hull
Goldsboro
Charlotte
Spartanburg
Greenville
South Carolina
Café
Tar Heels
Atlanta
Georgia
New Orleans
Daniels
Simmons
J. R. Weatherspoon
Mae Murray Keeps Secret Child Born 16 Months Ago
Los Angeles report states Mae Murray and Prince David MDivania, married since June 1926, are parents to a son born 16 months ago. They hid the birth fearing harm to Miss Murray's career and kept the child with minimal disclosure while on tour plans.
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Los Angeles
the Examiner Today
Mae Murry
David M’divania
Georgia
Miss Murray
M’divan Aa
Europe
M’divani
Beverly Hills
Belmont Hosiery Mills to Build Plant in Gastonia
Belmont Hosiery Mills Inc with 150000 capital plans a Gastonia plant to be running by August 15. R L Stone Jr serves as president with Co Kale as vice president and R F Cox as secretary treasurer. The mill aims to produce 1000 dozen men's fancy hose weekly.
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Gastonia Gastonia
Belmont Hosiery Mills, Inc
R. L. Stone, Jr
Co. W. Kale
R. F. Cox
Nuclear signals from Amundsen search expand across Arctic region
A Copenhagen dispatch reports the Russian ice breaker Meligan may have picked up nuclear signals possibly from Roald Amundsen and Rene Guilbaud's missing seaplane. Oslo defense officials note radio range limits over sea. Maj. Penzo and Maj. Guglielmo Penzo push hydro airplane missions from Kings Bay to locate the expedition party. Swedish seaplane Upland scans coast from South Cape to Wyde Bay without results.
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London
Copenhagen
Meligan
Roald Amundsen
Rene Guilbaud
Defense Department
Olso
Norway
Spitzbergen
Rome
Maj
Penzo
Kings Bay
Spitzzbergen
Stockholm
Sweden
South Cape
Wyde Bay
Tax Laws Held Valid By Court
North Carolina Supreme Court confirms inheritance tax and highway construction laws valid in a batch of 18 opinions. Justices Clarkson and Brogden dissent on the highway ruling. decisions include several reversals, modifications, and affirmations across multiple counties.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Supreme Court
Harrod
Coughton
Clarkson and
Brogden
Highway Commission
Roper Lumber Co
Lawson
Camden
Shepard
Bryan
Craven
Parker
Duplin
Hagood
Doughton
Wake
Little
Board of Adjustment City of
Scales
Wachovia Bank
Forsyth
Flythe
Coach Co
Guilford
Johnson Johnson
Fry
Moore
Ogle
Black Mt, RR
Yancey
Rejedman
Southern Railway
Madison
Central Bank and Trust Co
Jarrett
Buncombe
Rand
Haywood
New Trial
Ramsey
Carolina
Tennessee Power Company
Cherokee
Mexican Aviators Set Nonstop Flight To Mexico
Joaquin Pacheco and Fritz Bieler departed Walker Field Windsor Ont at 7 32 am EST for a nonstop flight to Mexico City. Weather delays forced a route change directing a direct west of Dayton Ohio path avoiding Washington as a friendly gesture.
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Windsor
Ont
Joaquin Pacheco
Fritz Bieler
Mexico City
Walker Field
Washington
Dayton
Ohio
Capitol
Galveston
Gulf Coast
Mexico
Rescue Plane Reaches Nobile Party Noted in Rome
The Swedish tri motored Junkers plane reached General Nobile and his party at 8 30 p m Friday with provisions arms floating apparatus and radio accumulators Pilot Tornberg flew from Virgo Bay and on return scanned the northeast coast between Cape Platen and Cape Leigh Smith for traces of Mariano Sappi Malgreen and the other seven believed still with the dirigible Italia He proposed landing ice runners near Nobile to evacuate six men and Romagna agreed to assist in the search.
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Rome
Stefani
Junkers
General Nobile
Tornberg
Virgo Bay
Cape Platen
Cape Leigh Smith
Mariano- Sappi-Malgreen
Nobile
Nomagna
Citta di Milano
Romagana
Italia
Swedish rescue plan to airlift Nobile from Spitzbergen camp
In Spitzbergen on June 23 the Swedish rescue expedition based at Virgo Bay announced progress on evacuating General Umberto Nobile and his five companions. Captain Tornberg told the base ship Citta Di Milano of a proposed ice landing and urged notifying Nobile to prepare for departure.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Umberto Nobile
Virgo Bay
Tornberg
Romagna
Citta di Milano
Nobile
Amundsen Party Adrift as Five Men Missing in Arctic
Anxiety rose as Roald Amundsen and five men vanish into the Arctic seeking unlocated members of Nobile's expedition north of Spitzbergen. Rescue efforts focus on Amundsen's group from Tromsoe to King’s Bay while General Nobile’s party is aided by seaplanes and provisioned awaiting icebreaker pickup. Radio signals faded with no trace of Amundsen Lieut Dietrichsen Rene Guilbaud and three French airmen.
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Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Roald Amundsen
Arctic
Nobile
Amundsen
Tromsoe
Norway
King’s Bay
Umberto Maddalena
Penzo
Lieut
Lief Dietrichsen
Rene Guilbaud
Earhart Overwhelmed by London Social Pace
Amelia Earhart struggles with London engagements as she rests late and cancels most plans except a private luncheon at the American embassy. The visit includes a wreath ceremony by Louis Gordon at Sir John Alcock’s grave, with Earhart and fellow pilots preparing to sail home aboard the Roosevelt on June 28.
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London
Amelia Farthart
Miss Earhart
Alanson B. Houghton
Houghton
Hubert R. Harmon
iLeut. Com
R. D .Kirkpatrick
Frederick Guest
Louis Gordon
Last Ditch Fight as Smith Strengthens Houston Lines
In Houston on June 23 a last ditch effort formed to block Smith by building a coalition of candidates to deny nomination on an early ballot. Southern foes feared renewed Madison Square Garden clashes. Senator Reed of Missouri arrived to advise and weigh options as convention week loomed.
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Houston
Tex
Smith
New York
Solid South
Louisiana
Madison Square Garden
Senator Reed
Missouri
Kan City
Reed
Two Americans Held by Kidnappers in Mexico
Two U.S. mining men W. M. Mitchell and John F. Hooper are held for ransom near San Rafael in Jalisco. The United States embassy has filed a formal protest and seeks details as Guadalajara dispatch confirms kidnappers demand 1 000 pesos (about 1 500 dollars).
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Mexico City
W. M. Mitchell
John F. Hooper
San Rafael
Jalisco
United States
Guadalajara
Excelsior
Americans Kidnapped in Mexico City, Dispatch Says
A Times dispatch from Mexico City reports two Americans named W. M. Mitchell and a Mr. Cooper were kidnapped in the capital. No further details on their condition or the suspects are provided.
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Los Angeles
The
Times
Mexico City
W. M. Mitchell
Bobby Jones Extends Lead in National Open at Chicago
Bobby Jones shot 73 to reach 217 total and hold a five stroke edge over George Yon Em and Johnny Farrell who are tied at 222. Jones’s outward form was strong but on the inward nine he faltered with a costly six at the fourteenth and slipped to two putts on the final greens. Gene Sarazen matched Jones’s 73 to sit 10 back at 227 as Jones led at Olympia Fields in Chicago.
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Olympia Fields
Chicago
Bobby Jones
George Yon Em
Johnny Farrell
Jones
Atlanta
Gene Sarazen
Bobby
Jones and Sarazen Open Penultimate National Open Round
In drizzle at Olympia Fields No 4, Jones led with two strokes over the field as he began his third round with partner Gene Sarazen. A 1,500-strong gallery watched as Jones opened with a 175 yard drive and a precise chip for a birdie four after his second shot slid past the cup.
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Olympia Fields
Chicago
Jones
Gene Sarazen
Bobby
Gene
Boy Bandit Robs Train Express Carrier With $50,000
A lone youth about 19 held up an express messenger aboard a train leaving Adrian Michigan and escaped with a currency shipment of roughly $50,000 in small denomination bills. He boarded the express car, threatened the messenger with a pistol, and ransacked mail bags before leaping from the moving train near Blissfield and fleeing in a waiting automobile. Railroad detectives report unclear access to the car and say locks were checked in Chicago with no Adrian consignment.
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Blissfield
Mich
Adrian
Chicago
Loot Seen Lessened in Central Train Robbery
Toledo police questioned Robert Carrouthers the Toledo express messenger who said cash loot was likely 500 dollars and 1000 dollars in securities. He reported a gunpoint safe opening and that thousands of dollars in valuables were overlooked in the car near Blissfield Michigan.
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Toledo
New York Central
Blissfield
Mich
Robert. Carrouthers
Carrouthers
Seven Percent At Democrat Meet Will Be Women
Final returns show a 33 percent drop in feminine influence at the Democratic convention. Democratic women will hold 7 percent of voting strength, with 146 delegates and 272 alternates selected. Fractional voting reduces impact. several states send no women, while New York leads among Republican delegates.
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Houston
Tex
Kansas City
New York
Texas
Missouri
California
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Idaho
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Monroe Woman Takes Her Life
Monroe North Carolina June 23 Mrs Fair Secrest wife of Z T Secrest took her own life by slashing her throat early today Family heard her go downstairs and enter the kitchen later when not found officers found her body under the horse the kitchen butcher knife lay nearby Health is thought to have been the cause of the act.
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Monroe
N. C
Fair Secrest
Z. T. Secrest
Three Aviators Die as Plane Crashes En Route to Managua
Major Charles A. Lutz marine aviator and three other occupants die in a tri motor transport crash in File Virginia as the craft, traveling from Washington to Miami toward Managua, crashes early this morning. Lieutenant H T Busbey Corporal D C McChesney die instantly and are thrown clear. Corporal Reed E Nichols badly injured expected to live.
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File
Charles A. Lutz
H. T. Busbey
Lutz
D. C. McChesney
Reed E. Nichols
Washington
Miami
Managua
Prince of Wales Turns 34 Quietly at Sunningdale
Britain marks the Prince of Wales thirty fourth birthday with no public celebration. He spends the weekend at Sunningdale enjoying golf while a London speech to London School of Economics students ends with a chilly rooftop wind and a later dance. The question of marriage remains unanswered as the celibate heir keeps mum.
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London
Britain
Prince of Wales
Sunningdale
London School of Economics
Wales
No Decision in Greensboro Murder Case
In Greensboro North Carolina the jury in the Huey Latham case failed to reach a verdict on the charge of shooting Wade Brown. Judge Stack ordered continued deliberations after the jury reported they were hopelessly disagreed and the court instructed that a verdict could be guilty of first degree murder second degree or manslaughter with no evidence of insanity or self defense supporting a verdict.
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Greensboro
N. C
Huey Latham
Wade Brown
Stack
R. M. Denny
Denny
North Star Plane Lands at Hadley Field in Jersey
The monoplane North Star purchased by Mrs. James A. Stillman for Thea Rasche’s trans Atlantic flight rested at Hadley Field New Jersey outside New York’s jurisdiction after a Curtiss Field takeoff. Curtiss Pilot William Winston flew the Bellanca toward an unannounced destination while Rasche backers fight to keep a temporary injunction permanent.
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New York
North Star
James A. Stillman
Thea Rasche
Hadley Field
N. J
New York Court
Curtiss Field
Long Island
Miss Rasche
Supreme Court
William Winston
Curtiss
Bellanca
Navy aviator killed in Bowling Green crash en route to Managua
Corps aviator Major Lutz and Lt Bushey died when a tri motor transport plane crashed eight miles from Bowling Green Virginia while en route from Anacostia Naval Station to Miami and Managua. The accident occurred about 230 a m in mist and rain, wrecking the aircraft.
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Washington
Charles A. Lutz
Marine Corps
Managua
H. T. Bushey
Bowling Green
Miami
Navy
Lutz
Busbey
D. C. McChesney
Reeder Nichols
Naval Air Station
Anacostia
Marine
Nicaragua
Associated Press
Quantico
Buy a Barrel Moves To Aid North Carolina Potatoes
Elizabeth City chamber of commerce launches a state wide appeal urging residents to buy a barrel of North Carolina potatoes to aid Irish potato growers facing a historic calamity. Shipments toppling past market capacity push many farmers to destroy crops rather than harvest at a loss.
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Elizabeth City
Hine and Crawford Play for Middle Atlantic Title
In Charlotte on June 23 Dave Crawford of Rock Hill defeated Wilmer Hines of Columbia in the semi finals but defaulted in the final after an even start. Hines will meet Teddy Burwell of Charlotte in the championship this afternoon.
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Charlotte
Dave Crawford
Rock Hill
Wilmer Hines
Columbia Youth
Hines
Teddy Burwell
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