Stinson and Haldeman Set World Endurance Record
Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman landed their Stinson-Detroiter at Jacksonville Beach after 53 hours 35 minutes 40 seconds aloft to beat the German Europa record. They faced weather and engine troubles previously but pressed on with optimism aided by a southwest breeze.
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Jacksonville Beach
Fla
Eddie Stinson
George Haldeman
America
Germany
Johann Risticz
Cornelius Edzard
Junkers
Europa
Rmans
Stinson
Haldeman
Ther
Stinson-Detroiter
Diewty
Breeze
Jacksonville
Beach
St. Johns River
Here
Shot Hubby On Refusal Of Advances
Arctic explorer Esther Wilson, 42, is held on felonious assault charges after shooting her estranged husband Daflett Wilson, a New York attorney, at his office. She says she sought either reconciliation or divorce after demanding a settlement. Wilson was wounded in arm and back. doctors say injuries serious but not life threatening. The couple, married 18 years with no children, had separated six months ago. They were prominent in New York society. Wilson is linked to the Heckscher foundation.
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New York
Esther Wilson
Daf Lett Wilson
J. Douglas de Forest
Remus Declared Sane by District Court After Debate
Lima Ohio March 30 former bootlegger and wife slayer George Remus won his bid for freedom from the Lima State hospital for the criminal insane when the third district court of appeals ruled him sane. The three week inquiry included alienists and lengthy cross examination. Remus testified at length detailing his life.
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Lima State Hospital
Lima
Ohio
George Remus
Third District Court of Appeals
Remus
Sinclair Accepts Teapot Dome Lease Reluctantly
In El Paso Harry F. Sinclair accepted the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease after initial rejection, with Albert B. Fall to testify in Washington next week as his deposition for the government fraud case is prepared. Separate reports from Rock Hill describe a damaging wind storm.
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EL Paso
Tex
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Albert B. Fall
Washington
Fall
Sinclair
Chicago War Continues Full Force Ahead of Primary
Chicago threats and violence mark the April 10 primary. An anonymous call warned US District Attorney George S. Q. Johnson of a bomb threat. A court meeting was targeted but held without incident. A bailiff was wounded in a saloon raid. A man named Marchese was shot and burned. Federal authorities consider deputizing more marshals for election day.
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Chicago
Ills
United States
George S. Q. Johnson
Deneen
Swanson
Thompson
Crowe
State Street
67Th
Marchese
Paul Marchese
Diamond Joe Esposito
Washington
Sargent
Palmer Anderson
Flight of Germans at Dublin Deferred Again
A gale in western Ireland delays the Bremen’s departure to New York. Ground at Bladonnell airdrome is sodden after rain, making a five ton aircraft unable to rise. Baron von Huenfeld, Captain Koehl, and Arthur Spindler await better weather while mechanics apply anti freeze to the all metal body.
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Dublin
Ireland
Atlantic
Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Hennefeld
Bremen
New York
Bladonnel
Baron von Huenfeld
Herman Koehl
Arthur Spindler
MISTREATED GIRL GIVES CLUE TO BRIDGE MYSTERY
Lillington North Carolina March 30 Sheriff L K Matthews says he has a lead in the Avent's Ferry case after warrants issued for Norman Smith Walter Holden and Edwin Peed charging them with brutal treatment of Eva Ellis 15 of Anderson Creek Township The girl is partially unconscious about the events but recalls the three young men taking her home from a party and maltreating her Bruises support her account She is in the care of the welfare superintendent with plans to place her at the Samarcand home once admission is possible None of the three has been found.
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Lillington
N. C
L. K. Matthews
Avent’s Ferry
Norman Smith
Walter Holden
Edwin
Eva Ellis
Anderson Creek Township
Superintendent of Public Welfare
Samarcand
Matthews
Smith Files Notice of Presidential Candidacy in South Dakota
Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York filed with South Dakota's secretary of state a declaration that he will qualify if nominated and elected president on the Democratic ticket. The declaration pledges adherence to the South Dakota Democratic platform emphasizing farm relief legislation and equal enforcement of all laws.
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Smith
Pierre
S. D
Alfred E. Smith
New York
South Dakota
Champion woman billiard star revealed to be man
In Okla City of Lapulpa Frances Anderson known as a champion woman billiard player ended his life by slitting his throat and wrists. A 30 year masquerade was disclosed after his death revealed a letter begging that his secret not be exposed.
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Lapulpa
Okla
Frances Anderson
Anderson
Adams gets death order for murder in APPLING
Burley Adams was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the February 22 murder of federal prohibition agent Walter T. Tolbert. A Georgia superior court jury found him guilty, and a motion for new trial was to be heard later. Adams testified he could not have committed the crime, claiming the bullet was lead while his rifle used steel jacketed bullets.
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Appling
Burley Adams
Walter T. Tolbert
Adams
Tolbert
Guilford Geology Class is Given a Field Trip
Divorce court looms as a possible route to parole for B. D. Morrow a Guilford County inmate serving five years for bigamy Pardon Commissioner Edwin B Bridges says Morrow should divorce his first wife remarry his second and support them and their four children He enlisted in 1917 and returned from Flanders Field to learn his first wife was alive in Gastonia The action could simplify parole considerations and remove a major complication
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Raleigh
North Carolina
B. D. Moron
Guilford County
Edwin B. Bridges
Morrow
Flanders Field
Work Branded Coward by Caraway in Senate
Senator Caraway of Arkansas denounced Secretary Work as a coward in the senate over what he called mistreatment of Col Clyde F Estes on the staff of Governor Moody of Texas. The remark came during debate on recent actions involving Estes.
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Work
Washington
Senate
Caraway
Arkansas
Arkansan
Col
Clyde F. Estes
Moody
Texas
American horse earns English race honors at Aintree
In the Grand National at Aintree on March 30, only two of forty two starters finished. Tippe rary Tim, owned by H. S. Kenyon and ridden by J. Dutton, won as a 100 to 1 outsider. Billy Barton, owned by Howard Bruce of Baltimore and ridden by Cul l inan, finished second after a last fence fall.
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Aintree
England
Tipperary Tim
H. 8
Kenyon
J. Dutton
Billy Barton
Howard Bruce
Baltimore
Cullinan
Lindbergh Maintains Silence On Flight Plans
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh declined to reveal flying plans and denied a trans Pacific to Japan rumor. He said he would stay in St. Louis briefly and then travel to San Diego to pick up a new monoplane built for him.
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St, Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Japan
Lindbergh
St. Louis
San Diego
Calif
Simmons Backs Public Health Coordination Plan
Senator Simmons announces support for legislation to coordinate government public health activities in a letter to Governor McLean. McLean expresses hope the measure will pass as Simmons states approval of his course.
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Simmons
Law
Raleigh
McLean
Prohibition Agents Seize Carload of Liquor in St Louis
Federal agents seized a carload of liquor valued at about 50000 dollars shipped from Cleveland to A. C. Steiner of St. Louis a fictitious name.
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ST. Louis
Cleveland
A. C. Steiner
Parents leave 1 year old in car. vehicle toppled into lake
Hickory March 30. Little Kenneth Bumgarner a one year old Hickory child was killed when a gust toppled an automobile into Rhodesis Lake near Rutherford College The child was left in the car by his parents Roy and wife while they went fishing at the lake.
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Hickory
Mar
Kenneth Bumgarner
Rhodesis Lake
Rutherford College
Roy Bumgarner
Sinclair defense seeks to separate Fall from Teapot Dome lease
In El Paso counsel for Harry F. Sinclair press to show he had no role in the Teapot Dome oil lease negotiations led by Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall. They plan to continue deposition questioning Fall as part of Sinclair’s trial for conspiring to defraud the government in Washington, D.C.
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EL Paso
Tex
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Albert B. Fall
Sinclair
District of Columbia
Clayton Denies Cotton Trap Accusations Before Senate Panel
Texas cotton dealer William L. Clayton rejected charges that his firm Anderson, Clayton and Company set cotton market traps. He attributed market ills to the artificial nature of New York futures contracts and urged traders to apply the care used in spot cotton trades. He noted no trapping claim on New Orleans or Chicago exchanges.
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Washington
Mar
Senate Cotton Market Investigating Committee
William L. Clayton
Texas
New York Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
Chicago
Clayton
Anderson, Clayton and Company
Houston
Arthur R. Marsh
New York Exchange
New York
Senate schedules and committee actions on farm and immigration bills
Friday and Thursday sessions address McNary-Haugen bill private bills and large appropriations. Senate hearings continue on coal cotton San Francisco bridge and good roads. House actions include a $10,000,000 Purnell corn borer measure and a $45,000,000 irrigation project approval.
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Senate
McNary-Haugen
Senate Commerce Committed
San Francisco
House Agriculture Committee
House
Robinson
Inidana
Wilson
Italian Aviator Sets World Speed Record at 318 mph
Venice dispatch reports Manuel Mario di Binardi, the Italian aviator, establishing a new world speed record this afternoon by flying at 318 miles per hour.
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London
Venice
Manuel Mario di Binardi
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S. C
High Pot
Kester Furniture Company
Hart Drug Company
Hart Drug
George W. Haldemap
Charlotte Company
Tucker and Laxton
Charlotte
Link-Belt Company
Philadelphia
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Pacific Flush Tank Company
The
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Chicago Bridge and Iron Company
Atlanta
Wallace and Tiernan Company
Newark
Lynchburg Foundry Company
Lynchburg
Terra Cotta Company
Pomona
R. G. Lassiter Company
Tucker and Laxton, Incorporated
Gray Concrete Company
Thomasville
Southern Engineering Company
Richland Creek
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