Graf Zeppelin Nears Home on Eastward Flight
Graf Zeppelin continues toward Friedrichshafen from Lakehurst by air, expected to complete its round the world speed record in under 21 days. The ship travels about 80 mph with 22 passengers and aerial reports confirm steady progress and favorable winds.
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Friedrichshafen
Lakehurst
Azores
New York
America
Germany
Associated Press
Portcurno
Graf
Fredrichshafen
Sable Island
Ernst Lehmann
Hugo Eckener
Cleveland
Akron
Navy
Jury Selection Continues as Barnhill Hones Rules
In Charlotte on Labor Day the Mecklenburg superior court pressed to seat a jury for the murder trial of sixteen defendants in the Gastonia police chief O F Aderholt case. The sixth juror, G L Benson, a railway clerk, joined the panel, while several prospective jurors were dismissed or challenged. The process included tense questioning and a tightening of qualifications as the defense and state each used challenges amid mixed reactions from veniremen.
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Charlotte
N. C
Labor Day
Mecklenburg Superior Court
O. F. Aderholt
Gastonia
G. L. Benson
Newell
Benson
S. L. Caldwell
J. O McCoy
Zeb Morris
C. W. Martin
J. F. Campbell
J. W. Hicks
A. F. Parker
Talesmen
Talesman
M. W. Barnhill
Conrad G. Torrence
Davidson
Barnhill
W. F. Caudle
Charlotte Grocer
J. M. Oldham
B. A. Pigg
J. D. McEwen
R. S. McConnell
Ice House
David
National Air Races Finish in Cleveland Derby
The Los Angeles to Cleveland non stop derby ends with Henry J. Brown leading the field at 13 hours 15 minutes. Art Goebel withdraws earlier, Ligur James Doolittle performs daring stunts and parachute rescue earning Caterpillar Club honors. Navy Lt Alford Williams sets distance and stunt records as 80,000 spectators watch concludes the long distance races.
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Cleveland
National Air Races
Los Angeles
Henry J. Brown
Cleveland-New York Air Mail
Brown
Lee Schoenhair
John P. Woods
Wassau
Wis
Art Goebel
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Ligur
James A. Doolittle
Doolittle
Caterpillar Club
Lieut
Alford Williams
Navy
Williams
Eric W. Wood
Roosevelt Field
Grand Mufti Warns Palestine Not Home For Jews
Jerusalem Grand Mufti Amir El Hussein cautions that peace in Palestine and Arabia hinges on Britain abandoning the Palestine national home policy. He cites the Balfor declaration and notes rising Arab unrest across Syria, Egypt, and North Africa as British forces push to restore order amid deadly clashes.
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Palestine
Jerusalem
Arabia
Great Britain
Amir el] Hussein
Supreme Council
Riots and Labor Day Tensions Clip Marion Textile Mills
Troop lines doubled at Clinchfield and Marion Manufacturing as authorities avert a Labor Day riot repeat. Non-striking workers reported to duty while 79 jailed participants from Friday's clash were reduced to 11 in jail with bonds set. Adjutant General Metts to assume command as supplies arrive from Durham led by W. C. Lindsay Jr.
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Marion
N. C
Clinchfield
Marion Manufacturing Company
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers
Hoffman
McDowell County Grand Jury
van R. Metts
Durham
W. C. Lindsey, Jr
Memphis Negro Settlement Fire Kills Eight Children
A fire swept the Industrial Settlement home in Memphis leaving eight Negro children dead and about eighty homeless. Civic and industrial leaders joined Negro leaders to aid victims and a relief fund raised nearly $500 by yesterday afternoon.
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Memphis
Tenn
Industrial Settlement Home
Homecoming At Edenton Opens With Mild Weather
Edenton North Carolina hosts the Albemarle section water carnival and homecoming as families reunite. A 7 PM baseball championship game kicks off a busy afternoon of speedboat racing swimming and diving events for northeastern North Carolina.
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Edenton
N. C
Albemarne Section
North Carolina
Gastonia Woman Drowned Sunday
Mrs. James Kearns wife of a farmer near the Buster Boyd bridge drowned Sunday after falling head first into a well. Kearns reported the missing rope and, noting her dizzy spells, believes fainting may have caused the accident. The body was recovered from the well.
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Gastonia
N. C
James Kearns
Buster Boyd
Kearns
Warren Not In Senate Race
In Wilmington on September 2 Lindsey Warren, U S congressman from the first district, declared he would not seek the Democratic nomination for United States senator, ending speculation about his candidacy.
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Warren
Senate
Wilmington
United States
Lindsey Warren
Labor Day Quiet At Greensboro
Labor Day passed quietly in Greensboro on September 2 with banks and federal offices closed or operating special hours. Flags flew, no major ceremonies occurred, and a caravan of union members transported food to cotton mill strikers at Marion, meeting other pilgrimages at Hickory.
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Greensboro
Marion
Labor Temple
D. L. Brown
Hickory
Baseball Results American League at Philadelphia Morning Game
Nekola pitched in the eighth for the Yanks. Dykes homered in the seventh inning as Philadelphia hosted the game.
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Philadelphia
Nekola
The
Yanks
League of Nations opens tenth assembly in Geneva
Prince Foroughi of Persia presides and reviews League activities as the body elects a permanent president. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald says Anglo American disarmament progress suggests an agreement is within reach. A fire in Smethwick Ok? England traps families with ten bodies recovered. Ida von Beckendorff und Hindenburg dies after surgery in Potsdam. Harry F. Sinclair in Washington jail to be ferried to a clinic for special duties and an automobile ride.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Prince Foroughi
Persia
League
Switzerland
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Berlin
Ida von Beckendorff Und
Hindenburg
Paul Hindenburg
Potsdam
Washington
the Evening Star
Harry F. Sinclair
Chicago's Weekly Theater Robbery Brings Small Take
The New Regent theater was robbed last night during a packed show as the robber forced into the cashier's cage and stole 859 dollars, the smallest amount in weeks of Sunday night theater thefts. The earlier receipts had been secured shortly before.
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Chicago
Regent Theater
Labor Day Marks Rift in Piedmont Textile Strife
Labor Day in Charlotte, Sept 2, highlights strikes and union activity. In Marion, warrants for 148 strikers were issued as National Guardsmen are kept at Clinchfield and Marion mills to prevent rioting. In Charlotte, radicals await trial for the Gastonia police murder linked to Loray mill strikes while Wilmington hosts a Federation of Labor celebration at Wrightsville Beach.
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Piedmont
Marion
Appalachian Mountains
Clinchfield and Marion Manufacturing Company
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers of America
Maino
Council
City of Marion
National
Clinchfield
Marion Mills
Charlotte
Gastonia
Loray
National Textile Workers Union
United
Wilmington
Federation of Labor
Wrightsville Beach
Hoover to Foster School Movement in Virginia Mountains
President Hoover plans to head a fundraising drive to build a small schoolhouse for mountain children near the Rapidan river headwaters in Virginia. He will form a local committee to work with state authorities to obtain a teacher for the school.
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Madison
Hoover
Rapidan River
Virginia
Pa’’ Baraker
Ray
Mr. Hoover
Henderson observes partial Labor Day holiday
Henderson North Carolina observed Labor Day with banks railroads freight offices and the post office closed. The day featured a double header baseball game between Henderson and Durham as the main event noted in the quiet town.
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Henderson
N. C
Durham
Major John Wood Seeks To Lower Brown's Record
Major John Wood launches a Lockheed Vega monoplane from Metropolitan Airport Los Angeles at 1 a m aiming for a nonstop flight to Cleveland in under 13 hours 18 minutes the mark set by Lieut Henry Brown the day before.
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Metropolitan Airport
Los Angeles
John Wood
Cleveland
Henry Brown
Wrightsville Beach Labor Day Regatta Highlights
Wilmington marks Labor Day with bank and office closings and a major beach celebration. The event features the second annual joint outboard powerboat regatta by the Carolina Yacht Club and the Frying Pan Powerboat Club, plus morning and afternoon baseball between Wilmington and Fayetteville in the Eastern Carolina League.
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Wilmington
N. C
Wrightsville Beach
American Federation of Labor
Carolina Yacht Club
Frying Pan
Fayetteville
Two Die in Five Auto Wrecks Near Charlotte
Five accidents around Charlotte yesterday left two dead, fourteen injured, and eleven jailed. Mary Lou Keller, 19, of Charlotte died after being ejected on the Salisbury road. Mrs. Rachel Harvell, 58, of Cramerton died in a Wilkinson boulevard collision. Multiple others injured were treated in Gastonia and Charlotte area hospitals. several motorists held for investigations.
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Charlotte
Mary Lou Keller
Rachel Harvell
Cramerton
We Nor Eyee Tere
Tee
Mecklenburg County
Held
Bertie Scott
Emma Barnes
Leonard Bailes
N.L. Hill
G. P. Ferguson
Roy Davis
Dock Arthur
Don Henderson
Keller Girl
Harvell
Wilkinson Boulevard
A. L. Leonhard
A. W. Roundtree
W. L. Sullivan
Clyde Iverson
Greenville
D. C
Gastonia
C. J. Rourke
Spindale
G. W. Kirby
Iverson
B. C. Best
John Spencer
Ed Daniel
Oteen
Edward Wright
Clyde Iverton
S. C
Don Anderson
C. J. Rouyke
Helen Rouyke
Clare Rouyke
Grace Rouyke
Frank Brewer
Brewer Infant
Shuttle Over Cheyenne Arrives for Refueling
Cheyenne Wyoming notes the Shuttle arriving at 1 35 this morning at the airport. Refueling plane commanded by H T Lewis with Fred Sims handling the hose departed with 225 gallons of gasoline for the ship.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
H. T. Lewis
Fred Sims
Col Luke Lea Declines Proffered U S Senate Post
Nashville September 2 Colonel Luke Lea publisher declined the post to succeed the late U S Senator Lawrence Tyson of Tennessee. Governor Horton will name a successor before the 1930 election with east Tennessee hopes rising. Delegates from Chattanooga urge William E Brock and Thomas R Preston as possible appointees. Lea said he would serve Tennessee best as a private citizen.
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Nashville
U. S
Lawrence Tyson
Tennessee
Henry H. Horton
Luke Lea
Eastennessee
Tyson
Chattanooga
William E. Brock
Thomas R. Preston
Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga
American Bankers’ Association
Brock
Preston
Horton
K. D. McKellar
Memphis
West Tennessee
Lea
Canton Readies Western North Carolina Labor Day Parade
Canton North Carolina anticipates 5000 attendees for the biggest Labor Day celebration in the region. The program opens with a parade of Canton and out-of-town floats at 10 p.m. The day features athletic events and a Miss Labor Day coronation followed by a street dance. Floats come from six western North Carolina towns.
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Canton
N. C
North Carolina
Senate lines tighten as tariff revision debate nears
In Washington on September 2, a party line tightening emerged as the Senate prepared for floor debate on limiting tariff revision to agricultural products. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma may seek priority on his resolution. a Finance Committee meeting is set for Wednesday to act on the formal report.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas
Oklahoma
Finance Committee
Borah
Idaho
Child Dies From Tongue Cut After Fall Near Dallas
Floyd Wilton Lineberger aged 2 son of Mr and Mrs W C Lineberger of near Dallas died at his home today from loss of blood due to a cut on his tongue caused by a fall. The tragedy occurred in the family residence as officials investigated the incident.
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Gastonia
N. C
Floyd Wilton Lineberger
W. C. Lineberger
Dallas
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Walter E. Edge
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