Movement Balloon Race Won Again By American Victor
Ward T. Van Orman of Akron Ohio won the Gordon Bennett cup after flying about 550 miles from Cleveland to Canton Junction Massachusetts. Capt Ernest De Muyter of Belgium placed second with 435 miles as the Belgica faced possible disqualification over a drag rope incident near Esperance New York.
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Ward T. van Orman
Akron
Ohio
America
Boston
Cleveland
Ernest DeMuyter
Belgium
Esperance
N. Y
van Orman
Allan MacCracken
Canton Junction
Mass
Belgica
Capt
de Muyter
Leon Coakelbaerg
Adams
Barmen
Germany
Hugo Kaulen, Jr
Carl Goetz, Jr
Pittsfield
City of Detroit
Edmund J. Hill
Arthur G. Schlosser
Coeyman
City of
Roland J. Blair
F. A. Trotter
Aide
Copenhagen
Pierre Fisbach
France
Albert Boitard
Jean Herbe
Beamsville
Ont
Diary of Andree Secret Diary Found On Body In Hospital
Tromsoe Norway September 3 experts say a secret diary wrapped in an undershirt on explorer Salomon Auguste Andree s body may reveal the fate of his polar balloon expedition. The fully written diary replaces an earlier find by Dr Gunner Horn, and is considered the most important record yet recovered from the 19th century arctic voyage.
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Tromsoe
Norway
Salomon Auguste Andree
Arctic
White Island
Andree
Tromsoe_hospital
Gunner Horn
Tobacco Farmers Protest Against Low Prices In State
Tobacco prices on the new bright belt markets hovered near eight to nine cents a pound as growers held back their crop awaiting better quotes. Tarboro mass meeting urged boycott of manufactured tobacco products until prices rose, while Wendell and Zebulon reported light offerings with averages around 10 cents.
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SY Associated Press
Bright Belt
Smithfield
Rocky Mount
Enfield
Carhy
Tarboro
Wendell
Zebulon
Three Die In Auto Crash En Route From Canada
Rhinebeck New York September 3 three persons were killed and a fourth gravely injured when their car returning from a Canadian vacation struck the rear of a truck on Aster Flats near Rhinebeck.
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Rhinebeck
N. Y
Canada
Aster Flats
Here
Record of 136 mph wind in Santo Domingo reported
Government meteorologist R A Gray reported radio dispatches showing a tropical disturbance south of Haiti recurved and passed east of Santo Domingo City with winds peaking at 136 miles per hour at 12 12 p m EST. Barometer readings ranged from 29 40 to 29 07 during the afternoon.
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Miami
Fla
R. A. Gray
Santo Domingo
Haiti
Gray
Pan-American Airways
Takes Crack At Lindbergh Beacon and Goes To Jail
John Miller, in a drunken spree, climbed a telephone pole and used a revolver in an attempted attack on the Lindbergh beacon. He was restrained and jailed, with authorities noting his intoxication and the failed act.
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Lindbergh Beacon
Miller
Lindbergh
Democrats Plan Extensive Fall Campaign
In Raleigh the Democratic state advisory committee met at the Sir Walter Hotel behind closed doors to map a two month campaign. Governor O Max Gardner addressed the session as leaders expressed confidence in a historic Democratic victory this fall. State chairman O M Mull and committee members declined to disclose specifics of the plans.
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Raleigh
Democratic State Advisory Committee
Sir Walter Hotel
O. Max Gardner
O. M. Mull
Com
Justice Crater Missing During Past 3 Weeks
The New York World reports Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater has been missing for more than three weeks. Last seen August 6, an exhaustive search found no trace. He disclosed two bank accounts totaling about 3500 and was believed to carry $1500 in cash. he bought a Broadway theatre ticket that evening and vanished thereafter.
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New York
New York World
Supreme Court
Joseph Force Crater
Broadway
Work On New Ship To Begin Shortly
Washington reports bids open for a new aircraft carrier to be built from keel up for the navy. The $19 million project will create a purpose built carrier, unlike the Saratoga Lexington and Langley conversions.
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Washington
Navy
Saratoga
Lexington
Langley
Meanest Man in North Carolina Stole Cemetery Tent
Raleigh police seek a ghost-proof thief who stole a tent from a grave in Oakwood cemetery. The tent, placed over a fresh grave to keep flowers fresh, was removed Monday night by a total stranger described as unremarkable. Funeral director H W Mimms called the culprit the meanest man in North Carolina.
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Raleigh
N. C
Raleigh _ police
Oakwood Cemetery
North Carolina
H. W. Mimms
Funeral Home
Tomlinson Cloth Cutters Strike Over Bedaux System
About 12 members of the cloth cutting department at Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing on High Street walked out at 9:15 AM protesting the Bedaux work check system now in use. Officials said most workers later returned, but some strikers claimed all remained out. A mass meeting is planned at the Central Labor temple tomorrow night to press removal of the system with AFL backing.
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High Street
Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company
Bedaux
Tomlinson
Central Labor Temple
South Main Street
Central Labor Union
C. S. Hirshop
American Federation of Labor
Will Build Eight Little Dirigibles
CAPE MAY New Jersey Sept 3 Construction of the first of several eight passenger dirigibles to be named Air Yachts has begun at the navy hangar here. The craft will weigh 8060 pounds and carry 169 cubic feet of gas and will be assembled within ten days.
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Cape May
N. J
Air
United States Navy
Coste And Bellonte Earn World Acclaim For Flight
Paris and New York greet Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte after their non stop Paris to New York flight in 37 hours 18 minutes 30 seconds. They landed at Roosevelt Field then Curtiss Field Valley Stream and plan a Dallas run for the $25 000 prize offered by Colonel William Boeing?
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New York
Paris
Charles Lindbergh
America
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Paul Codes
Charles A. Lindbergh
le Bourget
Lindbergh
Coste
Dallas
Texas
France
Col
William
Easterwood
Aero Club de France
Question Mark to fly back Paris after Dallas and Washington legs
The Question Mark, flown from Paris to New York by Coste and Bellonte, will be flown back to Paris by Paul Codos after Coste and his companion complete flights to Dallas and Washington. Codos sails with a mechanic to be in New York for the return. The crew will overhaul the plane and Codos will attempt to retrace the Le Bourget to Curtiss Field route to mark a possible first round trip across the North Atlantic by the same aircraft.
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New York
Paris
Coste
Bellonte
Paul Codos
Dallas
Texas
Washington
Codos
France
United States
le Bourget
Curtiss Field
North Atlantic
Coste Claims 2 Million From Atlantic Hop
Paris report cites Dieudonne Coste remarks to friends indicating he secured two million dollars through contracts tied to his Atlantic flight achievement amid signed deals and agreements.
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Paris
Dieudonne Coste
Lindbergh credits speed in Coste Bellonte Atlantic flight
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh says speed determined success in the Paris to New York flight by Coste and Bellonte. He notes Coste’s careful prep and stamina, with a high speed near 160 miles an hour making the record attempt feasible.
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New York
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Coste
Bellonte
Lindbergh
Atlantic
Doper Snipes Surrenders to Face Narcotics Charge
Z L Cat Snipes who escaped from Johnston county jail and sought dope surrendered to Wake county jail. He faces Harrison anti narcotic act charges after arrest in Goldsboro in August. A doctor treated him after surrender and he will be tried in Durham federal court next week.
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Raleigh
Z. L
Snipes
Johnston County
Smithfield
Wake County
Dope
Goldsboro
Marshall Elbert Fitzgerald
Marshall E. €. Geddie
Durham
Coste and Bellonte Face 72 Hour Window for Paris Dallas Flight
New York arrival of Coste and Bellonte sparks prize deadline questions as damage from souvenir hunters may delay a non stop ten hour flight to Dallas for the Easterwood prize. Officials debate whether 72 hours begins at landing or departure from Le Bourget.
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New York
Coste
Bellonte
Paris
New York-Dallas
Dallas
Easterwood
Aero Club
le Bourget Field
Separate Ballot Decision For Senate Races in North Carolina
Raleigh Sept 3 The state board of elections unanimously refused to consolidate state senatorial and congressional ballots for the November general elections on motion by George McNeill Democratic member James S Duncan Greensboro state Republican chairman and an attorney attended A.G Dennis G Brummitt had ruled consolidation legal Judge J Crawford Biggs had proposed it as an economy measure claiming it would save the state 3000 dollars
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Raleigh
George McNeill
State Board of Elections
James S. Duncan
Greensboro
Dennis G. Brummitt
J. Crawford Biggs
Biggs
Rights of Women Will Be Tested in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City September 3. The state supreme court granted permission to file an original action seeking a writ of mandamus. It would force the state election board to submit at the November general election a constitutional amendment to allow women to hold major state offices. The amendment was voted on in 1923 and approved but later ruled as improperly submitted.
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Oklahoma City
State Supreme Court
State Election Board
Prominent Charlotte Man Dies Early Today
Robert Walter Smith, 86, former postmaster of Charlotte, died at his home. A native of Michigan, he moved to Charlotte in 1891 and spent 30 years in the lumber business. He was appointed postmaster by President Roosevelt and organized the Postmasters association of North and South Carolina.
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Charlotte
Robert Walter Smith
Oakland County
Michigan
Mass meeting launches tobacco boycott in Edgecombe County
In Tarboro North Carolina a mobilization seeks to boycott manufactured tobacco products to protest low raw tobacco prices. Edgecombe county growers and merchants approved a resolution to stop buying and to cut tobacco acreage by 25 percent for 1931. Auction prices opened five to seven cents below last year with most sales at 7 to 9 cents per pound, deemed below production costs.
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Tarboro
N. C
New
Bright Belt Tobacco
North Carolina
Edgecombe County
Bright Belt
Divers salvage mail and silver from sunken Peyot liner
Italian divers recovered sixteen bags of mail with registered matter and dining room silverware from the sunken Peninsular and Oriental liner Peyot after locating the wreck near Brest France. They hope to reach the cargo of gold ingots valued at 2 to 4 million dollars if weather stays favorable. Work at 40 feet depth is hampered by intense cold but progress continues with calm seas aiding access to the captain's cabin dining room and mail room.
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Brest
France
Diivers
Egypt
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