Ancient City Is Wrecked By Storm Coste Flying To Dallas Today
Streaking toward Dallas, Coste and Bellonte are midway to a 25 000 prize in the Paris to New York flight. They passed the halfway mark five hours after leaving New York and by 1 20 p m were over Owensboro Kentucky with 950 miles behind in a 1600 mile journey. The two French aviators aim to finish in about eleven hours despite rough weather.
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Coste
Dallas
Associated Press
United States
France
New York
Bellonte
EE. S. T
Owensboro
NEA
New York Bureau
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Broadway
Grover Whalen
Jones Law Faces Supreme Court Test on Prohibition
Washington dispatch notes two appeals to reconsider the Jones law prevailing as constitutional. West Virginia seeks review of last term to strike down penalties as harsh. Missouri cases challenge delegated legislative authority to judges in sentencing. Other cases question searches and seizures under prohibition and revenue laws, plus petty offenses without juries and sale of a distillery after conviction.
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Washington
Supreme Court
West Virginia
St. Joseph
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Texas
Internal Revenue
New Orleans
Louisiana
Waterloo
New York
Coamo Survives Caribbean Hurricane Aboard Port of San Juan
A hurricane battered the Caribbean, injuring few aboard the Porto Rico liner Coamo which limped into San Juan. Captain Evans praised his crew as engineers fought to keep engines running and the ship steadied amid 160 mph winds. Nine hundred people were reported dead or injured overall as Santo Domingo and surrounding areas suffered extensive destruction.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Caribbean
Thomas Evans
Santo Domingo
Evans
McCough
W. F.ray
New York
Greater Antilles
Dominican Republic
Coamo
Cuba
Florida Straits
United States
Red Cross
Navy Department
American Relief Agency
Hoover
Curtis
Ernest Nichols
Associated Press
Azua
Here
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Santo
French Airmail Pioneers Flight Toward Dallas Prize
Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte launched from Valley Stream at 6 55 a m for Dallas to claim a 25000 prize offered by William Easterwood. Their North Atlantic crossing aircraft Ques tion Mark circled the field before speeding toward Texas, while Rene Racover prepared to handle business matters for the trans Atlantic fliers. A prior departure of Racover waited an hour for the French team to assemble a special device delaying the start.
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Valley Stream
N. Y
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Dallas
Tex
William Easterwood
North Atlantic
Paris
New York
Rene Racover
Coste
Texas City
Morgan Yacht Corsair Towed From Gilkey Harbor
The Corsair, J. P. Morgan’s $2,600,000 luxury yacht, refloated after a day afloat on Minot Island. The coast guard cutter Kickapoo and others towed her into deep water with 200 tons of fuel oil dumped to lighten her, then anchored for the night at Islesboro harbor.
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Islesboro
Corsair
Minot Island
Gilkey’s Harbor
Coast Guard
Kickapoo
J. P. Morgan
Plane Crash Kills Four Spanish Subalterns
FERROL Spain Sept 4 Six Spanish subalterns burned to death when their Dornier seaplane cracked during naval maneuvers. The Infante Don Jaime flew in the plane a few days ago.
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Ferrol
Spain
Naval Ma
Mob Attacks Police Party in Daulahat demolishing Excise Shop
A mob in Daulahat near Khulna Bengal attacked a police party injuring several officers. Police fired in response. no confirmed casualties. An excise shop was destroyed nearby.
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Khulna
Bengal
India
Daulahat
Greensboro Negro Held For Murder
Richmond police held William Foy an 18 year old Negro from Greensboro North Carolina for murder after he allegedly confessed to killing two Atlantic Coast Line officers in Fayetteville and Richmond. He killed W A Smith who had ordered him to leave Fayetteville yards and then shot L B Clements who tried to arrest him.
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Richmond
William Foy
Greensboro
N. C
Petersburg
Foy
W. A. Smith
Fayetteville
L. B. Clements
Smith
Clements
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Two Bank Robberies Leave Several Wounded and Apprehended
In three simultaneous robberies two bandits were shot and wounded, two captured, two escaped, and two possemen wounded in the northwest. At Haven S D gunfight ended with three men held for nearly 3 000 dollars stolen and recovered. Leo Gulkowski 22 robbed the State Bank of Roberts Wis taking 12 45 for railroad fare. Kramer Bank Kra mer N D robbed by two men who fled with 3000 cash and 400 in checks.
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ST. Paul
First State Bank of
Haven
S. D
Tolstoy
Howard Furdy
Eugene Harbolt
Leo Gulkowski
State Bank of
Roberts
Wis
Hudson
Kramer State Bank of
Kramer
N. D
Nye Answers Challenge By Woman At Senate Inquiry
Senator Nye defends the investigative committee against Ruth Hanna McCormick’s challenge over detectives used to probe him and the senate. Nye says the panel will not be diverted and will resume hearings September 15 to probe McCormick’s detectives and conduct. The methods are called shoddy and unprincipled as Nye notes the challenge.
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Chicago
Gerald P. Nye
Ruth Hanna McCormick
United States Senate
North Dakota
Nye
Porter H. Dale
Vermont
Mrs. McCormick
McCormick
Jack Diamonds Arrives in Bremen With Detectives
Jack Legs Diamond, New York gangster, arrived in Bremen today from Aix-la-Chapelle in the company of three detectives. Police refused to reveal their plans but dispatches said he was to be shipped aboard the America to the United States.
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Bremen
Germany
Jack
Diamond
New York
Aix-la-Chapelle
America
United States
Once Is Enough This Cop Thinks Once Is Enough
In Charlotte a police officer stops a dark parked car where a woman in the car explains they just became engaged and shows a diamond ring. The officer warns against roadside parking but the exchange ends with a lighthearted congratulation.
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Charlotte
Man Seeks Job as Other Man Hunts for Work in Greensboro
Greensboro dispatch notes Roy Moody of Greenwood South Carolina traveled to Greensboro to find employment. A baker in town seeks Moody to fill a job, while Moody himself waits for a position back home. A Greenwood bakery recently opened and needs Moody’s services. Local police were asked to aid in locating the job hunter.
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Greensboro
Roy Moody
Greenwood
S. C
Moody
Let's Go Native Comedy at Broadhurst Friday and Saturday
Jack Oakie stars in Let's Go Native at the Broadhurst with Skeets Gallagher Kay Francis Jeanette MacDonald Eugene Pallette and William Austin. The film is described as a whirlwind of romantic nonsense made only for laughs.
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Jack Oakie
Broadhurst
Skeets” Gallagher
Kay Francis
Jeanette MacDonald
Eugene Pallette
William Austin
EH Enterprise
Diaries Kept Quiet Before Publication By Andree Expedition
Swedish experts resumed examination of the Andree and Strindberg bodies in Tromsoe finding small personal items and a rare Arctic bird among Andree's belongings. The fate of the expedition hinges on undivulged diaries and notebooks found yesterday and kept securely by the aeronaut.
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Tromsoe
Norway
Salomon August Andree
Nils Strindberg
Hedren
Lithberg
Andree
Strindberg
White Island
Stockholm
Platt Expected To Resign From Federal Reserve Board
Washington reports Edmund Platt is expected to resign as vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Eugene Meyer of New York will be appointed by President Hoover as governor of the board.
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Washington
Edmund Platt
Federal Reserve Board
Eugene Meyer
New York
Hoover
One Killed Two Injured in Brooklyn Candy Store Shootout
A gun battle at a Brooklyn candy store left Samuel Cohen 24 dead and two men 29 and 22 badly wounded. Police blamed slot machine racketeers. Fisher and Gelpin were hospitalized with chest wounds. All residents of Brooklyn.
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New York
Brooklyn
Samuel Cohen
Louis Fisher
George Gelpin
Rejected suitor shoots girl nine times in Bronx attack
Meta Wissmuller, 22, was wounded nine times by a man described as a rejected suitor while helping her father George Wissmuller in their Bronx bakery. The assailant ordered her into a rear room and fired as she fled, four shots in the back then two in the chest and three in the abdomen.
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New York
Meta Wissmuller
George Wissmuller
Bronx
Wissmuller
West Indian hurricane path shifts toward Bahamas
Government meteorologist R. W. Gray reports the tropical disturbance that crossed the Dominican Republic with winds over 100 mph appears to move northwest toward the Bahamas. If it maintains this course, strong winds are expected in extreme South Carolina by Friday night. further advisories to follow.
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Miami
Fla
R. W. Gray
E.S.T
Dominican Republic
Bahama Group
South Carolina
Hoover Will Make Fight For Party
President Hoover plans four major speeches in October to kick off his drive to win back control of Congress and bolster his bid for re election. The speeches will take him to three states and through several others, expanding his national outreach.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Bandit Shot After Robbery At Hobson Airport?
Pomeroy Ohio September 4 One bandit was killed and two possibly wounded when gasoline station owner W R Athey wounded the attackers after they robbed him at Hobson. Athey, 45, opened fire when the trio robed him and fled toward the highway.
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Pomeroy
Ohio
Hobson
Here
W. R. Athey
Fliers Turn Friends After War Rivalry Across the Atlantic
Dieudonne Coste and Wolfgang von Gronau met at a German American conference dinner in New York. The French ace Coste said aviation knows no borders while Gronau received a warm German welcome. Lindbergh attended with his wife as Mayor Walker called the meeting a great step toward peace.
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New York
Dieudonne Coste
Paris
Wolfgang von Gronau
Germany
Gronau
Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Bellonte
Hundre
Aviation
Fiiiers
Walker
Coleone
Lindbergh
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Morgan
Platt
King’s Mountain
Charles A. Lindbergh
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