Monoplane Idle in Pacific Flight Toward Seattle
Don Moyle and C A Allen, Californians, launched from Samushiro Beach Japan on a nonstop Pacific crossing aiming for Seattle. If their 100 mph speed holds, arrival is around noon EST Wednesday, with the route expected to cover about 4465 miles and no radio aboard. This would be the first nonstop Japan to Seattle flight, the vast Pacific having seen no landing yet.
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Tokyo
Don Moyle
A. Allen
Samushiro Beach
Japan
Seattle
Samushiro
Point Erimo
Kokkaido
Aleutian Islands
San Francisco
C. A. Allen
Pacific Ocean
Graf Zeppelin
Nation's 1931 air races conclude with Bayles speed win
Ten days of record flight feats closed in Cleveland as Lowell Bayles of Springfield Mass sped an average 236 mph to win the $15,000 Charles F Thompson trophy. Bayles led a field of seven as Doolittle battled engine trouble and four pilots made successful parachute descents ending the event with no fatalities.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lowell Bayles
Springfield
Mass
Charles F. Thompson
James H. Doolittle
Illinois
Bayles
J. R. Wedell
New Orleans
Dale Jackson
St. Louis
Doolittle
Smith Promises 10 Reveal Plot in Insurance Case
County Attorney George Sackett said John M. Smith, an insecticide manufacturer and former Iowa gubernatorial candidate, promised to tell a grand jury all details of an alleged life insurance plot connected to his disappearance and a burned vehicle. His wife, with state agents, admitted the plan to collect $60,000 in policies. The charred corpse’s identity remained unsolved.
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Perry
George Sackett
John M. Smith
Iowa
Adel
Des Moines
State Hospital For the
Clarinda
Unty
Sackett
Smith
Ginning Report Totals 565,160 Bales for Year to Sept 1
The census bureau reports this year's cotton ginned before September 1 totaled 565,160 running bales, plus 10,088 round bales. Last year's figure was 1,879,919 bales. State totals include Texas 353,023 and Alabama 48,031, Georgia 118,330, Mississippi 6,566, and other states.
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Washington
Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
States
Railroads Seek Crooked-Route Cotton Freight Cut to New Orleans
Southwestern railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to reduce rates on cotton moving from west of the Mississippi to New Orleans while keeping rates to Mobile unchanged.
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Washington
Southwestern Railroads
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississipi River
New Orleans
Mobile
Jail Term Await Moyle On Return
Los Angeles AP report says Don Moyle faces a 30 day jail term upon return from Tokyo to Seattle. Moyle and A. Allen pleaded guilty July 15 in superior court to driving while intoxicated and received a one month jail sentence plus three years probation.
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Los Angeles
Don Moyle
A. Allen
Tokyo
Seattle
Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina Opens 118th Meeting
The Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina opens its 118th annual meeting in Charlotte at Queens-Chicora College. Rev. R Murphy Williams delivers the opening sermon. a new moderator will be elected. Plans include a proposed church paper and consolidation of regional Presbyterian papers, with home missions spending about $60,000 in North Carolina. The budget goals and past year figures are reviewed as the synod covers most of the state’s territory.
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Charlotte
Presbyterian Synod of
Wilmington
Atlantic Seaboard
Presbyterian Standard
Presbyterian of the South
Richmond
E. E. Gillespie
Greensboro
Synod
Home Missions
North Carolina
Mountain
North Carolina Synod
Ambulance Driver Dies at Wheel in Nashville Wreck Near Miss
Ben E. Waller, 52, died of a heart attack aboard an ambulance carrying three accident victims to a hospital. The vehicle swerved and grazed a car fender before Walter Bilis, undertaker's assistant, steadied it and stopped the ambulance.
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Nashville
Tenn
Ben E. Waller
Walter Bilis
Prime Minister Opens Session to Consider Economy
London report on Ramsay MacDonald opening a special Parliament session to push a new economy program. The plan seeks a confidence vote, debate controls, and a supplementary budget, amid Labor opposition and cross-party tension during a crisis.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Parliament
Laborites
MacDonald
Snowden
Train Collides With School Bus At Wake Forest
A Wake Forest collision between a Seaboard Air Line passenger train and a bus killed Robert Garner and John Cad dell Jr. and left driver Cameron Shearon critically injured. The bus, carrying local students, was en route when the crash occurred near the town station around 8 am. A coroner opened an inquest, with testimony split on which vehicle caused the impact.
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Wake Forest
College Town
Robert Garner
John Caddell, Jr
Near Here
Cameron Shearon
Raleigh
Garner
Caddell
Shearon
Witneses
L. M. Waring
Wake County
Seaboard Air Line Railway
New York
Waring
Young Caddell
John Caddell
Wake Forest College
Souvenir Explodes. Youth Loses Hand in Ga Home Incident
In Statesboro Georgia a World War souvenir shell, found by 9-year-old J B Martin, exploded when struck with a hammer. The blast tore off his hand and ripped a hole in a wall near his sleeping infant brother.
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Statesboro
J. B. Martin
President Hoover Returns to White House After Camp Stay
President Hoover returned to the White House today from his Rapidan camp where he had spent the weekend.
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White House
Washington
Hoover
Rapidan
Relief Forces of Nation Start on Organization Task
Washington Sept 8 With Hoover administration support the national unemployment relief committee resumes coordinating state and municipal efforts to aid the jobless for the upcoming winter. Walter S Gifford plans to meet advisory group as Hoover prepares to summon financiers and industrialists for advice on weathering the crisis. Hoover returns to White House to study reports from states and welfare groups on progress.
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Washington
Hoover
National Unemployment Relief Committee
Walter S. Gifford
Rapidan Camp
James R. Garfield
Cleveland
Interior
White House
Alcock to Retire as Chicago Police Chief
The Herald and Examiner reports Acting Police Commissioner John H. Alcock will retire soon, with Mayor Anton J. Cermak to name a successor to reform the department. Morgan A. Collins is the likely candidate, noted as the only four year commissioner under Dever. The move follows Mayor Cermak’s dissatisfaction over vice and gambling.
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Chicago
Herald and Examiner
John H. Alcock
Anton J. Cermak
Truck Driver Sought in New York Girl Murder Case
Police hunted 24 year old truck driver Jack Hartigan in the strangulation death of Catherine Cronin 20 an insurance clerk found in the Greenwich Village apartment shared by Hartigan his mother and brother. Autopsy cites strangulation with cloth strip possibly used.
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New York
Jack Hartigan
Catherine Cronin
Greenwich Village
Hartigan
Pat Hartigan
Miss Cronin
Blanche
Hartigan Brothers
Fred de Javannenis
Jack Harti
Gan
Upper Manhattan
Pat
Jack
Charles Norris
Government estimates record high U S cotton crop forecast
Washington reports a September production estimate of 15,685,000 bales, the highest since 1915, up from August, triggering price declines of 6 to 7.50 a bale. Private forecasts lag and then modestly rise, with area harvested at about 40.9 million acres. The crop is expected to exceed last year’s by over a million bales as conditions improve.
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Washington
Eos
Agriculture Department
Pedic Association Sets 1932 Convention at Morehead City
Greensboro news wires report the North Carolina Pedic Association will hold its 1932 convention at Morehead City on the first Monday in September. Dr. M. P. Buettner of Wilmington was elected president, with Dr. Ethel Eisner of Asheville as vice president and Dr. J. G. Robinson of Asheville as secretary-treasurer.
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Greensboro
North Carolina Pedic Association
Morehead City
M. P. Buettner
Wilmington
Ethel Eisner
Asheville
J. G. Robinson
Police Chief Slain While Fighting Fire in New Jersey
Bernardville dispatch reports Chief Charles Caveneugh was shot and killed outside his home while aiding a house fire across the street. He fell at the feet of his young wife, mother of an infant child, as gunfire from a corner took him. An unidentified assailant remains at large.
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Bernardsville
N. J
Charles Caveneugh
Caveneugh
Bayles Aims for Transcontinental Flight Record Feat
Bayles of Springfield, Mass after winning the Thompson trophy may attempt a new transcontinental flight. Granville Brothers chief engineer Hall said plans are tentative and the Gee Bee monoplane would need instrument upgrades. The current record is 11 hours 15 minutes set by Major Do little of St Louis.
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Cleveland
Lowell Bayles
Springfield
Mass
Robert Hall
Granville Oo
Tony
Hall
Granville Brothers
Bayles
Ay 4
James H. Doolittle
St. Louis
Ford recalls 15000 to 20000 ex-employees to restart work
Ford Motor Company recalled between 15 000 and 20 000 former employees to return to work today. Letters were sent last week requesting their return, with officials aiming to have 50 000 men back on the job by mid September.
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Pata
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Sterling Urges Half Acreage Slash to Ease Cotton Glut
Governor Sterling announced a special noon session to discuss halving cotton acreage next year as a remedy for severe overproduction. He cited widespread appeals via telegrams letters petitions and calls and said the legislature must decide the best method while stressing the gravity of the problem.
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Texas
Sterling
Nautilus Returns From Polar Dive To Spitzbergen
Sir Hubert Wilkins brings the submarine Nautilus back to Longyear City Spitzbergen from a voyage under the polar ice. She began August 18 and reported entering the fire pack zone despite a minor defect. After days of silence rescue fears subsided as Wilkins confirmed continued dives and crews are safe. The craft seemed damaged during its hazardous journey.
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
Polar
Oslo
Norway
Longyear City
Spitzbergen
Pole
Sir Hubert’s
Ragio
Parliament Members Impressed By King George Offer
London reporters note King George plans to dip into his income for about 250000 dollars to ease national finances. The Prince of Wales offers 50000 dollars, Queen and royal family seek reductions in grants as part of wartime austerity. Civil list totals 2350000 dollars with Duchy of Lancaster revenue. Cornwall income funds the Prince of Wales. Royal family grants amount to roughly 530600 dollars yearly.
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London
George
John Bull
Prince of Wales
MacDonald
Duchy of Lancaster
Cornwall
Mentary
Louise
Duke of Connaught
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Nation
Prince’s
Census Bureau
Moyle
Synod OF Presbyterian
Williams
Arthur Henderson
Henderson
Alcock
Chicago Force
Pedic Association
Morehead
Nautilus
King George
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