Hoover Changes Mind And Goes To Detroit After All
Hoover changes plans and proceeds to Detroit while two American aviators Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon prepare for a non stop Pacific crossing from Samushiro Japan to Seattle. The pilots will use the same craft that flew from New York to Khabarovsk last July to challenge the world girdling record by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. They received permission after penalties for fortifications photos and will attempt a Samushiro start with a Tachikawa departure planned for the next week. Time limit set to October 15.
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Tokyo
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon
Pacific
Samushiro
Japan
Seattle
Wash
New York
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Pangborn
Herndon
Samushiro Beach
Hokkaido Island
Tachikawa Airdrome
Japanese Take Control of Southern Manchuria
Japanese troops dominated southern Manchuria routing Chinese forces in one day of fighting. Mukden and all major rail cities along the 603 mile South Manchurian Railway were held by Japan with light casualties. Chinese losses and captures numbered in the hundreds, and Mukden was to be placed under military administration as Japanese generals arrived from Port Arthur.
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Tokyo
Manchuria
Mukden
Manchurian
Rengo
Nanling
Changchun
Nanjing
Tungtaying
Fushun
Port Arthur
Chigeru Honjo
Manchhuria
Kojo Miyake
Manchurai
Roosevelt to name three for $20 million relief fund
Governor Roosevelt will appoint a three member independent commission to administer a $20 million unemployment relief fund for New York this winter. The Wicks bill, passed by both houses, provides the fund to aid about 1,000,000 jobless by a 50 percent income tax hike and will distribute money per district allocations.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
Frank
D. Roosevelt
New York State
Wicks
Roosevelt
Mexican Ambassador Tellez Ordered to Return to Mexico City
Washington reports say Ambassador Manuel C. Tellez of Mexico was ordered to return to Mexico City with no stated reasons. He has long served as dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington and speculation swirls about a possible high post in Mexico City and a potential successor.
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Washington
Manuel C. Tellez
Mexico
Mexico City
Tellez
Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc
United States
Mexico-United States
Government may sell or lease Muscle Shoals dam
Legal advisers to the Muscle Shoals commission say the executive branch may sell or lease the nitrate and power complex under current law. They plan to seek the attorney general’s opinion on congressional ratification. Dam No 2 would be exempt and may be sold as wartime property, with leasing possible through the federal power commission if the War Department transfers it.
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Washington
Muscle Shoals Commission
Congress
Tennessee River
Commission
Federal Power Commission
War Department
Siler City Girl Kills Lover Then Ends Own Life
In Siler City North Carolina Donna Marley 20 and Rufus Campbell 38 both died from pistol wounds last night. Marley daughter of Mr and Mrs Jim Marley allegedly shot Campbell who was a married man with three children after a quarrel at the Marley home. She afterward fired a second shot and then disappeared as her father awoke, fearing she had killed herself. The incident is reported to continue on page 7.
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Siler City
N. C
Donna Marley
Rufus Campbell
Campbell
Miss Marley
Hoover to address Legion convention in Detroit
President Hoover unexpectedly decided to speak at the American Legion annual convention in Detroit to urge cash redemption of war bonus certificates amid broad policy debates. He will write the speech on the train to Detroit and return to the White House Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hoover will not attend. The trip includes secretaries Joslin and Richey, naval aide Train, military aide Hodges, and Dr. Boone.
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Washington
Hoover
American Legion
Detroit
Theodore Joslin
Rapidan Camp
Legion
Er. Hoover
White House
Rapidan
Virginia
Michigan City
Joslin
Lawrence Richey
Russell Train
Potomac Regatta Tragedy Ends Fifth President's Cup Heat
Veteran boatman William Freitag, 51, of Westville New Jersey died when his gold cup racer Miss Philadelphia overturned on the Potomac during the second lap of a 15 mile heat. Mechanic William Wagner said Freitag vanished after the craft turned over. Rescue boats recovered the body after 50 minutes as spectators watched. Five other boats finished, with El Largarto leading, and the last heat was cancelled by mutual consent.
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Washington
Potomac
William Freitag
Westville
N. J
Philadelphia
William H. Wagner
Freitag
George Reiss
el Largarto
Lake George
N. Y
Red Bank
Professor Kane Released on Bail Await Hearing
Hampton Va Sept 19 Elisha Kent Kane a University of Tennessee professor was freed on a 15000 bond after preliminary hearing on a drowning charge. He vows not to waive the hearing as investigators pursue letters signed Betty and BK H D deemed key to the coroner verdict of premeditated murder.His family backs his claim of innocence while details from the four day inquest remain unrevealed and grand jury action could occur at the October 5 term.
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Hampton
Elisha Kent Kane
Grandview Beach
University of Tennessee
Betty
BK. H. D
George K. Vanderslice
Jenney Graham Kane
Kane
W. C. Graham
United States Invited to Join League Disarmament Talks
The League of Nations assembly invited the United States and eight non member nations to join discussions of the disarmament committee. The invitation, issued by secretary Titulescu and the assembly bureau, follows backing for a naval construction holiday until the February 1932 disarmament conference. US Ambassador Hugh Wilson will likely participate in Monday’s debates.
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P. I. Lipsey, JR
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
United States
League
Assembly
Rene Massigle
France
Nicholas Titulescu
Hugh Wilson
Switzerland
Washington
Wilson
Grandj
Italy
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Holland
M. Massigli
No Hope of Early Settlement of Indian Question
Mahatma Gandhi said there is no hope for an early settlement of the Indian question after a week of Round Table Conference deliberations and cabinet interviews in London. He criticized the federal structures committee for delaying by focusing on minor details and warned results may not appear until November while Britain faces a general election and a fragile cabinet.
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London
Mahatma Gandhi
Round Table
Associated Press
Federal Structures Committee
India
England
Gandhi
Mindu-Mosiem
Great Britain
Mahatma
Petitions sent out requesting paroles for jailed strikers
Marion dispatch reports petitions circulated to seek clemency for three men tied to the 1929 strike disorders. Leon Moore, dynamiting a home with a five year term, and George Styles and Robert Perkins, each given one year for an attempted dynamite attack. Sponsors plan to extend circulation to Raleigh Charlotte Greensboro and Asheville.
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Marion
Leon Moore
George Styles
Robert Perkins
Raleigh
Charlotte
Greensboro
Asheville
Man Held For Larceny and Manslaughter
Durham report states Char lic Wood of Winston-Salem, 21, was arrested on warrants from Forsyth county for manslaughter and automobile larceny in connection with a wreck that cost the life of a Forsyth county woman.
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Durham
Charlic Wood
Winston-Salem
Forsyth County
Pilot of Nautilus Hull Damaged By Ice Near Coast
Bernard Jensen of Harstad says the submarine Nautilus was severely battered by ice along the Norwegian coast with the bow damaged and paint worn away. A famed American diver aboard freed a screw from a metal piece knocked loose by ice while the craft was iced in. The crew were well but a bit pale when he departed.
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Oslo
Norway
Bernard Jensen
Harstad
America
Jensen
Seventy-Year-Old Woman Among 83 Die in Tenement Fire
A four story rooming house in New York burned tonight killing 83 people. Among the dead were a 70 year old invalid woman and an 86 year old man. Fire officials faced a fast spreading blaze as residents fled.
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New York
Milk Bottle Clue Links to Collings Murder Case
New York investigators piece together a shattered milk bottle found on the Penguin cruiser deck as a key clue in the Benjamin Collings murder. The bottle’s brand not used aboard suggests the weapon was grabbed in a sudden act, not premeditated. Detectives rely on the widow's account of events as the ship drifted off the Long Island shore.
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Dale C. Harrison
New York
Benjamin Collings
Collings
Penguin
Long Island
Brookhart outlines fed relief plan to end unemployment
Brookhart says the hungry must be fed and urges Congress to convene in October. He calls for a $1.5 billion farm board revolving fund and a $3 billion public works appropriation to spur industry, with relief organized through states and counties. Gifford notes relief consciousness rising as unemployment slightly falls.
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Washington
Cook
Samuel R. McKelvin
Hoover
Owen D. Young
Committee On
Labor Department
Walter 8. Gifford
National Relief
Walsh and Wheeler
Montana
Brookhart
Washington Star Radio Forum
Congress
Farm Board
Agai
Jury Deadlocked in Murder Trial of Four New Hanover Officers
Wilmington scene as Judge N A Sinclair orders four defendants E J Hale L M Massey B Crews and Porter Davis held after jurors say they are hopelessly deadlocked on the killing of Dupe Roberts at Smith Creek Bridge during a gun battle with a government mail truck driver from Goldsboro. Deputy W P Starling also slain in the incident.
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Wilmington
N. A. Sinclair
New Hanover County
Dupe Roberts
Sinclair
E. J. Hale
L. M. Massey
B. Crews
Porter Davis County
Roberts
Goldsboro
W. P. Starling
Smith Creek Bridge
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NEA
Edward N. Kettenring
Charles Cavanagh
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Kettenring
U. S. Veterans’ Hospital
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Cavanaugh
Siler
Wi. Freitag
Professor Kane
U. 5
Gifford
New Hanover
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