Levine Aims to Break Distance Record in Nonstop Flight
Charles A. Levine and Captain Walter Hinchcliffe attempted a non stop distance record in the Columbia. The monoplane landed in Vienna at 5 58 p m amid heavy rain after a planned European to Asia route via Cologne Linz Constantinople Aleppo Basra and Karachi.
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Vienna
Charles A. Levine
Walter Hinchcliffe
Columbia
Europe
Constantinople
North Sea
Holland
Belgium
Cologne
Linz
Danube River
Aleppo
Syria
Basra
Trak
Bushire
Jask
Persia
Persian Gulf
Karachi
India
Delhi
Arabian Desert
Minister Willis J. Jordan Arrested in Grand Rapids
Rev Willis J Jordan, a Columbus Georgia preacher, was arrested in Grand Rapids Michigan after a telegraphic alert linked to unserialized claims of bigamy and a request for $30 to return to Charlotte. Authorities pursue extradition while investigations probe alleged matrimonial ventures and misrepresented charity appeals.
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Columbus
Grand Rapids
Willis J. Jordan
Mich
C. B. Netherland
Second Avenue Methodist Church
North
Lee Goodwin
Western Union
W. F.’ Jordan
E. M Thomas
Veto Street
Jordan
Charlotte
N. C
William T. Gloer
Gloer
A. A. Carroll
Cora S. Coryell
Atlanta
Charles Jordan
Georgia
Volunteers of America
Coryell
Phoenix
Ala
N C
Ella Thomas
Levine and Hinchcliffe Soar East in Record Flight Attempt
Charles A. Levine and Captain Walter Hinchcliffe lifted off from Cranwell at 8 06 a m in a bid to set a nonstop eastbound distance record. Their target cities were Delhi or Calcutta, with India as the likely destination, using the Columbia monoplane under Imperial Airways.
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Cranwell
Eng
America
Charles A. Levine
Walter Hinchcliffe
Delhi
India
Calcutta
Levine
Imperial Airways
Columbia
Summers Paroled After Nine Months In Atlanta Pen
L. P. Summers, former United States district attorney for southwestern Virginia, was paroled from the federal penitentiary in Atlanta after serving nine months of a fourteen month sentence for certifying a false salary voucher. Parole approved by Attorney General Sargent after a parole board recommendation. Summers planned to return to his Abingdon, Virginia home and had previously run as a Republican nominee in the ninth Virginia district before the charge.
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Atlanta
L. P. Summers
United States
Southwestern
Virginia
Federal
Summers
Sargent
Washington
Abingdon
Germany Signs 10 Peace Pact at Geneva
In Geneva, Foreign Minister Stresemann announced Germany’s signature to the compulsory arbitration clause of the permanent court of international justice. A League of Nations assembly adopted a Finland Poland and Sweden backed resolution urging study of alcoholism by a special council appointed committee, with an appointment decision to come at the 1928 assembly.
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Geneva
Germany
Permanent Court of International Justice
Stresemann
Finland
Poland
Sweden
Assembly of
League of Nations
Sterling at par in New York market on Sept 23
Sterling exchange reached par at 4 1 2 3 in New York Foreign Exchange for first time since June 30, 1926. Cables peaked at 4 8 6 1 32, signaling improved conditions.
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Sterling
New York
Sterling Exchange
Postponed AL Game Sparks Doubleheader in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia and Cleveland AL clubs saw today’s game postponed due to a broken water pipe at Shibe Park. The doubleheader was scheduled for tomorrow to complete the set.
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Philadelphia
Cleveland
Shibe Park
Dowd Sr. of Charlotte News Dead at 62
W C Dowd Sr president and general manager of the Charlotte News died at his home in Charlotte from heart trouble. Funeral set for Sunday at First Baptist Church. He was a longtime community figure born March 21, 1865 in Moore County. He led Charlotte papers, served in NC politics, and was a prominent Baptist leader. Survived by three children.
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Charlotte
W. C. Dowd
Charlotte News
Florida
North Carolina
Linville
N. C
Dowd
Mr. Dowd
Moore County
J. C
Henrietta Dowd
Mecklenburg County
Carolina Military Institute
Wake Forest College
Eloise Jordan Butt
W. Carey Dowd, Jr
House of Representatives
Associated Press
Southern Division
State Baptist Convention
Mecklenburg- Cabarrus Baptist Association
Ellen Furness Gayle
Montgomery
Ala
Henri Turner
High Point
Odd Fellows Educational Loan Fund Aids Underprivileged Children
Miss Fiora E. Sheets of Chicago, an alumna of the Odd Fellows Orphan Home, welcomed passage of an educational loan fund bill by the sovereign grand lodge. The initiative was led by Grand Sire Ernest W. Bradford of Washington and Kentucky Supreme Court Judge M. M. Logan.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Fiora E. Sheets
Chicago
Odd Fellows Orphan Home
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Odd Fellows
Ernest W. Bradford
Washington
M. M. Logan
Supreme Court of Kentucky
Maslin Trial Nears Close In Winston-Salem
In Winston-Salem on September 23 the Maslin trial neared its end as the defense rested. Auditor Connell testified, highlighting discrepancies between E. K Polites trust ledger entries and Maslin’s mailed statements to Polites.
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Winston-Salem
Thomas Maslin
Merchants Bank and Trust Company
Connell
Gore On Trial For Assault With Deadly Weapon
R F Gore goes on trial in records court Wilmington on charge of assault with a deadly weapon tied to the fatal wounding of Andrew McKay Jones who died two days earlier. Several other men will be tried in connection with the case. The charge was filed before Jones died and the coroner has not yet issued a verdict.
Baron Von Maltzan Killed In German Ambassadors Plane Crash
Aboard a Lufthansa aircraft en route from Berlin to Munich Baron Ago von Maltzan German ambassador to the United States and three others died when the plane crashed near Schleiz Saxony. The crash prompts questions over possible third party interference and marks a sudden end to his U.S. posting.
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Berlin
Ago von Maltzen
United States
Leipsic
Nuremberg
Munich
Schleiz
Saxony
von Maltzen
Germany
Luthansa
Charlett
Baron von Maltzan
Japan
Tokyo
Washington
Baron Ago von Maltzan
Otto Wiedfeldt
Kellogg
State Department
Baby Smith custody case ends with birth of daughter
In Cleveland on September 23 AP reports a habeas corpus suit over whether a child belonged to Mrs. Sam Smith. The court ruled the baby born August 22 at Fairview Park hospital was a daughter, not a son, resolving the tangle about the infant’s identity and custody.
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Cleveland
Sam Smith
Common Pleas
Carl V. Weygandt
Cleveland, O
Smith
George Smith
Fairview Park Hospital
George
Dry Raid Nets Eleven in Charlotte Liquor Sweep
Ten men and a woman were arrested in Charlotte during a dry agents raid on locations where undercover men had reported liquor was to be obtained. The eleven were rounded up quickly and brought before United States Commissioner W. S. Huggins for hearings.
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Charlotte Charlotte
United States
W. S. Huggins
Direct Tar Heel service from Wilmington to Washington
Atlantic Coast Line railroad will start direct service between Wilmington and Washington next Sunday. The new train named Tar Heel aims to provide faster travel with a direct route connecting the two cities.
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Wilmington
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Washington
Bazemore Executed in Penn State Prison
George Frank Bazemore, Greene county Negro, was executed in the electric chair at State prison for the murder of Gordon Yelverton, a white man shot from behind while driving with tobacco. He was on death row six months and received two electric shocks after a failed appeals process.
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Raleigh
George Frank Bazemore
Greene County
State Prison
Gordon Yelverton
Greens Superior Court
Yelverton
Fremont
Wilson
Farmville
Supreme Court
Bazemore
Chase Advises Fuller Living At University Opening
In Chapel Hill the 134th year of the University of North Carolina opened with a message by Dr. Harry W. Chase urging balance between money values and spiritual values. He urged interest in art, literature, science and philosophy as the adventure of living. Dr. James F. Royster presided as Memorial Hall overflowed. Deans Hibbard and Bradshaw spoke. class work began.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Harry W. Chase
University of North Carolina
Europe
James F. Royster
Graduate School
Memorial Hall
Addison Hibbard
College of Liberal Arts
Francis F. Bradshaw
Murder Charge After Shilling Town Killing
Walter Turner 22 was shot and beaten to death at his home in Shilling Town near Elizabeth City. His father in law Jerry Jones about 60 is held on a murder charge amid family difficulties.
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Elizabeth City
Walter Turner
Shilling Town
Jerry Jones
Bootlegger pay book cripples Memphis police force
A green book listing expenditures of an alleged bootlegging ring led to the suspension of 38 Memphis police officers including top officials. The probe traces the names to Bellomini associates with federal inquiries in New York Chicago and Nashville. Several suspects fled to Italy while some testify and a federal grand jury is to convene.
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Memphis
Tenn
Little Green Book
Thomas H. Allen
John Bellomini
Department of Justice
New York
Chicago
Nashville
Bellomini Ring
Italy
Alan McNamara
Bellomini
Joe Rinaldi
McNamara
John Bocchini
Dino Chicochetti
Erciso Vannucci
Bellominia
Film images show Tunney down in seventh round
Chicago officials report that motion pictures of the Dempsey Tunney fight show Tunney down for 14 seconds in the seventh round with Dempsey nearby. Slow motion footage found no low blows. Pictures, made by Goodart of New York, will be shown in Chicago theatres later today.
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Chicago
Tunney
Chicago Film Laboratory Company
Goodart Company
New York
Dempsey
Democrats Let G. O. P. Lift Burden in Senate Layout
Democratic leaders refuse to organize the Senate in December even if Senators-elect Smith of Illinois and Ware of Pennsylvania are seated after further investigations. The minority would run the chamber if insurgents aid Democratic candidates, but Democrats reject any agreements.
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Washington
Senate
Smith
Ilinois
Ware
Pennsylvania
Congress
Republican Congress
South Carolina
Interstate Commerce Committee
Cotton ginning reports show small output for year
The Census Bureau reports the 1926 ginning total to September 16 at 3,505,552 bales including 99,912 round bales. Compared with 1925 and 1924 figures, the state totals list Alabama 447,969 Arizona 7,722 Arkansas 90,547 California 2,312 Florida 10,9387 Georgia 474,928 Louisiana 226,959 Mississippi 364,239 Missouri 222 New Mexico 2,793 North Carolina 22,358 Oklahoma 44,398 South Carolina 127,756 Tennessee 4,437 Texas 1,683,973.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tenessee
Texas
North Carolina Shippers Fight Rail Freight Rate Hikes
About 100 shippers at a meeting in Wilson voted to oppose railroad proposals to cancel less than carload commodity rates and apply class rates to small shipments. The Carolina Shippers Association voices unrelenting opposition to rate increases.
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Wilson
North Carolina
Carolina Shippers Association Incorporated
North Carolina Tax Base Reaches New High
The North Carolina assessed valuation of taxable property totals 2.7949 billion dollars, up nearly 49 million from last year. It marks the highest valuation for taxation since 1920, when postwar prosperity pushed Tar Heel property past three billion.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Board of Assessment
Buncombe Grand Jury Calls Audit of Magistrate Courts
The Buncombe county grand jury asked for an audit of all magistrate courts in the county after a report to Judge Roy L. Deal that overzealous warrants and bills against a single individual are inflating costs. Judge Deal supported an audit to see if magistrates distorted counts and noted possible bench action. The panel seeks completion by October 17 with copies to jurors and the solicitor.
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Asheville
Buncombe County
Grand Jury
Roy L. Deal
Deal
Justices of Peace
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