Lindbergh Seaplane Flight Extends US Mail Route
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and J. T. Trippe launched from Port of Spain Trinidad to Paramaribo Dutch Guiana cutting US Dutch Guiana mail time from 18 days to four. Lindbergh reported progress by radio as his route included Georgetown British Guiana with stops at Princes Town and Caracas area coast, landing planned at Paramaribo.
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Miami
Fla
Georgetown
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pan- American Airways
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Paramaribo
Dutch Guiana
J. T. Trippe
Pan Amercan Airways
Lindbergh
Central
Pan American
Princesstown
British Guiana
O. K
Venezuela
United States Air Mail
United States
South America
Pan American Airways
San Juan
Porto Rico
Union Leaders Plan Vote on Walkout in Elizabethton
In Elizabethton Tennessee union leaders move to hold a mass meeting tonight to vote on a strike at the American Bemberg and Glanzstoff mills. The company warned no striker would be rehired. About 4 000 workers are employed at the two plants.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Rayon Mill
Bemberg and Glanzstoff Company
Francis Gorman
United Textile Workers, U} America
Paul Aymon
Tennessee Federation of Labor
Four Die in Sunday Car Accidents Across Carolinas
North and South Carolina suffered four deaths and several injuries in Sunday auto crashes. P. F. Lowder, 38, was fatally struck near Albemarle after church. M. A. Jennings Jr., 23, died when Fred Hall's car overturned at Spartanburg. Irby Tedder, 25, and Jule Kirby, 21, died near Florence after a single vehicle collision and water immersion. Other injuries occurred in crashes near Gastonia involving Kirby Saunders, Ottis Cagle, and Reid Crag. Saunders' prognosis was doubtful.
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Charlotte
North
South Carolina
P. F. Lowder
Stanley County
Church
Albemarle
N. C
Irby Tedder
Jule Kirby
Florence
S. C
Miller Huggins In Grave Condition At New York Hospital
Miller Huggins Yankees manager fell seriously ill at St. Vincent's hospital as influenza and erysipelas complications worsened. Blood transfusions were used as his condition was described as very grave.
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New York
Miller Huggins
New York Yankees
St. Vincent's Hospital
Unions Plan Southern Conference Plea Amid Court Actions
Leaders of the United Textile Workers of America and the National Textile Workers Union planned separate southern conferences to organize and pursue court hearings. The UTWA seeks a Rock Hill meeting this weekend, while the NTWU sets October 12–13 in Charlotte.
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Charlotte
N. C
United Textile Workers of America
National Textile Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
Rock Hill
S. C
Hugo Oehler
Ella May Wiggins
Gastonia
American Civil Liberties Union
O. F. Aderholt
J. Hugh Hall
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers
Marion
House Convenes For Short Time
Washington presiding in a brief session the House opens after an all summer recess and adjourns after nine minutes with no business completed. Members recessed until Thursday awaiting next agenda.
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Washington
House
Swedish steamer Carl Jerhard crew rescued at Kill Devil Hill
The Swedish steamer Carl Jerhard ran aground a half mile north of Kill Devil Hill coast guard station. Twenty one men and one woman were brought ashore in breeches buoys as rescue work continued against heavy seas with the vessel in danger of breaking up.
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Carl Jerhard
Kill Devil Hill
Coast Guard
Wakeman details Shearer hiring for Geneva naval talks
S. W. Wakeman of Bethlehem Shipbuilding testified before a senate committee that William B. Shearer was hired to attend the 1927 Geneva naval conference to report events. Wakeman said the firm also paid Shearer $7,500 in 1926 to come to Washington and write articles and give speeches to bolster the merchant marine program for the United States Shipping Board.
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Washington
S. W. Wakeman
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Senate
William B. Shearer
Geneva
Wakeman
Shearer
New York
Bethelehem Corporation
United States Shipping Board
Clinton W&. Bardo
The
New York Shipbuilding Com
Coolidge Trumbull Wedding In Plainville Conn
Florence Trumbull daughter of the Connecticut governor wed John Coolidge son of Ex President Calvin Coolidge in a short seven minute Congregational ceremony at the Village Church in Plainville. The service featured a single ring and no obedience vow with ex president and Mrs Coolidge in attendance. The bride wore ivory satin with duchesse lace and carried white lilies as four attendants accompanied her sister Miss Jean Trumbull who served as maid of honor.
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John Coolidge
President Coolidge
Florence Trumbull
John H. Trumbull
Connecticut
Adelaide Kerr
Associated Press
Plainville
Conn
Sexton
Calvin Coolidge
White Frame Village Congregational Church
A. H. Dresser
Kenneth Welles
Albany
N. Y
Congregational Church
Northampton
Mass
J. Roy Wilkerson
Plainville Congregational Church
Waggoner Off To New York
Cheyenne Wyoming dispatch reports D. Waggoner of Telluride Colorado leaving for New York at 8 30 a m today in a case against two officers charged with using the mails to defraud six New York banks of five hundred thousand dollars proceedings set for trial in New York courts.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
J—C. D. Waggoner
Telluride
Colo
New York
Nationalists deny civil war as clashes flare on Manchurian border
Shanghai dispatch reports the Nationalist government denying civil war rumors amid renewed Manchurian fighting. Chinese and white Russians clash with Soviet troops in the Trans-Baikal region, with reports of casualties and captures near Nerchinsk and Chita while border districts such as Pogranichnaya, Pabigutur, Michinsky, and Amazor are cited in renewed hostilities.
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Shanghai
China
Nanking
Vomosov
Nerchinsk
Chita
Amur
Pabigugutur
Michinsky
Amazor
Trans-Baikalia
Penny theft shocks Wadesboro as aged couple seeks burial funds
In Wadesboro, Anson County, an elderly widow's 33.88 dollars saved for her 15-year-old husband's burial vanished. The Beachums faced long years in the county home. A suspected thief, once trusted to buy medicines, remains at large after fruitless attempts to prove guilt.
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Wadesboro
Orphan Asylum
O. Henry
Anson County
Henry Beachum
Stanley
Hoover Asks Proof of Capital Prohibition Enforcement Facts
President Hoover asked Senator Howell to present definite facts behind his claim that the capital’s prohibition is not being enforced but could be enforced if the president insisted. The White House urged District officials be given a chance to reply and pledged full investigation if evidence is provided. Howell said he would submit a statement if needed, stressing embassies liquor import issues.
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Washington
Howell
Nebraska
Hoover
Department of Justice
Senate
District of Columbia
White House
Dougherty
Pratt
Narcotic Joints Near Capitol Charged by Blease
Senator Blease of South Carolina charged in the Senate that four narcotic joints operate near the Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue. He said cases of four suspected violators were presented to the grand jury last July and that no action had yet been taken, with suspected higher ups blocking action.
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Washington
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Senate
Blease
South Carolina
House
Grand Jury
Howell's charges denied by Doran
Washington September 23 Commissioner Borah of the prohibition bureau replied to Senator Howell Nebraska claiming Washington is a wet spot due to lax enforcement. Borah said agents here do good work and conditions compare with other states. He spoke after President Hoover asked for definite facts to back Howell's claim that enforcement could be stronger.
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Washington
Borah
Prohibition Bureau
Howell
Republican
Nebraska
National
Hoover
Department of Justice
Senate
District of Columbia
Ship Owners To Be Liable For Undeclared Opium
Washington Sept 23 The Senate voted to restore a House provision to the tariff bill imposing a $25 per ounce penalty on ship owners and masters for all smoking opium found unmanifested on a vessel.
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Washington
Senate
House
Paderewski Recovers After Appendicitis Operation
Lausanne Switzerland September 23 Ignace Paderewski famous Polish pianist rests well after a hurried appendicitis operation performed yesterday. He is expected to make a normal recovery.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Ignace Paderewski
M. Paderewski
Nations Likely Endorse Longer Shipbuilding Holiday
Washington reports acceptance of an American proposal to extend the ten year holiday on capital ship construction to fifteen years. Britain, Japan, France, and Italy are expected to agree at the London conference, saving millions 1931 to 1936 as ships are replaced.
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Washington
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
London
United States
Atlantic
Utah
Hoover
Latin America
Florida
Wyoming
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Coolidge
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