Akron Christening Marks Milestone In American Air Progress
Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Washington officials arrive in Akron to christen the giant airship Akron built for the Navy by Goodyear Zeppelin. The ceremony features eight white pigeons and plans for future Zeppelins. Akron, 785 feet long, with 6,500,000 cubic feet capacity, will carry 100 passengers in civilian service and host military equipment with 16 heavy machine guns and five planes.
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R, P
Croning
AKRON
Herbert Hoover
Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
United States Navy
Chaortes
Rosendahl
Alcon
William “A. Moffett
Fla
America
Akron Corporation
Goolyear-Zeppelin Company
Germany
Zeppelin
Karl Arnstein
Moffett
Caplavers
Prasenger
Graf Zeppelin
Mer Eight Motors
Health Service Plans Battle on Ship’s Rats
Public Health Service urges sea vessel rat proofing to stop plague. Proposes isolated compartments, wire mesh, insulation and metal flashings to make ships inhospitable to rats. Pamphlet says rats are so ruinous that their departure could prompt ship sinking.
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Health Service
Washington
Public Health Service
Elipska
Purl Ba
Checking Up On Biggest Airship World’s largest airship described with specs
The report details an immense airship eight motors total 4480 horsepower and 84 miles per hour. It measures Five hundred ten feet long? and 132.9 feet in diameter with 650000 cubic feet of gas capacity nearly double Graf Zeppelin. Armament includes heavy machine guns and five pursuit planes stored in a hangar. Commander Lieut. Commander Charles E Rosendahl leads a crew of about 70.
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Graf
Conmiundar
Charles E. Rosendahl
Ben Haynes Gains Rifle Team Place for ROTC
Ben Haynes son of Mr and Mrs Gus Haynes of this city and a member of the Quachila College Reserve Officers Training Corps has earned a place on the rifle team representing the Seventh Corps Area at Camp Perry Ohio. He placed third in rifle marksmanship for the Seventh Corps Area among seven entrants with notification received via a letter from Lieut Col W G Murchison Omaha Nebraska and extending congratulations from Maj Gen Johnson Hugoid commander of the Seventh Corps Area.
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Ben Haynes
Gus Haynes
Quachila College Reserve Officers Training Corps
Camp Perry
Ohio
W. G. Murchison
Omaha, Nehy
Johnson Hugoid
Seventh Corps
Unemployment Forecast Fails To Seek Near-Term Relief
Washington reports fear of higher jobless figures next winter as the United States Chamber of Commerce studies possible relief plans for Hoover. Silas Shawn president and Julius Barnes head discussed the unemployment problem with President Hoover for nearly an hour. Shawn said a preliminary survey forecast here would be no relief in coming months.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Hoover
Silas Shawn
Rechamber
Julius Barnes
Heaver
Shawn
Chandler Announces Sermon Sunday Night
Hev. W. B. Chandler will preach Sunday evening at 6 o clock on the lawn of his home. The subject is not clearly readable in the fragment but appears to concern contemplation and religious duty.
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Chandler
W. BR. Chandler
Deputies Destroy Cold Still North of Hope
Deputy Sheriffs Jessee Britt and Joe B. Mitson confiscated a 60 gallon gasoline still and four barrels of mash about eight miles north of Hope Friday afternoon. There was no one at the site when approached but evidence showed preparation for manufacture. The still, barrels, and other containers were destroyed by officers.
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Jessee Britt
Joe B. Mitson
Hope
Farmers Week at University Ends
PAYETTEVILLE Farmers Week ends as programs wrap at noon and tents go down. By Friday afternoon most attendees begin homeward journeys while Agricultural Extension Service staff stay until Tuesday for the annual conference and planning for next year’s Farmers Week and state 4 H teams.
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Payetteville
Plane Falls Five Thousand Feet Pilot Unhurt
Lester Glasscock of Dunedin Florida piloting a Montgomery Alabama to Los Angeles route escaped injury when the engine stalled at 5000 feet and the plane crashed near Fifty six in the Ozark National Forest about 25 miles from here. He suffered only minor bruises and was brought here by automobile. Glasscock traveled alone and had stopped in Memphis en route. Souvenir hunters damaged the wreckage as news spread.
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Mountain View
Lester Glasscock
Dunedin
Fla
Montgomery
Ali
Wichita
Kan
Ozark National Forest
Glasscock
Ala
Memphs
Los Angeles
Cal
Cripple Killed as Gun Discharges in Home Repair
Charley Hays aged 58 of Pleasant Plains 15 miles north of Bradford was killed Friday afternoon when a pistol he was repairing discharged. A coroner's jury ruled the death accidental. Hays had spent about 12 years in a wheelchair and repaired firearms for neighbors to pass the time. He had lived in White County all his life and was once a prosperous farmer.
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Bradford
Charley Hays
Pleasant Plains
Here
Hays
White County
Magnolia youth wounded in drive accident improves at hospital
Walter Tubbs, 17, was brought to Julia Chester hospital Friday with critical gunshot wounds from an accident on Clear Lake. He improved Saturday, and doctors believe he will recover barring complications.
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Walter Tubbs
Magnolia
Julia Chester Hospital
Clear Lake
Tubbs
Poultry Association Meeting Scheduled at Hempstead City Hall
All Hempstead County Poultry Association members are urged to attend a Monday night meeting at the city hall. Discussion will cover important matters to every commercial producer and poultry interests in the county.
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Hempstead County Poultry Association
Posse Searches Pine Bluff For Negro Who Shot Woman
A Pine Bluff posse with bloodhounds hunted an unidentified black man after he shot Mrs. Mary Lee McGehee, 26, as she returned from a store on the city outskirts. She was struck by a shotgun blast but not deemed dangerously wounded. McGehee’s husband, A. M. McGehee, works for a lumber company.
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Fine Bluff
Ark
Mary Lee McGehee
No Ice Reduction Planned In State
Arkansas Railroad Commission rejects sweeping statewide ice price cuts noting local conditions vary by town and competition levels. Member Reece A Caudle states hearings will occur locally for unsafe pricing rather than a uniform statewide schedule.
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Arkansas Railroad “Commission
Reece A. Caudle
Falls Over Road Embankment Ends Life in Arkansas
Roy Lacey of Council Mill Oklahoma died Wednesday after falling from a highway embankment near Magazine while working on his automobile. He struck his head on a culvert end. He was traveling with two companions to Magazine at the time of the accident.
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Paris
Ark
Magazine
Roy Lacey
Council Mill
Okla
Lacey
Tale
Body Found Off Jones Beach Casts Doubt on Carter Fate
In Wantagh Long Island doctors said the torso found on Jones Beach could not have been in the water more than six weeks, suggesting it is not the missing Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Carter. The body lacks a head arms and legs and shows wire strands indicating it was tied down. Detectives Harald King and John Hannawalt led the examination.
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Wantagh
Jones’ Beach
Long Island
Harald King
Nassau
Supreme Court
Joseph Force Carter
Rved
J. Hannawalt
Lindberghs Land at Point Barrow
Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh arrived at Point Barrow Alaska the northern outpost about 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The stop marked another leg of their flight toward the orient. Their time from Aklavik was six hours and thirty minutes.
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Cop Tee Point
Barrow
Alaska
Charles A’ Lindbergh
Satturrday
America
Arrctic Circle
Orient
Aklavig
Governor Spares Condemned Texan
TEXARKANA Governor Sterling at Austin Thursday commuted the death sentence of Dave Goodwin of Bowie County to life imprisonment. Goodwin was to die in the electric chair at Huntsville Monday. J A R Mosley Texarkana lawyer volunteered his services to save the life of Goodwin.
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Texarkana
Sterling
Austin
Dave Goodwin
Bowie County
Fife
Goodwin
Huntsville
J. A. R. Mosley
Pate
Lloyd Elliott
Officials Divided Over Train Wreck Cause Near Van Buren
VAN BUNEN Ark Railroad officials and county officers disagreed on whether a Frisco passenger train wreck near Van Buren Tuesday night was caused by tampering with a switch. Division Supervisor Cantrell cited evidence of tampering while Sheriff Maxey rejected that. Engineer Lee Keithley and fireman Willista Weeks died in Fort Smith wreck. Foreman J S McCommon was improving after leg amputation at a hospital.
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Van
Monette
Willista Weeks
Fort Smith
J. 8. McCommion
Foreman Council Orders Electric Rate Reduction
Foreman Arkansas city council approves voluntary cuts from Southwestern Gas and Electric for the local franchise. New charges are one cent for the first step, nine cents for the second, and three cents for the third, replacing the old rates of fourteen, nine, and six cents. The change takes effect on the first duty.
London's Telegraph Dispute Mentioned in Copenhagen Flight News
The London exchange telegram story notes Parker and Dr Cramer who arrived Friday night on a flight from the United States and took off for Bergen on Saturday. Copenhagen Sunday reports the incident as the Senate in Austin Texas kills the Cunningham cotton reduction acreage bill after hours of debate, voting 10 to 4 against engrossing the measure.
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London
Copenhaggay
Parker
Cramer
Faruo
Lelahds
United States
Toon
Bergen
Copenhagen
Austin, Tex
Senate
J. F. McDonale
First Open Cotton Boll Reported Near Hope Area
An open boll of cotton, the first reported, arrived by mail Friday afternoon. Mr. Wilson Sr of Columbus and Mr. Wilson Sipe of the Weber region were contacted. Mrs Cicero Beard of the Lewisville highway reported that she and her brother Ben Beard found several scattered bolls in their field.
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Office of the Star
Wilson, Sr
Columbus
Wilson
Sipe
Weibus Secheanav
Cicero Beard
Hope
Lewisville
Ben Beard
Young Boy Breaks Hip in Fall at Home
Charles Green a 12 year old of the Yancy community was taken to Josephine hospital Friday afternoon after a fall from a porch caused a break in his left hip two inches below the thigh. An examination and X-ray confirmed the fracture and he was moved to his parents' home.
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Charles Green
Yancy
Josephine Hospital
Hera
Motorist Pinned Under Car Saved in Arkansas Ditch
Frank Henderson, 25, was rescued by farmers after his car veered into a water filled ditch on highway No 4 early Saturday morning leaving him pinned with only his head above water. He suffered several broken ribs and severe bruises but survived the crash following cries for help.
Youth Arrested in Mexico Governor Assassination Attempt
In Vera Cruz the state announced a youth who tried to kill Governor Agulberto Tejeda has been identified. Jose Ramirez of Santa Rosa died from wounds after soldiers struck him. Several Catholics linked to the crime were arrested, including a local priest called to Islapa. Detentions of Knights of Columbus members were reported amid a governor’s accusation against Catholic clergy.
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Mexico
Vera Cruz
Agulberto Tejeda
Jose Ramirez
Santa Rosa
Father Mayor
Islapa
Knights of Columbus
Crioles
Tejeda
DeWitt Slaying Involving Lumsden and Brooks
Reports say John Dewitt was charged with murder after a shooting on Lumsden’s farm near DeWitt. Henry Lumsden, Cummins and Brooks, all black, were involved. Parker and Flourney claim Parker killed a youth, with Brooks later jailed. The case centers on the fatal shooting and subsequent arrests.
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Brooks
DeWidon
Lumsden
Parker
Implicated Black man tied to Texarkana still slaying
Texarkana police reveal John Perkins, a Black man, is tied to the Walter Harris raid at a still last week. Perkins, in custody in another county, is described as chief helper to Sam Day, owner of the still, with witnesses placing him fleeing the scene. Sheriff Harris reports Day may have fired the rounds. two other Black individuals were detained as the investigation continues.
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Texarkana
John Perkins
Walter Harris
Pex Licers
Perkins
Sam Day
Little Rock
Chi
Harris
Per
Roy
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