Bennett Dies After Pneumonia In Canada Flight Rescue
Floyd Bennett, famed airman who piloted with Byrd to the North Pole, died in Jeffrey Hale Hospital Quebec at 10:45 a.m. from double pneumonia. Lindbergh flew serum to aid him but the treatment failed while Byrd stood by Bennett and Bennett’s wife fell ill.
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United Press
Quebec
Floyd Bennett
Jeffrey Hale
Pneumnia
America
Bennett
Detroit
Bremen
Greenly Island
Richard E. Byrd
North Pole
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Byrd
Boston
South Pole
Murray Bay
Ford
Rockefeller Foundation
Lindbergh
Montréal
Curtissfield
Long Island
Jeffrey Male Hospital
Plains of Abraham
Battleground
Lebourget
Poland Tobacco Tax War Shows Big Budget Load
Tobacco users in Poland pay nearly one third of government costs. The tobacco monopoly taxed about 115 million dollars last year, while the total government budget is 386 million dollars.
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Warsaw
Poland
Bremen crew awaits favorable weather at Greenly Island
Trans Atlantic Bremen crew led by von Huenefeld Koehl and Fitzmaurice push to ready the craft for Murray Bay 645 miles away as storm forecasts threaten a delay. Relief pilot Ford plane and German mechanic Koeppen work on engines and undercarriage while residents flock to watch. Lanterned island lighthouse keeper Jacques Le Temper recalls surprise at the Bremen arrival.
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United Press
Murray Bay
Quebec
Bremen
Atlantic
Ireland
Greenly Island
Detroit
Montreal
Baron Gunther von Huenefeld
Hermann Koehl
James Fitzmaurice
St. Lawrence
Ford Company
Greenly
Chesley Spurrell
Courier
Point Amour
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Belle Isle Straits
Ford
Koehl
Fitzmaurice
Ernest Koeppen
Long Point
Ft. Baubay
Blane Sablon
Brador Bay
Jacques le Temper
Hoover Leads with 169 to 7 in Indiana GOP Straw Poll
In Ft Wayne the Republican straw poll at the Chamber of Commerce and community centers shows Herbert C. Hoover 169 votes and James E. Watson 7. Democrats pick Al Smith with 75 votes to 7 for James Reed.
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Times
FT. Wayne
Ind
Herbert C. Hoover
James E. Watson
Chamber of Commerce
al Smith
James Reed
Coffin-Watson to Lose Says Hoover's Manager
Indiana Hoover manager Oscar G Foellinger argues massachusetts and ohio voters back Hoover over Coffin-Watson and Dawes or Lowden. He says Coffin-Watson opposition taints Hoover’s Republicanism and predicts Hoover’s nomination and election over Smith with New York leaders backing him.
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Hoover
Oscar G. Foellinger
Indiana
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Ohio
Ohio Gang
Dawes
Lowden
Coffinism
Thompson
Illinois
Smith
New York
Ogden Mills
Mellon
Weaver faces prison term after drunken burglary spree
South Bend Indiana April 25 Joe Kelley 38 earns a day of good time in jail after a drunken sequence that included entering a policeman's home and then another private residence, stealing a monkey, and being pursued by officers until colliding with a tree.
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Times Special
South Bend
Ind
Joe Kelley
Stewart Fate Up at Parley
Washington April 25 a Teapot Dome committee executive session was held to decide contempt actions against Robert W Stewart chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana over his purge efforts. Senator Walsh favored prosecuting only under the federal contempt indictment and dropping direct Senate bar questions. Chairman Nye stated the committee cannot dismiss and must report to the Senate for a decision.
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United Press
Washington
Teapot Dome
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Senator Walsh
Montana
Stewart
Senate
Nye
Northwest City Seawers Protest Sewer Pollution
Citizens in the northwest part plan a protest at a special council meeting to demand funds for repairing sewers discharging into White River. The 26th Street bathing beach and the U S naval reserve camp won’t open until the water quality improves.
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White River
Twenty-Sixth St. Bathing Beach
United States Naval Reserve Camp
Fragmentary OCR Time Notation Notes
The readable OCR fragment lists scattered times 10 a m 11 a m 12 noon 1 p m with numbers 35 36 42 46 47 in sequence, but no clear event or context is provided in the source snippet.
Witness Says Ex GOP Chairman Forced Banker to Sign Notes
Miss Pearl Will testified in federal court that Clyde A. Walb then La Grange bank vice president pressured Valentine D. Weaver to sign notes with forged names, threatening a life in prison. She described Walb’s insistence and Weaver’s fear as the government builds a case of bank law violations.
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Charles E. Carll
Corr
Dent
FT. Wayne
Ind
Clyde A. Walb
Valentine D. Weaver
Weaver
Walb
Hugo
Will
Clyde
Steve Confidant and the Watson Campaign Escort
Federal agent Jack Maroney once admitted to D. C. Stephenson’s cell and who escorted Senator James E. Watson through the 1926 campaign now takes a fifteen day vacation to aid Watson’s presidential bid and Senator Arthur R. Robinson’s renomination efforts. Maroney, allowed to speak with Stephenson in Indiana State Prison in September 1926, guided Watson’s campaign, carried luggage, and conferred with supporters while also shaping the campaign’s political exposure.
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Jack Maroney
D. C
Stephenson
Maroney
Watson
Hoover and Smith Lead Ohio Presidential Preference Returns
In Columbus, Ohio, April 25, Hoover leads with 182,529 votes and 31 of 51 Republican delegates. Smith shows a strong statewide showing with 33,121 votes in the Democratic race, while Lowden and Dawes lag. Smith ran as a protest favorite without pledged delegates. voters wrote his name on ballots.
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United Press
Columbus
Ohio
Commerce
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
New York
Hoover
Frank B. Willis
Smith
Atlee Powrene
Vic Donahey
Secretary of Commerce
Frank O. Lowden
Illnois
Charles G. Dawes
Hoover Victory Forecast by Moses After Primaries
Senator Moses of New Hampshire says Hoover can start work on his acceptance speech. He predicts Hoover will be nominated and likely on the first ballot in yesterday's primaries.
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United Press
Washington
Hoover
Moses
Rep
New Hampshire
Mechem Linked to Payments by Utility Interests
Evidence at the FTC utilities inquiry shows former New Mexico Governor M. C. Mechem received 5299 dollars from the joint committee of national utilities associations for work as an attorney during Washington conferences on Border Dam legislation between July 1927 and January last. The payments covered meetings in Boulder Dam negotiations involving western state governors.
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United Press
Washington
M. C. Mechem
New Mexico
Boulder Dam
Federal Trade Commission
Joint Committee of National Utilities Associations
Mechem
Joint Committee
Rucker assault charges dismissed by judge
Assault and battery and fraudulent advertising charges against E. G. Rucker of Chicago were dismissed by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. Rucker denied meeting Miss Thelma Davey during her testimony about his advertising for canvassing work for the publishing firm. State testified Rucker kissed her at a downtown hotel. Rucker insisted he was a married man and did not recall seeing Miss Jebel State.
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E. G. Rucker
Chicago
Paul C. Wetter
Rucker
Thelma Davey
N. Harding Sr
Better Business Bureau
Miss Davey
Driver Frank Lockhart Dies in Final Speed Dash
Frank Lockhart attempted to break the world speed record at Daytona Beach despite an injured left hand not yet healed. Stutz president F. E. Moskovics eulogized him as a brave, gifted driver and lamented the needless risk in the doomed run.
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Frank Lockhart
Daytona Beach
F. E. Moskovics
Stutz Motor Car Company
Moskovics
Stutz Head Arranges Funeral for Racing Hero Frank Lockhart
F E Moskovics, president of the Stutz Motor Car Co, left Indianapolis for Daytona Beach to arrange funeral services for Frank Lockhart known as Smiling Frank. Lockhart, famed 1926 Indianapolis 500 winner, faced a series of speed records and dirt track triumphs before his death.
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F. E. Moskovics
Stutz Motor Car Company
Indianapolis
Daytona Beach
Frank” Lockhart
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Moskovics
Wire
Lockhart
Burglar reported as four homes broken into on north side
A Negro burglar was reported Tuesday night in four home break ins on the north side. Mrs. Hanna found $10 missing at 2940 N New Jersey St. Miss Mildred Zook reported seeing a Negro around 2 a.m. at 1412 Central Ave. E G Plum said his mother heard a window open and a Negro head inside. The burglar escaped after a scream. Mr and Mrs Quinn heard a ventilator fall at 51 W Fall Creek Blvd and saw the intruder vanish. Several suites at the Transportation Bldg were ransacked Tuesday.
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John Hanna
New Jersey St
Mildred Zook
Central Ave
E. G. Plum
Plum
P. A. Quinn
Fall Creek Blvd
Transportation Bldg
Delaware and
Red Sts
Spectators in peril as speedster dies in wild Beach crash
Frank Lockhart, renowned American racing driver, died in Daytona Beach when his Stutz Black Hawk car spun, flipped, and tumbled into the sand while attempting to surpass a speed record. He was thrown from the vehicle, later dying at hospital. the accident occurred before the grandstand as spectators watched.
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Stutz
Daytona Beach
United Press
Fla
Frank Lockhart
America
Lockhart
Ray Keech
Malcolm Campbell
Indianapolis
Bohannon
Keech
Mrs. Lockhart
Stata
Young man resells cigarets after theft uncovered
In Hartford City Indiana on April 25 a youth whose name is withheld admitted buying cigarets at 1.20 per carton charging them to his mother’s grocery bill and reselling them for 1 a carton. Police tied the scheme to a theft from a freight car shipment using the same brand.
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Times
Hartford City
Ind
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