Governor to Address Auto Expense Probes and Appointments
Governor Harry G. Leslie will return Tuesday to review charges over excessive maintenance and repair costs in the highway department. The Times report cites 1927 28 expenses and possible nepotism. He must fill a Fulton county judgeship and a state education board seat. Two extradition hearings are scheduled for Burns Sinclair and Blanche Wilkerson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry G. Leslie
Dunes Park
Canada
Highway Motor Transport Division
The
Times
Omer S. Manlove
John J. Brown
Manlove
Brown
Forty-first Judicial Circuit
Fulton County
Reuben R. Carr
Hiram Miller
Rochester
County Bar Association
George Reitzell
Danville
State Board of Education
Reitzell
State of
New York
Burns Sinclair
Marion County
Sinclair
J. Carl Vandivier
Iowa
Blanche Wilkerson
Noblesville
Youths Start Life of Crime End In Hasty Surrender
Two Brookfield youths aged 15 and 17 plotted a holdup in Riverview suburb. They brandished revolvers at a passing car but were met by the driver, Constable Fred Ellers, who fired twice into the air. The would-be bandits surrendered without injury or further incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Brookfield
Robert Wilson
Max Schlaman
Riverview
Fred Ellers
Rug sold from 1683 Turkish conflict to Paris firm
A Turkish rug captured in the Turkish war of 1683 and once owned by Count Branitzki was sold to a Paris firm for about $100,000, but the government vetoed the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Count Branitzki
Paris
Aviator's Widow Takes Solo Flight After Husband's Death
Marguerite Maibacher widow of Lt. Fred Maibucher prepares for her first solo flight at Mars Hill airport. She has five hours of flight time, trained by Captain Cox, and hopes to continue flying perhaps even cross the Atlantic, while her parents support her pursuit of the sport she shared with her late husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Maibucher
North Temple Avenue
Fred Maibucher
Kansas City
Mars Hill
Fred
St. Louis
Cox
Atlantic
Sun God Near St Paul After Stormy Flight
The Sun God cross country nonstop plane left Cleveland airport at 8 05 am for St Paul Minn after battling a severe storm all night. It was reported at Madison Wis near noon. Pilots Nick Namer and Art Walker rode out the storm at Bellefonte Pa. The Sun God arrived here shortly before 7 am. Two contacts were made with breakfast and 250 gallons of fuel transferred to the fliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United P
Cleveland
Sun God
St. Paul
Minn
Madison
Wis
Nick Namer
Art Walker
Bellefonte
Bomb Thrown at Chicago Sanitary Trustee's Home
Lawrence F. Preece, trustee of the sanitary board, was targeted when a black powder pineapple bomb exploded at his summer home in Justice Park. The King family escaped injury. Damage was estimated at $1,000 as the seventy third bombing in Chicago this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence F. Preece
The
Sanitary Board
Chicago
Justice Park
King
Women Derby Fliers From Santa Monica To Cleveland
Eighteen of nineteen starters leave Federal airport San Bernardino heading through Cajon Pass toward Yuma with Florence Lowe Barres leading at 27 minutes 21 seconds earning a 100 dollar prize for heavy planes. Phoebe Omlie and Mrs Louis Thaden place second and close behind. list includes Amelia Earhart and several other notable fliers as the field heads toward Phoenix for the next stopover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Bernardino
Cal
Federal
Santa Monica-to- Cleveland
Derby
San Bernardino Range
Cajon Pass
Yuma
Ariz
Phoenix
Florence Lowe Barres
San Marino
Phoebe Omlie
Memphis
Tenn
Barnes
Louis McPherridge Thaden
Gladys O’donnell
Long Beach
Marvel
San Diego
Blanche Wilcox Noyes
Cleveland
Ruth Nichols
Rye
N. Y
Bobbie Trout
Los Angeles
Opal Kunz
New York
Margaret Perry
Beverly Hills
Neva Paris
Great Neck
L. L
Amelia Earhart
Claire Fahy
Thea Rasch
Germany
Vera Dawn Walker
Edith Foelts
Portland
Ore
Keith Miller
New Zealand
Paroled youth Gene Alger in bold eastward bank robbery hunt
Police extended the hunt to the east coast for Gene Alger and his bride after a Paris Crossing bank robbery. Warrants accuse them of bank robbery, auto banditry and conspiracy, with sightings near Portsmouth Ohio and multiple license plate changes. Alger, paroled from the state reformatory, is married to Josephine Miller, daughter of a Jeffersonville police sergeant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Alger
North Walcott Street
Hem
Paris Crossing
Indiana
Alger
George McHie
Algers
Portsmouth
Gail Alger
Carl Losey
Vernon
Ind
Indianapolis
B. W. Lowry
Paris
Detroit girl held after narc kidnapping claim
Rita Dinser, 14, gave Detroit address 2533 Finkell avenue and said she was kidnapped in Detroit and held on a Pullman car to New York. Police traced a telegram from Detroit leading to Grand Central terminal where she was found. kidnaper remains unfound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Rita Dinser
Finkell Avenue
Detroit
Grand Central Terminal
Lindbergh Teaches Wife to Fly in Hicksville
Anne Morrow Lindbergh learns to fly under instruction from husband Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in Hicksville New York. He guides landing practice with several perfect three point drops while she does not control the aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hicksville
N. Y
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh
Swiss fliers depart on non stop Atlantic hop to New York
Oskar Kaeser and Kurt Luscher, two Swiss youths, began a nonstop flight from Juncal field bound for New York in the first Swiss trans Atlantic attempt. Their aircraft named Young Switzerland took off at 1 a.m. EST with plans to fly via the Azores if needed and carried pneumatic gear for possible emergency landings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
United Press
Lisbon
Portugal
Oskar Kaeser
Kurt Luscher
New York
Switzerland
Juncal
Kaeser
Azores
Vast war machines mobilized in China amid border clashes
Reports from Manchuria quote mobilization of 150000 troops ordered by military commanders. China moves 60000 more to border to deter Russian incursions, while Mukden and Dalamar see intermittent firing and reports of Soviet advances. A war conference is set for Mukden with Chinese and Manchurian authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United
Manchuria
C. C. Wu
United States
Washington
Manchuk
Dalamar
Red Army
Mukden
Tungning
Manchur
Manchuli
Chalamor
Hailar
Manchuri
War Novel Banned in Austrian Army Libraries
A Vienna dispatch reports that All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque has been barred from all Austrian military libraries. The Graz brigade commander first prohibited soldiers from reading it, and the defense minister approved the ban throughout the army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Berlin
Erich Maria Remaiae
Vienna
Telegraphen Union
Graz
Actin
Zeppelin Lands in Tokyo Completes World Tour Hop
The airship completes its second leg to Tokyo in 101 hours, finishing a global tour. Plans call for the ship to depart for the United States on Thursday, marking the next leg of its voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeppelin
Tokio
Graf Zeppelin lands at Kasumigaura after Siberia flight
Crowds estimated near 250000 greet the Graf Zeppelin at Kasumigaura naval base after a 101 hour Arctic crossing from Friedrichshafen. Commander Eckener plans a Pacific hop to Los Angeles starting at daybreak Thursday, as thousands watch and cheer across Tokio and Yokohama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles W. Vaughn
United Press
Tokio
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Kasumigaura Naval Base
Pacific
Los Angeles
Hugo Eckener
Dr. Eckener
United States
Japan
Siberia
Arctic Circle
Asia
Yokohama
Nippon Dempo
Marunouchi District
Tragic Royal Park Fire Murders Family of Six
A demented husband in Royal Park Michigan killed his wife by throwing naptha and burning her clothes, then died by poison. Four Nielsen children died from asphyxiation after the blaze. The husband set a fire and poisoned himself before the tragedy, leaving surviving relatives in Indianapolis and Denmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Park
Mich
Hans Peter Nielson
Indianapolis
Nielson
Senator Tyson Recovering At Maryland Private Sanitarium
United States Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of Tennessee is improving slowly at Manrisa Manor private sanitarium near Wayne Pa. He has been a patient for the last two weeks suffering from exhaustion caused by overwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Wayne
United States
Lawrence D. Tyson
Tennessee
Manrisa Manor
George F. Phelps
Six Die in Rooming House Fire in Arkansas
A gas stove explosion sparked a blaze at a frame rooming house in Rock Ark on August 19 killing six occupants trapped in an upstairs room. Landlady Mrs E L Darragh escaped with serious burns as the stove exploded near her. The dead are Hiram Evans 21 Samuel J Archer 16 Frank Hartley 70 Martin Capp 65 Dan Strain 60 and Fred Matthews 65.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Preasure
Hiram Evans
Samuel J. Archer
Frank Hartley
Martin Capp
Dan Strain
Fred Matthews
Guardsmen Ordered to Textile Strike Town
Marion, D C August 19 Two companies of North Carolina national guards were en route to keep order among strikers at the Clinchville textile mill. Governor Gardner ordered the troops after Sheriff Adkins requested help when about 400 strikers blocked the mill superintendent from opening for business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Marion
D. C
North Carolina National Guards
Clinchville
O. Max Gardner
Oscar Adkins
T. H. Henderson
Wigginss Hoosier Playboy faces court on multiple charges
Charles Frederick Wig gins known as the Hoosier Playboy is to appear in municipal court this afternoon to answer intoxication driving charges failing to stop after an accident and counts of assault resisting an officer and using profanity. The incident began when he struck Motor Policeman C B Crouch at Sixteenth and Delaware, then fought officers and hotel staff at Fifteenth and Illinois and the Wesley hotel before police brought him to the city hospital and prison. Bondsman Louis Brown signed a $1300 bond for Wig gins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frederick
Chuck) Wiggins
Wiggins
C. B. Crouch
Sixteenth
Delaware
Crouch
Fifteenth
Illinois
H. R. Ward
Hallie Shearer
Wesley Hotel
Sixteenth Street
Capitol Avenue
Stanley W. Barrere
Elzie Carter
Otis Baker
John J. Beatty
Carter
Baker
John Sheehan
Louis Brown
Battler
Ocean Tragedy as Spanish Freighter Ogono Sinks
In a night collision near the Humber River the Spanish freighter Ogono sank in six minutes after striking the British tug King’s Cross. Fifteen of twenty five aboard perish while ten sailors are rescued and one body recovered. Wireless operator Norberto Gutierrez, trapped in the cabin, sent distress calls until death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rimsey
England
Ogono
North Sea
Humber River
King’s Cross
G. Anderson
Norberto Gutierrez
Barcelona
Gutierrez
Juan Lander
Behring patrol to aid Graf Zeppelin over Alaska
Coast guard headquarters directs the Behring Sea patrol in Alaskan waters to assist Graf Zeppelin and the Russian aircraft Land of the Soviets as they fly over the territory. In Burma, Mongok district reports a flawless 1,005 carat sapphire found in a private mine owned by a poor syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Preas
Washington
Coast Guard
Behring Sea Patrol
Alaskan
Graf Zeppelin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Arch Steinel
William Weaver
Graceland Avenue
Sun
Target
Arizona Desert
East Coast
State Reformatory
John Buchanan
Josephine Miller
West Sixteenth Street
George Miller
Jeffersonville
Miller
Lindy
China
Austria
U. S
Field
Dirigible
Imperial Hotel
Eckener
Craft
Saghalin
Lakehurst
Fridrichshafen
Cop
Chuck Wiggins
Ftchen
Edouardo Ugaldo
Tad Ta
Ezequiel Candina
Big
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!