Memorial Ask to honor first U S soldier 70 die
Indiana VFW seeks a $75 000 1929 Legislature appropriation to erect a James Bethel Gresham memorial in Locust Hill cemetery Evansville. Ground has been promised by Mayor Herbert Males. design by W A Murray includes a 60 foot portico shaft and a Rock of Ages sarcophagus with landscaping by Bridgeport nurseries. inscription honors Gresham’s sacrifice in World War I.
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Indiana Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Locust Hill
Evansville
James Bethelham
Wators French Clements
Vaterburgh
Bruce Cooper
Posey
Senate
Arthur G. Gresham
Walter Q. Gresham
Indianapolis
Gresham
Herbert Males
W. A. Murray
Barre
Bridgeport Nurseries
James Bethel Gresham
Flanders
Transcontinental Nonstop Flight Planned From New York
H F Mitchell of Wichita plans a first nonstop round trip New York to San Francisco and back for March 3. He aims to cover the New York Roosevelt Field to San Francisco leg in eighteen hours each way, backed by a Kansas City businessman. Mitchell is nephew of Col William Mitchell and manager of Pacific Southwest Airways.
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New York
San Francisco
H. F. Mitchell
Wichita
Kan
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
Mitchell
Pacific Southwest Airways
Kansas City
Roosevelt Field
Talk Marathon Nears Close At Armory
Twenty nine talkers remain at the Seventy-first street armory as the noun and verb marathon nears its end. Promoter Milton D. Crandall puts up 1000 dollars for the longest talker with Betty Wilson leading a tight group alongside George Palmer Howard Williams and Claude Yeomans. No sleep for the four, but Wilson battles swollen ankles from constant pacing on the small platform.
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United Press
New York
Seventy-first Street Armory
Milton D. Crandall
Betty Wilson
George Palmer
Howard Wiliams
Claude Yeomans
Miss Wilson
Union Leaders Reject Arbitration in Berlin Shipyard Strike
Berlin December 28 trade union leaders rejected the latest arbitration plan in the shipyard strike. Officials expect workers to back the rejection and continue the strike.
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United Press
Berlin
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