New York Welcomes Kingsford Smith Flying Crew
Captain Charles E. Kingsford Smith and three crew members of the Southern Cross receive New York City medals from Mayor James J. Walker at City Hall after a transatlantic flight. About 10,000 spectators gathered as the aviators arrived, with Sir Ronald Lindsay among the crowd.
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Mayor Walker
Southern Cross Crew
Buited Press
New York
Charles E. Kingsford-Smith
Southern Cross
City Hall
City Hall Park
James J. Walker
the Battery
Broadway
Kingsford-Smith
Everett van Dyke
J. W. Stannage
Capt
J. Patrick Saul
Fifth Avenue
Walker
Roosevelt Field
Ronald Lindsay
United States
Grover Whalen
Kingsford Smith Crew To Meet President Hoover
Captain Charles E. Kingsford-Smith and the Southern Cross crew will be received by President Hoover on Monday. The aircraft will fly in from Roosevelt Field to the White House.
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Tmiteress
Byenerington
Charles E. Kingsford-Smith
Hoover
White House
Roosevelt Field
Restaurateur James Ducherman services set for Monday
Funeral services are set for Monday at 2 PM at Flanner Buchanan for James F. Ducherman 63 Indianapolis restaurateur who died at home from a stroke. Born in Lebanon he came to Indianapolis thirty years ago opening a restaurant at 359 Massachusetts Avenue and remained in business. Survived by his widow Rose D Ducherman. Burial in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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Flanner & Buchanan
James F. Ducherman
Indianapolis
Massachusetts Avenue
Lebanon
Duchieman
Rose D. Duchieman
Crown Hill Cemetery
Church Organist Sued Over Gold Bond Return
A replevin suit filed in superior court alleges Miss Cora Brockway of 1653 North Talbott Street unlawfully holds a $1,200 gold bond left in the estate of Ruth A. Law at All Souls Unitarian church. Will F. Law, widower of the deceased, sues Brockway as he seeks the bond and related property claims.
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Cora Brockway
North Talbott Street
All Souls Unitarian Church
Ruth A. Law
Will F. Law
Brockway
Law
Youth killed in arson plot attempt in Wellsburg area
A youth identified as Sol H. Barnett, 24, Wellsburg Indiana, was killed by police in Killetown Ohio after they discovered him in an alleged plot to fire the home of A Peterson.
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Rea Bwheluetown
Sol H. Barnett
Wellsburg
Ind
A. Peterson
Tommy Fraley Gives Police A Nickel Rain Day
two year old Tommy Fraley wandered from home in Newark New Jersey and sat on a curb disrobing as coins rained down from strangers. A man in a car and other passersby threw nickels and pennies until traffic officer Clark found the boy and returned him to his worried parents at the police station.
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Bu United Preas
Ewark
N. J
Tommy Fraley
Neat
Tommy
Wright and
Brunswick
Clark
City Chosen for Soldiers' Hospital in Indianapolis
Indianapolis was selected as the site for a new 150 bed United States Veterans hospital to be built at the Indiana University Medical Center on West Michigan Street following President Hoover's approval. Construction to begin within thirty days with bids, aiming for occupancy in fall 1931 or spring 1932.
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Indianapolis
United States Veterans’ Hospital
Indiana University Medical
West Michigan Street
Hoover
United States Hospitalization Board
Frank T. Hines
Washington
West
Michigan Street
Indiana University Nurses’ Home
Fall Creek
White River
Burdsal Boulevard
Municipal Gardens
Hospitalization Board
Kokomo
Man Regains Sight After 30 Years in Chicago Story
J. F. Fish a 48 year old Chicagoan who went blind after a 1899 tree accident and later regained sight in his left eye. He recalls his wife reading to him during sunset and says the world looks good though different with familiar flowers and trees unchanged. His right eye may follow later.
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Hicago
J. F. Fish
Ohio
Fish
Northwestern Business College
F. N. Bonine
Niles
Mich
Lightning Blasts Drill Ship John B King Killing 31
Divers in Brockville began raising bodies from the drill ship John B King after it was struck by lightning and wrecked by dynamite explosions. Twenty bodies were recovered immediately. ten more were believed missing. The vessel, 150 feet long with a fifty foot beam, carried a four ton cargo of explosives and vanished in a massive blast that hurled wreckage over 100 feet and shook the coast guard cutter nearby.
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United Preas
Brockville
Ontario
Kingston
John B. King
United States Revenue Cutter Co
G. 211
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Government
Coast Guard
G. A. Clarke
Brooklyn
W. C. Walkerate
Death by own action halts merger trial in steel war
Leroy A. Manchester 47 chief counsel for Youngstown Sheet and Tube shot himself in his office halting the injunction fight over the Sheet and Tube Bethlehem Steel merger. Overwork and worry for his ill daughters were cited as factors as court paused and mourned the sudden death in Youngstown Ohio.
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United Press
Youngstown, CO
Common Pleas Court
Cyrus S. Eaton
David T. Jenkins
Manchester
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel
Jenkins
James A. Campbell
Sheet and Tube
Campbell
Newton D. Baker
Works Board Seeks $898 000 Budget Increase
The board of works budget request for $898,000 was submitted for approval by board clerk Joseph McNamara. The request shows a $21,000 rise from last year including a $13,000 bump for utilities and energy costs amid a noted $37,000 deficit last year. Emmett L. McGinley, Ninth ward committeeman, was appointed a clerk in the assent bureau on Chief Clerk Martin H. Walpo’s recommendation.
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Board of Works’ Department of Administration
Joseph McNamara
Emmett L. McGinley
Ninth Ward
Martin H. Walpo
Negro Saved From Mob At Port Arthur Jail
Police protected Rainey Williams 28 from an angry mob at the Port Arthur city jail after he confessed to attacking eight white women in thirty days. By a ruse he was placed in Fire Chief L C Enrights automobile and driven to Beaumont for safekeeping.
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United Press
Port Arthur
Tex
Rainey Williams
M& That
Williams
L. C. Enright
Beaumont
Mooney and Billings Near Freedom in San Francisco Case
San Francisco June 27 United Press reports that Tom Mooney and Warren Billings may be freed within a month. The governor plans to issue pardons after the state supreme court’s review recommends clemency, with decisions tied to the war era trials and the couple’s long imprisonment.
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United Press
San Francisco
Tom Mooney
Warrer
K. Billings
C. C. Young
Mooney
Billings
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Folsom
Young
Rebels Arm El Paso War Report Stirred City
Reports to the El Paso Post say 300 agrarian rebels were marching from Villa Chamucem to Chihuahua City to seize power while two Chihuahua governors held the state palace. The city was abuzz with the prospect of a dramatic shift as armed groups closed in.
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United Press EL
Paso
Tex
Chihuahua City
Chihuahua
Mexico
el Paso Post
Armer
Villa Chauhtemoc
Mystery Man Bernard E Smith Scores Ten Million Gain
Bernard E Smith known as the mystery man on Wall Street reportedly earned about $10,000,000 in the past month by selling short during the bear market. The report places him as a powerful figure in New York financial circles amid the June market activity.
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Bernard E. Smith
United Press
New York
Wall Street
Merchants petition fare boost for Marion Gas City run
Fifteen Gas City merchants told the service commission that 5 cent fares on the Marion to Gas City Union Traction route drive customers away. They ask raise to 19 cents each way, citing a 6 13 mile distance and lost business as shoppers go to Marion.
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Gas City
These Service Commission
Marion- Gas City
Union Traction Company
Marion
Roth Heads Rotary at International Convention
Almon E. Roth business manager of Stanford University in Palo Alto California was elected president of Rotary International at the close of the organization's twenty fifth anniversary convention He defeated Raymond J Knoeppel a New York corporation lawyer and succeeds M E Newsom whose term ends Roths selection was announced during the meeting
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United P. “ Chic
Almon E. Roth
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Cal
Rotary International
Roth
Rotary
Raymond J. Knoeppel
New York Corporation
M. E. Newsom
Blow to Zion City as three girls punished for gum chewing
Zion City overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva expelled three young women, Lillian, Dorothy, and Mary Baker, after they admitted buying and chewing gum in violation of blue laws. They were discharged from Zion institutions and exiled from the colony.
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Ion City
Ill
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion City
Lillian
Dorothy
Mary Baker
William Bickett
Schroeder Fear Alibi Backed by Science View
Officials questioned Harold Schroeder after he confessed to burning his car and a hitchhiker's body in fear of murder accusations. Science experts, led by Dr. Adler, analyze fear and anxiety as motives, citing Schroeder's attempt to outsmart authorities and his reliance on protection from others.
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Harold Herbert Schroeder
Law
Schroeder
Dr. Adler
Promised Talk Follows Grilling of Harold Schroeder
Harold Herbert Schroeder, jailed in Mobile, Ala., faced a six hour interrogation over a car fire and death near the High School road. Deputies say he admitted to burning the car’s remains and hinted he would speak after consulting his sisters and wife who are due to arrive.
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Harold Herbert Schroeder
High School Road
George Winkler
Mobile
Ala
Ferne Sams
Elkhart
Faye Speight
Clarion
Schroeder
Indianapolis
Winkler
Frank Macy
Cincinnati, _C
Honeymoon Ends in Death Near Portland
Donald Clark 25 from Detroit died after an auto overturned on State Road 67 near Portland. He suffered a fractured skull and died two hours later. Clark had wed in Detroit the previous night and was spending his brief honeymoon with his bride.
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United Press
Portland
Ind
Donald Clark
Detroit
Clark
Insull Refuses Comment on Speech Censorship Claims
Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities magnate, arrived aboard the Mauretania in New York on June 27 and declined to discuss alleged attempts to censor part of Ambassador Frederick Sackett's speech on power companies. The exchange followed media reports linking Insull to the censorship claim.
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United Press
New York
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Frederick Sackett
Mauretania
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Self
ACT
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Josephine
Mary Ann
Works Board
Warren Billings
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Haggard
Charles E. Carll
Royster & Askin Funeral Directors
C. H. Keever
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Clarence Golder
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Winkler Claims
Cincinnati
Orville Wilkerson
Reisner Street
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