Cattleman Diteman’s Lone Atlantic Flight Ends in Tragedy
Urban F. Diteman Jr. a Montana cattleman, disappeared after leaving Harbour Grace Newfoundland in the open cockpit Golden Hind bound for London. Radio and wire reports found no trace and officials ruled out sightings. a letter to his wife may explain his motive behind the perilous non stop flight.
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Flute Player Amadio Steals Spotlight At Austral Recital
Kansas City critics praised the accompanist's work for Florence Austral but were surprised when John Amadio, not appearing on stage, left his seat to join the applause by blowing shrill staccatos. Amadio is Austral's husband.
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Kansas City
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City Yo Yo Contest Semi Final Winners Named
Winners from five districts were announced after semi finals at the Rex Rivoli Irving Belmont and Ritz theaters. Districts 2 3 4 5 and 6 named Joseph Johnson Richard Dinnger Frank Heching er George Rennick Owen Davidson as district champions. Final contest set for Saturday night with prize money watches and Yo Yo prizes.
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Fayette Street
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Three Die In Wreck Near Walton Kentucky
Three men died and several passengers were injured when Louisville and Nashville passenger train 76 hit a lumber truck near Walton Kentucky. The truck driver John English of Walton was killed along with train crew members Tom Burns 35 and Harry Frazier 45 the engineer and fireman respectively.
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John English
Tom Burns
Harry Frazier
Prowling posse pursues gunman in Bowling Green slayings
In Bowling Green Kentucky a bloodhound aided posse searched for a Negro suspect after George Spurlock 45 oil driller was shot in the head and Ada Price wounded near a parked car. Price remained hospitalized near death as Robert Hardy 19 and his sister Mary reported the pair.
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Detroit Kidnapping Case Ends With Ransom Paid
Five year old Jackie Thompson is returned home after a Sept. 30 kidnapping. Police hold two men and two women as investigators seek others in the alleged gang. The father Henry S. Thompson paid $25,000 in cash and notes. ransom recovered in one suspect’s pocket. The boy, unharmed, had been kept at a home and on a farm but was not mistreated.
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Woodward Avenue
Representative Robert Scholes Dies in Peoria at 63
Peoria reports the death of Robert Scholes 63 a former speaker of the Illinois house of representatives after a three year illness from heart disease.
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Robert Scholes
Illinois House of Representatives
Citywide plea for safe driving amid rising toll
Police Chief Claude Worley leads an intensive campaign urging cautious driving with warnings at filling stations homes theaters and schools. The traffic toll since Jan 1 reached 74 dead 2028 injured with four killed in five days.
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Hoosier Motor Club
Standard Oil Company
Shell Gasoline Company
Indianapolis
Record Stock Exchange Day Breaks 10 Million Share Mark
New York trades set a daily record by 1 30 p m crossing 10 171 900 shares with yearly total 925 192 430 shares surpassing any prior year. Market firm with gains in Steel General Motors General Electric American Telephone Johns Manville Sears Westinghouse and curb stocks, while bond trading also hits a record. Cotton futures rallied and wheat fluctuated.
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Businessman John A. MacDonald Dies At 48
Funeral services set for 2 Friday for John A. MacDonald 48 of 570 East Fall Creek Boulevard Indianapolis representative of Independent Concrete Pipe Company who died Wednesday at home. Survived by widow Marie Peters MacDonald daughter Marianna MacDonald mother Anna MacDonald and two sisters and two brothers in Michigan. Burial Crown Hill cemetery.
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Independent Concrete Pipe Company
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Indianapolis
Michigan
Crown Hill Cemetery
Eleven Homes Wrecked in Michigan City Storm
Eleven beach houses in Michigan City's resort area were swept from their foundations by a Lake Michigan storm. Concrete pavement along the shore was undermined and large gaps opened at Bartlett resort. Boulevard lamps lay on the beach and two homes were reduced to debris. A new $60,000 Sheridan beach sewer line suffered a washout of about three hundred fifty feet.
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Sheridan Beach
Assault on Crown Prince Humbert in Belgian Tomb Scene
An anti-fascist student from Milan attempted to shoot Crown Prince Humbert of Italy during a royal procession to the Unknown Soldier tomb in Brussels. The assailant, Fernando De Rosa, 21, was beaten by a crowd before police detained him. Humbert and Princess Marie Jose escaped unharmed as authorities investigated motives tied to fascism.
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Jury Deliberates Fate of Fall in Bribe Case
Justice William Hitz charged the jury in the Albert B. Fall bribery trial telling them to set aside sympathy. Fall 68 with E L Doheny friend whose $100 000 bribe was alleged to secure 1922 oil leases. Trial began Oct 7 in District of Columbia Supreme Court.
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William Hitz
Albert B. Fall
E. L. Doheny
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District of Columbia Supreme Court
Hitz
Custodian Severely Injured After Skylight Fall at School
John Cahill 55 of 1543 Fletcher Ave Shortridge High School custodian was critically hurt today when he fell fifteen feet through a skylight on the roof. He sustained probable skull fracture and severe facial injuries and was taken to city hospital.
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Wreckage Found as Lake Michigan Ferry Believed Sunk
Reports from Racine and Holland indicate wreckage from the Grand Trunk car ferry Milwaukee found near Wind Point and Grand Haven. Fear grows for the 52 crew members after days of storm and search, with other ships in distress across the Great Lakes.
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Ludington
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Detour
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Maple Court
Magnetic Reef
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Alice Humphrey
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Hoover Special in Near Wreck
Two African American men Ed Wright and Charles W. Burlock were arrested after driving a sedan onto tracks to collide with President Hoover's special train at Snyder Station Indiana The men confessed intent to wreck for insurance but said they did not know Hoover was aboard The train was delayed eighteen minutes while agents questioned them and a railroad detective flagged the train
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Snyder Station
New Albany
Ind
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Charles W. Burlock
Jeffersonville
Secret Service
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Steeplejacks Die After Tank Fall From Ladder
Four steeplejack painters were killed when the steel ladder they stood on collapsed while they were painting the city water tank in Winona Minnesota. The victims were F. L. Taylor 32 of Grinnell Iowa Wayne R. Witzel 24 Wyneet Oklahoma Fred Compton 28 Wintset Iowa and Harry Ellis 27 LaPlata Missouri.
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Laplata
Hourly Temperatures Report Summary
The record shows hourly temperatures with times 6am to noon and readings from 35 to 38 degrees. Data appears fragmentary with unclear final values.
Fire at Consolidated Film Laboratories kills worker in Hollywood
A fire at Consolidated Film Laboratories in Hollywood killed Al Lund and injured six others. Authorities fear more deaths as crews battle smoldering ruins and valuable negatives for major films including The Taming of the Shrew Rio Rita and Hell's Angels. Loss exceeds 6 million dollars.
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Consolidated Film Laboratories
al Lund
Hollywood
Douglas Pairbanks
Mary Pickford
Bebe Daniels
Reassigned revolver linked to Terre Haute suicide
Sherman Walters, 63, killed himself with a revolver. A note tied to the weapon said it should be returned to Martin McCoskey, the man from whom Walters had borrowed it. Authorities cite financial worries as the likely cause of the self inflicted death.
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