Feats Replete in Halliburton 18 Years
MEMPHIS Tenn June 23 UP Somewhere out in the Pacific today is the grave of Richard Halliburton whose Sea Dragon wrecked during a planned Hong Kong to San Francisco crossing. His mother expressed hope he survived the typhoon, while radio messages described gales and hard tack as the crew vanished. Halliburton, Princeton graduate of 1921, famed for global daring, had 18 years of adventurous travel across many lands and feats, chronicled in his books.
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Membuhis
Tenn
Pacific Ocean
Richard Halliburton
America
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Pacific
Halliburton
Wesley Halliburton
Memphis
Richard
S. S
Coolidge
Sea Dragon
Marco Palo
Princeton
Leander
Hellespont
Mount Everest
Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
Hannnibal
Nile
Borneo
Balbod
Darien
Fujiyama
Dr. Mudd
John Wilkes Booth
Malay Peninsula
Khyber Pass
Afghanistan
United States
Mexico
Cortez
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Caucasus Mountains
Siren Rocks
Si Galli
Cylla
Charybdis
Straits of Messina
Nazis Seek to Substantiate Pagan Christian Conflict
Milton Bronner reports from London on Nazi efforts to replace Christian tenets with Germanic paganism led by Alfred Rosenberg. The piece notes scientific defenses claiming Jesus’ Aryan origins, clashes with Rome and Jerusalem, and church persecutions across Germany Italy Spain and Francoist Spain, framing Christianity as defensive across Europe.
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Milton Bronner
London
Germany
Alfred Rosenberg
Adolf Hitler
Jesus
Ernst Bergmann
University of Leipzig
Rome
Jerusalem
Martin Niemoeller
Pius XI
Russia
Italy
Spain
Franco
Europe
Flashes of Life and Local Oddities Across Towns
Reports from New Port Kansas City and Center ville describe a two inch needle found in a woman’s arm after 20 years, injuries from a motorcycle collision leading to fractures and hospital wards, a mayoral salary cut provoking reduced office hours, and a four year old in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in a brief local sketch.
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New Port
Sophia Dietrich
Kansas City
Herbert Hoetling
Freda Voll
General Hospital
Hoefling
Hunter
Centerville
T. McIntire
Yeaton Becomes Dixie After Tung Oil Boom
In Dixie Mississippi Yeaton changes name as railroad officials note a thriving tung oil trade centered on Dixie Tung Oil Development Company. Heat expands auto chassis up to an eighth of an inch, while local youth Ronnie helps at a service station until punished for assisting a truck driver.
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Ronnie
Dixie, Miss
Yeaton, Miss
Yeaton
Dixie Tung Oil Development Company
Dixie
MacMillan set for 18th Arctic expedition from Boothbay Harbor
Commander Donald B. MacMillan sails from Boothbay Harbor with a 12 man crew and nine New England students on his 18th Arctic voyage. They will study glaciers in North Greenland moving 50 to 100 feet daily, plus ornithology botany and geology. Base ship Bowdoin will also visit Labrador and Baffin Land, supporting the Moravian school at Nain with provisions and equipment.
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Boothbay Harbor
Donald B. MacMillan
Greenland
North Greenland
Bowdoin
Labrador
Baffin Land
MacMillan-Moravian
Nain
Labraor
Harold B. Evans
Newton, Mass
Deaths Last Night
Martha Hoke of St Louis a 78 year old pioneer newspaper artist and painter died. Her father Joseph W Hoke invented a chalk plate engraving process. Charles F Hatfield of St Louis 77, former president of the International Advertising Association and 26 years president of the American Community Advertising Association.
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Martha Hoke
ST. Louis
Joseph W. Hoke
Charles F. Hatfield
International Advertising Association
American Community Advertising Associaton
Former News Artist Martha Hoke Dies in St Louis
Martha Hoke aged 78, noted early newspaper artist and painter, died yesterday in St Louis from a heart attack. Her father, Joseph W. Hoke, developed a chalk plate process for direct picture transfer to print. She had been associated with art and newspaper illustration since the early era of journalism.
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ST. Louis
Martha Hoke
Joseph W. Hoke
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