Kingsford-Smith plan circumnavigation of globe in Southern Cross
Squadron Leader Charles Kingsford-Smith and crew prepare a Wednesday takeoff from Oakland to San Francisco for a nonstop flight completing the Southern Cross round-the-world journey. Kingsford-Smith, tied to engagements with Miss Mary Powell, had just flown Ireland to New York with fuel stops at Harbor Grace Newfoundland. News notes include meet with Mayor Walker and radio conversations with Powell about a September wedding.
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New York
Charles Kingsford-Smith
trans-Atlantic
San Francisco
Globe
Southern Cross
Kingsford-Smith
Oakland
Galif
Pacific
Australia
Hawaii
England
Atlantic
Ireland
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Walker
City Hall
Mary Powell
Melbourne
Schnectady
N.Y
Sydney
General Electric
Miss Powell
Australis Flight Plans and Engagement Talk Amid Atlantic Crossing
The aviator Australis discusses a two to three day stay before returning to England, planning to sell the Southern Greys and not fly back across the Atlantic. He tells his fiancée of a homecoming around August 15 and promises to teach her to fly the ocean. He asks a friend to contact Sydney with love for his parents. He will rejoin his crew in New York after the radio talk.
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Australis
San Francisco
Atlantic
New York
England
Sydney
Ewart van Dyk
J. Patrick Saul
John W. Stannage
Green backs survey plan in principle
St Louis June 28 AP John F Green chair of the St Louis Chamber of Commerce Tax Committee endorsed the Missouri Survey Commission plan in principle while urging changes in funding methods He praised the commission as thorough and efficient and attacked the pay as you go concept and proposed tax on intangible property with revenue aims of 190 million over ten years including 38 million for buildings and schools
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ST. Louis
Missouri Survey Commission
John F. Green
Green
Commission
Endurance Flight Family Affair in Chicago
Irene Hunter prepares food sent to the Nyers endurance team as four brothers pilot and refuel the aircraft. Kenneth L and John Hunter fly the endurance plane while their supply ship tops off fuel from above in the aerial operation.
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Chicago
Irene Hunter
Nyers
Miss Hunter
Juicy Chicken
Kenneth l
John Hunter
Natural gas expansion to Missouri and Midwest regions
Missouri Power and Light plans convert cities from artificial to natural gas, expanding supply from Amarillo with new pipelines and unchanged local employment. Gas offers hotter heat at lower cost, with prices to be filed and rail supply from Kentucky field. Construction along Missouri-Kansas pipeline continues this summer, enabling rapid service in Missouri. Police report Kansas City ho1dup suspect wounded in hotel room and linked kidnapping case involving Roy Ward.
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Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
Amarillo
Texas
Kentucky
Missouri Power & Light Company
Kansas City
Mid-Western
Missouri-Kansas Pipeline Company
Morrisonville
Clinois
Louisiana
Missouri Power& Light Company
Atchison, Kas
Howard Cleaners
George Hendrickson
Roy Ri Ward
Ward
Penh’ Valley’ Park
E. F. Buck
Thurstay
Fred Sweet
Aaron “Bailey
Washington
Prohibition Raids Swing Across Crawford County Kansas
Thirty federal agents led by Major James F. Going raided Crawford County Kansas uncovering 1000 gallons of liquor eight stills and twelve prisoners at dawn The operation follows months of investigation with more arrests anticipated and parallels to seizures in Wichita and Hutchinson Kansas City officials also assisted in arraignments and raids by agents from Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri
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Pittsburgh
Kas
Prohibition
James F. Going
Kansas
Crawford County
Going
Wichita
Hutchinson
United States
C. M. Armour
Fort Scotti
Dan Cowie
United States District Attorney
Topeka
Donald
H. MacIvor
Robert Wells
Spokane Attorney Calls Repeal At State Democratic Convention
Willis E. Mahoney of Spokane argued that continued national prohibition would spur rebellion and urged repeal of the 18th Amendment. He proposed restoring liquor control to the states with federal power limited to interstate transport regulation.
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Centralia
Wash
Willis E. Mahoney
Spokane
Washington State
Mehoney
Judge Faris Considers Kerens Estate Case
Federal Judge Faris weighed Vincent Kerens claim to 1.9 million dollars from his father Richard Kerens estate as briefs remain due two weeks after testimony end. Sisters Gladys Colket and Madelina Kenna contest the award arguing son failed required years of good behavior and sobriety before entitlement.
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ST. Louis
Faris
Vincent Kerens
Richard Kerens
Austria-Hungary
Paris
Tri
Kerens
Los Angeles
Three Cunningham brothers sentenced for life in Oklahoma gun duel
John Manuel and Jeff Cunningham pled guilty to murder in a May 12 gunfight near Duncan that killed Sheriff W A Williams and wounded others. A fourth brother Forrest Cunningham was fatally wounded. cousin Clifford Morelan received ten years. The trio had a history of bank robberies and blamed the slain leader for leadership.
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Duncan
Okla
Jane
John
I. B. Gossett
Dageter
Cunninghams
Hasting
Manitou
Hooker
Oklas
Kiowa
Kas
Clifford Morelan
Jeff Cunningham
Gumson
Colo
Frederick
Oklahoma
Here
Lawton
Cunningham
McAlester
Mahoney Attacks Prohibition At State Republican Convention
Mahoney called the convention plank a subterfuge and condemned the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act as tyranny. He argued you cannot change the people’s will by law and that prohibition sprang from intolerance and corruption and will die by reason.
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Mahoney
No Air Weary Chicago Filers Near Endurance Record
The Hunter brothers of Sparta Illinois push their mono plane City of Chicago toward a new world endurance mark. After 420 hours, delays due to tooth pain and sleep deprivation test pilot Kenneth and John Hunter as Walter Albert Irene monitor from the ground.
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Chicago
Walter
Albert
Irene
Sky Harbor
Kenneth
Fragmentary OCR Note Reflects Irregular Speech
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a 700 hour duration and a motor with ambiguous references to a song and bays. The text appears as disrupted quotes and stray punctuation, lacking clear context or identifiable figures.
Lucky party creates chocolate bounty tale
A quirky anecdote recalls a sister at a party where men chose between kissing the girls or buying them a box of chocolates. The sister returned home with 14 boxes of chocolates, prompting amused commentary in Buen Humor.
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Bewena
Matirifi
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Better Housekeeping
Airway
J. F. Brawley
Monroe Bidg
Missouri Pacific
California Coast
Jefferson City
Otis
Myron EF. Davis
Alber Hunter
Post-Tribune
NEA
Vita City
Pittsburg
Kan
John Manuel
Ity. ‘of
Wminots
Jefferson St
High Street
ERSCO
Kenneth Hunter
American Mutual Automobile
Insurance ‘Co
Legal Reserve Mutual Company
Jefferson City, Mo
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