St Louis Robin Faces Twelfth Day in Endurance Flight
The St Louis Robin pilots Dale Red Jackson and Forest O Brien continued their record breaking endurance flight at Lambert Field. By 9 17 a m they had logged 267 hours aloft surpassing the previous record by over 19 hours and signaled plans to stay up at least another day. They reported fuel and oil reserves as they entered the twelfth day and thanked a crowd of 50 000 for support.
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Jackson
St, Louis
St. Louis
Red
Forest O'Brine
Compromise Car Strike in Orleans Seems Hopeless
New Orleans July 24 AP With compromise appearing hopeless the street car strike enters its twenty third day as New Orleans Public Service Inc and the International Carmen's Union refuse to budge on open shop and union shop. Strikers gain relief funds as unions pledge five percent of member earnings. union leaders urge Huey P Long to convene a special session to allow city takeover of public utilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
New Orleans Public Service, Inc
International Carmen’s
Huey P. Long
Public Service
City Commission Council
Manchuria Seizure Viewed as War Act and Weather Digest
Manchuria regards seizure of ships as act of war. Weather notes list TENNESSEE generally fair tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. VIRGINIA generally fair tonight and Thursday with light to moderate SW and W winds. Also includes yesterday’s high and low temperatures and rainfall with year-ago comparisons.
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Manchuria
Tennessee
Virginia
Apo
Hoover Plan Aims at Army Expenditure Cuts
Secretary Good announced a rapid study of military spending to trim the budget presented to Congress in December. A commission of general staff officers will conduct the survey to identify cost cuts without harming army efficiency.
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Washington
Good
Congress
War Department
Hoover
United States
Charles P. Summerall
Goor
Carothersville
Delayed Hour Aims to Beat Mississippi River Speed Record
Dr Louis LeRoy flies the speed boat Bogie up the Mississippi from Memphis toward St Louis in a bid to tie the Robert E Lee record for New Orleans to St Louis. After refueling at Caruthersville engines falter and drift, 857 miles covered in 67 hours 16 minutes.
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Memphis
Tenn
Louis Leroy
Mississippi
Robert E. Lee
New Orleans
St. Louis
Dr. Leroy
Caruthersville
Robert FE. Lee
Leroy
Lee
Natchez
Cairo
Here
Driver in High profile car death bound for circuit court
Sam Perry alleged driver of the Ford that killed 12 year old Dan Hite in Highland Park was bound over to the Sullivan county circuit court at the next term on murder charges. The bond was set at 3000 but could not be posted and Perry was jailed in Blountville awaiting trial. Six witnesses testified Perry was drunk and driving the death car, while officers described carrying him from his car to the police car after arrest in Gibsontown. Perry did not testify.
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Sam Perry
Dan Hite
Highland Park
Sullivan County
Napoleon Bond
Perry
Hastile
Blountville
Gibsontown
Young Hite
London
Richard Joshua Reynolds
Norman Birkett
The
Reynolds Tobacco Company
Young Reynolds
Reynolds
Arthur Graham
Winston Salem
N. C
England
Hurley
Oxford
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Bouyer sentenced to electric chair in Alabama murder
In Kilby Prison, Lester Bouyer awaits execution for the July roadside murder of Jack Hines after a two hour trial. Beatrice Clark identified Bouyer as the attacker who clubbed her into unconsciousness. mob threats prompted national guard calls during the tense week in Eufaula. Reynolds trial opens in London with defense arguing sobriety and character in the automobile fatality case.
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Eufaula
Ala
Lester Bouyer
Jack Hines
Alabama
Bouyer
Kilby
Montgomery
Hines
Beatrice Clark
Mrs. McPherson to Head Crusade to the Holy Land
Evangelist Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson will sign a contract with United States Lines to operate the steamship Republic on a 52 day twentieth century crusade to the Holy Land. Accommodations for 750 aboard. Tour begins in New York March 28, 1930, reaching Jerusalem for Easter services. Charter cost set at 276000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Aimee Semple Mcpherson
United States Lines
Republic
Holy Land
New York
Jerusalem
Former Governor Henry Johnston to Run Again in 1930
Former Oklahoma governor Henry Johnston, removed from office earlier this year, announces a 1930 bid for either governor or U.S. senator. He vows to have posterity reevaluate his impeachment and to bring the guilty parties to task, saying he will take his case to the people.
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Newbirk
Okla
Henry 5. Johnston
United States
Kellogg Treaty Takes Effect Renouncing War
Japan deposited instruments of adherence binding 46 nations to renounce war as policy. President Hoover proclaimed the treaty in force at the White House East Room after Ambassador Debuchi and Secretary Stimson posed for photographers at the scene.
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Associated Press
Washington
Japan
State Department
Debuchi
White House
Inter
Hoover
Stimson
Hnnoyev
East Room
United States
Galvin Coolidge
Senate
Lady Astor Called Dirty Liar in Commons Debate
London July 24 Lady Astor born in Virginia and serving Sutton Plymouth faced a tense Commons session last night after a member branded her a dirty liar during a clash over guardians boards. The deputy speaker urged quiet as debate continued with calls to withdraw the unfounded accusation.
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London
Astor
Virginia
Sutton Division
Plymouth
House of Commons
Commons
Boards of Guardians
West Ham Guardians
Jack Jones
Silverton
West Ham
Lady Astor
Dunnivo
Laramie Dog Track Raided Again Amid Injunction
In Cicero at the Laramie dog racing track, a raid by 40 state police followed a recent injunction against lawless arrests. Sixty five track officials and ticket sellers were arrested. patrons were not harmed. Attorney Lustfield and Louis Jacobsen confronted raiders. a hearing is set for August 5 before Judge G Fred Rush.
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Chicago
Laramie
Cicero
al Capone
State Attorney
Joseph Lustfield
Louis Jacobsen
G. Fred Rush
Harry Fisher
John A. Swanson
Robert E. Crowe
Crowe
Swanson
Soviet Seizures Prompt Kellogg Pact Breach Claims
Chinese provincial governments in Manchuria declare that Soviet Russia has begun hostilities by seizing six Chinese vessels and a large barge, dispatching aircraft over Chinese territory, and moving troops. The statements, dated July 22 at Mukden, warn this may breach the Kellogg anti war pact and reflect tensions along the Amur frontier.
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Mukden
Manchuria
China
Russia
Political Council
Liaoning
Kirin
Hei-Loang-Kiange
Nanking
Harbin
Amur
Ussuri
Siberia
Georgia Congressman Leslie Steele Dies After Operation
Representative Leslie J. Steele of Georgia died early today at Garfield Memorial Hospital after an operation for gall stones. He was 60 and had entered hospital two weeks ago. blood transfusions were needed during the lengthy procedure. Steele, of Decatur, first won a seat in Congress in 1926 and was re elected in the last election.
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Washington
CAP
Leslie J. Steele
Georgia
Garfield Memorial Hospital
Decatur
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Carmen
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Rock Island
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Colo
Sand Creek
Eufala
Mrs. McPherson
Crusade
Coolidge and Kellogg
Sy Richard L. Turner
James M. Barrie
He Pover
Herve
Tofura
Chines
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