National Capital Honors Byrd and Navy Explorers
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and fellow South Pole explorers returned to Washington to receive civic praise and a special medal from the National Geographic Society. President Hoover and Navy officials welcomed Byrd home after his expedition supported by navy personnel, with spectators including families and schoolboys greeting the reunion on the White House lawn and at Union Station.
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Washington
Byrd
Hoover
South Pole
White House
Alga
Che Me
Ramo
Byuil
National Geographic Society
Ses Lendiy
New York
Sjevere
Lo Tanl Siple
Box Seaut
Greoup
Eald of Artareltvas
Richard Evelyn Tivrd
Cloover
Whitey Mouse
Admiral Byrd
National Geogeaphic Society
Union Station
Eleanor Bolling Byrd
Ernest L. Jahneke
Gilbert Grosvenor
National Geonorahic Society
John Oliver Lagrove
Society
W. A. Moffers
Ehief
Bureau of Aeronautics
Dahntke
Navy
Antarctica
Four Negroes Executed in Two States for Slayings
In Alabama Kilby prison one week after a resignation three Black men were executed in the first triple electrocution there. Roy Lee Miles Edgar Harris and Jack Bowen were put to death amid disputed innocence claims. In Arkansas Ambrosia Alford, about 80, was executed in the state penitentiary for the 194? murder of Sam Katz, a Camden Russian shoemaker, with his wife Gladys serving a life sentence.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Roy Lee Miles
J. F. Barbaree
Union Springs
Edgar Harris
J. R. Moss
Hugo Postmaster
Jack Bowen
Harris
Moss
Frank
Bowen
Frank Boswell
J. J. Brabham
Barbaree
Miles
Marvis
Annaxing
Little Rock
Ark
Ambrosia Alford
Sam Katz
Camden
Gladys
Crime Clearing House 18 Opened in Chicago
Chicago forms unified crime clearing hub in Loop skyscraper to advance the gangland crackdown. Acting Police Commissioner John N Alcock and top officials including States Attorney John A Swanson and US Attorney Genrke Johnson oversee the operation as 700 of 800 detectives are reassigned to patrols and John Norton is named chief of detectives. A Versailles Grill raid seeks to curb liquor activity amid the drive.
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Chicago
Loop
Chienve
Cook County
John N. Alcock
John A. Swanson
Herman N. Bundesen
United States
Igenrke EB. Q. Johnson
Jake) Lingle
Tribune Rebor
C. F. Rathbun
Tribune
Alcock
Detective Bureau
John Norton
Versailles Grill
Denver Passed in Census Race
Denver, metropolis of the Rockies, saw its census rank fall after a 12 percent population rise to 287,728. It was surpassed by Louisville, Toledo, and Houston in this year’s count, underscoring shifts in urban population. A separate note mentions a House committee examining modernization of three battleships.
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Washington
Denver
Rockies
Louisville
Kentucky
Toledo
Ohio
Houston
Texas
Washington — Hose Committee
Reed Defends Navy Pact Against Johnson Criticism
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, a founder of the London naval treaty, praised the pact on radio and urged ratification. He argued it ends naval construction competition among the three leading powers, gives a seven year pause on battleship building, saves US taxpayers about 400 million dollars, and fosters international friendship while denying any nation plans aggression against the others. He disputed Johnson’s charges that the treaty dictates Britain’s ship choices and warned common sense will lead to ratification.
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Washington
Johnson
Reed
Pennsylvania
United States
Jyaters
London
Tokyo
Great Britain
America
Navy designers plot cruiser carrier hybrid ships
Washington reports plans for a radical hybrid warship combining cruiser and aircraft carrier features. The design envisions a 7,050 to 10,000 ton vessel with a central landing platform, extensive aircraft capacity, and guns fore and aft. Proponents say it could engage in melee and support ships with air power, while debates focus on armor loss versus aviation benefits.
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Washington
Bureau of Aeronautics
Session Closing Illness Tests House as Ad journment Nears
Congress faces a light attendance with several representatives ill and away from the floor. Porter and Wingo recover from critical illness while James leaves hospital but unlikely to return this session. Johnson Underhill Curry and Vincent also move toward possible return as governors house health improves. State funds UT bonds auctioned at premium to Kean Taylor and Co and Fourth and First National Nashville. New York notables toast Byrd at a banquet.
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Washington
House
Porter
Pennsylvania
Wingo
Kansas
Batte
Pittsburgh
James
Michigan
Johnson
Kingis
Underhill
Massachusetts
Curry
California
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Vincent
STATE
Nashville
State Funding Board
University of Tennessee
Kean Taylor and Company
New York
Fourth
First National Company
Weather Fair No Change Across Regions Tennessee Virginia
Tennessee to maintain mostly fair conditions tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Virginia: cloudy tonight with possible showers in central and southern portions, then mostly fair Saturday with moderate southwest winds. High yesterday 93, yesterday’s low 58. no rain on either date. Readings at 6:30 p.m. for preceding 24 hours by C. L. Bunn.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Gypsy King Detained After Missing Three Days
In Chicago on June 20 AP reports Tine Bimbo known as the Gypsy King was missing three days and feared kidnapped by rival gypsies. Police searched night and day and found him in a Lawndale district station cell being held for questioning by state officials. Also June 20 AP notes Maj. Gen. Everson will tour Camp Peay to inspect the Tennessee national guard encampment and discuss the future site of the 105th observation squadron with Memphis and Nashville delegations, with location decisions left to the state.
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Chicago
Bimbo
States Attorney
Nashville
Adj
W. Caswell Boyd
William G. Everson
Militia Bureau
The
War Department
Tennessee
Camp Peay
Tullahoma
Everson
Memphis
105Th Observationn
Schroeder case still a mystery
Mobile Alabama June 20 AP still without word on Harold Schroeder authorities press third attempt to identify a charred body found in Schroeder's burning automobile near Indianapolis Indiana May 21. Investigating the possibility the victim was Anthony Janulewicz of Manticoke Pennsylvania who once lived here deputy prosecutor George W Eggleston says information indicates a Mobile acquaintance of him received a postal card from Janulewicz dated June 6 in Pennsylvania. Tracing Card Eggleston will try to trace the card. Sheriff George L Winkler says he established receipt by Mrs Schroeder of a third letter from her husband dated Nashville Tennessee after his car was found near Indianapolis but she denies knowledge of his present whereabouts. Indiana officers planned to return to Indianapolis Tate today.
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Mobile
Ala
Harold
Herbert Schroeder
Schroeder
Indianapolis
Indiana
Anthony Janulewicz
Manticoke
George W. Eggleston
Marion County
Janulewicz
Pennsylvania
Eggleston
Schroeders
New York State
Tennessee
George L. Winkler
Plane Half Way to Time Record in Endurance Flight
Chicago June 26 The City of Chicago is halfway to the world endurance record with 210 hours achieved at 10 40 oclock. Pilots John and Kenneth Hunter steer the craft aiming to surpass the St Louis Robin which flew 420 hours.
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Chicago
John
Kenneth’ Hunter
St. Louis
Man Wounded Shifts Hunt for Brooklyn Slayings
Brooklyn police intensified a hunt after a man was shot in his car, tying the incident to a Queens killings spree. A second letter claimed seven more victims were to die unless a further document and $39,000 arrived, listing coded initials and a blueprinted plan amid a spread of alleged blackmail.
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Horwitz
Mozynski
Lowley
Woney
W. BR
College Point
Brooklyn
N. Y. CG
New York
Bayside
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