Ray on strike ultimatums and endurance flights abroad
Aviation embarks on a period of activity as trans Atlantic flights loom and endurance attempts continue despite fog and cloud. Army bomber from Wright Field drops parachute flares over Governor's Island and New York harbor. two planes forced down by weather. Fort Worth endurance flight matches Belgium record while Roosevelt Field refueling effort ends with stabilizer damage. An attempted Wichita refueling record is postponed due to late barograph arrival.
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Associated Press
New York
Wright Field
Dayton
Governor’s Island
New York Harbor
Mili
Us 40
Washington
Bolling Field
Uniontown
Fort Worth
Texas
Roosevelt Field
R. L. Robt
James Kelly
Belgium
Louis Crooy
Victor Groenen
Roosevelt
Wichita
Kan
Owen S. Haughland
Gene Shank
Wife of Trolley Motorman Given Season Transfer
Chicago reports a domestic matter involving James Hardin a street car motorman and William Hayes a conductor. Mrs Hardin allegedly met the car to deliver lunch then talked with Hayes on the rear platform prompting a divorce suit and a possible new marriage. Judge Joseph Sabath ordered a transfer amid the case.
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Chicago
James Hardin
William Hayes
Hayes
Hardin
Joseph Sabath
Weather Fair and Warmer Across Regions
Tennessee reports fair weather with a slight warming trend tonight and Thursday, as cloudiness increases especially in the northeast. Virginia sees fair to mild temperatures, not quite as cool tonight, with warming Thursday and a southerly wind shift. Previously reported highs reached 67 degrees with cooler conditions noted the prior year at the same date. Readings taken daily at 6 pm by C. L. Bunn, U. S. Weather Office.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Water fears rise as Mississippi floods threaten valleys
Memphis May 22 The river and its tributaries push back at flood defenses as engineers battle to hold back water from homes and farms near Hickman Kentucky and Mounds Landing Mississippi. A cushion strategy between old and new levees is tested while memories of 1927 loom, and forecasts warn of rising stages into June with the Red River also expected to rise, flooding thousands of acres in Arkansas.
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Memphis
Mippi
Mississippi
Hickman
Mounds Landing
Miss
Rivers Commission
Mounds
Greenville
Delta
New Orleans
Natchez
Red River
Shreveport
Arkansas
Littleriver
Hempstead
Multer Tounties
Tunney calls heart balm suit a joke in Brioni
Brioni Italy May 22 Gene Tunney former world heavyweight champion dismisses a $500 000 breach of promise suit by Katherine Fogarty ex wife of a Fort Worth plumber as another joke He says he knows nothing of the Connecticut litigation and will have his attorneys handle any action urged by Mrs Fogarty Also reported are Denials from Tunney and the Lauder family and notes of the ongoing Bridgeport filing process May 29 deadline Memorial Day holiday impact.
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Brioni
Italy
Gene Tunney
Katherine King Forgarty
Fort Worth
Breseh
Connecticut
Polly Lauder
Tunney
Europe
Rome
Bringepory
Conn
Michael FP. Ryan
Stamford
Katherine King Fogarty
New York
James J
Gene) Tunney
Misa
Fogarty
Tomarry
Possib Bly
Ryan
Lauder
Michael F. Ryan
Bridgeport
Floyd &. Barbour
George H. Lander
Polly Lander Tunney
Lander
Seven Passengers and Two Pilots Escape From Elko Fire
A tri motor Boeing air mail transport bound for San Francisco developed a left engine failure near Elko Nevada. Flames erupted and the pilot team made a forced landing on the desert at 2000 feet. All seven passengers and both pilots escaped without serious injury as the craft burned. The cause of the motor failure was not determined.
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Elko
Here
San Francisco
Hugh Barker
Barker
Abe Warner
Boeing
Trans Atlantic Air Race Looms From Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach Me May 22 AP The prospect of a trans Atlantic air race grows with Armeno Lotti sponsor arrival to inspect hangar space for Bernard 1914 and three mile beach runway suited for takeoff with full fuel. Pilot Roger Williams tests Green Flash as weather and tide align for Rome departure possibly tomorrow morning, with a 45 to 50 hour expected flight time and officials hopeful of clear skies.
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Old Orchard Beach
Armeno Lotti
Paris
Roger Q. Williams
Rome
Lotti
Harry M. Jones
Joan Assolant
Rene Lefevre
New York
Three Mile Beach
Williams
Lewis Yancey
Atlantis
Guiseppe M. Bellanen
Roosevelt Field
Waits 20 Years to Sell His Car
Hawthorne reports Martin Chaitovich waited forty years to sell his 1906 Pope Hartford touring car. The Smithsonian Institute offered 1500 dollars for the vehicle with bucket seats. Chaitovich notes the car runs as well as fifteen years ago but uses excessive gasoline.
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Hawthorne
Martin Chaitovich
Smithsonian Institute of Washington
Chaitovich
Allies Transmit Views To Schacht
Paris May 22 AP A modified draft report agreed by reparations experts of allied nations and a covering letter outlining Allies views was sent to Dr Hjalmar Schacht head of the German delegation this afternoon. Interest centers on whether the creditor nations report changes the total annuities Germany must pay beyond reservations on German acceptance of Owen D Young figures. If increases are shown German circles expect rejection.
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Paris
Allie
Hjalmar Schacht
Germany
Owen D. Young
Dr. Schacht
German Officers Attached to U.S. Army
Secretary Good authorized Captain Helm Speidel of the German army to join a Langley Field bombardment group for one month. Speidel arrived in the United States with Captain Warlimont for army service school instruction, marking the first German officers attached to the American army since World War I.
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Washington
Helm Speidel
Samy
Langley Field
Speidel
United States
Warlimont
Session program progress facing stumbling block
Washington May 22 The export debenture controversy and the dispute over sugar duties emerged as the main impediments to progress on farm relief and tariff readjustment during the special session. The Senate pressed the census reapportionment bill while the House debated the tariff and farm bill conferences remained deadlocked. Republican leaders hoped to curb general tariff debate and advance amendments as farm bill talks resumed after contested sugar provisions. The Lenroot nomination fallout prompted a rules committee meeting after an executive session vote.
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Washington
Cangre
Senate
House
Joint Conference
Lariff
Ways and Means Committee
McNary
Hoover
Irvine Lenroot
Wisconsin
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Chamber
Lenroot
Cop murdered while seeking band slayers in Chicago
Detective Sergeant Joseph Sullivan, linked to Morgan gang murders and McGurn charges, was shot on a west side street. He helped investigate Roy Martin’s slayings and the ransom case of Philip Blumenthal. Sullivan, 28, single, son of a policeman, died after his head and back were hit by bullets.
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Chicago
Joseph Sullivan
Roy Martin
Jack McGurn
West Side
William Cusack
Sullivan
St. Valentine’s Day
McGurn
Cusack
Seret
Martin
Philip Blumenthal
End to Strike Debated in Elizabethton Mills Standoff
In Elizabethton Tennessee strike leaders insist on reinstatement without discrimination while company officials demand union recognition as the dispute over terms to end the walkout of 5000 workers at American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff continues. Senator Burton Wheeler may address a strikers meeting as picketing and alarming incidents mark the tense scene.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Rayon Mills
Bemberg
American Glanzstoff
William F. Kelley
United Textile Workers of America
Ask Wheeler Talk
Kelly
Burton K. Wheeler
Moontana
Washington
W. ©. Boyd
Christ Episcopal Church Centennial Observed in Nashville
Christ Episcopal Church marks its centennial with Holy Communion at 7 30 am and services at 10 30 am in Nashville. A historical address by Rt Rev Thomas F Gailor headers a day of events from 8 to 5 recep tion at the Parish House and an 7 pm anniversary dinner with toastmaster Bishop James M Maxon and remarks by Rt Rev F F Reese Rt Rev A K Mikell. The celebration recalls early church founders including James Hervey Otey and the 1830 consecration as Tennessee’s first Episcopal church.
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Nashville
Christ Episcopal Church
Thomas F. Gailor
Tennessee
James M. Maxon
F. F. Reese
Georgia
A. K. Mikell
Atlanta
Reese
Mikell
Maxon
James R. Winchester
Arkansas
Wiliams T. Manning
New York
James Hervey Otey
Franklin
Mathew Fontaine
Thirteen year old girl wins U S spelling crown in 5th bee
Virginia Hogan of Omaha Nebraska wins the national spelling bee spelling luxur iance and other tough words to capture the $1000 prize. Finalists include Viola Strabae of Milwaukee Journal and Teru Hayashi of Atlantic City Press.
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Washington
Virginia, Hogan
Omaha
Nebraska
United States
Omaha World-Herald
Virginia
Viola Strabae
The
Milwaukee Journal
Teru Hayashi
Atlantic City Press
Teru
Margaret Carlson
Memphis Press Scimitar
Anna Catherine Green
Louisville Courier Journal
Chapin Fay
Worcester
Massachusetts
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Cleveland
Bufery Boggs
Schacht
U.S
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Los Angeles
Immigration
Holgan
Bemberg and
Glanzstaff
C. E. Miller
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