Fort Worth Plane Pursues Endurance Record Flight
Fort Worth endurance monoplane pilots Rabins and Kelly push toward a world length record as the flight nears 122 hours, with refueling targets at 160 hours 40 minutes. They report upbeat, weather steady, and a note to Meacham Field promising a goof on a late night climax.
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Fort Worth
Ryan
R. L. Robbins
James Kelly
Dix
Rabtins
Kelly
Meacham Field
Austrary
Six Drown In Squall Off Indus Near Hyderabad India
A sudden squall overturned a fleet of small boats on the Indus about 40 miles above Hyderabad. Six people drowned, five others swept downstream and believed drowned. Rescue and search operations were ongoing.
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Rarachy
India
Indus
Hyderabad
Missing Records Force Suspension of City Clerk
North Little Rock Arkansas May 24 a missing records incident from the office of city clerk C M Van Dyke two weeks ago prompted his suspension pending impeachment trial scheduled for June 4 Mayor Ross Lawdon led a special session where the council voted to suspend Van Dyke and Fred Machen was named acting clerk Van Dyke denied involvement calling the proceedings illegal
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North Little Rock
Ark
Improvement District
C. M. van Dyke
Ross Lawdon
van Dyke
Fred Machen
van Dike
Weather Cloudy Report for Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee and Virginia forecast mostly cloudy tonight through Saturday with likely showers in parts. South and northwest winds shift, cooler conditions noted Saturday. Highs and lows not clearly stated. observations reference 6 pm readings and prior day data.
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Tennessee
Virginia
First Death From Levee Break Reported Near Fulton Arkansas
Memphis May 24 A flood tragedy marked the season with the first death from Mississippi Valley levee breaks. Raymond Hays 28 a plantation foreman drowned while trying to rescue horses near a Red River levee at Fulton Arkansas as 4 000 acres flooded. Governor Bilbo pressed Army for tents and blankets while engineers warned a possible break at Mounds Landing Greenville could flood large areas. Continued on page four.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi River
Red River
Fulton
Ark
Raymond Hays
Mississippi Delta
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Mounds Landing
Greenville
Bilbo
Richmond T. Davis
McPherson
Fourth Corps
Davis
John C. H. Lee
Vicksburg
Lee
Red Cross
Soviet Execute Former Aristocrats Tied to Counter Revolution
MOSCOW May 24 AP An official communique reports the execution of three former aristocrats from the imperial and Kerensky era now Soviet officials for alleged counter revolutionary activity. Von Merk once chaired Moscow Kazan Railway, Velichko led the imperial transport department, and Professor Palchinsky was an assistant minister of trade and industry under Kerensky.
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Moscow
Imperial and Kerensky
Foday
von Merk
Moscow-Kazan
Velichko
Imperial Staff
Professor Palchinsky
Congress Faces Busy Session In Washington
Washington May 24 Congress faced a busy day with tariff amendment considerations in the House a census reapportionment bill vote in the Senate and further farm bill talks to break a deadlock over the expert debenture proposal. The Senate aimed to limit debate to the census plan and reapportionment and pressed for a vote before adjournment. Committees from both houses pressed a fourth attempt to reconcile farm bill differences without the debenture provision.
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Washington
House
Senate
Farm Bill Conference
Congress
Tariff Bill Set for House Vote Tuesday Amid Amendments
The Republican House majority plans a 3 p.m. Tuesday vote on the tariff bill after Ways and Means committee amendments. A special rule to limit debate and prioritize committee proposals was approved in conference, with 206 in favor and 24 against. The rule restricts floor changes to schedules not affected by committee amendments.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee
Chief Engineer Sees Mounds Landing Levee Safe
Memphis May 24 AP J E Allen chief engineer of the Mississippi levee board said the Mounds Landing levee would hold the crest of what is believed to be the last rise of spring in the lower Mississippi Valley.
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J. E. Allen
Mississippi Levee Board
Mounds Landing
Mississippi Valley
Students executed for plot against Lithuanian premier
In Kovno on May 24 AP reports a student Vasgius was executed by firing squad at sunrise after confessing to a role in the assassination attempt on Premier Valdemaras. He named accomplices including student Gudelis as the plot’s alleged prime mover. a firearm fusillade near a theatre wounded four in the premier’s party.
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Kovno
Lithuania
Vasgius
Valdemaras
Gudelis
Mme
Waide- Taras
Six year old boy gets fifteen year sentence for manslaughter
In Paintsville Kentucky a six year old, Carl Newton Mahan, was found guilty of manslaughter for killing an eight year old, Cecil Van Hoose, after a quarrel over junk. He received a reform school sentence until age of majority and may return home with his parents pending appeal. The jury acted at defense request, noting law presumes under fourteen is ignorant of wrongdoing.
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Paintsville
Carl Newton Mahan
Carl
Segal
Cecil van Hoose
John Mahan
Four Sided Gun Battle Fatal to All but One
In St Petersburg Florida on May 24 an 80 year old attorney Herman Merrill was killed when he surprised a burglar in his home. Detective Wayne Barry was also killed along with the burglar who was fatally shot by Detective Patrick. Merrill died in hospital after the exchange of gunfire.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Herman Merrill
Wayne Barry
Merrill
Barry
Patrick
Mexico City student riots leave one dead and many wounded
In Mexico City on May 24, a student riot stemming from National University law school protests over monthly exams left one student dead and 22 injured, four seriously. Police and firemen used force to disperse crowds, rousing 23 strike leaders for arrest and extending unrest into the early hours.
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Mexico City
National University Law School
Law School
Medical School
Zeppelin Returns to Base After Emergency Landing
Graf Zeppelin arrives at Fried richshafen at dawn from Cuers France after emergency landing near Gibraltar a week earlier on the attempt to cross the Atlantic. Fifteen of eighteen outward passengers aboard join seven French naval officers and guests of Dr Hugo Eckener. The ship landed at 5 06 am and was secure by 5 30 am. Noted attendees include Sir George Hubert Wilkins and Mrs Mary Pierce of New York.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Cuers
France
Gibraltar
Atlantic
Hugo Eckener
Zeppelin Works
Lake Constance
Earth
Wilkins
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
Mary Pierce
New York
Trans Atlantic Plans Face Weather Delays at Old Orchard
Old Orchard Beach Me May 24 The Green Flash bound for Rome and Armano Lottis Yellow Bird awaiting better Atlantic weather Prospects they fly together for 1000 miles Williams and Yarney hope to depart tomorrow morning Conditions may allow a joint start though not announced The Yellow Bird had been stalled by rain at Roosevelt Field Lotti Assolant and LeFevre changed course to track the Green Flash French fliers expect improved conditions and a Paris start tomorrow Bananas will be the Yellow Birds rations while the American crew will eat chicken sandwiches Lotti arrived from New York about noon
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Old Orchard Beach
Rome
Armano Lotti
Paris
Atlantic
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yarney
Green Flash
Lotti
Jean Assolant
Rene LeFevre
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Old Orchard
New York
103000 Acres Are Under Backwater From Mississippi
The Commercial Appeal reports 103000 acres across Issaquena Sharkey Yazoo and Humphreys counties Miss flooded by backwater from the Mississippi River. Citizens plan to cut red tape and pressure engineers at the Mounds Landing levee near Greenville as officials say no extraordinary measures needed now. In New Orleans, police chief bans cosmetics for officers, citing an incident where a patrolman saw lipstick on a drink stand proprietor and suspended an officer for conduct unbecoming an officer.
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Memphis
Commercial Appeal
Issaquena
Sharkey
Yazoo
Humphreys
Miss
Mounds Landing
Greenville
New Orleans
Theodore Ray
James Reinhardt
Reinhardt
New Scotch Tales In Suit Brought By Wife
Chicago May 24 One result of Mrs Helen Johnsons suit to divorce Arthur Johnson was the court records revealing new Scotch stories He was Scotch he would not let her use the vacuum cleaner fearing rug wear He shut off alarm clocks and took clocks to his mothers room July 4 he did not buy firecrackers but shouted boom around the house and she left Johnson also filed suit charging desertion
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Chicago
Helen Johnson
Arthur Johnson
Johnson
Strife and Fire Mark Johnson City Strike Turmoil
At Johnson City and nearby towns shots were fired near J H McIntyre home and houses burned including a vacant Elizabethton dwelling. Cross fires and a dynamite blast sparked by a quarrel followed by arrests in a strike wave tied to American Glanzstaff and American Bemberg mills. Civil guard tensions rose over a concealed weapons warrant for Howard Turner as 52 strikers face contempt charges.
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Elizabethton
Deen Delook
Valley Forge
Red’ Nave
Howard Turner
National
Turner
Nave
Tater
Roy Turner
Happy Valley
W. D. Ensor
J. M. Moreland
Stoney Creek
Johnson City
Chancery Court
Morrow Returns For Wedding of Lindy and Anne
Dwight W. Morrow United States ambassador to Mexico heads home to attend the wedding of his daughter Anne to Cal Lindbergh. He declines to set a date but says it will occur during his current trip north. He plans to return to Mexico City in July after arriving in Laredo with 280 Mexican society.
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Laredo
Texas
Dwigcht W. Morrow
United States
Mexico
Ewood
N. J
Anne
Cal Charles A. Lindbergh
Morrow
San Antonio
Englewood
Washington
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China
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Tex
Eleanor Wagner
Zeppelin
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Lindy
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