Endurance flight records and aviation feats across U S
Across the United States and abroad public attention centers on long lasting flights. Robbins and Kelly set a refueling endurance record of 172 hours 31 minutes 1 second at Fort Worth before landing safely, while Wichita to Minneapolis refueling and other attempts unfold amid weather delays and accidents.
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Associated Press
Sir
United States
Fort Worth
Texas
Reginald L. Robbins
James Kelly
Wichita
Kan
Owen Wraughland
Gene Shank
Minneapolis
Minn
Herbert J. Fahy Oo
Los Angeles
Trans Atlantic Flights Are Put Off Another Day
In Old Orchard Beach Massachusetts on May 27 the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash trans Atlantic flights were postponed due to forecast bad weather. Armino Lotti and Rene Le Fevre planned to fly to Paris and New York while Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey awaited weather updates for a Rome route.
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Old Orchard
Yellow Bird
Paris
Green Flash
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Rome
Old Orchard Beach
Armino Lotti
Rene le Fevre
New York
Jean Assolant
Bitten by Snake, Braves 2nd Bite to Save Own Life
Hartford police report Emmer Johnson, 28, a Hartford Theological Seminary student, was bitten by a snake while walking with a girl. He killed the snake with his shoe to prevent further poison, then took the carcass to the hospital for treatment. Doctors expect recovery barring complications.
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Hartford
Cnn
Emmer Johnson
Hartford Theological Seminary
Johnson
Weather outlook in Tennessee and Virginia
Cloudy to overcast conditions with chances of local showers and thunderstorms across Tennessee tonight and Tuesday, little temperature change. Virginia expects generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday with a few scattered afternoon thundershowers in extreme west and north, light southerly winds, and similar highs. Yesterday’s high reached 85, low 59. one year ago, high 60s to 80s range and rainfall 46. Readings reported by C L Bunn for the 24 hours.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Mallon Refuses Disclose Source Of Lenroot Leak
Paul Mallon of United Press refused to name his source for a roll call on Senate executive session votes and Judge Lenroot's confirmation. The incident prompted Vice President Curtis to bar press association representatives from the Senate floor after the rules committee had denied the privilege. Mallon defended public welfare by arguing news should be rapid and accessible, despite committee authority.
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Washington
Paul Mallon
United Press
Senate
Trvine Lenroot
Court of Appeals
Senate Rules Committee
Mallon
Curtis
Press Association
United Press Association
Split Propeller Forces Fort Worth Plane to Land
Fort Worth Texas May 27 Two pilots R L Robbins and James Kelly set a world endurance mark aloft for 172 hours 40 minutes and one second before a split propeller forced the single motor airplane to descend. Robbins with six years flying experience and Kelly a newer flyer shared credit for the remarkable flight in good and bad weather.
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Fort Worth
Texas
R. L. Robbins
James Kelly
Wright Brothers
Kittyhawk
N. Y
Army
Robbins
Kelly
Texas Air Transport Corporation
Charge O'Neill Stole Play Plot, New Suit Filed
New York dramatist Georges Lewys files a 1,250,000 suit in U S district court alleging that Eugene O'Neill stole the plot of a play from her privately printed novel The Temple of Passas The Theatre Guild and publishers Horace Liveright are named in the action.
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New York
Buren
O'Neill
Passas
Georges Lewys
New York Today
United States District Court
The
Theatre Guild
Bori
Court Rules Pocket Vetoes Effective In Some Cases
The Supreme Court ruled pocket vetoes can kill legislation sent near adjournment even if it is not the final session of Congress. The Muscle Shoals bill was cited, with the court stating Congress must be in session when the president returns disapproved bills.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Conress
Wheat futures break below $1 in 15 year low
In New York on May 27 the wheat futures drop under $1 a bushel marking the lowest level in 15 years, triggering heavy selling across the stock market. General Motors Montgomery Ward Canadian Pacific Northern Pacific St Paul fall to new yearly lows as credit fears loom and money prices jump.
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Stanler W
Northwest
Western Railroad
Presbyterian Assembly to Aid Law Enforcement Crisis Message
The 141st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America urged action to enforce state and national laws while maintaining church state separation. It proposed a special commission to influence moral standards, citing President Hoover’s New York speech as a grave nation in crisis and a call to duty.
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United States
141St
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
General Council
Paul
Minn
May
Te Committee
Hoover
Associated Press
New York
Debenture plan deadlock blocks Congress recess
Washington May 27 Congressional leaders eyed an early summer break but feared delays from a Senate House farm bill stalemate over the expert debenture plan. The House pressed a tariff bill vote at 8 pm with Ways and Means control. Garner of Texas hoped to recommit to curb flexible rates. Senate to repeal that provision.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Garner
Texas
Congress
Lackey
Convict Canter Found Guilty of Libel Against Fuller
Hoston May 27 A Suffolk superior court jury returns a sealed verdict convicting Harry J Canter of crimin al libel against former Governor Alvan T Fuller over a placard near the state house calling the ex governor murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti Judge Robert Raymond postpones sentence to Wednesday Arthur Carfield Hays of the ACLU defended Canter arguing the placard was opinion not accusation and protected free speech.
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Canter
Day in Congress Amid Tariff and Census Debates
The House weighs a tariff bill amendment while the Senate debates the census reapportionment measure. Senate committees probe the Lenroot roll call source and textile labor inquiry. The interstate commerce panel resumes FCC measure hearings and the judiciary panel weighs a report on withdrawing the president’s oil Janda.
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House
Senate
Senate Rules Committee
Senate Manufacturers Committee
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Senate Judiciary Committee
Reversal of Vote Calls for Senate Body Stage Probe
The Senate manufacturers committee reversed itself and split six to six on whether to probe the textile industry itself or permit the Federal Trade Commission to conduct the inquiry. The full Senate must approve before any inquiry starts. Key members listed along party lines.
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Senate
Manufacturers Committee
Washington
Senate Manufacturers Committee
Federal Trade Commission
la ¥Ollett
Follette
Wisconsin
McNary
Oregon
Hatfield
West Virginia
Tyson
Tennessee
Wheeler
Montana
Sheppard
Texas
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Deaeon
Ilinois
Hale
Maine
Goldsborough
Maryland
Smith
South Carolina
LaFollette
Communists Blamed in Tennessee Mill Strike Return
In Elizabethton Tennessee workers who walked out on April 15 refused to register for reemployment at Glanzstoff and American Bemberg mills. T. Perry named registrar faced protest over alleged abduction of AFL official Edward F. McGrady. McGrady charged four Communists arrived to aid the strikers as mill president Dr. Arthur Mothwurf sought to avert renewal of the walkout.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
T. Perry
Glanzstoff
Bemberg
Wat
Perry
Edward F. McGrady
William F. Green
American Federation of Labor
McGrady
Arthur “Mothwurf
Russian Aviators Plan Moscow to New York Flight
Moscow announces a proposed August flight from Moscow to New York via Alaska by the Land of Soviets. Aviators Shestakov Bolotov Sterlint sov and mechanic Fufaev will pilot the 12,500 mile trip with stops at Novosibirsk and Kharbarovsk before reaching Sitka Seattle San Francisco then Chicago and New York.
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Moscow
New York
Alaska
Soviet Airway Commission
Airway Commission
Soviet Union
Land of Soviets
Shestakov
Bolotov
Sterlintsov
Fufaev
Novicibirsk
Ural
Klasbarovsk
Amur
Kharbarovsk
Sitka
Seattle
San Francisco
Chicago
Jury Likely to Get Pharr Case in Federal Court
In Memphis on May 27, 1941 the trial of William R. Pharr resumed in federal court amid personal bereavement for prosecutor Nugent L. Dodds. Defense expected to finish testimony by noon and send case to the jury late today. Pharr faces charges of aiding Beauchamp in misapplying about 600000 of Union and Planters Bank funds in 1923–24 through drafts and low grade cotton credits. Beauchamp previously received a five year sentence, served 21 months, and was paroled. another cotton man tied to Beauchamp, John Le Reyensees, is serving four years.
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Memphis
William R. Pharr
Nugent L. Dodds
Francis Powell
Department of Justice
Herbert J. Harper
U. S
Pharr
J. Ramsey Beauchamp
Old Union and Planters Bank and
John le Reyensees
Beauchamp
Atiewi
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Shank
Yuma Ariz
Harvey
Christofferson
Trans Atlantic
Lenroot
Rules Committee
United Press Representative
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King
Home Castle
George
Mary
England
Bognor
Windsor Castle
Beauty
Margaret Hawley
Oklahoma A
M. College
Stillwater
Koror
Presbyterian Assembly
Fuller
Paul Berlenbach
Boxer
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Alsbert Jay Robinson
San Quentin
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