Illinois Ohio Dispute Over Coal Strike Settlement
President John Lewis denies knowledge of any settlement report. The Chicago Daily Journal claims an agreement to settle the coal strike in Illinois and central western states, with operators to maintain Jacksonville wages. A wage scale conference for Illinois operators and mines is planned in Chicago, as the suspension began April 1.
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John Lewis
Chicago
Chicago Daily Journal Today
Finois
Central Western States
Journal Today
Jacksonville
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
No Settlement Known In Coal Suspension Standoff
INDIANAPOLIS Sept 6 No settlement of the bituminous coal suspension has been made. Headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America have been apprised. Ellis Earles editor of the Mine Workers Journal said today. John L Lewis international president was out of the city.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Ellis 5
Earles
Mine Workers Journal
John L. Lewis
International
Lewis Denies Journal Report on Coal Wage Talks
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, denies a Chicago Journal claim that a settlement in the central competitive field wage controversy has been reached. He says miners and operators will meet in Chicago tomorrow and no agreement has yet been made.
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Lewis
Springfield
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America Today
Chicago Journal
Chicago
Ohio not included in coal settlement plans says official
Ohio officials deny any agreement toward settling the coal strike in Illinois and the central western states. J L Good secretary of the Ohio Coal Bureau and spokesman for Ohio operators said no talks occurred and Ohio miners will continue with their plan to operate on the 1927 wage scale using union or non union labor as available.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Illinois
Chicago Daily Journal
J. L. Good
Ohio Coal Bureau
Junkers Bremen Ready for Atlantic Hop
In Dessau Germany on September 6 the Junkers airplane Bremen was prepared for a potential America hop. Weather reports from Hamburg indicated subsiding heavy western ocean winds, and aviators Herman Koehl Frederick Loose and Baron Gunther Von Huenfeld awaited another forecast before taking off.
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Dessau
Germany
Junkers
Bremen
America
Weather Bureau
Hamburg
Herman Koehl
Frederick Loose
Baron Gunther von Huenfeld
Alleged bandit caught near Valle Crucis Bank heist
Terry Cannon, named as one of two robbers in the Valle Crucis Bank theft, was captured late last night at his father Arthur Cannon’s home just across the Tennessee line in North Carolina. He was brought back to Boone, N. C., today.
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Boone, N. C
Terry Cannon
Valle Crucis
Arthur Cannon
North Carolina Line
Tennessee
Boone
Treasury offers two note issues totaling over half a billion
Treasury announces two issuances of notes and certificates of indebtedness totaling more than 500 million dollars. Theatre world pays tribute to Marcus Loew with a company wide closure for his funeral in Glen Cove New York. Police quell Bristol disturbance as 2000 Ku Klux Klan members parade under guard. Old Glory awaits orders for flight to Rome from Old Orchard Beach Maine.
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Treasury
Theatre World
Marcus Loew
Loew Chain
Glen Cove
N. Y
Bristol
Death Ends Career of Wayne Wheeler Head of Anti Saloon League
Wayne B Wheeler longtime leader of the Anti Saloon League dies at a sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan He was 33 years a prohibition crusader and general counsel for the league His death follows the recent loss of his wife Mrs Wheeler and complications from heart disease tied to kidney trouble He is survived by his son Robert Wayne Wheeler and Dr Howard Hyde Russell the league founder.
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Wayne Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Battle Creek
Mich
Wayne B. Wheeler
Ohio
Prohibition
Armament talk and anti war pact eyed at League meeting
Geneva reports outline a plan for broad armament reductions as the League of Nations open its eighth session. A full dress debate is expected soon with Stresemann to present Germany's disarmament views and Poland proposing a general non aggression pact.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Assembly
U. S
League
Preparatory ‘Disarmament Commission
Stresemann
Germany
Briand
M. Paul Boncour
France
M. Briand
Poland
Six Suspects Arrested for New York Bombing
New York police linked six men to a Brooklyn bomb attack on the supreme court building. Raids yielded bomb making materials, maps of subway lines, and photos of public buildings in New York Washington and Halifax. Mexican Cuban and Puerto Rican workers were detained and federal authorities pursued questioning. The blast caused about 500 dollars in damage.
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New York
Brooklyn
Panama Canal Zone
Halifax
Supreme Court
Sacco
Vanzetti
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Grand Central
Washington
Colon
Canal Zone
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Court House
Weather Aids Transatlantic Flight Hop from Old Orchard
Ideal conditions favored two record attempts toward Windsor England and Rome New York, with Old Glory and Royal Windsor preparing to depart after noon. Pilots Phil Wood and C A Schiller expected to use Scarborough as a refuel point, needing under two hours to replenish nearly 300 gallons of gasoline. Weather across the Atlantic was the best in weeks.
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Old Orchard
Old Glory
Royal Windsor
New York
Rome
Windsor
England
Phil Wood
C. A. Schiller
Scarborough
Atlantic
Preliminary Murder Hearing is Delayed
REIDSVILLE North Carolina September 6 plans for a preliminary hearing for Mrs Alma Petty Gatlin charged with murdering her father R Smith Petty were altered and it is doubtful it will be held Solicitor Allen Gwynn said the hearing may not occur Petty was held by the coroner s jury to the January term without bail Sheriff J F Smith and deputies continued to gather clues pointing to several others possibly involved in disposing of Petty whose body was found last Saturday buried in a cellar of a house where the family once lived
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Reidsville
N. C
Alma Petty Gatlin
R. Smith Petty
Allen Gwynn
Funeral services for Marcus Loew Thursday
New York Sept 6 Marcus Loew 57 founder of a penny arcade that grew into a vast motion picture empire and a nationwide chain of vaudeville theatres died after three years of heart disease Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at his marble home of five million dollars Loew theatres nationwide will close on funeral day Survivors include his widow and twin sons Arthur H and David Loew rose from East Side tenement to heads of Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Loew’s empire He was president of nearly 100 subsidiary motion picture concerns and among the wealthiest in the amusement industry
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New York
Marcus Loew
Loew
Loew Theatres
Nicholas M. Schenck
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation
Arthur H
David
Fortune
David Warfield
Warfield
Courtney plans direct Corunna to New York flight
Courtney, delayed at Corunna Spain, is reported to be arranging a direct nonstop flight to New York City, skipping any stop at the Azores. The move suggests an accelerated travel plan amid bloc advisories.
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Courtney
Corunna
Spain
New York
Azores
Poland Defers Pact Proposal in League Session
WARSAW Poland Sept 6 a reliable source reports the Polish government has definitely decided during the current League of Nations assembly to propose a new general non aggression pact. The cabinet will soon put the proposal in definite form, signaling intent to pursue a formal agreement.
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Warsaw
Poland
League of Nations Assembly
Brock and Schlee Make Another Lap
Calcutta flight update from Spet 6 reports William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee continuing their earth circumnavigation attempt. They arrived Calcutta from Allahabad after 4 hours 40 minutes, adding 485 miles and placing them 8,120 miles from Harbor Grace, where they started August 27. Previous leg Karachi to Allahabad covered 925 miles. Next segment Salcutta to Rangoon Burma covers 665 miles.
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Calcutta
British India
William S. Brock
Edward F. Schlee
Allahabad
Harbor Grace
N. F
Karachi
Karachi City
Salcutta
Rangoon
Burma
Weather outlook Virginia and Tennessee becomes warmer
Virginia fair tonight and Wednesday with slightly warmer temperatures in the north and central areas. Northeast winds shift to southeast and south. Tennessee generally fair tonight, Wednesday partly cloudy with possible local thundershowers and little temperature change. Readings from U S weather station by C L Bunn at 6 p m. daily. High yesterday 93, last year 92. Low yesterday and rainfall data similar to prior year with zero fall.
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Virginia
Tennessee
U. S
C. L. Bunn
Self defense stressed in trial of Goochland physician
Orange Virginia Sept 6 Dr George Reavis Goochland physician faces second trial for killing Gilbert Lacey in his yard on March 2 The defense emphasizes homeowner self defense while seven witnesses testified and more are expected The prosecution argues Lacey arrived alone to bandage wounds after a fall from a horse and that Dr Reavis fired to protect his home with witnesses noting a drunken party prior to the shooting
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Orange
W. Tazewell Buchanan
Commonwealth
Goochland County
George Reavis
Goochland
Gilbert Lacey
Buchanan
Reavis
Trainham
Lacey
Gordon B. Ambler
Richmond
Stuart Robertson
Monoplane Takes Off For Nonstop Rome Flight
Old Glory flag waved as a monoplanes departed from the coast guard station at Popham Beach near Kennebec River. The craft, flying low north east along the Maine coast, began its nonstop journey to Rome at 1:45 p.m. EDT.
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Rome
Bath
Old Glory
Coast Guard
Popham Beach
Kennebeck River
Old Orchard
Maine
Glory monoplane heads for Rome on 4100 mile nonstop flight
Old Orchard Maine September 6 three men launch the 612 Glory on a 4100 mile nonstop flight to Rome. James DeWitt Hill pilots the plane with Lloyd Bertaud relief pilot and Philip Payne Hearst backer as editor and flight manager. Takeoff from Old Orchard pier proceeds about 11 am with favorable weather and a 3500 pound load aimed at European arrival about Thursday noon Italian time.
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Old Orchard
Maine
Rome
James DeWitt Hill
Lloyd Bertaud
Philip Payne
New York
William Randolph Hearst
Old Glory
Old Orchard Pier
Hill
Pine Point
Jones’ Hangar
Roosevelt Field
Brunswick
Europe
French altitude flyer disgraced by record falsifications
Jean Callizo, famed altitude flyer, was disqualified for life and stripped of prior records after the French Aero Club found barograph falsifications in his latest record attempt. The club also seeks to deprive him of the cross of the legion of honor. Sadi Lecointe now holds the French altitude record, while John A. MacReady claims the world record.
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Paris
Jean Callizo
French Aero Club
Aero Club
Legion of Honor
Sadi Lecointe
John A. MacReady
United States Army Air Force
Callizo Accused Of Faked Flight Record In Barograph Plot
French papers allege Callizo used a barograph with a pre plotted invisible ink curve for a 13 000 meter claim. Steam was said to reveal the ink after takeoff. An engineer is accused of inserting a second barograph wing reading showing 4 500 meters. Lieutenant MacCready’s January 29 1926 record stands at 38 704 feet.
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Callizo
Blerio Company
MacCready
Wayne Wheeler dies at Battle Creek
Associated Press reports Wayne B Wheeler general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League dies in Battle Creek Michigan. Other items note Brock and Schlee fly from Allahabad to Calcutta and various aviators plan trans Atlantic routes while a Norwegian steamer sightings and a police shooting in Evansville Indiana are reported with sparse detail.
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Associated Press
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Battle Creek
Mich
Brock and Schlee
Allahabad
India
Calcutta
Tully and
Medcalf
London
Sir John Carling
Harbor Grace
N. F
Washburn
Maine
Woods
Schiller
Old Orchard
Royal Windsor
Craed Negro
Evansville
Indiana
Flashes Of Life and League Of Nations Bites
A New York report notes the steamship Garnetia arriving from Havre with 500 women and 100 men aboard, with passengers describing decks crowded by groups of men. In Geneva the League of Nations assembly sees heated sessions driven by weather, while Alberto Guani becomes Uruguay’s new president in plain blue attire at his inauguration. Gustav Stresemann favors Vermouth and soda.
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Associated Press
New York
Havre
Geneva
Assembly of the League of Nations
Gustav Stresemann
Alberto Guani
Uruguay
Vanderbilts Marquis Visits New York Polo Matches
On Labor Day a Marquis of Blandford, son of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt, arrives among European arrivals to view the New York skyline and the international polo matches, awe striking about 9,000 onlookers.
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New York
Europe
Vanderbilt
Marquis of Blanford
Duke of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Baltimore Teen Swims Chesapeake Bay Record
Emma Calligan, 13, completed a solo 12 mile Chesapeake Bay crossing in 8 hours 52 minutes while a male teammate withdrew midway. This marks another notable achievement for young female swimmers in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Emma Calligan
Chesapeake Bay
Doris Brown sails to victory in birthday yacht race
In Brielle New Jersey Doris Brown aged seven sailed her new birthday present yacht to win an eight mile race as skipper mate and crew of the captain’s gig.
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Brielle
N. J
Doris Brown
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Minnie Townsend
Sam D. Willis
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Henry Townsend
Ethel Wills
Townsend
Henry
Willis
Brock
Schlee
Geo. Reavis
Neighbor
Orange, Va
James Hill
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