Winnie Mae Wings Toward Berlin On World Flight
The Winnie Mae carrying Wiley Post and Harold Gatty departed Harbor Grace Newfoundland for a trans Atlantic hop toward Berlin. Weather off Ireland was moderate with fog reducing visibility as the crew planned a Berlin leg of their world flight aiming to beat a 21 day record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Winnie Mae
Ber- Constant
Mors
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Winnie May
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
New York
Berlin
Liberty
Otto Hellig
Holger __ Hobbs
Copenhagen
Rita Nichols
New
York Society
St. John
New Brunswick
Auntie Ocean
Gatty
Okland Post
Siralin
Herlin
Moscow
Gutty
Charles A. Lindbergh
Par
Roosevelt Field
Graf Zepplin
Hey
Post
Gatly
KHRDW
St John Fire Destroys Harbor Front In New Brunswick
A massive waterfront blaze in St John New Brunswick caused an estimated 10 million dollars in damage. Ten families lost homes as the U S Empress burned to the waterline and accountant Norman Hewing is believed dead. Officials plan a round table with the harbor commission board of trade and Canadian Pacific to discuss relief and recovery efforts. The premier sent a message of sympathy and urged a full report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. John
N. B
St John
U. S
W. W. White
Harbor Commission
Board of Trade
Canadian Pacific Railway
R. B. Bennett
White
L D S Folks Go to Temple
The local L D S church lists members traveling to St George for a Temple excursion. Names include Relda Whitney Cleo Whitney Pearl Whitney Elaine Johnson Ruth Hanson Rowena Sprague Vera Dodge Marie Davis Helen Barnant Jack Earl Ira Earl Thomas Stewart Daniel Dotson Harley Beatty Kay Farnsworth Ella Farnsworth Anabell Sprague Andy Beatty Merrie Nay Phyllis Laub Bertha Sprague Edith Walden Janet Farnsworth Ralph Forbes Anita May Lenore Hanson Rosella May Donovan Stewart Mrs LeRoy Whipple Joe Foremaster June Nay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George
Relda
Cleo
Pearl Whitney
Stole Whitney
Elaine Johnson
Ruth Hanson
Rowena Sprague
Vera Dodge
Marie Davis
Helen Barnant
Jack Earl
Ira Earl
Clara Bow Planned Las Vegas Visit With Friends
The It girl Clara Bow, reportedly healthier after Ni-Yada treatment, is expected to visit Las Vegas soon, do some shopping, and then return to Rex Bell's ranch near Searchlight. A famous actor from the east may accompany her. Rex Bell will not join Las Vegas visit as he heads to work on a Universal Pictures project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Bow
Nevada
Rex Bell
Las Vegas
Bettee
Searchlight
Universal
Hoover plan on war debts faces Democratic support
Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi, assured President Hoover of Democratic backing for a one year moratorium on war debts and reparations payments. He emphasized the move is nonpartisan and urged restraint on any tax increases in the next Congress. The article notes discussions with Owen D. Young and outlines the visiting delegation to Boulder City and Las Vegas, with details of the party’s official and invited members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Murphy
U. P
Corres
Washington
Pat Harrison
Hoover
Harrison
Finance Committee
Owen D. Young
Young
Ces
Congress
Treasur
Walker R. Young
Bureau of Reclamation
Elwood Mead
Reclamation Bureau
Boulder City
Frank Murphy
Ohio
Edward T. Taylor
Colorado
Burton L. French
Idaho
W. W. Hastings
Oklahoma
Don B. Colton
Utah
Addison T. Smith
Robert Luce
Massachusetts
William A. Duvall
Interior Department
ighisNorth
Horace M. Albright
National Park Ser
Ely
H. A. Brown
Bureau OF the Budget
F. J. Bailey
Chas. B. Timberlake
R. F. Walter
F. C. Leofbouron
Richard R. Lyman
Robert G. Sproul
University of Caifornia
Edward Hyatt
California
W. B. Matthews
Phil D. Swing
W. E. Evans
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
K. A. Ryersor
Office of Foreign Plant Introduction
Department of Agriculture
Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Gold Coast Limited
Chamber of Commerce
the Meadows
Walker Young
Los Anfieles
Judge Rules Divorce for Pauline Starke in Los Angeles
Pauline Starke, screen actress, wins a divorce from Jack White, film producer, after a superior court judge remarks that marriage is the government’s cornerstone and a husband’s need for affection is essential. The judge calls mental cruelty the greatest form of harm when love is repulsed and dissolves the marriage. A $100,000 community property settlement had been requested, but a settlement was arranged out of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Pauline Starke
Jack White
Superior Court
Stafford
Aia
Starke
Heatwave Drives Crowds to Beaches Across Los Angeles
Los Angeles sweat through a 94 degree day as beaches filled and highways jammed. The record high for June stands at 105, last set in 1880, per the U S weather bureau. County fire wardens battled several brush fires, two of which burned about 500 acres each.
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Los Angeles
U. S. Weather Bureau
Former Political Leader Buried Announced He Is Alive
Garner Iowa June 23 UP John W Smith a wealthy Iowa political leader and 1930 gubernatorial candidate was found bound and incoherent on a highway. His wife had buried a man she believed to be her husband and later learned the body was not his. The recovered man claimed kidnapping by three men, was identified by state fingerprint expert Harold Gese, and the case left many questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garner
Iowa
John W. Smith
Smith
Harold Gese
Gyp cave topic at Harrington lecture in Pasadena
Dr Edwin Carpenter of the University of Arizona told the American Association for the Advancement of Science in session here that a second Milky Way has been found, a galaxy of sixty star clusters about 40 million light years away. M R Harrington of the Southwest Museum Los Angeles spoke on gypsum cave discoveries near Las Vegas Nevada suggesting humans lived in North America at least 10 000 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Edwin Carpenter
University of Arizona
M. R. Harrington
Southwise Museum
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Nev
Girl flier dies as ship splits in Akron crash
Miss Mildred Stinaff, 20, holder of the 1929 unofficial outside loops record for women, was killed when her open cockpit plane power dived after a loop and crashed in a field near Akron municipal airport.
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Akron
U.P
Mildred Stinaff
L. V. F. D. Extinguish Auto Fire at Garage
The fire department was summoned yesterday morning to put out a blazing automobile engine at Cashman's garage. Investigators say a short circuit ignited gasoline in the engine compartment.
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Cashman's Garage
Trial of Cop Starts Today Ardmore Ardmore Oklahoma
Prosecutors and volunteer defense attorneys declared readiness for the trial of William E. Guess former deputy sheriff charged with murdering Mexican students Emilio Cortez Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez. Guess to stand trial alone while Cecil Crosby will not be tried at the opening session. Severance requested and H. H. Brown joined the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
Okla
William E. Guess
Emilio Cortez Rubio
Manuel Garcia Gomez
Guess
Cecil Crosby
J. B. Champion
H. H. Brown
Man Sought for Perjury in Cannon Check Case
Los Angeles June 23 Accused of perjury during Major Richard M Cannon trial Case Eugene R Case former commander of El Monte Military School named by deputy sheriffs for investigation A warrant issued after Bishop Cannon Jr alleged misstatement regarding overdraft and spending On the disputed date Case allegedly not at the Cannon scheme as testified See thousands of similar notes in old press about dismissals after two juries disagreed.
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Los Angeles
Richard M. Cannon
Eugene R. Case
Major Cannon
James M. Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Cannon
Case
el Monte Military School
Magical Machines Put World News In The Age Office
News from around the world arrives in The Age via leased wires from the Southern California Telephone Company. An operator taps a key in New York or Los Angeles and signals flash through electric impulses to the teletype in The Age. In an instant, major league scores and coast league games appear long before other papers.
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Southern California Telephone Company
United Press
New York
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Eighty Five Fire Plugs to Guard City
City bids closed June 30 for Boulder City water and sewer system overhaul tied to dam project. Project includes 20 000 cubic yards overhaul 94 000 linear feet curbs and gutters 46 200 square yards paving 59 600 linear feet trenching water and sewer work 165 sewer connections 85 five inch hydrants 155 curb stops 470 curb stops and meter boxes 10 000 linear feet service pipe. Work begins ten days after notice and must finish per specs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roceed
Aud Verdict Sends to Prison
Six of fifteen Romola Inc former officials convicted of mail fraud in California and Arizona development ventures were sentenced by U S Judge Kililis. Alexander Hursh, former president, got twelve years and a $4200 fine. Others received two to four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Romola, Inc
California
Arizona
United States
John Kiliis
McNeil Island
Alexander Hursh
Killits
H. E. Bowers
Daniel Clark
8. G. Amés
Jack Knowles
F.D. Halmos
Arizona dam highway let to span Kingman Chloride to river
Mohave county Arizona has let a contract for a branch highway to connect Kingman and Chloride with the Colorado River. The Arizona highway will reach the river near Cashman Camp where the Cashman ferry operates. Graveling is planned with completion sixty five days after July 1.
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Mohave County
Arizona
Kingman
Chloride
Col Irado
Cashman Camp
Cashman
Mexican dies in electric chair at Indiana prison
Ignacio Sarragoza, 26, a Mexican national from La Barca Jalisco, was executed in the Indiana state prison after being convicted for the killing of Michigan City policeman Charles Glafcke. He was removed from the death cell at 12:02 am, strapped in the chair at 3, and pronounced dead at 12:10 am, with Rev. F. A. Miller accompanying the death march.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
U.P
Ignacio Sarroza
la Barca
Jali
F. A. Miller
Noted pilot James Doolittle escapes deadly plane failure
Major James Doolittle, testing a speed plane near St Louis, narrowly escaped when the wing broke at 250 mph. He executed a steep climb and parachuted to safety. the aircraft was destroyed. Doolittle, head of Shell Aviation Research, had invited reporters to witness. His ten year old son watched the escape.
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ST Louis
A.P
James Doolittle
America
Doolittle
James Junior
Aviation Research Department
Shell Petroleum Corporation
Two Held for Knife Fray Are Also Freed
Louis Potter and Thurman Schmittou charged with murder were released after the district attorney moved to dismiss the case. J L Harrison and Max Poindexter charged with assault with intent to kill were freed as well. Morrison and Poindexter, facing stabbing charges, were also released after dismissal due to lack of evidence. Sheriff ordered release of all defendants.
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Louis Potter
Thurman Schmittou
J. L. Harrison
Max Poindexter
Potter
Schmittou
J. A. Wilson
Boulder Dam
Boulder City
Las Vegas
Age
Wilson
Harley A. Harmon
Ryan
Potter and
Ham & Taylor
Morrison
Poindexter
Arnold Wasserman
Harmon
Keate
Roger Foley
Vanderbilts Go to Court in Divorce Case
Reno dispatch reports a divorce suit between Cornelius Van derbilt Jr and his wife Mary Weir Vanderbilt with a cross complaint by Mrs Vanderbilt alleging extreme cruelty and a contested estate. Sam Platt, Vanderbilt's attorney, indicated ten days to answer and possible out of court settlement or formal action. The Arno incident is expected to figure prominently in further proceedings.
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Reno
Mary Weir Vander
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
Vanderbilt
Arno
Sam Platt
Platt
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Downtown camp takes Exide agency in town
J Warren Woodard's Down Town Camp has taken over the local agency for the Exide battery Mr Woodard plans to keep a complete stock of batteries on hand and be ready to handle fall battery troubles.
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J. Warren Woodard
Down Town
Exide
Mr. Woodard
Ten Workers Killed In Explosive Plant Blast at Holton Heath
A massive explosion at the Royal Cordite factory Holton Heath, Poole, England, killed at least 10 workers and injured 19. The blast shattered nearby structures, knocked a man from his chair two miles away, and released a sulphuric acid tank. The blast point was the nitro glycerine shed where nitrates were added to explosives.
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Poole
England
Royal Cordite
Holton Heath
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