Air endurance records and crashes dominate the week end
Fort Worth builders Robins and Kelly set a 172 hour endurance refueling record in a monoplane, landing after a propeller crack. Other flights, including Wichita to Minneapolis and Los Angeles solo attempts, faced weather, while a Yellow Bird seeks Paris and Green Flash heads to Rome. Failures and fatalities occur at Yuma and Stirling. two Australian airmen are found safe after night landing. An altitude mark of 41,000 feet is claimed in Dessau, with a separate 39,140 feet U S record, and a 5,000 kilometer world speed claim by French aviators.
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Fort. ‘Worth
Tex
Reginald. L. Rob‘bins
James Kelly
Wichita
Kans
Haughland
Min-nieapolis
Minn
Herbert A Fahy
Los Angeles
Old Orchard
Paris
Green Flash
Rogert Q. Williams
Lewis A. ‘Yancey
Rome
Lves
Yuma
Ariz
Harvey S. Christofferson
Ernest’ Henderson J
Richard Perry
Helen i Domanski
Joseph Schweitzer
Stirling
Yate” Young
Moir
Owen
Bima
Darwin
Cape’ Don
Queensland
Willy Neunhofer
Dessau
Germany
Anpolo Soucek
U. S. Nl
Weiss
Girier
Mrs Tunney on Road to Recovery Says Doctor
Brioni Italy May 27 AP reports retired boxing champion Gene Tunney’s bride Polly is on the road to recovery after a relapse from fever and a temporary postoperative setback. Dr Arthur Meyer, who operated on Polly for an appendix issue a month ago, said the relapse was temporary and her condition has improved since a Berlin expert’s examination.
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Brioni
Italy
Gene ‘Funney
Polly
Ithi
Arthur
Wolf Meyer
Sher
Miliney
Paritanas
Walt
Berlin
Ludendorff Moves to Block Memoirs Publication
Berlin May 27 AP General Erich Ludendorff announced plans to seek an injunction against the Munich publishing house Drei Masken to stop publication of When I Was My Wife purporting memoirs of his first wife Frau Margarethe Ludendorff. He said the memoirs repeat false statements about his marriage and accuse him of misconduct. The filing cites a 1926 divorce decree as context for the alleged attacks.
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Berlin
Erith Ludendorff
Germany
Tereral
Munich
Drei Masken
Ludendorff
Frau
Margarethe Ludendorff
German Pilot Sets Record Near 41 000 Feet
A German pilot achieved a high altitude milestone approaching 41 000 feet, signaling a new performance limit. The flight tested endurance and aircraft capability, with officials noting the record as a significant aviation benchmark.
Youth falls to death at Belvedere hotel windwing plunge
Baltimore dispatch reports Leigh Mule Marlow, 21, son of G. Thomas A.M., a student from Paducah Kentucky, fell eight stories from a windwing of the Belvedere Hotel after a drinking party. Police described the scene and noted the party's context as part of their inquiry.
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Baltimore
Leigh Mule Marlow
G. Thomas A.M
Belvedere
Paducah
Sudent
James
Keep G O P Majority on Floor by a Novel Plan
Washington May 27 AP reports that Republican leaders use a secret calling order to keep party discipline during tariff bill amendments. They first bring a noncontroversial article, then a distant one, forcing nearly every Republican to stay on the floor as amendments are considered.
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Washington
House
Ottawa men charged with drunken driving after arrest on Saturday
Ralph Bond of Ottawa and Jack Ridge of Ottawa were booked on drunkenness and driving a car while drunk following their arrest by Officer Richard Hughes on Massachusetts street Saturday night. They were ferried to Douglas County jail Monday.
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Ralph
Jack Ridge
Ottawas
Officerichard
Hughes
Massachusetts
Douglas County
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