French Flyer's Bride Welcomed at Havre
Harve France June 26 With the trans Atlantic airplane Yellow Bird circling overhead and dropping flowers Mme Jean Assolant formerly Pauline Parker American show girl arrived here today aboard the line Ile De France Mrs Assolant was met by her husband who she married a few days before he took off with Armeno Lotti Jr and Rene Leferve in the Yellow Bird from Old Orchard Maine on a trans Atlantic flight that ended at Comillas Spain Lotti was also on hand when the couple was re united and acted as interpreter Assolant speaks only a few words of English and his bride is equally deficient in knowledge of French
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Harve
France
Mme
Jean Assolant
Pauline Parker
Ile de France
Assolant
Armeno Lotti, Jr
Rene Leferve
Old Orchard
Maine
Comillas
Spain
Lotti
Memphis Dry Up Push Expands as 85 Alleged Violators Detained
Mephis Tennessee June 26 federal agents cooperating with police rounded up more than eighty five alleged liquor law violators in 18 hours. Warrants issued for over 100 suspects with hearings at noon before U S Commissioner Lester Brenner. Aliens arrested to be deported and the Jones law invoked where possible, per District Attorney Lindsay Phillips. Arrests include a former policeman and a detective sergeant.
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Mephis
Tenn
Memphis
Dawn
U. S
Lester Brenner
Lindsay Phillips
Seargent
American policy on allied debts unchanged says Hoover aides
Washington reports say no changes in U S policy toward allied debts despite Paris settlement and talks with J P Morgan and Owen D Young. Officials indicate no decision to alter terms and stress support for existing plan while Congress shows no shift toward debt reduction. Senator Watson dismisses Stresemann critique as for domestic audience and reiterates no downward revision.
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Washington
United States
Paris
Hoover
J. P. Morgan
Owen D. Young
Messrs. Morgan and
Young
Europe
Gustave’ Stresemann
Congress
Watson
Indidha
Japanese Kellogg Pact signer Count Uchida resigns
London reports Count Uchida the Japanese signatory to the Kellogg pact resigned as privy councillor after a dispute with fellow council members. Dispatches say he objected to a rider that interpreted the phrase in the names of the respective peoples as conflicting with imperial prerogatives. Uchida long played a major role in Japanese foreign policy and diplomacy.
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London
Count Uchida
Tokio
Uchida
Privy Council
Addison L. Howard 89 Celebrates Birthday, Reunion Planned
Addison L. Howard, a prominent citizen and Civil War veteran, marks his eighty ninth birthday today. The Howard family plans its annual reunion on Sunday at Memorial Park in his honor.
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Addison L. Howard
Eek
Howard
Memorial Park
Monoliths on Lebanon Court House Outline Local Marvel
Residents recall the Lebanon courthouse monoliths as massive limestone pillars mined at Bedford Indiana. Each eighty foot single piece required hand cutting after transport on flatcars. Erecting the thirty five foot high faces and twenty five foot long smaller piers weighed about thirty tons each, marking a monumental local feat.
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Lebanon
Bedford
Indiana
Jury Frees Otis Miller In Embezzlement Case
In Boone Circuit Court a jury acquitted Otis Miller, once a local grocer, on all counts of embezzlement and grand larceny tied to a flour sale before his business bankruptcy. State witness William Ferrey testified, while defense offered no witnesses. Jurors included Armand Akers and George Shoemaker among others.
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Boone Circuit Court
Otis Miller
William Ferrey
Miller
Dodson & Scifres
Rogers & Smith
Ira M. Sharp
John A. Sunderland
Armand Akers
George W. Shoemaker
Ellis Edwards
John H. Swindler
John Herr
James M., Sering
D. E. Bush
George Lintoin
Frank White
Guy Allen
Ed Servies
H. V. Lowe
Wife told him to get out in Boone Circuit Court
Ralph S. Culley filed for divorce from Edna Culley in Boone Circuit Court claiming his wife told him to leave and never come back. They wed in September 1927. His attorney is Ernest R. Stewart.
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Ralph S. Culley
West Elm Street
Boone
Edna Culley
Ernest R. Stewart
Gunman creates pane in church during communion
Chicago report says at Our Lady of Sorrows fifty worshippers panicked as a man with a gun burst into the aisle firing at Rev. Father A. E. Keenan, wounding Richard J. Murphy, then shot himself. The gunman Charles O. Foster died after near the altar rail. two whiskey bottles found on him. Police rushed the wounded to hospital. services resumed.
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Chicago
Our Lady of Sorrows
A. E. Keenan
Richard J. Murphy
Charles O. Foster
Foster
Fine Franksort Youth Operating Auto Without Plate
Frankfort Ind June 26 George Skinner a Frankfort truck driver was arrested yesterday on a charge of operating an auto without the proper license plate.
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Frankfort
Ind
George Skinner
German aviator Neuenhofen sets world altitude record
Berlin reports Willi Neuenhofen flew a Junkers to 41,762 feet, the new world altitude mark. He endured −60 F temperatures with oxygen via rubber tube and nearly lost consciousness on the climb. After a failed first attempt, he regained control, survived, and succeeded on a second try, then glided to a safe landing.
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Berlin
Willi Neuenhofen
Junkers
Bremen
Koehl, Fitzmaurice
Huenefied
Ireland
America
Alttuude
Neuenhofen
Youth Pleads Guilty In Auto Plate Case
A youth arrested by State Motors Policeman Frank McCormick appeared in Justice Court before M. W. Fox and pled guilty. He paid a $1 fine plus costs after admitting he operated a car with only one license plate that had been taken from a neighbor’s vehicle.
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State Motors
Frank McCormick
Justice Court
M. W. Fox
Skinner
Capone Seeks Freedom in Coram Nobis Plea
Al Capone, famed Chicago gangster, seeks reversal of his one year county jail sentence for carrying concealed weapons. Attorneys filed a coram nobis writ with Judge W. Walsh in municipal court, with Congressman Golder and Lemisch as advisers. Capone’s bodyguard Franke Cline, jailed a year, was not named in the petition.
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Philadelphia
Scarface
al’ Capone
Chicago
W. Walsh
Walsh
Capone
Benjamin Golder
Bernard L. Lemisch
Franke Cline
Kingsford Smith Completes First Leg Of Sydney To Derby Flight
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and three colleagues completed the first leg of their Sydney to England flight. They landed at Derby after a 22 hour leg in the tri motored Southern Cross. Derby lies about 2,000 miles northwest of Sydney amid wild country and mountains. The crew had been missing for about fourteen days after their plane was forced down in New South Wales bushland.
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London
Une
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Sydney
Australia
England
Derby
Kingsford
Smith
NewSouth
Wales
Spanish Flyers Still Missing in Atlantic Flight
Madrid reports growing fears for Major Ramon Franco and three companions after a fruitless search between Portugal and the Azores. Ships and aircraft scoured the Atlantic without results. A reported sighting by the steamer Greldon was denied by Captain Pirie who said no wreckage was seen.
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Madrid
Ramon Franco
Portugal
Azores
Greldon
Pirie
Hope Abandoned for Men Trapped in Mine Disaster
London reports on June 26 that hope was abandoned for 45 men trapped in a flooded Kyushis Japan mine. The entombed include a rescue party doomed by sudden underground water rise after descending to aid the workers.
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London
Kyushis
Japan
Tokio
Storm hits Massachusetts injuring six and causing damage
A severe storm in eastern Massachusetts battered the region for about thirty minutes. Six were injured when a truck crashed into a touring car in Leicester. A Brookline resident, Norris Sandberg, 72, died from gas asphyxiation after a lightning strike blew out a room light. An elderly woman, Mrs. Susan Newcomb, 89, and her daughter were trapped by fire but rescued. A Boston woman died from humidity. Fires and beach damage were reported at Nahant.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Leicester
Norris Sandberg
Brookline
Susan Newcomb
Wellesley
Newcomb
Charles Farrington
Nahant Ho- 1
Little Nahant
Sliding scale of tariff rates on sugar proposed
Washington reports the Hoover administration weighing a new sliding scale for sugar tariffs to balance consumer relief with domestic industry protection. Senator Reed Smoot plans a tentative scale from $1.00 to $3.00 per hundred pounds, aiming to reduce the Philippine Cuban differential while ensuring at least a $1 duty remains. Smoot says the plan, to be reviewed by the finance committee, could win presidential approval if aligned with Hoover. Sugar hearings opened this morning before Smoot’s finance subcommittee.
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Washington
Hoover
House
Reed Smoot
Utah
Senate Finance Committee
Smoot
Senate
Philippine
Father closes estate of auto train crash victim
John W. Cross today qualified as administrator to close the estate of his son Carl B. Cross who was killed March 5 when an automobile in which he rode was struck by a Big Four train at the Indianapolis avenue crossing. Three other persons also died in the crash.
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John W. Cross
Carl B. Cross
Indianapolis Avenue
Dawes Confers With MacDonald On Naval Conference
London June 26 Negotiations for a world conference on naval armaments reduction moved forward after a second talks between Premier Ramsay MacDonald and Ambassador Charles G Dawes, with Hugh S Gibson present. MacDonald expressed hope that a definite announcement on conduct location and aims would come soon.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Charles G. Dawes
Hugh S. Gibson
Belgium
Friends’ Meeting House
MacDonald
Ambassador Dawes
Ambassador Gibson
Dawes and Prince Create Banquet Smoke Screen
London reports a dinner scene where General Charles G. Dawes and the Prince of Wales sparked a new trend as attendees lit pipes after the American ambassador and the prince shared pipes. They urged friendly Anglo American relations and honored veterans of the war.
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London
Charles G. Dawes
Great Britaan
Prince of Wales
Empire Service League
Dawes
General Dawes
Prince
Ambassador Dawes
Abdominal Operation Performed at Witham Hospital
Lloyd Sullivan underwent an abdominal operation at Witham hospital today. The procedure was completed without reported complications and he is expected to recover in the coming weeks.
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Lloyd Sullivan
Witham Hospital
Gotham Sky Gardens Rise On City Apartments
New York on June 26 reports a fad of rooftop and terrace gardens atop many towers. Designers mix bronze sculptures pools and tiled pavements with pots and small trees. twelve inches of soil can support rhododendrons and privet while wisteria climbs a wall fifteen stories up. William F. Cutler’s apartment features turquoise walls and orange floor coverings.
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New York
William F. Cutler
Lebanon Battery Prepares Radio and Aerial Exercise
Battery C plans an overnight bivouac at its position near Camp Knox as part of summer training. The exercise will involve radio communications with 113th Observation Squadron planes from Mars Hill airport, with fire control maps, line communications, and a public demonstration of aerial observation and ground firing using ground panels to mark bursts.
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Camp Knox
113Th
Mars Hill
Indianapolis
Battery C Commissioned and Non commissioned Personnel Listed
Battery C personnel are named with commander Claude R. Crooks and lieutenants Bayard Shumate Julius Ryan Buren C. Smith. First sergeant Arthur C. Cline and sergeants Ralph J. Harlan Harry Ludlow Kenneth A. Neidlinger Bowen C. Huckleberry James E. Lewis Cecil G. Woodard. Further details continue on Page Six.
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Claude R. Crooks
Bayard Shumate
Julius Ryan
Buren C. Smith
Arthur C. Cline
Ralph J. Harlan
Harry Ludlow
Kenneth A. Neidlinger
Bowen C. Huckleberry
James E. Lewis
Cecil G. Woodard
Donald W. Davis
Byron K. Fletcher
Thornton W. Koont
Charles M. Platt
Raymond P. Pavey
Lindy and Bride 70 Visit Indiana
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride may spend the night in Indianapolis after a stopover from Columbus on the Transcontinental Air Transport route. President Paul Henderson said Lindbergh would depart Columbus about 3 PM as the couple continues a coast to coast airport inspection.
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Mars Hill
Indianapolis
Ind
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hoosier
Paul Henderson
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc
Columbus
St. Louis
Henderson
Lindbergh
Lindberghs
Giant Ford Monoplane Lands at South Side Park
A Ford tri-motored all metal monoplane, the largest aircraft ever to visit the municipal airport at South Side Park, landed today after a 30 minute flight from Muncie with a gas stop at Anderson. Operated by the Seitz School of Aeronautics of Kansas City, it will stay until tomorrow night and offer excursion flights. The cabin seats fourteen passengers with a pilot and co-pilot. The craft spans 76 feet tip to tip and 87 feet long.
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South Side Park
Muncie
Anderson
Seitz School of Aeronautics of
Kansas City
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Culley
Gunman
FINE
Ward
Gotham
Lindy and Bride
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