De Autremont Twins Plead Not Guilty in Train Robbery
Ray and Roy De Autremont twin brothers arraigned before a U.S. commissioner in Steubenville Ohio on charges of robbing a mail train in Oregon. Bonds set at 50000 each they await transportation to Columbus then Jacksonville for trial. The case spans Oregon and Ohio with murder charges likely to follow.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Ray and
Roy de Autremont
United States
Oregon
Columbus
Jacksonville
Roy DeAutremont
Ore
Wey
Ray de Autremont
Elmer Goodwin
Hanging Rock
Ray
Eight Years of Wall Street Slogan Wins 1928 Prize
Mrs. Wilbur W. Hubbard of Chestertown Maryland has won the Democratic slogan contest prize for 1928. The winning line urges giving Main Street a chance after eight years of Wall Street. The prize is an etching of Woodrow Wilson's tomb with a Huston Thompson poem.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wall Street
Main Street
Wilbur W. Hubbard
Chestertown
Woman's National Democratic Club
Woodrow Wilson
Huston Thompson
Federal Trade Commission
Lindy Shows He Has Good Dining Room Technique
U S S MEMPHIS June 10 Colonel Lindbergh said he expects to fly the Spirit of St Louis from Washington to New York and perhaps later to St Louis. He deferred reception plans to citizen committees and said the mono plane assembly will begin after Memphis docks Saturday.
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Associated Press
U. S&s. S. Memphis
Lindbergh
St. Louis
Washington
New York
Memphis
Twenty Children Left Fatherless After Wisconsin Shooting
Walter Doering 27 shot and killed his father Frank 62 then Pastor William Wambsganss 56 at Bethlehem Lutheran before turning the gun on himself. Coroner says motive unclear and Doering had recently been released from a state hospital after dipsomania. Twenty children affected including William on parole from the same hospital.
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Associated Press
Sheboygan
Wis
Walter Doering
Doering
Frank Doering
William Wambsganss
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
E. N. Sonneburg
Doering Censer
William
Wambsganss
Death of Aged Recluse Reveals His Wealth Mystery Man of Brooklyn
The mystery man in a Brooklyn factory and tenement district was found dead in a basement. Police believe he died a week ago after neighbors smelled gas and noted daily newspapers piling up. A Lehigh University diploma from 1880 and a mining engineering library marked his background. Relatives survive including two daughters and a brother in New York City. He reportedly had $500000 in foreign bonds yet lived on 80 cents daily.
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Associated Press
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Charles Francis King
Brooklyn
King
Lehigh University
UN Society of Metallurgical
Man O'Connell
Thomas A. King
Dr. King
Charles W. Tiller
West Iuriey
N. Y
Pearl King
Hershey
Andrew Carnegie
Patrolman O'Connell
Count de Witte Denied U S Citizenship in New Orleans
Count William Schurch de Witte, linked to European nobility, had his naturalization petition denied by Judge Burns in New Orleans. He allegedly forged an Ohio bank draft and was arrested in Colorado on perjury grounds. The judge warned he faced arrest for perjury and dismissed the application.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
William Schurch de Witte
Queen Marie
Romania
New York
Burns
Colorado
Ohio
de Witte
New Philadelphia
Americans Flock to Berlin for Dance Honoring Trans Atlantic Fliers
Americans in Germany converge on Berlin for a dinner dance tonight hosted by the American club honoring Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A Levine. A city banquet will present plaques to the aviators before their planned visits to Munich and Vienna and a Prague stop. Chamberlin hopes to visit Rome as part of his European tour with Bellanca.
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Py Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Munich
Vienna
Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Aerial Club of
Chamberlin
Rome
Bellanca
Guiseppe Bellanca
New York
Rotary International Ends Eighteenth Annual Convention
In Ostend Belgium on June 10 the eighteenth annual Rotary International convention adjourned after installation of new officers led by Arthur Sapp of Huntington Indiana. Sapp spoke as Herbert Coates of Montevideo Uruguay highlighted the growth of Rotary in South America noting most countries are represented. He cited cross border friendship gains and hoped for future conventions in South America. Delegates ended with community singing and Sapp and other officials planned visits to foreign clubs to organize new chapters.
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Ostend
Belgium
Rotary International
Arthur Sapp
Huntington
Ind
Herbert Coates
Montevideo
Uruguay
Rotary
South America
Paraguay
Ecuador
Bolivia
Sapp
Rotary Clubs
Greenville Faces Second Mississippi Flood Invasion
Four hundred thousand acres have been re flooded as backwater from the Mississippi River again inundates Greenville Mississippi. Red Cross disaster relief chief Henry M. Baker said relief officials met with Secretary Hoover and reported rising waters affecting planting and truck crops near Cairo Illinois and Cleveland Mississippi. Food distribution was organized for displaced residents at refugee camps in Vicksburg and Cairo while warnings urged not to return home until habitable.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Henry M. Baker
Red Cross
Baker
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Greenville
Miss
Cairo
Ills
Cleveland
Eudora
Ark
Columbus
Vicksburg
Oua Chita River Drops Three Tenths In 24 Hours
After falling two tenths daily for a period the Oua chita river quickened its decline by three tenths in the last 24 hours. Since the flood tide peak the river level has fallen seven feet.
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Ouachita
Hambone's Meditations Frog-Lais and Cain
A humorous fragment by J. P. Alley titled Hambone's Meditations features rural humor with remarks about folks and frogs. The text mocks social pretenses and punchlines about talking animals and local wit.
Flooded Mississippi valley roads prompt federal bridge repair demand
The United States Good Roads association meeting in Savannah calls on the federal government to rebuild the nation’s highway system wrecked by Mississippi valley floods without state aid. It adopts a yearlong work program and a resolution urging federal action on Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and Missouri trunk lines damaged or destroyed.
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Savannah
United States Good Roads Association
Mississippi Valley
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Missing Indian wife linked to drunken party crime
Joe Duncan an Osage man from Pawhuska Oklahoma was found dazed on South Main near the railroad station in Memphis. His wife, a 30 year old Osage, disappeared after a drinking celebration and a guest served as chauffer. Police say money and jewelry worth 2650 were taken and Duncan was drugged. He recalls meeting a stranger in Arkansas and plans to go to Hot Springs.
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Memphis
Joe Duncan
Pawhuska
Okla
South Main Street
Duncan
Arkansas
Grand Central Station
Hot Springs
Oklahoma Line
Fellow in court says girl in love with self not him
In North Bergen New Jersey a male defendant told Recorder Alfred Miles he sent a girl mash notes because he believed she loved him. The judge quipped that no woman is ever in love with a man, adding they only love themselves.
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Lanore Longley
Maywood, IL
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindy
Chicago
North Bergen
N. J
Alfred Miles
Gotham Woman Dares Dangers To Aid Husband
Mrs. A W Foster of New York swam eight miles through waves and undertow to reach the north jetty at Georgetown South Carolina to aid her drifting husband on the yacht Sea Hawk. After her boat capsized she swam to safety, fainted, and walked barefoot to the lighthouse where help was alerted. Fishermen later towed the yacht back to harbor.
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Associated Press
Georgetown
S. C
A. W. Foster
New York
Fosters
Florida
Foster
Police Skeptical Of Actress Doris Williams Story
Hollywood, June 10. Police skeptical of Doris Williams stage and screen extra who claims a gorilla man carved seven K letters on her forehead and body. They found little blood and no sign of a forced entry, uncertain if the story is true but not disproved.
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Associated Press
Hollywood
Cal
Doris Williams
Tella
Soviet executes twenty in new drive
Moscow reports twenty executions as retaliation for open terrorism by monarchist and white guardist elements abroad. An official communique states the collegium of the state political department passed death sentences on June 9 and carried them out.
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Moscow
Russia
State Political Department
British officials react to Moscow execution of 20 anti Soviet suspects
London reports shock at Moscow’s execution of 20 people including alleged informants tied to the British diplomatic mission. Downing Street denies mission ties and stresses no war aims, while hoping trade could continue after rupture of Anglo Soviet relations.
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London
Moscow
Downing Street
Russia
Foreign Office
Man in Memphis Shot in Downtown Affray Near Death
Memphis June 10 Harry Turner 31 newspaper mailer is near death in a city hospital after a midnight affray on a Main Street intersection. C B Lawrence taxi stand worker is jailed awaiting outcomes. Police say Turner and Lawrence exchanged shots over a long marital feud in which Turner had dated the same woman who separated and remarried Lawrence.
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Memphis
Harry Turner
C. B. Lawrence
Turner
Lawrence
Main
Gayse
Turners
Lawrences
Poland Renders Honor to Slain Minister
Warsaw reports high honors for Peter Volkoff as his body is moved from the Soviet legation to a special train to Moscow. Volkoff was shot Tuesday morning by Boris Kowceda a 19 year old Russian student at Vilna high school. the tragedy occurred at the central railway station during a greeting with A P Rosengolz the former charge d affaires in London.
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Warsaw
Poland
Peter Volkoff
Moscow
M. Volkoff
Boris Kowceda
Vilna High School
Central
A. P. Rosengolz
London
Hoover Hearing Reports At N O Sessions Today
New Orleans hosts Secretary Hoover and relief officials for a major flood relief conference. Parish committees will present data on those needing aid and plans to return to self support as rising crests threaten low lands through August. Mississippi River levels fall to New Orleans while Helena shows a rise.
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New Orleans
Mississippi Valley
Hoover
Henry M. Baker
Red Cross
Col. W. H. Sullivan
State Reconstruction Committee
Tensas
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Helena
Ark
Mississippi River Falling South to Cairo
St. Louis reports the Mississippi River is falling today as far south as Cairo Illinois with a stage of 31.7 feet in St. Louis and Cairo at 49.5 feet. The weather bureau forecast continued drops.
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Mississippi
Cairo
Associated Press
ST. Louis
Ill
Weather Bureau
Bobby Jones and Watts Gunn Win in Memphis Match
Bobby Jones and Watts Gunn of Atlanta defeated Emmett Spicer and Chasteen Harris of Memphis two and one in a best ball golf match. It closed the Kiwanis international convention in Memphis yesterday.
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Memphis
Bobby Jones
Watts Gunn
Atlanta
Emmett Spicer
Chasteen Harris
Memphis Carrier Sees Lindbergh Aboard Cruiser
The cruiser Memphis with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh aboard was sighted off Cape Henry Virginia. The ship is to land the aviator at Washington before noon tomorrow after sighting land at 3:15 pm.
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Associated Preas
Cape Henry
Memphis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Washington
Lindbergh Reaches America's Shores Amid Enthusiastic Reception
Charles A. Lindbergh nears Virginia Capes aboard the Memphis as crowds gather in Washington for his homecoming. The destroyer Humphreys ferries news reels and photos from New York, while Lindbergh rests aboard awaiting official greetings from the committee and President Coolidge at the George Washington Monument base.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
U. S
Memphis
Virginia Capes
Aloug
New York
Paris
America
Humphreys
United States
Littidbergh
Hampton Roads
Navy Yard
Lindbergh
President Coolidge
George Washington
Memphis Near Virginia Capes At 22½ Knots Expected At 3:30
Washington June 10 The Memphis was about 80 miles from the Virginia Capes at noon today, traveling at 22.5 knots. The Navy Department predicted she would reach the Capes around 3:30 p.m.
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Capes
Washington
Memphis
Virginia Capes
Navy Department
First contact between Lindbergh escort ships at sea
The destroyer Humphreys met the scout cruiser Memphis at 6:05 a m off the Atlantic, marking the first home contact for Col. Charles A Lindbergh on his New York to Paris flight. The two ships met 250 miles off the coast as part of the escort activities.
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Washington
New York
Memphis
Cherbourg
Virginia Capes
Lindbergh
Chow
Board
Page Six
Associated Press
U. S. S. Memphis
Charles A. Lindburgh
Paris
Humphreys
Large Perth Amboy Fire Causes Half Million In Damage
A blaze at the Perth Amboy dry dock in New Jersey on June 10 caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. A blacksmith and machine shop were destroyed while the administration building suffered only slight damage. Three small boats under repair were saved.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Perth Amboy Dry Dock
Woman Suffragist and Presidential Candidate Dies in England
Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, born Homer Ohio in 1838, once ran for U S president with the Equal Rights Party and led suffrage work in the United States and England. She edited Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly and advocated social reform and U S–England relations.
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United States
Associated Press
Cheltenham
England
Woodhull Martin
The
United
Mrs
Martin
John Biddulph Martin
America
Ohio
Homer
Reuben
Roxanna Claflin
New York
Woodhull and Claflin
Victoria Claflin
Congress
Equal Rights Party
Cassie
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