Valve Changes in Shenandoah Cut Safety Margin
The Shenandoah airship valve system changes were approved by the U S Bureau of Aeronautics as an experimental modification. The change was warned as not as foolproof as the original and required strict precautions in flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
O.K
Lakehurst
N. J
Bureau of Aeronautics
Washington
Lanspin
Lansdowner
Bureau
E. S. Land
Construction Corps Engineers
H. C. Richardson
Construction Corps
Comander Richardson
Lansdowne
Land
George W. Steele
Fisherman finds body of officer after sub S-51 incident
The body of an officer believed to have been washed overboard from the submarine S-51 was recovered by a fisherman at Kenyon's wharf in Stonington, Connecticut. Stonington officials notified the U S submarine base and an ambulance conveyed the body to New London. Identification was not established at Stonington.
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New London
Conn
A. P
Kenyon’s Wharf
Stonington
Dollar Rises on Debt Settlement News in Paris
The dollar moved up after Washington floated a temporary debt settlement offer. It rose from 21.10 to 21.30 francs at the opening of the Paris Bourse.
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Paris
A. P
Washington
Auto Laden With Booty Seized By Sheriff’s Men
A pursuit from Grayson to near Monroe ended with sheriff deputies capturing a Buick loaded with suspected stolen goods and two youths escaping into heavy weeds. Officers recovered two shotguns, shells, clothing, tools, and trinkets. the Texas licensed car was seized. The two youths, one about 18 and the other around 15, fled. descriptions differed between sheriffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson
Monroe
J. E. McClanahan
Caldwell Parish
McClanahan
Columbia
Coverdale
Roper
Pettit
Columbia Road
Riverview
Texas
Louisiana Electric to Build Three High Tension Lines
Louisiana Electric company of Lake Charles, a Stone and Webster unit, will begin three high tension lines in south Louisiana. Two lines run Lake Charles to Jennings with 66 000 and 33 000 volt capacities. an eastern branch from Jennings adds 33 000 volts. Total project cost is about 1 100 000 dollars. Work to start by October 15 with pole surveys completed. lines will serve farms east of Calcasieu Parish and the Jennings oil field.
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Lake Charles
A. P
Louisiana Electric Company
Stone and Webster Company
Boston
Mass
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Jennings
Calcasieu
Powder Threat Found At White-Neighborhood House
A jar of gunpowder and a note warning that death will follow a black student fraternity move in were found in a South Nashville house to be used by a negro college fraternity. Police recovered the items and did not confirm whether the move would be halted as white residents were told to stay in their place.
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Nashville
A. P
Pirate Fans Battle to Secure World Series Seats at Forbes Field
Two Pittsburgh fans sought World Series seats by unusual means. One mailed a $2.65 blue print map of Forbes Field showing the exact seat. The other sent 77 rain checks insisting on the seat he had occupied 77 times at $1 each, claiming squatters rights.
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Pittsburgh
A. P
Forbes Field
Mitchell Ordered to Report as Army Investigates Conduct
War Department orders Colonel William Mitchell to report to the inspector general on Monday to resume disciplinary proceedings. The air board had concluded its examination and asked Mitchell to prepare data by Monday. Commander John Rodgers disputed Mitchell's charges, defending Navy arrangements for the PN 9 flight and noting tests showed the planes capable of flight.
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Washington
A. P
William Mitchell
War Department
Inspector General of
Army
Mitchell
Air Board
Army Air Service
Bat
American Legion
Omaha
Col. Mitchell
John Rodgers
Rodgers
Navy
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
San Diego
Bureau of Aeronautics
Aircraft Board
Department of National Defense
Planes in West Declared Useless by Army Official
Major D C Emmons, acting commander of the ninth army corps area airplane base, condemns air combat equipment as useless for combat and unfit for service. He favors a unified air service and cites only fifteen regular combat planes and ten junior planes in the region, with seaplanes as the main defense west of San Antonio, Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
A. P
D. C. Emmons
Ninth Army Corps Area
Patrick
Emmons
San Antonio
Texas
Chinese Telegraphers Strike Ends in Shanghai
The nationwide telegraphers strike that crippled communications for several days has ended in Shanghai. Leaders announced an agreement ending the walkout and resuming normal service.
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Shanghai
A. P
Bandit Tries Train Theft Twice Ends Fatally
Omaha reports that R A Porter a 22 year UP railroad employee was shot by Aubrey S Kentworthy a UP special agent after Porter robbed passengers in an observation car and two Pullmans. Porter died later. The loot including 2000 in cash watches and jewelry was returned to passengers. Porter's home was in Council Bluffs Iowa.
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Omaha
A. P
R. A. Porter
Union Pacific Railroad
Aubrey S. Kentworthy
Porter
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Keworthy
Kenworth
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Loyola University Leaves Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Loyola University of New Orleans resigned from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association after eligibility questions about several football players, prompting withdrawal after one game of the 1925 season. Dr. J. W. Provine announced the move from Jackson, Mississippi, noting Loyola had been admitted at the previous annual meeting.
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Jackson
Miss
A. P
Loyola University of New Orleans
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
J. W. Provine
Loyola
New Orleans
Heflin Urges Report On Abandoned Cotton Area
Senator J Thomas Heflin asks Secretary Jardine to publish by October 5 the abandoned cotton acreage. He cites estimates of over five million acres and criticizes the Crop Estimating Board for delaying the data, arguing for public disclosure nationwide.
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Heflin
Birmingham
A. P
J. Thomas Heflin Tolay
Jardine
Department of Agriculture
United States
Washington
Prominent Chattanooga Leader C. E. James Dies
Chattanooga October 2 A P C E James master builder and leading business man dies after weeks of illness. He originated the Hales Bar hydro electric plant founded Signal Mountain development and served as president of the Tennessee Alabama and Georgia railroad. He built the line and later repurchased reorganized and made it pay.
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Chattanooga
A. P
C. E. James
James
Hales Bar
Signal Mountain Development
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad
Russell Sage
Fifty Six Rum Runners Captured on Land Barge
Four state troopers and a private investigator captured fifty six rum runners and a half million dollar cargo of liquor near Bridgeboro on Rancocas Creek. The barge with six trucks four cars and the vessel was towed up the Delaware river past Philadelphia. Prisoners were brought to Burlington jail after five captors refused a $75,000 bribe and foiled an arson attempt.
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Burlington
N. J
A. P
Bridgeboro
Rancocas Creek
Hunter Interests Begin Deep Test Rig Up Near Monroe
The Hunter interests announce a new oil test near Monroe with a rig set up today. The derrick is completed for a test about eight miles upriver, aiming to reach the deepest Ouachita parish wells. The site sits in northwest section 32 19 3E about six miles from the Dixon Frue test. The group holds 11 009 acres in Ouachita and Union parishes and plans substantial drilling if needed.
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Monroe
Hunter Interests
Ouachita Parish
Ouachita
Union Parishes
Recommendations to cut federal inheritance taxes
The National Tax Association committee led by William Bailey proposes limiting the inheritance tax to revenue needs only and not wealth redistribution. It urges immediate federal withdrawal from the inheritance tax unless Congress requires temporary retention for revenue or uniform state rates, up to six years.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
A. P
National Committee In
National Tax Association
Coolidge
William Bailey
Bailey
Utah State Board of Equalization and Assessment
Congress
Inter-Parliamentary Union session limits debate
Washington October 2 delegates to the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference were urged to confine discussion to items on the official agenda. The session in the House chamber addressed Pan American relations with a Swanson paper and planned a White House reception with President Coolidge. Future talks on European affairs and armaments were allotted time for today with over a dozen speakers.
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Washington
A. P
Inter-parliamentary Union Conference
House of Representatives
Claude A. Swanson
Virginia
Rece
Coolidge
White House
Win
Twenty Death Toll of Storm in Tokio Area
Further details of the great rainstorm report twenty killed in Yokohama and six in Yokosuka by landslides. Fifty houses razed, railroads washed away, and flood damage across the region. In Tokio 42,000 houses partly submerged with no other serious damage.
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Tokio
A. T
Yokohama
Yokosuka
Parish high to add two new units at Ouachita
Ouachita parish school board approved plans and authorized construction of two additional high school units at Talamaque street forming a hollow square with unit one. The $120000 project will add 700 seating, science labs, and cooking facilities by September 1926, with bids to be advertised soon.
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Ouachita Parish
Talamaque_ street
T. Co. Brown
Grand and
Bry Streets
Messrs
Renwick
Smith, Mitchell and Trousdale
J. W. Smith
Negro Attacker To Be Electrocuted In January
Formal records show James Henry, 37, a Negro, to be moved to Ohio state penitentiary for execution by electrocution on January 9 for the slaying of 14 year old Edna Boswell near Addyston Ohio. He was convicted on three counts murder robbery and criminal attack and will be under extra guard in the county jail until transfer to Columbus.
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Cincinnati
James Henry
Ohio State Penitentiary
Edna Boswell
Addyston
Ohio
Henry
Columbus
Broadway Actress Demands Return of Husband Funds
New York, Oct 2. Actress Ann Murdock sues husband Jarry Powers for 150000 in securities given before marriage to finance his business. The suit claims the couple live apart and alleges Powers and partners at Greer Crane Webb refuse to return the securities deeming them part of the estate from producer Alf Hayman who left 415000.
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New York
A. P
Ann Murdock
Alf Hayman
Jarry Powers
Powers
Mrdock
Greer, Crane and Webb
Three Former Champs in St Louis Semi Finals Meet
Three former champions and a newcomer reach the semifinals of the women's national golf tournament in St Louis. Participants include Mrs Alex Stirling Fraser of Ottawa three time titlist Louis Fordyce of Youngstown new to finals and Glenna Collett of Providence former American and now French champion with Edith Curmings of Chicago former national and western champion.
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ST. Louis
BY. A. P
Alex Stirling Frazer
Ottawa
Canada
Louis Fordyce
Youngstown
Ohio
Glenna Collett
Providence
R. I
Edith Curmings
Chicago
River Stage Readings for Mississippi and Ouachita Regions
River stage figures show Memphis 3.7 with a rise of 1.1, Vicksburg 7.0 up 0.8, New Orleans 1.0 up 0.1, Shreveport 12.1 up 0.8, Alexandria 7.9 down 0.6, Ouachita Camden 8.4 up 0.9, Monroe 14.0 up 0.2.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Red
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ben Turpin Ends Long Vigil as Wife Dies
Hollywood mourns Carrie Lemieux Turpin wife of comedian Ben Turpin who cared for her after she fell ill last December. They wed in Chicago about 18 years ago and were brought to Hollywood by Charlie Chaplin ten years ago. Services set for tomorrow with burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
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Hollywood
Calif
A. P
Ben Turpin
Carrie Lemieux Turpin
Turpins
Chicago
Spanish Army Enters Ajdir Amid Moroccan Campaign Victory
Madrid reports Spanish troops entered Ajdir, capital of Abd-El-Krim, with official dispatches confirming the triumph. Crowds cheered in the capital as King Alfonso appeared at the palace window and telegrams of congratulations were sent to General Primo de Rivera, head of the directorate, for the Moroccan campaign.
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Madrid
A. P
Ajdir
Abd-El-Krim
Morocco
Alfonso
Primo de Rivera
Books of Crave Robber Probed by N Y Officers
Binghamton N Y Oct 2 The Mobinee Brokerage company records are under scrutiny as Fred G Beale president and missing since last Friday faces indictment as a grave robber. Robert S Parsons treasurer says accounts are in a serious condition and an accountant has been called to audit the books.
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Binghamton
N. Y
A. P
Mobinee
Fred G. Beale
Beale
Robert S. Parsons
Arrest Rich Chicagoan on Counterfeit Charge
CHICAGO Oct. 2. Charged with directing a counterfeiting ring that raised $1 bills to $20 gold certificates and passed over $200000 of them, Mel chair Armato wealthy treasurer of a can company was arrested by federal agents. A lengthy probe led to the arrest after Armato’s photo surfaced in a raid on a studio with counterfeit whiskey labels and stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
A. P
Melchair Armato
Armato
Irish delegate bid denied for Inter-parliamentary Union
Washington October 2 Miss Mary MacSweeney a member of the Irish republican party had her application for admission as a delegate to the Inter-parliamentary Union conference denied today by Baron Theodore Adelsward president of the union.
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Washington
A. P
Mary MacSweeney
Irish Republican Party
Inter-parliamentary Union
Baron Theodore Adelsward
Union
Two Bodies Recovered From Submarine S 51
On board U S Camden off Block Island divers recovered two more bodies from the engine room of the sub S 51 identified as Walter E Lawton and B D Lindsay. They were found after a hatch was cut and air bubbles indicated flooding. Both men were on watch when the vessel was rammed by the City of Rome last Friday night.
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U. S. Camden
Block Island
A. P.1
A. P.j
Walter E. Lawton
Somerville
Mass
B. D. Lindsay
Government Street
Pensacola
Fla
Rome
Camden
Newport Naval Hospital
Divers Find Open Motor Room Door In Sunken Sub S 51
Divers from the rescue ship Camden report the motor room is flooded and the door open, reducing chances of survivors. The engine room was flooded yesterday with two bodies recovered. one compartment remains to be checked, the torpedo room in the bow. Rear Admiral Christy leads the operation and orders a small hole cut in the hatch to assess water in that compartment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
Christy
S-51 Submarine Recovery Efforts End as Cranes Released
U S submarine base at New London reports two more bodies recovered from the S 51 wreck engine room Walter E Lawton of New London and Brady D Lindsay of Pensacola Fla. A Navy body found near Stonington is later identified as S N Rostrand of Noank Coan. no further raising attempts planned at this time.
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U. S
New London
Conn
A. P
H. H. Christy
Walter E. Lawton
Brady D. Lindsay
Pensacola
Fla
Stonington
A. H. Deering
Medical Corps
S. N. Rostrand
Noank
Coan
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Chase
South LA. Power Company
Pirate
Loyola University
Southern Ass
Hunter ET AL
N.Y
Walter Lawton
Associated Press
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