The Lindy Sweetheart Nervous Before Atlantic Hop
The article reports Amelia Earhart awaiting the Trepassey Bay departure for the trans Atlantic flight. fiancé Samuel Chapman of Marblehead describes her as a real girl, modest and sweet, with Chapman praying for her success. Earhart has deep Quaker ancestry and was born in Atchison Kansas, learning to fly in California at nineteen.
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International News Service
Boston
Los Angetes
Miss Earhart
Chapman
Medford
Philadelphia
Homer
Cortland County
New York
Kansas
Edwin G. Earhart
Mercersburg
University of Pennsylvania
Amelia
Atchison, Kansas
California
After Selecting His Pallbearers Man Ends Life
Apologizing for his act Nick Kerestan 46 shot himself after selecting pallbearers. His body lay on the Webster Monessen highway, a bullet wound in the head and a 38 caliber revolver beside him. A letter with apologies and pallbearer list was found. He lived in Monessen thirty years and is survived by a wife and six children. Despondency over unemployment is blamed.
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Monessen
Nick Kereatan
Webster-Monessen
Kerestan
Robbers Get School Cash At Butler
Butler Missouri June 6 state and city police search for two men who entered the senior high school offices wrecked furniture and stole about 300 dollars. Doors were pried with a chisel and vaults breached while the board of education met. Most money came from pupil deposits for locker space. Fingerprints were taken and photographed.
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Butler
Board of Education
Peasion
E. T. Denton
Ohio to Back Mid West Man for Presidency Nomination
Ohio will support a middle western candidate for the Republican nomination at the national convention. Delegates from 20 of 51 Ohio delegates will oppose Hoover and back candidates like Lowden or Curtis. Colonel Ralph D. Cole, in Kansas City, said the nomination is controlled by a regional bloc from the Ohio Mississippi and Missouri valleys.
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International News Services
Kansas City
Frank B. Willis
Ohio
Ralph D. Cole
Findley
Cole
Hoover
Lowden
Curtis
Pississippi
Missouri
Plan Advanced Classes At Big Chicago School
The National Society for Prevention of Blindness will open the only advanced course for teachers of sight saving classes in the United States at the University of Chicago this summer. Elementary courses will be offered at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. There are currently about 300 sight saving classes in the country.
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International News Service
Chicago
United States
University of Chicago
National Society For Prevention of
University of Cincinnati
University of Southern California At
Los Angeles
Progress Report on Diphtheria Prevention in U S Cities
Chicago reports 1997 saw zero diphtheria deaths. Cambridge Mass tops list of cities over 100000 for disease prevention, per the American Medical Association annual summary. Duluth Seattle Canton Spokane Syracuse Trenton New Haven Norfolk El Paso Grand Rapids also among leaders with low death rates.
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Chicago
Cambridge
Mass
Uniteed States
American Medical Association
Duluth
Minn
Seattle
Wash
Canton
Spokane
Syracuse
N. Y
Trenton
New Haven
Conn
Norfolk
Walton League Plans Campaign To Protect Game
Invernational News Service reports Chicago June 5 that the Walton League of America foresees the broadest U S forestry and wildlife protection program yet. Officials cite Woodruff McNary Sweney McNary bills and Bear River Marsh flooding legislation as recent Congress actions advancing conservation. Seth B Gordon notes Congress is funding definite forest purchase and research programs rather than hit or miss efforts.
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Chicago
United States
Trask Walton League of America
Woodruff-McNary
Sweney-McNary
Bear River
Utah
Seth B. Gordon
League
Congress For
Congress
Gorcon
League of Nations Plans Radio Station Proposal
Geneva reports the League of Nations may create its own radio station with a council and assembly review set for September. Estimated cost is about 250000 dollars to establish and 8400000 dollars yearly to operate, with 1200000 words to be distributed from the station.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Council and Assembly
Farm Loan System In Reorganization
Washington June 6 A far reaching reorganization of the farm loan system has been effected by Eugene Meyer former head of the War Finance Corporation appointed by President Coolidge to reshape government sericultural banking policy His annual report to the farm loan board notes encouragement for agriculture indicating an uptick in farm values Purchasers now see good prices for farms Banks in the system hold mortgage loans totaling about 2 509 billion as of December 31 with most banks in sound condition and only a few needing targeted attention aided by improved management and board cooperation
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International News Service
Washington
Farmem
Eugene Meyer
War Finance Corporation
Coolidge
Farm Loan Board
Meyer
Doubt Italia Landed Near Greenland Island Mystery Deepens
Moscow reports doubt about whether the Italia polar expedition actually sent SOS radiograms. Soviet experts question the messages and the government relief committee hesitates action until clearer data is available. Belief grows that the fragmentary signals came from amateur senders misreading other radiograms.
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Bervier
Moscow
Mld
Nobile
Franz Josef Island
Italia
Jos
Royal Aero Club Fetes Early Flier Once Banished
The Royal Aero Club plans a banquet for A. V. Roe to mark the first anniversary of his initial flight. Roe, the first Englishman to fly in 1907 at Brooklands, later started a premier flying school. His Wall of aviation history includes the Avro-Napier 1000hp and pioneering engines by A. V. Roe & Co.
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Royal Aero Club
International News Service
London
Royal Aeroclub
A. V. Roe
Roe
British Isles
Brooklands
Boon
Blerict
A. V. Roe & Co
Pershing scoffs at presidency talk as he sails home
In Cherbourg General John J. Pershing dismissed rumors of a presidential bid. Asked if his return related to a possible nomination, he laughed and said he might be a dark horse but is returning mainly to tend to personal affairs. The statement follows reports of a possible nomination ahead of the Republican convention in Kansas City.
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International News Service
Cherbourg
France
John J. Pershing
Kansas City
New York
Leviathan
Gen. Pershing
Ely
Ancient Hittite bodies found in Asia district
International News Service reports in Chicago that Professor Henry Breasted and a Chicago team uncovered thirty one Hittite skeletons dating to the 14th century BCE in Asia near Luxor and Armageddon. Brensuwed called the discovery extreme important for the race’s physical history.
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International News Servics
Chicago
Far East
Henry Breasted
University of Chicago
Brensuwed
Grimms Inn Proprietor Dies After Quarrel
Grimms Inn proprietor at the depot road south of Salem drank poison after a quarrel with his wife Mrs Grimm. She sues for divorce and has a restraining order. He went to the inn to get his clothes, spoke with his wife, then drank the poison in the driveway and died within ten minutes with Constable Harl Ritchie present.
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Grimms Inn
Salem
Grimm
Harl Ritchie
Payroll Robbery at Detroit News Nets Large Sum
Six armed men robbed the Detroit News payroll today as a cashier and a policeman were shot or wounded. The bandits escaped with an estimated payroll between 630,000 and 650,000 dollars.
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S International News Service
Detroit
Willy
Detroit News Today
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