Dirigibles Fate Beneficial To Ai Program Says
Washington Sept 6 view of future commercial conquest of the air Shenandoah tragedy seen as progress in aeronautics says air craft expert P E C Nagel of the commerce department. He notes the loss will spur further development of lighter than air craft and new knowledge will improve safety and navigation for overseas service. Britain is building three balloons for a London India service at over five million dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Thornburgh
International News Service
Blalt
Washington
Shenandoah
P. E. C. Nagel
Department of Commerce
Nagel
Los Angeles
Bermuda
Great Britain
Runkle Attends Tulsa Convention
George F. Runkle attends the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Tulsa Oklahoma. The News reports his trip covered about 1231 miles by car and notes the News name plates on his machine. By the time he returns the plates should have traveled at least 2500 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Runkle
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Runkle
New Castle Fair Set to Open with Big Premiums
Six brewers watch preparations as fair grounds near readiness for next week’s show. Indiana driven car seen near Cascade Park. buyers stock up as 24 packs of chewing tobacco are bought. The fair owns 162 acres with 50 devoted to show grounds, halls, stables, rest rooms, display hall. Premium money totals 7400 with 600 cattle, 60 draft horses, 300 sheep, 150 hogs and many poultry entries. Races feature 175 horses on a half mile track starting 1 30 pm Thursday to Saturday. grandstand seats 1890. Cattle cavalcade and coon hunts add to events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Castle
Pomona Grange
Farmers’ Supply Company
Pennsylvania
Firet Water
Neshannock Township Builds Modern School Facility
Neshannock Township moves forward with a new seven acre, 35 thousand dollar school replacing four old rural schools. The seventh and eighth grades will attend the new building with classes from one to seven. Teachers include Mrs. Lucy Sargent and three others. Opening ceremony planned for October after final touches. Bond opposition earlier defeated. project completed despite controversy.
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Isele
Neshannock Township
Mitchell School
Kings' Chapel
Painter Hill
Pleasant Valley
Lucy Sargent
Lilly McGarry
Gertrude Johnson
Elizabeth Noss
Sargent
Rpad
B. J. McCandless
Ellwood Gley
H. P. Workley
Ellwood City
County Fair Promised as Largest in Western Pennsylvania
The county fair near the city on the Harlansburg road is poised to become the largest in western Pennsylvania. Organizers report growing exhibits and concessions surpassing district fairs and even rivaling state fairs. The grounds four miles east are accessible via an improved highway, with twenty two special police stationed under Superintendent W. J. Graham to ensure safety.
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Fairy Grounds
Harlansburg
W. J. Graham
Agitad
Naval experts take charge of inquest on Shenandoah crash
Reports from Commander Klein indicate naval observers oversaw the Shenandoah incident recall of Captain Steele from leave, with Klein and Kraus accompanying him to observe wreckage near Ava. An Arlington Cemetery funeral is planned for four officers who died, bodies shipped with instructions not to open caskets due to mutilation, while others are separately interred.
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Jacob Klein
Steele
Caldwell
Navy Department
Klein
Los Angeles
Germany
S. M. Kraus
United States
Washington
Capt
Ava
Shenandoah
Re. Houghton
Brookline
Alvin Shaddy
U .S. Medical Corps
Lansdowne
Hancock
Sheppard
James Cullinan
Shaddy
B. O'Sullivan
O’sullivan
Lowell
Mass
William Sprattly
Maggie Sprattley
Venice
Refuse Permit For Abandoning Sharon Line
The state railway commission refuses to grant a street railway company permission to abandon service for an indefinite period and to remove tracks. The commission finds it lacks authority to permit such an action across its corporate territory. The News announces September primaries and lists Republican and Democratic district attorney candidates and city council and school board races in Ellwood City and New Castle.
Coolidge Backed Building Another Airship
The report notes Coolidge favored constructing another dirigible amid inquiries into the disaster. It mentions Secretary Wilbur and a widow’s charge about orders to the west, with Lansdowne’s warning of storms. Mrs. Lansdowne reportedly retracted, but officials seek a thorough, impartial probe and congressional inquiry for full facts.
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Coolidge
Zachary Lansdowne
West
Wibur
Lansdowne
Wilbur
Lakehurst
Kidnapper Hunt Ties to Long Island Taxi Slaying
New Jersey state police pursue Philip K. Knapp the so called thrill murderer in a cold blooded murder case of Louis Panella, a Long Island taxi driver. Eyewitnesses John Sandine and Fred Gould chased the kidnapper as a taxi fired pistol shots. Panella was found battered and likely killed.
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Philip K. Knapp
Louis Panella
Long Island
Syracuse
Mary
John Sandine
Fred Gould
New York Man Murdered and Body Set Afire
Detectives conclude a man about 30 years old, five feet eight inches tall and 160 pounds was murdered in New York and his body burned beyond recognition. The corpse was found after an automobile was saturated with kerosene, and the body appears to have been stolen from Leo Warren of Newark, New Jersey, on July 14.
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Leo Warren
Newark
Airship Shenandoah disaster unity call by Captain Steele
Commander Jacob H Klein and naval officers urged public and presidential support for the policy after the Shenandoah wreck. Captain Steele said the loss was due to stronger winds than the ship could endure and criticized editorial pessimism while vowing to end his probe within a day or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob H. Klein
Steele
Steela
Columbus
Ayo
Shenandoah
Department of Justice
Deaths Of The Day David 5 Williams Jr
Deaths of the day include eleven year old David 5 Williams Jr son of David 5 and Margaret J Jones Williams who died at 402 East Lincoln Avenue after a two day diphtheria illness He was born April 6 1814 in the city and attended Highland Avenue school He leaves parents two brothers and a sister with a private funeral at 6 oclock Sunday from the home and burial in Oak Park cemetery Also listed is the death of Congetta Siame age 36 wife of Antonio Siame at 411 Denver Avenue due to heart trouble Surviving are her husband and five children Funeral Monday at 2 30 from Italian M E church Interment Oak Park cemetery Mrs Laura Bennett of Shenango Township buried Friday at Savannah Methodist Church Interment Little Beaver Cemetery Also noted is John C Haus funeral Friday at 2 from Offutt Funeral Home Interment Greenwood Cemetery Pallbearers named
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David
Willams, Jr
Williams
Margaret J. Jones Williams
East
Lincoln Avenue
Thin City
First Baptist Church
Millia Wallace
Oak Park Cemetery
Congetta Siome
Congetta Siame
Antonio Siome Diet v
Denver Avenue
M. E
South Mill Street
John C. Haus
Offutt Funeral Home
North Mercer Street
H. A. Ellis
First Methodist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Wiliam T. Butz
John M. Suyder
Edward E. Bigley
William C. Hess
Robert M. Whaley
Edward E. Marshall
Bandits Kill Man and Escape With 5500 in Brooklyn
Bandits shot and killed Charles Paunarous, foreman for the Mill red Shoe Company, at 108 Clifton Place Brooklyn during a hallway hold-up. They escaped with 5500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internatonal News Service
New York
Charles Paunarous
Mlldred Shoe Company
Clifton Place
Brooklyn
Concern
Plans Complete For Celebration By Labor Monday
A strong labor event program features speeches by Judge Plummer Emery and Arthur Holden, with many contests scheduled including races swimming horseshoe pitching and a bathing beauty contest titled Miss Canada Casca. Cash prizes will reward winners, Labor Car badges have arrived, and the official program is circulating. Entries for the bathing beauty contest close at noon Monday with Willis Campbell or Jack Hulme.
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Plummer Emery
Arthur
Holden
Washington, D. C
Mhess
Willis Campbell
Sport Committee
Jack Hulme
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Ankel
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Intel
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Boho Pires
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Taira Ward
Andrew Dictthaliz
Leqmaed A. III
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New Cantic
Richard 5. Kissinger
Neghannock Ave
New Jersey
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Washington St
Kew Castle PA
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Victor
AM Genuine
Victor Talking Machine Company
Mather Bros. Co
Thomas Moore
White Undertaking Co
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White
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Emery
Lawrence County
Emery Publicity Committee
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