Fog Halts Final Leg of Larsen Flight Near Philadelphia
On June 27 the Larsen Aircraft crew abandoned a New York destination after nine hundred miles in fog and darkness. The all metal Multiplex, piloted by Best Acosta and John M Larsen, halted near Pine Valley after nearly eleven hours in the air. They set an American non stop record despite weather, carrying 135 gallons of gasoline and reporting bearings repeatedly failed.
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Mojave Desert Plank Sparks Democratic Delegates’ Mock Name
In San Francisco on June 27 delegates reacted to William Tennings Bryan’s dry plank released today. They immediately dubbed it the Mojave Desert Plank, appreciating the aptness of the name.
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Crew Sought At Home of Elwell Friend
Developments foreshadow the hunt for Joseph Bowne Elwell’s killer. District Attorney staff and detectives questioned witnesses in secrecy, then moved to the home of a friend of Elwell for further questioning. Authorities pressed for clearer statements amid conflicting accounts and noted anonymous letters inflaming the case.
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Four Die From Wood Alcohol Poisoning in Hartford
Hartford police report four men dead from wood alcohol poisoning and several others unconscious in city rooming houses. Victims named are Martin McCarthy Lawrence Manas William Gallagher Walter Duncan and Joseph Kelleher. Authorities link poisoning to Jamaica ginger and a stolen gallon of wood alcohol. some victims had small amounts on them when found.
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Tin City
Reed Oyster Shows White House Power in Missouri Fight
San Francisco dispatch details Democratic tensions at the 1920 convention. It argues President Wilson’s influence drives seating disputes, with Reed in Missouri a flashpoint. Missouri’s anti League stance and shift from solid South emerge as pivotal in securing the treaty and electoral votes.
Three Drownings At New York Beaches In One Day
Three persons drowned at New York bathing beaches yesterday including a man and boy at Rockaway Beach and another boy at Coney Island Creek. Anatole Corbel 23 of Edgemere and Milton Miller 8 of Manhattan perished while swimming. Del Gaudio 10 of Brooklyn died after entering a deep hole in Coney Island Creek. A child, Shappaen Dallers eight of Long Island City, drifted from a raft in the East River and drowned. Heanin White 21 of Brooklyn was treated after a large wave swept her over.
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Rorhling Place
Coney Island Hospital
Coney Island
Crown Prince Worried McAdoo Says Morrow
J W Morrow national committeeman from Oregon told Oregon delegates at a caucus that William G McAdoo refused the Presidential nomination to avoid the crown prince label. He urged supporters to back his nomination on good policies without solicitation by McAdoo.
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Democrats to Straddle Dry and Irish Issues
San Francisco June 27 The National Democratic Convention will adopt a platform before nominating candidates. Administration forces seek a moderate dry plank and a broad Irish question stance, while wets push for limits. The League of Nations treaty plank remains uncertain as 1,092 delegates plan the 1920 campaign.
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Ohio
New York Tammany Shifts On Wet Dry Prohibition Debate
San Francisco June 27 Tammany leaders end pussyfooting on prohibition backing Smith on first ballot while Cox declares not wet to win dry votes. Ohio Gov Campbell confirms Cox not wet raising New York defection risk to McAdoo. Norman Mack says Cox hurt himself with equivocal stance as New York caucus lines up for a wet plank.
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Girl Killed in Driving Lesson. Mother Injured on Pelham Parkway
Louise McCullough fifteen of 410 Riverside Drive died from a punctured lung after losing control learning to drive. Her mother Mia injured with a fractured arm and internal injuries. chauffeur Petra Holanda and cousin Edwin Elser escaped with bruises. Nearby witnesses lifted victims. McCullough died at Fordham Hospital.
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Bryan Plank Demands Bone Dry U S
SAN FRANCISCO June 27 William Jennings Bryan today made public a dry plank for the Democratic platform to be adopted this week at the national convention. The plank pledges enforcement of the Volstead act without increasing alcoholic content or weakening other provisions.
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Bryan
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Resolutions Committee
Avery
Stormy Fight Over Wet Issue in Democratic Convention
In San Francisco on June 27 delegates from wets and drys presented planks on alcohol law with a clash anticipated on the convention floor. William J. Bryan urged strict Volstead enforcement with no beverage strength change while Postmaster General Burleson offered an alternative liberty based plank to modify or reinterpret the Volstead act.
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Ten Die When Train Strikes Picnic Truck Near Kuntinburg
Ten persons were killed and nine injured when a truck carrying twenty one picnickers for the Woodmen of the World outing was struck by a passenger train one mile west of Kuntinburg Indiana. The truck halted on the tracks and the train, moving fast, struck it. Several children were among the dead and wounded and the injured were taken to Evansville Hospital. A special train bearing the injured was delayed by a freight wreck at Oakland City, not arriving until 3 p.m.
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Walsh and Glass battle for Resolutions Chair role
In San Francisco the struggle over who leads the Resolutions Committee at the convention intensifies. Senator Walsh of Montana campaigns against Senator Glass of Virginia as President Wilson's choice to chair, with Bryan viewed as a potential counterbalance and Cummings overseeing the anti-Glass agitation.
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New Impetus Given Room For McAdoo
Friends of William G McAdoo report an assurance he will accept if nominated Texas committee man Thomas B Love declared I say with assurance that if nominated he will accept The remark followed speculation McAdoo supporters say Love is a close ally and former Treasury official His statement revived McAdoo momentum with delegates and prompted talk of as many as 250 to 600 votes on the first ballot Indiana moves to present Vice President Marshall at the convention amid expected deadlock among McAdoo Cox and Palmer
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