Mattern Aims For Pacific Flight Record Bid
A. P. reports Jimmy Mattern prepares for a solo Pacific crossing after a series of staged hops from Seville to the United States. Italian Air Minister Balbo oversees rapid mass flights toward Chicago as Capt. Mariano Barr and Lieut. Joaquin Collar join preparatory hops. The NYC to Port au Prince nonstop leg is set to depart late today aboard the Columbia piloted by Capt. J. Erroll Boyd and two companions.
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Associated Press
Jimmy Mattern
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Mariano Barr
Joaquin Collar
Atlantic
Havana
Seville
Spain
Cago
Balbo
New York
Port Au Prince
Haiti
J. Erroll Boyd
Terrific explosion roils New Jersey coast, deaths feared
Nine known dead and about 75 injured after a powerful blast struck a ceruloid plant in North Arlington New Jersey. Fire destroyed seven houses and sent fire and debris into a bathing beach crowd beside the Passaic river. Witnesses report a roaring blast with flames reaching twenty feet and a second explosion that spread flames to garages and cars as firefighters began dawn searches for more victims.
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Associated Press
North Arlington
N. J
Passaic River
Atlantic Pyrikulin Waste Co
John Jackson
Chinaman to die for murder of laundryman
Chin Kee of Boston, 33, convicted of first degree murder in Melrose for the August slaying of Sam Lee, a local laundryman. Judge Thomas J. Hammond sentences Kee to the electric chair at Charlestown prison in the week beginning August 6. Kee, through an interpreter, proclaimed innocence and named Leong Gai and Soo Hoo Kai as the actual killers, saying he feared they would kill his uncle and himself.
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Sam Lee
Melrose
Chin Kee
Boston
Charlestown
Thomas J. Hammond
Middlesex Criminal Court
Kee
Lee
Grove Street
Leong Gai
Soo Hoo Kai
Fought Ship Fire After sixty hours on Arizon
The American freighter Arizon reached Boston with 60 crew members exhausted after battling a fire in hold No. 4 for almost sixty hours. Escorted by Coast Guard Cutter Mojave the ship came to port where a Boston fire boat took over the fight as the blaze remained confined to the hold. Engineers feared the fire could reach the engine room if unchecked.
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Associated Press
Boston
Coast'Guard
Mojave
Arizon
Death toll from heat wave rises across regions
The heat wave killed over 1250 people as it rolled from the Middle West to the Atlantic Seaboard. Thundery relief was forecast with showers and breezes, but fatalities persisted in New York, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas, with hundreds more affected and horses collapsing in the streets.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Atlantic Seaboard
Ilinois
New York
Pennsylvania
Mount Holyoke Confers Degrees on May Day
Miss Elizabeth Alkire daughter of Lt Comdr and Mrs H H Alkire of 148 Richards avenue will receive her master’s degree from Mount Holyoke College Monday. She studied political science with Prof Ellen Deborah Ellis after graduating last June and chaired the judicial board during her senior year enforcing community rules.
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Elizabeth Altire
H. H. Alkire
Richards Avenue
Mount Holyoke
Alkire
Ellen Deborah Ellis
Mount ‘Holyoke
Judicial Board
Transfer Orders for Captain Muttaly to Yard Barracks
Official notice lists Captain Muttaly transferred from the Ma- Ting base at mtico Virginia to the Yard barracks. Details show assignment change within military postings.
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Byx
Muttaly
Ma- Ting
Mtico
Senate Passes Big Industrial Bill in 57 to 24 Vote
Washington June 10 The Democratic majority pushed through the administration’s recovery measure in the Senate after a long day. The final 57 to 24 vote sent the bill back to the House for agreement to amendments, marking the last major piece of the President’s special session program. Officials say passage will fund $3.3 billion in public works and advance the construction of two submarines at Portsmouth navy yard.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Portsmouth Navy Yard
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