Atlantic aviators complete westward crossing in Southern Cross
Maj Charles Kingsford Smith and three companions land at Harbor Grace Newfoundland after foggy leg of Pacific to New York flight. They plan to reach San Francisco later as part of a round the world attempt. New York welcomes them with pageantry and receptions.
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Charles Kingsford-Smith
Southern Cross
Port Marnock
Ireland
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
New York
Paul Siple
Washington
Antarctic
Chrysler
Edward W. Pigeard
Atlantic
Maj
Australia
Dublin
John W. Stannage
Mingsford-Smith
Stannage
Evert van Dyk
J. Patrick Saul
Kingsford-Smith
San Francisco
New York City
Cosgrave
White House
National Air Races
Major Kingsford-Smith
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Record Flight by Fierro Tops Lindbergh Time to Mexico City
Roberto Fierro sets a new nonstop time from New York to Mexico City of 16 hours 85 minutes, ten hours faster than Lindbergh’s Washington to Mexico City record last December. News also confirms the birth of Lindbergh's son in Englewood New Jersey with rapid worldwide coverage and public congratulations.
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Otary International
Chicago
Roberto Fierro
Mexico
New York
Mexico City
Lindbergh
Washington
Englewood
N. J
Ambassador Morrow
St. Louis
Byrd
South Pole
Woodcock Named Director of Prohibition Bureau
MOS W W Woodcock chosen to direct the Bureau of Prohibition in the Justice Department starting July 1 as prohibition enforcement transfers from the Treasury. He previously served as U S district attorney at Baltimore, age 46, with WWI service. He aids Assistant Attorney General G A Youngquist in tightening dry law and income tax prosecutions. Publication of Simon Commission report on India highlights push for federal unity and self government with British troops remaining for years.
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Hoover
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Hines
Veterans’ Bureau
Mos
W. W. Woodcock
Bureau of Prohibition
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Woodcock
United States
Baltimore
G. A. Youngquist
Simon Commission
India
West Point
Fourth Infantry
Monterey
Twiggs
Grant
Egypt
Illinois
Jeff Davis
Lexington
Cincinnati
Ohio City
Chattanooga
Daniel Ammen
President Lincoln
Lincoln
James River
Lee
Maryland
Washington
White House
Himeeig
Pope Pius XI Illness Reports Alarm Rome
Reports spread in Rome and across Catholic world that Pope Pius XI suffered acute digestive trouble and potential uremic poisoning. The Vatican issued information suggesting the rumors were exaggerated and that planned ceremonies remained unchanged.
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Eports
Pius XI
Rome
Vatican
Union
Grant Tomb project nears completion in New York
The Grant Monument association raises nearly a half million dollars to complete the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant on Riverside Drive. Plans include a shaded terrace, low granite walls, and a pedimented plaza with a sculpted portico and an equestrian statue, though no life photo of Grant on horseback has been found despite extensive searches.
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Ulysses S. Grant
United States
Riverside
New York City
Grant Monument Association
Gurney C. Gue
New York Herald Tribune
A. 5
Grant
New York Historical Society
The
Public Library
Daniel Chester French
Fairmont Park
Philadelphia
Robert Underwood Johnson
Old Century
C.C. Buel
Union League Club
Ren M. Healy
Healy
Grant Monuments Association
Horace Porter
Massachusetts
Army War College At
Washington
General Grant
Currier & Ives
L. Mercier
Roosevelt
United States Military Academy
West Point
Academy
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Johnson
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New Hampshire
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Indiana
Shipstead
Minnesota
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America
England
Japan
Great Britain
Kansas City
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Radio Corporation of America
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Grigsby-Grunow Company
Pest
Gray
Farm Bureau Federation
Hesse
Army Engineers
Elmo Scott Watson
Boe Lenernert
Lrcol Rark
X. Grant
Grariks
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