Amelia Earhart Sets Transcontinental Record for Women
Newark July 8 Amelia Earhart lands after a record 17 hours 7 minutes 30 seconds crossing the continent from Los Angeles to Newark Eastern Daylight Time. She recounts a loose hatch cover between Albuquerque and Amarillo and two hours of repairs, while a crowd greets her and her husband George Palmer Putnam.
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Newark
Amelia Earhart
Fiight
Los Angeles
Miss Earhart
Atlantic
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Aviatrix
Amari
Earhart describes maiden flight challenges over Texas
Amelia Earhart recounts a Texas landing field sortie after takeoff from Amarillo. She explains she cut corners and flew high to seek a favorable tail wind, noting limited wind assistance and that summer is not ideal for setting new speed records. She cites gasoline fumes, rainstorms, and thunder along the Alleghenies delaying her return.
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Texas Landing Field
Amarillo
Missummer
Alleghenies
Roosevelt sails with Attorney General Cummings on epic trip
President Roosevelt took Attorney General Cummings on a weekend cruise aboard the Sequoia to Washington D C. The trip sparks talk of a forthcoming federal push against gangland racketeers and aggressive enforcement of the new deal through the justice department. Cummings will direct prosecutions of interstate lawbreakers and racketeers in pursuit of cut throat competition.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Cummings
Potoraí
Justice Department
Failure of Chute to Open Causes Two Deaths in Missouri
In Kansas City a parachute failed to open during a training flight, killing Miss Mildred Wright a school teacher and Miss Wright leaped from about 1000 feet as her plane dove. Don A Moss 23, superintendent for hangars at Fairfax airport, drowned while attempting a rescue.
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Kansas City
INSI
Mildred Wright
Hobey
Missouri River
Don A. Moss
Fairfax Airport
It Pays to Advertise Even Taxes in Dallas County
Dallas tax collector Fred Cullum says newspaper advertising boosted tax collection. He spent 100 on notices about the June 30 second instalment deadline and reports June 1933 receipts about 989,500 higher than June 1932, crediting ads for a large share of the gain.
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Dallas
Fred Cullum
Dallas County
Cullum
Wedell Aims to Break Transcontinental Air Records
Los Angeles July 8 Jimmy Wedell designer and filer of racing airplanes plans within weeks to try to break both east-west and west-east transcontinental records The Louisiana aviator who won the Thompson speed classic at the National air races here after Col Roscoe Turner was disqualified expects to fly from Los Angeles to New Orleans and back on a Tessurely Tight He says I am going home to build a new ship He believes it can carry as much as two hours from the present records each way.
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Los Angeles
Jimmy Wedell
Roscoe Turner
New Orleans
Bay Association Elects 8 A Man Vice President
Corpus Christi July 8 INS John Townes Jr Houston was named president of the Texas Bar association at the close of the annual convention Henry P Burney of San Antonio was named vice president and George C Gains Jr of Houston was re elected Secretary The board of directors includes W T Armstrong Galveston W Fitzgerald Wichita Falls Ben Powell Austin Hattian Lowe Corpus Christi D M Frank Dallas Will Hart Longview H C Pipkin Amarillo Julian Harrison El Paso Charles Buli Jer Beaumont Thomas FR Spirth Colorado James P Alexander Waco
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Frank
Dallas
Will
Hart
Longview
H.C. Pipkin
Amarillo
Julian Harrison
el Pasa
Charles Buli Jer
Beaumont
Thomas FR. Spirth
Colorado
James P. Alexander
Waco
Sergeant on Duty With Tree Corps Claimed by Death
Sergeant Benjamin Mer, 49, of Headquarters Troop Twelfth Cavalry, Brownsville, died of heart trouble at the Knox Post hospital. He had been sent here for duty with the Citizen Conservation Corps and had been at a forestry camp in Benton, Kentucky. He arrived July 4. The body will be sent to Marti where Mrs. Alvinn Balier survives. Private Chester Stacy, machine gun Troop, First Cavalry, will accompany the body. Balier had 18 years of service in the army before retirement.
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Knox
Jilly
Benjamin Mer
Twelfth Cavalry
Brownsville
Citizen Conservation Corps
Benton
Marti
Big Wilt
Alvinn Balier
Chester Stacy
First Cavalry
Baller
Painters Will Hold Mass Meeting in San Antonio
All San Antonio painters both union and non union are invited to a mass meeting at the Imbor temple Tuesday at 4 a.m. to discuss a code for the trade. The meeting was called by C. A pay of the local painters union and several speakers on the program will explain the working of the proposed code.
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San Antonio
Imbor Temple
C. 2
Hronosed Corte
Cloudburst Kills 20 Near Denver in Devastating Flood
A massive cloudburst in the Denver mountains leaves at least 20 dead and nine missing, with half a million dollars in property damage. The identified dead include Mrs. Bylvin Boderman and EB Burton, among others, while several residents and travelers are unaccounted for after a 20-foot wall of water swept down the canyon west of Denver.
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Denver
Denver Mountain Parks
Bylvin Boderman
Denyen
C. EB. Burton
Jack Burton
Los Angeles
Raymond Conde
Euntce Soderman
Jeconard Conde
B.R. Britton
Kidnaping Victim Edmund Burke Found Safe in San Francisco
Edmund Burke, son of a Denver family, reported kidnaped, was found safe in San Francisco within hours of the alert. He denied being abducted, stating he had been in the city a week with his wife, despite police and a friend of the family helping search.
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San Francisco
Denver
Edmund Burke
Burke
San Francisco to Launch $75 Million Bay Bridge Project
San Francisco and Oakland prepare to break ground on the $75,000,000 San Francisco Oakland bay bridge. The ceremony highlights the project’s impact on the regional economy and 10,000 jobs nationwide, marking the era’s largest construction start.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Region
Texas Press Back of FDA Plan Favored by Most Texan Papers
An East Texas Chamber of Commerce survey quotes 118 of 125 editors replying yes to supporting President Roosevelt’s industrial recovery program. The poll asks editors if they approve speeding business recovery by codes of fair trade and suspending antitrust laws, and if Texas firms should receive privileges under the plan even if it means modifying state anti-trust laws.
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Longview
Texas
Roosevelt
Curtis Morris
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Morris
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