New Endurance Flight Heroes Back After 246 Hour Run
Loren Mendell and R. B. Reinhart awoke in Los Angeles after a record setting 246 hours 43 minutes 30 seconds in the Angeleno. They faced congratulatory telegrams and offers from movies, stages, and sponsors as questions about the flight’s end noted refuse in the tail caused control loss.
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Los Angeles
Loren Mendell
R. B
Pete” Reinhart
Mendell
Reinhart
Central Press
Angeleno
Culver City
Cal
When Harry F Biggs Took a Wheel in News Service
When Harry F Biggs was 21 he assisted his father, Civil War veteran John C Biggs, at the old National News Depot in Elyria. After his father’s health declined he worked for the New York Central railroad and American Steel and Wire. In 1905 he became custodian of Grace Episcopal church. In July 1999 he joined the Cleveland Railway company, remaining except for one year. He has lived at 19504 Detroit road, Rocky River for two years, is married with five children, once published a small paper in 1887, and raises poultry visiting Elyria as often as possible.
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Harry F. Biggs
John C. Biggs
National News
Elyria
Biggs
New York Central Railroad
American Steel and Wire Company
Grace Episcopal Church
Cleveland Railway Company
Detroit Road
Rocky River
Ely Tia
Hutchinson Flood Sees Martial Law Declared
Flooded Hutchinson Kansas places under partial martial law as 2 000 homes are swept from a 29 mile per hour current of Cow Creek. Five central Kansas counties flood worst in history with Smoky Hill rising and rescue efforts by Kansas State Industrial Reformatory to evacuate marooned families.
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Hutchinson
Kans
Cow Creek
Topeka
Kansas
Smoky Hill River
Hutchison
Saxman
Salina
Sterling
North Wichita
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Dry Creek
Smoky River
Drunken Driver and Companions Fined After Crash
Howard Carruthers followed a drunken driver to town after he struck a tree near Pasadena allotment. Police arrested Robert Burke, Don Carrigan, and Bert Gibbons, all of Cleveland, for intoxication. Burke faced a separate driving while intoxicated charge. Carrigan and Gibbons fined five dollars plus costs, Burke fined 110 dollars and costs, with auto driving suspended sixty days. Burke could not pay and sought help from Cleveland friends.
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Howard Carrothers
Bailey Court
Pasadena Allotment
Robert Burke
Whitney Street
Don Carrigan
Fulton
Bert Gibbons
Grace Street
Cleveland
Carruthers
Burke
Gibbons
Carrigan
Detroit
Three Drownings Reported in Ohio
Three persons drowned in Ohio within 24 hours. George Planis and his wife perished when their canoe capsized in the Ohio River at Gallipolis. their bodies were not recovered. Herman Conley, 12, died while swimming in Mud Creek near Fremont.
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The
United Press
Ohio
George Planis
Ohio River
Gallipolis
Herman Conley
Jerry Conley
Mud Creek
Fremont
Trial Postponed Again for Race Track Owner
Edward P. Strong owner of Thistledean race track and two track workers were arrested on charges of permitting gambling at the oval. The trial was postponed again and set for next week in Cleveland on July 13.
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Cleveland
Edward P. Strong
Thistledean
Oval
Farm Board Set to Meet Monday in White House Cab
President Hoover focuses on forming the Federal Farm Board to convene in the White House cabinet room Monday morning. A White House briefing outlined a tentative immediate program with Chairman Alexander Jezes and Carl Williams of Oklahoma City. A $152,599,050 fund is available for urgent operations and to refine emergency marketing machinery through advisory commodity committees.
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Washington
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
White House
Moes Saxe
Congress
Alexander Jezes
Carl Williams
Oklahoma City
Gar Barn Fire Shuts New Orleans Streetcar Service
In New Orleans a Public Service storage barn housing twenty five street cars was set ablaze by striking car men in open defiance of a federal injunction. The fire halted a last minute settlement effort and delayed resumption of service as deputies and city police stood by. U S Marshal Victor Loisel announced service would be postponed with resumption depending on ongoing negotiations.
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New Orleans
Public Service
Public Service Company
United States
Victor Loisel
King Albert of Belgium Robbed at Ostend Bathing
A Brussels dispatch reports King Albert I of Belgium was robbed at Ostend while bathing. A thief entered the king's bathing cabin and escaped with a watch, a mounted knife, and a pocketbook containing panic notes and papers.
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Albert
Belgium
London
Ostend
Brussels
Daily Telegraph
Flying Cross Awarded To Halverson At Wright Field
Lieutenant Harry A Halverson relieved Major Carl Spatz during the Question Marks endurance flight and received the Distinguished Flying Cross yesterday from General B D Foulois at Wright Field.
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Flying Cro&s
Dayton
Harry A. Halverson
Spatz
B. D. Foulois
Wright Field
Dragging Lake for Body Off Cleveland Coast
Coast guardsmen dragged Lake Erie for the body of Carl Glass who has been missing since July 28. The search operation continued off Cleveland as authorities sought the unidentified victim.
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Drag Lake
Cleveland
Coast
Lorain county crime drops in 1929 report by clerk of courts
Miss Mabel Marsh reports a 25 percent crime decline in Lorain county for July 1 1928 to June 30 1929 with 297 criminal cases in common pleas court versus 393 the prior year. Fines and costs fell to 613? from 33 355? and liquor cases rose to 12 065 in fines of which 9 399.98 were collected. Three first degree murder and three second degree murder cases occurred, all pled guilty, with most remaining being liquor law violators. Civil cases rose to 1 478, pending 926, and civil jury fees reached 19 445 75. Divorces numbered 323 filed.
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Lorain County
Mabel Marsh
Common Pleas Court
Wits
Naturalization
Lorain bridge bond issue eyed for November vote
Lorain County voters may again decide the fate of the Lorain Memorial Bridge as the Lorain Central Business Men's association circulates a petition to place the bond issue on the November ballot. County commissioners hinted they would present the question if enough signatures are gathered, after prior legal challenges halted plans. Deputy treasurer appointments to work with treasurer elect Dr N D Backus were also announced, with Walter J Wright and Keith G Brown named to key posts. Walter G Ludwig will depart the office with Arthur Waters.
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N. D. Backus
Walter J. Wright
31St Street
Lorain
Keith G Brown
Elyria
Wright
Backus
Black River Lumber Company
Brown
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Walter G. Ludwig
Arthur Waters
Lorain County
Lorain Memorial Bridge
Black River
Supreme Court
Van Buren urges sweeping reforms of federal justice
Donald C. Van Buren, retiring assistant U. S. attorney in Cleveland, calls for end to sentence bargaining and patronage in federal prosecutions. He proposes an American Scotland Yard for federal investigations and favors moving liquor enforcement to the Department of Justice. He criticizes life appointments and grand jury usage, warning against court congestion and light plea penalties harming respect for justice.
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Cleveland
Donald C. van Buren
U. S
van Buren
Scotland Yard
Hoover
Department of Justice
Van
Buren
Man Held In Theft Of Chickens Near Kilbanes Camp
Sheriff holds a man in the theft of about a score of chickens from George Risden’s Lake Road farm near Kilbanes Camp. Deputy Adams says heads from the carcasses were found. the suspect claims he traded whiskey for the birds with an unknown man and denies stealing them.
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Clarence Dams
George Risden
Lake Road
Kilbanes Camp
Adams
EIDT CAUTIONS AUTO DRIVERS ABOUT TURNS
Service Director John N Eidt urged caution at intersections about left turns on green. He said most crossings forbid left turns on green except where signs allow it. Drivers should pull to the center before turning and yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians. Continued on Page 2.
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Trafic
John N. Eidt
Ejidt
Transatlantic air race opens as Polish and French planes depart
At Le Bourget Paris four planes depart for New York in the first north Atlantic air race. The Marshal Pilsudski carries Polish pilots Idzikowski and Kubala. The Question Mark flies Costes and Bellonte. Forecasts promise favorable winds and smooth seas across the ocean.
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Paris
Esperance Today
Ministry of Marine
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Azores
Spain
Ministry of Air
Marshal Pilsudski
LE Bourget
Atlantic
North Atlantic
New York
Louis Idzikowski
Casimir Kubala
France
Dieudonne Costes
South Atlantic
Bellonte
Costes
Tokio
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Sears
Ang
Farm Board
Glerk
Lorain Bridge
EIDT
Alamien
Woodden
Idzixowski
MT Nees
Idzikowski
Kubala
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