Endurance Plane Refueling Flight From Spokane
Mamer and Walker flew the Sun God on a Spokane to San Francisco endurance test aiming to refuel in air to prove feasibility for commercial long flights. The plane's westward leg began at 5 58 pm Pacific time. a double refueling contact followed as it headed toward Cheyenne.
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Spokane
Wash
N. B. Mamer
Art Walker
Miers
San Francisco
Cal
Sun God
Cheyenne
Mamer
Walker
Graf Zeppelin Crosses Urals Under Favorable Weather
A Moscow dispatch reports the Graf Zeppelin crossed the Ural Mountains from Europe to Asia, flying over Nadehdinky about 350 miles east of Perm. The airship remained in contact with Moscow radio for weather updates as it began its first world flight segment amid a gradually rising divide and limited accompanying landmarks.
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Berlin
Moscow
Graf Zeppelin
Ural Mountains
Europe
Asia
Nadehdinky
Perm
Graf
Trey
Men to wear paper suits say industrial expert
Chicago August 16 The Rosenwald Industrial Museum director Waldemar Kaemfert predicts cheap paper suits costing about 2 dollars. He says fibers will be spun like cotton or wool and woven into patterns. A tailor will drape paper strips and fasten them with fish glue, producing rain resistant garments that keep shape for two weeks.
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Waldemar Kaemfert
Rosenwald Industrial Museum
Escaping Gas Triggers Explosion in New Castle Business District
An explosion in New Castle on Tyne's business area caused extensive damage after gas escaped from the Post Office front. Sixteen people were injured, several seriously, as windows shattered across the Post Office building, Town Hall, and surrounding shops.
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New Castle-On-Tyne
England
Quiet Dutch Village Gossip Ends in Tragic Divorce
In Emmen Holland a murder rumor sparks scandal when vicar’s wife Mynneer Heerman sues author Henk Heiling over Beautiful Mia’s Home. The suit fails and gossip lingers, culminating in Mynneer's suicide with a revolver after divorce. The town’s morality is challenged by fiction and rumor.
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Emmen
Holland
Emme
Mia
Amsterdam
Henk Heiling
Jacob Heerman
Min
Diesilelde
Emmet
Thett Mynneer Heerman
Heerman
Helling
Beermans
Yau
Mevrouw Heerman
Miai
Proup
Paris Shelter for Grandmother of Russian Revolution
Paris dated Aug 16 from a report on Catherine Brechko Brechkovskia, the so-called Babouchka, aged 86 and longtime foe of czarism and Bolshevism. Once jailed and exiled, she now lives in Passy while predicting the Soviet Union’s collapse within years. She recalls 1904 U S travel, praises Americans yet calls Russian affairs misunderstood, and credits public pressure with halting a Siberian third exile. She envisions a return to Petrograd when Russia regains its former title.
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Paris
Catherine Brechko-Brechkovskia
Nicholas II
Kerensky
Land of the Ovas
Soviet Social Republica
Pully
Siberia
Old Russia
United States
Babouchka
Leningrad
Petrograd
Emma Goldman
America
Irkusk
Danne
New Alaska Airways Formed In Merger Deal
The Aviation Corporation forms Alaska Airways Incorporated as holding company to promote commercial flying in Alaska. Graham B. Grosvenor serves as president. Carl Ben Bielson named Executive Vice President and General Manager. Negotiations transfer ownership of Web-Alaska Airways and the Herbert Rodebaugh Airplane Company to Alaska Airways, Inc.
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New York
The
Aviation Corporation
Alaska Airways
Alaska
Alaska Air
Graham B. Grosvenor
Carl Ben Bielson
Polar Flier
Eielson
Fair
Alaska Air Eways, Inc
Herbert Rode
Dbaugh Airplane Company
Alaska Airways, Inc
Capital City Liquor Ring Roundup Shocks Washington
Eight men arrested and four sought in a sweeping police and dry agents action described as the largest liquor ring operating in the capital city. All charged with conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act. Herber Glassman, owner of a car service and two garages, linked to the depots for liquor.
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Washington
Herber Glassman
Tor Equor
Will Arbitrate Cotton Strike In English Mills
Half a million workers resume work in Manchester after a three week stoppage as mills reopen next Monday. An eleventh hour conference secured agreement to submit wage reduction demands to arbitration, with old wages to prevail during discussions. Premier Ramsay MacDonald led the action ending the walk-out.
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Manchester
England
Ramsay MacDonald
Ube
Confesses to Slaying Girl in Minneapolis Case
H Olson a 29 year old Duluth dock worker confessed to killing Dorothy Anne in Minneapolis last Tuesday. Chief detective R E Donaldson questioned the story as Olson claimed drunken confusion and memory gaps after saying he killed her while she screamed. He attempted suicide by tying rocks around his neck and wading into water before arrest.
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Duluth
Minn
H. Olson
Dorothy Anne
Minneapolis
R. E. Donaldson
Olson
Chin
Australia’s Coal Trade At Standstill Amid High Costs
Australia's coal industry remains idle as producers resist wage cuts amid high costs. Miners refuse concessions while owners halt mines and shift orders to Britain, England, and New Zealand. South Australian Railways import fuel from overseas, strangling domestic demand. South American trade partners drop Australian shipments.
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Sydney
Newcastle
Australia
Great Britain
England
New Zealand
Commander Addison to Receive Higher Rank in U S C G
Commander Edward E. Addison of the U S G Unalga and Mrs. Addison sailed for the South on the Princess Charlotte to San Francisco for promotion proceedings before an examining board for Captain in the U S Coast Guard. A farewell salute and signaling flags marked their departure as Unalga eyes remaining in port under Lt. N S Hougen.
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Edward E. Addison
U. S
Addison
Junean
Virginia Addis
Addis
Unalga
N, 5
Hougen
Curse Rumor Haunts Chester Sheriff Lineup
Five years after a crone cursed the county jail, Chester Illinois records show a string of dire events. Sheriff J W Heine jailed, Deputy Sheriff Walter Mann slain, Sheriff L Roy Edmiston died of appendicitis, Deputy Sheriff J C Knott badly injured by jailbreakers, and Mrs M H Palmer, wife of the current sheriff, dies after surgery.
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Chester
J. W. Heine
Walter Mann
L. Roy Edmiston
J. C. Knott
Mn. M. H. Palmer
Society Divorce Involves Peerage Family Scandal
Mobert Duggan, heir to the Curzon and Duggan fortunes, faces a high society divorce that could reveal a domestic quarrel between Mayfair’s leading circles. The marriage of Mobert Duggan and Grace Elgina Hinds, once a sensational London union, is unraveling amid alleged marital difficulties and questions of inheritance.
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Mobert Duggans
London
Mobert Duggan
Marchioness
Curzon
Grace Elgina Hinds
Alfred Duggan
Mayfair
Nobile Plans New Arctic Flight After Berlin Visit
Gen Umberto Nobile, arriving in Berlin, is believed to be planning another Arctic expedition. He met with aeronautical experts, traveled to Gotha to consult scientists, and declined to discuss last disaster. He defended his aviation career, noting 16 years of study and 14 airships built, and pledged truth about the catastrophe when his book is published.
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Berlin
Umberto Nobile
Nobile
Gotha
Arctic
Italy
Enous
Rosika Dolly Sought Divorce in Paris Report
Paris report says stage actress Rosika Dolly filed divorce proceedings against husband Mortimer Davis in France. Dolly, staying at the Hotel du Cap d Antibes, declined to comment. The couple wed about a year and a half ago amid prior divorce rumors.
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Nice
France
Rookin Dolly
Stage
Mortimer Davis
Hotel du 'Joup
Cap d'Antibes
Davis
Three Wrangell Peaks Show Signs of Activity
Arrivals from the interior report three Wrangell Range peaks showing volcanic activity. Mt Wrangell’s display is spectacular but eruption not expected to be serious.
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Wrangell Range
Cordova
Alaska
Aus
Mt. Wrangell
Murderous split ends in slay and suicide near Chicago
Clarence Piener, estranged from Flora, slashed her in the throat and abdomen then killed himself. Flora was found under a car running board, later body discovered in a ditch. Piener had abducted their three year old daughter Dorothy last Monday, allegedly planning a travel with a woman friend. Flora whispered “My fails, band stabbed my” before dying.
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Chicago
Clarence, Piener
Flora
Floner
Fiener
Dorothy
Fiene
Chen
Mexican promoter hits commissioner in Mexico City
Mexico City August 16 the national boxing commission ruled that commissioners need not box and suspended promoter Frederico Guana accused of attacking a commissioner. The commission did not state whether the official was knocked out.
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Mexico City
Fational Baking Commission
Commisssion
Frederico Guana
Mississippi State Official Faces Corruption Charges
Jackson Miss August 16 Rush Knox attorney general of Mississippi stands indicted by the House for trial before the State Senate on impeachment for fraudulently collecting a 1610 commission in an insurance case. The committee cited high crimes and malfeasance and 11 other counts await action when the Legislature reconvenes after the weekend.
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Jackson
Miss
Rush Knox
Mississippi
House of Representatives
State Senate
House
Young killer to face private hanging for coast guard killings
Horace Alderman, 16, faces execution by hanging tomorrow for slaying two U S Coast Guards near a boat from the Bahama Islands. Government gallows on federal property shielded from view as he requested friends attend. Convicted for murders on the high seas in August 1927 and appealed to President Hoover citing jailer hardship.
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Port Lauderdale
Frs
Amer Horace Alderman
United States Coast Guards
Alderman
Sydney Sanderlin
Victor
Lamby
Augeust
Efthe Bahama Islands
Pregl
Dent Hoover
Investigation Into Death By Starvation In Alhambra
An inquest continues into the death of 28 year old Mrs Helen Konarski whose body was found in Alhambra California. Police say she has been nearly a prisoner for four months while her husband Sigmund Konarski a shell shocked war veteran kept her fed only on barley water as she suffered from asthma.
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Alhambra
Cal
Aly
Helen Konarski
Sigmund
Konarski
Millions See Lindbergh Trophies Showered At Jefferson
St Louis crowds flood the Lindbergh room as over 3,000,000 visitors view trophies for the aviator. The public adores a diamond pin with a large stone symbol and railroads and theater magnates prize lifetime passes to baseball games. Visitors hail the extraordinary display from Centerville to Moscow.
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Centerville
Moscow
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Hubert Duggan
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Duggan
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Dolly
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