Continental flight breaks transcontinental time record
In Hempstead Pilot Wesley Smith delivered yesterday's mail at 11 14 eastern time, completing the crossing in 26 hours 14 minutes. The previous best set by Lieutenants Kelly and MacReady was 26 hours 50 minutes, done separately. A second dispatch notes the last transcontinental air mail flight began yesterday from San Francisco and New York, totaling about 24000 miles with 8000 miles flown at night, under a government night airway.
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Hempstead
Wesley Smith
Kelly
MacReady
Chicago
San Francisco
New York
Air Service
Record Flight Time Sets Westward Air Mail Pace
San Francisco reports another air mail milestone as Pilot Vance lands his plane ahead of schedule from the east in two hours and 41 minutes less than expected.
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San Francisco
Vance
Air Mail Service Praised by Post Official
Col. Paul Tender son, second assistant postmaster general, told Omaha Chamber of Commerce leaders at a luncheon that the air mail link between New York and San Francisco completed in 26 hours 14 minutes will soon connect all major U.S. industrial centers by lighted airways, boosting national commerce.
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Omaha
Chamber of Commerce
Paul Tenderson
New York
San Francisco
United States
Last Mail Is Late After Transcontinental Flight
Hempstead August 25 The last eastbound flyer arrived at 11:17 this morning completing the distance in 26 hours 14 minutes three minutes behind yesterday’s record set.
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Hempstead
No Election Talk Urged in Fascist Italy Press
MILAN Aug 25 Premier Mussolini's Popolo d Italia says in editorials that all talk of elections should cease as the Fascisti can live in peace without elections. The piece underscores a stance of political stability and uninterrupted rule.
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Milan
Mussolini
Popolo d'Italia
Unmasked Bandits Steal $4,000 Payroll in San Francisco
Three unmasked bandits halted the paymaster Elfred O Connor near the waterfront and fled with a satchel containing $4,000. The Aug 25 robbery targeted the Standard Stevedore Company payroll and occurred in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Elfred O'Connor
Standard Stevedore Company
Salmon runs rise in Seattle says fisheries chief
Seattle August 25 The runs of the principal kinds of salmon are increasing this season, says Ernest Seaborg state director of fisheries. The sockeye run is better than four years ago, and humpback prospects look larger than usual. He credits a ten day suspension of fishing during the height of the run two years ago, a similar order this year, for the uptick.
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Seattle
Ernest Seaborg
Seaborg
Turks fire on American flag at Gallipolli launch
A telegram from Igbros reports Turkish troops at Gallipolli fired on a launch bearing an American flag with 10 refugees aboard. One man was killed and one woman seriously wounded. In Washington, President Coolidge announced General Sawyer will remain as his personal physician.
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Athens
Igbros
Gallipolli
Washington
Coolidge
General Sawyer
International counterfeiting ring unearthed in Honolulu
Aug 25 authorities reveal a developing international counterfeit operation centered in Honolulu with links to the Orient. Nine arrested, eight Japanese and one Spanish-Hawaiian. Federal officers hold $260,000 in counterfeit bills and two seized presses. The operation, tied to opium smugglers, has been active about two years. More details on Page Five.
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Honolulu
Alaska Reindeer Placed on British Banquet Menu
Seattle report says the local Chamber of Commerce sent an Alaskan reindeer for a banquet hosted by the Los Angeles Adventurers' Club. British scientists soldiers and explorers on a Pacific Coast journey will dine on reindeer to represent Alaska. Salmon is included as Puget Sound food.
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Seattle
Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles Adventurers’ Club
Pacific Coast
Puget Sound
Counterfeit Gang Members Are Convicted
In San Francisco on Aug 25 Fred Eakins of San Francisco and John Silva of Los Angeles were convicted in federal court of possessing 484 counterfeit dollar notes at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. They belong to a gang that operated from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Three members have been sentenced to Leavenworth and three others await trial in Seattle.
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San Francisco
Fred Eakins
John Silva
Los Angeles
Federal
Federal Reserve Bank of
Vancouver
B. C
Leavenworth
Seattle
Wilson's Son-in-law Becomes Siam King Adviser
Francis B. Sayre, son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson and Harvard professor, announces he will serve as legal adviser to the King of Siam, taking a one year leave of absence from Harvard.
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Wilson
King of
Siam
Santa Barbara
Francis B. Sayre
Woodrow Wilson
Harvard University
Maj General March Married in London Ceremony
Major General Peyton C. March retired former Chief of Staff of the American Army and Miss Cora McEntee wed at the Registry Office in London this forenoon and departed for Paris on their wedding trip.
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London
Peyton C. March
Cora MecEntee
Registery Office
Paris
Flood Strikes Juarez Two Lives Reported Lost
In Juarez across the Rio Grande, a flood last night killed two people injured seven seriously and several others slightly, causing about 200000 in damages to adobe houses. The event was reported from El Paso, Texas.
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Juarez
Paso
Tex
Edobe Houtes
Rio Grande
Nineteen Women Drawn for Local Court Jury Panels
Nineteen women were drawn to serve on grand and petit jury panels for the fall term of the local U S District Court convening November 12. The lists include Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, and Douglas residents led by Mrs. B M Behrends, Mrs. Helen Rice, Mrs. Anna Morrison, and others. The complete grand jury and petit jurors named span Juneau, Sitka, Skagway, Douglas, and Stikine River communities with numerous local contenders.
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U. S. District Court
Dovn Law
Skagway
Sitka
Juneau
B. M. Behrends
Hector McLean
Lillian Black
Skagi Mi
M. Adsich
E. L. Hunter
Ed Larson
M. P. Lagerertm
Jaims Powers
B. M. Belrends
I. Charlebois
Reimer Simpson
John Hollywood
Waldo C. Mills
Martin Thompson
George J. Beck
Hoonalh
J. M. Blankenberg
Tenakee
Anna Shudshift
EB. Smith
Douglas
Frank Wilson
Dudley J. Mulvahill
George Fields
HH. ¢. Hughes
H. F. Sockoloff
I. J. Sharick
Anna J. Morrison
W. E. Bathe
Grace McGill
L. Kron
Fred Sorri
W. L. Spear
J. M. Keller
Miss Mzble P. Stone
J. W. Flynn
Mre
William M
Selma
I’. Soffecool
Tom Johnson
William Henry Bay
F. A. Mills
Ole Soberg
J. E. Anderson
John Winkie
Chechagof
Columbia River Salmon Pack Valued At Wholesale Prices
The Columbia River salmon pack this year is valued at 1,075,500 wholesale dollars. Three hundred nine thousand cases were canned and 1,165 tierces of mild cure were produced, each tierce weighing 800 pounds. The season ended at noon today.
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Astoria
Columbia River
Sorrow over death of Premier Kato expressed by Hughes
Secretary of State Hughes sent a message to Japanese Foreign Minister Uchida expressing sorrow at Premier Katos death and noting the service in cementing lasting bonds of friendship between the two peoples.
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Washington
Hughes
Uchida
Kato
Kate
No Recognition Of Mexico Until Next Month
The White House states the United States will not formally announce resumption of diplomatic relations with Mexico until mid or late September due to the need to seek information about certain exchanges.
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Mexico
Washington
White House
United States
Johnson Stronger in California After Letter Publication
San Francisco August 25. Albert E. Boynton chairman of the California State Republican Committee denounced the publication of private letters from Senator Johnson to Charles K. McClatchy of Sacramento that appeared in the San Francisco Journal and said Johnson is stronger in California than ever. He noted several private letters were stolen from his office.
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San Francisco
Senator Johnson
Charles K. McClatchy
Sacramento
Albert BE. Boynton
California
Boynton
Japan Opposes Plan to Control Chinese Railways
Tokyo objects strenuously to a Peking sponsored plan by the foreign diplomatic corps allied with Britain to control Chinese railways. Japan proposes one Chinese director with foreign inspectors to ensure guards are paid from railway revenues.
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Tokio
Japan
Peking
Legation
Kate Douglas Wiggin Dead Harrow England
American author Kate Douglas Wiggin died in Harrow England at age noted as the prima donna of literature. A pioneer in early education she helped start the Silver Street Kindergarten in San Francisco and promoted kindergarten methods from Maine to California with philanthropic work.
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Harrow
England
Kate Douglas Wiggin
United States
Wiggins
Sarah B. Cooper
Wiggin
Grave European Situation Alarms U S Officials
Washington reports indicate grave apprehension over Germany's internal state despite signs of modest improvement. Senators and representatives who studied European conditions this summer warn of a disquieting outlook, with discouragement common in diplomatic circles and fears of a central European crash. The Coolidge administration appears bound to accept Harding's previously mapped course on the Ruhr.
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Washington
Germany
Senate
House
Europe
France
Ruhr
Coolidge
Iate
Harding
Birkenhead Urges Self Interest In U S Europe Policy
The Earl of Birkenhead, former Lord Chancellor of England, told the Institute of Politics in Williamstown that self-interest should decide whether the United States intervenes in Europe. He warned America must remember great nations need a large world to develop and warned against idealistic intervention.
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Williamstown
Woodrow Wilson
Earl of
Airman Knight Wins Long Night Flight To Dad
Air Mail Pilot Knight landed in Buchanan Michigan at 7 30 am after flying nearly 1000 miles from Cheyenne to reach his dying father with pneumonia. The feat marked the longest night flight on record and earned him a perilous victory over death.
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Buchanan, Mich
Air Mail
Knight
Cheyenne
Pinchot to Act in Coal Strike Mediation
Governor Pinchot named by President Coolidge as intermediary in the anthracite dispute invites four miners union representatives and four mine operators to meet in Harrisburg to begin new negotiations for settlement.
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Harrisburg
Pinchot
Coolidge
Miners’ Union
Croatian Spy Danitza Androliteh Faces Jail in Agram
BELGRADE Aug 25 Danitza Androliteh a Croatian woman using the alias Ida Birner offered Italian military secrets to the Serbian Croatian capital chief of staff. He sent two sentries to watch her. Reports say she sent 12 coded documents abroad before arrest.
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Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Danitan Androliteh
Danitza
Agram
Italy
Ida Birner
Italan
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