Wiley Post receives White House welcome after world flight
President Roosevelt hails Wiley Post as the nation honors the Oklahoma aviator who circled the globe in a little over seven days. Post, escorted by Mrs. Post and navigator Harold Gatty, is celebrated in Washington and New York with parades and a city hall gold medal as crowds cheer the round-the-world feat despite rain delays.
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Wiley ‘Post
Roosevelt Land
Post
White House
Bolling Field
New York
Roosevelt
Citizens Military Training Corps
San
Gatty
Lee Trenholm
Walter M. Harrison
Oklahoma City
Howdy
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Mrs. Post
John P. O’brien
City Hall
Advertising Club
Governor Pollard to Wed Secretary Violet McDougall
Governor John Garland Pollard and his executive secretary Miss Violet Elizabeth McDougall will marry. The engagement was announced by Mrs. Ellen McDougall of Winnipeg, surprising many. Pollard, 61, is in California for the national governors conference. date of the wedding is not set. Miss McDougall, 44, is Pollard's future wife. Mrs. Pollard died last spring. Pollard has three children.
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John Garland Pollard
Violet Elizabeth McDougall
Ellen McDougall
Miss McDougall
Winnipeg
Canada
Pollard
California
National Conference of Governors
Churches In Reunion Today In Pen Mar Park
The forty fourth annual reunion of the Reformed churches of Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia and District of Columbia will be held at Pen Mar Park today. Reunion and park officials anticipate a large crowd with a park auditorium service this afternoon. William A Schnader of Harrisburg will deliver the principal address. An informal reunion of graduates and students will follow the services. The All College Hour will be led by Rev. Robert J Pilgrim of Lancaster with a program of hymns readings and prayers. The board of directors includes Hoffheing Barnhart Schminke Brenner Bierly Brinde Hamm Cob lentz and Yoder and others. PLANS TO SAIL Los Angeles actor Wallace Beery applied today for a passport for a six months tour of Europe. He and his family expect to sail from New York August 20. Dr H Y Benedict president of the University of Texas is the first graduate of the school to hold that position.
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Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Pen Mar Park
Park Auditorium
William A. Schnader
Harrisburg
Robert J. Pilgrim
Lancaster
Pen Mar
Simber
Tongues
Greene
Harvey A. Fesperman
Hagerstown
Lord
William E. Hoffheing
Washington, D. C
John L. Barnhart
D. D
Baltimore
Paul F. Schminke
York
Samuel 8. Brenner
Mechanicsburg
William Cc. Bierly
Frederick
Harry Brindie
Emory L. Coblentz
Middletown
Robert L. Hamm
Hanover
Felix B. Peck
Silver Run
John C. Sanders
Marion
Paul Yoder
Codorus
Los Angeles
Jay
Wallace Beery
Europe
New York
Furs Taken by Bold Robbers In Broad Daylight
New York, July 26. Within one block of a police station three bandits held up a fur store, bound 16 people, and escaped in a car with furs valued at 916,000. Proprietor Irving Feinberg and others were tied and forced into cardboard containers as the robbers loaded pelts into two vehicles. Drivers of nearby buses and cars were held on bonds of 600 each. Magistrate Phillips will conduct an inquest Monday.
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New York
Irving Feinberg
Benjamin Kramer
Hallahan
Philadelphia
J. v. Branshaw
Goldacre
George
Phillips
Berwyn
Woman killed in crash on highway near Beltaville
Beltaville Maryland July 28 Mrs Margaret Divens 21 of Laurel Maryland was killed and nine other persons injured in a violent collision on the Baltimore Washington boulevard during a heavy rainstorm. The victim was struck by Harding Frisell of Baltimore as a four car and truck pile up followed.
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Margaret Divens
Laurel
Maz
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