French trans Atlantic birdmen greeted in Paris crowds
Paris June 17 three French aviators Jean Assolant Renale Fevre and Armeno Lotti arrived after crossing the ocean. A garrulous stowaway Arthur Schreiber hoped for pay from his story. Colonel Lindbergh loaned a suit, while crowds gathered at Le Bourget to cheer the visitors upon their landing from Comillas Spain.
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Paris
Jean Assolant
Rena le Fevre
Armeno Lotti
Arthur Schreiber
Lindbergh
Schreiber
le Bourget
Comillas
Spain
Forday
Drives Auto on $9 Wages
Charles Imyre a local youth who drives his own car but earns only one week at a local restaurant was fined $11 by Justice Richard Yutfey in city court for tampering and damaging a machine. A rower garage owner and others faced fines for unlawful markers and using ham while working yesterday. Mowen was fined $1.75 for speeding past City Park on Virginia Avenue.
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Charles Imyre
Richard Yutfey
Hayre
Bowers
Virginia Avenue
Vhis
Justice Tyuftey
Normal grads to get posts in teaching positions
Superintendent B J Grimes and city principals meet with Normal School graduates at Antietam Street building to place graduates in teaching vacancies this Fall. Graduates will be selected to fit vacancies matching their two years in Normal School. Expectation is that all will be placed.
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B. J. Grimes
Antietam Street
Soft Wheat Millers Meeting Here Today
The annual meeting of the Soft Wheat Millers Export Corporation in Maryland Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia is held today at Alexandria with about members attending. The first session began this morning and lunch was taken at noon. The conference is a business meeting where wheat trade matters are discussed. The event will end late this afternoon.
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Soft Wheat
Millers’ Export Corporation
Snow blankets Lake Tahoe in June in California
Snow four inches deep covered the Lake Tahoe landscape overnight as rain fell yesterday. The temperature was about 34 degrees.
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Blan
Cab Driver Held in Death of Chas. Brown
Charles Batt, a Leitersburg taxi driver, detained after a wreck near Lappans Cross Roads while under investigation of the death of Charles Brown 38 found along the pike near Leitersburg. Batt says Brown rode with him Saturday night and fell from the car. No charges yet. body to be reexamined. Brown, a stove mason, left a widow and five children. Funeral set for Tuesday at 11. Interment Leitersburg Cemetery.
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Charles Batt
Lappans Cross Roads
Charles Brown
Leitersburg
Teitersburg
Batt
Harper Ballentine
Brown
Jacob M. Wishard
Lestersburg
Hagerstown
Reaves
City Begins 1929 20 Taxes Amid First-Day Flow
City Tax Collector Danial E. Down started issuing 1929 20 tax bills this morning as crowds gathered for early service. Eleanor Albert and George B. Paulseroy were among the first to receive bills on South Potomac Street. City bills include a 4 percent discount through January, with payments due after that. County Tax Collector Barry M. Hartle also began issuing bills, with collection starting tomorrow morning. Doctor R. H. Evvey, who had left for California, was allowed to pay his bill.
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Danial E. Downin
Eleanor Albert
South Potomac Street
George B. Paulseroy
Jane
Barry M. Hartle
Appropriation Bill Ratified in Farm Relief Measure
Washington June 17 The House swiftly approved a bill to appropriate 151,500,000 of the 50,000,000 authorized under the farm relief act following President Hoover's recommendation. The action marks rapid federal response to support farm relief initiatives.
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Washington
Hoover
House
Mysterious Monette Stop Sparks Island Ice and Gas Findings
On Block Island a cargo ship Monette carried TS pounds of ice 180 gallons of gas one mackerel and one newspaper after a stop by skipper Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride. The event occurred June 1 as reported by UPA.
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Block Island
UPA
Charles A. Lindbergh
Wisconsin moves to attack dry law from new angle
Milwaukee figure J. D. Hardgrove argues the Eighteenth Amendment binds individuals and firms but not states. Senator Gettelman and Assemblyman Grobschmidt plan a joint resolution for immediate action, potentially via referendum to allow Wisconsin state liquor manufacture.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
J. D. Hardgrove
Milwaukee Bar Association
Hardgrove
Ben Gettelman
John Grobschmidt
Young son brings father's body home after sailboat tragedy
Oxford Md June 17. John Elliott 18 returned with his father’s body aboard after an all day struggle with a sloop. James H. Elliott of Vienna Md died on the first turn of a new craft.
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Oxford
John Elliott
James H. T. Elliott
Vienna
Wilbur Voliva Maintains Flat Earth Belief After Europe Tour
New York June 17. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, back from a four month tour of Europe and Northern Africa, declares he remains convinced the earth is flat. He offers a $5,000 reward to anyone who can convince him otherwise.
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New York
Europe
Africa
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Garage man found guilty on one count
Baltimore June 17 garage owner P J Franklin Shirey was found guilty on one count of false pretense involving a $225 check in State Road fund cases. The jury recommended mercy. Judge S K Dennis released him on old bail pending sentence, noting no clear benefit beyond gaining favor with State Roads officials.
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Baltimore
J. Franklin Shirey
S. K. Dennis
Shirey
State Roads Commission
Salo Wins Cross U S Bunion Derby After Exhausting Race
Johnny Salo, 46, of Passaic New Jersey, wins C Q O Pyle transcontinental foot race covering 3685 miles to claim 25000 first prize. His margin over Pete Gavuzzi stands at 2 minutes 47 seconds as the finish ends in Los Angeles. Gavuzzi receives 10000 for second.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Johnny Salo
C. Q O. Pyle
Salo
New York City
Pete Gavuazi
Gavuzzi
Passaic
N. J
Volcano Eruption Shakes Otaru Japan
Komagatake volcano north of Otaru erupted today after a decade of quiet. Lava flow threatened forests on the mountain side as ashes blanketed nearby villages three to five inches deep. Residents deserted homes amid tremors. no casualties reported though damage feared significant.
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Otaru
Japan
Haarodate
Housewives Glad This Thief Caught
New York June 1 The married life of many Queensboro counties will probably be more peaceful now that a burglar who specialized in entering bedrooms and looting husbands pockets has become arrested.
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New York
Queensboro
Wabash No Reopen Hearings On Eastern Consolidation
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied the Wabash railroad’s bid to reopen hearings on consolidating eastern railroads. No decision was issued on grouping eastern carriers, though the Wabash plans to seek permission to consolidate with Wheeling and Lake Erie, Western Maryland, and Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroads to form a new eastern trunk line. The commission has allowed theWabash to intervene in consolidation plans of the Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wabash Railroad
Wabash
Commission
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Western Maryland
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
The
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio
Shriners Return From Trip West
Illustrious Potentate Roy A. Leiter of Ali Ghan Temple and family returned from Los Angeles where leaders from Cumberland attended Imperial Council sessions and Shrine festivities. The Cumberland party, including Mr. Shoemaker and Harry A. Manley, gathered Shrine information to share at the next Ali Gran Temple meeting in Cumberland on June 28. Leiter expresses enthusiasm about the trip.
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Cumberland
Leiter
FARMER HART TEAM IS HIT
Charles Trail a farmer west of Hancock remains in serious condition after his team was struck by an automobile driven by F G Cogswell of Pittsburgh. Cogswell paid a $100 fine for driving while intoxicated when he appeared before Justice Huber. Trail, who has one leg, was hurt when a fan lodged in his limb during the hunt. The buggy was demolished and Trail suffered a fractured collar bone and probable internal injuries. The horse was unhurt.
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Charles Trail
Hancock
F. G. Cogswell
Pittsburgh
Cogswell
Justice Huber
Trail
May Rain Toads and a Divorce Suit in One Morning
A local report notes a big toad seen by Martin Luthor Bell after heavy rain near the Bell home, heading for soup. meanwhile Harriet B Kreps files for absolute divorce from Reymond K Kreps after a 1921 marriage. Kreps previously served six months for dizzy driving. Oliver Brown Gordon of 206 West Washington will receive a BA at Boston University commencement tomorrow afternoon among about a thousand degrees granted.
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Keller B. Bell
Martin Luthor
Bell
Bell Family
Harriet B. Kreps
Reymond
Kreps
Maryland Mouse of Correction
Dizzy
Oliver Brown Gordon
West
Washington Street
Boston University
Grapefruit Diet Alarm Drives Women To Extreme Plan
New York (June 16) reports that Manhattan women actresses stenographers and debutantes are embracing a Hollywood diet centered on grapefruit. The 18 day plan promises a pound lost daily with meals dominated by grapefruit and limited other foods. Doctors warn of risks including acidosis kidney trouble and anaemia.
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New York
Manhattan
Hollywood
Florida
City Warns Against Bootlegging Fireworks Ahead Of Fourth
Police warn that bootlegging of firecrackers and other fireworks will be dealt with strictly under new and old city ordinances. They note pre July Fourth sales and late-night firing have sparked complaints, and enforcement will target sale and out of season use with charges in police court.
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Ouly
Misspelled Word Causes Trouble in Nomination
The White House found room for spelling improvement after Frederic A. Tilton’s nomination as third assistant postmaster general was sent to the Senate with a wrong first name letter. The erroneous form was confirmed, but no such person exists. a new nomination with the correctly spelled name will be prepared for transmittal.
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Washington
White House
Frederic A. Tilton
Senate
Post Office Department
Frederick A. Tilton
Mother asks police help locating missing son in Chicago
A Chicago mother at 2838 S Keeler Avenue asks police to locate her son William F Jankowske alias Janke, who lived with the Heisers on Park Avenue in late 1922. She is ill and not expected to live long and requests a letter from him. He was 34 in January. Mrs A Jankowsk'
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S. Keeler Avenue
Chicago
William F. Jankowske
Janke
Park Avenue
Heiser
A. Jankowsk
Plenty Of Twins At This Wedding
In Anderson Indiana on June 17 the Misses Alverta and Lavern a Morgan twins will wed in a double ceremony. Five other sets of twins will attend as guests and flower girls in attendance.
American bride of aviator talks to him over phone
Mme Jean Assolant, bride of the Yellow Bird pilot, begins passport plans after a three minute trans Atlantic call from New York to Paris. She waited three hours at a phone in Old Orchard and spoke to Jean Assolant as he landed at Le Bourget Field. She plans to join him in Paris on the first available boat and would have stowed away if warned.
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New York
Mme
Jean Assolant
Yellow Bird
Hasband
Old Orchard
Assolant
le Bourget Field
America
Hotel Lotti
Paris
Schreiber
Rum Runner Shot as He Fleeing Plattsburgh Border
In Plattsburgh New York Arthur Gord 22 was killed while fleeing with 27 cases of beer from Canada. Border patrol claim shooting accidental while Gordon tangled with officers. district attorney seeking murder charges and subpoenas for town officials and border patrols. Gordon died en route to hospital after his car stalled near the border.
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Plattsburgh
Arthur Gord
Canada
John C. Tulloch
Ogdensburg
Customs Border Patrol
Distri
O'Connell
Georg Brunnell
John Doe
B. Loyal O’connail
Cheatham
Hi Ri
Gordon
Tulloch
Coveney
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary of Judge Hamilton and Wife
Judge Hamilton and Mrs. Hamilton celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary at home on East Washington Street with a noon dinner. The couple, advanced in years, remain active. Judge Hamilton attends Orphans' Court meetings twice weekly and is a veteran local lawyer and longtime Orphans' Court judge.
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Hary Hamilton
Orphans’ Court
Hamilton
East Washington Street
Orphans’ Courts
Berries Move to Markets Across Washington County
Washington County raspberry shipments began toward city markets with signs of an evening pull to Pittsburgh. Most fruit came from Beaver Creek and Samples Manor, areas spared by last summer's hail. Prices were not yet reported. last year growers earned about 6 dollars per crate. The berries, while not as plentiful as some crops, are of good quality.
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Washington County
Pittsburgh
Beaver Creek
Samples Manor
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