Coolidge Chooses Brule River Summer White House
President Coolidge selects a summer White House on the Brule River Wisconsin about six miles from Brule Cedar Island Lodge to serve as residence while executive offices may be in Superior The estate includes thousands of wooded acres and the living quarters lie on a small island connected by a footbridge Approximate altitude about 1000 feet and the plan is to depart Washington after budget speech around June 11 with details continuing on page 9
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Washington
Goolidge
White House
Brule River
Superior
Wisconsin
Coollage
Henry Clay Pierce
Cedar Island Lodge
Brule
White ‘House Ciill
Chicago
Coolidge
Sealer Hobby To Lead Arctic Blimp Search Mission
Onlo reports the Hobby with Italia search plans, while Ingefour is chartered to ferry navy planes to Spitsbergen. Captain Risser-Larsen and Lieutenant Leif Dietrichson, Amundsen veterans, command scouting flights as the two ships head toward Advent Bay. The mission includes dogs, a sledge, and supplies for a dog team ashore to locate the missing dirigible.
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OnLo
Norway
Italia
Ingefour
Spitsbergen
Arctic
Risser-Larsen
Leif Dietrichson
Roald Amundseh
Hobby
Advent Bay
Citti de Milano
Italla
Attempt at Record Fail Ends Long Flight in Calamity
In Banta Ana California on May 31 a monoplane Albatross attempting a world endurance flight was forced to land after a flight lasting about 15 1 hours. Engine trouble caused the crash and a central motor failed later. Valve trouble in a remaining engine ended further flight. Takeoff at 7 am with 1200 gallons of gasoline aimed to lift 40 pounds per horsepower.
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Banta Ana
Cal
Italians Try For Record U S Holds Flight Attempt
Italian aviators Major Ferraro and Captain Cario Delprete launched from Montecello field at 6 AM in an 8-64 plane to challenge world duration and distance records. The route looped over the area near the field as part of the bid. Also noted Dr William Alexander Young, linked to yellow fever studies, has died in Africa amid reports of illness.
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Rome
Ferrari A Ad
Cario P. Delprete
Montecello
London
Wm. Alexander Young
Hideyo Noguchi
Africa
President Coolidge’s Wisconsin Summer White House
In Superior Wisconsin a luxurious forest summer home will serve as the summer White House for President Coolidge. It overlooks primeval pines and the trout-filled river, and is about an hour by car from Superior.
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Superior
Wis
White House
President Coolidge
Wisconsin
Fall Suffers More Attacks In California Visit
Monica California May 31 P A packs induced by altitude forced B Fail former Secretary of proterior to cut short a beach visit and return to the Encinng Sanatorium at Pasadena His condition worsened at sea level after arriving two days ago to see C N Bassett former El Paso banker He had been recuperating for weeks from a pneumonia attack.
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Monica
Cal
B. Fail
Proterior
Othe Beach
Ana Encinng
Pasadens
C. N. Bassett
el Paso
Congressmen Ride With Los Angeles Dirigible Flight
LAKEHURST N J May 31 The naval dirigible Los Angeles took off for a training flight with seven Representatives in Congress aboard. They traveled here from Washington in two army airplanes. Names include C A Wolverton New Jersey John R Morin and George Welsh Pennsylvania Thomas S McMillan South Carolina and Frank Clague Allen J Parlow M J Maas Minnesota. NEW FOREST WARDEN E R McCulough has been appointed deputy forest warden for two years. His commission was received at the Clerk's office. THROWN FROM SWING Isabelle Hoover daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Hoover was slightly hurt yesterday after being thrown from a porch swing while visiting friends.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Los Angeles
Congress
Washington
C. A. Wolverton
New Jersey
John R. Morin
George Welsh
Pennsylvania
Thomas S. McMillan
South Carolina
Frank Clague
Allen J. Parlow
M. J. Maas
Minnesota
E. R. McCulough
Isabelle Hoover
Albert “Hoover
North Mulberry’ Street
Heflin On Payroll Of Klan Debate Hits Sugar Tax
Democratic congressional candidate David J. Lewis spoke at Yale Summit against the sugar tax and tariff sales tax. He urged Hamiltonian bounty protection for sugar producers and cited 1927 sugar consumption and import figures. He announced plans for more than 150 speeches across the Sixth District, with events including Memorial Day remarks in Lonaconing.
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Yale Summit
David J. Lewis
Congress
Country Institute
Alexander Hamilton
Lewis
Memorial
Lonaconing
American Legion
Saga
United States
Hamilton
Two Distance Flyers Missing Since Tuesday
Madrid reports Captains Ignacio Iglesias and Francisco Jiminez vanished after departing Seville at noon Tuesday aiming to break the world distance flight record. Speculation places them eastward toward India or toward Havana with plans possibly extending to Manila, weather along the route reportedly favorable.
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Madrid
Ignacio Iglesias
Francisco Jiminez
Seville
Spain
India
Havana
Cuba
Manila
Locust Bloom Heavy Signals Strong Corn Prospects
Locust trees are in heavy bloom this year a traditional sign among farmers of a good corn crop. Rain yesterday improved conditions for corn and grass. Farmers say hot weather is needed now. Most corn is up and looks healthy across fields.
Smallpox Reported in Frog Hollow Area
A second smallpox case in the county is reported from Frog Hollow below Sharpsburg with a Goodhart girl quarantined. A prior advanced case of a woman from South Boulevard was noted yesterday. Health authorities maintain strict quarantines and say no spread alarm. Alvarez dismissed in Mexico City for connivance in amujeing.
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Frog Hollow
Sharpsburg
Goodhart
South Boulevard
Finds Wife Dead When He Returns
Seattle report tells of Corporal Rustan C Reed of the 43rd Wisconsin Volunteers returning from march to reunion with his wife Julia. A memorial crowd witnessed her wave before she fell dead as Reed turned the corner, news of a sudden bereavement amid the long march and homecoming.
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Seattle
Rustan C. Reqd
43Rd
Wisconsin Volunteers
Julia
Reed
Fall Of Peking Again Imminent
London dispatches report the fall of Peking appears imminent as nationalist forces advance. Chang Tso-lin is said to retreat toward Manchuria with troops already moving from the city across the great wall, indicating a possible withdrawal to Inchuria.
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Peking
London
Tator
Inchuria
Tokio
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Independent U S Plans Action Over Tientsin Treaty Port
A Reuters dispatch from Shanghai reports Brigadier General Smedley Butler may act independently if needed in the Tientsin area. He reportedly has freedom of action but will withdraw American nationals from threatened points, avoiding clashes with Chinese. A precautionary defense perimeter of about ten miles around the treaty port is planned amid nationalist advances toward Peking.
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London
United States
Tientsin
Reuter
Shanghai
Smedley D. Butler
China
Peking
Tientain
Mrs. M. O. Smith Hears Lincoln and Coolidge in Gettysburg
Mrs. M. O. Smith of Hanover, Pennsylvania, recounts hearing both Abraham Lincoln and Calvin Coolidge speak at Gettysburg Cemetery on May 31 in a historic hometown moment.
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Lincoln
Coolidge
Gettysburg
M. O. Smith
Hanover
Heflin Fueled By Klan Fees In 1930s Campaign Evidence
William Zumbrunn, Klan general counsel, testified before the Senate campaign committee that the Ku Klux Klan paid Senator Heflin of Alabama for speeches supporting Governor Smith. He cited payments of 250 dollars in Ohio and New York, and 150 to 250 dollars in Iowa, with state organizers handling payments. He said the national body contributed nothing to those meetings.
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Washington
Ku Klux Klan
Heffin
Alabama
Smith
William Zumbrunn
Heflin
Senate
Ohio
New York
Towa
Klan
KA Gibranni
Steiner
Cohnnéction
Oregon
National’ Organization
Winston Salem
N. C
Zumbrenn
Pole Flight May Be Race
New York May 31 Air race to the South Pole takes shape as Captain George H Wilkins opens expedition headquarters at the Waldorf Astoria while Commander Richard Byrd prepares at the Hotel Biltmore near the same goal Both aim to fly from the ice rim to the Pole and back before next Christmas leading the two Antarctic efforts by sea air and exploration authorities to mark a historic ascent
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New York
South Pole
George H. Wilkins
Arctic
May Bank Clearings Rise 121 Percent in Hagerstown
May clearings in Hagerstown reached 1,375,172.88 dollars, up 432,698.87 from May 1927’s 3,282,474.01 dollars. John B. Kiefer of the Hagerstown Clearing House Association announced the year over year increase.
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Hagerstown
John B. Kiefer
Hagerstown Clearing, House Association
Lord Justice Scrutton on Beauty Specialists Opinions
London May 31 Lord Justice Scrutton voices views on beauticians in a litigation between two practitioners. He says these specialists trade on a large number of wealthy yet unbrains that spend to improve faces Providence has given them.
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London
Justice Scrutton
May Court Is Closed Today In Busy Session
The May term of court closed after evidence in the Frances Schwing vs James Keller case for 192.50 damages to a car struck by Keller’s truck near Rockville on September 21, 1927. Judge Wagaman will sentence prisoners at 1 30 this afternoon while the Eppler versus heirs suit for legal services is set for June 18.
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Nolse
Frances Schwing
Washington
James R. Keller
Sandy Hook
Cumberland
Michael Fesonmier
Eppler
Wagaman
Fess Files Candidacy Declaration in Columbus
United States Senator Simeon D. Fess filed his declaration of candidacy for renomination at the Columbus Secretary of State office ahead of the August primaries. The action formalizes his bid and confirms his campaign status.
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Fess
Columbus
Ohio
United States
Simeon D. Fess
Even Stayton Backs Barber On Prohibition Tradeoff
Captain William H Stayton of the association backs Police Chief Thos L Barber of Hagerstown in opposing a full return of saloons. Public support in Hagerstown favors change from local option law before the 18th Amendment. Stayton signals a compromise between total prohibition and full wetness, rejecting a return to old saloon days.
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William. H. Stayton
Thos. L. Barber
Hagerstown
Barber
Jacob Graut
Claveland
Washington “County
Slayton
400 Fishermen Missing After Tsunami Hit Hokkaido Fleet
Tokyo reports from Sapporo indicate 400 fishermen are missing and feared drowned after a massive tidal wave struck the Sarubatsu fishing fleet off Hokkaido's northeast coast. Official confirmation awaited.
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Tokyo
Sapporo Sey
Beieved
Sarubatsu
Hokkaido
Virginia 17 Year Locust Invasion Seen Not Dangerous
Entomologists in Washington predict little danger of a Maryland Virginia 17 year locust invasion this year. J A Miller in Weedysville argues swarms will not reach Western Maryland. Alexandria reports heavy swarms and a loud drone as insects emerge, but Miller notes cycles and a 30 to 40 day lifespan limit spread.
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Virginia
Maryland
Department of Agriculture
Washington
J. A. Miller
Weedysville
Potomac River
Alexandria
Lfe
Miller
Mr. Miller
Sleventeen
Flight timeline and fuel details for transcontinental hops
The report describes a monoplane and a tri motor Fokker at Oakland airport with fuel tanks holding 1200 gallons for a flight from the Golden Gate to Australia. It notes two Australians and two Americans among the flyers and mentions altitude around 19 and general confidence ahead of the leg to the air station top.
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Australia
A. i . Oakland
Goff and Al Smith Lead West Virginia Primaries
Reports from 1707 to 1735 precincts show Senator Guy D. Goff leading the Republican contest with 088 votes and Hoover with 4152 in West Virginia. Democratic results show Alfred E. Smith leading with 51,344 over James Reed, while Hatfield, Gore, and Rosen bloom head the Republican U S Senate race. Conley leads the Republican gubernatorial race in Charleston as Waugh trails. Democratic gubernatorial contenders Hogg and Tayter hold a tight multi candidate race.
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Charleston
W.va
Guy D. Goff
West, Virgina
Alfred
BE. Smith
New York
Gott ‘Oe
Herbert Hoover
Smith
James’ A. Reed
Missouri
United States
Henry D. Hatfield
Howard M. Gore
Benjamin L. Rosenbloom
Wheeling
Conley
Seema
William G. ‘Conley
Charieeton
Ray H. Waugh
Buckhausen
Waugh
Twce, Dy
Gary Hogg
J. Alfred.Tayter
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Amundsen
U. S
Alvarez
Mexico City
Calles
Long
U.S
Wilkins
North Pole
MAY Court
Stayton
Chief Barber
Goff and
al” Smith
Hatfield
MigeKo Ratchanen
Eine
A. BL
Ket Woesterm
Maryhand
Riverview Cemetery
Mers
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