Southern Cross completes Pacific flight to Sydney
The Southern Cross and crew of four arrived in Sydney at 3:08 p.m. Pacific time completing the 7,800 mile voyage from Oakland. Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm led the Australasian American team through storms and celebrations as crowds hailed the historic end to the Pacific crossing. The final 500 miles from Brisbane to Sydney were flown amid cheers and national pride.
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Sydney
Australia
Pacific Ocean
Oakland
Cal
Brisbane
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Charles Ulm
Harry W. Lyon
James Warner
Southern Cross
California
Harry Lyon
Charles T. P. Ulm
Pacific
Ocean
Harmony Efforts Ahead as Democrats Plan Houston Convention
Washington reports Democrats press for unity at a Houston gathering in two weeks. Southerners show opposition to Gov. Smith’s candidacy despite leading delegate counts, aiming to block a nomination with a 733 1 3 vote threshold. Continuous regional rivalries loom over the party’s preparations.
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Washington
Houston
McAdoo
Smithich
Madison Square Garden
Harmony
Smith
South
Gov. Smith
Earhart Seaplane Delayed By Weather On Atlantic Run
The seaplane Friendship with Amelia Earhart Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon awaits favorable weather for a 2000 mile flight to England. After days in Trepassey Bay hindered by a leaky tank and fuel shortages, calm and wind changes keep off the takeoff as forecasts warn the 48 hour window may pass. Earhart, Boston socialite and aspiring Atlantic pioneer, watches rival Mabel Bell with interest as crew stay ready for optimal conditions.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Amelia Earhart
Wilmer Stultz
Lou Gordon
England
Trepassey Bay
Miss Earhart
Boston
Atlantic
Mabel Bell
Miss Bell
Stultz
Miss Bell Unable to Takeoff in Columbia Air Pact Weather
Thick weather and low clouds at Curtiss Field delay Mabel Bell's planned flight to Paris in Charles A. Levine's monoplane Columbia. Bell spends day in New York choosing wardrobe to send to Europe ahead of departure and plans to ship her gems by special messenger.
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New York
Mabel Bell
Paris
Charles A. Levine
Columbia
Miss Boll
Europe
Miss Bell
Italia
Messages from the Italia dirigible to the Citta di Milano confirm the missing expedition crew’s location off North East Land. Capt Ri Larsen and Lieut Luetzow Holm plan aBraganza ice breaker assisted relief flight within about ninety miles to reach the Italia crew and deliver supplies as weather permits.
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Associated Press
Kings Bay
Spitsbergen
Citta di Milano
Umberto Nobile
Italia
Dirigible
Giuseppi Diogi
Cape Leigh Smith
North East Land
Foyn Island
Ri -Larsen
Braganza
Luetzow-Holm
Itali
North East
North Cape
Decent Hoel
Hoel
Hull Leads In North Carolina As Smith Loses Ground
Raleigh June 9. United Press reports show Cordell Hull leading in North Carolina with 680 instructed delegates to the state convention next Tuesday while Governor Alfred E. Smith has 365 and a pledged bloc of 500 was tabulated as backing Hull opponents.
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Hull
North Carolina
Smith
Raleigh
N. C
Cordell Hull
Alfred E. Smith
Ambiguous Kentucky Delegates Favor Uninstructed Route
Kentucky democratic county conventions show most delegates to the June 14 Lexington state convention are uninstructed. From 20 counties, 246 pledged to Gov. Alfred E. Smith with about 350 uninstructed. Sen. A W Barkley has 65 delegates as a favorite son candidate and potential vice presidential choice.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Lexington
Alfred E. Smith
New York
A. W. Barkley
Slayer Weeps As Family Visits Him At Prison
Adolph Hotelling, who confessed to killing 5 year old Dorothy Schneider of Flint, was visited by his wife, son, and two daughters at Marquette penitentiary. A guard said Hotelling became hysterical, breaking down in tears during the one hour viewing. The family is camping nearby and may visit for up to three hours over several days according to prison rules.
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Ishpeming
Mid
Adolph Hotelling
Dorothy Schneider
Flint
Marquette Penitentiary
Hotelling
Kellogg Peace Gesture Meets Readied European Views
London dispatch reports mixed European reception to Kellogg Peace Pact ideas. Britain and Germany issued early, tactful replies showing war renunciation as a moral aim, while other powers weighed self interest against an international disarmament move.
Coolidge Considers Clemency In Triple DC Execution Case
President Coolidge weighs petitions from a delegation seeking clemency for three men Nicholas Seeagles Samuel Moreno and John Proctor convicted of killing Policeman Leo Busch during a robbery arrest in Washington The case marks the first triple DC execution since Lincoln era and follows a stay granted after the Supreme Court refused review and a recent substitution of the electric chair for the gallows.
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Coolidge
Kansas City
White House
District of Columbia
Surratt
Lincoln
Nicholas Seeagles
Samuel Moreno
John Proctor
Leo W. K. Busch
Petae
United States Supreme Court
Mr. Coolidge
Motor Caravan Heads to Kansas City Protest Rally
Northwest motor caravans move toward the Republican convention to denounce Hoover and back Lowden. Gov. Sorlie leads 19 cars from Jamestown with plans for about 400 cars from North Dakota and spread into South Dakota and Minnesota en route to Omaha and then Kansas City.
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ST. Paul
Northwest
Kansas City
A. G. Sorlie
North Dakota
Jamestown
South Dakota
Minnesota
Sorlie
Omaha
Hoover
Lowden
Dakotas
Hoover Owns Eighty Acre Farm Near Nodaway Missouri
Maryville Missouri June 9 Herbert Hoover secretary of commerce and GOP presidential candidacy opponent to farmers owns an eighty acre tract south of Graham in Nodaway county. He reportedly bought the farm from a California friend named Collins. The original 160 acres traced to 1850s owner Mr Mellon of Pittsburgh with farm manager W C Pierce of Farmers Trust Company Maryville.
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Maryville
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
Missouri
Graham
Nodaway County
California
Collins
Hoover
Mr. Mellon
Pittsburgh
W. C. Pierce
Farmers’ Trust Company of
Flower Show Draws 3000 Fans To Cedar Rapids Brucemore
Thousands visit the first Cedar Rapids Community Flower and Garden show at Brucemore under Cedar Rapids Garden club auspices. Mrs. George B. Douglas opened grounds with free admission as gate receipts from Friday and Saturday covered expenses. Exhibits feature labeled botanical plants, wild flowers from the Cedar Rapids Woman's club, and educational displays.
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Cedar Rapids
Brucemore
First Avenue
George B. Douglas
Cedar Rapids Sets up Airways Inc to Run All Weather Airship
Cedar Rapids forms a fifty thousand dollar corporation Cedar Rapids Airways Inc to operate commercially across the state with headquarters in Cedar Rapids John Jay head of Iowa Steel and Iron Works and Iowa Manufacturing Company Howard Hall secretary treasurer Dan Hunter Cedar Rapids aviator heads the new venture A Stinson-Detroiter plane to be delivered next Sunday named The Cedar Rapids will be six passenger monoplane and touted for safety and beauty Jay Hall and Hunter say Cedar Rapids will be the city ship for nationwide flights and shorter hops alike
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Cedar Rapids Airways, Inc
John Jay
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Howard Hall
Dan Hunter
Hunter Airplane Company
Aviation
Stinson
Middle West
Jay
Hall
Hunter
Mr. Jay
Where To Find Your Favorite Features Today
Local and world news sections cover editorial pieces and features. Notable items include a Bruce Barton editorial, college track and derby results in Chicago, and film industry notes.
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Bruce Barton
Masonic Grand Lodge
Cedar Rapids
Arthur Deansetter
Hoover Will Not Win Pa Votes, Watson Claims
Kansas City dispatch reports Watson headquarters announcing Pennsylvania's 73 Republican convention votes will not go to Herbert Hoover. Watson aides say Hoover will win at most 14 Pennsylvania votes, based on advices from Pennsylvania, source undisclosed.
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Kansas City
INS
Pennsylvania
Herbert Hoover
Watson
Hoover
News Behind The News At The Convention
David Lawrence will provide accurate nonpartisan reports from the Republican National Convention in Kansas City for Gazette and Republican readers. His daily wire dispatches will supplement standard coverage, with similar service planned for the upcoming Democratic gathering in Houston on June 26.
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Kansas City
Gazette
Republican
David Lawrence
America
Houston
Thaw Lands in France Rushes to Paris by Auto
Harry K. Thaw, barred from England as an undesirable visitor, landed at Cherbourg with a French visa and departed by automobile for Paris after declining to explain his reversal of an earlier plan to return to the United States. He commented on Ellis Island treatment of British visitors and said he wished to see his old tailor in London.
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France
Harry K. Thaw
England
Southampton
United States
Aquitania
Ellis Island
London
Paris
Girl Hypnotized as Dentist Removes Six Teeth
In Madison Wisconsin a nine year old girl Edith Carol Erickson was hypnotized to endure dental extraction at Wisconsin General Hospital during a congress of anesthetists She received six teeth removed while insensible to pain and later rested comfortably without pain The demonstration prompted complaints and the plan for a tonsil removal under hypnosis was dropped
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Madison
Wis
Edith Carol Erickson
Lowell
Milton N. Erickson
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin General Hospital
Congress
Sai
Committees To Work For Farm Plank In Platform
Two special committees were appointed at a Kansas City meeting to push for a farm equality plank in the Republican platform. George N. Peek and Mark Wood of Nebraska organized the effort with Wood as chairman of the executive committee named the committee for agricultural equality. Members include S. X. Way of the South and Mrs. C. H. Tye of Iowa as alternate-at-large.
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Kansas City
George N. Peek
Mark Wood
Nebraska
Wood
Committee For
S. X. Way
South
C. H. Tye
Iowa
Only Coolidge Can Block Him at Convention
Kansas City dispatch reports Hoover supporters push for nomination with Coolidge as a potential counter, while President Coolidge’s stance remains uncertain. Delegates from Pennsylvania and New York could sway first ballot outcomes as Mellon weighs a plan to back Coolidge or Hoover.
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Kansas City
Herbert Hoovey
Secretary of Commerce
Coolidge
Pennachee Cage
Ellen
Cal
Hoover
Mr. Coolidge
Battle Ground
Pennsylvania
New York
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Mellon
Whee
Treasury
Three Boy Scouts Sail for Africa to Join Game Hunters
Three 15 year old Boy Scouts Douglas Jr of Greensboro North Carolina David Fi Martin jr of Austin Minnesota and Douglas L Oliver of Atlanta Georgia sailed from New York to spend the summer with Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson at their camera safari in Kenya and Tanganyika They will stop in Paris for sightseeing and visits with French Boy Scouts before joining the safari party for big game country travel
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INS
Douglas Jr
Greensboro
N. C
David Fi. Martin Jr
Austin, Minn
Douglas L. Oliver
Atlanta
Gla
Martin Johnson
Camera Safari
Kenya
Tanganyika
Paris
Boyle
Bere Ee
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