Pilot's nonstop gulf to Canada flight shocks with record
Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker flew a De Haviland from Ellington field Houston to Selfridge field near Mount Clemens in 11 hours 54 minutes, then crossed into Canada 11 hours 29 minutes after takeoff. He endured 29 storms and flew as low as 100 feet, Pulitzer-like courage under dangerous weather.
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Mt. Clemens
Mich
Gulf of Mexico
Canada
Harrison G. Crocker
Kellyfield
San Antonio
Tex
de Haviland
Ellington Field
Houston
Selfridge Field
Gulf
Crocker
Detroit River
Lieut. Crocker
Texas-Louisiana
Defiance
Louisiana
Selfridge
Red Cross Celebrates 40 Years Of Relief Work
Washington notes the American Red Cross marks forty years of relief efforts since 1882. The organization recalls its role in medical aid food shelter and money for disaster victims in peace and war and emphasizes peacetime relief as its greatest task.
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Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Red Cross
American Society
Robbers Escape With 45000 Dollars in Staunton Hold Up
Five armed men held up G. A. Roberts postmaster and a postal clerk in Staunton Illinois and escaped with about 45000 dollars the Mt Olive and Staunton Coal company payroll from local mines.
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Staunton, Ill
G. A. Roberts
Mt. Olive and
Staunton
Carpenters’ Appeal Denied by National Board
Washington D C appeal by carpenters for rehearing of the award to the sheet metal workers in the construction dispute was denied by the National Board of Jurisdiction Awards in the building industry.
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Carpenters
Washington, D. C
National Board of Jurisdiction
Call for a Wheat Conference in Springfield Illinois
Gov Len Smal announces a national wheat conference to be held in Springfield on June 19 and 20. The event will be attended by governors from Minnesota Kansas Missouri Ohio Oklahoma and Illinois.
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Springfield
Ill
Minneagota
Kansas
Missouri
Ohio
Oklahoma
Illinois
Len Smal
Trade Balance With Virginia and D C Shrinks Exports Fell
Imports into the United States during April were 367 million dollars while exports reached 326 million, leaving a trade balance of 41 million dollars against Virginia and Washington D C.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Bank Reserve Excess Declines week to $10 Million
New York reports the weekly condition of clearing house banks and trust companies shows an excess reserve of 10,065,770 dollars, down 654,640 from the prior period.
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New York
Fire at Mayer Machine plant in Rochester destroys workshop
Eighteen people escaped serious injury after a blast from gasoline and oxygen tanks sparked a fire at Mayer Machine Company in Rochester New York. The blaze destroyed the plant and New York Canners garage with losses around 100000 dollars. It followed another major fire the previous day in the city.
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Rochester
N. Y
Mayer Machine Company
New York Canners, Inc
Bank of India Cuts Discount Rate in London
London dispatch reports the Bank of India cutting its discount rate from 8 to 7 percent, reflecting a tightening of short term credit conditions for Indian banking operations.
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Bank of India
London
Anthracite Strike Fears Rise as Election Looms
Washington reports a renewed threat of a coal strike in the anthracite region. John L. Lewis and the UMWA face radical opposition in Scranton and Shamokin as district officers’ election on June 15 shapes control of a renewed wage agreement. The June 25 convention could push new demands if radicals win.
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Washington, D. C
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
National Coal Commission
Lewis
Europe
Scranton
Shamokin
Coal Commission
Poincare and Cabinet Submit Resignations
Premier Poincare and cabinet members offered resignations to President Miller, who declined to accept. The move followed the senate’s refusal to proceed with trials of Marcel Cachin and other communists charged with acts against the republic. Poincare said the senate vote showed a lack of confidence in the cabinet.
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Poincare
Paris
Millerand
Senate
Marcel Cachin
M. Poincare
Spanish Royal Mail Discontinues U S Sailings
Luis Lianso, local agent, said the Barcelona to New York line will stop all American sailings after a Supreme Court ruling bars foreign vessels from bringing liquor into U S territorial waters.
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U. S
New York
Royal Mail Steamship Line
Barcelona
Luis Lianso
Supreme Court
Gambling Must Stop in Ohio Proclamation
Governor Donahey issues a proclamation ordering an end to baseball pool and lottery punch boards and slot machines in Ohio enforcing gambling prohibition statewide. The directive targets pool games and electronic games amid efforts to curb illegal wagering.
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Ohio
Columbus
Donahey
Heavy Nebraska Rain Causes Rail Washouts
Cloudburst hits Nebraska with heavy rainfall along Union Pacific north of Grand Island and Burlington west triggering washouts of wagon roads and bridges. Over two miles of railroad near Dannebrog damaged and a bridge washed out between St. Paul and Loup City. Cairo records seven inches of rain since Sunday, about 4.35 inches in a day.
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Nebraska
Grand Island
Neb
Union Pacific
Burlington
Dannebrog
St. Paul
Loup City
Cairo
Tragic Rio Grande Find Of 32 Mutilated Immigrants Near Laredo
Dispatches from Nuevo Laredo report 32 bodies recovered from the Rio Grande near Laredo Texas believed to be Italians and other foreigners murdered and robbed while attempting to enter the United States. Most remain unidentifiable as Mexican authorities investigate.
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Mexico City
United States
Rio Grande
Laredo
Tex
Nuevo Laredo
Supreme Court Denies Review in Dyer Monopoly Case
The Supreme Court denied a review on a writ of certiorari in the case of Frederick M. Dyer and 14 Boston men from the Bay State Fishing Company. They are serving sentences for violating Massachusetts monopoly laws.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Frederick M. Dyer
Boston
Bay State Fishing Company
Massachusetts
Lightning set two oil tanks ablaze in Tulsa storm
Two 55,000 barrel tanks of oil owned by a Texas company and Cosden & Co. were struck by lightning and caught fire during a rain and electrical storm in Tulsa Oklahoma. An inch of rain fell in the hour between 7 30 and 8 30 p m.
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Tulsa
Okla
Texas Company
Cosden & Co
55 000 Shopmen Get Boost In Wage Increase
Chicago reports voluntary wage increases for 55 000 shopmen totaling about 4 million dollars annually. The Pennsylvania railroad enters the dispute with the US railroad labor board as raises of 3 cents an hour in Chicago and 2 cents elsewhere take effect May 1, lifting pay 5 to 6 cents above the labor book, to 75 and 76 cents an hour.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Pennsylvania Railroad
Train and Truck Collision Kills Five in Franklin Ohio
Five members of Bert Williams family die when a passenger train strikes a moving truck taking the Williams family to Germantown. The dead include Mrs. Margaret Williams 53 and three children, ages 13 20 3, plus a four month old. One man likely fatally injured and Bert Williams witnessed the scene after arriving.
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Franklin
Bert Williams
Carlisle
Williams
Germantown
Margaret Williams
Sarah Williams
Lela Williams
Mary Louise
Jess Gross
Solen
Gross
Philippine tobacco exports in 1922 rise above 1921
Philippine Islands tallied tobacco exports totaling 8.67 million dollars in 1922, up from 8.28 million in 1921, per the bureau of customs. Cigar shipments dominated, totaling 300,484,824 units valued at 5.8 million dollars, with the United States absorbing 172,317,045 cigars or over half of the total.
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Philippine
Manilla
Phillipine Islands
Bureau of Customs
United States
Couple Held For Murder In Omaha Case
Santoro Selarno and Lucille Lombardi were bound over to district court on second degree murder charges in the death of Mike Bellano at Lombardi’s home. Each posted $5,000 bond. Selarno also faces a separate $10,000 bond for manslaughter in the same killing.
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Omaha, Neb
Santoro Selarno
Lucille Lombardi
Mike Bellano
Selarno
Vermillion
State University
Willow Lakes
Filet Jamessen
Watertown
Lake Andes
Frank Wilcox
Judicial Circuit Court
Wilcox
William Kemery
Geddes
Fort Pierre
Stock Growers State Bank
State Banking Department
C. L. Millett
Madison
Rose Emmert
Fred Wiese
Municipal Electric
Lake Madison
Centerville
Buffalo
Tipperary
Tip Top
Eastern State Normal School
Sioux Falls
Awrenee Johnson
George Gotch
Pike
Miller
Kimball
Richard Guike
Buffalo County
Fordson
Unityville
C. A. Christopherson
Carl Gunderson
Carpenter
Jefferies General Store
Groton
Croton High School
Brookings
la Societe de 40 Hommes Et 8 Chevaux
Order
The
American Legion
Hot Springs
Sheep Mountain
Oldéamery
Volin
Dads
Alcester
Mitchell
Byram
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Chamber of Commerce
Creshard
Faulk County
Cresbard Commercial Club
Dr. Hugo Wintner Dies at 86 in New York
Rev. Dr. Hugo Wintner, the oldest reform Jewish minister in America, died at his Brooklyn home aged 86. He led congregations in Louisville and Detroit and served 43 years as rabbi emeritus at Union Hill temple in Brooklyn. Survived by five sons including Hugo W. Wintner, assistant district attorney.
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Wintner
New York
Hugo Wintner
America
Louisville
Detroit
Union Hill Temple
Brooklyn
Hugo W. Wintner
Wage Increases Announced By Chicago Builders Groups
The Associated Builders of Chicago and the Building Construction Employes association announced wage increases for all trades on an open shop basis. The new scales take effect July 1 after current contracts expire, signaling economic recovery and labor scarcity.
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Chicago
Associated Builders of Chicago
Building Construction Employes Association
Snow slide kills four workers on Denver and Salt Lake line
A massive snowslide swept down the mountain at speed and struck tunnel No 32 between Corona and Dixie Lake Colorado. Four workmen died and two were injured in the avalanche.
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Denver
Colo
Denver and Salt Lake
Corona
Dixie Lake
Seizure of Six Hundred Cases of Liquor in Miami Home
Deputy sheriffs seized about 600 cases of liquor, mainly French whiskey, valued at around $60,000 from a Point View Miami home owned but unoccupied by L. T. Highleyman. The seizure occurred in the residential area as part of enforcement actions.
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Miami
Fla
Point View
L. T. Highleyman
Adrenalin Saves a Baby in Baltimore Hospital
Franklin Square hospital physicians say adrenalin revived a newborn who was dead for 15 minutes after birth five days ago in Baltimore Maryland. The infant survived the episode and is reported in good condition.
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Baltimore
Franklin Square Hospital
Illinois Pipe Line declares $8 dividend for stockholders
Findlay Ohio The Illinois Pipe Line company board of directors declared a dividend of eight dollars a share payable June 30 to stockholders of record May 21.
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Pipe Line
Findlay, O
Illinois Pipe Line Company
Religious Fanatics Killed in Pata Island Conflict
A dispatch to Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood reports 24 Moros killed on Pata near Jolo by insular constabulary. Akabra a self styled prophet led the attack on a detachment under Lieut. Angeles at Kiput village. no constabulary casualties.
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Manilla
P. I
Mora
Pata
Jolo
Sulu
Insular Constabulary
Leonard Wood
Akabra
Lieut
Angeles
Kiput
Constabulary
South Dakota counties push highway and bridge projects across state
State highway commission collaborates with Custer county and federal funds to build a Custer Wind Cave road stretch with a $20,000 matching grant. Potter and neighboring counties pledge funds to a 5-C trail bridge over the Missouri at Forest City, with Dewey and Ziebach counties joining.
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Western
Union News Service
Custer
State Highway Commission
Custer County
Wind Cave
Faith
Potter County
Missouri River
Forest City
Dewey County
Ziebach
Meade
Lawrence
Butte
Dalesburg
Andrew Lyckholm
Naples
Watertown
Pierre
Kennebec
Henry Lien
Redfield
William Rehnke
Crandon
Rehnke
Yankton
American Legion Post
Highmore
Russell Keating
DeSmet
Here
Rudolph Geyer
Mobridge
Miller
Fred Hoeck
Webster
Day County
Timber Lake
Platte
Christian Reformed Church
Vermillion
University of South Dakota
Hudson
Hudson Chautauqua
South Dakota
John Hinning
Brookings
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
National Holstein-Friesian Association
State Selage
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