Endurance flyers crash near Los Angeles during early flight attempt
Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison crashed 5000 feet above Metropolitan Airport when their engine failed after 4 hours 35 minutes aloft. Both men sustained facial injuries but planned to fly again once repairs were made as they pursue a new endurance record longer than 72 hours 32 minutes.
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Metropolitan Airport
Los Angeles
Leo Nomis
Maurice Morrison
Uiey
Bowiers
Tuey
Neams
Nomis
Coloess
Morrison
Herrick's Will Publicized In Cleveland Probate
The will of late Ambassador Myron T Herrick leaves 8150,000 to the American hospital in Paris and 870,000 to the Merrick public library at Wellington Ohio. After a 5000 bequest to Mark Herrick Smith the son Parmely W Herrick inherits the remainder. Total estate valued at about 1.2 million with net value around 50,000 after charges.
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Cleveland
Ohio
American Hospital
Paris
Merrick Public
Wellington
Myron T Herrick
Ux Wellington
Mark Herrick Smith
The
Statesman
Parmely W. Herrick
Juvenile court to custody of 12 year old in head injury death
In Ogden a 12 year old girl identified as Joan Zermino will remain in juvenile court custody after a conference with district and county attorneys and Juvenile Judge Van Dyke. Violet Stewart died following a head injury from a rock said to be thrown by Zermino.
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Ogden
Joan Zermino
Violet Stewart
van Dyke
Zermino
San Francisco Board Condemns Prohibition Atrocities
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution denouncing wanton killings by prohibition agents and endorsing Florence Kahn's bill to indemnify dependents of those slain, calling the prohibition movement an evil tree rooted in fanaticism and corruption.
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Ban Francisco
Florence Kahn
Ue San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Sylvester Andriano
Dr Elwood Mead Inspects Hyrum Dam Project Tours Cache Valley
U S Reclamation Commissioner Dr Elwood Mead arrives in Logan with state officials for an inspection of the Hyrum irrigation project in Cache Valley. He views the Echo dam on the Weber river and notes the dam will impound 74000 acre feet for Weber and Davis counties with a 3 million dollar cost and substantial earth and concrete works. He plans to proceed to Pocatello for Idaho project assessments.
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Idaho
Elwood Mead
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Logan
Coufer
Cache Valley
Mead
Echo Dam
Weber River
Weber
Davis
Utah
Pocatello
State Agricultural College
City of Cleveland Makes The Grade In Endurance Flight
The blue monoplane City of Cleveland, piloted by Byron Newcomb and Roy Mitchell, passed the halfway mark in a refueling endurance flight. After 87 hours and 2 minutes aloft, the crew planned to remain airborne until 12 10 am Saturday to challenge the world record of 172 hours 1 minute 1 second. Refueling ship E E Barham reported the crew cheerful and the plane operating smoothly.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Byron K Newcomb
Roy L. Mitchell
Pliot E.i E. Barham
Endurance
New York Stock Exchange Reports Record Total Borrowings
The New York stock exchange announces a new high total borrowings against security collateral ending June reaching 7,071,221,275 dollars, up 406,083,350 from May 31. On June 20, 1928, the total stood at 4,808,351,487 dollars.
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New York
The
New York Stock Exchange
Street Car Employes Stage A Surprise Walkout In New Orleans
In New Orleans a surprise walkout by street car employes halted service, affecting about 1400 workers. Buses and taxis were pressed into service as the union claimed arbitration with New Orleans Public Service, Inc. over dismissals and suspensions proved unsatisfactory and motors and taxicabs filled in after a mass meeting was rejected clause by clause.
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New Orleans
Peeble
Edwin
Carmen’s Union
Dering
New Orleans Public Service, Inc
Street Carmen Prevent Io Mass Meeting
Federal men convoyed load of hard liquor
Two federal prohibition agents, John J Kerrigan and John J Calnan, were arrested on $3000 bail after a deputy sheriff stopped a caravan of five liquor trucks on Nassau county roads near Riverhead Long Island. They claimed they were escorting a seizure to a Brooklyn army base. Both men faced suspension pending charges.
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New York
Long Island
John J Kerrigan
John J. Calnan
Wallham Lindsay
Peconic
N.Y
United States
Riverhead
N. Y
Chester P. Mills
Maurice Campbell
Mills
Calnan
Ited
Ameli
Brooklyn
Spaniards Return to Gibraltar After Transatlantic Ordeal
Major Ramon Franco and three companions were rescued from the Atlantic aboard HMS Eagle and landed at Gibraltar to an extraordinary ovation. Thousands lined streets as crowds gathered from La Linea to Algeciras to cheer the rescuers and celebrate their deliverance.
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Gibraltar
Ramon Franco
H. M. Eagle
Azores
Eagle
Spain
Franco
Eduardo Gonzales Galarza
Julio Ruiz de Alda
Pedro Madariaga
Government House
Sir Alexander Godney
Berwick Curtis
la Linea
Algecira
Algeciras
Gibraltar Flyer Details Harsh Atlantic Crossing
Major Franco and three crewmates arrived in Gibraltar describing water shortages cold seas and a sense of dependency on the waves. The Eagles crew members wore khaki gear found aboard and recounted a rough flight after detouring beyond the Azores with a landing on a calm sea before surfacing near shore.
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Gibraltar
Ramon Franco
Major Franco
Associated Press
Eagles
Uneir
Azores
Franco
Sikie
Phillies sweep Washington in twin bill on July 2
In Philadelphia, the league leaders won both games of a doubleheader against Washington 7 to 4 and 6 to 1. Hadley, McCullough, and Ruel led the first game while Jones, Farnsworth, and Cochrane backed a combined Phillies effort in the second. Other AL and NL scores from the day include Boston, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Cincinnati results, with pitchers Mose, Dickey, and Werth contributing to various outcomes.
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Washington
Pirst
Hadley
McCullough
Ruel
Walberg
Cochrane
Jones
Spencer
Farnshaw
AIRMEN KEEPING IN GOOD HUMOR DURING TESTS
Roosevelt Field New York July 2 A airmen at Roosevelt and Mitchel fields keep up a casual front amid four crashes and seven deaths since last Wednesday. Despite jokes about doom pilots and mechanics rush to help victims and fill the hospitals with transfusions as they plan funeral processions and mourned figures like Jack Ashcraft and Bill Stultz.
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Roosevelt Field
Roosevelt and
Mitchel Fields
Long Island Fields
Atlantic Seaboard
Jack Ashcraft
Sill Jultz
Trans- Atlantic
Ashcraft
Mitchell Fields
Viola Gentry
Nassau
Bill” Stultz
Stultz
Edward Harwood
Pasquale Castelluccio
Bandit Killed by a Deputy Using a Rifle
Spokane sheriff Floyd Brower hailed as the officer who broke a door and shot the two gun desperado dead during an all night siege at a cabin near Metaline Falls. A coroner’s inquest found Rowdon slain by a soft nosed missile, with deputies Ambaugh and Hay firing the opposing rifle used in the incident.
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Spokane. Wash
Floyd Brower
Spokane County
Black Jack
Rowdon
Metaline Falls
Brower
Ambaugh
Hay
Pend O’reille
Row- Gen
Canadian
Harry Friedlund
Friedlund
Ray Perkins
Rowden
Plattsburgh Officer Charged in Fatal June 15 Shooting
Plattsburgh July 21 Border Patrolman W J Chestham was arrested today on a manslaughter charge connected to the June 15 shooting of Gordon Offiersburgh an alleged liquor runner.
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Plattsburgh
W J Chestham
Gordon Offiersburgh
Labor Regime in Britain Presents Socialistic Program
In London on July 2 the first labor government program was presented to Parliament with King George's throne speech read by Lord Chancellor Sankey. The speech was seen as startlingly socialistic and similar in tone to recent conservative or liberal ministries.
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London
Great Britain
Sankey
Lords and Commons
King Georges
Soviet
Russia
Rhineland
United States of America
Dominions
India
MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Japan's Hamaguchi cabinet formed after Chang Tso Lin crisis
Tokyo July 2 government of Premier Hamaguchi announced after a cabinet crisis sparked by the Manchuria assassination of Marshal Chang Tso Lin. Yuko Hamaguchi and ministers were installed in the palace before the Emperor as the Seiyukai ministry fell. The new lineup includes Shidehara foreign affairs and Ugaki war, with aims of disarmament and reform.
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Tokyo
Baron Tanaka
Manchuria
Chang Tso Lin
Hirohi
Yuko Hamaguchi
Chang
Mukden
Peking
Home Office
Yoshinori Shirakawa
Baron Kijuro Shidehara
Washington
Foreign Affairs
Yobuko Hamaguchi
Japan
Minseito
Baron Jamakca
Seiyukai Party
Chifuyu Watanabe
Chita
STAM Weather Fair Tonight and Wednesday
Forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with little change in temperatures across the region.
Legge Chosen Chairman of Federal Farm Board
Washington July 2 4 Alexander Legge of Chicago and C Teague of California accept appointments to the federal farm board Legge will serve as chairman for the first year with James C Bione of Kentucky as vice chairman The president praised their sacrifices in accepting public service noting Legge left a salary cut from 100000 to 12000 a year and Teague also made financial sacrifices to serve the farmer effort
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Washington
Alexander Legge
Chicago
C Teague
California
Federal Farm Board
Legge
James C. Bione
Kentucky
Hocalary
Teague
O'Neill Sued for Divorce by Second Wife Agnes O'Neill
Agnes Boulton O Neill files for divorce from Eugene G O Neill in Reno citing desertion. The couple wed in Provincetown on April 12 1918. Agnes has two prior marriages and two children. The case set for trial and the complaint was sealed at her request.
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New
Eugene G Nel
Agnes Boulton O'Neill
O'Neill
Reneer
Provincetown
Mass
Kathleen Jenkins
New York
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