Ocean Flights Postponed For Good Weather Trepassy
Early today a light southeast wind and fog prevented an attempt to launch the monoplane Friendship from Trepassey harbor for Europe. Pilot Wilmer Stultz and crew slept late. inspection and repairs continued as wind remained light and uncertain. At Curtiss Field New York, the monoplane Columbia with Miss Mabel Bell was set for a possible second transatlantic attempt from Old Orchard Maine, with co-pilot Arthur Argles awaiting dawn.
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Trepassey
SN F
Europe
Filers
Wilmer Stultz
Ign
Allis
Ang Qpitet
Curtiss Field
N.Y
Columbia
Testimony in Gilver City Triple Murder Trial
Deputy Sheriffs EF Prater and Charles Joys testified in the Bridges and Sellers case in Three Creek about the shooting death of Clayton Patrick and Elmer Prater. They described the confrontation on the Patrick ranch and the weapons used, as defense counsel protested. The trial continued after noon with additional proceedings expected on Page 18.
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Gilver City
Defene
EF Prater
Twin Falls
Tom Bridges
Joe Sellers
Three Creek
Clayton Patrick
Elmer Prater
Esterdly
Sellers
Bridges
Patrick
Ludlow
Gellers
Gellere
Charles Joys
Twin Fells
Prater
Jones
Pryaneh
Pathfinder Plane Home From Trip Completes 7000 Mile Tour
The Pathfinder tri motor Fokker landed at Ford Airport Detroit after a coast to coast tour from Chicago. Ray Cooper, head of this year’s national air tour, led the effort for the Edsel Ford Reliability Trophy. Thirty planes are entered this year, up from fewer than twenty last year.
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Detroit
United States
Pathfinder
Ford Airport
Chicago
Fokker
Pacific Coast
Ray Cooper
Cooper
Nationalists seize Nanking after orderly Shanxi entry
In Nanking, the capital of the former Northern Chinese warlords, Shanxi troops entered at ten o clock as the Mukden garrison departed. Flags of Kuomintang and Nationalists flew while Chinese student committees welcomed the Shanxi forces. A separate ceremony marked the departure of the Mukden garrison led by General Pao Yu Lin at the western gate.
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Peking
China
Thia City
Temple Heaven
Forbidden City
Estern
Mukden
Pao Yu-Lin
Woman pleads to manslaughter in freeing brothers
Miss Marguerite Bumbaugh of Warsaw Ind pleads guilty to manslaughter by conditional agreement that her brothers George and Girard be freed. The case arose from the shooting of Walter H Cook a Michigan basket manufacturer at his Niles factory where Bumbaugh once worked as secretary.
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ST Joseph. Min
Marguerite Bumbaugh
Warsaw
Ind
George
Girard
Walter H Cook
Niles
Mich
Bumbaugh
Charles E. White
Hanst
Miss Bumbaugh
Cook
Flagpole top sitter Fox vanishes leaving creditors aghast
Chicago June 8 A Roy Ben Fox the human fly vanished yesterday from his Masonic temple flagpole perch leaving promoters creditors and bailiffs at the base. He reportedly consumed 655 weekly in meals and faced mounting debts while plans to monetize his feat collapsed as he departed quietly.
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Chicago
Ben Fox
Masonic Temple
Fox
Leu
Deaths From Poison Pact Leave Cedar City Grieving
Pearl Corry 17 and Erma Hancock 15 died in Cedar City Utah in a suicide pact. Gwen Tweedie witnessed the act and returned home finding both girls ill before they were taken to a hospital.
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Cedar City
Utah
Pearl Corry
Erma Hancock
Pearl
Miss Hancock
California
Gwen Tweedie
Corry
Final leg of Southern Cross flight to Sydney from Suva
The Southern Cross monoplane with four Australians and Americans aboard nears Brisbane on the final segment toward Sydney. radio logs describe Smith at the controls and recent battles with storms over the South Pacific, with pilots noting fatigue, whiskey rations, and hopeful anticipation of landing within four hours.
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Brisbane
Australia
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Fiji
United States Pacific Coast
South Pacific Ocean
Fiji Islands
Artiv Ng
C.cs
Sydney
Oakland
California
Suva
Southern Cross
Smithy
Ulm
Radio Genere
Cheerio
Lorg
Garnie Malley
Thankll
Honglulu
Honolulu
U. S
Ogden Shoemaker Found Dead Near Weber River
August Lel man, a 57 year old shoemaker from Ogden, was found dead near the Weber River today with circumstances indicating suicide by hanging after a daylong search following his disappearance from his bed at home.
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Ogden
Baseball Scoreboard from Today's Games
National League results include St Louis 6 New York 2 and Pittsburgh 7 Boston 1 with Kremer Tauscher Spencer and Hemsley contributing. Chicago 6 Philadelphia 6 and Cincinnati 8 Brooklyn 3 highlight crowded outcomes. American games show Boston at Detroit postponed and Cleveland New York postponed due to rain.
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Rhe Pitusburgh
Boston
Kremer
Tauscher
Spencer and
Hemsley
Brandi and
Taylor
Detroit
Opposition to Hoover Ready for Last Test in Kansas City
The Republican battle for the presidential nomination centers on Heber Hoover against a coalition led by Lowden Curtis Watson Goff and Willis remnants. They aim to block Hoover on an early ballot and prevent the required 545 votes while defending their candidates and courting Coolidge on the opening ballot.
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Kansas City
Heber Hoover
Lowden
Curtis
Watson
Goff
Willis
Hoover
Coolidge
Muscle Shoals
Allied
Attempt on Baron Giich Tansken Stopped in Tokyo
June 8 alert bodyguards thwarted a stabbing attempt on Baron Giich Tansken premier of Japan as he arrived by rail at Ayer station en route to Utsunomiya for a Seiyukai meeting. The would be assassin Okamura was seized. a Diet member Matsuura was wounded in the scuffle and a detective hurt while subduing the attacker.
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Tokyo
Giich Tansken
Japan
Ayer Station
Tanaka
Utsunomiya
Seiyuai
Okamura
Shaw Admits He Is Speed Maniac
In Harrogate George Bernard Shaw confessed to chief constables that for twenty years of motoring he never drove without breaking the law. He said he had been prosecuted once for driving twenty seven miles per hour and had recently been speeding at fifty miles per hour.
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Harrogate
Eng
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Women plan national lobby to seek Prohibition reform
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment forms a Women’s National Volunteer Committee with two senators wives and four congress members among its leaders. Prominent women from across the country join the committees and will present pleas to modify the Volstead Act to Republican and Democratic resolutions committees. Notable names include Florence Yahn, Mary Norton, Mrs Gabell Bruce, Mrs Thomas Bayard, Mrs Henry Joy, Mrs W K Dupont, and Mrs Sabin.
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Washington
Kansas City
Houston
National Volunteer Committee
Cenmittes
Florence Yahn
California
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
William Oabell Bruce
Maryland
Thomas F. Bayard
Delaware
Henry B. Joy
Detroit
Daughters of the American Revolution
Coneres
W. K. Dupont
Wilmington
Del
Charles S Sabin
Republcan National
Princess Helen Seeks Divorce From Romania's Carol
Princess Helen of Romania seeks divorce from former Crown Prince Carol. The filing in Bucharest notes the hearing set for June 21 in secret, with Carol invited to attend though likely absent, as he is in Belgium after England asked him to leave. The petition alleges profound affronts and desertion, citing their six year old son King Michael.
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Bucharest
Helen
Crown Prince
Carol of
Romania
Carol
Michael
Veteran Utah railroad engineer dies at home
Henry Walton Russell aged 62, a veteran of western railroading, died at his Salt Lake City home. He spent over forty years in railroad work and drove locomotives on the old Utah Northern line.
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Salt Lake City
Henry Walton Russell
Far West
Russell
Lake City
Utah Northern Road
Jond
Ee Oeen
Union
Radio Signals Reach Base Ship In Italia Search
Base ship Citta Di Milano reports persistent radio chatter from the Italia missing dirigible as rescue teams push north from Spitzbergen. Weather stays favorable and Captain Rie Larsen plans a northern flight to aid recon efforts off Franz Josef Land, while operators chase faint replies from Bing.
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King's Bay
Spitzbergen
Italia
Citta di Milano
Cite di Milano
Italia Sen
Franz Josef Land
Rie» Larsen
Luetzow Holm
Bing
Muscle Shoals Measure Dies After President’s Inaction
Washington reports President Coolidge allowed the Norris bill on government operation to die by inaction at midnight. Senator Norris contends the measure became law due to congressional non adjournment, arguing the constitution requires no signature for passage. He cites Article 1, Section 7, as the basis for asserting the bill’s validity despite the later stance of White House officials.
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Washington
Coolidge
Norris
White House
Justice Department
Nepraskia
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Marines Die in Kiel Harbor Mine Layer Blast
Six Marines were killed and four injured when a mine layer's mine exploded during laying maneuvers in Kiel harbor. The incident occurred aboard the vessel while near Kiel.
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Kiel
Germany
Kiel Harbor
Flight Downed Near Tientsin Report From June
A damaged report describes an aerial incident near Tientsin China in June. It notes a plane was brought down and mentions casualties or immediate aftermath. Names and exact details are unreadable in the fragment.
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FLANE
Tientsin
China
Aemageien
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