Kingsford Smith Plans End to Trans Oceanic Flights
Squadron Leader Charles Kingsford Smith and crew prepare to depart for San Francisco on a nonstop leg to complete a globe circumnavigation with the Southern Cross. He says he will sell the plane and return to England, planning a return to Australia by late July in a solo bid to beat a distance record.
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New York
Charles Kingsford- Smith
San Francisco
Globe
Southern Cross
England
Sydney
Washington
Hoover
Kingsford-Smith
Melbourne
Australia
Charles Kingford-Smith
Mary Powell
Bert Hinkler
Husband warns wife as lightning strikes line outside
St Johns North Carolina June 28 AP James Clark tried to stop his wife from calling during a severe electrical storm. He warned her against such action. a lightning flash struck a telephone line outside and Clark dropped.
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ST. Johns
N. C
James Clark
Clark
Texans Go Gunning For Bad Criminals
In Chicago a flight crew led by John and Kenneth Hunter aim to set a new sustained refueling record aboard the City of Chicago as crowds watch from Sky Harbor. The endurance mission follows 39 hours aloft and may match or exceed last year’s 420:21:30 record if conditions hold.
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Chicago
John
Kenneth Hunter
Forest O’brine
Dale Jackson
St. Louis
Mars
Uranus
Mercury
Walter Hunter
Albert
Will Rogers
Big Ay
Sky Harbor
Senate Committee Approves Amended Veterans Measure
Washington reports the Senate committee unanimously backs a veterans relief measure with minor changes. An attempt to raise disability pension rates to a $60 max fails 11 to 8 with Republican opposition. The American Legion extension to file war risk claims was accepted without contest. Democrats Walsh Massa and Connally seek floor passage with added pension boosts.
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Washington
Senate
la Follette
American Legion
Walsh
Massa
Connally
Texas
Beaumont Mob Fails to Storm Jail over Rainey Williams
A crowd of about a hundred, including several women, failed to storm the Jefferson county jail in Beaumont to seize Rainey Williams, 39, who has confessed eight attacks on Port Arthur white women in the last month. Williams had been brought from Port Arthur for safety after a lynching attempt was thwarted by peace officers and firemen. Water cannons and tear bombs were used as deputies defended the jail, with four policemen joining the sheriff.
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Beaumont
Tex
Jefferson County
Rainey Williams
Port Arthur
Williams
Electric Chair Ends Long Criminal Career of Williams
In Columbus Ohio on June 28 George Williams a 68 year old robber and killer was executed in the electric chair at midnight dying at 1214. Williams once notorious for unruly conduct in the death house threatened guards cursed staff and boasted he would beat the chair. He had been linked to at least four murders and was executed for killing Patrolman Sherman in Cleveland during an arrest attempt with accomplice Charles Hanovich.
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Tex
R. L. Egger
Round Rock
Otto Stolley
Egger
Georgetown
Columbus
George Williams
Cleveland
Williams
Ohio
Michigan
Ilinois
Missouri
Sherman
Charles Hanovich
Gibson and Bride on a Honeymoon
Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers wed at Gibson's Saugus ranch in a full Western wedding. The couple heads to Canada for a Rocky Mountain honeymoon after a ceremony attended by about 150 Hollywood stars. Gibson, 36, and Eilers, 21, mark her first marriage.
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Hoot Gibson
Sally Eilers
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Gibson
Saugus
Hollywood
Man Arrested After Fatal Shooting at Niagara Falls Church
Frank Ross, 37, sought for fatally shooting Rev. Edgar R. Wood and wounding two others at a Tenth Street mission in Niagara Falls. He surrendered on a city road with a pistol, admitting he went to murder Wood and two others after practicing target shots in the woods.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Frank Ross
Edgar R. Wood
Ross
Wood
Mildred Ross
Leona Kuhn
Leonard Towe
Tenth Street
Towe
Ruth hits three homers as Yankees crush Indians in twin bill
Babe Ruth belts three homers in two games for New York, driving an 8 to 1 win in the first game and part of a 13 to 2 rout in the later contest. Ruth homered in the fourth and seventh frames, aiding the Yankees in a high-scoring doubleheader.
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American Ruth
New York
Babe Ruth
Babe
Holloway
Ruth
Glietto
Yankee
Sande Rides Fox to Fifth Victory in Dwyer Stakes
In New York at Aqueduct Earl Sande rode Gallant Fox to a fifth straight win, capturing the Dwyer Stakes. The foe Zenefol trailed by one and a half lengths while Limbus held third as Flaming and Bannerette followed. Gallant Fox won at odds of 1 to 10 in the mile and a half race.
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New York
Willem Woodward
Gallant Fox
Aqueduct
the Fox
Earl Sande
Gifford C. Cochran
Rancocas
Limbus
Flaming
Bannerette
Woodward
Utah Weather Outlook
Generally fair conditions prevail tonight and Sunday with cooler air moving into the northwest portion tonight. The forecast calls for mild daytime highs and clear skies across the state.
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Northwest
Gunmen confront doctor in Chicago incident
Dr John B Lahiff arrived in Chicago from Clarksville with knowledge of risks. He and his in law faced gangsters in a confrontation. A gun discharged, injuring Mrs Lahiff in the thigh but not seriously.
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Chicago
John B. 5 Ae
Clarks
Guarded NC jail as mob disperses after attack on girl
In Concord North Carolina Governor Max Gardner redirected Company E of the 120th Infantry to guard Cabarrus County jail after a mob gathered to help seven Black detainees linked to the assault on Ruth Criswell, 16, at Roberta Mill. The attack left the girl badly hurt and those arrested were secured as dawn approached.
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Concord
N. C
North Carolina National Guard
Max Gardner
Gardner
Caberras County
Ruth Criswell
Roberta Mill
Miles
Here
Col William Thompson Dies in Yonkers at 61
Colonel William Boyce Thompson mining magnate and philanthropist died of pneumonia at his Yonkers home aged 61. He had suffered four years of paralysis after a stroke and recently contracted pneumonia. Survived by wife Gertrude Hickman Thompson and daughter Margaret, with brother J Edward Thompson en route. Thompson led copper and diamond interests, served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board, and funded Exeter College with 1,000,000. He was a Republican elector in 1912 and a delegate in 1916 and 1920, friend to Roosevelt and Harding, and led Red Cross Russia mission during World War I.
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Margaret Thompson Schulze
J. Edward Thompson
Phoenix Ariz
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Africa
Texas
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Ti Wall Street
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Anaconda Copper Company
Exeter Academy
Exeter
N. H
Columbia School of Mines
Roosevelt
Harding
Ways and Means
American Red Cross
Russia
Perfect Anesthetic Has Its Defects
Dr J W Baker of Seattle told Idaho State Medical Association delegates that sodium amytal is not the perfect anesthetic but remains valuable when used with other anesthetics. Dr T A Ellison of St Anthony cited diphtheria deaths from delayed calls to physicians, reporting 12 deaths in 89 cases. The convention continues with Dr H D Spencer of Idaho Falls presiding.
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Idaho
J. W. Baker
Seattle
Idaho State Medical Association
T. A. Ellison St. Anthony
H. D. Spencer
Idaho Falls
Western governors debate federal land transfer and waterways
At the western governors conference in Salt Lake City Marshall Dana of the Oregon Daily Journal blasted proposals to turn over surface rights of public lands to states and warned against shifting federal reclamation control. E T Allen urged keeping forests under federal oversight and proposed state-owned forests only on private lands. Dana highlighted the Columbia River as a major western waterway and supported export-rate baselines for Snake River drainage, while F E Stevens pushed for pest-control agencies free from politics to curb trillion-dollar plant and fruit damage from foreign pests.
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A. W .Norblad
Oregon
Marshall &. Dana
Oregon Daily Journal
Federal Reclamation Fund
Portland
E. T. Allen
Western Forestry and Conservation Association
Congress
Commonwealth
Dana
Columbia River
Columbia
Idaho
Snake River
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Washington
F. E. Stevens
Landslide Buries Two Rail Coaches Near Shimonoseki
A landslide 59 miles northeast of Shimonoseki buried two railway coaches. Fifteen are believed dead. 36 trapped, 21 escaped. Heavy rain prompted the slide as 500 coolies were rushed to the scene and three bodies recovered.
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Tokyo
Shimonoseki
Shannon the horse declared worth only 200 dollars
In Milwaukee a long court dispute over the horse Shannon ends with Circuit Judge August Braun ruling the animal was worth 200 dollars after years of legal battles. The case involved Michael Cudahy and John T. Johnston with prior sales of 1300 dollars and appeals up to the state supreme court.
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Shannon
Michael Cudahy
John T. Johnston
August Braun
Cudahy
Johnston
Borgy A
No Good
State Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Braun
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