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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
6
Ten people were wounded today in a clash between troops and tobacco workers at Drama Greece amid a strike by American Tobacco Company employees. Several houses burned at Kavala and authorities blamed Communists for the violence.
The Thomasville Weather Bureau forecast calls for partly cloudy tonight with thundershowers possible Thursday. Observations show 8 am temperature around 75, high yesterday 104, low last night 69. Precipitation totals and normals are noted with a broad regional disturbance affecting the nation. Local conditions expect showers this area on Thursday.
Harbor Grace N F June 13 Miss Mabel Bell arrives in the monoplane Columbia after a 1100 mile hop from New York. Cheer from the crowd signals an early takeoff for the Atlantic crossing though the exact time may be today or tomorrow depending on conditions.
Mamie Lee Todd, a Jacksonville woman, was sentenced to one to three years as an accessory in the murder of C A Perry, the Bank of Kingsland cashier. She testified she bought items used by three robbers and hid them at her home under threat from Malcolm Morrow. Perry, shot by Morrow, Homer Simpson, and another robber during the hold up.
The trans Pacific monoplane Southern Cross arrived in Melbourne after a six hour flight from Sydney. Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm led the crew with Navigator Harry Lyon and Radio Operator James Warner aboard. Eighty thousand spectators witnessed the landing at Essendon Airdrome amid an escort of nine planes. Kingsford-Smith and Ulm were greeted by their relatives aboard.
Trepassey Newfoundland reports two more attempts to lift the Friendship monoplane from the harbor for a Europe flight failed. After the second attempt the craft remained moored in the harbor.
Judge H W Hopkins recalls the 1921 City Court judge salary increase from 3000 to 4500 dollars and the failed referendum. He blames Carlile and Davis for blocking a bill that would let voters decide, cites comparative salaries, and urges remedy via the referendum in future elections.
Captain Frank T. Courtney, British aviator, began the first leg of a plan to fly to the United States aboard a Dournier Napier Whale Flying Boat. He departed Pisa at four a m for Lisbon with a route via the Azores to Newfoundland and New York following a prior unsuccessful Plymouth attempt.
The pilot began the voyage on September 8 and attempted takeoff but the plane did not rise from the water. It came down near Corunna off the coast of Spain after noon and the flight was abandoned.
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