Hawks Seek Transcontinental One Stop Flight Record
Captain Frank Hawks launched from Metropolitan Airport Los Angeles to attempt a one stop round trip to New York and back aiming to beat the east west record of 24 hours 51 minutes set earlier this year. He already holds the west east non stop record of 18 hours 21 minutes 59 seconds.
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Metropolitan Airport
Los Angeles
Frank Hawks
New York City
New York
Hawks
Peter Clausen
East St. Louis
C. B. D. Collyer
Harry Tucker
Albuquerque
N. M
Frank C. Hawks
Van Deman Promotion Gets Hoover's Approval
President Hoover approves Brigadier General Ralph H. Van Deman rising to major general to fill the Smith vacancy in the seventh corps area. Frank R. McCoy advances to major general on Van Deman's retirement September 3. George C. Shaw to brigadier general. Shaw at Fort Benning and McCoy on Bolivian Paraguay arbitration duty. Van Deman commands the sixth brigade at Fort Rosecrans.
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Washington
D. C
Hoover
Ralph H. van Deman
Harry A. Smith
Seventh Corps
Frank R. McCoy
van de Juan
George C. Shaw
Shaw
Fort Benning
McCoy
van Deman
Fort Rosecrans
Calif
Singer Sewing Machine Company official dies in London
Sir Mortimer Singer aged sixty six dies in London. Yonkers native, eldest son of Isaac Merritt Singer the machine inventor, he became a naturalized British subject in 1900.
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London
Sir Mortimer Singer
Yonkers
Singer
Isaac Merritt Singer
Vanguard of Georgia General Assembly Opens in Atlanta
The Georgia General Assembly arrives in Atlanta with senators Cecil Neil and Richard B Russell Jr unopposed for top posts as opening sessions near. Job seekers flood the capital while Major Devereaux McClatcher and E D Moore await key posts, and conversations focus on likely issues.
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Atlanta
Georgia General Assembly
Cecil Neil
Columbus
Senate
Richard B. Russell
Barrow County
Devereaux
McClatcher
E. Dismark Moore
T. J. Anderson
House of Representatives
Assembly
Capitol
Dawes Declines Whisky Service in London Home
London reports Ambassador Dawes denied rumors he would serve whisky at his London residence. He asserted he never served alcohol in his Washington home or previously at his home, and sees no reason to change his practice in London.
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DAWES
London
Ambassador Dawes
Washington
First express passenger plane inaugurates Southland service
The Montgomery School of Aeronautics launched the first strictly express and passenger air service in the South with a three city route linking Montgomery Columbus and Atlanta. The initial flight carried five passengers and mail from Montgomery to Atlanta via Columbus with tri weekly round trips scheduled on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
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Atlanta
South
Montgomery
Ala
Columbus
Candler Field
Fred Ausfeld
O. A. Dell
G. T. Key
W. J. Mahoney
H. G. Pannell
L. G.mason
Montgomery School of Aeronautics
Municipal Field
Peacox Murder Trial Delayed to September Sixteen
White Plains N Y June 24 Trial of Earl Frances Peacox for the murder of his wife Dorothy was postponed until September 16 after the district attorney said the state was unprepared to begin prosecution. Police say Peacox confessed to strangling and burning the body after sprinkling kerosene. the couple had been estranged.
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White Plains
N. Y
Earl Frances Peacox
Dorothy
Frank A. Coyne
Peacox
West Chester
Hoover to pick farm board members this week
President Hoover will devote time this week to selecting members for the new federal farm board. He has reviewed about 400 names with Secretary Hyde while at his Virginia fishing retreat, aiming to appoint within two to three weeks after the farm bill signing.
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Washington
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Virginia
Hyde
Agriculture Department
Hoover unable address Southern publishers on Fourth of July
President Hoover informed Representative Aswell that he cannot accept the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association invitation to speak in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 4 due to press of public business. he remains considering other speaking engagements in Philadelphia and New York City.
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Washington
Hoover
Aswell
Louisiana
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Asheville
N. C
White House
Virginia
Southern
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
New York City
Henry Mason Day to Join Sinclair in Jail
Henry Mason Day the vice president of a Sinclair oil company is to be committed to the District of Columbia jail for four months for contempt of court in the jury shadowing case tied to the Sinclair Fall conspiracy trial. Day plans to surrender before midnight to avoid publicity.
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Henry Mason Day
Sinclair
Washington, D. C
Sinclair Oil Companies
Harry F. Sinclair
Day
District of Columbia
Albert B. Fall
Sineimir
Electrical storm in Montreal causes heavy damage and six deaths
A violent electrical storm swept Montreal and surrounding areas after eight days of heat, damaging millions of dollars in property and causing six fatalities as boats overturned in the fury of the tempest. Miss Mabel Price, a history lecturer at MacDonald College, was named in a fragment of coverage.
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Montreal
Mabel Price
MacDonald College
Great Outpouring at Booth Funeral in London Today
London June 24 crowds lined the streets to honor General William Bramwell Booth former Salvation Army commander in chief as his body was moved from Salvation Army headquarters to Abney Park cemetery. Tens of thousands watched the cortege in the financial district following the same route as his father General William Booth in 1912.
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London
William Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Abney Park Cemetery
Londons’ Financial Center
William Booth
Washington anticipates MacDonald visit sparks high interest
Washington awaits Sir Esme Howard and Lady Isabella Howard hosting Prime Minister MacDonald. The planned visit, unprecedented in recent years, dominates official, diplomatic, and social circles from Dupont Circle to Massachusetts Avenue and Sixteenth Street as details linger about the summer arrangements.
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Washington
Dupont Circles
Massachusetts Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Esme Howard
United States
Isabella Howard
MacDonald
Prince George County
Maryland
Ramsay MacDonald
England
Marylang
America
British steamer reports wreckage near Azores
The British steamer found bits of airplane wreckage near the Azores with no persons located nearby. Major Ramon Franco and three companions left Spain for New York via the Azores and have not been located since.
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Azores
Ramon Franco
Spain
New York
Azore Islands
Spanish plane missing. search spans Azores to Atlantic
Alarm over Major Ramon Franco and three crew as destroyers and planes scour sea between Spain and the Azores after British report of wreckage 106 miles off the Azores. Navy orders reinforced searches while ships from Ferrol and the Marques de Comillas pursue signals and possible wreckage from the missing Dornier Wahl aircraft.
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Madrid
Ramon Franco
New York
Azores
Spain
Gresden
Ministry of the Navy
Ferrol
Grelden
Ministry
Cartagena
Vasco da Gama
Franco
Navy Department
St. Vincent
Marques de Comillas
Mystery flare sighted linked to Franco flight near Cape Race
A Buffalo Bridge freighter reported a flare seen at 5:30 a.m. G.M.T. in latitude 40.04 N, longitude 60.57 W, described as an airplane. The position lies about 400 miles south of Cape Race on Franco’s route, suggesting a possible downed Jupiter and cross Atlantic crossing attempt.
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New York
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Azores
Radio Marine Corporation
Buffalo Bridge
Ramon Franco
Texans Charged With Poisoning Wives and Chemists Called
Texarkana investigators used chemical analysis to probe two Paris County deaths last week. Chester Peavy, 25, and Ovie Nix, 23, suspected husbands, were jailed as authorities awaited the state chemist report. Nix allegedly poisoned his wife. Peavy’s wife died in convulsions. both mothers of young children.
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Texarkana
Texas
Bowie County
Chester Peavy
Ovie Nix
R. G. Waters
Nix
New Boston
Peavy
Austin
Iid Hutchison
Jones Defends Law In Wake Of Prohibition Shootings
Senator Jones of Washington says the Jones law he authored has not caused recent shootings by prohibition enforcers. He notes judges are sentencing under the statute which carries up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine with discretionary mercy based on evidence.
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Washington
White House
Jones
Cause of shooting affray in Georgia town undetermined
Louisville, Ga., June 24. The cause of a shooting affray after midnight that killed Barton Arrington and wounded Jewell Hinson remained undetermined. Thomas A. Wasden was jailed on murder charges. Wasden allegedly fired four times at Arrington and Hinson was struck in the thigh near Wasden’s home after he returned and found them leaving. He surrendered to the sheriff.
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Louisville
Barton Arrington
Jewell Hinson
Thomas A. Wasden
Arrington
Wasden
Hinson
Thomas
Ambassador Gibson in London for talks on disarmament
Hugh S S Gibson American ambassador to Belgium and head of the American delegation to the 1927 naval disarmament conference arrived in London from Brussels. He will confer with General Dawes on international affairs with disarmament among the topics.
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London
Hugh S.S. Gibson
Belgium
Brussels
General Dawes
Gibson
Associated Press
Dawes
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