Buy Airplanes To Stimulate Flying Amid War Department Plans
The War Department will soon place orders for new airplanes to prevent the collapse of wartime manufacturing capacity. Advanced types will be developed by engineers under favorable conditions, with several airfields closed or repurposed for storage. Equipment will be concentrated at retained fields, with the former sites to be handed to other agencies or sold. Definite air service plans await Congress action on military policy, while a broad program aims to link government and civil aviation promotion.
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Washington
War Department
Crowell
Department
Barron, Call
Carriers
Love, Rich and Tallaferro
Texas
Payne Field
Mississippi
Air Service
Congress
Benedict names domestic prelates in new appointments
Rome May 8 The Associated Press reports Pope Benedict has appointed Monsignor Dennis OConnor of New York the Rev James A Griffin of Salix Iowa and the Rev George Waring chancellor of the army bishops as his domestic prelates.
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Rome
Benedict
Dennis O'Connor
New York
James A. Griffin
Salix
Iowa
George “Waring
Army Bishops
Plans to ship pure bred stock to South America
Washington May 8 Plans for investigating in South America the possibilities of pure bred stock from the United States and for stimulating interest in importations from this country have been completed by the department of agriculture. David
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U. S
South America
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
David
Harrell Named Live Stock Commissioner in Spain Role
Harrell of Austin Texas, formerly a representative of the war trade board in Spain, has been appointed as live stock commissioner to perform this work, the department announced today.
Commercial swindling on the rise after war end
The National Association of Credit Men reports a nationwide upswing in commercial swindling as creditors resume a postwar campaign against professional debtors who make large purchases and file bankruptcy. The warning goes to its 28 000 members to tighten credit practices as optimism returns after the Armistice.
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Associated Press
New York
National Association of Credit Men
Association
French Ace Holds Record 78 Victims To His Credit
London May 6 The air ministry cites French ace Rene Frénch as holding the enemy kill record with 78. British Major Mannock tallies 73, Canadian Lt Colonel Bishop 72, while Frénch leads all allies in aerial victories.
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Associated Press
London
Air Ministry
Edward Mannock
William A. Bishop
Mannock
Bishop
Rene Frénch
West Chattanooga launches in record shipyard time
The 8,800 ton steel steamer West Charleston was launched in Portland after 37.25 working days from keel laying. Keel laid March 18, breaking the previous U.S. shipbuilding record of 41 days.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Northwest Steel Company
United States
Aviator Killed in Kenley Flight Crash
London May 3 An aircraft carrying General Sykes commander of civil aviation collapsed at Kenley. Captain Knott was killed and General Sykes was badly shaken in the crash. The incident occurred during a flight, delivering a fatal blow to aviation leadership.
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London
General Sykes
Civil Aviation
Kenley
Knott
Sykes
Descriptions of Korean Revolution Atrocities by Grace Dillingham
Miss Grace Dillingham, formerly of New York and now teaching in Pyong Yang, sends a March 11 letter to Flushing describing Japanese brutality in Korea. She reports girls tied to telephone poles, Christians jailed and whipped, churches looted, and crowds fired upon, with deaths and amputations among students and missionaries injured.
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Washington
Korea
Provisional Government of
Grace Dillingham
New York
Pyong -Yang
Flushing
N. Y
Short hours with higher pay demanded by Canadian shopmen
Montreal May 5 35,000 railroad shopmen across Canada demand a 44 hour week and a 20 percent wage rise. Delegates meet a war board sub committee on May 12 to press the claim.
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Montreal
Canadian Railway War Board
Canada
Mine Cage Drops in Pottsville Report
A brief item from Pottsville notes a mine cage incident described with garbled OCR text, indicating a fall or drop affecting workers. The fragment references ten miners and a mixed phonetic line, but details such as date, exact location, and outcomes are unreadable.
Miner Dies As Nine Are Hurt In Reading Shaft Accident
A shaft accident at the Maplehill Reading company site today left one miner dead and nine injured, two critically, with fears of further deaths. Rescue squads worked through the scene as officials investigated the cause and secured the area.
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Maplehill
Reading Company
Idaho court summons and probate notices from 1919
Alias summons in a divorce case filed in Twin Falls Idaho seeking dissolution of marriage and child custody with the plaintiff returned to the defendant. Also notices for Graven administrator and Kelley estate probate with four month claim period and appointments in Twin Falls.
Involuntary Bankruptcy Notice for Anna Cairncross
In the District of Idaho Southern Division Anna Cairncross files for discharge in bankruptcy. Creditors and interested parties must show cause by April 30, 1919, then file grounds of opposition within ten days. Authorized by the court and Referee W Orr Chapman dated March 26, 1919.
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District Court of the United States For
District of Idaho
Southern Division
Anna Cairncross
United States Court For Idaho
Notice of Administrator Sale in Twin Falls Lot 13 Block 71
Notice of administrator sale in Twin Falls Idaho under probate court order after May 8 2019. Elva McCollum Craven deceased holds right title and interest in Original Townsite Twin Falls Lot 13 Block 71 Lot 15 Block 71 according to amended plat. Sale subject to probate court confirmation and bidders list details follow in final order.
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A. D
Elva
McCollum - Craven
Twin Falls
Ne ‘County
Judgment by Twin Falls County on delinquent taxes sale
The District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of Idaho orders R B Leavitt and others to answer a complaint in twenty days, with a later forty days if served elsewhere. It seeks judgment for delinquent 1915 1965 1917 1918 taxes totaling 2.39 2.58 4.67 plus 26 attorney fees and 1 abstract fee, with sale of Lot Fifteen Block Seventy-Eight Hollister Townsite to satisfy the judgment. First publication April 18 1919.
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District Court
Fourth Judicial District
State of Idaho
Twin Falls
Lillian May Kenner
Perry L Kenner
Perry L. Kenner
Twin Falls County
E. J. Finch
R. B. Leavitt
W. Homer Craven
Genevieve JL. Craven
Twin Falls North Side Investment Company
Twin Falls North Side Land & Water Company
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
Twin Falls North Side Land and Water Company
Idaho
Hollister
Sata Twin
Falls
Egal
Aaid District Court
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Graven
Elva C. McCollum Craven
Asher B. Wilson
P. W. Kelley
Jans R. Bothwell
W. Orr Chapman
District Court of the Fourth
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C. L. Bowen
Frank L. Stephan
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