Winnie Mae Nears New York After World Flight Sighting
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly eastward over Michigan toward Cleveland Tower Ironwood and Tustin as they complete their round the world journey. The duo, returning to U S soil, push toward New York after a long globe crossing.
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Harold Gatty
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Wheat policy shift widens market role of Farm Board
The Farm Board says it will withdraw from domestic or world markets while limiting domestic sales of government owned wheat to 5 million bushels a month for the year starting today The move follows Hoover's request for clarified policy and reflects a break with prior fixed price ideas while denying political pressure from Washington and others.
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Federal Farm Board
Hoover
Curtis
James Clifton Stone
Kentucky
White House
Stone
Hoover memo on war debt plan pleases France
Washington reports say President Hoover sent a memorandum through Mellon and Senator Morrow to Paris to bridge French American views on the war debt. France delays cabinet study while London observers expect the US to push a one year moratorium despite French stance.
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Hoover
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Andrew W. Mellon
Pierre Laval
London
France
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Great Britain
Italy
Pairings set for Washington Country Club July Fourth golf tourney
The Washington country club release lists July Fourth tournament pairings with matches slated for Saturday or earlier if players are away. Notable pairings include Guy Carlton versus Will Harwood and Don Benz versus Orville Elder, among many others.
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Washington Country Club Today
Guy Carlton
Will Harwood
Don Benz
Orville Elder
Guy Knauss
Will Shannon
C. J. Christianson
Henry Bailey
al Baldrige
Harry Montgomery
Albert Moorman
Leslie Elcher
T. L. Brookhart
A. W Clow
Jack Lytle
Vic Westphal
Carlton Lytle
Ralph Gibson
Charles C. Brown
William McConaughey
O. F. Boller
Robert Thompson
Dan Peters
Martin Whittak
W. A. Cook Dies Pioneer Washington Businessman
W. A. Cook a longtime Washington business leader and community volunteer died at 9 30 last night at his home 315 West Main street after years of ill health Funeral services will be Friday at ten at the home conducted by Rev Willard Wylie burial in Elm Grove cemetery The interment will be private He asked friends not to send flowers and the body lies at Sherman s funeral home for visitation Cook lived in Washington since 1856 He was born August 6 1850 in McDonald Pa He began work at Chilcote drug store at age fourteen later forming Chilcote & Cook later Cook & Sherman He served on the park commission the board of education and directed Elm Grove cemetery and Washington National Bank He helped organize the chautauqua movement He kept daily weather records for nearly fifty years as the town s volunteer observer He was an elder in the Second United Presbyterian church and remained faithful after the merger with the First church His wife Jennie Maxwell Cook survives They married March 9 1897 His brother Robert S Cook and a sister Ada are noted as deceased
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Newton
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California
Texas
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Ada
Stores to close earlier for summer months
It was announced this afternoon that department stores dry goods stores and shoe stores will close at five o'clock instead of six during July and August beginning Monday July 6. Additional stores may join the early summer closing movement though no further notice was ready today.
Five Die in Hamilton Airport Air Crash
Five persons were killed when a plane lost a wing and crashed at Hamilton airport. The victims include J. H. Maher of Montreal owner of the plane Capt. Bob Sterling of Montreal the pilot Alfred Rogers of Mt Hamilton Ontario Charles Daly of Toronto and H Raines a Canadian press correspondent who came to cover the start of the trans Canada air pageant.
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Montreal
Bob Sterling
Alfred Rogers
Mt. Hamilton
Ont
Charles Daly
Toronto
H. Raines
Milwaukee pilots head for Seattle to start big flight
Reginald Robbins and H H Jones aim to fly the Pacific for a $25,900 prize from a Tokio newspaper. They departed Boise for Seattle today to begin the challenge, while their tri motor refueling plane travels west from Bismark North Dakota en route.
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H H Jones
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Post and Gatty captivate in Beverly Hills chatter
Beverly Hills columns praise the Old Post and Gatty duo as world travelers. The speaker likens Post to an old one eyed Oklahoma boy chasing a horizon and compliments Gatty as a reformed Australian brumby with a compass. The tone is playful and admiring.
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Cal
Post
Gatty
Oxford
Former Oklahoma Congresswoman Alice Robertson Dies at 77
Muskogee Okla July 1 Alice Robertson former member of Congress for Oklahoma died this afternoon in a hospital after a long illness She had been unconscious for several days and confined there since January The 77 year old served as a public figure known for her long political career and public service.
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Okla
Alice Robertson
Congress
Oklahoma
Mrs Shaffer Visits Niece In Brigh ton
Mrs Anna Shaffer of Brigh ton is visiting her niece Mrs Charles Schulty.
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Anna Shaffer
Brightons
Charles Schulty
Cars Collide East of Town In Two-Vehicle Crash
A collision on primary road No 2 east of Washington injured several people from Wapello and Mt. Pleasant. Six youths traveled to a Wellman dance in one car. two men, a woman, and three children occupied the other. Minor injuries were treated, and the parties settled damages privately. Vida Casper suffered minor cuts when her father's Pontiac left the road at 1038 North Sixth Avenue.
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Wapello
Wellman
Mt. Pleasant
R H. McCarty
Vida Casper
Charlie Casper
North Sixth Avenue
Court House to Close All Day Saturday July Fourth
The county auditor announced the court house will be closed all day Saturday in observance of the Fourth of July. Mr and Mrs John Peterson and daughter Juanita of Mt Pleasant visited the Ted Dalton home today.
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John Peterson
Juanita
Mt. Pleasant
Ted Dalton
Heat Wave Reaches New High As Rain Promised
With today hotter than any prior day the heat wave hits 100 degrees at 2 PM the first 100 degree reading this year in town 96 at noon Dwight Booth on the Ganon farm nine miles northwest of town collapsed from heat while haying and is listed as recuperating after medical care.
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Washington
Dwight Booth
William Ganon
Iowa heat wave ends as downpour cools Story county
Des Moines reports show heat wave lasting ten days in Story county broken by a heavy noon rain. The weather bureau forecast cooler conditions with potential showers tonight and tomorrow as more than 100 heat related deaths are tallied across Iowa and neighboring states.
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Iowa
U.P
Story County
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Mary Behrens
Lowden
Ernest Rickleff
Charles D Reed
South Dakota
Sioux City
Reed
Prohibition Force Expands to 2500 Agents in United States
Washington July 1 350 new agents join the federal prohibition team increasing the force to 2500. Amos W Woodcock prohibition director marks the anniversary and outlines a year focused on training and expansion as 850 trainees enter two week sessions nationwide. He plans speeches in Virginia and inspections extending to the south and Porto Rico.
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