Aviation News Dominates Front Pages Worldwide
Aviation headlines flood today’s papers with Graf Zeppelin’s long voyage honors in Tokio, Swiss pilots lost over the Atlantic, and a women’s air derby from Arizona to Cleveland. Also reports on Iowa utility rate talks, nurse work hours, a Derby pilot killed, a physician’s death sentence appeal, and a moisture-delivery forecast lifting Iowa crops.
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Tokio High
Atlantic
Spain
New York
Arizona
Cleveland
Spokane
Delivery deadline notice for Courier service
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30. If you miss the paper by that time due to carrier error or other cause, call the office for a copy. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 p.m.
Graf Zeppelin Crew Meet Emperor in Tokyo Tea
Graf Zeppelin passengers and crew, after landing in Tokyo, prepare for a tea with Emperor Hirohito at the Imperial Palace. Eleven officers and passengers, including Lady Grace Drummond Hay, will recount their global flight from Friedrichshafen to Kasumigaura. The visit follows a 102 hour leg, with engineers inspecting motors and fuel for the Los Angeles takeoff, while Tokyo crowds watch the air monster.
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Tokio
Japan
Hirohito, Mikado
Grace Drummond Hay
Imperial Palace
Imperial Compound
Europe
Asia
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Fey
Mikado
Hirohito
Graf
Kasumigaura
Hugo Eckener
Accentange
Los Angeles
Eckener
Kisumignnia
Tokilo
Zeppelin Company
Pacific Ocean
Siberian
Kasumigama Field
Palace
Dr. Eckener
A .Reree
Iowa Farm Lands Cut Big Tax Assessments in 1928
Bes Moines Aug 20 value of town farm land slashed 20 million below 1927 estimates by the state board of assessment and review. City and town lot valuations rose 8 million with increases in Indianola Keokuk Clinton Ottumwa and a 25 percent drop in Dyersville. Appanoose county farm lands increased 8 percent after prior 13 percent rise. Louis H. Cook presided.
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Bes Moines
State Board of Assessment and Review
Louis H. Cook
Indianola
Keokuk
Clinton
Ottum
Urges Commission to Regulate Utilities in Iowa
Fort Dodge reports Mayor VPI-W.G. Ray of Gritinell and president of the League of Town Municipalities urged the Iowa legislature to grant city councils control over all public utility rates including telephones. He noted Iowa lacks a public utility commission for electric light and power and called for an auditing board to study rates with actuaries to protect the public from exorbitant charges.
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Fort, Dodge
Iown
League of Municipalities
W. G. Ray
Frank Pierce
Actuaries and Auditing Boards
Speed Plane Must Pass Test or Quit
Washington Aug 20. Unless Lt. Alent Williams the navy speed ace can get his Mercury racing plane off the water in a test flight the Speedster will not be sent to England to compete in the Schneider cup races. Assistant Secretary of the Navy David Ingalls announced after navy department conferences with Williams the tests must be completed within two days to make the trip.
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Washington, BD. C
INS
Alent. al. Williams
Navy
England
David 5. Ingalls
Navy Department
Iwhith
Williams
Stresemann Seeks Six Power Parley on Reparations
German Foreign Minister Stresemann has written Belgium's Premier Jaspar asking him to convene the six major powers to decide action on reparations if the Young plan is not adopted by September 1.
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the Hague
Stresemann
Germany
Sjaspar
Belgium
Sun God Refuels in Montana Halt on Transcontinental Flight
Spokane Sun God pilot Nick Mamer and crew visited Butte and Miles City on Aug 20 for refueling during an attempted nonstop transcontinental round trip to Spokane. The crew stopped after landing from Aberdeen and Missoula due to poor visibility, with two fellow pilots summoned to assist.
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Butte
Mort
Nick Mamer
Spokane
Sun God
Miles City
Mont
Nick
Mamer
Art Walker
Aberdeen
Missoula
Frank Wiley
Tom Mathews
Walker
Des Moines golfer Russell Haas seeks marathon five course day
Iowa marathon golfer Russell Haas, of Des Moines, started from Ottumwa and aims to play five or six courses in one day across Des Moines Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Waterloo Fort Dodge and Ames covering about 522 miles. He began at 5 am and faced illness on arrival but pressed on despite heat and travel.
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Waterloo
Marathon
Russell Haas
Des Moines
Sunnyside Country Club
Iowa
Haas
Tumway
Cedar Rapids
Fort Dodge
Ames
Chapman Field
Country Club
Robert Elderton
Sunnyside’ Country Club
Edwin Moore
Elderton
Drake University
Sunnysite
Hras
Ottumwa
Pars Ty
Russell, Haas
George Taylor
Taylor
Bes Moines
Aire
Gedar-Rapids
Port Dodge
Fire damages big Ger Pass trip to New York canceled
Havre France August 20 The French liner Paris caught fire last night injuring the interior and causing 13 000 000 francs damage about 117 000 dollars The blaze forced cancellation of this afternoons sailing and delays for about 1000 American passengers booked for New York There were smoke injuries to two bluejackets but no listed fatalities The ship had prior groundings and a 1927 collision with the Bessen gen.
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Havre
France
Grand Staircase
New York Harbor
Plymouth Harbor
Bessengen
Plan Agreed Upon to Ease Federal Prison Crowding
Washington Aug 20 A plan to reduce federal prison crowding has been agreed by President Hoover Secretary of War Good and Attorney General Mitchell. The proposal transfers military prisons at Leavenworth Governor's Island and Alcatraz to the Department of Justice to free space for inmates. The initial step is to turn Leavenworth over to justice.
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Washington
Dc.c
Hoover
War Good
Mitchell
Justice Department of Military
Leavenworth
Kan
Governor's Island
Alca _traz
Leavenworth Military Prison
Department of Justice
Giants edge Cubs in opener as Bush falters in doubleheader
New York Giants beat the league leading Chicago Cubs 4 to 3 in the first game of a doubleheader. Freddy Fitzsimmons allowed six hits and held Chicago scoreless until the ninth. In Brooklyn, Wille Bherdel defeated Dazzy Vance as the Cardinals won the opener 3 to 4, with four two‑run hits in the fourth.
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Mationsl
New York
New York Giants
Chicago Cubs
Guy Bush
Eirentt
Freddy Pitt Simmons
Beore
Chicago
Cyengros
Taylor
Gonzales
Fitzsimmons
Hogan
O'Farrell
Brooklyn
Wee
Wille Bherdel
Dazzy Vance
Durl Todlay
St. Louis Cardinals
Dodgers
Dalterles
Cand Smith
Vance
de Berry
Chinese, Russian tensions rise on Manchurian border
Dispatches from Mukden report Chinese and Soviet forces clashing near Tungninsien and Amur river areas as white guard units form on the frontier. Moscow protests, while Chinese and Russian lines blame each other for escalations and mass troop movements to Manchuria.
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London
Manchurian
Mukden
Manchuria
Nikolsk
Tungninsien
Pogranichnaya
Blagoveschensk
Siberia
Amur
Here
Thhe
Lake Hanka
Grodenko
Poltavsk
Moscow
Tass
Harbin
On - the - Frontier
C.t. Wang
Nanking
Admiral Niblack Dies Veteran of Four Campaigns
Rear Admiral Albert Parker Niblack U.S. Navy retired died here at 70 after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at Monte Carlo before his body sails to Washington for burial in Arlington. A noted naval attache, he served in the Spanish American war Philippine campaigns the Boxer uprising and World War I.
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Nice
France
U.R
Albert Parker Niblack
Miblack
Morte Carlo
Washington
Arlingham
Admiral. Niblack
United States Navy
Ex-Dry Chief Sues Willebrandt for One Million Libel
Gus O Nations former chief of the St Louis federal prohibition unit sues Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the Current News Features Co for 1 000 000 libel in St Louis. Garnishment ties up funds due the Feature Service and the St Louis Post Dispatch from Willebrandt and the paper published articles on prohibition enforcement. Nations accuses the articles of implying official misconduct during his tenure.
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St. Louis
Mabel
Walker Willebrandt
United’ States
Defend
Hbel
Gus O. Nations
St.’ Louis
Nations
Feature
Willebrandt
Tokio dispatches naval expert to London for talks on disarmament
Tokio Aug 20 Capt Saburo Seto of the naval affairs bureau is ordered to London to exchange views with Ambassador Tsurice Matsudaira on disarmament. He will explain recent interdepartmental deliberations between the foreign office and the navy office and act as special disarmament attaché at the embassy.
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Tokio
Saburo Seto
Naval Affairs Bureau
London
Swiss teens seek transatlantic flight from Lisbon to New York
Halifax fans watched for two young Swiss aviators Oscar Kresar and Kurt Latescher attempting a Lisbon to New York crossing. Reported near Terceira Island, Azores, at 6 pm Greenwich time they flew westward at high speed toward Nova Scotia, with Azores about 1,150 miles from St Johns and 1,650 from Halifax. If weather holds, they could be over maritime provinces by morning.
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Halifax
Canadian
Maritime Provinces
St. John's
Capa Sable
Lisbon
New York
Oscar Kresar
Kurt’ Latescher
Teroeira Island
Azores
Greenwich
St. Johns
Reany Halifay
N. S
Victim in air derby death under probe in 1929 race
Cleveland Aug 20 Floyd J Logan announced an investigation into the death of Miss Marvel Crosson after her plane crashed during the Santa Monica to Cleveland women’s air derby. Reports of tampering with contesting planes prompted federal and state authorities to probe. Miss Crosson, 25, from San Diego, was found beside her wrecked craft with parachute unopened. Memorial services at the airport were planned for Aug 26.
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Derby
Marvel Crosson
Welton
Ariz
Mias Cresson
Cleveland
Pheonix
Douglas
Sierra
Cleveland, O
Floyd J. Logan
Logan
Miss Crosson
Los Angeles
Cal
Federal Aviation
California
Ana
Aviatrix
San Diego
Wellton
Nouglas
Phoenix
Louise Thaden
Pittsburgh
Gladys O'Dornnell
Lasig ‘Beach
Crosson
San Bernardino
Welltom
Gila’ _Tiver
Claire Fahy
Calexico
Herbert Fahy
Rasche
Arlatrix
Hollville
Mary Elizabeth von Mack
Dewoit
Montebello
Gal
Phoenix Todey
Bobble Trout
Aigollones
Mexico
Huma
Oday
America
Marge
Miss Crosson O
Ind
Joseph
Slater
Zelma
Minneapolis
Kaz
Wes
Twa
Coluram
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Senate
Congress
Association of Graduate Nurses
J. H. Snook
Ohio State University
Haat
Snook
Theora Hix
Henry L. Scarfett
Supreme Court
Sunnyside
Tea
Emperor Hirohito
Zeppelin
Emperor Hirohtio
Butte, Mont
Bob Elderton
St. Joseph
John M. Stoke
Redding
Cult
Annie ‘Besant
India
World Congress of Theosophical Societies
Congress of the Theosophists
Bigger Pass
Baseball Today
Havana
San Felice
Martin
Henry George
Toolita
South Manchuria
Central News
Shanghai
Customs Department
Taiesho
China
Norte
Washington, D. C
Russia
United Press
State Department
Stimson
League of Nations
Geneva
Grashes
Thea’ Rasche
Admiral Niblack
Mabel Willebrandt
Nova Scotia
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