Ruth Elder Plans Sunday Roosevelt Field Takeoff for Paris
Ruth Elder, 23, Lakeland Florida, at Roosevelt Field preparing with Copilot Capt George Haldeman for a Sunday nonstop flight to Paris. The American Girl plane lacks radio and is not sea capable, though she vows to fly despite weather risks. Other women aviators like Frances Grayson and Fraulein Thea Rasche also prep for trans Atlantic efforts.
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New York
Paris
Atlantic
Ruth Elder
Lakeland
Wheeling
W. Va
Sea
INS
Florida
Roosevelt Field
Altha
J.lannin
Lannin
Miss Elder
George Haldeman
Sable
Frances W. Grayson
Forest Hills
N. Y
Fraulein
Thea ‘Rasche
Geran Aviatrix
Sher New
Ruth
Fla
Stinson
Sir John Darling
Detroit
Royal Windsor
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice auto scarf tragedy
A renowned American dancer, Isadora Duncan, dies after a scarf entangles in a car wheel in Nice, France. Her life, marked by tragedy and innovation in interpretive dance, included multiple auto incidents and the loss of two children in 1913.
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Isadora Duncan
Jandora Duncan
Nice
France
Duncan
Seine
Paris
Mellons Refute Reports Hughes Will Be Favored
Washington dispatch notes reports that Secretary Mellon and his nephew W L Mellon favored Hughes for the Republican nomination. Mellon denies the claim. Republican leaders plan to mark time to gauge support for Coolidge Lowden and other candidates, with decisions likely after December consultations by Congress and the party committee.
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Mellons
Hughes
Mark Sullivan
Washington
Dispatch -From
Pittsburgh
Mellon
W. L. Mellon
Pennsylvania Republican Organization
W. .L. Mellon
Enatany
Penfield
Mr. Coolidge
Coolidge
Moses
Lowden
Party Organi Vation
New York Herald-Tribune
Fliers Angry Decision To Quit Flight
The fliers, amid persistent arguments with United States Ambassador MacVeagh, showed anger as Brock and Schlee declined to discuss the reasons for quitting the flight.
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United States
MacVeaghsh
Brock
Schlee
Teasons
Courier home delivery by 5 30 each day
The Courier will be delivered to your home before 5 30. If a carrier error or other cause delays delivery, call 5100 for a copy. Phone calls should reach the office before 6 36 p m.
Hold Enid Nurse for Girl's Death
Enid Oklahoma Sept 15 Murder charges to be filed today against Mary Atkinson 26 year old nurse held in connection with the deaths of Rev Charles Bailey wife and daughter Miss Mary Jane 18 who died in convulsions after eating food prepared by the nurse Pathologist Dr W H Baily found a positive trace of poison in the girl's viscera and disclosed the report to Garfield County Attorney Dan Mitchell official refused to name the poison measure.
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Enid
Okla
Mary Atkinson
Charles Bailey
Oklahoma City
Dan Mitchell
Garfield County
Mitchell
Elopers Indicted in Des Moines on Mann Act Charge
Des Moines, Sept 15 IN S Veda Bryan Ritchie formerly of Booneville Ark and Jesse Cox a railroad fireman were indicted by a federal grand jury for violating the Mann white slave act. They came here from Ardmore Okla on a motorcycle. Cox has a wife and two children in Ardmore where Ritchie’s husband resides. The pair reportedly fled to Des Moines after a brief marriage and she said she did not love him and urged him to escape from her father.
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Des Moines
Veda Bryan
Ritchie
Ardmore
Okla
Jesse Cox
Cox
Ark
Lindbergh Resting in Portland After Seattle Arrival
Portland Ore Sept 15 Col Charles A Lindbergh rested in Portland today after arriving from Seattle. No engagements were made for the famed pilot of the Spirit of St Louis. He is due to fly to San Francisco tomorrow afternoon reaching the Bay City in the late afternoon.
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Portland
Ore
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
Spirit of
Indictment Narrowed to Delinquency Charge Against Woman
Mrs. Evelyn Smith of Council Bluffs faced a three year penitentiary sentence after pleading guilty in federal court to an indictment charging her with contributing to the delinquency of girls. The case stemmed from actions alleged in the period before Sept. 15 in Des Moines.
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Tes Moines
INS
Evelyn Smith
Council Bluffs
Orange Farmers Oppose Nine Day Pheasant Season
Orange township farmers voted against a nine day pheasant season and the shooting of female birds while urging neighbors to join in a peaceful protest. A 83 of 150 signatures were gathered for a petition opposing the open season, with debate among local sportsmen about supporting the effort.
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Orange Township
Hawk
State Fish and Game Department
Black Hawk
Ie P
Burr Towne
Izaak Walton
Grundy
Butler
Bremer
Orange
Homer
Orange School
Lichty
Burr G. Lichty
Iowa
Cedar Rapids seeks 14 year old suspect in Cedar Rapids murder
Police and county officers issued a murder warrant for Lyle Messner a 14 year old Cedar Rapids junior high student suspected in Kathleen Forrests death. A statewide search was launched after clues linked a shirt found with earth and oleomargarine traces to the vacant house where the body was found yesterday.
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Lyle Messner
Kathlean Forrest
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Kathleen Forrest
Yeshavan
Yaca
Hazel’ Messner
Lyle
Messner
Walter J. Barngrover
William Messner
Joseph Stang
Rs. Stangl
Toots
Kathleen
Isadora Duncan Dies as Red Scarf Isentangles Car Wheel
Isadora Duncan, famed dancer, died in Nice when a red scarf wrapped around a car wheel. A French chauffeur and Mrs. Mary Desto Perks accompanied her as the scarf pulled free and broke her neck. Duncan had been selling her Neuilly studio to pay debts and had just begun writing memoirs for publication.
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Mary Desto Perks
Associated Press
Papers for Curtiss Sent to Cedar Rapids for Return
Cedar Rapids papers were sent to Cedar Rapids for the return to Wheeling West Virginia of Roy E. Curtiss. He is wanted on a charge of defrauding the government of 658 dollars while postmaster at Hundred West Virginia.
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Parkersburg
Cedar Rapids
Wheeling
W. Va
Roy E. Curtiss
Hundred
Iowa Flier Killed in Plane Crash Near Goldfield
Goldfield Iowa Sept 15 Donald Sheen 20 Goldfield was killed and Sidney Cleveland 21 seriously injured when an airplane they rode crashed in a field a mile west of town at 6 p m yesterday. The motor failed at about 200 feet.
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Goldfield
Donald Sheen
Sidney Cleveland
Here
Navy Flier Drowned In San Diego Bay
San Diego aviator J. K. Gruger of the United States Navy died when his plane plunged into San Diego Bay today. Fellow pilots E. L. Hayne and J. Thompson were rescued by ambulances and boats.
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NAVY
San Diego
Cal
J. K. Gruger
United States Navy
San Diego Bay
E. L. Hayne
J. Thompson
Liquor Goods Poured Into Chicago Ahead of Fight
Police report a flood of booze into Chicago as Dempsey and Tunney near. Daily influx includes 1000 cases whisky and 350 of champagne with 500 beer and ale. prices hold and rum is unavailable. Pickpockets retreat as moneyed crowds grow, say officials in the runup to the boxing bout.
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Chicago
Windy City
Tex Rickard
Groves
Wildcat Breweries
Lake, Michigan
Prohibition
Wildcat
League Votes Down Belgian Seat Plea
Geneva September 15 The League of Nations assembly rejected Belgium’s bid for eligibility to a new three year council seat. Twenty nine votes supported compliance while nineteen opposed. a two thirds majority was required for acceptance.
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Geneva
INS
Assembly of the League of Nations
Belgium
Council
Assembly
New York Sends 1 Million Francs to Nungesser's Mother
Mayor James J. Walker presented Mme. Nungesser, mother of Charles Nungesser, with a check for 1 000 000 francs as New York’s tribute to her son lost in the Atlantic flight attempt. The sum, about 39 200 dollars, was raised by a New York popular subscription.
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Paris
James J. Walker
New York
Mme. Nungesser
Charles Nungesser
Atlantic
American Railway Man Murdered in Mexico
David L. Fisher of Philadelphia and chief clerk at Southern Pacific railway offices in Guadalajara was shot and killed by a Mexican clerk in Mexico yesterday, according to a consular report to the state department.
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Washington
David L. Fisher
Philadelphia
Guadalajara
Mex
State Department
Fisher
Southern Pacific Railway
Levine Postpones Flight For Record Attempt
London September 15 adverse weather reports force Charles A. Levine to postpone his mono plane Columbia flight in an effort to set a new distance record traveling eastward.
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Levine
London
Charles*a. Levine
Columbia
Counterfeit $40 Tickets On Sale for Dempsey Tunney Fight
Chicago reports a conspiracy to sell 20000 counterfeit $40 tickets for the Dempsey Tunney bout a week away. Private detectives say 10000 counterfeit tickets already sold in New York Cleveland Boston and other eastern cities with 10000 more printed for sale in Chicago. Detectives expect the counterfeiters to arrive in Chicago tomorrow with unsold tickets.
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Tex
Rickard
New York
Cleveland
Boston
Chicago
United Press
Cockburn Payroll Padder May Face Arrest at Prison
Des Moines reports Sheriff Park A Findley of Polk county will meet Russell Cockburn, a Des Moines payroll padder, at the doors of Fort Madison state prison. The district court will decide this afternoon on Cockburns move to dismiss two indictments for forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses. The Polk county grand jury returned the indictments tied to prior irregularities leading to a seven year prison sentence. Cockburns relatives request hearing on the move to dismiss.
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Des Moines
Park A. Findley
Polk County
Russell Cockburn
Fort Madison
District
Cockburn
Polk ~ County Grand Jury
Helen Schultz-Brewer Loses Bus Tariff Plea
Mason City Iowa Sept 15 Mrs Helen Schultz Brewer known as the motor bus queen failed to alter rates or schedules on Waterloo to Mason City and Mason City to Des Moines lines. State board of railway commissioners ruled the present tariff must stand after Brewer did not appear at the hearing.
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Des Moines
Helen Schultz-Brewer
Mason City
Iowa
State Board of Railway Commissioners
Ward's Wife Files Suit for Divorce
Reno news reports Mrs. Beryl Curtis Ward, wife of Walter S. Ward and heir to the Ward Baking fortune, filed a divorce suit in Reno charging desertion infidelity and failure to provide. Ward did not appear. He is the son of George S. Ward, former Ward Baking president, who was acquitted in 1923 of shooting a former marine in self defense amid blackmail claims.
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Nev
INS
Beryl Curtis Ward
Walter S. Ward
New Yorker
Ward
George S. Ward
Ward -Baking Company of
New York
League admits three non permanent members
Geneva September 15 Canada Cuba and Finland were elected non permanent members of the League of Nations council. They succeed Belgium San Salvador and Czechoslovakia whose terms expired.
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Geneva
Canada
Cuba
Finland
League of Nations Council
Belgium
San Salvador
Czecho- Slovakia
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