DOX CROSSES ATLANTIC IN FLIGHT TO NATAL
Do X seaplane completes transatlantic journey arriving at Natal Brazil after 12 hours 26 minutes for the last leg from Porto Praia Cape Verde Islands. Italo Balbo’s squadron greeted by crowds as a half holiday is declared and officials plan a multi day stay while repairs are made.
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Natal
Brazil
Altenrhein
Switzerland
South Atlantic
Porto — Praia
Cape Vorde
Pontengy
Italo Balbo
Nde Keistiansen
Eta
Armour Wins British Open in Carnoustie Thriller
Tommy Armour the 1927 American Open champion captured the British Open at Carnoustie as Jose Jurado faltered late. Armour overcame a five stroke deficit after nine holes to finish with a 71 final round and 296 total. Jurado settled second at 297 with Sarazen and Alliss tied for third at 258.
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Carnoustie
Scotland
Jimne
Tommy Armour
Jose Jurado
Armour
Jurado
Armuur
Car
Bobby Jones
King
United States
Gene Sarazen
Percy Alliss
Berlin
Johnny Farrell
MacDonald Smith
Camp May Not Be Abandoned in Arizona Plan
Arizona Highway Commission Chairman Addams reports a letter from Major General Bridges of the U S Army stating Camp Henry Jones at Douglas will not be abandoned until it is definitively decided. The move follows Addams request to retain the camp amid abandonment proposals.
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Phoenix
Ariz
EK. Addams
Arizona Highway ‘Commission
United States Army
Henry Jones
Douglas
Camp Jones
Bridges
Addams
Author of Stoddard Lectures Is Dead
John Lawson Stoddard American author who lived in Italy for years died at his villa near Merano at 81. Born in Brookline Massachusetts he studied at Williams College and Yale Divinity School. He promoted the Stoddard lectures in major American cities for about twenty years, retiring in 1897.
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Rome
John Law
Chinese Servants Sentenced to Death for Mission Slaying
Two Chinese servants charged with murdering Vera M. White and Victoria M. Miller at the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in Yunan-Fu have been sentenced to death, according to a dispatch to the U.S. legation from Consul Harry F. Stevens.
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Peiping
China
Vera M. White
Victoria M. Miller
Seventh Day Adventist
Yunan-Fu
United States
Legation
Harry F. Stevens
June Taylor Surrenders to Police in Crawford Double Slaying
June Taylor, sought since May 20 in the Crawford double slaying, turned herself in to Los Angeles authorities. Her attorney Clifford Thomas said she would speak to investigators, and Special Prosecutor Joseph Ford noted she was questioned but could not provide details. Continued on page Four.
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Los
Angeles
Taylor
Crawford
June Taylor
Clifford Thomas
Joseph Ford
Joseph Taylor
Ford
Summer School At Flagstaff Opens Monday Morning
Dr Grady Gammage president of the Northern Arizona State Teachers College estimated enrollment for the summer session starting Monday will exceed 650 students. The 10 week session includes the summer high school under Flagstaff High School principal J P McVey as part of boosting attendance.
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Flagstaff
Grady Gammage
Northern Arizona State Teachers College
J. P. McVey
Flagstaff High School
Gammage
Millionaire Aviator Sets Speed Tests for Transcontinental Flight
Millionaire aviator James G. Hall known as the flying crusader left Los Angeles at 8 15 a m by airplane for Alameda airport Oakland to conduct speed tests ahead of a transcontinental flight later this month. Hall piloted a new type Lockheed plane.
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Los. Angeles
James G. Hall
Los Angeles
the Flying Crusader
Alameda Airport
Oakland
Hall
Wounded Bank Bandit Reco vers in Creek County Jail
Tom Carver 40 is recovering in Creek county jail Sapulpa after a citizens posse killed his brother Frank 34 while the two tried to flee following a bank robbery at First State Bank of Mounds yesterday in Oklahoma.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Tom Carver
Citizens
Frank Carver
First State Bank of Mounds
Creek County
Denver Kansas City Airmail Line Opens Inaugural Flight
A United States Airway plane left Denver at 7 30 a m for the inaugural Denver Kansas City air mail flight due in Kansas City at 2 30 p m The new line marks the opening of postal air service between the two cities announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
United States Airway, Inc
Denver-Kansas City
Kansas City
Giant flying boat DO X rolls through Rio show
Brazil reportage notes the enormous DO X flying boat idling on a June day at Fernando de Noronha with the craft described as giant and impressive as observers consider its maritime and aerial potential.
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Fernando
Noronha Island
Brazil
Train Wreck Kills 40 In Honan China
Forty people died and thirty were injured in a train wreck near Mienchin on the Haichow Tungkwan line in western Honan province, Kaifeng reported.
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Honan
China
Kaifeng
Mienchin
Haichow- Tungkwan
Clara Bow to Rest on Ranch in Nevada
Hollywood actress Clara Bow plans six months of rest on a Nevada ranch near Las Vegas after a nervous breakdown in May. She will undergo dental treatment for a few days before leaving next week to begin the rest under supervision of her physician Dr Wesley Hommel.
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Hollywood
Clare Bow
Nevada
Las Vegas
Wesley Hommel
Glendale
Rockefeller Gives Four Hundred Thousand to Church
John D. Rockefeller Jr. gifts $400,000 for the northern Baptist convention budget. The telegram to convention officers states the gift has no conditions, aiding the current operating budget. the 1931-32 budget is $5,100,000.
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Kansas City
John .D. Rockefeller, Jr
Northern Baptist Conventions
Bar Silver Holds Steady In New York Market
In New York on June 5 bar silver traded quiet and unchanged at 26 3 8 per ounce as dealers absorbed slight price moves and kept bids steady amid a subdued trading session.
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New York
Amelia Earhart Putman Begins Autogyro Flight to Reno
Amelia Earhart Putman leaves Salt Lake City for Reno en route to the Pacific coast aboard her autogyro. The voyage marks another leg of her pioneering nonstop flight program.
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Amelia Earhart
Putman
Salt Lake City
Utah
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Reno
Pacific Coast
Holbrook Scouts to Spend 10 Days at Camp Geronimo
Seventeen Holbrook Arizona Boy Scouts will take a 10 day outing from June 14 to 24 at Camp Geronimo. They were invited by Roosevelt Council of Boy Scouts. Names include John Kenneth Baird Bill Light Hamilton Youngblood Clarence Roberts George Thompson Kenneth Leopold Bill Hookway L Junior Cadwell Robert Henderson Lawrence Henderson John Robert Howell W Glenn Brown Charley Payne Neil Renshaw George Koury Robert Henning.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Holbrook
Camp Geronimo
Roosevelt Council of Boy Scouts
John Kenneth Baird
Bill Light
Barney Thomas
Clarence Roberts
George Carl Thompson
Kenneth Edward Leopold
Bill Hookway
L. Junior Cadwell
Robert H. Henderson
Lawrence H. Henderson
John Robert
Nautilus Sets Course for Arctic Test Voyage
Submarine Nautilus departs Provincetown for Arctic ice exploration to test feasibility of reaching the North Pole. Led by Sir Hubert Wilkins, the 18 crewed vessel sails toward London with Coast Guard cutter Ponchartrain escorting through the Newfoundland banks during speed tests yesterday.
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Provincetown
Mass
North Atlantic
Pole
Hubert Wilkins
London
England
United States ‘Coast Guard
Newfoundland
Altitude Record Recognized for Piccard Flight
BERNE Switzerland June 5 The Aero Club of Switzerland today accepted as official the altitude attained by Prof Auguste Piccard in his balloon flight to the stratosphere 15 781 meters or 51 793 2 16 feet The record confirms the highest altitude achieved in a balloon ascent and crowns Piccard's pioneering journey into near space.
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Berne
Switzerland
The
Aero ‘Club of Switzerland
Auguste Piccard
Eaker Pilots Hurley To Texas Army Camp
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley flew to Fort Bliss near El Paso in a plane piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker. The June 5 briefing set a brisk pace for the military visit to the southwestern pass.
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Eaker
Texas Army Camp
Brownsville
Texas
Patrick J. Hurley
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Ira C. Eaker
Lindbergh Flight Praised by Early Aerial Pioneers
Two veterans from the 1924 world tour Erick Nelson and Jack Harding of Seattle praise Col and Mrs Lindberghs proposed North Pacific flight as a sound undertaking. They say weather, not tech failure, risks the journey, noting engines and aircraft have advanced greatly in seven years.
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ST. Paul, Minn
North Pacific
Charlies
A. Lindbergh
Erick Nelson
Jack Harding
Seattle
Wash
Nelson
McAdoo Urges Human Needs Over Profit At Dinner
William Gibbs McAdoo, wartime treasury secretary, told Ameri ca's economic conservation committee in San Francisco that industry should serve human needs first and profits second. He said the old acquisitive theory has broken down and a new formula for human affairs is needed.
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San Francisco
William Gibbs McAdoo
the Treasury
Economic Conservation Committee of America
Mrs NixonNirdlinger Bids France Farewell
Mrs Charlotte NixonNirdlinger, recently acquitted in the slaying of her husband American theatre man Fred NixonNirdlinger, said goodbye to France this afternoon and boarded the steamship Roma bound for the United States.
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Villefrance
France
Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger
Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger
Roma
United States
Girl testifies in Pantages case about hotel party
Lydia Nitto, 17, testified she was invited to a hotel party with showman Alexander Pantages in San Diego after contact from Olive Day and Jobelmann. She said she rode with them to the hotel, met Pantages, sat on his lap, received $10, and was urged to keep silent as she cried on the stand. She fainted and was revived after leaving the witness area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Lydia Nitto
Alexander Pantages
Olive Day
Jobelmann
Hollywood
Pantages
Alex Brown
Helen Livingston
Miss Nitto
Tel
Shreve
John P. Mills
Mills
Phoenix Man Seeks Aid in Search for Wife
George Dixon of Phoenix asks El Paso authorities to help locate his wife who separated from him April 27 near Phoenix. He has combed four states in two months, traced her through New Mexico and Texas, then to Indiana, and heard she was seen in El Paso seeking him.
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EL Paso
Tex
George Dixon
Phoenix
Ariz
Dixon
Indiana
New Mexico
Texas
Roswell
N. M
Fall Is Willing To Serve Prison Term
Former interior secretary Albert B. Fall faces a one year sentence and $100000 fine for accepting a bribe tied to naval oil reserve land leases. Physicians had found him physically unable to travel but Fall intends to appeal or seek commitment options in Washington.
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Fall
Cleveland
Atlee Pomerene
Leo A. Rover
Washington
Rover
Albert B. Fall
EL Paso
Tex
Secretary of the Interior
Edward L. Doheny
Naval Oil Reserve
Coconino Supervisors Order Budget Cuts
Flagstaff June 5. The Coconino county board of supervisors directs all county offices to cut tentative budgets to a minimum to reduce the current tax rate. Chairman Andy Matson says the budget will be adopted July 8.
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Flagstaff
Coconino
German Statesmen Arrive in England for Talks
German Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius arrive in London to meet Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald for weekend talks. They likely push for a moratorium on reparation payments under the Young plan, warning that failure endangers the Bruening government and the German state.
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England
London
Heinrich Bruening
Germany
Julius Curtius
MacDonald
Europe
Bruening
Firestone Sees Large Six Month Profit Rise in Akron
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co reports six months ending April 30 net profit of 1 367 19, a sizable increase over the previous fiscal year. The figures reflect strong performance for the period in Akron Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Ohio
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Capone Indicted on Tax Charges in Chicago
Chicago June 5 Capone the scar faced leader of Chicago gangdom was indicted by a federal grand jury for violating the income tax laws. The government claims Capone owed $215,864 on a gross income of $1,038,654 for several years. The indictment was returned before Federal Judge John P Barnes bond set at $50,000. It was reported Capone might surrender today or tomorrow to give bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alphonse ‘Capone
Capone
John P. Barnes
Bond
Flagstaff Man To Serve Prison Term
Flagstaff June 5 Archie Miles, former McNary lumberjack, began a state prison term for participation in a knife and gun fight that killed Jimmy Haller a negro hotel porter. Miles aided Haller in fighting Morris Omstead who dealt the fatal wounds. Omstead was freed this week on grounds he acted in self defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Archie Miles
Mussolini Offers Reopen Catholic Clubs in Conciliation Move
Rome June 5 Premier Mussolini proposed reopening Catholic clubs for women and girls to ease tensions with the church. The Vatican rejected the idea, insisting all dissolved clubs be restored in good standing. The exchange marks a tangible outcome in ongoing unofficial diplomacy.
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Rome
Mussolini
Vatican
Hunt appoints Arizona committee for George Washington anniversary
Governor Hunt named a 14 member Arizona committee to work with the U S commission for the 200th birthday of George Washington. The group spans northern southern and central Arizona and includes John D Wright Byron Cummings Fred Sutter Mike J Hannon Grady Gammage and others from Tucson Flagstaff Prescott Bisbee Globe and Globe communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Hunt
Arizona
United States Commission
George Washington
John D. Wright
Tucson
Byron Cummings
University of Arizona
Fred Sutter
Bisbee
Arizona Senate
Mike J. Hannon
Morenci
House Representatives
Grady Gammage
Northern State
Northern State Flagstaff; Mrs. George F. Kitt
Sharlot M. Halli
Prescott
S. T. Arkins
Globe
Tim Riordan
Flagstaff
Observation planes return to base after maneuvers
Twelve observation planes and a supply ship from the 91st observation squadron departed municipal airport shortly before 8 today. They head back to their Pacific Coast base as part of the national air maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
91St
Pacific Coast
City oiling bid due for U S Highway 66 extension
Bids are to be opened on June 18 for oil surfacing of about eleven miles of U S Highway 66 from Winslow eastward. The project must be completed by August 31 1931. Second Street extension pavement completion announced today with traffic to follow in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winslow
State’ Highway ‘Department
Havre
J. P. Flynn
State
Winslow. Chamber
Salvage Officials Refuse Defeat In Harvard Rescue Effort
Witnesses testifying at a federal inquiry described the Harvard disaster near Point Arguello noting heavy drinking aboard and a crew member in Miriam Ford’s lifeboat being drunk. Officials said they were removing pumps from the broken coastwise steamer as rescue work continued.
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Los Angeles
Harvard
Point Arguello
Miriam
Margaret Ford
Youth Takes Own Life Over Poor Eyesight
Washington reports the death of Richard McKirdy, 19, a Yellow Springs college student, who killed himself in his room over fears failing eyesight would prevent entrance to West Point. Police say he had brooded over his defective vision while planning to seek admission.
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Washington
West Point
Richard McKirdy
Yellow Springs
Military Academy
Weather Outlook Arizona Generally Fair Through Weekend
The forecast calls for generally fair weather in Arizona tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Winslow expects a high and low on Thursday but specific values are unavailable in the fragment.
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Arizona
Winslow
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