Great airplane to arrive at nine this morning
An announcement states a large airplane is due to land at nine o clock this morning, with arrival expected at the local airfield.
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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1928
Page
9
An announcement states a large airplane is due to land at nine o clock this morning, with arrival expected at the local airfield.
Hundreds of Winslow residents greet the Arizona Republica n aerial survey plane as it lands at nine o'clock on Berrigen Field. Mayor Black and city officials will welcome pilot Bill Kingsley and photographer E. D. Newer as the craft heads to Holbrook and the Petrified Forest for aerial photos.
Distress calls report a large fire sweeping Killisnoo in the Alexander Archipelago near Canada. About 300 residents face a fast moving blaze as the radio operator pleads for all possible assistance and warns of suffocating conditions.
At Lees Ferry Arizona a ferry capsized sending Ralph Johnson the ferryman a man known as Bean and an unidentified Navajo downstream. They were swept away and believed dead with no recoveries reported by nightfall. Old timers doubt they will be found.
In Peking 1200 Mukden troops evacuated earlier under safe conduct promises and returned to the capital where Shansi nationalist forces entered from the west. Northern troops withdrew through the eastern gate as Kuomintang banners rose, with reception by students and officials amid mixed uniforms and grenades.
The text shows various monetary figures and a grand total for the 1928-1929 year. It lists amounts such as 2,000.00 and 445,202.40, culminating in a grand total and related subtotal figures.
Rome reports a Citta Di Milano mother ship near Leigh Des Cape 20 miles north in Franz Josef Land maintained wireless contact with the polar expedition for 20 minutes. General Nobile, commander of Italia, gives his position as 20 miles north of Leigh Des Cape. The article adds a parlor quip about marriage.
New York law bans wire tapping as of today, announced by J. S. Mc Culloh, president of the New York Telephone Company, in June. The statutes aim to curb unauthorized listening and safeguard communications.
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