Miss Minneapolis Flight Fails To Set Endurance Record
Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haugland in the Miss Minneapolis failed to break the world endurance flight record after 150 hours 14 minutes aloft. The Cessna monoplane landed near Langdon due to motor trouble, short of the 172 hour 32 minute target. A broken valve and crank-case bolt gave way, with extra oil and fuel sent up from the ground crew as precautions.
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Minneapolis
Thorwald “Thunder” Johnson
Owen Haugland
Langdon
Twin Cities
Wold- Chamberlain Field
Selling the old west to the effete east in dude ranch marketing
A United Press report notes a Western business trend selling atmosphere rather than frontier reality. Over 100 dude ranches operate from New York to Philadelphia with hosts in the old cow country offering 35 dollar weekly or higher stays for pampered Eastern customers. Rates, publicity, and geographic focus show marketers banking on nostalgia rather than regional presence.
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Dan Campbell
United Press
San Francisco
Pony Express
Zane Greys
B. M. Bowers
Cow Country
Park Avenue
Newport
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Coast
Franco and crew safe drifting off Azores isles
Madrid June 29 AP Major Ramon Franco the famous Spanish aviator and three companions who began a transatlantic flight to the United States via the Azores have been missing for more than a week but are now en route to Gibraltar aboard the British aircraft carrier Eagle after being presumed dead.
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Madrid
Ramon Franco
United State
Azores
Gibraltar
Eagle
rescuers announce Spanish airmen saved at sea near Azores
Spanish officials report Major Ramon Franco and three companions were rescued alive by the British rescue ship Eagle after drifting at sea from Cartagena toward the Azores. The group includes pilot Major Eduardo Gonzalez Gallarza navigator Captain Julio Ruiz de Alda and mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. A Dornier-Wahl two motor plane was salvaged with minor damage. News first came from Spain via the Gibraltar consul and was later confirmed by the British Admiralty.
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Atlantic
Santa Maria
Azores
Consul
The
Eagle
Island
Greldon
Cartagena
New York
Madrid
Franco
Ramon Franco
Eduardo Gonzalez Gallarza
Julio Ruiz de Alda
Pedro Madariaga
Endurance flight over Long Island by Three Musketeers
Monoplane Three Musketeers circles Roosevelt Field seeking a new endurance record. Amid radio chatter Martin Jensen and Marguerite shield details from William Ulbrich while Viola Gentry remains hospitalized with doubtful recovery. Ulbrich carries on after the crash as the crew plows through the third night with three in-air refuelings.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Long Island
Martin Jensen
Marguerite
William Uldrich
Viola Gentry
Jack Ashcraft
Miss Gentry
Nassau County Hospital
Ulbrich
Jensens
Fort Worth
Pilots Near Endurance Record Flight From Cleveland Airport
Cleveland pilots Roy L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb attempted a second take off to beat the world endurance record for planes refueled in flight. They lifted off at 6:35 yesterday after a storm forced a prior attempt to land.
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Cleveland
Roy L. Mitchell
Byron K. Newcomb
Campbell Calls On Hoover In Washington Visit
Thomas E. Campbell former governor of Arizona and United States commissioner general to the Seville exposition paid respects to President Hoover in Washington for a few days to report to the state department on his commission’s activities in Spain.
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Washington
Thomas E. Campbell
Arizona
United States
Hoover
State Department
Spain
Storm damages Nogales water system and prompts curtailment
A thunderstorm struck Nogales Arizona causing lightning to hit electrical lines feeding the main water pumping plant. The city faced a water famine as the downtown district relied on Mayor Karns private well and the fire department pumps. Hills residents lacked water while Nogales Sonora depended on Arizona supply. Crews repair lines and a new pump is expected by nightfall.
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Nogales
Ariz
Harry J. Karns
Sonora
Arizona
Hawks Sets Coast to Coast Flight Records at Roosevelt Field
Captain F. Hawkes completed a nonstop Los Angeles to Roosevelt Field flight setting a coast to coast record of 86 hours 46 minutes 48 seconds. He also smashed the west-to-east time record, totaling a 44 hour 48 second elapsed round trip, though he suffered a near crash on landing and later described himself as completely deaf. Hawkes, 32, NY resident and former Army air service instructor, had aimed for a 36 hour actual flying time. The round trip covered about 2800 miles with an estimated speed over 152 mph.
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F. Hawkes
Los Angeles
Hawks
Roosevelt Field
Pacific Coast
C. B. D. Collyer
Harry Tucker
New York
Captain Hawks
Army
Army Air Service
Mexico
Secretary Frazier mails 1929 session laws to officials
Secretary of State L.P. Frazier mailed copies of the 1929 session laws to all county and state officials. The move was announced from Phoenix on June 29.
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Phoenix
Secretary of State
Frazier
Purchase of voting machines ruled illegal in Pima County
Tucson June 29 AP Judge Fred W Fickett in superior court declared the purchase of voting machines valued at 43142 80 dollars illegal. The ruling came at the request of the present administration.
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Tucson
Pima County
Fred W. Fickett
Man Who Opened First Garage In Winslow Recounts Trials
R B Kiddoo of San Bernardino a former Winslow resident and early auto dealer recalls opening Winslow first garage on a site later used by Wiggins Plumbing. He faced jeers as cars were rare yet expanded his operation from a 20 by 30 foot shed to larger premises as Ford and other makes entered the desert trade.
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Winsow
R. B. Kiddoo
San Bernardino
Winslow
Kiddoo
Wiggins Plumbing
Peoria
Ilinois
Ford Agency
Ford
Jugoslav Prince Born on Nation's Biggest Holiday
Queen Marie of Jugoslavia gave birth to a third son Friday at 11 40 p m at the summer palace at Bled. Her mother Queen Marie of Romania was at her bedside. Mother and son are doing well. The birth coincided with Saint Vitus Day, the national holiday, sparking rejoicing in Belgrade. The day also marked the anniversary of Yugoslavia's victory at Kossa, from which the Kingdom's name derives.
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Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Marie of
Summer Palace
Bled
Marie
Romania
Saint Vitus
Jugo Slavia
Kossa
United Kingdom of the Serbs
Croats and Slovenes
Travel Milestones and Car Trouble Highlight Winslow Memoir
Mr. Kiddoo recalls long auto delays from scarce parts for repair and remembers a Buick road test. He notes three months to receive parts and marvels at faster modern travel, as Winslow hosts the Transcontinental Air Transport airport dedication improving cross continental trips.
Bus overturn injures twenty two near Youngstown
Twenty two persons were seriously injured when a Nevin line bus traveling from Pittsburgh to Derive struck a culvert and overturned in a ditch south of Youngstown. Two drivers were held for investigation at a local hospital by Sheriff Adam Lons of Mahoning County.
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Youngstown
Nevin Line
Pittsburgh
Deirvie
Here
al Hospital
Adam Lons
Mahoning Coun
Cady Lumber Company Denies McNary Water Pollution Claim
In Phoenix the Cady Lumber Company answers a $25 000 suit by Robert Bean through his mother Anna Bean alleging illness from McNary water. The company says it bears no responsibility for illnesses, notes other McNary businesses, and claims it only rents cottages and provides utilities. asserts Bean drank water at his own risk after warnings to use boiled milk and water.
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McNary
Phoenix
Robert Bean
Anna Bean
Flagstaff
Wyoming Man Heads National Livestock Board
Chicago June 2 The election of Charles D. Carey a prominent livestock man of Cheyenne Wyoming as chairman of the national livestock and meat board for the ensuing year was announced today He succeeds J C Mercer of Topeka Kansas Mr Carey represents the American National Livestock Association on the board
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Chicago
Capi
Charles D. Carey
Cheyenne
Wyo
National Livestock and Meat Board
J. C. Mercer
Topeka
Kans
Carey
American National Livestock Associaion
Record Heat Hits Winslow with New Summer Highs
Pioneer residents report Winslow s warmest summer on record with an overnight low of 65 degrees and a daytime high of 104. Weather observer H J Fouts says this month tops ten year records as 9 am thermometer shows 90 and forecasts indicate possible rain within days.
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Winslow
H. J. Fouts
Arizona
Sandino Fomer Insurgent Leader Goes Into Exile in Yucatan
Sandino aged 62 arrives in Merida Yucatan en route to exile after Guatemala voyage. He is accompanied by 25 armed men and appears weak from illness and years of fighting in Nicaragua.
Trans-Mississippi senior gulf champion crowned in Omaha
Captain Warren W. Beckwith of Los Angeles defeated M. H. Ladoucer of Omaha two and one in an 18 hole final at the Omaha Field Club to win the trans-Mississippi senior gulf championship. Hoover offers federal farm board posts to W. S. Meserip and C. C. Teague. Sar Luis south of Yuma named a Mexican immigration port of entry by the labor secretary.
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Omaha
Warren W. Beckwith
Los Angeles
M. HL. Ladoucer
Omaha Field Club
Washington
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
W. S. Meserip
Lake
Elmo
Minn
C. C. Teague
Los Aneles
Yuma
Sar Luis
Secretary of Labor
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Haugland
Johnson
Jensen
Azores Isles
Fourtee
South America
Ruiz de Alda
Gallarzo
Madariaga
Thomas Campbell
U.S
Roosevelt Field, N. Y
Tory
Illinois
Jugoslav Prince
Cady’ Lumber Company
Wyoming
Livestock Board
Attergoys
Sandino
Yucatan
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