Peking Appoints Farm Boy Mayor Promising Reforms
A Shansi province farm boy becomes mayor of Peking and bans tobacco and opium, alcohol, and public entertainments. General Chang Yin-wu, former garrison commander, vows strict cost cuts, no gambling, and self funding staff lunches. He aims to trim city expenses from 360000 to about 50000 monthly.
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United Press
Peking
Shansi
Chang Yin-wu
Ho Chikung
Feng Yu-hsiang
Nanking
Chang
Funeral for Mrs Denson at First Christian Church Sunday
Funeral services are set for Mrs Allen Denson 66 at 3 Sunday afternoon in the First Christian Church with Rev Clark Buckner officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Park cemetery. Mrs Denson survived by four brothers three sisters two stepchildren and two grandchildren.
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Taylor Street
First Christian Church
Clark Buckner
F. F. Davis
R. L. Rogers
W. E. Gee
John Hill
W. P. Strickland
L. Gough
Ed S. McKinney
F. K. Loving
E. F. King
C. A. James
E. L. Hunter
Hicks Daniels
J. B. Coe
Memorial Park Cemetery
Boxwell Brothers Funeral
Denson
A. J. Baker
Wellington
Vans P. L. M. Baker
W. Baker
van Alstine
Tex
C. J. Lewis
J. N. Sanstrom
Anna, Tex
That Kid! Timely Interviews With Imminent Citizens
A youthful observer from 804 Buchanan Street jokes about reporters. He aspires to be a newspaperman in New Orleans, admiring editors and photographers and planning to learn the trade with his brother Leon returning home for the summer.
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B. W. Trice, Jr
Buchanan Street
Ross Hotel
Daily
Leon
New Orleans
Globe
Dr. Deter to Speak Here on Sunday
Dr A B Deter a 28 year Brazil missionary will preach at First Baptist Church Amarillo Sunday morning and evening His morning topic Up the Paraguay Before Roosevelt and his evening talk A Moonlight Ride Above the Clouds He has spent seven years in the mission field and returns from furlough to Abilene and will arrive in Amarillo tomorrow
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A. B. Deter
Brazil
First Baptist Church
Paraguay
Roosevelt
Rules for Summer Visitors from New England Council
The Recreational Development Committee of the New England Council issued a decalogue of rules to help communities ease the presence of eight million summer visitors. Col William A Barron of Crawford Notch NH chairs the group. Communities are urged to adopt attitudes toward summer customer guests that affect the region’s recreational industry.
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International News Service
Boston
New England
New England Council
William A. Barron
Crawford Notch
N. H
New York Cemetery to Be Transplanted
Albany August 2 bids will be opened by the Hudson River Regulating Board for the contract to remove 2,700 bodies gravestones and monuments from cemeteries that will be flooded by the new Sa
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International News Service
Albany
Hudson River Regulating Board
Lifeguard Marty Rescues 254 Over 18 Years in City Waters
August F. Marty of St. Louis spent 18 years saving 254 people at Candage Reservoir near Albany. The contract outlines reburial of bodies and relocation of gravestones to new cemetery sites as part of the aftermath.
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Candage
Albany
August F. Marty
St. Louis
Funeral Rites Today for Mrs Reynolds
Funeral services for Mary Elizabeth Reynolds who died yesterday at Dumas were held at 2 PM in the Dumas Baptist Church. The Rev. Robert C. Jones officiated. She is survived by two sons, Dr. J OW Reynolds and W. A. Reynolds of Ringland Oklahoma. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home directed arrangements.
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Mary Elizabeth Reynolds
Dumas
J OW. Reynolds
Dumas Baptist Church
Robert C. Jones
Amarilo Church
Calcutta Called Most Modern City of India
French author Maurice Dekobra, in India for a new book, says Calcutta is the most Americanized city in India. He notes the taxicab din, rupee worship, Wall Street homage, gambling, and the craze for talkies as signs of American influence.
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International
Bombay
Calcutta
India
Maurice Dekobra
Dekobra
United States
Wall Street
New York
Kansan Finds Exact-Size Facsimile of Declaration
F Lowry of Oxford Kansas discovered an old facsimile matching the exact size of the Declaration of Independence while sifting through a chest of family papers.
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F. Lowry
Oxford
Kan
Drunk Drops Churn On Officers During Arrest
Grady Fowler of Lewisburg Tennessee was shot slightly twice as a churn fell from a wine dow on two officers attempting to arrest him for public drunkenness. The churn struck one policeman causing minor injuries in the affray.
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International News Service
Lewisburg
Tenn
Grady Fowler
Fowler
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