Massacre Claim Ties Japanese to Manchuria Towns
Shanghai dispatch says a Chinese foreign office communique accuses Japanese troops of massacring about 2,700 villagers in Ping Ting San Chen Chin Pae and Litsekou near Fushun. It describes forced assembly, machine guns, bayoneting, burning of bodies, and land appropriation by Japanese nationals.
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Shanghai
Chinese Foreign Office
Manchuria
Ping Ting-San
Chen Chin-Pae
Litsekou
Fushun
Young Baptist Envoys Press Prohibition Law at State Meet
About 5000 young Baptists attend the Baptist training school convention in Houston. Key speakers include Dr. I J Van Ness and Dr. Wallace Bassett with T C Gardner also presenting. Pat Neff urged church leaders to engage in government, and a petition was circulated to oppose repeal of the 18th Amendment or changes to the Volstead Act.
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Houston
U.P
The
Baptist Training School
I. J. van Ness
Baptist Sunday School Board
Nashville
Tenn
Wallace Bassett
Dallas
T. C. Gardner
T. L. Holcomb
Oklahoma City
W. R. White
Fort Worth
Pat M. Neff
Baylor University
Neff
Congress
Frisco Railroad Man Is Held in Houston
Harry Deveaux, 54, former president of the Yreka Railroad Co of San Francisco, was brought before a federal judge in Houston for formal extradition to California over embezzlement charges involving railroad funds. The case centers on embezzlement allegations linking Deveaux to his former railroad leadership position.
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Houston
U.P
Harry Deveaux
Yreka Railroad Company
San Francisco
California
U. S. Commis
Advertising Pays as Lost Dog Returns
Miami man S D Wallace uses a standing classified ad for a lost dog. He calls the papers and asks to insert the same ad today. The roaming pup always turns up, proving the system works.
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Miami
Fla
S. D. Wallace
Wallace
Panhandle to Present Case on Grain Rates In Southwest
J. S. Cole, traffic representative of the Amarillo Grain Exchange, returns to Fort Worth for a hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Texas Railroad Commission. The Panhandle interests reopen Monday with testimony and exhibits supporting proposals for grain rate changes to major markets. Representing Panhandle is J. N. Beasley along with H. L. Kearns, A. A. Henneman, J. P. Ewing and Y. H. Sparrow, with more witnesses from various Panhandle cities.
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S. J. Cole
Amarillo Grain Exchange
Fort Worth
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas Railroad Commission
Southwest
Panhan~ Die
Panahandle
Commission
Texas Panhandle
J. N. Beasley
H. L. Kearns
A. A. Henneman
J. P. Ewing
Y. H. Sparrow
Panhandle
Ex-Railroad Executive Deveaux Arrested in California Bond Rejected
Deveaux admitted his identity and planned to return to California to face charges after failing to post a $20,000 bond. Judge Kennerly to rule on extradition as police and DOJ agents traced him to an apartment he had inhabited for two months. His wife alerted authorities when he would not be found at the residence.
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Sioner
W. F. Carothers
Deveaux
California
T M. Kennerly
Department of Justice
Women Take Jobs Claim Blames Unemployment on Competing Wages
Miss Mary Anderson, head of the U S Labor Department women’s bureau, told the American Federation of Labor in Cincinnati that many unemployed American fathers lose work as employers hire cheaper women at four to five dollars weekly. She notes 2.5 million more women were employed in 1930 than 1920, earning far less than men, and says organization is needed to raise wages, while opposing a separate women’s union.
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Cincinnati
Mary Anderson
American Federation of Labor
Miss Anderson
Prohibition Forces Meeting At First Christian Church
The local Allied Forces prohibition chapter will hold a Sunday meeting at 3 30 in the First Christian Church. Judge J W Crudgington will preside over the round table discussion. A Cherokee Indian choir in North Carolina has a full repertoire of sacred songs sung by their pale face neighbors.
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Allied Forces Ai Prohibition
First Christian Church
J. W. Crudgington
North Carolina
Ox teams have come back day in Missouri farming tale
Lee's Summit dispatch recalls progress from wagon trains to modern highways as Russell Lewis trains six shorthorn oxen at Col burn Farm. Spot and Bright steer a stalled truck from mud while Lewis explains oxen respond to shouted commands and names.
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Lee’s Summit
Lee's Summit
Colburn
Russell Lewis
Lewis
Buck
Ben
Spot
Bright
Public Spirit Drives Watchman’s Big Holiday Donation
In Baltimore a 66 year old watchman Edward J Clark of a flophouse gives 140 from his 8 weekly wage to relief campaigns. He has given about one third of his pay annually and may donate more if winter worsens. Manuel Quezon reportedly favors Alfred E Smith for governor general of the Philippines if Theodore Roosevelt is not retained.
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Baltimore
Edward J. Clark
Watchman
Clark
Smith
Manila
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Senate
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Islands
Theodore Roosevelt
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Judith
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Norman W. Harris
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