Foreigners in Peking May Flee if Americans Evacuate
Nationalist forces press south from Hokien toward Paotingfu as fighting intensifies near Peking. Americans weigh evacuation to Tientsin while Japanese and other foreign staff plan moves amid the rising danger and potential legation-quarter gaps. 150 reds slain on Hainan by Kwangtung troops marked broader suppression efforts.
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Peking
Associated Frees
London
Chihai
Hokien
Feng Yu-hsiang
Paotingfu
Tokio
Reuter
United States
Smedly Butler
China
Tientsin
Legation
Legation Quarter
Tokyo
Chengteh
Yingkow
Gulf of Liaotung
Manchuria
Mukden
Pres
Canton
Hainan
Kwangtung
Dr James C Baker Elected Bishop by General Conference
Dr James C Baker pastor of Trinity Church Urbana Illinois was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Kansas City conference on the sixth ballot with 591 votes. Dr Lewis O Hartman of Boston and Dr J M M Gray of Scranton were among leading rivals as Dr Raymond J Wade of Chicago was also elected earlier. One more bishop remains to be chosen.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
James C. Baker
Trinity Church of
Urbana
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Lewis O. Hartman
Boston
J. M. M. Gray
Scranton
Raymond J. Wade
Chicago
Star of Falkland wreck reports circulated from Dutch Harbor
Unconfirmed radio reports say Star of Falkland ran aground off Akun head in the Bering Sea and may have sunk. About 400 crew and cannery hands were said to have been rescued and transferred to the lighthouse tender Cedar the Arctic and the Unalga. They were to be taken to Naknek cannery. A separate report mentioned one death by suicide aboard the ship.
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Associated Press
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Star of
Falkland
Akun Head
Bering Sea
Arctic
Alaska Packers
Coast Guard
Unalga
Naknek
Akun
Unimak Pass
Entered Race for High Goat Seat
The article notes 1926 Democratic nominee for associate justice of the supreme court, born in Missouri and admitted to the bar there. Other filings include B A Taylor for Congress from the Second district, Judge George B Winston for Third district judge, and J J Gunther for Twentieth district judge.
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Supreme Court
Missouri
B. A. Taylor
Jordan
Congress
George B. Winston
Anaconda
J. J. Gunther
Plentywood
Quebec Welcomes Bremen Crew After Transatlantic Flight
The Bremen three-man crew arrived by train from Montreal and were greeted by Mayor Auger, Lt Governor Laferte, and a large crowd. Captain Koehl Major Fitzmaurice and Baron von Huenefeld attended Arbor Day services at St. Sacrament parish before proceeding.
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Associated Press
Quebec
Bremen
Montreal
Auger
Hector Laferte
Koehl
Major Fitzmaurice
Baron von Huenefeld
St. Sacrament Parish
Julian defendants freed in petroleum stock case verdict
The jury in the Julian stock and conspiracy case returned not guilty verdicts on all seven defendants. The decision was announced in Los Angeles.
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Assarciated Press
Los Angeles
Julian Petroleum Stock
Girls Central High Notes Honor Speed Dictation Achievements
Elizabeth Sheehan Doris Jones Margaret Pullum Veronica Powers Mary Fleming Florence Mack Josephine Powers achieved 120 wpm speed dictation. Alice Sheehan and Helen Healy earned bronze for 40 wpm over 15 minutes. Certificates went to Lourdes Brouillette Margaret Monahan Catherine Mitchell. Orchestra reception hosted by faculty. Alice Mulcahy spoke. Senior class invited to alumni meeting at the K of C with plans for future initiation. Mary Gill urged attendance.
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Elizabeth Sheehan
Doris Jones
Margaret Pullum
Veronica Powers
Mary Fleming
Florence Mack
Josephine Powers
Alice Sheehan
Helen Healy
Lourdes Brouillette
Margaret Monahan
Catherine Mitchell
Underwood
K. of C
Ceil Maillet
Agnes Leary
Lawrence Manion
Carl Fleming
Mary Gill
Levi Wild died after accident and long illness
Levi Wild, longtime telegraph operator born 1846 in Albion Michigan, died after a West Granite street collision and months of illness. Surviving relatives include son Edgar Wild of Butte and four grandchildren. funeral plans set for burial in Butte.
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Wild
Edgar Wild
Butte
del B. Irvine
Mary Foley
Frances Swan
Kansas City
Sherman& Reed
Silver Bow Club
West
Granite Street
Mr. Wild
Maurice Salmon
Liberty
Murray Hospital
Yukon-Pocahontas Coal mine blast claims 17 dead
Seventeen miners died in a Yukon Yukon-Pocahontas Coal Co No 1 mine explosion in Yukon West Virginia. Thirteen mangled bodies recovered. forty workers present, twenty-three escaped. Victims include nine white and eight black miners. many identified as leaders and cutters.
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Associated Presse
Bluefield
W. Va
Yukon-Pocahontas Coal Company
Yukon
Will Paint Lamp Posts of Butte
The Montana Power company will paint lamp posts in Butte to match federal efforts painting letter boxes. Postmaster Richard Brimacombe urged cooperation and received Washington approval to repaint 85 letter boxes in standard colors, except air mail boxes which were recently repainted. Louis Dreibelbis scrubbed the Marcus Daly statue near the federal building to its original colors.
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Gaul
Montana Power Company
Richard Brimacombe
Post Office Department
Butte
Washington
Post Office
Lindbergh
Brimacombe
Marcus Daly
Federal Building
Upper Main Street
Louis Dreibelbis
Daly Memorial
Indiana G O P uses gag on state leaders
The Indiana Republican group moves toward selecting seven delegates-at-large for the national convention while Senate leaders Watson and Robinson and Governor Jackson are reportedly not to be named on the delegation. In Washington, Huston testified that he raised 52,500 and spent 32,296 to back Herbert Hoover. Hale claimed he funded the "Politics" weekly with 8,500 losses and had no outside aid, while pursuing promotion work in Mexico.
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Watson
Robinson
Jackson
Associated Press
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Claudius H. Huston
Chattanooga
New York
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Commerce
Huston
Hoover
Frank J. Hale
Prohibition
The
Treasury
Mexico
McNary-Haugen farm relief bill faces White House clash
President Coolidge attacks the measure as a tax and price fixing scheme that would subsidize middlemen and promote overproduction. Senator McNary of Oregon, Edge of New Jersey, and other supporters weigh action as sentiment on overriding the veto runs evenly split. The bill creates a federal farm board, loan programs for co-operatives, and an equalization fee to manage surpluses and stabilize markets.
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Culture Committee
Senator McNary
Oregon
McNary
Agriculture Committee
Coolidge
Edge
New Jersey
You Press
Washington
White House
Congress
Federal Farm Board
Federal Land Bank
Secretary of Agriculture
Poison Gas To Be Destroyed In Hamburg
Hamburg authorities ordered the destruction of remaining phosgene by chemical means after advice from German poison gas experts. Today and last night hospitals reported several new poisonings with 84 cases under treatment at Wilhelmsburg hospital. Officials said the gas was manufactured and stored in Hamburg under tight supervision for a year, and the explosion stemmed from solder decay, not tank pressure.
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Associated Press
Hamburg
Germany
Wilhelmsburg
Hamburg Supervising Industrial Board
General Nobile At World’s Top Plans Pole Landing
Italia reports progress from northwest of Spitzbergen as General Nobile and Professor Pontremoli plan a pole landing. Aboard the airship crew prepared for descent by rope while observers may follow. the oaken cross from the pope will be set up at the pole.
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Citta di Milano
Rome
Italia
Pole
Nobila
Coal Mine Rescue Work Suspended After Disastrous Explosion
MA Pa May 23 Rescue work in the Mather mine was suspended as officials planned a thorough ventilation before the official investigation by state and national mine inspectors and county officials. The recovered bodies reached 164 with about 30 miners still unaccounted for. Most missing are buried under slate and earth, and no immediate digging is planned.
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Associated Press
MA . Pa
Mather
Pioneer Prelate Pitaval Dies in Denver Hospital
Archbishop John Battiste Pitaval, pioneer Catholic prelate of Colorado and the Southwest, died at St. Anthony's hospital in Denver after a illness. He resigned as archbishop of Santa Fe in 1909 to serve as hospital chaplain. He had just passed his seventieth birthday in February. His work was widely regarded among Western clergy and he was well known across Colorado and nearby states.
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Promontory
Utah
Union Pacific
Wild
Corinne
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Ben Holliday
Holliday
Oregon
New York
Jay Cooke
Virginia City
Nev
St. Joe
Georgia
Omaha
Chicago
St. Louis
Western Union
Ogden
Butte
Mr. Wild
Pauline Bryan
Associated Press
Denver
Col
Jean Baptist Pitaval
Colorado
Southwest
St. Anthony’s Hospital
American Southwest
John Battiste Pitaval
Diocese of
Santa Fe
St. Anthony's Hospital
Land Office Bill Passed by Senate
Senate passes Senator Walsh bill establishing land offices in Montana Oregon Idaho Nevada and South Dakota. Four offices would be in Montana at Helena Miles City Lewistown and Glasgow one in Oregon at La Grande one in South Dakota Rapid City one in Idaho Hailey and one in Nevada Elko.
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Associated Press
Washington
Walsh
Montana
Oregon
Idaho
Nevada
South Dakota
Senate
House
Helena
Miles City
Lewistown
Glasgow
la Grande
Rapid City
Hailey
Elko
New Agreement Reached On Muscle Shoals Bill
Senate and house conferees reached a new accord on the Muscle Shoals bill retaining the Cove Creek dam provision while dropping sections that would authorize construction of the Muscle Shoals fertilizer plant and other mixed fertilizer facilities.
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Washington
Senate
House
Muscle Shoals
Cove Creek
Muscle Shoals Plant
Tailspin Crash Kills Man, Wounds Another in Sandusky
Walter Anderson of Richmond Indiana, 32, was killed and Benjamin Bruser, 20, of Sandusky, badly hurt when their plane plunged from 1500 feet and burst into flames near Sandusky Ohio. The incident followed by a discussion of legislative sections defining terms and provisions of the Surplus Control Act, including an initial $500000 appropriation for administrative expenses.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Walter Anderson
Richmond
Ind
Benjamin Bruser
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