Dawes Plan Conference Opens Amid High Hopes
London expects the inter allied Dawes plan talks to begin with Premiers Macdonald and Herriot presiding. Frank Kellogg will represent the United States as official observer as France Italy and Belgium arrive hopeful the talks strip sentiment from economics and anchor the Dawes program with a new German bank and foreign loans. Kellogg sees progress possible within days if sweeping resolutions push the plan forward.
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London
Associated Press
Dawes
Macdonald
Herriot
Kellogg U. S
United States
Frank B. Kellogg
Reginald McKenna
Kellogg
England
Kelloggs
Washington
Kelloge
Urges energetic policy to save Dawes proposal
Qoneida N Y July 15 Pier J Repont B Noyes former Trieland commissioner predicts the doom of the Dawes report and a continued deadlock between France and Germany unless the United States states its demand at London that France abandon its independent Ruhr policy. He calls for Ambassador Kellogg to declare the time has come for France to concede and join Britain in implementing the Dawes plan.
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Qoneida
N. Yi Uly
Dawes
London
Noyes
Republican Party
Kellogg
Europe
France
United States
Great Britain
Police Captain Receives Praise for Quick Capture
Captain Charles A. Wheeler of the Se cond precinct earned praise from the Board of Police Commissioners after Superintendent Flanagan recommended commendation for capturing Harry Heny of Halifax who allegedly assaulted a white woman on July 10 at 686 Pembroke Avenue. Wheeler pursued Heny on a motorcycle, despite the suspect being heavily armed, and captured him near Bartham Avenue and West Main Street within minutes.
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Charles A. Wheeler
Board of Police Commissioners
Patrick J. Flanagan
Wheeler
Harry Heny
Halifax
Pembroke Avenue
Heny
Bartham Avenue
Wast Main Street
Bridgeport News Roundup Mixed National Guard Drills and Local Incidents
Bridgeport and surrounding areas report National Guardsmen joining regimental drills as detachments release for delinquent taxpayers. Local police praise officers, while embezzlement cases surface. Firemen battle gas incidents, counterfeit notes appear, and road projects loom. Various state and federal cases, political calls for clean government, and a broad sweep of crimes, trials, and municipal issues fill the day’s briefs with a dense mix of people, places, and events across the state.
Hawaiians Affected by Immigration Law Not
Washington July 13 officials clarified the new immigration act will not affect Hawaiians. Secretary Davis stated 109,000 Japanese legally in the Hawaiian Islands are barred from moving to the continental United States under the act, and their status remains unchanged.
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Washington
Offen Je
Hawaii
United States
Davis
Abor Department
Ely
Hawaiian Islands
Police Plan to Crack Down on Corner Cutting and 45-Degree Parking
The Board of Police Commissioners discussed a citywide drive to stop corner cutting and enforce traffic laws. They approved 45-degree angled parking at Seaside Park to face the sea and reduce congestion, and debated straight traffic on Main Street and Fairfield Avenue during peak hours. Police will record violations and warn drivers parked at problematic angles near Golden Hill. Data show one third of beach visitors come from out of town. current parallel parking yields about 330 cars at the beach with potential rise under new rules. An average 7 to 10 am count hits 4424 vehicles on good days, 3861 on rainy evenings. New fencing at Seaside Park drew praise for safety, with two new officers named and a road back of the bathing pavilion recommended for attention by the Park Board.
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Board of Police Commissioners
Seaside Park
John ©. Stanley
They Soard
Samuel Dawe
Autoieta
Golden Hill
Sanford Stoddard
Trafic Department
Stanley
Conoy
William H. Ryan
James A. Foley
James G. Steveson
Board of Park Commissioners
Floods in Kalgan Destroy Part of City in China
Floods in Kalgan, China caused heavy damage to foreign properties estimated at 1 million dollars and destroyed most of the south city section. Life loss was limited though the railway bridge and hundreds of houses were wiped out. Warnings from Peking feared the Chikea protecting Tientsin might fail, risking a flood worse than 1817.
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Washington
Kalgan
China
State Department
Peking
Tientsin
Dope Cargo Seized Aboard Italia Liner Duilio Raid
Federal agents raid the Italia-America liner Duilio at her pier netting a $400,000 narcotics haul and nine crew arrests. Ship’s captain and seven officers detained as investigators say gro up smuggling ring used a go-between to import large quantities of narcotics for distribution. Altered searches uncovered about 600 packages. bond set for shipowners at $4,000 while crew held on various bails.
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New, York
Duilio
Arturo Gaeto
Gaeto
Michiel Angelo
Greto
Dullio
Edward Barnes
Customs Department
Naples
Duilie
Gaeta
Yale Defeats Field in Olympic Rowing Trials
Yale's varsity crew, wearing the American shield for the first time, won the eight-oared Olympic rowing trials on the Seine with a 3.5 length margin over Canada and five lengths over the Netherlands. Yale set a 2,000 metre Olympic course record at 6 minutes 51 seconds, beating the Thames and Italian crews in the heats and establishing itself as favorite for the finals next Thursday.
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France
Associated Press
Yale
Seine River
Thames
Housatonic
Taron
Univerity
Canada
Holland
Great Britain
Australia
Spain
United States Seeks Injunction to Close Ritz Carlton
Assistant United States Attorney Lyman Ward announced plans to seek a one year injunction to close the Ritz-Carlton Trotet under federal prohibition laws. The raid targets the establishment as a public nuisance.
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NEW Gyoriex
United States
Lyman Yg. Ward
The Peregrinations of a Bridgeport House
A Bridgeport house perched above the New Haven Railroad tracks reflects nearly a century of city life. Once bustling, moved to a new neighborhood, it now witnesses daily comings and goings of commuters on Railroad Avenue, with two pale windows remaining as relics of its former glory.
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Bridgeport
New Haven
Ralhroad Avenue
Not Guilty Plea Entered By Albert Fall in El Paso
Albert Fall former secretary of the interior pleaded not guilty and requested ill agreement while arraigned before US Commissioner A J Schmid in El Paso Texas bond set at 25000 for appearance in Washington DC Oct 6 to answer indictments. Evidence cites contracts with private oil firms for raising Federal oil reserves and a 200000 payment from Doheny. Fall arrived claiming illness. He was accompanied by attorney Mark B Thompson and Chase, son in law of Fall.
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EL Paso
Tex
Albert Fall
Nsertor
Walved
United States
A. J. Seamid
District of Columbia
Fall
L. Doheny
B. Ll. Doheny, Jr
Walthomer
Mark B. Thompson
A. G. Chase
Schmid
Washington, D. C
Grain Gamblers Make Millions Amid Rising Prices
United States grain prices dip global competition, brokers estimate Arthur W. Cutten netted between 1.5 and 1.9 million dollars from 300000 bushels of July corn and wheat gains. James A. Patten, famed market cornerer, is also reported to have earned sizable profits from recent oat and wheat movements, with prior schemes yielding mixed fortunes and legal actions but lasting influence on market history.
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Chicago
Arthur W. Cutten
Chicago Grain
Big Holding
Winnipeg
James A. Patten
Cutten
Nis
James
A. Patten
Patten
Cor Hering
De Valera to Be Released Soon by Irish Free State
Dublin reports the Free State government has decided to release Eamon De Valera Austin Stack and other political leaders from prison. An official announcement is expected tomorrow or Thursday. De Valera, jailed since last August, led Republican opposition and later opposed the Anglo Irish treaty.
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Irish Free State
Dublin
Associated
Presa
Eamon de Valera
Austin Siack
Free State
Stack
Ireland
Pattlacry
Michael Calling
Arthur Griffith
Dall Eireann
Editor Recommends Postmaster Appointment in Waterbury
Winsted July 15. Congressman James P. Glynn announced he recommended Abbert M. Colgrove of Waterbury for acting postmaster of Waterbury to succeed Col. James A. Geddes, the recently named Sheriff of New Haven County. Colgrove, long-time Waterbury American city editor, previously served as Waterbury education commissioner and ran Governor Templeton’s 1922 campaign.
Firemen Overcome in Hartford Warehouse Blaze
At noon a Hartford warehouse fire gutted the Clapp and Treat hardware building on Market Street. Twenty two firemen were overcome by gas, twelve engines responded, and the blaze threatened nearby Long’s Hotel and the Hartford Courant offices. Police held back a crowd of several thousand.
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Hartford
Jay
Clapp and Treat
Market Stret
Long’s Notel
Hartford Courant
New Haven Stocks Draw Investor Interest In New York
New York shares of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad rose as analysts note steady absorption. A leading firm says about 200000 shares have been accumulated quietly, with prices below 20 before fresh buying.
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New Yorke
New York
New Haven
Hartford Railroad
Embezzler in Civil Suit Over Bank Losses
Victor J. Martin, a former Commercial Bank and Trust clerk living at Lafayette Apartments, confessed to diverting deposits through a double card system. He concealed about 7200 dollars of depositor funds while earning 27 a week, with bond coverage and a civil suit pending to recover part of the missing money. His car has been confiscated and he is detained under 210000 dollars bail.
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Victor J. Martin
Commercial Bank and Trust Company
Detective Bureau
Martin
Lafayette
Lafayette Atreet
Cherk
Mart'n
Amateur driver survives cemetery crash in Mountain Grove
William Brown of 672 Dewey Street tried to learn driving on Mountain Grove road when his car ran away and struck G. L. Lucas of 3 Fox Street, damaging Lucas’s car by about $200. Brown’s new car veered onto the sidewalk into the cemetery, toppled about 60 feet of fence and briefly placed Brown in a freshly dug grave. No arrest made.
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Wiliam Brown
Dewey Street
Mountain Grove Road
G. L. Lucas
Fox Street
Brown
Mountain Grove
Pacific Coast Ablaze with Forest Fires and Losses
Forest fires rage from Southern California to British Columbia as crews Push to save vast timber and grazing lands. Unaccounted and feared dead include W. O. Dillon and family near Trapper Creek Idaho and 36 trapped at Wheeler's Mill Pend Oreille county Washington.
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Pacific Coast
W. O. Dillon
Alx
Trapper Creek
Idaho
Wheeler's Mill
Pend - O'Reille County
Washington
Salmon Valley
California
British Columbia
Governors race talk ties Thoms with McNeil in Dem fusion
Waterbury and Bridgeport political circles report a Democratic ticket pairing William E. Thoms for governor with Archibald McNeil Jr. for lieutenant governor. Hartford to New Haven leaders note support from city bosses amid realignment talks. McNeil declines immediate candidacy while Alfred N. Phillips pursues lieutenant governor and Jeremiah Donovan seeks a congressional bid.
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William E. Thoms
Waterbury
Ann ‘Ormer
Archibald McNeil, Jr
Bridgeport
Singe
Hartford
Amont
Teader
Manchester
New London
Norwich
Ling
Thorns
McNeil
Smith
Connecticut
Congress
Alfred N. Phillips
Jeremiah Donovan
Norwalk
Nomins
Observers Partly Responsible for Mississippi Deaths
Washington July 15 The naval court of inquiry finds the Heship Mississippi turret explosion off the California coast last June 14 killed 44 sailors and three officers. The fault lay in insufficient pressure cleaning the pore of the big gun and in safety doors not fully closed. Casualties were worsened by unofficial observers crowding passageways. The report covers findings of fact. Wilbur and officials weigh action on safety door regulations and unauthorized joining in turrets.
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Washington
Mississippi
Nfornia
Naval Court of
Wilbur
Jolin
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