World News Roundup Highlights War Echoes and International Talks
A broad World News roundup reports on the ailing Japanese emperor, Belgium and Italy negotiating war debts with the United States, and shifts in European politics. It notes Amundsen’s polar reach, air route additions, and U S Navy fundraising for Old Ironsides.
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United States
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne
Brussels
Belgium
Italy
Kellogg
de Martino
Bowdoin Sails Toward Arctic Waters From Monhegan
Lieut. Com. Donald MacMillan and the auxiliary 116 ton Bowdoin sail from Monhegan Island toward the Arctic in a two plane survey mission. Planes will fly about 250 miles each way with visibility of at least twenty miles to search for land. The crew receives a farewell from villagers and summer visitors before departure.
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Monhegan Island
Donald MacMillan
Bowdoin
United States
Arctic
MacMillan
Cape Thomas Hubbard
Axel
Heiberg Island
Polar ‘Sea
Peary
Bowdéoin
Wiscasset
Ommander MacMillan
Missouri Builds Record Road Network in 1925
Missouri leads the nation with 807.7 miles of road under construction for the 1925-26 program, totaling 33.964 million dollars. By July 1, 803.5 miles will be completed with 1.531 million federal aid left, while overall state and federal road spending reach 63.299 million dollars.
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Missouri
Theodore aGry
State Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
New York
Seventy-Seven Warships in Chinese Ports Reported
London reports that seventy-seven warships of all nations are spread across fifteen Chinese ports. The principal American strength includes seven destroyers and six gunboats. Shanghai hosts twenty-three ships, Hankow eleven, Wei Hai Wei ten, and Hong Kong nine.
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London
Admiralty
Shanghai
Hankow
Wei’ Hai Wei
Hong Kong
President Approves Plan To Reorganize Prohibition Enforcement
Assistant Secretary Andrews of the treasury has drafted a long anticipated reorganization of federal prohibition enforcement. The plan has received presidential approval and changes are expected to be announced soon. Officials say details remain secret with no indication of personnel changes or scope.
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Washington
Andrews
The
Treasury
Boy Scouts Find Lost Woman Near Muskogee Stream
Two days of untiring scouting led to the recovery of Mrs. George F. Morgan aged mother of County Engineer C. R. Morgan. She was found on the banks of a secluded stream south of the city in a comatose condition.
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Boy Scouts
Muskogee
George F. Morgan
C. R. Morgan
Marceline Man Electrocuted While Connecting Power
Marceline Missouri plumber's helper G Sappington 45 died after contacting a live current in the basement of a residence near the city power house. Authorities reported he was in the process of making a connection when the accident occurred.
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Marceline
G. Sappington
Car Into Ditch Injures Four Near Salina
A car overturned in a ditch eleven miles east of Salina injuring four people. The victims named were Mr and Mrs Randolph Prim Helen Hurson of Salina and Erwin Gibbs of Hutchinson.
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Salina
Kas
Randolph Prim
Helen Hurson
Erwin Gibbs
Hutchinson
Here
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Japan
Household Department
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
England
Friedrich W. Meyes
Shanhai
W. W. Mackenzie
Shipping Board and
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Representative Davis
Tennessee
House Merchant Marine Committee
M. Caillaux
France
Navy Yard
Swampscott
Mass
President Coolidge
White House
Roald Amundsen
National Geographic Society
Sacramento
Cal
Des Moines
Iowa
Order of Elks
Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur
Frank Neuhauser
Louisville
Coast Guard
Atlantic Coast
Billard
Luke McNamee
Junction City
McNamee
Geneva May Overby
Francis Overby
Granby
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
T. Blake Kennedy
Teapot Dome
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
United States District‘ Court
Guaranty Trust Company of
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Rockport
Chicago
Robert E. Crowe
Sergt. Elbert Curran
Paul Underkoffer
Gee Ee
Pege
Frank,r
Loope
Seattle
St. Louis
Maude Lee Mudd
Earl E. Gordon
Miami, Ok
William Simms
Vinita
T. J. Donahue
Rainbow Bend
Winfield
Delaware River
Big Stranger Creek
Atchison and
Leavenworth
Kansas
Brown County
Horton
Jim Harkey
Clarksville
Tex
Field Artillery
Fort Sill
District Attorney's Office
Los Angeles
Thomas W. Young
Grace Young
Frisco System
Department of Agriculture
Ozark
Chamber of Deputies
Rome
North Pole
Amundsen
Ivo
China
U. S
OUR Comic
W.N. U
Henry
Mickie
McKae
Jeux
Mike
Addison
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