Soviet waits China’s reply to ultimatum in Far East clash
Shanghai reports Chiang Kai-shek returns to Nanking as Beijing awaits Moscow’s response to a three day ultimatum over Chines e seizure of the Eastern Railway in Manchuria. Soviet officials expelled from Manchuria endure abrupt departures and arrests approach one thousand as tensions rise.
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Soviet
China
Russia
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Peiping
Soviet Union
United Press
Moscow
Manchuria
Harbin
Federal Farm Board Opens With Hoover Backing
The Federal Farm Board met at the White House for its first session as part of a $500 million farm bill. Hoover called the board a turning point for agriculture aiming to raise its standing with other industries and to steady up the sector. An initial $151.5 million is available for immediate operations.
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United Press
Washington
Federal Farm Board
Hoover
White House
Congress
China Works Considers Pool Merger With American China
Stockholders of the Morgan Belleek China Co Canton meet Monday at 7 PM in M J Braucher offices to discuss a proposed merger with the American China Corporation Cleveland a 25 million dollar pottery combine. Braucher says two thirds of stock control supports ratification. Morgan Belleek China Co organized in 1924 has about 75 stockholders with John Willis as president and James H Willis as treasurer.
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Morgan-Belleek China Co
Canton
M. J. Braucher
American China Corporation
Cleveland
Ohio
Braucher
John 8. Willis
Attorney Brancher
Charles Willis
James H. Willis
Clermont Co murderer dies in prison after prison term
Columbus July 15 Twenty years of prison life ended for John Hill forty at the penitentiary hospital from blood poisoning and complications He would have begun a 21st year on Oct 5 this year if he had lived.
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Columbus
John Hill
Clermont Co
Penitentiary
Hill
All Generals in Communists War Will Rogers Spoof
Santa Monica July 15. That was nice about promotion for Smedley Butler. He served in Cuba France Philadelphia and China and has won more medals than any American outside Sousa. Russia and China are 4 as war details. Communists claim all are equal so they will all be generals.
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Will Rogers
Santa Monica
Cal
Smedley Butler
Cuba
France
Philadelphia
China
Chicago
John Philip Sousa
Russia
New Orleans Street Car Strike Enters Third Week
New Orleans enters its third week without street car service as strikebreakers, protected by federal marshals, begin operating cars on St. Charles Avenue. Company officials anticipate resuming full service soon, while track repairs continue and negotiations with a citizens committee show little progress.
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New Orleans
United States
St. Charles
United Press
New Orleans Today
Carmen
New Orleans Public Service, Inc
North
Man Held After Woman Is Shot In Orrville
Willam Neumister of Orrville is jailed in Wooster with Mrs. Eugene Carpenter, 35, hospitalized in Massillon after a noon shooting at the Carpenter home. Neumister says a 32 caliber automatic discharged accidentally while he talked to the woman. liquor found in the cellar led Sheriff Clark Shearer to guard the home. Carpenters' husband, a railroad engineer, was elsewhere during the incident. Neumister is held for questioning.
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Orrville
Willam Neumister
Wooster
Eugene Carpenter
Massillon City Hospital
Carpenter
Neumister
Marion Graven
Wayne Co
Clark Shearer
Neumeister
Six Annual Spring Chicken Week At Benders Cafeteria
Local notice announces Benders Cafeteria hosting the Sixth Annual Spring Chicken Week all week with Ady highlighting menu specials and events.
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Bender
Tariff Fight Goes to Nation in Arguments
Democrats and Republicans wage a public battle over the tariff issue as hearings before the Senate Finance Committee continue. The Democrats have flooded the press with statements opposing the House bill, while Republicans led by Sen. Watson mount a counteroffensive defending the measure after talks with President Hoover.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Sen. Watson
Senate
Hoover
King George Undergoes Second Operation
London reports a minor operation on the right chest of King George at Buckingham Palace aimed at relieving congestion and draining an abscess forming last winter. The procedure removed portions of two ribs and officials said the monarch’s condition is satisfactory with no cause for alarm.
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United Press
London
King George
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Wales
Transatlantic Pathfinder Crew Dines with King in Pisa
Roger Q Williams and Capt. Lewis A. Yancey of the Pathfinder crew arrived in Pisa and rode to San Rossore for lunch with King Victor Emmanuel and the royal family. Hydroplane squadrons from Orbetello and Leghorn escorted the flyers on arrival.
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Pisa
Italy
Roger Q Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Pathfinder
Royal Automobile
San Rossore
King Vector Emanuel
Orbetello
Leghorn
Polish flyer dies as ocean hop ends in crash
The Polish training ship Iskra returns to Horta after paying respects to Louis Idzikowski who was killed when the Marshal Pilsudski crashed on Graciosa Island while attempting a transatlantic flight from Paris to the United States. Co pilot Kubala was injured. the body was honored at the cemetery.
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United Press
Lisbon
Iskra
Horta
Azores
Graciosa Island
Louis Idzikowski
Marshal Pilsudski
Maj
Kubala
Idzikowski
Atlantic
Paris
United States
St Swithin's Day Weather Legend Debunked
New York July 15. The superstition says rain on St Swithin's Day will bring 40 days of rain. The legend cites St. Swithin, a ninth century cleric buried at Winchester. Weather experts say records do not support the claim.
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St. Swithin
Winchester
England
Southworth Confirms Loyalty to Cardinals Amid Manager Rumors
New York July 15 Billy Southworth, manager of the National League champions, says he has no plan to leave the St Louis Cardinals and will stay on as long as club owners want him. He denies reports that Jakie Atz would replace him. Southworth cites pitching woes but expresses confidence in a turnaround and a winning streak ahead.
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New York
St. Louis Cardinals
Billy Southworth
United Press Today
Jakie Atz
Ft. Worth
Southworth
Woman Fights Her Own Battle in New Britain
In New Britain Connecticut a woman fights with a speeding driver prompting a police chase. Officers locate the car hours later with the pair still in combat. The woman, scratched and bruised, declares she is 25 and married and will handle herself, with no charges filed.
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New Britain, Conn
Three Drownings Reported As Heat Relief Stunt
In New Orleans on Sunday three people died while cooling off. Leon Smith 12 and Anthony Boscon 47 drowned while swimming. John Saal 18 months old strangled in a shallow household fish pool.
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New Orleans
Leon Smith
Anthony Boscon
John Saal
Gotham pastor in defense of sex sermon
Dr. John Haynes Holmes defended sex as natural and beautiful in a Park Avenue Community Church sermon in New York. He urged five standards for sex life including love based relations, monogamy, openness, social sanction, and state marriage authority.
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Gotham
New York
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church
Park Av
Holmes
Four Cleveland Newspaper Men Face Contempt Charges
Common Pleas Judge Freder ick P. Walther appoints three attorneys to represent him in the contempt of court case against four Cleveland Press executives. Hearing postponed to tomorrow to allow thorough preparation and orderly evidence presentation.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
Frederick P. Walther
Cleveland Press
William H. Boyd
van Sweringens
Interstate Commerce Commission
Luther Day
John A. Cline
Press
Scripps-Howard
Weekend Storms Kill Dozens Across US
A weekend tally from United Press reports describes multiple disasters across the country. In Pequea Pennsylvania an excursion steamboat capsized and four people drowned while fourteen survived. In Union Missouri a five foot flood destroyed a car and seven people died with five missing. Chicago area drownings were reported amid heat relief swimming and a Missouri storm included a lightning fatality to a boy.
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United Press
United States
Pequea
Union
Pinoak Creek
Chicago
Vicinity
Missouri
City Budget for 1930 Hovers Around Four Million
The 1930 city budget is under preparation by municipal divisions. Officials expect a budget exceeding 3 million and possibly reaching 4.0 million, including sinking fund requirements, for January 1930 through December 1930. The 1929 budget was 3,985,661.15.
Stark County 1930 budget nudges tax rate higher
The Stark county budget for 1930, discussed in the morning and postponed to Monday afternoon, would raise the general fund by three tenths of a mill, equaling 30 cents per $1,000 valuation, to cover the Molly Stark Sanatorium opening and other costs. A two tenths mill add-on for secondary road improvements is also being considered.
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Stark Co
Molly Stark
Absentee Ballots Available for Stark County Primary
Absentee voting begins in Stark County with ballots available at the board of elections in the Mellett building Canton Massillon and Alliance residents away on August 13 may vote by calling the board office Ballots can be mailed to another address with home address and precinct and the mailing address required for delivery
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Stark Co Board of Elections
Mellett
Canton
Massillon
Alliance
Board
Probe opens into rifling of airmail bags
Police from Scotland Yard New York and Montreal investigate theft of two airmail bags from the United States and Canada sent to Liverpool and London. Several registered packages are missing with the Montreal bag found rifled and the New York bag reported to have over 80 letters missing.
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London
Scotland Yard
New York
Montreal
United States
Canada
Liverpool
Canton Opens Regular Airline Between Pittsburgh and Akron
Canton's first regularly scheduled air service began Monday with a single passenger on a Pittsburgh to Akron flight via Canton. The plane left Pittsburgh at 7 and reached Canton at 8, arriving Akron at 8:30 for a total trip of 1 hour 50 minutes. The service links to a Detroit-bound plane in Akron, enabling Pittsburgh to Detroit travel in under four hours. A county airport campaign meeting is set for Monday at 4 PM in the chamber of commerce to plan voter-facing actions ahead of November.
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Canton
Harrisburg Road
Pittsburgh
Akron
Rubber City
Detroit
Citizens’ Airport Campaign Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Harrisburg Road Municipal
M. Conley
Newspaperman J. J. McNamara Dies in Canada
J. J. McNamara secretary to Louis B. Seltzer editor of the Cleveland Press died of a hemorrhage while on vacation at Timagami Island near Toronto. He died after heart trouble and possible overexertion. He had worked at the Cleveland Press six years under three editors and will have funeral plans announced in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Puneral
J. J. McNamara
Louis B. Seltzer
Cleveland Press
Canada
McNamara
Jack
Timagami Inn
Timagami Island
Toronto
Fire at Pier 34 Engulfs Warehouses in Philadelphia
A major blaze swept Pier 34 in Philadelphia early today with four alarms raised by 6. Several large warehouses were threatened as fire companies worked to stop the spread. No damage estimate available at the time. Electric Contractors' Association piente, Turkey Foot Lake, July 18th. Ady.
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Philadelphia
Pier 34
Electric Contractors’ Association
Piente
Turkey Foot Lake
Ady
Canton to Form Local Street Railway and Bus Company
Canton prepares to form the Canton Street Railway and Bus Co to operate Northern Ohio Power and Light Co lines. Directors to be Canton men chosen this week with officers selected immediately. Plan to replace tracks with buses and extend service citywide, aiming for a 10 year exclusive city franchise.
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Canton
Northern Ohio Power & Light Co
Canton Street Railway & Bus Co
Market Av S
Cleveland Av
Mahoning Rd
Weather records fall as July heat fades in Canton
Canton awoke to 56 degrees with a north wind and cool weather likely for 24 hours. The prior day reached 79 degrees, six degrees cooler than the day before, and Sunday night marked the coolest July reading to date. Tuesday is forecast to be fair with a slow temperature rise.
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Canton
Carl H. Meyer
Meyer
Captain Greene to Race River Steamer Tom Greene Tuesday
Special features highlight Capt. Mary B. Greene cousin of a Canton woman and her upcoming river race aboard the Tom Greene. The story runs on Page 2 with additional items on editorials and back-page notices.
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Mary B. Greene
Tom Greene
Canton
Shining
Molly Stars
Dr Cadman
Pease
Judith Smi
Visbhein
Feery
Amusement Rey
Modney Duteher
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