Freighter Escorts Former Local Woman With 27 Million in Cargo From War China
The Cedar Rapids couple arranged passage from Peiping to Genoa as bombs fell and trains were halted. Mrs. McCord and her husband Lieutenant Commander McCord describe delays, martial law, and a perilous ocean escape with 27 million dollars in paper money loaded at Tsingtao aboard a small freighter.
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China
Peiping
Cedar Rapids
United States Navy
Thawara Mere
de le Treature McCord
McCord
States
Guam
Joseph Sadowsky
Bever Avenue
E. W. Krickard
Twenty-third Street Drive
Genoa
Italy
Europe
Cathay Mansions
Shanghai
Japan
Mac
Mukden
Fentai
Cheefoo
War Hai Wei
Tsingtao
Tsingtan
Legation
Marco Polo Bridge
North Dakota town still has too much water
Sheldon North Dakota faced a legal battle after drilling in 1906 unleashed an artesian well that flooded fields and eroded land. The village paid funds to settle damage claims, but the flowing 40 foot well continues to bubble, with a fence moved over the years as the pool grew.
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Sheldon
N. D
North Dakota
South Dakota
Fastest American Planes To Fly At 400 MPH Tests
Two top speed aircraft from Mattie Laird workshops rolled out in Chicago for tests under Col Roscoe Turner. The Meteor racing plane with a Pratt Whitney 1200 hp engine and the Comet with 1000 hp will challenge European racing ships. Turner plans to fly the Meteor in next week's Bendix trophy and Cleveland air races.
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Chicago
INS
America
Mattie Laird
Roscoe Turner
Europe
Turner
Alsa
Cleveland
Munckes Findlaw
Oprato
Polish Farm Strike Seems Fading Out
WARSAW UPI The national strike of farmers appeared to have ended with Saturday deliveries of food products to industrial centers resumed. Districts Luan Tarno pol and Croce reported shipments nearly normal, though Kielce district noted further disturbances. The Polish press did not mention the strike, in which at least 50 persons were killed.
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Warsaw
UPI
Luan
Tarnopol
Croce
Kielce
Two Soldiers Sentenced for Kidnaping in Nebraska Case
Elmer Kitcher and Ted Olson two army privates from Fort Crook Nebraska received federal reformatory sentences after pleading guilty to kidnaping. Kitcher got two years Olson eighteen months. The pair had escaped from the Fort Crook guard house June 14 and forced an Omaha cab driver to take them to Council Bluffs under threats. They were later arrested near Minneapolis.
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OMAHA
Elmer Kitcher
Ted Olson
Fort Crook
Neb
Kitcher
Olson
Council Bluffs
Minneapolis
A Fish Story in Cleveland Split by a Catch
Chester Sobey fished Lake Erie Fortnight ago with a broken line. Friday night he returned to the same spot and landed a large catfish that bore Sobey’s old hook line and brace of hooks in its mouth.
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Cleveland
Chester Sobey
Lake Erie
Sobey
Grange Shrine in Minnesota Restored
Elk River Minnesota AP The National Grange funds a 10000 restoration of an old farmhouse on the Mississippi near Elk River to preserve the first Grange headquarters founded by Oliver H Kelley. The project rebuilds the home barn granary and related structures as a national shrine for farmers and Grange students. Charles Reed of Elk River leads the rehab work with furnishings donated from Grange chapters nationwide.
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Elk River
Minn
Grange
National Grange
Oliver H. Kelley
Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
Washington, D. C
Kelley
Mississippi
Charles Reed
Hindu Widow Dies On Mate's Funeral Pyre
In Guna Suket state a Hindu widow died by suicide on her husband's funeral pyre despite British rule. A village girl, aged one year married, announced her plan to die with him as mourners clashed cymbals and trumpets.
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Mate
Colombo
Ceylon
Guna
Suket
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May
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RADIO
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Burma
Mellen
Parker Quink
Ste
Kolynos
Philips
Wate
Hart's
Peterman
Stearn
Oxiphen
Pulvex
Proctor and
JERIS
Gamble’s
Mennen
Wryyyt
L. C. Kaiser
Hedize
Mandy
Horlick’s
Wrisley
Libby's
Miles Nervine
Welch's
Packer's
Lux
Baby Foods
Cocomalt
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