Arbitration ends deadlock in coal strike maintenance agreement
After 24 hours the anthracite operators and miners agreed to keep 10 000 maintenance workers on duty during the September 1 suspension. Union leaders sent out a supplemental suspension order to 325 locals affecting 158 000 striking miners. Operators urged arbitration and a permanent wage scale readjustment while miners decried a contract in perpetuity and a sliding scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
W. W. Inglis
Glen Alden Coal Company
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Anthracite Board of Conciliation
Riot in Paris as Communists Arrested after Opera Attack
Five hundred Communists clashed near Place de L Opera and L Echo de Paris office as crowds gathered for a Polish Embassy protest. Police protected the scene, ten officers injured and 102 Communists taken into custody within fifteen minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arno Dosch-Flpurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Place de L'Opera
L’echo de Paris
Place de L’opera St. Lazare
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World Press Pub. Co
Solve Your Problems Quickly Economically Ad Preview
Classified ad blurb from The Sunday Commercial Tribune promotes affordable ads to rent rooms sell cars hire maids rent apartments and convert surplus furniture into cash. Ads accepted until 8 PM Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Sunday Commercial Tribune
Food lures convict back to prison roof siege ends
Paris August 28 Leon Nuleter escaped Cherche Midi Prison by climbing to a roof and fought off guards for five hours before returning to his cell when the dinner bell rang. He smoked cigarettes as authorities failed to reach him and thousands watched the standoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Leon Nuleter
Cherche Midi
Nuleter
Fate of St. Paul Church linked to Negro settlement work
The quarterly conference decided to transfer church property to the Methodist Union for negro settlement work in a district with a black majority. Rev. Fred Riley will preach his last sermon tomorrow and likely move to the Cincinnati area to help establish an institutional church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
Smith and
Seventh Streets
Methodist Union
Fred Riley
St. Paul's
West Ohio
Lima
Riley
Cincinnati
Methodist Church
United States
Aberdeen
England
St. Paul
Arba Martin
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Italian Prince Weds Miss Wilcox in Connecticut Garden Ceremony
Miss Constance Grenelle Wilcox daughter of Mr and Mrs George Wilcox of New York and Madison married Prince Guido Pignatelli di Montecalvo son of General Pompeo dei Duchi di Montecalvo and Princess Helene Narisehkin Pignati in a garden ceremony at Oakledge Madison Conn The Rev E Tradge and Rev Charles L Biggs officiated Bridesmaids included Esther Pugh Mary Hale Harts Marion Bull and Margaret Platt Best man Prince Pietro Lanze di Scalea of Italy and Commendator Axerio served as royal representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Conn
Constance Grenelle Wilcox
George Augustus Wilcox
New York
Madison
Guido Pignatelli di Montecalvo
Pompeo Dei Duchi di Montecalvo
Helene Narisehkin Pignatelli
Naples
Italy
Oakledge
E. Tradge
Clinton
Hartford
Charles L. Biggs
Guilford
Ethel Clinton Wilcox
Esther Pugh
Overbrook
Mary Hale Harts
Washington, D. C
Marion Bull
Margaret Platt
Scranton
Pietro Lanze di Scalea
Rome
Axerio
Arthur Hoe
SLAIN ALBUM RUNNER IRVING SCHLIG AND GANGSTER BERMAN IN CHICAGO
Irvin g Schlig known as Sonny and gunman Harry Berman were found shot in the back near Ashburn Flying Field. Schlig’s car lay wrecked in Douglas Park lagoon with a ransacked suitcase containing an aviator outfit. Police consider narcotics, liquor smuggling, and a possible gang feud, with Schlig linked to the Connell gang and bail disputes with officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Chicago
Irving Schlig
Harry Berman
Ashburn Flying Field
Schlig
Douglas Park
Canada
Berman
Schiller Street
Sonny
John Schlig
Muskegon
Mich
Rabbit
Connell
Parkway Hotel
Angle
Charles Ullom
Acme
Stege
Illinois Aero Club
Flying Corps
Ullom
Clarence Darrow
Law m
Collins
Britain to renew official diplomatic ties with Mexico City
London reports the Foreign Office will resume full official diplomatic relations with Mexico after a period of severed ties dating to 1924. Normaning, the British Consul General in Mexico City, will be named Chargé d Affaires pending a ministerial appointment as Britain ends the long diplomatic hiatus in Mexico.
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Associated Press
London
Foreign Office
Mexico
Normaning
Mexico City
Great Britain
New Mexico
H. S. Cunard Cummins
MacDonald
Carranaza
Obregon
Cummins
Rosalie Evans
United States
Lost air mail pouch found in San Francisco
The last mail sack on the Chicago to Pacific Coast air route was located in San Francisco today. Postoffice inspectors learned the pouch had been misrouted in Salt Lake City and contained only ordinary mail matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Fashionable New York adoption brokers charged in David case
Mrs. Andrew Henderson accuses the Spence Alumnae Society of detaining her five year old son David after taking him on Easter weekend. The society, run by Spence School graduates, faces a kidnapping charge under section 1250 of the penal law as Henderson seeks a writ and habeas corpus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York World News Service
Spence Alumnae Society
Andrew Henderson
Bronx
David
Spence School For Girls
Clara B. Spence
Mr. Sandler
Office of Public Welfare
Coler
Henderson
Victor S. Dodsworth
Wells
John Cornell
California
Harding
Long Island
Society House
Society
Datsey
John Caldwell Myers
Spence
Coolidge Traces Pilgrim Sites and Webster Grave on Plymouth Visit
President Coolidge toured Plymouth Rock Burial Hill and the Webster grave in Marshfield during a Boston area visit. He lunched with Wall Street Journal publisher C. W. Barron in Cohasset, viewed Guernsey cattle, and saw a prize bull before returning to Marblehead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Plymouth Rock
Webster
White Court
Camp Devens
Citizens
John
Colboridge
Sanders
A. S. Cheney
James F. Coupal
Plymouth
Secret Service
Barron Home
Cohasset Common
Stephen’s Church
Kamiel Lesevere
Belgium
Cohasset
Opium Trickery Laid to Portugal at League Meeting
Geneva reports reveal Macao as a transit hub for opium with annual needs of 360 cases. Portugal defends actions while Britain exposes 996 cases from Persia in one shipment. Ferriera calls Portugal a minor offender as Britain asserts a larger veto against opium trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee
Senor Ferriera
Portugal
Macao
Orient
Bushire
Persia
Malcom Delevinge
Britain
Paraguay
Ferriera
India
Soeatenee
N. Y. World News
N.Y. World) Press Pub
Japan demands apology and indemnity from Canton
Tokyo seeks apology from the Canton government for a 26 August incident in which a Chu Kiang fort fired on a Japanese naval launch aiding the Shunyo Maru, killing one marine and prompting the rescue of fourteen crewmen. Japan also seeks indemnity and punishment for the fort commander.
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Tokyo
Canton
Foreign Office
Japan
N. Y
Eight British flyers killed in RAF collision
London report states three flying officers were killed and one injured when two Royal Air Force planes collided and fell. The incident occurred today as the aircraft crashed, underscoring wartime dangers faced by service pilots.
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London
Royal Air Forces
Princess Ileana of Romania Engaged to Duke of Apulia
Venice reports the engagement of Princess Ileana youngest daughter of Romania's king and queen to the Duke of Apulia eldest son of the Duke of Aosta. Ileana age sixteen, Duke of Apulia twenty six, no official confirmation.
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Ileana
Rumania
Duke OF
Apulia
Rome
Venicey
Aosta
Vascau
Romania
Duke
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Elizabeth
George
Greece
Marie
Jugo Slavia
London
Prince of Wales
Boris of
Bulgaria
Firemen Battle Encroaching Forest Fire at Spirit Lake
Forest fire menaced Spirit Lake Ida with flames approaching from two sides as humidity aided fighters. Residents loaded goods onto wagons and prepared to flee if the wall of fire breached a trench a mile and a half long. Winds prevented back firing while a crew dug trenches around power poles of the Washington Power Company in Newport Washington near the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spirit Lake
Ida
Washington Power Company
Newport, Wash
Armistice Talks Bring Peace Effort Between Rival Tongs
Delegations from the Hip Sing Tong and On Leong Tong met in New York to discuss peace terms after a bloody flare-up. An armistice remains in effect as district attorney Pecora and the Chinese Benevolent Society chairmen act as arbitrators, with a treaty decision due next Monday.
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Associated Press
New York
Pecora
Hip Sing Tong
Tongs
Norsemen Return After 73 Day Atlantic Voyage
Three weathered Norwegian mariners skip Andreas Grimsoe and crew will sail home in September aboard the 45 foot yawl Faehtanneta after drifting into port yesterday. The vessel, a slender twelve ton craft with a fifteen foot beam, left Droenoey Norway on June 15 and completed a 3 500 mile voyage in seventy three days. Their voyage followed the legend of Leif Ericksson as they crossed the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atlantic
Leif Ericksson
Andreas Grimsoe
Droenoey
Norway
American Debt Commission preps funding plan for Congress
Washington reports completion of funding negotiations with war time debtors and a plan for action by Congress. The commission shows impatience with slower talks with smaller nations and indicates imminent talks with Czecho-Slovakia and Greece. Informal exchanges continue with Estonia and Latvia as near agreements loom.
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Washington
America
Congress
American Debt Commission
Czecho-Slovakia
Florida Land Company Leaders Charged in Fraud Case
Federal warrants issued in Chicago accuse Jacob Factor and associates of illegal use of mails to defraud in a Florida land scheme. The firm allegedly sold over 2,000 lots in Orange County Florida to investors in Illinois Indiana Iowa and Wisconsin at about 100 a lot. Factor with others promoted misleading property claims including water gas electricity and a Dixie Highway location. Investigators say much land is not improved and some sites are flooded. Factor previously ran a fraudulent oil land deal in England and faced pursuit there.
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Chicago
Jacob Factor
Florida Land Company
Postal
Ina. E Company
Florida
Springfield
Ill
Factor
Maurice E. Drucker
H. Heinsius
H. J. Himmelstein
Newton Feldman
England
Orange County
Fla
Orlando
Fila
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Wisconsin
Dixie Highway
Factor and Drucker
British Allied Estates, Ltd
Cambrian Trust, Ltd
Arkansas
Ft. Wayne
Gary
Valparaiso
Raids Probe Griffin Development Office in Broadway Case
New York authorities raid the Griffin Development and Construction Company at 805 Broadway after complaints to the Attorney General. Investigators focus on Investors in worthless stocks as potential refunds via credit on Florida real estate purchases. Officers and staff are subpoenaed for an immediate hearing. Greenhaus defends the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ottinger
Griffin Development and Construction Company
Broadway
Keyes Winter
Fraud Bureau
Inter
Florida
Flvte
Glynn
Charles H. Greenhaus
Griffin
Greenhaus
Suffolk County
Wall Street
Middle States Oil Corporation
Pope Receives Walsh in Audience in Rome
In Rome on August 28 the Pope granted an audience to Senator Thomas J Walsh of Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope
Walsh
Associated Press
Rome
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
France Debt Talks Shadowed by Possible Rejection
Washington reports say France's Finance Minister Caillaux seeks a hard line on interest and warns negotiations could fail if the United States does not accept lower terms. U.S. and British approaches are under scrutiny as American debt officials fear Caillaux aims to shift blame for any breakdown onto the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Caillaux
Winston Churchill
France
London
Great Britain
United States
Treasury
England
American Debt Commission
Caillaux Heads French Debt Talks Aboard Paris Mission
Paris Aug 28 Caillaux will lead France’s Debt Funding Commission sailing to New York Sept 16 to press a settlement with Winston Churchill’s terms. He signals no strong hopes for an agreement, seeks reductions to Britain’s deal, and faces a possible direct offer to Washington with France ready to pay about 3.5 billion francs annually under new terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Caillaux
New York
Franklin Bouillon
Chamber of Deputies
Vincent Auriol
Geeral
Henry Berenger
Senate Finance Committee
M. Caillaux
Ministry of Finance
Winston Churchill
Congressional Debt Funding Commission
Washington
France
America
United States
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Irving, Schlig
Lake
Boy
China
Oland D. Russell
Princess Ileana
Tong
Hip
Leongs
Cailaux
French Debt Commission
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