Hankow Crisis Deepens as British Control Erodes
British women and children flee Hankow while men stay in two buildings as nationalist pressure tightens. Cantonese forces may police order. British flags replaced, streets placarded urging an end to imperialism. Chinese demands threaten further clash. consulate warned of indignant protests.
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London
Yangtze River
Hankow
Shanghai
Tata Dienatohae
Hanthow
Eugene Chen
Pan 1
Chen
Butler attacks Volstead Act as class legislation
Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, long noted foe of illicit alcohol, denounces the Volstead law as favoring the rich and harming the poor. Speaking to a Oakland luncheon, he criticized enforcement and said he once believed the act applied to all but now sees bias in its application. He recalled the Williams court martial incident at the San Diego Marine base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Smedley D. Butler
Public Safety
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Gen. Butler
Alexander S.williams
San Diego Marine Base
Washington
Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand
Raymond Robins
Chicago
America
Robins
Borah
Idaho
Senate
Leopold and Loeb Trial Heads Toward Sealed Verdict
A 100000 damage suit against Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb over the Charles Ream kidnapping ends with a five hour jury deliberation and a sealed verdict set for tomorrow. Prosecution denounces the defendants as perjurers while alibis place Leopold and Loeb at a birthday party. judge instructs verdict for defendants if evidence is evenly balanced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet
Ill
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Charles Ream
Chicago
Ream
David K. Tone
Leopold
Loeb
Bobby Franks
Samuel
Nathan
Bernice Debreuill
Reafh
Frank L. Hopper
Purloining Prohibition Chief McManus Suspected
A warrant for Col Earle McManus former New Jersey Prohibition Enforcement Chief charges he purloined two government liquor truck loads. U S agents probe an alleged bootlegger plot to discredit Col Reeves with grand jury hearings set for January 18 in Trenton.
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Newark
N. J
Earle McManus
Prohibition Enforcement
New Jersey
United States
Conlon
Ira L. Reeves
McManus
Reeves
Arrowsmith
Agadore Stern
Aftor
Winne
Stern
United States Grand Jury
Trenton
Department of Justice
Demanga
Companion of Hartwell Woman On Fatal Auto Ride Holds to Story Of Shooting
Peter Brown, 48, remains in the Hartwell jail for further questioning after the fatal Wednesday night shooting of Mrs Sherrie Glardon at 41 Woodsdale Avenue Hartwell Coroner Swing and Deputies Kleike and Beckman investigate with Brown claiming robbers shot them on Compton road A rear window hole matches a .46 caliber bullet while no tire tracks are found near the parked car authorities weigh if the shot came from inside or outside the vehicle Continued on Fourth Page
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherrie Glardon
Woodsdale Avenue
Hartwell
Brown
Compton Road
Newcomers Arriving Daily in Cincinnati for Future Homes
Every train brings businessmen salesmen workers and whole families to Cincinnati as they seek to make the city their future home for work and settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Governor commutes death sentence in Ohio case
Governor Donahey uses executive authority to commute Harley Pence from death to life imprisonment for the Columbus murder of Mrs. Marjorie Boddie. Pence, 50, formerly of Fo toria, killed his wife and fostered infatuation before his February 12, 1926 crime. His daughter Masov Pence witnessed the signing. The governor previously commuted James Brady’s death sentence to life in 1924.
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Columbus
Donahey
Harley
Pence
Fastoria
Marjorie Boddie
Fotoria
Masov Pence
James Brady
Erie County
Brady
Cradle Snatchers Sued for Copyright Violation
Federal Court suit targets Blanche Ring Mary Boland Sam Harris Hollis Street Theater Corp over the play Cradle Snatchers alleging infringement of the plaintiffs play Marrying Women. Damages and injunction sought. case reflects ongoing copyright disputes in theater.
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Boston
Blanche Ring
Mary Boland
Sam Harris
Hollis Street Theater Corporation
JuHan L. Spectre
Max E. Stahl
New York
Hassard Short
Russell Mederaf
Norma Mitchell
Missing secretary treasurer in St Louis fraud case
Warant issued for Edward W. Grant 26 missing secretary treasurer of Wagner Grant Bell Realty Co. letter from Grant confessed frauds on deeds of trust and stock speculation. Judge ordered grand jury probe. potential losses to clients and creditors up to 1 250 000 amid firm’s residential and apartment construction business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Edward W. Grant
Wagner Grant Bell Realty Company
Grant
James M. Rohan
E. A. Wagner
Lfe
Wagner-Grant-Bell Company
Price Hill Demands Quick Eighth Street Viaduct
Citizens of Price Hill urge immediate construction of the Eighth Street viaduct from McLean Avenue to Burns Street. County Surveyor E A Gast prepares plans while city engineers fault the design. residents accuse officials of neglect and seek city council support to speed improvements.
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Price Hill
Lighth Street
E. A. Gast
Jane Warker
Otte P” BI BeeEs
City Planning Commission
Frank Shipley
Highway Department
Frank Raschig
Rapid Transit Commission
Ladislas Sego
Planning Commission
Burns Street
Howard M. Wilson
John Nieporte
John Ruehlman
Price Hill Business Men's Club
Price ‘Hill Business Men's Club
Eighth Street
McLean Avenue
Three City
Millcreek
Nine Arrests Linked to West Virginia Killings
Confessions that led to the arrest of nine alleged black handers in the murder of Dr. Deigo Delfino may help solve several other mysterious deaths in the West Virginia Panhandle, Sheriff Robert Lowe stated.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Deigo Delfino
West Virginia Panhandle
Robert Lowe
Fair Man Burroughs Dies in Ohio State Fair Concession
Charlee E. Burroughs a longtime Ohio State Fair concessionaire died in a hospital after taking poison himself. He had been in ill health and the death occurred today in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Charlee E. Burroughs
Warships and Marines Embark for Nicaragua
Navy ships and Marines sail to seize arms believed aimed at Mexico. Senate inquiry into bribery charges against Senator Gould proceeds despite moves to dismiss. Debate centers on Senate authority to expel or exclude for past offenses.
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Nicaragua
Mexico
Washington
Jan
Gould
Rep
Senate
Maine
Walsh
Dem
Mont
New Brunswick
Canada
McKellar
Tenn
John R. Neal
Knoxville
Neal
Tyson
Frederick W. Hinkley
Supreme Court
Woods Faces Senate Inquiry Over Railroad and Coal Holdings
Cyrus E F Woods of Pennsylvania testifies before a Senate committee about holdings in major railroad and coal stocks including Pennsylvania, Norfolk & Western, Atchison, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, Pittsburgh Coal, and United States Steel. He says he will divest to address concerns about his Interstate Commerce Commission nomination.
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Washington
Railroad and Coal Company
Senate
Cyrus EF. Woods
Pennsylvania
Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wheeler
Dem
Mont
Woods
Norfolk & Western
Atchison
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Weat Moreland Coal Company
Spain
Japan
United States Steel Corporation
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Steel Corporation
Reinforcements for Nicaragua Readied by U S Navy
Six American war vessels with 400 Marines head toward Nicaragua under Rear Admiral Latimer to reinforce the squadron in Nicaraguan waters. The move accompanies U S efforts to stabilize the civil war while denying arms to both sides and protecting American interests in the region.
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Washington
Nicaraguan
Latimer
Nicaragua
Navy Department
Mariagua
Galveston
State Department
Kellogg
Diaz
United States
Latin America
Mexico
Sacasa
Argonne
Managua
Adolfo Diaz
Maine
Wheeler Fals Broadside at Kellogg on Bolshevist Plot
Senator Wheeler urged the Foreign Relations Committee to probe whether the State Department or press agencies improperly circulated a Bolshevist Mexico theory to disrupt U S relations with Panama. He cited a St Louis Post Dispatch report and demanded accountability from Secretary Kellogg and the press groups involved.
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Wheeler
Kellogg
Washington
Dem
Mont
Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Associated Press
United States
Panama Canal
Senate
Montana
Secretary of
International News Service
United Press
Department of State
St. Louis
Montanan
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Paul Y. Anderson
Olds
Mexico
la Guardia
Roosevelt Letter Reveals Reconciliation With Foraker
A 1916 Roosevelt letter proving a reconciliation with Senator Joseph B. Foraker was published in the New York Sun on the eighth anniversary of Roosevelt’s death. The note, dated Oyster Bay June 28 1916, shows Roosevelt’s later view of events from a dinner dispute sparked at the Gridiron Club in Washington years earlier. The release, shared by William Loeb and Elihu Root, indicates few knew of the settlement and includes invitation for future dinner discussions and questions about Chickamauga.
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New York
Roousevelt
Joseph B. Foraker
Roosevelt
Robert H. Davis
New York Sun
Washington
Mr. Davis
William Loeb
Elihu Root
Oyster Bay
Chickamauga
Gracie
Eight Marshfield Saloons Served With Restraining Orders
Deputy U S marshals issued temporary restraining orders on eight saloons in Marshfield Wisconsin following a raid like Hurley Wisconsin. Warrants were believed issued for about twenty individuals on Velstead act violations.
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Marshfield
Wia
Hurley
Wis
United States
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Lish
U.S
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Pansiner
IDV
Uuin Leopold, Lote
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Smedley Butler
Ws Us
Ulll
Ficer
Peter Brown
Anuntsr
Swing
Kleike and
Beck
Commercial Tribune
CANAL
Adtaker
Fostoria
Cradle Snatchers
New York World News Service
House
Cam
Robersonville
N. C
Bland
Congresman Warren
Carl Goerch
Robert Gentle
Atlanta
Mr. Bland
Mr. Warren
John H. Small
Mr. Small
Reuben
Kansas City
Anderson
Kellogs
Paul Anderson
Uit
Iualis
Surveyor
North
Carolinan
PNND
Utilities Securities
Cyrus E. Woods
I.C.C
Aamural Lac
Senator Foraker
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