Soviet May Ask U.S. Mediation Over Rail Dispute
The Daily Mail cites Riga officials stating the Russian Foreign Office discusses asking the United States to help settle the railway dispute with China. Assistant Foreign Affairs Minister Karakhan opposes the proposal as military authorities scout war and warn of a Soviet food shortage hindering a Far East army.
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London
The
Daily Mail Today
Riga
Latvia
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
China
Russia
M. Karakhan
Far East
Filipino Plea for Freedom Moves Senate Tariff Hearing
In Washington on July 15 Manuel Roxas speaker of the Philippine House and head of the Philippine Legislative Commission urged freedom for the Philippines during tariff hearings. He condemned remarks by John M Switzer and Reed Smoot that Filipinos preferred independence in principle but hoped to avoid it. He stated Filipinos favor independence for both principle and genuine desire to be free.
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Philippines
Manuel Roxas
House of Representatives of the Islands
Philippine Legislative Commission
United States
Roxas
John M. Switzer
New York
Washington
Federal Farm Board
Congress
Hoover
America
White House
Alexander H. Legge
Chicago
Hyde
Legge
Kuomintang Seeks Policy Declared Over Manchuria Crisis
Dispatches from Nanking report Kuomintang leaders in talks with Soviet Russia over the Chinese Eastern Railway expect a government policy pronouncement within days. Troops bolster key railway points and six armored trains patrol the Harbin to Siberia corridor across Manchuria.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Kuomin
Kuomintang
Russia
Manchuria
Harbin
Siberia
Moscow Delays Soviet Note To China On Manchuria Rail Issue
Moscow reports a delay in sending the Soviet note to China on the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria and a possible extension of the three day reply limit. Serebriakov seeks a visa to negotiate but is denied by Nanking. The day saw large protests with red banners near the Chinese Legation, calling for a firm stand against Chinese fascists.
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Moscow
China
Manchuria
M. Serebriakov
Railroad Commissariat
Nanking
Legation
Chinese Hold Line Amid Soviet War Threat Flailed
Tokyo reports indicate Chinese forces maintain line as Moscow's ultimatum nears expiry. China appears to proceed with strategic posture despite looming pressure from the Soviet bloc.
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Tokyo
Moscow
China
Paris Star Edmonde Guy Sues Van Dongen for Damages
French music hall star Edmonde Guy files a $4000 damages suit against painter Van Dongen over a nude portrait exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1924. She says she learned of the reproduction only after being in Vienna at the time and now claims the image shocked her modesty.
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New York World News Service
Paris
Edmonde Guy
van Dongen
Mademoiselle Guy
Vienna
N. Y
Local storage and moving firm touts padded vans for safe moves
A local storage and moving company claims customer satisfaction by using padded moving vans to protect belongings. The firm emphasizes careful handling, steady crews, and attention to fragile items during relocations.
Mayor Seasongood Defeated On City Budget Change
Mayor Murray Seasongood and allies backed a substitute 1930 budget report seeking $5,000 for eight health nurses, $25,000 for police staffing, $120,000 for contingency, and a $150,000 tax-rate increase. Council opposed, voting 6 to 3 to discard the substitute in favor of the regular report.
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Murray Seasongood
Martin Daly
W. Meredith Yeatman
Health Department
Seasongood
Police
C. O. Rose
Finance Committee
Boy imitates police siren ends in arrest
Chicago July 15. George Bohlin, a high school student driving a flivver, spent thirteen months perfecting a police siren imitation. Last night his vehicle emitted a true siren sound drawing motorists aside and misleading motorcycle cops, but his voice cracked and the siren went soprano, leading to his arrest.
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Chicago
George Bohlin
George
Sheridan Road
Lindbergh Lecture on Honesty Over Secrecy Incident
Col Charles A Lindbergh spoke in San Francisco on honesty and integrity after a photographer with a hidden microphone tried to record him. He condemned the tactic and refused to briefly address the camera, deeming the act unfair and dishonest.
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Lindy
San Francisco
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mills Field
Lindbergh
Three 17-Year-Olds Confess to 100 Robberies
In New York on July 15 three 17-year-old youths—Albert Strouse, James Marchese, and Israel Russo—confessed to more than 100 robberies totaling about $15,000. One bore a belt with sixty-eight notches, each for a robbery. eleven were armed holds ups, including a shooting that wounded Joseph Goldberg, a filling station manager. The trio said they spent the proceeds entertaining three young girls.
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New York
Joseph Goldberg
Albert Strouse
James Marchese
Israel Russo
Home Made Peg Leg Abandoned On Street
Cleveland police puzzling over a self made peg leg found on a downtown street corner. The home crafted device uses a football helmet as the knee rest and was left with no owner claiming it. Officers seek the wearer who can identify his own carpentry and retrieve the item.
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Cleveland
Red Face Stop Hits Treated as Outrage in Court
Federal Judge John R. Hazel labeled the highway stop of Walter Trazak a shocking outrage after State Troopers testified they halted him for rosy face color under Volstead Act suspicions. Troopers from Batavia testified they found alcohol in his car. Trazak of Lime Lake was indicted but the indictment was dismissed.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John R. Haze
Batavia Barracks
Walter Trazak
Lime Lake
Trazak
Hazel
Governor demands safe return of expelled North Platte residents
Governor Arthur Weaver orders the safe return of North Platte’s 200 black residents driven from the city by a mob after a policeman was killed. Attorney General Sorensen investigates. State Sheriff Condit to oversee peace, with deputies aiding police as refugees begin returning.
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North Platte
Neb
Arthur Weaver
C. A. Sorensen
Edward Green
Louis Seeman
Weaver
W. Co. Condit
Sorensen
Lloyd Dort
Aner
Polish flyer Idzikowski presumed dead after Azores crash
A delayed cablegram later contradicted early reports, stating Maj. Ludwik Idzikowski was critically injured but alive, while Maj. Casimir Kubala survived with injuries. The Polish Consulate lowered its flag to half staff as New York officials awaited confirmation.
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New York
Ludwik Idzikowski
Azores
Marshal Pilsudski
Idzikowski
Casimir Kubala
Maj
Kubala
Covington Postmaster George A. Seiler Dies Sudden
Covington Ky George A Seiler 61 Postmaster of Covington died at home after a stroke heard at about 10 30 last night He died at 1 00 this morning Seiler had served as postmaster six years and previously was city commissioner and city auditor He and his son ran Seiler Motor Car Company which owned three large Covington garages He leaves wife and son Charles D Seiler
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George A. Seiler
Covington
Legge
Hyde
Farm Board
Liverpool
White House
Hoover
Rainbow Line Parade Honors World War I Veterans
President Hoover and General Gouraud reviewed Rainbow Division veterans in Baltimore marking the Champagne battle anniversary. Marching with light caps and canes, they saluted as units from the regular army Maryland National Guard and civilian volunteers passed in a two mile procession. The veterans carried the original Rainbow division emblem.
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Baltimore
Hoover
Henri Etienne Gouraud
Rainbow
The
Champagne
Gouraud
Maryland National Guard
Citlizen
Fastest one man retreat on Miles avenue shocks Cleveland
A frightened detective Frank Osowski caused a riot on Miles avenue after fleeing a police chase. He rammed a peanut wagon crashed through a restaurant doorway and dashed into the kitchen before vanishing eastward. Safety Director Barry orders inquiry into the curious flight.
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Cleveland
Miles Avenue
Flivver
John Fleming
Frank Osowski
Edwin D. Barry
Osowski
Montgomery Mercantile Collapse Traps 75 Workers
In Montgomery Alabama two department stores and an adjacent excavation collapsed around noontime trapping workers. Rescue crews freed most employees while three were injured and two of them not expected to survive. Fire Chief Chester Ingram and seven firefighters were briefly trapped but escaped.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Mercantile Estabments
City Engineering Department
George Degruchy
Pizitz
Chester L. Ingram
Filattel
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Clarke Bros Partners in Bank Failure
Indictments return against James Rae Clarke Judson Clarke Jr Philip Clarke and John F Booker for concealment of assets and mail fraud in the Clarke Bros bank collapse. Depositors claim they learned of insolvency only when doors closed. Bank had about 5 million in deposits on a 250 thousand capital.
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New* York
Clarke Bros
John Doe
United States
Thomas. .Cochran
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan
John
Philip Clarke
John F. Booker
Two Killed and Two Injured in Wall Collapse
In Littleton West Virginia on July 15 two workmen were killed and two injured when a concrete wall at the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company sub station collapsed. Victims William Smith 45 and Melvin McGiffitt died on site while Walter Cunningham and S Ancill suffered cuts bruises and possible internal injuries. All victims were local residents. Excavations were believed to have undermined the wall.
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Littleton
W. Va
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company
William Smith
Melvin McGiffitt
Walter Cunningham
S. Ancill
Sister Prevents Dying Officer's Wedding In Washington
Mrs. Richard Wathen of Elizabethtown Kentucky halted a marriage on her dying brother Lieut Col Abraham C L Percefull to his fiancée Ellen Alvord at Mt Alto Veterans Hospital after claiming mental incompetence. Percefull died early today leaving Miss Alvord his car and diamond ring and about twenty thousand dollars to his mother and family.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Richard Wathen
Elizabethtown
Abraham C. L. Perceful
Ellen Alvord
Percefull
Mt. Alto Veterans’ Hospital
Alvord
E. C. Alvord
Mt. Alto
Col. Percefull
Miss Alvord
King Recovers From Chest Operation Satisfactory
King George survives a chest operation removing parts of two ribs to drain a circumscribed abscess on the right side of his chest. Seven doctors operated in the king's bedchamber with official bulletins reporting entirely satisfactory progress and no complications. The Duke of Gloucester also receives medical care for a fractured collarbone, described as minor, with satisfactory progress.
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King
London
George
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Duke of Connaught
Hugh,Rigby
Prof. Trotter
Duke of Gloucester
Canada
Contempt Case Nears Final Hearing In McCarthy Split
In Chicago, Judge Lyle sentenced Police Lieutenant William McCarthy to thirty days for contempt of court after a dispute over where the sentence was pronounced. A second hearing before Judge Comerford will determine whether McCarthy was inside the court’s jurisdiction when the order was issued and whether the contempt conviction stands.
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Chicago
John H. Lyle
Boy's Court
William McCarthy
House of Correction
Comerford
Criminal Court
McCarthy
Lyle
Plunge Into Abyss Kills Eleven in Honduras
A truck evacuating high school girls from a picnic plunged 1,000 feet into a roadside abyss near Sauce Honduras. Eleven are dead including the driver Luis Medina and twenty two are injured with several near death. National mourning will be set for funeral day as Salvador Correto the Minister of Public Works suffered serious injuries during attempted rescue.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Sauce
Luis Medina
Neral
Salvador Correto
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