Russian Led Canton Killing Sparks London Worry
London cables report Canton violence after a Chinese cadet procession under Russian command fired on the Shameen concession. French merchant J Pasquier was killed and foreigners wounded as a Chinese crowd and a Japanese gunboat incident drew international concern. The U S State Department sought to head off a broader boycott affecting American tobacco interests amid tensions over Shanghai and Canton commerce.
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London
Hongkong
Canton
Shameen
Pasquier
Concern in Washington Grows Over Chinese Situation
Washington officials voiced alarm over the anti foreign wave in China as new notes from Peking prompted anxiety. Officials awaited word on Canton's status while fearing the provisional government may spur riots and require force if tensions escalated despite efforts to avoid violence.
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Washington
Associated Press
China
State Department
Peking
Canton
Charge Mayer
Mayer
China presses thirteen points in treaty revision notes
Peking broadcasts two notes to foreign diplomats demanding the release of Shanghai strike detainees and suspension of sentences. Beijing reiterates the thirteen demands from the Shanghai conference calling for civic reform, better worker conditions, removal of a Shanghai official, and Chinese participation in municipal council affairs.
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Associated Press
Peking
China
Chinese Foreign Office
Shanghai
Shanghai Municipal
Rowe
Boycott in China Impacts American Tobacco Trade
Senator Claude A. Swanson told the State Department the Shanghai British American Tobacco Company boycott of Chinese disturbances threatens the market for American tobacco. Virginia growers and exporters urged steps to prevent further cuts in trade.
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British-American Tobacco Company
Shanghai
Swanson
Virginia
Maryland
North Carolina
Canton
State Department
Peking
China
New York World News Service
Washington
City of Cincinnati Park Board bids repair roof at River View Park
Sealed bids for repairing the River View Park Playground Building roof and related work are due by 12 noon July 9, 1925, to the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners. Bids must include all interested parties, a 25 percent bond or certified check, and separate unit prices for labor and material. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. A. Ault, President. HL Meeds, Executive Officer.
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Board of Park Commissioners
City of
Cincinnati
Gilberts Avenue
Ohio
Riverview Park
Fechheimer, Shorst & McCoy
Schmidt
Ela Ofgies Board of Park Com Missione
Runaway Auto Triggers Mayor’s Doorbell Call
Mrs H Livingston of Chicago loses control of her car in Hammond Indiana causing it to crash through a hedge and stop at Mayor Walter Scharge of Whiting’s home. A seven year old boy accompanying her is slightly hurt. The incident ends with the car’s front fender ringing the mayor’s doorbell.
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Hammond
Ind
H. Livingston
Chicago
Walter Scharge
Whiting
Clements Back on Job as Chief in Hamilton Ohio
Frank Clements is reinstated as Hamilton police chief by the Civil Service Commission and will return to duty tomorrow. The governor had ordered his dismissal, but the commission ruled he was not at fault for past enforcement when the force was reduced and that he should resume duties with back pay for the suspension period.
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Hamilton
Kelly
Frank Clements
Civil Service Commission
Columbus
Donahey
Clements
W. S. McBirnie
J. B. Meyers
Safety Service
Downing murder case heads to judge for verdict
Testimony and closing arguments in the Downing murder case ended with prosecutors seeking first degree murder and the defense urging manslaughter. Judge Dennis J. Ryan will fix the degree within days as Ed Ballard and Bernard Gilday urged leniency while Charles Bell argued against drunkenness as a defense.
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Charles S. Bell
Dudley
Edward M. Ballard
Bernard Gilday
John Downing
Armory Avenue
Dennis J. Ryan
Criminal Court
Downing
Alban Williams
Bromley
Price Hill
Ryan
Ballard
Williams
Vaughn Road
Mr. Bell
Cies
Coolidge Opens Summer White House at Swampscott
President Coolidge starts two month stay at White Court, Swampscott Massachusetts as the summer White House. Secretary Sanders establishes temporary offices in Lynn to maintain Washington contacts. Coolidge meets locals and officials, greets at Salem station, and enjoys a Rose Garden photo with children.
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Coolidge
White House
Swampscott
Rose Garden
Sanders
Massachusetts
Guard of Marines
White Court
Secret Service
Boston
Ralph SS. Bauer
Hobster
Julia Jongbloet
Rob Roy
Lynn
United States
Nahant
Henry Cabot Lodge
Frederick E. Smith
Dayton
Governor predicts permanent clean up in Hamilton
Governor Donahey stated that Mayor Kelly and Police Chief Clements should clean up lawlessness in Hamilton and keep it cleaned up. He offered no further comment after learning the Hamilton Civil Service Commission reinstated the police chief.
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Hamilton
Donahey
Associated Press
Columbus
Kelly
Clements
Hamilton Civil Service Commission
Indian Remains Indicate Cannibal Period in New York
New York June 24. Donald A. Cadzow of the Museum of the American Indian reports a major Algonkian burial ground discovery on Frontenac Island Cayuga Lake. The 116 by 90 foot site contains fourteen 1,500-year-old skeletons laid flat, with broken and burned bones of humans and animals suggesting cannibal activity. Weapons and harpoons were sent to the museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
New York
Donald A. Cadzow
Museum of the American Indian
Heye Foundation
New York City
Adzow
Finger Lakes
Frontenac Isand
Cayuga Lake
Fine Arraigned in Plot to Kill Kansan's Wife
Four men and one woman from Kansas City were arraigned in Concordia Kansas on assault with intent to kill related to a murder attempt on Mrs. Charles B. Davies last October. Davies admitted paying $2,000 to Moseley and named the others in the plot. His bond rose from $5,000 to $10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Concordia
Kan
Kansas City
Charles B. Davies
Kansas Citians
Missouri
Walter Moseley
Ray Bryan
Jack Hayden
Lloyd Canfield
Mabel Kessler
Davies
Moseley
British and Turks fail to reach Mosul agreement
Geneva reports that the Mosul Commission will reassemble to finish its report on boundaries, signaling failed Turkish and British efforts to settle the dispute outside the league. Officials expect a final decision by September, with London and Ankara at odds over acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Special Wireless
Geneva
Mosul
League
Wilsen
Sweden
Teleki
Hungary
Paulis
Belgium
League Council
London
Angola
Zekia Bey
Zekia
Commission
Wilson
Lausanne
Berne
Moscow
N. Y
Zanelli Named Co-Respondent in Divorce Suit
New York June 24 Renato Zanelli a Chilean barytone of the Metropolitan Opera during 1921 22 season and a former member of the Chilean Stock Exchange was named as co-respondent in the divorce suit brought by Pierre Partoue portrait painter against his wife Claudia Windsor Tartoue Trial began in the Supreme Court today The petition alleges Mrs Tartoue accompanied Zanelli on a Boston trip in 1922 and was guilty of misconduct at a Springfield hotel Counsel for the defendant denied all charges and he alleged Tartoue wished to divorce her husband for lack of influential friends Mrs Tartoue daughter of Mrs R Bengue Barnet was officially adopted in 1922 as daughter by Countess Clare de Tocquéville de Hampan de Chanquetot after a year of friendship
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Associated Press
New York
Renato Zanelli
Barytone
Metropolitan Opera Company
Chilean Stock Exchange
Pierre Partoue
Claudia Windsor Tartoue
Supreme Court
Springfield
Mass
Tartoue
R. Bengue Barnet
Clare de Tocquéville de Hampan de Chanquetot
Rail merger hearings postponed as ICC seeks disclosures
The Interstate Commerce Commission delayed further hearings on the Nickel Plate merger until it can rule on how much O P Van Sweringen and associates must disclose financing details. Attorneys for Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders argued for tighter scrutiny, while Newton Baker urged transparency of all ownership and securities related to the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
O. P. van Sweringen and Associates
Thomas R. Gay
Chesapeake & Ohio
van Sweringen
Terminal Properties Company of
Cleveland
New York Central Railroad
Nickel Plate
Erie
Pere Marquette
Hocking Valley
Newton D. Baker
van Sweringen Group
New York Central
Baker
Commission
Robbers Loot Broadway Jewelry Store In Noon Hold Up
Two well dressed youths held up Marcus Feldman’s jewelry shop on Broadway between Forty fifth and Forty sixth streets during daylight. They tied two employees with wire, looted the safe and showcases, escaping with about 200000 dollars in gems rings and valuables. Feldman valued the loot at 200000 and had 75000 insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Broadway
Marcus Feldman
Forty-fifth
Forty-sixth
Feldman
Gaiety
Astor Theaters
Times Square
Woman in white silk robs taxicab with gun in Chicago
A woman clad in white silk and a well dressed man hijacked a taxicab in Chicago at dawn. She used a revolver to threaten the chauffeur and demanded $12 before fleeing with the cab and the man driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Aviators to Broadcast Dialogue Over New York Skies
New York on July 4 from 7 30 to 8 will stage a historic aerial dialogue between two aviators above Manhattan. They will discuss old war methods versus modern air combat using plane transmitters and receivers to speak, with WOR in New York broadcasting to a New Jersey central antenna and onward worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
New York
Manhattan
Sky
WOR
Newark
N. J
Cottage loses place as lure for newlyweds
Detroit June 24 The rose covered cottage as a lure for newlyweds has a modern rival in the cooperative apartment Roy G Pratt a Philadelphia architect told the cooperative apartment section of the National Association of Real Estate Boards in convention here. He urged Realtors to appeal chiefly to women noting husbands pay for the apartment and get the shower bath for their investment. A national real estate educational conference was held with Dean Edmund E Day of the University of Michigan presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Roy G. Pratt
Philadelphia
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Edmund E. Day
University of Michigan
Training of Salesmen Subject of Ad dresses
DETROIT Mich June 24 Selecting salesmen and training salesmen were the subjects of two addresses delivered here today by John B Spilker Cincinnati real estate broker and professor of real estate at the University of Cincinnati Mr Spilker spoke before the brokers division meeting as one of the divisional sessions at the annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards Alfred Bettman President of the Cincinnati City Planning Commission arrived here today and attended a talk given by George Ford of the Technical Advisory Commission New York which devised Cincinnati's city plan The Cincinnati delegates attended a dinner tonight tendered to William T Kolp Secretary of the Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards at the Hotel Tuller by the Ohio association Subdivisions large office buildings and Detroit's development of its industrial centers along its river front were inspected by Cincinnati brokers yesterday on field trips.
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Commercial Tribune
Detroit
Mich
John B. Spilker
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Spilker
Brokers’ Division
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Alfred Bettman
Cincinnati City Planning Commission
Cravens Pleads Self Defense In Ax Slayer Case
Isaac Cravens, who confessed to killing Frank and Anna Cady in Bay City over grazing horses, pleads self defense. He will be arraigned on two murder complaints, with hearings set for Thursday. Cravens, a single man, says Mrs. Cady threatened him with a butcher knife during a barn dispute before he returned with an ax to attack Frank Cady.
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Associated Press
Bay City
Mich
Isaac Cravens
Frank Cady
Anna
P. M. Haller
Justice of the Peace
Cadys
Cravens
Cady
Posse Search For Kidnapper Of Child Near Lorain
In Lorain Ohio on June 24 a ten year old girl was grabbed by a man on the road and dragged into nearby brush. A dozen children and several women witnessed part of the event and chased the suspect. Police fear the victim may have been murdered and have not learned either the kidnapper or girl’s identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Lorain
Mayo to Pay Back Alimony in Court Agreement
In Los Angeles, Frank Lorimer Mayo, film actor, agreed in Superior Court to pay his former wife Joyce Eleanor Mayo $25,000 back alimony and $150 a week. The Mayos separated in 1919.
Warrant issued for contractor over church wall collapse
A warrant was sworn for F. H. Nippert a contractor of 3902 South Madison Avenue Norwood on a building code violation charge. Building Commissioner George Hauser said improper pinioning by Nippert’s workers led to the Walnut Hills Baptist Church collapse on Kemper Lane near McMillan Street and caused $30,000 in damage including a $15,000 organ. Nippert denied fault saying the wall defect caused the collapse. The case proceeds in Municipal Court.
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F. H. Nippert
Madison Avenue
Norwood
Joseph O'Connell
George Hauser
Hauser
Nippert
Walnut Hills Baptist Church
Kemper Lane
McMillan Street
O’connell
German industrialists doubt Dawes plan survival
In Cologne a high level meeting of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie heard pessimistic views that the Dawes reparations plan is economically unworkable and doomed to collapse. speakers cited missed reparations funds and the model of American industrial organization as flawed while calling for careful handling to avoid blame.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
Dawes
Reichsverbander Deutschen Industrie
Cologne
Herr Castle
The
Industrialists’ Union
Albert Voegler
Stinnes
Germany
Duisberg
Reichsverband
Adenauer
Rhineland
Ruhr
Paris
N. Y
Print Shepherd Viewed Amid Vicious Plot in Murder Trial
In Chicago on June 24 the court heard opening arguments in the William Shepherd murder case. Prosecutor George E. Gorman portrayed Shepherd as a plotter using typhoid germs to kill his foster son Billy McClintock, while defense counsel William Scott Stewart urged the jury to see Shepherd as innocent amid a conspiracy to break the will. The trial moves toward a jury verdict expected Friday after two-hour opening statements by both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
William Scott Stewart
Shepherd
Illinois
Billy McClintock
George E. Gorman
Stewart
Mr. Stewart
Faiman
Billy
Olson
Isabelle Pope
Crowe
Mr. Gorman
W. W. O’brien
Robert E. Crowe
Gorman
Squire Moore fined $500 for possessing liquor in Coke Otto
Joseph Moore justice of the peace at Coke Otto is fined $500 and costs for possessing liquor in Seven Mile court. The raid at Moore’s home followed an assertion about the fatal shooting of Wilbur F Jacobs, Chief Deputy of Mayor Shuler’s court. Sanford Lakes also fined $500 and costs for possessing liquor.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Joseph Moore
Coke Otto
Here
Shuler
Seven Mile
Squire Moore
Moore
Wilbur F., Jacobs
Jacobs
Sanford Lakes
Kirby Jury Locked Up For The Second Night
The six men and six women jury on Josiah Kirby for theft of stock remained deadlocked after a day and a half of deliberations in Cleveland Ohio. Reports say ten favor acquittal with one man and one woman holding out for conviction. Judge Wolfe warned the jury would stay together until they reported no hope of agreement. Kirby planned to depart for Los Angeles tonight but canceled his railroad reservations.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Josiah Kirby
Wolfe
Kirby
Los Angeles
Floods Leave 15000 Homeless in Forbes District
Severe floods surround Forbes New South Wales driving 15000 people in the district from their homes. Local authorities report widespread inundation as waters rise and emergency measures are activated.
Forbes Faces Flood Threat on Lachlan River
Forbes on the Lachlan River, about ninety miles west of Bathurst, with a population near 3,000, faces rising flood danger. Dispatches report widespread flood damage in southern New South Wales and extending toward Sydney, with Forbes specifically threatened as of June 2.
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Forbes
Lachlan River
Bathurst
New South Wales
Sydney
Hamilton Gang Admits Planned Robberies Across Cities
Nine men from Hamilton admit orchestrating a string of projected holdups in Detroit and nearby towns. They confess to stealing Mack Sacks the salesman’s auto loaded with goods worth 1 500 and hiding the merchandise near College Corner before moving on to Middletown Peasttown and back, with a final plan for major Detroit robberies if not stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Commercial Tribune
Middletown
Detroit
Williams
Samuel Sloane
Joseph Karvar
Steve Armstrong
George Williams
Floyd Caywood
Charles
Clarence Eads
Ralph Coleman
John Foley
Walter Welsh
Hamilton
Mack Sacks
College Corner
Peasttown
Sloane
Karvar
Reserve Flyer Killed in Maxwell Field Crash
Lieutenant E O White of Shreveport Louisiana a reserve air officer died from injuries after an airplane crash at Maxwell Field. Cadet J J Wimberly of Brunswick Georgia a student at Georgia Tech Atlanta was only slightly injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
E. O.white
Shreveport
Maxwell Field
J. J. Wimberly
Brunswick
Georgia Tech
Atlanta
Filene Offers Mechanical Speech Translation for League
Edward Filene of Boston proposes an elaborate mechanical system to translate league assembly speeches simultaneously by telephone to delegations with headphones. The apparatus, designed by Western Electric, AT&T, and General Electric engineers, would be installed at Filene’s expense but the special committee doubts its practicality and may reject the offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League Assembly
Edward Filene
Boston
Filene
Western Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph
General Electric Companies
Tribune
Nationalists Target Reichstag as Bondholders Storm Chamber
In Berlin on June 24 angry bondholders forced entry into the Reichstag as it prepared to debate tariffs. Protesters demanded Nationalist leaders, accusing them of promising reimbursement for government securities wiped out in inflation. The crowd, largely supporters of rightist parties, disrupted the session while leaders Count von Westarp and others remained missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
Reichstag
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Count von Westarp
Co respondent held on statutory charge in divorce case
Talbot W Chambers the co respondent in the divorce suit brought by Thomas H Symington against Ida May Symington was held in 1000 bail for trial in special sessions by Justice Ford on a statutory charge tied to his testimony of intimacy with the defendant Chambers pleaded not guilty. Justice Ford denied a motion to dismiss and said Edward Hackett the former elevator operator who testified he saw Chambers with Mrs Symington provided corroboration for holding Chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Talbot W Chambers
Thomas H. Symington
Ida May
Symington
Justice Ford
Chambers
Edward Hackett
Ohio official admits $5000 liquor purchase in trial
Louis W. Josephson former president of the Ohio Industrial Endowment Company admitted buying $5,000 worth of liquor with company funds for entertainment during a sales campaign. The disclosure came in Criminal Court as he faces embezzlement charges exceeding $105,000 amid grand jury record transcriptions.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Louis W. Josephson
Ohio Industrial Endowment Company
Josephson
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