Speculation Wave Foretold as Market Slump Persists
Theodore H Price analyzes the May stock break and Federal Reserve rate move, noting waves of speculation can't be killed off and warn of an impending self destructive market phase. He cites bond yields, margin borrowing, and shifts to aeronautic securities as signs of a sobering but unsettled financial climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore H. Price
Commerce and Finance
New York
Holland
New York Stock Exchange
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve
Socialists surge in German Reichstag election gains
Berlin dispatch reports decisive Socialist gains over 1925 results in the national election. With 13,000,900 votes counted by 2 PM, Socialists held 80 mandates and expected at least 150 seats, while the German Nationals fell as other parties shifted. Unofficial forecasts show Socialists at 160 seats to 131 for the Nationals, with multiple party shifts across the Reichstag.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Center
Communists
Peoplesarty
Democrats
Economic Party
Fascists
Bavarian Peoples Party
US warns warring Chinese to safeguard American lives
The United States delivered a note to the Nationalist government in Nanking urging protection for American lives and property in North China. It asks Nationalist forces not to enter certain areas and to deploy disciplined troops to Tientsin if needed, and asserts noninterference in Chinese affairs. The note references the killings of two American missionaries in Shantung. In Tsining and Tainfu, Shantung Province, the Chinese report a near desertion of Tsinan as Japanese forces advance, with widespread house searches and turmoil.
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Shanghai
China
Nanking
United States
North China
Edwin S. Cunningham
Americ
Tientsin
Tsining
Tainfu
Shantung Province
Chang Tso-Lin
Peking
Manchuria
Bremen flyers honored in Boston with medals and banquet
Boston welcomed two German air veterans once opposed to the Allies as Capt. Koehl and Major Fitzmaurice received Legion medals and attended religious services a military mass and a banquet by German Irish groups. They later planned a visit to Albany as part of a broader goodwill tour.
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Boston
Aviation
Bremen
United States
Albany
Tees
Capt
Koehl
Major Fitzmaurice
Baron von Huenefeld
Massachusetts Department of the Legion
Sons and Daughters
Germany
Ireland
Robert F. Raymond, Jr
Newton
Toul
Raymond
Switzerland
Massachusetts Superior Court
Train wreck kills Pittsburgh fireman near Johnstown
The westbound Pittsburgher from New York struck a derailed freight car east of Johnstown station. Fireman J. D. Drees of Altoona die. passengers Mrs. Eli Kauffmann and Mrs. H. C. Elste injured. engineer J. C. Hooper scalded. Several cars derailed, delays ensue.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Johnstown
Dreese
J. D
Altoona
Kauffmann
Eli
Elste
H. C
Hooper
J. C
Derby
Louisville
Feud and Theft Cause 2 Killings in New York
Two men known to police were killed in separate incidents in New York early today. In Greenwich Village a bootleggers feud sparked one slaying at a drinking resort. The other killing stemmed from robbery as the victim, Leo Boyle, was struck with a milk bottle and thrown from a six story tenement roof. James Russell of Long Island City was arrested in connection. Boyle had served time in Huntington Reformatory.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Patrick Mitchell
Linky
Mitchell
James Russell
Long Island City
Leo Boyle
Leo Dale
John Judge
Boyle
Huntington CW. Va
Injured Man Falls Before Car On Cinnamon Madison
Michael McWaulters aged 58 of 517 Rosemont Avenue suffered a probable skull fracture after stepping in front of an automobile driven by Henry Swafford of 4816 Ebersole Street at Cinnamon Street and Madison Road last night. He was taken to General Hospital by Swafford.
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Michael McWaulters
Rosemont Avenue
Henry Swafford
Ebersole Street
Cinnamon Street
Madison Road
General Hospital
Swafford
Bremen Plane Crashes After Successful Lift Off
A trans Atlantic Bremen airplane, repaired after a prior crash on Greenly Island, attempted flight at Labrador May 20. The craft rose about fifty feet before crashing on the ice. occupants escaped unharmed. Junkers pilot Fred Melchoir led the takeoff and landing sequence.
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New York World News Service
Long Point
Blanc Sablon
Labrador
Greenly Island
Baldonnel
Ireland
Fred Melchoir
Junkers
Lost Boy's Body Found in Chicago River
The body of eight year old John Pyrek, son of a Chicago fireman, was found in the Chicago River after a weeklong search. Police and railroad crews traced tips from a chum, moved sand, and dragged the river for two days before a railroad fireman’s rowboat brought the body ashore. Coroner to perform autopsy to determine possible mistreatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Pyrek
Bruno Bogdon
Northwestern
Stanley Pyrek
Huddleston sets endurance swimming world record
Mrs Myrtle Huddleston of Mattoon Illinois swam 50 hours 10 minutes 15.8 seconds at Lincoln Park West Hotel to break all known endurance records for men and women. She was removed from the pool exhausted and received medical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Myrtle Huddleston
Mattoon
Ill
Lincoln Park West
Chicago Athletic Associations
Huddleston
Boy Fatally Injured by Automobile in Hamilton County
Willmon Halsey seven year old son of Rev. Jesse Halsey dies at General Hospital from skull fracture after being struck on Madison road while waving as a traffic cop. Witnesses exonerate the driver Leo Doss of Plainville road Marie mont. He had been playing with other children near Cleanview avenue and Johnstone place.
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Willmon Halsey
General Hospital
Jesse Halsey
Seventh Presbyterian Church
Hamilton County
Halsey
Cleanview Avenue
Madison Road
Johnstone Place
Halsey Lad
Leo Doss
Plainville Road
Mariemont
Ringer
Hamilton and
Bruce Avenues
Jack McHugh
Peter E. McHugh
Kirby Avenue
Marine Corporal Slain in Nicaragua Rebel Clash
In Nicaragua near Paso Real a Marine Corps unit clashed with rebels. Corporal William L. Williamson is named as the fallen Marine with Private Max M. Dubois wounded and Captain Robert S. Hunter killed. The relief column under Maj. Keller E. Rockey reached the scene. guards and marines encamped there as they advance toward Quilali.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Corp
William L. Williamson
Paso Real
Max M. Dubois
Livonia
N. Y
Cornelius Dubois
Robert S. Hunter
Dubois
Keller E. Rockey
Cua River
Jinotega
Hunter
Quilali
Tragedy Deepens as 36 Bodies Recovered in Mather Mine Disaster
In Mather Pennsylvania a gas blast left about 110 miners unaccounted for as rescue teams comb the pit shafts. Bared women wait at the mouth in rain seeking word of loved ones while villagers fear more deaths.
Sick Girl Granted Wedding Consent After Poisoning
Miss Helen B. Owens, 23, a University of Chicago student, was given her parents consent to marry John Mayer of Pittsburgh after she drank poison last Tuesday. Doctors note her life is at risk, eight blood transfusions have been given by medical students, and fifty more donors stand ready.
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Chicago
Helen B. Owens
University of Chicago
John Mayer
Pittsburgh
Frederick W. Owens
Pennsylvania State College
Albert Billings Hospital
Unknown primitive race found in Algiers 25,000 years ago
Dr. Fay Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago announces a discovery of a hitherto unknown primitive people in Algiers dating at least 25,000 years ago. Skeletons recovered from a mound of snail shells suggest a nomadic Aurignacian people likely ancestral to Italians and Spaniards, closer to Southern Europeans than Cro-Magnon man. Frank G. Logan funds the expedition and Tebessa, Algiers sends a confirming skeleton find.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Algiers
Africa
Fay Cooper Cole
University of Chicago
Cole
Frank G. Logan
Tebessa
Mother of 13 Children Seeks Custody Battle in Court
In Bridgeport Conn on May 20 1930 Mrs Ethel Cromwell 35 asks City Court to seize custody of her husband Edward 39 an advocate of large families The case set for Thursday amid alienist examination Five of thirteen Cromwell children survive the last a crippled child Police face no applicable statute and the prosecutor questions the law protecting a wife whose health physicians warn could be imperiled by more childbearing
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New York World News Service
Bridgeport
Conn
Ethel Cromwell
Edward
Cromwell
James C. Shannon
Boy's Version Sparks Retrial in Mother's Murder Case
Eight year old Billy testifies his mother Myrtle Withy threw poison into his father Jewell Withy’s food. Autopsy shows bichloride mercury. motive cited as desire for a new husband Mac. Previous mistrial prompts retrial as neighbors note marital strife.
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New York World News Service
Kansas City
Myrtle Withy
Jewell Withy
Withy
Little Billy
Mac
Miother
Kidnappers Hit Cars Then Fire On Speeding Cop
John Meyer and Peter Miller were abducted by two armed men after a 10 pm car ride on Laurel Linn streets. The robbers forced them from the vehicle near Hamilton Mt Healthy and fired on a motorcycle policeman as they fled at high speed. Meyer lost $7.50 and a gold watch before being dumped.
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John Meyer
Kistner Avenue
Peter Co. Miller
Pattison Street
Laurel and Linn
Miller
John and
Clinton
Hamilton
Meyer
Cincinnati
Four Aviators Killed as Planes Crash to Milwaukee Water
Milwaukee Harbor tragedy claims Donald Carette and James Rollins among aviators after a sideslip and sharp bank cause a plane to plunge. In Sturdevant, Felix Valdas and Emory Hughes die when a second aircraft crashes just after takeoff near the Wisconsin town.
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Earth
Milwaukee
Nhis
Donald Carette
James Rollins
Carette
Sturdevant
Wis
Felix Valdas
Emory Hughes
Valdas
Plane crash near Westville kills Monroe Nickelson
Monroe Nickelson of National Park New Jersey died when the commercial airplane he rode nose dived and crashed in a swamp near Westville New Jersey. Pilot Emory C. Malick of Philadelphia sustained a fractured nose and jaw and facial cuts.
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Westville
N. J
Monroe Nickelson
National Park
WN. J
Emory C. Malick
Philadelphia
Tragedy on Cass Lake Bridge Claims Two Brothers
Two Cass Lake boys, 6 year old Bobbie and 8 year old William Pankow, were killed when a passenger train rolled over a bridge near Cass Lake Minnesota after they hid between railway ties. Three playmates survived by clinging to supports and dropping beneath the bridge as the train passed.
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Cass Lake
Minn
Bobbie
William
Amos Pankow
Coolidge Returns From New England Trip
President Coolidge flew back to Washington from a weekend trip to Andover and Northampton Massachusetts. Mrs Coolidge stayed in Northampton to visit her ill mother for several days.
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Coolidge
Washington
Andover
Northampton
Mass
Miners Beneath Mather Mine Trapped after Deadly Blast
Rescue crews battled toxic after damp and gas at the Mather Mine where a Saturday explosion left 36 dead and 110 missing. Fifteen teams fought to reach entombed workers as officials planned care for families and awaited word on survivors.
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Mather
Waynesburg
Recreation Hall
Cleveland
Tom Callaghan
Callaghan
Tom
L. O. Loughee
Pickands-Mather & Co
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
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U. S
Shantung
Tsingtao
Tsinan
Alex U
France
Legion
Pennsylvania
W. L. Williamson
M. M. Dubois
Valley of the Alleghenies
Greene County
Addiition
Billy
Hamilton Avenue
Mt. Healthy
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