Massing Forces Ring Manchurian Border Amid Crisis
Japanese and Chinese troops mass along the Manchurian Siberian frontier amid Tokyo and Harbin reports of rail traffic suspensions and troop movements toward the border. Moscow and Harbin dispatches note a three day ultimatum to settle the crisis peacefully with Japan considering its response.
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Tokyo
Machull
Siberia
Karimskaya Junction
Chita
Manchuk
Renge
Harbin
Vladvodtok
Pograndetaya
Siberian
Mosw
Nanking
Jukden
Khabarovsk
Moscow
Manchuria
Manchuri
Ashi Today
New Republican Chief Elected NY State Chairman
William J. Maler, a Seneca farmer and banker and former state comptroller, was chosen as chairman of the New York Republican state committee, succeeding H. Emune Wachold.
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Wiliam J. Maler
New York
King George Undergoes Minor Chest Operation
Reports from Buckingham Palace confirm King George was operated on for drainage of a small abscess in his right chest. Seven doctors attended the procedure at Buckingham Palace with the Prince of Wales at the scene. The bulletin says the operation removed portions of two ribs to drain the abscess and the king's condition is satisfactory.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Wales
York House
Stanley Hewitt
Hugh Rigby
Professor Trotter
Francis Shipway
Dawson
Penn
Cunningham road report before public in West Virginia
Charleston July 15. Governor Conley, the state road commission, and the public consider Floyd Cunningham’s survey proposing a blue network of highways to close gaps and add new roads at an estimated cost of 22.1 million dollars. He urges reorganizing the commission to focus on road construction and maintenance, recommends centralizing authority or a three division system, and proposes policy shifts including tax and regulatory transfers and removing police powers from the commission.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Road Commission
Conley
Road Commission
Floyd E. Cunnyngmuan
McDowell County
C. P. Fortney
Cunningham
Cunnyngham
Commission
State Tax Commission
Public Service Commission
State Penitentiary
Pruntytown
Commissions
Nitro
Cunnynham
Supervisor of Transportation
Automobile Department
Transportation Department
Alleged Blackmailer Nabbed by Sheriff Mays Saturday
M J Meholic arraigned before Magistrate John L Wittman on an alleged blackmail charge based on a complaint by Clyde G Mouser former manager Union News Company The man was referred to the grand jury and jailed in Taylor county awaiting a federal charge Authorities say the letter signed M J Medolle threatened to accuse Mouser of distributing obscene literature and was mailed from Grafton to Independence Continue on page seven.
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M. J. Meholic
John L. Wittman
Clyde G. Mouser
Union News Company
Taylor County
F Meholle
Clyde Mouser
Mouser
M. J. Medolle
Grafton
Independence
Farm Board Opens To Save Farmers With Hoover Plan
President Hoover announced the newly formed federal farm board aims to align production with needs and build permanent farmer owned marketing institutions. He cautioned real progress won’t come overnight, urging strengthening existing farm organizations to ensure lasting stability and farmer opportunity in the economy.
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Washington
Hoover
Farm Board
Congress
Federal Farm Board
Tariff Rate Protests Face Senate Hearing Today
Washington July 15 the Senate Finance Committee examined the tariff bill provisions expanding presidential authority to alter rates under the flexible clause amid Republican Democrat clashes. Foreign protests against rate hikes and a proposed 20 percent duty on boots and shoes dominated the agenda as Democrats claim the protests threaten foreign trade while Republicans defend the policy.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Harrison
Mississippi
Democratic National Committee
Goff
West Virginia
Hoover
General Gouraud Leads Rainbow Veterans Reunion
General Henri Gouraud headlined the Rainbow Division reunion in Baltimore with a plea for France to receive debt relief equal to Germany. Ambassador Claudel and Governor Ritchie spoke as 30,000 veterans were set to parade, reviewed by President Hoover.
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Baltimore
Henri Etienne Gouraud
Hon
Champagne
France
Germany
Paris
Rainbow Veterans Associations
Paul Claudel
United States
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Ritchie
Gouraud
Hoover
Washington
Rainbow
Claudel
Allan
Herbert, Jr
George Akerson
Campbell Hodges
Allan Buchannan
Joel T. Boone
Maryland Club
Tucker Democrat to Resume Publication This Week
The Tucker Democrat, a weekly in Parsons Tucker county, will resume operations this week after a two month suspension. Editor Russell Morrin of the Davis News announced the revival. Carl Curry, a former Graftonian and WV newspaperman, formerly owned the paper.
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Tucker Democrat
Parsons
Tucker County
Russell Morrin
Davis News
Davis
Carl Curry
Graftonian
West Virginia
Marie Norton Whitney Plans Reno Divorce Move
Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney, now residing in Nevada, is rumored to be pursuing a divorce from Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. The reports place the couple in Reno as the proceedings unfold.
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Associated Press
Marie Norton Whitney
Nevada
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sonny) Whitney
Woman's Body Hurled From Racing Auto
Hatboro Pa July 15 The death of Mrs Ethel Scott 28 whose body came hurling from a fan car as it sped past a garage here Saturday night baffled authorities today Investigations offered competing theories Some said she was slain before being hurled others that a man in the car caused her jump Fracturing her skull she probably unconscious as she left Identified by brother Harry Fox and sister Lena Fox of Rising Sun Md Scott had married William Scott after a divorce from Orville Hendrickson Fox said Scott lived in Philadelphia but authorities could not locate him
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Hatboro
Ethel Scott
Amorous Jealousy Costs Chicago Lad His Life
Chicago July 15. Daniel Rogers was killed in front of Miss Anna Kircher's home. He confronted rival Charles Eberhardt as he arrived in Eberhardt's car. Rogers leaped onto the running board and attacked the driver. Eberhardt lost control, the car mounted a curb, and Rogers was crushed between the car and a tree.
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Chicago
Daniel Rogers
Rogers
Anna Kircher
Charles Eberhardt
Eberhardt
Untin Bowler Flight Ends When Ice Crashes Plane
Ottawa reports the Untin Bowler crew marooned at Port Burwell after their aircraft was lost in ice filled Hudson Straits off northern Quebec. The plane disappeared Saturday night as a gale broke its mooring and drove it to sea during an attempt to fly from Chicago to Berlin via Canada Greenland and Iceland. An official note to the marine department says the plane was lost last night in a moderate southwest gale as ice broke from its mooring and drifted away.
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Ont
Port Burwell
Hudson Straits
Quebec
Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Chicago
Berlin
Canada
Greenland
Iceland
Department of Marine
Ahore
Polish Crew Wreck Ends Transatlantic Flight Return
In the Azores a Polish air crew wrecked during a trans Atlantic attempt. Major Ludwik Idzikowski was killed, navigator Major Saalinde Kubala injured, and their Polish craft destroyed on Graciosa Island near Horta. The French plane Question Mark, flying a separate leg, landed safely at Villacoublay after seven hours fifty five minutes in the air, turning back due to fuel and wind. Pilot Iain Dieudonne Coste expressed resolve to try again.
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Azores
Crat
Ita
Ludwik Zdyikowski
Marshal Pilaudeki
Rocky Field
Graciosa Island
Here
Saalinder Kubala
Kubala
Villacoublay
France
Veresailles
Iain Dieudonne Coste
South Atlantic
Coste
le Bourget
The
American Atlantic Seaboard
Europe
mid-Atlantic
Payal
Fayal
Jbad
Gracosia
Brasiletra
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Chang Chun
Soty
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Associated Preas
Loren Mendel
Roland Reinhart
Pacific Coast
Slade Hulbert
A. E. McManus
Pat Harrison
Gen. Gourand
Re-Union
Pres. Hoover
Reno
Ice
Idzikowski
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