305 Americans Jeopardized By Chinese Warfare
305 Americans in the Tsinan Fu district amid artillery fire with Shangtung troops massing along the Yellow River bank. Japanese civilians and merchants arrive at Tsingtao as Chinese authorities seek a neutral zone around the capital.
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Shanghai
Fino 6
Tsinan
Shantung Province
Tsintao
Shantung
Tsingtao
Washington
Jung
State Department
Tsinan-Fuo District
Paviline
Yellow Tive
Seven Taylor County Graduates Receive A B Degrees
Graduation day at Fairmont State Normal School saw seven Grafton and Taylor county students earn Bachelor of Arts degrees and seven earn Standard Normal Certificates. Preston county contributed six graduates, Barbour county one. State Superintendent William Cassius Cook spoke on the power and force of education, using the escalator as a symbol of education’s dynamic progress.
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Fairmont State Normal School
Grafton and
Taylor County
Preston
Barbour County
William Cassius Cook
Tonsil removals in West Grafton school children
Doctors in Grafton report 82300 worth of tonsils removed from local school children this year with free service for patients. Thirty one operations in the West Grafton public school clinic this week and fifty eight children operated on this year. Adenoids removed when present. Nurses assisted. cats provided in the school building. Participating doctors include Shafer Suddarth Peck Watkins Kinball Whitescarver Buckelew Stout A R Warden Paul Warden.
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Grafton
West Grafton
Shafer
Suddarth
Peck
Watkins
Kinball
Whitescarver
Buckelew
Stout
A. R. Warden
Paul Warden
Dawes Attacks Dry Violators and Prison Growth
Ambassador Dawes denounces liquor violators as Federal prison population climbs from 1927 to 1930. Bachman cites that over a quarter of federal inmates are prohibition violators while state prisons show lower punishment rates. He notes 11,270 in five federal prisons and 116,670 in state facilities, totaling 127,940. Alabama taxes cited. context includes Gold Star Mothers and English reception.
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Ambassador Dawes
Star Mothers
Washington
Bachman
West Virginia
Bachmann
Judiciary Committee
West Virginian
Cambridge
Eng
England
Body of man missing head hands feet found in Kanawha River
The body of a man missing head hands and feet was recovered from the Kanawha River near Charleston at a lock today. Coroner Dr. W P Black said the corpse had been in the water about a year and bore a heavy workman's belt for identification. One theory links it to Harry Arthur Squires of Lanville Virginia, missing since March 9 1929 after five men were dumped into the river during Patrick Street Bridge construction.
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Kanawha River
Lock Six
Charleston
Dis
Kat
Harleston
Kahawha River
W. P. Black
Kaaawha
Harry Arthur Squires
Lanville
Patrick Street
Girl boasts being queen of bandits in Detroit
A 22 year old Detroit woman Peggy Mahon, once a hat checker, claimed she leads a gang as the "bandit queen" and is responsible for about 100 small holdups. Detectors arrested her and Joseph O Connors, 23, along with four others at a saloon used as their rendezvous. Police held them on armed robbery charges.
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Peggy Mahon
Detroit
Joseph O’connors
City Pythians Officers Named in Lodge Election
Loren A. Hoffman was elected chancellor commander of Friendship Lodge No Knights of Pythias for the fourth consecutive time Others named to office were Ira Lewis John Kimmel Charles Bolyard J W Sinsel Frank Bennett S M Zinn Silas Newbrough George C Grah Ne Campbell and John Kim Counsel in the suit of Mrs Lee Bennett Jr against Bartlett Bros bus company expect to continue their cases this afternoon Judge Kittle set a special chancery argument for Saturday morning the effect on final summation remains uncertain Continued Three
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Loren A. Hoffman
Friendship Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
Ira Lewis
John Kimmel
Charles Bolyard
J. W. Sinsel
Frank Bennett
S. M. Zinn
Silas Newbrough
Minster At Arms
George C. Grahneman
Thomas B. Campbell
John Kim
Lee Bennett, Jr
Bartlett Bros. Bus Company
Kittle
Bennett-Bus Company
Midi
Cox Calls for Repeal of Dry Laws at Dinner
Former Ohio governor and 1920 Democratic presidential nominee James M Cox urged repeal of the 18th Amendment, endorsing government control of liquor manufacture and distribution. He spoke at a victory dinner in Columbus, joined by Atlee Pomereno, while rival Davey urged leaving the issue alone. Cox warned saloons would not return.
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Columbus
Janes M. Cox
Ohio
Cox
United States
Atlee Pomorene
Cleveland
Martin I. Davey
Kent
British battles cruise ends after 19 days amid salt raids
Reports from Bombay describe a 19 day British naval cruise ending safely with stops in Spain Brazil and the U.S. The Salt satyraid effort met police resistance as volunteers faced teargas and arrests. In Dharasana 167 volunteers tried a raid on salt depots but were halted and dispersed by authorities. In Bombay police raided All-India National Congress HQ arresting six including Joshi as shop picketing by Indians continued in the fort area.
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Spain
Brazil
U.S
Bombay
Dharasana
Thore
All-India National Congress
Bombay Congress Committee
Girl Gangster Victim of Ruse of Detectives
New York story reports Rose Halperin, 28, held in Harlem jail as a material witness in the killing of Jacob Rothenberg, a dress manufacturer. A man with a scar, not necessarily Al Capone kin, is suspected. Irving Ashkenas faces manslaughter trial as Rothenberg’s alleged assailant. Trade details note private detectives trailed Halperin to Montreal and posed as Chicago gangsters to approach her. Bake sale noted for First Baptist Church on Saturday morning.
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New York
Alphonse
Scarface
Rothenberg
Kohenberg
Miss Halperin
Montreal
Chicago
James Zapone
al Capone
DIES SUDDENLY USING SWEEPER IN INDEPENDENCE
Mrs Ethel Shay 93, wife of Hubert Shay station master at Independence, died suddenly this morning in Newburg while using an electric carpet sweeper. Doctors cited heart trouble. The Wells family listed as her parents were William and ???? Wolfe of Newburg. (Continued on page Two.)
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Newburg
the Sentinel
Ethel Shay
Independence
Grafton Fruit Market Saturday Specials
Grafton Fruit Market advertises bargains on produce for Saturday. Bananas four pounds for 25 cents, pineapples at a low price, large cantaloupe two for 25 cents, home grown strawberries, tomatoes two pounds for 25 cents, new potatoes five pounds for a dollar, cucumbers five for 25 cents, home grown peas two pounds for 25 cents, stringless beans three pounds for 25 cents, celery lettuce radishes peppers and other fruits and vegetables available.
Judge Robinson Blocks Coal Man's Senate Bid
Judge Era E. Robinson rejects James Elwood Jones candidacy for the U S Senate in the Republican primaries. The Federal Radio Commission member from Barbour county notes Jones is a Pennsylvania coal baron who claims residence in Switchback West Virginia. Robinson promises to publicly explain his reasons to Barbour County and West Virginia voters.
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Era E. Robinson
James Elwood Jones
United States
Barbour County
Federal Radio Commission
Jones
Pennsylvania
Washington
Switchback
McDowell County
James “El‘wood Jones
United States Senate
West Virginia
Senate Slush Funds Probed in Primary Campaigns
Washington June 6 The senate campaign funds investigating committee ordered agents to probe charges of excessive expenditures in New Jersey and Oklahoma primaries. Chairman Nye said NJ spending up to 50 000 is alleged and Oklahoma charges involve candidates in both parties. Hearings likely this month as reports come in.
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Washington
Senate
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Nye
Graf Zeppelin completes sixth and seventh Atlantic crossings
Graf Zeppelin lands at Friedrichshafen at 7:22 p m after a 19 day voyage from Seville visiting Spain Brazil and the United States. The dirigible sailed May 18 from Friedrichshafen and flew over the North African coast before returning home avoiding a fierce storm near Valence.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
South America
United States
Graf
Spain
Brazil
North ‘African
Atlantic
Seville
Pernambuco
Brada
Rio
Janfeos
Lakehurst
Rae Dave
Reopened Probe Ties Undamaged Tire to Packing House Death
Topeka Kansas June 6 2 discovery that an undamaged tire tied to Roy Kramer packing company vice president whose death March 26 led to arrest of L H Kimmel president on murder charge Kramer body found stretched before a wheel near a highway police say killed by a passing car Virgil Pointer Kimmels aide allegedly confessed he killed Kramer ambushed at home clubbed him and moved body to the roadside where found next day Concluded on page eight.
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Kan
Roy Kramer
Packing Company
L. H. Kimmel
Kramer
Aj Jack
Tokay
Virgil Pointer
Kimmel Handy Mat
Kramen
Gestion
Ae Pointer
Pal AB
Kramer Ona
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