Labor Trouble at Butte Reaches Settlement
Labor unrest at Butte flared then settled as politicians and officials reacted to President Hoover's nomination of Nicholas Roosevelt of New York as vice governor of the Philippines. Filipino leaders criticized the choice for opposing independence, while some Americans favored naming a capable official to safeguard interests. Representative Gabino Abaya accused Roosevelt of opposing freedom and urged Filipinos to resist perceived mistreatment by the American people.
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Manila
Hoover
Nicholas Roosevelt
New York
Philippines
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Senate
Sergio Osmena
Day of Mourning Proclaimed by Arab Readmiien
Jerusalem reports the Arab executive committee proclaims July 27 as a day of mourning marking the 40th day after the 1929 riot murders. The decree bans processions public assemblies and political speeches while urging villagers to visit tombs per Moslem custom. Meanwhile 2900 native Christians gather on Mount Carmel to celebrate the festival of the prophet DNas.
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Jerusalem
Arab Executive Committee
Mount Carmel
Dnas
Robbers steal $9,000 in jewelry in Missoula
Missoula July 20. Robbers gained entry to the Kitten dorf Jewelry store and seized diamonds and jewelry valued at $9,000. They pried a door, used a drill on the safe, and fled leaving spilled trays and a dropped watch box. Fingerprints are the only clues.
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Missoula
Kittendorf Jewelry
Last Civil War veteran faces final rite with 33 crepe chairs
Minneapolis dispatch records an aged Civil War veteran Charles Lockwood of Chamberlain South Dakota planning to dissolve the Last Man's club by toasting departed comrades at Stillwater on Monday. He will read the roster of 84 and call the roll for the 34 survivors, with 33 chairs draped in crepe as a somber farewell to comrades from Gettysburg and Bull Run.
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Minneapolis
Stillwater
Charles Lockwood
Chamberlain
Lowell Inn
Pany B
Minnesota
Lockwood
Infantry
Gettysburg
Bull
Bull Run
Best Known Dog in Wyoming Baree Returns Home
Rock Springs dispatch reports Baree a 202 pound St Bernard long known to locals as Wyoming’s best loved dog escaped his captors and returned to master James Ferrero in Rawlins after a three week disappearance. A newspaper story tipped Ferrero to the dog’s route along the Lincoln highway near Cherokee and Baree was found about 117 miles from home. Baree previously earned local fame by rescuing a lost child, combing the boy to safety.
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Wyoming
St. Bernard
Guy Chitman
Rawlings
Baree
Ferrero
Lincoln Highway
Cherokee
Rawlins
Rock Springs
Tommy
Haif
John McLaren Receives International Horticulturist Honor
Honored figure John McLaren, famed horticulturist who built Golden Gate Park, receives membership in the Royal Horticultural Society of England. Only a few others share this distinction since the society’s founding about a century ago. In Washington, July 20 weather reached a record 105.6 degrees as heat persisted nationwide.
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John McLaren
Association of Horticulturists
Royal Horticultural Society of England
Society
McLaren
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Hymns of Spite Stir Hindus in Independence Struggle
In Bombay and rural districts Hindu nationalists replace morning prayers with hymns praising Gandhi and passive resistance. As crowds grow, families rise at dawn to chant verses urging aid in the anti imperial campaign, despite peace efforts by Sapru and Jayakar. The booklet behind the songs is printed in large numbers.
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James Associated Prep
Bombay
India
Tej Bahadur Sapra
M. Jayakar
Mahatha Gandhi
Con- Arena
Verer
Gandhi
Crazed man kills two and wounds two in Pennsylvania shooting
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on July 20 a crazed caretaker shot dead two people and wounded two more before using his last shotgun shell to kill himself. Victims included Henry D Sordoni 62 and Capt John T Rath 40. Frieda Sordoni 17 and France Sordoni 31 were wounded as the family fled and aided by neighbors. The incident began at a Lehman Heights estate and the assailant was Paul Skopka.
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Wilkes Barre
Lehman Heights
Paul Skopka
Swopka
Henry D. Sordoni
Kingston
Frieda Sordoni
Yordini
France Sordoni
Frieda
Francis Sordoni
National Railway Men Plan Nationwide Strike
The executive committee of the National Union of Railway Men met with local union leaders to discuss a threatened nationwide strike. The gathering adjourned without a statement. Kingsbridge was the sole major southern railway station operating today as staff at the Broadstone station departed en masse last night.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
National Union of Railway Men
Kingsbridge
Great Southern Railway
Broadstone
Deadlock persists in Chinese war fronts amid claims of advances
Shanghai reports indicate a week long deadlock across Shantung and Hotton as Nationalists claim success near Yalan and Tainatt while rebels say bodies lie unburied. Independent sources suggest northern advances within 10 miles of Kweitieh and steady positions along the Peking Hankow line.
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Shanghai
Northern Alliance
Shantung
Hotton
Shahtung
Titntsin“ukan
Yalan
Tainatt
Onan
Kweiteh
Ki~ Abgsu
Kwelteh
Peking-Hankow
Billings Woman Crushed Under Decayed Tree
Grace Coleman was killed when a decayed tree toppled onto her while she read a book beneath it. Her husband W P Coleman, sleeping near their automobile, suffered minor bruises. They had moved to Billings from Los Angeles three months earlier. Coleman worked for a telephone company.
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Billings
Grace Coleman
W. P. Coleman
Workmen to Resume Under Agreement After Wage Dispute
Violence erupted when machinists refused an eight dollar daily wage and employers cut to six dollars a day. Non union drivers were hired, prompting clashes. About 109 deputy sheriffs and a dozen police guarded substitute workers. The clerks union offered sympathy, aiding strikers. Conferences were held to resume peace and business with non union help.
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Teamsters
Sfcenta
Clerks’ Union
Butte
Strik
Ers
Monumon
George S. Martin
Employers' Association
Senators Expect Treaty Approval With No Secret Pact
Washington July 20 AP sweltering heat as senate leaders push ratification of the London naval treaty by tomorrow. Opponents concede a futile fight and may let the pact through, reserving their bets on Norris’s amendment which would deny any silent agreements. Hoover and Senate delegates Robinson and Reed assert no secret understandings exist.
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Washington
Senate
Norris
Republican
Nebraska
Hoover
London
Robinson
Arkansas
Heed
Pennsylvania
Sanatora Johnson
California
Hale
Maine
Naval Counts
Prominent Sheeppman Faces Prosecution
Robert Morrison, an eastern Carter county sheepman, was moved to Bozeman to answer a charge of passing worthless checks. He had been under arrest for several days with Gallatin county authorities. The case reflects Morrison's former prominence before creditors closed him out months ago.
President Hoover to See Yellowstone and Glacier
President Hoover plans a western vacation with a August departure likely by August 10 and return in early September. A large party will accompany him with Glacier Park in Montana slated for the major stop near the international line as aides finalize itinerary details.
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President Hoover
Yellowstone
Glacier
Washington
Hoover
Senate
White House
National Sparks Service
Horace M Albright
Glacier Park
Montana
One Dead and Forty-Eight Injured in Wreck Near Elizabeth
One man died and forty eight people were hospitalized after a New York bound Pennsylvania train struck an automobile at a grade crossing near Elizabeth station. Sixty eight were treated. twenty were sent home. Police queried three men linked to the auto crash as witnesses. Edward Guiaff emerged as a local hero in the tragedy.
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Nhvzaheth
Nod
Eliabeth Station
Craig
Brooklyn
Elizabeth General Hospital
Heli
James W
Arthne Allcroft
James McNair
Elizabeth
Allcrofts
Edward Guiaff
Poisonous Snake Bite Rescued by Husband Courage
In a lakeside camp, Edmund Vaniseghem of St Louis suckled venom from his wife's bitten instep after a deadly rattler struck. He removed the poison and, with nearby campers killing the snake, feared the toxin would prove fatal without medical aid. Doctors later expressed optimism for her recovery. Also, Sir Godfrey Thomas denied a Prince of Wales US camping trip rumor, calling it pure invention.
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Strows
Efort
Edmund Vahiseghem
St F Lauwis
Vaniseghem
London
Godfrey Thomas
Prince of Wales
United States
Canada
The
Sunday Express
Philip Sasson
Portuguese Are Under Arrest a Bom Plotters
Portuguese authorities announced the discovery of an ammunition plant in central Lisbon used by conspirators to make and store bombs. Several arrests followed, including Colonel Pinto Garcia former Captain T Laurindo Vieira and former Naval Sergeant Severo Dos Santos, found hiding at the bomb house as police pursued remaining suspects. A separate report notes Gardner Neil Hurdle aged 18 died of spotted fever while working with a survey party near Stevensville for the United States general land office.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Pinto Garcia
T Laurindo Vieira
Severo Dos Santos
Missupla
Gardner Neil Hurdle
Great Fale
Stevensville
United States General Land Offic
Byron Grant Jr Wins Singles Championship
Byron Grant Jr of Rockhill Tennis Club Kansas City claimed the singles championship defeating W Flutiot Cohen in straight sets 2 6 4 6 4 at the Rockhill Tennis Club on July 29.
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Byron Grant, JR
Rockhill
Kansas City
Bryant Giant
Atlanta
Go Today
W. Flutiot Coen
Bel
Typhoon Death Toll Soars Across Kiushin Island
Tokyo dispatch reports 65 known dead in one Kiushin district with 20 missing and 254 seriously injured. Property damage estimated at up to 100 million yan, about 5.9 million dollars, with over 11,600 houses destroyed and 31,000 damaged. The Pacific typhoon struck at 100 mph, sweeping through the Loochoo islands and Korea, causing floods and many casualties in multiple provinces.
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Tokyo
Kiushin Island
Japan
Korea
Nagasaki
Pacific Ocean
Loochoo Islands
Kloshlu
Kaishonando
Keishohokude
Chuassi Kokude
Ares
U S Beats Italy in Tennis Finals
In Auteuil France on July 20 the United States defeated Italy four matches to one to win the Interzone Davis Cup final. George Lott of Chicago won the opening singles for the U S over Giorgio de Stefani in straight sets 6 3 1 6 3. Italy’s lone point came from Baron Humbert L Morpardgo who beat Wilmer Allison in four sets 7 3 11 2 5 1 6 4.
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Auteutl
France
United States
Italy
George Lott
Chicago
Georgio de Stefani
Baron Humbert L. de Morpadgo
Wilmer Allison
Fort Worth
Texas
Honolulu Swimming Club Wins International Meet
The Honolulu Swimming Club captured the meet with a 65 point score over three days. Notable performances included Buster Crabbe of the University of Southern California and Los Angeles Athletic Club scoring 2% points for fourth, plus three new records. Malola Kalul, the Honolulu boy, earned multiple wins including the 400-meter freestyle and 400-meter backstroke, while Kellis set a new 100-meter backstroke mark in five minutes 48 seconds, breaking George Kojac's 1917 record.
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Honolulu Swimming Club
Buster” Crabbe
University of Southern California
Los Angeles Athletic Club
New York Athletic Club
Alberto Zorilla
Buster Crabbe Ouphand
Crabbe
Kellis
George Kojac
Tbs
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John T. Rath
Leo Kern
Islam Temple
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Francis M. Stepherson
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Virginia
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Poigon
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Prince
Ixty
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