Views on naval ratios create disagreement at conference
At Williamstown the debate over the 19 7 versus 10 7 naval ratio continued with William R Castle noting US support for 19 6 as fair while British Admiral Richmond questioned Japan's safety and food lines. The discussion highlighted diverging views on what constitutes a fair balance in the western Pacific.
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Williamstown
Mass
Institute of Politics Today
William R. Castle
Japan
Pacific
United States
Great Britain
Herbert Richmond
Imperial Defense College
Castle
Endurance Team Still Aloft After 23 Days
Mary Dale Jackson and Forest Brine extended the world endurance flight record at St. Louis, reaching 358 hours and surpassing the old mark by three hours. The craft completed 125 refueler contacts, burned about 5,055 gallons of gasoline and 225 gallons of oil, covering roughly 33,000 miles with 14,000,000 propeller revolutions.
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ST. Louis
Mary —Dale Jackson
Forest Brine
Women Communists Charged With Spitting on Flag
Two women, Arlene Holmes and Mabel Husa, in charge of an international relief workers camp at Van Etten, were charged in Elmira New York with desecrating the American flag by spitting on it and using profane language. They pleaded not guilty and sought 48 hours to obtain aid from the international labor defense committee.
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Changsha
Hunan
Hankow
Muchang
Hanyang
Haakow
Kanchow
Kiansgi
Shinchow
Kwangtung
Canton
Elmira
N. Y
International Relief Workers
van Etten
United States
Claude V. Stowell
Corning
Arlene Holmes
Mabel Husa
Andrew Dennis
Sayre
Par
Daisy Felt
Waverly
International Labor Defense Committee
Seventeen Stowaways Lead to Immigration Probe
Seventeen stowaways from the British steamship Mistley Hall were taken into custody by immigration officials in Baltimore as investigators seek who cared for the men on the South America voyage. The group, thought to have boarded at Rio de Janeiro or Trinidad, were found inside a ballast tank murmuring about weather risk.
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Baltimore
Mistley Hall
South America
Rio de Janeiro
Trinidad
Horses Kill More People Than Planes in Wisconsin
Madison reports that in the second quarter of the year 18 people died in horse related accidents in Wisconsin, while five people were killed in airplane crashes. The state health bureau notes horses and horse drawn vehicles caused more fatalities than airplanes during April through June.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Board of Health
Seventy Drown in Mine Blast on Sikiang Estuary
A large Chinese launch traveling from Hongkong to Kongmoon on the Sikiang estuary blew up after hitting a mine. About seventy people perished, most of them women, in the disaster Monday evening.
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Canton
China
Hongkong
Kongmoon
Sikiang
Emergency Fund Created To Battle Md Forest Fires
An emergency fund of $10,000 was made available to Maryland’s state forestry department as hundreds of volunteers and wardens battled scattered fires fed by a long drought. The drought neared its 48th day with almost 11 inches less rain and 1300 fires since January 1, with severe blazes in Somerset and Worcester counties on the Eastern Shore.
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Department of Agriculture
Hyde
Agriculture Department
Missouri
Corn
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Minnesota
Weightman
Illinois
Indiana
Upper
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Kentucky
Hoover
John Barton Payne
American Red Cross
White House
Red Cross
Judge Payne
Baltimore
State Department of Forestry
Somerset
Worcester
Marion Talley Seeks New York Return After Farm Loss
Marion Talley, star of The Girl of the Golden West, said the drought on her 800 acre Kansas farm ruined the corn crop. Stopping in Chicago en route to New York she hinted she may return to the Metropolitan Opera as she had left the farm after a meteoric rise. She said it is her privilege to change her mind.
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Chicago
Marion Talley
West
East
New York
Kansas
Metropolitan Grand Opera House
Miss Talley
Steamer Liehsing Listed. No Lien Hsiang Found in Lloyd’s
Shipping records show a steamer named Liehsing while Lien Hsiang is not listed. Lloyd’s registry notes the Chinese vessel as 250 feet long and 36 feet beam.
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Liehsing
Lloyd’s Registry of Shipping
Herring Sent 10 Chair for Murder
Clinton August 13 Chevis Herring a black man faced death in the electric chair for first degree murder of F F Newton Kerr North Carolina postmaster Newton whose battered body was found on a road near his home on June 28 He was convicted in Sampson County Superior Court and sentence deferred until today Ernest Herring his brother was to stand trial on the same murder charge
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Chevis Herring
F. F. Newton
Kerr
N. C
Herring
Sampson County
Clayton Moore Williamston
Newton
Wilmington
Ernest Herring
Aviator admits bombing outrage in Kentucky mining area
Paul Montgomery, an aviator from Murphysboro, Illinois, confessed to assisting two men in bombing Providence coal fields in Kentucky. Investigators say Montgomery protected miners, but he did not identify his accomplices. Remnants found at Murphysboro airport support the bombing theory.
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Murpheysboro
Paul Montgomery
Providence
Montgomery
Herman Goldman
Department of Justice
William Flanigan
Jackson County
Drisenberry
Murphysboro
Rome
Dallas
Tex
Ex-V. M. I. Baseball Player is Killed
Tallahassee report notes Lewis Jacobie twenty a baseball star for Virginia Military Institute Lexington Virginia killed in an early morning automobile crash. Richard Van Brunt a friend was slightly injured as their car collided with another occupied by African American people in this city.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Lewis Jacobie
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Jacobie
Richard van Brunt
van Brunt
Senator Simmons Returns to New Bern Home
U S Senator F M Simmons arrived from Washington to remain at his New Bern home until the Senate opens in December. He appeared improved in health. Mrs Simmons remains in Washington undergoing treatment at a sanitarium.
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New Bern
U. S
F. M. Simmons
Washington
Senate
North Carolina Master Barbers Pick Raleigh for Convention
The association chose Raleigh to host its next annual convention. J. H. Brown of Raleigh was re-elected president as the Winston-Salem meeting adjourned.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina Master Barbers’ Association
Raleigh
J. H. Brown
Hawks Aim To Recapture West-East Transcontinental Record
Captain Frank Hawks began the last leg of his bid to reclaim the west-east transcontinental air record. He landed in Wichita after a 6 hour 4 minute 11 second flight from Glendale and planned stops at Albuquerque and Indianapolis before reaching New York.
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Hawks
Wichita
Kansas
Frank Hawks
Charles A. Lindbergh
Glendale
Calif
Lindberghs
New York
Albuquerque
N. M
Los Angeles
Hoover May Swing Into West Later
Washington August 13 President Hoover canceled plans for a summer trip to the National Parks of the Rocky Mountains and left open the possibility of a western visit if conditions permit He has two trips before him October 7 Kings Mountain battle anniversary and a speech to the American Legion in Boston Additional travel options include a Caribbean trip with stops in Mexico Cuba Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands and a planned Texas visit if feasible
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Hoover
Rocky Mountains
Congress
Texas
Kings Mountain
American Legion
Boston
Mexico
Cuba
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
Fairfax Skipper Testifies On Speed At Collision
Norfolk August 13 Captain Archibald H Brooks master of the Fairfax testified at a federal hearing that the Merchant and Miners liner was moving three miles an hour when its ship collided with the tanker Piubbis in Massachusetts bay on June 10. Twenty two witnesses testified with most being Fairfax crew members.
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Norfolk
Archibald H. Brooks
Fairfax
Massachusetts Bay
Prohibition Clash Institute Feature in University Debate
At University, Virginia, a public affairs forum featured Ernest W. Cherrington of the World League Against Alcoholism and Mrs. Marion Booth Kelly of the New York advisory council. They argued over enforcement, liberty, and constitutional guarantees in the national prohibition debate, with Cherrington defending enforcement and Kelly opposing both enforced and unenforced prohibition as undermining law and rights.
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America
Cherrington
House of Representatives
Senate
Kelly
Lexington Sets City Tax Rate at 1.42 for Year
Lexington city council fixed the tax rate for the new fiscal year at 1.42. The rate matches the previous year and officials say no reduction was achieved despite economy efforts. Mayor Fred O. Sink declined to provide the budget copy or discuss last night's council action.
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Lexington
Fred O. Sink
Ponyporravw
St Louis pair set world record for sustained flight
Veteran endurance fliers Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine soared 554 hours 41 minutes to reclaim the world sustained flight record at Lambert Field St Louis August 13. The duo aimed for 1 000 hours as they raced toward a six week mark despite rain and a crowd of about two thousand.
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Dale Jackson
Forest O' Brine
Hunter Brothers
Hunters
Lambert
Kenneth
John Hunter
Illinois Farm Boys
Jackson
O’brine
St. Louis
Four Killed And Five Hurt In Auto Truck Collision
Four Pas aic residents died and five were injured in a head on crash between a milk truck and an automobile in fog at Cranbury Lake New Jersey. The dead include Tony Amadeo Jr and Herman Amadeo plus Napoleon Becarllo and an unidentified man. Three seriously hurt are Patsy Schiro Angelo Long and Antonio Carusi. Anthony Amadeo Sr and Walter Behrman the milk truck driver were slightly hurt.
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N. J
Pas- Saic
Tony Amadeo, Jr
Herman Amadeo
Napeleon Becarllo
Pasaic
Patsy
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