U S Action Warned Over Endangered Lives Abroad
A Mexican government order forces the entire staff of its Moscow legation to quit Soviet Russia in protest of communist activity abroad. The move hints at recalling the Russian minister in Mexico City, with mentions of embassies in Washington, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro as targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Moscow
Soviet Russia
A. M. Makar
Legation
Estrada
Genaro Estrada
Washington
Buenos Aires
Rio Janeiro
Russia
Delegates Racial Hatred Flares Departing Optimistic
In Watsonville California on January 24 a flare of racial hatred erupted after white dancing girls were employed in a Filipino club. The incident echoed after two clashes in San Jose where one white man was stabbed and four Filipinos were badly beaten.
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Watsonville
Calif
Santa Clara
San Jose
Stimson Grandi Discuss Italy Plea for Equality with France
London dispatch reports Stimson and Grandi spent over an hour outlining Italy’s push for equality with France during naval conference talks. Delegates reported progress but many plan details remain unsettled as the week ends.
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Associated Press
London
Naval Conference
Stimson
Grandi
Italy
France
Faubel proposes Senate subordinate to House in U S system
Arthur L. Faubel secretary of the American tariff league urged the senate lobby committee to subordinate the senate to the house of representatives as in the English system. He said the senate committee actions “seemed so useless a proceeding.” The statement was made in Washington on January 24.
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Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Arthur L. Faubel
American Tariff League
Senate
House of Representatives
Faubel
Arnold
Caraway
J. A. Arnold
Southern Tariff Association
League
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
Grundy
The
Tariff League
Blaine
Wisconsin
Walsh
Montana
Charles L. Evanson
Connecticut Manufacturers Association
Bingham
Connecticut
A. Arnold
Six People Die in Two Fires Across States
A sequence of fatal fires reported today includes Otway Ohio where four Perry children aged 6 to 16 perished as a home burned and eight other siblings survived, and Galewood Michigan where George Routsa w and his son Robert died in a blaze. Authorities cited stove ignition as a possible cause.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Lawrence Perry
Otway
Terry
Raymond Perry
Elsie Perry
Elmer Perry
Bessie Perry
Grand Rapids
Mich
Galewood
George Routsaw
Robert
James
Marjorie
Arminta Routsaw
Archer Hearing More Witnesses
Eight more witnesses testified in the North Carolina freight rate hearing before Examiner Archer of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The state seeks a general revision of interstate rates to align North Carolina with neighboring territories. Witnesses were business representatives from Greensboro and Charlotte with data on costs and various goods.
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Raleigh
State Corporation Commission
Archer
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
North Carolina
Virginia
J. W. Roberts
The
Corporation Commission
A. J. Este
Greensboro
W.S. Creighton
Charlotte
H. J. Allison
T. W. Pritchard
A. Williams, Jr
H. M. Nicholson
C. G. Smith
Bombs Damage Two West Side Agencies in Chicago
Two West Side handbill distribution agencies in Chicago were damaged by bombs that exploded within minutes of each other late last night, according to police reports. No injuries were immediately reported. The incidents occurred on the city’s West Side, and investigators searched for the motives and suspects.
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Chicago
West Side
Lumbermen End Meeting Today
In Gastonia the seventh annual convention of the Carolinas Retail Lumber and Material Dealers Association concludes after a day of addresses an officers election. J C Cauthen of Rock Hill S C was elected to lead for 1930 and presided the closing session. Delegates and visitors including H H Baxter Charlotte P W Combs New York City and W J Snead Greenwood S C gave shop talks.
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Gastonia
Carolinas Retail Lumber and Material Dealers Association
J. C. Cauthen
Rock Hill
S. C
H. H. Baxter
Charlotte
P. W. Combs
New York City
W. J. Snead
Greenwood, S. C
Workman Killed In Refining Mill Blast
Bud Robinson was instantly killed and Floyd McCracken likely fatally injured when two explosions rocked the Tri State Refining plant in Kenova West Virginia. Fire departments contained the flames but ongoing danger prevented a full damage check. Several others were hurt to lesser degrees.
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Kenova
W. Va
Bud Robinson
Floyd McCracken
Tri- State Refining Company
Hennington
Mrs Long to be Arrested in West Gastonia Slaying
Gastonia officers said Mrs W F Long widow of the man slain Tuesday night would be arrested on his death charge when she returns from his funeral near Monrose. Five men already in jail—J N Jenkins Andy Cabe Crip Bridges Lloyd Bradshaw Lawrence Bradshaw—are charged with taking part in the killing. The victim's body was found Wednesday on a highway. police say it was killed at his home in West Gastonia and moved to the roadside.
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Gastonia
W. F. Long
Monrose
J. N. Jenkins
Andy Cabe
Crip Bridges
Lloyd
Lawrence Bradshaw
Long
Here
West
Chicago Citizens Form Big Pool To Tide City Over
Chicago will form a civic pool led by Silas H. Strawn to buy 50 million dollars in tax anticipation warrants. The funds will tide city county and school district through the 1928 reassessment and tax collection, with payments likely after May 1. Pay for over 40 000 workers has been delayed. coal suppliers threaten deliveries to schools over unpaid bills.
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Chicago
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Silas H. Strawn
Ned
Cook County
Illinois
Ward Takes Stand in Own Defense in North Carolina Case
Evander Ward 36 testifies in Montgomery superior court on December 4 death of his wife. He claims he found a smoke filled bedroom after cows were in pasture and moved bedding, asked a neighbor to fetch an undertaker, and did not examine the body or try to extinguish the fire. Dr. Griffin testified the death could be suffocation, strangulation, or asphyxiation. Defense hopes to finish today. trial to reach jury soon.
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Troy
N. C
Evander Ward
Montgomery Superior Court
Ward
Hurley
M Hurley
H. L. Griffin
Star
Griffin
Murphy's Appeal on North Carolina Statute May Be Dismissed
The North Carolina Supreme Court signaled it would dismiss D. L. Murphy's appeal challenging a statute used to assess him as a stockholder in Farmers Banking and Trust Co. in Wallace, Dupin county. The court held the statute provides notice to challenge the assessment and a proper opportunity to be heard, aligning with prior interpretations.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Murphy
North Carolina
Farmers Banking and Trust Company
Wallace
Duplin County
N. C
J. A. Jones
North Carolina Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Rescue crews push into frozen Big Lake area in Arkansas
Mem phis dispatch reports rescue teams hacking through ice on an inland Big Lake to reach about 200 families marooned by flood waters. Boats with food medicine and fuel press toward stranded homes as Red Cross tents at Roseland receive evacuees.
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Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
Big Lake
Roseland
Red Cross
St. Francis Basin
Holcomb
Tree
Ark
Rocky Mount Moves To Aid Unemployment
Rocky Mount with a $700 appropriation to Salvation Army and Associated Charities to aid unemployment. A committee led by Mayor Van S Watson Alderman R C Brake and M P D Munn will study speeding up the spring improvement program to provide jobs. met tonight to discuss feasibility.
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Rocky Mount
Board of Aldermen
Salvation Army
Associated Charities
van S. Watson
R C. Brake
M. PD. Munn
Prominent Gastonia Druggist Dies Suddenly
Gastonia January 24. Harvey H. MacKay prominent Gastonia druggist died suddenly at his home today from a stroke of paralysis. He was the son of the late Major J. A. D. MacKay, noted as a young Confederate officer.
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Gastonia
Harvey H. MacKay
J. A. D. MacKay
Food And Fuel Dropped To Flooded Arkansas Refugees
Plane rescue runs reported dropping food and charcoal and small flour sacks to more than 200 families trapped by flood and ice in the Big Lake area of northeastern Arkansas. Notes tied to wood blocks guided needs for feed or fuel as rescues work amid submerged cabins and blocked waterways.
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Jack Bondurant
Memphis
Tenn
Big Lake
Arkansas
Blytheville
Red Cross
Big Lake Zone
Roseland
Dirigible Los Angeles over Savannah during training cruise
The Los Angeles passed Savannah at 10 45 a m on a training cruise from Lakehurst New Jersey to Parris Island South Carolina. The AP bulletin notes stopover timing and route details.
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Avannah
Los Angeles
Savannah
Lakehurst
N. J
Parris Island
S. C
Huge Searchlight Defies Rum Runners
In Buffalo a coast guard 2 500000 candle power searchlight on the customs house roof beams across the river to Bridgeburg Ontario docks. The 1 500 watt bulb with a 24 inch lens has a two mile range and will illuminate activity there from the American side. When a ram scraft is spotted its rays will be kept covered until a government boat arrives.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Coast Guard
Customs House
Amherst Street
Bridgeburg
Ont
Four Firemen Hurt In Church Blaze
Four firemen were injured and damage estimated at 200000 dollars after a three alarm fire swept the Gaston Presbyterian church at eleventh street and Lehigh avenue in Philadelphia. The pastor Rev. Russell Paynter could not determine the fire’s origin.
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Philadelphia
Gaston Presbyterian Church
Eleventh Street
Lehigh Avenue
Russell Paynter
Pasetor
Plane Lands Doctor On Storm Bound Island To Save Life
A ski plane flown by Tex Rankin with Dr. Ernest Boylen landed on Puget Island to reach nine year old June McGilvray, ill with pneumonia after 12 days of storm isolation. The arrival drew over 200 island residents who kept beacon fires to guide the flight. Two other women were treated by the doctor after landing.
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Doctor
Portland
Ore
Puget Island
Columbia River
Tex Rankin
Ernest Boylen
June McGilvray
W. E. McGilvray
Longview
Wash
McGilvray
Boylen
Willebrandt Called to Testify on Enforcement Transfer
The House Expenditures Committee voted 8 to 7 to summon Mabel Walker Willebrandt for testimony on the Williamson bill moving prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Justice Department. The vote over rode the chairman after charges of gag rule and debated broadened hearings.
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Washington
House Expenditures Committee
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Williamson
Prohibition Enforcement
Treasury
Justice Department
Representative Schafer
Wisconsin
Schafer
Willbrandt
Cochran
Missouri
Justice
Seven Injured In Taxi Driver Strike In Pittsburgh
Seven men were injured today during clashes tied to a 12 day old taxicab strike in Pittsburgh. Police answered riot calls as local strikers clashed with men from outside the city seeking work, including a group of 25 men who were stoned en route from the Pennsylvania rail road station to a cab garage.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
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