Violence in Korea and refugees flee to China
A dispatch reports Japanese police firing on a mob of Koreans in Jeijo near Seoul wounding several as they tried to recapture Chinese refugees. Riots spread with hundreds dead and thousands seeking refuge, while a ship carried about 1000 Chinese refugees to China. Tokyo papers condemn the violence and urge action.
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Tokyo
Jeijo
Seoul
Korea
Rengo
Pingyang
China
Chempulo
Harbin
Manchuria
America and France Reach Accord on Debt Holiday Plan
The United States and France announced a complete accord on President Hoover's plan for a one year holiday in intergovernmental debts. The White House said major creditor nations now back the idea, uniting former WWI allies in a push for global economic relief through debt postponement.
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America
France
Washington
Hoover
White House
Conference Of Experts To Work Out Technical Details Of Application
After 11 days of negotiations in Paris between the French government and Ambassador Edge and Secretary Mellon the agreement accepts a French formula. The United States and France reconciled their positions and experts will finalize technical details within Hoover era principles. Weeks are needed for completion while other nations raise reparations loan concerns.
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Edge
Mellon
Paris
United States
Germany
Treasury
State Department
Belgium
Romania
Greece
Bulgaria
State opens bids for tires tubes bridge timber and gas
Raleigh July 17 the state division of purchase and contract will receive bids on tires and tubes for current year use and bids for half a million feet of bridge timber. A second opening will offer 10 000 000 gallons of gasoline. Also note Granville Laurinburg and Davie debt sales and awards to local banks.
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Raleigh
Johnson
Granville County
First National Bank of
Granville
Laurinburg
State Bank of
Davie
Bank of Davie
Big Deficit Reported In North Carolina Budget
North Carolina closed the 1929-31 biennium June 30 with a general fund deficit of about 2 250 064 dollars. Gov. O Max Gardner cited lower revenue and weak business conditions. About 3 500 000 dollars was saved by a 29 percent expenditure cut under the governor's economy program.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
O. Max Gardner
Gardner
Smith and Arno Say They Won't Marry Again
New York July 7 cartoonist Peter Arno and Florence Rice Smith returned home with Reno divorces and vows they will not wed each other. Arno, twice divorced, blamed Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr for publicity and denied kissing Vanderbilt's wife. Mrs. Smith, daughter of Grantland Rice, said she never wants a wedding ring again and noted they are traveling together as friends.
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New York
Peter Arno
Florence Rice Smith
Smith
Sydney A. Smith
Grantland Rice
Mr. Arno
Louise Long
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Vanderbilt
Reno
Hoover Moratorium Plan Chronology Summary
Acting Secretary Castle presents a formal resume tracing President Hoover's debt moratorium idea from May 1 through July 6. Key events include May 11 deliberations on Germany’s payment capacity, May 6–7 consultations with ambassadors and departments, Geneva talks in May, and June cabinet reviews culminating in the June 20 announcement and July 6 broad agreement in principle by major governments.
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Washington
Castle
State Department
Hoover
Sackett
Germany
State
Stimson
Geneva
Mellon
German Boy Named Hoover Honors Reparations Action
A German baby boy born in Zohlendorf was named Hoover in gratitude for the United States reparation policy. Parents said a girl would have been Mellona, and President Hoover had defeated Mellon in obtaining the first personal recognition for the holiday.
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Berlin
Hoover
Treasury
Mellon
Zohlendorf
America
Germany
Mellona
River search resumes for drowned Southern worker
In Goldsboro on July 7 a renewed effort searched the Little River for Clinton Lovett 24 a Southern railway employee who drowned while wading in the swollen current. His companion Frank Moye said Lovett, a good swimmer, likely became seized by cramps.
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Goldsboro
Clinton Lovett
Little River
Lovett
Southern Railway
Frank Moye
Post And Gatty Acclaimed By Washington
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, after circumnavigating the globe, were honored in Washington with applause from Admiral Byrd and officials. They received a route globe, Winnie Mae trophy, and honorary Aeronautic Association memberships as they planned a Tulsa Oklahoma City Chickasha visit before returning to New York. The fliers credited their aircraft and tech, while remarks forecast future solar world flight, and they awaited a final reception after their Oklahoma stay.
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New York
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Richard E. Byrd
William H. Todd
World Fliers
Byrd
Post and Gatty
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Chickasha
Secretary of
Commerce Lamont
National Press Club
Winnie Mae
National Aeronautic Association
Post
Senator Bingham
Connecticut
Gatty
F. Trubee Davison
Aeronautics
William P. MacCracken
Commerce
The
Aeronautic Association
Orville Wright
Thomas A. Edison
Charles Lindbergh
Hugo Eckener
Germany Pledges Cooperation With Nations on Franco American Accord
Berlin July 7 Hermes ann Dietrich minister of finance told newspaper correspondents Germany will cooperate with other nations to resolve technical points left from the Franco American accord. He voiced optimism on short term credits and urged strict economy while hoping for a France Germany rapprochement and a rebirth of confidence influenced by the Hoover plan.
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Berlin
Hermann Dietrich
Germany
France
Hoover
Pew
Hearing In Fall Case Continued Until Thursday
Justice Bailey postponed action in Albert B. Fall's case until Thursday. Government lawyers sought immediate execution of a yearlong prison sentence, but the hearing was delayed due to other cases. District Attorney Rover said a report on Fall’s physical condition shows he can travel from El Paso to begin his term. Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe related to a naval oil reserve lease during the Harding era.
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Washington
Justice Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Albert B. Fall
Bailey
Fall
Rover
el Paso
Edward L. Doheny
Harding
Coen Assured of Election By Elks
John R. Coen of Sterling Colorado was assured of election as grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the 67th national convention in Seattle with 19 000 present. he is the sole declared candidate to succeed Lawrence H. Rupp of Allentown Pennsylvania.
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Seattle
John R. Coen
Sterlin
Colo
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Lawrence H. Rupp
Allentown
Charlotte Child Shot in Suspected Accident Near Home
Charlotte police investigate the fatal shooting of 10 year old Martha Pearl Carter who was hit in the neck while playing with friends near her home. A pistol left in a nearby car by F Doster is thought to have been the source, with investigators noting a freshly burned powder smell. No one has been identified as the shooter.
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Boykin
Sage
Archer Lodge
Johnson County
Jessie
Williams
Charlotte
Martha Pearl Carter
F. Doster
Carter
Columbia lawyer seeks break with Gomez regime over oil ties
Arthur L. King of Columbia general counsel for the junta for the liberation of Venezuela traveled to Washington to petition President Hoover. He plans to demand a break in diplomatic relations with the Gomez administration and alleges American oil interests subsidized the regime.
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Columbia, D. C
Arthur L. King
Columbia
Junta For the Liberation of
Venezuela
Washington
Hoover
Gomez
King
Britain renews invitation for world conference on recovery
Paris July 7 The Havas News Agency reports France accepted Britain’s invitation for a world powers conference in London to work out details of Hoover’s moratorium plan. Germany pledges to use wartime remittance funds for economic recovery and to tighten household spending. Paris and Washington note strong support while markets rise in Paris London Berlin and New York.
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Paris
Havas News
London
Rome
Washington
Hoover
State Department
Berlin
New York
Germany
John Brisben Walker Dies at 84 Publisher and Peace Advocate
New York reports the death of John Brisben Walker a nationally known publisher engineer and peace crusader at age 84. He formerly served as publisher and editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
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New York
John Brisben Walker
British call conference on Hoover moratorium plan
Acting Secretary Castle said the American government was gratified that Britain had called a conference to work out the details of President Hoover's moratorium plan.
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America
Washington
Castle
State Department
Hoover
Fishermen fatal fight on Yadkin river near Albemarle
Guy Johnson of Kannapolis died from injuries sustained in a fight among members of a fishing party on the Yadkin river banks near Albemarle last night.
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Albemarle
Guy Johnson
Kannapolis
Yadkin River
Baer to wed Dorothy Dunbar Wells de Garcon in Reno
Heavyweight champion Max Baer announced plans to marry Dorothy Dunbar Wells de Garcon, a former actress, tomorrow night at the home of a Reno banker. Baer had returned from a recent 20 round bout with Pauline Uzendun with no visible injuries.
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Reno
Max Baer
Dorothy Dunbar Wells de Garcon
Baer
California
Pauline Uzendun
Creditors Delay Meeting Over Col. Luke Lea Affairs
North Carolina creditors of Col. Luke Lea publisher and financier, who were to confer here today on a proposal to settle his affairs in the state, postponed the meeting awaiting arrival of interested parties from Tennessee.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Lea
Kyoto reports new planetoid discovery in July dispatch
Kyoto announces discovery of a planetoid about 11 000 miles in diameter and 180 000 000 miles from Earth south of the Snake Charmer region. Dr. Adams of Mount Wilson doubts the claim noting such a body would be unusually large and unlikely to escape prior detection.
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Kyoto
Japan
Kyoto Astronomical Observatory
Pasadena
Cali
W. SS. Adams
Mount Wilson Observatory
Adams
Dia
Earth
Venus
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Clayton
Clawson Williams
Fourth Judicial District
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J. C. Boykin
James Daniel Parker
Smithfield
Johnston County
Democratic Executive Committee
Williame
Lita Chevret
Brunet
H. Williamson
Mrs. Smith
Dawes
Europe
Owen D. Young
Parker Gilbert
Mills
George R. Harrison
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Middle West
Ambassador Dawes
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River
Boy
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Coen
Elks
Charlotte Child
Britain
Associated Press
Crusader
W. S. Adams
Kyoto Observatory
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