Endurance plane roars into 10th day of Manchurian tension
Tokyo observes a Chinese coup in Manchuria as Chinese leaders reportedly plan to tighten control over rail interests. Officials arrest 174 Soviet railway staff in Harbin and replace Russian directors, shutting Russian banking and trading operations.
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Tokyo
Manchuria
Japan
South Manchuria
Peking
Chang Hsueh Liang
Chang Kai- Shek
C. T. Wang
Nanking
Mukden
China
Soviet Russia
Harbin
Chang Ching Hui
Siberian
Trading Commission
Thirteen Injured in Seminole Limited Wreck Near Enfield
Thirteen of about twenty injured in the Seminole Limited wreck 20 miles north of Enfield, North Carolina, are in the Atlantic Coast Line hospital at Rocky Mount. Five Pullman cars overturned into a swamp after a dining car derailed, with several passengers trapped but later rescued. Most injured were treated locally and many to be dismissed soon as tracks reopened. Mrs. Arthur T. Averill of Tampa suffered a fractured skull. other patients include C. B. Sisson, Dorothy Sisson, Elsie Hock, and numerous residents from Florida, Rhode Island, Detroit, and Chicago among the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mount
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line
Enfield
Arthur T. Averill
Tampa
Fla
C. B. Sisson
Dorothy Sisson
Edgewood
R. I
Elsie Hock
Detroit
Henry Willman
Poorman
Alaska
Luther Hanson
Leesburg
Ernest Barnett
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sanford H. Borden
St. Cloud
Ada Hammond
Baltimore
Lottie W. Meredith
St. Petersburg
Hawkins
Jacksonville
Hadwig Bohn
New York
Sallie Colwell
Washington
Future Of Ying Kao Is Doubtful
Washington dispatch reports the suspension of Ying Kao the Chinese vice consul at San Francisco and his wife after opium was found in trunks imported to the United States. The case implicates questions of Chinese law diplomatic status and potential political asylum as the Nanking government probes details with US and Chinese officials.
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Washington
Ying Kao
San Francisco
United States
Peking
C. C. Wu
Nanking
Kua Mintang
America
Labor Department
China
Customs
The
Treasury
State Department
Secret defense purchases proposed by Good to James
Secretary Good submits a draft bill to Acting Chairman James granting the president power to designate certain material as secret. Contracts for development or procurement could be awarded without public bids, with final presidential classification of secret items. Navy and War Departments back the measure as long overdue for public service interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary Good
James
House Military Committee
Good
Navy
War Departments
Five Burn To Death In Wreck Of Fast Train
Five people died and a sixth was fatally burned when the Erie railroad eastbound express crashed into a derailed westbound tank car near Corning New York. A passenger coach and baggage cars were consumed by fire as the two trains collided and derailed.
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New York State
Corning
N. Y
Erie Railroad
Here
Fred E. Blake
Hornell
W. J. Latonik
Susquehanna
Hulbert
Arkport
Flavin
Salamanca
Swan Berger
Moline
Vaughn Rose
New York City
Corning Hospital
Britain bars Trotzky visit by exiled leader
Home Secretary Clynes announced in the house of commons that Leon Trotzky the exiled communist leader will not be allowed to visit Great Britain.
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England
Trotzky
London
Clynes
House of Commons
Leon Trotzky
Great Britain
Clara Bow Engaged to Wed New York Proprietor Within Month
Los Angeles July 11 Clara Bow the It girl of the screen is engaged to wed Harry Richman musical comedy actor and New York night club proprietor. The marriage is expected within a month after completion of their current pictures. Richman announced the engagement and Bow confirms it despite prior denials. Bow recovering from food poisoning at Beverly Hills home. Richman and Bow met in New York on vacation and renewed acquaintance in Hollywood during his first talkie. Richman previously married in 1918 and divorced in 1922. Bow has never married.
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Clara Bow
New York
Los Angeles
Harry Richman
Miss Bow
Richman
Caree
Beverly Hills
Hollywood
Yvonne Stevenson
Santa Ana
Cal
Curtis outlines political greed in Topeka speech
Vice President Curtis, visiting Topeka on vacation, told a dinner gathering of sixty lifelong friends that his creed centers on absolute honesty with voters. He said the public deserves to know a official's views on public questions and whether he can act on them. Attending were Senator Capper Henry J. Allen and Governor Clyde M. Reed.
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Topeka
Kans
Curtis
Roy l. Bone
Kansas Bank
Arthur Capper
Henry J. Allen
Clyde M. Reed
Companionate marriage ends in divorce in Muskogee
In Muskogee Oklahoma on July 11 District Judge R E V Vernor granted a conventional divorce to W D Halfhill a lawyer from his wife Dr Flora Perry the first companionate marriage in the city The petition began as an annulment with a prenuptial contract declaring the union a companionate marriage that could be dissolved by either party The judge ruled the initial filing noncompliant and Halfhill amended to seek a divorce on grounds of mental cruelty.
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Muskogee
Okla
RE. V. Vernor
W. D. Halfhill
Flora Perry
Halfhill
Vernor
Williams and Yancey Honored by Italians
Property owners on Broad Street protest an Oakwood Court ice plant by McKinley Davis. The city designated that area as Business Property and the project violated city ordinances.
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Broad Street
Oakwood Court
McKinley Davis
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Davis
Clay Street
Salvation Army
A. B. Horney
Lewis 8
Board of Adjustments
T. J. Gold
Trans Atlantic Fliers Welcome by Mussolini in Rome
Italian Premier Mussolini greeted American trans Atlantic aviators Roger Q. Williams and Captain Lewis A. Yancey upon their arrival at Littorio after a flight from Old Orchard Maine. The pair arrived amid a flood of invitations and fanfare, with Mussolini personally congratulating them at his villa after escorting them from Balbo.
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Mussolini
Rome
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Littorio Airdrome
Schnader
Spain
Old Orchard
Williams and
Yancey
Italio Balbo
Torenia
Santander
Littirio Field
Biarritz
Civita Vecchia
Corsica
Debutante Dorothy Wilson Injured In City Car Crash
Dorothy Wilson debutante daughter of Milton Wilson is gravely hurt after her car is struck by a vehicle driven by Helen Hertz 19. Hertz faces assault with a deadly weapon charges and is free on her own recognizance. An Evanston police report notes Hertz ran a stop light and both cars wrecked.
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Chicago
Dorothy Wilson
Milton Wilson
Wilson Brothers
Wilson
Helen Hertz
John Hertz
Yellow Cab Company
Hertz
Miss Wilson
Evanston
Miss Hertz
Freeman
Leona Farms
Gary
Reigh
Watson and Reed Discuss Tariff With Hoover
Senators Watson of Indiana and Reed of Pennsylvania met with President Hoover in a White House conference. They emerged impressed that Hoover favored applying the yardstick of adequate protection to the pending tariff bill but offered no commitment on the bill’s fate in the House.
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Washington
White House
Hoover
Watson
Indiana
Reed
Pennsylvania
Research aid named for Hoover law commission
Professor Sam Bass Warner of Syracuse University has been appointed a research aid by President Hoover's law enforcement commission. Warner, formerly a San Francisco lawyer, has taught at Oregon and Northwestern universities and will join Harvard Law School's Institute of Criminal Law next year.
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Washington
Sam Bass Warner
Syracuse University
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Warner
San Francisco
Oregon
Northwestern
Institute of Criminal Law
Harvard University
Untin Bowler Heads For Greenland Flight
With 600 gallons of fuel the Untin Bowler waits for favorable weather at Port Burwell Labrador to dash across Hudson and Davis straits to Mt. Evans Greenland the next stop on the Chicago to Berlin flight. Thick fog and winds delayed the trip while ice cakes threatened the amphibian in the fjord.
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Chicago
Port Burwell
Labrador
Hudson and Davis Straits
Mt. Evans
Greenland
Berlin
The
Chicago Tribune
Robert Wood
Wood
Endurance Flight Reaches Ninth Day With 100 Gallons Added
Culver City California July 11. Entering the tenth day of their endurance flight L W Mendel and R B Reinhart added 100 gallons of gasoline to their biplane and pressed on. The ninth day ended at 7 29 30 am and the world sustaining record rose to 217 hours. The 220 horsepower motor shows strength and the pilots report no signs of near exhaustion as they trade sleep for flight in a contest against time gravity and each other.
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Culver City
Cali
L. W. Mendell
R. B. Reinhart
L. W. Mendel
North Carolina Tennessee Park Commissions Plan Deed to Smoky Mountain Park
In Asheville on July 11 the North Carolina and Tennessee park commissions announced plans to turn over the first 150000 acres of the Great Smoky Mountain national park to the U S government for administration and protection after title clearances. A potential deal with Champion Fibre company was discussed but not finalized during the joint sessions ending with an NC executive session.
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Asheville
North Carolina Park Commission
Tennessee Park Commission
United States
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
City Hall
Champion Fibre Company
Park
North Carolina
Tennessee Park Commissioners
North Carolina Commission
Richards Won't Sign Order to Place King in Jail
Governor Richards refused to sign an ad mittance order for Rafe F King into the State penitentiary unless Chester and York counties could prove the prisoner would be in danger in a county jail He was brought to Columbia after being sentenced to die in the electric chair September 20 for murder of his wife Faye Wilson King.
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Columbia
Washington
Richards
Rafe F. King
State
Chester
York
King
Faye Wilson King
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W. B. Darrow
NEA
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Pembroke
Wales
Saint George’s Channel
Milford Haven
Arthur R. Sampson
Resolve
Pilot
Moordale
Portland
Gurtis
Williams
Toulon
Associated Press
Littorio
Research Aid For Law Commission
Refueling
Angeleno
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