Simmons Holds Fast on Democratic Fundamentals Despite Harmony Talk
Washington July 12 Senator Simmons clarifies he remains opposed to the party's current national leadership and refuses to back Governor Smith for president. He met with Mr Shouse to discuss harmony and tariff positions while reaffirming his stance against Mr Raskob as National Chairman. The episode follows publicized efforts to reconcile differences within the party.
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Washington
D. C
Simmons
Shouse
Democratic Executive Committee
Michelson
Democratic
Raskob
Smith
Michela
Simons
Shousen
Naional
Twelve Die In English Charity House Fire Tragedy
In Gillingham England ten boy cadets from Chatham naval barracks and two rescuers died when a dummy house at a charity bazaar caught fire during a demonstration. Three firemen and several would-be rescuers were seriously injured as spectators watched the deadly play turn real.
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Gillingham
England
Chatham Naval Barracks
Young Mother's Love For Paramour Causes Holdup
A comely young mother of a 7 year old daughter and two others were jailed after she confessed to a $14,000 daylight holdup of two Security Benefit Association workers in Topeka on June 28. Money totaling $13,690 was found hidden in an overstuffed chair and behind a picture in the apartment. The confession linked her to Cecil Streit, a fellow employee and brother of another suspect, and Rainey the niece who aided the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Security Benefit Association
Vivian Scraper
Cecil Streit
Association
Marie Rainey
Dawes MacDonald Discuss Naval Disarmament Again
Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald and Ambassador Dawes met in London for a lengthy talk on naval disarmament with no clear outcomes. The American embassy noted ongoing discussions since the Geneva preparatory commission adjourned, and cabinet discussions reportedly considered cutting six submarines from the naval program. Ambassador Gibson, arriving from Brussels, stayed in discussions with Dawes on pending naval topics.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Dawes
Great Britain
MacDonald
Geneva
Gibson
Brussels
Ambassador Dawes
Channel
Fliers Aim to Break Endurance Record at Culver City
At Culver City airport the endurance flight by pilots and the plane Angeleno continued past the 244th hour today with neither side signaling surrender as of 11 29 a m The AP report notes the ongoing contest between man and machine in the sky with no end in sight.
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Culver City
Angeleno
Westward Hop Across Atlantic Planned by Polish Aviators
Le Bourget France July 12 Polish aviators Jan Idzikowski and Casimir Subala, who have prepared at Le Bourget, announced they will begin a flight to New York on Saturday morning weather permitting. A definite route is not public but Azores likely, continuing their last year path near those islands.
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LE Bourget
France
Jan Idzikowski
Casimir Subala
New York
Azores
Coolidge Quits Fishing and Heads Home
New Bedford Mass July 2 Calvin Coolidge ends his fishing visit to Wareham and returns by car to Northampton where Mrs Amelia Goodhue, his mother in law, is ill.
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Coolidge
New Bedford
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Wareham
Northampton
Colidge
Amelia Goodhue
Parking Places in Mid Ocean for Planes Sought
Washington July 12. The navy has assigned the U S Hannibal to sound a zone mid Atlantic between New York and Bermuda to test anchoring a floating seadrome for airplanes. The vessel covers about 1200 square nautical miles with depths around 2600 fathoms and 2000 fathoms in the southeast corner.
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Washington
Atlantic Ocean
Navy
U. S. Hannibal
New York
Bermuda
Bandits Who Dynamited Train Sentenced to 25 Years
Virgil Litzinger and John Red Flannery, last of the gang that dynamited a Grand Trunk mail car and fled with 133000 in loot, were sentenced to 25 years in prison. A jury found them guilty after brief deliberation before Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley.
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Chicago
Virgil Litzinger
John “Red” Flannery
Walter C. Lindley
Negro youth wins freedom in Atlanta jail skin game
In Atlanta a 23 year old negro, George Ccoy, used a skin game to gain release from jail. He paid in with fifty cents and slipped out to gather funds from other prisoners before returning and securing his freedom. The tale recalls a prior visit where he left with $218 after paying a $150 liquor fine.
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Atlanta
Sky
Chance
Stone Walls
George cCoy
Eorge
Henry
George
Mass Meeting In Rome To Honor Airmen Williams And Yancey
Rome citizens gather in Collona Square at 6 30 p m to honor Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A Yancey of American Trans Atlantic fame. The two fliers, arriving from Old Orchard Me via Santander Spain, are set for a Pathfinder test spin and receive a high Italian decoration next week.
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Rome
Collona Square
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Old Orchard
Santander
Spain
Pathfinder
Marquis de Pinedo
Italy
North Atlantic
Williams
Yancey
Lazarus
Maurice
Victor Emanuel
Mussolini
Villa
Torlonia
Bellinger
NC-4
Duce
Lion hunt ends as clipped tawny returns home
In Binghamton New York state police and local deputies dissolved their posse after a hunting party aided by volunteers tracked the lion. A farmer reported a cow and calf killed. The tawny dog with a clipped mane returned to Cortland, owned by James Corrigan, who said it fled July 4 during fireworks.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Cortland
James Corrigan
Chinese minister asks wife of San Francisco consul for opium trial
Chinese Minister Wu urged Secretary Stimson to turn over Mrs Ying Kao wife of the Chinese vice consul in San Francisco to Chinese authorities for trial on opium smuggling charges. The secretary took the request under review but unofficial opinion favored denial.
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Washington
Stimson
Ying Kao
San Francisco
Susie Yinh Kao Ying Kao Suen Foon Charged In Opium Case
San Francisco July 12. Warrants issued by the United States commissioner for the arrest of Susie Yinh Kao Ying Kao and Suen Foon charging them with facilitating transportation and concealment of opium in violation of the Jones Miller act.
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San Francisco
Reduced Brokers Loans Boost Wall Street Stocks
New York July 12 A wild bullish rally on the New York stock exchange followed news of a 14 million dollar reduction in brokers loans after weeks of gains totaling near 500 million. About a dozen utilities six steels and rails and industrials surged to record prices with U S Steel rising five dollars to 203 a share about 84 above its 1929 low.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
U. S
Measles and Whooping Cough Lead National Immunity List
The Public Health Service reports nine tenths of Americans have had measles and about three quarters have had whooping cough. Mumps and chicken pox follow as numbers taper. Fatalities peak in under one year, with measles whooping cough and mumps falling to near zero by age five, unlike scarlet fever and diphtheria.
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Washington
America
U. S. Public Health Service
Error In Measuring Speed of Light
Dr. A A Michelson seeks to reduce light speed uncertainty to one ten‑thousandth of the earlier value. The Mount Wilson project moves from air tests to a half‑mile evacuated iron pipe with mirrors, a rotating prism, and a tuned timing system to yield a more precise figure.
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Washington
A. A. Michelson
Mount Wilson
Mount Old Baldy
University of Chicago
War Department
Mount Wilson Observatory
Pasadena
Calif
Ross Flying Field
Russians Flee Manchuria Amid Railway Crisis and Exile
Reports from Harbin and Changchun describe a heated move as Chinese forces take over railway works and expel Soviet officials. About 30 officials are exiled to eastern Siberia and hundreds more ordered to depart. Soviet reservists in the railway zone are summoned, and border crossings are threatened as Moscow weighs intervention.
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Tokyo
Rengo
Harbin
Manchuria
Changchun Eé
Siberia
Manchulp
Soviet Russia
Siberian
Lake Baikal
Vliadivostok
Moscow
Chang Ching-Hui
B. N. Melnikov
M. Emshanov
Tar Heels Ask Protected Trade On Philippine Exports
J I Morgan of Farmville NC for Interstate cotton seed crushers association urged a 45 percent ad valorem duty on extracted oil and 40 percent on copra to shield US markets. He said Congress should decide and could refund duties to aid Philippine social conditions as they govern themselves.
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Washington
J. I. Morgan
Farmville
N. C
Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association
Corpa
Congress
Phillippine
Morgan
Phillippine Islands
Salvage efforts on H-47 abandoned at sea
The British navy honored 20 sailors from the sunken submarine H-47 off Pembroke Wales. As the Rodney with six destroyers and five submarines reached the site 330 feet deep, floral wreaths were cast into the sea and guns boomed in final salute. The admiralty had previously declared them dead.
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Pembroke
Wales
Two Burned In British Movie House Fire Causes Deaths
London July 12 In Gillingham a dummy house fire drew crowds but in nearby Welling a cinema theatre fire from the operators' box killed two people the operator and his assistant and left several injured. The audience escaped with panic but survived.
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London
Gillingham
Kentish
Welling
Angeleno endurance flight at Culver City rolls past 238 hours
Pilots L. W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart remained aloft early today in the Angeleno two head biplane, passing the 238 hour mark with 258 hours cited by observers. Ground crew noted good spirits despite long isolation, while refueling and a meal of fried chicken kept morale high.
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Culver City
Calif
Angeleno
L. W. Mendell
R. B. Reinhart
Mendell
Span
Slade Hulbert
Governor delays action on Gameron case until next week
In Raleigh on July 12 Governor Gardner will not decide now. Judge N A Townsend executive counselor said the report to the governor is postponed after R C Lawrence, Camer on attorney, requested more time to present additional pardon facts. The extension pushes the governor’s decision to next week.
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Raleigh
Gardner
John Cameron
N. A. Townsend
Townsend
R. C. Lawrence
Lumberton
Cameron
Shone Trial Set To Start July 22 In Hix Slaying Case
Judge Henry Starlett overruled a motion for a continuance in the trial of Dr. James H. Snook the University professor and confessed slayer. The court ordered the trial to begin July 22 in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Juy
Henry Starlett
James H. Snook
Theora K. Hix
Ohio State
Little Russian Lad Opposes Parents Divorce in Court
In Chicago, Bennie Welzer, a Russian immigrant boy, disrupted divorce proceedings after overhearing his mother testify that Isaac Welzer beat her. The judge stayed the decree, warned the mother against beating Bennie, and ordered possible jail for further abuse if repeated. Bennie identified his father as a kind man and opposed the divorce.
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Chicago
Bennie Welzer
Isaac and
Lena Welzer
Russia
Bennie
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National Democratic Organization
Benefit Association
Loren Mendell
R. RB. Reinhart
Paul Whittier
Slade Hurlbert
Atlantic
Egro Lad
Tawny
J. 1. Morgan
Interstate Cottonseed Crushers Association
Shone
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