Russian ultimatum looms as China seizure sparks Vladivostok protest
Reports from Vladivostok describe a mob surrounding the Chinese consulate, hurling stones and shouting insults after the Chinese eastern railway seizure. Moscow warns China to meet three day Russian demands or face further action. Japan weighs neutral stance or defense if its interests are threatened.
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Vladivostok
Kharbarosk
Moscow
Harbin
Manchuria
Manchur
Japan
Chang Chun
Russia
Hative
U. S
S. R
Soviet Union
King George Undergoes Successful Operation
King George underwent a minor chest operation at Buckingham Palace to drain a small abscess. Seven doctors attended, and the Prince of Wales visited from York House. The bulletin said portions of two ribs were removed to drain the abscess, now measured about one and a half inches, and the king’s condition was satisfactory.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Wales
York House
Recovery Report After King's Abscess Operation
Public relief followed physicians' statement that his majesty's condition was satisfactory after the operation. The news notes a careful recovery and minimal complications in the monarch's convalescence.
Local People Asking For Adjustment
Raleigh July 15. J W Kaneer superintendent of High Point Yarn Mills was shot July 1 while inspecting the plant. He filed a claim for compensation with the state industrial commission and expects 18 weekly, totaling 56 plus medical expenses if approved. Reports say 52 other industrial accidents were received today.
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Raleigh
High Point Yarn Mills, Inc
J. W. Kaneer
State Industrial Commission
High Point
Sanitary Department
Edward Washington
Sanitary
Assault and arrest inRandleman police chief shooting case
Asheboro July 15 Special to the Enterprise Joe Connor is jailed in Asheboro after deputy sheriffs seized his car and whiskey following an assault on Randleman Chief of Police C W Myers. The chief was shot twice at close range inside city hall. no motive disclosed. Bloodhounds tracked to the highway but lost scent. Connor’s mother claimed he was shot by the chief. Myers had faced a similar ambush a year earlier.
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Enterprise
Asheboro
Joe Connor
Randleman
Ben Millikan
C. W. Myers
Chief Myers
Connor
Madison Brown
Brown
Myers
Greensboro
Polish Trans Atlantic Flight Ends In Tragedy At Graciosa
Major Ludwik Idzikowski was killed. navigator Casimir injured as the Polish Marshal Pilsudski crashed on Graciosa Island Azores. French entry Coste and Bellonte landed safely at Villacoublay after 27 hours 55 minutes flight.
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New York
Casimir Kubala
Santa Cruz
Kubala
Marshal Pilsudski
Idzikowski
Horta
Graciosa
Island of
Azores
Ludwick Idzikowski
Graciosa Island
Here
Casimer
Dieudonne Coste
South Atlantic
Coste
le Boucert
Jacques Bellonte
Urge Withdrawal Flexible Tariff Urge Withdrawal Flexible Tariff
The American Farm Bureau Federation urged removing the presidents flexible tariff authority and creating a non partisan tariff commission to set rates. Chester H. Gray told the Senate Finance Committee the commission should be a rate making body, with review by Congress, and he supported replacing production costs with competitive differences in rate studies. He called to remove the 50 percent cap and allow removal from the free list.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
Congress
American Farm Bureau Federation
Senate Finance Committee
Chester H. Gray
Federation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gray
Commission
President Hoover outlines aims of federal farm board
Washington July 15 President Hoover addresses the newly organized farm board urging a facts based approach to solve agricultural problems. He stresses building permanent marketing institutions owned by farmers and strengthening farm organizations to achieve long term stability and equal opportunity in the economy.
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Washington
Hoover
Farm Board
Congress
Federal Farm Board
Farmers’ Cooperative
Uni
De Priest Plans Federal Election Law to Run National Votes
Oscar De Priest, the Chicago-based representative from Illinois, announces in a Chicago speech that he will push a federal election law bill to place national elections under government election boards. He says the aim is equality under the law, not social equality, and vows to continue touring the South despite threats to educate Black voters about their constitutional rights.
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Chicago
Congress
Oscar de Priest
Washington
Millinois
de Priest
United States
North
South
America
Wheat futures surge on feverish buying in Chicago market
A feverish buying push lifted wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade. July contracts closed at 1.3775 a bushel, September at 1.42 1 2, and December at 1.47 5 to 1 4835, about 43 cents above six weeks earlier.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Wall of water drowns seven near Oselle in cloudburst
In Oselle Missouri a five foot wall of water from a cloudburst swept away a car and drowned Marie Beckman 28 and seven relatives including four children ages 15 months to seven years and her mother and brother. An eighth victim died in Desoto 20 miles away when struck by lightning while playing ball. Husband William Beckman survived by going for help. Coroner and search parties recovered three bodies. homes were unroofed and basements flooded.
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Oselle
Marie Beckman
Pinoak Creek
Here
Desoto
William F. Beckman
Beckman
Thomas P. Shaffer
Union
Clarence Stahl
Chicago Lads Face Assault Charge
Three Chicago youths including John J. Corcoran are indicted for assault to murder after a car collision with Kasper G. Schmidt son of the city treasurer and vice president of the Prudential State Savings Bank. Schmidt and a female companion were beaten and dragged from a car. Corcoran, Ray Stenberg and Jack Watson were arrested on secret indictments.
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Chicago, Ill
Chares
Corcoran
Rosy hued man stopped by troopers called outrage
Federal Judge John R Hazel called the highway stop of Walker Trazak of Lime Lake by state troopers an outrage. Officers testified his face was red and flushed and they found alcohol in his car. The indictment was dismissed and evidence vacated.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John R. Hazel
Batavia Barracks
Walker Trazak
Lime Lake
Trazak
Hazel
Dawes Attends Afternoon Commons Session
Ambassador Charles G. Dawes sat in the distinguished strangers gallery during the House of Commons afternoon sessions in London on July 15.
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Dawes
London
Charles G. Dawes
House of Commons
Glltery
Helen Wills Meets British Premier After Court Introduction
Helen Wills, the American tennis star, was introduced at court and later met Premier MacDonald in London. The California player was hosted as a tea guest on the terrace of the House of Commons by Captain A. Cazelet, a member of Parliament.
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Helen Wills
London
MacDonald
California
A. Cazelet
Parligament
House of Commons
Isomery buildings collapse in Montgomery
Two 3 story Montgomery mercantile houses the Bullock Shoe company and Pizitz department store on Dexter avenue collapsed without warning after noon. People were believed trapped under debris as physicians and all city fire and police units joined rescue efforts at the scene.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bullock Shoe Company
Pizitz
Dexter Avenue
Government to survey liquor in its storage
Washington July 15 The prohibition bureau will survey the government medicinal liquor stock to verify how much of 15 million gallons is actually on hand Surveyors estimate leakage evaporation theft and adulteration have reduced the total to about 7 million gallons If the survey finds less than 19 million gallons on hand steps may be taken to resume distillation to replenish stock and complete aging requirements.
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Washington
Prohibition Bureau
North Platte Faces Tense Return of Negroes After Mob Eviction
North Platte Nebraska reports say several black residents returned amid tension after a mob forced them to leave last Saturday. Governor Weaver weighs sending a national guard unit to restore control while Sheriff Salisbury promises full protection to returning citizens. No leaders of the mob have been identified. The violence followed a shooting of Officer Ed Green and a later suicide.
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North Platte
Neb
Arthur Weaver
National Guard
Salisbury
Ed Green
Children witness murder suicide at Alabama home
In Falette Alabama on July 15 Louis G Nichols 50 a farmer killed his wife by slashing her throat then shot himself after a domestic quarrel. The three married children reported the attack as officers labeled the case murder and death by own action.
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Falette
Ala
Louis G. Nichols
Enraged Youth Shoots Father Over Car Dispute
Perry Philbeck, about 16 or 17, shot his father John Philbeck, 49, with a shotgun after being denied use of the family car. John Philbeck was hospitalized with injuries to face neck and shoulders but expected to recover. Cleveland County officers sought the youth, who planned to surrender en route to Shelby.
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Shelby
Perry Philbeck
John Philbeck
Cleveland County
Army Air Corps to Fly Mitchell Field to Nome in 4230 Miles
Secretary Good approved plans for a long range Army air patrol flight from Mitchell Field to Nome Alaska to be flown by Captain Ross G Hoyt in a standard pursuit plane. The route includes refueling stops at Minneapolis Edmonton Whitehorse and Fairbanks with a final leg to Nome. The flight will begin within ten days and will be in continuous stages with short stops. Hoyt previously served as refueling officer for the Question Mark endurance flight.
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Washington
Mitchell Field
S. 11
Nome
Alaska
Ross G. Hoyt
Army Air Corps
Hoyt
Minneapolis
Edmonton
Alberta
White Horse
Yukon
Fairbanks
Army
Shippers and Business Men's Meeting Set in Raleigh
Governor Garder calls a North Carolina meeting of shippers and business men in Raleigh on July 24 to discuss the freight rate situation affecting the state.
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Raleigh
Garder
North Carolina
Hoover Attends Rainbow Division Reunion Parade
President Hoover arrived from Washington shortly before 1 p m to join the Rainbow division veterans in Baltimore Maryland He was hosted at the Maryland Club for a luncheon and the reunion concluded with a parade reviewed by Hoover in the afternoon
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Baltimore
Hoover
Washington
Maryland Club
Southeast sees heavy weekend toll in accidents
Sixteen people died or were injured in southeast incidents over the weekend. Auto crashes killed eight, drownings claimed three, two died in airplane crashes, and other events included a railway collision, a gasoline launch blast, and a falling stone injury. Notables include W. G. Garrett family from Jessup, Robert L. Jones of Wagener, T. W. Warren of Memphis, M. L. Smith of Birmingham, and Nellie Branan of Atlanta among the injured or deceased.
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Atlanta
W. G. Garrett
Jessup
Robert L. Jones
Wagener
S. C
Augusta
T. W. Warren
Memphis
Jackson
Camden
Ark
Nellie Branan
Ethel
Sarah Darby
Boca Ceiga Bay
St. Augustine
Fla
Frank Perley
Foreman
Kentucky
B. F. Dixon
Birmingham
Ala
Robert S. Horsley
C. F. Cornelius
Rogan Showalter
Erwin
Tenn
Scotland Yard Probes Canadian Registered Mail Heist
Scotland Yard assists the English post office in a registered mail rifling involving the Laurentic liner from Montreal to Liverpool. Investigators link it to a prior Leviathan theft, with missing Montreal air mail and a bag with intact seals. Authorities note large potential losses and prior crew arrests.
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Scotland Yard
London
Liverpool
Montreal
New York
Laurentic
Leviathan
Five Negro Prisoners Escape From North Carolina Prison
Raleigh July 15 A total of five prisoners, all black, escaped from the state prison over the weekend. Four were honor grade workers on highway construction in Wayne county. The fifth was Lady Robinson who escaped from the central prison. Names and sentences include Frank Johnson Wake county seven to ten years burglary John Jones Guilford three to five years highway robbery John Quiller Rockingham three to five years breaking and entering Johnnie Moore Beaufort three to four years storebreaking and larceny Lady Robinson Forsythe three to four years storebreaking Also noted were Tom Johnson and Ed McKinnon detained for execution October 10 for murder of a Duplin merchant, with appeals in process.
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Raleigh
Wayne County
Lady Robinson
Central
Frank Johnson
Wake County
John Jones
Guilford
John Quiller
Rockingham
Johnnie Moore
Beaufort
Forsythe
Tom Johnson
Ed McKinnon
Duplin
Floods Hit Eastern Galicia Rail Service Disrupted
Persistent rains in the mountain region of Eastern Galicia flood wide areas in Stanislawow and Tarnopol districts. Police awaken villagers at night to flee as several score villages are inundated and railroad service is partially interrupted.
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Warsaw
Poland
Galicia
Stanislawow
Tarnopol
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King George
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Father
New York-Alaska
GOOD
Shippers and Business Men's Meeting
Rainbow Division
Ottawa
Ontario
Rimouski
Quebec
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