Wickersham Proposes Shifting Prohibition Enforcement
In New London July 16 Governor Roosevelt read a Wickersham letter urging stronger Volstead Act enforcement. The law enforcement chief argues for shared burden between states and federal government, with states handling retail infringements and the national government retaining wholesale authority.
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New London
Conn
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
George W. Wickersham
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Wicker- Shaw
Roosevelt
Joint Burden
C. S
United States
Governors’ Conference
Poland Honors Memory Of Ill Fated Airman
In Poland and the Azores memorials mark Major Ludwik Idzikowski's death in a trans Atlantic crash aboard the Marshal Pilsudski. Major Casimir Kubala tried to rescue him as flames consumed the wreck on Graciosa Island. The Iskra will return Idzikowski's body to Poland with full honors amid religious ceremonies scheduled nationwide.
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Warsaw
Poland
Iskra
Horta
Ludwik Idzikowski
Atlantic
War Office
Azores
Casimir Kubala
Marshal Pilsudski
Graciosa Island
le Bourget
New York
Associated Press
Khubala
Idzikowski
Santa Cruz
Kubala
Soviet Ultimatum to China Stirs Moscow Tensions
The Associated Press reports mounting anti Chinese sentiment in Moscow as Russia issues a three day ultimatum demanding a conference to settle the Chinese Eastern railway dispute. Chinese troops move near Manchuria are alleged though unconfirmed while Berlin communists protest the Chinese consulate.
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China
Moscow
Paris
London
Tokyo
Russia
Harbin
Siberian
Peking
Black River
Wang
Tsingtao
Berlin
Nanking
Manchuria
Chuang Kia Shek
C. T. Wang
Manchul
Poincare Closes Four Day Speech on Debt Ratification
Paris July 16 AP The Poincare government won a confidence vote 804 to 2359 on postponing debate of ratification of the Mellon Derenger debt accord. Poincare urged immediate ratification and cited Hoover's Toledo address as proof debts must be paid. He praised the Young plan and warned against linking reparations to debt. Edouard Herriot pressed the issue but Poincare kept the two sums separate.
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Paris
Poincare
Louis Marin
Raymond Poincare
Foud
America
Great Britain
Chamber of Deputies
Hoover
Toledo
M. Poincare
Edouard Herriot
Raleigh merchant W L Brogden dies by own action
W L Brogden a prominent Raleigh wholesale produce merchant committed death by own action at his Morehead City cottage about 10 this morning. He is survived by his widow Miss Alice Ball of Raleigh and a daughter Mrs Charles B Aycock. Brogden 40 moved to Raleigh from Durham and built the W L Brogden Company after a long career with the Durham Tobacco Company. He had health setbacks and despondency reportedly over ill health.
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Raleigh
W. L. Brogden
Morehead City
Charles B. Aycock
Brogden
Durham
Durham Tobacco Company
J. G. Bail
Demonstrations in front of Berlin Chinese Consulate
The communist newspaper Rote Fahne reported a protest outside the Chinese consulate in Berlin last night. Demonstrators shouted down with Nanking war mongers and down with the Kuomintang’s murderers of workers as stones damaged the consulate windows before police arrived.
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Berlin
Rote Fame Today
Nanking
Rote Fanne
Kuomintang
Soviet
Russia
Hoover Recaptured After Escape From State Prison
Thomas Hoover, a Randolph County convict who escaped on June 21, was recaptured in Greensboro. He had been serving five to seven years for breaking and entering and had been in the prison since April 29 of last year.
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Hoover
Raleigh
Thomas Hoover
Randolph County
Greensboro
Public Support of Law Needed Says Gardner
Governor O Max Gardner of North Carolina told the 21st annual governors conference that youth crime stems from broken homes and reformers pushing prohibitory laws before winning public opinion. He praised Hoover’s crime commission and urged governors to lead civic action for practical statesmanship.
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Gardner
New London
Conn
O. Max Gardner
North Carolina
Communists Occupy Changchow Missions in Fukien China
American missionaries report communist troops seized main mission buildings at Changchow Talmage College and the mission residence, 50 miles southwest of Amoy. The U S consul filed a protest with the Fukien commissioner. reply was not encouraging amid rising anti missionary activity and fear for mission properties in south Fukien.
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Amoy
Fukien
China
Talmage College
Changchow
South Fukien
Carolinas Branch AGC Plans December Charlotte Meeting
Plans are underway for the Carolinas Branch of Associated General Contractors to meet in Charlotte next December. Executive secretary W P Loftis says the convention date will be set soon by Earl Whitton of Charlotte, president of the organization.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Associated General Contractors
W. P. Loftis
Earl Whitton
Mrs Basil Miles Marries Col Rogers in Switzerland
New York report notes the marriage of Mrs Basil Miles to Colonel H H Rogers in Zurich Switzerland, witnessed by Count and Countess Andrew Zichy. Rogers, a Standard Oil executive, was previously married to Mary Benjamin Rogers and has a daughter Milicent Ramos. Miles had two prior marriages including Basil Miles and Lester Morton Savell.
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Basil Miles
Col. Rogers
Switzerland
New York
New York American Today
H. H. Rogers
Zurich
Colonel Rogers
Standard Oil
Mary Benjamin Rogers
Utrecht
Holland
Milicent Ramos
Salm van Hoogstraeten
Miles
Lester Morton Savell
Atlanta
Philadelphia
Foreign nations protest tariffs as Italy warns impact
Spain, Italy and Sweden filed representations with the state department over American tariff proposals. The notes, released by the senate finance committee, dispute duty increases in steel products cork and general imports from Italy and warn of harm to Italy’s agricultural and raw material purchases and economic position.
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Washington
Spain
Italy
Sweden
State Department
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
House
Mooresville Boy Found in River Tragedy
In Mooresville on July 16 searchers found Ashby Lowe a 14 year old high school student who drowned in the Catawba River last night He was an adopted child of Mrs Cora Lowe of North Academy Street The youth with companions Merle Howard and Charlie Sherrill had gone to the river on a camping trip and boarded a boat to view a fishing line before the accident
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Mooresville
Ashby Lowe
Catawba River
Cora Lowe
North Academy Street
Merle Howard
Charlie Sherrill
Silver
Lowe
Sherrill
Howard
Catawba
Farm Board Engaged in Pledges and Appointments
The Farm Board, led by Alexander M. Legge of Chicago, began work on its pledge to work long and hard. Hoover faced delays filling a wheat representative seat as prices rise, with seven members leaving private posts to tackle agricultural issues aided by Secretary Hyde and a staffed Mayflower hotel base.
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Legge
Washington
Alexander M. Legge
Chicago
Federal Farm Board
Hoover
Congress
Hyde
White House
Mayflower Hotel
Chris L. Christensen
Co-Operative Marketing
Hoover asked 10 AGT in gar strike
J B Lawson said National Union leaders would request President Hoover to intercede in the 15 day street car strike in New Orleans. He said Green Mahon and others conferred with the attorney general and labor secretary and would seek a White House conference. Car service began to resume with non union crews guarded by deputies and police. No disorders reported.
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New Orleans
J. B. Lawson
Hoover
Lawson
William Green
American Federation of Labor
W. D. Mahon
International Carmen’s
Secretary of Labor
White House
United States
Travel into Mexico eased by new chamber card
Mexico announces a new entry method for American tourists using a border chamber of commerce issued card. The card, produced by any qualified chamber within 40 miles of the border, will permit border crossing on the chamber’s responsibility with prior investigation by the chamber and Mexican authority.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Williams resigns from labor and printing post in Raleigh
W. E. Williams, assistant to Commissioner Frank D. Grist, resigns from the labor and printing department in Raleigh. A successor has not yet been named.
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Williams
Raleigh
W W. E. Williams
Frank D. Grist
Labor and Printing
Coste Pessimistic About Atlantic Flight This Year
Paris July 16 Coste probably will not make another attempt this year to fly across the Atlantic. He has not abandoned the plan but says there is no hurry when asked for a new date. Friends cite the French government's reluctance to permit further trans Atlantic flights as a reason he may wait until next year. Captain Coste has grown more pessimistic since landing here Sunday morning about completing the east to west flight without favorable weather.
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Coste
Paris
Dileudonne Coste
Atlantic
Heating Armory Problems Rise in Charlotte
July report notes the new Charlotte Armory faces heating complications. Officials fear the large building will require a sizable winter heating budget. A conference is set, but bids are delayed until August, leaving funding sources unresolved.
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Charlotte
King George Makes Normal Progress After Operation
London reports King George is recovering as a normal healthy man would and doctors and family are greatly satisfied. The latest bulletin says he passed a good night and both general and local conditions are satisfactory though healing from drainage of an abscess in the right lung may take time.
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Westminster Abbey
Kie George
England
Ciousands
Old Abbey
King George
Queen Mary
Buckingham Palace
London
George
Palace
Three Feeble Men Carry On At Last Man's Club Dinner
In St Paul Minnesota on July 16 the Last Man's club founded 46 years ago by 314 members of B Company First Minnesota Volunteers faces a quiet event. Only three veterans John F Goff Peter O Hail and Charles Lockwood aged 86 91 and 87 remain to attend a dinner at Goffs home, the old inn at Stillwater no longer feasible due to frailty.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Last Man’s Club
B Company
Minnesota
John F. Goff
Peter O. Hail
Charles Lockwood
Goff
Stillwater
Charlotte Will Retain Day Enforcement Office
Charlotte announces it will keep the day enforcement office as headquarters for prohibition enforcement in western North Carolina. R Q Merrick of Richmond, administrator for Virginia and the two Carolinas, revealed the decision after rumors suggested Asheville would receive the post following Ed Kanibe's appointment as deputy administrator.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
R. Q. Merrick
Richmond
Virginia
Carolinas
Asheville
Ed Kanibe
Eleven Honduran Girls Die In River Gorge Truck Crash
In Tegucigalpa eleven high school girls returning from a picnic were killed when their truck plunged about a thousand feet into an abyss near Sauce. Twenty two other passengers were injured, with driver Luis Medina dead. Minister Salvador Correto was seriously hurt while aiding in the rescue. National mourning to be declared.
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Abyss
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Sauce
Luis Medina
Salvador Correto
Danc
Drunk driving and murder charges in Charlotte crash
E. B. Proctor of Denver North Carolina is jailed on charges of drunken driving and murder after a Wilkerson boulevard collision that killed Frank G. Bell of Greenville Washington D.C. Proctor, uninjured aside from dental damage, faces a court hearing after warrants are prepared.
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F E. B. Proctor
Frank Bell
Charlotte
E. B. Proctor
Denver
N. C
Wilkinson Boulevard
Frank G. Bell
Greenville
D. C
Proctor
South Carolina
Mecklenburg County
Porter
Recorder’s Court
Bell
Slemp in Hospital at Paris Under Observation
C Bascom Slemp former secretary to President Coolidge is in the American hospital Paris under observation for intestinal trouble. Doctors say he is getting on well and will likely return to his hotel in a few days.
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Paris
C. Bascom Slemp
President Coolidge
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Hull
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New York Horticultural Society
Kinggeorge
Man's Club
Trugk
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