Chinese Request Delay on Soviet Ultimatum Amid Manchurian Tensions
Russia reports 2,000 troops crossed into Manchuria but avoided clashes with Chinese forces as China asks Moscow to extend the three day ultimatum period. Moscow backs cautious settlement while nationwide Chinese calm holds and Manchuria's railway control continues.
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United Press
London
Exchange Telegraph Agency
China
Harbin
Exchange Telegraph
Riga
Moscow
Leo Karakhan
Soviet Union
Manchuria
C. T. Wang
Nanking
Russia
Mukden
Japan
Berlin
Soviet Troops Reported Crossing Manchurian Border
Unconfirmed reports say about 2 000 Soviet troops crossed the Manchurian border near Blagovieschtchensk and retreated as a Chinese battalion approached.
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Prev
Harbin
Manchuria
Manchurian
Blagovieschtchensk
Tense anticipation surrounds Harbin railway ultimatum
Unified Press Moscow July 16 reports growing tension as Izvestia calls the third and final day of China’s railway ultimatum. White guardist schemes with Nanking fuel fears of a buffer state and possible Soviet mobilization. International conference talks surface with France and Japan linked to redrawing control of the line.
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Pross
Moscow
Izvestia
China
Harbin
Manchuria
Foreign Office
Nanking
France
Japan
Soviet Union
Soviet Threat Envisioned Over Manchuria Rail Dispute
United Press dispatch from Berlin cites Moscow stating if China does not meet Soviet demands within the deadline the Red Army would occupy several points along the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria as security but would avoid a broad military campaign.
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United Press Berlin
German Express Agency
Moscow
China
Red Army
Manchuria
China Seizure of Eastern Railway Condemned in Tokyo
Tokio reports condemn the Manchuria seizure as unjust and impractical threatening the South Manchuria railway controlled by Japan.
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DL Niten Pree- Tokio
China
Manchuria
Tokio
South Manchuria
Dolly Gann Declines Liquor at British Ambassador Dinner
Dolly Curtis Gann sister of Vice President Charles Curtis and official hostess in Washington says she declined liquors at a dinner hosted by Sir Esme Howard. In a letter to the Kentucky W C T U she states the move was to honor her country and brother.
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United Press
Exington
Dolly Curtis Gann
Charles Curtis
Washington
Esme Howard
Courage Gem By Listed Press
Miss Lois Parchman owner of a north side frock den faced torture by bandits who burned her with cigaret stubs and twisted her arms before she pressed a burglar alarm. The robbers fled with 20 dresses as police sought their identities.
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Chicago
Lois Parchman
North Side
Match Play Opens in Indiana Women’s Golf Championship
In Meridian Hills early today the championship flight of the Indiana women’s golf tournament began. Free women led two matches. one up on her opponents and two others were two up at the sixth tee. Notable pairings included Mrs. Ben Stevenson versus Mrs. Robert Tinsley, Miss Elizabeth Abbott against Mrs. William H. Barrere Jr., Riverside’s club title holder facing Mrs. Scott Snyder, and Ft. Wayne’s ex-champion tied with Mrs. Marjorie Fischer Kahn.
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Meridian Hills
Ben Stevenson
Indianapolis
Robert Tinsley
Crawfordsville
Elizabeth Abbott
William H. Barrere Jr
Elizabeth Dunn
Riverside
Scott Snyder
Ft. Wayne
Marjorie Fischer Kahn
Broadmoor
Arthur Krick
Alfred E. Bulson
A. A. McClamroch
Eleven Die in Honduras Schoolgirl Crash Near San Buenaventura
Eleven high school girls from socially prominent families were killed when their car crashed on the way home from a picnic at San Buenaventura in Tegucigalpa. Twenty two other girls were badly injured and taken to hospitals.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
San Buenaventura
New Orleans Rides to Work After Streetcar Shuts
New Orleans streetcars resumed service today after a two week stoppage. About 2000 strikers lined streets while United States deputy marshals enforced a federal injunction issued by Judge Wayne G. Borah. Union guards followed orders to avoid disorder. Officials warned that renewed riots could trigger martial law.
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United States
Wayne G. Borah
Huey P. Long
Bonds Authorized for County Projects and Home Expansion
The county council authorized four bond issues including 160000 for erecting an addition to the Board of Childrens Guardians home in Irvington. The bonds fund road improvements on Thirty-eighth Street, Keystone Avenue, and Holt Road, and finance an isolation ward boiler room dormitory at the home.
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Board of Children’s Guardians
Irvington
County Council
Marion County
Thirty-eighth Street
Eastern Avenue
Keystone Avenue
Allisonville Road
Sixty Fifth Street
Holt Road
Morris Street
National Road
New German Ship Sets Sail for New York Maiden Voyage
Breman Germany launches its 920 foot four turbine liner Bremen on a maiden Trans Atlantic crossing to New York. The ship aims to challenge Cunard’s Mauretania speed record of five days one hour forty five minutes, with 46 000 tons displacement and about 120 000 horsepower.
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United Press
Cunard
Lawyer charged in plot to kill insured merchant
In Murphysboro a St Louis attorney R Shad Bennett faces a warrant accusing him of hiring a tipster to murder Olen King to obtain King’s life insurance. The case involves a missing merchant, Bennett’s mortgage on King’s meat market, and a police trap that led to the warrant and King’s suspected disappearance.
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Bu United Pro
Bennett
King
Sheriff's Office
West Frankfort
Costly Cure Ends With Patient Payment
Dr. W. G. Gerhard treated a man for a chest ailment after hours in Chicago. The supposed patient demanded money, and the encounter ended with the man paying $125 to the physician.
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United Presse
Chicago
W. G. Gerhard
Nosy Days Lose Case In Dry Agents Ruling
Federal Judge Charles C. Simons freed two men jailed after prohibition agents led to a basement still by odor disturbances from a building on Detroit's east side. James Reid, a federal prohibition agent, located the still following olfactory cues.
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United Press
Detroit
Charles C. Simons
James Reid
Prohibition
Man Leaps to Death at Niagara Falls
An unidentified man in dark clothes and a straw hat leaped into the Niagara river in Niagara Falls New York today. Authorities count this as the thirteenth death by own action at the falls since January 1.
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Falls
United Prep
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Niagara River
the Falls
Polish Plane Crash Survivor Spared After Azores Disaster
Major Casimir Kubala survived a crash on Graciosa Island when he was unconscious in the cockpit of the Polish biplane Marshal Pilsudski. Major Louis Idzikowski died. gasoline was dumped to ease landing, fumes caused the explosion as the plane alighted in a rough field.
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Azores
Casimir Kubala
Marshal Pilsudski
Graciosa
Kubala
Louis Idzikowski
Iskra
Idzikowski
Paris
New York
Tdzikowski
Horta Harbor
Graciosa Island
Santa Cruz
Flood Toll in Trebizond District May Reach 1000
Constantinople reports the death toll from floods in the Trebizond district could reach 1000. Ten more villages were submerged, rescuers struggled to reach victims, and about fifty square miles of crops were destroyed.
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United Press London
Constantinople
London Daily Express
Trebizond
Saltis Returns to Suds Business as Mop Handle
Polack Joe Saltis the beer baron pleads guilty and will serve thirty days for moving a carload of beer from Sayre Pennsylvania to Chicago in 1925. His lawyers say he is taking the fall to spare friends from federal charges and note many could have faced sentences.
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United Press
Geneva
Polack
Joe Saltis
Joe
Sayre
Chicago
Veteran skipper fights to shore as sloop sinks
By United Press from Brigantine New Jersey on July 16 Captain G. P. Crowley aged 70 endured three hours of grim battle to swim four miles to the shore after his thirty five foot sloop began to sink.
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United Preas
New York Fall Fashion Show For Dogs Delights Pets
In New York on July 16 buyers saw dogs accessories during a fall fashion show. Shoes at eight dollars a pair coats with rhinestone monograms bejeweled collars and robes in a galaxy of colors were displayed.
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United Press
New York
Spiffily Dressed Man Leads Cleveland Bank Robbery
A man wearing a leghorn hat and dark suit directed four gunmen in robbing the Bank of Cleveland today of about $20,000. The robbers fled in a Ford.
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Cleveland
United Press
Eews Bank of
Roosevelt Calls for Volstead Act Reforms to Curb Bootlegging
At a governors conference in Eastern Point Connecticut Roosevelt reads a letter from George W. Wickersham urging federal state duty division to enforce prohibition. Wickersham proposes federal control of importation and manufacture with states handling sale and saloons to curb crime.
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Eastern Point
Conn
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
George W. Wickersham
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Governors’ Conference
Wickersham
United States
Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Governors’ Views on Wickersham Proposals
U S officials quote five state leaders on the Wickersham plan. Roosevelt calls it speculative. Trumbull says states enforce laws their own way. Caulfield finds it interesting and constructive from New York. Conley asserts West Virginia already enforces laws. Hammill sees the proposal as forward but warns against modification.
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Wickersham
United Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
John H. Trumbull
Connecticut
Henrys. Caulfield
Missouri
William F. Conley
West Virginia
John Hammill
Iowa
Gentlemen purse-snatcher returns bag after grab
A man in an automobile seized Miss Cecil Hinman s pocketbook at Illinois and Maryland streets and took 15 dollars then tipped his hat and handed the purse back. In a separate incident N B Hamilton of 5348 Carrolton avenue reported a pickpocket took 22 50 from his pocketbook while he watched a swimming race at Green City boathouse.
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Earley
Cecil Hinman
Haugh Street
Illinois
Maryland
Cigaret Tax Upheld in Michigan Ruling
Lansing attorney general Wilber Brucker ruled the 1929 cigaret tax act is not an appropriation and thus not subject to referendum at the 1930 general election. The measure imposes a 2 cent levy on each package of twenty cigarets.
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United Press
Lansing
Mich
Wilber Brucker
Doctor Freedman Fined for Speeding to Dying Patient
Dr I Val Freedman sped to a dying patient on Halsted Street but was stopped by Motorcycle Officer Franklyn Martyn who warned him about speed. A twenty five minute delay occurred and the patient died the next day. Freedman was fined $25 and costs. The article also notes algae cause a peculiar odor in city water on the north side.
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United Press
Chicago
I. Val Freedman
Halsted Street
Franklyn Martyn
Freedman
Water Department
Governor offers job to test Buck's reform and parole
Howard Buck the so called check kiter received a drafting job with the state highway department at the Governor’s request to prove his rehabilitation. Governor Leslie extended Buck’s parole from Pendleton reformatory to August 1 and arranged the position after hospital release. Buck, head bandaged, pledged to repay about 140 dollars in bad checks as he starts work at Vincennes Bridge project.
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Indianapolis
Leslie
State Reformatory
Pendleton
Howard
Rown
William A. Titus
Highway Department
Buck
Titus
Vincennes Bridgepany
Vincennes
Miles
Reformatory
State Highway Department
Fires Shots in Court as Sanity Hearing Follows Affair
In Chicago on July 16 Mrs Ida Dembo Burt opened fire in a courtroom after losing a civil suit, forcing attorneys spectators and Judge John F Haas to seek cover during a sanity hearing. The incident followed an unfavorable ruling by Judge Haas.
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Chicago
Ida Dembo Burt
John F. Haas
Burt
Haas
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