Cantonese forces surge toward Shanghai as Lake Taihu battle grows
At Buanghat March 5 Cantonese troops estimated at 50 000 advance in three columns toward Soochow and Wu Kong near the Shanghai–Nanking line. Li Pao Chang repudiates Sun Chuan Fang successor and gathers 16 000 troops. US marines parade in the foreign settlement as labor unions plan a general strike amid southern advances.
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Taited P Buanghat
South China
Lake Taihu
Shanghai
Wu Kong
Chow
Shanghai-Nanking
North China Army
Nanking
Li Pao Chang
Sun Chuan Fang
Sun
Chang Chung Chang
Standard Oil Company
Hankow
Yangtze River
United States
London Daily News
Home Contest Prizes Offered by Tay lor Carpet Co
Taylor Carpet Company announces an essay contest for high school students with a first prize of 100 in gold. Entries on the slogan Your Home Should Come First are due by March 16. The contest aims to stimulate interest in better homes and future possibilities.
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Taylor Carpet Company
S. Meridian St
A. Taylor
National Retail Furniture Association
Taylor
Slacker Bill Killed In Indiana Legislature
Indiana House killed the Cravens O Rourke bill on a second reading, using indefinite postponement. The measure aimed to bar draft evaders with over six months in prison from office, and to repeal a 1921 law barring former Mayors Roberts Terre Haute Johnson Gary and Bunch Muncie for federal conspiracy terms.
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Indiana Clause of Representatives
Cravens-O'Rourke
Roberts
Terre Haute
Johnson
Gary
Bunch
Muncie
Indiana student elected Commerce Club president
United Press reports Gilbert Shedd of Rolling Prairie, IU senior, has been elected president of the Commerce Club. Other officers include Franklin Perry vice president Emerson Biggs secretary Paul Emert treasurer and directors Glen Suttons Robert Barbour Peter Blue Walter Krick and Watson Benson among others.
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United Press Bloomington
Ind
Gilbert Shedd
Rolling Prairie
Indiana University
Commerce Club
School of Commerce
Franklin Perry
Lowell
Emerson Biggs
Williamsport
Paul Emert
Indianapolis
Glen Suttons
Robert Barbour
Seymour
Peter Blue
Claypool
Walter Krick
Milan
Watson Benson
Bridgeton
Coincidence Guides First Vote On Senate Resolution
Speaker Harry Leslie cast his first vote Thursday to support a Senate resolution in a constitutional majority in the House. The next day he voted again on the following resolution and the second vote killed the measure.
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Harry Leslie
Senate
House
Lifer to 48 years shielded by Connecticut prison
Wethersfield Conn March 5 Forty eight years ago the 26th of this month the iron doors of Connecticut State Prison closed on Frank Bassett a young man of 24 convicted of second degree murder and they have yet to open to allow him to depart. He is harmlessly insane the sole survivor of his prison era and the oldest lifer in the state. Attempts at parole have failed though the pardon board has acted with restraint for his sake. His crime remains shrouded by scant documentation and he conspired to murder a husband with a married woman.
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United Press
Wethersfield, Conn
Connecticut
Frank Bassett
Bassett
Fairfield County
Yale Medical School
Middletown
Beer Seeker Trio Robbed by Three Men in Maywood
Virgil Edwards of 905 Chadwick Street Herbert King of 226 West Wyoming Street and a third man say they were seeking beer in Maywood when three strangers in a car offered a ride to a place for beer. At the end of West Washington Street one man pulled a gun and robbed them of 19 dollars. Carl Roberts of Shelbyville Indiana reports a separate holdup at West Street and the Canal by three men including a very young one who took 17 dollars 75 cents and Roberts overcoat and a flashlight.
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Virgil Edwards
Chadwick St
Herbert King
Wyoming St
Maywood
W. Washington, St
Carl Roberts
Shelbyville
Ind
West St
Canal
Roberts
Utility sale approved by Indiana PSC
Indiana Public Service Commission approved the purchase of Allen County Electric Light and Power Co by Indiana and Michigan Electric Co of South Bend for 60057.95. Approval also given to South Bend company’s purchase of Indiana Power and Light Co serving Butler St Joe and Spencerville in DeKalb Co for 102544.15. Recent modification of freight rates on iron and steel placing Indiana on parity with Illinois was approved.
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Indiana Public Service Commission
Allen County Electric Light and Power Company
Indiana and Michigan Electric Company
South Bend
South Bend Company
Indiana Power and Light Company
Butler
St. Joe
Spenserville
DeKalb County
Iron and Steel
Indiana
Illinois
Indiana bills pass in Goth Congress with bridges and home improvements
Washington dispatch reports three Indiana laws cleared the Senate amid a filibuster. The measures authorize $700000 for Marion Military Home improvements aided by Senator Watson, plus two Ohio River bridge bills at Evansville—one state, one private toll. Other actions failed include Clark memorial funds, a foreign trade office, and federal building appropriations.
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Times
Washington Bureau
New York Avenue
Washington
Indiana
Senate
Marion Military Home
Watson
Representative Hall of
Marion
House
Ohio River
Evansville
Coolidge
George Rogers Clark
Vincennes
Commerce Department
Indianapolis
Mammond
Ft. Wayne
East Chicago
Rushville
Robert H. Bryson
Updike
Bryson
Medical Bill Concurrence Fights In Indiana House
House debates Bill 39 the medical in junction act after Senate passage by 35 to 15. Heated floor exchanges involve Rep Harrison Rep Sims and Dr Hewitt over Vigo and Sullivan counties. Chiropractors oppose. measure would place a chiropractor on the medical examination board and halt noncompliant practitioners by injunction. Standards cover core science but exclude obstetrics surgery medicine as in the regular schools.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Russell B. Harrison
Indianapolis
George W. Sims
Terre Haute
John H. Hewitt
Vigo
Sullivan
Marines Killed Rumors Roil Nicaragua Reactors Coast
Reports from Panama liner passengers in Los Angeles claimed four US Marines were killed in the Nicaraguan revolution amid fighting between liberal and conservative forces. Evacuations and rumors spread through shipping circles as a British cruiser offered refuge and authorities prepared to move British subjects if needed.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Venezuela
Corinto
Kingston
Jamaica
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Colombo
Three More New Food Products Arrive at City Market
The city market adds turnips 10 cents a bunch, red cabbage 15 cents a pound, and home grown white radishes 15 cents a bunch or two for 25 cents, bringing this week's new items to ten. Other newcomers include sassafras 5 cents a bunch, pinapples 60 cents each, early German endive 20 to 25 cents a head, Argentine honeydew melons 1.25, Argentine peaches 15 cents each or two for 25 cents, asparagus 25 cents a bunch, and fresh mint 10 cents a bunch. Strawberries sell 55 cents a quart after earlier 55-60 cent rates. eggs stay 27 cents a dozen. other prices unchanged.
Bill on equal party representation blocked in Indiana Senate
A 50 50 bill for equal representation of men and women in party organization failed to reach the Indiana Senate floor. Senator William T Quillen of Indianapolis attempted to force it from committee but was defeated by one vote. The House approved the measure almost unanimously, signaling possible Senate resistance.
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Indiana Senate
William T. Quillen
Indianapolis
House
Quillen
Whisky Siphoning Case: Four Held in Chicago Banked Theft
Four men arrested in Chicago face allegations of siphoning more than 250000 dollars in pre war whisky from a government bonded warehouse over the past two days. Police found the group at work near the Chicago loop boundary. six others fled. The detainees include William Klondike O'Donnell and James Fur Sammons, famed bootleggers, with more men sought in connection to the robbery and related crimes.
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Chicago
United Press
Chicago Loop District
William
Klondike) O'Donnell
MecSwiggin
Cicero
James
Fur) Sammons
Baltimore
Sonnehorn
John Barry
John Davis
Harlan Utility Bill To Governor Seeks Rates Discount Power
The Harlan utility bill, passed 87 to 2 in the House, authorizes the public service commission to discount excessive operating costs in fixing rates and awaits Governor Jackson's signature. It aligns with the Nejds bill to allow appeals to county courts, while the Bender-Mendenhall measure to abolish the utility commission was killed. Two Senate joint resolutions on utilities await third reading.
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Harlan
Public Service Commission
Jackson
House
Senate
Bender-Mendenhall
Harrison
Congress
Indiana
Built jail in Liberty makes its builder first inmate
Liberty Mo March 5 William Dunn concrete boss and steel worker who built the county’s new 50000 jail became the first prisoner in it. He supervised the concrete and steel work and planned to celebrate with the town but started with liquor, fought, and landed behind the bars he had placed.
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United Press Liberty
William Dunn
Dunn
Brandywine May Become National and State Shrine
Harrisburg March 5. A Pennsylvania bill seeks to make the colonial Washington headquarters at Brandywine a state property and national shrine. The plan, spearheaded by Senator A. D. McDade with American Legion backing, would convert the farmhouse and battlefield into a state park and honor a 150th anniversary battle celebration with speakers from Coolidge to state governors and generals from original thirteen states. The Brandywine site lies near Valley Forge and has a storied role in the Revolutionary War.
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United Press
Harrisburg
George Washington
Battle of
Brandywine
Pennsylvania
A. D. McDade
American Legion
McDade
Legion
Delaware
Chester
Montgomery
President Coolidge
Fisher
Washington
Ring
Brandywine Battlefield
Valley Forge
Rockefeller still attends to business from Ormond Beach
At Ormond Beach, Florida, John D. Rockefeller reportedly spends two hours daily at his desk handling vital business matters. He reviews stock purchases and the New York list, with about eight lengthy code telegrams arriving each day detailing Standard Oil affairs.
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Oil King
United Press
Standard Oil Affairs
Swims Across Ocean in Glasgow Welcome Storm
Thirty thousand people crowded Glasgow wharves after a college paper announced Miss Anne Capenny had left New York to swim the Atlantic and was due at noon. A small boat with bagpipers and crew led a parade as a student swimmer named Dapenny claimed the crossing was easy once past the rum fleet off the American coast.
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United Press
Glasgow
Anne Capenny
New York
Atlantic
Bagpiper
Miss Dapenny
Slaying of American Compli cates Dispute Over Land Oil Laws
The State Department seeks official word on the reported Mexican slaying of S J Betanza at a Vera Cruz ranch. The murder, tied to Albert Betanza, may influence U S public opinion on Mexico but not immediately harm relations. Creager notes mistaken citizenship reports. Calles regime faces possible concessions as U S considers embargo actions and diplomacy.
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United Press
Washington
State Department
S. J. Betanza
Vera Cruz
Betanza
Republican National
United Prose
United States
Mexico
Calles
Rio Grande
Reed Inquiry Continues Amid Klan Allegations
In a testimonial exchange Senator Reed denies belonging to the Ku Klux Klan while recalling a Missouri colleague alleging Klan ties. He explains rising press scrutiny and claims he faced accusations from Catholics Jews and Negroes who said he did belong, expressing that the hullabaloo caused him to lose both ways.
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Missouri
Ku Klux Klan
Indiana
Wadsworth
Reed
New
Watson
Ku-Klux Klan
Feared Colorado Probe Ties Reed Inquiry to Elections
The United Press reports that Republicans fear a Reed election probe could scrutinize Colorado races and jeopardize their narrow Senate majority. Alleged that Senator-elect Waterman received 35000 dollars from GOP campaign chair Phipps, a claim Phipps calls fiction. Some senators want investigations halted to protect their upcoming December balance.
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Wight
Reed
United Press
Washington
Colorado
Senate
Waterman
Offeide Assistanece
Phipps
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