Maurice Doubtful if Land Armament Is to Be Limited
Major General Sir Frederick Maurice told the Institute of Politics at Williams College that any new armament conference will face difficulties not seen at Washington. He cited mutual suspicion of bad faith, differing national aims, and the partly unreliable status of poison gas bans, submarines, and air weapons in a shifting postwar context.
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Williamstown
Mass
Washington
Frederick Maurice
Institute of Politics Today
Frederick
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Rome
League of Nations
Germany
Cat causes accident injuring three in Louisville street
In Louisville on August 6 a black cat wandered across a street leading Frank Diebold to swerve to avoid a huckster's cart. He struck a telephone pole, injuring two women and a man. They were taken to the hospital. the women suffered serious cuts.
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Louisville
Frank Diebold
Baby in Mother's Lap Proved to Be Five Gallons Liquor
Shelby August 6. A Cherryville Eagle dispatch says Matthew Heavner and his wife were stopped in Burke County by officers during a drive. A five gallon mountain dew container was found in the infant’s lap. The couple eluded arrest after a struggle while officers recovered the liquor elsewhere in the Heavner home.
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Shelby
N. C
Cherryvile
Matthew Heavner
Cherryville
Burke County
Matthew
Heavner
Few Girls Go Unbobbed
Hollywood report shows the typical school girl in films now wears long hair while few maintain bobbed styles. The search for a plump role found about 95 of girls ages 16 to 20 had been drawn to bobbing trends by fashion and social pressure.
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Hollywood
Calif
Prominent Summer Resorter Is Dead in South Haven
Miss Ethel Shapiro a 20 year old Chicago summer resorter was shot and fatally wounded in South Haven Michigan last night. Officers seek Samuel Brown an acquaintance said to have fired the pistol accidentally. Shapiro was with a party returning to a cottage when Brown warned to be careful and a shot rang out. She died today in a hospital. Brown fled.
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Associated Press
South Haven
Mich
Ethel Shapiro
Chicago
Samuel Brown
Miss Shapiro
Brown
Woman Attempts Suicide With Poison In Cleveland
Mrs. Ada Summers aged 23 is recovering after taking poison in a dispute with a man she had been seeing since arriving from Henderson. Police say she had separated from her husband and was living in a hotel with another woman, and the act followed a quarrel with her sweetheart.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Ada Summers
Veterans 20 Years Organize in VFW Post
In San Francisco on August 6 Corporal H W Roberts post Veterans of Foreign Wars outlines a unique membership rule. No veteran is eligible unless he has served at least 20 years in the army navy or marine corps and spent part of that time in foreign territory to meet the VFW requirement.
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San Francisco
H. W. Roberts Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Traffic men misidentified by New York resident after 38 years
George Karhoe of North Bellmore Long Island had lived in America 38 years and believed traffic officers were advertising men until Jamaica Court. He was fined $3 for telling Patrolman Frank Kenny to "beat it before I call a cop and have you arrested for bothering me." The magistrate asked what he thought the officer was and Karhoe replied an advertising man.
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New York
George Karhoe
Newbridge Avenue
North Bellmore
L. I
America
Kochendorfer
Jamaica Court
Frank Kenny
Rockaway Beach
Karhoe
Hamilton Slayers Will Be Tried in Union Co Oct 19
Knoxville dated report says James Evans and George Wilfong charged with the murder of W. R. Hamilton will be tried at Maynardville circuit court Union county. Trial before Judge Drinnen in Maynardville set for October 19 at the next Union county circuit court session unless a special term is called. If a special session is ordered, a hearing could occur as early as the second week in September, but not before 30 days’ notice.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
James Evans
George Wilfong
W. R. Hamilton
Maynardville
Union County
T. A. R. Nelson
Drinnen
Johnson City Man Killed in Rail Accident Near Rutherfordton
E K King of Johnson City Tenn died when a flat car on the C C and O railroad near Tate and Logan stations between Rutherfordton and Shelbyville North Carolina collided with a pipe on the track. Two Gate City men, Herbert Starnes and R O Pendleton, were injured and taken to Rutherford hospital. King was 65 and employed by Clinchfield.
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Associated Press
Shelbyville
N. C
E. K. King
Johnson City
Tenn
Tate
Logan
C. C. and O
Rutherfordton
King
Clinchfield
Herbert Starnes
R. O. Pendleton
Gate City
Rutherford Hospital
Italy to Buy Six Million Tons of Coal from Russia
Moscow reports a contract for six million tons of Russian coal and anthracite to Italy over three years, via the State Coal Trust of the Donetz basin and Italian firm Tchiche. Two million tons to be exported by November 1 this year as Donetz rebuilds after revolution.
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Moscow
Italy
State Coal Trust
Donetz
Tchiche
Russia
Miners threaten strike if accord not reached by Aug 31
Atlantic City Aug 5 158 000 anthracite miners could be called out if no agreement with operators by midnight Aug 31 authority given to sub committee that failed to negotiate. Scale committee empowered to hire maintenance men to prevent mine flooding or caving in. John L Lewis head of sub committee saw negotiations broken off and received unanimous endorsement with thanks and confidence. Miners plan no peace overtures but would meet if operators reopen. President Lewis sets temporary national HQ in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City
N. J
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Investigation of Adoption of Baby Ordered by Coler
New York Aug 6 district attorney investigation into the adoption of Mary Apas by Edward Browning was ordered by Commissioner of Public Welfare Coler. Coler cited charges that Browning gave money to Mary's parents for signing adoption papers and said a divorced man adopting in New York City is against precedent. He urged a statute to prevent a parent selling a child.
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New York
Mary Apas
Edward Browning
South
Commissioner of Public Welfare Color
Browning
Mary
New York City
Coler
Hero of Indian Uprising Honored in Canadian Pageant
Calgary dispatch reports Daniel Davis, 70, a Royal Northwest Mounted Police constable from 1876, escorted 1100 hostile Indians from Fort Walsh to Eagle Hills Saskatchewan over 180 miles. He joined the force in Ottawa and led the captured party during the Uprising era, with several elderly Indians dying en route, yet the trek was completed.
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Calgary
Alta
Daniel Davis
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Fort Walsh
United States
Eagle Hills
Saskatchewan
Davis
Ottawa
Canada
Fields Appoints New Member Trustee Board
Governor Fields in Frankfort on August 6 named R. J. Denney to the board of trustees for the Kentucky school for the deaf at Danville, succeeding the late James Baughman. The appointment formalizes the leadership change in state education.
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Fields
Frankfort
R. J. Denney
Kentucky School For Deaf
Danville
James Baughman
Sanity Hearing Nears End in Russell Scott Case
Chicago report details the final state efforts to prove Russell Scott sane. prosecution alienists testified he was sane after brief jail examinations. The defense contends Scott is insane as the sanity hearing nears verdict and possible execution date decisions.
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Chicago
Russell Scott
William Krohn
Scott
W. O. Krohn
Joseph B. David
Robert E. Crowe
Krohn
William Scott Sewart
Alt
Negotiations Open on Belgium War Debt to United States
Washington dated Aug 6 negotiations to refund Belgiums 500 million war debt to the United States begin today. The American debt commission will meet a special Belgium commission that arrived in New York last night to start discussions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Belgium
United States
American Debt Commission
Belgium Commission
New York
Markets Louisville August 6 cattle hogs sheep lambs
Cattle two hundred steady unchanged. Hogs fourteen quarter lower eight to fourteen quarter. Sheep fifteen hundred quarter higher six down. Lambs fourteen to fourteen fifty. ews wethers fourteen fifty to fifteen.
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Louisville
Wethers
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