Subway Strike Expands as 105 Men Join Front Line
New walks out from the 74th street power house join strikers as patrols remain on duty. Interborough Rapid Transit vows to press a $239,000 damages suit, citing contract breaches by strikers amid ongoing citywide transit walkouts.
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Interborough Rapids Transit Company
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Brooklyn
Corona
Astoria
Queens
Subway
GU Diallevaledecktains
Amos
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Danbury Hatters Cand
James L. Quackenbush
Quackenbush
Atrikera
Tina
Danbury Hatteras
Virginia auto owners organize service stations
Newport News Virginia July 16 Automobile owners plan a mass meeting to organize consumer gasoline service stations after a recent 2.5 cent per gallon price rise. Organizers say a plan could save six and a half cents per gallon and 30 to 50 per ton on oils tires and other accessories.
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Newport News
Andrews Mission in London Sees Early Progress
Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, head of American prohibition enforcement, reports a promising start after his first London talks with British officials. He says the mission should conclude within a week and notes plans to form expert groups to tackle questions and press for an embargo on alcoholic beverages as talks continue.
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Lincoln C. Andrews
Andrews
Foreign Office
Sir Austen
West Indies
United States
Murder in Heart Finding Delays Death Penalty
In Chicago a judge sentenced Robert Scott to life imprisonment for a 1924 clerk murder during a drugstore robbery. The court found he had no murder in his heart, attributing main blame to his brother Russell, who faces execution. The ruling followed Scott's guilty plea and testimony and remarks by Judge Gemmill noting Russell as the actual slayer.
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Chicago
Robert Scott
Russell
Wiliam N. Gemmill
Robert
Joseph Mauer
Doctor and wife on murder count
Warrants charging murder issued for Dr Thomas Walsh and his wife after an illegal operation on Miss Edith L Greene state ward. The dismembered body was found Tuesday. Janos V Ford a 21 year old clerk admitted guilt and named a Southend physician responsible for the operation. He said he took the girl to the doctor and received payment from the physician before she died. Police raided the doctor’s office late last night.
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Boston
Thos. E. Walsh
Edith L. Greene
State Ward
Janos V. Ford
Greene
Southend
Ford
Chinaman Disappears at Fort Eustis Search Underway
Newport News Virginia July 15 Fort Eustis authorities request police aid in locating Chen Thea Sidman who vanished from the post last Saturday with company funds missing Captain Sidmon a 34th Infantry member was well regarded at the post and his friends doubt he fled with the money He left Eustis in a small closed car and may have been involved in an accident or foul play on the road
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Newport News
Fort Eustis
Chen
Thea Sidman
Sidmon
34Th Infantry
Eustis
Soviet Delegate Discharged and On Trial for Bribe
Moscow reports Nicholas Malinin former Soviet delegate to the League of Nations in 1920 was discharged today from the railroad commission and placed on trial on charges he received money from the League of Nations while serving as delegate.
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Moscow
Nicholas Malinin
League of Nations
Streasburg
Railroad Commissioniat
Georgia Bank Department Probes Closures Amid Florida Failures
The Georgia state banking department continues its investigation into 49 banks that closed since Monday. Judge Sibley handles bankruptcy petitions against Bankers Trust Company its parent of 120 state banks with temporary receivership. The department pins most closures on Bankers Trust not local conditions and notes Florida links weakened Georgia banks finance.
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Bankers’ Trust Co
Atlanta
Gada
Georgia State Banking Department
Samuel H. Sibley
Bankers Trust Company
Banking Department
Tafaits Benkers
Timnes
Bank of
Umatilla
Florida
Gun Battle In Broadway Crowds Leaves Multiple Wounded
Seven persons remained hospitalized after a robber and two police officers exchanged gunfire in a theatre district rush at Broadway and 48th street. The wounded include three bystander women. the robber Glen Miller of Buffalo, 35, was shot and may die.
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48Th Street
8Th Avenue
Fifty First Street
Glen Miller
Buffalo
Weather glimpses for Virginia and Tennessee
Virginia enjoys fair conditions tonight and Friday with cooler interior nights and a warmer Friday as northerly winds ease. Tennessee sees fair and slightly warmer weather tonight, with Friday clouding over and possible local thunderstorms in western areas, milder in the east.
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Virginia
Tennessee
Final Chapter in McPherson Case Expected Late Today
Los Angeles July 15 The Los Angeles county grand jury resumes today as District Attorney Asa Keys seeks to finish witness testimony in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case. Key will press for completion if Kenneth Ormiston is not located, with handwriting expert Milton Carlson expected to tie the Oakland telegram to a sender.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Aimee Semple McPherson
Oakland
California
Angelus Temple
Minnie Kennedy
Ocean Park
Carlson
Ormiston
DePherson
Keys
Three Centennial Works Arrested Over Sunday Closings
Philadelphia July 15 three Centennial workers were arrested in a Methodist committee drive to close Sesqui Centennial Exposition on Sundays. Janice Eichholtz and two male concession staff were taken into custody. warrants were issued for twelve more. A hearing on injunction against Sunday openings is set for next Monday.
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Philadelphia
Artest
Janice E. Eichholtz
Methodist Men’s Committee
Lawrence C. Hickman
Finletter
Sileges
Deeds Confer Land To Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Newport News July 15 Deeds transferring about 70 acres from Old Dominion Land Co to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co were filed in the court clerk's office. The $560000 price was paid for property intended for future expansion linking pier A to the Southern shipyard. Deeds recorded by C B Ford who handles OC O transport matters.
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Newport News
Old Dominion Land Company
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Southern Shipyard
C. B. Ford
Duggan Resumes Flight from New York to Buenos Aires
Bernard o Duggan and two companions resume a flight from New York to Buenos Aires. They left Continguiba at 6 30 this morning and passed Bahai just after 8 o clock in the morning.
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Bahai
Brazil
Bernardo Duggan
New York
Buenos Aires
Continguiba
Afver Bahai
Founder of the General Electric Company Dead
Charles A. Coffin, founder and former president of General Electric, died at his Locust Valley Long Island home. He retired in 1922 and was born in Somerset County Maine in December 1844.
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New York
Charles A. Coffin
The
General Electric Company
Locust Valley
Long Island
Somerset County
Main
Georgia State Banks Under Federal Review
Federal Reserve officials met in special session to assess Georgia banks. They concluded no extra reserves were needed for the Atlanta bank. The troubles were tied to real estate loans and a chain banking system outside the reserve network.
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Georgia
Federal Reserve Board
Atlanta
Riot in Calcutta Leaves Dozens Dead and Wounded
A Calcutta riot on July 15 left three Hindus and one Mohammedan dead and 18 Hindus and 46 Mohammedans injured. Knife wounds were common as the conflict arose from a Hindu procession past a Mohammedan mosque. Police opened fire to restore order.
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Calcutta
Poreman's Trial Probes Convict Cruelties and Deaths
In Albemarle North Carolina July 15 the trial of Nevin C Crawford ex convict superintendent continues. Testimony describes abuses by Crawford including whipping and shackling ailing convict Clayton Smith and forced administration of medicines to James Howell and James Terry before their deaths.
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Smith
S. P. Thompson
James Howell
James Terry
Thirteen Bodies Recovered After Twilight Inn Fire
Thirteen bodies recovered by noon at Twilight Inn ruins in Haines Falls New York with two identified as Dr. G Livingston Bishop and Mrs. Cornelius Erkenbecker. A large number of relatives arrived to aid in identification and about a score of injured remain in hospital. Search continues as the inn’s safe is found to aid records reconstruction.
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Twilight Inn
G. Livingston Bishop
Philadelphia
Cornelius P. Erkenbecker
Bishop
Tannersville
N. Y
Safe
Catskill Mountain
Schindler
Hurleysville
Mise Hyatt
New York City
Butter Prices Rise in Chicago Market Report
Chicago producers report higher butter quotes on July 15 with creamery extras at 38 ¼ cents, standard 38 ½ to 38 1/2, firsts 34 ½ to 46, and eyes 27 ¼ to 28 cents as buyers show firmer demand.
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Chicago
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