Three Distinct Phases Form as China Troubles Grow
Washington reports outline three phases of the China crisis after mass government reports and expert canvases. Canton has fallen to Cantonese soldiers linked to Sun Yat Sen followers, while riots spread in a dozen cities amid domestic politics. Foreign casualties raise tensions as Shanghai reels from rioting and the MacKenzie attack.
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Washington
China
Canton
Sun Yat Sen
Peking
W. W. MacKensie
Mary Duncan
Prom
Shanghai
State Department
Ehame
Shanghai Pointel
Bristol Bulletin Merges With Bristol News
The Bristol Bulletin ceases publication after noon and merges with the Bristol News. The first merged edition appears this afternoon on the News Bulletin. The Bulletin began near year start, published by Guy L. Smith Carroll E King and associates. The Bristol News started shortly before the Bulletin. The consolidated paper will be issued from the Bristol Publishing Corporation home, long publisher of the Bristol Herald Courier.
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Bristol Bulletin
Bristol News
News- Bulletin
Guy L. Smith
Carroll E King
Bristol Publishing Corporation
Bristol Herald Courier
British subject and Miss Duncan survive seaside ambush
British subject MacKenzie is killed after seven Chinese dressed as coolies ambush a car on Great Western Road extension. Miss Marty Duncan, wounded, recounts how MacKenzie ordered the assailants to cave and steered the car as gunfire erupts, with Duncan aiding the vehicle before it crashes into a ditch. Police and residents report the incident as a fatal shooting with a surviving witness.
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Great Western Road
Marty Duncan
Miss Duncan
MacKenzie
Chinene
NTU
Duncan
Kellogg Pressures Mexico as Calles Responds Sharply
Washington notes Kellogg's blunt warning on American interests in Mexico met with a sharp reply from President Calles. Officials plan further dispatches to Mexico City while Ambassador Sheffield attends a degree ceremony and returns to continue discussions on expropriated lands and rights.
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Washington
Calles
Mexico
Kelloge
Kellogg
Coolidge
Mexico City
Sheffield
Foreign Office
New Haven
Galles
Japanese Nonagenarians
Tokyo reports the imperial gifts for citizens over 90 linked to the royal silver wedding. Authorities found 10 500 eligible in Japan, with 60 percent women. Two women, each 111 years old, hold the longevity record.
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Tokyo
Japan
Youth Sentenced to Penitentiary for Highway Robbery
Hopkinsville June 16 Pleading guilty Hilary Wedding 17 was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for highway robbery on May 18. He and companion Ulysses Goodwin both of Owensboro robbed a paddler, disarmed deputy sheriffs, and escaped in an automobile. Wedding captured in Greenville after 500 posse members searched five counties. Goodwin escaped.
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Presa
Hopkinsville
Hilary Wedding
Ulysses Goodwin
Owensboro
Wedding
Greenuville
Goodwin
Portugal Under Martial Rule Represses Press
Lisbon reports a collapsed coup attempt led to martial law. Government suspends newspapers that fail to praise the regime, dissolves several regiments, imprisons officers, and tightens censorship. Foreign correspondents face harassment and jail risks as censorship limits reporting.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Seculo
Epoca
Possible Louisville councilmen and aldermen board to be named
The Associated Press reports in Frankfort that Governor Fields may appoint a new Louisville board of councilmen and aldermen within the week instead of next fall. A court mandate allows proceeding without rehearing petitions. The 1928 election was ruled fraudulent, ousting 40 Republicans.
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Associated Press
Frankfort
Louisville
Fields
Lord Mayor of London Recognizes Jazz
The Lord Mayor of London officially endorses jazz in parks with Sunday concerts. Finsbury Park hosted a test event last week and drew large crowds, with many listening from outside gates as distant saxophone and Dixieland voices carried through the evening air.
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London
Pros
Finsbury Park
Gates
iHegan
Saxaphone
Saxaphone Silos
Immigrant Train Wreck in New Jersey Kills 25
A Hackettstown NJ wreck leaves 25 dead and 52 injured as a train filled with travelers from the corn belt is struck by lightning and derailed. Rescuers arrive at daylight and salvage trains take the injured to hospitals. Steam rises from wreckage hours after impact.
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Hackettstown
N. J
Kayes
Here
Corn Belt
Locomotives in Britain Get Names Like Race Horses
The London and North Eastern Railway revives old coach custom by naming locomotives after famous racehorses such as Flying Fox and Ormonde and by naming others after notable men. Southern Railway also adopts the idea with engines like Eis Majesty and The Prince of Wales. Soon all passenger engines will bear names while only some freight yard switchers keep numbers.
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Ansnciated
London
London and Northeastern Railway
Flying Fox
Ormonde
Hermit
Tadas
Donovan
Moncaster
Southern Railway
Eis Majesty
Wales
Hungarian Sports Stamp Set Delights London Collectors
The first new Hungarian sports stamps arrived in Budapest and London circles react with high prices. The eight denominations depict fencing, skating, hurdling, athletics, scouting, football and a standout stamp features diving, rowing and swimming. Proceeds support a sports fund.
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Associated Press
London
Hungary
Budapest
Stirling
Witness Testimony Reveals Estate Split and Shepherd Motives
Miss Isabelle Pope testified in the Shepherd murder trial that Billy McClintock’s million dollar estate would be divided fifty fifty with Iowa relatives if the will were broken. She described Shepherd’s altered attitude after her engagement to Billy and his seeming pleasure at gaining a daughter rather than losing a son. The cross examination highlighted typhoid germ notes and the timing of the engagement as potential motives in the case.
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Chicago
Izabel Pope
Billy _McClintock
Iowa
Sit
Shepherd
Todge
Isabelle Pope
Billy” McClintock
William Darling Shepherd
Billy
McClintock
Misa Pope
McChiitock
Shepherds
Miss Pope
Wisconsin
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