Foreign firing as ships evacuate Yangtze to safety
American warships faced sustained attacks while towing evacuees from Nanking and Yangtze outposts. John D. Ford engaged shore fire near Nanking as Cantonese forces stepped up attacks. Admiral Williams reported looting at Fuchow and rising anti foreign sentiment across Tsinanfu Shantung while Shanghai remained relatively quiet with Marines ashore.
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Washington
Yangtze
China
Williams
Navy Department
Nanking
Kidnapped American Held for Ransom in Mexico
American Edgar Marks Wilkins was kidnapped near Guadalajara on Sunday and is believed held for 40,000 pesos. The Guadalajara consul reports to Washington that Wilkins is considered very dangerous.
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Mexico City
Edgar Marks Wilkins
Guadalajara
Washington
Hundreds of Missionaries Refuse to Leave Jobs
In Shanghai and across China, about 100 American missionaries remain in the Yangtze Valley despite official orders to depart. US and British ships evacuated dozens of missionaries to safer ports while others sought refuge in the Shanghai international settlement as foreign forces bolster protections amid rioting.
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Shanghai
Yangtzen Valley
Yangtze River
United States
Hulbert
Nanking
Kiukiang
Ernest H. Taylor
China Island
American Chamber of Commerce
Hankow
William B. Preston
Chefoo
Shantung
Pillsbury
Argument Limited in Libel Suit of Automobile King
The Detroit libel case between Aaron Sapiro and Henry Ford narrows scope with a federal judge imposing 10 minute limits per side after lengthy technical debates. The judge’s time cap aims to finish production of records and curb courtroom delays as the trial proceeds.
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Automobile King
Detroit
Aaron Sapiro
Henry Ford
Fred Raymond
Sapiro
Ford
Raymond
Stewart Hanley
Ford Counsel
Kidnapping Case Focuses on Nurse in Frazier Family
In Chattanooga Tennessee police continue interviews with nurse Miss Johnnie Peale in the Wake of a child abduction. Frank Baskett remains jailed in Nashville on kidnapping charges as investigators press for a solution from the one year old nursemaid. Miss Paule, linked to the Frazier family, raised alarms when the baby was taken last Thursday. A ransom of 8338 dollars was paid for the child Winwinin Jo who was returned Sunday. Mrs Annie Tomkinson is also under investigation. Police say Miss Peale acted suspiciously since the kidnapping. Baskett denies involvement and authorities have not yet decided his return to the city.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Frank Baskett
Nashville
Johnnie Peale
Paule
Frazier
Winwinin Jo
Prazier
Annie Tominson
Baskett
Miss Peale
W. H. Hackett
Governor awaits court ruling on Carolina blue laws
Governor Richards has suspended enforcement of the blue law ban on Sunday sales of gasoline and motor oils following court injunctions in several cities allowing such sales and a related Sunday golf exemption. He vetoed a bill to liberalize the statute and calls for uniform enforcement statewide while awaiting judicial decision.
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Carolina
Columbia
S. C
Richards
Ford counsel resumes cross examination after noon recess
Attorneys agreed to take up the matter immediately after the noon recess Sapire was recalled to the stand and James A Reed chief of Ford counsel resumed cross examination.
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Torneys
Sapire
James A. Reed
Ford Counsel
Looting of American Mission at Fuchow Reported
A dispatch from Shanghai says the American Catholic Mission at Fuchow was looted and its priests fled to Kowchow. The report adds Chinese forces attacked ships along the Yangtze and that 47 Americans and Britons left Nanking, with stones thrown at evacuees. No details of the looting are given and officials question the report’s precision.
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Washington
Fuchow
Shanghai
Williams
Navy Department
Kowchow
An Fuchow
Kwanstung
Canton
Yangtze River
Nanking
Taylor
Mine blast entombs five hundred men in Pennsylvania
More than 500 miners are reported entombed at Ehren feld mine in Cambria county. Officials fear 350 to 400 may perish as rescue attempts fail and a two story office building is blown down by the blast. A U S bureau of mines car is en route to aid efforts.
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Pittsburgh
Ehrenfeld
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Corporation
United States Bureau of Mines
Derry
Cambria County
George McCsa
Federal Bureau
Ehreneld
Borah Sees Coolidge and Smith as Opposing Presidential Tickets
Idaho Senator Borah predicts the 18th amendment will be endorsed by both major parties next year with President Coolidge and Governor Smith of New York as standard bearers. He told Utica Republicans that if Smith is nominated he will back the 18th amendment and its enforcement, while noting Coolidge would oppose. Earlier at Syracuse University he also forecastCoolidge and Smith as opposing candidates.
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Firm Conviction
Utiga
Coolidge
Smith
New York
William B. Borah
Idaho
Republican Party
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Utica
Republican Club
Manhattan Island
United States
Syracuse University
Borah
Baptist Minister Cited in Bigamy Case in Florida
W H Tuck a 63 year old Baptist minister and former jockey and press agent faces criminal court in Bartow Florida on a bigamy charge. He admits two wives but says he thought he was divorced and says a third wife burned Atlanta wires to notify another wife. The county solicitor investigates after rumors of six marriages. A wife died and two divorc es are on record.
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Bartow
Fla
W. H. Tuck
Tuck
Lakeland
Atlanta
Arkansas Land Is Covered by Water
Mississippi River levee breach at Laconia Circle floods about 12,350 acres of fertile Arkansas land, with 2,000 displaced tenant farmers. A 51 foot river stage inundates the area, which covers 14 square miles. Major D. H. Connelly departs Memphis to oversee reclamation and assess damage.
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Memphis
Arkansas
Mississppi
Laconia Circle
D. H. Connelly
Major Connelly
State House Fails To Get Test Vote On Intangible Tax
Chicago report details a chaotic night as four men were shot to death within an hour. Joseph Clemente, 29, shooting at his former employer and relatives, killed four people including Palumbo and Prete. Police shot Clemente, who died in a shed after being cornered. Eleven children lost their fathers as the gunman killed his former employer and two associates.
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Chicago
Join Palumbo
Jack Prete
Joseph Clemente
Frank Palumbo
John Palumbo
Clemente
Palumbo
Prete
Girl Changes Tale of Parent's Death in Mississipp
Kitty Jones, 15, altered her account of Ira Jones's killing and the shooting of her mother in Winona. She now says Sam Boyd, 35, a married man, did the shooting while the family slept and that she shielded him because she loves him. Boyd, arrested, denies involvement and declined to discuss the affair.
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Sam Boyd
Winona
Miss
Kitty Jones
Ira Jones
Stewart
Sar Boyd
Kitty
Boyd
T. M. Thompson
Joneses
Jones
Mrs Rhinelander May Begin Separation Suit
New York March 30. Separation and permanent alimony suits are under consideration in the case of Alice Jones Rhinelander, the so called negro bride of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, after a jury rejected his bid for annulment. Papers in the separation action charging cruelty and abandonment were to be served within days, the attorney stated.
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Rhinelander
New York
Alice Jones Rhinelander
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
Court of Appeals
Weather Update for Tennessee and Virginia
Local showers expected tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures. In Tennessee, showers and warmth persist into tonight. in Virginia, cloudy skies with possible showers in the west Thursday and warmer tonight. Readings from the U S weather station show yesterday's high 59 and low 33 with negligible rainfall to 6 p m yesterday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
West Portion
U. S
CG. L. Bunn
York Bill Drives Out York Institute Directors in Tennessee
In Nashville today the Tennessee House failed to vote on the administration’s constitutional amendment taxing intangibles while the Senate unanimously passed the York Bill to remove the Alvin York Agricultural Institute board in Fentress County and place the institution under the state board of education. The measure also seeks a special order for debate on the amendment tomorrow. A corrupt practices bill to curb campaign spending surfaced in routine sessions, proposing caps on gubernatorial and congressional campaigns, treasurers’ reporting, and penalties for violations. Also, a Bratton proposal would legalize Sunday gasoline sales between 6 and 10 am for emergencies and certain groups.
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Ashville
Tenn
House of Representatives
Tennessee General Assembly
York
Alvin Or York Agricultural ‘Institute
Fentress County
Board of Education
Pel. Johnson
Madison
Haynes
Representiative
Walter .M. Haynes
Franklin
Johnson
John W. Butlex
Macon
Tennessee
C. G. Fox
Jackson
W. G. Bogle
Davidson
Congress
Sam R. , Bratton
Obion
Plays the Market to Rough Criminal Course
In Los Angeles, Schuyler D. Orrell twenty six, cashier at E F Horton and Company, hid shortages totaling about two hundred forty four thousand dollars. Orrell, married, was arrested after officers uncovered the embezzlement scheme and he confessed to heavy losses from stock market speculation over eighteen months. He is held on fifty thousand dollars bail. An India office telegram from London reports Captain West, leader of a slave freeing expedition in Burma, killed with two party members and three others wounded by natives.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Schuyler D. Orrell
E. F. Horton and Company
Orrell
Forrest
India Office
London
West
Burma
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Yangtze Valley
Wuhu
Yangtue River
John D. Ford
Anhwei
A. G. Swandy
Tsinantu
Shantung Province
Admiral Williams
Kwantung Province
State Department
Montay
Smedley D. Butler
Yangtze Points
Anking
John EB. Williams
Nanking University
Marietta, G., College
Auburn
William M. Gallagher
Gleason
Tena
Bank of Gleason
New South African
Capetown
al Smith
York Institute
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