Kellogg Demands Mexico Protect American Rights
Secretary Kellogg warned Mexico the United States will not tolerate violations of international obligations or harm to American citizens. He said relations are friendly but conditions are unsatisfactory and urged restoration of illegally taken properties and full indemnity. The move follows White House talks with Ambassador Sheffield and reflects growing gravity in U.S.-Mexico relations.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Kellogg
Sheffield
White House
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Joint Claims Commissions
Three Children Killed as Storm Strikes School
A Breckenridge Texas mass meeting near a school was interrupted by a bolt of lightning killing at least three people and injuring many as darkness hampered rescue. About seventy five attendees had gathered for an irrigation project discussion when the bolt struck, triggering chaos and rapid hospitalizing of the wounded. In Minnesota a separate storm left two dead and twenty injured with about $500000 in property damage.
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Breckenridge
Tex
St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Jack Wolfe
Fairmount
Wolfe
Danville
McCould
Springfield
Twenty six boys to tour Europe on YMCA plans
Twenty six boys representing the YMCA boys workers will travel through Austria Czecho Slovakia Hungary France Switzerland Germany Poland and England on planned tours announced here.
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Europe
Hstes Furk
Colo
Austria
Czecho-Miovakia
Hungary
France
Switzerland
Germany
Poland
England
Eastern heat wave claims lives across the states
A punishing heat wave grips the Eastern states with 12 deaths and over 60 prostrations reported in the region. Nationwide totals reach 89 deaths as the heat persists and authorities warn residents to stay indoors and hydrated.
American Missions in China War Area in Grave Peril
New York reports grave concern for Christian missions in China amid anti foreign and anti Christian movements. Episcopal Bishop A A Gilman of Hankow says women and children missionaries ordered to Hankow port as outlying posts withdraw to guarded cities. Four principal schools in lower Yangtse Valley closed. Baptist Foreign Mission officials report Shanghai missions and property safe but uncertain interior prospects.
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New York
China
Celestial Kingdom
China Field
Department of Missions
The
Episcopal Church
A. A. Gilman
Hankow
Episcopal Mission
Hupeh
Hunan
Yangtse
Gilman
Episcopal Mission Board
Yangtse Valley
Shanghai
American Baptist Foreign Mission Secretary
Credit Men Endorse Coolidge Economy Policy At Meeting
Washington report says the National Association of Credit Men endorsed Coolidge's economy policy and urged Congress to pass the American Bar Association bill to simplify courts. A resolution warned of rising fire losses from incendiarism and pledged cooperation on the fire problem. The group praised business prospects from a seventeen-trade-group survey and announced a new $1,000,000 fund to combat credit crime nationwide.
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Washington
National Association of Credit Men
Coolidge
Congress
American Bar Association
United States
Right of Labor Unions to Punish Members Upheld
St. Louis court ruling backs unions power to discipline members without court interference. Circuit Judge Miller dismissed F. D. Hall's injunction against the International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers. Hall faced a five year suspension starting February 6, 1923 and a $131 fine.
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St. Louis
Miller
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental
F. D. Hall
Association
New Postal Ruling on Parcels in Washington
The Postoffice Department says starting August 1 mailers of parcels must guarantee return postage if undelivered or relinquish all claim to the parcel. Currently about 800,000 undeliverable parcels are stored for six months while efforts may be made to persuade customers to accept deliveries.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Quake Recorded at Gonzales Heights Observatory
A severe earthquake was registered at Gonzales Heights Observatory in Victoria British Columbia. The first wave lasted over three hours and the disturbance was about 6900 miles distant.
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Victoria
B. C
Gonzales Heights Observatory
Police jury bans physicians from prescribing intoxicating liquor
In Rapides Parish Alexandria Louisiana the Rapides police jury approved an ordinance prohibiting physicians from prescribing intoxicating liquors for medical use. The measure aims to curb abuse by doctors and drug stores in the parish.
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Alexandria
Rapides Police
Rescue and Fire Claim Many as Crystal Steamer Burns
Atlantic City New Jersey Sixteen passengers were rescued from the water after the cabin cruiser Crystal burned to the water’s edge five miles off the coast. A patrol boat searched for more missing as the crew and passengers fled the flames and lifeboats on the burning vessel.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Edward Conover
Harry Lehmann
William Young
Capt. Young
Growing Chinese push to end foreign concessions and broad boycott
A Shanghai relay reports rising Chinese pressure to abolish foreign privileges. A 20 000 strong meeting calls for funds for strikers with Feng Yu Hsiang donating 750 pounds. Refugee ships from Canton arrive after reported gunfire and rioting at a British armory.
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London
Shanghai
Daily Mail
Feng Yu Hsiang
Daily Express
Honkkong
Canton
Hankow
Pole Top Duel Ends As Bear Gives Way
Stanley Darlington, a telephone wire chief, spent an hour atop a pole in Riding Mountain Forest Reserve near Dauphin Manitoba after a bear found a ground perch. The bear rumbled off as Darlington remained steadfast and eventually the bear departed.
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Dauphin
Manitoba
Stanley Darlington
Riding Mountain
Darlington
Dirigible Shenandoah to Northward Trip for Governors Meet
The airship Shenandoah will fly from Washington toward Portland Maine on July 4 for the Governors convention and will travel as far north as Bar Harbor to moor at the tender Patoka, per Navy Department notice.
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Dirigible
Washington, D. C
Portland
Bar Harbor
Patoka
Navy Department
Commons approves silk duty clause in finance bill
In London the House of Commons backed the finance bill provision creating customs duties on silk and artificial silk by a vote of 260 to 136.
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Commons
London
House of Commons
Ambassador Sheffield Sees Coolidge On Mexico Crisis
Ambassador Sheffield who just returned from Mexico City conferred with President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg at the White House on conditions in Mexico. He is staying as a guest at the White House.
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Sheffield
Coolidge
Washington
Mexico City
Kellogg
Mexico
White House
Timid Animals Die In Zoo At Woodlard Park
In Seattle Washington the Woodlard Park Zoo faces animal deaths and suicides blamed on artificial surroundings loud noise and gasoline fumes from motor traffic.
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Seattle
Wash
Woodlard Park Zoo
Mexico Rebuffs Kellogg Charge of World Trial Threat
President Calles denounces Kellogg’s remark as a threat to Mexican sovereignty and rejects the idea that Mexico is on trial before the world. He says Mexico won’t allow foreign intervention in its internal affairs and cites its foreign policy obligations and claims commissions. Officials in Washington express surprise at the strong language used.
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Washington
Calles
Mexico
Kellogg
United States
Amercan
Kelley
Tax burdens by nations in 1924 war era study
A National Industrial Conference Board report compares 1924 tax shares. Britain paid 28 percent of national income, France 20.9 percent, Italy 19.2 percent, Belgium 17 percent, and the United States 11.5 percent, reflecting postwar debt.
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New York
Great Britain
Italy
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
England
France
Attempted Assassination of Soviet Official in Veliky Ustyug
An attack aimed at M. Vassendin the president of the North Dvina provincial executive committee and a central executive committee member occurred in Veliky Ustyug. He sustained a deep shoulder wound and is reported as alive.
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Moscow
M. Vassendin
North Dvina
Central Executive Committee
Soviet Union
Veliky Ustyug
Romania Indicates Plan to Settle War Debts with U S
Bucharest signals it will follow France in addressing its war debt to the United States. Apparent articles in pro government papers suggest Romania will settle the obligation after France does.
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Rumania
Bucharest
France
United States
Dry agent repeal bill defeated in Illinois house
Springfield reports a 79 to 65 vote defeating the O Grady repeal measure on the state search and seizure act. The anti liquor push gains momentum as the prohibition commissioner bill advances. Other actions include Sanitary District bonding power raised to 4 percent and, with passage, sent to Governor Small for signature.
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Barbour
Anti-Saloon League
Drys
O’grady
Senate
Chicago
House
Len Small
Barr
General Assembly
Hicks
Deck
Ryan
Illinois State News A series of confessions and incidents reported
Mrs. Alexander Norbert a 61 year old confessed slayer set fire to her bedding in the county jail at Springfield and died by her own hand. Judge Joseph David postponed sentencing Mrs Anna Hughes to September 21 on a case involving alleged robbery with William Sennet. An airplane collision near Pontiac injured three and a gasoline tank at Manhattan burned after a lightning strike. Miriam Burns former golf champion married Joseph Francis Horn at Northwestern University with a small gathering.
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Alexander Norbert
Springfield
Joseph David
Anna Hughes
South
Lincoln Street
Chicago
William Sennet
Pontiac
E. B. Chattin
Cora
Blanche Selma
Miriam Burns
Kansas City
Joseph Francis Horn
Wilmette
Burns
Mr. Horn
Northwestern University
How to Keep Babies Well in Hot Spells
Illinois expects 56 000 babies this year with 85 000 more by August. Dr Isaac D Rawlings warns heat will stress infants. Breastfed babies fare best. diarrhea causes high infant mortality. keep breast milk clean and cool. sterilize bottles. use pasteurized milk. let the baby get sunshine.
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Illinois
Isaac D. Rawlings
Springfield
Tllinois
Rawlings
Drowning of George Norman at Rockford Bathing Spot
George Norman, seventeen, a furniture factory worker who could not swim, drowned after stepping into a hole while bathing at Rockford. The report notes he was unable to swim and slipped into the hole, ending in a fatal drowning.
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George Norman
Rockford
Red Cross Reminds Eligible Disabled Vets to Start Training
The American Red Cross in Chicago warns disabled ex-service men who have been found eligible for vocational training must begin their course on or before June 30 or they will forfeit their rights.
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American Red Cross
Chicago
Multiple Crime and Local News Items Spanning Illinois Notables
Reports detail killings and injuries from bank robbery attempts in Norris and Fairmount, a murder acquittal in Peoria, a mail theft discovery at Highland Park by a 12 year old, a Barrington garden wedding, and a Danville hospital case. College enrollment figures show 12 002 resident students at the University of Illinois Urbana campus. Edward Holland longtime Bloomington mayor dies in Joliet. Ogle county honors Senator Medill McCormick with 8000 attendees and dignitaries attending a Rock River farm owner’s memory service.
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Finois
Dentistry
Pharmacy
Chicago
Urbana-Champaign
Ogle County
Medill McCormick
Rock River Farms
Byron
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