Peking's Weakness and Krupp Sentences Stir Debate
A sweeping review piece discusses British ships carrying liquor for passengers amid prohibition, French court sentences on Ruhr dynamiters linked to Krupp, and tensions over German reparations. It covers British notes to Berlin, France’s debt stance, and探 Admiral Sims criticisms while noting U S officials’ cautious stance on war debts. It ends with a New York judge ruling against a liquor prescription limit for patients under the Volstead Act.
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Berlin
Albert Schegeter
Ruhr
Krupp
Essen
Comnt von Beifel
Bandits kidnap foreigners on Chinese train from Lee to Pek ing
Last week Chinese bandits seized passengers including Americans and Britons on an express train, released some women, and demanded a million dollar ransom. The incident drew U.S. and British protest, with Peking promising pardons on release and foreign powers weighing control measures to protect nationals.
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China
Lee
Peking
Shantung Province
Chow
Washington
America
Britain
Tientsin- Fuchow
Krupp
Berlin
Ebert
Essen
British Note Threatens Rift With Moscow Over Soviet Actions
The British government sent a peremptory note to Moscow demanding ten day assurances on propaganda offenses to British subjects and ships, compensation for offenses, and withdrawal of two Soviet replies to protests. It asserts no dispute over charges but signals a likely rupture. Vorowsky, the Soviet envoy to the Near East peace talks, was assassinated by a Swiss officer who cited Bolshevist torture of his relatives as motive.
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France
Belgium
Berlin
Cuno
Italy
Germany
Ruhr
Foreign Office
Washington
America
Moscow
Lord Curzon
Robert M. Hodgson
Ausanne
M. Vorowsky
Vorowsky
Treasury May Program Forecast Surplus Over Revenues
Secretary Mellon announced the May treasury program noting the federal finances are sound enough to suggest a balanced budget from year to year. He said economy in expenditures and gradual debt reduction could continue, predicting the budget for the year ending June 30, 1923, would show a surplus of more than 125 million dollars in revenues over expenditures.
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Treasury
Mellon
Railroads urged to unite for sound future in U S Chamber actions
At the New York annual convention the Chamber of Commerce of the United States adopted a resolution urging rapid united effort to restore railroads to profitability and forefront of American business. Committee reports favored private ownership with government regulation and broad consolidation into about twenty systems while preserving established rate basing points. Also noted was Georges Barbot of France’s success with a low-cost monoplane, flying the channel crossing and local hops on four gallons of fuel, highlighting its light construction and safety features.
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New York
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
George A. Post
Committee On
Carl R. Gray
Union Pacific System
Georges Barbot
France
English Channel
Campaign to free AFL from Red menace begins
President Gompers has launched his effort to purge the American Federation of Labor of communistic influence. He claims to have cut the Chicago Federation of Labor’s monthly support as that group backed W Z Foster’s Trade Union Educational League. The AFL executive council also calls Seattle Central Labor Union and Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly to withdraw their endorsement of Soviet control in Russia.
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Gompers
American Federation
Chicago Federation of Labor
W. Z. Foster
Trade Union Educational League
A. F. of L
Seattle Central Labor Union
Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly
Russia
Livestock Prices at South Omaha May 9 1928
South Omaha Union Stock Yards reports active demand for cattle with steady to stronger prices. Top beeves around 9.25 to 9.45, feeders scarce and strong. Hogs saw a 5 to 15 cent drop with tops at 7.20. Sheep and lambs were higher, California springers at 15.26 and clipped lambs to 12.90, fat lambs and ewes priced accordingly. Receipts: cattle about 7,500, hogs about 7,800, sheep and lambs about 7,000.
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California
Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Choice steers from Cairo fetch 9 4 on Monday
Adam Stoeger, breeder and feeder, brought 51 Hereford steers from Cairo to the Omaha market Monday. Weighing about 1 353 pounds on average, they sold around 9.40 per hundredweight amid corn rising to 90 cents. The cattle were all Stoeger’s own raised stock.
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Cairo
Adam Stoeger
Omaha
Burgess Music Store Plane Reductions in Sidney
Greatest reduction on planes and player planes ever offered in Sidney at Burgess Music Store. Students and aviation fans urged to visit for special prices and limited stock on model aircraft and related gear.
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Sidney
Burgess Music Store
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Curzon
Edward W. Pickard
House of Commons
Ase Peprery
San
Sims
Navy Department
Naval War College
War College
Admiral Coontz
Admiral Sims
John C. Knox
Arras
Freer Art Gallery
Mlle
Suzanne Boltard
Paris
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen
Krupp Works
Sidney E.b.young
Sidney Steam Laundry
Shakespeare
Standard Oil Company
Nebraska
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