Poincare Defies Britain in Reparations Stand at War Memorial
Premier Poincare强 reiterates France will not bow to Britain over reparations. He cites "Heaven helps those that help themselves" and warns "Pay or we stay" while praising U.S. wartime aid and noting renewed Franco American cordial ties. He debunks cited German payment figures as false.
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Gondrecourt
France
Poincare
Great Britain
Foreign Office
United States
Europe
Germany
M. Poincare
Ruhr
Washington Economic Institute
Leviathan of Air Soars on First Historic Flight
The Barling bomber the world’s largest airplane completed its maiden flight at Wilbur Wright field in Dayton Ohio. Witnessed by under 1000 spectators the aircraft stayed aloft for 28 minutes and demonstrated easy ground and air handling and slow takeoff and landing speeds. The test met with praise from designers and service officials.
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Dayton
Wilbur Wright Field
United States Army
Hearst Estate Valued At 11 Million Inheritance Tax
The Phoebe Hearst estate valued at 11,012,850 by California inheritance tax appraisers. State Controller Ray L. Riley announced a total tax of 1,053,945, with principal heir William Randolph Hearst’s heirship responsibility at 949,101.
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Sacramento
Cal
Phoebe Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Ray L. Riley
Riley
Hearst
Congress Can't Aid Farmer, Is President Coolidge View
President Coolidge says congressional action to aid farmers not expedient in a letter to Senator Gooding of Idaho. Gooding, a member of the Senate agricultural bloc, urged an extra session to help farmers and to address the coal situation.
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Congress
Farmer
President Coolidge
Washington
Coolidge
Senator Gooding
Rep
Idaho
Senate Agricultural Bloc
Ku Klux Marcher Slain in Carnegie Clash
In Carnegie Pennsylvania a clash between citizens and robed Ku Klux Klan members at the Glendale bridge over Chartier Creek left one man dead another fatally wounded and several others injured. Police and local officials investigated the incident as a violent confrontation between a white community group and the masked Klan.
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Carnegie, Pa
Pittsburgh
Carnegie
Ku Klux Klan
Glendale
Chartierg Creek
Treasury favors omnibus public buildings program
Washington officials said the Treasury will back an omnibus public buildings program in Congress. The move aims to save money by reducing rents now paid on existing federal facilities.
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Melion
Washington
Treasury
Department
Congress
Berlin Suspends Street Car Service
Berlin municipality stops the entire street car system due to enormous running costs. Employees will be notified that every effort toward resumption will be made.
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Berlin
Navy Budget Battle Kept Cuts Opposed by Late Harding
Acting Secretary Roosevelt will inform Budget Director Lord on September 5 that President Harding approved the Navy budget of 375 million dollars. President Coolidge supports Harding’s stance amid prep for new defense needs and five power treaty ratios.
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Roosevelt
Lord
Washington
Harding
Coolidge
Congress
Naval
Peter
Paul
Capitol Hill
Europe
United States
U. S. Mail Flies West to New York in 34 Hours 23 Minutes
San Francisco completed an air mail test of night flying reaching Crissy Field at 6 24 PM after leaving Hempstead Long Island Tuesday morning. Pilot Claire K Vance delivered over 400 pounds of mail marking a record early leg of the continent spanning 34 hours 23 minutes.
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San Francisco
New York
Air Mail Service
Claire K. Vance
Crissy Field
Hempstead Field
Long Island
$100000 Bergdoll Gold Brought Into Maryland Claim
Hagerstown Maryland August 27 Lee Houser a 23 year old farmer confessed that a box he dug on the Brownsville Weeverton road held between 100000 and 110000 dollars plus about 10000 in gold coin. Indications point to the money being Grover Cleveland Bergdoll’s buried treasure before his escape to Germany.
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Hagerstown
Lee Houser
Here
Brownsville-Weeverton Road
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Germany
United States Revenues Rise by 22 Million in Seven Weeks
Washington reports higher revenues and lower expenditures with a forecast of a healthy year end surplus. Treasury data for the first seven weeks show ordinary receipts at 368 million dollars, up 22 million from the prior year, while ordinary expenditures totaled 356 million, down 18 million.
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United States
Washington
Treasury
Bulgarian Ambassador Slain in Prague Shooting
Bulgarian ambassador M. Daskaloff was shot and died on the operating table. Atanas Nikoloff was arrested after firing three shots at the envoy in Prague on August 27.
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Prague
M. Daskaloff
Atanas Nikoloff
Six Die as Train Hits Auto in Fog at Gray's Crossing
Six persons were killed and a seventh fatally injured when their automobile was struck by an Erie railroad train at Gray's crossing in Binghamton New York. The accident occurred in dense fog.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Gray's Crossing
Erie Railroad
Pinchot Called In Mine Crisis Emissary to Avert Walkout
President Coolidge delegates Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania to mediate the coal strike looming with 155000 miners facing suspension on September 1. Philip Murray announces a proclamation for suspension and maintains essential maintenance staff. Ohio, Pa., Aug. 25. Pinchot to meet with miners and operators in Harrisburg after White House briefing.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers of America
Ambassador
A. B. Jessup
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Washington
Pinchot
White House
Executive Mansion
John Hays Hammond
United States
Harrisburg
Still Found Under Birmingham Station Door Entrance
City detectives reported the discovery of a fifty gallon still and liquor making paraphernalia in a subterranean passage beneath the Birmingham terminal station. Entry to the underground room was via a man hole in a street railway underpass.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Terminal
Air Pilot and Aide Drown in Seaplane Crash Near Atlantic City
Capt. Frank Fitzsimmons a veteran of the French Foreign Legion escadrille and the only one legged pilot in active service in America and Gunner Lindhl were drowned when their seaplane nosedived in Lake's bay three miles from Atlantic City in front of thousands of motorists.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Frank Fitzsimmons
French Foreign Legion Escadrille
America
Lindhl
Lake's Bay
Divining Spear Aids Divers in Huge Gold Recovery
Divers have recovered nearly all of the Laurentic’s $30,000,000 in gold from the ocean bed off Donegal after diving since 1918. Using a divining spear with a dial, they determine when the spear touches gold versus base metal.
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London
Donegal
Ireland
Leviathan Beats Olympic by Twelve Hours in Atlantic Run
The American steamship Leviathan, arriving in Southampton from New York at 7 p.m. today, led the White Star steamer Olympic by about twelve hours in their unofficial Atlantic race. The contest ended with Leviathan holding the advantage on the American side.
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Southampton
New York
Tech P. m
General Strike in Athens Fails as Workers Return
The August general strike in Athens organized by radicals failed and workers are resuming duties. The government vows severe measures against labor union leaders.
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Athens
Italian Arch Priest Minton Clubbed to Death in War Service Honor
Perrera Italy Aug 27 Arch Priest Don Minton a noted war services priest was attacked by unknown assailants with clubs sustaining injuries described as severe and lingering. authorities investigate motive amid wartime service acclaim.
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Perrera
Italy
Don Minton
U S Market Report Week End August 25 Fruits and Grains
Market summary from Washington covering fruit vegetables dairy and live stock prices. Lists New Jersey Irish cobbler potatoes New York onions Kentucky Kansas Missouri and other regional prices for sacked per 100 pounds and standard cartons with ranges for cantaloupes peaches and melons. Chicago cash markets show wheat corn oats and dairy prices and live stock bids for hogs beef veal lambs and yearlings.
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New Jersey
Kentucky
Kansas
Missouri
Chicago
New York
Arkansas
Elbertas
Maryland
Delaware
Tennessee
California
Towa
Wisconsin
Klan Members Fined Two Years Punishment In Tulsa Rioting
Ben F. Sikes Grover C. Sikes and Earl Sack all from Broken Arrow pleaded guilty to rioting before District Judge W B Williams and were sentenced to two years in the penitentiary as the Adjt Gen Markham investigation into Tulsa county floggings reached a climax.
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Ku Klux Klan
Tulsa
Okla
Adjt
Baird H. Markham
Tulsa County
Ben F. Sikes
Grover C. Sikes
Earl Sack
Broken Arrow
W. B. Williams
Brutal Taxation Policy Promised by German Finance Minister
Berlin reports that Dr. Rudolph Hilferding, Germany's first Socialist finance minister, told the Reichstag budget committee he intends an era of brutal and ruthless taxation. He warned banks and industrialists and said he aims to inform the public of his plan.
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Rudolph Hillferding
Germany
Social Democrat
Hilferding
Berlin
Rudolph Hilferding
Reichstag Budget Committee
Five Million Dollar Contract for Child Actress Baby Peggy
Baby Peggy the three and a half year old film star from Los Angeles has signed a three year deal with Sol Lesser worth 1.5 million dollars per year plus a 500000 dollar bonus, totaling five million dollars. The agreement covers a three year period.
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New York
Peggy
Los Angeles
Sol Lesser
Primaries Blamed as Confusion Sparks Scandal
A special committee told the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws in Minneapolis that ballot name multiplicity makes the primary system worse than a joke, it’s a scandal, according to Aug. 24 remarks.
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Minneapolis
Minn
National Conference of Commissioners On
Playing Indians Burn to Death in Belmar Tragedy
Belmar New Jersey August 27 two boys Charles Spinler eleven and William Hubbard sixteen were tied to a tree by two other boys one a brother of a victim and set ablaze brushwood at the tree foot the victims died in the fire authorities report a tragic arson play gone fatally wrong
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Belmar
N.J
Charles Spinler
William Hubbard
German Monarchy Predicted After European Trip
Representative Aswell of Louisiana told President Coolidge in Washington that Germany would undergo a revolution and have a king atop its government within a year after returning from Europe.
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Washington
Representative Aswell
Louisiana
Coolidge
Germany
Davie Endorses Coolidge for Republican Nomination
Secretary of Labor Davis, in Pittsburgh, declares President Coolidge unmatched in qualifications for the Republican nomination. He says Coolidge stands unexcelled by any man in the country.
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Davie Indorses Coolidge
Pittsburgh
Davis
Coolidge
Memorial plot near Harding tomb in Marion discussed
In Marion Ohio a plan to set aside two acres of the nearby Indian burial mound as a Harding memorial lot gains support. The site sits near the late president's burial vault and his mother and sister are buried nearby, with a prominent Kling family marker nearby.
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E. B. Dur Free
Marion
Edward K. Uhler
Harding
W. G
Mary Clarissa
Warren
Columbus
Amos H. Kling
Louisa M. Bouton Kling
Army Air Service seeks 25 million for next year
General Patrick approves measures to submit to Congress this fall for a 25 million dollar Army Air Service appropriation next fiscal year. The plan calls 15 million for new equipment and the rest for operating costs to raise efficiency and avoid retrogression.
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Army Air Service
Congress
Plan to lighten the Presidency Burden proposed in Congress
Lawmakers returned for the Harding funeral heard proposals to ease presidential load. Walter F. Brown urged creating an assistant to the president to handle details. Senator Edge suggested giving the vice president budget authority. Representative Michener favored extending term length to cut focus on re election.
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Congress
Harding
Coolidge
Walter F. Brown
Edge
Rep
N. J
Michener
Mich
House Judiciary Committee
Brown
Lidge
America Leads World in Radio Field
Radio inspector W D Terrell notes U S dominance with 566 broadcasting stations plus seven in possessions, far more than England, France, Germany, Belgium, Czecho Slovakia, China combined. He credits American willingness to experiment and correct mistakes as key to rapid progress.
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England
France
Germany
Belgium
Czecho-Slovakia
China
Canada
W. D. Terrell
Department of Commerce
Menthens
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