China, Russia seek peace in Manchuria amid tensions
Shanghai dispatch reports China will not wage war unless invaded and calls for peaceful settlement. Chiang Kai-Shek pledges no clashes with Soviet forces unless forced, while both powers push arbitration under the Kellogg pact. Moscow rejects French mediation, urging a juridical basis for talks and continued self defense on the Manchurian border.
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Shanghai
China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
State Council
Russia
Chu Shao-Yang
Moscow
Harbin
Manchuria
Washington
Kuo Min
United States
Aristide Briand
Dr Frank A Lawrence A Elyria physician 1916 service
Dr Frank A Lawrence began medical studies at Grove City College and the University of Michigan before practicing in Michigan for a year and settling in Elyria in 1916. He served in World War I, is married, resides at 157 Eastern Heights Boulevard, and enjoys golf as a hobby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Lawrence
Grove City College
Pennsylvania
Medical
University of Michigan
Michigan
Elyria
Sr. Lawrence
Eastern Heights Boulevard
Ross Act Toughens Penalty For Liquor Sales To Minors
In Columbus on July 23 a new law known as the Ross act took effect raising liquor sale penalties to a fine of 5000 dollars or imprisonment up to five years, or both, from the previous 300 dollar fine or ten to thirty days in jail. Sponsored by Rep Kyle Ross Akron and backed by the Anti-Saloon League. Other acts operative today include Burton Act expanding the ten percent penalty for unpaid December taxes to personal property, Derr Act lowering Marysville reform school admission age to sixteen with confinement limited to felonious women, Marshall Jones Act revising the general corporation code, and Van Wye Act merging probation and parole staff under the welfare director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ross
Kyle Ross
Akron
Anti-Saloon League
Burton
Derr
Marysville Reformatory
van Wye
Lorain to Dedicate County Airport With Air Show
Lorain county plans a 2:30 p m Saturday dedication at Port Mills Meister and Leavitt roads for a 136 acre airport. Prominent figures Edsel Ford William B Stout Clifford Henderson John Borys Ward Van Orman and leaders from Ford and Standard Oil attend. Balloons with numbers will be dropped for prizes at 3:00 p m Saturday and Wednesday balloons may drift through the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Lorain County
Port Mills
Meister and
Leavitt Roads
D. J. Boone
Edsel Ford
William B. Stout
Stout Metal Airplane Company
Clifford Henderson
Cleveland
John Borys
Ohio Aeronautics Department
Ward van Orman
Ford Motor Company
Hoover to study US military expenses plan
President Hoover announced a commission within the army general staff to study drastic reductions in military spending over the next four years. The program, outlined in a press conference, calls for reconsidering the entire military program to align expenses with the world situation influenced by the Kellogg Briand pact and ongoing naval reduction talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
General Staff of
Army
United States
Marines Leave Nicaragua Observe Withdrawals
President Hoover announced the withdrawal of 1,200 U S marines from Nicaragua. The bulletin from Washington reported the move as part of ongoing U S policy in Central America and followed days of diplomatic activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Nicaragua
Peabody Man Skips Jail Then Drinks His Way Free
In Peabody Massachusetts Thomas Donovan received a 19 day jail term for drunkenness but vanished as officers prepared to take him to jail. He was found in a familiar haunt, returned to court, and explained he had slipped out for a drink. The judge then reduced the sentence to ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peabody
Mass
Thomas Donovan
Donovan
Youths Wanted After Assault At Slick Rock School
A posse and armed citizens scoured the Cumberland foothills near the Tennessee line seeking three youths who invaded Slick Rock school, abducted and assaulted 19 year old teacher Ruby Taylor after stripping her in a glade. The three suspects Sam Abbott Otto Abbott and Blueford Abbott fled toward Tennessee as threats of lynching spread. Slick Rock, a remote village 15 miles south of Monticello, Kentucky, remained tense as authorities pursued the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Cumberland
Tennessee
Slick Rock
Ruby Taylor
Sam Abbott
Otto
Blueford Abbott
Moncello
Miss Taylor
Here
State May Hold WPLKE Road Contract If Sheffield Lake Fails
State Highway official Wayne B. Anderson warned Sheffield Lake Village must raise its share for repaving and widening Lake road by September 1 else the contract will not be let this year. County Commissioner Thomas Peebles planned to relay the update to village leaders as work on the Avon Lake corridor continues.
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Sheffield Lake Village
Wayne B. Anderson
State Highway Department
Anderson
Thomas Peebles
Sheffield
No Marriage Licenses In Two Days In Lorain County
For two days none of the couples visited the courthouse marriage license bureau amid July moonlight romance. License clerks say this absence of interest is unusual for the season.
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Lorain County
Bunion Derby Pilgrims Plod Across Nation to California
Bay runners trek from New Jersey to California in a two month effort that tests endurance and yields varied fortunes. Reporters tag the journey with humor while some racers gain funds, others drop out as the caravan crosses states from New Jersey through California.
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New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Los Angeles
Elyria Runner Eskins to Return After Transcontinental Foot Race
Charles Elkins known as Eskins, a swarthy Elyria Ohio runner, completed a 3000 mile trek from coast to coast. He will reach Elyria Thursday afternoon around 4 30 accompanied by his wife, son, and steel plant friends to a celebratory homecoming in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Elkins
Elyria
Ohio
Atlantic
Pacific
Eskins
Charles
Flisver
Elsman
Elkins
James A Hewitt
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Elvira
West Avenue
Four Injured in Ridgeville Area Auto Crash
Four Cleveland residents were seriously injured and three autos wrecked in a triple smashup about a fourth of a mile west of North Ridgeville. Victims Mrs Marian Davis and her son Richard, Mrs W D Allen, and Mrs L B Benent suffered multiple injuries. investigation by Deputy Sheriff Ernest Oldag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
North Ridgeville
Marian Davis
Hayden Avenue
Richard
W. D. Allen
L. B. Benent
West Dover
Davis
Allen
Beneni
Cleveland Road
Frank Schoditsch
Sugar Ridge Road
Schoditsch
Fearsome Holiday Hangs Over Prison in Dannemora
Clin ton State prison faced a tense quiet as 1,568 inmates await possible labor. All prison officials worked while 1,300 prisoners endured tight cells after yesterday’s attempted jail break. Investigators probe the grapevine for sources while suspects Dick and Leon Kraemer loom as possible links to the plot. Herman Linderman’s near-fatal stabbing remains a grim memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dannemora
N. Y
Clinton State Prison
Leon Kraemer
Richard Reese Whittemore
Herman Linderman
Ion Kraemer
Truck Rolls Down Embankment on Kipton Hill
Investigation of a truck accident on Route 20 near Kipton hill shows T. A. Walsh of Norwalk Trucking was descending the hill to cross a bridge when another truck crowded him from the road. His vehicle left the pavement and rolled to the embankment below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipton Hill
Sheriff Department
T. A. Walsh
Norwalk Trucking Company
Walsh
Man Shot From Ambush In Steubenville
Police say no clues exist in the slaying of Michael Washase, 45, a Pennsylvania Railroad employee. He was shot from a bush while walking on a Steubenville street, near his home, yesterday.
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Steubenville
Michael Washase
Pennsylvania Railroad
Senate Finance Committee Moves To Curtail Tariff Bill Increases
Washington July 23 the Senate Finance Committee began the first step toward curtailing increases in the house tariff bill in accordance with public promises to President Hoover by committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Hoover
Melvin Hix condemns Dr. Snook in murder trial context
Melvin Hix, father of Theora Hix, arrives in Columbus fuelled by grief and resolve as Dr. James Howard Snook faces trial for his daughter's murder. Hix, over 70, declares he hopes to outlive Snook and seeks Snook's execution while recounting Theora’s upbringing and her path toward helping others through education and medicine.
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Columbus
James Howard Snook
Melvin Hix
Theora Hix
Snook
Ohio State University
United Press
Hayfork Prong Impales Youth in Wisconsin Haymow
In Dodgeville Wisconsin on July 23 Laverne Peterson a 15 year old unassisted drew a heavy harpoon fork from his abdomen after slipping from a haymow Fellow workers were terrified yet Peterson kept his nerve and restrained the lever to close the bar then withdrew the shaft He walked unaided to the house and later refused help to the hospital He died 24 hours later doctors call him game to the last.
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Dodgeville
Wis
Laverne Peterson
Peterson
Advertising Company Head Falls To His Death
James H. Baldwin president of the Dunlop Ward Advertising Company fell from the sixth floor of the Hotel Cleveland today. He registered last night and acted strangely before disappearing. The coroner judged suicide, Baldwin lived in Cleveland Heights and was prominent in his field and civic work. His widow said he may have been worrying about business affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, CO
James H. Baldwin
Dunlop-Ward Advertising Company
Cleveland
Baldwin
Cleveland Heights
TWO BORDER RUM RUNNERS ROUTED NEAR EL PASO
United States border patrolmen routed two smuggling gangs in a cross border clash. Two rum runners were killed and three wounded, six men arrested as 200 gallons of liquor and vehicles were seized. Smugglers fled to Mexico with casualties, signaling a major disruption of a long established ring. Evidence from arrestees could lead to further arrests of ring leaders in El Paso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Texas
United States
Mexico
Munitions explosion in Bulgaria reported by Sofia dispatch
A secret munitions store exploded at Sourhevo near Sofia. One hundred bodies were recovered with many more dead or injured feared, per the dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Sourhevo
Bulgaria
Sofia
Schlee airman injured at Detroit airport
Edward F. Schlee president of Schlee Brock Aircraft Corp was seriously injured at Detroit City Airport when struck by a propeller while removing wheel blocks from a plane bound for Wausau Wisconsin. He previously gained fame flying with William Brock on the Pride of Detroit from Detroit to Tokyo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Edward F. Schlee
Schleebrock Aircraft Corp
Detroit City
Wausau
Wis
Schlee
William §. Brock
Tokio
St Louis Plans To Honor Endurance Flight Record
ST LOUIS Mo July 23 A new world record for sustained flight appeared within reach as two pilots Jackson and O Brine in the St Louis Robin monoplane pushed past 236 hours aloft. Oil concerns were brushed aside as engineers and sponsors voiced confidence the pair would press the limit toward 247 hours.
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ST. Louis
William B. Robertson
United Press
Robertson
Dale Jackson
Forrest O’brine
S K. Prince
Challenger Motor
Prince
Jackson
O'Brine
C. Ray Wassall
Wassall
Dave Jackson
Forrest O
Challenger
Culver City
Calif
Mendell and Reinhart
Angelo
St. Louis-Robin
Mississippi
Lambert-St. Louis Field
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Florida
Theora
George Elliott
Adam Bebe
Northfield
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