Shanghai Tensions Rise as Cantonese Advance Looms
Reports from Shanghai and Ichang describe rising conflict along the Yangtze frontier. Cantonese forces move toward Sonchon while agitators plan a Sun Yat-sen memorial demonstration on March 12. Shanghai defense tightens with sandbag barricades as Shantung troops are urged to withdraw. Labor unions threaten general strikes as the crisis deepens.
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London
Ichang
Huper
Yangtze River
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Sonchon
Sun Yatsen
Soochow
Shanghai Nanking
Chang Chung Chang
Sun Yat-Sen
Motor trouble delays U S fliers on Pan American flight
In Montevideo on March 7 the U S Pan American flight squadron faced motor trouble when the San Francisco forced to land after taking off with the St Louis and San Antonio bound for Port Alegre Brazil. A rescue boat found the San Francisco undamaged and the crew airborne again after towing the motor to workshop. The San Francisco rejoined Pacific Beach alongside the other planes awaiting repairs.
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Montevideo
Uriguay
United State
Pan American Flight
P Wen
San Francisco
St. Louis
San Antonio
Port Alegre
Brazil
Warkhing
Pacific Beach
Youngstown Police Chief Resigns to Practice Law
Youngstown Police Chief Kedgwin Powell resigned today, submitting to Mayor Charles Scheible. The plan is to leave April 4 and join a law firm after being admitted to the bar at the end of last year.
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Youngstown
Kedgwin Powell
Charles Scheible
Powell
U S Should Refuse to Collect Private Debts Abroad
Norman Thomas, New York peace expert, urged during Open Forum at the Methodist church that the United States should refuse to collect private debts for foreign investors in Nicaragua and Mexico. He said private capital seeks high returns and shifts risk to government, and warned that economic rivalry drives wars as nations seek markets and resources. He argued patriotism fuels nationalism, while insisting science allies with peace, not war. Confined on Page 2.
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U. S
Nicaragua
Mexico
Norman Thomas
New York
Methodist Church
United States
Thomas
Jraw
Nicaragua Liberal Army Leader Open to Peace Conference
General Moncada of the Sacasa Liberal army was reported willing to hold a peace conference under United States auspices if the Liberal president agreed. He refused Diaz offer of 200000 dollars to lay down arms, and said fighting would continue unless US troops compel desist. Marines aided near Natagalpa to avert battle as Liberals and conservatives maneuver.
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U. S
Diaz
Washington
United States
Nicaragua
Moncado
Managua
Moncada
Sacasa
Muy Mur
Natagalpa
Plage Cyclone Dead At Cape Town Bulletin
A cyclone struck Tamatave, Madagascar last week leaving dead and injured as officials report numbers and continuing coverage in Cape Town.
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Bulletin
Capetown
South Africa
Mar
T—Brown
Tamatave
Madagascar
Fifth bombing of church thwarted in San Francisco
Police thwart a fifth bombing of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in the Italian quarter. One bomber, likely G Ricca, was killed and companion Celsaren Beklund wounded as they planted a 26-stick dynamite charge near the entrance. The Rev. Orste Trinchieri said the attack appeared driven by religious fanaticism. authorities seek the remaining conspirators.
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San Francisco
Sts. Peter and Paut
G. Ricca
Celsaren Beklund
Charles Moss
Ricca
Bellund
San Francisco Pentecostal Mission
Actibes
Four Square Gospel
Aimee Semple Me‘pherson
Becklund
Rhea
Orste Trinchieri
Feklund
Arma
Joe Gromminger
Ines
Sinclair Goes on Trial for Contempt
Wealthy oil operator and race horse owner Harry E Sinclair faces trial in District of Columbia Supreme Court for alleged contempt of the US Senate. He refused to answer ten questions during the oil investigation, an indictment issued after a senate inquiry in March 1924.
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Washington
Harry E. Sinclair
Senate
District Supreme Court
Sinclair
Warry Ford Sinclair
District of Columbia Supreme Court
US &. Senate
Oil Investigating Committee
Texas Primary Voting Restriction Struck Down
Washington March 7 The U S Supreme Court ruled Texas by law blocking Negroes from voting in the Democratic primary unconstitutional. Justice Holmes announced the decision as Negro voters estimated at about 70 000 affected Texans who challenged the rule claimed the law barred their ballot in a state where party battles are settled at the primary.
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Texas
Washington
U. S. Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I. A. Nixon
el Paso
Eastern Time To Become Standard Throughout Ohio
Eastern time will become standard throughout Ohio within 90 days by action of Governor Donahey signing the Abell bill passed by the General Assembly. He also signed the Hadden bill providing for the appointment of a chief justice of common pleas courts in counties with more than two judges.
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Columbus
Wile Donabey
General Assembly
Donahey Todey Slao
Hadden
Common Pleas
Flood fills South Dallas as Trinity River maroons 500
Five hundred persons in South Dallas were marooned in their homes as heavy rain sent the Trinity River out of its banks. The floodwater reached above doorsteps and officials prepared boats to aid those unable to move possessions, while farmers fled with belongings from lowlands.
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Dallas
Trinity
Quake Triggers Kobe Landing Stage Disaster
The California’s returning passengers crowded a Kobe landing stage during the earthquake and it collapsed, drowning one unidentified elderly woman and injuring two others. Reports from Kyoto note continuing coverage on page 2.
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Tokio
Kobe
California
Kyoto
Man Confesses in Canton Murder Plot Immunity Granted
Louis Mazer, indicted for the murder of Don R. Mellett, confessed to a underworld plot against editor Henry W. Harter Jr. and will be treated as a state's witness. He named Pat McDermott as the shooter and indicated Ben Rudper’s involvement. Floyd Streitenberger’s trial was rushed.
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Canton
Louis Mazer
Don R. Mellett
Henry W. Harter, Jr
Mazer
Harter
Ora Slater
Pat McDermott
Mellett
Ben Rudper
Floyd Streitenberger
Apurder
United Press
Streitenberger
MccDermott
Meller
McDermott
Local Merchant Struck By Auto in Elyria
Hubert Day of 424 Second Street was struck by a car driven by Arthur Damm while crossing Second Street Saturday night. He suffered head lacerations but is reported in good condition and expected to be released from Elyria Memorial Hospital within a few days.
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Hubert Day
Elyria
Arthur Damm
Day
Declara
Second Street
Camm
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Farm Relief And Prohibition Loom As Main Issues
Washington March 7 Republican farm bloc threatens to oppose President Coolidge over the vetoed price-establishing bill as midwestern senators weigh public addresses. Democrats push for a national drive to nominate a candidate who supports prohibition modification. With Congress in nine months recess, both parties prepare battlefronts from the stump, Coolidge to stay in Washington most of the summer while his political plans remain undeclared.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Midwest
Congress
Coolidgs
Washington
Farm Hill
Probioi Uon
Supreme Court Ends Commercialized Law Enforcement in Ohio
Columbus March 7 The U S Supreme Court ruled that a mayor or justice cannot sit on a case in which he receives a fee ending commercialized law enforcement in Ohio The North College Hill case involved Ed Tumney convicted under a local ordinance allowing the mayor to take part of the costs MacDonald state prohibition commissioner said many jailed under this section may be freed automatically or through habeas corpus after the decision
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Justice of Peace
Columbus
Ohio
United States Supreme Court
Justices of the Peace
North College Hill
Ed Tumney
Crabbe
B. F. McDonald
Atate Prohibition
MacDonald
United Press
Infant body found near Ridgeville in old newspapers
The infant boy was found wrapped in two Cleveland newspapers in a basket with coal near a high tension line east of Ridgeville Heights. Witnesses say the child was left Friday night or Saturday morning and was frozen but preserved. County Coroner Myles Perry investigates to locate parents. burial planned Tuesday at Ridgelawn cemetery.
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Cleveland
Ridgeville J
William and
George Winfeld
Maher
Thatcher
Ridgeville Heights
Heserve
Myles Perry
Ridgelawn Cemetery
Fined Woodford man for third liquor offense
Mike Drisko of Woodford Avenue was fined 500 dollars and costs in police court for possessing intoxicating liquor. It was his third liquor offense under city ordinance. Officers testified a liquid found in a wash tub cellar was whisky, while the defendant claimed it was weak white wine. City chemist stated the liquid contained cepac grain alcohol. Drisko was found guilty.
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Mike Drisko
Woodford Avenue
Costa
Drisko
Southam
Hurd
Fr. G Curtings
Driska
Simmons Lecture Arouses Public Interest
George Finley Simmons of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History lectures after a twenty thousand mile voyage aboard the Blossom. He will share adventures and stereopticon views at a Women’s Club event in the Methodist church Sunday school rooms, Wednesday at 3 PM, open to the public.
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George Finley Simmons
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Blossom
Womer's Club
Methodist Church
Justice fines Lomay in liquor possession case
Joseph Urbas of 1862 East Bist Street Lorain was arrested February 23 on a warrant charging a second offense possession of liquor. Justice George pronounced the sentence in Bathday court, imposing a fine of $1,200.
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Joseph Urbas
FE. Bist Street
Lorain
O. E B. Rankin
Justice George's Court
Two Killed in Refinery Blast in Buffalo
In Buffalo on March 7 two men died at the Atlantic plant of Standard Oil after an explosion near a paraffin tank sparked a blaze. Patrick Kirby, 35, and George Christ, 41, perished as damage reached an estimated $500,000. glass shattered homes within two miles of the refinery.
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Buffalo
Atlan
Standard Oil Company
Patrick Kirby
George Christ
Local man wounded after purse snatch chase in Oberlin
Mace Howard, 24, of Oberlin, was shot three times and captured after allegedly snatching a purse from Mrs. Charles Herrick on North Main Street. Authorities say he tied to other purse thefts nearby over two months. Howard, previously residing in Cleveland, was hospitalized then jailed. brass knuckles found at his home.
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Mace Howard
Parkwood Street
Oberlin
Oberlin Post
American Legion
Charles Herrick
North Main Street
Hroward
the Legion
Howard Jr
Willard Court
North Pleasant Street
Harley
Howard
Pleasant
Walnut Streets
E. G. Mathews
Granu
Sioward
Senville Avenue
Cleveland
Fire Destroys Brownhelm House in Center of Town
The home of Mr and Mrs Harley Kelley at Brownhelm center burned to the ground after a basement fire discovered by Mr Kelley who was home alone. Nearby Arthur Rice residence occupied by William Schaub also caught fire and its wing was burned off. Amherst fire department responded but water shortages hampered efforts to save the houses.
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Brownhelm
Harley Kelley
Brownhelm Center
League of Nations holds 44th session in 1921 focus
The League of Nations council opened its forty fourth session with six European foreign ministers present including England France Germany Belgium Czechoslovakia and Poland. Italy sent Mussolini's envoy while Romania Holland and Italy were unrepresented by a foreign minister. The gathering aims to advance Franco German pacific collaboration and remove wartime obstacles as Locarno diplomacy shapes talks on Rhine bridgeheads and German evacuation timelines.
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Council of the League of Nations
England
France
Germany
Belgium
Capcho-Slovakia
Poland
Roumania
Holland
Italy
Mussolini
Sctaloja
Japan
China
Chile
Colombia
San Salvador
Europe
Locarno
Arian
Stressemann
Rhine
Alsteret
Cologne
Military Control Commission
Coblence
Mayence
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