Russia defends against dumping charges at Geneva talks
Maxim Litvinov challenged Western economies over dumping while proposing two economic peace plans to reduce depression. The commission debated Austro German customs accord as World court was asked for opinion. Doak warned wage cuts risk strikes and the Labor Department noted several wage disputes settled. World Bank reports deposits exceed 400 million. US Supreme Court upholds Dover Dam act but allows Arizona relief appeals. Red Cross marks fiftieth with a global dinner and stamps. Pope Pius XI condemns church burnings in Spain.
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Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Geneva
International Commission of Inquiry
Briand
European Union
Litvinov
Arthur Hen- M. Litvinoverson
Dino Grandi
Commission
Julius Curtius
Johann Schober
World Court
Council of the
League of Nations
Council
Arthur Henderson
United States
Doak
Hoover
Labor Department
Supreme Court
California
World grain conference seeks remedy for wheat surplus crisis
In London the world grain conference debates solutions to agricultural overproduction. Samuel R. McKelvie of the American farm board urges slash in acreage to curb rising surpluses and falling consumption, signaling no easy solution to the crisis.
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London
World Grain Conference
Samuel R. McKelvie
American Farm Board
R. McKelvie
China Convention Seeks Unity After Constitutional Milestones
The Nanking convention closes a 12 day session with Chiang Kai-shek urging unity to suppress banditry and communism. It adopts a new constitution effective June 1 and declares China’s restoration with Nanking as permanent capital, nullifying unequal treaties. The article also notes Germany's new 10,000 ton battleship Deutschland and U S air force maneuvers led by Gen Foulois in Chicago and New York with vast participation.
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Chiang Kai-shek
China
People's Convention
Nanking
Replic
German Republic
Kiel
Hindenburg
United States Army
Chicago
New York
B.D. Foulois
Dayton
Ohio
Atlantic
Metropolis
Boston
MacArthur
Western Newspaper Union
Pets Die From Grief After Owners Pass Away
In Whitehall New York a cat and a dog died of starvation after the deaths of Walter Scott seventy eight and his sister Elizabeth seventy five at a Hampton farmhouse. The animals, longtime companions of Sinott and his sister, refused food when neighbors offered it following the owners' deaths. The dog died first and a few days later the cat also perished.
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Whitehall
N. Y
Walter Scott
Elizabeth
Hampton
Here
Sinott
Poisoning at Italian wedding ends in arrests and deaths
In Benevento Italy Signora Filmena Collela is jailed charged with poisoning more than twenty wedding guests at her son Pasquale Collela and Carmela Ricciardi wedding breakfast. Several guests died as victims suffered violent pains after drinking Collela wine. The couple’s family tables were separated for the feast and the bride escaped.
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Benevento
Italy
Signora Filmena Collela
Pasquale Collela
Here
Carmela Ricciardi
Filomena
Collela
Signora Collela
Partnership Divorce After 38 Years in California
Garrett Smith filed for dissolution of a 38 year marriage partnership after his wife Winifred Nevins left four years ago. They signed a contract in 1898 in Ogden Utah and attested it in San Francisco in 1916 before filing in Hanford Kings County. There are no children.
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Oakland
Calif
Garrett Smith
Ogden
Utah
Smith
Winifred Nevins
Frank M. Ogden
San Francisco
Hanford
Kings County
Swift kick saves woman's life on railroad tracks
Mrs. Martin Trudnak of Macanaqua narrowly escaped a coal train when she pulled a sled across Pennsylvania tracks. Brakeman Isaac Koons kicked her free as the locomotive approached. the sled was crushed beneath the wheels, but she was unharmed.
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Wilkes-Barre
Martin Trudnak
Macanaqua
Pennsylvania Railroad
Isaac Koons
Fortune Teller Aids Police In Arkansas Larceny Case
In El Dorado Arkansas Mrs Newt Hammond sought help from a local fortune teller after stolen items from her home went missing. The medium described a house where the thieves were found leading police to arrest three men on grand larceny charges.
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el Dorado
Ark
Newt Hammond
Nid
Hammond
Bride of Fire Chief Rescues Husband in Prank Turned Alarm
In San Benito Texas Fire Chief L Potter wed a resourceful bride. Firemen locked him in jail as a wedding day joke, friends alerted the bride who turned in a fire alarm at the corner. The firemen rushed to the imagined blaze and released him.
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San Benito
Texas
L. Potter
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