Borah urges parity with Britain by sinking ships
Sen. William E. Borah proposes equal naval strength with Great Britain through sinking some British ships. He spoke after a White House luncheon with President Hoover, arguing parity would cut taxpayer costs and curb war incentives amid talks at the Washington Conference.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
William E. Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
Hoover
White House
Attack on Mrs. Shaw Ends in Capture of Alleged Attacker
In Vasalia California the sheriff captured 55 year old Jacob Wilds a mechanic after he allegedly attacked Mrs. Ethel Shaw and her two children with a knife and hammer in a jealous rage. Wilds hid in a packing house and tried to kill himself as deputies closed in suffering a deep side wound. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and admitted to the attack. Wilds had been employed on the widow's ranch after she refused his marriage proposal.
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Vnsalia
Cal
Jacob Wilds
Ethel Shaw
Wilds
Alaska Juneau mine stock quote tops today market listings
New York August 2 Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted at 6 today along with American Tobacco A 179 and B 177 percent Beth Joham Steel 123 percent Continental Motory 14 Cudahy 51 International Paper A 35 International Paper 5B 34 Standard Oil of California 71 Stewart Warner 72 U S Btec 213 Corn Products 99 National Acme 384
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Tobacco A
American Tobacco B
Beth- Joham Steel
Continental Motory
Cudahy
International Paper A
International Paper
Standard O of California
Stewart Warner
U. S. Btec
Corn Products
National Acme
Add Warren eyes big purse in boxing bid
It's the price that counts with Add Warren former UNC boxing champion If his price holds out for a big purse he proves tough while a cheap opponent is a setup M B Wilson Alaska representative of Blake Moffitt and Towne Seattle wholesale paper dealers left for the Yukon for Valdez and will visit other western interior towns before returning to Junoan
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Add
Warren
University of North Carolina
Speak-Easies Demolished in Liquor Raids
In Youngstown Ohio in Campbell a steel town raid by 50 enforcement officers demolished about 50 speak-easies and arrested proprietors. Gallons of whiskey and beer were dumped, the Federal building filled with prisoners as workers gathered jeering.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Campbell
Federal
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Reports Rise in West
Public Health officials report increasing cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever across the Rocky Mountain region with an unusually high death rate. One report notes 10 cases and seven deaths, a mortality well above the normal 70 to 90 percent.
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Washington
Rocky Mountain
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoe Arrives with Appropriations Delegation
The Coast Guard Cutter Tahoe docked at 3 30 pm with four members of the House Appropriations Subcommittees for Agriculture and their wives. The party, including Commissioner Charles H. Flory and Asst. District Forester B F Heintzleman, will tour Alaska ports, attend a governor hosted reception, and visit farms and mills along Glacier Highway.
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House
A. S. Forester May
R. Y. Stuard
Charles H. Flory
Department of Agriculture
Asst
B. F. Heintzleman
Coast Guard
Tahoe
Sitka
Alaska
L. J. Dickinson
John W. Summers
John N. Sandlin
James P. Buchanan
H. J. Faulkner
Chamber of Commerce
Alaska Juheart and Mill
Glacier Highway
Prince Kai Wounded in Tokyo Shooting Mystery
On August 2 in Tokyo Chang Tsung Chang, ex War Lord of Manchuria, shot Prince Hisen Kai cousin of Pu Yi. Chang says the revolver exploded accidentally while he held it in his hotel room and Prince Kai, 21, was wounded in the garden below.
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Tokyo
Chang Tsung Chang
Manchuria
Hisen Kai
China
Pu Yi
Chang
Prince Hinen Kal i
Portugal Seeks Trade With Overseas Domain
Lisbon reports a government push to boost commerce with overseas dominions and redirect emigrants to colonies rather than the Americas. Recent statistics show twenty year colonial trade has tripled as Portugal eyes the vast overseas area and 11 million inhabitants.
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Portugal
Lisbon
North
South America
San Franciscan on Visit With Nephew
Harry Cills of San Francisco arrived yesterday for a short visit with his nephew United States Marshal Albert White. He will return south next week. Cills, formerly captain with the San Francisco Police Department, now works with the London Anglo Bank and is an avid fisherman. Turner Lake and other local fishing spots will be visited.
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Harry Cills
San Francisco
United States
Marshal Albert White
Cills
Police Department of
London Anglo Bank
Turner Lake
Riot at Leavenworth Penitentiary Leaves One Dead
A riot at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas killed one convict Mike Martines and injured several others after an afternoon mutiny following an attempt on Warden Thomas White. Deputy Warden Zerbst and staff maintained secrecy as gunfire and gun breaking drew outside attention. The DOJ reported the riot stemmed from overcrowding and lack of work.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Federal Penitentiary
Thomas B. White
P. G. Zerbst
Mike Martines
Crazed man kills four in Spartanburg with band axe
In Spartanburg S C Aug 2 Karl Robertson a shipping clerk went on a killing spree using a bandaxe killing four and injuring two more one of whom is expected to die He was overpowered and to be taken to the hospital for the insane asylums authorities said the incident left the community shocked and shaken
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Spartanburg, S. G
Bereming
Karl Robertson
Robertson
Confiscated Alaska Furs Sold in Seattle
Fred Hamberg of Hudson's Bay Co. bid 81,105 for 55 barren skins offered by the U S Marshall. The Post Office Department seized the Alaska skins shipped without permit and sold them in Seattle to about a dozen bidders. Hamberg formerly headed Goldstein's Emporium shoe department.
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Seattle
Fred Hamberg
Hudson's Bay Company
United States Marshall
Alaska
Post Office Department
Western Area Fisheries Report Declares Good Conditions
Commissioner Henry O'Malley reports generally good fishing west of Southeast Alaska with Karluk as the sole setback due to red salmon failure. Seal harvest near Pribilof Islands totals about 40,000 skins valued around 1 million dollars. The party includes Cramton and Osborne. they proceed to Ketchikan after visiting spawning beds and rail improvements.
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Alaska
Karluk
Henry O'Malley
A. S
Pribilof Islands
Prince William Sound
Bristol Bay
Alaska Pentheta
Kediak Island
K Inlet
Prince “William Sound
Charles H. Gilbert
Millis H. Rich
Drs
Gilbert and
Rich
O'Malley
Tiamma
Hamna Bay
Jamas Lake
Alaska Road Commission
Cook Inlet
Bering Sea
Coast Guard
Pribilof Isands
Unalasks
Brant
C. A. Cramton
Stanley Osborne
Cordova
Ketchikan
Washington State Boy Wins Edison Competition
Wilbur Huston of Port Madison Washington wins the Edison competition for follower in the footsteps of the inventor. Forty nine contestants stood on the Edison lawn at Llewelyn Park as Dr. W Stratton MIT president announced the winner and praised the competitors. The exam covered morals ethics and science.
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West Orange
Ni J
Wilbur Huston
Port Madison
Washington
Edison
Llewelyn Park
W. Stratton
Massachusetts
Stute
Edison contest winner from Seattle high school
Wilbur Huston, 16, son of Bishop A. B. Huston of Olympia, wins the Edison competition in the state finals. He is named state representative in the national contest by Walter Showwalter of Public Instruction after graduating from Seattle High School last June.
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Seattle
Wilbur Huston
Edison
A. 8 Huston
Olympia
Walter
Public Instruction
Seattle High School
China Russia settlement proposed in Moscow talks
The Soviet government announced three conditions for a peaceful settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute with China. They call for the liberation of Soviet workers in Manchuria, appointment of the Soviet manager and assistant manager, and an immediate conference to negotiate the conflict. China and Russia also agreed to admit one status change of the railway as a result of the seizure, subject to further changes per 1924 accords.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
China
Manchuria
Ib 45
Hoth
Russia
Record Breakers In Air Again for Demonstration
Dale Red Jackson and Forrest Obrine of the St. Louis Robin flew to Chicago for a refuelling demonstration. The duo recently set endtrame refuelling endurance records by staying aloft 420 hours and 21 minutes.
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St, Louis
Dale
Red" Jackson
Forrest Obrine
St. Louis
Chicago
Jackson
Obrine
Notre Dame to Build $750000 Stadium in South Bend
Erection of a new stadium costing 750000 will begin at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. Wooden bleachers have long taxed the crowds who come to see the famous Rockne teams in action.
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South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
Tamous Rockne
Graf Zeppelin Seeks U S At 65 to 80 mph Across Atlantic
Graf Zeppelin travels from Germany toward the United States on its second voyage, report indicates the airship averaged 65 to 80 miles per hour across the Atlantic with headwinds from France to the Mediterranean and good flying weather forecast by the Weather Bureau for the Spanish coast to Bermuda.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Graf Zeppelin
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Graf
Oasa
Blance
Morocco
Gibraltar
Azores
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Washington
Weather Bureau
Spanish Coast
Bermuda
Dollar Steamship Lines Formed A $100 Million Holding
Stockholders of the Dollar Steamship Line voted to create a $100,000,000 holding company named Dollar Steamship Lines Ltd Inc in San Prangisov California. R Stanley Dollar, vice president and GM, announced issue of 3,600,000 shares of no par value stock with no public offering at this time.
Bremen Captain Koenig Returns as Historic Submarine Voyager
The 1916 Deutschland voyage and the Bremen sea triumph are recalled as Captain Koenig, former Deutschland skipper, visits America aboard the Bremen. His career spans Neckar to Columbus, with wartime peril and postwar leadership at North German Lloyd.
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Deutschland
Balimore
Paul Keens
America
Germany
Bremen
Lloyd Company
Koenig
Baltimore
United States
Heligoland
North Sea
English Channel
Atlantic
Neckar
Columbus
North German Lloyd Company
Young College Man Is Southwest Wheat King
PLAINVIEW Texas Aug 2 One year out of the University of Texas E M Carter Jr is undisputed wheat king of the Southwest The 21 year old farmer has harvested 6500 acres of wheat and plans to market more than 186000 bushels No other farmer in the Texas panhandle ever has produced a crop of such size When young Carter finished school last year his father asked him what he wanted to do The boy expressed a preference for farming and 10 sections of ranch land were rented so he might go to it.
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Plainview
Tex
University of Texas
E. M. Carter, Jr
Southwest
Texas Panhandle
Carter
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Ann Arbor
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
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Department of Justice
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