China Situation Declared Grave In Newest Note
The Italian ambassador and other diplomats sent a note to the Chinese foreign office urging measures amid anti foreign sentiment and unrest in Shanghai Hankow and Kiukiang. Foreigners’ families were moved from Chin Kiang as agitation intensified threatening lives and property.
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Peking
A.P
China
Foreign Office
Signor Cerruti
Shanghai
Hankow
Kiu-Kiang
Chin-Kiang
Defense Day Proclaimed in Texas by Governor Ferguson
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson proclaimed Defense Test Day for July 4 calling all Texans to show patriotism. She urged women to participate fully in the demonstrations and activities statewide.
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Austin
Tex
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
End of Strife in China Hopes Rise in Washington
Washington officials say Shanghai dispatches signal a near settlement to the student strike unrest in China. Envoys from Peking and Shanghai discuss a settlement plan while Mayer in Peking reports satisfaction from striking students seeking just action.
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Washington
A.P
Shanghai
Peking
State Department
Mayer
Chang Tso-Lin
Manchuria
Fenk Yu-Hsiang
Chang
C Feng
Russia
Canton
Feng
People's Party
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
China
United States
Scopes Teacher Postponed By Trial Fallout
The Rhea county board of education will hold up John Thomas Scopes’s reappointment as science teacher and football coach at Rhea County High School. Board chair B F Robinson cites the evolving legal jeopardy from the anti evolution law and the risk of a guilty verdict at next month’s trial. Superintendent Walter White concurs with delaying the reappointment.
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Dayton, Tenn
United Press
Rhea County Board of Education
John Thomas Scopes
Rhea County High School
Eipes
Tennessee
Scopes
B.F. Robinson
Walter White
Sur Tax Cuts Proposed to Aid Agriculture
Frank W. Mondell in Sioux Falls called for reforming taxes to revive capital flow and agriculture. He urged a 2 percent normal tax 13 percent maximum surtax and 10 percent estate tax claiming lower rates boost revenue and investment while noting $1.5 billion unreported income in 1923.
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Brookings
International News Service
Coolidge
Middle West
South Dakota Bankers’ Association
Frank W. Mondell
United States War Finance Corporation
Mondell
Students to Honor Starved Companion at Penn
Philadelphia June 17 The memory of Swedish student Homer Oscar Ackerstrom who starved himself through college will be honored at University of Pennsylvania commencement where a post mortem degree is awarded in his name Ackerstrom died two months ago lacking funds he worked through college sent money to Sweden and reportedly starved himself leading to pneumonia and death
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Homer Oscar Ackerstrom
Ackerstrom
Sweden
Water supply cut in Nashville after warnings ignored
Nashville Tennessee on June 17 reports more than 300 residents lost city water connections after failing to heed a warning from the water department. Officials cited inadequate pipelines and stopped street sprinkling as the supply remained low awaiting improvements.
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Nashville
Tenn
City-Water Department
Trial of Rum Crew Set for Friday
Six crew members of the British schooner Francis E captured with a cargo of liquor off the Florida coast and brought to Mobile face a postponed trial to Friday. They have been jailed since arrest, with the schooner seized and in marshal custody. A Nassau resident owner’s motion to set aside the seizure remains unheard.
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Francis E
Florida
Mobile
Nassau
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