Hot on Trail of Contraband Booze Supply
Mid summer drive against rum triggers counter moves as New York reports high arrests over inland liquor shipments. Treasury officials plan border repairs to curb leaks and warnings go to Canadian rum runners.
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New York
Uncele Sam
Andrews
Great Lakes
United States
Canada
North Shore
Massachusetts
Giames
Buckner
Mannie Kessler
Atlanta
Association Against the
McCarl
Haynes
Treasury
Georgia
Bye Association
New England
White House
Fair Athletes on the Track at Pacific Coast Championships
In San Francisco on July 18 the Pacific coast track and field championships for feminine stars begin. Top athletes including three world champions and Paris Olympic competitors will compete as they chase new records this afternoon.
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San Francisco
America
Pacific Coast
Paris
Inquest Continues on Mae Gerichi Death in Watsonville
The inquest into Mae Gerichi's death, linked to rum runners or hijackers, was continued to next Friday after an all day hearing. Several witnesses testified she likely died by violence, with her body found on a bench near Watsonville last week.
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Watsonville
Calif
Martin Beats Carter In Western Golf Final
Martin of Chicago 22 defeats Keefe Carter of Oklahoma City 19 in the first 18 holes at Lochmoor Club Michigan. Martin maintains near par play while Carter shows fatigue midway through the round.
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Martin
Carter
Detroit
Mich
Russell Martin
Chicago
Keefe Carter
Oklahoma City
Lochmoor Club
Oklahoma
Seoul Flood Inundates City Forces Aid Refugees
Dispatches from Osaka report Seoul heavily flooded with the river overflowing and power plant destroyed. Communications to Korea severed, large casualties and many refugees shelter in railway cars and barracks as troops aid victims.
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Tokyo
Korea
Seoul
Osaka
Asahi
Taught School for Fifty-Eight Years
Mrs. Augusta Robertson of San Francisco files for retirement salary after 58 years of continuous teaching service in California. Her application indicates she began teaching in July.
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Sacramento
Augusta Robertson
San Francisco
California
State Board of Education
Robertson
Uly
French Score Heavily On The Rifian Tribes
Fez Morocco July 18 AP report says Abu El Krim led Rifian offensives against the French diminishing in the Quetzan region due to heavy Rifian losses. French communiques note rumors of entry into Fez, friendly Spanish attitudes, and continued reinforcement. Rifian advances at Ain Aicha and Ain Matoni repelled. French aviation bombarded the Rifians and Marshal Petain arrived at Rabat and plans to go to Fez.
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Fez
French Morocco
Abu-El-Krim
Quetzan
French
Madagascar
Ain Aicha
Ain Matoni
Marshal Petain
Rabat
Marshal Petain arrives to aid French in Morocco crisis
From Rabat to Marseilles on July 18 AP reports Marshal Petain, a top French military organizer, arriving to confer with Lyautey and plan reinforcement. He aims to stay 15 days to assess men and material as Abd-El-Krim’s forces press toward Fez amid ongoing frontline actions and propaganda. General Nau lin warns France faces a serious Morocco situation as he heads to take command.
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Rabat
Fre
Morocco
Marshal Betain
Abd-El-Krim
Lyautey
Petain
Fez
Abd-El- Krim
Marseilles
France
Stanislaus Naulin
Jealousy Motive Cited in Buffalo Girl Slaying Confession
Buffalo police said Mike Kosnow of Buffalo confessed to shooting and killing Mildred Durke of Hornell. The body was hidden in the woods and found last night. Jealousy over attention from other men was given as the motive.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Mike Kosnowsky
Mildred Durke
Hornell
Darrow Made Honorary Member of Denver Liberal Church
Clarence Darrow was elected to honorary membership in Denver's Liberal church by Bishop Frank H. Rice for his defense of John T. Scopes. The church declared support for his theory of Christianity and hoped the Scopes trial would revive progressive thought in American conscience.
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Denver
Clarence Darrow
Liberal Church of
Frank H. Rice
Darrow
John Thomas Scopes
Chicago
Propes
Labor champion Mother Jones ill with inflammatory rheumatism
Washington July 18 AP Mrs Mary Jones known as Mother Jones a vigorous labor advocate is ill with inflammatory rheumatism at 82 years old The hot weather has alleviated her pain according to family members and reports from the industrial world
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Washington
Mary Jones
Mother Jones
Jones
Boyhood Fancies About Hoop Snakes Debunked by Biologists
Washington July 18 Biologists of the department of agriculture declare today that hoop snakes stinging snakes and glass snakes are buncombe. The hooped chase tale arises from a snake with a pointed tail while the glass snake is a harmless legless lizard that drops its tail to escape and regrows a short appendage.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Exis
Detroit
Mich
Boo M. Ball
Joseph Maurer
Russell Tott
Sarah
Ball
Scott
Lightning Sets Oil Tank Blaze In Bakersfield
A lightning strike hit underground tank No. 4 at a Pacific Oil Company reservoir farm igniting 750,000 barrels of oil. Loss is about 450,000 dollars. Workers from Pacific Associated and Standard oil companies fought the fire to prevent spread as smoke darkened the city. flames continued the next day.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Pacific Oil Company
Pacific, Associated
Standard Oil Companies
Vice Consul Bretherton Shot in Aguascalientes Mexico
American Vice Consul Harold G. Bretherton was shot in the back and seriously wounded at Aguascalientes Mexico on July 16. The U S embassy will press Mexico for a full investigation and punishment of the assailant. Bretherton, born in Canada, had lived in Montana and served at the post since lacking full details due to torn text.
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Washington
Harold G. Bretherton
Aguascalientes
Mexico
Mexico City
State Department
Foreign Office
Haven
Bretherton
Canada
Montana
Three Found Guilty Murder in California Trial
The Hanford jury found Jennie Laura Brown, John H Tipton and Fred W Mills guilty of second degree murder in the Lee Camp case. Robert McCamish was acquitted. Camp, a wealthy rancher, died last year after blows from a blunt instrument. Brown had deeded Camp property and a life insurance policy worth about 200000 dollars before his death.
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Hanford
Calif
Jennie Laura Brown
Robert McCamish
John H. Tipton
Fred W. Mills
Lee Camp
Brown
Tipton
Mills
McCamish
Brown Ranch
Business and Professional Women clubs elect leaders
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs chose its new executive board in Portland. Alice Joy Wright of Cleveland Ohio became president. Emma Dot Partridge of Kansas City and New York City was re elected executive secretary. Ruth Rick of Jacksonville Florida was named editor of the Independent Woman. Committee chairmen include Publicity Mrs. Josephine Haley Forney of Portland Oregon and Legislation Miss Mary Stewart Washington.
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Portland
National
Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Des Moines
Iowa
Alice Joy Wright
Cleveland
Ohio
Emma Dot Partridge
Kansas City
New York City
Ruth Rick
Jacksonville
Mla
Independent Woman
Official
Josephine Haley Forney
Ore
Mary Stewart
Washington, D
Fern Ohio Bavorsi
Edwards Loses To Ira Dern In Riotous City Bout
Kansas City wrestler Billy Edwards falls to Ira Dern of Salt Lake City in a return match. Dern scores decisive victory after catapulting Edwards backward, knocking him out. Edwards had won the first fall but could not continue.
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Portland
Billy Edwards
Kansas City
Ira Dern
Salt Lake
Dern
Edwards
Water spout forms off Santa Barbara coast
A water spout formed suddenly in Santa Barbara Bay drifted north along the coast at about 70 miles an hour. It passed Naples, 14 miles north, with an estimated 15 miles at sea and no damage reported. Mariners and sailors in port described the event as a genuine water spout.
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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Bay
Naples
Aden
Prison Farm Escape Sparks Probe at Joliet
Chicago July 18 Chief of Detectives Shoemaker reviewed prison records after the escape of bandit and murderer Robert Teddy Martin from the Joliet honor farm. He found ten murderers, nine given life sentences, had escaped in the last nine months from the same facility.
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Chicago
Robert
Teddy
Martin
Joliet
Shoemaker
Scopes Case Faces Record-Building for Defense
Dayton Tenn July 18 The Scopes trial moves into record affidavits as defense seeks to place evolutionary theory on record after Judge Raulston excludes expert testimony. Clarence Darrow vows to pursue justice in higher courts while Attorney General Stewart lauds the state victory.
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Dayton, Tenn
Raulston
John Scopes
Dayton
Clarence Darrow
Mornard M. Metcalf
Eal ‘ Iment
Oberlin College
First Eden
Rt Heathy
Bryan
Tennessee
A. T. Stewart
Darrow
Concession Stands At Scopes Trial See Mixed Results
In Dayton Tennessee July 18 AP reports the Scopes trial concessions largely failed from the sellers' view. Dozens set up along the streets near the courthouse with one large barbecue pit under a brown tent roof. Most stands earned little money while a few broke even, with Judge Raulston’s ruling on expert testimony blamed for dampening profits.
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Dayton, Tenn
Scopes
Court House
Raulston Barjling
Chinese Strikers Face Food Shortages and Forced Reenlistment
In Canton on July 18, Chinese workers angry over strike provisions attempted to resume work at former jobs amid harsh conditions. Several strikers forced two Japanese to flee after violent confrontations over food. Rumors of a Chinese assault on Shameen circulated but were denied. Officials warned the anti foreign period could last four to five months.
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Canton
Shameen
Hired Workers on Farms Decreased in 1924 Movement
Washington reports 109000 fewer hired farm workers this year than last as the Agriculture Department details 1924 labor shifts. Of 2,075,000 moving from farms to cities, 22.2 percent were hired workers, while 1,396,000 moving from cities to farms included 25.2 percent laborers, with 541,000 leaving farms and 352,000 returning by year start.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Klan split rocks Colorado as Denver units secede
Denver Times reports three Ku Klux Klan executives traveling from Washington to Denver after local Klan branches voted to secede from the national organization. Denver khansmen divided with some remaining loyal to the national body amid internal disputes over leadership and finances.
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Colo
The
Denver Times
Ku Klux Klan
Washington, D. C
Denver Klan
William Zambronne
Times
H. W. Evans
Imperial Wizard
Rocky Moutain
Minute Men of America
Grand Nae
Colorado Klan
Baseball Scores From Today Across Circuits
Babe Ruth hit his ninth home run of the season in the Yankees win over the Tigers in Detroit. Complete game details and box scores to follow in The Sunday Gyibune.
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New York
Shocker
Brengough
Stoner
Holloway
Bassler
Oedall
Babe Ruth
Yankee
Tigers
Comba
Scott's Escape Gallows Hopes Fueled by New Witnesses
Chicago and Detroit reports describe three new purported witnesses claiming the Maurer murder was a quarrel over bootleg whiskey, not a holdup, with Robert Scott as the shooter. Ball, a Detroit telegraph operator, said Robert fired. prosecutor calls the tale fake. Governor Small granted Scott a brief reprieve after a telegram from Detroit.
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Clerk
Scott
Detroit
Joseph Maurer
Robert
James M. Ball
Ball
George &. Gorman
Robert Scott
Len Small
Small
Detroit Free Press
Chicago
Scott Brothers
Maurer
Estes
Feo
Russell
Scotts
Governor Small
Heat causes rise in New York City death toll
Extreme heat in early June is blamed for nineteen excess deaths in New York City as health officials report 6276 total deaths in the month, above the five year average of 5417. Direct heat related deaths surged from 15 to 357.
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New York City
New York
Health Department
Idaho Editors Meet for McCall Convention Trip
Boise July 18. A caravan of newspaper publishers and business leaders plans to travel from north Idaho to the Idaho State Editorial association convention at McCall July 24 and 25 on the Fayette lakes. The highway department will patrol the route. K W Trueman of St Maries will lead the north Idaho delegation and appear on the program with Governor Moore and other state officials expected.
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Boise
North Idaho
Idaho State Editorial Association
McCall
Feyette Lakes
Highway Department
K. W.trueman
St. Maries
North Idaho Chamber of Commerce
Moore
Oes
McCal
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