Aviator to land in Washington amid Far East upheaval
Long dispatch from Peking reports Chang Tso Lin’s retreat as nationalist forces threaten the Yellow River line. U.S. policy remains noncommittal on troops but supports preserving the Peking and Tientsin area. Japan mobilizes 2000 troops at Tsingtao and plans a Shantung advance if needed.
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Peking
Chang Tso-Lin
Chang
Yellow River Line
China
Tienesin
Japan
Tsingtao
Tsimanfu
Antung Province
Shantung
Dearborn Independent Defendants Hit Second Libel Suit
Detroit, June 1 AP Henry and the Dearborn Independent faced a new libel suit for 200000 damages filed by real estate user Joseph Miller. He alleges the defendants maliciously harmed his reputation by publicizing alleged schemes to influence a jury in the Ford Sapiro case. Miller cites conversations about juror Cora Hoffman as part of the mistrial motion.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry
Dearborn
Joseph Miller
Aaron Sapiro
Miller
Ford
Cora Hoffman
Sapiro
Sailors Come to Aid of Uncle Sam in Deportation Dilemma
A dozen Europeans, mainly sailors, held on Angel Island, have agreed to sail for Europe to avoid further detention as deportation funds are exhausted until July 1. The men seek passage on Europe-bound vessels and will depart as soon as positions are found. Utah weather: fair tonight and Thursday, warmer might.
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Francisco
Angel Island
Bannocks Bees Series Sets Thursday 3 PM Start
The Pocatello Bannocks and Salt Lake Bees will open the series Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Overland Park. The Friday and Saturday games begin at 5 15 PM and the final game is Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Thursday’s start is earlier to free the park by 5 PM for the Short Line Twilight league game.
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Pocatello Bannocks
Liberalists Triumph at Presbyterian General Assembly
The 139th general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States dissolved in San Francisco after seven days. Liberals won on church policy issues including the Virgin Birth and the Princeton seminary controversy. Final actions included elections to judicial and general council bodies and other boards.
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Auditorium
San Francisco
139Th
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Tulsa
Okla
Presbyterian Church In the
United States of America
General Assembly
Princeton Theological Seminary
Judicial Commission
General Council
Balloon race reports 14 down one missing Akron
Akron dispatch notes 14 of 15 starters reported down in the national elimination balloon race. The Scripps-Howard bag remains unaccounted for after being sighted near Winooski Vermont about 500 miles away. Other landings include United States Army No. 3 at Scott Field Illinois, Davey Tree Expert Company at Kent Ohio, Detroit Flying Club No. 3, Beddegold Maine, and Van Orman’s Goodyear entry near Bar Harbor Maine setting a 715 mile distance record.
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Scripps- Howard
Scripps-Howard
Winooski
United States Army No. 3
Scottfield
Illinois
Davey Tree Expert Company
Kent, O
Detroit Flying Club
Army
Beddegold
Maine
Ward T. van Orman
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Bar Harbor
van Orman
Davey Tree Company
Starucca
New York Line
Laconia
N. H
Congressman's Address Ends University Commencement
Congressman Burton L. French delivered the principal address at the university branch commencement this morning. The ceremony marked the close of graduation exercises with prizes awarded to students including Kenneth Henderson and Byron Dixon.
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Burton L. French
University Branch
J. E. Retherford
A. H. Upham
Moscow
Idaho
University of Idaho, Southern Branch
Pocatello
French
Spain to revert to parliamentary government under De Rivera
Madrid reports Premier Primo De Rivera vows to end the 1923 dictatorship with a national assembly chosen from various groups to draft a new constitution and electoral law granting universal suffrage. Parliament to meet September 13 to frame reforms and probe past administrations.
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Spain
Primo de Rivera
Patriotic Union
Premier de Rivera
Alhucemis
National Assembly
Europe
Peace groups swell after World War I in Omaha
Fred B. Smith, head of the World Alliance for International Friendship, told the National Congregational council in Omaha that nearly one hundred peace organizations formed after the war reflect a shift from war as a solution. He warned the world remains on a war footing despite hope in the League of Nations and the Hague tribunal as the council session closes.
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Neb
Fred B. Smith
New York
World Alliance For International Friendship
National Congregational Council
Smith
League of Nations
International Court of Justice
Hague Tribunal
Council
Umpires protected. station closes. peace bridge opens
A dispatch from Chicago reports increased penalties for insults to umpires by players with immediate suspensions. In Hastings Nebraska the KFKX radio station shut down at midnight after three and a half years of operation under NBC. Buffalo and Fort Erie mark the opening ceremonies of the new international peace bridge spanning the Niagara River.
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Neb
Westinghouse
KFKX
National Broadcasting Company
Buffalo
N. C
Niagara River
Fort Erie
Ont
Veteran actor John Drew suffers relapse in San Francisco
San Francisco on June 1 AP reports veteran actor John Drew aged 74 was taken to a sanitarium after a relapse. His physician said the date of his return to the stage is indefinite.
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San Francisco
John Drew
Drew
Guardsmen Fire On Florida Mob
Tampa reports say three men were killed and several wounded in two clashes with state troops around the Hillsborough county jail as 500 National Guardsmen held the area. The mob's violence followed the manhunt for B. F. Levins, said to have murdered five people.
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Tampa
Fla
Hal Pifer
Ocala
Blue
Hugh Edward McRae
Fort Williams
Ont
Earl McGill
B. F. Levins
Levins
Herman Merrell
Sumter L. Lowry
National Guard
W. E. Browning
Hillsborough County
Alleged Plot to Kill Millionaire and Kidnap Wife
Windsor Ontario June 1 AP An alleged plot to kill Joseph Kevinsky a Windsor millionaire and kidnap his wife and daughter was exposed by police with four arrests Hammond Hollister Frank Ward Arthur Leapage and Patrick O Shea all linked to a reputed Black Hand band The investigation began after Kevinsky said a $5 000 demand was made to prevent the murder kidnapping and bombing of his business and family
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Windsor
Ont
Joseph Kevinsky
Hammond Hollister
Detroit
Frank Ward
Arthur Leapage
Patrick O'Shea
Kevinsky
Record Lincoln Tomb May Visit Surges to All-Time Peak
Nearly 15,006 people visited the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield in May, a new monthly record. The figure surpasses May 1926 by 4,766 and May 1991 by 14,306, reflecting growing interest in the historic site.
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Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Canadian to Hop Off for London
Ottawa announces Captain E L Janney will launch a 3000 mile non stop flight June 30 from Ottawa to London. He will follow a south of Lindbergh route via Montreal Rimousky Trepassey Bay to Ireland then London. A radio operator will accompany but not assist. The craft will be a tri motor monoplane with ample supplies. Arrival hoped for Dominion Day.
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Ont
Charles A. Lindbergh
E. L. Janney
London
Lindbergh
Montreal
St. Lawrence River
Rimousky
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Trepassey Bay
N. F
Trepaessey
Ireland
Janney
Canada
Dominion
Fortune Won on Call Boy's Race Derby Victory Ties Fortunes
A Capetown dental mechanic Kilpatrick and his siblings in the United States gain from Call Boy's Derby win. He drew the Calcutta sweepstakes favorite worth 168000 pounds, paid four dollars for a ticket, sold half to a syndicate for 12000 pounds about 58000 dollars, securing a large profit.
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London
Kilpatrick
Capetown
South Africa
Call Boy
United States
Calcutta
Test of Hydraulic Drive for Autos in Kellogg Idaho
Trial of an automobile transmission using an oil propelled hydraulic drive for all gears and controls is planned for July in Kellogg Idaho. The mechanism, built in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smelting shop, is hailed by experts as a long sought application of hydraulic drive to cars.
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Kellogg
Idaho
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Smelting Company
Memphis cruiser to transport body of Rear Admiral Wadhams
The cruiser Memphis will carry the body of Rear Admiral A V Wadhams back to the United States from France. A veteran of the Navy he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1865 and served across the Pacific Atlantic and China stations. He commanded the eighth coast defense district during the Spanish War and later led the naval prison at Portsmouth New Hampshire. He was born in Wadhams Mills New York.
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Memphis
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
A. V. Wadhame
France
Navy Department
America
Admiral Wadhams
Navy
Naval Academy
Pacific
Atlantic
China
Spain
Eighth Coast Defense District
Naval
Portsmouth
N. H
Wadhams Mills
N. Y
Baseball Scores and Standings From National League and AL
A compilation of yesterday’s major league results with standout games. Philadelphia beat Pittsburg 7 4 after a seventh inning rally, while New York edged Philadelphia 2 1. Dugan’s ninth inning single powered the Yankees over the Athletics 2 1. Cleveland routed Detroit 14 3, and Boston defeated Washington 6 1 in a productive day of action.
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Dugan
Paschal
New York Yankees
Athletics
U S Policy in Nicaragua Questioned by Baptist Leader
Chicago June 1 AP A Rev Charles S Detweiler New York superintendent of Latin American work for the American Baptist Home Mission society criticized official US policy toward Erexico and Nicaragua before the Northern Baptist convention He urged sympathy for Mexicans Nicaraguans and other Latin Americans in their religious and political liberty struggles He faulted the State Department for a lack of sympathy with Mexico's social program and for accusing it of promoting Bolshevism He linked US Mexico tensions to attitudes toward Nicaragua and internal affairs
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United States
Erexico
Nicaragua
Northern Baptist Convention
Charles S. Detweiler
New York
American Baptist Home Mission Society
Mexico
Detweller
State Department
United
Lindbergh to be welcomed home by Coolidge on Memphis
President Coolidge will greet Charles A. Lindbergh in Washington on June 11 aboard the cruiser Memphis. Lindbergh accepts the invitation to land near the Capitol with full honors, with plans to bring The Spirit of St Louis and depart the White House area before the president's June 13 trip to the Black Hills. The Memphis will navigate from the Virginia capes up the Chesapeake Bay to the Potomac for the ceremony.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
White House
Atlantic
America
Memphis
Coolidge
Lindbergh
Breck
Black Hills
South Dakota
Virginia Capes
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac
Congress Plans Flood Relief and Tax Cuts
Washington June 1 AP Congress plans flood relief and tax reduction legislation to be considered in the next session. Speaker Longworth met with President Coolidge and pledged hearty sympathy for Mississippi flood sufferers and for future prevention. He noted committee studies before action and said flood control hearings will involve house and senate committees to enable quick action when the flood control panel is named.
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Washington
Congress
Longworth
Coolidge
House
House Flood Control Committee
Senate Commerce Committee
Earth Shocks Felt Along New Jersey Coast
Three earthquakes rattled a 60 mile stretch from Toms River to Sandy Hook in New Jersey. Chimneys toppled in Long Branch with no major damage. Seisms were recorded at Fordham University as towns reacted to rumbling and initial fears of explosions.
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Ashbury Park
N. J
New Jersey
Toms River
Sancy Hook
Long Branch
Fordham University
New York
Purnell Accused of Mistreating Girls In Colony Case
Esther Hansel, former House of David member, testifies in Michigan dissolution suit that Benjamin Purnell, colony leader, mistreated young women. She recounts an incident of alleged molestation in the presence of Purnell's wife. Defense argues accusers seek financial gain after leaving the colony. Hansel calls Purnell a schemer and trickster.
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St. Joseph, Mich. James
Esther Hansel
House of David
Benjamin Purnell
J. W. Barnard
Purnell
Benjamin
Barnard
Flo
Ontario lifts prohibition as liquor sales begin in Windsor
Windsor Ont June 1 AP Prohibition ends at 10 am and two government stores open attracting about 200 permit holders at one outlet and smaller crowds at the other. Americans form a small share while officials enforce orders against demonstrations and public drinking as new liquor act starts.
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Windsor
Ont
Ontario
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