London Capital Secures Vast Russian Grant
Moscow reports Lena Goldfields of London sought a 50 year concession to exploit 1 500 000 acres of gold silver copper and lead in Siberia's Lem Altai and Sissert districts. The deal envisions New York banking and mining participation, multi hundred million dollar turnover, and millions in equipment with British American staff.
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Moscow
Lena Goldfield
Lema
Altai
Sissert
Siberia
New York
Lena Goldfields Company
Russian Mining Corporation, Ltd
Altai Mines, Ltd
Sissert Company
Lem Goldfields Company
Europe
Asia
Lena
Kuzenetsk
Irals
Lena River
Treasury abandons push to boost silver dollar circulation
The Treasury admits defeat in increasing silver dollar use. Despite a May campaign led by Assistant Secretary Dewey and $10 million spent, the old cartwheel coins failed to gain acceptance, with current silver dollar circulation around 50 million.
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Washington
Treasury
Dewey
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Canada Moves to Exclusion Bill over Oriental Immigration
A mass meeting in Vancouver urged Premier William King to draft a bill excluding all Orientals from Canada. The resolution, adopted by the Oriental Exclusion association, was sent to McKenzie King for parliamentary action.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canada
The
Oriental Exclusion Association
William McKenzie King
Shocks Reported Near Adana Turkey
Violent earthquakes struck near Adana in Turkey today, with reports reaching Constantinople about the tremors and their effects in the region.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Adana
Southern Pacific reports 1924 net income decline
Julius Kruttschnitt announces in the annual report that 1924 net railway operating income fell by 6,491,445, contributing largely to a 4,976,000 rise in labor and material costs and a 1,671,000 increase in depreciation and retirement equipment. Despite higher traffic and efficiency, the rate of return sits at 3.99 percent, with expenses trimmed in maintenance and fuel use.
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New York
Southern Pacific Company
Amell
Julius Kruttschnitt
Silk Hat John Hurley Weds Bride After Poem Wins Her
Hampton Virginia May 1 John F Silk Hat John Hurley 80 former mayor of Salem Massachusetts and his bride formerly Miss Catherine A Driscoll 52 of Itford Connecticut honeymooning on the Virginia peninsula. Hurley displayed the poem that won his bride and she recalls reading it and deciding he was the man she wanted after a brief correspondence leading to their marriage.
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Hampton
John F
Silk Hat
John" Hurley
Salem
Mass
Catherine A. Driscoll
Itford
Religion in Army Chief Chaplain Axton to visit 22 posts
Colonel James L. Axton, chief of army chaplains, departed to visit 22 posts and stations across the southwest west and Pacific coast. The War Department said the trip aims to magnify religion in the army strengthen local moral and spiritual programs and collect material to improve the chaplains corps.
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ARMY
Washington
James L. Axton
Army Chaplains
Southwest
West
Pacific Coast
War Department
El Paso Mayor R. M. Dudley Dies After Illness
El Paso Texas May 1 AP Mayor R M Dudley head of the Mexico and Northwestern railway and prominent southwest builder died this morning following an operation for a serious stomach ailment. Dudley had served as mayor and was a noted building contractor.
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EL Paso
Texas
R. M. Dudley
The
Mexico and Northwestern Railway
Dudley
Denver Rotary to Pause for Rain Prayer
The Denver Rotary Club voted to suspend regular business for two minutes at noon next Wednesday for a statewide rain prayer aimed at easing Colorado drought. Members will bow heads to seek rain and aid farmers.
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Denver
Big
Colorado
Denver Rotary Club
Iron Hindenburg Recovered For Scrap After War Fame
Berlin May 1 AP The Iron Hindenburg statue once hammered for nails during the war was dismantled after the revolution. Directors of the Tiergarten sought removal, the fundless Triadic Society could not pay transport, and a Berlin architect bought the statue for one gold mark. The head was stored awaiting a future display but fungus damage ruined the relic.
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Berlin
Hndenberg
Tiergarten
Triatic Society
Transporta
Three Slayers Get the Chair at Sing Sing
Morris Diamond Joseph Diamond and John Farina were executed at Sing Sing for the 1923 Brooklyn murder of bank messengers William Bartow and William McLaughlin. Pantano awaits execution. Cesaro is in Italy awaiting trial. The trio left the scene with $43,607.
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Ossining
N. Y
Morris Diamond
Joseph Diamond
John Rare
Sing Sing
Brooklyn
Morris
Joseph
John Farina
Farina
Anthony Pantano
Iris
George Cesaro
Italy
Palermo
Pantano
Wm. Bartow
William McLaughlin
Man seeks refund on unused marriage license
Seth Baker filed a claim with the How ard county auditor for a two dollar refund on a marriage license obtained last January but never used. The county clerk refused to return the money and the county attorney says payment requires an appropriation. The county council was unable to explain the denial.
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KK Ind
Seth Baker
Howard County
Baker
German Lutheran wedding repeats vows in two tongues
In Greenfield Indiana on May 1 Reverend J A Starke presided over a wedding where the German bride Miss Marthe Gairies and Croatian groom Peter D Skorneys repeated the ceremony in two languages so both could understand the vows.
Body of Dr Dillon Found At Francis Field
The body of 55 year old Dr William A Dillon was found on a cinder track at Francis Field Washington University. A bullet hole was found in the head and another in the right knee. Police believed he was slain as no weapon was found and it was unclear if he was killed there or elsewhere. He was not connected with Washington University.
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St. Louis
William A. Dillon
Francis Field
Washington University
Dillon
Rain spoiled Hatfield plan in New Orleans
New Orleans May 1 AP Charles M Hatfield of Los Angeles famed as a rain maker waited days for a committee decision on his offer to produce two inches of rain in seven days for $8000. Rain fell as the committee rejected the proposal and Hatfield prepared to return home. Dr I M Cline cautioned against haste noting May\'s heavy rainfall tendency.
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New Orleans
Charles M. Hatfield
Los Angeles
I. M. Cline
Hatfield
Louisiana
Mississippi
Hatsae
Werner
Attempt on King Boris’s Life Sparks Security Alert
A guard uncovered a subterranean passage and explosive fuse aimed at the royal palace. The Peasants' Party Journal denies involvement and condemns such crimes. Sofia police report a covert communist printing press found in a dentist's office.
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Peasants’ Party
Boris
Moscow
Sofia
Court martial opens for cathedral bombing in Sofia
In Sofia on May 1 the court martial convened to try those charged with the Sveti Kral cathedral bombing of April 1 which killed 160. Three colonels sit as jurists with a captain prosecutor and two captain defense attorneys. Sacristan Freedman and Communist Petrina are the only defendants alive. others were killed or fled. The hall at the artillery barracks was crowded with local and foreign correspondents.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Sveti Kral
Petrina
Abducted Girl Rescued After Week-Long Manhunt in Vermont
In Randolph Vermont a German police dog led authorities to a South Brookfield barn where 11 year old Lucille Chatterton was found with farm hand Earl Woodward a former convict who had abducted her from Granville last Friday night The capture ended a week of armed posse searches in wooded mountain townships Woodward surrendered after claim that the child feared her father and the pair had been without food since yesterday morning as posse seized their camping supplies
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Randolph
South Brookfield
Earl Wodeward
Lucille Chatterton
Granville
Woodward
Walter Chatterton
Lucile
Prince of Wales Drives Ox Wagon in Capetown Welcome
In Capetown on May 1 the Prince of Wales rode an ox wagon through crowds of university students and led a parade to the city hall where he was ceremoniously installed chancellor of the University of Cape Town. The event featured student songs and playful ragging including an effigy of Ramsay MacDonald and a hen in university colors.
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Capetown
Union of South Africa
Prince of Wales
Uiversity
University of Capetown
Government House
Government Houses
Edward
Ramsay McDonald
Ted
Prines of
Wales
Aver
David
Albert
Cian
Dodge Deal Is Closed Up in $146 Million Sale
Detroit May 1 AP The final step in the Dodge Brothers Inc sale to Dillon Read Co New York bankers occurred as owners handed over deeds and papers. A telephoned note from New York confirmed Charles P Spicer Detroit Trust Co received a $146 000 000 check representing the total net purchase price.
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Detroit
Dodge Brothers, Inc
Dillon, Read & Co
New York
Charles P. Spicer
Detroit Trust Company
Dodge
Montgomery Ward April Sales Hit New High
Montgomery Ward & Co reported April sales of 14,528,116 dollars, the largest April total in company history and up 5.76 percent from April 1924. For January through April 1925, sales reached 55,935,281 dollars, up 8.4 percent from the same period in 1924, marking the thirty-ninth straight month of year over year gains.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
England Receives Wright Airplane Relic From America
Dayton May 1 AP The Times museum at South Kensington England will permanently house the original Wright airplane created by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The plane, which made the 1903 flight, will be sent across the Atlantic after concerns about U S trust and fire risk and after Langley related controversy. Wright noted the machine retains most of its original parts and will join England's aviation exhibits.
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Dayton
Times Museum
South Kensington
England
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Atlantic
Orville Wright
Langley
Wright
America
Increase Shown in Divorce Record
Washington May 1 AP reports the census bureau shows an 11 percent rise in divorces from 1922 to 1923 alongside an 8.4 percent rise in marriages. There were 1,224,373 marriages and 165,226 divorces nationwide in 1923. The marriages per 100,000 population aged 15 and over reached 16.22, while divorces per 100,000 married persons stood at 360.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Identification of Gary girl believed solved in grisly murder
Authorities confirmed Mrs Josephine Desiderio 21, of Gary, as the burned mutilated body found near Chesterton after her mother Mrs Genero and friend Sam Ross identified her. Ross, questioned, said he last saw her with another girl and two men in a car. additional identifications surfaced from Myrtle Winstell’s aunt and other leads, while a second body of a Stockton railroad worker was found nearby. Police pursued sightings of two men carrying a woman into a car before they lost track.
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Gary
Ind
Chesterton
Josephine Desiderio
Rard Genero
Sam Ross
Itve
Ross
New York
She
James Shela
Stockton
Genera
Lee Stowell
North Liberty
Myrtle Winstell
Winstell
Four Crown
Josephine Desidiro
William J. Smurdon
Balloon Race Officials Confirm Schedule Amid Gusty Winds
In St. Joseph Missouri May 1 officials announced the national elimination balloon race would start at 5:30 PM despite high winds. Only two balloons were fully inflated while others were half filled and weighted to endure gusts.
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St. Joseph
Quakes on Coast Stir LA Residents at 1:17 AM
Slight earthquakes were felt in Los Angeles at 1 17 am. Light sleepers awakened by rattling windows and dishes flooded newspapers with inquiries but no damage was reported.
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Los Angeles
May Day Quiet in Italy as New York Raids
Rome reports May Day calm across Italy despite police and fascist militia patrols in major cities. Raids and arrests continued nationwide. In Rieti, fifteen people were rounded up for a meeting and three found armed. Florence police seized seventeen workers and commnist materials. Fiume saw two arrests and seized correspondence from the communist international. Milan raids captured several individuals and thousands of suspected seditious documents.
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Rome
Italy
Rieti
Florence
Fiume
The
Communist Internationale
Milan
Mexico City Takes Day Off Strike Echo Spreads to New York
May Day demonstrations ripple across North America with Mexico City and New York reporting street actions, pamphleteering arrests, and police guarding public buildings. Workers' Party raid in Manhattan seeks search warrants and official orders as organizers face scrutiny.
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New York
Peace Sanaes
Saver
Foster
Enright
Wreck Near Stargard Prussia Kills Dozens
A May 1 derailment near Stargard Berlin in Prussia killed about forty people. whether accidental or an act by political malcontents remains unclear. A Russian economic mission led by Dr. Markoff was aboard, adding a possible political motive. The third and fourth cars telescoped, many were killed or injured, and some bodies and limbs were found far from the wreck.
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Stargard
Prussia
Eydtkuhenen-Berlin
Markoff
Russian Economic Institute
Baltic States
Phillies Beat Boston Braves on Triple Play
Philadelphia Nationals turned a triple play in the sixth inning to defeat Boston, with ONeill feeding Welch who threw to Henline to retire Ett at second and Henline to Fonseca. In American games, New York topped Boston 7 to 5, St Louis beat Chicago 13 to 9, Philadelphia edged Washington 9 to 1, and Detroit defeated Cleveland 7 to 8 in a rough pitching duel.
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Brooklyn
New York
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Philies
Boston Braves
Philadelphia Nationals
Boston Raves
O'Neill
Bhultz
Henline
Ing Welch
Ett
Fonaca
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Boviet
Teer Department
Pacific
Kruttschnitt
Ernestine Clark
E. P. Clark
Cook County
William D. Shepherd
South Africa
Britain
Man Friend
Mexico
Mexico City
Boston
Hart
Pennock and O'Neill
Picinich
RHSB
Springer
Gaston
Bush
Dixon
Kego
Lyons
Thurston and Crouse
Baungainer
Grover
Rommel
Cochrane
Perkins
Zachary
Buel
Cleveland
Stoner
Cole, Wells
Karr
Shaute and Myatt
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