Chief Makes Threat To Harm Captives In Shantung Hills
Shanghai May 14 AP Max Friedman mentions his brother Leon Friedman among foreign captives held by Chinese bandits in Shantung hills. Father William Lenfers an aged German priest of Liencheng traversed rough terrain to visit prisoners and report to bandit leaders. He wrote of illness and fatigue after a night trek to a brigand village. The priest belongs to the Mission Order of the Divine Word based in Techny.
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Shanghai
Max Friedman
Leon Friedman
Shantung Hills
William Lenfers
Liencheng
Pris
Father Leafers
Mission Order of the Divine Word
Techny
May Release of Captives in Chinese Rail Robbery
A Peking conference between railway bandits and the government led to an agreement to release some captives immediately and free the rest when terms are met. The bandit chief warned consuls that captives would be killed within two days if demands are unmet.
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Peking
Ministry of Communications
Leincheng
Captives In China Include Six Americans
British foreign office reports from China list fifteen captives, including six Americans, one Italian, one Frenchman, and five British nationals. The only remaining woman is the wife of an American who refuses to abandon her husband.
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London
Informarain
British Foreign Office
China
Southern Pacific reports 1922 earnings and costs
New York May 14 AP Net railway operating income for 1922 rose to 46,222,846 with total railroad property and proprietary company income at 32,600,150. The report cites oil fuel use and loyal shop staff during strikes, cites a 3,500,000 strike cost, and notes canal rate competition and interstate rules affecting pricing.
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New York
Wnet
Southern Pacific Company
Julius Kruttachnitz
Kruttschnitt
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Pesci Canal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Corpoate
Russian Note to Britain Has Peaceful Tone
London May 14. British officials see Moscow's reply as avoiding rupture and showing a near about face. The British government is open to talks with Krassin or another envoy while Lord Curzon demands full reparation and a concise explanation rather than protracted discussion.
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London
Moscow
Great Britain
Leonid Krassin
Lord Curzon
No Grounds for Complaint amid Soviet Note to Britain
London reports printed from Moscow under the Daily Herald outline the Soviet reply to Lord Curzon. The note proposes a plenipotentiaries conference to discuss Anglo Russian relations and seeks a general understanding. It argues Russia has displayed equal grounds for complaint and cites fabricated British charges, while offering to abide by conference decisions on the three mile limit and noting Britain released British trawlers as a gesture of goodwill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Moscow
Daily Herald
Lord Curzon
Russia
Herald
Russia notes conciliatory in British dispute
Moscow reports a conciliatory Soviet note to Great Britain proposing a conference to discuss secondary issues and recognize mutual relations. It cites errors in British charges about propaganda, defends aid to its Persia representative, and disavows responsibility for war, offering arbitration as a path.
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Moscow
Russia
Great Britain
England
Ussia
Persia
Charred bodies of two fliers recovered
Remains of Col Francis Marshall of Darlington Wisconsin and Lt Charles Webber, Denver area, were identified by army officers and press, after their plane crashed on a pine forest slope near Cuyamaca mountain east of San Diego on December 7 last.
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San Diego
Cuyamacn Mountain
Here
Francis Marshall
Chares Webber
Qen
Webber
Rev
S. A. Webber
Denver
Associated Press
Marshall
Darlington
Wis
Army
Henry Arnold
Rockwell Field
G. W. McCain
Marshal
Lieutenant Webber
Tucson
Ariz
Pirates Seize Chinese Steamer Taishan Near Swatow
European passengers were terrorized on the Taishan when pirates disguised as travelers overpowered the crew near Swatow. After sailing all night in darkness for 24 hours they abandoned the ship at a creek and transferred loot worth 60 000 dollars to a junk. The chief officer was wounded and hospitalized. cargo remained untouched.
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Hongkong
Swatow
Shanghai
Western Pioneer Alex Toponce Dies in Ogden Utah
Alex Toponce a western pioneer aged 84 died at his Ogden home after a life as freighter miner and stockman He planned a reminiscence book recalling vigilante days in Montana and Echo Canyon episodes He joined John Ston es army to Utah and was a 54 year Mason funeral services set for Wednesday in the Masonic temple His widow Kate Toponce was the second white girl born in Salt Lake and survives him.
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Ogden
Utah
Alex Toponce
Buffalo
N. Y
Gray's River
Wyoming
Montana
Johnston
Echo Canyon
Irish champ visits New York
May 14 AP says Mike McTigue, the euro light heavyweight champion who beat Battling Siki, went to Chicago last night to be the guest of the Affiliated Societies of America in New York for a visit and event.
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New York
Mike McTigue
Battling Siki
Chicago
Affiliated Societies of America
Stock schemes involve Mrs Myrtie Bowman and others
Charles B Manville testifies in New York that Mrs Myrtie Bowman and associates used his name without consent as president of Century Consolidated II to promote a 27 999 000 stock selling campaign. He identifies Mrs Ives, Mrs Cora Stetson Butler, Walter B Clarke and others as participants. several defendants face future trial for mail fraud in oil stock sales.
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New York
Myrtie Bowman
Thes M. Schwab
Charles B. Manville
John Mansville
Hayes
Century Consolidated 11 Company
Ives
Cora Stetson Butler
Walter B. Clarke
Clarke
Butler
Boston
Ernest E. Phillips
Kansas City
D. L Peters
Los Angeles
Suspected writer of scandal letters linked to music publisher
New York May 14 AP A woman is named as the suspected author of scurrilous letters targeting George Maxwell internationally known music publisher Maxwell, president of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, says he long suspected the writer and will face indictment. Officers note Maxwell could not sign the letters and recount a Havana Miami trip where accused letters were exchanged with a New York recipient.
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New York
George Maxne
A A. Ryan
Albert R. Gallantin
Maxwell
Anton
London
Rican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Mastwell
Avana
Havana
Miami
Fla
Newry
Six drown trying to avoid wild car in Mississippi crash
Six youths, three men and three women, drowned last night at Campbells Island on the Mississippi River near Rock Island Illinois after leaping from a trestle to avoid a street car whose operator lost control. One body was recovered.
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Rock Island, Ills
Mississippi River
Campbells Island
Monefter
Texas Twister Toll Climbs In Colorado Area
A massive tornado and hail swept a 15 by 1 mile rural stretch near Colorado Springs Texas. Officials fear about fifty dead and around six hundred injured as relief workers converge including doctors and nurses from nearby towns. The storm damaged homes crops and infrastructure across the farming region.
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Colorado
Texas
Big Springs
Colorado City
Here
J. H. Green
Red Cross
Tornado Hits Spade Ranch Area Killing Several
A tornado struck the Spade Ranch south of Colorado Texas moving a 25 mile path through Mitchell County injuring and killing multiple residents including Jon Richburg and his two children. Reports list T KE Willis Ottis Willis Joe Willis and eight Tidewell family members among the dead. Westbrook and Loraine suffered fatalities while three miles of Southeastern Telephone lines were down and railroad ties were scattered.
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Abilene
Texas
Jon Richburg
Spade Ranch
Colorado
Mitchell County
Loraine
T. KE. Willis
Ottis Illis
Joe Willis
Henri Tidewell
Westbrook
Shelton
Southeastern Telephone and Telegraph Company
Texas & Pacific
Sweetwater
Glory of the Seas Burned on Beach
The famous old clipper Glory of the Seas burned on the beach at Ber iie yesterday after preservation efforts failed. Built in East Boston in 1869 by Donald McKay she once made a Havre to San Francisco voyage in ninety days a record for its class.
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Boston
Donald McKay
Havre
France
Horn
San Francisco
Six Killed in Plane Crash on Paris London Route
In Conty France on May 14 six people died when a passenger plane en route Paris London wrecked at Mon sours village midway between Amiens and Beauvais. Among the dead were New York businessman Mr Schwab French pilot machinist engineer an English woman and another male passenger.
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Conty
France
Mons
Schwab
New York
London
Monsours
Here
Amiens
Beauvais
Sehwab
German note deemed inadequate as talks urged new proposals
London and Rome report reactions to Germany reparations note. Lord Curzon warns the offer is insufficient and calls for more precise guarantees while hinting Germany may expand proposals for future discussion. Italy echoes disappointment and says terms fall far below Britain’s Paris conference plan.
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London
Lord Curzon
Germany
Morning Post
Ruhr
Berlin
Rome
Great Britain
Italy
Paris
Pay Increase Requests Filed By Rail Maintenance Workers
Two requests for pay raises from two to fifteen cents an hour were filed with the United States labor board today by maintenance of way employees on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass and Western Pacific railroads.
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Chicago
United States Labor Board
San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass
Western Pacific
Montana selects Billings U.S. marshal after conference
Representative Leavitt of Montana said following a conference with President Harding that the Jackson executive appoints the city of Billings as United States marshal for Montana.
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Montana
Washington
Leavitt
Harding
Billings
United States
Twin Falls approves giant reservoir bonds and contract
May 14 Twin Falls Idaho votes 5101 to 522 against bond issue and 6027 to 46 for contract with federal government on the American Falls reservoir. Citizens celebrate as railroad funding is discussed and government cost shares arranged for the large water storage project.
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Twin Falls
American Falls
Casey
Caccanes
PUIMM
Ereld
TLV Tee
Springfield
Shad L.as
Twin
John W. “Ordam
J. Biggoe
J A. Walters
Minidoka
Nile
Euphrates
Influenza Epidemic Strikes Natives on Alaska Peninsula
The Haida reports an influenza outbreak among western peninsula natives with eight deaths in King Cove Sannick Island and Belkofsky. Morzhovoi is nearly all ill. crew aid includes food medicine burial and a medical officer. The Haida aided the Libby McNeill and Libby San Juan after grounding near Dutch Harbor.
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St. Paul
Pribiloff Islands
Associated Press
Alaska
United States
King Cove
Sannick Island
Belkofsky
Morzhovoi
Libby
Mc Neil
San Juan
Dutch Harbor
Cape Mardvine
Unimak Island
Bristol Bay
Morzhovol
Lost Harbor
Akutan Island
Fale
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Ridgewood
N. J
Britain
Chine
Myrtle B. Hayes
Magnate
Fort Worth
Santa Fe
Temple
Guy Flenner
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