Sun Yat Sen claims complete rout of opposing forces at Canton
In an AP interview Sun Yat Sen says Canton forces have routed the opposing armies on the north and west rivers and are pressuring Chen Chiung Mings troops on the East river. He reveals a plan to make Canton a free port and abolish maritime customs, while developing a port near the city. Yeh Kung Cheo to join as finance minister amid financial anxiety.
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Canton
Associated Press
Sun Yat Sen
South China
Sun
Kwangtung
Dr. Sun
Shinhing
Chen Chiung
Law Resigns Premiership in Britain
Britain awaits a new premier after Andrew Bonar Law’s resignation. King George in Aldershot offered no candidate, with Earl Curzon and Stanley Baldwin as leading possibilities. Bonar Law’s doctors reported a minor throat operation and unchanged condition.
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London
Great Britain
George
Aldershot
Andrew Bonar Law
Earl Curzon
Stanley Baldwin
Bonar Law
Poincare Sends Regrets Over Bonar Law Resignation
In Paris Premier Poincare telegraphed his regrets to Prime Minister Bonar Law on his resignation. France values the alliance and your role in upholding the treaty of Versailles, despite method differences, and remains grateful for recognizing pacific intentions.
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Paris
Poincare
Bonar Law
France
Havig Nten
Repara
Reg
Utah loses case in tailings tax ruling
The Utah Supreme Court holds tailings from a mine are not subject to three times the value taxation under Utah statutes. South Utah Mines and Smelter challenged Beaver County on the tailings used to value the mine for taxation. The case focuses on the sale of tailings to Utah Leasing company and the resulting tax assessment.
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Washington
Utah
Supreme Court
South Utah
Beaver
Uteh Leasing Company
Utah Leasing Company
Utah State of Equalization
South
Supreme Court Lets Hart Vaudeville Case Proceed
The Supreme Court ruled that Max Hart's charges in a vaudeville producing trust are reviewable by lower federal courts and ordered the New York federal district court to conduct a trial on the merits.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Max Hart
Federal District Court of New York
Illinois Boys Flirt With Themselves
Waukegan, May 21. H Vantrunk of Waukegan was arraigned in Zion court on a charge tied to anti flirting ordinance after police said he hugged himself as if dancing in a crowd of Zion girls. Faust Marks of Kenosha Wisconsin was fined five dollars for waving at two Zion girls.
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Waukegan
Ills
Zion
H. Vantrunk
Faust/Marks
Kenosha
Wis
Old Seventh Wins Victory In Paper War
Vancouver Wash May 21 AP Today the Seventh Infantry at Vancouver Barracks set aside to celebrate two victories. One at the battle of New Orleans in 1812 war and a recent affair involving the War Department in Washington as adviser. The War Department had questioned the regiment’s role in New Orleans until it recognized the claim. Col T M Anderson commanded the Seventh and ordered a celebration with a track meet a ball game and dancing.
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Vancouver
Wash
Seventh Infantry
Vancouver Barrack
New Orleans
War Department
Washington
Andrew Jackson
Seventh
T. M. Aderson
Greece Ready Fight It Out
Lausanne May 21 AP reports Greek foreign minister Alexiadis telling correspondents that Greece will accept the gage of battle if Turkey insists on war over the indemnity. Greek delegates may withdraw from the Near East conference this week should Turkey persist in reparations demands.
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Lausanne
Turkey
Greece
M. Alexandris
Clara Phillips Seeks to Evade Extradition in Honduras
In Tegucigalpa on May 21, Clara Phillips, famed as the California hammer murderess, hopes extradition papers will fail. She and sister Etta May Jackson are jailed and have given minimal statements. Honduran authorities fluctuated on release before U.S. ministers intervened to block any escape aid.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Clara Phillips
California
Los Angeles
Etta May Jackson
Jackson
Stillman Divorce Case Exposé Ends In Ambiguity
Florence Leeds says she will not pursue court action for support for her son Jay Leeds and may return to work if funds run out. She notes financier James Stillman abandoned her and show business remains uncertain after the Stillman divorce case. Mrs Stillman offered to host Jay, but Leeds declines while praising the banker’s wife for sympathy.
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New York
Florence Leeds
Jay Leeds
Stillman
James Stillman
Associated Press
Miss Leeds
Teeda
Annet. Stillman
Church Rejects Move to Withdraw From Federal Council
In Montreal North Carolina on May 21 AP reports the Southern Presbyterian church rejected a proposal urged by W M Fairley of El Paso Texas to withdraw from the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America Fairley accused Catholics of government interference and praised the Ku Klux Klan while opposing church ties to the Klan.
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Montreal
N. C
Southern Presbyterian Church Today
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
W. M. Fairley
el Paso
Texas
Council
Fairiey
Federal Council
Soviet envoy Vorovsky buried in simple Kremlin ceremony
The body of Vaslav Vorovsky, Soviet representative at Lausanne, assassinated May 10, was buried last night beside the Kremlin walls. A crowd filled the square for a plain communist ceremony with no religious rites, and John Reed’s grave nearby was noted.
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Moscow
Vaslav Vorovsky
Kremelin
John Reed
Communist Party of
Veteran Newspaper Publisher George W McAdams Dies
George W McAdams aged 91, a veteran newspaper publisher from Iowa, died yesterday in Beverly Hills, a Chicago suburb. His career spanned decades in Midwest journalism.
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Chicago
George W. McAdams
Iowa
Beverly Hills
Treasury Revokes Income Tax Exemption Ruling
Washington May 21 The Treasury revoked a two week old decision that cooperatives dividends were exempt from income tax on profits earned before March 1 1913 The reversal affects millions of dollars in taxes and settles prior rulings.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Bandits Release Mrs Verea as Fourteen Prisoners Remain
London reports from Shanghai that Mrs. Manuel Verea has been freed by brigands while fourteen male prisoners still held by the bandits endure harsh conditions. Mrs. Verea arrived exhausted in Shanghai.
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London
Shanghai
Manuel Verea
Government wins in copper tax case at Supreme Court
The federal government can compel payment of assessed taxes and protested amounts must be recovered by suit later. The Supreme Court laid down the principle in a case brought by the government against Alfred I. Dupont.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Alred I. Du‘pent
Communists in Germany Prompt Mines to Close
Essen reports seven Dortmund district coal mines shut down due to communist wage agitation. About 32,000 miners strike while 10,000 more are barred from work. A Dortmund rally of 6,000 communists vowed to press demands, claiming Moscow aid and bread shipments. Trade unions urge calm as fear grows of broader mine shutdowns in the Ruhr.
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Essen
Dortmund
Stinnes
Moscow
Ruhr
Petrograd
Bremen
Boschum
Harding Plans Speaking Dates For Western Trip
President Harding plans his first post Alaska address in Seattle and a speech in San Francisco on August 2. He may stop at Yosemite while traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The plans were finalized in talks with Frank Loomis and William Humphrey.
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Washington
Harding
Alaska
Seattle
San Francisco
Yosemite National Park
Los Angeles
Frank B. Loomis
Standard Oil Company
California
William E. Humphrey
Pocatello Woman Dies After Car Crash Near Ft. Hall
Mrs Victoria Van Loan, 61, wife of Jardin Van Loan of 1109 North Arthur, died at a local hospital from injuries after a Sunday afternoon crash on the Yellowstone highway near the Ft Hall Indian school ten miles north of Pocatello. Her companion Mrs T R Frazier remains in critical condition with skull and ankle injuries.
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Victora van
Jardin van Loan
North Arthur
Yellowstone Highway
Ft. Hail Indian School
Pocatello
van Loan
T. R. Frazier
Roosevelt Avenue
North Pocatello
Lynn Hospital
Kir
Mr. Frazier
Frazier
Steel industry sales slump marks first month of weak demand
AP reports that fabricated steel shipments for the month fell to 176,964 tons, only eighty percent of capacity, below March’s 95 percent and April’s 85 percent. Since December, the utilization rate had risen and then slipped, with November 49 and December 60 followed by January 75 and February 95.
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Merce Department
Railroad Appeal Thrown Out by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court dismissed for want of jurisdiction the appeal of Union Stock Yards Co Omaha from a decision holding it liable as initial carrier in a shipment from Omaha to Edinburgh Ind The company had argued liability shifted after turning the shipment over to connecting firms and after its lease ended
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Washington
Supreme Court
Union Stock Yards Company
Maha
Omaha
Edinburg
Ind
Five mast sailing ship Elinor H missing after 45 days
In San Francisco reporting May 21 AP signals fear for the crew of the five mast vessel Elinor H and its 15 or more crew. The ship overdue from New Castle Australia to Honolulu since 45 days with no word of whereabouts. The barkentine Amy Turner foundered after typhoon in mid Pacific. Elinor H is believed to have met the same fate and crew likely perished.
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San Francisco
New Castle
Australia
Honolulu
Amy Turner
mid-Pacific
Government can compel payment for wartime copper
The Supreme Court ruled the government cannot be forced to pay more than 23.5 cents per pound for copper it bought during the war. L Vogelstein & Co sought 26.58 cents per pound for 12,542,857 pounds of copper. The Court of Claims previously favored the government.
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Washington
Supreme Court
L. Vogelstein and Company
Court of Claims
Poppy Day Poppies Labeled Made in Germany Spark Legion Debate
In Cedar Rapids Indiana American Legion post finds red paper poppies labeled Made in Germany raising plans to burn them. The group had scheduled a meeting to decide action and reports indicate other firms use similar labeling on poppies.
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Cedar Rapids
American Legion
Germany
the Legion
Day resigns as umpire of claims body
William R. Day former assistant justice of the supreme court resigned as umpire of the mixed claims commission citing the enormous workload and the need for a younger stronger leader. The $1.478 billion in claims and ongoing settlement efforts were noted as reasons for the immediate departure. Eddie B. Parker (Texas) was mentioned as a potential replacement.
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Washington
William R. Day
Supreme Court
Harding
Mixed Claims Commission
Day
Commission
Creares
Claims Commission
Berlin
Justice Day
United States
Germany
Mixed Claims Committee
Robert C. Morris
Federal Reserve Officials Discuss Credit Conditions
Washington May 21 The Federal Reserve System advisory council opened meetings focusing on credit conditions and broad economic problems. Discussions covered banking credit and the general economic climate amid calls from Boston and Atlanta banks to operate reserve agencies in Havana Cuba.
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Federal Reserve
Washington
Federal Reserve System
Advisory Council
Boston
Atlanta
Havana
Cuba
Court Upholds Nixon and Son Conviction
San Francisco May 21 AP report upholds the conviction of S M Nixon and Bert L Nixon on charges of conspiring to defraud Edward Sherer of his homestead holdings in Trenout county Idaho. They were fined $509 each and sentenced to one day in jail.
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San Francisco
S. M. Nixon
Bert L Nixon
Roen
Edward UH. Sherer
Trenout County
Idaho
United States
Intermission of Foreigners Pressed Amid Mountain Bandits
News from Tientsin reports continued intermittent firing as General Ting's mission, seeking captives' release, surrounds the Padsuku stronghold with two brigades on the east. Bandits guard prisoners atop an impregnable 200 foot summit while provisions move to the captives. Senora Verea, a Mexican woman, endured a perilous escape with captives through mud and night to reach relief and then Shanghai, remaining determined to stay with her husband.
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Tientsin
Padsuku
Ting
Paetsuku
Senora Verea
Tsoncwang
Lienchez
Shanghai Express
Diplomatic Corps Probes China On Bandit Crisis
In Peking on May 21 the diplomatic corps received word that troops fired on Shantung bandits. They drafted a note urging China to reconcile freeing foreign captives with actions since that pledge. The foreign office lacks a head pending parliament action on Wellington Koo’s presidential appointment. Marcel O’Berbue of Shanghai delivered the bandits’ ultimatum to the government.
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Peking
Shantung
Imm
Foreign Office
Wellington Koo
Diplomatic Corps
Marcel O’berbue
Shanghai
Bandits Distrust Chinese Officials
Dr Martens reports from Shanghai that fourteen foreigners held by bandits in the Shangtung mountains favor forceful intervention for their release. The dispatch notes bandits distrust officials and hints at continued coverage on page seven.
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Shanghai
Martens
Shangtung
Dr. Martens
Coal Prices Seen Rising Amid Higher Costs
Meveland May 21 AP reports J Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific warns coal prices will climb as labor and material costs rise and mining becomes harder. He spoke at the International Railroad Fuel Association annual meeting noting U S surveys show declining easily mined deposits and heavy coal use by railroads in 1920s context.
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Meveland
J. Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific Road
Kruuschnitt
International Railroad Fuel Association
United States
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