Chink Bandits Grow Tired Of Holding Out
A report from Tientsin dated May 24 describes bandit-occupied mountains near Poat guku where captives recount limited access and harsh conditions. American majors Pinger and Allen and Lee Solomon are among the few moved to the summit, while new troops arrive but do not advance toward the bandits.
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Tientsin
Tsaochwaugesday
Roland Pinger
Robert A. Allen
Lee Solomon
Poatguku Mountain
Leon Friedman
Friedman
J. B. Powell
Powell
Tsaochwang
Diplomatic Commission Sought on Captive Foreigners
Washington reports indicate the state department awaits Schurman’s advices on appointing an international committee to investigate negotiations for freeing foreigners held by Chinese bandits. Morale among captives worsened, but no executions occurred as bandits pressed for demands.
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Washington
State Department
Schurman
Peking
Tsaochwang
Esterday
International Commission
Troops Open Fire on Bandits Near Paotzuku
Panic seized bandits of Paotzuku as Chinese government troops advanced to break communications and force an issue in the international dispute over the kidnapping of foreigners from the Shanghai Peking Express on May 6.
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Shanghai
Paotzuku
Shanghai-Peking
Chinese politics complicate release of captives in China
A May 24 message from Minister Schurman in Peking, received by the state department, says efforts to free American and other foreign captives held by Chinese bandits are now complicated by Chinese politics. Hostile factions are blamed for discrediting the Chilbi party and the Peking government, with dangers from prolonged negotiations risking prisoner deaths from exposure, starvation, or disease.
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Washington
Schurman
Peking
State Department
Chilbi Party
Tsaokun
Military Men to Investigate Bandit Situation at Tsaochwang
Brigadier General William D. Connor will lead an international military commission to Tsaochwang to study the bandit threat near Paotzuku mountain. The panel will include foreign detachment chiefs from Tientsin and legation attaches, with Japan invited to join though no Japanese captives are reported. After the inquiry the commission will propose methods to secure the captives' release.
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Peking
William D. Connor
Tientsin
International Commission
Tsaochwang
Army
Navy
China
Paotzuku
Seattle pastor elected moderator of United Presbyterian assembly
The Rev. Dr. W. E. Sawhill was elected moderator at the general assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in Buffalo New York. The event involved clergy from across the denomination and affirmed Sawhill’s leadership role.
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Buffalo
N. Y
W. E. Sawhilis
Seattle
Wash
General Assembly
The
United Presbyterian Church
Twentieth Valles Baby Hopes For Life In El Paso
In El Paso Texas Mrs Lara Vallen reports her daughter born yesterday has a good chance to live. The baby is the twentieth child born to Mr and Mrs Valles. Most previous children died at birth or soon after.
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el Paso
Tex
Lara Vallen
Il Paso
Dire. Valles
Secon
Harding Aide Named Chairman Of Republican Convention
C H Huston of Chattanooga Tenn former assistant secretary of commerce was named chairman of the ways and means for the national Republican convention. John T Adams national chairman announced the choice and predicted Harding’s renomination while Upham said Chicago must show more interest to land the 1924 event.
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Chicago
C. H. Huston
Chattanooga
Tenn
Department of Commerce
John T. Adams
Fred W. Upham
Adams
Harding
Middle West
Upham
Baldwin holds first meeting discusses Soviet note
London May 24 AP Lord Curzon presents Moscow note for consideration as Britain and Russia seek to resolve disputes. The cabinet weighs ministry unity and trade relations with Russia with hopes for settlement at a conference. Morning Post reports Lord Robert Cecil may accept the Duchy of Lancaster chancellorship.
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London
Baldwin
Lord Curzon
Russia
Great Britain
Moscow
Robert Cecil
Duchy of Lancaster
Morning Post
Rich Profit for Booze Carriers
Chicago reports smugglers traffic liquor from Canada through the Detroit river to Ecorse Michigan. Smugglers Row lines the waterfront with shacks boathouses and rifles, often father son teams. A 15 year old guides liquor routes while a smuggler group moved 9000 cases in under a day for about 18000 dollars profit.
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Chicago
Canada
Detroit River
Ecorse
Mich
Detroit
Chicago Daily News
Sunnyside
Ont
Chicago Burlington Wage Increase For 10000 MOW Workers
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad told the railroad labor board it reached an agreement with maintenance of way employees affecting 10 000 men. Foremen receive wage boosts from 4 to 10 dollars monthly and other employees gain one cent per hour.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Railroad Labor Board Today
Reds Seize Gelsenkirchen HQ in May Day Clash
In Essen regionGermany soldiers and police clash as communists seize police headquarters in Gelsenkirchen. Five killed sixty one wounded as crowds attack fire crews and civilians, with price cut protests triggering street battles and French troops later arriving to deter further violence.
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Essen
Communist Party
Gelsenkirchen
Communist “Commission of Control
Bochum
Stillman Paid A Fancy Price
New York May 24 AP The appellate division of the supreme court upheld alimony of 7500 a month and 15000 in counsel fees awarded to Mrs Anne A Stillman by Justice Morehauser last February James A Stillman the former New York banker had appealed the award as excessive after failing to win a divorcee naming Fred Beauvais Indian guide as co respondent The appellate division was unanimous Leeds named by Mrs Stillman as co respondent had not filed suit against the banker regarding support for her child While no word was forthcoming directly from Stillman and Leeds were quoted as saying he had given Leeds 400000 and was waiting to see if she would sue
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New York
Supreme Court Today
Anne A. Stillman
Morehauser
James A. Stillman
Fred Beauvais
Stillman
Short Policeman Had the Nerve
Chicago May 24 A precinct report shows seven criminals fled in an auto pod McAvoy the smallest officer on the Chicago force disarmed four men after leaping onto a running board and marching them to the station.
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Chicago
Collins
W. E. McAvoy
McAvoy
Students clash as anti Jewish fight erupts at Bucharest campus
In Bucharest on May 24 fighting flared on the university campus as anti Semitic students from the commercial chemical and mineralogical departments clashed with Jewish students amid shouting and confrontations.
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Bucharest
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Dly
Young Kentuck Claiming Moonshine Killings Surfaces
Los Angeles dispatch reports Joe Buckley Laurie a Kentucky native now 28 and in custody on a fare-beating charge, recounting a 1908 moonshine battle in Kentucky in which eight revenue officers were killed. He claims his father and brother ran a still and that the shootings occurred as officers approached the hidden site. Laurie describes a life of travel and tattooed scars marking a violent past.
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Los Angeles
Joe Buckley Laurie
Kentucky
Laurie
Hethy
Kirby Knobbs
Southern Pacific
Art
Charlie
Father
Orient
Lourie's Story I8 Discounted in Kentucky Mountains Confession
Louisville reporters question the confessed tale attributed to Joe Buckley Lourie about efforts to locate a hidden sum in the Kentucky mountains. Internal Revenue official J. A. Craft recalls no stirring incident and doubts the claim as described.
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Louisville
Joe Buckley
Lourie
Los
Kentucky
J. A. Craft
Isville
Epek
Zee United Tal
Ar buckle Plans Cabaret Engagement Comeback
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle announced a cabaret engagement here to restart his career as a comedian. He said the act would begin soon and hopes to gain laughs and a living by performing live again after recent quiet days with reporters.
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Roscoe
Fatty
Xituckie
Cabauret
Rg. T
Arbuckle
Tuberculosis Cure Under Question
Chicago May 1 AP claims of discovery of a cure for tuberculosis by using 5 carbon and calcium proposed by Dr William P from Jeannette Pa are deemed inadequate in a Journal of the American Medical Association article appearing today.
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Chicago
Willian
Jeannette
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Sole survivor Curley the Crow scout dies at Crow Agency
Billings Montana May 24 AP sole survivor of the Custer massacre Curley the Crow scout died of fever at 68 funeral held at Crow agency with Baptist minister officiating government officials and American Legion pallbearers attended Curley who could not speak English provided the first outside news of the Little Bighorn fight describing the disaster by sign and diagram to Captain Grant Marsh's Far West crew before mugging Taylor confirmed the news later his death ends a notable frontier record
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Billings
Mont
Little Big Horn
Curley
Crow Agency
Baptist
W. A. Petsoldt
Baptist Mision
Ge Grass
Bradley
Gibbon
Seventh Cavalry
Custer
Terry
Grant Marsh
Baker
Courley
Taylor
Far West
Seattle Union Defies AFL Over Soviet Support
Seattle Central Labor Council defers action on AFL demands to renounce the Soviet, sever ties, and repudiate I W W while Duncan proclaims ongoing support for Russia. Gompers cites May Day event concerns and lists six loyalty requirements for federation alignment.
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Seattle
Jas. A. Duncan
Seattle Central Labor Council
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Industrial Workers of the World
Council
Duncan
William M. Short
State Federation of Labor
C. C. Young
American Federation
Russia
Bankers Conference With Farmers Set in Oregon
In Eugene Oregon on May 24 AP reports a bankers and farmers conference for the twelfth federal reserve district will meet June 7 at Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis. D Rover notes this is the National association second US event following Madison Wisconsin. Delegations from Oregon Washington Idaho to participate with state education officials to discuss banker farmer cooperation.
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Eugene
Ore
Federal Reserve District
Oregon Agricultural College
Corvallis
D. Rover
American Bankers Association
United States
National Association
Madison
Wig
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Taught School for Half a Century
Evanston teacher Miss Cecelia Sargent resigns after fifty years of service and will be guest of honor at a banquet by the Evanston Women's Club. She began teaching in 1873 and has instructed about 2,100 pupils, recording biographical notes in a pupil register.
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Chicago
Cecelia Sargent
Evanston
Rum Running Quiet on River
Detroit reporters with a federal agent scouted along twelve miles of the Detroit river in a dry navy boat seeking rum runner shacks said to be near four miles of shorefront. They found fishing shacks as alleged but not on the scale claimed, seeing only two small liquor laden boats on over twenty miles of river. A one man grand jury probe into graft in Detroit heard August Nykej claim long bootlegging experience and recent seizure risk.
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Detroit
Federal Prohibition
Michigan
Chicago Daily News
Daily News
Ecorse
Nykie J
Booze Boats Move Out Near Virginia Capes
The steam yacht Istar of the rum fleet vanished from its position off the Virginia capes after the Mascouting moved within hailing range. The British schooner Mary Beatrice anchored nearby and left later, while the steamer Cartonia also disappeared. Coast guard cutter Manning arrived for coal and will standby Mascouting. all small craft heading toward the capes are halted.
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Norfolk
Istar
Virginia Capes
Mary Beatrice
Nassau
Cartonia
Coast Guard
Manning
Capes
Three Rum Runners Captured off New Jersey Coast
The coasted cutter Seminole patrolling rum row near Jer sey's three mile limit captured three rum runners. She was seen from shore at Fareport with her open maleparent y damaged by the action.
Boosting Bill for President Borah Campaign Moves Ahead
Columbus May 24 AP Members of the Committee of 487 plan petitions to nominate Senator Borah for president. Secretary of State Brown says no blanks will be furnished without Borah's written consent. Harriet Schwartz Ohio secretary notes Borah must have given consent. No filings show Borah has agreed.
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Columbus
Senator Borah
Brown
Borah
Harriet Schwartz
Ohio
Secretary of State
Poincare resigns as French premier amid Ruhr debate
Paris May 24 AP reports Prime Minister Poincare resigns after debate over Ruhr policy and senate decision to try Marcel Cachin and other communists. President Millerand does not accept the resignation.
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Paris
Poincare
Germany
Ruhr
Chamber of Deputies
M. Poineare
Poineare
Senate
Marcel Cachin
Republic
Merrient
Millerand
Clara Phillips Extradition Talks Move Ahead
Extradition papers for Clara Phillips the California hammer murder suspect are expected to arrive from the United States before week end. She will be turned over to Los Angeles sheriff officials and moved to safe keeping at Omoa Castle in Honduras with sister Mrs. Etta Mae Jackson. Jesse Carson remains detained in the local penitentiary.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Clara Phillips
California
U. S
Anv
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Phillips
Etta Mae Jackson
Omoa Castle
Jesse Carson
Greece threatens withdrawal if Lausanne favors Turkey indemnity
Premier Gonnais said the Greek delegation at Lausanne will leave if the conference backs indemnity for Turkey. He warned the decision must be made by Saturday and that Greece reserves liberty of action.
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Athens
Gonnais
Lausanne
Turkey
Gasoline Tank Explodes in Birmingham Plant
An 80,000 gallon gasoline tank exploded at the Wofford Oil company plant in Birmingham Alabama early today triggering a spreading fire. Two million gallons of gasoline and crude oil were stored nearby within 150 feet. One man died and his body was not recovered. Loss was about 40 000 dollars.
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Birmingham
Ala
Wofford Oil Company
Russia seeking American money in effort to ease Russo British ties
May 24 London AP Leonard Krassen said the Soviet government seeks closer U S relations but faces meager Washington support. He said Russia wants American capital to invest and develop resources and railways, and that an envoy would be sent if Washington accepts. He added the new envoy would differ from Ludvig Martens.
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London
Leonard Krassen
Today
United States
Washington
Hussia
Russia
Ludwin Martens
Krassen
U C Courses for Greeters
Hotel auditors from northern California cities meet in Oakland to approve UC study plans for a hotel men’s course. W S Crawford of Chicago urges a uniform cost finding system to align labor charges with overhead and to shed light on real hotel pricing amid public calls for lower rates.
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Oakland
Cat
California
University of California
W. S. Crawford
Chicago
American Hotelmen's Association
Shoes and gender waste noted by Salvation Army
Chicago may 24 AP report cites Salvation Army officials who say women donate far more shoes than men. Adjutant Arthur Fynn notes for every pair of mens shoes donated there are twenty five women pairs, many small or novelty cut worn lightly. He argues women’s shoes burden the used clothing market and inventories thin for men’s sizes.
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Chicago
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Industrial Home
Army
Arthur Fynn
Callahan Mine Posts First Quarter 1923 Income
New York May 24 The Callahan Mine and Lead Company reported 363 107 total income and 45 339 net earnings for the first quarter of 1923. This follows a 28 381 deficit in the third quarter of 1920 before a two year shutdown. President John Berg says the company holds about one million dollars in cash on hand.
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New York
Callahan Mine and Lead Company
John Berg
Comeyie Im Aneiiens Financial
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Cecil
Gilda
Young Kentuck
Brother
Custer Battle
Little Big Horn River
France
Clara
Greece
U. C
Callahan
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