Coolidge Watches Anthracite Wage Talks With Cautious Tone
President Coolidge keeps a close tab on the Atlantic City wage negotiations between anthracite operators and miners, signaling no action yet. The joint committee adjourned as talks broke off amid deep disagreements over miners demands and wage scales.
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Cioolidge
Associated Press
Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
Tate
Atlantic City
Department of Labor
N. J
C. J. Golden
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Samuel D. Warriner
W. W. Inglis
Mr. Lewis
Lewis
Inglis
Fortune in narcotics found in Oriental den unearthed by federal sleuths
Federal agents seized a Chicago flat described as an Oriental drug den and arrested a man and woman for wholesale traffic in narcotics. The confiscated drugs were valued between 144000 and 260000 dollars, with pipes valued at about 10000 dollars.
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Chicago
Oriental Drug den
Radical changes urged in national school program
Chicago August 5 1924 The American Federation of Teachers released its 1925 and 1926 national program calling for a five hour school day cultural in all age schedules tenure pensions sanitary buildings and freedom in teaching. The federation plans an aggressive nationwide campaign for adoption.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
American Federation of Teachers
Mussolini’s Daughter Rescues Girl From Storm Tide
Edda Mussolini, 15, leaped into rough seas at Cattolica to save a girl swimmer during a violent coastal storm. She supported the drowning victim until a lifeboat reached them, preserving a life amid the tempest.
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Associated Press
Cattolica
Italy
Edda
Mussolini
Rates on Classified Freight Shipments Revised Across Southeast
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered revision of all rates on classified shipments in the Southeastern United States. The commission found peanuts moving to Chicago and northern cities carried unreasonably high rates and set a new schedule to smooth unjustified differences across the region.
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Ion
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
South
Chicago
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Washington police brace for Ku Klux Klan demonstration
Washington police prepare for a large Ku Klux Klan demonstration next Saturday. Acting police superintendent Evans said no trouble is expected but officers are on duty and measures are being taken to be prepared.
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Washington
Washington, D. C
Evans
American Policy in the Pacific Guides British Action
Arnold J. Toynbee, professor at London University, told a Williamstown gathering that Britain watches U S policy in the Pacific. He said the British Dominion may follow the United States in shaping a hostile or friendly atmosphere in the region.
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Pacific
London
Institute of Politics
Associated Press
Williamstown
Mass
Great Britain
United States
Arnold J. Toynbee
London University
Indian Oceans
British blockade of Chinese ports foreshadowed dispatches say
A Hong Kong dispatch to the Daily Mail reports that official circles in Hong Kong foresee a British blockade of Chinese ports if anti-British riots and boycotts persist. The Aug. 6 note from London cites heightened tensions and possible naval action as a response.
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Associated Press
London
Daily Mail
Hong Kong
Virginia Democrats Nominate Newspaper Man for Governor
Richmond Virginia August 5 Harry Flood Byrd a farmer and newspaper man of Winchester was nominated by the Democrats of Virginia for governor. Incomplete returns from yesterday's primary today gave Byrd a majority over Walter Mapp estimated between thirty and forty thousand.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Harry Flood Byrd
Winchester
Democrats of
Virginia
Byrd
Walter Mapp
Unification at Northern Methodist Conferences
Chicago August 5 The northern Methodist Episcopal church faces a major question as fall meetings begin on August 12 with the Pacific-Japanese conference in Seattle The vote on unification with the Methodist Episcopal Church South follows a nearly unanimous approval at spring sessions The South church will start voting at its fall conferences
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Methodist-Episcopal Church
Methodist-Episcopal Church South
Seattle
Washington
Methodist-Episcopal Church, South
Bulgaria Denies Forcible Action Over Greek Frontier
The Bulgarian foreign office denies moving troops in retaliation for the Greek dispatch to the Bulgarian frontier after the assassination of Greek citizen Nicolaides on Bulgarian soil. It says Greece acts with precipitation and that Bulgaria is ready to do full justice if called upon.
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Bulgaria
Greece
Presc Sotia
Bulgarian Foreign Office
M. Nicolaides
Bul
Foreign Office
Four Wounded in Street Fight at St Louis
In downtown St Louis during lunch hour two policemen, four deputy city marshals, and an unidentified check forger were wounded in a running gun battle. The forger who tried to cash a bogus check at Mississippi Valley Trust Company was captured.
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Associated Press
St .Louis Mo
Mississippi Valley Trust Company
Canton Workers Favor Strike Plan
Hong Kong workers meeting yesterday passed a resolution urging a strike as more effective than the boycott. They vowed victory over imperialists, declaring the life of Hong Kong in their hands.
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Canton
Hong Kong
Associated Press
China
Ford Wins Scrapping Bid for 200 Ships at $1 706 000
The Shipping Board awarded Henry Ford the contract to scrap 200 vessels for 1 706 000. The vote was 4 to 1 with Commissioner Benson dissenting. Ford plans to convert some ships to desert engines for transporting his products and use engines and equipment in his plants. The rest will be broken up for junk.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Shipping Board
Benson
Snie
Rdea
O'Conner
Lissner
Han2y
Hill
Ford
Palmer
Fleet Corporation
Sargent
Boston Iron and Metal Company
Baltimore
Baltimore Company
Germany to pay indemnity and regain world markets
In Washington John Temple Graves condition critical as Harvard Professor Edward A. Gay argues that Germany can restore strength by thirty years of paying war indemnity. Gay spoke at Williamstown on paying obligations to regain foreign markets and exceed prewar gains.
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Germany
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
John Temple Graves
Harvard
Institute of Politics
Williamstown
Mass
Edward A. Gay
United States
Tennessee to hire counsel to oppose Scopes appeal
Governor Austin Peay announced Tennessee will employ counsel to fight every point on appeals in the Scopes case. He argued there is no federal question and that Tennessee, as a sovereign state, may regulate local concerns and use police powers without federal interference.
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Tennessee
Unidentified New York Workman Found After Frisco Lab Blast
In Martinez California an unidentified man from New York City is tentatively named as the murder victim whose charred body was found in the Pacific Celluloid Company laboratory after a explosion and fire. Charles Henry Schwartz Berkeley chemist is being sought on a murder warrant. Joe Rodriguez a Portuguese farm hand, had been thought the victim earlier.
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Associated Press
Martinez
Cal
New York City
Pacific Celluloid Company
Charles Henry Schwartz
Berkeley
Warrant charges Pacific Cellulose official in Walnut Creek murder
Charles Henry Schwartz vice president and GM of the Pacific Cellulose Company faces a murder warrant for an unidentified man found dead in the Walnut Creek cellulose plant ruins after a July 30 incident. A charred body, believed not Schwartz, was sent to San Francisco for identification as investigators pursue leads including a suspect laborer named Guorge Dodriguez. Mrs. Schwartz asserts the body is her husband despite life insurance.
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Martinez
Cal
Charles Henry Schwartz
Pacific Cellulose Company
Walnut Creek
Clyde Laird
Leon Henry Schwartzhoff
John Doe Stein
John Doe
Porguese
Joe Dodriguez
San Francisco
Miss Cora Stallman Found Dead in Farm Cistern
Mattoon Ill Aug 5 investigators say death by own action explains the death of Miss Cora Stallman 48 a former Cincinnati school teacher whose body was found in a cistern on her sister s farm.
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Associated Press
Mattoon
Ill
Cora Stallman
Cincinnati
Senate Rules Committee Backs Afternoon Sessions
Atlanta Aug 5 The Senate rules committee voted to hold afternoon sessions for the upper house for the first time this session. The House sidetracked tax bill classification and adopted rules to place the first tax reform measure sixth on the calendar for immediate consideration. The Senate also refused to change forenoon session rules by a 20 to 19 vote. A favorable judiciary committee report on seven child code bills was issued this morning covering juvenile courts adoption compulsory schooling and child support.
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Associatey Press
Atlanta
Rules Committee
Senate
House
Senate Judiciary Committee
Flexible tariff provisions declared menace to business
Charles W. Holman of the Co operative Milk Producers federation and American Institute of Cooperation told the Institute in Philadelphia that the flexible tariff provision of the permanent tariff act is a menace to American business and should be repealed.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Charles W. Holman
Co-operative Milk Producers Federation
American Institute of Cooperation
Institute
Subterranean Distillery Unearthed in New York City
Federal agents probe a subterranean distillery in New York City valued at $100,000 with fifty barrels of denatured alcohol and five thousand gallons of grain alcohol. Investigators also seize one thousand cases of fine liquor in a hidden compartment aboard the twin screw freighter Augusta, totaling about $750,000 in cargo.
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Augusta
Building Collapse in Kansas City Fatal to 3 with 9 Injured
Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 5 after an all night search firemen are still digging through brick and timber debris of the three story building that collapsed yesterday during remodeling by a construction company. Three were killed and nine injured in the disaster with two more victims still unaccounted for.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Stiil
Erection of Monument to Tom Watson Planned
A Senate bill would authorize the Thomas E Watson Memorial Association to erect a monument to the late Senator on the Capitol grounds or in the Capitol building. The governor would choose the site.
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Tom Watson
Capitol
Associated Press
Atlanta
Senate
Thomas E. Watson Memorial Association
Senator Watson
Weather for Georgia Partly Cloudy Tonight
Partly cloudy conditions are forecast for Georgia tonight and Thursday. Remaining mild with no precipitation expected.
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