Amundsen Returns From Polar Flight to Spitzbergen
Roald Amundsen has returned to Spitzbergen from his North Pole flight. Bernond S. Prentice, brother in law of Lincoln Ellsworth, co leader of the expedition, announced all six members of the expedition had returned safely to Spitzbergen.
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Lincoln Ellsworth
Associated Press
New York
North American
Alliance
Roald Amundsen
Explorer
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Bernond S. Prentice
Report of Auditor Shows Lax Methods in Highway Records
The Dawson firm audit for the Georgia State Highway Department criticizes record keeping and voucher handling. It notes inconsistencies where some vouchers show audit but no approval or approval without audit. The report urges vouchers to clearly show both audit and approval before payment.
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State Highway Department
Associated Preasy
Atlanta
C. R. Dawson and Company
Certified Public Accountants
Walker
Holder
Dawson
Supreme Court
Way Commission
Slate
Highway Department
Trainmen and conductors plan wage increase push
The chairmen of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors will hold joint November meetings to consider seeking higher wages from about 200 U.S. railroads for trainmen and conductors, announced by W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen.
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the Associated Press
Cleveland, O
Chairman’s Associations of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order
Wiscasset Prepares Final Send Off for MacMillan Expedition
Wiscasset Maine on June 18 prepares for the last send off to commander MacMillan before his voyage Saturday to Etat Greenland. The town acts as a second stepping stone in the McNally Navy Arctic expedition as the Northern advance continues.
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Wiscassett
Macmillan
Little Port
Maine
McNally-Navy
Etat Grenland
Country Bankers Open Convention in Savannah
The Country Bankers Association of Georgia opened its ninth annual convention in Savannah on June 18. Personal representatives of Governors Smith and Silzer attended, along with Governor Walker and several congressmen. A proposed resolution urged that any estate or inheritance tax be imposed only by states and not as a federal revenue source.
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Associated Press
Savannah
Bankers’ Association of Georgia
Smith
New York
Silzer
New Jersey
Walker
Fifty Defendants Plead Guilty in Sherman Antitrust Cases
Chicago authorities report fifty defendants indicted in furniture cases under the Sherman antitrust law pleaded guilty today and were fined a total of 166000 dollars by federal Judge Cliffe.
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Fendants
Trust Law
Cliffe
Rotarians to Elect New Officers at Convention
Delegates at the sixteenth annual Rotary International convention in Cleveland focus on crippled children work and the election of officers today as the gathering proceeds.
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Rotarians
Associated Preset
Cleveland, O
Italy Ready To Open War Debt Negotiations
Rome June 18 Premier Mussolini officially notified the United States and Great Britain that Italy is ready to begin funding her war debts and to open negotiations on the terms. The move signals Italy's intent to address overdue payments and stabilize postwar financial relations.
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Italy
Mussolini
United States
Great Britain
Associated Press
Rome
Italy Signals Willingness For Debts Talks In Washington
Ambassador De Martino informed Secretary Kellogg in Washington that Italy is ready to begin formal negotiations on refinancing its war debts to the United States. No official notification had been received from Rome. The exchange occurred in Washington D C on June 18.
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Washington, D. C
Italy
United States
Kellogg
de Martino
Employment conditions show continued national upturn
Washington June 18. The Labor Department Employment Service reports a continued upward trend in employment across the country with little unemployment evident in any region. The survey highlights improving conditions and optimism for job availability nationwide.
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Employment Service of the
Labor Department
Associated Press
Wasington
D. C
Employment Service of
Gilbert reports on the Dawes Plan progress
Berlin June 18 Parker Gilbert the American agent for reparations lauds the Dawes plan noting improved confidence and conciliation. His public report details the London agreement of 1924 that launched the plan and covers eight months including Young's temporary administration in late 1924 and the six months to April 30.
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Berlin
Dawes
Parker Gilbert
London
Owen D. Young
Faiman Renews Accusations in Shepherd Trial
Charles Farman, branded the chief witness by the prosecution, testified in the Shepherd murder trial in Chicago. Defense protested the move as prejudicial and a path to state cross examination, but Farman immediately leveled new accusations against Shepherd during direct examination.
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Faiman
Shepherd
Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Charles Farman
Lynch
Prohi Forces Not to Stop Pleasure Boats
Coast Guard Atlantic Rum Patrol orders stop and search of clearly pleasure craft halted. Rear Admiral Billard urges yacht owners to avoid rum runners and assist by signaling Coast Guard and visiting crews. Coastal watch remains active to prevent liquor smuggling at sea.
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PROHI
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Coast Guard Atlantic Rum Patrol
Dry Navy
Coast Guard
Atlantic Coast
Billard
Economy program to save billion dollars outlined
General H. M. Lord outlined cuts in the federal budget for the fiscal year ending June 30. The program aims to save a billion dollars, with the only budget measure currently proposed.
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Associated Press
Chicago
H. M. Lord
Directa
Mexican policy criticized by labor and lawmakers
The Associated Press report notes objections to the policy by William Green of the AFL and Senator Swanson of Virginia. They warn the statement may aid revolutionaries in Mexico and fear it could sap labor support for the administration.
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Associated
Washington, D. C
Log
Tion
Williama Green
American Federation of
Swanson
Foreign Relations Committee
Green
Mexico
British Nationals Stoned in Chinese City Turmoil Broadens
A wireless message from Chung-Kiang reports a critical situation in Shanghai and Peking with British nationals assaulted in streets. The British consul fled to Lingmen Temple as posters claim British police bayoneted students and civilians, while negotiators for foreign diplomats in Shanghai and Peking break off talks over clashes and fires.
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Associated
Pregst
Shanghai
China
Chung-Kiang
Lingmen Temple
Saya
Bones of Peter the Hermit Found in Belgium
Bones of Peter the Hermit, a leader of the first crusade born near Amiens and active in 1090, are reportedly found at Huy Belgium as groundwork for a cloister is levelled in a burial place associated with him.
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Peter T
Gium
Huy
Presgay
Brussels
Peter the Hermit
Amien
Has
Belgium
Wits
Asia
Robert M La Follette Dies in Washington After Heart Failure
Longtime Wisconsin Senator and later Independent presidential candidate Robert M La Follette died in Washington at age the end of a long career marked by storms in American politics. He succumbed to heart failure after asthma and a general breakdown, surrounded by family with plans for burial in Madison Wisconsin.
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Agea
Washington, D. C
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Madison
Louisville youth wins national juvenile spelling title
Eleven year old Louisvill e Ky boy Neuhauser tops the national finals spelling "gladiola" as Edna Stover of Trenton New Jersey misspells with a Y. Neuhauser receives five hundred dollars and a gold medal toward his college education. About two million children competed in sectional rounds.
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Washington, D. C
Neuhauser
Louisville
Abel
Edna Stover
Trenton
Wil Jersey
Court decision in Teapot Dome oil case on the morrow
Judge Blake Kennedy's ruling in the government suit to annul Mammoth Oil Company's lease on the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve will be delivered in federal court Cheyenne Wyoming tomorrow morning. The trial concluded last March with the case taken under advisement on March 26.
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Associated Vreja
Cheyenne
Wyo
Judzea Blake Kennedy
Mammoth
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
W J P Morgan's Wife Ill at Maine Point Summer Home
Glen Cove June 18 Mrs. J P Morgan wife of the financier is seriously ill at her summer home on East Island Maine Point, doctors report today.
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Glen Cove
W. J. P. Morgan
Maine Point
East Island
French Repulse Riffs in Fez Action
Fez Morocco June 18 French communique says violent skirmishes by Abdel Krim forces were repulsed with considerable enemy losses. French troops according to the report repelled attacks today in the Fez area.
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Sault Lake City
Utah
Robert Marshall
Milton Burna
Castlegate
Marshall
Fez
Morocco
Abdel Krim
Tnit
Koa
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PARTY
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Robert M. Lafollet
North American Newspaper Alliance
Polar
Preas
Wiscasset, Me
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Chicago, Ill
Dele
Vention
Rotary International
Inman Drug CO
Gilbert
Georgia
Farman
Bor
Virginia
Chinks In
Peking
Silankow
Burna
Washington
LA Follette
Juvenil
Frank Neuhauser
Corre
Ponent
J. P. Morgan
Une Says
Bank of
Thomasville
Thomasville, GA
Bright Leaf Tobacco
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