Bandits Release Captives Signal Success of Talks
A Peking dispatch said Rolland Pinger Jr and Robert Allen Jr were freed by Shantung bandits as negotiations progressed. Other captives, including two women, were reported released or awaiting release with various updates from Shanghai and Peking.
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Associated Press
Shantung
Peking
Rolland Pinger, Jr
Robert Allen Jr
Pinger
Allen
United States Army
Tsaochawang
Shanghai
Assia Development Comany
French Train Wreck Report Near Rhine River
A telegram from St. Goar says a French-operated train plunged into the Rhine. Thirty bodies have been recovered so far, and travelers reporting from St. Goar said French authorities have sealed off access to the site.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
St. Goar
Rheinish Prussia
Rhine
Gerry Farrar divorce appeal denied by court
New York May 16 The appellate division of the supreme court denied Geraldine Farrar's appeal to strike from the records of her divorce suit against actor husband Lou Tellegen allusions to Stella Larrimore a nineteen year old actress named as a correspondent in the case.
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Associated Press
New York
Appellate Division
The
Supreme Court Today
Geraldine Farrar
Lou Tellegen
Stella Larrimore
Definite Rules Will Govern The Indianapolis Balloon Race
Indianapolis May 10 definite rules govern entries balloon size gas capacity and other phases of construction for the national elimination balloon race starting July 4 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The National Aeronautic Association sponsors with B Russell Shaw as contest chairman. Sixteen balloons are expected including army and navy entries with helium likely.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
National Aeronautic Association
B. Russell Shaw
Washington, D. C
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
National Aeronautical Association
Albert Vou Lambert
St. Louis
Army
Navy
Shaw
Thirteen Bodies Identified After Corsicana Oil Gusher
Thirteen identified bodies and three smouldering skeletons were found in a lake of burning oil near Corsicana Texas after late yesterday’s explosion at the J K Hughes Development Company McKie No 1 well. Flames rising to three hundred feet and a massive smoke cloud dominate the scene as workers fear more victims may be uncovered. The well was discharging about five thousand barrels of oil daily with two million feet of gas, all now burning.
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Associated Press
Corsicana
Texas
J. K. Hughes Development Company
McKie
Restrictions On Physician Prescriptions Of Liquor Delayed
On Judge Knox ruling delaying effect of New York limits on physician prescriptions of liquor, prohibition leaders say no changes will take effect until the Supreme Court acts. Washington County's Only Daily reports.
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Associated Prege
Washington, D. C
Knox
New York
Supreme Court
Prohibition
High Court
Speaks Good Word for the Flappers at Muscatine
At Muscatine on May 10 Mrs. Ola Habcock Miller of Washington urged more tolerance for flappers. She compared today’s girls to those fifty four years ago, noting external changes but unchanged high moral standards. She advised focusing on today’s gifts, embracing the golden rule, Christian faith, and Bible guidance as a practical path for boys and girls.
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Muscatine
PF O Eotrion
Ola Habcock Milley
Washington
Two Americans in British amateur golf chase title
England May 10 Two Americans remain in contention after five rounds of the British amateur championship. The leaders are Francis Dumelt of Boston and Douglas Grant an American-born English resident.
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Associated Press
Deal
England
Francis Dumelt
Boston
Douglas Grant
Silk Worms Produce Vast Silk Thread Output
A historical note claims silk worms collectively reel massive silk thread, roughly 4.70 miles each second of a workday, equating to about THO,000.000000 lilies per year.
Re arranged itinerary of President Harding western trip
Washington D C May 10 Conferences with advisers have led to a rearranging of the executives tentative speaking engagements on the western trip. The new plan calls for addresses in St. Louis Kansas City Hutchinson Denver Salt Lake City Boise Helena and Seattle with three California stops probably San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Hutchinson
Kansas
Denver
Salt Lake City
Boise
Idaho
Helena
Montana
Seattle
California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San di
Northwestern president denies ordering hunt to stop
President Walter D. Scott testified before a grand jury investigating the disappearance and death of Northwestern student Leighton Mount that he had not told students to drop the search. He described a confidential warning from Mrs. Mount about Leighton’s threats to run away or harm himself and cited a Doris Fuchs visit related to the class rush incident.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Walter D. Scott
Northwestern University Today
Grand Jury
Leighton Mount
Northwestern
Mount
J. Allen Mills
Scott
Doris Duchs
Mrs. Mount
Doris Fuchs
Doris
Leighton
Johnson and Willard set for fifteen round Yankee clash
Floyd Johnson seeks quick attack to unseat Willard in a scheduled fifteen round match at Yankee Stadium on Friday afternoon. Johnson, near twenty-three, relies on speed to counter Willard's size reach and power as part of the milk feed program, with a card including McCant Drake Herman Reich Fulton Renault Firno McAuliffe.
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Associated Press
New York
Floyd Johnson
Jes Willard
Yankee Stadium
Johnson
Willard
Des Moines
Joe McCant
Newark
N. J
Henry Drake
England
Jim Herman
Omaha
Nebr
al Reich
Fred Fulton
Minneapolis
Venus Jack Renault
Louis Firno
Jack McAuliffe
Detroit
Jesse Willard
Towa
Oklahoma killers sentenced to death in Idabel court
John Pope confessed slayer of his estranged wife her father and mother and two children and Aaron Red Harvey, his confessed accomplice, were sentenced to death by Judge Barrett in district court here early May 10. Pope's son admitted accompanying his father and Harvey to the scene and was sentenced to life in the state penitentia ry.
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Associated Press
Idabel
Okla
John Pope
Aaron
Red” Harvey
Barrett
Pope
Harvey
Britain rejects Soviet interference claim in trawler seizure
The British note asserts right to twelve mile limit and threatens force if Russia interferes as debates in the House of Commons grow tense. Moscow press calls Britain provocative and Russia unwilling to yield. In other news Mrs. George Dowell travels from Des Moines to visit her mother.
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London
Harrebel
Murman
House of Commons
Lord Astor
McNeill
H Ling
Russia
House Commons
Labor Press
Curzon
Moscow
Izevestia
England
Sovi
Mes Johnson
George Dowell
Des Moines
Hattie Haskins
Ancient Pharaohs Buried Beneath Bastille in Paris
Paris dispatch reports that several royal Egyptian mummies learnedly taken to Louvre by Champollion were buried in the Louvre gardens in 1830 after museum display proved impossible. Amid Paris upheaval near the Tuileries, exhumations placed remains beneath the Bastille column, linking royal Pharaohs with Parisian victims.
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Egypt
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France
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Louvre
Charles X
Vnd Tuileries
Elevans
Bartholo
Royal Gardens
Place de la Bastille
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