League Societies Drop Hait PROTEST Against Americans
Lyons France June 30 Haitian minister M. Balleware’s resolution to withdraw American marines from Haiti failed in the Federation of League of Nations societies political commission. A substitute by Dr C A Dunway, backing the American, was adopted. Bellegarde planned to push the issue to plenary. Japan and China abstained. U.S. occupation criticized as unlawful. Debates also touched on race equality and immigration reciprocity.
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Lyons
France
Aa, PF
M. Ballewarde
Federation of League of Nations Societies
Haiti
C. A. Dunsway
Republic of Haiti
M. Bellegarde
Federation
United States
Japan
China
MM Bellegarde
Chamber of Deputies
Treasury
Washington
Thad
A Durway
American University Union
Europe
Colorado Springs
Cole
League of Nations
Germany
Council
Solidi
Apporuyn
No Nomination on 15 Ballots at Party Convention
The convention continued voting with no nomination after 15 ballots. McAdoo led early tallies with 479.5 votes, Smith gained but remained behind. Amid clashes over religion and the Ku Klux Klan, leaders allowed the race to wear itself out to reveal relative weaknesses.
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McAdoo
Smith
Ku Klux Klan
Me¢Adoo
al Smith
Bistot al
Reed
Kansas
New Jersey
George Stizer
New
Isaac
Quigley
Massachusetts
Senator Walsh
Gov. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Underwood
Cox
Sitter
South
Louisiana
Robinson
Carter Glass
Virginia
President presses budget cuts for tax relief and economy
President Coolidge urges government economy to cut 83 million from 1925 preliminary estimates, aiming for a 108 million surplus and further tax reductions. He praises three years of budget discipline, stresses reducing payroll, travel, and printing costs, and notes a 25 million surplus forecast for next year with a 1.8 billion cap for 1926.
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Coolidge
American Missionary George D. Byers Murdered in China
A report from Peking states Reverend George Douglas Byers of the American Presbyterian church on Hainan island was murdered on June 24, presumed by bandits. U.S. Vice Consul Culver B. Chamberlain will travel from Hongkong to investigate. Byers and his wife were listed as missionaries in China in the 1923 Protestant Missions directory, with Byers going to the Far East in 1916.
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Peking
George Douglas Byers
American Presbyterian Church
Halman
Canton
United States
Culver B. Chamberlain
Hongkong
Protestant Missions
China
George D. Byers
Kachek
Hainan
Far East
British Craft Crew Found Guilty in Rum Conspiracy Case
In Galveston on June 30, apt W. H Farret and crew of the British schooner Island Home were found guilty in Federal court of conspiracy to violate the tariff and prohibition acts.
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Galveston
Texas
Apt
W. H Farret
Island Home
Japanese Cut Down Flag at U S Embassy Tokyo
A Japanese individual cut down the American flag on the grounds of the U S Embassy in Tokyo today. The incident occurred on July 1 and was reported by A P I.
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U.S
Tokyo
P.I
Mexico Fails to Meet Interest on Her Bonds
New York June 39 The International Committees of Bankers on Mexico announced that the Mexican government failed to deposit sufficient funds to meet interest parts on the $500 89n ANN debt for the first six months of 1924. No further disbursements on warrants involved in the debt agreement will be made until further notice. Unofficial bankers view the suspension as temporary due to vacated ravca ution. The committee would not declare Mexico in default at this time.
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Congress
Bureau of the Budget
Appropriations Committees
America
Lord
New York
International Committees of Bankers
Mexco
Variana
Rice
Mexico
Transcontinental Air Mail to Start Today
Sixty planes ready for the transcontinental air mail launch with departures from San Francisco at 6 am Pacific and New York at 10 am Eastern. Two or more planes will be available at each terminal and eight interior points, with 20 reserve craft. Westward travel time 94 hours 45 minutes. eastbound 32 hours 6 minutes. Of 2680 miles, 895 are illuminated. Each plane can carry 500 pounds of mail or about 26,006 letters.
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Chicago
Transcontinental Air Mail Service
San Francisco
New York
Priest Wills Estate To Trinity College
Special to The Washington Post New York June 30 The will of Rev Charles FP Grannan a Catholic educator filed for probate provides a life income of 75 monthly for his sister Miss Mary Granada Brockton NY and bequeaths the residuary estate to Trinity College Washington DC The estate is officially estimated to be in excess of 10000
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Washington Post
New York
Charles FP. Grannan
Wife Slayer Lincoln Drops Insanity Plea
Warren J Lincoln, who confessed to killing his wife Lina and her brother Byron Stoup on January 10, 1923, withdrew an insanity hearing request and entered a not guilty plea today. He says he will base his defense on unwritten law. Trial set for September 15.
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Washington Post
Warren J Lincoln
Lina
Byron Stoup
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