Women objects to Gerard list of US rulers
Washington protests over Gerard's 64 men who rule the United States. Women leaders denounce exclusion of any women and cite Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Paul and Alice Ames Winter as potent figures. They criticize the money magnate basis and call for recognizing women's power in national life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bess Furman
Washington
Gerard
United States
Germany
John F. Sippel
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Carrie Chapman Catt
Roscoe Anderson
National League of Women Voters
Anderson
Casper Whitney
New York
Sippel
Catt
Alice Ames Winter
Alice Paul
Maude Youn
Taree
Boston to Stop Sacco Vanzetti Memorial Meeting
Boston police plan to prevent by force if needed a memorial gathering for Sacco and Vanzetti on Boston Common tonight. Mayor Curley refused a permit though the International Labor Defense sought one. Communist candidate for governor Harry J Cantor was billed as the key speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Sacco
Vanzetti
Boston Common
James M. Curley
International Labor Defense
Harry J. Cantor
Looting and Violence Reported in Henan Province
Chinese press dispatches from Shanghai report brigands attacking Hanchengchen in western Henan. The incident leaves 500 dead, 300 shops looted, and 800 residents held for ransom. The city is described as virtually in ruins after two weeks of occupation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Hanchengchen
Henan
Two More Victims Of Blakeburn Mine Identified
Two of the seven bodies recovered after the Blakeburn mine disaster were identified last night. Sammy Milligan a track layer and Roy Bradbury a hoist man were found near the No 15 level hoist room.
Papers looted from Zuta boxes reveal officials and gang links
Chicago August reports torn lids expose papers and records linking public officials and gang activity. Ben Laube of Gary says he authored a letter found in Zuta’s possessions. Investigators describe a police confession about a ransom plot tied to Chicago gangsters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Jack Zuta
Ben Laube
Gary
Ind
Frankie Gross
Orlando
Fla
Ben
Zuta
Wisconsin Lake
Laurie
Gross
Florida
Volpa
Joe Genaro
Jack
Hungarian Fliers Delayed By Weather Conditions
United Airport officials said George Endregs and Alexander Magyar former Hungarian army officers plan a trans Atlantic flight from Flint Michigan to Budapest. They announced at the airport they hoped to hop off for Flint early tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Airport
Burbank
Cal
George Endregs
Alexander Magyar
Flint
Mich
Budapest
United
Nine federal agents raid Paris Inn nightclub raid
Nine federal prohibition agents swooped on the Paris Inn downtown Los Angeles early today, seizing several bottles of liquor and arresting five patrons, the cafe manager, and one waiter. Chief Field Agent Tom Noe led the operation after earlier purchases at the inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Paris Inn
Tom Noe
Aviator Nosed Fire Streak Ends Safe At Ground
Veteran Varney air mail pilot Abe Warter landed near Baker Oregon after a cockpit fire and a burned wing. He escaped with slight injuries as flames erupted. Also in Wichita Gladys O Donnell led the women s air derby, reaching the municipal airport at 3 66 this afternoon 37 minutes from Enid with Marjorie Doig and Jean Larene following in similar times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Ore
Abe Warter
Varney Air Mail
Municipal
Wichita, Kas
Gladys O'Donnell
Long Beach
Cal
Enid
Okla
Mar-jorie Doig
Jean Larene
Plane Crash Near Iglaw Kills Ten
Ten people died when an airplane crashed today near Iglaw on the Bohemia Moravia border. The dead include nine Czechs and one German. four passengers were killed instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Czecho Slovakia
Iglaw
Bohemia and
Moravia
Auto crash near Alamogordo kills teen and injures two children
Oliver Owens, 14, of PanPs Valley Oklahoma was killed and J. S. Hughes with his two children Earl and Mary from Arizona were seriously injured in a collision two miles north of Alamogordo New Mexico on August 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamogordo, N. M
Oliver Owens
PanPs Valley
Okla
J. S. Hughes
Earl
Mary
Aye, Ariz
Here
Three Men Die In New York Aqueduct Blast
An explosion 640 feet underground on the Yonkers to Long Island aqueduct site killed three workers and left three others seriously hurt. Earl Quick, 19, Willis Case, and Dennis Harley, 44, died when an air drill struck an unexploded dynamite charge after blasting had ended. The Bronx County district attorney plans a grand jury review to probe possible liabilities in the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Yonkers-Long Island Aqueduct
Bronx County
Earl Quick
Willis Case
Dennis Harley
Dry Law Officers Warned Against Illegal Raiding
Washington police warned by Superintendent Pratt that illegal liquor raids on homes will lead to prosecution of officers. The note followed complaints from Assistant U S Attorney Hart that 200 of 1 000 liquor cases submitted for prosecution were rejected for lack of evidence or illegal obtainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pratt
Washington Force
Genie
United States
Hart
Condemned Men Escape Prison in Atlanta
Fred Fair condemned slayer of a policeman and Sam Aiken sentenced to death for killing his wife and her alleged lover escaped last night from a tower cell. Officers said they sawed out two bars, slid down a 15 foot blanket rope, crossed a courtyard, and climbed a 25 foot outer wall with a ladder. Nine hacksaw blades were found in the cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Fred Fair
Sam Aiken
Jerusalem Strike Proclamations Seized by Government
The government confiscated Arab proclamations calling a strike planned for tomorrow to mark the rioting anniversary. The strike protested the commutation of a death sentence in the riots and Jamal Al Arabia, Arab Moslem supreme council organ, was suspended for publishing the proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusaliom
Offali
Jamal al Arabia
Disabled Steamer Reaches Port After Accident
The AusSetean export steamer Edward Express left Brooklyn a week ago with eleven passengers and 3500 tons of cargo for Piraeus Greece. It was towed back to New York after an accident Wednesday left the vessel helpless and unable to move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
EIX- Press
Brooklyn
Piraeus
Greece
Negotiations Move Forward on Rio Grande River Case
Ambassador Morrow was told by the state department to proceed with negotiations for an American Mexican agreement implementing the boundary commission’s recommendations to rectify the Rio Grande river course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morrow
State Department
International Boundary Commission
le Rio Grande
Japan Prepares For Decennial Census In 1930
Tokyo reports Japan will hold a nationwide census on October 1 with 20 000 enumerators and a 5 000 000 yen (2 500 000 USD) budget. Ten years ago Japan’s population was 55 965 053 for Japan proper and 77 005 510 for the empire. current estimates project about 63 750 000 for Japan and nearly 90 000 000 for the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Nippon
America
United States
Koreas
Formosa
Saghalien
Empire
Arctic Explorer August Andree Found on White Island
USSO Norway August 22 AP reports the body of Swedish explorer August Andree recovered on White Island ending a 33 year Arctic mystery. He launched from Danes Island Spitzbergen in July 1897 with two companions who vanished. the find also uncovers the fate of the other explorer.
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Usso
Norway
Arctic
White Island
August Andree
Andree
Danes Island
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Anstre
Body Of Yachtsman Found Upon Beach
England Aug 22 AP reports a body washed ashore at Lansalles Bay, believed to be Commodore Henry D. King MP and former aide de camp to King George. He and several companions perished when the yacht Islander crashed on rocks in Santiyet Bay the day before. no other bodies found yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Henry D. King
King George
Lansalles Bay
Commodore King
Santiyet Bay
One Man Killed in Detroit Whiskey War
Detroit August 22 One man was shot to death just before 1 am in a gun battle tied to an attempted hijacking of a coupe loaded with whiskey on Brooklyn Avenue near Grand River Avenue. The victim was identified as William Butler 22 and found in front of 1410 Eighth Street with a head wound, apparently thrown from a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Brooklyn Avenue
Grand River Avenue
William Butler
Eighth Street
Police Use Bats To End Meeting In Chicago Riot
Ten policemen and ten baseball bats dispersed a communist meeting in Chicago. Fifty people were jailed as a result. The incident followed a night of police raids, with a quip about the Cubs possibly tossing bats after a game with the Giants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cubs
Giants
Schneider Takes i Off For Wichita
Eddie Schneider 18, holder of the junior transcontinental east west flight record, leaves Albuquerque for Wichita at 7 55 a m MST aiming to reach New York Saturday and beat the 28 hour 55 minute west east record. His LA to Albuquerque leg took 7 28 with a half hour circling delay over the San Bernardino mountains and a compass failure. he flew by dead reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
Eddie Schneider
Wichita
Kan
New York
Schneider
Los Angeles
San Bernardino Mountains
McCormick Backs Illinois Prohibition Repeal
Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for U S senator, sanctioning repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment at the Illinois Republican convention in Springfield. If voters approve in November, repeal of prohibition laws would follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. McCormick
Springfield
Ilinois
Ruth Hanna McCormick
United States
Tlinois
Spain to Curb Food Price Rises Amid Peseta Decline
Madrid reports the government will order local authorities to curb merchant price hikes on foodstuffs due to the peseta’s decline. Governors mayors and city councils are instructed to inspect stores and block undue increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Semitic Troubles Break Out In Romanian City
Adevarul reports in Bucharest that disturbances in Baltchik involved bands entering a Hebrew merchant’s home, killing him and looting his store. They then attacked and plundered several other Jewish shops, beating residents and destroying property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Romania
Adevarul
Baltchik
Last Of Feudists Hatfield Dies At 67 In Baltimore
William Anderson Cap Hatfield, last of the Hatfield McCoy feudists, died in Baltimore at 67 after a brain ailment. He left Logan West Virginia where he lived with his wife, survived by no daughter. Cap Hatfield claimed he had been shot at about 300 times during the long feud and wounded once. His father Anderson Hatfield Devil Anse died in 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
William Anderson
Cap” Hatfield
West Virginia
Kentucky
Logan, W. V
Anderson Hatfield
Devil Anse
Hatfield
Ife
Last Of Michigan Lumber Kings Dies
MANISTESE Mich Aug 22 AP Charles I Ruggles age 84 the last of the Michigan lumber barons died after a life of simple living preparing meals scrubbing floors and making candy kettles for Christmas charity He remained active in business from Michigan to Minnesota the Carolinas Florida and California and built a multi million dollar estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manistese
Mich
Charles I. Ruggles
Michigan
Juggies
Minnesota
Carolinas
Florida
California
Pacific Aviators Cheered In Japan
A large open air send off in Tokyo honored Harold I. Bromley and Harold Gutty as they prepare for a Tokyo to Pacific coast flight. Thousands attended as Bromley nears completion and plans a test flight tomorrow from Kasumigaura field before a possible start Monday or Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Harold I. Bromley
Harold Gutty
Pacific
Bromeley
Kasumigaura Field
Bar Silver aiW YORI Aug 22
Bar silver trading in New York steadied as market reports showed stable demand and limited supply. Dealers noted quiet activity with prices hovering near recent peaks amid investor caution.
Princess Born Today At Glamis Castle To British Royal Family
AIR RACES ARE UNDER WAY IN MANY SECTIONS. Enid Oklahoma August 22 AP Conquering rain storms between Amarillo and Enid six contestants in the Long Beach Chicago Women’s Air Derby arrived at Enid municipal airport at 1 PM CST today. Derbies converging on Chicago for a 10 day program start tomorrow with six pilots in the Washington Eastern women’s derby and five fliers in the Buffalo Hartford men’s Atlantic derby. Leaders and routes include Mrs Phoebe Omlie leading into Richmond and Verne Roberts from Moline in the Syracuse route, Art Killips leading the Miami Chicago derby from Augusta, Jack Livingston and W G Moore resuming the two man derby from Tulsa Brownsville, and Bert Rouff heading the Seattle Chicago leg toward Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid
Okla
Amarillo
Long Beach
Associated Press
Chicago
Washington, D. C
Phoebe Omlie
New York
Memphis
Richmond
Buffalo
N. Y
Hartford
Glendale Bank to Pay 25 Percent Dividend
James B. Button, Arizona bank superintendent, announced Glendale Bank of Commerce in Glendale, closed April 30, will pay a 25 percent dividend to depositors on September 2. A formal petition will be signed in Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prescott
Ariz
James B. Button
State Bank Department
Glendale Bank of Commerce
Glendale
Phoenix
Baseball Results From Early NL and AL Action
Baseball scores show Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland and more in tight contests. Notable pitchers and batters include Vance, Lopez, Hix, Zachary, Cunningham, Sporer, French, Hemsley, Donohue, Pruett, Parmalee, Farrell, Lyons, Tate, Macfayden, Smith, Connolly, Berry, Sorrell, Hayworth, Earnshaw, Mahaney, Perkins, Cochrane, Hudlin, Sewell, Pipgras and Dickey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Boston
Lyons and Tate
Macfayden
Smith and Connolly
Berry
Detroit
Philadelphia
Sorrell and Hayworth
Earnshaw, Mahaney
Perkins and
Cochrane
Schapg
Arrival Attested Glam is Cosy Royal Birth at Glamis Castle
A new royal heir presumptive to the British throne was born at Glamis Castle with the Duchess of York and the baby reported to be doing well. King George and Queen Mary planned an early visit to see their fourth grandchild. Princess Elizabeth was shown the newborn in the duchess’s quarters later that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glamis
Scotland
Glamis Castle
Duchess of York
George
Davis Miles
Henry Simson
Mary
Strathmores
Elizabeth
Jessie
Forest Fires Rage In Coast County
Lightning sparked the worst forest fire of the season in San Diego County near Granite Ridge on Palomar mountain. More than fifty men battled the blaze, with a 1200 acre brush fire near Chihuahua Valley brought under control by 7% crews. Communication was difficult and progress reports were sparse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Cal
Granite Ridge
Palomar Mountain
Chihuahua Valley
Vera Cruz Seeks Help From Rubio Over Tax Burden
The Vera Cruz chamber of commerce wired President Ortiz Rubio for intervention to save the city’s business from ruin. It said unpayable taxes and other abuses were pushing the area toward disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Chamber of Commerce of
City of Vera
Ortiz Rubio
Vera Cruz
Calcutta Installs Jailbound Mayor as Political Tide Turns
Calcutta India Aug 22 AP Subhas Chandra Bose won the mayoralty defeating Ansad Dowlah. Bose succeeds J M Sen Gupta n, who remains in prison, continuing the citys unusual political line with its jailed leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
India
Subhas Chandiya Bose
Ansad Dowlah
J. M. Sen Guptan
Joshua Marvel Elected President of American Bar Association
Joshua Marvel of Wilmington Delaware was unanimously chosen president of the American Bar Association for a one year term. He succeeds Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham Alabama. Other officers named include John H. Voorhes of Sioux Falls South Dakota treasurer and William P. Mac Cracken Jr of New York City secretary.
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Checago
Joshua Marvel
Wilmington
Del
American Bar Association
Henry Upson Sims
Birmingham
Ala
John H. Voorhes
Sioux Falls
S. D
William P. MacCracken, Jr
New York City
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U. S
China
Zuta Papers
Coast
Bulletins
New York Aqueduct
Jerusalem
Rio Grande River
Great Northern Western Pacific
Pacific Coast States
Greenville
Western Pacific
Keddie
Berber
Great Northern
Alamath Falls
H. M. Adams
Charles E. Elsey
Western, Pacific
Spain
Michigan Lumber Kings
Glendale Bank
National League
Cincinnati
Vance
Lopez
Benton
Gooch
MMO Oio
Pittsburgh
Hix
Zachary, Cunningham and
Spohrers
French
Hemsley
Donohue
Pruett
Parmalee
Farrell
Root and Hartnett
Cleveland
Hudlin
L. Sewell
Sherid
Holloway
Pipgras
Dickey
Coast County
Rubio
Bar Association
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