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May 3, 1927

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SHANGHAI AMERICANS ARE URGED TO ASK US TO JOIN ULTIMATUM; Proposed Petition Calls Upon Coolidge to Exact Reparation for Outrages and Looting. PARLEYS HELD FRUITLESS Facts Are Known, It Is Said, and Appeal Is Made to 'Keep Faith in Our Hour of Need.' NO NEW NOTE IS IN SIGHT State Department Says Early Action Will Not Be Taken on Eugene Chen's Unsatisfactory Reply. WANT US TO JOIN POWERS' ULTIMATUM

By Frederick Moore.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times.by Frederick Moore

Shanghai Fed of Labor Organizations cables J R MacDonald at suggestion of Kuo Tai-chi at May Day mass meeting, urging withdrawal of British forces

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172,000 MORE IMPERILLED; COOLIDGE CALLS ON NATION TO DOUBLE FLOOD RELIEF; FOURTEEN TOWNS WARNED Former Governor Parker Urges Inhabitants to Seek Safety. MEN AT DIKES FIGHT ON Baton Rouge Prepares to Receive 15,000 Refugees as Floods Roll Southward. CREST NOW AT VICKSBURG Sixteen Hundred Cadets of the Louisiana University Help to Man Fleet of Rescue Boats. MAP OF MISSISSIPPI FLOOD AREAS.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

BATON ROUGE, La., May 2. -- More than 172,000 people are in the northeastern and middle parishes of Louisiana which are definitely listed as in danger of inundation by the flood waters of the Mississippi now surging down the valley, the crest of which is believed tonight to be off Vicksburg.

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ROCKEFELLER GIVES Y.M.C.A. $900,000; Pledges From John D. Jr. and Others Total $1,750,000 as Ten-Day Drive Starts. DODGES DONATE $300,000 Anonymous Contributor Adds $500,000 -- $6,500,000 Fund for Buildings Sought.

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Border Liquor Trade of $5000,000 a Year Admitted by Savard in Canadian Inquiry

By Special to The New York Times

C A Savard, alleged Detroit consignee of Canadian liquor, admits $5,000,000 annual trade, at hearing by Royal Comm in Windsor, Ont; names A Miller, T J Hogan, W Gibson and A J Klix as silent partners

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