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August 18, 1928

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LOS ANGELES CHEERS AS HOOVER DEMANDS BOULDER DAM ACTION; 100,000 Acclaim Nominee in His Greatest Ovation Since Convention in June. BASIN STATE UNITY URGED Speech of 300 Words, With Interpolations, Calls for Highest Dam Possible. HE SEES A NATIONAL ASSET Candidate Is Acclaimed in Other California Cities--Resumes Journey Toward the East. Hiram Johnson's Chief Issue. Calls Dam a National Asset. HOOVER CALLS FOR BOULDER DAM ACTION Noise Is Continuous. Lauds Los Angeles's Growth. Urges Agreement on Dam. Motors Over Famous Roads.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Hoover demands action on Boulder Dam, s at Los Angeles

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Finds Mrs. Borden's Jewels; Park Man Gets $400 Reward

By Special to The New York Times

Bracelet lost at Playland, Rye Park, found

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KELLOGG OFF TO SIGN ANTI-WAR COMPACT; Sails to Join Diplomats of the Fourteen Other Nations in Formal Paris Ceremony. SILENT ON WORLD POLITICS Secretary of State Will Go to Ireland Officially to Return President Cosgrave's Visit. Will Visit Ireland. No Fuss Over Trip. Briefly Outlines Plans. KELLOGG OFF TO SIGN ANTI-WAR COMPACT Demonstration Is Halted.

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Kellogg sails for Paris; Premier King also sails; Poincare calls Cabinet meeting to arrange signing ceremony; Latvia and Estonia will take jt steps towards adhering after signing by other powers; Stresemann's formal acceptance

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CLUB PATRONS FACE LIQUOR GRAND JURY; 125 ARE SUBPOENAED; Park Av. Residents and Wall St. Men Among the Witnesses Summoned in Dry Drive. NAMED AT RAID HEARINGS Identifies Are Withheld as the Process Servers Seek Them --Some Are Traced Abroad. MAY BE HELD AS VIOLATORS Evidence Hunt to Go On Monday-- Pier Visitors Annoyed by Agents' Search for Flasks. Witness List Kept Secret. Dry Search Vexes Pier Visitors. CLUB PRTRONS FACE LIQUOR GRAND JURY May Prosecute Patrons. Alderman Is Defendant. Freed by Jury after 17 Courts Stays. OFFERS LIQUOR TO OFFICIAL. Bootlegger Trapped by Order in Federal Building.

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Prohibition agents search for flasks in hip-pockets of passengers on pier

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TOOLS FOUND IN GOBI 150,000 YEARS OLD; Andrews Also Tells in Peking of Men Who Thronged Central Asia 20,000 Years Ago. '20-TON' ANIMAL UNCOVERED Biggest of All Mammals Stood 25 Feet High--Another Had Teeth 7 Inches Wide. Mammal Weighed Twenty Tons. Found Teeth Fourteen Inches Long. TOOLS FOUND IN GOBI 150,000 YEARS OLD Sand Storms Cut Faces. Mastodon Ate Itself to Death. Thickly Settled in Stone Age. Collarbone a Man's Load. Nicknamed Monster "Woolworth."

By Hallett Abend. Special Cable To the New York Times

Interview with Andrews in Peking; fossils exhib to newspaper men

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1928Marge Schott, American businesswoman (died 2004)^[†]

Margaret Carolyn Schott was an American baseball executive. Serving as managing general partner, president and CEO of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1984 to 1999, she was the second woman to own a North American major-league team without inheriting it, after New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson.

1928Sonny Til, American R&B singer (died 1981)^[†]

Earlington Carl Tilghman, known as Sonny Til, was an American singer. He was the lead singer of The Orioles, a vocal group from Baltimore, Maryland, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Headlines from August 18, 1928

Finds Mrs. Borden's Jewels; Park Man Gets $400 Reward

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