Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning last week from the Orient with its usual July load of tourists, plantation owners, white scientists, dark Oriental traders, the S. S. Tenyo Maru steamed through the Golden Gate. Watching the San Francisco skyline was a young Chinese woman, dressed in the smartest U. S. style?Mrs. Sui'e Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese Vice Consul at San Francisco. She was returning from a visit to her homeland. When the liner had docked she, a lady of some importance, requested courtesy-of-the-port, that her baggage might be passed and delivered at once. The Customs men demurred...
...said. She had no explanation at all about some documents which, found with the opium and translated, indicated that she was to have received $23,000 upon delivering the tins to the "influential friends." The latter, it appeared, were high officials of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco...
Because the situation was delicate, Vice Consul Kao and his wife were not arrested for several days, sought temporary refuge in San Francisco's Chinatown. Then the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu, announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China...
...Panama Pacific Line (International Mercantile Marine). Specifications: 21,000 tons (approximating the America and Cedric); 613 ft. long, 80 ft. beam; two 8,500 h. p. turbo-electric motors capable of 18 knots; capacity, 800 passengers. In service next October, she will ply between New York and San Francisco in 13 days...
Last week, carrying out this Commission order, Press Wireless Inc. was formed, approved by the Commission.! "Charter" members are: Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune,* San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor. President is the Tribune's Joseph Pierson, trustee for American Publishers Committee. Capitalization was set at $1,000,000, of which $116,000 was paid in. Stock may be purchased by subscribing news-purveyors, minimum $1,000, maximum $25,000. Stockholders are given rights to send news through the ten stations of the company soon to be erected...