Tariff talks yield partial reform in Smoot Hawley bill
Democratic protests fade as conferees accept a reform largely retaining current tariff powers. The new draft preserves presidential and tariff commission authority to adjust rates, sending the measure back to the Senate for a vote amid White House backing. Senator Smoot plans to push the bill again on the floor.
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U.P
House
Senate
Presii Hoover
Curtis
White House
Kentucky
Tariff Commission
Actress Ruby Keller Weeps Over Santa Fe Train Bandit
On the Santa Fe passenger train Chief a bandit robbed travelers, taking 11 075 in money and jewelry. Actress Marion Nixon and her husband Al Jolson were among the victims. Nixon lost a diamond engagement ring and a jewel encrusted wedding ring worth 10 500.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Ruby Keller
al Jolson
Santa Fe
Arion Nixon
Frank Lehn
Detroit
Iss Nixon
Hallelujah Marriage Set At Salvation Army HQ
The first Hallelujah marriage in the new Salvation Army headquarters will take place Saturday at 8 p m with Rev Joel Webb of the Free Methodist Church officiating Names of the couple will be announced on Saturday Regular Salvation Army services Friday night are postponed for Memorial Day observances
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Salvation Army
Joel . Webb
Free Methist Church
The
Salvation My
State to Acquire Third Front and State Parcel for Office Building
Columbus officials announced the purchase of the third parcel at Front and State Streets for the new state office building. Attorney General Bettman stated the acquisition supports the planned $5,000,000 project and progress toward construction.
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Columbus
U.R
State Street
Genal Bettman
Varied Offers In The Messenger Classifieds
Classified ads offer a gas cook stove in good condition for 13 dollars and 50 cents. A seller lists pure bred Duroc Jersey pigs for sale. A Buick Master Six with five good tires and about 2900 miles is offered as a bargain. Blue Ribbon baby chicks are priced at 10 dollars per 100.
Civil War Veterans Thinned as Time Brings Death
The Pension Bureau reports 50 749 surviving Union veterans as of Memorial Day with 8 317 deaths since last year. Only two Union generals remain alive Brig Gen J Wars ten Kiefer 93 and Maj Gen Adelbert Ames 94. Nurses and widows also dwindle with monthly pensions continuing for a few.
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Washington
U.R
Pension Bureau
Appomattox
Cording
Oscar J. Randall
Bureau
J. Warsten Kiefer
Springfield
Adelbert Ames
Lowell
Masa
Kiefer
Tle
Wilderness
Ames
Boston
Reconstruction
Mississippi
John L. Skinner
Pairmont
W. Va
Oil Spouts In Oklahoma City Sparks Home Area Debate
Oil gushers in Oklahoma City threaten residential areas as a 24 000 barrel daily gusher near Capitol Hill stirs a clash between small homeowners and affluent interests over rights to drill on town lots. Chamber of Commerce leaders oppose rapid town drilling while oil firms offer leases and relocation promises.
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Chamber of Commerce
Capitol Hill
Pair Sentenced to Year Terms at Ohio Prison
Elza Patrick and Archie Blevins two Ashland Ky men withdrew earlier guilty pleas and admitted grand larceny in a copper wire theft at Millfield Judge L G Worstell sentenced them to one year in the Ohio State Penitentiary and they were moved to Columbus prison with Sheriff Williams.
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Elza Patrick
Archie Blevins
Ashland
L. G. Worstell
Common Pleas
Millfield
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus
William Williams
Radio Doctor Under Attack in Brinkley Broadcast Controversy
The American Medical Association protested to the Federal Radio Commission against KEKRB Milford Kansas for broadcasting Dr John R Brinkley medical advice over the air. Brinkley responded with a $600009 damage suit alleging defamation and harm from the AMA action.
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The
American Medical Association
Federal Radio Commission
KEKRB
Milford
Kan
John R. Brinkley
Brinkley
Half Million Demand in Wife Stealer Suit
Herman Arbenz former Wheeling city engineer sues E S Romine a millionaire manufacturer and financier for 500000 alleging alienation of his wife's affections. The case stems from a winter raid by prohibition officers at a rooming house where a liquor bottle was found. Arbenz had earlier been granted a Circuit Court divorce. Romine owns Washington Farms once owned by Laurence Washington nephew of George Washington.
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Wheeling
W. Va
U.P
Herman
Arbenz
E. S. Bomine
Romine
Washington Farms
Laurence Washington
George Washington
West Virginia
Lindy Paterson Driver Mistaken Man Delights Patrolman
In New Jersey on May 29 Patrolman Fred Thompson, the only Black officer on the force, hailed a passing car to avoid rain. He realized the driver looked familiar and exclaimed to Col. Lindbergh that his father in law is racing for the Senate. Lindbergh replied with mutual greeting and drove on.
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Paterson
N. J
U.P
Fred Thompson
Col. Lindbergh
Thompson
Senate
Lindbergh
Two Held in Copper Wire Thefts Near Jennings Coal Co
Leslie Dille and George Atkins of Zanesville were returned to Athens County Jail by Secret Service Agent Peter Barrows and Constable Harry Dalton. They face grand larceny charges for theft of 600 pounds of copper wire from Jennings Coal Company in Bern Township, sold to a junk dealer. The wire value is $120 and the theft occurred nearly a year ago.
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Leslie Dille
George Atkins
Zanesville
Athens County
Secret Service
Peter Barrows
Harry Dalton
Jennings Coal Company
Bern Township
Messenger to Observe Memorial Day
The Messenger will not publish Friday May 30 for Memorial Day. All offices and newspaper staff will observe the holiday and no edition will be produced.
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the Messenger
The
Messenger
English Adventurers From Civil War to Rest Side by Side
In Arlington National Cemetery the bodies of Sidney Hebdon and his English comrade Alfred Guiton, who enlisted in the Union Army 68 years ago, will be buried side by side with full military honors. Guiton survived the war, searched decades for Hebdon, and his daughter Lillian fulfilled the burial wish after a long family quest.
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Washington
U.P
Sidney Hebdon
Alfred Guiton
Arlington Memorial Cemetery
Hebdon
Guiton
Lillian Guiton
War Department
Culpepper
Arlington National Cemetery
River Floods Hit Shreveport Area With Rising Death Toll
Red River floods in Louisiana drive Red Cross relief efforts. At least six lives lost include an unidentified white man and two children in Haynesville and two Black residents near Minden. Five towns submerged, 6900 homeless, conditions along lower river reach critical.
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Shreveport
U.P
Red River
Red Cross
William Laffon
Haynesville
Minden
Fort cites homebrew issue in Volstead clarification talk
Washington May 39 The Volstead Act may need clarification on homebrew Fort said before the House January 1 while seeking the Republican senatorial nomination in New Jersey on a dry platform He noted no one has ever been convicted for making home use beer and urged those who want light wines to make them themselves and be good sports
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Washington
Franklin W. Fort
New Jersey
Fort
Successful Bidders for Library of Ohio University Named
State architect Ridley will meet school officials to award contracts as bids for the library structure are reviewed at the trustees meeting next week.
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Library of Ohio University
Trustees
Ridley
Columbus
Ohio University
Athens
Ohio University Library bid prices fall below estimates
State Architect Ridley and Ohio University trustees will meet in Athens early next week to review bids for the New Ohio University Library. All bids come in under the architect’s estimate of about 225 000 dollars, with major bids from Hawkins Construction Newark 145 270 and Melbourne Canton 141 610 for general construction plus alternates such as damp proofing and finished floors.
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Hawkins Construction Company
Newark
Melbourne Company
Canton
Middle State Construction Company
Columbus
Ohio Elevator Company
Otis and Company
Cleveland
Bombay sees early end to Gandhi fight for home rule
Bombay predicts an early end to the struggle for self government led by Gandhi. The piece notes British compromises are expected to resolve India's latest move for independence and asserts Hindus are brave individually but not collectively combative.
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Bombay
Gandhi
India
Tariff talks shift back to conference amid mixed signals
Early reports praised a near settlement but later the tariff returned to conference. Senator Smoot defends the tariff saying it helps farmers four times as much as industry and would boost government revenue by 110,806,897 dollars, though a large export loss could hurt business and workers.
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Smoot
Temperance Leaders Help Hoover Win by Large Margin
Mr. Deets Picket of the Methodist Board of Temperance credits churches and temperance groups for aiding Hoover, while noting Republican workers were inefficient. The administration partly agrees as Hoover secured the temperance vote and a massive nationwide total, about five million more than any previous U S election.
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MR. Deets Pickett
Methodist Board of Temperance
Hoover
Republican Party
Anti-Saloon League
Pickett
United States
Jones Beats Johnston In British Amateur Final Round
Bobby Jones of Atlanta defeats Harrison Johnston of St Paul in a sixth round match in Scotland winning by one hole to advance in the British Amateur Championship.
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ST. Andrews
Scotland
U.P
Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Harrison Johnston
St. Paul
Cannon to Go Before Senate Lobby Probers
The Senate Lobby Committee will question Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South beginning Wednesday about stock market and political activities tied to Methodist organizations in the 1928 presidential campaign. An earlier session exposed a 1929 Wilson report attacking Alfred E. Smith as a persistent advocate of the saloon and vice.
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Washington
U.R
Senate Lobby Committee
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Cannon
Virginia
Deets Pickett
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Alfred E. Smith
Clarence True Wilson
Smith
Five nabbed in New York jewel heist case
Five men and one woman were each held on $100,000 bail at a Yorkville Court arraignment for New York's largest jewel seizure. A Saturday hearing was set. Police also found another safe deposit box linked to Robert Nelson, the "walking pawn shop," believed to hold about $250,000 more in jewelry, part of over $1,000,000 already recovered from the cases.
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New York
U.R
Yorkville Court
Robert C. Nelson
Eafe Deon
President Hoover to Speak at Gettysburg Memorial Day
President Hoover plans a Friday speech at Gettysburg to honor the Civil War era on the battlefield where Lincoln spoke. He will drive to the site, likely lunch at the Marylanders Lodge, and arrive by 2:30 p.m. The trip is affected by tariff talks and may lead him back to Washington if negotiations fail.
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Hoover
Gettyburg
Graham Lincoln
Marylandars Lodge
Lawrence Richey
Pennsylvania
Jay Cooke
PF Msphia
Binander
John L Skinner Walks To Town With The Boys
In Fairmont West Virginia on May 28 the 100 year old Civil War veteran John L Skinner, slightly crippled by rheumatism, walked a mile with his cane to join fellow veterans and declare he still believes in the Union. He warned that political wrangling may outlast him and that a future war could occur.
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Fairmont
W. Va
John L. Skinner
Skinner
No Excuse Drive Recklessly Charged In Public Row
A report quotes Mayor Robert Wood commenting on a reckless driving case involving Carl Wilson as he was arrested on Mulberry Street. The incident sparked remarks about responsibility and police costs.
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Carl
Robert
Wilson
Mulberry Street
Wood
County Commissioner Guilty in Graft Trial
A jury in Wilmington found County Commissioner C. Claytom Terrell guilty of presenting a $120 bribe to the Clinton auditor. He faced multiple graft charges linked to highway fraud schemes. sentencing to follow.
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Wilmington
C. Claytom
Clinton Auditor
Terrell
Italian naval budget passes with near unanimous vote
The Chamber of Deputies approved the naval budget by a 274 to 2 vote, authorizing 1,475,966,000 lire for the year, about 77.68 million dollars, an increase from the prior year.
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Try This On a Hot Day
A reader tip lists a cooling drink made with orange juice cider lemon juice and white grape juice mixed with sugar then poured over ice. The booklet on oranges from The Athens Bureau offers many more drink and food ideas for warm weather.
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Eaeers
Athens — Ee
Washington
Fortune Teller Madam Mary in Court Foretelling Venture
Madam Mary, known for palm readings for a king, faced a court hearing today to foretell her future actions. The case centers on her fortune telling claims and alleged advertising claims.
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Columboe
Mary
Angel and Lemons booklet copy requested by Athens Messenger
Frederic J. Haskin of The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington DC encloses a copy of the booklet Angel and Lemons. The note cites name street state and requests delimitation or distribution details.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
Colin
Angel and Lemons
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