Tentative Tax Measure Would Yield 7,000,000
Charleston W Va April 2 The public learns of a tentative sales and privilege tax plan estimated to raise about 7.9 million dollars annually. Provisions include a 0.25 percent ad valorem levy on mineral and manufactured products, a 0.25 percent sales tax on tangible property, and a 0.25 percent tax on gross income for banks and railroads. Exempts include life insurance, mutual savings banks, and charitable and educational organizations.
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Charleston
W. Va
Senate
House
Mutual Savings Bank
Chambers
Ripley
Jackson County
McDowell County
Independent School District
Mannington
Richwood Charter
Richwood
Handfer Smithfield
Wetzelcour'y
Petrmont Bridge
Court House
Clarkeburg
Arbitration resumes in stockyards dispute
Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler today resumed arbitration of disputes between stockyards packers and their employees, marking a settlement of the strike by 1,300 workers at Independent and William Davies Packing. The session followed a six months extension of the wartime arbitration agreement and set up next week to revisit seniority rights.
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Chicago
Samuel Alschuler
Independent
William Davies Packing Companies
Alschbuler
Alschuler
Washington
Davis
Candy store owner charged with impersonating federal official
Everett Harding, a Chicago candy store owner, was arrested on charges of impersonating a federal official. Police say he defrauded the Pennsylvania Railroad of about $1,918 and duped businessmen by posing as a cousin of President Harding and as assistant secretary. He promised jobs and business ventures, took leaders to the inauguration, and faced bonds set at $5,000.
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Chicago
Everett Harding
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harding
Hamilton Club
United States
Lewis F. Mason
Pearl Warding
Everett
White House
Washington
Senator Harding
Zork and Franklin to Furnish Bond in Chicago Next Week
Carl Zork and Ben Franklin, recently vindicated in Chicago over the 1919 World Series fixing scandal, have arranged bond. Their attorney said bail is set at 48 000 dollars for each defendant and posted in Chicago next week.
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St. Louis
Carl Zork
Ben Franklin
Chicaco
Chicago
High rents blamed for Chicago labor disputes
Secretary of Labor Davis said high rentals offset lower commodity costs and fueled labor disputes between packers and workers in Chicago. He noted rents rising while food and clothing costs fell, diminishing any benefits from price decreases.
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Chicago
Davis
Moose Heart
Ill
Peace by Resolution Rumors Tie To White House Talks
Washington reports say Senate supporters of a quick peace with Germany plan to push a peace by resolution when Congress reconvenes. White House discussions with Knox, Viviani, Harvey, Herrick and Lauzanne left officials silent on any firm decision and indicated administration guidance is still forming.
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Washington
Senate
Germany
Congress
White House
Harding
Knox
Pennsylvania
George Harvey
New York
Wrest Britain
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
France
Stephanie Lauzanne
Vivians
M. Viviani
League of Nations
Treasury cash shows five million decrease in March
Charleston April 2 cash funds in the state treasury fell by nearly five million dollars in March per the state treasurer W S Johnson financial statement. The drop comes from payments to sheriffs of public county district and municipal tax collections from utilities. End March grand cash balance was 18 719 015 28 with 9 179 000 in the workmen s compensation fund and 999 600 in the school fund invested.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. S. Johnson
Milwaukee Bricklayers Agree to Wages Cut
Milwaukee workers vote to reduce hourly pay from 1.25 to 1.00. About twenty thousand bricklayers and wagon workers face the new rate after Monday in the city of Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Bond issuance plans from Morpotr and Westerns noted
Washington April 2 Applications to the interstate commerce commission to issue bonds were filed. The Norfolk and Western Railway Company submitted various convertible bonds totaling 23 004.00 dollars for improvements already completed.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Communists slain and wounded in Halle clashes
Berlin reports that twenty of a party of five hundred communists were killed and fifty wounded today by security police near Halle during an outbreak tied to mid Germany communist agitation. Police seized 150 rifles six machine guns and substantial ammunition.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Halle
Germany
Billy Sunday campaign to begin in Bluefield this week
The Billy Sunday evangelistic campaign starts in Bluefield with CC Hancock leading the evangelical committee and subcommittees preparing for the May 8 tabernacle opening on Raleigh street. Construction progresses with half the structure roofed and over twenty workers present as committees assign chairmen and duties.
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Bluefield
CC. B. Hancock
Raleigh Street
Fred W. Rapp
Billy Sunday Party
Committee On Committees
Rapp
W. M. Morrell
J. Taylor Stinson
George Dunglingon, Jr
Ernest Henson
Fred Wady
Miss Mary Fisher
Joe Hoge
Rey Ss. W. Moore
Ik. C. Wade
BP. BE. Holder
T. O. J. Wilson
Fred W. Udy
James Elmer Brown
F. Salisbury
C. J. Cheyney
R. Woods
Mr. Rapp
W E K Baker Named Federal Judge for West Virginia
Washington April 2 W E K Baker of Elkins West Virginia was appointed by President Harding as federal judge for the northern district of West Virginia Martinsburg with the April term opening Tuesday Baker will qualify before the court clerk and succeeds the late Judge Alston G Davten.
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Washington
W. EK. Baker
Elkins
W. Va
Harding
Northern District of
West Virginia
Martinsburg
W. J. Baker
United States
S. W. Walker
Baker
Alston G. Davten
Dean Beckwith Kills Dean Wharton Then Commits Suicide
Syracuse University scene as Dr Holmes Beckwith shoots Dean John Herman Wharton during a dispute over future teaching status. Five bullets indicate Wharton was killed before Beckwith’s suicide, with letters and notes showing premeditation. Beckwith, once disliked, had disciplinary strictness and recent threats of dismissal, leaving a public note to a Montclair, New Jersey contact.
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Dr. Holmes Beckwith
John Herman Wharton
Syracuse
N.Y
Holmes Beckwith
United States Army
California
Syracuse University
James R. Day
Heckwith
Dr. Wharton
Beckwith
Ellis Crane
Rank Melpass
Chancellor Day
Wharton
Dean Wharton
College of Business
George Jfolmes
Mont Clair
N. J
Syreuse
John Simmons
Negro claiming to be clergyman sought in Detroit slaying
Detroit police and Wyandotte investigators search for a negro who posed as a clergyman in connection with the shooting death of Rev Jarecki, rector of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. A man held for questioning provided an alibi while authorities trace a Baltimore mission link and a mysterious telephone call guiding the killer to the priest’s door.
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Detroit
Wyandotte
Jarecki
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Baltimore
Father Jarecki
Railroad Wages in 1920 Reach Nearly Four Billion
Washington reports 1920 railroad wages total 3 733 016 186 accrue across four quarters 795 616 959 801 063 958 1 052 109 451 982 606 787 plus approximately 102 419 680 back pay retroactive to July 20. Back pay not yet fully reported may adjust final annual totals.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
May
Jane
Railroad Labor Board
Chicago Retail Coal Men Indicted for Conspiracy and Boycott
Indictments charging conspiracy to injure public trade and to fix prices were returned against officers of the Retail Coal Bureau and the Retail Coal Merchants Association in Chicago. Bonds were set at 1500 dollars for Tracy G. Wright Robert J. May Robert Hiv Clark and Nathaniel H Kendall. The case alleges a boycott and blacklist against independent coal dealers and follows a yearlong investigation sparked by Mortimer B. Flynn of the PotUncer Flynn Company who says the association kept prices high and persecuted him after he left. He claims attempts were made to ruin his business and that coal was hard to obtain until the organization’s firms were supplied.
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Chicago
Retail Coal Bureau
Retail Coal Merchants’ Association
Tracy G. Wright
Robert J. May
Robert Hiv Clark
Nathaniel H. Kendall
Chicago Retail Coal Merchants’ Association
s#& independent
Mortimer B. Flynn
PotUncer-Flynn Company
Ite
Fivon
Fiyon
Seditious pamphlets circulated among Wheeling workers
Federal and state agents pursue a man described as a foreigner who handed out thousands of seditious pamphlets at industrial plants in Wheeling West Virginia on April 2 192? The leaflets advocate destroying the republic of the rich and replacing it with a soviet republic of America.
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Wheeling
Republic of the Rich
Amerier
Deported American Draft Evader to Enter U S at Border
Linn A. E. Fale, a radical and American draft evader arrested by Mexican authorities, will be deported to the United States starting for Laredo or El Paso tomorrow. He will be met at the border by U S agents.
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Mexico
Denert
Mexico City
Linn A. E. Fale
United States
Laredo
el Paso
Detroit Marathon winner Chuck Mellor tops Auto City race
Chuck Mellor of Logan Square Athletic Club Chicago won the Auto City Marathon from Oakland County Courthouse Pontiac to Grand Circus Park Detroit. His time was two hours and twenty nine minutes flat.
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Detroiit
Mich
Chuck’' Mellor
Logan Square Athletic Club
Chicago
Oakland County Court House
Pontiac
Grand Circus Park
Detroit
Former President Wilson Possible London Visit Rumor
A Reynolds Newspaper report from London claimed a ten day visit by former President Wilson to London at month end with eight rooms reserved at a leading hotel. Sources close to Wilson deny any plans to travel abroad and say only Health alone would prevent a trip, noting he remains in Washington.
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London
Wilson
Reynolds
Washington
Willson
Striking Miners in Britain Show Uglier Temper
London reports say dis order and uglier temper among miners in South Wales as pumps and engines are flooded. Government prepares for drastic coal rationing while food supplies remain ample and export demand rises in New York markets.
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Britain
Associated Press
London
South Wales
Elephants Dine at White House Presidential Dinner
Marion Cal No 1 Order of The Elephant held a semi annual dinner at the White House. Fifteen newspaper men attended with Mr Hardin and other correspondents who covered last year’s presidential campaign. The president served as chief mahout in the group.
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White House
Washington
Marion
Order of the Elephan
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