West Virginia House advances road funds and Bible reading bill
The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a measure allowing county and municipal funds for state road work and approved a compulsory daily Bible reading in public schools with parental exemptions. The vote on road funding was 62 to 17 and the Bible reading bill passed 49 to 37 amid debate over constitutionality.
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Charleston
W. Va
House of Delegates
Senate
Supreme Court
House
Snr
West Virginia
Privine & New School Board
Sutton Independent
Belington
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit
Taylor County
Cabell County
Huntington
Nicholas County
Wicker County
Marshall County
Bona Fide Veterans
Eireuit
Hartigan
Monogalia County
Judiciary Committee
C. E. Fogle
Pleasants County
Declarirg
Reformatory
H. H. Andrews
Keatley
Widow Lazaro Seeks Husband's Seat in Congress
RS LADISLAS LAZARO of New Orleans widow of Congressman Lazaro of Louisiana is a candidate to take her husband’s place in Washington’s house of representatives. Friends say she has a good chance to win.
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Ladislas Lazaro
New Orleans
Lazaro
Louisiana
Washington
House of Representatives
Goff Post Filled in Reed Inquiry
Vice President Dawes says the senate campaign funds committee may function during congress recess, despite party leaders opposition. Senator Fess of Ohio fills the Goff vacancy, with Shortridge likely next chair, while Reed delays committee action pending federal court ruling on four counties ballots in the Ware Wilson contest.
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Chicago
Dawes
Supreme Court
Senate Campaign Funds Investigating Committee
Congress
Simeon D. Fesson
Ohio
Sena
Guy D. Goff
Westreinia
High Court
Mal Daugherty
Senate
James A. Reed
Missouri
Goff
Borah
Idaho
Walsh
Montana
Keyes
New Hampshire
Panama
Fess
Washington
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Zune
Reed Committee
Vancouver liquor board opens store hours to curb bootleggers
Vancouver British Columbia government liquor store announces extended hours to run bootleggers out of business. One of four outlets will operate from 4 p m to midnight on weekdays and 3 p m to midnight on Saturdays, under BC law requiring liquor purchases from government stores.
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Vancouver
B. C
Provincial Liquor Control Board
British Columbia
Foster Heads Veterans In Confederate Veterans Vote
General J. C. Foster of Houston was elected commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans at the closing session. Little Rock, Arkansas was chosen as the 1928 convention city.
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Foster
Tampa
Fla
J. C. Foster
Houston
Tex
Trans-Mississippi
United Confederate Veterans
Little Rock
Soviet Embassy to Move From Pekin to Hankow
Reports from Shanghai indicate the diplomat corps discussed moving the Soviet embassy from Pekin to Hankow or Canton as northern troops raided Russian premises. The action could set a dangerous precedent for diplomatic immunity and provoke wider foreign evacuations across China including Hankow, Shanghai, and other threatened ports.
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Shanghai
Pekin
Hankow
Wilhelm F. Linde
Linde
Moscow
China
United States
Yangtse
C. P. Friberg
St. Peter Mina
Augy’ Synod
American Lutheran Church
Chungking Ichang
Changsha
Changling
Washington
French Resolution Calls For Global Navy Cut Pact
A Paris chamber of deputies proposal urges abolition of battleships and cattle cruisers and the submarines ban via international agreement. It proposes parity among the United States and Great Britain at 500000 tons each, Japan 200000, France 225000, with Italy 150000 and other powers 75000 to 100000 tons各.
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United States
Britain
Japan
France
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Italy
Spain
Holland
Germany
Russia
Turkey
Ford race attack libel case linked to Aaron Sapiro
In Detroit on April 7 the Dearborn Independent libel articles against Henry Ford led to contract terminations with two potato growers groups including the Maine Potato Growers Association. Sapiro testified about loans traced to Idaho and Minnesota growers, plus a $500 fee from the Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers. The Maine group dissolved after the publications. The trial resumes tomorrow with questions on tobacco peanut and cotton growers.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Dearborn Independent
Aaron Sapiro
Ford
Maine Potato Growers Association
James A. Reed
Ford Defense
Sapiro
Herbert Fossett
Maine
Dearborn
Minnesota
Uct
Idaho Potato Growers Association
Reed
Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers, Inc
American Farm Bureau Federation
Sapiro Eaid
Idaho Growers
E. W. Weyl
Weyl and Zuckerman
Ice Pick Killings Shocks Elk Ridge Man
Gilbert Ross a 30 year old laborer from Elk Ridge near North Fork died after being stabbed by Ida Page who is jailed in Northfork. autopsy by McDowell county coroner confirms death from internal hemorrhage and lung puncture. Page allegedly attacked during a quarrel over Andrew Owens.
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Gilbert Ross
Elk Ridge
Northfork
Ida Page
Squire Jones
Rose
J. E. Brown
McDowell County
Ross
Roses
Andrew Owens
Chilean Premier Moves to Strike in Dispute
In Santiago on April 7 President Tigueroa Larrain declared he would be absent for two months. Premier Ibanez was named vice president, while Dr Javier Figueroa, brother of the president and opponent of Ibanez, was ousted as president of the Supreme Court by the council of ministers.
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Pekin
China
Russia
V. K
Wellington Koo
Chang Tso- Lin
Yang Yu-Ting
Koo
Chang Tso-Lin
Santiago
Chile
Ibanez
Interior
Tigueroa Larrain
Council of Ministers
Supreme Court
Javier Figueroa
Television Transmits Vision 200 Miles As Hoover Is Seen
A telephonic television demonstration in Washington used photo electric cells to transmit sight from Secretary Hoover to New York. Frank B. Noyes and Carl Brandeberg observed the feat, with a Whippany radio artist visible as well. Hoover praised the marvel as a future tool.
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Marvelous Agency
New York
Hoover
Washington
Frank B. Noyes
Associated Press
Ariting
Carl 8. Brandeburg
Aleo
Oe Bell Telephone Company Laboratories
Oklahoma 15 Swept by Devastating Storm
A central and southern Oklahoma storm left two dead and multiple injured. Flooding inundated railroads and highways as a tornado killed a regional woman near Mountain View. Dams, schools, and farms suffered damage. four Bern ard family members were hurt when their house wrecked. Fort Cobb residents evacuated. five inches of rain fell in three hours. Carnegie, Kiefer streets flooded.
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Okla
Oklahoma
Herman Simonds
Blanchard
Regio
Mountain View
Harvey
J. P. Bernard
Duncan
Fort Cobb
Carnegie
Kiefer
Lindsay
Negroes Admit Kidnapping Virginia Jo Frazier in Tennessee
In Chattanooga on April 7 officers reported that Lewis Willis 17 and Arthur Willis 14, African Americans, confessed to kidnapping Virginia Jo Frazier two year old daughter of Commissioner and Mrs. Fred B. Frazier. They surrendered $3050 of a $3333 ransom paid for the child’s return.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Lewis Willis
Arthur Willis
Virginia Jo Frazier
Fred B. Frazier
Frazier
Burt Delays Accepting Hiner's Commission
Charleston apprehension grows as D A Burt chairman of the state tax commission delays decision on Gov Gore's offer to fill the vacated state road commission seat held by Charles E B Hiner. Burt will confer with Governor Gore. no definite decision reported.
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Charleston
W. Va
D. A. Burt
Wheeling
State Tax Commission
Howard M. Gore
State Road Commission
Charles EB. Hiner
Gore
Burt
Nun Killed in Chicago Auto Crash Near Morton Grove
April 7 report states Sister Mary Sylvester mother superior of Our Lady Help of Christians was killed in a collision near Morton Grove. Two other sisters were injured along with two men and a girl. the group was returning from a wake when the crash occurred.
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Chicago
Morton Grove
Til
Mary Sylvester
Convent of Our Lady, Help of Christians
Griffith Murder Defense Speaker At Kiwanis Event
Kiwanis conference at Princeton Saturday will feature Fred W. Parker as principal speaker. Parker, international secretary and editor of the Kiwanis magazine, appears in a promoted picture accompanying the article.
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Capeaker
Kiwanis
Princeton
Fred
Illinois and Pennsylvania Coal Talks Across Regions
Reports from Pittsburgh Chicago Terre Haute and California detail efforts to end coal mine suspensions. Labor and transport costs for a ton of coal at 4.50 dollars split with mining about a third and transport over half. Union miners face wage cut debates while open shop talks proceed in several states.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Washington
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Middle Appalachian
Kentucky
Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Chicago
Harry Fishwick
Ilinois Minera
St. Louis
Rice Miller
Fishwick
Jacksonville
International Convention of the United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Ind
Michael Scollard
Protest over Sacco and Vanzetti death sentence
Boston on April 7 10 900 copies of a circular The Human Protest were mailed by the Sacco Vanzetti defense committee as officials planned measures to prevent violence or disorder on Saturday when Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are to receive their death sentence. In Buenos Aires port workers began a 48 hour general strike in protest while authorities prepared precautions to avert incidents.
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Boston
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Nicola Sacco
Bartomoleo Vanzetti
Buenos Aires
Massachusetts
Rich Manufacturer Henry Clauss Found Dead in Toledo
Coroner Charles J. Hengler ruled death of Henry Clauss 55 of Fremont Ohio and Tipton Indiana a suicide. Clauss was found shot in the heart on a vacant Toledo stairway and despondency over ill health cited as the cause.
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Toledo
Charles J. Hengler
Henry Clauss
Fremont
Tipton
Ind
Claus
Russell county triple murder cleared by Griffith confession
Henry Griffith in a Russell county jail confession provided new details that fix the date of the killings as early Sunday morning March 20 and link Mr. and Mrs. Matt Lawson to the victims. River search recovered suitcases and a purse with letters, reinforcing the Lawson connection and clarifying the tragedy once for all.
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Lebanon
Henry Griffith
Mollie Griffith
Matt Lawson
Griffith
R. N. Wilson
Clinch River
W. P. Vance
Swords Creek
John Blair
Kentucky
Western Union
Greas Creek
Blair
Commonwealth Attorney
Wilson
Daily Telegraph
Lawsons
Poca
Jellico
Tenn
Norfolk and Western
Richlands
Swordiek
Lawson
Dan
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