Fordney Aims Half Billion Cut In Next Year Tax Bill
Republicans on the house ways and means committee debated tax revision with divergent views and no conclusion. Fordney pushed a goal of a five hundred million dollar reduction whileTreasury estimated four billion in 1422. Most members back repeal of transportation taxes but lack revenue plans to replace the loss of five hundred fifty million.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Fordney
Treasury
Iis
Internal Revenue Bureau
Fordac
Longworth
Representative Frear
Wisconsin
Twenty Bus Drivers Arrested in Wheeling Standoff
In Wheeling West Virginia July 30 constables armed with warrants began removing twenty bus drivers from Ohio bound routes for violating the state road law requiring permits from the road commission. Police multiplied crowd control as riot squad units were deployed to prevent clashes with officers and drivers. Bus owners warned that an ordinance passed by the city council will take effect in thirty days and may force service suspensions.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
West Virginia
C. P. Billings
Wheeling Traction Company
State Road Commission
Traction Company
Prohibition Chief Denounces Personal Liberty Soap Bubble
Washington Grove Maryland July 68 Prohibition Commissioner Haynes condemned the personal liberty argument against Prohibition calling it a soap bubble He said bootleggers are law violators and social criminals who aid profiteering and undermine statesmanship He urged strict enforcement to bolster respect for law.
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Washington Grove
Prohibition
Haynes
France
Deputies killed in Mallory moonshine raid
In Mallory West Virginia a pistol battle left Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Finley dead and Deputy Sheriff Frank Finley mortally wounded. Storekeeper Hollandsworth died later in Logan hospital. Miner Henry Meade, now jailed, is charged with shooting the officers. Authorities say Hollandsworth and Meade resisted arrest while intoxicated.
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Mallory
Logan County
Huntington
W. Va
Lawrence Finley
Don Chatin
Logan
Meade
Hollandsworth
President Harding Communicates with White House at Sea
The presidential yacht Mayflower carried President Harding and Mrs. Harding toward Plymouth Massachusetts for a Pilgrim tercentenary ceremony. Lieutenant McAtee placed five carrier pigeons aboard and one returned with a message stating a fine voyage and a refreshed Mrs. Harding.
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Washington
Atlantic
Cape Henry Light
White House
Harding
Warren G. Harding
Sliding wage scale renewed by iron workers in Chicago
Youngstown Ohio reports that the Western Bar Iron Association and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers renewed their sliding wage scale agreement. The 1919 and 1920 scale fixes wages as a percentage of bar iron sales price and is reviewed bi monthly. The pact covers several thousand iron puddlers across steel plants nationwide.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Western Bar Iron Association
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Chicago
James H. Nutt
Bar Iron Association
Two Days More For Dlatloolds Valuation Plan Contested In Fordney Tariff Debate
Washington adds two days of debate on whether the American valuation provision remains in the Fordney tariff bill and if the due embargo section is restored. Senate Finance Committee will also discuss accelerating action as hearings approach and dye industry concerns loom over German control.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Penrose
Senate
House
May Pass House Ahead of Tax Bill
Washington July 30 Consideration of the administration railroad debt funding bill is to be begun next week by senate and house interstate commerce committees. Republican leaders hope it may be passed by the house ahead of the tax revision bill and reported to the senate before the September recess. Weary of a long fight in the senate center on a loan of 500 million dollars and on amendments to repeal the six percent rate guarantee and restore state rate making powers.
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Washington
Senate
House Interstate Commerce Committees
House
Congress
Treasury
Four Die and One Hurt in Auto Train Crash Near Pana
Four persons were instantly killed and a fifth seriously injured when an automobile traveling from Hillsboro to Pana was struck by a fast Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis Railroad train at Ohlmvan nine miles west of Pana. The deceased are Leslie Smith and his wife Cora Robinson and Miss Lucille Perkins all of Hillsboro.
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Pana
Hillsboro
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
Senators oppose new foreign loans in agricultural credits bill
In Washington during a senate recess, Republicans and Democrats agreed on a conference version of the Norris agricultural credits bill. The main change eliminates loans to foreign governments or subdivisions. Many senators oppose any further foreign lending until existing loans are funded, with passage planned early next week if Chairman Norris recovers.
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Washington
Senate
War Finance Corporation
Norris
Agriculture Committee
First Official Meet Of Directors Tuesday
The Bluefield city board of directors will hold its first official meeting Tuesday at 2 pm in city hall. Appointments for city treasurer, city attorney, city clerk and police judge will be made. A candidate for city manager was presented but his name is being withheld. Details of yesterday’s negotiations were not disclosed.
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Board of Directors
City of
Bluefield
City Hall
Six Men Die in Colorado Tram Car Disaster
Grand Junction Colorado July 30 six men were killed and six others injured three seriously when a shale plant tramway car cable slipped from the swivel sending the car down a 7 percent grade to the gulch two thousand feet below. Bodies were found along the line and many workers were said to be foreigners.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Schuyler-Doyle
Recodification and Fish and Game Commissions Named
Governor Morgan announced the appointment of the West Virginia recodification commission to update statutes and a fish and game commission to administer new laws. Members: M. G. Sperry Clarksburg Senator Eskridge HH Morton Webster County M J Cullinan Ohio County. fish and game appointees G O Young Buckhannon A F Francis Moundsville Charles Cabell Carbon.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kk. F. Morgan
West Virginia
Fish and Game Commission
M. G. Sperry
Clarksburg
Eskridge HH. Morton
Webster County
M. J. Cullinan
Ohio County
G. O. Young
Buckhannon
A. F. Francis
Moundsville
Charles Cabell
Carbon
Two Killed At Denver Air Derby Crash
Denver spectators watched as a plane crashed at takeoff of an air derby. Pilot Ross E. Poland thirty from Cameron Missouri and George W. Singer sixty one Denver automobile man died almost instantly. The race continued and Paul Meng won.
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Denver
Colo
Ross E. Poland
Cameron
George W. Singer
Paul Meng
Byrnes Urges Harding to Counter Misrepresentation
Representative Byrnes of South Carolina asks President Harding in a letter to take actions against officials who misrepresented conditions that led to a claim the South faced famine and plague. The letter protests the misstatement and seeks correction.
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Washington
Representative Byrnes
South Carolina
Harding
South
Armistice Ory Quits Italy Japan France and China
Washington reports indicate invitations to the proposed armaments and far east conference may go out early next week. Secretary Hughes and Sir Auckland Geddes discuss agenda scope for early November meetings as France favors Armistice Day dated kickoff and Italy Japan China show tentative acceptance. The U S opposes preliminary parleys and aims to define the conference scope and rules at early sessions.
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Washington
Hughes
Sir Auckland Geddes
Far East
Italy
Japan
China
Lloyd George
Thames
England
United States
Britain Cedes to French Demands on Upper Silesia Troop Reinforcements
Paris reports Lord Hardinge informed Premier Briand that Britain agrees to the French note on troop reinforcements for Upper Silesia. Berlin is instructed to back allied efforts to move troops across Germany as needed. Curzon sets August 5 for a supreme council meeting. Lloyd George may attend if France desires.
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Associated Press
Paris
Lord Hardinge
Briand
Great Britain
Upper Silesia
Berlin
Germany
Marquis Curzon
Supreme Council
Lloyd George
Mrs Charles Slawson Takes Her Own Life in California
Santa Barbara July 30 Mrs Charles Slawson a wealthy New York woman was found shot to death on a Miramar pleasure pier near here The coroner s jury ruled she died by her own action She had been ill for some time and had been driven to the beach before the chauffeur ordered to return home
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Charles Slawson
New York
Miramar
Slawson
Mail car robbery on Pennsylvania Railroad near Cassandra
Four bandits held up the Manhattan Limited mail car early today between Pittsburgh and Cassondra. Losses were small as a mail sack and a clerk’s watch were recovered. A nationwide search continues for the suspects. Separate notice: vessels must list alien crew members with American consuls at voyage start or landings denied.
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Pittsburg
Manhattan Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cassandra
Altoona
Washington
United States
Panaima Canal Zone
Ayuta Agrees to Free Americans
Soviet Russia agrees to release American prisoners and accept famine aid from the American Relief Association as Senator Joseph I. France returns to Riga from Moscow. He aims to renew trade and possibly diplomatic ties, bringing one freed prisoner, Mrs Marguerite E. Harrison of Baltimore, with him.
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Associated Press
Riga
Russia
American Relief Association
United States
Joseph I. France
Maryland
Moscow
Marguerite KE. Harrison
Baltimore
France
Lenine
Ruaste
Washington
American Relief Administration
State Department
Marguerite E. Harrison
Hoover
Relief Administration
Maxim Gorky
Petrograd
London
Reef Administration
Duga
England
Germany
America
Shawkey Accepts Bluefield Beaver Pond Superintendent Post
Former state superintendent Mor ris Shawkey of Charleston has accepted the Beaver Pond district schools head position in Bluefield. He rejected out of state offers, bringing decades of experience from Kanawha county to modernize the local system while continuing West Virginia ties and family roots.
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Beaver Pond
Morris Prudy Shawkey
Charleston
Board of Education
Shawkey
Department of Schools
Bluefield
West
Bellevue Academy
Oberlin College
Ohio Western University
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Reynolds
N. C
Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
W. Va
Rand, McNally and Company
Map Publishers and Engravers
Chicago
New York
West Virginia
Kanawha County
George M. Card
Dunbar
Beaver High School
Kanawha Savings and Loan Association
Methodist Episcopal Church
Magabeth L. Carver
John Carver
James 3. Kahle
Bernard McCclaugherty
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