Senator Smoot Predicts Tax Revision Over Tariff
Washington predicts tax revision at the coming session of Congress led by Senator Smoot of Utah, who opposes tariff revision. He forecasts surtax cuts to about 25 percent and hints at small income tax relief, while supporting elimination of federal inheritance taxes and urging continued government revenue. The foreign debt commission may meet next month to discuss settlements.
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Washington
Congress
Smoot
Utah
Senate Finance Committee
Foreign Debt Commission
Smoothes
American Gunboat at Canton Fires On and Returns Fire
Reports say an American gunboat at Canton was fired on while escorting a provisions launch for Canton Christian College, with no damage or injuries. Consul Jenkins warned authorities to protect Americans as turmoil spreads around Canton and Shanghai. Refugees flee Canton as anti-foreign sentiment grows and a nationwide strike fund is boosted by donations from Feng Hsiang and others.
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Hankow
Washington
China
Shanghai
Canton
Jenkins
Pampanga
Canton Christian College
London
Daily Express
Hong Kong
Daily Mail
Striking Miners Seize New Waterford Coal Fields
Striking miners gain full control of New Waterford as the Cape Breton coal fields face a halt in work. The poration closed collieries and suspended store credits for 2,000 miners amid wage cut demands. Ottawa reports troops requisitioned. Halifax notes 500 troops dispatched after clashes leave one miner dead and others wounded.
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New Waterford
Poration
Ottawa
O’kearn
Nova Scotia
Cape Breton
Elton
Halifax
Letts Getting Money From Colt Exports to Lithuania
Birmingham reports four million colts shipped to the Lithuanian government with orders for an additional 34 million, signaling a large arms export deal and substantial revenue for local producers.
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Birmingham
Eng
Senior law student confesses to killing Centenary football star
George W. Gill, 22, a Loyola University senior law student, confessed to killing Robert Reid, Centenary College football player, near Pleasureville after an altercation over Gill's wife. Gill said they fought by the water and Reid died from blows to the head. Reid's body has not been recovered and Gill faces murder charges.
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Shreveport
George W. Gill
Loyola University
New Orleans
Sheriff's Office
Robert
Bob) Reid
Centenary
Pleasureville
Gill
Reid
Cashier Reheld on Higher Bond in Embezzlement Case
Wheeling West Virginia June 11 W O B Leach cashier of the closed Benwood bank was re arrested at his home tonight and is held on a further fifty thousand dollar bond on the embezzlement charge in which he and his assistant Joseph Ward are named. The arrest followed the auditing of the bank accounts by state bank examiner W R Seal and was carried out by Benwood officers.
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Wheeling
W. Va
W. OB. Leach
Bank of Benwood
Leach
Joseph Ward
Benwood
W. R. Seal
State Bank
British inventor claims golf ball to curb cursing
London reports a British inventor who says he has created a golf ball that begins whistling when it hits the ground. The device, he argues, will guide clubs to locate lost balls and reduce language in the game.
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London
Ellesmere Island Modern Arctic Scrutiny Targets Historic Claims
Washington National Geographic Society bulletins describe Ellesmere Island as near the North Pole, detailing Baffin Bay geography, historic discoveries by Baffin, Kane, Hayes, and Greely, and the MacMillan Expedition plan to map interior regions from Axel Heiberg Land with air surveys and dog-sled routes across three coastal bands.
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Ellesmere Island
North Pole
Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
Baffin Bay
Arctic
Greenland
William Baffin
Bilesmere Island
Baffin
Dr. Hayes
Kane
Hayes
Bie Island
Grinnell Land
Polar Sea
Grint Land
North Lincoln
King Oscar Land
Cape Land
Peary
Cape Col
Umbia
Point Barrow
Alaska
United States-Canada
Grant Land
Sverdrup
North America
MacMillan
Axel Heibe
Greely
Wildlife and ice claims in Grant Land and Ellesmere Island
The article notes grass and wildflowers in valleys with musk oxen feeding explorers and large caribou herds in Grant Land. It also suggests extensive Ellesmere Island areas between grass valleys are believed to be capped by perpetual ice, indicating vast polar conditions.
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Grant Land
Ellesmere Island
Arctic Tragedy Memorial Marked in 1924
A bronze tablet placed by Commander MacMillan for the National Geographic Society commemorates the Grimly expedition losses. Eighteen of twenty five men perished from starvation during winter and spring off Ca rabine, southern reach of Lady Franklin Bay, marking a stark Arctic tragedy.
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Lady Franklin Bay
Greely
Carabine
Smith Gound
Ptah
MacMillan
National Geographic Society
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Chang
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Tia
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Wits
Boosier McCormick & CO
Baltimore
Valieray Chests
Warlick Furniture Co
Eld Ag
Mulkey
Mulkey Salt Company
Detroit, Michigan
Thornton-Laird Co
Bluefield, W. V
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