Senate Tax Reduction Fight Splits Parties In Historic Debates
Democratic push for tax cuts falters as Republicans unite to pressure Treasury surplus use for public debt reduction. Senate debate features Norris of Nebraska and a substitute by Hartison of Mississippi. list of supporting and opposing lawmakers spans multiple states and parties amidst turbulent fiscal posture.
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Senate
He Norris
Nebraska
Efartison
Miscsippi
Alease
South
Careving
Republic
Thre Parrisoy
Ageurst
Bruce
Glia
Strith
Wate
Montana
Wheeler
Connecticut
Norrin
Republicina
Bingham
Cameron
Capper Cousens
Curtis
Date
Deneen
Faber
Fees
Frazee
Hert
Coating
Greene
Hale
Howell
Forse Jones
Four Bills Pass Senate In One Day
A fragmented report notes four bills moved through the Senate in a single day. It mentions arms, military, and appropriations items while referencing Democratic and Carolina figures. the text is garbled but implies swift action and contested votes.
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Senate
Keyes Declines to Hold Chaplin Trial
Keyes declines to hold Chaplin case as jury hears ongoing arguments and testimonies. Chaplin faces payment allegations and defense contends for continuance citing inconsistencies in witness statements.
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Keyes
Chaplin
Chinese Coin in Baby's Throat Rescued After Three Days
New London reports a baby girl survived after a Chinese coin remained in her throat for three days. Dr C John Sato carried out a fluoroscope procedure at Home Memorial Hospital to locate and remove the coin from the esophagus. The child could only drink milk during the ordeal but remained in excellent health following the operation.
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Hele
New London
Helen Mugovere
Mia
Salmo Slhugovere
Home Memorial Hospital
M.C iMeyers Son
Hellenie Hospital
New York
C. John Sato
Rajah Picks Right Man To Pliot In Test Of Power
The article surveys political and social turmoil across counties and states. It notes a Connecticut Senate president, wage talks, tax appeal debates, and local court actions. It mentions Danbury graduates, heated policy battles, and a broad list of national and regional concerns with various locations and figures interwoven.
Rebels Surrounded Lisbon Advised In Portugal
Lisbon under advisory as rebels are surrounded in Oporto where government says revolutionary headquarters have been surrounded by troops. AP dispatch from Vigo notes the revolt extends across North Portugal with all communications interrupted and most garrisons involved.
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Lisbo
Portugal
Oporto
London
Daily Mail
Vigo
Drawn
Vienne
New York District Attorney Pushes Curb on Plays
District Attorney Banton plans to scrap the play jury and will personally pursue prosecutions for objectionable productions. A nine member theatre committee seeks voluntary censorship and a Board of Review from within the industry, while Banton states he will act under penal law.
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New York
Banton
New York State
Committee of Nine
Frank Gillmore
Actors’ Equity Association
Ant
of Nine
Board of Review
Peasion
Sheltons Found Guilty in 1925 Mail Robbery Case
Quincy Tila February 4 AP The Shelton brothers eighty three 38 34 and 23 were found guilty by a Federal Court Jury on all four counts of the 15000 mall messenger robbery at Collinsville in 1925. They face long penitentiary terms including 25 year mandatory sentences for assault against postal messenger James Mathias and up to five years for receiving stolen mail and possession of stolen mail matter.
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Quincy
Tila
Shellem Brothers
Collinaville
Tls
Sheltony
Cuyl
Earl
Berns
Charles Birger
Art" Newman
Sheltons
James Mathias
Man Arrested in Theft of Charcoal
George Williams of Lexington Avenue, 46, was arrested with eight bags of charcoal. Patrons stopped him when he could not explain sourcing. Hoffman's coal yard was the theft source and he remains held on a theft charge.
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Ted
George Williams
Lexington Avenue
Hoffman
McCormack Names Canadian Tenor Greater Than Himself
John McCormack denies being the greatest tenor, criticizes self, and defends his modesty while a Japanese tour provokes jokes about his appearance. He prints a response amid claims he is “the greatest tenor in the world” and discusses political ambitions and a new home in County Kilmore.
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McCormack
London
John McCormack
William E Knox Shoots Self at Bowery Savings Bank
William E Knox, formerly head of the Bowery Savings Bank and ex president of the American Bankers Association, was found dead from a revolver wound on the bank’s third floor lounge. Officials cited a nervous breakdown and recent health issues. three Bowery tellers were later implicated in embezzlement schemes totaling 45 000.
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William E. Knox
Self
American Bankers Association
Bowery Savings Bank
New York
Onty-Second Street
Lfe
Willam Blliott Knox
Bank
American Bankers’ Association
Percy Delamater
Knox
Mr. Knox
Knows Aulclda
Luni
Brabane
Ireland
Amerieck
Nonety College
Robina Watson Lartley
Lowery Savings Bank
Ravings Bank
Oscar Wella
Irmingham, Ann
Atute
National
Tetera
Montenceyd
Chinese Wounded Fill Hospitals as Shanghai Stand Tightens
Five hundred wounded arrive from Sun Chuan Fang’s army at Yenchow and pass into Hang Chow native hospitals and Keshing mission infirmaries. Cantonese forces threaten to advance toward Shanghai while Sun’s line holds at Yenchow as reinforcements move from Hang Chow.
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Silanghai
Hang Chow
Sun Chuan-Fang
Yenchow
Shanghai
Southern Presbyterian Mission
Keshing
Sission
Cantoneas
Sun
Chuchow
Tsientang
Fhangchow
Kekiang
Mother and baby killed in sleep in Atlanta
Police search for a "fiend" after Mrs Lottie Ingram and her 10 month old child were slain in bed in Atlanta. The infant was strangled and the mother robbed with a ground iron. Neighbors saw a man enter the home about 3 am claiming the husband sent him to hide from officers. Barney Ingram found them slain upon returning from work at 6 am.
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Atlanta
Lottie Ingram
Barney Ingram
Coffey, Bigamist Slayer, Gets Life
William N. Coffey, former bond salesman and welfare worker, began a life sentence at Waupun for the murder of his wife Halle Hales Coffey after pleading guilty in Grant County court. The dismembered son of Mrs Coffey was buried in Platteville as Coffey was en route to prison.
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Lancaster
Wis
William N. Coffey
Waupun
Halle Hales Coffey
Eonats
Sherman LE. Smalley
Grant County
Coffey
Hratton
Woods
Platteville
Boy
Elroy
California Feels Earth Tremors Across Los Angeles Area
A light earthquake was felt in the Southwest section and suburban areas including Santa Monica Pasadena Altadena and Monrovia shortly after 2 PM. No damage was reported though floods and stalled traffic followed the season’s heaviest rainfall of eight hours totaling 2.53 inches.
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Los Angeles
Galt
Apa
Alan
Santa Momtca
Pasadena
Altadena
Monrovia
Asadena
Mito
Mito Beors
Beardslees Wife Denied Support in Superior Court
Stratford woman Beardslee wife of Oliver C Beardslee sought support claiming abandonment with a $25,000 damages request. Judge Edwin Dickenson dismissed the jurisdiction plea, probate court conservator appointed John C Witcoxen, Stratford.
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Gaius Maude
Beardslee
Steaford
Oliver C. Heardslee
Stratford
Superior Court
Edwin (Dickenson
Westerday
Heardslee
Beardalee
John Sith
Stretford
John C. Witcoxaon
Beardsten
Renteh
Suport Agathet
Jorls
Meriden Fire Damages $40,000 Warehouse and Contents
A February fire in Meriden destroyed a roughly 30 year old wooden warehouse owned by Standard Grain and Coal, with hay grain and feed inside. The blaze threatened nearby Foster Merriam and Seth J Hall Company facilities. water pressure hampered efforts for about an hour.
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Meriden
Standard Grain and Coal Company
Mods M. Puk- Vin
New Laven
Seth J. Hall Company
Umel
Foster-Merriam
Toneney
New York, New ,Uayen and Hadford Eastgoad Company
Decision defeats county teachers in Fitch fight
White Protestant teachers of Pairties county rely on their own labor for support and have no standing in Hairfield county courts, ruled Judge Ed win C. Dickenson. They appealed probate court accounting of Mary and Hilzareth J. Fitch estates after wills left Bayview home and a $300,000 maintenance fund to a class of teachers. Administratrix Mrs. Sailsesa Lewis faced a plea of abatement. trustees and lawyers argued teachers had no standing, citing they were only a few among many beneficiaries.
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Sora
Pairties County
Hairfield
Edwin C. Dickenson
Frederic Bart. Jett
Mary
Hilzareth J. Fituh
Bayview
Boston Avenue
Mra
Sailsesa Lewis
Stratford
Helen L. Averill
Paul L. Miller
Superior Court
Lewis
Ickenson
Sanford Studdard
Landers Leaves Estate Less Than Five Thousand
New York reports former AW director and New York manager George Marcellus Landers left an estate under 5000 to his widow Matej Trexford Vox, after a career including Landers Frary and Clark and leadership roles in Connecticut politics. He once owned a valued inheritance and the schooner Enigmion, tied to the 1905 Kaiser's Cup race.
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New York
George Marcellus Landers
Trexford Vox
Landers
Connecticut Biato Senate
New Britain
Conn
Iis
Landers, Frary and Clark
Josephine MW. Judd
Wil
House Rejects Change in Deficiency Measure
Washington February 4 AP House returns Deficiency Appropriation bill to conference after insisting on provisions to safeguard tax returns to automobile manufacturers. Senate had rejected. A $1.5 million Senate appropriation for no Supreme Court building site was accepted.
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Washington
House
Senate
Government Reward for Cancer Cure Proposed by Senator
WASINGTON Feb 4 A government reward of five million dollars would be paid to the first discoverer of a cure for cancer under a bill introduced in the Senate this afternoon by Senator Neely Democrat of West Virginia. The measure would create a Federal commission to determine the success of any cure submitted by the discoverer and would include three eminent scientists named by the President who would serve without compensation.
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Wasitington
Winder
Senate
Neely
West Virginia
Edgewater mayor and police head found guilty
Edgewater New Jersey mayor Henry Wissel, police chief James A Dinnian, Edgewater detectives Alexander F X Flanery and Edward Pickering, and ten others were convicted on conspiracy charges tied to rum running aboard the steamer Eker. Several defendants were sentenced to terms in federal prison while certain judgments were suspended or deferred.
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New York
Ilenry Wissel
Edgewater
N. J
Eker
Pati
Wissel
Steuer
James A. Dinnian
Alexander F. X. Flanery
Edward Pickering
Ball
Edward A. Ritz
Union City
Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta
Paul Demontreaux
James Baldwin
Roy
Eustace R. Smith
Exers
Baldwin
Demontreaux
Sax
Meekin
Beach's Income Blocked by Court
Stanley Y. Beach, Stratford inventor, must await trial of a trustee’s action regarding his claim to income from his late father Frederick C. Beach’s estate. The New York appellate division reversed a lower court ruling ordering immediate payment of 5,000 dollars yearly under the trust. Wales, a trustee, argued Beach was incompetent due to desertion and his relationship with another woman and child. Beach had sought to divert some income to his daughter.
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Stanley Y. Beach
Yate Aeronautical
Stratford
Frederick C. Beach
Supreme Court
New York
James Albert Wales
Beas
Beach
Hay
Coolidges to Live in Marble Structure During White House Repairs
President and Mrs Coolidge will reside in a marble house near the White House while extensive repairs are made. The property, offered by Mrs Mimer Sente of Chicago, is a four story white marble residence opposite Du Pont Circle. If contractors are ready, the Coolidges may move in soon though formal contract is not yet signed. The plan includes temporary offices at the White House and possible relocation of executive functions during the six month project. The house is north-west of the executive mansion on New Hampshire Avenue near P Street, a prestigious area amid other mansions.
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Washington
Coolidys
Siu
White House
DuPont Cirele
Mimer Sentesinger
Eltnny |Utterson
Chieweo
Nop
Reo
Army
Navy
Executive
Congress
T Reir
Dhe
Mra Coolidge
New Hampshire Avenue
P Street St
Schlesinger
Simpson Urges Churchmen to Help Enforce Prohibition
Rev C W Simpson at the Women's Christian Temperance Union banquet in Bridgeport urges churchmen to expose liquor law violators and push for enforcement. He claims officers know of illicit sales, calls for policemen who will enforce Prohibition, and cites the Eighteenth Amendment as inadequately enforced locally. The speech to 166 attendees at First Baptist Church included sharp charges against police leadership and a call for neighbors to report violations.
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Bridgeport
C. W. Simpson
Chrss
Itan Temperance Union
Simpson
First Baptist Church
Apt Planss
Flanas
Pean
Lef
Woody Ae
Samuel Dawe
Corn Borer War Funding Passes Senate
Washington February 4 The Senate approved the House bill appropriating 1 0000 000 for use by the Department of Agriculture to eradicate the European corn borer. The measure advances to conference with a Senate amendment allowing the governor to recover money spent meeting state central requirements. Agriculture leaders say the pest threatens the U S corn crop and the funding will help localize and eventually eradicate it.
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Washington
House
Senate
Chagsy McNary
United States
Agriculture Department
Local youths receive long terms in Welch capital case
In Welch West Virginia on February 4 three youths ages thirteen and fifteen appeared in Criminal court and drew lengthy sentences for capital offenses. Adam Burress and Jon Miller, both fifteen, were sentenced to 24 years each for criminal assault. Robert Harris, thirteen, was ordered to spend years in a reform school connected to the killing case. Burress previously faced a death sentence but a new trial and plea led to the present prison terms.
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Mtal
Wis
Peobasethy
Iiaia
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