Democrats Brace for Battle Over Mellon Tax Plan in Congress
Congress faces a sharp fight as Democrats plan to resist the Mellon plan to halve the top surtax rate from 50 percent and push for greater relief for small incomes. Mellon argues a 25 percent maximum surtax would benefit the country. Conference on a soldiers bonus prompts GOP talks next Thursday.
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Congress
Washington
Mellon
Treasury
Couzens
Rep
Mich
Michigan
House Republicans
Ways and Means
Senate Democrats
Senerors Tudor
House
Ways and Means Committee
Garrett
Tennessee
Robinson
Hyde Park church gutted by blaze in subzero conditions
Hyde Park Methodist Episcopal Church on Erie Avenue near Shaw Avenue was gutted by a ten-alarm fire driven by extreme cold. Fire Chief Barney Houston said the blaze began from an overheated basement furnace and the icebound scene hindered hoses and firefighters. The church planned a 200000 building fund merger with Mt Lookout M E, while some Mt Lookout members formed a separate congregation. Services planned at Hyde Park Masonic Temple, with memorials for S A Mullikin and his two daughters.
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Hyde Park
Grace and
Observatory Avenues
Mt. Lookout M. E
Mt. Lookout
W. J. Dunham
Hyde Park Masonic Temple
S. A. Mullikin
Dunham
Venizelos Suffers Heart Attack Amid Assembly Attack
In Athens former premier Venizelos collapsed after a sharp attack in the National Assembly amid hostile rhetoric. Doctors treated him at home, a heart attack reported, while the vote for a permanent president proceeded. In New York a plan to visit the United States in April to discuss the 1918 Greece loan is reported.
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Venizelos
Greece
Chamber
Associated Press
Athens
National Assembly
M. Venizelos
M. Papanastasiou
Admiral Hadjikiriakos
M. Doxiadis
Min
New York
Eliphterios “Venizelos
United States
Washington
Chicago
League For Political Education
Boy Squirts Iodine on Women After Movies
Fourteen year old Schuyler Finch admitted in Passaic New Jersey that he sprayed iodine on faces of six women while riding a bicycle. He said he copied the act from motion pictures and claimed no other motive or knowledge of the victims. He was arraigned and released to his mother for Juvenile Court custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Passaic
N. J
Schuyler Finch
Finch
Robbery at P. & C. Schneider Co. Store Locked In
Two youths about 21 and 23 robbed the clerk at 907 West Liberty Street, took $60 from the cash register, then padlocked the store with clerk Kirby Perkins inside for about fifteen minutes. Patrolman Jeff Conners freed him, Perkins said he was alone at 7 PM.
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P. & C. Schneider Company
West Liberty Street
Kirby Perkins
State Avenue
Perkins
Jeff Conners
Fifth District
Woman builds funeral pyre and self immolates in Delphos
Mrs Elizabeth Grothe 46, dementia, made a crude pyre in a woodshed behind her home and threw herself on the flames at noon. A grocer's delivery boy found her charred body. coroner's inquiry noted she died without apparent agony as the shed remained unburned. Her husband was away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphos, CO
Elizabeth Grothe
Neata Orders War Supplies From America
In a Mexico City backed movement, Adolfo de la Huerta instructs agents to buy 3,000,000 rifle rounds 6,000 rifles ten machine guns and 1,000,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition. Funds are sent to a New Orleans bank as Frezieres meets Justice officials and promises coordination.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Washington
Adolfo de la Huerta
Daily States
Vera Cruz
Teodoro Frezieres
de la Huerta
Frezieres
Department of Justice
Police
George R. Spanton
Colonel Spanton
Department of State
Spanton
First Arrest for Violation of Neutrality on Border
Brownsville report says Cosme Longoria was arrested by Justice agents near Rio Grande City for leading a foray across the Rio Grande last Sunday. Rebels alleged to have crossed from the U S side clashed with federal forces near Camargo.
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Brownsville
Tex
Department of Justice
Cosme Longoria
Rio Grande City
Longoria
Rio Grande
Camargo
Rebels Defeated in Tampico City Attack
Reports from Matamoros say rebel forces led by Governor Lopez de Lara attempted to attack Tampico. Federal troops engaged at Hacienda el Cerro and defeated the rebels, who dispersed and fled north toward the border.
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Tampico City
Brownsville
Tex
Matamoros
Lopez de Lara
Tamaulipas
Tampico
Hacienda el Cerro
Socialist Governor of Yucatan Shot to Death
It was officially stated that Felipe Carrillo Puerto Socialist Governor of Yucatan was shot with his colleagues in Vera Cruz according to New York dispatches reported in Mexico City on January 4 via Laredo Junction.
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Yucatan
Associated Press
Mexico City
Laredo Junction
New York Dispatches
Felipe Carrillo Puerto
Vera Cruz
Rockfeller companion Ashton Harvey dies on golf links
Ashton Harvey of New York died suddenly during a golf twosome with John D. Rockefeller Sr at Ormond Beach Florida. Harvey, about 70, collapsed while preparing his second shot after reporting heart pain. Rockefeller aided him with staff and caddies before he died. Harvey, a retired lawyer, had wintered with Rockefeller for several seasons and resided in Greenwich Connecticut with his daughter.
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Ormond Beach
Fla
Ashton Harvey
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Harvey
Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Harvey
John Defeller
D. S. Baker
Rock Ridge
Greenwich
Conn
Dog dies saving tot in house fire
In Greensburg Indiana an oil stove exploded injuring Mr and Mrs John Monroe and killing their eighteen month old daughter Mary. A collie owned by the family also perished trying to rescue the child. The dog fell dead holding the baby in its mouth.
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Greensburg
Ind
Mary
John Monroe
Here
Ohio executive sentenced in Dollings case
Dwight L. Harrison, former VP of the R L Dollings Company of Ohio, was given three years in the Ohio Penitentiary and a $5000 fine by Common Pleas Judge Robert P. Duncan in Columbus. He was found guilty of making false statements about Phoenix Portland Cement Company holdings to sell Dollings stock.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Dwight L. Harrison
R.L. Dollings Company of
Ohio
Robert P. Duncan
Phoenix Portland Cement Company of
Dollings Company
Harrison
W. G. Benham
Preble
Delaware
Phoenix Portland Cement Company
Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific seeks bond guarantee
The Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to allow it to guarantee payment of principal and interest on a $500,000 Cincinnati bond issue. The city owns terminal property leased to the railroad and bond funds would fund terminal improvements.
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Washington
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cincinnati
Legion Adjutant Bolles Resigns for New York Publishing Post
Lemuel Bolles, National Adjutant of the American Legion for four and a half years, announced his resignation to accept a publishing house position in New York.
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Indianapolis
Lemuel Bolles
American Legion
New York
Covington Tobacco Warehouses Destroyed in Icy Blaze
A night fire in Covington destroyed two large tobacco warehouses as water froze in hoses. The blaze, worsened by wind, damaged nearby residences and caused an estimated 125000 to 150000 dollars in losses. Firefighters from Covington, Cincinnati, Newport and Ludlow fought for hours while residents fled freezing streets.
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Covington
Cincinnati
Newport
West Third Street
Theodore S. Dohrmann
Williams & Ray
Edwin F. Rattermann
Rattermann
Third Street
Second Street
Johnson
Main Streets
William Bond
Main Street
Robert Ryan
William Wunderly
William Mulligan
Wunderly
Wealthy Mt Vernon Realtor Shot After Rendezvous
Edward W Dolge prominent Mt Vernon realtor and Harlem River Towing Line manager is killed by gunmen who followed him from an encounter with Mrs Minnie Pachie Police say he was lured from a subway station and attacked as he prepared for a real estate deal Also noted are the cold snap at 7 6 below zero with three hospitalizations and river stage 55.
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New York
Edward W. Dolge
Vernon Realtor
Minnie Pachie
Bronx
McGeehan
Dolge
Pachie
Brooklyn
Charles S. Neilson
United States Veterans’ Hospital No. 81
Neilson
Brazil
Mt. Vernon
Harlem
Hunt's Point
New York, Boston & Westchester Railroad
Egyptian mummy at Luxor left undisturbed after discovery
The Anacedated Press reports that King Tutankhamun's mummy will stay in its sarcophagus as inspections pause. Experts note the lid blocks further study. the coffin frieze confirms the king, while the tomb’s shrine remains to be dismantled before radiographic age and death cause can be established.
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Luxor
Egypt
Tutenkhamun
Carter
Guernme
Amenhotep
Valley of the Kings
German Relief Fund Opens With Cincinnati Quota In
The national German relief drive begins with Cincinnati pledging 11 081 of its 125 000 quota. General Henry T Allen National Campaign chairman reports Germany faces hunger and tuberculosis as millions of unemployed and underfed children risk starvation. First donation 1 000 from Fred A Geier.
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Cincinnati
Gen. Allen
Henry T. Allen
Germany
General Allen
America
William Procter
William H. Lueders
Allen
William H. Parker
Fred A. Geier
Europe
Man Receives 30 Days Jail For Courtroom Brick Toss
William Dillon 27 of 309 West Seventh street is jailed thirty days and fined 500 dollars for malicious destruction after he hurled a brick through the Police Court window for the second time in three years. Court staff and deputies were briefly injured by shattered glass as Dillon was recaptured near Ninth and Plum streets following his escape.
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Alexander
Ohmer
Goecke
Ninth Street
Ninth
Plum Streets
William Dillon
West Seventh Street
Joseph Cline
Dillon
William H
Lueders
Longview Hospital
Longview
Central Station
Severe Cold Bites City As Rivers Rise For Depot Move
The unheralded cold spell plunges to 7.6 deg below zero at Clifton Observatory and as low as 12 below in areas, with 55 to 56 foot river stage at Broad Street. Trains shift to Storrs Street and Highth Street stations as Central Depot is abandoned. Three hospitalized for exposure. streetcar service hampered. gas pressure falls but expected to recover. Forecaster Devereaux warns of greater intensity this morning and below normal temperatures for the week.
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Clifton
William C. Devereaux
United States
Ohio
Broadway
Central Union Depot
Big Four
Southern
Chicago
Storrs Street
Cincinnati
Road
Eighth Street
McLean Avenue
Highth Street
Central Dépot
Central Station
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Central Depot
General Hospital
Joe Flinn
Flinn
William McCoy
Eastern Avenue
Archer Street
Iowa
Edwin Ullman
Bank Street
Vine Street
McMicken Avenue
Simone. Henkel
H Home
The
Community Chest
Devereaux
Mercury
College Hill
Ft. Thomas
Price Hill
Westwood
Iesport
Ludlow
Covington
Mt. Auburn
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GLEAK
West End
NEATA
U. S
Florida Beach
D. L. Harrison
Dollings Firm
Bolles
Legion
Los
Jack Rubenstein
Corryville
Union Gas and Electric Company
Vine-Norwood
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