Publicity Fight Over 1924 Income Tax Returns
Washington dispatch reports 1924 income tax returns will be published in autumn despite repeal efforts. Administrations face a struggle over the publicity provision as courts consider permissible public disclosure and lawmakers weigh taxpayers’ rights against public accountability.
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David Lawrence
the Commercial Tribune
Washington
Maron
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress
Internal Revenue
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Department
Treasury
Wisconsin hotbed of Reds targets UW Madison links to Capitol
OsHkosh March 27 De claring the University of Wisconsin is the spawning bed for a great variety of socialistic laws and that socialism at Madison links the university and state capitol Wipperman secretary of a recently formed state organization of regular Republicans demanded an investigation of alleged socialistic activities. He cited Ohio moves to purge universities of un American taint as significant of the Wisconsin situation.
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Oshkosh
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Wipperman
Ohio
Wisconsin
Couzens Seeks Tax Abatement over Mellon Feud
Senator Couzens of Michigan announced he filed with the Treasury Department a plea for abatement of taxes totaling 10 909 50 dollars. He claims the levy is an attempt to punish him for assisting in the Mellon investigation. The World News Service reports from Washington.
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Couzens
New York World News Service
Washington
Senator Couzens
Michigan
Treasury Department
Mellon
Prohibition Agents Demand Scotch Themed Window Display
Louis Cahn kept a shop window with Scotch plaid neckties and three antique cases labeled White Horse Sandy MacDonald and Black and White. Three men, claiming to be prohibition agents, demanded removal asserting it violated the law and threatened prosecution.
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World News Service
Baltimore
Louis Cahn
Sandy MacDonald
Prohibition
Grieving woman in city takes poison, dies sought
Mrs Olive Stoll 44 a former music teacher from Lytle Apartments 522 East Fifth street drank poison after a troubled marriage to Dr Karl Ludwig Stoll. She previously attempted suicide twice. Doctors at General Hospital fought to identify the poison as her condition remained grave last night.
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Olive Stoll
Lytle Apartments
East Fifth Street
General Hospital
Karl Ludwig Stoll
York Street
Newport
Chapman Sees Doom Sealed as Inn Guests Named
Hartford Conn March 27 Gerald Chapman faced a tense day in court as waitress Lillian Knell identified him and Walter Shean as two men who stayed at the Old Colony Inn near Meriden. Shean and Chapman allegedly ate a whole chicken dinner and asked for rooms before fleeing with a clock alarm.
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Chapman
Doom
Shean
New York World News Service
Hartford
Walter E. Shean
Skelly
New Britain
Capitol
Lillian Knell
Hugh M. Alcorn
Old Colony Inn
Meriden
Conn
Mr. Alcorn
Louis Kupéck
Alcorn
Charles T. Shean
Cooley and Kimball
Springfield
Mass
Arthur J. Shean
Walter Shean
Louis Kupeck
Slaved for Aunt Then Killed Her in Clyde Texas
Lillie Belle Hirt 27 says she was enslaved by her 68 year old aunt since childhood and killed her in Clyde Callahan County. She inherited about 50 000 dollars from the aunt and was released on bond after the shooting.
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New York World News Service
Fort Worth
Tex
Lillie Belle Hirt
Clyde
Callahan County
Lillie Belle
Belle
English Tories Defeat Miners' Minimum Pay Bill
The House of Commons defeated the miners' minimum wage bill 208 to 143 with nearly all Tory members opposing. The bill would have set adult coal miners’ pay at 10 to 12 shillings daily about 15 dollars weekly to avert a general strike.
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New York World News Service
London
House of Commons Tonight
A. J. Cook
Miners’ Federation
Baldwin
Cook
Beddoe Rees
N.Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Tragic double murder suicide shocks Grand Forks
In Grand Forks North Dakota on March 27 a laborer named J P Cole shot and killed his 4 year old son after a quarrel with his wife and then killed himself about a half hour later while in the automobile of the Chief of Police on the way to jail.
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Grand Forks
N. D
J. P.cole
Chapman described as older mask like face with deep-set eyes
Hartford March 27 Gerald Chapman is 37 years old with a mask like face deep-set eyes heavy brows and yellow-gray skin. He stands 5 feet 7 inches weighs under 140 pounds and moves with hidden strength as his wrists ankles and hands appear frail yet powerful.
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Chapman
New York World News Service
Hartford, Conn
Gerald Chapman
Oriental intrigue in abduction case tests royal circles
In Bombay on March 27 the trial of nine men accused in Mumtaz Begum’s abduction featured testimony of oriental intrigue. Alla Bux Wazir, her uncle, recounted plots to return her to the Indore Maharajah, detailing bribes and covert plans amid Indore state intrigues and royal warnings.
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Bombay
Mumtaz Begum
Nautch
Indore
Alla Bux Wazier
Alla Bux Wazir
Abdul Kadir Baula
Anand Rao Phanse
Maharajah
Baula
Mulgackar
Maharaj Bay
Stanah
Maharahj of Indore Drawn Deeper Into Mumtaz Begum Case
London reports indicate nine subjects of the Maharajah stand trial in Bombay over the Mumtaz Begum kidnapping plot in which Abdul Kadir Baula was killed. Mumtaz testified the Maharajah threatened to force her return. A new Indore summons claim arose during today’s hearing.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Maharajah of
Indore
Mumtaz Begum
Bombay
Maharajah
Mumtaz
Abdul Kadir Baula
Nautch
Baula
India
Reuter’s
Fined Wife A Dollar Each Time She Spoke Out Of Turn
New York March 27 Dudley Casterline a bank clerk charged before Supreme Court Justice Callaghan in Brooklyn with fining his wife a dollar each time she spoke out of turn He said he did it to control her speaking and she claimed the fines diminished her alimony The court heard she was awarded 20 a week in alimony pending a separation suit and the case centers on the legality of the fines
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New York World News Service
New York
Dudley Casterlihe
Supreme Court
Justice Callaghan
Brooklyn
Wheeler Indicted in Washington for Landmark Land Fraud Conspiracy
Senator Burton Wheeler and two associates Gordon Campbell and Edwin Booth were indicted in Washington for conspiracy to defraud the government. The case centers on dummy land permits to exceed legal public land limits with evidence from letters and telegrams. Wheeler seeks bond and asserts innocence as trial date in Montana is set for April 16.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Harry M. Daugherty
Montana
Gordon Campbell
Edwin S. Booth
Interior Department
Booth
Campbell
James A. McGowan
Wheeler
McGowan
McGowans
Department of Justice
Walsh
Borah Committee
Great Falls
Mont
Tulsa
Okla
Mussolini speaks in Chamber amid illness rumors
Premier Mussolini, ill for fifty four days, appears for under ten minutes in the Chamber of Deputies. He deflects feverish rumors about his health and focuses on the Geneva Protocol and foreign affairs, while hecklers from the Communist side test fascist discipline.
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Beatrice Baseville
New York World News Service
Rome
Mussolini
Chamber of Deputies
Gennari
Permier
Geneva
Italy
N. Y
World News Service
World News Service Today
Kajetan Dunbar
Benito Mussolini
Chiasso
Switzerland
Foreign Office
Fascisti
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub
Amendments to General Appropriation Bill Approved
The Eighty sixth General Assembly concurred in conference amendments to the general appropriation bill in Columbus Ohio. A technical recess followed at 1 50 this morning for five minutes to record March 27 as the legislative day. The body will reconvene April 16 for a two day session to clear odds and ends and pass bills over the Governor s veto. The bill totals 65 350 000 excluding auto tag funds and gasoline tax receipts estimated up to 20 000 000.
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Columbus
Eighty-sixth
General Assembly
House
Senate
Widow Defends Sir John Cowans After Alimony Case
Lady Cowans widow of Sir John Cowans the British Quartermaster General in World War I speaks out to defend his reputation after an alimony suit in which his alleged lover Dorothy Dennistoun was named. She laments no legal option to defend the dead and calls for legal changes to protect a deceased’s name.
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John Cowans
Dennistoun
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Lady Cowans
Sir John Cowans
John
Sir John
Sirae
Letters to Feature Suit Against Dennistoun
Paris March 27 An American woman plans a breach of promise and defamation suit against British Lieutenant Colonel Ian Dennistown. Dudley Field Malone, her American counsel in Paris, publicly outlined the main facts, noting the case is separate from Dennistoun’s London divorce suit. The evidence centers on letters Dennistoun wrote to the woman before his marriage to the Dowager Countess Carnarvon.
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Associated Press
Paris
Ian Dennistown
Dudley Field Malone
Dennistoun
London
Malone
Carnarvon
Rum ship S. C. 217 sinks after battle near Sandy Hook
Sixteen of seventeen crew members of the former sub-chaser S. C. 217 were brought ashore after their craft sank while being towed to Sandy Hook, riddled by bullets during a clash with revenue cutters. One crewman is missing. boatswain's mate Tilton was wounded.
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New York
S. C. 217
Coast
Sandy Hook
Tilton
Ohio Senate Passes Sixty Bills in Final Session Burst
In Columbus on March 27 the Senate cleared about sixty bills amid a flurry of activity. Key measures prepared for the governor include the Bender bill ending fee splitting by Justices of the Peace and the McCreary bill allocating $100,000 to the State Public Utilities Commission to counter rate hikes by Ohio Bell. The Buchanan Bible bill faced repeated defeats, with House opposition and procedural delays blocking a vote. The Eastern time uniform measure stalled in both houses after a House amendment, while lawmakers consider a conference committee. The Assembly planned two constitutional amendments for voters’ consideration.
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Columbus
Senate
Donahéy
Bender
Justices of the Peace
Tellentire
McCreary
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Friends
Buchanan Bible
Assembly
Ohio
House
W. F. Garver
Marshall
Green County
All Day House Friends of
Oder
J. Lowry Miller
Midadletown
Gordon
Taft
Silver
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