Dawes Refuses Vote in Senate War Clash and Tax Battle
Washington May 8 Vice President Dawes again failed to record a vote in a Senate tax and war debate as a tie blocked his attendance. Democrats led by Overman saw Warren’s nomination denied while Heflin blasted the Catholic Church amid a heated exchange with Bruce Shortridge and Hale. The House cleared flood control and bridge bills as Muscle Shoals looms. Republicans defended a 200 million tax cut plan while Democrats pressed for bigger reductions and lower admissions tax.
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Washington
Dawes
McNary
Oregon
Warren
Senate
Overman
North Carolina
Heflin
Alabama
Cotton
al Smith
Bruce
Maryland
Shortridge
California
Hale
Maine
House
White House
Atlantic
Real Battle Thrill Felt by Citizens of Islands
Fighting starts anew as nationalist chieftain scoffs at plea for punishment of plundering forces. Citizens on the islands endure renewed clashes and call for firmness in leadership amid ongoing turmoil.
Japan to Send Nagoya Division to Shantung Amid War News
The Japanese cabinet approved mobilizing the Third Nagoya Division to full strength for deployment to Shantung, nearly doubling forces there. Premier Tanaka seeks imperial sanction, while foreign ambassadors are briefed on the strategic need. Reports also note renewed hostilities near Tsina and Chiang Kai-Shek’s rejection of a Japanese ultimatum prompting international evacuations.
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Tokio
Japan
Germany
War Ministry
Nagoya
Shantung
Togo
Ogu
Wyehara
Gen
Ugaki
War Council
Tanaka
Ginza
Tsina
Tokyo
Tsinan
Tsingtao
Chang Tso-Lin
Yellow Sea
China
Tientsin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tsiwan
War Office
Suspect Shot to Death in Chicago Alley
Chicago May 8 state and federal authorities who chased William Jackson 28 for the Evergreen ark train heist found him shot dead beside his auto in a South Side alley. Police think gangsters killed him as he tried to flee with most of the loot from the Grand Trunk robbery. A New York license car and recent New York entries hint at ambush after his return. Three men already face arrest for the robbery. Jackson and Virgil Litsinger were sought. about 47000 of the loot recovered.
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Chicago
William Jackson
Evergreen Ark
Jackson
New York
Virgil Litsinger
Harvey
Union of Methodist and Presbyterian Churches Placed Before Conference
In Kansas City on May 8, the quadrennial Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference discussed an organic union with the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America without conditions. The move aims to present the question to Tulsa beginning May 24 in the Presbyterian general assembly. The resolution, signed by over fifty church leaders, urged immediate overtures toward union, while noting that differences remain mainly in organizational details.
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the Methodist Church
Presbyterians In
America
Kansas City
Methodist Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Tulsa
Okla
South
Congregationalist
J. A. James
Ray Allen
Hornell
N. Y
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Anton Bast
Copenhagen
Dreihs Expected to Succeed Reinhardt as Clerk
Edward J. Dreihs, a twenty year veteran in the County Commissioners office and current first assistant clerk, is expected to be chosen Friday to succeed Al Reinhardt who has resigned. Reinhardt plans retirement May 15. The position pays about 4500 dollars annually, with Dreihs likely to receive a similar salary.
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Edward J. Dreihs
al Reinhardt
Dreihs
Fred Dreihs
Reinhradt
Reinhardt
Princess Plane Sinkings Linked to Ocean Rowed Clash
A bottle found at Watch Hill, Rhode Island, carried a message allegedly from Princess Lowenstein of the St Raphael plane lost during a non stop England to Canada flight last year. The note claims Captains Hamilton and Minchen quarreled over course, sank, and that light was seen in distance near Block Island before sinking.
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Westerly
R. I
Watch Hill
Morrell K. Earp
Princess Lowenstein
St. Raphael
England
Canada
Hamilton
Minchen
Block Island
Barr
Bodies of two biplane occupants found in Lake Erie
Divers located the submerged biplane in forty feet of water at Port Rowan Ontario. The bodies, strapped in their seats, are believed to be John Rosecrans and James M. Lapey of Buffalo though identification remains incomplete. The wreckage lay upside down and is to be raised early tomorrow for removal.
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Port Rowan
Ontario
Lake Erie
John Rosecrans
James M. Lapey
Buffalo
Peaches Browning Named Co-respondent in Suit
New York May 8 The New York American reports papers in a divorce suit were served on Edgar F Allen naming Peaches Browning as co respondent Allen has been booking agent and business manager for Mrs Browning Mrs Allen sailed last week for France
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New York
New York American
Edgar F. Allen
Browning
Allen
Franceg
Friedlander Declines Citizens' Republican Treasurer Offer
Edgar F. Friedlander senior partner at Edgar Friedlander & Co. turned down a Citizens' Republican nomination for County Treasurer. Rumors tied him to the post as Samuel Ach retires. other contenders include public accountant R. B. Smethurst. Party chairman Capt. Victor Heintz said no candidate is chosen yet and the ticket will be set in coming weeks.
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Edgary F. Friedlander
Edgar Friedlander & Co
Citizens
Friedlander
Samuel Ach
R. B. Smethurst
Citizens’ Group
Mr. Friedlander
Citizens’ Republican Committee
Victor Heintz
Schneller
Edgar Friedlander
Engineer Dies in Eastern Rail Crash at St Johns
Hazelton Pa May 8 Harry Canius 45 engineman was killed and 26 passengers injured in a head on collision between two high speed electric trains at St Johns nine miles north of the city. Canius overran a switch and his car burned after wires snapped. Injured taken to Hazleton hospital by special cars and buses.
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Hazelton
Harry Cunius
Wilkesbarre & Hazleton
St. Johns
Canius
Hazleton
State Hospital
Saxophonists Robber Sentenced to Stand Trial
White Plains May 8 Herbert Heathe jailed after arrest for hiring musicians then forcing them to walk home minus their saxophones. He faces two indictments and will be returned to Brooklyn to answer similar counts.
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White Plains
N. Y
Herbert Heathe
Brooklyn
Heathe
Lunch Counter Meals Send 13 to Hospital
Thirteen people, eleven women and two children, were hospitalized after eating at a downtown Dallas store lunch counter in Little Rock. Mr and Mrs Tom Dalton of Dallas Texas suffered slight poisoning but were not hospitalized. Dalton was an official nurse of the Dallas delegation to the United Confederate Veterans Reunion.
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Little Rock
Ark
Tom Dalton
Dallas
Tex
United Confederate Veterans' Reunion
Brazil Refuses League Return Invitation
Geneva May 8 Brazil declines an invitation from the League of Nations to cancel its resignation which will soon take effect. In a public reply Brazil expresses willingness to cooperate and says future return would give cause for rejoicing.
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Geneva
Brazil
League of Nations
League
Former slave owning class seen as best friend of the negro
Jesse A. Thomas of Atlanta, field secretary for the National Urban League, told the National Conference of Social Work in Memphis that whites with Southern aristocracy roots, descendants of slaveholders, are becoming the negro’s best friends through education and public opinion. He cited growing tolerance among educated whites as a sign of shifting race relations.
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Memphis
Tenn
Jesse, A. Thomas
Atlanta
National Urban League
National Conference of Social Work
South
Nine Miners Get Jail Sentences in Steubenville
In Steubenville Ohio six miners received 45 day jail terms for conspiring to violate federal mine injunctions that barred interference with workers at non union mines. Two were given suspended sentences for good behavior, three others jailed 30 days for taking part in a disturbance, and four got suspended sentences. Earlier, six more men and two women received contempt sentences for mass picketing violations. The case concludes with admonitions to be careful.
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Steubenville
Benson Hough
Hough
Fail to Find 17 Bodies in Dredge
Divers search the sunken government dredge Navesink off Staten Island for seventeen of eighteen missing crewmen after a collision. An unidentified body washed ashore at Keyport New Jersey as a board of army engineers opens a crash inquiry.
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New York
Navesink
Ocean Steamship Channel
Staten Island
Board of Army Engineers
Keyport
N. J
Williams and Fry Sentenced in Mail Stock Case
Federal Judge Mc Clintick imposes ten year terms in Atlanta Penitentiary on A D Williams of Marlinton West Virginia and E D Fry of New York for misuse of the mails tied to sales of Casoga Oil and Development Company stock. Counsel indicate appeal.
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Charleston
W. Va
Atlanta
George W. McClintick
A. D. Williams
Marlinton
E. D. Fry
New York
Casoga Oil and Development Company
Two Year Fight Over a Man Prompts Appeal in Nashville
Miss Minnie Smith of Hopkinsville Kentucky pursues a breach of promise suit against John Daniels for fifty thousand dollars. A 1926 Nashville jury verdict favored Daniels in Federal Court. An appeal sought after questions on the finality of the judgment and a writ of error, with Miss Smith seeking review before the U S Court of Appeals.
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Nashville
Tenn
Minnie Smith
Hopkinsville
United States Court of Appeals
Federal Court
Court of Appeals
Miss Smith
John 43
Daniels
Ken
Tucky
Gore
Peasants Rally for Control as Romania Faces Crisis
In Bucharest the Peasants Party pressed for a regency shift amid rising tensions and calls for passive resistance. Reports from Vienna and London note censorship and unrest as Prince Carol prepares to leave England while Gardeners of the throne confront demands for a peasant cabinet.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Juliu Maniu
Peasants Party
Maniu
Adeverul
Forora Averscu
Balkans
Vienna
Romania
Interior
Duca
Associated Press
Alda
Julia
Michael
Julia Maniu
Three Hold-Up Men Identified in Berwyn Theater Robbery
Chicago May 8 Three youths are identified by a theater manager as the bandits who robbed the Berwyn theater and fatally shot a girl usher Pear Eggieston 17 during the hold up. Tony Grecco 21 Charles Waiz 17 Rosaro Pobbalardo 19 are paraded for identification while Tony Bertucci arrested in related hold ups and Waiz admits shooting Officer Arthur Esau on April 27. Witnesses urged further identifications as investigations continue.
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Chicago
Berwyn
Usher
Pear Eggieston
Biba
Tony Grecco
Charles Waiz
Rosaro
Waiz
Tony Bertucci
Pobbalardo
Canal yields bodies of nine in New Orleans area tragedy
Nine people from two Hammond families, missing since Sunday, drowned when their car left the Hammond New Orleans highway and plunged into a canal near Runnock La. State police and divers recovered the upturned vehicle and several bodies. The LaCausi and Tumella families were among those identified.
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New Orleans
Hammond
Hammond-New Orleans
Runnock
Peter
LaCausi
Mary
Marguerite
Josephine
Vito
Sam Tumella
Margaret
Michael Canizarro
Tumella
Fireman and volunteer lose lives in Will & Co store fire
Bloomington Illinois May 8 fire crews recovered the bodies of Walfrie Moline a city firefighter and Louis Payton a volunteer firefighter missing since a blaze destroyed the J E Will & Co furniture store last night. The fire threatened a full business block and caused about 150000 dollars in damage.
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Bloomington
Walfrie
Jury Disagrees in Knapp Case in Albany
In Albany on May 8 the jury in Florence E. Knapp former Secretary of State case reported they could not agree and were discharged. A new trial was set for May 21 on the charge of grand larceny of state funds tied to a 1925 census pay check for 2875.06 drawn to Clara Blanche Knapp. The jury deliberated nearly twelve hours after noon.
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Albany
N. Y
Florence E
Knapp
Supreme Court
Stephen Callaghan
C. B. Knapp
Clara Blanche Knapp
Baron Suriani’s title sale faux pas shocks New York
Baron Giorgio Mario Suriani of Italy sought to marry Miss Winifred Barry after advertising his title for sale at 100000 dollars. Miss Barry refused, saying she did not know of the ad and had learned he was engaged to another woman. The actress scoffs at the plan and public interest in titled marriage wanes.
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New York
Baron Giorgio Mario Suriani
Italy
Winifred Barry
Miss Barry
America
Indiana Bank Robbed of $15000 in Angola
Five men robbed the First National Bank at Angola Indiana this morning escaping in a gray touring car. They forced bank president E F Croxton to dress tied his wife gagged her and waited for cashier B B Goodale and Ss G Gilbert to open the vault. The bandits took about $15000 in cash and some bonds.
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Angola
Ind
First National Bank
E. F. Croxton
Croxton
B. B. Goodale
Hissistant
Ss. G. Gilbert
Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus and Ingrid Travel to Brussels
Reports from Stockholm say the stork hovers again over the Belgian royal chateau in Brussels, home to Crown Princess Astrid. Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus and his daughter Ingrid have left Stockholm for Brussels.
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Stockholm
Brussels
Astrid
Carl
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus
Ingrid
Indiana Republican primary tight races drive to convention
Indiana returns show Herbert Hoover leading Watson by a slim margin as 552 of 3610 precincts report. Senate, governor, and presidential ballots mix several candidates with no clear majority, pushing a convention decision. Democratic fields also tight, with Dailey leading for governor in early returns.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Herbert Hoover
United States
James E. Watson
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Watson
Senate
Arthur R. Robinson
Robinson
Arthur L. Gilliam
E. S. Shumaker
Indiana Anti- Saloon League
Ku Klux Klan
Solon J. Carter
Stump
Albert Stump
Walter Myers
L. William Curry
Evans Woollen
T&wn
Frank C. Dailey
United States District Attorney
Frederick Landis
Logansport
Landis
Frederick E. Schortemeier
Thomas H. Adams
Vinecennes
Jesse E. Eschbach
D. Burns Douglas
Charles W. Jewett
Harry G. Leslie
U. S. ‘Lesh
Alvah’ J.rucker
Charles S. Ewry
Dailey
John E. Frederick
Earl H. Crawford
George R. Dale
George B. Hershman
Samuel B. Wells
Olin R. Holt
Greenwood
Canfield
Johnson
Vestal
Hall
Hickey
Hogg
Ft. Wayne
Fairfield
Slugging and Kidnapping Mark Kansas City Balloting
In Kansas City's North Side First Ward a factional fight for Democratic leadership led to a physical assault on a supporter and four officials abducted by the Pendergast faction amid a municipal and county bond vote. Victims include Justice of the Peace Frank Benanti, ex alderman Joe Galluci, water dept official Ron Nigro, Captain and precinct leader, plus city meat inspector Ryan.
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Kansas City
River Ward
North Side
Pendergast
Thomas Pendergast
Frank Benanti
Joe Galluci
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New York World News Service
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Citizens’ Republican Group
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