House Hears Potent Bills As Holidays Adjourn Loom
The Charleston legislature debates the milk regulation bill, tax changes on gross income, and a new dairy inspection board. A special committee pursues harmonizing amendments amid sharp exchanges. The House plans continued action through Thursday as the Senate weighs repeal of gross income tax and related measures. BRIDE-TO-BE DIES IN FIRE.
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Charleston
Dee
House
Senate
del Tallman
Mason
Del
Chipley
Hardy
Specia
Hybey
Hsei F
Extortion Plot Fails as Police Trap Snags No One
Federal agents and Lake Forest police laid a trap at Armour farm for extortionists demanding 10000 from Robert A. Gardner. A dummy package was left but no suspect appeared to claim it. Gardner, a Lake Forest broker and former national amateur golf champion, faced a threat against his 11-year-old son Henry Keep Gardner. The note warned of taking the boy for a ride and damaging the Casino club over a party for Gardner’s niece. Mrs Gardner, Chauncy Keep’s daughter, inherits about 1.5 million.
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Chicago
Robert A. Gardner
Lake Forest
Henry Keep Gardner
J. Ogden Armour
Melody” Farm
Gardner
Casino Club
Mary
Armour Place
Chauncy Keep
Rosemont Couple Escape In Wreck
Rosemont residents Joan Norman and her companion escaped unharmed when their car plunged from the highway over an embankment at the Standard Supply Company store in Rosemont Wir. The vehicle was badly damaged, and a pursuing motorist failed to stop. The crash tore down a line, disrupting service on the Flemington Rosemont line for a period.
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Joan Norman
Aye
Rosemont
Miracubous
Embankment
Standard Supply Company
Wir
Norman
Flemington Rosemont
Tennessee Acts To Bring Participants In Hanging Of Negro
Former local girl meets tragic death Edna Lazadder 17 died from a 6 foot fall at Tygart Valley Glass Plant Washington Pennsylvania December 5 Lulu Luzard mother of the deceased dies after auto crash in Washington hospital February 11 1916 born in this city and several siblings survive. Criminal Judge Hart orders grand jury to hear special charge against Lyndhen Alter released and directs impaneling of juries to pursue justice in the wake of a hanging case in Maury county.
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Tennessee
Worf
Edna Lazadder
Lawrence Linder
Tygart Valley Glass
Washington, Pa
Lulu Findley Luzard
Pennsylvania
Lugetter
Mother Coe
Lulu Luzadver
Ernest
Dorothy
Paul
Davis
Naomi
Hart
Grand Jury
Lyndhen Alter
Nashville
Tenn
Crest K. Hart
Daviess
Wao
Lord Cheek
Maury County
Wmud
Dion Coanl
Maur County
Skipper in Cyprus Crisis After Exarch Grounding
Reported by Western Press a captain of the American export liner Exarch killed Shimech after his ship grounded near the north coast of Cyprus at midnight Saturday. The vessel went ashore a half mile west of Cape Plakett in calm weather as engines failed and water entered.
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Samagusta
Cyprus
Exarch
Shimech
Cape Plakett
Four men rescued after adrift on Mediterranean plane
Four French men aboard a crippled seaplane were adrift over 20 hours in a snow driven Mediterranean storm. The Matecluite steamer picked them up at dawn near Marseilles and carried the crew and mail to Diverta. Strong winds, low visibility, and cold waves complicated the search.
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France
Mediterranean
Matecluite
Diverta
Anica
Marsills
Algiers
St. Margeruite
Mediterranean Sea
Zers
Central
Paris
Palearie Islands
Pierre Cot
Frances Figister
Air
al- Bi
Gulf of Lyons
Cuban delegation blocks Cuban anti intervention proposal at Pan American conference
At Montevideo, Dec. 16, Cuban delegates at the Pan American conference accused Brazil’s Aliano Mallo of steering the meeting to dodge a Cuban plan to outlaw intervention in American nations. They claimed Caribbean delegates forced the conference to refuse full debate on the proposal and indicated possible changes in the leadership.
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Montevideo
Paraguay
Aliano Mallo
Brazil
Intemate Law Committee
Confco
Hati
Angel Alberto
Cuba
Andy
Gangland Killing Mistaken By Six Beer Drinkers For Hold-up
Six beer drinkers mistook a Brooklyn tavern visit for a hold-up at the Cave on December 18. Gunmen fired on proprietor Angel Farrinea as patrons prepared to surrender money, killing him. Detectives note the tavern recently changed its beer brand, suggesting motives.
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Brooklyn Tavern
Brooklyn
Angel Farrinea
Charles Fallano
State Land Executives Asked to Report On Accounts
Charleston December 18 21 A note on the status of accounts of school land commissioners was led today by the state. A resolution by Delegate Holt UD Lewis was adopted directing State Auditor Sims to furnish a complete list of school land commissioners showing the amounts the state owed by any of them and the voting toward collection.
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Charleston
Holt UD
Lewis
Sims
Brookings Challenged Roosevelt Gold Program
The Brookings Institution opposed the Roosevelt monetary plan and questioned the idea that raising gold prices would automatically lift commodity prices. It found that price levels do not rise predictably with currency depreciation and that future levels cannot be controlled merely by changing gold prices. The institution describes itself as an endowed body focused on economic research.
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Washington
Brookings Institution
Roosvelt
Contested Classification Of Gasoline Stations In State
Charleston judges hear challenge to state laws classifying gasoline stations as chain stores. Major refineries Standard Oil of New Jersey Gulf Refining and Amoco seek refunds of taxes on stations in a federal hearing led by Judge Grew and officials Morris, Saner, and Cyrscennt.
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Charleston
Fone
Tt Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Sin- Refining Company of
Chica
Gulf Refining Company
Etaig
Port Arthur
Tex
Anland Refining Company
Asheland
Poe
George W
Minti
Virginia
Morris A. Saner
W. Cyrscennt
Lone and Quarter Pound Barby Girl Born in Ohio
A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Charles Carmen is reported as a healthy child. She weighed about eighteen and a half pounds at birth and showed strong activity during delivery. A shoe box was used in the early care, and physicians confirm normal development.
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Der
Weishing
Cna
Charles Carmen
Security loss treatment discouraging capital goods revival
Washington reports M L Seidman of the New York Board of Trade told the House Ways and Means Committee that the current treatment of security losses under federal tax laws discourages investment in capital goods. He said the proposed extension would further deter long term capital influx.
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Washington
M. L. Seidman
New York Board of Trade
House
Ways and Means Committee
Seidman
Lindberghs Start Flight to New York
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh began a 9 48 a m takeoff from Biscayne Bay on the final leg of a 28000 mile tour. The hydro monoplane carried over 400 gallons of fuel after crossing the Atlantic twice and would reach New York in about ten hours, keeping pace with a cautious public expectation of a first eastward flight.
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Maal
Charles A. Lindhocren
New York
Atlantic
Lindberghs
Noran-Cap
Biscayne Bay
Auto crash kills man in New Martinsville
New Martinsville December 18 Robert Agnew 27 died in an eight ton laundry truck crash that skidded off an embankment. Four people were involved with three injured Dorothy Haught Margaret Bailey and Ernest Snider all named.
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New Martinsville
Robert Agnew
Dorothy Haught
Margaret Bailey
Ernest Snider
Collins Elected Head of A. P. Managers Benefit Body
Frank C. Collins of Grafton Tea company store was elected president of the managers benefit association for the district at a Fairmont meeting. Alvin Boomer of Weston named to vice presidency. Officers include L. V. Hadley treasurer Harry Guy secretary and trustees L. A. Tissue Cook and C. J. Heinz. District covers Grafton Fairmont Clarksburg Morgantown Weston Buckhannon Richwood Gassaway Elkins Philippi Mannington Bridgeport Hundred Oakland Sutton and intermediate points. 500000 hoboes patronize railway freights. counter brake rods could aid bus trade.
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Frank C. Collins
A. & P. Tea’ Company
Grafton
Managers Benefit Association
Fairmont
Alvin Boomer
Weston
L. V. Hadley
Mannington
Harry Guy
L. A. Tissue
Morgantown
Cook
C. J. Heinz
Marion
Clarksburg
Buckhannon
Richwood
Gassaway
Elkins
Philippi
Bridgeport
Hundred
Oakland
Sutton
Gold Price Raised to New High Amid Market Shift
Washington reports the government boosted its gold price by five cents to 3406 an ounce, a fresh peak and the first rise since December 1 after extensive foreign market purchases. London notes bar gold at 32 ap on sterling at 5.1212 to the pound.
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Washington
United States
London
Pair in Jail on Charge of Fruit Theft
A. A. Howell 27 of Thayer Avenue South Side and Jesse Wilfong 18 of Rosemont were arrested by Chief of Police Wallace N. Henderson on a charge of breaking and entering Caude Griffiths home on Thayer Avenue. They allegedly stole canned tomatoes apples berries and other fruits and two sacks of coal from the coal bin. Wilfong reportedly signed a confession after arrest. Continued on page five.
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Thayer Avenue
South Side
Jesse Wilfong
Rosemont
Wallace N. Henderson
Caude Griffith
Wilfong
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