Leaders in Congress Seek Range of Hoover Tariff Vision
Washington April 17 leaders in the new congress aim to keep debates near Hoover's recommended activity range. Rumors of a broader tariff revision grow as Senator Reed from Pennsylvania pushes that any tariff change must be a general revision. The session also confronts farm relief debates and immigration policy tensions.
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Congress
Hoover
Washington
Longworth
Senate
Reed
Pennsylvania
Speculative Credit Ban Attacked on House Floor
Rep Black of New York leads a floor attack against the Federal Reserve Board efforts to curb speculative credit. He denounces the board as destructive and says investors have been denied profit by its actions. He contends the board has not stabilized credit and points to volatile interest charges.
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Black
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Representative Black
New York
Atlantic Storm Wrecks Coast From Maine to Virginia
A northeast storm battered the Atlantic coast with winds up to 78 miles per hour and tidal surges near the Battery Wall. Ships were damaged or sunk, lines of communication failed, and shore structures suffered while western New York and Pennsylvania saw heavy snow.
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Maine
Virginia
New York
Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Bell Harbor
Rockaway District
Casco Bay
Vermont
Maryland
Delaware
Atlantic City
Point Pleasant Beach
N. J
Avalon
Frank Marcy
Stamford
Oneonta
Towanda
Wilkes-Barre
Wyoming Valley
Extended siege looms in Tennessee rayon mill strike
In Elizabethton on April 17 officials of Glanzstoff and Bemberg prepared for an indefinite shutdown as 5000 striking workers vowed to see it to a finish. Guards, arrests, and shootings marked the walkout after layoffs, with UTW president Kelley directing action and national guard supervision noted.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Glanzstoff
Bemberg
William F. Kelley
United Textile Workers of America
Arthur Mothwurf
Rayon
W. C. Boyd
Tennessee National Guard
Boyd
J. M. Moreland
William McMahon
United Textile Workers
Paul Aymon
Tennessee Federation of Labor
W. C
Mellon Sustained in Hoover Cabinet Despite Nomination Question
The Senate Judiciary Committee ruled Mellon could remain as Treasury secretary without resubmission while deferring a decision on whether his business ties would bar him. The panel noted precedents of cabinet officers serving across administrations without reconfirmation.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Andrew W. Mellon
Hoover
Senate Judicial Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Overholt Distillery Corporation
Shaw party arrives in Trieste en route home
George Bernard Shaw and Mrs Shaw landed in Trieste today while traveling from Brioni in the Adriatic. They proceed likely to finish travel back to England after a stay on the island.
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G. B.S
Trieste
Italy
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Brioni
Adriatic Island
Ex-Bandit Surrenders. Says Mule Aided Escape
Reading, Pa. April 17. Horsie Hensley 28 surrendered to police and told how he escaped Raleigh North Carolina prison last August after 21 months of a five year term for a holdup. He rode out on a mule and said guards did not shoot at him for fear of hitting the mule.
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Reading
Hensley
Raleigh
Hoover Faces Unclear Tariff Commission Redesign
President Hoover proposes reorganizing the tariff commission prompting confusion among congressional leaders. They seek clarity on his intent to amend the 1922 tariff act and how to write changes into the Ways and Means bill. Leaders weigh whether to abolish the current panel or reconstitute it under a new framework.
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Washington
Hoover
Tariff Commission
Commission
House
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Tilson
Connecticut
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Ten Die As Paris Amsterdam Express Hits Freight Near Hal
Ten people were killed and a score injured when the Paris Amsterdam Express collided with a freight train near Hal at 6 40 am. Five coaches were wrecked and more bodies feared beneath the wreckage. Local authorities launched rescue and recovery efforts.
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Hal
Belgium
Amsterdam
Here
High Winds Prevent Frost in Asheville Report
High winds last night kept frost from forming and no damage to fruit trees was reported. The temperature dropped to 38 degrees, and a light frost is forecast tonight if winds subside.
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Asheville
Apr
Weather Bureau
President Gil Moves to Rid Mexico Of 'Demon Rum
In Mexico City President Emilio Portes Gil launched a nationwide program to reduce alcohol use without prohibition. A broad educational drive will promote water milk and healthier beverages while avoiding mandatory abstinence and enforcement.
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Gil
toRid
Mexico
Mexico City
Emilio Portes Gil
France Suspends Smallpox Vaccination Order
Paris April 17 The French government temporarily suspended regulations that required travelers entering France from England to show vaccination for smallpox within the past two months. French and British health authorities would confer soon on protecting citizens from a suspected smallpox epidemic in England.
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Paris
France
England
Germany proposes revised reparations plan to Allies
In Paris on April 17, Dr. Schacht presented Germany's counter proposal for wartime reparations. It would reduce annual payments by about one billion marks compared with Allied demands and extend the schedule from 58 to 37 years. Annuities would start at 1.1 billion marks and rise to 1.45 billion marks.
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Paris
Germany
Second Dawes Committee
Schacht
Robbers Take $38,000 in Be thune Street Payroll HoldUp
In Be thune Street Manhattan a band in an automobile robbed a payroll guarding party, shooting Patrolman Joseph Clancy who was seriously wounded and bank messenger John McKane lightly hurt. $38,000 was seized from sacks intended for Bell Telephone laboratories.
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New York
Bethune Street
West Side
Joseph Clancy
John McKane
Clancy
McKane
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Chatham Phenix Bank
Vanderburg Seeks Change of Venue in Murder Trial
In Gastonia on April 17, defense moves for a change of venue in Jacob Vanderburg 17 charged with murdering his parents and siblings and arson. If denied, trial could start April 24. judge to hear further arguments tomorrow. An alienist Dr James K Hall from Richmond is studying his mental condition.
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York
S. C
F. E. Quinn
York County
Rafe King
King
Gastonia
Jacob Vanderburg
Gaston Superior Court
A. M. Stack
Stack
John G. Carpenter
Vanderburg
Young Vanderburg
J. W. Vanderburg
Gaston County
Jacob
Vanderburgs
Carpenter
James K. Hall
Richmond
Snowden Attacks Balfour Note Deepens British Election Fight
In London Snowden, ex-Chancellor under Ramsay MacDonald, renews attack on the 1922 Balfour note. He says Labour never subscribed to its principles and would repudiate its terms if needed. Government reaction and MacDonald's disavowal awaited as debates hinge on war debt settlements.
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Snowden
London
Philip Snowden
Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
Labor Party
Europe
Commons
Winston Churchill
Independent Daily Express
Dar
Telegraph
Great Britain
United States
Churchill
Babe Ruth Weds In Quiet Early Morning Ceremony
Babe Ruth married Claire Hodgson in a dawn mass at St. Gregory's church New York. The ceremony began before 6 30 am with a small bridal party and under 60 in attendance. Ruth and Mrs Ruth left for a private Riverside Drive home and vowed to win another pennant.
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Dan Cupid
Babe Ruth
Claire Hodgson
Follies
New York
St. Gregory's
William H. Hughes
Father Hughes
Hodgson
Ruth
Riverside Drive
88Th Street
George H. Lowell
Scarsdale
N. Y
C. L. Merritt
H. L. Merritt
Babe
Yankee
Hoover Asked to Address Southern Newspaper Meet
Senator Ryson of Tennessee urged President Hoover to set a date for a committee from the Southern Newspaper Publishers association to invite the president to speak at their July 5 Asheville meeting. Hoover said he would be glad to receive the committee but doubted his ability to accept.
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Washington
Senator Ryson
Tennessee
Hoover
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Asheville
Snow Covers Virginia Mountains North and West
Mountains to the west and north of Lynchburg were snow covered this morning. The night temperature was not low enough to harm fruit crops.
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Virginia
Lynchburg
Gardner not to stop McCurry’s execution
Governor Gardner announced he would not interfere with the planned electric chair death of Leo McCurry a Gaston county Negro scheduled for April 26 for the murder of elderly farmer J N Dixon. Medical experts split on McCurry’s responsibility with two saying he planned the crime and two saying he was mentally irresponsible.
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Gardner
Leo McCurry
Gaston County
J. N. Dixon
McCurry
Florida Fruit Fly Quarantine to be Considered
Washington April 17 report that the agriculture department will hold a public hearing on April 7 to study the advisability of quarantining Florida due to the appearance of the Mediterranean fruit fly.
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Washington
Florida
Department of Agriculture
Deserted Strike Ranks Hit Textile Mills In South Carolina
In Charlotte on April 17 609 workers deserted strikes at Piedmont mills opening with reduced picket lines. Woodruff mill in Spartanburg County plans to return to work under the multiple loom system while Brandon and Poinsett owners negotiate. Labor conciliator Charles G Wood reports progress except where the National Textile Workers Union leads strikes in Gastonia Pineville and Lexington North Carolina. Demobilization of troops at Gastonia delays but is expected to proceed. National Guard units are to mobilize further as strikes continue in Tennessee and Rock Hill.
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Charlotte
Piedmont Carolinas
Woodruff Mill
Spartanburg County
South Carolina
Brandon and
Poinsett
Greenville
Woodruff
Charles G. Wood
Department of Labor
National Textile Workers Union
Gastonia
Pineville
Lexington
North Carolina
National Guard
Wood
Elizabethtown
Tenn
American Bemberg and Glanzstoff Corporation
Thomas McMahon
United Textile Workers of America
Tennessee
Mr. McMahon
Rock Hill, & C
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