Move to Cut Tax as Both Houses Open
The opening of the seventy-first congress sees a $160,000,000 tax reduction proposal introduced in the house bill hopper. The plan cuts individual rates from 5 3 and 1 percent to 4 2 and 0.5 percent and corporate taxes from 12 to 11 percent, effective Jan 1, 1929.
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Washington
House
Senate
Hawley
Treasury Mills
Longworth
Tilson
Hoover
Congress
Curtis
Nicholas Longworth
William S. Ware
Pennsylvania
Norris
Ware
Vare
Lake steamer Kiowa wreck leaves six dead on lake
The grain steamer Kiowa was driven onto rocks near Sable Point during a fierce Lake Superior blizzard. Six sailors perished Saturday night, while Coast Guard crews rescued eighteen survivors using breeches buoy amid towering seas and wreckage shifting flax seed cargo.
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Bu United Preas
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Sable Point
Lake Superior
Great Lakes
Boxell Column Touts Early Tip-Off From Center Court
Norman Isaacs, former Times sports editor and Boxell collaborator, opens with a field goal from the center. The piece invites readers to follow Boxell's daily basketball column for fresh insights.
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Norman Isaacs
Times Sports Department
Boxell
Sboxell
Park Central Rothstein murder trial details emerge
Witnesses describe Arnold Rothstein being found shot in the Park Central hotel lobby on Nov 4 1928, while George A McManus faces murder charges. Mrs Marion Putnam testifies about her past marriages a restaurant in Asheville a dress theft claim and her hotel registration as the trial shifts to cross examination.
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United Press
Criminal Court
New York
Arnold Rothstein
Park Central
George A. McManus
Rothstein
Vincent Kelly
Thomas Calhoun
Thomas McGibney
George McManus
Marion Putnam
Asheville
N. C
James D. McMurray
McManus
Park Central Hotel
Hendersonville
Norwich City freighter grounded near Gardner Island
The Reardon Smith line freighter Norwich City with a crew of thirty four is grounded on reefs off Gardner Island about 800 miles from Heron. Over forty eight hours have passed since the distress was reported as the steamer Trongate races from Apia to answer SOS calls.
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United Preas
Honolulu
T. H
Reardon Smith Line
Norwich City
Gardner Island
Heron
Trongate
Apia
IU Librarian Slashes Throat After Melancholia Fit
Miss Wilma Goehner 38 a library clerk at Indiana University told police strange voices and melancholia drove her to attempt death by slashing her throat and wrists with a butcher knife. She is expected to recover. An unidentified man died Saturday night after swallowing poison in a hotel room at 343 West Washington Street. a letter to Sheldon Porter RR 18 Box 44 was found.
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United Press Bloomington
Ind
Wilma Goehner
Indiana University Library
West
Washington Street
Sheldon Porter
Fishermen Safe After Ice and Snowbound Ordeal
Five fishermen returned to Sandusky harbor after a night battling Lake Erie ice floes and driving snow. Captain Fred Volk and crew of the Steve V endured hunger and cold as coast guards and volunteers searched the lake. The crew includes Charles Volk Joe Lake Ed Voss and N Climax.
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United Press
Sandusky
Lake Erie
Sandusky Harbor
Fred Volk
Steve V
Charles Volk
Joe Lake
Ed Voss
N. Climax
Seven Miners Die in Gas Explosion at Old Ben Mine
In West Frankfort Illinois seven miners died and fifteen were trapped after a gas explosion at Old Ben Coal Co mine No 8 on Sunday. Rescue teams recovered six bodies by Sunday night with one more missing as crews worked in heavy snow.
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United Press
West Frankfort
Ill
Old Ben Coal Company
Benton
Thomas McDermott
Jewell Baker
Dewey Baker
E. E. Breadon
Henry Isaacs
Vero Geridini
James Tabor
McDermott
Blizzard Grips Northern Indiana Amid Cold Wave
The article reports a deepening cold front in Indianapolis and northern Indiana with temperatures near zero by nightfall. It notes a third blizzard of the week, heavy snow blocking highways and threatening transport and shipping, while a warmer day is forecast for Tuesday.
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Indianapolis
Mid-West States
J. H. Armington
Indiana
Armington
Congressman Sam Hill Injured In Fall On Icy Street
Washington dispatch reports Representative Sam B. Hill of Washington state was severely injured after slipping on an icy sidewalk and jamming a smoking pipe through the roof of his mouth, severing an artery. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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United Prear
Washington
Sam B. Hill
Dem. Wash
Hill
Capitol
Edge sworn as ambassador to France in Washington
Walter E. Edge, who recently resigned as United States senator from New Jersey, was sworn today as ambassador to France. He plans to sail for Paris on December 6. Gov. Larson named David Laird Jr. to succeed Edge, and Ambassador Dwight Morrow in Mexico City will replace Laird when Morrow returns next February from the London naval conference. Baird has signaled willingness to resign in favor of Morrow.
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United Press
Washington
Walter E. Edge
United States
New Jersey
France
Paris
Larson
David Laird Jr
Edge
Dwight Morrow
Mexico City
Baird
Morrow
London
Winter Sign Shifts Fun To Ice In Indianapolis
A one inch freeze over the past day turns streets parks and creeks in Indianapolis into a skating playground. Miss Betty Ellwanger and Mrs Peggy Fetters pose for sledding and coaster riding as youths play ice shinny on Fall Creek near Delaware Street bridge. Richard Lewis Scales with sister Mildred watch the game as W C Walls photographs the scene.
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Indianapolis
Betty Ellwanger
Kessler Boulevard
Fall Creek
Delaware Street
Richard Lewis Scales
Mildred Lorene Scales
North
Alabama Street
Delaware Bridge
Ten Die as Pennsylvanian Train Derails Near Cape Charles
Ten persons were killed and more than a score injured when a Pennsylvania excursion train derailed at Olney, thirty-five miles north of Cape Charles, early Sunday. The loaded weekend party left here at 11:30 p m Saturday for New York and leaped the tracks after striking a split rail on the Norfolk division.
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United Press
Cape Charles
Pennsylvania
Olney
Here
New York
Eldridge & Co Wins City Hospital Bond Bid
Eldridge & Co of New York topped bidders with a bid on the $875,000 city hospital bond issue. The bid included a premium of $11,876 and the sale was set for today.
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Eldridge & Co
New York
City Hospital
One Killed Nine Hurt As Auto Toll Mounts In Weekend Crashes
Snowstorms and icy pavements near Indianapolis blamed for weekend crashes. Miss Fleeta Bell Simpson 26 died after stepping from a parked car to signal a streetcar at Sixteenth and Central. Coroner charged truck driver William Burton with manslaughter. Several others injured in collisions at Delaware and Twenty-eighth, Morris Street crossing, and other incidents.
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Indianapolis
Fleeta Bell Simpson
Central Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Methodist Hospital
C. H. Keever
William Burton
North
Delaware Street
Miss Simpson
Ida Simpson
Frank Simpson
Chicago
Ed Porter Jr
East Fifty-seventh Street
Delaware
Twenty-eighth
Charles Martin
Stilwell Street
Morris Street
Indianapolis & Vincennes
Thelma Baumgart
Pensylvania Street
William J
Missouri State Senator Joseph Mogler Slain at Theater
State Senator Joseph Mogler was shot and killed as he entered his neighborhood theater in St Louis. Edward Phinny, theater custodian, said two men fired, one at the door and one inside. Police found Mogler’s body with a large black cat guarding him. Mogler led the Mogler Amusement Co and was a VP of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America. receipts on a Saturday/Sunday suggested revenge rather than robbery.
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ST. Louis
Joseph Mogler
Edward Phinny
Mogler
Mogler Amusement Company
Motion Picture Theater Owners of America
Fire Toll in Indianapolis Racks Up Injuries and Damage
A weekend fire toll in Indianapolis includes two injured, one a two year old, with $10,000 plus losses. A kitchen blaze at 3411 Carson avenue trapped the child and three siblings before firefighters saved them.
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Indianapolis
Sarah Ann Winburn
Herbert Winburn
Carson Avenue
Glenn
Charles
Joseph
Genard van Horn
Car
American War Dead Are Brought Home to Michigan
Fifty six flag draped pine caskets lie at White Chapel Memorial cemetery as Michigan mourns fifty five soldiers from Archangel campaign and one Iowa sailor. Bodies arrive amid snow and wind. veterans honor them as state officials accept the remains for burial next Memorial Day after seven days in state custody.
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Michigan
White Chapel Memorial Cemetery
America
Arctic
Russia
Angel
Iowa
Max Kurowski
Cedar Rapids
Eighty-fifth Division
Archangel
New York
White Chapel
Huge Insull utilities merger hits snag postponement
The $70,000,000 Insull merger petition faced its first delay as attorneys sought time to study an amended petition filed Aug 27, 1928. Hearing adjourned to Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Indiana House, with questions over legality, revenues, and political implications.
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Daniel M. Kidney
Insull Utilities
Public Service Commission
Insull
Howell Ellis
House of Representatives
Els
Robert M. Feustel
Fr. Wayne
Indiana
Feustel
Purdue
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
Lafayette Journal and Courier
Henry Marshall
Marshall
Calvin McIntosh
James M. Ogden
George W. Hufsmith
McIntosh
Harvey Harmon
Central Indiana Power Company
Terre Haute, In & Eastern Traction Company
Indiana Electric
Freighter Sarniadoc Gounded Off Lake Ontario
The freighter Sarniadoc with about twenty four crew members was aground off Main Duck Island in Lake Ontario and believed to be near breaking up.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Main Duck Island
Lake Ontario
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Coast Guard
Vern Boxell
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I. U
Lake Ice Floes
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Solon
Tate
Albert Bryant
West Market Street
Thomas Riley
Bryant
Harry van Pelt
William Bulmer
Isaac McLean
McLean Place
Campus Martus
Hezekiah N. Duff
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