Senate seats Grundy ready to slash tax
Washington reports the senate voting 60 to 15 to keep the administration tax bill alive. New senator Joseph R. Grundy arrives as tariff talks pause while debate over a capital gains tax cut continues. Leaders anticipate passage and White House signature soon amid mixed reactions to Grundy’s credentials.
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Senate
Washington
Joseph R. Grundy
Rep
Capitol
Couzens
House
White House
Hoover in sugar quiz prompts Cuba tariff lobby ties
A U S sugar lobby inquiry heard that Edwin P. Shattuck an employee of the Cuba Company forged a strong bond with President Hoover aiding their campaign against a higher sugar tariff in Cuba. The claim was stated in a letter from Herbert C. Lakin to President Machado of Cuba.
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United Press
Washington
Edwin P. Shattuck
Cuba Company
Hoover
Cuba
Senate
Herbert C. Lakin
Machado
Senator Blease Calms Rain Tussle With Streetcar
Washington reports tell of Senator Cole Blease being jostled by a crowded streetcar as rain fell. He pressed the stop buzzer, the car lurched, and he demanded reversing the vehicle. The motorman refused, citing safety, and Blease ultimately walked to his hotel through the rain.
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United Press
Washington
Cole Blease
Dem
S. C
Blease
Senator Blease
Mercury 10 Start Sharp Slide Today
A steady decline in temperature from a high of 61 degrees at 7 a m today to about ten to twelve degrees below freezing by Saturday night was forecast by meteorologist J H Armington. Rain changing to snow was predicted with the colder spell. Dense smog earlier in Indianapolis had temperatures about 30 degrees above normal. Upstate points report 20 degrees colder than Indianapolis and Ohio River cities two to five degrees colder.
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J. H. Armington
Indianapolis
Armington
Ohio River
Murder of Farm Couple Rouses Kentucky Warrants in Indiana
Delaware county and Muncie officers issued a Kentucky warrant for a man formerly employed on the Heath farm suspected in the killings of George Heath 80 and Elizabeth Heath 62 at their home four miles south of Muncie. The suspect allegedly knew the dog on the property and sought to alert the victims via a neighbor. Relatives withheld cooperation and blocked photos.
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Muncie
Delaware County
Kentucky
George Heath
Elizabeth
Here
Heath
Jason Reese
Heaths
Reese
Scehe
Urge Luxury Tax for Schools Aid in Southern Indiana
A December conference in Shoals Indiana of county school superintendents and trustees urged a special legislative session and proposed two relief bills to aid bankrupt southern Indiana schools. A unified tax unit for all state schools and a luxury tax could raise up to 20 million annually, with funds to avert school closures amid back pay and debt in fifteen counties.
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Shoals
Ind
Indiana
Gray
Shepherd Whitcomb
Jennings County
Cooper Signs Papers to Return Suspect in Payroll Robbery
Extra extradition papers were signed by Governor Myers Y. Cooper to send Joseph White back to Gas City Indiana. White was arrested in St Clairsville Ohio with William King and Joe Saracino. Saracino and King waived extradition.
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Columbus
Gas City
Ind
Joseph White
Myers Y. Cooper
White
St. Clairsville
William King
Joe Saracino
Doheny Bribery Trial Set For March in Elk Hills Case
Edward H. Doheny the California oil magnate will stand trial in Washington on March 10 on bribery charges tied to Elk Hill oil leases. Justice William Hitz set the date. Fall, former Interior Secretary, recently convicted in a related case and is free on bond pending appeal.
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United Press
Washington
Edward H. Doheny
California
Elk Hill
William Hitz
District Supreme Court
Interior
Albert B. Fall
Doheny
Fall
Elk Hills
License Plates On Sale for 1930 Dec 16
Otto Fifield secretary of state announces plates for 1930 go on sale December 16 urging early purchase. He defends no bid method citing lower costs than other states and notes plates will be blue and gold with gold lettering. About 925000 pairs to be distributed via the license bureau and branches with 462 tons of metal and sixty barrels of enamel used.
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Otto G. Fifield
Times
Fifield
National Colortype Company
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Indiana
License Bureau
Nationalist mine strikers arrested in Illinois
Scores of Nationalist mine strikers and sympathizers were arrested on warrants for disorderly conduct and attempting to incite rioting in Central Illinois coal fields. Forty were taken at Nokomis during a ruse as 100 strikers with 200 sympathizers approached several mines. Twenty three more were captured at Bulpitt and brought to Taylorville by national guardsmen.
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United Press
Taylorville
Ill
Illinois
Nokomis
Bulpitt
Indiana raid may boost Dr. Doran as prophet of prohibition
Washington dispatch reports a Vermillion county raid in Indiana seizing 44,000 gallons of mash, fueling Dr. James M. Doran's forecast of holiday liquor shortages. Prohibition predictions estimate major buys of imported spirits by the wealthy and moonshine by others, with vast unseized supply possible nationwide.
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Indiana
Dr. Doran
NIA
Washington
James M. Doran
United States Prohibition
Vermillion County
DuShane Chosen Acting Superintendent in Columbus
The Columbus Indiana school board named Donald DuShane acting superintendent after an executive session. A proposed permanent appointment to replace Charles Miller, who was dismissed, was deferred to the next regular meeting December 31. Miller opposed the move and was present outside the board room during the session.
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Donald DuShane
Columbus
Ind
Indianapolis
DuShane
Charles F. Miller
Lillian V. Sedwick
Miller
Ross Teckmeyer
State Board of Accounts
Lewis F. Whiteman
Whiteman
New Nurse Strike Breaks Out at Indiana Christian Hospital
A renewed walkout by all student nurses at Indiana Christian Hospital followed alleged broken promises by hospital authorities. Grievances against three sub executives sparked the action, with a meeting led by Superintendent Charles Young and an accord to end the strike if grievances were settled by Saturday. Five girls were reportedly discharged after directors tried to question students individually, and the strike earned backing from alumni nurses.
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Indiana Christian Hospital
Charles Young
Hospital Training School
Premier Tas chereau Denies Newsprint Price Increase Plan
Premier Tas chereau of Quebec rejected reports that informal talks with Canadian newsprint makers led to a decision to hold newsprint prices from rising in 1930. The denial was issued in Quebec on December 13.
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United Press Quebec
Taschereau
Quebec
Today
Fifth meningitis case reported in city health drive
The fifth case of spinal meningitis was reported to Dr. Herman G Morgan city health commissioner. Leroy Thomas eighteen of 2069 Boulevard place is critically ill from the malady. Four deaths in the past week include three children and one adult as the health department uses every precaution against spread.
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Herman G. Morgan
Leroy Thomas
Boulevard Place
Two Sides to Friday the 13th Luck in New York and California
Frederick W. Edel, convicted of murdering Mrs Emeline Harrington in New York, learns his Friday the 13th luck with a reprieve granted to December 30 by Governor Roosevelt. At San Quentin, two inmates, George Costello and Antone Negra, are set for a double hanging—the prison's first.
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N. Y
Frederick W. Edel
Emeline Harrington
New York
Sing Singh
Lewis E. Lawes
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Press
Quentin
Cal
George Costello
Antone Negra
Costello
Oakland
Negra
Killer Captured After West Virginia Murder Case
John Gann, 40, who shot and killed his estranged wife Catherine and her stepfather Richard Price in Charleston, West Virginia, shortly after midnight, was captured aboard a C. O. passenger train in Newport, Kentucky today.
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United Press
Newport
John Gann
Catherine
Richard Price
Charleston
W. Va
Hays and Milliken Dropped From Church Board
The church and drama association announced that Will H Hays and Carl E Milliken presidents and secretary of the Motion Picture Producers of America are not re elected to the board of directors. Executive secretary Rev George Reid Andrews said the move followed a six month review and that industry representatives should not serve on the board.
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United Presse
York
Will H. Hays
Carl E. Milliken
Motion Picture Producers of America
Church and Drama Association
George Reid Andrews
Association
Hays
Milliken
Hourly Temperatures Snapshot
An untidy OCR snippet lists hourly temperatures with times from 6 a.m. to noon. Readable values show 60 at 6 a.m., 60 at 10 a.m., 61 at 12 noon, and 59 near 1 p.m. The text includes garbled headers and repeated digits, yielding an incomplete weather summary.
Smash Giant State Booze Ring In Raid
Federal agents and deputies struck a Vermillion county illicit liquor operation in Indiana, seizing a large steam driven still, 44 000 gallons of mash, and 880 gallons daily output. Six men were captured, with two still operators arrested and others questioned for links to a wider gang including businessmen from western Indiana.
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Vermillion County
Prohibition
United States
Indiana
John W. Wilkey
J. D. Sturm
Dana
Ind
Lon Clearwater
Sturm
Wilkey
George R. Jeffrey
George Winkler
Ollie Mays
Ernest Crickmore
Harry Kramer
Harvey Shipp
Jack Lindsey
Marion County
Charles Rukes
A. W. Donahue
Harry Upchurch
Winkler
Illinois
Girl, 6, Battles Snow To Save Mother In Montana
Six year old Agnes Hundley trekked through a blizzard without shoes to reach help for her ill widow mother near Clear Creek. Doctors faced the need to amputate her frozen feet as she lay on a hospital cot recovering from the ordeal.
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United Press
Hinook
Mont
Agnes Hundley
Clear Creek
Agnes
Mule Standoff at Vermilion County Still Yields Black and White Names
Deputy Ollie Mays arrives at a Vermilion County still in darkness and finds two mules used for hauling bootleg liquor. He expects a white mule but meets black animals named Tom and Jerry.
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Ollie Mays
Tom and
Jerry
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