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Newspaper
Jamestown Morning Post
Location
Jamestown, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1930
Page
1
President Hoover selects Charles Evans Hughes to succeed William Howard Taft as Chief Justice. Taft resigns while in Asheville after ill health. Taft's son Robert A. Taft delivers the resignation. Hughes faces Senate confirmation quickly as the nation prepares for a swift transition in the high court.
New York February 3 Charles Evans Hughes announced he would accept the nomination as Chief Justice of the United States He noted the honor and opportunity for service but would not seek to continue after his current World Court term ends He cited reluctance to spend nine years away from the country and said World Court rules would require severing his ties if appointed He praised Chief Justice Taft and his career and influence on the judiciary
Leon Case, 31, an oil field worker, was stabbed in the back and lung. his wife Bernice, 28, is jailed on a charge of stabbing during a domestic dispute at their Bradford home. She said the attack followed an argument after he refused cigarettes. both had been drinking. They have two children.
New Jersey Supreme Court rules that Enrico Caruso royalties should follow Italian domicile law. The court revokes a prior chancellery distribution and grants Gloria Caruso two thirds of nearly one million dollars in Victor Talking Machine Company records royalties. Remaining shares go to Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, Giovanni, Rodolfo, and Enrico Jr.
London Feb. 3 The London naval conference set to clash over cross‑word style tonnage allotments for five nations. Britain circulated a plan to widen talks and ease agreement. France and Italy favor total tonnage limits. United States supports reduced transfer talk. Britain and US align on cruiser transfers while suggesting abolishing submarines. France may accept fixed tonnages for battleships and aircraft carriers.
Syracuse February 3 Fred L. Porter Crown Point elected president of the Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange. State Senator Leigh Kirkland Randolph chosen first vice president with E J Walrath Evans Mills second vice president and EB Victor Underwood Ithaca secretary. The organization serves 75 000 customers and 35 000 stockholders and pursues a 38 000 000 program.
Frank P. Foster, 63, supervisor of temperature and chief of the Corning Glass Works fire department, died suddenly in his office from heart trouble. Foster helped organize and served as president and secretary of the International Association of Municipal Electricians. He is survived by his widow and two sons.
Salina Kansas reports Michael Gray, aged 93, celebrated his birthday by exhibting fifteen new teeth that appeared in his gums within the last month. He has discarded a set of false teeth in favor of his third set of natural molars.
Federal Judge Bondy rules state 1 percent tax on bank stock violated federal law, paving refunds of about 30 million across New York. NYC faces roughly 20 million in refunds to national banks for 1923 to 1926, with city and statewide implications.
In Buffalo a 15 year old girl, Erma Hankowska, shot herself in a school basement after failing to keep up with her class. The bullet hit her breast above the heart and lodged in the ribs. she was hospitalized with a slim chance of recovery. She said she found the revolver under a truck seat and had taken it after seeing the driver threaten children, and cited recent poor exam marks as the trigger for the act.
The Interstate Commerce Commission urged four railways the Baltimore and Ohio Chesapeake and Ohio Wabash and Delaware and Hudson to withdraw their pre plan merger proposals. Finance chief Mahaffie said hearings on these plans would be useless, awaiting railroads’ response before any dismissal recommendations.
William H. Filler of Warren Pr retired secretary of the Pennsylvania Gas Company died in Miami after several weeks illness. A Winter visitor since 1925 he came this year to seek health. Death attributed to angina pectoris. Mrs. Filler to bring the body to Pennsylvania for burial. He was a native of Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Tokyo reports Prince Takamatsu brother of the Emperor wed Princess Kikuko Tokugawa granddaughter of the last Shogun at 4 o clock this morning in a formal ceremony.
Albany Feb 3 report to Legislature by the Cheney committee on investment trusts draws disappointment over its recommendations. The piece notes inflationary effects on prices and warns that future regulation may protect non investors from inflated values amid growing concerns about holding companies and street railway property consolidation.
The House of Bishops will meet in Chicago on March 26 to elect a successor to Bishop Charles P. Anderson who died last week. The chosen bishop will serve until the Denver general convention in September 1931. The announcement was made by Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson, assessor to Bishop William A. Leonard of Ohio, senior bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
In Washington Feb 3 members of the House debate Hoover draft to transfer industrial alcohol permit power to the attorney general The Wet and Dry bloc split over a proposed dual admin scheme the minority supports a Gasque led amendment to place sole regulatory authority with the attorney general
In Albany a wet faction rallied in the lobbies while Senator Hastings proposed a plan to let physicians prescribe liquor as medicine. The Education Department would supervise a medicinal liquor division to buy and dispense alcohol under Medical Examiners oversight, aiming to bypass Volstead Act limits.
Claude A. Welsh testified in the Berkey corruption trial that Berkey’s campaign fund was bolstered in 1928 29 by profits from bootlegging and gambling. He described a 1928 meeting where Foster Ziegler pledged a dollar per gallon on liquor sales and noted slot machine operators Hanlon and Ditman would contribute 20 percent of receipts. Berkey’s judge term ended January 1 and he did not seek re election.
Hendaye France February 3 Miguel de Unamuno the Spanish author living in exile has been pardoned by the new Berenguer government. He will return to Spain within days and resume teaching at the University of Salamanca.
Chef Justice Taft resigns and Hughes named by Hoover to fill post. Wets fill State Capitol as Jenks postpones introduction of enforcement bill. Oklahoma assistant attorney general forced out after witness in rum trial charges bribery. Unvaccinated children may return to New York City schools today. Civil Service Commissioners terms seen under state law. Four men fined for corrupting morals of children. Captain Baltzer dies of asphyxiation. Former Alderman Edward H. Johnson dies. Carl Arvid Lundberg dies of hemorrhage alone at home. Jamestown Automobile Club holds annual meeting.
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