Divergent Views on 13 Percent Freight Rate Hike Debated
The Interstate Commerce Commission heard 53 briefs today on railroad freight rate increases of 13 percent. Major railroads and a broad coalition argued the need for higher compensation for service, while smaller lines and several states urged exemptions or changes. Oral hearings begin Monday as attorneys present final arguments from industries and organizations.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce ‘Commission
Commission
Western Wartists
Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission
South Dakota
Massachusetts
North Dakota
California
Eight Candidates After Legion Post Nominees
Detroit Sept 18 Officials of the American Legion arriving for the national convention said eight men remained in the field to succeed Ralph T O Neil as national commander. The candidates include Edgar B Tumlap Jonn Elden Louis A Johnson Henry S Stevens George W Malone Rice W Means J Ray Murphy and Emmet O Neal Ben Stucky. A Georgia delegation arrived to set up campaign headquarters in Dunlayhennait.
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Detroit
CAP
American Legion
Ralph T. O'Neil
Edgar B. Tumlap
Gainesville
GrJonn
Elden
Cleveland
Ohio
Louis A. Johnson
Glarksburg
W.iVa
Henry S. Stevens
North Carolna
George W. Malone
Reno
Nev
Rice W. Means
Colorado
United States
J. Ray Murphy
Ions
Tierney
Emmet O'Neal
Ben Stucky
Georgia
Cangmiign
Dunla Yhennait
Phillips Petroleum withdraws $1 a barrel crude offer in Oklahoma
Tulsa reports Phillips Petroleum Company pulled its $1 per barrel crude price offer and aligned with prevailing midcontinent prices from 46 to 70 cents. The move followed other buyers refusing to meet the higher price, despite Phillips having been the main midcontinent purchaser to buy crude oil at that level. Dewar, VP, said the action signals no broader price cuts, just Phillips returning to the common scale as wells in Oklahoma reopen.
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Tulsa
Okla
Phillips Petroleim Company
Phillips Company
W.H. Murray
Oklahoma
Ritz-Canton
Kansas
Phillips ‘Company
Phillips
Dewar
Bartlesville
Fleischman's Yeast Company Fined In Conspiracy Case
Federal Judge Fitzhenry fined Fleischman's Yeast Company 3000 dollars after a nolo contendere plea in a conspiracy case linking the yeast firm to Dominic Yarro who died violently and to Corn Products Refining Corporation fined 10000 dollars on an earlier plea. The firms allegedly supplied products used to manufacture illegal liquor.
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Springfield
Fleischman’s Yeast Company
Fitzhenry
Beast Company
DominicoYarro
Macoupin County Zhootles Fing
Seangster
Corn Products Refining Corporation
Nolo
Corns Products Company
Yeast
Iompany
Tarro
House of Commons Passes Dole Reform Bill
London Sept 18 AP Prime Minister MacDonald's government won by 64 votes in the House of Commons on plans to reform unemployment dole. The financial resolutions before debate would cut the dole by about 0 percent and raise dole fund contributions by workers employers and the state.
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London
MacDonald
House of Commons
Evidence Unearthed In Collings Case Shocks Huntington
In Huntington New York Sept 18 AP investigators adjourned the inquest into Benjamin Collings death while District Attorney Alexander Blue announced new information likely to lead to arrests within hours Mrs Benjamin P Collings testified to police Sergeant Robert Forest that two men boarded the Penguin cruiser and forced her husband into the water before she was taken to a canoe She said the men threatened her and warned her to stay quiet while her husband was beaten and disposed of near the shore Police later recorded her changing account including an alleged attack and the events aboard the motorboat The account notes her initial story differed from later statements and describes the couple’s child asleep on the cruiser during the incident The unidentified men reportedly fled with the injured man in a canoe and the story prompted renewed police pursuit of suspects in the case
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Huntington
N. Y
Sapt. Ia
Benjamin Collings
Alexander Blue
Benjamin P. Collings
Collings
Penguin
Robert Forest
Forest
First Belgian Woman WM.P. elected to Parliament
Mile Lucie Dujardin, newly elected Belgian Parliament member, the first woman to hold the office in Belgium, backed by Louvain Socialists, is cited amid a broader report on European and American political participation. An inquest into a death situation unfolds with the Collings family case discussed by officials. In Sweden, a compact cash register aims to give every store employee their own device.
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Mile
Lucie Dujardin
Belgium
Socialists of
Louvain
Tack Removed From Child’s Lung After Four Operations
Eugene Corel five of Lawrence Kansas underwent four operations to remove an upholstering tack from his lung. He swallowed the tack years ago and later failed to grow normally as doctors warned the object lay near his spine. The boy is shown with his grandmother Mrs. Ethel Meadows.
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Eugene Corel
Lawrence, Kan
Ethel Meadows
Eusene
Nation
Brewing industry employment figures sought by Newton
Walter H. Newton, a Hoover aide, asked the Census Bureau for brewery employment data for 1914, 1919, and 1929. He said the White House did not request revenues figures for prohibition era breweries. Estimates show 62,000 wage earners and 13,000 salaried workers in 1914, 35,000 in 1919, and near zero in 1929.
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Washington
Walter H. Newton
Hoover
Census Bureau
Newton
White House
Treasury
Judge Oakes Resigns Then Dies by Apparent Suicide
LANCASTER N H Sept 18 AP Judge E G Oakes who resigned today as a superior court judge was found shot to death in his home this afternoon A pistol lay near the body and a medical referee said death by his own action Oakes license had been suspended after an accident in Milton a week earlier The judge had resigned and said he had sent in his operator license before they could request it Police said he was under the influence of liquor and struggled with a Rochester officer at the Milton station tearing a shirt No charges were filed
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Lancaster
N. H
Er G. Gakes
Las
Oakes
Commissioner of
Milton
Judge Oakes
Isaac Downs Ot Milter
Rochester
Hquor
Wall Street slips as foreign issues fuel declines
Wall Street resumed despondent trading as yesterday's upturn faded. Stocks dropped sharply with a broad sale of 3 to 6 points and several major issues slipping, while bonds and foreign exchanges showed mixed weakness. Canadian dollar at 434 cents, lowest in two years. Bank of England notes and British situation cited as bearish factors. Canadian grain prices linger as a principal domestic drag.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
American Can
American Telephone
Allied Chemical
American Tobacco
McKeesport
Air Reduction
Dupont
Consolidated Gas
Eastman
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
General Motors
General Electric
Bank of England
DiacDonald
Montreal
Canada
Private Credit Pact Sets Germany Credit Standstill
The American committee of bankers announced that the standstill agreement on German credits has been signed by all parties and becomes effective. It covers about 1.2 billion dollars in short term German credits, with roughly 600 million held by American banks, and lasts six months from Sept 1 while a 100 million dollar line from the Federal Reserve and allied banks remains in effect.
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New York
American Committee of Bankers
Bank For International Settlements At
Basel
Germany
Federal Reserve
England
France
World Bank
Increase of Foreign Population Seen in 1930 Census
The foreign born white population of the United States rose only eight tenths or 1 percent since 1920. Census bureau statisticians note shifts due to revised methods for counting Mexicans and changes in Ireland Germany and Scandinavian countries, with increases from Canada Italy and Mexico. Ireland and Scandinavian nations fell, Germany dropped 46 percent, while Canada Italy and Mexican births rose notably. New York Pennsylvania Illinois and Massachusetts each surpassed a foreign born population of one million.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Whtek
Ireland
Germany
Scandinavian
Canada
Italy
Mexico
Scottien
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Massachusetts
Cotton Is Puzzle To Farm Board Heading Toward Relief Plan
The Farm Board has failed to find a cotton surplus relief plan. With a bumper crop forecast in August, hundreds of proposals were received. If no new proposal meets the board’s principles, it will limit actions to assisting financing part of the 1931 crop held through cooperatives and may authorize the stabilization corporation to retain 1,800,600 bales from the market for another year.
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Washington
Farm Board
Stabilization Corporation
Lashes Given to Maryland Wife Beater in Jail Yard
Clarence Bell a 40 year old confessed wife beater received thirty lashes today in the Salisbury jail yard by Sheriff G Murray Phillips. The punishment ordered by Judge Joseph L Bailey followed Bell’s July 16 beating of his wife who testified she was bedbound for two weeks.
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Salisbury
Clarence Bell
G. Murray Phillips
Joseph L. Bailey
Althope
Do Agesh
Bailey
Bell
Zack Mulhall Dead at 84 Wild West Showman Pioneer
Colonel Zack Mulhall a pioneer Oklahoma cattleman and former Wild West showman died at his ranch near Mulhall Oklahoma. He helped entertain for Thea Roosevelt at the first Rough Riders reunion and mentored Tom Mix and Jed the Oklahoma cowboy band during McKinley’s inaugural parade. His life included Notre Dame education and roping feats by his daughter Lucille Mulhall.
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St. Louis
Lucille
Madison Square Garden
New York
Will Rogers
Oke Lhoma
Mulhall
Thea+ flore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Oklahoma City
Lucille Mulhall
3. C.jack
Walton
Oklahoma
Tom Mix
Oklahoma Territory
Jed
McKinley
Mix
Hold Two on Raid of St Louis Hotel Room
Mrs. Lucy Horwitz 27 wife of Chicago attorney Jacob W. Horwitz and J. W. McCabe riding master were jailed after a hotel raid. Horwitz said to arrive today and police noted Horwitz employed detectives to trace the couple. McCabe married with two children. Horwitz mother of three. Authorities planned charges of wife and child abandonment against Mrs McCabe’s husband.
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Louis
Lucy Horwitz
Jacob W. Horowitz
Chicago
J. W. McCabe
Horwitz
McCabe
Niles Center
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Superior Court
Financial News
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Maryland
Zack Mulhall
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