Drys Claim of Prosperity Denied in Hearing Debates
Washington April 22 AP reports wets rebutting drys claims that prohibition boosts prosperity. Du Pont argued wealth gains aligned with the law were coincidental. Yale coach Tad Jones and Princeton coach Bill Roper testified, joined by Major General Clarence Edwards and Elizabeth Harris as hearings continued.
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Washington
Drys
Spokkesmen
Home Judiciary Committee
Congress
DuPont
Pierre
Delaware
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Presen md
Tad Jones
Yale
Bill Roper
Princeton
Clarence Edwards
France
Elizabeth Harris
Women’s Organisation For Prohibition Reform
House
Judiciary Committees
Tony
Fielding H. Yost
Michigan
Alonzo Stagg
Chicago
Clarence E. Edwards
Boston
Pierre S. Dupont
Wilmington
Clacy
Weather Summary for Tennessee and Virginia Regions
Tennessee variable cloudy with brief light rain in the west tonight and Thursday, little temperature change. Virginia fair tonight with likely light frost inland, Thursday cloudy and mild temperatures. Winds mainly northwest or north. Yesterday's high 73, low not reported. no rainfall recorded. Readings taken around 6:50 p.m. by GC, L, Bonn, U.S. W.0.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Gc, L
Bonn
U.S, W
Tariff Conferees Near End of Task
Washington April 23 AP The tariff conferees from senate and house near completing their vast task of reconciling over 1200 disputed points. They anticipate a partial report by week’s end with eight unresolved controversies awaiting floor votes and further instructions.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Tariff Commission
Norris
Deputy Killed in Mountain Raid Near Cookville
In Cookville area a deputy sheriff was killed and another wounded after officers returning from a raid on a still near here were fired upon from an automobile. Deputy Orville Moss, 45, died within an hour. Deputy Warren was seriously wounded. Two men fled as officers pursued, one was captured, the other escaped.
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Cookville
UPA
Orville Moss
Seal Warren
Plane Record at Darmstadt Sets 134 MPH for Baby Biplanes
Pilot trainer Neinin ger in a baby biplane flew 134 miles per hour today, claiming a world record for planes of that class near Darmstadt Germany on April 28.
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Darmstadt
Germany
Neininger
Ohio penitentiary fire probes gain cause insight
Officials resume inquiry into the Ohio penitentiary fire that killed 838 prisoners. An inspection of the two cell houses will be conducted to determine the disaster origin while Governor Cooper plans a citizens committee to propose institutional building reforms. Bodies prepared for burial at the state fairgrounds morgue.
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Columbus
Ohio
P. BE. Thomas
Gilbert Bettman
Nothi
Myers Y. Cooper
General Assembly
Sullivan County Chosen for Public Health Demonstration
Sullivan county was selected as the seat for a public health demonstration funded by the Commonwealth Fund and the state health department. The program, directed by Dr. Y. L. Moore, will cost about 12000 dollars yearly with matching county and state appropriations, adding an assistant health officer and several nurses. Scholarships for five physicians will be included to train doctors in modern health services for mothers, infants, schoolchildren, disease and tuberculosis control, sanitation, water, and sewage work.
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Ace” Mane
Nashville
E. L. Bishop
Sullivan County
Commonwealth Fund
New York
State Health Department
Bishop
Bish
Y. L. Moore
Bishop Conined
Moore
Tennessee
Gibson County
Senate to Pass on Parker Soon
Washington reports that the Senate will take up Judge John J. Parker’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Monday. Administration leaders hope for approval despite a split party vote and opposition from negro and labor groups. Senator Borah leads the opposition, predicting a vote after two or three days of debate.
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Washington
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Borah
Parker
Vice
Coldest April 23 in 50 years hits East Coast cities
Freezing temperatures and snow showers swept the North Atlantic states in the early morning with record lows nationwide. Rochester logged 4 below recent records? 4 inches fell in Saranac Lake while New York and Washington saw snow and 30 and 38 degrees respectively as the Canadian high pressure system lingered for 24 to 48 hours.
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New York
North Atlantic States
Canadian Northwest
Gulf Coast
Atlantic Ocean
Weather Bureau
Rochester
Saranac Lake
Adirondacks
Washington
Pittsburgh
Weather ‘Bureau
Tests Reveal 65 Percent of Autos Unsafe
Tennessee officials report 65 percent of cars checked during the Save-A-Life drive were defective in some way. Brakes, lights, horns, and steering required adjustments or replacements across stations statewide, with over 1100 inspection sites by week’s end and a projection of 200000 cars inspected. Washington conferees close to tariff revision.
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Otor
Tennessee
Nashville
Chas. M. McCabe
J. C. Davis
State of
Lindy Opens New World Mail Flight Service
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to fly from New York to Miami tomorrow toward Havana and Cristobal as Pan American Airways launches a faster international mail route. The plan envisions a weekly New York to Montevideo and Buenos Aires schedule with Lindbergh piloting the first leg. Mrs Lindbergh expected to stay home.
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New
York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Miami
Fla
Pan- American Airways
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean Sea
Gristobal
Canal Zone
Leviathan Returns With London Naval Treaty Delegation
The Leviathan sailed from Southampton at 7 30 a m carrying Colonel Henry J Stimson and other American delegates to the London naval conference The party signed the 1930 London Naval Treaty and placed the document in the liner's safe aboard for the voyage to New York Senator Reed said Americans would approve the work done in their name and President Hoover sent thanks to Prime Minister MacDonald for Anglo American cooperation
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Southampton
England
Henry J. Stimson
London
Reed
Calonel Stimson
Morrow
Robinson
Adams
Gibson
Fist
Brussels
Ambassador Dawes
St. James's Palace
New Yor
America
Stimson
Hoover
MacDonald
Hale to Sum Up Attitude of Big Navy Bloc in Senate
Washington today awaited a promised speech by Hale chairing the naval committee to gauge opposition to the London arms limitation treaty. Hale plans to call technical navy experts to his panel, aims to assess whether the pact departs from the policy of building large cruisers, while Borah signals conditional support and the treaty moves to the Foreign Relations Committee before ratification.
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Washington
Senate
Hale
Naval Committee
Navy
Congress
United States
Eigheen
Borah
Idaho
Hoover
London
How He Killed Film Director Murder Case in Los Angeles
Police arrest Russo Rinaldo, 30, a Tucson resident, on suspicion of murdering film director William Desmond Taylor on February 1, 1922. Rinaldo reportedly confessed after hearing actress testimony and a quarrel overheard at the Taylor bungalow. Police doubt the confession as the case remains one of Los Angeles’ most baffling unsolved crimes with ties to Mabel Norman, Mary Miles Minter, and Edward Sands. Columbus report notes state investigators blame a short circuited wire for a prison fire.
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Los Angeles
Russo Rinaldo
Ant
William Desmond Tay
Rinaldo
Tucson
Arizona
Taylor m
Rimalde O
Joseph Taylor
James Bean
Uinta
Taylor Bungalow
Woliman
Taylor
Hollywood
Henry Peavey
Mabel Normand
Mary Miles Minter
Moe
Miss Normand
Miss Minter
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Tarife
State Fair Grounds
Fair Grounds
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Jensen
Bressendorf
Baltic Sea
Springfield
Mass
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Leviathan
U.s.naval Group
Britain
Nafy
Connick
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