Tennessee House Debates Gas Tax Delay and Guilty Aldridge
A chaotic session in Nashville features Aldridge found guilty with a 10 to 18 year sentence and a lengthy debate on postponing a gasoline tax increase. The House considers a joint resolution on state department funding as senators debate finance and distribution. A delay on the tax vote is urged until Tuesday amid procedural maneuvers and amendments.
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Nashviles
Will Judas
Hyrlon Setae
Senate
Hughy
Rene
Sur- Prine
Henilon
MeKteynolle
Mont- Oms
Leving
Abe
Billy
Fey
McReynolds
Ciovnne Thorton
Robber killed by watchman in Kansas City store hold up
In Kansas City, a 21-year-old robber died after being shot by a night watchman at a Tlrt store during a hold up. The other robber, 19, was wounded and not expected to survive. The watchman, W. O. Woods, shot the pair as they menaced proprietor and customers.
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Kansas City
Kans
W. OW. Woods
Tie Wachran
He Vekhers
Taral Dubois
Riles T. Taller
Dubois
Tabler
Weeds
Deposed Ruler Bids to Return to Afghan Throne
In Afghanistan, the dethroned ruler Amanullah's brother Taays taullah seeks support to reclaim the throne as Mabibullah Khan holds power. Aymanzi abdicated and rasied followers at Bandehar after fleeing. Reports say Nadir Khan, Amanullah relative, offered compromise throne. scouts doubt. Afghan routes show unrest yet loyalists support Amanullah.
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Anmsanila
Afihanistan
Menach
Kabil
Mabibullah Khan
Amanullah
Taaystullah
Atmanzi
Bandehar
Nadir Khan
Etreles
Nadi
Senate Debates Cruiser Construction Bill Amid Tax Debates
The Senate debated authorizing 45 cruisers and one aircraft carrier while the House focused on minor measures and tariff issues. Senate leaders expect passage despite opposition, with tax refunds and a Treasury hearing proposal shaping the debate.
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Washingygn
Capliday
Mae
Senate
Binee
Chaimandale
Senate Naval Committee
House
McKellay
Tennessee
Internal Revenue Bureaus
Board of Tax Appeals
Treasury Committee
Senate Reed Campaign Funds
Hady
Mlect Ware
Pennsylvania
Senate Immigration Committee
Merchant Marine Committee
Radio Commission
Lake Okeechobee
Ship sinks near Shanghai with 40 lives lost
Shanghai dispatch reports the Chinese steamer Hongehans, formerly the Sandakan, sank 100 miles from Shanghai while carrying coal. Forty lives were lost. 25 survivors reached Shanghai. The chief officer and nine crew members drifted two days in an open boat without food before rescue by a tanker.
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Shanghai
Morty
Tsiantao
Mondlay
Shanehajy
Murder trials of dogs to end in Kentucky ruling
Lexington Ky Jan 24 A Fayette circuit court ruling by Judge J Keene Daingerfield held that the old dog murder trial law was repealed by the 1918 dog licensing act. The decision in the court of appeals ends longstanding dog killing charges and trials.
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Lexington
Ty W
Kentucky
Dot
Fayette Circuit Court
J. Keene Daingerfield
Court of Appeals
Daingerfield
Sheen
Booze Runner Slain by Cops in Stella Missouri
In Stella Missouri Fred Scott a farmer suspected of liquor running was killed when officers fired on his automobile as they tried to stop it. The car wrecked in a ditch and Mrs Eva Jettries 18 was wounded another injured woman fled before identification. Several gallons of liquor found in the wreck while police said Scott was smuggling from Kansas.
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Stella
Fred Scott
Eva Jettries
Scottt
Scott
AEC
Kansas
Keyes To Take Stand Again In Defense Self
Los Angeles reports more testimony from former district attorney Ase Keyes as he defends against bribery and conspiracy charges. Defendants Ben Getzoff and Sam Rosenberg face related accusations. Keyes admitted receiving a radio set and a chaise longue from Getzoff and a car loan, claiming social visits at Getzoff’s tailor shop were routine. He described his whiskey social calls and noted Getzoff’s illness.
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Los Angeles
Ase Keyes
Keyes
Hilzareth Keyes
Ben Getzoff
Fixer
Sam Rosenberg
Julian Petroleum Corporation
Senoy
Getzolt
Getzoff
Ben
Reward Offered for Slayer in Boyle Slaying
A reward of 706 dollars was offered today for the slayer of Walfe Adler a Boyle merchant found shot to death beside his car two miles east of here last night. Officers believe robbery was the motive. Adler about 40 came from Louisville Kentucky several years ago.
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Gleveland
Dan
Walfe Adler
Boyle
Here
Adler
Louisville
Church blocks Rockefeller site for opera center plans
The United States church St Nicholas at Fifth Avenue and Forty Eighth Street refuses offers to sell or lease land amid threats to block a Rockefeller plan for a metropolitan opera center. Pastor Dr Malcolm James McLeod and treasurer Charles Stewart Phillips defend preserving landmarks, noting the spire cast in 1728 and the church’s historic value.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera Center
Columbia University
Rockefeller
Malcolm
James McLeod
Charle Stewart Philins
Holland
Ture
Weather Forecast For Tennessee and Virginia
Rain and warmer in east and central Tennessee with colder conditions in the extreme west tonight. Friday brings rain and cooler temperatures in the east with a chance of snow in the west. In Virginia rain in the south may mix with sleet or snow in the north tonight, with slowly rising temperatures Friday. Readings from UT Weather station show yesterday's high 36 and low 44, rainfall 0.00 inches.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Bolrowing Utta
UT. S
C. L. Bunn
Middle West Promised Relief From Cold Storm
Chicago reports warmer northeast winds will end severe cold that claimed 11 lives across the middle west. Snow expected to improve footing in Chicago while temperatures rise 10 to 25 degrees above zero. Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin faced continued ice, delays, and traffic hazards with multiple fatalities including Chicago firemen Er nest L. Heide and Charles Siefert.
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Chicago
Middle West
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ernest L. Heide
Charles Siefert
Heide
Siefert
Marjorie Daw Weds Selznick in New York Marriage
Marjorie Daw a motion picture actress wed Myron Selznick screen producer in a New York municipal building ceremony after she filed a divorce affidavit in 1925 to Edward Sutherland. The union follows a romance that began a decade earlier when Daw was fifteen.
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New York
Marjorie Daw
Hollywood
Myron Selznick
Miss Daw
Selznick
Louis J. Selznick
Edward Sutherland
Dan
Girl Clubbed Death and Robbery in Chicago
Jan 24 AP report: Laura Bueholz, 28, a clerk, was clubbed to death a block from her West 123rd Street home as she returned from work. The killer fled. Grace Hanley, a senior teacher, heard a scream and saw a man in a dark overcoat dragging a woman’s body across the street before she cried out and the assailant released and escaped.
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Chicago
Laura Bueholz
West 123Rd Street
Grace Hanley
New Probe to Revive Aimee Semple Case in LA
Los Angeles on January 24 reports that a revived probe into the Aimee Semple McPherson disappearance is planned. A legislative committee will review why Judge Carlos Hardy accepted a $2,500 check while she was feigning an appearance before a grand jury. The panel will consider impeachment charges and the judge’s claim of a free will offering from the evangelist.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Cage
Carlos 8. Hardy
Oniewes
Hardy
American Bar Association
Evangelist
Jury returns verdict second degree murder
Kay Aldridge, former Sullivan County deputy sheriff, found guilty of second degree murder for the fatal shooting of Hobart Thompson on a Highland Park porch last August. Sentence set at 10 to 18 years. Jury had deliberated hours and faced possible retrial after a hung verdict risk.
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Kay Aldridge
Sullivan County
Hobart Thompson
Highland Park
K. J. Aldridge
Abaswenl Meer Beeen Yee
H. Tyler Campbell
Campbell
Aldridge
Thompson
Wagner
Hoover to Confer With Ambassador Morrow Aboard Three Day Sea Trip
President elect Hoover plans a three day deep sea trip with Ambassador Morrow to discuss Mexico relations. They sail from Belle Isle for Angel Fish Creek aboard the Amitie with a small party, hoping for a peaceful fishing trip after a busy campaign period.
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Hoover
Ambassador Morrow
Belle Isle
Midmille
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico
Elect Hoover
Mr. Morrow
Mexico City
Morrow
Walter KE
Edec
New Jersey
California
United States
South America
Klamath River
Oregon
Macdonald urges U S and Britain to end sulky suspicion
Ramsay Macdonald, former British Labour premier, calls in an article in The Nation for active government action to remove sulky suspicion between the United States and Great Britain. He urges appointing small groups of leading public figures to meet privately and address core issues. He criticizes Britain's recent naval pact with France as stupid and harmful to national interests.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Ramsay Macdonald
France
Great
Britain
Macdonald
Aeore
Greatain
Reds Kill Many in Chinese Raid Near Shanghai
Shanghai dispatch reports 200 Communist attackers hit Chwangying, 30 miles south of Shanghai near Henchow Bay. The town was fired on police stations and 30 inhabitants were killed with 70 wounded. An 80 year old woman died in a fire. The raid ended after 20 Communists were killed and local volunteer police pursued the attackers. Cartoons urged debt, tax and rent boycotts in support of the Soviet government.
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Shanghai
Chwangying
Chawangying
Henchow Bay
Mystery of Oklahoma impeachment probes widens
Oklahoma legislative corruption rumors shift to the Senate investigative committee room as testimony examines sources behind reports of graft tied to the sudden collapse of a planned impeachment session. Witness Lyden Tepe, a department head, faces questions about conduct during the 1927-28 clashes. The Senate has accepted five of six impeachment articles against Governor Herry Johnson amid bitter battles since 1927.
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Okahoma
Herry
Johnston
Senate
Ile
Aix
House
Johnson
Tariff Boost To Hurt Cuba In Sugar Trade
Washington reports the Cuban ambassador warns a sugar tariff hike could strain U.S. Cuban ties. He says breaking economic links would threaten political ties tied to the Platt Amendment and mutual cooperation. House Ways and Means conducts tariff hearings as Cuba asserts its loyalty and friendship with the United States.
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Washington
United States
Verrara
Cuba
House
Ways and Means Committee
Bif
Guba
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