Coolidge Defends Defense Policy and Treasury Health
President Coolidge told cabinet members and officials the nation must maintain adequate military preparedness without prompting an arms race. He noted a prosperous treasury and debt progress, but urged study before budget changes, warning against militaristic competition and stressing peaceable national defense. Continued on page six.
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Washington, Dan
Coolidge
Treasury
Thi Atrugele
Congress
Army
Navy
Pup
Nashville Woman Shoots Daughter and Takes Poison
Wrecked with personal tragedy, a Nashville woman shoots her daughter and then takes poison. The incident follows a long, troubled history as authorities investigate motives and possible mental strain surrounding the family.
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Nashville
Daughter
Notorious robber taken in custody in Memphis
A man with a long criminal record, Hart Austin, was captured Thursday night in Memphis after being freed in probate court. He faces murder and bank robbery charges in Nashville as judges consider habeas corpus details and transfer to the Madison County jail for resumed hearings Tuesday afternoon. Local and Nashville detectives seized him and moved him to a police car amid the unfolding legal action.
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Memphis
Jackson
Von
Karl K. Wilkes
Tox Hart Austin
Tov Austin
Shelby
Austin
Madison County
Dan
Nashville
F. M. Guthrie
Jone
Guthrie
Wil 'L. Griffin
Griffin
Workmen's Compensation Amendments To Be Reviewd By Legislature
Nashville dates show a forthcoming committee hearing on proposed amendments to the workmen's compensation law. The reforms seek increasing weekly benefits from fifty to sixty percent, raise the maximum from 18 to 16.82, adjust dependent payments, and extend compensation to widows and dependent children after remarriage. Supporters argue state practices vary with several states at or above sixty percent.
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Nashville
Young
Joint Judiciary Committees
Lie Agen
Nichol
Daniel
Senate
Cummings
Note left to sweetheart amid Nashville double shooting
In East Nashville a 56 year old widow, Mrs Hattie Fry, shot her 16 year old daughter Mrs James C Oakley and then took poison. Both women were hospitalized in semi conscious condition with the daughter given little chance to survive. A note reading Dear sweetheart expressing love was found in the home. No motive could be determined. The husband and others said there was no known trouble between mother and daughter. Mrs Fry had worked for eight years at an insurance company.
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Nashville
Tenn
Hattie Fry
James C. Oakley
Oakley
Injp Surance
Bill proposes voting machines for state elections
Nashville Tenn January 29 Representative Samuel C Davis of Davidson county says he introduced a bill to install voting machines to preserve ballot secrecy and speed the count. He calls mechanical voting foolproof and cites advantages including reliable and rapid voting.
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Nashville
Tenn
Samuel C. Davis
Davidson County
America
Davis
Weather summary for Virginia and Tennessee states
Cloudy and warmer in Virginia with light rain Sunday followed by colder nights and a fair, much colder Monday. In Tennessee, rain in the east clearing later, with light west rain possible Sunday, then much colder Sunday night and Monday. Readings taken at 11 p.m. with yesterday and last year comparisons.
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Virginia
Tennessee
U. S
C. L. Bunn
Verbal clashes in Tennessee assembly loom this week
Nashville reports a busy week ahead as the Tennessee General Assembly weighs a proposed Tennessee Constitution amendment to tax intangible property and conducts elections scrutiny in Shelby County. City Club of Memphis seeks a House and Senate inquiry into past Shelby elections amid complaints of irregularities and potential broader probes. Governor Austin Peay urges support for the change, while ongoing debate forecasts a key vote in the Senate and House.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessée’s_general assembly
Tennessee
Shelby Elections
City Club of
Memphis
Shelby County
Bluff City
Arup
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Senate
West Tennessee
Judiciary Committee
House
Peay
Austin Peay
Aidin
Trade in Wheeling Stocks Quieted by NYSE Probe
New York January 29. Trading in Wheeling and Lake Erie common stock, once the market’s sensational cover story, cooled as NYSE officials began an inquiry. Brokers were asked for detailed reports of daily long and short positions from Jan 22 to Jan 29, with the issue opening at 57, rising to 68 then settling near 60. Total trades under 11,300 vs 45,000 yesterday and 115,000 Monday.
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New York
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
New York Stock Exchange
DOYLE CARTOONS SMITH AT DOOR
Washington dispatch reports the Senate elections committee opened hearings on Frank L. Smith’s seating and Hindis fate. Counsel urged deferring the hearing until Smith is seated, arguing two separate functions and a two thirds vote to unseat after official admission. A vivid image shows Smith hammering at the Senate door.
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Washington
Dan
Frank L. Smmith
Senate Elections Committee
James M. Beck
United States
Oscar Carlstrom
Illinois
C. J. Doyle
Springfield
Winois
Senate
Smith
Smallz
Bicamist Husband and Murderer Is Confined in Jail
William N. Coffey, 51, a bicamist husband, is jailed in Grant County awaiting a first degree murder trial for slaying his second wife with a baseball bat. After two days of questioning, he collapsed at a Platteville hotel, then led investigators to a near Sandy Hook site he claimed as the camping spot, which proved unsuited for camping. District Attorney R M Orchard says Coffey is stalling as prosecutors proceed with the case.
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Lancaster
Wisconsin
Hattie Hales Coffey
Grant County
William N. Coffey
Ray Morse
Morse
Coffey
Platteville Hotel
Sandy Hook
Mississippi River
R. M. Orchard
Reward Spurs Posse in Hunt for Negro
Mayfield Kentucky January 29 AP officers extended a thousand dollar reward to expand a manhunt for Henry Walker a 60 year old negro charged with killing W Z Leech on a plantation in Graves county Tennessee. Three posses previously formed continued the search in swampy areas near Hickman and nearby counties as deputies and local residents joined in the pursuit.
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Mayfield
Henry Walker
W. Z. Leech
Graves County
Tenn
Hickman
Army Engineer in Row Over Surveys
Washington reports Major General Midgar Jadwin, chief of army engineers, faced four hours of cross‑examination by House Military Committee chair James over a subordinate’s alleged solicitation of $26,000 for Tennessee river survey work. James warned of court martial if Jadwin condoned the action, and indicated plans to press federal power commission to reject private bids for Muscle Shoals power sites.
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Midgar Jadwin
Army Engineers
Tennessee River
James
House Military Committee
Jadwin
Harold G. Fiske
Chattanooga
H. O. Leighton
Electric Bond and Share Company
New York
Congress
Leighton
Fort Lewis
Fiske
Federal Power Commission
Com
Light Cruisers Stand Ready For Emergency In China Crisis
Three American light cruisers Cincinnati Marblehead and Richmond were dispatched to Honolulu on stand by orders to respond to Shanghai disorders or to evacuate Americans. They can land about 150 men each and will await Washington orders under Rear Admiral Blakely. Sir Austen Chamberlain outlined Britain’s Chinese settlement proposals urging changes to extraterritoriality tariffs and concession status with plans for modern Chinese courts and British court participation.
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China
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Honolulu
Shanghai
Philippines
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Marblehead
Richmond
John R. Blakely
Birmingham
Eng
Auster Chamberlain
Great Britain’s
Austin
Great Britain
O'Malley
Hankow
Legion to Have Home 350 Feet Over River
Boston January 29 The Massachusetts department of The American Legion plans a six million memorial bridge over the Charles River. The Legion headquarters would be in a tower rising 850 feet above the river center, creating a landmark clubhouse and business center.
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Legion
Boston
Massachusetts Department of the American Legion
Charles River
Greeneville man pardoned after manslaughter case
Governor Austin Peay granted pardons to Peyton Dallas of Marion county for bone dry law violations with three months in jail and 350 dollars in fines, conditional on observance of prohibition. Ewell Bloomingdale of Dyer county received two months and 100 dollars for liquor violations after serving sentence. Sam Brotherton of Greene county, jailed two to five years for voluntary manslaughter, was mentioned with joint conviction of his brother Til Brotherton. William Lee of Davidson county faced three years for grand larceny against state military property. adjutant general appealed for clemency.
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Tenn
Austin Peay
Peyton Dallas
Marion County
Dallas
Ewell Bloomingdale
Dyer County
Sam Brotherton
Greene County
Supreme Court
Brotherton
Til Brotherton
Til
William Lee
Davidson County
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