Tariff Debates Wear Senate to a Six Month Grind
Washington march twenty one weary senators pushed toward a week of vacation as the Smoot-Hawley tariff fight neared six months. Eleven hour sessions for three weeks left the body tired yet hopeful of adjournment by Monday or Tuesday. The oil duty vote was set for noon and the fight over hides and shoes on the free list tipped narrowly in favor of removal from taxation.
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Senate
Watson
Indiana
Pine
Republican
Oklahoma
Oddie
Nevada
Grundy
Pennsylvania
Curtis
Borah
Negro Slayers of 2 White Men Sent to Electric Chair
Mack Brown and John Green, both black, were executed at the state penitentiary for the December murders of white farmers Ed Dudley and Mud Morgan as they returned from a dice game. Instigator Ed Bilan awaits execution next week. Brown and Green died prayerfully. Green claimed another black man killed Morgan and Dudley, denying Brown’s involvement. Brown remained silent.
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Little Rock
Ark
Mack Brown
John Green
State Penitentiary
Ed Dudley
Mud Morgan
Little River Bottoms
Ed Bilan
Brown
Green
S. L. Todhunter
Necro
Morgan
Dudley
Nolan
Tennessee Springtime Quiet in Gubernatorial Race
Nashville reports politics as serene but hints at a shake up before the August primaries. Governor Henry H. Horton is seen as a likely Democratic nominee though opponents are rumored. John M. Crane and Lewis S. Pope are mentioned without confirmation. Cordell Hull has announced for the U.S. Senate with June 7 filing deadline.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Horton
Henry H. Horton
Austin Peay
John M. Crane
Newbern
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit
Crane
Lewis S. Pope
Hull
Cordell Hull
U. S
Democratic National Committee
Huston Expected To Decide On Resignation As GOP Chair
Washington March 21 AP The testifying before the senate lobby committee fuels talk that Claudius H Huston will resign as Republican national committee chairman though he says he will stay. White House and Hoover silence, party leaders watching closely as election year pressure heightens calls for a full hearing before any judgment.
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Claudius H. Huston
Senate Lobby Committee
Caraway
Hoover
White House
Huston
T * Capitol
Senate
House
Weather Cloudy-Colder Across Tennessee and Virginia
Cloudy tonight and Saturday with probable rain and colder conditions. East winds rise to fresh or strong in parts of Tennessee and Virginia. Readings show yesterday’s high 60 and low 25 with rain amounts noted at 6 30 p m. daily by C J Bunn U S W O.
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Virginia
C. J. Bunn
Prohibition Repeal Hearings Postponed for 15 More Days
Washington March 21 The united dry forces of America will extend hearings on repealing the eighteenth amendment as the House judiciary committee resumes next week. Prohibitionists request an extra half day, totaling seven days, with witnesses to include Irving Fisher Yale economist and Clarence True Wilson Methodist church official. Rebuttal will follow, allowing two days per side.
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House Judiciary Committee
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Author Harold Morton Dies In Chicago Drug Store
Harold Morton 56 a noted author and lecturer died suddenly while telephoning in a south side Chicago drug store. Born in Franfort Indiana in 1873 he served in the Spanish American War and with the YMCA in France during World War I. His published works include Hearts and the Cross Gayle Langford The Castle of Dawn The Chrysalis The Rugged Way and With Seeing Eyes.
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Harold Morton
South Side
Kramer
Franfort
Ind
France
Gayle Langford
Chrysalis
Gandhi Emerges as Central Figure in India's 1930 Test Year
London report profiles Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as the pivotal leader shaping India's path during the 1930 test year. It traces his rise from shy youth to spiritual nationalist icon, his family background, education in London, and adoption of nonviolence inspired by the Sermon on the Mount. Gandhi's influence unites diverse Hindu and Muslim communities under a single nationalist banner.
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Mohandas Karachend Gandhi
Gandhi
Vishnu
England
University of London
Euclid
London
Lenin
Russia
Girl tied to bed in attempt to murder at hotel
Fairfield Texas March 21 Texas rangers and county officers probe alleged murder attempt on Miss Wilma Jones 23 who was found tied to a bed and a burning mattress in her hotel room Joe Green the hotel proprietor freed her bonds and Moore G S Oakwood businessman faced assault to murder charges after admitting signature forgeries on checks but claiming consent authorities weigh three theories in the case while Jones remains uninjured and questioned at length
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Tex
Texas Rangers
Wilma Jones
G. S. Moore
Oakwood
J. H. Eubanks
Miss Jones
Moore
Buffalo
Joe Green
Green
Tennessee DAR elects officers at afternoon session
Chattanooga Tennessee March 21 AP election of officers of the Tennessee Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was set for this afternoon. The conference opened with the singing of Tennessee My Homeland.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Tennessee
Natural Gas Extensions Considered by Memphis Company
Unverified reports from Memphis say the Memphis Natural Gas Company may extend pipelines to Nashville and Chattanooga. Plans for mains to Jackson and Brownsville were previously announced. D. C. Shaffer, Memphis manager, was unavailable. rumor placed him in New York. W. D. Kyser, the attorney, knew nothing of the plan.
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Memphis
Memphis Natural Gas Company
Nashville
Chattanooga
Jackson
Brownsville
D. C. Shaffer
New York
W. D. Kyser
French Attitude Stalls Naval Reduction Talks
London March 21 Observers doubt French premier Andre Tardieu will keep his Sunday meeting with Ramsay MacDonald if the naval conference remains at an impasse. Briand has gone to Paris and Dumesnil lacks authority in the leaders' absence, while MacDonald presses to revive progress through talks with Dino Grandi and the Italian delegation as the parley falters.
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Ramsay MacDonald
M. Tardieu
London
Paris
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Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
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MacDonald
Dino Grandi
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Capone Florida Estate Raided Arrests in Miami
Six men were arrested during a liquor raid on Al Capone's Palm Island estate in Miami. They posted bonds and sought writs of habeas corpus, with several claiming Capone kinship though officials dispute the family names. Officers seized liquor, champagne, and multiple vagrancy charges were filed against defendants. No Capone himself was found at the property.
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Palm Island
Alphonse Capone
Chicago
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Albert Capone
Capone
Mimi
Joseph
Ralph
Cicero
John Capone
Frankie Newton
James Vincent
Louis Cowden
L. J. Brennan
Crane Neck” Nugent
Ohio
Doheny Bribery Case Near Jury
Frank Hogan defense chief argues for Doheny freedom relaying Pearl Harbor naval oil storage contract. Government says Doheny bribed Albert Fall with 100000 dollars to win Elk Hills leases. Hogan claims Doheny had no knowledge of contract details while Atlee Pomerene contends Doheny pulled the strings.
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Edward L. Doheny
Frank Hogan
Defense
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Doheny Company
Elk Hills
California
Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Atlee Pomerene
Hogan
Fleeing Convict Shot Down in Gun Fight With Cops
Thomas Barnes, one of two prisoners who escaped Speigner Prison at six a.m., was killed in a gun battle with county officers near Montgomery, Alabama, shortly before 10 a.m. Lee Hudgens, who fled with Barnes, was not identified further. Barnes’ body was taken to an undertaker. Coroner John J. Diffly and deputies planned an inquest. The sheriff’s posse, led by Sheriff John L. Scogin, reportedly confronted the fugitives after they abandoned the state track near Maxwell Field in the city’s western section.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas Barnes
Speigner
Lee Hudgens
Barnes
John J. Diffly
Maxwell Field
John L. Scogin
Huston funds tied to stock trades and Muscle Shoals ties
Senate lobby committee heard W. E. Moore testify that two checks received by Huston were used to buy and sell stock on his orders. The money, $36,100 from Union Carbide, was linked to the Tennessee River Improvement Association and Muscle Shoals legislation. Huston, former association president, denied knowledge of margin use until brokerage officials testified. The panel summoned him to probe the fund deposited to his Blyth and Bonner account.
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Republican National Committee
Union Carbide Company
Senate Lobby Committee
W. E. Moore
Huston
Charles A. Kirker
Blyth and Bonner
Carbide Company
Tennesese River Improvement Association
Muscle Shoals
The
Improvement Association
Union Carbide Fund
Blyth
Bonner
Moore testifies on stock trades for Huston in Senate hearing
W E Moore, personal representative of Claudius H Huston, testified before the Senate lobby committee in Washington that he bought and sold stock at Huston's direction through Huston's New York brokerage account. He said two Union Carbide checks paid for the Tennessee River Improvement Association trades and were deposited with Blyth and Bonner.
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W. E. Moore
Claudius H. Huston
Republican National Committee
Senate Lobby Committee
Huston
New York
Union Carbide Company
Tennessee River Improvement Association
Blyth and Bonner
Moore
Senator Walsh
Democrat
Montana
Lord Balfour Died a Bachelor Result Youthful Tragedy
London March 21 AP tragic death of the fiancée, the only woman he ever loved, just before the presentation of the ring, was cited by the Daily Mail as shaping Lord Balfour’s lifelong bachelorhood. He died at 81, never marrying, after believing in a personal career over marriage.
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Daily Mail
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Viscount Cobham
Mail
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