Prohibition Research Council Meets in Washington
A panel of nine university professors and one member met at the prohibition bureau to plan research into how the eighteenth amendment affects society. They aimed to standardize topics for graduate research across the nation, including whether prohibition has reduced juvenile drinking, with no direct research by the council itself.
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Washington
Prohibition
Woodcock
United States
Prohibition Advisory Research Council
Prohibition Bureau
Council
Wickersham Commission
Mitchell
Guyle Fuller Leads Chrysler Campaign in Times Contest
Guyle Fuller tops the Chrysler Sedan campaign standings, earning high prize consideration through steady work and top subscription sales. Mrs. Ena Boatright leads the added prize list, with Fuller second and Mrs. J. V. Lady third. final cutoff is Saturday midnight for counting subscriptions toward the $150 diamond ring and $50 cash prize.
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Guyle Fuller
Chrysler
W. M. Fleenor
Ena Boatright
R. L. Wood
Fuller
Boatright
Elizabeth Doane
Haynes Clark
Sells Adams
Thelma Jones
Mary Jones Hicks
Georgia Price
Rugerville
Jim Francisco
Hawkins County
Moody
Mrs. Webb
Gate City
Gayle Fuller
J. V. Lady
Brown Not Guilty of Embezzlement
James B. Brown former president of Banco Kentucky was acquitted of embezzlement tied to a $2,000,000 note endorsement. Charles F. Jones awaits trial June 9. Commonwealth plans review. Brown, also president of National Bank of Kentucky and publisher of the Louisville Herald Post, faces federal charges in a related case.
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Banco Kentucky
U. S
Louisville
James B. Brown
Banco Kentucky Company
Charles F. Jones
Brown
Jones
Commonwealth
W. Clarke Otte
A. T. Burgevin
Wakefield and Company
Bancakentucky Company
National of Kentucky
Louisville Herald-Post
The
National Bank of Kentucky
Duelist Surrenders to Brooklyn Police in Fatal Duel
Howard W. Bridgetts, 20, a clerk, surrendered with his attorney to New York police after being sought for the killing of his cousin Dr. Joseph T. Loughlin in a pistol duel at Marine Park Brooklyn. Bridgetts had fled with a left arm wound and was treated at Kings County Hospital. He claimed self defense and denied there was a duel, saying the gun was his own personal safety weapon.
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New York
Howard W. Bridgetts
Joseph T. Loughlin
Brooklyn
Bridgetts
Kings County Hospital
Denil
Marine Park
Mellon's tax speech seen as extending tax to lower incomes
Senator Borah warns that Secretary Mellon’s remarks on tax reform would push the income tax down to the lower income brackets, effectively resembling a wage cut and altering the tax structure.
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Washington
Borah
Mellon
Madrid government cites papal protest against anti clerical riots
The Madrid government announces receipt of a protest from the Pope regarding ongoing anti clerical riots. The note frames the Vatican as seeking calm and condemning violence while urging authorities to protect church property and clergy.
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Madrid
Pope
Motive Behind Murder Sought in Riverside Drive Case
New York May 26 AP The theory that an important person wanted Vivian Gordon out of the way arose after Har ry Schlitten the ride car chauffeur confessed. Samuel Greenberg tailor indicted by Bronx grand jury for strangling the red headed beauty. Harry Stein already indicted. Landlady of Riverside Drive apartment held on $25 000 bail as witness. District Attorney McLaughlin seeks strong bond to secure her testimony. Full motive not yet established and trials not expected until further inquiries finish.
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Harry Schlitten
Schlitten
Samuel Greenberg
Bronx
Harry Stein
Riverside Drive
Stein
Supreme Court
Cohn
McLaughlin
Mulrooney
Tax policy debate stalls as Congress nears session
Both parties lack concrete tax increase plans as discussions flare over a potential 900 million dollar year. The incoming Congress, split politically, faces a president campaign and tax questions. Republicans and independents split on raising taxes while Mellon Mills signal no lasting budget cuts. Senator Hull warns expenditures rise through 1931 and beyond. Debate on how to share future tax burdens grows, Borah warns of widening levies on low incomes. Continues on page six.
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Congress
Presidentia
House
Ways and Means
Hoover
Mellon
Mills
The
Treasury
Hull
Tennessee
Senator Borah
Idaho
Borah
Senator Couzens
Michigan
Fix
Poison murders seen in five deaths
Chicago May 26 Mrs Margaret Summers a 47 year old widow was held to the grand jury on four charges of murder on recommendation of a coroner jury which found that five deaths in her home were from slow poison The coroner chemist testified that the husband Thomas Summers nephew Thomas Meyers and two boarders William Roman and Thomas Lanagan died from poison with Lanagan dying of acute poison Exhumed bodies revealed poison in Lanagan and Rieman as analysis was disclosed
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Chicago
Margaret Summers
Thomas Meyers
William Roman
Thomas Lanagan
Lanagan
Court guarded as Negro arraigned in Elberton incident
National guardsmen guarded Elberton County courthouse today as John Downer, a Negro, was arraigned on the charge of attacking a white woman. Two white men were wounded in a jail mob May 18. Downer returned from Fulton jail with about 300 guards under Colonel O Neefe. Three accomplices were not to be tried but may testify. In Nashville, the Tennessee house authorized a committee to decide impeachment charges against Governor Horton.
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Elberton
Court House
John Downer
Fulton County
Atlanta
Gerald P. O’neefe
Isaac Macauley
C. Otis Cade
Frank Cade
Downer
Nashville
Tenn
The
Tennessee House
Henry H. Horton
Nolan Defends State Funds Deposit Limits In Tennessee
Nashville May 26 AP State Treasurer John F Nolan denied charges in the majority report of the state affairs investigating committee saying it was physically impossible to deposit 30 million dollars of state funds lawfully in Tennessee He cited a 25 percent cap per bank and cited a total bank capital of 35 million to justify deposits within limits He said his designation of depositories followed an attorney general opinion and he followed it to the letter
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Nashville
State Affairs Investigating Committee
John F. Nolan
Tennessee
Nolan
Funding Board
Attorney General
Jake the Barber Denies Gangsters Are After Him
Chicago May 26 John Factor known as Jake the Barber rebuts press reports of gangster threats while his extradition fight to England continues. He claims he would not know Al Capone and that kidnapping stories stem from extortion attempts years earlier in Atlantic City. His counsel contests the 1812 treaty relevance as Britain seeks removal on fraud charges tied to Broad Street Press dealings.
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Chicago
England
John
Jake the Barber
Jack Diamond
al Capone
Atlantic City
First Union Trust Company
Foreman Trust Company
Brittan
London
Factor
Broad Street Press, Ltd
Illinois
Defendants Owe Asheville Bank in Public Funds Trial
Testimony at the Asheville trial of seven men accused of diverting public funds to a bank shows defendants were heavily owed by the Central Bank and Trust Company which failed last November. Accountant W. S. Coursey testified insolvency existed 16 months prior, detailing debts of Newton M Anderson 3000 dollars and 114000 in real estate firm. L. L. Jenkins owed 150000 with 96000 endorsed. Charles N. Malone owed 84000.
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Asheville
N. C
Central Bank and Trust Company
W. S. Coursey
Zeb V. Nettles
Coursey
Newton M. Anderson
Buncombe County
Racketeer murder tied to Crawford-Spencer case
Los Angeles May 26 The killing of political boss Charles Crawford and magazine editor Herbert Spencer for which David H Clark a former deputy district attorney is held was termed a racketeer murder by district attorney Baron Fitts today. He said Clark was agent for a ring of racketeers and gamblers and Crawford and Spencer were seeking control of an established radio station to boost political power. Witnesses described the slayings as part of a racketeering scheme. A third safety box search yielded four rubber bands and a old driver license. Mrs Ethel Hamlin the sixth witness said she heard the shooting and saw a man matching Clark’s description leave Crawford’s office. Spencer and Crawford were killed while conferring with a third man in the office.
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Los Angeles
Charles Crawford
Herbert Spencer
David H. Clark
Baron Fitts
Fitts
Clark
Spencer
Crawford
Leonard Wilson
Wilson
Federal Internal Revenue
June Taylor
San Quentin Penitentiary
Albert Marco
Ethel Hamlin
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Western Reserve University
Walter R. Miles
Stanford
Samuel C. May
University of California
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Neal Gilliam
N. Y
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Crumpacker
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Rieman
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Jobelmann
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William Jobelmann
Hollywood
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Committee of Five
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George Chamlee
Chattanooga
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