Senate Tariff Battle Opens with Preliminaries
The Senate opened its long awaited tariff battle with debate on the administrations previsions of the Republican bill. Senator Simmons denounced the measure as dangerous and expansionist, opposing its alleged rate increases on agricultural goods and consumer items while criticizing its industrial proposals. Chairman Smoot dismissed Simmons objections as old issues.
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Senate
Tariff Commission
Finance Committee
Simmons
North Carolina
Smoot
Finance Committed
Hoo Wr
Smpant
Congress Today May Debate Tariff and Probes
Senate opened tariff bill arguments led by Smoot and Simmons while debating labor and discrimination concerns. A naval committee formed a sub committee to probe alleged interference by U.S. shipbuilders at the 1927 Geneva conference. Senate also eyed Palestine policy and labor conditions in textiles. FRIDAY sessions continued tariff talk and army nominations. SULL Montana plans marriage to Mary Poulson next week amid prior rumors and a dropped case.
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Smoot
Utah
Finance Committee
Simmons
North Carolina
Senate Naval Committee
Geneva
George Democrat
Georgia
la Follette
Wisconsin
Palestine
Capper
Kansas
Sull
Montana
Los Angeles
Louis “Bull Montana
Mary Poulson
Jackie la Verne
Lancer
Miss Poulson
Weather Forecast for Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee mainly cloudy with showers possible tonight and Saturday. Cooler in extreme east portion tonight. Virginia showers tonight and Saturday with warmer extreme southwest, then cooler Saturday afternoon in west and north, cooler Saturday night with increasing south and southwest winds to moderate or fresh.
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Spread of Forest Fires Unchecked in Oregon
Western Oregon faces multiple active fires with several fatalities and injuries. J H McCubbins of Eugene died when a tree fell on firefighters near Mable, four others injured. James W Fowler, VP of Eastern and Western Lumber, died from heart disease linked to fire line tour near Molalla. Mrs. August Frank burns hospitalised near Mount Angel. Dozens of fires ignite Horton area, Siskiyou forest, Walterville, Cottage Grove near Eugene.
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Oregon
J. H. McCubbins
Eugene
Mable
James W. Fowler
Eastern and Western Lumbex Company
Molalla
August Frank
Mount Angel
Horton
Siskiyou National Forest
Walterville
Cottage Grove
Arkansas cattle rustling trio jailed in Mountain Home
Rustling continues in Arkansas as three men are sentenced in Mountain Home for stealing cattle from county farms and trucking them to Springfield Missouri to sell. Will Estes drew five years and Ray Estey plus Ernest McCorke received one year each.
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Rustlera
Mountain Home
Ark
Arkansas
Will Estes
Ray Estey
Ernest McCorke
Springfield
Senate panel to probe Shearer charge in Geneva talks
A three member Senate sub committee prepares to go to the bottom of William B. Shearer’s claim that private parties influenced the Geneva naval limits talks of 1927. Subpoenas will be issued for witnesses as hearings are set to begin next week with Shearer and officers of involved corporations.
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Senate
Geneva
William B. Shearer
Shortridge
California
Shearer
Robinson
Arkansas
Senator Allen
Kansas
Allen
Taevers
Newsnaver
Department of Justice
Hoover
Kentucky Chair Gets 7 Slayers Falls to Electric Chair
In Kentucky, Carl Hord of Louisville and Ivan Hutsel of Oldham County were executed in the state penitentiary electric chair for 1926 holdup slayings. Hutsel died at 12 17, Hord at 12:36 after last minute efforts failed. Gov Flem D Sampson rejected clemency as readings warned others.
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Ddyville
Carl Hord
Louisville
Ivan Hutsel
Oldham County
Kentucky State Penitentiary
Hutsel
Hord
Marion George
Charles Mitra
St. Louis
Hutsell
John Ditchler
Rose Ditchler
Indiana
Flem D. Sampson
Kentucky
Bank Conference Envoys Appointed
New York September 13 The New York Times reports Jackson E Reynolds president First National Bank of New York and Melvin A Traylor president First National Bank of Chicago named as American representatives on a Hague reparations conference subcommittee to draft statutes for the Bank of International Settlements They will sail soon to Brussels to join other nations committee appointees and Reynolds and Traylor will assist in the effort while awaiting full list of members In Wilmette Illinois Traylor confirms acceptance of the assignment In Carroll Ta Man and woman die in plane crash Haddenfield New Jersey sees one killed one injured in the same crash
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New York
New York Times
Jackson E. Reynolds
First National Bank of New York
Melvin A. Traylor
First National Bank of Chicago
Bank of International Settlements
Owen D. Young
International Bank
J. P. Morgan
Paris
Ill
Reynolds
Slot Machine Racket War Believed On In New York
Police link a recent trio of gang slayings on Manhattan's East Side to a slot machine racket. The latest victim, Thomas Ahern, 34, a suspected speakeasy owner and operator, was found in a parked car on East 101st Street with a bullet wound. Earlier, James Batto, tied to vending and slot machine activities, was found shot in a parked machine on East 407th Street, and Tasenh Mhicane, a factory worker, died in a car under similar circumstances nearby.
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Upper East Side
East 101 Street
Thomas Ahern
Ahern
James Batto
New Jersey
East 407Th Otrart
Tasenh Mhicane
Labor leaders jailed in North Carolina gun possession case
Eight national textile union members and workers were jailed after police found three pump guns two shotguns and 500 shells at their residence in Charlotte North Carolina Eight labor leaders were held for investigation on arms charges while fourteen others including two Gastonia officers face kidnapping and assault with intent to kill in mob actions linked to union organizing operations in North Carolina The report notes that possession of arms without a permit is not an offense in North Carolina and details the mob violence surrounding the case
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N. C
National Textile Union
Thomas J. Shaw
Mecklemburg Superior Court
C. M. Sell
G. D. Saylor
John R. Irwin Jr
Bell
Saylor
George Saul
Paul Sheppard
Taylor Shytle
Dewey Martin
John Gibson
Etley Ritch
Leti
North Carolina
Gastolia
OM. Tell
Ganton
Hew Wells
Naval accord believed near amid MacDonald Washington visit
London reports indicate the naval reduction talks with the United States have reached a hopeful phase. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald will visit Washington from September 28 to October for talks with President Hoover, aiming for a British near-fidelity stance on disarmament before Parliament reconvenes. Ambassador Dawes relayed the latest notes to Downing Street after talks with the premier.
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Ramsay MacDonald
United’ States
Washington
MacDonald
England
New York
Hoover
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United States
House .of Commons
No. 10
Downing Street
Charles G. Dawes
Daily News
Dawes
Waggoner Silent on Order in Weston County Jail
C D Waggoner president of the Bank of Telluride sits in Weston county jail awaiting federal custody for charges of defrauding six New York banks of 500000 and using the mails for fraud. He will not discuss the case further per his attorneys’ orders after an emotional visit from his Denver wife. He notes two Mexican inmates jailed for box car robbery sing his favorite song repeatedly. The jail’s frontier era history amused him as rumors of Diamond L Lewis’s mob hanging circulate.
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New Castle
Wyo
C.D. Waggoner
Bank of Telluride
Weston County
New York
Waggoner
Denver
Diamond
Diamond .L
Slim” Lewis
New Orleans Bomb Fails to Explode on Street Car
Police and deputy marshals sharpen vigilance after a dynamite attack on a New Orleans street car failed to detonate. A five-stick charge was thrown from a car, injuring no one as the vehicle passed a curve. the strike settlement mood remained unsettled amid cuffed blame and ongoing union talks.
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New Orleans
Carmen
George Leach
Leach
United States
Victor Loisel
T. Semmes Walmsley
Tabor Federation
Indianarolis
BR. Paterson
Public Sereice
Green
Mr. Paterson
W. D. Mehon
Carmen’s International Union
Jodal Union
Tennessee archaeologist invites marker at Meriwether Lewis site
State archaeologist P F Cox invited South Dakota to place a memorial marker at the Meriwether Lewis monument near Hobpenwald, Tenn., during a tour of states along the Lewis and Clark route. He urged designating the Lewis and Clark highway and said Missouri Nebraska Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota pledged cooperation.
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P. FE. Cox
Tennessee
South Dakota
Hobenwald
Tenn
W. H. Engle
Cox
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Globe Trotting Barber In Dutch Lands In Southampton
Louis Arico a globe trotting barber for William F. Kenny a New York millionaire contractor was allowed to land from the liner Leviathan at Southampton after immigration officials cleared him. He had been held aboard because he forgot his passport and Kenny telephoned for a haircut. Britannia's barbers protested foreign competition before Arico received his cut as the Leviathan sailed again on Tuesday.
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Eng
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William ‘F. Kenny
New York
Leviathan
Arico
Kenny
Britannia
Levisthan
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