World events shaken by Senate probes and外交
Will Hays testifies over Sinclair funding of 1920 Republican campaign deficit while Sinclair faces contempt in the Teapot Dome inquiry. Honduras naval protection, Rickard admits paying for fight film footage, and graft-led dismissal of revenue agents. Laughlin named minister to Greece as diplomatic ties resume. Shipping board inquiry proceeds. Hoover challenged on open price associations. old battleships sold for 10,600 dollars. Aquor plot alleged in Dougherty circle. gifts to Hebrew Union College. Bravo gunboat to Yucatan. New York transit reports 325,920,315 passengers in 1928.
Monopolies suit targets General Electric in bulb industry
Federal lawsuit seeks to break up GE for monopoly in electric bulbs filed in Cleveland Ohio. In Kentucky a jury convicts Fannie Tipton of murdering her daughter in law Jessie Tipton, with life sentence. Events include a Los Angeles snowfall claim and a 1921 Akron rubber tire output statistic. A draft protest in Evansville Illinois sparks near riot as a draft evader speaks. A grand jury in Canton Ohio to probe naval oil reserves mobility with April 1 summons. Judge Curtis Wilbur sworn in as secretary of the navy in San Francisco. Utah mine No 2 at Castle Gate recovers its last two bodies.
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Atlee Pomerene
Canton
Judge Curtis Wilbur
San Francisco
Washington
Roosevelt
Primaries show Coolidge leading in multiple states
North Dakota results name Coolidge with 47885 votes, LaFollette 34008, Johnson 30167. Washington counties unite behind Coolidge. North Carolina and New Mexico Republican conventions back Coolidge. Georgia Democrats prefer McAdoo over Underwood. Ripon marks 70th anniversary of the GOP.
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North Dakota
Coolidge
LaFollette
Johnson
California
Washington State
Calvin Coolidge
Notable Nineteenth Century Figures Pass Away In Niche Roles
Capt A C Dale eighty three longtime Jefferson Davis bodyguard died in Nashville. Dr Thomas C Mendenhall eighty two OSU faculty emeritus died at Ravenna. General Nivyelle sixty seven former French army chief died in Paris. Barney Sernard forty seven comedian famed for Abe Potash died in New York. Mrs Harriet Danks eighty two inspired Silver Threads Among the Gold died in a Brooklyn rooming house. Nathan C Ricker emeritus architecture professor died at Champaign Illinois.
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A. C. Dale
Jefferson Davis
Nashville
Tenn
Thomas C. Mendenhall
Ohio State University
Ravenna
Nivyelle
Paris
Barney Sernard
Abe Potash
New York
Harriet Danks
Brooklyn
Nathan C. Ricker
University of Illinois
Champaign, I
British accounts expect surplus as April trade year ends
London sources anticipate a favorable balance for Britain's accounts at April 1 with a £48 million surplus. Premier Theunis reveals King Albert balked at a salary raise in Brussels budget speech. Jerusalem reports King Hussein plans a world Moslem conference and an advisory council for the caliphate. The Franco Turkish frontier dispute grows tenser with a third peasant clash in Constantinople. Wahlberg, ex secretary to Harry F Sinclair, reaches Havana as Teapot Dome witness search continues. Dock workers strike and a clash at Wambureg follows theft and calls to "kill the dogs."
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London
Jerusalem
Hussein
G. D. Wahlberg
Harry F. Sinclair
Washington
Teapot Dome
Havana
Mellon Rates Back In Bill Mellon Rates Back In Bill
The senate finance committee approved the Mellon normal and surtax rates by an 8 to 7 party vote as absent Republicans McCormick and LaFollette left. Normal tax would be 3 percent on the first 4000 of net income and 6 percent thereafter, with surtax starting at 1 percent for 10000 to 12000 and rising to 25 percent above 100000. The House bill mirrors different brackets and top rates, while present surtax limits sit at 50 percent above 200000.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
McCormick
Rep
Ill
LaFollette
Wis
Women Who Bob Hair to Lose It, Editor Asserts
New York based editor Joseph Byrne of a beauty magazine warned at the American Master Hair Dressers' convention that bobbed hair will cause baldness. He said tight hats required by fashions have killed hair and that girls of the present generation would be bald before reaching maturity.
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New York
Joseph Byrne
American Master Hair Dressers’ Association
Byrne
Shipping Quiz May Cost Big Sum
The Shipping Board faces potential large expenditures to compile data for the House investigating committee. Chairman T. W. O Connor said one item alone could cost between 300000 and 400000 dollars.
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O’connor
Washington
Shipping Board and Fleet Corporation
Shipping Board Investigating Committee
House
T. W. O'Connor
Maiden Voyage Crash Kills Eight on Thames Roar
In the Thames estuary the British steamer Matatua collided with the American freighter American Merchant on her maiden voyage from New York to London. Eight people were killed and three seriously injured aboard the Matatua while the American Merchant was badly damaged and towed to Tilbury dock with no casualties aboard.
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Gravesend, Engend
Thames Estuary
New York
London
Tilbury Dock
Harry Sinclair Cited to Grand Jury for Contempt
Washington reports the Senate by 12 to 1 approved the oil committee's recommendation and certified Harry F. Sinclair to the U S district attorney for grand jury action for contempt. He refused to testify after being summoned to appear before the oil committee about the Teapot Dome affair.
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Washington
Senate
Oil Committee
Harry F. Sinclair
United States District Attorney
Grand
Sinclair
Ofd
Teapot Dome
Wilbur Outlines Navy Plan Under Treaty Limits
Curtis D. Wilbur of California, new secretary of the navy, stated a policy of maintaining an efficient and powerful fleet to guard both Atlantic and Pacific coasts, within the constraints of existing naval treaties, as he began duties Monday.
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Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
Curtis D. Wilbur
California
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Senate Oil Investigating Committee
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Yucatan
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Jessie Thomas Tipton
Lawrenceburg
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Eivanston
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Castle Gate
Utah
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Raleigh
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Ripon
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Oscar W. Underwood
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Atlanta
George D. Dixon
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Chamber of Deputies
Brussels
Constantinople
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