Washington Lobbies Probe Focuses on Tariff and Beet Sugar Groups
A Senate judiciary subcommittee opened hearings into lobbying in Washington. Witnesses from the tariff and beet sugar lobbies discussed information requests, funding for propaganda, and internal quarrels over tariff bill details. Other testimony covered executive sessions and classifications of lobby groups. The tariff bill progress remained slow amid partisan contention while federal farm board confirmations proceeded with mixed votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Senate Committee
William Burgess
United States Potters’ Association
Thomas O. Marvin
Tariff Commission
EH. B. Brossard
Commission
F. L. Koch
Karl Langenbeck
Burgess
H. A. Austin
United States Beet Sugar Association
C. Byanson
Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association
Hiram Bingham
Byanson
Political tensions arise over labor, tariffs, and commissions
An official senate report links attacks on Legge to his Harvester ties, McKelvie’s grain belt views spark dispute, and Southern Democrats fault Williams on cotton price policy. The FTC report accuses power monopolies of delaying vital records and slows from holding groups, with Senator Walsh hinting at expanding the FTC’s authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legge
International Harvester Company
McKelvie
Williams
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Walsh
Montana
American Federation of Labor
Toronto
South
Carolinas
Tennessee
Detroit Labor Council
United States
Federation
Executive Council
Congress
Convicts Moan as Musician Is Freed
San Quentin parolee Damascus Garcia Gallur, a former embezzler and musician, is released after ill health. Once a Sousa band member and famed composer, his fortunes include a $93,000 Oakland bank balance and a $7,000 royalties windfall for May Day.
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San Francisco
San Quentin
California
Damascus Garcia Gallur
Gallur
Damascus Gallur
Oakland
August Hotchkiss
John Philip Sousa
America
San Quentin Band
San Quentin Orchestra
Board of State Prison Directors
Musicians’ Union of America
Gall-Carei
Philip Spi
Paul Steindorf
Sousa
National Association of Music Clubs
National War Mothers
War Mothers
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Coolidge
Hoover
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Louis Mayer
Damascus
Cow From the Country Finds City Life Bad
Maryville report details a farm visitor labeled a cow turned urbanite who tried visiting a drug store and courthouse but was turned away. The runaway cow rear end gate came loose, she was halted, and Night Officer William Trullinger returned her to her owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryville
Cow
William Trullinger
Evicted Bees Cause Barn Fire Alarmings in Perry
Beekeepers in Perry New York evict a hive from a barn by torch causing a fire department response. Fire crews return an hour later to quell smoke from the swarm. The barn remains but the bees are gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry
N. Y
Joseph Webleski
Dinosaurs Found in New Mexico Desert by Smithsonian
Smithsonian expedition uncovers a complete 15 foot dinosaur tail and horned skull fragments in the San Juan basin New Mexico. Turtles from both land and water types are found with more than twenty near-complete examples amid fossilized bones scattered across desert sands near the Navajo herd lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Smithsonian
San Juan Basin
New Mexico
Charles W. Gilmore
National Museum
Chicago Invented the Term Copper for Policemen
A New York report notes Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith credit Chicago with creating the word copper for police. The term emerged in the 1850s during Chicago’s rough early days when Mayor John C. Haines was nicknamed Copper stock Haines for his stock market dealings.
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Chicago
New York
Bobby
Lloyd Lewis
Henry Justin Smith
John C. Haines
Haines
Polar Bear Labeled the Meanest Animal
Col. Bill Hayward, famed sportsman and former U S district attorney, on his Arctic hunting trip described the polar bear as fierce and untamable. He said a Bengal tiger is a purring pussycat beside a polar bear, asserting no one knows mean until faced with one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bill” Hayward
United States
Arctic
Octogenarian Discovers Gold in Back Yard Diggings
In Independence Missouri Samuel H Boydston eighty six and two visiting friends used a gold detecting instrument in Boydston's yard. The device registered gold and he has since dug small finds. He believes paying ore lies about 47 feet deep but doubts he can dig that deep due to his age.
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Independence
Samuel H. Boydston
Boydston
Educator Praises Modern Youth as Good Parents
Miss Justina M. Eich dean of women at Capital University Columbus Ohio, visiting Los Angeles, says today’s youth handle problems well and are frank about them. She adds complexities test self-control but do not submerge character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Justina M. Eich
Capital University
Columbus
Ohio
Miner Slain After Lion Mistaken for Killer
Charles Schmidt, a miner in Colorado Springs, was shot dead after officials mistook him for the notorious mountain lion known as the killer. The lion, said to have thirty kills in the Dead Man Canyon country, remains at large despite rewards of 100 dollars offered for its capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Cole
Charles
Schmidt
Dead Man
Parents Sentenced for Tie to Door Cruelty in Union City
Union City New Jersey Mr and Mrs Emil Ihle were sentenced to year in the state penitentiary and six months in an institution after being found guilty of cruelty to children. Three boys Adolph eight Emil seven and Louis five testified they were suspended by wrists tied to a door for seven hours while subjected to repeated blows. Authorities described the injuries as severe with bruises black eyes and deep rope marks.
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Syndicate
Highland
N. J
Oscar Hammerstein, Jr
Coast Guard
William J. Calhoun
Prohibition
New Jersey
St. Pierre
Bermuda
Union City
Emil Ihle
Angelo Stanton
Stanton
Ihle
Alfred Moderelli
Jersey
Adolph
Emil Jr
Louis
Edward A. Ransom, Jr
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Jersey City
The
Idles
Peculiar accident injures farmer in New York state
Clarence Parmenter of Ledyard near Auburn was driving a team when the lash of a whip tipped with twisted copper wire struck his chest. The wire pierced near the windpipe and lodged behind the left collarbone. He was treated at a physician's office and Auburn City Hospital where X rays showed the wire but removal was deemed unwise.
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Tip
Auburn
N. Y
Clarence Parmenter
Ledyard
Auburn City Hospital
Man Carrying Dynamite Hit by an Automobile
Cumberland Maryland reports Glenn Sponaugle the first accident victim treated at Memorial hospital carried 18 sticks of dynamite and a box of caps when struck by a car driven by Rev. J B Umsberger of Huntington Pennsylvania. Sponaugle suffered a fractured right shoulder and possible skull fracture. He was near Flint Stone road when knocked down but the explosives remained intact. Witnesses blamed no one a clergyman driver at moderate speed and Sponaugle stepping into the roadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Glenn Sponaugie
New Memorial Hospital
J. B. Umsberger
Huntington
Sponaugie
Flint Stone
Sponaugle
Denied Citizenship Applicant Dies in Owosso
Joseph Antell sought American citizenship, passed the exam, but was informed his papers would be denied. He died by his own hand in Owosso, ending his bid for naturalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owosso
Joseph Antell
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