Congress Faces New Wet-Dry Fight at Opening Session
The 1928 Congress opens amid heated dry and wet campaigns with talks of repealing the Volstead Act. The United Committee for Prohibition Enforcement appeals to Pope Pius XI for moral support, prompting sharp Catholic rebuke. Representatives Dyer and others push for outright repeal while groups like WCTU and the Anti Saloon League hold firm on enforcement.
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United Committee For Prohibition Enforcement
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National Catholic Welfare Conference
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Clinton Howard
Coolidge
Dyer
Missouri
House Judiciary Committee
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The
Anti-Saloon League
Congress Girds for Row Over Prohibition and Tax Cuts
The new Sixty-Ninth Congress faces a tense opening with Republicans in separate conferences to set committee seats and party roles. The Senate weighs LaFollette’s status and Nye’s seat while the House moves to tax reduction bills and session preparations. Prohibition battles loom, with Dyer proposing repeal of the Volstead Act and the Anti-Saloon League pledging to push strict enforcement and school teaching of the Constitution.
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Senate Democrats
Republican Committee On Committees
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Nye
North Dakota
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Donnybrook
Dyer
Missouri
Clinton N. Howard
Anti-Saloon League
Congress
Buckner probes inland liquor distribution in post smuggling roundup
United States Attorney Buckner pursues how rum tied to a 21-arrest roundup reached inland markets. A key confession from a coast guardsman is to be read to a federal grand jury, with 43 indictments issued and more likely. Evidence shows guardsmen aided landings and payoffs, including a $4400 road expense memo.
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New York
A.P
United States
Buckner
William Dwyer
Atlantic Seaboard
Coast
J. Buckner
Philip Coffey
Stock Operator David Lamar Secretly Marries Edna Eck
David Lamar a 57 year old New York stock operator wed Edna Eck 21 of Phillipsburg Mont on November 22 in Ridgefield Connecticut. The ceremony was performed by Rev Wilmot P Lord at the Ridgefield Methodist church rectory. License applied November 17 and issued November 22 by Judge of Probate George Scott. Recounted details remain restricted by local officials.
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David Lamar
New York
Ridgefield
Edna Eck
Phillipsburgh
Mont
Wilmot P.lord
George Scott
Radio messages tested from mobile station 6AC
Sergeant C P Erickson of the local national guards instructors office sent messages from radio station 6AC operated by Norman Hurley to Canton North Carolina yesterday. The messages targeted Captain L B Stickney who had departed for Canton to give instruction at Canton and other points as part of an experiment to reach all signal corps officers in the thirtieth and thirty first divisions by radio.
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National Guards Instructors Office
Norman
Hurley
Marine Street
Canton
N. C
L. 8. Stickney
Signal Corps
Army
County to Improve Road From Tanner Williams to Union Church
County officials announced road upgrades after inspecting highways in the western and southern county areas yesterday afternoon. Chairman Pat Byrne said the Tanner Williams to Union Church route will be improved, noting the surrounding roads were in fairly good condition overall.
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Union Church
Pat Byrne
The
Board of Revenue
Tornado Strikes Arkansas Villages Mangling Homes
A twister hit Baker and Marshall in Searcy county early Friday wrecking several homes and destroying the Marshall editor James H. Tudor’s house. The Missouri & North Arkansas Railway station was demolished while a chimney pierced a bedroom roof as families slept. Roads blocked by debris cut off town communications until late day. The storm brought heavy rain and hail.
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Ark
Baker
Marshall
Searcy County
Missouri & North Arkansas
James H. Tudor
Coolidge Studies American Participation in New Arms Parley
President Coolidge reviews the proposal for an American role in a League of Nations disarmament conference in Geneva. He notes constitutional limits on sending official delegations and signals U S support for any reasonable disarmament effort. The administration emphasizes moral backing from Washington regardless of formal participation.
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Congress
Cole Blease
South Carolina
League of Nations
World Court
Blease
The
United Press Today
Senate
Borah
Jefferson
Andy Jackson
League
Court
Wilson
Muscle Shoals
Dawes
Coolidge
South
Clarence Darrow
Sne
Comaga de Gerscinn Ca
of Nations
Council
Gera
Geneva
Cowboy’s love of horses sparks deadly Rockford plot
Frank Litts a 41 year old Montana cowboy attempted to dynamite the Chappel Brothers horse slaughter plant in Rockford Illinois after learning horses from his old ranch were shipped there. A detective wounded him. he survived and told of four prior arson attempts and his radical labor affiliations.
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Montana
Frank Litts
Miles City
Merit
Chappel Brothers
Europe
Litts
Police Inspect in New Uniforms at Headquarters
Chief Warren F. Burch led an inspection of police personnel in new uniforms at headquarters last night. A committee report on ticket sales for the December 15 charity ball shows $2,597 collected for the uniform fund, with a final report due next Friday night.
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Warren F. Burch
Uniform
Tourists from St Louis Anticipated in Large Arrival
A wave of visitors from St Louis and nearby areas is expected to arrive, drawing interest from local businesses and hotels as the influx is reported by tourism officials.
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